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The final meeting of the 1969 9the committee to move on varstudent council came and went ious community projects. _ with the same kind of lethargy The motion to that effect was that it manifested throughout the passed. past year. There was the tradiAfter the rubber stamping of tional %ei-bal sniping between the the recommendations of the right wing (Nick. “the -peasant” Dyve Grsenberg, and Gerry “pinko” Wooten) and the left (just about , everyone else). ,_\

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Nick Kocwen and co. made a final bid before the close of the meeting to knock $2 per student off the incoming Burko rump council budget. The motion called for a referendum on the lowering: of the new per capita levy ., from $22 to $20. An avendment was proposed by Gerry Wooten suggesting that the referendum consider whether the per capita levy should drop to $18 or rise to $25. Larry Caesar moved a second amendment to make the fee completely voluntary. Both amendments and the main motion were defeated. Tom Patterson announced the formation of the labour-student political committee composed of members of the K-W Labour Council, students from U of W, WLU, Conestoga College, and the Adult Education Center. Patterson asked for $200 from the critical university budget for

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GUELPH (CUP)-Charges of racism. have been raised-at the University of Guelph in the case of a black professor denied tenure at the university last November on grounds of “incompatibility”. Spanish professor D.K. Gordon has filed charges with\ the Ontario Human Rights commission over the action by the tenure committee of the Guelph languages Department November 3, 1969. Gordon said he was given no specific written reasons for the tenure refusal by the tenure committee, whose decision was later upheld by an administration committee on reclassification and tenure. But Gordon said he was given a ‘verbal rationale’ by the department chairman Rex‘ Barrel1 immediately following the action, which included claims that: l Gordon was “an element in departmental disunity” : 8 He left courses unfinished “because of too much digression on political matters” :

Strax ordered (GINS)-Dr. Norman Strax, a former University o‘f New Bruns; wick professor, has been ordered deported from Canada, a spokesman for the immigration de-’ partmentsaid heresundaynight. Strax, a native of Great Neck, N.Y., filed notice that he would appeal the deportation order with the immigration appeal board in Ottawa following a hearing in Fredericton Saturday. Strax and his legal counsel

salaries and ho&aria comm-’ ittee chaired by Ftan Yack, Burko, speaker of last year’s council pounded the‘ gavel and ended the era of student council on this campus. \

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l Senior faculty within the department and in other sectors of the university were concerned with Gordon’s political views : l Gordon should have finished his PhD degree four years ago and was appointed assistant professor in the department on the understanding that the degree would be completed immediately.

Gordon has now completed his PhD: he is the only member of the Spanish’ section of the department with a PhD: l Gordon’s accuSations of{ racism have been backed up “unconditionally” by two. black students organizations at Guelph : l Gordon does “not fit in with his colleagues. ” According to the West Indian Association : “It is our understanding that the university committee on ‘re-classification and tenure refused Dr. Gordons appeal . (of the departmental decision( largely because of his claim that some members of the’ departmental committee hold racis’t views. The university committee obviously feels that it is no crime to be racist. The crime lies only in exposing I racism’ ‘,. Bert . Guelph vice-president Matthews (soon to become president at the University of Waterloo) said last Friday that Gordon was not refused -tenure “because of his political views”. “Gordon mistrusts whites, and’ this mistrust led to tensions between se&or faculty and himself, ” Matthews saia. “this resulted in incompatibility. ” , i

Well maybe only god can make a tree, but PP&P and all those other far-Jilcking-sigh ted admin t.ptjes can make new engineering buildings, &.y golly that’s what their gonna do right here.

IWW or&dzer at IS. seniinar Chicago, th-e heartland of american repression,is supplying an integrated studies seminar speaker this coming week. Fred Thompson, an organizer for the Chicago branch of the Industrial Workers of the World will be speaking each day in humanities 348’at 1 o’clock. Thompson, who is well versed in the sociological, political, and philosophical areas of the labor movement, was born in New Brunswick. He was at one time an organizer for the One Big Union in the Canadian west, as well as being oxik of the. leaders of the ’ Winnipeg general strike. From here, he turned to teaching economic history in a Nova Scotia labor school, while organizing for the OBU and the socialist party of Canada. . After emigrating to California he was convicted under the state sjrndicalist laws, serving time in San Quentin until 1927. These laws were subsequently repealed,

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after all syndicalist labor group had been smashed. Thompson was also arresLed foihis part in the massive Ford and General Motors organizing in the mid 30’s. He has written extensively for . the IWW newspaper The industria/ worker , and has been its editor, as well as writing the book The /W W, its first 50 years His varied topics for the seminars will touch on persofial experiences, the problems historians have when studying unionism and in particular the IWW and the labor movement. ’ His feature seminar titled lf / were a student, deals with what should be uppermost in university research, a mixture of ethics, ecology and the role of people with special knowledge and the performing of necessary industrial functions in replacing capitalism with a more orderly and rational arrangement.

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On Saturday, february 21st a number of workers, students and unemployed people held a meeting at Waterloo Collegiate to discuss the problems arising from unemployment and the welfare system, Alex Bonde of the Unemployed Citizens Welfare Improvement Council told about some of the ways in which Vancouver welfare victims were working together to protect their interests. Because of the severity the unemployment situation in Kitchener. and Waterloo it was decided to explore the need for a similar organization here. Welfare cheques are handed out on the first day of each month at the . Kitchener Wel-

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Of the four people present at’ the welfare office none were residen t in Toron to. None of the group were hippies. One had fairly long hair and is an undergraduate at the U of W. The other three were completely Ali conventional in appearance. were clean and tidily dressed. hAlthough a member of the staff of the record had been invited to the meeting at which this action was planned, and had been informed about the objectives of the people involved, no reference to this was made in the article. Neither was any space given to comment ‘on the leaflet to be handed out with the coffee. The leaflet outlined some of the problems of the unemployed and suggested possible . ways of appro’sching them. _ The city co-ordinator Darrah, was not even in the building, and no reasons for ejecting the group were put forward by his staff! The group were not intending, as Darrah’s statement in the record implies, to open a coffee house. Nor were they in competition with the city hall coffee shop. They were attempting to

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At this point we found that the power output for the coffee machine had been disconnected. Police constable no. 33 of the Kitchener force arrived and told us that he had orders to remove

US from the building. We asked why, and were told that for the purposes of distributing free coffee the city hall was not a public place. He seemed somewhat

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money should not be a public place. He pointed out that for ,the purpose of consuming liquor it would be considered as public. He agreed in principle that the action taken by the city hall bureaucrats looked like nit-picking to avoid an embarassing situation. The precedent that was quoted to justify our eviction was the successful prosecution of a number of people for distributing newspapers in high schools.

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THIS COFFEE IS FREE IT DOES NOT COME FROM ’ . WELFARE In the last month, eleven thousand people have been laid off in Kitchener and Waterloo. It’s not their fault. The boss takes our jobs ! so he can keep his profit. If a few people can supply a few hundred people with coffee for . a few dollars, think what eleven thousand people can do. Free coffee doesn’t do much to improve our lives, but that’s just the start. J I We need free baby sitting so mothers can work. We need to buy 1 food cheaper than the supermarket sells it. We need to tell people what their welfare rights are. ’ I We need to get together and start to improve things. I ’ If you think these things need doing, talk about it, and call: 578-9238 or 745-2516 to keep in touch;

Without a few minues we were instructed by a Mr. Darrah, who was referred to as the manager, that since the taxpayers electricity was being misused we are to remove ourselves or be arrested. When we spoke to Mr. Pritchard, the city clerk, we were informed that the order had come from the city ‘co-ordinator (who was not in the building at the time) and that he could not countermand that decision. He refused to say whether he in fact wished to do

Here we are again with another exciting crossword for you to do. . The first three people who bring a correct solution to the Chevron offices will win a free packet of \ genuine underground newspapers. And due to a deficiency in, our mailing system, the previous winners can come down to the office to pick up their prizes.

The police had to be called early today to evict a group of “Toronto hippies” from the Kitchener city hall. The group had set up a coffee station outside the city welfare office and were offering -welfare recipients free coff before most of the city hall staff had arrived for work. J:H. Darrah, city co-ordinator,said he was called at home and told about the incident. He instructed his staff to ask the youths to leave and, if they refused, to call the pollice. The police were called and the group left peacefully . “The city hall ,is open to the public if you have business here, but it’s not a place to set up your own coffee house,” Mr. Darrah said. The coffee station was set up just around the corner from the city hall coffee shop. by the

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provide coffee to people who can not afford to pay city hall for coffee when city hall makes them wait around. Despite the rhetoric of the daily press about I objectivity, the facts somehow come out in such a way that the interests of the city beaurocrats, rather than the welfare recipients, are served.

two administrative floors. We arrived at about 8:30 a.m. and were immediately accosted by a man who seemed to be a maintenance supervisor. Before even knowing our business he questioned our right to be on the premises, with an arrogant and authoritarian manner. When we set up the coffee’ urn and his threats to evict us had no effect, he disappeared to consut with his superiors. He did not explain his reasons for not wanting to see free coffee given to welfare victims. He said that only the mayor could authorize such actions, althought he seemed to agree that the corridor outside the welfare office was a public place.,

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The K-W Record ran the following article last monday under the heading “Give free coffee, hippies getboot”.

fare office and recipients often have to wait a long time to collect their money. This seemed like a good place to approach people to talk about our problems and to see whether we could start to solve them. With this in mind some of us prepared to go to the welfare office on monday .march 2nd. Although there were only a few people involved, we managed to acquire enough supplies to provide free coffee to anyone who wanted it. The welfare office is in the basement of Kitchener City Hall. The small size of the..office, the hard seats and the drab, narrow corridor contrasted sharply with the shiny brass opulence of the

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...and I say hello Patterson’s The following is my report to council. In it I have tried to give some analysis of the past year’s (non-) activities, and make some recommendations regarding the new council’s programs. But most of all, I have tried to show how the present situation has developed historically, because while the new council’s priorities will to a considerable extent be a break with the past, they have also been produced by what has gone on before. Whether this report helps you to do it, or not, you should really try to know and understand the historical forces that affect the federation, because such understanding will help you immeasurably in making decisions. Of all the handicaps in our thinking, surely the most devastating is our inability to think and act historically. For humanity makes its world through history, and only by understanding historical forces can we hope to freely and conscious. ly create a better world.

