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Guidelines

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Faculty A proposed code of conduct for faculty appears bound to provoke much discussion among Waterloo professors.

The draft code deals with the ethical behavior that should be expected of an academic in his various roles of teacher, researcher and accreditor and in his relations with his colleagues, his institution and the community-atlarge.

The document originated with the Canadian association of university teachers and has been distributed to local faculty associations for comment.

Local faculty association president them eng prof Jim Ford feels the code is a good idea.

“Some guidelines for faculty behavior have been long overdue.

I don’t see any mechanism in our present system for inhibiting excesses. ” The preamble to the draft code emphasizes that academics are professionals who have “certain obligations which are ethical in and thus should have a nature” code of conduct “governing their professional behavior .”

However, it says the jurisdiction of the code should only apply to what it calls the primary functions of the university, teaching and research.

“The private and social behavior of the members of the academic community ought to be of no concern to the university, and most certainly not be considered as falling under what this code means by professional ethics, unless such private social behavior directly impedes one of the func-

behavior

to consider tions of the university in carrying out its purposes,” the code states.

The draft code has been circulated to faculty association members in the group’s newsletter and comments have been invited.

“We really don’t expect to get many comments until people get back from the summer,” Ford said.

“But we have had about half a dozen responses.”

The complaints so far center on what Ford calls “double don’ts” -the negative aspects of the code.

“There is a concern that the document tends to be almost repressive in nature.

People would generally like to see a document in which the spirit is defined and then the interpretation or the exact mode of how you go on from there is left to some group,” he said.

One of the criticized areas is “the expectation that research results be published”-in other words there should be no classified or confidential research, supression of research or restritions of publishing.

Comments so far have been along the line that such a strict rule may be hard to follow in all cases.

Of more interest to students is the recommendation that “any information about the student respect$g his personal life, political views, religious convictions, etc. must be regarded as confidential and therefore must not be revealed under any circumstances to any third party, unless it be requested by the student in writing that the professor do so.”

Ford said there have been sug-

code of conduct

gestions this be made a firm policy so persons seeking information other than marks will recognize they should look for non-academic facts from other sources.

(Unlike some universities, including the University of Toronto, Waterloo will release a student’s marks to inquiring employers without the student’s written permission. ) Another area which may be controversial concerns the “exploitation of the student-teacher relationship to the private advantage of the instructor” which per-

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tains to the possibility of a professor exploiting his students by getting them to do his research for him without proper acknowledgment”.

There have been no comments yet on a section aimed at faculty participants in campus unrest.

The code reads: ‘ ‘To incide, knowingly participate in, or appear to sanction any demonstration or act of civil disobedience which would prevent the presentation by a scholar of his findings in an area of expertise or limit the discussion of such findings must

be regarded as unethical.”

Ford agreed that the phrase “appear to sanction” leaves the matter wide-open to interpretation.

He would like to have the document discussed at a fall general meeting of the association where motions could be passed and sent on to OCUFA. “I think we might be able to capture the spirit of the document from here and say to OCUFA, ‘this is what people here would like to see. ”

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Chem eng stucients may help select chairman The idea that students might be able to make a ,relevant contribution to university boards and committees seems to be spreading. The selection committee for a new them eng department chairman may be next in line.

At monday’s department meeting a resolution was passed which recommended that “a grad student be represented on the selection committee.”

Present chairman D.S. Scott,

Publisher quits UK governors VANCOUVER (CINS)--Newspaper publisher Stuart Keate has resigned from the board of governors of the University of British Columbia because-of a conflict of interests.

“The decision to retire was taken, not as a result of any undue pressures from the campus,” he said, “but because of a growing awareness of a really serious conflict of interest.

“The job of a newspaper is to be first with the news.

Frequently it becomes the responsibility of a university if not to conceal the news, at least to delay it.”

Keate, publisher of the daily Vancouver Sun, had been on the university’s senate for 15 years and on the board of governors for six.

Membership of newspaper publishers on boards of governors is common in Canadian universities.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Record’s publisher John Motz is a member of Waterloo’s board. Board chairman Carl Pollock is president of Central Ontario Television which operates CKCO-TV, CKKW-AM and CFCA-FM. There has been no indication they will follow Keate’s lead.

vacates the post to take over as engineering dean from Archie Sherbourne in September.

The committee as it now stands consists of three professors chosen within the department, an outside faculty representative, (to be picked from two names submitted by the department), acting academic vice-president Jay Minas, and dean Sherbourne.

The resolution calling for the student rep was generally favored by the fifteen voting members at the meeting. However, not everyone agreed the student rep should have voting or decision making privileges.

Prof Donald Spink doesn’t feel students are aware of the people available for the position.

Quite the opposite view is held by several other members of the department.

Prof Francis Dullien, who chaired monday’s meeting, feels since grad students may quite possibly move up to faculty positions in several years, they are in a very good position to have opinions on choice of the chairman.

The question of voting privileges split the department about 50-50. However, since the question was not mentioned in the resolution, no strong stand was taken by faculty members, leaving the final decision up to Sherbourne.

It is still not known whether Shelbourne will even accept the general motion of student representation, let alone voting privileges.

Several faculty members have expressed a doubt that he will Sherbourne himself, accept it. when contacted refused to comment.

“I have absolutely nothing whatsoever to say to anyone from the Chevron! ” was his terse response.

Humanities

workmen

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is dying,

P/cans for four years

New buildings The university administration has completed a revised schedule of campus building for the next four years.

Seven weeks ago, an interpretation of the provincial government’s capital grants scheme resulted in the university planning one building unit for completion in September 1970 and five buildings in september 1971.

While the province’s university-affairs department agreed with the need for the buildings planned, the university was told it could not have that much money so rapidly.

The president’s council considered the problem of rescheduling construction of the six buildings.

They decided the three final stories of the arts library will continue as planned for completion in 1970. This space will be used for transitional uses, in addition to library expansion, particularly space for environmental studies programs and office USage.

Major phases of engineering and the chemistry

schedule

set

addition will be completed in 1971, along with a small central stores addition.

Completed in 1972 will be a psychology building and the administration building.

The remaining projects are scheduled for completion in 1973: architecture building and the second phases of engineering 4 and the chemistry addition.

The audio-visual building which was scheduled for 1971 is postponed indefinitely.

The proposed optometry building will be negotiated as a health-science building, separately from capital-formula projects. The entire cost of approved health-science buildings is shared by federal and provincial governments.

To meet the provincial government’s restrictions, the planned capital expenditure in the next four years has been cut from $32 million to $25 million.

Even with the reduced plans the university will have difficulty finding its five percent share of the capital costs. The dismal tenth anniversary fund will pay Waterloo’s share only for the buildings now planned for completion in 1971 and perhaps a small part of the 1972 work.

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The local Rotary Club has withdrawn its support of international House on Albert street, creating a crisis situation for Waterloo’s foreign students.

As a result, the users of the house and the international students associations of both universities have decided to assume responsibility for its management.

The ISA executive was hardpr.essed to find $375 for july’s rent, but managed with contributions totalling $150~$100 from the Graduate Student Union and a loan for the remainder from the univerSity .

Negotiations are now taking place among the Federation of Students, grad union, ISA and university operations vice-presid-

crisis

ent Al Adlington over the future financing of the house.

Federation external relations chairman Larry Caesar said the administration’s first reaction was that it is a student problem and therefore student organizations should pay for the rent and upkeep.

Caesar suggested that the costs be divided with the administration paying 65 percent, the federation 25 percent and the grad union 10 percent.

He feels this may be accepted after further talks.

Meanwhile the house is still open, with the university advancing the funds, part of which will be paid back under the new agreement which will be retroactive/ from may 1.

One vulnerable glass-enclosed bridge is all that will save hardy west-side Habitat from starvation when they begin their daily fight for existence in September.

At Mars/and _ Co-op math results: apathy Mike Jansen, ma.th 3A, won the student council co-op math seat up for grabs this summer.

He defeated John Neville, 2B and Alexandra Fischer, 1B in a low turnout 1 friday, june 27.

Jansen had -20 votes to Neville’s 9, and Fischer’s 8, and one spoiled.

About 265 were eligible to cast ballots.

Propose

changes in eidoption

Good community standing and a convincing personality may not be enough to adopt a child, if Waterb0 professor David Kirk has any success.

The sociology prof, along with the Gwen Sound children’s aid society is undertaking a study to study to change adoption qualification methods.

Kirk, who is directing the study believes an educational process, ( for prospective parents will be of more value than the present procedure.

Several interviews and character references are all that

methods

has been required until now.

Kirk’s program entails from eight to, ten group meetings where the meaning .of adoptionwill be discussed.

Motivation for adopting a child, and self-awareness-of the problems involved will also be looked into.

The prospective parents themselves will analyse whether they are suited for adopting.

The couple’s ability to accept the difference between natural and adoptive parents will be stressed above all.

The study is expected to take about three years, at a total cost of approximately $75,000.

IFF issues dbjectivist

MONTREAL (GINS)--Paul Kirby, editor and publisher of the underground newspaper Logos, was found guilty tuesday of at-1 tempting to distribute false news.

He was given a suspended sentence. . .

The paper’s edition of last October 13 carried the headline ‘Mayor shot by dope-crazed hippie.’ The front page was similar to that of the Gazette, Montreal’s english-language morning newspaper, and appeared at newsstands about the same time as the Gazette.

A ‘ubruiption

the Chevron

souldestroying Even when working, a woman is frequently paid less than a man. Although this is illegal, the law is circumvented by giving her job a different title from that of her male counterpart.

For example, Lord Thomson redefines a women reporter’s job to that of a story co-ordinator and pays her two-thirds the salary of a male reporter.

In Marsland’s case the low wage he pays is regrettable but understandable.

To make a decent living for himself he must underpay his help. He is threatened by automation and larger companies cutting into his market.

In a few years his company -will either be absorbed or destroyed by a larger corporation.

What type of system makes it necessary for one man to exploit his fellow man and keep women in a virtual state of economic slavery? j The capitalist system.

is expected in the fall although the regularity of its appearance is still uncertain.

The group identifies itself as the Individuals for Freedom and promotes what it calls anarcho-capitalism or laissez-faire-capitalism which it says it does not want identified with the present economic system.

Several readers have identified the paper’s philosophy as objectivism as promoted by Ayn Rand.

Although English says he agrees with a lot of what she says, he does not claim to be a disciple.

Judge rules false news, not

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by Lorna Eaton ’ of the stamp when it decends. One Chevron staff or two women working for MarsEric Marsland runs a smallland in the past have lost fingers. electronics business in one workThe students working for Marsroom of an antiquated factory land were paid the minimum $1.25 building at 100 Ahrens st, w. in an hour. But in all likelihood he Kitchener. could not afford to pay more.

Working there as part-time Marsland’s is a small business student labor, one gains insight and in setting it up he received into the small family business little assistance.

He has stated and the conditions in which it that he has never cleared $15,000 must survive. a year.

The six female students employThe job situation for women e‘d work from 5:30 pm until llpm students is even worse than it is with a 20-minute break in mid- , for men, according to Manpower. shift.

This corresponds to the lot of the The work consists of stamping unskilled woman in general.. on parts on a machine.

One person the labor market.

The dregs of turns out hundreds of parts in an the boring, uncreative, unnecevening. The job is already obsoessary, alienating jobs are left to lete; it machine can turn out 175, her, 000 parts a day.

Her only alternatives are perThat the work is boring is an manent unemployment or prosunderstatement.

It is soul-destroytitution--either open or in the form ing.

