by George
Denies
Warssell
Canadian University
Press
REGINA-People who advocate censorship usually have something to hide. The board of governors of the University of Saskatchewan is blackmailing the Regina campus student council into establishing editorial control over the stuthe Carillon-for the dent newspaper, greater good of the university, of course. It’s the most naked form of blackmail -the board has even issued press statements about it. Shut up the Carillon or we won’t collect student union fees. No student union fees, no student union. According to the board’s press release, the Carillon must be controlled because the paper “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 shown no willingness to discuss whether or not the editorial policy is justified. Instead, a cloud of supplementary reasons for censorship of the Carillon have been tossed at the public, none of them substantiated. Administration principal W. A. Riddell says the Carillon must be censored to halt a groundswell of popular indignation directed against the university.
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Riddell also claims the Carillon must be censored because it’s “obscene”. He was quoted on the obscenity charge in the Regina Leader-Post, but he told this writer in a subsequent interview the charge was a “red herring”. Riddell also says censorship must be is established because the community not contributing enough money to a 1 niversity fund drive. No one is willing to discuss the possibility that the Carillon must be censored because it has been telling the truth. Within a few miles of the Regina campus are the legislative buildings of the province of Saskatchewan and the offices of Liberal premier Ross Thatcher. For the Regina students, that means the government is one of their neighborsnot a very good one. The history of the conflict between Ross Thatcher and the Regina campus spans a couple of years, culminating this October when 1,500 students marched to the legislature where they confronted Thatcher and Pierre Elliott Trudeau over the inadequacy of the student loan system in Saskatchewan. They got no adequate response-in fact Thatcher refused to discuss the matter publicly at all.
The Carillon and its editorial policy is at the ten ter of the crisis The University of Saskatchewan board of governors is blackmailing ent union into censorship of the paper by revoking student fees.
in Regina. the stud-
REGINA (CUP)-Students at this University of Saskatchewan campus are calling for a written contract between their council and the board of governors for collection of compulsory student union fees. Their demand came in a referendum Thursday as they voted 1101 to 539 for the proposal initiated a day earlier at a meeting of 2500 Regina students. The meeting, which also censured the board, was called to determine response to the governors’. December 31 announceStudent loans have been one of the Carillon’s favorite topics during the last two years-especially since they broke a story last February, explaining how Allan Guy, currently minister of public works with the Thatcher government, had claimed and received a $1,000 student loan while drawing a salary in excess of $16,000. The story, understandably, drew national interest. It also drew intense local interest from Riddell, who attempted to stop the story from breaking by first trying to contact Carillon editor Don Kossick and then trying to get to the printer. Neither attempt worked. Within, two weeks, the president of the Regina student council received a letter from Riddell, asking why the students union should be allowed to continue using the name of the university, and, significantly, why the university should continue to provide space on campus for the Carillon. The answer to all three questions was presumably contained in a suggestion by Riddell that a “policy board” be created to direct editorial policy for the paperexactly what is being “suggested” by the board now. Kossick took the entire matter before a faculty committee on academic freedom. The chairman of the committee, Jim McRorie, now a sociology professor at Calgary, recalls the board’s threats faded after the committee began its hearings. The hearings were never completed, and the committee never reported. Even before uncovering the good fortune of the minister of public works, the Carillon-in fact, the entire campushad been deeply embroiled in the question of university autonomy. When the government announced last year the formation of a “general university council” superceding and usurping the powers of the Regina faculty council. the Caarillon joined the faculty in claiming university autonomy was threatened externally. Fears at Regina deepened when Thatcher announced later the same year the government would approve the univer-. sity budget section by section. rather than all at once-a procedure allowing direct political intervention in university affairs. Riddell announced that the government had changed its mind regarding the second decision, but failed to convince the Carillon that the autonomy of the university was in any less danger. He also failed to convince Alwyn Berland, dean of arts and science. who resigned last September. Berland’s resignation statement covered the front page of the Carillon. expressing fears that Regina’s autonomy had been undermined by Thatcher’s actions of the year before. The Carillon has not been so diplomatic. It has implied that the administra-
ment that it would no longer collect council dues on council’s behalf. In Thursday’s referendum the campus specified the written contract also contain a clause providing that the fees the board collects be turned over to the student council for disbursement at council’s discretion. There has been some severe student criticism directed at the Carillon in the last week, but any changes in its operation will wait until the fight with the administration over student council autonomy has been settled. tion has acted as apologist for the government, rather than face a renewal of interest by the government in the separate sections of the university budget.
