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The University act committee announced at its meeting last week that it intends to hold “regular meetings in noand -frequent” vember and early december to discuss submissions concerning the draft act. The committee then intends to report fully on their findings to a special joint committee of board and senate. Apparently the new act has not yet attained a general campus consensus, for both the faculty association and the federation reiterated their objections to the Oct. The faculty want a 2-l ratio of faculty and student representa’ tion on the governing council rather than the l-l ratio which is presen tly suggested.
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The federation is not satisfied that the committee has dealt adequately with basic philosophical issues such as . . .what is a university’s function in society and who should control it. Board of governors rep Jim Davidson countered that the committee had devoted a “whole session” on the role and aims of the university but only three people showed up for that meeting. Among the submissions that the committee will be considering will likely be some version of the minority report drawn up by the student members of an earlier committee dealing with student government. This report, which has not yet been given official con-
The Telos symposium on the new marxism held over the last weekend attracted many who expected to relate theory to the movement work in which they were involved. The symposium dealt with philosophical intricasies of con temporary marxis t thought, which turned -out to be of little interest to these people. As a result there was much frustration that broke at times into confrontation. The folio wing article captures some of these feelings present among the audience. The bhevron in tends, ho we ver, to feature adaptations bf some conference presentations in the near future. Jim Harding is an integrated studies resource person.
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dignation until the crucial moment when the arch-villain, Dal, ton Bales himself, appeared in spontaneous response to the massed power of the voters. The tension erupted. Bales fought a losing battle against shouting, cat-calls and even the occasional hard hat flying anonymously from the crowd. Finally, the concession. Ever responsive to the wishes of the voting public, the conservative government promised that the bill, which offers” substantial benefits to -all the people of Ontario, including the construction workers”, would be taken to committee rather than directly to the house. Union organization then stepped in to de-escalate the tension before the crowd decided to press its demands still further. The speakers became respectively more sympathetic to the demonstrators’ cause; first Danny De1 Monte, Bales’ Liberal opposite number, then Stephen Lewis, NDP leader in Ontario. The boos died away as De1 Monte promised Liberal opposition to the bill, and turned to resounding cheers as Lewis delivered assurances that a bill like that could never even have been introl r l duced under a new democratic government. Finally, with persistent pleas from the spirit of the march 1969 to disperse peacefully from the ormeeting.” he said. The commitganizers the crowd, with a slight tee’s legal council Stewart Mark air of anticlimactic bewilderadded that board and-senate would ment, filtered slowly away. have to approve the act in midThe mood of most of the condecember in order for it to be- struction workers as they waited come effective in 1971. in the rain for the buses home, In keeping with his intention to seemed to be that the victory was have the committee come up with as complete as could have been an act that finds “no significant expected. Nevertheless it was group opposed to it” Burt Matclear that sooner or later, after hews did not consider it nec- some amendment, the bill would esary to remain within terms of go through. reference. “I think this committee And at least one observer was -_ is quite free to decide what its left with the impression that, had terms of reference should be; it the workers not been held back ought to seek an act which the by their leadership, they might community will agree on and take have found some more direct it to senate and the board.” he way of applying pressure to the said. , so legislative assembly,.
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sideration, deals primarily with these philosophical questions heretofore ignored. Both faculty and federation expressed fears that the committee would decide that the new act be submitted as it is to the board and senate along with a report about various disagreements. The board and senate would then assume that the committee dealt with objections satisfactorally and accept the new act. Board rep Davidson felt the committee should present the new act to the- board and senate along with a report on the disagreements. “I feel that it would be presumptuous of us to depart
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Fifteen thousand angry construction workers confronted Ontario labour minister Dalton Bales’ Wednesday with shouts of “Bring on the FLQ” and “You’ll be the next to go. The occasion -was a provincial rally called by the building trades council to protest bill 167, scheduled for second reading in the Ontario legislature. The bill, directed specifically at the construction industry, contains amendments to the labour relations act aimed at curbing the power and many of the bargaining rights of construction unions. Over 1,000 union members from the twin cities were reported to be present, including a strong delegation from the striking plumbers and steamfitters union. Many workers travelled in buses chartered by the local building trades council, who had given the event a great deal of local publicity. The way in which the demonstration was stage managed had all the ingredients of a Saturday night movie. The crowd gathered, marching up university avenue, banners held high. Labour leaders cunningly fanned the flame of in-
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After 30 hours in large lecture halls, in the short period of four days, with 16 scheduled presentations (papers and panels), with tremendous political-linquisticconceptual differences that never could be dealt with given the speedy setup: a magnus opus freak out was nearly inevitable. The freak out was controlled (some will rationalize it away), but it effects were clear. Many left after one session and many more left as the freak-out accelerated. Few stuck it out (not even some conference organizers) ; perhaps only those who enjoyed it in a masochistic way or were stoned and giggled through the drama. Those who believed in what appeared
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When over 100 people (at one time; more were there in total)-some more intellectualized, others more activizedget together; and you find that some were more phenomenologically, others more structurally orientated to ideas, and still others are dialectically oriented to the structure of phenomenon; while most didn’t know what the hell these people were arguing about; and these people came from several countries, speaking different languages and reflecting different socio-historical conditions-you can expect trouble. This is what Telos got: in the form of anti-structure rebellions which ironically helped structuralism gain more influence-in the form of exploding hysteria, which probably scared the pants off those who wanted to maintain order; and, once’ order was lost, in the form of a struggle to define and hence control what was happening at the conference, a struggle which
to be happening had to end up as confused metaphysicians, treating words as though they were being itself. Given the fascist mutiversity system of lighting and seating, and the sterile-passive interaction (Newton lives in the Left) and given the not so subtle forms of control exerted in the sessions, words came (seemed) to have more reality than bodies. Hallucinating in the room you could begin to see, hear, smell, even touch the words bouncing back and forth on the walls, coming from the seats bolted to the tiered cement floor. Then you could flick your eyes and again see the people, but it was nearly impossible to tolerate ’ this ambiguity so you would leave, or submit to the semantic hypnosis.
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Would you believe - that youare a supporting member of a US military institution? The newly formed campus Vietnam mobilization committee says that this university supports the US involvement in Vietnam and surrounding countries by fostering US military research on camnus. The meeting of the committee on thursday October 8 and its steering committee meeting on October 13 have planned out a campaign against the war in Indo-China for October 29-30 on campus leading to the community demonstration October 31. The protest on campus will be concerned with facts like that supplied by the may 1, 1969 congressional record, listing research by the armed forces abroad. Project 4896 at McGill, “assessment of military , performance enhancement by drugs”; project nonr 4073 at University of Toronto, ‘“very-high-altitude missle and decoy gas dynamics”; and project af-afosr-1274-67 at Waterloo, “fundamental processes in propellent ignition” are only three projects out of fifty-six across Canada. The Vietnam mobilization committee decided to encourage discussion on the war in the classrooms thursday October 29. On this day the students and faculty will be encouraged to analyze the connections between their course of study and the war, both in a practical and a ideological sense. Following the day of discussion the VMC will be holding a protest rally on campus with various speakers. Immediately afterwards several workshops will begin on related topics like the history and
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to allow the students the time to campaign for those candidates that they consider are opposed to the war. At the conference recently held in Toronto of the Vietnam mobilization committee it was recommended that each campus carry on activities October 30 to orient the antiwar movement to the needs of the campus itself and Canada’s involvement in the war. As a result, at our meeting we decided to carry on intensive activities October 30. In line with our proposals we would like your cooperation in suspending classes for that day in order for the students and faculty to participate fully in that day of protest. We intend to have films, speakers from the political parties, and workshops on specific interests. We consider the war in Southeast Asia to be of vital importance to everyone, and their involvement is crucial to ending that conflict.”
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, Bu to be reset The operations committee has drawn up a new set of regulations concerning the campus center pub in a move designed to “open the pubs to the people”. The new admission prices that will go into effect pending approval by the board are 10 cents for entertainment costing under 40 dollars, 25 cents for entertainment costing up to 100 dollars and 50 cents for entertainment costing over 100 dollars. At present the admission prices are 25 and 50 cents. The campus center board is planning to make the pub more accessible to students through cheaper prices and perhaps by arranging for pubs to be open every day.
