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clamations.

Jim Shawera, while running for the presidency, in 1969 said, “I want to make the arts sot a better social organization with some political affiliations.”

There wasstill little interest generated in the society and Shawera won an election with 166 people voting photo by Steve izma from within a faculty of nearly 2,000. However, the position of the society failed to improve and in 1970, the continual haggling over the allocation of funds prompted a constitutional committee to suggest its decentralization, effectively putting the money in the hands of the clubs.

More recent intrigues and problems within the union of arts societies include the embezzlement of more than $1,000 by president Phil Benovoy, during the summer of 1971. Even with this sad state of affairs brought to light, the election in the spring of 1972 resulted in two acclamations, and two vacancies in the arts society executive-continued apathy towards the union among the students.

The lack of interest in a united body within the faculty of arts is not exclusively found at the level of the individual student.

The The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU) last week organized clubs and societies at took a fairly heavy blow when the departmental level have not members of the Syndicat des attempted to lend an air of Fonctionaires Provinciaux du authenticity to the union and have only viewed it as a means to, Quebec (SFPQ), voted by a very narrow margin to sever the union’s acquire the necessary funds to People relax and relate to each other while attending a bio-energetics seminar during “Human Awareness Week”. affiliation with the CNTU. carry on their own business. These The results of the general clubs are responsible, ultimately, operation. However, if no power is referendum which took place for the dissolution of the union of discussion within the narrow channels that mark his concept of realized, there is no change.

September 25 is seen as a victory arts societies and for the situation Many attempts to relate r the for anti-Common Front forces that exists now. A student body a cure for individual alienation, consisting of fragmented interest through group therapy. individual to the whole, and in- in Quebec. Intensive information He said the basic problem is a dividual change within a group to campaigns from both sides led to a groups, excluding the one half of the students not affiliated to lack of awareness.

“We structure social change outside of it, were turnout of almost 80 per cent of the avoided

by Caspari who flatly civil servants union with 10,943 specific departments.

A student our experiences and relationships body with no consensual voice, and and are trapped by it.. .we get so refused to look at the movement voting for disaffiliation and 10,057 no cohesion. from a point. of view which he for remaining with the CNTU. involved with symbols...with -john keyes conceptualizing.. .so involved with called political.

Following on the heels of the \ the past and future, that we miss -krista tomory defection last spring of the CNTU’s what’s happening to us.” right wing to form the Centrale des His basic premise is that society Syndicats Democratiques (CSD) , and the subsequent loss of over imposes values that must be shed in order to “be ourselves”.

But we 20,000 members to the new propogate the culture, and organization, the loss of a further therefore carry the disease.

27,000 SFPQ members is a fairly Caspari believes that within the big slice of the CNTU’s former therapy group it is possible to shed 230,000 members.

(For further these values. However, he does not details of the CNTU-CSD split see chevroncenspecify what exactly replaces this week’s these values. He was loathe to trespread) .

-comment on the carry-over of the The drive to leave the CNTU was D---goals achieved at such sessions. led by SFPQ president Jean-Paul According to Glen Hamilton, In a’ world of material plenty, The question of influence of en-‘ Breuleux with the support of most instant meals and mass counter groups over the life of the radical therapy does not exist in at of the union’s nine-man executive. least one sense: “Radical therapy produced opinion, no aspect of individual was raised several They were however, unable to cannot be considered as therapy in human life is left untouched by times during the discussion. carry the unions two largest It is clear that a session serves the same way that professional numerical regions, those of commercial improvement.

As alienation became a public issue, the primary purpose of “getting psychologists view therapy and its Montreal and Quebec city which away” from the structured social various forms.” voted to remain with the congroup therapy originated in mental health clinics, and mixed with lay milieu.

It becomes almost a Tuesday’s seminar on radical federation. rapidly gained laboratory situation. “Go away for therapy, a part of human Perhaps because the vote was so mysticism, awareness week, found Hamilton close, CNTU leaders have pledged popularity.

40 days and 40 nights” and you will These groups range from a change radically, said Caspari. attempting to describe the roles of to continue relations with their Observer Tony Di Franc0 in- professionals, and how their supporters in the public service genuine attempt to help people with emotional problems to an troduced the social implications methods of dealing with the union. involved, and questioned the ‘ ‘illness ’ ’ of a patient becomes a excuse for an evening of pleasant The SFPQ represents employees hindrance to the patient’s gossip. possibility of encounter groups of the Quebec government and was bec’oming an instrument of regaining strength.’

Art Caspari, psychology grad an important link between the change. Caspari backed off saying Hamilton seemed uncomfortable student at U. of W., presently CNTU and the Common Front working at Scarboro General that he is not concerned with at first, reading from a large pile which includes the Quebec society at large, but only the in- of notes, as he outlined the ways in Federation hospital in Toronto and a strong of Labour and the dividual.

“I would not waste iny advocate of this curious movement which north american culture is Quebec Teachers Corporation. spoke to about 25 people on the time trying to change the world,” impressed upon its component Together, they have been he said.

Human Potential Movement in the peoples.

As he dominated the bargaining for contracts affecting first part of Human Awareness The question of power to change discussion, there was little op- ‘210,000 school, government, was left unanswered.

On account week. portunity for listeners to respond; hospital and hydro Quebec emCaspari opened with a statement of high cost, involvement with this resulted in substantial conployees . training is restricted to fusion that he did not want to give a sensitivity and in some people’s SFPQ leaders have indicated prepared speech, but would talk on those who are free to choose, to departure.

Hamilton talked that the union will remain intopics as they were introduced by come and go as they please, and extensively of the many inputs dependent (rather than join the the discussion.

His preference was who can afford the fee. from media, schools, etc. that help CNTU rival, the CSD). However, to transform the meeting into an Talking about personal power, to mold a person’s external values, . there has been speculation about encounter which he Caspari used the example “I hit and the tensions that arise when possible affiliation with the group, described as “putting an ex- you, you hit me”.

This was one’s real experiences come into Canadian Union of Public Emperience under a microscope.”

He corrected to, “I don’t hit you, you conflict with those values. ployees (CUPE) a QFL affiliate don’t hit-me”, and was labelled cothen proceeded to steer the -continued on page 2 represented in the Common Front.

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Arts society defunct The death of the union of arts has been duly notarized and the corpse rather unceremoniously laid to rest, with few mourners.

Known to have been of weak disposition, unable to sustain its physical strength in the face of perpetual indifference, the constituent organs within the society ended an extended period of lack of faith in the parent body by dissolving it.

Having seen little purpose in the society other than that of dividing up the money, the clubs immediately called for its extinction when it failed to carry out its role of benevolent uncle.

Upon returning to campus this fall, the small clubs and societies found no organized union of arts societies here to greet them. The executive consisted of David Chapley as president and Ravindra Pate1 as treasurer-both acclaimed to these positions last march. Chapley was nowhere to be found. There was no council to vote the money into the hands of the clubs.

And nobody else could distribute the society fees collected from each arts student. Not having concerned themselves with the sad state of affairs within the union of arts at the closing of the last winter term, the clubs found themselves penniless, without a council to an complain to, and without executive to run an election.

Following the appearance of Chapley after two weeks of silence at the beginning of the term, the clubs asked the Federation of Students to declare the society defunct and then distribute the funds among them. A week ago, the presidents of all of the societies on campus met with federation president, Terry Moore to consider the situation, and consequently dissolve the union of arts societies.

The arts society fees are being held in trust until October 20, at which time the clubs will get their cut.

- In historical perspective, the arts society appeared to be fighting its own destiny in clinging to life. In 1966 the then nonexistent society was revitalised with an election which included five acFrom this ignoble clamations. beginning there followed a 14 per cent election turnout in 1967, a reconstitution in 1968, and a 5 per cent turnout for an election which resulted in two executive ac-

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Course and ’ teacher surveys Dissatisfied with your courses or teachers?

Wish that you knew someone who had taken the course previously so you could have been forewarned?

There is a way. If you’re in Maths, maybe you know that already. Or maybe you don’t.

Though student-run course and teacher evaluations like ‘Antical’, ‘Counter-Calendar’ or simply, ‘Course Evaluations’ are often published, the validity and success of them are disputed hotly by students and faculty alike.

Course and teacher evaluations are usually conducted by use of campus-wide surveys where questions concerning texts, the quality ,of the subject matter, tutorials, labs and teaching are assessed on a scale of 1-5, poor to excellent, by all the students surveyed.

Some criteria with which the university of Western Ontario rated their courses last year: objectives, material course organized, classes stimulating, informative tutorials, difficulties cleared up, work load. These criteria are presented in statistical form, e.g. - Work Load: mean 2.7, SD .8. What the .hell does that mean? the average lazy student wonders.

To find out, read the complex six-page explanatory note.

Other course evaluation publications present their survey results in more prose-like fashion which somehow still often results in irrelevance and mediocrity.

For example, from the University of Waterloo’s Math Faculty Antical : “Average amount of work were required in this course. Material ranged from fair to tough.

Assignments were useful and fair.

Tests were useful and fair. Opinion was divided on the worth of the text. Course was recommended by most students as they thought it relevant to their education.”

To combat irrelevancy and encourage significance, a Course Evaluation Conference was held at York University last summer, August 25-27. The conference was attended by representatives from universities all over Canada attempting a meaningful exchange of ideas on evaluation procedures.

This idea is not a small underground revolutionary one. Over one hundred colleges and universities in North America have tried evaluations including such hallowed institutions as Notre Dame, UCLA and Bryn Mawr, side by side with McGill, York, U of T, Windsor and Saskatchewan.

What about the University of Waterloo you ask? Last week, the Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning discussed a survey suggested

by Professor G.F. Atkinson on evaluating current teacher evaluation practices. This, take note, is not a course and teacher evaluation survey, but a

survey on surveys. Its aim is admirable : said Prof. Atkinson, “We have a responsibility to the students.

A professor isn’t bad because he wants to be, but why should students sit through bad lectures when a professor can improve himself?

“However, many students feel that some teat hers are consciously inadequate for their own reasons.

While conducting Campus Forum this week, a question concerning the quality of teaching on this campus, the Chevron reporters found that many students were reluctant to respond because they did not want to incriminate themselves by expressing discontent with their bad many professors . Granted, students also replied enthusiastically about great profs, but the malfunctions do stand out. out.

As we have seen by example in other universities and the limited example of our own Math faculty though, evaluations encounter many problems : lack of cooperation from both students and faculty, high cost of surveys (ranging from seven to ten thousand dollars for all-faculty coverage), little publicity and blandly objective results.

Is there a solution? Terry Moore, Federation of Students President, speaks of a course-teacher evaluation conducted by graduate students in Berkeley, California.

These surveyors were selfconfessed ‘radicals’ who attended the undergraduate classes and wrote subjective, critical analyses of course and teacher. This might prove to be more applicable to the course-selecting student. Will such an enterprise be carried out at Waterloo?

