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But at the “/t can ‘t happen her(J, .” they said (in unison). State Unil’crsity of NW York in Buffalo, over 80 percent of’ the student body has been out on strike for a month. Faculty support fbr the strike has been widespread, especially a.fter 4.5 fhculty Inembers were arrested last week trying to see administration president Peter Regan. State police haljc? been patrolling the campus since the strilz began and there hal)e been selleral clashes with the striking s tudcn ts. The strikers demands, which are non-nego tialbe, include ending the R c.serl*e O,fficers Training Corps and military research on campus, a greater sa)) .for students in university a.ffairs and dismaissal of presiden t Regan.

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The provincial government has recently passed a bill to revise the Landlord Tenant Act. The most notable change made is that landlords can no longer collect a damage deposit. The bill also advised local governments to set up legal advice centers for landlords as well as tenants. The Kitchener city hall has just set up such a bureau which is run by the city solicitor Elmer Moore. He can be contacted at 743-5221. Student-tenants can obtain help from federation lawyer Morley Rosenburg or Tony Berry of the tenant association at 742-2090. Some of the provisions of the act are as follows: l A landlord is required to pay six per cent interest per year to the tenant for security deposits or on the one month’s rent as of jan. 1, 1970. l 15 days after tenancy is renewed or terminated, security deposit plus interest must be refunded to the tenant unless time is extended by a “judge of the county or district court of the county or district in which the premises are situated.” l If a landlord keeps some of the safety deposit he must then notify the tenant with the reasons and cannot keep the specified amount unless: a) The tenant consents in writing after receipt of notice.

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MONTREAL (CUP) - Eight black students, found guilty on one of five charges of conspiracy in connection with the Sir George Williams affair, received stiff fines or the alternative of prison sentences, friday march 13, along with a promise from presiding judge Kenneth Mackay that he would recommend their deportation. The students will not have to worry about providing the money for the fines themselves: the government of Trindad and Tobago, under severe pressure from the poor at home, immediately promised to deliver the funds, totalling $33,500. The eight defendants, all found guilty thursday march 12 by an all-white jury of conspiracy to interfere with the lawful use of the Sir George computer, may still appeal their verdict. Found guilty on the one conspiracy charge were Jose Amoroso, Ian and Valerie Belgrave, Glenda Edwards, Hugo Ford, Edmund Michael, Robert Ranjitsingh and Kelvin Robinson. Robinson was also found guilty on a charge of conspiracy to interfere with the lawful use of a faculty lounge. Following the thursday verdict, defence lawyer Robert Lemieux announced the appeal, declaring the jury’s decision set the legal precedent of punishing students for taking part in a sit-in. Two other defendants in the trial-Robert and Kenneth Williams-were acquitted of all five conspiracy charges: conspiracy to set fire to the Sir George computer room, to interfere with Ihe lawful use of a faculty lounge, to destroy cafeteria furniture, to destroy un-

iversity computers, and to interfere with use of the computers. The two Williams were ordered released from custody immediately following the trial, but all 10 of the defendants, who face seven more charges in connection with the Sir George affair. will have to return to court may 4 to have a trial date set for completion of their prosecution. The charges are a conspiracy coupt pkrtaining to endangering life, the substantive offences

of the specified

abolished

A landlord can no longer, for failure of rent payment, immediately get a bailiff and l&k a person out of the apartment unless the landlord has gone through court proceedings. Because of this law, a Kitchener bailiff lost his job. Right of ,waive l Regardless of whether or not a signed lease says that the Landlord Tenant Act, does not or does apply, the act still applies.

Signed or Renewed l The tenant has the right to sublet to whom he chooses. “A tenancy agreement may provide that the right of a tenant to assign sublet or otherwise part with possession of the rented premises is subject to the consent of the landlord, and, where it is so provided, such consent shall not be arbitrarily or unreasonably witi;heid.;; A landlord cannot charge Ior giving 11~~ consent except for reasonable expenses incurred.

repairs

down of costs. The cost may involve a character trace ($7. or $8. ) and for advertising. If the landlord finds a new tenant the process is no longer subletting, but rather a new lease. l -“A landlord is responsible for providing and maintaining the rented prem-

which go with the charge, and the substantive offences relating to the other five conspiracy charges. The defendants-all natives of Trindad and Tobago-were the first group from among 87 defendants charged in connection with the february 11,69, incident. In sentencing the defendants, judge MacKay said he preferred to impose fines rather than jail terms because “It has already cost the Canadian taxpayer enough. ”

New Caledonia students protest prof’s firings -Only six months after its opening, the College of New Caledonia, one of British Columbia’s new community colleges, is already in the middle of its first crisis over the firing of outspoken professors. Charles Boylan and David Drake, fired along with Nigel Kent-Barber and registrar Abraham Enns, were given no reasons for their dismissals in february. All were on one-year contracts, and CNC has no tenure. Students at the college, are circulating petitions demanding an explanation for the dismissals. Administration president Wolfgang Franke, wholly in charge of hiring and firing at the college, told students he didn’t “think first year students can judge the professors after knowing them only four months”, and refused to give reasons for his actions. But english lecturer Boylan, a

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ises in a good state of repair and fit for habitation during the tenancv and for complying with health and safety standards.” 0 -“The tenant is responsible for ordinary cleanliness of the rented premises and-for the repair of damage caused by his wilful or negligent conduct or that df persons who are permitted on the premises by him” l if a landlord rents more than one residential premise in the same building, the “landlord shall post up conspicuouly and maintain posted a copy of sections 97 (termination of tenancies) and section 108 (service of notices) together with the legal name of the landlord and his address for service, and any proceeding taken by or on behalf of a tenant may be commenced against the landlord in the name so posted. ”

Suggestions: l It may be advisable before moving out, to request that the superintendent, yourself and a third party (the Kitchener-Waterloo Tenant Association often acts as a third party on request) mutually inspect the rented premises for damage just in case the amount deducted from your security deposit is exorbitant) l When an amount is stated for damage ask for a breakdown of costs; costs for cleaning the apartment should not be

former Communist Party member and student activist at the University of British Columbia, charges that his firing is “overt political discrimination.” Both he and anthropology and mathematics lecturer Drake have been outspoken radicals througout the year, and both have criticized the American pulp and paper companies which control this northern B.C. town. Boylan, backed up by student council, has charged that Franke has ignored both student and faculty wishes-a majority of students in his and Drake’s courses have already indicated in course critiques they would like to have the profs next year-and says Franke is backing up “local welloff merchants, political wheelerdealers, bureaucrats” and the pulp and paper companies in firing the two trouble-makers.

