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Volume

9 Number

UNIVERSITY

OF WATERLOO,

Waterloo,

Ontario

Friday,

January

17,1969

Hagey leaves post early, interim knowlton

in which the exploits vealed and the words

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of a man called Peter are of the god of math are recounted.

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*** Some of our more observant readers have noticed the absence of several of the deans of this university in the lists of potential and real candidates for the Waterloo presidency. Math dean.David Sprott has just assumed a three-year extension of his term of office and although he has always maintained that he is anxious to lose his exalted title, he still continues to follow the dictates of the power-that-is. It is obvious the math faculty is still so divided that a strong leader with firm support cannot be found. Graduate dean George Cross, often described as the most ambitious man in the university, will probably contest the race but as usual will be no threat to the real candidates. Ah yes, but what of that mild-mannered Scot, W.A.E. (“Pete”) MC-’ bryde-dean of science? Well, now the real story of Pete’s recent activities can be told. Not wanting to jeopardize his future, we have held off explaining his absence from our previous discussions. Enough of the suspense. Pete was, until a few days ago, a leading candidate for the presidency of the University of Prince Edward Island, which will be the result of the amalgamation of Prince of Wales College (non-denominational) and St. Dunstan’s University (Roman Catholic), the two rather small institutions of higher learning in PEI. Yes, it’s hard to believe isn’t it? Here we all (or almost all) thought that Pete was so anxious to get out of administration and back into the world of research and teaching. At least that’s what he’s always said before when the bureaucratic load got especially heavy and he’s threatened to resign. But he was always kept on, given additional administrative help or other inducements. And for the last two years he’s presented the front that he’s so happy that he can at last leave his high position. But Pete really applied for the position and travelled to the island province for interviews. Oh how you deceived us, sir! The presidency was actually taken by Ronald Baker, an English prof and former arts dean at Simon Fraser. Baker was third choice, a compromise between Pete and Pauline Jewitt, a former Liberal MP and now on the political-science faculty of Carleton University and a regular writer for Maclean’s magazine. On a lo-man committee composed for four persons from Prince of Wales, four from St. Dunstan’s (each group having representation from administration, faculty and students) and one each from the economic improvement committee of PEI and the PEI department of education, Jewitt had the support of six, McBryde three and Baker one. The interesting thing about the vote split was that Pete’s support . came entirely from three of the four St. Dunstan’s delegates to this latter-day Charlottetown Conference. McBryde is a staunch supporter of the United Church. Apparently both Jewitt’s and Pete’s supporters were totally unwilling to compromise by going over to the other main contender, so Baker got it. It is interesting to note Pete’s reaction to student involvement in the selection procedure, since he has been one of the most vocal of the anti-“student power” big-wigs on the Waterloo campus. According to one Prince of Wales faculty member, Pete was not at all anxious to follow the request that the top five candidates spend some time in the student coffeeshops to meet and be met by some of the lower class of life which pollutes university campuses. But he grinned and bore it. It is rather funny that Pete would consider going to PEI which has had its own recent history of student disorders and strikes. Pete’s iron hand in the velvet glove methods would have undoubtedly flopped. But don’t feel too sorry for Pete. He has another iron in the fire, somewhere. Because of his other chance to make it into the really big time, he had insisted that the PEI people make up their minds by the end of this month. The further exploits of our beloved dean of science will be carried in future columns. * * * Our poor typing finger is being worn to the bone, unaccustomed as we are to this plebian activity. On the local front, dark-horse candidate Ralph Stanton, the man the math publications pompously call “our founder”, has kicked off his campaign. His strategy seems to be to start off slowly and build to a climax. And he seems to be follolving our prediction that he will use the full strength of the math mafia (the ruling clique in that faculty) and the poor deluded Math Sot types. (See our Nov. 29 article. ) Ralph en”,ered the race with a speech at last Saturday’s math weekend banquest at Caesar’s Forum. (Appropriate, no’?) While the speech was very lovd-key, there were definite political overtones.

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Administration president Gerry Hagey announced yesterday he was leaving the university immediately and would not wait until his successor was selected. Hagey made the announcement at a meeting of the board of governors. No arrangements have been made for an interim president but board chairman Carl Pollock was authorized to make arrangements to carry out the duties of the president’s office. He is expectedto announce an interim ad,ministrator within a few days. Hagey announced his resignation last November. His reason was his inability to use his voice

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fully. At that time he said he would remain until his successor was appointed. “Since then,” ‘he said. “I have concluded it is in the best interest of the university and myself for the board to release me 0: the responsibilities of my office at the end of this month.” Hagey denied the refusal of student council to participate in the board selection committee had anything to do with his change of plans. The board had invited council to appoint two members to a presidential search committee but council refused to participate in the secret committee. Hagey also said the shortage of

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candidates and therefore the possibility of a long search for a successor was a factor in his decision. He wasn’t sure that it would in fact actually take a long I time. however. Board chairman Pollock has been . given blanket authority in ,. .A . .* appointing an interim presiaent I but he refused to comment. Hagey and operations vicepresident Allen Adlington both said that Adlington was not a possible interim president. It is espetted the temporary post will be given to academic vicepresident Howard Petch. Petch was acting president during Hagq’s

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Teach-in PETERBOROUGH (Staff)-The fate of the planned mass demonstration’ at Peterborough hung in the balance yesterday. Organizers had hoped to have 500 students participate in a fourday picket and teach-in at the Peterborough Examiner. Only a hundred students were in Peterborough Wednesday but organizers were optimistic as more students arrived from Windsor and Toronto late Wednesday night to raise the total to 150. More students were expected last night. Canadian Union of Students president Peter Warrian issued a personal call Wednesday for student support for the demonstration. “Every student in Ontario should be on these lines Thursday and Friday to illustrate the concern of students with the real problems facing society,” Warrian said. “Too much o’l’ our education takes place in symbolic ivory towers and hence is never related to real circumstances,” pointed out Warrian. “In Peter-

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borough people are -really being educated. ” Student support of the strike was endorsed by the Waterloo student council late last term. This week is the third time students have joined the picket line in force. This week’s action started Wednesday when 100 students, mainly from Toronto and Waterloo. started a teach-in and community education project. Students handed out leaflets in highschools and at Trent University. At the same time they helped the Examiner reporters maintain a token picket line. Yesterday’s plans called for distribution of leaflets explaining the strike and student support of it in downtown Peterborough. The leaflets were produced in cooperation with local labor unions. Students were to speak in the highschools and at Trent. A teach-in was planned for last night and tonight with films, speakers and discussion groups. Today is supposed to see a mass student picket around the Examiner building. Tomorrow this picket is to be

to strike augmented by local labor. Severa1 unions have pledged support. If successful the picket tomorrow will mark one of the first time students and workers have cooperated in such an effort. Tom Patterson, Waterloo student council member, emphasized the importance of Warrian’s call for support. “Students have the choice of hiding in their rooms and pretending they can learn about people without ever meeting real conditions or of getting up here and finding out what is really happening in their world.” said Patterson. “If they choose to hide, then the working people who really make up this country can only continue to feel that universities are training grounds for a social elite-certainly not for people with a social conscience.” The demonstration ends tomorrow afternoon. Free buses will return participants to Waterloo. Room and board in Peterborough are free; people needing transportation up may find out when the next bus leaves by calling the Chevron 744-6111, local 3443.

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Yet another election is brewing on campus. The Math Society is holding its winter-term elections Tuesday on the third floor of the math building. There are four positions open on council, three co-op seats and one regular seat vacated by Ken Robinson who switched to the co-op program. Also

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of Waterloo were considered to be the best actress and actor of the festival by adjudicator Ivan C. Rand. The director Alec Cooper was also complimented for his handling of the play. Waterloo will now proceed to the national festival of the league which is to be held at this universit,y February 13-15. At this festival universities from across Canada will be represented. The advancement of the Waterloo play to the national festival duplicates last year’s achievement when the drama company went to the national festival in Lennoxville, Quebec.

Last week-end at McMaster University, University of Waterloo drama club succeeded in winning the Western Ontario Region of the Canadian [Jniversity Drama League. Waterloo’s entry B/X? loweiiest afternoon of the year topped entries from McMaster, Western and Waterloo Lutheran. An interesting feature of the festival and the league is that all plays presented must be totally student efforts. All the entries at the regional level were one-act plays, two of them written by the students themselves. Pat Connor and Paul Frappier --

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The English and modern languages departments of the University of Waterloo are cooperating to present the first international poetry reading Monday, in AL124 at 3 p.m” Members of the faculty, including Mrs. Rota Lister, who organized the reading, Ray Dugan, Ed Heier, Manfred Kuxdorf, Oleg Romanyshyn and A. Zweers will read poems in English,

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publicity and publications following Jim Belfry’s resignation and a winter-term social director, as well as an editor for Math Medium. The Math Society, one of the most active on campus provides activities and services for all math students and needs people to work next term and hopes to see a good turn-out at the polls to show that math enthusiasm is not dead.

The Canadian Union of Students (CUS) Life Plan is the only life insurance plan exclusively endorsed by CUS. In 1956, CUS selected Canadian Premier Life to underwrite and administer a life insurance plan specially geared to the needs of Canadian university students. In those 12 years, the company has expanded rapidly. They have a strictly Canadian personnel. Over 12,000 students have enrolled in the plan. Until this year, the company was located in London, Ont. Their offices are now conveniently located at 158 University Ave. West in Waterloo above the Bank of Montreal (just off campus). The policy consists of a 2 part plan, 10 year term insurance (or to age 35, whichever comes first), and permanent insurance for lifetime protection. The premiums on term insurance are quite low; considerably less than those on the open market. They start at $2.60 per $1,000 of insurance benefit,s up to $12,500 and $2.50 per $1,000 for amounts over $12,500. Students may make up their own program (minimum $5000 of life insurance) or select one of the “package plans” offered. Personal interviews are arranged to discuss the permanent insurance plan, which automatically follows the term insurance plan. Another break is that the premium payment date may be changed from mid-winter to midsummer when cash may be more plentiful.

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The psych 352 class, abnormal psychology decided in September to experiment with an unstructured class. Under the guidance of Dr. Ken Bowers, the students attempted to study abnormal psychology stressing environmental influences which evoked “crazy” behaviour. The students branched out into areas of their own special interest-including racial problems, the educational system, and the culture of poverty.

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It’s here-the first annual conference of the engineering societies of Ontario. Beginning today and continuing all day Saturday fifty delegates from nine Ontario engineering societies will be meeting in the board and senate room in the engineering building. The purpose of the conference is “to start effective communications between the various engineering societies of Ontario.”

Latest news from the faculty concerns none other than the pastpresident of the Federation of Students Brian Iler. It seems Iler has been co-opted out of the RSM to work as special assistant to the dean of arts Jay Minas. IJnable

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French, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, German, and Ukranian. The theme of the poems is social change ranging in time over the past one hundred thirty years. Some of the poets whose works will be presented are William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Leonard Cohen. There will be a complete set of translations available to the members of the audience.

