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SPOKE

Nov. 29, 1971

Budget freeze decision reversed

Wright resigns as by lowry too mbs

Two weeks

ago, in a meeting of the Council of Representatives, a vote was taken and passed by a 5-3

majority

freeze

student

all

activities as of Dec. 1st. Last week that decision was reversed. It had

bearing about 400 signatures was submitted to C.O.R., protesting the proposed end of all student activities.

student going to happen

activities

directly. It

was

when this was achieved, the freeze would be lifted. Shoitly after the decision!, word of the impending freeze spread throughout the college. A petition

to match the indifference it faces. The separate indifferences grow and grow and the only logical way out is to

difference

has become increasingly evident in the last few weeks that a gap exists between C.O.R. and the students it is supposed to represent. No matter what you call the gap, apathy, disinterest, dislike, it is increasing day by day if works spoken are truly inIt

dicative of thought unheard.

members

to discuss

and act harmoniously. The

ef-

fectiveness of C.O.R.

dependant upon

members.

its

separate or rejuvenate each other. We’ve reached that stage now. We are not alone however, the majority of campuses are experiencing the same breakdown.

entirely

expensive, less wasteful and

probably 50 percent of the student body does not require it at all. It’s too big in personnel, too involved in things that it should not be. in line to the fact that

me, and

The

and

existing C.O.R.

seem aware

the

few be, or even want

that very

students

to be,

of the fact that

regard to his or her

degenerate any further. if

the freeze

permanent

become

remaining money and assets of C.O.R. would have been returned to each student in a proportional sum.

disabandonment,

Can we expect any helpful hints and ideas from the students as to what should happen to C.O.R.? Will those students disregard it and consider

who

ing:

themselves up against a wall of indifference. stoney faced Eventually, the enthusiasm dies and is replaced by a mood of in-

1. C.O.R. will comprise of one administrator (full time) or two (part time) plus Divisional reps

and Treasurer or auditor.

Thank

its

into council full

and problem

we were

probably

solving.

re-organize

recommend

would

the follow-

you.

Publications Chairman.

though,

case.

this

question

when

its

upon themselves decision

they

members to

take

work against a have

themselves

reached.

president,

resignation.

"Running

will,

editor

—

said, "r giad to be rid of the childishness that passes itself off as student government.”

C.O.R. as

will probably continue it has in the past, except few new faces. It is doubtful whether anything but a major overhaul can solve the problems of coordination, solidarity and

response

to the student’s

concerns.

Council of representatives? It would be interesting to find out the percentage of students who are even aware of who they are represented by, or for that matter, care. But if those who

really

the eve of the next meeting

C.O.R.

remain

submitted his he stated,

part,

for the

position,

in-

remain on council, the others who may be added on and the student body begin to voice some of their concerns,

something

maybe C.O.R. can together

which

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN for the position of

C.O.R. President until

Dec. 3rd

Campaigns

will

run from

Dec. 6 to Dec. 10

The election

pull

truly

represents the student’s interests. But don’t hold your breath or anything. It may be a long wait! long wait!

the

of hope and enthusiasm that this year will be different but find

Members come

Paul Stacey, also disgusted by some of the C.O.R. in defying the budget freeze, resigned as C.O.R. the actions of

for a

Rod

that

members

much

Another C.O.R. member reportedly worked behind the scenes to manipulate the above-mentioned petition. Obviously the supposed solidarity and effectiveness of the student council must be called into

members,

his limit of frustra-

tion.

wagging the dog,

way C.O.R. would become

co-

it a complete waste speak up now to finally end it completely? Will there be enough interest to put it into a Forum? Will you tell us what areas of council you deem unnecessary? I’m not asking you to care, just to express your views so that the decision will be yours, not ours.

membership.

One

had become apparent that the freeze would not be put into effect.

the

learning environment. I don’t promise that things will improve but they can’t really

had

vote.

The vote was again taken and the freeze decision was reversed by a 7-2 margin. Then, Rod Wright.

from

separated from

student

wind of the

ad-

ministrative position. In this

nites, got

had reached

is presented with the obvious analogy of the proverbial tail

final responsibility

For those interested,

The one big drawback

policy

would seem

Administrative positions.

that being the well being of the

C.O.R.

that

altogether irregardless

Positions of chairmen of those functions to be elected as would the

only guessing, that students have been turned off by successive councils not bothering to listen or to heed and now reject council

that of the students.

and Spoke

needs reshaping into a form less

feeling

accomplishes many other things besides organizing activities and athletics. Some of these are intangibles such as public relations and screening and cannot be very easily explained unless you’ve ever experienced them. Other areas are student input to college

cepting positions for their own personal gain and good rather than

Athletics, Activities

its outward appearance of now and it would have its own specific area of concern for which I presume it was started—

my own

Some

councils have been good because its members were concerned for the opinions and well being of the students. Others have not been, due to its members ac-

be separate entities to themselves. Money for those would be channelled from C.O.R. as dictated by budget requirements.

ordination

remains is to express ourselves as to which of the two courses we wish to see pursued here at the Doon Campus. If I can put my hat in the ring, All that

Many criticisms levelled at C.O.R. and its effectiveness are perfectly true and I would be the last to deny them. Efficiency has never been its high point due to its unique system of volunteer help and is not helped by internal bickering and the inability of its

line for c.o.r. ?

certain C.O.R.

the

freeze, certain mt nbers of C.O.R. began working agai. st the council decision they had j.jst taken part in. Rob Mc-

pub

by rod wright

money?”.

Naugfn.tn, responsible for Athletics, decided to ignore the freeze entirely -and carry on with all programs John Schreiter, C.O.R.. Activityquickly changed his mind once Paul Sandford. his organizer of

the

felt that

The end of the

Also, following the vote to im-

some

guidance. Subsequently I have tound that the ways of effecting that guidance are not capatible to my conscience.” It appeared as though, in light of the activities of

The most common from the individual seemed to be, “What’s

plement

interest

visioned a vibrant council in which my function would be of some

reaction

been hoped that students would begin to realize what C.O.R. had been attempting to do for the student body and demonstrate

which affect them

rod wright, ex-c.o.r. president

president

c.o.r.

will

Mon. Dec.

be held on 1

SP0KE2

Nov. 29,1971

SPOKE Published weekly by the students of Conestoga College. Doon Centre, as a non-profit community college newspaper and a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP). The editors are not responsible for the opinions expressed in signed submissions to SPOKE. this issue: Paul Stacey (editor), Brenda Froelick (secretary). Andy Morris (graphics). Lowry Toombs )news). Danny Reiter! Doug Straus. Burns Proudfoot. Mike Stacey. Gunar Kravalis and John Sewell.

Changes by paul slacey

Well, quite a lot has happened in the past two weeks. It makes you wonder where it’s all going to end, C.O.R. Spoke and all that.I'mean. Just when you get accustomed to one set of circumstances, it all turns around on you. It must be confusing to anybody looking on from outside. First of all, C.O.R. voted two weeks ago to freeze all spending, except for Varsity Athletics, on Dec. 1st., in a move designed to test student interest in C.O.R.. and the activities it runs on student money. In other words, everything would fold up. Spoke, pubs, etc., until the student body became aroused enough to demand the return of those activities. It seemed like a good idea at the time, assuming that all of C.O.R. would go along with it! But. there's the rub, eh? No sooner did the meeting end but those connected with pubs and athletics decided to ignore a vote they had just participated in and go ahead, business as usual, with their own responsibilities. It seems there’s always a couple of people in any organization who are more interested in empire-building than in abiding by a democratic vote of the majority. It's too bad this kind of bullshit extends into student politics as well. Anyhow, a second vote taken last week reversed the decision by a 7-2 vote, scrapping the idea of a freeze altogether. So, I've had it with the petty politics of our mickeyall

mouse student government. Too

members and most

often,

may?

change is what

Revolution, like transcend, is a myth at Conestoga College. Several people speak of change, passive and violent, but very few care or intend to do anything about the apathy that has engulfed the student body of this college.

Why

should

be concerned about

brothers and sisters at this any college, be it Doon

college, at

campus

the

campus

streets in Montreal or Toronto.

WANT YOUR

We, me, and you hold the power shape and mold the future of our

those

junior-high

really all about, isn’t it?

YOUR

DON’T WANT YOUR LIFE!

your hands, yes, you motherfuckers, who sit on your asses stuffing your faces with the knowledge of prejudice and contempt for one another. life

WANT

DON’T FREEDOM! I

the

HELP!!!

existence. Criticism ranks as the

number one complaint with you. You chastize yourselves from one division to the next, yet,

of the decisions of C.O.R.,

from

it’s

yourself

the

are hardly school a student council should be doing a hell of a lot morel than providing athletics, pubs and a newspaper. C.O.R. should be getting involved in the thorny issues which affect all students, like evaluation, a student role in the decision making of the college, etc. This is why I have resigned as C.O.R. Publications Chairman, but am staying on as editor of this paper. That is why, I think, that Rod Wright resigned as C.O.R. President. As long as C.O.R. continues to bungle along as it has, I think that anyone who runs for President in the coming election either has rocks in his head or is the type of person who thrives on pettiness and frustration. If elected, he’ll find himself in compatible company. I think that Rod and I are in the position to comment on the ineffectiveness of C.O.R., now that we are free from the bullshit that disguises itself as student government. Spoke is changing constantly, at the same time. As this whole freeze business was coming to a head, those few of us who could be classed as “regulars” were trying to hack out a new policy for the paper. It was generally felt that Spoke, too, had gotten pretty bad. Too much space had been given to personal feuds, pseudo-literature, bad writing and that some kind of censorship or “selection” might be necessary. During the hassles that followed, the majority eventually rejected any kind of censorship, a view that is continuing to prevail. Therefore, we are back where we started from, except for minor alterations. From now on, poetry and fiction will be gathered and compiled in a creative arts magazine to be published in the spring. In addition, editing of all material will continue, but with a more discerning eye for “quality” of writing Unfortunately, in rejecting any censorship, Spoke has lost one of its most valuable members, a loss, for which the paper will suffer as a whole. But, I guess that’s water under the bridge isn’t it? We still struggle on as best we can, with or without student support. Yet we did manage to put out 16 pages this week, so we must be getting it together. I must confess though, to a little cheating on our part. Spoke has joined the Canadian University Press news service, so we are getting all these national news stories and features mailed to us every week. We’ve also joined their ad co-op so we’llbe getting a lot more national advertising than ever before. All this in mind, it looks like Spoke is getting up in the world. Maybe we can keep the paper operating, after all. Let's hope so! Just keep those cards and letters coming in, folks. Bigger and better changes are on the way And distinguishable

Compose by mike stacey

gives a good

The business student/

The Business Student-Faculty Relations Committee is in .operation and ready for your complaints. The committee is comprised of nine students and two faculty

expect to live, work, and create a world of harmony when you refuse to co-operate with one another. Where is your voice? When will you make a stand?

committee

faculty

members.

Any complaint with

faculty

member

should be discussed with that person. If you do not obtain satisfaction here, take your problem to the Business Division

Technology, holders and molders of the back-bone of our future, what are you doing? What are your plans for me, execution I :

think not. control,

committee is to facilitate communications between students, faculty and administration. Under

committee will report to the Division Chairman who will take whatever action he deems

better

this objective are the following areas, problems concerning curriculum or programs subject

tory to the parties involved then a request for a meeting with the

content,

student

and

the

individual

faculty

member relationships, and

other

matters

concern

students or faculty.

discuss

necessary.

If this is

not satisfac-

Administrator of the Doon Centre should be made. Whether this committee has merit or not is not

known

at this time.

what

Business,

Chairman or the parties involved. The committee will meet and the problem. Then the

The main objective

no one

GOD DAMN!

You scare me. How do you

will

you

do;

manipulate, exploit and the advance of technology or create and build a

devastate

life for

mankind?

Applied Arts are not the saviours nor are they the creative greats of the future. They pretend to care but are guilty of a common disease called “cop out”.

Communications Division is designed to mass produce creative people but no one knows if the program works. It appears that the work done

not good enough to

share with the rest of the com-

What

munity. Well communications, what are you doing?

the people of this college wish

go unchallenged, expect it. Although if by some mysterious reason you wish to let this article

internal relations?

3. 4.

date subjects. To get student involvement and participation 6. A weekly question to the students will be printed in the Spoke by Internal Relations. This will pertain to C.O.R. or any other campus activity. Come and be part ol the Internal Relations Committee this Monday, November 29, in Room B3 at 11:30. 5.

contribute to the students of

for its contents.

in the school.

To institute forums. To bring in more guest speakers concerning up

so. I

your college, the school paper is your paper and you’re responsible

On November 22, the Internal Relations Committee was formed. Our purpose? 1. To co-ordinate communications within the school. 2. Implement new nad better ways of improving communications

STUDENT

AWARDS Notice of your

loan/grant wiH be

posted opposite the student awards office

Nov 29,1971

SPOKE

To the editor I have heard a vague rumour from a representative of the

student’s council that there is a freeze coming. I am also quite sure that it has nothing to do with the cold weather. There are a few

choice things that should be sent to the asshole who thought of such a timely device to raise students from their .apparent apathetic state.

