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GSU: 1’ silver spoon Last month, the graduate students on campus were invited to participate in a referendum concerning a new “grad club” on the site of the south campus farmhouse. The referendum, donceived by the Graduate Student Union, consisted of three sections-whether or not the concept of an exclusive grad club was acceptable; the possibility of a per term fee of $7.50; and whether that fee would be on a compulsory basis. After a short period, the returned ballots were counted, and on a return of 50 per cent, 78 per cent were in favour of all three proposals. With that mandate in hand, the GSU concluded negotiations which had been in progress for some time. Those negotiations included a loan and the rental of the farmhouse. While Fred Hetzel, president of the GSU, assured one and all that compulsory fees would only be a last Waterloo police will begin resort, that compulsion was ticketing cars on Columbia Street ,quickly enforced in time for grad next monday, September 25. registration. The university has been advised The new grad club will be by the Waterloo Police Department primarily, in Hetzel’s words, “a that many cars, some belonging to where grads can get students, some belonging to place together, to meet and comconstruction workers at the opmunicate”. The club will provide tometry building, are being parked as on the boulevard on both sides of such assets to communication coloured television, a bar, and a Columbia Street. According to the pool table. It is scheduled to open police department, there is a city in October, by-law which prohibits parking on sometime after renovations are complete. The boulevards. Boulevards are concept of a club or “meeting defined as property running from place” for grads is not new to this the edge of the road (such as where campus, nor is the attitude which the asphalt stops) to the city property line. The boulevard in- has fostered that concept. In the cludes the gravelled portion as GSU’s eyes, grads are “different under-grads”, (Hetzel’s well as the grassy section of the from area between the roadway and the words again) and have different . needs and desires. Apparently campus. The police department wishes to those needs and desires can be filled by segregating grads from advise people that cars, which of the campus contravene this by-law will be the remainder continued on page 2 ticketed as of monday. photo by richard
What can you say about fifteen ravaging, voluptuous, bare-thighed and dimpled yoling maidens in the Humanities theatre?That they provided the best “entertainment” so far this fall? That they -obscure the more whims’icai and insidious affairs taking place on this campus and
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A Board of Student Activities music other than rock and roll. Continuous single-format events organizational meeting monday did little organizing but did clarify such as a regular folk-oriented coffee house, he felt, would have to at least some members and critics a little of what the BSA is little chance of success, and “if it presently doing and its plans for won’t work, it won’t run”. He the future. suggested instead, musical events on a weekly basis such as a jazz Held in the campus centre pub, the meeting began with BSA and blues night every week. But, he added, this would take a lot of chairman Paul Dube on the handling of scheduled concerts. The work and negotiation to be economically feasible. board is negotiating for the use of the bleachers in the gym, Dube Peter Wilkinson, U of W said. Five hundred chairs will also perennial - cum - federation - ,photobe set up on the floor to give people grapher informed the meeting that a choice of seating. Posters and “the executive wants an altertickets will be sent to Guelph, n Preston and Galt to publicize . native to rock concerts. The only sell-out concerts in the past two concerts and ensure that ticket years have been non-rock”. Exsales break even. cept for the Muddy Waters concert Reaction to the Ike and Tina last year, there has, he opined, Turner concert-which attracted been no blues on campus. I His about two thousand people and lost statement led to considerable about six thousand dollarsquestioning of his definition of brought to a head growing “blues’‘-a definition he was dissatisfaction with the BSA. One unable to supply. of the results was that although large concerts already scheduled BSA member John Chismore will go on as planned, the BSAwill suggested “more support for local concentrate in future on smallerbands,” but Wilkinson called for budgeted entertainment. Another “something different”. Dube was that the federation executive responded by asking “Can you asked for Paul Dube’s resignation, provide us with a system for although the request was later getting this alternate en~ withdrawn. tertainment without being rippedoff?” It is nearly impossible to If 4,000 people attend the Edgar up with an American Winter concert, Dube will be hook university booking circuit as I brought happy 0 “The reason Wilkinson suggested, he said,more Winter here,” he commented, because “we have to have the “was that I was counting on some bookings for this term done almost people on campus having some immediately”. Wilkinson mainmusical taste.” tained his disagreement but had no He said he was hoping to provide operative suggestions to put forth. a variety of-entertainment to suit continued gn page 3 the tastes of people interested in
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Pissin’ into. the wind Monday’s “informal” council meeting in room 113 of the campus centre was attended by nine council members and eleven secret herbs and spices. Council president Terry Moore repeated his appeal to council members to do some work and council repeated its collective response of “uh, well, -sure why not, maybe.” Moore said,“We have lots of things to talk about but if council isn’t interested it is ludicrous for the paid staff (Moore and executive assistant Brian Switzman to work on them. They can’t be done without council’s support.” U of W will be holding an Ontario Federation of Students conference on October 26 to assess the results of the OFS referendum on a fees strike. Council talked about the organization needed to prepare for the conference and who would do the necessary work. Council member Luke Aujame specific said, “We need suggestions or questions. The faculty meetings about the referendum should be arranged right now. Dates must be set and rooms booked. This obviously has to be done by the end of this week.” Moore asked council members become aware of the implications of witholding fees so they could inform their constituents. “Students should know the implications of a strike. They will be liable to fines and interest unless a strike can force a change in policy.” The faculty meetings are going to be held on October 3, 4, and 5the week before the referendum. At this point five buckets of Kentucky fried chicken arrived and council enthusiastically attacked the issue at hand. Unfortunately, they seemed to expend most of their energy doing so and the ensuing part of the meeting seemed more lacklustre than usual. One “dramatic” moment was when BSA chairman Paul Dube entered the meeting and tendered his resignation to be effective “five minutes after Edgar Winter arrives on stage.” Not very shaken up, council went on to discuss distribution of a handbook for high school students in the K-W area. After twenty minutes when a minimal amount of needed volunteers was attained the meeting moved on to other issues. Aujame asked that council start thinking about the upcoming senate elections and consider endorsing a slate of candidates who would work in conjunction.+ with the council. Most council members thought students would resent a slate and any ties should be strictly informal although as Moore put it “A strong liaison would be nice.” The “informal” meeting structure did not seem to be any more successful than the usual attempt at “parliamentary democracy and ended not with a “move to adjourn, carried” but with a shuffle out the door. -ron
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population, and installing them in a mini-faculty club. Since it seems, in the collective mind of the GSU, at least, most grads aspire to imitate faculty, it well be correct to install them in their own private romper room. There they can be free from the “different” undergrads, who must indeed be tolerated and taught, but not allowed to interact on any other level. Another aspect of the grad club which has not been put forward by the GSU ?s the cost to grads in comparison to federation fees. Approximately two years ago, grad students voted to terminate their membership in the federation. One of the reasons for that vote was the compulsory fee, $22 per year. Now grads are faced with a compulsory fee of $22.50 per year for services which are a pale imitation of the federation. Added to that fee are the costs of attending federation events, which are understandably higher than for federation members. It will be argued by the GSU that their services are more varied than merely providing a club. The legal advice program and a tax counselling service are two services cited as valid operations. The very existence of a tax expert for grads is indicative of the position assigned to grads in campus hierarchy. Are grads so well endowed financially that they must consult the GSU’s version of H&R Block? The GSU concerns itself with such matters while ignoring the real concerns of both grads and undergrads alike. There has been no word on the’ position of the GSU regarding the tuition issue, nor on any of the other problems involved. There is
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no effort made to offer anything more than wine and cheese, along with a veneer of sophistication. Whom, if anyone, does the Union Graduate Student represent ? Hetzel, along with Philip English, another member of the executive, both admit that the union does not represent grads, merely sections of grads. While part of that problem can be attributed to the apathy of many grads, particularly arts grads, it is apparent that there is a feeling that the GSU simply is not worthy of support ot involvement. Since only 50 per cent of grads returned the. ballot regarding the farm-club, it must be assumed that another 50 per cent just didn’t give a damn-ither about the club or the GSU. That cannot be written off as apathy, but instead regarded as a basic problem rooted in the philosophy of the GSU. On a campus which is, and has been for years, rife with artificial divisions, the GSU represents only one more. On the question of involvement and communication with the campus as a whole, Mr. English remarked that “we communicate with undergrads, we teach them in seminars and labs”. Given these attitudes, it is merely a natural progression to such elitist and artificial concepts as a grad club. It is perhaps too much to hope for a united campus, yet that hope may well be closer to fruition were it not for the sectarian nature of such groups as the GSU. There are no easy means towards cohesion and communica tion. Certainly the distinctions imposed upon grad students by aspirants to intellectual elitism serve no positive purpose. They serve only to hinder attempts to unite the student body. It is time that graduate students began to work within the framework of the federation again, for them to step out of the vacuum between undergrads and faculty. Graduate students are merely older and hopefully wiser undergrads. They share common problems and should work together for common solutions. Those solutions cannot take the form of missiles propelled from the windows of the grad club upon the heads of the ignorant student masses. ----ion mcgill
I -groups anyone? Groups have been with us for centuries-religious groups, cultural groups, economic groups, intellectual groups, professional groups-but in recent years a new phenomenon has arisen in our midst. New, at least, to our own culture. It might best be labelled “the small group”. While there are many variations on the small group, these variations have in common the fact that they are-limited in size (usually under twelve members > and are primarily committed to breaking down barriers in communication both within and between human beings. They aim to put a person in closer touch with himself and with other persons. Some groups place more emphasis on individual growth, with increasing self-awareness and selfdirection, while others are more concerned with interpersonal communication and the functioning of the group. The demand for small groups is apparently a response to our increasingly depersonalized society. They provide a setting in which we can become more spontaneous in expressing our real thoughts and feelings, hopefully finding an acceptance with other gro.up members which may have been lacking in our home, school, and community life. This acceptance by others promotes selfacceptance, which in turn makes possible deeper relationships with others. The need for maintaining a protective facade decreases, and energy formerly spent on keeping up a good front finds release in new anti more creative ways of living. In short we become less anxious and more alive! Small groups go by all kinds of names-personal growth sensitivity, human potential, “T”, interpersonal relations, awareness and so on-or no name at all. They may have one or more leaders-or no leader at all. But they all have people with an actual or potential capacity to communicate and care. For information about small groups on U. of W. campus, usually referred to here as Small Groups, call Counselling Services, 744-6111, ext. 2655.