Although concentration on of marriage; that is, giving her the job is almost impossible, daybody to a man in return for madreaming is dangerous because terial security.

pamphlet

A new campus *publication appeared this week.

Called The Rudyard Kipling, it is published

by Bill Phipps and co-edited by Philip English and Don Greaves, all of whom live in house N-2 of the Village.

In recent weeks all three have submitted and had printed lengthyt letters to the Chevron’s feedback column on the structure of the Federation of Students.

About 500 copies of the ten-page gestetnered issue were distributed around campus at the regular Chevron locations.

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Women’s

Lack of interest was evident even before the election, since the closing date for nominations had to be extended twice.

Previously Tom Boughner, 4A, Barry Fillimore 4A, and Eric Soulis, 2B were acclaimed in engineering.

All four reps will serve until the end of february, 1970.

satire

Sessions judge Maurice Rousseau said in his judgment that stories in the edition were closer to being libelous than they were indictable by the crown. He also said quick action by city authorities prevented widespread dis. tribution of the paper.

During the trial, defence lawyer Morris Fish called several journalists to testify they considered the article as satire.

But judge Rosseau ruled that “satire is an exaggeration of truth, but this story was not based on any truth.” fee

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Notable summer

floatables \ weekend

Cars, canoes and bicycles were just part of the motley collection floating past last Sunday’s Grand river tourists.

Summer weekend’s Circle Ksponsored boat race was the cause, as four classes of ships raced to Bridgeport.

As usual, the UFO’s created the most interest, both among the number of participants and the spectators.

(For the uninitiated, UFO stands for unidentified floating object. ) The 13 entries in this class ranged from simple inner tubes to an elaborately designed bicycle-boat equipped with sail and paddlewheel.

The winners of this class were two 2B engineers riding a styrofoam phallic symbol.

In second place came “Mowog”, a Mini-minor body fully equipped for the water. This phenomenal automobile was piloted by Stan Hunniset t, Don Ross, Duncan McRae and Don Knudson.

The third object to cross under the Bridgeport bridge was manned

by Jim Hayter and Bob Heaslop, both 1B engineers.

In the two-man canoe class a mixed team took the honors. Penny Trunnel, math 1B and Lowell van Zuidein, engineering 2B, crossed the finish line seconds before M. Houston and Bob Norman,

enter races

In third spot were Jack Brown and Jack Hardman.

In the unlimited class, kayaks stole the glbry: finishing first, second and third. In first place was Rolf Trantween, second Bill Byers, and third Alf Babinian.

The flat-bottom c!ass had only two entries. The winners were radio newsmen Neil Stairs and Dave McCleary.

Finishing second and last was the team of Jim Keron, Meg van Alistine, Louis Silcox and Nancy Tucker in their rowboat, R.B. Patches.

Summer weekend also featured a motorcycle rally Saturday.

Three bikes entered the 50-mile race which started in lot B and proceeded through back roads to Lakeshore village.

The winner was Dave Cole on a Suzuki, followed by Bruce Prested riding a Yamaha.

One casualty marred the race.

The rear tire of Allen Taylor’s Ducati went flat while he was racing down a gravel road. However, with the help of his passenger and some local farmers, the tire was quickly repaired.

Little spent education

“imagine, played

” said Uncle Dirty of your Father’s moustache who at the pub last friday night, ‘yust imagine. ”

OTTAWA (GINS)-The Canadian government contributed $7.2 million toward the post-secondary education of foreign students in Canada during the 1967-68 fiscal year.

The information was given in the Commons in reply to a question from Paul.Yewchuk (PC, Athabaska).

Of the total, $4.32 million was spent on undergraduate students and the rest on graduates.

During the same period, the government spent $312,603 for post-secondary education of Canadian Eskimos and Indians. Of this amount, $311,103 was spent at the undergraduate level.

Summer Weekend’s trainride to Elmiry from a dry run.

Elleryone on the trip

Computer in appeal

last Saturday had a one-track

was far mind.

not to blame mix-up?

September, it did not begin proAssistant registrar John Bongraming until march. steel claims there are no excessive student appeals against last term’s .

This delay might explain the alleged increase in misrecording arts faculty marks. marks and hence the backlog of, All appeals pending will be ansand delay in processing appeals. wered by mid-august, he said.

Bonsteel concluded the delay was due not to the numbers of Many students have alleged or not caused their marks were incol;rect and in appeals-whether mistakes-but to the some cases were for courses not- by computer taken or dropped before final exneed for examining past mark ams. histories in each case.

He said such histories will be The problem seems to have programmed so future appeals arisen due to the transition from will proceed more quickly. the year to course system,” said However, head registrar recepBonsteel, who estimated 400 aptionist Lorraine Gieger said she peals have been received-“up had noticed a ‘large increase in from past years but not signifiappeals, but can’t really be sure cantly. ” what all the mail is for.

Bonsteel- did not comment on She said special people have the fact that although Data Probeen assigned to handle a daily cessing received the plan last appealquota.

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SDS conference expels progressive labor

Couples

residence

If you’re getting married, hold off for another year. The first section of the new married student residence should be ready for occupancy in fall of ‘70.

Phase I will consist of one hundred and twenty single and one hundred and eighty double units. This portion of the complex will occupy the northern part of the site.

In the center of the four quadrants will be two high rise towers containing one-bedroom suites.

These two towers will .be linked at the base by a central recreation area.

The project will feature a central baby-sitting fa-

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cility which will double as a recreation area for the students in the evenings. Also, for the protection of young children, there will be no through traffic in the project. The entrances will be off Seagram drive and University avenue.

The design was chosen from among fourteen proposals submitted to a committee composed of a team from Ontario Student Housing Corporation, representatives of the student federation, and representatives of the faculty and staff.

The contractor, Cadco construction company of Toronto is undertaking the project for a fee of $6,500,000.

CHICAGO (CUP-LINS)-SDS ing out and that Cuba and North Korea are revisionist. expelled the Progressive Labor Party (PL) from the ranks of the Trouble has been brewing beorganization june 21 at its nationween PL and the regular SDS peoal convention in Chicago. ’ ple for more than two years, many observers to last years SDS About half of the 1800 delegates thought the expulsion at the convention joined the SDS convention would come there. regulars in a walkout which follIn Chicago the trouble became owed the expulsion of PL. This clear right from the start of the was the first time a group has been meeting as disagreements arose excluded from SDS for political over the agenda and numerous reasons. procedural matters.

Two days of Bernardine Dohrn, interorganion the expulsion precedzational secretary of SDS, told PL debate ed the decision. they were being expelled primarI) Other motions receiving support ily because of their consistent failat the reconvened portion of the ure to support black struggles on convention following the expulvarious campuses.

- sion included a call- for massive PL rejects black nationalism street demonstrations in Chicago and particularly the Black Panther against the war in Vietnam and a Party as being reactionary.

The call for demonstrations against Party also charges the National Governor Nelson Rockefeller, “ so Liberation Front and the governhe won’t be welcome anywhere in ment of North Vietnam are sellthe whole world.” friday

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Satyricon slaps ruling class with old-fashioned burlesque

by Bob Verdun Chevron staff

In the Stratford

COLUMBIA PICTUREJ PRESENTrS

a normal production, The Satyricon constitutes both a minor mind-blower and a gross-out for the usual upper middle class audience that is often more concerned with being seen than seeing.

The Satyricon is simply a vaudeville burlesque claiming a literary basis as an excuse for legitimacy in the Stratford medium.

It also has a moral-a moderate one, but hard to miss. The ruling class is corrupt, the good life is hollow, and it will always be that way as long -as they sing “Long live free enterprise”, “Daddy Moola” and “Swinging at the stock exchange.”

Writer Tom Hendry says in his program notes, “Every society constructs its Tijuana-the place where anything goes and you can take it off your income tax too.’ As soon as the first Tijuana has been built it becomes inevitable that every city, every town must eventually turn into Tijuana.

“A society is in trouble not at the end of this process, but at the very beginning when it first discards Immanuel Kant’s dictum that people must be treated as ends in themselves not as men as to ends.”

The overall effect is to show that Petronius’ Rome was not much different than today’s New York, or even Montreal or Toronto. consists enThe Sat yricon tirely of one evening at a party given by -millionaire Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio, who built his fortune as a usurer, a dealer in flesh and a panderer.

He tries to buy the respect and friendship of the rest of the ruling class-who built their fortunes only slightly more legitimbuilders, ately as politicians, landlords, undertakers, clergymen, professors and merchants.

However, the respectable members of the establishment revel in the orgy with the same enthusiasm as Trimalchio.

The Ifirst act is entirely orgy, laced with one-liners and songand-dance.

The orgy continues into the second act, but the mood deepens with a romantic ballad

by Circe, a courtesan, in humanistic contrast to the ever-increasing level of corruption in the revelry of the good life.

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Near the end of the show, the stage lights dim and the cast

Jack Creley, as Trimalchio, was the center of gleeful, decadent -revelry in Stratford’s minorly-mind-blowing Satyricon. becomes a requiem chorus to accompany the projection of images of desolate streets of the twentieth century, the only life being newspapers blowing aimlessly.

The screen disappears and meanwhile back at the orgy, firemen are rushing about as Rome burns.

“But there is no fire,” exclaim the party’s hippie-like entertainers, who provided some human values among the revellers.

Suddenly it’s finale time, and the ruling class is back “Swinging at the stock exchange...push . the masses.. .on their asses.. .” * * * While it is impossible to read the writer’s and director’s minds, one can assume that in the context of the Stratford festival, The Satyricon was not intended to be comfortably watched by the usual audience of today’s ruling class and bourgeoisie.

The format and content was that of the burlesque that was the working class’s entertainment before movies.

And the characters were only slightly exaggerated versions of the same crowd that attends Stratford openings.

The hippie-entertainers can exclaim “there’s no fire” because the society the fire would have consumed is still alive-on the other side of the floodlights.

The reformers in the audience were not ignored either. The politician spoke of “working from; within the structure” of the ruling class to bring needed change. a trudeauesque professor of rhetoric did his part for liberalism by passing around a petition for the legalization of necrophelia “to keep the state out of the nation’s mortuaries.”

Not so much for historical portrayal of Rome or for consistency with burlesque, there is a great deal of nudity-pasties, G-strings,

gold-sequined jockstraps and bare buttocks.

The effect is to gross out some in the audience, entertain others and distract the remainder-and in general to spoof the staid, establishment Stratford image.

The show is well done and very amusing. The ruling class in the audience was apparently able to disassociate itself from the ruling class on stage, for laughter and applause were abundant although somehow strange. Commercial press critics concentrated on execution with scant mention of content.

Given the assumptions of the writer, director John Hirsch must be commended for his presentation.

Jack Creley as Trimalchio was exceptionally good. With a pompous air he asks the hippie-entertainers what would they do with the world if they took it overbetter it be left to the guys with the moola. Creley really enjoys himself in the role and one of the highlights of the performance is hisdescription of how it will be, when he dies-the biggest mausoleum in town will preserve his image, and his wife (a symbol of his ‘good life’ ) will be interred outside.

This is one Stratford production that will appeal to more than those who go to Stratford just to be seen.

The Satyricon would appeal to the people who found vaudeville their staple entertainment years ago, and who are now tied to a television set in an alienating world.

It’s unfortunate that ticket prices and social stigmas will deter many whose social order is below the bourgeoisie from attending.

The presence of large numbers of the, ‘working class might make it a little more difficult for their social superiors to disassociate themselves from the corruption satirized on stage.