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The only condition for eligibility is that the student attend a university which belongs to CUS. For more information just see the people at 158 University Ave. West. CUS is presently re-evaluating the plan particularly with regard to the limited number of years for which term insurance is available. CUS is also investigating the possibility of setting up a car insurance program. The Canadian Union of Students presently sponsors a travel plan, whereby students are able to fly to many world centers at reduced rates. The reduced rates are possible due to charter flights. There are nine departures bound for London to choose from as low as $193 return. There are also chartered flights leaving Toronto for Rome and Moscow. A student in Vancouver could fly to Tokyo in May for $299 return. If you plan to study or travel in Europe for 1969-1970, there are two one-wa? flights leaving Toronto in September. CUS also offers a three-week student tour of the IJSSR: transportation meals and accommodation included for only $228. Through CUS. students can take advantage of the ‘“half-price” student flights in Europe. The student travel aids are indispensable: including the International Student Identity card, special student tours, car rental and Eurailpass information, and student insurance. Available after Feb. 27 will be CUS’s own publication Student Guide to Europe. The flights are open to CUS members. their parents, their spouse and dependent children.

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W The federation presidential election will see incumbent John Bergsma facing past candidate Larry Burko and an independent radical, Ron Golemba. Nominations -closed Wednesday for what is expected to be a slack campaign. Voting day is Wednesday, January 29, in the, middle of Groundhog week. Bergsma, mechanical 4B, said if he was re-elected he would continue the same program he proposed in the last election. He feels he recognizes the problems of students and society in general. “I realize changes must be made, but we must express ourselves on a priority basis,” he said. His first priority is for student council to address itself “‘first and foremost to education.” The next priority is student participation in the decision-making. Finally, he said, a number of faculty societies, especially the grads, are unhappy about the control of the federation over some of their business. Bergsma said he would clear the areas of contention. In .reflecting on his first few months in office, he said mistakes were made and that they wouldn’t be made again. He felt he was improving with experience on council. He also said he was making “headway” with his relationship with the administration. Ron Golemba, psych 2, said he is in the election as a serious candidate in opposition to Bergsma. He calls himself a radical but has not sought a liaison with the radical student movement.

New hope may be in sight for a more hvable Habitat. ‘69. At a meeting held last Wednesday, the residence building committees met to view and discuss two plans for the new residence, scheduled for completion this September. The first was a plan, originally proposed last October, which student council criticized as too cramped for the needs of students. A mock-up was subsequently displayed in the campus center. The second, submitted at the request of council by Garth McGreary, grad design, was one of a modular form. It would allow for substantial flexibility in the arrangement of the rooms. With the new proposal, beds could be stacked in bunk-bed fashion or in an L shape. Shelves could be placed wherever the occupants desired. Financially, the difference between the pair is a gap of 20 percent, in favor of the original plan. The committee was to make a final, decision after the examination of the rooms, but the students on the committee asked that it be postponed so students could see the two mock-ups. The administration is now willing to accept either proposal, provided a decision is reached by January 28th when the Ontario Corporation Student Housing calls tenders for the furniture. This is another episode in the story of the “rush-job” residence. It started a little more than 18 months ago when planning was initiated on Habitat ‘69 Near the 1967, president end of July, Gerry Hagey set up a committee of students, the associate dean of women, a grad student from the department of design and a PP&P architect who prepared a report on general esthetic

Golemba has had experience as chairman of the Waterloo committee of World University Service. He feels there should be a different approach to fee collection from graduate students, especially because of age and marriage situations. He favors an increased allotment to the Grad Society for social planning. Golemba said student government should take a critical look at the operations of the university in respect to undergraduates. He feels the university is being run for the graduates and the faculty, especially in the library. He would like the Federation of Students and the Faculty Association to work together on matters of mutual concern-such as the library and course contentand if negotiations with administration failed, to use direct confrontation. In regards to Bergsma, Golemba said, “I haven’t seen too much of his policy.” He also said a lot of votes in the last election were cast against Brian Iler and not necessarily for Bergsma ; Golemba feels he can provide better competition. * * * Burko, arts 3, said he was running again because the present federation executive is definitely not serving the best interests of the students on campus. He said he would make no comment on the executives’ capabilities because, “I would probably be sued for slander, but I would say that they do not have the ability to do the job

they have assumed for themselves.” Burko, whose last campaign was considered one of emphasizing the contradictions, said he would like to see a politically aware and politically active campus. He feels students do not wish to be politically implicated in the direction the present council in forcing them. “I will attempt to give the students what they want and I am flexible as to any changes in political opinion which may occur during my term of office.” Burko said students do not see where their $22 federation fee is going. He said the $20,000 being given to the education and external-relations boards could be more effectively spent by having free admission to dances and concerts, including major weekends, and free beer and liquor. “I will attempt to build up communications not only with the administration, but also with faculty and staff. This will hasten the development of a true community of scholars.” Burko feels there are many reasons for withdrawing from the Canadian Union of Students, such as lack of representation, but there are good reasons for staying in CUS, such as the role it can play as a true voice for Canadian student opinion. He hoped students would vote truthfully for what they want rather than against what they oppose. “This would result in a competent executive which is truly representative,” he said.

qualities, types of rooms, furnishings and other desired structural qualities concerning the livability of the new residence. The first meeting to plan general esthetic qualities was the first week of August. They were given a deadline of appoximately August 9. The second committee had to reach a decision by August 15, and the university had to have its brief in by August 30. The whole planning was forced into about three weeks. The Village, however, took one and a half years to plan. On top of this pressure the undergrad students were in the middle of exams, the grad stuimminent thesis dents had deadlines and some of the faculty were going on holiday the last two weeks of August. Nonetheless, the brief was prepared and presented to Hagey. The tenders for the designs were sent out and the committee

waited in the hopes a suitable residence plan would come in. At last March’s meeting held to examine the bids, those who favored the more habitable designs were voted down by the administration, who had earlier imposed a ceiling of $4500 per bed. Siding with the students were Ron Edyt, Village warden and Mrs. Marsden, the associate dean of women. At the September 30, meeting of student council, council members denounced Habitat as “an abortion, a building not fit for people. ” At the general meeting of October 8, the assembly voted to picket the site and the library until their demands were met. As a result of the picketing, the administration stopped the ordering of the funiture and asking McGreary to make recommendations for a new design. Wednesday’s meeting showed his result.

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Groundhog will be around for a whole week this year, not just on Feb. 2. Tom Ashman, chairman of groundhog weekend has planned a full week of festivities. Starting on Monday, *Jan. 27 daily movies and previews of bands will be presented free in the campus center great hall. Also featured is a liars contest to which all presidential candidates have been given special invitation. Each night from Monday on will feature a wine and cheese party in the campus center pub. Tuesday starts the curling bonspiel. Wednesday the dances continue and the feature of the afternoon is a hockey game against Toronto. Thursday has more dances, more wine, beer and the Four Seasons in concert at the recrea-

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tion center (sometimes known as the phys-ed building I. The IJgly Man contest was adopted from Harvard and is a contest to find the ugliest man on campus. No face masks are allowed but costumes and face putty and makeup are welcomed. Quadra-swing is four events at the same time, and all this happens on Friday. Scheduled for Saturday are various sports events including pushbail, snowshoe races and other “groovy contests”, a gymkhana, and the Vanilla Fudge. Sunday features the Great Groundhog Hunt with prizes worth $60 for the first live groundhog, more movies, the famed three team rugger game, the grand finale and sleep and aspirins for aching heads.

What some people won’t do to steal a FASS poster! FASS night is coming one of these weeks but poster doesn ‘t say when.

afoon joins Re oktion fi REGINA (CUP)-The Carillon, student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan’s Regina campus continues to publish despite the administration’s decision not to collect student fees until the students set up an acceptable form of censorship over the paper. The student union backed twoto-one by the campus, is fighting the matter solely on their right to collect student union fees and will not consider negotiating the subject of censorship for the Carillon. The student union on the larger Saskatoon campus has now joined in the fight for written contracts with the board of governors to collect the fees and turn them over to the unions unconditionally. Saskatoon still received its fees this term. Student presidents Dave Sheard of Regina and Eric Olson of Saskatoon began meeting Wedwith principals W. A. nesday Riddell of Regina and R.W. Begg of Saska toon. The Regina student council has said it will only negotiate how and when the board will begin collecting fees. Should the board be unable to collect fees Friday,

for this semester this late. it will expect a board grant to cover the losses. The Regina council is demanding open sessions while the board deals with the contract, but will not discuss the Carillon with them. Meetings on the board’s action have uncovered some ill feeling toward the Carillon, but Regina students have let the matter drop until the fee collection issue is settled.

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A mix-up in the Chevron office resulted in the wrong telegram being printed on the front page last Friday. The federation did, as reported. send a telegram of support to the Regina student council. The text of the telegram was reported inaccurately. The actual telegram sent by federation prcsident @JohnBergsma r-cad : “The Federation of Students of the IJniversity 01 CVaterloo supports you in your struggle against the board of’ governors who have suspended collccetion of thcl student activities fee.” January

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If you fit the description in the ad you are one of the most sought after men in Canada today. You are a potential university administration president. By next September seven Canadian universities, nearly one in every six, will have to find a new president. At six of these institutions the search has been caused by a resignation. Only in Prince Edward Island has the creation of a new campus (a merger of Saint Dunstan’s and Prince of Wales) produced a totally new position. There it now looks like Prof. Ronald Baker, a former dean at Simon Fraser, will get the job. The sudden need for so many new men is by no means a coincidence. Behind the recent rash of resignations lie similar problems manifesting themselves right across Canada. Problems so unsolvable that the presidential search committees will be lining up to see many senior deans in Canada and the United States, and filling many files with refusals.

got to keep people off the streets and out of the unemployment figures. Pushing the presidents the other way are faculty and students who don’t want to see the bad faculty-student ratio grow worse. And the students have grown restless. While Hare’s resignation was clearly not motivated by student activism, many of his compatriots’ were. Increasing demands upon the university by both faculty and students and increasing public criticism of society by students has made the president’s office too hot a spot for common men to hold. Even the extraordinary ones are seeking more tranquil corners.