An estimated seventy students attended Radio Waterloo’s first meeting last tuesday. Station manager John Dale expressed the view that “the major concern of radio stations should be to communicate something to people. If it does not communicate, its whole purpose as media is lost.” Dale said another aim is to eventually get a low-power FM licence. But the CRTC demands, among other considerations, that a radio station be professional before a licence is granted. Next week the radio station will go off the air on monday for maintenance and will return thursday evening. Dale expects by that time its major task will have been completed. “The station will be organized in such a way that students who wish to use it as media will have the facility and the opportunity to do so,” explained Dale. The general consensus of the people at the meeting was that radio becomes a medium when people communicate something to other people to influence them in su’ch a way that they begin to communicate back. People attending the meeting felt that in order to do this effectively, the staff first needs to communicate amongst themseltes as they are working with the station. One person pointed out that “we all need to teach and learn from one another. People are going to have to be open, honest, concerned and dedicated to each other.” Another person observed that in order for radio to be an effective media, the people who are interested must get into what they are doing thoughtfully. It was also pointed out that it is important that media entertain people, but that at the same time media must stimulate people. Some suggested that music needed to be examined critically by on-air staff. Its melodies and lyrics should be looked at according to their message and in relation to the cultural milieu in which it developed. Other people were interested mainly in news and news features about the issues that confront students at U. of W. Dale hopes that many people will become involved and will use the facilities of Radio Waterloo so that the university community will become exposed to as many points of view and controversies as possible. Radio Waterloo needs a staff of volunteers who are interested in any aspect of the station’s operstion. Dale emphasized, however, that “the success or failure of this project depends ultimately on the people who want to become involved.” -renzo
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The phase out operation of this plant has been conducted by the management of Burn’s Foods who bought out the Kitchener Packers company on january first of this year. Only 12 of the 93 people have been hired by the Burn’s I Food company and 3 of those have left because they were given jobs which represented significantly lower classification than their previous ones with Kitchener Packers. There are many aspects to this situation which show an irresponsible and unsavory attitude on the part of the management of B&n’s Foods. First, the layoffs have been called temporary by the company. This means that under the labour relations act they are not liable for payment of severance pay ‘in lieu of the notice which they did not give the people who worked in the plant’. At least they do not have to
pay severance pay until the workers have been laid off for 13 weeks and by that time many of them will have given up the struggle. Some of the people laid off are entitled to as much as 8 weeks severance pay under the . labour relations act. That several of the workers have presented their severance slips to the UIC officials--clearly marked ‘Phase Out’-has cut no ice. ApStudents now have ,“a legitimate parently the UIC office ha’s been channel through -which to air instructed by Burns to ignore the grievances and receive help. ” term ‘Phase Out’ on the slips. Barb Lowe, acting chairman of the Second, the Burn’s management Federation of Students new Board planned the present phase out of Student Grievances ekplains operation well in advance. In the that the board has been designed to contract which was signed with the help students faked with the workers of Kitchener Packers on bewildering bureaucracy of the december 14 ‘of last year the university, and through BSG management was very clever to volunteer workers, to resolve their resist a severance pay clause difficulties. which would have entitled the Board chairman in absentia, ..workers with long years of serGeorge Greene, who worked with -vice to larger benefits (and such problems during the summer, guaranteed ones) than the labour said there were approximately relations act does. thirty cases handled, none of them Note that the contract was insurmountable, Common, comsigned before Burn’s Foods had plaintssoncern parking problems, officially bought out the Kitchener difficulties with particular classes Packers operation, yet the conor professors, and food services. tract was signed in the offices of Lowe and Greene hope that when a Burn’s Food and was signed by the student approaches a volunteer for Burn’s managers. the board, it will take a phone call Also, the company has refused to or short meeting with an offic_ial or pay the holiday pay which the representative to solve the workers were entitled to. Leo problem’. Contacts for this purpose Schaeffer, the chief union steward, have been established with all __had worked for the company fDr 25 major departments, faculties and years. He was entitled to 4 weeks service groups on campus. vacation with pay this year and The BSG was set up last spring had already taken two weeks. by the federation, given an When he got his vacation pay he executive seat on student council found it amounted to only one and $500 which Lowe says will week’s pay. He was told that the probably be used for publicity and amount was based on two percent secretarial work. of his salary,not the time he had The board was explained in the coming. recent federation student handThe Burn’s company. has been -book: “Some of the difficulties that very good at using the media in the students face in dealing with the covering up of their dirty work. university bureaucracy can be Early in the spring they managed resqlved by persistently applying to get Henry Koch; Record pressure through legitimate business editor, to write a column channels. talking about their ‘plans fqr ex“This board of the federation, to pansion of Kitchener Packers’. the extent that it is humanly They were talking about making possible, will try to help any additions to the plant facilities student who feels he has been done which could mean the hiring of 22 in by the machine. Confidentiality new employees. One week later the will be preserved if so desired by first of the four layoffs occurred the vie tim . ’ ’ which have resulted in the almost Volunteers will be on call contotal layoff of the workforce. stantly in the federation offices in Later in the summer they exthe campus centre to handle cases. plained the layoffs as resulting -joan Walters from a shortage of hog carcasses. Kitchener Packers specializes in the slaughtering of hogs. The K-W Rag dutifully printed this claim and no mention was made of the phase out of jobs which was underway. According to a union official- of A workshop on folk singing styles the Kitchener Packers Local of the will be held on Saturday, sepCanadian Food and Allied tember 23, lpm at 95 Dawson St. Workers, another problem which (rear> in Waterloo. (Near the the union members have been Seagram’s plant.) The workshop faced with is a complete lack of will be led by Bob Basset, a Canadian who has spent the last support from the international union and more particularly from two years working in England with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger’s the international representative .from this area, Frank Benn. The London Critics Group. The workshop will discuss singing laid off union members have been unable to figure out how to file techniques and traditional stfles grievances against the company as well as the politics of folk music; because they do not know “Folk music is the only; who to give them to and they have literature ever produced by the been unable to get in touch with working class,” says Basset, “and, FrankBenn or get him to help. in that light, it deserves special These are only some of the major atterition as a way of uncomplaints which were voiced derstanding working-class culture. Folk music-the people’s musicconcerning this situation. Mr.Bonnet, manager of Burn’s is not only a good organizing tool Foods, would not divulge any inbut is a valuable way of unformation when he was contacted derstanding what a true “cultural with regards to the situation. The revolution” is all about.” public relations manager for Basset will also appear at the campus centre coffeehouse on Burn’s said that he was not going to re-hash something which had Saturday night with Bev Dobrinsky been fully covered in the media and David Levine. Performance starts at 8:30pm. months ago. _
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“In that . money,” he said. situation, you need to know -the people you’re working with, and continued from page 1 you must trust them implicitly,” an approach which does not allow Dube suggested BSA try a local for wholesale changeovers in the folk music program working people involved. thro’ugh Jeff Beckner of MusicanaJantzi suggested that all pubs in da (an OFY project which ran free future be sponsored by the BSA in outdoor concerts with local talent conjunction with the societies. “At over the summer) and try a tradea minimum ,” Dube added, “We need regular people dealing with off arrangement with other universities in the area. the bands.” Attempting to inject some Jantzi noted that bar services structural coherency to the and security-the only paid funcdiscussion, federation executive tions which are required at all assistant Brian Switzman compubs apart from the band-are plained “this meeting is really costing increasingly more money. haphazard. Let’s go through all Very few of the security personnel the things that have to be covered are easy to work with. “They can from the top down”. do anything they want and we can’t This led Dube into a general do anything about it,” he corndiscussion of sorts about plained. organiza tional problems. BSA will “Al Romenko just wants the at least no longer have to worry money for his boys.” Money for about advertising he said, because minor capital expenditures like “hopefully all advertising will be extension cords is another handled by the Board of Comproblem, if BSA’ers are not to have munications”. to run all over campus gathering Finally the focus shifted from up equipment for every pub. boncerts to the area of greatest Again Switzman tried to find out concern-pubs. Only two sites on just what decisions (if any) were campus are accessible and going to be made. “If you want to suitable for student pubs: food find out what’s going on, hold a services and the campus centre. license for a pub,” he was told. Plagued in the past bJ & variety “We can’t really tell you.” _ of problems, pubs at food services “But that’s not what I, asked,” for the rest of the term must be run groaned Switzman. “I just want to more. tightly.The BSA will try to know what’s going on.” book smaller bands with musicians And so more procedural “who are still people, play at union decisions were made. Pub licensescale, and can be talked to,” said holders and three assistants will be Dube. paid. The number of free liquor The federation is allowed 13 tickets will be cut back. Luke liquor licenses a month but the Jantzi and Marc Roberts will be BSA sees a market and a need for interim pubs co-ordinators. more pubs-especially cheap Dube went over .his budget and afternoon pubs which easily break found some profits to quote as well even. The major problem with as the losses. It was predicted that pubs on campus presently, the budget would balance out by however, is who runs them and the end of the term. how. Luke Jantzi and John Chairman Dube then told the Chismbre, both experienced pub assembled BSA masses that to organizers stressed the need for continue in his function as chief guidelines for license-holders who provider of circuses on campus, he sponsor individual pubs. would need an honorarium and “If you’re organized so that transportation for BSA functions. everything gets done with minimal “This is a full-time job. I need efficiency, you get criticized for a something to live on. I don’t even clique thing,” said Chismore, but if have time to go to school,” he said. the pubs are run by inexperienced But somehow it seemed that the license-holders with their own meeting at last was over. The group of friends, “they don’t opinion w% voiced that it had realize what they have to do and ended. Everyone agreed. They left they‘fuck ud. You’re damned if you with a little more knowledge of do, and you’re damned if you -some aspects of the situation, but don’t.” still very confused as to what was Enginews editor, Steve Monierreally happening. Williams pointed out that the And the sequel to the mad Clique criticism was invalid, marathon pub meeting was the “When you’re running these official resignation of Paul Dube as concerts and pubs, you are dealing BSA chairman at tue.sday’s with a number of interrelated student council meeting. things including large amounts of -ron colpitts
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U of W art gallery 9-4pm Jack Bechtel Retrospective. Free admission.
flicks. “Desperate Characters” and IfDeep End”. 8pm AL116. Sponsored by Federation of Students.
