1969-70_v10,n12_Chevron

volume

10: number

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july

1969

act reudy for board, senate

University Several months of meetings are over, with what will probably be the final version of the new university act the result.

The few remaining difficulties in the wording of the act were ironed out with little debate at the final university ___- act committee meeting, thursday july 17.

Federation of Students president Tom Patterson questioned the manner in which student reps were to be chosen.

In lieu of having the university governing council determine the method of election of the twelve student reps, Patterson preferred having the procedure for selection of all twelve left up to the student body via federation bylaws.

This, he felt would ensure that the students could decide if and how they wanted elected-and appointed seats divided, and would make possible constitutional guarantees of the accountability of student reps.

Both Patterson and committee chairman Ted Batke agreed if having seven council members chosen each year by the council and five chosen by the federation would cause a student split, the idea was undesirable.

“There is the distinct possibility this five-seven split could

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in federation control a more uniform and consistent choice of reps could be made.

misrepresented the federation on minor issues, a method for the rep to be recalled would be available.

Patterson was worried that under the present student constituency breakup as used for federation elections, there are nine, not seven divisions.

With all 12 seats

Acting administration president Jay Minas (interim admin president Howard Petch is on vacation) differed ‘<The council must take responsibility for it’s internal organization and- the question of defining constituencies,” he said.

Mech eng P”f Tom Bruzustowski suggested a compromise solution, which was accepted by most of the committees.

As it now stands, the federation will conduct the choosing of reps, but will ensure that at least seven of these reps come from the same constituency divisions used for the seven faculty members not chosen by the faculty association.

The faculty association will appoint five reps, making total faculty representation equal to that of the students.

With this argument out of the way the final composition of the council seemed set.

However Bruzusto wski objected, saying he favored cutting the council in half to make it a more manageable size. This suggestion was tabled to be considered by the new 66-member council itself.

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twelve community representa tives twelve faculty reps from academic units one St. Jerome’s faculty member twelve students five Alumni Association members two university staff

Minas was also worried student reps would not be chosen on the basis of academic units. (ie. arts, math, etc) Patterson pointed out that using the same constituencies as used for federation elections would probably ensure this for some time.

Reverend Zac Ralston, representing St Jerome’s college wondered if the student vote on the council would be federation instructed.

Patterson felt instruction would only occur on issues of great importance. If a student consistently

Patterson

also

was concerned

with a clause in the act concerning discipline. The original clause left all discipline up the administration president.

Patterson wished to add to this. “provided that no decision of the president shal1 be valid and effective until ratified by council, unless the council so nrnvidoc

”

Questions centered on whether the “council so provides” would allow presidential discipline control for good, or would be subject to constant ratification by the council. This too was postponed to be decided by the council in the fall.

The main act as it now stands will be left for review and consideration by various university groups until the October board of governors meeting. From there it goes to the Ontario legislature for approval.

In the meantime a subcommittee is working on council bylaws, which do not need provincial government approval.

Contract dwurcied for library’ catki;fion The university administration awarded a $1,2OO,OOOcontract for the top three floors of the arts library monday .

Construction will begin august 1 and is planned for completion in march.

Provincial approval has not been received yet-but is considered a formality at this stage.

Two of the three new floors will be used for library holdings and the third for office space. By 1978 the entire building is planned for library use.

“The contractor, Eaglewood Construction of Hamilton, was the lowest of five tenders and was within the budget estimate for the project,” said physical-plant and planning director Bill Lobban.

The library building was originally planned to be built in stages of -three floors, then seven, then the final ten as the library collection expanded.

However, when

the first stage was under construction, the university decided to build the second stage as temporary administration building.

A similar contingency decision was made two months ago, to build the last stage ten years ahead of schedule to meet a continuing temporary need for administration space, plus a current need to have some new space available for september 1970. No other non-residential buildings are planned before 1971 completion.

“There’s one problem we haven’t solved yet,” said interim administration president Howard Petch, “and that’s how to maintain internal library security. ” With book collection expanding and the offices remaining, the situation with entrances, stairways and elevators makes it difficult to continue the situation where two buildings co-exist in one structure.

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Accomodation for women is the Woodcock reports that about 300 of most pressing problem facing the the previous listings have been off-campus housing office, accord-, withdrawn.

“Our assumption is ing to accomodations manager Al. that a lot- of those people could Woodcock. He estimates about 500 be ones who set up accomodation more beds are needed for women. for students last year after the Statistics released july 18 sug- appeal and then didn’t get any, ” gest there may be a surplus of 225 he said. beds for men.

One of the problems may stem from the men-women ratio set for Habitat 69 (Village 2). There will be 768 men and only 192 women in the new residence.

This is the last regular Chevron Woodcock hopes that co-op stud- issue for the summer, except for ents here for the summer will call the august 15 special, guaranteed the off-campus housing office if to keep the administration and fedtheir places of residence will be eration bureaucrats honest while vacant next term or if they are no one is on campus.

It will be willing to sub-let apartments. mailed to those on the current Almost all landlords on the ofice’s lists have been contacted and

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women

Of the spaces originally on the housing lists, about 1000 have already been taken. “It’s encouraging that many students have come up early and found places so we have a better idea of what problems we may face,” Woodcock concluded.

Chevron mailing list and to the out-going co-op class.

The first fall issue will be the registration issue Wednesday 10 September and soon after the Chevron will be published t wicca-week. tuesday and fridav.

Camera-shy picture-taking

Campus Quickies Province

pays

for silt removal

Dredging the silt from the sick bay in front of health-services could have cost as much as $3000, and all but $150 of the cost will come from the provincial treasury.

Administration treasurer Bruce Gellatly said the dredging was done out of the site-services budget, a capital budget covering landscaping, electrical work, The sewers, roads and walks. provincial government must approve projects and pays 95 percent of the cost.

Lobban island, as the silt

nasties steal bicycles

Only

What is the next the nasty scale grandmothers in Probably stealing

lowest thing on after mugging Waterloo park? a boy’s bicycle.

People who ride bikes are usually kind, generous people.

For this reason they seldom lock their bicycles, leaving them unchained. and available to anyone wanting to take a short ride.

Credit

‘ Coffeeshop

Chemistry grad David ReesThomas sent a notice with over 100 signatures to food-services head Bob Mudie. The notice had asked those who would use the coffeshop during august to sign and said faculty, grads and staff will be inconvenienced by a shutdown-particularly during lunch.

Federation

publishes

The Addiction Research Foundaticn of Ontario has issued the first in a series, of pamphlets on drugs.

Although it is called Facts about cannabis, the material is riddled with vague generalities, speculation and unfounded conelusions.

A youth worker connected with the foundation explained that this reflects the whole problem, “we just don’t know”.

The long terms effects of pot are unfortunately relegated to the section What is not known A subscription

150 the Chevron

the RCMP. Shortly thereafter, Rosenberg called Kurt to tell,him he could get his film.

When Kurt went to pick them up, he had to face about six RCMP officers and a couple of snide remarks, but he got his films.

“Pick ups” of this extra-legal variety are a common I occurrence among Kurt and Chris’s friends.

As a result Kurt is putting out the first issue of what he hopes will be a continuing underground newspaper in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Planned to be called “Fucke”. it will be distributed primarily among the teenagers and others who have only the downtown areas and Victoria park to congregate in (and get hassled I. For those who are interested. the following license numbers belong to cars associated with the operations of the RCMP in this area: J41-025, 541-025, 541-026. 541-027. 54 l-031. 556-228. and many more.

And in case you need their help. the RCMP local detachment’s phone number is 579-0100.

RCMP corporal George Windsor

In a covering letter to Mudie Rees-Thomas said the response to the notice justified having the coffeeshop open at least during lunch.

He said he believed the potential number of customers was greater than the number of signees.

“I firmly believe that the availability of the campus center coffeeshop, if only during the lunch hour, throughout the entire year would be greatly appreciated by many members of the university,” he said.

still seeks researcher

The Federation of Students has not succeeded in finding a research assistant for the fall term.

The single application received was turned down by the executive board in a meeting last

Foundation

for math

The committee recommends that the math faculty not re-evaluate programs of students who have been required to withdraw from the faculty prior to the introduction of the credit system.

It also suggests each math student be assigned a faculty advisor who will be responsible for approving course selections for the following year.

