Americanization A report citing excessive Americanization of the University of Waterloo has met heavy criticism from the faculty and administration. The report of a committee chaired by Carleton University prof Robin Mathews attacked the Americanization of faculty and academic administrative posts in arts as a “blueprint for cultural genocide.” Mathews’ committee also attacked the increasing proportion of American grad students. “The huge proportion of U.S. students admitted is inexplicable, except in terms of an attempt to serve U.S. interests... There is the possibility
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that Canadian awards and grants are being cynically misdirected in order to endow non-Canadians (especially U.S. citizens) working in Canadian graduate schools.” Mathews’ committee also cites course statistics: only 2 courses in the english department are in Canadian literature as opposed to 9 complete and several partial courses in American literature: fine arts lists nothing Canadian; sociology teaches nothing Canadian (an example was given showing that Canadian society is equated with American). Response to the report has cen-
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Information-services director Jack Adams called the report “A witch-hunt in the worst McCarthy tradition. ” Academic vicepresident Jay Minas (a U.S. citizen) termed Mathews’ committee’s research shoddy and said, “The absurdity of this is absolutely breathtaking.” Mathews had listed eight arts department chairmen plus the arts dean and his three associates as U.S. citizens. Christopher MacCrae, acting english department chairman, called the preponder-
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ante on American chairmen a coincidence. MacRae said he is in sympathy with the general question, first raised by Mathews, of maintaining Canadian control of our universities and insuring opportunities for Canadians. “But the report,” he said, “is pretty darned unconvincing and badly presented. ” Similar views were expressed by history prof Leo Johnson, sociology prof Ron Lambert and polisci profs Jack Kersell and John Wilson. In a letter to the Toronto Star (which supports Mathews’ position), they said:
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The following statement was passed by student council, Saturday 16 august: It is the belief of the Federation of Students that the issue of the numbers of American faculty and graduate students in Canadian universities is a red herring which is diverting the attention of universities and the public from real and important matters. Our concern is with what the university and its faculty do, in teaching and research, not with their national origin. If the present operation of Canadian universities is doinga disservice to the interests of the Canadian people, it must be due to the nature of the educational content and research that is dotie. Yet Prof. Mathews has not done any critical analysis of these matters. If Canadian education is American-dominated, it is because it serves an economy and a government which are American-dominated. Yet the Mathews report neglects to examine what this mechanism of domination might be or whether or not it is in the interests of the Canadian people. Moreover, Mathews has not demonstrated that the numbers of American faculty and graduate students are a result of unjust hiring criteria or that competent Canadian scholars are being turned away. The report by Mathews is a highly non-analytical effort which seems to be based upon a chauvinistic nationalism which is not only toward a Canada which no longer exists, but which is not a legitimate criterion for judging teaching and research.
Poli-sci profs Wcer over CAmerican’ sign Most bf the nastier sides of the Americanization question are being kept hushed in faculty offices and lounges, but the issue has got some people so uptight that their feelings are becoming public. The third floor of the social sciences building was recently the gcene of a rather bitter incident involving Canadian poli-sci prof Jim Anderson and former poli-sci chairman Alan Nelson, an American. Anderson released a memo august 7 to all members of the faculty and staff in the building refuting a private memo from Nelson to himself about a hand-scrawled sign which had recently appeared on Anderson’s door. The sign read, “Maintain American purity at Waterloo: fire the few remaining Canadians-Mathews.” Nelson’s memo to Anderson read: “You would do yourself and your colleagues a great service if you would make ‘a greater effort to grow up and abandon at least some of the more obviously childish practices in which you indulge -such as putting cute little signs _ on your door. “If you want to say to us, ‘See t how clever I am,’ why don’t you think of something really clever. Any freshman can rise to the level you proudly hold before us. ” Anderson, however, denied any knowledge of the sign. In his widely-circulated memo he replied, “During one of my absences from my office a sign (see attachment 1) appeared on my door. The sign apparently displeased Prof. Nelson (see attachment 2). ” (The items in question were reproduced and stapled to his memo.) “Would whoever posted the sign, or anyone knowing of its origin and intent, please explain same to
Prof. Nelson and thus help me to relieve myself of his opprobrium,” the note concluded. Although this tiff is undoubtedly only symptomatic of deeper differences in the poli-sci department, the only other reaction to surface has been another lonely sign. This one read, “He who posteth signs meriteth compassion. ”
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Radicals destroy administration offices? No, the fourth floor of the library building is being vacated for library use. Interim administration president Ho ward Petch, his academic vicepresident Jay Minas and their staff have moved to the main floor of the modern languages building. Operations vicepresident Al Adlington is moving to the math building.
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Council Student council Saturday dug into the details of the new university act as part of its review of the draft which is to go to the board of governors for final approval in October. Federation of Students president Tom Patterson urged council not to bother passing motions for or against the whole document but to deal with specific improvements that should be made. “I think our position should be one of critical non-opposition,” he said. “It does include the things that most students feel it should have in it. ” Patterson and the other federation representative, Joe Givens, submitted a written report to council which delineated three changes they felt the federation should a press for: recall procedures, smaller council and an academic as the council’s chairman. “According to the act, no matter what kind of job they do, people remain members until the end of their terms,” Patterson said. He added that senate rep prof Tom Bruzusto wski was also concerned about the inability of constituen-
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ties to recall their representatives. Grad rep Nick Kouwen suggested that recall procedures would depend on how the reps are elected in the first place. Election procedures are being left to the federation to decide and the current feeling seems to be that the 12 students will come from the same constituencies as the student council reps. Patterson noted the election system and the relationship the university council reps have to the federation must be finalized by student council in the -next two months. “We must decide if the reps will be bound to carry forward to the council policies decided by the federation,” he added. Chem eng prof Ted Batke, chairman of the university act committee and guest at the meeting, stated the matter of recall should be left up to the various constituencies. “In the case of groups like the Faculty Association, the federation and the alumni, if they want to recall, what the hell, it’s their body,” he said. Council reviewed the debate
over the size of the university council. At present it is scheduled to have 64 members but a revision drafted by operations vicepresident Al Adlington which cuts the size of the governing body to 28 has some support in the university. The smaller body would have seven faculty, seven students, six administration officers, two alumni and six external community representatives. Batke suggested, “A council half the size of the one planned would be more workable in the view of many people, however things may not be bad with 60 or so.” There is a chance the larger size might be adopted now and a smaller council evolve in a few years, he added. Council decided to recommend the smaller size be adopted now. Council members questioned the proposal that the chairman of the new council should be someone from outside the university. The fear has been that the president’s primacy might be unclear if the chairman is a faculty member. Federation vicepresident Tom Berry suggested such confusion
could be eliminated if the chairman’s role is clearly defined. “If he has merely the function of a speaker, people will not be confused. ” Batke stated the chairman’ should be someone informed of the issues that the council will face. “I’m concerned about who we’re going to get for chairman. We’ll probably some retired person, an eminent member of the Establishment who has the time. We’re not going to get an active person. ” St. Jerome’s I’ep Joe Bartolacci suggested the duties of the chairman might be prohibitive for a faculty member. Co-op math rep Glenn Berry shot back, “Oh I don’t know. We h&e a lot of profs not doing anything. ” Council decided to leave the question open for later consideration. Batke stated he feels the university will now be operating in a new context. “There will no longer be a ‘they’ who drive in every so often in their Cadillacs and bless everything the president says,” he suggested. His comments were met with a chorus of “Oh, yeah? ”
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Two face trial’ for possession Three University of Waterloo students were arrested at their apartment on august 2 and charged with possession of marijuana. Kelly Wilson and Bill Shelfantook, both them eng 4A, and Danny Dearing, arts 1, were spending a quiet Saturday morning at home when the RCMP knocked at the door. When the three appeared in court monday, charges were dropped against Dearing. Wilson and Shelfantook will go on trial for possession february 6.