Moore replied that so far he has been busy but the matter will be discussed at a forthcoming Federation meeting to decide priorities.

Maybe there is a chance, a solution. In the meantime, grin and bear it.

-kim

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Dome club formed A small enthusiastic group of people met thursday (September 28) to talk about geodesic domes.

The meeting was called by Joe Michno and Barry Baker to determine interest in domes on this campus. They were pleased with the number (about 15) and the knowledgeability of the people who came. It was decided to organize into a club which would be officially recognized and subsidized by the federation.

The aims of this club will be to pool information and experience in dome construction ; to educate the community about the potential of the dome as an architectural form, and to publicize these goals by organizing a continental conference for dome-makers.

The recent popularization of domes-geodesic in particularcan be credited to Bwckminster Fuller. His geodesic at Expo ‘67 enclosed the American exhibit.

Fuller is continuing experimenting in dome construction at a place commonly called “dome city” near Woodstock, New York. Dome experimentation is also being done at “drop city”, in Arizona, a community of freaks who scavenge through automobile graveyards and rip off the car tops of old chevys, fords, and ramblers

with welding torches to make their dome-houses.

In 1962 the Canadian government studied the feasibility of making a dome city in the Frobisher Bay area ; the verdict-uneconomical.

Since that study Fuller has made many advances in dome technology and there is a feeling among dome enthusiasts that this verdict should be changed.

Environmental studies student, Bill Beaudin, has been researching the possibility of a northern dome city for three years. He commented that northern communities must spend a great deal of their time within the confinements of a rectangular module-type dwelling, known to be socially and psychologically damaging. When a greenhouse in the form of a dome was built in a northern prairie town, there were noticeable improvements in the community’s social life. The dome was large and warm enough to walk about in comfort.

The comparitive low cost of dome construction seems to be disadvantageous in our capitalistic society. The building code in this area is stacked against geodesics with a large construction industry throwing its weight against changing it. By creating a dome awareness in the community at large, the U of W group hopes to update the code. They feel the obvious benefits of domes should be accessible to the people as soon as possible. The group plans to have many meetings in the near future; there is considerable work to be done.

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ord es TORONTO (CUP)--Ryerson Polytechnical Institute students in Toronto continued their campaign against the appointment of John Sword to their board of governors Wednesday, September 27, when 59 students confronted campus administrators at a board meeting.

Sword, former acting president of the University of Toronto, was named a Ryerson governor last spring under bill 81, the Ryerson charter. It stipulates U of T must appoint a representative to the board as an academic advisor.

Students want the man removed for several reasons. They protest his action in twice calling metro police on to the U of T campus.

They also point to Sword’s opposition to student parity on decision-making bodies, and his position on female students. He has said women should not be allowed to attend university because they are only interested in a Mrs. degree. He has also contended that women should not receive student loans because, in his opinion, they are more likely to default than men. They also object to the principle of having outside advisors on the Ryerson ‘board at all.

A petition bearing 1600 signatures protesting Sword and bill 81 was presented to administration president Donald Mordell, who pledged support for the student action but rejected the demand to have Sword removed.

Mordell agreed to notify Queen’s Park with regard to changing bill 81, but warned that action should not be expected before november and may take up to a year. It is not within his power, he added, to have Sword removed.

Mordell earlier stated that he would do everything possible to change the situation, including approaching universities and college minister George Kerr if Sword did not resign on his own initiative.

At the board meeting, however, he felt the man could give the institute soua7,a academic advice as a governor until the bill could be ammended.

He read a letter from Sword himself in which Sword said he felt compelled by law to sit on the board.

After the confrontation with students, the board passed a motion proposing changes to the provincial government in Ryerson’s governing structure.

The motion calls for a new board with four students, four faculty, four alumni and four appointees, as opposed to the present two students, two faculty and eight outside members.

Board chairman Dick Reid said he would present the petition and an outline of the meeting’s

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proceedings to Sword as soon as possible. The board thought this action would force Sword to resign or at least become an absentee member until the bill can be ammended.

Meanwhile Ryerson students are still demanding Sword’s resignation.

George Kerr is expected on campus today and organizers of the action against Sword and bill 81 are expected to confront him with the issue.

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Professional therapists, in setting up _. strong doctor-patient roles, reinforce the paranoia and loneliness of the inferior, guiltridden individual.

On these last points the listeners responded.

Hamilton was challenged by one person who felt that he was stereotyping psychologists and attacking the profession in an overgeneralized manner.

0 thers felt that there were positive aspects of psychologists’ works that Hamilton was ignoring.

Hamilton replied by emphasizing the fact that values are always imposed on some.one during an interchange as intense as that during therapy, stressing that the situation is complicated drastically by the power role of the dot tors. The radical therapist must be conscious of his values, developing them through relationships with others.

However, the tight schedules professionals keep, as well as their often restricted clientele, gives them a narrow perspective within which to develop their values.

As the group became smaller, Hamilton attempted to initiate a discussion of the imposition of values.

But the questions and dialogue quickly steered away from this discussion.

Hamilton went onto talk about contradictions he felt in his job, and again emphasized the necessity of a more total experience and view in the need to overcome the roles of professional therapy.

It was near the closing of the meeting that Hamilton stressed the necessity of a political perspective for dealing with psychological problems.

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Apartment building

Silvhr ’ Lake spoiled Urban parkland and open green areas continue to be threatened by the thrust of the bulldozer.

It seems that the verdant parks are jealously guarded by municipal councils-until the first high-rise developer happens along, that is, with promises of a few extra tax bucks for the city coffers. Then, chop chop, down come the trees; up goes the concrete and steel.

This practice must be questioned until park and natural open areas are made inviolate.

A group of concerned property owners in Waterloo is doing just that. P. Denis-Nathan, spokesman for the group, explained that he is fighting construction of a four storey apartment dwelling next to Silver Lake, just north of the Waterloo Arena.

Denis-Nathan believes that such a proposal will precipitate the “desecration” of the lake. His emphasis is on future generations’ needs for amenities.

In a brief to the June 28th, 1972, meeting of the Waterloo Planning Board, the group outlined their objections in greater detail as follows : l the additional traffic will create a hazard and reduce the capacity of Caroline St. N. 0 insufficient parking spaces have been allotted for the project. @ infringement of privacy and undue noise to adjacent residents. l visual obstruction and interference of the park and lake. l the dumping of fill into the lake by the developer.

0 the proposal’s effect on the park and lake wildlife. l resultant crowding of Waterloo Park. l the profile of development and density of occupancy in the area is already too high.

0 the subject property is now zoned ‘Green’, and should remain so, assuring public access to Silver Lake at all times. There is already a deficiency of open ‘Green’ areas in the community.

The group recommends that the city should purchase the property incorporating it into the park.

Chief city planner, W .D. Scott, appears to be confused on the merits of the project. At one time he was quoted as saying that “This project will substantially conform with the official plan” when indeed the area’s present zoning and that needed for approval of the project are different.

At a recent Urban Renewal Committee meeting, Scott was quoted by the K-W Record to emphasize the need “to add more green space” in the locale.

One about-face and some fast talking later, Scott approved the apartment’s construction and the reduction of green consequent area. The fact that the Planning Board approved its construction on condition that a combination pedestrian-bicyle pathway be built

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along the lake’s shore does not withdrawal of Meszaros’ ap= improve matters much. plication for landed immigrant Most of the thirty foot causeway status. Acceptance of the work necessary for the path will be built - permit would mean that Meszaros over the water or over the existing would not be able to apply for filled-in section. The Grand River landed status in the future without Conservation Authority has an order in council from the already sanctioned against further federal cabinet. land fill dumpings.

Building a About 100 students, faculty and causeway only serves to cover up high ranking administrators the first attack on the lake and then listened as Copeland commented, to advance further over the lake “The Meszaros case is of great surface, reducing the area and importance to Canada and attractiveness of the shore-line.

Canadian universities”.

Waterloo Planning Board has With the federal election just proceeded in this controversy as if three weeks away, noted Copeland, the high-rise and its associated the time is right to fight the growth is inevitable and highly Meszaros case because the desirable.

The newly released government is vulnerable on its American study of local governimmigration policy. ment has lashed out against this Ian Lumsden, a political science “the bigger we get, the better we professor at Atkinson College told are” ideology. It states that cities the group that neither Gabriel who ignore social considerations in Kolko, who went through similar preference $0 economic immigration struggles at York in amelioration are eternalizing 1970, nor Meszaors are “radicals”, cities as unattractive places to but rather “Marxist scholars”. live.

“There are no radical marxists The farsightedness of the employed by this university,” he Caroline St. citizens group is to be said. “The problem is not merely praised. Their case is solid and the government but right here at Waterloo council will have to do York.” some fast stepping to justify the To date, the government has apartment’s construction.

The given no reasons for declaring outcome of the battle may shape Meszaros a security risk. He is a the future profile of KitchenerBritish subject who underwent Waterloo.

British and Italian security It is hoped that southern Ontario clearance since he left Hungary in will not devolve into a barren 1956.

“The government is exercising wasteland.

Meanwhile, the earththeir bureaucratic privilege of movers lurk.. . secrecy ,” said Copeland.

“It’s -jim macdougald important that they not be allowed to use vague phrases.”

Mel Hill, chairman of the social science department in which Meszaros was hired to teach, commented: “It’s strange to note the times Meszaros has had to step forward to defend civil rightsonce under the Stalinist regime in Hungary and now under the Liberal government of Canada. In Hungary they called him a dangerous bourgeois ideologist.

Lumsden noted the irony of York University “coming forward as the advocate of true liberalism, and it receives favourable publicity.”

But, he said, the conservative DOWNSVIEW(CUP)-“It’s the liberal image of the university is Canadian government’s policy to not being challenged. keep out individuals who don’t He urged students, who have no agree that the capitalist order is real weight with the government to the best form of government,” said put pressure on the York adPaul Copeland, lawyer for marxist ministration where their influence professor Istvan Meszaros. matters.

York-wide support for The Hungarian-born academic Meszaros continued with a unanimous senate statement of was hired by York university, but refused an entry visa to Canada. support and numerous faculty Speaking at a rally of support at petitions.

The Canadian the university monday, Copeland Association for University announced that Meszaros had Teachers has added its voice for refused the federal government’s Meszaros, and the York President offer of a one-year work permit.

David Slater continues to pressure The lawyer explained that the immigration minister Bryce offer was made contingent on the Mackasey’s office.

York supports Meszaros

Yoga , therapy In the closing moments of the yoga seminar held monday night, Al Webb of the Claremont Center for Human Potential made one important link between his work in yoga and the work of the counselling services staff who were sponsoring the event, saying: “I believe that almost all physical disorders can be traced back to origins of psychological disturbance.”

However, there was very little discussion on the point as most of the 85 people present were more concerned with the physical stimulation of the yoga exercises than their philosophical aspects.

