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Welcome to university Many students here at the university, many people in society, are wandering aimlessly about. Strangers in their own lives, there is no place for them. They are people who have not learned to compromise, who, for example, have come to the university to learn to question, to grow, to learn-all thestandard things that sound like cliches because no one takes them seriously. And they find at one point or another that for them to become part of society, to become ‘lawyers, ministers, business men, or people in government, very often they must compromise those principles which were most dear to them. They must suppress the most creative impulses that they have; this is a prior conditi.on for being part-of the system. The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn our people with all the sharp edges worn off-the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up-rules which one cannot really amend.

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School. Tickets are available at the arts-theater box-office. Prices are $2.50 for adults, $1.25 for students. The sponsors have set a goal of $1000. With this money, the Society of Friends will make kits. These kits, UP medical which contain medicine and bandages, retail for $170 but the Quakers can make them for $40. The Quakers distribute their aid equally among the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese. The Quakers will also have a part in Orientation. ‘68. During orientation week a member of the Friends who has been in Vietnam will be on campus to give a talk in conjunction with the film “The survivors”.

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The grad society is doing its thing. At the request of the housing office the graduate society is trying to mobilize grad students to assist in the orientation of foreign students. A circular has been sent to all grad students asking them to help by driving newly-arrived students from the airport or

train station and by providing temporary accomodation. This fall between 200 and 300 foreign students will be on campus. Most of these students are graduates. GradSoc president Brad Munro said there had been a satisfying response to the circular but noted he would like to see more grad students involved in the program.

TORONTO (CUP)-The Ontario Union of Students went out Tuesday September 3 to tell Toronto highschool students exactly what, to expect at school this year. Demonstrators from OUS greeted fall returnees at three schools with placards saying ‘Welcome back niggers’ .

at the three schools. Ken Stone, OUS vicepresident, said the demonstrators were there to tell first-day students what kind of education they are getting.

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The Canadian Press reported the students did not support the OUS actions, and one principal was quoted as saying what a wonderful relationship he had with his students. Brian Switzman, OUS president, challenged the reports especially the alleged disgust of the students with some four-letter words in the article. “All the students that were handed the article read it, and no one threw it away,” said Switzman.

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campuscenter.A supplyis being kept for off-campus students. The sandhook contains inf’ormation formerly published in two ‘Guide to student act ibooks: vities‘ and *Information 411.’

Secretaries in the foreignstudent office have confirmed the existence of problems with officer Edith foreign-student Beausoieii. “Sometimes she’s nice t,o me, but that’s different from the way she treats many of the students”, said Oricia Borys, one of Mrs. Beausoleii’s secretaries. Miss Borys and her associate. Mrs. Joyce Cotter, said they were moved to talk to the Chevron hoping it could help clear up the problem and bring better service to foreign students. Mrs. Beausoleil has -been accus-ed by student council officials of holding views incompatible with her job. The problem, which had been the subject of private discussions, broke into the open during the summer. It followed the publications of excerpts from letters which quoted Mrs. Beausoieil making remarks which showed bias against foreigners. The secretaries confirmed the remarks printed in tne Chevron were typical of those heard around the office. They said they had long ago approached provost Scott and informed him of the probie, but they had never heard any further. They regretted there has been no improvement since the present controversy developed. “You’re not accomplishing anything, because Joyce and I get ail the blame, and she doesn’t reaiize there is a problem,” said Miss Borys. Both the secretaries have

applied for transfers and said they would be very willing to talk to any investigating body. But there will not be an investigation. [Jniversity president Ger-/ ry Hagey has agreed to a committee but it will only study possible restructuring of the housing and foreign-student office. It will not investigate any charges against Mrs. Beausoleil. The committee was set up after a group of student council members confronted Hagey and demanded the situation be resolved. But the committee has bogged down in a hassle over terms of reference. The problem stems from a federation desire to see the faculty representatives chosen by the Faculty Association rather by the deans or the administration. Federation representatives argue the faculty members should be c-hosen by their elected representatives in the same way student representatives are appointed by the federation. “We want the faculty representatives appointed by the faculty at larger and not by the illegitimate authority of the administration,” said federation vicepresident Tom Patterson. Acting president Howard Petch has decided to shelve the issue until President Hagey returns next week from a six-week vacation. Foreign students ing on campus now.

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Fresh will get concerts dances and teach-in Orientation ‘68 will mix some revolutionary ideas with much of the traditional orientation activity. Registration lineups will be somewhat modified but students must still register sometime this week. Freshmen will assemble at 7:30 a.m. Saturday for slave day, the first event in the federation orientation program. This is the university’s traditional contribution to the annual KitchenerWaterloo charity drive. Freshman slaves are rented out to local citizens and their wages are turned over to charitable organizations in the Twin Cit,ies. Last year $3000 was raised by the freshman class. Saturday night there will be a George Loney dance on the Village roof for the tired frosh. Orientation winds up Friday Sunday morning frosh will night with the frosh hop and gather in lot H for the traditional the selection of the frosh queeri. scavenger hunt. However, orienLlone y outlined some ways tation chairman George Loney Orientation ‘68 differs from promises a new twist for this former years. year. “The main differences are At 8 pm, a concert with Ray using integrated groups and Stevens is tentatively scheduled putting less emphasis on acadefor Glenbriar curling rink. mic matters. Discussion groups Monday evening, a steer roast will not be made up of only one will be held in Seagram stadium faculty but will be mixed. before an exhibition football “We are not going to worry game with Edmonton. too much about academic matters If a student has a question Tuesday evening the first part about courses we will direct him of M.F.T.. the orientation teachto academic advisors. in, will be held in the campus “Our main purpose is to center with sneaker Eric Mann from Columbia University, New = encourage freshmen to question York. M.F.T. part two will be held such traditional values of the Wednesday night. university as the depersonalizing lecture system and to work out will be held Wednesday night. of society which Thursday night will feature a an analysis gives full value to personal concert at the K-W Auditorium worth. ” with the Association.

h?- of the Waterloo delegution at ccls congress plenary session from left: TOJTI /%ttuson, Ian Calvert, Jim Heron, Cyril Levitt, Dave Young, Steve Ireland (past president) al& Brian Iler. Dave Cubberley is hidden behind Iler. Delegate George LoneJ) snapped the pk.

