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29 february

1972

fee upheld The approval grants continuation to the federation’s contract with the university and assures that the student union will have operational funds next year. Had the campus voted against

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compulsory payment of federation fees (11 dollars per term), operation of a number of federation sponsored units (ineluding the chevron, radio Waterloo, low-price concerts and

Federation sefs ifs ' sights * on U of W Act revisions -.

The federation of students has served notice that it intends to actively oppose the University of Waterloo Act, which has been presented by the administration to the provincial legislature. In a letter to minister of colleges and universities George Kerr, federation president Rick Page and president-elect Terry Moore outline their basic disagreements with ‘the proposed -new governing structure of the university. They say that the student representatives on the act committee were opposed to the separation of the business and academic institutions and favored, instead, a unicameral basis for the new governing body. Unicameralism was abandoned by the committee and a revised bicameral set-up was sent to Queen’s Park. The letter also voices student dissatisfaction with the secrecy and ’ “in camera” sessions of the Governing Council, and the policies in the Act “which would perpetuate .‘double jeopardy’ and ‘in loco parentis’ situations.” The federation also points out that the Act goes against “the spirit” of recommendations 55 and 58 of the Wright commission’s report on post-secondary education.

“In addition,” the letter adds, “we would like to see the make-up of the community-at-large segment of the Board of Governors spelled out specifically, so as to ensure representation from a truly broad spectrum of the community.” The federation states in the letter that many decisions “which have direct effect upon the quality of education” are made at the faculty and senate committee level and only ratified by the senate. “We feel that guaranteed student input at this level is imperative.” The letter suggests one of two ways to deal with the University Act at this point: “either the proposed Act be returned to the university for further study, or the necessary revisions be made so as to aleviate our aforementioned concerns.” The two federation presidents state that they intend to appear before the Private Bills Committee with a detailed report of their concerns after the Act is of-’ ficially introduced into the legislature. Copies of the letter were sent to president Matof the board of governors, Ontario - thews, chairman premier William Davis and the two leaders of the opposition parties.

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social activities) would have been cut back if not completely curtailed. The federation invested an estimated 500 dollars in publicity prior to the referendum; a small amount of this went to the cost of an information pamphlet and the larger cost went to production of a six-part poster. The expenditure seems to have paid off, proving either that publicity pays, or that no publicity doesn’t pay. Federation opponents, if they did exist, did not mount a noticeable campaign on the issue. All students on campus were eligible to vote in the referendum, federation members or not.

Engineering (Winter) J. P. Doyle, Peter Golem, Steve Monier-Williams. I Environmental seztervra:I$yesY

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Pauline Webster.

Pariser,

Integrated

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Niki

Klein.

Math

Ian Wells.

Science David Assman, Luke Aujame, Ron Rogoza; (coop) Ralph Kirby. Phys-Ed Lynne Blain.

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Renison Alice

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St. Jerome’s Douglas Austrom, Eric Mackie, Marc RobeDavid Robertson.

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(Co-op) Grad students, who pulled out of the federation last year, showed their interest in the federation by turning out to the tune of six percent. Their involvement lowered total campus turnout from the 35 percent heights set by the undergrads to a lowly 31 percent.

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Arts society opens nominations

Union of Arts Society President Vice-‘President Secretary Treasurer

Nominations Close March 10 Nomination forms may be picked up at the Union of Arts Society office Hum 177B

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Mature students

Nominations for the positions of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer open tomorrow and close a week on friday, March 10. Forms for these nominations may be .picked up at the society office Hum 177 B. The election for these positions will be held Wednesday, March 22. Artsoc is glad to announce that it now has regular office hours in Hum 177 B. They are:

Nominations for president, vicepresident, secretary, treasurer, and six directors of the Association will be received until march 10 at 5 :00 pm by the chairman of the nominating committee Keith Milligan in room 109 at Renison College. M.S.A. will be holding a general meeting next monday in campus centre 211. There will be also a guest speaker, as yet unan-; nounced, and nominations will open. Planned for the future is an address by Mr. Dejeet of the student awards office on the new regulations concerning student loans for mature students. This will be as soon as the new regulations are publicly announced.

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These hours are also posted on the door of the office. ’ The Psychology Society (office in Hum 383 F) will be having a general meeting on thursday at 7:00 pm in the humanities graduate lounge with free coffee and donuts. There will also be a Psychology Pub friday afternoon 2:00 to 630 in Hum 161. The pub is open to all psych students, staff and faculty. The history society opened nominations for the positions of president, vice-president; secretary-treasurer, librarian (in the reference room) and editor for the newsletter yesterday. They will close next monday, March 6, with the elections the monday following, March 13. Nominations are available in the society office, Hum

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The english and drama society is holding an afternoon Pub tomorrow in the campus centre with “Whiplash” from l2:OO to 6:O0. The society is still showing the “Elizabeth R” and the “Jalna” series every sunday night at 9 in El 268-269. Everybody is welcome to attend. The society office is Hum 162.

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Professors David Kirk and Fred Kemp will be leading discussions on the question of morality in science, this friday and next friday, march 10. Chemistry and biology majors in chemistry 261 decided to have the discussions after the hagey lectures featuring David Suzuki. In his discussion on march 3 Kirk will uphold the view that science’s claims of ethical neutrality are false, but also that the inflaence of human values has fewer

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troublesome consequences for the development of science of the well being of human communities, In his discussion on march 10 Kemp will confront science students with the possibility that if scientists do not stop supplying the ruling class with tools of oppression, the people will be forced to destroy the system. Everyone, especially ’ nonscience people, are invited to contribute to the discussions. They will be held in physics 150, and both will begin at lo:30 am.

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holding the mortgages, three planes which fly out of the Waterloo Wellington Airport. Any member of the university community (faculty, staff, student > may belong to the Flying Club and be entitled to reduced rental rate for these planes. They are two Cessna 150’s and one Cessna 172. The 172 is a four seater plane used mainly for pleasure flights. Anyone with two friends (each of you with $6.50) can hire the plane for a two hour flight. ‘The radius allowed by that time includes Toronto, Hamilton, London and parts of kLake Huron and Georgian Bay but the place usually chosen is Niagara Falls. The flying club encourages everyone to make use of this facility as there were only four flights of this kind last month, which is not very economical. If you would like to take a flight, contact the Flying Training Club office at noon hour on Tuesdays (at extension 2534) or pick up a form from any one of the posters distributed around campus.

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The secretary of state pays a While the program will this year group of young middle class try to broaden the base it serves, radicals across Canada exhorproviding jobs for community bitant salaries to give money to college students and young more young middle class radicals workers, past experience has shown that the attempt is doomed., -for projects which it knows will fold -in three months. “The type of people who will come up with new project ideas And that’s the way the government wants it says Dale Martin, a and can phrase their applications young middle class project officer in a way which will appeal to OFY for the secretary of state’s Op- staff are the middle class youth portunities for Youth program. who are well schooled and have He also says OFY is a human experience in this type of rhetoric. lottery and the most partisan “We are producing a generation political jobdispensing program of professional grants-men, kids under federal auspices. from universities with long The aim of the program is to training in how to deal with this era defuse any potentially-violent of public grant-giving.” group of middle class unemployed, Mr. Martin said the Local he told the Ottawa Humanist Initiatives Program aimed at adult Association Friday February 19. unemployed had found many Middle class youth who, as one unable to handle it. Humanist put it, “are more ar“There was a lag in applications. ticulate, cleverer, and know how to These people just weren’t make bombs,” see the government practised in deciding on a new idea they’d spending all this money on them like to work on and will put up with- the huge themselves.” summer unemployment rate. For many, filling out the &page Although only, one out of ten application form may have been a applicants will have his project dissuading factor, he said. approved, says Mr. Martin, the Young people who are not so well estimated 18,000 who will be versed in radical etiquette can rejected will tend to think of their ‘always try political pressure to get lack of employment as the fault of their projects approved, says Mr. their own inadequacies rather than Martin. blame the government. Applicants who know someone

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It is being brought to our attention that many faculty members are dying but refusing to fall over when they are dead. This practice must stop. On or after the current date, any faculty member found sitting up after he has died will be dropped from the payroll, i.e., within 90 days. However, where it can be proven that the said faculty member is being supported by a chalkboard, or other property marked university of Waterloo, an additional 90 days will be granted. THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.

Y If after several hours, it is noticed that the faculty member has not moved or changed position, his chairman will investigate. Because of the highly sensitive nature of academics and the close resemblance between death and their natural working attitude, the investigation is to be made verv quietly-so as not to disturb a let-

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ture. Extending a university of Waterloo pay check is the final test. If the employee does not reach for it immediately it may be reasonably assumed that he is DEAD. In some extreme cases, however, the instinct is so strongly developed that -a spasmodic clutch reflex axtion may be encountered. Do not let this fool you. l In all such cases a sworn statement must be filled out by the deceased (Policies and Procedures manual no. 65). Fifteen copies will be made, three copies to be given to the deceased, destroy the rest. a Policy and Procedures Manual no. 104 “Application for Permanent Sabbatical Leave” must also be filled out immediately by the dead employee. Be sure to include the correct information, especially the forwarding address. If he (or she> cannot write, the signature must be witnessed by two other department members, prefera blv alive. - l To ciose the case, push the bodv aside making a room -~~~ for ~-- the ---nexi incumbent.

for youth: all the way with pull in the government are more likely to get approval than those who let their applications stand on their own. “When you have 20,000 applications to deal with and some MP keeps phoning you about one, wanting to know why it was rejected, offering to improve it, and so on, you remember it. The ones you keep picking up are the ones you notice and the ones printed in red ink on green paper.” The program is shifting its emphasis this year, he said, moving from-selfish projects such as travelling and drama kroups, to projects aimed at community development. But most of these projects- are doomed to fail. “It’s like 1965 and the Company of Young Canadians all over again. If the projects work_ they embarrass the government and it has to cut them off.” But Mr. Martin doesn’t think there’s much risk of them succeeding. His own experience with the company before the government “purge” three years ago leads him to believe that sending middle class kids to organize the poor will not work. * Most attempts over the past 15 years at using middle class youth as organizers have failed.--“They either get booted out or drop out in frustration”. Mr. Martin considers himself typical of many of the OFY staffmiddle ‘class kids turned radical during college and went off to work for the CYC. Many OFY staffers are former members of the Company of Young Canadians who were forced out because they were too radical.

