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ate’s “The university is no stranger to conflict. Indeed, it should be argued that conflict has been central to the whole idea of the university.” That was presidential candidate Tom McLeod’s general com-

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ment at a lecture titled flicts in higher education” arts theater tuesday.

In case you are wondering why the Chevron came out on thursday this week, it’s because all classes have been cancelled tomorrow for the faculty association’s professional development day. The program features an address by Alex McCuaig from the education department Ontario on current classroom practices. Workshops and films on the use of audio-visual teaching aids will take up much of the dayUniwat prof Don Gordon will talk about audio-visual aids as a blessing or curse. McMaster critic of the will discuss universities a result of in highschools.

prof James Daly, a Hall-Dennis report, problems faced by in the seventies as the current changes

WHERE IT’S AT. . , or some of the things they will probably not talk about at professional ~developmen t day: the opia tc of’ in tcllcc tuals-page 12;an cc&tic dcgy -page / 7; the mea,suremcn t complexpago 22; ‘sub Wrsivc ftinnicspage’ 2.3; and slavcry -- page’ 24.

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tion, is a narrow one”, McLeod presented his views on “the period from which I believe we are now emerging and which has been by far the noisiest in the history of our universities” to an audience of over 100 during the first part of the lecture.

Putting to use “the application of a mind that is only ordinarily tidy” and “the matrix within which I work, which, by defini-

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OTTAWA (CUP&A crisis atmosphere prevailed on the usually dull campus of Carleton university tuesday after an overnight occupation of a construction privy by a band of militant students. Shor$ly after midnight the Aryan Affairs Commission, a group noted for its right-wing marxist leanings, occupied a johnny-on-the-spot normally used by construction crews at the university. A spokesman for the group said the occupation would continue until the administration agreed to leave campus washrooms open all night. All campus buildings are presently locked at midnight. “As a secret right-wing extremist organization we must hold our secret meetings in the middle of the night,” said the AAC spokesman. He explained washrooms were the traditional meeting place for the organization’s privy council. Administration president Davidson Dunton said he wasn’t worried. “I have a key to my own washroom,” he said.

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Student president Lorenz Schmidt was shocked when he heard about the occupation. “They didn’t even tell me about it. How can they expect to achieve a mass democratic collective when they don’t include me in their plans. ”

A small group pf AAC sympathizers picketed the U.S. embassy in Ottawa carrying signs reading: “Get out of Vietnam, bring back Lapland” and “we want Agnew”.

He added he believed student-faculty parity was the solution to the washroom problem. “Every can should have an equal of student and faculty seats,” he said.

Carleton university chancellor Lester Pearson blamed the incident on outside agitators from “John has always Saskatchewan. done his best to put me in a bad light. Why, back in ‘65...”

Student council has already decided to hold a january referendum on the parity question.

Well-informed sources said that Dunton spent the morning in a long-distance conversation with Claude Bissell, his idol and predecessor whose picture still watches over meetings of the senate. The sources weren’t well-informed enough to catch what Bissell advised.

Chief electoral officer Ken Fraser denied rumors that the ballots for the referendum would be printed o-n toilet paper. It’s a vicious lie,” he said as he ran off pink and blue ballots for the upcoming referendum on beauty queen contests. The AAC members claim to follow the teachings of Harold D. Goldbrick, an off-beat philosopher now wanted on 252 counts of fraud involving the royal mails. When contacted in Mexico where he is involved in an extortion case, Goldbrick would not speak to reporters but issued a

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Comparing the period of overall student apathy with “the recent period of dispute with all the decorum of a common alley brawl”, he stated, “I find much in the lustier atmosphere which, to me at least, is more stimulating, more productive, more rewarding, and more ulcer-producing”. McLeod claimed that the university had gained a “revived and revitalized understanding of the nature of the university comm“more salutory unity” and a level of free expression” from this period. The remainder of his speech concentrated on one potential area of conflict: “autonomy versus dependence-or having: sold our bodies, is it inevitable that we should sell our souls?” This shift apparently lost the interest of some members of

McLeod in a hotseat surrounded by students mondaysee page 3.

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Chancellor Ira Needles, chairman of the presidential search committee, announced yesterday that the last of the committee’s guests will visit uniwat december 18 and 19. The first candidate, Tom McLeod, finished his visit tuesday, and the second prospect, Bert Matthews from the university of Guelph, will be on campus next thursday and friday. The name of the third guest has not yet been released.

Needles has asked all members of the university communities “to register their comments with reference to any of the committee’s guests with the members of the committee. “Each member of the committee,” he said, “will make every effort to obtain comments throughout the community, and will welcome any comments anyone wishes to make. ” Background information on Matthews appears on page 2.

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WINDSOR (CUP)-Taking capitalism out of Christmas isn’t appreciated, a group of young people learned monday when their float was barred from this city’s Santa Claus parade. “It wasn’t in keeping with the theme of the parade-an oldfashioned Christmas,” said jaytee president Mike Brown, explaining why the float of the young Christian workers was rejected.

his audience because there was a continuous drifting out during the remainder of the lecture. Elaborating on this subject, he stated, “It is false that he who pays the piper must call the tune, and it is equally false to assume that an institutionfinanced substantially from sources external to itself is beyond accountability on terms other than its own.” McLeod added, “The university must choose poverty and virtues as opposed to riches and competition. Its major role should be as a social critic. If it is simply a training institution, then it is hardly worth its salt.” His concluding statement was, “If one persists in gazing at one’s navel, it is difficult to look :, at the stars. ”

The float carried huge bags and piles of gifts.

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read “where will xmas end and Christmas begin?-This year tell him you care with.. .only $19.95buy your child a super shooter gun, $9.95.” “The minute I saw it, I knew it wasn’t fitting”’ said parade organizer Elio De1 Col. “I felt it didn’t conform with the theme of a Santa Claus parade for children. ” Float builders considered forcing their way into the parade, but decided to leave quietly without causing any trouble.

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The next guest of the presidential search and nominating committee is the winner of the international potash institute prize for a scientific paper. Bert Matthews, academic vicepresident of the university of Guelph, will be on campus december 11 and 12 to present his learned talk on A p/ace for learning.

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Matthews started his career with the Ontario agricultural college in 1948 as a lecturer in soil science, became a professor in 1957 and was appointed head of the department of soil science in 1962. During his 1960-61 year, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of agriculture at the university of Oxford in England. Matthews became Guelph’s first academic vicepresident in 1966. He received his BSA degree from OAC (Toronto) in 1947, having majored in chemistry. In 1948 he received his AM, majoring in soil chemistry, from the university of Missouri. His PhD came from Cornell in 1952, majoring in soil chemistry with minors in geology and physical chemistry. Matthews had authored or co-authored more than 30 scien-

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A confrontation of indians and whites will take place next week in various sessions. A number of indian people will talk in classrooms and groups on topics such as native response to colonial rule and the history of selected racial and regional minorities in Canada. The engineers lecture series will host the group in an open session on tuesday, december 9. The group will then have a dialog with a cross-section of students and .faculty of various faculties and learnings. The will be recorded for dialog further study. Indian handicrafts will be sold at the campus center from monday till Wednesday with profits going to the Ontario native development fund. The -organization, a chartered charity was set up to provide a means for indian people to pur-

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HAMILTON (CUP)-In a unanimous vote november 26, the university student McMaster representative assembly threw the university’s student union solidly behind the legalization of marijauna. The motion, calling for a letter

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An interesting example of the mathematics of capitalism was given in John Bondy’s math 454 class one afternoon several weeks ago. The problem was that two men are offered $100 if they can decide how to divide the money. The first man is assumed to be very, very rich while the second has a meager $100 to his name.

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Back onto PSA, McLeod said, “That’s a fair question, but I don’t think I can give you an “After 17 cups of coffee today honest answer.. .” , my throat is still dry,” said “Give us a dishonest answer, Tom McLeod, viceprincipal of then,” came the reply. the .Regina campus of the unil Federation president Tom versity of Saskatchewan, at the asked McLeod where end of his first day at uniwat as Patterson he had stood on the Carillon guest of the presidential search affair, where the administration committee. cut off student union funds until After a busy round of meetthey were satisfied that the ings, McLeod was scheduled union was I exercising sufficient to talk to student council and control over the student paper. undergraduate society executives “I was the conciliator; my at 4pm, but the meeting lacked main interest was in preserving any sort of formality as many the student union and getting unofficial students arrived. communications going again The hotseat discussion that between it and the administrathrough developed continued tion,” said McLeod. the half-hour scheduled for the Arts rep Cyril Levitt suggested grad union executive to confer * that McLeod had been an opalone with the candidate. ponent of the Carillon before the The student audience doubled action of cutting off union funds at 5pm, the scheduled “open” in january 1969. session. McLeod said he had complainl Early in the two-hour dised previously to the president of integrated-studies stucussion, council about the dent Mike Corbett asked MC- the student Carillon but denied that he Leod what he thought of programs threatened to take adminislike integrated studies. tration action if changes to his “I found it very interesting,” were not made. said the candidate, “I am in satisfaction Later in the meeting he was favor of a great deal of experasked what he found irritating imentation ; I am no defender about the Carillon. of standard degree studies. ” “First I had an old-fashioned Pressed as to whether he would make money available if objection of taste. And second is the fact that we were building the programs engaged in critical and were given thought of a nature that the a university carping that was aluniversity does not like at the constant most defamatory, and no conpresent time McLeod said, “It’s pretty hard to give an answer to structive criticism.” He said it was up to the stua hypothetical question.. .I want union to do something to see the color of the rug and dent about it, not just legally but so feel the texture or we might that the public would see that end up getting sheared. The the paper was under its control. university doesn’t control its 6 Levitt asked McLeod about own resources to a great enough a teaching assistant, Jim Hardextent. I’m all for going as far by the as you can at any point in time.” ing, who was “fired” a couple l Brian Switzmanj history 4, Regina administration of years ago. asked McLeod if he supported McLeod objected that Hardwhat the administration at Simon ‘Fraser university did about the ing was simply “not rehired”. Levitt asked why. content and structure of the PSA “As a faculty member he had (political-science, sociology and certain responsibilities to faculty anthropology) department. rather than student groups.. . “I am not sufficiently aware Faculty members should not of the full story. I think I would leaders of student achave done things differently, ” become tivity,” said McLeod. replied McLeod. Levitt asked if that meant Would you have supported that students and faculty could PSA?” he was asked. not have coincident interests, A side discussion developed particularly where students were as to whether the SFU adminwith issues outside istration fired the professors or concerned their particular interests as stu“merely did not renew their dents. contracts-there’s a difference “I hope students should be inyou know,” said McLeod.

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terested in all sorts of things that transcend student interests, ” was McLeod’s reply., l Levitt also asked a series of questions about McLeod’s involvement with the Ford foundation. McLeod had worked on two projects, in Turkey and Iran. In Turkey, the project group was investigating whether the Ford foundation would undertake a development plan for the country. McLeod said the group said no because Turkey had just gone through a revolution and they did not know what the government would be from day to day. In Iran, the Ford group “was working with a planning organization of persian economists to set a development plan for the persian economy, ” said McLeod. Levitt asked, “How much american influence in economics and politics ‘is there in Iran?” He added that he was trying to show that the Ford foundation was more than just a philanthropic group. “We had nothing to do with

the national concerns of the country,” McLeod protested. “Ford has no money invested. There is hardly anywhere one can go where there is no american investment . ” “What about Cuba?” asked a student. l Grad rep Dave Gordon asked McLeod about the problem of americanization of universities in the matter of faculty hiring. “A -faculty member should be hired for his qualifications in his field. We must recognize that establish their people credentials in different ways,” McLeod replied. l On the matter of student involvement in university decision-making, he said he favored the “presence of students to express their opinions. ” Asked if he would allow student parity, or veto, in decision-making, he said, “The power to veto is the power to decide. As a with 25 senior administrator experience I would be years’ very hesitant to express a veto over, for example, the decision of a bunch of mathematicians of who they wanted as faculty colleague. ” @On discipline, he said it all depends on the particular offense. He said the Canadian legal system was not sufficient. “As a member of the university. community do you want to hand over all problems to outside laws? I think you would want to handle them within the family. ” l He was asked what he thought the function of the university was. “Essentially it provides an opportunity for intellectual development. I don’t think a university administration can duck the necessity of providing certain structural programs for learning for the professions. The, university has taken on itself a number of activities which under more perfect circumstances it would not have.” Levitt said, “That sounds like a brochure from INCO (International Nickel company). ” l Later in the meeting, Levitt asked McLeod, who had held Posts in the CCF-NDP Saskatchewan government, if he was a member of any political party. “No,” said McLeod, “and the answer to the next question is no.” “Would you provide the question to that answer? (laughter)

Do you still believe in the Regina manifesto (the founding policy of the CCF which was a strong critique of the capitalist economy)? ” asked Levitt. “My- political beliefs like my religious beliefs are my own.” Levitt followed with a question of whether people’s beliefs should be separate from their day-to-day activities. “Sure, we’re all schizophrenic,” said McLeod. “It’s been that way for a long time.” l Another student asked why McLeod was visiting Waterloo. “I’m just trying to find out. Waterloo has developed a reputation as a place where interesting things are happening. ” “Like integrated studies?” “Yes,“’ said McLeod. “But you said earlier in the meeting that you didn’t know much about it.” ~ l Another questioner wondered if McLeod thought a university needed a president. “You’ve got to have an Aunt Sally to throw the coconuts at somewhere. You need a coordinator of programs and policies and a spokesman for the university”, he said. l At one point he said that as president he would accept any decision on hiring “if chosen by the proper machinery. ” He said it was essentially the role of faculty members to make hiring decisions.

