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Hagey may .retire within University president Gerry Hagey is letting it be known that he is con sidering retirement . According to a senior administration official Hagey has told a number of the members of the president’s council to spread a rumor of his impending resignation. Hagey wanted the story to slowly leak out instead of announcing it in a surprise press release, the source indicated. He intends to await agreement on a replacement procedure and then make the official announcement. Contacted at his home Hagey said, “When I consider the time is right I will retire but I have not considered any date.
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“I think there is very good reason to continue in this office until such time as the senate sub-committee on university government reports and a replacement procedure is accepted. ” “I certainly am not considering holding office through to retirement age.” Normal retirement would be 68. Hagey is now 63. Our source indicated, however, that Hagey has definitely told people to spread the story that he will announce his retirement as soon as the replacement procedure is agreed upon. When asked, operations vicepresident Al Adlington confirmed that this was Hagey’s intention.
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EDMONTON (CUP)-Two students will begin attending board of governors meetings at the University of Alberta-but not as members, just invited consultants. In the announcement Saturday, the board indicated the students would become full members as soon as the universities act in Alberta is changed. The two consultants will be members of student council, appointed by student council..
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The move has been discussed for several months. U of A has three students already sitting on its general faculty council, but the universities act did not allow student representation on the board. U of A is one of the first Canadian universities to accept students on its board. It is also one of the first to seat students on its academic decision-making body-the general faculty council.
Adlington has been a close associate of the president since the founding of the university over ten years ago. Since the subcommittee is expected to report in October, Hagey,‘s retirement would probably come in September of 1969. This would allow time for a new president to be found. Rumors about Hagey’s retirement and about possible replacements have been circulating since Hagey entered hospital to have his cancerous .larynx removed early last fall. The operation forced the president to learn a new method of speaking by forcing air through his esophagus. Although he is now able to make himself understood in quiet surroundings, he . feels that the problem has interfered with his effectiveness in the fund drive. “The president just can’t be replaced in the fund drive because of the title,” Hagey said. Hagey’s back yard isn’t the happiest right now either. Arts dean Sayer Minas is known to be upset over Hagey’s allowing the Federation of Students to incorporate and still receive the mandatory activities fee. Adlington is upset over Hagey’s release of the Davidson-Iler report on university relations. The report was highly critical of the
Cops converged on this Negro student when they found him on a Berkeley street after curfew.
copsstoprally: BERKELEY, California (CUPI) -Demonstrations plus cops led to riots and then a curfew, but peace is slow to return to this northern California university city. Demonstrations by a student group supporting the anti-Gaulists in France had led to rioting. A curfew was imposed Saturday night to help curtail the violence. On Tuesday, more than 1000 persons crowded the city council meeting and demanded that the curfew be lifted. They also wanted the ban on loudspeakers on the street removed and permission given for a rally the following day. Much of this violence was spark-
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ed by the treatment of persons by the police. During the curfew, several students were beaten and many non-students arrested. Over the weekend two thousand activists fought police equipped with tear gas and clubs. Berkeley mayor Wallace Johnson was jostled and spat upon Sunday night while watching a demonstration. The rioters have now set up a command headquarters outside the curfew zone and plan to operate beyond the city limits. The riots began when the police broke up a peaceful rally by students near the Berkeley campus.
start Police decided to break up the group of 1000 after announcing with bullhorns that no permit had been obtained for the rallywhich in their opinion was blocking the sidewalks and street. Using tear gas and riot tactics, they bagan to disperse the crowd. Groups of demonstrators retreated up’streets, some pushing cars into intersections to form baricades. - According to police spokesmen, the campus and smashed windows in Sproul Hall and the student union building. They were driven off by helmeted police advancing in skirmish lines.
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image of many of the university’s departments. The job of university president has changed drastically in recent years, Hagey feels, and he realizes that there have been some rough spots . “The life of a university president in the next ten years will be drastically different than in the last ten,” Hagey said. “The type of problems he will be facing are ones for which there is very little precedent.”
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No dances rn gymmust protect floor There won’t be any dances in the new athletic building-unless modern technology and money come to the rescue. The floor in the gym must be covered or it will be damaged by street shoes. The building doesn’t come equipped with a covering for the floor suitable for dancing. There will be some kind of floor covering to allow use of the gym for registration or concerts however. “We’ve been asking them about floor coverings suitable for dances for a year now,” said federation vicepresident Tom Patterson, “They always said they didn’t have any plans yet.” When federation president Brian Iler received no reply to the building for the non-athletic an April 4 memo asking about the programs-“It’s unesthetic, has floor, he looked into possible solbad accoustics, is not very comforutions himself. table for concerts; it’s just like a The most feasible solution was big barn...It was designed as a a very hard varnish, and informagymnasium, teaching building, tion on,it was sent by Iler to physand for recreation.” ed school director Dan Pugliese. Pugliese said, “It’s been sent He also emphasized that outside use disrupted the phys-ed to the architects to see if it will do the job. school. “Students in professional programs suffer from scheduling “But even if it would work it can’t be used. The original stanchanges. Gym work is like laboratory work to them. It also puts dard finish has already been pressure on the instructors.” ordered and we’d have to pay for He said free-time use of the both. “We’ve already overspend for building was important. “On a the proposed floor covering (some Saturday night when there’s nothing else to do, rather than sort of vinyl mat for registration, concerts, and exams). This money having a concert or dance in the gym, maybe it should be open has to come from the equipment budget...and anyway it’s for the for people to come in and play basketball.” use of groups outside physical In reply, Iler said, “I think education.” Iler was extremely upset, esa $5000 concert should take priority over a few students pecially because the federation had to do the searching for soluplaying basketball. We wouldn’t need the gym more than eight tionswhen physical-plant and times in the next two terms planning has the bureaucracy to do such thingsonly to be told it anyway* Seagram gym is still available. was too late. Pugliese said unless someone Also, most of the federation activities take place on weekends found money to pay for the finish now ordered, the hard finish and wouldn’t interfere with scheduled classes-at least I couldn’t possibly be used until the floor needed refinishing. hope phy sled doesn’t have The problem of frequency of classes Saturday nights. “Regardless of shortcomings, non-athletic use of the building has apparently been settled. the new gym will be much better for student activities than anyA proposed policy limits student use to the major social thing else in the K-W area. And we won’t have to pay exorbitant weekends, with other major sturents-up to $1700 for the K-W dent use open to negotiation. auditorium. Pugliese went to great detail This means more in trying to discourage use of money for student activities.”
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Murch wins math by a mile Ron Murch won yesterday’s co-op math byelection by a landslide. Murch, in 3A, took the seat with almost 80 percent of the votes cast. This gives him a mandate even larger than federation president Brian Iler, who got 75 percent in the January election. Murch received 125 votes, followed far behind bv Shan Pinker-
ton with 12, Larry Burko 10 and Alan Pinck 4. A total of 157 out of 224 eligible voted. There were six spoiled ballots. The big turnout was partially attributed to a large number of ‘Get the hell out and vote’ posters in the math building. They were put up Wednesday night by candidates Murch and Burko.
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p/W ,to stay ahead of, student powef (Staff ) -Univer sity TORONTO of Toronto president Claude Bissell may want student activism but he wants to stay ahead of it. He said last week that university administrators have about two years to get the jump on student must figure out power-they what students will demand and find ‘the answers, or be forced to accept student solutions. He expects protest marches and sit-ins during the coming academic year. Bissell, does not see as extreme a situation developing in Canada as in the U.S. because students ’ are not surrounded by the Vietnam war and racial struggles. He sets first priority on getting the university moving quickly to anticipate student demands and provide solutions. “If the university accepts solutions under duress it is cooperating in its own undoing. ” Bissell plans to spend less time as an administrator and more in making himself known to the academic community-both professors and students. The University of Toronto staff will be expected to take time to talk to students about questions bothering them, he said.
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George Roth and Robert Murray, Waterloo’s English department and arts faculty are supporting , graphic services, are the designer and illustrator. Stone is CCTE’s a new Canadian magazine, the vicepresident. English quarterly. The magazine’s first issue last The magazine, whose purpose week dealt with English teaching is to improve English teaching from kindergarten to the PhD at all education levels, is the level. It included articles by official publication of the Canauniversity professors and high’ dian council of English teachers. school and elementary teachers. The CCET appointed Waterloo Immediate circulation is 500. Stone hopes the magazine will profs Jim Stone and Roman Dubinski editor and assistant qualify for a Canada Council grant. editor. Two more Waterloo types,
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buildingOur old home-the federation may be rotting a little and just a bit of a traffic hazard, but it can be useful. Wednesday night it was officially declared a bulletin board by the Aryan Affairs Commission. AJJ notices must have removal date stamped on.
Community college prez quits, blasts uovernors for meddling SARNIA (Staff)-The meddling hobbyists of Lambton College’s board of governors have dictated their last order to their administration lackey-college president William Franke. Franke quit his post last week charging dictatorial and prolonged meddling from the board of governors of Lambton College of applied arts ;ind technology. H-e had been president since the college’s establishment two years ago.