Editorelected David Cubberley, present features co-ordinator for the chevron, has been elected editor for the 1972-1973 year. The vote actually took the form of an-acclamation, since his only opponent for the position withdrew before the election. The final count was 34 for, one against and one staff member laughed and walked away. Cubberley is a graduate student in political science and has worked on ‘the chevron for the past two years, as entertainment coordina tor and features coordinator. He will assume his position for one year beginning May 1st.

Because of the precarious position homosexuals occupy in society, they are often subjected to the unpleasant practices of law enforcement agencies, though complaints about harassment are not exclusively restricted to them, the practice being “pretty well genera I.” Policemen often take a rather too active role in enforcing laws, handing out justice to the purported transgressor before formal charges are even laid. This problem is quite acutely felt by minority groups such as homosexuals, whose “deviance” often affronts the sense of moral propriety of the guardians of our standards, and ill treatment of the suspected offender often follows such an attack of moral revulsion. According to

Rosenberg, the attitudes of law enforcement are beginning to change, particularly with young policemen who are actively trying to understand, and who approach their job with greater objectivity and in compliance with the law. “You still find the bully policeman, but he will harass anybody” he said. This is not a phenomenon exclusive to the treatment of homosexuals, it is quite common, as anyone who has had any’ intimate contact with the police will know. The solution to the problem lies in education, but enlightenment is a very slow process when funneled through our bureaucracy. Commenting on this Rosenberg stated “theoretically the law is 25 years behind the times.” The antiquated nature of our legal system becomes blatantly obvious as he read passages from Canada’s criminal code. The prescribed punishment for buggery and bestiality (section 147) is imprisonment for a maximum of 14 years. Section 148 is even more barbaric in its penalty of ten years with flogging for the

-Co-op . conference

Education

stressed

What makes a co-operative residence function? Why is it a viable alternative to students living away from home and going to university? . These questions and others were discussed at a two-day conference on student co-op housing and student co-operatives in general. Over forty delegates from across the province and the United States -attended the conference held at I Hammer&hold House, the co-op residence on University avenue. Saturday morning the conference broke into several small groups to discuss problems of management of the co-op and how owner-members could become more involved in the process of running their co-op: Talk of an ideal situation quickly changed to the difficulties each coop was having educating its members in the running of the coop. “A huge turn-over in membership,” one delegate said, “necessitates a continuing education process. Old members can be purposedly mixed with new

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“It’s one hell of an educational problem” to change people’s attitudes regarding homosexuality.” Speaking at- a Waterloo Universities’ Gay Liberation meeting, Morly Rosenberg, a twin cities lawyer and alderman outlined the many problems faced by people who come into contact with the -antiquated legal system. , .

What do you see when you go to Toronto? Where do you go? Who do you meet? What do you experience? Do you see the cultural stagnation of o/d Yonge Street, the shops in Chinatown, the goings-ons at City Hall, the de/ays at the airport, your next door neighbours, or the nearly endless haze covering three million people? Whatever you see or experience, do you ever /earn anything new! Gord Moore, the chevron

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the ambiguous charge of gross indecency (section 149) can net you five years in prison. The tragedy of having such laws in our criminal code is compounded by the incalculable damage done to the esteem in which our laws are held. As long as such relics continue to clutter up our criminal code, the disrespect shown to our legal system will continue to grow. Laws which remain unchanged in the face of shifting social values or are selectively enforced do not breed respect for the system. “Laws are only as good as long as people will obey or enforce them” said Rosenberg, and “either you enforce the law equally or change the law.” However, the judicial system is beginning to face up to reality. One and a half years ago an act was passed whereby the punitive ethic was amended to the extent that people will be allowed to resume productive lives after serving their prison terms, without having to carry the stigma of a criminal record to the grave. Summary convictions are removed from the records after a two year period

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members. to overcome this problem.” -The aspects of co-operative living stressing equality, enthusiasm and friendliness were ways that problems with managing coops on a mass basis could be solved. The afternoon session met as a whole to express what had gone on in the morning group meetings. More general problems, such as tax concessions and the possibility of employing a full-time lobbyist on behalf of all coops in Canada were explored. Education in general was a concern of almost every delegate at tending. Co-ops were originally founded on the Rochdales principals which included a provision for education in the broadest sense. Every encounter, every experience is educational. The fuel man delivering oil .t knows something that can be learned. Getting a loan may be the best time to learn about interest rates. One co-oper concluded, “Do what is closest to you.”

problem and indictable offences are stricken from the records five years after being released from prison. A change in the bail act on January-1 of this year now requires the crown to prove that it is unlikely the accused will show up in court. Even life sentences no longer mean eternal incarceration; parole often being available after eight years detention. Courts are beginning to be more concerned about rehabilitation, but the final decision still often rests with the judge, consequently depending on his personal degree of enlightenment. In the end change must come from the young who have not completely ingrained the prejudices and misconceptions of the older generation. Rosenberg expressed concern over this in that he feels “Students haven’t been as active as I would like to see it. If you want to change society, you’ve got to educate the public by bringing your problems to the people. You can’t influence parents unless you influence the kids.” And it is in this respect that gay liberation is assuming its share of the responsibility.

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Chilliwack, hayes and heroin release, unquestionably the most When the “30 percent Canadian gifted rock group in Canada ; and if Content” regulation was imposed they don’t make it with this album, the CRTC, nationalist bY Pollyannas expected that the we all deserve to be marooned on a airwaves would shortly be desert island with the complete crackling with the explosion of our works of Grand Funk Railroad. Rita Coolidge is also a very native musical genius. What talented person, and her latest, happened? The Bells, The Poppy Family, Ocean, and zillions of Nice Feelin’ (A & M SP 4325L, would be unreservedly recomother schlock bubble-gum groups mended if there weren’t a few reared their ugly heads, proving problems with the quality of her only that our version of a mass accompaniment. The Dixie Flyers society is just as plastic as anyone are sort of a second-string Delaney else’s. & Bonnie 8~ Friends aggregation, Even before the CRTC rulings, however, Chilliwack (A & M SP and when they try to keep up on a 3509) had shown considerable “Only You Know And I know,” musical promise in their previous they suffer by comparison. The album for Paramount, notably worst offender is Sammy Creason, with a very lovely song called who just about destroys the slower “Rain-O,” which made a small numbers with his loud and insplash on FM rock stations. This drumming, and should new “twofer” set, however, is sensitive have been either mixed down or something, else again: one of the best fucking rock albums of the put in the next room. Still, a good vocalist and a year, to use a Rolling Stone-ism, revealing an incredible breadth of mediocre band can generate some Janis on Cheap talent and originality, and excitement-ala there are numerous providing a rare opportunity to Thrills-and pleasant moments here. “Nice combine nationalism with musical Feelin’ ” is a bluesy, ballsy ballad pleasure. where Rita opines that “You’re a Side One jumps off with the nice feelin’ inside me,” and I can imagine various worser fates ; ebullient “Lonesome Mary”-like “Family Full of Soul” and “If You Creedence, but better-and also Were Mine” are in a relaxed-funky includes another super ballad groove, with Rita’s cool, mellow (“Rosie”) deserving of radio play. restraining her band’s Side Two consists mostly of voice tendency to rush the tempd. “Changing Reels,” a sort of Zen Rita’s ideal space seems to be square dance, which will insinuate about midway between Carole itself into your consciousness until King and Bonnie Bramlett, and a little mental buckin’n’wingin’ with more sympathetic back-up, - will seem like just the thing. such as Booker T.‘s band on Sides Three and Four get into I’m sure some electronic sounds, which I Booker T. and Priscilla, that she is capable of a better personally recommend for the album. Not that Nice Feelin’ is a late-night, post%oital hours, when bummer ; it isn’t, but it just doesn’t reality has subsided and imagination is king. “Music For A have enough pizzazz to lead me to think that I’ll be listening to it Quiet Time” and “Night-Morning” more than occasionally. are contemplative, ethereal, But Nice Feelin’ is positively rather eerie pieces, and although I frenetic in comparison to There’s find most electronic music both A Riot Goin’ On (Epic KE30986), a contrived and mathematical, these record which exhibits the almost are intelligent and obviously complete deterioration of Sly & deeply felt compositions which The Family Stone: once a become more attractive with each delightful combination of energy new listening. and soul, the group is now just Chilliwack consists of Bill nodding its way through the Henderson, Claire Lawrence, and heroin-induced (reportedly) bum Ross Turney, three chaps who trips of Sylvester Stewart, merit your serious attention and resulting in a record which is one support. They are, with this new

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long strung-out death rattle. On the other hand, th,at segment of the Now Generation which is into Black Sabbath-style “downer rock” might really get off on all the groovy self destruction which Sly’s totally wasted voice lays out for us: Want to move. Feel so good, Feel so good, Don’t need to I feel so good. Don’t need to Don’t need to Don’t need N’Haight” )

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Words cannot convey the absolute despair of this album-five minutes of it drives me up the wall, and anyone who listens to it stoned will be playing a v&y dangerous game with his or her head. But shed a tear for Sly. I don’t think he’s coming back. Listening to Isaac Hayes’ film score for Shaft (Enterprise 2-5002)) after the above experience, is like exchanging sidkness for slickness : this may be rather innocuous music, but at least it involves some kind of celebration of life, simplistic and jejune though it doubtless is. Shaft iS one of those awful movies which has no consciousness of its awfulness, thereby rendering it inadequate as even “camp” entertainment. Hayes’ music, however, often achieves a kind of soulful elegance which won’t be everyone’s cuppa’ tea, but will appeal to those who liked his previous albums (Hot Buttered Soul through To be Continued). The “Theme From Shaft,” an AM hit, is typical: fingerpoppin’, highly repetitive guitar licks, Hayes’ cool male chauvinist vocal, the obligatory female chorus drooling in the background. About half the four sides consist of instrumentals, most of which bear an uncanny resemblance to the stuff Burt Bacharach churns out for Dionne Warwick-but “good of breed,” nevertheless. Not exactly a killer album, but still a very professional piece of work, and recommended to the Chuck Mangione-Paul Mauriat set, as well as connoisseurs of film music.