consolidates GUELPH (CUP)--The Canadian Union of Students shrugged pff a minor f iurry of small-campus withdrawals during its 1968 congress to mount an attack on society at large as it anaiyzed the problems of the modern university. The congress at the University of Gueiph opened Aug. 28 with 40 members. Before it wrapped things up with an 18-hour plenary session that dragged on until 7:45 am Sept. 4, the membership dropped to 27, climbed to 30, then hit 34 with hopes for more. In between disavowals and commitments to the union, delegates worked out an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critique of society-although they balked at a four-s’quare stand for sociaiismlabelled corporate capitalism as the cause of repressive instincts in Canadian universities, and demanded that student unions have control over “the learning process and university decision-making.” They also came out 3 to 1 behind a statement condemning U.S. war efforts in Vietnam and endorsing the Vietnamese Na tionai Liberation Front in its “struggle for national iibera tion. ” And they acclaimed as president-elect Martin Loney, key figure in Simon Fraser University’s battle for democratization who called in his acceptance speech for a mass action-oriented movement for Canadian students. The withdrawals came on the third day of the congress as the deadline for signing a 1968-69 commitment to CUS drew nearer. The tension came as campuses calling for structural changes in CUS lost ground to policy-makers who ended up largely responsible for the major congress resoiutions. British Columbia and Manitoba, with 18,000 and 12,OOb students respectively, also were influenced by prospects of a $1 per capita levy-up 25 cents a head. UBC and Manitoba both refused to sign commitment forms before the deadline, but by congress end they were back in on the basis of special financial clauses which permit them to pay less than $1 a student if necessary. University of Victoria also pulied its 4,800 students out temporarily, opting for a wait-and-see attitude toward congress policy, but it was back before the final pienar y Sept. 3. Other withdrawals, mainly involving small campuses, struck however, and the only bright light for incoming CUS president Peter Warrian lay in scattered promises of campus referendums among vanishing members. Biggest blow that day was laid

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by the University of Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon campus, which charged through president Eric Olson that CUS is riddled with “leftist dogma.” Olson later promised to place the question of a referendum before his council, but his strongiyworded statement brought Warrian to offer his resignation if the congress wished it. Half an hour later Warrian had secured a unanimous vote of confidence and drawn a standing ovation from the plenary. Also applauded was an announcement by Memorial University of Newfoundland, which pulled out of CUS two years ago in a dramatic policy squabble, that it plans a referendum on returning. Mount St. Vincent reported plans to return as well, ending a two-year boycott. Congress policy had to await the outcome of the structures battles which occupied most of the first two days. The end result of that was a resolution placing four regional field workers across the country and replacing the board of officers with a regionally-composed national council in an attempt to meet demands for decentraiization. With that behind them, delegates divided into commissions on the student in society, student power and education. The anti-imperialist critique emerging from the student-in-society group spelled success for a University of Toronto position maintained for three days in the face of both right- and left-wing criticism. The resolution charged that “Canadian society is not self determined ; our cultural, political and economic lives are dominated by giant American corporations. ” “Self-determination in education will be possible only in a society which is self-determined,” the resolution said as it found the roots of authoritarianism and repression in imperialist and capitalist economies. But Toronto and a congress majority killed an attempt to call for a “socialist” alternative, voting for “non-exploitative” despite pressure in commission and an hour-long floor fight in plenary. The education commission underplayed a move for a stand on alliances with non-university groups-although it urged member unions to condemn student scabbing and ensure employees at their universities are unionized-- and backed up the anti-capitalist stand with a lengthy series of resolutions blasting the Canadian university as an “imperialist institution.” Wednesday,

The education resolutions condemned military research in universities, demanded that campuses refuse money intended for military research and urged member unions to oppose financial gifts to their universities if these contradicted CUS policy. The congress adopted other education resolutions redefining universal accessibility to open universities to non-students and calling for curriculum control by students and faculty concerned. Other sections demanded that professors become resource persons. The student power proposal, worked out by Simon Fraser’s John Cleveland, involved parallel decision-making structures* between students and faculty at departmental levels. Cleveland, calling for confrontation and mass-movement, outlined a structure in which both student and faculty committees would have veto power over each other’s actions. Alternative action would involve a reconstituted senate with an equal number of students and faculty. The board of governors would be abolished in either case. The proposal also condemned the tenure policy of the Canadian Association of IJniversity Teachers as a “guild professionaiist concept of status and power which subordinates teaching to research and intellectual exchange to competition between professors and students in the classroom and departmental politics.”

The Waterloo delegation to the CUS congress was headed by federation president Brian Iier. Other official delegates were vicepresident Tom Patterson, external-relations chairman Dave Young, student-activities chairman Jim Keron, education chairman Ian Caivert, council members Cyril Levitt and Dave Cubberiey, and orientation head George Loney. While not an outstanding deiegation at the congress, the Waterloo delegates were active participants and supported the major stands taken by the congress. Iier was elected to the program commission that met during the congress to oversee program resolutions and set priorities for approval by the congress. Young, a former vicepresident of CL’S, served as chairman during two sessions of the plenary. He was easily elected to the CUS national council. which will supervise the operations of the union during the year.

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then begin working to improve. Only then will we be able to return to future congresses as true representatives of the student movement and be able to talk of student changes.” “Student power is our con- ’ stituency, but we can never forget our wider constituency is the world,” said Loney. “I’m talking about liberating the people of the world. We must liberate those in Asia starving physically as well as those suffering from mental starvation. “At the moment, North American education is irrelevant to world problems. We must make it relevant to the problems of all people-people who don’t have the luxury of debating about Martin Loney student power. We must demand that our universities become reversity. He was elected student levant to the third world.” president on a radical studentReflecting on the future of power platform. CUS, Loney spoke of increasing He was a member of Students radicalism stemming from the for a Democratic University congress. (SDU) and the Student Union for “But, we are still not a mass Peace Action (SUPA) on the movement. Our fieldworkers must west coast; educate student councils to evolve Loney takes over as president from clique-like organizations with in September ‘69, when Peter elitist tendencies to leaders of Warrian (a Waterloo graduate) --trade-like student unions.” completes his term of- --office. Loney emigrated from Great As president-elect, Loney will Britain two years ago and is be an active understudy-working active in the fight for democratiwith Warrian and serving on the zation at Simon Fraser Uninational council.

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Welcome, Frosh, to our great We are glad you University. came. I am privileged, as y?u are, to be a part of this community of excellence. What makes Waterloo great are the great people you will find here and this great state which nurtures all that we do. I encouraged you to think of this campus as your home away from home. Equally important, I want you to regard me ‘as your parent, your friend and your president. My door is always open to yoube sure to call my secretary for an appointment. I have on my staff trained specialists in all areas of personal, social, emotional and spiritual life who are anxious to talk with you ab’out your problems. Above all, we want you to adjust to Waterloo life and I know you are eager to do this as we are to help you do it. Although there are 2,000 of you out there in that great audience, you will soon learn that the administration and faculty will treat you as individuals. This will be especially true for those of you who use your matriculation number at; all times. This is just one of the unique techniques we utilize to become better ac-‘ quainted. You have heard, I know, that Waterloo is a star of academic brilli’ance. This is true. You will need to study hard. In fact, take a moment to look to your left and your right-statistically speaking, one of your neighbors will not be here after this year. And it could be you. But we recognize that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so we who care about your total development as whole persons have developed a meaningful variety of extra-curricular a&ivities to help you be happy and enjoy college life. And as concerned. humane educators we have designed a list of only 78 rules and regulations to permit-indeed, make it possible for-you to live together in harmony. For we

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Ryerson geth token seats on board \ TORONTO (CUP)-Two Ryerson ing of two student seats “It’s a students and faculty members matter of adding two students to an elite board. They will be will sit: on the board of governors of that school. used by the board as mouthpieces W.M. Kelly, chairman of the or excuses. Whenever students board announced the limited ‘make demands, they’ll be told to representation Tuesday Sept 4 take ‘it to their representatives saying the board believed it had ’ and will have no more power fallen short of student and faculty than we have now.” expectations last year because of Claude Bissel, president of the a lack of representation from University of Toron to, expressed interest in the Ryerson decision. those groups. “This is not a reaction to He added that the U of T was, said Kelly, “It’s not about to launch an examination anything,” because we think the students of its own structures in the near are going to put bombs under future. the president’s chair. It fills When the news of Ryerson a need-in the board.” decision reached the CUS congress David Maxwell, president of at Guelph that afternoon, it was the student council, was not met with cries of “Shame! Tokenism! ” impressed with the board’s grantA

