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No bu;ld;ng PP&P director Bill Lobban, and architect David Horne were in the hot seat l;i;t friday afternoon as students and faculty attacked the proposal to build a new administration building on the site currently occupied by parking lot D, beside the arts library.

Lobban opened with a defense of the administration’s position. He said that previously the new building was planned for the north campus just south of Columbia street, but since other plans for the development of north campus are vague now, this seems to be a poor idea. Lot D, beside the arts library, is the only place on south campus where a building could be located without destroying part of the green area, according to Lobban.

Horne presented the architects’ case. He said the first question was whether or not any building should be located on this site. There is an obligation to protect buildings already on campus, and in this case the library is of primary concern, he said.

“The library was designed as an all-round building, the center of the campus, and it must remain the center. The design integrity of the building must be preserved,” he said.

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“As development proceeds more and more in the direction of north campus there is a danger the lib-: rary will be a terminating mass rather than the center, and south campus will become a kind of backyard to the rest of the campus. ” Horne felt it is advisable to have a building on the parking site.

He then proceeded to outline eight different designs that had been considered.

The first seven of these were rejected because unlike the eighth, they did not allow a good view of the library from across Laurel creek and from the area of the Village.

In the discussion that followed, math lecturer Jerome Sabat outlined several factors in favor of placing the administration building just south of Columbia street.

“As the campus expands we are going to move north leaving this location central,” said Sabat.

“Most traffic comes in from the University avenue entrance, so a location near Columbia street would relieve the present traffic congestion and give easy access to the administration building, as well as convenient parking.

“There are two theaters in the immediate proximity of lot D. If

we put a building there, people from the community will have to park much further away.

“In the long run we are going to locate a new psychology building in the area of the Minota Hagey residence, and there will probably be a need for a new arts lecture hall. Lot D is the only logical location for a new arts lecture building in the future.”

Lobban answered that PP&P is considering a pedestrian oriented campus, not a vehicular oriented one. He added that the plans for the administration building make provision for 70 or 80 parking spaces, underground.

He added that lot D is already inadequate for the use of those people using the library and modern languages building, and, since the government will not provide funds for the construction of parking buildings, it will be impossible to rectify this situation.

The university could get mortgages to build parking structures but then it would have to charge about 50 cents a day for parking and most people are not willing to pay that much, he said.

“In the future, theater nights could be held in the new theater, which is within close walking dist-

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An “acting” administration at Sir George Williams University may have been responsible for the incident in february, and past president of the Waterloo faculty association Bob Huang doesn’t like the similar situation that is developing in the administration here.

At the june 19 board of governors meeting, Huang questioned the number of deans who are taking sabbatical leaves this year.

Engineering dean Archie Sherbourne, math dean David Sprott and grad-studies dean George Cross are taking sabbaticals and will be replaced by acting deans for the year.

8 Also in acting capacity for the next year will be administration president Howard Petch, academic vice. president Jay Minas, arts dean Warren Ober, and english departmgnt head Christopher MacRae. Presently vacant are the positions of provost and head of the phys-ed school. The latter became vacant may 31 when Dan Pugliese resigned.

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Huang said there were so many people in acting capacities at Sir George that “it was a comedy of errors. ..nobody knew who was to make the decisions. ” Huang particularly questioned whether deans should be taking sabbatical leaves the same way a faculty member without administrative responsibility would. “It is not the practice in Canada,” he said.

Petch replied that Sprott’s case was special and he felt the sabbatical should be allowed. “Perhaps I was ‘wrong in letting deans Sherbourne and Cross go,” he said.

Petch added that since deans are now serving on a term basis, rather than being career administrators, they need to keep up their research so they can get back into regular faculty work after their terms are completed.

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ante to another parking lot,” Lobban added.

Philosophy prof Rolf George criticized the administration’s proposal on the grounds that it was based on the assumption that the administration building should be centrally located.

He said that since most faculty and students would rarely use such a building, it should be peripherally located.

“Perhaps we could retain a few offices on south campus for fee payments and information, and to provide the president and a few others with centrally located offices, but there is certainly no need to have the whole administration in the center of the campus.”

Someone else suggested the coordination and placement off ices could go in the engineering complex.

Sabat added, “If the phys-ed complex is going to be used for registration and examinations for the next ten years, isn’t this another reason for having the administration building in that area?”

Philsophy prof Jan Narveson suggested that for co-op students using the coordination and place-

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ment departments, a walk from the engineering building or computer center to north campus would not be much farther than to lot D. “Eventually we hope to have a fine arts building on campus. Lot D would be the logical location for it, as we would hope that people from all faculties would use it,” “Besides, all acaadded Narveson. demic ‘buildings are more import-ant than the administration building, so it should obviously go somewhere else.”

“That depends on your point of view,” said Lobban.

“There,” said Narveson, “you’ve admitted your premises. ” “Many faculties want to reserve space on south campus for their future expansion”, said Lobban.

“It’s time we put a lid on the population there. ” Pure math prof Henry Crapo said,“We’ve come to the point where the enrolment for south campus has reached it’s proposed peak, and there are as yet no buildings on north campus which continued

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Limit campus to academic “The university community should be governed by the laws of the land except for academic regulations and physical maintenance. ” This was Federation of Students president Tom Patterson’s viewpoint which initiated a lengthy discussion on student discipline at the june 19 meeting of the university act committee.

The committee has been meeting for several months to draft the act required by provincial legislature to empower a governing body.

As well as rejecting the idea of the university acting as the students’ guardian, Patterson objected that the disciplinary jurisdiction section of the drafted act excluded employees of the university and faculty members.

University lawyer Stewart Mank felt since faculty and staff were under written contract they should not be subject to university disciplinary measures.

However board of governors rep Craig Davidson pointed out that students, by paying their fees when they enrol, have a contract similar to faculty and staff and should therefore have similar freedom and restrictions.

Father Zac Ralston of St. Jerome’s College backed Patterson, explaining that since there is no difference between faculty and students under general law any decisions for university jurisdiction must not discriminate either.

Committee chairman Ted Batke suggested the university should restrict its authority to academic regul&ions.

As the general consensus was unfavorable to the present draft, Mank was asked to draw up a revised draft and submit it at the1 next committee meeting.

Batke went on to outline several proposals affecting the chancellor and chairman of the governing council which had been brought forward by the steering committee.

The chancellor could either be chairman of council or be kept separate by electing a vicechancellor to serve as chairman.

Present chancellor Ira Needles felt since the chancellorship was an honorary position with few duties, it should be given to someone “of high standing in his par-

courts offenses titular field in society” and the term be shortened from six years to three in order to grant the position to more people.

The committee decided since the university president is responsible to the board he could not be council chairman: After further discussion the committee decided the present section which provides for a chancellor and chairman from external members of the council should be retained at the same time shortening the term from six to three years.

Adoption of a suitable name for the governing body of the university, membership restrictions, and attendance of the board were also discussed.

The committee will recommend that the governing body be called the council of governors and membership terms be limited to three years with a maximurn of two terms concurrent.

Students elected to the board will have one year terms with a two term maximum.

The council membership was set at approximately 68 members.

Attendance at council meetings was discussed and Needles suggested “If we can’t get people to come to at least half of the meetings then maybe we aren’t getting the right people.”

A motion was passed raising compulsory attendance to fifty percent of the meetings, the council having permission to grant leave of absence to its members.

The next meeting, to more or less finalize the university act draft, will be held in july.

Three students killed in crash Three civil 4A students were killed early thursday morning when their car rammed a pole on Phillip street near the intersection with Albert street.

The driver, Jim Thomson. was pronounced dead at the scene. Tim Myall was dead on arrival at hospital and John Graham died about an hour later.

Three other classmates were injured in the crash. Guido Rinks and Bob Connelly are in hospital.

Barry Russell was hurt. but not seriously.

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The question of full-time lecturers in mathematics being full-time graduate students at the same time was raised at the last meeting of the board of governors, but left unresolved.

Faculty association president Jim Ford asked math dean David Sprott if any of the eleven fulltime lecturers whose appointments were contained in Sprott’s latest report were degree candidates here-whether they were both full-time lecturers and grad students at the same time.

Sprott replied that most of them were full-time grad students here.

“I was under the impression this was being studied” said Ford.

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rch committee, the guest would give a public scholarly address on a topic of his choice. “That way we can tell what they feel is important,” Kouwen said.

The address would be followed by a question period.

After all visits are completed, the committee intends to rank the candidates, noting any objections they have heard expressed.

The name of the highest ranking candidate will be sent to the senate and board of governors fdr their consideration.

Council had no objections to the proposal and agreed candidates should be asked to meet with the executive of the federeration during their visits.

The presidential search committee expects to invite from four to six potential Uniwat presidents to campus for interviews and meetings with faculty, administration and students, student council was told Saturday.

Grad rep Nick Kouwen and three other students sit on the committee which is now meeting regularly in closed sessions.

Kouwen sought council’s general approval for a procedure whereby candidates will visit the campus for about two days, their visits being well publicized in advance.

In addition to meetings with senior administration and the sea-

An institute on campus has been set up to serve as a point of contact for people in various academic fields who share an interest in logic.

The Institute of Formalization has been organized by professor Jay Minas, Peter Schotch,

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Lobban agreed that there will probably be-severe overcrowding on south campus for a year or so.

