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‘iElection, what election? The only newsworthy thing that happened this week was the return of traditional Waterloo weather. At least I can walk through the arts quadrangle now without being tempted to laze apathetically in the sunshine like last week.”

CL/S calls refounding The Canadian Union of Students has issued a call for a conference to evaluate the future of the national union. The decision to hold such a refounding conference was taken by the unions 26-member national council which met in Toronto last weekend. Manv observers viewed the decision as inevitable after a year of setbacks. Since September 1968 Cl-TS has only been able to win 50 percent of the membership referenda it has faced and has lost a total of 14 member campuses. .!mong the members of the national council there was considerable division on the political line the organization should take in the future. Martin Loney. who will take over the president’s office in September. argued that only by moderating its policy could CUS hope to recoup its losses. ,

Although other members disagreed. claiming that Loney’s view was reactionary. the council was unanimous in deciding to call a conference on the future of the union. Three days will be set aside for the conference at the end of the annual CUS seminar which is to be held at Laurentian University during the last two weeks of may. to the refounding Invitations conference will be issued to all student unions in English Canada, regardless of whether or not they are currently CUS members.

meet Among other items of business, the council paid particu 1ar attention to the problem of expected mass unemployment in the summer months. Representations to governments will demand reconsideration of student aid schemes which now assume that the student has been able to save money from summer earnings.

Andy Anstett, poli-sci 4, Charlotte von Bezold, arts 3, and Tom Patterson, history 3, are contesting Wednesday’s election for president of the Federation of Students. The winner will serve the remainder of resigned president -w-m- -w-m-------mm--m---mm candidate interviews me 3

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John Bergsma’s term-until february 28, 1970. Anstett’s campus experience includes board of publications ad manager in 1965 and work in founding the political science union in 1967 (currently past president). He said, “I organized the group that persuaded Bergsma to run in november 1968 and as you know he won a landslide victory over Iler. The same group also elected some representatives from the moderate slate.” Charlotte von Bezold has been active in the co-op. She said she originally ran because she didn’t want an acclamation. “But since 25 people had enough confidence in me to sign my nomination form, I’m staying in the race,” she said. Patterson has been continually in the mainstream of student activities. He has served as student council speaker for a year, as an executive member at large for a year and was vicepresident with Brian Iler. He was elected arts rep three times, topping the poll in the february and november 1968 elections. Patterson has served on numerous administration and student council committees, and continues to hold the post of feder-

There could have been six names on the ballot. but three withdrew. Larry Burko. arts 3 and perennial candidate. decided at the last minute to sit out this campaign. Bergsma gave Burko the job of chief returning officer to keep him busy. Other withdrawals were Dave X. Stephenson, math 2, and Morris Strasfeld, architecture 1A.

He was a prime organizer and negotiator in the bookstore issue of 1967 which resulted in required texts being sold at cost plus overhead instead of the previous high profit policy.

Polling booths will be set up Wednesday in the usual building foyers. Results, however. will be delayed until monday. Ballots will not be counted until monday to allow out-term students time to return their ballots.

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Resolutions emerging from the may conference are expected to be discussed by local student councils during the summer. When the annual CUS congress-the union’s supreme policy-making body-meets next September these resolutions will be the first item of business.

Ra$io funds allocated, but main. budget tabled Student council approved a $lO.200 budget for Radio Waterloo wednesday night and pledged contining financial support for the campus radio station. A procedural motion at the beginning of the meeting limited discussion to the Radio Waterloo budget. The overall federation budget was left untouched on the premise that the new president will want to revise it. The main item of contention in the radio budget was a $3900 request for a full-time station manager. The original brief submitted last november said a full-time manager would not be necessary this year. But the budget request submitted by Radio Waterloo in february included the $3900 for’a station manager.

The executive board cut the fulltime manager and put in $500 for a part-time manager. In a brief presented to council last week, station manager Bruce Steele pointed out that a recent ruling of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission made .a fulltime station manager a requirement for an FM license. Council accepted his arguments and voted funds to Radio Waterloo to hire Steele for the remainder of this fiscal year. The budget passed Wednesday takes effect may 1. Council also accepted a policy of continuing financial support in the future. This will satisfy the CRTC requirement that student radio stations be financially stable.

And Al Adlington worried while the Kent burned. Concerned about the welfare o.fstudents during the upcoming exam period, our operations vicepresident stayed on the scene to see what happened to the Kent’s drinking spots in the early Saturday fire. Qn the inside, the cops had a hard time convincing the patrons the fire was not part of the floor show.

Muss march for a French McGill tonight in climate of violence Cotton is fall Village Paul Cotton, math 2, was elected Village president Wednesday Opposing hitn were Vic Neglia, physics 3, and Peter Desroches, arts 1.

four-month term. In his campaign Cotton said he ‘envisioned an enlarged role for Village council in light of the student affairs review which recommended increased student control over residences. And if this recommendation was rejected by the administration and proper channels did not bring about a reversal, he said he would march 1300 villagers down the hill. But Cotton added he did not thifik this would be necessary.

The election turnout was 33 percent. Cotton received 210 votes; Neglia was a close second with 173 and Desroches a poor third with 34. Cotton is presently vicepresident of Village council. He will take office in September for a

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MONTREAL ( staff )-Police and university officials have been making massive preparations in anticipation of a proposed march slated for today. About 5000 nationalists, trade unionists and students are expected. According to the Toronto Star search lights and closed circuit television cameras are being mounted in the trees and on top of buildings. The Globe doesn’t mention the TVs, but said large loudspeakers were deployed. The march is a joint effort of the McGill Mouvement d’Integration Scolaire, Le Front de Liberation Populaire, le Comite Independance-Socialisme various action .committees from the community colleges (CEGEPs), Montreal labor council, McGill Radical Student Alliance and the Union General des Etudiants de Quebec (UGEQ) . Their-demands center around the conversion of McGill to a French language university by 1972 and support for fired lecturer Stanley Gray. They claim statistics showing English universities get 31 percent of provincial operating grants while accounting for only 18 percent of Quebec population and that 42 percent of university students are English and 51 percent of McGill grads work outside Quebec. Gray said “At McGill there are only from 7 to 8 percent of the students who are of French origin. This includes students who come from France and Belgium. Also 26 percent of McGill students come from outside Quebec and this is the largest percentage of out of province students in any Canadian university. This is a sitbation where about 10,000 French] CEGEP students will graduate next year and have no university to. go to. He claimed that he was fired because of his views.. “There is no toleration, no freedom at McGill for people who

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Math faculty council is now open to students. The motion was passed Wednesday in a meeting which also approved the credit system and a slack week for the math faculty. Council approved a motion by student repi Tom Berry and John Madgett to open council meetings to all math students. There is the provision for removing the student members by a two-thirds vote. Council also voted to institute a slack week in the third week of february. Adoption of the credit

system was approved in principle. Another motion redefined ’ the membership of faculty council. Visiting profs will get a vote during their stay here. Part-time lecturers will be non-voting members. Council also removed the stipulation that one of the student members appointed by the Math Society be a representative of the Math Medium. The Math Society appoints two members to council. The Grad Society apPoints one.

Campus center board has committees Two new committees designed to make the campus center a better place in which to live were formed at last week’s campus center board meeting. A food and drink committee and a program committee were created in an effort to improve activities within the building. The food and drink committee will look into the entire operation of food services within the building, and will study the problems of menu, pricing and speed of service in the coffeeshop. Periphera1 investigation will be done on the operation of pubs, and the maintenance and stocking of the several of vending machines. which have been breaking down almost every day.

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Committee members Dick Knight of personnel, George Tuck, chemistry 3 and Louis Silcox, alumnus and chairman of the group, are looking for suggestions from anyone. Viable suggestions will be put into effect as soon as possible with optimum operation in the fall. The program committee has no guidelines except a 25 cents per head levy of all students, faculty and staff on campus with the money coming out of the university’s operating budget. Bob Sinasac. creative-arts board chairman, and Louis Silcox have been charged with finding appropriate use of the $3000. Any rational or relevant ideas from the people are welcome.

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The campus center celebrated its first anniversary as an officially open building last Saturday, and to commemorate the occasion, the Aryan Affairs Commission closed the building and then reopened it in an official ceremony with a special guest appearance by AAC chancellor Harold D. Goldbrick. It was Goldbrick’s first public appearance since his return from Sue Bhac, Vietnam where he had been doing guerilla research for the Grad Cong. Goldbrick said he was happy to

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Canadian poet Irving Layton will be giving a reading of his poetry next Wednesday, april 2 in the campus center great hall. Layton is currently holding the position of poet-in-residence at the University of Guelph, sponsored by the student union there. . Layton’s visit to Waterloo will be sponsored jointly by the Federation of Students and the English department.

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tion of the French Canada studies program. The program, headed by Laurier Lapierre, is accused of scrutinizing les Quebecois as if they were vulgar natives. Gray and the administration have reached agreement on an arbitration committee sponsored by Cana’dian Association of University Teachers. Gray was charged with “conduct that affected adversely the general well-being of the university.” The officials in Montreal do not forget that McGill is only four blocks away from Sir George Williams. The McGill computer center main entrance was boarded. closed and most documents have been taken to an office building several blocks away from the campus. In the general paranoia premier Jacques Bertrand has authorized police to move on campus. Administration vicepresident Bob Shaw says “there will be strong police detachments placed inside the university to face the demonstrators should they succeed and break through. ” Raymond Lemieux. of the Mouvement d’Integration Scolaire. said, “We will know friday whether or not we live in a police state. ” He cautioned police not to create “an advance climate of violence”.

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for the conferment of undergrad degrees in arts, engineering, mathematics, science, physical education, optometry and graduate degrees other than Engineering. will be held on friday, may 30 in the athletic building.

Retiring federation president John Bergsma announced that Larry Burko had pulled out of the presidential race and would be chief returning officer for wednesday’s election. Burko prompt-

demand a French McGill. No toleration for those who want McGill to become integrated into Quebec Society, who want it to break its links .with the English Establishment. Once you make that demand you find that these are the limits of tolerance and you have to be expelled,” said Gray. Both sides have been preparing for the coming incident. Last friday five plainclothes policemen were spotted in the projection booth at the back of a theater where a strategy meeting was being held. The administration recently held a dinner with the chief editors and education reporters of the city papers to .discuss the issues and according to the McGill Daily “to cool publicity on March 28”. They hired public relations expert Yves Jasmin, who did the publicity for Expo 67 to improve the university’s image among the French-speaking Quebecois. They published a special issue of the McGill Reporter (their admininews) for distribution to the local community. Stutlents have been preparing their publicity for a long while too. Posters showing a target with several bullet holes in it and the word McGill appeared on hydro poles around the city. The McGill Daily distributed 100,000 copies of a French edition across the province. The administration as well as the ministry of education have been publishing counter-propaganda. The march, labelled Operation McGill, will start at St. Louis Square at eight tonight and will wend its way to the campus. In addition to the conversion to French language. and the admission of a substantial number of the 10,000 displaced CEGEP graduates. They want a $200 reduction in tuition fees to bring them in line with other universities in the province and the aboli-

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“There is a tremendous need for change in society and the university. We get change by development of ratfonally-thought-out programs through peaceful, non-confrontation methods. “It takes a long time to get change. If you want revolutionary change in society, you must be prepared to wait 200 years plus. Therefore we must await change in the university. “The groundwork has been laid here and we can expect change. The best approach is based on possible courses of action and upon reason; not demands. “If you force change, you’re going to get reaction That’s what I don’t like about the RSM. “And I don’t buy the conspiracy theory that says the administration is only giving sops to students while they keep control. I saw change during the discussion and implementation of the one-tier system of government. “The administration changed their minds. They have done a reckoning about the importance of student representation. This was because of the reasonable, rational approach of (John) Bergsma and the groundwork laid in the past three or four years. “The council learned a crucial lesson this month. Stick behind your president or the RSM takes over. I don’t think this experience will be forgotten for a long time. “Bergsma resigned because he didn’t get the council support he wanted. John was a gentleman and you can’t be when council was split the way it was. “I am sure that I can get the support I need on council. The moderates have a substantial majority on campus. *‘You must know where your support lies and you mustn’t be defeated on red herring issues or snap decisions. “When Trucial decisions are brought up in a hurry. there isn’t enough preparation or thought before a decision is made. I will get support to have things tabled or defeated until they can be given second consideration. The opinion of the campus must be felt out. If present procedural methods don’t work in preventing snap decisions being forced on council, then I’ll consider constitutional amendments which will suggest first and second readings for motions which councillors and students haven’t had time to consider. “But I wouldn’t want to emphasize this because I feel our present methods including the general meeting and the referendum will work. “I am not prepared to call general meetings as often as they were called in the first term. Th.ose general meetings were not general meetings. They were meetings of a constant select group who made decisions. “There are occasions when there is no alternative except the general meeting but these are rare. interviews by Frank Goldspink Chevron

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“The bail issue was one such snap decision that was forced on council. It was brought up either as a red herring or else it was a crucial issue. But council should have delayed any decision until it had considered student, opinion through proper feedback mechanisms. “Representivity is a problem which must be solved but it is not council’s major hangup. “The Federation has to be administered. The main job is administration of its many activities. People must remember that politics is only a part of the Federation. “Too much emphasis is placed on politics. The students on this campus are awake now. Council must educate the students as to the issues and use the feedback mechanism. The student should have the information before the decision, not after the fact. Once a stable representative student government is achieved,

Andy Anstett then a good balance between representivity and leadership can be established. “In terms of specific political action the board of .education and the board of external relations are the two most important boards. BER should send observers to next year’s national CUS congress. We need a national organization, either a changed CUS or a new one. “CUS must represent the students. It shouldn’t be a revolutionary vanguard. CUS thinks it is the vanguard. They must believe the conspiracy theory to believe this stuff. And as I said before I don’t believe that theory. “The BER should make students aware of what’s happening off campus. It should provide information on issues of crucial importance to society. “I would like to decentralize the board of education and put more emphasis on the course union level. The board must be activated. If there was more support to faculty newspapers, they might become effective influences. “I will supply the energy for the BE. I would like the board to place more responsibility within faculty societies. The board should disseminate information. It must be a co-ordination of ideas and accomplishments.”

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“Right now there is a serious degree of alienation between council and students. And there is also bickering within council, because of deep splits within the student body. “The president’s job will be difficult. He now needs support from council members doing their homework. The council member must be a researcher and an organizer who works with the students. He must be willing to carry out council mandates. “If this happens, then council and the president can reach a common ground and we will have more of a chance to work together. “Summer council meetings will present a good opportunity to set up working committees on issues such as housing and to establish Federation priorities. “I am interested in getting people to talk about problems and work more with students. We should try to build a strong base for a strong student union. To build this base there has to be informa tion feedback flow between council members and students. I believe a union is an important vehicle for expressing student interests. “The union would meet students’ immediate needs such as equipment, books and course content required to help us become creative and- intelligent. - - We must have this union because alone we aren’t strong enough. “We are dealing with the interests of corporations looking for highly-trained employees. We are dealing with government interests which are similar to the corporations. For those of us who don’t own industry, there is lack of autonomy

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“The major communications problem between council and the students is more than transmission. The problems arise when council talks about issues irrelevant to the students. “Council can discuss university government but it has no meaning unless it is related to what the, students their courses, are concerned with: classes and professors, their day-today business. “It will be more wort.hwhile if counconcentrates on things which cil arise out of student problems. “But we must show that these problems aren’t isolated, that their basis goes beyond the university. We must, expand understanding of how our problems fit into a greater social context. But we must start with the things we experience here and we must be open . and relevant to the campus. 1 “No council or president can perfectly represent the campus. There is an idea that representing people is reflecting their opinions. It is the responsibility of council to inject new information and overviews to make student opinion develop rather than remain static. “But being open and honest in your presentation to the constituents is more to the point, You must make sure that they’re always familiar with your point of view so that they may be able to express their opinions. I)“In council the element of leadership is in presenting information and issues to the students and presenting plans of action to meet students’ needs. It entails council doing a lot of research to create a base for the Federation activities. “Research, information flow to students and openess and honesty are very, very important. means “Effective representation facilitating development of a wellinformed base and realistic programs.

