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by Gary Robins Chevron staff
president John Federation Bergsma surprised student council Wednesday night when he announced his resignation. The announcement came during a speech in which he had been expected to call for a vote of conf idence from council. Bergsma had received a strong vote of confidence from council two weeks ago, but at it’s meeting last week, council voted to support the library sit-in against his wishes. Bergsma has repeatedly stated he cannot support confrontation tactics under any circumstances, and subsequently felt that he could not take part in the library negotiations due to the tactics involved in the situation. “I have been forced to set aside my priorities and compromise my principles for the whims of count: :. ’ ’ he said in his speech Wednesday. Bergsma was upset with council’s decision over the library, and told a few friends afterwards that he was considering resigning because of it. He apparently considered it further last weekend as most of the delegates to the Ontario Union of Students conference, which Bergsma also attended, felt certain that he would announce his resignation monday. Monday, Bergsma said at first that he was planning to announce his resignation, but later that day, he said he had reconsidered and would let council decide the issue dt its meeting Wednesday. Most councillors expected Bergsma to ask for another vote of confidence, and that was how the topic was introduced at wednesday’s meeting. Bergsma began his speech by reminding council of his platforms in the last two presidential elections. “I was committed to an easing
of tension by re-opening communications through understanding mutual trust and cooperation,” he said. He went on to outline his priorities of an effective board of education, increased student in university afparticipation fairs and decentralization. “Council has virtually ignored these platform statements,” he said. He stated a president should be a political leader and administrative organizer, and not just a bureaucratic administrator, as was frequently the case. He urged council to take a serious look at itself and its reiation with the president. “If you as student councillors pass motions and hope to have them implemented, you should commit yourself to following them up,” he said. “Get off your asses and give your president. your support. ” He added that although he didn’t want to see council and the president disagreeing all the time as seemed to be the case, he also did not want to see council as a “rubberstamp”. ‘Council and its president ‘have not had a basis in the same principles,” he said, “I am left with no alternative but to resign from the office of president, Federation of Students.” Speaker Roger Kingsley called a recess, after which council made arrangements for the election of a new president. Nominations are open now until 5pm wednesday, and the election will be held the following Wednesday, april 12. The meeting then adjourned. After the meeting, Bergsma went to the Blue Moon Hotel with his wife, vicepresident Dave Greenburg and some other friends. Bergsma said his decision was definitely irreversible and that
by Pat Starkey Chevron staff
Library negotiations between interim president Howard Petch and a councilappointed committee of council and Radical Student Movement members have broken down after two meetings. Petch has rejected the demand of 10’; of th? iinjversity budget to be allocated f’oy libyzi.ji acquisitions and operations as being impossible to meet. He also rejected any suggestion of talking about the demand that the money for the lo’/, come from a capital gains tax rather than a tax on wages. The library negotiating committee was composed of Nick Kouwen. grad rep, Larry Caesar, arts rep, and RSM members Tom Patterson, history 3, and Mike Corbett, hist0r.y 2. The discussions took place in Petch’s office thursday afternoon and in the campus center monday evening. Both rnrlrit,ings were open. ‘l’hc demands were those presented by ?,he RSM at Lthe studv-in held last
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he was not considering running again. He said his supporters, those who helped him in his campaign, had not let him down, but that those who voted for him had.
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“It’s the support of the great majority of the voting public that is necessary to the proper function of the federation,” he said. Until
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march
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over, Bergsma intends to keen the federation going, including the passing of a budget if that is student council’s wish. “And then I’ll have to find sti;:re sort of employment.” he concluded.
- Jim Dunlop, the Chevron
Council members crowd around John Bergsma after he announced his resignation as fedqration president Wednesday night, Bergsma said he could not serve as president when student council endorsed the use of such confrontation tactics as the library study-in.
Wednesday in the arts library. These demands were adopted by council and supported by close to eight hundred students who signed the petition. It was difficult at all times during both meetings to keep the discussion focused on the central issues. Petch admitted that because an economic crisis is approaching, there will be future pressures on the library budget. He also admitted that the library is not considered a priority in the sense that a fixed proportion of the budget be allocated to it regardless of the total financial picture. He said that when money is tight, the budgets for the library and laboratory equipment, which are flexible, are first to be reduced in order to relieve the financial stress. It was suggested by members of the committee that perhaps the budget for PPandP could be cut back somewhat in order to obtain more money for the library. The feeling expressed bv stiidents
present was that their education. and therefore the quality of the library, was more important than the beauty of the campus. One student suggested that the prosperous appearance of the campus was maintained in economic crisis at the expense of the library and the quality of education. Petch agreed that PP and P. like other departments, probably was not spending its money as wisely as possible. Petch asked the committee and the students present at the meetings to help the administration look into specific areas of inadequacy of the library so that available money could be spent more wisely. He felt that the university administration at present was not getting the best possible value from every dollar. and that students could better help the library situation by specifying where books are needed than by making impossible demands such as a committment of 10’ ; of the university budget. This precipitated a discussion about
the fact that budget meetings are closed and students have little idea of how the university is spending its money or what kind of policies are exercised when budget decisions are made. The committee members. with the exception of Kouwen. asked Petch if it would be possible to open budget meetings to students. Petch agreed that open meetings were valuable as ;i means of communication between students and administratiion. but tried to discourage demands for open budget meetings on the grounds that such meetings are usually very uninteresting. ;lnd that a lot of the decisions made do not directly concern students. Many of the students present csprcssed a willingness to put up with ;I cert;iin amount of boredom in order to havt\ ;I first-hand view 9 budgtwy prcwtww. and pressed Petch to look into the ru;ltter. Petch agreed to makt~ some suggestions to ;~llow at least some studt\nts to be present ;t t budget mct\t ings.
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Three Uniwat students, Dorothy Lindhorst, Hans Kientopp and Ed Papazian are among 75 students who were recently chosen from across Canada to go to Africa with the 1969 Pick and Shovel contingent of Operations Crossroads Africa. The new appointees will join their American cohorts in New York on June 17. They will spent ten days undergoing a brief training session and then will go to Africa until August 31. Crossroads is a workcamp
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smaller but with a harder political line,” Warrian said. Hodge had opposed continuing membership in CUS to work for change in the national union because “the idea of working for change from within just doesn’t work.” The future of CUS will ‘be decided at a meeting of the union’s National Council in Toronto this weekend. A working paper from the national secretariat has suggested there are three possible courses for the union: a social democratic union, which is essenially reforming what the union is now; a voluntary union of radical students; or a service union similar to what CUS was ten years ago. Warrian feels “the option of a social democratic union is both ate at this time.” He emphasized the point that ~ people overrated CUSS effect on the student movement: “A lot of people have felt that through ’ smashing or ‘moderating’ CUS it is possible to stop or redirect the radical student movement in Canada. I think that is mistaken. ’ ’ “There will continue to be disruptions in universities, alienation of sections of the business community regardless of what CUS does or does not do because so much .1 .,of that T isp not , within ,, , CUSS , , control. In ract, mat control does not lie with any one group of people. ’ ’
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experience involving Canadians, Americans and Africans in a combined effort to foster respect and understanding through constructive work. It costs each student at least $500 and a summer of hard work for no pay. The Crossroads committee pays an additional $1,700 to cover the rest of the costs. On their return, the volunteers will be telling audiences all across Canada about their experiences from the summer.
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Uniwat will be offering an introductory course in conversational Japanese as part of the summer session this year. The basic outline for the course has been approved by the undergraduate affairs group and the arts faculty council. All that is required now is senate approval. The course was initiated by students interested in travelling to expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan. It is offered at this time for
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left CUS and formulate “policy that is acceptable to at least the majority of Canadian students.” Peter Warrian, CUS president, declined Hodge’s obituary: “I don’t think the UBC withdraw1 spells the end of CUS, it brings things to a head. “A clear choice is in front of people now if there is to be a national student union with its organizational base as student unions with mandatory membership. I think that union will be very much what CUS in policy and structure has been-possibly somewhat reformed, but not that dramatically. ” “The alternative to that is a voluntary union with individual membership which would be
(CUP)--The year’s last, and biggest, referendum on membership in the Canadian Union of Students turned against the national union when the University of British Columbia voted last Wednesday 2946 to 1701 to leave CUS.
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integrates LONDON (Staff )-The ‘integration of the Ontario Union of Students into the Canadian Union of Students was the most controversial resolution passed at the OUS conference held here last week-end The Waterloo delegation, led by Larry Burko, chief delegate and federation president John Bergsma, was one of the most active in the plenary sessions and seminars. The only real accomplishments of the conference were the election of an executive consisting of a president, vicepresident, finance commissioner and three executive members and the passing of at large, several controversial resolutions. Many old ideas were worked over once again but few new thoughts were introduced. Jim Kehoe, vicepresident of the University of Windsor student council, was acclaimed president after Bill Smith, York University, withdrew. Doubts were expressed about Kehoe’s consistency in policy. He described himself as, “wave.ring between democratic and revolutionary socialism.” Terry Salyma, York, was elected vicepresident by an overwhelming majority of the delegates. Julie Wierzbicki, a former student at U of T. was acclaimed as finance commissioner. The closest elections were for executive members at large. Dave X. Stephenson a member of the Waterloo delegation was
with CUS
narrowly defeated in an attempt to secure a position. Elected were Lorenz Shmidt, Carleton, Judy Darcy, York, and Bob Magough, Glendon College. Outgoing OUS president Brian Switzman said: “the highlight of the conference was Dave X’s nomination speech (X read a poem by Yevtushenko). It was relevant. It had nothing political and said had nothing so, while others political to offer, but tried to say that they did. Thursday night the keynote address was delivered by Melville Watkins, author of the Watkins report on foreign ownership. The title of the talk was Education in the branch
plant economy.
Friday and Saturday there followed a number of panel discussions and seminars on such topics as: “What is the purpose of the university” and “Responsible student activism”. The plenary session on sunday lasted seven hours. It dealt with election of executives as well as consideration of resolutions drawn up over the weekend. Of the 19 resolutions presented 12 were adopted as official OUS policy. The most important resolution passed concerned integration of OUS into Canadian Union of Students. There was much heated debate on the motion. Some delegates felt it was merely a cover issue, an attempt to circumvent antiCUS referendums on many cam-
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LONDON (Staff )-The federal government is no longer needed in Canada. So says Melville Watkins, author of the “Watkins Report of Foreign Ownership in Canada”, and keynote speaker at last weekend’s Ontario Union of Students conference. There is no national economy in Canada. We are entirely controlled by foreign corporations. ” Since the main role of the federal government, historically, has been to regulate the economy we no longer need a government. “We’ve lost control. Only Washington can control inflation in Canada. The only purpose for politics in Canada is to minimize tension within the imperial system. ” The title of the session was “education in the branch plant economy. ” The tone of the speech and ensuing discussion was set by Watkins’ opening remarks : “YOU have your minds buggered every day in the university. I hope not to do the same.” Watkins. surprisingly young and liberal for an author of a royal commission report, is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. His main point. aside from reemphasizing the findings of his report, was that liberalism in Canada is bankrupt. “The career of Mr. Gordon (Liberal finance minister who backed a plan for economic nationalism) serves to show the failure of Canadian liberalism. It is impossible to get through to the Government. Their perception is rare. Action is impossible. ” Watkins maintained that the reports recommendations -were not accepted by the government because the entrepreneurs, who run the country, are timid and colonial minded. We are a branch plant economy and it is not in the
interests of the corporate bosses to change this. “To work out a policy solution is easy. Gordon did it. So have others. But how do you politicize the people to pressure the government into action. They won’t move by themselves. The elites are hopeless.” He ended his speech by noting: “You don’t try to convince those who have the power-you take it.”
puses. Bill Ballard, past president of Waterloo Lutheran University student council,‘announced that in light of this motion his delegation would abstain from all further motions. He said he would recommend that his campus withdraw from OUS. Other motions passed: 0 that students have control over all university residences and have a say in general housing policy. l that OUS hire a full-time highschool fieldworker to do research and help organize highschool students. l that the number of conferences be increased from two to four yearly in order to increase communication between the executive and the member campuses. 0 that OUS press for a fairer and more comprehensive student aid program with the view of achieving free tuition and living allowance. l that OUS press for legalization of marijuana and dropping of all charges pending or processed. In addition that a program of research and public education be instituted.
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Council Wednesday spent over two hours debating a give-to-Biafra motion which ended with the drawing up and passing of three motions. An original motion brought up two weeks ago by arts rep, Larry Caesar which proposed sending $5000 for food and relief was first amended to $1000 and the suggestion that a fund drive in KitchenerWaterloo be initiated as well as a petition to the federal government to end the war. Larry Burko, psych 3, felt that “It’s no use feeding dead people. The Nigerians are winning and will kill them all off anyway. We shouldn’t send food unless we give military support.” Further discussion on the idea of sending any kind of arms was negated by council,
Biafra
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The first two amendments were passed but council stuck on the sending of the money, since this was taking political sides. Gerry Wootton, science rep felt that if council sent food they were helping the Biafrans and whether it was guns or food, council could not help but take sides. Dave Gordon, grad rep said “It sounds just like the bail issue. It’s the same people dying as rotting in jail.” Gordon’s stand was that no money be sent. In spite of the opposition, the amendment to give $1000 was passed with nine in favour, seven opposed, and six abstaining. The main motion was put up to a roll call vote which was soundly defeated thus negating the three amendments which council had just passed. Dave Cubberly, arts rep, pro-
posed a new motion that $999.99 be given to charity and that $4000 be sent to a Biafran organiza tion. At this point the chair ruled Cubberly out of order in that the new motion was too similar to the one just defeated. The chair was challenged but a vote sustained the out of order ruling and council proceeded with a new motion by Renison rep Paul Dube, who moved that the just defeated motion be reconsidered. This motion was seconded and carried and a subsequent roll call vote again defeated the motion to send $1000. The fund drive motion and the government petition were passed again. . A variation of the original motion to send $5000 was proposed by Cubberly who felt that since it was council’s idea to start the fund drive they should be the first contributors by giving $5000. An amendment to make that $1000 was passed and the motion was carried. In effect, after three hours of discussion the original amendments proposed were all passed.