At this point someone proposed a motion that the group present take a stand against any building being located in lot D now. Th& motion was seconded and ,greeted

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l heard student activities board chairman Louis Silcox report that the format of grad ball may be drastically changed next year since this year’s estimated $100 a couple total cost is prohibitive.

“Wk’re thinking of having a weekend affair later in the summer, probably at a resort. with more fun and games, at about $25 a couple,” he said.

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with applause from the audience.

The motion was ignored by the chair and more discussion ensued.

Mike Corbett, arts 3, suggested all the alternatives for the site in question be considered.

“Then if it is decided a building should be there, the next logical question is ‘what building? ’ ” Lobban answered, “The administration building”.

At this point the chairman was reminded there was a motion on the floor that should be voted on.

Lobban asked interim administration president Howard Petch if it was appropriate to take a vote on the motion. “It doesn’t matter,” Petch replied.

A vote was taken and the motion carried.

in EngSoc coffers dination relations studies have its reports out soon.

The chairman . reported at tuesday’s EngSoc meeting that so far there have been suggestions the money be invested, used for a bookstore, or put toward building a pub- “a big barn to get stoned in.”

The fund committee chairman also noted a suggestion that engineers radicalize themselves and take over the farmhouse on campus to use as a pub or a retreat. He said, “The idea was given as a joke, but the more you think about it . .. ” The coordination advisory council rep reported the council has almost completed its first coor-

Mass communications MONTREAL (GINS)-The revolt by students and the poor against a political and social system that suppresses individuality in favor of the mass is also a revolt against mass communications, federal communications, minister Eric Kierans said last week.

Newspapers and television are fatally out of step with a social shift that stresses individual choice rather than mass tastes, he told a conference on mass communication and society at McGill University.

In their conventional form they face death by public indifference.

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summer unemployment, if one is held. No fit’rancial outlay will be made other than for local publicity; l received-and tabled the housing report n! forarts rep Jim Stendebach f;r. further mer action after the September rush foi housing. Stendebach recommended council build or push the administration to construct apartment-style accomodation for Waterloo students ; l on a motion of math rep Dave Greenberg, unanimously passed a resolution “that there be no dean of men at the University of Waterloo. ” President Tom Patterson reported to council that interim administration president Howard Petch is anxious that such a post be filled to take over some of the work formerly handled by the provost.

Councillors felt the functions Petch suggests the dean of men would have are being looked after by other offices in the university such as counselling and the federation.

Greenberg noted, “It seems like an attempt to channel communications between the administration and council-a separation, rather than a link.”

Richard Dewey and others.

“Communication between the various types of logic users has not been good,” Schotch stated.

The institute is sponsoring tuesday afternoon seminars in room 5158 of the math building.

The fund committee of EngSoc is looking for ideas on how best to use the engineer’s money.

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“It has been under study since we discovered this situation while discussing salaries in the spring,” replied interim administration president Howard Petch. “It is obviously not a proper situation.”

Faculty Association past president Bob Huang said, “We were in agreement then that this situation would not continue, but here we are perpetuating it. ” Petch wondered if by september the lecturers involved would have changed their status, but Spr,ott said they wouldn’t.

The discussion was ended by board chairman Carl Pollock who said, “I’m sure the president pro-tern can work this out with you.”

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At last Saturday’s meeting, student council: l learned that a mail vote of council members approved education board chairman Dave Cubberley and University of Western Ontario grad student Bob Baldwin as federation summer research assistants ; l was told that the board of education will distribute the McGill birth control pamphlet to freshmen at registration ; l agreed to consult with federation chief justice Mike Robinson over the fate of the arts society. His advice will go to the committee of society and federation presidents which will supervise fall elections for the arts society, before its fees are turned over after registration ; l heard board of governors observer Glenn Berry call the recent board meeting “a depressing experience. ” Berry said the board closed its meeting at 2 pm for a private session and threw out the student observers.

“One member said, ‘Now we get to tell the dirty jokes,“’ Berry reported ; l approved $400 from the external relations board conferences budget for the local Student Christian Movement to send four delegates to the SCM national conference; l decided not to send representatives to the second rebuilding conference of the Canadian Union of Students in july ; l gave its support and agreed to urge participation in a CUS-sponsored national day of protest over

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Council w*as i*nfor*med that the course critiques will be distributed next week.

The meeting ended with a long discussion of the purpose of EngSot. Most felt it should be more than just a social club and should do more in education, such as the lecture series and course critiques.

No concrete proposals came out of the discussion but there was a general resolve to try to involve more students in EngSoc and university affairs.

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Council Student council is all in favor of handing over more decisionmaking powers to the general federation membership.

The problem is how best to do it.

In a go-minute brainstorming session Saturday, councillors talked over possible reforms to general meeting and referendum pro-, cedures and methods for constituencies to recall council members whose performance displeases them.

Federation president Tom Patterson introduced the topic by saying council needs to relate more closely to the federation membership.

“When people feel they have an effect on decisions, their interest increases,” he said.

Patterson feels the present system means students alienate their relationship with things in the university to another group of students who go off and attempt to represent them. “But it is hard for council to know their opinion. ’ ’ He suggested referendums called by a certain percentage of the student population should be binding on the federation and not subject to council approval as they are now.

Also council reps should be subject to recall if they aren’t doing their jobs-a procedure which would mean councillors would be more closely watched by their constituents than they are now.

“We should change the structure to make. the base of the federation stronger,” Patterson concluded.

Grad rep Dave Gordon suggested more power in the hands of the general membership might lead to irresponsible decisions.

Patterson replied, “I think you’ll find when people become involved in the decision-making

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l According to a count published in Wednesday’s Gazette, “the board of governors ratified reports involving 117 changes (appointments, leaves, etc.), including administrative appointments among faculty members, l Included in the 117 changes was the “resignation” of poli-sci prof Don Epstein. Epstein’s contract was not renewed by the poli-sci department, a decision that upset several junior faculty members and many students.

Epstein says he didn’t submit resignation and wasn’t asked to.

Arts dean Jay Minas said, “When a guy is hired on a term basis and his appointment expires, I don’t know if it even needs to go to the board of governors for approval.” l The board approved formation of the division of environmental studies, with Leonard Gertler as director of the urban and regional planning school, T.E. Bjornstad as director of the architecture ’ school, and Robert Irving as geography department chairman. l The firm of Mathers and Haldenby was proposed for the list of approved university architects.

“I know Mr. Haldenby very well and am very pleased to move the appointment,” said board member George Craig.

The board appointed the firm to design the proposed architecture school building. l Approval in principle was given for a proposed 350-bed Renison college residence, to be ready for 1971 occupancy.

Financing will be arranged through the university with the Ontario student housing corporation, similar to financing of Habitat ‘69.

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. process, they make more knowledgeable decisions.

I’d rather People learn from mistakes than have us protecting them from having to make decisions.”

Math rep Dave Greenberg said he would like to see bylaw amendments so referendums would have to be held within a specified period of time. As well he was not happy with general meetings having much decision-making power. “I would rather see a group at a general meeting call a referendum on an issue,“, he said.

Patterson defended decisionmaking meetings because “it helps if people feel their decision is important and not just a recommendation to council. ” Publications board chairman Geoff Roulet added that it is not so much the problem of a few people at a meeting making a decision but the matter of publicity and timing of general meetings.

Grad rep Nick Kouen suggested agendas for general meetings be published and no additions to them allowed.

Patterson commented that it is important that anything people want to discuss be talked about, but perhaps such matters could be referred to a referendum, to student council or another specially-called general meeting.

Former federation president Steve Ireland noted that corporate general meetings need almost three weeks’ notice so out-term students can vote by proxy. However such a long period of time would be awkward in dealing with current and controversial issues, he said.

The alternative would in effect disenfranchise those people not on campus. This would be a particular problem during the summer when the great majority of students are not in classes.

Ireland backed the idea of in-

dividual members being subject to impeachment.

“The problem with the uproar last fall wasn’t that there was a radical council, it was that many members, the so-called moderates, were not doing their jobs. Students in each constituency should have recalled their own reps if they weren’t satisfied, rather than sought the removal of the whole council,” he said.

Ireland suggested all important votes in council -be recorded and possibly published so students know how, their reps are voting.

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A number of councillors noted that the impeachment of individual reps in multi-member constituencies could lead to problems.

Renison rep Paul Dube cited a hypothetical situation where four reps were elected, three of whom tended to the left in their political thought. Students in a constituency could have the non-leftist member recalled, forcing a byeelection in which another person of their persuasion could be elected, he said.

Arts rep Larry Caesar suggested that if one rep was recalled,

there should be a whole new election for all seats in that constituency.

Gordon commented, “If you have too many elections, people will get tired of voting.

They just won’t come out.”

Council referred the entire question to a committee of Roulet, Kouwen, engineering rep Tom Boughner and communications commissioner Barry Fillimore.

The group will prepare a report for the august council meeting and amendments to the federation bylaws may be ready for fall.

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TORONTO (CUP)-The committee on student affairs at Glendon College yesterday ruled that student union president Robert McGaw was discourteous in his attempt to make an unscheduled speech at the college’s may 31 convocation ceremonies.

At the same time, however, the committee, an advisory body of seven faculty members and seven students, passed a motion recommending “channels be created for all future Glendon College functions to allow a statement of opinion in a courteous manner for a limited period by those in attendance. ” By doing so, the committee endorsed the stand taken by McGaw in a statement circulated by students at yesterday’s meeting which said, “It is my hope that COSA will recommend future formal gatherings provide for and schedule the recognition of speakers from the audience.”