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Union tried to help, givj,ng the students hats and badges of the union so they might carry CUS and OUS banners in the steel: workers bloc. But six streets later, Vera1 expelled them threatening to call the police. ’ In response, the CUS congress sent a second telegram protesting the “forcible expulsion of the joint CUS-OUS delegation” from the Toronto parade. The telegram said, “We hope Initially, parade marshal Ken the persons responsible for this Verral refused the students per- action will be severelv renrimanmission to join the union ranks ded. It is our belief rank-andbecause they had not secured. a file trade unionists were unaware march permit. of and would not have supported The steelworkers International this arbitrary expulsion. ’ ’

TORONTO (CUP )-Six representatives of the Ontario and Canadian Unions of Students were expelled from the annual Labor Day Parade last week. ’ The six came to march with the Toronto and District Labor council, following up a telegram sent +o the council the night before by the, CUS congress expressing support for labor and studentworker solidarity.

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CUS mo.ves mess of minor motions The 32nd ,congress of the Canadian Union of Students passed many minor motions in addition to the major poli,cy stands. These motions included : l condemnation of the faculty‘ of Simon Fraser University for “dishonesty, inconsistency, and a demonstrable iniility to participate in democratic decision-making during the summer uprising at SFU. l withdrawal from the CIAdominated Internatiohal Student ‘Conference with a promise to work for “national liberation from U.S. imperialism.” L

l condemnation of Russian inc vasion of Czechoslovakia. l approval of a resolution to legalize the sale and use of marijuana and release of all persons now held on marijuana offences. , l mandating Glendon College (York University) to hold a conference of world radical student leaders. a approval of lowering -the majority age td 18 and providing a guaranteed annual income for everyone over that age. l commence monthly publication of Jssue, the national student magazine of CUS.

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WASS, a Waterloo modification of the Purdue academic student scheduling system (PASS), has succeeded in making out timetables for 80 percent of students. The University of Waterloo is the first Canadian university to use computer timetabling. The system is based on preregistration; students select the courses they want without regard to a timetable. The computer then processes the preregistration data and comes up with a master timetable which satisfies the number of students. greatest Students who cannot fit into this timetable must then change their course load. Most Waterloo students preregistered under this system. Engineering and applied chemistry were left out because their programs do not have a sufficient number of electives. The 20 percent rejection rate was somewhat higher than the five percent initially expected. However, Pat Robertson, director of academic services, attributed part of this to cancelled

courses. Some courses tentatively offered to students last spring at preregistration had been dropped over the summer. Robertson noted that a conventional timetable produced manually had only been able to satisfy 50 percent of student requests. Schedules and fee information have been mailed out to almost all students. Originally, fees were to have been paid by mail and students would only come on campus to have ID cards validated. However, the mail strike delayed mailing so fees will be paid on campus. Students who have received valid schedules must come to campus this week and pay fees at Seagram gym. Students whose course selection was rejected by the computer must first go to the scheduling center which has been set up in the old federation building. Once a valid schedule has been worked out there students can make the trip over to the Seagram gym. Engineers will register at

the gym Thursday in the old way. Course changes will also be processed by the WASS system. A student who changes a course will have to go to the scheduling center to have a new schedule worked. “We hope to give 24-hour service on this,” said Robertson. “If a student submits a new course selection one day, he should have a new schedule the next day.” On the effects of the system, Robertson said, “For the first time we know what students actually want. ” He explained that under the old system many students could not choose the courses they wanted because they were faced with a fixed timetable. If physics and anthropology were at the same time, for example, students couldn’t take both of them although that combination might be very popular. Robertson suggested faculty would be able to alter course offerings now that they had more indication of student wishes.

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NOW AT BOTH THEATRES Old buildings never die;. they passed on to someone else. Ten years ago annex one housed the entire university. Then the federation and the Chevron used it for several years. The registrar is using it as a scheduling center now. After him. who knows? Maybe final death.

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game, we’re game. To dress him comfortabIy or side-line spectatorship. The slacks, shorts, are all here, in our usual imaginative variety Sort out your favorites soon.

few weeks on campus

are designed to help you adjust from your more restrictive, more supervised, more superficial high school-take advantage of this chance. You will however find that university does not offer the freedom that you may have been led to believe it does. 1. You can’t always study what vou want to studv.d ” 2. You still have to do some things that just waste your time or teach you things at a very slow rate. 3. The facilities aren’t open at any time you might become inspired (i.e. try getting in a building after 11 at night). 4. The campus newspaper isn’t unbiased (an unbiased paper is impossible before everyone contributes to its opinions). 5. Profs are humanly inclinedthey make mistakes, they forget and they get jealous. There are many imperfections as you would realistically expect. SO freshman-here

you are at a university-an opportunity that vou can take advantage Get off your ass! People aren’t born with knowledge and experiencethey dam well have to go after it and sometimes fight pretty hard to get it!

Rio-de- Janeiro (Special) Acceptance of a reform of the system has now been forced upon the Brazilian Government

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after demonstrations in almost all of Brazil’s cities had attained unprecedented proportions. Recently about 3,000 students in Rio de Janeiro occupied the centre of the city and paralysed the traffic for several hours. About 1,000 students who had occupied the “Universidad Central” tried to break through a police cordon. This led to the most violent clashes so far with the police. The National Union of Brazilian Students (UNEB), however, expressed its dissatisfaction with the Government’s measures to settle the conflict and added: “We are fighting for the unrestricted practice of democratic liberties and against the present dictatorship”.

Ecuador Quito (Special) A settlement of the one-and-a-half-month strike at the “Universidad Central de Quito” was reached after a University Council convened by the students had decided to agree to six points from a list of demands that had been drawn up by the strike committee. The Rector of the University declared this University Council to be illegal and its decisions to be null and void because it had been convened by students and only three professors had taken part in it. After the strike had ended, the Rector in his turn convended a University Council whose decisions were reject.ed by a full assembly called by the students. During this full assembly, the previously expressed demand that the Rector and the vice-rector resign from their posts was then made again in the form of an ultimatum. They are accused of making university reform impossible as a result of their authoritarian attitude.