Performcmce ,hediocre in . straight Hamlet d~ortm~~l ’ scene, if flitting across the stage doling out flowers and singing As the Stratford festival’s open: off-key is termed acting, she acting play of the season, the much ed. discussed, much publicized HamThe ghost is a tricky part to let was a rather poor representplay and is especially subject to ation of the usually good Shakesthe director’s discretion.

Actuapearean fare found on Stratford’s lly, Kenneth Pogue did well constage. sidering the blocking.

Having the In the program,. director John supposedly ephemeral, elusive Hirsch V wrote, “We have felt Hamlet, senior, march onto the little need or temptation to imstage until he is about three feet pose contemporary ‘interpretations’ to ‘justify’ the play to a from Hamlet and deliver a long speech in a very human voice modern audience. ” does not aid in developing a Actually Hirsch seems to have character from another world. tried too hard to impose contemporary standards on the play’s Considering that Kenneth Welsh his “interpretation” despite has worked his way up through statement; Hamlet still came a- the Stratford ranks, it would be cross as a comment on the gengreat to say that he was a suceration gap instead of a modern cessful Hamlet.

Welsh is a young stage experience. man and it seemed he was incapThe toning down of the play’s force was due to Hirsch’s desire to make it a “realistic” production; however, some exuberance did show in Leo Ciceri’s role as Claudius.

Giving his usual fine performance, Ciceri made, Claudius seem real.

Highlights of the show were Mervyn Blake and Bernard Behrens. Stratford regulars, who played the gravediggers.

Despite the fact that Angela Wood, who played Gertrude, came across as being a bit youngish for Hamlet’s mother, she did as well as she could.

Polonius, played

by Powys Thomas, was a pleasing, different showing.

Qphelia’s father was a person with human failings (like pedantry j rather than the fuddy-duddy usually shown.

Neil Dainard’s Laertes was exceptional; not only is this actor the heart-throb of many females in the audienc,es, he is a good actor.

Enough praise.

James Blendick.

Hamlet’s chum Horatio, gave a low-key showing although he is capable of more.

Ophelia seemed like a milk-sop: Ann Anglin was disappointing for she showed little reaction to Hamlet’s Leo Ciccvi as Cla~~dius and madness.

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able of handling this large, demanding role.

It seemed also, that Hirsch suppressed the rest of the play in an effort to point out Hamlet’s vivacity.

In the attempt to universalize the play, costumes were at first a collage of periods and nations.

For example.

Claudius in the dress rehearsal looked like an Egytian pharoah ; the messengers, like Russian emissaries ; Laertes was out of the 18th century. Luckily there was a change and everyone dressed in the same approximate time period.

The highest action of the show was the duel at the end.

Every season there is one plav not equal to the high calibre of Stratford and unfortunately Hamlet is this years.

It is enjoyable, but it is not the best.

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,Jean Gascon has introduced a new opportunity to the Stratford festival playgoer to witness how perfection can be improved upon.

There is sophisticated pleasure indeed in observing how his last year’s achievement of Tartuffe has been matched and, in some aspects, even increased in high theatrical value.

One of the most notable problems which must be overcome in any play written in a foreign language, is the translation.

This production uses a rhymed translation

by Richard Wilbur, a most ingenious creation.

The verse never becomes doggerel, but retains all the freshness of wit and meter Moliere must have intended.

It is common practice when working with plays -especially comedies-by authors such as Shakespeare, Racini. Corneille. or as in this case, Moliere, to treat the humour with respect and uncleserved obeisance. thus losing the broad humor which is intended. ,Jean Gascon has not been cowed by the word “classic” and has allowed full rein to the almost slapst,ick characterization of Tartuffe.

William Hutt doesn’t walk awav with the show, he runs.

His every posture and pause in his role as the hypocritical. lecherous and knock-kneed Tartuffe is played for its fullest impact.

Though he does not make his entrance until halfway through the i’irst act, from that moment on the play is his.

This is not to say that the other actors are in any way lacking in ability or force.

On the contrarv, each is a polished and strong characterization in its own right.

I’at Galloway‘s performance as Dorine, the im-

pudent and all-seeing maid, provides most of the laughter in the play. Her wicked tongue cuts through all the pomposity and hypocristy she sees around her--and she sees quite a bit. Her face is almost rubber-like in its ability to convey her reactions to the ludicrous situations.

Angela Wood, who plays Elmire, gave a beautiful and subtle interpretation of the wife, who although not taken in by Tartuffe, wishes to preserve her own and her husband’s dignity and so decides against exposing Tartuffe’s rude advances because it will hurt her husband. Miss Wood plays her role with hauteur and compassion, yet never loses the fine line of comedy.

Orgon, the victim of Tartuffe chicanery, was well handled by Donald Davis.

His authority and dignity showed that he was a citizen of importance.

As the reasoning Cleante, Leo Ciceri has less weight in this company. and his arguments come across with greater easiness, but less influence.

Perhaps the least convincing character is Joyce Campion assuming the role ‘of Madame Pernelle.

She appreard to be a high school girl trying vainly to be an old, cane-wielding bitch.

Surely hidden in the dark corners of the Stratford theater there must be a real cane-wielding bitch to carry the part.

Kenneth Welsh retains the qualities that caused the downfall of his Hamlet.

His boyish impetuosity and mannerisms make him unacceptable as Damis, Organ’s hot blooded son.

Tartuffe was the hit of last year’s season. This year it may be that also, for it allows the playgoer the opportunity to re-examine its excellences and to hold opinions on its changes.

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Camus BOOK

CHEVRON REVIEW

Lyrical I

Alfred

and Critical

A. Knopf,

Essays

1969

by Jon Hamilton

A

t the outset of his Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus established that “there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”

Camus’ affirmative rejoinder to this issue was the work of almost twenty-five years of study tid writing.

His brilliant career being terminated ;by a fatal car accident. Now, however, the Camus who became the conscience of his generation is revealed for us in an exciting new cdlll ection of his f yrical and Critical Essays edited by Philip Thody.

The essential Camus of the celebrated La Peste had concluded “that there ‘are more things to admire in men than to despise,” and he had thereby demonstrated that even if he was pessimistic as to human destiny, he was optimistic as to man-the man who belongs to his own time. The man of today. The man who denies historical determinism in any of its subtle and complex forms, and the man who refuses to become enslaved by the vision of an apocalyptic future.

Camus did not reject the man of today in the name of either the man of yesterday or tomorrow.

Camus strove to serve today’s man. The man who is at one with his own times. The man who lives “as if” life were both good 8nd meaningful.

Despite the absurdity of the moment, then, Camus accepted that reality as given. “What counts is not poetry,” he declared, “what counts is truth.”

And for Camus, the problems of our own time are the ones to which we must address ourselves.

For’Camus, human dialog was both temporal and spatial.

It was also individual. Man at grips with his environment.

Alone.

Camus’ medium was the written word, and the visual power extended by print is for the eyes of the individual beholder.

It is in solitude that Camus forces us to face the basic philosophical issue of life itself. In so doing he bares his own soul, and never more beautifully than in the essays considered here. In this one work we are presented with a generation (19371959) of balanced study and activity.

Here is the life work of a man. And because Camus spoke for his own time, he speaks for ours as well.

Camus held that to “understand this world, one must sometimes turn away from it; to serve men better, one must briefly hold them at a distance.”

To read this book is to engage in that very process. Here are the life giving thoughts of

a man who asks us “what is happiness except the simple harmony between man and the life he leads?” Th,e man of lucidity who owns up to the consequences of “l’absurd” and who expresses his revolt against death (and its agents) through his defiance, freedom., and passion. His twin truths are of “the body and the moment. ” The body lives in the present.. It is the mind that creates ‘!l?absurd”.

To live in the present is to reject both hope (future tense) and regret (past tense). They are one in the same. To be aware is to live “with neither myths nor consolation”.

But not without principles as economically expressed by Meursault in L’Etranger. Camus’ absurd hero (l’homme absurd). lives on what he has without speculation on what he has not. He accepts non-acceptance.

His lucidity exalts him before the forces that would crush him. He lives with time-and history-and dies with it. He is aware. That is why he is absurd. Being aware excludes maximum.

nothing

and is to live to the

The absurd, then, is lucid reason noting its limits. The absurd man recognizes the struggle.

He does not scorn reason, but recognizes the irrational.

His “activity of consciousness” does not liberate.

It binds. He is conscious. That is why he is absurd. Accenting the irrational is not to say that life is meaningless.

On the contrary, life’s meaning becomes both more human and relative.

Man, after all, can experience only his own freedom.

Today.

“Where lucidity dominates, the scale of values becomes useless. . . . for a single truth, if it is obvious, is enough to guide an existence.”

Here is Camus on Camus. When asked the aim of the creative artist, he answers “to depict the passions of his day.”

He states simply that “in the seventeenth century, the passions of love were at the forefront of people’s minds. But today, the passions of our century are collective passions, because society is in disorder. *#

Camus’ will, then, is to serve man both collectively and severally.

Neither does he deny the problems of our time or run away from them. Hence his respect by students and concerned youth the world over.

Camus, however, does not, pretend to be a teacher. He merely acknowledges that “the problems confronting young people today are the same ones confronting me, that is all.” Camus’ taste is for happiness.

It is his categorical imperative and he seeks it for all. At the center of his work is “‘the invincible sun” under which he seeks not wisdom but understanding.

Today.

It is not surprising that Camus’ sympathetic objectivity denies all absolutes.

Including rationalism.

For Camus, truth “is anything that continues,” and the great simple emotions which are eternal are those human ones “around which the love of living revolves-hatred, love, tears, and joys.” These are what determine man’s visage and destiny.

Camus’ essays were written against the background of his native Algeria, and out of the experiences of poverty and a generation at war. A world heightened for Camus by the French resistance movement. His world was one of moral flux. Its continuity was in man and nature. Camus’ love of the land, sea, and sun are basic themes which appear throughout his work.

Man and nature. This is the world which “always conquers history in the end.”

The men and societies of former times who measured greatness only in spatial considerations of empire and temporal concerns of heredity have thus been destroyed by their own bankruptcy.

Camus noted that “they had a vulgar and ridiculous idea of greatness, measuring the grandeur of their empire by the surface it covered. The miracle is that the ruin of their civilization is the very negation of their ideal.”

Truth is what continues.

Man at grips with his own times. To belong to the future man must also belong to today.

As a good modern nihilist, Camus exalts servitude.

His passion for life urges him on. Under the pressure of events, Camus saw that the artist must “simultaneously serve suffering and beauty. ” There is no contradiction here as “l’absurd” is in a like manner the simultaneous awareness and rejection of death.

Camus’ philosophy of revolt recognizes that “there is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

For Camus, ‘ ’ the great courage is still to gaze as squarely at the light as at death.”

As his Myth of Sisyphus so eloquently manifested, “happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”

Camus recognized what is meaningful in human existence : the will to be just, free, and compassionate.

Camus’ bias was to life. His taste was for happiness. His solidarity with youth lies in his will to serve man. The man who is oppressed.

His essays “remind us that any mutilation of man can only be temporary, and that one. serves nothing in man if one does not serve the whole man.”

Camus at-’ tempts to reconcile mankind’s suffering with the springtimes of the world. “I believe,” he holds out, “that a renaissance is possible. ” The insights of these essays beg to be quoted. They must be read. Camus as the man, and the artist are both laid bare.

Here are his expressions of human revolt “which could help us to discover ideas

capable of restoring a relative meaning to existence. ” January, 1970 will mark a decade since Camus’ death in a car accident. The embodiment of “l’absurd”.