Next week is fall convocation where 500 undergrads and grads will receive their degrees. Burt Matthews In addition , will be officially installed as the administration’s second president and Gerry Hagey becomes president emeritus. Howie Petch doesn’t get any recognition this time around. Among the invited guests are Claude Bissel, president of U of T and president of McMaster, Robert Bell.
mistakes in handling the claims. Often lawyers are reluctant to help in these kinds of situations for the law is complex. Costs are too high for Indians to pursue claims, and attorneys realized that some difficulty came from the culture and the various interpretations. “The alberta Indians in their Red Paper have suggested The World Court to mediate their claims. This may not be feasible for this court; the court’s past history indicates it does not deal with matters of this nature. It is important that the issues and resolution of indian priorities depend more than ever on the indian leaders. ”
Three participants; Silvia Federici, Peter Warrian, and Robin Blackburn, air their views at the ?elos symposium on Marxism and phenomenology held at the university this past weekend.
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Professor J. A. Howell of the state university of New York at Buffalo gave a lecture here October 8th in which he admonished his engineering student audience to change their ways. As an example of some of the monumental blunders of engineering he cited the Aswan dam.. As a feat of engineering the Aswan is admirable but its beneficial results dubious. The dam itself blocks the schools of sardines that once fed a thriving fishing industry leaving the fishermen destitute as a result. The dam has also restricted the flow of silt that fertilizes the nile delta, an important growing area of Egypt. This same silt will eventually fill the resevoir created by the dam. In addition the flow rates of the nile were miscalculated and it will be ten years before the turbines installed to produce hydro electricity will be working at maximum capability. Previous to the dams construction the existence of a type of snail that carries a particularlv’
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sed off at the abstracted character of the sessions, many were so addicted that they had to return. Reality was inverted: people needed the noise pollution more than life itself. The true martyrdom of the left. The conference, however, did not happen in avacuum, though you could say it happened in a void. It seemed to stop History itself. U.S. people brought the fragmentation of that movement-under, repression to the conference. European scholars brought the antithesis: a Rationalism in search of a Definition of Revolution. Of course ‘you had some of the one in the other. The fact that the conference was held in Canada and attracted a mish-mash of indigenous leftists ; and the added fact that Waterloo, where it was held. was the site of a leftist metamorphosis, with all the freaky overtones resulting from the growing mixture of sex and politics, simply intensified the conflict being mystified as being between theory and practice.
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Rationalism and Irrationalism were at war: within, among, and between the people. The superb but ineffectual forms of Rationality of the New Left priesthood provided theater par excellance. The anti-authoritarian freedom fighters were also there to catalyse the freak out (they took over the stage during one alienating sessian). So, though the freak out was of and in history, it occurred in such a form that the relation of the conference to history was and remains unclear. The speed-like High will have to be forgotten, except for those of us who live in Waterloo who will have had our collective and/or individual praxis affected. Those who wanted the New Left priesthood to give them answers for their organizational problems probably also felt cheated, though the intelligensia will have been further demystified for them. But, unfortunately, some may also feel more like acting out their sentiments without having specific historical criticisms of the movement of revolution and counter-
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the most important problem facing the world was its over population. The worlds population. will double by the year 2,000 if it continues at the present rate of growth. In the same thirty years the industry of the world will have to double its rate of production just to keep up to the present standard of living. The U. S., the most technologized nation in the world uses thirtypercent of the world’s resources yet has only six percent of its population. In the advanced countries of the world the per capita consumption of goods is increasing even faster than the birth rate and creating even greater disparity between themselves and underdeveloped nations. The advances of engineeringhave not kept pace with those of medicine and even now at a rate of only two children per family it would take seventy-five to one hundred years to reach a zero population growth and a world population of eleven-billion. In order to solve these problems Howell felt that the engineer must involve himself more in the
of subjective throughout the globe. So inte/and activism may have once again their mutual ignorance, helping Left alienated from the mass of
like money
Everyone came with a different idea of the conference. Rather than a communal praxis establishing a popular conference, people possessed their ideas like they possess their money. So you had ego warfare, acted out intellectually, though sometimes almost militarily. Everyone will have a different memory of the conference (as this piece probably shows) for the “intersubjective communication” theorized about was never really established. It was, as R.D. Laing would say, a there and then, not a here and now conference. Of course it took place in a here and now, but all the things I’ve mentioned made it difficult to ever be-together. Somehow the freak-out will affect people’s practice. Hopefully some of the priesthood were sufficiently mind-fucked that they will consider how their alienating theories are part and parcel of their
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political world. The citizen of the world must be ready to sacrifice his own comforts and the scientist must stop inventing deadly chemicals just to prove it can be done. “It is not too late to seek a newer world”. Some of the engineers in the audience did not share Howell’s optimism. One pointed out that it did not matter what a politician tried to do no matter whether he was an engineer or not. As long as industrialists can make more money by polluting the atmosphere they will continue- to do so. Dr. Howell replied that public opinion should be able to stop the industrialists. When asked if a revolution was the answer, .Dr. Howell stated a revolution would only changethe elite; whereas, it is the philosophical basis of the society which must change. He concluded that if engineers and other people involved themselves on a local level to stop pollution the problems would be sooner solved. The question remained unanswered whether people could solve their local and world-wide problems in time.
freak-o alinating lives. Otherwise neo-Stalinism, in its many subtle and sophisticate forms, will reappear again and again ‘in Marxism. Hopefully people had some good orgasms when they got home. I doubt if there were any during the conference. It would also be nice to think that those returning to real struggles, mainly in the U.S., will feel better about themselves as revolutionaries and undertake better work. If they were mind-fucked, instead of the in telligensia, it would be justifiable to delude that the CIA sponsored this conference.
No Marxism
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The chairman of the last panel adjourned the formal meeting by saying that it was time “to give Canada back to the Canadians. ” lt is interesting that a conference partly organized session on the new
by Canadians had no marxism in Canada.
This could very well be the last time canadian radicals sit and expect the word from Europe or th,e U.S. Which is not to say that any form of chauvinism should come from the freakout, but only that we should seize the aftermath for something other than complaining. fridw
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tion would hinder the case in court. This is a valid argument, however, our enforcement agencies seldom take anyone to court. Moreover, if the aim of the enforcement unit is to get a company to comply with existing, albeit weak, laws it would seem that public outrage may be the sure fire method of getting a real response from our good corporate citizens. The companies, usually, argue that the pollution control devices are under order and will be installed next year. One kitchener polluter has been saying this for about four years. Industry claims that the public revelation of the contents of their illegal amounts of effluent would reveal to their competitors all their secret processes. If this is true, then why doesn’t an industry put in pollution control devices voluntarily thus ensuring that their secret poison concoctions will never be known by anyone including Mr. Caranci who is really a secret spy for competitors and not an air management officer. The pollution game is reaching a critical point. As we become saturated with all types of dire predictions and stories of doom we will probably pass the threshold of tolerance and lapse into the easy, “I don’t give a damn” approach. This will be a shame, because with a bit of pressure and some new faces in government we might be able to enjoy the benefits of a government responsible to all its people not just the special interest groups that have priority now. Keep the letters rolling into Queen’s Park, folks. Remember BAN THE CAN! ! If “necessity is the mother of invention”, then is “pollution the illegitimate offspring (bastard) of technology? ”
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zone ended in a blocked kick and the half when a strong push ended in a thirty-five yard field goal. consequently a Gryphon.goal. ’This was the last scoring play. The Grvnhons onenedi the second .half with a run which brought of 1the game and the final score ‘, the ball to the Waterloo five yard read Guelph9, Waterloo 8. line, and in spite of the. fine de- -- Undoubtediy this was the best fensive.- moves by the Warriors ,,game’. for the rugger Warriors the Gryphons scored their first this season but it is unfortunately , _I, try. I obvious that they won’t make the This made the &ore 6-3 in fafinals. ’ L vourof Guelph. - 1. ,r Their. next game, against the Eater in the half a solid for- / Universitv of -Toronto, should be ward move? got the ball ‘to War-, interestinlg for both teams share .. rior John’ Bain ‘who dove over common losses to ‘Western and the line for three more points. ’ Guelph. ~j _ ( ’ Leech’s convert put the War: As evenly matched. as they are riors ahead 86. ’ ii is felt that the Warriors could An unsuccessful attempt to get easily upset- their * traditional the ball out of the Warrior end rivals. --\ -1 , , 1. .