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Arrested in the campus center were Glen Tschirhart, 19, of Kitchener and Ronald Culp, 17, of West Montrose. Both were charged with trafficking offences. Neither is a Waterloo student. Other people in the building had their names taken by the RCMP and several were briefly searched. Most of the occupants were local teenagers with few Waterloo students being present at the time. After the 35-minute campus center search, during which time no one was allowed in or out of the building, the narc party visited the Co-op’s Hammarskjold house where three non-residents were arrested. None were students. It was the first major drug operation by the local RCMP and confirmed months of rumors that the Kitchener narcs were using undercover agents.
A series of raids by the Kitchener RCMP friday 8 august resulted in five arrests. Two persons were arrested in the university’s campus center and three others in the Coop’s Hammarskiold house residence. An RCMP official later boasted that the largescale wrap-up of months of investigation would have a “definite effect” on the drug flow into the Kitchener-Waterloo area. At least eleven narcs, four of them youthful under----------_-_________ -----
He quoted from former president John Bergsma’s march resignation speech. “If you as councillors pass motions and hope to have them implemented, you should commit yourselves to following them up... You must conscientiously- research issues to make intelligent decisions. . ..Get off your asses and give your president your support-physically and verbally.” Cubberley decried the lack of student involvement in the federation. “Our electoral records are a disgrace. We live in a community of scholars.. , we are the new elite of our country-the so-called cream of the crop-and it is a rarity when we can encourage 50 percent of our community to vote in an election. ” He concluded, “It will do no good to attempt to understand the predicament the federation is in unless we are willing to look honestly at ourselves and understand that we are both promoting and perfecting this hypocrisy. ”
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A quorum call at 5:15 Saturday prematurely ended last weekend’s student council meeting and left the appointment of the federation’s fall term research assistant up in the air. Shortly after St. Jerome’s rep Joe Bartolacci and rrad rep Gulshan Dhawan left the afternoon session, grad rep Nick Kouwen interrupted a vote on a motion which would have approved the appointment of University of Toronto PhD student Andy Wernick as the researcher with a request for a count of voting council members. Acting speaker Steve Ireland counted only 11 voting members, two fewer than the 13 needed for a quorum. The meeting was then adjourned. Federation president Tom Patterson had moved Wernick’s approval as the best of the four applicants. Wernick had suggested research be done in the area of how society, particularly business and industry, uses the university for recruitment and research and how the university is really financed. Wernick is a member of the Rochdale College (Toronto) governing council and a leader in the Toronto Student Movement. Last spring he presented a series of six lectures on Marxism on the Waterloo campus, sponsored by the Radical Student Movement at Waterloo. Patterson noted the caliber of Wernick’s work would be very high, but decisions on what action to take on the findings of his work would be entirely up to student council. “People might be’ afraid we’re going to get a tirade from him. I’m sure we won’t. The question of what uses the university is being put to is crucial.” Kouwen suggested, “We will have problems with 2000 engineers if we hire him. ”
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Owing to problems getting mailing labels, many freshmen received summer Chevrons dated july 11, 18 and 25 very late. Some may not get them at all. Sorry about that, but everybody should get this issue. Extra copies of summer issues will be available in the campus center during registration week. Barring major complications, freshmen will also receive by mail copies of the Chevron’s community issue that was distributed in Krtchener-Waterloo in april. The next regular Chevron will be on campus during registration week. The following week, we begin publishing both tuesdays and fridays.
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E/C grunt “You’ve sat through enough shit already. I don’t know why you want more! ” exclaimed externalrelations chairman Larry Caesar as he trudged into Saturday’s student council meeting. Caesar, obviously peeved that his checker game in the campus center great hall had been disturbed, recommended to council that it grant $175 to Engineering Society B so it can send two delegates to an Engineering Institute of Canada conference in Vancouver. But grad rep Nick Kuowen wasn’t sure. “The EIC chapter on campus is dead and if anyone should be going it should be EIC people. I don’t think EngSoc even supported them in the past. The whole thing is a pile of crap,” he concluded. Science rep Charles Minken add-
approved ed that the federation didn’t help send anyone to the last EIC meeting in february. Questioned whether the external board’s general conference budget has the money to make the grant, Caesar replied, “Shit, we’ve got lots of money. We’ve sent people to stupider conferences. ” Egineering rep Rich Lloyd supported the request because the conference might be helpful to engineers in the current debate about what engineering education should involve. Kouwen replied, “If it’s going to be valuable by all means vote the money, but this I question.” Assured by Caesar that a written report would be forthcoming from the delegates, council approved the grant with none opposed and two abstentions.
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It took almost 4000 narcs last weekend to clean up the “drug ring”. Approximately 15 of them joined the rest of the undesirables in the campus center, and they all left after one of the sloppiest raids in the history of our campus. Members of the coordination department should not breathe a sigh of relief, however, because there are several names on the list of people who have not yet been apprehended. At least that’s the word from a senior administrative official who saw the list a few months ago. This is not to imply the coordination department blows dope. They just love to see their department ‘s name in print. One of these 15 narcs reappeared in London recently at a pop festival, camouflaged in a blue suit, white shirt and tie. You could hardly notice him, as he stamped ‘hands at the gate. However, he was not the hero of the concert. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention grossly overshadowed the upstart. The Mothers enjoy playing in Canada because Canadian audiences don’t demand the crap rock loved so dearly by the freaks in U.S. cities. They like Canada SO much that they will be in town _ november 7, sponsored by your
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Internationally-acclaimed harpsichordist Igor Kipnis performed at the arts theater july 23. It proved to be a rather uninspiring evening. The program. consisting of selections for contemporary as well as classical composers was marred by Kipnis’ pronounced inability to successfully navigate many passages and his lack of feeling for most of the items on the program. Preceding almost all the numbers he played. Kipnis insisted upon including a monolog about each composer and a veral description of what each selection was intended to portray. His spoken accompaniment became more distracting and annoying as the program progressed. The running commentary gave the concert an aura of a junior highschool musicappreciation class. Kipnis’ performance as a harpsichordist was far from ideal. There is no excuse for someone who calls himself a concert artist to be so careless in a performance. The’audience was disappointingly small-perhaps Kipnis couldn’t
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be inspired to perform in the manner he has in large concerts and on recordings. Only just prior to the intermission did he begin to give a creditable performance, actually putting feeling into the selection and squeezing tone from the instrument. Even so, Kipnis still tended to lose control of his fingers as the melodies beta me more complex. The second half of the performance was a great improvement. Kipnis began to show the tonal range and coloring of which the harpsichord is capable with the touch of a more inspired hand. He demonstrated he could have feeling for the music with contrasts of mood and tone. I was very impressed with his technical ability displayed in the arpeggio playing and intricate interweaving melodic interpretations, especially in the public debut of a very contemporary piece called “Spiders” by Ned Rorem. Kipnis played three numbers for his encore; of these, the last made me think that I was listening to a completely different artist. In fact, the “Harmonious blat ksmith” by Handel made sitting through the whole concert worthwhile. In a flawless rendition, Kipnis brought out the full flavor of the harpsichord and devoted his full concert calibre to the number. If only we could have been treated to more of the same!
