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U.S. student EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN (Correspondent)-Delegates to this week’s national conference of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) believe their meeting will make or break the immediate future of student radicalism in the U.S. They are attempting to tailor their organization to meet the anticipated growing challenge to radicalism.

They also feel they must learn from and use the experience of the recent Columbia University revolution.

radicals If a nationwide movement is to succeed, it needs more than a hard-core national structure-it needs strong, committed bodies on This was a genthe campuses. eral feeling.

By Wednesday, the conference was bogging down over the lack of solutions to their commonlyrecognized problems.

One faction argued for clarification of the political principles of SDS. But, the general trend is away from electoral politics and consequently there’s a swing to

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grassroots restructuring of the movement by placing the total emphasis on a permanent, radica, independent third party of membership-controlled local organizations.

A prominent pamphlet being considered focuses on the destructuring of the SDS national and regional organizations.

Delegates were also concerned with their relationship to other radical groups like the Progressive Labor Party, the Peace and Freedom Party and ,*

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the Black Panther Movement, as well as the role of non-students in SDS. While in mid-week delegates were getting hung-up over petty issues, it seemed they realized it and were resolved to beat the impasse.

The conference ends tomorrow so there is time for a significant happening.

With people present like Mark Rudd, one of the most vocal leaders of the Columbia revolution, there seems to be an indi-

cation that something big will happen.

The outcome of the conference will affect radical action on American campuses in this next important year.

The Canadian Union of Students is being represented

by CUS associate secretary Bob Baldwin, an observer at the conference.

An interesting sideline-the New York Times, attacked for its unfair coverage of the Columbia police bust, was barred from all meetings and workshops.

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tudents culf BURNABY, B.C. (CUPand Staff )-Student and faculty action at Simon Fraser University continued to brew over the weekend.

Early Friday morning, a group of students seized the university’s administrative offices and vowed to stay until the board of governors resigned.

The action followed temporary acting president Archie MacPherson’s refusal to accept the student demands for restructuring of the board.

Another factor behind the sitin was a decision by the joint faculty not to include students on the committee that negotiated Ma’cPherson‘s appointment as SFU’s third president within a week. Students were concerned that they might also be omitted from the committee which will soon be struck to nominate a president. permanent acting BULLETIN Just at press time, an anonymous phone call- was received saying Thursday’s secret meeting of the committee of presidents of universities of Ontario in the board and senate room had been huggedandrecorded.

The

caller gave no clue to his or of any group affiliation.

He also refused to say when and if a transcript of the proceedings would be available.

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The call reinforces an earlier rumor that a bugging might occur.

The presidents were expected to discuss the recent student rioting in F:urope and the revolutions at Columbia and Simon Fra ser Ciniversities.

Claude His sell of University 0t 'I'(Jr(JnhJ Was expected t0 lead discussions on how lo prevent unrest in Ontario in the fall.

as quick action if we have to live A critical report of the university’s community relations has through a period of unhappinraised’a controversy in the adess,” Adlington said. ministration since president GerDavid son also approached ry Hagey released it. the Chevron to find out how the Murray Davidson an adminreport was being handled. When istration employee, and Federahe learned a digest of the reresidence Habitat ‘69. Model pictured above.

Story page 3. tion of Students president Brian Iler were commissioned in Janreport digest page 5 uary to report on the university’s public image. editorial page 7 7 This research grew out of the _________-__--------_____P_ tenth anniversary program. Operations vicepresident Al Adlington, port was being printed, he coordination director Bert Barber recommended to Adlington that and fund-drive vicechairman Harthe report be immediately sent old Barbour in January commisto department chairmen menof Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Friday, June 14, 1968 sioned Davidson and Iler. tioned in the report.

Davidson finished his BA in polisci at Waterloo in ‘67 and has Hagey said he accepted the central recommendations for a been doing public-relations work for the university under develophighranking public relations man and a public relations coordinment director Jack Hemphill since then. ating committee.

He did not feel the examples cited in the analyIler worked for the university in ‘67 as chairman of the tenth si s set tion required extensive investigation. anniversary week, being salaried during his summer work term.

“When you realize this is a President when the unrest began, council president Martin Loney He spent the first two months of $22-million operation, to think Patrick McTaggart-Cowan officspoke in favor of the motion.

‘68 working for coordination dethere aren’t going to be individially remains on extended leave.

He said, “I believe that partment, before taking office as ual departments that can’t be The student groups at SFU are Dean MacPherson is an honest federation president. improved is ridiculous,” said apparently divided over the quesperson who will act in good faith.

The report is based on the Hagey. tion of the sitin. Student council This vote does not, however, personal experiences of the authBut Hagey admitted the comhas expressed neither approval give him carte blanche to do as ors and various samples they plaints outlined in the report nor disapproval of the action, he wishes. We can re-evaluate our took in the community and on were not new to him. which was organized by a radical support at any time.” campus.

The authors admit the “However we can’t just act campus The demonstrations and mass Organization-Students data is somewhat subjective. overnight,” he said. “You can’t meetings have all been conducted In the analysis section of the for a Democratic University just fire one person today and (SDU,. without any violence. SFU’s kamreport, they undertook an area get a new one tomorrow.”

SDU’s occupation of - the adpus kops are reported to have by area criticism of the univerDavid son feels the only reaministration offices lasted from been under instructions to avoid sity. It is this section that has son the report is getting attention Friday until noon Tuesday. any confrontations with the demraised the controversy. is the slip made in releasing it.

During the occupation, the liberaonstrators.

Shortly after Hagey con sented He said the authors were conted Simon Fraser board room One of the most important to release the report, Adlington templating possible release if was utilized as a day-nursery for achievements of the student acinformed Hagey that the report there were no results after a the children of SFU students. The tion has been a mellowing of the had not been intended for public period of time. Co-author Iler faculty lounge was also declared faculty’s attitude. After its initial con sump tion. confirmed this. liberated, following the removal rejection of the proposal, the Both directly and through Iler of a partition between it and the joint faculty has now agreed “I’m not sure how the adminAdlington tried to get back the cafeteria by a group of faculty istration feels,” said Davidson. that the students should particiChevron’s copy of the report. and students. pate in both the selection of a “I will be recommending to the “We’ve had very polite memos The decision to withdraw from and the usual thank-you-verynew president and the rewriting university president that pages the administration offices came of the B.C. Universities Act. 14 to 29 (the analysis) not be much. No one has expressed disafter two members of the board agreement.

If it hadn’t been for The student body and the joint included in general distribution with the demonstrators met faculty are each electing five-man the controversial release of the to avoid fogging up the recomreport I think it might have Tuesday morning.

The board committees to search for a permendations with the specifics members agreed that the board anent acting president.

They involved. We don’t think we’ll get lain around for years.” would consider the student prohave agreed that only mutually-acposals for a joint meeting between ceptable names will be consida committee representing all ered. student factions and the board.

The joint faculty has already SDU representatives termed agreed in principle to a number the withdrawal “an act of good of the students’ demands. These faith” and stated that they would included an exclusively acaconsider further action if the demic senate, academic adminisboard did not accept their protration appointments for short posals within a week. terms by democratic process and The day-nursery was withfull student participation in unidrawn from the board room after versity government. temporary acting president MacFaculty representatives have Pherson assured the students also stated that they are willing that the finding of a permanent to consider any legitimate efforts location would receive immedileading to an end of the board. ate attention.

Things are calm on campus as Also on Tuesday, a noon meetstudents and faculty conduct el‘ing of students on the mall gave ections for their representatives MacPherson a vote of confito the selection committee. dence. The same motion had The heat will be probably on been tabled a week before when again early next week when the MacPherson had failed to commit students and faculty hold their himself to support the list of first meeting and the SDU oneNo, Satan’s Choice have not invaded-it’s just Larry Kreuger, student demands. week truce with the board exgrad Phil, out for a spin on the Mosport ringroad.

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TORONTO (Special )-Liberal member in the legislature Eddie Sargent called on education and university affairs minister Bill Davis to stop Qntario teachers from preaching socialism to pupils.

“Most of our teachers are socialists,” said the provincial member for Grey-Bruce.

“They continually I brainwash our people on the evils of free enterprise.

“There should be a policing of the curriculum to prevent teachers from forcing their ideas on their pupils.

“I am greatly concerned about socialist teachers forcing their views on my kids.”

Sargent was booed and heckled by members of the New Democratic Party.

Davis replying agreed that most socialists.

said he teachers

Eventually most of them will wind up in an administration

Dam lowered to flush

Davis admitted that there might be isolated instances of teachers preaching socialism.

“But it is not as rampant as the member suggests.”

This shot wus take/l fi*om purt WUJ’ up the smoke-abatement facility. loOlii~1~ down illto the court,Jard of’ the central serWcs complex, AN o.f”i’ce contest brought the folio wing capPPandP groundskeeping equipment tea tion suggestions.

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Laurel Creek

sulting in about a one foot rise in the water level of the creek.

It should provide sufficient flushing action to clear the air for Bridgeport dwellers and others that live too near the picturesque waterway.

The decreased level of ’ the lake did not deter use of the waterhole for swimming.

The fifty-acre lake beside Columbia Street on the university’s north campus had to be lowered several inches this week.

