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first ccmcikiate The first candidate for the uniwat administration presidency will be visiting on monday and tuesday of next week. T.H. McLeod, viceprincipal of the Regina campus of the university of Saskatchewan, is the first guest of the presidential search-and-nominating committee. During his campus visit, McLeod will make a public address on the subject of conflicts in higher education. In addition, three and two-thirds hours of consultation sessions open to students, faculty and staff have been scheduled (see page 2). Visits by other candidates have been scheduled and an announcement will be made shortly. Chancellor Ira Needles, presidential search committee chairman, said, “Each individual who will visit the campus as a guest of the committee will be highly qualified and the university would be fortunate indeed to have any one of them agree to serve as its president. “We believe that each of these gentlemen has already earned

the respect of the academic community in which he is currently located, and each has qualifications for the presidential post which are most impressive and which would prove to be valuable assets to the university of Waterloo”, Needles concluded. The board of governors announced the formation of the presidential search committee 14 november 1968 when retiring admin president Gerry Hagey asked the board to seek his successor. Hagey said at that time that he would remain as president until his successor took office, but on 16 january 1969 announced he was stepping down immediately. Board chairman Carl Pollock announced the appointment of academic vicepresident Howard Petch as interim admin president 27 january 1969. Petch had stated publicly 13 december 1968 that he did not wish to be a candidate at that time for the top job. He has since said he will not serve as interim president longer than 1 july 1970.

Film, teach-in for t Biafra mourning day ‘As part of the national day of mourning through action for peace in Biafra, the external relations board has planned a day-long program for thursday. The events will include a teachin at 12: 15pm in the campus center great hall. Speakers will be biafrans Rex Ugorji and Tim Obiaga, Jim De‘laurier of Canadian air relief to Nigeria/Biafra, and Mrs. M. Jroaga. Palmer Patterson will modera te. oil, charity and death page 10 thou shalt not kill page 11 _____------------------Donations may be made across campus on thursday to canaireliefund, which flies food and health supplies into Biafra. The day’s program will end with a film entitled Biafra: a will to survive, at 8pm in the campus center great hall. Organizer Harvey Shacket saiu the aim of the national day of mourning is to sensitize people to the biafran situation, where

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2 million people have died since the summer of 1967. “Most important of all,” he said, “we are attempting through contributions to save as many biafrans as possible from meeting the same terrible end as their compatriots. “Finally, we are imploring the Canadian government to take diplomatic initiative to bring about a ceasefire, so that a peaceful settlement can be made between Nigeria and Biafra. “In addition, we urge the Canadian government to use every means available to influence the governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union to cease sending arms and financing this war:” He concluded by stating that “it is these actions, along with the draining-out of valuable oil which could be used to benefit both the nigerian and biafran people, which has made Great Britain and the Soviet Union accomplices in this contemporary Auschwitz.”

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WINDSOR (CUP)-A university of Windsor english professor was denied tenure because‘he refused to grade his students, says a study into the university by three Windsor graduate students. The Windsor english department dismissed professor Philip London in the spring for “gross and wilful neglect of duty” for giving all the students in his class A grades as part of an experimental program in teaching, the report says. When the university president refused to accept the dismissal, the english department voted the next month not to renew London’s contract for the following year-in effect, firing him.

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Conference OTTAWA (CUP)-At least 16 major universities will meet here late next month to discuss starting another national student union. Hugh Segal, vice president of the university of Ottawa student council, said thursday he sent invitations to all Canadian universities after the Canadian union of students folded last month. So far Segal says he has received affirmative replies from 15 univer-

dismissed The report, second part of a study on the “de-canadianization” of Windsor, calls the London case “symptomatic of the problem. ” The first part of the report, released november 10, analyzed the problems created by a lack of canadian content and teachers at the university. In part one, authors William House, Robert Macrae and Robert Reynolds say students oppose U.S. professors, not because they are americans, but because they import ideas from the american education system which do not suit Canadian needs. This has led, for example, to larger classes with an

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sities, including Sir George Williams, McGill, Montreal, Queens, Western, Waterloo, York, Windsor, Dalhousie, Brock and Mt. Allison. Several western universities have said they will also attend the conference. The conference was called to see if Canadian university students want some kind of national organization, Segal said. But it will be up to the individual uni-

for experimental emphasis on lectures rather than tutorials. Part two of the report implies that London’s methods weren’t “american” enough, since the main purpose of the experiment “was to remove stress from the student by lifting the threat of marks from him. ” Moreover, the authors allege the english department tenture and promotion committee ignored the guidelines set by the department 18 months before-guidelines which put teaching in the first priority for promotion and tenure. The tenure committee’s report on London placed teaching ability last as

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versities to make recommendations. “Whatever is proposed, we must steer clear of the political pitfalls that destroyed CUS,” he added. Federation president Tom Patterson said Waterloo expressed an interest in order to keep up with what’s happening so student council would be in a position to make an intelligent decision at a later stage of development.

teaching a criterion for tenure, says the report. Two of the three writers were in London’s experimental course and termed it a “success”. The report also scores the department for its lack of Canadian staff and content. “Only three courses are on canadian literature, while about 12 can be said to be on american literature. ” The report recommends that London receive tenure, that the department hire more Canadians, that a report on London’s experiment go to the university senate for consideration, and that students should be represented on the tenure and promotion committee.

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The following schedule of meetings open to students, faculty and staff to meet the presidential search committee’s guest T.H. McLeod has been announced by committee secretary Jack Brown. Monday 1 december, McLeod will be in the science faculty lounge (C251) from 10 to 10: 40am ; in the mathematics faculty lounge (M5136) from 3 to 3 : 40pm; and in the campus center from 5 to 6pm. Tuesday 2 december, he will be in the board and senate room (E1301) from 10 to 10:40am; in the social sciences faculty lounge (SS221) from 2:40 to 3:20pm; in the arts theater for a speech at 4 pm and following that he will attend an informal reception in the arts faculty lounge

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as an assistant professor of economics and sociology at Brandon college. McLeod has been involved in a number of activities not directly related to his university duties. He was a member of the royal commission on public accountancy in Saskatchewan in 1953, and chairman of the Saskatchewan royal commission on taxation in 1963-64. He was a membber of the board of governors of the university’s hospital from 1950 through 1965. In addition, he was a consultant to the Ford foundation in Turkey in 1960, and a field supervisor of a Harvard advisory group in Iran in 1961-62. McLeod’s talk in the arts theater will be on the subject of conflicts in higher education.

