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Overt hippie nationalism f-an rampent o&r the weekend at Rockhill Park near Omngeville when 20,000 people crowded on to the lake-side site.

Rene Levesque,, leader of the parti quebecois in Quebec spoke to about fifty students in Donovan Smucker’s systems design OO2arts 121 class with the aid of an amplified telephone technique.

Levesque spoke from his office in Montreal and students asked various questions.

One student asked Levesque what the economic ramifications of Quebec separating from Canada would be. “What about the St. Lawrence seaway and the railroads? ” Levesque answered, “Sometimes we overdramatize ourselves.

I remember in Europe during the worst of the cold war years. You probably know that the Danube originates somewhere in southern Germany, crosses five or six countries and empties into the Black sea.

“That was an international river that went from capitalist, socalled, western Europe to communist eastern Europe.

Even during- the worst days of the cold war, I don’t think they stopped it from flowing.

They had arrangements, of some kind, so that they could keep on using it as a common route by the countries next to it.

“Now why do we over-dramatize ourselves so much.

Take the seaway. Now it is a joint enterprise between Canada and the United States. When Quebec becomes an independent entity, it will be a joint enterprise with a board of three, instead of a board of two. But it will keep on flowing and Quebec will get its normal share of the dues, and tackle its normal share of the maintenance.

As far as being economically

feasible, it is not beyond the possibility of common sense except when you start having tragic Shakespearean over tones a bout something that can be done.

“As far as the economic feasability of Quebec is concerned, why are you worried? You’ve been supporting us for so long, you’ve stopped supporting us. Will you stop being paternalistic?

We’ll support ourselves.

Aren’t you happy about .that? Don’t feel for us.

“We get back our tax money, we get back our share of customs money for things that come into Quebec.

“We’ll also have our own financial circuit. Our banks will be incorporated in Quebec as will the trust companies, and the insurance companies.

If they want to keep on dealing in Quebec, they will follow Quebec legislation, which is the normal thing any decent self government does.

“A few hundred million dollars a year are apt to flow from Quebec to Ontario head office control, especially in the field of small

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savings. Things like that can be arranged so that Quebec becomes five times more feasible, than the way it is now considering the way its energy resources are going to the two-headed monster we have now.”

Another student asked the question “Would your party on assuming power, secede from Canada immediately or would it try to bargain first?”

“We have said that we are willing to negotiate a common market.

We have a common market now but it’s loaded against Quebec and the maritimes.

We would be ready to negotiate a customs arrangement which would give us a common market which would be fair, between partners which respect each other not between one province and the rest that manipulate it.

“That is mostly important for Ontario and for the maritimes for obvious reasons. Right now Ontario has a market in Quebec for its production.

Ontario sells to Quebec two and a half dollars for every

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Tuesday night a group of people, composed of housewives, students, labor leaders and other concerned citizens met to discuss the proposed development of downtown Kitchener

by Oxlea investments and Eaton’s.

The group concluded that the project would not be in the best interests of the people of Kitchener. It was criticized for its lack of citizen participation and

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the lack of information available about it even after it was approved by city council.

The people felt there was a strong need for an analysis of where urban renewal was to start in the downtown area and what the Oxlea development would cost the taxpayers of Kitchener.

The group intends citizens of Kitchener

dollar that Quebec sells on the Ontario market.

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I think that this arrangement is very important for Ontario jobs.”

“What happens in the year 2050 or the year 1999, I don’t know. The trend of the world is towards more economic rapprochement or unity.

If we are not stupid, we should at least keep ourselves from drifting apart and hurting each other economically.

I think this applies especially to Ontario when the day comes.

“On the other hand there is no trend of any kind that looks convincing about people that want self government joining new structures that will again make them subservient to some other majority.

The two can be very well arranged.

“The world is full of examplesthe Scandinavian countries, the european common market-of having countries co-operating more intimately in things economic, but not becoming bits and pieces of political structures that want them to homogenize in a way they don’t like.”

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persons concerned will have a chance at developing ideas not only for the project itself but for a better downtown.

A public meeting will be held in the Kitchener public library at 8: 30 pm on Wednesday 14 july.

The meeting will discuss the possibility of a brief to the Ontario Municipal Board and a petition opposing the particular urban renewal scheme.

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9:30 News One Hour 5:15 Blues With Frank Prestdn lo:30 Madness Till Midnight ‘6:00 Community and University 12:00 Rqck Till Two News I - 6:15 Blues . ’ Monday july 12 7:00 Richard’s Music Place-Jazz 5:00 pm. Tim Wight’s Country and 9:00 Community and University Community NPWC Community and University 6.00 9: 15, On The Go in Galt Preston and News Hespler Tim Wight 6:15 9: 30 Federation Reports-Rick Liquid Plastic 7:00 Page 9:oo gismunity and University 10:00 British Blues 1l:OO Community and University 9:15 Classical Music Break News 9:30 Tempo Theatre-West of the 11: 15 British Blues Sunset 12:00 J.W.‘s My Name and Soul is My 10:30 Blues with J.J. Pie Game University and Community ll:oo News 11:15 Blues with J.J. Pie Thursday july 15 5:00 pm Mixed Music Tuesday july 13 6:00 Community and University YNews 5:00 pm. Light Folk and Jazz 6:00 Community and University 6:15 Mixed Mu,sic News .

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Community and University News -9: 15 Society Reports 930 People’s lViusic..with Tundra 10:00 Rock till Two 1l:OO Community and University .News _ ll:15 Rock Till Two This series will feature the impressions of chevron reporters who are travelling throughout Europe and other countries around the world. >The. first of the series is from Renato Ciolfi writing from Rome, Italy.

On my right St. Peter’s Church, on my left the Colusseum; the .glory of the spirit, of your soul facing the solemn majesty of secular power, of human greatness, the empire of man side by side with that of God. They stood equal and free, yet you could feel that facing you was the paradox of its greed, its comhumanity, passion, its thirst for power., its search for human equality.

From high in the sky, you could only see beauty and art, the complex problems of Italy, of Rome, of niodern society did not exist, you didn’t want Lthem to - exist! .

As the plane slowly circles the eternal city, you shut out your mind to the problems of the world.

The Tibef seemed ready to talk to you about great people, .about great deeds, about Cicero and Caesar and Ovidius, . about Romulus, but from its old shores came also crys of great shame, it wanted you to feel the disgrace it felt with the insanities of Nero, with the murderous. hands . of I Brutus, the brutalities of pagan Rome again&f. the soul. of Christianity.

These thoughts enter freely in your mind, it is hard to be realistic in your observations when you are facing Rome, especially on a beautiful summer morning.

History and Art, Religion and Culture ,intermingle your thoughts freely, never being sure of when‘ poetic observations take over from calfi rational explanations ‘of the sights and events ,before you. Can anyone talk of Rome without expressing the emotional appeals of the city? Isn’t this mystical aspect of Rome part of its reality? Could tiny reporter truly describe a

crime, a man or a city without dealing with its emotional asp&s?

Saturday july 10 5: 00 pm. Light Jazz Emotions and poetry are funCommunity and University damental part’s of humanity and in 6:‘OO News Robe they are even more so part 6:15 Light Jazz of its everyday life.’

7 :00 ‘Classical Music _ In the few minutes remaining, Bartok Paino Concertos No. 1 and 2 before the plane lands, you try Comqunity and University even harder to discover from the 9:00 , Nevis monuments below their inner 9: 30 Music Notes...Steve Hickhock souls, the messages that they send from the HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS up to you, to your wandering mind. l&O0 BARFISH with Jerry Wooton You go back in time and through 1l:OO Community and University your mind came in many flashes News the scenes of the history of Im11: 15 Barfish perial Rome, the history of the civilized world. From the wooden Sunday july 11 * plow that created Rome’ to the 5:00 pm. Helmut’s Folk and Jazz ‘6:00 Community and University barbarian scenes of the-rape of the New’s city by soldiers of venture.

6:15 Folk and Jazz The proudness of the city stares God;Knows What up to you, it defies you, it , 7:00 7:15 Folk Music challenges you. The roiplans, the popes, the Italians have all known glory and defeat, Rome only glory, only the majesty of supreme ruler, Rome is still the apex to which art,. glory, history and culture aye measured. From the plane you can now see the’deep blue waters of the “mare nostrum”.

The Romans soi called the Thyrrenium sea. It was not in conceit but through a’ firm PERSONAL t Do you have a bronze medallion or red statement of the reality of their cross insttiuctor’s award (recertified ‘time. Now you can see large spots of oils and chemicals in the sea, within the last 24 months)? Would you they bring you-. back violently to like to earn $1.75 pe.r hour? If iriin reality, yet you cannot help but _ terested see Mgry,’ receptionist physical education office.. wonder how clean those waterS must have been when roman triMature female companionship wan,ted dents ruled the waves. for an Indian, doing PhD civil As I stepped down&om the plane engineering (u of w) Age group 25-30 ready to pick up my own luggage, I preferred. Phone 579-3562 evenings not,iced the group of men that had or write Mr. K.R.P. lyer, 72 Longwood just gone on strike, sitting on their drive, ,Waterloo.

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The time for dreams has passed, now one must face reality.

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After the vice-presidential search committee decided that Al Evans wasn’t the man they were looking for, they also decided that the position of vice-president personnel services wasn’t required.

Evans, a university counsellor affiliated with St. Paul’s college was the leading contender for the position until the committee action eliminated it.

In a memo to federation president Rick Page, administration president Burt

Mathews stated that the position of vice president personnel services would not be filled by Evans, but that Mathews was looking for somebody to deal with “student affairs”.

In early june Page sent a letter to Mathews supporting Evans for of vice president the position personnel services.

The letter stated, “After having met with Mr. Evans at length and discussed a students’ 0 full range of university needs, we are convinced that he possesses the ‘ability and concern required for the position.”

Phil English, grad rep on the committee and the faculty reps supported the selection of Evans to the post.

Resignations still mystery The recent terminations of two members from their position in the Canadian mental health association in water100 county still remain much of a mystery to the general public.

Executive director Rolly Hersen was released from his post last .- march when the board of directors accepted his resignation.

Sources say that the board, which had been relatively weak up to about six months ago, was threatened with his resignation whenever he wanted his own way. But from then on the board got stronger as various members became more and more active by undertaking sand becoming involved in more

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projects. It wasn’t long before the board finally grew tired of bickering and accepted Hersen’s resignation .

The even more recent firing of Judy Frew from her post as director of volunteer services followed along the same line - a breakdown in basic human relations.

In the words of one source, “These people turned a lot of people off in the community by the way they worked. The manner in which they operated alienated people and wasn’t constructive.”

So far there has been little inand no official formation statements.

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Ex--mayor sues Ontarion student The Omarion, newspaper .at the university of Guelph, its editor and news editor have been served with notices under the libel and slander act.

Suit is being brought by David Hastings, a Guelph lawyer and exmayor of the city.

Hastings alleges a story which appeared in the Ontarion in april, and which charged him with illegal acts, was false and libelous.