It seems someone downstream from the university dumped raw/ sewage . into the creek.

So far, two of the stoplogs in the dam have been removed, re-

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Sublet your pad to full students If you’re a student with an apartment you want to sublet for the fall term, the housing office would like to know.

Housing director Edith Beausoleil said, “It would be a big

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help to off-campus students if the housing office knew now if these apartments would be available.”

The housing office can be reached at 744-6111, local 2715.

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People

Don’t count your POSAP pennies until your cheque is cashed.

Not that it’ll bounce but it may never come.

Early last summer, Sandi Burt, third year arts, dutifully filled out all her student award application forms, with a note that she would probably receive a tuition scholarship.

In August she received the standard reply from the awards officer informing her of the “amount of financial assistance you may count upon”.

This included a second-term grant of $160.

In December she signed a promissory note for the $160 to pay her second-term residence fees.

Over four months later she got a note from the business office asking that she pay her outstanding bill for $160 or have her marks withheld.

The letter stated that the awards officer had informed the business office “that you received a University of Waterloo tuition scholar-

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ship and as a result no grant would be received. ” Unfortunately, the awards officer has still not informed Miss Burt of this fact, giving her no chance to appeal the award.

University awards officer Albert ‘Dejeet, referred to the official student award statement which says, “The grant portion of your award will normally be paid, after any adjustment necessary for other awards.”

He said it was not usual procedure to send the student a notice informing him or her of such adjustments.

In Miss Burt’s case, he said that since she had not received a scholarship at the time of original application, it was ignored in her grant allocation.

Hence, when her scholarship went through, her POSAP grant was automatically cancelled.

Dejeet added that if Miss Burt had had any questions she should have seen him.

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for meetings in the board and senate room (E1301) on Thursday afternoon and Friday, None of the meetings are open.

A press release may be issued on the results of the discussions.

The university’s board of governors also met this week, on Wednesday and Thursday in the campus center.

Their meetings are closed too.

Waterloo played host to the committee of presidents of universities of Ontario this week.

This group includes the presidents of the 14 provinciallyassisted universities in Ontario, with observers usually sent from Royal Military College and Waterloo Lutheran.

The committee was scheduled

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building to be built right across from the main campus exit onto Columbia Street.

Coordination expects to be finally moved to the office wing of the physics building when a new physics building is built.

The engineering, math and science library will also spend a couple of years in math before finding its final home. The fourth floor of the math building is being readied to accommodate the technical branch library until its building is built north of the old physics building.

Coordination department is joining physical-plant and planning in the move of administrative facilities to the math building.

Coordination expects to be in its offices on the sixth floor by September.

PP and P is already comfortably settled in the concrete fortress.

All administrative departments are being moved from the upper floors of arts library to make room for books and study areas.

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“I have a high regard for our teachers,” he said. “They are too enlightened to be socialists.

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second are films on hunting and conservation around the world.

Added variety includes grand prix racing and the effect of free trade upon the standard of living in four widely-different countries.

The free films are’ shown Wednesdavs in PI45. 12: 15. as Ontario.

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Much speculation followed Premier John Robarts’ announcement at the opening of the mathematics building that regional computer centers are to be established throughout Ontario. ’ Looking.past the vague optimism of the premier’s official speech, the real story is less promising.

The department of university affairs and presidents of the provincially supported universities have decided to overturn the present system of financing computer development in Ontario.

That means grants to universities for autonomous computer centers will be phased out, to make way for ’ regional centers.

In future, universities wishing to expand their own centers will have to buy facilities from the regional centers.

The basketball backboards in the new athletic building and the maze of scaffolding being used to erect them combine to look like a giant jungle-grvm for the jocks to climb on.

-Bob

The federation’s budgeting expertise fell just short of stupendous in the- last fiscal year.

The federation went into the last year with a then-unknown debt which had accumulated in the previous two years.

Through tight budget control, treasurer ,Ross McKenzie erased most of the $23,000 deficit. .The federation fiscal year runs from May 1 to April 30, with council year running. from March.

1 to February 28. In February, ~ McKenzie made a forecast of expenditures to the end of April ‘68 so the new council would know what funds they would have in the budget.

At that time, McKenzie expected to erase the entire $23,000 deficit and come out an additional $4000 ahead.

However, new treasurer Joe Givens and business manager Pete Yates tallied the books at the end of May and found the projected expenditure estimate had been low, and the federa-

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tion had only cut back by $22,000--$5000 less than anticipated. I The budget for the current fiscal year was set in March with the anticipated surplus included.

Student council meets next weekend and will have to reassess the budget.

There are two choices open.

They could cut. $5000 in expenditures in the budget as it now stands, or take more. money from the summer term ‘69 fees.

The federation is currently in the process of moving summer fees into a more logical fiscal year--this term’s fees were spent in the last fiscal year.

It is desired to have the summer ‘69 fees spent in the ‘69-‘70 year. .

Of the $19,000 expected for summer ‘69 fees, only $7000 has been budgeted to be spent in the current fiscal year. The federation executive plans to make the conversion in summer fees complete in next year’s budget.

Societies, federation “The societies should be autonomous from the Federation of Students,” said federation president Brian Iler.

This was the result of Sunday’s meeting of representatives of the federation and the math, science and two engineering societies.

Arts and grad societies were not represented.

The issue of autonomy caused little debate since the societies are financially independent and have been subject to token student council control.

Societies were defined as autonomous bodies in the federation providing activities for the benefit of their particular constituencies and responsible to them.

To formalize liaison with the federation, a committee of presidents was

These centers will be independent of university control, run by boards representing the universities and the public interest.

Industries and universities will be linked to the centers by remote input-output devices.

The first such center will be operational

by September 1969.

A fund of $3.6 million in the provincial budget has been set aside to build it.

Professor Wes Graham, director of Waterloo’s computing center, has been involved in these plans since late 1967. I He was asked if ,he, thought ’ Waterloo might become the .-first regional centre. ’ “I think it’s unlikely for the

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recommended.

It would consist of the federation president and each society nor s recently approved university collection of the fees beginning in September.

The fee is $2.50 a year for arts, $3 a term for engineering and $1.50 a term for president.

It WC ulc have no decisionmaking powers but could make recommendations to society or federation councils.

Another recommendation was that the federation extend to the societies the financial benefits of incorporation.

The federation uculd assume formal responsibility for society debts. This would remove personal liability of the from society executives.

If the federation ever had to pay a society debt, the society would make arrangements for repayment.

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same reason that it’s difficultevery university would like a big computer center,” he said.

It’s a problem for the government to support one university more strongly than the others.

The regional centers will likely be in cities where there are no universities.”

But Doug Wright, Waterloo’s former dean of engineering, has another. opinion.

At the CUS seminar in Winnipeg expressed fears that individual university pride might cause trouble.

“What we may end up ‘-with is fourteen regional centers”, one at each university.”

The location of the first center will be decided this fall by the university presidents.

Waterloo will have fund-raising problems as a result of the shake-up.

University treasurer Bruce Gellatly explained the details.

“Two years ago the university made a five-year commitment to IBM involving installments of roughly $750,000 a year to pay for the big 360/75. Up to now these payments have been covered by provincial grants.” he said.

Since the grants have been cut, the university has to borrow $400,000 this year, with only the interest on it being covered by a grant.

Financial arrangements for future installments have yet to be worked out.

Graham, while disappointed at the plunge in grants, was sympathetic with the government ,point of view.

Ontario - , shouldn’t favor Waterloo, he said.

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Habitat ‘69, the new university residence, will be cheaper to build than the Village even if it will cost the same to live there.

Savings of more than $3 million compared to Village costs were indicated in a contract awarded to Ellis-Don of London to build the 980 bed residence. ’ Total cost of the new residence is estimated at $4,750,000--an average cost of $4,870 per bed.

The Village cost around $8000 a bed and residences at other universities have cost similar amounts .

The project is being financed by the Ontario student housing corporta tion, a provincial agency.

It is arranging 50-year mortgages to cover the full cost of the residence.

The university will operate the

force “If you were at W.estern, would you want to have to send your programs to Waterloo?”

The growth of Waterloo’s computing center will be slowed down.

At present there are three large computers, the 360/75, the 360/44 in the math building and the PDP9 in the engineering centre which is used for research in graphics.

The 75 on the main floor has a million bytes of memory.

It is being used almost to capacity -350 hours a month, or over two shifts a day. , The smaller 44 is used only for sy ecial projects in experimental control.

Also on the main floor of the math building computer pit is the 3660/20 which is now used only as a terminal to the 75.

On the second floor are the two older computers, the 1620 which has been here eight years, and the 7040. Both are being converted to terminals and will no longer be used for computing.

Graham regretted greater expansion of computer facilities is not possible.

He feels education and research in computer science is important and can only be done at universities.

It is desirable for every university to have a computer centcr-U. of T. would need two big computers to do all of its jcbs, he said.

“At present most of the work in computing is done by graduates assisted by faculty. These advantages would not accrue to centers which are not at universities,” he said.

$3 million

residence, but like the Village, Habitat will be self-supporting.

Room rentals will cover both operating costs and mortgage payments.

The project was developed under the builder proposal technique

by OHSC. Under this method, the general concept of the project was presented to builders who were invited to submit designs and prices as a total package.