Staff may demonstrate says personnel director the information to him. I let him handle it.” Lucy said the university has no policy on non-academic staff participating in protest actions and said. “I would hope every individual would act according to his own convictions and that the During last week’s library boss would only be concerned study-in, one university secretary about where employees were sat with the protesting studuring working hours.” dents during her lunch hour, Lucy also said he has no inonly to discover monday that tentions personally of introducing several staff supervisors had reany policies on staff participaported the incident to the pertion in demonstrations. sonnel director and the kampus “The administration doesn’t kops had apparently kept a log intend to capture the employee’s of her time in the library brain,” he said, “I hope students In this case, the issue was do not think everyone involved in administration is a nitquickly resolved because the set- ’ university retary’s supervisor was not conwit. ” cerned about her participating The particular secretary’s outside office hours. The supersupervisor had the last word. *I visor had been informed of the was satisfied the secretary acted secretary’s participation by personproperly: I was told I could check nel director Ernie Lucy who said with the security office, but I Wednesday, “I simply brought said forget it.” Non-academic staff members can participate in campus protests, as long as they do it on their own tirne and don’t mind the kampus kops and a lot of bureaucrats watching them close1Y.
Philosophy prof Brian Hendley picks up Admininews wednesday. The four-page tabloid claimed to show the administration’s view of the campus but it all turned out to be a gag.
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the injunction against him became permanent. Last month, a CAUT delegation visited UNB to iron out the dispute but failed in its mission. After the visit, the CAUT set three conditions which the university administration would have to meet to avoid censure. They included initiation of binding arbitration into the case, suspension of the university injunction against Strax and payment by the university of all Strax’s legal fees. Colin B. MacKay. administration president at UNB, refused to comply with the requests. MacKay is also president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. The censure involves CAUT recommending to its members that they avoid teaching at UNB, notifying other faculty associations of the censure. and placing ads in various educational and professional journals informing the academic community of the censure.
MONTREAL (CUP)-The Canadian Association of University Teachers Saturday formally censured the administration president and board of governors of the University of New Brunswick for their mishandling of the Strax case. The censure vote passed 36-3 at a special council meeting held here last Saturday. The censure is the secon‘d one imposed by CAUT in its 10 year history and comes less than a year after similar action against officials at Simon Fraser University. That particular censure was lifted this fall. The CAUT had repeatedly tried to intervene in the Strax case since the physicist was suspended from teaching in September. He was suspended without charges laid against him and without any provision for arbitration. He was then ordered to leave the campus by the courts on request of the university and when he failed to do so was found guilty of contempt of court and
The University of New Brunswick information office released a statement Monday labelling the censure “indefensible and unwarranted”. The statement with the name of the university as signa tar, said the legal action. taken against Strax was a simple “exercise (of) the normal rights” of the university. The recourse to the courts, it said. was to “prevent disruption”. After saying it regretted CAUT censured without “further discussion”, the statement said: “The’ responsiveness of the university to a reasonnable and acceptable resolution of the issues should not be in question. ’ * The university was also upset that the CAUT did not take up MacKay’s offer of limited nonbinding arbitration in response to its three conditions. The statement said acceptance of the proposal might have led to a “mutually acceptable resolution of the issues arising out of the suspension of Professor Strax.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)--This is not an obituary. Not only would an obituary be premature, but it might also be inappropriate, for at this point one cannot tell if the “patient” is dying or molting into a new stage. It is true that two months ago, the San Francisco State campus was girdled by picket lines that sometimes numbered in the thousands, classrooms were empty because average attendance had’ dropped below 20 percent, and the only people on campus were police squads on the march and occasional scab students scurrying quickly along the pathways. Now, the grass is dabbled with sprawling students enjoying the soft early spring days. People passing by carrying notebooks rather than placards under their arms, cafeterias and classrooms are full. In the mid-campus gathering area, the desks of organizations advocating off-campus social causes have once again reappeared: Biafra, studentGI peace march, grape boycott. Picketers are nowhere to be seen. Strike, what strike? The question can be rephrased: have Hayakawa and Reagan and the trustees and the cops really won? It depends on the definition of victory. The strike objectives have not been met. The school is not shut down. Furthermore, the reactionary tide is in full flood, repression and reprisal are the order of the day. That a temporary setback has been suffered nobody would deny. “Defeat” is something else. It must be remembered that the administration and the government have nothing to gain. Their only objective is to preserve the status-quo. and the longer they can hold on, the better their position. But, like the American position in Vietnam. it’s a no-win situation for them. The problems and agitation that produced the strike are not going to disappear because of one or even many setbacks. As far as the movement is concerned, the important task is not to mull about “defeat” but to understand the setback.
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In 1819, the famous Austrian reactionary prince Klemens Metternich decided that the waves of student unrest sweeping through German universities had gone far enough. Acting in his capacity as chief minister- for the Holy Alliance. he imposed a series of stern rulings known as the Carlsbad Decrees. Censorship, harrassment, and restrictionsthe student movement in Germany caused no trouble for the next three decades. In 1969. S.I. Havakawa is following the same strategy. Since the return of the teachers and the wilting of the strike, he has been ruthless, thorough and blatant in his crackdown. Morgan Pinney, assistant professor
of the accounting department and the only teacher from the school of business to join the strike, attempted to return to his classroom last week only to find stationed outside his city policemen office door. The officers escorted the professor off the campus, and warning him not to return, told him that he had no business at S.F. State. This was the first and only indication given Pinney that the college no longer desired his services. Other measures have also been developed to keep the faculty in line. The weekly performance report, labelled by some “a new loyalty oath,” requires each professor to sign a statement declaring that he has continued to teach classes at the properly scheduled time and place. Many professors, including some non-strikers, have refused to comply and have received certified letters informing them : “You are not performing vour regularly assigned instructional duties as scheduled: therefore, these classes are being cancelled.” It appears that Hayakawa is willing to purge whoie departments in his mania to bring the faculty under his control.
As if this were not sufficient control. student spies, including zealots from the Young Americans for Freedom. have been hired by the college at $2 per hour to scrutinize the classrooms for absent teachers. Hayakawa has especially focused on the economic opportunities program which allows specially admitted minority students from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity of a college education. He has ordered that no people arrested in the strike can be hired by the EOP; because most of the instructors and assistants were thirdworld students themselves and were busted during the strike, this ruling has crippled the program. EOP leaders, observing that no other department has been saddled with this restriction, see it as one more specimen of the racist discrimination endemic to the college structure. Hayakawa is also attempting to shut down the Daily Gator and the Open Process, campus newspapers which support the strikers. The Process went down when the Associated Students’
pact, EOP positions would be “bootlegged” from other departments if the legislature does not override Reagan’s veto of the EOP budget. The
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The Third World Liberation Front and the Black Student Union have made it clear that their commitment to the strike is unchanged. Strike leaders feel the necessity for a period of retrenchment, a time for thorough political reeducation. Nobody doubts that militant renewal of the strike will occur; it’s just that now is not the time. It could be weeks, it could be months, but everyone takes it as an axiom that the struggle will be revived forcefully. Meanwhile, incidents and actions periodically spatter the exhausted calm. AFT teachers have set aside class periods to allow activists to present the strike issues and discuss with opponents. Bombing incidents erupt now and again, and occasional busts are made for “obscenity” or “obstructing entrances.”
STRIKE 1 ECLIPSE
funds were frozen (by the state attorney general with the backing of the administratiion.) The Gator, for years the official student newspaper. has held on, continuing to publish on credit. Now Hayakawa has ruled that all campus journals must be approved by publications board or be suspended. When it came to light that the existing board had already approved the Gator, Hayakawa declared that the board had invalidated itself by its “lethargy,” (it meets every two weeks or so). He announced preliminary plans for a new board, over which he would wield much greater influence. Meanwhile. with impeccable reasoning, he has threatened to suspend the entire Gator staff if publication continues. precisely because the paper has not been cleared by a “legitimate“ board. Governmental authorities have been
doing their kawa.
thing right
Black
Student
along with Union
Haya-
strike
lead-
ers have been served with charges ranging from arson to inciting to riot. BSU on-campus coordinator Jerry Vernado, was ordered back into custody and had his bail boosted from $3,000 to $7,000. The trustees and the governor have already done their bit. Despite the fact that an independently-financed, independently-established school of ethnic studies was one of the major agreements that ended the American Federation of’ Teachers strike, the proposed college budget for 1969-70 has completely ignored both the school and the promised black studies department. And, Governor Reagan has vetoed a request by the chancellor’s office for one million dollars to continue the EOP program.
The
college
administration
has
de-
fended these actions, claiming that the agreement only asserted that these programs would be independentlyfinanced. “if funded at all.” Despite AFT warnings about possible resumption of the strike, the administration has persisted with its semantical interpretation, even going so far as to say that, notwithstanding the settlement
Some
difficult
questions
The question still remains: why has the strike faltered? Implicit in the question is the more significant query as to the efficacy of the student-teacher alliance. It opens into a very ticklish decision the movement has faced before and must confront over and over again-just what is the value of aligning with liberal and of ten semi-establishment elements? The problem came up during the antiwar movement and the ‘68 campaign and persists throughout the spectrum of the black struggle. The S.F. State situation can serve as an important case study. First, the gains accrued by the addition of AFT support: when the AFT went on strike, it meant that college professors were on the picket line and not just hippie-leftist troublemaking students. it lent “legitimacy” to the S.F. State( College strike. This was especially true
when the
the AFT AFL-CIO
was able S.F.
labour
to maneouver council
AFT
walk-out
dents,
with
the faculty
was
originally
action
in-
for the stu-
demands
serving
as something of’ a necessary prop. Yet. the very fact of their walkout gave the establishment the opportunity to play down the student objectives and begin dealing with them as secondary matters. By treating the faculty issues as the ranking consideration in the strike, thev were able to sap the immediacy of the TWLF demands. Then, when the professors settled. the undermined student offensive collapsed. ’ Another point: too much hope and expectation were based on the teachers after they joined the battle. It seemed so impressive to have faculty members out on the line: how could we possibly lose now?
It was all the more
of a blow
when the AFT proved too weak to hold on. and when. they folded, the unbalanced movement itself teetered on collapse. The fact of the matter is that the ’ TWLF and the AFT had very different conceptions of the struggle, and especially how to wage it. It comes down to the Black Panther exhortation, “By any means necessary. ” each other’s viewpoint. The TWLF was out for its demands, and anything that would force the administration and the trustees and the state to grant them would be acceptable. “Strike” by these terms became a tactic defined mainly by its effectiveness in achieving the goals. If it becomes necessary to shut the school down, then it must be shut down. Violence is not to be sought, but it must not be avoided if the opposition
SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE ml
The
tended as supporting
into
granting strike sanction. There were measureable benefits from all this impressive conventional legitimacy, and the strike was much more effective-as a traditional strike-when the teachers were on the line. Classroom attendance fell below 20 percent, union members would not enter the campus, so the cafeteria closed and dormitory food service was suspended. The factory was having trouble processing its product. There were drawbacks, however, and in the last analysis, they seem more important than the benefits. The AFT walkout changed the whole thrust of the strike, as teachers’ issues became the focus of the dispute. This was not done intentionally, but it was almost inevitable. The mass media alone insured that this would happen, being much more eager to detail the rather conventional faculty complaints (working conditions, grievance procedure and autonomy) than the radical student issues (social relevance of the college. and the authoritarian, class-based control of the educational apparatus!.
insists on responding in such terms. The AFT supported the‘demands. but its conception of “strike” was a more limited and conventional one. In fact, the real motivation for the AFT walk-out was to end the weeks of violence and bloodshed that had plagued the campus during the closing weeks of 1968; their own strike never-gained the high-water mark of closing down the school which the students alone achieved in the fali of ‘68. Thev sought to play the game bv the rules. with union sanction and negotiable dernands.
Some
final
observations
What the State student,s are asking just cannot be effectively compromised. They are demanding the use of the campus as a base for the social involvement. training and politicization Of third world students, who will then return to organize and energize their communities in the larger quest for power and restrutturing of the societv. This is a radical and even revolutionary thing to demand. and the administration. the trustees. and the state. all representing the threatened power structure. simply cannot and will not give in. It comes down to a matter of irresistible forces and irnmova ble objects, and for this reason. this is not a strike that can be won quickly or
easily.
It will take a much more tant student base to gain
solidly milithe’ victory.