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Since Berland’s resignation, the Carillon has gone even more deeply into the question. In October, the paper examined the make-up of the University of Saskatchewan board and senate, which govern both Saskatchewan campuses, and pointed out the predominance of members residing in Saskatoon or holding degrees from the older campus. The implication was that the membership of both bodies had a great cleal to do with the respective allocations to each campus. Nine members of the board are in the pay of the provincial government. Riddell, meanwhile, launched an extensive campaign against the poor showing of faculty and students at Regina in contributing to the “good image” of the university in the community. Community reaction showed up, he said, in a poor response to a university capital fund drive. The fund drive was necessary because the provincial government refused to allocate sufficient funds to the uninversity for capital expansion. Riddell also accused faculty of contributing to the poor public image by not donating enough money to the United Fund. On November 15, the next week, Riddell escalated the conflict by stating the Carillon might “adversely affect the university budget if it wasn’t cleaned up.*’ He referred to the board’s threats against the student council of the previous year, and hinted darkly that ‘*the business office has to have some direction” before the second semester at Regina would begin. Sure enough, 2:s the Carillon revealed in a special issue within the week, the budget was adversely affected-to the tune of $2 million. The paper rather unnecessarily pointed C?Ui that the provincial government set the final budget figures. In view of that fact, the Carillon probably found it unnecessary to point out that the * ’ eommitni ty’ ’ Riddeli mentioned must consist of the small cluster ol buildings forming the Saskatchewan legislative assembly. The real question at Regina is a political one: the Carillon has displayed an unhealthy and positively unstudent-like interest in exposing the provincial government’s unfairness to faculty and students alike, and the government will not allow it to continue. In retrospect, the Carillon’s gravest “irresponsibility” probably lay in reprinting the election platform of the Thatcher government-a year after the election.
by Thomas
J. Echvards
completely by Canada’s finest. The girls were spared searching. The people in the livingroom persevered in keeping the party going by singing Christmas carols and Jimmy Hendrix. One person went to get a guitar to provide some music, but as soon as he picked it up it was snatched from his hands by a narc and searched. A bottle of aspirins and some nosedrops were confiscated from one inidividual who was told the items would be analyzed. Another narc searched part of Kreuger’s gun collection by looking down the barrels from the lethal end. Yet another horseman seized a bottle of vitamins from the refrigerator and frisked the family dog. The house itself was searched only fleetingly. The narcotics squad finally left with a lone captive who was charged with possession of marijuana. They missed one individual who had swallowed a large lump of hash when the narcs came through the door. overtime on a Saturday night must be pretty high for the people of Canada to pay. One can only wonder whether the people feel it is worth the cost.
Chevron staff
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The narcs are coming, did you get it? Saturday, December 28, they made one arrest in an illplanned and poorly-carried-out raid on the house of a member of the university community. Larry Kreuger, grad philosophy and a law-abiding respectable citizen, was enjoying an evening at home with a group of friends when the party was rudely interrupted by seven members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police narcotics squad. They walked in uninvited and, without removing their boots or showing a warrant, proceeded to search several people in the house. The head narc? complete with briefcase and pencil-line mustache, blurted out as he busted in, “Don’t anyone move, and you won’t get hurt.” They herded everyone in the house into the livingroom to execute a search. They also turned off the house’s sound system. The horsemen attempted to search every male in the house but were foiled by the wanderings and interminglings of the assembled host. A number of people were searched three or more times, while some were missed
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ore switc university or switch to arts because of its greater flexibility.” “The arts students who are the most sure of their futures are the geography and planning students. The sticking rate is quite good there.” Associate dean of science Robert Woolford commented on the increase in changes: “It might be that students who are accepted on their grade 13 Christmas mark stop working the rest of year and come here lacking motivation. They usually take a course in the subject they did best in highschool but maybe find that it is not what they expected or wanted.”
Jack Gray, associate dean of arts, deals with all the changes to the faculty. “The majority of students who change are in first year,” he said. More than 50 students have changed to the faculty of arts since September. This in about three times the number ;vho changed last year. Gray conjectured the lack of departmental exams in grade 13 may be affecting situation. “It is easier for most students to get into university and social pressures push them into it. Some of these students drop out of the
Teed - in at Peterborough The 23 members of the striking Peterborough newspaper guild have again requested the support of Ontario university students for the picket-line at the strikebound Peterborough Examiner. Today, students from Waterloo will leave the campus centre at 7:30 pm for Peterborough. Buses, accomodation, and food have been provided by the striking guild. As the picket line is to be manned for three days buses will operate every day for
Mr. G.S.C. Smith, P. Eng., will be on campus to discuss engineering careers with you on the above dates. Arrange your appointment through the Placement Office today.
strike
those who cannot, stay for the complete length of time. Anyone interested in going to Peterborough but cannot leave Tuesday should cont.act the Chevron to find out the departure times of later buses.