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charged in the damage deposit since that is a regular function of the landlord. 0 When signing a lease, make sure there is a complete understanding of what services other than the premises are included in the rent. Sometimes hydro is paid extra even though one may have asked and have been told everything (hydro, t.v. cable, etc,) is all inclusive. l If the landlord or superintendent charges for subletting, ask for a breakdown of costs. The cost may involve a character trace ($7. or $8. ) and for advertising. If the landlord finds a new tenant, the process is no longer subletting, but rather a new lease. l For Kitchener, the “landlord shall provide adequate and suitable heating” which is a minimum of 70 degrees F., year round. l For Waterloo, the minimum heat for winter only is 68 degrees F. -if heating is inadequate, you can call a medical health officer at 744-7357, to inspect the premises to enforce the -heating regulations. l If there is a likelihood of job transfer, ask in the lease for a “transfer clause” which is less binding in terms of fulfilling the length of time in the lease. l Basement units must have their ceiling 4 feet above ground level. l A roomer must be given 600 cubic feet of air space and 75 square feet of floor space.

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Take your pick. You can get a beautiful, hand-printed Ph.D. degree from Rochdale College for $100. or -if you prefer-a, non degree for the same price, certifying you are not a Ph.D. The degrees and non-degrees are part of a fund-raising drive in which the governing council of the college hopes to raise $100,000 toward paying off its $4,884,000 mortgage. Degrees and non-degrees for an MA go for $50, and for a BA $25. Each degree requires a 24-hour course, in the subject of your choice, which you can take at home. The Ontario Department of University Affairs doesn’t care about Rochdale selling non-degrees but it is concerned about the degrees. A.P. Gordon, assistant deputy minister, said last night his department doesn’t know if Rochdale can legally sell degrees, but is trying to find out. Mr. Gordon said he asked his staff to investigate the matter yesterday.

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paying rent last year, but now that is changed. With total occupancy, (it’s now 94 percent full), the building could show a small profit as a housing unit but then there would be no room for educational facilities, he said. “That’s one of the purposes of the drive, to improve the educational facilities.” A series of speakers will travel to Canadian universities, seeking support and spreading the message of non-education. The college, up to its ears in debt, is owned and operated by the students. They hope to raise enough money to persuade Central Mortgage and Housing Corp., which holds the mortgage, to leave the building in their control. Last november 1, the students defaulted on the regular monthly mortgage payment of $26,000. Disaster appeared imminent, but the CMHC granted a moratorium that saved the day-temporarily. The students have been making token payments of $1,500 a month since.

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research is up to the scientist and that we are not the keeper of the conscience of the scientist. Referring to the student demand that science serves people, he said “We are not prepared to sacrifice color TV, automobiles, etc. to feed anybody in the world. Let’s face up to that...We are in a GNP bind.” He then urged scientists to organize themselves “to speak with to establish a science one voice”, academy or foundation. He concluded that decision making will have to be by laymen for the scientist is spending the taxpayers’ money which means the government is accountable for the decision. As for pure science, he saw no difficulty for it to get funds,

Because of its abstract nature, the layman will somehow not fear it. The second speaker, Eric Burke of management science, opposed a national science policy which he thought was a cover up for the word “planning.” Using charts he showed that until 1760 the numbers of scientists was constant until they accepted self-discipline and axioms. From then on, the number increased very rapidly. Japan was the best example of this “self organization and self-decision that has made her the third greatest power on earth.” ’ He concluded that a national science policy wi!l slow down the number of discoveries, that it would be a bad decision, and a rapid decrease would be entailed in the standard ,of living by acceptance of a policy. To the question about the morality of the use of discoveries, with reference to J. Oppenheimer, he said simply “the scientist can not foresee the consequences of his inventions. ”

As the old puzzler bids adieu till the summer (he’s going to get his eyes checked), the Chevron announces the last three winners for this term. Receiving a free packet of underground newspapers (which can be picked up almost anytime in the Chevron office) are Don Andrijiw, Roger Middlemiss and Paul Arhens. We’ll have some more exciting puzzles to tax your vocabulary and rot your mind come the first issue of the summer, as we anxiously await the arrival of Big Burt and the Waterloo Smilers on July 1. Till then, peace and ----.

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Ian Argue, national co-ordinator of the fund drive, said yesterday that 14 students will travel across Canada to organize “catalyst groups” to raise money in 50 communities. Donations are rolling in at a good rate and there is every indication the drive will be successful, he said. “That Ph.D. is ‘cheap at the price. But just how much is a Ph.D. worth, no matter where you get it?” said Jim Garrard, council vice-president. “We prefer issuing the non-degrees, which are more in line with our free-form type of education.” The big, non-profit school on Bloor Street West is here to stay, despite the fact that it is not subsidized, Mr. Garrard said. Its unconventional students and unconventional council members have been doing some conventional things lately, he said. The council has learned how to collect rents, he said. There are about 800 students in the building and about 85 percent are paid up. “They got in the habit of not

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The “doom of pure science” was the wish of a student monday night at the lecture on pure science and the formation of a national science policy, one of the engineering lecture series. In a brief speech before the main speakers. the student with his wish, advocated that the science policy serve people instead of industry and business; and a policy because “control is escaping our hands.” Senator Allister Groshart was next. He said that science and its direction was a “concern of students, scientists and politicians.” but that we live in an age of values which we do not understand so this poses problems that are beyond us. He feels that the method of

proposed budget was not altered, they would have been 50 percent lower. Although the Chevron budget was given an additional amount in order to increase the circulation next year, the budget has actually been significantly reduced. Last year the Chevron was given a subsidy of 49,700 dollars whereas this year it is a mere 39,933 dollars. The Chevron cost each student 5.50 last year.

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B U D G ET MAY

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Publications

Board

External-Education

98.683.00

Board

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Arts

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450.00 13.300.00

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Telegrams

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Equipment

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Repairs

and

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Professional

200.00

Fees

Office

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Office

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2.500.00 36.220.00

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300.00

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Drama

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Music

2,700.OO

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500.00

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250.00

200.00

Promotions

5,600.OO

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Production

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Reception

300.00

Lectures

300.00

2.500.00

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1.200.00

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Films

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EDUCATION

350.00

Speakers

700.00

Programs Community

Action

Native

400.00

People

600.00

Labour

2.700.00

C.U.S.O.

277.00

Crossroads Birth

Africa Control

Chairman’s

FI und

200.00 7,327.OO

BOARD

85,933.OO

Liontayles

46.000.00

1.500.00 Advertising

The Room at the

Blotter

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39.933.00 1.500.00 100.00

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Directory

1 ,ooo.oo

6.400.00

2.400.00

4.000.00

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2,ooo.oo

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for

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2.550.00

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200.00 50.400.00

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46.000.00

39.933.00

CHEVRON Printing’

61.383.00

C.U.P.