The committee hopes students will bz able to choose which system (credit or year) they want to follow by the end of the fall term.

However, all students entering the math faculty after September 1970 will be on the credit system.

The report will go to the math faculty council for approval in September, and from there to the university senate.,

“We’ve being harassed far too much,” said corporal George Windsor of the Kitchener RCMP, as he explained his harassment of two K-W teenagers who had been taking pictures in front of the local RC MP station.

Windsor had “picked up” Chris and Kurt saturday afternoon and took them to the station without arresting them.

“Why were you taking pictures?” he asked. “Are you going to sell them?

Who’s paying you. Who put you up to it? ” Kurt replied that they did it entirely on their own.

“We don’t consider this a joke; we’re being harassed far too much by kids coming around here taking pictures and the Chevron printing our phone number. What’s your name? ” said Windsor.

“I don’t have to tell you my name,” replied Kurt.

“I’ll find a way to get it.”

Kurt decided to give him the information--name, address, telephone number, birthdate, parent’s names, and school--because they got it before when they tried to bust him at school for dope.

They got the same information from Chris. They also discovered Chris had been in trouble with the law before, for driving under age.

“Juvenile delinquent, eh? ” sneered Windsor.

“Let’s see your cameras. ” He asked how many shots had been taken (five) and what of (cars and the station) and whether they had other personal things on the films (they ‘a .: did).

“Take the film out, ” Windsor ordered. ’ “We don’t have to.” (They don’t.)

“Yes you do. ” (So they did. ) “Can we go now?”

“Yes. ” “Can we have a ride back to where you picked us up? ” “No. ” (Two girls who had been picked up on King Street for interrogation another day had to walk over two miles back to where they had been picked up. ) On monday, Kurt phoned Kitchener lawyer and alderman Morley Rosenberg, who told him he should phone Windsor and demand his film back.

Kurt phoned and Windsor fired the same barrage of questions at him, along with “What do you want the films back for?”

Kurt called Rosenberg back, so the lawyer called

closing challenged

Grad students, faculty and staff have issued a strong challenge to , a food-services decision to close the campus center coffeeshop aug 8-sept 8.

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But then some nasty bastard always insists on taking a long ride, lasting two or three weeks.

If in the past week you borrowed a shiny red boys CCM bicycle without fenders, and have forgotten that its not really yours, why don’t you put it back where you found it or call Jim at 7423883 and tell him where he can find it.

system approved

The math faculty’s credit system committee has given final approval to a switch-over from the year system to the credit system for math undergraduates.

The scheme follows that of the arts faculty which adopted the credited method last year. Under the system a student’s progress is charted by the number of courses he has passed and his over his cumulative average undergraduate career.

The committee’s report states: “The credit system was introduced for discussion for the purpose of arranging our rules in such a manner that a student failing a year would not be required to repeat courses already passed.

The credit system is not being introduced for purposes of relaxing our standards. ”

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accumulation had been affectionately named after physical-plant and planning director Bill Lobban, was removed on a time-andmaterials basis with a ceiling of $3000. There was no compensation for those who lost crops of clover, corn or other vegetation.

The budget for site services in 1969-70 is $489,000, of which the university must raise $24,000 The provincial govprivately. ernment does not make capital grants for library books--these must come out of operating formula grants.

RCMP question teenagers

thursday.

The executive is holding applications open until august 15, but if no one is found by then the money will be reallocated to other projects.

drug

book

about cannabis.

Possession of the drug is legal only with the authorization of the minister of national health and welfare, and some psychological researches have been frustrated in ‘their attempts to re.search the problem.

Also covered in the pamphlet are the legal aspects of the drug, (knowing someone has it constitutes possession, etc. ) Publications on other drugs will be available soon.

Pamphlets are available in limited quantity at the campus center desk. fee included in their annual rtudont fees l nt(itier Send

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cus to rebuild

OTTAWA (CUP)--The Canadian Union of Students has moved another quiet step forward in the process of rebuilding itself.

At a weekend conference held at Carleton University from july 11 to 13, 22 delegations decided that maintaining the union was a worthwhile goal.

It seems assured now that the official CUS congress at the end of august will see an alliance of the radical left and the liberals within the union.

If the two rebuilding conferences held this summer are any indication, the alliance will allow the union to continue working on critical student problems such as housing and unemployment but will force the radical clement to a policy of avoiding suggestions of radical action.

Many of the institution not at the Carleton meeting can also be expected to be in the organization this fall. Some are already members and others are in agreement with rebuilding the union but didn’t feel the second conference would be worth the time and expense.

At the meeting itself everyone wasn’t exactly in complete agreement about its usefulness either.

The gathering was called at the suggestion of the University of British Columbia delegation.. Saturday afternoon that delegation was asked by the others present why they wanted the meeting.

When Fraser Hodge, UBC student council president, replied that he wanted the meeting in order to see whether the delegate were capable of a good philosophical discussion of their problems he met with some angry responses.

Most of the Saturday afternoon meeting was spend discussing a UBC position paper written by Mike Sweeny. The paper called for a return to a union that would lnlg study student problems and offer services like the charter airplane flights.

S weeny’s philosoohical argument held that only ;hose activities could properly be zarried out by a union of students, The hardest hitting attack on the paper was presented by Andy Wernick from Rochdale College and David Black, a member of the CUS secretariat.

After Black had torn the paper apart almost line by line Wernick challenged UBC to state their real reasons for coming and to stop playing :ames. Wernick dismissed Swe-

Arbitration

CAUT

eny’s paper as politically ignorant fourth-rate existentionalism.

One of the important speeches of the afternoon was made by CUS president elect Martin Loney.

Loney attacked the paper for failing to recognize that the university was completely bound up in our present society and was playing an important role fitting people into, and playing ideolog for, the established order. The paper had tried to argue that the university was value free.

Most the delegates agreed with Loney.

Sunday was spent trying to find an answer for the problem of what to do until the campuses that are out of the union can get back in. Before admission is possible the institution will have to hold referendums which mean that for most midoctober would be the earliest time they could seek entrance.

Some of CUS’s services, particularly the travel plan, can be run well only if the union can be sure of its membership, and hence its income, before the end of the late august congress.

CUS is still trying to find an answer to the problem. One solution may be counting as in those institution where the council passes a motion saying they will back CUS and then hoping the referendum agrees.

Another solution might be found in creating a temporary second class of membership.

But whatever the bureaucratic problem may be it now seems certain the CUS will continue to offer student council leaders a national forum for playing their particular game.

What it offers Canadian students will depend on what games those student council presidents are playing next fall.

Two

pot

busted for possession

TWO men were arrested last Saturday on the bridge opposite health-services after police seized two cigarettes believed to contain marijuana.

Louis Muzzin and Douglas Gibbons, neither listed in the student directory, were held by Waterloo police overnight and charged Saturday by the RCMP with possession of mari juana. .

The K-W Record reported that the arrest took place at the campus center.

The members of the faculty club anxiously await the construction

Sinking-librury but Penner’s

by Harold

D. Goldbrick

Chevron staff

Will construction of the top three storeys of the arts library put an end to the nation-wide rumar of the sinking library?

The university’s informationservices department thinks so.

In a press release they said, “Ever since the first seven floors were erected a story has been “making the rounds throughout Canada that the top three floors had been eliminated because the building would not support the weight of the books that were to be placed in it.

“There are still many people right on the UofW campus who continue to believe the story.

“It has been particularly embarassing to the university’s librarians when they are in contact with librarians in other centers.”

Info-services, which publishes the Gazette, claimed that “A former professor is believed to have started it as a joke in one his classes--not realizing that the joke would quickly become accepted as fact as it made the rounds. ”

of their building.

rumor sunk, not convhced

student emeritus, said: . , “Hang on, planning dep’t, here we go again! . . .

“The new arts library will not go up ten storeys as was originally planned. “ ..When the building was planned they forgot to take into account the weight of the books. So if three more storeys were added, the weight would collapse the foundations--a bad situation indeed.

“My attempt at a solution would be to add the three storeys and put the planning dep’t in them-it’s a very light department. ” At great expense and difficulty, the Chevron contacted Penner Wednesday to get his comments on the info-services claim.

“That’s unfortunate.