“For example, as a professional experienced economist, I am in a better position to pick an economics professor. ” Asked how faculty could judge their colleagues in teaching, he said it would be fine if his fellow faculty members attended his lectures “if they had nothing better to do.” History student Bob Garthson said that at Waterloo i’t’ was an unwritten rule that faculty members did not attend other teach-. ers’ classes. McLeod suggested faculty were shy sort of thing.

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Ken Laidlaw and Bob Thorpe couldn’t make it to Sheridan, tuesday night and none of the other hockey players were really up %for the game, so the ‘pucking about’ warriors ended up scoring only ten goals to the community college’s three. The referee also had a good night, calling 20 to 30 penalties. Everything happened just as often in the last period as it had in the first two. The warriors scored five more goals, four of which came from the defense. Even the ref called 15 more penalties to match his previous output. Rick Bacon felt the ice surface’s small size cramped the warriors but assistant style, coach Ian Scott reasoned differently. It was a game the players didn’t want to play, the manager didn’t want to manage, and the coaches didn’t want to coach.” The game started off rather sloppily, but the warriors picked up three goals to Sheridan’s one in the first period. Dennis Farwell and Mike Martin scored. Dave Rudge also got his first of two goals on a quick shot after McKegney got the puck out from behind the Sheridan net.

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Tomorrow night the hockey warriors renew battle with their old nemesis, the University of Toronto Blues. Many. have said that this is Waterloo’s year; that Toronto cannot possibly win again with the loss of such stars as Gord Cunningham, Steve Monteith, Ward Passi, Bob McClelland, and Jim Miles. After four long, frustrating years, in which Waterloo terrorized the OQAA but fell flat against the blues, the warriors are finally ready for revenge, or are they? Toronto teams have been famous for the fast skating, precision passing, and positional play. The loss of last year’s veterans will indeed render the blues mortal, but new additions and performances this year so far indicate that Toronto can still outskate and outscore anyone in the country. (Toronto opened their home OQAA schedule friday night with a 14-1 victory over Western, with five goals by John Wright.)

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St. Jerome’s will again be competing in an intramural athletic league final after edging physed 27-25 in the basketball semifinals. Opposing them will be habitat who will be playing in a league final for the first time. Habitat defeated Renison 40-32 to gain the final. Game time will be 7pm saturday, in the jock building. So far this year, St. Jerome’s has won the intramural championships in both soccer and football.

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In february of 1966, just moments after the warriors had tied Toronto, a jubilant Waterloo coach Don Hayes said: “This is the end of an era. No longer will the blues dominate the league as they have in the past.” Up to date statistics show that since 1966 Toronto has an amazing 43-3-3 record in league play, and have won two Canadian championships. In play with uniwat alone they have won nine out of ten games, outscoring us 62-24 ! The warriors are obviously a strong team but have still to prove that they can defeat Toronto. While’ the warriors have met mostly weak opponents in exhibition matches, Toronto has played four strong teams and will be better prepared for the warriors. ’ The loss of Ron Robinson will also be badly felt. At this point the blues are definitely weaker than last year but are improving with every game. Look for Toronto to win tomorrow night in a squeaker.

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The girls’ varsity curling team had its first taste of competition of the winter last weekend and got stung. At an invitational bonspiel, (that’s curling talk for tournamerit), in Ottawa the team of Robin Preece, sociology 3, Barb Dowler, english 3, and Barb Hall and Arlene Thomas, both of math, defeated Carleton 7-3 in the first match. In the second match Sir

George Williams delivered a 10-7 defeat to our girls and went on to win the spiel. In their third game of the set, Waterloo’s girls lost to McMaster 10-5. The weekend provided valuable experience for the team as uniwat prepares for the conference spiel. Practices will resume after Christmas and all positions for the team are still open, so interested girls will be welcome.

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Pete Paleczny accounted for the defense’s unusually high output 1 with “We carried the puck more, and it was easier to score. ” In the final period, the defense got 4 goals, one each by Branston, Paleczny, Vujovic, and McKegney. Dave Rudge’s second goal, coming in the. second period, squeaked through goalie. Miller ‘s legs. Coach McKillop was satisfied with the game. “I was satisfied with the game,” said coach McKillop.

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In which we undo our deception about the decency of the first candidate and take a trifle of a look at the second Well, well, well. We have been deceived again. No token human that Tommy McLeod-he’s been to administration president finishing school as well as having passed with honors in dean-s use of cliches.

While he’s not quite stamped out of the same mold as our friend Howie Petch, we would not like to find Tommy in the administration presidency, because he’s much less naive. We would say rather, that Tommy McLeod is Regina’s Jay Minas. He expresses a good pluralist philosophy with lots of expressions like there are two one side.

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And he favors any sort of curricular or structural changes as long as they don’t change the basic relation between faculty and student. On the basis of our original faulty information we believed that McLeod might be one person that the chancellor Ira Needles would not be happy to see as president of the university. And perhaps this changes the whole complexion of the circus. For if the search committee can find several more like McLeod, then it may even be possible to forget abou ’ -‘rafting Petch for the permanent job. McLeod. for one, would do a oetter job from the viewpoint of those in power, because he can give non-answers without getting mad. Hecertairlp covered his involvement with the Ford foundation better than Pet -2-1has handled the -act that his personal research has been used in weapons systems. * * * The protocol game being played strikes us as most amusing. The candidate can explain that he is really only here looking the place over at the committee’s expense and the place is his if he wants it. Now perhaps this gives away the committee’s game for it would be embarrassing indeed by their standards to have more than one candidate decide they want the administration presidency. What will they dotoss a coin? Somehow we smell a fix. But then we have said that ofttimes before and perhaps we should not for some think we heap too much shit upon those who revel in the exercise of power. * * We were disappointed in Tommi to say the least, but then perhaps we should expect it from a member of what we will loosely refer to as the old-left-democratic-self-professed-socialists. People in that category tend to view government’s role as providing services like medicare out of income taxes so employers won’t have to be bothered worrying about (or paying for) such frills. People like McLeod are really only progressive conservatives: providing services for business in the nicest way possible. Also in this category we throw the student “representatives” who are trying to behave like faculty members and do their masters’ bidding. At least two of these uncle toms closely represented a lap-dog and a butler respectively as they took care of the search committee’s first guest. Incidentally. one source suggested McLeod accepted the uniwat search, and-destroy committee’s invitation in order to bolster his own chances for promotion to principal at Regina.

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So we can write off McLeod. Hu*t quick on his heels comes the next (a) guest, (b) visitor. (c) nominee, (d) candidatechoose one. Not much is known about Bert Matthews because student activity rarely raises its head above furrow height at the recently-reformed plo wing school. From what we can determine, Matthews is from the Doug Wright school of thought-through-effective-use-of-technology. Wright is currently chairman of the provincial committee on university affairs, a position equivalent to president of the not-quite-official university of Ontario-and the presidency of the university of Waterloo is his for the asking, but it would be too much of a come-down. Matthews is reputed to have been hailed by Wright as the smartest, most competent and most astute academic vicepresident in Ontario. This probably means if uniwat doesn’t take him-and the powerful people around here are frightened of some with the smarts-there’s probably a good job waiting for him in the provincial university administration. On the other hand, Wright’s group is gaining more and more control over the members of the Ontario university group and could probably exert enough pressure to get his boy in. * * * Perhaps we have already seen the beginning of Wright’s bring-uniwa t-under-con trol policy: While every other university in Ontario will be allowed to continue egotistical growth patterns, uniwat will effectively be stopped at 14,000 because the province is witholding financial commitments to allow any buildings on the north campus. Lack of money has never stopped uniwat in_ the past, but’the provincial screws are much tighter these days and it won’t be nearly as easy to overenrol and then say to the government that we simply have to have new buildings

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In a late flash from our Acapulco correspondent: H.D. Goldbrick, chancellor of the Aryan Affairs Commission and one-time candidate for the uniwat admin presidency, has officially withdrawn his name from any official consideration. “It’s become a circus.” he said in a prepared release, “and if there is any chance for me to get the job, I will have to remain aloof and force them to draft me.”

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Those of you interested in meteorology will be amazed to learn that winter weather has arrived. This may seem like an understatement to all the amateurs on campus, but corm-oh-sewers like us know extra, things. (Connoisseur is spelled corm-oh-sewer because there are people out there that might read connoisseur like a dirty french postcard and get all excited and never finish the column >. Back to the winter. Everybody talks about the weather, so its only natural that any organization of real weather-talkers would accumulate and refine the art. Like last summer (nerd ati soleil) no one ever said things like is it ever nice out, or gee its nice

uncomfortable. Perhaps the apanti-c yclonic system proaching will afford us with some popular influence and a moderateing effect. ‘I

The real trick in all this is to prepare and commit to memory several phrases, and then to simply string them together. So the arrival of winter weather serves as a warning that the minima impending Iux or shortest day is near, and winter will soon (officially) be here. It would of course be uncouth for us to breach the code of ethics of weather talkers and dare talk about winter before it is REALLY here. Unit1 then we will remain tight-lipped and silent. I presume I have attracted all sorts of interest in the matter and will take the time to lead you off on some good catchphrases for use in the next few months. Winter (sud au soleil) brings with it snow, ice, cold, long nights and a low sun (on the horizon). Snow, of cocrse is basically

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of such vulgarities, casually refer to the

euphoric blessing of seasonal prevailing westerlies enhanced by the unobstructed flooding of the area in solstice concentrations of heliological radiation.

And where a lay person niight curse, damn, its hot, an in-theknow would merely type assert, It appears the appolonian phenomenon allows us undue amounts of thermal energy, enough so that the prevalent relative humidity is excessively

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may not seem very exact, but then again neither are icicles. Freezing (as promised is the result of cold air. Cold air is arctic air and is the main export of-Canada to the U.S. in the winter, next to Santa clauses (847 last year). Weather talkers would refer to cold as the absence of-f w- warmth,

approach to wards vacuum, and a common ailment characterized by coughing, runny nose and bleeech feeling.

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OTTAWA (CUP)-Hotel manager Max Nargil and and solicitor-general George McIlrath seem to differ on how the RCMP undercover agents at the recent Harrison springs liberal conference got their press badges. Opposition members questioned McIlrath in the house of commons after two plainsclothes officers questioned long-haired Simon Fraser university grad student and teaching assistant Jim Harding, speaker at the conference. McIlrath said: “The members of the RCMP did not disguise themselves in any way, but shortly before this incident they were requested by the hotel manager to accept these badges so that they would

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racist than the United States. He said, “These people are so oppressed that they have lost their will to fight”. Douglas digressed with some reasons why the -Caribbean students have had their passports taken a way, “People in Canada have millions of dollars invested in the tourist trade in the Caribbean and they don’t want __ _ He mentioned in particular one of the administrators at Sir George who had a large amount of money invested there. He described Canada as an exploiter of the Caribbean and mentioned the presence of eight hundred Canadian troops there on maneuvers, and “they didn’t come to play marbles”. He speculated that “in five years Canadians shouldn’t expect to lie in the Caribbean sun drinking rum served by black people”. The students intend to prove in the trial that there were legitimate charges of racism, and

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This is the final, final exam timetable for this term. “There havesbeen a large number of changes and we wouldn’t want to see many students show up for an exam at the wrong time, especially one that had been re-scheduled to an earlier time,” said assistant registrar in charge of exam scheduling, Gord Smiley. “Could you please print it as a public service; we can’t afford to pay for it because we blew our budget setting up the gym as an exam center,” said Smiley. So here, in exchange for a couple of miles of red tape, is the amended.