Preconditions The same year that the Federation of Students reached its peak as a student government, some indications appeared that it was no longer suitable for the role of leading the student movement on campus. “Student activism” has crept into students’ council slowly, almost entirely unnoticed, with policies such as the first Declaration of the Canadian Student, but in 1966-67, issues such as universal accessibility, draft dodgers, the bookstore sit in, etc., branded many councillors, for the first time as activists, and they perceived themselves as such-“student movement”, “radicals”, and sometimes the “left”. That trend continued in 67-68, although in a somewhat more muted form. While some people on the executive were impatient with the liberal, representative, and bureaucratic nature of the federation, they tended to believe that a base of support could eventually be built for a strong progressive, and very political federation. A paper I started to write just after the 1967 CUS Seminar, on the need for an independent, volunnever got beyond the tary “union”, rough outline stage. As the post-seminar euphoria wore off, and the busy administration of the biggest, strongest, most efficient student government yet developed got under way in the fall term, such an organization seemed less important. But an independent group did form-the

farewell--‘Retain Students’ for a Democratic Universitywhich pushed a militant new left line. It had the clear advantage of being free of representivity restrictions, and there were times when the federation executive sorely envied the SDU’s ability to say and do what they thought necessary. By the end of the 67-68 council’s term of office, executive board member-at-large Peter Warrian predicted that the federation’s role as the representative of the students would before long be integrated into the university’s own structure, ~ that students would find positions within the decision-making process independent of federation appointment or direction, and that the federation would be relegated to the sandbox, sponsoring dances and concerts and other extra-curricular recreational activities. The political activity would have to be carried on by an independent movement, and he urged that work be done to build an informal political infrastructure within the federation that could assume that role. The paper, “Quo W arranto, Federation of Students” followed a year long fight against a. move for faculty-administration control of the Federation,.or at least, weakening it by abolishing the compulsory fee, led by arts dean Minas. It was amazingly prophetic, but largely forgotten. When Brian Iler was elected, defeating SDU candidate Cyril Levitt, it was expected that the 68-69 year would bring more of the same, with a heightened emphasis on education, and hopefully, a further shift toward the left. But as the continuing role of the fed-

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eration was discussed over the summer, it became increasingly clear that not only was an independent movement necessary, the activists on council might even have to get out of the mainstream organiza tion, if not actually to abolish the federation. The impetus for more militant politics undoubtedly came from the state of the movement elsewhere. That year was not just the year of the action-freak at Waterloo, but the year of the Columbia occupations, the strikes and sit-ins at Simon Fraser, the rebellion in France, the Chicago riots, and the beginning of the disintegration of CUS. The federation could not have avoided being affected by all this. With a different leadership, it might have reacted against the upsurge of radicalism, instead of becoming, for a time, a vehicle of rebellion. But in either case, the ,old liberal, elitist style was bound to collide with the radical student movement. If 67-68 had been the peak of the federation as student government, the fall of 1968 was its peak as a liberation front. For a time, it managed to transcend its elitism and parliamentary style,’ and engaged in mass decision-making and direct action. As expected, council was impeached,and a liberal candidate John Bergsma was elected, defeating Iler on the RSM platform, and Larry Burke on a sandbox-platform. Political action declined, in and out of council. The impetus for the indiscriminate action was fading, partly because it had served its purpose-generated en- .

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ough mass activity to create an independent movement, and partly- because radicals hoped to bring .a little more theory and consistency into their practice. But more significantly, the political rise of the federation came to an end. Not because of John Bergsma however, but because the movement that had been the political developmental force in the federation to that point had not only been expelled from the control of the federation bureaucracy, but aside from an opposition role in council meetings, had a little interest in the federation, except for a general agreement that it had to be smashed as a political force. In fact, to a considerable degree, it already had been, and just didn’t know it yet. Bergsma’s liberal political platform once again defeated Burko’s sandbox in the 69 election, although by a considerably smaller margin. But when Bergsma’s council supported an RSM library sit-in, Bergsma had had enough, and soon afterward resigned. The problem for John was that the old moderate political style was dying out, not just in the federation, but everywhere else, too. The established social order was beginning to show signs of either fighting in its defence by increasing. ly extreme measures, or fighting against it in a radical movement. The politics of compromise that Bergsma so sincerely upheld, had no more place. I only hope that he realizes it was this, and not his personal competence, that made his administration a failure. Greatness in individuals can exist as potential, but it can be realized only if the conditions are right for it.

1969-70 I ran with RSM’s half-hearted and tentative approval, in the half-hearted and tentative hope that in some way, the federation might still serve the cause of militant student unionism. It was really fascinating to find how little was left for the federation to do. The federation was really politically lifeless. We weren’t interested in getting back into the grand old parliamentary debate and motion passing style of activity that had stirred up the campus, to some extent, a couple of years before, and we figured it wouldn’t work *anyway. No .one really cared when we passed a motion supporting the latest Simon Fraser strike; the engineering common room (continued friday

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almost went to sleep when I spoke on unionism, and proposed splitting the federation into a compulsory sandbox and a voluntary union; about ten people came to a general meeting on university government; the well-publicized board of directors recommendation that council be abolished didn’t receive one response on either side; the motion opposing strippers, female slave auctions, and beauty contests got me a visit from the enginI eering society presidents, but they decided to find ways around it rather than fighting it. The movement was less interested in the federation than ever, and was so internally fragmented and uncertain about its direction that the broad, co-ordinated activist infrastructure, that might have provided a basis for action that could have involved the federation, never existed. In fact, the campus, was not politically dead. The critical university project, and the organization for social justice and reconstruct?on are a couple of examples of groups that were continuously working to change the university. But there was no coherent overview that could bring together all the people and groups in united action, nor any kind of activity that was visible and involved large numbers of people. And so except for a number of profs who have been confronted by the classroom organizing, most people feel the campus is politically quiet. The reasons for the character of the campus are not yet very clear, but some of them can be known, and I’ll try to describe them. First, a political movement is largely invisible unless it is always doing attention-getting things in a very public way, or can precipitate action that involves large numbers of people. Since the left is as yet relatively small, and being an oppositional movement lacks any control of the media or ideologytransmitting institutions like the univerhighly visible only sity, it becomes _ through demonstrations and mass conf rontations. That mode of activity was perhaps useful in getting the broad, loosely organized RSM started in 1968, but is not a good type of activity now. It was based very much on the idea, that at first seemed to be born out by the Columbia strike, that people will be radicalized 1 only when they find themselves in or near a crunch situation, which meant a strike, building occupation, mass march,

discovery that one’s representative students’ council was saying tough radical things, or I experiencing police repression and brutality. But in fact, about all it could communicate was the action itself. Little wonder that most people viewed the difference between left and moderate politics as a difference between “violent” and “nonviolent” tactics. It also communicated the fact that people could get hurt by repression, and it tends to make the state repress more vigorously. Repression and c_onflict may very well come; people may gain the knowledge and understanding that can help them stand up to it when it can no longer be avoided. But they are not going to want to get politically involved when all they can see is conflict but no good reason for it. And a small, young movement, can hardly afford to adopt the most dangerous tactics. Consequently, the uncommitted majr ority this year tended to shy away from political action. They knew it could be uncomfortable, and when they saw in Cyril Levitt’s case how easy it was to get busted nowadays, their fears were confirmed. Moreover, the left and world events had succeeded in making them cynical about the possibility of moderate solutions to social problems, but had not yet revealed any new direction. It was all bullshit. The student movement concentrated primarily on classroom organizing, research on Indian problems and the history and sociology of the local area, pollution, examining university research, and so on, While this work was more productive, and the movement was as large, and in many ways stronger than before, there was nothing that threw activists together with large numbers of non-activists, nothing to attract great public attention, and in fact nothing to really draw and keep people in the movement together even as a loosely knit unit. People have asked, whatever happened to RSM? Well, it’s still here, although not as RSM anymore. Except for a number of harassed profs, it is hardly noticeable. In this kind of situation, the federation is politically almost useless. In its earlier political career, it could have some effect because people perceived it to be important. It had recognized legitimacy, and hence, people felt that it mattered very much what council thought-the administration, the public, students, and

councillors. But now people know that words in council meetings mean nothing unless linked to action, and unless council has a power base to back it up. That leaves it only the possibility of engaging in mass action, but that phase too is over. The federation could resume political strength only if a large infrastructure develops that uses council as its organizational center. But that will not happen for sometime; it will probably never happen to the federation. And the integration of the representational role into the university’s own structure has now begun. The proposed university act , to be implemented in july 1971, includes a minimum of thirteen directly elected students in the membership of its unicameral governing council. The new act is still over a year away, but it certainty is already making the federation a lame-duck in its representational role. This year, council?s rejection of Petch’s disciplinary schemes mattered insofar as Petch won’t be able to get the student participation dis; guise for administration dictatorship that he wanted. But before long, his successor may be able to find it elsewhere. Another factor, whose significance is still difficult to assess, is more of a cultural thing. The anti-political, rock and drugs “youth culture” phenomenon is becoming more prevalent on campus than ever before. It differs from other kinds of; alienated culture on campus in that its participants often view their lifestyle as a real social change, even sometimes as a revolution. They are consciously alienated from the status quo, and want to rebel against it, but for various reasons usually reject political activity. Consequently, the intensified alienation and rebellion that heightened political-economic contradictions in society -are causing, is being diverted into a total or partial drop-out scene, instead of into growing political activity. I want to say more about this later, but I’ll leave it for now. That’s the situation we operated in this year, and I’ll try to describe how I understood and felt about it. The summer was a drag. We should have been laying plans and groundwork for the fall activities, but we just couldn’t think of anything that we could do. Two research projects were sponsored-one on student unionism, and one on unemployment but they didn’t provide us with any clues about what to do. Dave Cubberley analysed the past and prospects

of student unionism, and did a good job showing that it was a bad scene, but couldn’t help us find a role for council in breaking out of it. The unemployment project never produced any results until late fall, but it probably wouldn’t have made any difference if they had come in sooner. There was nothing within the power of the federation that could be done about unemployment. I went on hoping, until late in the fall, that something would break, that conditions would change, so that we could do something relevant:, I never doubted that the federation’s role in creating a union would be as a vehicle for another rupture as in the fall of ‘88, that would either split. the political function off into an independent organization, or transform the federation into a voluntary union. But I hoped that the decision would be based on activity, not legislation, and that it would involve large numbers of people, not just some councillors making by-law changes. It wasprimarily to facilitate this that I pressed for the “democratization” by-laws that are just now being put to the annual meeting. But by late fall, I began to think that such a mass decision would be impossible. I wrote a paper for an IWW meeting that proposed that an independent voluntary union be set up, and the federation legislated back to strictly sandbox activities. It created almost as much excitement among the wobblies as my speech in the engineering common room had. But as the presidential elections approached, I started thinking that perhaps the possibility of the federation being a vehicle for a popular front political inshouldn’t be so easily frastructure given up. A few of us tommies and comsymps got together to talk about it, but the comclusion was that while such a popular front would probably be a fine idea, there were no concrete grounds for a politico to commit himself to getting into office on that platform. He could, and probably would, spend another year being frustrated and alienated. ’ It seemed that the time of the Burko sandbox had come. Actually, it came when Iler was impeached over a year ago, but too many people weren’t willing to admit it. So here we are gang, and now we have to talk about what to do about it. (continued

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The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission has been detonating an average of one atomic bomb every week in the past year. 0u.r society is polluting itself to such an extent that scientists give us no more than 20 years of life on this planet. Billions of dollars are being spent on space programs while millions are starving. Farmers are being paid not to grow food and tons of wheat are burned each year while millions are starving., There is a second american revolution going on. Repression, in the form of imprisonment and murder is being practiced by the U.S. government comparable to that of nazi Germany. The U.S. and Russia are warming up their war teams all over the world. The probability of

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anyone being alive at the end of this council’s term of office is extremely low. We are also faced with the fact that about 80 percent of this campus realize all these facts and think that this is great or else don’t give a damn. Another 18 percent are concerned, but that’s as far as they will commit themselves. The other 2 percent we won’t even discuss because they just aren’t representative. Faced with these facts, I think that what this council must do is make every effort to insure that the members of the Federation of Students of the university of Waterloo have one hell of a great time in the coming year. Which will in all likelihood be one of their last.