That his stature should grow is an expression of the validity of his own thoughts. “Truth,” he reminded

us,

“‘is

that

which

cont&u&s.”

“Artistic creation, instead of removing us from the drama of our time, is one of the means we are given of bringing it closer. Totalitarian regimes are well aware of this, since th,ey consider us their first enemy. Isn’t it obvious that everything. which destroys art aims to strengthen Ideologies that make men unhappy?”

Camus’ writings stand as a monument to man in revolt. To a man who served men. Like Sisyphus, we must remember Camus as happy. That is the Camus of this beautiful work which removes all layers of pretense on the part of both the reader and its author. It is the portrait of an intellect at grips with a reality that transcends it. Of reason recognizing its own limits. Of “l’homme absurd.”

Camus does not want man to be the victim of history. For him, “history has no eyes, and we must therefore reject its justice in order to replace it as much as possible with the justice conceived by mind. ” This is not to say, however, that Camus’ appeal for life today is not deeply rooted in temporal perspective.

That awareness, I think, is the real key to his lucidity : We know that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as men is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more t0 peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks men take a long time to accomplish, thatS all.

Camus’ denial of history does not make him ahistorical.

On the contrary, Camus’ plea is to time. In a series of infinite todays. In a word, history must be the story of man. The human issue “to choose”.

What direction is our life to take? For each of us, Camus’ lucidity is but the first step. The analytical method that goes before action.

As to summation of the thought of Albert Camus, we acknowledge his own dictum : “the preceding merely defines a way of thinking.

But the point is to live”. . . and “there comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action.

This is called becoming a man. ” Jon Hamilton is a graduate student tory, working to ward his M.A.

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0 WE CALL OURSELVES revolutionaries!

Yet we-at least most of us white, middle-class, educated dreamers and drop-outs-have all the basic necessities we need to live more comfortably than ever before. We have more physical freedom, more sexual freedom, even more verbal freedom than ever bef.ore. At least in the rich capitalist world which we consider the real enemy and want to destroy. So, why do we want a revolution? And what kind? revolutionary, one who thinks he is Ask these questions to any “traditional” ‘Marxist-Leninist’, and you’ll get the traditional economic-political answers: the capitalist exploits the working class by blahblah. But we’re not working class! Yes but we’re intellectuals and the role of the intellectual revolutionary elite, conscious of the tida-tidum, is to papim papam. Why? Because that elite, realizing that it profits from the greed...Ho Hum.

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I don’t know about you, but that’s not why I’m a revolutionary.

Sure, I even think such analyses have to be made, as fuel to bring about revolutionary situations. In order’ to thrive in my kind of society, I know I’ve got to convince others to view it as groovy.

And, in order to keep them receptive to my future, I’ve got to convince others to view it as groovy. And, in order to keep them receptive to my future, I’ve got to make them conscious of our present. So I guess I’ll keep trying to explain why we live in a dehumanizing society, the direct and necessary consequence of capitalism, and its mode of operation, capitalist bureacracy.

But that’s for the squares. We know we’re being dehumanized, and we know why: they need us to do their dirty work. And not just in Vietnam, either. For how will they get the gadgets and experts they need for our materialistic society. 3 And who will rationalize their necessity?

Who will explain their political value? You and me. They need us more than we need them. We’re the ones who must think up these things in their labs, the ones who must explain their value in their books, the on,es who must show their appeal on their television, the ones who must defend them in their courts. That’s why we’ve got to go to their universities, join their factories, an‘d institutions.

Otherwise? *Well, just imagine, as Abbie Hoffman (Revolution for the He// of ltl put it recently:

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What would happen if large numbers of people in the country started getting together, forming communities, hustling free fish on Fulton Street, and passing out brass washers to use in laundromats and phones? What if people in slums started moving into abandoned buildings and refusing to move even to the point of defending them with guns? What if this movement grew and busy salesmen sweating under the collar on a hot summer day decided to say fuck the system and headed for welfare?

What if secretaries got tired of typing memos to the boss’s girlfriend in triplicate and took to panhandling in the streets. 7 What if when they called a war, no-one went, and what if people who wanted to get educated just went to a college classroom and sat-in without paying and without caring about a degree?

Well, you know what? We’d have ourselves one hell of a revolution, that’s what.

Obviously, if the modern world’s universities came to a standstill-or if we all refused to get educated their way-the whole capitalist&ureaucratic world

would collapse. And it would do so’ faster than with guns and barricades.

(The corollary, which I won’t try to defend here but is, to me, a simplistic truism, is that the dehumanizing society’s most important and necessary weapon is the university. ) This is true not only because of what they teach us but of why as well. In order to make us “experts” they have to dehumanize us, separate us, compartmentalize us. We have to be segregated, pigeon-holed, divorced from one another so totally that we cannot relate to one another (outside our own in-group) except through their institutions.

What would happen to our society if a worker acually liked to sit and talk with intellectuals?

If children were allowed to masturbate together instead of watching television. 3 But’that still isn’t all. What our education system necessarily does is force us to enter and propagate the vicious circle which dehumanizes uswhich teaches us that material achievements are the only valuable things in life. To make us “good” experts, we must prove our merit.

How? By passing tests better than anyone else. By competing.

In other words by considering our fellow men as our personal enemies. This is true in Russia as well as in America.

We’ve got to “prove” ourselves -first in class, then in the army, then in the factory.

Every value we have is based on individual achievement, on some rags-to-riches tale, on some poor bloke finding his god in the desert, overcoming his obstacles alone, struggling with his soul.

The so-called Communists are just the same. All Power to the Soviets! Yes, but later. First, let’s be as good as the capitalist world. So Lenin rules. Then Stalin. Then what’s-his-name.

The Soviets can wait.

They’re made up of ordinary people, and some ordinary people are stupid and everybody knows stupid people don’t count. Because they don’t want to get to the moon first. And niggers don’t count either because they love sex too much and are lazy. But they’ll be okay when they get our values, when they understand that the meaning of life is to get ahead. Until then society can tell them how to live-with the police.

I’ll tell you why I’m a revolutionary.

It’s very simple: I just don’t want that kind of life.

I want to live in a world where I don’t have to stand while my boss or the commissar sits, where I can talk to a black man as an equal; where I don’t get asphyxiated by fumes or killed by shoddy cars; where no one

ing me where I can sit, but I do want to be able to listen to my neighbors, all kinds of people, and if they feel that it’s good for us all for me not to sit there, I won’t and I won’t feel my manhood is bitten off for going along with them. I know I can’t participate in every decision, that I can’t be everywhere at the same time and I don’t want to-I’m lazy-so I want to be able to have some guy represent me there and another guy over yonder. But I want to be able to recall him anytime.

3 I don’t want to worry about food or clothing or a roof-1 know the world is rich enough to give me all that-me and everybody else-and I’m willing to do my share of the work, but not for somebody else’s profit. I don’t want to accumulate property.

I want free education, as I and the people I rap with think it important or pleasurable.

I’m no masochist; I don’t believe I have to sacrifice myself in order to have a vacation or enjoy myself. I don’t believe pleasure and work are antithetic; every man ought to enjoy what he does. I want free medicine, free transportation, free rent, free leisure. free theatre, ) free eye-glasses, free pot. I’ll work. sure. I’ll do my best, I can write-sometimes.

I can teach. I’ll do it, with pleasure. Or, if you all think it’s a waste of time, well, I can make pretty good tables and dressers, with sliding doors that really slide. Maybe I can hoe potatoes. Why not? If a bunch of us do it together, singing, laughing. Well, not everyday maybe. So we’ll take Mont days, you take Tuesdays.

Most important, I guess, I want to know what you think and feel, and why. And I want you to care about me. I don’t care if you have an IQ of 20 and me 120that’s luck. You have blond hair, I got brown. That’s your human condition. If you have an IQ of 20, you’re -i just as much a man as I am, me with my potato nose and you with that straight delicate one. Your experiences are worth mine and mine yours. Let’s rap, brother. Let’s see what we want from each other, what we have to do in private, what we agree on and can do together. Let’s run our schools together. And our factories. And, if after a while, there’s no Spiro Agnew to pick up the garbage, and we agree that we want it out of our community, maybe I’ll pick it up on Tuesdays if you can do it on Wednesdays.

I don’t want customs, or passports, or work-permits, or foreign exchange.

Of course, since we’ll all be equals, we won’t need any of that. True, there’s always that guy, the one who invents a new way to fly and won’t tell us unless he gets two cars to our one. Well the hell with him and his invention.

Suppose, though, what he invents is a pill that prolongs life for 50 years.

We’d all like to live until we’re 130. But then, what can

e do with his invention?

Together, you and I, we’ll ave fun. We’ll laugh and enjoy ourselves and we won’t ave any reason to distrust each other, even if you do ave a prettier nose and I envy you for it, and I have higher IQ (which you won’t envy since it won’t get je more things). (I might have a prettier wife, though. ) till we’ll relate. He’ll be an outcast. Let him live till e’s 130-lonely and bitter. We’ll die when we’re 80. lut it was fun.

That’s’ what I want. That’s what a lot of people I now want. I got taught by having it. That’s right, I’m product of capitalist society. I’ve had the fancy home, ie maid, the car, the expense account, the titles and ie Bigelows on the floor.

What I didn’t have was happiness.

I was bossed, ajoled, coerced, manipulated, pigeon-holed.

I lived by ie values of this society and they taught me to drive, rive for more, rush and rush some more. I was told ot to think of happiness as a feeling only as a thing, possession, a warm blanket like Linus always has.

It didn’t work. I hadn’t suffered from the Depression r World War II. I just couldn’t be fooled. And there re thousands, perhaps millions of kids today who can’t e fooled either. Brought up under the material incenves of capitalism, we are the product of rcapitalism, e are the product of capitalism’s greatest contradicon-that it simply doesn’t satisfy. And so we can no nger be manipulated by capitalism, at least not for xy long.

But we can be repressed by it. That’s why we need revolution.

We are being repressed by it, by its poce, its universities, its televisions, its ‘democracy’, s parliamentarianism ; its secret services, its apolosts and especially by its myths, most importantly, :;z myth that change must be peaceful and that only e revolutionaries are violent (though even the Natnal Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Viobnce can’t stomach that myth. It says: ‘Like most idjlogies, the myth of peaceful progress is intended at Ittom to legitimize existing political arrangements Td to authorize the suppression of protest. It also trves to conceal the role of official violence in the laintenance of these arrangements.‘) Let’s settle a few things first. We want to throw out lose in power to establish a new society.

Now if you think that elections can change anything, )u just aren’t with it. Those who have power are not ose who are elected but those who set up elections. itate or Private) parliamentarianism, not the polital parties. We have as much right to do so as the mericans who overthrew the English, the French nrrgeoisie who overthrew their aristocrats.

As Lin,In put it: “This country with its constitution belongs us who live in it. Whenever they shall grow weary the existing government they shall exercise their mstitutional rights of amending it or their revolution‘v right to dismember or overthrow it.’

But then, influenced by a life-time of debates between ‘majority’ and -‘minority’, you might say that we’re the minority, and that there are a lot of innocent bystanders, too. For one thing, every revolution, the English and American included, was started by a minority, a tiny one at that. It became a majority only as it proved it meant what it said. For another, we’re the young. Among the young, we’re probably the majority.

In any case, the argument of numbers is irrelevant.

If you feel strongly about saving your capitalist regime, defend it. But don% call yourself an innocent bystander.

There is no such thing. An innocent bystander in the American Revolution?

To Hitler’s occupations?

