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Environmental grads see& views 0; home the university community about the Purchase. Questionnaires will1 be handed out at large classes and are also available at the turnkeys’ office and the federation of students office, both in the campus center.
Environmental studies grad students are asking for campus opinions on the university’s recent purchase of a hundred-thousand~ dollar house for new adminis’traI % tion president Burt Matthews. A questionnaire^they are distributing says answers will provide a “necessary and important feedback” on the board of governors’
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High density If Canadians are going to survive the present housing crisis, they must be prepared to drastically change their traditional desire for the single-family, private (if not necessarily suburban) home. Bulging land costs, the increasing expense to municipalities of providing farstretching service facilities and cautious (a polite terminology) mortgage holders who want guaranteed return on minimal investment were all cited recently as undeniable prdof that as private home-financing spirals beyond the means of average people, alternate ’ living styles must be found. The Stratford seminar on civic design held earlier this month brought together what might be termed a rather picaresque collection of architects, planners, land developers, professors and politicians; all of whom: spent a good deal of time intellectualizing the fact that many Canadians ddn’t have even minimal housing, and who then traded-off snide but jocular verbal darts with fellow profes-. sionals over who was to blame for present housing ills. Architects -blamed land developers for constricting design specifications ; by Alex Smith chevron staff
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sion is expected at an executive meeting later this week. . Plans are now being formulated for a new government in the fall .and indications are that the government will be organized on a college basis with the seven associated student-presidents plus college an appropriated number of reps from non-college students consti tuting the council. The only thing which seems to be definit,e at the moment is that there will be a $3 compulsory fee charged to each student who registers next term. It remains to be seen whether the Guelph admiqistration and IBM will be willing to write off-the $20,000.
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developers blamed mortgage-lenders who wanted the most profit possible on the shortest possible term investment and politicians for antiquated zoning regulations eliminating most chances for highdensity development ; politicians blamed developers for assuming the public wanted material do-dads like sauna baths and concrete recreation jungles instead of what Toronto’s East York mayor True Davidson called “neighborliness”, something the architects weren’t designing because of developer’s passion for the cheapest designs, and so and so and so On. The opening plenary session seemed to portend an imaginative and exciting conference as Michael Audain, housing consultant for the Canadian welfare council challenged delegates to discuss, who actually got homes before they delved into the high-density design problems ,of some mythical family for whom there was no money problem in obtaining a home or apartment in the first place. “Do you foster policies that promote segregation by age and income groups?” he asked the architects and designers. “Who is going to live in future housing? ” Ah-a glimmer of social context : he who has, gets. Perhaps he was asking why developers continued to ignore human needs in favor of material luxuries-sau-
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nas, tennis courts and the like. Perhaps he was suggesting the so-called “amenities” the developers loved to pack into new housing complexes were qot in response to actual human need, but were only promotional gimmicks-advertising bait-to satisfy the bevy of false needs modern, affluent man has come to expect. The original topic of the seminar had, been billed as ‘is family life amenable to high-rise, high-density living? ‘, but fortunately some speakers and panelists like Audain began by diversifying: although nowhere did Audain even hint of “socialism”’ he and several others (notably Earl Berger, a York university economics professor and a young assistant professor fron U of T’s school of architecture, Jeffrey ’ Stinson) all hinted at the absurdity of removing “the family” from a social context of class in order to “define” it, and then design living quarters to fit the definition-living quarters which would Ipe zoned by municipalities conscious of tax revenue, built by developers looking for profit and financed by mortgagers at the top of the Canadian class structure (my words). One developer, for example, even admitted that “needs have to fit into the economics of the project”-that is, if we can’t -make ou% profit, your needs all
suffer. His solution was to allow developers to be more competitive. To provide more saunas, more tennis courts; more for the people with money and nothing for the unemployed and the poor. These people, claimed Audain, should have been invited to the seminar to indicate exactly what they perceived their real needs to be. So perhaps delegates missed one of the most crucial points. For, the second day of the seminar the-question of who had been all but forgotten, and the question of what became all-important-a fact made obvious by the reports of discussion groups at the end of the three-day event. Recommendatiohs for “astro-walks”, “private garden space”, “informal” communal areas, less concrete et al headed the lists. The suggestion of one delegate earlier that public ownership of land and socialized housing be discussed was ignored. The question of another:, about what type of community-government structure might be implemented by residents of high-density and the new “condominium ’ ’ developments was ignored except for the comment that the mortgage-holder held the ultimate vote, so it was really unimportant what resi-
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pus center pub. Practice for Uniwat Cricket 6: 30 pm Columbia field. BSA Films 8 pm AL1 16.
English department’s Black Friars will be presenting Gasp! Comment on our Environment. Admission 5Oa: 7: 30 ‘pm Humanities Theatre Court. ISA Pub. Admission 25~ 8 pm campus center pub. Discotheque Pub 25~. Grad Student
SATURDAY English Department’s Black Friars will be presenting Gasp! Comment on our Environment. Admission 50~ 7: 30 pm Humanities Theatre Court.
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TUESDAY Noon concert Theatre of the Arts, free admission. U of W Summer Choir conducted by Alfred Kunz and Bill Chambers String Quartet 12: 15. Women’s Liberation our purpose this summer is mostly educational with hopes for continued activity through the school year. 7pm meeting room campus center.