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HAND, HOLDING a pocket mirror, reached out from between the bars. The inmate watched the reflecti6ns of the visiting University of Waterloo girls as they walked down the prison corridor. Guelph Reformatory, a provincial penitentiary was modern when it was built in 1911. Ideally a reformatory exists to rehabilitate its inmates. But a lack of money and the slow process of modernization prevents Guelph from achieving this aim. Two dozen Renison students, most of whom were mini-skirted girls, an anglican *minister and a mother of a university co-ed recently visitecJ the institution. All are members of professor Barry Sheppard’s social work course at Renison College. They are in year one of the first integrated social work program offered at the University of Waterloo. After viewing the Galt Training School for Girls in november the class was a little more cynical towards the harsh conditions of a provincial reform institute. A friendly, well mannered guard, the prison librarian and the

head teacher welcomed us upon our arrival. We were escorted ’ to a classroom for a discussion before the tour where we were told “conditions have improved markedly during the last fifteen years at Guelph. Prison life is not perfect but is improving slowly. ” Better, more interested personnel and the money to acquire their services is needed. The dominant impression received of the staff was that they were very human and were trying to do a good job but that the ironbound traditions of the Department of Correctional Services or the sensitive feelings of a young inmate deter them from accomp. lishing this. There is a gap between the words of the st_aff and . the’ conditions that they speak ’ about. Well executed l skethces and portraits adorned the classroom. These were the only works of art we saw during the tour. There were no decorations *in any of the dining halls, prison corridors or dormitories that we visited for tradition dictates that prisoners ‘are not allowed to decorate their- cells which are

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burglary, robbery and any other white washed walis illuminated by crime with under a two year bare light bulbs. sentence. However, in the well furnished and brightly painted adminSex offenders, drug addicts, istration and receiving wing with arsonists and severe behaviouiits marble aud terraza floors problems once classified at there are many pictures and -potGuelph are sent for treatment to ted plants. Parents and friends the Brown Memorial Clinic at of the inmates see only this the Mimic0 Reformatory or to part of the Ontario ReformaMillbrook Reformatory near tory; prisoners see it only on the ’ Peterborough. All alcoholics at way in and on the way out. the Ontario Reformatory must A sentence of under two years spend the last thirty five days of means a provincial reformatory their sentence at the Brown Clinwhereas federal penitentiaries ic. are for sentences of over two The only classroom teaching years. First time male offenat Guelph is up to the grage nine ders between the ages of sevenlevel. The inmates, most of whom teen and seventy are sent to are quite young, are encouraged Guelph. This group includes to take correspondence, courses those who have been to reform to further their education. school and older criminals who One hundred and twenty men previously have never been conare engaged in plumbing, carpenvicted or else escaped with a try, car mechanics, sheetmetal suspended sentence. Old men and work, upholstery, bricklaying and those with medical difficulties painting trades at the reformaare sent here rather than to a tory. There is some effort made federal penitentiary. to enable these men to enrol1 A university student convicted in apprenticeships after comof possession of marijuna could pleting their sentences. Some and often does serve his sentence associate these programs with life at Guelph. He would be indiscrimin the institution and drop back inately mixed with criminals coninto crime. victed of car theft, assault, Because of one bad experience

with a convict some companies refuse to take on any more for training. No effort is made by the DepartmFnt of Correctional Services to get businesses to start programs for men in these courses. To keep the men busy at Guelph, diversified training is available in a woollen mill, tailor shop, planing mill, machine shop, ice cream plant and cannery, meat processing operation. Some offenders under the age of twenty-five are transferred elsewhere, for better training. Brampton Training Centre has academic and higher industrial traintrades are ing. Construction taught at Burtch which is a minimum security reform establishment. The cells at Guelph are about eight feet by six feet, barely large enough for the single bed which occupies them. Each cell has a toilet with no seat and there is no privacy when using it. The inmate also have a wash basin, a four by six inch mirror, and a two square foot table built into the wall. Small . wooden lockers with combination locks have recently “continued-h

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1 life at OR is hazardous, but thinas are looking up \ I by Hans Fiord

IFE IN THE Ontario Reformatory is changing gradually, in most ways for the better and in some ways for the worse. When an offender’ is sent to the OR, . he is washed and issued the‘ standard prison jeans and shirt and massive boots faintly resembling army boots. called reception. There he learns the rules and internal structure that will be his life in the weeks to come. it used to be that shortly after he arrived he hit the f(rst antagonist that bothered him and then be was left alone, but now the type of inmate has changed and generally he runs in rat packs. If you somehow step on someone’s toes, he soon returns with his eight friends and administers the punishment that he figures you deserve. Often during one of these encounters the damage is usually quite extensive and th.e reformatory’s well equipped hospital is put to good use. Extensive

stitching and other minbr surgery often is required. _ The inmates have an internal structure th& would rival the mafia, supported by the medium of exchange, tobacco. Most inmates buy tobacco in bales, to be rolled by the buyer so that the most money for the tobacco can be had. These bales of tobacco are the ‘payola’ of the pecking order in the reformatory. Th,e toughest inniate on the top of the ladder has more tobacco than he can possibly use and the people go without because they have to pay protection money. An inmate, who has fallen out of f&our with the toughest may have a price of 4 or 5 bales on his head and he is sure to be beaten up the next week. The management had to place steel mesh nets in the stairwells because’ the inmates would thro w somebody o’ver the edge just to see him bounce seven floors below. Homosexuality, which is the major

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fear of incoming prisoners is not as much a problem to them as they perhaps presumed. The homosexuals are protected by the mob expressly for satisfying the sexual needs of the strongest. Despite these problems, the management of the rejormatory is generally considered to be quite advanced in comparison to wardens of other north american prisons. They inherited a large, ill equipped operation years ago and now they run a vefy well equipped institution. The majqr concern of the superintendent now is reducing the violence and he is succeeding in small steps. The guards, oqce a group considered misfits, have overgone a fast change in ihe last few years. The sadists and the perverts have been weeded out and the guards at the OR are now considered the best thing about the place. Unfortunately the same thing cannot be said about the rehabilitation program. The major rehabilitation

seems to be the familiar puritan work ethic; bones are broken, large gashes are cut, and numerous teeth are knocked out. ‘Inmates are kept constantly busy. But the root of the problem, why they assaulted someone, why they stole something or why they are always drunk, is not investigated. The Ontario Reformatory seems to be a step in the criminal minid’s education, with the next grade being the penitentiary in Kingston. lt is unfortunate that the milder mannered drug offenders are sent to the Ontario Reformatory where the only thing they are learning is the art of street fighting. While the trades training at the reformatory must continue, a large amount of money must be spent to diagnose people where they are. The psychiatric staff should be increased to a point where the percentage return is down to a reasonable level.

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at home, Tran Tu said. He said approximately 200 vietnamese students in Montreal are opposed to the american war, About 40 are members of the association of Vietnamese patriots, a group dedicated to peace, independence and a neutral government in south Vietnam. Six Vietnamese studying in Japan and West Germany were tried and sentenced to six years hard labor in absentia, the students said for refusing to cooperate with the Saigon government and cut out their anti-war activities. The six were also denied the rights of citizenship for 20 yearsa status which effectively bars them f rom%mploymen t. The two students said Canadian law does not permit a person to be deported to a country of his choice However, they were told by one member of parliament that they could not be deported to a country where there was substantial grounds to believe they would be punished. There are approximately 800 Vietnamese students in Canada, virtually all of middle-class background from Saigon-controlled cities.

Senator says free fees make students, revolt A 61-year-old senator told the special Senate committee on poverty yesterday he opposes free university tuition for revolutionaries. Senator Edgar Fournier (PC, New Brunswick), who was commenting on. a brief to the committee, said : “I’m not ready to support revolutionaries who want universities to fe‘ed their needs.” The brief presented by the Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher Federation has suggested free university tuition as one way to equalize educational opportunities across Canada. In explaining this recommenda tion federation vice-president Mrs. J.M. Priddle of Ottawa said free university tuition for everyone is probably not financially possible immediately. But help should be provided to those who need it. Expanding on his views, Senator Fournier said many students

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In past years the Creative Arts Board (CAB) has been one of the lowest priorities of the Federation of Students. The reasons for this attitude towards the creative arts programme seem to be in the general philosophy of the Federation When viewed as a political union, with its main interests in the quality of education, etc., the Federation had little money left for CAB after funding the Boards of Education, External Relations and Publications. At that time the whole sandbox area, BSA and CAB was considered secondary, and attempts were made to bring entertainment (especially that provided by the BSA) to financial self-sufficiency. In the past year, the view of the Feederation as a union has lost popularity and has been replaced by that. of a service organization. Burko’s election, with his promises of a sandbox Federation, suggests that the Federation should concern itself almost exclusively with the providing of entertainment. If this direction is to be taken, the Federation can not reasonably drop one half of the cultural bag while supporting the other. The activities of the CAB are relevant to this campus and are becoming more so, for a number of reasons. There is a definite movement in the area of classical culture away from exclusive concern with heavy culture (Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Shakespeare, etc.) towards the pop culture, Full symphony orchestras are playing jazz, Duke Ellington has given two concerts with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, _ the Proco Harum performed with the Stratford Festival Orchestra last summer. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is recognized as legitimate theatre by many critics. Meanwhile the rockculture is moving toward classical culture as more groups try to combine the styles of jazz and rock. This all means that trying to split the two areas of culture is futile and would probably leave so me area neglected. Attendance at CAB events has been increasing. This year “The Lady’s Not For Burning”, Stanley Burke, and the Barrow Poets all sold out in the Arts Theatre (500 seats) while Les Danseurs Africains sold out in the Humanities Theatre (7 19 seats). The Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert drew more people (2800) than the Iron Butterfly, Chicago and Johnny Winter. Cne can not fully appreciate or understand a cultural event wcthout viewing it in its historical perspective. To attempt to ignore or destroy classical culture is to try and live the present in a historical vacuum. Withdrawal of support for the Creative Arts Board would not be in the best interests of the Federation as an entertainment committee, and the student body as a whole. If the Federation drops the CAB the university will almost certainly pick up the programme (especially the professional entertainment part). Contact between BSA and Creative Arts (as a university department) would be at a minimum and scheduling conflicts are likely to occur. With the increasing popularity of the Creative Arts events, the Federation may find itself competing with Creative Arts for an audience. With the CAB in the Federation, close contact can be maintained between the BSA and CAB, making sure that programmes are complementary rather than competitive. . The argument that the administration should pay for the Creative Arts programme and will pay for it, if we drop support, is deceptive. The administration would probably not be able to put the subsidy for the Creative Arts programme in the operating budget of the university. This means that events would have to be run on a break even basis making the admission prices prohibitive for many students, or a new incidental fee would have to be paid by the students. With the Federation out of Creative Arts, this new fee would resemble the athletic fee. The students would pay but would have little or no control over how the money is spent. Not only should the Federation fund a professional creative arts programme but it should also continue to support the participatory groups, The three areas of participation have shown a marked -improvement in the past year. There are now two full drama production companies, the University Drama Company of the CAB and Blackfriars of the English department. Blackfriars was originally intended as a manifestation of the drama teaching programme of English. In the next year almost all their energies will be consum‘ed in four major productions. There has been some complaint that the Humanities Theatre is not a teaching theatre and people are returning to the CAB. If Blackfriars is to stress the major productions even more next year; it will be up to the CAB to provide teaching theatre. While doing his contracted work this year, the CAB director in residence has in his own time worked with several noon-times, some radio plays anda second major production. The University Drama Company of the CAB has a membership that is a cross section of the university while Blackfriars tends to have a membership mainly of English students. Dance, although not fully accepted on campus yet, has grown impressively. In the opinion of dance director, Ruth Priddle, there are about six students on campus capable of turning professional, and she fears they may leave. For this reason she is moving towards setting up a full repertory dance company on campus. She has spent about one-third of her time with CAB clubs while on the physical education payroll. CAB ‘should not lose the dance programme to physica! education. Alfred Kunz, as musical director has worked with the little symphony, the stage band, full choir and chamber choir. Attendance, at their events has increased encouragingly in the past year. Four hundred and forty people attended a stage band noon-time concert and 930 came to Carol Fantasy. The folk song club is still existent and could flourish again with a little help. There are lots of people on campus willing to participate if opportunities are provided. No doubt participating groups would continue if the Federation drops the CAB, but if the administration runs Creative Arts it will be at the expense of the participatory programmes. With BSA moving towards providing canned consumer entertainment the only place for creative work will be in a CAB under the Federation. The Federation should provide a wide range of expressive opportunities. We recommend a firm financial commitment to the 1970-7 1 Creative Arts programme which should be at least as great, and hopefully greater, than last year’s grant. Council should immediately appoint an acting chairman of the CAB and advertise for a permanent chairman to be appointed before the end of this school term.

