Liz gains Literary Fame Liz Young from the BTSD dept. has won the 1981 Creative Writing competition in the UBC Alumni Chronicle & her story, ‘''Summer of Discontent'' has just been published in the Chronicle. As well as teaching BTSD Liz is a part-time student. at UBC in Cre- ative Writing. Congratulations, Liz, and keep up the writing. Royal couple gets. new home Do you remember Prince Charles and Lady Di? No, {! don't mean the ones in Britain— | mean the ones fn the cage in the Biology lab. Lady Di is the boa constrictor who gave the North Van. fire department a bad time this summer when they were called up to campus to find her after she escaped from her cage. But, she's not going to go wandering again. The Biology people have purchased a palatial snake cage in which to house the two snakes, which is sturdily built of wood and glass and has its own custom made drapes for "royal privacy." Lab Technician Barry Williamson is in charge of the snakes and is helped by a first year student who enjoys” handling, feeding and maintaining them. Their diet is mice of various colours which are ob- tained from a breeding colony at UBC. Mice make a good meal] because they won't attack the snakes as rats will, and a meal of 4 mice every two weeks seems to keep the snakes quite happy. When the Bi dept moves to the new building next summer, the two will be housed with a collection of live animals in a room especially destgned for that purpose. Other roommates will include marine invertebrates, Miss Muffet (a tar- antula) and additional animals which wil] be purchased as funds become available. The snakes, incidentally, are used in Ist and 2nd year Bi classes, particularly in the comparative anatomy course. The advantage of doing one's praising 40% onedsel{ is that one can Lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ~ Samuel Butler Volume Ill No. 30 Are you suffering from STRESS ? How are you handling the stress in your life? if the answer is not too well, you should take a look at the Stress Manage- ment program that Cathy Zuest of Health Services will be holding. A pilot project this spring was met with enthusiasm, says Cathy, and fulfilled a need of staff mem- bers, so she will offer a four session program using currently researched methods in Stress Management. The program is ten- tatively scheduled for Monday, 11:30 - 1pm and Tuesday, 1:30-3 and will start as soon as Cathy gets a group together. For more information call 271 or drop into NC102. This course will be free for staff, facul- ty and students. MOVIES THIS WEEK Tuesday at noon there will be a showing of the film ''Action'' in the Lounge. This js a movie about the FLQ crisis. In a lighter vein, the movie Harold and Maude will be shown Thursday at 7:30 in the Lounge, and the next Pub Night will be October 22. Student Union hits Ottawa for Student Union Execu- tive are being kept open longer than ex- pected because of an acute shortage of candidates. Nominations close October 13 and Elections are scheduled for October 21 and 22. In the meantime, the Student Union executive is off to a Canadian Federation The nominations of Students Conference in Ottawa this week. Apart from conferencing, they will be meeting with MPs to discuss cutbacks and present petitions on the subject. The Union is asking people on campus to sigr the petitions which they will take witt them Tuesday. Petitions are in the Student Unton Office.