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“The board should operate on the advice of the college, but here we have a dictatorship and under a dictatorship the college cannot flourish. “It tells me what we should teach, and how we should teach. I am supposed to be a president but they treat me like a servanta lackey. “The board fails to realize the college eliists for the wellbeing of the people, ndt to serve the political or personal ambitions of any individual on the board or in the college. “Personally I’ve had enough of dictatorships in my life,” said German-born Franke. He said the board should understand that their task is to set an over sall policy. They should refrain from telling specialists how to do their jobs. Franke called board members hobbyists. He said they had a curriculum committee consisting
of two farmers and a housewife. This committee had thrown out courses that were very popular. Student president Colin MacGregor sided with Franke. He said, “The board of governors seems to want a puppet in the president’s office. The man who resigned was certainly not that. The board cannot be allowed to replace him with a puppet. “I, would personally like to see the student body represented on the board of governors. The college is an educational institution, not a factory, and it should not be treated as one.” College treasurer Louis Eddy was also on Franke’s side. He had said that efficiency was not the goal of the college, and if it was they would have a intentional dictatorship. The board however has accepted Franke’s resignation as president and announced the appointment of dean George Delgrosso as interim president.
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“It’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. Council considers political awareness more important than involvement in creative arts. They decided one area of student life, political involvement , was suffering, so they cut back another area. The education program should have been started more slowly. ” This was the reaction of Neil McLaren, former rep to the creative arts board, to Student council’s initiation last week of a program in education research and reform. The funds for this program will come mainly from budget cuts in cr&ative arts and the board of student activities. The creative arts budget has been cut by $5000.
“We were told in March we had a certain amount of money to work with,” McLaren said. “You don’t just change the budget after it has been set. Council is trying to be a business. That’s not how you run a business. “We have budgeted to the last penny, and $5000 can’t just come from nowhere. ”
McLaren added, “Creative Arts was not aware that council priorities were being discussed, we were not invited to the meeting.” However three executives of creative arts were at the council meetingJohn Koval, chairman, Geoff Roulet, former viceand Stan Suda, chairman, treasurer. Apparently they did not communicate with the board. Paul Berg, director of creative arts, and Brian Iler, federation president, intend to ask the university next week for a subsidy for the art program. The theme of council’s new program will be freedom in education. Tom Patterson, federation vicepresident and co-chairman of the new board, outlined plans being considered. l A major project will be teacher-training. “We want to get potential teachers together with people from free schools like students Everdale, interested and teachers from high schools, graduate students and faculty.” They will toss about ideas on teaching methods. l The teach-in on education contemplated earlier by Council
The rush for off-campus housing this September will be hectic as usual said Mrs. Edith Beausoleil head of the university housing service. She is unable to predict the actual extent of the housing shortage. “It is too early to say how the situation this year compares with previous years. “We at the housing service have been doing all we can,” she said. “We are finding new places and trying to improve the situation for students where landlords impose strict rules.” “A press and radio campaign is planned to persuade more homeowners to take in students. If the situation gets bad enough we will go to the churches and speak to the householders from the pulpit,” she said. On the proposal that the housing service should amalgamate with the housing service of WLU Mrs. Beausoleil is strongly opposed. “They are out of their cotten picking minds,” she said. “The university would not benefit at all. I have to turn away many
students from Lutheran who come here for our housing list.” 6n the housing service merger, university president Gerry Hagey said, “It could be at least coordinated in some way.. . merging is a possibility of course.” . Mrs. Margaret Lippert, head of the housing service at WLU is more optimistic about the situation. “It will be bad, a busy time”, . she said, “but the situation will be better than last year. We have far more places than last year”. She points out that she has many more people who will take in students temporarily. “None of our students will need to sleep on park benches.” Mrs. Lippert thinks that the proposed coalition of the housing services would be a good thing. “It would be good for public relations,” she said, “But we would have to come to some ,agreement on policy.” She said that freshmen ’ at WLU had to live in residence, or at home if they live in the area. Their off-campus housing lists include only housing that the university has checked and approved.
Course-computer combo calculates conflicts In the first computer run of changes in faculty members. the arts, math, science and co-op Students wanting courses that chemistry timetables for the were dropped are being notified. next academic year produced The final timetable will be conflicts in over half of the ready in mid-August,after the individuals’ timetables. r,esults of supplementals are But the draft timetable will be known. sent back to. the faculty to be The five percent with conflicts corrected-and the conflict rate can change courses either before should be reduced to five peror after registration. cent. The registrar noted one proIn a progress report, regisblem that has caused some antrar Trevor Boyes and academic xiety among students getting services director Pat Robertson marks-some got “did not write” noted that most of the bureau- \ marked for courses where the prof cratic problems were being solgot the marks in late. ved in PASS-the Purdue acaWith the start of the course demic scheduling system, in use system this past year, the failure for the first time this year. rate has been drastically lowSince preregistration in March, ered. Only about 10 students 15 changes have been made in were refused readmission for courses offered, mainly due to September.
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will be dropped in favor of a year-long teach-in called “University, the contemporary zoo”. Each event in this series will be called a cage, each one dealing with a particular aspect of the “freedom” theme. George Loney, chairman of orientation ‘68 described the first cage, which will take place during orientation. “The theme of freedom will be developed by mixed media. The simultaneous use of different media such as TV and films is ideal for bringing out contradictions between what people do and what they say-rhetoric versus reality.” “We’re not pretending to be unbiased,” Loney continued. “We want people to make up their own minds instead of listening to lectures.” l Also under consideration is an experimental college where students will organize their dwn seminar groups and experiment with methods in education: l The board will contact and help highschool students interested in reform. They will be encouraged to work on supplements to the Chevron to be distributed
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in highschools. l In the area of professorevaluation, the board hopes to put out a number of anticalendars, containing constructive criticism of some of the courses. These will be helpful to faculty as well as students. “We have hundreds of plans. We don’t know yet which things we’ll be dong,” Patterson said. Neil McLaren felt that by reallocating funds, Council was negletting another important part of education. “The music and drama programs may have to .be cut out. We look highschoolisk enough as it is,” he said. “There is no point in putting on performances if we do a lousy job. “We could cut out the noonhour programs. But it is these which break people in, giving them experience before small audiences. There is no use carrying on performances,” our noon-hour McLaren said. “Music and drama are an essential part of education. People learn to be social by working together. And let’s face it,” he added, “Canada hasn’t got that many professional artists. Where
are they going to come from? “It was not a wise move for Council to reari-ange its priorities at this time,” he said with some bitterness. “If only they would get out of their corner in the campus center and see how the rest of the people are living!” However, Patterson said the budget cut is meant as far as passible to affect the professional programs of creative arts rather than the student programs. For the immediate year ahead this will be difficult because most of the profes sibnal performers have already been contracted. The reasons for undertaking the project at this point were explained by Iler. “The University of Waterloo is in real danger of becoming a mediocre university. It is losing its enthusiasm and receptiveness to new ideas. “Any meaningful change must come from the students. Students are not aware of the alternatives in education or of the power they could use to effect them. In engineering the faculty are more radical than the students. “These are the things we want to correct if we can. ” Friday,
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Explorer V//l, the largest of the Great Lakes Institute’s boats stationed at the Baie Du Dore camp, passes one of the four towers in the lake. The towers contain instruments and recorders which collect data for the many research projects which are being undertaken through the auspices of the Institute which is run by the University of Toronto.
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Several years ago members of the geology department of the University of Toronto formed the Great Lakes Institute to study geological phenomena in the Great Lakes. Since then the institute has expanded to include physicists, biologists, meteorologists and other scientists. Although it is still run by the University of Toronto, research projects are conducted by people from many other universities in the province including the University of Waterloo. One camp operated by the ‘institute is located at Baie du Dore
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in Lake Huron near Underwood. It is here that most of Waterloo’s projects are based. In fact, of the twenty four employees at the Baie du Dore station, ten are from Waterloo. Dr. Peter Peach, the camp administrator explained some of the projects being carried out at the camp. They include research on distribution and movement of fish, the study of currents using diffusing die and aerial photography, studies of the coastal jet, the movement of water close to shore, and research on the seich or sloshing effect (like water in a bathtub) of Lake Huron. Situated right across the bay Point from the Douglas
nuclear power station, the present permanent camp sprang from a temporary one which was set up to study the water conditions around the site of the power station in 1962. Most of the research is carried out with instruments installed on several towers both on land and in the water. One project which Waterloo personnel are undertaking involves the construction of a deep water tower in about 150 feet of water. This tower will be about ten miles out in the lake.
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,Stipporting roles best in Romeo Cw7ciJuliet ’ .s by Steve Ireland Chevron features editor.
If you can ignore the two main characters in Douglas Campbell’s production of Romeo and Juliet, you may well enjoy this Stratford play. But that of course is unlikely. For the star-crossed lovers are everywhere. Physically they are cast most .appropriately. Louise Marleau as Juliet is slim and dark-haired with huge doe-eyes in an expressive face., Christopher Romeo is tall Walken as fair and graceful. But let them loose on the stage to moan and whine and we are disappointed. Miss Marleau if French-Canadian and while her accent is cute at the beginning, we soon tire of her inadequate handling of some of the best of Shakespeare’s verse. For example, the possibilities that lie in Juliet’s speech following Romeo’s killing of Tybalt “0 serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face” with all its paradoxes, are completely lost.
