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U of T pfof’s report
Total student loan system proposed TORONTO (CUP)-Higher education in Ontario will be financed by private investment instead of public taxation if ,the government accepts the recommendations of a recent report by two University of Toronto professors. The long awaited report from the U of T’s institute for the quantitative analysis of social and economic policy recommends repayment proa “contingent gram for student financial assistance augmented perhaps by grants related to need through a strictly administered means test. ” _--__--------------L----
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Such a program would shift the financial burden of higher education from the taxable population to the students through an investment agency run by the government. The agency would issue bonds to private investors, and students would take out loans from the agency to pay their full tuition and living expenses. Students not participating in the labor force such as married women who stay at home will adhere to a present payment rate. Students will repay part of the loan annually with a fixed interest rate in amounts determined by applying a preset repayment rate against the gross annual income, whether or not he is a participant in the labor force. He continues to pay until either the period ends or the principal and interest are paid off. U of T political economy professors David Stager and Gail Cook submitted the report to
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Purdy, the Chevron
UniwatS impotent inebriates have been taking out their sexual frustrations on the prophylactic vending machine in the campus center men> john. But business is coming on strong in the women’s facilities acr_ossthe hall-the machine is safe fbom unliberated drunks.
Indians
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-Fed up with government ‘ ‘tric- kery , deceit and theft,” indians of the six nations iroquois confederacy near Brantford, Ontario, Wednesday declared themselves a sovereign state separate from Canada. In a declaration sent to Ottawa and the united nations, spokes-
confederation
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men for the reserve’s 5000 residents and 4000 non-resident members said they would no longer be governed by the Ontario and federal governments.
deceit and theft to small portions into oblivion. ” , The declaration refers to the department of indian affairs white paper on equal’ opportunity for indians that would remove many of the privileges of reserve indians, permit the sale of reserve lands, and make these lands subject to taxation. An added irritant is a proposal by Ontario Hydro to use a sixmile, 900-foot wide stretch of reserve land to connect a power station 60 miles south of Brantford to its grid system. Ontario Hydro’s insistence that the department of indian affairs endorse all contracts with people on the reserve has made the company disliked there. One woman said she has not installed hydro into her six-room house and never will as long as she cannot sign as owner of her own house.
The declaration says that through the centuries, indian lands “have eroded, by trickery,
Dow gets outbid on its most popular contract MIDLAND, Mich. (CUPI)-Dow Chemical, sparkplug for countless demonstrations on university campuses in the last three years, has stopped making napalm. A company spokesman said the american government awarded the contract for the jellied gasoline ‘several weeks ago to American another company,
Electric of Los Angeles, when Dow was an unsuccessful bidder for the new contract. Last year, Dow’s board chairman Carl Gerstacker pledged that the company would continue to make napalm as long as the government needed it. The contract was worth about $10,ooo,000.
Douglas Wright of the department of university affairs. It was financed by the government and the Ford foundation. A.R. Dobell, director of the research project, said the scheme would answer these problems: l the rising cost of higher education is freezing out other government priorities l summer employment prospects areunlikely to improve l as access to higher education extends down to lower income groups parental contributions will be an inadequate source of financing. “In the* face of exploding provincial expenditure on higher education,” writes Dobell in the report, “there can be no doubt that something has to give.” Student leaders at the universities were cool to the report. They pointed out that the plan puts education on the capital market and turns it from a public resource into a private commodity. In line with this, it perpetuates the myth that education is for the individual who receives it, not for the community that (now) pays for it. The report also >evades the question of non-financial barriers to education inherent in the class structure in Canada. The plan sets up an education on credit that discriminates against the lower class student who would find such a large debt impossible to bear. The student leaders also noted that the plan is intended to ignore the fact that there are not enough jobs for students during the summer and assumes that most married women will stay off the labor market.
‘Light up for peace’ becomes a freeze-out The torchlight parade planned to mark moratorium day at the university of Waterloo was a big flop because of meagre support and bad weather. Only about 100 people turned up outside the campus centre friday night to “light up for peace” and most of those forgot to bring along a torch. Chanting “peace now” and ‘give peace a chance’, the marchers circled the ring road carrying Vietcong flags and a huge cross. They picked up a few people plus a stray dog or two along the way as they marched through the village to Columbia field. The bonfire rally in Columbia field was no great success either, as apart from history professor Leo Johnson most of the speakers dropped out at the last minute. Because of the bad weather Johnson cut his speech short but not before he had expressed his contempt for faculty members who in his words “keep their heads in the sand. ”
He was greeted by cheers when he stated, “there is no way we can end Canadian complicity in Vietnam and the third world unless we get the message across to Canadians that they too are oppressed by the structure of our society. ” He added, “every victory in the third world is a victory for Canada as we do not want peace if it means slavery as well.” He told the marchers “we owe the people of Vietnam and the third world the right to be free. A demonstration to show that we are concerned about their lives is little enough, but it is more than is being done outside this I little group.” An attempt on the part of a few marchers to act out the Vietnam struggle in mime didn’t quite come off as most of what they were trying to do was obscured by a cloud of smoke. --L_-_-------_----------
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Hockey warriors by Peter W. Armstrong Chevron staff
The hockey warriors came out of their last exhibition game with a win by downing the Waterloo Lutheran golden hawks 8-2 friday night. The game provided sdme good action, but was frequently the scene of sloppy hockey. Poor puckhandling, miscued passes and poor shots were frequent. The warriors won because of fewer mistakes and the failure of the hawks to capitalize on them. The warrior forwards had another heyday. The first period saw Rich Bacon and Ken Laidlaw give the warriors a 2-O lead. Galt got one back for the hawks to start off the second period. The warriors replied with two more goals from Rick Maloney and Ron Robinson. In the third period the warriors doubled their output to 8 goals as Laidlaw scored his second, Bob Reade, Roger Kropf and Denis Farwell netted one. The hawks lone third period goal was scored by Johnson over a fallen Ian Scott. The OQAA league play begins this week, as the warriors play two away games. Tonight they play Guelph. The gryphons were the league doormats last year, but they have allstar goalie Hort-
BasketbaIlers by Peter Marshall Chevron staff