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THEY? red from the contest, and she gets Robert by default. She makes an enemy of one of the judges and one of the other con-. testants (the pregnant girl’s husband) for suggesting that it’s not worth it to continue and why have a child if you can’t afford it; her third partner collapses (dies? ) on her. Robert, as a child, watched his horse get shot, and has since resigned himself to merely let things happen to him-he didn’t really want to enter the contest but didn’t object when told to; he didn’t object to a change of partners; he passively accepted the advances of one girl. Through the actions of these two characters we see the two choices which the movie has to offer to the hardships of life-accept whatever comes along or get out of the game. With the current discontent spreading beyond the students, individual copping-out as an answer, as provided in The Graduate and Midnight cowboy, is no longer satisfactory. This was shown quite clearly in Easy rider.

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In return for bed and breakfast for their‘seventy or so personnel, the Iowa State University Singers put on a concert in the arts theatre monday which must go do;wn as one of the season’s trimphs in the twin cities. Singing mostly a cape//a, thehighly disciplined group treated an audience of about 300 to a program evenly balanced between early baroque and 20th century works. A word about the type of choral singing exemplified by the ., Iowa State group might be in order for Ontarians. 6 The upper midwestern part of the United. States has enjoyed, in the past half-century, something ofa- renaissance in choral singing in a tradition stemming from northern Europe and Scandinavia. Its originator -was Melius Christiansen, a Norwegian emigre who settled at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He not only brought the St. Olaf choir to a state of perfection probably previously unexampled in north America, but also trained many- followers, including two sons who have carried on the tradition in Lutheran colleges in Minnesota. Unsurprisingly, Douglas Pritchard, the conductor of the Iowa State ,group, turns out to be a former student of Olaf Christianson of St. Olaf College, and former member of the St. Olaf choir. The chief characteristic of this type of choral art is that the emphasis is placed upon maximum matching of the different voices within each section of the choir, and almost vibratofree singing, resulting in an ultraclean sound whose impact, in the appropriate choral literature, can be really breathtaking (in both senses, since breath control is a prime part of the discipline involved). For this reason, large parts of the literature for chorus are not much suited to this type of group. The large choral works we are accustomed to, such as the Requiems of Brahms, Verdi, and Mozart, would be interesting but doubtless unsatisfactory given this tightly baroque-style treatment. But early and ’ recent choral) literature is eminently suited, to groups with this level of discipline and precision. Among the early works presented, one stands out as the musical gem of the. evening - the Magnificet of Claudio Monteverdi . (Unlike _the rest of the program, which was unaccompanied). This was played with a small baroque organ and orchestra of six string players. Monteverdi’s work ‘represents a transition point from high-Renaissance to Baroque style, and is as different from the late-Baroque work of Vivaldi and Bach as the latter is from, say, Haydn or Mozart. The Magnifica.t is normally played at the end of the 1610 Ves-’ -pers, the whole being one of the very greatest works in the entire literature of sacred music (try the performance under Stevens on Vanguard Cardinal VCS 10001/2), but it itself a self-contained piece, which also illustrates supremely well the lofty and ornate style of this’composer. I In the purely choral parts of the work, the Iowa group was virtually flawless, keeping the choral lines cleanly separated and with fine dynamic control. On the other hand, the several solo voices, singing sometimes alone, sometimes in combination, and sometimes set against the chorus in concerto style, do not have quite-the strength or solidity required for a really impressive&statement. This is a shortcoming inherent in this choral style, since the emphasis is on matching of voices rather than individual timbre - a rich solo voice being essentially incompatible with the blending requirements of the style. Too, I thought that more study of the peculiarly florid style of solo singing called for in Monteverdi would have paid dividends. Still, the piece as a whole came off very well, and I hope made some converts to this noble but still insufficiently known composer. Of the other pieces of the program, the first three were “naturals” for _this group, being by Homilius (a late Baroque composer of no great account, but this piece, Dee dicamus gratias being set in an earlier style), Schutz, and Dressler ( a late Renaissance composer). These, are straight a cape//a, polyphonic pieces requiring just the sort of virtues which the Iowa Singers have in abundance. p The latter part of the program featured a piece composed.just a year ago by a Swedish composer, Eskil Hemberg, on some lines from the late Dag Hammarskjold’s book; Markings, and entitled Sig_nposts. This piece features twentieth-century vocal effects, such -as matching of spoken parts against song, use of choral slides, and so forth. Thus the word “divided” in Signpost I gets divided, or better fragmented, stutter-style, and the “slippery” from Signpost // slides around from the secword tion to another and up and down. Difficult to do, and rather a triumph of choral discipline; but I’m not immediately persuaded of the ultimate effectiveness of the piece. Another interesting piece by the noted contemporary Polish composer, Penderecki, somehow got lost in the shuffle as the conductor went immediately into it from the Henberg piece, and then into the first of three pieces by Hugo Distler, a Ger,man composer who died young (in 1942, presumably for the usual reason ) . The Penderecki was an early serial piece which I should like to have heard twice. The Distler choruses are new to me and in quite an individual and moving style; the choir’s German is as bad as their intonation is good, which is saying a lot. Last of the formally-composed pieces was a quite smashing set of Choral Dances by Benjamin Britten from his opera Gloriaana. -These evoke country scenes and. peasant themes from the time of Elizabeth I, and are among the most pleasantly infectious choral songs from this century I’ve heard yet. Again the Singers were in superb form here, enunciation, intonation, and spirited delivery re-enforcing each other to perfection. The same can’t quite be said for the spirituals with which the program concluded - nice, but somehow just not black enough, if you know what I mean. ’ The Iowa State Singers were just passing through, it seems. This reviewer hopes they’ll return by invitation next time, and judging by their enthusiastic applause, I expect the audience does too.

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The “no-deposit” bottle is a “convenience” form r of the glass container that for some time has been very nearly the ideal package in many respects. Since its introduction it has enjoyed general public acceptance. However, there has also bee&a certain amount of opposition. There is no basis in fact for this objection to the “no-deposit” bottle, but once started, it has managed to survive on largely emotional grounds. With this obscure origin overlooked, some people have taken a stance in ~pposition to “no-deposit” bottles, believing they are helping to fight a cause of wounds to children, injuries to livestock and litter in. town and countryside: Such .allegations against “no-deposit” bottles are entirely false or grossly exaggerated. Being a responsible body, the Glass container counc_il, with the co-operation of government departments and other highly respected sources, has undertaken a definitive study of the “no-deposit” bottle. This is the result of that study.

Injuries from broken bottles

One allegation against the “no-deposit” bottle that has strong emotional appeal is that when left around in play areas such as schobl yards and parking lots-it is a major cause of cut feet among children. ,’

Claims have been n stqmach or hoof dam “no-deposit” bottles. Dr. Donald Delahar animal surgery at Co med more than 600 c ware disease of the sl dreds of cases of f\c surgical work he foun injuries resulted fro] of wire with its food, a Conclusion : Livestc inj ury from ‘ ‘no-depot

Litter The appearance of si/tes and alongside hi and some people ma bottle is a major caus A thorough count :va services ltd., on tras in Ontario, Nova Scotj Beach, next to the east end. The litter manner, by the appro ter the collection wq: moved in to do the cou

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Virtually all beer bottles are non-returnable, thus in the best case the percentage of non-returnable -bottles is 12013086, or 4%, well’ above the percentages found in the surveys cited. -In the worst case, all bottles collected are non-returnable. This is not an unrealistic assumption: the whiskey and beer bottles are almost all non-returnable, and most of the soda bottles are likely the same. Thus 360/ 3086, or 12% of the litter is no-deposit bottles. A conservative estimate of the proportion of non-returnable bottles is 6% Even this compares very poorly with the 0.2 to 1.1% quoted \ in the pamphlet. If the only beverage containers sold were returnable bottles with a sufficiently high deposit (5 cents would probably be ample), most of the 590 beer cans would be eliminated, .as would the beer cartons and bottles, and the soda and whiskey bottles. Thus in the very worst c&e 1040/3086 or 34% of the litter could be removed by legislation in favor of return‘able bo ttlcs. Notable is the fact that the Jitter statistics are by nature weighted to the benefit of glass. Half the items (1500) are paper cups and cigSrette packages. These items are small, and partially degrade, becomirig inconspictious in a short time. Bottles and cans are large and almost itidestructible. The only survey pin-pointed geographically in th.e pamphlet, was made at Kew beach, Toronto. On this beach, there are a-multitude of refreshment stands, all’of which sell soft drinks in paper cups. It is therefore surprising that any no-deposit bo.ttles were found. It would be curious to know where the other surtie ys were made. Solid waste: In the introduction, the pamphlet states that “allegations against no-deposit bottles are entirely false or grossly exaggera ted. **. Indeed, the pamphlet’s section about litter is grossly exaggerated”. And its section about solid wastes is “entirely false.” -

n Least dispc The pamphlet stal solid wastes, glass evkf, according to “‘paper and paper%9 disposable packagin 1966 and 1967. G/ years.” forms- of litter, paper glass, wood, pla_stic, ed by five disposa/ sanitary landfill, op ing, and Salvage and r In sanitary landf crush and does not dt In composting, g do not compost; gla: added as a dilutant, by the most exper Europeans. In incinerating, problems; it depose and floors. Brick hoi glass than it does ta surfaces . are cleanec tro yed. “Glass consists 01 ? is difficult to grind in virtually its orig form of very sharp to break, and if it bl would glass be accc fill and cornposting. Glass is reused as that is added to a gl, terial): To make a I a dealer must hand1 whereas for $15.00 best. Almost all cult made from imperfel manufgcture. Most tained\ from bottling ers need not segr 1 waste (in other sou removed, closures. _. off, the glass gradesbe segregated, ant crushed, washed, ant The Canadian gla. not yet reached th it needs to buy tulle

rge was carried out by the safety council, at 11 of the ropoli tan Toron to. jorted anyI increase worth tY Pew nu truth to reports that the hazard to children’s safety.