McGa w said, “This follows upon the assumption that all members of the community have the right

unscheduled to make their beliefs known at any formal gathering which concerns the quality or direction of life at Glendon College. ” There were no formal charges against McGaw, who did not appear before the committee.

The convocation incident was discussed at the request of Glendon principal Escott Reid, who asked the committee in a memorandum “to consider what penalties should be imposed on McGaw.” The recommendation of the committee to ask that steps be taken in the future to allow unscheduled speeches was felt by some members to be in opposition to the opinions of York president Murray Ross’s office.

History lecturer I.M. Abella, chairman of the committee, said that during the past two weeks he has received “frantic phone calls” from the president’s office that ‘urged action in case this incident opens the way for students to speak at other university functions. ”

business

l The board approved a $150,000 allotment from the 1969-70 operating budget for library acquisitions at the discretion of the chief librarian.

This brings the budget amount for acquisitions for 1969-70 to about $800,000.

The board was told that about $400,000 was spent in acquisitions in 1968-69. l Administration treasurer Bruce Gellatly announced an income of about $340,000 from shortterm investments of operating capital in the year ending june 1969.

The board accepted the plan to put this money in the capital fund rather than use it in operating. l The board approved increases ‘in the student health insurance fee to a maximum of $25 single and $75 family, subject to further approval by the federation of Students and academic-services director Pat Robertson.

The present rates are $10 single and $45 family, both for a one-year period.

The major portion of the increase is due to the doctors’ demands for fee-for-service payment rather than taking a salary.

Editor slugged, charges laid Campus security police were called to the Chevron offices in the campus center last friday night to investigate a complaint by editor Bob Verdun.

Verdun told the officers that while he was talking on the telephone, two men entered his office, one of whom began punching him.

Charges of assault against Ron Adlington, phys-ed ZB, are pending.

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“7s this the way we%e supposed to put these rubber things on,?” ctI don ‘t know, I’ve never been to a gangsplash before. ”

speeches Neither Ross nor his chief assistant, John Becker, were available for comment.

Abeila said, regarding McGaw’s convocation actions, “We are supposedly an experimental college, yet our convocation ceremony was the most tradition-bound thing....Deep down, I feel there is justification for what McGaw did. ” Abella also told the committee that he and other’ faculty members had asked members of the graduating class if they were angry or offended enough to lodge a formal complaint against McGaw with COSA. All asked refused to do so, he said.

While the college committeewas meeting, ten Glendon students had formed an ad hoc board of inquiry and drew up a statement which “condemned and censured principal Reid and president Ross for their reaction to McGaw’sattempt to speak to the Glendon College convocation. ” When McGaw attempted to speak, officials near the podium cut off the sound system, effectively silencing McGaw , and then called a quick end to the ceremonies.

The student statement said “The repression of freedom of speech in this instance can only be seen as an indication that Glendon College like Canadian society, will only accept dissent on its own terms, and will not tolerate challengers to its established ideas and structures. ” It went on to say, “Not only do president Ross’ and principal Reid’s actions show that hey do not accept the principle of free speech in the university it also showed that there does not appear to be any qualitative difference between the suppression of Iegitimate non-violent protest and the use of police against demonstrators at Simon Fraser University last fall. In each case, an effort was made to single out and punish individual leaders.”

The statement, which was read during the formal committee meeting, did not have much visible effect on the committee members, who had decided to accept McGaw’s principle of free speech, although in a “channelled” manner.

The college committee also heard a letter of support from Martin Loney and Jim Kehoe, presidents-elect of CUS and OUS respectively.

Also, Jim Martin, president of the traditionally conservative Glendon College residence council, wrote that he strongly opposed any penalty for McGaw, and said that in any community “it is more important to have free speec,h rather than scheduled speech.”

The three Glendon students who distributed watermelon when McGaw attempted his unscheduled speech were not discussed by the committee. friday

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The presidents of Ontario’s provincially-assisted universities have proposed a form of limited merger which they think will preserve academic autonomy and keep the government out of their hair.

The proposal is for a council of universities of Ontario which would have power to make decisions binding on each university in areas of common concern.

On such questions the council would be the exclusive point of contact between the universities and the government, which now supplies almost all the money the universities need for operating costs and capi ta1 expansion.

In some respects, the proposal is similar to the recommendation for a super University of Ontario made two-and-a-half years ago by the Spinks commission-a recommendation which the universities rejected in horror as a threat to their individual independence.

The commission, headed by president John Spinks of the University of Saskatchewan, had in mind a corporation to which all the universities would belong and which would coordinate university programs, establish long-range plans and direct university growth. Such an organization, the commission said, would give the academic community “the opportunity of regulating its own affairs and reduces or even eliminates the likelihood the government will have to impose regulations and restrictions upon the universities.”

The same considerations, if not quite the same solution, are behind the presidents’ proposal for a council of universi-ties. In a document which has been submitted to the academic communities for comment, they declare that while the concept of a University of Ontario has “the universities recogbeen rejected, of coordination and nize the necessity

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system-wide planning which implies a capacity for the collectivity to make judgments which infringe on the autonomy of individual institutions.”

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This coordination and planning, up to now, has been done by the committee of presidents of the universities of Ontario, and it has some undeniable achievements to its credit. A common admissions procedure has been developed; an inter-university library transit system - for sharing library resources is in operation ; an appraisals committee has been set up to evaluate new graduate programs and thereby eliminate duplication in a highly costly area.

But this progress has not been enough to keep the government at arm’s length.

On the graduate programs appraisal system, for example, the best agreement the universities could reach amongst themselves was that each institution would be free to decide whether or not, to submit its graduate programs to appraisal.

The government, not satisfied with this, promptly announced that only appraised programs would qualify for government grants.

Similarly, the universities managed to agree among themselves on a proposal for a computer network, the effect of which would have placed a very expensive computer centre in almost every university. The government promptly hired its own consultants and decided that regional computers should be a public utility independent of university control.

MISCALCULATION

The conimittee of presidents also struck out last year when it badly overestimated enrolment forecasts, the effect of which was to produce more money from the public treasury under the operating grants formula than was needed.

The government was decidedly unha,ppy about this and now views the universities’ satistical research with the deepest sus-

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Perhaps most important of all, however, the committee of presidents has not been structurally competent to do what has to be done. It has lacked the staff for intensive research and analysis, with the result that the real initiation of ideas comes from the government’s advisory committee on university affairs.

And since it consists only of university administrators, it has lacked the political authority so to speak, to represent the academic community as a whole.

Accordingly, the presidents have decided their committee should be replaced by a council consisting of the president and a colleague from each university, the colleague being either a professor or a student elected by the university’s academic body. The council would in turn be advised by four program committees-arts and science, health sciences, other professions and graduate studieson which each university would be represented by a dean or senior officer and a faculty member or student.

Since there are 14 publicly-assisted universities in the province, there would be 70 positions in the structure to be filled and therefore considerable opportunity for faculty and student representation.

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proposal discreetly The presidents’ speaks of the decisions of the council as policies “for the guidance of individual universities” but it is quite clear that in matters requiring collective action, each university would be bound by the council’s judgment.

A submission from the council to the government on what the basic income unit in the operating grants formula should be, for example, would not be open to challenge by individual universities.

Nor would a decision on the development of new programs such as where new university teaching hospitals or new bibliographic centres should be.

So far, reactions have been received

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from the senates of about half the universities involved, and all have indicated agreement in principle to what the presidents have in mind. A meeting of the committee of presidents is scheduled for june 23 to consider the next step forward.

At least one major difficulty, however, has already been indicated.

The committee of presidents has operated on one man, one vote but the University of Toronto, for one, has indicated that voting in the proposed council will have to recognize “differences in size and scope of the participating institutions.”

Like the United Nations, some are going to have to be more equal than others. which raises quite a problem.

See& names for Hagey lecturers If you know anyone worth listening to, make him a Hagey lecturer.

A committee is organizing the series for february 1970, naming it after for, mer administration president Gerry Hagey. The lecturers chosen will visit here for several days and deliver a major lecture.

Interim administration president Howard Petch has invited students and faculty to suggest names for the committee to consider.

The Hagey Lectures, to become an annual event, are intended to bring to Waterloo “an outstanding individual who has distinguished himself in some area of scholarly endeavour. ” The committee’s terms of reference continue, “It is hoped that individuals will be selected whose work has cut across traditional disciplines and whose ideas have profound implicatons on the intellectual discourse of our times.”

The committee members are professors Bob Huang and Jay Minas.

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It also appears we’re going to have a new building on lot D. The architect was particularily concerned with a an unobstructed view of the library from two points. This obviously is ‘a scapegoat because those two points would be the only two points on campus where one would be awarded such a view. How does the library look from the math building? or engineering? or Minota Hagey?

-Of course everyone at the “democratic” meeting objected to losing a parking lot. Well fans, the writing’s on the wall-no more parking lots. They take up. too much space for too few cars.

By 1971 all cars will park on the north campus and people will be bussed in. The bus drivers will wear t1.e old blue campus cop uniforms which they will get from central stores.

Central stores will wear the green campus cop uniforms. And the campus

Have you all noticed the sod on sick bay? Well, PP&P have and _they’re going to do something about it. They’re going ’ to finish the job.