A venture be brought
And important difference of this stay in Peterborough will be the addition of a teach-in to be conducted for the students, local industrial workers and the striking journalists.
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experience would be helpful to those who feel lonely and have trouble relating to others, as well as to those who wish to deepen relationships that are already relatively satisfactory. It will be presented by the counselling program of the psychology department in order to explore the ways in which the above may be most fully developed.
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Group sessions will be held once a week for 10 weeks starting the week of Jan. 20,1969.
If you are ‘an undergraduate and would like to please contact Miss Mary Purden at 744-61 ‘ll, 2746 (room 240 in the psychology de artment) Since we will be asking you (in the first and last help us evaluate the effectiveness of this project, be involved.
Notice of a GENERAL MEETING advehsed as January 20, 1969 in last Friday’s Chevron should read Wlonday, January 27 at 8:QQ pm in Room TO1 of the engineering lecture building.
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Heavy snow on the roof- of the athletic building caused part of the building to coll~~ps~~dlti.ing the holidays *for no apparent reason, The architect said the collupse WLLScirx IO ,/&i/t?* construction while the contractor blamed the disaster on poor design,
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Nestel
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“Capitalism keeps the standard of living at just that level where labor can work”. Thus says Andy VC’ernick a graduate in history and economics from Cambridge and presently a Phd candidate in polisci at U of T. The lecture Labor and Capital was ’ the first of a series sponsored jointly by the radical student movement and the Arts Society. About 300 people filled AL 11-6 Wednesday night. Wernick, who was coming up from Toronto, arrived at 8: 30 and immediately began to speak. Wernick began by denouncing bourgeois social science as a “mystification of what is really going on. Social scientists are social police. ’ ’ They serve only to deceive people or recruit them into the mainstream of4he capitalist economy. After having explained the difference between various leftist factions he went on to carefully analyse the nature of capitalist production. Production is the process whereby people apply labor to things in drder to produce things. In order for production to continue both the things and the labor must be reproduced. Thus the wage good i.e. consumer product is capital since it served to keep labor productive. Capitalism keeps the standard of living just at the level where productivity is maximized. In this context the problems of a capitalist productive system are twofold. First, there is a problem of what to do with surplus value (i.e. the value of goods in’excess of that needed to just feed the system). The managers or owners have three possible choices. They can give themselves a bonus. They can invest it in profit-making ventures, and Wernick was careful to point out that profit does not always mean growth; or they can give it to the workers in higher wages. At any rate the decision is not with the mass of workers and is subject to the arbitrary measures of the bourgoisie. The second problem is of greater significance. It is the basic ethic of capitalism and flows directly
from the Marxist interpretation of economics. “The rationality of capitalism is the rationality of accumulation; the relegation of people to mere labor-power, the subordination of to accumulating labor power capital.” This means, that in terms of production, people are seen only as labor and labor is a commodity. Wernick went on to elaborate the view that, by attacking since managers, not owners, now control production the present system is not capitalist. Even if this were so, it does not effect capitalism. The class struggle is not essential. After a provocative question period Wernick summed up the problems of capitalism as threefold : “Capitalism is the exploitation
of labor by capital, not laborers by capitalists. ” @ allocation of surplus value for profit not need Q a person’s labor as a product rather than an expression of that person @ the need in advanced capitalism for technically-skilled people who can still be subordinated by the needs of capital. It is this aspect of capitalism which is most evident at universities and which is causing much of the present campus unrest. The Marxist lecture series continues a week from tomorrow and the following four Wednesdays. Up coming topics are: class, imperialism. work and consumption, praxis, revolutionary culture. All lectures are in AL 116 at 8*pm.