The Ontarion charges, made in conjunction with local Guelph businessman Roy Pfaff, concern the sale of land and payment of

In an effort to test student questionnaire truthfully.

One feelings on the federation of engineer pointed out that the students and its operations the question which asked, “Are you federation study committee gave a sufficiently informed as to what questionnaire to the engineering the federation does for YOU?” students on campus. automatically invalidated most of The questionnaire, initiated by the questionnaire if you answered eng sot B, concerned itself with the no. student activity fee and the Some engineers were reluctant chevron as well as the federation. to hand it in. Others said the Although the results of the wording couldn’t help but condemn questionnaire have not yet been the federation. tabulated, several engineer undergrads have expressed displeasure with its nature. Of 25 engineers interviewed ten had not seen the questionnaire.

The remaining fifteen all basically said the same thing. There was not by young people.

Professor Ken Westhues of the fascinated enough information to answer the sociology Westhues, however, feels the department at the counter culture evolving among university of Guelph stated last or week that it is a desire for freedom youth is phenomenological, revolves around a mystical exfrom the dominant society that leads to “deviant” behaviour perience.

He said generally counter among youth. Westhues, speaking It’s Mariposa time of the year at hippiedom 1971: where it’s at, cultures are characterized by and if you don’t like the line-ups for said that other approaches communism, deviation to the economic Summer Weekend give it a try. new youth culture have emfrom the nuclear family and The advance tickets are 10 dollars marriage, elitism, phasized the effects of drug use on monogamous for the weekend{. Mariposa is a all aspects of youth behaviour and charismatic leaders who embody non-profit festival, one of the few others the phenomenology of the have merely been anywhere which specializes in folk movement, and apolitical music. philosophy.

Westhues traced the developThis year the emphasis will be ment of the present youth culture placed on work shops, getting from an antinomian stage, where away from the hassles of a large liberation from dominant socital concert. perspectives occurs. This was seen Some of the people appearing in the late 1960's in the strong are Jack Elliot, Bruce Cockburn, movement to wards expressing The off campus housing office Seals and Crofts, Mike Seegar, self individuality.

David Bromberg and about 300 began Saturday hours of operation last week :i:d will carry through to Now, however, the movement is more including native Canadian 4. The hours will be becoming more structured.

Inpeoples culture in the guise of September stead of doing your own thing, the Indian and Eskimo displays and lo:30 am to 3 pm.

The office will be closed during members of the counter culture music. the long weekend for the civic are trying to adjust to getting The site again this year is holiday in august. Lists will still be along together as in organized Toronto island. The activities go available at those times from the communes or intentional comfrom lo:30 to sunset. information kiosks and in the munities. This change of having to Bring a lunch and a friend to. campus center front desk.* accomodate the needs of the community is a painful one for Mariposa.

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commission to a sales agent.

Hastings was said to have committed acts which include “altering a legal document after it had been notarized and forging the initials of the potential purchaser to the change.”

Hastings is also accused of arranging the sale of property which he knew was not owned by the vendor of the property.

The paper’s story went on to point out that such an offence carries a prison term of up to two years under the criminal code.

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The result of today’s youth culture will be islands within the dominant society.

Because they are apolitical, they will not be interested in changing the entire society.

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the Ontarion editorial board said they printed the charges as legitimate news “which they indeed are, since Pfaff’s allegations have rocked legal circles in the city of Guelph and documents which we inspected have convinced us that the charges are more substantial than charges of an irresponsible and scurrilous nature.”

The Ontarion followed up its original story with supportive evidence in its may 20th paper and finally reproduced “before-andafter” photostats of the allegedly tampered-with documents july 1st.

The documents were obtained from both county registry files and from the records of Guelph’s Pacific Finance Acceptance company.

The notice of suit is the first step in a libel charge. If the newspaper so served does not print a suitable retraction a libel action .may proceed.

The Ontarion editorial board has decided they will not retract their statements.

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3~~entlsts get from Congress WASHINGYON (LNS) - A bill to spend 450 million dollars over the next three years for retraining scientists who have lost their jobs in the defense industry will not do the job, according to a group of 20 Boston-area scientists who recently spent a few days talking to Congressmen here.

There are some 50,000 to 65,000 scientists and engineers left unemployed as a result of the defense and space cutbacks.

“People with bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees are accepting jobs as janitors or cab drivers; ” said Dr. Arthur S.

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Obermayer, a spokesman for the Boston group, most of whom used to work for the defense-oriented companies along Boston’s Route 128. The influx of these companies . in the late 50's and early 60's was a major factor in the area’s now faltering economic boom.

The group believes that even if the amount for retraining were increased, the civilian sector of the economy does not presently generate any where near the amount of jobs sufficient to absorb the thousands of unemployed scientific workers across the country.

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While many university readers read of the Kitchener city council decision to sell land to the T. Eaton company of Toronto in the issue of june 25, over eight thousand downtown Kitchener and Waterloo shoppers were reading the same paper - and hearing of the news for the first time.

The downtown edition of that chevron was the same as the campus edition with one exception.

While the campus paper contained the federation of students’ obscene advertisement for summer weekend on the back page, the community edition contained two further articles as well as pleas for residents to attend the council ratification meeting held one week ago. These are the articles which are reprinted below.

The first, titled in the community edition “Protest to Eaton deal starts monday” suggests allowing the sale of land on one important contingency - turning over of the present Eaton building for community use.

The second, called “Record has sat on facts before” points out just one of several welldocumented proofs that the Kitchener-Waterloo Record has deliberately withheld or distorted news to the benefit of huge corporations and to the detriment of the people of . this area.

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HE POLITICIANS OF Kitchener are switching roles. Instead of going to Santa Claus at that well-known department store, they are giving poor Eaton’s an early Christmas present - all the lands presently occupied by the city hall, city hall sqare and the farmers market.

Starting at the ratification meeting, (held at 9 am last monday at the Kitchener city council offices 1 protest reaction begins.

After all, fighting city hall is one of the oldest and most respected games in Canada.

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Working people Most of the people-factory workers, wage-earners and their families just don’t give a damn. But then again, what difference will it make to working people if at the corner of Frederick and King streets there is a city hall or an Eaton’s?

One of them raises his taxes and the other raises its prices. Either way, the worker pays more.

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Fighting city hall hasn’t been the game of the working people and just one visit to a city council meeting can tell you why.

Most of our municipal government’s time is spent in dealing with land. The only big winners at these affairs are lawyers, businessmen, shopkeepers and land speculators.

And because the people who slug eighthour shifts in plants, and their wives (stuck at. home) know this, a new swindle by our city fathers is not going to surprise the

Protest groups Who will be there to complain?

Well, likely some of the small businessmen in the area who are scheduled for ‘urban renewing’.

Small fish however must get used to being eaten by the bigger sharks like Eaton’s. That’s what free enterprise is all about.

The ecologists and conservationists will probably be there. The ecologists will cry angrily over the loss of oxygen-producing green grass. At the city hall square it used to be nice to sit on the park benches and watch the flowers bloom as gas from the diesel powered busses rolled over you.

The folks will be kindly, but firmly told that the city has provided lots of green area Iaearby in the new Mackenzie King square.

The conservationists will be told by the honorable municipal servants that they love old buildings, too (well maybe not as much as new money), but all of us have to be modern and realistic.

So once again in the name of progress and the “good of everyone” (that is, everyone as big and powerful as Eaton’s) Kitchener will push on to its bright new frontiers.

Perhaps the most pathetic group will be !he small farmers.

Mostly Mennonites, these people have been coming to the market at 5.30 am every Saturday (and Wednesdays in the summer) to sell their produce.

Farmers are getting hit pretty bad.

The family farm is a dying ins&ion.

Of course actions like sucking all the water out of Wilmot county by the Kitchener council hasn’t helped any farmers in recent months.

Colors and bustle Trying to compete against large-volume selling supermarkets leave these small guys at a decided disadvantage.

In the past, one of the few equalizers has been the smells, colors and bustle of the farmers’ market behind city hall.Now this too, will be taken from them by just about the biggest superdealer of them all - Eaton’s. We can expect great sympathy from the Kitchener council.

After all, haven’t we been told that these civil servants are the champions of the little guy’?

Therefore, with true generosity the city politicians will donate some small back alley to the farmers so they can carry on their trade. Of course, these new quarters will be temporary.

These protest groups, vocal as they are, represent only a small fraction of the community’s population.

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ERHAPS THE MOST disturbing aspect of the secrecy surrounding the ‘sale of so large a frontage on King street has been the connivance of local media in keeping the news from the public.

At a time when all local media are praising american papers, such as the New York Times, for risking imprisonment in their struggles to preserve freedom of the press, the editors, reporters and newscasters here have deliberately suppressed news of great local importance to Kitchener residents. In Kitchener, it seems the newspaper slogan “all the news that’s fit to print”, has,been reduced to “all the news that’s profitable and convenient to print”.

This is not the first time that local media has co-operated with businessmen to suppress news of business activities’ to the injury of the public. The building of the huge B.F. Goodrich plant in Kitchener’s industrial basin provides a good example of whose interest is protected by suppression of ---the --news_:

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In 1960 when B.F. Goodrich found itself cramped in an obsolete plant at King and Victoria streets in Kitchener, the head office in Akron, Ohio decided to build new facilities in Kitchener.

Dr. R.V. Yohe, then head of Canadian operations, decided, in his own words, to “pull shenanigans” in order to get the best possible deal for a new plant site in the city of Kitchener.

His strategy was to take an option on land near Elmira and start “rumors flying” about a huge expansion, as a means of forcing Kitchener mayor Joe Meinzinger and city council to come up with “terms satisfactory to BFG”.

In order to keep things quiet while negotiations went on, Dr. Yohe and BFG public relations manager Trevor Jones met with C.B. Schmidt, now editor-in-chief of the Record, in order to get his co-operation in insuring that news or rumors injurious to BFG’s interesti would not be published. As Yohe said, “The Record co-operated 100 percent and my admiration went up considerably for the Record, Mr. Schmidt and the fourth estate.

On august 29th or 30ti1, 1960, the Record

revealed,in a front page story, just what conditions BFG had won from the city by its and the Record’s “shenanigans”.

Goodrich Plans Huge Tire Factory Kitchener Outbids 3 Cities for $7,OOO,OOO Plant” read the banner headline. The story went on to explain that the deal was contingent upon a number of conditions including the sale of 100 acres for $100,000.

(Three weeks previous the city paid $142,000 for a like amount of land in the same area), grading the land, extension of roads, sewers, water, and other services. The cost of roads alone, to the site cost over $192,000.

...cost $250,000 By his “shenanigans” and the Record’s co-operation, Dr. Yohe had cost Kitchener taxpayers a‘cool$250,000 Considering that in 1969 BFG’s assets were $1,256,222,000 and its profits $37,801,000 (it ranks 90th among US multi-national corporations with 39 major subsidiaries throughout the world), the Record’s placing its concern for BFG’s financial welfare ahead of that of the Kitchener taxpayers seems somewhat questionable - unless one remembers that the Record is part (47.5 percent owned) of the Southham publishing chain, and that John Motz, the publisher, is a director of such major corporations as Equitable Life and Canada Trust.