That’s the latest bit of news I have been fed by my secret informer high in their staff.

Plans call for things to be sodded, planted and landscaped with a rest area, within the next few weeks.

I can only concur with this decision. I also apologize to Mr. Lobban for thinking the island was an accident.

Apparently it was known that a large amount of silt and stuff would be washed downstream this spring, so they did not waste money making an island. Also the move is an economy measure.

PP&P suffered many complaints when Laurel lake was dredged last year although-as Al Adlington pointed out, those funds do not come out of the library budget.

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For a change of pace I will now offer you a brief glimpse into my mastery of political economics.

Canada should declare war on the Canary Islands, where the climate is nice for fighting. Having declared war, we would be required to leave the U.N. Having left the U.N., we would save money by not having to pay dues. And maybe there would be an embargo placed on Canadian oil which wouldn’t go to the U.S. before it’s sold back to us. And the same for the major portion of our manufactured stuff. We’d be independent!

That’s what countries are all about.

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Find out at the arts theater, july 1, 2 and 3, about little Malcolm’s struggle against the eunuchs-with Paul-Emile Frappier as Scrawdyke, Ian Gaskell as “Nipple”, Nick Rees as Wick, ,Dave Ditner as Ingham, and Pat Conner as Ann Gedge.

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BOUT A DECADE AGO an academic joke was in circulation that went as follows: Two rabbis stood on the fringe of the crowd that listened to the Sermon on the Mount. As it ended, one turned to the other and said, “A wonderful teacher. But has he published anything?”

There were of course many such gags, more or less rueful acknowledgements of the accepted slogan of the time: “Publish or perish.” I am not fond of slogans, and and I particularly dislike that one. It is no denigration of scholarship to say that universities have for too long been giving unthinking heed to the “publish or perish” perversion.

As one notes what is going on in them in 1969 and reads what has been written about them in the past two or three years, by the Muscatine Committee at Berk the Committee at Toronto, the Prices Macpherson and Incomes Board of the United Kingdom, and a hundred intermediary observers, one message comes through more clearly than any other. Although I mistrust slogans, I propose summing up that message in four words that may constitute a sufficiently succinct rejoinder to “Publish or perish”: “Teach-or get lost.”

Let me make three qualifications.

First, although I have no doubt about the applicability of this new motto to the sciences, what I am going to say is concerned mainly with the humanities.

I shall not try to define that word. I have been told by one in authority that the Science Council of Canada understands the word “science” to mean “scientia”.

If that evidence of an official revival of interest in the classics could possibly be taken to mean a swing away from the fashionable compartmentalization of knowledge, I should have been glad to hear it; it meant no such thing.

Second, I shall be talking mainly about Canadian universities, because they are the only ones that I am reasonably familiar with. I do not admit that they are shoddy replicas of the universities of the United States, though it is of ten difficult to persuade either Canadians or Americans of this.

Finally, I have not been in a classroom, and scarce11 in a library, for five years, and what I have to say is based on discussion, observation, and debate over university problems in that period, with faculty, students, and administrators on almost every campus in Canada.

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* * * My thesis is that the essential functions of universities include an element that tends to be forgotten or ignored, though it is supremely important if universities are to be places of education rather than &$n&&s~s; that the relation of the humanities to that element is one of special responsibility ; that teaching is the principal means of their discharging that responsibility; and that teaching implies a wider range of concern than is commonly recognized.

It is almost forty years since Ortega y Gasset wrote, in The Mission of the University: Of what does this higher instruction consist, which is offered in the university to the vast legion of youth? It consists of two things: (A) The teaching of the learned professions.

(B) Scientific research and the preparation of future investigators.

He went on to comment,

a little later:

Compared with the medieval university, the contemporary university has developed the mere seed of professional instruction into an enormous activity; it has added the function of research; and it has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture.

It is evident that the change has been pernicious.

Ortega was not, then, describing what he wanted to see, but what he did see; and he sounded a call for change, which was soon lost in the din of civil war. He was of course speaking of Europe, where an inherited elitism continued to exert profound influence.

The effect of North American egalitarianism (by which I do not mean equality),- technological change, and material prosperity has been to convince every American and Canadian middle-class taxpayer that every one of his children ought to be allowed to go to university for at

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The result of the operation of such forces, combined with those of population pressure, we all know: Universities are simultaneously stirred to tumultuous strife by overcrowding and attacked for having admissions policies that limitenrolment. This ought not to surprise us; greed for gain inevitably implies unwillingness to pay taxes.

The result, however, is that universities lose both effectiveness and sense of purpose. I was told recently, when I visited one of the more agonized campuses, that only one textbook was in regular use-Roberts’ Rules of Order. The other day, when I reported that jocularly to a faculty member elsewhere, he gave me a solemn fiveminute discourse on the inadequacies of Roberts!

There- are various theories about the function of a university in our time, but I suppose that on one or two points we might tentatively agree: that a university must have as a central concern the imparting and extension of knowledge, and that it must be engaged in the pursuit of that elusive and perhaps illusory light that we call truth. Alfred North Whitehead held that the knowledge so dealt with must be useful: Pedants sneer at an education which is useful. But if education is not helpful, what is it? Is it a talent, to be hidden away in a napkin? Of course,. education should be useful, whatever your aim in life.

This, however, seems to me to beg the question, how do we identify the useful? Every age has its fashions in utility. It was extremely useful in the eleventh century to be able to comment appropriately on the word filioque; indeed, it might be vital. Its utility in our time must be marginal at best.

The current fashion runs to measuring utility in terms of buying and selling and the gross national product, other things being at best peripheral, though they may of course be made much of for purposes of advertising and so appear useful.

For example: Some time ago there appeared in the Saturday Evening Post a full-page advertisement for a basically useful paper product. Five-sixths of the page was occupied by a glossy photograph of a common household article. Below it was this searching question, directad at the Age of Anxiety: “Have you ever given thought to the lowly little cardboard tube inside a roll of toilet tissue?

Challenge calls for response, of course. Here is part of the text that followed: We at Lae do. In fact, we have several grown men who think about it constantly.

And they take that little cardboard tube Avery seriously indeed. (“Gentlemen, this tube is the backbone of our product.“) . . . But if you think we check our tubes a lot, you should see what goes on with our tissue We have an even larger group of grown men who think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day. . . . When all the Zee tissue thinkers and the Zee tube thinkers have finished their wowk. what results is one of the best darn rolls of toilet tissue a-marbody could ever want.

We had better ask whether grown men who think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day are doing anything Ihat is not sub-human rather than useful, and go on to rude anestions about the science that they must have studied’ Lr\fore the Zee company employed them.

Also, we had better ask about the man who wrote the advertisement.

He had, I fear, majored in English, and had at all events learned, as an advertiser must, to tell lies slickly for profit. Was he also a graduate of an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the dissemination of useful knowledge?

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We are all troubled by the unrest of students, threats-sometimes turned into actions-of revolt, denial of the ways of their elders.

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Had we not better consider whether catering to the needs of a society of tissue thinkers and tube thinkers is a proper function of a university?

The students seem not to want to be tissue thinkers and tube thinkers-and who can blame them?

Let me add at once that the unrest and the revolt are not confined to a small number who are “just troublemakers”.

The extreme activists may be relatively few, but they are simply the leading edge of what may well be a massive and turbulent storm. Andrew Kipkind has recently commented on events in California. especially at San Francisco State College, in an article that he called “America’s student class war”. We have got to recognize that it is the basic assumptions of North American plutocracy that are being challenged.

If in Canada we are so foolish as to suppose that we are exempt from the problem, we had better awaken to the fact that in a country where 42.9% of university students come from families in the upper 17.8 percent of the total labor force, the invitation to revolution is pressing.

It is a commonplace that the repugnance, Llre loneliness, the distress of students in our time are products of alienation.

Alienation is no new -phenomenon.

Herbert Marcuse, who has been examining its development and effects for several decades, points out that it was described at the very beginning of the industrial revolution, and quotes Schiller : . . .enjo yment is separated from labor, the means from the end, exertion from recompense.

Eternally fettered only to a single little fragment of the whole, man fashions himself only as a fragment; ever hearing only the monotonous whirl of the wheel which he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and, instead of shaping the humanity that lies in his nature, he becomes a mere’ imprint of his occupation, his science.

No reader of Victorian prose--Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, Mills, Morris,-can fail to recognize the passionate, horrified preoccupation of those writers with that theme; nor is it difficult to trace its course down to this present hour of protests, sit-ins, confrontations, violent and otherwise.

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We ought, if not to abandon our attempts to define the functions of a university in terms of knowledge, at least to go beyond it and to speak about life.

The most pervasive concern of the university must be concern for the growth and nourishment of the life of the mind. It is folly to commit ourselves deeply to fact, because, as Matthew Arnold noted, fact constantly fails us. What is needed is commitment to life, and for a university that means commitment to intellectual life: its awakening, its sustenance, its enrichment.

This implies no aridity: the life of the intellect involves not only analysis and theorizing, but judgment, sensitivity, imagination, and a continuing sense of the limitations of reason and the significance of the nonrational; it implies joy and laughter, for I take Shaw’s view that all intellectual work is deeply comical.

We ought, too, to say rather less about the pursuit of truth and rather more about the search for wisdom.

