rsiPy Press 300 angry students at Sir George ~~~~l~arns LJniversity seized their s~~~ool’s computer center wednesday eveniing to climax a drama-
tic day of, violence and overpowering racial tension. The students settled into the ~orn~nte~ center after a brief bit of violence involving newsmen when they first took over the area. An administration spokesman said the university planned
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t CIJP )--Racial ~~~T~~AL ~~.oblerns have erupted at Sir George Williams University. The following are the events Leading up to this week’s compu ter eenter take over: String ‘~$.-~ioiogy prof Perry ~~nderson is first labelled racist. Fall ‘&-Since no action was taken black students approach de~artmental and administration officia 1s. DtX!. &Anderson v~lnn~ar~~~ stops teaching.
Jan 22-Seven black students invade O’Brien‘s office, force him
.&HI ~3---Ad~li~listrati~)~ charges that 0’Rrien”s apology was given under duress’. They announce that police have een called. O’Brien fails to appear
;and two
other
rne~~~)e
at~be~~~~n campus resigned e~~~~sda~ during a noisy meettheir constituents Q’ouncil ~res~(~ent Dave Sheard. first v~~~~resident Ken Sun~uist councillor Gerald koutnafd resigned when 500 s at the general meeting voted that only students who had paid tbcir ~~~l~~ent unwon fws bc ahowed to vote in up-
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at meeting with students as promised. Jan proadministration announces the campus will. be shut down Monday to allow studentfaculty study groups to discuss the situation. Jan 26 (s )---A committee of five fa is set up by administr to begin the hearing but ten k students walk out charging the group is not im-
not collect
cement that it stl~dent union
He said it, has “completely cut the union off from the st.udent body. The student union is now a club that only represents its membership.” The general meeting also voted to boycott classes monday as a protest against administration unwillingness to respond in the ongoing negotiations over fees coltcction. A teach-in is planned for
emotional speeches everywhere. Speaker after speaker! took the mike to denounce the five-man faculty committee as unrepresentative and unjust. They demanded committee members be selected by, all involved-both the blacks bringing charges and the accused professor. They also challenged the validity of the administration’s unilateral selection of the committee. But the session was hardly unanimous-more than half the crowd in the hall violently disagreed, screaming, jeering, and hooting. Scuffles brokelout four or five times as the militants and their opposition confronted each other across the aisles. T The students barred the press from the hall, rushing reporters out. They smashed two cameras
crew’s e~ni~rne~t when the newsmen refused to leave. The upshot of the bitt reehour session was a set of three demands which the black students-’ e sent to the adm~nisittee be dissolved
as
be reconstituted with people agreeable to all parties involved @ the administration seek a dismissal of a series of charges laid against black students. ween students in the militant gro the nine floors t center and took over.
Jan 2% (~~o~day~ --The l~nivers~ty is shut down for secret administration-student talks. At the campus 40 students demon-
alleged participation office invasion.
in
the
day of hearings degenerate into a noisy teach-in. Newsmen are ejected. Scuffles break out between militants and moderates. 300 militant students take over the computing center-. Two news-men are forcibly ejected with one suffering a cut face.
the same day to discuss problems lems of the university at in the c(~mmunity at large. In other areas the students voted to continue nego tia ting with the board over fees collection. to renew demand for universal accessibility to higher education with elimination of tuition fees as a first step “to enable attendance at this university by low-income and working class families,” and publieize their ~~~~~ti~~n in the province generally. e resignation of Sbeard and ebate within the council. ClBne(~(~un~i~lor called their witbdra~~~l a victory for the board, charging the trio with adopting a “sell-out position”. The general meeting also voted m-t for the u~~vers~t~‘s em-
ould
no immediate action and would let the‘group remain for the time being. The occupation rose out of auditorium sessions started 10 am Wednesday to continue hearings begun sunday to investigate charges of racism leveled by seven black students against biology professor Perry Anderson. By 3 pm they had been completely disrupted in favor of a noisy teach-in. Television screens placed in major corridors blared the proceedings to the hundreds of students unable to get into the hall which was already jammed by more than a thousand. Closed-circuit radio covered all the areas the television screens didn’t. The linkup ran directly to the main mike on the auditorium platform carrying the loud,
ontract
~~ntstanding
Coneil members criticized federation president John Bergsma for speaking out in a press conference last friday morning called to announce the proposed one-tier uniernment structure. said he was told about rice at 5 pm thursday and that he didn’t see the proposal until friday morning, and then he only saw the same press release given to the commercial media resent. The admin~stration’s information services department did not invite the Chevron and had locked the door of the conference room. They also tried to detain Chevron representatives who learned about the conference, arrived after the conference had started and finally entered. Arts rep Tom Patterson asked Bergsma what he had said. Bergsma replied, “I said it appeared to be a major breakthrough-something students were in favor of-and that it was in the spirit of the proposal students had made on university government.” Patterson asked why Bergsma
felt he was qualified to go on TV and say it’s something students wanted. Rergsma said he hadn’t had time to study and evaluate the proposal before speaking, but that it appeared to be what students wanted. Math rep Glenn Berry suggested he should be a little sus~~~io~s and withhold comment. 1 Patterson ~~~~t~~ued, “1 kave spoken with Steve Ireland (former federation ~r~~~dent and university gove~nr~ent ~ommit,te~ same thing as the feder~t~o~ had been asking for. To s in line with what students is not in order. This is de not what the federation h posed on university gove two years ago. ” Patterson added that the federation proposal two years ago was conservative by today’s standards and still the one-tier proposed is not even near it. Bergsma replied,“1 said it was only in the spirit of the federation proposal. ” Arts rep Sandra Burt challenged Bergsma on the representivity
issue of making such statements and chastised him for speaking without being familiar with what details were available. Renison rep Paul Dube noted Bergsma was ~~~~osed to taking stands In council because they might influence people unduly yet he was willing to make unresearched ~~or~rne~ts to the press. a a and that reaction stands now.” The main ~rit~~~srns of the ier that were brought up ~~eet~~g surrounded the ~or~orate control of the ill Snod-
and ~~atter~on both mentioned that th a~~r~~x~~~at~?l? half from the ard of governors. plus alumni and administrators. corporate ~~terests would dominate and that their field of damination would now extend to academic matters-formerly controlled by the senior-faeuli ty-dom in senate. gsma‘s main position’ was that any re-evaluation to change from the two-tier system wouid be an improvement. grass
Council Exec changes
council
After a close look at federation bylaws and a recheck by treasurer, Joe Givens, the executive decided there will be 27 seats on the new council. Originally student-activities chairman Jim Belfry calculated 25 seats for the upcoming election.
English
program
count
The additional seats will appear in the grad and math constituencies. However, for about two and a half months, council will have 28 representatives. The working co-opers now hold four seats, but with redistribution have only three. This means that there will be eight engineering seats until the present out-term engineers hold their elections in may.
The confusion over the number of seats on student council next year has been cleared up. .a
seat
needs
avoids
CUS stand
Student council bent over backThe matter was brought up wards and did a couple of again at the following meeting, somersaults but it managed to held monday, because the board avoid taking a stand on the of external relations had endorsed Canadian Union of Students. CUS. Council must ratify all At the january 13 meeting action taken by federation boards. there was a suggestion that When the external relations mincouncil should take a stand.’ Arts utes came up, the CUS matter rep Tom Patterson said council was taken out for further dishad a duty to provide leadership. cussion. But other members protested Arts rep Jim Stendebach put that a council stand would in- forward a motion saying counEluence the referendum. cil should not take any stand on
CUS. He argued council should not ‘influence the referendum by taking a stand. Engineering rep Pete Huck argued that council could not affect the referendum because there was no time for publicity He said council should adopt some policy on CUS regardless of the referendum result because the federation might want to maintain some contacts . even if Waterloo does withdraw. Cyril Levitt, a former arts rep on council, said he thought the federation should withdraw from CUS. But he argued against Stendebach’s motion saying it was impossible not to take a stand. The anti-CUS publicity last fall had created prejudices, he said, and council by not saying anything was condoning those prejudices. Several members suggested that while council should not take a stand, individual council members should let their constituents know where they stood. Debate on Stendebach’s motion ceased and it passed easily. Council members were then asked to record their feelings on CUS. Of the 25 members present. including non-voting executive members, 18 supported CUS although some had reservation. Four opposed continued membership in CUS. The CUS referendum was held Wednesday but the results will not be released until monday because I out-term ballots could not be sent out soon enough.
v6lunteers
The English in Action proplements more formal English gram set up by the Grad Society ‘\ courses which are available to has been sucessful in terms of foreign students. demand. GradSoc organizers say volunteers are still needed and ask Over 60 foreign students are meeting with 33 volunteers for that interested students apply to the foreign student office on the an hour a week of English conversation. l?he program suplibrary seventh floor.
Skating
available
at Seugrum’s
Some one somewhere has finally decided it is impossible to skate on sick bay. Last fall physical plant and planning announced that dredging work would make skating on Laurel Lake impossible. But it was suggested students could use the lake in front of health-
Muudie’s
recipe
services. The current, however, is strong enough to make skating a rather doubtfu1 proposition. So the track at Seagram stadium has been flooded and if the weather remqains cold enough students can get their skating thrills there.
for cheese .
Cheese fondue has found a new home on our campus. And its basically easy to make, inexpensive and alcoholic in origin. The batches made for Cap au Vin Groundhog’s wine cellar serve a very large party. The chef there heats six bottles of a dry, white table wine until the whole coffee shop has that Then about - ten homey smell. ,pounds of finely grated Swiss cheese are sloWly added with constant stirring until the mixture is creamy smooth. Some flour is then added to give
“Why, it says right here that Bill Lobban doesn’t spend hours looking out his window? An unnamed Chevron editor receives a lawyers letter from the sheriff’s representative.
fondue
the fondue its proper consistency. Seasoning is added in a way which has not been detailed but should be in the KW Record later this week. The whole thing is then left to do its thing for a while. Just prior to serving, one bottle of Kirsch is added, which introduces a fruit nectar to the dish. The fondue should be kept warm as its being served. ,A crustyFrench stick bread is cubed, dunked in the guk and eaten. Cap au Vin continues tonight and tomorrow night in the camus center pub.