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Stratford festival audiences have rarely applauded drama as enthusiastically as they have Hadrian V/l.
It is a corrupt and frustrating world we live in and somehow it seems less cruel and unjust for the church to be so rich if, once in a while, the wealth is renounced in a popular play or movie. (The same thing was done in another papal fantasy, The shoes of the fisherman.) Looking further into the significance of the play, it addresses a problem that Roll0 May calls “our schizoid world”. May’s essay Love and Will, published in the august 1969 psychology Today, begins :
This is Stratford’s first venture into more popular, commercial theater. Performed on the proscenium-arched stage of the Avon theater, it was still given the respect and detail in production that the more classical Shakespeareanera plays receive. The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in The excellent acting in this production was necessary to overthe past they were always held up come the disadvantage of not peras the answer to life’s predicaforming in the more intimate Fesments, they have now become the tival theater. With such factors problem.. . The old myths and symbalancing, one can assume the bols by which we oriented ourselves audience’s enthusiasm must arise are gone, anxiety is rampant; we to a very great extent from the na- cling to each other and try to perture and content of the play itself. suade ourselves that what we feel is Peter Luke’s Hadrian V/f is a love; we do not will because we are play-within-a-play, based on the afraid that if we choose one thing life of Frederick William Rolfe, or one person we’ll lose the other, and we are too insecure to take that which projects Rolfe into the fantasy of his own novel Hadrian V//. chance. The bottom then drops out of the Rolfe’s first ambition in life is to become a Roman Catholic priestconjunctive emotions and processes-of which love and will are the and for his principles is thrown out two foremost examples. The indiviof priest school twice. The second expulsion occurred in Rome, and dual is forced to turn inward; he becomes obsessed with the new form the resultant debts incurred were to plague him to the end as he ex- of the problem of identity, namely, even if I know who 1’ am, I have no plored several careers back home significance, I am unable to influin England. He assumed pseudonyms as he ence others. The next step is apathy. And the step following that is violundertook several jobs as a schoolmaster, photographer, journalist, ence. For no human can long endure the perpetually numbing experience painter and author. He never gave up his desire for the priesthood. of his own powerlessness. “Rolfe continually felt misunRolfe seeks and finds both love derstood, maligned and unrecogand will in his fantasy-a fantasy Jean Gas- that arose out of powerlessness. . nised,” writes director con.” His sensitive nature drove . Rolfe protests he was living behim to paranoia, and he revelled fore his time. But the audience replies with applause that can only in a strong persecution complex.” He also possessed a rare degree mean Hadrian VU is right for their of honesty-he was aware of his time. own weaknesses and his unworthUnfortunately for the audience, iness to be a priest under the es- Hadrian V/f is a fantasy and they must return to the schizoid world, tablished criteria for the job. In his dream, he becomes pope the same way Rolfe must when he in his fantasy by through a very optimistic twist of is assassinated fate. And as pope he sets out to do his real-life nemesis. * * * such principled things as renouncing the church’s physical wealth The acting was excellent, and and power. Hume Cronyn as Rolfe and HadriThe appeal to the audience of an was outstanding. such an act gives a clue to the Stratford will only see Hadrian for the rest of this month, before functions this play has and partialthe company goes on a tour of maly explains its enthusiastic recepjor U.S. cities. tion.
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GREA’I I tion. Hun two, but 2 ogies hav desperate need tha Many women ka xation as an issue result of individua: mderstanding-th ;ive rise to racisrr But Before we can women ‘s liberation IT irecise description of women functions in a lso help us understar Cal to material oppr63 f 1) Male Chauvinisr re the passive and inl If men-sets women vorking class. Even 1
IS men, women are nc ;ame sense, with the jrovide for their fami ndependently. They it lower wages and .hey can be used as i ‘o&e when profits dt vhen men are needed Women are not sq hey are not s,upposed This means, in effect hey are denied the ri letter wages and co Nomen in the labor fo If male workers as lnion drive by threat nen or blacks. In rn, jrganized, the union ‘erior position, makir nilitant union memlc n San Francisco r’tc supremacy. Women ; :h&ce for advancer-r union has done little t women formed the CC that eventually broke (2) Apart from tl ion of women, male le ways.
The tendency of rn; ;elves primarily as ;han as workers (i.e group) promotes a ?ower, and an identil ncluding the boss. most men exercise ( enables them to ven in a way which poses The role of the n aggressive individu: a hierarchical vietl which are fundame capitalism. In this lieve our fears ant those weaker than w into a pig; the forem line; the husband bea (3) Women are fi OS housewives and peduce the costs fsc raining the labor force
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we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women’s children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
AS we come marching, marching, bring the greater days. The rising of the women mean the rising of the :ace. No more the drudge and idler-ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of life’s glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses! -from
a song by James. Oppenheim
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All of us will admi American workers 1 dard of living, in a compared to worker of history. B’ut Anand harassed in othl of the weekly pay& bots on the job; th are forced to pay fo rarely save enough loss of job or emerg medical care and a 1 cheated by inflation I ted education that p! or for nothing. And for these “benefits. ’ In all these area ilty to make up for countless working job that bridges tt subsistence and relz that enable the famj their oppressive su occasional movie, 4 sponsibility to kee the cost of decent 1 fortable home in a borhood; to providt of work and to keel It is she who musl
IBread kL OF confusion exists today about the role of women’s hberatds of women’s groups, have sprung up within the past year or )ng them, a number of very different and often conflicting ideoleveloped. The growth of these movements has demonstrated the rany women feel to escape their own oppression. Qxperienced the initial exhiliration of discovering women’s libF realizing that the frustration, anger, and fear we feel are not a ilure but are shared by all our sisters, and of sensing-if not fully these feelings stem from the same oppressive conditions that lauvinism and the barbarity of American culture. cuss the potential of a ment, we need a more way the oppression of talist society. This will e relation of psychologbe attitude that women t servants of society and r-t from the rest of the
they do the same work nsidered workers in the d and right to work to r to support themselves fxpected to accept work jut job security. Thus rginal or reserve labor 1 on extra low costs or ar. I to be independent, so, ve any “right to work”. although they do work, 3 organize and fight for Ins. Thus the role of Idermines the struggles The boss can break a to hire lower paid woases, where women are act reinforces their inmen the least loyal and (Standard Oil workers paid the price of male ndard Oil have the least nd decent pay, and the t this. Not surprisingly, the back to work move rike.) *ect, material expioitamacy acts in more
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rkers to think of them(i.e., powerful) rather mbers of an oppressed sense of privilege and i with the world of men, 2tty dictatorship which leir wives and families * anger and frustration llenge to the system. the family reinforces authoritarianism, and 3cial relations-values o the perpetuation of n we are taught to rerations by brutalizing a man in uniform turns midates the man on the vife, child, and dog. exploited in their roles s, through which they 7d economic) of main-
nadequate as it may be relatively decent stanr material sense, when ier countries or periods workers are exploited : than through the size ‘hey are made into rodenied security ; they sive insurance and can ect them from sudden They are denied decent environment. They are are “given” a regimenthem for a narrow slot *e taxed heavily to pay a woman’s responsibures of the system. In lmilies, it is mother’s between week to week zurity . It is her wages t better food, to escape lgs through a trip, an clothes. It is her reamily healthy despite care; to make a come and unlivable neighge from the alienation ale ego in good repair. le daily to make ends
meet despite inflation. She must make up for the fact that her children do not receive a decent education and she must salvage their damaged personalities. A woman is judged as a wife and motherthe only role she is allowed-according to her ability to maintain stability in her family and 10 help her family “adjust” to harsh realities. She therefore transmits the values of hard work and conformity to each generation of workers. It is she who forces her children to stay in school and “behave” or who urges her husband not to risk his job by standing up to the boss or going on strike. Thus the role of wife and mother is one of social She shields her family mediator and pacifier. from the direct impact of class oppression. She is the true opiate of the masses. (4) Working class women and other well are exploited as consumers.