1B’ls de that cows suffer severe ;e by eating or stepping on 7, who is professor of large lell University, has perfororations on cows for hardnach, and has treated hun’ *Injury. In reviewing his that 60 per cent of stomach the animal ingesting bits Ither 35 per cent from nails. ; is not being subjected to ” bottles.

rblic areas-parks, campways-is spoiled by litter, #ain that the “no-deposit” E it. lone by Canadian researtih collected beside highways urd Alberta, and from Kew vmpic Pool, in Toronto’s s collected in the normal ate department. It wasaf?-de, that the CRS people w-

Their findings : “no-deposit” bottles made up as little as .2 per cent, and no more than 1.1 per cent of the total number of litter items. What’s more, in three of the surveys, there were actually fewer of the “no-deposit” bottles than there were of “returnables”. Conclusion: In parks, parking lots, school yards, etc., the “no-deposit” bottle is an insignificant source of litter. These independent surveys are being continued.

Keep Canada beautiful The Glass container council is proud to have been one of the founders of the Keep Canada beautiful campaign, and to continue as one of the chief supporters. This year’s support includes: 4-H Quebec clubs, billboard advertising, television, radio, educational pamphlets, youth groups, magazine advertising, speakers’ bureau, awards program, motion picture film contest and national beautification conference. A council official, who is a director of the Keep Canada ‘beautiful campaign, was successful in encouraging participation of the Boy scouts and Girl guides in a coast-to-coast “litter chase” this spring. Adding impetus to the beautification drive is the effort of the local soft drink bottler ‘in more than 400 Canadian centres, who carries the message to the civic officials and news media in his community. . In Quebec, Keep Canada beautiful is working with the 4-H clubs in promoting litter chases across the province. The program is being supported by literature and other materials and a series of awards are being presented. Litter surveys taken in the United States indicate

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Litter is, in reality, solid waste gone astray. In disposing of solid waste, glass is not a culprit, regardless of the method of disposal. Many other forms of solid waste are-: In sanitary landfill-glass has a consolidating function when broken up, and as a result helps offset, the tendency towards settling. In composting, glass is useful as a soil conditioner. In incinerating, glass promotes aeration. Glass consists of almost 75 per cent sand. So, when it’s ground up, in solid waste, it returns to the soil in virtually its original state. The glass industry is presently engaged in developing a method of reuse and secondary use which when perfected will reduce solid waste from the glass industry even further.

Legislation Once, and only once in all North America, has there actually been a law passed to ban the “no-

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The facts have shown that, properly handled, the “no-deposit” bottle: is NOT a danger to ,children ; is NOT a danger to livestock; is NOT a significant source of litter; is NOT a cause of forest fires ; is NOT a problem in handling solid waste. ’ The “no-deposit” bottle is wanted by the public as a form of convenience packaging. _

Epilogue This study, we believe, has shown that a problem does not exist with the “no-deposit”-bottle. The Glass container council believes that a very real problem, worth of the attention of every thinking Canadian, is the-spread of deadly pollution in North American air, water and soil. So serious is it, that experts say the Missouri river-the second longest river in the United States-might as well be turned into a 2,464 mile open sewer. . Even now-Lake Erie may be too far gone to save. Imagine! One of the great lakes polluted beyond repair! The Glass container council urges you to-get the facts first. I

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the most hopeful is the glass road being tested by Owens - Illinois. Gullet, instead of sand, is mixed with asphalt. Only small amounts are used. The purpose of this, and most other secondary uses, is to help alleviate the cullet heaps around glass houses, not to clear up litter. At this point in _the pamphlet, its authors have firmly established a credibility gap. Legislation : The discussion on legislation is far more open to interpretation than the pamphlet suggests. In 7953, Vermont passed an outright ban on no-return beer and soda bottles; it was repealed because it did not lower waste disposal costs. In the 7957. Vermont litter survey, cans , were high on the list. The total before and after was about the same. I suspect that nodeposit cans were simply substituted for nodeposit bottles , The law was a bad ‘law; it should have banned all non-returnable beer and soda containers.

ard and paper, metal, J textiles, as processhniques, incineration, dumping, compostamation. glass is difficult to sde. ;, metal, and plastic nay be pulverized and this is frowned upon :ed composters, the ss presents severe on incinerator walls better to the molten elf, Thus when these he fire brick is des-

ret (i.e. crushed glass furnace as araw ma. of cullet from litter, 900 to 4600 bottles, can buy a ton of the 6 ‘jj7-house” i.e. it is gttles at the time of Iught , cullet is obpanies because deal- . !e their glass from I impurities must be Lbels must be taken it, amber, etc.-must te bottles must be ed. 3n tainer industry has ficiency level where the secondary uses,

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deposit” bottle. It happened in Vermont, the ban was in effect that state carried out one of the first detailed studies of the litter problem. But because the “no-deposit” bottle was such a minor component of litter, the ban did practically nothing to improve the litter situation. The law was rescinded. In Canada, among most levels of government that have made a point of getting the facts, there is a strikingly consistent opposition to any ban on “nodeposit” bottles.

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that ‘In disposing of not a culprit. I’ Ho warna y and iFranklin, J ‘2 the most easily material category in ; is the least in both

nost 75% sand.” But “0 returns to the soil state. ” But ,in the ers. If it were easier 1 in pellets, only then fble in sanitary land-

that growth of litterbug activities are being arrested. The gain on the litter index has been held to one quarter of one percent in the past three years. The 1968 index stands at 102.12 compared with the 1965 figure of 101.85. Index figures for the intervening years were 101.40 in 1966 and 101.44 in 1967. The base year was 1964 with an index of 100. The survey on which the 1968 index is based showed that the 50 states spent $27,982,373 in 1967 removing litter from primary highways. This compared with $19,687,733 in 1963. The marked rise in removal cost for the most part, reflects higher wages. However, 14 states reported a-decrease in the cost of highway litter cleanup for 1967.

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Litter cannot totally be blamed on in dustries selling the ammunition; the users, the actual litterers, must also accept responsibility. Industries will however be the, first to suffer by law. Future laws should’ probably be outright bans on non-returnable containers, or taxes on non-returnables to make them less attractive to retailers. Summary: The summary of the pamphlet is completely accurate, but irrelevant; if the words “properly handled” are removed,it is completely relevant but false. The authors here are playing a game of syntax. “The no -deposit bottle is wanted by the public as a form of convenience packaging. ‘* If \it is so wanted, why did the Glass Containers Manufacturing Institute spend $5.2 million last year to promote non-returnable bottles? j This program was aimed at the retailers, not the consumers, and was undertaken because non-returnable bottle sales were below expectations. Darna y and Franklin state the reasons for the change to no-deposit bottles (in

order of increasing profit motive/. 7. consumers prefer containers that do not need to be returned. . 2. retailers do not like handling empty bottles. 3. packaging manufactures want to exploit the above to the fullest. On first reading the data quoted in the pamphlet seemed indisputable, yet the epilogue came on as being a~ diversionary tactic. It is. Introduction: Let us turn back to the first section of the pamphlet. With the foregoing in mind, the introduction takes on an impressive credibility gap. C6ntrary to the pamphlet, objections to the nodeposit bottle were raised with considerable foresight, and have continued not on emotion but on observation. The allegations are anything but “entirely false or grossly exaggerated. ” The Glass container council claims to be “a responsible body. ” Responsible to whom? Conclusions: Although non-returnable bottles are unquestionably a culprit in litter control and solid waste disposal, it should not be construed that control of them would completely solve our garbage crisis. The problem must be approached on severaf levels. 7. The entire packaging industry must be brought to design their materials for ,their period of disuse. 2. Modern waste handling is essentially the same as it was 2,000 years ago; it must \ be brought up to date. 3. The actual litterers must develop a- so-, cial conscience. It will require considerable mone.y, effort, and sacrifice in all phases to save our ecosystem.

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been installed on the tables and provide the only place where a prisoner can safely store his meagre possessions. Previously an inmate had to carry all his small belongings or risk theft ,. from his cell or dormitory. If a man was not busy working in the institute, dining, taking courses or recreation or reading books from the library he would have nothing to do but. lie on his bed. There are no chairs in the cells. Many of the inmates lounge aimlessly in their cells, bored and listless, minds as confined and suppressed as their bodies are restrained and cramped by the tiny cell. Blue denim uniforms, dingy walls, steel bars and bare lightbulbs are their landscape. Social alienation, repression, idle degeneration .and lack of privacy are their friends. No music is played in the dining halls; the men are not even allowed to talk at mealtime. Up on the back wall a guard stands behind a rifle slit with a tear gas gun. It hasn’t been used since a riot in 1962. Inmates are allowed magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Other than visits and letters from friends and relatives this is the only access to the outside world. Greater contact with the community is afforded the younger delinquents at the Galt Training School for Girls. They make frequent trips to Galt for bowling, skating, swimming, and movies. Some girls at Galt also attend school classes outside of the institute. Specialized medical attention is the only reason for prisoners at Guelph to visit the town. Many of the inmates feel alienated from society when they finish their sentences. Television is available for limited periods during the week, saturday night and sunday afternoon. Whenever a policeman is shot on the screen loud cheers go out. Sports and exercise is carefully supervised by instructors at Guelph. Week night courses are ‘taught and a profes‘sor from the University of Guelph lectures to interested inmates. In the year ending march 31st, 1963, the department had in custody 11,839 people. During this same period only one full time psychiatrist, six permanent

so’cial workers and twenty full time psychologists and - psychometrists were employed by the Department of Correctional Services. The recidivism rate for Ontario reformatories is very high. .Many inmates return to crime as soon as they are released from custody. Canada is an extremely punitive nation. We have one of the highest convict per capita ratios in the world. Canada has twice the number of inmates than England, which has twice our population. If the courts gave more suspended sentences as is done in Britain and started more small personal reformatories as is done in Sweden the crime rate might decrease. Presently prisons breed more crime than they prevent. Inexperienced inmates learn professional tricks from the more adept criminals with whom they are interred in prison. A prison can no longer remain simply a lockup for offenders against society. A breakdown in the community and its hold upon an individual is responsible for the offenses of a criminal. It is the duty of an enlightened society to be compassionate and fair in its treatment of an offender. -His crime and the reasons ‘for doing it must be understood before constructive rehabilitation treatment can be undertaken. The large old fashioned physical installation at Guelph prevents the department from carrying, out thetypes of program that it desires. More money and outside criticism is needed to improve the rehabilitation system of Ontario. Twenty-one of Ontario’s 37 county jails are more than 100 yrs. old. Only 10 have been -constructed in this century. Visiting a place like Guelph Reformatory is an exasperating experience. You can see what is wrong-but can do nothing to improve the conditions. The entire attitude of the general public has to be changed and large fund allocations must be diverted to prison reform. The problems of rehabilitation do not confront the members of society; they are content to ignore the plight of the inmates. David Platt is a first registered in ‘Renison iversity of Waterloo.