As well, she emits almost all of her lines in upper register, a method, which means that the full beauty of those long secondhalf soliloquies is not realized. Walken’s Romeo is thin. The words are there but the feeling is only surface deep. His swaggering walk is bothersome and the total effect often melodramatic. Like Juliet, this Romeo is too of ten at the height of his emotion ‘at the beginning of his speeches and thus has nowhere to go by their end. However the supporting characters shine. Leo Ciceri gives a credible and bawdy Mercutio whose rapid-fire speech of ten causes the plentiful double entendres in his lines to be lost. Although he underplays the Queen Mab speech, his death is superbly presented. Also worthy of note are Amelia Hall as the earthy and loveable nurse, Bernard Behrens as Friar Laurence (here a young and vigorous instead of the usual
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That first year in arts by the University of Waterloo faculty of arts. University press, free.
A basically good idea for informing arts freshmen abopt their faculty has turned out to be a monstrosity of platitudes, unsuccessful attempts at humour and just lousy English. ‘That first year in arts’ has been sent to arts freshmen courtesy of the. arts faculty to tell them about the bureaucratic procedures they’ll encounter and to welcome them to the arts community. The content is good-most departments have readable and interesting descriptions and all the information about registering, dropping courses, counselling and so on is included in the general section. Layout is eye-catching, although more pictures, instead of chartreusecolored blocks, could have been used to break up the print. But the style is often atrocious. After dean J. Sayer Minas’s opening remarks, in which he uses the words “I want you to” or “I want” five times in 13 sentences, the 24-page booklet starts out on the defensive. “So you’ve decided to be an artsman? And why not. 3 Maybe your friends and aunts and uncles think you ought to go into math or engineering or science.” But don’t despair. Glamour and money can be fount’ in the arts too,. we’re told. Especially money. And another good reason for taking arts is to pursue “the business of living”. “After all one is alThis is important: ways with himself. Since a person has to spend so much time with himself, he might as well make himself as interesting a companion as possible.” However this is “damned difficult.” What profundity! Perhaps all this stems from our devotion to that god, the computer. Freshmen are told about PASS (the Purdue academic scheduling’ system being introduced for September registration) which means that “timetables will be magically and electronically worked out by computers. ” As if that isn’t enough ooing and awing, “Once the mighty computer has done its work, your timetable will be mailed to you. ” The most horrible of constructions involve that ugliest of words-get. “What about getting signed up in arts, getting programs selected.. .and eventually getting out with a degree...” If you don’t pass all-your courses, YOU don’t
foolish, fat old man) and Kenneth Pogue as Capulet, who goes from as stiff, unnatural rendering of the verse to two excellent scenes with his obdurate daughter. Like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet has 19th century setting. But unlike the former, it just doesn’t seem to fit. The cigars, the rifles, the gawdy evening dress, are bothersome, perhaps because we all know the story so well that we can’t forget the original Elizabethan-England-in-Italy setting. Generally the play impresses one as being too lengthy,, even though the characters in the next scene rush onto the stage before the previous scene is off. In one case Romeo almost knocks Juliet and the Nurse into the gutter as they move off-stage. Scenes like the balcony scene seem interminable. Unfortunately ,the rustling of programs contipues throughout the whole play. Stratford has done better.
“Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,” protests Juliet (Louise Marleau) to Romeo (Christopher Walken) in the ballroom scene in the lacklustre Stratford production.
ftk arts, math freshmen but trivial and ungrammatical
promoted to the next year.” And on and on. Either somebody in the arts faculty \ can’t write competently (and others can’t edit) or the idea which sets the tone is that the lowly highschool graduate is someone you talk down to. ‘For example, after: talking about averages needed and the effect of failures, we find this gem: “But these are dreary thoughts; grit your teet! like Charlie Brown, and your average will never fall below 55 percent.” Or again: “Even if a student thinks he’s going to fail a course, he ought to write the final. He may fool himself and pass. A grade of 50 percent is better than one of 49 percent. Besides, isn’t it better to go down fighting. 3 To die with your boots on?” There are dvzens of little things which grate the reader. “Group A is a bit more complicated than Group B.” “There is lots of information available.” “Go see the chairman. ” “Go talk to somebody. ” And from the English department, “Literature encompasses pretty well the whole range of man’s experience and imagination.” Once the discussion breaks down into departments, the quality of writing and presentation of facts greatly improves. Obviously these sections were farmed out to the departments and colleges by our anonymous author. But one wonders if the readers will ever get that far. The approach of the first half of the booklet is so trivial and condescending that it’s easy to imagine our prospective arts freshman turning away to examine another univer si ty ’ s propaganda, singing quietly to him self, ‘ ‘M-I-C-K-E-Y -M-O-U-S-E. ” “get
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Faculty of mathematics by the University of Waterloo faculty of mathematics. University press, free,
What! no picture of the Founder? Yes, that’s one change in this year’s math faculty handbook. Ralph Stanton’s picture has disappeared. Other changes include a new cover and better layout. Unfortunately the copy is the same as ,last year, controverted and redundant. The book looks much better than last year. The cover is fairly presentable, white and gold with black lettering. But they’re still using the architect’s model \ of the math building. The inside layout is much improved. A few good photos and a series of humorous illustrations are a couple of the good features of the book. The swarm of thumb-sized headshots which dominated department sections last year has been cut down to a reasonable number. The book is all right to look at but reading it is a different matter. The first part of the book deals with the history of mathematics and its role in the twentieth century. The author saw no reason to update it so it still contains such monstrosities as “The University of Waterloo is in the forefront of keeping abreast of modern developments, while at the same time retaining the essentials of classical mathematical studies.” Despite the math faculty’s claim of being abreast of modern developments, it still hasn’t realized that Sherbrooke has had a co-op course since 1966. The
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The campus center is crawling along towards completion and greater usability. Directing the progress is the piovost’s advisory committee on the campus center, a joint committee of administration, faculty and students. At the second meeting of the committee late in Junel It was discovered that the total remaining in the furnishing budget was $21,000 less than previously thought and actually stood at $19,000. As a result the list of proposed new purchases will be reviewed and decisions made in upcoming meetings. A sound system, portable stage, and darkroom will be given priority . e A small piano has been received for the music room. It w-as donated by Circle K.
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handbook still calls Waterloo’s co-op course since 1966. The handbook still calls Waterloo’s co-op program “unique in Canada”. Moreover, the back cover carries a 1966 campus map. For’ historical inter-, est, probably. A new section this year is a brief review of all the arts options available to math students. While not very critical, it is more detailed and informative than the calendar. In general, the newer parts of the book tend to be better-written but in most cases they just repeat the official propaganda of the math society, Federation of Students, residences and the student awards program. The old question and answer routine on the co-op program is repeated. In the form of a stilted conversation, the book tries to provide some answers to questions about the co-op program. But there’s one answer that is not given. In fact, the question isn’t even asked. What about the general co-op program? It’s not even mentioned in the book. The general co-op math program is one of the best kept secrets on campus. The math faculty seems determined not to admit there are math students who don’t want an honors course. The math handbook w.ill never be considered great literature. The best it could do is to be considered a mediocre handbook. Math students might find it somewhat useful, although hardly interesting. Any&e else might as well forget it. -Ken Fraser
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l The faculty association was granted j permission to use a basement office l Space’ has finally been found for the campus shop which will relocate in the basement for fall term. l Plans are underway to open a barber shop in the basement in time for the fall term ----O The women’s lounge was abolished as subh. It may be re-assigned as a TV lounge l The reading lunge will soon be filling up with magazines and student newspapers from around the world. l A request from the marketing center for a regular booking of a large meeting room for the next year met considerable opposition. Federation reps said the campus center should not be used as a classroom building.
