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Student representation is alright, as long as the administration likes the students’ representatives. \ That’s the feeling of federation president Tom Patterson after administration president Howard Petch asked him to “name” a student delegation and then later asserted that Patterson was only supposed to make suggestions. The delegation is to attend the annual meeting of the association of universities and colleges of, Canada, as part of a group of 20 administrators and faculty. The meeting is in Ottawa, november 3-6. In a letter to Patterson sep-
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tember 23, Petch stated, “I am writing to invite you to name three students to represent the University of Waterloo at this meeting: one would go as a delegate and the two remaining as observers. At least one of the three should be a graduate student. “I am afraid that this notice is rather late but I hope that you will be able to pick your nominees in time for us to submit the list by the deadline of October 1.” “Being a democratic organization,” said Patterson, “it was impossible to meet the
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but rejects deadline because we had to advertise for applicants.” When applications closed October 16, the executive selected Ron - Golemba as delegate and Cyril Levitt and Mavis Homes as observers. Their names were forwarded to Petch. On thursday, Petch replied asking Patterson to “reconsider the list of names he sent as possible university delegates and observers. ” “The AUCC deals with higly specific topics such as graduate studies, planning, libraries, etc., although the plenary sessions are more general,” Petch wrote “As a result, many of the dele-
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gates are selected on the basis of offices they hold, plus some senior professors. Since the value to be gained from attending such a meeting depends a lot on the delegates’ involvement with university operations, I had felt that somewhat the same principle might apply to the students we send.” Petch suggested that Patterson and one of the society presidents should go. “You also seem to have forgotten that I specifically asked that at least one of the students should be a graduate student. This was required because the AUCC plans to discuss employment prospects and university recruiting practices for graduate students.“’ -s-m-------------w-----
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“Nor does it seem appropriate to send three arts students from a university with six divisions. Last year, for example, arts students only made up approximately 20 percent of the student-body, ” Petch concluded. Golemba graduated last year with a general degree in psychology and is currently doing a makeup year prior to grad work. Levitt is in sociology 4 and Holmes is in arts 1. The student executive board met later thursday and- reaffirmed its decision. ‘All the applications received were from undergraduate arts students, and the three chosen were the most experienced,” said Patterson. Levitt is a former student councillor and Golemba was chairman of the external-relations board under former federation president John Bergsma. Petch was informed of the federation executive’s decision. On friday, Patterson was telephoned by Brenda Stanton, one of Petch’s secretaries. “She said she was calling to clarify Petch’s intentions in asking for us to appoint student representatives,” said Patterson, relating the conversation. “She said he was really only asking for suggestions and that
Junior Pig, rumored to be a special emissary of administration president Howard Petch, checks out the filth-and-garbage situation in the campus center. To avoid suspicion, Junior disguised himself as a liberation lunch staff member to carry out his investigation. No action is expected for a while, since Fetch will be away next week at the AUCC meeting.
SW gets injunction: BURNABY (CUP)-Striking faculty and students at Simon Fraser University have called a general assembly monday to decide upon action to be taken on injunctions against picketing imposed by the courts thursday . All picketing was suspended friday, in the face of the injunction and administration threats of expulsion and It is unscholarship cancellation. clear what the general student body, which has been sympathetic toward the strike, will do now. of administration At the request president Kenneth Strand, the British supreme court imposed Columbia the injunctionto bring to a halt all
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activities connected with the faculty and student strike in the political science, sociology and anthropology department at SFU, now five weeks old. The court ordered participants in the strike: l not to obstruct any faculty member, l not to obstruct any campus facil‘LlIY7 l not to make any unscheduled appearances, l not to unlawfully coerce any student. Lawyers advising _ strike participants have informed ‘r‘them that the
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order makes them liable to six months to one year in jail if they distribute any literature, picket in any way or address any group in any way or address any group on campus the administration having granted a booking. Fourteen are specically people named in the injunction, the same 14 that the administration brought civil suits against earlier in the week. Meanwhile the hunger strike started by one staff member and twelve students thursday continues on a 24-houra-day basis until administration meets the fasters’ “requests’‘-until it lifts of eight PSA profs, the suspension
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the final decision was up to him because it was really the university that was the member of AUCC. “I told her if Dr. Petch feels he should pick the people then tell him to go ahead and pick them. “She asked if I wanted to I told her make suggestions. the names had already been forwarded. I added a further possibility , Mike Corbett (in- . tegrated studies) whose application was received late.” Patterson said he would take the matter to student council, which met last night. “The whole thing was not done in good faith from Petch’s end. He never really indicated the final decision was up to him. On October 3, I received from Petch’s secretary Mary Busbridge copies of the program for the student delegates and hotel reservation cards. “The university has never presumed to require any kind of final approval over the selection of student delegates to anything where they requested the federation to supply representatives.” A year ago, the senate did try to bypass the federation when it asked engineering student Pike “to represent the student viewpoint” on a committee studying the recentlyreleased university government report. Pike refused, telling senate they should approach the federation of students. After a personal appeal to reconsider from admin president Gerry Hagey, Pike restated his nonacceptance. He felt the senate wanted a certain type of student. / Patterson said there were two main alternatives open for study by student council last night. “We can decide the federation of students wants no part of t.he selection of delegates if the administration wants final approval or we can consider sending a free delegation. ” Golemba said he considered Petch’s action to be a personal insult.