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BURNABY (CUP)-Twelve Simon Fraser university teaching assistants-all heavily involved in the recent strike-were dismissed from the political science, sociology department last thursday. The 12 TA’s were passed over by a committee hiring TA’s for the forthcoming term. The committee included Robert Wyllie, chairman of the scab PSA department, and two graduate students. The staff cuts were made without consulting PSA students. The 41-day strike, supported by over 700 PSA faculty and students, protested administration interference in the running of the student?parity department. SFU ad-

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7,000 people (CUP)-HundVANCOUVER reds of cases of food poisoning were reported here after a special Christmas dinner containing rancid turkey was served in residence friday night. Hundreds of students in Place Vanier residence woke up between 5 and 6am Saturday suffering, what the doctor called “salmonellaosis, producing mild dysentery”. The students were not interested in the long name of the disease when they awoke Saturday morning. They were too involved in fierce competition for the limited toilet facilities in the residence. One student in the men’s residence reportedly kept his stall for a record two-and-a-half hour stretch. Residence health officer C. J. McKenzie estimated 75 percent of the 980 diners were affected but students said virtually everyone suffered nausea and stomach

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cramps after the ordeal in the washrooms. The university hospital treated and later released 15 cases. McKenzie said it will take days to confirm the cause of the poisoning and its source but he is reasonably certain it was the turkey. The end-of-term Christmas dinner contained both fresh turkey and

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compressed boneless fowl. University, food-services head Ruth Blair disavowed any responsibility. The germ. she said, could have been contracted at any time during the handling of the turkey. About 700 of the diners were residence students. The rest were guests who had paid $1.75 for the meal.

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Grace Stoner, a clerk in the university housing office, was elected to Kitchener city council monday. She ran tenth out of thirteen candidates for the ten council seats * Morley Rosenberg was re-elected to council, coming seventh. He

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Starobin was asked to give an updated account of the Paris peace talks in the question period that followed. He explained that Nixon claims Hanoi is unwilling to negotiate, contrary to what Hanoi has been saying. Hanoi is being asked in effect to completely surrender before negotiations can take place while Hanoi is bargaining for a coalition government for the NLF which would give them some sort of chance. Starobin takes the position that a negotiated settlement must take

is the regular lawyer for the federation of students. The only other local politicians connected with the university are the mayors of the twin cities, who are ex-officio members of the board of governors. Waterloo mayor Don Meston won re-election and Kitchener mayor Sid McLennan was acclaimed.

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left place at Paris. The U.S. cannot “just walk away after messing up the place without any talk of cleaning it up”. Starobin is also critical of Nixon’s vietnamization policy. He said, “If that is such a good idea why didn’t they start doing that five years ago? Vietnamization is either an excuse not to get out or to jump back in when it gets rough for the Vietnam regime. ” He added that a regime in south Vietnam never will be able to hold its own.

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“It is hard to understand what happens in the heart of one who is trying to be a good communist when he sees his russian and chin, ese comrades fighting over property rights of some sandbar in the middle of the Usuri river”, said Joseph Starobin at the russian festival last week. Starobin, from Glendon college, opened the festival on an intellectual note by talking about the effects that disunity in the communist bloc has had on western communism. The invasion of Czechoslovakia was no cure either. Five days later Sweden had an election and the communist party, just shy of a majority, claimed that Russia was heading in a revisionist direction. Criticizing Russia is a recent trend according to Starobin. He can remember when western communists felt Russia could do no wrong, and were quick to defend every action. Of late, the west is seeing this patriotism to another country as no solution to the problems of their own country. Moreover, according to Starobin, “neither Russia nor China can be taken as a model for the western world, and the western communists are beginning to discover this reality”. He sees the shift in party line as going from “the dictatorship of the proletariat to a more democratic terminology. Western communists are searching for new roads to socialism. ” Staroiin concluded his talk by saying that he sees “the left wing in the west as a growing and vital force” and he was encouraged by these changes.

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EXHIBIT of winning entries for uniwat day-care center design, 3pm, Conestoga college. BADMINTON club, 10 courts available, varsity teams now working out. 7-llpm, phys-ed complex. FILM festival : Godand’s “weekend”, James Gagne in “G-men” and Julie Christie in “far from the madding crowd”. $1 advance at theater boxoffice, $1.50 at door. 7-12pm,EL201. COLLOQUIUM for psych. Seymour Epstein, U of Mass-Amherst, 4pm, Phi145.

SALE of indian handicraft. l-5pm, campus center music lounge. FREE movies: “sign of Zorro” with Vitorio Gassman and “Floor walker” with Charlie Chaplin, lOpm-lam campus tea ter great hall.

SATURDAY

CAROL fantasy. 8pm arts theater. Free admission tickets. FILM festival: Godand’s “weekend”, James Gagne in ‘<G-men” and Julie Christie in “far from the madding crowd”.. $1 advance at theater box office, $1.50at door. lpm to 12.AL116. SUNDAY

CAROL fantasy. 3pm, arts theater. Free admission tickets. FOLK service: how many roads?. 7:30pm, St. Paul’s college. FILM festival: Godand’s “Weekend”, James Gagne in “G-Men” and Julie Christie in “Far from the madding crowd. $1advance at theater box office; $1.50at door. FREE movies: “O’Malley of the mounted” with George O’Brien and “the pawn shop” with Charlie Chaplin, 1Opm - lam campus center great hall.

TUESDAY

FREE movies: “tiger fangs” with Frank Buck, also “adventurer” with Charlie Chaplin. lOpm-lam campus center great hall. UFT aircraft cleaning. 6: 15-8:30pm, inside hangar No. 5, WW airport. SALE of indian handicraft. l-5pm, campus center music lounge. WEDNESDAY

BEER and conversation night, 9pm. city hotel. SHADOW of a pale horse presented by tempo theater, Admission $2.50 general : $1.50students. 8pm, arts theater. FREE movies : “killer shark”-Roddy McDowall, also “the immigrant” with Charlie Chaplin. lOpm-lam, campus center great hall. SALE of indian handicraft. l-5pm, campus center music lounge. BAD’MINTON club, 10 courts available. varsity teams now working out. 7-llpm. phys-ed complex. DON’T miss Marat/Sade. Tickets at creative arts box office. General $1, students 50s 8:30pm, new humanities theater.

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In a spectacular display of emotion, the wise -men of the university administration have announced a new policy. Stated in a series of murals on the nourishment building, they proclaim PEACE ON EARTH. True believers have, however, spoken/

their dismay over apparent insincerity from the wise-men-they fear a hollow meaning in the media-message because ‘it was not accompanied by any statements on procedure to implement this new and inspiring university policy.

1967 Over 90 percent of the faculty signed a petition against pay-parking on campus, and the science faculty council approved forming a joint faculty-student board. After serving for two years as registrar at Simon Fraser, Pat Robertson returned to waterloo as director of academic services, and an “unsavory” issue of Enginews sent the printer scurrying for clarification of “what’s allo wed”. In a joining-the-activists editorial, the faculty association was called childish for being up-in-arms about a $2-a-month parking fee:

It’s funny, for instance, that the faculty association could produce this parking report in the days while it procrastinated for most of a year on its brief on university government. It could be that the faculty association leaders are trying to use the parking issue as a fuse to spark the faculty-just as the student council used the issue of book-

The Ontario government proposed a merger of all 14 provincially-supported universities into one university of Ontario, and admin president Gerry Hagey refused to comment on 1 the proposal. A motion by the executive of the faculty association to censure Hagey the president of the association, Allan Nelson, announced his resignation:

The faculty association executive ordered the salary committee to includes a clause in its brief ordering deans and department heads to sit down with each, member of the department and Jexplain what his raise would be and why. In previous years, a prof could go on for years with no promotion and yet no word of explanation or criticism. “How,” reasoned the executive, “can a young prof improve -himself if he-.doesn’t get a rise and doesn’t get a word of help or appraisal? ” The salary committee, whose five members included three department heads and two deans prepared a statement of salary policy deleting the promotions clause. The clause was reinstated and the policy statement presented to Hagey. All signs of

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a split had seemingly disappeared. The salary committee, however, wav. ered in its presentation to the university. Hagey announced that because of the apparent dissension he was accepting the statement of policy without the clause about promotion explanations. Hagey said, “We acted as we did with the approval of the salary committee. ” At a special meeting of the faculty association, a motion was presented which “condemns the manner in which the university carried on salary negotiations with the faculty, and rejects president Hagey’s suggestion that the university was not presented with a clear mandate by the faculty association.” This motion was rejected by a vote of 26 to 22.

1965 In a magnificent exhibition of male chauvinism, Renison college raise money for charity; and student council was doing its thing:

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the motion, which had already been defeated at the previous meeting, and just before the second vote Dave Young pointed out that the reopening of discussion on a motion already defeated was improper procedure. Council voted again anyway, and defeated the motion a second time. _

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the opiate of the mac,ses. then sllrely f,echnolog;y is ‘cl-i? opkte of the educated public eoday, cir at ieast of its favorite authors. No other single subject is so universally invested with high hopes for the improvement of mankind generally and of americans in particular. The content of these millennial hopes varies somewhat from author to author, though with considerable overlap. A representative but by no means complete

list of these promises and their prophets would include: an end to poverty and the inauguration of permanent prosperity (Leon Keyserling), universal equality of opportunity (Zbigniew Brzezinski), a radical increase in individual freedom (Edward Shils), the replacement of work by leisure for most of mankind (Robert Theobald), fresh water for desert dwellers (Lyndon Baines Johnson), permanent but harmless social revolution (Walt Rostow), the final come-uppance of Mao Tse-tung and all his ilk (same prophet), the triumph of wisdom over power (John Kenneth Galbraith), and lest we forget, the end of ideology (Daniel Bell). These hopes for mankind’s, or technology’s, future, however, are not unalloyed. Technology’s defenders, being otherwise reasonable men, are also aware that the world population explosion and the nuclear missiles race are also the fruit of the enormous advances made in technology during the past half century or so. But here too a cursory reading of their lite,rature would reveal widespread though qualified optimism that these scourges too will fall before technology’s might.

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of such extravagant oy_?t~mism‘? Several months ago Harvard university’s program on technology and society, “...an inquiry in depth into the effects of technological change on the economy, on public policies, and on the character of society, as well as into the reciprocal effects of social progress on the nature, dimension, and directions of scientific and

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. ..creates new possibilities for human choice and action but leaves their disposition uncertain. What its effects will be and what ends it will serve are not inherent in the technology, but depend on what man will do with technology. Technology thus makes possible a future of open-ended rptions...

This essentially optimistic view of the matter rests on the notion that technology is merely “ . ..the organization of knowledge for practical purposes.. .” and therefore cannot be purely boon or wholly burden. The matter is somewhat morecomplex : A New technology creates new opportunities for men and societies and it also generates new problems for them. It has both positive and negative effects: and it usually has the two at the same time and in virtue of each other.

Ihis dual effect he illustrates with an ample drawn from the field of medie. Recent advances there have created ) new opportunities: (1) they have Ide possible treatment and cures that ire never possible before, and (2) they bvide a necessary condition for the deery of adequate medical care to the )ulation at large as a matter of right her than privilege. because of the first, however, the mediprofession has become increasingly diffntiated and specialized and is tending to rcentrate its best efforts in a few major, Ian centers of medicaf excellence.

tiesthene clearly intends but does not te the corollary to this point, namely h’; the availability of adequate medical ye is declining elsewhere. This is almost tainly true of persons living in rural :as or in smaller towns and cities. How?r, a New York based new left project, ! health-policy advisory center, has ar3d with considerable documentation, &roughly half of-New York City’s popuion is now medically indigent and’perps 80 percent of the population is indiIt with respect to major medical care. ‘ESTHENE believes there are two distinct problems in technology’s relation to society, a 1 positive one of taking full adltage ot the opportunities it offers and ! negative one of avoiding unfortunate isequences which flow from the exploiton of those opportunities. tiesthene seems convinced.. . .that exist: institutions and traditional approaches 2 by and large incapable of’coming to .ps with the new problems of our cities nany of them caused by technological snge.. ..-and unable to realize the posbilities for resolving them that are also ierent in technology. Vested economic d political interests serve to obstruct equate provision of low-cost housing. mmunity institutions wither for want of .erest and participation by residents. ty agencies are unable to marshal1 the ills and take the systematic approach eded to deal with new and intensified )blems of education, crime control, and blic welfare. business corporations, finally, which e organized around the expectation of ivate profit, are insufficiently motivatto bring new technology and manage?nt know-how to bear on urban projects iere the benefits will be largely social.