Athena b Warrior swim team practices. Anyone interested in board-bouncing (diving) and swimming please attend. Previous experience ,not necessary, just helpful. 4:30pm pool.
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Run, jump, and throw with the track people 4;30pm. Seagram Stadium is X the. place to do all this with the . -I. defending conference champions SUNDAY - . ) (both male and female). Lots more energetic bodies needed to round out Federation’ flicks. “Desperate the co-ed team and make the parties Characters” and “Deep End.” 8pm more interesting. AL116. Sponsored by Federation of Students
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’ :A by-election is called to fill the following vacancies on Students’ Council for 1972-73: 2 seats Arts tnvironmental Studies (co-op) 1 seat Graduate Studies 1&at Integrated Studies 1 seat \ NOMINATIONS OPEN on Thursday, September 21, 1972 at#9:OOa.m. and close on Thursday, September 28 at 4:30 p.m. Nomination forms are available from Helga Petz in the Federation office (Campus Centre ’ Room 235) and should be returned to that office by 4:30 p.m.September 28. Election wil”f take.p.lace.,on October \ 12. ‘+ . _ ’ Chief Returning Officer ,’
The President herebv calls for amlications for the SPEAKER; Students’ Council, position of k CHAIRMAN, Board of Publicatrons and i CHAIRMAN Board of Student Activities. ADplicatio& should be submitted to Terry Moore bv Friday, September 29, 1972. . Applications for CHAIRMAN, Board of Student Activities will be accepted until’ Friday, October 6, 1972. Terry Moore, Federation of Students a
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Bookstore. Those people in books to be ‘sold can money and claim their loam-5pm. CC217.
Canada must have Canadian Universities. You can help. Come to the 85 percent Canadian Quota Campaign open meeting. 7pm CC135. Call 8843253 for further information. Waterloo University Gay Liberation discussion meeting. Title: The Gay Stereotype: An informal discussion about people stereotypes in our society. Everyone welcome,. 8pm HUM280. 1 U of W‘art gallery 9-4pm Jack Bechtel Retrospective. Free admission. , Anthena & Warrior swim team practices. Anyone interested in boardbouncing (diving) and swimming please attend. Previous experience not necessary, just helpful. 4:30pm pool. Run, jump and throw with the trackpeople 4:30pm. Seagram Stadium is the place to do all this with the defending conference champions (both male and female). Lots more energetic bodies needed to round out ‘the co-ed team and make the parties more enteresting.
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Coalition for Repeal of Laws meeting. 7:30pm women welcome. Phone more information.
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talk on Transcendental “The Physiology of Con8pm MC2065. Sponsored
Sir Kenneth Clark’s civilization series. Subject : “The Great Thaw” and “Romance and Reality”. Everyone welcome. No admission charge. Sponsored by English Department. 7: 159pm AL105.
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Everything you wanted to know about the Psychology Society ,But were afraid to ask. Free refreshments. All psychology students welcome. 4:30 cc135. First meeting of thisyear’s Students Wives Club. THIS WILL BE A GAMES AND GOODIES EVENING. All student’s wives are welcome. 8pm ‘MC5136. .
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Athena & Warrior swim team practices. Anyone interested in boardbouncing (iving) and swimming please attend. Previous experience not necessary, just helpful. 4:30pm pool.
Run, jump and throw with the trackpeople 4:30pm Seagram Stadium is the place to do all this with the defending conference champions (both male and female). Lots more energetic bodies needed to round out the co-ed team and make the parties . more interesting. ’
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James Cotton showed up and went home. Nobody came to see Murray Bookchin or Marjaleena Repo or Lionel Rogosin etc. and few people went to see Leandre Bergeron. A fair number appeared at the Ike and Tina concert, but only to witness the outward manifestations of disaster (for more information about that, see the last issue of the Chevron). Hobbits were honing their pens in the depths of the campus centre to write nasty- comments about orientation and the general view of the day was patient disgrace as the federation moved into its last of ’ orientation functions.
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But on top of all this, Saturday’s Day of Cultural Euphoria1 cum Annual Smoke-In was a pleasant, peaceful success, though -it narrowly missed going the way of other orientation functions. Half an hour before the day’s euphoria was about to begin, there was a sole stage sitting out on the village green looking neglected, with little promise of anything else happening to it. As a few musicians trailed in from various parts of the locale, there were still no signs of any action. However, a sound system found its way to the green after a, while and more bands appeared, until it seemed that everything would come off. That is everything with the exception of a potter and various artists and craftsmen, who never arrived. But the people who began to straggle in as the first groups started playing didn’t mind or didn’t know and seemed satisfied with what was going on. The audience reached a peak of about three hundred or so: a fairly high figure considering other orientation turnouts. Delaney and Delaney from St. Catherine’s played a nice light acoustic set that put people at ease and layed down a good mood for the day to begin on. Spott Farm and co. was there and played a fair set, in spite of the fact that the wind wasn’t giving the sound system any mercy. They were preceded by Appleton Century. who sounded remarkably tight considering the fact that they haven’t played together for nearly a year. The Perth County Women (for lack of a better name) lent a rustic quality to the day, though musically they have a lot to improve on. They were followed by Coster, Welling and Wallach, a really fine group of guitar, bass and fiddle, who put down some excellent folk-bluegrass tunes. A similar type of set was carried on by John Constant, Carol Wainwright and Dick. And so, the day ended with no pulsating highs but a calm, satisfying eveness. And the day seemed a long time separate from the Ike and Tina concert when a couple of thousand people waited, uncomfortably jammed together, for some music,
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while BSA types ran around like footmen, trying to placate a king and queen of the music industry, in order to get them to part with a few golden notes. The musicians who showed up on Saturday gave the impression of . respecting their profession and the people involved with it, and that type of attitude counted strongly on people’s feelings about the whole affair. The day (hopefully) signified a return to a simpler more casual form of entertainment here: moving away from pedestal performers to approachable craftsmen. Moreover, the day was
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community oriented, which, among other things, * enabled relatively unknown people to show their respect of their art. Should the federation decide to move away from the big time concerts, more of the same will take place. The cultural offerings involved will, perhaps, turn to a .more specific deeper vein and give people a chance to develop as well as provide passable entertainment. It could prove to be a step away from the mass orientation to the individual: seemingly a valid move to make at this point. -dudley
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Son of student voter University students may vote where they live while at school if they consider that dwelling place their ordinary residence, Canada’s chief electoral officer J. M. Hamel said. “We cannot ask any more from a student than we can from any other citizen. Just as we do not ask other people for -proof o_f citizenship or age, we will not -ask students for proof that they are really on their own. All we are asking enumerators to do, if they are in doubt, is to ask students if they would be willing to take an oath about the location of their ordinary residence if challenged on ‘election day,” Hamel said. I Hamel claimed that such a principle violates the spirit of the election act, but that students could not be prevented from considering their university dwelling as their permanent place of residence if they wished to. It is therefore up to the individual student to determine where he should legally vote. Last friday, the Chevron reported how the cumbersome voting procedure imposed on students would effectively discourage them from exercising their newly gained franchise. This report is therefore anafter the fact exposition. It does, however, point ‘out the inconsistency of the Canadian bureaucracy in handing down election regulations.
Government voting regulation are unduly creating problems for many Canadian citizens. It would appear that the style of politics advocated by the Liberal party do more to create additional problems for Canadians instead of providing solutions to their already existing problems. If a political party cannot handle a simple situation of assuring that every Canadian who has the vote can exercise it without bureaucratic hinderance, it is hard to conceive how it could possibly. handle the more -difficult problems of twentieth century Canadian society. And since no other party has bothered to raise this simple issue, it is difficult to believe that any of them has the interests of the Canadian nation at heart. Canadian people, however, continue to lend credibility to a system of politics that makes it easy for their political representatives to abdicate the responsibilities. In order to ameliorate such a condition, Canadians themselves need to revise their whole conception of the political process. It means that every individual would have to become actively responsible to the nation and the community rather than satisfying his conscience by casting a simple ballot, and afterwards washing his hands as though his responsibility ended there. -renzo
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Watch where you post those notices ! “The president or his delegate reserves the right to instruct the removal of any notice or sign considered to be objectionable.” - from policy on ’ bulletin boards, temporary signs and notices revised by the physical resourses group august 1, 1972 c Bill Lobban, head of P.P.&P. explained however that the clause was included when the policy first came out in 1965 because “a contentious issue arose on campusand vicious notices with racist content were posted.” He maintains that notices would indeed be removed if their content included statements offensive to a particular group or if they were ‘pornographic’. General posting areas are available to all groups on campus and once a notice board has been assigned it is the responsibility of that group to ‘police’ their bulletin boards. Janitors also have the right to remove notices not posted in designated areas. Lobban explained that the policy was drafted originally to provide proper posting areas in order that signs not be posted on wood and paint surfaces and to prevent defacement of property. The revised policy on bulletin boards, signs and notices was approved by the president in august to incorporate physical resourses -new name. The policy however, according to the university secretariat was authored by Lobban, approved by A. B . Gellatly , vice president financial operations, and sent directly to administration president Burt Matthews for approval. Apparently, there has never been a group outside physical resourses to have a voice in formation of the policy., Neither has the policy ever received publicity on a campus-wide basis. Lobban explained that part of the problem with posting boards is that their designated use is not always known and consequently, they are crowded with information from outside a particular department or group. Lobban used the instance of boards outside classrooms designated for use of professors in posting notices to particular classes, cancellations of lectures, exam results etc. “This is part of the problem”, he said, “Sometimes-these are completely filled.” . In general, boards are allocated to: the federation of students, faculties, departments, athletics and others as they are requested. There are also general posting areas outside all over campus. The kiosks in south campus hall are designated specifically for student notices. The federation boards are all marked and are available all over campus also. -joan
