E V E Nj N G I L L A T T E N D E I’) : i .’ CAMPUS CENTRE\MODEL 3 NUTSTO “NO! TO William Straight Hall, Cornell What is a Campus Centre? What should we expect to find in a Campus Centre? This article is the first in a series to be presented--by the Campus Centre Committee on’the Unions or Centres at other universities. i This week we are going to take. a look at Willard Straight Hall, the Union Building at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The Straight, established in 1925, contains the Main lobby - the centre of activinformation and the ity, campus “lost and found”; the Browsing Library with over 25,000 volumes and more than 50 periodicals; the Memorial Room for banquets, balls, Saturday night dances, concerts ; the Music Room where regular recorded concerts are held; the Art Room where art displays include work done by Cornellians. The East Lounge and the Games Room are for “just relaxing” and the Barber shop is open 4% days a week. There are Guest Rooms to be reserved in advance for parents, friends, guests and alumni. In the dining department there is the Ivy Room with two cafeteria lines and a I soda fountain. The Cafeteria with two lines for regular meals, and the Main Dining Room with table service available at all times. For those “shutter-bugs” in the crowd there is a Dark Room available and fully equipped for the use of all students. Many of these functions mentioned above are looked after and planned by the 250 students who help in running the Straight, which has its own Director and a full-time staff. In the 1960-61 report of the director to the Board of Governors of Cornell, the following objectives were stated: “1. To maintain a dignified,’ and well-appointed gathering place for the University. 2. To contribute to the intellectual and social growth of each student through our programme activities. 3. To provide conveniences The Browsing Library
University for students - dining services, lounges, restrooms, main desk services, chec*king facilities, barber shop.’ 4. To create and maintain special interest facilities games room, dark room, craft shop, library, music room. 5. To maximize the education potential of extra-curricular activities by assisting student organizations through provision of adequate office facilities, equipment and meeting rooms; through offering guidance to these organizations when needed; and through stimulating co-operation between organizations for the best interests of the University.” In this report the director reports that the Craftshop and radio station WVBR were the two most crowded areas of the Straight. Also, he reports that 250 students who worked on operating and planning the functions of the Straight in ‘60-61 provided a well rounded program including assistance to some foreign national groups by sponsoring programs featuring these countries; sponsoring a series of Monday afternoon concerts in the Music Room; and sponsoring special interest programmes like the “Ski Bus Service, Bridge and Dance lessons, many lectures, discussions and gallery talks.” In connection with the 35th anniversary of the Straight, a grant of $25,000 was obtained towards the purchase of a permanent art collection for the Art Room. A new service added in 1961 was the Straight Secretarial Services - doing “all kinds of typing and mimeograph work” for the students and student organizations. Existing services used extensively i ‘60-61 included a Record E ending Library, the Browsing Library, and the Art Lending Library for students to “rent pictures for their rooms.” From -Willard Straight Hall of Cornell University we hope to help you see more of what to expect from a Campus Centre.