I always liked to think of it as my rumor,”

said Penner. “But then I wouldn’t be too sure about it ending even no w--they ‘11 probably just get started on the final three floors and the whole thing will come tumbling down around them. ” Reminiscing about the good old days before the planning department could afford so many trees and electric building signs, Penner suggested reprinting the following section from the same column as the library rumor.

“And the other day I saw three of our stalwart groundskeepers lift a great deal of perfectly good sod from the lawn outside the arts building and pile it on a trailer.

“The following two days were spent taking it off the trailer and putting it back where it came from...”

However, the first printed reference appears in the Chevron (then the Coryphaeus) on 18 november 1965. Colur-nnist Ed Penner,

for Strux debacle

censure

FREDERICTON (CUP) --The Canadian Association of University Teachers monday lifted its censure of the board of governors and president of the University of New Brunswick.

Fredericton campus.

The association said the censure was lifted as a result of an agreement between it and the board to put matters in a dispute between the university and suspended physics prof Norman Strax into academic arbitration.

The university would also apply to the provincial courts to lift the court injunction which banned Strax from university property permanently.

It is doubtful Strax will return to UNB in september. In a fully expected move, acting president James Dineen announced july 9 that Strax will not be rehired for next year. His two-year contract ended june 30. The findings of the arbitration board will probably not affect this decision.

Strax’s suspension last September touched off a seven-month uproar at UNB which ended with the censure in march. CAUT passed the censure because the board of governors refused to submit the suspension to arbitration, according to CAUT policy and because the board refused to lift the permanent injunction which CAUT called a blatant violation of academic freedom.

Strax was suspended after quiet protest sat the university library against photo ID cards. The administration closed the library twice. During the

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year police came on campus twice to end occupations of Strax’s former office, administration president Colin Mackay resigned, two student presidents quit protesting dishonest administration policy and inactive student councils, drunken students mobbed Strax supporters with rocks, bottles and, in one case a geology pick axe and 1500 UNB students protested the administration’s dishonesty in allowing the university to be unnecessarily censured.

In the New Brunswick supreme court the university’s suit against Strax dragged for several months.

Two staffers of the student paper Brunswickan were found guilty of contempt of court after a column was published concerning the Strax case.

Mecrecfy

takes

WW

job

Clarke Mecredy, assistant to operations vicepresident Al Adlington, is going down the street, to Waterloo Lutheran’s administration.

Mecredy’s WLU job is labeled director of alumni relations and university resources.

He will take over some of the duties of Dr. Henry Endress, former WLU university resources vicepresident, who resigned last month to take a Lutheran church post in Washington.

Mecredy will be in charge of fund-raising at the privately-run, none provincially-financed university, as well as public relations, publications and alumni affairs.

Once again students are forced to use Seagram gym, as baton and rifle twirlers prance about in the jock building.

University improper c/aims McGWs Gray MONTREAL (CUP)--Stan Gray McGill political-science lecturer, told a committee investigating his possible dismissal that it was not he but the universities administration that has constantly acted in an improper fashion, at a meeting held thursday, july 10.

The investigation was called in february by the administration who want to rid themselves of the trouble making, self-avowed Marxist, professor.

The administration holds that Gray’s participation in the planning and carrying out of protests

against the university consists of gross misconduct and a threat to the university’s w,ell-being.

“The well-being of the university is not to be equated with the well-being of the administration”, Gray told the committee.

Gray compared the university administration’s reaction to radical opposition to the reaction that might have been expected in Nazi Germany or racist South Africa.

He accused the institution of being inheritantly racist and of supporting an anti-human capitalist system. friday

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Although most people wouldn’t have noticed, the K-W Record censored the ad they ran for The killing of Sister George. The way the Record ran the ad at the lower left. The untouched version ran in the Chevron and the Toronto papers, among others.

Tuesday of this week, the Record ran the cartoon below on its editorial page-coincidentally the same day Sister George stopped running in the local cinema.

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Council member in hi&town PARRY SOUND-On july 9, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Parry Sound constabulary, swooped down upon twenty-six of the town’s youth-, ostensibly in search of drugs.

In one of the groups that was caught in the dragnet was Parry Sound resident Paul Dube, student council representative from Renison College.

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According to Dube, “Five of us were sitting on our bikes on the main street in Parry Sound minding our own business.

Suddenly five cops in street clothes appeared around us and flashed ID’s and ordered us to put our hands on our heads and to march up the street to an alleyway.

Not knowing what to do, we did just what they said. Once in the alley, we were ordered to line up against the wall with our hands above our heads.”

The officers searched the vouths and gave them a stern lecture which included a threat

that the officers would continue to “hassle” the youths until they could pin something on them.

The next day, Dube and two of his .friends went to police headquarters and demanded to know the names of the officers involved in the search. After some prodding, the officer gave Dube the names of the five men.

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Dube replied “the University of Waterloo”, the constable remarked in a knowing way that it was a hotbed of trouble. After, the law man warned the three that they would be hassled again “any time and any place,” they left the station.

Dube is positive that from his conversations with various lawmen that the R.C.M.P. have intelligence units operating on the campus of this university.

Quiz boo& for the committed

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With examinations so close, you’d think students would jump at the opportunity of not having to write a final exam.

Yet :the psych 112 class of professor Philip Merikle turned down such an offer.

Following a discussion of psychological tests in his regular 9am tuesday class, Merikle examined the validity of various abilitydetermining tests students are subjected to, including examinations, notably the old grade 13 departmentals.

He then questioned the predictive validity of the psych 112 final, concluding that although the exam will have face validity (questions will be relevant to topics covered during the term), it will be irrelevant as far as predicting whether a student would have aptitude for a

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second-year course. It could only serve as a “certification that the student could ‘pass’ psych 112” and Merikle questioned why we must always have to certify people.

He then offered to forget the exam, and simply give everyone registered in the course the mean mark, 63 percent; everyone would thus get a ‘C’ grade.

A few students came up with selfish reasons to turn down the offer -for example, their psych mark will raise their average-but the overall lack of interest in his proposal saddened Merikle; he wanted an unanamous class decision so was forced to withdraw his offer.

Considering the fact that about 3/4of the class consisted of ‘Ontario Scholars’, you’ve got to admit that it’s hard to break the strive-formarks habit after you’ve been a slave to it for so long.

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Parking Lot “D” will be closed indefinitely as of August 1, 1969, and will be given over to Eaglewood Construction of Hamilton as a contractor’s work site with the commencement of work on the addition to the Dana Porter Arts Library Building on August 1.

All persons using Parking Lot “D” are asked to remove their cars by the evening of July 31 so that the contractor may begin work the next morning.

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NE WEEK AFTER his heart surgery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Joao Ferreira da Cunha sat up in his hospital bed. Strumming his guitar, the twenty-three-year-old Brazilian cowboy chatted with the nurse at his side. Who, he wanted to know, was the celebrity being discussed on the radio news broadcast?

He and the cowboy had the same name.

“Why it’s you,” his nurse said. The cowboy put down his guitar, astounded. Thus, he learned-one week after the operation-that he had undergone a heart transplant.

Two weeks later, da Cunha stood up suddenly, and the jolt threw his transplanted heart into fibrillation.

After five days he died of heart failure.

Unfortunately, it is Joao Ferreira da Cunha-not Philip Blaiberg-who is most representative of heart transplant recipients because, like most heart transplantees, da Cunha died relatively soon after the operation. As this is written, the survival rate for the operation is falling toward the 25 per cent mark. Heart transplant surgeons like to refer only to the survivors, pointing out that they would be dead if they had not received new hearts. But this is a matter for speculation.

No one likes to think about the dead recipients who would be alive if the operation had not been performed.

Most debate over heart transplants has centered on the issue of donor ethics: When does life end?

Who pulls the switch and when? When can a donor heart morally be taken? The flap over donor ethics -although certainly important-has deflected attention from the real issue at hand, which is whether the recipient is likely to benefit. From the rather grim mortality tables, it is becoming obvious that most recipients do not.

The first year of heart transplant operations revealed that the healthier a patient is before the transplant, the more likely he is to survive the operation. In fact, the ideal heart transplant recipient would appear to be a patient who is so healthy he doesn’t need a heart transplant at all. Potential re-. cipients face a rather terrible paradox: the criticalIv ill are not likely to survive the operation; the healthier ones are too well to risk the still-experimental surgery. Cardiac patients without hopethose for whom death is unquestionably imminent in a few minutes or hours-generally have other severely damaged vital organs, usually lungs and livers. When a new heart is transplanted, the other damaged organs often can’t keep up with the vigorous new heart and the patient succumbs.