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Canadians marched to the polls on June 25th, climaxing the beginning of a new era in Canadian political behaviour, while simultaneously sounding the death knell of the old. The transition from old to new was accomplished by contemporary ideas, imported techniques, and rising discontent, all interacting in concert on a desperate population. The population begged to illustrate its personality. Seeds of discontent The seeds of this discontent can be traced far back into Canadian political history. But the present attitudes are more an immediate result of the growth and maturing of Canadian nationalism which has occurred in the aftermath of the Second War. Indeed, the St. Laurent government of this era was still clinging to the political personalities, structures, and norms that had developed throughout the 1930’s and 40’s. It had become characterised by its big business orientation, its conservative personality, its board room type of administration and its inability to mould with public opinion. Even the election of a new leader, Lester Pearson, failed to revitalize its tarnished image. Amid this feeling, the Conservative party under John Diefenbaker took control of the government in 1957. In opposition to the Liberals, the Diefenbaker image combined charisma, progressive reform policy and vigour, all of which produced a needed -alternative to the previously inept Liberal regime. Unable to operate with a minority government, Diefenbaker appealed to the people and received a majority government by 75 seats in 1958. Not long after the election, the love affair between the electorate and the Diefenbaker government subsided. The autocratic Diefenbaker and his puppet cabinet left a great deal to be desired. By 1962, Canadians had weathered both gales and storms in the areas of foreign and economic policy and in internal administration. The 1962 election produced another minority Conservative government, and in 1963 Diefenbaker again turned to the people, seeking a broader mandate. The rising discontent of the population became apparent when a minority Liberal government was returned in 1963. The Liberals continued under this lament until 1965 when they also went to the people. However, to the disappointment of the Liberal party, they were again returned to administer the country with a minority government. The need for new images All of this must be considered indicative of the rising discontent of the population with both the old political party structures and the elites which they produced. Seemingly aware of this, the major parties have between the years 1962-68 been forced to grapple with their images. Indeed, within each party structure there was a rising confrontation between the new contemporaries and the old stalwarts. Throughout this era, and amid their own problems, the parties attempted to sooth the public discontent by offering costly election promises and other sops in order to focus the eye of the electorate away from the nauseating decay of old line party politics. However, by mid1967 the contemporary ideals had become paramount. In September the Conservatives, led by Canada’s first apostle of the new political outlook. Dalton Camp, held a leadership convention, applying new rules and techniques. Grass roots participation captured the center of attraction. The open and “democratic” confrontation between the old and the new resulted in the ignominious ouster of the 71-year-old Diefenbaker as leader, and the installation of 53-year-old Robert Stanfield. The special use of the media to show the public the process of party housecleaning seemed to offer the Canadian people a new alternative in politics. Indeed, the public opinion polls immediately
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In view of the inevitible, the Liberal prime minister, soon announced his decision to resign as soon as a new leader could be picked. The convention was set for April. Before it was held the Canadian people were treated to a typical political power fight by those seeking the Liberal leadership, and indeed, primeministership of Canada. The result of this political one-upsmanship led to the defeat of the government on a money bill and to the subsequent constitutional crisis. It was in the shadow of this crisis that the Liberal convention began. The convention immediately signalled the struggle between the new and the old for power. The young upstart, Pierre Trudeau, became the rallying-point for all those who desired change, while the other candidates remained balkanized and intent on brinksmanship with each other. The complete dichotomy of style, manner and organization between Trudeau and his opponents became increasingly apparent and led to his successful achievement of power. Throughout the Liberal convention, the same type of techniques employed by the Conservatives were used, but they were to a higher degree supplemented by the role of the media in their effort in the making of a prime minister. A new image, which appeared entirely different from that of power politics, was portrayed to the public, who seized upon it as a salvation. This new image succeeded in wiping out the previously distasteful exhibitions of Liberal power struggles, and gave the party and its leader a new frame of reference with the population.
Thus, by April 1968 dboth parties had elected new leaders, both younger than their predecessors, both millionaires and both well educated, both apparently the products of the new Canadian political environment. It was within this electric atmosphere that the government again went to the people. Bracing for the election When the House dissolved, the party standings, if judged on representativeness, illustrated that only the Liberals and Conservatives could be considered national parties. Although the NDP held a base of strength almost coast to coast, its members represented only Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia, and in these provinces, mainly urban areas. Both the Social Credit and the Creditiste remained purely regional organizations. The parties had to face the effects of the 1964 electoral boundaries readjustment. This act was an attempt to distribute the seats of the House more fairly according to population, while bearing in mind natural geographic boundaries. As a result, the number of seats in the House of Commons was reduced by one to a total of 264, while some provinces gained seats and others lost them. The previously unfair rural representation was reduced and urban increased. Moreover, as a result of the changes, almost one-third of the new seats gave no party a sure majority. In the new atmosphere the campaign began. From the very outset there were charges and countercharges of tampering and corruption regarding the methods of selecting candidates at nomination meetings. Two cabinet ministers-Tellier, veteran affairs minister, and Sauve, who had lost his original seat under redistribution-were refused nominations by constituency organizations. (Sauve finally got a nomination). Throughout the nominating process, grass roots participation at the constituency level of politics was greatly heightened, illustrating the new spirit. The three major parties each nominated 263 candidates, the Liberals and Conservatives leaving the seat of Lucien Lamoreaux, the previous speaker and probable first permanent speaker of the House of Commons, officially unchallenged. The total number of candidates was 967 which included, aside from the
major parties, 71 Creditiste, 31 Social Credit, 14 Communists and 62 others held by such splinter groups as the National Socialists. Thus the situation was 967 candidates competing for 263 seats, appealing to a portion of the lO,875,000 eligible voters. When the prime minister dissolved the House, he did so stating that the people must decide upon the issues. The real issues resolved themselves in the questions of national unity and the failure of federalism, the unstable econony and possible solutions, foreign affairs, and the need for institutional administrative changes. Of these issues, national unity and the economic crisis were foremost, with each, party agreeing that change was needed while simultaneously disagreeing on solution in method and pace. Moreover, the complexities effecting the economic situation and the in- _ tricacies of regional political involvement in national unity all served to defy a clear perception by the voter. In addition to the question of issues, the existence of the reformed party organizations, the increased participation of people in politics, and the attempts by politicians to see all the people acted in such a manner which compounded problems of adequate communication. Thus in reality the issues and their answers were too far out of proportion for anyone to fully grasp. It is because of this situation, that many students of McLuhanism have observed that in the face of too many facts, the population will opt for an image. Indeed, this election was fought not on issues, but on image and personality.
The election campaign also marked other innovations in Canadian politics. The great debate suffered an unmitigated failure in its attempt to acquaint the people with the issues. It did, however, form the largest communications link ever assembled in Canada, and held the largest audience participation in the country’s history. The increased participation of the media in the campaign becomes even more evident when one considers the amount of small town and local coverage of the major political participants. On the darker side, the massive distribution of hate literature and the overt public distaste of it marked a milestone in Canadian politics. Indeed, the NDP, which is usually the recipient of such literature, may have reached a new acceptance in the light of the Liberal experience. The riots in Quebec on St. Jean Baptiste day and the necessity of maintaining police protection in Marchand’s riding on election day, all served to mar the new political image. The election comes In any event, on June 25th, the population of the country was given the opportunity to express its “new awareness”. When the election returns were completed the party standings and share of popular vote were as follows: Liberals 154 (450/o), Conservatives 72 (31%), NDP 23 (17%)) Creditiste 14 (5% ), Independent 1. Out of the total of 264 seats, 42 members were elected by fewer than 1000 votes, and 17 others by fewer than 1500. Of the seats under 1000 at least 10 have the possibility of changing hands depending upon official recounts. Maritimes Surveying the results, the Conservatives won 25 of the 32 seats in the Ma&times, and broke the hold which the Liberals have held on Newfoundland since the province entered Confederation in 1949. The reasons for this breakthrough must be laid at the feet of Newfoundland’s Joey Smallwood. His open change of support from Winters to Trudeau during the Liberal convention was received with a great deal of disgust by Liberals in the province, and the Smallwood-Crosby cabinet crisis prior to the election also caused Newfoundlanders to question Smallwood’s liberali sm. In Nova Scotia, the Liberal loss at Moncton must be blamed on the Liberal
Smilin’ Pierre Elliott munches on his majority government. Analyst Gord age and personality and the Liberals I pectations of the voters or prepare for government and its policy changes regarding the rail terminals. The loss of Moncton as a major terminal caused much unemployment and disillusionment among the people. Indeed, one political pundit declared, “Even Jesus could not have won Moncton if he was a Liberal”. One must also consider the regional loyalty that came to Stanfield as a maritimer. This was certainly a basic necessity for the Conservatives to defend the area from excessive trudeaumania. Que bet In Quebec, the surprise was the rise of the Creditiste and the decline of the Conservatives, since the Liberals were only wondering how many seats they could win over the 55 mark. The rise of the Rallie was centered in the rural areas of Quebec, especially along the lower areas of the St. Lawrence-the South and North Shores and Eastern Townships. This vote was generated by bread-andbutter issues and was a protest against the federal Liberals and the collusion between the Union Nationale and the Conservative party. The effect of the Creditiste vote was to reduce Conservative support which resulted in the poor Conservative showing in Quebec. The NDP, with its hopes of winning the ridings of Dollard, Duvernay and Notre Dame de Grace, thereby making its first inroads into$Quebec. met with disaster. In these ridings the decline of the Conservative and Creditiste vote left a Liberal-NDP confrontation thereby assuring the Liberals’ victory. Add to this the touch of trudeaumania and the declared support of the NDP by Rene Levesque’s separatiste movement, and there could be nothing but defeat. However, a survey of the results in Quebec show that the NDP was able to maintain the majority of its working class vote, but was deserted by the middle class. Indeed, in Metropolitan Montreal, the Liberals achieved about 69 percent of the vote. Ontario Ontario dealt both the Conservatives and NDP‘ severe blows. Not only did the Conservatives loose seats, but they were relegated to the position of an almost rural party. Indeed, with only 17
blank secured the riding of Kitchener with a pluralitv of 3723 votes. while the NDP incumbent in Waterloo, Max Saltsman, secured his riding by only around 300 votes. Of the six area ridings of Oxford. Perth, Wellington. Wellington-Grev Huron and Grey-Bruce. the first five went to the Liberals. Although trudeaumania did not score a, success in the area, the major urban centres did. fall prev in varying degrees to his charisma. In general, the Liberal success in Ontario has reduced the Conservatives to a marginal value as urban critics and set the NDP behind in its attempt to master portions of the major urban centers.
