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“We demand that’ action be taken on the .Beausoleil issue immediately . You realize the problem exists and you should remain here until the problem is said Federation of resolved,” Students president Brian Iler. “I don’t intend to remain until the problem is solved because I do not feel that my presence is necessary to resolve the situation,” responded university president Gerry Hagey. These comments marked the beginning of a three hour con_ forntation between Hagey and members of student council. The meeting took place Friday July 27. About ‘ten members of council including many executive mem-
b&s confronted Hagey with the controversy over foreign-student and housing officer Edith Beausoleil. They demanded Hagey deal with the situation before he left on holiday for a month and a half that Monday-or else put off the holiday until something was done. The issue has been building since statements against foreigners made by Mrs. Beausoleil were printed in the Chevron on July 12. Iler went on to say the administration was aware the problem existed for the past two years and no action had been taken. Hagey replied he was not fully aware the ,problem has existed and he objected to the problem being brought to him through the pages of the Chevron. .
“I would rather have had it brought to me by the Federation of Students, which is. the only group I recognize as being the voice of the students on campus, ” said Hagey. It was then brought to his attention that council had tried to go through proper channels to overcome the problem but no action had been taken. Council members also said that provost William Scott had been told unless some action was taken on this issue the matter would be turned over to the Chevron. “Possibly a committee could be set up which would look at the department concerned with student housing and foreign students,” said Hagey . “This committee would, during its investigation, see any problems of personality which existed.”
Iler countered, “Council is not concerned with stuctural changes. The problem is one person’s personality does not permit her to do her job properly.” Hagey answered, “I will not act. on an isolated situation within any department.” . Hagey pointed out it was similar to running a business and one must treat it in the same way. Cyril Levitt, an arts rep on council, said “The university is not a business in that sense because in this case we are dealing with people not merchanBrian Iler dise. If a committee is set up, it should be one to investigate her she could be made to underBeausoleil only. And if one case stand where portions of her beis found where she was exhibiting havior were inappropriate,” said racial prejudice she should be Scott. removed from her position.” Levitt stated, “Other people Iler said cases of prejudice will be affected in this learning had been reported to council and process and in the interest of on this basis she should be disjustice an investigation of Beausoleil herself should be conducted missedimmediately. I Hagey said these complaints so that the charges made- can had not been brought forward be proven wrong or right. In to him and seemed to be made this way justice for all con- ’ up of misquotations by the Checerned could be achieved.” vron. At this point, Hagey left the Iler then stated that Scott was room for a brief time and on aware of actual cases. returning said he had been conScott was called into the . . sidering the possibility of forming a “committee. meeting. The- committee Iler once again said that the would look into the feasibility administration was aware of the of placing the housing office situation and that positive action under the control of the Federation should be taken. of Students and the foreign-stu“Provost Scott himself had dent office under the graduate asked Beausoleil if she would society. object to being transferred to The council members said this another department. On her refuwas avoiding the essential problem &with Beausoleil and resal, he let the’- matter drop,” peated that all of Hagey’s objecsaid Iler. Scott argued that Beausoleil tions to dealing with the issue can be answered. was salvageable. “Although she is rather indeliAfter a few minuted discussion the members did, however, cate in certain matters and some accept the committee as a basis of her correspondence is open to more than one interpretation, to proceed upon. Hagey left on schedule for his no one is too old to learn. If her mistakes were pointed out to round-the-world vacation. -
‘R’s my building,” says campus-center director Paul Gerster. But Tuesday morning Gerster found his office set up in the center of the campus-center great hall, which had been cleared of furniture. The furniture was found stacked in the pub area, but the saboteurs haven’t been found. Informed sources indicate the prank - may have be& a reaction to cGerster’s possessiveness and his-closing of the building to wider student use.
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Education is a fundamental human right, said student council as it committed the federation to pursue the goal of universal accessibility to higher education. In line with this policy, council set up a committee to plan action and told it to hold a march on Queen’s Park if necessary. Councillors spent several hours discussing the implications of universal accessibility. Lack of financial resources was the most concrete barrier to higher edu cation but many council members stressed the importance of sociological factors. Considerable criticism was levelled at the Ontario student aid program. Recent changes in regulations place more stringent limitations on the amount of money students can obtain. Independent status is now more difficult to obtain. Some students now classed as dependent were classed as independent last year. students are reDependent
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quired to depend on some parental support whether or not they get any. One council member cited the implementation of a deadline for applications as proof of the government’s unconcern for student needs. Alan Gordon, assistant deputy minister of university affairs, said criticism of the changes usually ignores the fact that students who are not classed as independent still ‘qualify if their parents are below the income limits. Parents are not required to contribute if their net income is below $5000 with six children or under $3000 with one child. “It looks like more students than usual will be in pretty rough financial shape this year,” said federation president Brian Iler. However, he admitted the federation had no figures available to show how bad the situation was. The committee, therefore, was instructed to carry out a financial survey of all students this fall. A major aim is to find
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out how many students may not return for financial reasons. Council also told the committee to act to rectify any injustices in the fall regarding the studentaid plan. The final task for the committee is the development of programs to extend. accessibility to higher education. The committee must also find the money for those programs. Universal accessability was a hot issue two years ago. Early in 1966 student fl council narrowly rejected a motion calling for free tuition, student salaries and the abolition of means tests. But a petition forced a referendum on the issue. The results were somewhat inconsistent. Students said no to free tuition but yes to student salaries and abolition of means tests. Some council members blamed the poor wording of the referendum for the results. But things are different now, says external-relations chairman Dave Young. “In those days we talked mainly about free tuition. Now
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we realize we must concentrate on other aspects of accessibility,” he said. Publications chairman Geoff Roulet noted culturally .deprived children face more than financial barriers to higher education. Vicepresident Tom Patterson agreed saying in many cases students are expected to go to work after highschool rather than to university. This attitude, he said, is a very real barrier to higher education. Young noted a disturbing feature of the new community colleges. “The colleges are becoming the higher education of the working classes. ” Class distinctions, councillors felt, have been increased by. the streaming system of ’ the Robarts plan. Streaming reduces the number of alternatives open to highschool stuiients. Math rep Glenn Berry suggested a program was needed to create awareness among highschool students. Patterson agreed. there were many problems in the highschools.
“Long hair is still an issue in ‘many schools. ” One solution he suggested was the formation of autonomous highschool unions. Another solution is stronger teacher unions, “A lot of teachers are interested in new approaches to education but they are very vulnerablev in the present highschool situation.” The federation is now working on a tutorial program to involve university students in highschools. Phys-ed rep Pat Lavigne noted another problem. “Highschool guidance departments leave much to be desired.” Other council members agreed that too often guidance teachers .‘are only career advisors telling students what courses they need for a particular career. Young suggested the HallDennis report on education reform would be a good opening to get into highschools. “If everyone else is concerned about reform, why can’t we?” It might be a way to get around being banned from working in the highschools.”
