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friday
13 june
1969
UAW doesn’t militants “Tricks aren’t going to ,work anymore. ’ ’ This was the warning of William Leech. a black militant from the League ,of Revolutionary Workers in Detroit. speaking in the campus center tuesday. He began by explaining the situation in the Detroit automobile of the plants. where one-third UAW (United Auto Workersthe union in the factories) are black workers. However, he said. the national council of 1100 has only 75 black representatives, The union, therefore. doesn’t represent the blacks so they have attempted to organize themselves along the lines of racial solidarity. In 1967 black consciousness was on the increase and they began making demands. Leech explained how clearly the lines were main drawn-at the Dodge plant 60-70 percent of the bluecollar workers were blacks. while 90 percent of the whitecollar jobs were held by whites. One of the first confrontations came in 1968 at the Dodge main plant. The company called a speedup on the production-line and the workers called a wildcat strike. Although the strike was illegal the company backed down. but to save face. the owners fired the strike leaders. five blacks and two whites. The workers again went out to have the leaders rehired. All but two blacks were rehired and the. UAW accepted these ignoring the blacks. -4lthough this strike was not completely successful. Leech said the workers learned two things: the power of people working together and the total lack of concern for the blacks on the part of the UAW. Someone from the audience asked Leech if racism was a problem of capitalism. The speaker replied that this was the case. “Black people were brought to America because white capitalists needed cheap labor. Then black and white workers were often thrown against each other by the bosses to obscure their real common enemy. ” “Why then can’t you go and organize blacks and whites together in their common interest?” someone else asked. *‘That’s for you to help answer” replied Leech. “I can’t talk to white workers. They just say ‘get out of here you nigger’. It’s up to white radicals to talk to white workers. We’ve got enough to do organizing our own people. ” Leech replied to a question concerning the plight of the Canadian Indian : “They are our brothers,” he replied. “They’re saying the same things we are. We welcome them into the struggle.The Indians in the US are worse off than blacks. I’ll bet conditions are the same in Canada. ” There were objections from the audience that conditions in Canada were not as bad as in the US. Leech pointed out that in Canada in fact, the repression was greater because the government in power has no checks on it like the government in the US does. *‘But there is no discrimination
act for blacks, form mciical union in this country,” protested one observer with noticeably long hair. “A person can walk into any restaurant in the K-W area and get served. The Human Rights Commission guarantees it. ” He continued, “I have a case pending”. “You can get tied up in the courts for years if you want,” Leech broke in. “When some guy throws me out of a restaurant because of my long hair he’s just showing how small his mind is. It’s got nothing to do with the system. “Do you thing that he’s throwing you out because of his personal dislike for people with long hair or because you are going to hurt his business?” another observer shouted out. He continued, “If John Lennon of the Beatles stopped to eat there you can bet that he wouldn’t be thrown out. he would probably be given a free meal. The guy’s in the business to make a buck, not to vent his personal prejudices.” Leech went on to talk about the political repression in the United States. “Americanism is fascism grown up. In Europe Hitler’s fascism was nothing compared to Americanism. It doesn’t matter if vou
vote for Humphrey-Wallace. _ They’re all the same. “If anything, Wallace was most radical of them all. He said we’re gonna stop the bosses and the niggers. He appealed to the white worker who hate both those categories. But Wallace can be controlled by capitalists like Hunt who would like to see nothing more than racial conflict which blots out and obscures real class interest. “Wallace talks about stopping the big eastern banking interests and the niggers. He doesn’t understand that he’s got something I on the ball when he attacks big business, but gets played for a sucker by the capitalists themselves.“ A question was raised concern“The horizon tally layered expression will develop an ascending the violent aspects of the movement. Leech said he was against ing climax which will be terminated by the enlarged upper towriots, calling instead for rebellion. er of the library. ‘* -soft-core pornography from the architect’s “Ours is not aggressive violdes&ition of the proposed administration building. ence-rather it is self defence.” The other side has guns and the blacks are getting guns. When both sides have guns you have two choices. put them down or die the fools.” Leech summed up by likening America to a pregnant woman. “If a woman is pregnant she is going to have a baby whether peoAn architects’ site evaluation resolved only for the top 70 in the port has recommended that an ple say she is pregnant or not. administration-the architects ,4merica is pregnant.” administration building be lohave proposed below-grade parkcated in parking lot D, between the ing for that many. library and the ringroad. The architects concluded, “The
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Black revolutionary on lines of racial
William Leech discusses union organizing solidarity with campus center audience.
Radicals
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TORONTO (CUP )---Fifty student radicals converged on a meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association at York University’s main campus last thursday to denounce what they called the methodology of political science. Members of the York Sunday Movement and the McMaster student movements distracted an audience of 200, listening to guest speaker David Easton, when they walked into the Vanier College dining hall carrying balloons, flowers and signs denouncing Easton’s sys terns analysis theory. Easton, a Canadian who studied In the United States, has returned to teach political science at Queen’s University. He will receive a salary of well over 40,000 dollars, according to a leaflet distributed by the radicals. Easton’s systems analysis theory centres around examining a system by learning how
Interim administration president Howard Petch has called an open meeting next friday at 4 pm in AL116 to discuss the proposal. “Interested faculty, students and staff are invited to hear the architect present his appraisal of parking lot D as a building site. ” The architects, Page and Steele of Toronto, have proposed a multi-level building that would leave a clear view from the church colleges, but would rise five storeys in front of the soon-tobe ten-storey library if one was looking from the Village. The parking problem will be
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construction of the administration building on this site would unquestionably enhance the surrounding buildings. It would generate student movement to the west of the library and assure that this area on the campus would not deteriorate into the visual serviceyard of the arts library. ” They also stated that “the present land, providing parking for 135 cars, makes no contribution to the overall visual character of the campus. ” “We are confident of our conclusions in terms of the visual effect of placing a building on this site. However, we must point out that our study does not include the results of both subsoil and flood-level investigations. ”
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it functions and how it handles stress. The leaflet charged that Easton’s theoretical approach to political science “reduces politics to an abstract system of inputs and outputs” and refuses to talk about specifics, such as “American capitalism”. ’ “Easton’s quest for a scientific politics reflects the need among American bourgeois political scientists for high level rationalizations of their work”, the leaflet said, “Classical liberalism no longer suffices as a defence of capitalism. In the age of state monopoly capitalism, new centres of power and new manifestations of power, i.e. imperialism, require justification”, continued the radical paper. Easton defended his approach as “not reactionary” and “not counter-revolutionary”. Following his speech he debated with the radicals who had remained quiet throughtout his talk.
University of Toronto student, Andy Wernick, told Easton his method of analysis had “no concept of totality”. By isolating social problems and examining them separately Eason’s theory “rules out analysis which relates these together,” Wernick said. Wernick also denounced what he tailed the general professional mentality. “The belief that somehow social scientists are neutral is used to defend their own lack’ of commitment”, he said. - Easton claimed political scientists learn for the purposes of understanding not of rationalizing the status quo. A professor in the audience suggested however that the people who make use of the information compiled by political scientists are not the people interested in solving social problems but the people in power who use that information to control and manipulate people.