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BURNABY (CUP)-one of the seven professors appealing their suspensions by Simon Fraser university said thursday that he had been teaching during the 41-day strike that brought on the suspensions. Saghir Ahmad, a visiting professor who joined the political science, sociology and anthropology strike, was suspended under the universities act of British Columbia for failing to teach his courses at regularly scheduled times and places. Student and faculty witnesses testified that Ahmad had taught

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The drab walls of the arts tunnels were liberated thursday afternoon by members of the Several members of the great silent majorsmall vociferous minority (faction unspecified). ity replied with fisticuffs because they felt the university’s image was being damaged. But the walls were scheduled for a fresh painting soon anyway so a few of the SVM apologized to the GSM (those who didn “t get violent) for not being representative and letting everyone have a chance to take out their frustrations on the lifeless passageways.

Government The party system is an alternative to war,” said Max Saltsman, new democratic MP for Waterloo, at a meeting of young people sunday afternoon. The youth of Emmanuel united church in Waterloo invited Saltsman, liberal MPP for Waterloo Ed Good and alderman Roy Bauman to talk about politics and how the youth and church can have their voice heard. Saltsman clarified his statement by explaining how people under one ideology do battle with another group in parliament under a democratic set of rules rather than in the street. He explained that his faith in the party system is based on the conviction that people should be voting on issues rather than personali ties. In answer to the basic topic of the discussion, he suggested that such groups as youth and church

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can make their voice heard by discussing particular issues among themselves and making their collective agreement known to their representative. Ed Good said that feedback from the church was practically nil except when it concerns them financially such as the recent proposal to remove the churches’ tax exemptions. Bauman was concerned that there was not enough interest in government affairs and wished people would exercise their right. to vote. He did not see this as a cure-all for he felt that “you cannot create a moral situation through the polls; the individual must become receptive to the present system. ” He felt that the purpose of government was to protect the people so that they could “live

on economic, in peace rather than under a riot.” One person expressed disillusionment in the ability of the present system to serve the needs of the people, and asked Saltsman to explain what he meant by saying that he has a strong faith in the present system. Saltsman said that he was referring to the democratic system and if the economic system were to be changed, public opinion would have to be altered. Ed Good added that we could have a nationalised economy under the present system-God forbid”. Good remained in defense of free enterprise but was in favor of liberal reforms such as guaranteed minimum annual income. _ When Saltsman mentioned that it was a good trend to bring party politics to the municipal

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MONTREAL (CUP)-A building at Loyola college was rocked by dynamite thursday evening against apparently in reprisal the passage of bill in the Quebet legislature the same day. Damage to the four-storey Bryan building-finished in february 1968-was estimated at between $100,000 and $150,000 by loyola administration president Patrick Malone. The bomb exploded in a glassenclosed stairwell. No one was injured although 500 night students were taking classes in the building at the time. Malone said he doubted the bombing was connected with the dismissal of physics professor S.A. Santhanam, fired without explanation by the administration last summer. The dismissal

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between September 24 and october 3 (the period in question. ) But the three-man committee ruled irrelevant his evidence that other professors have taught in their homes or missed classes. The .board indicated it would withold judgement on the suspensions at least ‘until it had hear the appeal friday of former PSA chairman Mordecai Briemberg. Anthropology professor Kathleen Aberle last monday abanoned her appeal when the committee refused to hear evidence dealing with events before the strike began September 24.

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The belief is widely held that groups opposing bill 63-which gives Quebec parents the right to choose french or english as the language of instruction for their children-planted the bomb. Last month separatist labor leader Michel Chartrand predicted that english education institutions might be bombed if the controversial bill was adopted. It was the second bombing that day. Early thursday morning a small blast shook the home of a suburban deputy mayor, one of those leading a fight to retain english education in St.-Leonard.

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level, Bauman disagreed, saying that when a decision is made about improving a road, that has little to do with party politics. Saltsman said that a party philosophy would perhaps have a priority on education and that this would influence the appropriation of tax money. United church minister Bill Stewart spoke of the indifference of the business world to basic human needs and that the profit motive and competition stood in the way of any concern for the welfare of the employees. “The Bauman responded, worker is paid what he’s worth.” Stewart said it was a sad situation where the less capable remain permanently condemned in a highly-competitive society. “All of us are trapped in the jungle that we have created and even- the employer is a victim

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as he is bound by competition to keep wages “and benefits for the employee low.” Saltsman agreed saying, “There’s lots for everyone and goods should be distributed in a different way.” Good reaffirmed his faith in the free-enterprise system saying it has got us to the developed society today where we can talk about social legislation. He felt that business is becoming more responsive today to social needs even though it has not been in the past. In his concluding remarks, Good talked about having lived through the depression, thus making his generation more materialistic but that in the last five years or so, great steps forward have been taken in social reform.

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The Waterloo basketball athenas remain undefeated in the young 69-70 season by claiming a 53-i4 exhibition win over Guelph and a 76-33 win over the over-rated Western team. At Guelph on Wednesday, the athenas took an early lead allowing their host only one field goal in the first half. The farm team added two free throws and came out at half time down 23-4. The athenas ran into trouble as they committed 22 fouls and three key players were fouled out late in the game. Guelph did not capitalize on Waterloo’s, position, managing only eight successful free throws. Their three field goals brought their game total to 14 points. Guelph’s low score says a lot for the athenas defensive play. Led by Patty Bland, the pressing Waterloo defense interrupted Guelph ‘s offensive attack by forcing them to give up the ball 44 times at midcourt. Bland initiated 12 of these turnovers and added 10 rebounds in the cause. Offensively, MaryAnn Gaskin stole the show. Gaskin, last year’s MVP, was hitting 50 percent from the floor and the line scoring 23 of her teams 53 points. In their first home game of the season, the basketball ath-

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fast pace of the game sinking 28 points in the final quarter. The athenas again were plagued by fouls with 28 called against them. Western sunk 13 of their free throws and managed only 10 field goals on the athena defense. Next action for the athenas is tonight when they travel down the street to meet Lutheran in league play. Tomorrow night, they host the university of Toronto at the gym.