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They are forced to buy products which are necessities, but which have waste built into them, like the soap powder the price of which includes fancy packaging and advertising. They also buy products which are wasteful in themselves because they are told that a new car or TV will add to their families’ status and satisfaction, or that cosmetics will increase their desirability as sex objects. Among ‘ ‘middle class ” women, of course, the second type of wasteful consumption is more important than it is among working class women, but all women are victims of both types to greater or lesser extent, and the values which support wasteful consumption are part of our general culture. (5) All sexually.
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For working class women this oppression is more direct and brutal. They are denied control of their-own bodies, when as girls they are refused information about sex and birth control, and when as women they are denied any right to decide whether and when to have children. Their confinement to the role of sex partner and mother, and their passive submission to a single man are often maintained by physical force. The relative sexual freedom of “middle class” or college educated women, however, does not bring them real independence. Their sexual role is still primarily a passive one; their value as individuals still determined by their ability to attract, please, and hold onto a man. The definition of women as docile and dependent, inferior in intellect and weak in character cuts across class lines. A women of any class is expected to sell herselfnot just her body but her entire life, her talents, interests, and dreams-to a man. She is expected to give up friendships, ambitions, pleasures, -and moments of time to herself in order to serve his career or his family. In return, she receives not only her livelihood but her identity, her very right to existence, for unless she is the wife of someone or the mother of someone, a woman is nothing. In this summary of the forms of oppression of women in this society, the rigid dichotomy between material oppression and psychological oppression fails to hold, for it can be seen that these two aspects of oppression reinforce the other at every level. A woman may seek a job out of absolute necessity, or in order to escape repression and dependence at home. In either case, on the job she will be persuaded or forced to accent low pay indignity and a prison-like atmosphere because a woman isn’t supposed to need money or respect. then, after working all week turning tiny wires, or typing endless forms, she finds that cooking and cleaning, dressing up and making up, becoming submissive and childlike in order to please a man is her only relief, so she gladly falls back into her ‘$roper” role. All women, even including those of the ruling class, are oppressed as women in the sense that their real fulfillment is linked to their role as girlfriend, wife or mother. This definition of women is part of bourgeois culture-the whole superstructure of ideas that serves to explain and reinforce the social relations of capitalism. It is applied to all women, but it has very different consequences for women of different classes. For a ruling class woman, it means she is denied real independence, dignity, and sexual freedom. For a working class
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woman it means this too, but it also justifies her material-super-exploitation and physical coercion. Her oppression is a total one. The development of a women’s liberation movement has produced different trends, the broad women’s liberation movement but generally speaking, most existing women’s groups fall into one of the four following categories: ( 1) Personal
Liberation
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This type of group has been the first manifestation of consicousness of their own oppression among movement women. By talking about their frustrations with their role in the movement, they have moved from feelings of personal inadequacey to the realization that male supremacy is one of the foundations of the society that must be destroyed. Because it is at the level of the direct oppression in our daily lives that most people become conscious, it is not surprising that this is true of women in thq movement. Lenin once complained about this phenomenon to Clara Zetklin, leader of the German women’s socialist movement: “I have been told that at the evening meetings arranged for reading and discussion with working women, sex and marriage problems come first. ” But once women have discovered the full extent of the prejudice against them they cannot ignore it, whether Lenin approves or not, and they have found women’s discussions helpful in dealing with their problems. These groups have continued to grow and split into smaller, more viable groups, showing just how widespread is women’s dissatisfaction. However, the level of politicization of these groups has been kept low by the very conditions that keep women underdeveloped in this society; and alienation from the male dominated movement has prolonged the politicization process. These groups still see the source of their oppression in “chauvinist attitudes,” rather than in the social relations of capitalism that produce those attitudes. Therefore, they don’t confront male chauvinism collectively or politically. (2) Anti-Left
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Many women have separated from the movement out of bitterness and disillusionment with the left’s ability to alter its built-in chauvinism. Some are now vociferously anti-left ; others simply see the movement as irrelevant. In view of the fate of the ideal of women’s equality in most socialist countries, their skepticism is not surprising. Nor is it surprising that individuals with leaderships abilities who are constantly thwarted in the movement turn to new avenues. These women advocate a radical feminist movement totally separate from any other political movement. Their program involves female counter-institutions, such as communes and political parties, and attacks upon those aspects of women’s oppression that affect all classes (abortion laws, marriage, lack of child care facilities, job discrimination, images of women in the media). The first premise of the theory with which these radical feminists justify their movement is that women have always been exploited. They admit that women’s oppression has a social basis-men as a group oppress women as a group-therefore, women must organize to confront male supremacy collectively. But they say that since women were exploited before capitalism, as well as in capitallist and “socialist” societies, the overthrow of capitalism, is irrelevant to the equality of women. Male supremacy is a phenomenon outside the left-right political spectrum and must be fought separately. (3) Movement
Activists.