The crux of the problem is the difficulty cardiac specialists have. in determining when a heart patient is going to die. There are few complaints about doing a heart transplant when the patient is literally at death’s door, but a questionable area is entered when the patient’s condition is not critical. He might be better off if he were simply left alone. Or perhaps he would fare better if he underwent one of the proven and relatively safe heart operations.

Cardiac specialists are generally quite accurate when they predict that their critically ill patients will expire in a matter of minutes or hours, but when it comes to predicting a patient’s death in a few days or weeks it is a different story.

If you ask me to project beyond a periodof Heart ASdays. ,’ Dr. Campbell Moses, American sociation medical director, has said. “I’d have to

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say that I would make some terrible mistakes; because there are people living who survived much longer than I thought they would.” Indeed, thousands of Americans are walking around in reasonably good health today after being told their heart conditions would soon kill them. Lyndon Johnson himself is one of them. He suffered his heart attack in 1955 and told friends he was a sick man, his chief desire being just to live. Another man, a candidate for a heart transplant at the University of Mississippi medical center, startled his doctors by improving enough to go home.

Dr. Dwight Harken, the open-heart surgery pioneer and chief of thoracic surgery at Boston’s Peter Bent Brigham hospital, summed up the problem some months ago: “Yes, probable mortality rates, biologic barriers, surgery and other complications rise to a level precariously close to the probability of medical prognostic error for the recipient who is to lose the heart that is currently sustaining his life. ” Harken’s hospital has consistently been an international leader in the cardiac field as well as in kidney and liver transplants, yet there have been no heart transplants there because they are regarded as still in the experimental stage. For instance, worried physicians in Houston, which has been billed as the Heart Transplant Capital of the World, have sent cardiac patients to Boston and Cleveland, not unaware that their patients could help Houston live up to its publicity slogans if they were to enter its hospitals.

For months after Dr. Harken stunned and angered the world’s heart transplant surgeons last may by publicly urging caution, his was a lonely voice among heart surgeons. He called in vain for a moratorium on the operations in order to allow surgeons and scientists to evaluate the results of the first transplants.

Now, a year later, he has seen his thinking endorsed by the prestigious Montreal Heart Institute-although it didn’t happen in the way Harken would have wished: the Montreal hospital publicly banned heart transplants after seven of its nine transplantees died.

For some months now, an underground moratorium has been in effect among heart transplant surgeons.

Since november 29, only a few transplants have been carried out at the major North American transplant centers, which previously had been performing them at a rapid rate. (During one stretch last spring, Dr. Denton Cooley of HOUSton did three in five days.) In this regard, the Montreal Institute’s public ban has been unusual. Similar public announcements from transplant surgeons who had vigorously endorsed the procedure are unlikely, since they could be interpreted by the public as an admission that heart transplants are not after all a medical miracle promising extended life to hundreds of thousands. The surgeons are thus in the unhappy situation of having to continue to endorse and praise heart transplants while the mortality rate grows.

There is, though, some consolation for them in the knowledge that the press is being as circumspect in telling the world about the failings of heart transplants as it was exuberant in reporting the miracle originally.

Medical news is good newswonder-drugs and miracle vaccines ; severed arms that are sewn back on; children who miraculously

recover from open-heart surgery. When medical news is bad, it is muted or ignored. Heart transplant recipients obtain their hearts with front-page headlines. They die on the bottom of an inside page.

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HE PUBLICITY GIVEN BEFORE and immediately following heart transplant operations helped to turn the procedure into a competitive race. Its news value has been tremendous.

A few weeks after the first operation it was evident that the cardiac transplant had replaced the separation of Siamese twins as the world’s favorite surgical freak show. The privacy of the patient-once regarded as sacred in medicine-is now passe in many hospitals. (NBC offered Philip Blaiberg $50,000 for exclusive rights to film his operation, and at St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, reporters and photographers have been escorted through the hospital to interview patients waiting for transplants ; one recipient was actually propped up on his feet 36 hours after his operation to pose for photographs. ) Television net works, book publishers, mass magazines and newspapers-many of them offering lucrative contracts-seek out the surgeon with the best record. When his patients die, they move on to the next one. If the operation is successful, the recipient and his surgeon become celebrities. An unsuccessful operation means not only that the recipient dies, but also that his surgeon can be considered a public failure.

All this tends to increase the pressure on heart transplant surgeons to help insure success by selecting healthier patients, patients not in critical condition, perhaps even patients who do not need a transplant.

Many surgeons have shied away from taking patients on the verge of death. At St. Luke’s Hospital, some patients are well enough to wait for .weeks for a transplant, and Stanford’s heart surgeons are quite open about taking transplant recipients whose conditions are not critical.

Long before the first heart transplant was performed in december 1967, there were hints that the -surgical procedure could develop into a grand prix.

Clearly, Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University was the man to watch. For more than a decade Shumway had labored painstakingly in the laboratory on heart transplantation, experimenting on hundreds of dogs and writing numerous scientific papers on his findings. He played the key role in developing the surgical technique used in heart transplantation.

He learned much about the critical arealof rejection-how best to attempt to monitor it and how best to try to control it. Then, in the 20 november, 1967, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, it was announced that the time had come: Shumway would perform a human heart transplant as soon as the proper donor and recipient could be found.

The announcement was a tip-off to other surgeons. Halfway around the world in South Africa, Dr. Christiaan Barnard beat Shumway to it, performing the first human heart transplant on December 3, 1967, and following it up a month-later, after his first patient died, with the first successful transplant.

At the time Dr. Barnard performed his operation, he had not published a single scientific paper on his experimental procedures -an amazing omission for a surgeon developing a new operative technique. And the most revealing information to come from Dr. Barnard’s an-

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known to the world’s heart transplant surgeons, who nevertheless continued performing transplant operations on human subjects. Postmortems on human transplant recipients are revealing similar postoperative developments.

In autopsies performed on human transplantees from Montreal to Houston and from Capetown to London, physicians are finding a thickening in the coronary arteries that resembles coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

There are other problems.

When the heart transplant recipient begins to reject his new heart, immunosuppressants are administered.

The difficulty is that no reliable method of detecting early rejection has been achieved. Thus, the rejection process is usually underway and perhaps irreversible by the time its occurrence becomes apparent.

Furthermore, immunosuppressants can be dangerous in themselves since they raise the risk of infection. And now there is new evidence that the immunosuppressants increase patients’ susceptibility to developing cancer.

Finally dismayed by failure, the surgeons are seeking to modify their procedures.

There has recently been renewed interest in tissue typing: testing for biochemical differences and similarities between donors and recipients.

At first, many surgeons ignored the counsel of immunologists who said that close matches between donors and recipients would improve chances for successful transplants.

Now, after the mortality tables have shown that close donor-recipient matches do indeed have the best survival rates, the surgeons are paying more attention to this advice.

Because the restrictions of providing close tissue matches have served to make good donorrecipient matches more difficult to find, the leaders in the heart transplantation field are now talking of. establishing a worldwide computer-operated donor-recipient pool to select the best matches.

One or the other would be jetted to the site of the operation. Obviously, the cost of such a program would be astronomical.

VEN IF OUR MEDICAL RESOURCES were inexhaustible-instead of criminally inadequate-the prospects for this type of surgery are severely limited. Granting that some day human heart transplantation will be reasonably well-perfected-and at this point that remains a large assumption-there still will never be enough donor hearts to help more than a small fraction of those who could benefit from them. As this has become more and more apparent, more attention is being focused on the socalled artificial heart.

In january 1966, Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston announced to the world that his “artifical heart” was ready for use. The press responded as expected: Dr. DeBakey’s artificial heart was top national news on and off all year. Actually, only by the wildest stretch of a publicist’s imagination could Dr. DeBakey’s machine be called an artificial heart. More accurately, it is a ventricular bypass which takes over the pumping function of the heart. And, contrary to the popular image, only a small portion of the equipment is implanted in the patient. Yet calling it an artifical heart had certain publicity advantages.

If Dr. DeBakey had

announced to the world that his “ventricular bypass” was ready for use, it is doubtful that it would have received any press mention at all.