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fest from this stupendous event. You probably think I’m kidding, but I’m not. I really feel this is a fine accomplishment that every person should consider aspiring to. But of course maybe Christianity isn’t your religion. Communications students could read the Galt, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Surrounding Territory telephone directory from january 1970. Sociologists could read the works of Emile Durkheim: English people Shakespeare: math buffs, Algebra and Vector geometry by Stanton and Fryer.
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Whats your field of religion Can you set a world record in it3 literature‘? There’s prestige involved. Tell me of your feat, and we here will publish a ‘story about it. From here the news will travel around the world. We just got a letter from a person in Spain and he wants to subscribe to dear Chevron. I don’t know if France’s dictatorial directives allow such fine journalism as this to appear in that country, but what the heck, we might as well try. I have just read the last little bit and it doesn’t really make sense. But I’m afraid I haven’t got time to fix it. You see I’m a summer school student and all’us summer school students are very busy. However, there is one newsworthy event to report. Last monday evening, a tow truck was spotted latching onto a campus cop car which had driven itself into a ditch. And you know that you are not allowed to park in a ditch without a special ditch sticker. Which is not the same as stuck in a ditch, although its similar.
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HOUSING WANTED Four co-op students would like to sub lease an apartment for the january april 7 1 term. Phone 576-6374. Graduate wishes to share apartment for august with option for fall and winter. Phone 578-5532. Two bedroom apartment for september to january in Burlington (prefer no lease) Phone Jim 578-5788. Girl looking for roommates to share an apartment for full year. Write W. Zander, 402 Soudan’ Avenue,, Toronto 298 or phone 489-4950 after 6 pm.
HOUSING AVAILABLE Co-op has rooms by the day or week. Arrange to suit your needs. Reservations. call 743-4083. Student accommodation available cooking facilities, private entrance, electric heating, five minutes drive from university. Phone 744- 1705. Apartment to sublet Sept. 1 one bedroom Waterloo Towers. Call 7446654 after 5. Want a room for the rest of august.
Today I would like to chat a bit about the Salvation Army captain in England who recently set a new world record by reading aloud the twenty seven books of the new testament in nineteen hours and twenty two minutes. I can’t remember this fine fellows name. but I thinkthat’s pretty good bible reading for a man of forty two years. And the only nourishment he consumed was sips of honeyed water. That’s all I know of the story, but it’s mind boggling to think of the social ramifications, the theological postulations and the pMlosophic drivel that will mani-
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An ancient tartar expression describes the world as a golden vase full of scorpions and serpents. This description can be updated for our century by mixing in chemicals with the scorpions and serpents. North american industries are manufacturing and distributing chemicals cafible of causing cancer and birth defects with a complete “public-be-damned” attitude. Some of the compounds are used’ directly on foodstuffs with no restrictions whatsoever. For example, the chemical, PCNB (pentachloronitrobenzene) was cited in late 1969 by the conservative Mrak commission which was sponsored by U.S. health, education and welfare as a substance that produces “sufficiently prominent effects of a seriously hazardous nature to lead us to categorize it as probably dangerous.” PCNB -is used to kill fungus, i.e. it is a fungicide. PCNB is a product of Olin Matheson; this company refuses to reveal how much PCNB is manufactured and sold, although they did grant that over 5,000,006 pounds are manufactured c per yea’r. The american chemical society states that 44,239,OOO pounds of the stuff was produced in the U.S. in 1967. Olin’s representative did concede that over 3 million acres of cotton and l/2 million acres of peanuts were treated with PCNB in Texas and Arkansas alone. PCNB is used for spraying crucifers, potatoes, lettuce, wheat, beans, tomatoes, peppers and household garden plants, as well. : PNCB
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In laboratory studies conducted by Bionetics Research Labs. of - Litton Industries PCNB was found to produce tumors of the lung, liver and lymphoid organs in mice. It also caused severe birth disorders in embryonic mice such as missing kidneys, cleft palates, single eyes (cyclops) or misshaped eyeballs. The mothers usually got fat and had enlarged livers. So far nothing has been done to stop the wide use of PCNB in either Canada or the U.S. In addition, the Mrak Commission recommended that several chemical compounds used on crop lands should be “immediately restricted to prevent risk of human exposure.” All of these have been shown to be toxic to the unborn, but except for 2, 4, 5-T none of the others; such as, 2,4-D, carbaryl, mercurials, captan and folpet, have been banned from use. The mercurials are organic mercury compounds that are used primarily as pesticides for farm and paper products. One mercurial - semasan (DuPont) - is spray-
ed on potatoes. Studies have shown this compound causes eye, tail, and central nervous system deformities in mice.. Sweden has banned the use of these compounds. Last year the pheasant hunting season in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta was cancelled because of the high mercurial levels in the fowl. But no outright ban on mercurials per se is forthcoming. So far we have examined the “direct effect” compounds. Recently, new and complicated indirect effect systems have come to light. For example, it has been known for some time that nitroso compounds were potent cancer causing agents. The most common one is called nitrosamine. Until recently nitrosamines were considered to occur very rarely in nature. However, Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Harvard Medical School, department of pathology has found evidence that the natural occurring nitrosamines may be increasing in concentration. Nitrosamines are basically made up of nitrites and amines.
