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paper. The decision to stop fee collection was made without consultation with either students or faculty. A board of governors press release explained the action by claiming the Carillon “has pursued an editorial policy clearly aimed at undermining confidence in the senate, board of governors and the administration of the university.” The board has tried to pressure the council into censoring the Carillon for over a year, a student union statement explains, but the council has resisted, claiming the board has no right to interfere in student affairs; the allegations against the paper are untrue; and control of the Carillon by the council might be used for undemocratic :~~u~‘~ooses The sta?ement is nart of a three-page letter sent to all Regina students, who had not yet returned to the campus from Christmas holidays. Also included in the letter is a break-down of the union budget, and a statement of support for the union from both the men’s and women’s athletic boards at the university. The board action has been criticized by Saskatchewan opposition leader Woodrow Lloyd, who said it had “neieher the right nor the to halt criticism at obligation” the university. “When authority resorts to such throttling it violates the gen-
eral public right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly,” he said. Regina faculty association president Reed Robertson has termed the move “stupid” and “silly” and accused the board of “using a fiscal sledge-hammer to impose censorship”. The student council has already rejected the board’s decision, and has promised to fight the affair to the finish. A five-point program adopted by the union calls for public education on the issue, the freezing of all expenditures not involved with union defense, mass meetings on the campus and contact with other groups including SaskatLwan farm and labor organizations and the Canadian Union of Students for financial and moral support. The student union accused the board of governors of opting for “a policy of confrontation rather than reasonable negotiation” in connection with the issue. In a press statement, the union termed the action “an infringement of the legal rights of the students to organize an independent union under student direction and free from outside control. It is an intolerable attempt to impose censorship on the Carillon and to deny the students their right to a free press.”
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A’lthough the board kas made no effort to pin-point its objections to the Carillon’s editorial policy, an identical threat to the union was made by Riddell last March. The threats followed closely upon an issue of the Carillon which broke the story of a $1,000 student loan granted to Allen Guy, presently minister of public works in the Saskatchewan government. At the time of the loan, Guy was drawing an MLA’s salary. Accusations were levelled at Riddell during the incident, claiming be had attempted to stop the printing of that issue of the paper. Riddell and the board confronted the student council following publication of the story with threats, of non-collection of student fees. The issue, according to Riddell, was “the effect of the editorial policy of the Carillon on public opinion towards the university.” This year, the Carillon incurred Riddell’s wrath when it disclosed top-secret plans for cut-backs in the university budget for the 196976) year which will either limit enrollment or cause a steep rise in the student faculty ratio at the university. The budget cut would also virtually eliminate night classes and halt expenditures on laboratory facilities and equipment. At that time, Riddell accused the Carillon of “gross irresponsibility” in reporting the budget situation, and said that if he could find the source of the leak, “heads would roll”. The board’s decision to starve the union to a settlement came as a complete surprise both to members of the Regina student council and to members of the Carillon staff, who had concluded a verbal agreement with the board to collect fees for the coming semes-
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In a series of behind the scene manoeuvres over the Christmas holidays, provost Bill Scott’s resignation date was moved up by at least four months to January 1. The decision to advance his resignation was made by administration president Gerry Hagey. “I think that I became a bit of an embarrassment to them,” said Scott postulating reason for his dismissal. Scott submitted his resignation at Hagey’s request at the end of October. The resignation had no effective date but Scott felt the earliest possible date would be at the end of April. Scott, an associate professor of sociology, was first approached about returning to academic work full-time by sociology department chairman, Gerard DeGre. DeGre doesn’t remember exactly how the approach came about except that “the decision was made in higher echelons.” Arts dean Jay Minas remembers numerous discussions on the date of Scott’s return to academic work with Hagey, DeGre, and Scott. He can’t remember who
first raised the January 1 possibility. Rumors of Scott’s early resignation were first heard around the administration in mid-December. They all reported that Hagey had initiated the move. An official announcement released through the university Gazette quoted Scott as saying the decision had been reached mutually by himself and Hagey. Scott does not recall making any such statement. The rest of the announcement as well as the one that appeared in the KitchenerWaterloo Record quoted only Hagey. “From my own personal experience I know that it becomes difficult to continue the responsibility for an office after one has decided to withdraw from it in the near future,” said Hagey in the press release. According to Scott he expressed similar statements in a letter to Scott recommending the January 1 date. Scott’s not upset though. “I’m very happy about all this”, he said. “I’ve had nothing but trouble for months and I’m glad to be rid of it.”
ter. The council is currently studying legal action against the board for breach of contract. The board’s decision, according to the press release, is not irrevocable. “The door remains open for discussions and negotiation between the student union and the board. Any new arrangement, however, will have to be based on clear-cut understandings and agreements.” A subsequent interview with Riddell revealed that these “understandings and agreements” would have to include the introduction of a “policy board” to set editorial policy for the paper. According to Riddell, the board could consist entirely of students. “This is not the idea of introducing censorship,” Riddell said, “but there is a difference between criticism and what the Carillon is doing.” Riddell has stated that he “does
care” what actions are taken by the Regina student, union in response to the board actions, and that he will give students “plenty of time” to bow to the board’s position. ‘“It will be very interesting to see what support they have and where it comes from,” be said. Some members of the Regina student union have suggested that the board’s sanctions against the union may be designed to draw attention away from the full extent of the budget cuts, which will be delivered to the university within the month. The possibility of tighter budgeting has already caused some unrest among faculty at the university, where in one departmen t professors are already paying for student help out of their own pockets. Riddell has also said he feels the Carillon has had a bearing on the lack of response to a university capital fund drive, conducted as a result of provincial refusal to provide money for the necessary expansion of the Regina campus. Although admitting later he thought the issue was a “red herring”, Riddell has also told the commercial press in Regina that one of the main reasons for the board’s action was the Carillon‘s “obscenity”. “The last straw” for the public, he felt, was the latest issue of the Carillon, which showed a drawing of a human birth intermingled with the features of Ho Chi LMinh. The editors ot the carillon have repeatedly denied the obscenity charges, and say they follow a policy of deliberately keeping obscenity out of the paper. No obscenijty or libel charges have ever been laid against the paper.
Federation president John Bergsma sent a telegram of solidarity Wednesday to the Regina campus student union on behalf of the Federation of Students. The telegram read: “The students of the University of Waterloo wish to express solidarity with the students on your campus in their fight for academic freedom and self-determination in their own environment. “At a time when administration bureaucrats at universities throughout Canada are trying to enforce unilateral control over the lives of their students we can only feel a close alliance with you in your battle.”
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T.R. Glecoff, one of the disc jockeys working on the station, said all the necessary equipment has been purchased and the only thing left to do is sound proof one of the walls in their new headquarters, wherever it may be. Last term’s trial run was such a success that the station’s continued popularity is assured. All that’s lacking now is the proper place to put everything.
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have been elected to national student offices are Dave Young, who was elected CUS vicepresident in I966 and Peter Warrian, the present president of the Canadian Union of Students. Delegations were present at the conference from most English-speaking universities in Canada, and were joined by members of the executive of the United States Student Press Association. The student journalists spent five days at the Westbury Hotel and at St. Michaels college in Toronto discussing numerous mutual problems. Seminars on basic and advanced techniques of university journalism were held. As well as being a training session the annual conference also serves to set out the or-
ganizations budget and priorities. Few concrete changes were made for the coming year but readers of the student press should be seeing more national features next year as a result of the conference decision to designate the vicepresident as a features writer. The conference also reconfirmed the necessity for the student press to act as an agent of social change. The Ontario regional organization meet numerous times during the conference and planned for increased training activities As national president Saxe will have fulltime duties at the national office in Ottawa. His term of office starts May 1. Next year’s conference will be co-hosted by the Cord Weekly of Lutheran and the Chevron.
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band will perform at the dance. The cost of the entire evening per couple is $7 for MathSoc members and $9. for non-members. The prices for the banquet are $3 and $4 per person. The dance alone will cost $4 and $5 per couple. Sunday starting at 8:30 a.m. a car rally will be held. The course was prepared by Brian Douglas, winner of last year’s math rally. The prices are $1.50 and $2 with a reduction of $1 for motorcycles and skidoos. The weekend ends Sunday afternoon with a folk concert at food services. Prices are 25 cents and 50 cents.
Math weekend, which starts today, features a pub night, a banquet and semi-formal, a car rally and a folk concert. A pub night will be held tonight in the campus center pub from ‘7:30 to 11: 30. Admission is 25 cents for MathSoc members and 35 cents for non-members. Beer and liquor will be sold at the usual prices. Boatraces between the faculties are planned. Saturday night a banquet and semi-formal will be held at Caesar’s Forum. Ralph Stanton, former math department chairman, who now teaches at York will speak at the banquet. Ellis McClintock and his dance
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A number of graduate students headed by Lawrence Etigson, grad math, have set up a program to help foreign students improve their knowledge of the English language. Each Canadian student who volunteers will be matched (on the basis of a short questionnaire) with one or more student requesting help. The two students then meet at their convenience to work on whatever areas of English the one is weak in. The volunteer may also be required to explain Canadian customs.