Worse still, the artificial heart/ventricular bypass didn’t work too well. It had been expected to be in general use by 1970, and the concept held out a promise of life to 400,000 persons. In three years, it “saved” two pateints in seven known attempts-that is, it took *over some of their heart pumping function for a few days. In fact, its ‘most impressive accomplishment was to attract massive financial grants to its developers.

The employment of these funds has only quickened the pell-me11 rush to open new medical frontiers before old ones are safely secured. Thus, in april, Dr. Denton Cooley, at St. Luke’s in Houston, implanted an updated version of an artificial heart-developed by a student of DeBakey’s-in a man named Haskell Karp; then, in a remarkable publicity extravaganza, he put Karp’s wife on national television to appeal for a human heart donor. Eventually Karp did get a donor heart, flown from Massachusetts, but he died soon after it was implanted.

Dr. Cooley’s human experiment apparently did not meet the minimum standards laid down by the U.S. government’s National Institute of Health (NIH) for work done with its funds. The heart had been designed by Dr. Domingo Liotta and turned over to Cooley, who used it three days after the last wrinkle was ironed out. NIH had funded Liotta and so held him accountable under its guidelines, which the Institute’s director explained this way: “If experiments are going to be carried out on man, every effort must be made to insure the experiment is safely conceived, that the procedure is done with informed consent, that scientific matters involved be reviewed by scientists and physicians at the hospital not involved themselves in the experiments.”

Liotta’s defense of his medical ethics was that NIH funds had gone only to “experience and knowledge”; the resultant device was not bound by the guidelines.

Dr. Cooley himself, who with 18 transplants under his belt is the pacemaker among heart surgeons, has had no trouble financing his work from sources which, like his own Texas Heart Institute, are less priggish in their standards than the NIH. So when questions were asked after Haskell Karp’s death, he could reply flatly that he was above responsibility to the government’s regulation. And so he is. (That did not prevent his unseemly public spat with the now upstaged Dr. DeBakey.)

In this fashion the march of medicine advances.

ROM THE NEARLY SOLID PUBLIC FRONT on heart transplants presented by the medical profession, it would be Ii‘ easy to draw the conclusion that the profession accepted the procedure without question from the start. Actually, there were a few flashes of heresy shortly after the operations began, although the skeptics received very little publicity.

Some doctors, like Dr. Thomas Hale, the recently retired head of the Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany, New York, questioned whether the high costs of heart transplants were worth it

-a heart transplant can cost up to $75.000-or whether, say, the money might be better spent in subsidizing physicians who could care for thousands of poor people in alifetime.

It has been estimated that the cost of a single heart transplant could pay for the education of four physicians.

A few others, like Dr. Georce Burch, president of the American College of Cardiology, called for a moratorium on heart transplants several months ago after the first round of operations was completed.

Dr. Burch wanted the profession to digest the information that was developed in the first round before continuing. Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota has suggested that a commission be created to study heart transplants.

He proposed that the commission set broad policy goals but avoid involvement in specific operations and activities.

Mondale was in a sensitive areasimply suggest that the government has the right to examine the medical care of its citizens and the medical profession reacts as though someone is going for its jugular.

Mondale might just as well have been recommending an epidemic of bubonic plague. His proposal got nowhere.

Physicians engaged in the practice of surgery are governed by their peers, which is to say for the most part they aren’t governed. It is as difficult to find a surgeon publicly critical of the work of a colleague as to find a member of the Curia critical of the Pope. The issue of peer group regulation over surgery is an old problem which has never been properly resolved.

George Bernard Shaw might just as well have been speaking of heart transplants when he observed, decades ago: “Voices murmur that these operations are necessary. They may be. It may also be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But we take good care not to make the hangman and the housebreaker the judges of that. If we did, no man’s neck would be safe and no mans house stable.

But we do make the doctor the judge. IS

In heart transplants, the dangerous operations are the ones in which the surgeon himself decides who the recipient and donor shall be; so far, this has often been the case. Although the board of medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has suggested that both the potential donor and recipient be examined by an independent group of competent physicians prior to a heart transplant, the board has no authority to make its suggestion stick.

When Senator Abraham Ribicoff asked Dr. Christiaan Barnard if he though that only doctors should make the decision on who lives or dies in transplants, the South African surgeon, whose thinking is representative of the medical profession, replied that the suggestion of outside regulation is an “insult to doctors.”

He argued: “Who decides how to fight a war? The civilians who pay for it or the army generals? ” Dr. Barnard’s analogy is acutely apt. It seems that the medical profession, like the military, is bent on expending more than we can well afford on tactics and strategies that an informed public could not countenance but cannot control, and all with a zeal that can be reckless of human perils in its pursuit of glory.

W. David Gardner is a former newspaper medical writer and now a frequent contributor to medical trade journals and other publications.

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We were driving down the New Jersey turnpike at four in the morning, and a mist was rising. Over to the east behind an oil refinery we could make out a hazy yellow globe in the sky. Low over the horizon, round, grey-blotched, we thought it must be the moon. Soon, we thought, someone is going to step down on it, defoliate the universe, and make human history.

But the moon kept getting closer, bigger and bigger. In a few minutes we were right down on top of it. From a crest on the road, we could make out the “moon” for what is really was: a huge bulbous water tower, dimly lit and labeled THE NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY. Pretty far off, we thought.

Pretty far out, taking a goddam water tower for the moon, Goal of Human Ambition for thousands of years.

The moon, after all, is the place for a million little-kid imaginations, daydreams of leaving f&ever the dull, grimy earth.

The moon has said to thousands of kids that here was a new and different place.

But now the newspapers and long hours of TV are filling up with the Actual Coming-to-the-Moon-at-Hand.

Now the kid next door asks me, “Are we gonna have a war on the moon? ” * * * Saturn V lifts roaring off, far away from the motels and bars of Cocoa Beach, away from Florida, into the ozone air, “the majestic fulfilment of the ancient dream of the human race. ” “The exacting demands of the space program have stimulated advances which have spun off into business and industry, I, explained Werner Von Braun.

North A m erican Rock well, Aerojet, Boeing, Grumman, WestDouglas, inghouse, McDonnell MIT, Minneapolis Honeywell, Bell, Eagle Pitcher, Bendix, Whirlpool, Pratt- Whitney, A VCO, Northrup.. .

Armstrong, Collins, Al&in.

The Heroes of the Age! They all go together, the American heroes sure of American ingenuity (plus $24 billion of the people’s hardearned money), and seventeen thousand American And they hurtle corporations. together over the grainy beaches, past the back dirt roads, past the hungry kids who maybe also wonder at the moon, past the kids getting a little older, and some of them learn to read, the ones who buy paperback science fiction at the corner drugstore.

You’ve all read science fiction one time or another and you found out what they made. You remember what the cheap books in drugstores would say about the future state of the moon: they told us about it long before Apollo 11. About Luna City. Port Clavius.

Cities on the moon!

Under domes, teeming with colonists. with adventurers.

But what else. ..A place where tourism would run amuck, too: where cities would be slimy with where sleazy bars skid rows; would cater to the hard-bitten men who would pilot space freighters for private intergalactic trading corporations : where smoky backroom deals would set off wars bet ween stellar shipping companies.

Human ambition!

Free enterprise!

And then there’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, that groovy, wild, phantasmagorical flick written by a science-fiction great. A lot of us sat through it enraptured, watching sleek plastic Pan-American space-liners carry busin-

essmen between the stars in wispy space. Ho ward Johnson ‘s in the abyss, Bell Tel dinglinging away in the Void.

Three American moonmen, three heroes, hurtling away past plastic Miami, off to the Moon. And me and some friends mistaking the National Lead Company water tower for old Luna of the dreams. But somehow it doesn’t jar so much anymore. **Pictures taken by Astronauts on one flight revealed land configurations in Africa that geologists interpreted as favorable for oil deposits,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

And we all sit in front of Television: the Great Moment. The Launch.

The Hurtling.

The Immortal Words.

Somewhere the president of the National Lead Company is also watching his glistening screen.

Now Armstrong is scooping up a pile of crushed rock, looks like sand, placing it in a specially prepared plastic bag, sealing it...

Back home, the tireless researchers will mash it up, break it down, and what will they find in the infinite dust the Apollo heroes bring back home?

