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. The police s educator Optimism about the possible liberalization of Canadian drug laws was quickly dispelled by detective Kingston of the Kitchener morality squad last week. Addressing a psychology class at UW, Kingston noted that ‘the LeDain commission report will probably be used as so much toilet paper’. He stated that no changes were. possible in Canadian legislation until something occurred in the U.S. and that the reason for this was ‘political pressures’. In the interim, as far as the police are concerned, the ‘drug problem’ continues to expand apace. Kitchener receives an estimated one hundred pounds of marijuana per week, not to mention being liberally serviced with a healthy supply of chemicals Kingston noted the presence of LSD, MDA, mescalin, psylocybin and other. chemicals; he was particularly distrubed over the growing use of speed locally and pointed to the development of ‘weekend speed users’ as a sign of the gravity of the situation. Kingston also listed the control measures available to narcotics agents. Under the Narcotics Act officers are granted ‘immense powers of search’ and can examine almost ‘any person, any time’. Through the use of warrants, readily available from a JP, police . have access to ‘any house they wish’. He added that ‘we do have to but declined to justify them’ specify what the criteria were. In Canada police have the power to pull anyone off the street and perform a ‘skin search’. The only

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legal restrictions of the right to search are that the officers ‘suspicion’ fit the rule of ‘that which would lead a man, of ordinary conduct, to have a strong belief’ ; ‘ordinary conduct’ and ‘strong belief’ are not defined. Kingston also explained that in Canada all evidence is admissable in the courts, ‘no matter how it is obtained’ ; he did not care to state of elaborate on the wire tapping locally. In response to a query about the dwindling rights of the individual in Canada, Kingston admitted that police powers were wide ranging; he also added that in the face of the drug problem ‘if we’re going to be efficient, there’ll be people who are jerked over’. He stated that there were between twelve and fifteen thousand heroin addicts in Canada and that these people were little more than ‘the pawns of organized crime’. Heroin was seen as ‘the end of the line’ and amphetamines as the drug to take ‘if you want to commit suicide’. Describing the world of addiction as ‘a life of hell’ he noted that it invariably leads to imprisonment ; however, he added that ‘our jails aren’t rehabilitating anyone’. When questioned about the condition of charging people who are then condemned to institutions that don’t ‘rehabilitate’, Kingston only responded ‘I’m paid to do a job’. He complained of chronic understaffing in the Kitchener area ; in response to questioning he admitted that the morality squad has eight full time officers while Continued

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Co-operative Student Enterprises a rip-off, an alternative, or merely a student oriented capitalistic venture? This summer there are three businesses operating in Waterloo under the financial wings of COSE ; a fourth venture folded last friday. COSE was originated by Bruce Wilson, a Lutheran graduate. He approached U. of W. federation of students and proposed to set up “a service to student-run agencies.. .a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to provide opportunities for both part-time and summer employment to students, alleviating some of the financial pressures of a post-secondary education.” The federation executive approved the proposal, and gave a 1,566 dollar forgivable loan. Executive member Bernie Mohr teamed up with Wilson, and together they started a fund raising campaign. To date they have collected 6,000 dollars. A board of directors was set up for COSE consisting of representatives from the community-such as the two mayors, businessmen, and the university presidents. Also, on the board are Last week seigeant Preston came td cafnpus to peddle the latest in Wilson and Mohr, federation president Terry Moore, the preventative medicine; business was hot and heavy for untainted president of Lutheran student youths, but the hardened druggies were unimpressed.

union and a representative from each business in operation. The board was planned to have 51 percent student representation, but in fact there are eight community members and only seven students, now that Jane O’Connell has dropped out. COSE offers to back students, who want to start their own business, only to the extent of a limited capital input in the form of a loan. The business is expected to cover salaries from profit, to a maximum of 192 dollars a week; 20 percent of the net profit must be put back into the central pot. In theory COSE is responsible for the bureaucratic work involved ‘in setting up a -business, for acquiring premises and credit, and for advertising and all promotion. This is to justify the 80 dollars a week guaranteed salary of Wilson and Mohr, who operate out of the office provided for them by the WLU student union. The Old Bake Shoppe was the first to test the feasibility of COSE Deby Goldsmith was interested in selling antiques. Mohr found unused space in a building owned by developers, and persuaded them to allow its use rent-free until the fall. The store was cleaned, Continued .

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The supreme court of Ontario handed down a new injunction on Friday, 14 july, which puts further restraints on the activities of the striking Dare workers. By the terms of the recently ’ announced document, picketing “shallbe limited to four persons of whom at least half shall be women” at each of the four stipulated entrances to the Dare biscuit plant. All pickets must be employees of Dare. All pickets are prohibited from obstructing persons or vehicles which are entering or exiting from “the Dare lands and premises. ” Judge C’Driscoll, who promulgated the new injunction, .was concerned with curbing the violence which had occurred since the appearance of scab labour on thursday, july 6. One striker described the injunction proceedings by stating, “This was not justice. This was railroading.” Local 173 of the United Brewery workers has fqund itself in the dilemma with which unions are faced when confronted by a company that chooses to break a strike. As one worker asserted, “If we do nothing violent, we’re beat; if we do anything violent, the laws are against us.” That the supreme court would invoke such a harsh injunction is not surprising when it is considered that one of the principal functions of government in Canada is, to protect private property. Futhermore, the issuance of this new court order points to the fact that the law conceptualizes violence in simplistic terms. Seen purely as a physical phenomenon violence it appears, is perpetrated only by strikers. Wholly unconsidered is the notion of economic violence on the part of the Dare company to keep workers oppressed through poor working ’ conditions and wages. The violence committed by the police and Canadian Driver Pool to maintain private property is considered legal. For related story and photo see page 3

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The commercial viability of the downtown area will be a heavy iinfluence on the work of Waterloo’s ‘urban renewal committee. Seven men have been appointed to the group so far. The formation of the committee was prompted by frightened’ downtown businessmen -who may be faced with competition fromtwo regional plazas which would be built by out-of-town developers. The proposed plaza sites are both near the intersection of King Street north and the Conestoga parkway. The appointments to the committee were made by mayor Donavan Meston and rubberstamped by council. The mayor is a noted friend of residential and commercial developers, who have been known to go through his office after meeting a stumbling block in council. Two more appointments are expected shortly ’ to c%mplete a core committee of nine. This committee would then be able to set up subcommittees and call on various resource persons. No deadline for a final report has been set. The committee so far is made up of representatives from five groups and-, two “individual citizens.” Council will probably appoint at least one woman to the committee because they hope to learn from her the shopping habits of local consumers. groups their The and representatives are : ~

University of Waterloo,Bill Lobban, director of- physical plant and planning ; Waterloo Lutheran University, economics professor, John Weir; Waterloo chamber of commerce past-president, Allan Schendel (committee chairman) ; Waterloo planning board chairman, John Shortreed, and Waterloo council alderman, Brian Turnbull. IThe “citizen members” are Okal Day, assistant superintendent of the Waterloo County board of and Fred Ryan, education, manager of Waterloo , Square, a combined office building and shopping mall which would suffer if the two plazas were built. Although the committee’s main concern is downtown,, most of the members named live at least a mile and a half from downtown in posh. neighbourhoods. that There is evidence -development companies are& too worried about the future of Waterloo3 core. Canada Trust has almost finished construction of an addition to its downtown office. Conestoga Holdings will build a 15storey appartment building, on King between DuPont and Princess streets. from provincial Objections planners concerning the number of parking $aces forced revision of the -I original plans but council seems willing to have high-priced, high-density residential buildings downtown.

Lofda pIreserved Loyala College of Montreal has with irresponsibility, . protesting that this would seriously jeoparwon the fight to -ensure its continued existence after the indize negotiations with SGWU on a proposed merger of the two institution’s students, faculty and administration joined forces to stitutions. Yet in light of the council’s_ recommendations, oppose acceptance of the Quebec Council of Universities’ recent SGWU was prepared to exploit whatever advantages might acreport. i QCU’s report decided somewhat crue should the government actually ‘adopt the council’s insensitively to recommend the preservation of Bishop’s university recommendations. If this ‘occurred of Lennoxville and the total SGWU would not have had. to dispersal and liquidation of comply with the “two equal partLoyola. It proposed that all ners” terms of present negotiations. Now, according to English language ,university education be concentrated on the Loyola president Malone, a settlement is expected within the nextMcGill and Sir George Williams six months. campuses. The council’s report is the first of English institutions of higher learning are faced with the several expected this year: Others situation of having facilities to will deal with McGill, SGWU and handle thousands of students French-language universities in more than are expected to apply Quebec. One would hope that the for university entrance. This active role in the QCU’s future decisions do not take on such an factor was used as the basis for QCU’s recommendations. Loyola unprofessional appearance. Surely, one does not attempt to college president Patrick Malone said statistics used in the 37-page solve such difficult questions as the dissolution of a university comreport were innaccurate, charging that “they’re set down to make a munity-even if that were desirable-without a c very case”. The Loyola students’ association thorough analysis of what that started a massive campaign, after does to the people involved. the report was leaked to the -gord moore Montreal Star, to obtain support in the ‘Montreal community. Information booths were set up at continued from page 1 major shopping plazas to collect . 80,000 signatures on a petition to be the RCMP maintains ten full time sent to education minister Frandruggies. Surprisingly, despite the cois Cloutier. Expressions of lack of staff, Kitchener has an support came from other student arrest record ‘second ‘only to unions in the Montreal area, as Toronto’. well as from other sectors of the Kingston was questioned by city community. psychology -professor Fred Kemp The report itself, indifferent to as to the incidence of entrapment ,the very spirit of an academic (the process whereby an uncommunity’s existence, reflected dercover agent solicits dope from everything that leaders of higher someone, encourages them to find education should be out to him a source and then charges forestall. It seems that the most both parties when the person does) important thing in the equation in Kitchener. Kingston noted that about the future structures of 1the Supreme Court had outlawed education in Quebec is the ratio of the practice after considerable “plant space” to -student police use and that Kitchener population. The ideal, all other police did not employ it. Kemp factors considered, the council implied that he knew of specific noted approvingly, is apcases where it was. still used, but proximately 125 square feet of Kingston would neither deny nor plant space per student. That is confirm it. apparently what the council felt of a Kingston was questioned about prime consideration in the task of his own opinion as to why people assembling, in comfort and at are currently receptive to drug maximal efficiency, one finished use; he admitted that he had no university student. theory as to what made people The council was composed amenable to it. He defended the among others of the heads of legal system as being designed Quebec’s university community ‘primarily to protect society, in (Loyola is not a member), and was some cases from itself’ ; he also not a disinterested party , tdr the suggested that laws would not do assessment of Loyola’s future. the job ‘unless. people are in While enrollments at most agreement with them’. universities are falling below Other little tid-bits let loose predicted levels, first ‘year during the afternoon were : registration at Loyola this year are l there is a high addiction to up 59 per cent. It seems the council barbiturates -in the twin cities ; felt that if Loyola were allowed to people utilize counterfiet keep its doors open, its students prescriptions to obtain them from would reduce proportionately the druggists. amount of money available for the l police feel they are charging institutions represented on the fewer than one per cent of ofcouncil. fenders. McGill University, which feels l Montreal is the major port of that Loyola’s demise is bot entry for heroin coming into North inevitable and desirable (Loyola iz America. seriously cutting into its recruitl people can’t get through high ment), had stated that it and Sir school or university without George Williams University ‘running into’ marijuana or, (SGWU) could accomodate all the hashish. projected student enrollment for l sixty per cent of the drugs 1981. Among other things, it analysed by federal officials are proposed that Loyola be merged not what they were sold as; people with SGWU, and that Loyola’s on the street ‘don’t know what space and facilities be transferred they’re getting’ and ‘there are all to one of the collegial institutions sorts of rip-offs’; in Kitchener (McGill and SGWU). police have run into examples of . Loyola students, faculty and speed ‘cut with drano’. administration charged the council -david cu bberley