Lest an attempt be made to justify these “shenanigans” on the grounds that the new plant and four other expansions since were designed to provide jobs, it should be pointed out that in the old plant on King street, 1500 workers were employed in 1960, while only 600 were at work at the new plant last fall when Henry Koch, Record business editor wrote a long story praising BFG’s “progress”, Nowhere has the Record pointed out, that the new plant was designed to eliminate over half the work force in the tire-building in Kitchener - and that the taxpayer helped pay for the loss of jobs.

Who was, and is; being served by suppression of news by the media. As senator Keith Davey pointed out in his report on Mass Media, media serves those who pay for its services - not the readers. The BFG and Oxlea-Eaton stories merely confirm that fact. Kitchener-Waterloo desperately needs an independant press.

community at all.

But now may be the time to switch tables on our municipal leaders. This blatant giveaway to Eaton’s can be an opportunity for the people of this community to get something for themselves for a change.

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. . What is needed is a well-coordinated campaign involving as many major groups in the community as possible.

In addition to the cash settlement, then, these groups should demand Eaton’s hand over their old department store at King and Water streets.

In turn, the trustworthy guardians of the people’s wealth at city hall should turn the old store to a management committee made up of the various community groups who would use the building.

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This area desperately needs a downtown commutlity center. If enough pressure is organized then the Kitchener politicians could be made to agree that this new center of profit-making should be balanced off by a new center for community use. The needs that could be fulfilled in this building are so numerous that only the space available and the enthusiasm of the people would be the limiting factors.

With skyrocketing rents and uncooperative landlords, a KitchenerWaterloo tenants‘ rights group could really use a centrally-located place like the present Eaton building.

With economic conditions the way they and now, labor could use much of the space to help people with- problems in unemployment, welfare and workman’s compensation.

For a long time various individuals have talked about setting up consumer-assistance programs such as food co-ops, unfair advertising and marketing task forces, free stores for people to exchange appliances and things no longer being used. It is about time these various people got together. A big place like the old Eaton’s store would help.

For too long, our old people have been put away in old-age babysitting homes.

Room could .be provided for these people in this new community center for creative activities : film-making, pottery and dancing .

Mixing with the older citizens would be the young. But rather than boring drop-in centers, we could offer music and film laboratories and electronic workshops.

Meeting areas could be set aside for groups to get together. Housewives locked into their kitchens could get out to talk to each other about how to make thir lives richer.

Of course, most of the first floor should be left open for people to just walk-in, sit down and talk to one-another.

Kitchener could set the trend for other cities in ending _ the disease of unsmiling pedestrians by providing a relaxing downtown spot for people to know each other.

The possibilities are endless.

But to make anything work, people in various community groups must get together.

This monstrous blunder by the Kitchener city council could be the opportunity people have been waiting for.

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Now all the people know. Now we know that ’ the Kitchener city aldermen are looking out only for the best interests of the big developers.

Now we know that the Kitchener-Waterloo Record was part of the conspiracy of silence arid that it did go on the defensive to protect its big advertising contract - Eaton’s.

Twenty-one people, including students, businessmen and citizens addressed a special five-hour council meeting on monday june 28 before approval to sell the city lands was given on a 9-1 vote, amid jeers from an angry audience of about 175.

On friday june 25, the day the chevron broke’the story on the proposed sale and the days that followed, the KitchenerWaterloo Record ran stories assuring the people of Kitchener that there had been public discussion on the proposal, that in previous plans city hall was to be torn down and that there was no secrecy in the plans.

The Record attempted to prove to the people of Kitchener that the stormy protest was mainly from outside the city in a story it ran entitled ‘38 per cent of Speakers Waterloo Residents’.

The protest came from various sources including students, businessmen and citizens.

Several people tried to convince the mayor and aldermen that more public debate should be had before a decision was taken. They only succeeeded in getting the support of alderman Morley Rosenberg who unsuccessfully tried to get council to

Architects attack Eaton- Center TORONTO (GINS)-An association of Toronto architects says the 200 million dollar Eaton Center is oriented to commercialism rather than people, and it urges city council to use recommendations of the city’s planning staff as guidelines in dealing with the development.

The architects say that planning guidelines should be the only terms of reference for developers, as opposed to the multi-department approach that now is taken at city hall.

“We strongly urge that city council use the planning board’s recommendations as guidelines in negotiating with Fairview Corp. Ltd.,” the brief says. “The Eaton Center...is a result of terms of reference which will allow only a small measure of public consideration and is orierlted to primarily favor commercial ir ,erests.”

“The city must encourage the developer, through clearly defined terms of reference, .tax and other incentives, to provide a. plan which will incorporate within it and recognize through its design the total needs of the city and its people,” the brief says.

The architects say that the development must relate directly to the old and new city halls and the western part - the third phase - cannot be left as a five acre parking lot for about eight years as Fairview has proposed doing.

In may, the city planning staff recommended that the city retain control of public viralkways in the development, integrate the Dundas and Queen subway stations with commercial development, make Yonge street more pedestrian oriented and limit auto access to the development.

The planning board accepted the staff recommendations as a “guideline” rather than a basis of negotiation between the city and the developer.

When the matter was before planning board, Neil Wood, executive vice-president of Fairview said the 200 million dollar scheme could be jeopardized if the city stuck to the planning staff recommendations.

Mr. Wood said that the function of the city and the planning board was not to on the impose “subjective opinions” developer.

put off until july 26 a decision on the development .

When Jack Young, chairman of the urban renewal committee explained that “confidence . . . not secrecy” were the reasons behind the silence of the press, the people in the gallery laughed. It was absolutely essential that some of the discussions be held in private, he said.

“The news rriedia were kept informed and they are as good a conscience of the community as anyone I know,” he concluded. Outbursts of laughter filled the council chambers.

Betsy Crapo, university of Waterloo student, criticized the council’s handling of the development for its lack of democratic procedure.

She was appalled at the secrecy which surrounded the development.. She said that she had telephoned four aldermen asking them how tax money

SUMMER OF ‘42

by Brian the

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would be generated by the 15 million dollar development.

She received four different replys. “One told me he had no idea.”

“Council is planning on passing this without knowing what it is getting. How are we supposed to know you are in any sense responsible.”

Robert Garthson, a Waterloo teacher charged there had been “a conspiracy of silence” by local radio and TV stations and the K-W Record.

Aldermen Rosenberg agreed with Garthson’s charges and claimed the only reason news of the development was broken three days before it should have was ahat the chevron “blew the lid off this big con job”.

If this had not happened, the monday morning council meeting would have been nothing more than “a press conference”.

The people wouldn’t have known the

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Summer of ‘42 at the Waterloo Theatre is an engaging movie. Filmed in the same manner as his earlier film, To Kill a director Mulligan has Mocking Bird, produced another winner.

The movie develops with delicate measured steps like time lapse shots of a budding flower. In the midst of the second world war, the film captures fleeting moments in the life of three boys and a woman, vacationing on an island.

Beautiful Jennifer O’Neil bewitches the screen with her performance of the tragic young war widow who seduces the young hero. Equally strong performances are turned in by the three teenagers led by Hermie played by Gary Grimes.

The quiet, contemplative nature of the film totally captures the audience.

The stumbling ungainful blunders of the youthful aspiring Don Quixotes, affords the comic relief that keeps the film from lapsing into over sentimentality.

Yet reflecting on Summer of ‘42 afterwards, can leave a viewer dissatisfied with the way the concepts in the film were handled.

The story is a rather simple one. It is part of the genre of films known as ‘loss of innocence’ movies. Teenagers caught in the ignorance of a culture based on repressed sexuality blunder their way through the trauma of loosing their virginity.

A number of films have been produced which develop this theme.

‘Splendor in the Grass’, which is a rarity in the chauvinism of our culture, featured a girl played by Natalie Wood who suffers through her deflowering.

But it was in a Czech film, Closely Watched Trains, that the loss of innocence theme was treated best. The story of this film closely parallels the Hollywood production of Summer of 42. Even the second world war settings are the same.

However the differences of the two films are telling.

Hermie, who is like you and me, falls in love with a married woman. Love, for Hermie, is idealized. It must be pure and not debased by the ugly physical urges of fucking . Hermie’s younger friend Ben jie cannot even cope with the crisis and withdraws from his friends in stricken terror.

Eventually Hermie’s platonic sentiments are washed away by the manoeuvres of an older woman. Wow, if only all of us could have been delivered from the burden of culturally enforced virginity in the same way. Oedipal neurosis is a shared illness of the young male.

The second world war setting of the film is not all that foreign to us either. Today we are confined by the tragedy of the genocidal war in Vietnam. All of our activities are touched by it. But in the film, I the war is almost totally external to the

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personal lives of the characters.

When the war does intrude it is sudden and detached.

Personal love in a time of military insanity is a theme that if developed could have greatly enriched the film, as it did in Closely Watched Trains.

We are still waiting for a loss of innocence film that goes beyond sensitivity.

Honest and truthful realism may one day pierce Hollywood film makers’ sentimentalism and sensationalism.

After all, the Beatles are dead.

meenng was oeing nela until they reau uf council’s decision in monday night’s newspaper, he said.

During the week of june 21 to 26, Rosenberg, as acting mayor, attempted to make an announcement through the local media regarding the speciai monda y

We regret to report the death last weekend of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record as a newspaper.

The demise took place during the rape of the city hall and farmer’s market sale from the public the Record serves.

The former newspaper is now serving as a public relations agency for the city of Kitchener and various private developers. morning.

He said the Record and the two local radio stations refused to use his statement, “And I suggest that is conspiracy.” * “The only reason it came to the public attention is because I also gave it to the chevron.”

Some of the beautiful comic lines delivered with unerring timing and style were things like alderman Merv Villemaire suggesting that to retain the old time flavor the city hall clock tower could be put on top of the new Eaton’s building.

For the appeasement of weekend skydivers, no doubt.

Aldermen Russ Honsberger commended the media on their excellent coverage.

That seems odd since the media people present at the caucus meeting the previous monday were asked not to divulge any information.

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As on a summer day long ago when Alice ventured down a rabbit hole and embarked upon a journey into a ?vorld of nonsense, the producer of Romain Weingarten’s play Summer Days at the Courthouse theater in Niagara-on-the-lake has attempted to carry an experienced audience on an equally nonsensical trip. The play will be appreciated by those who derive more than fanciful pleasure in Lewis Carroll’s tale.

Summer Days, a virtually unknown european play, depicts seven characters of whom only four are visible. Two felines -Semi-Succotash and Lord Garlic - who look remarkably like well-dressed businessmen, initially evade the audience’s perception that they are, in fact, cats. A simpleton named Simon and his sister Lorette constitute the remainder of the visible cast. Through the actions of this absurd ensemble we encounter a fickle fly named Carmen and a pair of lovers who come to stay at the house but who are never seen coming or going. The presentation of their existence is history interwoven with the concrete action by the cast.