Lead, maybe.

Or a strange wonder-elemerit that will cut production costs for lead 100 percent.

Or tin. Someone, after all, will have to provide America with tin when the Bolivians take back their tin mines. Yeah, the moon will be a nice place for corporate America to visit if the rising cost of production and the liberation armies of Thailand, say, give the rubber industry a hard time back home on good old Terra Firma.

Materials could be manufactured with unprecendented purity.

The moon is a perfect‘ industrial vacuum.

Solar batteries could be used more profitably on the moon than on earth. Elaborate factories.....

And Armstrong steps down on the untouched surface. “That footprint will be profaned in American at once by advertising.

Many profit-making corporations (17,000, right? 1 will congratulate themselves and their products in its name. It will come to represent, even to children, one

more schlock advertising scheme,” wrote Kurt Vonnegut for the New York Times Magazine. And on the back page of the same magazine, an ad: “You can build your own Apollo Lunar Module for only 10 cents. ” *’ * * Then there’s the paradox of the Rockets and the Poor. Even NASA is happy to admit that the billions spent on the moon might serve the people of Earth pretty well; if only the critics would learn that America can do BOTH! !

Now, can it? Or haven’t the people of the world had enough by now, enough of the insult, the shove in the face, the daylight highway robbery with a guilty little gift left behind?

The shame of the moonshot is that the grinders-down-of-theworld, the American rulers, are telling us that Apollo 11 is shooting off into the cosmos for the Sake of All Humanity.

Listen to the man!

America-on-theMoon is going to sound exactly like America-in-Vietnam.

sity committee to study the need and terms of reference for a University Committee on Human Rights.

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“The military is using the luminous material developed by 3M Corp. To assist in safe docking of spacecraft on the dark side of the moon, for mapreading devices and in gunsights in Vietnam” says the Wall Stree Journal.

But there aren’t any people on the moon yet. So someone believing in the “independence of science” might well get up and ask, “What’s all this shit about the moon and politics, about “exploiting” people who aren’t there? Can’t America do anything right? ” It’s about this-it’s going to be really easy for Neil Armstrong and company to set down on the moon. Not that they’re not courageous and heroic. No sir. But it’s going to be a relative cinch.

Why? Because if American military men backed up by 17,000 U.S. corporations were landing on the beachheads of anywhere else peopled by humanity, planting the American flag and droping down Richard Nixon’s signatured plaque, they’d be shot down in their tracks.

In this age of hotshot TV and ins tan taneous communication, there aren’t any Manhattan Indians trusting in the good faith of colonial soldiers in shining armor anymore.

If there really were ‘men on the moon, human or greenskinned, and waiting for the American Space Men up there, they might stand up and say to them: “Congratulations, brothers!

But pack up and ship out quick, because this place belongs to us. You’re not getting your hands on this Moon any more than you can keep them on Cuba of Vietnam.

“Up against the crater wall! ”

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Having decided the committee was an attempt at white-washing the problem, none of the students who laid the original complaint a’ppeared before it.

The committee did find that Anderson never gave a mark above C to colored students but its report held that this was due to their uniformly poor performance.

Students involved in the ocu,pation and later charged have launched a suit against the university since they feel the eommittee‘s conclusions will effect their court cases.

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Clearing pr of pr ejudical SGW black students claim MONTREAL (CUP)--Perry Anderson. assistant professor of biology at Sir George Williams university, has been cleared of all charges of racism laid against him in early january by West Indian students in his classes.

However. the committee that cleared Anderson was long ago discredited in the dispute that was to lead to an occupation and riot on the campus last february.

TWO black professors originally on the committee resigned even before the occupation protesting over the committee’s procedures.

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The engineers are schedlued to write their first examination on monday august 4. The university administration Gazette, howev.er, states “in observance of the civic holiday the offices of the university will officially close at 5 pm friday aug 1, and will reopen at 9 am tuesday aug 5.” Are we required to write exams on a holiday?

Engineering dean Sherborne informed me, “Only the offices are closed and as far as I am concerned the examinations will be written that monday.”

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I was pleased to receive the july 4th Chevron this morning.

Assuredly this reflects a real concern on your part for those -students who intend to commence their university studies this fall.

I was sorry, however, that through some bureaucratic inefficiency the paper was ten days old before I was able to read it. (News seems to lose some of it’s sense of immediacy after ten days. ) A quick perusal of the contents of this publication, however, soon dispelled these misgivings as I discovered that the Chevron is not a newspaper as I originally suspected, but is rather a magazine. I concluded this after observing that only two pages of a total of 16 contained factual reportage of events.

Although I appreciate your efforts in sending me the school magazine, I am sorry you could not also include a copy of the school newspaper.

GLEN SOULIS philosophy 1 The issue Soulis refers to was the Independence Day special, containing a five-page feature, one-page folio w-up article, onepage poster and the editorial page commentary.

However, the other eight pages were entirely local in nature, carrying news, theater reviews, feedback and ads.

As for the bureaucracy, the postoffice is becoming famous for its in efficient y ; but the main holdup is the university administration’% inability to process the freshman mailing lists efficiently.

Copies for freshmen leave this office as soon as ii possible after we receive the labels.

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press claims misunderstood

The draft code of ethics seems to bring at+out an up-tight feeling in some of your readers.

We would stress that this is a draft and that it should be modified in accordance ‘with the wishes of the majority of Faculty Association members.

In addition, a code of ethics should be a living document, capable of revision as circumstances require.

The concern expressed by John Battye feedback, july 18) is entirely unwarranted.

A true professional organization should have a code of ethics covering aspects of its operations which impinge on the general public.

In particular, the medical, legal,

engineering, etc. professions, all have well established codes (despite this, however, the medical profession was caught flat-footed by the problems raised by heart transplants j.

Thus, the concept behind this code is not so much to limit the freedom of individual faculty, or. even worse, to develop a code for students, but to bring into focus problems of an ethical nature with which we should be concerned.

As such. the statement that “a breach of the code is not in general grounds for dismissal” is essential.

The grounds for dismissal of a faculty member are clearly stated in the university tenure document.

Dismissal is after all the final step when all other measures have failed.

The obvious steps to be taken to bring an errant faculty member into line would probably be some form of censure. some form of suspension , before dismissal would be considered.

We might liken this to the case of a student caught cheating at examinations.

Depending on circumstances, he could be suspended, expelled, etc.

As to the remarks of Concordia Cum Veritate (feedback, july 18). we make it a policy never to reply to individuals who choose to hide behind pseudonyms.

One could forgive a student in such a situation, but hardly a faculty member. We are in favor of openness and free discussion and would encourage others to take the same position, In the Chevron editorial, a number of misconceptions are apparent.

We consider that research must be conducted in an atomosphere free of all interference, unless a return to the dark ages is contemplated.

The key point in this regard in the code is that ALL RESEARCH MUST BE OPEN. This is almost always the case in Canada, as even Defense Research Board projects are open. In the United States of course, a great deal of classified research is conducted at universities, and Canadian students tend to extrapolate this situation North.

Our “hands-off” attitude regarding the social implications of research follows logically.

The research, and the use to which it is put, must be judged by competent persons in the field. and eventually society as a whole. It is clear that a collection of engineering students and professors, who try to terminate a study in experimental psychology, ought to have their heads examined.

We would like to carry forw?rd this discussion -in a free and open manner.

We hope that all whc feel a concern regarding this code are prepared to contribute, in an atmosphere in which full interchange of ideas is possible.

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for our work on this campus which we cannot ignore or compromise.

We see on this campus a very real need for Christianity.

We see this need reflected in the pronounced dissatisfaction and almost desperate frustration found in students living in this “revolutionary age” to coin a muchused phrase.

We see this in the serious spread of drunkenness, drug abuse. violence and sexual degeneration in our society, particularly arnong college students. We see cynicism. hate and selfishness in the eruptions of our sickened society.

Hate, political idealogies and physical revolution only breed more of the same.

They never have and never’ will cure the spiritual sickness man has fallen prey to.

There is but one answer to this crucial problem, and that is a complete transformation. call it revolution if you will, of man’s inner self, a revolution of brotherly love, a revolution that can only be realized through the faith and strength found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

-It is this belief, and this very faith and strength that spurs us to bring this message to you.