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Chuck Vander Heyden moved into the back room of the Old Bake Shoppe and started refinishing furniture. He was aware that the first few weeks would .be rough financially. No problems -arose in this instance. The Penny Farthing was Mohr’s idea, who looked for a couple of students to run a bicycle shop. He acquired the store in Westmount plaza, again rent free, and some new bicycles that a french company was promoting.

continued from page 1 painted and stocked. Deby signed a contract which states: “COSE will guarantee a wage of two dollars per hour to a maximum of 80 dollars per week for up to the first four weeks of business. This wage :will commence when the business is fully operable.” The clause is a contradiction in terms. A business that is “fully operable” is making a profit, in which case salaries of 192 dollars -Tony Boctor and Bob Woodcock per week maximum are allowed, are both bicycle nuts, who were ‘as previously stated. to work witho.ut salaries for It appears that the contract was willing a while if necessary. It is bicycle purposely misleading. Deby fell season, so the shop has been into the trap of believing that there making money from the start. is a guaranteed wage while the business struggles to get on its Prana, an organic health food feet. This is the only kind of restaurant, was the stepchild of guarantee that would make sense. COSE: Jane O’Connell approached Otherwise the quoted clause is Mohr with the idea, -an informal totally unnecessary in the wording agreement was made, and it was of the contract. understood that there would be no salaries for the first few weeks. Now it is understood that anyone starting out will be working with Premises available to suit this little or no pay for the first few type of project are limited. COSE ’ weeks. Deby said that in her case, rented the kitchen and dining room residence from she feels “the approach was ‘of Hammarskjold wrong”. At no time did Mohr WCRI for 790 dollars a month, and clarify this point. However, she is ’ gave money for supplies. Prana opened in mid-june, now satisfied since her shop is thriving. serving cheap’meals to about 100

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people a day. The restaurant was never publicized by COSE-. Business depended on the regular customers. At no time was there enough money to pay even a minimal salary to the eight people involved. Finally a letter from the city informed Jane that the area is not zoned for restaurants, and that Prana was breaking a bylaw by having a sign outside Hammarhouse. Mohr and Wilson did not bother to check *out the legalities. and as well they did not bother to promotethe project. Jane O’Connell claims that Mohr showed no interest in the venture, except to complain that Prana was not showing a profit. He then asked for 15 dollars a week for his and Wilson’s ‘services’. Wilson said that it was made clear that. Prana would not make any money. They were backed only because “they were dedicated-to the principle” of the thing. Prana continued to operate while making a maximum profit of 60 dollars a week. They closed down when it became obvious that COSE was not interested in finding a way -to make it a success. -k&ta

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Dare Sit rikers’ Inbrale St ill high. The workers at the Dare biscuit factory have been on strike for eight weeks: Despite strike-breaking tactics, court injunctions, police collaboration with management and scab labour, the morale of the strikers remains high. About twelve scab workers with police protection first entered the Dare plant on thursday, july 6. Their appearance failed to undermine the solidarity of the strikers of Local 173 of the United Brewery Workers. In the words of one worker, “We’re more together than we were before.” The company’s use of scabs and supervisory people to continue production is the most recent move to break the strike, and weaken the union. But the faith of union leaders in their people has not been shaken. One union head stated, “The general attitude is that they’ll fight to the end, that they’ll win this strike.” The striking workers of local 173 have endured some extremely difficult situations during their 8 week strike. Dare employed Canadian Driver Pool a professional strikebreaking company to move their products. But workers militantly confronted ‘the company’s and CDP’s violent tactics, despite energetic support and protection for these tactics from the Kitchener police. A more basic problem faced by the striking employees has been the drastic reduction in individual and family incomes. Single workers are given 17 dollars strikepay per week, while married employees are granted twenty-five dollars per week. As one women said, “Everyone is feeling the pinch.” The strain suffered by many of the workers because of loss of income has had little effect on the unity they have maintained throughout the strike. Some workers chose to enter the factory while the strike remains in effect. One woman attributed such action to “a lack of funds, I suppose. I don’t think that anyone wants to scab.” Other claim that “selfish, personal reasons” underlie a scab’s decision to turn his or her back on fellow labourers. “They don’t give a second thought for anyone else. They only think of themselves. ” Many Dare employees feel that “a hatred of scabs has started that will last forever.” The general concensus among those who have chosen to remain on strike, and they are the vast majority of Dare workers, is that “Scabs are hurting us for what we’re fighting for. If they had stuck with us, the strike would -have been over.” Of the strikers who have returned to work, at least two are crew leaders, one is the former plant chairman of the union local, many never walked the picket line, and still others were not union members. The over-alleffect of scab labour, meant to continue production and break the strike, has been increased solidarity among the striking workers. In the words of a union leader, “The people are really strong, really militant. They’re determined to win.” To divide the strikers, supervisors telephone some workers and tell them that other picketers are beginning to have serious doubts about the validity of the strike and the necessity for a union. In reply to a company call, a picketer said, “We want our jobs, but only under the right Those circumstances are circumstances.” equal pay raises for men and women, a 40hour work week, a notable improvement in working conditions, and the continued existence of a strong union. -mike

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Students’ council alive... ...and wel The last two extraordinary federation council meetings can and should be looked at as a unit. The first took place the weekend of june 24, ostensibly to deal with the now infamous OFS fall “free-strike” resolution. Under the OFS constitution, a resolution becomes policy within three weeks of the initial decision. However, soon after the meeting was called to order, it became apparent that the major hassles would be over three executive decisions to . l grant co-operative student enterprises (COSE) a 1500 dollar forgivable loan; l grant pollution probe the receipts to the Ralph Nader talk not to exceed 3500 dollars ; l have the vice-president hired full-time for the up-coming school year. Council was divided as to the desirability and implications of funding an organization such as COSE. Some liked the idea of the federation doing what it could to deal practically with. the growing unemployment problem for students. Others like the idea, but thought the agreement worked out between COSE and the federation was extremely shoddy. The remainder either didn’t give a shit, or thought COSE was a thinly-veiled capitalist enterprise which “fails to provide an alternative to the existing mode of commodity exchange but rather perpetuates that system.” The latter three groups joined forces to pass a motion calling for the federation to end all relationship with COSE. A rather odd piece of guerrila theatre then took place featuring a resignation by the president and a motion of confidence urging him to forget it. The recommendation to allocate the 3,506

you sick. /t hurts to see people turn on you”. The scabs were escorted into the factory with the aid of the ever-present Kitchener police.

dollars to pollution probe passed by an extremely slim margin (10-8) and many of the arguments were similar to the COSE debate. Those who voted against felt that the federation should act as a political force for environmental conservation rather than spending a fairly substantial sum of money on a van for probe to use in its recycling program in the community. Generally those affirming the motion felt the federation should help create or support pratical outlets for heightened environmental consciousness. The executive recommendation on the vice-president was deferred until the next meeting and the OFS strike resolution was quickly defeated for mainly technical reasons. This decision was dealt with in past chevrons and so requires no further elaboration. The second meeting took place july 8 to deal formally with the presidential resignation. Council usually meets only twice during the summer at most, so this year will see another record bite the dust. Debate -was markedly subdued as everyone seemed to attempt to avoid the personal confrontations that marred the previous session. The word “resignation” was curiously absent from the conversation. The motion on CASE passed at the june 25 meeting was rescinded. Most councillors had hadtime to think about COSE in a more relaxed atmosphere, and most had concluded they didn’t necessarily agree with the capitalist label, or didn’t care about it, and were more concerned about tidying up the forgiveable loan relationship. The majority felt that COSE offered a potential alternative to the usual alienating employment structure students face each summer, and that breaking ties with COSE precluded the Federation getting its money back. A final evaluation of COSE will take place in the fall after its 1972 operating period has finished. The “difficult” question of whether or not to hire the vice-president was sent to a “salaries and honoraria committee” composed of council members. Those involved in studying the situation are to report back to council on July 29th (another extraordinary meeting). The curious thing about council meetings so far this summer is that the major reason for calling the extraordinary meetings in the first place have assumed relatively minor positions and secondary items have suddenly and unexpectedly become issues of major proportion. -terry

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OFS polic)i distorted bY newspapers It would appear that the large daily newspapers have once again got their facts mixed up in their reporting of the circumstance surrounding the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) resolution calling for a “fee strike” across ’ the province this fall. Most accounts have set the number of students’ councils affirming the O.F.S. resolution at six. However, OFS has only received a total of eight responses altogether and these are split evenly four for and four against. In their thirst for sensationalism, the Toronto dailies have completely disregarded the actual circumstances surrounding the decisions and the precise wording of motions passed or defeated. Resolutions passed by Carleton and the university of Toronto students’ administrative council, for example, expressed almost. identical sentiments about what action should be taken in response to the tuition and OSAP increase, even though they voted in opposite ways on the actual OFS resolution. It is clear that most of the member institutions are uneasy to varying degrees about the pragmatics of a “fee strike”. It is equally clear that a majority of institutions are united in their opposition to the financial changes, and are determined to fight the present trend of passing more and more of the cost on to students. The major hurdle facing OFS now is to unite member institutions behind a common strategy. An opportunity to develop unity of purpose and action will happen this coming weekend ‘when the National Student Finance Conference takes place with a general meeting of OFS scheduled immediately afterwards. The purpose of the national conference is to foster greater understanding of university financing and funding and the OFS conference will hopefully develop a provincial strategy for the fall.

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used specifically to injure civilians. In the contract agreements with Honeywell is a “hold-harmless” ‘clause. This ,states that if the machine malfunctions, unless it is a case of direct negligence on the part of Honeywell, the university cannot sue the company for any damage caused. Not only that; they must protect Honeywell from any attempts brought against it by other parties. This means that if

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Eating may be... Equipped with a press ‘card and down. bne argument is: if it a bus ticket to Toronto, I set off for doesn’t hurt me when I eat it, why a rendezvous with Adele Davis and shouldn’t I eat it. The counterthe science of nutrition-a subject argument is that food wasn’t close to my heart. What a letdown. bleached, softened and preserved Foods for health have been the when the body evolved to use it subject of countless tirades against efficiently; nor has it evolved in high prices, gimmicks and cults. the last 20 years to accept as This paper alone has carried nutritional food what looks and several articles summarizing the feels like foodless food, so why Davis philosophy and countering should I eat it. Just because it is on her claims with seemingly rational the supermarket shelf doesn’t scientific arguments. The truth is mean it’s good for me or my not to be found. Each school of children. thought has its own set of So I did an experiment on a cat. nutritional facts. The end result is It was an old cat who had arthritis that if it makes you feel good, do it. and whose fur was dull. I changed Davis merely-repeated her books her food from commercial cat food in brief at the lectures. When I to liver and wheat germ. The asked whether any new data she results were fabulous. Her fur got had seen would change her shiny again; she limped less; she opinions and or suggestions, she ran to me instead, of struggling. shut me up hastily saying science This might have been coincidence, goes on finding new things every but I’m convinced that such gain in day. And that is that. strength is the result of giving the A biochemist recently told me body what it requires. (he ‘does work on human vitamin So I tried the Adele Davis needs> that there is no evidence method on myself and found an that humans need vithmin E, for improvement in digestion over a instance. It is true that it is found period of time, Carbohydrate in minute amounts in vegetable ,addiction, a common phenomenon foods. Adele Davis is not alone, on campus and off, is unthinkable however, in prescribing up to 1500 when the nutritional requirements international units per day for are met with protein, fatty acids, herself and others. Who do we minerals and vitamins in natural forms. i believe? But the woman is not to be Yet foods grown in the area and dismissed. She pressures the Food sold under the ‘organic’ label have and Drug Administration to en- been said to contain their rightful force laws protecting our health amounts of chemical nasties. It with regard to food adulteration. seems pesticides and fertilizers not She educates .people, through her broken down by micro-organisms paperback books, in building in the soil, but stay in the land for health through proper preparation ten years or so. Among other of food. She gives reasons for her things, they have an inhibitory choices of\ method based on effect on assimilation of minerals chemical studies of food properties into plants. Here on campus, the before and after cooking. She number of edible foods is explains the processes through diminishing rapidly. Most of it is which things like flour go before over-cooked, over-coloured and that flour comes out around the hot nutritionally impoverished. dog and hamburgs on this campus. Make your own decisions, but It becomes harder and harder to ’ pause to consider what you had for accept what food companies hand breakfast or lunch today conout when you know that presertributed to your health. The first vatives, softeners and bleaches step in preventing disease is have been added to the food. How contributing to health by eating much butylated hydroxy-toluene foods which provide useful cab be good for one? _ nutrients and don’t just fill the Cancer rates go up and up. stomach. -e. fischer Physical fitness goes down and

.4 an extra memory unit you happened to be walking by the particular,. computer room, and the machine to start with). In return, the started a fire which caused the roof university gives them free comto fall on you, not only would the puter time for demonstration university not be able to sue ’ purposes. The university allows Honeywell for damages, but they salesmen to use the machine at no would be committed to protect cost, to impress prospective them from any legal action you clients, as well as testing various might initiate. kinds of software for Honeywell. Dr. Morvin Gentleman, the But Dr. Gentleman explains that faculty member in charge of this the university is under no legal project, says this is a. standard obligation to Honeywell as far as clause in a contract of this nature. lending the machine for research According to him, the university is concerned. has adequate liability insurance to Dr. Gentleman explains that this handle any such situations which will allow the math faculty to inmight arise. Therefore, in spite of volve itself in “relevant” aspects the objections of some members of of research; something which he the contract negotiating comsays many people feel universities mittee, the tilause still remains in tend to drift away from. One the contract. member of the faculty expresses Another interesting aspect of the the opinion that in the future agreement is an unwritten deal universities will be receiving less made with Honeywell. This states and less financial support from the that Honeywell ‘will I loan the government and they will be math faculty various bits and forced to lean more on business if pieces of extra machinery (in they hope to survive.