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In re your editorial (27 february 1970) Chicago Five Concerns Us Too! only a few years ago we were gandhi now we’re guevara only a few years ago we turned the other cheek now we cut off ears is any ONE of us richer yet? has any ONE bought the silver? since the chicago war we’ve become schizophrenic: we scream peace we hate war was the chicago trial fair/just? we say NO where is the LOVE we began with? where is love I. .--- , ; Hoffman, Rubin, & co. now before the truce is over and the war is signed and sealed will all we young men and women will we learn from the blood dried in the gutters to love? look at ourselves count the flowers we’ve blown into kisses let us put down the bricks that are now weighing down our hands and knit our fingers into a chain of love to love

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We, as students who have a little bit of pride left for our University, \ would like to know what kind of image the Chevron is trying to present. Decent, interesting reading material would be a welcome change. Must “the four letter word” for coitus be present in almost every issue ? Does Gilbert Shelton find it necessary to use it fourteen times in a sacrilegious cartoon on the last page? He may or may not have any sense of decency, but we feel that the Chevron should! BOB BLUE STEPHANIE VOLPEL KAYE WOOD HELEN VAN SLEEUWEN all math 1 A lift/e village

assertion on food situation

Twas 4:30 in the evening as we students came to eat, and the grinning chef behind the counter was dishing out ‘mystery meat’. A kind of grayish leathery substance that was all covered up with paste, with an odious green mist above it that just hinted at it’s taste. The chef’s finger slowly left his nose and he stared proudly at this feat, for here was more slimy mucous to be crushed into the meat. I clutched my guts and gagged but- twice and hurried on down the line, for I felt that anything else but this would just have to taste divine. I peered through that second fogged window to see what they had in store, but all I could see was some chopped up mung that more closely resembled gore.

There was dried out rice, Mth big brown globs of chicken guts with whatever else would go, a cardboard sign on the counter read ‘chinese chop suey’ better known as ‘Gung ho’. With trembling hands I grasped a plate onto which two large spoonsfull were heaped, and all I can say about the odour it had is ‘By f * *k’it certainly reeked’. I watched in amazement as it moved on my plate like an amoeba trapped on a slide, but I guzzled it down with three- glasses of milk then I crept up to my room and I died. FED UP . village 2 After two long, factual surveys, grad criticises

Mr. Twal’s Chevron article on the Palestine Liberation Organization was good for a laugh. I certainly hope there is no one besides him on campus naive enough or misinformed enough to believe the factual, errors, distortions of the truth false analogies and fallacious reasoning in his article. (I will not specifically refute any of his arguments in this letter since they don’t deserve the effort and since a group of interested students have submitted an article to the Chevron with an Israeli point of view). Just before reading Mr. Twal’s article I read two long, factual (as opposed to Mr. Twal’s) surveys, from which I shall presently quote a small part, summarizing the state of Arab propaganda on american campuses. Apparently Mr. Twal read the same surveys because he uses all the plays which-are described in them as typical of current Arab propaganda. Thus one can only feel sorry for the following tragic things indicated by Mr. Twal’s article: Mr. Twal is a dupe of the Arab propaganda machine, spewing forth hate about a situation of which he seems to have a onesided, incomplete picture; Mr. Twal seems to be out of place at a university, which is supposed to be an institution where one seeks the truth; the tragedy of the Middle East will not be relieved by the words of Mr. Twal and his ilk, but only by actions speaking of brotherhood and peace, which for a start would consist of the Arabs sitting down at the conference table where the Israelis are hopefully waiting. And now the quote I promised: “What is the reason behind the new Arab public relations imagery on campus? Quite obviously they are capitalizing on the mood of much of to-days college youth. This mood consists of support for ‘oppressed’ peoples both on a domestic and international level. It is a mood which is anti-establishment. It is for national liberation and _‘guerilla’ movements. It is for ‘soul’ and against materialism. The emphasis is on people not on governments. The latter explains why Arab propaganda efforts project the Palestinian people, El Fatah and the Arab commandos and pushes official Arab State government to the background. Accompanying this new image projection is a somewhat altered Arab propaganda rhetoric. Hysterical Arab cries for genocide of the Israel population and fanatical calls for holy war have in the past made even their sy-

mpathizers somewhat uncom- I fortable. Hence the present attempts are to present a Palestinian cause that is progressive, reasonable and democratic. Holy War is out, protracted revolutionary struggle inexorably leading to victory is in. Genocide is out, politicide of the Isreal State is in (denial of Israel’s political right to exist). Sophisticated Arab propaganists de-emphasize driving Jews into the sea and subsitute instead desire for a ‘Pluralistic secular Palestine state’ Anti-Semitism is out, rather, the ‘resistance and the liberation movement El Fatah is coordinating, is aimed solely at the Zionist-military militaryfascist regime’ (Black Panther >. “See the Near East report”, act. 29, 1969, pages 99-110 for further details. LAWRENCE ETIGSON grad math Bio secretary discrepencies

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The apartments in married housing have just been priced out of range for married students with children. I have two small children so my wife cannot work. (I r’eceive 5,500 a year fellowship money and yet my budget (which is strict) will not permit me to rent a place for 155 dollars a month). Even though I am receiving very good fellowship money I will not be able to afford the housing which is supposed to be built for married students. It seems that present policies will discriminate against married people with children, because they are the parties that cannot supplement their income with another salary. There is rumor that some students would like to form a boycott of married student housing in order to get them to lower the rent. When -this was mentioned over the phone to one of the secretaries she replied that a boycott would be futile since they could fill the apartments with unmarried students. So, to all ’ of you unmarried students, I hope that you enjoy the married student quarters because I the married students cannot afford them. If the apartments wel’e being built for unmarried students then why were they billed for as a solution to married student housing? It is claimed that the rent is comparable to rehts around town. But irrespective of the fact that I do not think that students housing should try to be comparable with commercial ventures, it is not even that comparable. I ai presently paying 135 dollars for a two bedroom apartment with free parkihg and cable T.V. It is now‘ suggested that the two bedroom apartment in the married student housing complex will be 155 dollars a month .for a semifurnished apartment plus 3 dollars a month for parking. This does not include cable T.V. or a rug. The housing office has received a number of requests for unfurnished apartments, but they are not available. Why not furnish only half of the apartments and reduce the rent accordingly? maintenance costs Couldn’t be lowered by hiring students on a part-time basis? DAVE COOPER grad philosophy Poli sci grad article

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Ramzi Twal indeed is a victim of self-delusion, a product of an association that wallows in its own hyperbole and a “writer” whose distortion of facts is only exceeded by his ability to reject unpalatable reality. As in all such irreconcilable conflicts, the real casus belli (cause, of war) in the Middle East is the struggle against history. Mr. Twal’s concept of history is so encrusted with myths and legends that there can be little hope of ‘understanding the conflict. Let us set the role of the Al *atah and P.L.O. in perspective. On december 12, 1969 Yasar Arafat stated the goals of his terrorist organization : “We consider ourselves in ,a state of war and bloody fighting with Israel and those behind Israel until

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Palestine and the occupied Arab territories are fully liberated.” (New York Times, december 12, 1969) What Arafat publicly proclaimed was that his “organization” was actively working to commit politicide - that is, the destruction of the State of Israel. Mr. Twal describes the raison d’etre of the Al Fatah and P.L.O. as follows : “The Popular Front believed in fighting Zionism anywhere in the world, while Fatah believes in fighting it on palestinian soil. ’ ’ Lt. General E.L.M. Burns in his book, Between Ar8b end /sraeI describes Mr. Twal ‘s “glorious” Fedayeen as follotis : “I felt that what the Arabs were doing in -sending these men, whom they dignified with the name of Fedayeen or commandos, into another country with the mission to attack men, women . and children indiscriminatelywas a war crime. It was essentially the same caracter as the offences for whidh the Nazi leaders had been tried in Nuremberg. ” Since the Six-Day War, the Arabs have followed a. deliberate policy of perpetuating outrages against the israeli civilian population and nationals of other countries. Although the arab governments have hidden behind the ‘legal fiction that these raids are the action of so-called uncontrollable guerillas, it is well-known that these murderers are not only unrestricted by the arab governments, but are in fact supplied by- the regular forces. The fact that there is an injustice here is noted in the Review Jurists,

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a quarterly published in Geneva. “.. their indirect support of the Palestine Liberation Movement makes them through association guilty of attacks endangering civilians. Although the Palestinian commandos do not receive military support from arab governments, they are sympathized with and financed by the arab countries. For the commandos’ attacks on civilian airplanes and oil. pipes, the bombs in marketplaces and bus stations, school cafeterias and the explosions in other civilian areas, the arab governments must assume a degree of responsibility.” These “moral” P.L.O. and Fatah have been responsible for murdering 387 civilians since the June War. Among the dead were 34 children under ten years of age. The tactics have varied from leaving small toy-like explosives in children’s playgrounds, detonating bombs in crowded market places and cinemas. The legacy of these “noble freedom fighters” includes: (1) February 24, 1970 - Ambush of a bus load of american baptist pilgrims. The wife of a baptist minister, Barbara Ertle, 31, was killed, two Americans and an israeli guide wounded. (2) February 21, 1970 - The Swiss and west german governments condemned arab terrorists after the crash of a Swis Air jet bound for Tel Aviv in which 47 persons were killed. 11 israeli passengers were among the dead. On the same day, Dr. George Habash, leader of the Popular Front, stated that his guerilla organization will continue attacking planes of Israel’s El Al airline all over the world. He, also claimed that his organization

was responsible for sabotaging the Swis Air jet. President Hans Peter Tschiudi of Switzerland, after an emergency cabinet meeting, announced the barring of “undesirable elements” from 15 Arab, nations “to prevent the repetition of acts of -terrorism on Swiss territory”. (3) October 1969 - A two-year old greek boy died of injuries during a grenade sttack on the Athens office of El Al. His four-year old brother was permanently blinded. Fifteen people were injured. Two jordanian El Fatah were charged with manslaughter by greek officials. (4) February 1969 - 3 members of the Palestine Liberation Front machine-gunned an israeli airliner at Zurich Airport. Yoram Perez, co-pilot of the jetliner, died from bullet wounds. These ‘ ‘glorious freedom fighters” were sentenced by Swiss ‘courts to 12 years in prison for the crime of murder. This new dimension in the arabisraeli conflict involves more than the immediate area. It directly affects nok-combatants everywhere for guerilla activities have been aimed primarily at civilian rather than military targets and extend to many parts of the world. Given these facts, Mr. Twal’s claim that “the P.L. 0. was never engaged in such activities, furthermore, their actions are directed against army and installations” ip a blatant lie. The question one may ask in light of this knowledge is, “If the Arabs have ti ‘right’ to destroy Israel by. force, Israel cannot be denied the; ‘right’ to use force to prevent its destruction.” It is tdo late to expect the Israelis to give up without a struggle. what they have earned and won. with a great loss of lives. As soon as the casus belli becomes the existence of Israel, there is no right and no wrong; there is only force to determine whether Israel is going to live or die. The relationship of Israel to the arab world can be discussed more or less rationally ; whether there should be an Israel cannot. A Final Note: The total bankruptcy of Mr. Twal’s polemic is reflected in his statement: “No U.S. President or senator can win without the -‘jewish vote’. Zionism will have to give the candidate a laissez passer, but not until swearing allegiance to the Zionists. ” This statement conclusively demonstrates Mr. Twal’s comignorance of the U.S. plete political arena. Does he want the reader to believe that the jewish population of the U.S., which comprises only 3 peroent of the total population, controls U.S. politics? Nobody (except Mr. Twal) can imagine the spectacle of a U.S. president and one hundred U.S. senators standing at attention with right -hand on heart pledging allegiance to the Zionist cause. Out of a total of 5,500,OOO american Jews there are less than 45,000 “card-carrying” Zionists. Judaism and Zionism are not synonomous. I submit that Mr. Twal’s polemic is an insult to the intelligence of the academic community and surely his distortion of facts cast dubious light on its relevancy. MARVIN

