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‘iElection, what election? The only newsworthy thing that happened this week was the return of traditional Waterloo weather. At least I can walk through the arts quadrangle now without being tempted to laze apathetically in the sunshine like last week.”
CL/S calls refounding The Canadian Union of Students has issued a call for a conference to evaluate the future of the national union. The decision to hold such a refounding conference was taken by the unions 26-member national council which met in Toronto last weekend. Manv observers viewed the decision as inevitable after a year of setbacks. Since September 1968 Cl-TS has only been able to win 50 percent of the membership referenda it has faced and has lost a total of 14 member campuses. .!mong the members of the national council there was considerable division on the political line the organization should take in the future. Martin Loney. who will take over the president’s office in September. argued that only by moderating its policy could CUS hope to recoup its losses. ,
Although other members disagreed. claiming that Loney’s view was reactionary. the council was unanimous in deciding to call a conference on the future of the union. Three days will be set aside for the conference at the end of the annual CUS seminar which is to be held at Laurentian University during the last two weeks of may. to the refounding Invitations conference will be issued to all student unions in English Canada, regardless of whether or not they are currently CUS members.
meet Among other items of business, the council paid particu 1ar attention to the problem of expected mass unemployment in the summer months. Representations to governments will demand reconsideration of student aid schemes which now assume that the student has been able to save money from summer earnings.
Andy Anstett, poli-sci 4, Charlotte von Bezold, arts 3, and Tom Patterson, history 3, are contesting Wednesday’s election for president of the Federation of Students. The winner will serve the remainder of resigned president -w-m- -w-m-------mm--m---mm candidate interviews me 3
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John Bergsma’s term-until february 28, 1970. Anstett’s campus experience includes board of publications ad manager in 1965 and work in founding the political science union in 1967 (currently past president). He said, “I organized the group that persuaded Bergsma to run in november 1968 and as you know he won a landslide victory over Iler. The same group also elected some representatives from the moderate slate.” Charlotte von Bezold has been active in the co-op. She said she originally ran because she didn’t want an acclamation. “But since 25 people had enough confidence in me to sign my nomination form, I’m staying in the race,” she said. Patterson has been continually in the mainstream of student activities. He has served as student council speaker for a year, as an executive member at large for a year and was vicepresident with Brian Iler. He was elected arts rep three times, topping the poll in the february and november 1968 elections. Patterson has served on numerous administration and student council committees, and continues to hold the post of feder-
There could have been six names on the ballot. but three withdrew. Larry Burko. arts 3 and perennial candidate. decided at the last minute to sit out this campaign. Bergsma gave Burko the job of chief returning officer to keep him busy. Other withdrawals were Dave X. Stephenson, math 2, and Morris Strasfeld, architecture 1A.
He was a prime organizer and negotiator in the bookstore issue of 1967 which resulted in required texts being sold at cost plus overhead instead of the previous high profit policy.
Polling booths will be set up Wednesday in the usual building foyers. Results, however. will be delayed until monday. Ballots will not be counted until monday to allow out-term students time to return their ballots.
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The next Chevron is a special community issue that will appear on campus Wednesday april 9. The last regular Chevron of the term will be published’friday april 11.
Resolutions emerging from the may conference are expected to be discussed by local student councils during the summer. When the annual CUS congress-the union’s supreme policy-making body-meets next September these resolutions will be the first item of business.
Ra$io funds allocated, but main. budget tabled Student council approved a $lO.200 budget for Radio Waterloo wednesday night and pledged contining financial support for the campus radio station. A procedural motion at the beginning of the meeting limited discussion to the Radio Waterloo budget. The overall federation budget was left untouched on the premise that the new president will want to revise it. The main item of contention in the radio budget was a $3900 request for a full-time station manager. The original brief submitted last november said a full-time manager would not be necessary this year. But the budget request submitted by Radio Waterloo in february included the $3900 for’a station manager.
The executive board cut the fulltime manager and put in $500 for a part-time manager. In a brief presented to council last week, station manager Bruce Steele pointed out that a recent ruling of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission made .a fulltime station manager a requirement for an FM license. Council accepted his arguments and voted funds to Radio Waterloo to hire Steele for the remainder of this fiscal year. The budget passed Wednesday takes effect may 1. Council also accepted a policy of continuing financial support in the future. This will satisfy the CRTC requirement that student radio stations be financially stable.
And Al Adlington worried while the Kent burned. Concerned about the welfare o.fstudents during the upcoming exam period, our operations vicepresident stayed on the scene to see what happened to the Kent’s drinking spots in the early Saturday fire. Qn the inside, the cops had a hard time convincing the patrons the fire was not part of the floor show.