Usually a project is designed and then submitted to contractors on a tender basis.

A panel of university people and representatives of the OSHC judged the 12 design submissions and picked the Ellis-Don proposal as the most suitable in terms of design and price.

Double rooms will accommodate 720 men and 240 women.

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cheaper will also be 20 dons and two masters.

The project consists of two residence blocks in a series of L-shaped interconnected threestorey wings. Laurel Creek separates the two blocks.

Each floor of each wing will contain 12 double rooms, a small lounge and central washroom facilities.

The. wings are arranged in four residence halls of 240 students each. There will be four small lounges, a large lounge and a large activity room for each residence hall. The three dining halls for the complex will be housed in a two-storey building located between the residence set tion s.

This will include kitchen facilities, a lounge, tuck shop, administration offices and two -apartments for the masters.

on, compulsory The compulsory society fee was another important topic. The board of govermath and science. No fee is being levied on graduate, phys-ed, architecture or church-college students.

The grad society did not ask ‘for a fee and the other groups do not have societies.

The fees will be collected by the university and turned over to the federation for distribution to the societies.

Individual refunding of fees was a tothy issue. The engineering, math and science societies have already agreed that any student may apply to the society for a fee refund. However, a recent memorandum from university treasurer Bruce Gellatly threatened cancellation of the fees if there was no refund provision.

He indicated the faculty deans were very insistent on this point.

fees

The society representatives agreed on the necessity of a refund provision but objected to university intervention in society affairs.

Iler noted the board of governors had approved the fee with no conditions.

The society presidents decided to protest to their deans for interfering in society affairs.

Iler was asked to express this opposition t.o the university administration.

The individual societies agreed to publicize and handle their own method of fee refunds.

The meeting also discussed methods of advancing academic reform in areas of democratic decision-making, openness and student representation on university committees, especially on the faculty level.

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Columbia Liberufion

by Cyril

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I flashed a blue Columbia I.D. card and the guard waved me through the police lines.

Luckily they weren’t checking the cards carefully for the name on my card was the same as the name on the card of my friend beside me.

We passed through the iron gates and ambled down the cobblestone walk under the shade of a cluster of trees Although it was bordering the path. all only 8 a.m. there was activity Groups of students and around us. faculty had gathered to discuss the happenings of the recent weeks.

We swung right and cut across the grass toward Ferris Booth Hall, the student union building the only occupied building not invaded by the police during the big bust. Perhaps the administration thought at least one building on campus belonged to the students to use as they saw fit.

We climbed two flights of stairs and proceeded down a corridor towards Entering the office, the central office.

I saw many students displaying the To them, scars of the police action. the wounds represented a kind of badge of honor as well as a reminder of the power they were confronting.

For the next hour I tried to blend into the scenery, avoiding those students engaged in the organization of the strike.

The phones were in constant use and the people in a state of perpetual motion.

My friend was attending a meeting of the people who had occupied Fayerweather Hall for the week. Each building had organized into communes, modelled after the Paris commune of 1871. At this time, the communes were the focus of activity on campus since the administration had wisely declared that all classes and official events were to be cancelled.

However, the communes only involved at best some 700 students.

A meeting of SDS was set for 10 am. to discuss ways of broadening the base of support for the strike to include as many students as possible.

In the assembly it was apparent that no one individual c,ould be singled out as the ultimate authority.

Although Mark Rudd, the president of Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia, is well thought of by the membership, his role is one of a mediator as opposed to the singular charisma of the style of Mario Savio of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.

Suggestions emanated from the floor and all resolutions were adopted unanimously.

The meeting decided to broaden the base of the strike by admitting one representative for every constituency of 70 to sit on the strike coordinating committee.

The meeting decided to organize liberation classes which would differ from

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‘after bust: classes the regular classes normally conducted at the university in both form and content.

The liberation classes were to deal with topics that had relevance to the lives of the students, who would determine the direction of the class in conjunction with the resource people there.

All classes were to be held outdoors and the size of each was to be limited to 15 to 20. Anyone who wished to offer himself as a resource person on any topic was asked to come forward and information was distributed across the campus.

Later I attended one of the liberation classes on the nature of the university and society led by Eric Mann, the SDS organizer for the New England region.

Mann is a graduate of Cornell and taught in the Newark Public School System until he was fired by the administration (amid protests from sympathetic students and their parents) for advocating a free style of teaching within the school.

The liberation classes were well attended.

A major political realignment occurred in the students.

Many students who were once good liberals developed a radical perspective.

I saw some frat members running around the campus carrying petitions and sporting red armbands, signifying their support of those who had occupied the buildings.

The animosity resulting from the police raid led many thousands of students to ask larger questions concerning the university, American society and their own lives.

These students began to see through the veil of legalistic liberalism into the power relationships and their pervasiveness in society.

There were many topics in the liberation classes.

A course on Arabic Belly Dancing was offered along with the History of Buddhism, Beyond Guerrilla Theater, Radical Activist Social Science and Alienation from Hegel to Columbia.

Discussions were heated and exciting.

In most cases the resource person merely made himslef available for comment on technical points requiring some expertise on the questions at hand.

Students began to see that education didn’t mean formal, often boring lectures on remote and irrelevant topics spewing from the mouths and pens of pompous or patronizing professors whose impersonal outlook dampens the natural curiosity of many potential scholars.

Meanwhile the faculty had been generally slow in responding to the events of those two weeks.

Basically, there were three currents of faculty opinion.

The senior faculty, composed of those deans and department heads in administrative positions within the faculty community were strongly in support of the administration of the university.

In fact, they were in constant touch with presi-

The math commune set up tents in front of the Columbia building and held liberation classes outdoors. The tents were later wrecked by members of the revived majority coalition in a sneak attack.

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The strike committee erected this sign just inside the main gate.

dent Grayson Kirk throughout the crisis period.

The second group of faculty, some several hundred, joined together in a group known as the ad-hoc faculty.

They tended to be junior members with tenure and were concerned with condemning the police action.

They saw the issue as brutal cops versus gentle cops.

They talked about university reform but their ideas remained abstractions.

The third group consisted of radical faculty members drawn from the ranks of the junior faculty, many being without tenure.

Some of them had joined the students in the occupation of the buildings and all were involved with the strike and liberation classes.

The girls at Barnard, the all-girls part of Columbia across the street, were particularly solid with the striking Columbia students.

They were well organized and played an important role in the strike.

In fact, due to pressure from the girls, all classes were cancelled for the rest of the school year and finals would be held later only covering material that was presented before the demonstrations.

The liberation classes grew tremendously.

Every day a new calendar was issued listing the locations and the topics of the classes.

A teach-in was held at the teachers’ college with Eric Mann, Eric Bentley and Margaret Meade.

A rumour had spread that Herbert Marcuse, the grand old man of the new left, was coming to speak. He didn’t show, but the excitement the rumour provoked was indicative of the students’ mood.

At Berkeley the students’ motto had been “I am a student.

Do not fold, bend, spindle or mutilate me.” At Columbia however, the climate was reflected in the slogan “Up against the wall mother fuckers.”

This slogan was borrowed from the black power movement and indicates a deep bitterness and hostility against those in authority.

It was plastered on the walls of buildings and even on the jackets of some students.

A cartoon of Grayson Kirk in a compromising situation, making some remark to Dave Truman the vicepresident of the university was reproduced by the thousands and was a very popular item.

Numerous other events took place during that two-week period including a concert in the middle of the campus

by The Grateful Dead, and the showing of the movies taken in the occupied buildings and scenes of the police bust. .During my last night at Columbia I talked with many of the SDS people concerning their strategy from that point.

They said that the six demands of the strikers would have to be met and that amnesty for the demonstrators be given as a precondition to negotia-

This cartoon carried the caption: “Well Dave (Columbia vice president), I think I’ve seen the light. ” -Gayson

Kirk (Columbia president)

tions. Furthermore, the strike coordinating committee was about to form a defense committee which would be responsible for protecting the strikers and communards from attacks from the newly-reconstituted majority coalition (MC). Two days earlier, a group of the MC had attacked the tents of the math commune, tearing them down and injuring one of the communards who attempted to defend the tents.

Since I have left Columbia, I have seen reports of another and more viscious police attack where 608 were reported injured.

It appears that the trouble started anew when the administration suspended Mark Rudd.

Apparently the students were so angered that fires were set in the dormitories.

At that point 1000 police moved into the campus and were met head-on by a wave of students, probably from the defense committee.

The students decided that if they were to be beaten by the cops, they would not oblige them by lying back as in the last bust. They decided to fight.

This is only a guess about the events that occurred after I left.

Friends at Columbia have had their hands full and haven’t communicated the day-to-day happenings.

It is obvious however that the events at Columbia must be very carefully examined, for they can tell us much about direct confrontation with the power elites of the university.

But we must also remember that the university is an integral part of our society as a whole-a society which is under the control of the same power elites.

Report

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“A report on university relations” is working paper on the in ternal relations and external image of the University of Waterloo.

Prepared for operations vicepresident Al Adlington, coordination director Bert Barber and fund-drive vicechairman Harold Barbour by Brian ller and M’urray Davidson, the 43-page report is reprinted here in digest form.