Lord Garlic is in love with Carmen who flirts with both Simon and Semi-Succotash, after which she flies off to Rome to visit a friend. The two lovers eventually quarrel and part in the night. All the while brother, sister and the two cats speculate on these activities with grave concern.

Fantasy, play and belief unite to create situations which become real in the minds of the characters.

Belief and disbelief intermingle to suit their particular needs at particular times. No-one understands anyone else at any given time and each of the characters entertains the same thoughts at different points,, never realizing their reversal of roles.

This is the irrationality associated with children’s games. The repeated mention of Mother -- who is she - appears to say that here only the initiate, he who dwells in this world where every possibility can does become real, can identify or appreciate this fantasy.

Mother reminds us that somewhere our sanity, mundane as it is, still exists - however-, not in this world. In much the same way that Alice in Wonderland is not child’s play, neither is Weingarten’s work. Here lies the danger of trying to make sense of a nonsensical situation by putti.ng it in terms of a defined. normal, daily existence.

The play has no delineated plot where characters can enact a progression of ‘logical events to their logical culmination.

The content and action lie in the mind with all its cruelty and tenderness: The events take place over a period of six days and nights, on a stage consisting of a small house and garden designed bg Brian Jackson. Donald Acaster’s skillfu! use of lighting provides the transitions from day to night, which combined with Poldi Shaetzman’s music reflects the moods of the play.

Eric House and Jack Creley in the role of the cats provide a witty, comic relief from the absurd tragedy of a love sought but never realized. The fact that this was a preview performance could explain Derek McGrath’s and Nacy Beaty’s rather weak performance during the initial part of the play.

In all, if you are prepared to exert some thought and imagination rather than sit and merely be entertained, Summer Days could prove to be a stimulating eXperience.

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9. Soap-box, or elongated 6 (7).

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3. see 12.

4. After five hundred, biblical ship heading fqr promentory sheds no light (8).

5. Rock, but not 13, to bare 1050 (6).

G-Part of the compass is missing on my fate(4).

7. May abound in 4, or, are the titles missing at Madame Tussaud’s?- (8-7).

10. Lawlessness is rot, or its both very confusing (5).

14. see 12 across.

15. “Good-bye . .. . . world. I’m going home.” - Emerson - nothing in it. (5).

18. With rock (not 11 or 5) may be safe landing, or in the hen-house (8).

20.Overweight Albert is deadly (5).

22.A devil for everyone will mean treason charge (7).

23.24. Has a faculty for eats and muddle (4-2-4 >.

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16. Sun starts syllabic singing as if mixed in there (8).

17. Payment received is twice a decisive moment (7).

19. Extra loud music in the money is a grave matter (6).

21. Fish consume our fifty, but thrive (8).

24. see 23.

25. Joins manuscript at sea (5).

26. A branch line, but not for 31, is an incentive (4).

29. Does not deserve another wrong way into a one-way street (3-4).

31. Gives poor service to one track mind (5-2-8).

30. Down in the mouth when headless 28 is upset with southern state (5).

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THE DUCHESS. OF MALFI

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John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi;playing this season at Stratford, is a play about moral disintegration.

The festival production is brilliantly directed by Jean Gascon whose subtle care of detail draws one powerfully into the drama.

The Duchess is a young widow who secretly remarries her steward against the wishes of her brothers, the Cardinal and the Duke of Ferdinand.

Upon discovering her marriage, the brothers seek revenge through murder. . Webster wrote in the post-Elizabethan era when moral decadence was rampant, causing an artistic decline and a theatre of melodrama, filled with betrayals and hypocrisy, and expressed in macabre detail. The scene of the banishment of the Duchess and her family is a dreadfully lavish display of the pomp and decadence of the catholic church in that time, with church officials ugly and ominous in heavy gold robes and terrifying masks speaking ritualistically through the dense smoke of incense.

Although Webster wrote very much within this theme of cynicism and horror, his perspective was a moral concern. Through the character of Bosola, who is Ferdinand’s spy on the Duchess - her betrayer and the one who carries out her murder -- Webster expresses his fascination with the process of disintegration and his sympathy for victims of circumstance.

Bosola’s disintegration to spy, traitor, and killer, is the most frightening because it is the result of conscious intelligent choice. Unlike the Duke whose crimes are the result of rages which eventually drive him mad with remorse, and the Cardinal whose calculated corruption stems from the powerful decadence of church and state, Bosola recognizes and condemns his villainy as he performs it. His defiance of a moral code that he himself accepts renders it meaningless and opens the way to horror and it is

MELANIE IN CONCERT

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Melanie, one of the more recent additions to the folksy soft-rock tradition, appeared at Stratford’s sunday matinee performance on july fourth.

A disarming woman, Melanie greeted her audience with as much wonder as they did she - a seemingly two-way thrill. Her gestures, ad libs concerning her shyness in confronting a visible audience, (Stratford audiences enjoy a soft lighting effect during performances, part of the attempt to unite performers and patrons) and her sentiments concerning the uniqueness of a matinee concert,-“1 have to go into the street in broad daylight when this is over”- were all conducive to her little-girl come-on, which appears to be not a gimmick but a genuine personality trait. Her politics, made explicit through her lyrics and lying exclusively within the realm of love, humanity, and nature were powerfully yet sensitively conveyed through her assorted repertoire suggested by the audience-candles in the rain, alexander beetle,, look what they’ve done to my song, and left over wine being four of the thirteen or so performed.

Given the force of her voice the sound system often trembled under the blows, culminating in a sometimes oppressive feeling; however this was minimized by the occasion of a live performance.

Because of her singing style, the visual was nearly as important as the auditory - a coy tilt of the head or a wrinkled nose certainly enhanced her music and lyrics.

A more impressive ability of Melanie’s was the versatility of her voice in encompassing a full spectrum of intensity, vulnerability and passion, and captivating unresulting in a unique predictability.

A concert well worth participating in even when one figures that the audience forfeited, as a group, approximately but minimally 140 dollars per song - oh crude and vulgar thought.

with much relief that he. finally reassumes respon--sibility for his actions and kills the brothers to end the play. Powys Thomas who plays Bosola at Stratford, does so with sympathy and appeal.

Against the corruption of the two brothers and the complicity of Bosola was balanced the character of the Duchess. Brilliantly played by Pat Galloway the Duchess was vital and strong for her time. Her husband Antonio was the prototype of the virtuous, gallant man, an underdeveloped character and acting largely as a complimentary role to her own.

The defiance she maintained against the Duke’s attempts to drive her to dispair were powerfully conveyed against a foreground of almost grotesque melodrama.

Imprisoned in Malfi she was made to believe that Antonio had been killed when presented with a burning dummy corpse. In another scene following’ almost immediately she is faced with the ravings of madmen who crawl and scream around her; when she is strangled by two hideous killers death no longer holds any fear for her; Because her death takes place in the second act the play is too long. Much of the action of the third act is expected and so there is a rather drawn-out conclusion; however the combined effects of the heavy rich dress of the era, an almost bare stage,andgood acting make the production well worth seeing.

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With all the memories and panoply of eighteen years of success behind them, the trumpets blow and the lights dim. ..but the Festival comes strangely altered to the stage. Ponderous, awkward, the plays appear like stout matrons: promenading where once they danced, with painted cheeks where flowers bloomed. Their excitement and vitality are erratic and subdued; they take their accustmed stance upon the stage to our embarrassed laughter. The black and bloody Duchess of Malfi we found merely tedious, but at the end of Macbeth there was silence, a single hasty, curtain call, and both cast and audience hurried away as if in pity, and shame.

Ian Hogg was a creditable, if not a great Macbeth, though hampered at times by obvious and awkward staging. Like most of the cast, though, he sometimes seemed to lack a real understanding of his part, playing instead a constrained veneer, especially in the first two acts.

In Act V, indeed, he seemed a raging bear, filling the whole stage with his presence!

But at the entrance of Macduff he and the play died again, choked and bound by the absurd, unpractised choreography, until, in his final death agony the play lay shattered at his feet and the house rippled with laughter. These almost Brechtian, touches appeared again and again throughout the play : heavy-handed, almost surrealistic scenes that broke the rhythm and distorted the plot. For example, when Lady Macduff and her children are murdered, off stage, (with loud shrieks and a long silence) the murderers dump the bodies back on stage, whereupon five more actors pick them up and carry them off again, all with no relation to the script! Even more absurd was the “bleeding sargeant” in the second scene, supposedly near the point of death and garishly bedaubed with “blood”, who sprung to his feet, loudly declaimed a long speech, spinning all the while like a human top, then as suddenly collasped again ! And the eight silent, grey, ubiquitous soldiers ’ who clogged the stage and added nothing-why did they have to be there?

There were many other faults to this Macbeth: the wasted opportunities of the dull witches and their cauldron; the bald plastic mannequin on its candycane pole; the awkward battle...even Pat Galloway, who played such a masterful Duchess of Malfi, was poor and plastic Lady Macbeth, and no one gave a really good performance.

Peter Gill’s direction added some good and original touches: (eg. Banquo’s eight spirit-king heirs, and the coming of night in Glamis( but these few and minor touches do him but little credit. This Macbeth is indeed a tragedy; but for us, and for Stratford. I pray we see no more of its like.

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This issue deals with a particular woman and her struggle.

Claudia Dreifus interviews Bernadette Devlin, independent member of the British House of Commons, and revolutionary whose singularity disturbs not only the right but in some cases the left as well.

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Answer :,,Finances. I came back to try to earn some financing for a Socialist Study Center many of us would like to see get started in Belfast. America is still a good place to earn money. But I’m not here pleadi.ng for funds from the Irish-American community on this trip. I’m here rather as a lecturer earning money by speaking on campuses. The funds will go to the Center, and I’m hoping I’ll be paid a small fee to help take care of my overdraft.

between the way people the way they treat othc there is need for Wom( Nobody expects me because I’ve got an imal a woman. I’ve got the I the firebrand . . +. . which off airplanes and to kit arrive. And you can see else who is not Bernade make the papers, is expc in a lady-like fashion husband says, “Come a to say, “Yes,” and do i woman.

Q: On your first trip, you were greeted as the Super of the Bogside Barricades.

1Ieroine Queen Politicians, newsmen, and Irish-American fraternal organizations just seemed to tear at each other to get near you. That’s not happening at all this trip. You’ve come quite consciously as a socialist leader, and you seem more interested in talking with Black Panthers and Angela Davis than the Hibernians and Mayor Yorty. Has there been a change in you?

Q: Do you find that bat you’re criticized and tl man would not ‘be?

A: No, there hasn’t been any change in me. When I came here nearly two years ago, the IrishAmerican community greeted me with a hysterical reaction because of the fighting in Belfast and Derry. They reacted emotionally and as a result didn’t listen to what I was saying. I was talking two years ago of socialism . . . and I remember people remarking that nobody else in the Irish-American community could get away with the things I was saying. But it was because of the hysteria of the situation . . . because of the images it conjured up of 1917 . . . that they even listened to me.