Tom Patterstin in work. the decision of the use of ability and skills and lower salaries. “Because we may be in a higher income bracket than the usual laborer, we may not realize these things. But there is a conflict of interest between employer and employee. It is clear whq dominates inside and outside the university, who controls research funds and application of research results. “If we want to advance our own interests, then we must do the same as the professionals and labor groups. We must organize. “I don’t think we can talk about trying to make the Federation radical because its base isn’t radical. The element of radicalism I’d like to inject into it ..is to begin radical questioning of problems. I want to integrate problems into the context of society, rather than isolate them as specific .campus problems. “I don’t see any major changes in the budget. I would. like to see more money go into Federation research programs. It would make council’s work a lot more relevant. “A lot ‘.of people on campus are asking questions very, very seriously. A lot more hard thinking has been ~done. It has become accepted that participation is part of living although it hasn’t yet been recognized that students have the right to power in decision-making. “Creative things are the most fulfilling type of things to do. It’s too bad that work isn’t creative, that people feel they can only fulfil, themselves by making money and spending it after work. People making the world in which they live into ways they find beneficial are being creative and free.

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“I’m not a bureaucrat and I’m not an authoritarian. I’m an anarchist, a nonviolent anarchist. “I believe there should be constant change in society and in the university but I take issue with the methods of change. “There are the traditional proper channels but it takes years. There are demonstrations and confrontations which only create hassles and reaction. “I think there are ways the proper channels can be speeded up. Right now the people are so immersed in bureaucracy and little pieces of paper that they forget the people they’re dealing with. “Confrontation is okay in certain circumstances but not provocation. And we shouldn’t mark compromise as a dirty word. If you compromise it doesn’t mean you’re losing integrity. . “I would like to see lots of general meetings so that the bail mistake won’t be repeated. Right now there are a lot more people discussing the problems on campus and in society. “But there are still a lot of people who don’t care. I would like to find out-why. “There’s a difference between apath> and not caring. Apathetic people don’t think about the issues or problems. Non-caring people think about them but feel they’re not worth worrying about. “They refused to become involved but the pressures will continue to build until they are forced to act in some way. “Academically I’d like to make a big effort with the library. If at all possible, I’d like to see student council give money for books. “I don’t believe you can put down the administration for spending money on landscaping and signs when council spends money which could be better allotted. / “On hiring and firing I believe students are capable of judging their professors and lecturers as teachers. But I don’t believe a brilliant person should be fired because he has little teaching ability. “And an anticalendar is also important. We should have one even if we do get . good representation on curriculum and departmental committees. “The issues should be dealt with one at a time. Before any issue is acted upon, the students should have complete information. We must consider the effects any action will have in the future as well as on the present situation. “We must make students aware of relations within the university and the relation of the university to society. We must encourage more thought. “Students should be saying ‘I don’t like this because.. .’ instead of only ‘I don’t like this.’ ” “Right now the various student factions are screwing each other. They’re screaming at each other and no one’s listening. There’s hate and hostility. “This communication problem among students may be the same as the problem between students and administration. We have to realize that there are different backgrounds involved here and that we’re not speaking the same language to each other. “We must make an effort to understand each other.”

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**The revolution began ten years ago. Ten years have brought about a complete transformation of our country,” said Humber to Castaneda, Cuban consul in Toronto, in an address sponsored by the policital science union on Wednesday. He went on to say that Cuba was and still is an underdeveloped country, but that the Cuban government was hoping by 1975 to overcome what seems to be a chronic stage of underdevelopment. He said that the reason for this situation was the fact that, up until ten years ago, Cuba belonged to the United States in all but name, and it was convenient for the American government to allow only certain industries to develop. Castaneda then gave a few statistics to indicate the extent of Cuba’s progress since the revolution. Ten years ago, over 400,000 people in the country were unemployed, and a similar number were employed for only a few months of the year. At the present time there are more jobs than there are people to fill them. Before the revolution, about 33 percent of the population was illiterate, and only the rich could attend the universities. Now all those students graduating from highschool can go to university with government grants. According to Castaneda, there are at present 300,000 students attending highschools and universities with their tuition, books and housing paid for by the government. In addition, more than 50 percent of the population have rent-free housing. The consul concluded his remarks by saying, “The United States cannot fo.rgive the Cubans for the fact that they were able to free themselves from domination and have shown that they can develop their own country and direct their own destiny.” He expressed a hope that the rest of the Latin American countries, still oppressed by U.S. domination, would soon follow Cuba’s example. Castaneda’s address was preceded by a film about revolutionary Cuba and followed by a question period. The consul spoke through a translator. Gerard DeGre, sociology department chairman. Most of the questions posed by the audience were such that they brought out many of Cuba’s policies with respect to major issues in the world situation. When asked what Cuba would do if the United States tried to reinstitute diplomatic or economic relat.ions with her, C.astaneda

said he could not predict what Cuba’s policy would be, as any changes in policy would have to be’decided in a caucus. He added, “You can be sure that if the United States tries to do this, there will be all kinds of strings attached, and Cubans will not permit this. ” On the question of the polarization of the socialist world into the Soviet and Maoist camps, Castaneda said that *Cuba has not taken any official line. “Cuba is not neutral; she has her own line. The important question is not really one of a dialog going on between the socialist powers. In the long run, the action of the socialist world must be directed against the enemy of the socialist world, namely the United States. Here, rather than in ideological disputes, is where the socialist world should direct its energies.” When asked about Cuba’s policy on wages, Castaneda said that the Cuban government hoped to be able to eliminate money in the future, but that at the present time workers receive wages. Right now the Cuban people are in the process of constructing socialism. After they have finished making a socialist base, they will proceed towards ’ communism. Castaneda said that in order to

create a communisl society, a prosperous economic material base is needed in all areas. “Once this is achieved. then each can be rewarded according to hi? needs. ” On the subject of the Vietnamese revolution, the consul said that the example of Vietnam, was one worthy of emulation. “The Vietnamese people are struggling against the most powerful enemy in the world; they are winning and they will win. ” Cuba is the first country to establish an embassy with Vietnam’s National Liberation Front. Castaneda said this was a symbol of the willingness of the Cuban people to hold back a bit on their own development in order to fulfil their responsibility to aid another country that is trying to liberate itself.

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In answer to a question about the arms race and the possibility of a disarmament agreement between the United States and the USSR, Castaneda said Cuba does not intend to sign such an agreement. “We want a lasting peace and a general disarmament throughout the world, a guarantee of peace in all countries without U.S. intervention. We have not taken too seriously the proposed treaties, because we do not think that they lead in the direction of true and lasting peace.”

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her power in order to build a political and economic wall around herself. Russia was then able to concentrate on production, her markets and resources being readily available. A policy of imperialism would not have done the Russians any good. The situation today is really no different as Russia establishes a hold in developing countries. McCarthy suggests this is far from being an exploitation because there is benefit for both countries. He contrasted this with the policies and-actions of the Americans whose leaders have plainly stated their purely economic interest in other parts of the world, particu-

larly south-east Asia. McCarthy was asked if the invasion of Czechoslovakia last year by Russian troops was not a sign of imperialistic expansion. He explained the action was not so much a takeover as it was a warning to the Czech people. The Russians were not afraid of the Czechs adopting a capitalistic system but more of the influence their trends towards democratization would have. The Czechs had been broadcasting radio programs to the Ukraine spreading news of their freedoms. The Russians were again protecting their interests in their communist satellites as did Stalin.

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The journalist I used to work for Time: or was it sell? A Lucemployee is always a salesman first. and then a journalist of whatever degree: For most of three years, I was listed on the masthead as a correspondent in the San Francisco and Los Angeles bureaus. where I was assigned coverage of anything that could conceivably find its way into the magazine except, of course, politics, which was left to wiser heads ). Some of that eventually became bits and pieces of articles. But it occurred to me, long after I left Time for the distinctly drearier world of liberal political journalism, that reporting had been my secondary function. First of all, I was a drummer for the largest, most powerful publishing corporation in the world. Time’s business is to promote Time, Inc. as a corporate empire. Like all imperial systems, it is ultimately selfjustifying; worlds must be conquered because they are there. Along the way, one or another rationalization can be made; it makes money for stockholders, employs talented journalists, imparts useful information to a mass audience. invigorates the economy through adver-tising. and helps U.S. policy in Vietnam. All that may be true, but the basic urge is to its own expansion. The metastasis is the message. For shorter or longer periods, Time’s writers and reporters can believe that their jobs are largely separate from the machinery of the imperial corporation. They do their journalistic thing and the business types do theirs.. Except for a few annoying, extra reportorial chores (1 can recall two: finding scuba equipment for Clare Boothe Lute, and checking out a graduate school for an executive’s son 1, correspondents are generally left to their stories. In their minds they perceive a gulf fixed between them and the corporate side. But at last it is only in their minds. They are company men as surely as any ad salesman. They function not as independent journalists but as operatives of an institution which is not primarily journalistic. Interests which have nothing to do with news reporting from the context in which the reporters must work, and the institutional values flow accordstatus, non-involveingly. Carreerism, ment. flippancy, a patronizing tone: it’s all built into the system. In the beginning. Henry Lute had a dream (fantasy?) of ‘corporate journalism. ” There were two inspirationsCalvinism and capitalism-and two aspects: the corporate process in which reporters, writers, and editors work assemblv-line fashion: and the corporate adventure to assemble power on a national (and now international) scale. There is no mystery in the way the old Time religion served the development of the company. Lute imparted the strict missionary values he learned from his parents in Tengchow to the corporate child of his own creation. John Kobler. in his thin. chatty-altogether Timey-biography of Lute reports that he used to turn on to acid, but it seems hardly necessary’ (anyway it was Clare’s idea) : he was on a permanent Presbyterian high. From time to time on that trip he would see John Calvin. Adam Smith. and George Washington walking together through the Time reflected that gates of Paradise. hallucination. The company’s financial success was final proof of its moral validity. Like its two sources. the two streams of corporate journalism fed each other. Time’s internal organization was uniquely suited to its external development. Like Alfred Sloan’s General Motors, Lute’s Time Inc. built its power on a base of decentralized divisions. The company was able to expand in depth and extent with equal facility. What was most important was the role of the individual : isolated, dependent, and fragmented. Time journalists are kept out of the general community of journalism by the peculiar anonymity of their work. At the same time, they become profoundly dependent on the Company for visible and invisible means of support. Finally, their work within Time is so utterly

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fragmented that, after a while, they seem to lose integrity even out of the office. In group journalism, an individual reporter or writer is reduced to an unnecessary and insufficient production component. Even the collectivity is unimonly the process counts. The portant; local bureaus and the various news departments in New York are not communes of journalists, but units of journalistic production. No one individual or unit ever sees a piece of workthe article-through from beginning to end. The correspondent reports it, the researcher checks it, the senior editor changes it, and the top editor disposes of it both ideologically and mechanically. The lines cannot be crossed. If a correspondent in a bureau wrote the perfect “finished” Time story, all fit to size and complete in every detail, he would be reprimanded. His job was to write the perfect unfinished research file, containing ten times as much information as “New York” needed to know. Like the state of grace, Time is inevitable. It appears each week regardless of the works of men, who nonetheless feel themselves prisoners, under a crushing imperative to act as if what they did really made a difference. The basic Calvinist contradiction-the necessity of work against its unimportance-drives most Time staffers to distraction, or bars, or other jobs. Time’s institutional importancemay lend a reporter a certain anonymous status on the scene (“there’s the man from Time”) but he cannot claim the fame as his own; it belongs to \ the company. Inside Time, office politics offers its opportunities for advancement, but only vertically in Rockefeller Center. not laterally to other publications. Many young journalists who come to work for Time reckon that they will stay for lunch and then leave after a few years, just at the moment that their souls begin to slip away to corporate ownership. Some do eat and run. but it is harder than they think. The process of assimilation into Time style ! corporate and literary) begins quickly, and before very long they are both selling and sold. What we disliked most about Time was not its politics or its style or its support of this or that idea, but its manipulation of us. All the rest we had come to accept, and we knew it was no better on other magazines or papers. (The New York Times too has terrible politics, worse style, and it supports bad ideas.) But what dominated our lives was the Time process ; it was the topic of every four-martini lunch. The atmosphere of extreme alienation helped produce many of the effects which readers of Time can easily spot: the phony crisis, the false narrative integrity of a story, the flip cynicism, the hollow know-itall airs, the adolescent sexual leers. In any case, the formulization of Time stories became almost a ritual response to our situation ; the obsessive puns and excessive jokes were a pathological symptom. The simple mechanism of alienation was universal un-responsibility. Correspondents believed that nothing they wrote would ever be printed in recognizable form, and any facts they might supply (or invent) would be checked and corrected by researchers at some point along the way. Writers had no connection at all with the realities of the stories they wrote: they just supplied the structure. If Time style is at least partly a function of the reporting and writing process, Time’s content is largely determined by its corporate role. Bureaus are more than news-gathering depots; they are missions to centres of power. Bureau chiefs naturally have ambassadorial status. Kobler reports that Lute told a correspondent -on his way to Berlin in 1940, “When you get there, remember you’re second only to the American ambassador.” Abroad, Time editors travel in semi-state formality, commanding interviews with native potentates and, occasionally, granting inter-

views themselves to important figures. Time Inc. for many years had a roving ambassador - without - portfolio John Scott. whose job was to travel abroad for periods of time and then make speeches about world affairs to businessmen’s dinners in the U.S. (he had other jobs, too, but they remained shadowy). In domestic bureaus, Time reporters have a less stately but more critical role. They minister to the interests of the local business and political leaders, or at least those with whom Time Inc. must do business or politics. In Los Angeles, for instance. the bureau chief is given a large subsidy for a fancy house in which he can entertain Southern California fat cats in a style they will appreciate. Every so often, one of them is encouraged in his appreciation by a favorable story. The highest tribute is a cover story (followed by the presentation of the original cover portrait to the subject) and the cats all scramble for that honor. Each of the articles may contain one or two uncomplimentary facts or comments (Mr. X picks his nose at dinner parties) but by and large they eulogize the subject and all his works. In the long run, it is perfectly clear which side Time is on-not because of its particular stories but because of the meaning of the magazine as an institutional package. Stores are just one item in the box. They give the offering a certain appeal, but overall they are of minor significance. Insofar as Time promotes a view of what’s important about the world, the advertising copy is far heavier than the news. Readers can easily challenge a particular piece of reportage ; advertising works much more subtly. Over the weeks and years, it is the ads which tell readers what to think, how to dress, what to buy, and what to value in life. Much more than the articles, the ads transmit a sense of social class and a basic political consciousness. The preponderance of insurance, airline, securities, Scotch whisky, and communications media advertising (not to exclude those toney double-page “institutional” ads featuring abstract designs and scribbled quotations by Lucretius, Lao-Tse. and Alfred North ,.Whitehead) makes the point. Further, the whole feel of Time (and the other Time Inc, publications, its marketing methods, and its transverbal tones give it a cultural positionand by extension, a political onewhich mere articles could never establish. Journalists promote the package: the package promotes the corporation. From an event in journalistic history which changed everyone’s conception of news presentation, Time became an event in marketing history. Surely