For how many restless students does Salinger’s Franny speak? “‘I don’t think it would have_ & all .. . got XC yurte so’ down if just once in a wh+ - just once in a while-there was at least ~;srne polite little perfunctory implication that kno F&edge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn’t, it’s just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a camthat wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledqe. You hardly ever hear the word ‘wisdom’ mentioned!

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If the word wisdom is pretentious, substitute for it, as Aldous Huxley ing”.

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Citing the tiords of poet e.e. Cummings to illustrate the humanities backlash against natural sciences, a noted Canadian professor makes this urgent plea to university instructors.

I do not know whether our society is more inimical to the life of the mind than other societies have been. It is clear, however, that simply by living in 20th-century North America we participate in a society in which alienation is almost all-pervasive and is growing deeper.

Thanks to technology and the managerial revolution, life for countless thousands of college graduates-our enlightened citizenry-consists in moving daily, by some more or less ugly mechanical means, from a set of high-rise filing cabinets where they live to a set of high-rise filing cabinets where they work, and back.

A little later, they may acquire one of those ticky-tacky little boxes about which Pete Seeger sings.

I suggest that it is not the function of a university simply to participate in that process of dislocation, but on the contrary to strengthen the power of the individual to resist its deadening influence and to inspire him with the will to change it.

That the problem is an individual one is certain; that to resolve it, in a society hysterically dedicated to mass production, may be impossible is also certain; that if the universities do not make a full, imagina-t?ve, strenuous effort to meet the challenge they will be both committing and contributing to suicide seems to me most certain of all.

Wild and whirling words, by a distraught academic who has been seeing spectres? As a corrective, let me draw your attention to two sentences by one of the more tough-minded conservatives of this century, the aging Walter Lippmann.

In an address that he gave in 1967 at an otherwise dismal conference on “The University in Ameica”, he said this: The thesis which l am putting to you is that the modern void, which results from the vast and intricate arocess of emancipation and rationalization, must be G/led, and that the universities must fill the void because they alone can fill it.

Ke concluded, . . .in the

modern age, as the ancestral order of ussge and authority dissolves, there exists a spiritual and ntellectual vacuum of discipline and guidance which, n the last analysis, can be filled only by the universal :ompany of scholars, supported and protected and enFouraged by their universities.

Such a conception of a university’s function carries wo corollaries that are intermittently the subject of rgument and must be faced. The first is that a uniersity must assert values. A few months ago, at the nnual meeting of the Association of Universities and ‘alleges of Canada, there was a period of strange and lmost perverse argument as to whether universities lould make value judgments at all.

Surely a university is an expression of value judgients that knowledge is better than ignorance, that le truth is better than a lie, that freedom is better [an bondage. How far one might extend the list may : open to debate, and certainly the precise meanings the terms used are arguable; but for a university to il to affirm these values, or to dismiss them as if they 2re mere matters of semantic analysis and arrangeent, would be to deny its own essential nature.

ict for social change The second corollary is that a university cannot espe involvement in and responsibility for social ange. t is absurd to suppose that an institution concerned th the extension and dissemination of knowledge, ich through research, laboratory and classroom ltinually transmits ideas and value-judgments, is 1involved in social change. t is hypocritical to encourage habits of analysis and ticism in students and to become indignant when y apply them. We must ask ourselves, as we are nd to be asked, whether we mean what we pros: the stimulation of individual powers of thought, gment, and imagination.

These are dangerous igs, as Robert Stanfield recently noted:

People who spend years in school, and then cannot find a job, are at least going to seriously question our economic and political institutions, and some may be provoked into more destructive action, he said, accord-

ing to a news report. Even those who succeed in finding jobs may be troublesome.

An account of an “executive development seminar” held at York University last november tells of some problems that were aired: By far the greatest emphasis was placed on education-and it was not the opportunities afforded by a better-educated work force that pre-occupied executives, but the problems of making use of this training while &eating conditions for individual development and fulfilment.

The acceptance of personal development as a goal of corporate policy does not mean that corporations have become more bighearted, but only that they recognize that educated persons do not submit readily to the boss-subordinate relationship.

Moreover, educated employees have much greater expectations than unskilled labor, they are more difficult to satisfy and they grow restive in routine work.

Their productivity, although potentially great, is difficult to measure and in many situations appears fairly well belo w potential.

In general, management of the so-called knowledgeworker- is one of the trickiest problems facing executives.

In short, how are we going to make college graduates think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day?

The question to what extent a university may appropriately become involved in direct political activity, and the form that its involvement may take, seems to me highly debatable, and probably determinable only in the context of specific situations.

As an institution within society, supported by public money to carry out public purposes, it cannot place itself above the law or ignore its responsibility to the order and well-being of the state.

But if the state itself engages in actions that are simply destructive of those values that universities cherish, they must become directly engaged, for it is a prime function of universities, especially in the age described

by Lippmann, to challenge continuously the society that they serve. The question, however, is not for discussion here.

My point is simply that universities are, whether they like it or not, constantly involved in the processes of social change; that they must recognize and indeed welcome this fact; and that their teaching function is pre-eminently the means by which they exercise that involvement.

They must teach, or get lost. * * * In a university with these objectives, what should the role of the humanities be? It ought not to be difficult to state, though it may well be difficult to perform.

Have not the humanities, ever since it was remarked that the unexamined life is not worth living, been concerned with prompting man to examine his life? Has it not always been their chief aim to help him to answer the deep inner impulsion that makes him seek the true, the good, and the beautiful? Have they not always been concerned with pursuing wisdom?

Unfortunately, no. Especially not in our time. While dislocation and alienation have become steadily deeper and more pervasive, and the longing of young people for reassurance has grown more desperate, the humanities have largely failed. Nor are the despair and the failure unrelated.

Seduced by the fantastic successes of science, humanists have attempted increasingly to adopt the methods of scientists, in research that has too often been spurious and publications that have too often been exercises in triviality-or, even worse, the resurrection of dead trivialities.

It is not a function of the humanities to ape the sciences. It is their function to challenge them: to challenge their assumptions, their methods, their conclusions, over and over again. This conclusion, for example, by the distinguished anthropologist who is now provost of King’s College, Cambridge:

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Human scientists now have it in their power to redesign the face of the earth, and to decide what kind of species shall survive to inherit it. How they actually use this terrible potentiality must depend on moral judgments, not on reason.

But who shall decide, and how shall we judge? The answer to these questions seems to me repugnant but quite plain: There can be no source for these moral judgments except the scientis t himself

I wonder whether he plans to plant a tree in the midst of the garden. I confess that when confronted by arrogance of that order, I have only breath enough left for a small amount of name-calling borrowed from e.e.

Cummings: While you and I have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with?

I hope not to be misunderstood.

When I speak of the humanities challenging the sciences, I do not mean that they should be generally antagonistic to them.

I do mean that the humanities are concerned with orders of experience that are different from the concerns of the scientists; that it is their function to assert values and point out perspectives that are too easily lost in the scramble for fact; that if the life of the intellect and the search for wisdom are the concern of universities, then both the work of the scientist and that of the humanist must flourish, and they must impinge and indeed play. upon each other; and that in the past fifty years it has been the humanist much more than the scientist who has failed his role.

The scientists is as concerned as anyone with certain values to which I have referred: knowledge, truth, imagination, freedom.

It is a matter of professional responsibility, even narrowly construed, that he be so.

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All the same, Cummings in his quatrain makes the crucial point: that science proceeds by measurementof space, of time, of movement, of weight,‘ of energy, of prices, of capital flow, of brain drains, and so on and on. “Nothing exists”, says Isaac Newton in the Shaw play, “until it is measured. ” And it is just at that point that the humanist must make his rejoinder, as Cummings does. In the subtle interplay of human relations, in the testimony of passion, in the experience of the stealthy approach of spring, there are truths that not even an anthropologist can measure, though it seems that he may be unaware of them.

The humanities must above all be concerned with the examination of these truths, as they are presented in literature, music, philosophy, history, or wherever else, and with the assertion of their validity. Computerstored bibliographies, the tabulation of references to barley in the poems of Thomas Tusser, what someone has called scrimmages for images, and so on, may in their varied and perhaps obscure ways serve that principal end.

The danger in them, especially when their practitioners are seduced by them into playing the game of grantsmanship and so into telling lies about their importance, is that they may simply distract the humanist from his real business.

I suggest that this has been happening on a large scale in the universities; and when I hear students talk about the irrelevance of the humanities, I know what you and I have been doing, and why we have been failing. Perhaps unfortunately, we live in a society that is not tolerant of failure, among students who are not tolerant of irrelevance.

And I return to my theme: Teach, or get lost. * * * I have been arguing that the functions of a university must go well beyond those of extending and imparting knowledge and training people for the professions: that the humanities have a particular and crucial part to play in the performance of those functions; * continued

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A Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University is reported to have said recently that the job of teachers in the future will be not to teach but merely to “direct their pupils to places where they can find the knowledge they want or require”.

For all I know, this may be true of teachers in some fields of study.

For the humanities, it would be difficult to conceive of a more complete dereliction of responsibility than is envisaged is such a statement.

I should argue that the precise reverse is required, and required urgently: that only through a more lively, more \ sympathetic, more challenging, more directly personal and individual contact between teacher and student can universities dissipate that deep sense of - alienation that invades the minds of great numbers of young people. As the Macpherson Report on Undergraduate Instruction in Arts and Science in the University of Toronto has made clear, there is no easy way to achieve this end; but it is not impossible.

The alternative is disaster.