Many radical women who have become fulltime activists accept the attitude of most men in the movement that women’s liberation is bourgeois and “personalist. ” They look at most of the present women’s liberation groups and conclude that a movement based on women’s liberation groups and conclude that a movement based on women’s issues is bound to emphasize the relatively mild forms of oppression experienced by students and “middle class” women while obscuring the fundamental importance of class oppression. “Sure middle class women are oppressed,” they say, “but how can we concentrate on making our own lives more comfortable when working class women and men are so much more oppressed. ” Others point out that “women cannot be free ir an unfree society; their liberation will come wit1 that of the rest of us. ” These people maintain that organizing around women issues is reformist be. cause it is an attempt to ameliorate conditions with bourgeois society. Most movement activists agree that we should talk about women’s oppression, but say we
should do so only in terms of the super-exploitation of working women, especially black and brown working women, and not in terms of personal, psychological, and sexual oppression, which they see as a very different (and bourgeois) thing. They also say we should organize around women’s oppression, but only as an aspect of our struggles against racism and imperialism. In other words, there should not be a separate revolutionary women’s organization. Yet strangely enough, demands for the liberation of women seldom find their way into movement programs, and very little organizing of women, within or apart from other struggles, is actually going on : 0 In student organizing, no agitation for birth control for high school and college girls; no recognition of the other special restrictions that keep them from controlling their own lives; no propaganda about how women are still barred from many courses, especially those that would enable them to demand equality in employment. l In open admissions fights, no propaganda a- bout the channeling of girls into low-paying, deadend service occupations. l In struggles against racism, talk about the black man’s loss of manhood, but none about the sexual objectification and astounding exploitation of black women. l In anti-repression campaigns, no fights against abortion laws; no defense of those “guilty” of abortion. l In analysis of unions, no realization that women make less than black men and that most women aren’t even organized yet. Many of the characteristics which one needs in order to become respected in a women’s movement-like the ability to argue loud and fast and aggressively and to excel1 in the “I’m more revolutionary than you” style of debate-are traits which in our society consistently cultivates in men and discourages in women from childhood. But these traits are neither inherently male nor universally human; rather they are particularly appropriate to a brutally competitive capitalist Society. That most movement women fail to realize this, that their ideal is still the arrogant and coercive leader-organizer, that they continue to work at all in an atmosphere where women are consistantly scorned, and where chauvinism and elitism are attacked in rhetoric only-all this suggests that most movement women are not really aware of their o wn’*oppression. They continue to assume. that the reason they haven’t “made it” in the movement is that they are not dedicated enough or that their politics are not developed enough. At the same time, most of these women are becoming acutely aware, along with the rest of the movement, of their own comfortable and privileged backgrounds compared with those of workers (and feel guilty about them). It is this situation that causes them to regard women’s liberation as a sort of counter-revolutionary self-indulgence. There is a further reason for this; in the movement we have all become aware of the central importance of working people in a revolutionary movement and of the gap between their lives and most of our own. But at this point our understanding is largely an abstract one; we remain distant from and grossly ignorant of the real conditions working people face day to day., Thus our concept of working class oppression tends to be a one-sided and mechanistic one, contrasting “real” economic oppression to our “bourgeois hang-ups” with cultural and psychological oppression. We don’t understand that the oppression of working people is a total one, in which the “psychological” aspects-the humiliation of being poor, uneducated, and powerless, the alienation of work, and the brutalization of family lifeare not only real forms of oppression in themselves but reinforce material oppression by draining people of their energy and will to fight. Similarly, the “psychological” forms of oppression that affect all women-sexual objectification and the definition of women as docile and serving-work to keep working class women in a position where they are super-exploited as workers and as housewives. But because of our one-sided view of class oppression, most movement women do not see the relationship of their own oppression to that of working class women. This is why they conclude that a women’s liberation movement cannot lead to class consciousness and does not have revolutionary potential. (4) Avocates
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their direct oppression, that is, against male supremacy as well as their exploitation as workers ; and (2) they believe that a significant movement for women’s equality will develop within any socialist movement only through the conscious efforts of organized women, and they have seen that such consciousness does not develop in a male chauvinist movement born of a male supremacist society. These women believe that radical women must agitate among young working class girls, rank and file women workers, and workers’ wives, around a double front; against their direct oppression by male supremacist institutions, and against their exploitation as workers. They maintain that the cultural conditions of people’s lives is as important as the economic basis of their oppression in determining consciousness. If the movement cannot incorporate such a program, these women say, then an organized women’s liberation movement distinguished from the general movement must be formed, for only through such a movement will radical women gain the consciousness to develop and carry through this program. * * * What
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The potential for revolutionary thought and action lies %,.in the masses of super-oppressed and super-exploited in working class women. We have seen the stagnation New Left women’s groups caused by the lack of the need to fight that class oppression produces. Unlike most radical women, working class women have no freedom of alternatives, no chance of achieving some slight degree of individual liberation. It is these women, through their struggle, who will develop a revolutionary women’s liberation movement. A women’s liberation movement will be necessary if unity of the working class is ever to be achieved. Until working men see their female co-workers and their own wives as equal in their movement, and until those women see that it is in their own interests and that of their families to “dare to win,” the position of women will continue to undermine every working class struggle. The importance of a working class women’s liberation
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movement goes beyond-the need for unity. A liberation movement of the “slaves of the slave” tends to raise broader issues of peoples’ oppression in all its forms, SO that it is inherently wider than the economism of most trade union movements. For example, last year 187 women struck British Ford demanding equal wages (and shutting down 40,000 other jobs in the process). They won their specific demand, but Ford insisted that the women work all three rotating shifts, as the men do. The women objected that this would create great difficulty for them in their work as housekeepers and mothers, and that their husbands would not like it. In short, because the material oppression of women is integrally related to their psychological and sexual oppression, the women’s liberation movement must necessarily raise these issues. In doing so it can make us all aware of how capitalism oppresses us, not only by drafting us, taxing us, and exploiting us on the job, but by determining the way we think, feel, and relate to each other. IV In order to form a women’s liberation movement based on the oppression of working class women we must begin to agitate on issues of “equal rights” and specific rights. Equal rights means all those “rights” that men are supposed to have: the right to work, to organize for equal pay, promotions, better conditions, equal (and not separate) education. Specific rights means those rights women must have if they are to be equal in the other areas: free, adequate child care, abortions, birth control for young women from puberty, self defense, desegregation of all institutions (schools, unions; jobs). It is not so much an academic question of what is correct theory as an inescapable empirical fact; women must fight their conditions just to participate in the movement, which will gain support only if it speaks to the immediate needs of women. For instance: (1) We must begin to disseminate birth control information in high schools and fight the tracking of girls into inferior education. We must do this not only to raise the consciousness of these girls to their condition but because
control of their bodies is the key to their participation in the future. Otherwise, their natural sexuality will be indirectly used to repress them .from struggles for better jobs and organizing, because they will be encumbered with children and economically tied to the family structure for basic security. (2) We must raise demands for maternity leave and child-care facilities provided (paid for, but not controlled) by management as a rightful side benefit of women workers. This is important not only for what those issues say about women’s right to work but so that women who choose to have children have more freedom to participate in the movement. (3) We must agitate for rank and file revolt against the male supremacist hierarchy of the unions and for demands for equal wages. Only through winning such struggles for equality can the rank and file be united and see their common enemies-management and union hierarchy. Wives of workers must fight the chauvinist attitudes of their husbands simply to be able to attend meetings. (4) We must organize among store clerks, waitresses, office workers, and hospitals where vast numbers of women have no bargaining rights or security. In doing so we will have to confront the question of a radical strategy towards. established unions and the viability of independent unions. (5) We must add to the liberal demands for abortion reform by fighting against the hospital and doctors boards that such reforms consist of. They will in no way make abortions more available for the majority of non-middle class women or young girls who will still be forced to home remedies and butchers. We must insist at all times on the right of every woman to control her own body. (6) We must demand the right .of women to protect themselves. Because police mainly protect property and not people, because the violence created by the brutalization of many men in our society is often directed at women, and because not all women are willing or able to sell themselves (or to limit their lives) for the protection of a male, women have a right to self-protection.