Or, as Abbie Hoffman puts it: ‘If you are a bystander, you are no innocent.’

So, we agree, it’s a fight to the finish. Well then, why doesn’t the Establishment hound us, arrest us, kill us?

Because that is not what modern Capitalism is all about. It is not George Wallace, the KKK and Minutemen, the four colonels of the green beret calypso. NO. The Establishment is IBM, Xerox, the Kennedys, the London and New York Times, Harvard University, LSE, the Courts-the liberal corporatists who, to survive, must maintain the semblance of fair play and reform-mindedness.

It is no accident that no modern developed capitalist state has ever resorted to dictatorship, not even in times of trouble. For as long as the liberocorporatists can maintain such a semblance, protesters tend to remain isolated and un-polarized.

Destroy the verbal meaning of corporate liberalism -silence the Times, arrest the Eugene McCarthysand the whole structure becomes threatened overnight.

It can then be maintained only by an armed phalanx who are just as apt to bump off the Kennedys and the chairman of Xerox, IBM and the universities (who are often the same) as they are to cut my head off. In fact more apt to do so-for the colonels (or police chiefs, as would be more likely in America) have more to gain from liquidating the former-the loot.

Thus, it is no accident that in the French revolution of May-June 1968, the power elite did not bring in the troops to open fire on students and workers, even on May 29 when it could fear total collapse of the corpor, ative state apparatus.

The enemy is not going to kill us all. Some, here and there, by assassination, but not all, and not systematically. It will repress us (and is doing it) by massive individual arrests, tying us and our resources up in their courts while, simultaneously trying to buy off some of us here and there by paper reforms, changes in degree but not in kind.

(For, suppose that they did let us run our universities, what would happen to their counter-insurgency, biochemical and ghetto-control research?

What would happen to their moon-projects, their executive training and recruiting operations, their future civil-servants, media-men, computer experts? ) But let’s not kid ourselves Their form of repression is the most efficient yet devised. It is far better than guns or clubs. Useless car-safety legislation or an amendment tollower the voting age to 18 as far,far wiser than HUAC intimidations.

Indeed, the best thing that happened for the Second American Revolution is Mayor Daley.

Well, then, what can we do against this monolithic liberal corporativism which bathes itself from head to toe in a pluralistic myth? Lenin once gave this answer: ‘Give us an organization of revolutionaries, and we will overturn Russia !’ And he did. But with what results!

Never mind what he said, what did he do. He got his organization-the revolutionary party-and with it the elite corps that went on to rule Russia, creating Stalinism, Czechoslovakia and the trials of Daniel and Siniavski.

History has judged Lenin right. His methods were the only ones capable of overturning the Czarist State.

And ever since, like scholastics mimicking St. Thomas, ‘Marxist-Leninists’ have insisted that every revolution must be carried out in the same way.

Yet Lenin wouldn’t agree. He would say, as he did, that conditions determine tactics and that tactics are subservient to the reasons for the revolution.

His reasons were land, bread, freedom.

His revolution never got the third, but two out of three is a pretty good batting average in any league. Almost. Not in ours. We’re

ambitious.

We want a perfect score-or else forget it. But don’t, because we’ll get it.

There are certain laws about revolutions.

Not many, but a few. One is that a revolution is made by people, ie: a movement.

The other is that it must (and does) function ‘within two awarenesses : 1) the nature of the adversary ; 2) the kind of structure, at least in general, which the movement wants to set up.

The first is easy: liberal corporativism, which we all know, or should. The second is harder. I’ve described my structure above. Other revolutionaries have other descriptions.

But we all agree on one basic characteristic: that it be a humanizing society.

That means that Lenin’s elitist organization is out. Also, then, is his ‘party’ as defined by modern day ‘Marxist-Leninists’, I put that in quotes because Marx never talked about a ruling party hierarchy such as Lenin put into motion. Marx, for example, spoke of ‘the party arising spontaneously from the soil of modern society.’

And Engels, in his best work, Anti-Duhring, said that the role of a revolutionary party is to destroy the State; not only the old state but all future states.

After seizing power he wrote ‘State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then withers away of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things. The State is not abolished. It withers away.

Even Lenin insisted that once the revolution is victorious ‘a special force for suppression is no longer necessary.

In this sense the State begins to wither away. ’ Where Lenin went wrong was to believe in short cuts. There are none-neither to justice nor truth. Just as a revolution from above is bound to fail (since they do not participate in it, the masses do not consider it theirs and will not work for its post-victory success), so is one that forgets its principles in order to strengthen itself (once the value of man is relegated to second place it stays there).

No matter how ‘good’ and just a cop’s intentions may be, no matter how much he believes in the rationalization that he is being efficient in order to become chief whence he can have the power to humanize the whole force, by the time he is the chief he will have institutionalized his actions; every cop on the force will act as if man is an object, to be treated as such.

Once manipulation is a way of life, human lives become manipulatable.

The Russia of today is not the fault of a Stalin gone mad; it is the necessary consequence of a revolution that did not trust the people for whom it fought. Because it was under attack from both a reactionary within and a capitalist without, it may have had no other historical choice. But that does not change the fact that today Daniel and Siniavski are in jail because Lenin believed in discipline and that Russians are stratofied and compartmentalized because Lenin reintroduced material incentives with his ‘temporary’ New Economic Policy.

Our revolution, then, must not cherish the principle of efficiency.

It must not build followers.

It must not sacrifice participation for effectiveness.

Our revolution, then, must not cherish the principle of efficiency.

It must not build followers.

It must not sacrifice participation for effectiveness.

It must not judge what is relevant according to doctrine. Nothing that is relevant to you or me can be considered irrelevant by the revolution.

The only way we will ever see a New Man is by valuing all men. Men not theories. Men not programs.

Is this heresy, as the ‘Marxist-Leninists’ yell? To their scholarly dogmatism, perhaps.- Marx himself however, was no dogmatist.

‘Every step of real movement’ he wrote, ‘is more important than a dozen programmes.’

By real movement, of course, he meant people.. .

No party? No ideology? No program?

How in hell then, do we make this ‘humanizing’ revolution?

By living it. By fighting for what’s relevant to you, not to some theoretist.

You want to turn on, turn on.

You want to drop out, drop out. Groove to the MC5 singing John Lee Hooker’s Motor City Is Burning (‘All the cities will burn.. .You are the people who will build up the ashes’ ) or the Lovin’ Spoonful’s Revelation: Revolution ‘69 ‘I’m afraid to die but I’m a man inside and I need the revolution’).

Live in a commune.

Be faithful to your values, not your parents’ (Remember Bob Dylan’s The Times, They are A-Changin’ : ‘Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command; Your old road is rapidly aging. ’ )‘?

Don’t be afraid to be happy. As Abbie Hoffman wrote: ‘Look, you want to have more fun, you want to get laid more, you want to turn on with friends, you want an outlet for your- creativity, then get out of school, quit your job.’ Come on out” and help build and defend the society you want. Stop trying to organize everybody but yourself.

Begin to live your vision. ’ If we do, there’s a great pay-off: once we win we won’t have to worry about somebody having perverted the Revolution.

Because the Revolution will be us. * John Gerassi, an American, is the author of Venceremos, a definitive study of Che Guevara.

He has been the Latin American editor of Time and News,wbek. and prior to coming to London where he is now resident, he was Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State College. He was sacked from this post for supporting the students in their demands for administrative reforms.

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Food prices have gone up! All over the place. Needless to say the public (you and me) are reacting in a noisy way. All over campus can be heard the din and thunder of jingling pennies.

It seems obvious that the anpeople didn’t cillary services learn a damned thing from Honest Ed. The prices have gone up to cover losses in the food services operations.

A smart business man would have lowered his prices to increase his market, but the exhorbitant wads of money an impoverished student staff must lay out now will only curtail the spending.

Not only that, but the prices are almost completely unrelated.

A cheese sandwich and a hamburg are certainly divorced in cost price, manufacture labor required, and use of overhead equipment.

And their market values are anything but equal.

Only their prices concur.

FRANKFURTERS

Not all price increases are illogical however.

For example. coffee now sells for twelve cents.

Now, you and H know that there isn’t a cup of coffee in the world worth twelve cents. We can therefore assume that whatever it is that they are trying to get twelve cents from us for, it isn‘t coffee.

That’s nothing new I’ve suspetted as much since I came to this campus four years ago.

I would like to suggest that a series of people organize a club called the Five Cent Cup Of Coffee Club.

(FCC-OCC) and borrow free of charge a few coffee perculators from food services and sell coffee in or near the coffee shops.

Profits will accumulate like life insurance dividends are supposed to, and the whole club can vacation in Brazil while studying coffee production. * * * I would like to invite down to Minota Hagey

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The wire has been removed and the ties have been rearranged so that they resemble a castle parapet.

One would almost call this an economy measure (wire being expensive), but the required overlap of the ties will surely offset any saving.

I know this doesn’t make sense Mr. editor, sir, but its very difficult to explain without graphic aids and besides that I’m too busy to sit around trying to figure out the literary method of explaining a pile of old creosotesoaked sticks around a gravel driveway.

Besides that. people should be so interested by now that they will flock down in hordes during lunch hour just to rnarvel at the sight.

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South looked at, his 31 high-card points and realized that he had never learned what to bid with his type of hand. He decided to open five no-trump and was pleased when his partner raised him to six. He was less pleased when he saw the dummy but won the diamond lead in his hand. Obviously, he must preserve the only entry to the dummy.

Declarer has 11 top tricks (4S,ZH,3D,2C).

He played off his top four spa$e tricks and hoped for some help from the-east-Test discards. West, however, just followed suit while_e>st discarded two diamonds, with declarer throfiing a club from the dummy.

Declarer has a very good chance to make this slam. A 3-3 heart break or a successful club finesse will give declarer his 12th trick. If only one of these plays are available, the finesse is the better play because its chance of success is 50 percent while the 3-3 split only occurs 36 percent of the time.

Declarer, however, can make a play that allows

him to test the heart suit before taking the club finesse without using up his only entry. He simply leads the deuce of hearts first. If a diamond is returned the trick is won with the queen. If east wins the heart and returns a club. declarer raises with his ace. In either case, he then cashes the ace and king of hearts and when both opponents follows, declarer can use the king of diamonds as an entry to the heart which is his 12th trick.

If either one had shown out, declarer would enter the dummy with the king of diamonds and take the club finesse.

By playing the low heart first, declarer gives himself every change to make the contract.

The play allows declarer to test the heart suit without losing control of the suit, while still having the entry available for the club finesse if he needs it. * * * Grosset & Dunlop (New York) recently published The Secrets of Winning Bridge

by Jeff Rubens.

One of the Oxford definitions for secret is ‘that kept from the public knowledge’.

The title of this book is very apt when this definition is kept in mind The techniques and principles explained in this book are not difficult but most bridge players do not have a knowledge of them.

The first five chapters of the book explain the principles for an accurate evaluation of a bridge hand and how to re-evaluate the hand as the bidding proceeds.

The author uses seven chapters to show how the type of bridge game (rubber, match-point etc. > being played affects your bidding.

The remaining chapters are used to show the principles involved in determining the correct line of play for a given hand. The author explains how the type of game, the contract etc. affects the play of some hands.

The ideas presented in this book will help you to improve your bridge game, and therefore I feel that it is worth the $5.95 (U.S.) purchase price.

U. S. hides true story about stolen Hercules LONDON (LNS)-Remember that strange story of a drunken U.S. air force sergeant who stole a giant Hercules transport plane and flew it out to sea single-handed?