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lems. Last summer the board there dismissed Patrick McTaggart-Cowan as a sop to the joint demands of faculty and students for immediate reforms. The reforms, of course, are still to be studied. The other president to be told to find different employment was Colin-MacKay at the University of New Brunswick who had just been elected president of the Student activism Association of Universities and The vacancy at Simon Fraser Colleges of Canada. The board is one of two involuntary ones there felt MacKay had dealt much caused by student power probtoo liberally with students during a dispute over the dismissal of a faculty member so they made use of the quiet Christmas vacation period to ask him to resign. Even in those cases, however, Mane y problems trouble over lack of funds preEverybody needs money. ceded the dismissals. Kenneth Hare’s resignation at At the University of Waterloo, an old crusader for government the University of British Columbia January 13 brought funds, Gerry Hagey, is resigning-quite partially because of e this need before the public. Hare made it clear that the frustration ill health, partially because of money problems, and partially of trying to meet demands that registration be increased at a because he could no longer cope with the rapidly growing student time when grants are being decreased had just become too power movement and didn’t much. want to be around when the emProvincial governments everypire he built and founded suffered drastic reform or ruin. where are trying to push the universities into admitting virtually Even at Canada’s traditionally conservative campus, Edmonevery student who can pass highton, growing student discontent school. They are faced with both a public cry to send little Johnny was a contributing factor in the resignation of Walter Johns. Ill to the meal-ticket factory and a realization that the 1sJor market health and poor cooperation with is already glutted so they’ve the provincial government were Dr. Kenneth Hare much bigger reasons. However, at another prairie campus, Regina, president W.A. Riddel seems to be seeking an alternative to resigning by trying to quash the student movement there. His reason is clearly to generate funds. He’s probably digging his own grave. Hare’s resignation at UBC He was introduced by his long-time friend and erstwhile cohort, Ken b’ryer. Fryer is Ralph’s chief lieutenant and has been given the task of after holding the job for only seven months is a good indication of keeping Ralph’s name in front of the people but not being too obvious how hard it’s going to be to fill, about it. and keep filled, the vacancies. And in this he has been very successful (he has already won Ralph’s linoleum medal). In a brilliant piece of manipulation he persuaded the In fact it’s very probable that more openings will occur before Math Society to adopt Ralph as a hero and to spread his fame. Ralph’s appearance Saturday in fact was ostensibly at the invitation of the any of them are filled, one of the new ones probably being at York. Math Society. Fryer spoke glowingly of Ralph’s previous achievements, such as Hare had all the right abilities. academic, writing three three-hour exams in one morning. He described him en- He was a respected and even thusiastically as “an outstanding and dedicated mathematician and an able administrator, ” And in a half-hearted effort to the students were starting to teacher and a friend of little children. dispel Ralph’s reputation as an anti-progressive, he added, “a man who consider him a good fellow. But Hare’s letter of resignation indiwore a beard when nobody else did.” Stanton himself gave what a listener later described as a very for- cates what’s in store for a sucgettable speech. Ralph obviously does not want to seem to be pushing his cessor to his or any of the other free posts. candidacy too hard. That task can be left to subordinates. “To succeed in the job a man But Ralph revealed that more blatant political tactics are being urged upon him. He noted that math dean David Sprott had suggested must not merely have a tough and a thick skin; he he work into his speech a little royalty, a little religion and a little sex. constitution The proposed opening was-“Good God,” said the queen, “keep your must also be able to call on the resources needed to meet the hand off my knee.” He spoke university’s inescapable responRalph’s speech was, on the surface, very non-political. of some of the weird mathematicians he has known. However, a close sibilities, and he must be able to look at his speech shows he was trying to justify eccentric mathematicgive his colleagues some assurance that there is a light at the ians and thus take the edge off his own reputation. The final developrnent of the evening was the bestowal on Ralph of an end of the tunnel,” he said in his letter of resignation. honorary membership in the Math Society. But in line with his strategy of not being too prominent, math dean Sprott and associate deans Student-faculty power may wind up winning control by default. Beaumont and Fryer were also given memberships.

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January

17, 1969 (9:37)

639

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It S~W~S that the people in charge have decided the students are finally old enough to consume alcohol at the upcoming Wrnter Carnival. So stunning was the news that the illustrious journal, the Cord Weekly, devoted valuable front

empower

page space to herald the annr~~~ment quoting the cheers and plaudits of copius VfP’s. But that was not all. No indeed. $13 page four the readers were treated to a hard-hitting editorial on the subject. It has even been suggested that Uniwat, send over a group of our nicest engineers to give a rush seminar entitled Drinking on campus and how to deal with it.

rs summer

will meet interested

with ali students in Secondary School in Qntaris

teaching

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Chevron staff

You d better start saving your copies of Macleans magazine-they will soon be collectors items. If you are one of 700,000 Macleans readers you probably noticed things weren’t the same in the January edi‘tion. The magazine is smaller now. It’s the same size as Time. Funny coincidence. The change in size represents one of the magazine’s final convulsions in an incurable disease that will soon result in death. The disease is an acute lack of advertising dollars and the cause. not surprisingly, is the Canadian government,

‘b’ihe. tvnth 800.000 subscribers in Canada, need oni.~’ charge Canadian advertis&s $2.700 a page to easily CQ~W Irrrnting costs and the low overliiead of a minimal Canadian staf% and a campaign for subscribers that Mach2ans can’t dream oi.

And they still make a very substantial profit. Maclean’s however, with its fully Canadian operation. must charge $4.600 just to stay in business. At twice the cost the advertisers just aren’t opting

for Macleans. Under present circumstances this condition can only be terminal. The change in size will reduce printing costs and will help hide a decrease in content. Ht will also mean the same

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directed at the Canadian market. But in 1966 when most of O’Leary’s proposals were made law, Time and Readers Digest were made exceptions. No rationale for this peculiar action was necessary. It resulted from very obvious pressure by the American government. At the time, even O’Leary condemned the exception and warned that they would cause dire repercussions. (Making big American magazines exceptions to our rules is nothing unusual in Canada. When Time and Life arrive at your local post office, first class mail is put aside until those publiica tions. paying second class bulk rates. are sorted. ) Last year Macleans operated at a real loss for its pubiishers.. Ad%aclean-13unter. For awhile that loss may be absorbed by t,he firm’s other more profitable ventures. Hut unless the government revokes the Time-Readers digest exception eventually all copies of Macleans magazine will sell at premium prices in old bookshops.

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Friday,

January

17, 1969 (9:37)

64 1

the pages of history 1961

If your still waiting for the government to give you enough funds to eat this term the lead story on Friday January 13, 1961 will touch your heart and wallet. The senate and board of goverranging from $450.00 to a high of $7,500.00. This program will benors of the University of Waterloo gin next fall, superceding the mohave approved a scholarship proentering or dified version of the for students program gram that was introduced this fall. already enrolled in the University 1962

DINE

& DANCE

IN THE Thurs.,

Fri. and Sat.

It seems that newspaper editors at Waterloo have always been very harried people. In the Thursday January 14, 1962 issue of the Coryphaeus, Ron Hornby wrote a front-page letter whose sentiment still remains close to the hearts of all Chevron editors. Also on the page were a feature on the growth of Quebec separatism, a story about a student’s recent trip to Brazil and an announcement that a studio had been hired to take grad photos. I am fully aware that this will head, perhaps the knowledge plea, another abortive yet be that repetition remains the best something compels me to remind teacher-whatever the compulthe student body that it is not their sion, I again urge every student privilege but their duty to support to contribute some form of literPerhaps conthe Coryphaeus. templatlon of the new year a- ary endeavor to the newspaper, 1963

On January 18, 1963 the front page of the local sheet carried the message, “U. OF W. welcomes NFCUS delegates” in honor of the seventy five Ontario studbnt council officers meeting on campus for the annual conference of the Ontario region of the National Federation of Canadian University Students (now CUS). The main story was the signing of a major treaty with the opposition down the road (the agreement was formerly dropped in 1966). S.C. this week passed an agree“assume responsibility for damment the student councils of this Uniages of malicious or mischievous university and Waterloo nature to either or both aforemenversity College of the Waterloo tioned universities; and in all Lutheran University which states cases, it must be reasonable esthat the councils will accept the damages to tablished that the alleged damage responsibility of was caused by students of either university properties. or both universities.” Both councils jointly agree to 1964

On January 16, 1964 not much seemed to be happening around the university. Grad photos were being taken again and student council elections were on their way but the big news of the week was the fact that the bridge club was welcoming new members. Inside the paper, however was a remarkable editorial which raised a very important social problem. It read in part: The public is becoming more and more appreciative of higher education. Most managerial positions require at least a general B.A., and in engineering fields the M.A.Sc., is rapidly becoming a necessity. Like any valuable public commodity, there is a social prestige attached to the “haves”, and by inversion a social stigma attached to the “have nots”. In other words, education is now playing an important role in the stratification of our society. It is doing this in two ways.

First, education increases the earning power of an individual (money being the basic social divider); and second, the possession of knowledge itself increases the owners social standing (the threadbare philosopher is an example). Now because of this new educational emphasis there is an increasing problem on the university campus...What happens to the student who flunks and what happens to the student who is afraid of flunking?

Board Federation

Kl-WEEKEND (Full program

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are invited EDITOR,

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CAMP

of Publications

OF THE

COST

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The term of office of the April 30, 1970. The position

editor begins is salaried.

May

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and

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All applications must be received by the office of the publications not later than noon, Friday, January 31.

CALL: Norm

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CREATIVE

ARTS January

CALENDAR 17

FRIDAY, CHANTEURS de PARIS, “Singers of Paris.” This is not a concert, but a festival of merriment. Theatre of the Arts, 8:30 p.m., Admission 2.50, Students 1.50. The VEREL and Bailly Company, CHANTEURS de PARIS, consist of seven youthful, handsome, charming, witty, talented men under the leadership of Bailly, who reminds one of Maurice Chevalier.

January Monday,

Art Film, West

Wind,

January

20 Varley.

AL105,

12:15

kiddies’

p.m., FREE.

Tuesday, Noon Concert Series, Mrs. Aiko Inoue, Koto Player, 12:15 p.m., Theatre of the Arts, FREE. (KDTD is a Janpanese traditional musical instrument which was originally introdu’ced from China in the eighth century.)

January Art,

Art

by Brenda Wilson and Dave X Stephenson Chevron staff

Art Session, Dennis Young, Curator of Modern Gallery of Ontario. Mr. Young will lecture on “Claude whose paintings can be viewed at the gallery until

excerpts loo, Drama Admission

from

Company Pro1.25, Students

From your door to ANYWHERE IN T

Keeping in mind that the Michigan State players are supposed to be veteran semi-professional actors, it is difficult to praise their performance of the Government Inspector as the entire play came off smelling the rank amateurism. Presented in the arts theater Friday and Saturday to less than a capacity crowd on both nights, the Government Inspector was basically a dissappointment. Gogol, noted Russian author of government cut-ups, may have written a good play. The way in which it was enacted though left one undecided as to whether the play was weak or the company was. A good play is always supposed to have an interest inspiring introduction, but this was not the case here. In fact the whole first act was poor.