v2ail as he ponders the future of says election was fought on imtter fulfil the vague but high ex?r. ;, they suffered a defeat tantamount le situation in 1874 when they re!d only 24 out of 88 seats in Ontario. olame for this disaster is allocated 3r-y factors, and not the least among is trudeaumania. However, many -vers are prone to blame the twons theory expounded by the Consere Quebec lieutenant Marcel Fariand the absence of Dalton Camp the Master organizational process. 2 NDP must ascribe its defeat in cases to the effects of trudeaumanIowever in the north, the loss of ?l-Belt, Timmins and Sudbury is the t of the solid Frencg-Canadian vote ting them and going to the Liberals. - observers also point to the speech I Trudeau made in Sudburv after the edv assassination. This speech is considered the best speech of his baign and was delivered in a moving ler to an emotional and receptive Nnce. the metropolitan areas, the effects ldeaumania were devastating. Not lid it reduce the margins of plurality : incumbents, it completely scuttled hopes brought about by redistribuIn the area of metropolitan Toronto, :DP lost about 2% of its vote. As a t of both the Ontario and Quebec ters, the NDP lost talent much td to bolster its ranks in the House nmons. he Hamilton area. especially Hamillountain with incumbent Dr. Howe. Iamilton-Wentworth with the hopejr. Vichert. the NDP can blame rs other than trudeaumania. In lton-Mountain the growth of apartcomplexes, the intervention of the companies, the overtlv expressed athy toward the Liberal candidate e Catholic Church, all had an efwhich. supplemented bv trudeau3. dealt Howe defeat. In Hamiltonworth. the recollection bv the large : sections of the electorate that\ it ;he Liberal candidate’s father who responsible for the immigration ation immediately after the Second was a prominent determinant in rt’s defeat. Supplementary to this oth the existence of apartment com5 and trudeaumania. the immediate area of Kitchenerrloo, the Liberal K ieth Hymmen
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What does all this add up to? The Liberals have a majority government for the first time in 15 years. The Conservatives have been reduced to a largely regional and rural party, and theNDP will take over as the effective spokesman for the western farmer. The Social Credit as a national movement is defunct, and the Creditiste remain a Quebec-oriented rural protest movement.
In particular, the election decimated the ranks of the Conservative front bench critics. Experienced parliamentarians such as Fulton, Hamilton, Bell and Starr, went down to defeat and hopefuls like McCutchen, Brownridge, Roblin, Camp and Faribault met with disaster at the polls. Indeed, the Conservatives do- not have a member in any of Canada’s major urban centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Quebec City, and only one in Montreal. Therefore, their ability to act as the effective urban critics .of government policy is severely curtailed, if not destroyed. Since the Social Credit failed to elect a single member, one might watch closely the developments within British Columbia and Alberta regarding the current Social Credit administrations. It should also be noted that two ex-patriot Social Credit members were elected to the House representing the Liberal and Conservative parties. The onslaught of trudeaumania was weathered successfully by the NDP, although not without casualties. Not only did it lose its national leader it also suffered setbacks in the urban areas of Ontario, Manitoba and BC. However, in a country-wide survey, it did manage to maintain a majority of its working class support, dropping only one percentage point. On the other hand, the breakthrough in Saskatchewan could be the beacon of a new beginning for the NDP of a farm as well as labor oriented group, capable of representing the interests of both sections of the economy. Indeed, the growing dissatisfaction with the Thatcher regime could provide the NDP with an even more solid base from which they could spin forward. On the bleaker side, the defeats sustained in the urban centres have deprived the NDP of the opportunity of picking a new leader from hopeful parliamentarians such as John Harney, Terry Greer, Douglas Fisher, Laurier LaPierre, Charles Taylor, and Robert Cliche, all of whom went down to defeat.
Manitoba The Liberal victories in Manitoba were certainly aided by the Faribault expositions on national unity and by the unpopularity of the current Conservative Weir administration. In this area the NDP managed to hang onto its three seats with a reduced plurality while the Liberals gained at the expense of the Conservatives, especially in the urban areas. Saskatchewan In Saskatchewan, to quote Diefenbaker, the Conservatives suffered a “calamitous disaster”. Of the spools. the Liberals picked up two seats. the NDP gained 5 and the Tories held 5. In addition to this, the Social Credit lost everything. The reasons for the NDP gain at the expense of all the other parties are many-fold. Until the time of Diefenbaker, the west had always been a protest vote. However, with Diefenbaker, westerners felt their vote could mean something. With the Diefenbaker slaughter, in conjunction with the policies of Faribault. the West again turned its back on the Conservatives. On the other hand, the Liberals did no better. The Liberal image of Ross Thatcher became tarnished when he implemented the $1.25 charge as a deterrent to medicare. Therefore there was only one alternative-the NDP. To supplement this choice, the people of Saskatchewan remembered that before Diefenbaker. they had sent many CCF members to Parliament. Thus with the election of five members, the old base of support held by the CCF was resurrected. _ British Columbia British Columbia dealt the Conservatives their most devastating igniminv. Indeed, the Conservatives were denied even a single seat. Also significant was the total collapse of the Social Credit as a national party. The reasons for the decline of the Social Credit can be traced to the results of the policies and char: ges of graft and corruption which circulate about the Bennett administration. However, the Social Credit vote accomplished two things,. It deprived the Conservatives of a base of support and the remainder of it supported the new Liberal image. In British Columbia. the NDP did not get off easily. It suffered both from redistribution and the rise of trudeaumania which even led to the defeat of the national leader. Tommy Douglas. Interesting results This election also produced some other interesting results. There were 34 women candidates-21 NDP. 6 PC, 1 Lib.. 2 Cred, 2 SC, 1 Ind. Cons. and 1 Ind. Of these, only 1 was successful-Mrs. Grace McInnes of the NDP the daughter of J.S. Woodsworth, one of the founders of the CCF. There were 429 candidates who lost their deposits-9 Liberals, 181 NDP. 92 PC, 49 Cred, 32 Ind, 13 Communists. 9 Ind. Lib., 7 Ind. PC, and 6 others. The NDP lost its deposits in all but one riding east of Quebec. 69 within Quebec, 49 in Ontario, 19 in Alberta. one in Saskatchewan and four in B.C. The Tories did not lose a deposit east of Quebec but lost 49 in Quebec. 25 in Ontario. three in Man. 18 in BC and one in Alberta.
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Therefore the Liberal party and Prime Minister Trudeau came off the best in the election, or the worst, depending upon one’s considerations. Although the Liberals received an almost blank mandate, they did so with implicit strings attached. Their failure to fulfil the emotional expectations of the public would be certain to being about disaster for the party.
Although Trudeau has apparently made few political promises, (Mitchell Sharp has external-affairs, and after the election results, the price to Smallwood is dubious) there are certain guidelines which must be used. It is in assessing these guidelines that the electorate will be able to judge the Liberals’ sincerity. What will Trudeau do? If the new Prime Minister insists on staffing his cabinet with the old regime and overlooks the new talent available, we will see the beginnings of reactionary , re-entrenchment. A failure on the part of the prime minister to utilize Canada’s brain trust in the advisory and administrative capacities of government operations would be another signal of bad faith. Indeed, failure to provide the public with a new political style and purpose, and prolonged procrastination in tackling the problems of regional economic disparity and the stabilitv of the economy. would all be milestones which the public would condemn his leadership. Finally, there are some considerations for the public, to think about. Will there be effective and efficient opposition to Liberal government policy, especially with regard to urban affairs? Was it a fair trade to exchange some of Canada’s best parliamentarians from all parties for some of the dubious political novices now elected to the House? Will Trudeau fall into the Diefenbaker syndrome . of becoming autocratic and depending upon public adulation? Will this election provide the foundation for the beginnings of a sub-structure of goldwaterism-the lunatic fringe of the right-whereby the reactionaries, aware that they can no longer run the country with votes or money. may substitute guns in order to get rid of the ‘unwashed’? Indeed, perhaps with the seemingly new political attitudes and the obviously unequal and inequitable results of the election in the plurality situations, the public should consider the possibilities of opting for a system of proportional representation. This system would better allow each person to have a real voice in the government of his country--Canada.
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Written and directed by Bo Widerberg. With Thommy Berggren and Pia Degermark, Winner, Best Actress, 1967 Cannes Festival. A bo Widerberg-Europa Film Production.