The Waterloo golf Warriors the end -of the day left Windsor brought home the first 0-QAA at - a team total of ‘300 followed ,. championship of the year last _* closely by Queens and Western friday. In a two day. tournament one shot off the pace, the War. held in London, the five man riors were well back at a 310 golf team overcame a nine stroke . total. Individual leaders did not deficit’ to tie the Queens entry include any of the eventual top I for the title.- The Ruttan Trouhv -finishers. +--will be held jointly by Queens ,In fridays competition, the and the past champion Warriors. - Warriors behind the strong shootThe McCall Trophy which is - ing -of Radtke ,and Hollinger awarded to the top individual -closed, the ,gap between them golfer also ended in a tie at the and. the Queens golfers. So that end of regulation play, but after they both finished with totals- of _ a’.one hole playoff ‘it-was won by 608, a good five shots in front Western’s’ Kerry Short who outof Windsor. . .putted Waterloo’s Dave Hollinger. ~ Credit must be given to the WarThe fifty man. field teed off rior tea-m for their _ persistent last. thursday ,to open the tourrra- #,play,’ in. that they disregarded . ment _$at the Highland ‘.Cpur$!y . . the ten shot disadvantage and Club in, London. The results ,at just went-out and played golf.
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the 0-QAA championships - tion with his 440 yard win. Again we were lacking in Saturday and the, Warriors - : the field events but Glen Arbeau-stole the show, with 1, : continue,d in their quest of their third straight title his toss of 220’ 10” to better his existingao-QAA javel1421.c\ I by beating all. comers. The results showed Waterloo in mark. . . defeating their only serious rival Western 104-95, - The win’over Western is of more consequence when with Mac,Master third with 27 points. . you consider that they fielded their best team and >, , Waterloo and Western both won eight events but ) will not be any stronger for the championships tomor’ the depth.of the Warriors paid off in the points nec- = row in Hamilton. The track and’field season will ’ i essary for the win. All personnel were on hand for the 1 come to a close tomorrow inMacMaster land and it -meet and McGann took his customary l’O$ 200 and is the hope of this department that the-Warriors will :. perform to the best of their abilities and bring home ., long jump wins, l&eland won the ‘120 yard, hurdles, Paul Pearson won the si.x mile run and. New addithe -Taite McKenzie Trophy for the third straight.’ -, ’ year. tion Russ Gynp helped to complete the - track domina/
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of their win the Toronto entry will now meet the eastern representative tomorrow in London. In the singles play, which consisted of each player playing his ranking from the other schools, Burke, Keys and Smith each won two of their five matches and Moore gained one win. The doubles action saw Smith and Moore winning two of their five games.
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Forty teams of 1,000 students, playing around 200 games, round out the men’s fall intramural outdoor team activities. “Wish we had 10 more fields or even lighted ones,” says director Peter Hopkins. We would double the number of teams because the interest is definitely there. The scheduling problem is severe and won’t improve unless further Netters stay in fourth facilities are acquired. We also The Warriors tennis team went have over 1,000 students playing hockey or broomball. We have into the 0-QAA western division in London last championships more than doubled our .ice time minus their number in two years with the Twin Cities. Saturday, one player and finished fourth I don’t think they will be able ice in the six team tournament. The to grant us any additional winning team was defending time in the future. If we are to champion University of Toronto, expand, or even meet the increaswith 28 points, just edging out, ing needs of the students, cerWestern who amassed the sum of tain facilities like a ice arena, 26, third place went to McMaslighted fields and tennis courts ter who finished two up on the are a must. Warrior total of nine. By virtue Meanwhile on those field’s, a
lot of action has occurred. Rugger-a first this year got off with a few loose strums, trys and converts, with Renison pitching past powerful Co-Op Seven 3-0, while St. Jeromes and Village North tied each other up 5-5. The flag- type of football continues to capture the limelight. Upper Eng however, for the first time in the history of Intramurals has defaulted a game and possibly are out of the league. “This is disheartening” says director Peter Hopkins-‘There are over 700 engineers in year 3-4 who could participate.” “The engineers are usually the spirit of intramurals. Maybe they won’t have a hockey team either.” In other games Phys Ed and Ret outclassed Grads 19-6; Envir. Studies google-eyed Optometry 6-O and St. Jeromes won 1-O over Co-Op. Next games on Tuesday night at 4: 45 p.m. Science finally won a championship. John Crick of Science 3 outpointed Terry Stewart of Phys Ed and Rec. - 3 sets to 2 to capture the Men’s Singles Tennis Championship, over 30 students participated in this an(Maybe with our nual event. own courts, a larger turn out would ensue). A note that Intramural Hockey practises started Wednesday night. Each team should check with the director
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CTOBER i5, 1969 WAS a glorious day! God and the meteorologists were kind to the antiwar protesters on that sunny Wednesday, and they poured out in all parts of the country, students and teachers, hippies and apparent denizens of the square world, to celebrate moratorium day. They laughed, they marched, they shouted, they applauded, they shook their fists, and if only the war in Vietnam had ended, this might have gone down in history as the greatest argument that civilization had produced in favor of democracy and as proof of man’s sanity. And minor though it might have been among the events of that day, but certainly not ignored by press and television cameramen, was the surfacing of the gay liberation front. In a very new and real sense, quite different from mattachine and daughters of bilitis, organized homosexuals had decided to come out. To come out. The phrase has so many meanings, and such new ones today, that we are apt to forget its history. For way back in the dim past when children played such innocent games as cops and robbers (and, incredibly, the kids always wanted to be the good guys, the cops ! ) and hide-and-go-seek, there was a time when the seeker had found his first victim and beaten him to the goal, and the kids would sing out happily-or shall we say gaily?-to those still undetected, “come out, come out, wherever you are! ”
out of the, closets... “ITp the ass of the ruling class,” it proclaims, a lovely amalgam of sex and revolution, of youthful protest and contemporary expression of contempt for the powers that be, but a slogan that may betray as much doubt about oneself as about the enemy. More popular in GLF is the political slogan, “No revolution without homosexual one, “Out of the us,” and the explicitly closets, into the streets.” Traditionally, it was to be expected that, when homosexual organizations were formed and then developed open meetings and legal publications, they would be ultraconformist, conventional, and middleclass in every respect, emphasizing that their members differ’ ed in no way, but no way, from the adherents of the local pta or the suburban elks club, except that they loved, formed lasting alliances, and incidentally had sex with someone of their own gender. It is true that a few liberal leftists were active in the first ,organizations of homosexuals; in fact, if anybody remembers the name of Henry Wallace, it was a group of his followers who formed a bachelors-for-Wallace club when Henry was campaigning for president, and the name was apparently the facade behind which there probably lurked a nice group of left wing gay guys. Politics and sexuality notwithstanding, they were respectable people; in fact, from today’s vantage point, it was hard to find anybody who didn’t fit that sobriquet a generation ago. But when these people, the embarrassing “queer pinkos” as their enemies labeled them, finally awakened to reality on the first wednesday after the first monday in november, 1948, they de-
wont Lenny Bruce, who had few peers as social satirist, when asked his opinion of homosexuals, is reported to have said that they were all right, but he would not want one to marry his brother. Had the great humorist lived, however, he might today be under attack from two sides for this remark, which could easily be characterised as a pejorative sneer. Borrowing from the language of politics -and . what is ,more political than sex?-the right wing of the gay world would demand a retraction, for why should Bruce have objected if his brother wanted to be bound by clergy to another male, in a rite that could be dissolved only by god and that would hold them together till death do them part? And from the left wing...well, that3 where the gay liberation front comes in, and it would lose no time and lack no words to show that Bruce is an agent of the imperialist-oppressive-antisexualcapitalist - militarist - psychiatric - industrial complex whose denunciations of homosexuals are no different from the way they talk about and oppress blacks, women, workers and, in fact, people.
