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_ leader Eric Mann, a revolutionary from Boston, freaked out people all over the campus center Wednesday night during one of the most mind-blowing deba-tes this campus has ever seen. Mann didn’t waste time leading‘ up gradually to a revolut$nary analysis or strategy. His opening statement was, “The revolution in the world,. for socialism, is not going to be led by white people in the west, but by the peoples of the third world. In the United States, the revolution is going to be made by the blacks. ” Mann explained that the wealth of the western countries’ is due to the poverty o-f the third world countries, because they are exploited for the benefit. of American imperialism. He said it was for this reason they-rather than the people of the west-would make the world revolution. Mann then went on to talk about oppression under capitalism. “‘Life under capitalism is really walking death”, hesaid. “One of the reasons most of us aren’t revolutionaries is be- I

. cause we’ve internalized. the limitations _ on our lives. The reason you ‘people don’t have to be put down is because‘ you’ve been so trained to iccept authority, that you wouldn’t even think to ‘do anything ‘that you would be-repressed for.” Another one of the reasons Mann gave‘ to explain the fact that people in the west generally don’t want a revolution even though it would be in their interests was that “The-ruling class does not oppress ~ people directly. What it does is create a situation where people oppress each other. In this .way people incorrectly perceive their enemy to be other people, and never challenge the real enemy. ” eMann also mentioned the position of women in capitabst society. “When a man is taught from a very ,early age that he is not a man when he has his sense of strength taken away from him at school, in his job, in every part of his life, the only, way he can get his sense of strength is by oppressing a woman. Women in capitalist society are faced with the choice of remaining single and having a career for whatever that’s worth, or getting married and losing everything else they could have in life. ”

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Mann did not give much importance to the role of Canada in the world revolution at the present time. “Right now Canadians are not needed”, he said, “but sometime you’ll be called upon to bail out the American empire. The Canadian government will probably go along with that, and you will have to choose which side you’re on. You can’t -decide whether or not you want to have -a revolution because the revolution is already happening. “~ After Mann’s speech a question period which lasted for three hours ensued. The discussion was ten,se and heated and at times the group almost broke into total confusion. One of the main questions concerned the fact that Mann supported countries like the USSR, which he said was not a model of socialism but in fact counterrevolutionary, and the Arab states which are less democratic than their enemy Israel. Mann said that the reason for this is that it is necessary to look at the world as a whole and make decisions . accordingly. “When

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Mound A freight train moving -at 30 miles an hour can do a lot of damage to a car-even kill the people inside it. It hasn’t happened yet, but soon may, if the safety hazard at the Seagram drive railway crossing isn’t eliminated. At present, a motorist looking for trains has his vision severely restricted by a newly-formed mound of earth. The mound was formed as part of landscaping for the university’s married student residence It is now under construction. Trains <slipping out from behind the ‘3ound mound”_Cto designed to act as a sound barrier shield the new re?idence from?rain noise) can kill. for noise created by the CNR freight trains. Already, one student has barely missed being hit because of it. The mound, or burm as it is technically called, was required by the Canadian mortgage and housing association, in order for the university to receive a loan to build the new residence. i Physical-plant and planning dithe rap room has already proven In an effort to decentralize rector Bill Lobban said he originthat such a service is desperately counselling services, an informal ally questioned the burm as an required. I drop-in center has opened recently added cost. As well, he said he in the campus center. “Many students have, found the didn’t feel it would substantially Located in the former director’s registration process to be a very reduce train noise. The train pass-, office adjacent to the information -dehumanizing experience, and es the residence twice a day at 11 area arid’ staffed by student volthey have many complaints with am and 12noon, a time when little unteers, the center is open on a respect to the \bureaucracy with studying is-being done anyway. 24-hour-a-day basis. which ~_they have had to deal,” ‘Waterloo city planner D’arcy The volunteers receive ass& said one student volunteer. Dutton feels the crossingshould tance from trained counsellors definitely not be obstructed. “It became apparent immediaand.are prepared to deal with the tely that many departments “Perhaps flashing lights should in the diverse problems’ confronting stui ,university ‘be installed, or, the burm cut are treating students dents. back or removed,” he stated. as less than human beings,” he Doug Torney, a member of the said. .The CN trainmasterHal Kincounselling services ’ staff, has lock agrees that either flashers, In addition to fulfilling an om- . been assigned .to work with the budsman role, the drop-in center such as exist at the University ‘*rap room” project. avenue crossing should be erected deals with many personal prob“I will be working only in a or the burm removed. As an allems as well. The staff will also consulting role ‘to keep the inforternative he suggested cars be assist students in ‘getting ,appointmal nature of, the service ‘-in the instructed to slow to ten miles ‘an ments with the regular cdunsellhands ~of the student volunteers,” ’ ‘hour when crossing the tracks. ing services when they wish. . said Torney . / Although Nick Ozaruk, university safety they are ‘becoming ’ supervisor, No appointments are necessary: has sent a- letter to The. center was: dubbed the rap increasingly busy the professionthe CN office asking them to have are $11 able to see room to ‘encourage students to al counsell0rs trains slow from 30 to 10 miles &-bpin t0 talk-orlistenrif thqy students with a minimum of dean hou;r when crossing the road. They are locaked in the math are lonely or have a beef or prob‘l’he university did not think ‘of building, ‘. and appointments can lem. the burm as posing any safety-' be made by calling local 2655. In operation for only two weeks, I

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you-see that the biggest enemy to human freedom is U.S. imperialism, and in fighting this enemy you have to make alliances with any countries who are enemies of the U.S. even if you don’t completely agree with them and- may have to fight them after the main enemy is destroyed. ” Many’ of the audience were ?oncerned about Mann’s emphasis on the use of violence to achieve socialism. Mann stressed that’ he was not interested in violence for its own sake and that he didn’t like violence, but the ruling class would not allow a socialist state to come into existence even if an electoral victory was won. They would send the police and the army in to smash it, so violence was necessary. * To the- questions of people who had doubts about socialism on a philosophical level Mann said, “The reason you can raise these kinds of abstract questions is because vou haven’t experienced the oppression of the people of the third1 world, and that’s why you’re not going to lead the revolution. If you were aware of the world situation, you wouldn’t be asking those kinds of questions. ”

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specifications for and necessity problem, until a letter of comof erecting a sound barrier. A . plaint was received from the stuCMHA official did admit that if dent who was almost hit. “The the mound posed a definite threat . _ burm was a ‘CMHA requi,rement - to motorists’ safety, someone for the loan, so it was built,” could make a submission for its stressed operations vicepresident I removal, but concluded that -“the Al Adlington. government does require a burm ’ The CMHA office when contactbeside the railway tracks if the ed merely repiied with a reading university wants from a booklet which gave the . . a CMHA loan. ”

Cybberley, Caesar let&e $exec b&d‘ Arts reps Larry Caesar and Dave Cubberley have resigned their positions on the Federation of Students executive. The resignations become effective when applications are received to fill the positions. Board pf education chairman Cubberlep stated his reasons for quitting were purely financial . “I didn’t get a government loan this year so I’ll have to take a turnkey job at the campus cent&, in addition to carrying a full course load. Because of this, I just don’t have the time.” Cubberley added he will probably give up his council seat as well. Caesar, chairman of the external relations board, cited reasons which were anything but financial. “I feel I’m wasting my time in the federation,” hssaid. “There may- be some hope of accomplishing something in terms of programs; but based on past experience these programs, such as film series or speakers, aren’t worth the time necessary for the bureaucratic stuff, like sitting on the parking appeals committee or. writing lettersto people interested . in our. pubs. ” Elaborating further, . Caesar said he felt his priorities had changed to the departmental level. “For instance, I’d rather sit in

on classes like Ron Lambert’s social psychology course than waste time’ on student government?’ “The potential for social change is in the class room, not the federation’s bureaucratic jungle. The federation is too isolated from, the alienated student to build a strong base of people willing to be involved in decision-making,” he continued. Caesar mentioned attempts in the summer to democratize the.federation via initiative, referen/dum, and recall devices, but said, “democratization isn’t possible until people are willing to get off their asses and call their own referendumsor general meetings. ” Caesar was undecided on the question of resigning as arts rep. When approached for comment on the resignations, federation president Tom Patterson said he agreed with Caesar. “This is a horribly bureaucratic grganiza tion. Larry was hoping to initiate a kind of mass program, but that’s structurally impossible here,” he refnarked, “although it efficiently manages social activities. ” “The federation exists as a social organ, not as an organ of social change. ’ ’