,Sympathizers are fine, but the highlymobilized opposition can only be blunted by active supporters. Even more elementary is the observation that this must be a student movement first and foremost: the faculty is not capable of pulling it through for them. One returns to the definition of “victory” and “defeat.” Defeat means the permanent surrender of the struggle: obviously this strike is not defeated. Victory is the realization of one’s goals. something not yet accomplished in this case. The strike has suffered a set-back. ’ but this term also requires elaboration. It is the kind of “set-back” the mountain climber encounters when, after steady ascent. he must reverse a small dip. A small loss after great pains. It is the same with the State strike. . The climb has been immense since november. and the dip is tiny compared to the heights gained. In the words of BSLJ’s leader Vernado : “\VC sl1211 fight on. fail. fight on. fail ag;iin. t’igllt again until. victory.”
friday,
march
2 I, 1969 /9:48/
907
Suncfboxers I by Thomas
Edwards
Chevron staff
One might wonder what Summer Weekend 68, Homecoming 68 and Groundhog 69 produced. On first glance nothing is really evident, but deep beneath the surface these weekends have been the beginning of a strong new power base more powerful than the federation itself. Now the new force is moving out of the smoky back rooms and into the fray of campus politics. The new group tentatively known . as the- Sandbox Student Movement will hold its first meeting monday in board of sandbox activi-
orsranize
ties annex 2 (just behind main campus center office). Action is planned on several important issues. Grand Sand-Payle, leader of the group, stated “Students should take up the revolutionary cry ‘Create two, three, many sandboxes’ “. The group has been condemned by Harold D. Goldbrick, chancellor of the Aryan Affairs Commission, as being “an apolitical, middle-of-the-road, anarchical, bigger-and-better-dances group, dedicated to the age-old cause of moral decline-Eat-drink-and-makemerry”. He also said, “If the organization succeeds the whole of the university will be delivered
into the hands of the communists. People will forsake the ways of responsible right:wing democracy our forefathers provided for us for the apolitical philosophy of the Sandbox Student Movement.” The movement plans to set up a sandbox lecture series to acquaint people with the finer points of sandboxing. Members in special standing will also be permitted to wear the ceremonial purple sweatshirt at any time they might wish to do so. It is rumored the movement will field a slate of candidates in an election as soon as the next impeachment takes place.
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HIS UNIVERSITY is losing an increasing number of students and faculty to mental illness. The number of known attempted suicides is alarming; and counselling services is not equipped to handle the overload of personal problems. There is a genuine threat to the mental health of the individual and in many cases this is ‘due to the short-sightedness of the creators of his environment. This is true of all facets of the university community. but is most vital to the student at the most basic level, his residence. Some students need a good cry periodically: some get up-tight about relations with other people, boyfriend or girlfriend; most have grave doubts about the future. Practically every student on campus has one or more of these pro* blems. What if you’re a private person and don’t want to bare your weaknesses and hurts to a room-mate every time you turn around? So you bottle it up. But some day you’ll break loose in all different directions, and maybe the pieces won’t fit together again. “Psfah,” you say. It happened before.
retreat before a kid hit the real world. No more. The real world is here. We’re not kids playing school anymore. we’re playing for keeps. University is where you accept the challenge of replacing habit for your own private set of values: where you learn to relate to others in a heart-and-soul manner ; where you decide to become something. This change in the role of the university has created new problems. The postgraduate schools are filled beyond expecta tions, and therefore the stay at university has become not-so-brief. The student will not suspend personal relations to a superficial level indefinitely and has demanded co-ed visiting hours-another thing not envisaged by the builders. There is little that can be done about , the basic structure at this stage, although expansion plans should modify it, because of the limits to the finances of the respective churches. For this reason it is necessary for the colleges to work with what they have.
St. Paul’s
College
In this respect, St. Paul’s College has come a long way. True, it does induce a “profound sense of claustrophobia” which often leads its sons to the co-op and elsewhere after the second year. However, there seems to be substance to the life at St. Pauls where it is felt the individual should be exposed to many different religious and moral concepts in order to develop an honest insight into his own beliefs. This arena is handled by Dr. A. McLaughlin, whose admissions policy promotes the acceptance of agnostics, atheists. foreign students, the physically
This is the danger inherent in the concept of the double room. There is nowhere to go to be by yourself-not even a closet to hide in. The church colleges, with their double rooms, are the creations of men who shared the common conception that residences, like army barracks were a place to hang your hat, eat and sleep. The principle of maximum use of space mandated the building of standard blocks, two-to-a-room. Six years ago University was a stopover, a last k
handicapped. and all religious persuasions. Exposure to and fusion of these various groups is carried one step further by the chaplain-principal through a seminar program. The suggested attendance of one hour each week is adhered to by all of the residents, and topics range from morality. communism, capitalism, and Playboy to the Canadian Indian. These groups also sponsor visits to the old folks home and the orphanages. Outings have been arranged for the crippled children and dances have been held at the girls reformatory and the home for unwed mothers. This work is not entirely secular and area ministers are often called in for the jam sessions: notably Rev. Al Evans, the United Church chaplain for both universities in Waterloo, who works closely with counselling services.
Airing
ideas
There is a healthy open attitude towards new ideas, and these are aired twenty-four hours a day in the refectory and library. This is one avenue that the students use to escape the overbearing unity which can be forced on such a compact community. A peer group has less a monopoly on ideas. One student cited the room-mate concept as the key to activism. If one student is more involved, he will often bring out his less inclined roomer. This helps St. Pauls to “clean up in anything that requires a lot of enthusiasm and no skills.” Internally, the college has the standard structure, with few modifications; a don who heads seven proctors, a judicial
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Few
cliques
The problem of cliques is not as severe at St. Pauls. since the halls are extremely long. and there is less sectionalism than there would be if there were wings to each floor. The senior student who survives is often placed in the role of advisor to the frosh: and the girls turn to Miss Gamble. the dean of women. who lives-in on the second floor. The central authority figure is Brian. the chief cook, who brooks no opposition. and has a paddle handy for anyone who “gets violent” about his cooking. This befreckled Englishman, ironically. has much to say about the Irish. and many residents have reverted to his rather peculiar accent, and also seem to have inherited his touch of blarney. Anyway, one student remarked that Brian’s personality makes the food. And on his budget, it would have to.
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The pu’rpose of this possible misunderstanding
article
is to clarify any or misinterpretation
of the advertisement
“MASSACRE
ON FORMOSA’!
In gene*ral the Chinese students on campus were perturbed to read the article printed on February 28, 1969. As our Canadian counterpart vast majority of us are absorbed in the pursuit of the “GOOD” life. Most of us do not care to meddle into “POLITlCS & RELIGION”, and everybody knows that the Chinese functions on this campus have strictly been Traditional and Social ones. It is a pity that one or two students are trying to change all this: The article is intrusive because it claims to speak for other persons instead of only themselves. eg, on the second last line the plural form “formosans” was used, As far as we know this student is implicating and involving other students in order to sound “respectable”, But why entangle bystanders in his personal hang-ups?.
The
following
are
some
“l/‘ttle
NHfacts
about
Taiwan.
1. The Taiwanese are Chinese in ethnic origin, Civiliza tion language, speech, religion & habits. All 74 million are descendants of Chinese who came from the provinces of Fultien and Kwangtung. The “Lins, Huangs, Changs, Chens & L/s” clearly trace their ancestry to mainland forefathers. Foods, customs and festivals are iden tical.
are in their hands, and they comprise 85% of the teachers. The per capita income rose from $40 (in 1945) to $300 (in 7967). They own most of the land and industry (eg Koo Cheng-Fu and Wang Yung-Ching.) 3. Throughout its 2400 year old history Taiwan has been a province of China. (excepting 50 years under Japan after a disastrous war). Even Dr. Thomas Liao who formed an exile government in Japan immediately after the 7947 riots has returned after more than 20 years to Taiwan with his whole “cabinet”. They are now joined again wit their countrymen. We hope this will clear up some issues raised by the ad.
2. Over 90% of the Taiwan Provincial Government ‘officials are native Taiwanese. Of the 2 7 Municipal Magistrates a full 20 are Taiwanese. Their voting percentage comprises anything between 6889% of the e They form 70% of the armed forces, includin Colonels and Generals. Over 90% of the financial resources
will
Every person has the right to his own opinion, but he should extend not i mplicate innocent bystanders; neither will he drag them along The fundamental
Heaven-knows ficient problems.
principle
of Chinese
people
has always
been
the same rights to his neighbo against their own convictions
to get along
peace-fully
910 the Chevron
in their
that surviving in this “primitive” cold, eating “barbaric” foods and crossing Why add another problem? Is it not much better instead, to work together,
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own
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the “cultural” have some
in his actions “To
a decent
person
live and let live”.
gap with the “natives” poses suffun and get along with each other?
PEOPLF’”
her of individual units of anxiety response (picking up, fondling. putting-down) decreased only when lecture discussion turned from relating experimental monkey data and behavioral theories to criticism of behavioral theories and discussion of ‘humanist’ psychology (the lecture of feb. 70). Further, plotting class activity indicates a negat& correlation between anxiety response and class interest. In other words, higher anxiety equals dissatisfaction with topics equals low class interest and low response (ih Participating, asking questions, appearing interested, etc.) Bowers was obviously unhappy with the topics believed to be generally proper to the tradiStatistical studies on those occasions revealed tional academic study of psychology. an obvious trend to ward dwelling on what Radicals are obviously unhappy with situations may be termed ‘liberating’ topics and an obbelieved to be generally proper in the usual SOviously high anxiety level when proceeding with cial tradition. topics ustially considered bppropria te’ or ‘AcIn essence then-once his generalizations are ceptable’ (the same criteria he uses when assesdispensed with by RSM member Cyril Levittsing radical orientation) within a traditional Bowers’ ‘radical’ approach in introducing new psychological frame of reference. catalysts is no different, relatively speaking, The test results would seem to indicate Bowthan the radicals’ approach in introducing their though outwardly voiced, is in- own catalysts ers ’ c ynicisrn, in a drive toward social change. and consequently finds alwardly suppressedAnd it is this that must be considered when ternate expression in an acute anxiety activityreading Bowers’ article. that of picking up, fondling and putting down a It may be added that a similar study of C yriI regular size, bronze-plated paper clip. Levitt, author of the reply to Bowers’ analysis, Graphswhich may be examined by appointrevealed no need for such anxiety activity.ment at the Chevron office-show that the numRACS a?b Ken Bowers is a Uniwat psychology professor and lecturer in psychopathology. Although he is considered one of north america’s foremost experimenters in hypnosis, certain facts must be brought to light before assessing Bowers’ point of view on the study of student ‘i-adicals “. For his detached, sometimes imp’issionately generalized arguments do not bespeak what is almost certainly a true affinity for exactly the type of ‘confronting’ and ‘volatile’ environment demanded by radicals. This conclusion is based upon empirical study during Bowers’ 352 psychopathology lettures on february 3‘5, 10 and 17, 1969.
’
a dialog:
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ET ME BEGIN BY relating a story attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr, the famous theologian and social, philosopher. It is an account of the Good Samaritan, modernized to fit the dimensions of the 20th century. If you recall the biblical version, the parable begins with a Samaritan finding a Jew, bruised and bleeding at the side of the road. Be had been robbed and beaten by thieves. Although the relationship between Jews and Samaritans was less than cordial, the Samaritan responded to the Jew’s plight with compassion. He bound up the Jew’s wounds, took him to a local inn. and paid his expenses while he recuperated there. Niebuhr’s extension of the Good Samaritan parable was simply this: several days later. the same Samaritan was travelling down yet another road, when he came across another Jew, similarly robbed and beaten. Again the Samaritan responded with human kindness. bound the Jew’s wounds, took him to an inn and paid his expenses. And then a third time. the Samaritan found still another Jew left to die at the roadside. Again the Samaritan bound his wounds. and covered the expenses of his recuperation. By this time, however. the Samaritan was begining to question seriously whether it was enough to respond compassionately to the effects of an evil that allowed such system-a system injustices to occu? over and over again. Must not the evil itself be rooted outthe system radically changed to prevent such occurrences?
Radical
appeal
There is something in this story that should appeal to student radicals. Implicit in the modernized parable is a recognition of the evil in a society that allows repeated injustices to occur, and the need for a countervailing force to rectify civil wrongs. Although united in concern, student radicals can differ profbundly among
t radicalismand methods.
themselves. Student radicals from different countries confront different problems from. different traditions, so that differences in the way students respond is in part. culturally determined. Eve? within a cultural context, however, students can differ in the tactics they are willing to employ. and in the extent to which radical repair of the present system is deemed a live option to its revolutionary overthrow, and so on. For the most part, I’will have to ignore these distinctions in talking of student radicals. I will not apoligize for this, but only draw attention to the fact that differences between radicals do exist, and that what I am going to say is more or less appropriate, depending on the radical. Whatever their differences. there is a common consciousness that radicals share, the consciousness that there is something wrong with a social system that permits unmitigated and grievous social injustice at home, that abuses its power abroad. that permits militarism to rise almost unchecked, that stifles and punishes dissent, and that is willing to tempt nuclear holocaust. Moreover, the radicals are upset-terribly upset-that academics and institutions of higher learning seem to be in danger of abandoning their traditional role of free inquiry and social criticism, and instead forming a consortium of power with the military-industrial complex. It is difficult to dispute the validity of the issues the student radicals have raised. and yet it is difficult not to be critical of the way in which radicals have sabotaged their high purposes through lack of wisdom and understanding.
I
behavior?
They have often alienated their potential constituency by offensive and gross behavior. they have been partly responsible for engendering hate and mistrust in their communities, and they have needlessly and often purposefully
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baited and provoked the worst elements of an imperfect society in the fond hope that brutal and bitter retaliation will - demonstrate the justness of their cause. \Yhat I would like to do is examine what seems to me to be some of the bases for the behavior of student radicals insofar as it flows not from ’ social issues. but from serious misunderstandings of power and of themselves. It seems to me that one aspect of radicals’ behavior that bodes ill is the irrationalism of the protest movement. Let it be admitted that irrational elements of protest behavior will always be more evident to the conventional person than the irrational elements of more conventional behavior : throwing human fetes at police somehow seems crazier and less excusable than police beating innocent bystanders who just happen to be in a neighborhood where law and order are being too vigorously pursued. This is to say, irrationalism is not absent, but simply less evident in those elements of society that are pursuing the status quo. So to accuse radicals of being irrational is not to say something distinctive about them. Nevertheless, I would like to press the point.