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“the Clap”, which is recorded live at the Lyceum in London. On the whole, YES is tight and continues to amaze the listener as they repeatedly change style, tempo and beat throughout the album and combine tremendous harmony with electronic effects which are not overtly loud or domineering. Hence one must vote a yes for YES and look foreward to the same degree of professionalism in their second album. The problem still remains though, that as a new emerging British group, the American audience has not been reached and therefore has not accepted such talent. As an alternative to this situation, it is up to you not to judge the merits of groups solely through the media which at the present tends to be American orientated. Listen and determine for yourself, and then go out and buy. Give the new groups a chance. Maybe \in this way, great talent which is being passed over at the moment can be recognized and enjoyed at the level it should be. Short Note The past year proved to be a good one for Lighthouse. For the first time they figured significantly on the commericial charts, and added to that success, they produced two albums which seem to be their best work so far. Due to these efforts, their appearances in our area will likely be few and far between in the future. Your chance to see one of. Canada’s top groups is coming Thursday, March 9th. On that date, Conestoga College has Lighthouse to appear at Bingeman Park’s Marshall Hall in Kitchener. Don’t miss one of the best stage performances and mtisical acts that Canada has produced. The Canadian found sound iS Lighthouse so make sure you catch their show on that date.

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North American charts. If you listen to their albums, you will find that it is not a lack -of talent or production know how that has impeded their advancement. Thereforp one must conclude that it is in the s3;stem of promotion and advertising that has subverted their chance in gaining a popular position in North american circles. Another glaring example of this type of frustration is in the story of YES. YES is English; YES is good; and YES should be for you; but who has heard of them? So far it has been all NO for YES. Their first r.ecording attemt, The YES Album (Atlantic : SD8283), was recorded in the autumn of 1970 but has received little attention since then. The merits of the album show no reason why it has taken aLmost two years for the group to surface. In the album, the six minute plus Move” stands version of “Your out as one of the best cuts. the vocal techniques of YES can be likened to the style of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. This added to the distinctive electronic arrangements through the use of moog, fuzz, echo and tremelo gives somew!at a strange but yet equally pjleasing effect to listen to. Other different methods such as running an electric guitar through leslie speakers, plus track shift and separation in recording, provide interesting listening. *The guts of the group are to be found in the performances of organist Tony Kaye and guitarist Steve Howe. Kaye on most cuts provides a throaty, rasping style which is most evident in “Yours Is No Disgrace”, “Your Move” and “Perpetual Change”. Howe switches effectively from electric to acoustic guitar and his form varies from latin-rock in “A Venture’!, to jazz in “Pekpettial Change”, to hard rock in “Wurm”. He accomplishes a stellar solo performance on acoustic guitar in

’ On reading a recent article about French Canadian rock singer Pagliario and noting a provocative statemelit he made on american influence in the recording business, I was prompted to look into the relevantie of the subject. His presented figure of 98 per cent control seems unusally high and could be due to ‘the frustration he has met with in the limited air time his first record, “Loving You Ain’t Easy” received. There is still an element of truth coming out of his viewpoint though. In some ways the CRTC Canadian content ruling has had influence in promoting Canadian music, but the success has been minimal and apparent only in the C.anadian market. Not much has been accgmplished in gaining a lucrative piece of the U.S. business, and the fact still remains that the American power does blank’et the entire North American continent. This control _ is even further reaching as the cornering of the market has a profound effect on the new releases coming from English recording artists. The established performers such as Rod Stewart, the Moody Blues, Cat Stevens, .Led Zepplin and Van Morrison still continue to sell records, but this tends to be due to the reputation that they had built beforehand. Extended UP american tours and the extensive publicity campaigns have kept these names well know to the buying public. Thus their continuing success has been evident. But what of the new emerging British groups ? For example, Emmerson, Lake and Paltier and T-Rex have topped the popularity polls in England for the past two years. Still both groups have remained virtually unplayed in the U.S. and Canada. Their recording success has amounted to only a few singles that have made it on the

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The second blues concert of the year last week was half good and half bad; fortunately, the good hqlf was the part on the stage. The friendly federation strongmen saw fit to first kick out of the people’s gymnasium those who had come early to escape the wintry blasts, and then kept everyone standing at the doors until after the scheduled beginning of the concert, 8: 30. What could be the purpose of this ? No one bothered to explain. The performers arrived late, but the crowd didn’t. As it turned out, a good part of that crowd needn’t have bothered to show up at all. They were stoned, drunk, noisy, rude and left a wasteland of cig stubs, wrappers, cans and bottles behind them on the luckily covered gym floor. Howlin’ Wolf’s band was pure nightclub hype, but the Wolf himself came on with much more liveliness than he ussually displays during his club engagements. Making sure the audience understood all the sexual underton& to his songs by graphic use of the mike, the Wolf put on an animated show ‘fer the folks.’ Freddie King and band, fresh from a recording session in Texas with Leon Russell and the Shelter stable, showed he is technically a fine guitarist, but not much more. But that was enough for that wintry night and his flying, wailing guitar runs and strong-beat sidemen picked the audience right up. Then Mama Thornton came in from Detroit late, but who cared? Mama has a way, whether it is put-on or real, of getting an audience with her, and she and Freddie swept through a program of blues standards that had the listeners on their feet, clapping along. Mama still has a good voice, and her version of “Ball and Chain” ;eminded all us white kids that Janis wasn’t the first\person to sing the blues, just the most advertised. I’m still waiting for a night of real acoustic blues, though.

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As the Chevron’s slightly spaced Entertainment Editor might say, The Who have long been one of my “fave-rave” groups, which makes their biggest hits collection, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (Decca 79184), the occasion for some reflection as to why they have achieved superduper-stardom. They are excellent musicians, of course, with drummer Keith Moon a personal choice for inclusion in the All-Time All-Star Rock Band (your entries should be typed, double-spaced.. . . >. Most of their songs are composed by Peter Townshend, resulting in a recorded output whose styllistic unity is equalled only by The Beatles, and they have never been “dedicated followers of fashion” : almost Who’s Next was retrogressive in terms of the ‘71 music scene, but was nevertheless one of the, year’s few standout albums. Beyond this, however, The Who have always seemed to be where it’s happening, picking up on the Zeitgeist while most of us were waiting for the increasingly irregular communiques from Bob Dylan before deciding whether to follow leaders or watch the parkin’meters. Roger Daltry sputtered and stuttered through “My Generation” and gave us the Instant Truth: people were trying to put us down, ‘cuz they didn’t like the way we got around.’ The postNixon-Altamont-FLQ crisis bummers were all the pain in Tommy, while the recent “Won’t get F jt.led Again” is a stunning ant1 ;rn for the spirit of ruthless self-examination which the present seems to require. ‘“- r

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contents should be quite familiar to you, although it also includes three songs (“Substitute,” “I’m a Boy,” and “Anyhow, Anywhere” > which were previously unavailable here except on british imports. Titles “My should be sufficient: “The Kids are Generation,” “The Alright, ” “Pinball Wizard,” Magic Bus” .. . . thirteen of the best from a monster group, with the usual admonition to see how many have before you may already buying. Elton John is also English, but that’s about the only thing he has in common with The Who. His latest album, Madman Across the Water (UN1 93120), reveals the sort of stagnation which results when you do your thing over and over and over again: your thing gets pretty rigid, stops growing, and becomes a parody of whatever modicum of talent you originally possessed. As another of those Instant Superstars created by the media, rather than (as with The Who) an appreciative public, Elton, John burst on the scene with one undeniable talent: he could take material as complex as “Burn Down the Mission” or as simple as “Your Song” and make them sound equally wistful. This was

very handy when we were all into wistfulness, a year or two ago, and albums such as Tqmbleweed Connection were taken to heart by hips, yips, and dips alike.

that musical and’ sexual magnetism which made Tina’s brief appearance in Gimme Shelter such an electric moment. The Turners come out of a southMadman Across the Water, western R & B tradition which is however, is probably the worst both ratier and more relaxed than produced of all his albums, and its “southern” counterpart. there are some really arcane lyrics Speaking of “rawness,” the featuring lines such as “Yesterday opening verse of “Sweet is but a long long ways away”-it Frustrations” is “I can’t keep don’t mean a thing and it doesn’t ‘from coming Even though I know swing; and it basically sounds just you go,” and since this is a family like everything else he’s ever done, newspaper we’ll cut it off right but more so. there-Tina, control yourself. I Nigel Olsson, more commonly suppose it’s another indication of known as “Elton John’s funky the unliberated state of the female drummer ,” appears on only one musician-come to think of it, track-somebody must have songs about male masturbation tipped him off-which may parhaven’t exactly been comtially explain the lethargic, unmonplace. Anybody out there know dernourished sound of the back-up of any? although rather poor This record, anyway, contains a grow, recorded sound isn’t much help lot of hard-breathing energy, and either. I really don’t know if even when Tina belts out “Tell the stone Elton John freaks will get Truth!“, the only possible much pleasure from this album, response is “I will ! ” Compared to but I am quite sure that anyone the slickness of The Memphis else can get along quite well Hogs, the Turner’s band is rather without. . pr’imitive, but they make up in After that fiasco, Ike and most enthusiasm what they lack in particularly Tina Turner are a polish. Despite- some lyrically welcome breath of fresh air. ‘Nuff weak material and a two-part Said (United Artists UAS-5530) is throwaway instrumental, ‘Nuff by no means their best album, but Said hangs together fairly well, it does contain a healthy dose of although its not quite up to the