If I continued to talk about blacks...and socialism, they’d take back their money.

Q: Did they listen? 1 got. the impression you did very well the first few days; but the minute you made it clear to \the press. that you were interested in the liberation of all people-Protestant, Catholic, black, and white-the more conservative elements of the Irish-American community immediately turned off to you; Didn’t you snub Mayor Daley in Chicago and las a: result only get a turnout of two-hundred people in the Windy City for your speech?

A : Yes. There were incidents, like one in Los Angeles, where a trio of very important people in the Irish-American community came to see me.

There was a woman, a priest, and a man, who was simultaneously head of three Catholic welfare organizations-including the Knights of something or other. They told me they’d get a lot of money for the relief fund-a million dollars minimum-if I not to talk about “blacks, would promise Protestants, or socialism.”

If I continued to talk about these unmentionables, they promised to take. their money back . . . which is what they did. A lot of people did. When everyone had taken their checks back, at the end of my tour, we had a total of fortyfive thousand dollars.

Q: 1 thought you had done better than that. When James Connolly came to the United States in 1905 to raise money, the-Irish-American community was horribly impoverished.

Still, Connolly managed to raise five million dollars. You couldn’t even raise a million in l!W)! That seems incredible!

A: We had hoped to raise a million. At first the Ancient Hibernians had promised they could give us a million. But it turned out they didn’t like my politics, so they reneged. We soon discovered we didn’t like theirs either, so it didn’t matter.

What happened with the. Hibernians and with so many Irish-Americans was that they identified hysterically with Northern Ireland, with the struggle ,for freedom there, and with the Catholics of the Bogside ghetto. But they didn’t want to hear my sort of analysis of what exactly was going on in Ulster. They didn’t like my saying that I thought the struggle in Ireland was between rich and poor, rather than Catholic and Protestant.

Most of all, they objected to my observing that the

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Q: During your first trip here, you swore you would not run for reelection to Parliament.

But you did run. What made you change your mind?

A: I hoped it would not be necessary to run for Parliament again. I don’t like the place, personally.

There is no “parliamentary democracy.”

The system doesn’t work for people. It sort of fiddles around within the limits the system lays down for it to play at being democratic.

And there are times when it doesn’t even pretend to do that!

You can experience a great deal of frustration in Parliament.

The only thing you. sometimes feel is that you ought to be outside doing something else.

For example, take the issue of the current antitrade union legislation.

You’re sitting there and you’re an independent member of Parliament.

You hear the so-called “representatives of the labor movement” selling out the labor movement, selling out the working class! So you want to get up and say something-you want to say that no conservative. government has the right to legislate against the trade unions. But you don’t even get an opportunity to speak! They effectively prevent you from speaking in their democratic system !

Q: Has being gagged in the House of Commons been much

of a problem

for you?

A: It’s become much more of a problem since I’ve come out of prison. Even on the question of Northern Ireland, I’ve been excluded from- the debate.

Ulster always seems to arise on half-hour adjournment debates. That means that conservative MPs will talk on and on and on till the motion comes up. Then you’ve got to stop for a half hour and allow the Tory minister to reply for twenty minutes. But the minister refuses to take a point of order or a point of information.

So you just jump up and say to hell with the polite system of asking . . . and so you roar across the House at him. But still he refuses to stop talking or to even let you make a comment.

Q: How are you treated Parliament?

by your fellow

Members

of

A: Some of them are embarrassingly friendly.

Some of the people on the Labor-Left are actually quite decent people. But most of the conservatives prefer to pretend I’m not there. A lot of the Tories . have this great British sense of “gentlemanly behavior” where they’ll hate your guts, but they’ll open’the door for you and stand back as you go through. You really have to laugh at the hypocrisy of the whole situation.

“You ought to be at home having children!” Why should I be having children just because I am a woman?

Q: Do you ever find that you’re not taken because you’re young and a woman?

seriously

A: When I first was elected to Parliament there was quite a determined attempt by both Parliament and the press, because I was young and female, to make be The Child of Parliament.

They wanted to pat me on the head, be nice to me, and hope I would respond by being a good little girl who would accept her role as a woman member of Parliament.

But they soon discovered I wasn’t prepared to accept that role.

Q: When you first took office, the British and American press were quite anxious to characterize you as a freaky novelty. Because you were a young woman MP, they were constantly trying to get you to pose for cheescake shots and pictures like that.

Did you resent it?

A: Oh, Christ, yes! I resented it because I could see the deliberate policy behind it. I have always consciously tried to prevent the press from putting me in the position of The Female Scapegoat. The press has always tried to identify me as proof that there is no need for Women’s Liberation.

You know the line : “Bernadette Devlin is a lone girl who made it, therefore, all women can make it. Women have an equal opportunity in society-it’s just that they don’t take it. Here’s a woman who took it-here’s Miss Bernadette Devlin. Now, will the rest of you kindly identify with her! ” They want women to have the kind of mental identification with my being in Parliament that leaves them satisfied, that keeps them from struggling. But I’ve tried to work against this kind of label being pinned on me by the press.

Frankly, I am proof there is a need for Women’s Liberation.

Q: What do you mean, Bernadette?

Your life is freer, more liberated than the lives of most twentythree-year-old Irish women.

A: That’s exactly what I mean! Look at the whole attitude of the press toward me because I am a woman. They’re constantly cooing: “Look at what this little woman has got! ” And if you look around Parliament there are just so few women thereeven within the system. If you look at the difference

A: I don’t find this amc me or among the people treat me very much on the things I say. I think the enlightened nature Independent Socialists c a separate women’s Liberation is an integr: Males and females wit But I do find that ‘argument with me, whe better to complain abol me like: “You oughr children ! ” I tell them I children. I ought to be f should I be having chi woman?

But the people who c things usually don’t a tually, they just throw declare that I really she many children.

They mental block.

Q: People in Ireland : discussing your private national symbol, it is a’ property.

Gossiping L national sport-somethi there is a kind of critici wouldn’t be leveled agaj in a similar position. I would not be public pr

A: Oh, but in Ireland, ; much public property. ’ who threw Charles Par] Kitty O’Shea. But the 1 plain about are really You take some of Parliament.

They can b as they like. But if I’r twice, I’ve evidently go seen with two differen flirting with the whole win.

The press photograpl innocent of situations ar men as “Bernadette .L can’t go with a friend t trial, or climb onto a without seeing heat boyfriend.”

And in I nothing as logical as a comrade. He is, insteal and master: “The Fu Devlin . ” That kind of thing wo Nor would anyone go thr to find out about the pre MP. But when the news: engaged once, they real to dig up all the details. that would have happen woman.

Q: When I was in Be1 through the Shankill Protestant area, wher posters of you were 1

t Revolution. can- onlv Degin ver ends...” ’ adette Devlin. forced to treat me and Imen, then I am proof ,iberation. t submissive anymore tt’s isolated from being 3 of the revolutionary, ns I’m expected to tear port cops as soon as I difference.

Everybody evlin, or who does not to step off the airplane smile. And when her dear,” she’s expected 2 things expected of a le in Northern Ireland 1 unfairly in a way a

le people who vote for vote against me. They Xsis of my politics-on : of this has to do with r own movement, the -Ulster. We don’t have tment, but Women’s t of our own struggle. e group are equal. people can’t win an 1 run out of something ty’ll say something to be at home having n’t be at home having g the revolution ! Why just because I am a up with these kinds of very logically.

Evenhands in the air and e home having many, top there: There’s a an awful lot of time As you are kind of a ely the ‘most public of you has become a e Gaelic football. And Jeled against you that e private life of a man , a man’s private life

‘s private life is very :, after all, the people t for his adultery with If things people competty than that. male members of with as many women with the same man ady boyfriend.

If I’m then I’m evidently &ion. You just can’t with me in the most mediately labels those 3 New Boyfriend.”

I urthouse for my own * go to a restaurant, about my “new , a “boyfriend” is :ompanion or a male prospective husband amer of Bernadette ler happen to a man. he pains the press did ngagement of a male found out I had been t to no end of trouble ; nauseating.

None of ne if I hadn’t been a remember walking et, a working-class most obscene wall i on buildings.

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seemed to incite a sexual hatred in those who opposed you-a sexual hatred that would never come out with a man. There was one mural, very ugly, labeled “Sexy Bernie,” and it had, in bright red, outlines of what were supposed to be your genitals. I really can’t imagine that kind of thing happening to a man.

A: I don’t think that’s quite true. They did some pretty rotten stuff to Eammon McCann, an Independent Socialist candidate in Derry who stood for Parliament.

He didn’t win. And part of his loss was due to ugly rumors about his private life.

But in my own case, it’s hard to tellwhether the wall posters appear because I am a woman, or because there is no other figure in Northern Ireland who arouses as much hatred as I do.

Q: What is your life like being simultaneously one of the most hated and loved persons in contemporary Ireland?

A: That’s something I try not to get hung up about.

The passionate flames of hatred or love soon flare down in the face of rationalism.

Sometimes I am more annoyed by the passionate feeling of identification than by the passionate feeling of hatred. I see people identifying with me for the wrong reasons. I see people who clamor up, shake my hand, touch the hem of my garment, and get my autograph-but they don’t know what I’m talking about! And they don’t want to know. And when they do know, they go away!

Q: Is there a tendency in Ireland develop saints and idols?

for

people

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A : Oh, Christ, yes ! Martyrs ! We have this very nasty habit of tearing the living apart. When they’re dead, we build statues to them.

Let me qualify that . . . we honor our heroes if they are men. Our women heroines we forget.

We Irish have had our revolutionary women, too.

There was Constance Markievicz, who had her failures, but she was a great woman. She was the only uniformed woman officer in the Easter Rising.

She organized the Irish Women’s Army. In her own .way, Constance Markievicz was quite a women’s liberationist.

In our history we have had many other revolutionary women who have fought as long and as hard as any man. Anne Devlin and Betsy Grey are two who come to mind. But they don’t rank with the people as heroes. They are forgotten. Take Anne Devlin. What our history books have done is to change her role from that of a revolutionary woman to one that fits Irish conceptions of womanhood a History casts her as the little more snugly. housekeeper of Robert Emmet, a Protestant-Irish hero who tried in 1803 to capture Dublin Castle and set up a republic. But that’s not at all the truth!

Anne Devlin was one of Emmet’s circle. She went to work as his housekeeper only because Emmet could trust no one else in his household. She plotted. She planned.

She assisted Emmet in escaping the British a number of times. Anne Devlin did not play the woman’s role with the organization ! When Emmet was in fact captured and hanged, Anne Devlin was taken to prison where she was tortured and she where she lived out her life under horrible conditions.

She was kept in solitary confinement.

She wasn’t even allowed to. walk around, so she developed diseases of the leg. And yet the people of Ireland think of this great woman as nothing more than a little handmaiden who knew nothing. She knew everything about the revolutionary movement!

The British tortured her for information.