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The university now offers formal English courses for foreign students. This program (called A
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One of the major problems facing the presidential nominating committee is the oath of silence. In a meeting December 9, student council decided not to participate if the meetings were closed. Dr. Howard Petch, academic vicepresident has said he does not know what the students want. But Petch has also said he considers the oath of silence necessary to make sure confidential material is not released outside the meeting. Ira Needles, chancellor of the university, Mr. Hemphil, representative of the almuni association, and Professors Howorth and Brzustowski, Senate chosen faculty representatives, all agree to the necessity for the oath of silence. Professor Brzustowski elaborated by saying the oath is essential to keep information confidential because “people do not want their records discussed publicly. ” The nominating committee as it is set up now, consists of two representatives from the board of governors, five faculty members, two students, one alumnus, and one outsider. This seems to give acceptable representation to faculty and students, but in actuality, three of the faculty representatives are chosen by the Senate and staff and they will not, to quote Dr. Robert Huang, president of the Faculty Association, since they are chosen by the senate.”
Way Out is a drift in and out, stay it out, think it out, do your own thing, Happening. Organized and sponsored by the Student Christian Movement it is a three day event which proPoses, under the title Theo/ogy and Social Change to explore the relevance of Christianity to social change. Way Out will be happening in the campus center from 2 pm Sunday until midnight Tuesday with talks, speeches, films, experimental liturgies, creative workshops, sensitivity groups, fun and games. The aims of Way Out are described in their pubassumption of lications this way: “The underlying Way Out is that we are committed to society. We feel that the present social system must be changed, and that this stance is part of being a responsible and committed person today. In order to bring about a change we must ask ourselves: What does it mean to be human? In what kind of community can one be totally human? Do we have hope? These are some of the theological questions we
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On the question of student participation on the committee, all parties thought it best if all members of the university were represented. The federation has said they will only participate if the meetings are open. The federation has also proposed a new breakdown of the committee: two representatives of the board of governors, five faculty reps, four students, and one outsider. The faculty association’s main problem is that they must choose their representatives from faculties other than those from which the senate appointees are from. The executive of the association feels this restricts the freedom of choice open to the faculty. The association hopes to negotiate a better position with the board of governors; but if no satisfactory position is reached Huang thinks they will have to withdraw. Huang also thought that the nomination committee was too large, unwieldy and not conducive to creativity. In addition Huang feels there has not been enough consultation among the groups involved in the committee. Primarily he views the staff’s role as a service to the faculty and students and that the latter two groups should have much more representation on the nominating committee. He also feels the whole procedure of finding a president is being rushed. Huang’s suggestion for an alternate plan is to appoint an interim president while a search committee finds likely candidates.
are going to struggle with. In other words we are going to take theology as a frame of reference for social change. This theology is new, political and radical. ” Speakers at Way Out will include Peter Warrian, president of the Canadian Union of Students; Darrol Bryant, professor of religious studies at WLU; John Huot, SCM general secretary, York University; Walter Klaassen, chaplain at Conrad Grebel College; Aarne Siirala, professor of religious studies at ‘WLU. Brewster Kneen, center for the study of institutions and theology: Rochdale College ; Cyril Levitt, student radical; and Glen Tenpenny, University of Western Ontario. Also on the program is a non-stop film festival with special emphasis on experimental, international or socially conscious films. Registration for Way Out costs $1 at the Federation of Students office in the campus center, but admission to most of the events is free. Your registration ticket gives you priority in getting in to view films, personal contact with resource persons in small groups and admission to the lecture, Tuesday 7 : 30 by theologian Gregory Baum.
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Psychic Russ Burgess holds up one of five cards each with a different symbol on it. He accurately predicted several hours before the demonstration which of the cards a member of the audience would pick. He claims 90 percent accuracy.
resse In a fast-moving lecture-demonstration, parapsychologist Russ Burgess gave some convincing evidence to prove the existence of extra-senssory perception. The Wednesday afternoon audience was visibly impressed and entertained by Burgess’ stage manner. He explained in the lecture his performance would be about 70 percent genuine and 30 per cent non-psychic. “I use non-psychic techniques to keep the show entertaining. It helps to establish your confidence in me and produces a rapport between us which is necessary for a successful demonstration.” He went on to explain he would use the power of suggestion and sensory cues such as change in facial expression to give him clues to trends of people’s thoughts.
A committee formed last year during the administration’s student-on-a-committee-a-week plan was pronounced dead Wednesday after never having met. The council on student affairs was proposed last winter as an advisory committee to provost Bill Scott. Members were appointed, including seven students out of twenty-two. The council never became operational and no meetings were called. Now Scott has resigned as provost, and ancillaryenterprises director Jack Brown is chairing a review of the student affairs department. Scott issued a memorandum Wednesday stating he and administration president Gerry Hagey” deemed it advisable to dissolve this council. ” Friday,
“Psychological trickery can be used to fake a psychic feat. I could have seen someone’s name on their notebook and later produced it from the stage during the demonstration. Neither that person nor the rest of the audience would have known it was a trick. It isn’t ethical but it’s as effective as hell.” Burgess said it is impossible to read everyone’s mind. “I am about 40 percent successful in telepathy. From 25 percent of the audience I could receive one word and from 15 percent I could receive detailed thoughts.” He maintains everyone possesses ESP to some degree, however slight. He said ESP is an art form rather than a science because there has never been a repeatable experiment. As two members of the audience concentrated on dollar bills in their hands Burgess called out the serial numbers. He later told a student how -much change was in bis pocket when the student himself did not know. Besides mind-reading, Burgess predicts the future up to two years ahead. In this he claims 75-85 percent accuracy. While elaborately blindfolded he sensed and answered questions written on cards from the audience concerning their future. Burgess finished off the demonstration by having Paul Berg, director of creative arts, open a letter mailed to him four days ago. The envelope contained predictions on the Wednesday headline in the Record, the sum of three, three-digit numbers obtained from the audience and the name of the one of six playing cards chosen by a girl in the audience. All three predictions were correct. January
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The senate held its first open meeting December 19, and managed to bore all the spectators by demonstrating that all the decisions are either made before the senate meets or are referred to a committee for discussion. The first action taken by the senate, after administration president Gerry Hagey had turned the chair over to his academic vicepresident, Howard Petch, was to set up a committee to report on the implications of opening the meetings. One major time before the senate was the academic tenure draft proposal from Petch. Several questions were raised for discussion but they were apparently not answered. For example, Faculty Association president Robert Huang, an observer, asked for some discussion on the status of existing faculty whose terms of appointment didn’t coincide with the situations dealt with in the draft proposal. There was no move on senate’s part to deal with this problem. Science dean Pete McBryde asked how matters of redundancy of professors’ fields of specialty and problems of economy were
Students hope for 500 at Peterboro strike Students will once again be travelling to Peterborough to enforce the picket lines around the Peterborough Examiner. 500 students are expected to turn out between Wednesday and Friday. If enough people turn out there will be shifts of students on the lines. Those taking a rest from picketing can take part in a teachin on the Peterborough situation. Students travelled to Peterborough on two other weekends before the Christmas break. On the first trip about 100 students participated, During the picketing two were arrested. Rod Hay and John Bender both of Waterloo were charged with ob: strutting an officer and disturbing the peace. They have been convicted on the first charge and will face the second on January 16. On the following weekend the students’ ranks were doubled. There were 15 arrests made and two girls were injured while on the line. 4
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Following this weekend the Peterborough Free Press was established. Both students and strikers are working on the paper. The circulation is 6,000 with two issues a week. The paper, which has the sympathy of the general public, is making $300 an issue. At the present time the paper is understaffed and in dire need of student help. Negotiations in the two-monthold strike are all but nonexistant. They are not bogging down at the Examiner management level but rather at the Toronto offices of the Thomson empire. Thomson’s men, who are very anti-union, refuse to even talk with the newspaper guild. Buses will be leaving for Peterborough on Wednesday night and will start bringing students back on Thursday. Anyone interested in participating or helping with the Peterborough Free Press should contact the Chevron.
bers of a committee to investigate and plan for the establishment of a school of law, should this become feasible. Senate was informed by the chairman of its sub-committee studying the university government report that it was still meeting and planned a joint meeting with the board of governors’ parallel committee sometime in January. Registrar Trevor Boyes then went into a long report from the curriculum committee. As he plodded through the detail, senators began slipping away from the meeting and spectators fought off yawns. Very few of the items required action and Hagey eventually asked Boyes to keep it short. Senate finally rubberstamped the report. Senate then proceeded through reports from the faculties of arts, engineering and mathematics and the grad-studies council. All action items were approved, the only time being spent in presentation rather than discussion. Under new business, two different groups asked senate to award an honorary doctorate to the same individual for conflicting reasons. It would be impossible to satisfy both groups. Because Hagey did not feel it in the best taste to discuss the names of honorary degree candidates before they have been officially asked to accept the award, the press was asked not to mention the name of the illustrious individual that both the grad ball committee and a group in the engineering faculty want to have at their functions. The press concurred because its representatives believes the illustrious individual in question already receives far too much coverage. Because of the nature of the matter and the relative shortness of time available senate mandated its executive committee to take action. On the honorary degree question. The meeting adjourned after more than three hours. The observers were not given the pile of documents the senators had. The next senate meeting is February 20. The registrar’s office will give free admission tickets for the observers’ gallery to the first 25 applicants after they announce an opening time.