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Allan Oliver Mackay and student colleagues wish to desLava1 University Rector Msgr. troy, despite themselves would “learn humility.” Louis-Albert Vachon. So it was OTTAWA-Just for a change of Bishop’s, he reminded them league convocation. pace while the election dust is . no junior gently, had sheltered them durAt the podium was Dr. Jeffsettling, let’s consider ” student ing “a very vulnerable period” rey D. Jefferis, one of Canada’s power” and its variously explosive of their young lives. most respected educators. “protest” against society. “It has offered- you instrucHe was there, it turned out to Not much of a pace-change tion in the form of rather dull everybody’s surprise-especially in one way, either-not with the lectures. It has provided you that of the 1,100 graduates-not campus in riot-ruin in Berlin, with laboratories in which to to lecture counsel, nor even inParis and Rome, damaged in perform authorized experiments ,” spire them ,to scale the world’s New York, and prestige in quesheights, but to extend what he he continued, wryly. tion at Chicago, Berkley and said were his “deepest sympath*** Burnaby. ies.” 1 But a terrific change of pace, “Bishop’s existed long be* * * actually, in an altogether diffore you came to it, and inferent sense. It saddened him to conterncredible as it must sound to you, they It got to the point where one plate the “humiliation” Bishop’s will continue to exist of our academics wondkred, as would suffer in their sudden worklong after you have left. he put it, what was “wrong” aday world transformation from “In the world ‘outside’ where with Canadian universities, that the intellectual hauteur of “studyou will be merely taxpayers, they, too, weren’t in flaming ent power activists” into “mere you. will come into contact with revolt. taxpaying citizens, ordinary humany people, most of them be* * * man beings, commonplace Canayond the tolerated age limit of dians.” 30, who know nothing about Well, there’s nothing, “wrong” Bishop’s, though, they, as taxin any sense of the word at He warned them that in their payers, have borne much of the Bishop’s University, where a new, competitive lives, if memcost of your stay here. fresh new breeze of thought blew bers of the opposite sex slipped “They will now form their across the caipus the other into their rooms after hours, noopinion about Bishop’s and about graduation day. body would worry. it% differences from other uniBishop’s is an historic old “If you post notices of protest, versities, by noticing what sortcampus, heavy with the weight no one will read them. of people you are. of long. academic accomplish“If your conversation and *** ment, in Lennoxville, just outyour writings are peppered with side Sherbrooke where the Green four-letter words, people will “Think kindly of them, as Mountains of Vermont tumble think only that you are. rude. kindly as you would have a later across the border into Quebec’s “If your dress and personal generation from Bishop’s think senic Eastern Townships. hygiene are those of a hippy, of you. Chancellor of Bishop’s is Mr. you will be regarded merely “And be tolerant and underJustice Douglas Charles Abbott as foolishly. unsanitary and perstanding of them, f6r you will of the Supreme Court of Canada, haps a threat to the community soon come to know how extraformer federal finance minister. health.” ordinarily tolerant, if not al*** *** ways entirely understanding, of On the platform with him, aThe experience might be painful, you they have been.” mong others, were Bank of and for a time almost imposThat was all. That was it. Canada Governor Louis Rassible of understanding, went on Three minutes as enlightening minsky, U.S. Federal Reserve Dr. Jefferis, but in the trying as probably any Canadian graBoard Chairman William Mcdays ahead .th&e new arrivals duating class has experienced in Chesney, Sun Life Vice-Presi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . into . . . . . the . . . . .society . . . . . . . . so . . . many . . . . . . . of . . . their . . . . . . . . .this . . . . . year . . . . . . .of. . . .creeping . . . . . . . . . .. .anarchy. . . . . ..-.-
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Last Tuesday, the daily papers bannerlined a story about the separatist demonstrations at the St. Jean Baptiste Day parade in Moritreal. All English-Canada dailies portrayed prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau As the hero-to some extent at leastfor staying at his seat when the fun began. The more Liberal the paper’s editorial policy, the more Pierre was the hero. The Toronto Star carried the headline “Trudeau defies separatists” in huge type. The story was something else again. The Star was the most blatantly Liberal in its stand on the election. The Toronto Telegram on the other hand stuck to its traditional Conservative party line and its coverage of the separatist actions showed it. Their main head said “Montreal’s night of fury” with a subhead saying something about Stanfield condeming the violence. The latter was completely unjustified since Stanfield was in the Maritimes, and the Telegram didn’t even mention him in the news story before the story turned to an inside page. That was just one sideline of the story. In Montreal, a CBC reporter, Claude-Jean Devirieux, was removed from his election night assignment as a result of his on the street report of the separatist incident. The suspension resulted in a walkout by CBC French-language broadcasters that blacked out
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the people’s‘ network on election night-at least in French. To get the news broadcasters back on the air, the CBC launched inquiries and clarified Devirieux’s status to “re-assigned” rather than suspended. It is interesting to compare a translation of the transcript of Devirieux’s controversial report to the text of the report that the Toronto Star carried on its front page page. From the Star, reporter Robert Miller-They came, an organized mob of brats calling themselves students, to heap scorn upon the prime minister and all symbols of authority. Instead, they gave Pierre Elliott Trudeau a chance to play the hero on the eve of a national election and they gave the Montreal police department a chance to demonstrate the proper handling of a mob. And in the end, brat power covered itself with infamy. The sustained violence last night in Montreal’s Lafontaine Park was ugly. The fires, the flying pop bottles, the wanton damage to-public property horrified Montreal’s population-beginning with Mayor Jean Drapeau, who watched it white-faced and uncomprehending. Le Devoir editor Claude Ryan, in a windbreaker and battered hat watched narrow-eyed and kept shaking his head as bottles and inflammatory language flew. A tough-looking mounted policeman patted the lathered neck of his horse, steeled himself for another charge into the seething mass of young people and said
media? tightly to a colleague: “It’s bitch.” -Miller goes on for quite while with the same stuff.
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Here is Devirieux’s reportDemonstrations began by 8: 15. At the beginning it was not so violent. A bunch of separatists were shouting “Trudeau sellout”“Trudeau the traitor”--“Quebec to Quebeckers”,. Approximately 2,500 policemen were on duty and they began to clean up the place. I hear some screamings-undoubtedly some clashes are still going on very close by on Sherbrooke St. Actually, rioting is spreading, and since I was asked to tell you what I saw, I have to say that I saw the police forces completely losing their temper and moving in the crowd, brutally hitting, savagely, yes I mean that, savagely, young men and young women, most of them not even being involved in this riot. Someone told me a pregnant woman has been hit. An Englishspeaking reporter, Bill Boyd of the Toronto Telegram, has been hit as well, and for myself, I have been roughly handled by a police officer. Approximately 20 cars were struck and suffered heavy damages. Three police cruisers were turned upside down. Many hundreds, I guess, many hundreds of people have been arrested and surely many were injured. Quebec had known its Bludgeon Saturday. We have had now our Bludgeon Monday. -Devirieux loses something in translation, but you wonder who should get suspended of the two.
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A few days ago, 01’ SnuP’ decided to get out his copy of the Davidson-Iler report on university relations and was most amazed to find no mention of the screw Department. Probably the most valuable offpublic relacampus, out-of-town tions arm that this university has is its students and the families of its students who relate their impression of the U’Loo to thousands of people that they enThe counter over the years. Screw Department is enough to turn a lot of the students against the university. The Screw Department can ruin the image of U’loo. For those who don’t see how this could happen, let’s follow a poor, sweet, little, innocent (as most frosh are) frosh from regis-
all be YES men and RIGHT AWAY SIRE but would vou like me to polish your shoes first, please sir. It’s no wonder the I. Takeit had a mixed up impression of the industrialist and indust.ry. But he heard all kinds of stories about academic freedom at the university, and theat the university was supposed to listen to the voices of dissenters and all this. Too bad he hadn’t read better accounts of the activities at Columbia for example and poor, sweet and innocent I. Takeit would have realized that this is a false and empty advertising gimmick used by the universities to raise money and attract students that are sweet and innocent. But I. Takeit did not have a fighting chance as the first in-
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vii 3B tration to the beginning of his first work term. The student’s name is I Takeit. When I. Takeit arrives on campus he has a very sketchy impression of what a cooperative course it. His guidance teacher in highschool didn’t know anything about it and being an academic at heart anyway the guidance teacher didn’t think that any university student should expose himself to industry in case he would get money-hungry and dropout. But I. Takeit’s father is an industrialist at heart and he thought that this sounded like a great, idea so he told. I. Takeit that he was going to go to Waterloo to become a little industrialist formed to a mould just like that of his father. Now, in the past there has been a remarkable tendency for industry to demand that its em-
with the Screw Department made everything look like a piece of Boston Cream pie all decorated to suit the student. He was told that most students get one of their top job choices. He wasn’t told that after interviews he could remove two companies from his list. He wasn’t told that taking an interview or submitting his name to a company might mean that he would be forced to work there whether he wants to or not (really he isn’t quite forced to but is told not to come back to the Screw Department if he doesn’t). So, with all these false impressions, I. Takeit starts to sign up for jobs. He figures that if the job looks interesting, then he will sign up for it. Too bad that that job in Rainy River looked so interesting an he did’t know where the city was (sorry ta-view
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God bless you. I would like to bless all my friends in Canada and especially you dear sweet lovable people at the Chevron. Oh I’m so excited about Canada and its dear sweet lovable people that I have just decided to come and record there under another . beautiful and blessed name. As you blessed people know, all of my previous names have been alliterative, such as Larry Love
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1. Hire a psychologist to help I. Screwyou relieve his frustrations accumulated in industry of someone besides the student (and please not on his secretary rather it be something inanimate and aesthetically drab) 2. Remove the image of the untouchable assist behind his huge desk that lets only one word pass over it-NO! 3. Lessen the rigidity and for-’ mality of the relationship between I. Screwyou and student (they aren’t all niggers all the time). We need mutual respect. May the Screw Department rest in piece. And for all you non-believers, there are two sides to a hole (why don’t you look sometime) and people out for power want to control both of them and a true friend only wants to improve one of them.