University

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The University of Waterloo has made a great impact on its home community.

Yet, for an institution of its size and vigor, the university has failed to develop a warm loyalty or esprit de corps on a broad spectrum within its community.

The communications process within a university differs radically from that of a business or industry. Within the university there must be a high degree of freedom of expression.

Decision-making is evolving into a broader based, more democratic process.

Faculty members and students must be free to speak out on contemporary issues that concern them. These statements also reflect an image of the university.

Encouraging this freedom, with its implicit responsibility, is also a communications function of university management.

The problems of a rapidly expanding internal structure, brought about a communications breakdown both in-ternally and externally which has led to many misunderstandings and rumors about university policies and finances which have yet to be effectively dispelled.

The image A positive image for any corporation or institution today, seldom develops by chance. A cogent, comprehensive, wellarticulated conception of the kind of image we want to present is the first requisite. The next step is to coordinate all of the different ways the institution speaks to its publics, which will then multiply their effectiveness and increase their efficiency.

External When asked to describe the University of Waterloo, the words we heard most often during our research were: big, expensive, cold, scientific, growing, isolated, terrific, fiscally irresponsible, top-drawer, ivory tower, impersonal, worthwhile.

None of those interviewed in the community offered any evidence of an awareness of the substantive nature of university academic and community programs and research.

Without exception all listed their primary source of information about the university as personal contact with university peoplefaculty and staff. Many expressed the desire for some contact with students.

Open-house, and the chart talks, either at on-campus luncheons or to service clubs were the next highest rated sources of information.

The mass media was ’ at best a secondary source for all. When asked to recall items in the media, those making a specific reference mentioned stories on dollars asked for, spent or raised: or the addition of new buildings and equipment. While the prime source of information for those interviewed was personal contact, none remembered receiving information about university people through the mass media.

The university’s own publications make little impact. Representative comments on the Quarterly were: “It looks nice, but I don’t read it.”

Press people reported their best sources of leads for stories were the Gazette, an internal publication, and the Chevron.

Both provided facts and insights not supplied by the University’s publicity service.

Outside of the successful high school day during open-house. and the energetic recruitment programs conducted by the faculty of mathematics. our relations with Ontario high schools have been, at best, average. In the past the university has been successful in recruiting top students through its large scholarship program, no longer available and through the uniqueness of its cooperative programs.

TO maintain and further develop its

Report was co-authored by Brian h’er, chairman of the highly successful Tenth Anniversary Week of last fall and now Federation of Students president, and Murray Davidson, former Waterloo student, public info director for the Tenth Anniversary Fund, now with development office. academic standards the university must become more aggressive.

We must not be content to recruit enough students to fill the available places. We must-encourage the best student, in terms of academic and overall potential, to want to come to the University of Waterloo.

Our arts and science programs are suffering because they lack the co-op feature, or aggressive recruitment programs.

In summary, the general external image of the university in the Twin Cities is that of a big, growing institution, which spends huge sums of money, not all of it wisely. There is little or no awareness of community programs such as those offered by the extension department or creative arts board. Several expressed concern over the amount of research conducted at the university, its relevance and how the research emphasis affected teaching. Many expressed a personal or business desire to obtain a greater use of the benefits they felt the university could offer but at the same time they felt a certain undefinable distance between themselves and the university.

There was no awareness of student attitudes, activities or goals except in the stereotyped pejorative terms.

“We know not all students take LSD or smoke pot or get into trbuble, but they are the only ones we hear about.”

We found a very highly-developed aware ness of the positive image Waterloo Lutheran University attempts to project.

Many of those interviewed described that institution in warm terms that echoed WLU literature-small, personalized education in a Christian environment.

Even when talking about the University of Waterloo open-house, many ‘referred to it as parents day or family day, two annual events at WLU. In short, WLU has undoubtedly succeeded in firmly establishing its desired image.

On the other hand, when discussing the University of Waterloo there was far less sense of warmth or personal attachment to the institution.

Or, as one man very colorfully phrased it, “You’ve got the moat, when are you going to build the drawbridge? ” Internal The most effective campus-wide communications device is the Chevron.

It is read by virtually everyone within the university to some degree. The university is, indeed, fortunate that it has had a generally responsible student newspaper in recent years. The official administration publications, the Gazette, the Quarterly and the weekly events bulletin, do not receive anywhere near the attention accorded the Chevron.

However, even among notoriously anti-administration faculty members, the Gazette was not specifically referred to as “a tool of the administration.“.

Feedback following the recent series of chart talks to staff personnel as part

of the information program for the Tenth Anniversary fund seems to indicate that for some time there has been a strong but suppressed need on the part of junior and middle level staff people for an overview of where the university was and where it was going in terms of physical and. academic development.

These sessions repeatedly dealt with two items which were of concern to staff people who felt they had never received a satisfactory explanation-the parking fee and the ring road. The manner in which the implementation of each was communicated to university faculty, staff and students has left a latent hostility in many areas.

Those at the upper levels of university administration have a well developed sense of purpose and motivation in the long-term goals of the university.

Unfortunately, however, a great many of the people at the upper levels have not manifested this attitude in effective communication to those at lower levels for whom they are responsible.

We found a number of people at middle levels with an intense affection for the university, but an overriding sense of frustration at what they considered a highly proprietary attitude held by some senior staff personnel who are unwilling to share the destiny of the university with others.

The lack until recently of a’ training or orientation program for new employees has also been a detriment to widespread understanding.

Many females who have joined the staff during the past few years, and have had to rely on more senior

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female personnel (in terms of service) for ‘instructions on who to call or what form to fill out, have reported unnerving or humiliatingexperiences by those who literally “know everybody”.

As the university has grown, students have become increasingly alienated from faculty and administration.

The feeling of “what can I do about my course, I’m only one in 7,OOO?” is widespread.

Two factors contributing to this feeling have been a tense, almost hostile atmosphere in the registrar’s office that begins right in the reception area; and a reluctance by too many faculty members to discuss course content with concerned students.

While the computerization of timetabling procedures will, no doubt, produce many efficiencies, it may also compound the alienation felt because of the present depersonalization.

The trend to increased participation in university decision-making bodies by students is encouraging.

There is a widespread feeling that the moves in this direction have resulted from a fear of potential student disturbances, rather than a genuine desire toward developing meaningful dialog. Too many faculty men bers seclude themselves in their lounges, feeling it is beneath their dignity to talk with students, who are unknowledgeable; and staff, who are inferior. A faculty club will hardly improve this situation.

Probably the highest level of studentstaff-faculty relationships exists at the social level between junior female employ ees and students, or the many university people who rent a room to a student.

Generally, students do not feel that they are an integral part of the University of Waterloo.

Nor do they have any awareness of the university’s long-term goals.

A similar feeling of isolation from the mainstream of the campus is held by many officials associated with the church colleges. One man compared the church colleges and the university of Waterloo to Canada in relation to the United States. Church college officials are also concerned with what they feel is a tendency by those associated with the rest of the university, and those in the general community, to lump all of them together. Each is attempting to develop their own meaningful programs, not just in teaching, but in social, religious and other environmental relationships.

However, very few people are aware of these differences and the uniqueness of each. Church college officials also expressed a reluctance to use university administrative services both from a cost and efficiency point of view.

The board of governors is discussed here as part of internal relations, although they also form one of the most important external links. Very few members of the present board are- known to most members of the staff, students or faculty.

They are seen as representing an isolated, continued on page 6

university’s own publications make little impact on the community, report finds. An analysis of readership, better-written press releases the development of audio-visual aids and use of electronic media to the university’s story are suggested.

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closed, almost secret society, that has tremendous potential power in university s decision-making.

They are not seen as taking an active or interested part in much of university life. This failure to actively discharge their responsibilities as board members is exemplified in other areas as well, \most critically in fundraising. It isa weakness the university cannot afford.

pattern was changed overnight without announcement!

Additional confusion was caused in ,the community by this change. Many visitors arrive by taxi. With a campus of (then) unmarked buildings, the new road system meant total confusion for cab drivers -who had never been provided with guide maps to’that date.

The reason itself for implementing the ring-road system would have matie a good news story-both internaliy and externally.

Combined with a map to illustrate the- new traffic pattern, it would have been most informative.

Nothing was done.

Although PP and P is only partially involved, a lack of coordination has meant the university continues to supply directional maps which are incomplete and misleading.

If we cannot produce a simple map to accurately guide people around our campus, how capable are we in our major responsibilities of teaching and research?

The recent- addition of illuminated building signs and directional guide posts are a most welcome improvement, andwill make the profusion of visiting “lost souls” virtually a thing of the past.

Physical plant and planning is a constant source of’ irritation for other departments.

Work request estimates are invariably inaccurate in relation to final costs, thereby causing budgeting problems.’ Both the Federation of Students . and the church colleges, which operate with independent sources of income, were particularly vexed. To many academic departments, who have experienced tight budgeting, the proliferation of expensive machinery much of it often seen lying idle has raised honest questions of dollar priorities, expense justification and fiscal responsibility.

A’ similar corn-plaint was raised by several businessmen.