The ‘dribble-with-their-hands’ warriors got ready for thursday.‘s match with lutheran with two exhibition victories this weekend -friday night 93-85 over Carleton and Saturday a 97-73 home win over Winnipeg. The warriors have come out as a pressing team this year. Features of a good pressing team are more rebounds and stolen balls than their opponents and usually a large number of fouls due to their aggressive coverage. ( These features were present in both weekend victories. Friday the warriors took the ball from the Carleton ravens 35 times, 22 on steals while they themselves turned the ball over only 20 times on bad passes, steals and violations. Of uniwat’s 22 steals Tom Kieswetter and Art Webster had 8 and 6 respectively to lead the team. Webster, Paul Bilewicz and Dave Crichton had 8 rebeing bounds each, Crichton’s instrumental in the warriors las: quarter comeback. They came from behind seven points in the last six minutes to win by eight. Leading the scorers were Jaan Laaniste with 30 points on 11 field goals and 8 foul shots, and Tom Kieswetter with 21 points on 9 field goals and 3 fouls. Art Webster had 11 points. Webster, who was out with an injury for the intra-squad game, added much to the warriors and was probably the most valuable overall player on friday. The warriors had four players foul out of friday’s game and Carleton got 40 of their 85 points from the foul line. Their leading scorer, Dennis Scuthe, was very well covered by the warriors. Saturday night before a home crowd the warriors jumped into a quick 31-15 lead and improved on the margin to win by 24 points. Leading the team in rebounds were Bill Ross, Bilewicz and Dennis Wing, who added 18 points. The leading defensive players in forcing turnovers and stealing the ball were Jaan Laaniste and Dale Hajdu. Hajdu scored eight points and looked
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on, and several players from the western team, Saskatchewan, to bolster the club. The second game is friday at McMaster. The warriors completed their exhibition play with a 5-l record -on the surface not bad. But unfortunately the only tough team they faced was Laurentian, with whom they split a two-game series. Because of this lack of opposition, the warriors have been able to be sloppy and still pull off victories. Poor positional play, inexperienced defence, and shaky goaltending have all been covered up by the opponent’s ineptness and the warriors skating. The warricrs skate, and they skate well. But they can skate better than they have been in the last two games. The warriors have the scorers as witnessed by the 40 for-20 against scoring record. They have scored more than 5 goals in four of their six games; this even with atrocious positional play. On the power play, may times there is no one in the slot, even with the extra man. On defence there is inexperience to cope with. Romashyna, who had been having a good exhibition series, is out with a knee injury, Pete Paleczny plays a good rushing game, though at
win
two;
very poised while handling the ball and directing the offense. Laaniste was again the game’s leading scorer getting 28 points before he fouled out. Bilewicz and Les Slowikowski also left the game after registering five personal fouls. The warriors were very impressive from the opening jump but faded during a first half letup when they became disorganized on offense and stopped hustling back on defense. They were beaten with the fast break and long pass often in that period and found the middle of their defense vulnerable to the dribbling of Barry King and Craig Parker. The warriors began to control the game again and ran the final point spread to an impressive 24. Almost all the warriors played well while they were in the game.
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Lutheran goalie’ma)) have mastered the crouch style, but it’s where you put it that counts, times he appears painfully slow. Ian McKegney, with his experience from last year will have to be the mainstay. But with only one proven player this inexperience could prove costly. Oncoming forwards can’t be hit in front of the net, they have to be stopped at the blueline. Ian Scott and Jim Weber are
reaciy
becoming more improved with every game. Scott has a better goals-against average so far, but “the test won’t come until they face Western and Toronto. In six games the team whole has-exhibited only one period of hockey. In the period against Laurentian outhustled the vees in every
to meet
In addition to Laanistle’s 28 points and Wing’s 18, Kieswetter had 12 and Ross, Webster and Hajdu had 8 points each. The warriors ran into ‘problems only when they stopped running and pressing. But if they press well, there will be few teams in the league that can outrun them. The challenge will come in scoring more points than uniwat’s aggressive defense gives up at the foul line. In the other games this weekend McMaster ’ beat Winnipeg 82-73 friday, but lost to Carleton 92-87 here on Saturday. The warriors take on Waterloo Lutheran, in what. should be their toughest match thus far this year, thursday at 8 pm in the uniwat gym. Scoring for Saturday’s game: Waterloo Laaniste ’ 28
Uniwat won twice this weekend but it’s easier shooting up.
as a solid final they de-
partment to score four goals and win. That kind of play takes concentration and desire. The warriors need that kind of play if they want to be the number one team in the country. They must start now and continue for three months. They have the material; the rough edges still have to be smoothed.
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The volleyball and basketball Athenas opened their league season last weekend by defeating Laurentian University of Sudbury three games to one in volleyball and 49-30 in basketball. In volleyball 7 Waterloo picked up the win by taking the first two games by 15-7 scores and winning the fourth game 15-9. Laurentian captured the third game 15-12. Strong serving near the end of the match was a bright light in the otherwise mediocre game. Glenna Johnson and Marva Currie-Mills played steady games in the set position to pace the team with a good performance by Judy Cronin. The basketball athenas took an early lead outrunning Laurentian’s man-to-man defense to gain a 31-14 half time lead. Laurentian switched to a zone defense and toned down Waterloo’s scoring, limiting the athenas to 18 points in the latter half of the game. Laurentian’s most effective offensive manoeuvre was the fast break which accounted for more than half of their points. Waterloo was paced by athena Patty Bland who netted 11 points. Laurentian’s best ’ effort was Lyn Somers with six points. The athena teams saw exhibition action with McMaster previous to the league action at Laurentian. Travelling to Hamilton on Wednesday, the Waterloo teams came up victorious. Led by Patty Bland with 14 points and Jane Liddell with 13, the b-ball athenas captured an easy 76-43 win over the Mat girls. The v-ball athenas had to work
harder for their win as McMaster forced the match to five games before allowing the Waterloo win. Next action for the athenas is Wednesday night as the teams travel to Guelph for exhibition play. On Wednesday at McMaster, players from the newly-formed squash club outdid Mat, 10 games to two. In first singles, Rosemary Bell won all four of her games. Betty Etue and Ruth Dickinson won three out of four games in both second and third singles. Head coach Anne Powlesland commented on the surprising interest in squash at Waterloo. There is no formal squash tournament due to lack of courts at most universities. Waterloo will however, have a full exhibition season this year. Those interested should add their name to the squash challenge board in the women’s locker room. Varsity representatives will be chosen from the board. The athena badminton team travelled to Sudbury last weekend for exhibition play against Laurentian University. The team was composed of three veterans from last year’s championship team. Marion Dicken played first singles and Wendy Frazer combined with Rae Nicho1 for the doubles team. Waterloo managed only one doubles win in the three singles and three doubles games played. All three of the badminton players will be leaving on work terms at Christmas and thus an entirely new team must be selected before the February championship.