1.050.00

Distribution

500.00

Mailing

9.540.00

Telecommunications

500.00

Telex

550.00

Telephone

750.00

Conference Travel

6.327.00

100.00

Handbook

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1 ,ooo.oo

OF PUBLICATIONS

Chevron

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1 ,ooo.oo

Salary

Board

It’s a Woman? World at

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Attendance and

1 ,ooo.oo

Expenses

2.000.00

Subscriptions,

Library

Bound

Volumes

Capital

Supplies

600.00 450.00 300.00

Miscellaneous

Supplies

250.00

Salaries

5.660.00

Photographic

1.400.00 -------------------85.933.00

Revenue

(after

BOARD Summer

commissions)

OF STUDENT Weekend

Homecoming Winter

12,000.00

Weekend

Orientation. Auxiliary Entertainment Cash

ACTIVITIES

Events

& Services Co-ordinator’s

12.000.00

8.000.00

28.000.00

22.000.00

6.000.00

38.842.00 1.500.00

7.326.00

8.000.00

31.516.00

25.00

Box

25.00

National

Entertainment and

Record

Conference

Organizations

54.00 4,500.oo

Collection

Flying

Club

House

Board

Advertising

Conferences

5.000.00

12.000.00

Bilboard Clubs

7.000.00

20,000.00 20.000.00

500.00 1.500.00

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Chevron: We understand that you are visiting the University of Waterloo as a . special guest speaker in the college of integrated studies. How do you like it here? Thompson: I’ve enjoyed my contact with people at the university. I’ve enjoyed your bracing atmosphere and your relatively clean air after the foul air I’ve been used to breathing in Chicago. Chevron: Well people here would dispute the fact that it’s clean and pure. Speaking about pollution, do you see it as a problem as portrayed in the press and the media in general? Thompson: I see this pollution and the total ecological crisis as one of the major problems of our time. It is one which has concerned scholars for many years but has been something the general public has concerned itself with only very recently, and I think they’re going to be concerned with it desperately in the years to come, particularly since our present social arrangements make it impossible to cope well with this problem. Basically this; a large part is simply that our total energy conversion system that is developed as we use more automobiles, more power plants, more electric lights, more of everything that uses up power, we are converting a large part of our fossil fuels that were laid down in the earth millions of- years ago. In a very short space of time we are turning them into gases that go into the atmosphere, (some of which come back of course through the activity of green leaves and grass and so forth). But we are turning these fossil fuels into the air at a much faster rate than our plant life can make use of the gas. We are making a great change there and no matter how much may be done by way of eliminating some of the particular annoyances of noxious exhausts from cars, they will still be doing that. Now we are likewise living in an economy that is widely recognized in good tone only if it is expanding and without any argument as to the merits of socialism, capitalism or what have you, it should be plain that a social order or a set of economic arrangements that requires continuous expansion cannot be expected to cut down the rate at which fuels are converted into sources of energy. That of course is only one aspect of it. Anytime that I had the misfortune to look at the television sodp operas and see

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the commerciais, I realized with what contempt the manipulators of television view the women of the North American continent. Persuading them that they should use this and that detergent that adds a lot of phosphate and that is indirectly putting arsenic into our drinking water and certainly doing great damage to all the life in our water. I’m asking can we expect a set of arrangements that keeps the wheels busy by pressuring people to buy this or that sort of detergent-can we expect that to do what it should? The television should be saying, “Women please don’t buy any detergent unless you absolutely have to”. But would Proctor & Gamble do that kind of thing. I don’t think it is consistent with the motivations that determine the decisions of industrial process these days. Chevron: Your implication is that the corporations won’t or can’t deal with these problems by their very nature. Do you think that unions or the labor movement could deal with it? Thompson: I hope that the labor movement will reconstitute itself, but as it is now, I can hardly expect the United Autoworkers for example, to conduct a vigorous campaign and to induce us to use fewer and fewer cars and yet there is no doubt in my mind that to cope with this pollution problem, we need to replace this practice of making people mobile by putting one hundred and fifty pounds of flesh and bone into something like two and three thousand pounds of steel and make it move around. We need to replace it with a more efficient transportation system or something of that sort. The individually operated car should serve exclusively those purposes that could not readily be served by mass transportation. We need to have mass public transit systems that will induce people to leave their cars at home (as much as they can) and travel in such a way that it takes less fuel to make people mobile. I think it’s possible to arrange industry so that we communicate instead of commute. These are things that can be done to end the chaos and confusion of our present economic arrangements and get the world’s work done far more orderly. But can I expect the UAW for example as a body or can I expect the United Steelworkers in regard to parallel questions to say okay. It will be in the public interest to shut down-most of our jobs. For many reasons, not only because

of the need to make great industrial shifts, great industrial changes to cope with this ecological crisis but likewise to make an economy that is not allergic to the possibility that peace may break out. For all these reasons we do need to make it so workers will not be put at any great disadvantage if they lose their jobs. You will find the labor movement far more able to cooperate and to promote those changes essential to having a habitable world as a heritage for our descendants, if you do make it so that there is no great disadvantage in losing a job. I think that is an important thing the labor movement should plan upon. There are going to be great shifts in occupations. Chevron: It seems to me that the type of movement you’re talking about was the type of movement that the IWW was instrumental in at least initially encouraging. However, we find that for one reason or another the IWW failed in some ways to maintain the leadership if you want, of certainly the american labor movement. To what do you attribute this ostensible failure? Thompson: I don’t like the‘ word failure. When I was a kid at school I remember one of the copy books we had: “in life’s lexicon there is no such word as failure”. We wrote that over and over again and perhaps that is why I remember it. I don’t believe that the IWW has failed. It just hasn’t completed or even gotten very far with the big job it undertook in 1905. That job essentially is this: To get the working class to organize industrially so that their industrial unions add up to class conscious unions worldwide, democratically/to take direction of the use of the earth’s resources for the good of man. I believe that such an organization as that will be indispensable for solving the

crisis crisis

of our time of which the ecological is simply one aspect. I don’t see how reverting to ecology again, you can expect that management hires experts to plan for obsolescence where our things won’t last. Can I expect that kind of management to arrange for the minimization of waste. Waste is a very large aspect of that ecological crisis. Further, I think that it is generally recognized that war like waste is something which capitalism can’t get a long without-witness the Americans in Vietnam. The interests of working people, of those who do the work of the world, no matter whether they do it with slide rules and test tubes or whether they do it with shovels is an interest entirely separate from the interests that do make the decisions. I don’t think we can preach at people and expect then to make decisions contrary to their interests. It isn’t that there are bad people running the world but they function according to where they sit. I think you’re finding quite a few instances of that today. The atomic age and the dire possibility that we may all mutually blow each other up, or such things as this ecological crisis, or the tremendous tensions that arise between people because a few million people could kill each other with their bare hands if they didn’t have anything else to do it with. I don’t like the prospect but unless you got rid of it-even if you did get rid of al: the implements of warfare-and you had a system in which millions of people consider that they are being deprived of a fair life opportunity by a few who are hogging it you are not going to have a good world. Many people who realize that and are getting along nicely happen to sit at the top of the pile.