Analysis Faculty We heard absolutely no critical comment in the community on any stand taken by faculty member,s, either individually or collectively, on contemporary issues. Many of our respondents praised the active participation of- some professors, and expressed the wish that many more -would involve themselves in community activities-beyond the university.

The editor of the daily newspaper noted with surprise and dismay that the letters to the editor section received very few _ contributions from faculty members.

Other media people stated a similar desire for contributions from faculty, and wished to avail themselves of professor’s knowledge as resource personnel on a variety of subjects.

However, they lamented that they were unable to develop an approach that might overcome academic mistrust of the mass media.

The internal faculty-student communication problems were not examined in detail, other than our previously noted comments, as this is under study by an ad hoc committee appointed by the president: Faculty-administration relationships vary by faculties, departments and individuals.

It is no secret, however, that the strongest anti-administration feeling is found in the arts faculty.

Professors have been known to use a / good portion of lecture time with tirades against what they consider to be the unnecessary bureaucracy.

Students, with their limited contact with the .administration, not all of it favorable (i.e.office), are parking fines, registrar’s often inclined to accept much of this criticism without question.

Physical-plant and plannir’ig .

Internally it is easily the most criticized department.

PP and P is accused of arrogance, stupidity’, bad planning and wasting money. One example often referred to 4s the way the ring-road was implemented.

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heads Physical-plant “easily the most critdepartment. ”

For months, and even years, people approached the campus driving east or west along University Avenue, then turning into the road that led them to their parking lot or building. Suddenly, these entrances are barricaded.

No announcement was made that these routes were to be closed and a new traffic control system implemented.

This caused confusion for almost all, and vexation, even anger for many. How much work time was lost because of this communica“tions failure cannot be calculated.

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Fund-raising ’ In addition to the many millions relthe quired for capital development, university needs bursaries, scholarships, endowment, wills and bequests, awards and prizes. The generosity of citizens to support such programs is directly related to their perception of the university’s image and its need.

To this end, a more effective university relations program that develops a warmer feeling toward the University of Waterloo will generate such gifts. An active role by the board of governors is necessary.

High school recruitment The university’s rep’ttation among many high school students and teachers as a young, dynamic institution with a bright, aggressive faculty has been developed primarily by the reputation of the cooperative programs, and the active recruitment conducted by the mathematics faculty. Unfortunately, much of the rest of our high school recruitment program falls into a duller, more traditional approach. ’ More coordination and cooperation are necessary between faculties, schools and the registrar’s office on high school recruitment.

The present activity often leads to a duplication of effort in some areas, and no effort at all in others.

When university officials present their story to prospective students, they should attempt-to give them a glimpse of the kind of approach taken toward teaching ’ at Waterloo through the use of audiovisual aids, such as rear-screen projection for slides, overhead projectors, or increasingly in the future, videotape.

The use of modern media techniques in high school recruitment is long overdue.

Information services This lack of effective use of the Potential of audio-visual aids and the electronic media, is a chief criticism of the present performance of the information services department.

All three men in the department are print-trained and oriented, either daily, trade or periodical press. There is no one with sufficient experience in broadcasting, either radio or television ; in visuals, either films, slides or graphics; and presentation development, speech writing and public speaking.

This lack of diversity in personnel inhibits the development of a communications program with the broad scope necessary today to effectively tell the story of the university of

Waterloo. -A modern information services function cannot be secure if its existence consists of press releases and inches in a clipping book.

Internally we met a lack of confidence in information-services.

Many faculty . members, church college officials and student groups, among others, do not seek the- professional counsel that should be available to assist in making some of the university3 many publics aware of events that are happening on campus.

Press releases prepared for the media are often badly written or are not sensitive to the implications of the story itself.

Two items are cited here as examples: the release on the computer run process control operation for Polymer Corporation in Sarnia developed a negative attitude toward the university with many people in that area who felt the University was going to run the whole plant by remote control automation which would mean ’ alossofjobs.

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A story on the school of optometry survey on vision needs of residents of the unnyside Home for the Aged was good $h uman interest and noted university public service. However, the third paragraph ofthe release began: t ‘The survey will include almost all residents (a few are extremely senile or feeble and for all practical purposes beyond help) .” A more cold, heartless statement would be hard to imagine.

Naturally, it was deleted from stories in the press; but it confirmed recipients of the release in their opinion-the University of Waterloo is a cold, unfeeling, bricks and mortar, dollars and cents institution without a soul?

The university receives quite good coverage and acceptance in the specialized trade and business publications which reach selective, but limited publics.

Audio and video tapes for actuality impact of important stories should be provided to broadcasting outlets.

They will return them after use. Information on student activities of interest to the general public is sorely lacking.

More effort is needed in this .area, for it is. important in town-grown relationships, particularly off-campus housing.

Genasys, which is a responsibility of information-services, still appears to be a ’ long way from efficiency.

During the most recent mailing of the Quarterly xmultiple copies were again received by scores of people who have more than one reference within the addressing system.

Such duplication is not only costly and unncessary, but it reflects negatively on the university.

Library Generally praised as being courteous and helpful by faculty, staff and stub ents. Main criticism of the library has come‘from its attitude toward the general public on occasion. While the university’s first concern must be to provide library services to those on campus, as a public institution it has a responsibility to provide some type of reasonable access to its recources-at least for use within the library itself. At the present time many important publics feel excludedparticularly future students, secondary , and elementary school teachers. ’ Off-campus housing This office, often the first contact a student has with the university upon arrival, has come under some fire from students in the past few years. First, it is remotely located, on the seventh floor of the Library-an especially difficult location for new students.

(A sign opposite the elevator on the sixth floor is a minimum requisite.)

First impressions are important, and can often create an attitude in students which persists throughout their university life. Unfortunately, this office is remembered by students for its impersonal and condescending attitude. .

Since the off-campus office is the only direct contact many local citizens have with the university, it is important that the relationship be favourable.

At present, not even a brief thank-you note on behalf of the university is sent out to homeowners accepting students.

Government relations The university is now well known at the national level. One professor reported that although the University of Waterloo received 1/4 of all National Research

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Council grants for engineering researc during the past year, the university i -not on the NRC list of universities whit foreign dignitaries and academics ar encouraged to visit.

Relationships with the provincial goveri ment are more formal and complex and not really within our sphere of compe tcnce to comment upon. However, on senior government spokesman whel discussing the University of Waterloo commented “they’ve done a fine job ii a short time”.

At the municipal level there is an anta gonism between some members of staf at both city halls and university officials Several Waterloo civic officials felt tht university was petty, self-righteous ant unnecessarily difficult in its dealings with the city. The attitude of elected of. ficials of both cities varies widely wit1 each individual, but almost all I lack a participatory interest and commitment to the university.

Staff ‘A surprisingly large number of talented people at the middle staff levels are looking around for opportunities outside the university.

It would be a serious loss to the university if any sizable percentage of this group decided to leave within the next few months.

We also encountered complaints about the difficulty of staff personnel reporting i to non-administrative minded faculty members.

With staff scattered throughout almost all buildings, it is understandably difficult to develop a uniform campus-wide morale. Care must be taken to prevent staff from feeling that they are unimportant, replaceable cogs in the great- universitymachine.

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Graphics One of the most repeated comments concerned the favorable appearance of university publications.

The clean, contemporary, and yet inexpensive designs developed by the university graphics designer, George Roth have provided a coordination of visual images in many printed materials; But not all departments within the university use this service.

They produce their own booklets and brochures with uneven results.

Ancillary enterprises Little complaint has been heard regarding the bookstore since the lowering of text book prices. The staff are considered friendly and helpful. Food-services is another area of operation which makes an impression on campus visitors, as well as faculty, staff and students. Here too the basic reaction is favourable.

Increased and efficient facilities have undoubtedly helped the staff do a better job, and appreciation was expressed by *many.

Security The student attitude toward the campus security force probably lies somewhere between the Chevron view and indifference. Within the community, however, we were asked how the university ’ justifies a police force half as large as that of the city of Waterloo.

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conimon relationships with industry must be kept strong.‘ This has benefits in graduate placement too. The value of the university to industry, not just as a training and re-training ground, and as a research must also ‘be emphasized; center, particularly as long as universities are very dependent upon this segment of the community for capital support dollars.

None of these remarks should be taken to imply that we advocate developing a public relations policy for its saleable value to the various publics, and then devising the academic programs necessary to make the public relations policy work. On the contrary, we believe that it is the responsibility of the senate and the faculties to determine academic policy and programs.

The job of the university relations program is to communicate these decisions to the publics so that they are understood and appreciated.

‘he student attitude toward the security force lies somewhere between T Chevron view and indifference,” says the report. Size of the force and rking regulations are still questioned, but improvements are noted. he information booth at the main entrance, staffed by a security icer, is a valuable addition. he current drive to ticket all illegally ked cars has again raised the question temporary parking areas, with pers 15 minute meters, an option I would improve r&lations between security force and the rest of the opus community. ?PUs

ta processing ne paradox of the university that 3 more teaching and research in lputer science being unable to propproduce student directory address 3 or simple fund-raising progress re;s causes disbelief and dismay. While university has every reason to be Id of the public recognition it has ?ived for its pioneering work inlputer science, it may receive more thwhile appreciation internally by leering the elimination of these jnically occurring faux-pas. native arts le-majority of the people in the comity interviewed. were totally unaware he scope of creative-arts activity. were surprised to learn that the or financial support came from the oration of Students.