Rome

(Special) The student representatives at the Papal University in Rome passed a resolution calling on the university authorities not only to devote the coming academic year to the study of reforms in such fields as teaching methods, subjects for instruction and the examination system. Among other things, the student representatives demanded the introduction of Italian-alongside Latin-as a second classroom language. (Gregoriana)

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(Special) The street fighting between demonstrating of police that shook Mexico City on 29th July has been described as the most serious disturbance to have taken place in the Mexican capital for a long time. It caused at least one death and resulted in more than 300 injured. The demonstrations had started on 26th July on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. They soon took on an anti-American character and led to the first clashes the same day. Demonstrators repeatedly chanted the words of “Che“ Guevara, the late friend of Fidel Castro, who had demanded : ‘Create t,wo. three, many Vietnams” in Latin America. When. on 30th July about 500 demonstrators attempted to march on the American embassy, they were stopped by large numbers of police with riot equipment. In the street fighting that followed, many young people fled onto rooftops and from there they hurled Molotov-Cocktails and stones at the police. The latter used tear gas and arrested 280 demonstrators. Finally, paratroopers in battle-kit moved in with fixed bayonets and light tanks of the Mexican army entered t,he centre of Mexico Citv. A Bazooka was employed to burst open one of the gates in front of the university building and the students-who had barricaded themselves behind it were driven from the pre!~ijses and out oi’ ihe b!li!dicg.

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ment in engineering ‘will rise to which will be a large proportion i of the total enrollment of‘355. The 2294 from 2180 last year. The math faculty may’ soon size of the school ‘has increased challenge the plumbers’ number 50 percent over last year. The 670-student one position. And ‘then. on top I of everything freshman class is the same size else there are 1052 grads, a few as last year but large second and more than: the 960 last year. third-year classes cause the total _ Add them all together and you enrollment to rise from 1429 to 1644. come up with the third largest The arts faculty has fallen university in -Ontario. Only Torbehind with relation to math. OntO with 28.000-and Western with Last year the two faculties were 10,000 are,larger. ’ nearly equal in size. However actual enrollment is increasing from 1411 to 1536. The freshman class is 660 strong. Science has taken its share of the increase in students. Total enrollment will be 1000 this year, Village warden Ron Eydt has an increase of 129 over last year. found one new tutor to replace 450 freshmen are joining the , the two who resigned over the faculty. summer. Physics prof Ken WoolThe university’s two schools ner will become tutor for south are growing rapidly. The archireplacing prof Bill Nicoll. tecture school, going into its secEydt has not yet found a ond year, will have 80 students, replacement for west quadrant 55 of them freshmen. Last year’s tutor John Capindale but he class had only 36 students. indicated that one will be apThe physical-education school pointed shortly. has a. first-year class of 210

Do you know how many students will be at Waterloo this year? Well, neither does the registrar or anyone else. But the people in the registrar’s office looked at thousands of applications and after a, heart,-to-heart talk with the computer, they made a wild ,guess. And this is what they came up with. The total enrollment has increased I over’ last year but the jump is modest compared to the leap in numbers the year before. In the coming year Waterloo will -have some 8000 students. The 196768 enrollment of 7200 represented a 25 percent increase over the 5600 students here two years ago. ’ Expected registration figures from the registrar’s office indicate all faculties will share in the increase. Engineering maintains its traditional numerical superiority. Freshman enrollment in engineering has been limited for several years. This year’s first-year class of 672 is onlv slightly larger than last years. The total enroll-

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Leather is also going to be popular. Its durablmty - will be very benefical during guerilla activities. Dark dress shirts are being recommended due to the obvious advantages for night time activities. Slip off loafers will be worn to facilitate sneaking away without being heard. Bandanas will be showing up everywhere especially in red and black. Matching arm bands may also appear. For your clothing needs see, Chevron advertisers, to complete your outfit visit Northland firearms in Waterloo square.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

New System of Pay Parking The new system of pay parking has resulted from all party discussions emanating from the Operations Council, thence through the President’s Council and finally to the President. The new rates are to be in effect for a year commencing October 1, 1968. It is intended that the Operations Council review the progress and costs of the system periodically throughout the year with a view to ensuring the efficiency and economy of the operation.

1. Pay parking

SUMMARY to continue.

. 2. New three-tier rate structure to become effective October 1, 1968. The present $2 per month charge will be in effect until that time. 3. New rates to be as follows: a) Free - Seagram Stadium Lot . bj $1.75monthlY - Lots A, C, J, K: L, N, Psychol= ogy & Optometry c) $3.00 monthly - Lots B, B-l, D dz H

4. Present occupants of any lot may remain in that lot if they wish and are prepared to pay the new rate. 5. Persons wishing to relinquish their present lot assignment should notify the Security Department by memo marked “Request for Barking Lot change”. This memo should state: a) monthly rate desired to pay, and b) preference for a lot at that rate-if space is availavailable. 6. Be-assignment of vacancies will be based on availability as follows : a) Areas will continue to be assigned to faculties and

8. 9. 10.

major staff units by the Deans and senior staff department heads in consultation with the Director of Security. b) Individual “preference/availability” problems will be resolved between the Director of Security and the Deans and/or the senior staff department heads. Parking assignments are provided on the clear understanding that they are effective 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.., Monday through Friday. They are not effective week-ends or statutory holidays. Lot B-l will be reserved after 6 p.m. for the benefit of Faculty and Staff who may have to be on campus I in the evening. Extension students and part-time students will be charged a flat rate of $2.00 per course. On occasion it may be necessary to restrict parking in certain areas when special functions are being h.eld.

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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 1st and deductions will commence with the October pay for faculty and staff. A.K. Adlington Vice-President, Operations.

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The security department of this university has received much critisism in the past which has gone unanswered, other than by the attempt of Brian Iler to smooth things out a little. His letter in the Chevron was appreciated by the department, but unfortunately it could not seek out th\e roots of the problems. Let me first of all say as a member of the security department for the past 15 months I have found all the other officers I have’worked with to be firstclass men doing what I consider a second-class job. The main duties here are enforcing the parking regulations (if they exist) and this I set about doing in spring 1967. I joined the force after many years police experience, and as it is a growing profession, I accepted the position with both curiosity and a sense of unusual happening. This was completely new to me, and the challenge seemed to beckon. I am however, most demoralized after only 18 months. regulations (if they exist) and this I set about doing ’ inspring 1967. I spent four months studing the existing regulations, studied those of other universities in both Canada and the United States, and then set to work revising and updating ours. This was not easy. I had much contact with the department of transport and other legal bodies. However, I did manage to complete them before the fall term last year. What happened to them? You tell me. All I know is the university paid my salary for four months while I carried out .this project, and since then I have heard no more about them. Selective parking is undemocratic At present, I can only say the present’ system of parking and enforcement is a farce. All the security members realize this, even Al - Romenco (security head) himself. ,We have a system which absolutely knocks the bottom out of democracy. I am of course referring tb selective parking. I think most will agree with me that the presidential staff should be allocated reserved areas, along But I with deans, and possibly heads of departments. there are now more hangers-on receiving selective parking than can be imagined. The renowned lot .D has a capacity of 143 cars. This area is the most central for ‘the arts library, modern-language building, social science, and practically every office connected with administration which a student needs to visit. However, except for seven spaces reserved for visitors, -all others are allocated to be._filled by one vehicle frcm 8 : 30 until 5 daily. This means all others, no matter who they are or what their requirements, cannot park in this area at any time. A student wishing to return a book to the library may park at the rear of lot A only and walk the remaining half mile to the library-no matter if he will be only five minutes. Why a number of spaces cannot be allocated as 20-or 30-minute areas I do not know. It would .mean perhaps 25 clerical staff would have to park in lot H instead of D and walk over the hill. That’s all the hardship required. But when thesecurity department receives complaints from faculty and staff that some poor kid is parked in lot D they have no choice but to ticket. . Faculty don’t pay fines Of course issuing tickets, as with any police department, causes resentment. But where this is aided by a wrong system, resentment is multiplied by 100. . The student receives a ticket, He has very little choice but to pay, or his marks will be held up until he does. With the faculty and staff, however, things are very much different. They very rarely pay a ticket. This is not fault of the security department or its director. The faculty or staff member receives a letter from the business office requesting payment. However, if no payment is made no further action is taken. .There are some ‘faculty members with anywhere from 20 to 60 tickets that will never be paid. Legally I understand theruniversity has power to make salary deductions but is reluctant to carry this out. The university can of course take a citation to court. Rut it is a civil debt, not a traffic summons. and it would probably cost some $100 to obtain a $5 parking ticket fee. So we have a stalemate. Yet the security officers