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The critical university project of the radical student movement began its fall offensive last tuesday when a guerilla theater group “captured” Father Hugh MacKinnon’s history 100 course. The players, some of them members of the RSM, assumed positions at the front of the class before most of the freshmen arrived. Many of the first The cash, earned at the rate of With 800 diehard, (or foolhardy, year students thought they were in the wrong room, 80 cents an hour will be split depending on your point of view), but were sufficiently interested in the proceedings slaves hard at work, last saturamong St. Monica house, the to remain in their seats. Margaret McDonald home, and day morning’s slave day proved The acting troup consisted of a king and queen, quite successful. Camp Columbia, not necessarily a court fool, and seven peasants. One of the peasin equal portions. ants wrote on the blackboard: “To hell with elitist A little over $3000 was raised The fund raising day, an annual history”. part of orientation, is sponsored through assorted efforts’including The court fool, informed the audience the “ moracar washing, fence building, and by Circle K, the campus Kiwanis lity play” would ,begin as soon as the “representastorm window put-upping. club. c b tive of the church arrives”. The king was to bestow an honor on Father MacKinnon for “upholding the tradition of aristocratic history as he teaches in big courses. Students are needed to assist jobs that~ require a helpful soul However, it was soon learned that MacKinnon and no talent. , would not be delivering his first scheduled lecture the new creative arts board dirStudents interested in direction of the year at that time. ector, Maurice Evans, in his proand stage managing are also duction of Anouilh’s the Cavern, The fool then announced that the play would comneeded. mence- without the church represented in body but scheduled for november. ___ - n People who wish to apply for ’ the audience was asked to divine its presence. . Readings for the parts are one of the technical positions An exchange then took place between the king and being held between one and five should see Earl Steiler in the queen on the one hand; and “the people” on the from Wednesday to fridaY in offide next to Evans . It was soon discovered however, that other. Evans’ office, located under the All students are welcome, and unlike the king, queen and church, the people didn’t arts theater. no experience is necessary. have any historians on their side. ^ There are numerous other jobs The play promises to be an “Who will come up and be our historians? ” the to be filled-set design, construcinteresting one, and if you want peasantsa&d. Several students left their seats it to be a good one come out and . tion, costumes, make-up, props, and j,oined the side of “the people” at the front of sound, lighting, and all the joe; help. 3 _- ) the class. “We’re theones who built the bridges, the castles, the churches, and yet we’re taught the history of those who lived off our work”. “What about those who financed everything?” “The desire to learn how to do Counselling services is again offering its reading and study something better can happen at any time of life. So why not a skills improvement program. “It was my impression that college reading improvement program?” Walsh asked. many rstudents when faced with \ She had the following statistics the reading requirements of a university course found they had with respect to last year’s pro347 Erb St. W, Waterloo gram : about one-third of the stunot the skills to organize, concendents who started the course trate, or even read quickly stuck with it for six weeks. A enough to cope,” said reading O-PEN 7 DAYS A WEEK few continued exercises to incounsellor Joan Walsh. 1 Oam to 1 Opm crease their speed for about nine “Our program differs from weeks, showing significant immost packaged. courses in that Full-Line of Groceries provement in this time. -. each student can start at his own The course helped those with level and work at his own speed, a low reading rate-below 327 I ‘ ‘We hold weekly group sessions words a minute-achieve a greatwith not more than 20 in a group er increase than those with a high at which we discuss reading and beginning rate. study habits and practice new Flexibility in reading rate is techniques and speed drills,” she said. emphasized according to the diffiOrientation testing took place culty of the material. this week, but students who missWalsh felt the most widespread ed it may drop around to the b enefit experienced by students counselling center to see if there was an increase in their aware, is suitable class time available. ness of how to go about their stud_ Walsh subscribes. to the theory ies and an increased feeling of that “the human organism learns confidence in their abilities to when it becomes uncomfortable _comprehend. Vocabulary imin its present state of existence. , provement was achieved by L about a, ouarter of the students. A. few People discover the joys of extending the boundaries Iof their : When asked for. suggestions to world through reading. , I It .can improve the.course, the. most fre- be a mind-expanding trip.” ‘quent request was. to begin early . Last ‘year counselling services’ in the term,L _’ ran a pilot project in an attempt The counselling center is located to discover the best way to serve on the sixth. floor of the math students’needs. . ’ ’Z building,: telephone 744-6111, local They tried to assess the, individ& -T.-m - :

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shouted one student from the audience. “Yes, what about those people who dropped from heaven with the initiative, the will, the drive, intelligence, and ability to finance and oversee. the progress of society. 3 “added another voice. ’ But, by this time the king and queen were making a regal exit from the lecture hall to the strains of the pomp and circumstance march. They were followed by the group of peasants and “peasant historians” who received a round of applause from the students. The group of actors later held a critical session in the basement of the modern languages buildingIt had been the maiden effort of the group and everyone was satisfied that it was an adequate beginning. “When MacKinnon didn’t show I didn’t know what to do. We faked it and it turned out for the best” said one of the peasant girls. Another RSM observer commented: “We didn’t address ourselves to the problems of development. Those last questions about financing were important. People have a lot of shit in their heads about how ’ money and people with money are responsible for building things. Somehow we’ve got to get, across to them in our guerilla theater that people who work produce all wealth and value and that those who own money and machines live off that activity. It’s a common myth that we have to get at.” Another critically added that it would be necessary to create more than the minimal audience interaction which occurred during the performance. - _All the players however, did agree they got across the point that history as taught in the university is not a history which portrays the deveIopment of society, but rather deals abstractly with the lives of so-called great men. Further the guerrilla theater -group agreed to continue to take their activity into the classrooms and tighten up the show.

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I - __ \ ‘. Following his speech students gies,- .which do notconflict with .,.I“I am * ttilking revolution but I for *his -wednesday Firstly. the I university is a night- address _ questioned.’ him on ’ a number the present system, are allowed , it is more than just a political to the students assembled in the- processing center ,.-for ‘training of issues. When asked if he erevolution exchanging one master campus center . future employees ‘of industry. To The existing student mov”ements,> lieved violence such as at \Si for another. .It is a democratic h e said, question these functions ’ .‘Brought in L by the orientation _ this end, people are being trained George Williams was - justified revolution. A democracy where to 1be educated working class education committee to present and challenge Canadian society Wernick said he would label that people live .and work’ democrat,peopie, relatively powerless. ‘both sides’ to; the freshmen, -’ and the internal university ad-’ adventurism, where liberal stuically and don’t just mark an “X” Wernick talked about the stu‘ ‘W.hen companies are out’ to ministrations. dents freaked out when con- j on the ballot every -five years or dent movement and its relation-make money social problems Wernick continued that ,adminfronted with actual lines of whatever. Reform ultimately is ship to ‘the university. are not dealt with. Therefore ydu i&rations. were becoming paranbattle. ’ not going to be possible.” Neither knowledge nor the uni1 get teC@icAlly capable, -socially - aid when they looked at the He stated the belief that YOU That quote, delivered by Andy versity can be neutral, he stated, docile people who do not question trouble in, the United Stat.es, and, must build a group strong enough’ Wernick, a Toronto student the existing society, “he stated. _ for the university has a definite because they were afraid, there, to go on after one year, & group movement leader, set the tone relation to Canadia-n society. on capable of making ,I Research, .whi&h is important I would be *a- strong repression people con. < campuses in order to try and de- scious enough to weed out the at the university level, is being * _ done for corpor&o%s, the ‘milt Politic students. sensationalism ,which the ’ press know not-for -. ’ 6‘People ’ must . : I tary and the government, thrives on and get at the truth. ’ what’s Indians, unions and third -world going on and take sides. We must ’ E&n 0 my , p& tires ‘re~~t~~~~i~~;nt crit;cized thekp tky . to create a society- where Angels ._with gumsocial’ priorates are noticed, a i _ I NEW YORK (UP1 )--. . .Addressideological function - of the uni- _human society where people are not objectified, individualized ing 1000 New York police, evangel-versity which continually perand continually oppressing one ist Billy Graham said police are petuates myths about society, “God’s agent for punishment.” another.” and. where only certain ideolo\ * employer he is the man the corn: . The department of coordina-, pany wants. tion opened its orientation lecI ’ ture series last tuesday with a “Marks would * only be ‘importtalk by. David Copp, assistant ant in a competitive sense,” he director of the department ,of stated. coordination and placement. Copp also stressed that by the Copp -expressed a - fairly op- very nature of the engineering timistic viewpoint for job placeprogram here, niore commitment this year: ‘“I don’t think ment was required from the Wat‘anyone can guarantee anybody a erloo student than from-engineerjob,” he said “but I feel that ing students attending ‘other unithere- will be a job for everyone versities. who swants one and who is, wil“There would be occasions ling to ,work. ” where -an individual student may / On the other hand he expressed have to commit himself into about job some apprehension doing something which is not at placement this year especially ail to his liking in orderto insure when he repeatedly stressed the the smooth running of the over-importance of anyone who has all system. ” a job waiting for him, telling the On the other ha-nd Copp felt department of coordination confident companies would be to . hire Waterloo Copp was apologetic about the quite eager situation. . He felt the Canadian - studehts since they felt. the. pro’ gram would provide industry with economy had not, been strong-up ‘good students and in the end to the present time and that “the 1969 prospects ‘did not .appear to, * good engineers* ‘be very promising. We are at-the For students who were worried mercy of the economy since we about losing work because of can’t create jobs. It iS Up to the possible union walkouts copp economy to do so as we can only had reassuring words, go along with it.” _ the company would ,probably pay their salary anyway, and if not, As far as- the indiv*idual student of coordination was concerned Copp said that -- the department his job depended -on how well he : would - do it-s utmost to place that w&uld be able’ to ‘cbnvince the . s$dent S’omewhere else. . + ‘.

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Engineering society A has an 1 &ant non-engineering topics to array. of Tactivities .-planned for the engineer: A series of forums both engineeringand non-engineer: with the intention of attrticting : ing types thisterm. c ‘il .‘.* .‘@t~, math ,atid science ‘people to The ‘society, like similar ones present their .’ points of view is in’ arts, math and science,-‘ pro- ,,scheduled.* vides social, athletic and teduca. 'i ray from the. grossness '\ a number Af_ter’ of bitter discussions and a couple- ’ In normal cases where the university’is building ’ . . for interested ptirticipants. and crude”nature ‘which has ‘been picket lines, Habitat was occupied by students on another ‘strticture it ‘has it&&n architect who Social functions will include associated. w&h engineers- to pro- -September ‘8. Ellis&on;the company building the ensures that ‘deadlines are met: B&i be&se H&ii m.-.,C~- ~..rreL.rrrLr.-rad;,.b. L-L,-,,ant-l residence, had promised. the unive rsitvthev tat? _-_- -_ iS a-_ -residence, -_it is under the control .of the weekend, as well as film nites . new engineers and uon-engineers. ” would h&- control of it by ‘August ‘is. This~would Ontario student housing corporation; -part of- the society will: -be and narties which will be ad- .. ~-The _~ I mm-.l.:mAml RA’I,fi-n.)fin+. cvirrn tkn rwGirrnn&it+r. thrnn ‘mrnnlr’o tn mclLn liwmkln i 51 VC LllC ullvGl31by .wu cc , wLccmci bu ianc ic AI v auic one weekin advance. 2. vertiied ‘* representatives, to * the congress before classes started. Because of delavs many .A--f-.-‘-Z-d-{‘AL --_. ,: “The most = important function . of : *en&r While problems associa ted with the, physi‘ctil asA > i of the 1engineering society,” held in Queuec m I pects of. the residence- hz ve. almost ‘all been solved, - -----122 I. A-?‘ t--,:‘LA& *Lr.h-tr. fiE AL,,m.x; A ,. . soc1el.y ; ,-,L.-:#lr&L pi-eslueIl ;, accoru1r1g . w sti@ ‘larger ones loom ,aheau. -’ ; Mike’ Martin; ‘“lies in- its educ& , I Several people have, expressed fears for the aca1 - : . -( 1 tionprogram..” demic .&es of the new inhabilzints. The usual -failr In the : area of’ curriculuh : affairs, ,,the~ b&d of education .^ure‘rate_ in the Village is abouqone or two percent.. is working on i computerized ’ The rate in Habitat will’probably be much higher. course* dnd +prof cr3tique.- which* Eydt- -attributes this@ ‘the lack of a large number ,will-.&of. help $3 b$i freshmen * of second Andy third year..s$udents in Habitat. “They The kitchen, staff *are facing ‘impossible odds -in \S.ai@ up@r ye~r,st$idents. ‘s,. _- .-+. . ‘7 won’t be able to ‘influence the behavior patterns of fprep@nj$ the 1 meals. ,Because the air-condi‘tioning . t6. lpok ,‘.at ‘” the problems . of ” fhe Within ‘,‘.the next fe.w weeks the’first year.s(tudents.” .: . ,\ .a &&~~&~,& ,$& _ be’ &&t&d: &‘coordination - ‘3Lepartment ’ : and systems are not finished, the ,staff tiust suffer under ,. . . .being . .made- Lto ratify: this. that.often~rise 6vea 10 degrees - : f x - ,: . There are attempts! . fr&$ ,,each, ,&ass, to . sit on. , tLn$- . make -the@ ,,vieG ,.known to: Ft&e ,. tempW$m?S 1 . Village warden .;Ron. Eydt,. the. man :responsibfe. ‘i .* problem,>:It is hoped there will be a s ufficient num‘. ._undergr&luate stud.y .committee, . department. I. r -_ ‘+ zSi’ T:, .. , ber of students from the village who will&&rnteer for both on-campus university residences, has ex.’ In-keeping v$th the. engineer?ng ,_.‘wh&h *deals mainly with student’ .I . to help. the frosh in residence w@ n~ ?tne_lr ‘* ’ ,studp pressed displeasure in the delays ., ’ c problems;. related to ,, courses’. tradition,., the . action commitee probfems, In an effort Q-have a mo: re compatible. for the universjty to obtain ; Two of j ,the members of t&e till -be 1 out \.,pulling- practical 1“It is impossible -_ direct contact. with people in, charge-of the buihiing . ratio’ betTeen frosh and. upper classmen in years ‘committee will sit on, the faculty jokes on, ~unsiispec’&ng Mcti’ms to come;: all : seniors who .are making their first because of control by the government. The ‘qafercouncjl to . advise’ _on ~ course. band leaving behind the message, application- for a .university residence will be put of _the system impedes communica_ “‘You just 6in screvved by @i&id like’structure changes and additiqns. I ’ The” board *.holies ‘to bring rel-, PO!:. ” \. __ I ’” , tion:’ , ‘. . * ~ irrto Habitat: “ LlU~lQl