Bridgeport police commissioner, Harvey Cold, says that he.does not now have a ‘hippie problem’, and does not want one. Council chairman reeve Howe endorses this position, which has apparently led to a threat to condemn the hostel’s building, the old grand river golf and country club, on grounds of safety, if other legal means are not available.
you can think of. They are fed to livestock, used as additives to clothes, paints, waxes and underarm deodorants. We cannot avoid contact with them. Consider all the synthetic chemicals that we ingest and/or breathe and the mind boggles. In 1958, about 540 million .pounds of insecticides and agricultural chemicals, not including fertilizers, were produced and in 1966 about 1,013 million pounds. At this exuberant rate of production about 16,200 million pounds of synthetic compounds will be produced in the year 2000. By then there won’t be any room for the .scorpions and serpents. Besides most of the pests we would want to eradicate will be so resistant to the ,chemicals by the year 2000 that we will have to crush them to death with sheer weight of the chemicals.
Once clgain, the bastions of capitalist imperialism have struck our lovely campus. Tax-payers are now required to pay parking fees (by the hour) on parking lots they built. These fullyau tomated money-grabbers come equipped with one smiling female attendant who carries years of experience in dealing with automobiles and parking lots.
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mouth, first in high doses, 60 mgm. per day, to detoxify the addict, i.e. so he does not crave heroin. If he does take it, it does not work, the high-doses of methadone cancelling its effect. After the detoxification period, the methadone is decreased to a maintenance dose of about 15 mgm per’ day. The addict is now a methadone addict. The advantage of the switch is that his drug is provided for him by doctors and he is freer to work and keep himself together. The exponents of the two approaches nearly come to blows as to which approach should be used. Both work and both fail. One way, the addict is stuck with methadone, the other with living an AA sort of life, maybe never leaving the Synanon community where the ex-user lives in an ongoing group therapy commune. The psychological factors leading to heroin addiction are not understood. Personality appraisals done in the Illinois project found all types of personality represented. The research remains to be done, theories now are’highly speculative. They stress that drug usage in general is supported by curiosity, peer pressure, alienation,
rebellion, dependency conflicts, or search for altered mind experiences. Heroin is definitely in the K-W area - one arrest was made about two months ago and you hear talk of unnamed users. Amphetamine is also here, taken as pills for studying at exam times (usually 5 mgm of benzedrine or dexedrine), dieting (pills containing dexedrine), or kicks (benzedrine or dexedrine).
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Nitrites are not too common in nature; however, nitrates are frequently found in the air and water polluted by agricultural processes, and industrial and human wastes. In general, amines are not a large product of pollution processes. The natural nitrate levels have risen dramatically in water supplies across the U.S. Moreover, nitrates are not removed by primary and secondary sewage treatment. Thus, excessive amounts of nitrates are building up in the en& ronment. In nature nitrates are readily converted to nitrites by bacterial action. The nitrites then can react with available amines to form nitrosamines. Nitrites in’ high concentrations by themselves can be directly toxic to infants. , An interesting interaction between two types of “poisons” has been postulated recently. 2, 4-D causes nitrate accumulation in plants and forage. In 2,4-D treated plants nitrite levels are higher than in untreated plants. So if the 2, 4-D by itself doesn’t get the infant; maybe the nitrites will. No easy solution
There is no easy sohtion t0 the “poison” problem. For example, there are over 100 commonly used insecticides and about formulations. 45,000 different They are used as dusts, sprays, granules, pellets and whatever
The institution of a hostel on the chosen site is said also to conflict with zoning regulatiofis; the land is agricultural rather than residential. Since the next council meeting is not scheduled until august 5th, and the fact that two council members are now on vacation precludes the possibility of an emergency meeting to discuss the issue, it seems unlikely that the hostel, which is designed to serve transient youth needing a place to sleep for the night at a nominal fee, will be able to open before that date. A temporary hostel has been instituted at the Fat Angel drop-in centre in Kitchener, until the planned hostel can go into operation.
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Council delays hostel The planned opening of a youth hostel in Bridgeport this week, has met with stiff opposition from the Bridgeport town council, who view the project as an attempt by Kitchener to saddle their area with our unwanted hordes of godless hippies.