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It’s amazing what a little act of God will do. The new athletic building almost had a floor until a summer rain storm flooded it with an inch of mud and water. So Sirotek contractors had to rip up $68,000 worth of hardwood flooring and replace it. The gym, due to oy)en -_ 1 this fall, will not be ready for use until mid-November. The pool will open next week.

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URA Activities ranging from BASKETBALL to WRESTLING - 22 in number - are offered. Any fufltime student is eligible to compete. Interested students are encouraged to con tat t the ATHLETlCDEPARTMENTin the ATHLETIC COMPLEX. Active participation in the INTERCOL L EGIA TE PROGRAM is not always possible for some students. Why not come to the games and enjoy yourself as a spectator,

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fMJE’S THE HUE The SEASON TICKETS provides admission to 5 football games, 14 basketball games, 14 hockey games, wrestling & swimming meets and other sponsored events. Calculate your saving by constudents leaving the camsidering the student rate to each individual event is $1.00. Co-operative or pus at Christmas may obtain a $2.50 refund at that time. Tickets are available at registration in the athletic department office from 12 noon to 1:3Op.m. daily,

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Watch for upcoming events on the blue posters around the campus. Also check the sports pages of the CHEVRON under the weekly advertising ATHLETICS, for all the latest INTRAMURAL NEWS.

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Mommy and teacher ure confused policemen really do beat people by Stewart

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Chevron editor

Now it’s real. Now you know that cops hit kids over the head with guns. Its real because now you’ve seen it on TV and you’ve read about it in the papers. But before Chicago it wasn’t real, it didn’t exist. Not because it wasn’t happening-but because the media didn’t tell you about it. When it leaked out in places like the underground press you didn’t believe it. Policemen are good people. The authorities are nice liberals. Only the bad guy dies. Your mommy told you that. So did your teacher. So did the TV set. And now mommy and teachers are wrong. And you’re not the only one who is confused. So are they. Because they believed. The dissenters and demonstrators in Chicago during the Democratic convention won a bigger battle than they ever though possible. Days before the convention most radical leaders were telling their people to stay away. They were scared. Dick Gregory, ex-star turned Black Power advocate, had been the first to be scared. By convention time the other leaders followed suit. Gregory was afraid that if there was a mass protest, the CIA-FBI people would infiltrate it. Once inside they’d really do it up right. They’d probably shoot Humphrey and a few others for good measure. Their goal would be obvious. In the resultant clamor from the American masses to restore law and order and put down the demonstrators, the right-wing could get laws passed that haven’t been heard of since the Nazis. They’d make Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunt in the early 50’s look left-wing. So instead of having more than 100,000 demonstrators, Chicago had under 15,000. And they won.* They won because the rightwingers were too anxious. They wanted to go into action now.

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But Daley and his crew were scared of the press. They wanted to keep things quiet. They wanted to show what prevailed in Daley’s Chicago was law and order read as suppression of blacks and hippies). That meant he mustn’t allow the national press to run pictures of his police and guardsmen beating passive protestors. He told his boys that. And to make sure he was obeyed, the cops beat up the reporters and cameramen. If all the cameras are broken there won’t be any pictures. Simple. ple. That was a mistake. Because in the same manner as Daley wanted to protect his own, the press establishment wanted to protect its own. And so they told it like it was, and you saw it and read it. Hundreds hospitalized, brutal, unjustified beatings-blood on your TV screen. And it’s all ironic because Deley should have known better. Past experience should have taught him to trust the professional news media. l

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Over and over again the news makers have shown they would cover up the truth and paint only bad pictures of protestors and good pictures of the authorities. During the strike at Columbia University the press had acted very carefully to obscure the issue. When the police busted into buildings and the occupied assaulted hundreds inside, the New York Times had led the news media in calling the action peaceful. One reporter was hospitalized by police action, but when he submitted his story telling what had happened he was fired. Why did the Times and other New York papers react that way? And why was it possible that Daley could have trusted the press in Chicago?

Because of built-in prejudices. The Washington bureau chief of the Times, speaking to a group of student journalists last month, said he found the actions of his home office indefensible and inexplicable. But simply stated, the problem is actually fairly obvious.

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Newspaper editors, television news producers, publishers and so on are all part of the class the demonstrators are really attacking. Hence they naturally feel defensive. Whether it be Columbia University, Chicago or Waterloo, any demonstrations carried on mainly by youth against some kind of injustice will be aimed at the ruling group. Editors, producers and publishers are .part of that group. At Columbia and at Waterloo, the board of governors of the university includes the publisher of the main newspaper. But it’s not so much his conscious interference as his unconscious beliefs we must fear. For editors, since they are part of their power group, will be unable to fairly hear and understand the cries of the protestors. They are convinced, as are their fellow liberals, that while society might have some problems, those problems can be solved quietly and through proper channels. This is the result of their education and their whole way of life. And so while Chicago may be a crack in the fairy tale spun out to reassure us, the crack will naturally be patched. Our only hope. is that some of the many people who refused to believe the real stories about Columbia, and who were then shocked into an awareness by what happened in Chicago, will remember the lesson. For our education and our informative media are trying desperately to tell us our society and its leaders are really all right.

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Their office 1s ten teet square and it’s open three hours a week, Their physical assets consist mainl>- of a secondhand desk but the officers of the I;niversity Employees’ Credit Union look forward to a bright future. The credit union was formed two and a half years ago but it was only three weeks ago it got an office in the basement of the library. Previously it had been run from the office of a credit union member. The credit union is open to the 500 faculty and 1200 staff on campus. But there are only 160 members. Credit committee chairman Frank Hopper, civil engineering. said nearly 80 percent of the members were staff. Faculty members with their higher salaries had less interest in the credit union concept. Credit unions are financial institutions chartered as nonprofit corporations to serve members only. The main service provided is credit. Credit unions will loan money to members with little or no security. Larger credit unions can supply all the services of a chartered bank. Credit unions are cooperatives owned by their members. Each has one vote regardless of the amount he has invested. Officers are elected at a general meeting. President of the university credit union is Art Baer. chemical engineering machine shop : vicepresident Verne Martin. PP and treasurer Terry Harmer. P: secretary Sylvia Kanpayroll : son. chemical engineering ; board member Dick Knight, personnel. Hopper looks forward to rapid growth in the future. The university has granted the credit union payroll deduction privileges since last November. “Assets have more than doubled over the last year. Loans also have doubled. ” said Hopper. Response to the credit union idea has not been especi’ally strong, he said. “People who know what a credit union is by virture of having been a member of one come to us. Others have come to US when they are in finan-

.‘A lot of students art’ lron~ out of town and they ma>* go back home owing us moncl.. ” He also felt students would have difficulty maintaining loan repayments because they don ‘t have a steady income. However. a credit union for students would be a good idea. he said. although there would be some problems with loans and with capital.