.lmost of the negative) consequences of shnology that are causing concern at the sent time-pollution of the environment, lential damage to the eco/ogy of the net, occupational and social dislocations, eats to the privacy and political signifiIce of the individual, social and ps ycholonegative externalities al malaise -are this kind. They are with us in large Fasure because it has not been anydy s explicit business to foresee and Gcipate them.

The diagnosis is that government and e media “ . ..are not yet equipped for the assive task of public education that is

needed.. . .” if we are to exploit technology more fully. In other words, the solution is to be found with further investigation and innovation. In principle, Mesthene is in the position of arguing that the cure for technology’s problems, whether positive or negative, is still more technology. This is the first theme of the technological school of writers and its ultimate first principle. Technology, in their view, is a selfTemporary overcorrecting system. sight or “negative externalities” will and should be corrected by technological means. Attempts to restrict the free play of technological innovation are, in the nature of the case, self-defeating. Technological innovation exhibits a distinct tendency to work for the general welfare in the long run. Laissez Innover.

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I have so far deliberately refrained from going into any greater detail than does Mesthene on the empirical character of contemporary technology for it is important to bring out the force of the principle of laissez innover in its full generality. Many writers on technology appear to deny in their def-inition of the subjectorganized knowledge for practical purposes-that contemporary technology exhibits distinct trends which can be identified or projected. Others, like Mesthene, appear to accept these trends, but then blunt the conclusion by attributing to technology so much flexibility and “scientific” purity that it becomes an abstraction infinitely malleable in behalf of good, pacific, just, and egalitarian purposes. Thus the analogy to the laissez-faire principle of another. time is, to them, quite justified. What reasons do they give to believe that the principle of laissez innover will normally function for the benefit of mankind rather than, say, merely for the benefit of the immediate practitioners of technology, their managerial cronies, and for the profits accruing to their corporations? As Mesthene and other writers of his school are aware, this is a very real problem, for they all believe that the normal tendency of technology is, and ought to be, the increasing concentration of decisionmaking power in the hands of larger and larger scientific-technical bureaucracies. In principle, their solution is relatively simple, though not often explicitly stated. Their argument goes as follows: the men and women who are elevated by technology into commanding positions within various decision-making bureaucracies exhibit no generalized drive for power such as characterized, say, the landed gentry of pre-industrial Europe or the capitalist entrepreneur of the last century. For their social and institutional position and its supporting culture as well are defined solely by the fact that these men are problem solvers. (Organized knowledge for practical purposes again.) That is, they gain advantage and reward only

to the extent that they can bring specific technical knowledge to bear on the solution of specific technical problems. Any more general drive for power would undercut the bases of their usefulness and legitimacy. Moreover their specific training and professional commitment to solving technical problems creates a bias against ideologies in general which inhibits any attempts to formulate a justifying ideology for the group. Consequently, they do not constitute a class and have no general interests antagonistic to those of their problem-beset clients. We may refer to all of this as the disinterested character of the scientific-technical decision-maker, or, more briefly and cynically, as the principle of the altruistic bureaucrat. This combination of guileless optimism with scientific toughmindedness might seem to be no more than an eccentric delusion were the american technology it supports not moving in directions that are strongly anti-democratic. To show why this is so we must examine more closely Mesthene’s seemingly innocuous distinction between technology’s’ positive opportunities and its “negative externalities.” In order to do this I will make use of an example drawn from the very frontier of american technology, the Vietnam war. At least two fundamentally different bombing programs are now being carried out in south Vietnam. There are fairly conventional attacks against targets which consist of identified enemy troops, fortifications, medical centers, vessels, and so forth. The other program is quite different and, at least since march, 1968, infinitely more important. With some oversimplification it can be described as follows : Intelligence data is gathered from all kinds of sources, of all degrees of reliability, on all manner of subjects, and fed into a computer complex located, I believe, at Bien Hoa. From this data and using mathematical models developed for the purpose, the computer then assigns probabilities to a range of potential targets, probabilities which represent the likelihood that the latter contain enemy forces or supplies. These potential targets might include: a canal-river crossing known to be used occasionally by the NLF; a section of trail which would have to be used to attack such and such an american base, now overdue for attack; a square mile of plain rumored to contain enemy troops; a mountainside from which camp fire smoke was seen rising. Again using models developed for the purpose, the computer divides pre-programmed levels of bombardment among those potential targets which have the highest probability of containing actual targets. Following the raids, data provided by further reconnaissance is fed into the computer and conclusions are drawn (usually optimistic ones) on the effectiveness of the raids. This estimate of effectiveness then becomes part of the data

governing current and future operations, and so on. Two features must be noted regarding this program, features which are superficially hinted at but fundamentally obscured by Mesthene’s distinction between the abstractions of positive opportunity and “negative externality.” First, when considered from the standpoint of its planners, the bombing program is extraordinarily rational, for it creates previously unavailable “opportunities” to pursue their goals in Vietnam. It would make no sense to bomb south Vietnam simply at random, and no serious person or air force general would care to mount the effort to do so. So the system employed in Vietnam significantly reduces, though it does not eliminate, that randomness. That canal-river crossing which is bombed at least once every eleven days or so is a very poor target compared to an NLF, battalion observed in a village. But it is an infinitely more promising target than would be selected by throwing a dart at a grid map of south Vietnam. In addition to bombing the battalion, why not bomb the canal crossing to the frequency and extent that it might be used by enemy troops? This is the most rational bombing system to follow if american lives are very expensive and american weapons and vietnamese lives very cheap. Which, of course, is the case. DVANCED TECHNOLOGICCAL systems such as those employed in the bombardment of south Vietnam make use not only of extremely complex and expensive equipment but, .quite as important, of large numbers of relatively scarce and expensive-to-train technicians. They have immense capital costs; a thousand aircraft of a very advanced type, literally hundreds of thousands of spare parts, enormous stocks of rockets, bombs, shells and bullets, in addition to tens of thousands of technical specialists ; pilots, bombardiers, navigators, radar operators, computer programmers, accountants, engineers, electronic and mechanical technicians, to name only a few. In short, they are “capital intensive. ” Moreover, the coordination of this immense mass of esoteric equipment and its operators in the most effective possible way depends upon an extremely highly developed technique both in the employment of each piece of equipment by a specific team of operators and in the management of the program itself. Of course, all large organizations standardize their operating procedures, but it is peculiar to advanced technological systems that their operating procedures embody a very high degree of information drawn from the physical sciences, while their managerial procedures are equally dependent on information drawn from the social sciences. We may describe this sit-

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uation by saying that advanced technological systems are both “technique intensive” and “management intensive.” It should be clear, moreover, even to the most casual observer that such intensive use of capital, technique, and management spills over into almost every area touched by the technological system in question. An attack program delivering 330,000 tans of munitions more or less selectively to several thousand different targets monthly would be an anomaly if forced to rely on sporadic intelligence data, erratic maintenance systems, or a fluctuating and unpredictable supply of heavy bombs, rockets, jet fuel, and napalm tanks. Thus it is precisely because the bombing program requires an intensive use of capital, technique, and management that the same properties are normally transferred to the intelligence, ’ maintenance, supply, co-ordination and training systems which support it. Accordingly, each ‘of these support.ng systems is subject to sharp pressures to improve and rationalize the performance of its machines and men, the reliability of its techniques, and the efficiency and sensitivity of the management controls under which it operates. Within integrated technical systems, higher levels of technology drive out lower, and the normal tendency is to integrate systems. Complex technological systems are extraordinarily resistant to intervention by persons or problems operating outside or below their managing groups, and this is so regardless of the “politics” of a given situation. Technology creates its own politics. The point of such advanced systems is to minimize the incidence of personal or social behavior which is erratic or otherwise not easily classified, of tools and equipment with poor performance, of improvisory techniques, and of unresponsiveness to central management. For example, enlisted men who are “unrealistically soft” on the subject of civilian casualties and farmers in contested districts pose a mortal threat to the integral character of systems like that used in Vietnam. In the case of the soldier this means he must be kept under tight military discipline. In the case of the farmer, he must be easily placed in one of two categories ; collaborator or enemy. This is done by assigning a probability to him, his hamlet, his village, or his district, and by incorporating that probability into the targeting plans of the bombing system. Then the enlisted man may be controlled by training and indoctrination as well as by highly developed techniques of command and coercion, and the farmers may be bombed according to the most advanced statistical models. In both cases the system’s authority over its farmer subjects or enlisted men is a technical one. The technical means which make that system rational and efficient in its aggregate terms, i.e., as viewed from the top, themselves tend by design I to filter out the “non-rational” or “nonefficient” elements of its components and subjects, i.e., those rising from the bottom.

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To define technology so abstractly that it obscures these observable characteristics of contemporary technology-as Mesthene and his school have donemakes no sense. It makes even less sense to claim some magical malleability for something as undefined as “institutional innovation. ” Technology, in its concrete, empirical meaning, refers fundamentally to systems of rationalized control over large groups of men, events, and machines by small groups of technically skilled men operating through organizational hierarchy. The latent “opportunities” provided by that control and its ability to filter out discordant “negative externalities” are, of course, best illustrated by extreme . cases. Hence the most instructive and ace&ate example should be of a technology able to suppress the humanity of its rank-and-file and to commit genocide as a by-product of its rationa/it$. The Vietnam bombing pro-

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It would certainly be difficult to attempt to translate in any simple and direct way the social’ and organizational properties of, highly developed technological systems from the battlefields of Vietnam to the different cultural and institutional setting of ~the US. Yet before we conclude that any such attempt would be futile or even absurd, we might consider the following story. In early 1967 I stayed for several days with one of the infantry companies of the U.S. fourth division whose parent battalion was then based at Dau Tieng. From the camp at Dau Tieng the well-known black lady mountain, sacred to the Cao Dai religious sect, was easily visible and in fact dominated the surrounding plain and the camp itself. One afternoon when I began’to explain the religious significance of the mountain to some GI friends, they interrupted my somewhat academic discourse to tell me a tale beside which even the strange beliefs of the Cao Dai sect appeared prosaic. According to GI reports which the soldiers had heard and believed, the Viet Cong had long ago hollowed out most of the mountain in order to install a very big cannon there. The size of the cannon was left somewhat vague-“huge, fucking.. . . “but clearly the GI’s imagined that it was in the battleship class. In any event, this huge cannon had formerly taken a heavy toll of american aircraft and had been made impervious to american counter-attacks by the presence of &two-“huge, fucking”-sliding steel doors, behind which it retreated whenever the americans attacked. Had they seen this battleship cannon, and did it ever fire on the camp, which was easily within its range? No, they answered, for a brave flyer, recognizing the effectiveness of the cannon against his fellow pilots, had deliberately crashed his jet into those doors one day, jamming them, and permitting the americans to move into the area unhindered. I had never been in the army, and at the

time of my trip to Vietnam had not yet learned ho,w fantastic GI stories can be. Thus I found it hard to understand how they could be convinced of so improbable a tale. Only later, after talking to many soldiers and hearing many other wild stories from them as well, did I realize what the explanation for this was. Unlike officers and civilian correspondents who are almost daily given detailed briefings on a unit’s situation capabilities and objectives, GI’s are told virtually nothing of this sort by the army. They are simply told what to do, where, and how, and it is a rare officer, in my experience anyway, who thinks they should be told any more than this. Officers don’t think soldiers are stupid; they simply assume it, and act accordingly. For the individual soldier’s personal life doesn’t make too much difference; he still has to deal with the facts of personal feelings, his own well-being, and that of his family. But for the soldier’s group life this makes a great deal of difference. In their group life, soldiers are cut off from sources of information about the situation of the group and are placed in a position where th.eir social behavior is governed largely by the principle of blind obedience. Under such circumstances, reality becomes elusive. Because the soldiers are not permitted to deal with facts in their own ways, facts cease to discipline their opinions. Fantasy and wild tales are the natural outcome. In fact, it is probably a mark of the GI’s intelligence to fantasize, for it means that he has not permitted his intellectual capacity to atrophy. The intelligence of the individual is thus expressed in the irrationality of the group. It is this process which we may observe when we look to the social effect of modern technological systems in America itself. Here the process is not so simple and clear as in Vietnam, for it involves not simply the relations of today’s soldiers to their officers and to the army but the historical development of analogous relations between the lower and upper orders of our society. Moreover, these relations are broadly cultural rather than narrowly social in nature. It is to a brief review of this complex subject that I now wish to turn. Among the conventional explanations for the rise and spread of the democratic ethos in Europe and North America in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the destruction of the gap in political culture between the mass of the population and that of the ruling classes is extremely important. The printing press contributed to the increasing literacy of the masses and along with the phasing out of latin as the religious and political language helped to demystify the privileges of the ruling class. Activities which demand frequent intercourse with strangers, accurate calculation of near means and distant ends, and a willingness to devise collective ways of resolving novel and unexpected problems demand and reward a more discriminating attention to the realities and deficiencies

of social life, and provide thereby a rich variety of social experiences analogous to those of the governing classes. As a result not only were the processes of law and government, formerly treated with semireligious veneration, becoming demystified but, equally important, a population was being fitted out with sufficient skills and interests to contest their control. The same period also witnesses a growth in the organized means of popular expression. In Britain, these would include the laboring people’s organizations whose development is so ably described in Edward Thompson’s The making of the english