Henry Lute had not dreamed of that eventuality, even if somewhere down below the possibilities were embedded in corporate Calvinism. But Time is largely a product of what has happened to America in the last half-century: specifically , how corporations have developed an organizational position so controlling that the whole system can be called “corporatism.” Time’s movement is nicely illustrative of that process. Since Lute’s death, Time has become more “liberal” while burrowing deeper into the corporate ethic. Reactionary social policy does not promote the image of the new establishment, which is more interested in co-optation than repression, more concerned with creating new markets than restricting consumption. The recent change in Time’s managing editorship-from the middlebrow midwestern conservative Otto Fuerbringer to the sophisticated Viennese cosmopolite Henry Anatole Grunwald-reflects the corporation’s new conception of itself. Time’s own Book Division, which was started in 1961, is a $60 million business. Time owns 300,000 shares of MGM stock and has interests in prestige publishing houses in Europe (Robert Lafont in France, Rowohlt in Germany). In the U.S., Time has its legal quota of television outlets and a string of radio stations: it controls, or has an interest in, television in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, New Zealand, Germany, and Hong Kong. In Italy and Argentina it publishes a magazine called Panaroma with local compagnies; in Japan it puts out President. In the U.S. it has interests in pulp and paper mills, a marketing company and printing firm, and the New York Graphic Society. And of course it publishes those magazines. It all comes to $500 million a year, give or take a few million, and makes Time Inc. the 174th largest industrial corporation in the U.S. Time’s sheer wealth and power would be intimidating enough, like some imposing Alp. But the implications of rapidly expanding corporate journalism are much more dreadful. For the SOciety (and now that Time is international, for many societies 1, it can produce mass ideological manipulation, create worthless demand, and impose a whole range of values which are important to the interests of the corporation but destructive of the individual. ,Time has tried its hand at all that, and in some instances (China lobbying. anticommunism ; the “business ethic” ) its success is impressive. If it seems now that the mass media are much more vulnerable than people used to think they would be. it is still true that it takes a great deal of energy to overcome their effect. frida y, march

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“The dogs and the children are not from the Co-op project. The garbage pile complained about is not on Co-op property and the construction debris is the responsibility of t,he contractor who is not finished his work. It should be noted that the buildings are only recently occupied and that the landscaping will be finished as soon as weather permits.

The University of Waterloo has asked Kitchener city council to provide $150,000 to the university building fund. The city is being asked to give $30,000 as first payment on a $150,000 grant towards an engineering, math and science library building. Council will hand down its decision when the budget is approved in april. Administration chancellor Ira Needles said the building was estimated at $4 million. Under the present formula, the provincial government provides 95 percent of the cost. The university, however, must raise $200,000 locally. Needles said the university contributes to the economic health of Kitchener-Waterloo. About $25 million is currently spent by the university and its 9000 students. Interim administration president Howard Petch said it was crucial

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as described his musical ion pretty well. The loneold ballads sung by his the honkytonk blues, and the wild hollers’that he heard from his father and other men in town. And it is worth emphasizing that his style of guitar picking was picked straight off the yecordings of the Carter Family, who were, popular around 1931 when Woody was eighteen years old. He also learnt some of his favorite song;s directly off their records. Another favorite of his, of course, was Jimmie Rodgers, “the yodeling brakeman. ” Woody also used to accompany his uncl: Jeff, who was a fiddler, and they played on the radio occasionally. And so you see, he fits right in with the usual “country music” category of a small town in Oklahoma in the ’20s and ’30s. So much so that I know some people in New Y&k, when they first heard him, would say, “Why, he’s just a hillbilly singer, isn’t he?” After he had gone to California and was singing for $1 a day on a Los Angeles radio station, he attracted the attention of a man named Ed Robbin, a news commentator for a radical newspaper, the People’s World, over the same radio station. This man got interested in Woody and Woody’s idea?, and Woody got interested in him and his ideas. The year was 1938. Woody was introduced to Will Geer, the actor. who was doing benefits to raise money for the migratory labor camps. Woody came along and dived into the struggle. He became a close friend of Will and his family. Through Geer. Woody started to make a living singing at fund-ransing parties around Los Angeles. Will sent me a copy of Woody’s mimeographed songbook. On a Slow Train through California, and told me I sure ought to meet Woody when he came to New York. I met him in March of 1940, at * a midnight song session on the stage of a Broadway theater. It was again a benefit for the California migratory workers. The Grapes of Wrath had been published a year before, and there were many in New York who felt that we wanted to learn more. Will Geer was MC of the show. Burl Ives was in on it and also Leadbelly and Josh White. And there was Woody. A little, short fellow with a western hat and boots. in blue jeans and needing a shave. spinning out stories and singing songs that he had made up himself. His manner was laconic. offhand. as though he didn’t much care if the audience was listening or not. I just naturally wanted to learn more about him. I became a friend of his, and he became a big piece of my education. I was working for Alan Lomax down in the Libcary of Congress in Washington, DC Woody came down several times, usuail~ on some kind of booking or other. We hit it off pretty well together. Around May 1940, he came down driving a car which he hadn’t finished paying for. and asked me if I’d like to come with him to Oklahoma. I quite my job--sucil as it was-and we *‘hitchhiked on credit,” as he said, down through Virginia and Tennessee. on to Oklahoma. and Ihen to Pampa. Texas, where Woody’s wife and children were staying with her parents. I don’t think we stayed in Pampa more than a week or two, and then went back to Oklahoma City where the finance company came and took his car, as I remember it. We went back east with Bob Wood, and were learning things all the way. I spent the rest of 1940 hitchhiking by myself. Woody rejoined his familv on the West Coast and went to work wr’iting songs for the Bonneville Power Administration. Back in New York, in 1941, I met Lee Hays- He. Mill Lampell and myself started/ singing together, calling ourselves the Almanac Singers. (“In the country,”

WOODROW WILSON GUTHRIE, one of the great folk son9 ballad-makers of this century, was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. Childhood in an oil boom town. /n 1935, he drifted to California, ‘ along with thousands of other “Okies” forced by dust storms and depression woes to leave their homes. Made a living singing in saloons, occasional fly-b y-night radio programs and later on for unions, parties, political rallies, dance and theater groups, the Library of Congress Fofksdng Archives. Dozens of restless trips across the U.S. A. Three marriages and many children. And over one thousand songs. The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book, The Incornpleat Folksinger, lished by PrenticeThis excerpt Nov. 1968. -

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would have two said Lee, “a farmhouse books in the house. a Bible and an almanac. One helped us to the next world, the other helped us make it through this one.” ) We recorded some peace songs and some union songs with the help of friends. Woody Guthrie arrived in June, having ridden freights and hitchhiked from the Pacific Northwest, where he’d completed his work for the Bonneville Power Administration. He no sooner set foot in our apartment when we said, “Woody. how would you like to go west?” He scratched his head. “I just came from the west, but I don’t guess I mind if I join up with you.” We had bought a nine-year-old Buick for $125, a terrible eater of gas and oil. Within the next few days, we made a few extra dollars recording some records, Sodbuster Ballads and Deepsea Shanties. Then with a little gasoline money in our pockets we took off. We sang for automobile workers in Detroit. half a dozen varieties of CIO union people in Chicago. Milwaukee. Denver, and then we got to San Francisco. When we walked down the aisle of a room where one thousand local members of Harry Bridges’ longshoremens union were meeting, we could see some of them turning around in surprise and even dis“What the hell is a bunch of apprdval, hillbilly singers coming in here for: we got work tb do.” But when we finished singing for them “Union Maid,” “Talking Union, ’ ’ “Which Side Are You On?” and especially “The Ballad of Harry Bridges,” their applause was deafening. We walked down that same aisle on our way out Bnd they slapped Woody on the back so hard they nearly knocked him over. was with woody when he wrote “Union Maid.” it was in the early summer of 1940 in Oklahoma City. There. Bob Wood, the communist organizer , had asked Woody and me to sing for a small meeting of oil workers, who were out on strike. Hardly 50 or 60 people were there and some were wornen. who evidently couldn’t get babysitters, and children. It also included some strange men who walked in and lined up along the back of the hall without sitting down. Bob Wood leaned over and said. *‘I’m not sure if these guys are going to try to break up this meeting or not. It’s an open meeting and we can’t kick them out. See if you can get the v- 2ole crowd So Woody and I did just that. singing.” You know, those guys ‘never did break up the meeting. We found out later they had intended to. Perhaps it was the presence of so many ‘women and children th;it deterred them, perhaps it was the singing. Anyhow, the morning after I found the first two. verses of “Union Maid” stuck in Woody’s typewriter. (Years later, in 1947, I got a job singing in a little Greenwich Village nightclub. Woody came down to see how I was doing and in his honor I sang “Union Maid.” Some young drunk at a table near Woody started joining in on the chorus but with his own variation, “Oh, you

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can’t scare me, I’m a capitalist, I’m a capitalist, I’m a capitalist.” -woody started waving an empty beer bottle around in the air and trying to bean him, shouting, “It’s bastards like you who stayed home making millions while we was out fighting the fascists.“) After singing for the longshoremen, the Almanac Singers went down to Los Angeles, temporarily lost a couple of members. Woody and I zigzagged back up to the San Joaquin Valley, up the coast to Oregon and Washington, then east, stopping at Butte, Montana, and then Duluth, Minnesota. An organizer for the lumberjacks union asked us if we would be willing to go around and sing in some of the camps, and we said, sure. He was on a routine inspection tour to make sure that the union contract was being obeyed by the bosses. The workers still lived in one big bunkhouse but it was roomy, clean and warm. And as for food, I never’ saw such a groaning board. For breakfast they had on the table (90 fooling). ham, sausage, bacon, chops; they had scrambled eggs, fried eggs, boiled eggs. They had applesauce, prunes, figs. oranges, grapefruit, tomato juice, grape juice, milk, coffee, tea, fried potatoes, pancakes, biscuits, toast. When the cook rang the bell. 50 husky men clumped into the cook shack and sat down and started-shovelling in the food. There was no conversation, no talking whatsoever, except maybe “pass the butter please.” This was an old rule: no country custom, an inflexible conversation at, mealtimes. If anybody had tried to start talking about the weather or anything else, he would have been guilty of bad manners. The men were mostly of Scandinavian background. The 19th century logging camps had been full of Irish and French Canadians. The 20th century camps were full of Finns and Swedes. They were a taciturn lot. The organizer had told us expect these the previous day, “Don’t workers to make a big fuss over your songs, they are Scandinavians. But I know they will be glad to hear you.” ^ In the evening, around the big stove in the center of the bunkhouse, the organizer spoke briefly to the men and answered a and then he introduced few questions, Woody and me. We walked up to the center, sang a song. There was dead silence. We sang another song, there was still dead silence. We looked at each other and said, “Suppose we ought to sing another? ” Well, we sang one more. There was still dead silence when we finished. We thanked the men for listening to us, and walk?d over to the side. One of the men said quietly, “Aren’t you going to sing A little reluctantly any more, boys?” we went back and sang a couple more dead silence, songs, again to complete and then we figured we better not push our luck any more and said good night. The next morning one of the men said to us, “Boy, that music sure was wonderful. Wish you had sang a lot more, we could have listened to it all night. ” In the fall of 1941, we started a coopera-

tive apartment known as Almanac House. People came and went ai1 the time. The cuisine was erratic but interesting; the furniture almost nonexistent; the sleeping done at odd hours: the output of songs phenomenal. We got bookings on the subway circuit: $5 here and $10 there. By working hard we just managed to keep body and soul together. On Sunday afternoons we’d hold open house. Thirty-five cents was charged at the door and we and friends would sing all afternoon. We called the sings “hootenannies,” a term Woody and I had picked up in Seattle. In early ‘42 our Beat Hitler songs (“Reuben James,” “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave,” etc.) actually got us a radio job or two. An agent working for the William Morris Agency got interested in us. He took us around to the Rainbow Room, which was at that time a top New York nightclub at Rockefeller Center. We sang a few songs over the mike that afternoon while the bored manager sat in the empty nightclub. He said he might have us work theie. but we had to “make the act look better.” The men should all wear one-suspender overalls and the women members of the Almanacs wear sunbonnets and gunnysack dresses. We didn’t take too kindly to that suggestion and started improvising verses which Woody later mentioned in his autobiography, Bound for Glory: At

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else could tell them. He got torpedoed, visited half a dozen countries, or at least saw their ports, and kept writing verses every day, unconcerned by who thought he was what kind of a character . by the way he dressed or acted. After he got out, he had a new family and had to take care of them: I also had a family I was starting, so we saw each other only at occasional hootenannies. In 1952. at a party in California, I heard him sing for the last time. He’d come out west hoping to start a new life. not realizing that his occasional dizzy spells were soon going to get worse and send him to the hospital forever. He sang one or two of his old songs. Then somehow he and I got started making Woody up verses to *‘Acres of Clams.” improvised an unforgettable couple. The first describes how he was sitting at home one day and the doorbell rings, and there’s a man who says he’s from the FBI, and would like to ask a few questions. Woody’s following verse: He