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What I want to point out is this. Up unil say 1945 ordinarily the decisions a man ad to make as a top executive of a corIration fitted in with his own life interests ery nicely. Since then increasingly you run into the xamples where the man prefers peace 1 war. As a human being he would prefer ?at something were done other than uilding up an atomic stockpile in caacity for superkill. As a human being he 3uld have liked to use his advertising acilities to warn people against using the roduct his company was making. As a uman being he would like to see, perhaps he is head ti US Steel, that they do use substantial amount of their profits to nrrect their pollution of Lake Michigan. But in the capacity he has as a business xecutive he will ordinarily recognize that e must adopt those policies that will iaximize the profits of his corporation nd he will probably even feel that if he nesn’t adopt those policies his corporaon will fade away and some corporation rho will adopt such policies will be erforming these functions instead. 7 Consequently you have a set of arrangeients that guarantees that Lake Michign will be polluted, that guarantees that ousewives will be told to use detergents iat they should be refusing to buy. : Here we are in the univer‘hevron: Ity and I’m just wondering how students t into all this over the last few years tudents have been raising quite a ruckus l~ campuses, particularly in the US and to )me extent in Canada. How does this tudent unrest fit in with your undertanding of the nature of things? hompson: I’ve been very much interestd in this rumpus on campus, this student -irest, this process of confrontation, deronstration and the like. I cannot help ut feel that it is a sound and fury that

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signifies a tremendous range of valid discontents, dissatisfactions, but that it is accomplishing much less than it should. I look back at all this from the viewpoint of a union man. I cannot help but notice the similarity between things that went on in various industries before unionism was established in them and the things that have been going on in such campuses today. I think today most people are aware that before any bargaining techniques were established you had a policy making the world aware that they were very happy. (Such things as the Ludites breaking the original textile machinery; by harvest workers such as Captain Swing breaking down some of the early, very primitive harvesting equipment.) In general it was a rather violent set of activities in which the violence was more frequently that made against the working class than that made by workers. But gradually this whole process of confrontation gives way to a more or less routine way of collective bargaining. Without going a century back, certainly through my own life and even today, I hear parallel instances of a plant where there is no union where people get dissatisfied. Each one feels as an individual that if he goes and talks to management he’ll be told if you don’t like it you know what you can do about it. Then, they say ‘let’s all go in a body and tell the management what it is we don’t like about what’s going on here’ and that it is a confrontation in industry very similar to some of the confrontations you see on campus. Again, frequently, especially in the stages where managements have not yet realized it is necessary to recognize the desire of their workers to bargain collectively, you have found the sit-in used, as in General Motors in 1937, some of the rubber plants later on. More or less an epidemic of it in ‘37 even in 5 and 10 cent stores and the like. Now this is something that comes to mind very much when I notice the occupation of premises by students dissatisfied by something. I noticed a very obvious similarity there. I happened to be down in Florida a couple of winters ago and I noticed one of the smaller colleges there, Atlantic College, where the student body adopted a resolution-no person could start studying there unless he signed an affidavit saying that he was not a member of SDS or the Southern States Union or whatever the name of it was. There was a rather militant body. The senate of the college and the administration of the college forthwith agreed to the thing, so a yellow dog contract was set up there very similar to those the coal mine operators used to have. There you couldn’t go to work in the mine unless you signed a statement saying you were neither a member of the IWW or the United Mineworkers Union. There are many parallel goings on in building unionism in industry and college campuses. I would expect that the processes of negotiation be set up-they have been set up but I think most students feel that like the earlier processes of negotiation that have been set up in industry, you have company welfare plans and company unions rather than something that the workers feel that they themselves control.

It’s recognized in the labor law of the US and Canada that unionism is built on the premise that there is a conflict of interest between the worker and the employer. Wherever you find these confrontations you find evidence that you are dealing with the conflict of interest and that the one should not try and control the other. They are independent bodies and should work out procedures for getting results not merely for confrontation, for making their views known (that is very important,) but for getting results and to accomplish the ends that they want. I’m not sure that the students know quite what their ends should be. There’s a lot of argument against making a parallel with industry-should the apprentices tell the master journeymen how to put plaster on a wall or how to wire a building. I don’t think that is the situation at all here, for where people are putting four, five, sometimes eight years of their lives into this educational industry, for education is an industry, I can understand their desire to make sure not only that this is to their individual advantage and done in a way that is agreeable to them but that the output of the industry should not be something to serve the malignant- and malicious purposes of corporations but the life giving needs and desires of humanity. Chevron: That’s all very interesting, but specifically how do you feel that we as students can relate to an organization like the IWW? Thompson: Basically I say for the simple reason that this is a factory, this is an industry. The work of the world has changed so that instead of people preparing themselves for it, instead of people preparing themselves for the occupation of their life by serving an apprenticeship, they now have to come here. In knowledge factories of this sort scattered across the landscape, an increasingly important part of the world’s work is being done. Not only does it give the training for doing the new type of work that is to be done, but it is important in this way too: a large part of the change in the world grows from the research and the studying and thinking that occurs in the university. From the viewpoint of the IWW put forward at our convention two years ago, the students in the universities are apprentices who are unfortunately unpaid, and we figure that they should organize to , control that work for their own interests,

to make their working conditions better, and to assure as far as possible that the product of that kind of a factory be a product that serves the general interests. Just as shoemakers are working in the interests of the working class, a good union shoemaker wants to make good shoes and not bad shoes because he knows that making bad shoes is not the way to treat his fellow workers who will have to wear them. We feel the same way about this. From another angle I’d like to mention that from its inception the IWW, which was launched on course in 1905 has endeavored to encourage the cause of industrial unionism and complete solidarity ‘of the working class. It has followed right along that, while we wish to bargain and get everything we can in the way of safer working conditions, more pleasant working conditions, more satisfactory wage and greater security for the worker in regard to his income, at the same time we have felt that our ultimate job is to organize the working class so they will be competent to run the world in accordance with these motivations. We do not believe that any other set of motivations would fit. By and large you have the possible plans upon which our world can be organized. One is that which we’re accustomed to here-discussions be made by the heads of corporations. The other, in a large part of eastern Europe, Asia, and so on is that the decisions should be made by those who run the government. Neither one of those is working satisfactorily, I am thinking particularly with regard to this ecological difficulty we were discussing previously. The one has to reach decisions upon the basis of what will give it the most profit. The political controllers have to reach their decisions upon what will most favor their retention of ‘power and the expansion of it. Whereas, the decisions have to be made from here on out in terms of what will be best for man and his fellow creatures. Neither governments nor corporations can be expected to do that. No elite hierarchy can be expected to do that. It is essential that you have democratic control from the bottom up-the people doing the world’s work deciding what they should do. And that of course ties in very much with all the work being done by students because this decision does require the special knowledge that is the function of such factories as this. thursday