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A decentralized national student union based on a regional or provincial structure would best accommodate all universities, including French-speaking schools. This was the major consensus of the 60 delegates from about 25 universities, at a conference on national student unionism at Waterloo Lutheran University from December 28 to 30. Most delegates were members of council at their respective campuses, or had council backing. The conference was conceived as deliberatative but not legislative, according to Ed Aunger of the WLU delegation. by Jim Allen Chevron staff
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The Waterloo student council did not participate in the conference. However two Waterloo students, Murray Underwood and Ed Balobaba, represented Waterloo unofficially. Federation president John Bergsma and education chairman T.R. King attended a few sessions as observers. Although no official consensus was reached on the question, most delegates felt a new national union would be impractical; therefore, they believed CUS has to be changed from within. Proceeding on an agenda drawn up by the Carleton delegation, the participants met first in plenary session, and then divided into six discussion groups. The groups formulated reports on topics conceived by George Hunter (Carleton) and Alistair Robertson (UNB). These were: 0 services provided by a national union l the possibility of a bilingual union @ the role of local student governments @ how federal-provincial government structures affect a student union @ what are the areas of student interest @ education The plenary then discussed the resultant reports, with several being sent back to the groups for were revision. Three reports accepted in principle.
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The local student government group, chaired by Murray Underwood (Waterloo) emphasized the importance of developing awareness on the part of students. It gave priority to student affairs within the university environment, as opposed to the larger community. Most delegates opposed this. An amendment proposed by Hunter and Simon Rosenblum (St. Mary@ established university affairs as an initial priority, to bring about awareness on issues in the larger community. On this basis, the report was accepted. The other accepted reports, involving Canadian government structure, and the possibility of inclusion of French universities, were united in their desire to see a decentralized union structure. Moncton delegate Paul Leblanc felt it was the only basis on which his school could join. He stressed the specialized problems universities such as Moncton faced. “We have difficulty getting textbooks and qualified prof essors. We are in New Brunswick, so UGEQ won’t let us in. But CUS has failed to do anything for us.” Another French-speaking delegate, Andre Dery (Ottawa) disagreed. He felt there was room for French students in a centralized union, such as CUS. (Expected observers from UGEQ failed. to appear. ) The Canadian government structure group, chaired by Bill Houston (Queens), presented a detailed report on a regionally or provincially-structured union. It involved replacing the president and secretariat of CUS with a business administrator for service functions and a “Board of Directors” for policy making and inter-regional communication. This sparked heated debate in plenary. Many
delegates rejected the report completely. Further group discussion produced a brief statement that decentralization “was an effective context in which to consider achievement of the goal of representavity and relevancy in student association.” Such a context permitted better use of the democratic process, the statement continued, and didn’t restrict national decisions when necessary. “This is a working concept not a motion; it’s something we can use for direction,” Houston explained. This version of the report, which a McMaster delegate termed “decentralization if necessary, but not necessarily decentralization”, was accepted as the consensus of the conference. Many delegates expressed a hope for a specific structure to come out of a future conference, based on this consensus. Rob Walsh (SFU) commented “That resolution was just a symbol. It was tangible evidence that they’d accomplished something. But nobody looked at the topic in depth. I don’t know whether anything will come out of it or not.”
CUS congress on individual campuses. Walsh criticized the motion as being overprotective of students. “If the students can’t trust an elected council to select CUS reps, that makes you think that they can trust directly elected congress reps”, he wondered. Kappler’s motion was withdrawn in favor of a proposal put forward by the St. Francis-Xavier delegate. This supported representative election of CUS congress delegates but left the method of election up to the individual campus. This motion was accepted by the conference. For the most part delegates were not satisfied with the results of the conference.
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Fraser Hodge of UBC had hoped the conference would come The service report, which advoup with something “to redirect cated a separate organization to CUS into a more responsible direcdeal with travel, insurance and tion.” other services was rejected. The “But it was realy bad; just regroup dealing with student interactionary, sandbox garbage,” he est areas attempted to differenticontinued. ate between the “student as studEd Aunger of the host WLU deleent” and the “student as citizen”. gation had hoped for something Many delegates took issue with more complete as regards structhis dichotomy, one being Simon ture. He felt another conference Rosenblum : “You can’t separate would be necessary to consider the student like that. If you’re deal- this aspect. ing with housing, for instance as a Rob Walsh, student president at student problem, you can’t ignore SFU, felt most of the delegates housing situation in the rest of the were amateurs who love their country. ” work but are clumsy in their ideas and presentation. ’ No definite decision was reached Simon Rosenblum of St. Mary’s on this report, or on the education disagreed with the consensus on presentation. Some delegates decentralization. He said the delefelt the latter was too vague, othgates seemed only concerned with ers that it was irrelevant to what forming a service union. He was the conference was discussing; also disappointed by the separadisagreement centered around tion of student and citizen. a definition of education. On the other hand Bill Houston The latter three reports all initiated argument over whether a of Queens felt the conference was beneficial. student union should be political “We managed to reach points or apolitical. Debate on this question was usually heated. At of consensus after heated discusone point, Alistair Robertson and sion”’ he said. “We have a positive basis for future action. Rob Walsh told some of their Chairman Bill Ballard, student fellow delegltes they were polipresident of WLU was pleased. tically naive to think a national “Emotionalism did not reign at union could be anything but politithis conference; logic did. We had cal. The dispute remained unreconstructive views and not confusolved at the close of the confersion like CUS had at the Guelph ence. conference”. Russell criticizes CUS observer Jim Russell comSeveral working papers were hasn’t mented : “The conference distributed during the conference, done anything different. They but were not discussed. CUS obhaven’t dealt with issues such as server Jim Russell composed a organiza tion and structure and critique ‘of the conference which they have no more concern than rapped the delegations for being any one else about representivity.” too “sandbox” in their outlook. Discussion on a further conferSeveral delegates such as Fraser ence in February occupied the Hodge (UBC) agreed. Russell final few minutes of the conference concluded that the conference No definite arrangements were seemed to want a return to NFCUS, made but they should, according CUSS predecessor. to Bill Ballard, be forthcoming Carleton’s Bob Nixon presented in a couple of weeks. However, Ala paper advocating a spirit of comlan Dudeck of Manitoba pointed promise in post-conference activiout: ties, while Bruce Gillis comment“There are elections coming up ed on the faults of CUS in his paon many of the campuses. I would per. As the conference neared its think a very different group will close a final motion was introduced meet at the next conference. They by Brian Kappeler of Windsor who could easily hash out the same wanted a provision to insure direct things; so it wouldn’t necessarily election of representatives to the be an extension of this conference.
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Honda Hellcat 350 will no longer challenge the Cadillacs, Lincolns and Pontiac GTO’s parked in the university’s reserved parking spots. The Hellcat will henceforth mix with faculty cars. “I’ve been a motorcycle fan since I was 14.” Scott says. His three sons reflect his interest. One even does paintings of motorcycles. But when Bill Scott was 14, big motorcycles were just dreams. It was the depression, and in eight years his father worked only five. A family-owned small motorcycle served as a basic means of transportation. If there is such a thing as an average Canadian background, Scott probably has 1L.
Scott was like many other boys who grew up in the thirties. He was active in high school, had good marks, was a boy scout, and had a paper route around . Windsor, where his parents lived. “In those days you either had a paper route or became a juvenile delinquent; there was no other way for a boy to make pocket money, ” recalls Scott. * * * In his own life Scott sees illustrated many of the principles he teaches in his sociology courses. He knows what social barriers to higher education really exist; if it hadn’t been for a United Church minister living next door to him he never would have thought of going to university. The minister’s three daughters also seemed to have helped him make up his mind. “We were a lower class family where the possibility of attending university just never occurred to any of us,” he remembers. But after working a year at the Windsor YMCA, Scott was finally talked into registering at Assumption College (now the University of Windsor) on a part-time basis. The other part of the time was still spent at the Y, since papa couldn’t pay the tuition bill. Scott’s feelings for student activists that probably contributed greatly to his recent demise as Provost were bred in these first years at university. Assumption, he remembers, had a very flexible liberal arts program that allowed him to seek and fulfil1 his own interests. Second year university, however, was spent at Western. And if Scott ever accused any of the Students he counselled as provost of
spreading themselves too thin, he was talking from experience. During his three years at Western, he played football, edited the student newspaper, edited the yearbook, coached the swimming team, acted in the little theater, and like all the fellows during the war, spent time with the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps. “Three days a week we’d go to class in battle-dress-and we hated it.” After graduation the army called and he was placed in personnel selection. “We had to decide if people were fit for overseas duty.” “We learned a hell of a lot about normal psychology and lay psychiatry,” says Scott. It prepared him well for his job as an assistant professor of sociology and psychology at Waterloo College (now Waterloo Lutheran) when the war ended.