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co-op scheme in social work Waterloo Lutheran University has adopted a course similar to the U of W’s co-op program. 45 students are enrolling in a master Of social wbrk program which will involve alternate terms on campus and work terms in such fields as the Childrens Aid Society. family counselling and mental hospitals. Bean Rahn said the need for professional social workers in Canada is acute. All graduates could easil! be absorbed by agencies in the vicinity of the university. and the shortage is likely to increase in the coming years.

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Since September 1966 I have acted as graduate enrolment officer for the physics department. As part of my duties I was required to inform Mrs. Edith Beausoleil of the names and addresses of all non-Canadian students accepted for graduate studies in physics. This information had to be provided well, before their arrival on campus, so she could write to them about the climatic conditions, cost of living, etc., in Canada, and to try to arrange -that they be met on arrival by one of their own countrymen. In short, the purpose was to make arrival in Canada as easy and as pleasant as possible.

I do not believe the continuing Chevron campaign against Mrs. Beausoleil has been maliciously manufactured from a vacuum, and can only assume the editorial staff of the Chevron have been unfortunately misinformed. HUGH M. MORRISON assistant professor

Prof. Qefends ho Prejudice

It’s the end of the summer again and everyone is figuring out how far his or her summer earnings won’t reach. As a female, full year student, four months just isn’t enough time to earn the money necessary for going back to school. Even if I were to save every penny (and who can ? ! ), I would still be short about half the necessary amount.

As I do not know Mrs. Beausoleil well (I have not met her in person) I have no idea what her personal feelings towards people of non-Canadian origin However in my corresare. conpondence and telephone versations with her I have found that in her work she is extremely concerned about the welfare of overseas graduate students, regardless of their racial origin. I cannot believe that her attitude reverses when dealing with undergraduate student problems.

Anyone whose father is anywhere near financially solvent, might as well forget about applying for a student loan. The question is, did Daddy always earn that much money, how much does it cost him to maintain his position, and how many children has he already put through college? Do these questions appear on the application for a student loan? Certainly not!

During two years, in which time we have enrolled more than thirty overseas graduate students in the physics department, I have not detected in Mrs. Beausoleil’s work any hint of racial prejudice, and I have not rethese ceived information rom students that any such prejudice exists.

Beausoleil OR The Job

What about the student whose parents are so poor they send him to Europe on a “family That is a very nice emergency”. euphemism for a trip to see relatives one hasn’t visited for a long time. The government like the benevolent blob it is, has a soft chord struck in its financial bosom.

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dent loan. There is nothing wrong with the government forking over that tax money to sup“rich man’s” port these “poor kids” while OSAP returns the wonderful rejection statement, “Parents in similar financial positions.. .etc. ” to his own child. Let’s hear it for socialism in which the “rich” are told to give because they have the money to give. Says who? In any case, how many years is a father supposed to give sonny Jim his life’s blood? Junior, if he has any conscience at all, begins to feel like an A-l leech. Banks won’t lend money to those without collateral and there aren’t too many people, fresh out of high school who have anyvaluable than a thing more dirty gym sock to put up. This system of awards according to need demands revision. Add a few more paragraphs to the application and the awards officer’s eyes would be opened. The man with the money has face involved. He certainly wouldn’t want his child saying his father isn’t handing him a cool $1000 free and clear. A little more realism and a lot more investigation into the veracity of a plea of “need” is necessary.

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During your first weeks at university you will ear many theorists expounding the function of the lst,itution-why it exists. what it hopes to do, and lost important, what you should do here. These eople will try to give you the impression of a ighly idealistic structure dedicated to the service nd betterment of mankind. To do this, you the student must partake in the ducational program that has been laid out for you. ‘hose of you with enquiring minds might ask lrrther questions about the existence of the uniand further, where each ersity, its structure. tudent fits into this structure. You will not get answers to these questions imnediately. The few who continue to wonder and xamine will become alienated by the responses hey receive and the apathy on the part of their ellow students. For in taking an active interest n a spirit of open-minded questioning, you will ave committed an unforgiveable sin, for you will ,uickly learn that the rhetoric of the university is lot to be taken at face value. By questioning the system you get your first nkling that one may indeed question, provided Ine questions within the established limits set but by the administration. To paraphrase Thoreau: I should like to give JOU an impression of the music I hear. for I am istening to a different drummer. In examining any institution, it is necessary ,o look at the structure before discussing the dealized aims of the system. One then may see ;hat the theory laid out by the administrators lees not concur with the realities of the situation. “Tl7e

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The university is composed of three distinct and almost independently operating units-administration. faculty and students or, as they are known in Quebec. travailleurs intellectuels. The ranking above is not alphabetical as one might first surmise-it is by acknowledged importance. To see this. one must consider not only the internal structure of the universitJ7 but also the relationship of the university to the total society. Peter Drucker has said. 3ntil the twentieth century no society could afford more than a handful of educated people: for throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.” Let US then return to the age of unproductive education for a short examination. keepingin mind the official rhetoric of today’s university. “It (the college ) had begun as nothing lofty. It had begun. in lact. as _ a kind of boarding house. It was a boarding house such as grew up around all mediaeval universities: the universities drew students to the town. and there. as humble adjuncts. were houses f’or students

to lodge.. . The community was usually a very small one . . . The students liked their life but no one else did . . . . “The scholars elected their own master . . who was the sole administrative olficial including the modern job of bursar . . . I had the luck to live intimately among half a dozen different vocations. Of all those I had a chance to see the college was the place where men lived “,hc least anxious, the most comforting. the freest lives” Thus said C.P. Snow in his book, “The Masters”. These schools of original thought have perished because of the multiple and complex forces which we simply roll up into the catch-all phrases of “technological revolution” and “human progress”.