Remember how everyone on both sides of the Atlantic was puzzled how he could-have navigated that 30-ton craft and eluded all the radar nets that “protect” England? And remember how he crashed and disappeared obviously because he didn’t know how to fly the fat bird? Well, that’s what the press, the air force, the government, and friends claimed. Here is the true story: Early one morning while everyone was sleeping on the USAF base at Midenhall, Suffolk, which is loo-odd miles north and a bit east of London, Sergeant Paul Meyer climbed aboard the Hercules, started the engines and, af-ter a peffect takeoff, flew off towards London.

The air force said he was drunk; no one can verify that.

The air force also said that Mey er was incapable of flying the craft; that was false. An experienced ground staffer, Meyer had often been aboard the Hercules during practice runs, knew the plane’s idiosyncracies backwards and forwards, and was perfectly aware that the craft is quite easy to fly (though difficult to land).

Then he simply disappeared.

Once the alarm was sounded which was with-in seconds of Meyer’s takeoff, half of the USAF’s spotter force was up in the air tracking him down. What was true, however, was that no radar screen seemed to record his passing. The Daily Express reporter on may 24 that “all the massive network of W,estern Europe’s air defences failed yesterday to find American Sergeant Paul Meyer, who...made a hole in Britain’s delicate radar system, and vanished.”

At the time, the official explanation was that Meyer’s Hercules was going out, not in, and that radar is a defensive instrument meant to pick up incoming “attackers” only. How the public and most members of Parliainent accepted such a ridiculous explanation is incredible, but in any case, Meyer headed due south from Mildenhall, which -fieant that he approached London from the north, that he was coming in, after all.

Eventually, some MPs did begin to wonder, and when they finally came out of the Soho strip joints to question the government about the affair, Prime Minister Wilson realized he had to change the explanation. On june 14, John Morris, Wilson’s minister of defense and equipment, told the Commons : “The Hercules was continuously tracked by British radar.”

The fact is that the Hercules did approach London without anyone knowing about it. It was not picked up on a single radar screen be-

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Shortly after Meyer flew out into the English Channel, he contacted the base by radio. Immediately, the base officers, who had been in contact with high command, woke up Meyer’s wife back in the States and had her plead with him to return. Somewhere over the Scilly island, Meyer was convinced, turned the craft around, cut across Cornwall at the southwestern tip of England, and headed back.

But, said the high command, what happkns if Meykrs crashes his craft upon landing? What if he crashes it off base causing a public investigation and perhaps revealing the anti-radar device? Worse, what if he changes his mind again and crashes in France or, God forbid, Russia?

Naturally, Zthe brass decided it could not take the chance. While the Sunday papers insisted that “hopes for the missing pilot are slim,” the base - officers radioed Meyer t’o ‘follow- their instructions so he could land safely.

They had used the radii contact with his wife in the U.S. together with their continuing radio contact to pinpoint his location without radar..He was directed to fly over the Channel.

But Meyer was never heard from again; only tiny slivers of his plane -were found by U.S. ships. The official U.S. air force explanation: “It takes a highly trained and skilled pilot to land on the sea.

There’s a strong possibility that the plane broke up. ” A more likely explanation is that he was shot down- to ensure destruction of the anti-radar device.

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WINDSOR (GINS)-A tavern owner who shot a man because “he was so anxious to have a good place for the citizens of this community to go to” was sentenced monday to two years in penitentiary for manslaughter.

The remark about Bernard Kudzmavicius was made by Mr. Justice William Henderson, who said: “I am sorry I had to be the one selected to try this gentleman. ” He added he believed Kudzmavicius, 48, of Windsor, shot Melville Thomas, 38, to death on april 5 not for any personal profit but because he- was anxious to preserve the good name of his ta?ern.

The light sentence-the maximum for manslaughter is 15 years -came after defense counsel Frank Monte110 told the court a

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pre-sentence report substdntiated evidence of witnesses thatKudzmavicius was a timid man, who never lost his temper and seemed incapable of violence.

By contrast witnesses portrayed Thomas as a violent man.

Employees at Kudzmavicius, tavern said Thomas was fired a week before the shooting but continued to come to the tavern to taunt Kudzmavicius.

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Is it possible that the directors of the phys-ed building are both anti-feminist in attitude and callous towards the needs of us 90pound weakling types?

Otherwise, why don’t females have a sauna, or, at the very least, certain hours when they can use the men’s?

Why are the doors to the pool viewing-galleries always locked (to those not in an aquatic mood )?

Or is it possible that those of us not in phys-ed do not exist?

CORLISS FINLAYSON arts 3 Burke, fecferdion, Chkvroq all puffer this attack

Larry Burko has missed ‘the whole point in his feedback letter (june 20) in reply to Philip English.

What the board of student activities is doing is (a ) very commendable and (b) could be subsidized in various ways. I agree you need financial backing before inviting top groups to perform here. Billing every student $5, giving a working capital of $50,000 should be enough since most BSA activities are on a breakeven basis. I don’t think they require the full backing of the $300,000 federation budget.

Burko is a great organizer, but he won’t make a good politician if he starts mud-throwing.

Democracy which Patterson so strongly advocates (page 1, june 20) and democracy which has brought the radicals into office in the federation and democracy which allows all the teenyboppers into the campus center every other night (that students’ center run by the students and made a complete mess by the students) does allow English his point of view.

As the Chevron claims to be a students. paper, Mr. Burko, you have no right to tell him to shut up. Nonsense usually can be defeated by logical arguments, but apparently you have nothing to offer in those terms.

I don’t think English really wants to break up the federation.

I agree with Patterson that we require a platform from where we can voice our opinion and put forth constructive criticism.

After all, any change needed in the university’s structure has to come from the students who are directly concerned and involved.

Criticism unless constructive could destroy the very foundations, and the present federatfin executive has rarely come out with anything which suggests something better.

If I presume correctly, the Chevron is the voice of the present federation.

(I know, Mr. Editor, what you are going to say.

You strongly supported Patterson in his election and applauded his policy-hence my presumption is not entirely wrong.) Week after week we read the Chevron which publishes opinions, suggestions and criticisms which make you wonder whether we are reading Red Star or Izvestia, and believe me, it does not reflect very well on the people it ‘truly’ speaks for!

All English said was let’s take a critical look at our federation.

Is it really serving the people for which it was created?

Is it really acting in the interests of the students?

The argument in favor is that the present president was voted in by the students. But Patterson did not run on a radical plat-

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form, to out-term students, who did not even know who Patterson or Andy Anstett were. Patterson in his letter did not make any mention of his RSM affiliation.

So to out-term students, Patterson sounded a more familiar name than Anstett and not that they believed in his policy. To me that is a breach of faith and an abuse of democracy.

I agree with English that >we don’t have to support all federation activities.

What activities we want to support is a matter of general discussion and a concern of the entire student body.

In my‘ opinion we should only support those activities which are worthwhile like the creativearts board, Radio Waterloo, publications board (excluding the Chevron ), BSA (to be run as suggested on a break-even basis) and smaller groups like debating and film society.

This way at least we don’t have to pay for waking Karl, Marx up from his grave and pay all his travel expenses to come to speak at Waterloo.

I know at university we should see the other side, but we don% have to be brain-washed.

This way we also don’t have to subsidize the Chevron which Burko states is Canada’s best student paper. If it is so, Mr. Burko, let’s sell it for 10 cents a copy’ for one term and see how much money you make. You say it is a students’ paper, but the funny thing is I don’t even vote for its editor, who maintains the policy of the paper. It is some democracy?

Our editor seems to have a knack for insulting people whenever they speak against the Chevron, RSM, or the present federation executive.

The beauty of it is he is being paid from our money , our $22 to do so.

My advice to you is-why don’t you concentrate your efforts on the editorial column which has gone to the dogs since (past Chevron editor) Stewart Saxe left. Even if I did not agree with him, Saxe did present an intelligent view of the other side, something to think about.

ACHAL MOORJANI grad civil The above letter is the fifth supporting Philip English from persons in the Village north and the fourth from quadrant, house N-2, of which Philip English is don.

“It wduld be tragic if a tradopen of many years-an ition destroyed feedback policy-is by the actions of a few, #* we said editorially two weeks ago.

Although the writer says many of the things the others have said, we are still keeping the columns open, although it means delays in the, publication of other peoples letters.

We feel there are many /misrepresentations in what writer Moorjani says about Patterson’s campaign and the present executive. However, we shall confine ourselves to comments on. the Chevron.

Because we supported Patterson for president does not mean we are his mouthpiece.

If proper enquiries were made, anyone would probably find that he, like any other student, radical disagrees from or conservative, time to time with the Chevron.

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Q ‘Has Moorijani read Red Star or Izvestia?

We would like to see a list of Chevron articles which

Address letters to Feedback, The Chevron, reserves the right to shorten letters.

Those Sign it - name, course, year, telephone.

For be published.

A pseudonym bill be printed

U of W. Be concise.

The Chevron typed (double-spaced) get priority. legal reasons unsigned letters cannot if you have a good.reason.

follow the Kremlin line.

The ercial press’ limiting of readers’ comparison is ridiculous. ability to be heard is not suffic0 The Chevron does not mainient reason to legitimize such tain it speaks for the federation restrictions in the Chevron. membership.

How could it ascer- 1 TONY DE LUCA tain their opinions before runnelectrical 3A ing every article?

Instead, its Channels for change open content and editorial policies are in federation structure determined by the staff who work on it.

As a comment on Derryck l Moorjani didn’t vote for the Smith’s letter (feedback, july 4). editor because he wasn’t one of it should be pointed out that polthe 90 people on last years staff itical apathy normally is takwho ran the paper and knew en to imply, not disapproval as something about journalism.

Smith says, but rather approval.

Anyone can join the staff and More precisely, political bodies work to change it. must take the view that if people A parallel might help.

Most do not vote at all, it is because of us do not elect the drama comthey do not care who wins, and pany’s executive unless we acwill go along with whatever tively participate in it. We may happens as a result. be disappointed in its choices of After all, akathy is just that. productions, but if we don’t like If people wish to get out there them, we have two choices: we and expressly approve or disdon’t attend, or we join it and try approve of something, they have to change it. but to make their way to the l Like the creative-arts producpolling station and do so. Only tions which Moorjani favors subin the case where people are not sidizing (probably there is no given a chance to make an effecgeneral campus agreement with tive expression of disapproval that), the Chevron is supported can we properly launch a charge by decision of the democraticallyof “undemocratic”. elected student council.

If, for example, no provision l Replies to feedback letters was made for write-in votes, or deal’ with facts and are not infor negative votes in the sense tended as insults. of active disapproval of all canl The editor is not the author didates, then those who do not of all editorials.

In fact editorials vote might be doing so as a posare written by the same people itive act with negative signifiwho wrote many when Saxe was cance (this happened in the reeditor. cent election in France, for ex-the lettitor ample).

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abortion Chevron

While reading the article “Teach or get lost” (june 27), I could not overcome the desire to take a look at the teaching method employed by this university.

It tries very hard to obliterate the significance of education and to perpetuate the method of instruction. ’ A good example of this abortion is Philip English, a grad physics student who forgets he is a physics student and not a student of social science.

In his last letter to feedback, he marvelously demonstrates his ignorance in social philosophy.

He takes the meaning of words from the dictionary like he would take a formula from a physics manual!

Mr. English, human beings are gregarious in nature. They do not live alone, they need communities. In order for a community to be established, laws must be implemented, agreed? Now, look at the definition of freedom: “liberty, power to do as one pleases.. .”