Physics plans nuclear summer An international summer school organized by the nuclear magnetic resonance group of the University of Waterloo physics department will take place here from june 17-24. Approximately 90 students from Canada, United States and Europe have already enrolled in the weeklong school. Instructors are authorities in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance of non-metallic solids. They include professors and scientists from France, Yugoslavia, ’ United States and Canada. The NMR,-group, begun by in-
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terim administration president Howard Petch in 1967, has been -involved recently in the study of hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics. It has presented papers at several international congresses and is planning to give three papers at the upcoming Canadian association of physicists congress to be held here in late june. The members have also published a ‘total of seven papers in various scientific publications. The entire group has been involved with the organization of the, summer school. , +;..x I
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The, board of student activities of the Federation of Students is continuing its summer program with several more events. ~ On” Saturday and thursday nights BSA will be sponsoring special Camp Columbia pubs with Ian. Oliver and Nora in the campus center pub. On tuesday. the popular .pubdance series will continue with music provided by the Town Choir. These campus center events are becoming entrenched enough to threaten ‘thursday as pub night.
Reference ,
Next Wednesday’s movies are the Perils of Pauline-the story of a young girl growing up in a reckless manner-and Sergeant Ryhker-a drama war story starring Lee Marvin.. These are being shown in AL 116 at 7 :30 pm. Next week’s dance will be on Saturday night with the Magic Cycle . Most summer weekend plans have been finalized, and posters will be appearing SoOnwith details. ’
librarian to retire
Six years after she came to Waterloo to establish a’ reference department in the arts library Belle Grant is retiring. Bliss Grant completed her BLS degree thesis at Wisconsin while working as a librarian administrator at the University of Alberta in Calgarc. She became interested in reference resources. undertaking a master’s program at the University of Michigan and later working in the Toronto public library reference department.
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When she first came to Waterloo in 1963 it was “a young university just beginning to build its collection”. Housed in the third floor of the physics building. the arts reference collection was. according to Miss Grant. impressive even at that’stage. A favorite of students and facult.\’ alike. Xliss Grant has been described as very helpful and conscien tous.
awarded
Three Ontario high school teachers had their own type of convocation at Waterloo last friday. The three, all mathematics teachers, received Rene Descartes medals for ‘signal service to mathematics in Ontario”. Interim administration president Howard Petch presented the awards on behalf of the university. to Miss Jean McRobert. James Dean. and John Sharp. The winners were selected by ‘a vote of previous winners and
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Mathematics and St. Pauls came first in faculty and residence .blood competitions respectively. The blood donor clinic was held in the modern languages building monday and tuesday.
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TORONTO (GINS)-Theri must be more realism in schools to prepare students for the. traumatic experience of going to work, A.W. Baker, vicepresident and general manager of Douglas Aircraft Co. of Canada Ltd. of Toronto, said yesterday. “Too many students are being diverted into nonproduction channels in the interest of getting through school and, they are ending school with no preparation for a useful position in industry.” Baker, who was speaking to a conference of machinery and metal working makers at the University of .Toronto, said educators must be made more aware of the changing character and needs of industry. However, industry must also contribute to the school systems to help educators plan programs. The guidance given students in lower school le-
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tain for several years before world war II, said Trotskyites and followers of the new lift philosophy of Herbert Marcuse were winning the struggle for leadership of the student movement %by default. ‘We :musts notbe: dfraid to ad- -. mit that at present our ideologists stand isolated from this revolutionary process and in practice have no influence on it,” he said, according to a report of his speech in the ,journal,‘problems of Phil- ’ osophy ’ .
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members of the Waterloo math department. The Rene Descartes foundation, in its second year of operation, is a semi-autonomous body within the university who’s objective is the advancement of education in general. mathematics in particular. To this end it provides scholarships, fellowships. bursaries. prizes. and grants to students studying or doing research in mdthematics, as well as medals to teachers.
MOSCOW (GINS )-A leading Russian scientist has called on Soviet philosophers and ideologists to try to push the West’s revolutionary student movement in the direction of Moscow-style communism. In a speech to the presidium of the academy of sciences, physicist Pyotr Hapitsa admitted present Soviet ideas have practically no influence among revolutionaryminded youth in the West. Kapitsa. who worked in Bri-
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Staff restbictiN7s Iset for faculty club membership ents. This in Lucy’s opinion would ing fellow, and -I’d be happy to How would you feel if you were be the ideal setup. have a drink with him.” a professor relaxing in your shiny new faculty club and a common. Math prof Ian McGee, felt a Many of the directors stressed cautious approach was in order that the restrictive regulation was everyday janitor sat down next youandorderedabeer? By starting out very exclusively, by no means final. With the maThe directors .of the proposed no danger of overcrowding could jority of directors available for occur. If room existed for more faculty club have tentatively deI comment not in favor of the resmembers, than admission stantriction, a change is possible. . cided that this just wouldn’t do. dards could be lowered. Construction of the club is to As qualifications for the club now stand. only staff of category McGee personally feels membegin monday, with completion bership should be open to all staff. scheduled for mid december. The 11 or higher are eligible for membership. To keep the place from being ovbuilding, of contemporary brick ercrowded he suggests they jack design, is to be located west of This standard is not yet final, up the fees. “Then if a janitor can and seems to be unfavorable the phys-ed complex and will house afford to pay the membership kitchen, dining and lounge facilto at least some of the club’s dirdues, he must be a pretty interestectors. ities. Club president Carl Totzke is not in favor of the restriction. He feels the proposed $6 monthly Acting arts dean , membership fee will be prohibitive enough to be economically restrictive. The present restriction is not necessary and could be changed to admit all staff who Although he does not plan to fessors Ober feels it was “a can afford to participate. accordgive up- teaching entirely. the natural and inevitable developing to Totzke. new acting dean of arts. prof Warment that when they (Canadians) Another of the directors. Kish ren Ober. likes administrative became aware of the number of Hahn. department of design. also work and the “sense of working foreigners occupying positions was against any admissions level. with people. ’ in Canada there would be some “We aren’t trying to set up an concern ’ . His appointment is to last for unbreathable bastion, or perpeat the As far as he is concerned “the trate a master-slave relation. as a period of 12 months most beginning july 1st. Ober educational system must look it was once suggested. The club has been chairman of the english for the best person for the job.” will merely be a place where facdepartment at Waterloo since ulty can get together and communHe feels there is no real danger his arrival in September 1965. icate over a cold beer.” / in hiring foreign professors but Originally ’ from Arkansas. he Not all the directors are quite that “all things being equal” he took his undergraduate degree so liberally minded. would naturally hire a Canadian in english ‘at Washington and Lee _ Psych prof Ted Cadell was not professor first. University. Virginia and his in favor of admitting all staff. No immediate changes are PhD at Indiana University. He reasoned that the club was planned in either the teaching Before his Canadian position he designed for ‘. those people involvstaff or the curriculum of the was acting head of the english ed in the day-to-day running of arts faculty. department and later acting dean the university”. For this reason “My duty ‘is to see that polof the graduate school at Northern the less important members of icies and projects are carried out Illinois University. staff should be barred admission. to the very-best of my ability”. During his first year at WatElectric eng prof Jack Hanson Questioned on the proposed wasn’t really sure if an arbitrary _ erloo he taught an English, 101 integrated studies program class. but in subsequent years level should be set to restrict, memwhich will commence this fall. confined his teaching to advanced bership. or merely leave the level Ober stressed that it was “a and graduate classes. of monthly dues as the deciding we should encourage” factor. This fall he will again be development and that he was “favorably impresOne of the most openminded teaching a first year english suggestions came from Ernie Lucy section. as well as serving on sed with Prof. Jack Gray and his group “who are now in charge of personnel. He -felt all staff the arts 3 committee organizing of planning this program. should be admitted. as well as the arts building. making the facilities open to studOn the hiring of foreign proThe new acting dean believes the purpose of the university is to produce intelligent critics of our culture and society as well as to extend and impart knowledge through research. He wants to make sure that Among the items discussed ,at a sixteen page issue julv 15. “freedom ‘of speech is guarantuesday night’s EngSoc A meeting designed to -give frosh engineers teed to all segments of the uniwas the preponderance of teenyan idea of what is actually going on versity community within the boppers ’ -inhabiting the campus at Uniwat. It will be reissued laws of the land. .center. It was decided to present in the fall. “1 am utterly opposed to the the complaints at the next camCourse club fiscal policy was is a pus center board meeting. set at $50 initial funds and a idea that the university factory. and I do not believe that The events for Engineering $100 contingency fund. it is a microcosm of society. Weekend were discussed and the The final item on the agenda was need for an all-out effort to sell “The ’ university is a .place a donation of $250 to Camp Coltickets was emphasized. umbia after the camp finalizes where ideas can do battle in Enginews will be putting out its budget. the marketplace. ”
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An attempt by a Kitchener city councillor to discuss changes in the structure of the local federated charities was lost when other councillors attacked the Chevron’s april community issue. City council had been discussing ways of streamlining the number of door-todoor canvasses and tag days. The local federated charities is not part of the United Appeal (or Red Feather). An article in the Chevron’s community issue had raised some questions about some of the more unusual aspects of the local charity organization. Alderman ‘Morley Rosenberg, speaking after the council had decided to form a committee, called for a thorough investigation of the current needs of the community in relation to the existing structure of the federated appeal.