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Faculty Association president Jim Ford’s letter (feedback july 25) is built entirely around one assumption ; namely, that faculty need or desire a code of conduct of some description. Surely in a body which supposes to value “openness and free discussion ” the first question which should have arisen would have been whether or not faculty required, or desired, such a code. But no! The first thing which occurs is that faculty have a code, admittedly a draft, pushed under their noses. One can only hope that they do not swallow the redherring and commence discussing the code’s features, when the first question they should broach is its need. One also cannot help but casually wonder how faculty have managed to get along for centuries without such a code. As for “uptight” feelings, pro. fessor Ford, I would rather say that what this business engenders is a feeling of resignation. Certainly in the case of a student’s code, if the repressive element in our university structure is bent . on providing one, there is little that “openness and free discussion” will do to avoid it. JOHN H. BATTYE history 3
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As you are no doubt aware, efforts to reverse the decision of food services to close the campus center coffeeshop for the month of august were unsuccessful. A letter dated july 18 was sent to Bob Mudie, food services manager, explaining the position outlined on the notice posted at the entrance to the coffeeshop and requesting he reconsider his decision to close the facility. No reply or acknowledgement has been received. I should like to thank the many members of the university who, by signing the list, showed their support of our efforts. I regret that the officials concerned have not seen fit to acknowledge our request. DAVID REES-THOMAS
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TWO Chevrons ago I had a letter published questioning the appropriateness of holding a car-smash to raise money for a’bursary fundin memory of three students killed in anauto accident. .The following week, Tom Boughner said in feedback, that ‘I - was distasteful and 1macabre in ex- ~ t pressing my opinion. * R’ _ Well. Mr. Boughner, ).$qu’ve the stuff of which reactionaries.’ ’ are made. It’s people like’i.‘yok .who will lynch a newspaper editor for printing a picture ,of a napalmed child as being in bad taste, while you personally preaeh that war is something ,essential for the economy. JOHN TAYLOR summer school
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It’s summer and there aren’t any radicals burning universities down, SO I guess we have to excuse the commercial press if they stretch a small incident into a major revolution.
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Most noteworthy was coverage of Trudeau’s Vancouver visit by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. “300 call Trudea traitor in violent B. C. protest” read the main headline. The subhead was “Pelted with paper and banana peel.”
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Other dailies gave similar coverage, but if anyone got past the headlines and strained out the bias in the copy, they discovered an amazing lack of violence. The first reported physical act involved Trudeau tearing a placard from a girl’s hands. He also seems to have struck at least one, “hippie Niagara Falls highschool dropout”, (obviously an outside agitator). In reply to this, it seems, the Trudeau with crowd “pelted” paper (that must have hurt and a women hit him on the back with a banana peel (ouch ! ) . All this from a crowd of 300 (there were
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I am beginning to wonder if Philip English’s concept of freedom relates to democracy in any, way, shape or form. (feedback, june 13 and 27) For instance, English maintains that freedom is the right of any individual to do anything he damn well pleases and therefore should not submit to the will of the majority.
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If we want we can assume today that in effect there is a power minority who control industry, commerce and communications. Therefore they have the power and the authority in accordance to their “individual rights” to exercise their will without any hindrance from a majority which might object. I am sure this is a splendid rationale for anti-labor legislation, draft laws and, of course, institutional racism. If English defines this as freedom, that’s fine. But in his next letter I hope he begins talking about democracy. Freedom or “individual rights” as such is a catchy many have confused it phrase; with democracy. I remember an article in an issue of Time magazine dating back to 1964 and relating to the presidential election in the United States. It stated George Wallace decided not to run in the ‘64 election because Barry Goldwater was running. Goldwater was and is a supporter of “individual” and “state’s rights. ” His support was consolidated by the right-wing lunaticfringe in the U.S. which disturbed a hell of a lot of northern Republicans. MICHAEL MOMICK history 1
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The cause of Canadian culture is ill-served by men like Robin Mathews. I refer to his recently published attack on the University of Waterloo as an example of a Canadian university- whoe competence he questions because of the presence of American teachers in its faculties and departments. His singling out of the English department among others for especial dispraise is, I think, particularly misconceived. I am a Canadian teaching in this department at Waterloo, and I feel I can speak with some authority in the matter. In his gratuitously destructive attack Matthews manages to express what I regard as the very worst aspects of Canadian Though academic character. he fancies that he is defending a distinctly Canadian cultural identity against “the new’ Roman.?‘, he is actually re-inventing a kind a barbarous cultural racism. Mathews defends a typically Canadian snobbery, the snobbery of what I like to call the White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant Uper-Canadian-Academic-Family COmpact. He unconsciously defends what sensitive and liberal minds in the humanities in this country have long deplored as the dead hand influence of that mouldy mother of academic reaction, the University of Toronto, and its incestuous spawn, the other “established” Ontario Universities. Toronto, not America, is chiefly what is the matter with English studies in Canada. What Mathews should be asking about Canadian English departments is not how many graduates of American universities they contain, but how many Toronto graduates they contain. Until only very recently-within about the last ten years-it was all but academic suicide to try to get a doctoral degree in English from any other Canadian university than Toronto. The Toronto English department’s ‘famous list of approved graduates determined everything. Other universities claimed to have Ph.D. programs, but they graduated very few people. All any Canadian-educated university teacher needs to ask himself is how many of his teachers were Toronto graduates to recognize this dismal fact about higher education in Canada. The University of Waterloo is probably one of the -Healthiest universities in Canada in this respect-if we are to trust Math-, ews’ own figures. (Please note: Yes, we do teach or at least offer a disproportionately large number of courses in American literature, especially at the graduate level. This is because we felt that we could fill a noticeable vacuum in American studies among Ontario universities. When you have to start a graduate school from scratch-our Arts faculty is not quite ten years old-you have to find something that won’t encroach on well-covered ground elsewhere in Canada. That’s the initial price of simple survival as a graduate school offering an alternative to the Toronto line-a price that RobinMathews seems determined to inflate. ) What does it mean to teach in a Canadian university not entirely stifled by the pompous complacency of Toronto-or Western,
or Queen’s, the Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and Tweedledoo of academic life in the humanities in Canada? In English departments it means that junior members can address senior members by their first names without embarrassment, or that they can count on not being cut in hallways by full professors. (Believe me, these are rare privileges in my experience of English departments of some Canadian universities. ) It means that the nationality of your ancestors is not important in gaining acceptance in English studies. (Let Mathews examine the percentage of names of non-Anglo-Saxon origin in the calendars of English departments of Canadian universities, or perhaps the list of department heads would do, if he questions my assertion, since he seems to enjoy this kind of foolish numbers game. Discrimination against immigrants. and even the grandsons of immigrants is a long-standing Canadian tradition which I gather Mathews would have us honor now in a new form.) Teaching in an “anti-estabdepartment lishment ” English means being able to seriously express a radical view without fearing for your job. It means being given full freedom .of choice-in most cases-in the particular content of the courses you teach. It means having full freedom to decide the manner of evaluating your students. It means having being able to elect your dean and choose your department head, whether you are a lecturer or a full professor. It means not being excluded from any meetings of departrnental committees for reasons of politics or factionalism. It means being able to successfully defend students against administrative red-tape and the indifference of mechanical business procedures. It means giving students an equal voice with faculty, administration, and the community in the government of the university. It means giving students the freedom to wholly determine the structure of their own academic programs to suit their particular needs and interests as Canadians, or as Americans, or whatever they are, (I am referring here to our new program of integrated studies, which several of the men Mathews specifically attacks in his “report” were ins t rumen ta1 in setting up. ) These are a few of the things, accomplished without riots and without fanfare, that count in the evaluation of universities and university teaching. What does not count are seriously questionable statistics about who’s in and who’s out in the administration of our university. These might indicate in whose hands the power lies in other universities; it does not in ours. At Waterloo the administration serves us-Canadians and American or Whatever-by making it easier for us to teach and to learn. Can the same be truthfully said for any other Canadian university? We initiate worthwhile Canadian traditions at the University of Waterloo. We do not slavishly imitate bad ones. imitate bad ones. MICHAEL lecturer-English