Involvement is the key to Way Out, currently being presented by the Student Christian Movement in the campus center. The conference began Sunday afternoon Bnd finishes tonight. According to official registration literature, Way Out is an attempt to stimulate awareness and to come up with some sort
of strategy for achieving constructive social change. The discussions are approached from the standpoint of social and political theology. The conference incorporates a series of “personal statements” by a number of resource people. These include David Lochhead, Aarne Siirala, and Walter Klaassen, Waterloo faculty members. Peter Warrian, current president of the Canadian Union of Students, and Cyril Levitt, Waterloo student radical, are also involved. Both will speak at length on the feasability and strategy of the new-left movement, although they admit straight answers are often difficult to give. As well as people, films and tapes are available on demand. Among others Free fall, The Hat-
Moncton students occupy building MONCTON (CUP)-About 150 University of Moncton students occupied their science building at midnight Saturday to support demands for $32 million from the federal government for the campus’ building program. Details were scarce, but students and faculty scheduled a meeting yesterday on the student demands. IJniversity rector Adelard Savoie has called the science building the key to the campus. “The whole university could be paralyzed -courses could be suspended: ’ ’ Savoie said of the occupa tion . The campus was the scene of a large-scale student strike last February, when classes were boycotted in a tuition fees fight Tuesday,
terities, Of time, ‘work sure. Therefore chose Bar mitzvah (eye witness
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are being shown in the campus center and are available for additional showings. Tonight at 7:30 the conference closes with Gregory Baum speaking on “Man’s changing self-understanding” in *MC 2066. Admission is one dollar or the red registration ticket. Baum is currently a theology teacher .at St. Michael’s College in Toronto January
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dynamos and show a fantastic amount of vitality as they cavort across the stage with directness, smiles and rows of teeth, as if each smile was meant for each individual. They do everything well. They sing, they dance, they do a bit of decorous clowning but sometimes when the lights go down, they grow serious and sing a sad little song in close harmony. The group is versatile, with guitarist, saxaphonist, flutist and dancers and always the piano played particularily well by Bailly. Tickets are $2.50, students $1.50 and are available in the Art’s Theater box office.
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ueens, music nivd ‘69 Winter Carnival ‘69, the ninth annual at Waterloo Lutheran Univer si ty , will be 5 days this year from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25, 1969. The students have increased the size and activities so that it is now, truly, the second largest winter carnival in Canada, second only to the Quebec Winter Carnival. It will also be tied in with the Kitchener Winter Fest to be held at the same time. This year, we will again host the Miss Canadian University Queen Pageant which has grown to inelude 33 queens representing major university from every each of the ten provinces of Canada. A first this year will be the live televising of this major event on CKCO-TV in Kitchener on the evening of Jan. 24. The entertainment will feature a concert by Diana Ross and the r--------------
Supremes on Jan. 23. This will be one of the finest college concerts ever on the Canadian scene. Another exciting performer to come to W.L.U. will be Don Crawford, a versatile vocalistguitarist who will present informa1 performances around the campus during the full five days. The kick-off dance on Wed. Jan. 22 will feature Wilmer Alexander Jr. and the Dukes and the Phase III. The week will begin on Tues. Jan. 21 with the queens arriving. A press conference will be held from 1 to 5 that afternoon at the Skyline Hotel to meet the queens. This will be followed by a civic reception and a banquet at the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Back on campus on Wednesday, the queens will visit the city and the Animal dance will fill the ----
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evening. Thursday will see the queen’ judging all day topped off by the concert by Dina Ross and the Supremes. Friday’s activities will be skiing at Chicopee Ski Centre and the Miss Canadian University Queen Pageant. Saturday is another feature of C Carnival ‘69. The daytime hours will include a giant Klondike cookout, Autosport events, varied creative ice sculptures, and Klondike Days games. In keeping with the Klondike Days theme, the Mardi Gras Ball at night will have Major Hoople’s Boarding House and the Bedtime Story for a rock dance, a jazz group nightclub and a special Klondike bar with dixieland music and a New Orleans bar and gaming room. We will welcome any press, radio or television people to join us for any or all events. -0~~uPo
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by Graham Saturday
because of the tricks or along with them, the necessary explosion has taken place. The Mavor Moore-Jacques Languirand libretto for the Canadian Opera Company’s RieI-the newest and shiniest manifestation of that rare thing, a Canadian opera-stays close enough to history that no one need cavil. But it spoils everything by two weaknesses that are all the more annoying in that they were foreseeable. First, no dramatic tension develops because we are engaged, not in a development of any kind, but in the ]presentation of a. series of historical tableaux. (The book reads better than it plays. But that’s because when we read a play we make our own stage action whereas when the stage is before our eyes we are tied down to what we see there and are entitled to demand that the playwright do at least as well as we could do alone. ) Secondly, no characters develop either. Riel’s mother comes off best of all. Riel himself is next best-as well he might, given his tumultuous life. But the extrasthe Prime Minister of Canada, Sir George Etienne Car-tier, Bishop Tache of St. Boniface-have each in their own way an excruciating time. Cartier perhaps undergoes least torture, since he comes out as a vacancy-a strange situation in which to find Sir John A. Macdonald’s right-hand man, the man who, according to Professor Wrong. distinguished himself in the rebellion of 1837. took a prominent part in the negotiations for Confederation, negotiated the surrender of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s rights in the North-West, and carried through parliament the bill creating the province of Manitoba.