The aggressive athena style kept them in control of the entire game, leading 36-16 at the half. The big shots for the were Charlotte Shaule points, Pat Byer and Bland with 14 apiece. effectively beat Western’s to-man defense to move key shots. Waterloo kept

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The ‘dribblers-with-their-hands’ used a strong second half to beat Lutheran thursday night and extend their unbeaten string to three. Behind Chris Coulthard’s 13 and Bob Smeenk’s 9 points the hawks had led 38-37 at the half. But the warriors caught fire early in the second half and within 15 minutes had opened up a lo-point lead as they outscored the hawks 33-22. They were a little shaky in the last few minutes as the hawks narrowed the score to 79-75. They got the insurance basket with 11 under ten seconds to go. Jaan Laaniste, caught the long Crichton pass taking it in for an For the unmolested lay-up. warrior fans it was a thoroughly enjoyable ending to an exciting basketball game. For Laaniste the lay up counted for his thirty-first point of the game. One of the main reasons for the second half uniwat comeback had to be Laaniste’s scor-

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The warriors came from behind to pull off a 3-2 victory over the McMaster marlins in Hamilton friday night. It was the warriors second league game and the second game in a row in which they certainly have not played up to par. There was some improvement over their performance at Guelph, but the control which they can show still was not present. Marlins got the only goal of the first period although warriors had an advantage in play. Ken Ofield got the goal when he picked up a poor clearing pass by Rick Maloney and backhanded it past Ian Scott. Warriors were shortWarriors handed at the time. seemed to pick up a bit after the goal but play remained scrambly for the rest of the period. Unbwat scored twice in the period, both on good plays. Bob Reade got a beautiful goal on a shot which caught the lower right hand corner. Rick Maloney made a smart play by skating in front of Reade just before he fired. ---- -.. The second goal was also a

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ing-he got 25 points in the second half. Tom Kieswetter had 19 and Dennis Wing 10 for the game. The warriors gave up considerable height to the hawks on thursday but still got more than their share of the rebounds. Leading the warriors were Paul Bilewicz, Dennis Wing and Art Webster. The warriors once again led their opponents in forcing turnThis game Lutheran overs. gave the ball up 38 times and the warriors 10 times less. Twentyeight turnovers by the uniwat team is still too many if they expect to do well this weekend in the tip-off tournament. The warriors were unbeatable again this week when they werr: running. This was show-n in that ten minute spurt in the second half when they took the ball game out of Lutheran’s reach. The running was a little slow to come at the beginning of the game however, and they almost got themselves into a hole from the opening jump (and that is hardtodo!).

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Another gross statistic was the foul line performance of the uniwat boys. . They were 48 percent from the line hitting on only 11 of 23 free throws. Lutheran had 33 points on foul shots. The largest crowd of the year so far watched thursday’s game and seemed to like what they saw. The defensive hustle of the warriors, especially Laaniste and Webster, and the outside shooting by Laaniste brought

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The volleyball athenas travelled to Guelph last Wednesday for an exhibition match. There were five games played and the athenas won all five easily with scores ranging from 15-O to 15-12. The Guelph team is a young team and as it is still early in the season, the’ caliber of ball played was not very high, for either team. Last Saturday was a much dif-

to come back puck. Perhaps with better

good play as Ken Laidlaw and Bob Thorpe combined on a 2 on 1 break. Laidlaw passed to Thorpe who immediately fired, beating the McMaster goalie before he could move. In the third period Ken Laidlaw jammed the puck into the net from a scramble. At 17 :37 McMaster got their second goal with the warriors two men short, as marlin Popek skated between Phil Branston and Ian McKegney to beat Scott. The way the warriors are playing they will need a lot of luck to beat the better teams. This ‘slump’ of t.heirs is rather mystifying to both players and fans alike. Perhaps it’s hard to get up for teams like Guelph and McMaster. Perhaps the easy victories over Lutheran and York have made them too over-confident . Their scrambly and disorganized play often looks as if the pregame jitters had never left them. Even their skating wasn’t good friday. The forwards were able to control the puck, until one of them had to pass it. Often the pass would be bad or the receiver -would simply miss getting the

great applause. Tom Kieswetter put on some great dribbling shows but they were slightly frightening near the end of the game when he went on the rampage. The warriors meet York this friday night in the first round of the tip-off tourney. York beat Windsor last week and Windsor has the same team that won the Canadian championship last year. The warrior win streak could go

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less energy would be wasted and a quicker attack would result. Another absence from the warrior’s effort is hitting: You won’t ,win at hockey by hitting alone, but it helps. McMaster hit fairly reguarly but the warriors didn’t start hitting until the latter half of the game.

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defense played a fair game, making mistakes but covering up well. McMaster’s goals were both an power-plays, one with the warriors two men short. The defense could still hit the attackers a bit sooner, and their clearing was as much off target as the forward’s passing. Often they got little help from forwards who were slow to backcheck at times. It was a game of mistakes and a disconcerting one for the warriors. They felt they could have, and should have, played a much faster and more commanding game than they did. Why have they deteriorated? When you play well in practice, but not in a game, where do you look for the answer? Is it the mere fact of not getting up for a poor team? Perhaps they are in a slump. Hopefully, that’s what it is and they will pull out of it before friday’s game against Windsor. Windsor beat Toronto earlier this year and is considered by coach Bob McKillop the most underrated team in the league. The game is at Waterloo arena, friday at 8: 30pm.

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HE FACTS OF TODAY’S population crisis Mankind at first are appallingly simple. gradually, but recently with extreme rapidity, has intervened artificially to lower the death rate Simultaneously we in the human population. have not, repeat have not, intervened to lower Since people are unable to flee the birth rate. from our rather small planet, the inevitable result of the wide discrepancy between birth and death rates has been a rapid increase in the numbers of people crowded onto the Earth.