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WEDNESDAYS 4:00 pm Federation off ice, Campus Centre
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The flying club is again sponsoring a ground school for students again this year. The second session of the aviation academy is held every monday evening at 8 pm in the engineering lecture hall room 208. The course will run for fifteen weeks. * * *
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The radical student movepresents again ment orice Andrew Wernick delivering the fifth in a series of seven topics in the marxist lecture series. The lecture this week will be a critique of social science in the arts lecture hall .at 8 pm. * * *
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September
colleges
by Phil &worthy Chevron staff
The senate now has under consideration three proposals for new colleges which reflect not merely expansion of the, university, but changes in the purpose of education. The colleges of general studies, of integrated studies, and of integrated studies, and of environmental studies have been recommended to meet needs that the present structure of the university will not or cannot satisfy. The essence of all three colleges is interdisciplinary study. The only alternative to the establishment of new colleges is the abolition of faculties and the weakening of departments. The college of general studies would give its students a general or liberal education, using established teaching methods and involving a few more courses which would be of a broad or introductory nature. The only significant difference between this college and the present university is a much lower degree of specialization. The college of integrated studies should be quite a radical experiment. It will hopefully reopen fundamental questions of education regarding the meaning, the goals and the methods. A wide variety of disciplines will be studied in this college. Both the department of planning and the school of arshitecture are faced with urgent and serious problems that neither of them can satifactorily resolve independently. The new college of
may
environmental studies would include architecture, geography and planning a man-environment division. Perhaps with this interdisciplinary approach, the problems of pollution, conservation, and urban planning could be dealt with. Two objections to the college of general studies were raised at the meeting of the senate committee studying the proposal, tuesday evening. On the basis of her own experience, philosophy prof Judy Wubnig thought that the college is unnecessary, and that it is possible to get a general education through wisely selecting one’s courses. Another philosophy prof, Jan Narveson, pointed out that a general education does not consist of varied specialized courses in the present structure. New general courses and greater flexibility and freedom within departments and faculties are required. It was generally felt that establishing the college would be better than reforming the arts, science and math faculties to make a good general program possible, though the question of whether these three faculties might be reunited was implicit. Tentative programs and college structure have been outlined in report by academic vicepresident Howie Petch, but these thing are subject to modification. There is a projected enrolment for the college of integrated studies of 50 starting September. So provided interest in the college does not fall off, there will soon be a place in the academic community for students dissatis-
Council demands more library funds Student council monday night decided to back the joint artsengineering-math-science library committee demand for a drastic increase in the library budget this year. Debate was lengthy, and the motion passed on roll call 14 to 4 with 5 abstentions. The motion stated: whereas the Federation of Students recognizes the inadequate services provided by the library, the lack of: acquisitions, the inadequate availability of seating capacity and the ever-increasing problem of available space for expansion of book stacks, the gaps in journals and other collections, and the low percentage of the total university budget allotted to library (5.8 percent), therefore the, Federation of Students strongly recommends that 10 percent of the university’s budget be taken off the top and allotted to the libraries. Ron Trbovich poli-sci 4 and student representative on the arts library committee, led the discussion. He noted the university had decreased the library allotment to 5.8 percent thisyear from 6.2 percent last year and that the provincialaverage was 9 to 10 percent. In the arts where library problems are the greatest, it was noted the proportion of the arts faculty budget itself that was going to the library was less than most young universities spend on a campus-wide basis.
Councillors spoke of their own reasons for condemning the library situation. Opposition to the motion came mainly from members who felt the technological orientation of this university was valid and excused certain inadequacies in‘ the library. Observer Larry Burko, arts 3, asked council’s permission to speak and then asked federation president John Bergsma if he vote on the intended to motion. Bergsma, he charged, was not paying attention. Bergsma, who had been conferring with his adviser Andy Anstett, poli-sci 4, said he did intend to vote. Some minutes later, Bergsma moved to table the motion. His motion was defeated 12 to 8. In the roll call on the actual motion on the library situation, Bergsma abstained along with arts rep Jim Stendebach, engineering rep Terry Cousineau, St. Jerome’s rep Doug Richardson and vicepresident and grad rep Dieter Haag. Opposed to the motion were grad reps Nick Kouwen and Dave Garden, math rep Jim Belfrey and science rep Gerry Wootton. In favor were arts reps Sandra Burt, Dave Cubberley and Tom Patterson, science reps Geoff Roulet and Ian Calvert, math reps Glenn Berry, John Koval and Ron Murch, Renison rep Paul Dube and engineering reps Bill Fish, Dave Parson, Bill Snodgrass and Pete Huck.
soon
be
fied with existing curriculum and teaching methods. The major objections to the college of environmental studies are the loss of the geography and planning department from the arts faculty and the drawback of duplicating courses in sociology and psychology in the college and the arts faculty. It seems though, that the alternative of cross-appointments of profs and greater cooperation is not as satisfactory as the college. The relationship of the man-environment division to the rest of the university has not been adequately described. The proposals for the new colleges contain the suggestion they may eventually be located on the north campus and contain residences. However, for the next few years they would be housed in the existing buildings on the south campus. None of the colleges have yet received senate approval but all could conceivably be in operation this fall.
Corporate
rule
by Bruce Timmons Chevron staff
Industrial control of the university is the main cause of student unrest said Andy Wernick in his third lecture of the marxist lecture series. The series is held Wednesday nigh and is cosponsored by the Arts Society and the radical student movement. Wernick is a Phd candidate in political science at the University Of Toronto. Wernick said students have traditionally towed the line between parental dependency and the outside world. They reside in an environment where authority and decision-making are detached from everdya life. “A student is entied in a bureaucracy which makes the process of decisionmaking so opaque he finds it difficult to grasp or identify any particular group of manipulators” The mass media, he said, has often been criticized for glorifying student unrest. He said this was partially true as the media gene“people and rally promotes events”, not analysis. The media distorts campus unrest as being isolated, and students as being obsesses with their own problems. Student affairs coverage concerns itself mainly with riot scenes and leadership interviews in order to sensationalize conditions and isolate the student leaders from the general student body. Wernick observed that the media has encapsulated the students as a separate segment of the population. Further it has isolated the radicals as a small, loud minority. This artificial wedge driven between radical and non-radical students serves to enforce the myth that dissatisfied outside agitators are the prime cause of student unrest. Wernick said, “the youth revolt itself is a suburban phenomenon and militant student radicals, almost overwhelmingly are
CUS loses
Andy Wernick will continue his series of lectures Wednesday with a challenge to faculty on the relevence of “bourgeois social science “. This will be the sixth lecture in the series,
causes
from precisely suburban backgrounds”. He detailed the growth of the student movement in North America. During the fifties, he said, a more productive, consumer-oriented economy developed. This soon realized a consuming potential in middle-class youth. Wernick explained further: “What happened through the fifties was that a youth market became a youth culture; then the youth culture became, to a low degree, politicized.” He said the transition period between the building and consuming phases of capitalism aggrevated the usual generation gap and caused many young people to re-evaluate their place in society. Students of the early fifties were still politically uninvolved. According to Wernick 1956 was a turning point. It was the year which brought the realization of the cold war, and some degr.ee of political interest to American students. In 1962-1963 the Cuban missle crisis, the assassination of Kennedy and the British government scandals reawoke the world
Radicals
modern
revolt
to the threat of war and students to political action. Wernick spoke on the raltionship between the university and rapidly developing technology. Today’s sophisticated skilled worker needs extensive education to equip him for his job; thus the emergence of the large modern multiversity. “I regard it as a section of the economy at this point; what is produced in this economy is human capital. It is capital because people are being invested in.” He claims a problem lies in that the skilled worker must be highly creative technically yet socialized to the point where he fits well into a highly organized productive system. He said further problems lie in the fact school enrolments are rising faster than teachers and facilities can be supplied. He stated in the U.S. 40 percent of real wealth is in education and 40 percent in defense industries. These outlets serve to absorb surplus labor and disguise potential unemployment.
will challenge
social science
Social science faculty have been invited to defend their disciplines by the radical student movement. The RSM is holding a critique of social science wednesday with the purpose of showing students that social science as it is taught in the universities is a farce.” Andy Wernick, PhD candidate in political science at U of T will be present. He summed up his view: “social scientists are social police. The purpose of social science is mvstification or counterinsurgency-, in most cases both. Wenick is a speaker in the RSM’s weekly speaker series.
in Calgary
CALGARY (CUP)-The University of Calgary monday ratified by a two to one count a student council decision to withdraw from the Canadian Union of Students. The 5000-student campus voted 1294 to 648 to endorse the council pullout last november. The referendum was scheduled when a group of students protested the council decision. On the same ballot students voted 1565 to 335 to continue publishing a yearbook that costs about $5 a head. The council left CUS claiming the $1 a head fee put i,t in financial difficulty. friday,
In addition professors John and Mickey Rowntree will speak. John lectures in political economy at York University in Toronto.His wife, Mickey, teaches political science at U of T. The Rowntrees are noted for their radical approach to social science, and highly regarded in many leftist circles. The RSM has called on all social science profs at Waterloo to come out. Formal invitations are being sent around. Tom Patterson, student radical member and student council lauded the session as an opportunnity to air the issues. “The bourgeois social science usually taught, is founded upon a number of values, assumptions, and systems of thought which should be exposed and criticized. They generally act as idiological defenders of our exploitative political economic system, confusing rather than clarifying our understanding of the world, and thus concealing real conflicts.” The session will take place 3 pm Wednesday in AL 116. january
31, 1969 (9:41)
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Police surround students, teachess and their supporters on the San Francisco College cam’ pus a-fter making the largest mass are arrest in the city’s history. Three hundred and eighty GINS photo people were held when they refused to break up an illegal rally.
Firework%
almost
fizzled
by Jim Keron Chevron staff
.
The groundhog fireworks display sunday has had its ups and downs since it was first suggested. Fireworks first hit the federation last October at a board of student activities meeting. Tom Ashman, Groundhog chairman, closed off his report with “and we’ll end the weekend with a $5000 fireworks display”. There was silence followed by a s,mall groan. I Since the fad at the time was to put weird things in the board
Berry objected to the item saying it would just be burning money and there would be no real benefit from them. The rest of the council agreed and from there the fireworks went underground with the rest of the groundhogs. All sandboxers and groundhogs kept out of sight during the political activities on campus which turned out the old executive and when calm had once again returned, the fireworks were dragged out to confront the new executive. After passing the buck around for two weeks trying to decide if fireworks were renresentative of the student body, ihe new regime decided to give a tentative no to the display but to let council make the final decision, thus removing themselves from any responsibility for using federation funds. The final chapter in the battle of Groundhog occured at the last council meeting where Tom Ashman did an admirable job of snowing almost everyone present explaining the display would be good public relations for the university. He also said that it was necessary to climax the weekend rather than just letting it die. Council agreed and decided to let $1000 be spent on fireworks. So now on Groundhog day february 2 Waterloo will revel in the greatest display of fireworks ever assembled on the face of Waterloo county. So sunday the Village moor will be the scene of a dazzling fireworks display. It will start at 8:30 pm.
minutes the item was entered in the minutes and presented to council. As council was more interested in “educative” things at the time, no one bothered to read the minutes and they were adopted without objection thus approving the fireworks. Shortly afterward there was some suggestion that fireworks might include such items as guns, bombs and ammunition. But the revolution did not occur before the next council meeting where it was stomped on. Glen
In Vancouver
VANCOUVER (CNS)-The Chevron isn’t the only one being sued \ for libel these days: the Georgia Straight, the Vancouver hippie newspaper, and Danieal McLeod and Robert Cummings, two of it’s editors, were fined $1500 in county court on monday for criminally libelling magistrate Lawrence Eckardt. Judge C.W. Morrow gave the men fines of $250 each to be paid withing two months and also imposed a $1000 fine on the newspaper. The charge was originally laid after the July 26 - August 8 issue of the paper in which Cummings awarded the magistrate an Order of abundant tius Pilate
flatulence certificate
and Ponof justice
-for convicting a student of loitereven though magistrate ing Eckardt had publicly stated he disagreed with the law. The cita-
tion on the award was to read: “TO Lawrence Eckardt who by closing his mind to justice, his eyes to fairness, and his ears to equality, has encouraged the belief that the law is not only blind, but also deaf, dumb and stupid. Let history judge your action - then appeal.” The judge rules that the newspapermen defamed the magistrate with this citation, rather than attacking the law, as they should have done. 12 bands volunteered their services for a 12-hour marathon concert monday at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds to raise funds to pay for the fines. Also, as if one court case wasn’t enought, the same newspaper is being charged in an obscenity case in magistrate’s court for printing ’ cartoons last fall depicting a number of political figures nude.