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Gerald S. Mueller In the February 22 issue of the Coryphaeus the associate editor, Ted Rushton, wrote a sensible and unbiased editorial, proposing that the issue of Nuclear Arms for Canada should cease to be kicked about and that the only logical step would be to acquire nuclear weapons for our Canadian Bomarc delivery system. In the following issue Paul Copeland had an article, biased, bigoted, and not based on fact, in which he personally insulted Mr. Rushton. I think it is time that Mr. Copeland examined the facts ab.out nuclear armament instead of crying “Ban the Bomb” every time he hears the word “atom”. Mr. Copeland writes, and I quote, “He (Mr. Rushton) does not understand that once atomic weapons are used in a local war, the side which is losing will launch greater nuclear attacks and the local war will mushroom into a world war.” I ask Mr. Copeland to examine the basic reason for war, the desire of a nation to gain more land, specifically living room and natural resources. It would be of no-use to a nation fighting a nuclear war to bomb their opponent into submission with large scale nuclear attacks for who can live on radioactive land and who can exploit the resources of a bombed out land. Therefore, in any local war, if nuclear weapons are used at all, they will be used on a very small scale. Mr. Copeland then goes on to state that Canada does not need nuclear warheads for their Bomarc missiles because they are not going to stop all the Russian bombers coming over the pole. That’s just like owning a rifle and not buying ammunition because occasionally you are going to miss a shot. True, rifles are occasionally used for ornamental purposes, but I think that the administration will have a tough time justifying $600 million ornaments. What does Mr. Copeland propose, since we’re only going to shoot down 59% of the Russian bombers, ‘let’s fold our hands and let the full 100% come through?’ As for the shot down bombers falling on Canadian soil, if Mr. Copeland would read up on Hydrogen and Atomic bomb construction he will find a rather strange fact. Nuclear bombs are bombs which will not explode on impact if they are not fused. In fact an unfused nuclear, pomb can be sliced in half and it still wouldn’t explode. And another strange thing. Most military experts will tell Mr. Copeland that Cont’d. on Page 3
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” Not All Who Grieve” cast from Zeftto right: Cynthia Chapple, Robert Schiedel, Margbeth Boon, Douglas Macintosh, Sally Bennett, Anne Brubacher. “Three for an Evening” these were lines learned by was, on the whole, a highly rote. Miss Sally Bennett, entertaining programme that “fine figure of a woman” too bad the majority of and Anne Brubacher, propeople on campus did not vided merciful comic touches. attend. Granted, you were In the final analysis, the under no compunction to players struggled admirably attend but the fact remains with a play which should that the support given this have been shelved long ago. venture was extremely poor. The musical interlude had To have prepared such a high points but they were programme demanded the its time and effort of many somewhat blunted at times. people and it was a blow to The Glee Club was vibrant them to see their hopes of a and stimulating, the Univerfinancial success thwarted by sity Chorus was restful, and the Barry Wills Trio should. a campus full of indifferent be making records; perhaps boors. in their case it was the comNow that the steam has plete change of pace and the been let ‘off, can we look at professional polish of this group which makes one feel the evening as an objective that they will go a long way. reviewer. ( ?) Despite a cold, Bruce Koe“Not All Who Grieve,” pke’s rendering of ‘Trade the first of the three pre- Winds’ was highly enjoyable. sentations is a Canadian Let it be said of the Underprize winning play and this grads that they perhaps overin itself may explain why the reached themselves in strivCanadian theatre is so far ing for authentic barbershop behind everyone else. The harmony . . . at‘least I hope choice of the play was p’oor, that’s what they were strivespecially for a stage pre- ing for. sentation, because with inTo round out the evening, experienced actors, heightencomedy, ed emotions could not be a prize-winning transmitted to the audience. “The Last Chapter” showed The casting seemed to be that there is still definite very well done but the only hope for Canadian plays, in person who was really con- fact it was a very funny vincing was Marybeth Boon. comedy and the cast did The other players were good justice to it. but there was that aura of All the players were huminexperience, the sometimes orous, the bombast of stilted and too precise speech Jones tofrom the naive, stupidity kept reminding one that of Hunt. Terry Boyle, as the extroverted oaf was extremely amusing and “Rabbiltl’ delivered all his lines with the aplomb of a veteran thespian. At the risk ‘of feeding.a monster ego, I must admit that Terry Jones was excellent as the frustrated writer who could never finish his book. Louise Maggio shone as his harried wife who was the mother of a pair of offstage twins,’ and, who pulled her husband’s chest- * nuts out of the fire. The material differed peatly from the original Revue of last year, and the :hange was for the better. 3ne year has improved the technique of the actors and Louise Maggio and Terry bhe skill of the Director. Tonesenjoy themselvesin “The Keep climbing, Alvin, you 5ast ,Chapter.” still might make it.