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By this time he was married and had a child, all of which made living on the “princely salary of $1800 a year” difficult. “A case of beer was a real event in those days-we never saw steaks.” Scott took a year off to get his masters, but after another year at Waterloo College he left the academic world. Electrohome bought him for $3000 a year to be their employment manager. *‘The money was just too much to resist,” he points out. “I thought about it very long and very hard and finally decided to take the offer as I could see no way I could afford to get a doctorate while supporting a wife and child. ” Scott made a good organization man, it would seem, for he climbed the ladder well. When he left Electrohome in 1956 he was director of industrial and public relations. Ford Motor Company of Can-
ada wanted him for a similar job in their overseas section. And losing the job as university provost because of principles isn’t a new experience for Scott. He left Ford after two years because of what he politely refers to as bureaucratic frustration and “the Americanization of the company”. One more position in big business (with the congolomerate holding company-Anthes Imperial) taught him he had too many scruples for participation in the capitalist machine. He opted out and bought a farm south of Kitehener. “I always wanted to live in the country,” he recalls. “I’d always felt warm toward the country way of life-but it was more than that. “In the past ten to twelve years I had done a lot of reading on conservation and I think it was at that stage I learned that if we didn’t do something about our environment we were going to disappear as a civilization. “I wanted to observe man’s waste of o’lr resources firsthand, and I wanted to try to find out what could be done about it.” * * * Soon after his arrival iri the KitchenerWaterloo area Scott was contacted by university officials-some of whom he had kept in touch with since his Waterloo College days, and others who, like Allen Adlington, had worked under him while he was out in the business world-and asked to join the arts faculty as a sociology Prof. He did. And he did not only because he could use the salary but also because he had a message he wanted to convey to people. “I’ve been awfully darned unhappy about many of the things I’ve seen around me in society, and I’ve tried to talk to my first year sociology classes about them. “What really alarms me is that the
students don’t seem to ever get excited or worried by these things. *‘When I look at the poverty. waste of resources. alienation, the advance of technology and the political corruption in our society, 1 get very frightened. I’m very afraid caf where we seem to be going. “My real hang-up is that while I[ know the present system is exploitative and oppressive I don’t know how it can be corrected in time-and I think time is running out on us very quickly. “To some extent H am very disappointed in what the university is doing in this regard, but I don’t think we can fault the institution entirely because it is a product of its age-it is a sociolization agency, and a training agency and a recruiting agency. “Where it falls down most severely is in its failure to produce a really critical facility among the students-the routine work and structures in the university alienates the indivi “Where it falls down most severely is in its failure to produce a really critical facility among the students-the routine work and structures in the university alienates the individual and reinforces his feeling of powerlessne?s so that he never sits back and discusses real issues and possible solutions. “In the social sciences the emphasis is always on the theoretical and not on the applied-as soon as we try to talk about the real problems that face us we become an anathema to the academic-it seems we are not supposed to muddy ourselves with problems out there in the real world. “The university is a terribly traditionbound institutionprobably as much so as the church-and it changes very slowly too slowly now. “I think the real problem is whether all of our human institutions are going to be able to keep pace with modern t,echnology or whether man is going to lose out completely to the machine.” Scott, it would seem, is a battle lost in this war, for the organizational machine has triumphed over him. But he doesn’t seem to mind the cost, not really caring that the loss in salary may mean he can no longer afford to park his Honda in a two-car garage in Forest Hill. Because for Bill Scott not being provost simply means giving up a lot of headaches and devot,ing his full time to trying to make his students realize things outside the university aren’t so hunky-dory.
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The most important development since our last brilliant piece has been the out-right denial by academic vicepresident Howie Petch of any ambitions to take over the presidential reins. Petch wrote chancellor Ira Needles and told him he does not wish to be considered a candidate and wants to remain in his present position while exciting academic changes are occurring in the next few years. Hmm. After this announcement, a business office group came up with an interesting analogy. When a new parli .ament opens, one of the first things on the a.genda is the election of the speaker. A candida te is nominated by the government, seconded by the opposition and a member of parliament is thus honored with the most prestigous title in the house. But does the chosen one rise and proudly walk to his chair? Oh no, humility and tradition demand he be dragged to t,he chair. As we were saying, hmm. Informed sources tell us that Howie’s assumptions of other administrative positions at other universities (department chairmanship at UBC and principalship at McMaster) have come about under similar circumstances. In other words he is never a candidate, but always a draft choice. All this is not to say that Howie’s motives are less than pure. Undoubtedly the university could benefit from his staying in his present position. But enough persons of power and influence may decide he is the only one who can save us, and his strong sense of duty mayreverse Howie’s decision. Another tidbit which flew in from our Ottawa correspondent concerns the future of Doug Wright, cited in our first article as one of the top contenders for the top job here.
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satire written by Carlo Collodi. The classic fairy tale recounts Pinocchio’s escape from the evil puppet master Mastroni and his agreement with Glissandra, the Blue Fairy, who brings him to the kindly old wood carver, Ceppetto. Pinocchio vows to be hardworking and to tell the truth so that Glissandra will transform him into a real boy. Further complications ensue, however, as Pinocchio falls in with the wicket Cat and Fox, is lured to Pleasure Isle and, finally, is imprisoned inside a monstrous whale where he is reunited with Geppetto and plans their escape. Pinocchio’s misadventures provide exciting children’s entertainment-and a moral. On stage, Pinocchio offers even more, since the audience has a chance to participate in some of the action.
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The K-W Little Theater performed its Dominion Drama Festival entry No exit by Jean Paul Sartre in the arts theater just before Christmas. The first most striking thing was the set not only in its inate excellance and imagination, but also the play started twenty minutes late, and we had that much more time to ponder on it. It was a very simple set, a feature that made it remarkable. Cluttered sets attract too much attention to themselves. The coioring and lighting showed someone’s good taste. The bust was given it’s dominant place as demanded in the original French instructions. I was displeased that it was not evidently bronze, a point of importance according to Sartre. Adrian Waller, the director, must have indeed felt elated after the opening of this play. He had good reason. If not a winning play at the festival, it is bound to give all the others good stiff competition. For although there were faults, they were of the sort one would expect on an opening night and the kind one can correct. I was quite pleased with the casting. The hall porter played by Doug Maugham seemed so exact in character I almost expected him to up his hand for a tip. Leo Burns was the obvious choice for Cradeau. His being tall and lanky and his quivering voice made for a believable Cradeau. One thing though, I do wish his voice weren’t quite so powerful, it spoils his image of being a weak man. Inez is a very hard part to
play simply because she is a lesbian. I mean, the part of a bull dyke would take a person who can be tough and discreet. Bev Gerry was a good choice because of her acting experience and her physical stature. Tessa Gillard played the nymphomaniac Estelle. She is suitable for the role because of the very feminine type she is. The quaint British accent she has and the way she was dressed and made up-all niade her quite sexy. The acting was very commendable. Judging from the original script, I ~can see how difficult it would be in making these characters any where near real and believable. This cast more than succeeded. I should like to comment on the directing. Cradeau should be made to be more of a scum near the end as well as being weak. In the French, Sartre does this by changing Cradeau’s vocabulary to include some pretty off-base language. Unfortunatly this is lost in the translation. Again concerning Cradeau, I would like him to appear less strong and less violent. His fights with the other two should be like that of a paranoid fighting the world, almost sounding like a helpless yelp. On the play
’ For an existentialist who isn’t supposed to believe in hell, Sartre has a damn good idea what it is all about. But like director Wailer notes, “Sartre the atheist does not believe in an afterlife; but Sartre the existentailist very
much believes in a life we create as we go along, a life that we make into an inferno. No exit is a play about how we make hell on earth for others.” To show this hell on earth, Sartre imagines a hell in the afterlife, a place of punishment and perdation where all these normal defenses against other people diappear . Into a shabby’ room of one-time bourgeois elegance come three on guard against the people, torture that awaits them. They imagine one another to be the torturer. Only gradually does the audience realize that this is hell and these people are dead and damned. Death here does not mean a loss of consciousness or a disintegration of the body. It means passing into a realm where all deeds are done and all character is once and for all determined. Cradeau is a coward. Inez is a fiend. Estelle is a monster of weakness and selfishness. These people have left their existence behind them. They are no longer free to be different. They grow progressively hotter as we watch their defenses stripped off, one at a time, until the three characters are revealed as naked worms, caught in an infernal circle of human needs and unmitigated hatreds. The very last horror revealed to the trio is the realization that that is the way it is going to be forever.
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S CITIZENS of a modern democracy, we inherit a political tradition shaped and refined by 2,500 years of theory and practicenot a straight or unbroken line, to be sure, yet one which reflects the best efforts of many generations, many wise and dedicated men. Why, then, do we so often find ourselves frustrated in ourselves frustrated in our attempts to come to rational terms with those who disagree with us? Why do we find ourselves, as a society, so close to violence-so close, that is, to treating our fellow citizens as enemies or criminals? Let us look at the pluralist political system under which we live. For a natural objection, at this point, is that our stress on initiative and contrary opinion as virtues is not just a matter of myth-that in fact we have developed perfectly adequate ways of channelling them into the mainstream of our social and political life. And if this were true, the preceding observations would hardly apply to us today. But have we, in our system, such perfectly adequate ways? Anyone may express his views in our society, we say-and if he can gain support for those views they will have to be fairly considered by those in power. If one has valid ideas or criticisms, we assume, he will receive that support from his fellow citizens ; he has merely to convince them of that validity. Voluntary associations, unions, parties, ad hoh: organizations, and so on- these are the vehicles for raising issues and seeking reforms, and through them every citizen is able to participate in political power. S.M. Lipset has thoroughly and sympathetically described this process, as it works in America. in his ~o/j~cad man. From the point of view of such an analysis, the institutions which make dissent a political possibility are there, for tl-.se with the natienee and determination to use them.