Profound
distrust?
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To quote Sidney Hook, a well known philosopher, : “Freedom of dissent-is never the real issue. But the tactic of the SDS is to give dissent the immediate form of violent action. The measures necessarily adopted to counteract this lawless action then become the main issue, as if the original provocations hadn’t occurred.” Much protest is simply revolution for revolution’s sake. Tom Hayden : “First we will make the revolution, and then we will find out what for.” Thus, the “revolution” can be viewed in part as an excuse to vent raw feeling. Such venting is more calculated to provoke the worst elements of society rather than to change them. And radicals delight in successfully provoking obvious retaliation. Ed Sampson, a student radical addressing a convention of psychologists last summer in San Francisco said, “A victory of sorts is to be had when the powers of state or of some institution emerges in the form of MACE, clubs, tear gas, etc.” I think it is legitimate to ask j”ust what sort of victory it is and for whom? I for one am not persuaded by radicals who point to police brutality as definitive evidence of their claim that the whole of society is rotten and must be destroyed. I can agree that a natural and understandable reaction to experiencing police brutality is increased radicalization. The r’a”dicalization process among students is deemed not only understandable, however, but good as well-as if anger at authority constitutes confirmation of ones identity as a living, passionate human being-indeed almost as if being clubbed by a cop were a twentieth century puberty rite that launches one into manhood. The emphasis on strong feeling as the basis for a moral imperative, is. in a word, absurd. When a soldier’s buddy gets killed in Viet Nam it is understandable that he becomes radicalized vis a vis the enemy. However, the soldier’s feelings do not make the war good. The jungles of Viet Nam are not the best place for evaluating the justness of the war. Similarly, the perspection of brutalized students is not one that is apt to enhance moral judgment, nor add cogency to their social criticism. I’ve been suggesting that for student radicals, feelings take moral priority over rationality : feelings, especially intense feelings, justify themselves and the actions that flow from them.
Student radicals seem to have a profound distrust for reason and rational thought per se. They see rationalism as the precursor of technological advances that alienate men from each other. They are alarmed at what they view as the dehumanizing impact of computers and big industry: t/he corporate mentality that exploits men instead of enriching them. Stud.ent radicals are upset at how words and reasons can be used and perverted to justify wierd and disagreeable actions. The word “defoliation” simply does not convey the unremitting hunger that occurs in its aftermath, nor does a imply the more pro“casualty count” longed suffering of widows and fatherless children. Radicals boggle at the words of a high military figure who talks of destroying a nation in order to save it. Nor can they appreciate the double-think of a naval commander who in one breath justifies the “most powerful weapons system ever devised” in terms of its deterrent value. and then in the next breath, proclaims the salvation of civilization in its use, should the need arise. Dismay at such verbiage is reasonable. Unfortunately, radicals’ responses go Anti-intellectualism beyond dismay to something like this: Another related aspect of the student since reason and rationality can deis the anticeive. they are not to be trusted at all. revolt that I find distressing intellectualism implicit in it. What can be trusted is feeling. I make this criticism in complete aThe stronger the feeling, the more of a good deal of evidence trustworthy. It almost seems as if a new wareness imperative has grown up around feel- showing that student radicals tend to be better educated, and more intelligent, ing. than Simply stated: feelings are real and more invested in things intellectual good : behavior in accordance with their non radical peers. Nevertheless, there seems to be an feelings is justified. Thus, behavior is almost concerted effort among student judged by the emotion it flows from to understand the world in instead of by reference to the context in radicals limited and restricted ways. Among othwhich it occurs. or by the consequences er things, attempts to understand anothat are likely. Perhaps this explains ther point of view is to risk losing one’s why radical protest often seems so bereft radical status among valued peersof tact and tactics. than can be very threatening Indeed. radical students can often be a possibility to someone whose identity is, in signifias cynical and corrupt as the ‘system” a function of his accepthey so passionately protest. In order to cant measure, in the group. foment revolutionary fervor they will tance and participation There seem to be secret fears that often vault into the limelight on the an alien basis of issues they couldn’t care even an attempt to understand position is to risk being seduced by it; less about. as if understanding a position robbed Free speech a pretext? one of the freedom to disagree with it. Mario Savio admitted after the BerkThese fears tend to engender withdraw1 from communications with people who eley affair that the issue of “free speech” was a “pretext” to arouse stu- are not like-minded, and to breed a kind dents. Mark Rudd. the strike leader at of left wing ethnocentrism. Columbia. was reported in the Boston Unfortunately, love for radical conthe freres and Marcuse are not enough. Globe as saying. .* We manufactured issues-the gym issue is bull. It doesn’t Reality is bigger and more complicated mean anything to anybody. I had than one’s anger about it. A truly wise never been to the gym site before the man never lets his passion outstrip either or his attempts to underdemonstrations began. I didn’t even his compassion stand his adversary. These are hard know how to get there.” 10
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THRUST lessons to learn-and they are seldom learned young. But they must be learned, and quickly, if the idealism implicit in much social protest is to survive the reaction of right wing extremists and angry moderates. I would like to turn now to another aspect of student protest that seems central to an understanding of it. The radicals are very concerned with the legitimate basis of authority. Evidence of illegitimate authorit,y, is, to their mind, all too obvious. Basically. their complaint is that currently entrenched authority is not responsive to the people, and that real power is consolidated in a pitifully small number of politicians and industrialists who are more interested in retaining and extending their power than in using it for humane purposes. The radicals’ idea of legitimate authority is articulated in the notion of participatory democracy. Now participatory democracy, - as radicals talk about it, is often a two edged sword. At one level, more participation in government by more people is so that power remains encouraged more responsive to the needs of people, and less self serving. It is difficult to fault this kind of thinking. It is at this point, incidentally, that radicals’ vital concern for education begins to make itself heard. They contend that education is often the handmaiden of the government. From the beginning, it is claimed education is mere training of compliance, conventionality, and obeisance to authority. Instead of engendering adventuresameness and diversity in pupils, a premium is placed on their passivity and tractability. Such training may be good for filling slots in the establishment, radicals argue, but it does not prepare them to be active participants and critics in a democratic society. So far so good. However, there is another more participatory flagrant aspect to democracy. The issue boils down to this: just who would participate in the post revolutionary panacea that student radicals often herald? Ethnocentricism of whatever kind does not breed tolerance or concern for people in the out-groups. There is no way, for example, that current radicals could pow wow with George Wallace’s constituency in order to heed and be responsive to their demands and needs.
A‘ sham? In other words, participatory democracy is a shame when it implies that radicals are to participate more in democracy, and other people lesspreferably much less. Even within the student radicals, unparticipatory undemocracy can prevail when the crunch is on. According to Columbia College Today editor George Keller, Mark Rudd and other Columbia student strike leaders would not go along with a “strong” majority of their striking confreres to visit school deans, in accordance with a recommendation of a joint faculty-student disciplinary committee. Later on, another vote by the strikers indicated a slim majority favored ending the sit-in altogether. Again, the leaders found the will of the majority unacceptable and “exhorted, cajoled, and demanded that students and outsiders remain”. Evidently, a majority is marvelous when it supports the revolution, but misguided and trivial when it does not. At the height of the Columbia fracas last spring, another famous philosopher, Ernest Nagel remarked that “democracy is essentially procedural. ” St& dent radicals are hard pressed to appreciate the wisdom in ‘that comment. For them, rules and procedures of democracy are antireality, the thieves of freedom . Student radicals have forgotten that freedom is always someone’s concept of
it, and that the violent imposition of one kind of freedom does not guarantee, indeed does not even permit, a free society. social justice can be For example, radically imposed at the expense of academic freedom. Radicals currently extol1 the virtues of Cuba’s and China’s post revolutionary socialism and seem unconcerned about the absence of free academic inquiry there. This despite the fact that they are so upset about the current state of educational systems in democracies. Castro has made it clear that education should serve the purposes of advancing the socialistic cause, and the academic purges in China leave little doubt about the status of scholarship and social criticism there. And in Japan, where student radicals have for quite some time fomented one crisis after another, not a single doctor or lawyer was graduated from some of that country’s leading universities last year.
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and
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In light of these remarks, I would like to suggest that the freest society seems to be one in which certain checks and balances, democratic procedures if you will, guard against the possibility of a particular concept of freedom from gaining invulnerability to the demands of other concepts of freedom. That is, democratic procedures constitute a necessary, if not a sufficient condition for a free society. Part of the system of checks amd balances will, almost inevitably, include the possibility for coercion of those who are unwilling to compromise their particular brand of freedom. It would be nice if there were some policeproof formula to follow in balancing the forces of dissent and coercion. It would be even nicer if all men were sufficiently wise and tolerant so as to require no coercion at all. Radicals would like to believe in such a world. Many of them are totally enamoured of a Rousseauian concept of man-a concept in which men are basically good. They argue that if repressive forces in society were totally eliminated, this natural goodness would emerge like a butterfly from its cocoon. Carl Robers, Paul Goodman, and A.S. Neil1 notwithstanding, this version of human nature strikes me as hopelessly naive. Just for starters, how do you explain the existence of repressive institutions in the first place-assuming that such institutions are man made. In any event, some radicals often suggest that only by destroying current social and political structures can man be reborn in his natural and innocent state. The radical’s impulse is to destroy is as primitive and archaic as the lost innocence they so desperately want But even if the radical to recapture. movement were to gain power by violent and demagogic means, they would certainly have to persist in their coercion to suppress the fury of the vanquished. Love and innocence are never the epilogue of a power grab. In the words of William Fulbright, “power tends to confuse itself’ with social movement virtue. ” A radical that succeeded in grasping the reins of a nation’s power would soon begin legislating its limited (i.e., puritan) version of the good life on the population at dissent whenever large-eliminating and however it could. It would be as inevitable an outcome of a government of student radicals as it would be of a government under George Wallace. Our best hope in this world is that men’s compassion for people can keep pace with their passion for reform on one hand and for the status quo on the other : that wise men can emerge from an imperfect society, and guide it judiciously and with grace: and that the demands of the people can be expressed and channelled in the direction of creative change instead of revolution.
a highly centralized multi-million dollar corporation that makes all kinds of products among which is napalm. “Now if you think that spontaneous demonstrations of students are going to stop capitalism from screwing people, younre just wrong. “It’s going to take a strong democratic national radical organiza tion try to change this and until people get over this substitution of the word conspiracy for just an easier word which I call national organization, I don’t think we’ll ever really have a chance at changing this country. ” As for “revolution just for the hell of it”; this extreme position is held only by a fraction of the groups in the Movement like the Yippies and the Up Against The Wall Motherfucker, Lower East Side SDS group. The building of a revolutionary base is important, however, and there must be a programmatic view and vehicle for change -a hegemonic political party. For an example of such a concept, I refer Bowers to Praxis Vol. No. 2 Mar. ‘69 ‘New Left, Local Control and Fascism ‘. A liberal regime seeks to cover basic power relationships. The violence of the twenties and thirties did not die because the antagonisms were ameliorated, but have declined because psychologists and industrial managers replaced the cops in a much more efficient and far less distasteful manner. What Ed Samson was referring to is exactly the point. Its only when liberals are put up against the wall-personnel management and co-option breakdown that they must resort to traditional violence.
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In a sense, the whole notion of dissent can be seen in this light. For example, as students we are encouraged~ to analyse, think, and speak out about our world. (We can do anything except try and change it). Now, suppose our analysis leads us to a point where the necessity for extralegal action for change is a necessity. If our freedom is to be meaningful, we must be able to act upon our analysis. When we translate our thoughts into action -that is, make them meaningful--wg get hit with the cops. In a sense, running up against the is a radicalizing experience, not cops because we’re getting hit by demented
creeps, but because we are getting slugged by all that shit (fetes) that society (the ruling class) stands for. In a real sense, we come to understand “power” in society. I vehemently disagree with the view that there is a necessary anti-intellectualism inherent in the student movement. It is true that most students are turned off by books and intellectual exercise in general-due to a repressive and alienating educational systsm that they ran through like a gauntlet.
Literary
excellence
However, the sophistication and intellectual excellence of radical student literature has surprised even the most conservative academics. This scholarship wou Id involve a high degree of open-mindedness, and indeed, radicals are just as concerned with Freud, Galbraith and Ellul as they are with Marcuse and Gorz. If we seem a little lop-sided in our concerns outside the classroom it is precisely because even in pluralist terms the intellectual tradition of Marxism has been butchered at N.A. Universities. Bowers comes out in favour of pluralism. This is a free country; both the rich and the poor can sleep in the gutter. Let Bowers talk a bout tolerance while the military-industrial giants play games for fun and profit in the third world; let Bowers talk about proper channels and patience while the ruling class in North America prepares all kinds of anti-labor legislation to further consolidate its position during the economic crisis.; let Bowers argue for a reasoned, objective, concerned (boy, how liberals love that word) academia while “business” goes on as usual. We hear about the radical concept of man in highly simplistic terms. The radicals don’t think that man is born anything except man-a potentially creative, sensuous, being. However, repressive society and socialization stunt, hurt and destroy man’s potential for creativity. Repressive institutions arise because of scarcity in society (that’s crucial) and even Marx postulates capitalism as a necessary historical stage. Yet, we are on the threshold of a fully automated and technological society. Rather than decreasing, repression is growing. Bowers calls for creative change instead of revolution. I say creative change is revolution.