Many of the men in the group gave up and sent their comrades to the gallows. Not Anne Devlin !

Q: Why do you think Anne Devlin and so many other Irish revolutionary women Gaelic history books?

have been erased

from

A: Because they were women!

It relates to the whole attitude about women in Ireland and what young girls are taught in school. We are taught feminine submission.

From the cradle, we are taught an attitude toward our fathers different from the attitude toward our mothers. Girls are taught to expect society to treat us in a certain way because we are female. Our brothers must always defend us

against those w.ho don’t treat us with feminine respect.

But as to why we forget Anne Devlin in our his tory books-or rather why we only learn of her as the handmaiden of a -great man -. . ., You see, if we learned who she really was, why that might just breathe a different kind of spirit into our young women. And we don’t want that. No. . . never.

I was raised to enter a convent. Higher calling and all that.” j Q: What developing

role does Mother Church play the docile view of Irish w.omankind?

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A: The Catholic Church in Ireland has always been one of the most reactionary of establishments.

It uses the woman’s role in society to oppress the whole class.

The Church teaches women to accept things within the system: you should accept that women should be paid less than men. You should accept that there are no day-care centers for working mothers simply because the Church believes a woman’s place is at home. You should accept that the purpose of getting married is to have children.

And there’s no way out of marriage with the Church. It’s like Sinn Fein-once you’re in, you can’t get out. But Sinn Fein is a more noble organization to get caught up in than marriage.

The Church plays a great part in establishing situations that are bad for women. I can give you some examples from my own experiences.

As an MP, I handle many kinds of problems of people in the district.

I had this “problem” family come to me. They had six children and they lived in a Council house (public housing).

They had fallen behind on their debts and couldn’t afford coal for heat. So they chopped down the wooden window fronts and used them for firewood. Well, the Council got quite upset and I went down there to sort out the dispute. When I got there, the woman told me she was expecting a seventh child! She lived ina threeroom apartment.

She had six children already. And she really couldn’t cope with the six-not physically, not emotionally.

So I told her I could think of a number of economic solutions to her financial problems and that I could also think of another one . . , I asked her what the hell she was going to do with another child? The woman had stated quite clearly after her fourth child that she wanted no more. She just couldn’t cope with them all. Besides, the family wouldn’t have gotten into financial trouble if they had only four children.

Shortly afterwards, the parish priest came around and told me I was corrupting the morals of the Church. All I had done was to suggest to the woman that she could have an alternative.

Abortion is legal in England. I wasn’t saying she must do it.

It’s the Church that tells people what they must and must not do. In the end, the woman did not have an abortion.

But I consider it immoral for Mother Church to come along with all her money in the Chase Manhattan Bank and tell poor people they will burn in hell if they have four children instead of seven! When you consider the conditions poor people have to live in, it’s a positive obscenity.

As for birth control, I think it’s immoral for priests to go around telling women it’s a sin. They don’t allow people to make that decision for themselves.

Because of the Church hierarchy, birth control information is by and large unavailable in the Irish Free State.

Q: Beyond the obvious issues of birth abortion, and divorce, how does the Irish work to oppress women?

control, Church

A: The Church works very subtly. It inculcates submissive attitudes in young girls during their schooling.

I went to a “young girls’ ” Catholic school in Northern Ireland. We were taught how we ought to sit and dress and walk and eat and behave “like

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young ladies.” You should never raise your voice above a whisper or talk too much or disagree with people or appear too intelligent.

You know, you might not get a.husband or something.

You might make Our Lady blush! I remember that as one of the more ridiculous elements of our education.

Q: Were you raised with the idea that your life was to get a husband’?

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A: No. The School I went to was more reactionary. than that. I was raised to enter a convent. Higher calling and all that stuff. But should I fail at that, a good second choice was to get a good husband who wore a pioneer pin and the Faine. The Faine meant he was a native Irish speaker and that he didn’t drink.

As a result of my education, I’ve always had a built-in prejudice against men who wore both the Faine and the pioneer pin. I always saw it as a sign of the type of male to be avoided.

There are things women’s liberation engages in that seem to me terribly petty.

(3: Privately, Bernadette, I’ve heard you bad-mouth the Women’s Liberation iVovement.

Rut it sounds that when you get down to talking about issues, you are quite a committed feminist.

A: There are things Women’s Liberation engages in that seem to me terribly petty. Like this business of objecting to someone holding a coat or opening a door for you because you are a woman. I don’t like the way American feminists seem to identify with all women and do not recognize that there are some women w.ho are their enemy.

Your movement seems too broad. You let in too many middle-class women who only want equality with their professional male counterparts, who do not object to the class nature of society: It’s a woman like that, who wishes to enter society as it is presently constituted, who is your enemy. She produces the freak. As long as she gets her rights within the class-structure, she considers all. women to be free. It’s like the middle-class Catholic in Northern Ireland. As long as he gets his equal membership in the golf clubs, within the dominant society, as long as he is allowed free association with the master on equal terms, as long as he joins the ruling class, he does not want #an end to the system of ruler and ruled. He just wants to be one of the rulers.

Q: What about the IRA’? 111 the papers here, one always ’ reads that the IRA is behind all the “troubles” in Ulster. 111 the States, some weeks back. Kvery paper in the country carried pictures of two young men who had been tarred and feathered by the IRA.

A: Oh, that wasn’t done by the IRA, but by the Provisional IRA, which is just a breakaway group very nationalistic and very primitive in its ideology.

As for the official end of the IRA-1 work very closely with Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein is the IRA’s political arm. Contrary .to what the British press says, the IRAs are political people. They don’t run around carrying guns all day and shooting things up indiscriminately.

They work politically in the trade unions ,’ tenant organizations, and political organizations.

Q: At what point do you think Northern be ready for armed struggle?

lreland

will

A: There’s no’blueprint for armed struggle.

The function of the people of Northern Ireland is to educate and organize themselves.

You don’t give a signal by counting the number of heads you have and then decide you are ready for armed struggle.

Circumstances determine the realization of armed struggle, and in Northern Ireland you can never predict what those circumstances will be. The only thing you can say is when violence is used against us, we will assert our right to defend ourselves against the violence of the State.

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student. This was amended and subsequently passed at a 50 per cent increase over past rates to one dollar and a half. The board felt that this would keep the pressure on season ticket sales.

Totzke regrets that the students have to bear the full burden of the athletic department, but so far, no financial assistance has been forwarded by the university, beyond that of maintaining the facilities. He said that the athletic department is faced with two alternatives.

Either to decrease the number of intercollegiate sports (now set at 18) or to cut back on the individual team allotments.

As he indicated in his budget, the latter was chosen.

TRADE-OFF

The board members spent a ’ large part of the meeting discussing the teaching trade-off between the athletic department and the school of physical education and recreation The trade-off results from coaches hired by the athletic department teaching in the skill program of the school. Professors in the school also trade-off by acting as coaches of various athletic teams.

J. Minas of the university’s systems analysis department submitted a cost acccounting report to the school, an assessment of the actual monetary equivalence of the trade-off.

The result of this analysis dipped again into the athletic budget as that Having passed the advisory department had to pay the school board with this proposed cutback almost sixty thousand dollars. in team meal expenses, Totzke has When questioned on this large yet to sell the idea to the athletes. sum going to the school for the use Last spring, the hockey team ‘of it’s personnel as coaches, Totzke answered “I would like the opboycotted the awards banquet, one of their main beefs was this very portunity to refuse the coaching travel point insufficient skills of the kinesiology personnel. allowance.

One of the board Coaches could be hired for much keeps members did note the effect of less, but the agreement ‘asking our intercollegiate athletes them involved.” to eat and live on the When asked to approximate the road at one to two bucks less than cost of coaching for the athletic other universities.’ department, Totzke claimed that There was a short discussion on request to be a “useless paper the possibility of selling season exercise”, but agreed that it could passes for each sport individually, appoach 75 to 100 thousand dollars but the suggestion was dropped. each year.

Dave Roberts, the church ’ Pat Bishop, who is-very involved colleges’ representative, in the trade-off as a lecturer in suggested that the athletic the school and the athletic trainer, department should get it’s funds said,“The only way to assess for from the students “while you can, sure is to punch a clock, and I because students start the term goddamn well refuse to.” posh then rapidly ecline as the As the afternoon progressed and year progresses.” with a lack of quorum threatening, \ Roberts then forwarded a motion the board passed the budget as to raise the price of individual presented only as a ‘working events from one to two dollars per document’.

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The athletic advisory board voted last week to up the cost of season tickets from five to seven and a half dollars.

The reason for this increase was to make up a four thousand dollar deficit evident in the 1971-72 athletic budget as presented by the director, Carl Totzke.

Faculty members will be required to pay fifteen dollars for the same privilege.

Commenting on this, :Totzke stated,“I would like to see the necessity of tickets to students eliminated totally, yet the budget requires it’s existence.”

Totzke’s statement is based on the knowledge that the full athletic budget including salaries, arises from the compulsory 22 dollar activity fee levied on all students.

Totzke considers this budget “the barest minimum”, and results from a ten thousand dollar cut back of the projected cost for the coming fiscal year.

It was important to the board that the budget for the coming year be ‘in the black’ because“it has been a deficit one for the past three years,” as dean Kenyon of the Physical Education faculty noted. the line Totzke’s “down tightening of budget allotments” included the elimination of one visiting team, a decrease in team travel, and the most questionable, a decrease in meal allowance to athletes on the road (from seven to five dollars per day for each competitor 1.

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The throngs of warrior supporters evident above, during last season ‘s activity, may dwindle to nothingness with a losing football team and an upped admittance price. The cost jumps from five bucks to seven and a half in addition to the mandatory twenty-two.

Mech 4A .b 2 3 16 29 4 recreational battling the Psych Grads.

St. Jerome’s 6 1 5 6 28 2 into the playoffs.

TOUCH FOOTBALL Ball hockey semifinals begin and Most kamS have only one game Final Standings end next thursday, with first remaining, but the finalists will GP W L PF PA P playing fourth and second playing battle it out either this or next math sot .

5 5 0 71 21 10 - - ^ s- ^_ -b third. Games begin at five and sixweek.

Lower Math 5 3 2 43 34 SOCCER fifteen. The final game will also be Systems Des. beginning at 5 2 3 35 59 4 played on thursday The two liberated teams from When the team from Math have decided to amalgamate 4A Mech 5 0 5 30 63 0 i’:30.

Management Science meets the The final game in touch football and play the semifinals under the will be played next Wednesday at boys from Nl, both teams should Liberated Studies banner. bear in mind that immediately With a low skill1 level in this five as Math Sot meets Lower following their semifinal game, the Math in two thirty minute halves technique game, the Lib Studies finals will be staged.

A large group have more than made up for on Columbia field. number of players for frequent line that lack with their tremendous BALL HOCKEY changes is the suggestion. spirit. In order to continue their League standings Guesses for league champions hustling style of play, the team GPW L PF PA P are : sees fit to switch ‘lines’ every five Ball Hockey - T-nuts T-Nuts 6 6 0 31 10 12 or ten minutes.