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In the pages .of history 1961
Jock talk was on the front page back in the good old days. The headline on thursday february 2 1961 reads ‘Queens meets their Waterloo’ and deals with our illustrious basketball team. Also it seems that then as now our student leaders were inept. Witness the following front page story from the Coryphaeus. For ent
the
last
body
of
four
unrversrty
floundering.
With
engineering
society,
appointed
months
thus
the
Ineptness
The
science
start
on
been
heard
stud-
council,
been
the
of the
leaders
or otherwise,
general
the has
exception the
have about
society
. ..It
of since
then
a
brave
ing.
has
never
ed
students
stepped of
some
official
the
student
give
minutes arts
its
body has
the
has
fail-
its
and
consito
post
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has
meet-
only
jackets
at
give
failed
last
red
gap
to
voice,
society
secure
the
year
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of
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into
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moreover
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a
The
to
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made
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ed
shown
their
who
beginning
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manag-
for
its
arts-
men 1962
UniWat
almost got a new name on february I-, 1962. But student and lack of a better name saved the dav.I for Universitv of
indignation
J
Waterloo. At rty
at
the
of
last
meeting
Waterloo
the
Board
the
public
names
of
Board
Indicated
its
confusion “The
of the
it was
meeting
would
of
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name
stand
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any
will
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consider the
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of
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Gov-
possibility
of
the
Univer-
Waterloo.
ame
and After
decided
next
changing
sity
Waterloo”
Unrversity” College”.
discussion
of
a result of
the
ernors
about
as
Lutheran University
Univers-
Governors,
concern
University
“Waterloo ‘Waterloo some
the of
behind
our
attempt
to
met
by
present
change
protest
possible
that
and
the
resrstance
from
newspaper.
1963
Groundhog weekend comes this time every year. Only in 1963 it wasn’t called groundhog and it was a weekend. The headline in the Coryphaeus of friday february 1. reads ‘Winterland ‘63’. It’s accompanied by a picture of Miss Wendy Suttie, Winterlan,d Queen. Last has
weekend’s
put
val
the
map.
took the
the
of
W.
in
even
losing
the
Norm that
in
its
first
expected
team
Renison
and
to
snow
bowl
snow
the
was
a combination
and
rugger,
a torch
way
through
the
Hunt,
told
winterland
year
instead
25.
held
uary
the
Following
bonfire.
of
hardy,
sci-
Jerome’s
the
Jerome’s
man-
the of
game,
which football
parade
made
campus
to
torch
drew
200.
its
a
cold
the
the jan-
soccer,
huge
weather
attendance
but
in
thursday,
Extremely
limited arts,
engineers
game
students
from
St.
aged
Treasurer
$200-$300.
composite
ence,
ice-carni-
weekend.
committee,
broke
‘63
the 1400
the
Coryphaeus
A
on
Approximately
part
of
Winterland
U.
to
only
dance
the
held
at
St.
1964
On january 30 the Coryphaeus proudly the student council elections. Five hundred that year, 32 percent of the eligible voters. In
the
held
student’s
23
Hergott
Gail
were
Mitchell
with
become Monk
(He
cast
most
In of
in science
it was
New
the
Jim
Monk,
their
rep
duties.
was
ear-
only
off-
privilege,
while
are:
Mitchell,
Pete
and
I’ll
same
that
she
do
view
with
by
the
to
represent
my
best
have
been
dismay
the
turnout.
I would
the
people
to
fulfil1
“I
am
Barnes,
I
endeavour
as
best like
helped
Charles
I can, to
me
on
Pat
Hergott:
I’ll do
my
“I
best
for
am
very
happy
my
and
arts.”
1966
A new co-op chemistry course was announced on january 27 1966 and the paper announced on its front page that the board of governors had requested 30 copies of the previous week’s issue for its meeting. The information wasn’t surprising as on January 20 the paper had soundly attacked new delays on a campus center start and student leaders had started to threaten radical action. The lead story read: Reaction faculty the
from to
campus
sharp
focus
plans
for
project”
both
the
students
continuing
center
was
by
announcement
the
the
math
and
delay brought
and
and
sity’s
of
members
into
sity’s
of
in
one
general
building. such
as
“a
very
foolish
the
used
univer-
by
discussing
faculty
the
fore
faculty
member
univer-
put
understanding
other
Phrases
at
were
announcement.
i As
computet
“shocked
plans”
building the
was
would
campus
be
it, “the that
no
up
be-
put-
center.”
1967
January was an active month in 1967 and the january 27 issue reflected it by printing a record 24 pages. Arts dean Norman High’s resignation captured the headline while Steve Ireland dominated the inside as the Chevron interviewed the recently-acclaimed student council president. Waterloo was also mentioned in the lead to a CUP story about activities across Canada that started off. _ Students board
of
University
threaten
to
governors
crash
a closed
meeting
at
the
has
the
cuss
his At
of Waterloo.
the
intellectualviews
Fewer don
than
College
an
assembly
or
not
the
160
miles
students on president
the
away
council
Glencalls
for
Western
“whether
university
of
university
could
this
time
a
‘predicts Ontario,
the torn
faculty-administration
subject
Montreal
dTs-
daily
University with
Canada’s
of
student-
discord government
become
to
publicly”.
same
newspaper
integrity
structures, Berkeley.
Frankel,
over
Education
and
N.Y., W.W. Norton & Co., 1968. 90 pp. $1.25. Charles Frankel, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, has written a short analysis of what ails our universities. He begins on a hopeful note by observing that since the strongest criticisms of universities come from the students themselves, at least some critical thinking is being promoted there. Indeed, one of the reasons for student dissent is the fact that “all lively and wellinformed professors cast doubt, simply in the normal course of their teaching, on things that the conventional pieties take for granted” (p.15). Besides, students are at a difficult age where they are trying to find their identities and our “liberal culture” encourages them to question and protest. Finally, the objective realities of today at home and abroad provoke, if not demand, conflict. Frankel’s reasons for student dis sent seem equally applicable to the faculty. How many not so lively nor well-informed professors accept only the conventional pieties when it comes to educational questions ? Does finding one’s academic identity involve submitting to unreasonable demands and extended periods of bureaucratic puzzlement? How do professors react to the objective the Barricades.
thank
campaign.“-
engineer-
Accidents have become an almost daily event on the ringroad.
shown
Dawson,
ing
-
very but
apathy
I shall
who
une, but such flaws lead to misinterpretation and confusion that cannot help but reflect upon the university. If we cannot produce a simple map to accurately guide people around our campus, how capable are we in our major responsibilities of teaching and research? The recent addition of illuminated building signs and directional guide posts are a most welcome improvement, and will make the profusion of visiting “lost souls” virtually a thing of the past. Physical plant and planning is a constant source of irritation for other departments. Work request estimates are invariably inaccurate in relation to final costs, thereby causing budgeting problems. Both the Federat,ion of Students and the church colleges, which operate with independent sources of income, were particularly vexed although not alone in this complaint. To many academic departments who have experienced tight budgeting, the proliferation of expensive machinery much of it often seen lying idle has raised honest questions of dollar priorities, expense justification and fiscal responsibility. A similar complaint was raised b! several businessmen.
my
elected
especially
Physical-plant and planning internally is easily the most criticized department. P P and P is accused of arrogance, stupidity, bad planning and wasting money. One example often referred to is the way the ring-road system was implemented. For months, and even years, people approached the campus driving east or west along University Avenue, then turning into the road that led them to their parking lot or building. Suddenly, these entrances are barricaded. No announcement was made that these routes were to be closed and a new traffic control system implemented. This caused confusion for almost all, and vexation, even anger for many. How much work time was lost because of this communications failure cannot be calculated. The university often refers to itself as a city within a city, and yet its entire traffic pattern was changed overnight without announcement! Additional confusion was caused in the community by this change. Many visitors arrive by taxi. With a campus of (then) unrnarked buildings, the new road system meant total confusion for cab drivers who had never been provided with guide maps to that date. The reason itself for implementing the ring-road system would have made a good news storyboth internally and externally. Combined with a map to illustrate the new traffic pattern, it would have been most informative. Nothing was done. Although PP and P. is only partially involved, a lack of coordination has -meant the university continues to supply directional maps which are incomplete and misleading. The 1968-69 admissions bulletin, and university calendar each contain a map with the
spot
following faults: (1) does not show the ring road; (2) does not show either the Minota Hagey residence, or health-services building as even under construction, (3) does not list street names other than University Avenue (which is not identified as east or west), or show the campus in relation to the rest: of Kitchkner-Waterloo, (4) is badly out of proportion for reproduction purposes since the foreground emphasizes parking lots and empty space, with buildings fading off to the horizon. A more recent map has been issued, but it too has flaws which lessen its value as a meaningful campus guide: (1) the building identification numbering system jumps all over the map and is difficult to follow, (2) names for north-south streets are upside down from the position one would read the rest of the map, (3 ) shading of land areas, while effective for a large drawing, detract and “dirty” the map when it is reduced for reproduction in brochures and pamphlets, (4) arts 3,which will be visibly under construction for much of the life of the map, is not shown. Neither map offers any guide to the location of administrative offices, parking or information. These criticism may seem picay-
similar
said,
science
and
to for
expressed he
low
Gail “like
campaigned
when to
evening, would
who
Mitchell
pleased
Gail
the
those
Jim
science; Art
all
sentiments
al-
availed
said
thank
of
32.5%
science;
eng!neering;
me
was
members
arts;
Dave
the
32.2%.
council
Rappolt,
Jim
faculty
arts
Rappolt
of
percentage
each
identical.