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Nixon administration escalates war on pot (CUPWASHINGTON D.C. LNS)-The Nixon administration has announced it will escalate the war on marijuana, using a combination of increased manpower, improved technology and increasing economic pressure on Mexico to clean up trade in the mind-expanding drug. In a recently announced campaign entitled Operation Intercept, the U.S. government declared it will launch the nation’s “largest search and seizure operation by civil authorities. ” Their strategy involves a twopronged attack: increased and improved inspection , methods in the U.S. and pressure on Mexico to give eradication and control of marijuana a high priority. Some of the measures to be used are: l use of pursuit planes and some motor torpedo boats l a strengthened . trol equipped with planes

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_ To corroborate our contentions we have sought examples of our friend Howie Petch behaving like-a man wh%o has something, to lose. /. In our search we have found the man to be much more concerned with counterinsurgency than someone whose tenure will be temporary. His information -agency has claimed that outside agitators are coni ” verging on Uniwat ; he speaks of codes of ‘conduct in variousforms; his senior faculty members have been warned of classroom agitation; he has not seen fit to allow even the token marxist professor in the political science’department that he, had conceded in principle in the early spring; lowly staff -members have come under scrutiny for ,even minor leftist leanings: his model integrated-studies progrkm has been staffed with non-descripts and known radicals have been excluded on spurious ._ _2,._ grounds. _ -* * * In addition we have noticed a developing discipline and allegiance amongathe inner circle of administrators that is most unlike an organization. expecting a new- general and subsequent rearrangement’ of headquarters command. Jay Minas, second&-command, has become so concerned with his future, that heis rumoredto now be reading the Chevron--something he never found important when -he was arts dean. D.P. Robertson, known to,his friends as Pat, has his sights set on a vicepresidential job after Petch is given permanent command. Presently holding the rank of just a petty bureaucrat, the director’of academic services (more loose usage) will be able to fill the functions that Petch detests. As public-relations (or whatever) ‘vi&president: Robertson will bc able to put’his Brutus-like smile to work in those nasty. duties of making speech& and meeting people. it will indeed be interesting to see what further developments we can uncover in this line of conjecture. .: . _.

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. PORT ARTHUR. (CUP)--Last ‘ism’. It counsels students to avoid Debate seeking answers to their probaugust, in a widely-misrepreported McPeake spoke about the goals speech, then-incoming CUS presilems-in fact, to deny they have of CUS, and -the impossibility of dent Peter -Warrian told delegates problems: ’ reaching those.‘ goals through to theCanadian Union of Students The congiess delegates recogCUSS essentially parliamentary nized this fact, and the federation ,congress that “this is the year structure. He noted the “oppresproposal died on the plenary floor to take it to the people. ” . sive’\’ atmosphere of the plenary ’ for lack of a seconder; ) -Somehow, it didn’t happen, and itself, with its square formation - That left two alternatives: A CUS-finished the year with fewer of tables, fr’agmented debate members, bigger travel bills in- -smashed CUS-“belly-up at through microphones, and. the Christmas”, some called it-with curred through flitting around meaninglessness of much of what another string of referendum dethe country fighting referenda, came out of the congress to what feats in the fall term; or a new and the same problems. is happening in the real world. cus. The student councillors who He angered many delegates who “We cannot go back,” Warr-, attended that convention; found wanted to get on with the business ian told the congress. “We don’t that the people on their campuses of passing policy statements smash CUS, but we do smash didn’t like what CUS was saying and resolutions in the waning through the limitations of the in its policy resolutions, possibly hours of the congress. structures of present student unbecause nobody was quite’ sure McPeake’s argument said that ionism. ” how the reality of Canadian probthe resolutions were meaningless lems related to rousing choruses in themselves, that they only had Loney too moderate of “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh!“, red meaning if the delegates took In an interview after the conand black flags, and ,dimly underthem back to the campuses, and gress, incoming president Martin stood rhetoric about American that the debate must revolve. and the evils of Loney appeared to recognize imperialism around the kind of structures what kinds of changes were needc.apitalism. that will make these policies a real ed, although he was occasionally This year, at the Lakehead CUS issue at the home campuses. / bitterly attacked by some delecongress, Warrian tried again. This debate, too, appeared to be-, “At the last congress,” he said gates for adopting y line that was left hanging about 6 a.m. when too “moderate.” in his opening state of the union the congress got back to “busi“As student councils become address, “we made a positive a resolution to involved in political actions on ness”-passing breakthrough towards building a delete two lines from the Declacampus, and are not just conrelevant natio-nal ‘student union ration of the Canadian Student. cerned with administering stuin English-speaking Canada. Did any of it stick? The answer dent services,” Loney said, “they “However, the victory we won to this determines whether, CUS have to move from small elitist there was largely ’ a. rhetorical dies at Christmas, or gets regroups to involving -as many stuvictory.‘ Against the backdrop of born through a new relationship. dents as possible. Columbia, France and Chicago, of student councils and their conf ‘It becomes the responsibility we generated a revolutionary rhestituencies, and the councils to toric and the beginnings of a of the council to take all political cus. decisions to the campus, to mass framework for critically analyzAlready there is evidence that meetings. They have to devote a ing Canadian society. have taken up large part of their resources to some delegates . ! ‘Our greatest shortqoming, ” the problem seriously. I those political actions, to bringhe. added, “was a lack of proMembers of at least one large ing in outside ‘speakers,] putting grammatic content.‘! , university student -council have out course critic&es etc. ’ already begun to dis,@uss creating “And they have to get the uniAtternafe strtictures versity ‘members‘ involved in a real union style of student govrernment . Initially this would He urged a reappraisal of CUS their own departments in classmean mass meetings instead of as a -union ; whether the unions’ room organ&ing. The first step council meetings j with eve@fie , present structure could.be a basic in demotiratization of the univerwho attended having the -right to tool in coping with the problems sity is democratizing the students vote. Hopefully, this would be of Canadian society; and called union. carried into political ac“We have a policy which is further for alternative structures that tion. _ . / would take CUS and the student meaningful,” Loney said, refercouncils ‘(‘back to the people. ” ring to CUS,” and ‘given those Cati CUS survive7 This should have been the crustructural dhanges, student count-, cial debating point during the rest ils can be effective in getting. a lot CUS can - survive-perhaps can Instead, too of that p01i~y of the congress. into thecampus, .and I only survive-in ’ this kind o, many delegates channeled their action taken on them. ‘.’ structure if it wants to be part of . efforts, not into understanding the If this taking it- to the people a student movement. I ’ rhetoric, but in rewording it to work is to be done; however, the ‘AndCUS can be important, not, appeal to their more moderate councils are going to have to lay because ,_“CUS” ca.n bring into constituencies. themselves <down on the line much ’ effect the ~programs it passes at‘. 1 For example,-in one resolution, asCUS has done in the, past year. ,, the qongresses, but because the \ the term “American imperialism” “We’re going to need a new congress allows students to come was reworded to something like kind of student unionism,” says ’ together. 40 discuss and hammer t ‘American control of Canadian Warrian. out ,an analysrs of wha-t is wrong industry. ” “Student governments are in the university, and what .can The -fundamental struggle going to have to recognize that be done about it. Those students over the structure of the union their structures isolate them from will then return to the campuses .was carried on by the left and the students, and that these structures where they can talk to and work right-wing elements at. the con-. i must-be changed. with students not at the congress. I ference. _ “And given the anti-political And CUS is important, not be1 Conservative delegates from culture of the university, student cause through the publishingand four universities, noting that CUS councillors are going to have to go distribution of resolutions and is not a union or even a moveout, on a limb. They are going to ,fighting referenda it can convince .ment, wanted to turn the clock have to be prepared to be impeachstudents of the need for social backward several years by turned in some cases, and this will change in the university, but being CUS into a voluntary federapose a difficult decision for some cause it has the resources to do . , tion. whose identities are’ closely tied research and distribute its findGesta Abols, president of the to their positions on the councils.” ings, the resources to provide inUniversity of Toronto student Besides the right wing, the left ‘formation on issues and provide council, noted that “attempts to elements at the congress tried to communication amonglocal counbuild a mass (movement out of an draw delegates into fundamental cils about what’s happeningon organization ‘which lacks all the debate on the nature of CUS. other campuses. characteristics have created a On the second last day the radiThe CUS resolutions are nothing dynamic which this static structcal Waterloo delegation tried to ‘in themselves. ure can’t cope’with.” focus on the issue of unionism The confrontations must still Abols’ proposed solution, the with a motion that CUS join the come, not in the student’council ‘federation, would unfortunately Wobblies, the IndustrialWorkers meetings,or even in mass policy change only one aspect of the conof the World. This union was meetings. It must come in the tradiction he outlines by retreateffectively smashed during the classroomwith students joining ing to what he called “an embry20’s for its radical stand on worktogether to struggle towards an onic stage of the new status quo, ers’ rights, and was an effectively unders,tanding of what the conin effect,. a liberal organization. ” marxist organization. tent of the courses is, challengAnd this is, in effect, no soluBut somehow the relevant de- ing the lecturer, the examination tion. It merely counsels students bate never congealed, and the system, doing course critiques, to incur some sort of collective next night Barry McPeake, chairsetting up parallel courses and amnesia, to deny what they have man of the CUS plenary for six course unions. learned about; the role and strucdays, stepped out of the chair Taking it back to the students because he felt his position was -successfully-may ture of the university within Canabe the .only ’ . “smothering many of the contraddian society; a society dominated cure for the disease infecting ‘ictions inherent in this structure. ” by American corporate capitalCUS and- the student councils. I