Uniwat and

For its second major production of the year, the University of Waterloo drama company will present William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or

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But after a refreshing intermission things picked up a little for the final two acts. The Government Inspector is usually described as a “satirical farce of petty local government officials and officialdom.” A farce it was. On the whole it was over-acted. Roberta Moore as the daughter was surprising. She used a tone of voice never heard before. Her melodramatic mother had a voice reminiscent of fingernails on a blackboard and her father, the judge, was at times a little too blustery. Fortunately the play had its moments. The timing, the hardest part of a comedy, was excellent. The stage movements, although at times wild and unsuitable, were pulled off well. The settings and costuming were uncluttered and appropriate. Possibly the best performers in the troupe gave a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern characterization to two local landowners. Their

by Pat Connor

SERVICE to

play

You Will.

Unlike last year’s show, Ai You Like lt which was done hippie-style, this play will be produced in early 17th century period costume and set. However, this change of dress should not deter you from seeing this show because, after all, clothes do not make the man, or play, or “what you will”. The director, Mita Scott Hedges, described the production as being a fun play. It certainly must be, since only the excitement of the play itself, the possible characterization, and the surety of a fine production could ever induce the people connected with Twelfth Night to work as hard as they have. The director, and the cast and crew members who were nearby during the holidays rehearsed and construtted almost every day. Cast in leading semi-serious roles are Saskia Tuyn

69 Stratford The Stratford National Theater of Canada’s productions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, will tour Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Montreal from March 4 to April 13, 1969. Hamlet will feature Kenneth Welsh in the title role and Leo Ciceri as Claudius. Welsh has been a member of the Stratford Festival Company since 1966. The Ed monton-born actor will be seen next March as D’Artagnan in the CBC Television presentation of the Stratford production of The Three Musketeers. Ciceri is an old hand around Stratford having been there a few years. He has also appeared on Broadway, at Stratford-upon-Avon and the Edinburgh Festival. Ophelia will be played by Anne Anglin, Horation by James Blendick, and Laertes by Neil Dainard, all graduates of the National Theater School. Miss Anglin made her Stratford debut last season, appearing in Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Kitty in The Three Musketeers. Now in his third year with the Company, Blendick was seen as Snug in the Dream, Porthos in

tour

better humorous anonymities elevated the mood several times. But even these merits were not enough to pull the Government Inspector out of the class of a fair play. * * * Pinnochio, in contrast to the Government Inspector, was a light play that served to amuse. The audience was mainly children and the drama and the players catered well to them. “Kids, can you help me find asked the good my elves?“, fairy. This sort of audience involvement, especially a child audience was particularly good. Using this technioue and costuming and make-up Athey were able to hold this very difficult audiencc’s attention. It was a fun play to watch. It was a for-real Iplan. because the audience, the kids. were there to enjoy themselves. There were no phony up-tight people coming to look for something they can’t understand. And there was more than a full house there.

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as Viola (the girl dressed as boy), Judy Dunlop as Olivia (the wealthy lady who falls in love with Viola) and Rich Ennis as Orsino (the count who is madly in love with Olivia). The straight comedy leads are filled by John Turner as Malvolio (Olivia’s hypocritical steward, who secretly loves her-for her money and position;, Paul-Emile Frappier a: Sir Toby Belch (Olivia’s corpulent, lusty, conniving, but loveable kinsman), and Ian Gaskell as Sir Andrew Aguecheek Stan Laurel to Sir Toby’s Oliver Hardy-a dimwitted, cowardly fop). Other cast members include ,John Taylor, Don Blair, Ron Watkin, Gerry Parowinchak, Patricia Connor, Alec Cooper, Fred Tierney, Lee Campbell, Dave Ditner, Olev Wain, Ken Quanz, Liz Janzen and Brenda Nicolichuk. The play will be presented on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Jan. 23, 24, and 25 at 8:30 pm, for regular prices, at the arts theater. Matinees will be held on the Thursday and Friday at 2 pm for highschool audiences.

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during the 1968 summer Festival. Since Dainard first appeared with the Stratford Company in 1966, he has been featured in such roles as Richard III, Demetrius, Tybalt and Konstantin in The Seagull.

Powys Thomas will play Polonius. Last season he was Athos in The Three Musketeers and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. He is also director of the Stratford Drama Workshop. The cast for Hamlet also includes: Colin Fox as Rosencrantz, Peter Scupham as Guildenstern, Kenneth Pogue as the Ghost, Bernard Behrens, Mervyn Blake, Max Helpmann, Eric Donkin, John Gardiner, Joyce Campion, Joel Kenyon, Guy Bannerman, Lawrence Benedict, Patrick Carter, Jane Casson, Patrick Crean, Mary Hitch, D.M. Hughes, John Innes, Ned Leavitt, Robin Marshall and Tedde Moore. William Hutt will be featured as Sir Epicure Mammon in The A/chemist. During the 1968 Festival, Hutt made his Stratford debut as a director with Waiting for Godot, and was acclaimed for his performances as Tartuffe

and as Trigorin in The Seagull. Face will be played by Bernard Behrens and Subtle by Powys Thomas. Behrens has appeared in seven Stratford seasons, in a variety of roles ranging from Malvolio in Twelfth Night to Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. Also appearing in Jonson’s comedy are: Anne Anglin as Dame Pliant, Jane Casson as Do1 Common, Neil Dainard as Annanias: Mervyn Blake as Tribulation, James Blendick as Kastril, Eric Donkin as Dapper, Colin Fox as Drugger, John Gardiner as Surly and Kenneth Pogue as Luvewit. Hamlet will be directed by John Hirsch. Designer Sam Kirkpatrick was born in Ireland and has worked with such companies as the National Theater of Great Britain, the Oxford Playhouse and the Sadler’s Wells Opera. The Alchemist will be directed by Jean Gascon. Designer James Hart Stearns was principal designer for the Repertory Thea ter of Lincoln Center fm-n its opening in 1965 until 1967. iMusic for The

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Over a hundred years ago Tennyson glorified the fiasco of Balaklava with his poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. In 1936 Errol Flynn, in pomp and gallantry charged again down the valley in one of the screens classic, if slightly eronous battle sequences. Today Tony Richardson, backed by promanent historians and a fine script by Charles Wood, easily destroy all falsity of the legend and add a little social comment as well. The Charge of the Light Brigade is an extraordinary film, easily one of the finest spectacles in years. Unlike most ‘Sand and Sandal’ epics that have been coming from Hollywood and Italy or Leanish efforts of little men that appear bigger in spectacular backgrounds, The Charge tries desperately to portray an entire civilization. It does it well if slightly unsimpathetically. The viewer is presented with mighty England, selfishly believing herself the center of civilization because world industry evolves from her. In her domain live greatly divided classes accentuated by Victorian stuffiness. A relatively liberal nation (liberal to other nations) demands war against the mean, oppressive Russia, while her own citizens cruelly exploit the weaker members. Officers treat their men like their horses, without affection or thought. Gay balls go on in beautiful ballrooms as professional soldiers muster an army from the ignorant rabbles of the slums-promising gold coins for servitude. There is no question to all of this nonsence, except from Captain Nolan, an idealist who developes heroic proportions before he is ungallantly liquidated at Bal’aklava. Charles Wood’s script professionally presents a vivid, no-holds-barred picture of the decadent Victorian society that greatly resembles the Western civilization of today. What it comes to is the blind and chaotic voyage to inevidable distructlon at the hands of brainless idiots. Lord Raglan, a gentle, shrewd but eventually failing fool becomes the leader of the army. He has gpeat difficulty in remembering that the Russians are the enemy, not the French. Lord Cardigan is presented as villanous, malevolent and pigheaded as no doubt he was. Placed under the command of his brother-in-law, Gen. Sir James Scarlett, whom he dispises, eventually evolves into a child-like bickering. The entire film, though, is greatly unsympathetic to the times.

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Probably the greatest aspect of the film was its technical perfection. The large budget left open great room for the best in equipment and editing. The color camera of David Watkins added greatly to the Victorian shine of the film except for its opening which was slightly hard on the eyes. It seemed that while the main character was acting the characters in the background, though out of focus were also performing relative actions that you wanted to see. Their blurred action was distracting. Peter Suschitzky’s second-unit photography was fine, especially during the battle sequences. The cartoon work of Richard Williams was in great contrast to the satire of the rest of the movie, being much harder hitting. Still I found it amusing and terribly interesting. It aided greatly to the temper of the times, appearing like mid-nineteen century Punch cartoons brought to life. Simon Kaye’s sound track was exceptionally fine. I can recall many pictures, for instance Mankiewiez’s Cleopatra, in which much of the relevent dialog was garbled and indistinquishable. But in The Charge it was clear and crisp. The battle sequence, for instance, needed no music, as the sound of the horses were enough to excite the audience. Also it is worth mentioning that the music was so underplayed as to become unnoticable. The costumes by John Mollo and David Walder seem to, as Stanley Kauffman said, “jump from the engraved page into daily life.”

Director Tony Richardson, a British director, was born in 1928. Since 1949 he has been involved in the film world. He has had an off again, on again success in this profession. With Reisz, he co-directed Momma Don’t NOW to become well-known. This lead to Look Back in Anger in 1959 and the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1962, all first rate social commentaries. Richardson became better known to the contemporary film audience with Tom Jones in 1963, that won best picture of the year award by the academy of motion-picture arts. Since that high point in his career he has made some lesser successful films such as The Loved One 1964, a harsh and discusting look at the funeral business. The Charge of the Light Brigade ‘67, highlights a career in films as a social commentator. His latest masterpiece places Richardson amongst the best contemporary film makers of the day.

Performances No doubt the best performance was Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan. Howard presented a dispicable, totally pigheaded villain that one could not help but hate. All of the performances were impeccable. John Gielgud, as Lord Raglan, probably had the greatest depth and sensitivity as the foolish, old commander. David Hemmings overcame his physical stature in his performance as the sandy-eyed Captain Nolan, the picture’s main tragic individual. Vanessa Redgrave’s small part as his lover was not exceptional, and no command performance. Of particular mention should be Roy Pattison, as the veteran sergeant-major who was destroyed by the pigheaded army that he so greatly believed in.