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Sometimes the good people who operate record companies send me albums which I haven’t requested, on the sound theory that I am not omniscient and may well overli>ok some of their better’ products. Unfortunately, many of the unsolicited LP’s are pure ratshit, although there is the odd “find” (the Bonnie Koloc album, for example) which I wouldn’t otherwise encounter ; but the worst aspect of the whole business is those unbalanced peeping Toms who open ‘the packages and chuckle over my assumed poor taste. Therefore: the next person who opens a bunch of unsolicited records has to review them! And that won’t be pleasant, believe me, because you might find: Elvis Now (RCA LSP-4671): Elvis gets it on with “Hey Jude, ” “Early Mornin’ Rain,” etc. Yeecchh ! Tantamount to Treason (RCA LSP-4563) : Michael Nesmith and his Second National Band and the Carpenters are heavy by comparison. j For the World (London XPS 602) : By Spencer Davis refugees Hardin & York. Comes with an individualized “Poop Sheet.” ‘Nuff said. Levee Blues (Janus 3033) : By Pot Liquor, which must be a misspelling of Pot Licker.

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Screen violence, as we all know and love it, has taken an arresting new turn in the past year-or perhaps two new turns at once. ’ There are a few of us still living who can remember the era of the discreet fade-out, the gunshot-wounds z which-magically-allowed no blood to flow, the-/ conks on the back of the head which-instead of injuring the victim terribly-simply removed him conveniently from the plot line for a scene or two; then, at the right moment, he would shake his’head laand take out after the lowdown varmints again. Gradually, as both audiences and censors became less and less traumatized by violent outbursts in our society, directors started showing what. would actually happen to all these _actor_s if these stylized injuries occured to them. So we entered the era of the first, carefully clean, bloody violence. - . Now, the cowpoke -would-still clutch his chest when shot, but he would burst a- bag of artificial blood in doing so, and the viewers could see that he was, in- c deed, hit. In what was considered a particularly bloody milestone in 1965, a movie called “Nevada Smith” used the old standby of justified revenge in order to break a number of violence barriers. After Steve McQueen’s mother had been skinned alive and his father tortured to death, McQueen went on an Odyssy-like path of revenge, treating each of the four killers to. a uniquely gruesome death. . From ‘65 to about a year ago, explicit violence slowly built on each previous attempt, building to a seemingly untoppable (for sheer shock. effect) climax of bloody killing in Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch.” The technology of cinematic blood-letting had become quite sophisticated in the hands of men like Peckinpah, and “The Wild Bunch” was a v$rtuoso ballet of death and agony or, rather, dying and agony. His combination of realistic and super-realistic blood-spurting and cinematic+ techniques, such as slow motion interludes, was just right for the time and the audience, as was “Bonnie and Clyde” before ._ it.

Pursuit of vialence While some critics and social commentators decried the implications of an audiencetaking all this in, the audiences themselves made Peckinpah and his colleague-competitors rich and’ famous men. Cults have formed around m,en like Peckinpah and Ken Russell, with fans eagerly awaiting each new movie to see what new heights of shock can be ‘reached. But, in the past year; films have established two new directions in the pursuit of violence--the casual use of super-realistic blood-letting and the first blatant use of violence as a propaganda tool. As “ultimate” as the violence as shock value seemed to the viewers of “Nevada Smith” or “The Wild BunchY,the past year has shown that screen violence, while held to absurdly unrealistic limitations for so long; has now caught and surpassed realismjon its way to some sort of resolution. Films during the past year, such as Peckinpah’s “The Devils”, and “The “Straw Dogs”, Russel’s ’ French Connection” have. shown graphically that no ultimate has been reached; and that none is near as _ long as the competition for a more shocking movie continues to pay off at the box office.- ’ Time was when the type of people ‘who actively sought this kind of vicarious violence kept a, small but i flourishing sub-industry alive in third-rate sexandviolence theatres across the continent. NOW, that fever, has spread to include a wide enough part of the movie-going audience to allow first-run movie-makers to produce it- and first-run theatres to run it, more\ often than not to overflow ‘audiences. Those who used to inhabit the “sexiand-violence” theatres can now go see something like “Straw Dogs” at Toronto’s finest theatre, in which the slavering viewer is treated , to graphic, panting rape; mutilation; and death by fire, shotgun, strangulation, bear-trap and several other exotic means. But it is this new-found general permissiveness combined with a new flowering of propagandistic movies which have created the most intriguing films this year. The first-and perhaps strangest-of these was a low-budget. message film probably “Billy Jack”; which just took off at the box office. It set a record at many theatres, including Kitchener’s Fairview. It’s .message--a muddled com-

biilation of new:left militancy and old-line-liberal love thy neighbour-was combined with a realistic serving of violence. It said that cops and older people and rednecks are trapped in a role-playing rut ,which causes the violence in our society.

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The way “Billy Jack” took off, the expectation was for-more of the same, perhaps just more slickly produced, from the major movie houses. But, suddenly, “The French Connection” appeared, and everyone forgot about Billy Jack. -The “French Connection” showed the other side of the coin-the grubby, low-paid life of the poor cops who have to protect society from its own violence. The latest entry. in this new field, “Dirty Harry”, is an even more blatant outline of the law-and-order controversey. Clint Eastwood has abandoned his low-budget foreign westerns and portrays the stereotyped “supercop” protecting the society of San Francisco, just as “‘super-leftist” Billy Jack protected the hip*pies. Eastwood shows up everywhere in San Francisco, single-handedly breaking up bank robberies and taking on a personal vendetta against an’insane killer who is terrorizing the city. Now, this would just make for a nice, bloody, wellmade thriller except for the sudden entrance, where the end of the movie is traditionally expected, of “the political statement.” Following a series of harrowingly bloody encounters and murders, Dirty Harry brings his man _ in. This means that the killer has been brought to justice and Dirty Harry can go out after the next threat to San Francisco society, right? Wrong. Not in post-Miranda America. The slimy bastard is released even though they know he is the killer, since Dirty Harry failed to allow him- all his constitutional rights. “He’ll kill again,” says \Dirty Harry through clinched teeth, “because. he likes it.” And, yep, in order-to show up that smarty-pants ; liberal mayor and to avoid an anti-climactic half hour of film, the killer strikes again. Just for fun, he hi-jacks a busload of ‘kids and demands ransom money and a jet plane from the city. The mayor, of course, being - a spineless liberal, grants the demand.

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, f, Dirty Harry, disgusted with the”permissiveness around him, walks out when asked to take the money _to the killer. But then, Dirty Harry pulls a Matt Dillon on us and goes out to get his man, against orders. leaves no law-and-order cliche out - “Dirty Harry” of this movie, and shows no reason at all why Hamy should not be turned loose on this vicious maniac, and screw those damned constitutional guarantees. But the movie hedges all its bets on the law-andorder issue. The killer is the complete meanie; it would take a saint to remind Dirty Harry of the bastard% rights when Harry is trying tosave a young girl from dying. And Harry is always right. ‘, But -we never see Dirty Harry pulling out his miniature canon to blast demonstrators, or to bust a hippie carrying a joint or breaking a kid’s,. head because he’s stolen five dollars worth& of merchandise from a multi-million-dollar chain store. ‘All the situations in which there might be a doubt about the validity of constitutional rights are carefully kept out of the movie. And; we are never given a glimpse of Dirty Harry’s life outside of his pursuit of the killer, or even outside kis life, as a cop. Does he go to John Birch Society meetings? Does he have liberal friends when not working? Does he take bribes? We never are allowed to know or care. The advertising campaign takes full advantage of this one-sidedness, its audience’s lust for more and more blood : “This is Dirty Harry and the sadistic killer. Dirty Harry is the one with the badge,” and, _ “They don’t assign Dirty Harry to a case. ..they just turn him loose.” So, if you want to see the latest-and one of the most impressive-entry into the blood-and-guts Hollywood derby, Dirty Harry is a well-paced and well-made thriller.

a space for architecture .

Everyone seemed to agree that the school of architecture (hereafter S.A.) needed more space. The parent faculty, the Division of Environmental Studies (D.E.S.), set up a committee to look into the matter, taking the lead left by architecture’s former parent, engineering. But the road from conception to birth of a building is a long and strange one. Below is a 30-point progression dating back to 1967. It is not the complete story by any means but

A BUlLDlNG~-,FOR D.E.S. it gives the reader an idea of the processes that develop during the course of such a venture. In the centerfold, a legend of sorts id-entifies the central characters, institutions and terms

involved in the chart. Looking over before tackling progression may prove helpful. At print time, an addition to Social Sciences building diagramed inside) has been

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proved and part of the space has been allocated to S.A. The faculty and students of S.A. and D.E.S. itself are not satisfied with the final product and this feature is the result of their concern.

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To: B. Gellatly June 9, 67 From: A. Sherbourne suggest 36,000 sq. ft. for S.A ....questior need for seperate. building for S.A.

june 30,197l From: E. Lappin Architect ut-eY191_6!I!0 sq. _ Georgraphy-12,300 sq. tt. Planning: 14,500 sq. ft. M.E.-6,500 sq. ft.