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I feel I must protest the assertion by Tom Brzustowski in last week’s feedback that Knowlton Collister is “The longest running gag in the Chevron’s history.” With all respect due to Mr. Collister, he on,ly started his career in november 1968. The Aryan Affairs Commission, on the other hand, can trace its history back to October 1967. Also, the AAC, unlike Mr. Collister, gives no indication of terminating its activities. KEN FRASER Aryan Affairs Commision Ottawa English prof admits no good; students

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English 370 could have been a worthwhile literature course: Swift, Dryden and ,Pope are part of the course and they are important in the history of literature. Writing in heroic cotiplets and being satirists, they demand special treatment if what they have to say is to come across. But if these writers are treated in the way that ‘a-drink’ treats them, they begin to look like little piss holes in snow banks. At the beginning of this school year ‘a-drink’ told the class that if it did not take interest in its material and come prepared to discuss the authors of the course that he (the prof) would lose interest in the class and not bother more than he had to with it. But if the class did take interest in the material then ‘a-drink’ would be sufficiently influenced ans see that this class was worthwhile and spend some time with it. The class members took as much interest in the course as any normal class would in a course; qnd on the whole they were able to intelligently discuss what they had been forced to read (a ridiculous situation no-less). everything was going so, smoothly until ‘a-drink’ beg& to change class and t&orial times. Lectures and tutorials, supposedly covering a period of two hours each per week are on tuesdays and thursdays respectively, but often these were reversed - the reasons for this not given, but it soon became :apparent that ‘Gosh’ was losing interest in his class. Hi& lack of interest showed itself in other ways. During a lecture on Gulliver’s Travels, he said that he could talk for days on this work without stopping (‘Gosh’) but ‘a-drink’ ended-up giving only a half-assed hour lecture (lectures are two hours each in this course) and so ‘adrink’ needlessly frustrated all the queer-fellows in the class. Other times he would introduce a topic by ,giving the life of an author and say a few -words about his work, then the tutorial periods were supposed to do something with the material of the -author but in one section of the tutorials there was a piss poor job done. When ‘Gosh’ lectured on Rape

he spent most of the class time on trivialities - such as showing the class how to play a game of cards which Pope had mentioned. Pope would have called this a no-no. But if all that “a-drink would do to his class is give it meaningless lectures and steal as much time from it as he can, then the harm he does would at least be limited to the lectures. But “a-drink” can’t stop so short. “Gosh-a-drink” has a woman, working on her master’s degree for the first year, and who took this same 370 course last year, mark all his exams. But to make sure that she was a fairly responsible marker and that her years of inexperience would not put the class at too serious a disadvantage, “Gosh” actually got around, finally, to spending some time reading the exams to evaluate his tutorial leader’s marking ability. He said that if she did a fairly good job he would let her mark the final papers on her own and she could also mark the final exams and second set of papers on her own. It seems that she meets “a-drink”‘s requirements and so again “Gosh” shows his snowballing lack of interest in his class. So, with her doing all the work what does “a-drink” do? He doesn’t spend his time on his lectures. He even admitted to the 370 class on febcuary 10, 1970, that he was a poor prof but that even though he was doing a poor job he didn’t really believe he was doing the class any harm because the class had a solid b average on the exam results (but these results are questionable). So he gives himself license to continue on his merry way. We are paying “a-drink” to do a job and he’s not doing it; he even thinks he’s patting himself on the back by admitting that he’s not doing a good job - there is obviously something to be said about this man - and there is something that must be done. The english department won’t do it so it is up to us as class members to protest when “a-drink” shows his usual colours. If we don’t, that “drink” will keep screwin’ us. Peof

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Once upon a time there was a scranny little kid, who wore glasses and lived in the land of the bullies. The bullies were always beating up the little kid, until one day the little kid decided that he had had enough. So the little kid went to the biggest and best judo and karate school in all the world. The next time the bullies start.ed in with the little kid, he beat the crap out of them. Now the bullies were basically a cowardly bunch, so they stopped trying to beat the little kid up, but instead whenever they saw him they would call him names and throw things at him. This eventually got the little kid angry So that he adopted the tactic of running after the bullies and when he caught one he would beat one up. Obviously the bullies had to change their tactics too. They began to yell and scream to anyone who would listen that the little kid was treating

them unfairly and always picking on them. The bullies then began to say that the little kid was a stranger to the land of the big bullies and had no business being there. The preceding is a true story, written in response to the fictional article, in last week’s Chevron, on the middle east situation. BERNARD

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Once upon a time, long ago, there was a blacksmith’s apprentice called Squire DropperPete-n-Pete. He felt that smithy’s helpers learned far too much about being smithys, and not nearly enough about the feudal society around them. Squire Dropperpete-n-pete felt that soothsaying would be a good thing to learn about but that no potential smithy should be refused’ his iron hammer because of soothsaying. So he went to good King Thomas Brzust’i I and pleaded the ridiculous plea that he and the other smithys’ apprentices be taught about soothsaying, but without, lo and behold, having to make a masterpiece in soothsaying. Now good King Thomas had friend who said sooths : Sir Barney of Lawrence. Sir Barney said he would teach it, and good King Thomas said he would bless it, and the royal court said‘ they would run it, and they all called it M E 100. And the flowers bloomed and the nightingales sang throughout the whole kingdom. As ‘the seasons passed, the kingdom was happy, Sir Barney was very old fashioned, and in soothsaying and other matters was very greedy and mean. But he never ever said anyone else should be greedy and mean, and he was jolly; he said strange things that often made the apprentices very angry, but being angry, boys and girls, sometimes inakes you think. Thus after the snows melted into spring, the apprentices felt that Sir Barney’s teaching was so important that they asked Sir Barney to have next years apprentices produce a little tiny master piece in soothsaying. They called it a “mouseterpiece”. ’ But, alas, some years hence, other apprentices, who weren’t nearly so sincere tried to gain honour by being taught by Sir Barney. There were apprentities from alchemy, sorcery, candlemakand ing, and dragon-slaying, even soothsaying. And they were all there just because Sir Barney only asked for a mouseterpiece. And soon a lot of the kings subjects started to complain. These subjects, who really didn’t want to improve the kingdom’s system of apprenticeships, made much ado, and said Sir Barney and his teaching-were bad. And this made all the sincere apprentices very sad, and the flowers puked and the nightingales shit all over the place. Moral : the monocle of- sincerity cannot save a week eye from cataract of insincerity. How can we remove the cataract?

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The *myth that is destroying journalism by David

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ed do nothing except increase the existing fantastic level CE :- ..-- -I:-.&:- zmi-c;uri--IL -__ 11 Juurrtdlmlc sciousness. News1Xp?r managements L - rrequenny be- _ .--&,.. and editors already ger rogerner to discuss the shortcomin$s ,of .Jh& &iiy efforts; newspaper men alread? deliver scathing critiques of their profession.

the has in effect become a sign of manipuiation, whether newspaper managements like it or not, and the wav to deal with it is to admit that :he editorial fun&m is in” .hsrenriy. ‘biasbd, thet .reporter& have. o&ions of their own and that newspapers, like other large institutions, are potiticai entities: -Ther,e is nothihg new about these con’ cep% Newspapers no fess than universities must be s88n as instruments of either su.cial change or stagnation. 3x3 aurqqearr press has ki?&vn this for a tong time. Le Monde, wideiy r&@-dad a& cme of the Q-VC&i&s greeate$t newspepers, is. des-: cribed by the. Paris correspondent of. The New York Times; _‘.

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thus inserti f-M suFrl$3titioudy objectivity, what they should be writing candidfy. Savs (3ne ex-Newswe ek man: “lf you / . ‘tiallted -to express an 4~qinioq, t.hefe wBs tie probiem. Insofar ‘as t recaji rhB techintF! -..and stscri‘1.sw.w v-v.. niques, you invented a r-II bed. it to somebodyzi,..made up a person if necessary, it’%, very da viaus, af course, but i+ a substitute me1relv- fix doinn lh8 ssnsi ble thing which wouid have been tu write a first-person stsry ifi the first ‘p&e.. newspaper men are always. find;ng ways iilL--to get around whsfever . ,mnFrJlrrons ’ 4.tL *s:- - L mere , iue’ ta ‘persmal journalism .’ 33~ the .trcjuble with .IJsing 8 subterfuge % WUTl -ti,:L. rL* d-i!“.. howevef puCh it m,ay Iy LllW. pUJW

For example, the monthly Jo~rr\aii~m Review was initiated recently by Chicagrj journalists who had b@n -u~+~abie fo print the stories or make .the rd3k’ks they %dt were necessary to the weil-bGt;itrg of th@tF dailies. On the nationai favel, a new Was: hington journal, Straus Editor’s Report, has been formed to monitor the pfess. However, ail attempts thus far to- a&ommodate newspapers to the ‘rieeds.of sticiety of a &tory - is that it .stjtt k&es t&e &$-~ have failed, and ail the eval@%ions have et .wondering. hbw objective ths:.newg story Uniik@ the ame&& practice, thefe LJs turned out to be indexes of’ f&iitre rather is, how Aponsibte the. r&perter is; .what no copy,d&k.wx# no divi&ti ctf fimcfian,bbethan progress toward sgme satisfactory ‘hig’biases ’ : : m,ay be. tweeq axapy ad&g and repaFt&& E&h. h8 notion stiU prr%ails. amens r63result. Criticism that does tier lead to, stafl memkF is a ~“JbU,,Bal~~t~, jn cbarge .$d-tters that they.shtiuM strti4 to beb structural change is simply an exercise in ..+f. s;..sp~~i!!~. H&j rn43Jf CQVW a qttary: di _.,‘_ as. o~jle;crive aCi ”pss3!me. -’ ’ ‘ix ~- .na5 * ,a reformist’ frustration, and the effect ‘#I&. .. rrectfy .: iw &ii@@- Qf ‘8&t #I# kews 8gentqr ., tiiLi, elkar-cbt, -:- :-‘ .‘A- .L rii.;r. -1 rrng tu ‘lb uut IT0 been that the press today iB one ,& the ’ fd2ports ‘,.‘. ..”On ,hi.i sui@9Ct.’ bep&ti@ent ch[&s ‘, bady has ,been * able $0 tell them how to.“apleast trusted of the caun@y’s- n&ion& .inc&q& h@+in8s and ,,,cwlc+ mmlra upas-= iv-tc&+cra+ws stitutions, public or private. ‘. :. .- ---_I .pioach that eiusiv8. mai, m,uch less what’ 1:me#sbtlt d& nxrl clanjge~py, : ,’ :.: ; ‘it. .:qfi#y. Me$iiiisi:~ MB&~ rep&terS ..atib newsRightwing critics complain .tha$ the p’ap- . ._ ers undermine confidence. iti demticratic ..” .. A$’ is” thk .r’ule iFl ‘&UF&W3it j~L&diSm, .. papers .@U:.ba& on%e idea that the prope; sol uhi ‘Ts a kind of “&ance”, a preseninstitutic Ins by striking at the ‘gaaiernment, the&. is no clear line .between”“ieporting The left insists that, by adhetibg to saand opinion. ‘_ tatian of pro and con !hat lends .ifseif to called balanced reporting. mgthi3mdticat anai@3: thal .ia;’ atways thei in f&3 “We are p!a ud”. said an edit&, “not of stabiiize the worst features of an in@quitour objbjecfivity btit of our indepe’ndance.” try to Qst the. other side’ of the. story, ever _ able system. The confused middie is‘. raThe as?umption fe that the reader knows for just a couple of iines. pidiy losing its faith in the ability ‘of the the viewpoint of ‘the reporter and expects it is a puzzle why rei sorters continua to daily press to sustain the image of imit to be refiecfsd in his copy..... insist that objectivity, or balance, is the key partiality that newspaper managements to the good journalistic iife, but one exLe Monde makes itself credible by renot readers - have demanded. jetting the myth of objectivity. it exposes planat& maybe that it permits a kind of it thus becomes obvious that the press all its biases to the reader, who automatipsychological anonymity. A reporter need will not begin to cp,pe with its credibility caiiy learns the security of reading “news” not reveal what sort of person he is, unproblem until newspaper managements that is placed in a readily identifiabl@ concover his biases.. More important, b.y ciingacknowledge that that mystifying standard; text. Le Mocde journatists the best in in@ fo .the myth that he is indeed being $3 objectivity,” cannot be adequately defined the w&d -c have established their. repukbjective as humanly p6ssiM, ba can tations over time on a newspaper that has evade personal iespor&bility for his Work; or achieved, that in fact it is pernicicrus $0 given them their heads. he is onlv a technici&n of the news; the society as well as to the institutions of journalism. This neul , r-8”lr”“LcW~, y., Lily VHlVl rlu,,u, wJd-.a’Hy “Y newspaper administrators and editors, conjouma!ists, not with te Monde, and do not mitred, requires -an exgmsure df s-elf, a .:_ cerned that the news content remain under feel that they are being propagandised * wiifingneSs scrutiny. and a to undergo tight control; there is no evidence that it by an objective automaton. The context of f\~ldmc. .rnr\r commitment to exceiiencG * +h-eLIIQL 3GGlllJ “csl y the news becomes as important as the serves a public interest. demanding.