Pat
reps.
the
The
by
themselves
who
was
nominee).
ballots
arts
announced the results of and fifty-two people voted
Contacted
and
majority
to
Dave
acclaimed
campus
as
the
votes
along
elections
Rappolt
elected
took
science
lier
council
january,
P cdechorest
The following is an excert from A Report on University Relations, prepared for administration viceiresident Al Adlington last csummer. ,
realities of today? Frankel doesn’t Such a view cuts both ways. Stureally say; and one of the flaws of dents have argued that they know his book is that he isolates student more about housing and discipline problems from the larger “people” problems, that they can most efproblems at universities. fectively run the orientation program, that they can best judge Well, what about the students? the quality of teaching. Frankel, Again Frankel is a bit too optimislike most of his colleagues, would tic and somewhat naive. Students grant some of these claims and , are not the objects of education, not others. Unfortunately, there he tells us; they are its principal means of is no clear-cut instruments. They have a large determining “gradations of knowsay in the determination of what ledge” in certain crucial areas of courses will be offered (though university operations. The long not how or by whom), on the speciloud cry of irrelevance shows that fic “style” of the university, and, students have definite ideas on most importantly, on what other curriculum, learning environment, students think. The last point is .and the objective realities of towell-taken. Many students forget day. What should be the response that a university education inin terms of the form of university volves lounges, dormitories, bull government ? It may be ridicusessions, dates, and all kinds of lous to solicit student opinion about student activities, as well as classes a professor’s published research; There still remains the problem it is not ridiculous to ask students of the student’s role in the univerwhat they got out of a course and sity. Frankel is not sure what this what they didn’t and why. role is: the student is. no longer the “protected son” in the univerFrankel has no solutions to the sity family; nor is he an apprenproblem of communication in the tice to a master scholar; nor is he university. He does argue that his professor’s peer. Frankel “education” and, “barricades” makes it clear that the university have nothing in common. He decommunity is “a hierarchical hu-plores, and rightly so, the man organization, based on the growing violence on our campuses. premise that some people know more than other people, and that What Frankel’s book gives us are the community cannot perform its not solutions but clarifications of tasks effectively unless these - the problems. He raises some of graduations in knowledge are the questions that must be asked recognized in its form of governby students and faculty and memment” (p. 50). bers of the outside community. friday,
january
31, 1969 (9:41)
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Tuesday February 4 Pianist
by Norman Fadelle
JOANNE Why Jesus Christ? Because he is reality. In the campus center (last friday,) a rather outspoken fellow,, Dave Ward, declared his reasons for following J.C.: Jesus claimed to be ‘very God’ (“he who has seen me has seen the Father”), who, having ‘bombed’ through energy into matter, became a man (“and the Word became flesh”). He came to save us from ourselves ( “to purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God”), to keep us from being ‘psyched-out’, that is, deluded (“for from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts.. ...deceit.. . . “), and to show us the love of God (“but I say unto you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.. . .for your Father makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good.. . “). To live his life is the solitary way to avoid society’s ‘brainwashing’, for Christ is the singular ‘absolute’, and to seek anything else must result in an incomplete relationship. And not only is Jesus relevant, he is the challenge. Yet an afternoon’s session, parts of which proved to be vague, confusing, and even incredible, could only begin to illuminate the reality of J.C. For he is a man but little known. Does the reader remember his Sunday-school teaching-if he went to s.s.-that he must “love Jesus, and God”? Love God? who was always picking on people for having a good time, and sending them to hell because they couldn’t do better in a world which he had made so hard! Love Jesus? Who was pictured as a pale young man with no muscles, a and red whiskers! Jesus was “the lamb of God”. sad expression, whatever that meant. It sounded like Mary’s little- lamb, something for girls-sissified. Jesus was also “meek and lowly”, a “man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” He went around for three years telling people not to do things. Sunday was Jesus’ day; it was wrong to feel comfortable or laugh on Sunday. In growing up, ideas are either consolidated and verified, or else discarded; and the white-robed weakling usually becomes part of the refuse. But try wiping your mind clear of books and sermons. Read about him as though he was a character in history. Read what the men who knew Jesus personally said about him. You’ll be amazed.
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A physical weakling! Where did they get that idea’? Jesus was a hardy carpenter who pushed a plane and swung an adze. In heat and dust he walked miles up and down the country on rough, unmade roads. His muscles and zeal were SO strong that when he drove the money-changers out, nobody dared oppose him! A kill-joy! He was the most popular dinner guest in Judea! The criticism which proper people made was that he spent too much time with publicans and sinners, and enjoyed life too much. They called him a “wine bibber and a gluttonous man.”
Sunday
A failure! He picked up twelve humble men, and created an organization that conquered the world. %,, Here is a man worth discovering. So perhaps further explorations can be allowed in subsequent Chevrons.
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February 9 University Western
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TANGIER,
MOROCCO-Worried
“The Revolution”? Disgruntled American society and values or ing-for chigs, marijuana and hash?
Aout by simply
If you have or can get enough money to get here, Ibizaa small island south of the Majorcan Islands, one hundred miles into the Mediterranean Sea off the Spanish coast-can offer you a haven of easy living, and a community of like-minded people.
Life on Ibiza may be one of adjusting to a micro-biotic diet if you want to feel completely free of the North American way of life, or one of living in the relaxed, almost lazy manner of the local people. A clean apartment for two or more with hot water can cost as little as thirty dollars a month; food for two as little as fifty cents a day. The micro-biotic diet of most people consists of high protein foods such as brown- rice, sea food, vegetables and fruits-none of which have been processed in any way. The Americans and Canadians living here vary from young to middle aged people, all who have no desire to even return to North America. They have rejected what they call the hypocritical social, economic and political standards in which they grew up. The young people, past-hippies, political activists and college drop-outs all sincerely believe that a revolution, a bloody one, is less than ten years away in the United States, especially now that Nixon (a “‘big business Republican’) is presiden t.
doing errands for shop owners in return for food, hustling customers for hotels in reiurn for free lodging, acting as guides for tourists, dealing in marijuana (very profitable), or selling fish they’ve caught to neighbours. Whatever people do, they do as much or as little as they want; when and the way they want to. “Tomorrow” is seldom a concernliving today is more important. Days and nights are enjoyed in a community not bounded by false’ ethics or nineteenth. century puritan standards of work and morals.
Jim Chorney was a second year philosophy student at the University of Waterloo until November, ‘68, when he decided his ‘educational priority exceeded his academic priority’ and immediately left on an extended tour of parts unknown. Jim is presently in Spain where he plans to pause several months before continuing his journey.
North look-
The middle-aged have set up cafes, shops, and bars for tourists living as they’ve always wanted but couldn’t. . Of three hundred and sixty-five days of the year, about one hundred and twenty-five are fiesta days reserved for celebrations. People dress and act as they please; accepted by the locals to whom they mean more\ business directly and indirectly by attracting tourists especially at Christmas and during the summer season. BY North
American
standards
marquana,
A Utopian ideal? Not really. The atmosphere and freedom are perhaps close to an ultimate ideal, but I felt that living such a life on Ibiza was mere existence.
reef
(the best of the marrjuana leaves) and hash 1fmarguana resins pressed into bricks) are very #inexpensive and reasonably easy to obtain from JWorocco, Afghanistan and Lebanon lf you’re lukky you can travel south and buy over two pounds of good reef for less than ten dollars, the comparable North American price being anywhere from eighty to over one hundred dollars.
Life on Ibiza is difficult to adjust to if it is for longer than a brief visit because one follows no forced pattern of living like the North American commuter-suburb syndrome. Those living here permanently earn what little money or goods they need by painting,
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“Doing your own thing” in a vacuum seems hollow at best, for intellectual, aesthetic and other physical pleasures of living can become stagnant on an island like Ibiza. However, the personal value of Ibiza is immeasurable when an individual quickly comes to realise how much of his “life” he himself is capable of living if he does not allow othersfriends, family, society or governments-to decide a life-style for him.
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For those living in Ibiza, there exists a contentment certainly not available elsewhere, especially North America. And the escapeseekers from a hectic industrial continent continue to drift in -and drift out...
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Anyone who missed the university drama company’s production of Twelfth Night last weekend passed up a good evening’s enter tainment . The play, produced and acted by a group of amateurs, displayed professional style throughout. As could be expected, Paul Frapper, who played Sir Toby Belch and Ian Gaskell as Sir Andre Aguecheek, stole the show. Their comedy routines and their general behaviour throughout the playseemed to spur the rest of the company to better performances. Their characterizations were almost perfect except for a slight tendency on Frappier’s part to slur his wordssomething which could possibly be excused as part of his role. The enthusiastic audience loved them. Another excellent player was Patricia Connor who portrayed Maria, servant to the countess Olivia. In any scenes in which both Maria and Olivia (Judy Dunlop) appeared together Maria effortless,
Viola was credible if not outstanding. While the main characters performed without a visible slip, the supporting characters did - very little in the way of adding to the play * Orsino, as played by Richard Ennis was not the majestic, pampered duke Shakespeare wrote about. Feste, the clown (Alec Cooper) became progressively better as the night went on and finished as one of the more endearing if not accomplished characters. John Turner did a good job in his role as Malvolio. On the whole, the company deserves nothing but credit for their fine performances. The production staff, in charge of sets and costuming proved themselves very capable and the direction of Mita Scott Hedges displayed originality and artistic ability in her interpretation of the play.
Birth control pill dispensers in the village? Village warden Ron Eydt has recommended the university provide prophylactics and birth control pills to its students. The plan was overruled by former administration president Gerry Hagey. In a memo to Hagey earlier this month Eydt proposed that the university provide a broad sex education program for freshman students This was to include readily available birth control information. The last two sections of the memo dealt with distribution of birth control devices on campus. . Hagey accepted the first part. This would involve an expansion of the present health services sex education program. He rejected, however, any plan to provide students with birth control devices. His reply stated in part: “I agree that we have accepted the policy of the university not attempting to enforce the in loco parentis attitude toward students, but on the other hand I think we cannot afford to do anything that could be interpreted as the university encour aging promiscuous behavior by the students who are registered. ”
John Turner as Mal~~olio accost Oh%ia (Judy Dunlop) after being tricked into thinking Olilyia loj?es him by Maria (played by Patricia Connor) in last weekS Twel’th Night.
The audience was endeared to Alec Cooper5
ovies Honey
‘fool’ protrayal.
by Pau I Englert Chevron staff
I
Pot melochma
The idea of having a movie free of charge in the campus center great hall is certainly commendable but some of the movies aren’t. The feeling seems to be that if a film is new it is automatically good. And if the film does happen to be good it has probably been on television or released through commercial theaters, several times ( What’s New Pussycat, Tom Jones).
The Honey Pot was just plain bad. What started as a promising comedy drifted into tired melodrama and stumbled to a finish with no less than five anticlimaxes. The only performer worth mentioning is Rex Harrison as the millionaire-gone-broke who plays a game with the marionettes who made up the supporting cast. The movie’s biggest fault was that it seemed to lose Harrison somewhere in the middle. The acoustics in the hall caused the audio to be garbled at times, but I suppose that can’t be helped.
friday,
january
31, 1969 (9:47)
717
9
The
/ forest
by W.W.P. Burns Last the
summer to
Two
live
in
weeks
grapher story
a
restrictions
society
on
small
group
of
their
reserve
the
uncomplicated
ago,
Al
Scarth
what
is
freelance travelled
really
happening.
of
Cree and
Indians the
way journalist
broke
influences they W.W.P.
to
the This
Burns
Kootenay is what
away of
from
structured
preferred. Plains they
and
photo to
get
a
found.