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Why did a faculty of this, university agree to such a large deal with a company that makes all those cute things that hurt people without even discussing this with Honeywell? The answers to this question given by various members of the math faculty ranged from “There aren’t any companies that have their hands completely clean”, to “What would you like us to do, rip out all the thermostats? “, to “Don’t forget, Honeywell of Canada is an affiliate of Honeywell Inc., not a subsiduary.” These might seem like legitimate replies.’ After all, can a math faculty stop a war? But it’s disappointing that people who can justify business deals as being “relevant”, can see fit to ignore the question of the manufacturing of war materials. Maybe it just isn’t relevant enough. -brute

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rocker the Stones, or anybody else, have produced in a long time. And they really know how to do it. -Jumpin’ Jack Flash consolidated everything they did. I-‘ve never really been able to handle that song. Once again the Stones show they are the unqualified greatest. Mick Jagger has been described in many terms. To my mind, he is, if any one performer can be, the very personification of Rock and Roll. Musically, the band is at the top of their class. Although in a concert tour of the kind the Rolling Stones have been doing their true abilities are somewhat overshadowed by the technical difficulties of an eight week blitz of such intensity, the Jagger-Richard songwriting team remains unapproachable. Richard is a member of another team within the band. He and Mick Taylor, a knockout guitarist in his

own right, share the duties of leading the musical production in a manner which is more than convincing. Keith lays down a smashing Rock and Roll rhythm alternating with lead riffs which do much to keep him in the top five world’s best guitarists. Taylor, while lacking some confidence, (although maybe that’s his way), is at least the equal of Richard. Listen to him sometime, that’s the guy who replaced Brian Jones. Visually, Bill Wyman doesn’t seem to be part of the band. His motionless stance, (but just try to keep up to his right hand!) at a corner of the stage far removed from the others must be seen to be comprehended. I have long believed that Bill has been the major steadying force in the music of the Stones since the very beginning. Now I know it. Now Charlie...1 used to think that

Charlie Watts was a good enough drummer, I suppose. Sort of barely good enough to lay down a very basic 4,/4 Rock and Roll beat. I was wrong. Charlie Watts is a most inventive drummer. One of the best. Makes Ginger Baker look like the second triangle in the Camp Columbia Whizz Kids Memorial Rhythm Band. It has become practically tradition for the Rolling Stones to ’ finish their shows with Street Fighting Man. This is more than a musical composition in the Rock and Roll medium. It is a political statement-practically a revolutionary edict. The Stones are aware of the power they wield. If provoked-if they thought the time was &right-they might well unleash this power. And look out! Rock and Roll. Shades of things to come.

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football league, where the B’s won only two of their having one hundred and they have won all their y.

All available athletic facilities were put to use this summer to accomodate the over ninety-five recreational intramural teams. The largest turnout was in the mens softball league with twenty-’ eight teams entered in the schedule. Coed activities received much interest as teams in volleyball, innertube waterpolo, and slow pitch were entered. Almost all areas of the university were represented, with teams entered from staff, faculty and students. The spirit of intramurals is basically fun, some comretreat ional petitiveness, but mainly enjoyable exercise and some sense of team However, as probably spirit. --

Ten teams entered the basketball league, a sport that is very popular during the an”d winter terms, but lacks the fresh air appeal in the summer. The chevron dribblers proved to be the team to watch, however 6ot necessarily the team to win.

Math sot. once again successfully won the men’s softball with an eight. Their opponents, civil 4a, went undefeated this summer the schedule was packed, and rain forced the amount of spectators, of all the sports played this summer,

league. During the season they only lost one game, and won eight win and one tie record. With twenty-eight teams enter&d ‘rescheduling of many games. The softball and the games were well worth watching.

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String Band : obviously less of a trailbreaker, but nevertheless having a definite place in the musical spectrum. If your taste in jazz encompasses the GetzMulligan-McFarland thing, this album will probably appeal to you. The somewhat more commercial pop-jazz of Quincy Jones is represented on another double album, Ndeda (Mercury SRM 2623). Since I enjoy good arrangements, the undoubted melodic triteness (“Mr. Lucky,” “Peter Gunn,” and the theme from “The Pawnbroker”) of this music didn’t bother me as much as it ordinarily would; but if you’re too young to have been turned on by Lola Albright (Petey Gun&s old lady), you’ll probably be less than ecstatic about Ndeda. ,\ Atmospherically, this is redleather-and-chrome cocktail lounge music, fairly redolent with tea for two and celery stalks at midnight, probably totally alien to the acid-rocking speed freaks who comprise 98.7 percent of the Chevron’s readership (well, staff, anyway). But if you’re part of the burgeoning Singapore Sling set, it might be just the thing. Play it again, Sam, and easy on the bitters.

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21,. 1972

Mixed rocks strike again

The Train I’m On (Warner Bros. especially on the. 2 seemingly BS 2586) by Tony Joe White: a endless tracks (13 and 16 minutes) partial return to the style of his closing out each side. Not that it’s Monument releases, meaning offensive, rather that it’s not much soulful country-rock which oc- of anything at all; just jam-jamcasionally verges on the pathetic: jam, period, exclamation point, lots of violins, lyrics about “The and it sure is hard to say anything ties that bind the family” and about albums which don’t have “takin’ the time ‘for un- anything to say. Too bad, because derstandin’,” and production Michaels has done some insyrupy enough for Glen Campbell. teresting work (Barrel) in the White hasn’t Fortunately past, and will probably do so again forgotten how to “Poke Salad as soon as he gets over the illusion Annie”, either, coming up with that whatever he tosses up is worth Released (Vertigo VEL-1669) by another humorous hipwagger in recording (otherwise known as the Jade Warrior: combines the “Even Trolls Love Rock and Al Kooper Complex). baroque sensibilities of Emerson, Roll;” and “As the Crow Flies” is Ululu (Atco SD 33-382) by Jesse Lake, and Palmer with the inthe smoothest blue-eyed funk since Ed Davis: a marked comedown strumental talent of Jethro Tull, ,Link Wray’s “Tail Dragger.” The from his fine debut release (Jesse and creates a unique and striking Muscle Shoals back-up is also Ed Davis! ). Featuring short, album in the process. Backbone excellent, so if you don’t mind a overly tight songs performed by a supplied by reedman Dave Confair quota of schmaltz, it’s a small and poorly recorded band, ners, at home with both jazz and pleasant album ; and since Georgie placing too heavy a burden on raunch ; filigrees by guitarist Tony the K likes it; The Train I’m On Davis’ unremarkable voice, which weaver of musical Duhig, should probably be recommended is particularly annoying on tapestries with four equally sento hillbillies of all ages. “Farther On Down the Road (You sitive mates. Smokin’ (A & M SP 4342) by Will Accompany Me)“-a Giant Almost everything works: Let My Children Hear Music Humble Pie: a primer of basic Steps it isn’t. The one enjoyable cut “Water Curtain Cave” is stone (Columbia KC 31039) by Charles rock and roll, to be played loud or is George Harrison’s “Sue Me, Sue modern jazz; “Minnamota’s Mingus : largely classic Mingus, You Blues,” although it sounds as Dream” rocks like the James meaning intricate. group im- not at all. Most of it, especially “The Fixer” and “Sweet Peace if it’s coming out of a car radio. Gang wishes they could; after a provisations supporting passionate and Time,” should put you in the A disappointing and even emshaky start, “Barazinbar” exsolo efforts. Charles McPherson midbarassing release by current or plodes into an ass-shaking particularly impressive on alto dancin’ hold, with a female chorus one which I section reminiscent of Chicago’s sax, as on “Hobo Ho,” and in the adding some extra soul to two any other standards, although equally would be more analytic about if I “I’m a Man”. Highly recomdervishly whirling “The I of more relaxed, well done, numbers. There is an 8 could bring myself to listen to it for mended, especially to those Hurricane Sue.” Several shorter blues (“I Wonder”) to a third time. But I can’t, and you idealists still- pursuing the rockpieces are over-arranged-not by minute needn’t. jazz synthesis-Released is on the Mingus-but this is one man who remind us that the Pie are merely road to finding out. fears no violins, and perseveres in human, but the balance of Smokin’ pure tail-feathershakin’ D & B Together (Columbia KC creating jazz as exciting as that is 31377) by Delaney & Bonnie & Queques (UN1 73129) by Vigrass found on such earlier triumphs as pleasure. Rock On! Black Magic (Tamla/Motown G & Osborne: an exceptionally well Friends : A studio album, therefore Mingus Ah Urn and Blues & Roots. 958Lj by Martha Reeves & the produced album of middle-of-themissing then excitement of D & B Solid, man. saw them at the road pop-nothing to freak about, live; but still a well paced, Live-Evil (Columbia G 39954) by Vandellas: Colonial and my heart stood still. but except for somewhat less superbly recorded lp of countrified Miles Davis : a double album They do several things well: poetic lyrics, on a par with early good vibes, with Bonnie Bramlett continuing Miles’ flirtation with Bacharach (“Anyone Who Had a Simon and Garfunkel. impressing as the rightful heir to electricity. A regrettable abscence Heart”), funk (“Tear It On Look Inside (Smash SRS 67107) Janis J. Also noteworthy are the of Bitch’s Brew-type density, with and pop-soul (“I Want by The Asylum Choir: a re-release inimitable vocal and instrumental the general uptightness of the bass Down”), You Back” ) , and are one of the few of some amiable nonsense from backgrounds, by a Who’s Funky of and drum interactions more groups distinctive enough to Leon Russell and Marc Benno; rock sidemen. Enjoy, enjoy. suitable for a Sly and the Family transcend the rigidities of the quite witty and also quite short on Rare Earth in Concert (Rare Stone production. Nothing flows : Sound. Motown music playing time (26 minutes). Earth R534D) : 2 records of largely pieces seem to go on forever, go in Detroit Argus (Decca DL-7-5347) .by mindless blue-eyed soul hysteria, one ear and out the other, go usually sounds like it should be in formal dress, but Ms. Wishbone Ash: while I hate to be partially redeemed by concise nowhere. Lack of solo space for performed Reeves & Co. rip it up often enough sarcastic, this is their third album, versions of big hits “I Just Want to Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett to keep me dancin’ in the streets ; and if they can’t produce anything Celebrate” and “Born to Wonder”, on keyboards is also typical of the and if that doesn’t .make them better than the turgid pseudoas well as a surprisingly sensitive general air of thoughtlessness foxey ladies, I’m a jive-time profundities of Argus, they (i.e. they manage to shift moods which surrounds this album. Two shouldn’t quit their day jobs. within one song) “(I Know) I’m short selections featuring the turkey. Solid Rock (Gordy G 961L) by You & I (Capitol ST 6379) by Losing You”, echoes, drum solo, wordless vocals of Hermeto The Temptations : Motown seems Aarons & Ackley : yes, Rose Marie, and all. The remainder borders on Pascoal are interesting, but come to lavish a little extra effort on Canadians can produce bubblegum the unlistenable-23 minutes of as too little, too late. their albums, taking care in folk as atrocious as anything identical chord progressions on production to ensure that mood foisted upon us by the Yanks. Neat “Get ReadyL’ -but might do as and arrangement are in harmony, cover art, but that’s all.background music for the next and has delivered them from the . The Music People (Columbia Chevron-Dumont party, given its curse of the 3 minute, AM-oriented C3X 31280) by various: 3 records, pastiche of apocryphalsingle: here an extended version of 40 cuts from recent Columbia apocalyptic styles. The Art of the Spanish Guitar Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” releases. A smattering of worDumonitor’s note: “Get Ready” (RCA VCS-7057-2) by Julian arstands out as a well crafted and thwhile items by established loses to “In-a-gadda-da-vida” in Bream: suffice it to say that engrossing song. tists (Dylan, Johnny Winter, terms of apocryphalypticism! And Bream’s taste is almost as im- consistently A 12 minute “Stop the War Now” Santana) and a whole bunch of therefore should be played first. peccable as his musicianship. A represents the Temps psychedelicmediocrity, or worse, from lesser Ennea (Epic KE 31097) by long piece by Benjamin Britten, social consciousness side, and lights. Performs the positive Chase : screaming trumpets over “Nocturnal,” fails to engage either may seem function of identifying groups to be basic rock rhythms, pretty exhead or heart, but everything else while its sentiments simplistic, it’s pretty heady stuff avoided like the plague (Mylon, citing sometimes \but often vitiated succeeds admirably : familiar of American Sweathog, R.E.O. 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Collusion between the federal government, big bu-siness and the United States government will leave Canadians- the losers. n spite of all attempts to block the construction of giant pipelines across the Canadian Arctic, it appears that a natural gas pipeline, and possibly even an oil pipeline, will be under construction by 1974-75. But resource development in the Arctic will undoubtably continue to create distinct social and political tensions throughout Canada. ’ The presence of oil was reported as early as 1789, when Alexander Mackenzie noted oil seepage near Norman Wells. Large-scale activity began in 1966 after an important lead-zinc mineralization was confirmed in the Yukon. Mineral hunters, largely American-based, converged on the Artic’mainland and discovered 2 large gas pools by 1966. The hunt for oil and gas was spurred on by the announcement, in April 1968, of the famous strike at