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In all the kufuffle about marijuana and LSD the last few years, the hard drugs were almost forgotten. Now heroin is making a startling comeback although the media in Canada have not given it much press yet. Drop-in centres and free clinics as widespread as San Francisco, Chicago, and Montreal are seeing monthly increases in kids under age 22 addicted to heroin (smack). A downtown free clinic in’ Montreal for example had 120 new cases the first three weeks of June. David Smith, the director of the Haight-Ashbury free clinic says that where you have a speed (amphetamine) problem, you soon have a heroin problem. Speed users will alternate shooting speed and barbiturates. The barbiturates bring him down so he can shoot up again and get another rush, a kind of orgasmic feeling throughout his whole body. Barbiturates cease to be a good downer as tolerance builds to them and he finds that heroin does the job better. In a few weeks the heroin addiction is established. Not all H users come to it via speed by any means, but speed is one way. Alex Shulgrin, a California biochemist, who specializes in the study of psychedilic drugs estimates that if anyone drawn to heroin, even by curiosity, shoots it more than twice, he may be on his way. The early addict may deny he is hooked believing he used H differently than anyone else. The biggest practical problem with heroin is the problem of financially supporting the habit estimated at $35-$40 per day in Montreal, and as high as $200 a day in Chicago. The price usually makes the user a thief, pusher, pimp, or prostitute. Some habitual users come to treatment eventually from the fatigue of “hustling” to get the money. ’ It is not easy to.beat a heroin habit. About 90 percent of treatment attempts end in failure with the person keeping the habit. There are two basic ways to treat the established users (one with more than a a-year habit). The one, exemplified by Synanon, is to treat the user by group pressure methods to give up his addiction all together. The other, used by the Illinois Rehabilitation Project, is to switch the addiction from heroin to methaadone. The methadone is taken by
These are at low dosages and for study or diet need not lead to trouble. The danger is when dosages are upped for more effect, and the user intravenously injects methedrine eventually up to l-3 gms a day. If the american pattern pertains here and with other drugs it has, we will have a significant heroin problem soon. Treatment is at best poor even where there are experienced facilities. Also the young addict is puzzling to treat you do not want to make an 18 year old a methadone addict for life, and there are no in-patient treatment centres like Daytop Village in New York for milieu treatment in our area. Can we be smart enough not to get hooked?
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As a community service, Experiment ‘70 is holding a free festival on the 25th and 26th of july at the Waterloo centennial - bandshell. Included in the fun-filled festivities, will be live rock music, art and craft displays, and underground flicks. Some of the groups scheduled to appear are Luke and the
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Approximately thirty individuals participated in the novelty swim meet tuesday night. Various races of flutter board, dog paddle, push ball and free style were held. Marg Handford has proven to be the best dog paddler on campus but G. Cribbs took first prize for
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the loudest dog barker. Dominating the teams relays was a principal’s team with two student teams doing quite well also. Pat Sayoueau, Harry Beckett, Art Samson, Bob Griffin placed second in the balloon relay, third in the medley relay, third in the newspaper relay, and tied for first in the clothes relay. friday
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On the crest of the “new wave” pop culture which rolled steadily through the sixties without hitting any beachhead were not merely the music super-stars but the journalism and writings that concerned them. This journalism, as polarised into either the underground press or the fan magazines, was fostered by the stars and, once initiated, contributed greatly to the upsurge in popularity and influence of that which nourished it. -Thus, into the seventies, the media of the printed word as reformed by the pop-rock culture constitutes an important voice in the direction of youth action. In many cases certain parts of the media have become almost an authority. Rolling Stone is not really an underground paper and is certainly not a “fan mag”. But instead of being the wishy washy compromise it might be, and being disliked as such, it seems wellestablished as the leading pop-rock-culture journal in North America at least. Which does not, however, imply that its styles and opinions reveal an awareness or an understanding of the society to which it relates. Technically, Rolling stone is probably the best produced tabloid-magazine around. Its standards of journalism and photography are excellent; its stories are well-balanced with underground jargon and basic colloquialisms not in such abundance to be useless or superfluous, setting it apart from the overexuberantly expressive underground press. Rolling Stone’s most important distinction from a fan mag is its restraint of sensationalist reporting; a restraint that exists to such an extent that it quite often plays down the people or events that it reports. For example, instead of a flashy news release of a Ringo Starr solo album, they come up with a folksy: “Get way back: Ringo Starr’s working on a solo album now, and the titles known so far are rather startling: Autumn Leaves, Night and Day, and I’ll Be Back seeing You. Well, he did say he’d do his ‘old favourites’.. Financial troubles at Apple Corps. long before the Beatle break-up: “Once again the talk in the music trade is that the Beatle’s Apple Corps. is about to collapse. And that the Beatles themselves are squabbling . . . .most of the . .. . conflict that exists behind the Beatle walls still appears the result of the band’s relationship with american business manager Allen Klein. ” An indication of Rolling Stone’s popularity is the reaction of popstars themselves. For example, the previous quote concerning Apple Corps was taken from a lead feature in a november 1969, issue. The lead feature of the very next issue was a direct reply to the initial story. The second report consisted almost solely of, quotes from either John Lennon or Allen Klein refuting what was said originally, and was obviously void of any pessimistic opinion. An increase in pages, issues, and price are an indication of its acceptance by middle-class american youth despite these contradictions. Rolling Stone talks not merely about music, but more importantly, about culture. Music is the main means of communication within this new culture, but be&
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By this time editor Jann Wenner was ready to express these feelings : “Like it or not, we have reached a point in the social, cultural, intellectual, and artistic history of the United States where we are all going to be affected by . . .The blacks and the politics. students are our brothers and they are doing something which we must take awareness of. And we must participate in it because they are fighting a fight against our enemies.. . ” But the tone of the whole supplement was unfortunately narrow. It talks almost exclusively of student-oriented political action, as if students were the most oppressed group of people in the world and therefore the vanguard of all revolutionary action. One story reads : “Whites always feel under pressure to move into direct action as radical and heroic as the blacks (students). A deep and natural manhood-competition thing is happening between them. It is rendered a bit sour and off balance by the white movement’s lack of a focused centre or soul.. ” White middle class youth seems too numb to recognize any oppression other than that which affects them most personally.’ Without that sort of conflict they will fail to appreciate the oppression of others outsides their culture : the american working class, the Asia and peoples ‘of Africa, South America, the american Indian, and so on. Rolling Stone cannot easily communicate with these people, but without an understanding of the one central cause of all this oppression, and w.ithout promoting a unity regardless of culture, it cannot hope to be part of any effective revolution. And the fate of Rolling Stone and its culture may very well depend upon an effective revolu-. tion.