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Arlo Guthrie tells that when his father went into the hospital he was asked what religion he was, so it could be entered on the correct form. “All,“ replied Woody firmly. “Mr. Guthrie. we must know which religion to list you as.” “All.” “I’m sorry, Mr. Guthrie, it must be one or the another. ” “All or none, ” replied Woody. While he was in the hospital with Huntington’s disease, the wasting illness that finally killed him, young people with their guitars and banjos were already singing Woody’s songs and making them famous. And of his thousands of verses. I think a large number will outlive this century. an Lomax, perhaps America’s forst folklorist, calls Woody “our t contemporary ballad com.” Others say: ‘ ‘a rusty-voiced Homer,” and “the greatest folk poet we’ve had.” I Why are the songs great? Look through his songbooks, only a small sampling of - his huge output. Yes, the words show a fine sense of poetry. of reaching out for exactly the right word at exactly the right place. He used some fine time-tested tunes. The songs are honest: they say things that need to be said. But above all else, Woody’s songs show the genius of simplicity . Any damn fool can get complicated, but it takes genius to attain simplicity. Some of his greatest songs are so deceptively simple that your eye will pass right over them and you will comment to yourslef, “Well, I guess this was one of his lesser efforts.” Years later you will find the song has grown on you and become part of your life. Woody took his tunes mostly from different kinds of American folk songs and ballads. He had a deep respect for the ballad form. He knew enough about other song forms to choose many others, but he felt that the old four-line stanza, which told a story and slowly unfolded a moral, was as good as any he could use. Woody said. “I’m not saying some of your tunes from other countries aren’t good. But I wasn’t raised to them, and neither are the people I’m trying to sing to. SO I’m going to use the kind of tunes we understand. ” Woody was a great poet; as a prose writer too, I think him a genius. He wasn’t pretending to be anybody else-he was just himself. He learnt from everybody. and from everything. He learnt from the King James Bible: he learnt from the left-wing newspapers and publications; he had a devouring curiosity. I‘ll never forget the week he discovered Rabelais, s and read through a two-inch-thick volume in a couple of days. During the following

weeks I could see him experimenting with some of the techniques of style that Rabelais used, such as paragraphs full of images, adjective after adjective getting more fantastic. Woody was highly selective and knew when he disapproved of something. He once wrote, for instance, “I must remember to steer clear of Walt Whitman’s swimmy waters.” Perhaps he disapproved of Whitman’s unrhymed, unmetered free verse. But then, Woody himself always stuck to traditional rhymed quatrains. I think, rather, he suspected that he himself, like Whitman, had a weakness for undisciplined rambling-on and wanted to control it. In early 1940, Woody had gotten a job paying $200 a week-a lot of money thento sing one or two songs a week for the Model Tobacco network radio program. One of the things the Model Tobacco people wanted him to do was quit writing columns for his’ favorite newspaper, The Sunday Worker, weekend edition of the Communist Daily Worker. Woody euphemistically called it “The Sabbath Employee. ” Those columns of his are classics. He got the idea from the columns Will Rogers used to do for the New York Times. Just a few sentences with a few sharp comments on the news of the day. For example, when he went to Washington in the spring of 1940, Woody wrote: “I am down here looking at the Potomac River: they say that George Washington threw a silver dollar across it once. It looks a little bit too far for me to do that trick, but maybe he could. After all, a dollar went further in those days. ” If Woody had been willing to play along with the Model Tobacco Company and sing the songs they wanted him to sing, and quit doing these columns and his left-wing bookings, he could have stayed with them and had a successful commercial career. But he quit after a month or so. The Model Tobacco Company tried and failed to force Woody into a respectable mold. There were other attempts. John Greenway’s ‘American Folk Songs of Protest, published in McCarthy-ridden 1953, contains the following: “Once more in New York, Guthrie became associated with the Almanac Singers, and through them with People’s Songs an organization in which his individuality was quickly submerged. Before any harm was done to his style, however. . .he gradually dissociated himself from the group. ” The best person to answer this is Woody himself. In 1951-just after he signed a contract with a major recording company-Woody wrote to Sing Out (founded by People’s Artists, the successor to People’s Songs) : When some super“Dear Editor: reactionary friend of mine looked through - several issues of, Sing Out and failed to find any songs of my own making he wrote me and said: ‘Thank God you’re not having’ anything to do with that bunch.’ “I’ve read just about every word of every issue of Sing Out and I just want to say right now before any more of you write in to thank me that I could not agree any more or any plainer nor any stronger with Sing Out if I had wrote every single word of it, and every song myself by my own hand. ‘I know everybody on this Sing Out staff just as good as I know any of the

members of my own family, or any of my sisters and my brothers. I believe in peace and Sing Out believes in peace; I do my best to fight against war and Sing Out fights just as hard to stop wars as I do: I make ballad-songs about the news of every day and show you how Jim Crow and race hate hurts and stings and kills off a good part of my country every minute that flies by: and Sing Out sings out with songs to teach, to show, to ‘prove to you these same terrible things; Sing Out sings out, too, to tell you about every little inch we gain in our fight against all of this reaction of hate. “One little issue of Sing Out is worth more to this humanly race than any thousand tons of other dreamy, dopey junk dished out from the trees of our forest along every Broadway in this world. I don’t know of a magazine big or little that comes within a thousand million miles of Sing Out when it comes to doing good around this world. “More of my songs, my latest peace pieces and my later and older ballads too, will be printed in the pages of Sing Outs to come. I don’t want your Tommy Glazzeye Mackarthurish (Tom Glazer had just written a song glorifying General MacArthur) cold bloody handshake nor your word of thanks nor your anything else. Whichever side Mat ain’t on, I’m on, whichever side MacCarran ain’t on. I am; whichever side Taft-Hartley’s ’ not on, I’m on double watch. “Let this be the end of those remarks that I will use my record contract to fall in love with my bellybutton and forget all of the Peekskills that I’ve been through with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Earl Robinson, and lots of others. If I do fall into ten per cent ownership of this Record Co. in the morning soon, that will not change one little word of this letter as to which side of things I am and am not on. Your Buddy, Woody Guthrie.” oody always claimed that he could not theorize, that he couldn’t keep up with us and our book-learning. He’d bow out of IN argument rather than get tangled up in four-syllable words. He had outspoken contempt for mere cleverness. A joke was fine, a pun, a gag-he put plenty of humor into his songs. But humor was not enough by itself. There had to be some solid meat there. So in some of his most humorous songs, like “Talking Dustthere’s an undertone of bitter bowl,” reality. I remember in 1948, when he was listening to some friends trying to write clever political parodies. Suddenly he asked, “Why are you guys scared to be serious? ’ ’ Woody was not averse to having his songs sung on the hit parade, but to my knowledge he never wrote a song with the hit parade in mind. He considered most commercial music men as slick people who foisted their own idea of music upon the country. He thought of them the way an Oklahoma farmer though of Wall Street bankers. So Woody put out )f his head the idea of making a lot of money from his songs. He’d write and sing them himself, and mimeograph copies’for friends from time to time, and trust that if he put together a song which hit the spot people would take it up as their own.

Woody scattered his genius so that it will never be all collected: rhymes. letters, notes to himself. In 1960. for instance, I came across a notebook from 1940, when he and I were singing for OUI supper in the Pacific Northwest. On one page there were some financial memos from me. On the next page was Woody’s own memo to himself: “The worst thing that can happen to you is to cut yourself loose from people. And the best thing is to sort of vaccinate yourself right into the big streams and blood of the people. “To feel like you know the best and the worst of folks that you see everywhere and never to feel weak or lost, or even lonesome anywhere. “There is just one thing that can cut vou to drifting from the people. and that’s an! brand or style of greed. “There is just one way to save yourself and that’s to get together and work and fight for everybody. ” I learned so many different things from Woody that I can .hardly count them. His ability to identify with the ordinary man and woman, speak their own language without using the fancy words, and never be afraid-no matter where you were: just diving into some situation, trying it out. When he and I used to go around singing together, we hit all kinds of places: CIO unions, churches, saloons, meetings, parties. I learned from him how just plain orneriness has a kind of wonderful honesty to it that is unbeatable: he was going to cuss, he was going to speak bad language, he was going to shock people, but he was going to stay the way he was. He wasn’t going to let New York make bin slick and sleek and contented. He was going to stay a rebel to the end. Burl Ives told me how Woody visited him right after Burl had gotten a new apartment on Riverside Drive in New York. Burl was proud of his furnishings. He had a guest room, and said, “Woody, stay overnight with me. ” “Sure, don’t mind if I do.” And he never took off his boots all night long. He was a restless sleeper: Burl told me that the next day he found his brand new sheets torn to ribbons by the heels of Woody’s cowboy boots. Well, that’s Woody for you. He didn’t always pay his bills, and he made life hard for his family and friends sometimes. ‘always traveling, itching heels, ants in his pants. I guess I first learned what an undependable husband Woody must have been when we visited, his family in Pampa in 1940. His first wife, Mary, gave up on him when he called it quits on his job with the Bonneville Power Administration. She went back to Texas. Is that the price of genius? Is it worth paying? Maybe it’s easy for me to ask that. It wouldn’t be as easy for poor Mary, who was trying to build a home and a family. But Lord, Lord, he turned out song after song after song! I have traveled around the country and around the world singing his songs and, although Woody was in a hospital for ‘years before his death last year, I always felt he was very much with me, very much alive. Woody is right beside me, strumming along. I know his songs will go on traveling around the world and will be translated into many languages during the coming century, and will be sung by many people who never heard his name. What better kind of immortality could a man want?

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Throngs of very few people saw the ,Blackfriar’s production of and Cressida, last weekend. For the benefit of those who didn’t see it, let’s call it an “interesting” production. For those who did see it? . . . oh well. Maybe we can rationalize it. Troilus and Cressida is one of the most difficult plays to stage that Shakespeare ever wrote. Termed a “problem” play, it is loaded with inconsistencies, and yet contains some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. For it to say something, for it to be even entertainingb it has to be staged either absorutely seriouslyfor it has all the elements of a tragedy-or else it has to be staged strictly for laughs. This show was a tragedy all right. Blackfriar’s did neither, and I am still trying to figure out exactly what the hell they did do. On one hand, there was an attempt at creating a huge spect,acle and panorama of human emotion, and on the other. things were absolutely farcical and not necessar-r ily often intended to be farcical.; This review is not really a review. Actually. no play was performed. I saw only some disjointed scenes of Shakespeare’s; a few well done and most done badly. The thing made no sense. This is simply my reaction to the production. Some of these people are in the drama co. which usually does good stuff. What happened to this show, I don’t know, but a cry to bring back the drama co. is in order. There were two good performances given. Rich Ennis did a marvellous job with Thersites, and John Turner as Ulysses presented us with a man who was very vital Troi/us

bomb in problem Cressida dismal and very sage, did beautiful things with the poetry, and at the same time told us something. Those two characters may have made the show worth seeing in themselves. However, almost everything else was so bad that when the above two were on stage, they seemed almost out of context. The five women in the show deserve honourable mention. but the rest of the people in their scenes were so atrocious. that they never had a chance to project anything. The other characters were badly needed but just were not there. Qlev Wain was the only other actor in evidence. Paul Frappier might have been good, were he not to be accused of scenestealing (a faculty member of the audience told me that he thought horsewhipping was in order here). From a very well done prologue, which left me with the feeling that we were to see a spectacle, the show immediately degenerated into a few hours of monotonously mouthed speeches. The people on stage went back and forth from the Greek camp to the Trojan camp and the audience went to sleep. Hector was the only Trojan with energy (Lee Campbell) and Priam (D. R. Galloway) the only Trojan with a character. However, he was pontificating, not kingly and I got the feeling I was in an English lecture. Ken Quantz destroyed all his lines with an 80 mph monotone. The other atrocity that was committed was Gerald Perwinchak as Achilles. He might as well not have bothered to go on stage. Everybody else was so stereotyped sterile as to be instantly forgettable. Troilus (Ian Gatskell) was just a soppy Romeo. When he kiss-

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For all you exponents of the good old days. t,he middle ages are alive and well in the prisons of North America. This is the impression that Bill Sands left with those of us who heard him at the arts theater on Wednesday, march 19. Bill is the much-talked-about prison reformer and author of My Shadow Ran Fast and The Seventh Step. In general, he spoke of the appalling conditions of prisons, prison reform, and Caryl Chessman. Many of the prisons of the IJnited States are very much outdated. Homosexuality seems to be a big problem. An article in Time magazine speaks of the Philadelphia police department and D.A.3 office sending undercover men into the local prison. Qver a period of 750 days there was a total of 2,000 rapes, an average of three per day. Of further interest is the fact that every jury for 30 years has asked for the jail to be torn down, and for a new, more humanitarian jail to be set up. The John Howard society exposed the fact that in some prisons homosexuality is encouraged by the guards who get their thrill out of watching. The joke that Arlo Guthrie uses about Qbie removing the toilet seat from the cell so Arlo won’t hit himself over the head and drown isn’t so funny when you take into consideration that the cells actually do have toilets with no seats or covers. In prison, Sand says, the men come to lose any sense of personal identity. Sands spoke briefly of other inhumanities. In Cincinnati the Warden, George

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ed Cressida, it looked like the first time either Ian or Troilus had ever kissed anyone. Toilus is a twenty-three year old rnan ? So, the audience sighed audibly in relief as each scene after scene (scene after-yawn-scene) ended and the end drew nigh. But the ending! The ending was fantastic! It was a three-ring circus. Greeks and Trojans poured in endless screaming streams across the and the audience was stage, almost paralyzed with laughter, particularly at whoever was playing . Achilles. Unfortunately, I think there was supposed to be an element of seriousness to it. In all, we were entertained, sometimes, I guess. But I pored over the director’s notes to get some clue as to what he had tried to do. Except for Thersites and Ulysses, the actors offered no clue as to what the play might be about. I was glad I knew the play before. The costumes were excellent and all the staging effects good, but that doesn’t make a play. As for Blackfriar’s Troilus and Cressida,

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Stutts still uses “ball-and-chain” tactics. The men live in coffin-like cells. In Salem West-Virginia the girls live in dungeons’ ’ , and are given two buckets, one full of w a t e r for washing, the other for use as a toilet. Says Sands, “They have to watch that they don’t get the buckets mixed up in the middle of the night”. It is no wonder, under these conditions, that men come to hate their society, and that 80% eventually return to prison. San Quentin has become an exception to the rule. In 1941 it was the scene of the bloodiest prison riot in U.S. history. Shortly afterward, Clinton T. Duffy became warden. There was a public outcry at the inhumanitarian practices ‘in the prison and Duffy was in sympathy ‘with this outcry. With several others, including Sands, he helped make the lot of his prisoners much better. It was not, however, just the appalling conditions within prisons which were most crucial in his analysis of the whole penal system. The integrity of the core group of convicts, along with their humane qualities and their compassion presented a contrast with the sight of Sands’ father who would, as a working alcoholic serving as Justice of the Supreme Court of California, give life sentences in a drunken stupor. The contradictions within both worlds brought out the dichotomy between them. ‘The “good life” with its hypoand emptiness juxtaposed with crisy no--gooders possessing self-respect and common decency provided the impetus for Sand’s founding of the Seven Step Foundation with which he has worked

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A one-act play by Muriel DeGre, information officer at the University, will be presented by the Workshop Theater as a noon production on april 1st. The title, lnn For Aliens, describes the estrangement of people in the world, and the differences in the way men and women accept their predicament. Mrs. DeGre, whose past experience includes editing a newspaper and running an art gallery has been information officer since October. Her husband, Gerard DeGree. is the sociology and anthropology chairman. The two performers in inn For Aliens are Tessa Gillard and Leo Burns, the leads in the Festival Production of NO Exit, presented at the arts theater in december.

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for the past 8 years to remotivate convicts. This is the same man who was described in prison files 26 years ago as “incorrigible, irredeemable, very dangerous”. Sands is the first to admit that it was in San Quentin that he learned 2 of the most important four letter words in his life “work” and “love”. A revolutionary, Sands’ closing remarks focused on racism, religious bigotry and youth. There is not a generation gap, he feels, but rather an honesty gap between parents and children. Parents won’t forgive their children for letting their hair grow longer than they themselves are able to, but rather will hoist them on the petar of their own sexual ‘hang-ups. After speaking of prison conditions, Bill commented on judicial policy. He is against capital punishment and “rich man’s justice”, in which a criminal with lots of money can hire the best lawyers in the country to defend him. Prisons should be treatment centers. It is no good to punish a man and then to turn him out, embittered, to face the outside world again. Extensive rehabilitation programs should be undertaken in prisons. Sands feels that sentencing practices are wrong. Legislatures create crime categories and allot prison sentences to fit these categories. Because individuals differ so much, a man should not be released until he is rehabilitated to the extent that he can fit into society. Probation officers get too little money and have too great a work load. He feels that the optimum number of cases for any one probation officer to handle is about 10, whereas many handle up to 150 cases or more. In a situation where

a probation officer has too great a work load, the best he can do is try to help an individual case and return the offender back to the same environment he came from. It costs $8,000 a year to keep a man in maximum security. Sands estimates that 75’; of the men in maximum should not be there. but rather, they should be treated at the community level. The money saved could be used for prison reform. He feels that it is not really justice to kill a man like Richard Speck, the murderer of the eight nurses. Much more benefit could be gained by making this type of person undergo extensive psychiatric tests, taking his mind apart block by block, and compiling a report which could be used in text books, perhaps even at the high school level, to enable teachers and others to spot psycopathic tendencies in children and correct them before it is too late. After speaking of judicial reforms, Sands made several remarks on Caryl Chessman, the “red-light” bandit of Calif.ornia. As far as Sands is concerned, Chessman was innocent of the rape-murders for which he was sent to the California gas chambers. Although Chessman was a hood in 1948. he underwent complete rehabilitation and by 1960 he was ready to be released from San Quentin. Bill feels that Chessman was framed by the then corrupt San Francisco police department. He believes in two four-letter words, “love” and “work”. Neither one can exist without the other. He is a very dynamic speaker and was well received by the audience. The famous lecture series will again book him and it is hoped that he will gain an even greater audience. friday,

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done but slightly stale cake named Joanna. For icing add a pretentious musical score by Rod McKewen AND SOME NIFTY SHOTS of Joanna’s backside. The only redeeming feature of the movie is Walter Lassally’s excellent photography. South Africa has refused to let either the film or Genevieve Waite into the country. I like to think that there was more than simple racism involved in this decision. Good things deserve to be repeated but they should be repeated well.