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The TAPS proposal A continental-wide debate has been going on since 1969 as to whe,re an oil pipeline should go. Rogers Morton, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announced on May 12, 1972 that the U.S. intends to go ahead with its

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). His department has been anxious to push through an oil pipeline crossing delicate tundra and one of the most earthquake-prone zones in the world, to one of the stormiest ports (Valdez) in the world. The oil wo.uld ttien be transshipped into tankers which would proceed through one of the most hazardous shipping areas in the world-down the entire west coast of Canada, to travel through the narrow and crowded straits between northern Vancouver Island and Washington state-to the new refinery at Cherry Point, Washington. Despite precautionary measures oil accidents will occur, and the Canadian government has no direct way of stopping U.S. ships from going through the straits. Fortunately, for the moment anyway, U.S. and Canadian conservationists have managed to work through the

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courts to prevent Secretary Morton from issuing a , pipeline right-of-way permit. The U.S. Co&=Guard, in a 6-volume report released in late March 1972 by the U.S. Department of the Interior, estimated that 140,000 barrels of oil will be accidentally spilled off the Canadian and American coasts each year, and that there will also be one casualty (collision or grounding of a tanker) each year. In addition, there will be oil lost during the loading and unloading, small spills in harbours and the frequ.ent and deliberate discharge of oil during sea-going tankcleaning operations. The Arrow, an 18,000~ton ship, dumped 54,000 barrels of oil in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia in 1970, costing the federal government 4 million dollars for the clean-up, ruining beaches for months and doing inestimable damage to marine and land-bound wildlife. The I narrow straits between Canada and the US. leading to the Cherry Point refinery were surveyed by 500,OOOton tankers in mid-May of this year. By 1980 TAPS is expected to deliver over 2 million b,arrels of oil a day with these tankers. A single spill, according to one of Presiden,t N.ixon’s own advisors, could cover 250 square miles of ocean with oil. Yet in view of the severe warnings, from both Morton’s own research department and environmentalists, and of America’s own devastating experience with spills, it can only be concluded that the U.S. administration, under powerful ‘pressure from the oil lobby and the U.S. hunger for oil, always intended to proceed with the TAPS.

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Other more important and realistic reasons exist of course, Every year the United States consumes increasingly more oil than it produces. While the delivery of North Slope oil to the lower 48 states will not reverse this trend, it will slow it down. Waiting for the longer Canadian line to be completed would mean a greater U.S. dependence on “potentially inse_cure foreign sources of petroleum.” Another reason centres around shipping. The TAPS would require 1.1 billion dollars for oil tankers-a shot in the arm for the chronically ailing U.S. shipbuilding industry and a decrease in U.S. dependence on foreign-owned tankers. Also the TAPS would increase employment and economic activity in the ailing Alaskan economy. Finally, the oil companies that largely control the North Slope reserves and Alyeska, the consortium that would build and operate TAPS, have invested their money, time, know-how and prestige. Their interests are not to be ignored at this late stage.

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Richard Nehring, an economics analyst with the U.S. Interior Department, has said that “the route through on almost every one of the 25 , Canada is superior criteria used by the department.” Even the U.S. government report showed in detail that the overland route is superior to TAPS in terms of threatened danger from earthquakes and the threat to the marine environment from oil transfer operations. ln addition, an analysis of security by the defense and state department concluded that the Canadian route would be more reliable and easier to defend. And although it was not mentioned, the Canadian route is cheaper by at least 1 billion dollars. From these facts, charges have arisen against the , Nixon administration for deleting evidence favouring a Canadian route from the government report. Canadian Liberal MP David Anderson, in conjunction with 24 U.S. Senators backing the Environmental Defence Fund, is supporting the Canadian route in a public and legal battle that began early in April. The group fears the environmental consequences on Canada’s west coast and in Alaska should TAPS receive --approva I. These arguments, separately or together, do not produce a definite conclusion about the TAPS’ future. But the odds are shifting in favour of the Canadian alternative as the months are shaved off the time gap between a construction start on TAPS and the Mackenzie route. There is only one other chance for a Canadian oil.pipeline, which would still predominantly benefit the powerful and profiteering U.S. oil companies. This chance appears in the election as U.S. President of Democrat George McGovern, who has publicly declared his opposition to the TAPS plan.

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t is safe to project that the oil pipeline might eventually go either way but the gas pipeline will come across Canada. Canadian government and industrial representatives have agreed for nearly two years now that a <gas pipeline south down the Mackenzie Valley would be economically feasible once a minimum of 15 trillion cubic feet of gas has been proved. To date, the North Slope has yielded natural gas in such large amounts that the oil companies will be forced to market it. Burning off such gas is illegal and there will be too much to make re-injection feasible. The Canadian government says it will be ready for bids to build a northern pipeline by the end of this year. A strong case has been put forward by an extremely powerful consortium of oil and utility companies, again largely American-based, that there will be no grave damage to the environment from a gas pipeline, and none that cannot be dealt with from an oil pipeline. Yet no group has really built up such an immensely sophisticated body of knowledge of how to build and operate a pipeline in the Arctic that they can guarantee no irreperable damage will be done to the environment. The Gas Arctic-Northwest’Project Study Group was formed on June 15, 1972 with the express intention to apply to Canadian and American regulatory authorities in early 1973 for approval of a multi-billion dollar pipeline system. It is genearally acknowledged that this project would be the largest undertaking in the world ever financed by private industry, and that not even the largest oil company could round up the money required. Estimates put the cost of their proposal at ov,er 5 billion dollars, depending on final route selection, design, capacity and the inclusion of a spur line to tap newly discovered Mackenzie delta gas reserves. In the large gas consortium, Gas Arctic and Northwest have been studying competing routes for a gas pipeline buried in the ground, both of which were being projected as 48-inch (but. possibly 56-inch) diameter lines, with a capability to deliver 3.5 billion cubic feet of gas daily to U.S. and Canadian consumers. Current Canadian gas production is at 2.3 billion cubic feet and exports to the U.S. total one trillion cubic feet a year. The Northwest Project Study Group has been designing a route cutting diagonally across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Chicago, a distance of about 2,500 miles: Gas Arctic has favoured a 1500 mile route along the Mackenzie Valley linking Prudhoe Bay in Alaska with the Alberta Gas Trunk System in northern Alberta. Any proposed pipeline would run in a designated “transport corridor” announced on April 8, 1972 by Prime Minister Trudeau. This corridor is to contain an all-weather 1,050 mile highway to the Arctic coast, already under construction in some sections, and possibly an oil-carrying pipeline. _

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When it comes to choosing a project contractor difficulties will definitely arise. Of the 16 or more companies involved in the gasline consortium only 4 are Canadian companies: CNR, CP Investments Ltd., Trans-Canada Pipelines Ltd., and Alberta Gas Trunk Line. Several of the members of the consortium favour \ the U.S. firm of William Brothers (New York) to fulfil1 this prestigious role, even though Energy Minister Donald Macdonald has indicated he will delay construction unless the consortuim makes “the right Canadian choice.” The Williams Brothers’ choice is a natural one for members of the former Northwest Project Study Group. The company, a large and experienced firm, and its Calgary subsidiary, Williams Brothers Canada Ltd., has been -used extensively in many of the group’s environmental studies. A few companies in the consortium support the government’s choice for “maximum Canadian leadership and participation” in the project. The federal government wants most of the estimated 1 billion dollars needed for the actual building of the line to be raised in Canada, and the vast majority of the consulting and engineering work to be handled by Canadians. The government is already in negotiations with the joint consortium on the financing and detailed schedule of the entire project. The Department of Northern Affairs has the final ylord on choice of a route through the Mackenzie Valley, and the National Energy Board remains the fin& authority on any application for pipeline construction. Whether Canadians will be financing, building, operating and directing the pipeline construction through Canadian territory remains to be seen.

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n theory, #the federal government, through Panarctic Oils Ltd., is in the Arctic to protect public interest. In fact, it is deeply involved in northern oil and gas exploration, and committed to exploiting these resources as quickly and efficiently as possible. It strongly supports moving gas to market because of its cash investment and because of the general impact a northern pipeline could have on Canada’s economic development. A pipeline means the planned “transport corridor” is much more feasible; this in turn means greater North American access to Canada’s northern natural and tourist resources. Four American gas distributing companies have even loaned Panarctic 75 million dollars for further exploration with the agreement that the payback be shipments of “surplus gas”. The Canadian government would like to play a business role in the project, but the oil companies involved are cool toward government involvement. It is said that possible government participation would strengthen resistance in some U.S. government circles to “entrusting major oil and gas arteries, essential to U.S. security, to another foreign power.” The bulk of Arctic oil and gas supplies, whether from Canada or Alaska, are ultimately destined for US. markets anyway. Idealistically, the U.S. companies shouldn’t control the pipeline’s financing, construction and operation, let alone the destiny of gas and oil. The government claims that already “the major areas of ecological sensitivity have been identified.” Critics of the government program claim that this is not good enough and that much more has to be known about the specific impact of pipelines on northern ecology and peoples. Certainly these critics have a well-taken point, expecially when the government goes on to say: “Much useful information can be obtained during the next year even though an application might be under consideration,” and that, data gathered in “the subsequent years will still be valuable, though the ,pipeline construction may have begun.” In other words, there will be an overlapping of the research and decisions processes; the government will be approving pipeline construction when the results of its own research are incomplete. Four weeks ago the federal government issued a series of tentative regulations on the construction of northern pipelines. But in its usual academic haze failed to be specific in defining such terms as “good environment management”, “adequate plans” to deal with oil leaks and spills, and “effective plans” for an environmental education program for companies. The closing guidelines insisted that the companies become good corporate citizens of the North, and make “a conscious effort to contribute to the social and economic development of the territories.” lt is all too clear where government interests lie.