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Published by the undergraduate student body of the Sir: ’ of Waterloo, under the authorization of the Dear IL“:%c ‘University Two weeks ago there ap= acting Board of Publications. Publications Office, ‘Annex 2 ‘i c , I The-University of Waterloo, Phone SH 5-0571 and SH 3-2681 peared in this paper, an ;( / ; , . The opinions expressed herein represent the freedom oi article supporting the legal/ , ~ expression of a responsible, autonomous society. izing of abortion., The need for abortive methods in many / Editor-in-Chief: George Welsh cases, stems from non pre. iiI_ , , Associate Editor t -Ted Rushton vention of conception; in 1.: ‘married as well as single ‘P>oduction and C&ulation : Todd Sewell relationships. Birth ‘control , i News Editor: Sue Nichols ’ , ‘I methods have initiated furEngineeiing Editor i, Larry Barkley I ious and heated controver,. Arts Editor: Ron Hornby ’ I siesj but let us consider one Sports: ,Lewis Taylor !r-Y,/ ’ I of the reasons why these ,\ means have been ‘advocated. _ Wence Editor: Joe Mazur \ The need for a planned Photographers: Mike McBrine, ‘John Bishop 1 . : ; / VI marriage is evident. j The union of male and female, under certain religious vows, resulting in re$roduction; EDITORIAL . Ii ‘I should and will continue to ‘I :* . ‘constitute marriage. How, / * >)c * *’! ever, in many instances, this ‘i For Arts and Science Faculties the exams begin “in the reproductivity ‘I~ c exceeds preweek!after” April 13th. It was rumoured that the dead week determined bounds. Gener’ VC before exams has been dropped by the, Registrar. This dead ally a couple anticipating decide between ,! / I, ’ “week” is ,not, a week in the true sense of the word but it marriage r., ‘* ‘did work out to ‘four or ‘five days before the first exam. themseives, the number of T It is the Registrar’s contention that by spreading e&&s , children they hope to have. ‘, 1 j t over a three week period, ‘all students will have ample time Obviously too many trips to to;study between exams. We feel that to sacrifice five con- the maternity ward would \,‘/ \i’ ?:,secutive days .before exams, in favour of four or, five con- constitute a continua1 d&in ‘1 fi secutive free ‘days during .exams is highly undesirable on the household budget and j - because these free days during exams are extremely tentative eventually reduce the worker ‘and every student is left at the mercy of the Registrar’s * i, to a pauper. ’ scheduling. Is there any guarantee that any student will Everyone knows of at I’ t not have all his exams crammed’ into the first 6 or ,7 days? least one couple of moderate :’ The ,Registrar ,assures us that precautions will be taken means yearly succumbing to _* ,” such crowdings but I am sure he cannot and will the parental parade. Will ’ against not guarantee (1) fair scheduling of exams for everyone. they be able to adequately I ’ support this. faimiily when it We would rather have a definite dead week before reaches I 8/ I : exams, ‘figures? even if it meant running them to the 7th or 8th of When willtheit double -.8 end? After the I May. ’ ; change of life? . Actually man is an animal, The Calendar makes no mention of such a rescheduling i and we”fee1 somewhat naked in light of this drastic change. given sexual desire and satisfaction, with child as the b% + . ’ We know of no other, concern which enters into a contract, and then changes that contract without notifying the parties attached string. However, II ’ ~ /.’; t concerned, We have been notified now - with just over abstention breeds frustration 30 days left. Thank you very much, A. P. Gordoh, and, with which in turn could lead to $t.’ , 5 all sarcasm aside, please do your best to give everyone a marital disaster. Would it .I,/ \ I, fair shake. ’ :, not be better for man and / ! wife to live in complete 5L harmony adequately caring and providing for the childthey wish to have? FRYED. - JL renCertain .: *. ’i :idR. NORTHROP religious denomi1 TORONTO (CUP)-The c Quoting Irish playwright, nations abhor the use of Principal of the University Brendan Behan, Layton con- birth control methods. When *3 . of Toronto’s ,Victoria College tinued with “Frve is like a confronted’ with the consewas severely criticized by eunuch in a harem - he sees quences of a population ex‘: ),L one of the participants in the the trick done every night, plosion, they lapse into raStudent Conference on Cre? but can’t do it himself.” tionalization and precedent ative Writing in ‘Canada Lavton lashed out vitriolias their justification. Refer.:> . held here this weekend. ’ ’ cally”at other academic critence, of ‘-course, is made to , *’ ,Irving Layton, “Canada’s ics in general for teaching the Bible,’ but the Bible is D. H: Lawrence,” laced ,Dr. without creating. i 1. many centuries old and cirI.,1 Northop Frye in a panel on In his opening address to cumstances today are in,r> ’ the, Young Writer and the the conference, Dr. Frye said evitably in the process .of i Canadian Cultural Milieu. I ‘“The ‘writer who writes for change. Layton charged that Frye,’ himself is an honest man; 1 Fay be it from me to :. ,i< I I co-director the conference, the writer who writes for the represent myself as an au?’ , “could ‘not of write a single line public is a professional man; thority on theology, physi- , of poetry or a short story if the man who writes for the ology or moral ethics, but it i” ( his life ’ depended upon it.” critic is a’ damn fool.“’ \ is my firm conviction that birth control should, be thought of, in the light of br ~i~~~m~i~rmairmiiiimiiiimiiiimiiiimii~imiiiimiiiim~ . I= zzzz today. P. A. Delaney, 5A Chemical