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ers on September fourth and they arrived in time for centroid. l The gym floor has to be refinished because the community of scholars doesn’t believe in no smoking signs. l The physics rest area will cost less than the phys-ed one, only if PPandP reminds its workers to put in wires. 0 Several construction foremen have found PPandP drawings bad enough to ignore. l Silt has started to accumulate in sick bay, the health-services pond which underwent $3000 surgery in august. l Bob McKillop, manager of the football team, assaulted and threatened a student during registration. l All senior administration offices are bugged by militant students. l Residents of Habitat do walk through the Village contrary to the requirements for the new residence. l Trouble has already started in Habitat,just as many experts said it would %vhile opposing the development.

l The married student residence is already behind schedule. l The amount of work done by students in course counselling, housing, registration information, and food provisions indicate profound deficiencies in the administration. l The bookstore, not yet two years old, is inadequate for registration periods and should be open sixteen hours a day (at least), ’ seven days a week for the month of September. l The campus center has been waiting a month for the wax to be put on the floor. l Notre Dame, considered the best designed residence on campus by many, was not designed by the Ontario student housing corporation. l Food services will continue to operate with an extensive subsidy because of the quality, quantity and price. 0 Only one of these points is false, and only two are unconfirmed. The rest are true. love, Maudie.

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The reader of film reviews is, for the most part, looking for a sketch of a plot and for an evaluation of the film. Having a limited amount of time and money he can, in two minutes, decide whether or not a particular film is worth seeing. ’ If oply things were so simple. It is usually the case that a mere outline of the plot tells us nothing about the film’s worth. The extra-marital affairs of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in From the terrace were boring while those of Yves Montand in Live for life were extremely exciting. The plots of the two films are not substantially different-at least not in bare outline. : A mere exposition of the plot without an evaluation makes for a vacuous review, an evaluation without a foundation is highly pretentious. As a matter of fact, the question of evaluation presents itself as a problem in any critical work, since evaluation presupposes standards, and the universal acceptance of standards particularly in the arts, has never been achieved. The most obvious and, it seems to me, plausible reason for such widely divergent reactions to films is that there are no universally valid standards of evaluation. In fact, the foregoing is perhaps the only universally valid statement that can be made about any art. Writing reviews, then, begins to appear as a perversion; and indeed this is not too far from the truth. What is there to say about any film except to go and see it? A film maker I know always replies to any question about his films with a terse: “It’s all there, there’s nothing to be said, all I can do is show it again.” And of course he’s right. What the reviewer writes is not so much about the film as about himself. It would seem to be in order for me to say some-

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The film by its very nature-expansive twodimensionality-cannot give us the same kind of feeling of spatial entrapment as the stage. Far too many films try to be theatrical, and ir, doing so give up the unlimited possibilities that film qua film presents. This is not to say that films based on books and plays hold no interest for me. The point is that they must present their subj-ects cinematically, not literally or theatrically. Rosemary’s Baby succeeds admirably in this respect.

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chance. Since he can’t become an executive or a rock hero he decides to service those rich, hard-up Midnight cowboy is a moving indictment of the American dream, women who are willing to pay for the rags-to-riches ethic which his talents. Ratso played by Dustin Hoffman drives people to seek success as measured in dollars. is the urban counterpart to Joe. A crippled product of the streets, More particularly it is a sleazy he lives by his wits in the constory of people on the make, not crete jungle of New York. After at the Madison avenue level, but fleecing Joe he sets himself up at the lower echelons of society as his manager, and together where the pimps and pushers, they move from one failure to drifters and hustlers hang out. another, developing a friendship of the Jon Voigt plays Joe Buck, the rooted in the dependency lost. pseudo-Texas cowboy, our traThe tragedy of Joe and Ratso, ditional symbol of virtue and herois not revealed to the audience ism. Jos quits his job as a dishthrough the characters’ own waiher to seek his fortune in New understanding (for they have York, as he knows that the aim none) of the social forces grindof life is success, and feels that in God’s country everyone has a ing them down, but is evoked by

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Mike Cooney is not concerned about the future of folk music; I in his opinion it’s here to stay. ’ Judging by one night’s turnout he may be right, for despite competition from a- rock ‘group in the campus center he drew quite a following. According to him, “folk music is not the rage because very few people are singing folk”. Although often referred to as Pete Seeger’s successor, Cooney has a very definate style of his o-wn, best described as easy, re_laxed and mildly humorous. He comes on quietly where Seeger would be strong. “People associate me with Seeger only because I sing real folk songs. Most people find a song and rewrite or update it, I stay close to the original”, he explained. “I know so many people who change every time popular song styles change but I don’t believe in chasing after that elusive thing. I’ve watched them go from folk to blue grass to jug bands to rock while I’ve stuck with folk. I have a genuine interest in folk songs and want to get as close to the original as possible” he says. From the way his bookings are ’ going folk is in no danger of dying.‘ He’s booked solid right through to Christmas and may accept an offer to become artis t-in-residence at Guelph university in janaary. After that there’s a United Kingdom tour 1in the offing if he can find the time. Cooney’s main strength is his versatility and charm. Audiences, especially on campuses, like him and he caters to their taste. He boasts that he rarely plans a performance but plays it by ear, improvising on whim to suit the mood of his audience. He’s never had a music lesson

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Houdini : The untold story, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1969.

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$8.75

. The exploits of the famous American magician Harry Houdini are still referr_ed to today although he died almost 43 years ago. Indeed, a Houdini museum claiming to have many of the devices he escaped from in his acts opened only last year in Niagara Falls. .

Author Milbourne Christopher is “America’s most prominent magician today” (so the book jacket tells us) who has been “a lifelong devotee of Houdini.” He is fortunate he ’ did not choose writing as a profession. The book is probably a fairly authoritative chronical of Houdini’s career and the author (or a ghost-writer?) .has done a lot of research. He spends much time correcting previous biographers and other reports of events. But producing an authoritative biography doesn’t mean that every performance or challenge to the master escape artist has been recounted. The recording of all the theater ,and publicity acts-makes fo.r dull reading. As well, Christopher slips into the perilous practice of trying to enliven his chronology of events by including what he passes off as direct quotes, and garnishing his narrative with irrelevant \ and impossible-to-document tidbits like “When the ship stopped at Port Said, he was one of the first passengers down the gangplank. ”

but he manages to handle a variety of instruments quite competently, at least for the range of tunes he plays. He generally hits the right cords and has a good sense of rhythm. Throughout a performance he uses these instruments ; banjo, guitar, jewsharp, kazoo and tin whistle-partly as props-and delights in teaching the audience how to play them. His repetoire of songs seems to be endless, and he uses them to

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vary his performance, going from sad to humorous and then, throwing in a protest or love song. “I know so many that I only think of some of them once” or twice a year,” he’ says. Some of h&s songs on Monday night such as College-girl and Thyme were more cute than funny, others were mild and lacked real bite: two part dialogon His Arkansas went over well with the audience as did My Old Hen and Mrs. McGrath.

Having a magician write the work doesn’t produce much objectivity either, for there are too few criticisms of the artist but lots of 000’s and ahhh’s. And lots of in-jargon too, like “escapologist”, as Christopher likes to call his hero. What readers of this book be most interested in learning, the details of Houdini’s famous escapes, are nowhere included. While Christopher rambles on, we are no more on the inside than were the audiences of America and Europe _50 years ago. However, the author’s documentation of Houdini’s efforts to expose mediums and other psychic mystifiers does provide a thorough study of the world of rising tables, and mysterious knocks and voices from the spirit world. This one strength however, will not rescue this Houdini biography - - I from the obscurity it deserves. ’

COME AND DO YOUR THING With UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CH’ORUS , Tues., 7:00-9:OOpm in A.L. 116

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ALFRED KU.NZ UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO’S Director of Music will be in the Rehearsal Room Tues., Wed., Thursday afternoon from 2:30-5:OOpm If you are interested in any of the above groups just drop in to talk it over, or call Ext. 2439.

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ECO-CATASTROPH E--the doomsday prediction of a renowned ecologist who portrays the state of the world ten years hence if the present course of environmental destruction continues unchecked....