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“Young people today don’t know what’s the matter with the world and they-don’t-know how to change it,” said-June Callwood. The noted author and one of the founders of Yorkville’s digger house addressed a benefit dinner for the Fat ‘Angel drop-in center in Kitchener friday evening. When she was young, Callwood continued, the problems were straightforward and clear-cut. “You knew you could get somewhere in those days just by being honest and truthful and loyal,” she said. The dissatisfaction and auguish of modern young people Callwood blamed largely on the environment in which they are brought up. “The behavior df youth is a consequence,” she stated. “When we get them, they only weigh about six pounds, but they’re six pounds of happens after that is a consequence of the human race . . . .Whatever their environment.” The environment in which kids grow up today tends to be stifling and emotionally strangling. “It’s a”s though they got to be fifteen and looked up and saw a sign saying, ‘due to circumstances unforseen, the rest of your life has been cancelled’.” Callwood saw little hope for young people if current attitudes, particularly towards the poor, do not change. She stressed that we are all shaped by expectations, and our futures are largely shaped by our expectations and those of our class. Thus, a middleclass child is expected to do well in school, to go to university, and to get a good job, while a child of poor parents is not brought up to-expect success so he remains in poverty. “One of the things not realized in our society,” Callwood said, “is that the poor, just like everyone else, take home a normal baby...and then they fix him in two years, so he can’t trust or love or hope.”
There are two million children in Canada living in this sort of emotional poverty because their parents cannot take the time to give them sufficient love and attention. One of the main reasons adults tend to distrust the younger generation, Callwood felt, was that the young are different. Youth rejects the formula for success that worked for the parents, preferring to mea.sure success by different standards. “The history of man is that he is very intolerant of difference,” she stated. “An intolerable situation for adults to bear is the feeling that kids are attacking our sense of worth. ” So, when services are provided for the young, they are services for kids adults approve of, services like the Y, for nice clean boys and girls who don’t need them As soon as the childis different, the services are cut off. This situation is readily seen in highschools (“last bastion of the bastille”) : the beautiful bright new schools are built in ‘the suburbs, where they aren’t needed. You never find such schools in the slums, where children need them, because slums are where the poor live, and the poor cause too much trouble. “We always tend to blame the victims of our society,” Callwood added with bitterness. Callwood also lashed out at current drug laws. “The safest thing for kids to be doing is marijuana. It’s also the easiest thing to control, be-, cause it’s bulky. So we’ve stamped it out. Now you can’t get marijuana. “What you can get is amphetamines-speed-just a nice little harmless adjunct to better living. Speed is more addictive than heroin-and it’s legal.” Callwood spoke of people she knew when they’re high on speed.
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LACOLLE, Que. (CUP)-Montreal students blockaded two CNR freight trains scheduled to cross the border friday delaying them a total of three hours. The trains were blocked to protest Canada’s complicity in supplying arms used by the americans in the Vietnam war.
“If
even one screw destined for this purpose were on one of those freight trains,” said McGill moratorium chairman Steve Wall,. and if they were delayed by the blockade just long enough to miss the factories’ deadlines. then ,a number of Vietnamese lives could be saved.
* This bonfire made a vain attempt to give some warmth to those who took part in friday ‘s torch-light parade. The fire was abandoned and not even treated to a marshmallow.
City council thursday barred the Vietnam moratorium committee from holding a candlelight parade through downtown night in Montreal thursday conjunction with similar anti-war protests across Canada and the U.S.
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“Thus the blockade could have concrete as well as symbolic repercussions. ’’ The 120 students from McGill and other Montreal schools and universities started out for the border crossing at noon friday in three busses. Two of the busses stopped at Lacolle, Quebec, near the Vermont and New York state borders, to block the CN tracks. A third bus continued on to Washington for the moratorium demonstrations there. Half the group remaining blockaded the rail line, while the other half walked to meet the oncoming train. Using walkie,talkies, the second group reported the train was shunting to change tracks. Although the students did not reach the train in time to block it, it was delayed an hour. A second train, 65 cars long, was sandwiched between two groups of demonstrations for two hours. Two RCMP cars followed the buses from McGill to the border, but did not interfere. The buses were stopped by Quebec provincial police for a 15-minute check, then released. Police did not intervene during the demonstrations. OTTAWA (CUP)-The ameri-
buses
can government indirectly pressured a Montreal bus firm into cancelling arrangements to transport american student protesters to the weekend’s anti-war demonstrations in Washington, NDP MP Stanley Knowles charged in the commons thursday. Knowles quoted statements by Murray Hill Limousine service “that one of the reasons for breaking this arrangement was that they did not want their files to be examined by the FBI. ” Knowles said outside the commons that american student leaders told him the bus line had cancelled a contract to tran-
sport demonstrations from Syracuse and Binghampton to Washington. An unnamed Canadian MP told the students there was pressure from the Nixon administration to break the contract, Knowles added. American organizers of the demonstrations - claimed that other bus lines in the U.S. have also cancelled contracts under pressure from the FBI. An FBI source would neither confirm nor deny the report. Prime minister Trudeau said during the question period he knew nothing of the matter.
3000 march in Tofonto protesters as queers and potheads. Police formed a barrier between the opposing groups, but even so, arrested two Burkers and two demonstrators. A second group of demonstrators, including the union of american exiles, split off from the main body to march outside the U.S. consulate. The demonstration broke up peacefully after 30 . minutes in below freezing weather.