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How do we best serve mentally handicapped children to help them realize their capabilities? We do them a disservice by focusing on their abnormality and structuring an educational programme for them based on a generalized understanding of that .abnormality. That assumes a a m o n g homogeneity “mentally retarded” children in terms of both limitations and potential, a homogeneity that imply does not exist. Furthermore, what often happens is that we concentrate on the abnormality in diagnostic terms and make certain assumptions about of the the limitations developmental potential of that child, then we arbitrarily restrict the opportunities to which we expose them. Then when he doesn’t progress, we feel satisfied that our original diagnosis-was accurate, when in fact it was our own limiting of opportunities and not his abnormality that retarded his growth. One alternative then, is to focus as is the custom with “normal children”-on functional disability. Performing an assessment utilizing a functional criteria is the first step. Once we
cannot do, we‘ can design a program to help him develop step by step the skills he is at present lacking. Within this model to follow, five functional areas are described: physical development, indevelopment, tellectual communicative development, social development, and emotional development. We are thus talking about human development in its fullest sense-a recognition of the many dimensions along child which a grows SimultaneouslyThe Kitchener-Waterloo Developmental Centre gives day-time training in this fashion to 40 retarded children from the catchment area ofthe K-W and district association for the mentally retarded. The centre has a nursery Programme serving retarded 20 Pre-school childrenages two through six, who will eventually be abie to benefit from school with P r o g r a m m e s developmental training of self-help skills and socialization skills. It also has an activity Programme giving special training to severely and profoundly retarded children with multiple handicaps to whom no other placement is available. Emphasis is placed on training of activity for daily living skills and on gaining an awareness of the external world and a stronger selfconcept. The prominent con-
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mental Centre is in providing a program that will generate self-esteem on the part of the children. Its operators feel that it is important to work with children at a level where these children can experience success, making sure the children have the opportunity to enjoy the satisfaction of their acnot complishment (i.e. pushing them too quickly into ‘a higher level task.) This entails retaining a challenge and not letting the children stagnate at a level on which they are competent. -- In--add$Ton -to the day programmes in the Developmental Centre, other community programmes are stressed. The parents of the children particibating in the programme are encouraged to interact closely with the staff, so that each home can gain maximum benefit from the centre’s training. An emphasis is placed on programmes to develop home care workers who can babysit and train retarded Because the children. Developmental Centre operates on a 1 to 1 teacherchild ratio, an extensive volunteer programme is incorporated including special volunteer training sessions. Through activities of this nature the centre is attempting to facilitate a comprehensive approach to the problems of mental retardation involving all aspects of the community. The assessment and evaluation process is ongoing and involves both group and individual efforts. It is also multi-disciplinary with educational, psyChdogiCal, social, and medical (where applicable) perspectives represented. As part of the group effort, individuafs evaluate a child by
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I have just come from a most entertaining meeting of the graduate students of the Division
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of Environmental Studies. y*u know the faculty that is so liberal and so progressive. They also however seem to be the biggest group of self centered elitist, narrow minded children on the campus. Several of the stars of this particular performance! deserve special mention. One girl even had a few tears, a bit of foot stomping as well as a good take off on an Edith Ann routine I saw on Laugh-in a while back. Another group took possession of a room when things didn’t go quite their way, and challenged anyone to move them. No one did, since fist fights are undignified, particularly for grads who know that such barbarism is reserved for the lowly undergrads. ’ The problem seems to have been that some grads felt they were more entitled to better desks than other grads. This pecking order seemed to be based on the “I’ve
been here longer than you,” philosophy, or the “I had it first,” group thinkers. Others felt that non smokers should be given consideration over smokers. Someone even had the gall to say that all the desks should be awarded by lottery as was stated in a memo sent to all students several weeks before. The result was that the more senior in years of attendance and not necessarily need of maturity got first pick. Except of course the extra special little group mentioned above, as far as I can find out they are still defending their office. It is interesting to note as a final word that the most vindictive were the planners, the people who are supposed to be designing cities “for people”. With their petty, narrowminded and self centered attitude, one can better understand why our cities are in such a mess. A. C. Tripe grad E.S.
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Mesmeriz.ed by , the promise of, social legislatiofi The Real Poverty Report went somewhat beyond the personal attributes and description of the individual poor, but with its limited conceptual framework barely analysed the structural relations producing exploitation and impoverishment. Of the . reams of information contained in the report, its study of the federal government’s band-aid social welfare programs was particularly illuminating as to the futility of dealing wjth the symptoms of poverty. Included in the report’s over-view of public services and “the poor”, were the following: Concerning housing needs for the poor, the authorsof The Real Poverty Report said these needs are not being met because the current government housing policy is primarily directed at producing housing for the middle-class. In march 1-969, the
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) produced a report which showed that during 1968 the families in the lower third of the income strata-those earning less than $5,751 per year-made up only 6.5 per cent of all borrowers under the National Housing Act, legislation which was created specifically for low-income groups. Out of the existence of the tight market on low-rent housing in Canada has come the development of “urban renewal” and “public housing”, with the purposes of urban renewal being primarily to “upgrade the urban enviroment.” The CMHC has stressed the elimination of conditions generating slums, and the provision of “decent, safe, and sanitary housing accomodations that.. . .are fair and reasonable having regard to the incomes of the persons to be -dispossessed.” The report quite rightly saw that the prime motive of this program is not an attack on poverty, although it was fir,mly believed by those who instituted it that the poor were made better off by this discomforting. process. In addition, the authors put their collective finger on a government policy that prophesizes if enough houses are built, the affluent will move into newer units, leaving supply to “trickle down” to “the poor”. This plan has proved to be ineffective, and in fact has worked in reverse; the rich merely use more space and a negligible amount of housing trickles down. What the report failed to stress is that continued on page 12
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“adequate public housing” alone will not solve the problems of poor families. All too often such units are located where land is cheap and where the neighbours will npt complain, and far from places of em-ployment and shopping. The seakch for,lowcost units has led to extremely dense development in large centres, aggravating social tension in the’ neighbourhood and creating class ghetto situations for residents. Also, they have often beeh managed as if the property were more important than the persons using it. Outside of sentimental and symptomatic descriptions of what it is like to be out of a job, especially with a family to support, The Real Poverty Report concluded that unemployment, can be “directly traced to the federal government which has failed to overcome the lack of demand in the economy through the misuse of the stabilization policy.” They mildly argued that the government should “abandon its practice of fighting inflation by creating unemployment”, a point that certainly - could have used some dwelling.on. Professor David Sewell, an assistant professor of economics at Queens university, recently shed more light on the nature and fundamental -causes of unemployment in Canada. He contends that quite often educational attainment is ‘used as an artificial barrier to entry into particular occupations. Sewell further maintainsthat use of education as a screening device results in a re-distribution of income from the less highly educated to the more highly-educated. Also, individuals are encouraged to “over-invest” in education, and the less educated are, for artificial reasons, kept out of occupations in which their productivity would be highest.
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provide more social welfare for “the poor”. From the report’s conclusions it appears that increasing numbers of middle-class liberils are being mesmerized by the promise of social legislation found in th.e language of the Welfare State. Meanwhile, the possible success of such legislation is continually nullified by the re-organization of private property into larger conconcentrations of corporate wealth and power without ownership, by privileged consumption for the family as well as the individual from achiev’ed and‘ iiherited status, and by the growth of legislation in favour of certain groups and classes.
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programs and those who receive benefits; between the employed and unemployed; the “hard hats” and “welfare bums.” “The most serious co’nsequence of the relative poverty approach lies in its concentration on the psychological aspects of poverty rather than the dynamics of social re-creation and economic exploitation. When The Real Poverty Report argues that. . .poverty is relative to the living the rest of society enjoys...it falls into exactly the same difficulty of relativism which traps the liberal class analysts. To fol.low this line of reasoning, it would be necessary to assume that in a society where average incomes were very low, so long as no ‘one was sufficiently below average in- -. come that he was deprived of what was deemed necessary for a “stable and productive I ife” he would not be therefore, is poor. . . The logical conclusion, that where the perception of poverty does ’ not exist, then poverty does not exist.” And m.ost importantly, Johnson concluded by sketching and reiterating the profound consequences derived from using the relative poverty approach : “ . . . it has diverted attention from the effects of the capitalist labour market on the incomes of workers, and has retarded study and understanding of the structure of their exploitation and impoverishment. Until the proper attention and analysis of these phenomgna is undertaken, we are unlikely to progress far in bringing about their permanent cure.”