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During the week the university players put on the last production of the summer season. The private ear and The public eye two plays by Peter Shaffer, that are usually presented together. Under the skilful1 hand of artistic director Maurice Evans, the student-actors have came up with a solid, well articulated performance. A well deserved applause must first of all be awarded to Paul Crouse and Susan Minas, for they. successfully played two entirely different characters, on the same night with flaying colours. In The private ear Paul plays the part of a young cockney gigolo, Ted, friend of a young man (Bob) who has gone overboard with his love for classical music. Susan plays, Doreen, the young simpleminded girl, that Bob has invited over for supper. Nick Rees, through Bob, gives us a look at ourselves, how we have sacrificed human relationships for the economic security. Because of this sacrifice he himself will in the end fail, and having failed, he is ready to become a member of our sterile world or, as he would state it “voices that sound like typewriters, hands that will remain forever anonimous. ” In The pub/k eye Susan is Belinda, the young wife -of a middleage man. John Turner plays Charles who hires a detective, Christoforou, (played by Paul Crouse) to find out if his wife Belinda is betraying him. Charles is the perfect business man, full of pompousity and selfassurance but totally shallow of any human understanding. It will be Cristoforou that in the end will save the marriage by convincing Charles that he lives “in a world all wrapped up in shoulds” Nick Rees, as Bob in The private
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upper-incomebrackets is appar- man interaction within it. *from page one However, because environment dents decided. ently assumed to hold the answer cannot be overcome in a majority The exciting concept of redefor improving the lot of the lowerof high-rise situations, alternafining city government to decenincome residents, eliminating tive life-style proposals are postralize power into the hands of their supposed “cultural poverty”. community or neighborhood counThis supposes perception of self sib1e* Two of the most interesting new cils was passed by except for some is molded chiefly by environment Uncle Tom mutterings by the predevelopments in this field include ,a questionable conclusion given and low Habitat-like sident of the East York tenants other economic, education and sprawling association. (Expo 67) homes, ingeniously inopportunity disparities. facilities, How much of the housing crisis . In fact, these last factors have eluding transportation shops, pubs, theaters and small is really a design problem and not been most improved for. lowerparks within one a “system” problem? income groups when they have communal Despite a lot of talk among the had the’ benefit of so- generic Plan; and the “condomapartdelegates about so-called “inlidly together in one area into inium” building-essentially ment suites which, however, are creased mobility” within one assumed economic and social struc- . Further housing issue, page 10 (“t:d~ not leased by the Occuture, there seemed to be little unThe condominium, because it is derstanding of what might be the strong tenants’ action and presessentially an entity-unto-itself, perceived class and status of in- sure groups. could have an interesting effect , dividuals involved. This brings us to the concluon local municipal government Not only did this fact challenge sion that environment is negative, structure when more and more the open opinion that the Ontario without involvement. units come into being. However! housing corporation was making And herein lies the most imporany meaningful resident control sufficient housing available ’ to tant complaint with conventional of the building in dealing with lower-income groups, it makes forms of “high-density” livingmincemeat of all the architect’s everything from janitorial serthe apartment. lovely concepts that geographic Contrary to the views of one’ vice to services provided by and “class” proximity is preferable to developer under the control of the municithat high-rise apartments afford the individual an pality in which the building is si“class” segregation, Placing lower-income people by the escape from people which he tuated can be mediated holder, who can overin high-density living proximity to needs, it becomes apparent watch- . mortgage wish ing the citizen action groups of rule anything the residents Toronto (Trefann Court and Rose- to implement. The former concept, however, dale, among others) that what the by Renato Ciolfi characteristic of architect Eb individual ma‘y be escaping from chevron staff Zeidler’s Harbor City plan for by living in an apartment (assum’ I the Toronto waterfront lends iting he has a choice-not neself readily to experimental comcessarily the case) is the artifi; PUBLIC EYE munity political activity, especcial or fake interaction common ear and John Turner as Charles in to business and superficialsocial ially because it has dared to explode the myth that functionsThe’pubk eye with their honest, contacts. stores, living quarters, parks, genuine- performance force us to When the interaction becomes ammusements, etc.-all must be take a deep look at ourselves, and real-through tenants’ groups desegregated. the answer we get is not too fav- dicated to a communal objective, But the ramifications of small, may be orable. Here lies the theme of both design of the environment groups environmentally-defined plays. ’ less important than quality of huof home dwellers, shop operators and service people controlling activities of their daily lives usually reserved for the city-wide government will probably be too much for Toronto city council to bare, and if they even approve the Harbor City plan for referral to the provincial government in GOIN DOWN THE ROAD august, the councillors will proHard Times Come in Vending victims who venture west their bably insist on maintaining some fortunes there to try. Machines. kind of over-all joint metro-cityThe pawns are all in place. Throughout this film it is eviprovince control over the entire dent that Shebib has refused to The game begins. area (thus classifying it much like A lyrical down-east tale of misindulge in sentimentality for its a region). ery and woe gradually unfolds for own sake. The viewer is able to According to York university all to see. catch but a glimpse of brief in- planning professor