TORONTO (CUP)--More than 3,000 people marched without incident from queen’s park to Toronto’s city hall Saturday as part of the international moratorium against the war in Vietnam. The only arrests and police intervention came with the appearance of the right-wing Edmund Burke society. The Burkers ran into city hall square shouting “reds out” and carrying placards denouncing the anti-Vietnam
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ANADIAN PSYCHOLOGIST Abram Hoffer found that when the body produces. more adrenalin than it can eliminate, the stuff breaks down into two true hallucinogens, adrenochrome and adrenalutin. These distort and narrow consciousness, induce paranoia, and re-enforce obsessive-compulsive behavior . In short, they cause schizophrenia. Since surplus adrenal flow is the hormonal basis of the whole range of ‘normal’ ideological responses which make up capitalist mass culture, this culture is a form of mass schizophrenia. Just as too much adrenalin fragments our consciousness into routines, it also breaks up our attention span. Adrenalin is a stimulant; we run through the routines of work. But the adrenal surplus shortens our attention span so much that we never initiate anything; we carry out orders. Leisure is the same. From the earliest age any participatory family/ community life is replaced by passive consumption of mass-produced culture packages. The middle class watches T.V., they can paint-by-thenumbers to kill time. But they lack the attention They are unfree, essenspan to do an original. tially passive in the face of society-transformed by repressive work-accumulation-status into ‘commodity-people. ’ mass-produced, plastic “The merchant sells the consumer to his product. ” In the process of selling the middle class a culture and an identity, the power structure buys the middle class. Cultural imperialism seeks to extract profit from every second of middle class existence by imposing the cheapest mass material culture on all their I experience, and repressing any human traits or competitive ‘3rd world’ cultures that stand in the way. The point is that cultural imperialism involves genocide: elimination of the offending identities of whole cultural and ethnic groups. The Nazis did it by killing whole peoples. U.S. imperialism knows that it is important only to liquidate the separate identity of-a people, and prefers to do this through a sophisticated blend of persecution and co-optation. But the power structure is constantly forced to cheapen and plasticize mass culture at home -the least profitable area of U.S. investment-so much that plastic affluence no longer absorbs the most conscious people into the system. They are actively experimenting with free, alternative cultures. To deal with their resistance to repressive middle class culture, U.S. imperialism must eventually bring fascism home from Saigon and Greece. And the middle class will support it. Their addiction to adrenal work-accumulationstatus is mass schizophrenia; it forces them to make the world fit with the delusions and unbalanced behavior, and ignore what doesn’t fit. The addict middle class becomes puppets of imperialism. They demand conformity with middle class culture-re-enforcement-from everyone. Their- plastic identity and culture stand in constant danger of collapsing should a single soulful man call out to the sensitive humanity which exists repressed and alien even within the middle class.
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The power structure’s desire to protect mass adrenalin addiction is shown by which drugs are legal and which aren’t. Caffein has effects similar to adrenalin. Nicotine actually stimulates adrenal flow; hence the cigarette “habit.” Alcohol provides temporary relief from adrenal tension by damping out stimuli, without affecting the conditioning that later returns people to a state of adrenal surplus. But grass is illegal. Medically harmless, grass sensitizes, kills boredom, and frees you from the adrenal daze. Grass threatens the physiological base of capitalist behavior: conditioned adrenal surplus. The Assistant Narcotics Commissioner once said that legalization would cut down the number of man-hours available to American industry. Capitalism demands total regimentation of our awareness for work-accumulation-status -mass schizophrenic semi-consciousness. It is also no accident that the middle class is sexually repressed-so repressed that they identify healthy eroticism with the hated non-conformist and poor. by George
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Sexuality is based in a hormonal reaction that shuts off adrenalin production, and vice versa. By projecting their erotic feelings on the feared, hated alien, the middle class block their own erotic impulse with their habitual adrenal surplus. Sexual repression is the pre-condition of fascism. Simply sensitivity and the capacity to relate to others as human-rather than reacting to Boss, or Christian, or Nigger-this is the erotic response. When adrenal fear enforces conformity on the in-group, authority on the leader, and anxious dependency on the rank-and-file, when they become a horde preying on anyone different, they are protecting their schizophrenia from this erotic, human response. The middle class schmuck doesn’t even relate to his own mutilated self. He identifies with the “silent majority” and their right great American to take orders, hate blacks, and carry God, Flag, and the American Way to the unbeliever by fire and sword. The cops are perfect examples of middle class mentality. This mass fascist mentality mobilizes the white, working majority for imperialism. Yet the result is that the rich need the poor, too. The ethnic and nonconformist poor serve the same complex needs of capitalist imperialism that are served by external colonies and an external ‘enemy. ’ They are visible representatives in this country of the strange and feared 3rd World peoples the U.S. opresses everywhere. Not only does capitalism extract higher rates of profit from the underdeveloped ghetto than the overdeveloped middleclass, the poor allow the middle class to feel socially superior. The lower middle class especially finds no status in work. Their only reward is plastic status based on “affluence,” conformity, and the chance to discriminate against the “inherently inferior, drunken drug-addicted” 3rd World poor. The alternatives to middle class status must be misery and poverty, or the reward isn’t worth much. As the man arguing against guaranteed income put it: “If everyone got $2,000 a year, my $10,000 would be worth that much less.” This society demands losers, because middle class status needs somebody down low to fear, somebody different to hate. Otherwise the middle class would discover that they are really losers too.
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The vast majority of Americans are working class; but the whole thrust of their culture, which is capitalist, has been to repress that class identity. They think of themselves as white, American, taxpayer, home-owners-not as workers. To bring about real revolution, it has always been necessary to raise the consciousness of the greater mass of the people to the point where they see the need for the revolution and identify with it. This means that the worker’s middle class identity, and culture supporting that identity, must be seriously weakened before they can identify with the revolution. To avoid this hard fact, many leftists are fond of arguing from the revoluntionary experiences of Russia, China, or Cuba, that a capitalist ‘crisis’ will sooner or later reduce the middle class worker to poverty, forcing him into revoluntionary consciousness. They ignore the concrete lesson of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, when workers’ struggles were contained by middle class “liberalism”, and channeled into purely economic reforms within the system. The people of Russia, China, or Cuba shared not only common poverty, but a common consciousness and folk culture that was quite distinct from the bourgeoisie. It was but a short step to class or national consciousness of common discontent of the fact that they had nothing to lose through revolution. For a useful parallel to north america we must go to the abortive revolution in France, May ‘68. Only with France do we find the same middle class majority, and the same economic grievances: constant, irritating inflation. France showed that it will not be bureaucratic unions which are the vanguard of the revolution in the imperialist mother country, but students and young workers who are not yet totally sucked into the hyperworker/superconsumer role, who find a rebellious (if commercialized) identity in their “youth culture. ” Imperialism supports a huge middle class within the mother country. There is far less revolutionary working class tradition in this country than in France, and workers are trained to shy away from it. To awaken them, middle class culture itself must be smashed. Middle class culture is vulnerable. While people identify themselves as “middle class,” they have merely exchanged working class discontent for a more diffuse middle class dissatisfaction, not just with the war, rising prices, and frozen wages, but with the whole game of accumulating plastic and hating people. Their dissatisfaction breaks through the officially approved consciousness in a million ways. For instance, the middle class with its taste for folk music, and the lower middle class with their country and western, seek to identify with a real, soulful folk culture which middle class life excludes, in which they can be free participants rather than passive consumers. No one can identify with a Hollywood orchestra the way you identify with Johnny Cash. The system never really succeeds in repressing people’s common humanity-the ‘3rd world within’-and this conflict finally reduces the middle class to passivity and cynicism, driving them to
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the extremes of 10~; Come a healthy peop class culture tends to co The most advanced mostly young workers beginning to break o status addiction. Thf and leisure time whit endless accumulation, think. And young peon public education and imbue them with stand are moving beyond r question the basic att society: “Wait a mi new car? I already ha1 should I work overtime get rich?” The coinc and free time gives pet consciousness from th the stifling totality of that they can explore tht The three alternativ, which, though partial11 exist as structure, people’s cultures, are tl hip. Applachian culture be It contains much folk talism, much good Chl at the source-some communism. Radicals as the source of the CL reaches of America. E folk culture has been sumption by mid-Ameri feet material for the because it can be co-c and racist. It is rural.