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And the longer such an analysis goes unaccomplished in attempts by “Gon- cerned” groups like that behind The Real Poverty Report, the larger the numbers grow who are hypnotized by the “reforms” brought about by social welfare legislation. Of prime observation in this respect is that the working class views the provision of social welfare for “the poor” from a considerably divergent stance. Marjaleena Repo, editor of Transformation magazine
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In a paper entitled “Incomes, Disparity, and Impoverishment in Canada since World War II”, completed earlier this year by u.@versity of Waterloo history professor Leo Johnson, the proliferation of studies which carefully catalogue the dimensions and consequences of poverty was duly noted. To Johnson, this deluge of studies has “itemized the -nationality, age, sex, education and location of the poor, but few, except in general terms come to grips with the underlying processes of capitalism and the consequences of its development in Canada.” Dwelling on this point, Johnson goes on to state that, “ ...the rapid rise in average .income and per capita and ,family purchasing power have caused attention to be directed away from the more fundamental tendencies such as the impoverishment of low-income workers which are at work. As a result, even such a perceptive study as The Real Poverty Report concentrated on ‘relative poverty’ or income disparities.” Johnson’s conceptualization of poverty is concerned with the idea of social classes, long derived as an attempt to explain history and the present capitalistic order. The concept is firmly based on economic and social realities-the ownership of the mear,s of production combined with the relative power and privileges in one’s social position. Middle class liberals, being physically removed from the average working man and woman in society, tend to deny the existence of the working._class in studying “the poor”. Yet an accurate description of the conditions of the oppressed groups in society always involves the analysis of the power structure and its modes of operating. Returning to professor Johnson’s paper with this thought in mind, we learn of the danger of concentrating on the relative poverty of individuals rather than examining the fundamental causes of disparity: “First, attention is diverted from the processes by which people are impoverished or within which disparities arise. Since these processes are still I at
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When I was working as an organizer in a working class district in Toronto, one of the regular nuisances experienced by the residents of the area was the continuous presence of assorted photographers. They came from the local newspapers, the national magazines, and’they came as eager free-lancers “doing their thing”. In addition to them, the;e were’ the filmmakers from the National Film Board and the TV producers and cameramen. They all came uninvited, they never
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asked for permission to take photograpl and film, and they used -their produc any way they pleased, without tt slightest concern for how the exposu might affect the people whose pic+qr1 were being taken. There are some things you could nevl make the photographers stop to look 2 Like people fixing up their house families doing things together, mothe walking their children to school, fathe talking to their sons, neighbours COI versing in a friendly manner-anythir that might indicate th<t health, ha piness, cleanliness, I friendliness ar family life existed in the area. These we the features which did not fit into tt
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early last -year: “It can be stated quite clearly that nowhere, at- no time, has it been in the interest of the working class to have its daily life “administered” and “organized” by a multitude of social agencies, all of whom act (despite the subjective wishes of individual social workers and agency employers) on behalf of the ruling class of tM society. On the contrary, the working class, when it struggles to improve its conditions, has everywhere strived for conditions which would make social workers unnecessary, not to increase them.” Welfare systems encourage dependency, reinforcing the cycle of poverty, and social workers use the long-term chronic welfare recipients and other victims of the system to -rationalize calling for more of these programs. These recipients are the ones who are being %aseworked” and “rehabilitated” in what has been aptly I&-med “all those useless efforts that keep the social workers as a profeSsion alive.“. The chronic long-term recipients themselves are removed from any working classcontext in that they do not work; they prefer to fight the system as individuals. The welfare recipients who have not worked for a long time forget the “normal” working conditions: tremendous pressure to produce, rigid supervision and hltviliating regulations, poor wages and constant fear of being laid off or actually fired. Repo has descriptively portrayed these
nd the powerless conceptualization of the middle-class photographers and which lac.ked sufficient drama to sell and to make headlines. For who wants to see a picture of a carpenter fixing up his basement into a recreation room for his children, or a photograph of a family involved in fixing up their backyard, when you can show a picture of an overflowing garbage can, and of children playing in a broken-down car or of boarded up windows of a house on the verge of demolition or of an old wino standing on a street corner. lt wasn’t at all that the photographers and filmmakers were interested in the situation of the residents and the content of theii tong fought battle against the injustices inherent in current urban renewal practices; no, the photographers were only on the look-outfor good,’ expressive materids for their own purposes. Of special interest were little children found playing in th’e lanes or found resting on some steps or sidewalks-especially if they had dirt on their faces and looked somewhat sad. Likewise, run-down houses, back lanes and piles of garbage (prior to the day’s pick-up) were a favourite target. The photographers simply never had enough of these thingsthey loved any signs of what to them was general gloom, despair, decay, deprivation, child neglect, etc.-those very features which the area residents were organising to fight against. It became quite evident to me-that the photographers did ndt come to the area seeking to, understan,d the reality of the people there; they came to exploit the people in one &ay or another. As a rule they were both outrageously sentimental and arrogant, drawing vast conclusions from individual shots and not having an
‘Webb recipients make demands which create red resentment among the working poor.’ , t chronic welfare recipients: “From the assumption-supported by their establishment and middle-class friends that they are the worst off in welfare recipients in their society, organizations start making demands that do not show the slightest consideration for the rest of the working class. They want more money per child, more benefits, special allowances, etc.-all demands which create real resentment among the working poor. The working poor have a valid reason for this resentment, since they live next door to the long-term recipients, and see things that the middle-class activists fail to see; that some of the people who are supposed to be worst off in society are the same ones who take taxicabs to beer stores. . . who dress better than most
-marjaleena
repo, Transformation
iota of respect for the dignity and privacy of the area residents. They assume that what they see is real and true and represents the totality of the experience of the people of that neighbourhood. The question which should be asked about each individual picture is: yes, the picture is excellent, but what does it mean? What does it mean to see a pensive child leaning against a fence, with scratches on his legs? Or a child standing next to neatly piled garbage, sucking her thumb? Or childre-n swinging amidst broken cars, or children staring suspiciously at the photographer ‘(they know!). To many photographers these sights indicate one thing: POVERTY, and they are SHOCKED and they- want to transmit their CONCERN and to make other people CARE. Photography at this/ level is in my opinion totally meaningless: it attempts to create a simplistic and sociologically false impression of the people in working class areas; it propagandizes in favour of position rather thari depicts the real and far more varied and complex circumstances of the residents of these areas. There are endless possibilities if a photographer seriously wants to investigate the prob,lems encountered by working class people in society. Comis the best method at %rparison riving at a balanced presentation: comparison between the tenants and their landlords, between absentee owned rundown properties and resident owned well-kept ones, ‘between the condition of the streets and sidewalks in the workingclass areas and those in the affluent parts of the city. ln the proce_ss of these comparisons the photographer wou Id become educated herself / himself. ,
working people. They alsb watch with disbelief how these same people get up in public meetings (I have seen this happen frequently) and talk about how horrible it is to be on welfare. And the disbelief turns into c)nicism after reading yet another sob story about the people on welfare.” In concluding her study on the organizing of working class people, Repo put forth a sensible and workable program of action with its basis of organization being in the neighbourhood. She feels this is the essential footing, since on the work place no more than 30 per cent of the working population are unionized and since unions (with extremely rare exceptions) have long since ceased to be political organizations functioning in the interest of the whole class (“they sometimes benefit their own
members”). Such an organigation, she believes, should include “working and nonworking people of all shades of collar, colour and language. People who are on welfare and who by necessity have to struggle with various bureaucracies, can easily form a separate comniittee within the overall organization, but should in every other respect, when dealing with issues like health, education, housing, family life, youth problems, and neighbourhood issues, work with other members of the class.” An obvious ideal in organizing is to remove the dependency on welfare. As long as welfare is used as a pretense to smooth out the wide fluctuations in income, the longer the growing disparity and accelerating impoverishment among income earners will go unrecognized by the public.
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CALL FOR NOMlNAbONS In accordance iith the provisions of The University of Waterloo Act, 1972, nominations are requested from fulltime undergraduate or part-time undergraduate students, registered as such by the Registrar of the University, for elections to fill six(6) seats on the new Senate,.one (1) candidate to be elected from each of the six faculties, i.e. ARTS, ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION & RECREATION, SCIENCE. Integrated Studies students will decide by September 15th. which constituency they will be associated with for purposes of this election’. The information will be published in the second Call for Nominations to, be issued next week. Each nomination must be signed by at least ten (10) fulltime or part-time undergraduate students of the constituency from which the student is to be elected, e.g. undergraduate Arts students must be nominated by ten (10) other undergraduate Arts students. , Each nomination must specify the particular faculty constituency for which the nomination is submitted. The nominee must indicate his/her willingness to stand for election by signing the sheet upon which the original nomination is made and supported, within the time limit, himinations for the vacant posts are to be sent to the CHIEF RETURNING OFFICER, UNIVERSITY SECRETARIAT, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA by 4:30 p.m. September 29, 1972. In part , the Election By-Law approved by Senate on June 15, 1972 reads as follows:“No public campaigning shall take place until after the close of nominations. The amount that may be spent on behalf of any candidate shall not exceed $25.00. This sum does not include any material which may be prepared and sent by the Chief Returning Officer.” Candidates are requested to include brief resumes with their nominations, if they wish.
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“A pair of bells is all you need to be a runner” stated Andy Camani of St. Paul’s as he laced h-is sound-track onto a pair of well-worn ‘Tiger’ shoes and headed toward the starting line for the second annual engineering challange cup cross country run last Saturday. The race began on the Seagram stadium track; fifteen and one-half minutes later Camani returned, after jingling his way across the hilly three mile course far ahead of the field, finishing in first place. Last year his brother Peter won the event running one minute slower in 16:36, but then he didn’t have the benefit of the bells; “although. he did know about it”,Camani added. The bells according, to this year’s winner, provides a rythm for running, and “if you think about music, your feet automatically follow” the tune “Maggie May” was the one which aided this time, but Camani thinks “One Tin Soldier” will be the song for his next race, possibly with the warrior cross country team. He also thinks rock and roll songs have a d.efinite place ‘in a distance runner’s repetoire, but
Lawrence Welk, country and western as well as Burt Kaempfert are out...tiot fast enough for the rapid foot tempo.” He suggests getting music on before gqing out for a race or training session, using country and western to get the spirits down and introduce a “yearning for the ‘01 bells-of rock an’ roll”. “I think Bobbin Robin Jackson Five is a good song for the beginning runner and it-has done a helluva lot to bring my race around ,” the seeond year arts student added. He predicts that the bell-syndrome will hit W-aterloo within the next few months and expects ‘everybody will have a pair’. There were thirty-seven ‘bell-less’ runners in Saturday’s race which saw St. Paul’s reIinquish\the team trophy to Lower Engineering which placed runners in 5th, 6th, 11 th, and 14th positions. John Durkin, Brian McCrawey and Rich Buck trailed Camani to the finish in second, third and fourth respectively. ’ Camani began his running career, at a tender age -in Hamilton-by-the-bay, where the ‘Pink Panther’s organization (gang) caused.the young lad to flee on several occassions. “We couldn’t wear bells in those days, because a silent escape was the thing.” he pointed out. “Nowadays, people think you’re crazy to wear the things, but they serve a few very practical purposes. For instance, they keep the -mosquitoes away when running through the woods, and when people hear bells coming closer and closer to them on the sidewalk, they naturally get out of the way.” The bells and Andy will go into a&on next monday at the little Olympics track and field meet at Seagram stadium. As was the case with the cross country run this event is open to all persons on campus going to school or not, wearing bells or whatever.
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Delightful The show proper opened appropriately, if teasingly, with an original comic monologue delivered by \ prominent media personalities. We were subsequently treated to an echanting, if asinine, rendition of a beer garden party, featuring the enticing contestants themselves. . While the girls were changing (slipping into something more comfortable?) the panel of judges was an eminently qualified presented: group of area disc jockeys and bank .I managers. Somewhat hoarsely the master of ceremonies went on to introduce the girls,, and we think it is fair to say that. - something more than just our aesthetic aroused as the sensibilities were dimpled lassies troqoed onstage one 9~ one, bedecked in a breathtaking variety of stunning gowns provided by such fine local merchants as Biba boutique, Simpson-Sears, and La Petite Theatre. In our preliminary appraisal, for1 mulated at ‘this point, we tentatively
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Sensational placed our bets on three bewitching young filliesMiss Ten-Pin ‘70, Miss Eaton’s (l&t year’s Miss Farmer Market), and Miss Upstairs at the Kent.
special brand of trenchant political wit in admonishing the judges to be impartial in th,eir selection of six finalists from the field of fifteen.