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f rozen negotiates “in good faith” with PSA and drops charges against striking students and faculty. The hunger strikers said their fast for freedom was designed to de-escalate and de-polarize the conflict on the campus, and call attention to the “profound moral urgency of the present conflict within our community.” RCMP appeared all over the campus friday to post notices of the injunction. The strike, exactly one month old on thursday, is protesting administrative interference in the PSA department.
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or membership of the board and the Campus center’s working staff. l Ford proposed direct election of board members. Patterson said the present agreement leaves the faculty association free to generate fatuity represen ta tion by any mens it chooses. l Ford wanted a clear definition of the management role. Patterson said, “The board is at present responsible for management of the building. The responsibility for the dayto-day legwork has been delegated by the board to the federation, and may be withdrawn at any time. “As you may recall, the federation, in the fall of 1968, was most insistent that it have this responsibility. This was not, however, for the purposes of control-it was requested because we felt that with our business office in the building, there was no need to create a separate administrative bureaucracy for the campus center. ” l To Ford’s statement about giving the campus center department status, Patterson replied, “Your suggestion with regard to budgeting appears the same as what is now done.”
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And just when we thought physical-plant and planning had wiped out all th,e animal life ofi campus, a Waterloo park swan decides that health-services sickbay is a nice place to inhabit. Millions were spent to prevent such an occurence: Laurel creek was denatured and straightened, sickbay was dredged (and dredged again), one of the last remaining stands of beechwood was felled, a rare oxbow lake was filled in, brush was cut down, sod laid and floodplains turned into football fields. And then some damn radical swan has to come along.
Cull to action to faculty cd A general call to action for faculty and grad students has been issued by psych prof Fred Kemp and sociology prof Ron Lambert, two of the original organizers of the campus observance of Vietnam moratorium day. “The recent Vietnam moratorium served as a test of the willingness and ability of the university community to take a stand on pressing national and in a joint statment. They feel there are many problems other thari Vietnam facing universities, and are interested in setting up an actionoriented group of concerned faculty and graduate students to deal with these issues. “We do not propose a top-down organizational structure-a ‘line’ to be adhered to, or rigid and inflexible policies,” said Kemp. “On the contrary, we hope to stress flexibility, allowing maximum participation by interested people in decisions on policy
issued grads and tactics as related to specific issues. ” The two profs listed three areas of concern: l the university itself-its nature and f uric tions ; problems of educational quality and relevance; relationships between administration, staff, students and faculty; academic and bureaucratic priorities. o the university as it relates to the local Kitchener-Waterloo community. l the position of the people of the university on larger issues. “Obviously, these are complex said Kemp. “Diversity areas”, of opinion is to be expected and encouraged. We invite the participation of all faculty and graduate students who share our desire to have some say in the future directions this university will take. ” There is an organizational meeting tonight October 28 at 8 pm in the campus center TV lounge.
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A move to establish a staff association is gaining momentum at the University of Waterloo. Despite rumors that this move was being backed by the administration almost 100 staff members showed up at Glenbriar curling club thursday night to discuss the project. Ken Crofts who chaired the meeting vehemently denied the rumor and assured everyone present that the management had absolutely nothing to do with the proposition. As outlined by Crofts the purpose of the association would be: l to cultivate feelings of friendship among staff members. l to promote social and intellectual gatherings. l to promote charitable and social welfare. l to aid and assist disabled and needy members. l to promote reasonable methods of work and higher standards of living. to seek security for the individual and elevate the morale. l to promote the advance understanding within the university community, and between the university and the outside community. Crofts apologized to all present for not notifying them personally of the meeting. He explained that he could only afford to send out twenty notices because he had only 80 cents in his pocket. Glenbriar curling club had apparently provided their Cavalier room free because’crofts was a member of the club. Crofts told staff members that the Gaxette had pledged support for the organization and would be happy to serve as their forum. Asked what the association would use for money Crofts replied, “Like any other association we will have to collect dues. ” Crofts was also asked if the association would remain in-
Deadlines mean da fo industry The pulp and paper industry has been taking lessons from uniwat building committees. The Ontario water resources commission told the industry in 1965 to deal with its pollution problems and have them solved by 1970. Last thursday, the legislature was informed that the 1970 deadline would be met by 1973.