T’S COLD AS HELL on the Kootenay Plains, but 140 people have been living here in 23 tents since July. People from the four Hobbema Cree Indian bands of Sampson, Louis Bull, Ermineskine, and Montana followed lifetime Ermineskine chief Robert Smallboy to this present camp in the White Goat wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. White people think he’s cra7y with the forest for a home; they can’t understand why, nor take time to try. They laugh at him in the nearest town and wait for him to quit -to go back to the reservation at Hobbema. Even the Department of Indian Affairs thought he would leave when it got colder. People didn’t want to believe he could lead his people back to the old ways of life. Chief Smallboy does not trust the newspaper men who have come to see him. He says it embarrasses the white man to tell ihe truth, and that the only time the white man is interested in the Indian is when he can make money from him. Violet Omeasoo, who serves as the chief’s interpreter, says nobody was interested in the Indians when they lived at Hobbema. She wonders why they are important now. In the nearest city a paper portrayed them as existing on welfare, huddled in tents to escape th.e cold, and starving. The clerk in the Indian Agent’s office at Rocky Mountain House said some of the people were receiving assistance if they need it. Most payments however are coming from oil royalties on land holdings at Pigeon Lake. Besides that some of the men in the camp are working out, like those at the gas station at Nordegg. It is understandable when Chief Smallboy says the white man looks down on the Indian. It is understandable he does not respect the journalists who have been there. He cannot respect most of the white men he comes in contact with, because most of them are trying to exploit him. Several stories have been printed which distorted the facts to sell. Smallboy started to charge $100.00 for the right to take pictures after this. He uses the money to buy gas for his trucks. Here he stands on his own ground and needs only answer to nature for survival. He expects someone coming in to respect his way of life. Out here, you are judged on your word, not your appearance. Here his people have a way of life where they can keep their self respect. One the reservation they can only be second class citi7ens. It is better out ‘here for the children. There is no one to laugh at them or lead the young girls astray. Everything they need is here. except a school. The Department of Indian Affairs -had promised to send in a trailer to serve as a school and it was supposed to arrive before Christmas. Violet Omeasoo, who is to serve as teacher, said correspondence lessons have arrived but as yet no textbooks or trailer. The Indian agent hasn’t visited them since before itsnowed.
On the reservation only be second-class
they can citizens
The road west of Nordegg is drifted over at 23 below 7ero, and a person becomes sceptical about going out there. If it drifts any worse, you won’t get out. Our first sighting of the camp was from the David Thompson highway, 38 miles west of Nordegg and near the White Goat River. It sits in a sheltered area, by a The first small lake and surrounded by mountains. sound heard was the laughter of children as they played on an ice slide. Dogs barked at first, then came over to get their ears scratched. A group of men stood around a car with a fire burning under its oil pan. They said the Chief’s tent was on one of the streets further west, then laughed. ‘Joe Smallboy said his father wasn’t there. The chief is 76 and was taking his mother back to Hobbema. She had come out for Christmas. When they were told a news story had said they were starving, everybody laughed again.
One man pointed at his belly and said, “I gained thirty pounds since I came out here”. There is no lack of food as George Mackinaw pointed out. He said they had shot eight animals in the last week. The meat is then rationed out. The women say they have trouble keeping potatoes from freezing. Indian bread, known as ‘bannock,’ provides plenty of starch for their diet. There seems to be plenty of game around: it is easier to hunt now that the white hunters have gone. George can’t understand men who come to hunt just for heads of animals. He has a covenant with nature; he hunts to ear, not for game. Lazarus Roan has a black silvertipped beard and sits on a wooden stump for a chair. He gives you a stump too while he talks to you. He used to drive a school bus in Hobbema, but lost his license when he turned 60. It was too bad because he almost had his bus paid for. All he misses out here are the hockey games on television. The only way he will go back to the reservation is in a box. He speaks for the chief because he is one of the elders and the chief is away. Through an interpreter he says, “The chief will probably speak to you if he thinks you will print the truth. The first ones who came were told true facts but did not print them.” He tells why the chief wants to charge these people to take pictures. Obviously if he was satisfied with what was being printed, he wouldn’t have to charge. Lazarus Roan is given a promise that no pictures will be taken without the chief’s approval. It is the beginning of a basis of trust. Words matter out here. The children are naturally curious but do not steal. Drinking is not permitted. They left that and the other evils of the white man’s way of life behind them. Lazarus talked about the first. reporter who came. The chief told him when the white man came to this country he brought no good, only evil. God put the Indians’ animals on the earth for the Indian to hunt. The white man was given his animals too, but he has to keep them warm and feed them. The chief asked him, “Why do you kill my animals and give me nothing for them. Give me back the duck you put me in jail for.” The reporter didn’t print this. Like most of those who followed him he chose to exaggerate to sell a story. That was how Robert Smallboy came to distrust reporters.
They left the white
behind man3
the evils government
of
The government isn’t too popular either. It seems a hydroelectric power dam is going to be built on the Bighorn River to serve Calgary Power. Scenic Windy Point will be under water. The graves of two Indian The Indians aren’t sure if the children are up there. lake created will force them to move from this camp,
but it is sure to affect the game. An engineer at the Department of Highways told me the vegetation put under water by the lake will rot for the first couple of years. This will drive the game back into the hills and destroy many miles of beautiful scenery. In twenty years the dam will be obsolete, but by then it will be too late to save the scenery or the wildlife. It is not certain whether the crown has clear title, as some of the tribes in this area have never signed a treaty. This area has long been a traditional hunting ground. Supper is moosemeat, and it keeps you warm in the sub-zero weather. The bachelor tent turns out to be a good place to sleep in, even for these two white men. It gets cold at night, but if you get up to put wood on the fire, you stay warm. Morning comes with the sound of an engine struggling to start, lugging, coughing, then roaring into life. The old Plymouth’ next to the bachelor tent starts every morning. The other cars are started periodically during the night to keep them going. Those that don’t make through the night get a boost from the old Plymouth. Diapers are flapping on a clothesline as people start to carry water from the well. A group of men take one of the trucks and a ‘chain saw to get wood from a burned out area several miles away. When a load comes in even the kids split wood.
Trinkets trade with
were brought the Indians
to
They had a good Christmas here. Joe Smallboy had a decorated tree in his tent and tells of the Mormons who came with gifts and Santa Claus in a station wagon. A white boy from Winnipeg named Barry has been living out here for several months. His parents sent in 300 pounds of turkey. The chief says not all whites are bad. Chief Smallboy was splitting wood when we went ta see him. Through an interpreter he explained that he would have to charge for any pictures taken. When twa reporters from an Edmonton paper showed up, they were told this, but they did npt respect it. While the one sat in the chief’s tent, the photographer was outside They had brought trinkets with therr taking pictures. to trade with the Indians. Grateful for the hospitality shown to us, we did noi take any pictures, but when some appeared in an Edmonton newspaper, we asked the chief if he had given permission. He said he hadn’t. The reporters maintained they were within their rights in that the Indians were on crown land, technically just squatters, having no recourse in court. Smallboy does not want men like this coming to see him. He does not respect a man whose word is not good He asks only to be I’eft alone, free from tourists and re. porters without ethics. He asks only to be left in peace in this land of his fathers between these four hills.
The platitudes and condescension of the white man’s ‘concern” for the Canadian Indian is driving a proud people back to the forests to be free of the lies and deceit of a foreign culture. The cause of this trendlack of positive, value-free assistance-has recently been examined by several western Canadian student papers, whose articles have illustrated poignant examples of this major Canadian alienation crisis. The first article reprinted here is from The Gateway, University of Alberta;
the
second from The Manitoban, University of Manitoba. student concern for Indian affairs, The Manitoban points out “‘the time has come for the immigrant to receive his citizenship.” Indeed it has.
Noting radical
by Pat Budge11
HEN the federal government decided to form a commission , to recommend changes in Canada’s Indian Act, it saw it to include in the commission represlntatives of the people affected. One of hese was a Second World War veteran lamed Tommy Archibald. The inclusion of Archibald must have een viewed by the government manarins involved in the affair as being ingularly apt: his views on “what ought D be done with the Indians” were so trikingly similar to their own. The town of Moosonee, Ontario, to Jhich Mr. Archibald has in recent ears been paying particular attention, 5 divided into two parts by a shallow reek which flows into the Moose River. /lost of the town’s white population ives on one side of the creek. Most Inians live on the other. The Indians would seem to have goten the better part of the deal, thoughheir settlement is located on high round and offers by far the more comortable conditions for living. The white lart of town, by contrast, is rather lowr-to be blunt about it, it’s in a museg swamp. Viewing the situation, Mr. Archibald Tas much displeased with the de acto segregation that he found, holding nat the Indians could not fail to be inulted and degraded by it. Being by naure a determined man, Tommy Archiald soon won his case with the offiials down south, and operations are urrently underway to rectify the situaion. They are going to move the Inians into the swamp.
Years
of torment
Incidents like this are by no means solated. They’ve been going on for rears, are going on now, and-if some)ody somewhere doesn’t wake up and isk the Indians’ opinion for a change,hey will continue to occur until such ime as the last of their victims gives ip the ghost. Then, of course, there will )e no more Indian “problem.” Every once and a while the natives get up the nerve to take matters into ,heir own hands-earlier this winter, for nstance, when the CBC brought us the rews that a small band on a western eserve was pulling up stakes and movlg into the mountains to get away from /hat they rightly considered to be the estructive influence of white civilizaion. You could almost hear the tears in he commentator’s voice as he described he departure of the brave little band rom the comfort and safety of the reerve for the terribly, terribly cruel wilderness. Can they survive, he asked n tones usually reserved for film clips If thalidomide babies, in an environnent so harsh that even the game warens (what do you want to bet they’re
white men?) leave for the winter? Of course they can-that is, if they haven’t been around white men too long. They have fire, shelter, and plenty of wild game plus the weapons to take, them with. Why shouldn’t they survive?
Life
in the bush
In the white man’s mind-or, I should say, in the minds of a great many white men-the way an Indian lives in the bush is nothing short of disgraceful. The kids don’t always go to school regularly, their clothes are often patched, their health is poor, their teeth need attention, and for some reason they don’t seem to want to go to university. Whole families live in log and tar-paper shacks. Your average concerned suburban white lady just knows how the poor things must hate it all-she herself couldn’t stand to live in such a mess. Just what do the natives feel about living ‘in such a mess?’ Quite a fewmore by far than you’d think-don’t really care. And those who are dissatisfied would very often stick to a bad thing they know than take chances with a way of life they don’t know firsthand but feel would probably be worse-the cities. The fact is that life in the bush, for those who know it, can be very good indeed. It must not be forgotten that the Indians’ standard of living is by far superior to what it was a hundred years ago. There are natives with bank accounts running to five figures who live in miserably run-down shacks, simply because they see no real need to make a change. The vast majority of native people would be as satisfied with their lot as anybody ‘can hope to be-if only they were left alone. There is just no use in making satisfied people dissatisfied, or, even worse, in putting them in places they would not choose to go themselves simply because other, more powerful, people feel guilty about leaving them alone. This is not to say that the people of southern Canada have no responsibilities toward the people of the north-far from it. There is no excuse for allowing hunger to prevail amongst one section of the population when the rest of the country is so incredibly rich. There is no excuse for allowing hunger to prevail amongst one section of the population when the rest of the country is so incredibly rich. There is no excuse for the ,rate of infant mortality that now prevails in Indian communities. Provision of food and proper medical care for everyone, everywhere in this country is an absolute practical and moral necessity.