Firstly, a freeze is only uncomfortable for those who like the weather. So why go out of your way to bring winter to those who CAN and do attend these

warm

various functions?

Secondly,

worry about a person who can only come once in a while? Thirdly,

there

a noticeable lack of facilities right at Conestoga, no gymnasium, no theatre, and miles of “where the hell is it” while you’re looking for this week’s location. is

Fourthly, I personally, would love to get involved in a literary or dramatics society, but there doesn’t seem to be any ad-

vertisement for them. Fifthly, I am a late-comer, and

seem apathetic

students

you and

you want

to rectify their mindless state by force; IT. You

FORGET

might

(you

have

noticed the stressed can in the preceeding paragraph) there are a number of students who would like

go to pub nite etc., but there is a question about the lack of Mercury’s winged feet to get there, not to mention his marvelous knack of finding money. But why to

little

are only hurting those who like living and arousing resentment from the deadheads. Sixthly, about the uncertain merits of taking away the ping pong table and the juke box, I have never had the chance to play either, but if you think that students will attend more classes

Stand together The news

me as a

came to Why? Well,

of the freeze

bit of a

shock

the students in

class are so full of school

and

enthusiastic

and bright. Now that the freeze has thawed out, I would still like to

express

feelings.

Have you ever heard

this..?

they are always bubover with news and happenings of past events, leaving us

“Canada stand together, understand together?” Does it mean anything to you? If so, then how

with the feeling that this school

about

spirit that

bling

were it’s at. And it is!

I’ve

no doubt

this...

“Conestoga stand

Understand

together,

together!”

about that! But,

now we find that the

spirit in

this school leaves a great deal to

Are you willing school where

stand up for the

it’s

desired.

school?

C’mon

The main problem for the is lack of advertising. What the “blind

our

fannies

at.

..YOUR

then, let’s get off

and

SOMETHING!.

people” in this school need are great big, eye openers; like the carpet in the school— wall to wall,

b.f.

and

meetings out of sheer again. There’s card playing in the cafeteria, unless you are considering closing that down, too. Seventhly, baby, you have got the wrong idea of a student council.

boredom— think still

think the Hitler

image is just a overwhelming for the poor defenceless, brainwashed college student. Does university do all that much for you, Mr. President? Eighthly, (I would like to end on a cheerful note) SPOKE is a good newspaper, except for a few articles written by some kind of sexually frustrated person. There are a lot of students, myself inI

little

who count on

cluded,

few communications media Conestoga has. After all, it has given me the opportunity to write the

this letter.

(miss) marion dejean

Why

(Re. Dec. Get up

1st.

freeze)

your Asses! There is going to Conestoga, than off

realize,

school spirit!

Don’t walk through the halls with your eyes and ears shut—sure our advertisement are small—but you I don’t know what you expect can see anything you want to see! from C.O.R. and Conestoga; but' So fellow students—get off your you expect too much! asses, go to a game and give us I think C.O.R. has been doing a SCHOOL SPIRIT! great job, and now, they are even lori thodt working harder trying to make us in

just getting to classes.

we need

school spirit.

Quebec-71 Once when

was young and

took a trip to Quebec for the mere pittance of $32.50. We travelled in a constant smog. We arrived in a daze. Then we foolish

days of

to have happy times at the carnival. Till this day I am not sure whether it

proceeded

five

hallucination or not. We find the carnival. We spent five filled days looking for it and we never did find it. Who is the

was a failed

Quebec Winter Carnival? Does he john sewell

On behalf

Commerce

Business and

of the

Division,

the un-

dersigned would like a retraction or

correction

the comments the last issue

made by Pat Quinn in

the heading "Student Participation in Faculty Evaluation The Student Position.” His comment “However the of

Spoke

under

Division seems to question the need for Evaluation at all”, is unfounded. It is our opinion

Business

that the Business Division

doing

much more towards Faculty

Evaluation

than

any

other

division.

would be very happy

out to Mr. Quinn the steps

to spell

we have

taken towards Faculty Evaluation if he is interested in getting his facts clear.

joanne neath, division rep jim brown, business faculty bob green, class rep

For

your

backs on literature, music and Surely our beef

American art.

not with the

American people but with

government

that takes very little time to listen to the problems of her northern neighbour. If

Amchitka. Let’s just see how many Canadians show concern over this proposed blast. Will we see businessmen, students, housewives, hippies, workers and radicals filling the streets to protest in front of the

French Embassy.

hardly think

so.

the U.S. government decided take a keener interest in

paul robertson

Canadian affairs wouldn’t the American people do likewise?

have been detected at eight weeks but

unborn baby is sensitive lo Vouch and pain early in pregnancy. Therefore at any stage when an abortion is performed you are

their lives.

destroying a human being. It is not only a matter of conscience or religious belief but a proven

Of course the promoters of abortion won’t tell you this. The operators of the clinics never had it

medical

so good.

towards

tributions I

may

“Medicare”.

personally believe

and we as

can’t take the right to destroy this but aside from that it is a medically proven fact that life begins at conception. Medical Science is so far advanced these days that biologists

by means of molecular biology can recognize humanity imprinted in every cell right from the first day on. Even before the mother knows she’s pregnant the baby’s heart has started beating. This occurs after three weeks. At seven weeks it has a human face with eyes, ears, nose, lips and tongue. Its sex can be determined. It has its buds for the milk teeth and the hands have fingers and thumbs and there are legs with ankles, feet and toes.

The baby even has

Although just one inch long the

body functions already. As the

heart pumps, steadily the liver manufactures blood cells while the kidneys remove the wastes from

The stomach produces digestive juicees and soon the baby starts to swallow fluid from the surroudhas been noticed to if quickly more swallow sweetening is added and to pull a ing

face

amma.

if it’s

made

In the third fetus as

it is

sour.

month the baby or called at that stage

will practise breathing

the mouth and shortly after react to various stimuli by moving the various body parts. Brain waves

may well

How

begin earlier and the

fact.

can

dignities

and

justify

suffering

the

in-

the

aborted babies? In New York State there were at least 27 certified live births recently with one baby refusing to die and quietly being put up for adoption.

The others died

after a few of heard of a nurse who held one the palm of her hand and it cried before its life was ended. life. I

Some are smothered by the doctor when he throws the placenta on top of them as they lie in their buscket ready for the garbage. Have you heard of the English doctors who buy live fetus from abortion clinics and experiment with them. I can show you pictures of the results of the four methods of abortion and there is nothing in the

world that can justify

this ordeal.

distinctive

fingerprints.

the blood.

To the editor

hate our southern neighbours. many people the demonwere quite novel and exciting. But let’s get one thing straight! Are we anti-American or anti-American government? If you support the former, you’re turning to

strations

explosion? Were Canadians truly trying to show by force of numbers their dissatisfaction with the U.S. policy of nuclear detonations. In the spring of this coming new year, France is planning to set off a nuclear device somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps on another

At one time abortion was just another word to me but as I read and hear more and more about it I can only conclude that it is murder. And I can’t see how any of the reasons given for abortion can justify the taking of a human life. And if abortion on demand is passed as a law in the near future I will have to pay towards these operations through my con-

tiny

really exist?

main concern was

not for a stoppage of the detonation but to arouse the Canadian people

abortion?

humans

we need

feelings. Their

sincere were Canadians in

Demand”.

that life is God-given

How

their demonstrations against the Nov. 15 five megaton underground

radicals to air their anti-American

On November 20 Pro Abortionists held their largest demonstration ever to emphasize their demands for “Abortion on

Now

Students of conestoga!

as one of

Amchitka provided a perfect facade for intellectuals and

and

in less

than six weeks after conception he will turn his head when touched on

And it is an ordeal not for the unborn baby alone, but for the involved as well. She is spared from seeing her child if possible but has to live with her guilt the rest of her life. Not only is

woman

there psychological damage but show that physically it is

statistics

very dangerous to have an abortion. I know from experience that when you become pregnant your

body undergoes a tremendous change. This is normal but if there is an interruption in this progress of Mother Nature your body reacts violently.

In a study taken on 1400 women abortion 140 or 10 percent had serious complications.

One died and some had to have major surgery. Six women lost womb and one of them received brain damage from the their

saline injection given to the baby. If you talk to peoDi* who have hod an abortion you'll realize it's not just

an every day occurrence

There is the case of the doctor who was offered $250,000 per year by a syndicate to operate a clinic. I wonder what the syndicate’s yearly profit is? This is all in the legalized abortion racket. The sad fact is that there are just as many illegal abortions being performed. There are records to prove this. There are alternatives offered by society and I think doctors and nurses must hope people use these as much as possible as it must be an ordeal for some of them too if this is

against their conscience.

Last year 44 percent of unwed mothers kept their babies and

some married

the fathers later.

The stigma attached to an unwed mother is gradually disappearing as well and we can be grateful for that.

There is also a long list of adoptive homes available and in this community there has been a “Birthright” organization formed to help mothers keep their babies. Their motto is that every mother has a right to keep her baby and every baby has a right to be born. I think the best solution would be to be responsible in our way of life so that the children we have are wanted by their rightful parents and can be brought up in this relationship and environment. I hope this letter will stimulate to consider all the aspects involved with abortion. If you want more information and-or discussion feel free to

you

contact me.

who had an

jane rusticus

Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE 4

Who am

think.

student—

Conestoga

The words

brian Windsor?

is follow

hopefully explain the bullshit I’ve gone through, up to my present situation.

In August

was

A few weeks

$ 10.00 I put it toward the application fee, hoping to be ac-

college.

later the loan ap-

was sent back saying my parents had to fill out their section on the loan form. Therefore the loan was delayed. plication

save

this

the

house.

cut from the

welfare rolls because I was considered “employable because of my appearance." Managing to

cepted at

was borrowing money from

people I lived with to stay alive. I say lived with because the money situation got so bad after three months we had to split from our

will

fate

borrowed

$55.00

from the Day

would have it I managed to arrive here intact unaware of the bullshit to follow. Having no money I borrowed $50.00 from my parents for the Registration fee. Liz waived my tuition until my loan

fund over a period of several weeks

came

my loan had been rejected because my parents should be supporting

told

Then one day I walked Awards office and found

could attend school.

sellor

Liz wrote a letter for

live

explaining

ex-

the “Land of Golden Opportunity” and we are only as good as educational systems allow us to be. Trying to appeal my loan on Thursday, I was told to come back Friday. I went back Friday and was told to make an appointment for Tuesday. On Tuesday I was told the loan had been appealed and

I was Liz told trying for independant status, my parents didn't have to fill out their section on the loan form and if

considered independant from my parents I would be eligible for just a loan up to $1,000 with NO

GRANT. in.

to the

student have to quit because of lack of funds. As we all know this is

my situation. me that since

The loan was sent

office

situation. I was refused assistance, but am now appealing that decision. I started thinking that it is ridiculous that a

plaining

myself

year and

Welfare

Kitchener

last

freaked. ..the only thing I could was to quit school and get a

think of job.

at home again. 1 so left in March of this year. Filling out the loan form, tried to achieve independant 1 status. This entailed letters from my father, grandmother, coun-

into the out that

me.

couldn’t do

couldn’t get

out of the fund.

Since I am under 25 and not married I was considered dependant on my parents even though split from home last year for six months and unsuccessfully tried

I was anymore money

keep myself going. Then

Meanwhile

refused on the same grounds. I am in the process of appealing the appeal and will continue to appeal any further appeals if I don’t get the

“Who’s Brian Windsor and

why does he need money

truck around the city..

saved?”

now I’m thinking of ways make money and I’d like to send

Right to

money.

out special thanks to all the people

You may have been wondering

(you know who you are) who have helped me and are continuing to

about the "Save Brian Windsor Fund”. I felt that putting posters up around the school, would prod the Faculty and Aministrators of this college into asking questions

me stay alive. I’d also like to thank my dog Bijou for being so patient with me

help

Anyone

Bulletin:

been

that’s

screwed by the current student loan situation please leave your name, beef and where we can get in touch with you, in the Spoke mail slot in the

Thamks

C.O.R. office.

again,

Brian.

Morono-tha The jesus people :

by gunar kravalis

‘

is Hebrew for lnrfsi is coming* ~i tr^Hrr rrjfi new application. It is the name of l

an underground newspaper from Toronto put out by Jesus freaks or as they prefer to be known,

a coffee house near the University

— Gb fii Last 'Weekend 7 had a chance a Christian

commune

located on York St. in London, Ontario visit

called “The House of Saccheus”. The commune was associated with

Western Ontario.

The first words you hear spoken when you step in the door are “God Bless You” sjjoken with a genuine conviction and a sincere desire for your welfare. There is basically no difference between the “House of Zaccheus" and any other coffee house. The music is the same too, except for

ATTENTION

the occasional gospel

hymm.

Between performances

All

Tea Pots

with

some

Pederson,

come home

par-

named Hans

whom I knew for my hometown.

five years in

over Last

summer he had drifted into London

we miss you and

and, as he put

went Hans

need you.