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We beg the reader’s forgiveness at this point but, being aware of the arrant futility of undue verbosity and grandiloquent and cumbersome phraseology, we will ignore the remaining preliminaries and get into the porn. How sweetly radiant they were, these nymph-like, rosy-cheeked, bare-thighed damsels, resplendent in the glory of their blooming womanhood and budding sexuality. How lovingly did their close-fitting swimsuits caress each. hillock and crevice of their exquisite forms, as they strode boldly (coquettishly) toward an impatient, openly-perspiring audience. We think we can fairly say that this pageant has been responsible for the erection of at least two monuments to north american manhood. All too soon the cuties undulated off the stage, only to be replaced by a newly tranquil master of ceremonies, who was quick to employ his own
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I really like seeing the big groups because I really like seeing the talent. But when Ike and Tina Turner come in at midnight and they oversell tickets at Waterloo Lutheran, there are too many hassles and, I just won’t bother. There’s no solution. Maybe you could get small groups with talent br if the promoters would handle the big groups. I’d rather pay more money than go through that crap at Waterloo Lutheran. They oversold so many tickets for Sha Na Na it was horrible.
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the judging). Probably the most demanding portion of the show was the question period, during which the girls were asked to respond extemporaneously to questions of intellectual and moral significance: @“Where does the Spanish rain mainly fal I?” *“Will you sit on my face?” l “How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?” The questions were accompanied by a McLuhanesque. “multimedia” presentation featuring slides depicting the youthful temptresses in sundry alluring and provocative postures. Then came the hard part-ranking the contestants to determine who would be this years K-W Oktoberflesh Queen.
By now, the following event will probably hqve taken its place in local history alongside such immortal legends as the St. Jacob’s caitle auction and Kitchener-Waterloo’s annual government meat inspection. The moist, nubile VOhptUOUS YOUng bodies of the fifteen well-endowed semi-finalists, pert breasts jutting proudly forth, seemed to hold mute, breathless promise of a sexciting evening’s entertainment.
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The scintillating sounds of Opus II ensued in a low-key musical inteerlude, then the judges announced. that the vote-count was in. We were granted one final peek at the six remaining contestants before the curtain went down for intermission: During the break the foyer was abuzz with the hushed, excited voices of a thousand eager flesh-buffs as they discussed the outcome of the event, touting the prize-winning characteristics of their own favorite.
Shock The s&ond act opened with dizzying displays of batonerie, accordion virtuosity, recitation, 5BX ballet and other talents of a, similarly cultural natu‘re, proving that the Miss Qktoberflesh contest is not, as has been claimed in some quarters, a mere “tits ind ass” show-(though, hot unnaturally, that element too plays a significant part in
During the judicial deliberation, entertainment ‘was protided, to which, due to our mounting frenzy, we were unable to pay sufficient attention to warrant comment in this review. We therefore pass directly to the awarding of the much sought-after prizes. Debbie Otto (remember the “Eat Schneider’s Meat” commercial?) was awarded the Miss Congeniality ‘71 title by her fellow contestants. The “Most Likely to Sexceed” title went to someone whose name excapes us entirely, though her smile still lingers in our mind’s eye. At this point we’d like to dlgcess slightly to commend the team of trained accountants, flown directly to the humanities theatre in a sealed envelop-e, for their fast, accurate tallying of the judges’ vote.’ ln moments the six finalists trod back on stage and were swiftly awarded the five kiss-off prizes to the ru,nners-up. ’ Then came the Big Moment. After the Big Moment, *the slightly bewildered new Queen was presented with the highly coveted Crown in recognition of her untamed and ravaging “beauty”.
Is a big / name group necessary to make a good- concert? by kati middleton
Steve
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by cousin nick dumont
We for a few, were far from disappointed. As we sit here now spent and exhausted, our resources depleted, our emotional fibres throbbing still from the intensity of the moments which we have been privileged to witness, we find ourselves in a sense reliving certain of the program’s highlights, which have already won themselves a prominent place in the burlesque halls of our memories.
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No, decause, well, basically if you Daniel Ramnarine, Geography 3 have a good group that can relate to the audience in a good No, it’s not the name that way, it should be a good concert. counts; it’s what the group If they can get everyone to sounds like. I like classical music “groove to the music and rock and the orchestral concerts. I dig on”, it’s just as good as a big a little rock music but not too name concert. It’s less expensive, much. Pubs are my favourite. I too. I like folk music better than don’t really listen to the music; I rock and the pub atmosphere, I just like to drink. That’s my but-then even folk singers would hobby-drinking and watching be bad in the gym.girls.
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I don’t go to them. I don’t think it’s necessary but I don’t care anyway. I don’t go to pubs either. It doesn’t bother me very ,much. I like popular music, rock I guess. I don’t know.
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No. I don’t actually listen to the music. I have a good time relating to the people, watching them more than listening. As for Ike and Tina Turner,, I think they’re just big name people who thought they could kick us around. I prefer a pub.
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An interview with Lionel Rogosin conducted by dennis green and dudley paul photo by dudley paul
Lionel Rogosin is a New York City filmmaker who spent a day here two weeks ago attending the screening of two of his films: Black Fantasy and Good Times-Bad Times. The following is an interview with Rogosin that grew out of his shorter discussions and the films themselves. Essentially it deals with his attitudes towards politics and art, but breaks off into discussions about the relationships between both these aspects in the ttio films.
Chevron: In connection with you, one thinks of two other documentrists, John Evans and Tom Flaherty. How do you see your work in relationship to them? Rogosin:I am much closer to Flaherty than Evans, artistically and emotionally. I can understand your question, because Evans is very politically oriented and my films seem to be political or at least social. But I feel much closer to Flaherty because, like him, I’m more concerned with the human expression than the political. Chevron: So your orientation is humanistic. Rogosin: My orientation is more political than Flaherty, but after all, Come BacQAfrica is political. However, I feel it’s in a different style than Evans. I didn’t do it in a Marxist view, or a Catholic view-1 did it from a view of what was there, in as much a poetic way as possible. Some of Evans’ films I like, but some of them are too dogmatic, too heavy. They’re Marxist in their structure and don’t reach AmerLcans. I don’t believe that view is real. It’s like an abstraction. You go there, look at it and try-to show it, and ifjt’s different from your view, you throw it out and-take what’s there. And it worked better because people believe it. Chevron: So there is no room for political underpinning or ideology. Rogosin: I’d say that it is not unimportant or useless, but I don’t think it should take precedence. Of course, that’s ’ true of everything-political practice or whateverthat theory shouldn’t take precedence over life and reality. It should come out of practice and reality. I think that’s been the problem of ideology all through history. People get theories and say this theory has to work, even if we have to shoot you to prove it. The Puritans did it in New England, and the Marxists in Russiaand it’s very interesting that the American Puritans were so rigid in their ideas, and yet I think it’s very amusing that the greatest number of crimes among them was fornication. So, I think that the artist has to be in antagonism with ideology. Mayakovsky said that the artist was the light brigade of the revolution. Mayakovsky was the Marxist poet and committed suicide.. . . I suppose he felt that the revolution was no longer in existence. Chevron: Carry that a little farther. What part does the artist play in the revolution? Rogosin: I think that’s a good phrase: “The artist is the light brigade of the revolution,” in the sense that he’s there in front, before the, revolution-not always revolutionary Dostoevsky wasn’t revolutionary. At any rate, the artist is there at the beginning, getting people to activate and move. Then, when the revolution takes place and starts to‘ become counter-revolutionary, he attacks that -so he’s in a very bad position. Chevron: Talk about Good Times Wonderful Times. What feelings went into it. What thoughts did you \ have that led you towards the picture. Rogosin: Well, there are several things I want to say in that regard. One was the basic motive-which was important-not only for the film, but politically. Second-some of the basic themes in the film which are that war is not inevitable, or in another way-it’s people who make wars and people who can stop them. And a corollary to that is the understanding of power. This is important in that it is a very fundamental that people don’t understand the problem in societynature of power or their relationship to it, or their own strength.’ First of all, the reason that I made Good Times Wonderful Times was due to something that happened around the time that Kruschev and Kennedy were to meet at Camp David for an International summit conference. And there was the U2 incident, when the American spy pilot was shot down over Russia. It
destroyed the summit - and it seemed to me that something was happening, that every time there was a move towards peace, the militarists sabotaged it; which is what happened here. So, I started to make the film in ‘61. And while I was making the film, it came true several times. The Cuban missile crisis lead up to the so that within a few months, Kennedy test ban treatywas assassinated., That was a very important force getting me to do the film. There was a real danger in that period of ‘61 to ‘66-that there would be a movement towards peace and the right wing would sabotage it in moving, towards a nuclear confrontation. But it finally dawned on people that nuclear war would be suicide. So when you think about it, we are really in the hands of madmen. Gettingback to the film,it was the German people who gave Hitler the power to make war, to crush other nations, other minorities, and it was people who stopped Hitler in the long run. Therefore, it isn’t true, what a lot of people think-that they can’t do anything, in that people are victims - which is a common attitude our society. Yet the contrary is often true-that when they are the ones who are people are the victims, creating the problem. That’s what I’m trying to show in the German footage of Good Times. I wasn’t completely successful. What I ought to have done, is shown something that put people working together-and accomplishing something very difficult. Small groups of people have accomplished things far more difficult than the things we feel we can’t stop. If people weren’t so fatalistic, they would. do more-it’s their own demoralization that prevents them from taking action. Chevron: The demoralization that you are talking ..- about appears really forcefully through Jim, the major character in one of your other films: Black Fantasy. Rogosin : Fight. Jim is a very frustrated and
demoralized person. A lot of people who are oppressed have a lot of self-hatred, which stops them from doing anything to change things. But Jim is very positive. First of all, he is aware of his problems as a man and black man. Secondly, he has strong positive qualities -and can overcome.Still, there is a lot of pessimism, fatalism. I’ think it’s part of the whole middle-class syndrome.. Chevron: One notable thing about Black Fantasy were the constant allusions to ads on white TV and sexual feelings towards the white woman in general. Rogosin: That idea is important. I think it has a thousand other forms. The Black American, ,from the time he is two, is conditioned to believe that white is -beautifulLright down to Jesus Christ. The greatest symbol of all in American culture, up until thirty years ago, was that image-“‘1 love you Jesus”-you know, you hear a black saying that in church and you think of what it means psychologically.