Meddling
whites
Rather it is simply to say this: that the greatest problem that the Indian population of Canada has to deal with
is the white population-its meddling interference, its unwillingness to learn f:om past mistakes, and the paternalistic double standard that is so firmly rooted in its mind. These are by no means the only problems; these alone, however, if not faced and solved, will be sufficient to ensure the eventual destruction of the Indian people as a race. Indeed, there is good reason to think that the destructive process is already irreversible. I mentioned a ‘double standard’; I do not mean by this that an Indian usually fails to get the benefit of the doubt in cases where a white man would probably get it-quite the reverse. The most blatant examples of this are to be found in the courtroom. I know, for example, of a case in Ontario in which a white boy was charged with statutory rape, was found guilty and received a prison term of several years. At the same assizes, an Indian youth was also charged with rape-the forcible variety-and was let off with a suspended sentence. In the court of the celebrated Judge Sissons, men were convicted of killings and were then released, apparently as compensation for not having a white skin. The effect of this unwillingness, on the part of white administrators to let the same law apply to all men upon a people whose very survival had for thousands of years depended upon a rigid and reliable social order is evident in almost every northern settlement of any size. In some parts of the Canadian Arctic it is difficult, if not impossible, to come across an adult male native who is not either guilty of killing a man or of being an accomplice to such a killing.
I Lack
of discipline
This total disregard for authority usually has its beginnings in the schools to which all native children are compelled by law to go. The compulsion in itself is of course not unjustifiable, since white children are also so compelled; what is wrong with the schools in so many cases is the total lack of discipline in them. And I speak from experience. One incident I remember very vividly will serve to illustrate. On my arrival in 1958 at Fort Resolution, N.W.T., I was placed in a class in a government school at the settlement. The first day I was there, an Indian boy my own age tapped me on the shoulder in class and told me to watch. Taking a new and perfectly good government-supplied ruler from his desk, he waited until the male schoolteacher was looking his way and then broke it over his knee. The teacher tried desperately not to notice. A minute later the boy raised his hand and, waving one of the broken pieces, laughingly asked the teacher for a new one. He got it without a word of protest. In contrast, a Roman Catholic mis-
sion school I attended earlier, at Berens River, Man., was run strictly but fairly. The children who attended it received as good an education as could be had anywhere-a state of affairs that would never have been possible under the lax permissiveness of so many government and Anglican-run schools. Don’t think that the Fort Resolution school was an isolated example. A few years ago I met a gentleman on a train going up to Churchill who turned out to be the superintendent of schools for the area. He was going up this time to pull one of his teachers out of a school in Churchill who had had a nervous breakdown due to the uncontrollability of the children and youths he was supposed to be teaching. The superintendent told me quite casually that it happened all the timesimply because young teachers, full of theories but sadly deficient in experience, let their classes run wild rather than curb their ‘spontaneity.’ I think it safe to say that no class of white children would ever be allowed such freedom.
Hope
in education
Has the problem a solution? Partly. To begin with, we can make it clear that the law is not to be disobeyed with im1 punity by anyone, white or Indian. ~ Provide proper training to those who ’ go north to teach and to administrate. And while we’re on the subject of administration, let’s continue to do everything possible to ensure that administrators know their territory and the people in it _ intimately-preferably by reason of their being born and raised there. Don’t expect miracles. Don’t expect people who have lived all of their lives in a condition we would describe as poverty to look at themselves and their homes in the same light as white people would, or to decide all of a sudden to change their lot. And for God’s sake don’t let’s borrow trouble. If a man is satisfied, leave him alone. Chances are he knows what his problems are better than somebody who’s never lived with them. If a man wants to better himself, by all means give him a stake-but let him know right from the beginning he’s going to be required to pay it back. Not necessarily in dollars and cents-more likely in aid to the next man in line. There’ are no simple solutions. The problem may even be insoluble. But one thing is certain, and that is that the Indian race is as good as wiped out if its young men all despair of building decent lives for themselves in the north country. True, some-the exceptional and lucky few-have come to the city and kept their identities as men. But so many have not that it’s a very bad bet. And the stakes ,are measured in mens’ lives.
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Ian Young back in the nets Ian Young rated as the finest in North amateur goaltender America in 1966 has returned to his old job of guarding the nets. The former junior A star with the Oshawa Generals has been reinstated as elegible to participate in OQAA hockey action. Young
was ousted tragically from the junior A. hockey scene in january 1966 when he was hit just below the eye with a slapshot off the stick of Mickey Redmond, presently a star forward with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League,
Ian Young provides insurance and spirit for the Warriors.
Library
by Pete Miller Chevron staff
Young has been practicing since monday with the Warriors. The great goaltender is definitely an ace up the sleeve of coach Don Hayes. He not only provides insurance in case of injuries to Arlon Popkey or Jimmy Weber but a lot of spirit to the Warrior hockey club. The “flying Scotsman” as he was called when he starred in junior hockey definitely needs no introduction to hockey fans. At the age of 15 he was selected as the most valuable player in the AllOntario midget all-star tournament in Trenton. At 16, he won the most valuable player award and number one all-star status with the Whitby Dunlops of the Metro junior B. league. j For the next two years he performed wonders in the Oshawa General nets. Twice in two years he was selected to the first allstar team. Members of those teams included Bobby Orr, Derek Sanderson, Walt Tzchuck, Mickey Redmond, Danny O’Shea, Andre Lacroix, Serge Savard and Brian Glennie, all present players in the National Hockey League. Twice he was selected to defend the nets against the Russian and Czech national teams and played superbly. Although he only played in 33 games in his final season, Young still managed to capture the most valuable player award. After watching Young play against the Czechoslovakian National team, Turk Broda, the former great goaltending star with the Toronto Maple Leafs had this to say concerning Ian Young. “I watched Young in the game against Czechoslovakia last week and he was just amazing. I don’t think there is any question he’ll be in the National Hockey League within two years.”
To discuss
inadequacies
Rugger teem training for Groundhog Last tuesday night, the Warriors rugger club met at the City Hotel dining room for their se miannual general meeting. The minites from the previous meeting were read in 4 minutes and 22 seconds, almost two minutes slower than the silver tongued effort by last year’s secretary. The executive reports were read, highlighted by the outgoing captain’s comments that the enthusiasm on the team was incredible for an organization only 18 months old. The team was already in OQAA competition and was fielding two fifteens every Saturday. Ed Murphy added that the services 1 of a coach would no doubt benefit the team in future play. The incoming executive would endeavor to find someone suitable, preferably a person with an extensive background in the game. Future plans call for a home and away series with Bowling Green University, Ohio on may 10 and 25. An attempt will also be made to start a summer intramural 7 a side rugger program. Mention was then made of the Groundhog bowl and the Golden Cups both of which will be played this weekend. Western invited the Warriors to challenge for the cherished cups in the epic game to be staged in London this Saturday. The gilded glory, symbolic of rugger ineptitude will be donat-
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Track Warriors sef four records Four Records equalled
Warrior Indoor Track were broken and another at the University of
Michigan Relays held at the Yost Field House at Ann Arbor last Saturday In a packed sprint field Larry Dixon and Gord McLellan both made it to the semi-finals with Dixon’s 60-yard time of 6.5 seconds tying Dennis McGann’s school record. Billy Kindley also made it high and 70 yard low hurdles with clockings of 9.1 and 8.9 Another seconds respectively. McGann record fell when Lindley went on to record a 43’3” leap in the triple jump. Ed Buller chucked the shot 41 feet. Competition was stiff in both the field and the track events as schools from Michigan, Ontario, Ohio, Kentucky and as far south as Tennessee showed for the meet. Although finishing well back in the mile relay, the Waterloo entry established another school indoor record. Larry Dixon ran a fine anchor let to let to combine ,with McLellan, Walker and Sumner for a clocking of 3 : 30.1, shaving almost five\ seconds off the old record. Brent McFarlane, Dixon, McLellan and Olver placed second in the college sprint medley relay. Coach Neil Widmeyer was pleased with the overall performance of the team and said that he expects a good showing from his OQAA champions at the university indoor meet at Maple Leaf Gardens- in three weeks in the interim, this Saturday the Warriors will host the ring road relays. The event is scheduled to start at 3 pm. Five teams are entered and a few are still to be heard from.
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Don Hayes and his hockey Warriors suffered their second loss of the season Wednesday evening as the Varsity Blues edged the Waterloo club 5-4. The contest played before 2,000 fans was undoubtedly the most exciting of the year. The Warriors were down by four goals at one point in the match but rallied in the third period to bring the score to within one goal of their opposition. With any luck the Warriors could have won the game five times over in the third period. Tom Little the Blue’s netminder appeared to have Dave Rudge’s number as he thwarted the Warrior left - winger on seven or T eight occasions in that stanza. Paul Laprent led the Blues scor-
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leader collected three points on two goals and one assist. The University of Waterloo Warriors definitely have all the ingredients that are necessary to win the Canadian Intercollegiate Hockey Championship. With Duke Hayes at the helm they have one of the finest coaches in the country. The Warriors aren’t built around any one individual. They are a team and must play like one if they expect to claim victory. At tonight’s game against Mat watch the Hoyesian system in action when the Warriors forecheck in the opposition’s end. The Warriors and Blues are now tied for first place but U of ‘I’ has a game in hand. Each team has won eight and tied one, but Warriors have lost two games tb Toronto’s one.
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Athenas
The volleyball Athenas continued their undefeated streak in league competition as they downed the Ryerson team tuesday night. They played a best 3 out of 5 matches and won the first three games by scores of 15-8, 15-6 and 15-O. The Athenas have three league games left, the next game is tuesday night in the
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of intramural
The jock department finally in an effort to give us something for our twenty-two dollars is sponsoring several intramural sports. Besides hockey, volleyball and water polo, they are offering individual sports such as co-ed archery, co-ed skiing, squash and billiards. The co-ed archery tournament will begin with a practice day monday february 3 from 7-10 pm in the recreation center and will continue with rounds one and two
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Last weekend the Athenas saw action during the sports day held here. They were able to win all their games due to an all out effort by the whole team. Of the 17 points which tied Waterloo, with Windsor, and McMaster for first, the volleyball Athenas who
placed first in their tributed 9 points.
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If the Athenas can continue playing consistent volleyball they will have a very good chance at capturing the OQWCIA championships for the second year in a row. The championships will be held here february 14 and 15 with 11 teams competing.