Thanks

Cafeteria

it,

“I

met Jesus”.

London mainly

to talk to

because I was curious about these people and anxious to find out how sincere they were. Hans said that by the middle of summer he had become last steadily more addicted to heroin but

spells

of depression, with anxiety and a feeling that he wasn’t going in life. Then one day he off, came to London and became a Christian. It was as he said “the heaviest decision of my life”. Today he hasn’t touched dope in five months, has quit drinking and smoking, and is presently attending Fanshawe

anywhere

simply took

college.

talked

people,

fellow

ticularly

Please

the

and had greater and greater

also

In fact nearly all the Jesus people told the same story. Their had been a story of complete hopelessness interupted by constant escape into a world of drugs. Many other people had gone through various spiritual paths as Buddhism and witchcraft who finally ended up becoming lives

Christians.

Hans

stories

miracles he

also told

many

had ex-

when Christ had spoken him and of wonderful and

perienced to

mysterious things that happened when people had listened to the

of God. These are things I would like to believe but like most people I’m not a Christian and so I find it a little hard. But there is another side to these people, things that must be taken into account when discussing them. You can put down all the stories of the lost souls saved from drugs quite easily by simply laughing and sneering at them and saying "so what”! But they’ve got one thing that you and I do not: the answer! Let me qualify that. They sincerely believe they have the answer and you’d better believe

words that

One thing they do was come rushing up and fingers their pointing screaming “You’re going to go to

they’re sincere. didn’t

hell

you don’t believe

what we

they tried to teach me was how to play the guitar. I was at ease the whole time I was there and right up until the time I left I felt welcome. In fact I feel

say.” In fact,

all

welcome

perfectly

back

anytime.

several reasons Christianity and faiths philosophies. He felt that all other great prophets had found the truth and tried to teach people the way to salvation. Jesus, he said was the only one who said “I am the truth, I am the way!” Correspondingly, belief in him and his love will give the Christian, not only salvation, but a great sense of salvation and

Hans

told

why he had picked

Travelling in

Canada

Student council ri*

or europe

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$174.00 return External

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other

all

spiritual uplift.

22 seats open

Relations

GOING TO EUROPE? Get an ISID card. Student reduction at theatre, concert

above

office

and

him

culture. We can more easily than

far

to abstract eastern mystcism. Driving down the 401 the next night one thing that Hans said

Secretary C.O.R.

heritage relate to

C.O.R.

office.

stuck in for

mind. “Jesus

screwed up dopers".

AMEN!!!!!

isn’t just

Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE

Local sculptor to build condor for conestoga libray by lowry toombs

The

Armand Buzbuzian, a former student of Conestoga college would like to see the college order a metal sculpture for the library.

Many

students will

late

Gus Fantuz, who was work in sculp-

also noted for his

remember

“Buzz:” He graduated from the General Arts and Science program last year and is now enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph. Buzz has been sculpturing in metal for a little over two years and presently hopes to make it a profession. He started in his father’s foundry shop in Guelph, by welding pieces of scrap metal together without any

turing, provided support to

and was the

first faculty

of the college to see his

works.

Buzz

member

examples

When asked about

of his

and method of working, Buzz said, "If I were asked to build a bridge I would have someone lower me over and I’d just keep welding pieces on.” After travelling through Europe last summer, he style

feels

that of

all

the

sculptures,

Michelangelo has had the most influence on his work. Buzz was at the college last week to

utilize

“Spoke”;

hoping

that

specific design to

more students would become

projects since been creating large pieces

aware

work from. His were small, but has

first

symbolizing power and strength.

of his efforts regarding the sculpture in the library. Last year, Bill Goldfinch, of the Liberal

Studies division encouraged

him

pursue his wish to have the coliege purchase one of his sculptures. Buzz became more interested and Bill suggested several ideas. One idea was to create a two figure monument involving the legend of “Beowulf”, for the banks of the pond behind the college. This effort fell through due to the cost of the project and lack of funds at the administrative level. When Buzz spoke to Alex Brown this year an alternative was suggested. A smaller sculpture might be more

and

feasible

would be set up

within the college walls if the funds were available. Buzz would like this ‘work’ to be of the college

symbol, the “condor”. The bird would be made of metal plates and rods with a wing span of 10 to 12

feet.

possible location for

between the main desk and the entrance doors of the library. He does not feel the sculpture would infringe on the available space and estimates the cost of the project to be $500.00. The project does involve a layout of funds which must go through

channels

proper

the

ministration. Alex

seem

Brown does

adnot

have the authority to give the final “go ahead". Buzz would to have the opportunity to like to

make a formal

presentation to the persons responsible for the funding of the project with the support of

student and faculty. He does not feel he is in a position to "donate" the sculpture to the college due to the cost of the materials, the time involved and his own financial

DEAR

Gay

JOHN is

to hold a Gay Liberation demonstration, please make sure it is well thought out and organized and not (to quote Dr. Kameny) "half cocked". If

Dear John: I’m a God fearing virgin. Help Ice Berg.

me get in with the in crowd.

you are planning

Kameny, Dr. Franklin E. founder and president of the Mattachine Society of Washington D.C. was the featured guest

“Forum on speaker at a Homosexuality and Personal

Dear Iceberg: Every iceberg had wager your’s is 68.

a temperature

and

I’ll

Dear Pres,

alias

John Bolinski.

“Continuous cream

Life

long

whip cream” alias

“Morning Hard-on disease all day” as it is known as m Canada is the product of man’s associating with the ostrich ever since then in the early stages of his developing and has been looked for a hole to hide in, or get back in, depending on who your mother was.

Dear John: I love the buses and all the sardines in cost a quarter to get canned? King St Bus Rider

them but why does

John.

the op-

objectives

the

presentation

Kameny’s

appeared to be "geared” to the general public, informing them of the issues concerning homosexual behaviour. He emphasized that there are resources available covering most aspects of human behaviour but resources for the life-style

the

homosexual

almost nonexistent. Social functions are restricted to “Ghy Balls”, and dances which provide only a limited type of social life. stressed that here are few activities for the homosexual teenager, between the ages of 13 and 17. He knew of only one coffee

house which operates and is open to all ages ("compare the facilities available to the heterosexual youth at the teenage level"). One of the strongest factors working against homosexuality in the past was the church. Presently, the church’s attitude is changing. The ..Gay Movement is now forming its’ own Christian churches which do not treat the homosexual as a 'second In

reference

society's

at-

students to continue

the metal sculpturing not be appropriate

display

for

future

‘creative’

college experience.

the

portunity for students to discover

potential, in whatever might be. Buzz was envarious faculty

students,

the

results

dividual’s talents?; talents

couraged by

speaks out

as basically sick, inferior, and persons to be avoided: people such as psychologists and psychiatrists speak for and about them but yet they just “do not know what they are talking about”. Discussions

regarding homosexuals fail to allow them a voice, and put them in a position of being a victim. The United States Civil Service will not hire homosexuals as they are

considered undesirable and a

The Gay Lib Movement

also

called the Homophile Movement and has been in existence for about

One of the first 20 years. publications on the subject was

"fed up” with this idea. "Do heterosexuals continually ask why they like themselves that said He women?” homosexuals "don’t give a God damn how they got that way”. He also stated that homosexuals should be free from the pressures of society to “convert” them to heterosexuality.

When asked “Do you desire Kameny said, "I

children.”' Dr.

have no desire for children and would like to see them come into existence at the age of fifteen”. Lib Gay Dunbar, John representative for the Waterloo U. organization stated that he desired children and was in favor of

‘The Homosexual in America” by Webster Cory. Dr. Kameny announced the tenth anniversary of the Washington chapter of Gay Lib (Mattachine, which means “The truth, from behind the mask”.)

homosexual parents but admitted complications could arise from this type of arrangement. He also that heterosexuals do not felt

which he founded. To

was a reception in honor of Dr. Kameny. Coffee and were served to doughnuts

the

date,

estimated number of organizations across the U.S. stands at 200 to 300.

These organizations are rejecting the negative connotations and feel that homosexuals are equal to heterosexuals, deserve equal opportunities and are not inferior in any way. They are attempting to appeal their case in the United States, on the 1st, 4th, 5th and 9th

amendments

the constitution. Canada for

commended

changing its laws regarding acadults tivities between consenting and stated that Russia and the U.S. which left are the only countries

have to

titudes towards homosexuals, Dr. Kameny felt that they are treated

Would have on

area

provide

must be combated.

working

an inwhich were encouraged through the

November.

held

rate’ individual.

Dear Bus Rider. So see Charlie the Tuna.

threat to security. Dr. Kameny strongly feels that these attitudes

Dr.

Dear John alias Jellyroll: As a college graduate who has enjoyed balling and masterbating for many years, I wonder if you could explain what John Bolinski means by the “Continuous cream” or “Life long whip cream”. John G. Jongereus, Pres, of wondering why birds can fly and people sigh and college’s graduate.

One college

the U. of Waterloo on Monday, the 15th of

Liberation”

members and field.

lib

by lowry toombs and mike stacey

a pseudonym for an expert on human behaviour and sexual deviency. privilege of Spoke has the providing this column as a solution for your personal hangups).

(“John”

eminent

The project is presently on the drawing board.

position.

failed to act accordingly.

“What is the cause of homosexuality?” Dr. Kameny declared

that

homosexuals

are

always make the best parents. Following the adjournment

the forum there

everyone, “irrespective of their sexual preferences”. The Gay Liberation’s membership

open

anyone

in-

terested in and concerned about

and legal oppression experienced by the homosexual citizen. Its activities include the

social

counselling, social events, lecture

series, panel discussions and related activities. For information

on the movement, contact— Mr. John Dunbar, President Waterloo Universities' Gay Liberation Movement c-o Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. (Telephone— 1-519744-7553)

—a Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE 6

The economics of university underenrolment and youth unemployment by jan

wiseman (reprinted

from

part

Why are Canadian graduates unemployable? The answer to this is found in an overview of our national economics. Lack of research cuts down on the em-

ployment potential of industry. Most Canadian industries are no more than branch plants of American corporations, and most of the research done by these corporations is done in the U.S. Another reason for tl\e unemployability of Canadian grads is the surplus of teachers and

the Canadian university press service)

doctoral level, the job market looks pretty gloomy when there are no opportunities for teaching

and research. There are also reasons why young people without degrees do not get jobs. Other than the young workers themselves being choosy they usually don’t have families to support),

about jobs (after

all,

workers under 25 do not have any seniority rights in industry and

professors.

they are rarely unionized. So they tend to get hired for short term work, by construction firms

of the last

and secondary schools

ictable seasonal fluctuations;

The teacher shortage generation for primary is rapidly giving way to a surplus. In postsecondary institutions, the lack of research being done and the heavy influx of foreign professors keep research and teaching positions few and far between. And with a university degree, on

particularly

the

masters or

companies

with

unpred-

and

times of recession they are the be laid off. Manpower Centres, while providing a good service, are generally ignored by students who Manpower’s not realize do in

first to

Canada

potential in the labor market. Students have not yet identified

(LNS-CUPI)-

Five years ago nobody had ever

heard

feminine hygeine

deodorant. We all had our hands full keeping our underarms and The, sweet. smelling feet somebody decided that there was money in vaginas and so the feminine hygeine deodorant was born.

And

for five

vears major drug

“and TTOiriiSDh a7fa Alberto Culver have been raking it in. Projected sales for 1971 will run to $53 million according to the Wall Street

Journal. This represents a market of almost 24 million women.

However, the bubble may be about to burst. The deodorants are now under attack by some doctors. A recent issue of the Medical drug-evaluation a Letter, newsletter for doctors, stated; “It is

unlikely that

commercial deo-

dorant feminine hygeine sprays

are as effective as soap and water in promoting a hygenic and odorfree external genital surface.”

“Expensive perfumes”,

the

description used by gynecological expert Dr. Bernard Kaye of Highland Park, 111. Quoted in the

Wall Street Journal, the doctor continued, “There’s never been any proof that the sprays are effective to anything except make — -..rTpy tor the companies. There’s no reason for the damn things.” Dr. Kaye reports that he gets a “couple of calls a day” from women complaining of a rash or an itch, many of which can be traced directly to the sprays.

Today’s Health, a publication of American Medical Association warns women not to use the sprays intercourse before directly because such use had resulted in "a number of cases of genital irritation on both men and the

women.”

proposal,

few university dropouts can claim

programs.

experience. Apprenticeship programs offer an equally dismal outlook. Applicants for these programs are

carried out, would be welcomed by most unemployed youth. They hope to create local con-

selected and certified by provinin cial labor departments and order to qualify they must already

the now abandoned “water works projects”, and set up a loan fund to

Manpower as 10

a. social

percent of students receiving

summer employment jobs

through

the

their

find

Manpower

Centres.

Unless students have attended a polytechnical institute or a vocational school, they find it almost impossible to benefit from apprenticeship programs, training in

industry, or the government’s

Occupational Training for Adults

(OTA) program. Let’s consider the first.