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HIS DESCRIPTION BY no means does justice to the richness and variety of the historical process underlying the rise and spread of what has come to be called the democratic ethos. But it does, I hope, isolate some of the important structural elements and, moreover, it enables us to illuminate some important ways in which the new technology, celebrated by Mesthene and his associates for its potential contributions to democracy, contributes instead to the erosion of that same democratic ethos. For if, in an earlier time, the gap between the political cultures of the higher and lower orders of society was being widely attacked and closed, this no longer appears to be the case. On the contrary, I am persuaded that the direction has been reversed and that we now observe evidence of. a growing separation bet ween ruling and lower-class culture in America, a separation which is particularly enhanced by the rapid growth of technology and the spreading influence of its laissez innover ideologues. Certainly, there has been a decline in popular literacy, that is to say, in those aspects of literacy which bear on an understanding of the political and social character of the new technology. Not one person in a hundred is even aware of, much less understands, the nature of technologically highly advanced systems such as are used in the Vietnam bombing program. People’s ignorance in these things is revealed in their language. No clearer illustration of this ignorance is needed than the growing and already enormous difference between the speech of organizational and technical specialists and that of the man in the street, including many of the educated ones. To the extent that technical forms of speech within which the major business of american society is carried on are not understood or are poorly understood, there is a decline in one of the essentials of democracy. This is not to say that the peculiar jargon which characterizes the speech of, say, aerospace technicians, crisis managers, or economic mandarins is intrinsically superior to the vocabulary of ordinary conversation, though sometimes this is indeed the case. What is important about technical lan- . . guage is that the words, being alien to ordinary speech, hide their meaning from ordinary speakers; terms like foreign aid

or technical assistance have a good sound in ordinary speech ; only the initiate recognizes them as synonyms for the oldfashioned, nasty word, imperialism. Such instances can be corrected but when almost all of the public’s business is carried on in specialized jargon correction makes little difference. Like Latin in the past, the new language of social and technical organization is divorced from the general population, which continues to speak in the vulgar tongue of, say, The new rep’ubiic, the Saturday review of literature, or The reader’s digest.

Mesthene and his schoolfellows try to argue around their own derogation of the democratic ethos by frequent references, as we have seen, to their own fealty to it. But it is instructive in this regard to note that they tend to find the real substance of that democratic ethos in the principle of the equality of opportunity. Before we applaud, however, we ought, to examine the role which that principle plays within the framework of the advanced technological society they propose. As has already been made clear theJaissez innover school accepts as inevitable and desirable the centralizing tendencies of technology’s social organization, and they accept as well the mystification which comes to surround the management process. Thus equality of opportunity, as they understand it, has precious little to do with creating a more egalitarian society. On the contrary, it functions as an indispensable feature of the highly stratified society they envision for the future. For in their society of meritocratic hierachy, equality of .opportunity assures that talented young meritocrats (the word is no uglier than the social system it refers to) will be able to climb into the “key decision -ma king’ ’ slots reserved for trained talent, and thus generate the success of the new society. and its cohesion against popular “tensions and political frustration .’ ’ The structures which formerly guaranteed the rule of wealth, age, and family will not be destroyed (or at least not totally so 1. They will be firmed up and rationalized by the perpetual addition of trained (and, of course, acculturated) talent. In technologically‘ advanced societies, equality of opportunity functions as a hierarchical principle, in opposition- to the egalitarian social goals it pretends to serve. To the extent that it has already become the kind of “equality” we seek to institute in our society, it is one of the main factors contributing to the widening gap between the cultures of upper and lower class America.

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Secondly, the social organization of the new technology, by systematically denying to the general population experiences which are analogous to those of its higher management, contributes very heavily to the growth of social irrationality in our society. For example, modern technological organization defines the roles and values of

its members, not vice versa. An engineer or a sociologist is one who does all those things but only those things called for by the “table of organization” and the “job description” used by his employer. Professionals who seek self-realization through creative and autonomous behavior without regard to the defined goals, needs, and channels of their respective departments have no more place in a large corporation or government agency than squeamish soldiers in the army. As the pages of Fortune, Time, or Business Week or the memoirs of out-of-office Kennedyites serve to show, the higher levels of business and government are staffed by men and women who spend killing hours lookmg after the economic welfare and national security of the rest of us. The rewards of this life are said to be very few: the love of money would be demeaning and, anyway, taxes are said to take most of it; its sacrifices are many, for failure brings economic depression to the masses or gains for communism as well as disgrace to the erring managers. The managerial process is seen as an expression of the vital personalities of our leaders and the right to it an inalienable right of the national elite. In addition to all of this, their lonely and unrewarding eminence in the face of crushing responsibility, etc., tends to create an air of mystification around technology’s managers. ‘When the august mystery of science and the prerequisites of high office are added to their halos, they glow very blindingly indeed. Thus, in ideology as well as in reality and appearance, the experiences of the higher managers tend to separate and isolate themselves from those of the managed. The normal life of men and women in the lower and, I think, middle levels of american society now seems cut off from those experiences in which near social means and distant social ends are balanced and rebalanced, adjusted and readjusted. But it is from such widespread experience with effective balancing and adjusting that social rationality derives. To the degree that it is lacking, social irrationality becomes the norm, and social paranoia a recurring phenomenon. People often say that America is a sick society when what they really mean is that it has lots of sick individuals. But they were right the first time: the society is so sick that individual efforts to right it and individual rationality come to be expressed in fundamentally sick ways. Like the soldiers in Vietnam, we try to avoid atrophy of our social intelligence only to be led into fantasy and, often, violence. It is a good thing to want the war in Vietnam over for, as everyone now recognizes, it hurts us almost as much as the Vietnamese who are its intended victims. But for many segments of our population, especially those cut off from political expression because of their own social disorganiza tion, the rationality of various alternatives for ending the war is fundamentally obscure. Thus their commendable desire to end the war is expressed in what they believe is the clearest and most certain alternative: use the bomb! Even more fundamentally than the prin-

ciples of laissez innover and the altruistic bureaucrat, technology assumes that the primary and really creative role in the social processes consequent on technological change is reserved for a scientific and technical elite. But if the scientific and technical elite and their indispensable managerial cronies are the really creative (and hardworking and altruistic) element in american society, what is this but to say that the common mass of men are essentially drags on the social weal? This is precisely the implication which is drawn by the laissez innover school. PPROXIMATELY A CENTURY ago the philosophy of laissez faire began its period of hegemony in american life. Its success in achieving that hegemony clearly had less to do with its merits as a summary statement of economic truth than with its role in the social struggle of the time. It helped to identify the interests of the institutions of entrepreneurial capitalism for the social classes which dominated them and profited from them. Equally, it sketched in bold strokes the outlines of a society within which the legitimate interests of all could supposedly be served only by systematic deference to the interests of entrepreneurial capitalists, their institutions, and their social allies. In short, the primary significance of laissez faire lay in its role as ideology, as the cultural or intellectual expression of the interests of a class. Something like the same thing must be said of laissez innover. As a summary statement of the relationship between social and technological change it obscures far more than it clarifies, but that is often the function and genius of ideologues.

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My mother has always told me to beware of pushy girls. Pookie Adams (Liza Minelli) is a very pushy girl. I don’t think it was solely, or even mainly, my mother’s warning which ‘made me abhor this ‘film. Pookie is a very anti-social. insecure, rather awkward freshman-to-be at a girl’s college, not far from Hamilton college, a very WASPyh men’s college in New Yo-k state. On the bus, headed for school she meets-rather, accosts-a young man about to enter Hamilton. Their relationship grows and gradually ripens, (as young love is wont to do) to a point where Pookie becomes completely dependent on her young lover. He feels trapped, closed off, isolated from things in life he desires; and painfully, though bravely puts an end to the affair. The subject is a cliche as is its treatment here. . There is much strolling, running, tumbling and lying in the multi-colored autumn foliage. The cabin they frequent on week-ends is heated by a faulty gas heater, nonetheless warmth prevails, etc., etc. What slight interest the film holds lies in the personality of Pookie. Her lover is a thoroughly ordinary college freshman. Her most ubiquitous expression is “weirdo” which seems to mean anybody except Pookie and her boyfriend. ,

Her mother died at Pookie’s birth and her father wanders the country seeking out women who look like his departed wife. No wonder then Pookie’s utter dependence on the first person she can trust. Her dependence, however is strangling and this leads to the break-up. My greatest complaint about the film is the conclusion. Pookie has been shattered by her boyfriend’s increasing coolness and After an hysterical evasiveness. bout he relents and allows her to spend spring vacation with him in his dormitory while he catches up on some much-needed studying. And study he does. At the end of this period the boy not-sosubtly hints that he doesn’t want to see Pookie again, and Pookie philosophically accepts this. Coincidentally, the season is spring, and the end of the relationship marks the beginning of a new maturity and a new life for both. Idyllic as all this sounds, it has no basis in the plot. Based on Pookie’s personality she should have been crushed by this proposed termination ; instead, she rises to stoic heights of acceptance. I have no doubts that Liza Minelli will be nominated for an academy award; as usual, this says nothing about the quality of the acting. It merely reflects the Hollywood ethnic of this film.

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Hair grosses $78,QOO,OOO Michael Butler, millionaire/producer of the tribal rock musical Hair was in Toronto recently to see how the local producers were making out in their search for Canadian talent. Auditions have been going on for the past few weeks and casting finally wound up last week when 30 performers were signed up for the Toronto production. Six of the thirty will play lead parts, four will act as understudies and the remaining twenty will play bit parts and chorus. The full cast has already started rehearsals and should be in top shape for their december 29 preview opening at the Royal Alexandra. The public opening takes place january 11. Butler has experienced much success with Hair since its original opening at New York’s Cheetah and final move into the Biltmore, on Broadway. Hair is

also cashing in with its London, Los Angeles and it’s recentlyopened Chicago productions. Big ticket sales are reported from Paris, Sydney, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, Belgrade and San Francisco which grosses a cool $18 million, making it the most successful production (money-wise) in the history of theater. Although Butler and his New York producer keep close tabs on all Hair productions he insists on local participation from a production and administrative angle. In Toronto it’s Glen-Warren Productions Limited. People in charge of the Toronto office include- company manager Jerry Livengood, productions secretary Paddi White, and secretary Betty Hader. Staffing the audition hall, namely the Rock Pile, is national casting director Joe Reagan and his assistant Pam Fernie.