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Another of the Boston sound groups, the Ultimate Spinach, has undergone a major change in style. The previous disorganised sound of the group has developed into a tight competent example of multi-instrumented talent. The first song on “Behold and See” of the cosmos, is “Guilded lamp a great example of the close knit harmony of the group. It is also a good solid, semi-heavy song. Unfortunately the group leaves this style for the rest of the side, in favour of almost a muzak style of playing. An exception to this is Mind flowers, a Clapton-guitar styled number, which builds in listenability for about ten minutes. Although probably not as good as several other of the Boston groups (like the Beacon Street Union), the album is listenable and enjoyable. Y

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I had intended to make some sort of critique of the University. Such critiques are usually based on one of two observations. The first is that the Universities are not what they claim to be: that the myths of true scholarship and learning have gone unfulfilled. The second, taking the university’s self-image as the producer of employees and managers for the technological society, admits that the university is what it claims to be, but that it is misdirected. The two critiques might be respectively labelled, the liberal and the radical. It seems to me that both types of critiques are true enough, though not the whole truth. The University, in presenting itself to a variety of publics, has a variety of images. The second image is more true: no one disputes that the educational system has in many ways become a factory and, in fact, the ethics of efficiency and uniformity are those publicly aspired to by the administrators of the educational system. At the same time it is the long-held images of scholarship and learning that have made the universities more immune to such criticism than the public and secondary school system. Finally, then, both types of critique of the university end up by deifying the original myths and calling for their realization. But this seemed futile to me because I don’t expect that the university is open to change. If I thought that this was a ‘good society’ or even one which is flexible in a number of dimensions, then I would consider that I ought to engage in what is called responsible criticism. Responsible criticism is that kind of criticism that can be co-opted and put into effect. Such criticisms cannot threaten existing frameworks of values or bureaucracy; it is to responsible criticism that the liberal pluralist refers when he speaks of the value of dissent. Thus while Stevenson and Humphrey became responsible, Fullbright became irresponsible. But if there is nothing socially constructive to say (this might be called institutional nihilism), then why indulge in critical analysis at all? Because I am opposed to the bland assertion made by our society that the way things are and the way things ought to be are identical. * * * The Project was intricate and complex. Yet within it there was a certain beautiful simplicity-what lchabod had once named the Unifying Application. And so, complex though it was, it could be understood, grasped by bureaucrat and mathematician at once. Ichabod’s Project was no more and no less

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We live in a socie and externally. Alw middle-class, and th prosperity. The War on Povert of the truth’. In the 1 middle class, all of t too loud a noise, whc Communism abroad Both, by the applicat suasion, will finally share the fruits of I ner. Peace is when nc The living-death, society has become educational system i way, and at the san required to sustain tl The requirement of be sufficiently emas in this way without . ing. And of course, ( able in the more m, of alcoholism, execul Pre-requisite to ef 1 of basic optimism. ’ dowed with such an ( that society is basic able, or that it can be Believing neither cial nihilism. Social r ing that one can affc mediate environmen conception without Ir lism,-the convictior one does. To begin believing that is, with the asst sible answers. The alternative to thought is tacit insan

amputation of the aver-, mitted by the average nd with this calculation ice -not really invented :ation. The device was Id through the ‘hearing tlized model, each child change of class bell. By e bell for each child, a But could be attained. lal step, had consumVERY CHILD COULD EXPERIENCING, BY THE AVERAGE QUANse who ordinarily felt bells: those who felt too c as it were, abuzz with n, so would be all the I perhaps (though this inktank. ic his morning subway e and modest. Though n whispered in the hall remained calm, making and experiments. s, :himes. Of course, Icha-. it was, was not entirehad known him. In the Meets, lchabod had the four years of his ho01 course. His final I nine digit numbers in rd even then his teachonly the beginning. At t difficult course-A,M, atics, and spelling) and .ectly to work for Thinkears there, he had con-

ch is at war internally e dominant values are nant style middle-class at Marcuse calls ‘a slip on of the empire of the ,ho obstruct, who make he image, are enemies. ted as poverty at home. ;ufficient means of pervinced, and enabled to ion in a peaceful manbcks the boat. nirvana ethic of our phant. The job of our in people to live in this 2 to perform the tasks hanics of consumption. ‘, of ‘adjustment’, is to 1 and accepting to live g off the nearest buildlis alternative is availmore digestible forms car accidents, etc. affect change is a kind litical actor, to be enIrn, must either believe ood, and thus reformtionized. one inexorably to soi is the despair of knowhing outside of the imfew can retain such a rawn to a deeper nihi.t doesn’t matter what to question everything i that there are no posa course e agrees

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insane by most people. I think a great many come silently to this alternative, and in agreeing to the social judgment of insanity, friction is reduced at the cost of fragmenting reality. One-dimensional bourgeois society thus breeds one-dimensional radicalism and both play their single-minded roles. And, in fact, is this not what liberal pluralism demands of small minorities? Society can only accommodate the deeply dissident on the condition that they agree that their way is peculiar to them. The solution of tacit insanity becomes increasingly attractive as society becomes more repressive. While the beat generation sought legitimacy through art, -and the early civil rights movement sought it through slogans of integration, the mood has changed: the differences are no longer muted but proclaimed. Why? Because the myth of powerlessness has become

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At one time minorities believed that they could gain power by stating the opposite. But the rhetoric has turned out to be the truth. Dissent can defy or be incorporated. When the liberal society perceived that its subgroups were in conflict, it became the concensus society. And as the aberration of liberalism dissolves into the traditional social division of rulers and ruled, the true significance and role of the major social institutions re-emerge. For they are at once instruments and creators of the patterns of dominance. And, in the emerging fulfilment of the prophecy of industrialism, we see the final fraud of the myth of reason. No one can believe that if only the proper arguments were made the war would stop-or that penalties for drug-taking would be rescinded. No one can believe such things, yet the myth of reason-of the persuadability and flexibility of power-is the backbone of the highest institution of dominance-the educational system. And it is within this sytem that Doublespeak (and Doubledo) have attained their realization, and education becomes the means for enslavement. * * * And now, after three years of solid work, Ichabod’s project was almost completed. He was sitting at his desk, pressing buttons and idling away some time racing the computer, when his intercom flicked on. “Miss Freudina minutes,” the acknowledge.”

Jones will see lchabod Oise in ten metallic voice rasped out. “Kindly

“Miss Freudina Jones will see lchabod Oise in nine minutes and forty-five seconds,” answered Ichabod. * * * Three times before lchabod had been summoned. Once when he began work, once when he conceived his project, and once when it was approved. So, fortified with a swallow of creme de menthe (it needed no breath freshener afterwards) lchabod stumbled, lanky and pale, down the corridor to the elevator. Up he went, six floors, and sat down on the waiting bench. I wonder what it is this time, lchabod thought. But he didn’t know so he sat and waited, his hands moist and busy brushing his hair off his forehead. “Come in,” said the voice. lchabod entered. The office was spacious and comfortable. The matching rut and walls contrasted nicely with Freudina’s new dress and the room glowed with her smile. * * * “Sit down,” metal chair the couch.”

she said as IchaboJ sat down in the in front of her desk. “No, sit down on

lchabod shuddered, despite himself, He had heard of these sessions, though no one had ever heard anything except that they began with the words, “No, sit down on the couch.” He did.

Miss Jones brought her chair around and sat beside him. “NOW, Ichabod,” she said, “I have a pleasant surprise for you.” Ichabod, unable to imagine such a thing, said nothing. “There might be a promotion,” tically. Still lchabod was silent.

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lchabod still said nothing but stared at her face. Her expression was impenetrable. She looked neither old nor young, and her orange dress gave no hint of what lay behind it, though lchabod felt no curiosity on that score. “lchabod,” she said, “do I remind you of your mother?” He looked at her. There was no resemblance. “No” he said. ***

Is there any way out of hovering between nihilism and insanity? Of course there is. Being opposed-to the values-and their social realities-paraded by this society, the way out is to set up what I think is good and to act on that. And while this may seem a difficult task, the incentive, the escape from nihilism or insanity, is a great one. But what happens to those who set about to do this? They become the super-orthodox. An institution is created for living the good life. ‘Its values, its life-style, are counter-posed to those of the world around it. Yet what are those values-the values of the private schools and treatment centers? They are not new but-and this is often admitted-conservative. The values appropriate to the beginning of the industrial revolution: the ethic of redemption through self-sacrifice. The retreat to an idealized past is the available reconciliation of opposition to society and the need for security. It transforms an ironic duality: the secret belief in the apocalypse and the search for permanent order. Both sides of this duality are reactions to the chaos of the modern world. Both reinstate the battle of good and evil. The chos is thus the manifestation of this battle. Those who see it, fear and exalt it. Finally, though, the retreat to the monasteries is only temporary; it is there that the conservatives await the final climactic moment. The necessities of retre,at recreate the struggle for existence. So once again there is the emergence of the protestant life-style. And in this environment the original conservative questionthe question of human purpose-disappears. Survival, psychological and financial, becomes the all-consuming problem and itself provides the impetus for group coherence. The way out and the way back become the same. * * * “Now Ichabod,” she said, flicking a switch and turning on some Brahms, “I want you to lie down and close your eyes.” He did. “Now what are you thinking, lchabod?” he said, though as he said it he al“Nothing,” ost jumped off the couch, because he had felt it sag. Not only sag, but stiff as he held himself, he was sliding, at first imperceptibily, but then faster, till finally he came to rest against Miss Jones’ thigh. “Now

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When men replaced God by Progress, they deified Reason. The specific meaning of reason was the rational pursuit of knowledge relevant to the conquest of nature. The worldly dispenser of such knowledge is the educational system. But now, in North America, there is no doubt that nature has been defeated-or at least mutilated beyond recognition. There are those, like Jacques Ellul and Timothy Leary, who see this as the end of history. Now that we have solved everything, we have solved nothing, is their common message. (While Leary advocates the loss of self through the use of drugs, his liberal counterparts speak ominously of the problems of leisure. ) What the prophets of the end of history are doing is confusing history with progress. This is a confusion common only to themselves and liberal historians. But it is progress itself which becomes empty; history merely continues. It is true that no one any longer knows towards what we are progressing, but the history is more the record of man’s attempt to put himself on than the record of progress. The goals of organized society are more illusory than real, and the apocalyptic drama is no more than a continuing epic farce. Nonetheless the prophets have a message. That message is that through self-involvement, salvation may be procured. And this has not escaped the communities of the ultra-orthodox. These communities, while not necessarily thinking that history is over, can at least await the apocalypse in a state of nirvana. Two alternatives are thus presented: one may withdraw to await the final confrontation of good and evil, or one may, with Harvey Cox and Marshall McLuhan. embrace the new technology. But I am convinced neither of the end of history nor of the imminence of the great upheaval. And so I am not ready to withdraw, but am not willing to co-opted-which leads back to the choice between nihilism and insanity. So long as they are viewed as terrifying alternatives, then to escape them anything is justified. But nihilism is only nihilism by the standards of progress; and insanity only insanity by the standards of those whom I consider insane. * * * Two hours later, pale but still smiling, lchabod emerged from the office. He walked to the elevator, and punched the button. Down it went...two, four, six flights. The door opened. He walked out of the elevator and into his office. Then he opened the bottom left hand drawer and took a deep swig. It’s been a hard day, he thought as he finished at ‘Zulu’. Matt

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Saturday afternoon saw a great deal of activity at the new University of Waterloo recreation center. The ladies netted a large audience for the second annual International Volleyball Tournament The men also managed to get a stranglehold on many of the sports buffs at a tri-school wrestling meet. In the main gymnasium the ladies served up an entertaining brand of volleyball. The semi-finals saw the University of Toronto doing battle with Courtland University of New York state and the hometown with the girls volleyballing women from Western. The girls from U of T showed too much class for the American team as well as the rest of the opposition as they bounced undefeated into the finals. Waterloo’s Athena’s met stiff competition in their semi-final match with Western. The London ladies were too steady and won the right to meet U of T in the final game. Western surprised Toronto, taking the first game of the final set by a large margin but U of T regained its composure in the second game and evened the count. The third and final game proved the most interesting of the after-

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The men from RMC at Kingston and the grapplers from Windsor struggled valiantly but were unable to break Waterloo’s grip on the trophy. The final scores after all holds were released were Waterloo 4IRMC 8; Waterloo 38 Windsor 13; Windsor 26-RMC 16. It was an interesting afternoon as the spectators were able to wander back and forth between pretty girls gracefully smashing a ball about and virile men locked in hand-to-hand combat gracefully smashing each other.