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He said the organization should be studied with a view to determining if it was the best means of raising funds for charitable organizations. Rosenberg said there were many groups outside the appeal operating independently through house-to-house canvasses of their own. Consideration of why some groups chose not to join federated appeal “must be an intricate part of any committee set up by,council,” Rosenberg said. Noting that the present appeal structure was set up in 1941 and hasn’t been altered since, Rosenberg wondered if it wasn’t time to consider a new approach to unified charitable appeals. He said he was convinced from research he had done that if the appeal operated on a larger scale, such as nationally organ-
Doing her part, Janice Page unsuccessful/” tries to distract workers jfom completing Habitat 69, the abortion of a residence. Maybe she’ll have more luck ivith the faculty club.
Student guilt feeling cpestkmed by iucige Judge Kirkpatrick of Waterloo court sentenced himself to four months of contemplation in a recent case involving two university students. The question he is considering entails a student’s ability to feel guilty of stealing after receiving free grants and bursaries. It arose when Joseph Sowieta and Richard Fenton, both Waterloo students. were tried for stealing two chairs from the campus center. The pair admitted taking the chairs, after consuming “about twenty draft beers in the Waterloo Hotel to celebrate a successful exam. ” The students’ lawyer argued the two were too impaired to consider the consequences of their act. Moreover because of its senselessness it was more a prank than a crime. Kirkpatrick felt the case would hinge on whether the students had a guilty intent, not whether they were drunk.
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ized groups like united appeal many groups not now affiliated would join. A change in structure would likely result in more funds being raised, he added. Rosenberg also questioned the need for a $200,000 reserve fund by federated appeal. “Why not distribute that to the agencies who need it?” he asked. He said he was told the reserve fund was for a disaster, but he was convinced if there ever was a disaster in the K-W area, special funds could be raised by other means. Alderman Robert Wagner suggested Rosenberg had based much of his research on “crud” contained in an article in the april special community issue of the Chevron. He noted Rosenberg had a copy of the article in front of him while he addressed council. r,
“Students attending university on bursaries loans, and grants may have distorted ideas of ownership rights”, he reasoned. Kirkpatrick also wondered why such cases as the one in question could not be handled by the university instead of taking it to the courts. He felt expulsion would be a much more satisfactory solution. Earlier this year a university committee of faculty, students, and administration decided against setting up a campus court to deal with offences of this nature. The committee felt the guilty parties should be treated like ordinary citizens . The case involving the two students has been remanded until October 8. During this period Kirkpatrick will attempt to decide how much guilt students should be assessed in matters of theft.
discussion Rosenberg demanded an apology from Wagner. “I am not going to take any slanders. ” He said he had not quoted nor referred to the Chevron article in his comments to’council. “Obviously that paper on his desk (the Chevron) means something to him in what he is saying to us tonight about research and I am asking him to read it,” Wagner said. When Rosenberg rose to read the article. alderman George Mitchell called on the chairman to stop him. “What appears in the Chevron is not the business of this council.” he said. Chairman Russ Honsberger agreed. Alderman Joe Mattson said the people who were involved in the federated appeal . should be the ones to discuss whether or not the organization’s structure should be changed. friday
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1969
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of lsadora unites on film the emotional dynamics of art, of love, and of social change. In these aspects of the human spirit, Isadora Duncan was a revolutionary. I can’t imagine that the commercial theaters are ready for this film, but here it is at the Kitchener’s Lyric, hot from its 1969 openings in Toronto and New York. Society often grants its performing artists some license in public behavior. Having so provided vicarious thrills for the populace, society can expect considerable restraint and decorum from individuals in their everyday life. Like many great artists before and since, Isadora Duncan availed herself of this license. While doing so, she brought something very special to her art, the dance. Isador Duncan discarded the tightly-laced ballet costume of her day (a relic of aristocracy and the French court ). She discarded the quaint Mediterranean folk-tunes that, in one huge orchestration or another, still satisfied the ballet audiences. She chose instead a free-flowing robe, the orgiastic dance style of ancient Greece, and the rich syphonic sounds of Beethoven and the new Soviet
composers. What she began, has come to be known as “modern dance” * Fortunately, her exquisite dance style was captured in a handful of pen-and-ink drawings by Segonzac. You see them in the film, turned red by one of our miracles of technology, as a background for the movie titles and credits. (The director, Karel Reiss, gets to superimpose his name over the choisest drawing. ). Segonzac’s drawings were a help, but it still required a sustained effort of some two years for Vanessa Redgraave to recreate Isadora Duncan’s style of dance. Now, on film, Vanessa Redgrave’s dancing is totally believable, sensual, and entral- . ling.
The Loves of lsadora was shortened a good deal before it was released largely at the expense, I imagine, of some of the dance sequences. What evolves is a film which can be sold under the headline, “Woman finds free love and a dazzling international You won’t find out about it from the advertcareer”. ising, but the real theme is social change, through love. Isadora Duncan dedicated herself to what was then, and what is now, most unpopular cause. Last week I spent an afternoon browsing in the cage of rare dance books at the New York Public Library. There is a scrapbook there, labeled “Isadora Duncan”, containing clippings from the 19201922 daily newspapers (Boston and New York). The articles sound so incredibly current, so like the articles you now read concerning John Lennon’s sleepin, or the articles these last ten years about Charlie Chaplin’s politics. Love becomes a political manifesto, when practised in a society which denies its relevance to international relations.
At the invitation of the new Soviet government, Isadora Duncan moved to Moscow and set up a school (“of life and dance”) for fifty children. Returning to America for a concert tour with Sergei Essenin (a young Soviet poet, and her new husband), she was confined to Ellis Island by immigration aut,horities. The>7 claimed she had lost her citizenship by marrying a Soviet citizen. The>- said. and I paraphrase. “You can go around dancing your lewd dances wheleever you like. and 11-e won’t touch you. But if you insist on praising that revolution, we’ll put you back on Ellis Island and keep you there.” Her concert in Boston; “The dance of liberation”. was marred by dissension in the audience and angry crowds in the streets. Those in the audience, descended but. five generations from a revolution of their own, fled in outrage from a red cloak, a beautiful body, and a call for liberation. It’s all in the movie. All the love, all the beauty.