The program,

OTA program set

in 1967,

combined educationala package, funded by industrial federal and provincial govern-

ments, that includes academic upgrading and technical training. for youth? To qualify for the training allowance, applicants must have been in the

The problem

labor force for three years.

Feminine hygiene deodorants of use doctors say WASHINGTON

This

service

agency and consequently less than

Very

little

this

be employed. Oh, come now, if a young worker already has a job in these times of unemployment, then retraining him is not going to offer employment to those who need it. Why not offer apprenticeship programs to unskilled and unemployed youth? The third scheme is training in industry. Under this program, the federal government contracts with private employers to hire trainees or retrain employees. The employer chooses the candidates and the federal government pays the

Unfortunately this scheme sees more old employees getting retrained than new workers getting hired and trained. So, all in all, there isn’t much hope for potential workers with a full or partial university education. cost.

And government employment

Further questions have been raised by the Federal Drug Ad-

ministration and the Federal Trade Commission. Both agencies have begun to investigate the deoderants. The FDA is concerned about the sprays’ side-effects. Most ot the sprays are made of an oily base containg a germkiller—-usually hexachlorophene perfume and a gas propellant. Since recent studies have revealed a possible connection between hexachlorophene and brain damage in laboratory animals, the FDA wants to see the ingredients listed on the spray containers. At present no ingredients are listed. The FTC is more concerned with the advertising campaign— massive one by any standard. Recently television has been inundated with those discreet, lowkey ads about feminity, the new

woman and

vaginal odour. Alberto Culver alone spent $3.5

million in 1970 to advertise

FDS,

its

product line of hygeine spray. In return, they took in $14 million in sales—quite a profit for a product which even the manufacturers say is at least as good as plain old soap and water.

schemes and economic policies are primarily to blame for this crisis; Can Trudeau’s new interdepart-

struction projects along the lines of

finance provincial construction schemes. Again, this would be an

solution— what happens to the non-unionized who have no workers young

impermanent

rights

seniority

boom

struction

after

con-

the

over?

They have given no indication that the utilitarian function of the university (versus the utilitarian function of the technical or vocational college) will be con-

sidered.

And they

youth isolated

insist that

still

unemployment

problem, not connected with the international national and

economic picture.

The study group’s federal

report,

due

adopted as only provide term assault on

late October, will,

legislation,

another

short

Next unemployment. youth summer, wait and see, will find even higher unemployment among people under 25 years of age.

The problem, Mr. Trudeau,

mental study group get to the roots of this problem? Let’s take a quick

only going to be solved when we lake a long, serious re-assessment

look at their initial proposals; They hope to offer incentives to

industry to provide on-the-job training and to make changes in the rules on manpower training to allow young people to enroll in the

Canadian

economics

and

education. But that solution will be a long time in coming, because it runs against the grain of the entire reformist type of government that Canada has today.

Abortion demonstration

Ottawa

Ontario women gathered in Ottawa Saturday (nov. 20) to demonstrate to the federal government their support for the

Criminal Code.

repeal of the repressive abortion laws. Their demonstration coincided with many other demonstrations around the world which marked international abortion day.

Alliance for Life who heckled proabortion speakers.

The women who gathered on Parliament Hill met with Liberal MP Ralph Steward who tried to persuade them that the govern-

broke up.

About

250

ment had

their best interests at

heart.

However, he was unable to set a for the promised abortion

date

debate

Commons and

the

showed no optimism removal

abortion

for

the

from

the

The pro-abortion demonstrators were also met by the 150 antiabortion demonstrators from the

There were a few speeches in support of the right of women to control their own bodies plus a few songs; then the demonstration .

As the women dispersed one demonstrator noted that although it is true that legislation alone can never bring about functional equality for women nor end male chauvinism, “we must at least push for reforms that will allow us to make decisions about our lives and bodies without being legally branded as criminals”.

CHRISTMAS PARTY Friday

December 3rd — buffet — cash bar — dancing 9 to

at Caesar's

Forum

Tickets

— $3.00 per person

— available from: Kerry Gennings — 280 John — 329 Joyce

— 209 Nancy Hamilton — 345 — 208 Gail Marshall —202 FACULTY AND STAFF WELCOME Don Douglas

St.

Lois Berrill

AIT.

SPOKE

Nov. 29, 1971

The herb gray report: a feeble blow against the american empire by ed reed (Canadian university press)

celestial choirs

hummed

0 Canada and the pulse of Canadian nationalists everywhere raced quicker the Herb Gray Report burst upon the country’s consciousness two weeks ago. strain of

What the report, or at least the pirate version of it that appeared

The problem scheme,

much

such

with

of course, that

is,

like shutting the

a very door

it is

bam

after the horse has escaped. The main value in the

Gray

extensive docof the scope and dimension of foreign ownership

Report is umentation

its

Canadian Forum Magazine told us that unless something is done in

that already exists in this country. The report shows, for example,

a big hurry,

Canada runs the risk becoming nothing more than an 'economic and cultural satellite of

that the assets of foreign-owned

firms in Canada amount to at least $50 billion and that at least 58.1 per cent of all manufacturing industries are foreign-owned—that is controlling concentration of equity in the firm resides in a nation other than Canada. As necessary as it is to prevent any further sellout of our industry or resources, the amount of

the United States.

was hardly news

This

many

Canadians who think that this has already happened, and have for many years recognized the omnipresence of the American corporate behemoth in every sphere of the

Canadian existence.

The Revenue’s Minister’s

report,,

uproar it has caused is really nothing more than the last gasping attempt of a national bourgoisie to reassert some measure of control over its own for all the

Gray

The

economy.

provides no answers,

much

far too little Still,

what

Report

it’s

a case of

too late.

significant about

economic and

political

power that

already rests in foreign hands— and those hands by a vast majority are American— will effectively prevent us from ever putting forth any kind of meaningful assertion of our own destiny.

The Trudeau government and the class interests it serves— that and

industrialists

the

finan-

American economic domination and reveals that the Trudeau government has been forced to develop at least a basic awareness that the problem exists and must

ciers— are not prepared to undertake the kind of drastic structural change in our economic system that would end American economic, cultural and social exploitation of Canada. From the government’s point of view its fortunes and those of the class it

somehow be The basic

represents are much too closely interwoven with the continued well

the report to the Cabinet on foreign investment is that it maps the of proportions frightening

dealt with.

which the

strategy

Gray Report recommends

to deal

with the threatened economic and cultural assimilation into the great imperialistic marshmallow to the

a Screening agency which review future foreign takeovers and direct investment in south,

would

Canada. opposed

investment as portfolio investment is

(Direct to

defined as actual, legal control of the assets of a corporation rather than merely possession of share equity.)

Such a body would have the power to block any new foreign economic move which did not conform to government’s goals regarding Canada’s development.

The report also deals with products

such as

the by-

foreign investment inhibiting effect on the

its

emergence of a distinctive Canadian cultural identity and the country’s forced dependence on a

technology

foreign-developed

unsuited to its own national needs. Another predictable facet of the report is its call for greater support of Canadian industry and the

recommendation to home-grown industrialists and investors to be industrial

expansion

support of than they

have been

in the past.

The report

less cautious in their

says that a major factor retarding the development of an

autonomous

economy has been the innate conservatism of Canadians in their own investing about :apitalist

country. It

now

mammoth

being of the

corporate

empire operating out

industrial

the United States.

Since the Trudeau government, and indeed the government of any country,

capitalist

receives

version of the report which Canadian Forum obtained by an as yet undisclosed means, is very close to the document, which Gray presented to the Cabinet some time ago— and which was to have

remained secret. It appears, too, that the document has been used as a base for formulating government policy on foreign ownership. the time acting prime minister, admitted in the House of Commons. Nov. 16 given apthat the Cabinet has proval in principle to the screening

Mitchell

Sharp,

agency concept.

its

from the would have no interest in making any kind of substantial change in these power

power

and

corporate

direction

elite

relationships.

ford

basic

status quo as existing American penetration of

element

the

words from an original 200,000. The research team which compiled the report was headed by a young Montreal economist, Joel Bell. The task force drew upon the knowledge of a large number of experts employed in various branches of the federal

the Canadian economy. Talk of buying back

the

civil ser-

vice.

The

two years in the compiling, has been called the most comprehensive study of foreign ownership and investment ever undertaken in this country. Some of the research and conclusions of the report can help us to better understand the nature of our

own

report,

exploitation.

significant

Among

the

the most

observations

made:

amount

large

money

Canadian

being used to finance the

sellout of the country’s identity

and

resources. There is a slower influx of American capital than there has been in the past but as the report points out, over 60 per cent of the

financing for the expansion of foreign control between 1961 and 1967 came from Canadian sources.

new

As the report says: direct investment were to be entirely excluded from Canada, foreign control would continue to grow in absolute terms, due to both “...If

the internal generation of finances by the firm and their ability to

external funds in the Canadian capital market.” As a direct consequence of foreign— again chiefly American— involvement in our economy, the growth of Canadian culture in nearly all respects has been stultified. There can be no real reconciliation between large-scale foreign ownership of our means of production and the development of an identifiable national culture. raise

just couldn’t af-

challenge such

report

the

"...the

says:

presence of large volumes of foreign investment concentrated in U.S. hands increases the difficulty of developing a distinctive national culture. This has potentially

Canadian economy under the existing system is ultimately

serious implications since the

unrealistic. Despite the token step

of attempting to retard the rate of

creation of a cultural, social and milieu which favours political indigenous initiative and in-

foreign takeover of our means of production, very little is going to change in terms of in whose hands the power to make decisions about

Canadians

the lives of Still,

the

Gray Report

in-

we are from controlling our own economic dicator of

how

far

destiny— even in a straight capitalistic sense—and how this is fast becoming a central reality to

members of the government. The man under whose name this report was presented is rather an anomalous figure to be involved in a study of the dangers of foreign

Herb Gray, the honourable West,

gained something of a reputation little in the spring of 1969 as being short of a front man for one the largest multinational corporations

Ford Motors. At that time he played a key role up the Liberal in covering questionable government’s decision to forgive the Ford Motor Company of Canada— whose main

them

all,

Canadian Branch plant is in Windsor— more than $75 million in duties it owed resulting from its up to the terms 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact.

failure to live

exactly

played

not

clear

what in the

country

of national

around the world

their activities

and treat all countries as their own.” Two-thirds of these multinational enterprise are American controlled.

Some sobering

statistics about monsters whose that of even the

these corporate

power

rivals

—Eighty per cent of American direct foreign is

in-

accounted for by 200

of U.S. operating

owned

cor-

in foreign porations countries amounts to about $200 billion a year. —Multinational corporations are responsible for 15 per cent of the Gross National Product— the value

of all goods

and services produce—

in the non-socialist world.

—This percentage will rise to 50 per cent by 1990 at which time sales of multinational enterprises operating throughout the world will

be valued at around $2,000

billion.

will

have

some kind of showdown, The extent of the control multinational

Canada

largely

way

corporations

further amplified

these figures:

—In

the

1968

assets

firms

which were 50 per cent or more non-resident-owned were $50.7 billion. (It should be remembered that

effective

control

can

poration

cor-

gained

—As measured by come— usually not the

taxable

role

this

point

Gray himself

the

foreign owned. Ontario tops this

parade with 70 cent foreign ownership of manufacturing firms followed by industrial sellout

per

Atlantic Provinces with 60 per cent and by B.C. with 44 per cent,

Foreign ownership in Quebec— considered by the government to

be non-Canadian as opposed to somewhat n.m-Quebecois— is below national levels in all sectors except services and utilities. —Over 8,500 Canadian firms are foreign controlled, at least 7,000 by Americans. This list has been growing in recent years by about 170 companies a year. There are some important

about the shaky Canadian survival for contained in the Gray Report. It

realizations

chances

would appear that the Trudeau government is prepared to make at

report, nor the

—The book value of American direct investment abroad has increased from about $7.5 billion in 1929 to $70.9 billion in 1969 still

and

that is

But the

marking our destruction,

neither

men who

corporate

the

authors

titans

writing of the report.

the

government, nor

hold real

power,— the

are

willing

make any fundamental changes

of leaving the

on an external technology has retarded the development of national autonomy. The report says: “Some 95 per cent of patents issued in Canada are registered to foreign owners, of which two-thirds are by

expanding.

—The conclusion of the report is that these multinational corporations through their size and

have to be It looks like we’ll content as colonials for some time to

come.

QUEBEC WINTER CARNIVAL Five days of happy times Feb. 6 to 10

Plan to attend

Only a few places

$50.00 for

and

“Another study shows that of 25 countries,

Canada

in a

is first

percentage of patents which are foreign-owned and last in the percentage of patents owned by

left

accomodation train fare

$25.00 down and the rest later

United States residents.