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The cloying optimism of UP with people struck London this week like a ball of wet kleenex. Wednesday and Thursday night they infested Alumni Hall socking it to us like they wish it were. If you aren’t aware of the background of this group (proselytizers might be a better word) allow us to quote their pgram: “They express the creative optimism of a generation involved in building the future.” Enough, said on that topic. Lest you think we’re prejudiced, unclean. or hertical. we will concede that Up With deople is probably one of the most talented group of amateur entertainers you will ever encounter. Their harmony was nothing less than excellent. Several individuals among the cast have such conspicuous talent that even the UWP format can’t stifle it. Drummer Chuck Wansley and soloists Jewel Weaver, Ann Buffington and Pat Stone are wasting their time with this crew. They should be recording soul music in Detroit; they’d make a bundle.
Unfortunately. talent alone cannot rescue this show. Their material is so disgustingly uncontroversial and bland that its creators should be exiled to a leper colony _* According to the program, somebody calling themselves The Col-. well Brothers dreamed up the lyrics. One wonders where they were when they wrote them-Disneyland or Nirvana. The performance opened with a catchy overture from the band, only to have it spoiled by a frantic charge up the aisles by the rest of the cast. The Calgary Herald called this “superb choreography, ” but it more resembled a desperate dash for the only john in a dysentry ward. The first half of the show was perfect for family consumption, but then so is Pablum. Some of their more gut-searing numbers included “The Ride of Paul Revere ,, &&Gee I7m Looking Forward to tie Futuie” , and “What Color is God’s Skin?’ ‘. They left like they arrived, bounding off the stage like a cluster of kangaroos in heat. In the second part of the show the material esclated from virginal wholesomeness to congenital sterility. Every facet of the
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American dream from hard work to brotherhood was given a musical overhaul, rarely heard in these days of Hendrix, Butterfield, Basey and Bloomfield. Probably the only popular myth not heralded by the group was the stork. Every word sounded like a public relations blurb for a Norman Vincent Peale book. Among the more underwhelming selections of this segment were “Man’s Gotta Go Somewhere”, “The Wor1.l is Your Hometown”, and “Which Way, America?” As if to answer their own question, we were treated to a small dose of the UWP philosophy before they departed triumphantly. “We refuse to let irresponsible voices speak for our generation. Up With People is a lifetime committment to make tonight’s spirit the way it is all the time, everywhere.” If the world were as sugary sweet as UWP think it is, we’d all have chronic diabetes. . ..and they didn’t let us down either. Their sugar sweet goodness oozed all over the arts theater stage tuesda y and the Kitchener auditorium a/l week.
THE ACCLAIMED MOTION PICTURE.
Best original screenplay -JOHN CASSAVETES Best supporting actor -SEYMOUR CASSEL Best supporting actress .’ - LYNN CARLIN
“FAR AND AWAY THE STRONG&T, BLUNTEST, MQSTIMPORTANT AMERlCAN ‘MOVIE OF THE YEAR!” -New
Well call me Captain Oh-Wow if you don’t taste sugar candy. Aren’t they nice and clean? The UWPpeople were just so nice that most people got sick. “Stand up, stand up, for Jesus” was a Motherhood and Apple-pie production courtesy of your friendly CIA.
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“A POWERFULSHATTERING FILM! A MERCILESSLY lNTiMATE MOVIE!” --Sin Francisco Examiner .
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“A MILESTONE! FINE ACHIEVEMEN7! WILL MAKE 1NDELlBLE SCARS ON THE MEMORY!” ‘-Judiih Cbst
“LIKEA KlCK IN THE STOMACH-I URGE EVERY ADULT TO SEE IT!” -Tha
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The time has come to tell you things Of slaves and serfs but most of Kings, Of fantastic tales and wierd stories, The confusion of priorities.
Once upon a time, someone noticed that as well as being understaffed and misplaced, Counselling Services (which really does exist, by the way) did look somewhat sterile and lifeless. What to do? Obviously you buy a potted rubber plant of appreciable size, about $50 worth. Now that sounds reasonable. After all if nearly 100 G’s can go to bringing the lawn and the sidewalk together at and trimming tliis Addlingtown (prev. Village), union, surely a measley $50 can go to the poor 11 hour a day counsellors, right? Wrong. What a ridiculous expenditure! Besides there are only nine of the minimum twelve counsellors, so in effect the plant would be a complete waste for the three we will not hire (Garbage trucks aie assets on corporation books, see) and hence- would be operating at a 30% loss, which would be a deficit on top of the original $50, the watering charge, (dragging a hose up six flights of stairs etc. ) and (cvarious sundry charges such as lighting, amorti-
zation, hospitalization and the Twelfth Anniversary Fund. BESIDES WHICH, if counsellors, and manicdepressant parenoids on the verge of suicide waiting up to two weeks for an appointment wish, they can stoll down the hall and admire the lovely collection of spring flowers in the huge planter used to fill the spacious outer chambers of the PP&P vaults. Heaven knows that from what I’ve heard, there’s lots of greenery in those offices. I suppose its time to halt the rumour that the administration has installed curtains made of $100 bills in Bill Lobban’s office to ensure that he does not look out his window. It is perhaps that these were not distracting enough, that $500 bills were used. Maybe some should be sent to the old EMS *library to .replace the “curtains” of yellowing issues of the Chevron which make the place look like the average Canadian home. And while we’re on the topic, I would like to comment that one campus group, the Motorsport Club has apparently purchased two racing cars in order to negotiate the ring road corner near Minota Hagey Residence. “We feel confident it can be done, ” a spokesman said. “Ha!” said a PP&P spokesman. Sightseers, sports fans and entrepreneurs are warned that the event may be dangerous and are asked to stay away. Some foolhardy Chevron reporter will cover the accident.
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missiles which do not have “penetration aids” -devices such as decoy warheads and “chaff” (clouds of tinfoil )---which confuse ABM radars. One of the flaws in this optimistic evaluation of the effectiveness of the thin defense is that is gives the impression to the layman that Nike-X defends against all “simple” missile attacks. Unfortunately Nike-X is effective only
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missile for defense. The thm China system provides no SPRINTS for protection of cities. If the Chinese develop effective penetration aids they can probably exhaust SPARTAN and hit any cities they wish. If they are sophisticated enough to build ICEIM’s they should be able to design and produce reasonably efficient penetration devices. The Thin System cc-n probably afford complete protection against the accidental or unauthorized launch of a few missiles-at least missiles not equipped with good penetration devices. It could also
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provide a degree of protection against small numbers of ICBM’s say 25. the sort of force the Chinese would have in the first 18 to 24 months of their deployment program. In the mid-1970’s the Chinese could have loo-150 weapons. Against an attack of that size the thin defense would look very thin indeed. The discussion earlier on overwhelmin SPARTAN was based on the assumption, highly favorable to the defense. that all attacking Chinese missiles would be successfully intercepted if their number in any target area did not exceed the density factor of the think defense. This assumption is incorrect. However, it has gained general acceptance because it has been stated so often by experts such as Dr. May and Secretary McNamara.
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The larger and more effective a nafrom previous page tion’s ABM defense the more threatening ing Nike-X. General Wheeler, on behalf if would appear and the better the position of the Chiefs, said that it would “stabiit would be in for launching a first lize the nuclear balance.” strike. But by deploying ABM only Deputy Secretary Vance has said that around its missile bases a nation would the basis of the United States deterrent is increase its retaliatory second strike its ability to “destroy the attacker as a capability, making it much more dangeviable 20th-century nation.” This he derous for another country to launch a first fined as the destruction of “one-fifth to strike against it. one-half of the population and one-half to There is no more convincing proof of two-thirds of its industrial capacity. . .” the destabilizing effect of ABM than the The official term is “Assured Destrucstatement to the Disarmament Subcomtion. ” Vance added : “We believe the Sovmittee by General Wheeler that “. . .it’s iet Union has essentially the same requirealso the view of the Joint Chiefs that ments for a deterrent or ‘assured destrucregardless of anyone’s feelings about the tion’ force as the United States.” In the situation in Vietnam, we think it quite September speech McNamara spelled it clear that we would have had even out: “We can be sure that we are both more hesitation in deploying our forces (United States and Soviet Union) going there, had the strategic balance not to maintain a maximum effort to preserve an assured destruction capability. . . been in our favor.” That statement cuts close to the bone. we can be certain (if we deploy a heavy The General is saying that in order for ABM system) that the Soviets will react the United States to be able to carry to off set the advantage we would hope out its self-appointed role as policeman to gain. . .we must measure our own resfor Asia and other parts of the world, in ponse in such a manner that it does not order to fulfil1 our “commitments” to trigger a senseless spiral upward of nudefend first this country and then that, clear arms.” we need something like a First Strike Since 1963 the arms race has been Capability. Surely that is what the marked by relative stability. However, Joint Chiefs mean when they claim that when the Soviets deployed an ABM sysNike-X will “stabilize the nuclear baltem around Moscow the response in the ance.” United States was to deploy a thin Another of the General’s five reasons system across the entire country and to for recommending Nike-X is even more develop new -‘generations” of ICBM’s revealing: Nike-X deployment, he told the with highly sophisticated penetration Senators, wou1.d “introduce uncertainties aids. The Soviet Union is now increasing which would inhibit Soviet leaders from its offensive forces and there is already concluding that. . . the United States would considerable political pressure in this not preempt under any circumstances.” country to go beyond the modest thin To preempt means to strike first. defense to a much larger deployment Nike-X, like its abortive predecessor against the Soviet Union. Nike-Zeus, has not been tested adequately. When the U.S. MIRV system becomes The radars are not yet ready, and the operational in four to five years, the have only been tested undernumber of thermonuclear warheads in warheads ground because of the partial test ban our offensive missile forces will increase treaty of 1963. from the present total of 1,710 to 7,500 or more. In view of these ominous develop- Perhaps it will be possible to install the thin China defense without great presments within such a relatively short time sure being placed on the Administration span, the claim of the Joint Chiefs that to test Nike-X in the atmosphere, but Nike-X will stabilize the nuclear balance it is inconceivable that the larger deployhas been shattered as thoroughly as the ments will be emplaced without an overbalance itself. whelming demand for full and complete With ABM deployment the arms race, tests of the entire system. This would very until now in a single dimension, has belikely lead to breaking the test ban treaty. come a three-dimensional contest in offNike-X will not only jeopardize past ensive weapons, defensive systems, plus arms control accords; it is certainly not a feverish technological effort aimed at going to create the sort of world climate scoring qualitative breakthroughs. The in which we can look forward with conmeaning of this new and highly lethal fidence to new agreements. Negotiations phase of the arms race is that as each on the crucial non-proliferation treaty side deploys new ICBM’s with ever more have already been disrupted by plans ICBM’s in its turn, neither can be to deploy the thin defense. The secretarycertain at any moment that it has not general of NATO, Manlio Brosio, announlost, if only temporarily, its Assured Desced at a news conference the day after truction capability. In short, it may fear Secretary McNamara’s speech that a Eurit can no longer deter the other from a opean ABM defense was “under confirst strike. sideration in the alliance.” Future arms Russia and the United States will view control measures, for instance a “freeze” each other with constant mistrust and or a reduction of ICBM forces, are not suspicion ; tension will replace detente ; going to be speeded up by Nike-X. an action which under less tense circumstances would appear innocuous might The militury state seem extremely threatening, in fact, might even be interpreted as indicating Nike-X deployment means that civil dean incipient first strike. Forces-in-being fense will soon become a major national will be at much higher levels than they program. are now: this could mean that fatalities in General Wheeler told the Disarmament the event of a nuclear war would be Subcommittee that the present total greater than if ABM had not been deployof shelters for 153 million people will be ed. In this new climate of hostility and increased to “around 250 million,” doubinsecurity the “gap psychosis” will furling the fallout program costs from $8 ther increase instability. Both military and billion to $1.6 billion over the next four civilian leaders will be afraid of a deteryears. But the fallout shelter is only the rent gap, an ICBM gap, a civil defense beginning. It is to civil defense what the gap, an ABM gap, a technological gap, thin ABM deployment is to the heavy and it is likely that every move they anti-Soviet system. make will overcompensate for a suspecEven before Secretary McNamara anted gap in any of these areas. nounced the decision to proceed with If the military wished to stabilize the the thin Chin-\ defense, the same men nuclear balance they could have prowho had forced its deployment began posed a different ABM deployment. Nikecalling for a heavy defense. The Chairman X. if it were emplaced around missile of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, bases rather than cities, would in all Senator Pastore, called the Administraprobability have a stabilizing effect on tion’s decision “a step in the right direcdeterrence. tion” which would lead to “an over-all A nation launching a first strike would system against the Soviet Union.” Washobviously have to aim it at the enemy’s ington’s Senator Jackson said it was not missile bases, not his cities. The retaliasolely a Chinese problem, but must intory strike is aimed at cities: its purpose clude a capability to “blunt” a Soviet is to make the country which struck first strike. pay an unacceptably heavy price. By There is nothing subtle about these deploying ABM to protect its civilian poputactics : they are the sledgehammer lation a country is reducing the Assured type and there is no political deployment Destruction potential of the other side thus that can defend against them. 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further Administration capitualtion on the heavy defense, perhaps even before the China system has been installed. The technique that makes this inevitable was explained by General Wheeler to the Senators : GEN. WHEELER: These (ABM) costs could be exceeded by perhaps 50% or even of the people for 100% . . the demands heavier defenses in other areas, would inevitably increase the costs ultimately to something like $40 billion. words, if SEN‘. GORE : In other St. Louis is to be defended, then Kansas City must be. GEN. WHEELER: That is right, sir. SEN. GORE: And Memphis. GEN. WHEELER : That is right, sir.