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tided to pick up their marbles and save something from the debacle. Thus was born one of the first homosexual ,organizations in the United States; since then it has been a history of many groups, splits and splintering, proliferation and disappearance, growth and decline, and always a search for answers to some difficult questions. Foremost among them was how to organize and lead a movement for social acceptance when there was such an ease in concealment of one’s own proclivities, such difficulties if one were to make a public proclamation. By and large, the homophile groups, despite the wallaceite club, were conservative and were respectable; that is, they were conservative in the sense that Martin Luther King could be so labeled, or the NAACP. If only society could be convinced that the homosexuals were really good boys and good girls, not promiscuous, very loving, always law-abiding, forever the victim and never the victimizer, they would be accepted. They were loyal, excellent security risks, were no sissies and bull-dykes, and would make good soldiers and sailors, if only given the opportunity. In fact, had not Plato extolled the invincibility of an army made up of just such overs, each soldier showing the greatest valor and courage because he would never want to appear in any but the most favorable light before his comrade? But most americans were not convinced; and the attitude of the armed forces as well as the gay youths could be summarized by the story of the naval psychiatrist who, in rejecting a rather obvious kid, said “You’d never make a good sailor,” to which the lad replied, “Oh, you’re wrong, dearie, I made three very good ones last week! ”
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All was not respectability, however, even in the public image of the homophile groups. On radio and television, they wanted to talk of the right of people to love one another and of the oppressive laws against this right, but in fact these organizations became involved -and for self-protection and to protect their constituency for whom they sought to have answers, they had to become involved-in defending ‘ ‘lovers” apprehended in what are euphemistically called subway and park tearooms. And in order to keep the interest of the readers and attract more to the dull, repetitive, artless sheets, in which the occasional poetry served as unwitting and unintentional humor to lighten the otherwise drab scene, there were pictures that transcended’ the rules of respectability. At first only bulging crotches, then the material became less suggestive and more explicit, often openly depicting the attractions of sadomasochism (one of the publications was actually called Black and Blue), and finally embracing hard-core homo, sexual pornography. But it all happened at a time when people were no longer getting uptight about pornography, so the lure of the pornographic, which blossomed despite the drive for respectability and in order to enhance the appeal to the specific audience, proved to be only the slightest obstacle in the effort to win support in the straight society. Actually, it soon became apparent that the homophile organizations were conducting both a public presentation and a soliloquy in which the actor is the audience: one could present one imageto the world at large and another to appeal to a different constituency. The peculiar thing about mattachine, and so many of the similar organizations, was that it was so goddam straight! So that its members got on their knees, not to perform fellatio (unconsciously perhaps the desire or need, but not the explicitly expressed)‘, but to beg the most conservative and puritanical element in american society to accept them. GAINST ALL THE EXPECTATIONS of sociological theory that would have and did predict the conservatism of homophile movements, GLF surfaced and announced its revolutionary program, demanding its place w.ith women’s lib and black panthers and weatherpeople (once called weathermen, but in
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For all the talk about homosexuals being the nation’s second largest minority (presumably this means after women, but before blacks), it is unlikely that their public banners will attract enough numbers to make the ,earth tremble or to add many decibels to the echoes, of those shouting for the freedom of the black panthers. Or at least so I believe, but my friends in GLF smile at my naivete, and in the youthful enthusiasm on which social movements thrive, they reply, “Wait and see.” At the same time, a movement like panthers or stu dent mobe or whatever else one may mention in the same breath is not likely to wish to project, even to its own constituency, the image brought forth in public minds by swishes and queers, faggots and kooks, whom they have embraced (albeit only symbolically, one hastens to add, not literally). In clear, practical, pragmatic terms;- the arithmetic does not seem to add ‘up ; there ismore to lose than to gain., For the panthers particularly, how true this’ would appear to be. For here are people claiming, and with considerable justification, that white america has robbed black men of their masculinity, has castrated these men even while being sexually- envious of them, has degraded and seduced their females, and that. they, the panthers, represent the resurgence of the expression -of strong masculine identification, unequivocal and .assertive, among the blacks. The militancy, the many beards, the shaking of the fists, the deep and resonant voices-somehow, it does not mingle well with the homosexualstereotypes, delicacy and daintiness process. - .- and the demasculinizing Homosexuality was just one of many things that the panthers sneered at; among the blacks, when homosexuality did manifest itself; it was another sign of what the oppressive whites did to people of color; and among the whites, it was further evidence of the degradation, deterioration, demoralization and decay of bourgeois life in this -country. The. GLF hardly seemed like a welco.me ally,. nor were proponents of home; sexuality as a way of _life likely. to be attracted to a program that rejected them, More than that, the revolutionary movement was a haven for some who found thereinan ability to live a less-restrictive sexual life without the stern disapproval that one often met, and still meets, in less radical circles; but it was hardly the beckoning call for those whose chief interest ‘was not in the political reorganiza. tion of society, but in the achievement of a new sexual freedom. Whatever illusion the believers in and practitioners ,. i of free love (as it once was called) and homosexuality and other violationsof -the; norms might have held in . the early part of this century, the 4lusion that,comes the revolution and restrictions on human sexuality would go the way of -other bourgeois-capitalist preju. ’ dices, how could they retain this vision after the russian revolution, after Mao and Castro? All societies, Kingsley Davis, a noted sociologist, has stated, require that the sexual urges be held in check by sets of norms and laws, and socialist societies have proved more restrictive, while totalitarian ones (including the socialist) have proved more repressive. While the homosexuals fight against the raids on gay
States, they do not have to worry Moscow, Leningrad, or Peking. This but simply argue that, times have In America at least, the answer of in its slogan: No revo/ution without _-
Yet, for all these forces that one could call anticen-. trifugal, factors that might have led one to expect that most left-wing homosexuais would spurn an alliance with the new young revolutionaries, and to further expect that the scorn would be mutual, and reciprocal, there they were on moratorium day, proclaiming themselves the gay liberation front, and again, as spring ,197O was making its late debut in New York, marching under their own banners, demanding that the black panthers be freed, and not to be outdone in threat and invective and expression of *anger against judge John M. Murtagh. And not scorned by other marchers, not vilified or laughed at, not causing embarrassment, but part of the radical scene. What ostensibly unites these diverse and$otentially hostile groups, or groups which when close to one another might be provocative of anxiety, is not merely the common cause of revolution (antiwar, black liberation, down with the pigs). The small increase in numbers is not being weighed; perhaps what is so attractive about the radical youth is that they are no longer as practical in a radical bureaucraticsense as were their fathers of the ’30s. Practicality is part of the system, and-down with it. Who cares if one is embarrassed or provokes a sneer from some tomato-throwing fascist on a rooftop? We know why he hates fairies! OR IS IT THAT THERE IS COMMON CAUSE _against oppression : we fight against being oppressed, you fight against ‘being- oppressed, and together we support your fight and you support ours. It’s a neat little calculus, once called the united front, and if it makes sense, it more often makes internecine warfare. But this is not the way GLF sees the world today. The scene has changed, and GLF explains the willingness, albeit with some argument, of women’s lib -and black panthers and weatherpeople to accept them, the most stigmatized of groups, because of what they claim is the high cost-ideologically, morally, if not practically -of their exclusion. Basically, the question for them is one of struggle and oppression, of the old saw about a world half-slave and half-free; of the impossibility of any man or woman being free while one man or woman is not. As I see it; however, there is stillanother explanation of this alliance, to be found neither in the common rejection of an oppressive ruling crass, nor in the common struggle for goals that meet each others’ support. Rather, I see a common interest in conducting one’s, struggles iu,a manner that upsets, offends, confronts, and in fact provokes something called the establishment. ’ Whatever the reason, GLF is gaining entry, at least in some small way, into the world of revolutionary youth, and particularly its black militant contingent, for ‘the straight youth (straight but not square, as against mattachine, which is square but not straight) are not frightened at the alliance, but relish- it as one more mechanism’ for expressing its contempt for the norms of society, the makers and enforders of those norms, and for those who would reject’them because in their ranks there’march the homosexuals. sweeping the left-wing youth . There . - is a negativism today. Respectable is the most disrespectable word in the language, and if respectable people heap ridicule on the antiwar marchers, or the ‘new breed of militant civil rights demonstrators, .or on homosexuals, then let them throw their tomatoes and shout their filthy bourgeoise prejudiced epithets: the.more we provokethem, the better off we are. I Let the man in the gray flannel pants laugh at us, the youth feel, and one more reason to provoke his laughter is one more reason to believe that we have succeeded in our own task: to offend, to antagonize, to polarize, to confront, to sharpen the lines between ourselves and the enemy. . And then, just to add extra sauce to this .delectable serving, the kids have learned a smattering of Freud and have heard about latency, and they laugh right back, certain that behind the fly of the gray flannel