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Dear Sir: . ’ May I solicit space in your to complain about Dr. Richard H. Walters, columns overcrowding in this one of Canada’s foremost the Uni?versity? What with one psychologists,. will speak on brand-new- building “Aggressive Models ‘in 1Ag- not very old ones,andit’stwoa gressive Behaviour” on Monthe basements should day, March 12 at 7.30 in C5. shame be overcrowded already. The Dr. Walters, who is currently lies, if anywhere, with a member of the faculty at fault the architect who neglected the University of Toronto, to provide for a lundryroom has written a book entitled where all that dirty linen Ado&cent Aggression. He is could have been washed unreputed to be a most enter- seen. As it is, we have to do taining speaker. our laundry out of doors. 1 A discussion period will As spokesman for the,small follow Dr. Walter’s lecture. but I hope growing’ Hot All interested ’ faculty and- Stove League here, I want students are urged to attend. to enlist the support of your / paper for a ‘&ore adequate Arts Library - I mean, ,for more books in the one ‘iwe M & H Mes Service have. We know it takes time King & Dearborn Sts. to build up a. library, but Complete . does it have to take as long Mechanical Repairs as it’s going to take at the B. F. $‘gojlr%& Tires present pace? Three profesI I sors in the past *week, have
which I grew up. No thinking Canadian does. I Expansion, immigration, progress, these all bring a succession of new Canadas. This is an everevolving land, the Canadian journey has not yet ended. Canada :is never accomplished, Canada is always still to build. Most of us can understand this. L . Nevertheless, many Canadians today are looking at their country in puzzlement. They expected change, but not the kind of change they see. They feel like dwellers. in a foreign land, with an anxious sense of loss, with an awareness. that the once bright future has come to futility. These are the Canadians who knew the dream of the Twentieth Century belonging to Canadar Canadians used to be confident, energetic, aspiring. Public business was their business, they had the- spirit of vigour that gave a constant impetus’to action. They were impatient, they worked eagerly for a better tomorrow, - This was their land and. their world, they were beaming with -optimism. Their literature‘ was filled with such phrases as “our rising power”, “our upward road’: and ‘four splendid destiny”. Now many seem overcome with’ mental inertia, a ,sense of futility of everything. Our literature is full of nihilism and frustration. Canadian authors %do not want to be published in Canada. Everywhere there is a flight from Canada;and Canadian problems. There is a disinclination to do anything bonstruetive in the face of rising crime rates, rampant vandalism, and a steady surge of challen l ng problems. The genera $ attitude repeated so monotonously and tediously is “What can you do about such things”; and so they plead “Leave us alone” like the Lotus Eaters *iof mytholWYCanadians used to be dreamers of great dreams. This was to be Canada’s century. <Have ‘we lost faith , in ourselves, and in our future? Unconcern follows doubt. Indifference. Despair. There are grumblers,. but : they only complain and do not act. Most of us have forgotten the dreams that once were to be our nation’s future. They complain and eriticize the government, they mutter and grumble a chorus of discontent. The radicals even talk of voting against the government “next time” in way of protest. I But if something more
important comes up, a party or a picnic, then these grumblers are too busy to vote, even if thev do realize that it is election day. Once ‘Canadians ‘used to take a fierce and ardent interest in our government, for only through good government is a nation brought to greatness. * Have )the majority of us now settled for second best? ” Just yesterday we had a goal for Canada. We safiv a bilingual nation populated with people from the world over, whose united effort ’ would make this a land great in strength and influence. Now we talk of Separatism, and union with the United States. We refer to Canada as a mosaic of peoples, a, symphony of nations, and other such -pleasing but hazy and vague titles. Does everyone now expect that vigorous new Canada to come with no exertion on (anybody’s part? Canadians used to be patriotic. Now we’ve substituted a vigorous active patriotism for a raucous and annoying anti-Americanism. Is this to compensate