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Our. multiversity is expanding off campus. The physics department will be mailing taped lectures and zeroxed notes to exten-‘, sion students this year as an experimental project. Taped post-degree physics courses /are being offered to highschool teachers seeking to upgrade their teaching certificate. “For a number of years’ we’ve held Saturday morning classes for highschool teachers within a 75-mile radius of Waterloo,” said project co-ordinator, prof Jim Leslie, physics. “Some would drive for two hours to get here, listen to a two-hour lecture, eat lunch and drive back. It took an entire day and bad weather created fur.” ther problems. ” “This tape system should solve the problem and at the same time make upgrading courses avail-
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A Waterloo free speech movement may have been born on the weekend. Saturday night several wentto The Green . Berets at the Capitol theater in Kitchener. Some of the students had seen the <movie the previous evening and were so repulsed by the American propoganda they gathered other students and returned for the purpose of cheering for the Viet Cong *and booing the Americans. After several instances cheering and heckling, the students -were informed if they did not cease they would be ejected. They continued exercising their freedom of speech and shortly other areas of the audience cheering wildly for the Americans. The students -were then lapproached by a member of the Kitchener police force who told them to leave the theater. Two left voluntarily. The next two insisted on their rights and went limp. They were both ejected forcefully by the oftiter, one student asking if he
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tioning and only emerger emergency lighting. “They did a terrific job,” said Village president Pete Huck, “I don’t know how they managed to work in that heat.” Unshaved faces crowded dining halls and Village houses became strewn with wires as Villages plugged their hi-fis into the emergency lighting. Candle sales at the tuck shop rose fantastically. Thursday night air hammers worked to drill a hole through a loading platform so the transfor-
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All the facilities in the athletic building will be open in time for registration-except the gym and the pool that is. The gym was damaged in the deluge of rain and mud last weekend and the pool can’t be opened until steelwork has been grounded to meet new provincial regulations. The pool regulations were enacted after a swimmer in Toronto was electrocuted when underwater lights shorted. Phys-ed school director Dan Pugliese said it will take 8 to 12 weeks to get the components to ground the steelwork. Meanwhile back at the gym, the extent of the water damage
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l Federation president Brian Iler informed council the Canadian Union of Students fee would likely rise from 75 cents to a dollar per student. The fee is paid by the federation from the $22 studentactivity fee each student pays. The projected increase has been allowed for in the federation budget. l The major teach-in planned by the federation board of education has been abandoned in favor of a series of mini teach-insthe contemporary ‘University, zoo.’ 4 The federation will purchase a second airplane for use by the alflying club. The federation ready owns a Cessna 150 two-seater. The new plane will be a fourseat Skyhawk and, like the first, will pay for itself from operating revenue. 0 In a lighter vein, council approved the formation of the Federation of students air force and appointed flying club president Vince McKnight first chief air marshal. o Geoff Roulet, former acting student-activities chairman, was appointed publications chairman, relieving treasurer Joe Given who has been acting pubs chairman. Jim Keron, who was summer weekend chairman, took over the chairmanship of the student-activities board.
e External-relations chairman Dave Young recommended council members work on classroom organizing in the coming year. A day-long session will be held on this, probably Sept. 14. Young suggested students put out course critiques like those done by American students. l Council approved a salary of $i50 for creative-arts program coordinator Chris Fleming. o Creative-arts chairman John Koval introduced recommendations for recognition of clubs and organizations by counCi1. Recognition means that an organization can use the names Federation of Students and University of Water100 and get money from the federation budget. Koval recommended council not recognize any organization which discriminates in the selection of its members. Organizations must, be open to all students. If they wish to limit their size, selection of members must be objective and relevant to the group’s purpose (for example in the case of the orchestra). Vacancies m&t be publicized in the Chevron, and a reason given for every rejected application. Rejections may be taken to the judicial committee. Council passed the recommendations.
te - -- - The grad power game, quiet for most of the summer term, popped up again last week when executives of the graduate student society presented a petition to acting university president Howard Petch. The petition, gathered during the winter term, demands the $22 annual activity fee be turned over to the grad society rather than the _l_l_______l__“_---l_-------Federation of Students. The grad exec says it is signed by about 60 percent of grads. Petch was unavailable for comment this week, but provost Bill Scott said the administration planned no action that he knew of on the petition. “President Hagey and I would probably both want to hear evidence from the grads on lack of accommodation by the Federation
of Students for them. They must support their request with evidence of a lack of accommodation. ” Scott went on to say there were no instances where the grad SOciety has asked student council for money for programs and been refused. He noted their unsuccessful request for extensive renovations to the grad house was not relevant. Because of legal agreements between the Federation of Students and the university, the matter rests with the federation unless the university decides to break the agreement at the end of the school year. Even then separate status for grads would require a change in the incorporations act which specifies the federation as the sole representative of students at the University of Waterloo.
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The math faculty is again employing highschool students for the summer as part of t’heir recruitment program. For several years, math has selected some of the more mathproficient grade 12 and 13 students and brought them to campus for exposure to computers and the university. Salaries are paid. by the math faculty for the “research assistants”. This year there are six
mathcots, mainly from grade 12. Associate math dean Arthur Beaumont is in charge of the project. Donna McKie, math 3, is also on salary from the math faculty to coordinate the mathcots and keep them out of trouble. They are working for Prof. Gerald Berman on a reference retrieval system, but have considerable spare time t,o experiment themselves with the computers.
A couple of Chevron types will be spending next week in Chicago finding out how the Americahs turn out campus scandal sheets. Editor Stewart Saxe and news editor Bob Verdun are attending as observers the annual conference of the United States Student Press Association. USSPA is their counterpart of Canadian University Press.