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noon. Toronto took a large lead early in the game but Western managed to rally and close the gap to two points. The rally was spiked by the aggressive serving and network of U.W.O. In the end the experience of Toronto’s team came to the fore as Western showed a few bad slips. The girls regained control of the game and grabbed themselves a 15-12 victory to win the final set 2-l. In another section of the recreational complex the grunt and groan Warriors were fighting their way to a lopsided victory in the wrestling tournament. Waterloo won eleven of its fifteen bouts, eight by pins, to put the laurels in a full Nelson. A standout for the Warriors was Doug Houghton as he won two tussles by pins.

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Woe are the Booze ‘n’ Tight gang tonight. Yes, it was our very own Warrior blade and club crew that outplayed, outskated, outfought outcheered (fans) and outscored the Toronto squad. It took only four minutes of overtly aggressive acts by both two teams before Warriors’ Gary Robertson was sent off for interference. Within the next three minutes the ref let everyone know that it was a hockey game as he sent seven more to. the cooler, six went off for disruptive confrontations. Rick Bacon opened the scoring with a low shot from the right wing which found home just over goalie Tom Little’s smelly foot. The rest of that frame consisted of rink-length rushes (tongue twister), a few near break-

aways and several goal mouth melees. When the teams started the second twenty, the Blews showed their old style and rattled our golden boys on their way to a scoring lead of 2 to 1 on goals by Bob McClelland at 1: 57 and Ward Passi at 9:03. Play reminiscent of a U.S. national team left several uncovered vultures sitting on Arlon’s pucks dribbling hither door, and yon, but the several hungry hundred (fans) rahrahed the Puck Power on. Ken Laidlaw stretched the mesh at 12 :06, just as Toronto captain Paul Laurent fell on his as: doing a hero leap onto the ice (cheer twice). At 15: 19 Ron Robinson made a poor pass towards the goal area. It did however make an excellent shot as it sailed over Tom Littles still smelling left

foot from a very sharp angle on the left wing. From then on we were number One* The third period was not the kind fpr -yeak-kid?eyed spqrts tans. ‘l’he Blues tried and tried to catch our team off guard. When they did, Arlon Popkey did fantastic things like skate over to check someone at the boards with about ten seconds left-and fail. Toronto had their “power play” in gear for four uninterupted minutes but the Warrior defence must have seen the tuba player gesturing in the stands because they just happened to do what very few (none) Canadian teams have done in recent years : WIN at the Varsity ice palace. The exuberant fans who were disgustingly sober, but still loud all night, slithered onto ice shouting fascist slogans about master race, and all that.

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between the posts for Windsor, all in the 2nd stanza. The basketball Warriors fell behind early in the game and were down 34-9 after 15 minutes on the courts. But in the five minutes remaining in the half managed to outscore Windsor to trail 36-19. Tom Kieswetter was an outstanding player and top scorer with 10 points for the Warriors. Jaan Laaniste netted nine points, and Dave Crichton navigated the hoop for eight points. Andy Auch scored 18 points for Windsor and Chris Wydrzynski 13. The b-ball boys record is now one win and one early loss, early in the season.

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Renison College is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Starting the festivities is a small college basketball tournament this Friday and Saturday. There are’ seven games scheduled with teams from Renison, St. Jeromes, St. Pauls, and Conrad Grebel. Two out of town teams are

also entered, Erindale from Toronto, and Huron from Western. Tickets for the seven games are twenty-five cents each, or $1 for all seven. Mike Marshall, tournament coordinator says, “The two out of town teams will provide top-flight opposition, and there will be the usual rivalry?

Intramural units are completing their practice schedules in hockey, basketball, waterpolo, floor hockey and volleyball in preparation for their first league games. The hockey league begins Tuesday with the powerful Co-op team pitted against the high-spirited Conrad Grebel, at 9 pm at Queensmount Arena. All 15 units in the three intramural leagues appear to have a team entered in the basketball league which commences play Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7 pm in the new gym. The volleyball league will begin Monday at 8: 30 pm in the new gym. The two new team activities, waterpolo and floor hockey, are catching on with almost every

unit entering the league. Floor hockey league starts Wednesday 7 pm Jan. 29 at Seagram’s gymnasium while Waterpolo begins Monday Jan. 27, 7 pm in the new pool. The men’s curling bonspiel will be held Sunday, Feb. 16 from 9 am to 6 pm at the Granite Club. There will be squash instruction by members of the Kitchener Squash Club Jan. 20, 21, and 22 from 7-9 pm. All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. Recreational basketball teams must be entered by Wednesday and recreational volleyball by Thursday. For information phone local 2156.

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Student fears by government

I have been waiting patiently for my student loan now for almost four weeks, yet the wheels of buracracy still aren’t turning. The money that was supposed to be in before Christmas as well as that scheduled for after Christmas is not yet in. I wouldn’t need the money except for my expensive habiteating. I have been told that it will be in, “the end of the week”, for the past four weekends. Today, Tuesday (Jan. 14), I decided to apply for emergency aid, but Mr. De Jeet is ill, “Perhaps if you try tomorrow‘?” Perhaps I will try tomorrow if my coffee supply will keep me alive till then. How many cups does it take to get 3000 calories? R. VELT

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Coming to campus as a firstyear student I had the usual illusions about the wonderful benefits of higher education. Well. I have been here now for one term plus two weeks and have yet to find any of these benefits. Unless, of course, the realization of the pitiful state of the present state of things can be called a benefit. Lectures were supposed to be so much better than highschool classes and yet 95 percent of the first-year students are bored to the point of leaving before many lecturers are over. This type of thing is good for the imaginative student” been Have anv exnerlments made into the idea of composing a course of nothing but seminars: Could more graduate students be used to allow ior less formal seminars? Why aren’t there speciii? peoplil whom vou can go to to C~HCUS,C;things sucn as the besr method:: to research topics and to write ejsav:, All these things would be both challenging and in, ormatlve anti might h e ip keep ‘unhappi ’ SLltdents from looking for challenge.. eicewnerBefore someone answers that

you must learn the basics before this type of thing is possible let me remind you that the free approach to learning works on ;I far more fundamental level at places like Everdale, in Ontario and Summerhill, in England. Surely this type of approach to learning can also work here with no more than a little imagination on the part of professors and students. If none of the professors feel they have the time to do the background work then perhaps a group of students could get together to try to work some of the problems out for themselves“ STEVE EWIKG arts % iBurgess not academicF ESP easily understood

I attended

the recent lecture by Russ Burgess and found his mental act quite good. But was it not in the distinguished lecture series? Students of the art of telepathy, psycholog) and the power of suggestion were interested but their knowledge of the subleci was not increased. ESP

action

I claim an equal amount of ESt’ as Burgess and have spent the past 15 years studying and practising ESP demonstration, witchcraft, hypnosis and the art of misdirecting audiences. I have appeared a: many places and have demonstrated these t,alents to both professors and students. ESP is a relatively simple subject. Anyone can learn thesr, things in a relatively short time and yet to listen to Burgess one would have a ver;, diflerent ides. The reason c L for the person:! i information i.; that I wish 1~ demonstrai~~~ rn,v comnetenc~~ ic: question Burgess on an academ!. level, His explanation ot :;imai4A psychological phenom~~ri;r ;a ; ::auseri :*oniil.-;l0!: parapsychology rat her than edification :,

distinguished lecture series the proper place for a showman? mm HOSSAIN grad civil Fears calls

building cdaspe, for our engineers

One begins to wonder about the real reasons for the coliapse of the parapet along the wall of the athletic building when the architect blames the construction and the contractor claims that poor design caused it. Is it at all possible for the collapse to be the fault of poor materials or hurried workmanship? The athletic building has had a history of problems and these have encompassed everything from a mud slide which made a new gym floor necessary to a finishing date which kept being put back further and further into the future. It would be small wonder if students on this campus became unhappy with the universities expansion program when things which have been so long promised in danger of falling seem down about their ears. I am beginning to think that we would be far better ofi’ if our engineering and architecture students were to do the work at the university. BOJRNI BENSON law III Jacques cds for

criticises sports, sophistication

I’m compelled to take pen in hand and drop you a few lines concerning your sports coverage. Tn general the stories do come up to par, yet in the final analysis they seem strictly a second-string : “i’kc,: :.

Russ Burges.;; wa 7 ;i snowinat. rather t.han an academic. I> th::

Season tickets must be exchanged for a game ticket by presenting the Warriors vs Toronto 5lues stub from their season ticket book at the ticket office in the NORTH-WEST CORNER of the new athletic building, on Monday, January 20. As season ticket holders arrive they will be provided with a number. The tickets will be exchanged with the number holders starting at 9:00 a.m. No exchanged