for a secret conviction that we will never reach the heights for which we once aspired? Canadians used to be confident, sure of themselves. They were eager to’ prove their worth. Now some peo- f ple want, others to assume. the responsibilities of, _our defence. For four centufies Canadians have struggled to build this land from a colony> into a natioti;% now we would sell out all their sacrifices and all our heritage. This acceptance of a neo-colonialist status for Canada would mystify and shock ‘the men . who built this country with fire, zeal and independence. Have Canadians. not / yet learned that those who would sell their freedom for a scrap of security really deserve neither, and more often than not get neither security nor freedom? Why are we now so full of doubt? Have the changes in the modern world been too swift for us? Do we feel so dwarfed by the superrpowers that we.have lost our courage? Has ,our’ material abundance made us fat and&lazy? One could suggest a dozen excuses for this spreading . stagnation. But what of the most important qtiestion, “Is it going to stop?” Will there someday be a return ‘of the old belief, an‘ upsurge of the old surety? Canadians must work for this. We have once “attempted ‘greatness.” It would be tragic if we did not “‘go on.” Theodore A. Rushton
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A wise man once told me that a happy marriage is based on male dominance. Have at least a 60-40 relationship all the way down the line. These 50-50 partnerships will never survive. Get the upper hand and maintain the upper hand or life can become very, very miserable. Lose that battle of percentages and the whole war is lost - so says the wise man. * * * * I’m looking forward to the fight between Patterson and Liston - if they can ever come to terms regarding location and purses, etc. From the story in Life, Liston is a tough 1“killer”, a brute of 30 some years, an ex-convict who has just risen from the ranks of the illiterate, a vicious fighter as ,well as an accomplished boxer. Floyd Patterson’s days as champion are definitely numbered. I \ * * * * Ever see a car stopped at the side of the highway during the winter and wonder what the story is? %Ithink it is most inconsiderate of the drivers of such vehicles not to put up signs - “Gone Hunting”, “No Gas”, “Mechanical Trouble”, “Making Out” or something - otherwise I am inclined to ’ worry. Where are the drivers now? How did they finally arrive at their destination? * * * * I was pondering that recent plane crash in New York which took the lives of 95 people. Such occurrences shake one’s faith - is it part of the Divine plan to snuff out 95 - lives in as many seconds? Is it part of the Divine plan that we should face each other with atomic weapons? Personally, I would like to be clued in on the aim of such a plan because as it’ stands we are using “Divine plan” to rationalize chronic chaos in every field of man’s endeavour, and we have been doing it for a very long time. *
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NUCLEAR ARMS” ’ Cont’d;nuclear bombs are carried unfused until just before the drop. This is to prevent> a bomb from being accidently triggered and wiping out the rest of the bomber stream - Hence any 1bombs falling on Canada will most likely not explode. After this Mr. Copeland makes a rather strange statement. “The Bomarc, with or without a nuclear warheads, as well as all the other active air defence paraphenalia of the North American Air Defenbe Command is useless and that for the simple and sufficient reason that there is no air defence against the H-bomb.” Why? All people crying ‘Ban the Bomb’ make one mistake common to all idealists. They have a goal, but no idea on how to reach their goal. If instead of crying ‘Ban the Bomb’ they put forth some practical methods of arms control, they might be listened to. Complete disarmament’ however nice a thought is simply not practical because there are no adequate control techniques to insure that a country sta’ys disarmed. Freezing armament at the present level will not work because both the East and West have enough weapons stock-piled to fight a war to annihilation. Another idea often proposed by the idealists’ giving up weapons one for one fails because whoever has the larger stockpile eventually dominates the world. No, I am afraid Mr. Copeland ‘Banning the Bomb’ is out. The only way to keep the peace is for each country to have sufficient nuclear arms to defend itself. This way a country will have to think twice about attacking for it will know that the other country can retaliate. I refer to the article by Oscar Morgenstern in the July, 1960, Fortune. In this article Mr. Morgenstern outlines a practical method of arms control. I highly suggest that Mr. Copeland read this article’ and if possible think about it. This may stop him from shouting ‘Ban the Bomb’ quite so loudly and insultingly next time. P.S.: Incidentally, I do read and am able to think. Also when persuaded by superior logic I am able to change my viewpoint. How about it, Mr. Copeland?