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project the S.A. building of 26,000 sq. 1-1 ft. “to be built as planned”...geog. and man env. and planning to take over

To: P. Nash dec. 8,70 From: G. Rich architecture “studio space is crowded and faculty offices are smaller than the generally accepted university standards.”

feb 18, 72 D.E.S. students meet and elect own r user committee...prepare brief calling for deferment of building approval and architect-user confrontation...to be

To: All members of O.A.A. feb 15,72 From : O.A.A. Professional Educational Committee Report u of w new building appears “will not provide sufficient space for the

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iittee brief presented to executive committee and decision deferred until feb

march 23,70 To: J. Minas From: T. Bjornstad architecture building postponed to 1973...makes a plea for space...states fear school may not have room for fall admissions

To: T. Bjornstad Jan. 29,69 From: H. Petch “predicted space requirements seem quite reasonable...we are going to need this space urgently...”

Feb 13, 72 S.A. forms users committee and formulates brief pleaing for temporary deferment of building approvaI...plea to be presented to special b.E.S. executive committee feb 14.

Gazette, feb. 2, 1972, page 2 “environmental studies buildings w be delayed to the fall of 1974 (one ye; later than previously hoped for).“B.C. Mattews.

To: H. Petch Jan. 30, 69 From: W. Lobban “...the space requested (by T. Bjornstad) is necessary and in compliance with current university standards.”

Tb: uofw feb. 5, 70 From : D.U.A. final approval officially not received for long term capital development of u of w S.A. building, provincial assistance of , 1.36 million Afternoon of feb 8, 72 building committee refuses to hear results of S.A. Mathers and Haldenby meeting...vote to accept sketch drawings as presented...Rich resigns as chairman of committee

To: T. Bjornstad june 11, 69 From : D. ‘Shadbolt, Director, S.A., Carleton u of w space allocations “considerably low”...predicts “dog-fight within the university” over space .

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From: Mathers and Haldenby feb 1,72 intend to meet with S.A. on feb. 8...“location (of addition) is result of u of w direction to provide an all-weather connection between the Isaiah Bowman and Psychology buildings.”

met S.A. faculty and students feb. 8...outline criticisms noting studio space inadequacy criticism and other complaints which are detailed

To: A. Adlington May 6,69 From: T. Bjornstad building committee representatives 1 1 named: S.A. sends Smale and Thompson; D.E.S. sends Erb and Rich

data...mar. 12, 69 projected that architecture building will be completed in 1971 .at estimated cost of 1.721 miIIion...area (gross)39,000 sq. ft. I

I To: P. Robertson May 6,69 From: T. Bjornstad surprised at Robertson’s suggestion of Seagram’s Gym as location for S.A....“I thought it was settled we were going to

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S.A. building issue. Then they had to convince the executive committee to direct the building physical committee to direct

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home at MacMaster for their league championships. The warriors came in third overall behind Toronto and Western. This was a great jump up the ladder for the squad which was sixth last year. The complete results aren’t available at press time but-the men evidently went alI out and gave Western a real run for their money; Some things didn’t go as planned however. Team captain George Roy was the only .warrior to make it to next weekends nationals slated for Quebec City. George won the 1650 swimming a great race however it was thrown by Toronto swimmer Mike Guinness. Guinness, who is one of Canada’s best distance men swam about sixty lengths and then stopped hung onto the lane lines and watched George and another Toronto swimmer pass him. He then took off behind so he could come in third blocking out another Warrior from. this spot, dropping the.,?warrior just far enough down the point table so he is an alternate competitor and will only go to the nationals unless there is sickness ’ to <another person . Evidently this kind of unethical and unsportsmanlike conduct of having one good Toronto swimmer throw a race so a poorer teammate would qualify to go to Quebec City was the so called ‘coaching strategy' of Robin Cambell. N ee dl ess to say it does little good for the sport of swimming‘ and is likely to cause great harm for who wants to compete in a sport where the best go out for a bath. Maybe T oronto should read a little about. the sport of boxing. Taking a dive in the first round is not uncomm n although of course denied. NOW Rr e ’ have a way to do the same thing in swimming. More may be reported on this in Friday’s chevron in a detailed report on both meets and when this reporters blood cools down to 98.6 To finish off swimming on a more pleasant note, when 15 team records and 70 personal bests can be broken in two days there is little’ doubt that the Warriors, gave maximum. plus effort and with the depth and type of athlete on the

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-_ Basketball playoff action began last night with 8 teams in the preliminary round. The top two teams in-each league advance to the finals tonight in Gym 3. Tomorrow Wednesday march 1st the 4 ._1 powers:(lst place team) play the winners of 6:00 pm the first’ round at 7:00 pm in court 1. St. ‘L. Math vs V&South . ?? 6:45 pm St. Jer vs PE & Ret yc Jeromes plays the winner of series A either 7:30 pm Env. Studies or St. Jeromes Indep. team. Two Losers in Consolation 8:15 pm Two Winners in Championship. On. court 2 at the same time, Phys,Ed and Ret take on the winner of Coop vs Coop Math A. At 8:30 pm action will be highdn court 1 as _ Village 2iNW challenge the winner of the Arts Prediction: Village , ’South vs PE & Ret in the vs Upper Eng game whiie on court 2, Finals. defending champions Lower Math will be En&y deadlines in the men’s broomball and battling the winner of the Village South/ mixed volleyball tournaments have been Renison game. ’ extended until tomorrow - Wednesday,-march , The winners of these quarter final games -\ 1st. r play each other on monday, march 6th in the Mixed volleyball tournament will ‘be held semi-finals starting at 7 :00 pm. Probably at Wednesday march 1st from 6:30 pm on. All j 7 : 00 pm St. Jeromes ,will be/playing Village 2teams are asked to be there sharp at 6:30 pm. - .NW andat 8: 30 pm Phys Ed and Ret playing Men’s broomball tournament will start Lower Math. (These are predictions only,) monday, march 6th at Moses at 11: 10 pm. All The. championship game ‘is to be wedteams are asked to check with the intramural nesday, march 8th at 8:30 pm in the main r’ office at ext 3532 or room 2049 physical ac\ ’ gym. tivities before monday to check ‘when you The championship game will be preceded play. _. . by a-challenge - game iputting -our All-Stars versus Rookie Warriors. Both games are’ a benefit night for the Fat Angel Drop-In Centre. A collection will be made at the game. Prediction: St. Jeromes vs Lower Math in the final.

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-Although the recreational level of the program is designed. to - be a fun activity oriented program, some participants have expressed interest in league standings. It has been found that keeping .a tally of the game results also has produced fewer defaults and a better league for everyone. Ball hockey which was scheduled as a y competitive league in the-fall term was tried as a recreational sport this winter with good results but the competitive aspect is still there. Recreational hockey has once again been -j very successful with very few defaults and a well balanced league.

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The women% intramural scene has been rather inactive due to the number of varsity games that have been scheduled in the -physical activities building lately-however tonight, tuesday february -29th will see the girls back in action. The women’s intramural basketball playto tuesday, .Y offs are the main action tonight with the first 3 ’ The date has been changed games scheduled for 7 iO0 pm. On court 1 Phys march 7th. Commencing at 6 : 00: pm in gym 1 Ed & Ret will meet ‘the &on-g team from St. & 2 of the physical activities build$g . All -Jerry’s, both teams have some good potential entries must be in by monday, march 6th. but St. Jerry’s is favoured to take the Jocks in Anyone/group on campus who has a table Exact standings in hockey are not final as this one, On court 2 another good competition tennis table and is willing to have it used for there are-a few important games to be played; \ is scheduled between St. Pauls and Village 2the tournament please contact the intramural However, the play-off draw is decided as office immediately. Minimum of 10 tables are ’ East. Both these teams are strong and the‘ \ follows: * .game could go either way. necessary for a successful tournament. Tues Feb 29th . . ’ ’ There is a great deal riding on these games + Queensmount Arena - Quarter Finals for the two church college teams. Only a few 9- 950 pm U. Eng vs Vl-S A points separate St. Pauls ND St. Jeromes in lo+-lo:50 pm Arts vs St. Pauls/Ren. B _ the race. for the Brownie Trophy -and it is 111-11:50 pm V2-SE vs PE & Rec/U.M C expected that the team thatplaces the highest -12-12:50 am St. Pauls vs Opt/E.Studies Din the basketball will take the trophy. - Another successful year for the University The championship game will take place at of Waterloo curling club is fast coming to an Thur M+rch 2 Moses Springer - Semi-finals 8 : 00 pm between the winners of the 7 :00 pm end. As some of you curlers- may know a 10 : lo-I1 : 30 pm Winner of B. vs; Winner of C games. It should be a good night of basketmixed bonspiel and party is planned for 11:30- 1:OO am Winner-of A vs Winner of D ball. Saturday, march 18th. .However due to unThursday night% co-cd volleyball tournafortunate circumstances our .originally Sun March 5th Moses Springer - Finals -merit ,is the last major event for women this booked ice for the 18th is not available. But do j 10 : IO-11 :45 pm Winner of the Semi-finals term. so gals get together with one of the _ not fear the party, shall still go on, its just 11:45- 1:OO am MIAC/WIAC Broomball game men’s intramural units, and enter a team. going to start a day and a few hours earlier This’is always a good wind up event so be-than planned. That’s right our year end party there. Team entries are.due Wednesday at the Prediction: Upper Eng vs Arts in the final. will be on friday, tiiwch 17th: _ intramural office: -\ ,e.. I .- _ tuesday, february \

