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Appropriate to the mood of convocation last weekend, campus once again took1 on an air of festive dignity. rampant adorned the many light posts-unfortunately, all too short a time.
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An annual course on alcohol and drug addiction is in progress on campus. The course, designed for those in medicine, education, law, social work, church andindustry, is conducted by the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research Foundation, a government agency. It is being held at Conrad Grebel College and in arts B June 5 to 17. The 26 lecturers come from a wide variety of professions--university professors, directors of governmental bodies, church committees, large industrial companagencies such as ies, and private the Mental Health Association. Miss Margaret Cork, has been doing research on children of alcoholic parents, the children being from IO to 16 years of age, all coming from varied backgrounds. She found that the children bear no hate towards the alcoholic parent and yet receive no trust from the non-alcoholic parents. All children felt that they had been hurt yet said drinking was okay so long as the parents didn’t fight. All their attention was focused on the person not on alcohol, on the effects more than the actual drinking. She further stated that no pattern of anti-social behaviour had been established. However she felt that it could develop into a disturbed adulthood. One of the problems to be overcome is the great lack of communication between the doctors and the clergy and the agencies
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Dr. Robert Gibbens, professor of psychology at U of T, has been doing statistical research on alcoholics in typical Ontario counties. The population was stratified by four factors, urban-rural distribution, sex distribution, age of population and population characteristics, The ethnic factor was considered weak since immigrants have a tendency to lose their homeland traits after two or three generations. Projections were then made from data thus obtained and was thenapplied to larger areas. If an interviewed alcoholic gave the names of others like himself, these new people were then interviewed. As you can see, the number to be interviewed becomes a geometric progression, and thus a large number of cases were studied, Some interesting figures were obtained. The number of male alcoholics between the ages of 35 and 44 was 27.3 percent of the male sample and for those between 45-54 the figure dropped to 26.9 percent. For the woman between 35 and 44 an estimate of 34.1 percent was reached and for those between 45 and 54 the figure was 31.9 percent of the female alcoholics. For every thousand people interviewed the percentage of alcoholics was given for the varied occupations,
In two telephone conversations with the minister of education,Federation of Students president Mike Sheppard overcame a technicality that had withheld loans from students repeating co-op termsa Any students repeating a B term who has been refused student aid because of the technicality should now reapply at the registrar’s office for the aid, Mr. Sheppard advised. He would willingly see any students having difficulty with aid, in the Federation building. Students repeating only one of the A or B terms in the cooperative courses were ineligible under the government student-aid regulations demanding that a student be regis tered in a course of at least 26 Each term here is only aweeks. bout 16 weeks. Education minister William Davis has advised the department of university affairs to ignore the regulation as far as U of W students are concerned, said Mr. Sheppard. The department has for some time considered A and B terms together as one year-- 2A and 2J3, for example, have been accepted as a normal second ye;ar, In discussions with some of the students concerned, Mr e Sheppard learned some of them had been refused in previous years under the same clause. The clause is common to the new Ontario Student Awards Program& effect since April 4, and to the Canada Student Loan Plan, previously in use in Ontario. He said the registrar’s office here had let this problem go on for some years, “simply turning these people. away ” instead of helping. The situation “strikes me as being rather ridiculous, since it took me only a few hours to clear the whole thing up,” he said.. Mr. Sheppard said he telephoned the education minister and explained the problem to him on May 27. Mr. Davis phoned back within minutes, saying he had instructed the univer-
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sity affairs department not to apply this regulation against U of W students. Mr. Sheppard had first telephoned F. C. Passey, civil servant in charge of administering the awards plan. Mr. Passey “did not think anything could be done because he had to follow the regulations,” said Mr. Sheppard. Both of the student-aid officials for the registrar @s office were on
vacation and unavailable to coinment on the situation in past years, Mrs, Dorothy Busch, their secretary, said the registrar’s office is waiting for a memo from university affairs clarifying the situation. University affairs would probably also write the students previously refused, she said. The registrar’s office is now handling applications from students repeating B terms, Mrs, Busch said,
e to correct ot The new Ontario Student Awards Program, in effect since April 4, has several serious drawbacks, the student presidents of Ontario univer sities agreed. The awards plan, which replaces the Canada Student Loan Plan in Ontario, was one of the main topics at the recent presidents meeting in Toronto of the Ontario Region of the Canadian Union of Students (ORCUS). One section--the requirement of a 260week course, which affected Waterloo’s cooperative students-has already been cleared up. “The other faults with this plan cannot be changed as easily,” said Mike Sheppard, president of theU of W Federation of Students, “but Iand all other presidents in Ontario will be trying our best throughout the summer.” Basically the new plan estimates the need of the student and then awards money to meet it--60 percent as a loan and 40 percent given as a bursary, The great advantages are thatthe 40 percent does not have to be repaid and that it does not depend on marks. Previously a 66-percent average was necessary to get a bursary; now anyone with university entrance requirements is eligible. The disadvantages besides the 26,week restriction, according to Mr. Sheppard, are these: 1. The government has not sub-
s tantially increased the tot al amount of aid, 2, All scholarships and bursaries ‘are deducted from the 40-percent bursary portion. 3. Most students cannot declare themselves financially independent of his parents, whether or not they contribute, 4. There is an extremely rigid means test, which the student”s parents must fill out, “‘Humiliadescribed it, ting*s’ or. Sheppard 5. The student cannot specify a certain amount of aid. The government gives him what it thinks he will need. 6. Travel grants to students from distant areas--northern Ontario for example--are no longer automatic,
situation has been dug up on camPus* The project has been aptly named Boulder Dam. .
The site of the project (phase one already complete) is Laurel Creek and its purpose is to provide immense voltages for the lamppost on the path between the lower campus and the Village.
7 nominated for 4 seats Don Weather be, chief returning officer has announced seven nominees for engineering representatives to the 1966-67 Student Council. Four representatives will be elected. John Bergsma, A. J. (Fred) Brychta, D. G. Edwards, Murray A, Ouellette, Brian Iller, Owen Redfern and Louis Battiston werenominated. Elections will be held Wednesday from 9 to 5. Polls will be located in the engineering foyer.
To overcome the resistance in the wires which will run between the dam and the light post, it was decided to build the dam within close proximity. A bit of research into the background of theproject indicates itwas built by enterprising engineering students in their spare time (between midnight and 2 on the night of May 26).
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BULLETIN (June 8) Unfriendly powers have moved into the area of Boulder Dam with gigantic war equipment--power shovel-- with the intent ondestroying the monument. This accomplished, Boulder Dam has ceased-to be.