THE DEVIL AND THI

HE END OF THE OCEAN CAME late in the summer of 1979, and it came even more rapidly than the biologists had expected. There had been signs for more than a decade, commencing with the discovery in 1968 that DDT slows down photosynthesis in marine plant life. It was announced in a short paper in the technical journal, Science, but to ecologists it smacked of doomsday. They knew that all life in the sea depends on photosynthesis, the chemical process by which green plants bind the sun’s energy and make it available to living things. And they knew that DDT and similar chlorinated hydrocarbons had polluted the entire surface of the earth, including the sea. But that was only the first of many signs. There had been the final gasp of the whaling industry in 1973, and the end of the Peruvian anchovy fishery in 1975. Indeed, a score of other fisheries had disappeared quietly from over-exploitation and various eco-catastrophes by 1977. The term “eco-catastrophe” was coined by a California ecologist in 1969 to describe the most spectacular of man’s attacks on the systems which sustain his life. He drew his inspiration from the Santa Barbara offshore oil disaster of that year, and from the news which spread among naturalists that virtually all of the Golden State’s seashore bird life was doomed because of chlorinated hydrocarbon interference with its reproduction. Eco-catastrophes in the sea became increasingly common in the early 1970’s. Mysterious “blooms” of previously rare micro-organisms began to appear in offshore waters. Red tides-killer outbreaks of a minute single-celled plant-returned to the Florida gulf coast and were sometimes accompanied by tides of other exotic hues. It was clear by 1975 that the entire ecology of the ocean was changing. A few types of phytoplankton were becoming resistant to chlorinated hydrocarbons and were gaining the upper hand. Changes in the phytoplankton community led inevitably to changes in the community of zooplankton, the tiny animals which eat the phytoplankton. These changes were passed on up the chains of life in the ocean to the herring, plaice, cod and tuna. As the diversity of life in the ocean diminished, its stability also decreased. Other changes had taken place by 1975. Most ocean fishes that returned to fresh water to breed, like the salmon, had become extinct, their breeding streams so dammed up and polluted that their powerful homing instinct only resulted in suicide. Many fishes and shellfishes that bred in restricted areas along the coasts followed them as onshore pollution escalated. By 1977 the annual yield of fish from the sea was down to 30 million metric tons, less than one-half the per capita catch of a decade earlier. This helped malnutrition to escalate sharply in a world where an estimated 50 million people per year were already dying of starvation. The United Nations attempted to get all chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides banned on a worldwide basis, but the move was defeated by the United States. This opposition was generated primarily by the American petrochemical industry, operating hand in glove with its subsidiary, the United States department of agri-

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culture. Together they persuaded the government to oppose the UN move-which was not difficult since most Americans /believed that Russia and China were more in need of fish products than was the United States. PPARENTLY IT WAS A COMBINATION of ecosystem destabilization, sunlight reduction, and a rapid escalation in chlorinated hydrocarbon pollution from massive Thanodrin applications which triggered the ultimate catastrophe. Seventeen huge S,oviet-financed Thanodrin plants were operating in underdeveloped countries by 1978. They had been part of a massive Russian “aid offensive” designed to fill the gap caused by the CO& apse-of America’s ballyhooed “Green Revolution. ” It became apparent in the early ’70s that the “Green Revolution” was more talk than substance. Distribution of high yield “miracle” grain seeds had caused temporary local spurts in agricultural production. Simultaneously, excellent weather had produced record harvests. The combination permitted bureaucrats, especially in the United States department of agriculture and the agency for International Development (AID), to reverse their previous pessimism and indulge in an outburst of optimistic propaganda about staving off famine. They raved about the approaching transformation of agriculture in the underdeveloped countries (UDCs) . The reason for the propaganda reversal was never made clear. Most historians agree that a combination of utter ignorance of ecology, a desire to justify past errors, and pressure from agro-industry (which was eager to sell pesticides, fertilizers, and farm machinery to the UDCs and agencies helping the UDCs) was behind the campaign. Whatever the motivation, the’ results were clear. Many concerned people, lacking the expertise to see through the Green Revolution drivel, relaxed. The populationfood crisis was “solved. ” But reality was not long in showing itself. Local famine persisted in northern India even after good weather brought an end to the ghastly Bihar famine of the mid-‘60s. East Pakistan was next, followed by a resurgence of general famine in northern India. Other foci of famine rapidly developed in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malawi, the Congo, Egypt, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Everywhere hard realities destroyed the illusion of the Green Revolution. Yields dropped as the progressive farmers who had first accepted the new seeds found that their higher yields brought lower prices-effective demand (hunger plus cash) was not sufficient in poor countries to keep prices up. Less progressive farmers, observing this, refused to make the extra effort required to cultivate the “miracle” grains. Transport systems proved inadequate to bring the necessary fertilizer to the fields where the new and extremely fertilizer-sensitive grains were being grown. The same systems were also inadequate to move produce to markets. Fertilizer plants were not built fast enough, and most of the underdeveloped countries could not scrape together funds to purchase supplies, even on concessional terms. Finally, the inevitable happened,

and pests began to reduce yields in even the most carefully cultivated fields. Among the first were the famous “miracle rats” which invaded Philippine “miracle rice” fields early in 1969. They were quickly followed by many insects and viruses, thriving on the relatively pest-susceptible new grains, encouraged by the vast and dense plantings, and rapidly acquiring resistance to the chemicals used against them. As chaos spread until even the most obtuse agriculturists and economists realized that the Green Revolution had turned brown, the Russians stepped in. The Soviet Union, observing with interest the progressive deterioration of relations between the UDCs and the United States, came up with a solution. It had recently developed what it claimed was the ideal insecticide, a highly lethal chlorinated hydrocarbon complexed with a special agent for penetrating the external skeletal armor of insects. Announcing that the new pesticide, called Thanodrin, would truly produce a Green Revolution, the Soviets entered into negotiations with various UDCs for the construction of massive Thanodrin factories. The USSR would bear all the costs; all it wanted in return were certain trade and military concessions. It is interesting now, with the perspective of years, to examine in some detail the reasons why the UDCs welcomed the Thanodrin plan with such open arms. Government officials in these countries ignored the protests of their own scientists that Thanodrin would not solve the problems which plagued them. The governments now knew that the basic cause of their problems was overpopulation, and that these problems had been exacerbated by the dullness, daydreaming, and cupidity endemic to all governments. They knew that only population control and limited development aimed primarily at agriculture could have spared them the horrors they now faced. They knew it, but they were not about to admit it. How much easier it was simply to accuse the Americans of failing to give them proper aid; how much simpler to accept the Russian panacea. At home in the USA the early ’70s were traumatic times. Racial violence grew and the habitability of the cities diminished, as nothing substantial was done to ameliorate either racial inequities or urban blight. Welfare rolls grew as automation and general technological progress forced more and more people into the category of “unemployable.” Simultaneously a taxpayers’ revolt occurred. Although there was not enough money to build the schools, roads, water systems, sewage systems, jails, hospitals, urban transit lines, and all the other amenities needed to support a burgeoning population, Americans refused to tax themselves more heavily. Starting in Youngstown, Ohio in 1969 and followed closely by Richmond, California, community after community was forced to close its schools or curtail educational operations for lack of funds. Water supplies, already marginal in quality and quantity in many places by 1970, deteriorated quickly. Water rationing occurred in 1723 municipalities in the summer of 1974, and hepatitis and epidemic dysentery rates climbed about 500 percent between 1970-1974.

IR POLLUTI the most obl vironmen ta1 1972, quite li Americans ‘I the New York and Los A also the publication of tl ive report on air pollut. had been partially prep publicity given to the UIC in 1972. Deaths in the latl well known to scientists, them because they most ise of the old and sick ping dead on the freew; zens were faced with r massive documentation to die from respiratc;! ready for that scale of ( conference had not pred pollution would make the almost 1990. The popula screens became filled u the disaster areas. E:l coverage of hundreds of out their lives outside Terms like nitrogen ox cardiac arrest began to h Americans.

The ultimate horror M chlorinated hydrocarbon tuent of air pollution in ; sies of smog disaster vie chlorinated hydrocarbon lent to 26 parts per mi 1973, the department of fare announced studies tally that increasing dc sion, cirrhosis of the live of other diseases had res hydrocarbon load. They born since 1946 (when Dr life expectancy of only 4! if current patterns co would reach 42 years by out. Plunging insurance market panic. The presic jor pesticide producer, v licly eat a teaspoonful of ered milk) and announce trated by communists. 4 chemical industry, atten putable evidence, launc campaign on congress to agriculture’s business. .* agro-chemical journals, perience in misleading t fits and dangers of pestic lit realized that it had bef The Nobel Prize for i-r’ given to Drs. J.L. Radon who in the late 1960’s had tation of the long-term le hydrocarbons. A preside] impeachable credentials chemical complex of “cf

CONTINUED to be the s manifestation of enzrioration. It was, by 111~ in the eyes of all y’ear 1973 saw not only les smog disasters, but lrgeon General’s massand health. The public 1 for the worst by the llution conference held 1scaused by smog were the public had ignored evolved the early demher than people dropBut suddenly our citiy 200,000 corpses and they could be the next ,ease. They were not ;ter. After all, the UN 1 that accumulated air net uninhabitable until was terrorized as TV scenes of horror from lly vivid was NBC’s tended people choking 3ew York’s hospitals. acute bronchitis and real meaning for most le announcement that re now a major constimerican cities. Autop; revealed an average in fatty tissue equivaof DDT. In October, ,h, education and welch showed unequivorates from hypertener cancer and a series I from the chlorinated lated that Americans age began) now had a rs, and predicted that ed, this expectancy when it might level ks triggered a stock f Velsicol, Inc., a maIn television to “pub” (it was really powdHEW had been infilgiants of the petro; to dispute the indisa massive pressure 3 HEW to “get out of 7 were aided by the I had decades of extblic about the beneBut by now the pubbed. e and physiology was nd W.B. Deichmann, ered in the documenkffects of chlorinated commission with untly accused the agroining many millions

of Americans to an early death.” The year 1973 was the year in which Americans finally came to understand the direct threat to their existence posed by environmental deterioration. And 1973 was also the year in which most people finally comprehended the indirect threat. Even the president of Union Oil Company and several other industrialists publicly stated their concern over the reduction of bird populations which had resulted from pollution by DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. Insect populations boomed because they were resistant to most pesticides and had been freed, by the incompetent use of those pesticides, from most of their natural enemies. Rodents swarmed over crops, multiplying rapidly in the absence of predatory birds. The effect of pests on the wheat crop was especially disastrous in the summer of 1973, since that was also the year of the great drought. Most of us can remember the shock which greeted the announcement by atmospheric physicists that the shift of the jet stream which had caused the drought was probably permanent. It signalled the birth of the Midwestern desert. Man’s air-polluting activities had by then caused gross changes in climatic patterns. The news, of course, played hell with commodity and stock markets. Food prices skyrocketed, as savings were poured into hoarded canned goods. Official assurances that food supplies would remain ample fell on deaf ears, and even the government showed signs of nervousness when California migrant field workers went out on strike again in protest against the continued use of pesticides by growers. The strike burgeoned into farm burning and riots. The workers, calling themselves “The Walking Dead,” demanded immediate compensation for their shortened lives, and crash research programs to attempt to lengthen them. It was in the same speech in which president Edward Kennedy, after much delay, finally declared a national emergency and called out the national guard to harvest California’s crops, that the first mention of population control was made. Kennedy pointed out that the United States would no longer be able to offer any food aid to other nations and was likely to suffer food shortages herself. He suggested that, in view of the manifest failure of the Green Revolution, the only hope of the UDCs lay in population control. His statement, you will recall, created an uproar in the underdeveloped countries. Newspaper editorials accused the United States of wishing to prevent small countries from becoming large nations and thus threatening American hegemony. Politicians asserted that President Kennedy was a “creature of the giant drug combine” that wished to shove its pills down every woman’s throat although religious opposition to population control was very slight and industry in general also backed the idea. UDDENLY THE United States discovered that it had a national consensus: population control was the only possible salvation of the underdeveloped world. How could the UDCs be persuaded to