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it ‘fcdtciws. tha$ the opportunity to become EII? advocate tiould cause responsive reportem to acquire the background necessary to acquit themselves creditably. The informed reti0 rter would make himself knawn &s competent to act in his new professionai capacity, thus raising the general level a-f the profession. Those who saw the advocacy role as an opportunity to dispense .propaganda would be exposed as soon as the public judged their work against the progress of events. .Many newspapers would maintain that they already permit reporters to become advocates - usually on or opposite the editorial page, but occasionally in the news sectl6ns, However, managements inevitably insist that these contributions be id@rltified as “columns” or “news anaiy.SiSl'" In the absence of a systematic attempt t6 -orient either the public or rePorters to the uses of advocacy journalism, these few, columns have done nothing to in&eas.e the credibility rating of the pro-’ f~Mwl, .. fhti market for objective “facts” has been saturated by TV, as newspaper managements well know. Newspapers must pkW~ something more than a statistical :_ expansion of the eleven o’clock news, but no amount of “reform” discussion will pro&&x a -new product; the conditions must change. This requires structural initlt)va%ion, a radical transformation of the ameriezin daily newspaper into a social participant. not a mere observer. Neutrality is conceive”‘-dule, --I** urlly :III -a pul--I: ltificll \,clr.r,,,m cant-4 llVLhing nn+l is more poii‘I”“’ vLIIryu”’ O’l” tlcai than a newspaper. The public knows this and withholds its belief from journals that venerate objectivity. The

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Several weeks ago, it was proposed that the ‘about to be opened faculty club’ be converted into a community center, offering recreational, dining and low cost day care ’ facilities. Although the faculty club remains as an elite club, such keen interest in the day care part ‘of the proposal was expressed both during the weekend activity and in the weeks since that it was decided to see just what could be done in this area. Since work began on the feasibility of this idea, there has been much publicity, both in th,e Chevron and the KW Record, given to the whole question of day care. This news has come mainly from two groups, the faculty wives association here on campus and the Kitchen&--Waterloo Social Planning Council. Approximately 2 ‘/2 years ago the faculty wives set up a committee to investigate the possibility of a university sponsored day care center. Since that time they have suffered a series of setbacks as a result of lack of participation on behalf of people needed to do organizational work, and a lack of support from the administration in finding them a location and in providing the necessary funds. In the latest release about this center, an estimate of $20,000 thousand was stated as necessary for opening the center - $15,000 for renovation of the location provided, and an operating budget of $5,000 for salaries an,d equipment. A few weeks-ago, Joan Enns the chief organizer, sent out questionaires to a large number of members of the university community. As yet she has received very few replies. The price stated on the questionnaire for full day care service was a approximately $75 per month. Last thursday, february 26, a report on day care was submitted to the KW Social Planning Committee. They , admitted there were not enough facilities in existence and as a result of this “. . . it is no exaggeration to suggest that . . . hundreds of youngsters are being damaged emotionally, intellectually and occasionally physically during their most important formative years.” However they also suggested that those day care centers now operating are not being used to their full capacity. The meeting continued on to discuss why this should be so. And not once during this discussion was the cost of these mentioned directly. All day care centers of -which operate at a cost of anywhere from $60’to $100 per child per month. Joan Enns of the faculty wives suggests that lack of need for a campus day care center is illustrated by slow response to her questionnaire. Whereas in many places the need exists but the finances don’t. The same statement holds true as a reason why many do not use existing services downtown. Those who need the service most are those families where the wife’s earnings do not allow for the extra luxuries. of life, but are a necessary part of family support. These people just cannot afford to pay out $60 to $109 a month to have their child looked after. Should they have more than one child of preschool age it becomes more economical to stay at home and do their own babysitting than to go out to work. The most reasonable way to attack the problem of day care would be to find \

ways of providing more and lower cost services. The main expense comes in meeting extensive government regulations relating to the actual building and to the staff. All nursery schools must have at least one person trained to teach nursery schools. This type of certification is from community received in Canada colleges plus a twelve month training period. At present there is a shortage of people with this training. Foreign degrees not considered adequate. are usually (non-toilet trained Baby care centers children) must have a registered nurse on duty at all times. The question of the ‘necessity’ of these requirements , was another question not dealt with at the KW social Planning Council meeting. There would seem definitely to be a contradiction in the view that these regulations must be -adhered to * when the need for low cost day care .is so great. are at present being Surely if children “emotionally, physically and intellectualy damaged” by their present situation, they would be much better off being looked after at a day care center in good if not perfect surroundings in the company of other children and supervised by competent if not officially trained people. Some other suggestions for financial assistance in paying for day care should< also be considered. First it must be recognized that adequate care ‘for children is a legitimate claim. Then for working people anywhere from half to three-quarters of the cost of day care could be included as-part of union contracts. The aim therefore of the proposed day care center arising out of the faculty club, is basically to community center action provide an adequate, efficient and in-

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of the equipment of the center was collecfed from donations. The center at present has 29 children enrolled~ with a waiting list of 15. There are two full time -staff drawing salaries of approximately $60 a week. The rest of the work is done by volunteer staff, both male and female. The people using the centre are mainly university staff and students with children. Those mothers who have time stop in between classes or at lunch and coffee breaks to feed and play with the child ren. The center itself is a very enjoyable place to ‘visit. The floor is carpeted with brightly coloured sections of carpet (carpet samples) and the only furniture in the room aside from high chairs and rocking horses is one old couch. When you go into the house the first thing you see after passing the mounds of snow suits and boots are 20 babies crawling, walking, runhing and rolling around over this bright carpet. Because of the lack of furniture, you are forced, even if your intentions had been other wise to come down to the level of the children. /The children, most. of whom have been at the centre for a least three months have overcome or didn’t have- a chance to develop any fear or shyness of people unknown to them; and they come freely to you to be cuddled, played with and walked to. Yet the children seem to be developing distinct personalities. Even in the six hours we spent there, it was possible to recog-’ nize the individuality of each child. From talking to the staff and volunteers and some of the mothers who came in at lunch time we--learned that almost everyone connected with the centre had benefited in one way or another. The children had come from responding only to adults; from always Turning to grown ups for ’ help or entertainment, to being able to find that need satisfied by the other children. The mothers, it was found lost some of their possessiveness of their children. They began for the most part to take an active interest in the other children at the centre (although there are some exceptions to this). For the volunteers - this service is of valuable assistance in learning how to bring up children who are co-operative, self supportive and supportive of others. This much space has been spent desct’ibing the center in Toronto because in all likelihood the one to be set up here will have many of the same organizational problems. However, exactly how the one here will .be organized cannot really be decided until the needs and resources are more clear. Whether it will be a baby care center, a child care center or some combination of the two, where it will be and how it will be organized will be- decided by the people who use it. In order to begn to answer some of these questions and begin organizing, a meeting will be held in the campus center TV lounge on Wednesday, ,march 11 at 8 pm. People are asked to fill out the attached questionnaire and bring it to the meeting. If you are not able to attend this meeting please drop the questionnaire at the Chevron o’ffice. ,

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volving service at the lowest cost. As no such low cost service exists in I Kitchener-Waterloo, several students went to Toronto to find out about the organizational problems and see in action a baby care center set As no such low cost service exists in Kitchener-Waterloo, several students went to Toronto to find out about the organizatiorral problems and see in action a baby care center set up by the women’s liberation group there. This group is composed of both students and working women. Recognizing the need for low cost day -._ care they set, out to organize such a center. After sending out questionnaires they found that what was most needed was a baby care center; that is a center for children under two. (No service for children under 2 is offered anywhere in KitchenerWaterloo at present.) To run a legal baby care center it is necessary to have a registered nurse working full time plus meeting many other requirements. To meet these requirements would have raised the cost to the usual $60 to $100 range. They have been trying and s3cceeding in operating the centre at the monthly cost of $30 per child. To be able to operate with this small a budget, it was necessary first to have a rent free location. This they found by using one of the university owned houses. The university has since tried to charge rent. They have also tried to close down the center due to its illegality but neither the nursery \ school requirements board nor the administration wishes. to take the step of closing down a satisfactorily running \ service, by the people using it. The cost were also kept down by having mothers supply bottles and lunches. Most

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member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS); subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (ClNS); 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 universi+y local 3443; telex 0295-748; circulation 12,500 Well we figured the contradictions in capitalism and so perfectly manifested themsleves this \r:eek (and so obviously too) that any editorial-type comment would be redundant, And besides, who ever reads the fucking (there’s that word again) editorials anyways. And besiedes who feels like writing one or two epistlesto the revolution at this hour. What you’ve got is a feature issue, featuring (drumroll, screams of delight softly in the background) . . . Features. Hurrah out of fucking sight, And featuring the staff in this featured feature of features we give you les buresh, bill aird, (that asterisk is the special notice we promised the brian switzman, roscoe bell, mike corbett’ poor offenedd lad, since he missed this space last time), greg wormald,, Steve izma, john nelson, 1 harry veldtra, doug minke, phil elsowrthy, al lukachko, bob epp, alex smith, eleanor hyodo (who called in and offered to do anything, even if there wasn’t anything to give here), rod hay, Cyril levitt, marie kennedy in absentja, and gary and brenda likewise, way‘ne bradley, una o’callahan, rhondda kemlo, Sarah spinks who wrote the rockdale feature last issue, larry, burko for his generous proposed financial assistance, rick degrass, tom Patterson, jeff bennett, and all those hundreds we forgot and an open invitation to anyone with,enough musical talent to hum solidarity forever to take up any musical instrument you can find (not necessarily play) and join the gabriel dumont memorial chowder, and marching street band to welcome wobbly fred tonight at the train station. And if we may be so brash, we’ll end with a quote from that old arch revo’lutionary, Gabe, who said . . set up them glass balls again wild bill, I think I got her loaded . #. -.

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