James Murray, Each lapse in vision reflex is stances of euphoria and .depress“the design process must be evoion. Pete and Joey exhibit the supplemented by a host of melodic lutionary, not revolutionary,“. licks courtesy of Bruce Cockburn. common human trait to be susIt would appear delegates to the The stage is set: for, you see, ceptible to influences contrived to Stratford seminar on civic design our presentation is neither of the screw them for all they are worth. would agree. There are, however, sob story nor freak show variety; Because of its unintentional insome points to be understood bejust a winsome little tale of two nocence, Goin’ Down the Road adfore the intellectuals submerge down-and-out young gents with a heres at times to an uncomprothe crisis of both housing for the events pocketful of dreams and memmising chronology of needy and community control of ories of the past. which are both funny and tragic environment in a sea of verbosity: Did I hear mention of railway to behold. l As Zeidler commented, “too tracks leading nowhere in parThe pre-fabricated world in long economy has been considered ticular?’ Of iron mines choked be- which Pete and Joey become inthe end of society ; yond use, only serving to remind volved, is one of part-time fanl Developers will inevitably those of us who dare remember? tasy and part-time subordination seek high density regardless of on the perimeter of social consequences Shanty-town low-rise housing de- to influences (this is the velopments welcome the visiting the power structure. It is merely capitalist way). a marginal existence, glutted in senate committee on poverty. l Expanded public ownership of Please excuse the appearance deprivation. land must be considered a viable Perhaps the most disconcertof the place, the stench of the alternative to private housing privies, the rats, and all my dirty ing aspect of this unpretentious development-and use of public little flick is its setting; the imchildren and. . . land for acreage-consuming highpoverished districts of cabbageways and cloverleafs must be Our camera finally weaves its questioned; ’ way through this downcast in- town and glaring hideous obscenity of Yonge st. are much in evil Private developers must be stance of human degradation the pressured. Too often, to please which has somehow managed to dence. These are seemingly most familiar aspects of the torlocal ratepayers and tax-conscious . adopt a genuine and peculiarly onto scene, for what it’s worth. politicians, they will build against Canadian flavor . The theatre is, appropriately the necessary interests of the tenDon Shebib’s ubiquitous eye enough, located on the strip. Needants who will be living in the buildmanages to catch a glimpse of two less to say it is rather strange ex- ing; young maritimers rolling westperience to emerge from a theater 0 City or town council officials ward in a battered up old chev. and be confronted with the very must be pushed out of their reShebib’s Goin’ Down the Road is same gaudy scene as was depictac tionary views concerning dena modest and original attempt at ed in the film which one has just sity and design limits in zoning portraying the plight of many eastseen. regulations and must be convincerners who, with little in their Goin’ Down the Road does not ed, ‘at least experimentally, to repossession but a few clams and seek to elicit any measured amliquish meaningful degrees of dreams of to-morrow, make their ount of compassion or contempt on power to neighborhood communes way to that much maligned capitol the part of the viewer; it is mereand councils so participation of the province of opportunity; ly a sad tale meant to involve the might inject new concern ,by indirty old ‘t-o.” viewer in an altogether unconvendividuals for their environment. 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U&wat honour seems to require (I can see no other explanation) that there be a constant basic criticism of the campus centre, increasing from time to time when there actually is cause for complaint. . Thus since I arrived on this partitular campus seventeen days ago, almost-naive, writers in the faithfully mirroring Chevron have explained that the campus centre is badly placed, badly designed, too small, too repressive, too controversial, and most of all badly run. I am glad they said so, because otherwise I wouldn’t have known. It has its problems, not least of which is the catatonia from which the vending machines all apparently suffer. Also peccable are the never-open coffee shop, the non-existence of a six-cent piece to feed the coffee kitty, and the fact that whenever I come in, the prettiest girl in the place is just -on her way out. I wish she’d stay a while. The Chevron says, and the Chevron does not lie, that several turnkeys have resigned and that various other mysterious personages think this action dysfunctional, politically motivated and generally ungood. The reported crisis does not seem to have closed the building, dulled the music, or stopped the lending of pool cues and chess sets; it may be the reason for the fact that no one could get the cof-
Hiking through Sutfbury? Drop in, we’ll help you. Everyday on my way to and from work in Sudbury I pass countless people hitchhiking both east and west. It pisses me off that I can never give anyone a ride because I don’t go more than a mile or two in either direction, so in order to ease my conscience, I’d like to offer anyone passing throtigh Sudbury who needs a place to spend the night or get a bite to eat to phone at 682-2048 and I’d be more tlian glad to offer our facilities. We have sleeping space for 4 adults and 1 baby. Hoping we can help out someone. DOUG AND LINDA INKSTER math ‘70 and history ‘70 p.s. If you’re hitchhikers just phone and we’ll come and get you. GSU claims no grad on board, would uppoint one Brian Iler chairman, Campus center board At the last Graduate Student Union Council meeting a motion was passed that a letter be sent to you requesting that a graduate student be appointed to the Campus Center Board in accordance with the Campus Cetiter Board Agreement. According to the Registrar’s Office, none of the present student members are registered as graduate students. We would suggest that the Graduate Student Union be requested to recommend the graduate student member in accordance with Federation policy. Sincerely, Gerald Fuller, president, GSU There WCYS no ‘high school’ sorry about that, people Last week the film arrived and we brought it over to Audio-visual for a preview screening. We were told to leave it there and simply show up with the others to see it‘ on monday night (july 1%). As you know, Monday night we had a room full of people, a pkojectionist, and no film. With amazing bureaucratic finesse, Audio-visual had already sent the film back to the Distributor. They are now trying to retrieve it and we will keep you posted on when it comes back and can be shown for real. Moral: never underestimate the institution’s ability to mess things