Chevron: Could you talk about what relationships or attitudes you have towards your contemporariesNorman Mailer for instance. Rogosin: I think Mailer, James Baldwin and I are almost the same age. But I feel closer to Baldwin than MailerI think Baldwin has< taken a clearer stand on the way he feels, whereas I think Mailer is schizophrenic. My attitude was I’m not going to try and make it, to conform. I think that Baldwin felt more or less the same way. I’feel that he is more true to
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himself, where Mailer is fooling himself and getting schizophrenic in the bargain. Chevron: Cleaver speaks pretty harshly of Baldwin. Rogosin: I think he is. being a bit harsh and intolerant. Baldwin had the guts to speak out before anyone else did, even if he didn’t speak out as strongly as possible, according to them-but they got killed. Chevron: How do you sit with Goddard? Rogosin: I have mixed feelings about Goddard. What worries me about him is that, where I don’t believe an artist should have a fixed ideology, I think that Goddard doesn’t have enough of a world or society or human view. He frightens me, because I feel that the next minute he might be,promoting genocide. I think he must acquire a humanist concept, but I feel that he may mature in that sense.
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Chevron: Labels are meaningless, but do you think of yourself as anything politically? Rogosin: I keep trying to figure out where I am.. ..but* it always changes. Still I would say that radical is the closest thing I can come to, although I don’t really think that is my function.-The more I work in film, the more I realize that that isn’t my function-to be political. It is a lot of things. In other words, I’m not saying: “think this”, that’s political. Cleaver says: “you’ve got to think this way, man, Baldwin, motherfucker, this is where its at.” I’m trying to show people so they can understand themselves better. Show the racists the basis of racism, the mechanism of racismso they can see what they are doing.
Chevron: At this‘point, it might be good to talk about your interest in the media. You were talking earlier about the centralization of television in the U.S. and elsewhere. Rogosin: The basic problem with what you are talking about is that the media is in the control of small groups _ of people everywhere. They are using it for their own ends and in violation of all principles of democratic society-without public knowledge. And this includes > not just freedom of the press, but other media as well: TV, movies? theatre, etc. It seems to me that it’s a very clear right of the people to have public control of the media, public control meaning complete freedom. The problem is the control over it, of government, advertisers, industry-you name it. In the early days of radio, this was taken by industry and commercial interests. How, God only knows. To me, allowing such , a thing to happen was a complete abdicaton of public duty by those in power. At least theBritish tried to set something up; there was an awareness of the problem (BBC). So what you have now, particularly in TV, is control over media by the ruling group of each country. This came to me very clearly in a trip to Europe last summer. Foreign TV studios-Polish, Swedish, German; British-are striking in that there is this enormous amount of power in the form of buildings, equipment, bureaucracy ,etc. all under the ’ control of small groups of people, basically against the interests of the people at large. In Italy, this, takes place through _ the Vatican. In France, it was through DeGaulle and ,the government - in the U.S. through Madison Avenue, and indirectly through the establishment. The exceptions have been British and Swedish TV, which are to some degree better. I think that this is a particularly neglected area, because notably the left hasn’t even talked about it; and in general the public isn’t aware of the problem. I can’t think of any concerted action undertaken in the area of TV. I know a few people who are working in that direction, but they are of a very small number. It seems to me, that actions of the left have been ) mostly demonstrations or spectacular things, some of which are good, some of which I don’t think are so good-but really not getting to the root of things and where they can get public support. There are a lot of people who don’t like TV-a lot of people. I don’t have time to do it all alone-I don’t have the energy to fight the media and make films as well. But I try. I think it’s really crucial, and_-1 think that in a certain number of years -the old evolutionary process-people are going _ to do something about it. But, dammit, they are taking their time. \ And those guys are in there (Mailer did say on; good thing once:‘The shits are killing us,” he said) and they’re in there -the shits are in there-and you can’t believe how they’re working. Working like hell, because , . you do one thing and they undo twenty. NET (National Educational Television) was set up by the Ford Foundation. To counteract this, cornmercial TV all but wiped it out by a slow process, until the Ford Foundation now gives NET very little money -and it’s basically funded by Congress. The man who runs it is a Nixon appointee-so you know where that’s at. , But it will swing back. .
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tivity. The home team,needs a bit of finesse however, to polish off what seems to be a basically solid team. Quarterback Bob Spree needs work on his balltossing; during the Bishop’s encounter, he either had some good friends in the opposition or had trouble with his color vision, because he placed some well timed throws in the hands of the guys. While on the topic of tossing, the Warriors pass defense possesses a talent for falling asleep at the most inopportune moments (playing their games at night is a feeble excuse). The front five of John Buda, Harvey Weiner, Ken Shuman, Ian Miller ‘and Al Pirie provides a formidable wall, but if this league is all it’s cracked up to be, walls they face will increase in size and ingenuity as the season wears on. As always, the players in the stands will have to carry the weight for a good evening out. Last our intrepid chevron game, reporter counted twenty-four wineskins within his field of vision but sad few beer bottles being lifted to smacking lips. There were also two totally empty sections in the stands suggesting that there must be something around more exciting than an evening drunk with the warrior band. Another
downer was the absence of the cheerleading players with their new fancy outfits recently purchased (made with patented, official university of water100 tartanpatterned-wool >._ It would be an even greater all’round experience if the confectionary would lower prices just a little so that when the munchies hit, one doesn’t go broke trying to support the habit. Being able to buy an ice cream cone for a dime, watching and singing with dancing leaders on the track and a generous neighbour should make Eor a good time, regardless of Performances on the field.
WINTER IS COMING Edgar, that is. He was here 2% years ago with his brother, what’shis-name, and at that time people said he’d last longer. ’ They were right. He came to Kitchener a year ago with Rick Derringer, and they blew the James Gang right out of the Aud.itorium. He was in Toronto this summer with his new band, and just.about stole the show from head-liners Humble Pie.
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,PLUS ........SLADE Slade is a 2nd generation English rock band, produced by Chas Chandler (bass player for The Animals). They’ve been one of the top four English bands for a year now, although this is their first North American tour. They started out as a “skin head” band, but they%e matured: if T. Rex is the new Beatles, Slade is,the new Stones.
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Women’s intramurals Women’s Intramural’s are off to another flying start this year. The first meeting of the WIAC was held Monday evening in the PAC lounge. All units were represented and the interest shown among the athletic rep’s at the meeting holds promise for bigger and better things to come. A couple of new items introduced into. this year’s program were the awarding of Pinky T-shirts to all championship units and the construction of personalised mailboxes for each unit. The long awaited flag football is under way. Rumour has it that the ,Village II teams have been practicing secretly on Columbia Field. Undercover reporters have verified this story but also state that they look like rookies. But we must remember that last year’s champions were also rookies. Although there hasn’t been too much action around Village I, it seems that the girls of North 6 aren’t bothering to practice. These fantastic graduates of the championship Village II North team last year feel they will walk
away with the title this year. And speaking of Village II North, there has been some skepticism as to their ability to retain the ti’tle. The Church Colleges are witholding all tactics until game time but Renison can be tough and tricky. It’s too early to make any predicitons but it looks like another great season for women’s flag football. Team participation lists show a great interest among the girls. Monday is the first exhibition game with the regular ,season getting under way on Monday, october 2. Don’t forget abouf the women’s slow pitch tournament tomorrow at Columbia Field 5 and 6. Here’s hoping it isn’t rained out. Of course there is always the co+d slow pitch league starting this sunday at 1 p.m. Just go ahead over to Columbia Field and join in the action if you haven’t already entered on a team. The women’s tennis tournament is coming up on October 10th at the Waterloo Tennis Club. It will be held from 7-11 p.m. and all interested participants are urged to enter by October 5th. Drop entries off at PAC 2050 There seems to have been some confusion as to where to reach Sally Kemp, the women’s intramural director . Her extension number is 3533 but you have to phone the University number. Therefore, to reach Sally, phone 885-1211 and ask for extension 3533.
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This i”s the race for the gourmet road and track freak. They crawl out .of their doonbuggies andsouped-up Pontiacs, tent-up for the big weekend (and I must stress that this is a weekend activity) in the clean pure air of the picturesque countryside and talk machines, eat machines and drink beer. Last year at the
same race an estimated 750,000 bottles of beer were consumed on Saturday alone. The race is the Canadian Grand Prix, and we can thank Labatt’s for its community spirit in sponsoring this event and also supplying much of the recreational refresh.ment. The race is the third from the last of a series of races which begin early in the year somewhere down under, then move t,o South Africa, tour Europe and finally arrive here before hitting the States and Mexico. In Europe, where this series holds much attention, these cars represent the pinnacle of auto teechnology, with world championships for both the top driver and the top manufacturer being the goal to which every gloved Fiat 850 driver and Deux Cheveaux grease monkey aspires (unless, of course they aspire toward some other goal). In any case, the handful of drivers who have made it into a’ Formula I car are, in this writer’s opinion, the best drivers in the world. In addition to the big race, there are several other lesser status races which sometimes *warrant a glance or two- and less than frequently provide a little bloodshed to soothe the bending hangovers from a Mosport Saturday night. Howev-er, should one not be hungover they can serve to keep the action going while waiting for the Formula I. In terms of a “sociological this weekend makes a lab”, pleasant change from the rather poor quality burlesque witnessed in the football stadii and hockey arenas of the progressive educational institutions around town, in fact if you can dig it, it’s a good weekend. -_
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c chevronsports The major complaint of the dpponents of Pee Wee hockey concerned the unbearable pressures the young players must endure.
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From i cradle to stardom: .in ten _easy years The recent news spotlight on hockey, illuminated by the Team Canada series and the NHL-WHA conflict, has brought to the public’s view many previously ‘camouflaged’ facts about professional hockey. I On the forefront, are blatant examples such as the binding, obligatory contracts all hockey players must sign and the control by hockey ‘big-shots’ like lawyer-entrepreneur Alan Eagleson and Maple Leaf Gardens President, Harold Ballard. Eagleson f.rankly admits to -the press that he exerts far more influence over Team Canada arrangements than the federal government, while Ballard spoke, (following his fraud conviction) of a possible new stadium-arena corn plex for T&onto after discussions with Texas millionaire Lamar Hunt. Bobby Orr, world-famous hockey star, and a client-good-friend of Eagleson, is reputed to have been signed at the age of eleven. How early does manipulation and control of players and the whole hockey ‘industry’ begin? A cute twelveyear-old boy with blond hair, purportedly one of the best goalies in the huge pee-wee hockey league, says emotionlessly, “I started when I was abotit five years old.” Last Tuesday, the CBC television network opened its ‘Tuesday Night’ series with a film by Graham Woods entitled, It’s Winning That Counts. The film followed the progress of A Toronto pee-wee team, (sponsored by Shopsy’s), as they made t-heir way to the international pee-wee tournament in Quebec City, only to lose an overtime decision to another Toronto team.