been ‘distributing his books in the library Without looking to left or right, he put and had inadvertently strayed into its the card down on his desk and read the creative literature section with which next. he was unfamiliar, and, in the tradition “The establishment is not a formal or of the absent-minded professor, simply informal conspiracy but rather a conwalked out an open window, falling to course of values, opinions and goals his death. (The coroner’s report of the inculcated in, and shared by, those who incident recommended that the window are in the chairs of power. Whether a be closed henceforth lest any of Smith’s man is a lawyer, clergyman, police colleagues deviate in to that section. ) chief, professor, politician, doctor or As a means of disclosing Smith’s engineer cannot be determined from an opinions and personality to you, I will examination of his. particular values, describe his last lecture, only asking you opinions and goals for they are all exto bear in mind that I am supremely unpressed in the same terminology and can sympathetic to his outrageous views, and be placed somewhere on agreed-upon in fact believe the excesses of his metcontinua. aphorical aphorisms were symptomatic “It is not merely that they have the of a disordered personality and mind. power, it is that they believe they have Those of you who began at the end of the right to say, like Claudius, ‘Thus much this elegy ahd have read backwards to the business is. ’ ” this point will already know this to be The last words of the tirade, with their reference to literature as we knew it, true. AS was his custom, Smith entered the transmuted our snores into a disputation. five-hundred-seat amphitheater from the Half the graduate students-those who rear, passing his twelve graduate students belonged to the sociological school of huddled in the last row without remark criticism-maintained that the mention and carried the large sack flung over of the state of the business indicated that his shoulder down to the podium which Claudius was a capitalist pig whose provoked the usual “Ho! Ho! Ho! ” taunts words should be ignored. from the students. For their part, the formalist critics Our reasons for clustering in the upperpresented two alternative interpretations: most rows while he spoke from floor level first, he might be a fictitious character were twofold: first, we wished to be as in which case his name was a pun on far removed from him as possible in “clod” and therefore a hint about his case whatever he had was contagious; personality; and second, if he were a and second, we hoped that he would evreal person, then the “-ius” ending of - entually lose his voice if he had to be perhis name indicates that he was a Roman. Thus, by a startling Hegelian synthpetually project it up into the heavens. He placed the bag beside him on the esis, the tools of modern literary scholarfloor and turned to us, saying “Class, if . ship had determined that Claudius was I were to regard reality in Time-maga buffoonish Roman capitalist of dubious azine fasion and cut it up into discrete, authenticity. comprehensible units and give them to Having missed the recitation of a numyou in ordered lectures, you and I would ber of cards, we turned our attention be two midgets jovially slapping each to the podium where Smith was reading other on the back, next to an enormity. yet another one. Accordingly, in today’s lecture I will “The twentieth century analog for the give you data in the same way you get letters of Lord Chesterfield to his it in the big world. I am going to read nephew is the print-out of computers. ” you words on various topics without drawThis was too much. A student leaped ing interrelations between them or value to his feet and confounded his teacher judgments about them. You will not with the query “What do letters written know if what I say is a truth univerby an eighteenth-century English statessally acknowledged by scholars, whether man decreeing manners, gentlemanly it is my own opinion or someone else’s behavior and the state of the world in or whether I am just making it up as I general have to do with computer printspeak. Neither will you know if it is to out? ” my advantage to convince you of the Naturally, Smith could not answer veracity of the data. This is an actual the question so he more or less retracted lecture.” his aphorism by mumbling something With these whirling words he closed about computers being “neither good nor his eyes and reached into the big bag, bad but application makes them so” and drawing forth a fistful1 of papers varying in size, color and texture. With considerable dexterity‘ he shuffled them like a bridge master and then read the top card: “Sir Isaac Newton and the linear universe are dead. The Marquis de Sade, Immanuel Kant and Tristram Shandy buried them. ” That was all. A few embarrassed coughs and uncharitable snickers were the only response. He picked up the next card and read: “Western civilization is a selfPerpetuating hoax in which we are all by turns the hoaxer and the hoaxed.”

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he death of english professor Socrates Smith in a fall from the Dana Porter arts library went largely unnoticed at the university of Waterloo. Of course, the english department issued a token statement of bereavement and requested that their students observe an hour’s silence in each class instead of the customary fifty minutes; but just the same, one could sense the relief emanating from both the faculty lounge and the graduate lounge because this maverick had removed himself to where he could no longer rouse the faculty nor disturb the graduate students. Thus it was with some surprise on my part that Faculty opinion (or so he introduced himself) asked me to collect and edit the aphorisms.and teachings of professor Smith inasmuch as I had been a student of his and could glean all the material I’d need from my notebooks. I refused because my notes of his classes were accurate records of his lectures -they were nearly illiterate,without any pretense to logical progression, garbled, ambiguous, and, in fact, appeared to be the transcripts of a lunatic raving .out of his mind. Praising my objectivity, Faculty Opin- ion pointed out that if I did not edit the teachings I would instead be required to complete my aborted book The co//ected punctuation

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Although I have the greatest regard for those toiling in that particular field, I do not care to pick any more rocks in a field that will be forever stony-thus, with reluctance I agreed to compile the teachings of Socrates Smith. Following the modus-operandi of my professor I started at the end and worked backwards, asking his bereft wife how her lord and master met his fate. Despite the fact that incessant giggling obliged her to pause frequently to wipe the tears from her widow’s eyes, I have reconstructed the events leading up to his last catastrophe. It seems he had hit upon a scheme to upgrade the cultural life of engineers and sciencemen -by turning their lewdness to account. Months ago he had bought several hundred copies of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor resartus and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond good and evil along with an equal number of dust jackets from Lady Chatter/y’s lover and Fanny Hill.

He then wrapped the books in the provocative jackets and left them in conspicuous places around campus in the hope that sciencemen and engineers would steal them and perhaps read a chapter of two before realizing they had been duped. (Ever a realist, he did not set snares for arts students because he knew that not even lasciviousness could make them want a book badly enough to steal it.) On the night in question, Smith had

resorting to a peculiar kind of slaunder, alluding to his colleagues as “Lord Chesterfields” and to all students but the most odious of radicals as “nephews of Lord Chesterfield”. Most curiously, he hinted that the administration was possessed by a psychosis he termed the “Lord Chesterfield Syndrome”. When approached after the lecture, an administrative official stated emphatically that it “was certain beyond dispute that no such psychosis exists at the present time, ever has existed, or ever will exist. ” But I digress too much-on to the next card. What Smith lacked in coherence and sanity, I will atone for with reason and order. “Departments of the humanities are six inches of ice on the river of life. They freeze it into one configuration and bid us walk out on the ice in safety to view the river. They claim to be a mode of disclosure; in fact, they are a mode of concealment. Break through the ice to the vital currents and be bourne directly into the world of sea wrecks, water pollution and all manner of sea 1 monsters-a world which is also the realm of mermaids and Atlantis.” This was evidently the final bit of madness for he laid the card aside and looked up at us as if to invite comment. One smug student asked with ironic deference if professor Smith would, briefly summarize the lecture for us. He replied that he would be glad to do so with a short quotation from a mer ber of our generation. He said: “Bc Dylan once lamented that ‘a world we passed through my brain’. The war 1 spoke of is, after the fashion of model wars, an undeclared one. It is the kir of war being waged between Britis Columbia’s premier Bennett and tl Vancouver town fool; between existin teachers and modern artists; betwee those who maintain that the universil is at present the critic of its society an those who believe it must become tl critic. “It is not a war between young an old, between left and right, between goa and evil, or even between right and wren It is the war between the prophonents ( conservative reight reason and discloser of chaos. “Class, unlike previous gene ations of students you are not afforded th luxury of a neutral choice. Which side ar you on?” An emigmatic question whit I ,beg perceptive readers to interpret fc themselves.

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When I am supremely interested in a work of art I am invariably interested in the personality that created it. And when a lyric poet speaks with so personal a voice as to invite us to identify him as the speaker of the poem, I feel constrained to do so, and interpret variations in the speaker’s ideas as correlates of the artist’s expanding awareness of himself and environment. For these reasons I have assumed that the man Leonard Cohen is the speaker in his lyrics and that the developing consciousness manifested in his three books of poetry corresponds to the dynamics of his own mind. Let us compare mythologies was published in 1956 when he was still an undergraduate at McGill. As in his later work the poetry is restrained in tone and understates the intensity of his personal experiences. When describing the conflict between old testament myths and rationalism, for example, the words flow with lyrical inevitability which makes his adolescent dissillusionment more poignant. and when I faced the trembling underneath the meadow of running and I kissed away my warned my younger

ark for counting, the burning oil, flesh turned sour gentle teachers, brothers.

The mythologies compared are the jewish mythology of his upbringing and the Christian mythology of contemporary sljciety. In Saint Catherine street he laments the fact, that because he is Jewish he can never be a Christian martyr. How may we be saints and live in golden coffins Who will leave on our stone shelves pathetic notes for intervention How may we be calm marble gods at ocean altars Who will murder us for some high reason

But when confronted by some nunstangible symbols of the Christian churchhe castigates Christianity for its separation of body and spirit in terms appropriate to Nietzsche’sAntichrist. 1 Are those dry faces and hands we see all the flesh there is of nuns Are they reaJly clever non-excreting tapes tries prepared by skillful eunuchs for our trembling friends

Mythologies are more in evidence in his work as he develops. In his first work mainly hebrew and .christian myths are used, (though there are references to ancient Greece and one critic has suggested that the Orpheus myth is indicated.), ten years later in Beautiful losers he employs at least fifteen distinct mythologies in detailing the cosmic adventures of an historian who is himself studying Canadian indian legends. In addition to mythologies, the relationship between art and experience is a subject which endlessly fascinates him. In “These heroics” he implies that the creation of poetry is a compensation for his inability to attain superhuman greatness or ~~uhte the lives of birds or fish. If I had a shining head and people turned to stare at me in the streetcars; and I could stretch my body through the bright water and keep abreast of fish and water snakes; if I could ruin my feathers / in flight before the sun; do you think that I would remain in this room, reciting poems to you, and making outrageous dreams

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Like many other artists of all times, Cohen is concerned with the problem of identity. His thoughts on it are only nascent in Mythologies and are restricted almost entirely to “Song”, a lyric detailing the specific associations which his name has for his lover. He demonstrates poetically how his identity has become fixed in his lover’s consciousness by the verbal symbol of his name.

And may mjl bronze name touch always her thousand fingers grow brighter with her weeping until J am fixed like a galaxy and memorized in her secret and fragile skies.

Man’s relationship to evil, the central motif of Flowers for Hitler, is anticipated in “Ballad” which describes the investigation into the murder of a beautiful woman. He seems overwhelmed by the vicious absurdity of evil which cannot coexist with beauty. The sardonic speaker explains that She should not have walked so bravely through the streets. After all, that was the marian year, the year the rabbis emerged from their desert exile, the year the people were inflamed by tooth-paste ads.. .

“Summer Night” presents two other motifs central to his thought: the alienation of individuals from each other, and man’s relationship to the universe at large. In Beautiful losers the universe is dissolving into chaos, but in “summer night” it is stable though utterly indifferent to the speaker in the same way that Camus’ hero in L’etranger experiences it as indifferent. field and huge wounded sky, opposing each other like continents, made us andbur smoking fire quite irrelevant between their eternal attitudes. We knew we were intruders. Worse. Intruders unnoticed and undespised. After Let us compare m ythologie&, Cohen did not publish another book until The spice-box of earth ( 1961) which contains

and because I sleep so near to you I cannot embrace or have my private love with them.

Even more graphically, he fuses religion and sex in “Celebration” where the act of fellatio is described as a religious rite. In other poems of the volume, however, one senses that Cohen knows he is too restive to be satisfied with equilibrium. In “Travel”, he is torn between the secure world of sexual fulfillment and another world which he cannot yet articulate. I have not lingered

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I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years. During the day I laugh and-during the night I sleep. My favourite cooks prepare my meals, my body cleans and repairs itselt and all my work goes well.

Surely this is to be taken as an insipid and complacent way of life from which the poet knows he must break or be relegated to a life without any possibility of change -anathema to a poet. As with most of the problems raised in his earlier poetry, the resolution of this one-an alternative to a fulfilled but nondynamic existence-is not presented until Beautiful losers. The poet of Spice-box maintains that It is good to live between a ruined house of bondage and a holy promised land.

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some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written in Canada. When Irving Layton was asked to choose the fifty best canadian love lyrics for an anthology, he took five from this volume alone. In Spice-box he commences his exploration of the relationship between spirituality and sexuality though with restrained expression compared to Beautiful losers. Basically, he’appropriates the mystical teaching that the state of sexual fulfillment is qualitatively the same as the “state of grace”. Or to put it more simply, that the erotic is at the core of the spiritual. Except for an early Christian sect in the time of the primitive church, this attitude is foreign to western religions but it has been at the heart of hindu and buddhist mysticism for thousands of years. (And for that reason it is not’surprising that he draws on both religions for the mythologies of Beautifullosers.) In “Owning everything”, sexual gratification has enabled him to overcome both his separateness from others and the universe itself.

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thematic movement of Beautiful is from the “house of bondage” through the stasis of Spice-box to the “holy promised land”. The 1964 publication of Flowers for Hitler marked the point of divergence for Cohen. Behind him was the lyricism of two books of poetry and a pseudo-autobiographical novel, The favorite game; ahead was the chaos and desolation of Beautiful losers. The opening poem, “What I’m doing here”, states his intention to enlarge the focus of his art from recording his emotions and impressions of the external world to recording the consciousness of modern man. He first confesses to the evil he finds in himself, admitting he has lied, tortured, “conspired against love” and hated. In the second stanza he defines his role as an artist in relation to his readers. losers

Like an empty

telephone booth passed at night and remembered like mirrors in a movie palace lobby cqnsulted only on the way out like a nymphomaniac who binds a thousand into . strange brotherhood I wait for each one of you to confess.