In fact Webb himself remained silent through most of the three hour session except to talk about the origins and mechanics of the techniques he was presenting.

Accompanying him were three young instructors who wandered among the novitiates demonstrating proper f.orms in the exercises.

The atmosphere of the event, held in the faculty lounge of the math and computer building, was reminiscent of high school P.E. classes. Those who participated responded to the instructions of the “leaders” by quietly forming lines and circles and assuming, often rigidly, the positions and motions shown to them.

A few of the people present either did not participate in the exercises or else made lighthearted attempts to perform them.

This disturbed one of the instructors who asked them to “do the exercises or leave”, because he felt “drained” by their actions.

Some left, the others joined the group after a private discussion with Webb and the instructors.

The instructors were asked about the importance of the origins of the tensions and whether or not yoga as therapy would adequately deal with the situations that gave rise to the physical deficiencies.

The response was negative. “Yoga to me is body relaxation...letting the energies of the body flow freely and separately from the mind. ..I don’t worry about the intellectual situations...”

This attitude was reinforced by a number of the participants who indicated that they did not want to

theorize or be philosophical about a therapy that is “only concerned with the body”.

At least two people seemed to find the question relevant, but felt that there was too much antagonism present for the matter to be dealt with rationally. some of Although the movements were developed personally by the instructors, the ones around which the program seemed centered have been developed in other times and in other lands. Their forms have been passed on through schools and instructors like Webb.

One of these forms, the “T’ai Chi”, is a dance performed slowly and with attempts at being loose and spontaneous.

Those who involved themselves in-the dance did so in silence, joining hands with a partner with the lightness’ of a ouija-board touch.

Webb also made many references to the Alexander Technique to which many of his exercises related. It was in this context that he referred to yoga as therapy for emotional problems.

An essential element of the Alexander technique is the integration of the total person through re-education and relaxation from physical tensions.

Yet a discussion of the problems in developing this integration and working out the origins of the frustrations was avoided throughout the evening.

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Dare Nineteen weeks is a hell of a long time to be on strike. Most Dare workers have been walking the picket line for that length of time.

Except for about 40 union members who have become scabs and the few who have acquired other jobs, the majority of strikers cope with life on 80 dollars a week.

The possibility of a settlement in the near future remains distant as the Dare management is bent on breaking the union. Around 200 scabs have been working two shifts a day, in order to bring production back to its pre-strike level.

Dare management has publicly announced that its output is at 106 per cent capacity and that those now working in the plant are permanent employees.

Because of these two claims, striking workers are eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

A significant number have made applications to the Unemployment Insurance Commission.

With the Dare strike committee and the Ontario Federation of Labour working together, the boycott of Dare products has gained the co-operation of some large food chains throughout Ontario. Steinberg’s was the first company to agree not to carry Dare goods after the on-hand stock had been sold. Other retail outlets that have followed suit are Loblaw’s, A&P Weo and Dominion.

In the K-W area, Zehr’s, Dutch Boy and Central Meat Market continue to carry Dare products.

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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS WEEK at the

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Tuesday, Oct. 10th Dr. Bryce Kendrick Prof. of Biology at University of Waterloo The History and Future of the Environmental Movement Engineering Lecture 112 Movie “End Game” 2:30 P.M, Engineering Lecture 112

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Economic Growth-EnergyTechnology: Tuesday Oct. 10th ’ Movie “Boomsville” 6:45 P.M. Math &Computer 2065 7:00 P.M. “‘Energy and Society” Prof. P. Corbet Chairman of the Biology Dept.

University of Waterloo Dr. T.A. Brzystowski Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Studies Wednesday, Oct. 1lth “Stable State Economics” 7:30 P.M. Dr. Dave Fischer Dept. of Man-Envir. Studies University of Waterloo Math. & Computer 2065 Thurs. Oct. 12th 4:30 P.M. “Technology and Values” Chris Walker of the Metro Toronto Region Conservation Authority Engineering 1501

Natural Resourses Tuesday; Oct. 10th “Natural Resources & Continentalism” 8: 30 P.M. Dr. James Laxer York University I Math & Computer 2065

Wednesday, Oct. 11th ‘I-The James Bay Project” 2:00 P.M. I Vallonne Glooschenko Sierra Club of Ontario Engineering 1 1501 4:30 P.M. Films on Indian & Eskimo Culture and Northern Eco-Systems Engineering Lecture 103 8:30 P.M. “Canada and Its Northern Future” Dr. Douglas Pimlott Math & Computer 2065

Canada and Urbanization Thurs., Oct. 12th

11:30 A.M., “Canada and Population Control” Chris Taylor Zero Population Growth University of Toronto Humanities 280 2:30 P.M.

“People or Planes: The Issues from Pickering”

Lorne Almuck Biology 1 271 7:30 P.M.“High Rise and the Urban Environment” Colin Vaughan of CORRA Math & Computer 2065

Politics and Environment Thursday, Oct. 12th “Decision Making in the Urban Environment” James Lorimer University of Toronto Math &Computer 2065 Friday, Oct. 13th 2:30 P.M. “Environmental Law in Ontario” David Rounthwaite of Canadian Environmental Law Association Biology 2 350 q 4100 P.M. The W5 of Environm.entaI Groups Biology 2 350 Ralph Nader 7:30 P.M. Phys. Ed.

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Ecology

An interview with Murray Bookchin

QUESTION: What is ecology?

BOOKCHIN: I would say that ecology is not simply a problem of the relationship of human beings to the natural world, but of human beings to each other. There is not only the realm of natural ecology, there is the realm of social ecology, of urban ecology.

The ecological outlook is, first of all, a holistic one. That is to say, ‘The whole is larger than the sum of its parts.’ The ecological outlook is, in addition, a world view that sees in unity and differentiation the overall course of not only natural, but social development.

It also implies that this social development must be free to find its own equilibrium spontaneously.

Without coercion, without hierarchy, without domination.

Variety is to be sought for, for its own sake, and not only in the natural world, but also in the social world. In our new eco-technologies and our new eco-communities, we will foster diversification.

When one talks of alternative sources of energy, for example, the real problem is to find a diversified mosiac of energy sources. Solar energy alone is not a solution, not wind power alone. But utilizing solar energy with wind power, say, toge4her with neothermal energy and electricity, we have now diversified the sources of energy for a community.

These would yield a new energy base would

involve a minimal, if any, use of us believe-the masters of all that fly, crawl, and swim-but part of the traditional energy sources. the -natural world and seeking a Notice here that diversification harmonious relationship with it. is employed as a solution of the The environtientalist’s apenergy problem. This is a typical proach and the ecological apecological approach.

Ecology has experience the role that technology proach really conflict.

Take seen that the course of biological plays in harmonizing humanity evolution has been the continual alternative sources of energy. with the natural world. diversification of life, which, in When people try to apply a strictly environmental approach to Correspondingly, communities turn, in its ever varying forms, would be tailored to the eco-system alternate technology, we find that colonized the earth. We now know in which they are located and they we get into ‘gimmicks’-into that the solution to pest problems, would be scaled to the comprefor example, entails playing off magic bullets, into ‘solutions’ that hension of the people in the comreally reflect the engineering diverse group of species against muni ty . Individuals would learn each other in such a way as to viewpoint instead of an ecological how to make their own viewpoint. produce a harmonious situation,.

For example, take the proposal technologies-so that technology The more simplified an ecosystem, would not be a mysterious force that we try to resolve our energy the more prone it is to pest inproblems by establishing a that exists over them. On the festation. The more complex it is, gigantic solar reflector in space, contrary, technology would now the less likely that a pest insome 35 square miles in size, or become, from the ecological festation will take place. whatever.

Now this-is a typical viewpoint,, a medium relating to This thinking, in a sense, applies nature and using natural forces in environmentalist approach to the to every facet of life. The complete human being, for example, is a rounded human being, with a wide diversity of stimuli and a manyfaceted existence.

The most complete society is one made up of highly individuated people, each of whom has a self that can participate directly in selfmanagement and self-control.

This approach was basic to the development of Greek society fin _ ancient times-everyone was an amateur in everything, and therefore a more complete human being. The Greek ‘Golden Mean’ stems from this approach, also the Renaissance conception of the complete individual.

Yet this is simply the ecological outlook applied to human nature as well as to biological nature. Here I draw a very important distinction between an ecological outlook and a simply environmentalist outlook, which involves a manipulation of things on the basis of engineering principles. How to avoid pollution?

By working out a new ‘gizmo’.

That’s the environmentalist’s approach. By elaborating the old technology-not an ecotechnology, but a new device to install in the existing technology.

Like a scrubber, an afterburner, or whatever.

QUESTION: Your-seem to draw a distinction between ecology and environmentalism.

Could you explain further what you mean by that? tin intimate humanistic fashion. solar energy problem.

How are BOOKCHIN: Most of the people they going to solve it? In much the There is a plrofound difference, today who involve themselves-by same way that they tried to solve then, between the two approaches, which I mean government officials energy problems 100 years ago.

Consider for example, the concept and even scientific personnel-are It’s still the industrial revolution, of the earth as a rocket, as it were, actually environmentalists rather the profit-making approach.

For using the cybernetic-type language than ecologists.

Environmentalenvironmentalists, the real so familiar to readers of Buckism is actually (in my view) a form minister Fuller’s writings.

Here problems are ‘efficiency’ and of what could be called biological profits, and the solution, one of one is really dealing with enengineering.

Nature is seen not a_s industrial gigantism. vironmentalism, with ‘natural an organic whole, but as a habitat.

But technological problems are engineering’.

We’re ‘going to The natural world is viewed fnot resolved by developing a ‘engineer’ nature.

(Latigh). merely as a repository of natural technology-even an alternate Nature consists of ‘resources’ not resources.

Thus one speaks of technology-which is still beyond holistic unity. An. ecological apimproving the environment and the comprehension of the in- proach wouldn’t even use that type one often brings an environmentaldividuals the technology is sup- of language. istic-that is, a magic bulletposed to service.

In an environmental approach, approach to such solutions. What An ecological approach would you have a typical hierarchical we should do, the environmentaltoward Nature.

Man call for a human scale, which is attitude ists tell us, is engineer the environalso a natural scale. Inasmuch as seizes control of nature! You know, ment in such a way that it will not human beings would be conceived man conceives of himself (a very be harmful to us. I should add that of as part of the environment-the patriarchal outlook, ‘himself’) as one finds that same environstanding over all that lives. Man natural world-technological mentalist approach among city engineers nature for its benefit. solutions would be based oli what planners.

The city, too, is con- human beings can comprehend.

An The ecologic4 approach is difceived as a repository of urban attempt would be made to rescale ferent. Here, differences exist, but resources rather than a really the relationship of people to nature are not arranged hierarchically. organic community.

Human beings are different from in such-a-way that there is a clear Now, an ecological approach is comprehension of the role that animals, but not superior or inbasically different.