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There has never been an effective and viable organization representing graduate students on this campus. The Graduate Student Society is largely social in nature and is not representative of the average graduate student. Graduate students have never given any real measureable support to the Federation of Students or to the Grad Society. This situation is by and large a result of the Grad Society’s being one of many Federation societies and, as such, enjoys the. same privileges and limitations as the undergraduate societies such as the Engineering Society or the Arts Society. Why hasn’t this arrangement worked and why can it not be made to work? The answer lies in the basic differences between graduates and undergraduates that are larger than the common experiences of being part of the same student body. Grads are different
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The life of the graduate student is quite different, academically and socially from that of the typical undergraduate. The educational process changes drastically with graduate training. Formal classrom education is no longer the important part of the process. The grad student undertakes a program- that is geared to allow an individual to develop qualities that will make him capable of original research usually in a particular field within a particular discipline. Relations with faculty members take on new meaning. The new research-oriented training requires the close cooperation and‘ constant communication of the students and the faculty in the field. The “apprentice” researcher needs the ,experienced faculty researcher to give active criticism to his ideas and both benefit from the experience. In many departments graduate students act as instructors for undergraduate courses placing them more in the role of faculty than in the role of students. . This relatively new approach to learning and new relationship with the faculty generates its own problems and its own solutions. The closer relationship makes for closer communication SO that grad students do not need a formal organization to be ever vigilant to protect the graduate student’s rights. If the grad feels that all is not well in his university life, he usually goes himself directly to one or more of the faculty and, because of his relationship with them, is almost always sure the problem will receive due consideration and appropriate action. Since his education is so specific, the graduate student tends to function both academically and
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Practically all of his day to day activities take place in his own department and he has little time to come into regular contact with members of other Some programs departments. that would be of interest to grad students would be most successful if implemented at the department level. Since a high percentage of grad students are married, social activities would have to be of a different nature from typical undergraduate social functions. methods
Since his orientation is so different from that of an undergraduate, the graduate student often finds he is in basic disagreement with the methods of a federation council that is comprised of 90% undergraduates. His approach to solving problems on campus is very often different because of his special relationship with the faculty. Thus, in many instances where undergraduates are forced to use tactics such as sit-ins in the president’s office or crusades by the student newspaper to make their point, graduate students as a rule would rather use other avenues of communication. It is because of these basic and fundamental differences in education, in relations with the faculty, in approaches to solving problems, in social life, etc., etc., that the graduate students recently sought a special status within the Federation of Students and control of their own activities fees to which latter purpose a petition. was circulated among graduate students. After deliberations with representatives of the Graduate Society, the representatives of the student council concluded that graduate students should have no special status within the Federation different from any of its undergraduate societies. Petch gets a petition
It was at this time that the petition to obtain the $22. student activities fee was presented to the administration. It was pointed out to the administration that the federation could not conceive of allowing even part of the $22 activities fee to be turned back to the grads under the present structure and that no other compromise could be reached. Therefore, the petition also constituted a request that a separate Graduate Student Union be formed, completely autonomous from the present Federation of Students of the University of Waterloo. The petition was signed by 567 of the estimated 725 grad students on campus at the time the petition was circulated. Most of those who did not sign were those that were somehow overlooked in the ‘canvass of the graduate students. Few that were approached refused to sign. All students will benefit from an autonomous graduate student body. It would be able to clearly represent ‘to the student body the feelings of the graduate students. This body would be willing and eager to support and even subsume those activities of the Federation of Students that if felt could be in the interest of graduate students. Thus a new level of cultural activities with a somewhat, different orientation would be available to the entire student body.
sph A renewed dialog between undergraduates in a new spirit of cooperation with none of the “hang ups” that have existed before. Perhaps the present student newspaper could be replaced. with one in which faculty, grad students, and undergrads would contribute and share the responsibility for the content. Distinguished lecturers of great stature might be brought to the campus as many graduate students have personal contacts with well-known scholars from different universities. Graduate students could conduct their own orientation and housing service to provide for the very different problems of graduate students in these fields. Graduate students might act as tutors or advisors in their respective fields. The list is unlimited.
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A separate graduate student body will be an asset to campus life. Only with renewed identity and autonomy for the graduate students will graduate student apathy be eliminated and all this be possible. We’ve tried it your way. How about trying it ours?
The author of this article is vicepresident of the Federation of students. He is now in his third year. on both the council and its executive. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Chevron. by Tom
Patterson
The present situation of graduates within structure of the Federation’ of Students is as follows : each graduate who is a full-time student at the University of Waterloo is a member of the federation and pays the twenty-two dollar activity fee. The Graduate Student Society is an organization independent from the federation. It may solicit a voluntary fee from its members, or request, as the undergraduate faculty sorieties have, that a refundable or mandatory fee be collected by the University, along with tuition and other incidental fees. The autonomous status of the Graduate Society has been hindered in the past by the fact that it has not collected its own fee. Hence, it’s activities have been subject in the past to student council approval, as they have usually been financed by federation grants. There is one alternative to this arrangement which the student council considers acceptable, although not the most desirable; that is that graduate students cease to be members of the federation, and have the same structural relationship to the federation as any other nonmembers, such as faculty. Special status
impossible
The federation will not accept any kind of “special status” for any group of its members, for this would be unfair and a source of resentment to the others, while
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0.0council wcm~sunity many of the financial and constitutional relationships between this group and the others would be enormously difficult. , If the graduates do not share enough of the common concerns of the rest of the federation to be members of it and pay the common fee, while expressing their more particular interests through their own organization, then they should represent themselves solely through their own union. The basic disagreement between the graduates’ who favour separation and the student council is this: the graduate separatists believe that in order for the Graduate Society to become an effective organization with good a strong voice and programs, popular support, and to unite and mobilize the presently disunited and generally apathetic graduate student body, it must be the sole student government for graduates. Many dismiss this argument rather lightly, but I am not prepared to do. There are some elements of value in it which should be brought out so that we can discover whether or not they apply to this situation. The student council is very painfully aware of the need for antonomous self-government , is a necessary condition for reducing alienation and stimulating activity.. People very often cannot have an active concern, even for the things which directly effect themselves, if the control of them is out of their hands., For several years student councils have sought a greater degree of %ntonomy, and many battles have been fought to ward off faculty and administration control of student activities. In its relationship to the federation the Graduate Society has this antonomy. In its relationship to the faculty and administration, there are only two restrictions of its complete antonomy: if it approaches the administration or faculty on a matter of university-wide concern it is requested that the student council be informed if appointments are to be made to university-wide bodies. In all cases in which a graduate student is to be appointed to such a body in his capacity as a graduate student the Society is approached by the council to select a representative who must then be approved by the council. With@ the Federation graduate students have all the rights and privileges of membership, including three out of twenty-five voting seats on Council, plus an ex-officio seat for the President of the Graduate Society. The Graduate Society could call itself the Graduate Stu. dents’ Union, Graduate Council, or anything else if it so desired; “society” is a general term used by the student council to describe student representative association at the university other than itself. It could even become incorporated if it wishes. It is difficult to see how this arrangement is a hindrance to the development of an effective graduate students’ union. Common
interests
are key
Nonetheless, if the common interests and needs of graduates are so very different from those of undergraduates that membership in the Federation is of very little value, it is clearly an injustice that graduates are required to pay a fee which is turned over to the Federation, and a waste of their time to
participate in Federation decision making. In fact, it would be unfair to the undergraduates if what is essentially an “outside” group had a fairly strong say in the administration of their union. But are the interests really so different? I will not try to go into a long discussion of whether graduates benefit from Federation programs as much as undergraduates. I believe the benefits to be approximately the same, but the arguments are inconclusive, and both sides have agreed that they are not of vital relevance to the issue. It should be pointed outi, however, that the Graduate Society is provided with an office and secretarial services by the -Federation. It has received vastly more direct financial support than any other society and (other than the proposed renovations of the Graduate House which was almost exclusively for the use of graduate students and already funded very extensively by Council) no program of the Grads has ever been denied funds by the student council. The situation of the graduate student does indeed give him a somewhat different outlook on the university. He has been here longer, had more time to develop certain interests and exhaust others, and is involved in a different type of academic work from that of undergraduates. But the activities’ of the Federation in no way preclude expression of graduates’ interest. It has been found that grads do notparticipate in the “weekends”. Yet these kind of activities are self-sustaining, requiring very little of Council’s time and none of its funds.
