LIBRARY COMMITTEE DEALS WITH NOISE

by Ron Cameron

On Tuesday December 8th, the Senate Library Committee met to discuss several issues. Prof. John Smith was elected as the new chairman of the committee. The major issue that was dealt with was the problem of noise in the library proper. In order to provide a quieter environment for the students the committee has made the glassed in area at the top of the stairs a super quiet area. This should be in ef-

fect within the next couple of

days if not already so. This also affects the reserved car- rels in that area. In order to keep noise to a minimum, these carrels are no longer reserved. There will also be signs installed to remind peo- ple that is a library and to keep noise to a minimum. If people want to get together and have a social session then they can go to the lounge, so as not to disturb others that want to study.

The library is now a non- smoking area for the whole building with the exception of the lounge and the breeze-

way. This is to conform with the Senate and the Board of Governors program to pro- vide more smoke free spaces.

Another issue that was dealt with was the rising cost of journals. Due to rapid in-

Women still avoiding

HALIFAX (CUP) — Women still are not ‘considering the option of a career in science, according to a researcher at Dalhousie

University. “There are no. barriers

to a female student going for a Ph.D. — there will be a job offer. The students are simply not choosing to,” said Chemist Dr. Katherine

Darvesh. Darvesh is

concerned that women need more role models in order to become involved in chem- istry, physics and biology. She said the biggest problem

is attitudes. Forty per cent of those

studying

undergraduate chemistry in Canada are women. But the number drops to 25 per cent at the Ph.D. level, according

‘to Anne Alper, the executive

director of the Chemical In- stitute of Canada.

Out of Dalhousie’s 26 chemistry professors, one is female, reports the uni- versity’s faculty association. Yet there are more female in-

Student ordered tc seek psychiatric help

HALIFAX (CUP) - A student was ordered to seek psychiatric treatment after a cat was thrown from a 12- storey residence window at St. Mary’s University last month.

Stephen Stokes, 18, and the 17-year-old student who can’t be named have been charged with cruelty to ani- mals. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Stokes withdrew from classes October 30 and has returned to his home in New- foundland.

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The younger student has been expelled from residence but will not be suspended from the university. A dis- ciplinary committee ordered he seek psychiatric treat- ment and report to the uni- versity’s counselling centre once a week.

“We are con- cerned about the tragic in- cident but we are more con- cerned about the rehabilita- tion of this young man,” said committee chair Dr. Don Davies.

crease in prices and the lim- ited budget that is available

for journals there will have to be some cut backs. At the present, a study is being done to determine what jour- nals are receiving the most use and what journals should

structors than male — a posi- tion which does not. impose research mandates. Instruc- tors tend to run labs and help students.

Dalhousie’s Darvesh says the scientific community is trying to determine the rea- sons behind the few women

in graduate studies. Some factors may be a lack of day care, time constraints on women, and_ society’s attitudes towards working women, the researcher says.

The chemist says women walk into their science classes and wonder why they have no female professors.

She blames the media too, saying that scientists are

be replaced with newer jour- nals.

If you have comments or suggestions about the library please feel free to contact me by leaving a message at the circulation desk or the stu- dent union.

science

often portrayed as eccentric men with ’flyaway’ hair.

The Chem- istry Institute’s Alper notes that 50 per cent of students enrolled in medicine and law are women.

Darvesh says many women don’t consider them- selves intelligent enough to do research.

Summer research grant and science weekends can help dispell the myths about scientific research, Darvesh said.But she says that plac- ing women in positions of au- thority and advertising the role women play in the scien- tific community are the keys

to getting more women in- volved. ®

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