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GLF, despite some factions and differences within it, is in no sense a front for a group of other organizations. If anything, its name implies that it is a selfproclaimed vanguard, in the front ranks of a struggle that has not yet been joined $by .some silent millions. If this is the case, the front is visible, but one does not know much about its rear. This is the age of the radicalization of many once silent minorities, and while the homophile movement dates back many years, an event in New York city in the summer of 1969 served as the catalyst to turn homosexuals to the tactics of confrontation. It was the stonewall incident, a police raid on a gay bar, accompanied by the usual amount of brutality real or alleged, but reacted to in an unexpected manner: a call to homosexuals and their friends and allies to demonstrate against the police action. The call was heeded, a new militancy was born and in this even one can see the origins of GLF. Today, the organization publishes a journal, called Come out, and in its initial issue it proclaimed itself “a newspaper by and for the gay community.” The paper appeared with an exclamation point after the title on the masthead,-‘this same punctuation mark repeated on the pages within; by the second issue the exclamation point had disappeared, but it was the only sign of a flagging of militancy. If anything, the slogans had become lef tier and heftier. On the first page of-issue number one, there were the well-known circles with protruding arrows and crosses, symbols of males and females, but the arrangement rather queer for a homosexual was, if anything, journal. There were three symbols, one a male, one a female, and a third carrying both pieces of apparatus, the latter being linked with each of the other two. By the second issue, this part of the logo had likewise disappeared, with the apparent and perhaps attractive bisexuality being interpreted as the not too pleasant apparition of hermaphroditism, and the slogan that proclaimed Come Out! as the newspaper by and for the gay community had aIso been replaced: it was now “a liberation forum for the gay community. ” The format, size, ahd appearance of Come Out make it almost indistinguishable from kat. Eest Vi/l8ge Other, and a long list of underground papers. And what else could it be? Here is the conformity that is always to be found in the world of the nonconformists. In an early issue, there are two items on GLF that I should like to quote. The first is a statement of what the organization is ; the second, of what the organization is, as supposedly paraphrased from a New York City Police Department report. In its own words: Gay Liberation Front is group of men and women that
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The Gay Liberation Front is 8 radical and revolutionary organiration, based on anarchist guidelines, similsr to the Bleck Penthers 8nd Weathermen. The organization is worth watching, &though there seems to be only one or two radic8l individuals present at any given time. There is no immediste threat. They represent themselves 8s 8 homophile orgdlnizetion but 8re unlike such respecf8ble and dedicated organizations 8s Daughters of Bilitis and Meffachine.
So- that, if fellow-revolutionaries frightened by the specter of homosexual comrades-in-arms should feel it necessary to rebuff GLF they need just read this Police Department report, and know that, by proclamation of the common enemy, GLF is acceptable. “It’s nice to know we’re in good company,” was the terse and complete comment of an editor following this paraphrased report. All that was lacking was the explicit panther and weatherman papers, message : “black please copy. ” Here is a page devoted to homosexuals in the movement, not the homophile movement, but the movement, another to the young lords, another headed with the slogans : “right on! ” “ all power to the people!” “gay power to the gay people! ” But not all is unity in the ranks of the new partisans of militancy. A letter ‘from the university of toronto homophile association is signed by eleven persons; they are all students, one might assume, and perhaps some pseudonyms are among them, but one cannot be certain, and can only admire the courage while at the same time hoping that no one has stood up to be counted while still carrying on an inner struggle that might eventually lead to a different sexual orientation. The letter protests GLF, or at least the newspaper speaking for it, because of its effort to link the homophile movement to communist revolution and it support of totalitarian anti-homosexual political systems. Don’t the editors know what has happened to homosexuais in Cuba? S FOR THE BLACK REVOLUTIONARIES, those responding to the students chide them for thoughtlessly applying the word “terrorist” to the panthers, and inform the Toronto youths that “we have found individual black panthers to. embrace US and our cause after we worked, demonstrated and picketed with them. And it is in just this way, through working. together with others on common causes that we can bring our cause to a realization of the wider support it must have to be successful.” All of this seems to have taken the respectable homophile movement by surprise, but there may have developed a symbiotic relationship of love and hate, acceptance and rejection, admiration and denunciation. While mattachine and the numerous other groups demand security clearance for homosexuals, GLF denounces security clearances, defense contracts, and working for the war machine. And while Mattachine and its allies fight for equal rights to be drafted, no discrimination in the right to be a soldier or sailor, and to be treated as well (or as badly) as any other young citizen, the GLF denounces the draft, and insists that no one, straight or gay, should be turned into cannon fodder for the purposes of imperialist oppression. What may here be developing is a division of labor, and one that has its analogue in the civil rights movement as well. The blacks, too, demand the right to enter the army as equals, even while denouncing the armed forces and its war against colored peoples in’Asia. I A division of labor, but although each group has its place and its task, sometimes this is difficult to accept by those caught up in the struggle. So that, at meetings of the conservative homophile factions, there is now strategy being mapped to prevent the takeover of their conventions by the lef twingers. It is not an unfamiliar scene to those who have followed radical politics, and it is one that gives GLF important activities to plan. If planned well and carried out with the fervor that usually punctuates the youthful
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radical scene, the GLF is likely to make a big splash, but it might be in a very.small pond. The emergence of homosexuality as an issue for those fighting against oppression, and of GLF as an organization in that struggle, has not gone unnoticed, nor even unwelcome, in some sectors of the radical press. An entire issue of the organ of the war resisters league, Win, is devoted to homosexuality. Some might have argued that the matter was irrelevant, others that it would serve only to antagonize pacifists and those close to the WRL position. But today these arguments no longer prevail, and in Win one of the best known leaders of pacifism in america reveals his homosexuality. But it is not GLF material, and it is hardly likely to please the homosexual revolutionists. Let us shift the focus from GLF to WRL, the former a group of homosexuals who happen to be in the movement, the latter a group of pacifists a few of whom happen to be homosexuals. One of the latter is Dave McReynolds, and it is his statement that makes up the better part of the issue devoted to this theme. It was a courageous statement that McReynolds made, and many of the gay kids will now claim him as one of their own, one more hero who made it, one more example to prove that a man need not be defeated by this adversity. But it is also a pathetic story, one of longing and loneliness, and while it might be oppressive to read this and insist that the writer remain celibate or change his ways, to impose on him a psychiatrist that he cannot accept, to close the doors of the bars and to haunt the parks where he meets his comrades and companions; in short, to banish him, this most human of humans, from the halls of humanity-indeed, it is oppressive and unjust to do any or all such things-it is nevertheless far from unjust to state that the life described by this pacifist is not one that any society would want its young people to emulate. “When I get tired of life and the struggle I retreat to a gay bar, secure that reality will never penetrate there,” writes McReynolds. And as for those who see in all men latent homosexuality, and are urging young people to recognize “what they are” and to come out, ,heed these words of McReynolds : “Bar talk will persuade you that every man is queer while the fact is that every queer is fighting against his heterosexuality. ’ ’ (Emphasis in original. )