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liVel!L well, weiL..it find!~ happened Well, well, well...it finally happened. At exactly 11:26-one hour ago-on friday, 8 august, while quietly picking my proverbial nose in my office, I was quietly informed by Bill Aird that there were “cops in the building. ” “Huh? ” I said-or rather asked. Indeed, through the corner of my eye, I could see two of the twin cities’ finest standing just inside the entrance to the right of our office as well as about three men in sensible grey-or blue, according to the level of the particular narc’s imagination-flannel suits. As I was dialing the security office to inform them of what they obviously knew was taking place already, one burly chap made his way into the office and instructed Aird, Bernadine and Myself to get into the other room with the rest of “them”. I completed my call. I stood outside for approximately three minutes before asking one of the narcs for a search warrant. In lieu of the time of
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day, I thought this would be an appropriate question considering the circumstances. After being referred to three people, I finally came upon our friend constable George Windsor who introduced me to another chap whose name I have unfortunately forgotten, though as leader and spokesman for the raid, his name might appear in the bourgeois press’ record of this entire affair. This same personage unfolded a readymade, all-purpose, narc-lark-customarily known as a standard search warrantwhich stated that he had the power to search any premises and dwelling-places for the purpose of discovering possession of narcotics. He stated that in fact, he did not need a search warrant since this was a public place. I pointed out that it was interesting that the government of Canada saw fit to see this as a public place whereas the university administration seemed to view the university as private property. It was interesting, I noted, that the classification of one piece of real estate could change so often just to suit the whim of wh,, ever was wielding power at any one particu “i ar time. He replied that was not for him to discuss. Meanwhile the narcs were checking ID of everyone in the great hall. Several were escorted to the vestibule near the south entrance and were searched. Security head Al Romenco, who showed up approximately ten minutes after the main group of narcs entered the building made a breeze check of everything that was going on and passed through the Chevron office, where he encountered Tom Purdy, but said nothing until a few minutes later when he came back upstairs and made a deliberate point of approaching downtown policemen and one besuited narc who were standing near the reception desk, and, under the pretext of hailing and acknowledging Steve Ireland, (who had just entered the main hall but had been stopped by the cops), stated clearly that it seemed to be that all the students had left the campus yesterday or today and that’s all he was interested in. (or words to that effect: i.e. ‘I was interested to see how manv students were around here...not very many; they’re who contern me’).
After the campus center raid, our heroes raced to that den of iniquity, the Co-op’s Hammarskjold house, where three more nefarious criminals were apprehended. This Dudley Dorigh t directs the danger-fraught mission. Very briefly, the following points are important to note: 1. There were approximately 15 narcs involved, their descriptions classified as follows : l plainclothesmen (business suit). . . approx. 7 l plainclothesmen (casual dress). . . approx. 4 l downtown cops (pigs) . ..approx. 4 These numbers in no way indicate numbers of cops, etc. outside the building. 2. According to the best sources available, three people were taken “downtown” (and I don’t mean as in Petula Clark’s song) for the following reasons : l one because there was a warrant for his arrest for trafficking; l one because he was in the process of making a “deal” with one of the narc undercover men ; l one because he was found with 40 tabs of acid in his back pocket. 3. The narcs obviously knew for whom they were coming because the raid was a very sloppy one: the side entrance was not
‘Tind if it3 not drugs; it3 hitch-hiking by Steve Ireland Chevron staff
And if the narcs don’t get you, the provincials or the local cops will. The latest l&al crackdowns have come in two areas of vital concern to students and the poor: transportation and housing. There are now heavy fines awaiting hitch-hikers, most of whom are students or others trying to save a buck by sticking out their thumbs at the side of the road and praying that the driver who stops isn’t stone drunk or a flirtatious homosexual. That the main targets are suitcase-toting collegians is evident in the highways where the “hitch-hiking forbidden” signs are now being raised. The Queen Elizabeth Way between Toronto and Hamilton, the QEW outside St. Catharines, 406 in St. Catharines (it’s near Brock University), 400 from Toronto to Barrie, 401 above Toronto from Newcastle to highway 10, the Toronto airport expressway, highways in the Ottawa and London area all carry student traffic. In Ktchener-Waterloo, highway 8 where it becomes Victoria street at the eastern city limits is out-of-bounds into King street. Going west from King on highway 7&8, you can’t stick out your thumb until YOUget to Fischer drive at the western city limits. As well, the Conestoga parkway is off-limits and highway 8 into the city from 401 will probably be classified the same way in the near future. The department of transport says the regulations (which provide for a $25 fine for the first offence and $100 for a second conviction) have been extended to reduce the hazard of accidents on heavily travelled-highspeed routes. But the fact that the places being hit are university towns might make you wonder if this isn’t a careful plot to nail student radicals and hippies who pollute our fair campuses. After all, the clean-cut kids who drive the mustangs aren’t causing any trouble are they? Get the grubs off the roads, make ‘em pay train or bus fare so they have less money for beads, buttons and bombs. Or maybe the pressure came from the department of tourism who might be afraid those weirdos will scare off all the money-spending American tourists come up to look over the colony. At any rate, we’ll know when the crunch is really coming when the first radicals are convicted of conspiracy to hitch-hike. * * * Another offence undesirables should watch out for is illegal living arrangements. The City of Kitchener recently passed amendments to its zoning bylaw
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covered from the outside at all, no attempt was made to prevent phonecallsmade one to Steve-and only selected individuals were searched. I don’t think they would have even checked my name and address if I hadn’t made such a production of asking for a search warrant and noting narc descriptions. 4. I just remembered, the leader of the raid was a sergeant Pratt, RCMP. 5. Of the casually-dressed narcs, two looked like third-year engineer types: short hair, light blue denim jacket, tailored, imitation leather sports coat, sports shirt (top button done up, of course), dumb-looking and mono-syllabic uttering. One was George Windsor, and the fourth was the hippie-looking, bearded, jerseyjacketed one. 6. Pratt said they have been preparing a lengthy “study” of this place which “will all come out in court”. He kept asking me “Don’t you think there’s stuff here? ” Respectfully submitted, A. Smith