perhaps a problem they should try to rectify. Even the present , Graduate Society finds time a problem one, let alone a larger and more active society in an expanded graduate school. But more basic is this question: what kind of an educational environment is it which leads its members to withdraw from actively concerning themselves with the ) fundamental and long term problems of their university and their society which transcend the conforms of their particular discipline?
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The question is still not entirely answered as to why graduates should approach such concerns as members of the Federation. The rest of the answer lies in the position of graduates in the university community. There are differences in the maturity and interests of students at all levels. The fourth year student differs from a freshmen, artsmen from engineers, masters level students from those advancing toward a doctoral degree. But all are students. While the graduate participates much more in teaching and research activities, and is more involved in his department, he is still defined as a student. His channels for affecting decisions are informal ; he is an apprentice academic. I have personally heard graduates complaining that their freedom of activity (and in one is much case, even opinion) more controlled by their faculty advisors than it was in their undergraduate days. In the recommendations for a new structure for Graduate Studies announced in the May 17, 1968 issue of the Gazette, Programs relevant to grads there is no provision for participation by graduate students. My Many programs which are point is not to suggest that there financed are, or should be, of cons should be (although I think there tern for graduates. Council itself should) but rather to indicate has dealt with issues such as that the graduate, with some the quality of the library, recreadifferences, is still a student, an tional facilities and athletic fees, intellectual apprentice, with a bookstore prices, residence facistatus very similar to that of lities and costs (with particular undergraduates. It is, the student attention to married student council believes, therefore quite quarters. ) university government, appropriate for graduates to be student aid, political issues, and full members of the general stuis now deeply involved in educa, dent union. tional matters. The external-relations board togetherness is worthwhile handles internationally,and nationally oriented programs, and the It is the opinion of the student creative-arts board provides a council that the mutual benefits wide range of cultural activities. of remaining a single organizaIf graduates feel that any of tion are very great. We can all these are inadequate there is work much more effectively on ample opportunity for them to common concerns as one organizahelp improve them. In none of tion, and the Federation is, even these, is there any significant now, a much beter union as a ground for different approaches, result of graduate participation. and certainly none that cannot Discussions have revealed so be accommodated. many areas in which joint efOne graduate student said that forts would be undertaken that the major difference between onesometimeswonders why segagraduates and undergraduates ration has even been considered. is that graduates are “profesIt is not likely to result in more co-operation, but will entrench a sionals’ ’ . Their primary interest and activity is their discipline, division that should not exist and and many of the more politically will result in two organizations and generally educationally oritragically going separate ways. ented programs of reform were Separation, if it must come, characteristic of youthful idealism cannot be accomplished and put and utopianism. Anyone who has into effect before September ever noted the very great num1969. Let us devote this year to ber of graduates at, for example, discovering how the Graduate a C.U.S. Congress or Seminar, Society can develop the full poknows that this does not apply tential of its autonomy and its .7 to all graduates. new sense of direction and deterThe number of institutions at mination, and how the Federation which graduates have been Counas a whole can provide more cil presidents and newspaper effective programs for all its editors indicated that many have members, graduate and undergraboth the concern and the time duate. for such activities. Time, adIf we fail, the alternative of mittedly, is much more difficult separation will be the only course. for grads to find, but this is Let’s not fail!
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The three day folk festivalheld last weekend on Toronto’s Center Island-had no big namestars, but the abundance of new and original talent more than made up for it.
Howling Wolf was one of jhe highlights of Saturday’s concert. The gigantic negro blues singer delighted the audience as he romped all over the stage doing his thing.
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by Gary
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Having gained prominence backing Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia, David Rea sang his own songs at Sunday’s concert. 138 The CHEVRON
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It was a new kind of festival, with everyone singing their own songs with an emphasis on originality. c With 25 workshops on topics ranging from the blues to the folksong as communication, the festival managed to hold everyone’s interest without any letdown. By far the most popular workshop was the one on rural and urban blues on Saturday afternoon. Most impressive of the blues singers was Howling Wolf, a gigantic negro who’s been sing-
ing since 1928. Wolf. really kept the attention of the audience as he sang standing up, sitting down, on his knees, on his back, jumping up and down, and doing everything except yelling ‘kill. ’ Sunday’s new songwriters concert proved equally successful. Most popular was Vera Johnson, who was given a standing ovation for her songs which knocked everything from politics to religion. Highlight of the festival was the Sunday night concert. EXcellent performances by all singers kept things going at a steady pace. Outstanding performances were given by David Rea, Vera Johnson, and Joni Mitchell, topping off the most successful Mariposa festival date. But nobody sang Dylan.
Michael Cooney leads a workshop on the songs and styles of Leadbelly. Over 25 similur workshops were held on all facets o.f .folk music from traditional to con temporary.