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The growth of the population is now so rapid that the multitude of humans is doubling every 35 years. Indeed in many undeveloped countries the doubling time is between 20 and 25 years. Think of what it means for the population of a country like Colombia to double in the oext 22 years. Throughout its history the people of Colombia have managed to create a set of facilities for the maintenance of human beings: buildings, roads, farms, water systems, sewage systems, hospitals, schools, churches, and so forth. Remember that just to remain even, just to maintain today’s level of misery, Columbia would have to duplicate all of those facilities in the next 22 years. It would have to double its human resources as well-train enough doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, and all the rest so that in 22 years the number of all these professionals would be twice that of today. Such a task would be impossible for a powerful, industrialized country with agricultural surpluses, high literacy rate, fine schools, and communications, etc. Th? United States couldn’t hope to accomplish it. For Colombia, with none of these things, with 30-40% of its population illiterate, with 47% of its population under 15 years of age, it is inconceivable. Yes, it will be impossible for Colombia to maintain its present level of misery for the next 22 years-and misery it is. Death control did not reach Colombia until after World War II. Before it arrived, a woman could expect to have two or three children survive to reproductive age if she went through ten pregnancies. Now, inspite of malnutrition, medical technology keeps seven or eight alive. Each child adds to the impossible financial burden of the family and to the despair of the mother. According to Dr. Sumner M. Kalman, the average Colombian mother goes through a progression of attempts to limit the size of her family. She starts with ineffective native forms of contraception and moves on to quack abortion, infanticide, frigidity, and all too often to suicide. ~The average family in Colombia, after its last child is born, has to spend 80% of its income on food. And the per capita income of Colombians is $237 per year, less than one-tenth

that of Americans. That’s the kind of misery that’s concealed behind the dry statistic of a population doubling every 22 years. But, it seems highly unlikely that 22 years from now, in 1990, Colombia will have doubled its present population of 20 million to 40 million. The reason is quite simple. The Earth is a spaceship of limited carrying capacity. The three and one half billion people who now live on our globe can do so only at the expense of the consumption of non-renewable resources, especially coal and petroleum. Today’s technology could not maintain three and one half billion people without ‘living on capital’ as we are now doing. Indeed it is doubtful if any technology could permanently maintain that number. And note -that, even living on-capital, we are doing none too well. Somewhere between one and two billion people are today undernourished (have too few calories) or malnourished (suffer from various deficiencies, especially protein deficiencies). Somewhere between 4 and 10 million of our fellow human beings will starve to death this year. Consider that the average person among some 2 billion Asians has an annual income of $128, a life expectancy at birth of only 50 years, and is illiterate. A third of a billion Africans have an average life expectancy of only 43 years, and an average annual income of $123. Of Africans over 15 years of age, 82% are illiterate. Look at the situation in India, where Professor Georg Borgstrom estimates that only about one person in fifty has an adequate diet. For the vast majority the calorie supply ‘is not sufficient for sustaining a normal workday. Physical exhaustion and apathy (is) the rule. ’ No, we’re not doihg a very good job of taking care of the people we have in 1968-and we are adding to the population of the Earth 70 million people per year. Think of it-an equivalent of the 1968 population of the United States added to the world every three years ! We have an inadequate loaf of bread to divide among today’s multitudes, and we are quickly adding more billions to the bread line.

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S-1 SAID AT THE beginning the facts are indeed simple. We are faced by a most elementary choice. Either we find a way to bring the birth rate down or the death rate will soon go back up. Make no mistake about it-mankind has not freed itself of the tyranny of arithmetic! Anyone, including Pope Paul the 6th, who stands in the way of measures to bring down the birth rate is automatically working for a rise in the death rate. The death rate could rise in several ways. Perhaps the most likely is through famine. The world has very nearly reached its maximum food production capacity-even with the expenditure of our non-renewable resources. Agricultural experts such as Professor Borgstrom and the Paddock brothers present a dismal picture indeed.

The Paddocks’ best ‘Time of Famines,’ L millions will starve How accurate their 1 many factors, such ; we have no control. on what actions ma amelioration of the agree with the Padd are now inevitable. Plague presents ant rate solution’ to the known that viruses n when they infect a I?.* circulating in a wt precedented size, al capable of spreading of the globe almost in an unparalleled epide. germ should escape warfare labs we migh sapiens. It is now th lop organisms agains resistance-indeed 01 appalled at the possib that he quit research il Finally, of course, provide us with an I Nearly a billion peop of their biologically beria, India, and the suffering millions of towards revolution x An Arab population b estinian refugees, add tion to loot the sea o tional incidents. As I less ar ’ less, as the ri er, the probability of the world know what They have what is kn For this reason alon current levels of liv maintain peace. Unfortunately we u all human beings to c Small groups of gen poverished survivors inevitably harsh envi planet. War not onl: explosion, it has the possibility of any futLr Faced with this dis people, especially in z United States, taken birth rate down? W: towards a world wi, living in balance with have most American: gravity of the entire these questions are r rest of this talk I’d reason why we have population bomb. TI’ tion of a series of fict the problem or presc These fictions are E people who show an z facing unpleasant real the fictions, and some (

ICTION: The p at least in the birth rate is at an all-ti FACT: Although t States has hit record and per year) for IC--. not approached the 1 around 9 per thousanc cord low rate (if it wI tion of the United Stl 100 years. But the 10,

stk of the onset of the ne when many tens of lath annually, is 1975. tion is will depend on ! weather, over which ill also depend in part takes to attempt an on. I must, however, that massive famines possibility for a ‘death lation problem. It is crease their virulence pulation. With viruses ?d population of unith modern transport tion to the far corners y, we could easily face Indeed, if a man-made one of our biological the extinction of Homo tally possible to deve:h man would have no )bel laureate was so If an accidental escape field. monuclear war could t death rate solution. China are pushing out Cz country towards Si.ong Rice bowl. The America are moving nmunist governments. especially among Palensions. The competifishes creates internaand more people have t richer and poor poorrcreases. The poor of ave, and they want it. 3s rising expectations. mere maintenance of vi11 be inadequate to t need to kill outright mankind to extinction. ly and culturally imwell succumb to the ent of a war-ravaged Id end this population ltial for removing the elation growth. prospect, why haven’t [cated country like the Ial action to bring the ven’t we led the way optimum population ?sources? Why indeed lained unaware of the em? The answers to and complex. In the to discuss one major lanaged to defuse the ason is the perpetuawhich tend to discount lntasy solutions to it. y believed by many I-human wish to avoid Let’s look at some of unpleasant realities. tion explosion is over, d States, because the 1W.

rth rate of the United (around 16 per thous:riods this year it has rate, which is down year. Even at the re) continue) the populawould double in about th rate will not persist

since the large group of women born in the postWorld War II baby boom move into their peak reproductive ‘period in the next few years. Birth rates are subject to short-term fluctuations, according to the number of women born in the post World War II baby boom move into their peak reproductive period in the next few years. Birth rates are subject to short-term fluctuations, according to the number of women in their to the number of women in their reproducof -the economy, the tive years, the condition occurrence of wars, etc. Viewing a temporary decline of the birth rate as a sign of the end of the population explosion is like considering a warm December 26th as a sign of spring. The ballyhooing of the temporary decline -of birth rate (with, if you recall, no mention of death rate) has done great harm to the cause of humanity.