A broader ?re of community awareness of the tive-arts programs, and the subseIt participation and support this reness would generate is necessary ie university is to fill its role as a ing cultural innovator within the munity. jistrar’s off ice uch of the student unrest prevalent ughout the country is rooted in rigs of alienation-both with society, with universities.

The registrar’s offor some years, has been viewed ,:t u d ents and faculty members as an :ious, impersonal bureaucracy.

Studcouncil has registered bfficial comnts in the past about the manner studinquiries were handled. Recently the ication forms for the Village and -ch college residences were sent to ;pective freshmen with the notation 1st

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the forms themselves were not availI until after that date. When comparing acknowledgement to their letter of iiry sent by the University of Waterloo 1 those of other universities, prospecstudents reported they got-the definimpression we did not care whether 1 came or not. Many local students of llarship calibre, said they were going #where because this impersonal conalong with the attitude of their ;hers, and their perception of the era1 community feeling toward the rersity left them the distinct impresI that it was a cold, impersonal place. deni affairs Iresent there are no formal avenues evelop meaningful relationships betn the student body and the commun-

ity. Most respondents had no awareness of the current tenor of student feelings toward society, particularly the reason for protests or demonstrations.

Many, however, expressed a desire for closer contact.

For businessmen part of this desire is in their own self-interest-they want to find out why many students have anti-business attitudes. Perhaps the time is ripe for the university to encourage the reactivation of a more meaningful form of the defunct “Town and Gown” committee.

The Federation of Students has not made public relations with the community a major priority, primarily because of a shortage of manpower, and the need to concentrate attention on more essential internal areas. Periodcially, the Chevron has considered extending its circulation to the general public to provide a student view. It is generally agreed, however, that the Chevron in its present form would , not fill this function satisfactorily.

Persons not fully conversant with the total university picture may get a distorted impression from casual observation of the Chevron. This concern for a wider circulation of the student views illustrates both a desire for better communication with the community, and a feeling that the university administration is not of assistance to them in this regard. The Federation of Students free high school tutoring program, potentially a pr gem, has never really got off the ground. It is virtually unknown in the high schools.

As students play an increasingly more involved role within the university they must also become a part of the university’s external relations. recommendations There are many justifications for the need to expand and up-grade the university’s public relations programs.

During the next fiscal year the, university will receive from the province for operating grants alone a sum equal to almost $3.00 per man, woman and child in Ontario.

Capital outlays raise the investment of each individual in the University of Waterloo even higher.

In return , the university has a responsibility and an obligation to inform all of its publics what is going on, what they are getting for their money.

One can also justify an improved effort in public relations on more pragmatic or materialistic grounds.

As mentioned earlier, the positive benefits from the myth of the good image are immeasurable. Such areas as off-campus student housing, municipal government relations, recruitment of non-teaching or professional staff, are dependent upon the cooperation and encouragement of the local community.

But this attitude does not arise on its own. The university must initiate the programs, and work very hard to elicit the desired response.

As other universities develop cooperative programs, competition for work-term employment will arise. Our

General reorganization The structure recommended for adoption consists of two parts-a man and a committee.

Ideally the man charged with the administrative responsibility for university relations should be a vice president functioning within the decision-making councils of the university, or a special assistant to the president.

The position would entail the administration, coordination and direction of activity within the sphere of university relations-information services, high school relations, extension and continving education programs, creativearts activities, development and fund-raising, alumni, government relations at all levels, liaison with student affairs.

An active standing committee on university relations can serve many valuable functions.

It can perform as a sensitizing body-perhaps as a kind of ombudsmanfor situations that may develop on campus that could become problems in internal and external relations if not rectified. To . that end, through its chairman, the committee would have powers of referral. The committee, undoubtedly, could serve as a communications channel in the opposite direction helping to develop better methods of informing all areas of the campus communit5y.

The University does not appear to have enunciated any statement of its philosophy that has made any discernible impression on the well informed local citizens interviewed.

Before a meanongful public relations program can be developed, the university must be clear on what it really wants to say, what image it wants to project.

Open House The Tenth Anniversary open-house in October, 1967 was the university’s singularly most successful vbnture in community relations.

One of the most expressed feelings about the university was that it was a remote place, both physically and sensitively. Most citizens have the idea visitors are not wanted on campus. Tied in with a generally more effective university relations program, future open-houses can do a great deal to remove this misconception, and to communicate the concepts, ideas, and activities of the university to an increasingly more involved community.

Open-house must be continued.

Reception within the university community was as enthusiastic as that experienced outside.

For the first time hundreds of staff people visited buildings other than those involved with their jobs. The tremendous cooperation given to last year’s committee should, by all indications, be available again in the future.

During the intervening years, minor open-hou ses would have considerable * merit.

High school day, part of last year’s open-house, should be an annual event.

Speakers bureau A permanent speakers bureau is needed that would maintain regular up-to-date lists of the executives of all area service clubs and community organizations; and a comprehensive list of all faculty, staff and students interested in speaking on subjects of special interest to them.

Television communication As the university expands it becomes increasingly difficult to communicate

view effectively the wide variety of meetings, special events, and other information that 3 happening campus generates, some of it on short notice. We recommend that a feasibility study be made on using one of the channels in the university’s closed circuit television system as a kind of perpetual billboard. TV sets could be located in the campus center, the Village, several other key locations of population concentration. and in the future administration building.

Items such as class cancellations or change of room, daily events. etc. could be communicated instantly with such a system. It is time to get information not just from paper but from the electronic media.

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Persoial annual reports, such as those used in the flip-chart fund-raising talks, should be continued to key people in a variety of the university’s publics. These reports, while using visual aids, should attempt to be interpretative as well as statistical.

A concise copy of the substance of the personal talk should be available for distribution after each presentation.

Convocation Of prime importance at convocation are the graduates, their parents, wives and immediate family. Such occurrences as parents having to watch their child’s graduation on closed circuit television is . one use of the media that should not happen. Some investigation should be given to adding a little more showmanship and staging to convocation.

Openness We have alluded to the lack of reliable information on the directions the university is taking as an integral factor in the problem of poor relations, and often mistrust of administrative decisions.

University of Waterloo is a public trust.

Secret decision-making by absentee proprietors who have little relationship to the spirit of the campus in all its areas is undesirable.

It is not within the frame of reference of this report to comment on the mechanics of university government.

Regardless of who is ultimately responsible for final decisions, however, they must experience something more than token involvement to adequately understand what they govern.

Meetings of the board of governors and the senate should be open to observers and the press. Confidential or difficult matters only should be left to the privacy of committee.

At the very least, members of the board of governors should hold periodic open forums, and become a visible presence on campus, and vocal supporters of the university within the community.

Accessibility We are advocating that university officials, president, vicepresidents, deans, etc. regularly block off in their calendar times when they will sit in the coffee shops, or the campus center, or stroll around the campus with no particular destination in mind, or leave their office door open to anyone who wants to drop in. On a campus of 7000 students it is unrealistic to think the president could know every student, or even ten percent of the students, on a first name basis. But a good percentage of the students (and staff -and faculty too) would like to at least recognize their seniors when they see them Conclusions The scope of university relations is as broad as the university itself. The relationship of the university to its many publics is one of constantly changing interpretation.

It is aimed at specific objectives-fund-raising, high school recruitment, open-house. It is the attempt to assert the intellectual leadership of the university in the community; it is the continuing contribution to the total community, socially, intellectually, culturally, and economically.

It is all of these things. It is not, as more than one professional man described it, “just a helluva lot of buildings, people and money. ” Friday,

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by Mary .Hamlin

are labored and not always forthcoming.

The scene is one of the classes of the English language seminar being held in Renison College during, May and June.

The more than 40 students participating have been divided into four classes according to their fluency in English.

This class needs the most attention and the students are encouraged to speak out on simple topics.

After a short .discussion on vocabulary associated with hosnitals and illnesses. the class was asked to write a short composition explaining their symptoms to a,doctor.

This was obviously not a popular request because a few students looked blankly at each other and one complained that he was not ready to write and wanted further discussion.

Students today prefer to learn

I’ll give you two minutes to look at this, then I want each of you to think of a sentence to describe it”.

The young Canadian teacher’ s holds up a picture of an Indian warrior brave in colourful garb, -seemingly occupied in a war dance or some other strenuous .exerci se.

He has a gyrating hoop or. ring around one leg.

“He looks like my friend”, comes the first tentative offering.

- “He plays the hula hoop”.

“I think he wears orange trousers but I have not got my... (gesture to eyes to my...my..” indicate spectacles), explains a _ ’ pretty Vietnamese girl. ’ ’ After correcting the grammar ’ in these sentences, the students are asked to incorporate the words ‘snow’ and ‘bird’ in furThe answers ther sentences.

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a new language by speech rather than by reading and writing.

As with young children learning to speak, the reading and writing can wait.

Many students in language courses at university level complain about the lack of emphasis on’ actual speaking and discussion, in the foreign tongue, and feel inhibited when they travel, not being able to use their hard-earned vocabulary in simple conversation.

