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by Brian Todd A motion to sanction the McGill Daily by withdrawing all Students’ Socie ty advertising from the Daily almost resulted in physical vio lence breaking out between members of the Students’ Coun cil and set last Thursday’s meeting into a thirty minute state of pandemonium. The motion, put forward by Scott Keating, the V.P. Finance, was the result of a production night decision by the McGill Daily to boycott an ad plac ed by Les Services Alimentaires C. V.C. The ad read: “Fact” : The only issue is the preservation of student jobs. It was
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signed by C.V.C. “In my opi nion this is cen sorship,” stated Keating. “It’s time someone went to bat for students. This strike affects all students,” ex plained Keating. He felt that “the Daily was denying the right of stu dents to decide for themselves.” Albert Nerenberg, Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Daily asked Keating why the Daily had not been informed of the motion to censure the Daily. He also pointed out that the Daily ad policy “is presented on the advertising rate card. The publishers have the right to refuse advertisements for any reason. The
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policy is the same as that of any com mercial newspaper and any! autonomous student newspaper as well as many non-autonomous student newspapers.” Keating replied that the motion “is not designed to lynch the Daily. It only applies to certain departments of the Students’ Society and relatively small amounts of money.” “ It is not a harsh measure,” he concluded. Ginny Barton, clubs representative, upon examining the ad and seeing that Students’ Society was not mentioned, complained, “ I don’t see why Students’ Society is withdrawing their ads.” Keating replied that “he only made the motion to defend student rights.” He then went on to say that if the debate was fading he would call the question, a measure that would have effectively ended debate. This sparked rumblings among the representatives of the Daily who had not had their final say. Feeling that
Secretary of the Treasury. Willers con firmed that he had received grants from the IEA for the first issue of Libertas, his magazine at Queen’s University, but denied that the IEA had made any further contributions to either Libertas or any of the other six magazines which he has published. When asked further about finances Willers offered to say only that he received contributions from “wealthy Canadians of a conservative orienta tion.” Willers used much of the interview as a forum for his statement of conser vative faith, which blossomed during his stint as the publisher of the McGill Magazine last year. “ I didn’t believe that there was a liberal bias in the media until then.” His main interest then as now, was the American political scene he said. “I have a lot of articles published there. I’m quite well-known in the States you know. I’m not as familiar with Cana dian politics as I am with American.” But his determination to promote conservative thought in Canada focuscontinued on page 3
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debate was being squashed, Ramesh Singal, Graduate Studies and Research Senator, Daron Westman and Ginny Barton, clubs representatives, then vacated their chairs “withdrawing their rights to sit as councillors.” What followed was thirty minutes of pandemonium. Ian Bandeen, Speaker, accused Singal of irresponsibility and childishness as theoretically the meeting had fallen below quorum and thus was in danger of being adjourned. Bandeen refused to recognize the loss of quorum and measures were taken to call in councillors to replace the three rebel councillors who were in the hall. Meanwhile during a discussion with Singal, Bandeen apparently threatened or implied the threat of physical violence, a threat for which he later apologized. The three councillors returned to the Council Chambers under the understanding that the Daily would be allowed to speak. In the final motion continued on page 3 ■
W iU e r s ’ C o n s e r v a t is m by Stephen Hum Francis Willers, the Montreal-based publisher of a chain of neo conservative campus magazines, denied that his journalistic ventures were receiving any funds from American sources during a wideranging interview with the Tribune at the Four Seasons Hotel on Sherbrooke on Nov. 23. Willers, a Cont. Ed. student at McGill when he is not publishing, had contacted the Tribune the previous day and requested an interview, saying that he had been misrepresented by an arti cle published in the Nov. 19 issue of the McGill Daily (U.S. Institute Behind Canadian Magazines) and that he wanted an interview in order to res pond to that article. However, at the interview, Willers declined to answer any questions relating specifically to the Daily article, commenting instead that he was investigating legal action. But he did discuss charges that his chain was being financed at least in part by the American IEA, a neo conservative think-tank organized by William Simon, Richard Nixon’s
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N ew Biz Contest
by Brian Todd The Montreal Board of Trade has created a new contest to focus the at tention of commerce students on Mon treal as a place for business. The contest requires business students to prepare a ten page report adressed to the Cheif Executive Officer of a real company. In the report, the entrant or entrants must explain “the particular advantages of Montreal; what it is that should attract companies to establish, in Montreal, what should make companies stay and why they should expand.”
Entries from McGill are to be hand ed in to Laurent Picard, Dean of the Faculty of Management. Picard will narrow the field of applicants to the semi-finalists and then send these on to the Board of Trade. There will be a total of 50 semi-finalists from the four commerce and business administration schools around Montreal. Cash prizes of $1500, $1000 and $500 will be awarded to the eventual winners and the semi-finalists will all be guests at a dinner at the Sheraton Centre. The deadlines for the applica tions is December 7.
by Sarah Cook The strike of the cafeteria workers has been settled. Contracts were signed by the union and C.V.C. on Wednes day night, last week. According to Paul McCann, Executive Director of •the Students’ Society, “both sides were satisfied with the contract. The con tract guarantees job security for all 44 full-time workers barring a loss of business or an act of God.” The contract also guarantees job
security for the two-hundred student part-time jobs in the pubs in the Union building. Says McCann, “Students’ Society wanted to see fairness for both the full-time and part-time workers.” “Students’ Society wanted to see parttime job security and full-time job security ensured,” concluded McCann. All the food and beverage services of the Students’ Society have returned to their normal operating schedules.