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Six is just a number. That’s what I was told the other day. But FOUR has a little more significance. FOUR students from “A University of its Time” committed suicide last year. The number of attempts is near twelve. Think of that the next time a PP&P garbage truck rumbles past. Maybe its a good idea. After all. graduate,placement is getting tight. .\nd the campus center has a nice pool table. Ever read the little brass plaque on the end? Makes you t’eel real good. doesn’t it? 1Iaybe you‘re feeling a bit hung up. what with exams and all. Some prof still has the books you qeed. You can’t find a place to study. Maybe you’d like to watch a movie at four in the morning. Or eat. Or talk. Or make out. Anything just for an hour. Well people. the campus center is open all night. .\t its meeting last week. the Campus Center Board approved a Panic Center which will move into living room very soon. Plans are the campus’ still in the air, but ideas include movies for a nickel an hour. coffee, dough-nuts and assorted games to relieve your aggressive frustrations. (like throwing beer bottles at brick walls), has somehow found the Counselling services time atid energy to come and talk to people (that’s ,,vou). Part of the building will be set aside for quiet

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guitar a la soft Hendrix; and little or no organization. “KAK” are a prime example of this movement towards “bubble-gum Cream’ ’ , and as such, make a fine introduction to acid rock &or a two-year old. Standout cuts? “Flowering By” is pretty, almost folk. The rest of the album? “KAK” is consistent throughout.

of and Al

Columbia,

KGP6

This is really a solid like Wheels of Fire by the The combined guitars of field and Santana is belief. Koopers singing gan playing is incredible. songs like Albert/King’s throw

too. So participating in spring Cam Killoran (ad capitalist, of course, as ever, Jim Klinck.

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album, Cream. Bloombeyond and orSome Don’t

your love on me so strong Green Onions are literally

and injected with new life as they are rescued from the realm of the ancients. Fine drumming and bass. superb sax playing and great vocals warrant the price of this album. This album is so tight it hurts.

Chair-

Epic

This is a great background, music type album, perfect for people who don’t like to think about the sound they are hearing. The Comfortable Chair sounds a bit like ‘many groups, even more so. All at one time, they are The Mama’s and Papa’s, The

Byrds,

The

A ssocia tion

and Spanky and Our Gant, with a touch of the Door’s thrown in to completely destroy the postcard. It’s a good album, well recorded, instrumentally fine, vocally acceptable, and at least two years behind the times.

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This is a light, folk, country, rock, pop album, a sort of cureall for people who are fed up with blues and hard rock. Vocally, it is a fine piece of music, but, unfortunately, the instrumental side falls flat, partially due to some very poor recording techniques. and mostly due to the groups inadequacy. Generally. however. West/Bridges presents an easily listenable package. with ’ some fine, up-beat, lyrical, melodious cuts. Not recommended, but not totally rejected. SUMMER

MAILING

Regular term students must sign the lists posted on the bulletin boards to receive the Chevron by mail during the summer term.

The Beginning British Blues Immediate 272 52 078

The Beginning British Blues For the traditionalist, the lover of blues, the collector of “history of blues” type albums, this is for real. Side one is adequate, showing the “skill” of a group called the A// Stars combined with such people as Davis, Beck, and the group alone. Side two. That’s it. Unit. The beginning for Clapton with Mites Ahead. Porcupine Juice with the Santa Barbera Machine Head is excellent, and so are the three other cuts -on this side by this -group. Stuff Smith does the hole thing up with a vocal standard, Ho wlin * For

Kak-Epic

There in the

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seems to be a trend now direction of “teeny-bop

The last staff meeting this term is sunday at 1 Opm. Staff members should put their summer addresses on the list posted in the Chevron off ice.

My Baby.

Fans of lyrics, hands off. Fans of solid, excellent instrumental blues, this is one you should have. Moby

Grape

‘69

Throughout the record one is daz. zled by the thump-thud bass filling -the void of- talent or, shortage of time to hone a homogenous sound. Ah, but that’s harsh you say. Indeed, there are some brief treats which any lively imagination can uncovkr : The Beach Boys harmonizing with

“Kick out the jams mother fuckers“ with this cry the MC5 surfaced from the rock vs. underground. This isn’t a bubble gum group looking for a quick buck, its a total machine. The music of the MC5 isn’t meant to be heard, but felt physically. The sound rolls over and through you knocking you up against the wall. The MC5 call for a revolution so people can make love in the streets with the howl of their songs.

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An advice

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or a presc

how you look on how to make

THE most important aspect of being a womman is, of course her appearance. Any woian worth her salt must learn to make it on the strength of her imaginative as well as confor’ming use of clothes, beauty masks, jewelry, lipstidks, cleansing creams, haiks of hail (called “falls”), dyes, bleaches, tints, nail polishes, eye-brow liners, eye-brow brushes, eye-shadows, colognes, cleansing pads, deodorants, perfumes, bath oils, creme foundations, face powders, mouth washes, shampoos, teeth whiteners, false eyelashes, mascara, cosmetic soaps, body and hand lotions, hair sprays, and hair-setting lotions. Needless to say, nothing can be as valuable to a woman as a good body. Charm, intellect, and other personality traits may be useful, but they are all worthless compared with shapely hips and good-siz‘ed breasts (a good pair of teats is worth a thousand heads (female heads, that is). There are compensations, however. Lacking a good body, you can squeak by with the girdle and/or padded bra of your choice. You have probably known this since an early age (about the time when you started playing with your big-breasted, highfashioned Barbie doll); but if you haven’t you’d better start now, devoting all your time and energy to learning the skills of becoming a good appendage. IT’S a gobd idea to go to university. A cultured woman can be very attractive; but only if her “culture” is kept in the context of remaining, at all times, a well-rounded woman. Once- you understand this, then go aheadstudy English Literature, or French-Canadian Hist-

is attractive to men; but is a serious, active particip. Even in your intellectua that you YOU will find determines your actions. understand this by takin you find yourself dressinc It gives you the confiden appearance controls ever\ Do you wear you glass being taken to a movie \ course

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N SPITE OF THE number of women in universities and concept of women as professions today, the traditional physical beings and men as the intellectual and creative half of the species, has not changed. A .woman’s role in western society is prescribed at the outset by the prevailing attitude that intellectual thought is not properly a-function of the female mind at all. So it is that only a few in the middle class with access to the proper training and who have accepted an elite criteria for success can arrive in that sanctum of male-dominated society-the tiniversity. Because of their biological role (we are told), women’s minds are turned inward, confined to the immediate realm of family. personal relationships, the pragmatic details of daily living. Such a being. tied as she is to the essence of life-child-bearing-can(bbTheir minds just don’t work that not.“think in the abstract”. way.” ) With the development of public education. however, the assumptions about women’s roles in society have broadened, to accept ( 1) their value in certain professions 3 teaching. sociology). (2 1 the need for educated, cultured wives and mothers for the bourgeois class. The attitudes and policies of academia successfully limit most women’s participation to that narrow context. For instance, women who have tried to enter schools of medicine and law have discovered that they must have a 5, to 10 point grade average above that of the average male admitted. Consequently, they restrict themselves mainly to the humanities. where they-are accepted: English, languages. social sciences; subjects whose emphasis is on a personal, ‘emotional’ level. rather than a technical or innovating kind. These fields deal with people and conflicts in society and try to reconcile these problem’s within the structure7 Women sociology students tend to enter welfare programs and social work: the nurse comforts the sick while the doctor cures them: good secretaries need a BA to make the modern businessmm’s office more efficient. Shunted onto these side tracks, it is no wonder that a woman rarely becomes a professor of political theory or creative writing. Instead she teaches elementary school. instructs on grammar and conjugation: any area that requires form and not reasoning. structure and not content.

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that your fellow students (male students that is) can entirely to get into an intellectual argument with a male. get. But you should learn to accept this; you are living in a man’s world, a man’s power structure If you find yourself in a battle of wits, you always to prorun the risk of winning. This would be disastrous, and you, the passive sex, can’t be expected duce at the same level as men (reproduction is an enfor you would destroy your image as an inferior being. He wouldn’t like that, and neither would tirely different thing, and that, my dear, is your bag). THIS leads us to the next point. Your life you. Haven’t you always preferred men who are _should and will revolve around one man (it’s “stronger” than you? only natural). No matter what you might FOR heaven’s sake, don’t play around. You 5 have been interested in before you “got him’ are for one man only... OK, so if you have more than that, you won’t be labelled promnow that you have him, nothing else will seem important. This is good. iscuous. This is the age of the Sexual Revolution. But baby, that’s the least of your problems. It prepares you for your later years when your life will consist in cooking his meals, washing his You don’t think abortion is illegal for nothing, do you? Individual decisions on abortion would give women dishes, cleaning his house, washing his shirts and underwear, and dirty handkerchiefs, and, of control over their own bodies. Of course, a man should “sow his wild oats’:, course, bearing his children, If you love him, there is no time, no inclination for anything else. This sleep with as many girls as he wants. He becomes more manly, more worldly. No girl wants to go to might be a bit difficult for you now. bed with a virgin. After all, he is the active one, and For while he is learning, growing, changing, you you are the passive recipient, so if he doesn’t know are, in your love for him, living a static life. But this how to lead you... But for you, social and economic will pay off in later years. He will come to you from work, having written an important piece, or dis- - security will come from being with one man for the rest of your life. Better get used to it now. covered a new antibiotic, or won a courtcase (if YOU, being a female; are physically smaller, you caught a good one at university). And he will shorter, with smaller bone structure, than a tell you about it. And you, being cultured, and having male. Your brain, as anyone can tell you, is done this so manv times before, will be interested, ask the appropriate questions, etc. proportional to your size. Therefore, Know Your Place. He, of course, will. be thankful that he married Listen, smile, sympathize, comfort. Be available a woman who not only does her chores but is also as a supporting shoulder, loving eyes, all-forgiving intelligent and knowledgeable. BE wary of controversial subjects. If you arms. Encompass and soothe. You, being a woman, cainot stand alone. If you perform correctly, you have original ideas and thoughts, guard won’t have to, for you will have won the security of them well; they can be harmful. It’s one thing ,

innocuously

clever,

it’s

another

thing

having

) attitude that the female is inferior in her s in the theory that men have a monopoly on women are enslaved by their emotions. Karl Montreal psychiatrist asserts this theory in Woman. He says “ . ..the polarity of the sexes polarity in human intelligence-that of ‘discurnalysis 1 versus ‘intuition’.” n such as this is considered a fact, and is held ty. it is raised to the level of a natural law. It at society has exalted the current acceptable nediate past. !re extent that Stern’s ‘intellectual polarity’ is in the atrophy of many women’s reasoning prothe acceptance of this ‘natural law’ by all those That it might likely be an environmental decepr to most women. e and female are very young. they are much :ope with the world on the basis of emotions, e desires. 1s they get older is that males are trained to oning faculties, while females are encouraged to of emotion and irrationality. At school. while lled into math-sciences, females remain in the ic classes-just at the stage when they most In of a rational logical training. me sort of thing is going on. Boys are g:ven alId amount of freedom. In order to deal with responsibility. a male is forced to develop his s-for he must face the world on his own. nd. girls are kept at home: almost every one of ultitude of strict rules, curfews, modes of behavlever have to develop their reasoning faculties, in ouraged not to. When males are taught to shun otion. young females are learning how to get a hug or a kiss. or a soft but persistent whining.

bias?

nan combat this bias against her? The Province lent Awards (loans) Program 1968 regulations parents. decision as to whether they wish their lucated or not. It is not the role of the departy affairs as representatives of the Government in where parents do not wish us to.” ;ain. that “in loco parentis” refers even more to ldents in general. It is women’s dorms that have strictions. not men’s,

analysis

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the McGill

Daily

IF you are still not satisfied with your role as a woman, you have one other alternative; seduction. It is your ultimate weapon, so use it carefully, don’t be gauche about it. It’s a rare woman who can sleep with the director and become a movie star. The rest of us can still accomplish much, though in a subtler manner.

Because women don’t enjoy sex, they can use it as a weapon. Men can’t retaliate, so you, by wheedling, cajoling, complaining, and in other indirect ways suggesting either the promise of sex or the withdrawal of it, can get both stranger, lovers, and or your husband to take you places, buy you things, and get you jobs. We have attempted to distil1 all the advice columns, all the Teddy Bear Tricks, that can be see,n in almost any magazine, today. They indicate, however, superficially, certain aspects of a woman’s condition in western capitalist society-that of the consumer and that of the consumed. A woman is a commodity: mass-produced nicely packaged to be bought, and then to be displayed. At the same time a woman as consumer is unquestioning, and easily malleable, providing an easy market for the false needs and useless objects produced by an economic system controlled by males. These not

create

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Anachronistic attitudes keep women in their educational place: these attitudes are compounded of more than one myth. The myth of the ‘rational’ male fo’r instance. Actually. men’s emotions can be controlled by habit but not extinguished. Their emotions are channelled instead into sexual and personality repression. over-expansion of the male ego. release of frustrated feelings through violence, the frenetic race for power in business. Then there is the other myth of the existence of ‘intellectual’ institutions-the universities. In fact. men too are kept from worthwhile free thought in the necessity to memorize enough accepted opinion to gain a degree and get a good job. Intellectual study is bastardized and controlled by quite a few hacks who propagate stale theories that cannot withstand the glaring light of questioning by fresh minds. Why can’t women be included in this facade of the scientific search for truth’ on equal basis with men? Even if the university is not a place for liberation of the mind but rather an integral part of an unfree society, it should not discriminate against fifty percent of the race. Instead. the discrimination that comes from that integral position must be attacked. (This ruling class hamburger joint might be just a greasy spoon. but every one should still have the right to eat there. )

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Many people. both male and female. say that the reason more women do not get to university is because women don’t want to go. They would rather be wives. To some extent this is true. It is easier for women to accept an inferior role and gain what they have been taught is emotional security by having a man bound to them. Marriage represents security from the loneliness of urban life. from the dehumanization of the worker’s life. To the young girl of twenty. marriage gives the financial security for childbearing (which she will need without control over her body) and the freedom from work in a meaningless job. Part of today’s breakdown of the family is caused when these securities are proven unreal. The wife finds that menial housework ‘is as tedious and unfulfilling as her job was. calls for much longer hours. and is unpaid. thereby placing her in a completely powerless position. In addition more wives are being forced. financially. to return to work. And the third job as mother is. of course. unavoidable. as the majority of young working women. do not have access to or knowledge about birth-control. The final disillusionment is to know that marriage does not necessarily evade loneliness. The points above represent what motivates a women to accept

of the

world”society.

her role as wife: but these are the effect of that prescribed role. not the cause of it. The real cause lies in the crucial part a woman plays as the core of the family system. The advent of the industrial era coincides with the development of today’s family structure and its dependence on the fulltime wife-mother. Especially in advanced industrial. affluent North America. woman is needed in the home: 1. to make more tolerable the frustration of the man who must work in a highly-dehumanized system: 2. to pressure the youth to conform to and accept the values her life has been wasted on. values that sustain order: 3. to consume the over-production of advanced capitalism. A full-time housewife buys more, pressures for higher status goods like cars and colour TV. and is the target of 75’; of corporate advertising : 4. because that same capitalist system has not been able to use her in production.