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What makes a good operatic libretto is a question long on fascination but short on answers. You can put down the plot of Trawata in three lines. Figaro might So neither simplicity nor complexity take a page. comes near the answer. Nor does the poetic quality of the text-by the time the composer has finished mauling it for his own overboth rhyme and rhythm have underriding purposes. gone far-reaching metamorphoses. Dramatic action based on history presents particular problems, since it involves among other things a conflict I of lovalties. This is especially tue in the twentieth century. for we are a past-conscious generation. Shakespeare, even if he knew. didn’t care that his portrayal of the last Plantagenet king was based on Tudor propaganda. But we brain-washed products of the scientific-history era do care, and that caring does grievous bodily harm to dramatic necessities. Take Riel. There is no one way of stating the case of Louis Riel. French-Indian half-breed and religious visionary whose personal charm seems to have been compelling and who. before reaching the scaffold. became the leader of a provisional government in the NorthWest and the idol of the metis people. Some might think him no more than a rabble-rouser who lost the game and paid the traditional forfeit. Others consider Sir John A. Macdonald the villain of the piece. Riel the hero. And between these two extremes lie all kinds of mixed feeling. Thus it’s no valid criticism of an operatic libretto based on his strange story to say that it plays tricks with history: that much the dramatist must do. No. criticism must base its argument on whether the tricks played have served drainatic purpose, and whether,
by Sharon Saturday
Brown
Night
I don’t care what you call themToday People, Now People, posthippies, sub-Flower Power, any of those coy, corny group namesthey’re in the process of creating their own Canadian hero. And he’s, thankfully, different from any other hero. He’s beautiful. for one thing, and he projects himself in a very intimate way, not as if he’s stuck on a ridiculous pedestal like the heroes out of our history testbooks. Fle speaks the to the under 25 gene!,ation, one that doesn’t feel much connection with the regular plastic world. And his name i:, Leonard Cohen. Leonard has always known he was reaching someone with his poems and novels and songs, but at first he misread the g;.oup who were ready to follow him When he published crowers FQ~. Hitler, he said “Put it in the hands of my generation and it will be recognized.” He missed by ten years. He was 25 than. 33 now. but it isn’t his own age group who are doing the recognizing ; it’s the people in their late teens and early twenties. It was them, plus a few Flower People, who made a god out of Bob Dylan. Now they’re with Leonard. These days he’s surrounded by lionize-theall the showbiz, next-big-name trappings of the hero. Naturally, contemporary ‘Harper’s Bazaar, McCall’s and Vogue have swooned all over him (“this spare Canadian,” Vogue called him). He appeared briefly singing in Don Owen’s latest fashionable movie, The Ernie Game, and everybody you can think of has recorded his songs, from Judy Collins and Noel Harrison and Chad Mitchell to Spanky & Our Gang and The Other Day and Vivaldi’s Green Jacket.
But what happened to Cartier in this libretto is nothing to the sabotage of Sir John himself. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the first prime minister of Canada was an essentially trivial character whose
only concern in life was the art of manipulation fog its own sake? Not to me. Is this version of Macdonald then to be chalked up to librettist’sm licence? Only if the intention was to present Riel’s death as a meaningless event in an insane comedy. The result is that Macdonald’s only human statement during the whole of the opera-“You think I want to hang this man. the worthiest adversary I’ve had‘?“seems totally out of place. And his most callow joke“Touche. Ta&e”-becomes all too congruous with the character portrayed. Harry Somers’ music for Riel also disappoints me. i was greatly impressed with the stark. always relevant dissonance of his louse of Atreus and I thought that in Somers we might have in our own country a composer capable of the most exact expressive representation. His Riel is not of this sort. It seems to me that the weaknesses of his score are twofold. First, he takes refuge again in the reiterated dissonances which were so true to the tragic inevitability of Atreus and are so false to the historic drama of the metis rising. Secondly. his foil for these drastic harmonic proceedings consists of ingeniouoften delectable-counterpoint. confided to the brassto those instruments. in other words. that have extreme difficulty in playing softly. The result is that man!. potentially interesting conversations on the stage are. as it were, buried at the public cost. Am I saying. all in all, that Riet as concelL.ed b\Moore and Somers was a mistake and a waste ot money? By no means. Is an opera less important to a nation than a supersnic. air-to-air. missile-carrying fighter aircraf t’l It’s a great deal less expensive. But what operas and missiles have in common is that you are unlikely to get a good one without giving the makers a chance to make some bad ones first. Riel is far from bad. But. to be frank. it is also far from good.
And he’s made his own singing appearances at the best folk festivals ( Mariposa. Newport) and on the super campuses (UCLA, York), and cut his own album on the Columbia label. But those things have nothing to do with real heroism. Maybe the best way to explain something of Leonard Cohen’s appeal is to compare him with Dylan, the only man today who can stand beside Leonard. For starters, Cohen doesn’t come on nearly as strong as Dylan-he’s more subtle and knows more about myth. In a song like Leonard’s Dress Rehearsal Rag, which drops a long way into despair, he still manages a tender littler love-and-berrypicking scene that saves the song from the absolute brink of hopelessness you find in a comparable IDylan Desolation song. say Row.