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(staff ‘)-“Play? e-1.STRATFORD What. play? I just came out so the people of Stratford could see how well we’re getting on.” Indeed the drama was irrelevant. The good people of Stratford came out in throngs to see the upper class at play. And see them they did. The lines were clearly drawn. The masses were to keep .back from the main entrance to allow the limousines room to manoeuvre and spill out their owners. Two very official-looking men in red uniforms acted as door-openers, saluting everyone and anyone who emerged. After making a grand entrance, the women, dripping mink, gathered inside, met their confederates, and stared at the huddled masses. The people stared back with a look of awe and respect. Everyone knew their parts and
places and the show came off without incident, except that the lovely ladies and gentlemen had to sit through a dull production of Hamlet while the less lovely citizens had to go home and drink cold beer in front of the boob tube. The funny thing was that the people who had to go home were all smiling. They obviously had no concept of cultural activities. This was the first act. Festivities were resumed after the play at the Stratford coliseum. Fortunately the stars of the show didn’t have to endure the rabble again. They could I,et their hair down and be themselves. However, they didn’t change. The coliseum was decorated in highschool prom chintz. The revellers entered the arena through a papiermache drawbridge. The scene inside was reminiscent of a second-rate Hadassah bazaar. But it didn’t matter because there were no peasants around to ruin the gala atmosphere.
Long tables were spread around the sides for people to sit and enjoy their $lO-a-plate smorgasbord. Most tables were half empty but were well guarded by elderly, dressed-to-the-hilt rich ladies. They were to prevent outside& (those not in tuxedos) from using the available seats. Those unable to sit with this splendor were ushered unceremoniously upstairs. This area resembled a church basement strawberry social. But it didn’t matter because those people weren’t staring anymore and this is still better than going home because after all we are with our people. All in all it was quite a show. But three things come to mind: rich people’s fun is no real fun at all; the best performances of the night were in the lobby during the greeting scenes and not on the stage; and finally, contrary to popular opinion, the good people of Stratford didn’t really feel left out. friday
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“The disregard INCO has for the men working there, and the effects they suffer in those stinking conditions sound out something like of the coal mines in the eighteenth century. It makes a farce of INCO’s so-called concern over safety.” These remarks were made by Kenneth Valentine, the vice-president of Local This union has charged the International 6500, United Steelworkers of America. Nickel Company of Canada of maintaining “archaic and unsafe“ working conditions INCO and inspectors from the Department of to the actual poisoning of workers. Mines deny this. This article features the story of a journalist who entered the INCO plant at Copper Cliff and his account of what he saw there, His remarks bear looking into when lNC0 representatives recruit potential employees from this campus later in the month.
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On Monday, December 9, 1968, Morton hulman (NDP High Park) told the Leg;lative Assembly of Ontario that he had 1 his hands the truth surrounding, the scent accusations levelled against IN CO. ollowing are excerpts from that speech:
HREE HUGE SMOKE stacks dominate the sky over this flat little town. Twenty-four hours a day, every day of the ear, the three giants belch grey-white llumns of smoke that curl to form the hostly cloud that hands over Sudbury. On the edge of Copper Cliff is a vast lmplex of smoke-blackened buildings lat feed the stacks. The complex is pdched beside a 300-foot high range ’ slag-waste rock and iron-and stands It of the flat wasteland like some Alcaaz. It is surrounded by a 20-foot high rice, which is closely watched by the *med security police. This is the Copper Cliff smelter of JCO. This smelter is the largest of its nd in the world, the pride of the Onrio mining industry. And this is where 1 the trouble is. Here, the workers claim, they are reed to work in conditions that are bchaic and unsafe, amid fumes that Bison their systems, in dust that chokes eir lungs. Here, in these buildings, where clouds blue-white gas prey through the rious floors, and where millions of ns of chemicals are spewed into the mosphere, they think lie the explanaIns for two startling facts discovered a study done at Laurentian Univer;y. These two facts are there: first, the ath rate of a Sudbury male over 55 is per cent higher than for the rest of ltario. 4nd second, the life expectancy of a dbury male over 45 is seven years bev the national average.
‘he men who work in Copper Cliff r’t believe this is coincidence. They nk they’re being poisoned. 3ut INCO replied in their calm, reaIable way these charges are “exag*ated and irresponsible” and, as far INCO is concerned, the excess gases L a product of the union’s imagination. 111,who is telling the truth? ‘o finally settle the truth of this mat, the Toronto Star hired a McGill Unisity student, Mark Starowicz, and the night of Wednesday, august 29, went to find out for himself. I quote m the statement he subsequently diced-after getting out of the plant. Entry to the plant is illegal, unless ! is a worker with a badge, a tourist h a guide, or a special visitor conted by a company official. The plant
is heavily guarded by armed security men. For two days I asked various workers to sketch for me sections of the plant they knew, and draw for me every walkway, passage and entrance. “The only way to avoid crossing the guards who scrutinized all entrants was to wait till nightfall, and climb over the massive slag range that dominates ‘the rear of the complex. “Wednesday night, dressed in clothes given me by workers, and equipped with the required safety goggles and gas mask, I began crossing the slag heap. With me I took a camera and a drager meter-a compact precision instrument used to measure gas content in the air. Guards intermittently played powerful lights onto the slag range, and that made my progress slow, having to duck them. “But finally, after an hour, I was within the plant and at a set place, prearranged, met one worker who was going to be my guide that night. The worker would, without question, have been fired for helping me enter the plant if he was caught. But he shrugged off my fear, saying, “If you see it like it really is here and report it, then it will be worth getting fired.” “We moved toward the converter building beneath the centre stack of the three giants, avoiding groups of men and supervisors’ offices. Entering the giant operation, we inched past machines that dwarfed the men tending them and worked our way to the giant furnaces that were the core of the building. Several hundred men were in the plant on the night shift. “After half an hour of winding ramps and ladders, we reached our first destination : “D” floor, the base of the furnaces. Open furnaces blasted the ore, ,molten red, and through the furnace doors we saw the gentle rising of silvery grey fumes that followed the neck of the furnace up to the stacks. “Here was the source of the sulphur dioxide. Upstairs, on ‘M’ floor, were the areas the men were complaining about. But they were also complaining about ‘D’ floor, which is where we were and so we approached the groups, of men who worked by the furnaces. “The heat grew in intensity at every step, and it was like breathing with your head in a hot oven. The heat pounded you and you felt the veins in your head.
“I asked that we stop before we even reached the men near the furnaces. I was streaming sweat, and trying to walk towards these stoves of hell was like walking against some big, soft hand that was pushing you back. I could see the men better now-like automatons performing their tasks, their eyes half closed by the heat, moving silently. I myself could barely move. “You get used to this, sneered the man with me, but maybe if you ask the company very nicely they’ll tell you how very conscientious they are about ven-
tilating it. “He said the heat reached 150 degrees at times, and I believed it. As we climbed the east stairs to ‘M’ floor, I held my breath so as not to inhale the hot stench of the furnaces. “M’ floor is a 20-foot wide walkway around the top of the furnaces, which fill the centre of the building. On the west side, the air is acrid, but bearable-it’s the prettier side of the building where they show the tourists and where some supervisors’ offices are. But down the walk-area, dimly lit by naked hanging bulbs, the east side was immersed in a shiny blue pall. In that pall, I saw the silhouettes of men working. “We donned our masks and goggles and moved toward the pall. After 50 feet, the acrid smell was penetrating my gas mask, and my mouth and throat felt suddenly as if I had gargled in kerosene. As we moved in deeper, the pall became a milky cloud, and I could only 9 see a few feet ahead. “My eyes began stinging unbearably, and I struggled to keep them open to see. They watered so much the tears formed inside my goggles. A feeling of nausea began to grow in me, and I began gasping for air, which gave me acute chest pains. I pressed the gas mask to my face, but I could not shut the gas out. I held my breath and tried to pull my camera out. But I began coughing, and unwittingly breathed a gulp. A sharp pain in my chest doubled me over, and the nausea overwhelmed me. I pulled off my mask and began to retch. As I groped for something to grab hold of, I felt very suddenly dizzy. Then, I collapsed. “I wasn’t unconscious for long-45 seconds to a minute, said the worker who was with me. He had been right behind me and dragged me to a window when I passed out. The gas was rushing over my back as I bent low over the window sill to find air that was fresh. “After a few minutes, I pulled out the draged meter, held my breath, and moved back into the gas cloud. I loaded the long, grey tube into the instrument. According to gas content, the tube turns white from one end, up a scale towards the other. “The maximum reading on the scale is 200. “I moved to the centre of the walkway -not near the furnace flues-but within a few feet of the men who were incredibly working there. The test took one minute, during which I didn’t breathe.