Allow me to ask you a question, “What is a law? Does the law allow you to. do as you please? Can you imagine a community of real human beings without any restrictions? ” Let me ask another question, “Is freedom as you describe or the Oxford- dictionary describes, a desirable asset to the community?”

Space does not allow me to divulge my views but you can challenge me; courage you have, I know...

Let me suggest a solution to the problem.

Why don’t you become a candidate in the next election and then you’ll have the power to implement your “pernicious mind. ” Another example of the result of this bastardized education is the editor of the Chevron, (I’ll keep my writing to a minimum! 1 who, in order to dispose of English, writes an editorial in which the policy on letters to the editor in the commercial press is compared to the Chevron. The comm-

Until this is done, and the negative side wins the resulting vote. president Patterson is quite correct in assuming that he has a mandate, just as is U.S. president Nixon, even though- the combined apathy-H u m p h r e yWallace-independent portion of the American electorate was substantially greater than the Nixon vote.

JAN N.\RVESON philosophy department NDP with

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The New Democratic Party wins an election in >Ianitoba.

British Columbia’s NDP looks like a sure winner in the next provincial election. Ross Thatcher is afraid to call an election in Saskatchewan.

Political scientists in Ontario have ruled out the provincial Liberals as an alternative to Robarts’ ever-more-incompetent Conservatives.

Coincidentally the commercial = press begins running a heavy content of anti-NDP and anti-socialist editorials and articles.

Not content to stop there, the Manitoba victory is dismissed as a win by default, and every story emphasizes the moderate stand taken by NDP leader Ed Shreyer.

It’s for obvious reasons that the NDP must moderate its image to win elections. Let’s hope this problem and the expected noncooperation from the federal government It can be debated, certainly, doesn’t prevent the NDP from givwhether the students, as a group, ing the Manitoba voters what they should be recognized as a body JIM McCARRY politic at all. This is an extremarts 1 ely difficult matter, to my mind, and I make no comment on it This bit of doggerel is here. the Chevron poetry column But it must be pointed out that Peter Dembski the means for those who wish to express active disapproval of Feeling frisky Federation of Students policy are Went for a couple of beers. available. If a number of students For rules cared naught wish to have a referendum called (Poor guy 1 got caught. on whether the federation should Two Chevron columns of tears. exist at all, whether their dues should be lowered or raised, etc., JUSTIN HEIDELBURGER then the way is open for them to (pseudonym by request) get it done.

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feedback’ Questions use of drugs to counter the red world Congratulations on an excellent reporting job done on the Toronto pop festival (june 27).

Especially remarkable are your figures on the number of people smoking marijuana (“at least 400 out of 500 kids” or about 40,000).

These figures are even more astounding when compared with the report on the CBC news quoted in the same article: “there wasn’t any marijuana encountered by police.” It is heartening to know that the Chevron are so much more sources capable and accurate than those of the CBC. Somehow, I h*ave doubts about both sources.

The previous issue of the Chevron carried a report that as a result of an extreme shortage of marijuana in Ontario, the price had risen above the reach of many users with the result that cheaper but poor quality chemical drugs were flooding the market.

The situation was no doubt aggravated by the inability of many students to find jobs this summer.

It is good to hear that the situation has improved so greatly in one week that 80 percent and more of those unable to pay for their education can now afford quantities of marijuana.

It is sad that so many find the world so harsh and cruel and themselves so inadequate that they look to the dream world of drugs to escape the reality that they must eventually face.

Please don’t paint a picture any bleaker than it is by exaggerated figures.

Your article says “people who blow dope. . . love people. ” Love can have meaning, sincerity, healing power, and therefore reality only when it is from the heart, never when from a drug.

LEWIS VAUGHAN electrical 4A Neither CRC news or Chevron sources are inaccurate.

Approximately four out of five at the festival were smoking mari-

juana. The enormity of this numbar is probably the best reason “there wasn’t marijauna any encountered by police” and no one was arrested.

Don’t confuse smoking grass at the pop festival with someone miserly ’ drinking whisky at a football game. One person with $2 worth of grass could and did turnon up to 12 people.

Reality as pictured on the front page of the Globe and Mail is escaped in many way. Some people ignore it, others watch TV, some get involved in politics and others blow dope. !t was not meant that love stems from drugs or vice versa.

That they exist together may be the result of a total state of mind, rather than any inter-relation.

-the lettitor

EAglish’s ideus unreal, our society isn’t free Just one more word about this Philip English versus the radicals thing.

English stated in his letter (june 13 ) “in a free society no man should be compelled to pay dues to any association against his will” and I agree wholehartedly Unfortunately, we don’t live in a free society. If we did, would there be taxes (from which I can’t opt out) or would a man be forced to work at a job he doesn’t enjoy in order to live, or would students be in university merely for the material reward to be reaped after graduation, in an effort to escape the coucion the previously mentioned worker experiences?

So, if we don’t live in a free society the next question is how to get one. Briefly put, the power structure must be attacked by those it oppresses. Therefore we have unions, student and others.

Now, if I am forced to join a union it is definitely an infringment on my freedom.

Definitely some of the tactics used by unions in punishing members who don’t abide by a majority decision (scabbing, etc) are not considerate of that person’s freedom.

The alternatives become clear.

Address letters to Feedback, The Chevron, U of W. Be concise.

The Chevron reserves the right to shorten? letters.

Those typed (double-spaced) get priority.

Sign it - name, course, year, telephone.

For legal reasons unsigned letters cannot be published.

A pseudonym hill be printed if you have a good reason.

We can band together and use our union to confront the power structure or we can refuse to do, so. If we choose the latter we are obviously objectively supporting the status quo.

If we decide to use our -union we are forced into some unpleasant situations (1 wish it weren’t so too). It becomes a question of “Which side are you on, boys?”

Surely English realizes that if you don’t oppose the status quo you’re condoning it and, to be effective, protest must involve as many people as possible. Surely Patterson must- recognize an infringement of freedom when he sees one.

Last of all the Chevron editorial (june 27) on this whole matter was in extremely poor taste.

IAN ANGUS philosophy 3 The editorial was not “on this whole matter” but was about the problem of a small clique abusing the priviJege of the print-all-

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Questions implications of PhD title foi engineering While writing my doctoral thesis I have often been lured by the love of a lucid mystery about the philosophical implication of the title, “doctor of philosophy,” related to the the theses in different branches of engineering and technology.

Is technology really a part of a philosophical domain, or is it just a tool to achieve certain philosophical goals?

Often have I pondered how much of a misnomer the term “doctor of philosophy” is, ex-, pecially when extended to the end of a technical research. This reminds me of a blind Indian boy whose name, in strict english translation, means “lotus-eye”.

The foundation of philosophy lies on the fundamentals of logic, deductive as well as inductive and a certain understanding on its basic terminology; such as thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis and, perhaps,

anti-synthesis, and their useful applications.

None of the engineering institutions, from Helsinki to Melbourne, offers a concise, comprehensive course on the fundamentals of logic in the early undergraduate years, whereas their topmost diploma offered is often termed” . . .of philosophy”.

Shouldn’t the degree in such a case be termed “decay of philosophy” instead? Its abbreviation, PhD, would still remain unaltered for all practical purposes, such as job applications and interviews, introducing or being introduced to a gentle lady (man) and/ or a scholar, prestige datings and so on.

I agree that when any work- of science, art and technology reaches a landmark (climax), it pervades into the sublime sedimentation of its philosophical achievement. Thus the concept of metagalactic evolution, and when extended further, cosmic revelation, is a great philosophy by virtue of its greatness in idea, not by its vastness in space.

On the other hand, lunar flight programs or construction of space stations are purely technological know-how and make few direct contributions in pure philosophy, although both happen to share the broad field of astronomy.

Basically solving a problem in any branch of science and technology lies in eliminating the contradictions, step by step, involved in it. Mathematics is one of the useful tools that helps in formulating and presenting the problem in a precise fashion and perhaps in eliminating the contradictions up to a certain stage only.

For example, let a problem be represented by a simple mathematical function: = x3 + x2 + x + 1 Y = f(x) Elimination of contradiction may mean, in this case, mathematically, step-by-step differentiation of the function, i.e. dY 7UK = 3x2

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Here stops the role of mathematics and the philosophical question evolves: where would the next step lead?

Similarly, most of the technological aspects of a problem would end at this stage, and “where science ends, philosophy begins”.

Therefore, I wonder about the utility or futility of the doctor of philosophy degree, given for a work that is strictly engineering.

Shouldn’t another name (e.g., doctor of technology, doctor of engineering, doctor of technical sciences, etc., as often offered by engineering institutions in eastern Europe) be less of a misnomer?

JAYANTA BANERJEE grad mech Revolutionary youth group doesn’t welcome dissent As an Indian student in Waterloo, I was curious to learn about the ’ anti-imperialist struggles in Africa, India, USA organized by the Waterloo Student Movement of the Canadian Revolutionary Youth, especially since some ‘comrades’ from India were_ to address the meeting.

As the meeting was openly publicized I imagined that free discussion would be possible and that the ‘comrades’ would be willing to dispel ’ any doubts I had about the movement.

This was also borne out by the chairman who declared that there would I be a discussion period following each speaker.

But apparantly “I had imagined wrongly.

The first speaker delivered a speech consisting mostly of the fabrications of his own imagination with a couple of facts thrown in. This had to be unquestioningly accepted, for of course, a comarade cannot possibly lie and what he says has to be taken as God’s own truth, except that the comrades do not believe in God either.

I wanted to clarify certain facts presented by the speaker, like, 90 to 95 percent of the Canadian people support the proletarian movement in China and would like to have one in Canada, and other similar statements.

The comrades apparently had no answer to any of my,questions, for I was not given any. I was rather rudely informed that the meeting was not open for, discussion and a big baboon, obviously not belonging to the University of Waterloo, was rather abusive and offensive in his language to me. This I did not mind, as people who are gullible enough to believe that fabrications of their imagination will be accepted as facts cannot be expected to do any better.

The motto of the Revolutionary Youth seemed to be-you pat my back and 1’11 pat yours, and to hell with dissenting opinions.

The structure of their revolution is apparently so flimsy that it cannot stand up to any discussion , at all. The meeting was unreal enough to be entirely farcical. ’ And finally, will the Revolutionary Youth of Canada inform the Revolutionary Youth of India that abusive language is never a substitute for facts and logical discussion.

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The inquirer...makesat bow t6 freedom of the press.

The witness... throivs a grave,cLirtsey.toward _ --I the defenceof the democraticprocess-.and h -theresponsibleformation of public opinion. t Then they dance; they both knwv all the steps.

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Y MY CALCULATION, senator Keith Davey has a great chance to save the national treasury a qua-rter of a million dollars and the private sector, as they say, lord knows how much more.

He’ll need to be stubborn, though, because the trick will be never to let his senate inquiry into control of the press be faked-into making inquiries about Control of the press. The first British royal commission on the press fell for that one, and so, to a lesser degree, did the second.

Altogether they spent more than sixty thousand quid, at today’s prices no less--than a quarter of a million dollars, and most of it, judging by their reports, went for charts, graphs, tables, statistical analyses and transcribed testimony that all bore on whether or not control of the press was passing into the hands of growing newspaper chains that found local monopoly more attractive than any. other kind of publishing.

y The trouble was, they were, investigating the wrong question. The first Royal commission was issued in 1947, when the first press chains were already senile and .Roy Thomson was getting restless in the bush. By that time, there was no longer ; any real question about control of the monopolistic. corporations had press; most of it, and short of state ownership or anarchy it wouldn’t be long before they got all but the dregs of what was left.