Cohen is more personal than Dylan. When Dylan1 talks about himself, you feel he’s not, really there. not as a prson. But Leonard is always in his songs. He’s gentle and he’s intimate, and it’s finally his intimacy that reaches us. He creates a private world, and, inside that world, he sings about the things that really matter : how it is to be alive right now. What is most real for Leonard is himself; if there’s a hell, it isn’t something that is “others.” And he blames nothing else and no one else for his personal hangups: “/t’s not the your
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singing, which is often simply a momotone; not with his guitar work, which is uncomplicated in the extreme. No, Leonard connects with a presence, with a haunting poetic presence. What Leonard calls it is sharing
secrets. And you can share them, if you’re able, if you’re looking around for someone to tune into, in a song of Leonard’s like The Stranger. It has a vague sort of tune that runs on like a light rain, barely noticed, barely
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Screen productions of Shakespeare are generally lousy. The attempt simply to make a movie of one of the plays loses the intinnate and dramatic effect of the players’ presence on stage. Similarly, the attempt to capture the &aract.erizations of the actors also fails because the dramatic which Shakespa re :echniques used are effective only on stage, ;!ot in the cool medium of i.he t:inen-a. Frances Zeffirelli has made 3 inotion picture which is valuable not as a good production of Shakespeare but as a good movie. It is characteristic of Zeffirelh’s R(J~~N am.! ~sr/itct that it sacrifices much of the intellectualcounterplay and ly appealing poetic nature of the verse to make the movie more emotionally involving for what is not, a.fter
all, an audience of English scholars. Some of the wit cornbats between Mercutio, Renvolio and Romrso would on the screen signal popcorn time to most of the audience. But the film does not lose in the transcription. Rather. it becomes a movie, making good IW~ of canlera techniques. visual effects and ?,he freedom of move;rienr. possible in this n-redi Lflidl1 ofle of ihe most refreshing uses of this freedom is in the balcony scene, in which R,omeo is not confined to gazing longingly at Jtlliet, while uttering almost sickiningly-sweet phrases but is an exhuberant, joyful boy who can hardly contain himself with excitment. Most changes from the play,
although perhaps disturbing to the Shakespearena scholar, make the film more convincing. The apothecary, for example, is not in the movie because his grotesque and evil nature, foreboding tragedy. is a dramatic technique for the stage, not for the inore realist ic medium of the scfreen. But in a few instances Zeffirelli weakened the action by chan?ging or leaving out integral parts of the play. The end+r~~ .a & on the crowded steps of the prince’s palace was less effective than in the bleakness of the Bovers’ tomb. And the absence of some of the many short scenes near the end of the play at times made the action d.isjointed. Nevertheless, the movie is effective-effective not as a true rendering of Shakespeare, but as a good motion picture.
The Shoes of the Fishes-mm is a bad movie. It does not approach the character portraits of the book by Morris L. West. The make-up borders on grotesque, lighting is sinister and there are few instances of imaginative camera work. The only noteworthy acting is that of Oskar VVerner as the young priest silenced by the censorship of the church, and Veittorio Desica as the againg cardinal who knows more than the pope about the church and its workings. But Anthony Quinn, as the pope, cannot really be blamed for his mediocre showing; all his part consisted in was looking wise but puzzled. The movie is a flurry of pagentry, ceremony and the outdated internal showmanship of the Vatican. It is continually throwing hunks of 6footage on the scenic -wonders of Rome and Saint Peter’s -the same scenic wonders. The opening scene is a prison camp in Siberia. The prisoners are mining an open pit, and we are given the impression, by vast stretches of landscape and five feet of snow, that it is rather cold. The prisoners are not having a fun time. American propoganda.