Eventually we will end up with a “super-heavy” defense of every American city of over 50,600 population. The men who so successfully “marketed” Nike-X on the grounds that it would save lives and ‘stabilize the nuclear balance, who assured us that the Soviets would not increase the size of ther offensive forces, will suddenly warn the public that in view of the enormous increase in Soviet ICBM’s, the tense state of world affairs and the instability of deterrence, the nation must move quickly to build blast and thermal shelters to protect its people. In the opinion of a distinguished physicist, Dr. Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, J. J., who has served as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, the Defense Department and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, a massive civil defense program will require extensive participation of the civilian population in quasi-military activities. He sees the United States being turned into what military strategists call a “hard society. ” The term “hard society” Dyson defines as training and hardening a whole population “in a spirit of unquestioning obedience in order to withstand a nuclear attack, much as a missile silo is hardened by encasing it in a certain thickness of concrete. ‘* Dr. Dyson’s fears are far from fantasy, In 1958 the RAND Corporation published a paper entitled “Some Specific Proposals for Achieving Early Non-Military Defense Capabilities and Initiating LongRange Programs.” It is merely a list of suggestions for research projects in civil defense, but it is well worth reading for the candid and sombre insight it gives into the sort of civil defense programs which may be in store for Americans. Among the suggestions areMINES AS PERSONNEL SHELTERS: $ I million, 2-90 day occupany.
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC STUDIES: $200,000: A study would
be for family of the preparation made separation and of shelter techniques for handling this problem.
STUDIES OF VERY AUSTERE SHELTERS AND LONG OCCUPATIONS ($1.5 million): A study should be made of the survival of populations in environments similar to overcrowded shelters (concentration camps, Russian and German use of crowded freight cars, troop crowded lifeships, crowded prisons, boats, submarines, etc.). Some useful guiding principles might be found and adapted to the shelter program. Research projects might include: Study of available information that might suggest both reasonable standards and limits of human endurance, the latter to be used to determine overcrowding tolerances and for defining the early capability needed in personnel shelter studies /$200,000). Investigation of the use of sedation and chemical tranquiliza tion for long periods and for possible’ use in shelters ($800,000).
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Prolonged confinement in shelters will emotional stress. unavoidably produce Various measures (work therapy, sedation, recreation, segregated activity, or discipline areas, etc.) ought to be studied and to maintain shelter prepared in order discipline, to lessen the mental strain and to minimise the incidence of psychological aftereffects. *’ FOOD PROBLEMS (Excerpt 1: ‘Survival add emergency rations used by the Armed Forces are costly and are not
designed to be used by a population for survival. An army survival ration costing 75 cents per person per day would mean a total ration cost of $150 million per day. Based on a minimum cost diet, a suitable shelter ration might cost no more than 40 cents per person per day, would a saving of almost 50% which certainly make research in this area worthwhile. ‘*
There has been talk on and off of other schemes like “Evacuation Cities” which are a sort of second underground city to which urban populations could be removed in times of acute crisis like the 1962 Cuban missile confrontation, the 4dea being that the first country to put its urban populations underground would be in a better strategic and bargaining position than the one which had not. There are serious implications for such basic liberties as the right to travel freely; some experts fear that civil de. fense regulations will require identity cards, travel permits, surveillance. The effect on already blighted, ghettoes cities can be imagined.
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The question is asked repeatedly-Nike not be very good but isn’t i better than nothing? If it saves only ter American lives isn’t is still worth $5 bil lion? But what if Nike-X costs ten live! that would not have been lost had it no been deployed? That question is not asked If Nike-X disrupts the nuclear balance disastrously, if it accelerates the arm5 race, increases world tensions, regiment: American society, and is not effective-i: it then better than nothing? As statec above, if Nike-X were deployed only around missile bases in the contex of a reduction in offensive forces with perhaps, a very small SPARTAN defenst to protect against accidental or unauthori zed launch of one or two ICBM’s, thert might be good reason to believe that i was better than nothing. But on the basil of the evidence supplied by experts, i appears more likely than not that Nike4 will turn out to be a disaster for the American people. It is an attempt to solve essentially non military problems-protecting peopl and reducing the danger of war-with ; purely military solution. From the mili tary it is reasonable to expect a solution like Nike-X. It is less understandabll why politicans should lend it such whole hearted support; their principal commii ment should be to an entirely diffen set of references. The American people must be clear o one point: By deploying ABM the Unite States has turned its back on a more stab’ and livable world and is headin straight toward what Secretary McN; mara on September 18th, 1967, so apt1 called an “horizon of horror.” The hole caust the whole world fears is now th: much closer. During the Disarmament Subcommittf hearings an exchange took place betwee Deputy Secretary Vance and some Ser ators. They had been discussing th possibility that China could destroy f American ports by having cargo vessel release nuclear bombs in them before le; ving for the sea: SEN. GORE : This is a frightenin
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Does John Bergsma really not believe in confrontation? Can the Chevron staff stand up for what it believes? Will anybody care? These questions and many more answers in need of questions will be replied to monday at 9pm in the Waterloo arena as the Chevron staff takes on student council in the first annual nonviolent political confrontation on ice.
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For only 50 cents you can watch the Chevron staff and the council take out on each other all the hostilities everybody on campus feels against both groups. Arena rental is being paid for by the athletic department, the Chevron and the federation, so all gate proceeds will go to charity. Winner of the game not only gets to pick the charity receiving the proceeds, but holds the privilege of telling the loser to PUCK OFF anytime during the next year. Waterloo “the university of its time” has never had such a game before, but several other universities have been doing it for several years. At the University of I oronto, several nunarea saarsts
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turn up annually to get their revenge after a year of cynic newspaper copy and unrepresentative student council motions. -The game will be played by Robert’s rules of order (humanized) and the game referee, who believe it or not was accepted by both sides, is Cyril Levitt. The linesman chosen by council is federation business manager Pete Yates. The Chevron has declined to pick a linesman because they have no intentions of being off.ensive by entering council’s own playground. Coaching the Chevron staff will be senior statesman and sometime editor, Stewart D. Saxe. The playing captain and game scriptwriter is Bob “red
Playing left-wing for the Chevron is just about everybody on the Chevron staff, including 5’ ineligible 5” 150-pound rugged Warrior, Pete “Scoop” Miller. Playing center-defence, Roddy “schmaltz” Hickman. Limping on the left is Gary “crutch” Robins. First-liners include Ross “snap, crackle and jock” Taylor and Jim “jock department lackey” Dunlop. Taking tickets and playing defense, Pete “Hulk” Wilkinson Playing in goal and hiding behind a lot of equipment, Dave “pacifist” Blaney. The Chevron female contingent includes Carol “dum-dum” Jones, Brenda “violent” Wilson, Charlotte “growl” Buchan, Ann “I thought you’d never ask” Stiles and Maribeth “hands off” Edwards. Coaching the council team is Glenn Berry, a last minute replacement for Andy Anstett. Selfproclaimed captain of the council team is John “moderate” Bergsma, who will also play center. Bergsma will not accept higher stakes > ” on the n. . game to make it a vote o* con*ldence. Playing right-wing for council
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Nick “the people” Kouwen, Dave “non-political’ ’ Gordon, Barry “liberal” Fillimore, Gerry “socialist” Wootton and Sandie “responsible” Driver. Playing defense as long as council is winning, Rich “engineer” Lloyd. Playing left-wing is Bob “he’s really right” Sinasac. Members of the council team who have not yet decided if they’ll accept Bergsma as captain-John “pizza” Pickles, Paul “wolf” Dube, Larry “liberal” Caesar, Anne “infamous” Banks, Dave “no-show” Cubberley and Helga “federation boss” Petz. Musical interludes are already being lined up. The Warriors Band is expected to meet the challenge and come out to support their leader, federation vicepresident .Dave Greenburg. A rare appearance of Renison’s Electric Moose will be arranged if the agency can be contacted and the contract signed. The Aryan Affairs Commission has offered the sick-bay jug band and the creative-arts board is trying to muster up a spring .. version or r’antasy that could rival Up With People.
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The Jockettes Now that all the Athenas have one back to their text books, let’s )ok at what they have accomplishd this year. The Athenas entered six OnIrio-Quebec Women’s Conferrice of Intercollegiate Athletics lurnaments and picked up hampionships in volleyball. basetball. badminton and curling. hey placed second in the other NO events. tennis and swimming. 1 field hockey and track. the Athnas played in a joint league with le older schools but did not lake a strong impression. Undoubtedly. Waterloo should e considered the strongest school 1 the O.Q.W.C.I.A., but are they? Why should opponents fear an .thena curling team which had ever played a full game together ntil the championships? Why iould opponents fear an Athena adminton team which placed 1st in the Women’s Sports Day 1 January? Why should Windsor ?ar an Athena basketball team 1 the finals when they had ton three of their four games gainst Waterloo? Why should oponents fear an Athena swimming :am when it was their first year ith a pool to practice in? The nly Athena team that opponents lould fear was the volleyball :am which had an undefeated mason. Just as the Athenas captured majority of their league troph!s. MaryAnn Gaskin captured majority of this school’s awards t the annual athletic banquet. [n tennis, she won the O.Q.W.C. A. singles championship and in asketball. she was named ‘most aluable player’ by the champInship team. She won the univerty crested
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according
wrap
awards system. the equivalent of two and a half honour letters. Miss Gaskin was presented with a silver pin for her contribution to women’s athletics on campus. The highlight of the night came when she was named recipient of 11 -r\ I’ XT, 3 I 1 me uean or women s Awara, presented by Mrs. Marsden to the -outstanding graduating female athlete. Also gaining special attention at the banquet were Jar i 17 nooraa,I ar’ __ the the__‘most__ valuable playt_-nf ____ volleyball team and Pam Ernst, another silver pin winner. Miss Ernst and Lynda Byte were presented with crested bookends for their help in coaching varsity teams. Renison won the women’s intramural award, the Brownie Trophy. At the last general meeting of the Chevron’s women sports staff, it was unanimously decided to confer yet another award. This is to be the “Joy- of Effort” award, named after a phrase coined by R. Tait MacKenzie, a father of physical education. This fictitious award is meant to honour the female athletes on campus who were members of two senior varsity teams for surely they must get joy out of their efforts to give so much of their time to extracurricular sports. -There are eight girls eligible for the award this vear. the vear of its
Up
inception. The following are the 1969 recipients to this monumentous award: Lynda Brklacich, MaryAnn Gaskin, Jan Meyer, Sue Gerth, Fran Philcox, MaryAnn Pollard, Jan Roorda and Cheryl Ward. A 111 1 11 * Altnougn mere IS no monetary benefit and very little prestige associated with this J.O.E. award, surely there must be a lot of satisfaction to the athletes themselves Z-e -I-‘.- - LI--- -1 ror P- ,two varsin .-_ maKing me- graae --J itv teams ______ ___ in one ___J vwr ___ . - _. Credit must be given to the Athena coaches on staff-all two of them. Director of Women’s Athletics, Pat Davis, coached both track and senior volleyball. Director of Women’ s Intramurals, Sally Kemp, coached field hockey and both intermediate and senior basketball. What about the other sports? That’s where the students come in. Pam Ernst, in her final year, is solely responsible for the existence of the badminton team and she took them to the championships. Lynda Byte, a grad student, coached the intermediate volleyball team and took them to the finals. The curling team was self-coached. Outsiders were brought in to coach tennis and badminton and the men’s swimming coach trained the Athena swimmers.
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by Norman f adelie
The tremendous urge to take power and establish a new world by revolution is not ours alone. It was a struggle that Jesus knew throughout life. He could easily feed an army of thousands; he could heal every known sickness and disease; and he could raise dead men to life. But why his hunger pangs? Why his exhaustion? His spiritual energy was limitless! The people had even acclaimed him king! The situation was perfect to take power. 1 Then why the willing surrender to his powerless enemies? Because this was the only revolution that brings the eternal life. Throughout his entire history, man has been searching for truth, for the reality which can give him peace, contentment, and joy. He has attempted- to find freedom by changing things: his environment, his social strata, his fellow man. He has demanded his ‘rights’: justice, equality, education, even his right to self-destruction! Always striving for satisfaction by demanding, that the things around him change. Apparently, it has been to no avail. All attempts to create a personal Utopia by changing the things around us have been futile. To quote from Richard
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)
column:
“Qur best efforts for civil rights, international peace, population control, conservation of natural resources, and assistance to the starving ,>f the earth-urgent as they are- will destroy rather than help if made in the present spirit. For, as things stand, we have nothing to give. If our own riches and our own way of life are not enjoyed here, they will not be enjoyed anywhere else. Certainly they will supply the immediate jolt of energy and hope that methadrine and similar drugs give in extreme fatigue. But peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now”.