But what SOP~Sof dissent are possible. really, through such institutions? To begin with the obvious: such groups are organized to bring pressure to bear on those who have power, and this pressure will be roughly proportional to the number of votes involved. What is not so obvious is that this already places severe limits on the sorts of issues which can be successfully raised. The ideal issue will be one which attracts a great number of people. one which matters so much to those neople that they will be willing to vote for the mal;. who promises satisfaction-that is. one which takes precedence over any :-~tire:- ground s on which they might cast iheir vote and one which can be articulated fairly simply and powerfully apld fitted into the platforms which the competing candidates must formulate. For a politician to take the demands of a group seriously, he must be able to find out simply and directly what they want, and it must be of such a nature that he can accommodate them and many other such groups simultaneously. It would be damaging enough, in any defense of our pluralist system, to have to admit that the system does not provide the creative deliberation, the continual confrontation of opposing viewpoints that produces new insights and agreements. To have to admit that, in addition, the system cannot even balance already welldefined positions on basic issues, seems fatal to the defense. Still, we persist in that defense: we insist that anyone who is concerned about basic political issues use his vote, work for a party, and so on. We will not admit that our society just “grows and grows”. Something deeper must underlie our refusal to admit the very narrow limits of our pluralist system. So, let us ask what value we place, in general, on public deliberation, discussion, and arguement. Hannah Arendt has pointed out, in On Revolution, that we tend to think of happiness as essentially a private thing. We all go out into the world of affairs-but only because we must, in most cases. And our reward, that which makes it all worth while, is to come back to the world of horne and family, and there
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spend our leisure in highly personal pursuits. Some like their jobs, most don’tbut even those who do would admit, usually, that their happiness is a different matter, their “own business”, so to speak. Now we do have to go out into the world to earn a living-but we are under no similar pressure to go out into the world of public meetings, local and national government, and so on. How much easier to watch the rare public meeting on the news than to go there in person. Of course one can’t engage in much dialogue that way, but the view is certainly better, and one doesn’t have to waste all that time going down, parking, trying to find the right room-and one doesn’t have to then sit through those boring hours of ineffecIn fact, what does one tual argument. miss? On TV or radio we get the really important moments selected for us, and the results, if any. And if even these moments are too dreary, we can always switch to something really diverting. The point is that we lack the conception of public deliberation and participation in it as pkasurabk in themselves. In general, they represent something which is best left to the politicians, in our view, except on the rare occasion when someone convinces us we have a duty to undertake it. Even participation in a public discussion which quickly and efficiently leads to an agreement is not thought of as pleasurable, but as something like a mercifully short session at the dentist. And when one thinks of the repetition, the wrongheadedness. the stubborn refusal convinced by the most of people to be compelling arguments-who in his right mind could find the activity pleasurable? Of course our happiness lies elsewhere!
Furthermore, at a deeper level, one can see how these activities come to be regarded not just as frustrating or boring, but as actually painful, as the result of the lack of public institutions wherein we might conduct them and thus learn to conduct them and thus learn to conduct them. In school we are talked af, informed by authorities paid to do that job. In business meetings, each participant tries to exhibit his own superior rhetorical skill and power And in politics, where it should be otherwise, debates reflect the clash of opposing interests; the object is to win! In every ease, we are deathly afraid of saying something which will mark us as inferior or incompetent. And when we do say something, we are, for the same reasons, stuck with defending it to the bitter end. What experience do we have of discussions which enlighten us-more, which we leave feeling fuller, richer, more competent than on entering them, not just because we’ve had our stupid mistakes corrected or our ignorance remedied by some authority, but rather because we’ve worked together to reach conclusions, insights, programs, which we couldn’t have arrived at alone? Some, of course, are not discouraged by the examples given, for they are the ones who win the arguments, who make fools of their opponents. But in the absence of public participation, most of our institutions are administered rather than governed-even our expressly political institutions, as outlined above-and the services and skills of such men are used to defend and apologize for the policies of the administrators. Thus the stage is set long before the radical makes his entrance. We feel that dissent is the problem of the dissenter, not
ours-but we do not see ourselves as thus discouraging imagination and courage and originality. We mistake myth for reality. And we are helped here by our view that our political institutions serve as appropriate channels for dissent and creative deliberation. We may not be able to explain exactly how-but this does not strike us as very important. We are not personally moved to try out the process; we want as little to do with it as possible, in fact. So it is easy to assume that the procedures are there, that if someone complains about them he simply has failed to go about things the right way, or is unduly impatient about the results. But all this still does not suffice to explain the total breakdown of communication which we currently observe between radicals and spokesmen for our institutions. Consider the predicament of the young, in this society. Brought up in a period of ‘peace. they see no obvious excuses for the between our announced discrepancies goals of promoting justice and the general welfare, on the one hand, and the great inequalities of wealth, the virtual exclusion of some minorities from what economic. educational and political advantag-
es the rest of us possess, and a general lack of direction which is frightening (and which, in America, has led to a brutal war of dubious justification, (morally and strategically), on the other. Those who raise such questions, point to such discrepancies, generally receive from us only perfunctory, impatient responses. We tell them what a productive system ours is, how much better than anything in human history, that any system is bound to have some defects, and that things are never perfect in this worlti and to expect them to be is a mark of inexperience and youthful impatience. This satisfies us, given the pattern of assumptions and attitudes I’ve described above; we consider that we’ve done our duty, ant that if they are foolish enough or compul sive enough to persist in their questions they should make use of the appropriate procedures and channels, and stop bother. ing us.
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amazing how fond we are of our and security, and what. we will concede to preserve it, when severely threatened. But only then. For until then we simply don’t see the need for new institutions, new directions, new values; and afterwards we tend to regard the change either as unnecessary or, alternatively, as something which was well on the way in any case. Thus we have preserved our myths even at those uncommon points in history where their divergence from reality should have impressed us. But by launching such an attack, the radicals-for that is what they have become-verify our worst suspicions. They show no respect for due process, normal channels, the systematic ways of advocating change. They won’t listen to our explanations and exhortations. They are at least dupes, and probably destructive revolutionaries. We must stand firm against their outrageous tactics. Now chances are that their first tacticsmarches. sit-ins, civil disobedience of one form or another-are not as outrageous as all that. They are usually non-violent, for one thing. Thoreau. not Spartacus, is their model. But such tactics are outside our system, and it is easy to regard them as therefore criminal-as assaulting us. Seeing them in that light, we are naturally tempted to use force against the radicals. And when we do use force. we confirm their judgment that we are simply not going to yield to any sort of civilized pressure. either inside or outside the system, more. that we are so intent on repres-, sing all dissent that we are no longer conscious or careful of a disproportion between the punishment and the offense. Justice of this sort. we have demonstrated. is another of the myths with which we beguile ourselves. Each side can and does now claim to be completely rational and objective in adopting violent tactics: each is basing them on evidence afforded by ‘the other side’s irrational and violent response to all attempts at reasonable discussion.