One prisoner is called to the office and from the thundering music and staring looks at the mention of his number (no names in Siberian prison camps) we know that this man is what the movie is about. Flash-and we are in Rome where sorne cardinal is telling an American newscaster that he has a story. Completly unrelated, as is a whole subplot which gradually evolves around this American, his estranged wife and his mistress whom he meets at the zoo. Flash-and we are in the office of Kamenev, the premier of the Soviet Union. He is talking to our friend from the prison camp, reminiscing about their long hatred of each other and telling him that he is free to leave the country, but not telling him why. (“Aha” shouts the viewer, with perceptive insight. “Here is the beginning of a mystery.” But he is soon disappointed, for we never do find out why he was released. ) Our friend, it turns out, is a bishop by the name of Kiril Lakota and he has been in the prison camp for twenty years. He now journeys to Rome and we are treated to our first of
many views of the beautiful city. Here, Lakota has an audience with the pope and is instantly made cardinal. Shortly, the pope dies and it is obvious to the audience that Kiril cardinal Lakota is to be the next pope. Obvious to the audience perhaps, and obvious to Morris West when he wrote the book, but not to the director of the movie, for he manages to make this action take half of the three hours left. Once he is pope, Lakota proceeds with friendly negotiations with his old arch-enemy, Kamenev to help save the world from a nuclear war. It soon becomes obvious to the audience again what the course of the next hour’s action is to be. In his coronation speech, the pope, benevolent and magnanimous, but nevertheless with a heavy heart, declares all the church riches donated to the people of China who are starving and who threaten to start a war by moving out from their borders to feed themselves. “Applause” goes the dubbed-in crowd ; “sob” go the cardinals who are losing all their wealth, “thank god” goes the audiencefor the movie is finally over.
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Young men by any means losing the love of learning, when by time they come to their own rule, they carry commonly from the school with them a perpetual hatred of their master and a continual contempt of learning. If ten gentlemen be asked why they forget so soon in court that which they were learning so long in school, eight of them will lay the fault on their ill handling by their schoolmasters. R oger The
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Every rebel, solely by the movement that sets him in opposition IO the oppressor, therefore pleads for life, undertakes to struggle against servitude, falsehood, and terror , and affirms, in a flash, that these three afflictions are the cause of silence between men, that they obscure them from one another and prevent them from rediscovering themselves in the only value that can save them from nihilism-the long complicity of men at grips with their destiny. Albert
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‘Twas ever thus. In each generation, the staid adults believe the young have lost respect, ideals and goals. In an Egyptian tomb, a stone was deciphered on which some pious old man of the Nile bemoaned-yes! this was 5000 years ago--the waywardness of the young nihilists of his day. Youth, he wailed, was going to the dogs! All the more reason for us to endeavor to understand the young, not to raise our hands in horror, nor to cry that the new generation is degenerate. AS.
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and his relation to the world Assume man as man, as a human one, and you can exchange love only for love, confidence for confidence, etc. If you wish to enjoy art, you must be an artistically trained person; if you wish to have influence on other people, you must be a person who has a really stimulating and furthering influence on other people. relationships to man and to nature Every one of your expression of your real, individual must be a definite life corresponding to the object of your will. If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune. Karl
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The demise last week of the council on student affairs raises questions on both the value of such nebulous advisory bodies and the sincerity of the administration in dangling this type of proper channel communication before students. The council existed for almost a year without ever meeting. An advisory body to the provost with about a third student representation, it was to deal with such matters as off-campus housing, residences, foreign students, health services, counselling, discipline and the campus center. There was no lack of problems in these areas during the period of existence of this Lcouncil. In fact, there were two near-crisis. One involved allegations of the foreign student advisor holding anti-foreigner attitudes, and the B other involved control campus center. _ With the proper channel of the student-affairs council available, why wasn’t it used?
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In the case of the foreignstudent advisor’s attitudes, the administration wished to cover up and deny rather than investigate. A committee was proposed only to look into the structure of the office in question rather than the personalities involved. The committee never met. With the campus center, the administration wished to deal with the matter quickly and with para-military decision control so the forum of the student-affairs council was too cumbersome. Advisory committees are useless. They serve only as an appeasement and as a shield for the real decision making process. The disturbing thing is the apparent ease with which the administration flaunts the use of proper channels and can so easily ignbre them. As long as students play by the administrations rules they can never win.
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Nominations close tomorrow for that month-long extravaganza-election ‘69, and don’t think we’re looking forward to politics, propaganda, promises and the occassional compromise. Looking backward at this week’s Tuesday team: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Mike Eagen, assistant news editor; Rod Hickman, entertainment coordinator; Kevin Peterson, left out last Friday bureau George Russell, part of our nationwide news service; Sydney Nestel, Dave Blaney, Jane Schneider, Jim Allen, Glenn Pierce, Brian Van Rooyen, Ann Stiles, Wayne Bradley, Dave X Stephenson, Dave Thomson, Gail Roberts, Brenda Wilson, Jim Detenbeck, Ron Bohaychuk, Carol Lenin, Fred, the masthead editor disclaims all responsibility for last Friday’s effort, and if you think Tuesday papers are fun-see if there’s one three weeks f ram now.