No matter how many culture is a revolution; cause it developed in knowledge of capitalisnblacks (unlike the Ame cultural imperialism an tity. The bourgeois hav and white, because m bear to confront black ; repressive bourgeois reg with ghetto brotherhood black and white togetht free-with his black brot most as suspect and ha ginal hipsters , and today In common usage, “I cultural group, consist those who smoke pot a* istic style and culture middleclass society as fication leads to self-id discriminating against tl class society forces him then his identity by i-6 to the perceptions and unitary core of hip cult ceptions and attitudes grasped by most “free mass response to socif liberation from adrenal, Hip culture is wide; students and young wor formed the vanguard in
action, or rebellion. culture, and middlee like a sick balloon. of the middle classstudents-are in fact I work-accumulationy material affluence teviously led only to gave people time to spite of the fact that mass media aim to niddle class ideology, z class cynicism to s and values of this .Do I really want a ;t year’s model. Why at somebody else can e of mass education L chance to free their ndless accumulation, ctle class culture, so ma tives . *ares in this country opted by the power independent orous, palachian, black, and to the country poor. m about rural capi1 ethics, and evenlism and primitive t because they see it of the great middle e lively backcountry -reproduced for conily because it is peralist exploiter, only It is ethnocentric
)le exploit it, black eople’s culture, be;ition to and bitter I because it enabled Indian) to survive w as a cultural en1 to segregate black class culture can’t ness of the brutally Nor can it compete soul. The culture of the white who felt has always been alThese were the oripies. refers to a definite lroadly speaking of ssess the character) are identified by ies.” Social identi: by isolating and rty hippie, ” middleIf-defense to strengg beyond externals udes which are the These common perNever incompletely project a conscious movement toward eclass culture. 1 among the same in this country, who we, May ‘68. They
see that the scarcity-based puritan-work ethic is obsolete, that the middleclass compulsion to do meaningless work is enslavement, that neurotic accumulation-for-status is the same slavery. They consume for gratification. The hip movement represents the efforts of a good part of the white youth and workers to liberate themselves from repressive middleclass culture. The key value of hip culture is free consciousness. All the religiosity, the psychedelic experimentation, represent efforts to free awareness from middleclass culture, to get to the Now which is the source of all pleasure and pain. But even more, freeks are trying to break out of the passive consumer role this society lays on us, past total openness, past a vision of the present as part of the whole historical process, to an active, conscious response to that process. A creative unalienated response: “Do it now! ” Their desire for liberated sensitivity and creative response explains the emphasis hip people place on love and sexuality. To be creative, we have to love what we are doing and the people we are working with. Now the normal job in this society conditions the worker to fear, to block out his distracting awareness and compress his free activity into compulsive routine. The truly hip respond by demanding either meaningful work or marginal employment, and by reducing their property, and ownership fears, to a minimum. Free from the role of hyperworker/super consumer, they begin to act out of sexuality. All of a sudden, “thing” no longer refers to dead fragments of a world opposed to man by his completely adrenal reaction, following the model of commodities, the alienated products of his labor. “Thing” becomes the process, the unity of man and his work; freeks “do their thing. ” Although ‘plastic hippies,’ who possess the material style without seeking liberation use “doing their own thing” as an excuse for doing nothing-bullshit passive consumption of culture-packages-the original meaning of the expression was definitely liberatory. My thing is not the Man’s thing. It becomes our thing, a common awareness and interaction which is alien, and subversive of bourgeois mass culture. The change from “doing your thing” to ‘ ‘doing your own thing” shows how the rapid spread and commercialization of hip culture has deformed its more overtly subversive values. Still, freeks are only the visible edge of a much larger mass of people in this society who are moving toward free consciousness and sexuality.
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The practices of ultrademocracy and communism-almost equally important for breaking out of middleclass culture-tends to be restricted more to the real freeks, who reject all class and ethnic lines in search of the “good people” they see as the supreme value (rather than God, Country, etc. ). ‘Most freeks are still ultra-demoalthough class lines have reappeared cratic, between the rich, self-righteously “religious” plastic hippie, and the poor majority he excludes from his private scene. All freeks are anti-racist. Many also practice communism, both because they value and like to live with other people, and to free time, because practical communism is cheaper. They share rent on a common house, the cost of food, and deep involvement in one an-
other’s heads. The living commune demands almost familial compatibility, and participatory democracy (a real encounter group) to keep it together. Sometimes lessons learned in living communes lead to work-communes, and people’s parks. Even taken alone, the living commune shows that alienated middleclass life, based on “jobs” and private _property, tends to collapse in the face of material abundance into a culture based That hip culture has only slowly on sharing. developed a communist politics shows the tremendous anti-communist brainwashing in this society. Some leftists reject it because it lacks an explicit ideology, because it isn’t “political.” because it’s “middleclass.” They forget that most whites in this country are middleclass. For the middleclass it is initially far more important to reject endless plastic for the free time to think and experiment, than to be perfectly politically -China needed a political revolu“correct.” tion simply to establish the preconditions for order, ‘material security, the cultural change: Here this economic base already 8-hour day. exists. The danger facing freeks-even many so-called “cultural revolutionaries”-is that hip culture is close to a revolutionary cultural movement, but more of a lumpen middleclass culture, deformed by capitalist society, to the extent that it even preserves class-lines between the upper and lower middleclass (plastic hippie and freek). Nowhere is this deformity better shown than in the underdevelopment of hip politics. After Yippee!. apoliticism is on the wane. But there is still a tendency to shirk confrontation, to avoid cultural forms and projects which galvanize- the people, and expose and shatter the status quo. There is still confusion about the need for a politics to protect and extend the cultural revolution; and even the naive belief that we can “change our mind instead,” as if we could change our middleclass conditioning without changing our behavior and incurring the wrath of the straights.