ICTION: The United States has no population problem-it is a problem of the undeveloped countries. ‘FACT: Considering the problems of air and water pollution, poverty, clogged highways, overcrowded schools, inadequate courts and jails, urban blight, and so on, it is clear that the United States has more people than it can adequately maintain . But even if we were not overpopulated at home we could not stand detached from the rest of the world. We are completely dependent on imports for our affluence. We use roughly one consumed on the . half df all the raw materials face of the Earth each year. We need the ferroalloys, tin, bauxite, petroleum, rubber, food, and other materials we import. We, one fifteenth of the population, grab one half as our share. We can afford to raise beef for our own use in protein-starved Asia. We can afford to take fish from protein-starved South America and feed it to our chickens. We can afford to buy protein-rich peanuts from protein-starved Afri&&. Even if we are not engulfed in world-wide plague or war we will suffer mightily as the ‘other world’ slips into famine. We will -suffer when they are no longer willing or able to supply our needs. It has been truly said that calling the population explosion a problem of undeveloped countries is like saying to a fellow passenger ‘your end of the boat is sinking.’ ICTION: Much of the Earth is empty land F which can be put under cultivation in order to supply food for the burgeoning population of the planet. FACT: Virtually all of the land which can be cultivated with known or easily foreseeable methods already is under cultivation. We would have to double our present agricultural production just to adequately feed today’s billions-and the population of the-Earth is growing, I repeat, by some 70 million people per year. No conceivable expansion or arable land could take care of these needs.

ICTION: Although land agriculture can not possibly take care of our food needs, we still have ‘unmeasurable’ resources of the sea which can be tapped so that we can populate the Earth until people are jammed together like rabbits in a warren. FACT : The resources of the sea have been measured and have been found wanting. Most of the sea is a biological desert. Our techniques for extracting -what potential food there is in the sea are still very primitive. With a cessation of pollution, complete international cooperation, and ecological!y intelligent management we might manage to double our present yield from the sea or do even better on a sustained basis. But even such a miracle. Indeed there is increasing pollution of the sea with massive amounts of pesticides and other biologically active compounds. In addition, a no-holds-barred race to harvest the fish of the sea has developed among China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and others. This race is resulting in the kind of overexploitation which led to the decline of the whaling industry. All the signs point to a reduction of the food yield of the sea in the near future-not to a bonanza from the sea.

ICTION: Science ( with a capital S ) will 1 find a new way to feed every&e-perhaps by making food synthetically. FACT : Perhaps in the distant future some foods will be produced synthetically in large quantity, but not in time to help mankind through the crisis it now faces. The most discussed methods would involve the use of micro-organisms

and fossil fuels. Since fossil fuels are limited in supply, and much in demand for other uses, their use as a food source would be a temporary measure at best. Direct synthesis, even should it eventually prove possible, would inevitably present problems of energy supply and materials supply-it would be no simple ‘food for nothing’ system. But, I repeat, science holds no hope of finding a synthetic solution to the food problem at this time.

ICTION: We can solve the crowding problem on our planet by migrating to other planets. FACT : No other planet of the solar system appears to be habitable. But, if all of them were, we would have to export to them 70 million people a year to keep our population constant. With our current technology and that foreseeable in the next few decades such an effort would be economically impossible-indeed the drain on our mineral resources and fossil fuels would be unbelievable’. Suppose that we built rockets immeasurably larger than any in existence today-capable of carrying 100 people and their baggage to another planet. Almost 2,000 of such monster ships would have to leave each day. The effects of their exhausts on the atmosphere would be spectacular to say the least. And what if through miracles, we did manage to export all those people and maintain them elsewhere in the solar system? In a mere 250 years the entire system would be populated to the same density as the Earth. Attempting to reach the planets of the stars raises the prospect of space ships taking generations to reach their destinaSince bopula tion explosions could not be tions. ‘permi tted on the sta r ships the passengers would have to be willing to practice strict birth control. In other words, the responsible people will have to be the ones to leave, with the irresponsible staying at home to breed. On the cheery side, getting to the stars might not be so difficult. After all, in a few thousand years at the current growth rate, all the material, in the visible Universe will have been converted into people, and the sphere of people will be expanding outward at better then the speed of light! ICTION: Family planning is the answer to the population explosion. It has worked in places like Japan; it will work in places like India. FACT: No country, including Japan, has managed to bring its population under rational control. After World War II Japan employed abortion to reduce its birth rate, but it did not stop its growth. Indeed, in 1966, with its birth rate at a temporary low because it was the ‘Year of the Fiery Horse’ (considered inauspicious for births),’ Japan’s population was still growing at a rate which would double it in 63 years. Japan is in desperate straits. Today it must import food equivalent to its entire agricultural production. In addition it depends heavily ori its fisheries from which it gets food equivalent to more than one and one half times its agricultural production. Japan is so overpopulated that even if her population growth stopped she would succumb to disaster as her sources of food imports dry up and as her share of the yield from the sea shrinks. But, remember, grossly overpopulated Japan is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. Family planning in India has had no discernible effect even though it has had government support for some 17 years. During those years the population has increased by more than one half, and the growth rate itself has increased. The IUD (intrauterine device) was promoted by the professional optimists as the panacea for India, but the most recent news from that country indicates a recognition of the failure of the IUD campaign and a return to the promotion of condoms. Most depressing of all is the point that family planning promotes the notion that people should have only the number of children they want and can support. It does not promote family sizes which will bring about population control. As Professor Kingsley Davis has often pointed out, people want too many children. Family planning has not controlled any population to date, and by itself it is not going to control any population. These fictions are spread by a wide variety of people and organizations, and for a wide variety of reasons. Some have long-term emotional commitments to outmoded ideas such as population control through family planning. Others wish to disguise the failure of the government agencies they run. Still others have simple economic interksts in the sale of food or agriciltural chemicals and equipment . Almost ali also have genuine humanitarian motives. Most of these people have an incbmplete view of the problem at best. The less well informed simply have no grasp of the magnitude of the problem-these are the ones who propose solutions in outer space or under the sea.