The complex ferior to them, or vice versa. nature plays in any individual’s interrelationships and food chains life.

Similarly vegetation ; similarly, and/or the spontaneous developUsing the sun would not be a the soil. ment of various processes in question The conference jn Stockholm of creating a gigantic nature, are what really preoccupy solar installation in space, which was a environmental conference. the’ ecologist. In ecology, one does concerned not with again would be in the hands of They -were not see human beings as engiindustrial hierarchs, but would ecology, but with re-engineering neering the environment, adapting the planet. The methodology ininvolve a decentralized approach, it to their needs alone. From an the formation of ecological comvolved, and the language utilized, ecological viewpoint, human munities, and an attempt to arwas borrowed from the world of ’ beings are part of a much larger tistically ‘tailor’ technology to the heavy industry, of rocket design. A whole called the natural world. Not ecosystem in which the community truly sociological conference on top of the natural world, not is located. In this way, technology would have been conducted under sitting on top of a biotic pyramid, would mediate the relationship. entirely different circumstances as it were, but as one facet of between humanity and nature in a and with entirely different pernature. We are not the lords of the truly organic fashion. We would be spectives.

Not only would there universe, as the Bible would have able to see from our immediate have been an attempt to work! with

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a mentality that views humanity as part of nature rather than above it, but an attempt would have been made to work out problems in social terms-something not done at Stockholm.

One can’t think of simply an ‘eco-technology’ or ‘alternate technology’ without an alternate community.

To sum up, there has to be a

balance not only between humanity and nature, but the mediating factors that enter into that relationship-like technology-also have to be part of the harmonious mosaic.

QUESTION: HOW do you see the organic ecological point of view expressing itself?

BOOKCHIN : It expresses itself primarily in the ‘counterculture’, not in scientific and technical conferences.

The youth counterculture is making some attempt, whether consciously or intuitively , to develop nonhierarchial attitudes tow‘ard people and the natural world. And I think that this impulse is more important from the standpoint of the ultimate achievements of an ecological outlook than all the official government and even professional conferences that are held, or the campaigns that are launched, or the legislation that is passed.

We must transform people. If we ourselves do not undergo a selftransformation that changes our very mode of thinking and our ways of relating to each other, then we will not be able to relate to the natural world in an ecological fashion. So, I think that our best attempt to achieve what I would call an ‘ecological society’-and I regard the present society as eminently anti-ecologicalinvolves developing .within the individual an ecological culture and psyche.

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The ones who care are earning their money but a lot are just doing what they have to do and leaving immediately after lectures. Three of my six professors are good: they care, they try to t<ach and to help you learn. The bad ones? They spill it out. They don’t care if you don’t understa nd.

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If they did not a Prof. He’s just a lecturer and he’s very poor. I even switched insist on such high wages, more of the university budget could be one of my classes because the professorwas so bad. All the funneled into more productive, student-oriented areas, such as Math Faculty is great. They are readily a&essible to the higher wages for administrators, students and have good office “student services” buildings so administrators can park close to hours. They even have a Math Room where grad students help their work and, of course, a new mansion for the university you. And the tutorials cover the exam material. That’s good. president.

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BOOKCHIN: Well, I think that the basic anti-ecological attitude comes from the domination, of human by human. I think we began first by older people dominating men people-then young dominated women, and finally men dominated men. All of this began to produce the social relations, and the mental and psychological attitudes, that led to the concept of dominating nature.

In other words, domination, as a social condition, was projected onto humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

We even began to recast our image of the natural world in terms of hierarchial domination.

We speak of the lion as the ‘king of beasts’, or we talk of the ‘lowly’ ant. Now this is ecological nonsense. There are no kings, princes, dukes, or what have you-no hierarchies-in nature in spite of much rubbish that appears, even in books on ecology. So I would say that our anti-ecological outlook emerges from our domination of human by human.

We now have something even worse. With the development, finally, of what is called the ‘free’. market system-a system of kinship ties, of the extended family, of tribes, of the early peasant village-you begin to produce the solitary individual in the social jungle, the true predator.

How- does technology fit into this? One can say that as a result of the capitalist market system (of course, because of monopoly, it is no longer ‘free’) you begin to.have an accelerated development of technology.

The difference between our society and earlier ones, based on domination is, I would say, that we have developed such a formidable technology that we can do far more damage than the prel capitalist societies of the past. But the same attitudes existed after clan and tribal society was destroyed, and they have been supremely developed under the market system.

The result is that we find a convergence of two tendencies.

The first is domination, exaggeratedto the point where power becomes an end in and for itself . Under modern capitalism, based on the accumulation of commoditities, ‘production merely for the sake of production’ becomes an end in itself. On the other side, converging with this, we see the development of technology to such a degree that attitudes based on domination, can within one generation, produce more damage than had been produced in thousands of years: QUESTION: You mentioned that you have hope that things are that there are changing, possibilities in the ‘counterculture’.

Why is there such an historical alternative at this point?

BOOKCHIN: Well, I think that the capitalist system has brought hierarchial society to the limits of its development.

It is now blatantly clear that the traditional institutions that have existed for thousands of years will no longer work. People have reacted to that reality. I think that there is a great tension between what exists and what has existed for thousands of years.

For those thousands of years we were really straitjacketed by scarcity.

Technology was so undeveloped that people, even if they had enough to eat, felt materially insecure.

Seasonal vicissitudes, changes in weather and climate, could make for either feast or famine.

But today we have developed a technology that could provide material security.

Immediately, for the people of the first world and fairly rapidly for the people of the third world.

And I think that because of this development of technology people realize that many institutions and social relations that made sense for thousands of years are today irrational.

Ironically enough, the technology that now enslaves people could liberate them-in other words, a “liberatory technology. ” There is now a tremendous tension between a rational, humanistic, and truly ecological society that could exist-and the irrational, anti-human, and antiecological society that does exist today. And this tension has, I think, bred a rejection of the established system on a scale that we really have never seen before.

QUESTION: Can you go more fully into what you mean by a “liberatory technology”?

BOOKCHIN: Well, parallel to the existing technology-by which I mean the gigantic installations that produce our most basic commodities-we are beginning to witness the development of an entirely new type of technology.

This technology is based on alternate sources of energy which need not pollute, or at most yield only a minimum amount of pollution.

It is based on laboursaving devices that can now be scaled to human dimensions and produce lasting products.

These are technologies which lend themselves to decentralized types of communities and thus accord with the vision of human social life scaled to human dimensions.

Contrast this with the gigantic

state. apparatus, immense industrial installations, and great cities we have today.

We now have alternate sources of energy for the fossil fuels that are used today, and even for projected nuclear fuels. These alternatives consist of once again utilizing the elemental forces of nature: the sun, the wind, the tides and so on. In combination, they could be substitutes for the hydrocarbon fuels we use today.

Similarly, we have developed, either in pilot form or on the drawing boards, new steel-making processes which can now be scaled to almost any dimension. We are no longer captive to the giant rolling mills and immense installations that have marred the landscape of Pittsburgh for generations.

We even no longer need to have giant automobile assembly plants.

Then there is a very sophisticated hobby technology which could foster craftsmanship as a supplement to mass production and to the immense installations that go along with it.

A rational use of land could make for a decentralization of the cities and a recolonization of the entire planet on a truly ecological basis. Break up the cities and deploy the new technologiesrationally . Interlink smaller communities technologically.

These communities should be carefully tailored to the economies in which they are a part.

Three principles seem to be at work here. The first is that we are developing a multi-purpose technology on a small scalemachines that can take on many different tasks. Second, once we develop a rational-type community, we can produce goods that will last, instead of goods that are deliberately engineered for obsolescence and require continual renewal. In other words-quality goods.

Third, we no longer require giant installations to produce many of the commodities which we require today for our survival and comfort.

What I really have in mind, if one wants to go back to a historically reasonable image, would be the Greek polis. Ancient Athens, and various polises that existed on the Greek promontory and islands, and in portions of Italy before the Roman Empire took over Mediterranean social life, were in many ways-if not exact paradigms-interesting examples of how people can establish direct

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democracies scaled to human dimensions. In the polis, the citizen could comprehend social processes and the management of the community, thus partake in running it directly.

As to future policies, we can envision that they would be interlinked by agricultural and industrial operations.

We can also envision these communities as being big enough to avoid obliteration of any type of culture-yet not so large that one cannot comprehend the culture that’s being created.

Well balanced agriculturally, ecologically, and in terms of the socalled “resources” that are available, they would live in harmony with the ecosystems in which they are located, returning to nature what is taken from her; and, in fact, improving upon the ecosystem by bringing consciousness to the service of the natural world.

QUESTION, Would these polises also be research communities?

BOOKCHIN: Some would. I would like to see the widespread establishment of “energy centers,” as it were. I mean the pooling of interests and talents by working communally in small groups. I’d like to see such energy centers develop in various parts of the U.S., and I’d like to see people--of diverse talents-bring their abilities to bear on projects that can actually demonstrate the feasibility of the new technologies that are available or being developed.

Such research communities would create work communities.

They would publish their own material, set up demonstration projects and, in short, participate in a new kind of “enlightenment” which is occurring not just in the U.S., but just about everywhere.

I would see these energy centers as “enlightenment communes” if you like.

They would try to promote and foster the cultural changes that have slowly been taking place in this country,

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QUESTION: You are going to be working on a practical application of alternative sources of energy.

What are some of your ideas about the practicalities of this research?

BOOKCHIN: New conceptions crop up all the time. But I would emphasize the need for diversification, for an interplay of many kinds of energy resources.

Solar power would not be used just to produce hydrogen, but also for space heating and a great deal else. And it would be valuable to bring wind and water power into the picture.

Basically, it’s a question of developing an eco-technology, a humanistic technology. Let’s put it in Ma-rx’s words: “not only the humanization of nature, but the naturalization of humanity.”

I think a dialectic is needed here, and our goal should be not simply a balance between humanity and the natural world, but a balance within the human and thus within society.

If that means we can have one fuel-like solar-produced hydrogen-which could replace all sources of energy, even novel ones, I believe we should not do so, we should always have a diversified mosaic of energy sourcesutilizing, as it were, all of the forces of Nature so that they in-’ terplay with our lives. In this way, we can develop a more respectful-even reverential-attitude toward the natural world.

We would be asserting our dependence on the natural world, and in this provided a stronger way, motivation for dealing with ecosystems in a truly ecological fashion.

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After five weeks of intensive legal training, the majority went to work as part-time volunteer counsellors to assist legal aid clients seeking divorces.

Another two were hired on a full-time basis in the Dal Legal Aid centre to assist, advise, research and counsel in family court problems.

The program concentrated on training divorce counsellors because the local Matrimonal Counselling Association has just published a detailed do-it-yourself divorce kit to reduce the cost of legal action for poor people. The counsellors will help people use the kits. Eighteen of the graduates are working for the association on divorce cases out of the local family Service Bureau.