One girl from Thailand complained that she was not given enough assistance in the language laboratory and that she recitt d the words without knowing whether she pronounced them correctly or not.

She added that six weeks were not enough in which to improve her .English noticeably before returning to McGill University.

Another Thai student put most of the blame on the students themselves.

He explained that they gravitate to their own ethnic groups and as soon as classes. are over, can be heard talking to each other in their own languages.

Professor Harry Tuyn, director of the seminar classes, agreed that this is a major handicap in the student’s development.

He has taught English to foreign students for twentyfive years, mainly in England and has used a system where any student caught talking in the corridors in a language

.other than English was- fined a shilling.

This did have some effect since- it hit the students where it hurt most.

The proceeds went towards a party at the end of the course.

There were also a number of positive responses from the students.

The most . advanced class was struggling with the subtle differences between “It might have rained” and It could have rained” or “What do we do now” and “What shall we do now”. The discussion was carried on earnestly as they left the classroom.

Father Bill Townson of Renison was appointed “the students’ friend” and has organized evening activities including volleyball, soccer and a twenty-questions pr.ogram.

He was pleased with a sing-song evening when Vietnamese songs were attempted Excursions to Niagara, Brantford, the Lake Huron coast, Stratford and the KitchenerWaterloo area are guided by Canadian students. . In all, the six-week program is aimed at fitting in as much activity as possible outside of the classes and language lab, while leaving sometime for each student’s own interests.

The majority of the forty students come from South and North Vietnam, Thailand and Africa with one, each from Korea, Persia and Japan.

Most came to Canada because they were fluent in French but were

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Council members face a packed agenda after almost two months away from federation business.

Summer meetings were instituted by last year’s council and proved highly successful in continuing the’ momentum started in the March and April meetings and in planning programs for the fall and winter.

According to federation president Brian Iler, the main business will concern reassessment of priorities of council which lead to budgetary revisions.

“We may be moving more money into education and there’s also the problem that last year’s surplus isn’t quite as big as anticipated. ” Council will also be examining the housing problem-on and off campus, next year’s quality of education ‘program and its proposed fall teach-in and the university government study committee’s long-awaited report now being prepared. ’ High school organizing will occupy councillors’ time as they consider following the leads of several other Ontario universities in involving themselves in secondary edvcation. r

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While some are eager to avail themselves of the advantages of learning another language, others appear to regard the seminar as a paid holiday. y Fees ‘for the seminar amount to $335 but most students have come to Canada on scholarships and grants such as the Colombo Plan and have had their seminar fees paid as a necessary aid to their education.

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The ability to psych out OPponents in any sporting event has been said to be half the especially in the case game, of one Muhammad Ali-or is it Cassius Clay ? It would follow then, that people who dabble in psychology would be more inclined to psych out their opponents and so be more successful.

Whether psychic ability or good baseball was used by

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the psychology grads is not known.

What is known is that they are on top of the intramural softball league with 11-7 and 11-O victories over Eng. rads and Pritchards respectively.

Second place is shared by Eng. grads, Math 2B, Phys.

Ed. and St. Paul?.

Architecture, the Gold$ and Pritchards occupy bottom spot with O-2 won-lost records.

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The tournament was scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, but owing to the small turnout it was cut to the One day.

Axe1 Larsen made it through a final three man round robin set to take an intramural tennis tournament last Monday.

Larsen, a member of last year’s intercollegiate tennis squad, defeated-Bert Chan and Pete Fox by identical 6-2 scores.

Chan took the runner-up position by beating Fox 6-l.

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Play to 6-l.

Doug Irving promptly The University squad had became closer as both teams struck out the next two batjust taken a short-lived 1-O warmed up despite the cold ters to retire the side. lead their first time at bat, wind.

Capitalizing on a single in when powerful left fielder Lorne In the second inning each Ron Nichols Johnson, playing his second squad went down three in a the sixth inning, game as a Warrior, hit a row, with Warriors’ Ron Nichols stole two bases and slid home on an overthrow, making the single with the bases loaded on making a fast double play from walks.

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-.-::: Communications between the student body and the intramural department is a chronic problem.

Small notices on inconspicuous bulletin boards and plugs from sports pages have been the only media telling of the availability of participation sports to students.

Intramural participation has been limited to a diehard group.

Admittedly, it has improved yearly but not proportionally to the increased student enrollment.

This lack of communication is partially the athletic administration’s fault. The swamping of intramural bulletins in the phvsits foyer by ‘n’ number of

Honda for sale ads shouldn’t happen.

The major problem, however, lies in the campus’ disunity, the distance of of Seagram gym from the campus, and the lack of facilities at the gym.

Who wants to go over to Seagram to play basketball for half an hour when it takes just as much time to walk And, even if one over there? doesn’t mind walking, the gym is rarely available during the fall and winter terms.

If there is no incenture, the concentration of stumass dents d.esirable for advertisement is not there.

This is where communication

TRUDEAU

comes in. If people aren’t around they’re not going to know what is going on. If they are around, then their attention should be attracted by something more than a blue sheet of paper among a dozen other ads. the new physed Fortunately, building will remedy this situation.

More facilities will be available for more people in a central location.

This advantage should not be wasted.

Large, colorf ul bulletin boards with separate areas fcr varsity and intramural sports should be made available there.

Existing boards should be enlarged so that more students can see what is available

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The referee’s decision to call the game came when Warrior ‘Paddy’ McEvoy and an Abex halfback jostled each other and traded words.

Warriors were leading industrial soccer league game 6-2. This was the culmination of several events that are not common in North American or European soccer.

Abex protested vehemently but got nowhere as the conversation lapsed into German, which the referee couldn’t understand.

In the first half both sides were warned if rough play persisted the game would be called.

The decision was as unpopular with fans as the players.

The general concensus was that the referee should have ejected the offending players.

The Warriors opened the scoring when Tony Bachler took Ontario Phone

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a Reed rebound off the crossbar and put it behind the surprised Abex goaltender.

Abex tied the game several minutes later, but the Warriors regained the lead as DeSilva netted a goal before the end of the half.

In the second half center forward Dave Day took a pass from DeSilva, who had muscled through three Abex defenders, to beat the Abex goaler on a clear shot from about 15 years out.

DeSilva was hurt late in the game and it is not known, whether he will play the next game.

The winner of the game is still in doubt. The rules state that if a game is called within 37 minutes of its completion it shall be awarded to the team in the lead provided that it ‘is not penalized for the termination. The decision rests with league officials.

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No. The Chevron is too widely read outside the university and we have to protect our image.

1 Why not? I don’t : see anything wrong with it.

It’s only a word.

Bill Clayton chemistry

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like It looks

If it fits the context, why not?

I have no objections as long as you’re not using them just for the sake. of using them.

The past few weeks have been rather eventful on the international and local newsfronts.

Rumour has it that the poor postal ,employees in Ottawa are getting overburdened with campaign leaflets to deliver in addition to all the propaganda being sent out by the members of the present house who are hoping to retain their $18,000 + incidentals a year job in their O.H.M.S. governmental brown envelopes.

Never could understand why their envelopes weren’t squeuschcoloured anyway but some day they too will be caught up in the psychedelic craze that is now sweeping the more conservative older generation.

Anyway. these postal authorities are getting a little fed up (in Snu Pee dialect-piddled off) and they have decided that the efficient method to get their way is by a full-scale slowdown if that’s possible.

By the way, are the campus correspondence carriers consolidated compatriots members of the Canadian brotherhood of postal carriers associated association?

ADVICE. TO THE FOURTH FLOOR-don’t get too concerned about the possible side effects of the world-wide student revolution that hasn’t hit U’loo yet because your greatest threat lies on the ground floor of your ivory tower (or birthday cake which ever suits your fancy)-that’s where the campus mailroom is.

SOLUTION-to be used by the fourth floor only-surprise the enemy with great concessions and set an example to be followed by those in the greatest of the great doghouses on top of yonder Parliament Hill beside the great monumental edif ice to Capitalist Party of Canada. the Mint (no. no Charlie. it’s not like the Gingerbread House! ) And everyone

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No. They’re ok’ in speech but I don’t like it in print.

Yes, I don’t believe in censorsship. /

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No, I don’t swearing. like hell.

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to

complain about the waste of good personel being used to guard and protect the candidates for the position of chief beaurocrat in the Dominion of Canada before the showdown.. . . ‘tis an unfortunate consequence of the occasional irrational action to the south.

Well. here at U’loo we have a very simple solution-start drafting members for the judo club’.. . there will probably be enough capable members to provide bodyguards for all the positions open for contention-like the dean- of science-right Dr. Eydt-too bad it is sometimes necessary to give up one position to become eligible for another.

MORP L: always walk softly and carry a big stick-( so YOU can throw it and I can fetch it for you when you feel playful ) .

To a sweeter note and the great debate by the potential chief beaurocrats of the Dominion-it was interesting to notice how they all tried to create the impression that they were in a position to speak on behalf of their party should they be fortunate to become the leader of the .good guys. Do you really think that any of them could possibly swing the tail of their cabinet let alone the whole party in the house? Poor old Trudeau would be lost if there wasn’t a kissable female in the house.