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Win over Windsor l for basketball consolation The gals from the university of western Ontario realized a season of tremendous effort and hard work when they left Waterloo on Saturday carrying with them the basketball championship of the newly formed OWIAA league. The climactic tournament was hosted by the University of -Waterloo and the people’s gymnasium saw Western take . three consecutive victories from Ottawa, McMaster and Laurentian. The win &earned the London crew a trip to Saskatoon for the first national women’s basketball championship. The consolation round was ‘all-athenas’ as the home-town team came up with four big victories over York, Guelph, Queens and-Windsor to take the consolation crown. Championship/round

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The biggest upset of the- weekend took place on Friday during the first round of play when Western defeated the favoured Ottawa girls by a whopping score of 77-56. This was perhaps the turning point of the weekend as the surprising win for Western seemed to set the pace for the eventual winners and added to their confidence going into the final rounds. In the other opener, McMaster fell to defeat at the hands of the powerful Laurentian team. Saturday’s play saw the university of Ottawa pitted against their season-rivals, Laurentian. Both teams exhibited an exciting and well controlled style of play which left sbservers clinging to their seats. . During the last two minutes of play, the score remained tied at 48-48 for what seemed to be an hour, and the clock finally ran out with neither team being able to break the deadlock. Going into five minutes of overtime, Ottawa had four of their five top players fouled out and were not able to keep pace with the fast moving Laurentian forwards who added an easy ten points to win the match. The Macaster-Western encounter proved to be no match; for the eventual champions as they ran away with ‘the game 73-53. The final game between Western and Laurentian got off to a very slow beginning with both teams scoring sparingly. Laurentian appeared to have difficulty moving the ball offensively and were unable to get the needed inside shot. ,

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The second quarter became a breakaway for Western as thev added 20 points to Laurentian’z six. At this point, the effects of the morning game began to show as Laurentian appeared to be a very weary team. The second half saw a confident, fastbreaking Western team take control, shooting consistently as well as showing staunch defensive teamwork. Laurentian were not out of the game however, and outscored their opponents 26-25, but that was not enough to make up for the firsthalf lag. Laurentian’s #national-team-member Kathy Williams did most of the work for the underdogs but couldn’t match the total team-work of the Western gang. . The final’ buzzer sounded with Western boasting a 26 point ’ lead and the league championship. Final score 57-37. Mary kiezebos and Beth Johnston were big shooters for the winners.’

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The consolation round proved just as exciting as the championship game with the expected top teams Waterloo, Queens, Windsor and Toronto advanced to the semi-finals. In the opening game against York, Waterloo took an easy ‘50-33 win which advanced them to a game against nearby Guelph. The gryphonettes made the hometown girls work hard for a last minute victory. Jani Meyer pulled the team together and added two vital points from the foul line to engineer the 3point Waterloo win. The victory sent the athenas into the semifinal round against Queens. The Waterloo women were caught off balance and sunk to a seven-point deficit at the half. The latter half of the game saw the athenas come alive using an aggresive offense to control the game. The team put together a not-too-oftenseen team effort and good strategy to come away with a deserving 61-55 victory. The other semi-final was dismal for Toronto who dropped a 46-38 match to Windsor. The athenas met Windsor in an unexciting consolation final. The first quarter was a see-saw battle for points, but by the half the Waterloo team had a substantial 24-18 lead. \ Foul trouble for the visitors and an increased Waterloo shooting accuracy resulted in a sound 57-32 win for the home club. Patti Bland was high scorer with 15 points while Mary-anne Krzyzanowski and little Loretta McKenzie (who we look forward to seeing next vear) each netted 8. Bland trailed Lynne Garvil of Toronto and Karen Fleming of Windsor for third place in scoring in the consolation round.

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The championship tournament matched the eastern division, represented by Toronto, York and Carleton universities against the western division. which was represented by McMaster, Western and Waterloo. On the first day of the championships the athenas defeated‘ Carleton and York but were disappointed in their loss to Toronto. Saturday, the athenas won their game against McMaster but again had to accept defeat from Western. In the final standings of the round-round tournament, Western had 5 wins with, no losses while McMaster, Waterloo and Toronto tied with a 3-2 win-loss record. Due to their defeat over Toronto, McMaster played Western in the final match. The London gals emerged victorious in their easy win of two consecutive games. McMasteP, Waterloo and Toronto were awarded second place based on the number of games won. The athenas bid fond adieux to. Jan Roorda and Penny Green. Both girls played their last college v-ball at the tournament. In assessing retrospectively their 71-72 season, the v-ballers extend. much appreciation to all those who assisted or spectated at their games.

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The university of Waterloo athena badminton team was very successful in their efforts at the third part of the OWIAA badminton tournament held at the university of Toronto last weekend, February 18 and 19. The team came a close second to Toronto in overall points but nevertheless were able to capture three out of nine championships. Ellen Hunter and Maggie Cunningham played an excellent round of badminton throughoutall three parts of the league play -i and won respectively the first and second singles championships over the toronto girls. The two then went on to win the first doubles championship again defeating Toronto, who had to be satisfied with only one championship in the tournament. The other four members of the team Maureen Smith, Wendy McKeigan, Deb Dudgeon and Nancee McDonald played very well at toronto, and throughout the entire season as well, but were unable to win any other championships for Waterloo. Although unable to win ,first place, Maureen tied with Toronto for third place in the division of third singles, and Wendy placed fifth in the division of fourth singles. The two girls played to ther in second doubles and took fourt place in . ,f this event. Nancee and Deb, although playing well, were not able to accumulate enough points to try for first place positions due to the illness of a former team member, Brenda McCannon, who had been in the fifth :‘A singles slot. Because of the ruling of the league, any points won by Brenda and Deb as a doubles team could not be transferred to the new team of Nancee and Deb for the individual championship. Deb, who. took over her _ points in this event either, nor could Nancee benefit from the points Deb had already won in sixth singles. This meant that both Nancee and Deb lost as many as three points, out of nine possible, when they went into the final two parts of the - 4.tournament. The final positions for these girls had not been determined at the end of play on the weekend but their points helped a lot in giving Waterloo its second place standing with 65 points to Toronto’s first place with L 69 points. The ruling of the league affected only the individual standings and not the team, standings. The team’s coach, little Miss Judy Moore, was very pleased with the results of the team and is confident that Waterloo ‘4 will continue to be a serious threat to the first place Toronto team next year.

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In the second game of the same day the warriors‘played the university of Florida ‘Gators on another field, this one much drier and located beside Tulane Stadium, site of this year’s Superbowl. The Warriors played well in the first half, completely dominating the game except in the early minutes when Florida scored a try and converted it.

TOUCHDOWN! The Windsor halfback takes the handoff, charges through the Waterloo line and hits across the goal-line in last week’s playoff game in the people’s gymnasium. Or was it just the refereeing that made it seem like football? Whatever the game, Warriors came up two points short.

’ Pucksters close season early with loss... For the first time in “years”, the hockey Warriors have hung up their skates before an OUAA champion has been declared. The Warriors finished their season at McMaster on Saturday when they lost 6-l. For the Warriors it was a frustrating year, the team played inconsistent hockey, demoralizing league contenders one night and then giving up on other nights and getting clobbered badly. In their i’ team Western Division they scored only 70 goals, second lowest (to Brock). In the goals against column they allowed 89 goals which was the 3rd highest in the division.

In 18 games they played less than ,506 brand hockey with their final year’s record of 7 wins, 10 losses and 2 ties. If it is any consolation, they finished ahead of Lutheran !

For those who are still interested in the hockey scene, the play-offs run like this : In each of the Eastern and Western Sections, the team ending in fourth spot plays at the home of the team that finished first; the team that finished third plays at the home of the team that finished second. This takes place Tuesday March 7th. On Friday March 10th the respective winners then play off at Varsity Arena, T.O. That is the 4 vs. 1 winners play each other and the 3 vs. 2 winners play off. The two winning teams then play for the OUAA Championship on Saturday, March 11th again at Varsity Arena. From the East, the teams involved in the play-offs appear to be: York, Toronto, Ottawa and Laurentian. In the Western Division the top four teams are: Guelph, Western, Windsor and McMaster. (Toronto has an obvious home town advantage! ) ‘Fans were well aware of the many frustrations that were apparent with the club this year.. Compared to last year’s squad, the season was far from entertaining for either fans or the players. AS one prominent Warrior put it after their final game at Mat where. they were soundly trounced 6-1, “I actually cried after our last game last year; but this year, well I’m just awful damn glad this season has finally ended.” At the start of the season a report came out of Waterloo that went something like: It looks like a rebuilding year for the U. of W. Warriors, according to Head Coach B. McKillop. “We have some holes to fill, whether or not we can do it in one season remains to be seen.”

It appears that the team ‘did not get lit together, struggling both internally and on the ice. It is not really sour grapes, being a rebuilding year, but it is hoped that some building will eventually occur, hopefully now, this summer, and in September when the hockey warriors try to entertain the local fans for another season.

Annual rugger trip to New Orleans... The rugger warriors have just returned from a trip to New Orleans where they took part in the Mardi Gras Invitational Rugby Tournament sponsored by Tulane University. Ten teams took part in this year’s tournament ranging from Florida and Texas to Brantford, our warriors and Boston. In its first game against the Tulane University First Team the Warriors were experiencing difficulties. The field was mud, the Warriors tired from a long bus trip, out of shape, and unpractised. It showed. They handled the ball sloppily. They did not function together. They gave many breaks to the Tulaners that shouldn’t have been given. But they were fighting. Early in the game Tulane scored a try and converted it (under tournament

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Close to the end of the half Florida drew a penalty which was kicked in for a field goal to make the score 4-3 in favour of Florida. During the first half and the second half the warriors did every thing but score. A few times the Florida team showed signs of taking over the game but the warriors were pushing so hard for the win that the best they could do was effectively block the warriors. In the last minutes of the game as that single point began to be more and more important, the Warriors pushed and pushed and pushed until at last they ran in what was thought to be a try but the referee ruled the game had already ended.So the Warriors lost their second game of the tournament. The loss of the second game eliminated the warriors from any further games but the Brantford Harlequins who had come down to New Orleans with the Warriors had won both their games and would play the next day against Texas AM&A. By the next day the field had dried up considerably. The game got under way at three in the afternoon. Texas, as in all the popular stories, was big. They completely dominated the game in the beginning and ran in two tries, only converting one of them. Texas was fast and big and the Canadians at the game began to lose hope of a Canadian victory. But Brantford struck back. On a strum down close to the Texas goal, Brantford ball, the Brantford strum half faked that the ball had come out of the strum. In rugger when the other team comes across the line before the ball is out of the strum the team with the ball gets a penalty kick. The florida breakaway saw the Brantford strum half apparently take the ball out of the strum and went across the line offside. Brantford easily kicked the field goal.