“I moved quickly to the window, gasped air, and looked at the drager meter tube. It was completely white. Off scale. “The air contained over 200 parts of sulphur dioxide per million. The guidelines said five was the recommended safe limit. “Goggles made no difference to my eyes. A gas mask was useless thereyou’d need- a scuba tank and pure oxygen. And as we moved into the cleaner air on the west side of the building, I stared at the silhouettes of the men who spent hours there in that shiny blue-white cloud. And I knew I’d do my share of coughing and spitting that night, as these men did every night of their lives. “After a few weeks, you can stand it, said my guide.
“But what does it do to you later, I ’ wondered. “The morning after my clandestine visit I telephoned assistant general manager of INCO, Don Fraser, and said I wanted to tour the areas the workers were complaining about. “I was told it was ‘irregular’, but after some pressing and three hours waiting for a decision they agreed to give me a tour. They refused to admit my photographer, however, saying only ‘It is against company policy’. Any photographs I needed, Fraser said, I could be given from the public relations files in Toronto. “In the executive offices, which are air-conditioned by passing the air! through a special chemical solution to cleanse it, I was started on my tour. My guide was Norman Spears, another assistant manager. I was takenon a broad tour of the plant, and when I asked to see the reverberator building, I was shown all along the fresh and tidy west side, where tourists are taken through every hour. “Standing on the clean and well-ventilated side of ‘M’ floor I asked Spears if the spot we were standing in was the vicinity the workers were- complaining about. “‘Yes’, he said, ‘and you can see there’s nothing to those complaints. We take tourists through here every day.’ “So I pressed him to take me to the east end of ‘M’ floor which is the actual area the workers are complaining about. The air was bearable, and there wasn’t a worker in sight. My guide had predicted that the dampers would be opened for my visit, allowing all gases to escape-flattering, considering that costs INCO a few thousand dollars in sulphur dioxide. As I stood over the same spot where I had collapsed the night before, the INCO executive was speaking:
“Oh, sometimes on a bad day when the draught blows it here you might get a reading of ten, but that’s all. There’s nothing poisonous about conditions here. Those workers are a bunch of lazy bastards. ’ “The air was bearable now, even without a gas mask. It was 2 pm Thursday. “Later that day I asked two workers I knew were on that afternoon shift if the dampers were open o&closed at 2 pm. They told me the dampers had been opened at 12:30 pm. I had asked Spears if these were normal air conditions, and he said they were. “Once in a while,’ he said, ‘if a leak is sprung, it might get a bit gassy. But that happens very rarely, and of course we pull the men out. ” “As best as anyone could remember, there hadn’t been a leak on ‘M’ floor for several months.” That is the end of the quote; that is the end of the statement from Mark Starowicz. And, Mr. Speaker, what a scandal that is; what a scandal it is for INCO; what a scandal it is for Sudbury, what a scandal it is for the member for Sudbury ; what a scandal it is for the ministers of mines and health (Mr. Dymond), for this government; and what a scandal it is for everyone in this House, that no one has done anything about this in all these years; that this terrible company has been able to lie and lie and lie and nobody over there cares. Where was the ministry of mines all these years?
This text is an abridgement of a speech delivered to Ontario 3 1 egislative Assembly in december 1968 by NDP member Morton Shulman, and is adapted from “‘inside the INCO operation ” which appeared in Confrontations (april 1969).
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I think it is rotten. mean and plain miserable to pull the kind of stunts the Chevron has been guilty of lately. I refer to false advertising. For one thing I started to listen to CHYM-radio after the ad about discriminating listeners but all I found was that many CHYM listeners are hopelessly indiscriminate if they listen to and support that terrible waste of air-time lorded over by that hoggish H.D. Wilson. But the thing that really made me mad was that the prostitute by the’name of Loo you said exists on this campus (what a body! ) just has some cranky old guy answering her phone “University of \Vatqr~loo“--he won’t even make me an appointment or tell me her price. I hope you realize that you’re making this summer even more
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Secondly. may I inform you that Pat Robertson. academic services director. is at present acting health services director until someone is appointed to that position. Dr. Reesor and Mrs. Livingston are as hired-doctor and head nurse respectively. Also. on june 9. I was informed by the administration at K-W hospital that there are definitely no interns at that hospital. and that no one nearing that capacity has been at the hospital for at , least two years. As for the accuracy of reporter Smith’s recollection. why take a pad and pencil with you on an interview if you’re not going to use it? So much. let’s hope. for the mud-slinging. If anyone. anywhere. and at any time has a complaint concerning the health services. please call me. one of your student representatives to the health services committee. at 578-8277. or write to Waterloo towers. apartment 1106. 137 University avenue west, Waterloo. JANET
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I believe the $22 Federation of Students fee should be removed from the university’s list of compulsory fees. Why do I believe this? Because I believe that in a free society no man should be
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The federation is, and should be. primarily a social organization. A second, but nevertheless important function is to act as a ‘bridge’ between its members and the university authorities. A national government is elect,ed to protect the interests of the people of the country. and to represent them in dealings with other nations. Occasionally a government may. having obtained power. choose to further its CM’II interests. or those of a minorit! group. ignoring the electors. The individual ITho objects to this is perfectly free to leave the countr! and seek a new life elsewhere. Such is democracy-. Let us examine the situation on campus, A person may choose to come to the university for If he disagrees many reasons. with the status quo. or distrusts the motives of the administration. he is perfectly free, as u-e have seen. to suggest changes in the situaion. These changes may or may not receive consideration. but the individual retains the right to withdraw from the university and seek his education elsewhere.
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compelled to pay dues to any association against his will, whatever the pretext. I see as a result of this a federation, and indeed a whole campus, where success would depend on one’s own efforts only. Any association with a guaranteed income of $150,000 or more can afford to be a law unto itself. Allow me to explain in more detail the system I envisage.