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With universal access to birth control women’s lives will be set in a whole new context. Alone it will not change the underlying causes of their condition-their economic status, their assumed inferiority in a male dominated society, their powerlessness on the bottom rung of society’s hierarchy. In the beginning. birth control will remove the one power lever they can occasionally use: access to their bodies and pressure for marriage. Without the danger of pregnancy pressure will be put on them to be promiscuous and they will be treated more as sexual objects than before. This can already be seen in the Playboy. However. even if there are no other changes in the society that controls her. a girl who grows up with the knowledge that she can control her body. and therefore her future. will develop in an entirely different context than her predecessors. She will be aware of many new possibilities of human development for herself. She will no longer gain her identity through her relationship to a man. When she finds many of these new alternatives are not open to her. she will have learned a great deal about the existing society and how it must be changed. Women will eventually demand .the independence that equality in the role of production can mean. and the education which that role requires. The system is already in the process of trying to incorporate into its society the massive change that is implied in the realization of women’s potential for thinking and creating. by allowing a few ambitious “masculine” women to reach the top. But a true realization. rather than this worthless tokenism. would of necessity crack the foundations of the existing social order.

friday,

march

28, 1969 (9:49)

945 15

Federation ! Presidential

WEDNESDAY, polls

Norman

Fadelle

You cannot avoid it. If you have seriously considered Jesus, the issue is unmistakeable. You are left with no claim of ignorance, no excuse of misunderstanding. No more stalling. The revolution begins today! Procrastination has met Confrontation! You are challenged to dare the life * of sacrificial love! It’s no excuse to say, ‘&n only human”. That fancies the unavoidable weakness and frailty of your nature. . But the fact is that men were created with the intrinsic virility and capability to be like Godif they so intended. And to say, “I know my own limitations” means that you have no intention of paying the tremendous price of will-power and sweat that makes a great man. The power to love is latent in every man. You only have to live it out. You can do it if you intend to. Perhaps before you could afford to be self-indulgent, to be a lazy type who hated to get up in the morning, to be the indifferent who took things as they came and not bothered to discover life. But since the revolution means changing you, it starts by irnposing upon yourself a new inexorable law, a self-control in rationing yourself. Your desire to redeem the time becomes keen, while your awareness to serve others becomes penetrating. Your purpose becomes everything, your personal wants nothing. You become a man with a fixed intention-to love like Jesus: nothing else counts. His love is patient and kind. It is not jealous, or conceited, or proud. It is not ill-mannered, or selfish, or irritable. Love does not insist on its own way. Love does not keep a record of wrongs. Love is not happy with evil. but is happy with the truth. And love never gives up: its faith, hope, and patience never fail. This love is eternal life. That’s why they tried to murder Jesus. They hated him-because he brought good news to men, because he could heal them and feed them without letting power go to his head, because he lived the goodness he taught. They couldn’t stand his cheerfulness. They loathed his honesty. They despised- his humility. And they shrivelled under his uncompromising love. They couldn’t take it anymore! Kill him! Kill him! But Jesus couldn’t remain dead. The life he lived was the eternal life he taught. He had promised everlasting life to those who would die for his Cause. He &as the hope of new life to those who seriously took up his challenge to the cross. How could he be destroyed? He couldn’t. God made the perfect life immortal and incorruptible. That’s the triumph of the revolution. The man who forsakes every who refuses to accommodate himself to its worldly security; standards; who repudiates every right of his own: who casts away his all self-assertion and personal dignity and honour ; who renounces quietly suffers in the face of hatred and wrong: who overcomes evil with good and hatred with love-that’s the man who conquers death! Jesus was the first man to gain the victory. And he offers the same victory to anyone who would live his love. Who is willing to try?

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@on from either side. He prayed for a liberal solution: a tie. and sighed with relief when he was able to call one, although after the game he admitted the Chevron triumph. Council coach Dorschner agreed that the first council goal had been disallowed. Linesmen for, the game were Brian Iler, chosen by the Chevron, and administration treasurer Bruce Gellatly, chosen by Bergsma. Federation business manager Pete Yates was to have patrolled the line, but begged off -and Bergsma was forced to go to his political allies in the administration. Levitt didn’t recognize Gellatly and thought him to be part <of the arena’s package deal. “I kept going to the guy for advice.” said Levitt after the game. The only time-a Levitt ruling was radically challenged was off the opening faceoff which Bergsma took for council. Levitt immediately blew his whistle and charged Bergsma with being decisive. Before Levitt could give Bergsma the choice between two minutes and $5000 bail, the entire council immediately staged a sit-in on the ice, disrupting the free passage of the other team. Bergsma refused to go to the penalty box and Levitt decided to, waive the penalty. “I admired that boy’s spunk,” said Levitt. “he really showed what proper channels were good for.”

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and update course content. to keep up with the pace of technology. On the other hand

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surrounding. They have to pay for theirs machinery twice as fast as before with the result that their profit position is more threat,ened.

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Class ideas pervade The ideas that we are taught every day in this university are not neutral. What is called knowledge is not simply an objective, abstract body of information which serves no purpose. The content of our education serves a very real and ever-present function: to give us certain concepts about the relationship between ourselves and the world and the nature of social reality. These concepts are anything but neutral, since they determine how we will act in society . If you believe that there is a classless society and that you live in a democracy with relatively equal opportunity for everyone, and that you are really free to determine your own destiny, then you will feel that your failure to find a creative and satisfying job or to achieve , some measure of psychological adjustment is somehow your own fault. You will certainly not try to change the economic and social system that you must function in, because you will continue to believe that man is free in this society: If, on the other hand, you believe that these problems are structurally created, that they arise out of the contradictions of an economic and social system whose priorities are not social and human need but profit, then you will act to change this system and thus to regain control of vour own destiny. The idea of freedom in this context is anything but neutral: it is in fact explosive. We call these inculcated ideas about the real existence of freedom, demo,cracy. a classless society, etc., bourgeois ideas because they serve the interests of the ruling class. the bourgeoi-

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the ruling class. What ever happened ’ to the liberal assumption about the “Free play of ideas” in the university? The fact is that it doesn’t exist. Half the world believes in an entirely different set of assumptions about the world. The following assumptions may seem strange to you. If they do, it is proof that a “free play of ideas!’ doesn’t exist in the classroom. 1. Man is not born good or evil: he becomes as a result of the relationship between his own potential and the social structure. This potential is infinite. 2. Individual freedom can only be achieved within the community; not apart from it. 3. People can work for other things besides money. They can work for the development of themselves and the community. 4. The welfare of society is the first concern of the,free individual. 5. Women are creative and productive people, who should be involved in the general productive work of society. 6. There is now a ruling class-the capitalist class which owns the means of production. 7. The state and the ruling class work together to oppress the working man. 8. Canada is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. 9. American Imperialism is a function of an expanding capitalist society. Vietnam is no mistake; it’s part of a process which includes the interventions in Guatemala (1954 ), Iran (1953 ), ‘Cuba ( 19611, Dominican Republic (1965 ), etc. 10. Communism means the end of the state as a coercive institution and the Creation of a society where the priorities of the economic and social system are social and human need and not profit for the capitalist class. Marxism is a flexible guide to action; not a rigid dogma.

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er. We are not free and we are constantly taught that we are free. This is the nature of intellectual oppression. It parallels the very real economic and human oppression under which we suffer, by attempting to mask the real nature of the exploitive relationships we must enter into. The content of our education is thus an integral part of our exploitation in capitalist society. The ideas and concepts communicated to us in the classroom in every discipline serve the function of making us accept the status quo as revealed truth. The bourgeois mind accepts the following assumptions about the world without ‘much questioning: 1. Human beings are born selfish and aggressive. Man’s nature is not produced by his society, but in fact produces it. 2. Individual freedom exists when you don’t have to depend on the will of others. We are free. 3. Individual self interest is the main concern of human beings. 4. People will not work unless there is an individual profit motive. 5. A woman’s place is in the home; a woman’s first duty is to her children and to her husband. 6. The state is. a neutral force in society; it doesn’t oppress one class for the sake of another. 7. . Canada is a democracy. 8. There is no ruling class. We live in a “pluralistic” society. 9. There is nothing called “American Imperialism”. The Vietnam war is just a bad mistake the Americans made. 10. Communism means dictatorship; Marxism is “19th century Dogmatism.” If you accept most of these assumptions, then the educational institutions of Canada have served their purpose, i.e. to brainwash you into accepting the ideas

sie. These ideas are structurally necessary to the maintenance of the system of capitalism ; they are its intellectual content. They systematically attempt to mask social institutions through which power is expressed; they attempt to mystify the facts of who has power and for what purpose. Capitalism is a system whose purpose is the making of profit, not the satisfying of human or social need or the development of creative human potential. The purpose of apartment ‘housing in a capitalist society is quite simply not the sheltering of human beings in itself; it is to make a profit for the owner of the housing who rents it out. The dynamics of this system escape even the ruling class itself; however humane and liberal the capitalist or owner may be, if his enterprise does not make a profit, he cannot survive. This priority-the making of profit-is central to the entire structure of our society. All of us will have to participate in this system, and the priority which will govern our actions will not be our own need or the development of our potential, but profit, and not for ourselves. We will be acting, and apparently freely; but in fact the consequendes of our actions will constantly escape us. The facts of power in this society are something which we will not learn in this university, and for good reason. Less than one half of one percent of the population of North America own and control it, and the social relations through which this power is expressed produce inequality and exploitation: more than half of us work to support the rest who do not work. None of us are free to work in a way contrary to the dictates of the system. The...world is opaque and unclear to us, and the ideas with which we are told to view the world do not make it any clear-

Laurel Cimps and Steve Moore, authors of this article, are members of the Toronto Student Movement. The article originally appeared in the Scarborough College Diale tic.

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Up With People not phoney nice, clean people right In the last issue of the Chevron. Dave Sanderson of the Gazette staff literally attempted to nail. “LTp With People,” to the cross. His review began. “The cloying optimism of Up With People struck London this week like a ball of wet kleenex.” I was fortunate enough to attend both Wednesday and thursday night performances in the Kitchener auditorium and talked with a number of people who were at London’s performance. I was told by a set of identical twins who travelled with the show for over five months. that the University of Western. Ontario gave them one of the warmest responses they had ever received. They earned standing ovations both nights in the Kitchener Auditorium. So who’s kidding who? Sanderson then goes on to say that the drummer. Chuck Wanslev. and soloist Jewel Weaver. Ann Buffington and Pat Stone, were wasting their time with this crew. **They should be recording soul music in Detroit and make a bundle.” he blantantlv reported. I am certain no one who heard the performance would doubt for one moment that these performers could amass a fortune in the professional entertainment field. W’hat Sanderson does not realize is that those. ‘*nice” and ‘*clean” in people are not interested making a bundle. It costs approximately $300 a month per performer to keep the show on the road. Ticket sales account for approximately 35 percent of this cost. Churches. businesses and clubs add to this sum through donations. The amazing thing is that the performers chip in the rest of the money. Each performer regardless of his position in the show is asked to give $100.00 a month. Some of the members from poorer families (not a small number by any means) may be exempted. while others who are better off. fork over the entire $300 per month. Not one member including bus drivers the professional receive any pay whatsoever: Sanderson not to be outdone as a cynic. makes strong comments about their script. He said. “their material is so disgustingly uncontroversial and bland that its creators should be exiled to a lepers’ colony. ‘* I met Mike Hayes. one of the lead male singers. after the wednesday night performance and asked about the effect their music had on an audience around the world. He told me of their performance in the ghettoes of New “When we played. VUhat York. color is God’s skin, a song written by Dick Smith. a member. the audience stood clapping out the beat. many with tears streaming down their face.” he said. They created such a sensation in Italy. that they were asked to do a return tour as the guests of the government. Mike went on to tell me about their sound system. *It was built especially for us by the same man that invented stereo. *’ Although it was worth in the range of $25.000. it had been donated to them. as was most of their equipment. “Up With People.” packed a message. but not the one Sanderson misinterpreted it to be. It was a stand against false values, prejudice. discrimination, hate. and greed. Through their songs,

952 the Chevron

they told that there was hope for every man that cares enough to try. and that we should not look too far away for the answers. They believe that we should shift the burden of morality from the church to our conscience, shift the burden in politics from rival interests groups to problem solving participation and shift the burden of freedom off the shoulders of the administration and on to our own. This is what Up With People is about and much more. Whether we want to admit it or not, these are the people who will be the leaders of tomorrow. They refuse to be misled by irresponsible individuals. They have given a part of their promising future to tell those that still cling to such virtues as honesty, and decency to hold on tight. Up With People made me look at myself and I did not like what I saw. How many of us are avoiding that long overdue trip to the mirror? WAYNE MOSES sociology 2 Puper needs a new nume one which reveuls bias The name of our student newspaper and it’s editorial viewpoint make very strange bedfellows. For while a Chevron is “a badge worn on the sleeve as an indication of rank (by commissioned officers, policemen, etc. )“, our Chevron staff espouses no ranks, but rather complete equality (as of students and professors) and would certainly not want to be compared to the military of the fuzz. This hypocrisy by the, great enemy of hypocrisy must stop! The Chevron’s name must be changed at once to make clear it’s true nature. To help start the searc’h for a new label, (by a committee on which faculty and administration should demand equal representation) let me suggest a few: The Red Rag, The Righteous Revolutionary, The Radical Ranter. or, more realistically The Still Small Voice. LAWRENCE ETIGSON Grad Math Or

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I looked up the meaning of the word “Chevron” in Webster’s Colonial Dictionary. I assume that you are following the non-military meaning of two rafters butting upwards like goats. You certainly got my goat when your printed a letter signed “Carl Weaver. electrical 1A” in your march 14 effort. I suggest that this electric member of the intelligentsia look at the early history of our civilization from the Tigris-Euphrates Delta onwards: he would realize that if a Christ-figure did not exist he would have to be invented and crucified. The need was so great, Christ was invented many generations prior to the first electrical generation. I would like to see a poster suggesting that Mr. Weaver stick to his knitting and leave the-complex evaluations and decisions to those of us who are over 30 and have an obvious record of success in recent world affairs. JOHN B. MURLEY

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An inter view wi ‘th Raymond Labarge, deputy 1 minister of national revenue by Ken Coe, Chevron staff.