What he wants us to confess to is our inherent capacity for evil which we possess in being human. For he no longer views evil as external to himself and others but rather as a component of human nature. In the poem “Hitler”, for instance, he portrays Nazi officers as embodiments of our shared culpability. Cadres of SS waken in our minds where they began before we ransomed them to that act&l empty realm we people....

Elsewhere, he not only contends that each of us has the potentiil to be a Hitler or an Eichman but also implies that under the desperate circumstances of the war. we would have been their accomplices. Eichmann is described as totally undistinguished, lacking even the elevated perniciousness of a satan. A piece of black comedy. a precursor of a Beautiful losers narrative technique. makes his point about Eichmann’s accomplices. Captain Joe Li’l A The

Marvel signed the whip contract. Palooka manufactured whips. bner packed the whips in cases. Katzenjammer Kids thought up experiments. Mere

cogs.

Having accepted evil as something present in the economy of human nature, Cohen regards horrors like Hitler as unremarkable, perhaps even unavoidable. flowers for hitler the summer yawned flowers all over my new grass and here is a little village they are painting it for a holiday here is a little church here is a school here are some doggies making love the flags are bright as laundry f/o wers for hitler the summer yawned

In assuming this view of the human condition, however, Cohen ‘does not by any means excuse particular evils and, in fact, many of the poems articulate his revulsion against the practices of twentieth century politics. Clearly he could no longer sustain the self-satisfied attitude which characterized Spice-box and, indeed, whenever he returns to his lyric mode one senses an acute disorientation in which he appears to be losing his conception of self. He is horrified that he can no longer live between the “ruined house of bondage” and the “holy promised land” and his despair drives him to a position in which he feels that his identity is dissolving: I don’t believe love in the midst of my slavery I ’ do not believe I am a man sitting in a house on a treeless Argolic island I will forget the grass of my m&her’s lawn I know I will I will forget the old telephone number Fitzroy seven eight two oh I will forget my style I will have no style

The notion of his dissolving identity is part of, his perception of the chaos which is overrunning the boundaries of mankind’s conceptions about the world. In Style, the radio is seen obliterating the borders between countries while an analogous process occurs within his own mind. (Again, themes fully expressed in Beautiful

losers.) America will have no style Russia will have no style

...

The early morning greedy radio eats the governments one by one the languages the poppy fields one by one Beyond the numbered band a silence develops for every style for the style I laboured on an external silence like the space between insects in a swarm electric unremembering and it is aimed at us.. . . In my-review next week of Parasites of heaven, The iavorite game and Beautiful losers, I will attempt to follow Cohen as he

explores the interrelated problems of chaos in the world and chaos in his mind.

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In the west corner of the campus center behind the information desk is ‘a room known (to some) as the raproom. The room is furnished as a small lounge, and a student volunteer is always on duty to rap or to listen to problems. The raproom was set up at the beginning of the fall term as part of counselling services. It had become apparent that there was a definite need for an informal place where students could come to talk about problems. About 50 volunteers man the room, on a 24-houra-day, seven-days-a-week basis. Professional counsellors from the university counselling services are on call to back up the volunteers. During orientation week, the main services provided by the volunteers were time-table unhassling and direction-giving to the lost and the disorientated. With the frosh rush over, the raproom has settled down to seeing people with problems ranging from study habits to dating to severe depression and social isolation .

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Drug problems have appeared, but do not constitute a major portion of the inquiries. With the advent of exams, the raproom expects a greater influx of students with jitters or complaints about the irrelevance of courses and exams. Volunteers attempt to assist students in working out some solutions on the spot, or help them to make contact with counselling services if more attention is required. Since the volunteers are also students, they can be empathic with other students who are confronted with academic problems. One of the major problems which exists for the raproom counsellors is attempting to deal with the myth that the raproom serves only the campus center sub-culture, or that it is dominated by the radical student movement. The service is open to all and the volunteers come from most faculties. The campus center, because it is student-controlled and open 24-hours-a-day was chosen as the raproom location. So if your mind is foosted in a bog, come and rap. It’s always open.

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feedback Campus ceder it’s a campus

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I’m one of those people who are interested in criticism. Many of the contributors to this column voice their opinion to help make ordinary student the (part of the GSM) aware of his campus. It appears to me that very few students actually visit the campus place. (It really isn’t a ‘center’ ) The Chevron dutifully keeps us out-term students informed. And speaking for myself, if only 90 percent of what the Chevron says is true, I can imagine what the remainder of the campus will look like in january. Seriously. it is unfortunate that hardly any students know the ins and outs of maintaining a meager home. With all due ( ? J respect, I wish those members of our society well in their proposed endeavours. I’m not a music critic but I am a musician of some accomplishment. Thanks to the Chevron for enlightening me on the chores and successes of an accomplished critic. I have a suggestion; a column entitled ‘dear Charlotte’ Is she really writing .a memoir? ) She certainly makes integrated studies appear interesting. I wish her happiness in her life. I’ve never seen the liberation lunch counter. Does anyone know of a way to record smell? And if the conditions are as severe why haven’t the health authorities closed the lunch counter? Can one imagine going to Angie’s if conditions. were similar. One further question-is respect a conditioned state of mind? I seem to be losing any respect hitherto attained for the average campus place student . For that matter, I’m losing face with the students who permit other students to make that damned (excuse me) mess. More janitors aren’t going to help. And who pays them. It seerns only the Chevron really Perhaps it was indeed cares. better not to have a campus center. Would it not have been better to avoid this disgrace from our generation. B.M. SOOKMAN 2B elec. eng. ancer sisdd, repulsive, lascivious.. . deliciobs

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Outrageous! 1 have been an avid pub-goer for many years, but never have I been so offended as I was upon seeing the stripper and go-go dancers flaunt themselves before the bores at last thursday’s science society pub. In particular, I object to the lascivious performance of t!ie iithe, oiied loins of the shameless hussy who stripped before mental inferiors fsI‘?e, I also might add, openly displayed the swelling, alabaster roundness of ness of her firm, ripe breats. ) In addition, 1 found equally repulsive the filmy negligee Of the go-go dancer which openly and knowingly revealed the delicious cleft between the moulded curves of her provocativeely hardened buttocks. People who persist in promoting such filth to our young people should be strapped down on leather couches. bound hand and foot, and repeatedly whipped with weighted featherdusters until their sinful flesh takes on a rosy. smarting glow. WALTER

T. HORSLEY arts 2

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feedback If the person who called himself would come Glen T. Lunchpail into the Chevron office and sign his letter, it will be printed.

Reviewers missed movie tender and

the point: touching

It’s really too bad about the reviews written on the movie, in the 28 married couple, november Chevron. Clearly the reporters went to see it with preconceptions that made it impossible for them to appreciate what they saw. It was an error to expect to be A married “entertained”. couple was not the plastic fantastic world of Hollywood entertainmen t . It was a rare opportunity to take an intimate look at the workings of a marriage. It was an object lesson on - the’ pitfalls that face couples that do not or cannot communicate. The marquee read “96 tender touching, tender moments” and Daphne let it be known that she felt that she had been misled and proceeded to criticize the movie for failing to be tender or touching. Consider the meaning of the word tender -as in sensitive to pain, easily hurt, and touching as in relating to people-communicating; and perhaps the use of these two words was not inapproIf these interpretations priate. are accepted as valid then the marquee was accurate. To say “I did not like the movie or the people in it” is a rather Billy and hollow statement. Antoinette are, their situation is and the closest that I could come to a value judgement was to accept their state of affairs as real and to learn from my observation of their lives, what I can attempt to do to ensure that I am not the victim of a similar communication break-down. It has been my experience that a large proportion of marriages resemble all too closely that of Billy and Antoinette. That the couples do not discuss their differences openly, in an atmosphere of trust, in an attempt at mutual understanding and mutual benefit. Billy and Antoinette tried to get their grievances out in the open and failed to better their relationship because Billy, in particular, and Antoinette, to some extent, were too hung up defending their own views to listen ’ to each other. A married couple was a meaningful experience for anyone who is at all concerned with interpersonal relations and communication. Martin and Daphne, you really should see it again. You missed something. SUE TAMAS

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A recent copy of the Chevron reached our campus and I was nauseated by the letter written by one N.B. Alexander concerning residence conditions. He said an answer would be appreciated. Here it is. So you may be one of the 50 percent failures, eh Alexander? Judging from your incoherent letter, I can believe it. You ask what fool will walk three-quarters of a mile to use the library to study. No fool will, of course, but all the intelligent people will. Got four chairs in a crowded room? Why don’t you just get rid of two of them? Put them in the lounge, or think of something, but don’t just cry about it.

And so what if your roommate talks and plays his radio.. .you probably do some things he objects to, like sucking your thumb and wetting your bed. Your university went to a lot of trouble to let you forget about looking for a room, and you complain because it isn’t the Waldorf. You must think that residence problems are unique at Waterloo; it’s the same everywhere so just accept it and grow up, pal. There’s one ultimate solution, though, Little Lord Fauntleroy -just go home to mommy. I’m sure you’ll find your crying towel in its usual place. JIM COWAN social sciences 1 McMaster university

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Every so often it’s nice to see some news around the advertisements in the Chevron. It makes you think it might be a newspaper after all. What is happening on campus? Last year you could find out by reading the student newspaper. This year something has to happen in the campus center or it doesn’t get any coverage, unless it’s sports or theater reviews. Don’t you people ever leave your cozy little offices, wander through your fascinating garbage to look at the rest of the campus? Maybe you could lose your fixation with garbage, or the stupid liberation lunch coffeemaker. Really! ! The worst thing in your rag has to be the I$nowlton Collister column. Last year it used to be a source of interesting and humorous speculation. Now it contains the same dirt-and dirt it isevery week. It looks like one person’s method of getting revenge on the brass in the university from behind an anonymous front. Not only is that dull and boring, it’s cowardly too. Smarten up, Chevron staff, or get out. We want a better paper than you’re giving us. ALAN MORTON C.M. MITFORD coop math 2A

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The Chevron is the product of a volunteer staff and there are too many people who want to criticize who are only willing to contribute a letter to the editor. And a large number of people who answer the challenge only want to write mediocre editorials for news stories. Those who complain the loudest about bias are the least able to write a fair story. To decry both the lack of news and the existence of the Knowlton Collister column is . a contradiction. The campus center is easy to report on because it is governed in a totally open democratic way. Many events occur in the campus center that have no relation to the running of the building. Collister is accomplishing to the best of his ability what is a rather difficult job -finding out what is really happening in the closed and secret power operations of this university. Powerful people who hide behind closed doors deserve to wear a little mud. -the lettitor

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The measuring procedure is designedto measure retention in uniformity.. . Somepeople become c’reative in spite of-the systems, others by leaving by Wolfgang

Franke

HE MEASUREMENT COMPLEX in our educational system stifles academic freedom. It is commonplace to say that good highschool marks are a solid foundation for success in a college. In this country and in the United States, where the academic measuring procedure is almost identical on the high school and university levels one is accustomed to taking for granted that school marks are reliable predictors for success in university and even in life. In ‘dealing with the most delicate and complicated of all things, the human mind, we are almost blasphemously pressing it into a mold, sizing it up in a numerical system and expressing its qualities in percent. Fortunately we are getting away from relying on the intelligence quotient (IQ) in categorizing living souls, something we have been doing for decades in our schools but we are so accustomed to treating the black and white fact of numerical marks in our school machinery as the basis for our judgment, that serious questioning of their reliability is labelled under-

mining

the establishment.