limit their ‘populations, and should not the United States lead the way by limiting its own? Members of the intellectual community wanted America to set an example. They pointed out that the United States was in the midst of a new baby boom: her birth rate, well over 20 per thousand per year, and her growth rate of over one percent per annum were among the very highest of the developed countries. They detailed the deterioration of the American physical and psychic environments, the growing health threats, the impending food shortages, and the insufficiency of funds for desperately needed public works. They contended that the nation was clearly unable or unwilling to properly care for the people it already had. What possible reason could there be, they queried, for adding any more? Besides, who would listen to requests by the United States for population control when that nation did not control her own profligate reproduction? Those who opposed population controls for the U.S. were equally vociferous. The military-industrial complex, with its all-too-human mixture of ignorance and avarice, still saw strength and prosperity in numbers. Baby food magnates, already worried by the growing nitrate pollution of their products, saw their market disappearing. Steel manufacturers saw a decrease in aggregate demand and slippage for that holy of holies, the gross national product. And military men saw, in the growing population-food-environment crisis, a serious threat to their carefully nurtured cold war. In the end, of course, economic arguments held sway, and the “inalienable right of every American couple to determine the size of its family,” a freedom invented for the occasion in the early ‘7Os, was not compromised. The population control bill, which was passed bY Congress early in 1974, was quite a document, nevertheless. On the domestic front, it authorized an increase from 100 to 150 million dollars in funds for “family planning” activities. This was made possible by a general feeling in the country that the growing army on welfare needed family planning. But the gist of the bill was a series of measures designed to impress the need for population control on the UDCS. All American aid to countries with overpopulation problems was required by law to consist in part of population control assistance. In order to receive any assistance each nation was required not only to accept the population control aid, but also20 match it according to a complex formula. “ Overpopulation” itself was defined by a formula based on UN statistics, and the UDCs were required not only to accept aid, but also to show progress in reducing birth rates. Every five years the status of the aid program for each nation was to be re-evaluated. The reaction to the announcement of this program dwarfed the response to president Kennedy’s speech. A coalition of UDCs attempted to get the UN general assembly to condemn the United States as a “genetic aggressor.” Most damaging of all to the American cause was the famous “25 Indians and a dog” speech by Mr. Shankarnarayan, Indian

Ambassador to the UN. Shankarnarayan pointed out that for several decades the United States, with less than six percent of the people of the world had consumed roughly 50 percent of the raw materials used every year. He described vividly America’s contribution to worldwide environmental deterioration, and he scathingly denounced the miserly record of United States foreign aid as “unworthy of a fourth-rate power, let alone the most powerful nation on earth. ” It was the climax of his speech, however, which most historians claim once and for all destroyed the image of the United States. Shankarnarayan informed the assembly that the average American family dog was fed more animal protein per week than the average Indian got in a month. “How do you justify taking fish from protein-starved Peruvians and feeding them to your animals?” ‘he asked. “I contend,” he concluded, “that the birth of an American baby is a greater disaster for the world than that of 25 Indian babies. ” When the applause had died away, Mr. Sorensen, the American representative, made a speech which said essentially that “other countries look after their own selfinterest, too. ” When the vote came, the United States was condemned. HIS CONDEMNATION SET the tone of US-UDC relations at the time the Russian Thanodrin proposal was made. The proposal seemed to offer the masses in the UDCs an opportunity to save themselves and humiliate the United States at the same time; and in human affairs, as we all know, biological realities could never interfere with such an opportunity. The scientists were silenced, the politicians said yes, the Thanodrin plants were built, and the results were what any beginning ecology student could have predicted. At first Thanodrin seemed to offer excellent control of many pests. True, there was a rash of human fatalities from improper use of the lethal chemical, but, as Russian technical advisors were prone to note, these were more than compensated for by increased yields. Thanodrin use skyrocketed throughout the underdeveloped world. The Mikoyan design group developed a dependable, cheap agricultural aircraft which the Soviets donated to the effort in large numbers. MIG sprayers became even more common in UDCs than MIG interceptors.

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the days of plunder are drawing inexorably to a close. Most of the people who are going to. die in the greatest cataclysm in the history/of man have already been born. More than three and a half billion people already populate our moribund globe, and about half of them are hungry. Some 10 to 20 million. will starve to death this year. In spite of this, the population of the earth will increase by 70 million souls in 1969. For mankind has artificially lowered the death rate of the human population, while in general birth rates have remained high. With the input side of the population system in high gear and the output side slowed down, our fragile planet has filled with people at an incredible rate. It took several million years for the population to reach a total of two billion people in 1930, while a second two billion will have‘ been added by 1975! By that time some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980’s. Of course more massive famine may be avoided if other events cause a prior rise in the human death rate. Both worldwide plague and thermonuclear war are made moresprobable as population growth continues. These, along with famine, make up the trio of potential “death rate solutions” to the population problem-solutions in ‘which the birth rate-death -rate imbalance is redressed by a rise in the death rate rather than by a lowering of the birth rate. Make no mistake about it, the imbalance wil/ be redressed. The shape of the population growth curve is one familiar to t,he biologist. It is the outbreak part of an outbreak-crash sequence. A, population grows rapidly in the presence of abundant resources, finally runs out of food or some other necessity, and crashes to a low level or extinction. Man is not only running out of food, he is also destroying the life support systems of the Spaceship Earth. The situation was recently summarized very succinctly: “It is the top of the ninth inning. Man, always a threat at the plate, has been hitting nature hard. It is important to remember, however, that NATURE BATS LAST.” Dr. Paul Ehrlich is a world famous ecologist and a biology professor at Stanford university. He is also author of The Population Bomb. This article has been adapted from Ramparts, sep tember 69.

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Babies need to be trustful. According to ’ first place. When they see their ‘babies for the first time, for instance, as psycholoErik H. Erikson, the Harvard psychogist Niles Newton and her OBG husband analyst, a baby~ who trusts his mother will Michael have reported, breasters seem grow up trusting other people; a baby who *more overjoyed- than bottlers seem ‘when distrusts his mother will gro’wup distrusting other people. “Experiences they see their babies for the first time. connected with feeding. ” Erikson It’s also true that nursing tends to ingoes on, “are a prime source. for the development of a crease the affection that breasters have trust.” And babies who are nursed, it is for their infants. One small reason is that clear, will seldom feel that their mothers breast-fed babies smellbetter-unlike botare traitors. For ’ ne thing, breasters are tle:fed ‘babies, they don’t smell of sour milk and their eliminations and sweat around more o the time: they can’t,just stick a bottle fDin the kid’s mouth, say don’t have anasty odor. And one big reastoodle-oo to the babysitter, and hightail on is that, as Niles Newton points out, it to the movies. As Margaret Mead has “The hormone prolactin is active in put it, “The feeding bottle made possible breast-feedingmothers. The hormone causes unmotherly animals to act moththe establishment of total impersonality from the time of birth, and so an infancy erly, and there is some evidence that it \ has the same effect on ‘human beings.” without tenderness or warmth. ” Bottle milk may also bitterly disappoint Many years ago, the great sexologist a baby: Itmay be too hot or too cold; and Havelock Ellis wrote: “In some women; even when it’s at body temperature, it indeed, whom we hesitate to call abnorcools rapidly. Then too, breasters will mal, maternal love fails to awaken at all until brought into action. ..by ‘the act of probably demand-feed (I ‘need-feed” is the term ‘Anna, Freud. prefers) rather than suckling. ” A woman generally has one chance in 25 schedule-feed, for three reasons: 1) they have no bottles to sterilize, no formula to of getting breast cancer; if s-he nurses for six months, the chances-drop to one in 125. heat, just a blouse to open; 2) they get pleasure from nursing-sometimes sexual Nursing helps a new mother’s uterus conpleasure; ~ and 3’) unless emptied rather tract, which prevents hemorrhaging. And, ‘quickly, a breast full of mil-k can be unas mentioned, most. women find the act of comfortable. There are added psychologibreastfeeding a , delightful experience. Some Call it calming-“It’s like the effect cal benefits, to need-feeding. ‘Babies not a’. breaster told me. fed soon after they start hollering may beof two martinis,” Some breasters are even luckier. come dependent children-because they ,’ , have been made to feel powerless; and “The act of suckling,” Havelock Ellis

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are two types of women in America: _women-who, when they become mothers, breastfeed their babies; and women who, when they become mothers, don’t. %And sad to say, the bottlers vastly outnumber \ . the breasters. Despite the overwhelming advantages -of breastfeeding, and despite the fact that 90 percent of all women -can nurse, only 20 percent of American -mothers even bother to try-a paltry percentage that every other country- ih the world can beat. A lot of women say they favor nursing, but very few breast the tide: As one physician put it, everybody gives breastfeeding lip. service-except babies. True, breastfeeding is getting to he rather voguish-especially among the wives of college studentsbut the over-all trend is ever downward. In America the female breasts, so exquisitely designed to nourish the young, are a bust. ’ _ Why don’t more women breastfeed? There are a number of interesting answers to these questions,-but before delving into_ them let’s examine some of the reas1 ons why women should nurse. To begin with, babies who are nursed are likely to be healthier-physically and mentally. Of course, most people think that cow’s milk is “the perfect food.” There’s one qualification: perfect for calves. For babies, mother’s milk is best -it’s more nourishing and more easily digestible than cow’s milk or formula, and it contains important antibodies. A baby .who has nursed is less apt to come down with stomach and intestinal disorders like colic and constipation ; with allergies like diaper rash, asthma, hives, hay fever, and eczema ; with respiratory infections like bronchitis and pneumonia; with virus diseases like the common cold, measles, mumps, hospital staph, and polio; with kidney trouble; with obesity; and-because breast-fed babies suck more-less apt to wind up-with poor facial development. (See Nursing your baby’ by Karen Pryor and the family book of child care by Niles Newton. ) The American academy of pediatricians has even recommended that mothers breastfeed-because cow’s milk contains strontium 90. The physical benefits of mother’s milk don’t end during infancy. Studies conducted by Charlotte Nash and her associates indicate that throughout the first 10 years of life, children who were nursed needed fewer special visits to the doctor, were hospitalized more rarely, and had fewer illnesses of any kind. According,to an English physician, G.R. Osborne, breast-fed babies-as adults-are I&s likely to ’ get , hardening of the arter5e.s. According to an Australian physician, Raymond Green, there’s evidence that breast-fed babiesas adults-are less likely to get heart disease. Unlike the physical benefits of bceastfeeding, the psychoIogica1 benefits have not been definitely -proved, but tliSev’idence is nonetheless persuasive. For there are a half-dozen things that babies need if they are not to .becgme Wednesday’s children, full of woe; and breast-fed babjes will probably get these things, while boftlefed babies will only possibly get them. Babies need to be-touched. Experiments have demonstrated that if infant monkeys are never handled or stroked by their mothers, as adults they cower in corners and scream with terror at any change in their habitats. As for human babies, psychologist Lawrence Casler of the City . College of New York recently compared eight babies who had .been stroked for 10 minutes twice a day with eight babies who hadn’t been stroked, but had been talked , to and treated kindly. (Divided between. the groups were three sets of twins.) After 10 ‘weeks the babies who had been stroked crawled better, vocalized better, were more cooperative and adaptable, and so forth. In fact, psychologist Paul H. Mussen, of the University of California at Berkeley, even suggests that tactile stimula tion “may be a basic, innate driv.e.” And certainly breastfed babies as a whole are touched more than bottle-fed babies - are-touched by the breast, and touched by the mother, who must hold her baby to feed him (bottles are often held ‘by the baby or propped up by the mother).