The National Hockey League controls the influx of junior. league hockey players into their ranks by\ pouring almost a million dollars each year in the child hockey slave market. For instance, the Shopsy team covered in It’s Winning That Counts, is the only Toronto team allowed to wear the official Toronto Maple Leaf hockey sweater and practice ninety minutes a week in Maple Leaf Gardens. The coach of the Toronto Marlboros (the Junior ‘A’ team), scouts this pee-wee team ‘and invites certain selected players to Marlboro workouts. t But wait, there’s another league below pee-wee, the Atom league, and even they, at the tender age of ten, are scouted by ttie pee-wee leagues!
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Autographs; too At lunchtime, they are allowedno frerich fries or chocolate pudding. However, during a game they demonstrate the validity of their strict training, acting just like the pros. They perform the traditional athletic handslap proficiently and exuberantly hug each other after a goal. After the game, they even give autographs to some yet younger fans in the stands. Pee-wee hockey is a very popular spectator sport, attracting crowds to the stadium in Quebec of twelve to fifteen thousand. As Alan Stevenson puts it, they gather to see the irresistibly angelic faces of the little boys. Who could they be but the parents, vicariously fulfilling their own dreams at last?. All thq boys spoke of their hockey careers in terms of “we”, that is, their parents and themselves.
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Alan EagV’son is a man who thrives ,on power. Through his negotiations and high business dealings, most of them with hockey players, he himself experiences this same kind of pressure and h” spoke of his child’s involvement with hockey; His son does not play in pee-wee, but rather in a house league that has no four or five am practices. He says, “I think the pressures are far too great. for children of seven or eig’ht years.” He should know from dealing with superstars in their twenties. , Against such opposition, Stan Obodiac retaliates with lines like, “the battles of Catigdian fighting men in World War II were won on the rinks of Canada,” and “the sport with the aggressive thrust” has done wonders for Canadians in general. Yes sir, there’s nothing like aggression.
Tears after a loss The pressure is indeed great on the kids, a reality that is painfully evident in the expressions on the faces of the team after they’ve lost their important game in sudden-death overtime. The goalie, who can only interpret the loss as his own fault, wept and threw his equipment on the ice in a desperate attitude of grief. The other were all desolate, listening remotely to their coach’s hopeful and rallying words of encouragement and assurance of future victory. No, the picture is not a pleasant one, of very young boys suffering profoundly, maybe even approaching despair over a hockey game. But are the kids complaining? Accusations fall upon over-zealous parents and eager 4xploitative capitalists and at least partially, with ‘justification. But the boys meanwhile are eager to play, to be stars, to be able to sign autographs, to dream of a NHL contract. Winning is very satisfying. It’s just those inexplicable, sometimes occasional, sometimes frequent, defeats that spoil it. - Registration for pee-wee hockey in Waterloo will be held in the Waterloo Arena Saturday September 23 and 30. -kim
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Whatever hasn’t been dulled by repetition has been taken care of by our own remoteness from the actual conflict. The censored coverage given the spring offensive in Vietnam reduces its scope and meaning, distancing it from our lives until it becomes a drawing board war. What if the coat of the US giant is tattered and worn, its hand bloodied and crippled? It remains a creature of formidable power and for Canadians the possibility of rubbing shoulders with the powerful is akin to power itself. Still there remains a lingering doubt, a small anxiety which feeds on the war’s capacity to continue, reinforced by the reality that despite the geometric growth of war programs and weapons technology, employed on an enormous scale and at huge expense, this filthy plague of a war lingers on. Perhaps we need to go back to that question, still unanswered, which leapt from the lips of late sixties radicalism. At that time it functioned as the last word in arguments over the right “If the US is so right of US involvement: in being there, how is it that a tiny peasant-nation with little industry, few resources, ravaged by decades of war and
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potentially resistant populace. The continuation of the Vietnamese conflict, with american victory as distant as ever, argues convincingly that the lessons of Cuba, China, Cypress, Southern Ireland and Indo-China remained to be learned.
armed with an inferior ideology can continually stalemate the mightiest military-industrial nation in the world?” At that time there was no answer to the question, nothing beyond the radical’2 intuitive belief in the tenacity of the peasant nation. .Our failure to understand the Vietnam war, in lieu of the possibility of forgetting it completely, is tied to our uncritical acceptance of the terms in which war information is daily cast. Vietnam is typically treated -by everyone from military advisors to the academics and journalists who carry it into our living rooms - as an instance of conventional warfare. Geographic considerations are unique, language, custom and industrial methods are different, the enemy is called a Vietcong and differs from former US enemies, but tactically speaking Vietnam has been approached in true WWII fashion. The flower of american military wisdom has at most made allowance for the differences between regular soldiers and that third world oddity popularly labelled “the guerrilla”. The failure of that wisdom has been to content itself with the notion that “guerrilla warfare is largely a matter of tactics and, techniques,” a potpourri of jungle tricks employed by illiterate peasants “to be adopted by almost anyone who may have need of them, in almost any irregular warfare situation.” Guerrilla warfare does not proceed according to the same dynamic as that which governs the standing armies of large industrial nations. Clausewitz’s dictumthat war is the extension of politics by other means-is brought to full fruition in this situation; now we are dealing with revolutionary war, the selfconscious extension of politics by other means.‘ The great western nations have failed to understand this, fact, preferring to look upon the insurgents as conspiratorial groupings of bandits or fanatics grafted upon an unwitting and
Guerrilla warfare is never waged in an arbitrary fashion by cadres of insurgents operating over and above the people themselves-if that is the case the operations tend to be a short-lived terrorism with no long term effects. It can only be engaged successfully when the institutions of -the existing regime have shown themselves to be thoroughly repressive and when the governors have failed to provide adequately for the populace they control. The guerrilla is not a regular soldier; he is what may be termed “an armed civilian”, a member of the oppressed populace who turns to revolutionary warfare after the “existing channels” have proved incapable of the type of social change he envisages. He differs most from the members of the military arm of the or the clique’s outside ruling clique, in the nature of his reinforcements, relationship to the community. To be successful the guerrilla must amplify and extend the ‘will of the people” themselves; his work is to direct and conceptualize their desire for something other than the existing regime or, failing the presence of this desire ready made, he must by daily example illustrate to his fellows the possibility of something different. In all of this, rather than police and coerce the people as the foreign troops who follow will, the guerrilla relates himself to the community as an integral part of it. On this relation he depends for daily survival; its quality and continuity must far transcend “chocolate bar” aid, pacification programs and the illusory promise of “western democratic institutions”w,hich form the stock neutralizing agent of foreign armies. The guerrilla is a political agent. All of his actions are calculated to expose and discredit the machinations of the existing regime, to enhance the contradictions of an already shaky social structure, and most importantly, to nurture the growth of radically new social and political relationships, based on active participation, amongst a people traditionally ruled from above. The guerrilla is an economic agent. He is as concerned to maintain and better the economic situation of his people as he is to frustrate and ruin the extractive procedures of the ruling clique. Because he lives within the people, his actions are tailored to the movement and demands of their means of survival. The guerrilla lives off the land when he must; the rest of the time he lives off the existing regime. Clothing, food, weapons and ammunition, especially in the early stages of the uprising, are seldom supplied by the guerrillas themselves. Up to the commencement of bombing in 1964, better than 90 percent of Vietcong arms were seized from american or Saigon forces. Tactically the guerrilla radically differs from other armies: rather than risk losses defending large land masses, all his strategy is based on mobility, evasion and survival. Surprise, deception and unpredictabilitythese ’ elements characterize guerrilla activity; each action is a strike at the weakest link, employing overwhelming firepower and followed by a speedy withdrawal. Uninterested in the big showdown, the fixed battle or captured territory, the guerrilla strives for the demoralizing effect of repeated small victories. Without fixed supply lines,
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lacking heavy and expensive weaponry, depending on his own inventiveness more than on massive support, the guerrilla is an elusive and frustrating shadow. His success is guaranteed only for so long as he can swim freely like “a fish in the sea of the people”. That this is the relationship between the Vietcong and the Vietnamese people is no longer open to dispute. The spring of- . fensive moves ahead, despite the massive bombing of North Vietnam, as ineluctably as the wooden junks conveying essential supplies slip by the metal sensitive mines in Haiphong harbour. As I.F. Stone has correctly noted: like pacification, is “Vietnamization, among the casualties of the current offensive. The war had suddenly to be “Americanized” to save the Thieu regime. The record on the ground, where wars have to be won, is a landscape of failure. Despite large-scale US support from air and sea, nowhere can Thieu’s forces point to a victory.” The final mistake would be to treat Vietnam as as isolated occurrence, the Vietcong as an unrepresentative phenomenon. The flame of revolution has been snuffed in recent years in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, but the embers smoulder on; the initial movement, what Mao termed “the period of insemination”, continues apace whether the international press deems it worthy of coverage or not. It remains a difficult task for Canadians, who live at an apparent distance from these things, to reach out towards an understanding of the guerrilla movements in the “underdeveloped” countries; yet understand we must since the problems won’t disappear simply because we prefer not to look at them. I Most importantly we need to learn from those who have experienced these . developments first hand and not continue ‘to be soothed by those whose articles, strained through the strict sieve of their own ideology, pretend to achieve objectivity. If the manuals of partisans like Guevara, Grivas, Mao and Marighela offend by their directness, there remains no better primer than the splendid outline presented in Robert Taber’s book “The War of the Flea”.’ and brutally frank incisive Short, concerning our role in relation to the “underdeveloped” nations, Taber writes from firsthand experience in Cuba, North Africa and the Carribean. If read, the rude awakening which Taber’s book can effect now- may save an endless agony in the future. -david cubberley
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