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by David Zirnhelt president, alma mater society, University of British Columbia Today we as students are witnessing a deepening crisis within our society. We are intensely aware, in a way perhaps not possible for the older generationn, that humanity stands on the edge of a new era. Because we axe young, we have insights into the present and visions of the future our parents do not have. Tasks of an immense gravity wait solution in our generation. We have inherited these tasks from our parents. We do not blame them so much for that-the problems come from human failings-but we do blame them for being unwilling to admit there are problems or for saying it is we who have visited these problems upon, ourselves because of our perversity, ungratefulness and unwillingness to listen to “reason”. Much of the burden of solving the problems of the new era rests upon the university. We have been taught to look to it for leadership. While we know part of the reason for the existence of the university is to render direct services to the community, we are alarmed at its servility to industry and government as to what it teaches and how it teaches. We are scandalized that the university fails to realize its role in renewing and vivifying those intellectual and moral energies necessary to create a new society-one in which a sense of personal dig nity and human community can be preserved. We are scandalized that the university by implication (if not directly in some cases) in .the form and content of education continues to teach and inculcate in its students precisely those values of our society which, if persisted in, can only lead to a deepening of the present crisis and the eventual loss of human dignity and freedom where it has not already been weakened and destroyed-. ’ . , Our trust and confidence in the universities and school systems is weakened when we see the simplistic reactions of both .faculty and students in time of stress.
Our trust and confidence in the universities &id school systems is further weakened when we see the simplistic reactions of both faculty and students in this time of stress. It is evident our schools and universities have produced a state of mind bordering on insanity in both students and faculty. In the case of students this drives them to the creation of unreasonable and sometimes impossible demands and to a direct confrontation in their need to be heard. In the case of administration and even some faculty and students it leads to total resistance and the determination to defend the university as they know it with violence. We reject as unworthy of our dignity and capacity as human - beings to. be driven to the extreme of either defending the status quo of our society by violence or to the extreme of 3Tiolent confrontation in seeking change. Violence by itself never brings life. Only reason and love together can do that. Violence occurs when either reason or love fails. We live in a been captured education, and ity and dreams
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society where reason has by rhetoric in the name of real love by sentimentalin the name of revolution.
We live in a society where reason has been captured by rhetoric in the name of education, and real love by sentimentality and dreams in the name of revolution. We are left with the apparently insoluble problem of choosing to defend _ knowledge, prudence and scholarship, or love and human solidarity. In either case we seem driven to violent stance. This is a false choice and we should not be either driven to it. To defend knowledge or love by itself can only lead to destruction either by reaction or revolution. We strongly believe the university needs reform and we will not have the thrust of our intention blunted by university authorities who will accept reforms only as long as the university continues to run in the old way. ,
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If we reject both of these false alternatives we do not thereby accept the position of compromise between the two. We strongly believe the university needs reform and we. will not have the thrust of our intention blunted by university authorities who will accept reforms only as long as the university continues to run in the old way. We also condemn that attitude as a form of insanity which can only lead to further decay in the university. Our needs are obvious
The claim is -made against students that they do not know what it is they want and that they are irresponsible. We can only counter that most of the people who make that accusation really do not know what they themselves want, _ and in view of the violence in our 20th century society, we have yet to be convinced of their responsibility. What we ask for is not obscure and unknown to the people who ask us these questions. If it were not such a serious problem, we would be amused by the variety of fuddy-duddy and pseudo-scientific attempts to diagnose our state of mind and what went “wrong” with us. Our needs are obvious and so simply human that any ideology of the left or the right or breast-beating by our elders can do nothing but complicate and obfuscate the problem. What we are seeking as a matter of principle is what any human being seeks : 1. We seek a form of education in our university which gives the student freedom of choice in what he should study. 2. We seek the political rights of free human beings to have a say in those decisions that affect them. 3. We seek the right to question whether we should be educated in the traditional manner or educated at all. We declare that except in theory and in a few courses in the university which teach about -freedom, these ordinary rights have all but disappeared in our universities. Our freedom in these matters is jeopardized by both. reactionaries and leftist extremists : * By those who claim we now have a democratic society and each person should have the right in so far as he can to participate in those decisions which affect him, and yet deny him that right in practice. * By those who say the pursuit of knowledge should be free and this is -the glory of our universities, yet in practice give only the opportunity to learn certain things. . *. By those who say in our universities and society that the pursuit of knowledge in the arts, philosophy and the end of man is better than pursuit of material things for their own sake, yet in practice insist that our educational requirements be determined in most instances by the demands of our economy along the lines of efficiency and the filling of jobs in our industrial society. * By those in opposition to the “Establishment” who preach freedom and love, yet in practice would impose another form of control and conformity in ideas, and& their turn deny others their basic rights. In the end we are left with the impression that faculty and administration are just not listening.
* By those who in the name of democrause of power, but in the end only seek-power ‘for themselves. * By those who decry the secrecy and depersonalization of structure in society, yet themselves meet in secret and use organizations to obtain power. When it comes to the preservation of freedom and political rights in university life we are concerned with the role of the students and faculty in decision making, and the role of the university in
cy seek a democrati-c
loco parentis.
When we advance our reasons for change and reform and make particular suggestions we are not allowed to compete on an intellectual give-and-take basis with faculty and administration. We are not given adequate face-to-face reasons why our ideas and suggestions are not acceptale or if they are acceptable why they are not put into practice. Especially we are not given the oppor-
tunity of either refuting or agreeing with the alternatives that may compete with our own suggestions before the final decisions are made. All we experience is our ideas disappearing into the administrative machinery and the real decisions’ being made elsewhere beyond our control. Our ideas are subject to -inspection and criticism, but we do not have the equal opportunity of passing judgment on the quality of the elements coming from the administration going into making final decisions. In the end we are left w’ith the impression that faculty and administration are just not listening. In short, we are patronized, patted on the head and indulged for fear we might cause trouble. It appears in addition these difficulties in decision making are compounded because faculty and administration are not really listening to each other; let alone to us. It surprises us that the university insists upon being regulator of our morals, when the university will not subject itself to a moral scrutiny of its purpose and structure. Intellectual
violence
The treats to freedom in our age do not only come- from physical violence and coersion. This is also an age of intellectual violence. The two cannot .be separated-where one exists, so must the other. We will not be coerced by what has come to equal university education To say there are alternatives and we are free to chose them is simply not true. One needs the ticket to make his way in society.
by compulsion. To say there are alternatives and we are free to choose them is simply not true. One needs the ticket to make his way in society. We decry this --‘false set of values placed upon university education by society, especially when the most meaningful criteria is education’s use in the service of government and industry. This set of values is often reflected in the students themselves. In a recent student publication the editor wrote: . ..he (the student) spent five years at university and fulfilled all the faculty requirements, thus proving he has the ability to learn. He has the ability to learn the requirements of his job and he has the guts and stamina to perservere where the person without a degree will give up and fail.h The university has all but entirely submitted to industry and government _and the need to advance our economy, not only in the purpose for which it ex-. ists but also in the system of rewards and punishments it metes out in the form of grades and in the criteria it establishes for excellence. As free individuals seeking and education for our own purposes and for a truly b free society, we will not subject ourselves to the compulsion which says in effect that you cannot have a degree or atte#nd this university unless you follow this precise set of rules regarding your education and fulfil these obligations. Thou
shalt not question
The first unwritten and unexpressed rule given to us by the university is that students and faculty shall not question (except in a hypothetical way) either the rules which are given, their moral implications or the purpose of the uniyersity. If you as students question this first rule in any practical way you shall be declared undemocratic, communist, anarchist, sick, ungrateful to the bountiful society which supports you or, worst of all. a drop-out. In fact, we shall ostracize you, for if you do not follow this rule we shall declare you intellectually inadequate We have become dissatisfied with the quality ‘of university education and the slowness and . the apparent lack of interest of the university to bring about changes.