TTAWA IS a company town. The public service employs a substan’tial percentage of the labor force as well as occupying much of the local office area. One such area is the Connaught Building which houses a portion of the DeRevenue; the partment of National only government department that operates at a profit! Most people are all too familiar with the various enterprises of the federal revenue department as collectors of income corporate and excise taxes, as well as customs tariffs, succession duties and other niceties that amount to between 6 and 8 billion dollars annually. Since this is a department we all know and love, it would be relevent to talk to some official in it and ask him questions that have been bothering us for years. Questions like ‘*why,” and “for what” would perhaps satisfy the curiosity of the anarchists among us. but to disillusioned apathetic the ordinary, student, there are others more important. We might want to know what the role of the civil service is or where should and/or does policy originate-the public service or parliament (two different questions in the science of governmerit). And finally, what is a civil service “mandarin”?

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To keep the discussion down to’ our level,, it would be interesting to ask said official what he thought about students (this should appeal to employeroriented engineers), student unrest ahd to find out just how much such a person knew about the former two. With :-typical student interest, I attempted to have these questions answered. 1 With ‘typical student subtleness, I interviewed the top civil servant in the department, Raymond C. Labarge, the deputy minister. (Those of you who indulge in spirits the name will no doubt recognize from the signature on the excise stamps of bonded aged liquor. ) Labarge is an executive in the strictest sense of the word. He is “cool, calm for and collected’ * . He never searches word or gropes for answers. He knows exactly what he wants to say, how he wants to say it and if he should say it. Labarge would be considered a liber-

al (please note small “1” ; party politics is one game the public servant does not play). Although situated by social status as well as occupation right in the centre of the “establishment” (what, if anything is more established than the federal government?), he strikes you as one who is interested and sympathetic, and very much aware of the inevitability of change.

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of contact

Unfortunately, like most senior executives, Labarge is out of direct contact with not only students but other emerging factions of society. In his own words, he said that his environment, his outlook and his approach. “based on vast experiences” are somewhat different than students or even youth in general. He has worked with youth extensively and once piloted a Catholic student organization but there still is that lack of communication and understanding, commonly called the generation gap. I asked him what the basic problem was : “There is something to be said for both sides in this issue,” he said. “but at the moment, there’s so much noise that the ideas are not getting across and the communications are suffering badly. ’ ’ He feels more can be accomplished without resorting to demonstrations and the like, and where students slowly gain access to lower committees they will eventually hold ‘positions on governing bodies. By this s!ow approacw ‘there is .no doubt or ‘reaction on the part of the faculty or the administration. “There’s a good deal of difference between the universities and the way they’re being handled. This could depend to some extent on,the degre’e of activism (if you wanted to call it that) on the part of students and the resultant panic or fear which builds up a resistance or a wall between them and the authorities. ... “It is quite evident (using McMaster as an example) that with good communication, sensible reasoning from both parties will arrive at a more intelligent solution. ” Labarge ( a member of the Board of Governors. McMaster University) fears what he calls “carte blanche” demands of students. But he fails to see the differences in

not only the means but also the ends sought by the various student groups. “I think too much is said about rights. nothing but rights, and the other side of the coin with rights is obligations, and no student today is talking about the obligations that he and the group he represents will have to accept. He said fac’ulty members are not assuming their full responsibilities in “guiding” students. He suggested that some are as “far out” as some students and others are not attempting to communicate with the dissatisfied ones. They should * ‘explore” the alternatives with the interested students. Labarge feels that problems will not be solved through destructive and violent rampages. He said that students and administration ! the former more than the latter) must be able to compromise otherwise: “if they have a bunch of real militants. it’s apparent that they (administrative authorities) have reason tb be scared, and when you’re scared. you just don’t think clearly.” A discussion of students. universities and other oddities is based on opinion and conjecture. A discussion of the public service is based on laws, parliament. the public servant. and of course. opinion and conjecture. Labarge- attempted’to point out several facts relating to the civil service-primarily, its role as established by the guidelines and directives of parliament. He classifies both as public servants, one responsible to an elected government, the other directly to the people. The elected official is supposed to guage public needs and expectations and make concrete suggestions. These suggestions are turned over to parliament for enactment and finally to the public service for execution (excuse the choice of words). The public service also has the responsibility of insuring that the suggestions are practical, but their arguments do have to be accepted by the government. This allows for a certain amount of creativity and professionalism within the structure. The public service of the federal government employs over 200,000 people (excluding Military 1. It is the largest single employer in Canada.

The The

Mandarins leaders

e the

civil

service

of the federal are the “mandarins” government. They are held in awe by the lower echelons of the service; they are sometimes considered rivals by party leaders and ministers and they are frequently attacked by the fourth estate-the commercial press. Labarge considers these senior officials necessary and beneficial to the efficient functioning of their respective departments. He feels that the minister is subject to the pressures of parliament, his constituents and the investigation of policies in the numerous committees. Therefore there has to be a permanent official department head who will insure systematic and uniform application of government will. Mandarin. mogul or deptuy minister; they are intentional fixtures in the Canadian civil service. Unlike the partisan appointments in the lJnited States. there is no vast changeover in staff with each new administration. The structure does however. lead to a senior officialdom of semi-autonomous ant influential individuals. who at their own discression are able to wield a considerable amount of power. The average individual is almost completely unaware of the comprehensive functions of the federal civil service. The federal government. through its vast administrative machinery and numerous. operational personnel, is involved in a very wide assortment of activities from ships to airports and embassies to research establishments. the list would seem endless. Most day-to-day activities are directly controlled. financed or taxed by the federal government. The federal revenue department is a delight to everyone. Their limitless interest in the amount an individual earns. in what he imports and in what he purchases should make the most alienated individual feel that he is a part (or a victim) of the system. If you have any suggestions pertaining to the improvement of the revenue structure, you should contact Your M.P. If you feel that you have been treated unfairly by the existing structure, appeal to the department. It’s “tax time” so just keep those cards and letters coming in (by April 30th is advisable ) and remember th;~t ~111 donat,ions to the crown are tax exempt and gratefully accepted.

friday,

march

28, 1969 (9:49/

953

Whut care you doing Sylvia

Jim Bowman arts 3

Osborn

math 2

Going to get a sunburn.

Lorna

I’m going up north for my second spring.

Have

you

ever

Due to lack of intelligence and competence I’m becoming a university president.

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out orders

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found

morning.

95 King

One

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burldrng

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has so many hands

car

Phone

key

744-

Saturday

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near

Mary

Lou

not

topless

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cheap

student

rates

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owned

stuff $25. long

years

old,

sale

sacnfrce

condrtron

$20.

other

sleeprng

camping

bag,

horsepower

equipment

Corona engrne.

trres.

coat

protection

5782

evenings

year

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excellent

condrtron,

guarantee

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best

Call

safety

‘69

exchange

and or

plates

sell

all

variety

Monday

Hotel

DRUMMER

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III

the

available

center

office 2

653-2444

5pm.

511

dle

turnkey

for

necessary the

the

Floyd,

Toronto

29,

In to

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WIII

Harold

Tausch.

Toronto

charter

London

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trip

Leave

aprrl

742-9826

25 Terry

TYPING of

and

people

avarlable Located

accurate

service.

742-3

142

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Dorothy

3575

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Wright 1534

typing

promptly.

6pm

home.

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rng. 303

of-

Erb

male

students

lrnens

supplred.

local

and

Phone

Waterloo

742-

Towers,

term,

137

furnrshed

Write

- September

two

2 Toronto

minute

drive.

bedroom

apart-

modern,

Call

Irwin

economical

578-3774

744.

local3140 male, Place,

very

room

floor,

campus,

on cooking

available

from

aprrl

745-6401 furnrshed 95

ONE

room,

Blythwood

male,

Road

bedroom In

kitchen

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after

apartment

Waterloo

west. I

6pm.

avarlable

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137

University

aven

576-0906

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cent

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1 102

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744-

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swrmmrng

apartment,

Waterloo

137

to Sauna,

term

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apartment

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sprrng

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September

furnished

the

apt

bedroom til

for

Contact

avenue

may furnished

students

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versrty

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two

with

Waterloo

apartment

campus,

furnished close

carpeted

14.

apartment

1 from

578-3774

and

578-7635

completely

mile

modern,

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3 140

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bedroom

term

172

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garage,

may

bedroom.

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578-2692

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Waterloo

needed

apnt

209

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sublettrng

longer

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576-4990,

pool,

295

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cres-

743-4051 apartment

$140

stove, wash

and

frrg, dry l/69

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per

HOUSING

month

broadloom,

No. or

WANTED

DOUBLE

park-

470 Wellrngton, 745-2474

576-

rtres

for

single

summer

drstance

118

7 584 Call

apartment

SINGLE

from

co-op

hydro, stores, Krtchener

quiet

cooking

street

downtown

facrlrtres.

September

august,

bedroom 1

ment,

375

for

north

444-

bedro’om

includes

745-I

after In

and

may

Phone

street

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term

with

Albert

summer

6111

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walk

alternate

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may

term

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page.

578-9566

efficiently

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hours,

per

krtchen.

fal

room

Batavra

parking

apartment,

744-1698

April

minute

one

Mon-

avarl-

742-9147

bathroom

Toronto

may cents

Bob

578-6474

may

SEXY

typewriter.

15.

Waterloo

available

ofprompt

,electric campus

done

WILL Terry

local

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federation

campus,

anytime

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apart$1

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5326,

done

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center

14.

furnished

rooms

King

street

shower,

189

for

economrcal.

278-23

apartment

303

Fort

and

single

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$160

apartment

Phone

furnrshed.

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Pat

rent,

578-4170

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Park,

Toronto

Kitchener

cable

street

parkrng

or come

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facrlmes.

Hrckory,

aprrl

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furnrshed

ROOMMATE

term.

available

may

monthly

401

apartment

summer

facrlrtres

work

Sheridan

Krtchener

south

FURNISHED

from $125

rooms,

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summer

2 bedroom

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avarlble apply

room

APARTMENT

transportation

summer

street

furnished

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may

137 743-1576

unrversrty

1 or

$165

nice

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street

SUMMER

campus

west

bedroom

ment.

NAMES

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miles

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room, two.

expenses

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central

month,

Mary

for

‘69,

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parking,

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parking.

VERY

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514-868.

514-935-6970

unrversrty

townhouse

9-5. apartment

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half

for

578-6564.

and $172

street,

Waterloo

Port

Street

and

6165

down-

balcony, pool

near

all

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phone

apartment 31

home

sum-

1 near

576-l

cable

bedroom Phone

public

- august

the

bedroom

pool,

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sublet

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101

September

treal

PI. Waterloo 4

place

west,

free

Sunnydale term

parking, 32

apt

743for

1190

bedroom

Waterloo

west,

1073

Jones,

108

student.

579-

apartment

TWO

flrght

round

ave

for

high-rise

privrleges available

Phone

APARTMENT-

for

507

avenue,

King

743-5782

Florida

students

for

one home

new

Brant

$135

301

purchasing

Toronto

4-6

194

TV,

403.

422

TWO

term

sum-

followrng Apt

private swrmmrng

Ken

Montreal

TWO

summer

for beds,

(Clarkson,

street

Write

904,

apt

apartment,

for for

apartment

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modern

1, local FURNISHED

Contact

weekly

sublet Talbot.

suitable

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apt 151

camp,krtchen.

remain 36

room

sun

DOUBLE

Sunnydale

able

thus

downtown

744-1528

available

summer

FOUR

campus

near apt

ment,

carport

576private

call

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twin

Zander

qualificaIn

student

for

WANTED

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townhouse

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until office

room,

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may.

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accepted’

working

street,

(2)

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month.

744-

term, Montreal

4 for

beds,

facrlttres.

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west

Waterloo

FURNISHED available

summer

laundry

576-6674

term

request

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phone

street

kitchen

Contact

John

center

students

2208

745

apt

available

single

road

5726

9am

rock

wrth

union

campus

Details

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summer

Erb

FURNISHED

books-

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campus

term.

trons

170

and

mer

757-9269 wil

posmon

apartment

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for

Art

APPLICATIONS

summer

or avenue

and

Blaney. 3 r/2

town

1 to

room,

exchange

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loam

area

tuesday

may

578-0454 Gordon

bedroom,

double

Bridgeport

wanted Toronto

5pm

term.

term

Toronto

744-

apartment Phone

ACCOMMODATION

best

sunday

Grand

Krtchener

Call

bedroom

Pearl,

bedroom

PODIUM

WANTED

8487,

for

housekeep-

744-9958

September.

‘69

certrfrcate,

can

end. and

from

unrversrty.

light

students

month C

9 1 Blythwood

743.

Included.

less-students

years

Saturday

cross

write

bathroom

new under-

offer

convertrble, heater,

price

9pm.

summer one

$1 or

monthly

DOUBLE

43x 100mobile home 2 bedroom. excellent student accommodation in established park $3.500term available. Phone 578-8892 books

wrth

lease

Contact MONTREAL

7pm

summer

Call

door

578-2597

half

for

after

underground

snows,

offer

$1400

1963 radio.

summer

close entrance,

apartment renew

Krtchener for

sumrner separate

evenings

May

year

7793

TOYOTA

snow

facrlrtres

THREE-

evenrngs 1967

for

students, 576-0449

mer

Krtchener

AM-FM

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rooms

male

quiet

may

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available

bedrooms

September

cage

sublet

742-3272

furnished

double

7459

for

good

743-5782

male,

phone

578-9005

1528

744-9958

house

FURNISHED monkey, Phone

avenue

Phone room

completely

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enter-

SINGLE

facrlr-

apartment

sauna.

TWO

SALE

SQUIRREL Included

extra

and

Phone Call

579-b836

co-op

kitchen apt

Unrversrty

SEVEN

anythrng

summer

large ave.

FURNISHED bedroom

September

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E-5

books,

for

and Union

1632

pool

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rent

bedrooms 1043

TWO

lost

742-9998

MOVING?

the

2 Apply

term

PLEASE

radio

to serve you better”

office

PERSONAL

GOOD

N. Waterloo

center

Chevron

for

students ties

campus

APARTMENT

word

prose.

Sunday

5” each extra 4pm tuesday

math 1

I’m going to try and work a computer.

LOST

Coulter’s

too! thru

near

Clarm

FOR

7 am - 8 pm Tuesday

Janis Gershman

arts 1

15 words for 30”, DEADLINE: FOUND

The question is existentially irrelevant.

’

Briggs

In solidarity with jobless students, I’m refusing to work.

PFEFFER POTTHAS on a bun FRIKADELLEN on a bun? Why don’t you try these for a delicious change in menu? Take

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science 4

THE OCTOPUS

Alex Smith arts 1

God knows, and he’s not telling.