Confronted with massive teaching loads, individual faculty members can scarcely be blamed if they give up; but if they give up, they ought surely to do so candidly and find some other means to a living. I heard recently >of a professor who, confronted with the prospect of,‘teaching a difficult subject in philosophy to a large class, decided simply to tape his lecture. When the class arrived at the lecture-room, they found a tape-recorder set on a table, which someone then turned on. The professor did not appear at all, and after a few minutes the class arose en masse and walked out; and they were right.

The transmission of facts and of at least some kinds of methodology by tape-recorder or like means may be feasible enough. If, however, we are going to depend increasingly (as I think we are) on mechanical devices for these purposes, we are going to have to give correspondingly greater attention and energy to personal discussion of the implications for our students and ourselves of what is studied and learned.

My first observation, then, is that the teacher of the humanities must be prepared to devote more of his time and thought to the needs of his students, even if that means giving less to his research and writing.

What the humanities have to offer is not likely to bring financial rewards, as you and I know, and we ought to be frank about the fact.

No desire for money But one of the genuinely encouraging aspects of the co-called student revolt is that it gives no evidence of being motivated by desire for money.

That is one reason why so many righteous citizens are puzzled and alarmed by it. It does, however, give a great deal of evidence of being motivated by a sense that what is learned and taught at universities should, be “relevant”.

I am not in the least in favor of burning or stealing property or of the violence-onceremoved called the sit-in. We must nonetheless recognize them for what they are-the expression, however wrong-heAded, of deep frustrations and deep desires.

To these the humanities must address themselves.

Almost every student and professor is, whether or not he recognizes it, in the plight described by Lippmann: living in a society in which there is “a spiritual and intellectual vacuum of discipline and guidance”.

The past two or three generations have blown up or analysed away all the kingdoms of heaven in which we once believed, and left us nowhere to look for one but where the founder of Christianity long ago told us it was: within ourselves.

It is precisely to the nourishment and expansion and enrichment of the inner self-the intellectual life, if we construe the phrase broadly-that the humanities can speak best: that is their relevance and their opportunity. The first job of the teacher of the humanities is to increase the effectiveness of their speaking, to explore and enlarge their relevance.

It is because he has or should be expected to have the power to do that job that the teacher is, as Bernard Shaw once remarked, “of all men the most naturally reverenced”.

It is not the failure to accomplish that job that leads to student unrest-it is our failure to attempt it. If the discovery that we are not attempting it sometimes has violent results, we need not be surprised.

The generation that developed the mass air raid has little cause

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to gibe when its successors knock out a few computers.

Every generation recognizes its own enemy, or thinks it does; we all studied Macbeth at some point in our schooling: But in these cases We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice To our own lips,

a comment that suggests one way of making Shakespeare relevant.

My second observation is closely related to the first: that teachers of the humanities will have to share the responsibility for the general well-being of universities in ways that extend beyond the classroom and library. They have, I have said, a special role in the functioning of the university.

One would like to think of it as a particularly civilizing role, the effects of which would be felt throughout the institution.

We are witnessing a very considerable revolution in the structure and governance of universities.

There need be no regret about this fact; a revolution was long overdue. But a revolution always involves the risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

We are in great danger now of having the quality and effectiveness of universities sharply reduced simply ~because, the revolution having been set in motion, we have lost sight of its objectives or failed to refine them as we approached them.

Those objectives are, or were, related especially to the idea of the university as a community.

It was felt that a university ought to be a community, and that it could best achieve its intended purposes if it were to a large extent a self-governing community.

That idea of a university is, surely, a civilized ,and humane one. Nevertheless, the concept of a community does imply government, does not imply that mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. We have failed to deal squarely with that fact, perhaps even to think about it; now we are in danger of seeing those values that are the best objectives of a university, for which the humanities stand most immediately-wisdom and understanding, for example-vanish like smoke, if not in smoke.

I spent two days last week at Sir George Williams University, and I found little evidence of either wisdom before the disaster that occurred there, or understanding afterwards.

The point is that in every university, faculty and students have joined to sweep away the obsolete notion that the university stood in loco parentis toward its members, particularly towards its students. The notion was part of the old order of usage and authority to which Lippmann referred, and it had to go. Faculty and students are almost equally concerned that the university should not simply be subject to the normal devices of authority of the state: hence our deep distaste for the presence of police on our campuses, for example.

Find new authority Our gross mistake lies in bur failure to determine clearly where the locus of authority in the university community should lie and by what means it should be made good.

As a result, we have great universities whose academic affairs are being almost completely obstructed because existing authority is ineffectual and we have not determined how or with what it should be replaced.

In this the faculty, because of its permanent commitment to the university idea, bears the greatest responsibility; teachers of the humanities cannot claim exemption.

In short, then, the professor must, for the well-being of the university and for his own effectiveness within it, be willing to involve himself in aspects of its life that at first glance may appear to be only secondarily related to teaching and research.

I do not suggest that the responsibility of the professor in the humanities is greater than that of others; I suggest that for him the danger, if the idea*of community should disappear, may well be a good deal greater. .

My third observation is in essence a further extension of the first two. It is that universities are confronted with the necessity of making good their case for public support, as never before, and that in this situation the humanities are more threatened than other disciplines and their defences weaker; these things being so, the need-for teachers of the humanities to state

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their case pubiicly is pressing and cannot be avoided.

The difficulties that the universities face in establishing their claim for greater public support arise from three sources.

First, the combination of vastly increased enrolments with rising costs is resulting in larger and larger demands being made on governmental budgets for higher educatiou; nor does the argument of the Economic Council that money so spent is returned many fold seem to carry much weight with provincial treasurers, except perhaps at election time.

Second, the rearrangement of the methods of university financing that resulted from the federalprovincial fiscal arrangement entered into txo years ago, although it may have been politically necessary. has done nothing but harm, in varying degrees. to the great majority of universities.

It has increased both their financial uncertainty and their vulnerability to manipulation by provincial governments or bodies established by them.

Third, the present wave of unrest and occasional wasteful destructiveness is unquestionably and very naturally inducing a corresponding wave of public perplexity, growing in some places to resentment and hostility, directed at the universities.

In none of these matters. can the humanities or we who profess them afford to affect indifference.

One of Herman Hesse’s characters remarks that “as soon as suffering becomes acute enough, one moves forward”.

I have tried to indicate some of the ~ ways in which suffering has entered into the universities, and to suggest the responsibility of the humanities for ’ a movement forward.

I have argued that it is no longer enough-if it ever was-to think of universities as playes for the extension and dissemination of knowledge and the training of the professions; that they must in addition seek and nourish wisdom and be willing to establish and affirm human values; and that in that undertaking the humanities have a special part to play that can be achieved only through teaching. We must teach or we are lost.

There is nothing easy in this. It is in fact a more difficult task than it used to be, not only because of the hostilities of a grossly plutocratic society and the soul-destroying gadgetry of the global village, but because there has recently been a vast change in our perspective of which we have not yet been able to take account.

I remember that in the early months of World War II a classmate of mine asked a professor for some justification of the study of poetry in a period of such tumultuous violence and bloody terror, The professor responded by quoting Thomas Hardy’s little poem, “In the Time of the ‘Breaking of Nations’ “: Only a man harrowing clods In a s/o w silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk.

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass: Yet this will go on ward the same Though Dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her Wight Come whispering by; Wars annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

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Even if good literature entirely lost currency with the world, it would still be abundantly worth while to continue to enjoy it by oneself. But it never will lose currency with the world, in spite of momentary appearances; it never will lose supremacy.

Currency and supremacy are insured to it, not indeed bp the world’s deliberate and conscious choice, but by something far deeper-by the instinct of self-preservation in humanity.

-So Matthew Arnold had written at about the time when that professor was born. But a very few more years passed, and something new was written into war’s annals; and things do not and cannot go onward the same.

My last word must after all be given to a scientist: it ought surely to speak to humanists.

In 1948, in a large auditorium at the University of California, I listened to a talk by Robert Oppenheimer.

His subject was the role and responsibility of the scientist in the nuclear age that had just been born, of which he himself had been one of the more notable midwives. ’ We cannot go back to what used to be, he said, because there is of course no way of doing so. We can go only forward.

If we are to do that and not reap ultimate destruction, we must do so with hope, and courage, and “‘an earnest solicitude for the truth that I can only liken to pra ye/#.

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believe in boycotting California grapes then everybody must pitch in for a publicity campaign. What would it be like in the States if the majority made it a law that everybody must support the one and only official newspaper ? On this campus this expedient, or a social . is merely conscience but if any other government did this it is propaganda.

The issue that is at base in almost all the turmoil of today (on-campus or off) is the question of whether the majority can solidfy their-status quo and morals Suys hgjisti more radical and impress them upon all others. in federation propodS Can a person say he believes in I would like to comment on the freedom, support the draft dodletter

by Philip English (june gers and yet in the next sentence 13) and the reply by Tom Patsay he believes everybody must . terson (june 20). join a federation of students?