More sophisticated are those who hold out great hopes for agricultural changes (now often referred to as a ‘green revolution’) which will at least temporarily solve the problem. Such people are ’ especially common in our government. This sophisticated group tends to be ignorant \ of elementary biology. Our desperate attempts to increase food yields are promoting soil deterioration and contributing to the poisoning of the ecological systems on which our very survival depends. It is a long and complex story, but the conclusion is simple-the more we strive to obtain increased yields in the short run, the smaller the, yields are likely to be in the long run. No attempt to increase food yields can solve the I problem. How much, then, should we mortgage our future by such attempts? I’ve concentrated, in my discussion, on the nature of the population explosion rather than attempting to detail ways of reaching a birth rate solution. That is because the first step towards any solution involves a realistic facing of the problem. We must, as that first step, get a majority of Americans to recognize the simple choice: lower the birth rate or face a drastic rise in the death rate. We must divert attention from the treatment of symptoms of the population explosion and start treating its cause. We have no more time; we must act now. Next year will not do. It is already too late for us to survive unscathed. Now we must make decisions designed to minimize the damage. America today reminds me of the fabled man who jumped off the top of a 50-story building. As he passed the second floor he was heard to say ‘things have gone pretty well so far.’ HEN THE FIRST United Nations Demographic Yearbook was compiled in 1948 it probably struck most ordinary people as a mere exercise in prophe& and nothing to get disturbed about. It did not strike all people that way, of course. Canada’s Dr. Brock Chisholm, then director-general of the UN World Health Organization, became very disturbed indeed. He said if mankind went on breeding the way it had been there would eventually be too little food, water and air to support human beings on this earth. With the aid of some other population experts he began the process of dusting off Malthus (who had warned a good deal earlier that man could outgrow his environment) and restoring him to his pedestal. The 1948 Yearbook warned that the world population had reached 2.32 billion in 1947, and would probably touch 3 billion by the end of the century. The 1969 report, presented by UN SecretaryGeneral U Thant, puts the world population for 1967 at 3.42 billion, and the present population is estimated at 3.632 billion. We actually passed the 3 billion point four decades ahead of the 1948 estimate, in 1960, and present projections put the 2000 figure at 6.13 billion. By 1985 alone, a bare 16 years away, the earth will be teeming with 4.933 billion. There is enough terror in the bare totals alone, but there is more in the figures that accompany them. The rate of growth in 1968 was estimated at 1.9 per cent a year, but in the 1970s this is expected to increase to a rate of 2 to 2.1 per cent-a higher rate of growth than has been experienced in the history of man. This growth, moreover, will occur at twice the rate in the poor and underdeveloped countries than it will in the developed regions. The report sees no probability at all of a balance being reached, of the birth rate being reduced to the level of the death rate. “Enormous future increases in the numbers of mankind must therefore still be anticipated as a virtual certair,ty, unless disasters were to occur on a hitherto unimaginable scale.” The UN Population Commission is considering these figures in Geneva this week. It may designate 1974 as World Population Year. There is a kind of desperate nonsense about the idea, for not only is the world but slightly interested in birth control, one of its most powerful religious bodies remains-at least at its top-adamantly opposed to birth control. Pope Paul still refuses to admit the tragedy that will arise from his insistence that Roman Catholics may not practice birth control. Roman Catholics in the rich parts of the world are not deterred by his strictures; but many of those in the poor world will be. The Church could impose its influence on much of Africa, which is growing very rapidly, and upon Latin America, which is growing most rapidly of all. The bishops at the recent synod persuaded the Pope to some reforms, but not to this one, and it will be another two years-and how many million new mouths?-before they can again attempt it. It is a strange blindness in a world which, within the lifetime of many, could find itself welcoming plague as the only escape. -from the Toronto Globe & Mail, 4.11.69 tuesday

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Considering the less-than-ideal situation which Maurice Evans stepped into when he became artistic director of the arts theater, he deserves credit for his production of Jean Anouilh’s The cavern.

Evans was faced with the task of mounting a very difficult play involving deep characterizations, using an obviously inexperienced cast, many of whom (to my knowledge) have never before appeared in a university drama production. The cavern, first published in 1966, is a playwithin-a-play in which the cook of a wealthy aristocratic family is murdered after a series of complicated interactions involving both the family (upstairs) and the servants (downstairs). Anouilh introduces a second level by having the author intervene in the action, asking the actors to try various scenes in order to determine the best presentation of the story and characters. It is in the area of characterization that the production fell short. Brian Coghlan (the author), Bill MacKenzie (the superintendent) and Johanna Falk (Hugueline) came closet to finding consistent, if unexciting characters. It is unfortunate that Marjorie Murphy as the cook had difficulty making herself understood and lacked the emotional intensity required for the role. Similarly, Julie Begemann (Adele) and Robert

Currer (the seminarist) lacked variety in speed which became especially evident in Begemann’s final monolog. Harvey Wiebe’s characterization of the count seemed to conflict with his aged appearance, but his quiet understatement of the character was somewhat more believable than the overacting of Leon (Al Snider). Because of a general lack of sensitivity toward their characters, the cast failed to exploit many of the theatrical moments in the play. The most striking of these moments occurs when the cook strangles a live rabbit on stage and throws it in the face of her son. This moment, at least on thursday night, met with audience response ranging from embarrassed snickers to riotous laughter. Another missed moment resulted from the knife fight in which the cook and the coachman resembled members of a motorcycle gang rather than aged servants. The set design seemed to add little to the production as a whole. Although called for by -the author, the placement of the chimney as a unifying device, did not seem suited to the thrust stage, since sight lines were badly obscured. Props, on the other hand, were well chosen and, unlike the set, fit the period well. I think the shortcomings of the production were rooted in the fact that the play was far too ambitious an undertaking for a relatively inexperienced cast.