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In the second half Texas again drew a penalty close to their own goal which Brantford kicked for another field goal. The score was now 7-6 and Brantford had taken control of the game. Then the final irony. Texas again drew a penalty close to their goal. Brantford kicked it and the linesman (a member of the Texas team) called it in. But the referee called it out. After this Brantford began to show the signs of non-condition and Texas was again able to play on. the offensive, but were unable to score although they came close at a number of occasions. The game ended 7-6 with Texas winning the tournament .

Basketballers *, downed by upstart Windsor lancers One week ago today the B-balling warriors’ assault on the national title came to an unexpected end. The season was over for them, when the lowly Windsor Lancers edged the Warriors 83 to 82 in the sudden death playoff game. Through the first half of play, the Waterloo team seemed to usually be in control but could never amass much of a lead. At the break the score showed 40-43 in our favour. Second period action continued in much the same fashion in the early going, until the Lancers rallied to knot the score at 66 a side. The Warriors couldn’t shake off the pesky Windsorites the rest of the game, as the scoring remained even until the very end. With one minute remaining the Waterloo squad found themselves behind by -one point. They had plenty of chances to go ahead but each time they were foiled, as often as not by their own mistakes. Finally after the Lancers successfully stalled away the last 24 seconds, Windsor had won it 83-82. For Windsor Tino Lenti lead his team mates with 21 points. The rest of the points were fairly well distributed among the others who scored. Jaan Laaniste was tops for the Warriors with 26, followed by Ed Dragon who netted 21. For Jaan, it was his last game in a Waterloo uniform. Unlike the rest of the Warriors, he can not return next year for I another try.

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feedback j BC fallacies There have recently appeared in the Chevron a number of attacks upon the staff, the philosophy, and the activities of the Birth Control Center. These attacks were so obviously dogmatic and inaccurate that most students will perceive them for what they are. Ordinarily, a reply would be a waste of time; however, too many of the people seeking help from the Birth Control Center have not seen the fallacies in similar arguments in time to prevent considerable grief. So for those who found the attacks convincing, here is the reply. Abortion is.’ in some cases, a kind, Christian act. Babies should be born to love and joy or not at all. Abortions stop an enormous amount of suffering and grief. Therapeutic abortions are common and legal in Canada. Because of these facts, a number of Christian churches have admitted that abortion is a matter of individual conscience-which it always was. Yet if you look more closely, abortion is really not the issue. If our critics just wanted the Birth Control Center to stop giving out information concerning abortions, they. could stop us very easily. People who don’t get pregnant don’t want abortions. People who practise effective birth control don’t get pregnant. And people who feel free to obtain and to use birth control information usually do it. So all our critics have to do to put us out of business is to encourage everyone to find out about effective birth control techniques. Now why haven’t our critics tried this if abortion is so offensive to them? Wouldn’t it be more effective and more Christian than making vicious remarks about people seeking our help? Could it be that some of our critics regard extramarital sex as so sinful as to deserve the punishment of bearing an unwanted, illegitimate child? Well, let’s hope they don’t have this problem. But if they do, there’s no reason why you should suffer for their unchristian attitudes. The Birth Control Center’s policy is to give you the information and to let you decide for yourself what to do about it. If you’d like to find out how we treat visitors, why don’t you flock on over, mill about and find out for yourself if we-or anyone else-is trying to fleece you? Doug Atchison Centre) grad psych

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Que sais-je? Une des questions les plus fondamentales de la philosophie; la . question de la connaissance humaine. C’est la qu’en janvier nous avons commence un nouveau demi-tours du ‘extype perimental’. Ce tours, Phil. 151 (Introduction a la Philosophic) est ensiegne en francais ce semestre Jose fiuertas-Jourda, Par professeur de Philosophie a l’.Universite de Waterloo. Les textes que nous et&ions sont entre autres ; “la Philosophie du Langage” de Louis Lachance, un Jesuite du Canada, “Les Meditations” de Descartes, ’ ‘Trai te des Sensations” par Condillac etc.. .jusqu’a Bergson. La lecture des testes et les discussions sont condutites en francais.

11 n’y a qu’une etudiante qui suit, ce tours ce semestre. Tant mieux pour l’etudiante. Malgre le peu d’inscrits, j’espere que cette experience reussira et que la Phil. 151 sera offerte l’annee prochaine pour que tous les etudiants de francais et tous les francophones qui s’interessant a la philosophie auront ainsi 1‘occasion de pratiquer leur francais en meme temps qu’ils etudieront la philosophic. K. Elsworthy

Chinese new year I would like to make comment on this year’s annual Chinese new year’s party which was held on february 13. The event was organized by the Chinese student association and cost one dollar and fifty cents for members and two dollars for the rest of us poor unsuspecting folk. On sitting down in the food services building waiting for the meal, I observed that there was equipment set up for the local band Walrus. That just did not seem to ’ fit the scene, a rock band at a Chinese new year’s party. We were then asked to go and line up for our meal, which ‘arrived at the end of an assembly line of about eight to ten people. On top of that the dessert turned out to be “rice crispy squares’ ’ for Chinese new year !‘! ! The final insult came when I sat down to eat this meal and to my dismay it was cold. I attempted to eat it but failed miserably and managed a mere two-fifths of the meal. I quickly consumed the high point of the meal (ice water) and left. Christ, I hate to find things out the hard way. A total rip-off! ! ! ! Paul John arts I

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Carry-on nursmg A friend of mine had a very s&e throat last weekend, so on monday she went to health services. A nurse looked at her throat, and gave her a doctor’s appointment for thursday. By Wednesday, her throat was worse (she was even coughing up blood), so she went back to health services. The nurse recognized her,.and asked why she was back again. She explained that her, throat was twice as bad as before, and the nurse,‘after looking at it 7 agreed, and told her to come in on Thursday. At this point she started taking someone else’s penicillin, not a smart move, but necessary. On thursday, she saw the doctor, and explained about the penicillin. He agreed with her about taking it ( ! ), and apologized about the nurses. Apparently, he had told the nurses many times to sent the students with sore throats right in, since it only takes two minutes to look at the throat, and prescribe some drugs if necessary. Apparently, the nurses haven’t listened to him. When is something going to be done about those fucking nurses. We don’t have to be putting up with shit like this, and this is far from the first time anything like this has happened. Bruce Smith Math :{a 884-iwi

/Science desperate /v needs ‘reform The more often I heard him, the more clear it became that David Suzuki was confused, inconsistent and worried. And 1~was happy to discover this, for this other middleaged scientist identifies with him, in spite of my lowly scientific station and my unswitched-on appearance. In fact it is inconeivable that any scientist with a social conscience would be anything but confused, inconsistent and worried about science’s contribution to the world’s mess. I wish however to examine here three areas which David did not clarify to my satisfaction. In reply to a freshman’s plea “what can we do”, he confessed that one does not find out how bad things are in science until you are well into it. I suspect the same is true of medicine, figure-skating and Toronto city politics. But the dilemma is that one has to participate in, contribute to and therefore proliferate the abominable morass and become famous like Suzuki before anyone will listen. At a recent meeting in Boston the distinguished American Chemist Carl Djerassi abandoned his topic to harangue 2,000 Chemists for two hours for their unsensitivity to the pressing need for better contraceptives. If an Assistant Professor had dared to do this, he would have been flushed down and forgotten with the rest. His only salvation is that he would never have been on the podium in the first place. Secondly, it seemed to me that Suzuki somehow blamed scientists for the ostracism of Linus Pauling whose only crime was a persistent plea for peace. A student at the time, I watched this brilliant, angry benign man battle a and repressive calculating government and I said-if I may update my parlance-Fight on Linus! But the problem as I see it, is that the quest for peace even in

this technological age is overwhemingly a political one. Oh that scientist were as liberal as C.P. Snow told my generation that they were. But the fact is that for every Pauling who says “Peace” there is a reactionary sonofabitch like Teller (also a distinguished scientist) to shriek “War”. I suggest that the violence visited on Linus is typical of the way America rewards its finest iconoclasts be they Paul Robeson, Angela Davis or the Fathers Berrigan. 3 The third area is most important since it strikes at the very heart of Suzuki’s commitment., Science is too important to leave to scientists he says, hence his T.V. campaign to “open science to the public” so that they can make the important decision touching upon their lives. Now while I believe that there is a pressing need for more parlour science, it is nonsense, and even dangerous, to suggest that the public will thereby be equipped to make critical scientifictechnological judgements. I anticipate shrill abuse of scientific arrogance, elitism and other assorted activist bullshit, so I hasten to furnish one example. Two distinguished Canadian chemists, Gunning of Alberta and Wright of Toronto who between them have over seventy years experience working with mercury have separately rejected much of the evidence claimed to indicate mercury pollution. Even though I am also a chemist, I would need some time to research the area, before I chose a side to support in this chemical controversy. Add to this the controversies surrounding nuclear testing, water pollution, DDT poisoning, cyclamates, Amchitka, phosphate contamination, nutriments in cornflakes, side-effects of the pill, LSD and chromosome damage, caffeine and chromosome damage and the inflammability of oven bags and I