If we seem overzealous to you, Mr. Kerr. then I hope you will forgive us. We cannot be complacent in our faith or compromise We are our beliefs by inaction. being put to shame as it is by the activities of the socialists, maoists, radicals and Chevronites.

We are not attempting to shove anything down anybody’s throat, The energy involved in crumpling one of our leaflets and throwing it away, I am sure, is insignificant compared to the time and energy you expended in writing your letter to the editor.

We feel our message is too important to be lost amidst the announcements of the next pub or for sale signs that plaster the bulletin boards and are seldom noticed.

W-e cannot be satisfied with tokenism in reaching the people on this campus.

We are not a club or group in any formal sense of the word, seeking to swell our roster with or surrounding ourmembers, selves with other Christians to bring security to our egos. Our sole and simple purpose is to bring to non-Christians, to people like yourself, the message of Christ, a message that can bring genuine love and purpose to your life as it has brought those of us who have turned to him.

If in this process we inadvertently offend some of you, then we hope and pray that you do not judge what we preach by how we do it, for we are only human, and are as imperfect as anyone.

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A.D.B. Kerr’s letter in last week’s feedback column (Campus Christians’ fervor irriates summer student) came to us as no surprise, despite the antagonism in his condemnation of our efforts in spreading the word of God. Preaching the Christian way of life has never been easy or free from scorn.

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HE SETTING AS for a Kafka trial, surrealistic and forbidding.

A cavernous gymnasium, its flooring sheathed in plastic, basketball nets lifted on high by gantries. In ‘pour several hundred young men and women, many feigning exuberance, some pale and withdrawn. They fan out as sappers cross a minefield, obeying with remarkable precision a sign telling candidates in English to face the front of the hall, candidates in Psychology the rear.

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On tables “placed at least five feet a(Regulations for the province of OnIIart” t,ario, section 7, sub-section 37) the young their personal effects-a 1jeople deposit watch, a packet of Kleenex, an array of T; 3all Jotters, a roll of Wild Cherry Lifesavsrs and other talismans in time of trouble. t Complying with No. 5 of the “Rules for the ( Ionduct of Examinations, University of 1roronto,” the ladies “dispose of their F)urses by placing them on the floor underIIieath their chairs. ” The chief presiding 0bfficer, in whom there lurks a regimental S ergeant-major struggling to escape, S houts for silence, which at first he does nlot get. “If I had a microphone,” he blawls, “I’d blast you all from the room.” ?‘he candidates are quiet now. The papers a redistributed.

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English 100 is an essay-type examination. It requires, discussions of how the ;torm scenes in King Lear show the devels ( jpment of its protagonist, of the charact.er of Ishmael, of the teaser “If man was (:zreated perfect, how could he fall?” Psy(zhology 120. striving after scientific resis an objective-type examinaIjectability, TIME NOW, ONE MORE tion. “TAKE rTIME,” it enjoins the candidate in capit,als, “TO CAREFULLY REREAD AND (1ARRY OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS BE1LOW ,” of which there follow 10. No. 4 I. :gays : “At all times when using your speb

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Marks that do not register could well result in lowered exam scores. There is small chance of this being detected.”

Having familiarized himself with forms, cards, codes, special pencils and the rest of the apparatus of higher education, as the pilot of a 707 checks out its controls before taking to the air, the candidate confronts the first of his multiple choices. He may or may not be unsettled by preliminary instruction No. 5: “You are to choose the ONE BEST answer to each question, even if other alternatives may havesome truth in them.”

For the next couple of hours there is little for an assistant presiding officer to do, apart from thinking impure thoughts as he strolls among the miniskirts.

He is present to ensure, as commanded by his orders for the day, that “candidates shall not communicate with one another by writing, signs or words or in any manner whatever” ( Rule 10).

In 20 years on this hateful patrol I have never spotted candidates communicating in any manner whatever, and would quickly turn away from such a scene. Half-way through someone raises his hand and asks to be escorted to the men’s washroom.

I tell him he is old enough to go by himself, thereby contravening Rule 7: “No candidate shall be permitted to leave the hall except under supervision.”

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fessor, as Jerry Rubin says, and you’ll find a cop. That is the most mordant remark heard in Convocation Hall this year.

To be required to take part in such a travesty .of intellect is to be filled with a loathing for examinations so intense that one forgets that in their time they were a great reform.

‘Essentially they serve society as a device for divvying up its spoils-jobs, prizes, preferment, power. Divvying up has to be done one way or another, and other ways of doing it are few and far from fine.

The most democratic is to run a lottery. When your number comes up, you’re the boss-of the bank, of the gang, of the land. The least democratic is to run an aristocracy.

When you’re born into the right family, you’ve got it made.

The trouble with lottery democracy, as with blueblood aristocracy and the varieties of cronyism in . between, is that its top people tend to be incompetent. So, for the sake of efficiency if not of justice, you run a meritocracy.

The spoils go to the ablest, as picked-how else?-by competitive examination.

Empires offer most incentives for efficiency: they have more to lose.

Hence the route to power via examination was opened first in China, 20 centuries ago. The quality of the Imperial Civil Service being thought to reside in the rigor and impartiality of tier upon tier of tests, as the power of the Empire was believed to derive from the quality of Service, social criticism in China revolved around the ritual of the examination chamber.

Wang An-shih writes in 1058 about the tricks played by candidates: “Unworthy ones, by virtue of having learned petty devices of composition, advance to positions of high officials.”

The traditional system buckled under the weight of a millenium of accumulated criticism, but only when Red Guards rampaged through the academies 60 years later did Chinese meritocracy collapse. * * * BLUEBLOOD

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Britain also had an empire but, until the 19th century, no mandarinate to make it run on merit. Instead a blueblood aristocracy glided through her colleges, torpid with port and corruption.

In 1776, when 13 of her colonies declared their independence, the Earl of Eldon came down from Oxford: “What is the Hebrew, ’ ” he was asked, “ ‘for the place of a skull?’ I replied: ‘Golgotha. ’ ‘Who founded University College?’

I stated (though, by the way, the point is something doubted) that King Alfred founded it. ‘Very good,’ said the examiner, ‘you are competent for your degree. ’ ” But not for running empires. Jefferson, who saw nepotism as a cause of the revolution, determined it should not persist within the new republic. He proposed to recruit its ruling class through examinations by which “twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually. ’ ’ In the event, the British got the merit system; American got Tammany.

The Victorians used examinations as a lash for learning, as they used the whip of hunger for production.

“Without examination all efforts are useless,” a board of commissioners at Oxford was told in 1852, “and no scheme of instruction has any perceptible effect.”

This proposition, then regarded as an axiom, has been under attack ever since.

Every educator can tick off points in the case against competitive examinations, many believing in conclusive.

First, their notorious unreliability.

Second, their obvious unfairness.

The facile, the neat, the compliant. the unflappable are advantaged at the expense of candidates whose thoughts. not necessarily less worthy, tend to come moreslowly, whose handwriting is sloppy, whose heart and mind rebel. whose nervous systems tend to let them down rather than pep them up. Third, their suffocation of inquiry.

All these are criticisms of, for and by examiners.

They may want to change the system but they do not want to end it, no more than policemen want an end to prison. Abolition would deprive them of their power. “When the results are placed on the notice board,” writes a young British redbrick radical, “there is no doubt where the real power lies.

Examinations are the control centre for the manipulation of the lives of the students. ” That being so, why did not students seize the control centre? Peasants rise against oppressive taxes, religious minorities against persecution, women against being denied the vote. But examinees did not denounce their examiners, for fear of being failed.

That fear no longer frightens as it used to. The prizes seem less alluring now. There is a movement offering an alternative life-style to cushion the shock of alienation.

University rhetoric and university reality draw daily more apart. A year ago the defiant ones surfaced at last. The student council at the University of British Columbia questioned “the educational value of competition for marks, written examinations as a basis for grades, and ultimately the utility of any grading system.”

A student at the University of Toronto ripped up his diploma before the startled gaze of convocation-a deed more dramatic than self-destructive as his degree remained intact even if his diploma did not. But .at the same time a student at the University of Hull ripped up his examination. It was like Luther at the doors of Wittenberg, Lenin at the Finland Station. The examinees’ revolt was under way. * * * CHOICE

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And how shall we examiners react, those of us who brand the cattle on their way to market?