Some fucts for us to get straightened out, eh what? what’s happening on our Canadian campi?? how much of the article in last week’s (july 17) chevron has been verified before it was put in the old weekly??? the article that began with a report on the iacusd convention at U. vie has a few things that we ‘would like to see checked...the difference between Canadian and ametican security officials.. .deputized sheriffs.. .police powers.. . most carry a variety of weapons. our campus cops have, we believe, full police powers and we know that they don’t carry any weapons-except consideration and humane discretion. thanks. CAREY CONWAY \
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fee-maker to work this morning, and I suppose one might suggest that the turnkeys sabotaged the vending machines before they left. But I don’t really think so. The same goes for the alleged Carol Tuchlinsky ; if the place runs like this when she’~s away, just what is she needed forwhen and if she’s here? If you want to see a badly designed campus centre, one that’s too small, come’ to my campus, Queen’s. Admittedly our building is old and needing replacement, and Uniwat’s is new. My point is-that it seems to be doing its job pretty well and I like it. (To repeat: I arrived here seventeen days ago and in that length of time I have grown very comfortable in the campus centre. Indeed, and perhaps more important, I felt comfortable the moment I first walked in. ) The building is badly placed, central among the computing centre, the arts library and the village? Too repressive, when. drunks and acid-tripping highschoolers play their games unhindered in corners, and chariot racers across the floor are cheered from every side? Too controversial? Yes, the campus centre is that. No one can seriously tell himself that he hates a brick building, and there are those for whom the campus centre could fairly be comforting and loved. To the rest, it is merely there ; it is there to read, smoke, talk, play ‘games, curse the machines and coffee, and-watch the brunette pick up her books and leave. Chris Redmond summer school (arts 3% )
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ONCE UPON A TIME. At the end of a rhyme, Lived a man with a hat And a big, fat cat, Which he fed every day (In a specified way) According to directions He received from connections That he knew in a business * Which was placed on the ISTHMUS Of a big, wide river flhich was trickling to a sliver Because of foreign tissue, But that’s another issue Which we’ll touch upon much later When we think of something greater Than, “That’s nasty” or “IT’S rotten” To say. Every day the cat was fed And then slouched off to bed, Where he slept for many hours In dreams of catnip showers And worked not a bit, Until his great hip W~as as big as his tummy, Which was filled with yummy, yummy Good food and drink, Prepared in the sink, Every day by his master
(This intended simile) Between the cat and the student And the owner and the prudent School teacher or professor, Whose intent is much better ,I am sure, than the feeder, The blind, instrucction reader, Who opens up the cans And puts the contents in pans That the cat learns to swallow Then sleep on. Some call the owner guilty White some say the cat’s a fool. Others blame the cat food maker Who printed down the rules. There are some who blame the system Of which eyeryone’s a part And everybody tries to care for his Brother.
Who could dole it out much faster Than the kitty in the litter, Who was happy just to sit there And receive his daily meal That did a lot to make him feel Extremely satisfied I And fulfilled. Well, one day the cat exploded (His master had him loaded) And although the owner cried, He was very mystified As to how the kitty grew To the size he’d gotten to, When it wasn’t his intent To have the pussy bent Upon a course of self destruction. He’d just followed the instructions! Which were printed on the label And were there in the table Of the cat food can That he got from the man At the corner grocery store Who knew a lot more Than he, or anyone else Did.
But I only have one question Realted to this matter Of the reckless pet owner And the cat who’s getting fatter. My question’s very simple And arises with my dimple. . . Are you enjoying what you’re doing?
Perhaps, it’s not for me to say it But I might as wefi relay it, That it seems quite real to me
by Bruce copyright,
Steele 1970
When a houseis not a home I
N RECENT WEEKS the Ontario ‘housing corporation has come under fire on charges of extreme inefficiency in administration and of ignoring people’s needs. The second charge was made by the Just Society in Toronto over the attempt by OHC to evict a woman and her family from one of the corporation’s units. Despite a considerable amount of news coverage during this period there has been very little information about what the OHC is and how it operates. The following article looks briefly at some of that background and suggests a possible solution to the whole mess. The Ontario housing corporation was established when the provincial government decided that an agency was needed to take responsibility for all aspects of public housing within the province. The corporation attempts to provide good housing for low and moderate income families, senior citizens and students. In order for the corporation to act, it must first be called upon by a city council. The OHC then sends out the “planning and research staff” to decide how great the problem is, and to check out site possibilities. This staff reports on their findings, after which their recommendations are carried out. Needless to say this process becomes long and drawn out. By the time a city council realizes a need for public housing and the OHC has carried out its due processes, that need
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has usually vastly increased. As a result of the time lag between need and development new needs come into existence and the end result is long waiting lists at OHC offices throughout the province.