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By Kevin Peterson Canadian University
Press
OTTAWA--Take 59 university presilents who want a national organization .O “speak for Canadian universities”. Add $1.75 for each Canadian university ;tudent. With that, rent two floors of office space, buy the services of scores of academics and secretaries, hold an annual general meeting, write a lot of letters, and sponsor a bunch of studies about higher education. The result is called the Association of Jniversities and Colleges of Canada, AUCC) the academic equivalent of ‘erving baked beans in a fondue pot. The rappings are pleasant, the rhetoric convincing ; but investigation ounds hows the fare to be plain and conducive ,o bureaucratic belches.
Communications breakdown? First, the rhetoric. Geoffrey Andrew, AUCC executive director, explains how the association came to exist and develop: “Any society strung along 5,000 miles of geography, divided into 10 political divisions and five regions, with two major languages, has a basic problem of communication. “The universities came together to exchange information and views as Canadian universities with different problems from universities of other countries. “After about 40 years of exchanging views they decided they needed a secretariat to study these problems and to make representations to government based on studies and not opinion.” Andrew’s talk of “thought”, “change” and “study” occurs again in the themes of AUCC conferences-this year’s was -“The Nature of the Contemporary University”-and some of the research
AUCC watches Berdahl report ment.
over, such as the Duffon university govern-
But the contents of the rhetorical fondue pot are pretty stale. Membership in AUCC is open to any institution with degree-granting powers and over 200 students. Of 61 Canadian institutions eligible for membership, only two, College Ste. Anne in New Brunswick and Christ the King seminary in British Columbia, aren’t members. The $1.75 per student levy provides AUCC with an annual operating budget of over $400.000.
A five-piece
pie
What is the money used for? It supports five divisions of AUCC staff, each with its own responsibilities: The domestic programs division engages mainly in membership matters, examining the credentials of new institutions applying for membership and so on. The division also convenes meetings of various associations, such as The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, which are affiliated with AUCC. The domestic programs division is also responsible for such things as the placing of Czechoslovakian refugees in Canadian universities.
gest staff and handles more bureaucratic work than any other AUCC division, answering over 6,000 letters last year.
The research division looks after AUCC interests in various studies of higher education which the association is involved in-studies such as the relations between universities and government, accessibility to higher education and so on. The information division is responsible for AUCC publications such as Una monthly bulletin, iversity Affairs, and various tracts of information on Canadian universities. The division also handles press relations for AUCC and is responsible for the association’s library. A quick look at the five divisions shows that only research, the smallest of the five, is concerned with such things as universities. “change” in Canadian The other four are engaged in writing letters, “administering” and perpetuating bureaucracy. AUCC officials are quick to point out that one reason for the immense bureaucracy is the lack of a federal office of Until an office is higher education. created? AUCC inherits by default such things as administering awards programs, answering letters, and looking e after foreign students.
The international programs division handles liaison with groups such as Canadian University Students Overseas and UNESCO. It examines, for example, how Canada can be most effective in aiding foreign students and universities. The staff is responsible for Canadian representation at international conferences on various aspects of higher education.
It seems axiomatic that before change can occur in Canadian universities “studies” must be done on questions and concepts. The cost of studies on such things as student aid, university government or university costs is prohibitive, however. unless they are foundation or government financed.
The awards division handles scholarships and fellowships established by industry and governments and given to AUCC to administer. In 1968 the division handled over 50 programs involving more than $3 million. Awards has the biggest staff and handles more bureaucratic work than any other AUCC has the big-
In recent history, AUCC has been a sponsor or co-sponsor of every major study concerning Canadian higher education-Duff-Berdahl, the Bladen commission, commission on relations between universities and goveriimcnt. and SO on. It is conceivable that no study of a question in Canadian higher educa-
“Studies”
ad infinitum
tion can be done without AUCC involvement-a most powerful position for any group to be told. Both Andrew and AUCC research director D.G. Fish deny this situation exists, although Andrew says: “I would like to see AUCC in that position-of being involved in all studies of higher education-because it represents more and more, the total university community. ”
The danger of having all studies done through AUCC can be seen in examining those now in progress. which Fish says are fairly typical. The five now being done are: university-government relations, costs of university programs and departments, student housing. accessibility to higher education, and how Canadian resources may best be used in aiding foreign universities. As CCS field worker Ted Richmond puts it, “The studies are hardly concerned with basic questions of Canadian universities-the questions which both students and faculty very much want answered. AUCC seems interested only in toying with the present situation.” But Andrew claims the Duff-Berdahl report started initiating change in Canadian universities. “This antedated the student protest movement”, he adds. “I’d be very happy to put our record of concern and productivity up for examination to anyone-in our studies, publications and conferences. ” Students at the University of Western Ontario decided to do just that recently. They intend to investigate what AUCC does and how it spends the $1.75 per student it receives. If the association does “represent, more and more, the total university community”. as Andrew says it does, maybe a few more students should follow LJWO’s lead and find out just what is happening.