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Two million are dead and the starvation continues in Biafra. T

HE REASONS BEHIND the biafran war and the reasons why little is being done to halt the mounting death toll are rooted in a policy of economic exploitation of the third world. This neo-imperialism hasn’t really changed since the days when an empire was called an empire, and proudly so. What first drew the british traders to the Niger river area in the 19th century was palm oil, the main ingredient of soap. But they were hampered from making large profits by the enterising ibo merchants who acted as middlemen between the british and the_ palm-oil producers who were located in what is now the northern region of Nigeria. “protectorate” had its The nigerian roots in a british colonial decision to deal directly with the palm-oil producers. River gunboats were used to blast away the ibo competitors, and the french were threatened with war if they tried to encroach on the Niger. The moslem north’s ruling group was cooperative with british traders and was encouraged to keep its feudal way of life. The south was put under direct rule to keep the palm oil flowing to the sea and on to Europe. The modern plight of Nigeria, and particularly the primarily-ibo Biafra, has much to do with oil too-this time petroleum. Oil was discovered in 1953, and came to be considered an important alternate source when arab nationalism became a threat to western petroleum interests in the near east. The problem now was that three-quarters of the oil in Nigeria was located in the eastern region, Biafra, inhabited not by the feudal moslems, but by enterprising, democratic ibos. But this was not an obstacle to the oilmen as long as the northern sultans and emirs dominated federal Nigeria, as they had since Britain granted political independence. A military coup 15 january 1966 was led by an ibo general, Ironsi. His supporters wanted to end the feudalistic stranglehold of the north on development, to replace the private courts and personal favoritism and to make the oil companies pay more taxes. ’ A counter-coup six months later led by general Gowon put the northerners back in control of the federation. Purges in the north killed as many as 30,000 ibos and nearly two million ibo refugees fled to the eastern region. The eastern region formally seceded 10

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30 may 1967 as the republic of Biafra, headed by colonel Ojukwu. Enter the oil companies-with over a billion dollars invested in federal Nigeria -led by the americans and the british. The oil companies were cautious, but tended initially to favor Biafra, partly because the federal government had been bargaining too hard for oil contracts before Biafra seceded. But Biafra had little success on the battlefield, and with a more conciliatory approach by the federal government, the oil companies were solidly behind the federal regime. The british government, which had been toying with recognition of Biafra, followed suit with the Shell-BP consortium and became firmly committed to the federal government. At the same time the french, who held no nigerian oil franchises, had little to lose in siding with Biafra. While not, giving diplomatic recognition to the regime, the state-owned oil company Safrap did buy $15 million in oil rights from the biafrans. Other french investment followed. Military support for the combatants follows the same lines with the british supplying arms to federal Nigeria and the french supplying arms to Biafra. The biafran war would be much easier for western people to “understand” and take sides with the “just” cause if one side was communist-backed and the other supported by the “free” world. But in this case, the Soviet Union is on the same side as Britain, supplying federal Nigeria with the air power that is causing so much death and destruction in Biafra. But this is the real issue in the neo-imperialism. It matters not whose flag a colony flies, for the colony can be-allowed to fly its own flag as long as its economic conqueror is allowed to do what it wishes. This is the key- to the struggle in southeast asia, too. Huge markets and sources of profitable raw materials must be protected from falling into the hands of the people who are being exploited. The biafrans have not given up the fight (even though they do not seem to be able to win militarily) because they fear what will happen if they lose. Even if there are no massacres, the political redefinitions of internal states proposed by the federal government would crowd the ibos into an oil-less state, and thus reduce them to a subjugated people. * * * While the political situation in Nigeria seems to be a product of the manipulations of profit-seeking outside powers, the rea-

sons for lack of effective action to end the starvation are equally inhuman. The only effective food aid has come from church groups defying international law and risking nigerian federal bombing to bring in their donations. Various proposals to turn the entire relief program over to the federal government or to the international red cross have been rejected by Biafra. Rejection of federal relief control has seemed reasonable to most westerners because the attitude of some nigerian officials that starvation is a legitimate war tactic are fairly well known. But the rejection of international red cross control of relief operations is much harder to understand. There is a hint in an editorial in the Toronto Star 21 february 1969, in which the Star was bemoaning the Canadian government’s shameful efforts to bring relief to Biafra, compared to the churches. The Trudeau government had sent three transport planes to be used by the red cross and only one of the planes was used, and only for about a dozen flights. “The reason is simply that the churches are not as timid as the red cross about flying into Biafra. The red cross sees itself as semi-political. Therefore, if it flew regularly into Biafra, this would imply recognition of the breakaway state, thus annoying Nigeria, which would then lodge a complaint to the Canadian government,” said the Star. But it is not nearly so simple. Canadians have a prejudiced view of the red cross as a humanitarian group that can do no wrong (although they might be a little conservative). But the red cross is more than a bunch of nice people who run a free blood donor service for Canadians. It is the largest and most powerful charity organization in the world, with chapters in over 100 countries and over lOO,000,000 members. Foremost among the chapters is the american branch, which has 28,000,OOO adult members and 18,000,000 junior members, and which distributed $122,457,000 from contributions in 1967-68. The american chapter is among the worst in the international red cross-during the second world war they labelled donated blood as either “black” or “white” so injured white men could have a choice; they won’t help families of strikers, even if they’re starving; and their meetings resemble elite social clubs. Perhaps the worst thing the international red cross has done occurred last year when the west german red cross and sev-