Having read both letters I You are like all the rest of thing it is obvious the more the people who want to force staletter. radical was English’s tus ,quo on other people. Teach it His ideas of a truly free univerin the schools, enforce it through sity student government will of the courts, preach it in the pacourse be opposed vehemently pers and take our money to by all those who believe in freebring in outside speakers who agdom as long as you thing like ree with you. Whether you use / Mace or the printed word the r m?think it is a disgrace to this moral precept - of force without university that our student presconsent-is stiil there. ident has to lower himself to out DON GREAVES and out smearing when engaged engineering 1B in an intellectual argument with another person. To offhandedly Debate over federation ’ relate some of English’s argunot just fees but members ments to the nefarious fascists I think that federation presiof our day without any proof can only detract from Patterson’s dent Patterson has misinterpre_- argument against freedom.

I ted Philip English’s letter. As I think anybody with an I.&. see it, the point in question is To clarify a point raised by David Greenberg in his feedback letter last week, he is correct in stating that Radio Waterloo must have technical assistance on call as a requirement of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, according to, Bruce Steele, station manager.

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The Oxford english dictionary defines freetime. Every student should be able to make his own decision dom as : s“ liberty; power to do as with respect to joining the fedone pleases”, and compulsion eration. “forcing or constraining”.

If. this state of affairs came to gw reread Patterson’s statebe, the person who joined the fedment. eration would be an active memSo, we’re all in this together ber. Interest in federation elec-this means we should be forced tions, in federation meetings,’ in to act in the same way? Patfederation programs would interson’s idea of suggesting the crease dramatically.

The federasubordination of individual rights tion would become a truly demto a group was also expressed ocratic body, of real service to in “Mein ,Kampf”, and no doubt its members. appealed to Lenin. To cop out, he says, would be a selfish act,. and ALEXANDRA ANNE FISCHER. a rejection of human solidarity.

-- math 1B , It would indeed-more, it would . be an assertion of humane indivi‘I stand for freedom,’ duality.

English tells us ugain ‘1 Ask yourself which is more funI should like to answer the redamental to man. Man is basicalply from Tom Patterson to my ly selfish-the only reason men letter published june 13. First, formed groups was for their however, a word to Larry Burko, protection.

This furthered, who seems incapable of distin- . not a common good, of which they guishing between an ideology had no concept, but their own perand a political platform.

He tries sonal good. “Solidarity” was only to muzzle freedom of speech with a means to an end. The end? inane comments.

Recognition of individual achievOne example-he talks about ement. We have come full circle, needing to book groups in advance. with Patterson proclaiming the My idea for the federation would means as an end. not preclude this, but I was quesMy discussion of compulsory tioning whether community need fees does flow from consideration Ishou/d be put before personal of the relevance of the organifreedom.

I would advise Burke, ._ zation in a free society. No one in future, to think before putting would receive free benefits from pen to paper.the club I propose. ’ , Patterson, -at least, ‘saw what My scheme would certainly I was getting at. He believes lead to a ‘competitive system-a

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The comparison to Hitler, Mussolini and the Edmund Burke society was the sort of mud I expected to be thrown to obscure the issue, but not by the federation president.

I hope I have demonstrated that L Patterson’s stand is closer to these people than is mine. I have no interest in personal power: I stand for freedom, not oppression, whether by a fascist dictator or by a socialist clique “for the common good”. The distinction between this and George Wallace et al should . be clear, but for the record. I have neither connection nor sympathy with Wallace, the Edmund Burke society, or the “radical right”.

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Inflation affects all of us in different ways: The little man-For those on fixed incomes such as pensions the problem is a simple one-their dollar buys less. Those able to obtain wage increases are best able to combat inflation.

But to remain even, they must continue to get raises equal to the rate of inflation. Often this is just not the case.

The government-Inflation makes it difficult for the government to raise money for its needs. During times of inflation, investors are less willing to purchase longterm government bonds at low interest rates because the real value of their investment may actually decrease over the years.

The creditors-Large lending institutions such as banks and insurance companies are effected much the same way. Debtors pay back loans with money worth less than when they borrowed it. These institutions protect themselves with ever-growing interest rates.

For almost everyone inflation literally pinches pennies from your pocket. After three years of government attempts to control inflation, little if anything has been accomplished.

The value of your dollar is decreasing daily.

Finance minister Edgar Benson, in both his October budget and again in his june mini-budget, has made the fight against inflation his battle cry.

But how goes the war ? To fight inflation, Benson offers: a social development tax of 2 percent, to a maximum of $120;

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Two Canadian churchmen thursday gave the other side of the growing controversy surrounding striking California grape pickers and said the boycott of California grapes in Canadian stores should end.

Rev. James G. McDonald of Don Mills United Church and Michael O’Meara, news editor of Canadian Register, a newspaper published by the Roman Catholic church, returned thursday from a three-day tour of the California vine yards.

At a news conference thursday they said _the tour and all expenses were paid by the consumers’ rights committee, a Washington organisation which receives financial support from thd grape growers.

Both agree conditions in California do not warrant a Canadian boyco tt.

Both McDonald and O’Meara said when they left for the trip they were prepared to support the union. Both said they now have changed their minds.

They said the Canadian people had been misled and that the grape pickers are not being oppressed.

Impressive evidence indeed, to support the K-W Record’s anti-labor, anti-boycott campaign-if the story was true.

The facts, however, throw quite a different light on the whole affair.

To counteract the effects of the grape boycott, the giant California grape-growing corporations have for some time employed the San Francisco-based publicrelations firm of Whittaker and Baxter, who have built up a nation-wide reputation as managers of right-wing propaganda campaigns.

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“Know your enemy,” read posters of world war II. But who is it now? Is it the “less than two percent of our students who have engaged actively in any disruptions causing physical or property damage” (attorney-general John Mitchell)?

Is it “the new barbarians” who occupy university buildings “against the will of university officials” (assistant attorney-general William H. Rehnquist >?

.Once again local residents have been subjected vicious anti-labor bias of the K-W Record.

In a story headlined Workers not oppressed; boycott,

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a continuance of the 3 percent surtax for another year ; immediate implementation of the Kennedy round tariffreductions; deferment of capital cost allowances on commercial buildings in certain major urban centers.

Benson’s tax measures are the most important sections of both budgets. Unfortunately, both these methods are regressive.

What minimal fight is being fought against inflation is being subsidized mostly by the low income earners,*not the wealthy who could have, and should have, afforded it.

The 2 percent social development tax is the most flagrant example of this reality.

Since the tax has a maximum of $120, a millionaire pays the same amount as a middle-range wage-earner with a family. Instead of those with low incomes already pushed hard to meet living expenses being freed from the fight against inflation that already has them suffering, they are told to bear the brunt of the attack while the welloff rich are asked for a comparitively small donation.

Some of Benson’s other measures may, in fact, help the rich directly at the expense of the poor. Often these are not even Canada’s rich.

The government had a better set of proposals before it if it had decided to implement the findings of its own royal commission.

But the Carter commission suggested that the tax burden should be redistributed so that it fell more fully on the rich corporations and individuals than on the poor. Benson doesn’t seem to like that idea.

Many economic observors have, in fact, suggested that the working man, as well as those unable to reach even that catagory, is worse off than he tias before.

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The problem, however, may not be entirely of Benson’s making. It has even been suggested that as long as he looks inside Canada for the solution he is doomed to failure.

Canada, he pointed out, has no say in rising prices because our economy is so closely tied to the U.S. that it inflates at the same rate.

“It’s an illusion that we can exercise price control from Ottawa, ” Watkins said.

A pre-budget white paper came to the sanie conclusion-Canada can only control its inflation when the U.S. succeeds in controlling its. The best hope for Benson is that there will be only a moderate increase in U.S. prices and costs. in fact, as this situation shows.

The government, has lost control over almost all of the Canadian economy.

What then do the Benson budgets accomplish?

Primarily it should be seen as a signal to the welloff of Canada who finance party coffers and attend social events with the Bensons that the government still has their interests at heart. Certainly no one close to the government will be complaining if it is the poor who finance the fight to keep inflation down. And as a bonus it will appear to the people who vote but don’t understand economics that the Benson battle cry means something and that the Liberals are really trying.

And while the deception continues. the majority of Canadians are putting up with growing unemployment,, even faster growing under employment. and. according to the government’s own economic council. poverty for one in every four Canadians.

We fill the gold-lined coffers of our U.S. owners with our wealth.

If these gentlemen are right, the United States has little to fear. Yet we are afraid, for reasons having little to do with kids or communists.

The attorney-general calls campus milWhat then shall be said itants “tyrants”. of the tyranny of evasion, complacency, self-deception?

For what is it, if not selfdeception, that prompts Mr. Mitchell to proclaim that “we have today in this nation more equality in the law, more honesty in politics, more ethics in science, more people employed and less people hungry, and more religious dedication to the problems of society than at any other period in our history and than any

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toons in 1960 to support Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign.

One of these cartoons showed shiftless beatniks supporting John F. Kennedy for president, while another showed Nikita Khrushchev saying that he supported Kennedy because he knew Nixon would never swallow his Communist party line.

Other Whittaker and Baxter efforts include Barry Goldwater’s northern California campaign in 1964, California oil companies’ publicity, and the American medical association’s $4,7OO,OOO campaign to defeat president Truman’s health insurance plan.

In carrying out their pro-grape grower propaganda campaign, Whittaker and Baxter use the so-called consumers’ rights committee which is financed by the grape growers and uses facilities provided by Whittaker and Baxter. In fact, the Toronto delegation was guided on its tour by one Malcolm Smith, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, who later found employment with Whittaker and Baxter. McDonald and O’Meara were flown around the grape-growing area in a chartered plane. No wonder they iaw nothing detrimental to the grape growers.