Contact:

that operates only for the rich.

cultural distinctiveness. The country’s reliance

an economic and social system

the

vacuum and a greater receptivity to foreign influence and investment. The ease of importing our culture from the U.K. or the U.S. reinforces this tendency by reducing the pressure on Canadians to develop their own

in-

best gauge numerous tax loopholes which corporations can per cent of the find— 64 manufacturing industry in Canada

because

ployees.

point out that a sort of vicious circle develops; the less national culture a country has, the greater the danger of foreign economic domination. “The lack of a strong identity and a distinctive culture

list

possession of as little as three per cent of its common stock,

least token steps to arrest the trend

and cultural concerns

own way. There

of the

of these

—In the near future it will not be unusual for these giant companies to have over one million em-

in our no such compartmentalization in the real world." The authors of the report also

social

all

firms.

—Sales

governments. There

the prairies with 61 per cent, the

largest nations:

vestment

economies, are gaining

more power than most national

political strength of

lies

novation.

"There

the consequent greater integration

This indicates that our technology has been moulded to meet the demands of nations other than our own and that if we are to achieve any form of sovereignty we must come to grips with a technology oriented to specific Canadian needs and problems. “If technology is in Canadian hands, the chances are greater that its use will be adapted to the need of the Canadian milieu" the report concludes. “The world’s economy is on the verge of being dominated by about 300 multinational enterprises— defined by the report as being “major corporations that spread

tend to create.. a

ownership.

economic and

nationals of the issuing country.”

‘economic’ area to others, so that we can get on with the political,

tests.

member from Windsor appears that the edited

in the Canadian Forum version has been edited to 75,000

which

C.O.R. secretary, Paul Sanf ord or

John

Schreiter

SPOKE 8

Just outside of Saint John,

New

Brunswick, is the gleamingly modern Irving Oil refinery plant.

Journal publisher Ralph Costello, was remarkable only in the

amount

venom that the Irving put at McElman. Other

Visitors to the site can listen to a

group spat

intercom strategically-placed replay a tape message extrolling the virtues of the refinery and K. C.

than that, the only newsworthy connection between the committee and the Irving group was the fact that the RCMP had to be used to collect some of the information relating to the ownership of the move unnewspapers— a

Irving.

The Saint John TelegraphEvening the and Journal Telegram, Moncton Times and Transcript, and the Fredericton Gleaner are all the daily Englishlanguage

Canadian history— "respectable business-men” were concerned. 10 and 11, March But then on 1971, in a speech to the Senate,

much deference pages as it is in the refinery’s taped messages. There’s a reason for all this. Both the refinery and all the nespapers are owned by the same person K.C. Irving.

indictment of Uie Irving press. the vast detailing After conglomerate structure of the Irving Empire, he urged that a Press Review Board be set up.

news papers in New Brunswick. Even a cursory perusal will show that the Irving Industry with as in

their

precedented

where

McElman

offered

many

New Brunswick

situations in

that cried out tor

they

coverage— but

media

far-ranging

ensure

that

the

news

business continues to be everyboby's business”.

referred to the Toronto Daily characterization of New Brunswick as "Irving’s private

received little or no attention from the Irving group because of

Star’s

the danger of involving an Irving

empire, complete with its official press print and electronic.’’ Again he reiterated the theme of New Brunswick as a “journalistic

mass

than

other

interest

media"

McEelman

Sen. Charles

—

time

long

McElman was sider— a swick, a

Liberal

Charier

political in

out

New Brun

province

that has Contraditionally elected servatives. Yet Charles McElman was also the man who brought the outsiders to power. As full lime Liberal Party

organizer from 1954 on, he was probably the man most resposible for the Party’s unexpected 1960 upset victory that brought Louis Kobichaud to power and turned the once-outsider Liberals into the very pillars of the establishment. After serving as Robichaud’s executive assistant for six years, McEJamn did the unthinkable for a New Brunswicker. He attacked K.C. Irving, and, more specifically, his interests

Perhaps

immunity

within the media. his senatorial

that

suddenly

em-

friction between the Liberals and Irving. But, no matter the reason, McElman revealed to the public

the flagrant abuses of the Irving press. first

specific abuses in

numbing

the

numbered and

detail.

inkling

the

skir-

of the Irving corporate structure and the provincial government. This was one of the biggest news stories to affect New Brunswick in

watchdog

a long time, yet the Irving press

Brunswick, for the

man

in is

New

virtually

which he has not left for an extended period of lime except for his days in the Royal Flying Corps, and a brief tied to the province,

trip

West

the

The story

early

Twenties. Yet Irving's success has also meant that there can be no other major capitalists in New Brunswick— his vast holding and capital resources have allowed him to squeeze out anyone in competition with him.

“Expansion

the thing”.

Irving was almost froced into his position as the mojor capitalist of a Maritimes. As a bright young man, In

reality,

home from

adventures in the West in 1921, he opened an agency to sell Ford cars and Imperial Oil in his native Buctouche. Later on, however, under pressure from his local rivals, Imperial (Esso) withdrew their franchise. Undeterred, his

he borrowed $2000 from a local bank and with an old storage tank and a few trucks went into the oil business himself, importing his

from Oklahoma, South America, and the Middle East. Today, with 2000 service stations, throughout the East, he owns what easily the largest retail gas is outlet in the Maritime^.

Irving purchased the first of his fleet of tankers a little later, when he had a falling out with the CNR.

held back so as to link it with attacks on McElman himself. The New Brunswick press will be analyzed in detail later on, but to

his

own

Irving's got a piece of every-

he hasn't got

down here and

it.

doesn't go",

local industr ialist-

K.C. Irving was born in Buctouche, New Brunswick in 1899 to a

moderately

well-off

family— his

was in the logging business. He opened his first bank account at the age of five with the money he

by the hostile press as a Liberal Party hack and a man out to get Irving. A December 1969 appearance by Irving, Fredericton Daily Gleaner editor Michael ~ Wardell and Saint John

Irving lives in a $250,000 home in Saint John and heads a giant con-

made

selling the

produce from his

mother’s vegetable garden. Today

glomerate empire whose worth is estimated at $400 million. His interests now include gas stations, oil refineries, pulp and paper mills,

of to

ships).

From

then

his

interests

His oil interests led him to the construction of a refinery; his tankers indiversified.

terested him in the acquisition of the Saint John dry docks and his newspaper interests led him to the

UTTLE OR NO FAITH CAPITALISM...

there, however,

1968,

was

he helped oust

when

Norman

Strax whose most revolutionary act seemed to be the organization of a “book out" to protest the library regulations. Although the captive Irving press was clearly on the administration’s side, the use of police to physicaly oust Strax earned the University censure from the Canadian Association of University Teachers. Irving’s proudest claim regarding labour is that he employs more New Brunswickers than anybody else. In fact, with 14,000 workers, he employs one tenth of the province’s work force, excluding the provincial government. The catch is that he also pays them what he feels like, which is usually far lower wages than in the rest of Canada. He's also not above strikebreaking. In 1948, he refused to professor

radical

accept the unanimous conciliation board for wage and hour adjust-

ments in his Saint John Oil yard and 50 men went on strike. Irving was so angered by their intractability in sticking to their

demands

wages, that he personally mounted the cab of one of his trucks and drove it through the

The strike collapsed soon afterwards when the workers accepted Irving’s terms. picket line.

Perhaps the most famous and frustrated anti-Irving strike

was

don't believe

government

subsidies except as a short term stop gap. or in very special cases.

Where

government can

believe

be most helpful

to create

politicies

adjusting

climate

which business can make

way." Irving

..K.C.

follow a certain formula. K.C. wants, K.C. gets.

Whatever

succeeded which began the New Brunswick tradition of lending to Irving to help finance his

schemes. The reasoning was that the business that he would bring to the province would offset the loss. Of course, by virtually bankrolling every scheme, they helped to build up his empire and left themselves wide open to any abuses his companies would perpetrate. The Irving Company is above the

When

a 1951 anti-pollution bill was passed by the legislature, it was understood that Irving corporations were not included. This was part of a longstanding realization

that

Irving’s

companies

could do just what they wanted to with the waterways. In fact, one

agreement that the company made with the government allowed it to:

entering upon or taking possession of any land, a Judge of the

making money, and he excels at it. As Ralph Allen pointed out in MacLeans in the only major article on the man, Irving doesn’t smoke,

banning secondary picketing of his gas stations, and then another banning mass picketing, success-

warrant to the sheriff-directing him to put down such resistance

drink, listen to music, read, look at

gates.

Irving’s only passion is

known

activity

church on Sunday. It might have been Irving that Max Weber was referring to when he wrote “The Protestant Ethic and to

the Spirit of Capitalism.”

"New Brunswick is proud, poor, and patriotic. Who keeps it that way ’Irving" worker at Irving's

refinery.

It’s obvious that with such far ranging businesses throughout the Maritimes, K.C. Irving would have interests in all matters that affect the area. In the fields of labour and education he’s in favor of any change provided it doesn’t rock the boat. His relationship with the government, however, is a little more complex. Irving and the University of New Brunswick have a rather straightforward arrnagement. Over the years he has given the campus $10

Saint John.

The

strike involved the

workers seeking wage parity with the rest of Canada and it culminated with the burning of Irving’s effigy at noon in the central square of Saint John.

Irving didn't take

fully limiting the strike to a

of symbolic pickets at

When

couple

the plant

workers still refused to give in, he went on CHSJ radio (an Irving operation) and told

the

the flow of any water-

coursel to such extent as it shall seem necessary or useful in

connection with any operation of the company., .If any resistance or opposition made by any person to the company, or any person acting lor

it.

Supreme Court

may

issue

and opposition and putting the company, or some person acting for

it.

strikers

his

rather half-hearted support to the strikers, K.C. attacked him for one of the most obvious of reasons. It seemed that Jodoin, no matter what other Stirling qualifications he might possess, lacked one important attribute. He was not a

Brunswicker.

C0J

A Jo th

sp vii

en ne

cc Wi

m dr 19

ce fo

m th

m tv\

m th bi th tv

O] ve le

M nr at

his Ir

th P' P< fo

possession thereof"

the

lerms for a graduated pay raise or else. Characteristically the two Saint John papers, The TimesGlobe and the Evening TelegraphJournal gave his pronouncements more space than any other strike news. With the press and most of the public "against them, the strikers capitulated, went back to work on his terms, and have remained docile ever since. The battle also gave rise to one of Irving's more famous pronouncements. When Claude Jodoin, then Canadian president of the Federation of Labour, offered his

New

"divert

—

was the Conservative government that Robichaud It

law.

^ ^

asl

While Irving’s relationships with provincial and various the municipal governments in New Brunswick are complex, they

money

own

its

the indignity lying down. First he went to the Supreme Court and received an injunction

going

WHO HAVE

October

of Governors. His last

the one carried on for six months by the workers at his oil refinery in

finance, his only

THOSE

Board apperance the

purchase of a pulp and paper mill. It would take too much space to list all the rest, suffice to say that they include a steel mill, the bus transit system for both Saint John and Moncton, a tanker therminal (Canaport) and the SMT provincial bus line. Incidentally, in his fifty years in business, there have never been any public stock offering from any of his companies.

paintings, or fish. Outside of high

STARVATION IS GODS WAY OF PUNISHING

ta>

million and in exchange has sat on

for fair

naturally

llung that goes

and ne

the guardian)

Irving

transport his rival’s products at a cheaper rate and force him out of "business, and so angered Irving that he vowed to use tankers to the exclusion of the railroad. (This explains his later interest in the Chignecto Canal— it would benefit

understand it and to understand New Brunswick, you have to understand K.C. Irving.

waxman (from

by ken

The Maritime representative the company had threatened

so docile and submissive to their master, and so used to sugar coating news that the story was cither run without comment or

latljer

was raised

only

have happened

was

come was the outcry that when Keith Davey jsked McElman to become a member of his commission on the Mass Media. He was characterized

mishes

Irving’s success story could also

supplies

Finally he called for a “free and independent press in New Brunswick”, a press that would be a

was

boldened McElman for the attack, or perhaps it was the late-sixties

The

and outline

area”

disaster

For

Medio m<

media.

literally

‘To

"There were

least

and the

transportation

shipping

—a power

fine

example

there ever

of bare-faced

was

one. Politicians have always feared that opposing Irving is opposing if

progress, for himself the

Irving

apostle

has of

made

New

Brunswick and progress. This brings up another point in regard to Irving's Maritime chauvinism. Never, in his speeches calling for more government grants to perpetuate New Brunswick ingenuity, and inference K.C. Irving, does he mention that Standard Oil of California owns 51 percent of his refinery and that Kimberly-Clark owns 35 percent of his pulp and paper mill.

The construction of this same pulp and paper mill shows Irving's control of the province in an even more bizarre way. In 1958, in order to help out the American giant, Irving constructed the mill in Lancaster, a suburb of Saint John. In

exchange

for building the mill,

he demanded a 30 year graduated

H fi

si ir

R T bi

B n

w fr

b< y< ir tt-

SPOKE 9

own news, and runs it is. A government source told Ken Bagnell of the Globe magazine to write its

lanipulator:

this

emphatically— “If we send out

100

press releases,

they'll

100 ".

lew brunswick

None

papers have a regular Ottawa correspondent, but instead rely on syndicated columnists and Canadian Press dispatches to report rather than analyse the Capitol’s news. No Irving paper carried the ,

the

entire

Sen. McElman’s March speech attacking Irving. A characteristic performance was of

text

Moncton Times, who in an editorial and ran excerpts from McElman’s speech on the news page. The Telegraph-Journal's treatment was even more insidious. They held on to the story for one day then ran it along with a column by Richard JaoWcon headlined “Venemous... Garbage. ..Scurthat of the

tax concession and 25 year water agreements with City Council. The only opposition came from

Lancaster Mitchell,

mayor

who went

Parker all

way

the

the Fredericton legislature complain.