era1 other chapters alerted hundreds of nazis that their hiding places were known and justice was closing in on them. Nzai-hunter Simon Wiesenthal had just finished compiling in early 1968 a fresh list of descriptions and addresses of nazis who had committed crimes in France during the war. Wiesenthal passed the list to the french government who would locate and try to extradite the nazis and at the same time he sent a copy of the list to the west german foreign office, as was his custom. Somehow, the list came to the attention of Johannes Gawlik, head of the foreign office’s legal protection department that looks after the interests of germans living abroad. Gawlik, who had defended several SS men during the Nuremberg trials decided to pass the list on to Kurt Wagner, head of the west german red cross research center. Wagner set out to inform every red cross chapter of nazis hiding in their areas so they could warn them. The austrian red cross, for example, eagerly cooperated by warning 30 nazi criminals that they were on the list. West german red cross members flew to south america to warn in person nazi criminals hiding there. ’ As a result, 580 of the 807 on the list were warned by the red cross. Said Wagner: “We are helpers, not judges. We help all human beings in trouble. Nazis are human beings, too. To warn them was in the best red cross tradition.” * * * The tragedy in Biafra is dismissed by many well-meaning westerners as “ tribalism”-a mysterious black-versusblack ritual that no white man could understand. But like the alleged protestant-versuscatholic tragedy in northern Ireland, there are real reasons. In Ireland, the inter-Christian battle is really a battle against manipulation by society’s ruling group. In Nigeria the war started because of economic manipulation that resulted in an unworkable combination of “nations” and an attempt to continue external economic control by using one nation against another. The biafran tragedy continues because the world powers can’t agree to stop supplying arms (and eventually losing control) and the biafrans refuse to surrender control of relief missions to a right-wing, anti-human, ruling-group-controlled charity like the international red cross.

eI un In contemplating the battlefield of the 1980’s, one is tempted to yield to the Buck Rogers syndrome. One attractive version is the rocket-belted, instrumented infantryman, streaking through the skies inflicting death and destruction with his 3000meter atomic pistol. Unfortunately, even for t~he most optimistic advanced-concepts planner, the foreseeable future holds no such concept. -Ordinances magazine, july 69

All is fair in war. And starvation is one of the weapons of war. why we should feed our enemies fat, only to fight us harder. -Chief Obafemi A wolo wo, vicechairman of Nigeria 3 federal council.

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Some others are eager to enlarge the conflict. They call upon us to supply american boys to do the job that asian boys should-do. They ask us to take reckless action which might risk the lives of millions and engulf much of Asia and certainly threaten the peace of the entire world. Moreover, such action would offer no solution at all to the real problem of Vietnam. -Lyndon Johnson, New York,‘12 august 1964. Your daddy may go down in history -Lyndon Johnson, to Luci,quotedin

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“Assassination is a very important way to run a country just gotta learn that.” -Robin Moore, author of the Green Berets. “War is a nasty business in which you find objectives, such as fighting for freedom against people.” -Robert Rheault, Green Beret commander, tion of an alleged double-agent in Vietnam.

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1. Thou shalt not kill, unless thou wearest a green headpiece; if thou wearest one, thou mayest be a law unto thyself. 2. Thou shalt not kill, unless thou has a commitment to humanity; but such a commitment bindeth thee not to helping extend the life of a human. 3. Thou shalt not kill, unless thou hast a responsibility to the men of the farther east; but this responsibility doth not oblige thee to regard as valuable the life of a man in the farther east. 4. Thou shalt not kill, unless thou art in the business of spying out lands flowing with milk and jelly; but if in the char left by that jelly thou dost take it upon thyself to spy, a law higher than that of the law of the lord may be invoked, and thou mayest kill whensoever it convenienceth thee. 5. Thou shalt not kill, but thou mayest “terminate with extreme prejudice” the life of a man who causeth thy lie detector to blip twice. 6. Thou shalt not kill, but the law of the lord is not to be taken with high regard if it deterreth thy warring armies from pursuing their course. 7. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou killest, let it not cause anger or warring within thy armed forces. 8. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou killest, thou shalt not admit that thou hast done so, nor shalt thou acknowledge the past existence of the victim; but thou mayest silence hi! widow with a reward of six thousand four hundred and seventy-two sheke 9. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou must work to nail a coonskin to the wall or to destroy a city to make it live, take unto thee also the license to make mistakes in the taking of lives with impunity. 10. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou killest, take regard that thou undertakest “a wet disposal” of the body of the victim, and cover thou this deed with darkness. 11. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou takest in thine hand to kill, do not permit thy brothers to testify aga,inst thee; blessed art thou if thou hast Rivers as a friend in high places. 12. Thou shalt not kill, but if thou killest, thou mayest live long on the earth if the great friend thee, for the law of the lord is secondary and of the commanders of his sundry hosts. -the Christian Century, 22 October 1969.

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The university is a non-political institution whose role is the dual one of education and research, not a place to instigate social change or an agent for political reform. -

paraphrased from a statement by administration president Howard Petch, march 1969. And in may, 1969, the board of governors approved two briefs that were presented to the provincial government arguing for a change in the law. Not only was it a contradiction, but the political role the university administration was taking was ridiculously irrelevant-they were requesting permission to operate campus pubs and a lowering of the legal age for alcohol to 18. The briefs argued mainly that the legal restrictions on alcohol tended to increase the importance of its use and that the lack of general availability led to sporadic heavy consumption. At the same time, the a,dministration seems to strongly support the existing laws on other drugs, such as marijuana. Administration logic became even more confused when in a leap of faith, the campus center was bemoaned as a filthy crossroads for the trafficking of drugs, ‘and presumably one was responsible for the other. The narcs believed the same line but were never able to catch anyone selling or using drugs in the campus center. Just for good appearances though, they staged a full-scale raid, searching people and taking names, and to make it look better they arrested three people on previous warrants. Now, there’s no. talk of drugs in the campus center (except from local probation officers and the K-W Record, neither of which

know much about reality) and the place is still pretty dirty. And anyone who has read the campus center turnkeys’ daily log excerpts (published 21 October and 21 november) realizes that one of the biggest causes of mess and damage is drunken students. With a pub night almost every night and age checks extremely rare, there seems little need for the changes in the province’s laws requested by the administration. But there is lots of damage by drunks. So if Petch is having any doubts about providing increases in the campus center budget for janitors and turnkeys, maybe he should remember the administration’s small venture into the critical university. He should remember that propagation of the use of booze is a university policy. Perhaps the whole thing can be solved when the brewery and distillery companies, whose executives are on our board of governors, are in a position to diversify into marijuana and hashish production (some tobacco companies are already prepared). Then the university administration could petition the government to legalize the stuff. This would solve a lot of problems-booze corporation profits would be stable, respect for the law would return, the administration wouldn’t have to worry about continuing the critical university any farther because the radicals would be stoned on pot the way the great silent majority is stoned on booze now and cleaning and damage bills in the campus center would be lower. But the narcs would have to find some other excuse to hassle those enemies of the state who didn’t stay stoned.

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