We may be atheists, agnostics, Christians or whatever, but we are not prepared to
worship at the altar of this, the foremost of the modern idols. There is” no doubt a tendency on our part to overgeneralize about the inadequacies of the universities. In the same fashion, the older generation overcompensates in its criticism of the student demands by saying they are impractical and in this way attempts to avoid the real issues. They say we do not take into account the obstacles to reform-the need for trained people in society, the problems of overcrowding, budget problems, the presence in some cases of inadequate and uninterested faculty, the human problems of jealousy and power seeking within the university and the need for some systematic way of ordering activity in the university. We do recognize these difficulties and admit we lack experience in dealing with some of them. However we will not allow these difficulties to be used against us as excuses for so-called “moderate” reform or as a technique of absorbing and blunting our criticism or not doing anything at all. Professional schools and training must exist, and they must have some means of regulating their standards. This is obvious enough. We do not however think the criteria of professionalism , and the specious scholarship of ten accompanying it should be the basis of all education in the university. When this is the case teaching is reduced to training to meet the standards of professionalism and research becomes in many cases a means of maintaining professional standing and advancement within the university. The students (to say nothing of the faculty) suffer under such a regime. Such a system induces passivity in the student and an unthinking obedience to his tea- ,’ cher. We have become dissatisfied with the quality of university education and the slowness and apparent lack of interest of the university to bring about changes. Most have little to do with budgeting. We are becoming increasingly discontented with the criteria, range and meaning of course marks. We question the educational value of competition for marks, written examinations as a basis for grades and ultimately the utility of any grading system. There is increasing unrest over courses which are often restrictive, often biased and usually irrelevant. We recognize the need for scholarship and discipline. in studies. This is not incompatible with freedom of choice. We wish more freedom to study what we want to study and how we want to study it, without being forced to accept certain models or biases in order to obtain satisfactory grades. Textbook
lectures
We are becoming increasingly - _ impatient with dry, uninteresting lectures and with lectures which emerge almost completely from a text book. If this type of instruction continues, we will not continue to attend classes. We still protest the impersonality of the university to a point where the statement appears trite. Yet with some exceptions we have not seen any improvement in this direction. Wl “le budgetary limitations are recognii ?d, we believe that imagination and a demr onstrated willingness on the part of most-not just some-faculty to overcome this problem would do much to improve the learning situation. It is argued that we are neither Columbia University nor the Sorbonne and we do not have the same, problems. We are not so naive that we think there is no difference between France, the United States and Canada. We know also that the University of British Columbia, when compared with other universities, has had an enlightened administration and that there are many good and generous people and teachers in the university. Nevertheless, what we ask for now does not exist in our university. We ask for ’ the freeing of the university now, the creation of alternate streams by which a student can pursue his studies at his own pace and at-his own choice and the granting of political rights. Friday,
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At 9:30 on a recent morning, a darkblue Oldsmobile convertible pulled up in the hot sunshine in front of Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational School in Oshawa. Lloyd Dennis, the 44-year-old educator’s educator who was co-chairman of the Ontario Committee on the Aims and Objectives of Education that produced the most revolutionary report on learning in the province’s history, quickly combed his greying hair in the car mirror and bounced out. He had been invited to speak to area superintendents, education directors and 200 teachers about the report which he produced with co-chairman Justice Emmett Hall. He is the government’s interpreter of the document which urges a more human process of learning. Eastdale is typical of the Ontario educational process as it exists. The sprawling, two-story structure was opened in 1966. Its halls are polished. Education is neat and clean. Dennis faced an audience in a city whose livelihood rests largely on automobile production. “I want to speak not as an author of the report, but as a teacher,” Dennis began. He talked fast. “I’ve heard about this Hall-Dennis report but I haven’t got time to look at it right now. I know it says I don’t know what my job is. What is my job? “There’s little George; take a look at him-a scrawny, pimply-faced little guy. What does he expect of me, his teacher? There isn’t another person, isn’t another group, in all Ontario that has been given by the state complete power over the minds, and yes, the bodies, of young people. ’ ’ Dennis is a superb speaker. He shifts moods quickly, speaking from conviction and his experience as a teacher, principal, consultant, author, administrator and researcher. Product of culture “Where should I start in trying to understand George ? First, George is a product of a culture, as I am, as his parents are. There’s not much point in going further if I don’t see that. “It is a vastly materialistic, industrialized culture. George lives in a society infused with the idea of material success, and oriented chiefly around work. It’s BAD for George to sit there and pick his nose and twiddle his thumbs and look at the stars. It’s GOOD for George to grind, to slave, to sweat. “There’s not much time for esthetics, for George to have time to think why
by Cyril Levitt Chevron staff
The last time I saw Columbia University in May it was surrounded by crowds of irrate students, area residents and sympathizers as well as the tough members of the Tactical Police Force of New York. That was early last May. Now, outwardly at least, things have settled down and a deceptive air of innocence surrounds the buildings. But Columbia University is not the same place it was before the disturbances occurred. Across the road from the Great Wall of the university on 114th St. stands a frat house converted by the Columbia chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SNS) into a “liberation school”. Although in a desperate financial situation, the school provides facilities for nine hundred students during the summer months. About one hundred active members from the SDS group have given their summer vacations to this project. They have solicited assistance from the radical facmembers of Columbia ulty