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Two weeks ago a group of university students in Philadelphia asked me to participate in a discussion of the student revolution. Someone wanted to know where I stood in the matter of student power. I tried to answer by posing some other questions : “Does the transfer of power into the hands of supposed underdogs automatically insure an increase in justice?” “Is a constitutional monarchy typically less responsive to various group interests than a junta under whatever political banner?” “Can one discern a common cause for the many and divergent claims of the student revolt: in France the student leaders were seeking to unseat the national government; in Chechoslovakia they demonstrated against a foreign invader; in Quebec they took over the colleges because their education was too little oriented toward professional training, whereas other North American student leaders protest the hegemony of the professional schools.” “What more probable sources of the pattern of unrest can we find than these overt claims?” First of all it should be pointed out to this a-historical generation which believes that it is doing its “own thing,” that there has been a predecessor to the youth revolt in the German Youth Movement of the nineteen twenties. Emerging from the “Wandervogel’‘-nature and hiking clubs-of the pre-World War I era the German Youth Movement rejected all adult thought as bunk and ali adult authority as tyranney. Eventually the romanticism, nature worship, and irrationalism that the movement fostered was astutely exploited by the Nazi machine with its irrational “blood and soil” myth, leadership cult, and emphasis on action for its own sake. The sociological observer is inclined to view larger structural forces behind patterned ways of behaving. May I suggest that the “revolt of modern youth” which may be seen as a revolution in manners and mores as much as anything else, stems in part at least from the discrepancies between a sharply risen birthrate and the strictures of a labour market unable to absorb youth at the rate it is physically able to enter, and in other frustrations produced by a mass society that is of necessity governed along bureaucratic lines. But because the struggle against mechanized occupations, government thought control, and national states hell-bent toward universal catastrophy appears overwhelming, one vents one’s anger and frustration against the structures closest at hand, with some semblance of power of their own. Thus the German youth of the nineteen twenties lashed out against the remnants of the patriarchal family, and contemporary North American youth which has in the main more pliable and indulgent parents, tears at the fabric of formal education. This analysis in no way condones abuses of power by parents, or for that matter by educational establishments. But it suggests that the destruction of given institutions in no way guarantees in increase of justice for the underdog. At this university we are currently involved in a struggle for power by students: we have just witnessed a series of provocative acts against an administration which has sought to bend over backward to compromise. A frustrated president has lost his cool and indulged in namecalling. As a member of faculty I regret namecalling against student leaders or anyone else. But I also want to go on record as absolutely opposed to any arbitrary power take-over, especially where the establishment has gone out of its way to offer compromises. If the student leadership seeks to evoke a hard line from the administration of the university in ordel: the more effectively to appeal to its constitutents, the current actions concerning the Campus center make a great deal of sense. There is still time for the student movement at this university to return to restraint, reason, and responsibility. In the absence of these necessary ingredients of a civil society I hereby suggest to the administration that it safeguard the long-term interests of the university as whole by the following steps: (1) Shut off all utilities-heat, light, and water-and eliminate all services for the duration of the takeover of the centre. (2) Charge rent to the student federation and to the Chevron, and if refused, evict. (3) Post notices that any damage to the building or to its equipment will be charged to the student federation.

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First off, I want to publically challenge Bob Kilimnik to prove that the Chevron is nothing more than a “radical propaganda bulletin” for in order to fulfil1 such a requirement, the staff must be rigorously controlled and an iron editorial scrutiny maintained. In fact, as any person connected with the Chevron can verify, anyone can write for the newspaper, regardless of political orientation. I suggest that Kilimnik do a series of features to test his hypothesis. I am going to try and answer Kilimnik’s accusations and misunderstandings of the Industrial Workers of the World in the context of the student movement. Hurling meaningless invective has only clouded the issues, Bob, but I shall endeavour to sepI arate the substantial faulty thinking from the par!v anoid cluckings. For one, we (radicals) have not adopted “the anarchistic and syndicalistic philosophy of the Wobi and we recognize blies”. Most of us are socialists, the shortcomings of anarcho-syndicalist philosophy. However, the Wobblies did address themselves to the fundamental problems of class consciousness and human freedom (from exploitation and alienated labor) in a period of history where such sentiments were often dangerous. The following quote from Kilimnik’s letter is perhaps the best guide to his politics.” If the IWW was the solution to all of the world’s problems.. ., why didn’t it become a major labor movement...“. Read it carefully. Would Kilimnik also suggest that if the democratic parties of Germany in the thirties had the solution to the problems of the Fatherland, why did they not form the government instead of the Nazis? Hence we get an equation between fact and truth. If the majority reject a hypothesis, then it must be wrong. Good thinking. Anyway, in the (which Kilimnik but is terrified of to strengthen the and labor. at least

context of the student movement obviously does not understand, nonetheless) the IWW can serve links between radical students in terms of consciousness.

He manages to sneak in brackets the following comment” (who advocated the use of violence)“ when referring to the Wobblies. After the white man had savagely Indians’ heritage, the Great White Father ington and Ottawa accused them of violence, and consequently plundered a when the army was sent to punish the and ungrateful redskin savages.

raped the in Washadvocating little more rebellious

Similarly, when the small rancher, farmer or cowboy was forced to surrender his freedom to earn his living by selling himself for a small wage as a miner in unheard of working conditions (especially when the owners of the mines were responsible for wiping him out financially because they needed his cheap labor) you can understand the tensions that might arise’on a picket line. Indeed, in those days strikes often meant pitched battles between the workers and the agents of the boss (police, militia and army). Yet, most of the violence was of the type described by William D. “Big Bill” Haywood, one of the founders of the Wobblies:

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“They (the strikers) committed no violence except that of removing their hands: big hands, delicate hands, baby hands, some of them gnarled and torn and crippled. But they removed those hands from the machinery. And when they took those hands from machinery the machinery was dead. And that was the “violence” of the strike. And there is nothing more violent in the eyes of the capitalist class than to deprive them of the labor power out of which they get all their capital. There is nothing that will make the capitalist class so mad, that will make them froth at the mouth, so quickly, as to see a working man with his hands in his pockets, or a working woman with her arms folded, or the little children playing with their dolls at or their tops or their marbles. If they belong to the working army they want all those hands busy. Not to see them busy means that the golden stream has ceased to run into their coffers; that is what makes

the capitalist class crazy. It is this that has driven them mad. ” As Kilimnik points out, the Wobbies failed because they, as anarchists could not forge a strong revolutionary organization necessary to smash the system. Yet, this is a highly simplistic view. A fuller understanding, Bob, must include the fact that the numerous faction fights (personal as well as ideological) helped weaken the cause. Furthermore, and perhaps most important of all, the IWW was subjected to a most brutal repression during the late teens and early twenties from which they never recovered. Mass j ailings and deportations. both in the United States and in our own glorious country helped to kill them off. If Kilimnik thinks that I’m falsifying my case, he can check with Prof. Leo ,Johnson of our history dept. who informed me. of the magnitude of the repression directed against the IWW. “... the American and CanaAs Bob continues: dian working forces have never been nor will they be in a condition of general and desperate distress”. Right. The depression was really a company picnic. “In his article Levitt talks only of the craft unions, avoiding completely the industrial unions of the CIO which have organized all the major massproduction industries.. .These craft unions which he sympathizes with have succeeded in puting several major American newspapers out of business permanently, thus showing their economic power. ” Number One) The CIO had a very violent history (sitdown strikes and confrontations with the military), not that I mind, but I wouldn’t want, to see Bob upset. Number Two) I talked about craft unions not. because I wished to avoid the CIO (which has its own very real problems, like a sell-out to the establishment and little class solidarity, ie. it is not a revolutionary movementi but because we are involved with a craft union in the Peterborough Examiner strike where we can see one craft pitted against another before our very eyes. Number Three) Even if a craft union could really shut down a newspaper (and in the case of some of those American rags I t,hink it would be a net gain). I find it difficult to understand an economic power that can only succeed in putting itself out of a job. I never claimed that the Wobblies could SUVteed now where they failed in the past, tie. make the definitive revolution 1. I simply stated: “lf working people are to combat t+esc trends. the:\7 must be prepared to look for more effect,ive fo~*lri:; of organization. The concept of the Industrial Workers of) the World is one way to achieve these ends” Now, I’m really

ashamed of our economivs dept. what gross national product has to do with wages. Really, GNP can rise without an: kind of increase in wages if profits rise, and brc-+ ther, profits have never been higher.

I’d like to know

Now, the only count,ries in the world to see any kind of substantial growth in real wages of the la4 while are West Germany and Belgium. (MJ~ stairstics are based upon the research of Lin Marcus. an American economist,., and ,lohn Rowntrec, a leoturer in economics at York BJ.) In most other countries of the Western world, real wages have generally remained constant trr they have declined (the trend). Yet, even if they had risen somewhat, the real welfare of the individual would still be declining. The soaring cost of housing rneans that that much more of every wage dollar goes to housing to the detriment of other expenditures (food, clothing etc.) (This is due to our housing crisis). Although I am not an economist like Kilimnik, it seems to me that we are heading for a full blown cyclical. crisis of capitalism ie. a depression, and it appears as though ‘bourgeois’ economics is hard pressed to find a way out. (I suggest you start to read /ldonopoly capital by Baran and Sweezy and the vol. III, section II1 of Capital by Marx, Bob, so you can help save us all from bad times.) Anyway, it’s been a nice chat. I hope you’ve seen the film Ihe graduate Bob because I have only one word for you, thaS is very important and that I want you to remember*-“Plastics”. CYRIL LEVlT? nolitical refugct\ iron3 poS-isci 111 Friday,

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The whole political left scene can be pretty confusing to someone who has had contact with it in no more than a superficial way; so this little blurb may be helpful to those of you who think all groups on the left from the New Democratic Party to anarchist extremists originate with a planning board in Moscow, Peking or l-lanai (or even Jerusalem).

The New Democratic

Youth

The kids in the N.D.Y. are organized as the youth wing of the NDP. Most of them share their loyalty with other left-wing organizations (for example, trotskyists, maoists, orthodox Communists, student radicals et al. ) . Those who seriously consider the NDY their political home base are generally a. interested in rising through the ranks of the Party with the eventual goal of sitting in Parliament and becoming a defender of the people (in that order), 6. liberals who are worried about George Wallace and Richard Daley types, c. bourgeois humanitarians and sentimentalists who are worried about Mao-Tse Tung types, or d. students registered in one of John Wilson’s political science courses who really don’t believe him when he says that his students’ political affiliation does not influence his marking.

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The front group for these cats is The Canadian Student Movement and its local counterparts-the Waterloo Student Movement, Guelph Student Movement and McGill Student Movement, but not the Toronto Student Movement, the only exception. The Internationalists originated in Dublin, Ireland several years ago with Hardial “People” Baines, a lecturer in As CUS president Peter Warrian recently said, “Baines is the only one I know who started with the intention of becoming the leader of the third world.” He demands strict discipline within the group. His appeal is messianic and metaphysical. At one time, it is rumoured that he flirted with Sartrean existentialism but rejected it as a petty-bourgeois philosophy in favour of the “eternal truth of Marxism-Leninism as embodied in the thoughts of the great teacher and Helmsman, Chairman Mao. “Indeed, the Chinese paradigm of the proletarian cultural revolution is central to the Internationalists. They are “straighter” than Robert Stanfield (and probably even less relevant). They dress impeccably: men in white shirt and tie, women in very plain garb with no make-up. Their language is highly ideological and appears somewhat forced (the leaders tend to speak with a Pakistani accent after the Fashion of Hardial Baines) . Their most effective weapon appears to be the struggle session, where unsuspecting victims fall prey to an incessant browbeating. A friend of mine, Andy Wernick 22

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had such an experience this summer. A one time mutual friend of ours invited both of us to meet a group of friends who had just arrived from Montreal. Well, I couldn’t make it, but Andy, unsuspectingly walked in to it. There were no “hello’s” or “how doyou-do’s” upon his entrance. Instead, he was faced with a group of very ‘straight’ and stern looking cats and an accusingly booming voice : “Why are you a conscious, anti-communist, counter revolutionary misleading the masses?” Not understanding the whole scene, Wernick defensively replied, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” Then the “struggle’ ’ and “criticism and selfcriticism” began. Here are the “lines” that came out: Che Guevara was a dupe of the CIA (didn’t the bourgeois press glorify him?) ; Herbert Marcuse is a paid CIA agent (his pessimism concerning the prospects for a revolution are misleading people) ; Fidel Castro is a bourgeois, liberal, “hippie” (the free love hostels in Cuba are objectively counter-revolutionary) ; Alexander Dubcek is a fascist; SDS in the U.S. is a fascist organization (for as Chairman Mao has stated “An acorn cannot grow into a pear tree”) etc., etc. The tragedy of the Internationalists aside from their totally schematic ideology and their imposition of a foreign cultural model on the Canadian scene is their lack of any insight into the workings of the human mind (in-depth psychology) which they dismiss as a petty-bourgeois trick. To most people they are irrelevant “freaks” on the left. (By the way, for all you admirers of CUS, their “line” is that it is a counterrevolutionary, anti-communist organization, run by “New Left Hacks” to mislead the “people”). At first glance, one might think that the Internationalists are political eclectics and highly schematic Stalinists, yet upon closer examination, one discovers them to be a manifestation of the Will of Hardial Baines.