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are there. They find only spokesmen for the institutions-spokesmen who claim that they themselves have little or no power. and who repeat our remarks on the discrepancies that are at issue. If they succeed in making contact with someone who has some power, a political leader, say, he will perhaps listen politely, remark how fine it is for youth to question things, and so on. But nothing happens. The system does not respond. Those with the temerity to persist are apt to grow impatient and skeptical at this point. They begin to regard the easy justifications, the patronizing tolerance which results in no real change whatsoever, as blatant rationalization-and us, the main part of society, as echoing that rationalization-and us, the main part of society, as echoing that rationalization. They cannot understand our complacency. They conclude that we are being used by vested interests of some sort: the upper classes, the power elite, the military-industrial complex. They attempt to communicate their conclusions within the political framework, or over the mass media. Still nothing happens. They conclude that we cannot be reached by rational means. We and our spokesmen grow a little edgy
now, in defense. We begin to regard these . ,. 1 1 1 11 1, * young skeptics as too lazy 1;o I;aKe Lnelr proper place in the system-perhaps as deliberate troublemakers, engaging in rebellion for its own sake, or for the sake of “generational conflict”. We ask them when they plan to stop their foolishness and take up their adult responsibilities. They reply that that is exactly what they are doing. We fear that they are being used by Communists or other subversive groups. We ask them about this; they hardly deign to answer. They seem to think our responses almost funny. At this point, dialogue has obviously broken down badly. Each side views the other as tools or puppets of devious powers which operate from hidden places. Not much use talking to someone who is just mouthing slogans, who doesn’t respond to rational discussion. The final and, to my mind, truly destructive phase of the process now begins : each side begins to act in views
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But consider the risks! The effects depend on the closeness of violence, on both sides-otherwise nothing happens. The break, if it comes. is caused by the realization, on the part of each side, that violence was a perfectly natural response for the other side to make-and yet they didn’t make it. This is brinkmanship indeed And there are many on both sides who do not want to delay the violence at all-quite the opposite. Radicals who are committed to an ideological contempt fol all existing institutions regard such close calls as setbacks: the system has once again demonstrated its ability to co-opt rebellion: now the hard job of working numbers of dissenters up to a confrontation will just ha\Te to be repeated, and it will be harcier Better to draw a violent response as soon as passible, and expose the s)-stem for the brutally repressive mechanism it really is: only thus can others be aroused and enlisted. And conservatives who regard the system as adequate and dissenters as criminals are quick to urge that they be taught a lesson immediately: give an inch and they’ll take a mile. To postpone this violence is to encourage tactics which inevitably escalate into more drastic dislocations, and thus require more violence in the future. Furthermore. for all the reasons I’ve discussed above, it is enorrnously difficult. following such a confrontation which stops just short of violence. to, establish ways of taking up the task oi s;Sgruficantly amending our institutions. (Consider the sit-in at the Faculty Club at UBC. We avoided violence, and had a highly successful teach-in as a resultWhat I’ve tried to show by sketching this but what next?) And this means that the viciously circular process is that t,he breakconfrontation is likely to be repeateddown occurs despite initial good intenprobably with more shocking tactics tions on each side. Furthermore, the escalinvolved. since the last try proved ation is nof unreasonable on either side: aboi?ive. And so both sides find themeach has cogent justifications for its acselves caught up again in that vicious tions and tactics. In such a situation, it process wherein the>7 each act in such a seems fair to conclude that our attitudes way as to prove the other’s points. The and institutions bear most of the responsiradicals who wanted violence from the bility. That is. what we take to be a start. and the conservatives who wanlhighly refined and sophisticated political ed violent retribution from the start. can society, one organized expressly to allow now pronounce to their more moderate and even to utilize dissent without violence. fellows that most satisfying of phrases. is now actually generating violence. “I told you so! ” This judgment may seem too severe. LipFinally, most discouragingly of all. set, for example, feels that American let us note that one confrontation which society can absorb “movements”, as it goes over the brink cancels out the has in the past. despite the dangers which effects of any previous ones, no matter attend the use of means which are external how many, in which both sides managto the system. But I am more persuaded ed to restrain their extremist elements by Marcuse, for example, who argues and thus demonstrate their good faith. that our technology and wealth-the Those extremists now have their day, achievements we prize so highly-give our will eassociety a power of repression which is 1 and with their I-told-you-so’s ily succeed in painting the entire prounprecedented and staggering-and alcess as an extended instance of represways increasing. sive co-optation, on the one hand, or Is there any hope, then? Are there weak short-sighted indulgence. on the other. places in the vicious progression where we Any confrontations after that are all might break it? I see only two, really. One but sure to be violent. is at the start: we might recognize our Depressing conclusions, I admit. myths about our tolerance for dissent But surely a hard job is made even harand the capacity of our institutions to der by ignoring the difficulties, by wishabsorb it for what they are-that is, wishing them away. As a society, we are in ‘ful thinking-and try to face the hard realvery bad straits. If there is any hope at ities. This would mean building new instiall, it depends on our locating the sourctutions, or at least drastically overhauling es of our difficulties and facing them the old ones. But we have hardly a glim.squarely. Our prospects are grim-but mering of how to do this, given a large and it is only by realizing how grim they complex society. It .would take time and are that we establish any chance at all patience, and m’uch hard work-if it is at of improving them. all possible. But this means that the undertaking would require our overcoming our Elbridge Rand is an assistant philosophy traditional conception of happiness as professor at the University of British private, our distaste for public activity. Columbia. This feature is an abridgement The institutions involved may yield a of his article Democracy 68: /s Confrontation Inevitable? originally published little, seeing the severity of the dissent, combined with some evidence of good faith in the UBC alumni Chronicle. winter. 1968.
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Guelph still can’t score and the Warriors still can. That pretty well sums up what happened at the Warrior basketball game Wednesday evening. Led by the hotshot scoring of Tom Keswetter with 16 points, and Dave Crichton with 18, the Warriors stomped the U. of G. Gryphons 88-53. Play was chippy and sloppy most of the time. The referees, judged as adequate by the writer, called it close on most occasions. This did not help the game appear any more interesting. The Warrior squad, perhaps a little confused by Guelph’s pandemonium offense and screwed-up defense, never had a chance to show how good a team they are. What they, did do is isolate a man-to-man situation and drive for the easy lay-up. They showed a lot of class as Jaan Laaniste, veteran guard with the Warriors, popped 15 points. Stan Telesnick and Larry Sobol added 13 and 9 points on strong outside shooting and a good fast break. Dave Crichton led the good Warrior defense. Guelph was paced by Lee Hammond’s 16 points, but Hammond did not look impressive as he repeatedly failed to score on driving lay-ups. He also tended to hold onto the ball too long, perhaps a bad habit he picked up with last year’s Gryphons who were anything but good. Fred Promoli, who had the crowd on his back for a temper tantrum in the second half, hustled and looked aggressive, but had a poor game point-wise. Generally, Guelph was plagued by poor ball control and several mental errors. Also coach Gar-
The Warriors will have to be a lot stronger against a muchimproved Windsor Lancer squad. That game may decide who will be chasing Western for first place. It may seem a little early in the year, but it all ends Saturday if the Warriors bomb out. A win will be a big boost for the Waterloo squad. They have the guns to do it, but will be underdogs. Game time is 8:30 tomorrow night.
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Around the corridors of the old city hall where the common people are summoned to encounter the Queen’s justice, they knew that Gary Perly was a nuisance.. .a bore...and stupid.. . sand in the smoothly-functioning cogs of justice.
“He even asked the cop if he’d been in the Navy, if he’d ever served in Vietnam,” laughed one of the court-watchers. “Yeah, pretty stupid.” Gary Perly’s trial on the charge of obstructing Constable Ray Woodhead required seven sessions of Tupper Bigelow’s court. The first four were held in instalments of exactly half-anhour each. The trial lasted far longer than the anti-war demonstration in front of the U.S. consulate from which the’ charge of obstruction arose. It went on so long, as a matter of fact, that they changed the law in the interim, magistrates became Provincial Judges, Magistrate Bigelow became Judge Bigelow and was therefore entitled to be called Your Honor. “Perly keeps calling him ‘your worship’, ” said one of the courtwatchers, triumphant at Perly’s tiny error.
At the fifth session last Thursday, Judge Bigelow changed a previous ruling and decide3 that the trial would continue until it was finished: Thursday morning and afternoon, Friday, and then on again with Perly on Monday. In the first five sessions, only one witness occupied the stand, the policeman upon whose back Perly was said to have jumped. Perly asked him over and over again the questions which brought smiles to the seasoned hangers-on around the old city hall. Yes, Constable Woodhead had served in the Canadian Navy from 1963 to 1966 but he’d never served with the U.S. forces or in Vietnam. Yes, he was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario but he did not visit the United States frequently. No, he did not remember expressing pleasure after Perly’s arrest that Perly would lose his job at IBM.
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“‘It’s a political manoeuvre,” explained one of the hangers-on in the hallway. “You use the system to destroy itself. You stretch the system to the outer limits of its absurdity until it falls apart by itself.” On Thursday, at the fifth session of his trial, Perly asked the policeman if he had refreshed his memory by reading the typedup transcript of what he’d said at previous sessions. The Crown attorney had shown him the transcript, said Constable Woodhead, but he had refused to read it. “Officer,” said Perly slyly, “would you believe you?“ There was no answer. The Crown attorney had merely wanted to discuss his manner of giving evidence with him, the: policeman said. And it was not hard” to understand the Crown attorney’s concern. At the first session on November 7, Perly had demanded: “.You are grinning. Constable, why? ’ ’ “No particular reason,” Woodhead replied. Then, on November 28: Perly: Excuse me, are these hand signals necessary? Why are you smiling, Constable? Woodhead: I just thought of a joke. Later, Perly demanded: Who are you winking at?” “I don’t think it’s an:y of your business. ” replied the policeman from the witness box. Then, on Friday, Perly did what no lawyer representing him would have had the gall to do. He
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The article “Students join labor’s picket” (Dec. 13) by Cyril Levitt is just another example of the lack of objective analysis and misrepresentation of facts by the student radical movement in general.
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These radicals have adopted the anarchistic and syndicalistic philosophy of the Wobblies. But how can you criticize a system before you understand it, and Cyril Levitt has proven he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. If the IWW was the solution to all of the world’s problems as Levitt implies, why didn’t it become a major labor movement, instead of just a “fraternal organiza tion’ ’ ? Levitt doesn’t present us an answer to this question, but other serious commentators on the Wobblies (who advocated the use of violence) noted that its failure was due to its inherent instability resulting from its anarachistic philosophy. It could only appeal to those in despair, and the American and Canadian working forces have never been nor will they be in a condition of general and desperate distress. Instead they supported the pragmatic AFL and CIO approach which got them the goods here and now, not just a revolutionary dream.
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Councilor Patterson is credited with saying pretty much the same thing by Bob Verdun in the Dec. 6 Chevron: “Patterson reminded council their only real power is to spend a certain amount of money, and if they wanted to do anything else, they had to have the people behind them. ” At the meeting, some cats felt the people (in this case students) wanted the council, as the group representing all students, to limit their group efforts to matters which directly affect the campus and its students. Others seemed to feel that their constituents would not go for such a policy. It’s hard to say whether students are actually that different in different faculties, or whether the councillors do not know the interests of their fellow students in this matter. However, it’s easy enough to find out. As one great American (aren’t all Americans great?) once said, “Take it to the people.” Council could call a referendum to clear up such matters as whether the majority of students want council to make decisions on things that are internal or external to the university and its students; whether the federation should be decentralized ; whether the $22 federation fee should be given directly to the federation, or indirectly via the student’s respective faculty society, whether we should stay in CUS, etc. It might also be interesting to find out what the majority of students think of the Chevron and its journalism and coverage. A lot of the criticism seems to center around the paper’s editorial policy, but then that’s getting into a whole different area. GEORGE
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This article exemplified the irresponsible journalism found in the Chevron during the past year, as the Chevron has become only a radical propaganda bulletin, not a legitimate university newspaper. KILIMNIK economics
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In his article Levitt talks only of the craft unions, avoiding completely the industrial unions of the @IO which have organized all the major mass-production industries: autos, rubber, chemicals, etc. These craft unions which he sympathizes with have succeeded in putting several major American newspapers out of business permantly, thus showing their economic power. He gives no reason why the IWW which failed so completely over 40 years ago, should succeed now. With the advent of the mixed exonomy and the welfare state, a rational person would think such a radical movement would have now even less chance of success. As for the misrepresentation of facts Levitt writes “In the recent past, real wages (buying power) have generally declined”. This is a fallacious statement. According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics Per Capita Gross National Product in Constant (1967) dollars between 1962 and 1967 increased 22.6 percent, proving that real wages in Canada have increased. I would also like to know how the anarchistic conepts of the Wobblies could be applied in curing the “instability of the international monetary scene”.