blue is so pretty and black isn’t-for him. ” One teacher has fallen asleep. Another fiddles with a small ruler. Most watch and listen to the man in the light grey suit silhouetted against a movie screen. “George got an assignment in current affairs and brought a picture from his newspaper of a Vietnamese police official blowing the brains out of a member of the Viet Cong.” Proudly: “I gave him 10 extra marks in social studies for that! It’s up there on the class bulletin board.” Pause. “But I never found a way to help George cry about people hurting other people. “As a teacher I’ll have to fight and argue to change society’s idea that George’s future is carved out for him in a factory. Who knows what George’s future is? George came to school today for his sake, not mine. It might help -me to remember that. Wants better training “I must be a prime agent for change in my culture. I’ll demand better training for teachers; I’ll demand more autonomy; I must make my classroom the focal point for mental activity for my children and my community. “I must say (banging the lectern) : ‘STOP THAT! You’re rotting this boy’s soul. I demand as his teacher that you stop that.’ As that boy’s teacher I demand of the minister of education that he help me to do my job better.” Dennis told the teachers: “You are the power of the land and if you can’t face it you should get out of the business.” “Too many teachers have been immunized to thought, feeling or involvement because they are willing products of the existing school system,” Dennis said on the trip back to Toronto. “ ‘We saw a movie and then we heard a talk. ’ Everything is given the same weight, approached passively.” What has been reaction to the report? “Unexpectedly positive. But I worry when education officials come to me and say they’re already doing everything the report recommends and ask what comes next.” That afternoon, Dennis gave the same talk to an overflow audience of more than 1,000 secondary school teachers in the broiling auditorium at the Ontario College of Education on Bloor Street in Toronto. It was a younger crowd and Dennis’ speech received 40 seconds of sustained applause. In conversations later, a senior administrator of OCE largely ‘responsible for training secondary school teachers suggested that the HallDennis committee had overstepped its
who now provide the expertise helpful to students at the school. The leaders of the SDS chapter are painfully aware the administration of Columbia will try to open in the fall as if nothing had happened. Although the SDS people haven’t decided upon a specific strategy yet, undoubtedly every attempt will be made to thwart the administration. (There was talk of a city-wide strike of highschool students to be co-ordinated with possible action by university students. > To keep people aware of the Columbia tension the SDS is conbroadstantly turning out sheets from its mimeograph machine. I accompanied six of the SDS’ers to a McCarthy rally billed as a Humphrey” gathering. “Stop Just about every shade of leftwing organization was represented and all vied for the allegiance of the McCarthyites and passers-by buttons, and with literature. stickers. The group from Columbia began to pass their literature around and solicited contributions for the liberation school and the legal defense of those people
terms of reference by making recommendations about secondary education. He complained that only one member of the committee had secondary school experience. In fact, three had. Reaction to the report in letters to the editor of The Globe and Mail has been about evenly divided. Of 17, seven have been for and six against. The others contained mixed reaction or concerned side issues. One main objection has emerged. It is that Hall-Dennis schools would ill-prepare students for jobs in the industrial machine. Graduates would not have a “deeplyinstilled respect for the discipline of work,” and would not “face up to real facts.” “The committee knew what employers wanted,” Dennis said, “because the committee asked them and heard them at leng-th. Emnlovers told the committee thev want a person who can think, who can communicate, who has some excitement about him, who can find new ways to do 0
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Children are to me more precious than anything else in this world because they are honest.. . Although I was only at your school three and a half days altogether I met many people. I cannot and would not judge or evaluate them; I can only say what I felt and sensed and saw. I saw adults remembering all the time that they were adults and that childhood was a thing of the past. I saw children bumping into an icy - wall, regardless of how warm and inviting the exterior-children who wanted you on the floor with them, not on a chair above them. I saw silent adult looks of scorn and resentment at my apparel, which enabled me to be on the floor at their level. I heard myself being told that I was entitled to respect and authority before these children to whom I had never pro-
charged in the police bust last May. The pamphlet read in part: “Yes, the ‘bosses’ have power and the bosses ignore the people, but they are not the only ones. Those who control America’s industries and schools also make decisions independently of t,he people and for the benefit of the few. “Take Grayson Kirk, President of Columbia University, for example. He’s on the Board of Directors of the Socony Mobil Corporation on the Board of Trustees of Columbia and. . . on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Defense Analysis, which does research to find better ways of suppressing the Vietnamese abroad and the black people at home. Who decided the resources and prestige of Columbia were to be used in support of the Vietnam war? Certainly not the students... The strike and our fight continue. Now, district attorney Frank Hogan, political hack and Columbia University trustee, is turning the big guns of the courts against us. Last week two girls were sentenced
Common thread The word naive is the common thread to the critical letters. It is used in a sense that implies that what exists is practical simply because it exists, and that what is proposed is impractical simply because it is proposed. Supporters of the Hall-Dennis report wrote that the lock-step system of external discipline has been given a long time to produce the hard-working, sternly disciplined graduates who apparently still do not exist in sufficient numbers to satisfy critics. A major contradiction in the critics’ view lies in the fact that so much hard work is to produce automobiles, refrigerators, boats, automatic dishwashers and thousands of other means to the Soft Life. Children in the Hall-Dennis schools would*. be . encouraged to ponder such contradictions. From
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ven myself worthy of that respect. I heard children calling me ‘Miss Taylor’, and I flinched. I sensed fear in the air of adults. A fear to break away from the established tradition of apparel and authority-the guidelines of control. I sensed restraint and I do not mean self-discipline and self-responsibility, for these are not ugly and meaningless. I heard professionalism, saw professionalism, smelled professionalism. I also saw things I loved. Children not being packaged, but singled out and dealt with as individuals. I saw animals I saw puppet shows, I saw round tables’ paper-mache everywhere, things in a hell of a mess (through an adult’s eyes). I saw children putting their own clothes on. I saw a grade five teacher who looked like she belonged in blue jeans-she swung from a door jamb. Colors were everywhere ; stories were sad, they were happy, but they were honest. But in the midst of 800 sunflowers I saw dead seeds. Boredom was one, frustration, insecurity, unhappiness, superficiality-all in the faces and actions of the supposed guides. Do your people really know the impact they cbuld have on these childrens’ lives; do they know they have the power to caress or crush?
to 15 days in the woman’s House of Detention and fined $250 for their participation in the strike. Political intimidation and repression won’t stop us.
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And so the revolution at Columbia University continues behind the scenes throughout the summer. It should be a hot autumn in New York City this year.