What, then, needs to be changed? TWO thousand years ago we had the answer, but it vanished almost as quickly ai it appeared. A brilliant flash of hope quickly exterminated by a frightened, unimaginative mass of people who became ‘the church’. The freely dancing light of truth was rendered darkness by men who wanted to institutionalize it, document it, and force it on others to assure themselves that they were right. But an unquenchable glimmer of that light still remains for any individual who wishes to search it out, fan it, and nurture it into the great flame it once was. The spirit of Jesus ben David lives on despite all attempts to bury it! Men can be fired with the passion and determination to drive themselves and live like him. For the greatest revolutionary ever showed the way to life by changing-society? No! by demonstrating that we must change ourselves! You and me! For in the end, it is only YOU and I who can really affect our lives. Dare you join the Cause? What is the Cause? What is this revolutionary living that radically changes men? It is the life of love. Not wishy-washy ‘fairness ethics’. Not flower-power love with its own kind of discrimination. But love as defined and lived by the man Jesus. Sacrificial love-far different from anything you’ve ever imagined. A-love that treats every man as better than yourself; that has the attitude of a willing slave; that humbly washes the feet of men who exalt themselves. The kind of love which lets you forgive the people who have unjustly nailed you to a cross as you hang there dying. This is the way to true life. Here’s how Jesus tells us to find real life: “Whoever wants to be first must place himself last of all and be the servant of all.” “Lend to those who want to borrow something, and don’t expect to have it returned. ” “If a man takes what is yours, don’t demand it back.” “Love your enemies, and do good to those who misuse you.” “Don’t resist the man who tries to do you harm.” “If a man asks you to carry something for him for a mile, take it two.” “Sell what you own and give the money to the poor.” Jesus taught you must crucify yourself each day, that is, you must put the ‘I’ to death so that only other people matter. Forgetting yourself and concentrating on others is the only way you will find life. Jesus said ‘if you spend your life trying to save it, you will lose it for sure. Forget yourself. Live like me. Then you’ll discover the new life.’ He doesn’t call you to join an organization or submit to a creed. In simple and plain terms he asks you to radically change your way of life. YOU, who want revolu.tion, are you willing to go this far?
Few people would consider dying for a cause such as Christianity as it stands today. But let’s set something straight. I believe that most of the people who claim to follow Jesus don’t have a very clear idea of what he was all about. In two thousand years a lot of mystery and complexity have all but blotted out the picture of the most simple and straight-forward man that ever existed. It’s about time we considered the real Jesus, and discarded the fuzzy Sunday-school ideas which are turning off the very people who could be the backbone and leaders of the Cause. He wouldn’t stand for any of this mamby-pamby ‘comfort-meJesus’ type of religion we have today. (Doubtless he’d set straight those folks who objected to the reward poster a few weeks back.) Love in the early church is stern, strong and severe and virile. It is not sloppy and sentimental and weak; but love suffers, entreats, and endures, and men think this weakness. This is no movement for weaklings. If we will seriously begin to follow this man who offers the eternal life, we could be part of the most exciting revolution this world has ever experienced. A Cause worth dying for. Jesus was willing to bet his life on that!
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by Ed Finn Toronto Daily Star monday, february 24
The student anarchists who ran amok at Sir George Williams University in Montreal a few weeks ago demolished more than computers and furniture. They destroyed their dream of forging a revolutionary alliance with the Canadian labor movement. It was never a realistic objective. There are few revolutionaries among the rank-and-file of Canada’s unions. Some labor sympathy does exist for the student activist campaign to reform and democratize the universities, so long as they pursue this end by nonviolent means. The Sir George riot, however, shocked and revulsed union members, as did the failure of ‘militant student groups elsewhere to condemn it. Few unionists now have a kind word for student radicals of any stripe, whether they call themselves Marxists, Maoists, Trotskyites or New Leftists. The term “New Left” as applied to youngsters who preach and practice violence in a democratic society is a misnomer. No matter what ideological labels they pin on themselves, their tactics are those of the far right. If they ever did succeed in overthrowing the present system by force, the regime they would put in its place would be more like Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy than the ultra-democratic Utopia they profess to yearn for. NDP caught
in middle
Obviously it would be unfair to ascribe anarchistic tendencies to all militant students in Canada. A significant but dwindling number of them remain genuine democratic socialists, notably those belonging to the youth section of the NDP (the New Democratic Youth). Membership in the NDY, however, has fallen to a new low on the nation’s campuses. NDYers explain that the polarization of students between revolutionaries and conservatives has isolated the NDY in the centre-too moderate to attract the radicals, too radical to attract the moderates. The extreme radicals seem to be
never
join those
trying to act out a fantasy. Their avowed aim is to foment a revolution that will topple the hated capitalists and authoritarians. Yet they are not so visionary as to imagine they can do that alone. They realize they must have help, preferably from the “oppressed” working class, in storming the Winter Palace of western plutocracy. Students and workers. This is the classic coalition that has overturned many governments. and caused great social upheaval around the world. But it has to be based on an identity of interests, on some mutual sense of injustice. Organized labor in North America, far from sharing the students’ discontent, has accommodated itself to the private enterprise system. It no longer considers itself oppressed, and is committed to seeking change through the democratic process. In the United States, student rebels have found a substitute ally in the Black Power movement. But in Canada-although black militancy was a factor in the Sir George incident-neither the Negroes nor the indigenous native minorities are sufficiently numerous to constitute a potential partner in revolution. So that leaves the unions. Student activists have learned just how unreceptive the unions are to their brand of proselytism, but many cling to the hope that the younger workers at least can be To abandon that hope “radicalized.” would be to shatter their daydream. In seeking some rapport with labor, they have aped union tactics and terminology. They call their groups “student unions”, and refer to themselves as “the new proletariat.” The student unions demand the right to bargain collectively with university administrations, along with the right to strike. The last thing their leaders seem to want, however, is a peaceful settlement. Their strategy is to escalate demands so as to provoke resistance. create riotous confrontations, force the ‘administration to call in the police. and thus enlist the support of more stud(One militant remarked that ents. ‘*every cop that’s brought in radicalizes a hundred more kids.” This may have
new
left students
been so prior to the vandalism at Sir George; now it’s more likely to “conservatize” a hundred. ) Unions
Early that
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In Quebec, student nihilists have had some success in linking up with workers, but their common bond seems to be Anglophobia rather than anti-capitalism. Outside of Quebec, student overtures to the unions have met a wary response at best, and more often outright rebuffs. Union members tend to be somewhat more tolerant of youthful eccentricities than most of their compatriots, but the combination of political extremism, long hair, unconventional attire, sexual primiscuity and drug addiction disgusts even the most broadminded. The incompatibility of the two groups was dramatized during the American Newspaper Guild strike against the Peterborough Examiner, when several hundred student radicals responded to an appeal to help man the picket lines. It was a tossup which group was more horrified by the antics and attitudes of the other. After a period of mutual disillusionment, the students trooped back to their universities. muttering about being used as “picket fodder” by a bunch of reactionaries, while the strikers were visibly relieved to see them leave. Future student-labor partnerships ’ in English Canada are going to be scarce as long as the student movement continues to be spearheaded by hard-core revolutionaries. Observing the radical students‘ growing predilection for violence. unionists can’t see much difference now between the New Left and the Old Right.
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dam declaration and in 1952 was taken one step further, i.e. the Japanese renounced all future territorial claims over Taiwan. The article mentioned Chen Yi as the main butcher. What happened to him? They omitted to say that his communist affiliations were subsequently uncovered and he was brought to trial and convicted for accepting bribery. Furthermore. Mr. Yen CK at the time was not even in Taiwan. nor was General Pen MC connected with the riots at all. It is deplorable that some people twist the straight facts to suit their own crooked theories. (Name Witheld By Request)
The capitalist system does not provide equal opportunity, especially in education, although it has adopted some “mickey mouse” socialist measures designed to appease those in need of financial aid. Instead, government, business, and industry have managed to give the poorer student the minirnyrn monetary resources while immobilizing his chances for further economic gain. which they speak so highly of. They kick him in the teeth and give him a loaf of bread in return. In engineering and science the student gains more of a trainRenison article biased, ing than an education so that, it’s a good place to’ go upon graduation, his saleable In last week’s Chevron, there product. a degree bought from the were two interesting articles. One university, may be sold for whatarticle on ever it may best bring in salary * was Nancy Murphy’s and job satisfaction. in return for a Renison College, the second was a letter in feedback entitled greater rake-off for those in con“St. Jerome’s story false, it’s a trol. The employee without the good place to go.” This letter voiopportunity has also effectively ced a desire to see Miss Murphy served as a means to economi4 cally and the Chevron “present a much aid all those who go to 1 university. fairer view of the other church colleges. ’ ’ But I guess that was A number of my fellow students “too much to hope for! ” 0 have had occasion to withdraw It appears she has struck out during their first year. not nec0 essarily again-this time she has misrebecause of school curricu0 lum. lack of ability or motivation presented the residents of Renison @ or whatever. but because of their College. I must commend her for the justified desire for employment. $CI The independence. money. and excelleht report on the scholastic or academic side of Renison. but status earned could not be her interpretation of community offered by the university or socand social life here was unjust. iety should they decide to make My first objection concerns her the sacrifice of doing without statement that “most of the stuthose things which the majority dents freely admit there are cli@F. of students have. ques. ” The word clique suggests This explains. better than anyan exclusive set of associates thing. why there is low attendance who remain indifferent to others at university of students from whether it remains closed or poorer families. open. My fellow residents agree However, government aid is that within the college one no provided in. the form of loans doubt has several friends who (debts) and grants, and he is exare closer than others, but one pected to be thankful. The student could scarcely call this relationwithout surplus money, perhaps a ship a clique. Perhaps Miss car, and the opportunity to Murphy should have placed more have assured summer employemphasis on the fact that “every ment is expected to have the group is integrated with others.” same chance to make it through university with the “peanuts” As to the idea that the “conis not realistic the provincial government ( so cept of community enough because of the unnatural generously? ) hands out. segregation of boys and girls in As it stands, the system must be separate buildings, ” this is slightfought on a personal basis since socialism is not the order of the ly absurd. Since the members of the opposite sex see each other day. at every meal, between and after RAY BOURRIE of residents engineering 1B meals, the majority feel this is enough exposure and The article didn’t give that privacy is a ’ rather nice the truth about Taiwan luxury even if it may be oldThe advertisement in the Chev- fashioned in the eyes of others. ron inserted by the so called It would be interesting to hear “Committee for Human Rights in Miss Murphy’s definition of the Formosa” is nothing but a delibeword individual. Individuals are rate falsification of facts to suit not made overnight. Past excertain political purposes. It blows periences play a large role in up a local incident of 22 years moulding the individual and ago, completely ignoring the proallowing him to be different from gress in the meantime. Worse it others. If a student has not had the poses as the spokesman of all drive or has not taken the oppeople in Taiwan and tries to portunity to become an individual win’ Canadian sympathy and monbefore he enters university, then ey. he probably never will. Therfore It seems to be part and parcel of it makes very little difference a plan to discredit the nationalist to the individual whether he lives regime iti Taiwan, hoping to at Renison or at any other resicreate enough confusion resulting dence. in foreign intervention in Chinese Certainly I feel that individual domestic affairs. Historically Taitalents are stimulated rather than wan has always been an intehindered at Renison-interests are gral part of China, except for a Qxceptionally wide and varied. stint of 50 years between 1895From academic studies to sports 1945 under Japanese rule. In every and social events, Renison is known history book one can see that Taifor its participation. wan was returned to China on octYet the phrase which I disliked ober 25. 1945. (known as Restoramost about the article was the tion Day 1. title, “Renison--everything just This was confirmed by the Potshunky-dory ? ’ ’ Why the question
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Congratulations on printing the fine article on conserving the unity of ecological patterns in the march 7 issue of the Chevron. You may be interested in knowing that it was recommended as a reading assignment to several of our classes in geography and planning. Your readers may also be- interested in knowing that we have two courses in our department that focus on ecology: geography loo-man and his natural environment., and geography 355-biogeography and ecology. All students in geography, planning and architecture are required to take at least one ecology course. In fact, ecology is one of the central themes in the new division of environmental studies. All components of the new division are committed to the study of “the interactions between life forms and their environment”. They are also committed to using ecological insights to improve the quality of the human environment. RALPH KRUEGER chairman, geography and planning Facts were misrepresented in article about massacre
There is a bland allegement in the article “massacre on formosa’ ’ that “many scholars estimate the massacre ranging from lO,OOO-20,000”. Actually these scholars are 2 american ‘writers who have never been in Taiwan. As a non-Chinese and outsider who is interested in far eastern affairs I couldn’t help noting that if there are only 2 million mainland Chinese, how come they can afford to keep 1 million occupied as secret agents and informers? It seems they don’t have old people or children. All that for a nation consisting of 13 million people? Economists say that Taiwan’s economy is developing at ten percent each year. and in the value of the constant dollar that is a flat growing rate of seven percent annually. It seems doubtful that in “poor” Asia we’ll find people who’ll revolt against a government that can do achieve this for their citizens. non-Chinese china observer. (Pseudonym by Request ) march