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At the beginning of the academic year, .there was a certain amount of indignation among the students in Arts concerning a rather cruel rumour which, unfortunately’ turned out to be true. Doctor Thomas, head of the English Department and former acting Dean of Arts, the touchstone of every English major, had been shunted from his comfortable office in the administration wing, to a barren room, not unlike a bowling alley, on the third floor of the Engineering building - at the extreme far end - right in the very heart of the Philistine camp. Arts students were placated somewhat when they reasoned that an Arts professor, particularly this Arts professor, will remain a gentleman and a scholar no matter how unfavourable his office location. Doctor Thomas received his education in Toronto. He graduated from Humberside Collegiate in 1946 then attended University College at the U. of T. where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D - all in English. In 1956 he became a member of the Department of English at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia but left during 1the summer of 1960 to become head of the Department of English at Waterloo. During the summer of 1957, he went to Britain for eight weeks in order that he might do some reading in the Library of the ‘British Museum. One should not say he journeyed in Suffolk and Worcestershire; rather, he made a pilgrimage through the countryside of George Crabbe, an English poet, physician and clergyman on whom Dr. Thomas wrote his Ph.D. thesis. George Crabbe has become somewhat of a private joke among the Arts students on campus. “How much can we rattle the bones of George Crabbe before the good Doctor becomes indignant and springs to old G.’ C.‘s defence?” Doctor Thomas takes all the jibes with aplomb and then we realize what he has known all along, we are far below him on that big ladder and still have to make the climb. Drl Thomas is the type of man whom you would not like to disappoint. You feel that he has confidence in your ability to succeed, and to justify that _confidence, you are prepared to make that extra effort for him. He is the type of man you will remember for a long time with respect and with gratitude. There are only two professors on this campus who wear gowns. to lectures. On the subject of wearing his gown Doctor Thomas has this toI say, “It serves as a visible reminder that we are all members of a larger universityi the universal body academic. The modern buildings of this campus fit the motif -of the twentieth century and in these modern surroundings, the gown/ reminds us that today’s universities are based on hundreds I of years of scholarship and tradition which should not be cast aside lightly.” When asked what he felt was the purpose of a university education he replied, “One should carry with him from
university, the ability to think critically, to analyse, evaluate and synthesize. It is a matter of examining any situation, breaking it down into small parts in order to see the good and the bad, then the bad should be left out and the good put back. This is education, it can be gained in any subject and applied to any field of study. Job training takes place on the job.” The Dr. Thomas of the classroom is an amiable and very competent person. There are very few pertinent questions to which h,e cannot give a correct and satisfying answer. In every class there are always a few .students who, in order to inform everyone that they are present’ ask this type of questi;;n “Sir, do you not think - etc.? Obviously such pedantic bores must be stopped, so after such a question, Doctor Thomas is inclined to say one of two things, “Quite” or “In large part” - nothing more. Diplomacy must be the keystone of his being because he possesses the happy faculty of being able to show some signs of amusement even at the poorest attempts at humour, to which he is constantly being subjected. There are very few things which annoy him, but he does suggest that everyone at university should be able to speed write and that “you could easily pick up the technique in two or three weeks during the summer.” Besides majoring in English’ Dr. Thomas is married and has majored in boys because he has three, aged seven, five and “alm,ost a year.” We wouldn’t be at all surprised if the youngest is proficient at speed writing already, and the oldest is a regular contributor to P.M.L.A.
STUDERTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS! The ofices of President and Vice-President of the Students Council for the 1962-63 academic year are to be filled by means of a General Election of the undergraduate student body. Nominations will be received between March 2 and March 9. Voting by those students now on campus will take place on March 16. The fall-spring engineering students will vote at the,end of their first week back on campus - April 6. An outline of the nominating system and an explanation of election procedure will be posted shortly on the bulletin boards.