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Besides its bourgeois meaning “family” can also mean “a group of not more than five persons who need not be related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.” As more and more people are turning to various forms of cooperative and community living both to fight the isolation and restrictiveness of the traditional each-family-to-its own-little-cottage approach and to share accomodations and expenses as money gets tighter and evidence of a depression increases, the fair property-owning citizenry seem to be protecting their own. Former Student Christian Movement general secretary Marg Dyment blasted Kitchener city hall in a letter to the K-W Rcord. “What an outmoded law to pass in a day when the extended family’ concept of cooperative living is becoming accepted as one of the more advanced and humane ways of accomodating orphaned children, delinquent teenagers, senior citizens or groups of young people! ” she wrote. “By all means let us keep all living arrangements as identical as possible. City hall says the intent of the law is to prevent overcrowding, too many cars in a driveway, too much noise. Certainly it would make sense to legislate some control in those areas, if this has not already been done. But the number of people who can decide to live as a family is no business of the Kitchener planning department-or is it the Kitchener family planning department? ” Kitchener city solicitor Elmer ‘Moore maintains that Mrs. Dyment misrepresented the bylaw change in her letter, the amendment being in fact a “liberalization” of the old bylaw which only permitted three persens not related by blood or marriage to live together as a family. (The City of Waterloo restricts the number to three). As well, the regulation only pertains to some residential zones. Lodging, rooming and boarding houses are permitted in areas zones R2 and .R3, which include most of the older areas of the city which have the bigger houses cooperatives usually seek. But suburban areas are protected from invasion. Fines for violations of the bylaw may be as much as $300 and Moore says about six charges a year are laid with about two or three convictions resulting. Action is usually taken after complaints by neighbors. “We don’t have any spying Gestapo,” he said. A Waterloo building department official says no action is ever taken under Waterloo’s equivalent bylaw. The main concern in their view is parking space. People who are thinking of renting or buying large houses would be well advised to check the zoning maps at city hall before making a com-
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If for no other reason than the issue of Americanization continues to make headlines and upset people, there must be something wrong with our universities. To deal with it simply as a matter of Americans versus Canadians is to reduce the issue to bigoted nationalism. Most of the media are loathe to do that now, but isn’t that the way they deal with the revolutions in the American black ghettos and among Northern Ireland’s Catholic minority? In these cases, race (or religion) is certainly a factor, but not the sole reason for “rioting”. The real issue in the Americanization question is the same one as in the ghetto: democracy and the use of state power. Michael Estok inadvertently hits the issue right on with his feedback submission (page 13). He states that to maintain strict Can2dian control in our universities would mean strict control by a senior group of University of Toronto academics. But Estok is satisfied too soon. He trades in rule by an aristocracy of WASP snobs for bourgeois selfgovernment by all the faculty. Estok is very pleased to be able to participate in the election of his dean or department head, for he is only a lecturer. He draws the line just below himself and takes a very paternal outlook on students, the same way the aristocracy of
the traditional University of Toronto draws the line at full professors. That is the issue. At the University of Toronto, deans, department heads and full professors do the hiring and firing. At the young and dynamic University of Waterloo, all the faculty participate in that process, but ignore the students. That same self-perpetuating process on boards of governors has kept the barons of business and industry in power. The faculty have always opposed that control, but as long as they keep similar power themselves the university will never be democratic. It is most likely that the high number of American professors is only an accident that happened because faculty choose their own kind. However, even if they chose only Canadians, it would have little effect on the most important matter: content. Faculty members put their own well-being first and have a definite interest in maintaining the current values and culture of our society. For most, critical content has no place in their teaching. That would be fine if the universities weren’t being paid for by the people of Canada, most of whom don’t receive fat faculty salaries or benefit from the universities’ existence.
Some counsel for council Federation education board chairman Dave Cubberley’s written critique of the federation says quite well what many councillors have felt for some time-that councillors are mostly indifferent to the governing of the student unI ion and that they are not concerned about involving their constituents in the federation’s programs or government. Cubberley’s paper offers no programmatic solutions or changes which would stimulate councillors’ involvement. It calls for soul searching. Such seif-examination could start with several members of the executive who provide no example for the other council members to follow.-Only four of nine executive members were there, and two of these--.-external chairman Larry Caesar and the critical Cubberley himselfrefused to take part in’ council’s deliberation=;. They preferred to play checkers or sit smugly at the side, leaving the responsibility of leadership with federation president Tom Patterson and vicepresident Tom Berry. The smattering of council members who felt conscientious enough about their jobs to attend provided no base for making important decisions, in fact they barely constituted a quorum. ’ Absent were publications chairman Geoff Boulet, creative-arts chairman and arts rep Bob Sinasac, communications chairman and engineering rep Barry Filli-
more, arts rep Sandra Driver, engineering reps Anne Banks, Bill Fish, Dave Parsons, and Eric Soulis, environmental studies rep John Pickles, grad reps Dave Gordon and Bailey Wang, math rep Dave Greenberg, coop math rep Mike Jansen, phys-ed rep Hugh Cuthbertson and science rep Hugh Campbell. Student-activities chairman Louis Silcox was attending a conference for the board and treasurer Brian Cere is working out of the province. Banks, Fish, Parsons, Pit kles, Wang and Campbell missed both important summer meetings. Maybe it’s just a case of summer doldrums, but council memhers, including the executive, should take a good look at themselves and the work that has to be done. If they are not willing to spend the effort, then they should resign and make way for somepeople who will. And they should consider a bit of history too. Last year about this time, the less committed members started to neglect their duties, cut meetings and drop out. The effect was that council decisions were made by fewer people whom the drop-outs then accused of seizing power and taking irresponsible actions. The result was the impeachment of the entire council and the stagnation of student government for four months. Uncommitted council members should resign before that happens again.
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We’re number one! There’s a “ well-informed rumor” making the rounds that those cynical saboteurs professing just to be concerned students-the radicals-have selected innocent little Uniwat for their main target for takeover, pillage and deflowering this year. It’s number one. . . a national target. Who’s spreading the rumor? Those publicity-seeking ego-tripping radicals themselves? Nope. It’s the administrators-presidents and senior faculty-forecasting doom. Our own administration’s Gazette officially “leaked” the rumor in their year-end review of events. Now it seems the rumor was even given the status of theory at a recent meeting of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in Ottawa. Now why would peace-loving neighborhood administrators do a thing like that? The first reason is the same one that has the campus-and citycops called out in force to barricade the admin building everytime they discover secret demonstration that they’ve been all but invited to. Such practices help prejudge what is an obviously violent conspiracy from those dangerous radicals. The second reason-similar to the first-is to reinforce that old myth that demonstrations of unrest are created by outsiders, not born of genuine internal causes. Consider the number of stories published in the commercial press
about outside agitators, paid infiltrators, and, heaven forbid, communist party members on campus. A third reason has even more relevance to the Waterloo campus. Many‘signs point to a week overall administration of this university during the fall and winter. The administration president, academic vicepresident and four deans will be in acting capacities; one dean is just new in his post; one school is as yet without a head. In addition, the administrative officers will be spread among several buildings, making already bad communications even worse. In such a situation, some bright administrator must be expecting the worst and preparing an excellent defence for their inability to cope with it. While this is still theory, at least as much as the rumor of the radicals’ plan, there is an interesting observation to be made of those administrators on other campuses who are clamoring to be recognized as number two national radical target. Prominent among the me-twos is York admin pres Murray Boss who has always *been proud of the way communication and desire to give students what they want has prevented any radical activity on his campus. He also talks a lot about outside agitators causing all the problems. In any case, he’s losing confidence and would like to blame his expected toubles on the small-vociferous-minoritynational-radical-conspiracy.
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