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It would be useless to remodel the present system using as prototypes the past structures of the university. These have rightfully passed to their historical graveyard. It is our task to study and understand the present structure of the university and the larger society of which it is a part. Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive. The complete reversal of the last fifty years has irrevocably changed attitudes to education and the university. Now to be productive means to be educated. Society. because it is vitally concerned with production, is equally concerned with education. The power. influence and expansion of the corporazs society demands a type of education that will suit its needs tit cannot tolerate the independent centres of old 1. Education becomes a part of the production process of modern society (and on the individual level a license for consumptic)n 1. In short, this means that the universit;h- i> II~ ir~rlger an independent community of scholars. The university has become a status quo institution. Those who set the guidelines oi university development see only the functional. therapeutic role. rejecting any challenge or conflict which independent investigation might prompt. Instead of postulating that conflicts of value and idealogy must be eiiminated. we should esamine how these conflicts arise from the new societv that is emerging and which is a response to the new productive forces launched by contemporal->technology. The connections of the uni\-ersit>. with government and corporations provictos thy clearest indications of how the uni\lersitis used and how it. in turn. fails the total societ)-. This is how the scholars of the universit:!fulkil I\-hat C. \Yright !VIills called the role oi- .‘arl\,-iscr t:, the kin,g”. Wright says. “The indivi(lua1 social scientist tends to become in\.olved in th~~sc many- trends of modern society that make thr indii.iclu;il a part 01 a functionall!ration;il hure;luc~ra(*!-. 3iid to sink

into his specialized slot in such a way as not to be explicitly concerned with the structure of postmodern society.” For example, two-thirds of the political science faculty at Carleton University has been commissioned to investigate various aspects of government. This is not uncommon for most faculties and most universities. The variable seems to be whether it is government or corporation that the university is serving. These people become part-time professors who cannot and often dislike, devoting much of their time to their students. The university has often been for them a means of seeking government employ. The development of the university becomes unimportant to them. Further than this and more pertinent, are the questions raised about the type of institution used by scholars to further their own careers. With the evident disinterest of faculty, these people have clearly abdicated any responsibility to direct the growth and development of a university community. Decision-making for the university has passed into other hands. This loss of power has not been contested. (Whether it was consented to originally is another question). To the contemporary academic, independence for the university has become an irrelevent issue.

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The caretakers of the university are the people who occupy positions in the administration. Students and faculty have no voice in the selection of these men. Co-option from government and private industry, elevation of name-establishment professors and appointment of elderly generals. politicians and diplomats is the normal way of filling these posts. They are not there to build an intellectual life, but to produce a trained product. They are not there to preside over an independent center of research for young and growing minds but to bring in names and money to build a structure which will better serve the corporate world. These people are status quo people, by their background and social orientation. These attitudes are instituted partly through the course material offered : (1) Engineering and science faculties are more heavily subsidized than are the liberal arts. Universities are pressured into expanding these facilities even at the expense of other faculties. i 2) Schools of public administration are designed specifically to serve government. One can question the existence of these along with schools of journalism. commerce faculties and teaching schools on the university campus. These all provide a service in response to outside pressure of some sort. It is much easier to have the organization man trained by someone else. (3) Selection of courses is limited. There is no

Latin American course at Carleton. Similar examples can be found at other Canadian univecsities. Canada has no special interests in Latin America. It matters little that this area has been a successful revolution and is one of the most explosive spots in the world. (4) The siTe of first year courses often weeds out those students who are the most creative and least conforming members of the universitv community. It is good to retain the student who can sit through twenty hours of boredom each week because he is more likely to fill an unquestioning role in the corporate world. HOW, then should the aspiring student approach the university ? For he is the raw material to be polished so three or four years hence he will be able to fill a functional, non-critical role in the world served by the university.

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What do we conclude? That one should leave the university because it is failing to ask the relevent questions about our society? Even if this were feasible, the university is far too important an institution in the potential developmentof our society to be abandoned. Should we, as the majority do. conform and allow ourselves to be placed in the little boxes waiting at the end of the graduation ceremony? This can result from despair at seeing a behemoth tnn monstrous to alter. But WP will not know if -we can change it until the attempt, with all our available resources is made. What then drJ WE! want from the university? We know v;T;hat to expect. We must use the university z?;ld in using it attempt to change it. It must be in conflict with society, questioning its basic premises.No one will make these changes for us. The structure predetermines its function. The connections linking the university to the governmental and corporate world are intricate. profound and impossible to change because of any internal dynamics they may have. But it will respond to challenge-the challenge of an organized student population that knows what it wants. This challenge can only be effectively building a student movement to study describe and analyze the university. Then through its knowledge it must make demands for its change. Wherever possible. we must institute our own programs which will indicate what we want to see in the university. These projects must be a combination of research and action. It is not enough to offer piece-meal suggestions each time an issue arises. The student movement must be multi-issue. Our analysis must demand basic structural change. It must redirect the development of the university. It must force the university to deal with the questions that need to be asked about our society.

Since the university is a product of the society in which it exists (the religious interest in education of earlier years being now overshadowed by the productive interest 1, we can not hope to alter the university without corresponding changes in the total society. The free university is not possible in an unfree society. And these changes are coming. The society of affluence which we often find replusive in comparison with the Third World also makes possible a freer. more enlightened society. But this does not just happen. It must be made to happen. And so our research-action projects must be directed towards an analysis of the total’ society and how change is brought about in that society. The university must be made into a critical, controversial institution. The free society. be definition. has built-in dynamics for change. The university must be involved in bringing this about. E’articu!arlv relevant to our generation is the th;sis adva&ed by Marce! Rioux : “Can we compare the revolt of youth. which is taking place during the third phase of the industrial revolution in which we are now living, to the other upheavals which man has known?... In other words we ask the same question which Marx himself asked. more than a century ago. “If we examine our societies in 1966 and ask what group will be the agent of social change. in the same way that the city dwellers were during the urban revolution-about 6000 years ago-and the working class was during the last hundred years. which group will our answer point to? Will we continue to think that it will be the proletariat. as AMarx had done?

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“When Marx wondered what group would effect the transformation from the capitalist to he favored the working the socialist society. class.. Can it be said that industrial societies today have radically changed and that we can foresee that another historical agent will assume the role played the working class in the last decades?” Professor Rioux goes on to suggest that in the Corning decades the main agent of social change will be youth and that our society will be characterized by intergenerational conflict. Students have rejected many of the old standards. Their hopes for a better world cannot be fulfilled in a status quo institution. The university must be changed to meet the needs of the new, emerging society or abandoned.

The author is a field and research worker with the Canadian Union of Students. He is a graduate of Carte ton university.

Regretful

but necessary

Yes. we are sorry the question of prejudice in the foreign-student and housing office was ever raised.

eigners equal. That wouldn’t interfere with her job. But it is intolerable for someone in this service capacity to feel that way.

But again sorry.

But the administration got its back up and refused to act on the issue because it had been raised in the student press. Their complaint was an old one-that p-roper channels hadn’t been used.

we would have to do it despite the fact we are

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at the situation

Students and officers of the Federation of Students have long complained to Provost Bill Scott about the actions of Mrs. Edith Beausoleil, foreign-student officer. Some of the complaints were specific and some were general in nature. Scott always. promised to look into the matter,- but nothing was ever done. Scott’s predecessor had tried to fire her. for many of the same reasons she should now be taken out of that post. But he was stopped by the higher-ups. Mrs. Beausoleil’s secretaries complained to both Scott and the personnel department about her conduct with them and with students. But they too heard nothing further. And so when a number of people deposited with the Chevron notarized letters attesting they heard make antiMrs. Beausoleil foreigner remarks, it was felt action was necessary. Although an offer to let the university’s lawyer view the letters in confidence was made, it was refused. Checks of the validitv of the remarks attributed to Mrs. Beausoleil have shown: Scott’s assistant Paul Gerster, who had an office in the same area for many months, confirmed their general content. l

l Scott’s secretary had heard one of the remarks complained about in one of the notarized letters.