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has learned that at approximately 15 universities, admission standards are about to be, or already have been raised. Some universities say that their standards are not being raised primarily to cut down on numbers, but to improve the calibre of students attending. The effect is still the same, despite the reason. Few institutes of higher learning have reached the stage where they will have to rent space away from the campus in order to accommodate the new loads of students, but there is still the possibility this will occur. Wherever possible, the universities and colleges are mixing mortar and bricks and throwing up new buildings on their own land. As well, changes in the curricula and timetables are being made. These, as well as dissuading some students from attending the institutions, will offset the large lecture classes now encountered on many campuses at the first year level. What the new .academic year will bring in actual changes is being kept under wraps by most administrations for the time being, but many admit that changes will be made in present organizational set-ups. Construction on the campus is proceeding apace. At universities, the builds some .mgs now going up are expected to handle the increased enrolments of the sixties, but at others, plans for more and larger buildings are now being made. At the 21 institutions surveyed, there are now 43 buildings under construction.
These include student residences as well as academic halls. Projected construction due to start within the next two years at any of the universities, sees 67 new structures rising on various Canadian campuses. McGill university reports it has plans for 10 new buildings in the next decade. At the University of Alberta (both Edmonton and Calgary campuses) another 10 structures will rise from the prairie lands in the near future. Almost all Canadian universities expect to have an increased freshman enrolment this year, although some frankly admit that their present and projected space won’t be able to accommodate all needs of the increased enrolment. Three universities, University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University, and Waterloo Lutheran College, indicate that they will not have as many freshmen for 1962-63 as they did this year. McGill, which last fall announced it was going to stand firm at its present enrolment level this year, says it will have the same number of freshmen next year as it did this year: 1850. McGill expects to have a total enrolment of 10,400 for the coming year. This year (1961-62) there were 9,532 student.s at the Montreal university. Carleton University in Ottawa is expecting a jump of approximately 500 students for the coming year to bring its enrolment to the 2,OOOstudent level. Of that number 900 are expected to be in their first year. At the Calgary campus of the University of Alberta, another large increase in enrolment is expected. This year there were about 1,500 students registered; next year it will be close to 1,900.
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BATON ROUGE, LA. (CUP/UPS) - The field secretary for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) was arrested early last month just ‘before he was to address students at the nation’s largest all-Negro University. Dion Diamond, invited to speak by student body president Murphy Jackson at Southern University here, was charged with trespassing, vagrancy, and disorderly conduct. He has remained in jail under $4,000 bond since his arrest February 1. Jackson had refused to let Diamond speak at a campus rally, but when 1,800 stu-
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dents left the meeting in protest, Diamond was reinvited to speak to the students. When Diamond returned the next morning, he was arrested. Reporting from the city jail to the Atlanta SNCC office, Diamond asserted that Southern University officials were “working hand in hand with local segregationists.”
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OTTAWA (CUP) - The t Jniversity of Waterloo Judo Club National Federation of CanExamination in judo proficiency was recently held at idian University Students he University judo club, by the Chief Instructor, Mr. las declared March 8 to be ohn Hatashita (3rd degree Black Belt). Judo players are gational Student Day. raded in proficiency by a system of coloured belts, running The decision was made *om white (novices), through yellow, orange, green, blue, tartly on the grounds that rown, and black. The following players, or judokas, were ;his day falls during the warded the Yellow Belt: Canadian Conference on EdIcation dates, and more pubGary Nigh, Art Harris, Eric Manning, Arthur Dawson, ic attention will be focussed J uri Silmberg, Bob Currie, and Frank Ricciuto. In the educational communBill van Loon recently won the Orange Belt by defeating tY. wo consecutive opponents, at the monthly tournament in In making the statement ‘oronto. ‘or student day, the federaion has also issued a DeClub activities are now suspended for Engineering tlaration of beliefs for the EExams, but will resume early in the Spring Quarter. lay. “We, the students of Can* * * * Ida, heirs to the tradition of ;he university in Western ,thletic Banquet to be Highlight of Year’s ivilization, conscious of our porting Events on Campus: besponsibilities to scholarship The athletic banquet this year will be held next Tuesday, knd the freedom of the larch 13, at the Breslau Hotel, at 6.30 p.m. This promises academic community . . .” 