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LYSISTRATA Lysistrata, the performance, was commendably done indeed. For his first time directing, Bob Currer did an excellent job. Susan Downes as Lysistrata portrayed a very believable drunk and was one of the few whose lines could always be heard clearly. The remainder of the cast did a good job but some of the lines were at times lost at the rear of the theatre. Mike McGrath’did his usual exemplary job on the lighting panel but the sound was not up to the rest of the performance. The long monologue over the sound system in the last scene was completely unintelligible and the sound at other times sounded rather stilted and was not as smoothly done as might be expected. Other than the minor quibble about the sound I was entirely pleased with this production and believe that the exercise should definitely be repeated, Lysistrata, the play was a different matter entirely. I am led to believe that the play was chosen partly as it had some relevance to the state of society at the present time, more specifically the pre-r sent movement towards women fighting for equal rights. Somehow I think that this goal was not realized in that I cannot seem to relate the play to reality. We are back in Greece in the time of Athens -and Sparta of old, and the women of the day, spurred on by Lysistrata, decide that they will have to do something to end the war and get their men back home. Coming to the conclusion that they have only one weapon which they can use, namely their sex, they decide to use confrontation tactics and tell the men ‘no peace, no piece’ or to put it more bluntly, you can fight or screw but not both. Of course the play succeeds brilliantly and before we know what happened, the men are grovelling on they’re collective knees begging the women for piece. In the meantime, the old women of the city have taken over the Acropolis and will let no one get at the money which is needed to pay for the war, (see how they tie everything together): When the men come to try to get into the Acropol-

is they are repelled by the women who need to do nothing but look at them to send them grovelling in the dirt. All this is a little unreal somehow and I cannot see it ever happening in real life. At the merest threat the men fall completely apart and can do nothing against the overwhelming might of their female antagonists. Although a few of the female lib types might argue that that is the way things really are it does not appear to be justified as a valid outlook on life. All this makes a very nice story and everything turns out all right in the end since the women get peace and the men get piece and everyone lives happily ever after but I still feel that the play has failed in attempting to say anything meaningful about the state of the world and therefore can be of benefit only as entertainment. The play seems to have failed in this department also and so does not get a very good overall grade for the course. The play was intended to be humorous and succeeded in this for a limited length of time. The play was really gross; Enginews would have been a more likely candidate*for a review than this paper. Any humour in the play was derived from this and from puns on the peace vs piece jazz. This is okay for awhile but begins to pall a bit after the twentieth such pun. I wonder however if this criticism is valid of the original play or only of the version which we saw here. Many parts of the dialogue seemed to have been translated very loosely from the Greek even for one who has no knowledge of what the original Greek was. I find it hard to. believe that the peace-piece pun was valid in Greek and so the humour in the play as written by Aristophenes must have been of such a form as to be appreciated by the Greeks of his day even though we cannot see it in this day and age. All of this rambling and general bullshit is such as to say that I think the play has failed in its avoweed purpose or purposes. In spite of this I am sure that everyone involved feels that the performance was a success and in that respect it certainly was.

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Christian Well, The magic came to town last week-for what ’ will likely be a fairly long run. This should give people a chance to see it a couple times. It’s a fanfuckintastic film. For those of you who don’t know the plot, Magic Christian is all about this grand guy, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), ‘a billionaire who goes around laying heavy trips (and money) on people. But there’s a method behind it all. Sellers is out to prove that money corrupts, that the system it has produced is corrupt, and therefore the system’s, values are corrupt. In all these things he succeeds magnificently, for, as we all know, the system is corruot and that’s what makes the movie. Sellers is very straightforward about how he exposes the corruptions and contradictions of the system. He simply exaggerates them to a ridiculous level. For example, he goes quail hunting with a machine gun and anti-aircraft artillery in an effort to point out the entire absurdity of hunting for sport. In a truly classic scene featuring Lawrence Harvey, two extremes of bourgeios culture are tied together as-Hamlet performs a credible striptese while reciting his 70 be or not to be soliloquy. Guy Grand’s targets are the very rich and/or the very important, whom he brings together for the maiden voyage of the luxury liner The Magic Christian. Heralded as the social event of the season, the ship’s passengers include John and Yoko, and Jackie and Ari. Included in the festivities are a faked hijack to Cuba, a marijuana bust which is superb, and a

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trip through the best-manned engine room this side of Playboy. The film has a theme rather than a plot, i.e. everybody has his nrice and thus it has more of the appearance of a satirical revue instead. of a coherent story. Ringo Starr costars as Sir Guy’s adopted son, Youngman. While the part may have been written into the movie in order to attract a wider audience (it was not in Terry Southern’s book) Ringo holds his own quite well against the considerable talents of Sellers. His acting style

could hardly be called “method” and might better be described as Ringo deadpans non-acting. his way through the film, seemingly oblivious to the mayhem surrounding him. Much of the criticism levelled at the film is that it is boring,. Not so ! It could prove boring if you actually believe that money is the motivating force in our lives. But we don’t believe that, now do. we-’ The film is an attempt to get the audience to examine the structures and values of western sopiety.

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I have several important matters to discuss in this letter. First, with regard to the letters of Mr. Twal and Mr. Ghamian in the march 13 Chevron, commenting on my letter in the march ’ 6 Chevron, I feel that a continued exchange of letters in these pages at weekly intervals is hardly a meaningful form of dialogue. It neither enlightens Chevron readers nor gives them a comprehensive view of the Middle East situation, and only serves to create tensions and hostilities among people who know one another only as abstractions. Since it is hardly my intention to create ill will among my fellow students, I would like to suggest something more positive, namely a new social club on campus, the Waterloo Movement for Arab-Jewish Co-operation (and I don’t mean a forum for emotional debating). A few israeli acquaintances have expressed approval of this idea, and I invite anyone else interested to phone or write me: “Behold how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together” (Old Testament). Let us turn our hearts towards each other and dwell together in peace. LAWRENCE ETIGSON grad math Article fascist

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press release Basle, (January 17. ) The International Jewish Conspiracy is pleased to announce that it has acquired the services of the hired killer, mercenary; and well known oppressor of innocent workers and students, General J.N. “Clam” Chaudhuri. General Chaudhuri was for some years active on the Zionist scene in India. World Zionism has scored several notable successes on the canadian scene in the past few months, in faithfully serving the interests of monopoly capitalism. Negotiations carried on in a dark alley (in keeping with the Zionist policy of alleyah) have crushed the just aspirations of arctic walruses and penguins by arranging the cession by anglo-Canadian colonialists to jewish bandits of 10,000 square miles in northern Quebec to secret israeli military occupation. This will assure free passage for US oil tankers through the mythical “Northwest passage”, in navigational the name of “free rights”. Israeli “authorities” in “Tel Aviv” have emphasized that “everything is negotiable” - a clear indication of our outspoken willingness to buy and sell everything and everyone. In his new position, General Chaudhuri will carry on secret activities to continue the oppression of the militant Palestinian, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Quebecois Afro-American, Indian, Iranian, Latin American and Rhodesian workers in the notorious interests of World Zionism and Soviet revisionism-social imperialism. This talented and acccomplished murderer and taker-away of the most basic democratic rights will prove a welcome addition to our capable staff, which in&ides such faithful servants of Zionism as Spiro T. Agnew, George Pompidou, the soviet fascist enemy of the people Leonid Brezhnev, and deviationist capitalist and friend of imperialism, Alexander Dubcek (currently Czech ambassador to fascist Turkey, where he will have no choice but to resolutely oppose just demands of militant students and bicycle riders. ) We wish General Chaudhuri all the best in his new line of work, and militantly call for a long and fruitful relationship in our joint campaign to steal candy from babies.” BENJAMIN