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lia;g’ Written, “tends -to &&ice in women voluptuous sexual emotions. .. .One lady, perfectly normal, states that she has, had stronger sexual feelings in suckling her children than ,she has ever experienced with her husband.. ..Many other women state generally that suckling children is the most delicious physical feeling that they have ever experienced.” One young woman, he reports, tried to become pregnant as often as possible “solely’b?%%.~se of the voluptuous sensations she derived from suckling. ” A very, very fortunate few are those who obtain orgasms from nursing. “Lacation insanity,” Havelock cluckingly called it, proceeding to note that “Lactation insanity is often accompanied by fantasie-s regarding the sexual organs. ” Nor are fathers whose babies are nursed left out in the cold. As Karen Pryor (Philip Wylie’s.daughter, and a zoologist in her own right) reports, their wives’ figures get back into shape faster, for one thing, and for another their wives’ figures often improve. What’s more, nursing is cheaper than bottlefeeding. And let us not overlook the harm that . bottlefeeding does to civilization-and not just by turning out unhealthy, distrustfu1, dependent, insecure, obese people. I As Karen Pryor has written: * “One can speculate that the transfer of the baby’s attention from the mother to the bottle and her inevitable abandonment

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Does she or doesn’t she? History pro- , vides us with a clue, because there have been fashions in infant feeding. Sometimes mothers breastfed _their babies themselves; sometimes they employed wet nurses, or fed their babies “pap”soft food, like bread and water. Bottlefeeding became popular in the brittle, sophisticated 192Os, when people cared more about having fun than about having children. Mother’s milk also went to waste in Imperial Rome, in Periclean Athens, and ine much of the 18th Century-in short, during classical times, when the leaders of society are formal, restrained, sedentary, pseudo-scientific, conventional, super- / civilized, smug, and uninterested in child: ren. In romantic times, artists go back to nature, scientists go back to experiment-c ing; ~mothers go back to breastfeeding. ‘. and everybody goes back to loving child* ren. It all seems to depend on how natural. people are. Next, let’s see what scientific studies have to say about the differences between breasters and bottlers. A recent article in5

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of him at meal’times..:makes the bottle more important than ever as a token of comforting, and that this is at the root of our American admiration -. of material things at the expense of the spiritual.. . . “In fact, .most scientists in the fi’eld of infant behavior are beginning to agree that the fantastically high level of mental illness in this country is due, at least in part, to the systematic frustration of normal -mother-infant relationships from standardized surgical deliveries to the hospital isolation of infants, rigid childcare systems, and the almost universal failure of lac&a tion. ” There is at least one other wag in which bottlefeeding harms civilization. For it is clear that the American male’s childish idolatry of the female breasts is due to the decline of nursing. In fact, the connection between bottlefeeding and breast worship helps explain why so many American men don’t want American women to nurse-including husbands, obstetricians, and pediatricians. The female breast has almost always been the object of admiration, but never& before has a society suffered so much from what anthropologist Eric John Ding;wall calls “bosom mania.” In America, as Kinsey was astonished to discover, men are more interested in a woman’s breasts than in her genitals. Puerile jokes about the breasts abound, as does babytalk slang designating the breasts 1 tits, titties, boobs, boobies, knobs, bells, muffins, knockers, a pair). Today it seems that advertisers can’t sell fuel oil or chewing tobacco without showing a big-bosomed blonde in ,a bathing suit. Only in America do grown men drool over the pictures in Playboy, frenziedly patronize topless clubs, restaurants, and bars, and value large breasts over smaller, shapelier ones. As Harold J. Laski once pointed out in another context, Americans are prone to mistaking bigness for grandeur. Breastfeeding started its declinein the 192Os, ata time when flat-chested women were the rage and young girls bound their breasts to make them unnoticeable. “Far too many young girls come to me nowadays,” a 1920s physician wrote, “with nipples at the level of their navels.? Breastfetishism began booming during World War II, 20 years later, as evidenced: by the emergence of pin-ups, sweater girls, and’ “skin” magazines. To‘ quote Eric John Dingwall, “Although in 1939 GaudefroyDemombynes maintained that the Ameri-” can man preferred a -finely ,formed leg to the curves of a well-developed bosom, there were signs that a breast boom was well on’ the way, and by 1942 it was raging. ” ’ It is partly because they had been de: prived of nursing -that the young American men of the .194Os began yearning for. the legendary comfort and beckoning”mys-‘. tery of the female breast. But that was not the only .reason, for it does not expIain why’ older men of the time also became breast fetishists. Perhaps a more important reason% that, once the femalebreasts b& came useless, once their function was no longer” to provide .milk, they became. clean. \

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because most bottlers aren’t neurotic. And psychiatrists specialize in the sick-in schizophrenics, manic-depressives, anxiety neurotics, and so on.,Yet there are a lot of sane people in this world. And some sane people, obviously, are saner than others,

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the New England journal of medicine, by Niles and Michael Newton, exhaustively reviewed the literature. Breasters are better-educated; they are more maternal and more satisfied with the female role (bottlers tend to be envious of men) ; they are more interested in sex (they want, for instance, to resume intercourse with their husbands as soon as possible after giving birth) ; they are less hung-up about sex (approving of masturbation, petting, and .necking) ; they have fewer psychosexual disturbances and fewer disturbances in their\ general behavior ; they are less conventional; and in their relations with other people they value warmth more than bottlers do. Breasters, then, seem more accepting of life, more natural. Finally, let’s listen to what the bottlers themselves have to say. They tell Dr. Speck (who favbrs nursing) I that breastfeeding is “immodest” or “animallike.” Eva Salber, of the Harvard School of public health, reports : “The idea of nursing repelled them. They were excessively embarrassed at the idea or too ‘modest’ to nurse.” In England, L. John Newson 2nd Elizabeth Newson found that the English bottler feels “a deepseated revulsion from the whole pro: cess, often quite inexplicable to the mother herself.” The most common objection to nursing,” Michael mother’s feeling that it is Miller declares, “is...the an animal function. As-one new mother put it, ‘Nursing is just too cow-like for me.’ For some women the dread of identification with animals is so severe that they feel ashamed of the whole process of pregnancy. ” Obviously, many bottlers-like many men-unconsciously think of breastfeeding as excretion, and no wonder they can’t understand their own revulsion. But why is an act that is “animal-like” so disgusting? Why do these women feel that breastfeeding is for the birds-and other animals? Well, animals scratch themselves ifi naughty places. They don’t cover their mouths when they yawn. They don’t eat with knives, forks, spoons, and napkins. They have sexual relations for all to see. They give birth and suck right in the open. They go to the bathroom and don’t use a bathroom. They’re just as , natural as can be, and very, very unlike the animated Barbie Doll that is the ideal American woman, who shaves the natural hair under her arms and on her legs, who deodorizes her natural odors and bathes herself in unnatural fragrances, w?lo masks her face with rouge, powder, lipstick, eyeshadow, and mascara, who wears fake eyelashes and fake bosoms and paints her nails and caps her teeth, and who is never, never supposed to sweat. An animal is the very opposite of this ideal, and the sugar-coated women of this world don’t want to be reminded that they have anything at all in common with such dreadful creatures, including breasts that were designed for suckling. You can easily spot such women. Just show them the following passage from The Practical

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Abraham H. Maslow, a psychologist at Brindeis, and a former president of the American psychological association, decided to find out what makes some people more mentally healthy than others. So he be-. gan studying what he called “self-actualizing” people-“ people who have developed or are developing to the full stature of which they are capable.” What did these unusually sane pqople have in common? To quote Maslow, “Their behavior is marked by simplicity and naturalness, by lack of artificiality or straining for effect.” The self-actualizing person “practically never allows convention to hamper him or inhibit him from doing anything he considers very important or basic.‘!- “They have an especially tender lobe for children. ” They also have “the wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life.. ..” They are always creative. They are “certainly not fashionable or smart or chic,” and they are “essentially not interested in chatting, gay conversation, party-going, or the like..,” They are very friendly with members of the opposite sex, and feel no envy or rivalry. They “tend on the whole not to seek sex for its own sake,” but to combine sex with love.” . ..their talk of sex is considerably more free and casual and unconventional than average.. . . ” Very probably “the sexual pleasures are found in their mpst intense and ecstatic perfection in self-actualizing people.... ” They have “a superior awareness of their own desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.” And all of them feel they have.a mission in life: They “feel that they are doing something really important to improve the world.” Perhaps the single most crucial -attribute of the self-actualizing person, .however, is his acceptanceof himself, of others, of nature. MasloT writes: “The first and most obvious level of acceptance is at the so-called animal level. Those self-actualizing people tend to be good and lusty animals, hearty in their appetites and enjoying themselves mightily without regret or shame or apology. They seem to have a uniformly good appetite for food; they seem to sleep well; they seem to enjoy their sexual lives without unnecessary inhibition, and so on, for all the relatively physiological impulses.. .A11 of these are accepted without question as worth while, simply because ‘these people are inclined to accept the work of nature rather than to argue with her for not having constructed things to a different pattern. This shows itself in a relative lack of the disgusts and aversions seen in average people and especialIy in neurotics, e.g., food annoyances, disgust with body products, body odors, and body functions.. .The animal processes, e.g., sex, urination, pregnancy, menstruation, growing old, etc., are part of reality and must be accepted. Thus no healthy woman feels guilty or defensive about being female or about any of the female processes. ” Maslow nowhere mentibns breast-feeding, but it is perfectly obvious that breasters tend to be selfactualizing people and self-actuali.zing people tend to bz breasters. Breasters are simply more mentally healthy than bottlers. They live fuller, happier lives.