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of an inadequate’ education in order that his fellow students may assume their rightful position in this university. If I remember correctly, he is even going to refrain from working in industry in order to more effectively wage the noble battle during his work terms. (sort of a cooperative Tom Faulkner). What dedication ! Yes, it is all perfectly clearPresident Iler has chosen to become a real, live martyr. It warms my innards! R. ADAMS Math 1B
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crossroads) but that could be general found out in the interview. As it turned out, the company in Rainy River was very poor and destitute and were looking for cheap labor from Conscription Department at U’loo (yes they had heard about us on the industrial grapevine) and didn’t come for interviews. At the time posted for the interview I. Takeit entered a room and was confronted by I. Screwyou who explained the destitute position of the company so smoothly that it really didn’t sound very bad at all. When I. Takeit asked a few questions, the complete ignorance of the situation on the part of I. Screwyou showed through, but was undetected by the protected ears of the innocent frosh that only heard what he wanted to hear. I. Takeit put the Rainy River job at the bottom of his list only because he thought that you had to hand in all your cards. The jobs have been assigned. In excited anticipation, I. Takeit rushed up to the Screw Department only to face I. Screwyou again and you guessedit-bad PR words again-Rainy River here I come.
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and Dewy Dover. So for my blessed Canadian debut I have chosen the dear, sweet and beloved a name of Stewart Saxe. Bless you all. Tiny Tim &of writes about se/P, clears blurred picture
After reading the article entitled “Television invades French teaching” (June 21)) Prof. J. F. Gou nard wish to clarify the rather blurred picture given of the first year French course being offered this fall. There will be a distinct dichotomy between the two aspects of this course (i.e. literary training and language training). Professor Gounard will be independently responsible for the televised lectures, and these will deal with literature and civilization. Rather than attempting to improve the University of Waterloo’s corporate image, he hopes that such lectures will prove more effective for the students than ordinary lectures. J. F. Gounard Assistant Professor
Morley A. Rosenberg The Citv Council Kitchener Dear Morlev: Thank you verv much for your letter of June 24, in which vou sought to strengthen my intention to vote for you as mv NDP member of parliament. I am sorry vou didn’t make it; perhaps another time. What you probably didn’t know was that I had really intended to vote Liberal. A week before the election we put up a sign on our front lawn that said: WE’VE CHANGED OUR MINDS - WE’LL VOTE FOR NDP. Whv my wife and I had a change of mind is nobody’s business. Of course. vou can imagine that the sign gave rise to rumours. One that reached our ears said that we are basically unstable. and why advertise the fact? Another was more sinister in its implications: it seems that someone knew that I am a sociologist. apparently but an academic svnonvm for socialist. From there one may properlv imagine the worst. I am writing to you to let you know certain aspects of my past historv and associations so that vou can choose whether in future elections you want to solicit mv vote. You see. I have something of a rouge record. It all started out innocently enough. In 1939 I was working for a small market in Los Angeles. A friend of mine knew that I was interested in consumer co-ops and asked if I would be interested in applving for the vacant position of “manager” of the Sierra Bread Cooperative of Pasadena. Shortly thereafter I was entrusted with the one-man operation : to help the baker mix the flour. the next day wrap the bread. deliver it. and get new customers. All went well enough for a few weeks. aside from my low subsistence salarv. But then the clientele began to shrink, in spite of mv efforts to enlarge it. Eventually it was impossible to keep the enterprise going and the Sierra Bread Co-op closed its books. At the time none of us understood what had gone wrong, for the health bread we baked had been invented by a chemist at California Institute of Technologv and was said to be an improvement on the original staff of life. Furthermore I was adept in talking to women’s clubs on such inspiring subjects as consumer cooperation and the spiritual life and so brought quite a number of new members into the fold. But I was also a fairly recent immigrant who had not forgotten his childhood lessons from German folk wisdom which includes the information that fresh bread is very difficult to digest. that it makes people sick, and that some have even died eating it. Naturally wishing my co-op customers the best of good health and not wishing to trust to chance, for our fresh bread might fall into the hands of a child or someone who did not know of its dangers, I always arranged it so that I locked the week’s batch of bread into the old model A delivery van and went to lecture for a day or two before making my deliveries. The officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States who examined my fitness for citizenship some years later had my co-op history in its files. Apparently a neighbour had equated co-ops with communism and given my name to the FBI. The officer was brighter than that. He thought I had gone in to break up the co-op because I was a co m mu n i s t. He also wanted to know whether I had ever been refused membership in a labour union. I couldn’t remember until he refreshed my memory from another FBI report. It seems that in 1940 I was working in a Los Angeles furniture factory. It was a closed shop, unionized by the Carpenters and Joiners, A.F. of L. One evening I was at a union meeting to be made a member. At one point those present were asked to group themselves around an American flag to swear allegiance to the constitutions of the U.S. and of California, and to the union, and the fact that they had never been and were not then members of the Communist Party I stepped aside. for as a Quaker I didn’t swear oaths. Before I could explain, I was rudely manhandled and interrogated. I ended up without my working card and without job. A friend suggested I see the officers of the local Furniture Workers of America, C.I.O. They took me very willingly because, as I discovered later, thev thought I had been refused membership in the A.F. of L. because I was a communist. Later, when I opposed t.he stalinist clique that ran the union like a private club I was thrown out as a meddler. After the war I went to college and then to universitv. I received my Ph D in 1953 and began mv first full-time teaching job that vear. It was the height, of the McCarthy terror. One of my students, the editor of the college paper, declared I was a hidden commie because I had said in class that one of the few things that really differentiated American from Soviet society was that the Soviets had not yet discovered *the rotation of elites by ballots rather than bullets, and that if the worker priests in France were evangelising Marxists it wouldn’t be surprising if some would be going the other way. About that time the United States exploded a bomb on Eniwetok island in the Pacific. having first relocated the unwilling islanders. I wrote a letter to the New York Times in which I protested that act and suggested such activities had better be carried out in Brooklyn where the citizens at least have-the vote. A few days after the letter appeared in the Times I received a clipping in the mail from a friend who teaches political science. It was a page from the communist Daily Worker which had reprinted my letter with the headline: Cortland State Professor Calls For Ban Of Bomb. I needn’t tell you of the aftermath with the administration of my college, or how gladly I went northward to McGill the next year. Please keep this information confidential. Anyhow I thought you should know in case you want mv vote the next time. Fday,
July 5, 1968 (kg)
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Editorial Yesterday was the Fourth of July.‘I;hose words from the Declaration of Independence were used in hundreds of American towns in speeches praising the great American democratic system. Anyone can become president. Equality and justice for all. -.Theflag and mom’s apple -pie. Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson also held in bondage 106 men, women and children-slaves. The contradictions inherent in the Great American Dream have never been so blatantly obvious as in the summer of’ 1968 We’ve had the Washington riots after King’s death. We’ve had the Poor People’s March. We have the rest of the long hot summer ahead of us, including the Democratic and Republican conventions. Yes, “we” is correct. Does it all stop at the Peace Bridge or the Windsor-Detroit tunnel? Well, does it? l
American societv is suffering from a very serious, a very severe disease. A disease which I would call moral schizophrenia. We’re aware of our racial conflict. That is only a single symptom. Our other symptoms include the glut of affluence, the worship of material things, the willingness to make mass expenditures for military hardware, for space exploration. And our niggardly approach to the problems of human beings. Kenneth B.. Clark, author of Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power, Prejudice and Your Child, The negro american.
You ought to try to integrate those schools like we did in Greenwood, Mississippi. Spent a whole summer talking, to colored folk, trying to get them to commit their kids. Had to lie to them, tell them the government was going to protect them, but we knew damn good and well we were all going to get killed. And you finally get 12 black kids committed, but the morning school is open, you only get eight. Maybe you’ve got to feel what it’s like to be walking down the street with that little black kid’s hand in your hand. And your hand is soaking wet from your sweat, because you know what’s going to happen. But the kid don’t. And as you approach those steps to that school, not only are you attacked by the white mob, but also by the sheriff and the police.. . The next thing you know, you’re knocked down in the gutter with that cracker’s foot on your chest and a double-barrelled shotgun on your throat. And he’s saying “Move, nigger, and I’ll blow your brains out.” Which is interesting because that’s the only time that cracker admits we got brains... Maybe you have to lay in that gutter, knowing. it’s your time now, Baby, and then look across the street...laying down in that gutter, from that gutter position and see the FBI standing across the street taking pictures.. . And then as you lay there in that gutter, I man, it finally dawns on you that that little five-year-old kid’s hand is not in the palm of your hand anymore. And that *ally scares you.. . t And you look around trying to find the kid. And you find him just in time to see a brick hit a five-year-old kid in the mouth. Man, you wouldn’t belive it until you see a brick hit a five-year-old kid in the mouth. Dick Gregory, Rights worker
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If they were murdered, it is by no means the first case of such disposition by Communists or their dupes to insure their silence. However, the careful absence of clues makes it seem likely that they are quartered in Cuba or another Communist area awaiting their next task. There is no reason to believe them harmed by citizens of the most lawabiding state ofthe Union. 1964 editorial in the Jackson, Missis sippi Clarion-Ledger before the bodies of three murdered Civil Rights workers were found.