dependant or affiliate with a union. His reply was that in any democratic organization the majority vote rules. A member of the group however, pointed out that the associa tion ‘s independence could easily be protected if a clause to this effect were included in the bylaws. One staff member who seemed suspicious of the group gathered at the head table, asked if the organization was already in existence. He also asked the members of the table to introduce themselves and define their plans. He added, ’ “Do you people have proposals on forming this executive, and getting them elected. ” The staff member was told,
“we are just a few staff members who feel an association is necessary”. Staff members were asked to nominate a steering committee which would develop election procedures and think about a constitution. The steering committee finally established included all members of the head table and other members selected or nominated by the group in general. They were Mike Rowe, graphic services; Mick Kirby, optometry; Madeline Bailey, psychology; Lloyd Brown, personnel; Rick Mundhenk, office services; Paul Hartevelt, biology; Bob Henderson and Linda Lingard, mech eng; Fred Babineau, Ken Crofts and Winston Kerr, PP and P.
GueIph staff strikes, demands pay increase GUELPH (GINS)-University of Guelph staff employees from janitors to lab technicians have been striking since friday to support demands for better pay and other benefits. Just how many are involved in the walkout depends upon what union representative you ask-the Toronto stated rep membership totalled 540, while the Guelph rep said membership was 774 as of 13 September and growing daily. The number of staff employees eligible for membership, according to university authorities, is 1100. The union states 95 percent of Versa Food service employees failed to show up for work friday. University authorities said that 25 percent were on hand to serve breakfast to the in-residence students. One department head said, “the lab technicians are extremely anti-union. ” Another source said 50 lab technicians of the approximately 200 were on strike. Information director Douglas Waterson said, “We have done everything within the limits of our financial resources to give the employees a raise and avoid a strike. ” Switchborad operators earn $75 a week, clerk-typists start at $54.50, lab technicians’ salaries are $5000 a year and up, laundresses earn $1.83 an hour, and refrigeration mechanics $3.17 an hour. The union claims as that
salaries have fallen as much as 50 percent behind civil service rates since the university staff employees ceased to be civil servants in 1965. The information director said the union could probably prove that pay for a “particular job” had fallen behind civil service rates, “But it is certainly not true that salaries on the average have fallen 50 percent ehind. ” The strikers have also lost the right to maternity leave, and Waterson said this was. still negotiable. But he added that the total wage and benefit package must be within the university’s means. “We have to negotiate down to what we can afford,” he stated. Neither side has revealed specific demands or offers, but other sources say the union is asking for a 25 percent wage increase over two years. The university has replied with six to 9.5 percent over the same period. Union security is also an issue. The union wants an automatic check-off of dues from pay* to ensure that all employees benefitting from a new contract will be contributing to union finances. The university , however, will not countenance any form of dues check-off. A report that the major effect of the strike has been interruption of research caused by the technicians walking out was poohpoohed by Waterson. -
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The warriors went to McMaster with the reputation of being the punching bag of the league and walked off the field with the respect of the league-leading marauders. McMaster started the game with arrogant self-assurance but the game quickly became a hard fought contest and they realized that they would have to play well to win.
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At the 15 minute mark McMaster scored. The warriors did not give up this time as they had in previous weeks but again went to the attack. The rest of the half was played in front of the Mat net. The second half saw the warriors again dominating the play but unable to capitalize on their play-making superiority. TO
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a more aggressive game. This resulted in some injuries to the warriors. With time and players running out the warriors continued to play a never-give-up game. They created other chances to tie the game but could not score. With a few minutes left MCMaster scored their second goal. The ball, put into play by the warrior goaltender. hit the back of a marauder and bounced back into the warriors’ net.
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The white squad under Cail Vinnicombe downed Ian Young’s gold team 7-2 in the puckingwarriors intra-squad about game last thursday. The whites played a skating and forechecking game and led 3-O after one period; 6-l after two. Their goals came from Roger Kropf with two and Rick Bacon, Peter Miller, Bob Reade, Ian McKegney and Peter Paleczney. The gold goals were by Ron Robinson and Fred Norman. McKillop’s crew travels to Kingston this weekend for exhibition games with Queen’s and R.M.C. All men who are interested in playing water polo at the intercollegiate level are asked to attend a meeting in the physed building at 6 pm today. Both the warrior and athena swimming and diving teams have begun practises in the pool (good nlace for it 1. The sessions bigin ‘at 3: 30 monday , to fri-
day. Anyone with experience or interest in swimming for the uniwat teams should report to the pool any afternoon. The cross-country team went to Canisius College in Buffalo for a meet this weekend. T’he uniwat junior team Placed second of six teams with Pete Olver placing second individually and Mark Roberts fourth. In the senior division there were 150 entrants. Paul Pearson
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the second half and finally managed to reach the scoreboard on a short penalty kick late in the game. Despite the victory the coaching staff reported that the team as a whole must regain its peak form if it hopes to capture the title. The next game is against Western on Wednesday at Col” umbia field at 3 pm.