This procedure, Touch Football - Math Sot 54121 5 8 illegal in any other type of N1 5 3 2 20 15 6 Softball - Kin 4A organized soccer, is allowed in the Man. SC 5 3 2 15 14 6 Basketball - Us Kin. 26 on-campus recreational league.

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Finishing second in the league, Lib Armadillos Studies will meet last place St Jerome’s in the semifinals while the third place Chinese students will face the league leading engineers.

League convener says the games are a pleasure to watch because the guys make no concessions to the girls and even if the girls miss the ball, they do manage to get in the way. (on labour) BASKETBALL In the game of the week, Kin 4A walloped the Chem Eng Hippies by the not too close score of 83 - 11.

Brent Rotondo and Rick Wiedenhoft led 4A’s massacre while John Christie scored what little points the losers could muster.

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One thing w,hich really gets me pissed off is the fact that the representatives of elected engineering students on campus are raising shit about(though not necessarily in order > the federation, the chevron, the lack of available women on campus.

It is too bad that these esteemed representatives didn’t get around to talking to me and my drinking buddies. Perhaps it is just as well, for we would have judged them the pettiest people we could ever meet.

It is only obvious that it is to the university’s advantage that engineers be overworked, so bust that they don’t have much time to broaden themselves, to learn and do a little thinking about philosophy, what am I doing here, even learn how to write letters (I am not very good at it).

Work a man so hard he doesn’t have any fight left in him Thus our esteemed representatives can only piddle around, crying about the federation, the chevron and god knows .what sum of money, and ignore the large scale wastage which goes on within the university.

Just date some of the administration secretaries, or office workers.

Talk to them cdo you know how? >. Keep an open mind.

And think twice about that $11.00 per term. Think about the amount you personallv contribute to your own education (?), the amount the government contributes in the form of basic income units, the amount which comes from the pockets of taxpayers, the amount which never goes to the benefit of the poor because it’s budgeted for “education”.

How much of this is wasted? how much of your education is wasted?

How much of your life is wasted?

Be fair.

Why jump on the federation; at least you have control there. Try and see how much control you have over the administration.

And remember, the administration would probably like to see the federation and the chevron die. After all, nobody tells the pigs they’re headed to the slaughterhouse.

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Please refer to the news item published under the heading ‘Donation for Pakistan Aid’ in the chevron of june 25, 1971 on page 3.

We would like to point out the following : i) There is no such place as Bangla Desh in East Pakistan.

This was only a slogan of a militant subversive group a few months back. To bracket it with East Pakistan does not make any sense. ii> Number of refugees mentioned in this item is six million while on the pamphlets distributed earlier by India - Canada association the figure given was eight million. We mention this only because these statements are self-contradictory.

This however would appear to be trivial in comparison with grossly exaggerated reports in different contexts by the Indian Press sources of which we are all aware.

iii) ‘Pakistan Aid’ is either erroneous or a deliberate misstatement for ‘Indian Aid’.

We believe our esteemed paper has news sources which are reliable in general.

News items from sources such as the one covering the above mentioned news item should perhans be more closely examined to ensure that irresponsible and misleading statements do not appear in. chevron.

JAVAID IQBAL them eng While there may be some doubt as to the number of people in the reports coming from the east on the IndiaPakistan situation, the chevron chose to use the figure six million.

--the lettitor.

Prayer’s

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I was indeed distressed, to read Mr. Ivan Gati’s remarks in the chevron expressing concern about his misrepresentation as the engineer rep.

Surely as a representative he should be worried about the concerns of others and not himself and his own image. And as for the vacuum of apathy he referred to, if he feels that his life has no meaning on campus perhaps he should do a little soul-searching.

For the meaning of life is discovered in communication with the Lord.

All one’s experiences are thereby enriched. Mr. Gati would be very welcome at the weekly prayer meetings which I conduct.

JOSEPHINE KLEINE grad chemistry

Federation proprieties

ad disturbs of reader

Many times in the past, I have commented on the chevron for their nerve and commended them on the use of freedom of the press, but when I see a copy such as the one I received today, friday, june 25, 1971, I am disgusted in the abuse given to one of our most needed freedoms.

I am, as you may have already guessed, writing in regards to the cartoon so artistically illustrated on the back page.

Now sex to me is beautiful and nothing should be concealed on the matter but when a person can take children’s cartoon friends and put them into the act, it becomes filthy and depraved. I feel, only a sexual pervert could find it at all amusing. , Now I also realize that this could just be an attention-seeker or just a way to get people stirred up about something other than the petty realities of life as it is today but if you’re so brave and so clean-minded why didn’t you put it on he front page? You knew that it would be the major eye-catcher in the whole paper so why didn’t you make it twice as eyecatching.

You have in your hands the power to get to the public as a whole so in heaven’s name, use it for the public and not against.

FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS BETTER THAN TO TELL WHO HE-SHE IS. The chevron appreciates reader Bi’s revulsion but suggests Bi should send the letter as well, to the federation of students. The cartoon was part of the full-page advertisement paid for by the federation and submitted to the chevron by summer weekend publicity organizer Larry Burko. -the lettitor

Cricketers

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Batsman Jack Morris stroked soundly runs in cricketers ‘jrst outing against

to lead uniwat scoring a U of Guelph eleuen.

No trackmenon Although the university of Waterloo had more competitors at the Pan Am games trails than any other university, none of the warriors were chosen to represent Canada in the games.

Bill Lindley hopped, stepped and jumped his way to a silver medal with a leap beyond the forty eight foot mark. mark.

Dennis McGann, Waterloo’s other jumper, sneaked a 23 and a half foot jump in on his last effort for second place. McGann had fouled all five previous attempts.

Competing in the javelin event, Glen Arbeau faced similar difficulties.

In throws which would have placed him high in the final standings, Arbeau’s javelin failed to make a mark with the tip and was nullified by the attending officials.

At the conclusion of the event, Arbeau stood sixth, with a distance far below his personal record.

Tommie Pearson came close to his best performance in the 1500 meter run. Competing with more experienced athletes in that event, Pearson made a tactical error by remaining in the pack for too long.

When he did decide to sprint home, there wasn’t enough time to

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the early uniwat batsman Kapoor, side a sound start with fine attacking batting. Kapoor’s lead-off was a great inspiration to the later batsmen.

Captain Jack Morris topped the uniwat score with a resounding 68 runs to his credit. The tam was retired after scoring 151.

In tense, hard-fought innings, the uniwat bowlers were repeatedly I frustrated by the experienced Guelph batters.

Balanchandran bowled well and captured three wickets for thirty-five runs. Pinder and Farrell also showed sound bowling. Green, however, bowling for ten overs, allowed only ,an average of 2.5 runs per over as he claimed two Guelph wickets.

Captain .. Jack . .Morris . . . . is1 pleased A witn.1. the team’s imtial performance and adds, “it augers well , for the coming games and the side 68 should settle down into a strong combination.”

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overtake the leaders.

Rapidly closing on the winners, Pearson turned in a very respectable 3i47.4 for third place. s trided Sammy Pearson around with the leaders for most of the 10,000 meter event but as the final laps approached, five runners, most of them from his own club outkicked him to the wire.

Al though finishing sixth, Pearson was elated with his time which established for him a personal record over half a minute better than his previous best.

Waterloo’s best bet for a berth on the team floundered on the second day of the competition.

George Neeland, off to another of his infamous slow starts, had trouble negotiating the second hurdle.

Coming off that barrier, he found himself in third position and throughout the rest of the race could not improve on that position.

The warriors are back in training for the national championinships next month when another national team will be chosen for dual meets against Italy in that country.

All these competitors will be in action tomorrow at Kitchener’s centennial stadium during the Ontario senior championships.

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von Clausewitz

HUS WROTE THE classical german military theorist in the early nineteenth century.

How would the general’s notion hold up if he sat through the three most recent military extravaganzas of the screen : PATTON (George C. Scott, Warren Maalden), CROMWELL (Richard Harris, Alec GUINESS( AND WATERLOO (Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer)?

CROMWELL takes place in the earliest historical setting of the three -and it is likely the weakest from the point of view of acting.

Harris puts on an uninspired and grating performance of shouting and stomping around as Cromwell. * In direct contrast is Guiness’ portrayal of Charles, particularly in his combination of indecision and authoritarianism.

The advanced billing casts Cromwell as the young rebel confronting the Establishment of an earlier era; hence the battle lines between the popular forces of parliament against an outmoded and obstinant Monarchy.

Indeed the conflicts, politics and ideologies are most clearly posed as the major battle scene of the movie is drawn up.

On one hill the formal, polished units of the crown with the popmous Charles being blessed on their way into battle by an ostentatiously dressed Bishop.

On the other, the rag-tag collection of Cromwell’s forces and their wornatthe-elbows fundamentalist preacher.

Ideology is ideology!

The “good” guys of course eventually win under Cromwell’s leadership by the use of unorthodox cavalry tacticsobviously a suggestion of their more progressive mindedness and adva riced ideology.

However, the movie largely emasculates the Levellers against the background of Cromwell’s individual actions.

L The film would have been more historically accurate and have contributed more if it had explored the Leveller agitation further.

In fact, the Levellers represented a more thorough-going and dangerous threat to the monarchical order than did Cromwell.

Their conflict with Cromwell was not just one of tactics and authority; they represented a lower social class and a more radical ideology.

The conflict between the two came to a head within the army at what became known as the Putney debates where the Levellers representing the lower ranks of the army demanded, among other things, extension of the franchise for all “freeborn” Englishmen.

The officers of the army and Cromwell replied with a much more restricted conception of democracy (despite Harris’ protestations about the necessity for democracy on the screen).

In short, the Leveller agitation was eventually put down’ and the brakes put on the revolutionary changes heralded by the civil war and Charles’ execution.

The social forces Cromwell represented consolidated the new order in their favor and lower class demands for political participation in the form of universal suffrage were postponed for 200 years in the name of assuring the preconditions for a bourgeois social order.

Thus the most significant aspects and events of this very political of wars-was simply missed in the movie.

Depoliticized conflicts

WATERLOO is the second of the films in historical setting and should likely be rated first in its handling of the politics of war.

Rod Steiger brings off an impressive (though for Steiger fans perhaps standard and familiar) portrait of Napoleon.

And Christopher Plummer as Wellington was just such an arrogant aristocratic pig (it’s hard to tell). aristocrat pig (it’s hard to tell).

Anyway, those of us (read most) who learned our history through anglo-Canadian high school texts will be somewhat shocked as Wellington turns out to be unimaginative, arrogant and generally despicable.

The film mostly bounces back and forth between frenzied action scenes and isolated thought pieces on the two leaders, a technique which often makes the film appear somewhat histrionic, but there is certainly an integration of the men, their politics and the battle.

Napoleon Steiger comes off the \ obvious sentimental favorite.

In spite of his obvious imperial

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The makers of the film understand some connect ion between pol it its and war, but from this point forward ‘the film falls short badly on this score.