“It’s absolutely essential that lay people be trained to handle routine law office matters and assist in couselling clients,” said Dalhousie criminal law professor and legal aid service director Ian Cowie. “Otherwise there is just no way to cope adequately with the demand being made on legal aid service. ’ ’ The training program is an innovative one and a smashing success, Cowie added.

The graduates included a retired clergyman, nurses, social workers, high school counsellors and members of the north end community who never made it past high school. More than 100 people applied, including three lawyers.

“We could have filled our program with university graduates but we wanted a good cross-section of people with varying academic backgrounds and experiences,” Cowie explained.

Most applicants wanted to join the training program because, he said, “they could see the need for this kind of program. There is also a fascination for the law on the part of lay people and many people felt this would be a good opportunity to learn something about how it operates,” said Cowie.

The demand for service of the para-professionals has been “consistent and is increasing” the director added and the legal aid clinic sees the need for training more people. The course was designed and taught by seven and third year Dalhousie law students, who also interviewed and selected the 27 who finally took the course.

Since it was set up almost three years ago, the clinic has handled some 2800 cases, not including telephone enquiries, clients handled on a referral basis or given summary advice.

Apart from its training program, the clinic also has its law students in court every day, many of them are involved through a credit course from the Dalhousie law faculty.

This summer eleven students carried out research projects and assisted in the clinic’s legal aid work through an Opportunity for Youth grant. Five persons looked into the need for legal aid service in the province’s mental health hospitals and future plans involve a training program for para-legal professionals within local prisons.

It’s the special or innovative programs that keep Ottawa interested in funding the clinic. Last year health and welfare minister John Munro’s department allocated $35,000 to keep the clinic operating and agreed to foot some of the bills again this year.

Meszaros refuses permit OTTAWA (CUP&Marxist scholar Dr. Is tvan Meszaros’ application for landed immigrant status will be processed in three to four weeks, according to Zavie Levine, executive assistant to manpower and immigration minister Bryce Mackasey.

Meszaros had earlier refused to accept a minister’s permit from Mackasey that would allow him to legally start teaching at York University.

The permit would not give Meszaros any status in Canada and could be withdrawn at any time by the minister. For those reasons Meszaros decided to continue to press for landed ,immigrant status.

Meszaros also wants to clear his name of charges that he is a security risk. He was not allowed to enter Canada from England by Canadian officials after they classified him to be a security risk.

Meszaros is a British citizen and has received security clearance by both British and Italian authorities.

Meszaros entered Canada on a visitors visa and applied for landed immigrant status at Sarnia, Ontario.

Canadian law permits visitors to apply for landed immigrant status. It is the only country with such a law. Immigration officials will be interviewing Meszaros in the near future to discuss his application.

It is now up to the government to make a decision and that won’t happen until after the election.

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assumption that their concern would be a three-year ex,perimental program.

After that period, if the outlet has to rely on government financing instead of ( community financing, then it ’ would fold. Over the past eighteen months Wired World has solicited about $20,000, most of which has been spent on equipment.

Financial problems were lightened somewhat this summer by an OFY grant which employed nine people to establish and develop radio facilities and programs, as well as groups to work with the facilities.

In its initial .operations, Wired World offered portable television and video tape equipment to people in the community for use on the local cable channel-Grand River Cable; the money for this equip‘ment again came from community donations. Wired World still offers this equipment for a weekly program on qable channel 12, thursdays at 9 pm. However, the station’s experience has been that radio is more effective, cheaper, and reaches more people than television. Because of this, radio is being stressed ; the video tape equipment has been loaned to the - Enviromental Media and Information Centre at the university of Waterloo.

As is the station’s policy, Wired World provides the Wired World makes available equipment free of charge, but asks radio and television equipment to that anyone with sufficient anyone in the Kitchener-Waterloo finances make contributions. community who wishes to use it.

Wired World’s radio equipment As a non-profit citizens’ is used by the people to produce organization aimed at reaching programs by themselves for a minority interest groups, its staff weekly one hour program on believes in showing those who CHYM-FM, heard sunday mordon’t have access to the media how nings at 9 :30. The show has been on to use equipment and in en- the air since january 11, 1972, and couraging them in their interests. has featured programs done by In becoming a ‘non-commercial people visiting their neighbours, community radio station, comradio drama, radio satires, people peting with private stations for reading their own poetry, comlisteners but not for advertising munity groups expressing political dollars, Wired World affords concerns (e.g. Waterloo’s “citizens people the chance to express for a better county core”, and themselves in the manner they Waterloo city council), and choose.

As Chris Laing, an amateur musicians playing their organizer at Wired World music. described it, “We are trying to Wired World has applied to the remove the mysticism enshrined CRTC for a low power (81 watts) in radio and television.” community FM license, at a frequency of 103.5 on the FM The idea behind the organization power to cover the is that citizens be allowed to band-enough of Kitchenerprogram what they wish, doing physical boundaries Waterloo without the need for an much of the technical production themselves.

Wired World sees antenna and enough to cover as far as Galt-Preston with the use of an itself in the role of a “facilitator” As with the present in which it helps people learn the antenna. operation, Wired World itself intechnical operations, but leaves the responsibility of content with tends only to teach people how to use the equipment.

When the actually the people doing station’s bid for the broadcasting programs. license was endorsed by Waterloo Anyone from Kitchenercity council, . Chris Laing told Waterloo wishing to go on the air council that, “The station will let V can do so, providing that person people hear their neighbours and does not violate libel or slander find out what they’re doing. Our laws, and providing it would not be equipment will be simple to for profit-making purposes. Under operate with free instruction the Broadcast Act, the ultimate provided.” responsibility for slanderous or Initial “seed” money for this libelous material lies with the venture has been granted by the station.

But Wired World’s secretary of state organizers would like to see a federal department+&000 for conducting distinction made between com- workshops for community groups. mercial and community radio Meanwhile, Wired World’s stations, so that individual persons organizers await the outcome of or groups using their outlet would their bid for a license. If they be held responsible. receive a license, the station will be the only licensed citizens’ Since May 1971, when the community group radio in Canada, organiza tion was begun, Wired World has gone under the and would continue their plans to /

Wired worldpeoples’ radio

go on the air early next year. On the other hand, should their bid be turned down, Wired World would consider using memberships as a means for further financial support.

From the outset, Wired World staff members have been disappointed with the quality of existing commercial radio and television programming.

By using’ Wired World’s facilities, people have the opportunity to control their own programming and taping while remains nonthe station commercial.

In addition, there is also the possibility that the presentations by individuals and groups might develop into debate or program confrontation.

In order for this to continue, Wired World is dependent upon increased community interest and support.

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DOWNSVIEW (CUP)--York University’s Atkinson College will make a major effort to change its middle-class student composition, dean Harry Crowe announced recently.

“We have set up a committee of students, faculty and trade unionists.

We’ll make a determined effort to increase the enrolment of /working class students,” Crowe said.

The announcement came in response to an August 10 report produced

by Atkinson College student Mark Boelelman for the political sdience students’ *union.

Based on this year’s low enrolment of working-class students ,at Atkinson, the report calls for increased recruitment through an intensified recruiting program and

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Wired World offers you a chance to create your own radio programme, using topics such as information, music, opinions, drama, etc. All technically acceptable tapes will be aired on the station’s sunday morning program (9:30-lo:301 at 96.7 on CHYM-FM. Recordings of up to 15 minutes in length must be made on cassette or reel-to-reel tapes. Entry deadline is October 15, 1972. Specify if your tapes are to be returned.

For further information or assistance, call %‘9-1150 or drop by Wired World at 13421 King St. E, Kitchener .

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the development of a curriculum more attuned to worker interests and needs.

“We have posters advertising the college in roughly 300 to 400 of Toronto’s factories,” said Crowe.

There is also a joint AtkinsonOntario Federation of Labour committee set up at the provincial level to talk to local and individual worker unions regarding enrolment.

But, according to Crowe, these methods are not totally effective in recruiting working class students.

Even at Montreal’s Labour College, where direct expenses are paid for the student, there is difficulty in recruiting.

“Students enrolled in the college take courses such as trade unionism and class relations.

When they come out of college, they hope to find a job in one of the unions. As always, there are more people available than jobs.”

One observer commented that the absence of job opportunities is the major factor in the small number of working class students attending post-secondary educational institutions.

As they do not have the financial resources of the middle-class, they are unwilling to go deeply into debt to obtain an education of questionable value.

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It would have been easy to stay on campus last weekend and attend the rah-rah football match, or join in with the usual ‘make - believe - you’re - having a - good - time’ parties after the win. Instead it was more important to go home.

Home is along a road to nowhere and there was no real reason to travel the 150 miles to Muskoka except to take Bill a few gallons of water.

When I walked back to his place Saturday morning Bill wasn’t around and, as I expected, his plastic water container was empty. No one had visited him last week and his three foot deep well out back was dry. There was no food in the shack; no fire on.

Bill is one of a number of forgotten Canadians existing in the backwoods of the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts, where the poorest of the poor live side by side with the richest of the rich.

Not a mile away one of America’s richest steel magnates has his summer “cottage”.

This modern mansion cost a million dollars to construct, has twelve bathrooms and boat houses for twenty yachts. Two miles away one of Canada’s richest citizens has his two summer “cottages” on a private island.

Mr. Nelson Davis, one of the has interests in, “cottagers”, among other things, the Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Don Mills Golf Centre, Don Valley Ski Centre, Inter-City Truck Lines, Miller Paving Company, TransCanada Highways Express, Blue Ridge Holdings, and Admiral Acceptance Corporation.

The list goes on and on.

Bill has a ten-by-fifteen-foot lean-to with twenty-year-old news print stuffed in the cracks to keep out the cold winter snow.

Bill’s home is no mansion, isn’t on an island retreat. It’s hidden away off the main dirt road up in an abandoned gravel pit where no one will see it. The tourists like it this way; and so do many of the. more affluent loca!s, During the recent provincial enumeration undertaken by outsiders, they missed Bill. So did the district planning department when doing its landuse survey this year, and the people who care about Bill sure didn’t lead any assessor into the bush to re-evaluate his home. He isn’t on the voters list for the federal election either.

Just as I was about to leave, I decided to yell out into the bush behind the shack to see if he was up the hill and, sure enough, Bill yelled back.

“Just a minute sonny, l’m comin’ down.”

After some more verbal exchanges I still couldn’t seeewhere he was, as his voice resounded over the surrounding pits. Some minutes later there was a slow shuffling and “Good to see yuh, boy. Ah, you’re a good lad to come back and see 01’ Bill, good to see yuh, God bless yuh, boy.”