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In the interest of accuracy, there are some facts concerning the full-time faculty in the school of optometry with which you should be familiar. Listed in the 1970-71‘ calendar, there are eight full-time faculty members holding the rank of assistant professor or higher. Of these, five including the director were born in Canada, and are in every respect Canadian citizens. In addition, one was born in Norway, but has lived his entire adult life in Canada, is a Canadian citizen and received his first degree from the University of Manitoba. Of the other two, one is from England and one from New Zealand. Thus, in order to correct the figures given on page 15 of the march 13th Chevron, these should be altered to 6, 2,0,2. In order to obtain graduate education in physiological optics, it has been necessary for a canadian citizen to attend other countries in order to study for advanced degrees. It is relevant to note that this School of Optometry has on its faculty every Canadian who has a Ph.D. degree in physiological optics, and that the pro-. fession of - optometry itself is currently supporting three additional students in american universities. It is anticipated and hoped that these three will return to the faculty at this university. In the event that your statistics were gathered from all faculty members including adjunct professors, and clinical associates who are all on a part-time basis, there are 26 of the total of 32 names listed who are in fact Canadian citizens. It is to be hoped that the other figures quoted in your article are somewhat more accurate. E.J. FISHER director Canadianization--gooci facts and figures--bad

I am delighted to see the Chevron taking up the question of the extent of de-Canadianization at Waterloo which, as has been pointed out elsewhere, was not thought suitable for comment when the issue was first raised last summer I am, however, a little puzzled by the figures you report for the department of political science. I do not know whether your source of data was the 1968-69, 1969-70, or 1970-71 calendar, but whatever it was it would not have been possible to produce the figures you give. I take it, therefore, that the person who prepared the figures used some other criterion than first degree to establish citizenship. I think we ought, perhaps, to be told what it was. Everyone knows that university calendars are rarely correct in their listing of fadulty members, simply because the press deadline for them is substantially in advance of the data when new appointments are finalized or present members announce their intention of leaving. For professors Mathews and Steele this may have been an insurmountable obstacle in the collection of their

data, but on our own campus it ought to be possible for anyone who wishes to do so to collect the correct figures (both in terms of actual faculty present and in terms of origin or citizenship). Since you have not done this I thought that I might provide you with the correct figures for political science (the figures in brackets are for 1970-71) : Canadian 0 ther Commonwealth United States 0 ther

Origin Citizenship 3 (5) 5 17) 4 131 3 13)

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2 (2) 1 111 There are two points to be made about these figures. Our are of members who two origin but have non-Canadian Canadian citizenship have been in Canada for more than ten years. One of our Americans has been here for only slightly less than that time. I do not know what difference this consideration makes but it seems worth recording. I do think, however, that it is’ important - especially for the study of politics - to distinguish between Commonwealth and nonCommonwealth “foreigners”. There are certain assumptions about the nature of political life and political institutions which are generally shared in all parts of the Commonwealth and which have, I would think, a very profound bearing on the attitudes which professors bring to their classroom. The questions you are raising are very important, not only for the future of the University of Waterloo, but for the future of the whole of Canada. The cause will be much better served if the most careful attention is paid to each aspect of the argument (including the accuracy of the data). In this way it will not be possible for your enemies to avoid the essential substance of your case by petty quibbling over the meeting of words and figures. - J.M. WILSON poli sci dept.

Open letter to university housing chief. Withdraw! The following is a letter sent to Cail Vinnicombe, University Housing and was requested to be printed in the Chevron.

I wish to notify you of my withdrawal of application for a married student apartment, and at the same time register a complaint concerning the handling of the whole affair. The proposed rent, now in the range of $135.00 for a one bedroom apartment, is far beyond the means of the average student. Much cheaper, but admittedly less luxurious, accommodation is available to the student through the regular sources. You do not appear interested in providing “student” apartments but are caught up in building a menu ment probably for your own, or at least the University’s, florification. I am sure that many other students who had hoped to live in the married student apartments are similarly disappointed with your ,department. As a result, you could be left sitting with some big, expensive and empty buildings on your hands.

Perhaps it is not too late to come to your senses and make the required adjustments. If you do, I will be prepared to reconsider my withdrawal. B.G. MARSHALL

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I am writing this letter to express my sentiments of the Chevron as a whole and the back page of the february 27 issue in particular. First, let me state that we have a son going to the University of Waterloo and, as responsible parents, who pay several hundred dollars a year to make this privilege possible, we are interested in his education. Now, back to The Chevron, we look forward to reading it as it is normally a well-written, informative newspaper that must require a good deal of thought and effort. However, the back page of this particular issue can only be described as sick, sick, sick. Shocking, not really; surprising no; intelligent, hardly; sick, definitely. I doubt that Mr. Shelton’s parents (if he has any) will share in the author’s pleasure of this literary piece of art and I also doubt if his younger brothers and sisters (if he has any) will be able to share his sense of accomplishment in taking up the whole back page of a normally sane school paper. Perhaps there is a point or message portrayed but I am afraid it escapes me. A member of the generation agape and a little prouder of it. W. BOULTER Belleville. On t.

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Dr. L.A.K. Watt’s statement to the Chevron that most graduates will get jobs must be encouraging to those whose applications are being rejected wholesale. Sure they may finally get jobs digging ditches, but is that what they spend six to eight years studying for? The job situation for at least some Waterloo graduates looks pretty dismal, and contradicts Watt’s belief that Americans

are not given preference

in their own country.

Now that Canada is included in the western hemisphere quota for emigration to the United States, Canadian graduate students are finding the States pretty barren ground as far as job opportunities are concerned. Even americans are not being hired in the states these days. The result of course is that Canadians are facing even more competition at home than they normally would. ’ Furthermore, it is not uncommon for American institutions, (especially publicly supported ones such as universities) to require a statement to the effect that a nonamerican candidate for a job is not displacing an American of similar abilities. In other words, hiring of non nationals is now tied to american immigration policy and the job market. Conversations with graduates reveal just how tight the job market is and how the immigration policy of the U.S. affects our graduates. In the Department of Psychology at Waterloo, 25 PhD’s are looking for jobs this year and to date only three have definite positions. Two will be going to small universities in the martimes and one to another department at Waterloo. At least two people have been looking for jobs for over a year now and deliberately delayed finishing their theses because of their inability to get definite offers. UGIS LAMA, (Canadian) is finishing his PhD in Electrical Engineering. His thesis is on /ntegrated circuits. Lama started sending out applications just before christmas 1969 and has alrady received 60 injections. He feels that the austerity program in the States and Canada has made the job situation very tight. Even if a job comes through in the States he can’t wait around a whole year to get through immigration. According to Lama, it took 11 months for one of his colleagues to get through U.S. immigration red tape, even though he had a job offer. He feels that if the U.S. makes it difficult for Canadians to get jobs in the States, the Canadian Government should do likewise in Canada. S. BOCTOR, an Egyptian with immigrant status is in Electrical Engineering. His thesis is in So/id state circuits. He holds the record so far with 220 rejections. His application was amongst 30 others for two openings at

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Windsor University and amongst 40 for three openings at Winnipeg. He began sending out applications last september but has had no solid offers yet. Boctor has also tried employment agencies all over the States and Canada but these he hasn’t even heard from yet. NIRENDRA UTUKURI, in Elect, Engineering, with a thesis in Electromagnetic theory has so far received 90 rejections. He waited approximately -9 months before receiving an offer, and now has finally got a one year appointment at Windsor University to replace a professor who is on leave of absence. ALEX DALE, is finishing a PhD in psychology at Waterloo. He has sent out 30 applications but received no definite offer yet. He could have got a post-doctorate at the University of Alberta if the government hadn’t withdrawn financial support for post doctorates. He feels that the problem can be traced back to when the University of Waterloo was building up departments and brought in a lot of american faculty and students to Canada. Many of these students have stayed and are now going on to the Canadian job market. Of the 20 Canadian PhDs being turned out of Psych this year approximately 5 are Canadian, he says. HENRY WARKETIN, Canadian, a PhD candidate in german wrote to all Canadian universities, and even applied to Galt High School to teach German. He was rejected everywhere. He finally got a job outside Canada through the grapevine system. His name was on Operation Retrieval even before he left Canada.