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The football warriors got their second win of the year, by the convincing score of 29-8, at McMaster Saturday while handing Mat their fifth straight loss. The marauders opened the scoring in the first quarter with a safety touch when a third down snap went over the head of punter Paul Knill for two points. At the end of that quarter the warriors began a march on their own 48-yard line which nine plays and four first downs later resulted in a touchdown. The drive was built on a pass attack where Dave Groves was five for six with two catches each by Wayne Fox and Chuck Wakefield and one by Rick Wiedenhoeft. Wakefield got the touchdown from, the one yard line through the middle of the line. The hike on the convert was wild and the score was 6-2 for Waterloo. Four plays later the warriors got the ball on the McMaster 34 yard line after a short punt. Wiedenhoeft ran two plays for eleven yards and caught a pass for thirteen before Wakefield scored his second major from the two yard line. Knill’s convert was good and warriors led 13 - 2. Late in the half warriors began another drive deep into Mat territory. Groves tried to hit Fox in the wide flat but the pass was slightly underthrown and John Quinlan stepped in front of Fox. He intercepted and ran the ball 90 yards for the McMaster touchdown. The convert was blocked. The first half was unbelievably one-sided. Warriors had 177 yards offense to McMaster’s 66. Warrior quarterback Dave Groves attempted 19 passes completing 13 while
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Alec Lockington was 2 for 4. The warriors offense amassed 12 first downs and their defense held Mat to four just one in the second quarter. The warriors were just as impressive in the third quarter. They scored a safety touch on a bad third down snap to make it 15-8 and two plays later got the ball again on an interception by Rick Cheevers-his first of two. Cheevers returned the ball to the Mat 15 with a 35-yard return. After Wakefield gained four yards off tackle Groves threw a good pass to Wiedenhoeft alone deep in the end zone. Knill’s convert made it 22-8. Later in the third quarter another McMaster pass was intercepted-this one by Dave Crichton. Crichton returned the ball 50 yards to Ma&s 13 yard line. After a McMaster roughing penalty Groves threw another touchdown pass to Don Manahan. The convert completed the scoring at 2S-8. The defense on Saturday was outstanding. Behind defensive captain Warren Hull they varied their defenses from a 3-5-4- to a 4-4-4-to a 4-5-3 with three corner linebackers on the field at once and they seemed to diagnose every important McMaster play. They gained the ball numerous times for the offense on fumble recoveries and interceptions and never let Mat scrimmage the ball from inside the Waterloo 35 yard line. They allowed none of Mae’s eight points and the entire unit was outstanding. They made the marauder offense look pitiful. They rolled well with Mae’s motion and hit aggressively. Brian Westell, Joe Sowieta, Andy Roy, Bob Sagan Paul Coleman and
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Warren Hull all were in on a large number of tackles. The whole unit will have to play as well again next week if they hope to hold the potent McGill offense to a respectable score and give the offense a chance to outscore them. Warriors kicking game was also good on Saturday. Knill consistently outkicked Lockington for McMaster and Gord McLellan had a great day returning punts, several times threatening to break away for touchdowns. The Uniwat offense was the most powerful it has been all season. The blocking was good, especially over the right side behind Dean Anderson, Rod Nixon, and Brent Gilbert. Wakefield and Wiedenhoeft both had very good days running the ball. Groves’ passing was effective as he threw early and often to Fox and Wiedenhoeft. Fox caught five for 75 yards in the first half alone, and a couple of Wiedenhoeft’s catches were spectacular. The only complaint that can be registered is the repetitiveness of Fox’ pattern. The failure to call some variety in Fox’ assignment cost Groves two interceptions by John Quinlan-one for six points. The offense did seem to jell in the second and third quarters and looked ready to play some good ball control football which ,will be necessary against McGill. The team managed to stay away from roughing and talking penalties this week and put on a thoroughly entertaining first class performance. Homecoming would be a good day to provide the same for their home fansthey need it against a contender like McGill.
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to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses Most houses are of wattle and daub (wood and plaster--Ed.) construction, but the shrjne rooms of the more wa~lt~y are walled wits stone. Poorer families imitate the rich by ap~lyjng p>ottery plaques to their shrine WdlS.