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n March of this year, the Environmental Protection Board issued a report which described Zanada’s level of ecological research in the Mackenzie Jalley as “abysmally low”. One scientist has written Xat “in the true Arctic there is not a species we know enough about and many that we have not studied at III.” Furthermore, in 1970 ,the most extensive nonitoring survey of its kind ever undertaken in the Arctic found subsidiary damage from northern oil ex>loration work to be 10 to 100 times greater than exlected. The root of the environmental problem is the very vulnerable natural environment-the slow growth rate If vegetation and short growing season mean that Nounds from heavy equipment and construction will takea long time to heal and may not heal at all. Modern na n can easi I) cause ra pid an d it-rep barable dev fasta tion. ‘he war: 3 conditi Ion f or construction is in ‘dc ?trimenta! I” permafr ost, w ,hich exists wher .e SC)iI is SUS upended i n water a nd be comes solid growund only oecause the water is frozen. Anything that raises the :emperature-the breaking up or removal of the insulating mosses, the penetration of moving water or structures built on top of it-will revert it to mud. When the tundra thaws in the summer the Arctic mosses and slants act as an insulating layer and protect the pernafrost below. Any pipeline faces the problem of leakage. A natural zas line, transporting gas at cool temperatures, does lot pose the same threat to permafrost that a hot oil ine would. The relatively intense hear of oil as it comes Jut of the ground (160-180 degrees. F), if put through a buried pipeline, could melt the permafrost causing disastrous changes in, th,e tundra. If the proposed Mackenzie oil line is above ground it will interfere with migrating animals, particularly caribou and birds. Their sontinuous movement is an adaptation, to the tundra vegetation and slow growth cycle. The oil companies should be forced to take all possible steps to minimize damage to environment and wildlife, and to ensure continuing research and checks are carried out. The possible loss through environmental changes, if it must be put in economic terms, can be evaluated in terms of tourism, hunting and fishing. Research into engineering, geophysical and ecological aspects of such a venture have not reached the stage where th’is project can be encouraged.

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ean Chretien, Indian affairs and northern development minister, sees the northern wealth as “part of the wealth of Canada that has to be used to build up a better society.” He also sees the development of oil and gas resources as the solution to many northern problems. He says it will provide employment for the Yukon and NWT, touted to be the fastestg-owing population group in Canada, Development in the north has changed the lives of the native peoples in major ways - almost always for the worse. Most skilled jobs have always gone to white nen from the south, and the natives have been left to scramble for the remaining menial tasks. When asked ‘zarlier this month why northern natives at the comnunities of Arctic Red River and Fort McPherson had lot been hired for work on the delta end of the Mackenzie Highway; Jean Chretien replied that, “there IS some discrepancy between what I have stated as (hiring) policy and what is actually happening.” Hiring ;>riority has been promised to native peoples, but it is unlikely that the present hiring and training policy will change for their benefit once construction begins on th,e oipeline. The permanent ‘employment opportunities after the pipeline is completed is expected to be small. Bud Orange (Liberal MP-NWT), and a pipeline enthusiast, expects only about 400 jobs. There are 20,000 Indians and Eskimos in the NWT. Where does that leave the argument of the oil consortium that the pipeline is going to be a permanent bonanza for the native peoples? Groups of Indians in the Arctic have already spoken out against Ottawa giving approval for pipeline construction before aboriginal land clajms .are settled. Successful court action by the Indians could tie up the pipeline for years, costing the government millions of dollars. One such group is the Old Crow band, consisting of about 200 Loucheux Indians, who have been Irving for centuries on the banks of the Porcupine River about 80 miles morth of the Arctic Circle. Thier area is one of several routes now under consideration for the Yukon portion of the pipeline system.

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All over the Arctic the lives and livelihoods of the 0 native peoples are being drastically changed by white man’s economic development and profit motive, as well as Ottawa’s colonial domination. The federal government has not been able to stop the destruction of native culture - nor has it tried very hard. The 1970 annual ‘report of Panarctic Oils stated: “The inherent survival skills of the Eskimos are no longer a major attribute.. In order to become an effective worker, the northern resident must develop a skill required by the job rather than depend on his native expertise for employment.” Crude logic rests in that statement; hunting skill will not be of much use in a land already despoiled. Time and again the federal government has expressed the conviction “that the needs of the people of the north are more important than resource development, and the maintenance of ecological balance is essential.” That’s a fine conviction and those are reassuring words, but it’s action, not words which count. From its actions it is apparent the government has decided that the welfare of native northerns and the northern environment are to be sacrificed in favour of large-scale economic development for the benefit of southern Canadians and foreign corporations.

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A group from University of Toronto’s Pollution Probe, after having examinedthe evidence and the situation, argues that “man is rushing headlong and thoughtlessly toward the exploitation of the Arctic. Damage inflicted in the name of progress today could prove tragically irreparable tomorrow.” Thegroup’s background statement on the Arctic is both caustic and critical. At times it leads to oversimplification, but it is not irresponsible; rather, it is worthy of attention. They concluded that: “At present there is too little meaningful ecological and research of the fragile Arctic environment and no, urgent demand for any of its non-renewable resources. Therefore, a freeze should be placed on all new Arctic oil and gas extraction, and transportion (including pipelines and tankers) and northern exploration activities should be scaled down. These restraints should remain ‘in effect for at least two years and until Canadians have enough knowledge to make a decision on the future of the Arctic.” Pollution Probe’s recommendations further argue this 2 year period would allow time to: l Further develop new techniques or modify existing ones for exploration, and extraction of non-renewable resources with minimal damage to the environment.

l Test the feasibility of various proposed techniques to transport new resources from the Arctic. We must guard against expediency dictating the transporting of resources before the technology is available to ensure that they can be moved safely.

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research into the effects of Arctic oil spills on land and at sea, and develop techniques for satisfactorily cleaning up such spills.

l Develop sta,nd-by facilities, equipment and staff necessary to ensure adequate clean-up in case of accidental oil spills. 0 Study the feasibility of off-shore drilling in the Arctic and the precautions required for its safe conduct. l Train the Indians and Eskimoes in the skills used in all phases of exploration, and development of resources so that the native people can play a significant role in helping to develop the north. l Set aside adequate parks and scientific reserves for the future. l Negotiate fair taxes and royalties on resource production. l Study ways of ensuring effective Canadian control of all activities in our Arctic. l Implement effective land use planning practices common in the south but almost unheard of in the Arctic.

he little that is known about Arctic development suggests very clearly that Prime Minister Trudeau’s plan of northern development should be stopped at once. The government should not be anxious to develop energy resources that will r&t& be used domestically but by the United States. The American economy may on the verge of energy starvation, but Canadians need not talk about “continental energy development”. This would only further an increase in Canada-U.S. interdependence. Besides, if we continue to increase our exports, we will create a Canadian energy crisis similar to that in the U.S. The whole northern resources development may be absolutely pointless anyway. Petroleum men urge hurried development because in another 20 years the harnessing of nuclear and solar power may make oil worthless as an energy source. Although these types of energy may not be cheap, or sufficiently abundant, the huge markets for oil won’t be available then. The government’s northern pipeline and tranaportation system, subordinated to traditional resource exploitation system, subordinated to traditional resource exploitation interests, will serve to link the Arctic to the United States. it will create little or no supporting industries; most of the heavy equipment will be imported from the United States. This system will also create few permanent jobs, probably destroying as many jobs in the North as it will create. Its effect on the northern environment is uncharted, and the billions of dollars would be better spent on decent housing, education and better health care. Clearly, the question of. benefits to Canadians needs to be re-examined other than by the government. If not, collusion between the federal government, big business and the United States government will leave the people of Canada the biggest losers in Canadian history.

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\ -In red and black Eugene D. Genovese, In Red and Black: Marxian explorations in. Southern and Afro-American history, Pantheon Books, New York, 1971.

Professor Genovese reminds one of those academics (often english or anglophile) of the mid-sixties who wore their marxism against the bacilli of monocap rather as burghers of old wore a bandage round the throat as a preventative against bubonic plague. A little confident superstition merely emphasizes the desire to be wholesome, free from disease. This collection of essays, reviews, and polemics, is an occasionally repetitious and often contradictory survey of his political faith, repro& self -justification-and of issues raised by his ‘marxian’ application of some of the categories of political economy (eked out by ‘moral questions’, nationality, culture and so forth) to the ante-bellum South. Genovese is proud to be a ‘marxian’ historian who tells the truth-notwithstanding the occasional bad example of that liberal opportunist Karl Marx. Nonetheless, he is anxious to work in american universities, those institutions of higher learning, disseminators of the values of western civilization, which should rightly accomodate (he concedes> the american Communist Party and the Mafia (though not General Motors). I caricature the somewhat jejune and personal rationalizations of the professor, since he- is not above using dishonest and hectoring argument himself. For example, welders, he says, can distinguish between welding and political agitation and perform both activities-so the professional historian should have no anguish at being a critical critic of the journals during the day and an ideologue at night. He discusses with Lynd the moral question of slavery on premises of such grandiose circularity that only exasperation can declare a winner. His account of Gramsci manages to separate the genesis and typology of italian intellectuals from the significance of the emergence of the Party as collective intellectualGenovese appears as a Croce waiting for the PC1 to form ranks around him. It is a pity that professor Genovese’s abhorrence of dogmatism should lead him to identify analytical rigour with illiberal intolerance. He tends to use ‘marxian’ methodology .as a kit of plumbers’ tools-the dialectic for curing awkward blockages, historical materialism as a set of adjustable wrenches, ideology as the ballcock which determines the strength of history’s flush. Surelyeveryone loves, and needs, a plumber? ‘The ideal of the university as a community of scholars constitutes one of the finest features of the civilization we inherit from the past’ in which ‘the “role” of the socialist historian is to be a good historian’ and where socialist intellectuals ‘get on with their work of fashioning a world view appropriate to the movement and society they wish to see born.’

Gre’at and living traditions Well, which reader will own to being an ‘unfriendly socialist or an inhumane dogmatist? He boldly lends his support to Lenin, Mao, and Gramsci and at the same time purposes that ‘That grim experience of Russia, China, and other undemo,cratic socialist countries-whose revolutions and social systems we support in principle(should) be enough to convince us that one of our major responsibilities is to guarantee that our own movement embody those great and living traditions of free and critical thought which are the glory of western civilization and without which we have nothing to offer the american people or our comrades in the socialist countries who are today fighting with genuine heroism to humanize their own societies.’ Who needs deeper analysis than this?.

It seems odd, on reading these passages, that so many ‘Marxians’ should have attacked Genovese for being unprogressive. He does, after all, cover every contingency by counter-assertions! In successive essays he both deplores the splitting of the intelligensia on racial rather than ideological grounds, and urges white radicals not to meddle in black politics. Of course, he argues, one is a Marxian historian-but should not be confused with those political academics, Lenin and Gramsci, who mix ‘ideology’ with scholarship. A complex political question is subsumed under the justification of an individual and thus severely limited, choice. Genovese’s concern is to account for the ‘unique experience’ of american blacks (‘not so much a class as a nation’), and to criticize the dominant current in radical historiography which sees the termination of slavery as progressive and an historical justification for popular front strategy. This nation, oddly, is subsumed under know that ‘community’, however-‘. . black americans they are american, not displaced africans’. But, after all, the white working class too is largely determined by its ‘ethnic’, immigrant origins, so perhaps it is not easy to tell what exactly knowing one is american entails, or indeed whether marxist historical methodology is more than an automatic and eclectic positivism, rounded out by certain ethical promptings.