Bill was having a hard time coming down the small hill through the thick blackberry bushes. Two january’s ago he had become quite sick; some said by over-drinking, but that’s a lie. Near death, he wasn’t able to move from his bed just a few feet to the wood stove and start a fire. After a few days and nights with the temperature always below zero his left leg became frozen and knowing he would die if he didn’t get help, attempted to make it to the main road about 500 yards away. Someone finally stopped and found him face down in the snow, unconscious.

Bill was rushed to the hospital where the leg was removed.

Now as he came down the hill he was balancing with two sturdy canes, taking one hop at a time, dragging. a few small sticks behind him all tied together with one of his old neckties.

“These are good fire wood boy,” he said as he looked at me for the first time with a wide grin and his beaming blue eyes. “Its oak, yuh know and there’s lots more where this came from. Oak makes a hot fire, hot fire,” he repeated, “and it keeps burnin’ for a long time. Ah, its good to see yu h, boy.”

By now very tired, Bill sat down on the doorstep, letting the two canes fall where they might.

He looked good, the best I’d seen him in some time. He wasn’t shaking and was in really high spirits. Even so, I asked him how he’d been to start off the conversation.

“I’m feelin’ fine,” Bill shouted out, “I haven’t touched any drinkie for seventeen days, not since you were last around to see 01’ Bill. I’m feelin’ real good, but my leg! I can’t walk too fast no more, and its hard gettin’ around. Ya, but your brother said

its good for me to get out and find my wood and walk to the store every day or so. Exercise, you know, its good t’exercise.

Your brother, he’s a good boy too,” he continued, “you’re all good comin’ back here tosee 01’ Bill. No one else comes back much and you know, I can’t keep the place tidy any more anyway.”

The maple leaves in Muskoka hadn’t started to turn colour yet, it was warm outside and there was nothing better to do than to just sit down and talk with Bill this morning. What wasn’t done today could be put off until tomorrow, or next year, or maybe not done at all. The most important thing right now was to spend a few minutes with him and pass the time of day. Bill is an old man; a lonely man.

“Thank yuh for the water,” Bill started up again. “I run out last week, and the boys at the store said they would bring me some but they never seem to. They’re too busy-too busy or forgot, and it hasn’t rained this week. If it had, yuh know, I could get some out of the bucket. That well back there ain’t no good ; it’s just mud now-makes terrible tea. Anyways, tea costs too much.

Everything costs too much.”

Bill is now an old age pensioner and feeling the pinch that every pensioner does. When he was young, he worked in a logging camp for a dollar a day and after that went into cutting cords of wood on contract.

“Yuh know, I could cut a cordand-a-half a day when I was livin’ in Allenville over on the other side of Gravenhurst.

Most men only cut a cord,” he said with pride, “but I could cut up one-and-a-half.

I did that for six days a week for a long, long time.

Then I got a contract for railway ties and I shaped them all by hand. Yes sir, every one of ‘em.

I had lots of money then and. things didn’t cost so much. You could get a stale loaf(of bread for seven cents in them days.”

After a short pause, he went on. “Gordon Sinclair told me on the radio the other day you can’t buy a house for less than $30,000 now. When you pay all the interest off, it will shoot up to $60,000 he says. Now, I don’t have that kind of money. No one up here does - unless you’ve got it all.”

He chuckled as I assured him I wasn’t rich and wasn’t likely to, ever own a $30,000 home even, though I was going to university.

With that he said, “Ya, you might be just like 01’ Bill. There may be no jobs for you if that Mr. Trudeau keeps givin’ all those companies money for machines. I don’t like that, we’ve all gotta have jobs especially when you can work.” By this, he meant jobs for the young and those who aren’t handicapped like he is.

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Some time ago, no one knows for sure, Bill came out this way and built his lean-to from whatever he could find, make, beg or borrow. It isn’t much of a place.

Just three windows covered with chicken wire to keep the coons out, one door, a leaky roof and walls that are covered with tar paper on three sides and some asbestos shingles on the other.

Inside there is a stove, a bed, a musty old sofa he was going to throw out, a table and one chair.

There is no electricity, no television, no sink, no bathroom.

Adjacent the entrance, in half a wood-shed which he started to cut up for much needed fire wood last winter, is a fridge which does&t work but is good for storing things.

‘Bill’s home isn’t much to look at, but is a very typical home along our road. Some places are worse - without windows, and just a dirt floor. Some of the children look to be twenty by the time they are twelve - under fed, poorly clothed and seeing the settlement as nothing more than a long road leading away to greener pastures.

The former housing minister,

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Paul Hellyer has a resort further down the road but kept his eyes glued td the pavement when passing.

But maybe it had an influence-maybe.

Winters are the worst time, for nearly everyone is out of work.

That is, unless you are a longtime Conservative Party worker and then you can drive a snow plow or sander.

Muskoka is a wonderful place to visit. But to live there, to raise children there, and to be poor there is another story.

The district’s citizens , on the average; are poor, very, very poor. There is no other way of saying it. They are the poorest people in Ontario.

For example, in this province of opportqnity in 1963 the average per capita income of Muskoka was only $2,996. What was more startling is the fact that 35 per cent of the income-recipients received less that $2,000, 56 per. cent less than $3,000 and 74 per cent less than $4,000. Today eight years later, the district’s average income has risen to over $4,000, but now the provincial average is around $7,000. There are still many existing on less than $2,000 a year and trying to raise a family too.

What is also important to remember is that the region’s housing costs are equal only to Toronto, the highest prices in Canada, and the food prices are anywhere from two to fifty per cent higher than those in Toron to.

Education is another sore point. Few people from Muskoka go to university - like only two children for every hundred who start grade one. Then just over one of them ever graduates with a degree far below the provincial average. The majority of the population have no high school education.

Then there is politics; a whole other box of worms. Politics runs everything in Muskoka. If the sun were controlled by the district’s political clique, locals are sure they’d have it setting later so the peasants could work longer.

Politics is a big issue and Bill, like all the community’s poor, knows it is.

“I’m voting for that missey they have this time. She’s a good lady workin’ with them poor people,” Bill said.

He was referring to the new democratic candidate for the riding who assists the region’s mentally retarded.

In the last, provincial election everyone in t’he community voted NDP and the polling station was

one of only two that were won by the party, although it ran second in this Conservative stronghold.

Everyone kept telling each other they weren’t rich and had to vote for their party.

There are no company directors in our settlement.

“Bill knows about them companies; how they don’t pay taxes, but make lots of money.

Ya, they’re like Mutt and Jeff.

Mutt had a tooth-ache once and saw a sign in t,he window of a dentist office saying ‘Tooth pulled without Pain’ so he went straight in and had it yanked out.

Then as Mutt was leaving the doctor gave him a bill, but Mutt said the sign read tooth pulled without pain, so he just thanked the dentist and walked out. Well those companies are the same as Mutt yuh know,” shaking his finger and raising his voice. “Ya, when they don’t do no payin’ we have to do all the pulling; for what? It just ain’t right. It just ain’t right, sonny.”

I shook my head in agreement and thought how true it was.

Here was Bill who worked all his life, did all the pulling and now, in the twilight of his years, existing in a one-room shack hidden under Muskoka’s maple trees,

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out of sight of everyone.

The sun was high when I asked if he wanted some more water tomorrow.

My jug only held two gallons, but his was big enough to store five.

“Ya, if it isn’t too much trouble.

Then it will last me for nearly a month. If you could come back, Bill will sure like that,” he said, his eyes almost twinkling.

Just before I left he also asked for some old nails because one window was falling off and the coons were still ripping at the chicken wire.

“I’ll bring you some new good nails Bill,” I said in leaving, “and we’ll get those windows on tight tomorrow.”

Bill kept yelling as I went down the path, “‘Ya, ya that’11 be good, that’11 begood. Yuh watch out for those wild buggers drivin’ on the road out there, yuh hear now. 01’ Bill almost got it today comin’ back from the store. Now don’t you get hurt, yuh hear. God bless yu h, boy.”

Assuring him I would be back and would watch out, I departed and sure enough one of those tourists driving a Caddie almost clipped me near the church.

It was going far too fast dotin our road that goes nowhere.

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There must be times when Robert Bourassa feels about ready to pack up a few shirts and his wife’s jewelry and head down south for a permanent vacation in Nicaragua.

Times like October, 1970. And times like last May. In fact, the “May revolt” of four months ago may well prove in the long run to be a more significant episode in developing Quebec struggle than even the more celebrated FLQ crisis.

The massive walkouts, demonstrations, and occupations which erupted all over the province in response to Bourassa’s repression of the Common Front of government emplbyees are the most important indicators so far that traditional nationalism is being replaced by class consciousness among those struggling for real change in Quebec today. The April and May actions directly involved hundreds of thousands of workers and placed the economic demands of the Common Front in a clearly political context, that of the government’s subservience to the interests of foreign and domestic capital.

Since May, the focus of labour activity has shifted from intense external struggles to internal study and consolidation.

While the negotiations drag on through several “final” deadlines, the unions have been engaged in thinking through the experience of the strikes and in coming to grips with some of their weaknesses.

For several reasons, these recent trends have been the most marked within the CNTU. It is the largest of the three Common Front centrals and has been in the forefront of union politicisation for the last several years. its forty-fifth convention this June enabled it to begin resolving the problem of future political direction that it shares with the QFL and the QTC. But most importantly, contradictions within the CNTU itself came into the open during the May revolt with the defection of its right wing to form a new union federation, the “Centrale des Synicats Democratiques” (CSD).

The formation of the CSD marked the culmination of a long ideological struggle within the CNTU bureaucracy.

Ever since the federation’s 1968 convention, at which Marcel Pepin announced the opening of a “Second Front” of political action, two distinct factions had become clear within the ranks of the union officials.

Those favouring increased political study and action were led by Pepin himself and others such as Michel Chartrand, while the traditional “bread-and-butter” men were represented by the “Three D’s” of the CNTU’s five-man executive: Paul-Emile Dalpe, Jacques Dion, and Amedee Daigle.

These men led the defections that seriously weakened the CNTU’s resistance to the government in April and May The internal dispute stayed below the surface until last fall, when .the CNTU issued several study documents which presented radical analyses of the situation of workers in Quebec, documented the iron grip of American capital and condemned the over our economy, government for defending those who own wealth against those who produce it.

As vigorous debate sprang up all over the province on the ideas presented in the studies, the Three D’s lost no time in attacking them.

Dion, who personally recruited Pepin into the labour movement in the early sixties, and Daigle, who headed the CNTU’s first short-lived political action committee in 1955, dismissed the documents as “unrealistic” and expressed faith in “tried and true” remedies to the workers’ problems.

It was left to Dalpe, who has apparently

to the detriment of president “preferred, negotiations, the easy oasis of prison.”

After the Three D’s had led a meeting of over a thousand dissident union off’icials in calling for the formation of a new federation, they were suspended from their executive posts by the CNTUs Confederal Council.