M/hat is to be done? The hip community continues to move against the resistance of hip capitalists toward cultural liberation, but at a slow crawl. Meanwhile we are the Jews for a fascist police-state society. The government is about to pass a law aimed at drug users, authorizing secret police and permanent “mental commitment” of anyone, without a jury trial ,and with no legal appeal whatsoever. Our only hope as a movement is to But to do this we must turn hip grow like crazy. energies back from making money, toward cultural liberation. By word and’by deed cornmunist. hippies have got to turn on every freek to cultural revolution. When the whole movement lives cultural revolution, we can become the vanguard for the total cultural revolution of this society. Better than creating new organizations, we can galvanize the ones that exist, by showing evervone a clear direction. For instance the underground press, which reaches millions, is most places far ahead of the hip community. Most underground papers are run for revolution rather than profit. And now the staffs of the remaining capitalistic papers are liberating them, following the example of the BERKELEY TRIBE (formerly
the BARB). They already have the best style, for reaching not just the freeks but all the people -simply, undogmatic, imaginative and colorful. They will be the first to join in reaching out for a liberated way of life, and putting down selfish plastic hippies. We have to go beyond the underground press, though. The Yippies projected a beautiful mediaimage, yet failed to grow beyond a small initial cadre. The N.Y. Motherfuckers built cadre and did beautiful community organizing, ignoring the establishment media. But they neglected mass education and organizing new base areas outside New York’s Lower East Side. The tactics of most of the left are even more sterile. Endless meetings and rallies that never attract new people, street leafleting that reaches good people maybe once, seem to be nothing but excuses for the self-important social life of left-wing cliques. What we need are more and better ways of reaching people-an avalanche of wall-posters, street theatre, minstrels, life celebrations and living cultural alternatives like the Peoples’ Park. Most of all we have to reach people with our own conversation and deeds, and with projects that serve their vital needs, in which they can actually participate. People learn best through participation, through real experience and action. “Advertising” is secondary.
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True cultural revolutionaries are trying to free people from passive consumerism-from the whole capitalist behavior syndrome-so people make their own culture, for revolution rather than profit. When people make real revoluntionary culture, and bring their communities together to liberate the way they live and relate to one another, they are taking the line of least resistance in dealing with cultural imperialism. And these communities are natural bases for the struggle against fascism, besides giving people a chance to look at the alternative. When’ we understand that the only difference between U.S. imperialism in Greece and at home is, for the people, one of privilege and degree; that this country is a neo-colony too (never really decolonized-power was merely transferred to native imperialists) ; then we see how close we are to fascism. This society is already totalitarian; it plays whites off against the Black Colony, wrecking total assault on the Black’s identity and robbing him of his manhood. More: in the process of regimenting whites into middleclass puppets of U.S. imperialism at home and abroad, society also humiliates white identities, assaults their psyches, and dehumanizes them to the point that they don’t perceive this society as totalitarian. Before they can be psychologically prepared to deal with the cop in the street, they have to externalize the cop in their heads. To make revolution in this country we have to provide people with the experience of our alternative-of participation in a community liberated through cultural revolution-with which the middleclass can regain their own repressed 3rd World identity. When they find themselves hated and superexploited aliens within the imperialist m(~thcr country, they will be ready to join with ttlc peoples of the world in overthrowing the opprcssor.
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Apart from the usual pubs, dances, movies-and even those are sparse-there’s nothing much happening on campus this week. The university drama group’s production of The cavern opens $$ thursday night in the arts theater and should prove interesting to theatI*h.*: .’ er fans. Movies in the Kitchener-Waterloo area are pretty much the same as 2 last week, except for Heironymus Merkin which doesn’t deserve mention. The Felix from Detroit will be performing in the food services building friday and Saturday, presumably at the usual time. LYRIC (124 King street, Kitchener, 742-0911) Alice’s restaurant, $$ the movie version ofArlo Guthrie’s underground hit record finally started last week. Arlo plays himself in this chronicle of how one happy-go):! lucky hippy folksinger beats the draft. Arthur Penn of Bonnie and Clyde fame directs.
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0 COMMUNIST REGIME ever rewrote history more blatantly than Richard Nixon in his november 3 speech on Vietnam. He asked, “why and how did the U.S. become involved in Vietnam in the first place?” His answer was that 15 years ago North Vietnam, with the support of communist China and the Soviet Union, “launched a campaign to impose a communist government on South Vietnam, by instigating and supporting a revolution.” It was then, he went on, that Eisenhower “sent economic aid and military equipment.” The truth is that 15 years ago Nixon was doing his best to prevent peace from breaking out in Vietnam and he failed because Eisenhower would not support him. This has been Nixon’s war for a long, long time. * * * In 1954, as the opening of the Geneva conference in Indochina drew near, Nixon tried to drum up support for american armed intervention. But, charac teristically, he also tried to keep the public from knowing what he was up to. The newspapers of 17 april 1954 carried blaring headlines over a story that “a high administration spokesman” in an off-therecord question and answer session the day before with the society of newspaper editors in Washington, had said “if to avoid further communist expansion in Asia and Indochina, we must take the risk now by putting our boys in, I think the executive has to take the politically unpopular decision and do it.” The news leaked within 24 hours from Paris that the speaker was vicepresident Nixon. In the second volume of his memoirs, Mandate for change, Eisenhower recalled that at a press conference after the Nixon speech had leaked out, Eisenhower said, “there was no plausible reason for the United States to intervene” and added-and this must have seemed to Nixon the most cutting comment of all-“we could not even be sure that the Vietnamese population wanted us to do so.” Nixon said freedom was at stake in Indochina. “It was almost impossible,” was Eisenhower’s reaction, “to make the average Vietnamese peasant realize that the french, under whose rule his people had lived for some 80 years, were really fighting in the cause of freedom, while the vietminh (as the communist-led rebels were then known), people of their own ethnic origins, were fighting on the side of added that slavery. ’ ’ Then Eisenhower famous remark, “It was generally-conceded that had an election been held, Ho Chi Minh would have been elected president.” The origins of the war lay in the efforts made by Nixon and others like him to prevent any such election from being held. Fifteen years ago all the great powers including communist China and the Soviet Union but not the United States, agreed to guarantee an armistice based on temporary division of the country with elections on reunification to be held two years later. Under pressure from hawks like Nixon, John Foster Dulles and admiral Radford, Eisenhower laid the seeds of future trouble by setting up the Diem regime in the south and encouraging it to refuse elections two yearslater. But Ike did resist american interven-