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As for the slogan, “gay is good,” McReynolds makes a simple denial of that statement; for him gay is not To which he adds: “It is sick in a good, “it is boring.” way that queerness is not.” Exactly what this last statement means I am not sure, nor does the writer explain it. Perhaps he is saying that he accepts being homosex- ual, which is called queer, but that he is notpart of and could not belong to a community of people who are homosexuals and call themselves gay. Or, in very simple language, is he just rejecting the irony of the adjective gay when it is used to describe something so lacking in gaiety ? From this article and all else we know about this man, David McReynolds emerges as a full human being, a gentle man without being a gentleman, a person filled with love and compassion that drove him to find a home in socialism and in pacifism. He emerges as one who is dedicated to peace, but who has not come to peace with himself; he is hardly a man who can or will find homosexuality as a way of life that can offer love for others. For those who see homosexuality as being intrinsically
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on a par with heterosexuality, read McReynolds. It is a fast and cheap cure, if not for the desires, then for the illusions about them. But not for GLF. All that McReynolds says is true, but it simply illustrates that the pattern of life that our culture offers the homosexual is oppressive. Better that bars be left unmolested than raided, it is conceded; better that there be nwentrapment in the parks. But homosexual life is stultifying because capitalism offers no opportunities to be free of socially and governmentally imposed roles. For some people in GLF, homosexuality, even under capitalism, is evidently not on a par with heterosexuality (to use the phrase made popular by mattachine and the old-line homophile group) but is superior to it. First they said that gay is good, later it became excellent. Now, the slogan could very well be, although it has not been explicitly articulated in this manner but the content is clearly in that direction: gay is superior. One turns to a gay manifesto in another revolutionary publication, this time in Libererion, to see how this is stated. The article is. called “A Gay Manifesto” and is written by Carl Wittman; although it makes mention in a favorable way of GLF, it does not appear as an official statement of that group. “Homosexuality,” he writes, “is not a lot of things. It is not a makeshift in the absence of the opposite sex; it is not hatred or rejection of the opposite sex; it is not genetic; it is not the result of broken homes except inasmuch as we could see the sham of American marriage. is
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We’ve been called perverts enough to be suspect of any usage of the word. Still many of us shrink from the idea of certain kinds of sex: with animals, sado-masochism, dirty sex (involving piss or shit). Right off, even before we take the time to learn any more, there are some things to get straight. 1. We shouldn’t be apologetic to straights about gays whose sex lives we don’t understand or share; 2. It’s not particularly a gay issue, except that gay people probably are less hung up about sexual experimen ta tion. even if we were to get into 3. Let’s get perspective. the game of deciding what’s good for someone else, the these “‘perversions” is undoubtedly harm done in less dangerous or unhealthy than tobacco or alcohol. 4. While they can be reflections of neurotic or self-
hating patterns, they .ma y also be enactments of spiritual or important phenomena: e.g., s,ex with animals may be the beginning of interspecies communication: some dolphin-human breakthroughs have been made on the one guy who says he digs shit during sexual level; e.g., sex occasionally says it’s not the taste or texture, but a symbol that’s so far into sex that those things no longer bug him; e.g., sado-masochism, when consensual, can be described as a highly artistic endeavor, a ballet the constraints of which are the thresholds of pain and pleasure.
Amen, ah men! , GLF is striving to be, if anything, an anarchist group, which is like saying a non-organization organization. There will be no officers, leaders, involuntary tasks, discipline ; it is all part of the communitarian utopia that a few youths here and there in America have embraced. That it is almost the diametric reversal of the heterosexual groups that they emulate, particularly the Weather-people and the Panthers, does not seem to bother the GLFers. Each group has to have its own thing, and anarchist democracy is its. But groups have a way of sprouting leadership, and particularly groups as unstructured as GLF, where unstructure most consciously becomes. the striven-for structure, have a habit of forming themselves into factions, subgroups, and cliques. What starts out as a nonorganization not only becomes an organization, but then develops organizations within the organization, or non-organizations with the non-organization. Small and new as GLF is, it already has ten or fifteen of its own subgroups, each searching for the right answers. One of these, called Red Butterfly, publishes its little mimeographed bulletin, called Gay Liberation, and a GLFer describes RB to me as a “cell” within the GLF (how I have always hated the word,“cell” when used by radical groups). Red Butterfly, it is stated by my informant, is committed to defining a marxist ideology of homosexuality. “In practice,” I am told, “it operates as an autonomous group of more professionally committed radicals within GLF,” a perfectly legitimate practice according to GLF rules. In short, and the words are those of a GLF adherent, this is the “old left wing” of GLF. Red Butterfly looks forward not only to a classless society, but a labelless society, and it calls for an end to all oppression. In a brief statement of its views, it states that homosexual acts between freely consenting partners are natural, and that the revolution cannot be just or complete if the rights of gay people as full human beings are not recognized. So far, it could be mattachine talking, except that would have to be words like “liberty” or ‘ ‘freedom” used in place of the frightening specter of revolution. But then, the oppression of homosexuals, it is said, is due not merely to ignorance and superstition, but to the interests and ideologies of an authoritarian capitalist society. “Sexual liberation cannot succeed within the framework of reactionary society.” Moscow papers: please copy* The problems of GLF and Red Butterfly within it are many. Convince the revolutionary youth to accept them, convince the gay youth to come out and be revolutionary’ and not the least, convince themselves that the revolution will bring sexual freedom, Russia and Cuba and China notwithstanding. There may be some small successes simply because an organization that “salutes militant oppressed groups” and “offers aid” to them, that seeks to unify with “other oppressed groups into a cohesive body of people who do not find the enemy in each other,” may
have enough going for it to find a place in what is at this moment a very fragmented youthful revolutionary scene. An organization that calls for the right of anyone to have sex with anyone else, with no age limit and no suggestion that public parks should not be turned into pubic ones (“Hell, yes, right here in Bryant Park, why not?“) has an appeal to those who take revelry and ecstasy in offending the respectables and laughing at the institutions of society. That such a group offers humane feelings, love’and sympathy, that this comes out of the depths of their own degradations and humiliations and search foracceptance, that it speaks out against an injustice that is no less severe because it is universal, may be a force in contributing lovingness to a revolutionary youth that is caught in a whirlwind of an admixture of love and hate. Nowhere is this warm hand of communitarian acceptance so evident as in the acceptance of the “swish” among the GLFers. Unlike mattachine, always embarrassed’ afraid that the straight world would be put off, denying that their members have limp wrists and concealing those who do (“don’t send her for the tv interview-what kind of an impression will she make?“)GLF finds all kinds acceptable. Here there is no frantic denial of the stereotype: the male has a right to be “effeminate” and to be accepted as a full human being. It is a bold program, and even in this age of unisex, one that will gain not too many adherents. But that’s just the point about the revolutionary youth : numbers don’t count any more, it’s recognizing the essential humanity of all of us. I So we come back to Lenny Bruce. What GLF is saying is that all men are our brothers, except some of them, who are our sisters. I am reminded of a slogan that I once suggested be adopted by a revolutionary-marxist group of transsexuals, who likewise .wanted to convince the left-wing youth that transsexuals had a proper place within their movement. It was a simple paraphrase from the communist manifesto: “Transsexuals of the world, unite. You have a world to gain. You have nothing to lose but your balls and chains.” Talking to a City College student about the GLF recently, I think I stumbled across one of the basic difficulties’ or contradictions, to use a favorite term of revolutionists’ of this phase of the movement. He was expressing his admiration for the gay revolutionists, his complete acceptance of their denunciation of the system, the capitalists, the pigs. But the pigs. “The thing I can’t understand about myself,” he confessed, “is that these pigs, these fascist pigs, in their nice blue uniforms, especially the young ones.. . . . . ” And his voice dwindled off into a drool.