What white Americans have never fully understood, but what the Negro can never forget, is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it. White institutions maintain it, and white society condones it. Report of Commission Disorders, 1968
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If one examines the myths which proliferate in this country concerning the Negro, one discovers beneath these myths a kind of sleeping terror of some condition which we refuse to imagine. In a way, if the Negro were not here, we might be forced to deal within ourselves and our own personalities with all those vices, all those conundrums, and all those mysteries with which we infest the Negro race... The Negro is thus penalized for the guilty imagination of the white. people who invest him with their hates and longings, and the Negro is the principal target for their sexual paranoia.. . We would never allow Negroes to starve, to grow bitter and to die in ghettos all over the country if we were not driven by some nameless fear that has nothing to do with Negroes. We would never victimize,. as we do, children whose only crime is color. We wouldn’t drive Negroes mad as we do by accepting them in ball parks and on concert stages, but not in our homes, not in our neighborhoods, not in our churches. James Time
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In Resurrection City you will find, America, the fruit of your evil, with all the resentment of the poor against the rich, all the anger of young men who see their mothers and fathers and little brothers and sisters kicked, scorned. abused, oppressed, denied- all of the incredible suffering and injustice that we have been trying so hard to expose to you. You can blame me for violence in Resurrection City if you wish. I accept it. But who is to -blame for the violence of
hunger, the violence of slums, the violence of Idiscrimination, the violence of inequality, the violence of unemployment, the violence of broken promises and lies to the poor? Rev. Ralph Abernathy, of the Southern Christian ship Conference. .
Could it be the Communists had decided that he, Dr. King, had lost his effectiveness, and this was a way to revitalize their efforts? Or was this’only to pass the Civil Rights Bill...1 believe they done him in, and I will continue to believe that until they apprehend the killer or prove otherwise. I hope I am wrong, and the guilty person is apprehended. ’
Georgia’s governor Lester dox, after the assassination Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When I walked inNewark last summer, it was a nightmare. The police were shooting randomly. The National Guardsmen were breaking windows of Negroowned stores that rioters had left untouched. And they destroyed. Deliberately. I saw a Negro-owned furniture store, and there were bayonet slashes in the upholstery of every couch and chair. That was the stupid part. They left their own evidence. They didn’t give a damn. Kenneth
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Most people don’t mind the poor so long as they stay out of sight. But these poor people were on the front cover of Time. Close your eyes, switch on the airconditioner at night, listen to the rain falling-and you still couldn’t forget it was falling on the plywood shacks of the poor lying close to the ground in Resurrection City. There are 10 million hungry people in America and you, I, we, share the guilt. The story of America’s stinginess is worth repeating. It has three parts. Americans pay less taxes-federal, state and local-than does almost any European country in proportion to national production. (Authority: the First National City Bank of New York). Also, America pays a smaller proportion of its wealth in public assistance than does almost any other industrial nation. (Authority: the Brookings Institute). And,finally, America divides up its national income so unjustly that the top five percent of the population gets 20 percent of it, and the bottom 20 percent gets less than five percent of it. To put it all in a nutshell, the government pays racist Senator Eastland of Mississippi $157,000 a year for not producing cotton, while it pays the plantation family deprived of work around $35 a month in relief to starve on. Can’t give more, because that would be giving something for nothing! (For Eastland it’s a soil conservation payment. J The New Republic
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It’s for allthe Sometimes you get so fed up with the same problem recurring despite clear solutions you just want to scream. That’s how people like Brian ’ Iler, federation president, and other people close to the issue must feel about the latest bit of nonsense from the physical education empire run by Dan Pugliese and his athletics assistant Carl Totzke. The specific problem this time is the use of the new athletic building by groups outside. the phys-ed sphere of interest. Thev’ve known since long before the building was designed that it would be needed for dances and concerts on campus. Did they do anvthing about it? On the contrary, ’ they seem to have particularly worked against it. Even physical recreation activities have always been viewed as activities of second-class citii zens by these football and basketball commissars. They would like to put such activities in whatever space is left over after intervarsity sports and the school of phys-ed have had their requests filled. As the requests ,from the latter two go up from
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year to year the time granted to the former is decreased. Fortunately academic vicepresident Howard Petch seems to feel differently about this particular problem. He plans to introduce an unchangeable ratio. But the real problem still remains. As long as the majority of the students depend on a few phys-edminded men to consider the gener”al interest, they are bound to be disappointed. We will never get any real return on our $22 atheletic fee. At the present moment the reporting structure in the athleticsphys ed area has most of the group reporting to itself. They pop out of this circle only to report to Petch. The answer to the problem is simple. Control of the athletic fee should be put entirely in student hands and a users’ committee should be set up for the athletic building with the federation well represented. If this isn’t done, student council may have no alternative but to call upon the students to withhold their athletic fees.
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And you wonder why the tenth anniversaryfund failed. On Januarv 22, 1968, student council passed the motion providing for the voluntary contribution of half a million to the fund from students. On May 15, the fund’s management committee passed a motion recording their “deep and warm appreciation for the farsighted generosity of the students.” On June 26, thev sent copies of the motion to . the board of
governors chairman, the federation president and the Chevronbut not the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Oh yeah, they also recommended to the board of governors that “a suitably inscribed plaque recording the gift. be placed in a prominent position in an appropriate university building.” Any student may get his contribution returned on request at the federation office within three weeks of registration.
Over Edith’s Dead bodies are at times a good idea. If Edith Beausoleil, housing service head, continues her ‘over my dead body’ approach to a unified’housing service, then that’s the way it should be. Student council took a firm stand at its last meeting on the policy of merging the housing service with those of Waterloo Lutheran and Conestoga College. The council re-affirmed last year’s council decision that the local universities and colleges should be cooperating, not competing, to solve mutual problems. They were able to see above the ’ narrow-minded approach of caring only for University of Waterloo students and were able to view all area students as a part of a larger community of common interest.
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Waterloo Lutheran has long are some problems of policy that would have to be worked outLutheran has off-campus regulations, a situation we couldn’t tolerate-but they seem ready to sit down with us and do so. But Edith Beausoleil finds it impossible to see things this way. She feels her job is to consider only University of Waterloo students and proudly submits that we have a better list and would only. suffer through cooperation. Smugly she’ll tell you stories about the Waterloo Lutheran students she’s turned away from her door begging for her superior list. Mrs. Beausoleil is an anachronism on our campus. Either her ideas should be changed or she should.
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All men are created equal-but some cars are more equal others What other car could have parked on the ring road for than three hours Wednesday afternoon and not get a ticket.
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still with us: acting chairman of the board of publications: Joe Givens 8000 copies and the following crew of jokers helped us laugh through this week’s issue: Greg Wormald, Eleanor Peavoy, John Pickles, Rob Brady, Larry Burko, George Loney, Al Adlington, Danny Cullen, Ken Dickson, Ken Stockholm, and Harley. Montreal Bureau: Paul Solomonian. Confidential to Kevin Peterson-if you’re reading this you’re out of your mind-you can’t scalp news from.b the masthead.
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Arvan affairs commission GENERAL MEETING. Campus center great hall. 8 pm. TUESDAY
Tentativelv. Arvan affairs commission BOOK BURNING. Behind the camcenter. 8 pm.
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NEW YORK (Staff )-Beneath the apparent calm at Columbia University, a large core of students continues to work for the changes in university government they sought in the spring revolution. The university is officially closed for the summer, and administration spokesmen say it will be business as usual when classes resume in September. Several hundred students are planning differently . They are spending the summer in New York and intend to proceed in the fall with Columbia as a free or liberated university. Prominent in this group are the seventy ’ students that were suspended for one year by the Columbia board of trustees. This includes Mark Rudd, leader of the Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia. Some administrators think the suspensions were a bad move, because without classes to attend, those leaders would spend all their time organizing and agitating. The core of students still in New York are holding liberation classes and intend to continue them in September when the university reopens.
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BRUSSELS (Special)-Radical Belgian students have rejected reform proposals for the free university of Brussels. The radicals-still occupying several liberated campus buildings-say the proposed changes in the 42man administrative council are inadequate. The administrative council says changes in its representation will be toward greater democratization. The new council will have a rector, two former’rectors; faculty deans, a prof from each
faculty elected by his colleagues, five members elected byresearchers and assistants, seven students eight community members and others from various categories. Moderate students regard the gesture as helpful. Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Special) Brazilian authorities closed the University of Rio indefinitely after a week of student demonstrations and violent encounters with police. One policeman was killed and over 1000 people were arrested. Students are campaigning for more funds for higher education and against a plan to make the federal uniirersity a private institution. The government claims professeional agiators are instigating riots for political purposes.
Frcke BASEL, France (CUPI)-With le Grand Charles firmly in political control of France, the student radical movement is beginning a reorganiza tion, The student movement of March 22 that started the workers’ general strike is now banned from public. The movement has asked its leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Danny the Red) to resign because his name was being used as a publicity lever. He was to have addressed students here Friday, but phoned from West .Berlin to cancel. Cohn-Bendi t , French-born of German parents, has been barred from re-entering France, for his extensive involvement in the spring revolt. His resignation will probably be temporary, long enough to allow the movement to develop around ideas rather than a personality.