W~jle each famjly has at least one such shr’Ine, the rituals associated with it are not family ceremonies but are private and secret. The rites are normally only discussed wtth ~~jldren~ and then only during the period wren they are being jnjtiated into these mysteries. I was able, however, to establjs~ sufficient rapport wjt~ the natives to examine these shrjnes and to have the rituals described to me. The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built in to the wall. In this cl-rest are kept the many charms and magical potions without w~j~h no native believes he could live. These preparatjons are secured from a variety of spe~ialjzed practitioners. The most powerful of these are the medicine men, whose assistance must be rewarded with substantial gifts. however, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the jngredjents should be and then write them down in an ancient and secret language. This writing is undery the medicine men and by the o, for another gift, provide the required charm. The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine. As these magical materjais are specific for certain ills, and the real or imagined maladies of the people are man yl the charm-box is usually full to overflowing. The magical packets are so numerous that people forget what their purposes were and fear to use them again. While the natives are very vague on this point, we can only assume that the idea in retaining all the old magical materials is that their presence in the charm-box, before which the body rituals are conducted, will in some way protect the worshipper. Beneath the charm-box is a small font. Each
day every member of the family, in succession, enters the shrine room, bows his bead before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablution. The holy waters are secured from the water temple of the community, where the priests conduct eJaborate ceremonies to make the Jiquid ritually pure. In the ~jerar~~y of magical ~ractitioners~ and below the medicine men in prestige, are specialists whose desjgnation is best translated “~oly-mout~-men.” The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condjtion of which is believed to have a supernatural jn~luen~e on all social relationships. Were it not for the rituaJs of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws s~rjnk, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them. They also believe that a strong relatjons~jp exists between oral and moral characterrstics. For exampJe, there is a ritual ablutjon of the mouth for ~~jldren which is supposed to improve their moral fiber. The daily body ritual performed b y~~veryone jncludes a mouth-rite. respite the fact that these people are so ~un~tjlious about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the unjnjtjated stranger as revoltjng. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then movjn~ the bundle in a jiggly formalized series of gestures. ’ In addjtjon to the private mouth-rjte~ the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or twice a year. These practitioners have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consjstjng of a variety of augers, awls, probes, an.d prods. The use of these objects in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client. The holy-mouthman opens the client’s mouth and, wsing the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes wbic~ decay may have created in the teeth. ~agjcal materials are put into these holes. If there are no naturally occurring holes in the teeth, large sections of one or more teeth are gouged out so that the supernatural substance can be applied. In the client’s view, the purpose of these ministratjons is to arrest decay and to draw friends. The extremely sacred and traditional character of the rite is evident in the fact that the natives return to the hoiymouth-rn~n year after year, despite the fact that their teeth continue to decay. It is to be hoped that, when a thorough study of the ~a~irema is made, there will be careful inquiry into the personality structure of these people. One has but to watch the gleam in the eye of a holy-mouth-man, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve, to suspect that a certain amount of sadism is involved. If this can be established, a very interesting pattern emerges, for most of the population shows definite masochistic tendencies. It was to these that Professor Linton referred in discussing a distinctt’ve part of the daily body ritual which is performed only by men. This
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the guardians of,many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the cust~dian . Even after one has gaited admission and survived the ceremonies, the guardians will not permit the neophyte to leave until he makes still another gift. The supplicant entering the temple is first stripped of all his or her clothes. In every-day life the ~a~irema avoids exposure of his body athing and excreand its natural functions. ‘tory acts are performed only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualised as part of the body-rites. psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is sudden/y lost upon entry into the Ia whose own wife has never seen him in an excretory act, suddenly finds himself naked and assisted by a vestal maiden while he performs his natural functions into a sacred vessel. This sort of ceremonial treatment is necessitated by the fact that the excreta are used by a diviner to ascertain the course and nature of the client’s sickness. Female clients, on the other hand, find their naked bodies are subjected to the s~r~tiny~ manipulation and prodding of the medicine men. Few supplicants in the tempJe are well en~wg~ to do anything but lie on their hard beds. The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-month-men, involve discomfort and torture. with ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing a~lwtions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained. At other times they insert magic wands in the supplicants mouth or force him to eat substances which are supposed to be healing. Fmm time to time the medicine men come to their clients and jab magically treated needles into their flesh. The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people’s faith in the medicine men. There remains one other kind of practitioner, l<nown as a “‘listener.” This wit~~~dQ~tor has the power to egorcise the davils that lodge in the heads ofp~~~le whs have been bewitch-
ed. The. ~a~irema believe that parents bewitch their own children. thers are parti~~larly suspected of putting a curse .OPI children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witch-doctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the “ljstener” all his troubles and fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties he can remember. The memory displayed by the Nacirema in these exorcism sessions is truly remarkable. It is not uncommon for the patient to bemoan the rejection he felt upon being weaned as a babe, and a few individuals even see their troubles going back to the traumatic effects of their o wn birth. In conclusion. mention must be made of certain practices which have their base in native esthetics but which depend upon the pervasive aversion to the natural body and its functions. There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat. Still other rites are used to make women’s breasts larger if they are small, and smaller if they are jarge. General dissatisfaction with breast shape is symbolised in the fact that the ideal form is virtually outside the range of human variation. A few women afflicted with almost inhuman h ypermammary development are so idolised that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee. Reference has already been made to the fact that excretory functions are ritualised, routinized, and relegated to secrecy. natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. lntercowrse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act, Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse ts pertain phases of the moon. Conception is actually very infrequent. When pregnant, women dress so as to hide their condition. parturition ~~hild~irth~ takes place in secret, without friends or relatives to assist, and the m~jQrity of women do not nurs\e their infants. _ Our review of the ritual life of the ~a~irema has certainly shown them to be a magic-rid-
den people. lt is hard to understand how they have managed to exist so Lang under the burdens which they have imposed spin themselves. ut even such exotic customs as these take on real meaning when they are viewed with the insight provided by Malino wski when he wrote. hooking from far and above, from our high places of safety in the developed civilisation, it is easy to see all the ~rwdity and irreleut wit~~wt its power and vantie of magic. guidance early man could not have mastered his practical diffi~wlties as he has done, nor could man have advanced to the higher stages of civiliza tion.