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So, you want to talk to Leonard Cohen; you want to see him, and hear him, and find out what he’s like. And find out why he touches you so. Although no one seemed to recognize Suzanne until he sang her name, the song, his intended finale, brought such energetic and enthusiastic applause that the man stopped just before leaving the stage, turned and paused as he gazed warmly but intensely into the crowd, then quietly walked back towards the microphone. The reprise of SO long, Marianne was as warm as his gaze. He found it a little difficult to wade through the tight crowd that was pressed between the stage and the door, and to refuse the two girls with pen and paper in hand at the bottomof the steps. Why should you want to know him? Well, if what he sings affects you so much, maybe he already knows you. If you identify in desperation with all those deep, personal feelings and experiences of his that he reveals in concert maybe it is you, as well as himself that he is singing about. He whom we see on stage is Leonard Cohen; there is too much in earnest in his eyes for it to be an act. He has come into the arena,- as inconspicuous as possible among his musicians; humble and nervous. His first words reassure us that the stage is no De& -
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Women must learn to organize, make decisions, and fill administrative positions for themselves (and for everyone else too). They need the practical experience offered by the opportunity to organize and run the Women’s Lib. groups. They do not need, we hope, the opportunity to form a group in which the advice of men is scorned solely because it comes from men. Sexual segregation in social roles is exactly the sort of potential cruelty that any human liberation movement must condemn wherever it appears. If such a movement does not, it reveals itself as hypocritical and bigoted. Indeed, the popular press has frequently burlesqued Women ‘s Liberation by presenting it as a group of ugly, bigoted, sexuallymaladjusted women. We had hoped that our presence and influence in the Women’s Liberation movement on campus would aid in the destruction of this myth. One does not need to read much farther than the last Women’s Liberation group’s letter in the Chevron to see that success in this endeavor would have much improved the public image of Women’s Liberation. Our previous letter was written in the expressed hope that the campus Women’s Liberation group would “call -our bluff’.’ and allow us to contriute to it as full and
equal members. There appears to be no way they could have lost: if we had refused to be useful members, the resultant publicity would have produced increased support for the movement. We can’t understand why our letter was called “insidious”. We told the truth to the best of our knowledge. We can’t be treacherous to a group which has expelled us. Although we have criticized the campus group, we have constantly supported Women’s Liberation. We especially can’t understand why the campus Women’s Liberation group would object to an opportunity to present its views to the University community. No effective organization should. We will not reply to the personal attacks on Rod McCormick. In fact, he was one of five equal coauthors. We, who signed the letter with Rod McCormick, do not blame the campus Women’s Liberation group for these attacks. We realize that such illogical arguments were the combined result of inexperience, female socialization and an inaccurate response to Rod McCormick’s virile personality. The attacks were the sort of thing we’d hope to help prevent. We still do. DOUG AITCHISON psych grad GREGORY POLLE physics grad ROD MCCORMICK sot 3 JAMES B. WEBB physics grad LEIGH WILSON hist 3
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Carol Courtneys qletter demonstrated a very poor understanding of Rod McCormick’s letter. The first paragraph and the last sentence of the last parpagraph were simple propaganda devices. It is not Rod McCormick’s motives but his opinions which should be dealt with by any reasonable critique. Therefore I must reject these parts of the letter as being irrelevent. In the second paragraph Carol rightly criticized Rod’s sweeping generalization that “every” woman over thirty at the first meeting was alienated. The third paragraph quoted Rod as having advocated the filling of top executive positions in Women’s Liberation with competent men. This is not so. Rod advocated the filling of positions by ability without sexual discrimination. The male student has no advantage over the female student in the area of organizational experience. I fail to see why some women are afraid of selection by ability. Are you admitting inferiori ty ? Women’s liberation should be a democratic organization and assuch should not fear a dominance by people in executive positions whether they are male or female. Rod rightly attacked the nondemocratic processes at Women’s Liberation in the first part of his letter. If Women’s Liberation is going to rise above the status of a radical pressure group it must organize itself and its philisophy. Otherwise it will die having achieved only half of the desired reforms necessary to truly free women. JOHN MEDLEY mech eng 2A Shocking maybe
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As Village residents, we are appalled at the frequent reports of vandalism at the residences, especially at the Village complex since the beginning of the fall term. We also consider it unfair and unwarranted to expect the residents who live here to pay for this stolen property. It is not at all definite whether the culprit (or culprits) lives in either village.’ With the frequent trespassing of uninvited funseekers, who have no respect or obligation to the grounds and property here, it is unjust, to say the least, to assume the fault lies with the occupants. This past week notices have again appeared, this time informing us that we will be held responsible for yet another offence-the light fixtures of the Blue Dining Hall which were liberated during the period of renovation. Taking into account the many instances of thievery prior to this period, we find it hard to believe that not only were these fixtures left lying around, but
also that the dining hall, which was not to be used for at least a week, was left unlocked. We offer several constructive ideas, then, to alleviate many of the problems to which we are now subjected. We suggest that a ten dollar deposit be charged on keys. This is to alleviate the possibility of student hoarding collections of keys. Due to the overabundance of stolen passkeys around changing the locks are necessary. It should be mandatory to have one’s keys returned before the resident student is able to obtain his grades, and reclaim his deposit, at term’s end. Occupants of houses who wish to have open parties should be allowed to do so at their own risk of damage to property suffered as a result. It is unfair to have all residents pay for damages resulting from parties whose past record indicates breakage, vandalism and general disorder to be commonplace. Since room checks are always a possibility, it appears logical that much stolen merchandise probably will not be found on resident premises, and therefore, on-campus residents would not likely seize and display university stolen property, which can be easily recognized. Therefore,it is possible that these items were not stolen by residents! Or, at least, what proof is there that they were? Since it appears clear that among the population here, certain individuals are having little trouble in handpicking merchanidse of their choice in the Village, it is therefore unfortunate and inexcusable that those members of the village administration in general and the housing warden in particular persist in their inept methods of dealing with this situation. BARRY WISEMAN BSc opt 2 LARS KRISTENSEN math 2 TERRY LEE math 1 CHRIS GUPTA eng 2 LARRY DAVIS eng 1 ANDY LAM sci 1 Why is optometry head uptight about long hair?
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What goes on around here in such tight-knit faculties as optometry? One thing is that some highschool-principal types, namely Dr. M. E. Woodruff, director of the school’s clinic, walks around bitching about the length of. our hair. Ordering us to remove our locks, with the ultimate punishment seeming to be removal from the faculty. At a time like this, when the country is crying out for optometrists, due to a shortage, we have to go out and get a hair cut to keep up the ‘dignity’ of the profession. We are here to learn Dr. Woodruff not to go to Sunday School, long hair is no longer a social stigma. A PISSED OFF OPTOMETRIST P.S. I ask that you keep this letter anonymous, as I fear the reprocussions on my academic sianding.
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Changingthe topic HAT -WE WANT TO talk about here is our confusion, weakness and fears as growing people. And the self-destructive agony of trying to be a man. The system we want to change bred all of us, and even as we are breaking free of it, I think many of us are still living the roles we were conditioned to in our relationships with lovers, friends, and others. While women are coming to see the inferior status given to them in this society little has been said about men. Men are in the position of having to be superior-to struggle to be successful, to gain status, to perform The Competitive Male Ego has been driven into our heads and bodies-and mirrors the impersonal rat race we were trained for. When we started talking together we found so much common experience in our pasts.
OR THE SO-CALLED setcurity of an ever spiraling arms race, the world is spending 180 billion dollars annually and the figure steadily goes up. Four years ago in a speech in Montreal, I tried to point out that ;rlore and more military hardware does not provide more and more security. Most of the nations of both the developed and the developing world are beyond that point of diminishing returns. k If that is true, it is tragic that the developed nations hesitate to maintain even the present seven billion dollars of public aid ex-
The need to constantly prove ourselves, In our youth it was in sports, marks, fighting and/or ‘Making it with some chick! ’ You’ve got to win, to conguer. This aggressive role is based on a raw fear of failure, of not being a somebody. We need to not just learn to accept failure but to free ourselves of thinking in terms of that success/failure duality. I am who I am. The most threatening jokes were (and still are) always those about being gay* We are so intent on trying to become a man that we have ceased to be real persons.