"Who

could tell what Irving's would be worth in 19883ie

dollars

asked.

Irving’s press sprang into action. front page editorial in the Saint

you could not get lo them you held the story no matter how serious the incident. It was unbelievable the way the paper protected Irving." John Jones, former provincial provincial editor of the TelegraphIf

Jouranl.

As the few examples mentioned above have shown, news

management

not a rarity in the Irving media— it’s a fact of life. is

Government commissions are known for their radical points of view or for muckraking

John Telegraph-Journal attached the mayor’s protest as a “sorry

not usually

spectacle. .obstructionism Irving himself replied in the Saint

activities; but the Irving control is

John Times-Globe that every

so obvious that the report of the

encouragement should be given new industries.

against

’

Despite Mayor Mitchell, the bill did pass, but with a 15-year instead 30-year provision. Within a couple of years the city had to raise water rates for house-holders as most of the water supply was being drained by the new mill. When, in 1963, Louis Robichaud tried to of a

remove these industries concessions to finance his Program Equal Opportunity, the Irving media had a new villain to add to for

their lists.

first,

seemed

Robichaud's 1960 victory would no difference to Irving. The two were all smiles during the first two years of the Liberal administration. The Acadian even went hat in hand to Ottawa when the Irving drydocks needed business and personally persuaded the Pearson government to give two contracts to Irving. But once Robichaud’s Equal Opportunity Program was unveiled, the two became a good deal

make

wondered how Maritime industry could survive if not granted special concessions and said so in his newspapers. Robichaud stuck to the program. There are those who say that less friendly. Irving

Irving was so disenchanted with the Liberals after they unveiled the program, that it was he who persuaded Charles Van Horne, a

former Irving trouble-shooter, to challenge Robichaud. It’s said that Irving's money financed Van Horne’s whirlwind campaigns, first for the Conservative leadership, and then for the premiership in 1967.

Ulthough Robichaud was again victorious, and Van Horne faded from the scene, Irving must have been elated last year. Robichaud

and the Liberals finally went down to defeat, and the new premeir, Richard Hatfield, is an old line Tory and a firm supported of big business. It is

for these reasons that

New

Brunswickers need an honest and muckraking print and electronic press and why the Irving interests work so hard to “protect the public from this. "Let's say

was

half

an hour

before the paper's deadline and you got word...that an Irving Iruck hit a car. You could not print hat story unless you were able to get the managing editor (and)...I

the publisher.

defended Irving

rilous.. .MP’s

dressing a student gathering, speaking against capitalism, the press and K.C. Irving, and in-

coming out against unification of the Maritime provinces. The Commission then notes how the Maritime press covered the cidentally

story.

The Moncton Times headlined ,the story, “Maritime UnionWaste of Time and Resources.” Of the 20 inches the article took up,

be found in opposition to McElman and could be counted upon to repeat any old charges against him. r At the height of the 1963 strike against

the press, and the rest of the article dealt with the Maritime Union and

economic development. Nowhere did the word “socialism” appear. The Saint John TelegraphJournal. Moncton Transcript, Saint John Evening Time-Globe and Fredericton Gleaner carried essentially the same story. Not one was going to truthfully report any attack against business and K.C. Irving.

The Commission

also mentioned

how

the Mysterious East, a radical monthly, had scooped the dailies in

reporting that the head of the New Brunswick Water Authority, the body in charge of enforcing antipollution laws, was also general

manager

of the

New Brunswick

Forest Products Association— the lobbying organization for the pulp

and paper industry. The story was no doubt ignored because K.C. Irving owns both the five papers and one of the provinces’ largest pulp and paper mills.

Stories

news

mis-manage-

ment, ommissions and just plain hanky-panky abound. Amongst the

more obvious: The Saint John

Telegraph-

discharge.

John Jones, former provincial the Telegraph-Journal relates how the paper could not report the cause of fire where of

houses burnt down from oil furnace explosions because, after all. L.C. Irving sells fuel oil..

The

the

Saint

John

Evening-Telegram ran four The first pettioned the

CBC

revoke

decision

the

remove the Ed Sullivan Show. The second urged Canada to begin training its hockey team for the next winter Olympics; the third urged that a tunnel be built under the Elgin canal, and the fourth

came out in favor of spring. A good way

the flowers of to

avoid any

local controversial issues.

Telegraph - Journal

The

editorialized against the

lack of

lire boats in the Saint- John Harbour. Jan 7,1971, and implied that

was

caused the loss of five lives on the Irvingstream. Yet when the coroner’s inquest proved that

this that

was

the negligence of the

crew that led to the fire, the story went unreported because of who owns the Irvingstream. Charles McElman was flayed by the Irving press

March

when he revealed that the Feder-

11, 1969,

Telegraph-Journal

frequently allows the government

gave

the

was

magazine's with Lord

of the

panthenon

along Beaverbrook and Queen Elizabeth Irving either

magazine

portraits, or

appeared series

the heroic in

as a respected source

dealing with the region’s The desired impression

in articles

future.

was

that

the-

future

New

Brunswick and the future of K.C.

was intertwined. Whenever a new Irving industry made its appearance, the magazine saw this as an occasion for hosannas, and the event was covered extensively in text and photos with the solemnity and joy Irving

one would reserve for the second coming. The magazine has improved dightly under the editorship of John Braddock, but what can one expect from a concern whose pages are filled with ads from Irving gas, Irving pulp and paper, Irving equipment, Canaport and Irving dry dock. Obviously the magazine wants to be as prosperous as New Brunswick and Irving.

magazine was founded, they had trouble finding a printer. One told them that he would not print a magazine that might be

them to support a magazine allied against his newspaper empire.

Even

the

CBC isn’t immune from

Irving pressure. Any mention of the industrialist on the air by a

commentator immediately brings a request for the script from his lawyers. This, in turn, intimidates the produces, who fearful of lawsuits, avoid using that particular commentator on the air for the next few months. Thus the cautious freelancer who wants to

maintain his job security gives the subject of Irving and his interests a

wide berth.

Imake no apology

lor my attempts New Brunswick. make no apology for the owner-

lo build a better

ship of Ihe newspapers, and will not apologize to anyone as long as I

hose newspapers

are operated

moperly. K.C. Irving

What then can

This

critical of

K.C. Irving, while a major industrial firm informed them that Irving was loo good a customer for

New

Bruns-

“handle-with-kid-golves” reflected by almost all

wicker, anxious for the facts, do? Despite Irving’s sanctimonious

Maritime media. Even before Irving bought the Fredericton Gleaner, the editorial policy was

statements like the one above, it is obvious that the media in the province is designed for a specific interest group, and dedicated to the propagation of the benevolent K.C. Irving myth, no matter what the consequences.

ideal

and he was subject of a fawning applauding his ability to always get his way. The Halifax Chronicle-Herald took after Senator McElman following his senate disclosures, and can generally be counted upon to say a good word about Irving. Rumours abound, in fact, that actively pro-Irving,

once

the

editorial

Irving

interested in acquiring

The

concerned

until

Charles

that paper, as well as the Halifax

suggested

Mail Star. CHNS and the Cape Breton Post in Sydney. If this happened, Irving critics would have an even harder time broadcasting anything concerning the extent of his control and his congolmerate empire. Frank Withers, news-director of CFBC, Saint John, can testify to the pressure the Irving interests can bring against out-of-favour

comes seems

individuals.

September was

when

the Irving press

with

plaudits

about

-the

1962, filled

Irving-

New

Brun-

swicker can sometimes get accurate news from the occasional courageous freelancer or perhaps the Mysterious East, and hope that Ihe situation will change. At least

Press

into

McElman’s Review

existence,

Board day

that

far off.

Ihe future

the daily press

was

an interesting event happened last year. Irving has always maintained that he bought up the province's press to keep it from falling to the hands of “outsiders" (a term he reserves for non-New Brunswickers). Yet, at the that time, a group from Mysterious East rounded up the necessary money and offered to buy the Fredericton Gleaner from illustrated by

that

iclon Gleaner, the last independant

stream the company's new tanker,

him.

English langauage newspaper had been bought by the Irving group. In an interview in the Telegraph-

Withers revealed that the Irvingstream wasn’t a new tanker at all but a refit. The boss of the dry-

Journal. Irving himself said that there was nothing secret about the transaction, and that it had taken

docks phoned up

After a short discussion, he said he wasn’t interested in selling. Most of the prospective buyers had only been in the province an average of five years—as compared with his 71—so they didn’t qualify as "New Brunswickers.” And so. until some native provincials with money, social consciousness and know-how can free it,

place “some months” earlier. Actually the Gleaner had been purchased on May 5, 1968, but outside of the publisher, Bridadier

Michael Wardell, not one of the staff knew of the change until McElman revealed it. Most were

story

off

to try to get the

the air.

and discover

Wither’s source. Although Winters refused to give information or to

yank the story

out, the

company

tracked down the source, and fired him on the spot. Irving’s control works in other ways too. When the Mysterious

East,

the

young

muckraking

shocked. One of the writers left. These secret manipulations and omissions keep the Irving press in the sorry state that

is,

and also

help maintain his stranglehold on the province For if the public knew more of Irving's minications, the

"HANDOUTS WILL

resulting protests would no doubt

YOUR INCENTIVE TO WORK...”

shrink his profit margin.

You cannot

bribe, nor twist

he British journalist • Bui seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there is no reason to old newspaper credo I

Journal has run editorials condemning water pollution, but none have dealt with the spillage from Irving tankers or waste from the Irving pulp mills that have turned Saint John harbour and river into a mass

editor

Irving,

editorials.

one and a quarter were devoted to Jhe attack on Irving, two inches covered LaPierre's comments on

McElman

in which Jackson quoted anybody and everybody who could

it.

On p. 89 of Volume 1, it notes that the case of Laurier Lapierre ad-

react

charges”,

Davey Commission came out

Wardell

member

charter

II.

obituary must run in the paper, for obituaries are privileged paid-for items, not fillers like news.

y of k.c. irving

Michael

editorship last year, Irving

Although Irving only owns the New Brunswick newspapers,

five

and the CHSJ radio Saint John, CKCW radio Moncton and the television stations of those cities, it sometimes seem as if the entire

Maritime media ving's

Golden

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run from office

building

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Advocate, the Maritime region's glossy monthly magazine. Until

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Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE 10

Eat at joe's In

days of yore, people believed

College,

tales filled with

pleased.

in fairy stories;

heroes and heroin, gods and goddesses, gobs and goblins, unlike the cold reality of today. A price we pay for sophistication, no doubt. In

them there days they believed

in all that

by j"ohn sewell

there junk! But today being that of en-

interest

tertainment, a story that

would

like to relate

my grandmama

told

me, which in turn was related to her by her grandmother, which in turn was related to her by her grandma, also in the interest of preservation and living in the past. Anyway, I can’t afford to wait for my own grandchild. Besides 1 have a feeling that due to the order of things I might be a queer and never have one. The price of gather. Ah well! a land in those days

sophistication

There was

called Opportunity, as fair a land as Ever did see. If you don’t

me just ask Ever. Order and Valor were held high at a time when men were men and highschoolerswere high-schoolers and believe

public-schoolers were publicschoolers. Truly a society in which everyone knew his place and everyone had one. The God,

Now

looked

down and was

land of Opportunity

in this

there lived a man named Joseph the Rednecked, a handsome angel he was too, who knew his place. As soon as one looked at Joseph they

knew immediately

was a

that here

man of high-schooler blood with immense

his

stature, chisled features,

and

Truly in the mold of the gods themselves. team football As captain of the

football shoulders

all.

called the Hyme Virgins, it was said that he was always in the forefront of battle holding valor

high for

Now

all

themselves

iin

came

see and judge for their mind’s eye. to

pass in that land

Opportunity that a roving football team by the name of the of

Balling Pigs

came down

plague on the people of that good land, passing over the borders of reality into the land of Opportunity.

The inhuman form of their monstrous captain loomed at their heads, his name, Fred the Hemp Smoker. It was said that puss and slime came out of every hole of his body which was the size of two men and the strength of ten. Truly a servant of the devil himself.

Upon hearing of the evil deeds planned by this monster and his slimy cohorts, Joseph the Rednecked

was

into outraged he and his valiant

promising that men would make these balling Pigs feel the rath of the God College, by gar, as it was called in those days. The next day the headlines of the only daily paper which everyone read and believed because as I said before everyone knew his place; at it was written any rate,

‘BALLING PIGS TO BE DEFEATED BY HYME VIRGIN IN TOMORROW’S GAME.” It sure is lucky that Fred read because otherwise he would have never made it. We all know how it is to

be late at these affairs.

happened I’m sure that Joseph the Rednecked would have claimed a win by default. Always following the rules of order, If

this

that lad

knows

his place.