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There’s a lot happening on campus this weekend, so stick around and have fun. Homecoming celebrations start tomorrow and continue right through sunday with films, dances, pubs, a car rally, concerts, and a football game. TOMORROW - two good movies A man for a// seasons and Virginia Woo/f in Al 113 and 116. THURSDAY - campus center pub dance featuring the Trollie. FRIDAY - The iron butterfly in concert at the jock building. There’s also a dance in the grub shack featuring ,The town choir and The
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The bravos, cheers and curtain calls which greeted the Winnipeg ballet’s performance at Waterloo Lutheran auditorium last week, was not to my mind entirely merited. Though the company could hardly be faulted on their technical expertise, the program lacked any real excitement, except perhaps for Aimez-vous Bach and the Don Quixote pas de deux. The first item on the program, the much acclaimed Aimez-wous bath set expectations perhaps too high. A work by the company’s official choresgrapher Brian MacDonald, it is a spoof on classical ballet performed in rehearsal costume. At first everything is quite humdrum as the dancers go through simple mechanical movements to the accompaniment of stark Bach chords. As the Bach sounds develop with greater force the mood changes and the movements become fluid and expressive. The surprise comes with the Toccata and Fugue when the dancers break into jive steps, and the stage is filled with happy gyrating forms digging Bach in their own fashion. The Giselle pas de deux and Still point were rather bland and not what one would expect from a group which is touted as a modern ballet company. St;// point, a ballet for three couples by Todd Bolender, is about reaching out, rejection and yearning. Set to the music of a Debussy quartet it displayed the dancing skill and acting ability of Sheila MacKinnon and Richard Foose in the company of Jenni-
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cus dieswith TORONTO (CUP)--The canadian union of students is dead. Thursday, students at the University of Toronto voted to withdraw from the union. Without Toronto’s membership fees the union, which. has been losing members for the last two years, can’t possibly continue financially. With its membership cut to less than a dozen institutions it wouldn’t be much use continuing anyway. “The exact fate of the union will be decided at a national council meeting next monday and tuesday” said CUS president Martin Loney thursday. “I don’t want to make any comments
until then about future plans,” He said while attending a CUS party generally billed as a wake. Financially the union may even be able to meet its present commitments. “If those who are still members pay, and if Toronto pays the portion covering the last two months, we’re ok: otherwise I don’t know,” Loney said. “One of our greatest responsibilities is to our support staff, most of whom have been with us over ten years,” Loney continued. “25,000 workers have just been laid off in Ottawa.” The Toronto vote had a record campus turnout of 38 percent. 5434 students voted ‘no’ and 2222
Rubberstumpers rampant: pass The thursday meeting of the uniwat senate approved everything on the agenda, including : l a motion that allows an engineering student to take six courses a term instead of five, 0 a motion that legalizes the release of marks, by arts profs before they are released by the registrar, l a new mark to be awarded for “very outstanding performance’
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age, he must rever! back to his original stream. Engineers can now, if the marks are maintained, qualify for a degree in four years instead of the normal five. If they complete courses quickly enough, they would be permitted to skip two of the six cooperative work terms. The legalization of giving out marks previous to final processing by the registrar was necessary to advise summer school students of their marks before being admitted to courses for fall and winter studies. Since the introduction of the credit system last year, the need to keep results secret until final processing has disappeared, said acting arts dean Warren Ober. The math credit system proposal was approved in principle. Faculty would like to have it instituted by january, but it will most likely be delayed by the registrar until September 1970.
