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B.C. NEWS province Wednesday, April 28, 1976 Professor tells why he quit UVIC post More freedom to fight for academic excellence, including a hire-Canadians-first policy, is behind the resignation of Dr. David Jeffrey as chairman of the University of Victoria English department, he said Tuesday. He said his resignation was prompted "by a whole host of professional issues" that included a higher academic standard, more responsibility to the community and more contact with students. Jeffrey said as an ordinary member of the faculty he would have more freedom to pursue those goals than as a department head.

"What the public doesn't understand is that (university) executive officers, and that includes the president and deans, have a great deal less authority than responsibility." Such matters as hiring of new faculty and development of the curriculum are controlled more by majority votes of the faculty. Thus, such issues at a university are controlled, he said, "by established vested interests, sometimes expatriates." Jeffrey noted that in his own faculty at Author, SFU found dead Funeral services will be held today for Dr. Stanley Cooperman, noted poet, author and Simon Fraser University professor who died in his North Vancouver home Monday of a gunshot wound. An RCMP spokesman said it appears Dr. Cooperman's death was a suicide.

Foul play is not suspected. Dr. Cooperman, 46, came to SFU in 1966 and quickly established himself as one of its most colorful professors. He specialized in American literature, creative writing and criticism of poetry and modern fiction. His published books include World War One and the American Novel, Owl Behind the Door, Cannibals and Day of the Parrot and Other Poems.

His writing has been published in Playboy magazine, and he has also written study guides on nov- the University of Victoria only one in five were born in Canada. But, he said, opposition to his attempts to Canadianize the faculty was only one factor. He recalled with a laugh attacks on him two years ago for being "proAmerican" when the University of Victoria made a successful bid for the Jane Austen Bicentenary Commemoration. Robin Mathews, a Carleton University professor and self-confessed Canadian nationalist, charged that the commemoration's speakers list was stacked in favor of Americans at the expense of Canadian scholars. "The hardest thing to do for an executive officer is to hold a middle position," Jeffrey said.

"There are attacks from both sides on any However, the three years as department chairman, he said, "has almost radicalized me." Now that he has resigned he is more free to speak out and Jeffrey said he intends to become more involved in consultations with government and national academic groups and to communicate more with the public. professor at his home elists Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dr. Cooperman prepared a textbook on the structure of poetry and fiction for use in high schools.

Born in New York. he received his bachelor of arts and masters degrees from the University of New York and his doctorate from the University of Indiana, He had lectured at Indiana, the University of Tehran, the University of Oregon and Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is survived by his wife Jenifer, daughter Galila-yael, 6, and son Amichai, 3, all of North Vancouver. Services will be held at 2 p.m. at Schara Tzedeck Chapel, 3642 West Broadway.

Former city tennis star dies at 54 Funeral services will be held today for former B.C. tennis star Oscar Roels who died Friday in Vancouver General Hospital. He was 54. Mr. Roels, one of B.C.'s top tennis players in his youth, also played soccer in the Pacific Coast Soccer League and was active in curling and golf.

But most of his athletic career was devoted to tennis, and he served as club professional at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club and was an official for professional tennis events. He is survived 1 by his wife Stacey, son David; daughter Mrs. Iris Huth, of Tacoma, and two grandchildren. The funeral services will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel in Burnaby, 3789 Royal Oak, and will be followed by cremation. Santa Claus wears a different uniform in May.

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