At the CSD’s founding convention held on June 8-10 in Quebec City, the Three D’s denounced Pepin and his “clique of intellectual anarchists” for leading the workers astray into “dreams and illusions of the big time” instead of keeping to the straight and narrow of contract negotiation.

Dion, as treasurer, proposed a budget based on a projected membership of 45,000 by the end of the year, considerably less that the 80,000 the CSD had been claiming the week before.

The CSD received almost all its support from three of the CNTU’s eleven federations, those representing textile, clothing, and construction workers.

However, a number of the construction federation’s locals immediately pulled out to remain with the CNTU, despite the vociferous The Three D’s arguments were repeatedysupport that the federation’s president, Renald rejected by the CNTU’s various ruling bodies, Carey, gave the CSD. although they received support from several of By the end of the convention it was apparent the industry-wide federations hnd from a few that the rebels’ main strength was coming from executive members of the Quebec Central the middle-bureaucrat level, and not directly Council.

It was generally believed they were from the rank and file, confirming the view of heading for defeat at the June convention, until the CNTU’s official organ, Le Travail, that “the they opted for a pre-emptive strike during the Three D’s dissidence wasn’t a grass roots April-May crisis. phenomenon, but rather a matter of tiredness Their first move was to torpedo resistance to among prematurely-old leaders.”

Bill 19. As soon as the bill became law on April The CSD’s real character became clearer as it 21, they vetoed Pepin’s recommendation to defy denounced the CNTU in much the same the government and called a snap vote of the language used by the more reactionary elements entire Cotimon Front membership.

With only a of the commercial press, and started receiving minority of strikers able to vote at such short support from such friends of the workers as the notice, and faced with the implacable opConseil du Patronat (the “Bosses’ Council”) and position of the Three D’s and their friends, the ttie leaders of the Unite-Quebec and Creditiste Front leadership called for a return to work over parties. the strenuous objections of shocked union At its own convention (held immediately after militants. that of the Three D’s) the CNTU played down the The rebels then lay low until the government defections and held no special discussion on had locked up Pepin, their main rival. As the the subject.

Although the construction, textile,, wildcat strikes escalated and the Front leaders and clothing workers’ federations were not refused to appeal their sentences, the Three D’s represented, many of their locals were. started denouncing them in language that even Throughout late June and July, the status of Gazette editorialists found it hard to match. many CNTU unions was broug.ht into doubt as Accusing Pepin of “odiously misrepreseninternal struggles raged between pro- and antiting” the workers, Dalpe declared that the CNTU CSD factions.

emerged as the group’s principal spokes’man, to forward a more comprehensive rebuttal to the Pepin group.

He claimed that the documents run counter to the CNTU’s Declaration of Principles because they recommend a “preconceived socioeconomic system”, namely socialism.

The federation’s Principles do in fact bar it from committing itself to such a system.

Quoting John Kenneth Galbraith, no less, the former CNTU vice-president maintained that since capital is now managed by “neutral” technocrats anyway, it doesn’t really matter whether they are paid by private stockholders or by the government.

Then, as if to top off his legal and economic arguments with a bit of off-the-cuff philosophizing,.Dalpe revealed his own solution to the workers’ plight: “It must be possible (I don’t know exactly how because it’s basically a problem of moral conscience) that the capitalists as well as the workers come to realize the social meanirig of their actions.”

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1 president, Almas Tremblay, June 26 to discuss union only 150 of the 2000 mer Tremblay tried to have the judgement on the question the workers’ demand for a rc immediately issued a persc the impression that he ha vote all along.

On the night of August almost all the union’s memt the executive offices.

Since make up a comprehensive I left the door open for a I disaffiliation and then clai absolute majority had cho A week later, the union’: to throw out four members 1 for channeling funds to disaffiliation vote could be ’ the Saguenay Central Cour construction union is still F the membership has not yet its will.

A special conference 01 federation voted on July 7 CSD executives.

The Rir workers successfully held ; 17 which indicated suppc 1898 out of 2121 member: A common CSD tactic h the exceutive of a CNTU fees to the rival federation pro-CSD vote by a minorit) A particularly glaring exar Quebec Labourers’ u nior accepted the vote of 17 disaffiliation.

The union t bers. (Union regulations ret majority of a union vote to from a federation.)

In several cases, the ( criminal charges against i the Three D’s; in Hull, a official discharged for s persuaded the post-mas CNTU’s local box number union, dues from the Cl+ Quebec superior court rult to the CSD of the Le Gardl Union in Joliette was illc minority of the membersh change.

By late July the CSD \~\r bership of over 20,000. growing threat and t suspicious tactics, the CN’ a province-wide counter-o At a July 25 conferenca, the CSD the “enemy of or announced the start o sol idation”, to consist 01 actual CSD support, a lar campaign, and law suits c violations of labour regul; In a special issue of Le time that the members real the CNTU charged that the “lies, treachery, and fraud,’ game of the workers’ ene The CNTU admitted loea its policies, attributing ml information about the fee pro-CSD activities by sorr

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misconceptions about alleged “special attention” given to workers in the public sector.

“Wherethe leaders respect the rules of democratic debate, the defections are negligible or non-existent,” the CNTU paper claimed.

The true strength of the CSD is now generally 1 union provides a put at about 18,000 out of the CNTU’s total 3 union’s pro-CSD membership of 240,000.

Internal battles are still alled a meeting for being waged in many unions, but the situation filiation.

Although should become much clearer this month, with hers were present, several major affiliation votes due in neeting pass final federations.

A/hen. overruled by Another breach in labour’s solidarity became irendum, Tremblay apparent

by August 14 when the executive of the al statement giving 30,000 member Quebec Civil Servants Union desired a general (SFPQ) voted to withdraw from the Common Front.

Although the union’s president, Jeani, the dossiers of Paul Breuleux, has dismissed allsuggestions of s were stolen from leaving the CNTU entirely, pro-CSD as well as iere was no way to anti-Common Front forces within the SFPQ are jmbership list, this rallying around him in preparation for a general nority to vote for referendum on September 25. that the required On August 17, the “CNTU committee of the n.

SFPQ” (formed at the initiative of four pro-CNTU ilma section voted executives of the civil servants union) held a the local execu,tive press conference to denounce the Breuleux le CSD before a “sabotage” and announce measures being taken ten. On August 14, to keep the union in the Common Front.

The I affirmed that the committee is publishing a weekly newspaper. t of the CNTU, but The 30,000, and last month conducted a een able to express province-wide information campaign aimed at ensuring a pro-CNTU vote.

But the CNTU hasn’t been completely preoccupied with combatting the splits in its ranks.

At its June convention the federation took -a further step towards clarifying its analysis of Quebec society by debating and adopting Marcel Pepin’s lengthy “Moral if been to persuade Report”written in Orsainville Prison-entitled lion to transfer its Pour Vaincre (“To Overcome”). n the strength of a The report summed up the economic critique If the membership. developed within the CNTU over the past lie occurred in the months by condemning the stagnating effects whose executive of American imperialism and the impotence of iionists to declare all levels of government.

3 over 1600 memPepin expressed the CNTU’s total opposition ire that an absolute to the present Quebec government: “This marks Iprove disaffiliation the first time that Quebec finds iself with a regime that functions on American money on ITU has pressed the one hand, and the Canadian army on the lividuals acting for other.

The Bourassa regime operates above all :onstruction union as a foreign government on hostile soil.”

Iporting the CSD Dismissing armed revolution as a suitable r to change the course of action at the present time, the CNTU thereby witholding president instead proposed the establishment 3. On July 28 a of “People’s Committees” in each electoral that the defection district, that would r Hospital Workers l unite all workers in the area; aI because only a l support or propose a candidate in provincial had approved the elections, while fighting all Liberals: “Support for a candidate will depend mainly upon the i claiming a memformal endorsement by the candidate of the response to this economic and social positions of the three CSD’s various parent unions, but more particularly on the I decided to launch formal condemnation of capitalism and economic liberalism”, !nsive.

0 “exercise permanently the political vigilance iksseI Pepin labelled nized labour”, and necessary so that the State cuts the ties which attach it to the worthies who are defending the “0 perat ion Condomination of American investors over the 1011s to determine r-scale information workers, and starts to represent the population”, ,Ilenging the CSD’s and l maintain union independence by “resisting the ons. avail entitled “It is temptation” to form a new party or formally *m their authority”, support an existing one. ‘hree D’s are using In the only changes the convention made to .nd are “playing the its president’s report, the specific cones.” demnation of all Liberals was changed to “any Itssatisfaction with political party attempting to crush unionism and 7 of it to a lack of the workers”, and “Marxism” was added to “capitalism and economic liberalism” as the ation’s real goals, local leaders, and troika of official evils.

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Instead of advocating Marxism (which the CNTU automatically equates with the bureaucratic regimes of the Soviet bloc countries), the CNTU committed itself to working out the contents of .a “form of socialism” which would ‘apply to our situation in Quebec the great principles of socialism: forms of economic organization which respect the collective ownership of resources, real planning according to needs, workers’ participation in the decisions of their workplace; in sum, a real democracy.”

Most of the convention’s debate centred on the tactics of political action rather than on its general goals as presented in Pour Vaincre.

A number of delegates criticized the report’s emphasis on electoralism and questioned the effectiveness of the committees’ control over their candidates.

The first People’s Committee was formed in Trois-Rivieres in mid-July, uniting all union centrals with citizens’ and student groups.

Another was founded on August 29 in Quebec City with the support of similar groups.

On the federal level the CNTU’s only initiative has been to urge voters to spoil their ballots by writing “merde” or “fuddle-duddle” on them, “to pay Trudeau back for some of the insults he has fired at us. .

The Common Front negotiations were resumed on May 25 and have gone through a seemingly patternless cycle of breakdowns and near breakthroughs.

The provisions of Bill 19 were altered by the National Assembly on June 30, empowering the government to impose settlements anytime between August 3 and a new “final” deadline of September 15.

By mid-August the government and the Common Front announced agreement “in principle” at the central bargaining table, but were hung up over future bargaining of specific contracts at the sectorial tables.

The government wanted an unconditional extension of the negotiations until December 15, while the Front insisted on formal agreement on principles at the central table and an extension only until October 15. On September 7 the two parties agreed to keep talking until October 15, but did not make public any further agreements.

Qn August 30 Pepin announced to 800 member of the civil servants union that the government had acceded to a major Common Front demand-the $100 minimum weekly wage-to be implemented

by July 1974.

At the same meeting, Roger Desloges, the union’s treasurer, claimed that the civil servants were railroaded out of the Front by their executive without the possibility of a democratic vote.

At the present, time, then, the CNTU has managed the not-uncommon trick of drawing reformist solutions from radical analyses.

But the adoption of a radical social critique during the past year is itself an important step forward.

These ideas seem now to be accepted by a large majority of the CNTU membership, especially

since the departure of the Three D’s. The formation of the CSD can be looked on as in some ways a positive thing, since as long as it remains small it will merely isolate those who would have fought all the CNTU’s progressive political initiatives.