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I am an off-campus student commuting daily. Previously, I resided at St. Jerome’s College for two years and in frequent trips across the ring road to reach the library facilities, I noticed as many as fifty cars parked on the ring road behind the theatre, leaving room for only one lane of traffic. This was particularly evident when there was activity at the theater. These parked cars belonged to stuadministration, dents, faculty, staff and the general public. Not oncedidI.see.aparkingticket under a wmdshleld-wiper blade. Perhaps this was frowned upon as bad public relations on the part of the university, and so tickets were not issued. In recent issues of the Chevron. I have noticed that Curly’s 24 Hour Towing Service Ltd. is enjoying a booming business. Many cars have been impounded and placed in Curly’s lot on the Kitchener-Guelph highway, having been abducted from in front of and beside the campus center. I myself have experienced this expensive situation, so I am speaking from experience when I say that it was expensive: a $10 ticket from the goon squad for “Parking other than a lot”, $3 for a taxi out to Curly’s pound, $10 for the towing service, and $1 for approximately 20 minutes storage at Curly’s I was fortunate that the car wasn’t locked or it would have cost an addi tional$2. I had initially stopped in front of the campus center in order to utilize the service extended by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. This took less than 10 minutes, but I reached the ringroad in time to see my car disappearing around the corner on the hooks of one of those “knights of the road”, Curly’s tow-trucks. Where can I park my car for ten minutes while I am transacting business at the bank without getting a ticket or having it towed away? I cannot park in any designated parking lot that is relatively close to the campus center ( St. Jerome’s, Renison, B,D,L, or NJ or I am liable to a ticket for parking in the wrong lot. (But that’s only a $3 ticket--a mere drop in the bucket compared to the $24.50 expense incurred for parking on the ringroad. ) Would it be possible to arrange ten minute parking for bank patrons in some convenient and relatively close locality, maybe in the paved area in front of the phys-ed complex? I would also like to know if the calls on the two-way radios in the goon squad cars are monitored by the two-way radios in Curly’s towing trucks, or if there is any communication between them using these two-way radios to provide fast, efficient service by Curly’s, If this is so, is this in keeping with the regulations as laid down by the Department of Transport? Curly’s drivers operate at optimum efficiency: the elapsed time from pulling up to a car, to having it up on the hooks and towing it away, I have observed on numerous occasionally they must stop in at the goon squad’s office on their way out with the car to pick up the required parking ticket?
I feel students who drive cars and patronize the bank in the campus center are being discriminated against. Cars are being speedily towed away from in front of the only student building on campus. If my opinions and observations are false, then I shall expect the cars parked on the ringroad at any place along its length to receive the same expeditious and unprejudiced service which Curly’s offers to the students at the present. My congra tula tiions in advance to Curly’s and the goon squad for a job well done! BOB HAMILTON English 2 A new scholar
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I would like to report the emergence of a new and strange phenomenon on our campus. I might best describe it as the growth of a new religion. Services are apparently being held weekly or bi-weekly. Guest missionary speakers are preaching on campus with ever increasing frequency and vigor. The local priests evidently feel well-known preachers from other congregations within the communion will aid in the sacred work of proselytizing. But to return to the regular services. Rumor has it that congregational gatherings are not unlike those of the Pentecostal variety. Speaking in tongues is not uncommon and there are even those who stand up to interpret the tonguesfor better or for worse. Hymnsinging appears to be at a minimum. A hymn entitled Internationale has been hummed in some quarters. It is not yet an open hymn of the people. The secular song, We Shall Overcome, appears to be taking on religious and may soon be significance heard as part of a regular hymn sing.
There are indications some of the clergy have been engaged in dogmatic quarrels (that seems to be the way with clergy). It has been difficult for me to understand how priests can divide the truth, but then again perhaps the truth is divisible. The laymen in this new religion appear to be obediently studying the sacred books. They are going beyond the popular documents prepared by the clergy to the original scriptures of Marx and Lenin. This is admirable when most religious laymen aye content to read the watered-down writings of the professionally religious. There appear doctrines which new faith.
to be three basic are taught in this
There is a doctrine concerning Satan. This word is not used but the idea is clearly taught. The embodiment (every religion must have concrete symbols) of evil or Satan appears to be someone called the capitalist. I know a number of Satanic capitalists so perhaps I’m reading too much into their teaching. I don’t think so. There has been some obvious borrowing from Christianity in that this new religion teaches that Satan controls people through economics. Jesus Christ put it someFriday,
thing like this: “Thi love of money is the root of all evil.” There is also a doctrine of God. If God may be defined (forgive the arrogance!) as “that than which nothing greater ought to be conceived,” then one can clearly say that the state is God for these people. They are very careful to define the attributes of t,heir God as are most than the extremely
religions mystical
other kind.
There seems to be some form of resurrection taught also. I myself have seen members of the congregation wearing buttons bearing the
words:
Viva Che!
4%‘ I find to be
The one doctrine
poorly defirzd is the doctrine man. It would appear that
of the
congregation has a very optimistic view of man and his capabilities. At least of the working
man.
One word about heaven. Heacen. for these faithful people. is not up in the sky. It is. we might sab.. right here on earth. Or at least it will be. That seems to be an odd kind of heaven. If it is here on
hearth, I hope it changes tially .
substan-
Well this sort of’ brings my report to a close. I hope that I haven’t offended any members ot the
congregation
by my description
their religion.
I myself
of
am interest-
ed in religion and so find their movement fascinating. I really think they are a bit optimistic about man however. But then again, most religions of today are. DOUGLAS BRUCE grad philosophy Ashamed of TV panelists, need better representation
Regarding the TV program in the Under Attack series shown Dec. 8, I would like to express my utter disgust with the showing of some students of our university. but mostly with those selected to sit on the panel. After times
being approached by friends
several
and merchants
here who asked if I belonged to the same University of Waterloo, I was ashamed to say yes. There was not a single reasonable question asked by the panel. As one merchant
said
of
the
panelists,
“What a bedraggled bunch of hippies! ” I believe no one has the right to mock a man’s beliefs, whether he or she agrees or not. Freedom of speech and the right to hold certain beliefs is a basic characteristic of our democratic system. If the University of Waterloo is to enter into discussion which is viewed by a large majority of Canada, wouldn’t it be advisable to select representatives of our university who can give an intelligent account of themselves? 1 believe my views are shared by many Waterloo students, parents and employers who still believe in the University of Waterloo. J.A. DONNELLY engineering (out-term Kingston The Under Attack producers advertised for panelists in the Chevron before the programs were taped They chose the students for the panel-in no way were those chosen ‘iepresen tatives” of the university
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MAINTAINING
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over and by revolutionary technologies has become an obsession of the select number of people in our society whose intellectual position within the system entitles them to the status, elite. The reknowned British philosopher Bertrand Russell has termed their power a “quantitative” control. Preservation of quantitative control depends entirely on the manner of influencing individuals within any type of organizationbe it a business corporation, a politically structured society or a school. The most traditional forms of maintaining power have, of course, been coercive physical and mental force; the latter having undergone ingeniously subtle transformations into propoganda and incentive-deterrent business sociology. Propoganda, for example-being the product of technologically adept cultures-signals the end of traditional power based on quasireligious superstitions that change is wicket. In the past, a society’s basic fear of change allowed authoritarian elites the right to use physical force to induce security situations. Gradually then, the attainment of power by the organization (state or business) was fashioned by controlling-within the organizationthe opportunity for personal attainment of power.
Masses displace
publics
Historical evolution allowed modern elites to strengthen this control by realizing and taking advantage of new psychological factors-the break-down of “publics” ; the rise of “masses”; alientation, urbanization and specialization, media influence. When, these influences are manifested in political power, the elite then controls economic power and will determine the economic functioning of those who control and those who serve money. For in western capitalist societies, these psychological factors allow conditions which hinder the economic power of private individuals and-eliminate the need for traditional armed force. But when the new psychological factors are resisted, for example by growing numbers of students and humanists, there is a regression by authorities to the use of physical force : witness either Czechoslovakia or Chicago.
gradual replacing of the concept of publics with that of masses and the use of this change by elites to their own advantage. For the 18th century idea of the “public” of public opinion can be likened to the economic idea of the market of the free economy. The “public“ is composed of discussion circles of equal peers, as the market is composed of freely competing entrepreneurs. Inherent to such a public concept is realizing that while some might have more influence on the state of the opinion or economy than others, no single group monopolizes the discussion or alone dictates the prevailing conditions. It reflects the concept of classic democracy-authority by discussion. But how are traditional publics being corrupted into masses?