‘yes’. Membership in the Ontario union of students was also rejected as part of the same referendum question. Student president Gus Abols, who campaigned against CUS, said he was very satisfied with the results. “This proves to me,” he said “that the radicals are no longer the representatives and the stu’dents have rejected them.” Loney disagreed that the meaning was clear. “It’s unfortunate that the campaigns haven’t been fought on issues but on stereotypes and slogans-we were. prepared to fight on CUS’s policies-that’s not what happened. Loney agreed, however, that the vote did give some indication of students’ political views. “It shows that a lot of students are no more or less liberal than the general public-when things are put to them in the form of anti-communism they will respond the same as the voters did in British Columbiawhich is a reflection of our educational system and the society it perpetuates,” Loney said referring to a B .C. provincial election in which social credit leader W .A .C. Bennett openly red-baited to defeat strong NDP challengers. In the last few months CUS has been attacked from the left as well as the right. As early as
last february some radical left students at the University *of Waterloo had opposed CUS during a crucial referendum battle eventually lost by 17 votes. At Toronto the left-wing editor of the student newspaper, Brian Johnson, called on students to ignore the referendum because “the Canadian union of students does not exist-CUS has never acted as a union because it never was a union. ” Johnson went on to attack CUS’s structure as inherently irrelevant to the needs of today’s students. Loney was disappointed by the attacks from the left. “In the actual context of what’s happening,” he said,“they ignored what CUS could do to increase awareness, and instead of giving the organization critical support sat back and watched the right wing backlash. The end of CUS may not be the end of a national student organization. At Toronto student president Gus Abols said he would try to form a new union with other campuses that rejected CUS. The proposed union would be ‘ ‘non-political’ ’ and would “work for student reforms. ” Abols was instrumental in the preparation of by-laws for an alternate “federation” circulated at the last CUS congress in august. It was laughed at by moder-
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ates and radicals alike and died on the floor of the plenary for lack of a seconder. “Any relevant national union will have to deal with the same issues we faced,” Loney said. “It’s just a matter of time and education.” Founded in 1926, the Canadian union of students was the world’s third oldest national student organization. Still operating are Britain’s national students and student council the ail-union of the USSR. * * * HALIFAX (CUP)-Students at Dalhousie University added the coup de grace to CUS thursday by voting ‘no’ in their CUS referendum. It probably didn’t matter: the loss of Toronto the same day killed CUS. And maybe the students knew that-237 spoiled their ballots compared to 633 ‘no’ and 411 ‘yes’ votes. Larry Kapz, president of the Dalhousie graduate student association felt “the defeat of CUS could set the cause of student rights back five years.” But for undergraduate president Bruce Gillis the vote was a victory. Gillis tried to bring about the end of CUS at its cdngress in late august when he proposed the formation of a new “student federation”.
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Qucdified but unemployed-Haggar claims ~discriminution George Haggar, perhaps the first Canadian victim of the current purge of activist faculty rnembers, offered his services to any student group that wished to hire him for an annual salary of only $3000. Speaking in the campus center friday, Haggar outlined some of his personal history. He was fired from Waterloo Lutheran’s faculty in 1967 because the administration felt “he would be happier elsewhere”. The administration had concluded this partly because of an article Haggar wrote entitled The
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history, he reminded his audience that universities began as student-run institutions. As time passed, the clerks who were hired by the students gradually took control of the operation and now we have universities geared for industrial training and the integration of people into the system. At present, there is only a loosely organised left who “don’t speak of revolution; but only .-.seriously struggle to make people more a ware that something is wrong. ” Even so, ‘ ‘the^ repression is strong, even the liberal’s answer to social concern is now getting smashed by those who created it.” Haggar expressed concern that we in Canada who see the United States as imperialist tend to import a branch-plant radicalism to combat it. “If we begin with the premise that we are a colony of the U.S. then we must direct our energies against this we need to be liberated. ” “This colonialism extends itself ‘even to the classroom. Every day your profs are appealing to you idealogically. The danger lies in accepting their claim on objectivity. The very selection of material is in favor of the status-quo.” He pointed out that the faculty doesn’t want democracy. “The faculty surround their position with status, distinction, autocratic rule, and hierarchy.
They oppose social change. ” Their outlook was described as one of liberal totalitarianism. An interesting event that points out the dependency of Canada’s foreign policy was recalled by Haggar. While he was at Lutheran, Pearson’s external-affairs minister Paul Martin gave a speech on campus. Martin was convincing his audience that Canada does as it pleases with its foreign policy. Haggar asked why Canada gave medical aid to South Vietnam. Martin said that the North had not requested aid. Haggar then proceeded to try to make a call to Ho Chi Minh in order that the Nor’th could ask Martin for medical assistance. To the disbelief of the students, Bell telephone would not put a call through to North Vietnam without the consent of president Lyndon Johnson or defence secretary Robert McNamara. Not even the prime minister was allowed a call without such permission . Students were urged to try to recover their control over hiring and firing if they wanted to have a critical university. “The purpose of our stay here should be education, not a socialization process whereby we learn to fit into the existing structure.” In the informal discussion period that followed, Haggar offered his services for $3000 to any student group that wished to hire him.