An open letter to -prof Cummings feels that I have just received a copy of the and, if your department then list of textbooks required to be this would be impossible, make the course optional before read by my class in our summer our 2B term so that we may “drop” term, 2B. As was the case with and “add” ‘Arsimilar lists in 1B and 2A, I was Iconography thoroughly shocked by the chitecture. workload placed upon us, * the Sincerely yours, students, by a %-credit course. Wilfried Lunde From the insistence of your department on giving us, the students, an ever increasing reading load, (now 15 volumes per 14 week term), I sense that your Concerning the recent Radio department is as yet unaware of article in which Tom the mounting discontent of the Waterloo McDermott et al came up smelling majority of my classmates with the existing course. In general, I like roses at the expense of Gerry find that the students feel the Cooke, allow me to point out that the actions attributed to Mr. Cooke persuance of their core course, took place last summer/autumn Architecture, should receive more over the basic attention, especially since the due to conflict philosophy of Radio Waterloo. credit value of this course is three At the recent meeting, there was times that of the Iconography unamimous agreement on the z course, and, even more important, structure of Radio Waterloo and since the students intend to persue Architecture, or at least an Ar- Gerry Cooke was voted into his position by experienced chitectural education. However, it present and new members alike. seems that it is the Iconography course which, along with five-hour McNaught examinations, has now become the Lawrence course to pass if a student wants to Arts pass the course in Architecture at the university of Waterloo. However, I do not insist that the ’ workload be decreased. I would instead like to request that the Iconography course be made ,worry ahout finding optional after first year, if this is at the answer, as long as all possible. Personally, I see some relevance s in the course, and I you’re asking the right would continue taking it if the questions. See page 18. reading load were realistic enough. This, in turn, may involve reducing the reading load to one half or one third the present level,

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venture to say that only a maxiscientist or a- fool would hope to judge with competence in such diverse areas. No David, only scientists can make -scientific judgements, and we cannot weasel out of our collective guilt and responsibility by this skilful, shameful rip-off. Scientists will have to go where the action is-namely in the political arena. We shall have to convince our undergraduates that they can serve science and humanity in the legislature as well as in the laboratory. It is not only bumptious lawyers who can .be politicians; and let them not fear the fray, for legislative politics can hardly be more relentless than university politics.

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Finally lest my position in offering these views be misunderstood let me say Right on David ! for science desperately needs reform. Perhaps your present experiment will not provide the answer but don’t give up. Just as in science, your results will go into the “literature” and another generation of scientists less confused, inconsistent and worried than our own will thank you for having done the r- experiment.

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TTAWA-A pattern has begun to emerge in the Canadian transport commission’s continuing series of rulings on the requests by the two gian_t railways torrid themselves of the obligation to provide passenger service. The key word is ‘rationalization’. The commiss~ion has refused, first with the services between \ transcofltinental Montreal Toronto and Vancouver and now with the service between Montreal and the Maritimes, to allow immediate discontinuance. This is a concession to public opinion and the public interest that can be taken as a sign that the campaign to save rail passenger service is having some effect. But in the name of rationalization, the commission is permitting changes designed to decreases the attraction of rail passenger service -to the public, drive passengers to other modes, and provide evidence for the railways’ claim that no one wants to ride the trains anyway. The latest decision, issued february 8, involves Canadian Nati-onal’s service between Montreal and Halifax and Canadian Pacific’s service b,etween Montreal and Saint John, along with several shorter runs connecting-with such places as Sydney, N.S., Yarmouth, N.S. and Caspe, Quebec. What happens to these services will affect. virtually all of Nova New Brunswick and eastern Scotia, Quebec to some degree. Together with the longer and more glamorous transcontinental runs, they form the spine of Canada’s rai I passenger network. -

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As the commission figures show, the trains are heavily used. It-i 1970, a daily average of more than I200 people travelled each of the three portions of the CN run between Montreal and Campbellton, NB, 852 people travel led between Campbellton and -Moncton, 814 between Moncton and Halifax, 386 between Truro and Sydney; even the sparsely-populated area between New Carlisle and Caspe on the CJaspe peninsula attracted 151 passengers a day. However, again according to the commission’s figures, the trains are hopeless money-losers (although they don’t lose quite as much as the railways would have us believe: in its calculations the commission knocked more than $3 million off CN’s 1970 loss claim of $16 million, and almost $400,000 off CP’s claim of $2.6 million). Thus, by the commission’s definition of the term, the services are ‘uneconomic’, and it says they are likely to continue to be sb. But they are also ‘neces.,ary in the public interest’ and hence the commision has no choice: it must refuse the railways’ applications for abandonment of the services and subsidize them to the extent of eighty per cent of their losses.

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So that is what it decided. But it also issued a call, similar to the invitation of about a year ago in the case of the transcontinental services, for “assTst( ante) in developing a plan for improvements in the Maritimes-Montreal passenger-train And there is reason to fear that services.” what will come out will not be an ‘improved’, nor yet a ‘rationalized’ service, but simply a downgraded one. The commission says that “if the submissions it receives on the MontrealMaritir&es services “are as imaginative and innovative as those received on the Montreal-Toronto-Vancouver services, (it) will be better able to assist the railways to provide an improved service at the same or [ower cost.” Most of the proposals of which the’ commission spoke approvingly in its november interim report on the transcontinental services were in themselves unexceptionable. Looking at the transcontinental railway service in isolation, it is difficult to argue with the proposition that there should be one station in cities such as Montreal where there are now two, or that only on@ train should run on portions such as that between Kamloops and Vancouver where the two services now duplicate each other. There are ‘rational’ proposals and will contribute toward the commission’s goal of reducing the railways’ passenger deficits. But railway service is the only mode of passenger transportation that is expected to even come close to paying for itself. Here some comparitive figures are interesting. The losses on the Maritime services amount to $18.6 million, which means that it will cost the taxpayers 614.9 million to subsidize them. The total- losses claimed by the railways for 1970 amount to $108 million which, if accepted fully by the commission, would mean a subsidy of $86.4 million. If thecommission continues down the path it is now following, it will urge the railways to cut those losses by any means short of outright abandonment of the services.

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Similar scenarios have been acted out before. When CP wanted to drop its second transcontinental train, the Dominion, in 1965 and the board of transport commissioners, predecessors to the present commission ,, was a bit hesitant, it simply dropped its sleeping and dining cars and ran an engine, a baggage car and two coaches out of Montreal. The passengers stayed away, the BTC became sweetly reasonable, and the Dominion died.

At the same time, for the fiscal year ending march 31, 1971, the department of transport announced a deficit of $160 million on its air services. Fully 63.6 cents out of every department of transport dollar went into air services-16.7 of those cents into the Montreal and Toronto airports. By contrast, only 17.4 cents on the dollar of departmental revenue (79.7 per cent of which comes from the taxpayers) is attributable to rail services. Neither the department not its creature, the Canadian transport commisssion, questions the need for w.hat amounts to a SIOO-million-plus subsidy to air travel. Obviously air travellers need the facilities that airports provide, and if the airlines were forced to pay for these facilities themselves they would price themselves out of the market. When it comes to rail service, however, the commission starts looking around for things to get rid of . First on its list appear to be sleeping-and dining-car services. “While there may be an arguement,” it says in its decision on the Maritimes runs, reiterating a doctrine first laid down in reference to the transcontinental services, “in the ~ public interest, for subsidizing basic coach transportation, it is not considered to be in the public interest, over any long period, to provide travellers with meals, beds and luxury services at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer.”

Small communities missed There is no disputing the railways’ claim that rail passenger lose; money. of course it loses money; all passenger transportation loses money when total costs are taken into account. But there is disputing whether one form of transport’ useful almost entirely to businessmen travelling between large cities, should be subsidized without question while another, which can also serve smaller communities and a much wider group of people, is allowed to deteriorate. And there is disputing whether a// forms of common-carrier transportation should be encouraged to the hilt as a means of bringing the proliferating automobile back under control.

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The rail passenger battleground now extends to the whole country. The future of both the transcontinental and Maritime services will be decided over the next year or so. In southwestern Ontario, where the commission allowedthe discontinuance of several trains in 1970, the house of commons standing committee on transportation and communications will probably be holding hearings at some point to determine the effect of the (the hearings were labandonments

llnlike the air traveller, the railway passenger is expected to suffer. There are not many people who would be interested in making the three-day journey from Toronto to Vancouver without a bed to sleep in and a place to get decent food. The same applies to the 26-hour run between Montreal and Sydney, the 22hour run between Montreal and Halifax, or the 1%hour run between Montreal and Caspe. If the commission allows the railways to get rid of their sleeping and dining cars, the number of passengers will drop off, the railways’ revenues will go down, and in the long run their losses will go up. In a few years the commission will decide that the decreasing traffic’ no longer justifies the increasing subsidy, and the services will disappear. ’

scheduled for january, but were postponed because of the air traffic controllers’ strike). (In Newfoundland, where CN was allowed to drop the famous ‘Bullet’-“ther slowest crack passenger train in civilization”in 1969 even before the costing formula by which the railways were to determine their losses on passenger service had been worked out, the protests have still not died down. Commission president Jack Pickersgill regards people who favor the retention and upgrading of Canada’s rail passenger network as sentimentalists who have to be brought around to see reason. Apparently, a sentimentalist is someone who looks at transportation as a whole and says that rationalization should mean a rationalization of the whole system, taking into account overall economic and social needs and not the railways’ profit-and-loss sheets. Fortunately, there will be a few sentimentalists around for a while yet.

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