In Ontario it was found that the elaborate final examinations administered by the government in all grade 13 classes throughout the province had a lower predictor value for success in university than an estimated judgment given by the teacher who taught the student for at least one whole year. Here the assessment of a human being was made by another human being in personal manto-man understandingrather than by the governmental measuring machinery where the student is reduced to a number. But very few people have objected to the latter undignified and unreliable method. It is interesting to watch some educators replace the final examination that used to emanate from Toronto, by a local final examination. They themselves have not understood the fundamental reasons behind the change in measuring people. From the first grade on to the baccalaureate intellectual achievment has been expressed in percent. Everybody has gone through this system. Most people have done well by it for themselves. It is very difficult to change our ingrained habits, and it was only the administrative problem of having to cope with huge numbers of written grade 13 examinations in Toronto, each summer, that finally killed the traditional final examinations in the senior matriculation classes of Ontario. It is argued that measuring in itself is part of the educational process. This is obviously true and our objection is not to the healthly sizing-up and evaluation that pervades all our endeavors. We object to the impersonal, mechanical and unfair methods that are responsible for so much pitiful mis-judgment, the narrowness of approach in most written examinations, the disregard of the flexibility and complexity and complexity of the human mind, the exclusion of the personality of the student with its creativeness, persistence, compassion and esthetic judgment. We do not measure the oral facility and the mastery of the art of conversation, the ability to cope with the unforeseen, to name only a few facets of a mysterious and beautiful complex. Unfortunately, and to a- large degree as a result of this ingrained measuring procedure, our courses are often tailored to fit the examination, and students refuse to learn anything that is not on

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Most Most students do not even have the time to widen their scope and do some reading on their own, because their reading is exactly prescribed. There is very little room for initiative and individuality. the course.

Final exams not needed This is completely in line with other cultural uniformity growing at an alarming rate. Music in cartridges is forced on us in airplanes, trains, buses, airports and restaurants. Everybody hears Exodus everywhere and all the time, and the same best-sellers ‘are sold to millions by the book-of-the-month club. One university from which graduates were recruited for the teaching profession, produced Thomas Aquinas specialists by the dozen each year, masses of people of one color with identical courses and a pitifully small horizon. The measuring procedure is designed to measure retention in uniformity. And there are still schools, colleges and universities basing their judgment entirely on this one-shot final Big Bang. But there are school systems that are completely without final examinations. In most european universities there is no yearly promotion as we know it. The drop-out rate however is about the same as on this continent. The measuring as an educational tool is applied from day to day by the student himself. His motivation for studying is not the sword of Damocles hanging over him in the form of a written examination. Too many students here live in a constant atmosphere of fear. And too many have been training themselves for decades to pass that examination . In this rush for the finals you do not concern yourself with education but with the mechanism of passing the exam. I have seen masses of students becoming very efficient in the mastery of this passing technique, utterly unaware of the great thrill that comes from natural intellectual growth, motivated by genunine curiosity and the pure excitement of learning! Where is the joy in our schools? It will never be recorded how many livs are broken year after year by our The inadequate measuring procedures. employers ask: what certificates, diplomas and degrees do you have-not: what can you do? They presume that this question what can you do? has been asked in the schools and that the answer is expressed in percent in the transcript. But our schools have not really asked that question. The schools provide the papers required by the employers, and you are in school to get them at all costs. As long as a diploma or degree is obtained in the present system it is rather meaningless in too many cases. A prominent Canadian recently said, “If Canada is to become great, we have to free the individual to make him creative”. This we are not doing in the Some people become creative schools. in spite of the system, others because they are, leaving it. In a Canadian community college, 25 students were admitted to a course, who were unable to produce the necessary highschool papers. They were drop-outs with the- stigma attached to that status in our present society. Admission was made possible by a pioneering administration in that college. At Christmas-time a careful evaluation of these students showed that only two had failed a failure rate of 8 percent versus 25 percent in the norma/ classes.

But more astonishing was the fact that eight of the reminder had been placed on the dean’s list with a first-class honors standing. This is 33 percent versus about 10 percent among those with a grade 12 diploma in their pocket. How were they measured? Like everyone else in the college: in countless daily small oral and written tests,, in close contact with outstanding teachers, person to person, one by one and all together. You do not learn under a threat. You may memorize for a while, but you do not make the knowledge part of your own self. There is more talk on this continent about freedom than any other. But there is no freedom for the student, neither for the adolescent, nor particularly for the adult, who is out to become educated.

Rigor or rigidity Too many people mean rigidity when they talk about academic rigor. When a 19-year-old young man or woman, who is as mature as’ a 25year-old was a generation ago, enters a college or a university, he is immediately confronted with a rigid prescription of courses whose contents are to be regurgitated at the year’s1 end. There is a sequential ‘arrangement of courses and a system of prerequisites. And this not only in the professional career-courses where it can be argued that you cannot take physical chemistry before you have a certain measure of basic chemistry, physics and mathematics. What would happen if you left the choice to the young man or woman? Why do we assume a-priori that they would either not be able to judge for themselves whether they need a prerequisite or that they are trying to cheat their way through college? Some need more prerequisites than others, some can be taught much better by reading on their own than by attending the reading of that book in organized lectures. But would they do it? Give them motivation, they will! Give them time, give ,them freedom, acknowledge their adulthood! In general arts programs, a sequential arrangement of courses becomes insulting to the young intellectual. Why should he not choose to take a lecture series from professor X who is the well-known scholar about whom everybody is so excited right now ? Why should he take ancient history before he takes modern history, when his choice of history is based on a general survey of historical movements and a special inclination towards that subject that made him go into history to begin with?

Vote for good teachers Education is meeting people. outstanding teachers can set students on fire! If there was freedom in the halls of our universities, some lecturers would see their audience dwindle away during the year, others would have to be moved to the largest auditorium to hold the masses. I have witnessed the overflowing of a university lecture hall where an 81inflamed his audience year-old sage in “evolution mechanics”. There were jurists, philologists, historians, musicians, science students of all flavors sitting at the feet of this giant. What occurred here was education. Our students take course number 112b and don’t know who will teach it. They -have no way of getting out of this course when the lecturer proves to be dull, and they will force themselves half-

heartedly to obtain credit by drudgery. A dull lecturer can kill interest in a subject. Compulsory english courses, administered to engineering students at a very large university, proved to be the most hated, the most futile academic undertaking I have observed, because the students had no choice but to listen to second-rate lecturers. This was particularly serious because here was a beautiful opportunity missed to round off a professional engineering training with an exciting program in the humanities. A captive audience does not learn! Student must reach out for their education. The student should be allowed to vote in favor of a good teacher with his presence. Of course there are administrative difficulties in designing a program that gives the student this long-needed freedom. No less is required than a very basic change. It would be unfortunate if such change had to be forced on the schools by their students using means of disruption and disorder. Countless hours now spent by countless college and university leaders in British Columbia in establishing transfer mechanisms for students who move from one institution to another do not make sense in the light of the new freedom for the student to choose his own course sequence. The uniformity of education resulting from the sequential arrangement of courses does not only deprive the student of this important ingredient of freedom in his own growth, it also stifles the freedom of the teachers in colleges and universities. Colleges, at this early stage of development, are in danger of becoming preparatory extensions of universities with very little room for character of their own. The outstanding teachers that have now flocked to these new colleges can only flourish intellectually and educationally when they are masters of course contents in the general framework assigned to them by the college, not when they have to get approval from a colleague at another institution. The rigidity of an interlocked course network within a university will then be extended to include the arts and science programs at colleges. In the technology courses a regional college is from the outset - bound by economic-industrial requirements. Here we are training for specific jobs. Without going into the question of desirable interaction of job training and liberal education, we can state simply that the economy of the country dictates courses in such terminal programs. This is accepted and it is up to the college to make a process of education possible in spite of the .primary task of training for making a living.

Where is liberty

in ‘liberal’?

But in liberal arts, where is the liberty? Where is this academic freedom so profusely celebrated in our halls of learning ? It seems to be applied only to freedom for the university professor to speak and write within the confinement of his own conscience. It would be extended to the most important person in the educational apparatus, the student. He should be made the master of his own methods of becoming educated. Franke is administration president of the colJege of New Caledonia, B.C. He was president of Lambton community college,in Sarnia from 7966 to 1968, when he was ‘inartyred” by the board of governors.

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Structures Technology is the opiate of the intellectuals. Techniques and machinery are the excuses of the liberals. One weapon of the effective liberal-professing administrator is the ability to excuse the lack of relevance in today’s universities by saying it takes time to work out the necessary changes. Academic vicepresident _ Jay Minas has always said that he favors the wide application of experimental teaching methods and programs, but maintains that it is difficult to set such things up so they will work. Integrated studies is one such program. It seems to be so well set up that it could not possibly . work the way it is supposed to. It was supposed to be a non-structured program where students ran the operation with faculty acting only as resource people. But the program was set up with the faculty members hired first, and then they carried out the initial admission procedures and have not really let go of anything yet. \ But then maybe that’s what Revolutionary Minas means. sounding programs must be carefully set up to ensure that they do not upset the “normal” functioning of the university. Presidential search committee guest Tom McLeod from Regina played the same sort of game. Asked if as president he would

halt change

support the setting up o*f a school of labor organizing of the same proportions as most universities have business and commerce schools, he said yes....but. And the but was a long explanation of ‘why it would not work. He said that as commerce dean at Regina he had seriously tried to set up such a school. The big problem, he said, was that they could not seem to find enough students interested. This is partly due to a highschool system that only directs to university those students who should end up on the management side of the system. But the probable reason why there were no students interested was because the course was structured in such a way that it would not be sympathetic to or useful for the people it is trying to help. Who wants to learn about labor organizing from a manager (or a well-paid PhD-equipped professor) who claims to know what workers need. Behind its pluralist front, the university has no intention of working for anything that would seriously challenge the statusquo. Public-opinion (newspapers have union problems. too) would tell the government (also dubious of organized workers) that the university better stop or their funds would be cut off. The workers who provide so much of the funds somehow get left out of this “democratic” process.

Both in a front-page news story a week ago and an editorial saturday, the Kitchener-Waterloo Record urged local residents to get. out and vote. They suggested people should not bother to vote if they were completely satisfied with the way the city was being run, or if they thought all the candidates held basically the same views. But at the same time, the Record made absolutely no attempt to state what might be wrong with the way the city is being run, what the issues were and where each candidate stood. The Record’s total participation in the process was to run a maximum of two sentences from the statements of each candidate at the nominating meeting and, in a later issue, a paragraph telling about each candidate’s public qualifications (employment position, education and other social or political contributions). Deducting even the cost of reporting on the election and printing all the material they did, the Record profited by an estimated $5000 because of ads purchased by candidates. And because the Record made no attempt to cover the

is, profitable election, candidates had little choice but to buy ads to make their views known. The Record ran almost as much news copy on the results of the election as they did on the rest of the campaign. It is not that the Record wanted people to abstain from voting if they were satisfied, their point is that everything is just fine in “the wonderful community in which you live”. Just for added measure: “If you don’t vote, maybe you should be consistent and forgo the right to criticize if things don’t work out the way you would have liked.” The Record likes to believe that the business, industrial and professional establishment that runs Kitchener-Waterloo are doing just fine and nothing should be done to change it. Only a handful of elected representatives in the twin cities are not from that group. 1 Interestingly, the Record did not point out until after the election that four successfully-elected members of the business, industrial and professional group were not even residents of Kitchener, they only did business there.

Silent, peaceful power This may be rushing the season a little, but it seems the administrators’ Christmas season has arrived, and the bigboys are planning their annual mini-festival of important decision-making at a time when students are not around to get in the way. April and august are other prime times, but Christmas will do just as well in a pinch. One, two, three little candidates for the administration presidency are visiting in quick succession as

exams and essay deadlines proliferate. (Incidentally, are not the new trends in education supposed to cut down on such stark educational reckonings? ) The final planned visit will be december 18 and 19, when there will be nothing but silent night, ho/y night in the immediate future while the powerful decide what to do next. With a little luck, peace on earth for the status-quo will be saved for another year.

member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground presssyndicate (UPS); subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (GINS); published tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the federation of students (inc.), university of Waterloo: content is the responsibility of the Chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration; offices in the people’s campus center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748; circulation 12,500; editor - Bob Verdun. The staff received some valuable training monday and tuesday on how to evade issues, give nonanswers, and use cliches when they aren’t appropriate. Fully qualified to become admin presidents: Al Lukachko, Pete Marshall, Una O’Callaghan, Jim Bowman, Tony DeFranco, Bob Epp, Alex Smith, Xpleasecomehome, Jeff Bennett, Andre Belanger, Eleanor Hyodo, Martin Noval, Keith Dewar, dumdh jones, Bill Kuehnbaum, Allan McDonnell, David Rees-Thomas who’s always welcome because Judy comes along and brightens up the office, Bruce Meharg, Paul Dube, Tom Purdy who gives his love to whats-her-name, Pete Armstrong and Fighter of All Capital Letters Renato Ciolfi.

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-Tom

Purdy, the Chevron

...slavery, to sustain itself, must work a man hard enough each day

that it takes something out of him -anon 24

636 the Chevron