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This is to protest the “Code of Conduct” proposed by, Dr. Petch in his release of March 13th. This “Code of Conduct”, in the words of Dr. Petch, would “define acceptable action in support of dissent and the limitations on such action”. It would seem that this article would scarcely be necessary if we were to refer to Dr. Pqtch‘s release of February previous 6th. where he stated “The right to present a particular point of view, even if unpopular with the majority of the university community, is recognized and this extends to personal demonstrations”. Why this sudden change from a liberal to an authoritarian manner in the space of a little more than a month? The answer, of course, is obvious. There had _ been a “personal demonstration” during this period, and whilst its “point of view” may not have been “unpopular with the majority of the university communit was certainly unpopular ity”, with Dr Petch. In the afternoon of March 13th he made the statement to one of the authors that “the Code of Conduct is to protect your right to dissent”. We reject your “Code of Conduct” Dr. Petch, we do not need it. We do not need it and we fear its real intent. We fear that a document which seeks to define “acceptable action”. instead of protecting our right to dissent, may actually stifle it. We fear also, t,hat a docuument which offers to put limits on our dissent, may lead eventually to the erosion of the right to present it. Yes, Dr Petch, our right to dissent is in need of protection, but it is a protection which you cannot give us. For the protection that we seek is against ‘?he tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling: against the tendency of society to impose. by other means than civil penalties. its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them”. This is the protection we would have. Yet. we do not need your “Code of Conduct” Dr Petch. Because the right to speak out. either in favour or opposed to prevalent opinion. has been passed down to us by anglo-saxon law. This right, which is the back-bone of our parliamentary government, upon which one American President based his four essential human freedoms. is yours to neither grant nor arbitrarily revoke. We are also in good company Dr Petch. For when we dissent we follow noble custom, practiced in this century by such as Woodsworth and Russell. Einstein and Schweitzer. Steinbeck and Speck. And in centuries past by Marx and Darwin. by Voltaire, by Luther,
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by Piers and Wycliffe, Galileo, Jesus, and Socrates. Socrates, accused corruptor of youth, was proffered the States hemlock. Is the hemlock of the twentieth century per haps a little more subtle? We would not taste it, for we prefer to pay our debt to Asclepius in person. We thank you Dr Petch. For by this inglorious gesture you have proved the need for watchfulness upon our part. We should not be mere authority. lulled by And let us say, that if this document which you propose, which is as yet a seed within your mind, could germinate and provide us with improvement to our liberty, then not a man within this nation would deny it. But if, as we suspect, it may prove difficult to improve on laws firmed for us over centuries, then not one man within these grounds would subscribe, to it. You must forgive us Dr. Petch, for this display of indignation and outrage. But we have learned the dangers of allowing the gradual gnawing away of our liberties. You, as well as we, are familiar with the adage that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And lastly we would state. That the only way by which we can ensure that the right of dissent will be maintained is through its continued fervent exercise. We reject your “Code of Conduct” Dr Petch, we dd not need it. DAVID CUBBERLEY arts 3 JOHN H. BATTYE arts 3 Christian ape the
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On behalf of the Committee for the Advancement of Christianity on Campus, I give notice of the following demands which, since there is no waste basket handy. will ,be forwarded to interim president Petch. 1. The hiring of ten Christians (as opposed to authorities on the Christian religion) for the academic year 1969-70. Furthermore, plans should be made for the hiring of more in the coming years. 2. Funds should be )made available to the church colleges for their daily Chasers (chapel services 1. 3. A tenfold (at least) increase in the library holdings of religious pamphlets, bibles, and church publications. Demands 4,5, and 6 are the same as demands 3,4 and 6 in the brief prepared by the Radical Student Movement. It certainly takes a. radical movement to produce a pile of horse manure like that. JACK KALBFLEISCH grad statistics
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Puper not representative, cw Picles all left- wing As a Uniwat student (5th year here) I have been increasingly concerned over the Chevron’s recent political policies. The Chevron, far from reflecting a balanced c,oncern with all student interests, has devoted an excessive amount of space to “student power” battles and outside political issues. Also, rather than present a fair chance for all views-left, center, right and non-ideological-to be heard, it rarely publishes any opinions but left-wing ones. Exceptions are only token. “News” is often biased or is just propaganda in disguise. As a non-radical, I feel that the Chevron is using my student fees and its status in opposition to my own interests when it does this. I think the Chevron should represent all views on relevant issues, not just the Chevron editors’ views. so that the readers have a basis for choosing their political views themselves. As an example of the sort of thing that should be published more often, I am submitting an article for publication. It is by Ed Finn. a Canadian labor leader. originally published in the Toronto Star. It details why, in Finn’s opinion. the proposed radical student-worker alliance is not viable. The Chevron has never published anything from the mainstream of labor opinion on this much-discussed matter. STEPHEN CLODMAN grad applied math Most
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gy-haired, conjuring up images of Cossacs and greatcoats and fur hats and 1917, the revolution proceeding slowly but steadily towards its great and glorious goal. They know. The world is being controlled by the bourgeois. money-loving, war-loving capitalists. A menace to progress. “It is ‘time for the proletariat to rise up as one and strike down the inhuman machines that are blindly controlling our destiny.” The engineers trudge slowly up the hill to their comfortable apartments where they surround themselves with notes and slide rules and design projects and bottles of beer and Playboy foldouts, clean suit and white shirt hanging in the closet to impress the interviewers, visions of Mustangs and stereos dancing in their heads, and they can’t wait to get out of this damn place and start earning some real money. They know. Money and security are all that’s important. It’s a dog eat dog world and brother if you don’t get ahead you won’t get nowhere. If I ever get my hands on one of those freaky. radical queers 1’11 tear him apart and feed the bits to the computer.” The administrations can stay out of touch with life but they have a point and the radicals can keep kidding themselves but they have a point and the engineers can go blindly on forgetting that there are other people in the world but they have a point and all I really know is: It’s spring.. . ROBERT SIDDALL physics 2A Free colleges muse change Rochdale meets challenge
they want, and by whom they want. If the authors of that article call our classes “anti-democratic” then those authors need mental treatment, or a dictionary or both. The article stated that the free college is ill-suited to bring about social change. and the free college is a utopian experiment divorced from historical and social realities. We are located in downtown Toronto. We have dozens of parasites here who don’t contribute to Rochdale financially or socially. We have hundreds of U of T students here who only contribute to Rochdale financially. This huge building poses tremendous maintenance and social problems. Too much of our “core group Rochdalians’ ” energy is expended on these social realities. We could bring about a hell of a lot more social change if this place were more utopian in nature. Turning to social changes. we not only are concerned with them. but we are actively doing constructive things about them. Haven’t the people who wrote the article heard of the “co-op movement”? We have transcended the spoiled child-like actions of the RSM and we have found many of “the answers”, and we are now starting to take action. The RSM is playing a David versus Goliath game. Our actions are more like a malignant tumor in Goliath’s brain. If you want to see what we are up to. come here and -live and get involved. That is the only way. Because of the RSM’s stupidity, as exemplified by the errors in their article, I vote for them only because they appear to be the lesser of two evils. STEVE GRANT science 1 A
In the friday march 7 Chevron. there was an article about university professors and the “critical university’. The art,icle was written by the RSM people. The article contained references to free colleges. and it mentioned Roehdale College as an example of a free college. The article was written by people who know almost nothing about free colleges, or at least Rochdale. I am living in Rochdale on my work term. I have become ver\ involved in Rochdale, so maybe I know what I’m talking about. The article stated. “Free colleges do not come to grips with issues of social change. and are in fact a means of increased domination.” *Just the names of a few of our seminars (classes) will disprove that claim. The tuesday evening seminars, for example, are child development, realities and realization, Judaism and religion-existentialism, cosmology, drug semina-r (with a bio-chemist as guest speaker 1, serial poem, and the school of journalism. On other days there are art classes, music classes, cooperation (counter-establishment) classes, a Jungian psychology class, a utopian research class and even a single mathematics class. There is no pressure on us by the outside society as far as the form or content of our seminars is concerned: This should also repudiate the article’s claim that, “The free college.. .fails to deal with the much more important problem of content.” It stated that we teach “antidemocratic material.” The students here set up their own classes to be taught what they want, when
I wish to make the following ~commen ts concerning the edit orial, “The leadership emerges.” in last week‘s paper. This leadership which 1;ot: propose has repea tedi)- been r~~~jttcted b;~ the majority of the studtirlt,s at this university. Since September 1968, the iollowing stands by the RSM have been repudicated by t.hc I‘c>~, :>! t!ic student body i. The tent-in--aFlrrosI!1?atel~ one half of one percent of the student body took part. 2. The park-in-no results. 3. Non-confidence vote in Brian Iler . 4. Student council elections resulting in the defeat of Brian Iler-backed by RSM. 5. CUS vote. 6. Presidential election-no RSM candidate. 7. Library sit-ir+approximately 50 students took part. This is approximately one half of one percent of the students here. Since the RSM has had more than an adequate chance to publicize all of these events, particularly through this paper, this lack of following cannot be blamed on the general student population ignorance. Thus it seems obvious that the vast majority of the students here disagree with your porposed leader, either in their views, their methods or both. With this in, mind the RSM must be reorganii zed as a small but vocal minority on campus and not the leaders. as you propose. F. SCOTT grad chemistry
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The administrators sit up at the top surrounded by their papers and memos, typed and copied, held together with clips and staples, sent and received, and life goes on smoothly and efficiently with money carefully maximized and time, space and man-hours carefully minimized, and ‘everybody gets a pay check every two weeks and everybody’s happy. They know. The radicals are a lunatic fringe. Hot-blooded misguided youth out to take the world by force. “Dear colleague, the position we stated in our letter of july 15 still holds. As to all other matters we regret that we have no comment.” The radicals run around at odd hours of the day and night printing posters and reading books and wearing buttons and talking to other radicals. Bearded and shag-
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Bang, bang, you’re dead agree would do so in response to the fantastic propaganda campaign carried out by those whose best interests are served by a $10 billion dollar expenditure on armaments. The military-industrial complex. These are the men who, acting in what they may think is the nation’s best interests, but are actually quite obviously their own, set the priorities for our government. These are the men who condemn people who protest for better living conditions by telling them things are better than they have ever been. No one chose these men, they are responsible to no one. These are the men who will destl-oy mankind, be it through waste of resources, subjugation to the machine, the creation of an authoritarian alienating society or-. Be it in a nuclear war.
It was out of date long before we published it, but that doesn’t matter. Only the figures have changed. Now the Americans figure the proposed light anti-ballistic missile system will cost in excess of $6 billion. And everyone knows that it will really cost at least 40 percent more than the estimates. That is about $10 billion. That means the system will cost about one million low-rent housing units. It will cost more than 750 thousand fully-staffed and equipped hospital beds. It will cost more than 20 thousand new schools. And that means another huge delay. in American plans to deal with poverty and misery at home. The decision to build the Nike-X missiles is not a decision made by the American people. Even most of the minority that would
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Student council, of course, doesn’t stand a chance. They will simply have to resign. Monday night their opposition will be so overwhelming one can only respect their courage, though obvious lack of intelligence, in even agreeing to step out onto the field of battle in the first place. It’s not just their lack of leadership that will destroy them; for that matter jock leadership they’ve got. It’s that lack of finesse, of noblesse oblige, of savoir faire, that will prove to be their downfall. Faced by an opponent whose subtlety has become nationally renowned this year, whose deft strokes have chased many a more worthy opponent into retire-
ment, student council doesn’t stand a chance. /But, if try they must, the Chevron is always willing to at least watch the council members make fools of themselves. For those students, faculty, staff, and rare administrators who would like to watch truth and justice triumph over bureaucracy and ineptitude, join the Chevron staff and those councillors that don’t chicken out in the first, great annual Chevron challenge international hockey game brought to you live and in the usual slightly pink tones in Waterloo arena, monday 9pm. We’re going to charge you a little bit but the money is going to a good liberal cause.
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History’s great men were the right men for their time and place. John Bergsma was the wrong man for president of the Federation of Students in our time. Bergsma ran on a platform of non-confrontation, of dealing with the issues through proper channels. But this approach simply wasn’t viable and so he quit. John was caught in a two-way trap. * First, he quickly discovered that the only people with a really good understanding of the issues and their causes were all members of the radical student movement. Secondly he found himself unable to find the proper channels, methods of communication, and means of representivity he had promised the campus in his campaign. At least in the end he made the right decision.. Had he followed the advice of
his sometime adviser Andy Anstett and waited a few more weeks to resign, he would have further discredited his cause. Anstett suggested he postpone a new election until September allowing a newly chosen vicepresident to be first firmly entrenched in the position. The problems oLir society faces today are so great they demand an increased awareness and readiness to act on the part of the people. On campus that awareness will come only when people are confronted with the issues and the harsh realities. John Bergsma’s tactics would have hidden those issues and those realities and hence prevented our dealing with the menace they. reveal. A successor must now be found for the presidency who will not be so indulgent of today’s apathy. so that tomorrow we may deal with the truth instead of hiding from it.
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Ah, the wonders of planning physical planting and planting physical planning. Here go a few more library books washed away by spring floods forgotten by our long range planners who draw campus maps and then shape the river banks to fit. If onlv we could make some of the first year courses in the geography and planning department compulsory for the physical, plant and planning planners.
People who read mastheads already know who produced the gag issue, but in case we have any new readers in this subversive area: Admininews was produced by the Chevron staff to show how well we understand theother side. On our side this issue: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Bill Brown, editor of assistant news; Ross Taylor, chief jock and coordinator of the Chevron hockey team; Dave X Stephenson, almost an OUS executive; Dave Blaney, Maudie Silcox, Annekin Stiles, Harold D, Goldbrick, Donna McCollum, Maribeth Edwards, Pete Wilkinson, Greg TO Wormald, Wayne Bradley, Matti Nieminen, Jim Detenbeck, Phil Elsworthy, Ed Hale, Rich Lloyd, Kevin “proletarian” Peterson, Brgnda Wilson, Pat Starkey, Syd Nestel, Anne Banks, Davie Palmer, Bill Sheldon, Cyril Levitt, Lorna Eator, Dumdum Jones, Fred, the telex is dead, CUP almost is, and a special Hi There To All The Usual Gang Of Idiots On The Fourth Floors Of The Dana PUrter Memorial Administration Building.
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