Still very limited action on the local market with the shares in the judo club soaring to new heights on 5peculation of their new founded justification for existing-also up are the shares of the ex-warden of the Village in return for his great exhibition of fore-thought in resigning in anticipation of greater fruits in yon garden. An there are still two sides to a hole (just like a doghouse) and there’s a door in between.

House mother says thanx: betrays true feel;ngs I wish to thank the Chevron for valuable services rendered to the office of the dean‘ ‘of women with a splendid piece of research concerning women’ s residence rules. (May 31) Note: no dress regulations in those days, and no mention of visiting hours.

Perhaps ‘we are being too strict.

HILDEGARD MARSDEN Dean of women Adapt to changing times, orthdoxies qu&ionable McLachlin (feedFor Mr. back, June 7) to claim the resources of resistance to nazism were provided by a profoundly realistic Christianity, is an oversimplification of history.

The rise and fall of nazism was a purely political phenomenon, based on fierce nationalism.

The overwhelming military might of the allied powers had the final say, although nazism as a political philosophy could not have lasted longer. It was the conscience of the world which claimed the victory over irrational fanaticism.

The failure of the orthodoxies refered to by Mr. McLachlin is quite predictable.

The validity of some of the religious ideas and principles has become questionable with advances in natural sciences and the changed social and environmental conditions.

It is not true that the younger North American generation is purely materialistic in its attitude toward life. Try to explain the massive trend towards eastern philosophy and the philosophy of compassion and love preached by the hippies?

Perhaps. what is required is not a renewal of the HebrewChristian orthodoxies, but an adaptation to the changing times-to the realities of man’s capacity to excel in thinking.

The possibility, that the underdeveloped nations of the world facing a population explosion are put to more hardship--for

no justifiable reason--by sticking to the orthodoxies on birth contrcl, is depressing.

Harry Emerson Fosdick‘s point is noteworthy : “Christians are supposed not ‘- to merely endure change, nor even profit by it, but to cause it. ” J. R. MURTHY grad chemistry Faculty assoc observer challenges Hagey’s point Your front-page story ‘New fark fees...’ (May 31) contains a suggestion

by President Hagey that is quite erroneous.

He is quoted as saying, “I think it was certainly the view of the faculty association representatives present that this was a compromise that should be acceptable. ” This is highly inaccurate.

There was one faculty association observer , present, myself.

In the meeting, I said I was present as an observer only (in place of Prof Robert Huang wlo was attending the CAUT conference in. Ottawa).

I tabled the statement of the faculty association position and requested that it be entered in the minutes.

From that point on, I did not speak or vote, as correctly reported

by Steve Ireland later in the article.

It is astonishing to me in view of the above that President Hagey could hold his stated opinion.

Since this matter is obviously not yet settled, ‘I think it is important to clarify the- role and actions of the faculty association observer at the May 27 operations council meeting.

J. D. FORD assistant professor them eng The student not rigger says reformer phi/ prof After reading the Chevron’s continuing saga of student activism, it strikes me today’s student radical has an intense desire to be black.

Here’s the chap at Toronto who rips up his diploma and exhorts his

“fellow niggers’:.

Then the “Col- ’ umbia revolution” where cami pus radicals unite with ’ their black brothers against the -forces of’ leather-clad, four-mouthed New York police.

‘Why this fascination with black, this longing to stand arm in arm under the banner of nigger?

I suspect the student activist wants to associate his plight with that of the negro because he lacks’ long-range solutions The negro’ s to his problems. cause is clear-cut and his problems are in need of immediate alleviation.

The situ; tion of the student ’ is not so well-defined.

His classes are too big, boring, impersonal; he feels cut off from the lifelines of society.

True enough; but what exactly is the problem?

What should happen at university, why, when, how? , The school experience like any other is one that men reflect , upon and attempt to improve.

What bothers me about most student protests is that not much serious reflection has taken place.

Instead we get a superficial ca taloging of problems coupled with a demand for immediate solutions.

The activist’s fascination with black stems in part from his opting for the immediate solution because he has not reflected nor experienced enough to formulate any long-range solutions to his problems.

I find , myself increasingly annoyed by the heroic chronicles of student revolution and the attempts to identify the student’s plight with that of the nigger.

Ripping up diplomas and liberating school buildings are but flashy gestures--a poor substitute for meaningful reflection and long-range proposals. Giving them such ample Iress coverage only distracts the serious student radical (and his faculty counterpart) from consideration of the more difficult issues 9 involved.

BRIAN HENDLEY assistant professor philosophy

Davidsodler

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clean up

Davidson-ller report on the university’s public image has brought to the fore numerous administrative problems which we have long been aware of and which have been damaging the efficient opwation of this university as well as its public image.

So what? Do students and faculty really want to take .the time to make sure that the bureaucracy functions smoothly. Is there really any reason why they should waste valuable hours trying to put to an end those many little quips about physical-plant and planning’s inefficencies.

funds to work with, and it cannot afford to lose donations because of a poor public image. Nor can it afford to waste_ grants on .inefficiency.

There can really be only one’ justification for spending time on such projects-that the awards of increased efficiency can be channelled into the purchase of books or other academic benefits.

The purpose of the administration should be to take out of the hands of the academics are the petty problems involved in housekeeping. Since the housekeeping expenses detract from its capabilities to buy more relevent things they must be watched. But our time too is valuable.

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But in all this beware that our goal must not become the creation of a perfect bureaucratic machine simply because one is sitting there waiting for perfection. Be aware as well that the point of diminishing returns is quickly reached in our pursuit of efficiency. This is particularly true when our faculty and- student leaders spend their time perfecting the administrative system instead of the educative one.

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father, of federation

Few people on- campus est in the overall condition of the remember ihis fall will student and his relationship to Gerry Mueller, president of the society. In September over two . Federation of Students, 1965-66. thousand students marched into Yet Gerry is probably the man Waterloo to protest an election most responsible for getting the act ruling that ‘forced them to federation on its feet. return to their homes if they wished to excercise their franHis ,was, the first full year of chise in the upcoming election. operation under the new constitution-r e c e n t 1 y incorporated Gerry graduated in chemical into the newer charter and by-laws engineering with an A average of the corporation. It was, in fact, and’ left for England on an Athhis council that first recommendlone fellowship. ed incorporating.

Gerry Mueller deserves lastMueller ‘had the first budget ing recognition for the work he to ‘go over a hundred thousand did for the students of this dollars, he headed the first fight university.

Under a standing to keep the graduates in the policy adopted by last year’s federation.

“His most lasting council he is now eligible for a achievement may well be the , honorary membership in the Fedwork he did to get the campus eration of Students.

We hope center going. student council will see fit to make -him one of the first to It was in his year that council started to take an active interreceive this honor.

It’s over

Clique or united front?

It is fairly common to hear students refer to the senior student council members and Chevron staff as a ruling clique of little* relevance to the general student body. / This remark is not without justification.

Student leaders, like society’s leaders, tend to become a *group well known to <each other. This results from their having to work closely together on many mutual problems.

Even in the beginning they have similar interests that lead them to seek participation.

After being in the game awhile they develop an expertise.

They read books and articles, they learn from experience, they become more sophisticated in dealing with problems that often appear simple on the surface.

Many eventually become close friends as they get to know each other. ’ But does this make them an irrelevant clique. 3 We don’t think so.

On this campus both the coun-

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cil offices and the newspaper offices are wide open to new volunteers.

It ‘is important to note that the thrust of council’s many activities is aimed at the whole student body. Regrettably, this just doesn’t seem to sink in, no matter how many times it is spewed forth in the pages of the paper.

Few people on campus realize, even today, that the creative arts board and all its theater productions, are federation sponsored-we wonder if the- board even realizes it. Fewer still realize the unseen benefits that result from the federation’s quality of education programs and its general watchdogging for the student body. Lower book store prices, a bus service, lower tuition are ,a few examples Informed criticism is desperately needed and volunteers even more so. But remember-the best ‘way to see things improved is to pitch in and help.

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It’s just plain ridiculous + University Ijolicies and procedures put teaching ability second in faculty salary-raising’criteria.

Research is first.

* Nominations, are now being ‘accepted for your worst profwinners get the title acanefiic of the week. ’

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He lasted a week: acting chairman of the board of publicati:ons: Joe Givens 7200 copies Superstaff this week: John Pickles, Jim Detenbeck, Kent Stokholm, Mary Hamlin, Cyril Levitt, HARLEY-DAVIDSON, Dave Young, Eleanor Peavoy, Ken Dickson, Greg Wormald, Jock Mullin, Mike Church, One of these weeks we’ll finally get orgelized.

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PERSONAL _ Le liberation sera venu. Fort Stanton first. Vive le Waterloo libre. Code Jennifer.

S&udg .the WYdUZ#iiie .,-at . \ -Waterloo Join us at the \ / ~’, ON

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THURSDAY’

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If no nominations are forth-coming, i the seat may be de&red vacant for the balance of the term. of: The

ROOFING CEREMONY co-op’s Philip kstreet bring a hardhat, 2 pm.

DANCE on Village rooftop with Major Hoople’s boarding house.

Indoors if bad weather, 8:30-l.

Nominations for Co-op Mathematics have been -extended to THURSDAY, JUNE 20. Forms are available in the Federation in the Campus Centre and should be returned to that office.

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