What has evolved between a man and a woman is series of pasteboard faces through which they must relate to one another, one success, the other beauty. We can spend the rest of our lives trying to remember the details of the plastic dream we were supposed to live. In the competition-in a fight-the
penditure. That twenty times more should be spent on military power than on constructive progress appears to me to be the mark of an ultimate, and I sometimes fear, incurable folly. If there were only a 5 percent shift from arms to development we would be within sight of the Pearson target for official development assistance. And who among us, familiar with the methods and audits of arms planning, would not admit that such a margin could be provided from convertible waste alone? There are really no material obstacles to a sane, manageable,
physical pain is nothing compared to the psychic hurt of being defeated, humiliated and conquered. And you can never show that you have been hurt enough to cry, to admit your weakness. Looking back, I know that when I met my girlfriend I wanted her to be weak, to not know as much as me, to need my protection-in order to guarantee her love for me. When she started to feel stronger, to be more independent, I felt threatened - she won’t need me - she won’t want me, I thought. So, I would withdraw my support-hoprng, I guess to put her back down where I was in control of the relationship. She continued to grow and I had a lot of doubt about myself and my self-image. She could still cry when she felt weak, and I resented that because although I could express my confusion about my work to her, I was never courageous enough to be honest and tell her about my fears of losing her. has
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and progressive response to the world’s development needs. The obstacles lie in the minds of men. Too many millennia of tribal suspicion and hostility are still at work in our subconsciousminds. But what human society can ultimately survive without a sense of community? Today we are in fact an inescapable community, united by the forces of communication and interdependence in our new technological order. We must apply at the world level that same moral responsibility, that same sharing of wealth that same standard of justice ’ and compas-
my father and Mick Jaggerstrong, selfsufficient, self con trolled. And somehow those qualities added up to the perfection of sexuality. As she lived her new found strength, I started feeling weak and guilty for not being more adventurous, more revolutionary, more mystical. competition
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sion, without which our own national societies would surely fall apart. Thus the challenge of the scientific revolution is not a tremendous technological conundrum like putting a man on the moon. It is much more a straightforward moral obligation, like getting him out of a ghetto, out of a favella, out of illiteracy and hunger and despair. We can meet this challenge if we have the wisdom and moral energy to do so. But if we lack these qualities, then I fear, we lack the means of survival on this planet. by Robert
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...and damn the arms-technology race ,NE REASON FOR keeping secret the cost of the Vietnam war in the last budget message was to prevent public debate over what was happening to the expected peace dividend. Two different figures have now slipped out on the reduction in Vietnam spending. At San Clemente on his return from Asia, vice-presiden Spiro Agnew said the cost of the war had fallen to 14 billion dollars from its fiscal 1969peak of 28 billion dollars. Then, in a talk to the national security industrial. association (one of the main transmission belts of the military-industrial complex) Pentagon comptroller Moot said that by the end of this fiscal year next june 30, the cost of the war would be down to 11 billion dollars. So far there is little evidence of a comparable drop in total military spending. This means that rising military costs and wage increases are absorbing most of the peace dividends. Total “defence by function” figures for fiscal ‘70 ended last june 30 were about 80.2
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billion dollars, only a billion less than the peak war year of ‘69. Total military spending this fiscal year is supposed to be down seven billion. This would mean that rising Pentagon costs in other areas had absorbed half the 14 billion dollars “peace dividend” figure given by Agnew. A new Gallup poll shows that in every section of the country except the South, a majority favor cutting Pentagon spending. Only 10 percent nationall,y (and 12 percent in the south) favor an increase; the rest are for holding the present line. In the senate, Proxmire called attention to the propaganda campaign the military is staging to prevent any further cuts in its budget “the only place where significant cuts can be made.” If cuts must be made, the Pentagon prefers to cut manpower, foreign commitments and ammunition rather than weaponry procurement. Penatagon planning, according to a DMS (defense marketing service) memo turned up
by national action research- on the military industrial complex (a friends service committee project in Philadelphia) calls for a steady rise in the next three fiscal years. DMS billed this as “good news” for its armament making clientele. To maintain procurement and still meet this year’s budget, the army must be cut -back three divisions (Moot revealed) and that means sharper cuts in Vietnam beyond the 284,000goal Nixon has set in his troop withdrawal schedule for next may. The only hope of substantially increasing weaponry procurement and stepping up the race in arms technology is to get out of Vietnam as soon as possible. That is why the new Paris offer from the other side to accept elections and deal with the present government if Thieu, Ky and Khiem are removed may interest the administration more than it lets on in public. This is one issue on which the military industrial complex is with the doves.
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n’s liberation image when others cannot. Every guy is aware of the discrepancy between the man people think him to be and the person he really is. At the same time the image that others promote is not as easily seen through as our own. What results is feelings of inferiority and doubts about our own masculinity. Man is Clint Eastwood gunning down our aspirations. All that’s left is to savour the vicarious thrill of seeing a real man on the screen. Because women were status symbols and sex objects from which you obtained sexual satisfaction (if you can relax enough) it is now difficult to accept a relationship with a woman when always playing the clown rather than really being serious about it. Many men have said that they just can’t have an intellectual conversation with a woman-especially the woman they live with. Is this just another part of our selflimiting chauvinism?
In this society we exist in such a complex web of relationships, that they often reinforce each other. If a man can only love a woman, what is the content of his relationships with other men? If a woman is just a plastic bunny-what kind of relationship can a man have to his own body? Are women complicit in the crime? It seems like they want only man they don’t want me. They want that man in the sweating rock band, that man in the hip clothes and all the right words who SUCceeds in business, man-cool and tough? What if I am none of these? The roles men and women play complement each other so completely and so destructively for all of us as persons. Our expectations reinforce each other’s insecurity. A woman is so often much more than her image, and knows it, but men just don’t respond to her as a full human being. A
man, often less than his ego-tripping image, knows it, but is caught in the aggressive male role. Often two people can’t ball unless it occurs through the man and woman ritualized roles. Man taking and Woman giving. Each watching his cardboard image and trying to savour his or her reflections. Love-making ceases to be estatic experience. The consummation of love becomes the ability to do it well! ! * * * 0 Some interesting extensions of msnhood are western’s man’s rape of the earth, racism, and imperialism. Watching Nixon on TV’ I really get the feeling that his personal potency is being threatened by failure in Vietnam. 0 The revolution is both inside and outside. It’s so easy to talk about ‘them’ changing, and power to ‘us’ the people. To change a system that’s based on competition- and aggression against others, we really need to confront these things in ourselves. It isn’t just the cop on the beat or
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at the demonstration but also the cop inside our own heads-who serve and protect. 0 When I was in school I was just paralyzed when it came to writing, to expressing myself, because they said it so much better, they were saying more i mportant things. e In the counter culture we mock the straight men who sit* in front of their television watching the football game-the spectator identifying the players, acting out his feelings. But Abbie Hoffman, Jimi Hendrix etc.-the youth supperstars are being created all the time. A lot of what they do is really beautiful, but we only know an image, not real people. I think these images and our admiration for them can become a bad thing when they serve to intimidate our own efforts and self-respect. Let’s hope the growing comes out of our own experience, the here and now of our own lives. If we live together and struggle together, we will grow.
member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS). subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (CINS). the chevron-is a newsfeature tabloid published offset fifty-two times a year (1970-71) on tuesdays and fridays by 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 campus center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295 - 748. circulation: 10500 (tuesdays) 13,000 (fridays) Alex Smith, editor We have been requested to make some reference to the Telos conference in this masthead; that is, to suggest how interesting it was that while the intellectual Marxists were talking in Waterloo, the real action was with the FLQ in Quebec. Further, people in the history department claim that the way in which the Telos conference was handled confirms their contention that philosophers just don’t have what it takes-that the only great men are historians. Well, Marx might agree of course, but everybody has his or her own thing (so to speak); after all one man’s action is another man’s dream. Or something. For those of you with a sense of history, we note that Messrs. Saxe, Ireland, ller and Flott were back last friday in conference with federation president Burko and administration president Matthews. The purpose was to explain the federation organization-completely sound compared to the Guelph student council which collapsed, bankrupt, several months ago. Rumor has it the federation has never been on better ground. Staffers are off to Ottawa this weekend to visit other campus newspaper freaks from around Ontario and Quebec (non frenchspeaking, that is) bt the Ontario region, Canadian university press conference. An important guest speaker will be Robin Mathews, of’ americanization-Of-Canadian-universities fame. Perhaps we will bring back a feature. Once again, the chevron offers fabulous prizes (this tim.e a life-time membership to the Aryan Affairs Commission and two (count ‘em, t-w-o) dollars for correctly identifying the following piece of literature: “Man is but a reed; the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush .him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity consists, then, is in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not be space and time which we cannot feel. Let us endeavor, then, to think well; this is the principle of morality.” And the thought for the week: in order to be truly free you must learn to watch the snow fly. Or how about ‘In the cherry orchard the nightengale sings from a dead cherry tree.’ Though courtesy of the office Prophit... productidn
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