The statement that McDonald and O’Meara were formerly “pro-boycott” supporters, and were chosen as “unbiased” observers could hardly be farther from the truth. First of all, three Toronto residents (not two as the headline suggests) went to California. The third man was Herbert F. Irwin, a nominee of the Canadian manufacturers’ association on the Ontario labor relations board.

Irwin made no bones about the fact that he was a spokesman for big business and that “the trip was an invitation from the growers and that’s all there was to it.” The actual invitation to McDonald, O’Meara and Irwin came from Joseph Rowen, a Toronto grape distributor who unsuccessfully sought a court injunction last year against a “boycott California grapes day” endorsed by the Toronto board of control.

More damning, however, was the fact that the Rev.

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I How, other than cruelly evasive and complacent, is one to characterize the statement of the deputy attorney general, Richard G. Kleindienst, who speaks of the young rebel as a “modern ideological criminal,” and goes on to state that we enjoy “the most nearly-perfect government which civilization has produced”?

The gulf between such conceit and reality may be so wide that it can no longer be bridged.. .

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out of grapes James McDonald, that “pro-1abor” cleric. had in fact published anti-boycott letters in the Toronto Star (14 may) and Telegram (2 june) before he went to California.

The reasons that McDonald was invited

by Rosen and the consumers’ rights committee are obvious.

Moreover, to call O’Meara, a church paper news editor, a “churchman” as the K-W Record does. is an obvious attempt to wring the last ounce of legitimacy from his dubious statements.

TWO further events illustrate the Record’s anti-labor. anti-boycott bias. The same week that McDonald, O’Meara and Irwin were flown to California, a 32-man delegation of Toronto labor leaders went to California to investigate the grape strike which is being supported by their unions. In contrast to the full coverage given to McDonald and O’Meara, an interview with Dennis McDermott, Canadian regional director of the united auto workers union, was given scant coverage, and statements by other union delegates were not mentioned at all.

McDonald and O’Meara claimed that workers’ housing was “just like motels ; ” McDermott stated, “Workers’ camps are called pigpens, and they are just that.” McDermott went on to say that the grape strike and boycott was “a fight against racial discrimination, bigotry and hatred.”

One might believe that the Record’s biased coverage was the product of ignorance were it not for the fact that much of the story was exposed as a fraud by Telegram columnist Ron Haggart.

Haggart demonstrated conclusively the bias of McDonald and O’Meara and the involvement of Whittaker and Baxter.

Here was a first-rate expose of the way big corporations manipulate the news. Did any of this find its way into the K-W Record? Of course not. Following its usual practice of printing only what is bad about unions and good about corporations, the Record ignored the story.

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Science dean Pete McBryde must have warmed the capitalist hearts of the board of governors with his farewell address.

McBryde was stepping down as dean and he,was telling the board where he thought science was at.

Some excerpts from his speech“There are new demands in society for relevance, for more applied work...but we still have to teach the fundamentals of science.. .

“We still have to continue to produce specialists to meet the demands of society.. .

“Universities are going to have to collectively tighten their belts.

Science is costly to teach and engage in. The shift to more applied areas will increase expenses. We will have to find increased efficien cy in space equipment and the use of faculty.. . ” The society McBryde was referring to isn’t you and I, its the boys on the board of governors.And the fundamentals of science that must c still be taught don’t have much to do with morals, ethics or

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McBryde said something else that makes one wonder about the academic mind.

He said there was an overproduction of PhD-trained scientists and wondered where they are going to find employment because government and industry can’t absorb them.

But only five minutes before that, in bragging about the accom-plishments of science faculty, McBryde had pointed to the number . of faculty and grad students in chemistry. Waterloo has twice as many grad students now as the University of Toronto had nine years ago when McBryde came from there.

Does that mean academics are going to ignore surplus PhD’s like industry ignores pollution-hoping the situation will clear up, but not wanting to endanger one’s own output, profit or power?

Feedback It’s just plain serious l The members of the board of governors have a strange morality. The governor who moved the appointment of a firm of architects because he knew them personally didn’t think he was doing anything wrong, nor did his fellow governors.

Conflict of interest to them only means asking for a contract for your own company.

And board chairman Carl Pollock thinks its good policy to have J.W. Scott, chairman of the board of Waterloo Trust, move financial motions for the university. . They really must believe that business is onlv a game, and profits are just the way you keep score! l Expenditures on library acquisitions have been doubled and the library operating budget is up more than 26 percent from last year.

Such a large increase in a reasonably-tight budget year only proves how bad the library . acqui-

sition situation is at the present time. . It also shows that confrontation may well be necessary to force a change in a long-entrenched policy of neglect. l The kids outnumbered the cops (not including undercover agents) bv up to 500 to 1 at the Toronto pop festival. And at least 400 out of every 500 kids was blowing dope (smoking marijuana, for the benefit of local RCMP-types 1.

Nobody got busted (arrested) and CBC news said there wasn’t any marijuana encountered by police. There weren’t even anv arrests at the festival for non-drug charges.

Which all proves two things.

People who blow dope are not violent-they love people. And cops who were given absolutely no provocation didn’t dare do the provoking they often engage in-500 heads (dope-blowers ) would have nonviolently removed each one of them.

The Chevron’s feedback column exists both as a service to our readers and as a guarantee that no opinion can be suppressed. To this end. we invite letters from the students, staff and faculty of the * university.

As was noted in a response to a feedback submission last week, the column provides a forum! where readers can respond to news, features, editorials, adsgenerallv anvthing the Chevron prints. * ’ Feedback is also open to letters from readers who wish to initiate discussions in the column or who have some gripe theve wish to air.

The Chevron prints all submissions, provided they are signed and not libelous. Sometimes it is necessary to ask writers to shorten their letters and sometimes the feedback editor (the lettitor) has to edit or make minor style changes himself. <You won’t find commercial newspapers like the Globe and Mail or the K-W Record making such a guarantee to their readers.

In fact, you won’t find verv manv student newspapers making it either.

We want to continue to do so.

Unfortunately the Chevron staff may be forced to amend this policy.

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And boy, does the K-w Record talk about the weather! This really was the lead story iiz our local daily on monday. Rain and the inevitable trite “there’s nothing you can do about it” comment rated more prominence than the biggest two-hour drop in Toron to stock exchange history, Britain severing ties with racist Rhodesia and Bertrand’s Union Nationale victory, Kinda shows why the revolution has to hit the press, doesn’t it?

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on feedback There always seem to be those who, undoubtedly in pursuit of what is to them a good cause, will abuse their privilege to be heard.

The Chevron just cannot print extensive letters from everyone.

But even less does it have the space to surrender great parts of pages to one writer, no matter how indignant he is or how righteous he believes his cause.

And lastly, we cannot provide great allotments of space to one group of writers, one clique which writes to make the same point.

We are concerned. We do not want to have to turn letters away or take on the task of choosing “representative” letters or editing letters down to their very cores, in the manner of the Toronto Star. We know many writers would never believe they were treated fairly.

Thus we request that our readers not abuse the forum we offer for their use. It would be tragic if a tradition of many years-an open feedback policy-is destroyed bvu the actions of a few.

We hope Philip English and his Village comrades (whom he so graciously thanks for expressing sympathy with his suggestions ) take the hint.

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Here we are with another liberal issue which associateartsdeanjackgray will agree with from cover to cover. Centerspread is dedicated to the faculty association for rabblerousing at the board of governors meeting. The crew who bring you the best in news and views: Jim Klinck, Alex Smith, dumdum jones, Bill Brown, swireland, Brenda Wilson, Dave X Stephenson, Tom Purdy, Pat Starkey, Al Howard, LouisSilcox, Cyril Levitt, Bryan Douglas, Wayne Smith, Steve Izma, Joli Kliwer, Phil Efsworthy, Peter Vanek, Chris Redmond dropped in from Queen’s and nagel-bagel sought refuge from the Record’s orgelited insanity. And next week, it’s the fourth of july.

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One of many festival highlights, the driving, close-knit sound of Blood, Sweat and Tears brought the exciting audience rushing to their feet.

Toronto’s first pop festival was an unqualified success. It was more than just two days last weekend, each filled with 12 continuous hours of music.

The real things that went into making the festival as great as it was were never seen on stage.

True, performances of the calibre such as those given by Johnny Winter, the Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Alice Kooper, and others contributed greatly.

But even if the bands had bombed much of the festival’s atmosphere wouldn’t have changed.

You still would have been able to yell out “Hey, has anyone got some mustard?“, and 15 seconds later be dipping from a jar handed across 30 smiling heads.

You still could count on the girl next to you to share a joint, even if it was their last one.

The atmosphere rolled into town gradually, along with the people from places as far as Detroit and Winnipeg who new that someone would give them a place to crash for the night.

It grew stronger Saturday night as thousands of spectators poured out of Varsity stadium and walked en masse down Bloor street, shouting to and laughing with people whose only common bond was attendance at the festival.

By the time the field lights came on late sunday evening to end two action-packed days, not even two hours of rain had dissolved the atmosphere.

Bubble, balloon, and dope blowing head-lined the list of festival participation sports. .

Traditional rock singer and composer Chuck Berry was a surprise festival favorite.

The Royal Conservatory of music stands silently by, as the lead guitarist for the Procul Harum strains over a solo.

Health foods and fresh fruit noticeably sold the usual hotdogs and milkshakes.

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