1 be the biggest event of the sporting year, and it’s open )egins the document, as it 3 everyone - male,’ female, athlete, non-athlete, friends or s addressed to the Canadain therwise. Tickets are only $1.00 and they are availalbe jeople. mornBob Pando, Don Demko or at the athletic department It resolves that “Canadian fice. There will be presentations galore . . . the Fryer unity is and must be based .ward for the team with the highest number of points in lpon the existence of two le Intramural standings, the Hagey-Seigfried Trophy to :ultures and two languages, le most valuable Basketball player, school letters for the ve call on the people of v -arsity players plus many more exciting features. So, Canada to accept in full this h.urry, hurry, hurry and get your ticket before it’s too late. jrinciple and its implicaClimbing down from the soap box now we’ll take a look ions.” alt the sports events around recently. In an invitation we maintain that it Ti‘olleyball tournament, Saturday, March 3, at Seagram s the responsibility of society c kym, the U of W team triumphed over four others who :o guarantee access to higher Sltood (in order) Hamilton Teacher’s College, St. Jerome’s education for all its mem- C:ollege, and Waterloo Lutheran University. lers . . . ” forms another In the OTCC basketball tournament held the previous )art of the resolution. reekend, the St. Jerome’s team beat the U of W Pioneers The t.hird major resolution 3 win the championship. In the first round, W L U beat xrges the federal and proVaterloo Staffers, the Pioneers beat Royal Military College, rincial governments to ret. Jerome’s beat London Teacher’s College and NFCUS nove the constitutional diJationals beat Laurentian University. In the semi-final emma which “has prevented Dund, St. Jerome’s downed NFCUS Nationals and the ligher education from being ‘ioneers won over the Hawks. The Most Valuable Player Ilaced within the reach of ward was won by Brian McCormick of St. Jerome’s. The 111who are qualified . . . ” llstar team was composed of Frank Cornelius (L.T.C.), lerv Boulton (W.L.U.), Lloyd Niziol (NFCUS), Don bon Demko (U of W) and Dean Given (U of W). Ottawa (CUP)The qational Federation of Canldian University Students discussion during the World HALIFAX - (CUP) m.. . - The. ias taken part in a joint !ement of arbitrariness in University Service of Canappeal to Iranian authorities, lanada’s Immigration regu- ada - International Student jrotesting the recent arrest Itions, and the lack of Association (WUSC - ISA) If hundreds of students and ublic discussion over . the regional seminar at Daluppression of student descent changes in the Act housie University, said that nonstrations in Teheran by ?cently came under fire in the modern state there Iranian police. “has to be a good deal of ere. Joining NFCUS in this but Professor D. J. Heasman, delegated authority,” betion were these other natadded that this was full of lmmenting on the Immional unions of students: ration Act in the course of dangers. JGEMA, Algerie; UNEF, Speaking of the new ImFrance; NUSAS, South Afmigration regulations, Proliea; USNSA, United States. fessor Heasman said: “These The joint message, to other new regulations do not conLational unions, calls for stitute a new Act, but a )rotests against these incichange in the regulations. ERCHANTS lents to be sent to Iranian One danger is that there is ‘rime Minister Ali Amini, likely to be rather less disRINTING nd U.N. Secretary General cussion than if a new Act J Thant, and messages to be were to be passed.” ent to the Confederation of 6 OMPANY He added that Canada ranian Students. LIMITED “suffers a. great deal in not The joint appeal sates that 47 Ontario St. S. having sufficient public dishe signatories “strongly prosention.” Phone SH 5-8433 est Iranian Government’s The Dalhousie professor bloody suppression demonPRINTERS AND of political science said that LITHOGRAPHERS tration . government the delegation of authority 3rces invaded university was usually justified by the rounds, breaking agreement explanation that only experts letween university and govunderstood such intricate 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ rnment that police not vioHowever, he suggestite traditional sanctity uniBELMONT VARIETY !! topics. ed that there might be anrersity . . .’ we urge all 714 Belmont Ave. W. 1 other reason - the avoidLational unions protest . . . ” Kitchener ance by the government of Pocket Books i public discussion. 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