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arts 2

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arts 1

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3191

744-3624

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essays, Nancy

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years

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hosprtal,

apartment,

may

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7441222

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ave

rent, 416-923-0161

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743-3724

apartment

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and love should be an inspiration to all. I strongly recommend that the of Students send a It is with deep regard that I ’ Federation down to Mackinac see John Bergsma resign as delegation College in Michigan (which recentpresident of the Federation of ly amalgamated with the Moral Students. In my opinion he was Re-armament group who direct the best president we’ve had Up With People) to study this since I arrived here in the fall university, and its of 1966. It has been said that he enlightened pursuit of the higher goals in failed to find the proper channels through . which to negotiate. I life. Then they could form the nudon’t really find this surprising. cleus of a new group on campus If irresponsible elements among which would direct our energies to us are going to refuse to follow maintaining greater rapport with the leader elected through demothe administration. era tic process, then that leader will have a difficult time pursuing This would eliminate antagonthe program which he has ism with industry (thus preserving promised. the engineer jobs) and with the Bergsma followed his platprovincial government, who would form explicitly. He promised recognize the beauty, truth, and concern with events on this high ideals of the campus. campus, and after elected he Hurrah for motherhood. apple abstained from voting about outpie and the University of Waterloo! side issues. He promised to neGRAHAM BAYLY gotiate in a spirit of compromise civil 3A and rationality, he had his efforts subverted by the RSM and their ridiculous library sit-in and Adminimews very fevedhg demands. ~~ministrotion fight-wing Having mentioned the RSM and their sit-in, I have a question for I have just finished reading their members: Haven’t any of the Admininews. march you ever studied economics? A 19. Never in all ofof mywed.. life have I capital-gains tax will do the read such pure unadulteratedworking man incalcuable harm in right-winged garbage. On the first the loss of future jobs through page an article on ths library the lack of risky ventures being sit-in states “The University canundertaken to-day, which if they not just pick money out of the prove successful mean jobs in the air to improve one aspect of future. Before you try to change its operations” but then on page the world you should learn some of three it has the audacity to print the basic facts that make it go an article on the new contract for around. lawn keeping. DAVID MURRAY applied physics Here it tells how a five year contract for $250,000 per year has been signed for lawn cutting Stutements in Admininews even though as Mr. .Lobban feveuh budget pufuc#ox states “while there were admitted-

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AMBIGIOUS? . . .YES!! . This is only one example of right-wingidness. How about our Though there are not yet the ~ President’s prejudiced statementnumber of books in the Libraries “Marxists are so greedy anyway” desirable, the University as a -pure fallacy. And then there was the interview with Bob Kilimwhole is expanding at the fastest possible rate. The University nik : “a credit to the youth of cannot just pick money out of today,” who stated his heroes were the air to improve one aspect of Spiro T. Agnew, ‘Mayor Richard Daley’ and Mr. A. K. Adlingtonits operations. what images to follow. It seems to me that’ Mr. Adlington should inform President Petch Why is a computer going to give how to “pick money out of the US better counselling than perair to improve one aspect of its sonal contact? Why should Habitat operations. ” ‘69 be renamed just because Just who are they trying to ‘Dr. Cross apparently said he fool with that four page bull simply didn’t like the name, that sheet? it was student-generated, in partiPETER E. JONES cular that the Chevron made it up. arts 2 and that if the University gave in to the students on one more matter, however small, he would HUffUy f0f motherhood, resign. ” uppIe pie cd Uniwut the students on one more matter, however small, he would resign.” The Uniwat campus has been split into two factions. those who Oh, yes; why should a secretary be fired for her retalutation of support their (until recently) Mr. Al Addlehead, who “al’federation president John Bergsfectionately patted her derriere.” ma, and those who support the and why does Mr. radical student movement. Bergsma The Bergsma crowd seem to have to have the’ issue of, the Admininews read to him? be dedicated to doing nothing about everything, while the RSM Damn Your Right-Winged will do anything over nothing. It Eyes! ! is enough to make anyone ill. Congratulations to the Chevron But wait, a new viable force in their ‘ATTEMPT’ to present briefly made itself felt on campus the other side! and caused great interest. What a laugh! I refer to the fascinating Up GARRY ALMOND With People group, whose goals applied physics i B of honesty, purity, unselfishness

friday,

march

28, 7969 (9:49)

955

by Alex Smith Chevron

staff

NDREW WERNICK, LECTURER and political science PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, has condemned welfare economics because it exists as a tangent of the modern capitalist democracy and is based on the premise that consumption is the most pleasurable activity in human life. It would not be hard to agree with Wernick for, if indeed, this is one of the major contentions of the capitalists who propose new welfare schemes, it becomes obvious that it is a myth perpetrated only for the purpose of enhancing the positions of the corporate elite which sees welfare in a capitalist society as a means of profit. * * * There is serious awareness these days of the threat of an up-coming economic crisis-a crisis which figures prominently in the inadequacy of capitalist societies to deal imaginatively or honestly with this problem of poverty. The devices to stall such a crisis now being used by the corporate politicos ( especially in the United States > are centered on’ increasing wage taxation combined with inflation and declining real wages. The purpose of their maneouvres is to provide new government monies with which to guarantee and subsidize exceeding profits for private capital which will invest in the ‘?nner cities”-the slums and ghettos-of north america. It is by this means that the quthors of reports such as Kennedy-Rockefeller-Kerner’s “sharing-the-poverty”’ hope to maintain poverty as a profit-making enterprise. It is to this aspect of the problem that the new left is addressing itself in an attempt to realize the real political and economic strategies of the ruling class, and counter them by offering viable, practical alternatives for the immediate future. * * * One of the first reactions to the threat of economic crisis from the capitalist society was to place idle money into stocks and government and authority bonds. / Analysis proves that this keeps capital in circulation for a profit (thus preventing it from ceasing to be capital), but that in the process, the earnings on investment is lowered-for the n&w investment is not accompanied by expanded production, and merely creates more claims on existing surplus value. Similar inability of capitalists in France to raise real production forced measures like increasing unemployment and cutting wages and prices to create-before the recent strike, which shattered the myth-the aura of a stable economy. And in Great Britain, the ruling class’ answer to crisis has been devaluation, excessive merger operations and a b&al attack on the material life conditions of the working population. Caught escape,

in the

investment delaying

syndrome

need

for

then, tactic

from increasing

appears any

world *

economic * *

which

there

seems

profitable capitalists

productive as

the

best

crisis.

When western need for more productive investment meets, head-on, an increased public awareness and suffering of poverty-especially in the U.S., but increasingly so in Canada among Maritime ghettos and industrial slums-the corporation politicians seem to come up with solutions by which , they claim, nobody will really lose anything. The proposals come in various shapes and sizes but share a common goal and strategy-namely, the sharing of poverty below by short-range levellingdown of conditions for the wage-earning population; and the sharing of subsidies above by businessmen

With

help from

the labor

956 the Chevron

committee,

Students

for a Democratic

and financiers of all ethnic backgrounds, each according to his own bankroll. What this boils down to is this: if business will invest in the inner cities, the government will foot the cost of the huge expenditures that will be necessary. It will provide education, job-training, land acquisition and clearance as well as the public services necessary for reconstruction of the most decayed areas. Already, for example, corporation politicians like the backers of Rockefeller have recommended that the American government pay for job-training to the tune of $3500 per worker. (In fact, where some job-training plans are now in effect, the government has come to funnel all those suitably “trained’‘-at the tax-payers’ expense-into the armed forces. The effect is clear: transferral from one socially-dependent unit to another and with a nice profit in between for the corporation the government has signed as job-training agent. See The Great God Litton, the Chevron, Feb. 14 & 21,1969). Additionally, plans include public subsidies for rent supplements to the poor, low interest loans and not to be overlooked, the buying-out of existing slum owners at full market price. And where will all this money come from? Just about everyone from the press to administration economists to politicians concede it must come from tax increases in all but one very important category. . .that \ of corporation tax. For, over the past two fiscal years in the U.S., federal revenues from personal income taxes have risen 31%; social security payments have risen 22% and corporate income taxes a mere 15 (New York Times, Jan. 30, 1968). Such a tax does n6t even exist in Canada. It is obvious then, who will foot the bill when a corporate politician like Rockefeller suggests alleviation of welfare problems by using a combination of direct tax revenues and -bonds--$60 billion of which he says should be directed immediately into corporation coffers in the form of subsidies and tax credits in order to lure private capital into slums and ghettos. Such a conglomeration of corporate businessmen, financiers and politicians would eventually put both federal and local governments (taxpayers) into an absolutely unbelievable state of indebtedness. But the business world would have found its seed for productive investment even though the wageearners were going broke in the process. Other moves are being made in the same area with fantastic loan funds being offered by life insurance companies (ex. a $1 billion fund after the last American ghetto uprisings), something which can only be seen as an attempt not to alleviate poverty or assist in constructive welfare, but as a plan to barricade what has become a somewhat shaky real estate investment market. No matter what the actual fact, it seems to the general public that private enterprise is finally the knight in shining armour who will save the U.S. from choas. But it must be said-loudly-that slums and ghettos are a creation of private enterprise and a continual source of profit to it. It is highly unlikely therefore, that the capitalist class will brave any attempt at honest slum elimination. ’ *** Now, how do hard-nosed, practical businessmen turn this essentially speculative investment into profitable, productive investment? The first

answer

Society,

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is to replace

York.

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speculative holdings in slum housing with real. new production. Hovir? By displacing small landlords (slumlords) and businessmen by huge capital concentrations to build middle ,and low income housing on large scalesat a substantial profit, of course. Undoubtedly the popr will reap improvements ,in both housing and employment as a result. But there is certainly injustice in allowing corporations to receive profits when the wage-earner is paying corporation subsidies through the nose. * * * It is clear the alternative must be proposed by the new left to encompass taxation of business income and not wages in the financing of any badly-needed government spending. For this, wage-earners as well as students and the poor must accept socialist programs: @ to end taxation on wages and replace it with taxes on speculative profit and wasteful production : l to increase real wealth: l to make the unemployed employable for the new productive jobs which must be created without simultaneous subsidies for business elites ; l to eliminate the “parisitical” jobs now cluttering corporate and government bureaucracies (including advertising and marketing 1t and l to vastly expand educational and leisure-time opportunities. * * * The most basic explanation of ‘capitalist decay’ may be summarized by citing the inability of advanced in

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In this case, the most technologically advanced research is directed into non-socially useful applications such as defense and aerospace, and most noticeably, the automotive industry. The new left solution then, is to replace welfare capitalism with production of goods needed to raise the unemployed and employed standard of living. This would significantly lower the cost of everything produced, although, as a stage, it would have to be preceded by converting the defense and aerospace industries into facilities for the creation of advanced means of production. It follows, therefore, that the conditions of both the poor and the student population cannot be improved except by appropriation of social surpluses by them. for their common interests. This means demands for control of the “workplace“ or “institution” must be accompanied by control of the production of social wealth. For the final analysis, socialism means the conscious control of the total process of social reproduction. not merely of some of its products. To the new left, this fact spells the need to challenge the “sharing-the-poverty” schemes of American and Canadian welfare capitalists.

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On thinking things over trative ability so desperately needed in the presidency. He has served on three executive boards, has represented the federation on numerous administration committees, has prepared countless studies and reports, is a * past member of the executive of the Ontario Union of Students, was the head organizer and negotiator in the 1967 Bookstore sit-in, and has represented the federation at many conferences and seminars. * * * Patterson’s main opponent will be Andy Anstett. Anstett’s politics are hard to describe because they are either well hidden or totally unsettled. In the first Bergsma campaign he wore his Vote Bergsma, button beside his membership button in the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, a historically militant union whose campus local was started by Cyril Levitt. From the administrative point of view he has comparatively no experience, usually preferring to limit his political activities to advising people but avoiding responsibility. He has no working knowledge of the federation’s administration. Charlotte von Bezold, the only other candidate, is a great person but shouldn’t be in the race and, as she readily admits, really isn’t. Her peace, love and anarchy platform may liven up the election a little, but by no means addresses itself to the realities of the present political situation.

The Chevron staff is supporting Tom Patterson in the presidential election. To readers familiar with the Chevron’s point of view that’s hardlv news. The reasons however, are net as obvious as they might at first seem. Patterson is a member of the radical student movement of course, but there are many members who couldn’t command such support. Part of the reason is that Patterson has done a lot more reading and thinking about the movement and its goals than most people. His analysis of society’s problems is one of the best developed ones on campus. And Patterson has a phenomenal ability to apply his analysis immedia tely to very specific situations . To have some understanding of what is wrong with society, even a good understanding, is not always to have the ability to decide_ whether it will help or hinder correctionif a sit-in is held in the library. Patterson can make those decisions. In carrying out council’s decisions, it can be expected that Patterson would show a degree of finesse and diplomacy that. is so often found wanting on the part of other campus leaders. His ability to deal quietly, precisely and yet firmly with friends and opponents has won him, praise and respect from people of every political gender. Finally Tom Patterson has the experience and proven adminis-

He flies through the air all the help council can give them. More and more the campus is finding itself in need of a means of communication more immediate than printed media can offer. In radio lies the answer. And under the present management the local venture can be expected to be particularly successful in finding for itself an important position in campus life without making itself an irrelevant game plaved bv. a few amateur micro. phone enthusiasts.

Student council, in its briefest meeting all year, passed one of its best motions last wednesdav. They approved an advance allocation of $10,000 for Radio Waterloo so that the group could go ahead and apply for their license. Presently operating on both Waterloo campuses via a wire hookup to a number of rooms, Radio Waterloo hopes to be on the air with an FM band next fall. The group deserves the best wishes of the student body and

visit

sunny

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in to the famed

University

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of Mexico soldiers\

invaded

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tanks and heavy artillery.

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prisoners

information,

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tortured.

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Engineers hold the key d

On page 19 this week is a feature written by a professional engineer about the present status of the engineering profession in Canada. Like past features that have addressed themselves to engineering students in particular, this article is not meant as an attack on engineering, but rather is an attempt to create some critical thought about the present direction of the profession. Much of the change that will come about in the next few years will stem either directly or indirectly from technological progress. There is no problem with this progress itself, indeed it is precisely such advances that could allow many of the beneficial changes our! society needs. Rather the problem lies in who shall make the decisions about where and how this progress is to be made. Engineers are the people who will be best equipped to understand the potentialities of the new technologies. Far from condemning engineering students for their

course of study, concerned people must work all the harder to bring to them an awareness of society’s realities. For engineers aren’t the ones who will make the decisions. Managers and owners are. And unlike the engineer who often wants to work for the good of society, these men work for the good of their company and its profits. Unfortunately, what’s good for General Bull Moose is not necessarily good for the people. Today such is rarely the case. If they continue in the present direction, engineering graduates will simply become cogs in the machine. Engineers do have it in their power to unite and abolish planned obsolescense, wasteful plundering of our resources, retardation of technological advances and the system that continually produces such anti-people decisions. And the alternative, selling out many of one’s ideals and shutting ones eyes to the truth, is becoming harder to swallow every year.

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This issueof the Chevron is published by the staff of Admininews, not to be confused with the staff of the Gazette which failed to meet its deadlines the first week in tabloid form, Last week’s Chevron arrived late because capitalism broke down-the truck that is. This Chevron was produced on time by: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Bill Brown, assistant news editor; Ross Taylor, sports coordinator; Dave Blaney, George Loney, Harold D. Goldbrick, Maudie Silcox, Frank Goldspink, Dave Young, Bill Sheldon, Glenn Pierce, Jim Dunlop, Pat Starkey, Lorna Eaton, Phil Elsworthy, Tom Purdy, Dave X Stephenson, Brenda Wilson, Greg Wormald, Matti Nieminen, Gail Roberts, Ramparts Magazine, Alexa Fretz, Paul Englert, Mary Rivard, Annekin “i thought you’d never ask”, Body Beautiful, Cam Killoran, Paul Dube, Jim Klinck, Carol Jones, Fred, and after the hockey game someone suggested we should combine Bergsma’s lacrosse and hockey talents and call him an expert lackey. c

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