Whilst here. however. he is compelled to pay dues to a completely separate body. the Fed-
eration of Students. whether or not he intends to make use of such facilities as it offers. and this federation can then “represent” him in any way it pleas-
es True. he may formally dissociate himself from the federation. but he is still obliged to support it financially. It is impossible for ciation of the size of eration to represent all If payment of fees were
an assothe fedstudents. optional.
so that students had to make an effort to join it. then the federation could. and would. represent its members. otherwise it wouldn’t have any. The university, as all others. has tacitly asstimed that the federation reflects the views of the student population. and it accordingly negotiates with them. It is this assumption I am challenging. This is a strike at the very roots of a society which is entrenched in conservatism. Let us consider the alternative at greater length, and look at possible objections to it. What, you ask, would become of Radio Waterloo. which at present receives a subsidy from the federation? In becoming established, Radio Waterloo needs money, and I would therefore suggest a levy of $1 or $2 from each student, which would be reclaimable if he objected to it; this would be an interim measure for two years. After that time, if the station had established a sizeable audience, it could seriously consider the possibility of “going commercial”. After such a move it would of course break even, at least. If
not, then we should seriously consider whether the station is “worth its keep”. The future of the creative arts program is worthy of consideration. This could be subsidized, as at present, and’ the expenses met by charging non-members higher admission rates than members. Dances would be run by the federation on the same basis. It would be then up to each member of the university to consider the advantages and disadvantages of joining the federation, and to come to a personal decision. Other student societies would be completely autonomous. You would pay dues only to those societies which interested you, and which you wished to join. You might end up paying more than at present. but your money would be going to finance only organizations ,which represented your interests. This might iron out such unpublicized oddities as a “House of Debates” which has received an allocation of $500 in the 69-70 budget. had expenses of over $2500 in 67-68. and can hardly be accused of producing an auspicious program during the present session. The Chevron. of course. would no longer be subsidized and would have to charge. Hence its quality would improve. We need unbiased, accurate. objective reporting on this campus. ‘4t this moment one-quarter of the federation budget is allocated to a publication which consistently produces articles biased towards one political outlook. This. then. is my idea for a new structure of student organizations on this campus. I feel that such a system would appeal to thinking people. and it would certainly be more representative of a free society. I thank the Chevron for the courtesy of allowing me to use its columns to present this admittedly radical point of view. and look forward to hearing the opinions of other members of the university on the subject. I
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If Howie Petch ever wants to cut down operating expenses. he can always take a lesson from Bob Jones University in the southern United States. Apparently the security force at BJU is entirely made up of a band of gun-toting students. The apparent militancy is the result of the possibility of an invasion of BJU by a conglomerate of long-haired, hippie commie radicals. I would like to note that BJU preaches the religion of fundamentalism which encompasses God, motherhood, applepie and napalm. I might add that when university officials requested permission from the state government to arm their student guards with machine guns, they were turned down. MICHAEL
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WIDE SPECTRUM of opinion on the current controversy about the “Americanization” of Canadian universities seems to exist in the faculty and graduate students at the University of Waterloo. Conversations with professors and grad students in the social sciences and humanities (which critics of the massive influx say are most affected) reveal this .diversity. There are defenders of the university’s “internationality”, those who call it another aspect of American colonialism and those who are worried that our own Canadian graduates will find no teaching jobs in Canadian universities.
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rolment in Canadian universities and so this country invited faculty from other countries since it had insufficient of its own. “Those who attack their coming are like the spoiled child of the household who is impolite to his parents. guests.” he said. These professors have served us well. Are we now to turn around and throw them out as if we were some banana republic?” ~ Thomas supports the concept of the university as an international entity. He noted that publication of research is an international activity. “There have been no protective tariff .walls in academe.” he said. “I would only hope that those who complain are not afraid of having competition come a little closer to home.” He admitted that Canadians are probably better qualified to teach Canadian sociology and literature. ‘Uspolitics. ually they are more exposed to those fields than other nationals are. But being Canadian would not be an inherent advantage in any of the scores of fields within those varied disciplines. nor in any of the hundreds of fields outside those areas. **Would those who complain about the so-called invasion deny to Canadian students the best instruction available regardless of country of origin?” he asked. Thomas said he rather doubts the figures being offered by those who are complaining. “I think their figures must include teaching assistantships given to non-nationals in Canada. ” He said he had heard rumors that Canadian PhD graduates are having difficulty getting jobs. but that the market varies from year to year. from university to university. He cited his department’s recent need to obtain more senior people for its graduate program. “When other factors are equal. we give preference to Canadians.” he noted. *‘The plea is to recognize the international aspect. the universality of universities.” he concluded. “To be parochial is to wither.” * * -* However. graduate students in the english department are more concerned about the American influx. One stated that masters’ candidates were told not to bother applying for jobs in Canadian universities as long ago as last november. “Since then I’ve found out that 72 percent of all professors hired in Canada
last year are American or foreign, which makes me uptight,” he said. He noted that the U.S. only allows 3 percent of its professors to be foreign and other countries have similar forms of protectionism. “However, Canada doesn’t feel a need to protect its own individual culture.” “I believe there is a Canadian culture and that jobs should be provided for Canadians. ” Asked whether he felt Canadian culture is transmitted in the study of english literature. he replied. “Not in this department because we’re primarily concerned with either American literature or old,British literature.” “The year before last we had a fantastic opportunity. we had Earl Birney. a noted Canadian poet and for a brief flash we were concerned with a Canadian. identity in terms of literature. However at this point I would feel safe to say that the only critics worth reading are American.” The American influence is felt in more than curricular areas. this student felt. ‘It’s the way of doing things. There is a Canadian way of doing things-we do sort of bumble along. So why not just bumble along? ‘* About opportunities for Canadians in the Waterloo english department he said. “Some guy with a PhD from the University of New Brunswick or UofT has a really tough time getting a job here because when it comes down to accepting a new prof you have perhaps 12 Americans voting and four or five Canadians. “There is this myth in Canada that our education is not up to the scratch of an American or British institution. therefore if there is a choice between an American and a Canadian PhD. you obviously choose the one from Southern Colorado Technical School of Engineering. “I believe in quality and all that.” he concluded. “But I also believe that since other countries have protectionism. why not Canada? ” Political scien:e * p;of John Wilson susp.ects that the claims that PhD graduates or persons who have completed their PhD course work and are finishing their theses are not being hired is because many do not consider the smaller, newer universities when they are applying. “On the basis of our experience we have few people apply,” he said. “It suggests these people may be’ poorly . advised. “It has been fairly easy to get social science jobs in Canada in the past. I have the impression now that it is tightening up. We may be freezing in a situation now which is undesirable. ” Wilson feels that “foreign” is a poor way to designate non-Canadian faculty, since “a foreigner from England is a very different kettl’e of fish culturally than I a foreigner from the United States.” In some areas of the humanities and