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Young

Socialists

These people represent the future leadership of the Socialist Workers Party, the vanguard of the modern, orthodox followers of Leon Trotsky. In Canada, the Young Socialists have taken control of the various “Committees to End the War”,-their major focal point. In fact, until the Vietnam War knocked the world series off the front pages, the Young Socialists were a small group of students operating under the guidance of Ross Dowson, the owner of the Vanguard bookstore at Yonge and

Bloor and the SWP candidate for mayor of the city of Toronto for the last ump-teen years. However, with the entrance of a host of “liberal” opposition to the war, the Young Socialists had found a political cause that offered them a platform for recruitment. The “line” is something like this: there is a nasty, evil war in Vietnam. There are people in this country who own large industries and who, by their own free volition choose to support the war. They in turn, are backed by the Canadian government which is a free and independent agency. What the Young Socialists propose for a solution, consists of putting masses of people into the streets to pressure the government into action. At that point, we can worry about poverty, the quality of life and socialism. Almost all the efforts of the YS have been in connection with the war in Vietnam. One YS organizer involved in the Castle Frank high school dispute over length of hair and miniskirts managed to relate everything to the war. Well, if we ignore the fact that there is no national, indigenous and independent group of industrialists who support the war, but a continentalist militaryindustrial complex which chops through the “unguarded border”; and a powerless government in Ottawa in terms of independent foreign policy, then the program of the YS is not too bad. However, when the Vietnam war is settled, the YS might find themselves without any kind of base whatsoever.

Communist of Canada

Party

CPC kids are really in a bad way. They never really recovered from the Hungary problem-and Czecheslovakia just about finished them off. Charlie Boylan, editor of Scan magazine-the official youth publication of the party-has recently resigned, dragging a good portion of the youth wing with him. Most young people find the apologetics and verbal acrobatics concerning the Soviet Union, too much of a sell-out. Kids simply refuse to “tow-the line” anymore. Furthermore, the orthodox Communist parties have grown fat and complacent. They are no longer trusted by other revolutionary left-wing groups. There was even talk that the C.P. set Che Guevara up for his murder in Latin America.

The Radical Student Movement Lastiy, we come to the groups who take the form of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), SDU (Students for a Democratic University), or RSM (Radical Student Movement). Unlike the previously mentioned organizations, these groups do not present

a “line” in the sense of a strict. ideologically determined formula that is automatically applied. They are composed of students who differ, sometimes widely, in their political analysis, yet who are brought together for one of the following reasons: @ no other established left-wing group can accommodate them; @ as members of one left-wing group, they are trying to influence or take over another, @ they are right-wingers spying for the Edmund Burke society and/or the RCMP. e they think it’s “cool” and “hip” to be in a left-wing group, 0 they think students are generally considered left-wing by John Q. Public and hence, they, as individuals must live up to the stereotype like their analyst advised. Yet, the strength of this type of group is at the same time its weakness, for it is very difficult to formulate any kind of analysis or program when people have different political points of view. Even so, the lengthy struggles at meetings that go on ‘till all hours of the morning are valuable in themselves. Although things move more slowly, people move along with them. The greatest problem in my opinion, results from the personality cults which tend to spring up and confuse the issues. Splits within the ranks are due to personality clashes as least as often as political disagreements. For example at Waterloo, until only recently, the Grant Gordon, Cyril Levitt, Joe Surich faction (grouped around last year’s SDU) could not get together with the Steve Ireland, Stewart Saxe and Peter Warrian faction. This wasn’t due to any severe ideological hang-up, but rather, related directly to personality clashes. The other personality problem concerns charismatic leadership-a notion that doesn’t go well with the rhetoric of “participatory democracy”. In groups like the RSM it is easy for a good talker or an advanced theoretician to become the ‘guru’ of the group, or of the group, or of a particular faction within the group. This leads to a situation where people tend to repeat the phrases of the guru without making an attempt to understand what he is saying. Yet, this problem is squarely faced at RSM meetings-seeming proof of the old addage, “when you understand the cause, you’ve found the cure”. For the RSM, the cure is education. This term the emphasis will be placed upon the “Marxist Lecture Series”, plus a host of “free” seminars held in conjunction with several professors. Well, that just about it for the left scene. Not very promising in toto, but remember, it’s all we’ve got. Anyway, that’s my poor man’s guide, and you probably won’t be able to find it on your local newstands.

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Miss Helga Petz, the federation’s head secretary or office manager has often been described by federation workers in the past as “the real president.” Her dedication and competence are well-known to all those who have worked with h.er in the five years she has served the federation So it is quite distressing to hear her criticized by the person she now works most closely with, president John Bergsma. Bergsma explained away the change of date of the upcoming general meeting which will deal with the proposed by-law to legally establish the Board of Education by saying that Helga forgot to get the notice into the Chevron in time. Actually the problem occurred because of a mis-reading of the by-law regarding proper notice which was amended last spring. But Bergsma wouldn’t know that. He never saw the notice which finally went in over his name. This happened because, as in many other instances since he took office, someone else had to pick up the dangling reins of office. For example : l There would have been no presidential election this term if the secretaries hadn’t remembered to place the legally necessary ad and if the Chevron hadn’t accepted it five days after ad deadline l There would have been no new Chevron editor selected this term if the ad in this issue that the publications board chairman (who has been in the office three times) is supposed to place hadn’t been placed by someone else. (Doesn’t that scare you?) It has been quite evident in student council meetings and dealings with the new federation execu tive outside council meetings that Bergsma and many of his executive appointees have not done the homework that is neces-

sary when one is assuming a new responsible position. Only external relations chairman Jim Pike and treasurer Joe Givens (who was treasurer of ,the old council) can be cited as performing competently. Bergsma and his crew are not at all familiar with the standing policies of council, the office files or the federation bylaws, those documents which tell just how the federation operates and what its positions have been on any number of past issues and problems. After ;a month and a half in office (a period which included a lengthy class-free holiday), the dedication of these persons seems doubtful And things do not seem to be improving. More and more students are becoming disgusted with the unavailability of our elected leaders. It is almost a rare sight to find Bergsma in his office to meet students with problems or to receive the calls of faculty or administrators. In his campaign in November Bergsma several times assured the electorate that he could and would devote the time necessary to meet the many responsibilities of federation president. But unlike his two predecessors, Bergsma continues to lead the life of joe student and sometimes gives the impression that being federation president is a nice part-time hobby. If he is not prepared to make the sacrifices involved in holding the federation’s highest office now, he should seriously reconsider his plans to compete for the office for a full year term. Certainly he should not try to cover his incompetencies and lack of dedication by blaming the federation’s office staff. Their devotion to the welfare of students far surpasses anything he has shown us so far. ’

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the revol

Dr. David Kirk’s condemnation of student power in his column, The Swinging Prof, should receive the close ,attention of student radicals. While he misunderstands the reasons and methods behind the campus center takeover, his remarks-divorced from this misunderstanding-are very important and particularly relevant at this stage in the development of the radical movement. A revolution cannot be created by methods that tend in exactly the opposite direction of the goals being sought. A revolution to free humanity cannot be led by oppressive fanatics no matter what viewpoint they profess to hold. But Kirk must also understand that someone totally uninvolved

in the action may misunderstand its meaning and cause. AS has often been said already, the campus center takeover was a move meant to symbolize all student dissatisfaction with the administration’s dishonest dealings with students. The takeover grew out of a meeting called to discuss the great university government report co-option. And while the radicals must always be re-examining their methods, it would be ridiculous to suggest they could possibly act now in the manner they hope free men may some day be able to enjoy. For men are revolution has administration run our society honest men.

not now free, the not come, and the bureaucrats who still trample little

secret security man If you’re going to get mad at somebody because your car was towed away, don’t get mad at the kampus kops-they’re just working men. The person you should really direct your barbs at is physicalplant - . . and planning director Bill Lobban. Lobban has made it a personal cause to ensure that thie parking regulations are being c arried out to the letter. There ia’~rrmv~~~ stories about Lobban MI L_. A--b on campus an hour early in the morning to check cars himself or spending hours in his offices looking out the windows for violators.

In fact, one of the oldest backroom feuds on campus is between Lobban and security chief Al Romenco. Romenco would like to run things without Lobban’s constant interference. So would the rest of the force: their happiest momend; this yea.r was *when they were able to ticket Lobban’s car earlier this week while he was out looking for unticketed, improperly-parked cars. The solution to the probkem might be exchanging Lobban and Romenco’s posts.

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Davis puts

down the radicals

This often articulate minority seems to accept the facile premise that Western society is hopelessly corrupt. Such a concept is based upon an ignorance of history that no amount of idealism can excuse. What previous society has provided university education for so many of its young adults? Certainly not the Roman Empire whose population at its greatest extend was less than that of Canada today, nor even Plato’s mythical republic, which was based on a small ruling class and on the principle of hereditary elitism. What previous society in the history of man has shown such a concern for improving the lot of the poor as does Western civilization today? Certainly not Athens, the birthplace of democracy, which was based on a slave economy. Certainly not Pharaoh’s Egypt or even Nasser’s, Certainly not Shakespear’s England or even Victoria’s, What previous society has incorporated into its laws, its government, its economy and its educational system such a high regard for human freedom and individualism? Not even More’s Utopia, which was essentially collective and patriarchal. And certainly not Castro’s Cuba or the USSR under Lenin or Stalin or Krushev or Breznev. By contrast we are living in one of the worlds most fortunate countries and in one of the most exciting eras of human developement. I therefore utterly reject the nihilistic notion that Canadian society is corrupt and that its structure should be destroyed beginning with the univerAnd I hope all of you equally reject such a destructive negasity system. tive approach which lacks any valid foundation in fact or in history. -Honorable William Davis Ontario Minister of education