This of course is only a small example of what’s ing to graduates at Waterloo. We’ve talked to many who still haven’t got jobs but who intend to stall ing their PhD’s until something opens up. This next story pertains not to Waterloo but to a to graduate :

Malzan

The division of social psychology is presently looking for a senior professor and an assistant professor. Graduate students in that division have asked Dr. Ed Ware, division head to advertise these positions in the CAUT Bulletin, and in the Globe and Mail. Ware communicated this request to the Chairman of Psychology who turned it down on the that doing so might involve a loss of prestige. QUESTION: Why doesn’t some of the faculty get together with some of the graduate students to form an ad hoc hiring committee and advertise the fact that these positions are available? And while they’re at it, why not advertise for a new department head?

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Approximately two months ago a senior position in social psychology was offered to an American professor whose wife was about to complete her Ph.D in history. This professor made his acceptance conditional on finding a position in the history.department for his spouse. Now we would all like to believe that this university is run by people who have the guts and intelligence of at least a bunny rabbit. They quite properly told him where he could stuff his proposal, right?

When you consider the high percentages of foreign graduates and faculty at Canadian universities it is not surprising that our graduates find competition for jobs tough. It is almost an accepted fact by now that foreign faculty tend to engage in alma materism and select graduate students on much the same basis. In the Waterloo Report Mathews 8~ Steele point out that departments heavily staffed by foreign faculty tend-

on a dismal Wrong. Adopting the customary grovelling stance where nonCanadians are concerned, wheels were set in motion to get the wife, who was not yet even a fresh Ph.D. a position in history. It was arranged that Psychology would, for a time, pay her salary as a member of the history department, which would get her for “free”. I am happy to report that the negotiations fell through, when this distinguished couple found something more to their liking in Yankeeland.

As the ad on this page says, Mathews and Steele are coming on campus next week for a panel debate on Canadianization. Mathews was co-author of the Waterloo Report, which revealed the deteriorating state of affairs (from the point of view of Canadian culture) in the faculty of arts at Waterloo. Many people have expressed distaste and/or disdain for Mathews, and I find myself hard pressed to know why: NO one, to my knowledge, has ever seriously faulted the Report, although pro-tern president Howard Petch may imagine that he did with his cloying, misleading reply.

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ed to have a high proportion of foreign graduate students. This is true at Waterloo in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering all three of which are heavily British in faculty make-up. Philosophy and psychology both have overwhelming numbers of american graduate students and of course are heavily staffed by Americans. Many allegations have been made about the philosophy department, one of them being that Canadians of excellent qualifications have been refused positions on faculty in favour of U.S. citizens. Another is that preferential treatment is given to U.S. students; that they are not usually required to do the qualifying year before beginning graduate work but are hastened on to Ontario graduate fellowships and various -university awards without regard to Canadian needs or the obligations of a Canadian institution to the Canadian community. The trend is given some support, not only by the number of U.S. students present, but also by the apparent attitude of the department to the Ontario fellowships. According to the pamphlet released by the Ontario Government these awards are clearly intended for Canadians. Students on student visas normally intend to return to their own country upon completion of their academic work. A notice released last spring to every graduate student in the department of philosophy is highly suspect. It might well lead the reader to believe that members of the department are working to pervert the aims and ends of the Ontario graduate fellowships, and, in effect to misdirect Canadian funds. It read.: IMPORTANT NOTICE to non-Canadians who are not yet immigrants and are planning to apply for the Ontario fell0 wship: The rules this year require that you have applied for landed immigrant status before you apply for your Ontario fellowship. Further, unfortunately, there is a rule which prevents you from applying for landed immigrant status from within Canada while on student visa. So if you plan to apply for the fell0 wship and have not yet applied for Landed immigrant status, you must go to a border point and apply for your immigrant status there; and then, having done this, you may proceed to apply for the Ontario fellowship. Notice that you need not have obtained your Landed immigrant staus before applying for the Ontario fellowship; but you must have obtained it by the time the award would begin to be paid, i.e. by September if your award is to start in September. Sorry about that. Jon Narveson. This may well be one example of landed immigrant status being abused by non-Canadians.

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Some other people have moaned and groaned over the fact that Mathews’ statistics were based on the country of first degree. Come now: Is it really the case that as soon as a foreigner takes out landed immigrant status, he ceases to be, for purely statistical purposes, an example of the foreign influx? Anyhow, whichever side of the question you stand on, come on out on April 2 and see who wins. * * * Despite student demand for more Canadian content in their courses, Arts faculty support for a Canadian studies program is pretty lukewarm. The main problem seems to be that the program might attract too many students and therby compete with other departments for faculty funds. The double honours program put forward last week by the committee for Canadian studies was rejected on this basis. As things now stand, the program has been watered down to a series of cross-listed courses with no faculty to supervise seminars or prepare special lectures. Under this plan the onus is on a few interested volunteers to set up the program. ’ This lack of support is of course to be expected in a faculty which has only (and I quote Gazette figures) 35.6 percent of its members Canadian.

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STUDENT X spent a long time at writing his thesis, producing results which led his supervisor to say that it was the best thesis he had seen in the area of biology. (He had seen quite a few). Naturally, X was confident of finding a job, and he began applying. In all, he applied to 43 universities. The results. were disappointing and only one, in the west, made him an offer. However, he was undercut by another U. of T. professor trying to find a job for HIS graduate student and the offer was withdrawn, on a technicality. In the end, X commited suicide.