The choice is not multiple but two-fold.

Jacques Barzun has stated one: “We must stop blathering about sensitivity to the needs of others, and say instead: ‘I want a pupil who can read Burke’s Speech on Concilia tion and solve problems in trigonometry.

I want young men and women who can read French prose and write English.’ And having said these or similar things we must pass judgment on performance and let accomplishment be known, quite as if it had the importance of a record in a track meet.”

David Hoffman states the other: ...All my students A dams, Bixler, Bra wn, The totalroll...so many Pretty girls, the lads All promising!

I’ve given them For grades the letter Yogh (My favorite letter).

Wonderful kids--All Yoghs.

Good man Hoffman.

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For the good of your health Medicine, while not the oldest profession, is certainly thought of as the most important and respected profession. But is this image correct?

The tragedy of heart transplants for selfish purposes is unfortunately not an isolated phenomenon.

A U.S. senate subcommittee in 1968 heard Dr. Walter Model1 say one of every twenty patients is in hospital because the drugs prescribed for him made him worse.

We remember the effects of thalidomide-a drug marketed for a fast buck with insufficient testing. Birth-control pills may prove to be as damaging in the long run.

Anyone who has seen the’kind of promotional material and rebate deals a doctor receives from drug companies has no doubts about the aims those free-enterprisers of the drug biz have for mankind.

Dr. Allen Butler told the same subcommittee that 10 to 15 percent of physicians practise “bad m,editine.”

For example, there is an extraordinarilv high death toll from blood transfusions. In 1968, 16,500 people died from three major complications of blood transfusions. Dr. B.P.L. Moore, a Canadian, savs that most of these deaths were in cases where transfusions were unnecessary.

Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, noted doctor and columnist, points out that a transfusion of a pint of blood is often routinely prescribed after a operation. The blood isn’t needed; even if it were, a pint wouldn’t be enough to do anv good.

A great many operations, whether competently or incompententlv done, are unnecessary. Dr. Dames C. Dovle studied the hvsterectomies performed on 6248 women and found at least a third of the operations seemed to be unwarranted-that is, there was no disease.

The American College of Surgeons carefully watches for unnecessary surgery all hospitals it accredits.

Dr. Paul Hawley. when he was chief of the college, cited a hospital whose surgery rate plummeted from 796 operations in the year before accreditation to 298 the following one-but the patient load staved the same. Appendectomies dropped from 305 to 66, which suggests that a better cure exists than surgery

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The biggest factor in unnecessay operations is the split fee.

The specialist gives a kickback to the general practitioner who refers the patient to him. If a consciencious specialist stopped doing needless operations, he might stop getting referrals for the necessary ones too.

While it might be concluded that such malpractice for profit involves a minority of doctors at most, this is ignoring the American Medical Association, which represents two-thirds of all the physicians in the United States. The AMA has never undertaken an official study of fee-spliting, and a former executive of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Robert Mvers, claims they condone it. ’ The AMA’s greatest achievement is stalling the implementation of universal medicare in the U.S. Their reason-never statedis that all the official paperwork for payment would make it necessarv for doctors to declare all their income-something very easy to evade in ordinary freeenterprise practice.

And don’t think that this is an American problem. The dedicated doctors of Saskatchewan struck against universal medicare in that province when it was hoped it could be stopped as a wild scheme bv that filthv socialist CCF government. ’ The AMA has called communist every health program in the U.S. from federal grants to state health agencies in 1930 to today’s medicare program for the elderly.

And if that were not enough, a 1968 Medical Tribune poll of 1209 doctors showed that onlv one in two would stop to help an’ auto accident victim.

In this great big wonderful land of ours it is still possible to buv better health care if vou’ve got the money. But it should haunt those free-enterprisers high-minded with the dough to realize that doctors are just like businessmen in their contempt for ethics, the law and the public.

The significant difference is that the businessman works his mischief at a considerable distance from his victim.

The doctor, as the member of the “leading” profession sets his own fees and regulates his own practices. The other less-highly motivated professions do the same. That’s free enterprise.

for what defence?

Last month Canada’s armed the Canadian people, particularly forces took part in an exercise the workers, to accept the armed near Gagetown.

N.B. which in- forces putting labor unions and volved the simulated capture of a Canadian people up against the wall. “mythical” militant labor leader, Whv such an unmvthical mvthiwhose “mythical” union was forming a “mythical” political party. cal situation? Because, when economic conditions worsen, the burWith just a wee bit of cynicism, we could say we expected the arm- den is always heaviest on the working taxpayer.

However, at ed forces to undertake a training time of worsening exercise in guerilla warfare Viet- this particular conditions, workers nam-style.

Perhaps even some economic seem less willing to accept that training more South Americanoriented is to be expected. After role than anytime since the Winniall there are corporations in this peg general strike of 1918. country with interests in Brazil The armed forces, like the bov and other parts of Latin America. scouts, believe in the motto “be But it seems a little much for prepared. ”

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The figure always bandied about was one or pro-business than had been assumtwo percent. The rest were sen- ed. ” And just who wants to reassure sible clean kids just itching to us, tell us that’ everyone wants climb up the ladder of capitalism groovv American capitalism to to uptopia.

Well, a recent U.S. survev has survive? None other than one of the U.S. ‘s largest corporations, different figures. But don’t worrv. everything’s still OK. Only nine Standard Oil of New Jersey It percent of all students can be de- sponsored the survey Standard Oil provides one of the scribed as “revolutionaries”people the survev savs believe that prime examples of American ecIt has massexisting institutions should be onomic imperialism. ive “interests” in a dozen Latin scrapped and replaced.

American countries.

The everAn Associated Press release growing massive dissent in these reads: &‘The militant minority may oc- countries was evident in governor recent factcupy the campus buildings and Nelson Rockefeller’s finding tour to 20 Latin American headlines, but todav’s average and Caribbean countries. IronicalAmerican college student attends classes. goes to church and plans lv. Standard Oil is the Rockefeller familv ‘s babv. to get ahead just as his father The Sand&d Oil-commissioned did a quarter of a century ago. survey is just another futile at“Not only are brick-wielding tempt to show that current North dissidents rare among todav’s American protest and dissent is a college population, but most s’tu-. miniscule and passing thing. It is dents sav American society is encouraging that our Latin Ameribasicallv sound. ” can neighbors are taking their But, even if the kids are still first steps to escape from the voke OK, the survev found that 65 per- of capitalism.

Mav we not be far cent agree with at least some of behind.

We just don’t believe it I just don’t believe it. It is too much to believe. I can’t believe it. Man is now on the moon. Our bovs . are on the moon.

-Harvev . Kirk, CTV’s space anchorman

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The last issue for a while and are we glad. Seeking relief from the multitudinous joys of journalstaff: Jim Klinck, Alex Smith, Frank Goldspink, swireland, Steve lzma, Bryan Douglas, Tom Purdy, Dave X Stephenson, dumdum jones, Cyril Levitt, Wayne Smith, LouisSiIcox, Gary Robins, Brenda Wilson. Thanks once more to Jon Hamilton, to say nothing of the moonmen.

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What, then, are the temporal-or historical -implications of “man on the moon?”

Surely, for the man of our own historic times, the flight must come to mean more than a mere propaganda victory in a spatial void. And the issue arises because the success of the moon flight is being generally interpreted as reinforcing our generation’s dominant concept of time-a concept of time defined not in terms of actual human progress, but in terms of science, technology, and the conquest of space.

But what of a conquest of time in human terms? Has our age of cybernetics and the

lie in the solution to the forces of human contradiction here on earth, and particularly the human oppression of inequality most readily expressed in terms of poverty.

Thus, my plea is that the spatial bias inherent in this scientific achievement become transcended into a truly historical accomplishment.

For this to happen, the excitement of the moment must come to mean an individual identification with the human spirit of creativity that we have collectively witnessed.

And should that potential come to direct itself to the issue of human progress here on earth, history would in-

deed mark a watershed in its study of man in time.

Hence, today’s pressing need is that the victory in space be translated into a temporal victory for man- that a more viable tension between man in space and man in time become established through our daily life patterns into a temporal bias and servitude to mankind. To do so we must be able to address ourselves to the actual problems of today...to the historically defined problems of man on earth.

The events of the last few days can have meaning in history only to the degree that they come to have real meaning for man today.

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