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An apocryphal story about Thorstein Veblen, who coined the terms “conspicuous consumption” and “conspicuous waste”, says that he had intended to give to his bodk The Higher Learning in America the suhtitle “A Study in Total Depravity.” Even then, at the turn of the century, Veblen had perceived in the academy the germs of a business system, a form of “higher accountancy.” The condition which is thus evidently not of recent origin has now progressed to the point where the conglomerate of departments and faculties, colleges and professional schools, institutes and research centres, represents a kaleidoscope of empires within empires. These enterprises are conceived and directed by academic professionals whose entrepreneurial aspirations and talents represent an understandable response to the segmentation of the multiversity. If Veblen was correct in what he perceived, he was not in his assessment of it. If it is true that his publisher refused to permit the use of the epithet “total depravity” to characterize the administrative patterns of the academy he probably did so to avoid offending his academic clientele. We however can disapprove of Veblen’s language for quite different reasons. Much as we too may dislike certain aspects of the structure of the contemporary academy we realize that to label it as “depraved” is to be anthropomorphic, it is to impute to an impersonal structure the force of personal motive. * * * The impersonal structural problems of the university and it’s administrative apparatus can be regretted, but this in itself does nothing toward their amelioration. When university after university loses its administrative head no search for a\ substitute and no subsequent head-transplant are likely to prove lasting. The system as at present structured appears incapable of assimilating even good leadership, as was seen only too clearly in the case of Kenneth Hare at the University of British Columbia. What oftenhappens is that the committees charged with finding a university president look at the man. Their models appear to be predicated on considerations of “experience” and “character.” They fail, I think, not because there are few good men with wide experience and with good character, but because the structure of the university sets them impossible tasks. This university has now entered a period of interregnum that will pemit its several publics to do more than “find the right man.” Perhaps these publics should forthwith inspect as candidly as possible their own interests and the means they now use to advance these. Perhaps they can, in doing so, discover how their own conduct can assist rather than hinder a future president to govern. _
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* * * I indicated previously that today I would discuss a possible model to guide the selection of a president. I find it easier to say what ought not to be done than what ought. And so for today I must content myself with some further references to the former. It is understandable that academics seek in a president someone they can respect intellectually. The academic members of a committee to search for a potential president are therefore likely to think of their ideal incumbent for the office as someone who has made great achievements in science, the humanities, or in some technological field. Allow me to tell here a story of a search for a president at another university two decades ago. In that story we may be able to note the fallacy of assuming that it is academic excellence that provides the proper leadership under all circumstances. After several false starts the governors of Cornell University finally found a new president in 1951 in the person of Deane Malott. He had been well named by his parents because he had indeed been deanthe head of a business school at a mid-west university. Some weeks after Mallott’s installation as President the New Yorker magazine had an issue with a page titled “Funny Coincidences Department.” Without reading any part of it indetail, the reader noted that the page consisted of two columns of identical length, with three paragraphs each, each paragraph also being of identical length. The left-hand column was from an address by Harold Taylor, then President at Sarah Lawrence College, the address stemming from the 1940ies. The right-hand column, in - every detail exactly the duplicate of the other, was part of the installation speech by President Malott. When the student reporters of the Cornell Sun asked how this could have happened, Malott said something about doing quite a lot of clipping and that busy men can be excused if they forget from where their quotes come. (It happened to be the same month during which the univeristy’s English Department had warned undergraduates that plagiarism, if discovered, would lead to dismissal.) Perhaps we can sympathize with the members of the faculty who sought to remove President Malott from his new post. They failed. But then came a time of political storms. McCarthy’s insane accusations of hundreds of communists in the State Department and thousands among respected scholars drove more than one university president to capitulate. When Cornell University professors were cited before congressional committees and accused of disloyal behaviour President Malott had just one single standard to judge them: their academic standing among their colleagues. And so Cornell University was among ‘2.the few institutions of the higher learning not ravaged by witch hunting. My story has only one moral. Academic morality is not necessarily the best criterion for satisfactory academic administration. Next time I hope to be able to move toward more positive modelling for the presidency.
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The molded, conditioned, disciplined, repressed child-the unfree child, whose name is Legion, lives in every corner of the world. He lives in our town just across the street. He sits at a dull desk in a dull school; and later, he sits at a duller desk in an office or on a factory bench. He is docile, prone to obey authority, fearful of criticism, and almost fanatical in his desire to be normal,-conventional, and correct. He accepts what he has been taught almost without question; .and he hands down all his complexes and fears and frustrations to his children. Psychologists have contended that most of the psychic damage to a child is done in the first five years of life. It is POSsibly nearer the truth to say that in the ’ first five minutes, damage can be done to a child that will last a lifetime.
It may be no exaggeration to say that all children in our civilization are born in a life-disapproving atmosphere. The timetable feeding advocates are basically antipleasure. They want the child to be disciplined in feeding because non-timetable feeding suggests orgastic pleasure at the breast. The nutriment argument is usually a rationaliza tion ; the deep motive is to rnold the child into a disciplined creature who will put duty before pleasure. Let us consider the life of an average grammar school boy, John Smith. His parents go to church now and then, but insist that John go to nevertheless Sunday School every single week. The parents had married quite rightly because of mutual sex attraction; they had to marry, because in their milieu one could not live sexually together unless one was respectable-that is, married. As so often happens, the sex attraction was not enough; and differences of temperament made the home a strained place, with occasional loud-voice arguments between the parents. There were many tender moments too, but little John took them for granted, whereas the loud quarrels between his parents hit him in the solar plexus, and he became frightened and cried and got spanked for crying for nothing. From the very first, he was conditioned. Timetable feeding gave him much frustration. When he was hungry, the clock said his feeding time was still an hour away. He was wrapped up in too many clothes, and wrapped too tightly. He found that he could not kick out as freely as he wanted to do. Frustration in feeding made him suck his thumb. But the family doctor said that he must not be allowed to form bad habits, and Mamma was ordered to tie up his arms in his sleeves or to put some evil-smelling substance on His natural functions his fingertips. were left alone during the diaper period. But when he began to crawl and perform on the floor, words like naughty and dirty began to float about the house, and a grim beginning was made in teaching him to be clean. Before this, his hand had been taken away every time it touched his genitals;
and he soon came to associate the genital prohibition with the acquired disgust about fetes. Thus, years later, when he became a traveling salesman, his story repertoire consisted of a balanced number of sex and toilet jokes.
Much of his training was conditioned by’ relatives and neighbors. Mother and father were most anxious to be correctto do the proper thing-so that when relatives or next-door neighbors came, John had to show himself as a welltrained child. He had to say Thank you when Auntie gave him a piece of chocolate; and he had to be most careful about his table manners; and especially, he had to refrain from speaking when adults were speaking. His abominable Sunday clothes were a concession to neighbors. With this training in respectability went an involved system of lying-a system he was usually consciously unaware of. The lying began early in his life. He was ‘told that God does not love naughty boys who say damn, and that the conductor would spank him if he wandered along the train corridor. All his curiosity about the origins of life were met with clumsy lies, lies so effective that his curiosity about life and birth disappeared. The lies about life became combines with fears when at the age of five his mother found him having genital play with his sister of four and the girl next door. The severe spanking that followed (Father added to it when he came home from work) forever conveyed to John the lesson that sex is filthy and sinful, something one must not even think of. Poor John had to bottle up his interest in sex until he came to puberty, and then he would guffaw in the movies when some woman said she was three months pregnant.
Intellectually, John’s career was normal. He learned easily, and thus escaped the sneers and punishment a stupid teacher might have given him. He left school with a smattering of mostly useless know-/ ledge and a culture that was easily satisfied with cheap tabloids, trite films, and the pulp library of crime. To John, the na,me Colgate was associated only with a toothpaste; and Beethoven and Bach were intrusive guys who got in the way when ‘you were tuning in to Elvis Presley or the Beiderbecke Band. John Smith’s rich cousin, Reginald Worthington, went to a private school; but his development, in essentials, was the same as that of poor John. He had the same acceptance of the second-rate in liie, the same enslavement to the status quo, the same negation of love and joy. Are these pictures of John and Reginald one-sided caricatures? Not exactly caricatures, yet I have not given the complete picture. I have left out the warm humanity of both, a humanity that survives the most evil character conditioning. The Smiths and the Worthingtons of life are in the main decent, friendly folk, full of childish faith and superstitions, of childlike trust and loyalties. They and
their fellows make up the Jahn Citizens who make the laws and demand humaneness. They are the people who decree that animals must be killed humanely, that pets must be properly cared for; but they break down when it comes to man’s inhumanity to man. They accept a cruel, unchristian criminal code -without a thought; and they accept the killing of other men inwar as a natural phenomenon. John and his rich cousin agree that love and marriage laws should be stupid and unkind and hateful. They agree that there must be one law for men, and another law for women, so far as love is concerned. Both demand that the girls they marry should be virgins. When asked if they are virgins, they frown and say, “A man’s different.”
Both are staunch supporters of the patriarchal state, even if neither ever heard of the term. They have been fashioned into a product the patriarchal state finds necessary for its continued existence. Their emotions tend to be crowd emotions rather than individual feelings. Long after leaving a school which they hated as schoolboys, they will exclaim, “I was beaten at my school, and it did me a lot of good,” and then pack of’f their sons to the same or a similar school. In psychological terms, they accept the father without constructive rebellion against him ; and so the father-authority tradition is carried on for generation after generation. To complete the portrait of John Smith I ought to give a short sketch of the life of his sister, Mary-short because,, by and large, her repressive environment is the same as that which stifles her brother. She has, however, special handicaps that John does not have. In a patriarchal society she is a definite inferior, and she is trained to knqw it. She has to do house chores when her brother reads or plays. She soon learns that when she gets a job, she will get less pay than a man gets. Mary does not as a rule rebel against her inferior status in a man-made society. Man sees that she has compensations, tawdry as they mostly are. She is the focus of good manners; she is treated with deference; a man will stand in her presence if she is not seated. A man will ask her if she will graciously marry him. Mary is subtly taught that one of her chief functions is to look as lovely as possible, the result being that many more millions are spent on dress and cosmetics than are spent on books and schools.
In the sex sphere, Mary is as ignorant and as repressed as her brother. In a patriarchal society, the menfolk have decreed that their women must be pure, virginal, innocent. It is not Mary’s fault that she has grown up in the sincere belief that women have purer minds than men. In some almost mystical way, her menfolk have made her think and feel that her function in life is only reproduction, and that sexual pleasure is man’s province. Mary’s grandmother, and probably her mother, too, were not supposed to have
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The tragedy of man is, that, like the dog, his character can be molded. You cannot mold the character of a cat, an animal superior to the dog. You can give a dog a bad conscience, but you cannot give a conscience to a cat. Yet most people prefer dogs because their obedience and their flattering tail-wagging afford visible proof of the master’s superiority and worth. The nursery training is very like the kennel training ; the whipped child, like the whipped puppy, grows into an obedient. inferior adult. And as we train our dogs to suit our own purposes. so we train our children. In that kennel, the nursery, the human dogs must not bark too much; they must obey the whistle; they must feed when we think it convenient for them to feed. I saw a hundred thousand obedient. fawning dogs wag their tails in the Templewhen in 1935, the great hof, Berlin, trainer Hitler whistled his commands.