That’s about where we are now. Three chains sell Canadians nearly half the daily papers they buy, smaller chains that want to get bigger sell some of the rest, and in the hundred-odd Canadian towns big enough to have their own dailies, seventyfive have only one, each a local monopoly. As Roy Thomson once told the Wall Street Journal, monopoly dailies are the only kind to buy, So: what more could another twenty volumes of statistics tell even a parliamentary committee about ,whether or’not a few monopolies apd semi-monopolies now own the press? Damned if I know, and should senator Davey happen to decide that he’s damned if he’ knows either, there’s a quick quarter of a million dollars he doesn’t have to spend documenting a conclusion that was self-evident in the 1940s.

But the real payoff, as I said earlier, will come in the private sector, where hundreds of middle-management men in the press corporations will be able to go - back to work, instead of spending thousands of, man-hours in committee and at the typewriter sweating up briefs designed to convince an angel, let alone a senator, that there is little concentration of ownership in the press and no monopoly whatever.

Work out the cost of the time they’ll save, using the same system those corporate press releases use to compute the price in dollars of letting wage-earners take a coffee break, and the ,wihdfall runs into millions.

To borrow a phrase from the boys in the market-strategy department, what a concept!

Traditionally, press inquiries have tended to follow the protocols laid down for k dancing at the court of Louis the sun king.

First the inquirer, pretty well regardless of whether .he’s a commissioner royal, a senator, or a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, makes a bow to

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freedom of the press. The witness, usually a publisher of more than one paper, throws a grave curtsey toward the defence of the democratic process and the responsible formation of public opinion. Then they dance; they both know all the steps.

For an illustration drawn from an actual minuet, consider again the U.K. royal commission of 1947.The commissioners, who knew very well that they were dealing with honorable men, tried to predict the future by asking publishers about their motives and intentions.

The publishers, being honorable men, replied that their motives were pure and their intentions were to elevate the press in every conceivable way, including a gentle upward pressure on profits.

This was the right way to dance a minuet, but the wrong way to run an inqujry.

The commissioners deliberated over what they had learned about the publishers’ motives and intentions for two years, and they, in their report, got their predictions geometrically backwards.

They reported “a marked tendency away from concentration of ownership in the nationand they foresaw “no reason al press,” to expect a reversal of this tendency.”

It followed that such concentration of ownership as they had detected was harmless, and would become more so as it s. eroded.

Twelve years later another royal commission, totting up the score, reported that “since 1949 seventeen daily or Sunday newspapers have ceased publication and only four new ones have’been started; the number of weekly newspapers has decreased (and) the extent to which a few proprietors dominate the actual supply of news and opinion through the daily and , Sunday press has greatly increased.”

This is not to deride the ability of the original commissioners, which was high, but merely to demonstrate the futility of trying to second-guess corporate behaviour by inquiring into the motives and intentions of corporate executives.

It is the nature of any motive that gets spoken out loud to‘be pure; Dow Cemical has explained that it makes jelly for burning people out of patriotism and regard for the national interest.

Curiously, very .few press inquiries have concentrated on trying to find out how press corporations will behave in the future by finding out precisely how they behave in the present.

Suppose, instead of going through a courtly minuet with the Southam Press about its motives and intentions in taking over the Montreal Gazette, the Owen Sound Sun-Times, and the Prince -George Citizen during the last-few months, senator Davey’s committee were to subpoena the books of both companies, along with.everything committed to paper about these transactions.

Then, with the help of some local bankers and a few good chartered accountants, the inquiry might arrive’at a fair estimate of how much, if at all, the taxpaying public subsidizes the deal when an independent paper sells out to a chain.

The question comesup because tax law allows a newspaper chain to pay for adding more papers to the chain out of unTheoretically, at least, taxed profits. this makes it more profitable for a chain (to buy additional papers at nearly double their real worth than it is to pay taxes on its profits. For the seller, of course, the inflated price is a capital gain, and he, too, escapes the tax collector.

Bryce W. Rucker, whose the First Freedom is one of the few broadly inform. ed and-tough-minded critiques of the American press now in print, is convinced that these tax* dodges are probably the main reason for the accelerated expansion of press chains in the last five years.

I’ve always wondered; but senator Davey, if he’s interested, can probably find out.

I wonder, too, what the guys called “publisher” on chain newspapers really do. They sort of manage the branch, I guess, but do they get to make any editorial or even business decisions that matter?

And what about the editor of a chain newspaper? Who does he *get his orders from, and how often, and what kind of orders?.

How much of the space in his paper does! he dispose of, and how much is set aside for canned copy. from the chain’s columnists, correspondents, and bureaus?

All these questions, and many more, bear on the chains’ contention that by and large they leave their papers free to make their own editorial policies. Roy Thomson says this, and he’s a man who seems-to fade young George Washington in his inability to tell a lie, yet who has ever heard of a Thomson paper in Canada getting into a fight with anybody but the American newspaper Guild?

Like a lot of other peo’lle who are curious about the press, I’ve asked some of these questions of the few editors and publishers of chain papers I’ve met, and even got a few answers. But if the senate committee were to ask all of them all of with a guarantee of anthe - questions, onymity for those who wanted it, there might begin to emerge the first qualitative, subjective appraisal of journalists at work under chain owners.

The quality of a newspaper also depends to some degree on the quantity of money spent on it, and here, too, Senator Davey could let a lot of people who have no choice but to take their news from chain papers in monopoly towns know whether they’re being had. Largely because they seem able to finance their own growth at

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such speed, chains are suspected of.taking vastly more out of their monopoly papers, particularly, than they’re ready to put back in. Without the po.wer to subpoena records there’s no way to judge; with it, there’s no reason not to know.

There’s another chain owner, though of a slightly different kind, whose books would quickly tell us whether we’re being had, and that is Time, Inc. In 1960, when the royal commission on publications was trying to decide whether the Canadian editions of Time and Reader’s Digest, chiefly, were competing unfairly against Canadian magazines,. Time argued that if the Canadian magazines weren’t making enough money, that could only be because they weren’t very good magazines.

While the commission wasn’t entirely persuaded

by Time, many members ofparliament were; it was the kind of argument that businessmen and lawyers in the House found it very hard not to nod their heads,, at. The subsequent legislation, which did bar any more ventures of the same kind, exempted Time and Reader’s Digest; they now share a monopoly guaranteed by act of parliament. ,Well? this year Time Inc. is losing money, and I urge the senate committee to call the president before it, instructing him to bring the books of his Canadian edition.

Since parliament has already been told by Time why some Canadian magazines don’t make money the members could only benefit from being told by Time why Time, Inc., isn’t making money. And if it turned out that in Time’s opinion its magazines are, as good as ever even though the corporation is in the red, the house might be moved to reconsider the legislation that grew out of Time’s earlier appraisal of Canadian magazines.

Particularly if the books should show that the Canadian edition is making a large profit that is siphoned into New York to help pay the American deficit.

There are a lot of other answers I’d like to see the present inquiry force from the corporate press, but I confess that I no longer believe in the power of a parliamentary committee, or parliament itself for that matter, to bring about any significant change in the- control or quality of newspapers.

Chain publishing, with the chains reducing all. but the largest metropolitan areas to local monopolies by merging or killing the handful of independent dailies’ left: that is surely the shape of the daily press for the foreseeable future.

The, Toronto Star may be a special case that, like the New York Times, has the vigor and size to survive as an independent paper-but then a few years ago it would have seemed natural to include the ’ Times of London, which has since become Roy Thomson’s symbol of conspicuous expenditure.

Editor’s note-Current, Dominion Bureau of Statistics publications state there are only 14 cities in Canada that have two or more daily newspapers, and in three of these cases there is only one newspaper -s published in english and one in french. .

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The philosophy expressed in this and students (another “what if”).

Yet even if every university issue’s centerspread has been popevery war ularized and distorted by. the es- were democratized, company booted off campus, evtablishment press as the political research project ery strategic creed of the so-called “new left”. cancelled, business would still In reality, it is one tendency within the movement, in which re- carry on, outside the university admittedly, but just down the volution is seen as an end in itself. block.

At present, there is eviThe agents of change are to be the dence of this shift in the U.S. alienated youth of the middle Gerassi fails to appreciate the class. nature of oppression.

Author John Gerassi ignores all organic Power does not exist in local, disother potentially revolutionary creet bundles within the family, groups, however, and he persists the university, in dealing with “what if’s” to the the neighbourhood, the province or even the country. point of excluding any investigation which attempts to analyze sit- You can react to oppression in the university, but unless you underuations from their material condistand it as a function of a system tions.

It is easy to say “what would of power, you tend to fight effects, not causes. understandhappen if... “without ing the mechanics, the possibilStudents must make alliances ities or the consequences of with other groups outside the unchange. It is another thing to ser- iversity who are in potentially revolutionary iously approach revolutionary positions. Students work in a precise and serious man- are going to have to link with opner. pressed minorities and especially . with labor.

NO one can deny that universiMasturbation can be fun, but its ties would be different if they a lousy revolutionary strategy. were turned over to the faculty

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Money is too tight to sit A grad student with a flawless credit rating and a regular income was recently refused a $100 personal loan from a local bank.

The bank says even though the student has had an account with them for a year and a half, he can’t have the loan unless its an emergency.

It wasn’t an emergency-the student just needed furnituie for an apartment. As a result, he has to pay four to five percent higher interest on a loan arranged through the furniture dealer.

Why no loan? The bank’s head office said no loans except for emergencies.

Why? They’re suffering from tight money.

Tight money is the result of the manipula’tion and countermanipulation of that thing called capital-the stuff that makes our society free.

Tight money policies are supposed to combat inflation.

But in this case, a student has to pay a price further inflated or else sit on the floor of his apartment to eat and study.

It’s possible that the student could have obtained the loan from another bank if that’s where his

account was. But that is not the issue, for all the chartered banks have given tight money orders restricting loans to a’ significant extent.

Business loans for the small and medium-sized operator are nearly impossible to get.

In the market system-the very backbone of free enterprise-this means all those groovy things like supply and demand, choice and competition don7 work anymore.

And in the meantime, prices continue to go up both directly and indirectly. Money is tight, but the banks are engaged in one of their biggest campaigns to encourage spending: Chargex, with interest charges of one-and-a-half percent a month on unpaid balances.

There are even more contradictions, but one truth remains. The big operators-the monopolies and the near-monopolies-and the sharp entrepreneurs are continuing to prosper. They do so by passing on the increased costs to the little guy who has to pay proportionally more of his incoie for the same commodities necessary for life.

In the last 5,500years, there have been 14,531wars, for an average of 3.18’wars per year. In the last 20 years, the frequency. has increased to 5.2 per year. ’ -T.

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Ten down and three issues to go. Will we finish the summer? But we heroically struggle on, conveying hippy bullshit, the correct line, and lotsa feedback, We are: Jim C. Klinck, R. Alex C. Smith, Miss Brenda J. Wilson (on loan from the RSM newsletter), dum d. jones, Cyril H. Levitt, swireland, Louis H.R. Silcox, Dave X Stephenson, Tom G. Purdy, Bryan Y. Douglas, Steve J. Izma, Peter, 0. Vanek, R. Wayne Smith, W. Ross J. Taylor, Lorna A. Eaton. Thanks this week to Jon Hamilton for his view of Camus and to Brian Switzman for the correct line. And as George Orwell said, Rudyard Kipling was a jingo imperialist, be was morally insensitive and esthetically disgusting.

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