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The implications of Genovese’s interpretation are obvious, and tend to lead to a certain arrested menshevizing pagmatism. The antebellum South was capitalist but prebourgeois. The hostility of the slave to the master is not progressive and class conscious in the Northern liberalradical sense, and the experience of Afro-Americans is not historically aligned with that of an industrial urban working class. Northern marxists have wrongly sought to ally themselves with the progressive abolitionist bourgeoisie : even prejudice, though accentuated under capitalism, is pre-capitalist. The war against the South established bourgeois hegemony. Historically, the challenge to liberal capitalism is from conservatism : for example, E. P. Thompson’s work explores the ‘red toryism’, the religious and reactionary roots of the british working class. The conservative philosophy / of the hegemonic southern slaveholders (though morally repugnant to a marxist ) established modalities of personal and even moral negotiation between slaves and masters, and was flatly hostile to the northern industrial and financial bourgeoisie. ‘Progressive’ in this situation might mean only the possibility of a black, yeoman, petit bourgeois revolution, and this was not a practical option. The alternativeapart from the maintenance of chattel slavery-was intervention from outside. Capitalism is thus both progressive and oppressive: the northern bourgeoisie destroyed a separate and antagonistic social system while the slaves ran for cover. The North temporarily offered the better cover. Struck by the contradictory aspects of the process, Genovese erects an interpretation based effectively on these alone. Genovese argues that politics and scholarship must be divorced. The left-including mad bombers, dogmatists, radical bourgeois opportunists and those famous CP hacks-have been guilty of liberal opportunism-just like Marx and Engels on those bad days when they wrote as economic determinists and misunderstood the hegemony of the slave holders. Does this analysis make him just another purist,waiting for Lefty, complaining of the trials of marxist academia (a tiff with Science and Society, contempt for Aptheker, waspish impatience with Staughton Lynd) ? Or does he not rather import to his practical activity and political analysis the same false choice (conservative prebourgeois capitalism or liberal bourgeois capitalism) he presents in his interpretation of southern history?

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In fact, his class analysis owes little to Marx, since he confounds nationality, culture’ and class - now as superstructure working,on base, now as historical block, without realizing that the political strategies involved are quite opposed. Capitalism thus seems to lack dominant contradiction. His menshevism is clearest when he asserts that fascism is a sign not of the crisis nor the strength, but rather the weakness of the bourgeoisie. The moral seems to be that if you would retain your university position, you don’t tweak the tiger’s tail, lest in its ‘weakness’ the beast leaves the bones presently occupying it and bites your head off. No one would claim that Genovese’s concerns are less than crucial, or that those he attacks on the left are free of error. The suspicion remains, however, of a certain smugness, or fatalism, in his book. Unless he casts Mao or Brezhnev as President Lincoln, he implies that bourgeois hegemony can be as palatable or as protracted as that of the slaveholders. He himself seems to be prepared to play the part of M’Choakumchild policing Bounderby! Is it not that he conceives that bourgeois hegemony in the US can establish the philosophy and the interactions (he doesn’t mention market relations in his discussion of modern capitalism) required to perpetuate class rule? Does he see modern America as a community of many classes, many ‘nationalities’ awaiting the moral (if morally repugnant) articulation of hegemonic philosophy by elegant federal

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First, his use of the categories of political economy (he does not distinguish between classical and vulgar) is unhelpfully generalized. He counterposes slave and ‘free’ (wage) labor, and argues from this the antagonism, at least the separateness of the ‘social systems’ based on this categorical distinction. He has apparently not covered recent work on the articulation of modes of production (for example, that of Pierre-Philippe Rey), or on Capital and the Grundrisse, which deals more thoroughly with the problem of the use of categories (it is a pity, but not an excuse, that most of his opponents don’t concern themselves with theory either. ) Secondly, it becomes clear that he projects on to monopoly capitalism and american imperialism characteristic aspects of his historical interpretation of southern history. In fact, he discusses fully neither the contemporary role of the state, nor the notion of uneven development and disjuncture. Rather, he states that there is no prospect of independent black revolution in the US: that the white left still clings to its illusions concerning the possibility of alliance with progressive bourgeois, and has yet to start practical organization. Will its own contradictions destroy capitalism, then? That would be economic determinism. Genovese can make a ‘class analysis’, but not point to class struggle.

gentlemen? Genovese’s marxism, with its careful misuse of the categories, could certainly then continue to proclaim’ the ‘values of Western civilization’ while depoliticizing the academic professions. It is thus hardly surprising that the author’s significant contributions should, in view of this political reduction, have been greeted by the left with such alarm - as another variant of that not uncommon phenomenon, right-wing marxism - using his version of relations in the -ante-bellum south as a paradigm of the contempory situation. Far from being an innovator, Genovese is groping towards a problematic central to marxism and one exhaustively discussed. Alas, he seems ignorant even of *Lukacs. The reader is left wondering why such clumsy conceptual tools should be employed at so late a stage in the debate. Is this really a comment on the state of the american left, as he concludes, or rather a reflection of his own isolation? -john

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Mariposa is the longest running folk festival to date and the most successful. It has been going now for twelve years, of which the past five have been at Centre Island in Toronto Harbour. Every year the festival draws more and more people, this year 15,000 people showed up on the last day. Advanced publicity, however ,, stated that crowds would be kept at a 10,000 maximum. Overcrowding was the major problem contributing to the death of the Newport Folk and Jazz festival. Folk music requires small crowds-once the intimacy between performer and audience is lost the raison dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;etre for the gettogether is lost. The only thing all large crowds produce is a carnivallike atmosphere. Mariposa is now suffering the malaise of being too popular. It is attracting droves of people many of whom have no

genuine interest in folk music and its heritage. The contradictory nature of a folk festival lies in stars being needed to draw, people to the festival-the people who run Mariposa are genuinely interested in promoting folk music and therefore require money. At the same time stars create a problem so large that in time it could mean the end of a folk festival. Especially bad is the foisting of surprise concerts by big name artists on the people at the festival. This situation is both unfair to the crowds and to the performers. The people at the festival chase after their folk heroes because they fear they will not be able to see or hear them perform and this can intimidate the stars. After all even people like Dylan are human and should be given space by the audience and not treated as objects.

Often when the crowds are staroriented they will arrive at .a workshop as much as an hour early to get a good seat. The problem that arises under these circumstances is that a lot of talking ,and restlessness is produced waiting for the specific star to arrive. This spoils the concert both for the performer. and for those in the audience who are specifically interested in the ongoing workshop. There are of course many positive aspects to Maripâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;osa as well. First and probably foremost is that Canadian folk music and -musicians are given a forum and are promoted. Secondly the nature of the festival allows people to get to see every performer. The panic and rush that often arises is due to people not treating Mariposa as a three day festival but rather as a four or five hour affair.

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Canadian universities have been peaceful during the last few years, especially compared to the upsurge of 68. Gone are the many groups of vocal leftists, their confrontations slogans and mostly relegated to the status of adolescent memories. A oncebuoyant groundswell, high spirited and idealistic, has dissipated into scattered eddies of cynicism. A wealth of factors neglected by that movement took their toll; for those too dragged out by the experience to continue, society was quick to offer some absorbing activity: permissive pockets within academe have sucked up ‘their share of the ‘hip’ technocrats radical spirit; inside provincial and federal bureaucracies succeeded in creating an illusory breathing space within which numerous lefties have found a birth; the lure and seeming simplicity of the dope-music-farm crowd has appeared soothing enough to entice the overworked emotional structures of a good many more. The breeding ground for the denial of radical lifestyles ‘and their exchange for something else was and is the overwhelming frustration of living within and continuously confronting the learning institution. Chameleonlike, illusory and shifting as a mirage, the university may be the meeting place of thousands of people each year yet its structures and ways of operating are nightmarishly hard to identify and struggle effectively against.

For the majority of people still attempting to forge a radical politics from the ashes of 68, the university is no longer a legitimate base of activity. It now appears to be viewed as a playground for the middle class, a diversion from the real radical tasks at hand which engulfs people in its marshmallow consistency, in short a place to forget. The student, once a legitimate subject of political activity and perhaps the decade’s first representative of a truly radical politics in Canada, no longer en joys any priority; indeed they hardly warrant a simple equality in the eyes of conradicalism. The tern porary student, after all, is the apprentice professional, tomorrow’s the production manager, bourgeois-to-be. This rejection doesn’t flow from some whim which has caught on; indeed to understand it it is essential to examine the legacy of marxist politics which the student left has assumed in the course of its growth. In order to make sense of its own jumbled social position and to plan and assess its tactics, the new left required a broad ranging social increasingly it found theory; these needs satisfied through the insights of marxism-yet along with it was adopted, of necessity, some of the ritual formulas and practices within which the insights lay. The day to day practise of the university confronting opened the space within which the institution could only be viewed and understood as an integral part of the society itself; theory indicated that its existence depended on another social realitythe process of production and the social relations it created-and pushed people inexorably towards the view that the society must be changed as a whole; further, that the point of this change must be the place in which the dominant social relations are given force; and finally that the momentum for change must be the oppressed group within the place of work. As for the university, it would be taken care of as a part of the larger process. Thus we find radical politics today spanning an enormous gulf between a seasoned mass of people operating, and attempting to remain, outside institutions like the university, and a group within the institution whose awareness is just beginning to take shape. The vast majority of people outside, despite important factional differences, commonly share a tenet of classical marxism which involves them in the attempt to fuse themselves with the concerns of the working peoplewhether by participating directly in the labour process or by organizing and supporting labour from without; coupled with this activity is an ethic which renders this pursuit the highest, and -in

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many cases the only legitimate, activity. To this is often added an over-identification with the worker (both of his activity and of his condition) and a total denial of the validity of the usefulness of other social classes. This reality is addressed directly in Herbert Marcuse’s latest book, Counter-revolution and Revolt. In spite of the fact that it is written with the american experience in mind, it provides insights, of a more universal nature which are not contradicted by the particular differences of Canada. Marcuse’s opening chapter, which sets the framework within which his other points cohere, is a convincing rationale for the belief that it is ‘imperative to corn bat the political inferiority complex widespread among the student movement: the notion that the students are “only” intellectuals, a privileged “elite” and thus a subordinate force which can become effective only if it abandons its own position’. The bourgeois is not essential to the productive process; his skill is used within that process and may even rearrange particular aspects of it-yet he neither owns and directly controls, nor does he direct material engage in, production. The university is the cocoon in which his soul and talent are prepared, a womb in which he may continue to live while serving industry; yet it is not directly essential to production. Radicals learned long ago that they could occupy a building and that operations would continue as usual; moreover that they could occupy a whole campus and the direction of the society would~ go unchanged. Within this atin regard to effective mo sphere, politics, the university and other professional service institutions appear irrelevant.

There is a truth to this declared ‘innessentiality’ of the middle class; yet that truth, over amplified by the new left, leads to a tactical position which is, argues Marcuse, out of line with the changing development of modern capitalism. The classical notion of what constitutes a worker is being erroded by this new movement. The classical ‘proletariat’, a class maintained at a level of bare survival, has largely dissappeared; while a large sector of our society lives at a despicable economic and cultural level, enormous sectors of the value producing work force have been successfully incorporated into capitalist society. Consumerism depends much more on a well fed and tantalized, skilled and unionized, work force that on the conspicuous consumption of the degenerate nouveau riche. Capitalism depends increasingly on the possibility of satisfying adcreated needs through the possession and- consumption of commodities. In all of this consumption and distribution among working class families is essential. A further transformation of the classical definition is the gross reduction in proportion of actual value-producing workers; through technology alone it now takes fewer workers to produce the goods necessary to the actual survival of society. More and more workers are engaged in superfluous industry; more and more- workers are involved in “service” industries; more and more children of working and lower middle class families are drawn into technical and semiprofessional occupationsjobs which serve the further development of technology and refine the existing division of labour. _ For Marcuse the traditional proletariat (especially

when we add to its stature the displacement of alienation and work load to third world countries), is dead. Given this situation it becomes important to look at what is common behind the oft-warring camps of unemployed-labouringtechnicalsemiprofessional people-their common dependency within capitalist society, their common exile from control over the means of production within which they are used. Many Canadian leftists cry out against “the unproductive intelligentsia”, of which they are usually a perhaps-unhappy part, because intellectuals enjoy a freedom which is parasitic in regard to productive labour; yet Marcuse argues that this is in- _ sufficient inasmuch as “the separation from control over the means of production defines the ’ common objective condition of the wage and salary earners: the condition of exploitation-they reproduce capital.” One could pursue the nuances of Marcuse’s argumenthis uncanny ability to cover himself on every anglebut that evaluation is perhaps best left to the reader. What is most important is that Marcuse reopens the question of what constitutes ‘legitimate political activity’ and answers in a fashion which, while remaining external and critical to liberalism and traditional leftism, remains radical. In the end and to his credit he fetishizes neither worker nor intellectual, but rather / recasts their interconnection so j as to provide a strategy for the j battle of ‘all dependent classes against capital.’ Within this framework the university and profession population emerge once more as ‘a‘, not ‘the’, legitimate base.