A.S. ‘Neil is Head master of Sum: merhill a british private school often called the only real progressive school. Neil is also author of many books on the school and on educaSummerhill, k tion including, radical Approach to Child Rearing, from which this passage is! taken. Hart publishing company, 1960. fridayJanuary
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The critique of our recent conference which you published in last friday’s Chevron unforunately reflects a serious misunderstanding which we would like if possible to correct. Your reporter, Ken Coe, apparently assumed that we hoped to instigate “an attempt.. . to change the existing church structure”: he says that “the theme topic centred on the irrelevance of institutional churches in relation to the societies of today”. He also assumes that we had a system of ideas that we wished to “communicate”. Neither of these assumptions is true. Judged by the assumptions of course WAY OUT failed. But we were trying to do something else. We have seen, first, the spectacle of the religious establishment. fighting to maintain its sovereignty and then, having lost, we see it rationalizing its position by allowing religion to be presented as something extra dne compartment of life. Both these defenses may be understandable in their terms, but they are misleading and destructive of the humanity of the persons who are involved in them. We feel that religion is nothing if it is not a total life-style. We do not wish to be caught in this negative business of attacking
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church institutions. Most of us came to the conclusion a long time ago that the institutionalized church is dead and not worth attacking. Your reporter writes: “Surely they could introduce some ideals without commenting on the inevitability and indeed, the benefits of some upcoming massive revolution. “However the first statement in our brochure read: ‘.The underlying assumption of WAY OUT is that we are committed to society”. The individual does not exist apart from the persons around him. Man’s individuality is not separable from man as a political and social being. If the dehuma’nizing factors in a society have become so strong that people no longer can be aware and concerned about others, then the free man, the fulfilled individual, also becomes an impossible dream. In this situation we wish to speak of hope, a hope derived from the events bf a man, Jesus, who was from the beginning of his life to the end, totally involved within, dependent upon, and vulnerable to the social and political realities of his day. Yet this man pointed to a dime;sion of human experience which all men: sense but usually put aside as impossible. Gregory Baum’s lecture identified the content of that dimension, that hope. Man, he said, is summoned to a future which is not just an extrapolation of the present, but something new. Man also fulfills his identity in the context of a “critique”, a basic attitude which means that he refuses to of any inmake an “absolute” stitution in which he may be involved. He acts in the present on the vision of a future which he cannot see, and of human possibililities which he takes on faith. This critique as well as this summons are mediated through human beings, which other brings us to the third part of this hope : community. Community happens: it treats itself among us. These three things the call to the future, the critique, and the experience of community, Baum called “God”. “To believe in God”, he said, “is to believe that tomorrow can be different from today”. This “theology’‘-the study of this Godis obviously not what your reporter expected to find at WAY OUT. Construct your ideas in a group you will be assigned to.. .” Read our brochure. It said nothing about an intention to communicate ideas. The person who is accustomed to comparmentalized religion might have expected a neat patter of “Political Theology” to be set in front of him. There is no such dish. Just from the various backgrounds and qualifications and subject matter of the resource people one should realize that there is no complete systemized answer. The resource people were invited here because they were known to have broken through their “false consciousness” and our hope was that their thoughts and experiences would help us. It would put us all in the condition of searching. Maybe together we would arrive at some particularly relevant insight into one’s own situation. Your reporter’s comments about our lack of structure seemed to miss the mark. His real comfriday,
plaint seems to be that instead of talking about restructuring the institutionalized church, we talked about community, liberation, revolution and history-personal and biblical. We are glad that for the first time your reporter at least considered the possibilit;; that theology might have some relation to reality. %‘e are sorry indeed that he retreated at once to the reassuring idea of theology as “an individi!al concept”. We see nothing in the JudeoChristian heritage to support that idea-not in the history of the Jewish people. with their God who, summoned them to new socia: and political realities, nor in the history of Jesus Christ, whose critique of the Politico-religious establishment of His day ended in His crucifixion. nor in the original concept of the Christian church with its common life and its common meal. There is nothing there to make us believe that hope lies in living as if we were alone. In this context. it is significant that, since WAY OUT, plans have been made, not only for a weekend in march on the topic of community, but at least three groups are now working on concrete proposals for forming experimental communities as an agent ’ for social change. MARG DYMENT JACK PALENCZNY BOB MASON IWAO MACHIDA Editorial page congratulations
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For the first time si’nce my arrival at Uniwat in September 1968, I feel that the editorial staf$Z of the Chevron is to be congratulated on the contents of the editorial page. I have long yearned to read unbiased editorials based on clearcut facts, describing situations on campus while recommending intelligent solutions. The january 24 issue does this quite admirably. Though I do not agree with all that is written on the editorial page. it seems to me that, finally, the editor has forsqkpn .: 1 the idea that to insult and insinuate is the only way of getting a point across to his readers. Though some of our elders doubt it, the student is, in general, a relatively intelligent and open-mindec creature and is able to understand and appreciate to their full value arguments set forth logically. Any attempt to disguise the weaknesses of an argument in abusive or obnoxious terms and comments is quickly recognized as such, and the reputation of the author suffers ill from this. In my opinion, the editorial page of the Chevron has a long way to go in this respect. But this student has started to renew his confidence in the editors. JEAN-MARIE COMEAU design Newdpiper
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Goodbye, Uncle Gerry Editorial We have just witnessed the retirement of administration president Gerry Hagey. It was under the ambitious and energetic leadership of Hagey that the University of Waterloo was founded, and it now seems very strange that he is no longer president. He himself became an institution in a university with few traditions. Yet, with the retirement of Gerry Hagey, there is a feeling that an era has come to an end. Aside from his position in the history of Uniwat, there are qualities that make Hagey an impressive man. Although the comparison may not be as much of a compliment as intended, he was probably the most competent ‘man in the administration. Even people who disagreed vigorously with him often had a personal respect and even liking for him. And now, while there are doubtless many people on campus who have opposed him in the past, there is a strong tendency to lay down old quarrels and pay affectionate homage to the man and his achievements. But we should not be caught up in all this fond emotion that we lose our ability to criti’ cize. Nor, if we are in fact critical, should we be so engrossed in attention to the man that we fall into the trap of believing that our problems will be solved by. his departure. Hagey brought a wealth of devotion, energy and competence to the job; but these qualities
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-while they deserved acknowledgementare worthy of praise in the context of the purposes to which they were applied and of the results they produced. And there are many forces and people at work which shaped not only the outlook of Hagey, but also the university, and will continue to do so without him. When the church-affiliated Waterloo College found itself in financial and administrative difficulties, business and public relations man Hagey was appointed to the presidency. His solution was an affiliated secular college eligible for government grants. Science and engineering were the up-andcoming, favored fields; and co-op education was the key to attracting students and servicing them with maximum efficiency. As the official history “Of mud and dreams” points out, Uniwat has maintained exceptionally close contact with business and industry. It is primarily to serve these interests-the interests of capital-that the modern multiversity exists; and Waterloo serves better than most. Even with its present diversification, engineering flourishes while arts is barely able to get the resources it needs. In our unique faculty of mathematics: pure math’s survival is threatened by concentration on technical fields. And now, something even
more subtle is apparent: while our arts library can’t afford nearly enough books, the administration thinks it can find enough money to begin a college of integrated studies-an excellent means of keeping surplus labor off the market and the discontented off the streets. Hagey has been ideal for the job. His background and talents are of the business world, and the corporate board of governors trusted him as one of themselves. His decisions rarely gave them cause to interfere. He took hard lines with faculty and students, but his mastery of the art of making liberal-sounding but meaningless concessions prevented active opposition to his very considerable power. Hagey served interests which we can only call exploitative. His administration was authoritarian. His purposes were those which even yet are generally held to be acceptable. They were the physical expression of the wishes of only businessmen and technocrats. For who, back in 1959, would have suggested the university president be elected by faculty and students+ Perhaps it is well Gerry Hagey is retiring now, for were he to remain longer, the contradiction between his practices and the views of the growing student left would have made his eventual departure a bitter end to a career which he can only understand as’being successful. l
It’s your half million If you think for a moment about just how much student. council affects your life on’ campus, you’ll ‘realize you’re in trouble. As the present caretaker representatives themselves get swept out the ,door, a serious problem arises in the search for replacements. The old stalwarts will be running no more. Ireland, Cavanagh, Flott, McKenzie left last year. This year Patterson, Givens, Burt, Calvert are all leaving the ranks.
For the first time since 1964, the continuity will be completely lost in council and the administration of over half-a-miilion dollars will fall into strange hands. Good, dedicated people must be found to run in this election. Since the executive board especially is bound to be weak, the best possible people must take up council seats. It’s your at stake.
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Honest men don’t hide A clearly premeditated attempt is being made in a number of . university committees to suck in student reprentatives. The plot is very simple. Students are admitted to committees as participating members, but meetings . are kept closed. The math faculty council is a good example. With one or two students inside facing eight to eighty faculty and administrators, they are simply overwhelmed by sweet talk, and, if necessary, distortion of the truth
incomplete information and even predetermined solidarity, in order to co-opt the students and receive their votes. Once their votes are obtained, the committee holds the decisions to be unquestionable by students since their representatives assented. Proper channels and all that, you know. The federation’s policy is never to attend secret meetings. It is most important that all student representatives maintain this policy.
Who will care for you? Thousands of students in years to come will owe a good measure of comfort to a small general meeting held last fall. They will also owe a great deal of discomfort to this year’s student body. These students will be the future inhabitants of habitat. With the furniture selection committee’s choice of plan A modified for two buildings and nlan B. for the third residents will now
uninhabitable, Getting out of bed in the original plan would have a desk been dangerous -opening drawer at times impossible. Unfortunately habitat will still be a fairly uncomfortable residence. That could have been changed only if this campus had a student body that was willing to protest a crime being committed against students y&o register.. _ _ Such students on this campus
but liveable. But had that general meeting, faced with the fact that proper channels were closed, not decided to take action and have a picket habitat would have been clearly
in almost every case by a “Why worry about others” attitude that in the end can only boomerang. For eventually others wouldn’t worry about you-and divided you’ll fall.
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Goodbye to tuesdays Tuesday Chevrons are almost dead. They will die next week with a late afternoon election results flyer. Our finances and organization have been pushed to a point which regrettably makes it impossible to continue with the twice-a-week publication. The printer is, however, being asked -to stand by so any- major news events occuring in the next two months after the friday issue’s Wednesday night deadline can be rushed to you as quickly as poscihlo
Tuesday issues were initiated by theChevron staff as a means of providing better service to our readers. It was felt that once they got off the ground, they would provide better news coverage and
would facilitate publication of fresh sports coverage and entertainment reviews. Unfortunately when the Chevron budget was prepared last fall, funds could not be found to cover the increased cost of twicea-week publication. Now that funds are available, the council h as not seen fit to increase the budget. The Chevron was the second university paper in Ontario to publish more than once a week. Because of increased ad revenue, it was possible to give this service and still increase the size of the friday paper. NOW its time to relax for awhile -look for two papers a week next fall.
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We should have run a phony story on the election whose ballots aren’t counted yet-something like ‘Iler wins on write-in’. Writing-in and other things this issue: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Roddy Hickman, entertainment coordinator; Disruptive Influence, jock editor pro-tern; Kevin Peterson, indeed; Paul Englert, Brenda Wilson, Donna McCollum, Pete Miller, George Tuck, Peter Hopkins, Jim Dunlop, Rich Lloyd, Jim Detenbeck, Terry Miller, Ross Tay,or, Jim Merkley, Kathy Dorschner, Pete Wilkinson, Dave Prentice, Brian Clark of bourgeois press fame, Anne Banks, Bill Brown, Lorna Eaton, Al Lukachko, Louis Silcox, Jim Keron, Bruce Timmons, Sydney Nestel, Bev Alldrick, Phil Elsworthy, Dave X Stephenson, Matti Nieminen, Dave Thompson, Greg Wormald, John Pickles,CaroI Robinsons, there’s a party for Patti tonight at 2 at Fred’s for anyone who understands this message, and yes even though there be a great many wearying events in the Groundhog cycle before it-there will be a staff meeting sunday night in the people’s building.
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