The most significant aspects of the conflicts and its politics are left out and the conflict depoliticized, the key to which is the treatment of the Levellers.

The Levellers appear only twice in the film. The first is in a scene showing internal army conflict portrayed as conflict with Cromwell over his authority in deciding how harshly to deal with the King, the second occasion is as a. background shot of agitation among the poor in a vague call for further change (which Cromwell ignores).

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am bition, egoism and authoritarianism, he still appears to gain the residual sentiment of popular democracy: the rally of the people, the mandate, his love for his men and the ‘nation’.

Wellington by contrast is arrogant; despises his men and democracy, is none too bright and, it would appear from the screen, not all that concerned.

Thus the two came to make history in the mud of Waterloo-a battle won

by Napoleon at 6pm only to have it slip away’ by 8.

One is impressed by the seeming accidental nature of it all; a battle and a dynasty falling on an unintended race to a highway crossing by two isolated cavalry units, neither of whom knowing of each other’s position or the state of their strength for battle.

Such is a portrait of a battle reinforced (intended or otherwise) by the use of sweeping 360 degree camera shots, (largely adding only to the confusion).

However, the confusion of the immediacy of the battle is not allowed to drown the overall character of the forces in conflict.

The sentimental favorite loses. And, in what must be considered that film’s greatness, the meaning of events is clear.

Contrary to the story we got in our history books which depicts the defeat of Napoleon as the defeat of a horrible menace to the progress of liberal british institutions, Wellington’s victory is a victory for the counter-revolution, to be followed by the restoration of reactionary monarchy.

Portrait of lust The most recent setting and perhaps the most ambiguous of the the three movies is Patton.

Indeed, its ambiguity may be best signified by its two different subtitles.

In the U.S., the subtitle is “Portrait of a Rebel”.

In Europe on the other hand, it is publicized as “Lust for Glory”.

(Just to keep the local politics of war straight, in Canada the flick goes under “Portrait...“) Scott does a masterful acting job, but the contradictions evident flow from the reality reflected, not from the acting.

The politics of war are dramatically evident from the start, beginning with Scott’s Vince Lombardi style peptalk for the troops, “Americans love to fight.“, “You will not win this war by dying for your country, you will win by making the other poor bastard die for his country!”

And, by the screen, Patton loved to fight most of all (“My God 1 do love it, I love it more than life itself”, “ In comparison to war, every other form of human e@eavor shrinks into insignificance.”

Yet if Americans love to fight, this’ love seems to run into conflict with other things Americans supposedly love-like democracy.

To wit, a scene in which Patton strikes the enlisted man suffering from battle fatigue (later, in reality, it was found that he was suffering from malaria)-an act which brings about his removal from command and public downgrading.

For Patton democracy is a problem, and for a democracy a Patton is a problem.

For all the playing up of Patton as military historian in the movie (he most certainly would have been aware of Clausewitz), the screen play portrays him as woefully and uncharacteristically ambivalent and confused on the question of politics and war.

He says, “I have no post-war political ambitions”, but he wants to keep on going to fight the Russians...“ we’ve been fighting the wrong people over here from the sta rt. ” He, on the other hand, seems to buy the liberal theory that there is a clear and workable distinction between those who make policy (politics) and those who carry it out (war).

On the other hand he says “the politicians always start the wars but they never let us finish them”.

These may have been contradictions within Patton’s own thinking, but regardless, they are contemporary political problems and their prominence in the picture is undoubtedly related more to the contemporary realities of american society.

Patton’s comments about the politicians parallels the substance of the rationalizations of the present american military command for their defeat at the hands of the Viet Cong: “they wouldn’t let us go all out; we weren’t allowed to use everything we had and fight’ for a military victory”.

It may well be that George Wallace better understands the true relationship between politics and war than does Hubert Humphrey-at least between that kind of politics and that kind of war.

Of all three of the films, Patton has and likely will be regarded as the “best” by local audiences.

The second world war, along with the depression was likely the most formative political experience of our parents’ generation.

It strikes deep down as “their” kind of war-events and feelings best summarized in the lieutenant Calley (My Lai) affair.

It strikes deep and stays because it hits upon a real, problem, a real contradiction, particularly in american society.

Some ,thoughts on a midsutimerafternoon

by Alex

Smith

the chevron

ITH THIS ISSUE of the chevron, only six weeks of Jjeffective summer activity remain at the university of Waterloo.

During those six weeks, dare we hope to expect the resolution of skeleton issues still hanging around from last year?

Not bloody likely.

We have in our midst, a phenomenon we might call the What To Do Syndrome, a frenetic circle of highly energetic yet utterly non-productive mental activity that takes root in simultaneous feelings of selfimportance and absurd powerlessness.

While the world crumbles around the university smug little tin gods blinded by the reflection of their own halos presume to waste everyone else’s time with endless “insights” into the state of university life. Powerless to really control the external forces which make the students of today the unemployed of tomorrow, these people invent whole categories of reasons- to make their daily lives seem somewhat less meaningless than they fear them to be.

What people?

Administrators, faculty and students alike.

Administrators like those members of the vice-president, personnel and services selection committee who seem to have eliminated counsellor Al Evans from possible contention by finding lack of administrative mediocrity more of a hindrance than an asset.

After all, a person in that capacity will be spending only 90 percent of his time with students, faculty and staff, in that order.

Faculty like those supreme embodiments of God on Earth, the deans who seem to be manhandling their way through channels of peace, order and good government to successfully attain the added status of Defenders of the Faith. Why, one of the deans has even taken, at senate meetings, to interpret, for the administration president, what his duties are. The fact that the deans have taken control of the senate is testimony to their bland ambition.

Having decided the great issues of the day do not exist, they have chosen instead to throw out three years of study by the unicameral act committee and no doubt replace its recommendations with a further three years of paper pushing until they get what they want (never minding students and the rest of faculty).

Students like the handful of highschoolers in one of the engineering society executives who find throwing mud easier than constructive work.

Armed with the platitudes of a “nonrepresentative” federation of students and a “biased” chevron, these stalwart giants are using two-year myths (even the myths are now out of date) to undermine the centralized student voice on this campus.

That they should blame the federation and the chevron for their own lack of responsibility to inform themselves of the services, structures, forums, opportunities, money, and media available to them states in no uncertain terms their own isolation from the engineering students they laughingly claim to represent - as reaction to their federation

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questionnaire points out. Their immaturity belongs in the absurdity of high school student “governments”; surely it cannot be taken seriously here.

Through all this, then, what seems obvious?

An administration preoccupied with systems analysis and a president too intent upon maintaining a mascara image and well-oiled functioning. This is a charade that is really only a ludicrous attempt to cope with things, without vitality and most important, without imagination. Decision-makers who act by efficiency alone are the first to fail.

A faculty body of deans concerned more with power than with coming to grips with new philosophies of education and participation by everyone in the educational experience.

Witness deans over-riding faculty and student opinion in appointing department chairmen and now subtly equating promotion and tenure to stress faculty competition over teaching ability.

Should not deans be more insistent that their programs include mandatory philosophy of science courses to allow students the opportunity of evaluating their education in the light of social reality ?

A student body woefully kept ignorant of their potential for changing the direction of university by overwork and heavy course loads.

Why pay hours of homage to the theorums of technology without criticism when that technology creates the students’ own unemployment?

And why have heart attacks over an 11 dollar per term activity fee (which would be frivolously spent in less than a week anyway, if it did not exist) when the university, the provincial government, the federal government all continue to direct thousands, millions and billions of dollars into a society which still guarantees little but high unemployment, poverty and social in justice?

If there are indeed, any people on this campus who are doing more than mere coping or mere mud-slinging,. they are certainly not very obvious.

If there are faculty with exciting plans, come to this paper, tell us and help us tell everyone else. Get out of the rut of stodgy formal press releases and press announcements channeled through your departments.

If there are students with ideas that are more than bleating in the wind, tell people - see us so we can tell others.

Organize spontaneous debates, guerilla theater - in the engineering and science lounges ; in the arts coffee shop. On the ring road. Or go to the federation and work -with the alreadyestablished working committees instead of stumbling to destroy something you have not bothered to find out about.

If the federation feels it hasn’t told students enough, tell them now. About the long-range reports being prepared, about .services and opportunities available. Print handbooks, brochures, direct mail pieces. And make them mean something more than public relations. ’ Right now this university has all the/ characteristics of a morgue.

And that will be the death of it.

-from

Saturday

Night

the dlC member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS), subscriber: liberation news service (LNS), and chevron international news service (CINS), the chevron is a newsfeature tabloid published offset fifty-two times a year (1971-72) by the federation of students, incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the responsibility of the chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration.

Offices in the campus center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748. summer circulation: 8,000 Alex Smith, editor Cynic, you say, after reading Our faithful servant Smith’s epistle on this page? What, you haven’t read it yet? Cynic. - A large bouquet of something nice to the Gazette staff this week. If you see this wednesday’s paper you’ll know why...hahaha, chuckle, chuckle, but wait now, We really don’t mean anything nasty. This was the first week the Gazette was printed and assembled entirely by the Gazette staff. They have IBM composer type and are now only being printed by Fairway Press, the firm that printed the chevron up until the 11th of june. Anyway, best of luck and it really looks quite acceptable. At least as acceptable as anything on six columns can look. - Surprise, surprise. A stoke of good imagination Wednesday night by the federation’s board of student activities: an outdoor concert on La Piazza del Campus Center. What better place, with steps and berms on which to sit and sprawl. Why not twice a month until the end of October? Why not outdoor movies there as well; obviously they have the cables and outlets available. Why not open-air forums through orientation? A one-shot deal is nice, but a series would give an indication of planning.

Planning is nice, too. - We urge as many of you as possible to go to the citizen’s meeting next Wednesday the 14th at 8:30 at the Kitchener public library. The “citizen’s’ committee for a better county core” will be planning its action to oppose the sale of downtown city land to Eaton’s of Toronto. The group appears to be well organized, but needs help. It appears the city council will be fought right up to the Ontario Municipal Board. - We also note that another group of liberated, or perhaps we should say liberationist women plan to ask administration president Burt Matthews for Equal Sauna Rights for women on campus. Either a time allocation to use the sauna in the men’s locker room or new sauna facilities, We hope they don’t get into a big sweat about it. Oh my, goodness, aren’t We witty... production editor: Al Lukachko Steve lzma (photo), Mel Rotman (entertainment), Dennis McGann (sports), Rod Hickman & rats (features) Busy, busy, busy: janet stoody, david cubberley, john alexanders, ron hatz, jo michno, terry morin, jack morris, terry redvers, tom purdy, brian switzman, leo johnson, tony di franco, peter warrian, dianne shulman, dianne caron, ellen tolmie, mary holmes, lesley buresh, elaine switzman, paul steuie; jane liddell and gunther zeeb.Thought for the week: waskesew, i.e., “Waawaskesiw” of the Crees was whit we call elk or wapiti. Indeed.-And with any luck, greetings next week from Guyana.

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