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tion. At a whitehouse conference on whether to intervene rather than accept the Geneva settlement, Eisenhower observed “that if the U.S. were unilaterally, to permit its forces to be drawn into conflict in Indochina and in a succession of asian wars, the end result would be to drain off our resources and to weaken our overall defense situation.” That is exactly what the Vietnamese war has done, and what its continuation under Nixon will continue to do. HOSE WHO SAY there was nothing new in the Nixon speech are badly mistaken. Never before has he disclosed how committed he is emotionally and ideologically to this war. It may be ludicrous but it is revealing that he wrapped himself in the mantle of Woodrow Wilson, and said that Vietnam if not another “war to end wars”, was a war to bring closer Wilson’s “goal of a just and lasting peace. ’ ’ But Wilson thought this goal could only be achieved through a league of nations, in a disarmed world, not in a pax americana. It was sheer self-satire for Nixon to present himself as Wilson, thus casting tiny Vietnam in the role of imperial Germany seeking-and almost achievingworld dominion. There was also the exaggeration on which humor feeds in his new version of the domino theory. If we went down to defeat in Vietnam, the dominoes would fall “in the middle east, in Berlin, eventually even in the western hemisphere,” Only a few days earlier in an anemic latin american message, Nixon said the U.S. was no longer concerned with free institutions south of the border. Now we were told that in fighting for “freedom” in Vietnam we were also safeguarding it in Latin America! * * * If the war is- so crucial to the whole planet, how can the U.S. ever withdraw without victory? Nixon made plain that he did not intend to do so. He indicated that troops would stay as long as necessary to keep the Thieu-Ky regime firmly in power. The enemy was put on notice that it must “fade away” and accept a politicalmilitary defeat or face re-escalation of the american effort, perhaps also a resumption of the bombing. This is why there is no timetable for withdrawal. Now as in 1954 Nixon claims only to be defending south Vietnam’s right to selfdetermination. *Two days before he spoke an event took place which showed how hollow this claim was and is. At the south Vietnamese embassy in Washington, as in Saigon and among the exiles in Paris, south Vietnamese everywhere celebrated november 1 as their national day.” Few americans are aware that national day commemorates the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem. His nine years of repression and corruption sparked the rebellion, and his overthrow was so popular that the date has been marked ever since as a day of deliverance. Diem was the first experiment in the “vietnamization” Nixon offers as if it were a new panacea. The more military and economic aid we poured into Vietnam, the fiercer the rebellion grew. In 1965 Johnson finally had to “un-vietnamize” the war and take over combat directly lest the Saigon regime collapse and a peace cabinet take over.
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There is little reason to believe that vietnamiiation will be any more successful with Thieu and Ky. Their regime is as unrepresentative as Diem’s What could be more impudent (to borrow an Agneyism) than to support dictators in the name of self-determination?’ The real temper of the south;ietnamese may be gathered from what happened on national day in Saigon and Paris. In Saigon’ Thieu marked the occasion with an amnesty. But he was afraid to free Truong Dinh Dzu, who polled the second highest vote in the presidential election as a peace candidate. Senator Tran Van Don, the man who led the coup which overthrew Diem, addressed a meeting in Saigon, proposing a neutralist policy and an end to “fracticidal strife.” The american press reported that “almost every influential group in South Vietnam was represented at the meeting.” General “Big” Minh, whose popularity Thieu feared so much he barred him from the presidential election, seconded Tran Van Don and called for “a people’s congress” (London Times, november 3) to replace the present regime. In Paris a group of exiles representing many different currents of south vietnamese politics signed a national day manifesto (Le Monde, november 1) calling for peace, independence and neutrality. “It is only by a broad union of forces,” their appeal said, “that we can clearly show the government of the United States that for Vietnamese patriots the card of anti-communism long ago lost its significance in the face of the suffering without limit of the south Vietnamese population under american bombardment.” That is the silent majority for peace Thieu is suppressing with the arms we give him in the name of “vietnamization.” What if the opposition tries to overthrow him as it did Diem? Does the U.S. step in? How far does Nixon’s blank cheque to Thieu extend? IXON’S EFFORT TO get the U.S. to intervene 15 years ago shows him as little concerned with “selfdetermination” at home as in Saigon. Eisenhower had just been elected on an implied promise to end the war in Korea. The country wanted no more land wars in Asia. Korea had been the first defeat; ill-armed Chinese “volunteers” had pushed the U.S. back from the Yalu all the way to the 38th parallel despite U.S. air supremacy. The acceptance of that defeat in the korean armistice was nevertheless immensely popular. Yet within a few months Nixon asked Eisenhower to lead the U.S. into another Korea in Vietnam.
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Nixon claims to speak for a silent majority now. * He knew he spoke for no majority then. To take the country into another asian war so soon after peace had been made in Korea would have precipitated a crisis of confidence easily as great as the current one. Repression against opponents of the war might very likely have been necessary. Nixon had the requisite
mentality for it. Over the almost universal objections of the american bar, Nixon had fathered the Mundt-Nixon internal security act a few years earlier. For the first time in the history of a free society, it set up a subversive activities control board as an in-
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strument-president Harry Truman said in his unsuccessful veto message-of “thought control.” It is not difficult to envisage the kind of campaign Nixon would have waged against opponents of a vietnamese war then or the kind he may be preparing to wage now. Agnew, as Gene McCarthy said on “Issues and answers” november 2 is Nixon’s Nixon. ” Agnew takes the low road, as Nixon did under Eisenhower. If the Agnew speech at Harrisburg, Pa., October 30 is read with Nixon’s november 3 speech, we can see a new campaign shaping up against the peace forces. Agnew spoke of “separating” the protest leaders “from our society-with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel.” That “rotten apple” remark is vintage authoritarianism. This is how Moscow hardliners talk of dissident writers. And how Moscow hardliners talk of dissident writers. And how would Agnew separate them from the rest of us? By prison or concentration camp? IXON CHIMED IN with a similar theme when he said we had to unite for peace and unite against defeat because “North Vietnam cannot defeat or humilate the United States. Only americans can do that. ” This is first of all nonsense. North Vietnam did hand the U.S. a defeat and a humiliation in the eyes of the whole world by standing up to the most ferocious bombardment in history. It increased its infiltration and aid to the southern rebels despite that bombardment and finally forced the U.S. to end it in order to bring the North and the NLF to the negotiating table. If any americans did that, it was not the peaceniks but the military-intelligence bureaucracy which made one resounding mistake after another, that led into a quagmire. Nixon is picking up where the french military-intelligence bureaucracy broke off. They said the war was lost in Paris, not in Indochina, because the french grew sick of the war, and decided to negotiate instead. They grew si-ck of the war because they grew suspicious (as americans have) of optimistic f.orecasts and repeated promises of victory. They began to realize that military force could not win a political war, and that the sooner defeat was accepted the better for France. Nixon hints as the french rightists did that if America loses it will be because of traitors at home. Those who-oppose the war are thus cast as the real enemy. Thus dissent-a- can--P---w.+be persecuted as treason. - - .-.