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Elite is spelled A-U-C-C It seems administration boss Howard Petch doesn’t like the students who applied to the federation of students to be a delegate or observer to the annual meeting of the association of universities and colleges of Canada. Petch has two complaints-that the students selected aren’t elitist enough and that there wasn’t a graduate student named. The AUCC epitomizes the elitist function of Canadian universities. Primarily an association of academic administrators, the AUCC acts as a lobby for the status-quo. It charges member institutions $1.75 for each registered student. With this money ($400,000 last year) AUCC rents two floors of office space, buys the services of scores of academics and secretaries, holds an annual meeting, writes a lot of letters and sponsors a number of tinkering studies on higher education. Petch told Patterson that he had hoped he would name students involved in the university’s operations and suggested that Patterson and society president would be nice. The university’s delegationchosen by Petch-includes Petch, his academic vicepresident Jay Minas, treasurer Bruce Gellatly, three academic-service administrators, two deans, five associate or deputy deans, three department chairmen and one lowly professor. Universities are run by authoritarian methods, and AUCC represents this function on a national scale. To involve students in a way acceptable to administrators means picking “leaders” who can be COopted into the elite. Petch’s demand for a graduate student is really only an extension
of his desire for student representatives with elitist tendencies. Petch reasons that a grad stul dent is necessary because the meeting plans to discuss “employment prospects and university practices for graduate students”. But at the same time as the meeting will be discussing that particular topic, discussions will take place on eight other topicsuniversity financing, relations with other forms of post-secondary institutions, evaluation of restructured university government, undergraduate curriculum reform, university planning, healthmanpower education planning, university resources for international cooperation, and library resources and automation. Perhaps Petch doesn’t think students should have a say in these areas as much as in grad-student job-recruiting? His request might have been reasonable if he had asked the federation of students for representatives qualified or interested in discussing each of the subject areas. AUCC does not limit the number of observers who may be sent, just the number of voting delegates. Petch has alloted one of his ten voting delegates’ positions to students. His own selection of delegates and observers represents a ,good cross-section of the university’s six discipline divisions, but all but one are from the five percent of academic administrators who hold real power in the university. This is nothing more than lipservice to the rhetoric of either “the community of scholars” or “participatory democracy”. But then does anyone expect the people in power to put much reality into anti-authoritarian rhetoric?
‘Pluralism’ discriminates George Haggar has a PhD from Columbia and a list of academic publications a mile long. But he has these problems-he’s emotional (he stands up for what he believes), he’s anti-Semitic (he takes the Arab side) and he just doesn’t fit ‘in a university (he won’t sell out for a bourgeois life style). Haggar is now unemployedwalking proof that the university is a political institution, that it does take sides in favor of the status-quo and that it is not really pluralist despite its rhetoric. He makes it quite clear that we should not be shocked at the unfair treatment he received because that’s really only par for the present establishment course. He is content to play a proper channels game to expose the system for what it is. Haggar will certainly be surprised if the Ontario
human rights commission gets him any of the jobs he was refused for blatantly personal, political and racist reasons. He will be satisfied ,if provided with an opportunity, however poorly endowed, to pursue a true academic’s course. How many of the esteemed professors of this university would trade in their suburban bungalows for $3000-a-year and their principles? In this professed humanitarian, Christian and affluent society, there are few apologizing liberal Christians willing to stand up for this arab heathen. There are even fewer who would make his personal sacrifices. The federation of students would do well to hire Haggar as a researcher or freeschool teacher. The university system needs many thorns in its flanks to prod it into useful work.
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To suggest that the staff association (page 3) is an administration plot is probably what one would expect a righteously-indignant, crusading, pinkish campus newspaper like the Chevron to do. Well here goes-the staff association appears to be an administration plot. In the first place, the Chevron was not notified of the organizational meeting. We were asked by some working staff members to send a reporter to the meeting. The organizers made it quite clear to the staff members who attended the meeting that the Gazette would be their forum. The organizers mentioned that they would have sent out more notices for the meeting but they were using money out of their own pockets. But the usual cost to rent the meeting room they used is $25, even for members of the club. One speaker from the floor at the organizational meeting made it clear that the staff association could easily “protect its independence” by outlawing union affiliation in its bylaws. The meeting also seemed to be fairly well organized by a group that sat at a head table and managed to get itself elected to the steering committee. There are several reasons why the administration would be interested in setting up an uncle-tom staff association. A strike is in the works for the support (non-teaching) staff at the University of Windsor. The workers there are paid significantly higher than here. The support staff went out on strike friday at the University of
Guelph. The Guelph union, the Ontario civil service association, has done some preliminary organizing work in this campus. While the personnel department will quibble about definitions, the university does pay its support staff the median wage for the same job in the business sector of the community. Because of the size of the support staff, this policy helps keep local wages down. No such yardstick applies to faculty wages. The faculty association won two large increases in the last year, arguing that their salaries were very low on a provincial scale. There is considerable unhappiness in the support staff, except among those in supervisory or seniority positions. But these latter people seem to be the ones organizing the new staff association. Only one small section of the support staff is currently organized-the janitors and maintenance men. The university has successfully neutralized any real action by this local of the Canadian union of public employees. In their latest contract, the university talked the union into accepting a paltry increase “because the university was short of funds”. Two of the.four members of the negotiating team are now foremen, according to some of the janitors. With a neutralized janitorial and maintenance union, why shouldn’t the administration try to co-opt the rest of the support staff into an uncle-tom association and effectively prevent a real union from taking over?
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