. Mrs. Beausoleil’s secretaries confirmed useage of such remarks. The whole issue shouldn’t become as big as it did.

have

Somewhat naively, it now seems, t was expected that when faced with proof the administration would act and at least transfer her. It is not directly important if some backroom worker in the administration doesn’t consider for-

That, first of all, is a lie. A number of priv-ate meetings with Scott designed to produce action student agitation can be documented. Secondly, it is difficult to see, no matter what channels may be, used, how the ‘problem can be ignored. What is so important to 7the administration? And so regretfully the issue now involves legitimate student questioning of the administration’s response to this problem. After many hours of confrontation, with members of student administration presicouncil, dent Hagey agreed to form a committee to investigate possible restructuring of the foreign student and housing .-_ _ office. - . A neat way Of avoiding the rea1 1ssue* But student council members accepted it as a compromise, especially after Hagey said he would support a move to turn Mrs. Beausoleil’s responsibilities over to the Federation of Students and Graduate Student Society.. This is a bad compromise because’ it fails to recognize the daily damage being done to foreign-student life on this campus by Mrs. Beausoleil. And now even the formation of that committee has become bogged down in negotiations. We regret this issue had to be raised. We realize Mrs. Beausoleil is a fallible human being just like the rest of us. Her ideas seem normal to her, and her concepts were created by the personal environment she grew up in.

The communications Well, did your mommy and daddy tell you not to pay any attention to that mean, nasty Peter Warrian and not to blow up any campus buildings this year? Many did. Canadian Union of Students (CUS) president Warrian is the victim of one of the most outrageous fictions ever perpetrated by the so-called professional news media. Almost without exception the informers 0 f the public quoted Warrian at the recent CUS congress as having advocated “socking it to the administration” and “blowing up their buildings”. That wasn’t what his speech was about. But it makes good copy. And

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the establishment editors love any chance, real or fictional, to bring down the public wrath upon the heads of those trying to improve our world. What Warrian really called for was a year of study, a year of educating’ the many to the pressing need for drastic reform in our societv. But Peter used big words-he’s a sociology graduate-and involved concepts. If you had seen who the Canadian Press, Toronto Star or London Free Press had assigned to report the meeting, you would know why they didn’t understand what he said. Ignorance iormed a good basis for sensationalism.

The contradiction of her having the ideas she does and yet keeping the position is resolved, we speculate, by a belief that she should help and guide these lesser individuals. They should receive assistance, but’ not from someone who considers them a lesser order of people.

A member

of the Canadian University PressThe Chevron is published every Friday (except exam periods and August) by the board of publications of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo. Content is independent of the university, student council and the board of publications. Offices in the campus center phone (519) 744-6111 local.3443 (news) 3444 (ads). Night 7440111

editor-in-chief: Stewart Saxe managing editor: Bob Verdu n news editor: Ken Fraser photo editor: John Pickles editorial associate: Steve Ireland chairman of the board of publications: Geoff Roulet 10,000 copies Not very many people around to help out, those that did are part of the committed generation: Jock Mullin, Larry Burko, Rob Brady, Gary Robins, George Loney, Roger Chapman, Jim Keron. If you’ve read this far you’ve got the newspaper bug in your blood, come in and help us out--otherwise there won’t be many more editions.

deans hope to guide freshmen students down the true path o-f cducation in the coming year, They will pd’obably start the process in theiF addresses to the new students during orientation. Faculty

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11, 1968 (9: 14)

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Welcome to the academy, greatest show. on earth. Well, nearly the greatest-right after political conventions in embattled cities, popular upisings against law-and-ord,er tanks, and civil wars that add to white men’s lurdens but victimize black men more. Though it may currently be overhadowed by such extraneous events, you will soon find academia claiming i . <our total loyalty. of like a civilian you have heretofore read books, chatted with friends, ind taken walks at times of your own choosing, better bid all that goodIye for the duration. After a ceremonious induction you will without ‘urther ado find your places in six rings of a vast segmentalized circus. As soon as possible one must acquire those bodily and mental stances tha$ ,he management regards and sanctions -as correct. To fit in properly, )ne must conscientiously rush from ring to ring, spending in each a fixed jeriod, no-more no less. If during the apprenticeship one were by chance ;o become intrigued with some particular act and seek to study it ‘in depth 2t the expense of other acts, take note that to delay in one particular ring will almost certainly bring penalties in the other five. To survive in such a show one must then practice with detached deternination whatever each act calls for. Since every act is headed by arainer who typically determines how the performer is evaluated, surJival in the show demands a modicum of concern with pleasing the instructor. And since instructors are inclined to value hard work almost as much as final results, at least a good facsimile of hard work may help 3ne. to survive. But since there ‘are other performers in the ring with vou, you will be tempted to join them in the time-honoured practice of setting and maintaining performance standards below your actual capacity. This too in the belief that it will enhance survival. All these-actions in the face of the frequently espoused values of academia which bid students to participate in a selfless quest for truth,and know1 You will soon enough recognize that, these observations are in the main’ correct, if a little heavily shaded for emphasis. You may therefore be inclined to regard the ideals of the academy as mere propaganda. But a closer look at matters academic may tell you oth.erwise. Every community and every human organization sustains itself with beliefs and convictions about its purposes. When businessmen declare the purpose of their activities to be “service” it is as much a way of shoring up self-respect in a self-seeking market system as it is a way of influencing potential customers. When academic men and women declare that they are motivated by a selfless pursuit of truth and knowledge they too are shoring up self-respect. Like the businessman who seeks to provide an honest product or service the academic man is part of an impersonal market that induces him to cut corners in order to survive. To stay in the academic market he may be induced to put his own interests above that of his students, or above the pursuit of truth and knowledge. Ironically, the trainers are also caught up in the circus rat-race. In their case it is called “career.” If they are young and are still moving upward on the ladder they will be impelled to publish papers and books at least as much for reasons of advancing their positions as for reasons of sharing their discoveries with others. .One by-product of this publish-orperish game is a vast morass of scholarly and scientific literature through which only an intrepid and persistent scout will wade in search of solid foothoids. The academic community has, still another sector that influences student lives. In North America universities and colleges tend to be heavily populated by homo administrans headed by deans and presidents. Understandably enough such officers seek to minimize conflict within their organizations, and to maximize consensus. Also they strive to aggrandize the image and power of the organization relative to other similar organizabions. But c,onsensus, image, and power are not necessarily harmonious with truth, learning, and wisdom; whence it appears that -faculty and student goals must at times sharply differ from those of the administration. ‘Such are some of the, less readily advertised characteristics of the academic community which you have now entered as a novice. The fewer ‘your illusions about it, the less likely that you ‘will become disillusioned with it. The more realistic your expectations, the more appropriate will #be what you do here, and the more likely your eventual success. Welcome therefore not only to the academy but to this occasional mirror of it and of the world beyond it. If that mirror informs with distortion, if it provides biased perspectives, ,if it spices critique with satire, it merely does overtly what is only too often done covertly under the guise of neutral scholarship. But the distortions are as, inevitable as they are unwanted, and the- satire is as harmless, as it is necessary as a mnemonic device. For, be it admitted, this column is one academic ‘man’s peculiar response to the student revolution which principally seems to call for integrity, mutuality, and genuine communication. Though little more than a tentacle reaching out from the confines of the lecture hall, it is also little less than an invitation to a dialogue ‘within the entire academic community. . 1 164 THE CHEVRON

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