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“The majority may be silent but does it favor continuation of the war until the other side accepts the Thieu-Ky regime? The Louis Harris poll in TIME{31 October) indicates this is doubtful. In a dual poll of l SpublicS. and “leaders” Harris found only 38 percent of the former and 3 I percent of the latter favored slowing up withdrawals to save the Thieu-Ky regime, while 64 percent of the former and 74 percent of the latter favored replacement of the Thieu regime with one more representative of the south Vietnamese people. The broadest consensus180 and 8 1 percent respectively) felt, unlike Nixon, that it was a mistake to get into the Vietnam war altogether.
Freeing the poor from the burdens of education The contingent repayment program for student financial assistance must be viewed as a deceptive use of democratic rhetoric to accomplish an undemocratic pruning of university enrolment. For some time, governments have been claiming the existence of equal access to higher education to legitimize an undemocratic socio-economic system. In response to pressure from vocal activists to put some reality into that universal accessibility, a system of university financing has evolved that is no longer acceptable to a capitalist economy or comfortable for opportunist politicians. Tuition fees have remained static, while costs have soared-so that tuition which historically covered almost all the university’s operating costs now, for example, pays less than 19 percent of uniwat’s operating costs in 1969-70. At the same time, enrolments are climbing faster than the economy intends to employ the graduates. One response to this has been the artificial raising of qualifications for employment-such as requiring another degree. Added to this exponential rise in government support of universities is the provision of “student awards” to those who have met the academic qualifications of higher education but don’t have the funds. Even though this part of the provincial budget has been rising drastically, the “awards” have been inadequate for a considerable number of students. The proposed solution to this whole problem is being touted as a way of making those who benefit, pay the costs involved. The result of this high-sounding rhetoric will be to discourage the less-privileged student from going to university. The rhetoric will state at the same time that access to higher
education is equal and universal. But it will only aggravate the greatest existing problem in trying to level out class distinctions in Canada. The poor know debt as a dreadful thing-like trying to get credit to buy food or narrowly missing eviction or having the electricity turned off. Less confident of success, the financially poor student will be far less likely to risk a couple of expensive university years without getting a degree and a subsequent well-paying job to clear the debt. In one way the financing proposal will be a good thing-it will show university education to be what it really is: an integral part of a capitalist economy. The reality of the proposed system will be frightening to most students presently enrolled in universities. By having to pay real university operating costs by mortgaging oneself for government tuition loans, an engineering student will face a debt of perhaps $3000 a year for tuition alone and a PhD student as much as $9000 tuition a year. The first to benefit from this system will be politicians who will suddenly be freed of financing university education and will profit by short-term electoral popularity. Businessmen and industrialists will benefit because they will be sure to get capitalistically-inclined graduates-whereas now with a surplus in most areas they have to beware of prospects with lingering humanistic notions. The taxpayer will still not be a winner. By forcing university financing into a private market, interest rates are sure to go up and the cost will be passed down as the graduates demand higher salaries to pay loans. The winners will continue to be those who already have.
Alienation...l, Vietnam is too far away. Search-and-destroy is everyday television fare. What’s napalm after sitting through The wild bunch with a full settled stomach? What’s all this protesting about Canadian complicity when the United States runs the economy of this country anyway? What good will it do for a uniwat student to walk around the ringroad with a flashlight when there are three essays(or problem sets) due tuesday and four mid-terms coming up? Vietnam will never become an important issue on Canadian campuses, even if the war continues for another five years. Nor will any other social issue off-campus become a matter of action for a significant number of students as long as most students
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are fighting their own guerilla struggle. For most students, the search for truth as members of the academic community means balancing too little money with too much work and taking what little time is left over to try to get entertained, get laid or get stoned. For the great silent majority, university is little more than an expensive highschool where they can smoke in classes they don’t even have to* attend if they don’t want to (and a lot really don’t). It’s an alienating existence that makes students happy to get out and take a job that is even more alienating, but less strenuous and more monetarily comfortable. The end result is that the Vietnam war is even less relevant as a social issue, because the students’ guerilla war is over, and who wants to be concerned about another avoidable one?
“By being unemployed, we are saving ourselves from dangerous inflation.” -UE News
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Another commie attack on our good-old quasi-american culture has been thwarted. Congratulations to the lettermen’s club for stepping in to make sure that uniwat will not be left out of the mainstream of malechauvinist society. The lettermen have invited all societies, clubs, colleges and residences to sponsor candidates for a Miss warrior contest . Their purpose must be to make sure that uniwat will be properly represented at the annual Miss Canadian university flesh-grading exhibition at WLU. According to the . lettermen’s Judson Whiteside, “Many of us on campus feel that there is a need to have a queen candidate that would be representative of the whole university.. . . . ‘I . This all came about because them tommies that run the weekends for the board of student activities of the federation of students (that everyone knows is a pinko plot) have banished all queen contests, so there hasn’t been a cam-
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And if there wasn’t a campuswide contest, then uniwat would end up represented by Miss engineer at the WLU ogle-fest. And that wouldn’t be very democratic. Not only that, it would be downright un-north american not to view broads-sorry, women-in their proper role as man’s possession and sexual plaything. And if they stopped parading their flesh they might start thinking they should do more in society than be nurses, secretaries, teachers, clerks, waitresses, maids and child-bearers. But the worst catastrophe would befall the high-placed administrators who might not get their chance to be flesh judges-and they would lose the opportunity to satisfy their dirty-old-man cravings legitimately. Hearty thanks, lettermen, you have saved motherhood, the economy and the political balance-ofpower for another day.
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