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The setting as for a Kafka trial, surrealistic and forbidding. A cavernous gymnasium, its flooring sheathed in plastic, basketball nets lifted on high by gantries. In pour several hundred young men and women, many feigning exuberance, some pale and withdrawn. They fan out as sappers cross a minefield, obeying with precision a sign tellremarkable ing candidates in English to face the front of the hall, candidates in Psychology the rear. It’s examination time again. On tables “placed at least five. feet apart.” (Regulations for the province of Ontario, section 7, subsection 37) the young people deposit their personal effects-a watch, a packet of Kleenex, an array of T-Ball Jotters, a roll of Wild Cherry Lifesavers and other talismans in time of trouble. Complying with No. 5 of the “Rules for the Conduct of Examinations, University of Toronto,” the ladies “dispose of their purses by placing them on the floor underneath their chairs.” The chief presiding officer, in whom there lurks a regimental sergeant-major struggling to escape, shouts for silence, which at first he does not get. “If I had a microphone,” he bawls, “I’d blast you all from the room.” The candidates are quiet now. The papers are distributed. English 100 is an essay-tyl>e examination. It requires discussions of how the storm scenes in King Lear show the development of its protagonist, of the character of Ishmael, of the teaser “If man was created perfect, how could he fall?” Psychology 120, striving after scientific respectability, is an objective-type examination. “TAKE TIME NOW, ONE MORE TIME,” it enjoins the candidate in capitals. “TO CAREFULLY RE-READ AND CARRY OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW,” of which there follow 10. No. 4 says : “At all times when using your special pencil be sure to press firmly and to make all marks distinct, heavy and black. Marks that do not register could well result in lowered exam scores. There is small chance of this being detected.” Having familiarized himself with .forms, cards, codes, special pencils and the rest of the apparatus of higher education, as the pilot of a 707 checks out its controls before taking to the air, the candidate confronts the first of his multiple choices. He may or may not be unsettled by preliminary instruction No. 5: “You are to choose the ONE BEST answer to each question, even if other alternatives may have some truth in them.” For the next couple of hours there is little for an assistant presiding officer to do, apart from thinking impure thoughts as he strolls among the miniskirts. He is present to ensure, as commanded by his orders for the day, that “candidates shall not communicate with one another by writing, signs or words or in any manner whatever” (Rule 10). In 20 years on this hateful patrol I have never spotted candidates communicating in any manner whatever, and would quickly turn away from such a scene. Halfway through someone raises his hand and asks to be escorted to the men’s washroom. I tell him he is old enough to go by himself, thereby contravening Rule 7: “No candidate shall be permitted to leave the hall except under supervision.” Scratch a professor, as Jerry Rubin says, and you’ll find a cop. That is the most mordant remark heard in Convocation Hall this year. To be required to take part. in such a travesty of intellect is to be filled with a loathing for examinations so intense that James Eayrs is a professor of international relations at University of Toronto. This article first ap’peared in the Toronto Star may 29, 1969.

one forgets that in their time they were a great reform. Essentially they serve society as a device for divvying up its spoils-jobs, prizes, preferment, power. Divvying up has to be done one way or another, and other ways of doing it are few and far from fine. The most democratic is to run a lottery. When your number comes up, you’re the boss-of the bank, of the gang, of the land. The least democratic is to run an aristocracy. When you’re born into the right family, you’ve got it made. The trouble with lottery democracy, as with blueblood aristocracy and the varieties of cronyism in between, is that its top people tend to be incompetent. So, for the sake of efficiency if not of justice, you run a meritocracy. The spoils go to the ablest, as picked-how else?-by competitive examination. Empires offer most incentives for efficiency: they have more to lose. Hence the route to power via examination was opened first in China, 20 centuries ago. The quality of the Imperial Civil Service being thought to reside in the rigor and impartiality of tier upon tier of tests, as the power of the Empire was believed to derive from the quality of Service, social criticism in China revolved around the ritual of the examination chamber. Wang An-shih writes in 1058 about the tricks played by candidates: “Unworthy ones, by virtue of having learned petty devices of composition, advance to positions of high officials.” The traditional system buckled under the weight of a millenium of accumulated criticism, but only when Red Guards rampaged through the academies 60 years later did Chinese meritocracy collapse.

Blueblood aristocracy Britain also had an empire but, until the 19th century, no mandarinate to make it run on merit. Instead a blueblood aristocracy glided through her colleges, torpid with port and corruption. In 1776, when 13 of her colonies declared their independence, the Earl of Eldon came down from Oxford. “ ‘What is the Hebrew,’ ” he was asked, “ ‘ for the place of a skull?” I replied: ‘Golgotha.’ ‘Who founded University College ?’ I stated (though, by the way, the point is something doubted) that King Alfred founded it. ‘Very good,’ said the examiner, ‘you are competent for your degree.’ ” But not for runnihg empires. Jefferson, who saw nepotism as a cause of the revolution, determined it should not persist within the new republic. He proposed to recruit its ruling class through examinations by which “twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually. ” In the event, the British got the merit system; America got Tammany. The Victorians used examinations as a lash for learning, as they used the whip of hunger for production. “Without examination all efforts are useless,” a board of commissioners at Oxford was told in 1852, “and no scheme of instruction has any perceptible effect.” This proposition, then regarded as an axiom, has been under attack ever since. Every educator can tick off points in the case against competitive examinations, many believing it conclusive. First, their notorious unreliability. Second, their obvious unfairness. The facile, the neat, the compliant, the unflappable are advantaged at the expense of candidates whose thoughts, not necessarily less worthy, tend to come more slowly, whose handwriting is sloppy, whose heart and mind rebel, whose nervous systems tend to let them down rather than pep them up. Third, their suffocation of inquiry. All these are criticisms of, for and by examiners. They may want to change

the system but they do not want to end it, no more than policemen want an end to prison. Abolition would deprive them of their power. “When the results are placed on the notice board,” writes a young British redbrick radical, “there is no doubt where the real power lies. Examinations are the control centre for the manipulation of the lives of the students.” That being ‘so, why did not students seize the control centre? Peasants rise against oppressive taxes, religious minorities against persecution, women against being denied the vote. But examinees did not denounce their examiners, for fear of being failed. That fear no longer frightens as it used to. The prizes seem less alluring now. There is a movement offering an alternative life-style to cushion the shock of alienation. University rhetoric and university reality draw daily more apart. A year ago the defiant ones surfaced at last. The student council at the Uniyersity of British Columbia questioned “the educational value of competition for marks, written examinations as a basis for grades, and ultimately the utility of any grading system.” A student at the University of Toronto ripped up his diploma before the startled gaze of convocation-a deed more dramatic than selfdestructive as his degree remained intact even if his diploma did not. But at the same time a student at, the University

of Hull ripped up his examination. It was like Luther at the doors of Wittenberg, Lenin at the Finland Station. The examinees’ reiolt was under way.

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And how shall we examiners react those of us who brand the cattle on thei; way to market? The choice is not multip1.e but two-fold. Jacques Barzun has stated one : “We must stop blathering about sensitivity to the needs of others, and say instead : ‘I want a pupil who can read Burke’s Speech on Conciliation and solve problems in trigonometry. I want young men and women who can read French prose and write English.’ And having said these or similar things we must pass judgment on performance and let accomplishment be known, quite as if it had the importance of a record in a track meet.” David‘ Hoffman states the other:

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m y students -Adams, Bixler, Brown, The total roll. . . so many Pretty girls, the lads All promising! I’ve given them ~For grades the letter Yogh (My favorite letter). Wonderful kids-All Yoghs.

Good man Hoffman.

Yogh plus.

\ Acrmw-on member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS); subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (GINS); published tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the federation of students (inc.), university of Waterloo: content is the responsibility of the Chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration; offices in the people’s campus center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748; circulation 12,500 This

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