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A land lease program called Home Ownership Made Easy (HOME) was implemented by the OHC to assist those of moderate income to purchase their own homes. Originally these lots could ’ be either leased or bought. However, since many lots were purchased for cash the OHC realized that people who could pur-. chase the lots probably were not those who had the greatest need. Therefore, lots are now leased over a fifty year period with an option to buy after five years, (for the market value at the beginning of the lease. ) There is one major restriction through. Lots may be leased only by people whose economic standards allow them to construct and maintain a dwelling in accordance with minimum standards during a certain time limit. Thus, the purpose of providing good housing for low and moderate income families is once again defeated. Priority in obtaining housing is based on income, size of families and the amount of rent now being paid. Recently it was brought up in the Ontario legislature that many OHC units were nearly
completed, yet families on the waiting list living in cramped quarters were not being moved into these units. Bob Adams, director of information services for the corporation explained the situation this way, “If we move people into these nearly completed units, mothers will complain about little Johnny coming home with tar on his shoes or paint on his clothes as a result of construction process. Should you move these people into these units? You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. ”
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The corporation has no power to initiate housing projects but must wait on municipal councils to make requests. The councils often delay these requests, even when low cost housing is needed, on such considerations as the effect of low cost housing on the value of surrounding property and the cost to the municipality. The business controlled city council tends to be very finicky about low cost housing. Even after a council has indicated a need for public housing it is necessary to go through the process of investigation, letting of contracts, etc. (The housing finally supplied is usually inadequate to meet the new needs which arise during this long process. ) Since it is impossible to accurately forecast the rate of growth within a community and to predict other factors affecting the need for public housing such as unem-
ployment, there will always be a lag between the time those needs come into existence and the time they are met. This problem of time lag is greatly accentuated by the present fragmented system of housing development. The only way to minimize this lag, which at present is of crucial importance, is the establishment of a strong, centralized housing authority which would have a wide range of powers to regulate and initiate the development of housing. As well, they would engage in the actual construction without all the delays of letting contracts and the continual legal hassle of fighting private companies for replacement of sub-stand,ard construction. When the OHC was established in 1964 premier John Robarts said, “In Ontario, we will ensure that the opportunity to en.joy good accommodation ranks equally with the opportunity to enjoy economic stability, good education and all the other advantages which we tend to take for granted. ” If conditions existing today are allowed _ to continue the forecast which Robarts ’ made will truly come to pass. There will be as great a lack of equality in housing as there is in economic stability, education and all the other advantages which we supposedly take for granted. This article is from the current issue of the local, alternate-press publication On the line.
th press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS); subscribmember: Canadian university er: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (GINS): published fiftytwo times a year (1970-71) on tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the federation of students, incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the responsibility of the chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration; offices in the people’s , center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748; summer circulation 8,500; ‘Alex Smith, editor. So the summer is coming to an end and I don’t even have a tan yet. As usual, the august issue will be pretty big; its being sent, also as usual, to all the first-‘year people so they can get a look at some of the incredible things that pass for news around here. A nod of the head to old Branquo Bbrkovitsh (did I spell it right?) who invited me to the Stratford seminar on civic design on behalf of the newly-formed environmental studies society, which is also in the process of organizing a fall trip to Toronto for anyone interested to inspect the Harbor City area and plansTread about it in the feature which begins on page 1. For those of you who will be around in august, we hope to have the consultants’ report on university administration ready for publication. Burt Matthews says he expects it to be submitted about then, so we’ll see what happens. You will please note the fourth line from the bottom, right-hand column of the lede editorial in the Toronto Globe & Mail of friday, july 17. Quote: a pack of reactionaries Unquote. The term is used to refer to the provincial justice ministers who last week took a collective dim view of liberalizing drug laws as recommended in the LeDain commission report. The Globe’s tendency has definitely seemed to favor the LeDain report, but those words last friday stuck out as being so unsubtle for the Globe that I’m sure they’ve democratized’ the whole shebang and are now letting radical commie * copyboys write editorials. Anyway, nice as it may be now, we still know which way they’ll fall when the chips are down. En masse cette semaine:
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brian soucie, nigel burnett, Steve izma, johanna faulk, dane charboneau, pat hueston for the swimming news release, pete Wilkinson, phil elsworthy, doug torney, Chris redmond, terry moore, nick sullivan, brute Steele. louis silcox, Scott arnold and renato ciolfi. Thoughts for the week: (1) if you’re a Gay Militant, write Vanguard, 330 Grove st. San Fransisco; (2) if you get stale peanuts, send them back. I said that before, but then I got an eight-paragraph apology and a whole big box of goodies in the mail to sooth my frazzled nerves. Try it. So-long til whenever.
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