social sciences he feels that the problem isn’t as great. “But certainly in political science and to a slightly lesser degree in sociology it probably does matter considerably. “A couple of years ago the Canadian government course at McMaster was being taught by an American, which is just incredible.” Wilson says there are a number of factors such as the more hierarchical nature of Canadian society, the British common law tradition and the fact that half the country is Roman Catholic which make Canada different from the U.S. “There is enough that a person from another culture is going to have a little difficulty comprehending the whole realm of things in Canada. I don’t think an American can comprehend the nature of the French-Canadian question. It takes time, you’ve got to live through it. ” Wilson feels there is a great problem when Americans assume positions of authority in Canadian institutions. “The old boy network is unavoidable. You simply trust the people you know.” However this is not as great a problem when the decision-making authority is widely diffused. as he feels it is in his department. Problems arise in departments such as UofT’s political economy where the political science side is firmly in the control of an American elite. * * * History prof Leo Johnson said that discussions he has been involved in lately have raised different sorts of questions about the American invasion. “Radicals seems to feel it has been a misleading discussion so far. They say. ‘Does it matter who teaches capitalism? ’ and ‘Does Canadian training always really matter?’ **For instance. there is no Canadian sociological study being done, either by Canadians or americans-everybody is trained in the Chicago school,” he added. “The arguments the radicals were making *was that there is a reason to be concerned about the American penetration of Canadian universities because it is another aspect of American colonialism. It begins in the economic and is expected now in all aspects of Canadian political and intellectual life. ” Johnson says that there are proportionately fewer and fewer Canadians in Canadian graduate schools and that the introdutition of so many American faculty means the introduction of American graduate students. “Eventually it won’t matter a damn ’ whether a student is trained in Canada or not, he will still be an American stud\ ent.” He remarked that one of the major difficulties behind Canadian PhDs’ trouble in finding employment stems from evaluating transcripts from American and Canadian universities. “Canadian universities do not have the number of scholarships or citations that Americans do. An American transcript, invariably looks better than a Canadian transcript. ” -’ He added, “American schools are much more aggressive than ours in promoting the welfare of their students” and cited some American universities which issue circulars listing all their grad students, their fields of study and supervisors. The work necessary for a doctorate
/ apparently differs in the two countries. “American schools expect theses to be done two years after you do your orals. You just don’t see the 900-page PhD thesy es in the States that we have here. A good many are 250-pages-a good Phd, something that can be done in a year of research and a year of writing.” Often PhD’s drag on for many years in Canada. “In the last ten years there have only been 47 Canadian PhD’s awarded in Canada in all fields of Canadian study,” he noted. On the “old boy” system, Johnson said, “The process of hiring comes down to this : you judge a man primarily by , the school he’s at or by who he works under. The recommendations are just crucial. ’ ’ * * * Prof Jack Gray has been in Canada three years and is now ‘associate dean of arts, as well as a professor of English. “When you look for people, at least it’s my experience, you don’t look at a nationality and you don’t look at some kind of population distribution. You look at how much work he’s done, where (but not from the standpoint of what country, but from the status of the institution), how‘ much he’s publish*a.* ed,” he said. “I’ve talked to people who’ve said that if we have to start looking for a left-handed Canadian teacher of Hemingway-well, this distorts things.” Gray said he has given a lot of thought to the concern about Canadian culture being lost by having literature taught ’ by Americans. “Let’s say you’re teaching Shakespeare. You have a certain cultural bias if your training was in England, or the U.S. or Canada.” If you’re looking for illustrative examples, you use those most immediate to your students. For my first year here I didn’t have many Canadian examples, but. I’ve got a lot of them now. “I think a lot depends on how assimilable into the culture the professor is. Some resist it, others can assimilate very rapidly. I think there is a high possibility of a cultural bias or contamination, but it’s not a necessity. It depends on the man, how open he is, how sensitive he is to his new situation. “There are some Americans up here who think it is an unpatriotic act to say ‘zed’ or spell enrol with 2 1’s.” Gray feels that areas in political science such as Canadian system of government should be taught by Canadians. “My teeth ache when I hear Americans talking about ‘congress’ when they mean ‘parliament’. I want to say, ‘Wise up, you’re in a different country now. ’ ” Although he couldn’t speculate on the long-term plans of his American colleagues, Gray says he’s perfectly content . to stay here, “so long as they don’t kick me out. I’m quite happy to assimilate. I like it here. I still think that the a students and faculty have more say, more freedom than at any of the American schools. ” He doubts if too many Americans think ’ they?11 be here for four or five years and hhen go on to bigger things. l bFor one thing the salary schedule is very favorable in contrast with the majority of American schools. ’ ’ Asked if there was anything he wanted to add to his comments. Grav placed hand on heart and declared. “The maple leaf forever! ”
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Leonard Wills may be the only corporate president in Canada who can talk for one hour without using the term “free enterprise”! He is one of the few who would say that “profit per se, is not the businessman’s entire motivating force-profit is just how you keep score.” His succession to the Canadian manufacturers’ association presidency is also interesting because he is president of Honeywell Controls Ltd. of Toronto, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell Inc. of Minneapolis. As such he represents one of the problems of the Canadian economy and one of its newest, fastestgrowing and most technically-demanding industries. “I don’t look on foreign ownership as an evil thing,” Mr. Wills says. “It depends a great deal on the type of corporation involved.”
From the executive offices of Brazilian Light and Power company limited in downtown Toronto, that, in shareholders learned terms of dividends, 1969 will be the biggest year in the company’s mercurial 56-year history. On the 20th floor of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce building, where Brazilian’s president, Robert Winters, and a staff of 55 direct the affairs of the billion-dollar company,’ Mr. Winters had a simple explanation for the change: “The revolution.” In march 1964, the left-wing government of Joao Goulart (a name Winters pronounces with profound contempt) was overthrown bloodlessly by the Brazilian military under the leadership of General Humberto Castello Branco, who became president. At Brazilian’s annual meeting lateqthat year, J. Grant Glassco, who was then president, welcomed the takeover as a setback to world communism that had been scarcely appreciated. Under its new leadership, he noted the Bank of Brazil had made good $3.6-million of the $11.2-million it owed the company. Mr. Glassco said the new president had indicated he would safeguard the right of foreign companies to repatriate capital, and to send a reasonable level of earnings home. “The military government was dedicated to the principles of private enterprise,” Mr. Winters said in an interview. “They realized they needed to create a climate friendly to foreign capital, and they did so. ” Last december the remnants of democratic government disappeared in Brazil when Gen. Castello Branco’s successor, president Arthur da Costa e Silva suspended congress, imposed martial law and packed his most vocal oppents off to jail. The news dismayed many observers, who had generally credited the military regime with controlling inflation (which reached an annual rate of 144 per cent in the months before the takeover) and with rescuing Brazil from economic collapse. President Lyndon Johnson held in U.S. aid to up $50-million Brazil and $125-million in loans. %%e Nixon administration has quietly maintained the freeze. Mr. Winters is undismayed.The tituation is no rougher than before- ‘ ’ not as it applies to us. Ecmmically, things are not worse tin before. In fact, the situation ti gettifig more stable. ” E Mr. Winters takes a delicate@ diplomatic approach to politis in Brazil, he has good reamn- Brazilian Light and Power bs reached an understanding tith the military regime that it muId not achieve with its more &mocratic predecessor.
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“Today is june 6, D-Day for Colonial Cookies Limited. With the “D” standing for double. . . For your new bakery plant . . .represents double the size and capacity of your old facilities. and you also aim to double your sales and staff . . .I know you’ll reach those ambitious but realistic goals. In D-Day fashion, you’ve already proven you know how to successfully invade and capture foreign markets. ‘* An outrageous parody of the tragic triumph of 25 years ago by a cynical iconoclast? The strained imagery of some mindless high school sophomore? No. Just Ontario’s Minister of trade and development. the Honorable Stanley J. Randall, as he opened the new bakery of Colonial Cookies Limited, Kitchener, at 5 pm, june 6, 1969. On behalf of the government. elected by the people of Ontario.
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Roy Thomson, at 75, figures he’ll stay in harness for another five years or so and then, if his faculties fail him, he’ll retire to Canada and resume his Canadian citizenship. But Baron Thomson of Fleet who feels he has achieved more than he ever dreamed, faces his 75th birthday with no immediate thoughts of yielding the crown as the world’s leading owner, with corporate newspaper assets of about $500,000,000. He became a widower more than a decade ago but has no desire to remarry. Among his few regrets is that his driving ambition in early years reduced the amount of time he could spend with his family. But he rationalizes this by concluding that if he had taken out more time for leisure, he would not have been able to scale the financial heights.. “Looking back, I’m sure I did the right thing,” he said. “If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything.”