Media serves
elite
Enter media-which plays the vital role in defining “elite” and enables it to appropriate sustained power. For, opposed to a public, a “mass” has certain unique qualities : 0 far fewer people express opinions than receive them-the community of publics becomes an abstract collection of individuals who receive impressions from the mass media ; l the communications that prevail are so organized that it is difficult or impossible for the individual to answer back immediately, or with any effect; 0 the realization of opinion in action is controlled by authorities who organize and control the channels of such action; 8 the mass has no autonomy from institutions-on the contrary. agents of authority and its institutions penetrate the mass, reducing any autonomy it may have in the formation of opinion by discussion. Inevitably, once the elite has physical entity, it is protected by centralization of administration, exploitation and often violenceincluding psychological management and manipulation of citizens or employees. The dominance of intellect that elite formation implies is intrinsically connected to money economy. The intellectually elite person is not sensitive to genuine individuality because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
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The “ transcendental9 characteristic of elite individuals has been founded on the quest for private property-a large part of which has been termed a corporate revolution : transforming property as a tool of the workman into a complicated system by which his effort is controlled and a profit exacted from it. As C. Wright Mills points out,, “the small shop serving the neighborhood is replaced with the anonymity of the national corporaretion: mass advertisements place the personal influence of opinion between merchant and customer.” This evolution of the economic market can be paralleled to the
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Speaking in his essay ‘The Metropolis and IYlental Life’, sociologist Georg Simmel explains this concept: “. . .the phenomena of individuality is not commensurate with the pecuniary principle. Money is concerned only with what is common to all: it asks for the exchange value; it reduces all quality and individuality to the question ‘how much?” Loss of individuality does not have to be the case. For the economic psychology of “publics” dictates that production serves the customer who orders the goods. The producer and the consumer are then acquainted. Today however, elites realize the fact that the modern metropolis is supplied by production for the market-entirely unknow purchasers who never personally contact the producer.
ein oes Through such anonymity in the money economy, the interests of each party acquire an unmerciful matter-of-factness. As Simmel concludes, the “intellectually calculating economic egoisms of both parties need not fear any deflection because of the imponderables tionships.
of
personal
rela-
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We can only conclude that to maintain their power, economic elites force the transformation of ordinary people, by the money economy, into weighing, calculating automatons obsessed with numerical determinations, who reduce qualitative values to quantitative ones. Division between the elite and the mass further enables the former to maintain its economic power because in the division of labor, men berform specialized tasks while unable to understand, or see the structure and processes of entire production. Result? Alienation of fantastic proportions. Reduction of social publics to masses through the levelling process of media and economic alienation then? are the two main factors which act psychologically to maintain the secular interests of power elites. Their influence, apart from the pervasiveness of media, which came to serve the ideals the elis increased by i tes espoused, growing trends of urbanization and specialization. The greatest single effect of this has been in the field of education, which the economic elite controls in order to preserve social conditions which favor its existence.
Learning means money Gradually, the function of education from the political to the economic ; creating a pseudo-educational ethic to justify the shift: in order to “get ahead” people want to be trained for better-paying jobs. Education has become merely a vocational routine of training people in national industrial loyalties: The result of this new direction has helped to keep present economic elites in political power by creating confusion around the actual dichotomy between “job advancement” and “self-develop,ment”. By equating the two in a nebulous haze called “liberal education”, the present elites are being quite successful in curtailing questioning of socio-economic ethics s and are preventing what should be the end-product of an authentic liberal education : a se/f-edmating,
self-cultivating
person.
This is what student radicalism is all about. Concluding with the words of C. Wright Mills, educational institutions have become “mere edevators cent of the public
of
occupationa/
(which) mass
ways
struggle
and
encourage of for
transcendence.
social
as-
acceptance Me
rather
individuality
than and
”
Education, to the elites of the state, becomes little more than just one more media device for manipulation. Obviously, the whole concept of elites is relative to the transition of a society into a mass society. The days of a society of publics with a truly liberal tradition are gone, and Western societies are now dangerously close to allowing their infant mass societies to grow into monster adolescence.
A sneaky suggestion Since most students last had a chance to grace a Canadian university campus a few things have happened. A couple of news briefs: e At the University of New Brunswick, administration president Colin B. Mackay threw in the towel on December 24. Mackay had been under attack from all quarters for his actions during the Strax affair this past fall. 8 Walter H. Johns, president of the University of Alberta, quit just before Christmas for “health reasons”. 0 At the University of Saskatchewan Regina campus, administrators decided they could no longer collect fees for student orbecause students ganizations were “using the fees to destroy the people who collected them. ” On a little n-me local leve8, Waterloo officials decided that Provost Bill Scott’s retirement should take effect on January 1. What is it about Christmas that galvanizes administrators into all this action ? For the rest of the year they are content with committees, studies and other plays to avoid action. But when Christmas and appears-it’s gangbusters, let’s get some action done. At the risk of making the obvious the absurd, some effort should be made to discover the reasons for all the happinessand-joy, fill-the-cup-and-don’t-saywhen activity. Some quarters may suggest administrators are merely making good on a bunch of New Year’s resolutions which risk becoming out of date. Others may feel the rationale is part of the Christmas spirit myth-administrators realize their lack of value to the institution and feel it only fair they do something about it. . A more likely explanation, however, falls into the “while the children are away, daddy will play” syndrome. One of the few constants about Christmas on university campuses is that there aren’t very many students around. The experience of the past few years has shown that students sometimesbecome very much concerned about things like retirements, leaves of absence and so on.
Now, a case could be made showing that administrators who talk of “dialogue” within the university, exchange of viewpoints, and involvement of students in the decision-making process are reaching new heights of hypocrisy when they quit the listing ship or take major actions at Christmas time. Allegations could be made concerning the sincerity of alleged desires to “keep the students informed and involved” and give them a realistic place in the university structure.
Advocates of pomposity and verbosity have won yet another victory from us clear-minded, plain-talking folks, the lets-call-aspade-a-spade crew e Not satisfied with being successful in making student journalists across the country think twice before using that terrible four-letter word (they now discreetly use the approved euphemism “sexual intercourse”), a Toronto-based chapter has scored again. Now the dirty word is “student. ” The Certified General Account-
ants Association of Ontario has announced it’s going to call persons taking its five-year universitybased program “undergraduates” instead of “students.”
And, were these points to be raised the administrators would duly answer that the resignation really did not affect students that much and so on. More important, however, would be the point made in parting: “‘Besides, it just would have meant a lot more trouble if all the students had been around.” It would be a lot more trouble, that’s true. Do students really enjoy going through the motions of finding out why someone resigned and why they can’t do anything about it? No, they don’t enjoy it and, in fact, find it to be a waste of time. So, let’s accept that particular rationale about action at Christmas time. However, the situation cannot be left as it stands-for just as it is a bother to have students around when someone is resigning, it is certainly a bother to have faculty and administration around when students are pressing demands. Would it not be much easier for all concerned if students were to seize control of a building or department when there was no one around to stop the seizure? The answer’s a definite yes. The process is easily accomplished. Every year, for the first two weeks of February, the people on the fourth floor of the library will be given a well-deserved rest. Students can use this period to implement their demands just as administrators use the Christmas break to get their dirty linen out of the way. Then there won’t be any need for these ugly confrontation tactics which upset people so much.
“‘All too often,” said Herbert Perry, the association’s secretoday tary 9 ‘“the word student describes a dirty, unwashed, bearded, rebellious person totally unlike the sensible young businessmen on the association’s program. 99 All we can say to that is: Fuck off!
Provost Bill Scott was not fired for supporting the student radicals or embarrassing the administration by occasionally siding with the students. That was all secondary. He was fired for not doing his job. Scott was appointed provost to head the ‘student services branches of the administration and, more importantly, to manage dissent. But things that Scott had no control over got out of hand. The students stopped complaining that the university wasn’t providing skating rinks and started questioning the institution as an organ of society. Indeed they even started questioning society. And Scott, instead of being a good manager of dissent, which would have meant co-opting questioners and channelling complaints into committees, started looking for ways to help in the students search for much-needed answers. That’s when he stopped doing his job. For years Scott himself had been sucked in by the rationale
of the status-quo administration. He had grown used to the idea that you could solve t,he serious problems we faced by simply improving the present system. But when the students started raising local problems and the administration responded with totally dishonest manouvers and replies Scott-who was supposed to be their joe-boy-revolted. He began to see there really were basic faults in the system that minor repairs served only tz hide while the real problems grew worse. Hagey is quite right when he says it’s better for all concerned that Scott’s resignation took effect on January 1. From Scott’s point of view it means a return to relative tranquility without feeling he sold himself to the bureaucrats. For the students raising questions it means an extraneous step is removed on the way to addressing themselves to the real powers that be. And for the administrators it means a much better chance of co-opting student demands and channelling them in false directions.
a Canadian
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laceable units It is quite clear why our educational system is data centered. It is a component of a highly-mechanized society. Like most systems in this society, our educational system is designed to take in raw materials at one end and turn out a product at the other. Have you ever heard school administrators or teachers talk fondly of one of their institutions illustrious alumni? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of our finest products, /I you are likely to hear them say. American education is geared to turn out products. Its techniques are those of mass production, and can be compared with the assembly line. -Noel Mclnnis