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The government now estimates there are 25.4 million Americans living below the poverty line. The McGovern hunger report shows that this line has been placed unrealistically low. The poverty line is based on the department of agriculture’s “economy” food plan for a family of four. This is then multiplied-again unrealistically-by three (instead of four) to allow for all other expenses. The latest estimate by the census bureau places this at $3700 a But the department of year. agriculture itself warned last year that this “economy” food budget was only suggested for “emergency” use. “The cost of this plan,” it said, “is not a reasonable measure of basic money needs for a good diet. ” It suggested that welfare agenties use the USDA low-cost food plan “which costs about 25% more. ” This would now be about $1541 a year and bring the poverty line for a family of four up to $4600 a year. The McGovern report says social security estimates that about 38 million Americans are below that line. The 25.4 million of the census bureau estimate are very poor indeed. Yet almost half of the country’s blacks live below this $3700 poverty line ($3,886 is their median family income). The census bureau also discloses that half the “gainfully” employed in three occupations earn far less : service workers ( $3,660)) farm laborers ( $854-yes, per year) and other Jaborers, except in mines ($2,651 These lower income regions are the ‘kingdom of hunger’. -I.

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-Poetry coiner ’ misinterpretation

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I got a bang out of Ian Boyden’s go at me in your is-sue of september 10, and laughed all the way to the typewriter. Inspiration is welcome from any source when you get as long in the tooth as I am, and for me to be inspired to write poetry in reply to his poetry is a great and unexpected surprise. It seems he gathered’from the report in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record that I had been bemoaning that “people pass right over the cheerful items (in newspapers) and focus their attention on bad news”. Well, not exactly; but he called up his pet quadruped the aardwold and poetically chased the hell out of me. And so -1 say:

excessive independence will not simmer if we cease to report its stay-away strikes or its programming a computer with sledge hammers: ” NORMAN SMITH Ottawa Journal

Highschool hippies hassled for long hair and clothing It is common knowledge. that long-haired guys are being hassled by the police. This harassment has extended into the highschool system. ,

Last year three grade 10 students at Grand River col1egiat.e were not allowed to attend a health class because of their long hair. They were told to go to the girls’ health; class. This was the action of one individual teacher, The teacher re> not the school. placed the trio’s regular teacher If I were a quadruped 6 . , for one period. I ‘d sue Ian Boyden, For pulling his> leg, At least three Grand River stuNot one but all four of ‘em. dents have already been hassled in the first two weeks of school. For me and the quadruped A grade 13 student was sent Have no doubt at all home by the principal. He was That the news that’s the mostest told to put socks on with his sanis largely a brawl. dals, and a shirt underneath his long-sleeved sweater . .A quadruped . . A grade 11 student was told to ‘Tis said wear socks with his sandals. Has eyes In his head. ~ i The principal told a grade 10 student to shave, and also made If he has ‘em comments about . the student’s Does he use ‘em bell bottoms and sandals. Better’n Boyden Arnie Lade, a grade 10 student Does his twosome? at Eastwood was suspended last week by a viceprincipal until he I was urging gets his hair cut. Arnie’s hair is Just what he is barely below the ears. He had That, by damn, been before the student judicial The world is tedious. s committee a day before being suspended.. ~ Like this I said Last year at least one other In prose not poetry -student with the same length of Forgive me, sir, hair was suspended. And let me quote me: Cameron Heights allows no “It is the bad news we must long hair, shirts without collars, shirts out of pants and facial all face up to:.. that war continues, and poverty and hunger; that growth. Bluejeans and jackboots’ there is disparity and inequality are also discouraged. It is suggested by this writer in our democratic processes. and in our economy. Racialism and that these schools ,do a better’ the students prejudice will not go away if we job of educating pretend they aren’t there. The than trying to make them fit into French Canadian extremist will society. not be less but probably more exHARASSED tr.eme if he is -ignored. Youth’s K-W highschool student. ,

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The schools are King’s College, which is an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in North York, Waterloo Lutheran University, Lakehead University and York University. Haggar charges that King’s College refused to consider his application for a teaching vacancy because he has publicly attacked Zionist ideology and has been a spokesman for the Canadian Arab community. He supports his charge with a letter dated ber 6 1968 from King’s College principal, Carrigan.

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The letter says: “Under ordinary circumstances i would be glad to give your application careful consideration. However, there is something on the horizon here that seriously complicates the matter. “For the past few months we have been negotiating with the Canadian Jewish community for the establishment of a center for Jewish studies... “In view of this, I think you will appreciate that it would be impossible for us to have somebody on the faculty, particularly in the department of political science, who would be openly hostile to the state of Israel. “Please do not misunderstand. We do not feel that all our faculty members should adhere to any particular political line but neither could we accommodate somebody who would be locked in continual battle with the Jewish community.” In a telephone interview sunday, Carrigan confirmed that negotiations for the center for Jewish studies have been going on for the past year, “but have not yet been concluded because the middle east situation is very hot and this has demanded full attention of all the Jewish organizations.” King’s College, a former Roman Catholic school, has its own administration but is governed by the UWO academic senate and board of governors. lt has about 400 students and is near the main UWO campus. Haggar came to Canada in 1952 and became a Canadian citizen in 1958. He studied at the University of Windsor, Fordham University and Columbia University, where he won a U.S. award for excellence as a PhD candidate. He taught at Ryerson for two years before going to Waterloo Lutheran, where he taught for two years as a specialist in political theory, Canadian

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government and foreign policy, and comparative government. Waterloo Lutheran did not renew his contract in 1967 because, according to then-acting president Henry Endress: “Through numerous channels, you have made it very clear that you are not happy with the philosophy, structure, operation and personnel (at Waterloo Lutheran).” At the same time, Endress described Haggar as “a good teacher, probably a very-good one.” In january 1968, the Canadian association of university teachers (CAUT) investigated the case, and found that Waterloo Lutheran had acted legally in terminating Haggar’s contract because it contained a clause forbidding teachers “to attack or in any way disparage the Christian religion.” Percy Smith, CAUT executive secretary, described the Waterloo Lutheran policy as “decidedly unacceptable” and said the university’s methods of dealing with appointments and tenure “are unacceptably authoritarian; nor can any degree of benevolence in applying them disguise or justify this fact.” Last year, Haggar won a U.S. national teaching fellowship and became an exchange professor at Southern University in New Orleans Louisiana. He was fired last may 8, when, as president of the faculty association, he joined the students in a 19day strike during which Louisiana governor John McKeithen was captured and held to win student demands. Haggar was ordered deported to Lebanon but returned to Toronto. “I answered more than 30 advertisements in the from academic journals, and did past two years, not get a single interview. In most cases, they did not acknowledge receipt of my letters, or replied that my application was on file.” He alleges that he was recommended by several professors at York University to fill the post created when political science professor Edward Broadbent left to sit in the house of commons as NDP member for Oshawa-Whitby, but was passed over in favor of a less-qualified applicant because of his political activities. Haggar received a letter from Lakehead University saying that the job he was applying for did not exist, “and I subsequently saw the advertisement for it at least four times.” He wrote to Seneca College in North York in may, applying for a post as a political scientist specializing in Canadian studies, which he taught at Waterloo Lutheran University. “I was interviewed by the chairman of the applied arts division, Peter Spratt, who specifically told me I was the most qualified applicant. He indicated as far as he was concerned I would have the job, and he knew all about my background,” Haggar said. Seneca interviews all prospective teachers several times. Haggar was interviewed by dean WV.

Stoddart in mid-august. “We discussed the position and teaching and he seemed to be satisfied, but said I would have to talk with one more person. “Philip Giffen, the assistant chairman of the liberal studies division, telephoned me and said he had recognized my name when he saw it and that he thought I was a very good teacher. “Then he asked me what my religious faith is, whether I was happily married, and who my pastor is. He said I could have the job under certain conditions, namely that I would have to get rid of what he called my Mediterranean mentality and emotionalism, and he told me the Mediterranean mentality doesn’t amount to anything, people with it never go anywhere.” Haggar called the college in early September to ask what his status was, and received a letter dated September 8 from Seneca president W.T. Newnham. The letter says applications are usually handled quickly, but “in your case there has been a longer period of uncertainty in this regard than usual, occasioned in part by our uncertainty regarding enrolment and option selection... “These have been cleared up in this first week of registration and Seneca will not have need of your services in the coming year.” Spratt, who is also chairman of the liberal studies division at Seneca, said sunday the Canadian studies program is new this fall. It contains 10 courses, and every student at the college must take at least one of them during his course. “Each course deals with highly controversial issues and’ is taught by a team of three teachers working together so the students can hear what different interpretations contend,” Spratt said. He said he has hired a number of new teachers over the summer, “particularly young teachers with expertise. They all have masters degrees, and some have PhDs. “Frankly, we had trouble getting specialists in Canadian studies, but we succeeded,” he said. He also described the student response to the courses as “embarrassingly positive-too many of them wanted to enroll and we wanted to keep the student-teacher ratio fairly low. The enrolment is as large as we would let it get.” Trevor Berry, an officer -with the Ontario timman rights commission, yesterday said he will investigate Haggar’s complaints and attempt to seek redress if he finds reasonable cause. “Our range of formal involvement is limited because prior to june 18 the employment section of the human rights code had an exemption clause for educational institutions. We will investigate all his complaints, but four of his allegations that he was denied employment opportunity are legally outside our jurisdiction because they took place prior to the amendment,” Berry said.

.,,-I *The university is not political, ,+irn the peotle who run it. The university exists as the regenerative institution of society where free enquiry is allowed and enc.ouraged, according to the Rhetoric of the senior faculty and administration. _. That rhetoric also says the philasophies of the. society and the university are nothing more than the sum of the many and diverse philosophies of the individuals that comprise those groups and each individual’s beliefs are equally valid and legitimate as part of’s democratic entity. The result is a political theory that claims to be the end of ideoiogy-a pluralism, which- is all things to all men. I Pluralism is so much a part of the western world, that the intellectuals will go to great lengths - to prove theorems to bridge any ’ gaps in its facade. / -

It^ is not just in the small in.stances - of academic freedom where the pluralist theory ignores reality. U.S. ’ policy in Vietnam was imperialist from the very beginning’ in 1954 after the Geneva accords. What was already a negotiated peace giving the people .a democratiq choice was ignored. That rather unpluralist attitude continued through Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, tihen I peade -feelers were ignored-some were never even allowed to get as far as LBJ.. Arid now the U.S. is in the freedom-loving position of ‘(de-escalating” the w& with token withdrawals and by backing Vietnamization of tjle &war under the direction of some of ‘the same generals who fought the Vietnamese people for the French1 colonialsregime. It’s no picnic.

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