The game was

to start or

had

depending on what you consider the preliminaries. In light started,

of this we’ll

Standing

go on.

room

structures filled to family economy size,

the the super bulging with only;

humanity, mostly preoccupied with beer and peanuts. All cheered for the home team as they

came

not noticed. A1 well, back to the story.

“And

said let there be learning the though from the thought and it was so. Let all that

out onto the field with

Joseph the Rednecked at the reins. It had rained all thatmorning.the being nothing but muc, field, sharply contrasted by the “not white but bright” uniforms of the

Hyme

be called learning Conestoga and all that below learning be called the land of

above

Opportunity. :“And let all that is not included in this be called non-reality. It was the morning and the evening of the 2nd day.” Just then our hero was ’waving frantically with agony written all over his contorting body. God only knows what his trouble was. College went on again ignoring our hero. Then I said, (you guys will all like this one), let us make man in our image". At this point everyone got up and cheered, everyone that is except Josephy who seemed to be holding his thighs together. College went on after the ap-

Virgins.

All of a

sudden on the far side of

field there appeared the monstrous head of Fred, the hemp smoker that is, with slime and puss coming out of every hole. The whole crowd got up from their beer and peanuts, booing and hissing wildly, as the Balling Pigs

the

oinked onto the field, taking their place at the opposite end. The game ball was placed at the centre of the field. Joseph, the hero of our story, was to kick off, ball that is. What a man? Anyway, you can imagine; can’t you? Two undefeated teams facing each other playing for some

seem

least of all to

“And

made

for

The God College heightened

woman

out of the chemical thar

them and saying fruitful and multiply and grab at learning and subdue it and have dominion over it.” At this point, the whole room seemed totally inebriated by the

about. Blessing

onto

BALL

them be ;

inspiring oration right

a Mushroom. As the dust settled, you could see the Balling Pigs rolling around in the mud laughting their “Balls Off” with the blackened bodies of our heroes strewn all about. At this point you’re probably ready to cry. Because of your modern values you think the Hero's died and that's it. Well I got news for you or olds, ah well, I never was much good on direction. In those days of yore, they

Joseph).

“And then eastward put

as we’ll

him was in the middle of a campaign to promote dying, inside or out.

many if

campaign anyone; or

is, that died in battle could visit him right after and have dinner at his place.

high-schooler blood that

Back

to the story.

At the moment everything blew up all was sort of black for our boys and remained so for the next three

The only thing they saw at time of darkness was a vision man walking about with an unshaven face carrying a sign saying EAT AT JOE’S. At the end of these three days the ones that didn’t go to EAT AT JOE’S went over to the God Colleges’ place for a heavenly

days. this

of a

Near the end of what proved to be a super meal, College got up, tapping his glass for silence, his loud booming voice echoing through the hall.

“As customary on these occasions I’d like to say, as your host, a few words.” "In the beginning there was me and from me came everything.” Our hero at this time held up his hand and wpved it passively, at the God who dueto being so involved in

his oration, didn’t

seem

to notice.

“I said let there be thought and there was thought and I saw the thought, and saw that it was good.” Here College pauses slightly for

divided

planted a garden and there I

in University

man whom

had formed and made to grow

Good and Evil. And I put man at

the centre of all

as gardener and told him his wages would be room and board and the rest would be reinvested in the Company. And I commanded the man saying every tree of the garden thon-mayest freely eat. But the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it, for on the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely lose all semblance of reality and all thou had’st

dominion over shall be lost to you.” An odour had been creeping over the whole room that made almost everyone quick sick forcing them to rise and look for its origin; running around frantically till all converged on the corner that our hero Joseph Rednecked occupied, sitting there with a sour look upon his face trying desperately to hide

the puddle of pee all about him. And the God College called unto Joseph. "What has thou done?”

Joseph spake shakedly “I heard commotion and was afraid and from it.” “Who told thee to be afraid in my presence? Does’t thou have that much doubt in mine strenght to

the

tried to hide myself

dinner.

effect

poor

this

call

his

to the

every tree which is pleasant to the sight and good for food and the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of Knowledge

College lived.

for

out of the ground

believed in something called Conestoga which is where the God

One

down

(except

cockroaches

promises was that

his

voice as he unleashed his holocaust of words, “I created man and

everything blew up and was consumed by a cloud in the shpape

Now at this time College,

cheering.

him have dominion over real and can be grab-

bed.

make much sense, the home team.

contact with the

let

that ”

all

Then suddenly, with the sound of somebody’s pistol in his ear, Joseph and our valiant defenders of Justice rushed forward with the purpose of kicking that old pig skin. A grand sight it was. Just as they

interval

propriate

runover cup. It was obvious to some at least that the Pigs were much more home on this field of slime which didn’t

divide

and

continues,

“And

thought from the calling the thought

the

dumbness

and the dumbness public-school; and the evening and the morning were the first day”. High-school

Joseph, in the corner, now waving with a little more energy still was

protect

you?”

And Joseph said unto him unleashing his word horde. “It was not my fault Dear Lord; it was my penis who has shown the disrespect for thy strenght.” And the God College said unto the Penis, “Because thou has done this unclean thing, thou art cursed above all balls and above every part of the body and shall remain limp, never to stand erect nor hold thy head up, all the days of they life.”

And

unto

Joseph

said

“Because thou has harkened onto the voice of thy penis and hast caused a foul vapour to enter our halls, cursed is urination for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou pee all the days of thy ever, amen.

Now You Can

life,

forever and

Cry, folks!

Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE

Xmas myth

shattered at senate hearings Santa implicated in underworld/sex scandal

by paul stacey In a fiery series of Senate hearings last week probing into the real meaning of Christmas, it was revealed that Santa Ciaus, that famous polar patriarch and patron of children, may not be the generous philanthropist he pretends to be.

During testimony marked by continuous disruptions, witnesses testified that Santa Claus, alias St. Nicholas, alias Father Christmas, is the polar kingpin of a multi-

evidence reveals an alarming number of reindeer missing from Claus’ stables under mysterious circumstances and reports of screams and strange noises coming from the elves’ quarters in the dead of night. Also, police admitted that a blood-stained sleigh has been seized and is being thoroughly examined for signs of foul play.

underworld empire involving slavery, sex, income-tax

In testimony before the Senate sub-committee, Mrs. Claus, in her eighth month of pregnancy, announced that she has left her

evasion, bribery of government and business leaders, manipula-

husband and is filing for divorce. She charges that Santa has

news media and even murder. It was further charged that Santa’s empire had penetrated the most vital areas of the governments of the world in an

physically beaten her during the

billion dollar

tion of the

effort to perpetuate the values of in the hearts

greed and capitalism

and minds

of children, the

world

over.

This empire, according to media witnesses, involves even television

programs such as Sesame Street, the Electric Company and Captain Kangaroo, as well as every major toy manufacturer and children’s book

publisher

Government

the

deformed birth will result from the punishment she has endured. Replying to questioning she declared, “He’s a beast, an animal!” She announced to a shocked gallery that she had already filed suit in local courts, charging her spouse with extreme mental and physical cruelty, sexual deviency and neglect. The suit, it is reported, will exceed a billion dollars in

damages.

country.

and

business spokesmen have denied knowledge of any involvement with Mr. Claus and as yet the heads of TV and radio networks cannot be reached for comment on the claims. Further testimony characterizes Claus as a sexual degenerate involved in the most reprehensible acts of human degradation. Evidence from several witnesses, including an eminent psychytrist who interviewed the defendant, indicated that Santa may be a repressed child-molester who uses the excuse of visiting homes at Christmas as an opportunity to expose himself to little girls and boys. It also claimed that Santa

may

most critical period of the pregnancy a'nd she fears a

be a compulsive foot-fetishist who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas eve to smell the old socks that children have hung from the mantle (with care). Police spokesmen admit that no charges have been filed as yet, but

In sworn testimony before the

sub-committee, two of Santa’s elves described a scene of virtual slavery, hundreds of elves working day and night in filthy, unsanitary conditions, subject to mental

and

physical torture from Claus and vicious underlings. They went on to claim that dozens of elves who had refused to knuckle under to the

tyranny of Claus had been taken away and never seen again. One exhibited scars on his back and face allegedly inflicted by Santa in

one of his sadistic orgies and sexual brutality. In

surprise

move,

sodomy

Claus’

personal accountant took the stand and turned state’s evidence in return for guaranteed immunity. He gave proof of millions of dollars of graft every year from major toy companies in payment for the use of Santa’s name and image. He claims that millions are collected from government agencies such as

the Peace Corps, Care, etc., and from agencies such as the Vernon Foundation which channels funds from the CIA, National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Pen-

tagon. He claims combined enterprises that

Santa’s

gross

every year, of which only 30 percent goes out for toys for the production of Christmas and their distribution. billions of dollars

"The

rest”, he said, “is

off into private

skimmed

bank accounts

Switzerland.” At this point, Claus rose to angrily exclaim, “You dirty fink. I’ll get you!”, only to be restrained with some difficulty by security officers. The accountant closed with the claim that Santa’s (or the Big Boy, as he calls him) personal fortune is estimated to be several times greater than the

entire

After a

spokesmen

gold reserves.

short adjournment, for the

major media

networks took the stand and told the hushed committee that net-

work executives were required to change program content in order to conform to Santa’s instructions, especially in the area of children’s programs, where the audience was, as they said, “a virtually

one”. Photostats of payable to network “Polar from a executives Promotions Inc.” were introduced captive

cheques

as evidence of payoffs to the mass media from a front organization for Santa’s empire.

salesman

company then

for a major toy took the stand and

testified that all of his

company’s

toys are built exactly to Claus’ He said that all the major companies buy the rights to

specifications.

produce toys, games, Santa dolls, Santa suits and all the other Christmas. of trappings "Royalties to a front company called ‘North Pole Amusements Ltd.’,” he said, “amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly, for our company alone!”

the final day of hearings,

Mrs. Claus again took the stand to the breakdown of the relationship with Mr. Claus. To the

explain

obvious scorn of Santa,

leering

mockingly from the protection of a battery of

she

armed security

pointed

her

officers;

husband,

declaring, “That is the degenerate to live with for so I was forced many years. I never knew much about his business dealings, but I can tell you what kind of animal he is!" She went on to graphically describe the physical torture and

mental anguish she had endured with a man who would leave their bedside at night to practice buggery on the hapless elves in his employ. “He is worse than an animal,” “Not even the reindeer escaped his cruel debauchery!”

As the hearings concluded, the overwhelming feeling of shock and nausea was apparent in everyone. Santa Claus, the idol of children everywhere, had been revealed as little more than a sadistic, im-

moral gangster, whose evil empire pervaded every area of human decency. “Is nothing sacred?” I. heard someone say, as I left the room. “How can we face our children?”, another weeping

mother asked. I realized that the joy had gone out of the world now that Christmas had lost its meaning. There was just nothing left to

believe

in.

Later that day, I was informed by a reliable source close to the Justice Department that investigations proceeding against Claus had been dropped. Every major witness against him, including Mrs. Claus, had disappeared several hours after the close of the hearings and vital evidence had been stolen from police vaults sometime during the day. That evening, the papers were strangely silent as if nothing had happened. In a final interview with Claus he got into his private plane to leave the Capitol, he asked me to pass on this message to his millions of little fans, the world over:

those cards and letters

"Just keep

coming

in,

kiddies.”

And

heard him exclaim as he

flew out of sight,

“Merry Christmas all

a good night."

to all,

and

” SPOKE 12

Nov. 29, 1971

Billy kell, live at nic's by gunar kravaiis Billy Kell is a young man of twenty-one years, who has been playing for the past several weeks at Nicholson’s Tavern. At first glance he appears to be a talented musician, playing such instruments as guitar, banjo and violin. Actually the only thing he can really play with any competence is the guitar. As he freely admits, the violin number he does is the only one he can play. His banjo playing is rather loose and doesn't really show any great talent. This is not to say however, that he won’t be an excellent

musician someday, as he has been playing guitar for only two years and only just started on violin and banjo.

For Billy Kell and

primarily an

showman. His and uncomplicated compersonality effectively entertainer easy style

municate the feeling on stage.

projects

he few

of delight

After

songs most of the crowd rose to their feet, clapping and singing.

asked him about the audiences at Nick’s he answered in one word, “Great!”

When

MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT NIC’S

As to his own personal entertaining philosophy, he said, “I enjoy playing for people, and if I can get them to smile, then I think that’s just great!” Asking him about the group that he usually plays with, "The Good

Time Cream Cheese Band” from 1 learned that they had released an album called “Perth County Green”, the name

Stratford, just

referring to the local strain of marijuna. He said that a lot of the grass had been eaten by the deer this year. Some of it had also been confiscated by the RCMP.