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NorR.P. Riggin, vicepiesident of corporate relations, anda Mines Ltd., said he was amazed that the task force fthe Woods report) had come to the conclusion that the present balance of power is in favor of management. Maintaining that the contrary is true, he said the first step toward promoting more responsible unionism is to adjust the laws to create an equitable balance of power In labor relations. He noted that, “in contrast to the federal task force, the recommendations of the late Ivan C. Rand for changes in Ontario’s labor laws clearly recognized priority for the public interest, including the maintenance of law and order. ” Earlier, Mr. Riggin said responsible labor leaders do exist, but that they are having a rough time and they invoke management’s sympathy and deserve it’s support. But if management would openly commend them for their responsibility their effectiveness would be in jeopardy and they would become suspect in the eyes of many other union officers and officials. “It will be highly unfortunate. . :if their example fails to become the accepted norm for union leadership.” -from the Globe and Mail Report on Business, 3 june 1969
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“Our attitude is to observe the Candian amenities, think like Canadians, and talk about those Godamned Americans.” “If we are going to restrain inflationary pressure it’s got to be done by cutting back on the things we can wait for-the social measures that are nice, but should be nostnoned.” Mr. Wills views his new responsibilities as president of the Candian manufacturers association as part of his continuing self-education. (His formal education ended when he dropped out of hieh SC--school. ’1 “And to be boy-scoutish about it, I do feel a desire to put back a little into the pot from which I have been drawing. You tend to climb on the backs of other people all your life. We all do.” -from the Globe and Mail Report on Business, 3 june 1969
Reaching the pinnacle has its satisfactions but it is a lonely place. “I don’t have many close friends among my company officials as a rule. Personal friendship is not easy.”
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My report to you this year comes at a time which may prove to be an important turning point in both national and international economic and political developments. Within a space of only six months’ new federal administrations will have been installed in both Ottawa and Washington. While this does not necessarily imply that basic changes in the dirertion of government policies will follow-indeed there is always an essential continuity of economic and social trends which override partisan politics-nevertheless the air has been cleared in a number of ways. -president, The executive aging the affairs
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Thomson came up the hard way. He struggled, he said, because he didn’t want to remain poor. But now social services, especially in Britain, seem to be overdone. He doesn’t want to see people suffer, but “assuring a man of complete welfare takes away his ambition and desire to succeed.” His advice to the young is to acquire a business and a good credit rating at the bank. Many persons are too impatient, he said. He had hoped to ,become a millionaire at the age of thirty but didn’t make it until he was more than fifty. -from
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Those academics and others who have thrown themselves into the controversy about the American influx into the teaching staffs of Canadian universities appear to many to be stirring up a tempest in a teapot. But the mass media and vocal “nationalists” have brought the issue forward and it must, like other issues raised bv concerned and intelligent parts of our societv. be dealt with openly and thoughtfully. Carleton University professors Robin Mathews and James Steele opened the discussion last winter when they stated that in 1968 only 49 percent of faculty members in Canadian universities were Canadians. compared to 75 percent in 1961. Since then there have been many challenges to these figures. to say nothing- of the mud thrown at those who did the calculations. In fact it is satisfying to see that our respect-demanding academics can still lapse into the type of passionate behavior they condemn in the actions of the student radicals they abhor. -4 study by the informationservices department suggests that 5i.5 percent of Waterloo facult! are Canadian or Canadian-educated. but it uses the same sources the Carleton profs did-the calendars of Canadian universities which indicate where facult> obtained their degrees. Since these are always slightl! out of date and since having received one degree or even all three in Canada does not constitute Canadian citizenship or Canadian origin. a more accurate method should be found to assess the question. The claim that Canadian PhD’s cannot get jobs in our universities should be examined by asking those who recently received doctorates and sought university jobs to relate their experiences. Of’ course this investigation. which man? have allowed to pass
as the substantive issue, is really secondary. One UofT professor summed up the larger question when he said that the Americanization of Canadian higher education “creates a tension between liberal ideology and the continuity of a culture. “The ideology suggests that the origin of a teacher should be irrelevant: only qualifications matter. But if one of the univers.itv‘s functions is to perpetuate a society and its culture, we must ask if it is competent to do this when most of the teaching is done bv outsiders. ” ’ This of course is the tension in the views of english professor Keith Thomas and the nameless english-department graduate student contained on page 9. Thomas opts for the “universality of the university” and except for a few areas. feels the culture question is far less important. The grad student feels his Canadianism as well as the possibility that the influx of Americans may mean he’ll never get to Thomas. position in a universitv. that place having been usurped bv. some American. But what if we believe that the university’s function is to work to change. rather than perpetuate, our society. its values and its culture? Would the origin of the teacher in a critical university matter? Would it not be far better to be taught be a sensitive American than a callous Canadian? By an American socialist than a Canadian capitalist? It is merely stirring up a tempest in a teapot to go charging off in pursuit of an ethereal concept called nationalism when so many Canadians have no reason to be proud of Canada. Far better that we should examine our total direction as a nation. using all the abilities we can get. both Canadian and American
Parking the admin building Who’s kidding whom? The administration still wants to park an administration building in lot D next to the library building. and they’ll legitimatize it somehow. ,\n open meeting is scheduled for next friday at 4pm in a lecture room “to which interested facultv. students and staff are invited to hear the architect present his appraisal of parking lot D as a building site. ” This is called democracy: giving the people a chance to make their views known-at 4pm in a lecture room on a friday afternoon in the summer. Certainly senior administration staff members 1senior enough to take an hour off ‘work”) would be pleased to attend. It’s obvious that thz administration of this university wants to be in the center of campus where they can feel more important. They’d probably like to stay in - the library anyway. And there’s no doubt that the de-
( the administracision-makers tion) will decide to stay in the center of campus. There’s also no doubt t-hat opposition will be scarce. considering the democratic consulting process being used and the fact that the architects have recommended the lot D building. The solution is obvious-give the boys what they want: the administration can take over the librarv altogether and lot D can remain a parking lot and the library will still look pretty. We can always put the book library somewhere-under the arts quadrangle or perhaps where the lake is currently located opposite Conrad Grebel college. What is needed ii a full. open review of the academic development of this university and the necessary accompanying physical development. It’s time to set priorities and attempt some sort of salvation of the mess of physical design on this campus.
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“The kind of education we give doesn’t matter so long as we teach certain basic things such as initiative and a sense of values.” * That’s what engineering dean Archie Sherbourne told the Senate science policy committee a couple of weeks ago in Ottawa. After all these years somebody has the guts to admit that the universi ty isn’t particularly concerned about teaching interesting. relevant or valuable things or even in giving a decent vocational training. Someone has finally admitted that the university is an institution handing out a particular political. social and economic indoctrination. Someone has also admitted (somewhat disguisedly) that the particular indoctrination is materialistically inclined and perhaps basicallv anti-humanist. This final point was made clear bv another speaker at the same committee meeting. “An excellent example of the apparent arrogance of scientists is the spending of millions investigating the ionosphere in Canada when Indian communities of northwest Ontario were unable to get
a Company of Young Canadians activist sparked mobile radio transmitters,” said John Hart, science dean at Lakehead University. * * * Retired administration president Gerry Hagev also had something to say about what a student doesn’t. get out of university. “Most of vou have had little opportunity to obtain an unprejudiced view of the broad horizon that engulfs our society. Now you should have an opportunity to extend your vision in both depth and breadth.” said Uncle Gerry in his convocation address two weeks ago. Sorting out the rhetoric, he apparently means the universitv didn’t teach vou anything and it’s time you adopted some political, social and economic values other than those nasty ones proposed by campus idealists. radicals and other anarchists. Jr: * * Well. if Archie thinks the university’s main purpose is to teach values. and Uncle Gerry doesn’t think the university even teaches values. all we can say is: Indeed.
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