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COopefUtion, not competence, forms the essential question’ I agree with Mr. Murthy’s comments (Chevron, July 26) that the orientation program for overseas students should be changed. The principle of orientation, I understand, is for the newcomer to feel this is his university regardless of his background. It is unfortunate that some students should feel uncomfortable even after spending two years on campus-yet many students from Asia and Africa do. The average student from these areas arrives in Canada with many inhibitions based on reasons ranging from cultural and religious differences to a consciousness of physical differences. Under these circumstances it makes it all the more necessary for an orientation program which will enable an inherently shy but willing overseas student to get into the mainstream of university life. In this regard, I have a few suggestions to make. Continue to send printed information prior to his arrival as is being done now. Encourage the overseas student to take accomodation on campus for at least the first semester. Due to this exposure, many of his inhibitions are liable to break down. I agree that the food will not be what he’s been used to; but getting used to it would be part of his orientation. It would enable him to ‘accept invitations from Canadian hosts without feeling embarrassed ’ that he’s giving them extra trouble. Considering that most of the overseas students are graduates, the graduate society should play an important role in the orientation One way is to have informal gatherings in the first semester. These would serve to put newcomers at ease with the
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people they are going to assocampus depends more on the ciate with. This -would also be a attitudes of the host students and good place to clue them in on- foreign students and less on the competence of the foreign-student campus activities. The success of these gatherings office. SHABEER AHMED would depend on the response Grad mech. from Canadian Students, and their realization that these could be Hagey’s pants down but of tremendous advantage, sti// p/ay bull Incidentally,the Canadian stu- he should dent can start by dropping in If university president Hagey occasionally to the Rotary Club’s wants anyone to believe that his international student house on cutting relations with the Chevron Albert street. is anything more than a case There should be no blind dinner of picking up his marbles dates with any family, however when he can’t conrol the game well-meaning these efforts may be. then he’d better justify his action. There is a certain artificiality Hagey has obviously been in these. caught with his proverbial pants Dinner invitations should be down a couple of times this summade only after striking a permer, and the Chevron doesn’t sonal acquaintance, and this can seem to want to play ball by be at the informal gatherings of his rules. But that’s not a legitithe graduate society to which mate reason for his move. interested Canadians should be For someone who is repeatedly welcomed. asking others for specific prove The International Students Ashis letter to the Chevron (July sociation in its present form is 26) seemed to be remarkably a dead organiza tion. vague. MALCOLM SWEENY A large Canadian memberMath 2 ship would tend to improve the situation. The position of the foreign Debts, surpluseq problem student officer is difficult to not all village finances define. He would be a coordinator for the many activities. In Although the story “Village his personal make up he would confusion ends” (Chevron, July 26) be a person interested in people gave a good resume of Conin general. He should have a stitutional developments in the knowledge of current international Village, there was one error. politics, a knowledge of cultural Village council and north quadand religious differences in people rant did approve the new Finand a willingness to learn more. ances Article. East approved the whole constitution, including the _ In addition to all this, he rewritten Finances Article. should be a human psychologist A procedure for dealing with of sorts. It’s like asking for five all end-of-term councils’ debts CUSO volunteers in one. He -and surpluses should be emwould not be required to perbodied in the financial section. sonally know all the overseas a satisfactory solu_ However, students, but should pay partition could not be found and this cular attention to possible loners. is what has been deferred to the These suggestions and comments fall term, not the approval of on orientation have been offered the new section. PETER HUCK in a general sense. It must be President clearly understood that the sucVillage Council Summer ‘66 cess in international living on
s are ma Every year this university looses a number of freshmen because of an easily-avoidable problem. The girls are about to become mothers and the boys-husbands. Usually that’s not a bad idea, no matter what order its done in. The exception is when you don’t want it to happen. Birth-control is not having babies when you don’t want to, and not being a husband when you’d rather finish school. If you’re thinking about having intercourse with a member of the opposite sex and haven’t already made sure you know what the score is-see the university doctor when you arrive on campus .” She can’t aid you if you’re unmarried (necessary public relations policy) but she can tell you what the true situation is about birth-control methods. And for those of you who are probably getting tired of not even knowing the basics, here are some facts and definitions the guardians of the public morality may have been hiding from you to date. IUD’s are intra-uterine devices, small loops of plastic inserted by a gynaecologist in the woman’s uterus. When they remain there (90 percent of the cases), they are 100 percent effective. The pill is the most famous of modern methods. It has also caused a wide spread debate. The Pope tells us even God is investigating. The Food and Drug Administration investigated and reported it safe to take. It’s considered 99.5 percent effective. prophylatics and Condoms,
safes are rubber or animal skin coverings for the penis. The more expensive ones (50 cents each or more) are usually air tested and hence 100 percent safe if properly positioned. However, they burst easily if carelessly put on. The most-easily obtained of all contraceptives, they can usually be purchased in any drug store. Diaphragms are more complicated devices inserted by the female in order to close of entrance to the womb. They are relatively unsafe. Contraceptive jellies and similarmethods are creams inserted by the female to try and trap all the sperm. They are highly unsafe. The rhythm method is based on the fertility cycle of the female. There are two ways of determining the peak of the cycle. Women with regular cycles are usually fertile from the 14th to the 16th day after menustration. Since a spermatozoid can remain alive for two days in the womb, the so-called unsafe period lasts from the 12th to the 16th day. This is known as the OginoKnaus method of determining when not to. It has fathered countless children since very few women are regular. Chances are you are an Ogino baby. The alternative method of determining fertility is the sympto-thermic method and involves thermometers, test papers and the like. Its not terrible romantic and not 100 percent safe anyway. If you decide you really want to some night and you’re not prepared-take a cold shower (separately) and see the doctor first thing the next day.
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Problem? -form President Hagey deserves congratulations for his method of handling student council’s complaints about foreign-student and housing officer Edith Beausoleil. At first refusing to deal with the problem, Hagey was quick enough to change his mind when council representatives suggested he should. He showed the mark of an experienced administrator. He came up with a most novel suggestion-form a committee. Some university old-timers will recall this solution has been used before. The bookstore committee was one of the really great ones. It followed the bookstore sit-in in 1966. And of course there is the committee on university government formed in 1967, the committee on communications formed to investigate an impassioned federation plea for better understanding in late 1967, not to mention the committees on student discipline, counselling service and athletics. The rumor that the university
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formed one committee simply as a winter works program seems to be totally unsubstantiated. Some of these committees may eventually come up with acceptable reports. Though in the case of the study.on university government, which so totally shelved student action in that area, any real progress will be surprising. But this new committee on the housing and foreign-student office is by far the most interesting committee formed to date. It’s interesting because it is the most blatant example of the universities attempt to manage, instead of resolve, dissent and the problems that cause it. Faced with a problem Hagey could not deny the validity of and yet could not afford to admit to, he side stepped. It is the touch of a true master. The kind of master who doesn’t really care that during the time the whole process is going on the student-niggers will be suffering. The status-quo is saved for another day.
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a) It is intended to ascertain the wishes of faculty and and. staff by early September in hopes of having these applications processed and new decals issued before the large influx of students in midSeptember. b) Incoming students will be processed as soon as possible after registration day with a goal of having most of the assignment and issuing of decals / completed by October 1st. c) The new parking rate schedule will come into effect on October lst, and deductions will commence with the October pay for faculty and staff. A.K. Adlington Vice-President, Operations.
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