Apparently his group had played Doug Kershaw who had been impressed with them,

with

very

especially the violin player. We both agreed that Perth County

appears to be one of the few places in Canada where a distinctive Canadian sound is beginning to develop.

the Fantuz

Room

“For the Good Times Entertainment

Weekends

Then

12 to 12 daily

SPECIAL FEATURE

was time for set. As he

play played I

Bill to

imagined Roger Miller singing the same songs, his rendition was so accurate. Most of his songs were country and western or rythm and

One song

blues.

mind

that sticks in

about a prostitute, and the feels for her though he knows it is wrong, a song he said he wrote while living in Toronto. In any case, go and see Billy when he returns to Nicholson’s Tavern in Blair. His heart alone is worth its' weight in gold. is

love a

Good Food

another

man

Folk and Blues Music

with Jonathan

Kramer

and Howard Brubacher and Janet MacDonald

EVERY WED. EVENING

NICHOLSONS TAVERN BLAIR,

ONT.

From a bike

a horse

by dianne pulver Skeptics

who complained

that

corrupt our youth in the open use of drugs and ‘free’ sex will be enlightened to learn that Peter Fonda’s new

“Easy Rider” helped

movie “Hired Hand”,

which he

not only starred but directed, is far

removed from the ideas presented in his earlier feature. The setting of this movie is a typical Western-type setting and as in Easy Rider, there are two main characters who, due to their restlessness and lack what they really want of

of finding life,

spend

a large part of their lives wandering abouth the countryside in search of a purpose. In the case of

“Hired

ivi-fcb

MARCELLO HASTKO'ANNI And CLAUDIA

8V2?

CARDINAL^

and

The film's photography, editing and inner rhythm are not just competent but first rate and the acting is well done too. This movie

definitely not just

average cowboy movie would recommend you see that reason at least. the

and it

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1) a fantasy?

of the

him

seven years, who have been through a lot together and who know each other better than anyone else could ever hope to know them. for

leave again.

3) a fellini? all

Fonda

Harry’s wife hired them on as hired hands as she had told her daughter that her father was dead and didn’t want to confuse her or build up her hopes that her father had returned in case he decided to

2) a confession

Peter

accompanied

Arch

What

Hand"

(Harry) was married at twenty to woman ten years his senior. They had a child and a year later, he left lo travel, and needless to say his wife became embittered. During his travel he joined company with Arch (Warren Oates) and they remained together for seven years, until the time when Harry decided to go back to his wife (Verna Bloom) and child. a

As in any western there’s the scene where one of the good guys (Arch in this case) is captured by the bad guys and held as hostage until the other shows up. In “Hired Hand” however, there is more to it than just a gun scene— these are two guys who have lived together

Nov. 29,1971

SPOKE 13

activities

calendar

December

Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE 14

B-ballers

wipe out

welland

from rumours maybe come.

On Saturday Nov. 20 Conestoga’s basketball condors sailed down the canal to the town of Welland where they met a road block called Niagara college. Much to our dismay, these boys from the falls swamped our land-lubbers. Conestoga started the game famously and held Niagara at bay

I’m sure the

soon

initial effort of

Condors had something

the

do with

the fan support we had and possibly a little more is all that’s

needed.

the first quarter. After this elating experience the Niagara team showed their time spent in for

and conditioning by coming back and going on to win the game. It’s too bad our boys haven’t the facilities and time available, but practising

The

was Niagara 89 High scoring for

final score

Conestoga Conestoga

40.

was Glen Tschirhart with 16 and Dave Sisk with 8. Missed greatly was our ace guard Chris Bowman. These boys are doing their damdest, why can’t some of us do a

little

to help.

explode drub lindsay for first win

Condor •

this will

“We finally

put

b-ballers

together” said

coach Dan Young after his team had earned its first victory of the

time. Doug picked up 27 points, as well as gathering in 20 rebounds and stealing the ball on 3 different

year.

The game started slowly with Lindsay grabbing an early lead of 4 to l. However, the Condors roared back with some fine defensive work and an awesome shooting

occasions. Chris Bowman who has limped around the school for a week with a ankle injury asked if he could play.

Coach Young dressed him

Bowman played his

display to lead 32-28 at half time. The second half belonged to the

control

Condors. They were masters under the boards, and their shooting was

his

deadly. They poured in 39 points to Lindsay’s 27 to earn the victory. Playing outstanding ball for the

Condors was Doug Loyst who was

moved

centre just before

game

finest

guard.

and

game

consistently

team with

dazzelled the Lindsay

dribbling and stymied them with his fine defensive work. The Condors played as a team for the first time this season and it showed on the score board. The final score

Lindsay

was

the

Condors

71-

55.

Hockey condors choke at niagara You might wonder condors

realize

that

the

Hockey

there

are

three periods in a hockey game instead of two. The Condors played

good hockey

Condors rally

in the first

and third

periods but they must have thought the second period was reserved for half-time entertainment. Dan Simon opened the scoring in the first period putting a Tom Marting pass into the top of the net

to net first victory

Condors ahead 1-0. In period, the Condors played good positional hockey and missed on several scoring opportunities. Nine seconds into the second period, Niagara tied up the game. At 1:39 of the second Niagara fired another shot past Glen Golbeck to take a 2-1 lead. At this point, Conestoga seemed to fall apart

to put the this

numerous offensive and

with

defensive mistakes. By the end of the period Niagara lead 5-1. In the third period Conestoga proved they could play hockey however a four goal deficit was

much to overcome. Brian Haig scored the final Condor goal and the game ended 5-2. Glen Golbeck again turned in his usual steady game as did Mike Kropf and Ken Smith. The next home start will be Dec. at Queensmount Arena when Lambton college will be there. Fan buses are being arranged by

just too

Athletics

and

Activities,

away games. Cost for

these

trips.

will

for

the

be 75 cents

Any people

in-

terested sign up in the Athletics

Activities Office.

Condors overwhelm Auks and

Pickett and Nark Simpson. The Auks replied with only a single marker to leave the score at 3-2.

defeated Sir Sanford Fleming Auks 5-3 on Wednesday night. The Auks opened the scoring after about two minutes of play

Once again the Condors dom mated the play and outshot Lindsay 18-8. The third period was almost identical to the second with

scoring while Ken Smith was sitting out a tripping penalty. This seemed to fire up the Condors as they pressed Lindsay for the rest of

Conestoga scoring twice while Lindsay beat Glen Golbeck once, In the final frame Conestoga again outshot the Auks 23-9, making the final count 53-24. The final score 5-3, was not indicative of the play at all. It appeared that the Condors were probably a little over anxious to score as they missed many perfect scoring

After

Saturdays loss to College, the hockey

last

Niagara Condors

bounced

back

the period. Near the end of the period, Coach Ashley’s strategy paid off as he sent out A1 Gray on a line

with

Dan Simon and Mark

Simpson. Simon got the draw at the

over to Gray who promptly fired the puck into the face-off,

hand corner of the net to tie game, just before the period

top left the

ended. Shots on goal in the first period were indicative of the Condors play-Conestoga 22 Lind-

hockey condors host sir sanford Fleming

Photos by Danny Reiter

say

The second period saw Conestoga put in two more goals by Don

opportunities,

The Condors defensive garoe was improved greatly with the return of Don Pickett who has missed the last three games with a knee injury.

the Condors can

continue playing they should have

problem knocking place Niagara College. little

ott

tirst

SPOKE 15

Nov. 29, 1971

Women

MA G

athletic report

The Women's Athletic Committee has several programmes in the offing. The women’s volleyball season reached its finale last Thursday as our team went into its last tournament of the year at Fanshawe college. Although the girls played and lost six games, they really had a good time. Thanks to all the girls who went out for the team, hope you all try again next year. Perhaps if the interest is as good or better we will be able to enter a team in the O.C.A.A. This will mean more games for the girls, and a chance to play the whole western division. Still along the lines of volleyball. Our first volleyball night went so well that we have decided to have a “Get Acquainted No. 2”. This will be held Tues. Dec. 14, at Laurel Collegiate. Anyone, male or female is invited, action starts at 8:00 p.m. We’ve decided to host this because of the requests we have had from those who were there last time. If we get as much response again the Women’s Committee would like to host this for you once a month. Our basketball team isn’t doing so hot, why? There were four girls out last night and we need at least five! As a result we had to default. Come on, help us out. Because of your poor participation we can’t enter our team in the O.C.A.A. either. This would be a big boost for women’s athletics if you would only co-operate. Please come out. Practices are Mondays at 8:00 p.m. at Laurel Collegiate.

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FOR STUDENT GROUPS OR BLOCKS OF TICKETS Contact GOKD FINN Ticket Monoger - M.L.G.

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Basketball Condors vs.

December

crosman

cal.

C02

pistol.

Y.itnaha

condition.

650 cc. excellent 579-0305 anytime.

Phone

Anyone interested

Lambton

lessons, contact

taking guitar

Jonathan Kramer,

742-0626

Notice

Contributions totalling approximately $550 have been collected to date for the Gus Fantuz Memorial Fund. This money which has been collected through

Mondays: -

belt

See You December 2 !

Intramural schedule Curling

ammo

powered 1971

Tor $140.00.

or 743-0368.

Mech Tech. TICKETS

Basketball Practice Mon. 8-10 Laurel Collegiate

Game: Hockey and

room house for Phone 743-

living: 5

Ayr

rent in -.714

Phone 632-7638 after 6: 00 or contact Jim Trethewey

Varsity schedule Hockey Practice Mon.

Grab

C IN TORONTO!

Galt Curling Club 4:30

Tuesday Keep fit 12:00 noon Portable 12 Judo 12:30 Portable 12 Badminton 8:00 p.m. Laurel Collegiate (racquets and birds supplied) Floor Hockey 8:00 p.m. Laurel Collegiate

private donations, a memorial dinner, a pub-nite, and a hockey game, will be handled by the Centre Committee. It will be their decision as to what sort of incmoriam will be set up with the money. Further donations are still being accepted, through the student

awards

officer.

Original songwriter wants inventive group to interpret his material under his direction. Taping five songs to promote both the material and the artists. Please call David 576-6056. Dave Robertson Film III.

—

Sport car accesories custom (no mirrors crank, racing mounting studs), S.V. chromed

comp, air filters, toggles, summer thermoslat (M.G.), wiper blades (M.G.), A. F. throttle cable (M.G.), snow tires-6.95 x 14. Selling at a great loss. Phone 742-6977 after six. 2

Wednesday: Keep fit 12:00 noon Portable 12 Judo 12:30 Portable 12 Intramural Hockey 10-12 p.m. Wilson Arena Bowling 4:30 Towne Bowl Horseback Riding

Shamrock Ranch

Free

until Dec. 15,

Informal

Human

Sexuality

Group

1971.

Women’s

Athletic

Portable

12.

Committee Meeting Monday

at 12:30 in

Would the following individuals and anyone else interested please contact Michael Hoare in the Liberal Arts faculty area so that a suitable meeting lime can be arranged.

Kilter a Class

Team NOW

Final deadline

Dec.

This

CO-ED LEAGUE.

Brian Mullen Swantze Mason

I-

Bus.-l in the rap room on Wednesday between 11:30 and 12:30 or leave massage.

Anyone driving Mon. thru Fri. from the College at5:30toasfaras

Hoffman Armstrong

lorence

Ellen

Brian Coady Bruce Lindsay

Have Boettger FJ ich F’ronlacher

INTRAMURAL HOCKEY

for Bill.

guitar player, 1 drummer, 1 tenor sax player, 1 bass guitar player or string bass player, to help start a band. Contact Reinhold Firtsch, 1

Fairview Shopping Plaza. Please call 745-2162. Ask for Dave.

for Broomball.

15, 1971.

Ask

Mohair and wool ponchos, handwoven belts, woven rag rugs, long and short scarves, fringes purses, shawls and stuffed toys. Contact Gordon Hardy, Conestoga College Library.

Notice:

isen ler.

Every WED. from 10 to 12pm. at Wilson

Arena An Accident. Health

Do you feel that the 1 1 30 to 1 30 time slot on Mondays its should be left open for the use of the student body for Internal various activities? Please submit reply to office. C.O.R. the Relations suggestion box in :

CALL: 364-4114 John Ingle 700 Bay Street, Tor., •

^'""’*742

The

Most

Compre-

f FAST

for Peter.

CITY CABS •

COURTEOUS

•

MALE ]

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24 Hour Service

• At The Lowest Possible Rate

256 King St

CHEERLEADERS Submit names to

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Here A re u. >w Cost P’aris -or Canadian. Arnei'can And Overseas Students

Underwritten by:

accurately. List price ranges for $65.00 ,und $80.00. Will sell -s.

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Plus

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Luna Six, (Ihreei lightBrand new, one of the

Will give •id's best lightmeters! 5000 sec. to .osure times from 1/

Athletics Office

Nov. 29, 1971

SPOKE 16

Do you know what this

man does ?

GERRY SMITH

Director of

The Director of Development of faculty

to investigate

Development

responsible, with the assistance

new and maintain

existing

of teaching in order that the best possible learning

methods

process

may

be developed.

Do you

care?