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On June 26 at the O’Keefe Centre the Bolshoi Ballet won the hearts and minds of the people with a stunning exhibition of virtuosity, starring the renowned Maya Plisetskaya and a host of lesserknown, but superbly talented, dancers. The cream of “Toerawnteau” society, normally a rather stiff and moribund group of folks, was whipped into unaccustomed frenzy : after a thrilling and physically dangerous performance of Dounaievsky’s “Waltz” by Lena Blasova and Vladimir Smirnov, prolonged applause was stilled only by a reprise, an unusual but thoroughly fitting occurrence demonstrating the incredible

rapport generated between, dancers and audience. The evening began slowly with an unimaginatively staged and scantily produced “Act II” from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, redeemed only be the impeccable Ms. Plisetskaya, whose most causal movements seem more graceful than other ballerinas’ pirouettes. After an intermission, five shorter pieces demonstrated the abilities of the supporting dancers, with Maris Liepa and Yuri Vladimirov par titularly impressive among the generally high level of competence of the Bolshoi company. Ms. Plisetskaya returned for Carmen, and proved to be as

‘:Butterflied’ It’s a pity that Leonard Gershe has written no other plays. The production of his single effort, Butterflies Are Free by the University Players was well done. The three night run last week wasn’t long enough. Enjoyable is a hackneyed word but it’s apropos; so are witty, fun-filled, sentimental and good. As the blind convert to the Village life, Paul Crouse was excellent. His hard work in overcoming an enforced blindness convinced one of the rightness of the theme that physical handicaps can be overcome. The few hesitations and stumbles in movement made his characterization of Don Baker believable. Another theme of the play came out in the role of Florence Baker, excellently played by Arla Jean Sillers. As Don’s mother, her smotherly love was found to be wanting by both Don and his girlfriend, Jill: Jill made the forceful statement that ‘motherhood is not a lifetime occupation.’ Anita Hymers playing Jill Tanner, the 19 year old, flightly, uninvolved divorcee and kooky exhippie fulfilled two other themes, those of freedom and free love. Jill believed that “butterflies are free and so is she” and when faced with the reality that what she thought was “kicks” and “free love” was to Down infatuation leading to a deeper understanding and love. She could not comprehend or be comfortable with the permanence he sought. Her freedom was limited with Don much as he was limited by his blindness. Miss Hymers portrayed well the conflict

convincing a cigarette girl as she ha,d been a swan. The production, a curious amalgam of socialist realism and the Broadway musical, was a bit overripe, but did succeed in conveying the air of erotically charged decadence in which Bizet’s opera wallows. I Thunderous applause and an avalanche of flowers closed an exhausting but very satisfying evening, certainly the high point of my brief career as a Chevron reviewer. So long Chevron Dribblers, hello modern dance; I’m gonna trade in my basketball shoes for toe slippers and head East, and if you need me, Maya, call me! ’ paul stuewe

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within Jill to maintain freedom without hurting someone else. Steve Johns as Ralph Austin, the director of the off-Broadway play in which Jill wished to star, was not as competent as the other actors. His nervousness caused him to be less of a “hip”, opportunist director and more of a stilted, unwitting intruder. The handling of roles was effective. The messages came through. The ending was hopeful with Jill’s return. The audience was entertained. Those things are important but more might have been done to make it a more meaningful theatrical experience. I felt the audience was cheated by the use of lip-sync for the song, “Butterflies Are Free”, written by Don as an aspiring ,musician. ’ The attempt at setting a mood by the dimming of lights before and the quick restoration after the song was blindingly unsuccessful. The comic timing left something amiss once in a while and a few lines were milked-but that is picky when on the whole it was a tight, smoothly-run show. The design and construction of the set was appropos with dirty walls, an old couch and a bathtubcum-dining table. The apartment was an example of Jill’s philosophy that places can be sloppy, yet not dirty. There is a difference. A special mention goes to the fine acting at one point in the play. Relaxed and comfortable describes the atmosphere set by Mr. Crouse and Miss Hymers as they played the getting-to-knowyou-better scene before Mrs. Baker’s surprise visit, clad only in their underwear,

Also the confrontation between Mrs. Baker and Jill was beautiful. Both women were torn: Mrs. I Baker by her wish for her son’s happiness, Jill both by her desire for freedom and her need to have Don. Miss Hymers skillfully kept a balance between Jill’s naivete and worldliness. One other important character ’ in the play was the omni-present, Little Donny Dark, the fictional blind superboy created by Mrs. Baker in a series of children’s books. Through these stories- she was always able to get her son Donny to try a little harder. Like many a son and mother today they did not always understand and listen to one another. The introduction of a third and partiallyobjective person, Jill Tanner, forced them to see each other in a more positive light. Florence Baker was not the evil, clinging mother : she was simply wellmeaning. Don was no longer a little boy, rather a man with confidence and a strong musical talent. Jill, too learned a lot about herself and her freedom through the confrontations. Without losing her ability to be uninhibited, she did learn to become involved. Butterflies Are Free is a play of compromises and understanding. It’s not melodramatic or hokey. It is refreshing in its frankness. The high comic point in the play belonged to Mrs. Baker: “it (nudity, sex, and four-letter words> may be a fact of life, but so is DIARRHEA and I don’t call THAT entertainment !” Butterflies Are Free to be sure was not diarrhea. jude connell

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Orpheus II, the latest presentation at Stratford’s experimental Third Stage, is billed as ‘A Liturgy in Seven Parts’. It is based on the classical love story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with poetry and music composed by Gabriel Charpentier, the music director for Le Theatre du Nouvreau Monde in Montreal. The production is an ambitious orchestration of dialogue, music, movement and. light that is well adapted to the facilities of the Third Stage but which at times runs the risk of turning into a three-ringed circus. This is not to demean the effort or the presentation. It is an immensely difficult work attempted by an extremely youthful company. The myth of Orpheus is one of the great love-stories of all time. It tells of the love of Orpheus and Eurydice who are separated when she is killed by a serpent while fleeing from the advances of another man. Orpheus descends to the nether world to plea for her return. The deities consent but only on condition that he not look at her face until they reach the upper air. - In a moment of doubt Orpheus glances back as they ascend and instantly Eurydice is borne away, not to be returned. Orpheus tries to follow, but in vain. He is condemned to roam the earth forlorn, singing of his misfortunes and aloof from other women until he is

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killed by an angry mob of women and cast into the river Hebrus. Thereby he is reunited with his love in the next life and they live ‘forever together. It is all too easy to denigrate and flippantly reject such emotions and the stories and theatre which embrace them. It is a larger and more necessary task to re-express myths such as that of Orpheus in the context of our lives today while groping towards a further human liberation. This is no less true for the audience than for the players. It is in regard to passion that the production is most open to question. Orpheus is played by three characters simultaneously. Orpheus 1, played by David Schurmann, lacks conviction. His elocution is technically flawless, but it leaves one largely unmoved. The singing of Roland Richard as Orpheus 2 and the body movements of Richard Cohen (Orpheus 3) are much more stirring by comparison. And, it is in the total movement, colour and sound with the chorus that the players and the play express their real and evident passion. The latter may very well be the most important point of success for this experiment billed as ’ liturgy. It challenges our traditional assumptions concerning the primacy of verbal dialogue in theatre. Orpheus II is most challenging precisely where it runs the greatest danger of turning into a spectacle in the negative sense of the word, that is, in a whirlpool of motion, light and chant. The company must be congratulated on a successful and engaging performance, in spite of a few uneasy moments. And, in this they should be supported and encouraged particularly as the Shakespearean productions at Stratford in recent years have been guilty of lapsing into a staid and complacent competence. -petie warrian

Ii* Alexandre Lagoya speaks of his experience as a self-taught master of classical guitar: “I was always by myself in guitar studies.....all great artistic, scientific and humane achievements were based on this principle of solitude”. Even in performance Lagoya is alone with his guitar. At the Festival Theatre in Stratford last Sunday, in the anonymous atmosphere of a formal audience and a subdued set, Lagoya created an island of exotic brilliance. With the mastery of an artist completely at one with his medium of expression, Lagoya brought life to his guitar in an intimate relationship which was both passionate and principled. He was reminiscent of an old maitre. de ballet with a young ballerina, brimming with the urge to ‘an energetic abandon, yet moving with the restraint of masterful discipline, so that his partner danced every little step with incredible subtlety. Instead of the ‘free’chords which we are used to hearing in guitar music, Lagoya’s guitar moves with an intricacy of melody and purity of rhythm, with refinement and mischief, with power and delicacy, which gives to the realm of sound a depth and vitality which is rarely experienced in modern music. It was not so much Lagoya who

was performing here, but his guitar.,A figure in grey, with an air of modesty which was almost apologetic, he seemed to fade into the shadows behind the amber glow of his polished instrument. Their relationship was a fascinating part of their movement through the programme-he seemed to persuade the melodies from the body of the guitar, som-etimes holdin-g it at arms’ length with an easy coolness, sometimes leaning close over it with a powerful intensity-never in the spotlight, always in control. There seemed to be’ a flow of personality through his fluid fingers into the instrument. The formality which characterizes classical music, and which has been largely relinquished in favour of a more ‘free’ inspiration, was shown in this performance in its excellence-as a disciplined framework through which sound could flow with all its variations into a harmony. Baroque dance themes from Handel and Weill opened the performance, the Sarabande drawing us in with its persuasive rhythm, the Passacaille with its continuous variations chasing one another with a delightful freedom. These dances, originally very fasL wild and’sensuous, were formalized in the European courts,but their vitality still came thorugh subtly in Lagoya’s interpretations. The Minuet-Andante:Rondo by Diabelli which followed these moved through a progression of tingling runs, a melody with the sweetness of tiny bells, a melody with the heat and heaviness Of a mediterranean afternoon, through a colourful mixture of rhythm, chord and melody to a climax followed by an exquisite softness. Fantasy, a guitar piece composed by Spanish virtuoso Fernando Sor, began slowly and powerfully,

paused and moved to a lighter mood, infectious with its strains of Spanish song and dance music, and ended with a flourish. The second half of the program opened with Nocturne by the French composer Bondon, a slow, eerie movement in which Lagoya seemed to be softly urging the notes from the guitar. Its twilight atmosphere ended with a few deep, soft beats. Spanish composer Torroba’s Andante and Aflegro followed the same soft, mellow mood, paused, and moved into a speed in which the notes seemed to be running down alleyways between sun and shadow. Lagoya’s final se,lection was Cadiz and Sevilla from the Suite Espanola by Albeniz, one of Spain’s foremost pianists and composers. More than any other, this piece showed Lagoya in conversation his guitar and his music, as the melodies fluctuated with the warmth and vitality of human responses. His reaction to the tumult of applause was unpeturbed, even a little amused. He gave two encores. Lagoya’s intimacy with his guitar is intensely personal but it is not exclusive. A festival of colour, imagery and senusality were created. Yet in the atmosphere of Stratford’s Festival Theatre, Lagoya and his guitar remained strangely intangible, almost unreal in their incongruity with the surroundings. The Festival Theatre was a world of arranged seating, arranged lighting, a contrived stage set and a politely inhibited audience. Lagoya was surrounded by an absurd formality. In the midst of this, only his own formality of musical style made sense-a discipline which was a key to the freedom of sound. -mary holmes

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why the men wanted this place to themselves-the food was really cheap. I had noticed that one waiter had refused to serve us and another had come over from across the room, an older man who seemed to be accepting it ‘all with amused tolerance.

“Indians are not allowed into ’ the Chandrapore, Club even as guests,” he said simply. - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

The Sahibs of Kitchener, resplendent in their colorful black and off-gray business suits, interrupted, now and again by a red or blue blazer or colored shirt, passed in and out of the door, smoking easily at long cigars and talking the quiet talk of the important. On the wall of the entranceway to the Hofbrau room was a sign that stated simply, “Men Only.” In smaller print it allowed that women might enter at certain hours other than the lunch hour, Ibut this was a lunch hour. Some time earlier, a group of down5town businesswomen had decided to sample the fare of this fabled throwback to simpler times, and had been ignored by the management. It made the K-W Record, of course, and a day later. when the women went back they were quietly served, though it was made clear to a reporter that-through some quirk of male logic.- the Men Only policy had not changed. It was not clear whether the Men Only rule was still in effect because the Men wanted it that way, or because the management had decided the Men still wanted it that way. During the first “invasion’!, several men had invited the women over to their tables or brought them food from their tables when the waiters had refused to serve them. By the time we approached the sacred portals this Saturday noon hour, several more sorties had been waged into No Women’s Land, and the mood was more one of a DMZ than a battlefield. ‘It seemed everyone was waiting to see if Woman had, indeed arrived, or if sheinfected as she is by her infantile pursuit of equalitywould have the decency to fade away after getting a crumb and a pat on the head: We paused before*the Men Only sign, paying our respects to antiquity, Lynn making the sign of the cross reverently. Perhaps, I cautioned myself, we are not approaching this with the proper attitude, and I waivered, the vision of a roomful of angry Men taking me out back in the alley and joyfully castrating me. But then old buddy Male Ego came forward, thinking for me-perhaps you will become the first Man to escort two women into this fabled sanctuary. Yes, you! The tho,ught of becoming part of history, even a smallest-part of it, kept me from turning back toward the lobby. Besides, we had already been spotted. Four men had just come out of the room, spied us at their “entranceway and, guessed our purpose. One, a graying. banky-looking worrier, muttered hatefully to Lynn, “Why don’t you women go do something important?” She looked at him sweetly and answered slowly, “Why don’t you?” He didn’t quite know how to handle Uppity Women and huffed off exchanging harrumphs with his companions.

That had broken the ice nicely, so we all decided to go right in, I being careful of course to politely hold the door for the two Ladies. (Ladies meaning they were both wearing skirts for the first time in a long while. I had donned a tie and an old cordouroy jacket, since according to management without them I would not be Gentleman enough to dine with the \ Sahi bs.) I was somewhat distressed to take in the room quickly and discover a female seated at a table with two young-ish businessmen. I feared for my place in history, but swiftly comforted myself that two men-one woman would count in a different category than one man-two women. Besides, I found myself feeling strangely discomfitted, despite my disregard for the place and its rules. “There, but-for the grace of God, go you and go I...” There were no tables empty. That was easy; we would wait-if a waiter came. Otherwise we’d just pick a,,place and sit down, which would be bad theatre. So we stood at the door, smiling sweetly, looking around, waiting for the waiter. Someone went past us out the door, mumbling, “Oh, no, not again.” A group of suit-and-tied men came in the door behind us, taking note of us genially and looking around for seats, a

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“Are you with these gentlemen?” he asked me, knowing I wasn’t since he’d watched me come in. “No,” I replied, “I am with the two Ladies.” ’ Oh, well we would have to wait then. He told the Gentlemen tables were being set up in the Men Only beverage room if they didn’t want to wait, and they pressed past us after the waiter had told us sternly we couldn’t come. As they filed past us, several of the young men invited Lynn and Deanna to come with them into the inner sanctum, but they declined, not ready,1 guess to tackle provincial law just yet for a quick lunch. Surprisingly, another waiter approached and told us we cou Id join a young man who was sitting alone at a table for four. As we. sat down, the poor devil glanced up at us uncomfortably. “Boy,” I he looked ,around nervously, and managing a weak laugh, “they might never let me in again after this.” I started to laugh and then realized as his chuckle faded that he was more serious than not. “But they’re the ones who put us here at your table,” I pointed out, not knowing quite who “they” were but wanting to be friendly. A waiter interrupted and cordially took our orders and I was surprised to learn

W.e turned our attention back to our table companion. Not much older than we, certainly, less than 30, but he was not accepting this at all. “Why are you in here?” he challenged the girls. “I was hungry,” was al I Lynn would give him. Deanna evidently felt more like talking, and said, “Why shouldn’t we be here?” He was ready for it. “Where I come from, there are a lot of negroes, but they don’t push things.” I cou Idn’t believe my ears; had Otto Preminger written this man’s part into my liberal fantasy? But he went on, “See, we have places the Negroes don’t go and they have places we don’t go. We both know it and we respect it. Now, I have nothing against the female race”the female race? -” . ..but there are places men want to be alone.”

Deanna was ready to flare over, we thought somehow we’d left that kind of thinking behind US somewhere; that no one had the gall or stupidity to puppet those words any more. “For instance,” he pointed out, “I’m going to a lot of trouble right now watching the way I eat and my language because there are ladies at the table.” Lynn had lost patience, too: “That’s your hang-up.” “Where do you come from?” “jac ksonvi I le.” “Oh,” all three of us together.

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“This used to be a pretty nice place”I guess, meaning until a week ago-‘/but soon nobody will come here anymore. Don’t get me wrong (he had suddenly turned to me for the first time), we’re not all queers here or anything...” I smiled at him sickeningly and said, “Oh, that’s too bad.” “...we just like a place we can be ourselves without having to worry about e women watching us.” I glanced at his hand and saw a marriage ring. I could see his poor wife, waiting frantically every night for him to return from his daily struggle in the jungle of business, he protecting her all the while from the crudity of man’s world and enjoying himself with the boys every now and then. You can have friends, and you can have a wife, but never at the same time, eh? Luckily, our friend left, but his place in my consciousness was taken by a loud american businessman who sat down at the table to our right. He was making points with his Canadian host. “Jesus, have you been through O’Hare in the last week? That place is getting to be hell, always waiting...” next time you’re through “Listen, Chicago, give me a call...” Just as I was growing ill despite the fact that my roast beef was quite good for $1.25, he called our friendly waiter over and, in a loud voice, told him he wanted cigarettes. “I have a pack here you may have, sir,” the waiter replied. American businessman took a look and declared them unfit. “No, I want some american cigarettes .” “There are some in the magazine shop around the hall, sir.” But for some reason, the man couldn’t be bothered to walk fifty feet for his american cigarettes and instead peeled off a bill and told the waiter anything with menthol would do. The waiter walked’off on his errand. I was tempted to follow the waiter, buy some shoe polish for blackface and come bowing and scraping to American businessman with an unintelligible Mississippi drawl, cigarettes in hand. But we were done eating and I really wanted no more of the place for a while. We tipped the waiter nicely, and as we were leaving I saw Record reporter Henning Tilgenburg come through the doors with two women at his- side, looking around for a table. Male Ego restored properly to place for a while, I smiled at every scowling face on the way out. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to businessmenslunch there. Things may be in turmoil here, but at least folks still know their place in Jacksonville.

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Your Birth Control Centre would like to inform you of a rather happy turn of events. Finally, people are beginning to think first and act afterwards for a change. It’s much easier to think about contraception than face the%choice of abortion or having a child without the usual social graces. In the past we have seen over 1000 pregnant girls and at times were getting depressed by the small number of people coming to us for birth control information. ‘The trend is now showing signs of reversal though; more people are coming to see us to ask for help beforehand. Of particular interest is the number of incoming fresh students, whose forethought in this area reveals a considerable amount of maturity. There seems to be several reasons for this change. Birth control literature is easier to get and contraceptive devices are more readily available. A noticeable change in social attitudes is also helping. As well, some credit must go to improved

Although I do not fully share his political point of view, nor; do I agree with his method of responding to the barbarious bombing of the U.S. in Vietnam by trying to hijack the Pan Am air,plane to Hanoi, especially with two keith dewar birth control centre \ lemons wrapped in aluminum foil. I do however respect his courage. ’ One thing that made me sick was the action of the pilot, Capt. Gene On behalf of my executive and Vaughn: Just. picture a 200 lb. the members of Dare’s, may I say “God-fearing man who reads the that we have and do pay the bible just about everyday” (acgreatest respect to the editor and cording to his wife,) after all people involved in putting out , managing to subdue and comthe chevron. They most certainly 2 pletely immobilize the flimsy 120 have done an outstanding job. No lb. Vietnamese with the help of two one could have been closer to the other men, ordered a fourth one to truth and to the people than those shoot him down in cold blood. Not people from the chevron. Thanks only did he murder the Vietfor a job well done. namese, he also threw his body out of the airplane. This made me albert gill president wonder whether he would do the local 173, UBW same to an American hijacker. An article concerning the above killing from a paper like the Chevron will be much appreciated I am quite surprised in not. by the public. seeing any article in the Chevron about the killing of the skyjacker Nguyen Thai Binh earlier this d.m. nguyen month. mechanical engineering grad

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participating this time were randy hannigan, doug ing, terry moore, krista tomory, mike rohatynsky, our favourite spink, chuck stoody, ellen tolmie, murray noll, Sheldon sulman, doug austrom, paul stuewe, deanna kaufman, carol czako and co., len greenner, peter Wilkinson, gary robins, brian cere and brigette, brute hahn, e. fischer, melvin i. rotman, mary holmes, john fraser, jude connell, peter waKrian, george kaufman, liz willick, ron colpitts, gord moore, david cubberly, tony difranco, jon mcgill, Steve izma, and of course the best and biggest surprise of the week was the return of our one and only mcgann, gudnite.

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Camp Columbia, for children ,of four to fourteen years of age, has successfully weathered its first two camping weeks. So far Marc Roberts and Nancy Brown, the camp co-directors,, -along with nineteen camp counsellors haven’t run into too many problems despite a large cutback in their opportunities for youth grant. Since the grant was the financial mainstay of the camp, the counsellors have had to take a i drop in salaries and funds for equipment have been’ cut. Because of the financial problem, no. transportation was available until, out of desperation, the group went to thei federation of students. The federation gave them funds for abus which the camp will repay if there is any money left. With the bus they no longer have to walk toPhillip Street co-op for meals or to the park for swimming. ). This year the camp has a structured program of activities.’ After . breakfast

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there is a period of crafts, games, water \ safety and sports, with the, children rotating from one activity to another. During the afternoons the counsellors take the kids swimming in Waterloo park, to farms; the park, the library and different buildings on campus. The first sunday the kidseither stayed at camp or went to Musicanada at Victoria park. From. the expression on the kid’s faces you could see they really enjoyed the music, as spectators danced and a variety of dogs chased each other around. the‘ crowd. . Sometimes the children perform skits with the counsellors partially par-ticipating. In one skit, performed ,by the youngest group of girls, ttiey tried hard to get everything right. But in the last song -.-“of their skit the‘counsellor goofed; out of embarrassment they left, all amid goodnatured laughter from the audience. Children in the first two week session . really enjoyed their stay at camp. They This attic19 was written - mother with two children

by Carol Czako, a . at Camp Columbia.

found a new circle of friends, and feel that now wherever they go in KitchenerWaterloo they will a’lways know someone. The camp schedule calls for three overnight camps. In August there will be a day camp from the eighteenth to the thirtieth, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pick-up service will be available for children without transportation.

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Donations such as cloth, string, blunt scissors, glue, construction paper, paint _ and paint brushes will be- gratefully received. Any contributions of supplies or money will be sent through the federation office. The Camp counsellors would like to give special thanks to the management of Dominion stores at Westmount plaza for pop and other goodies, and the cook at Ren‘ison college for his donations of oranges, ice-cream and other tasty foods. Also, thanks to all other groups for their contributions towards. helping the camp. c

photos by Brian Cere