The coming debate within the labour movement on the specific contents of a “form of socialism” for Quebec will be even more crucial than that which led to the formal condemnation of capitalism and imperialism at the June convention.

As the unions begin to probe deeper into the problem of economic alternatives, the contradiction b,etween their official endorsement of a radical analysis of the present situation and the official condemnation of “Marxism” as a possible option will become more and more glaring.

It is at this point that the real nature of the CNTU’s commitment to social change will become apparent.

The most hopeful sign pointing to continued development of the federation’s political position is the widespread grass-roots militancy that fueled the April-May actions.

The CSDGazette picture of these actions as those of an anarchist minority leading the rank and fije by the nose into murder and mayhem against their better inclinations is belied by the fact that the membership has been consistently more willing to continue strike action than the union bureaucracy itself; However, the CSD defections were made possible by a considerable degree of base-level alienation in certain key labour groupings, largely attributable to a lack of political information.

This indicates that the political debates of last fall and winter did not really penetrate all the CNTU’s unions or even all its federations.

The Parti Quebecois mjght have been accepted as an alternative only a short time ago, but union actions since last fall have increasingly,widened the gap between the PQ and the workers’ movement.

Obviously worried about spots on the political mantle he hopes to inherit from Robert Bourassa, Rene Levesque has taken to exclaiming that he’d “rather live in a banana republic than in a Quebec dominated by the rantings of union leaders”, and Michel Chartrand has denounced the PQ as “traitors” since the May revolt.

If the union leaders make _ peace with Levesque and try to present the PQ again as a “mass party”, it will amount to a betrayal of the workers. adapted from the mcgill daily

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An interview with Robert Lemieux LEMIEUX: Success, in terms of the impetus it has given to the Quebec Liberation struggle. Look at what has happened since that time in the trade union movement, For example.

I think that it has shaken the trade union establishment out of its lethargy.

And look at what has happened in terms of solidarity and action in the labor movement-the Common Front and the strike of two hundred thousand employees of the civil service.

Generally, in the population at large, there has been a prise de conscience of the problem of national liberation and a deepening of analysis of the struggle.

QUESTION: You were one of the people interned under the terms of the War Measures Act. Would you describe your four months in an imperialist prison-particularly any difference between the treatment of political prisoners and what is usually called the “common criminal?”

QUESTION: I understand there were over 1,000 arrests in Quebec during the period of the War Measures Act. LEMIEUX: No, but there were searches not ordered by courts and there were 566 arrests.

Outside of the trials of the members of the Chenier cell of the FLQ, Rose Simard, Lortie, everybody was either released or acquitted.

This shows how much bad faith there was in the government’s kidnapping and sequestration of citizens. But it was nothing new.

There were five hundred in October but thousands of political militants had been kidnapped, to my knowledge, in the two years immediately preceding that.

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QUESTION: It seems to me that there was one other very important element.

These events completely exposed the Canadian government -and removed any doubt the people in Quebec may have had about how the government of Canada would react to the national Liberation of Quebec.

LEMIEUX: That’s true. Before 1970, Mr. Marchand had spoken of the army, as well as Mr. Sharp and Mr. Trudeau. But the people saw it :hen. I think generally that these events were positive-not, ob-

QUESTION: So were only a handful following from the the War. Measures

in fact, there of convictions arrests under Act. .

LEMIEUX : Generally speaking, members of the Front de Liberation Quebec have been treated much worse in the prison system than common prisoners.

The government says that they are ordinary prisoners, but they have special jails and special confinement.

To illustrate this, Jacques Rose, who has never been found guilty-in his one trial, at the end of jury deliberations, it was 11 to 1 in favour of acquital-was detained for seven months in a cell in a police station. This cell was immediatley behind some electrical equipment, which made the temperature ten degrees warmer than normal. From December 28 to July 15,1971 he was detained there without ever going outdoors, without ever receiving one newspaper-weekly, daily or any sort, without ever hearing or seeing a radio or television.

And then he was transferred from the fourth floors of that centre city prison-which, although new, has been . criticized by experts as perhaps the worst jail in North America-and detained there from July 15, to January 16 of this year.

People originally were supposed to have been kept there from two to three weeks. Then, as a result of a hunger strike by the prisoners to demonstrate their support for him, Jacques Rose was taken and beaten savagely by the guards for about fifteen minutes.

He was taken to the hospital handcuffed to his bed for eight days, and is still being detained there, in total isolation.

So this gives you an idea of the treatment of political prisoners in Quebec. Paul Rose and Simard are being detained in a jail that was built in 1838, and has been condemned many times.

The government has said that it was goingto demolish the prison, but since many political prisoners are being detained there, it has set that decision aside.

The treatment of myself, Chartrand, Vallieres, Gagnon-for the first 21 days it was total confinement, lights 24 hours a day, no exit from the cells, for a number of those days _at the beginning, no cigarettes, for most of those days no reading material, no communication, no legal material-for 21 days. I personally kept in shape through exercise, through thinking back to things that interested me, and so forth. Then we were transferred upstairs.

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The reaction to confinement depends on the individual.

A person like Jacques Rose can take it, and a person like Pierre Vallieres, who is a bit unstable, takes it much harder.

But freedom is a relative thing.

If you are happy’ with having challenged a colonial, unjust, inhuman system, you can sometimes have more freedom than you have outside the walls.

The Rose brothers, for example, are freer inside the prison than most of us are outside the walls.

QUESTION: The War Measures Act, the arrests, the troops, all the events of 1970 and the years before, lead to a re-awakening in many Quebecois, and also a phenomenal re-awakening in the Quebec labour movement.

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viously, in military terms-it was never the purpose or aim of the FLQ to upset the colonial regime, but to attack it and to propagandize the struggle.

It was immensely successful.

I have travelled throughout the province speaking in CEGEPS and to various groups. At every meeting I have attended I have had questions about the FLQ and the people involved in those events. The Rose brothers, for example, have become popular heroes in Quebec.

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QUESTION: Do you see greater unity now among the various segments of the labour movement?

LEMIEUX: Yes. They got together and the result was the Common Front against the government.

It is moving from -there-not only the top brass, but

the people in the field as well.

There used to be a strong rivalry but now there is great solidarity.

QUESTION: What influence has the labour movement had on the political consciousness of Quebecois?

workers LEMIEUX: It has a fanastic effect. In the Common Front you have 210,006 people, and that is only one member of each family.

In 1872 MacDonald removed the strike from the criminal books; so when the leader of a guy’s union is put in jail for striking, the people talk around the dinner table about those things. It is a windfall of politic al education.

QUESTION: The events of the past summer, specifically the worker take-over of a number of towns in Quebec-most notably Sept-Iles-must give Quebecois a tremendous new sense of their own power.

LEMIEUX: Yes, and that is very interesting vis-a-vis the myth that you must have an empty stomach to make revolution.

The people that organized the takeover of Sept-Iles-which was phenomenally well done-were among the, highest paid workers in Canada. Sept-Iles is a very wealthy mining town. The people have cars, skidoos, freezers full of meat and fish, but they are tired of only that. More money will no longer buy them off.

QUESTION: Where do you see students in the over-all Quebec pit ture?

LEMIEUX: I am glad to see that the emphasis is no longer in the student movement, but in the workers movement and the popular movements of Quebec.

Students are a temporary and unstable base, and most students are too far removed from the political reality of the working class. I don’t think that the student movement is not good, but that the emphasis should be, and in fact is, away from students. reprinted

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R azz Band --it takes three With the sting of realism and excitement that made it a top bestseller.

Yes folks for exactly three quarters, you can get admitted, first into the local booze hall, then walk right up to the bar and order your favourite three draft or ale and then sonder over to an empty table, there are quite a few.

This week’s federation flicks EVENINGS FROM 7 P.M. MAT. SkT. & SUN. 2 P.M.

w*Trojan Women-excellent acting saves this otherwise somewhat flat attempt to bring the greek tragedies to life on the screen. k *The Last Valley-Michael Caine walks his way through this bloody parable.

Some European critics called it a surrealistic masterpiece, but not many.

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“KELLY’S HEROE ONE SHOW NIGHTLY 7:30 MATINEE SAT SUN MON 2PM

The evenings entertainment is supplied by a local Vancouver group which spaces you out faster than three bottles or three of anything else.

Take two. They appear dressed in sorts of things, look weird from the word weird, and attempt to bring the musical world something from the past; the distant past.

In a nut shell you could say the three Heartache Razz Banders are different.

They aren’t your usual loud rock band, your usual soft folk artist, your usual mixed up protest group, or your usual stompin’ country Conners.

No sir; to describe it is hard, to witness them is an experience, and to tell others you were there is like telling someone you saw the devil, you swore off booze and the other stuffs and gave up love until at least 75.

Take three. Some of those who witnessed the experience really dug it. Like they got off on either it or the booze, or both. Well, for that we say good; that’s what pubs are all about. Long live campus centre pubs. As for the Razz Band, Vancouver must have sent the trio east as a plot to dement our minds and make us drink more.

Really though, if you don’t have anything better to do tonight the act is still on and they are worth seeing so you know what we really mean.

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Last Saturday at 9 :00 p.m. this drama reviewer went to review a pub but not because I couldn’t find a theatrical performance.

I did. . .at the pub.

Players Guild at WLU presented a play and some songs and poems to the pub patrons (Nothing intended by the alliteration).

Otherwise the pub was. . .a pub held in the ballroom on Lutheran’s campus.

The entertainment program then, was a rather rich one centering around the play, Dr. Umlaut’s Earthly Kingdomcwritten by Canadian poetess, Phyllis Gottlieb).

Kingdom is about that question that has weighed on many a man’s brain, the question “What is the meaning of life?” and while that may seem a leaden centre for the pub it turns out not to be so for Kingdom is a levely dance-chant sort of drama. It was a pleasure to watch and to listen to because of its simple (primal?) rhythms and symmetry of movement.

The characters were quite vivid if symbolic types-the carnival barker (Dr. Umlaut), for example and the undertaker, the whore, and broom-girl.

Twenty-one the characters in all were played smoothly by two actors and two actresses-Mike Ruth (a very brash Dr. Umlaut), Mark Cumming, Veronica Blythe and Grace Huisman.

The props and set (just some bunting over a sign reading Dr. Umlaut’s Earthly Kingdom) for the play were simple. One of the props in particular, the cane, was used creatively.

Sometimes it was just a cane but other times it was a trumpet, a barker’s wand and a broom.

Background music for the performance was, appropriately, carnival-type, a recording of numbers played on a calliope, to suit the stage actions. There were no special lighting effects.

However, though somewhat bare of the usual theatrical trappings, the performance of Kingdom was just simple enough to help make the pub a warm, happy, and thoughtful experience.

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“Ireland Her Own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky”.

James Fintan Lalor, a nationalist leader of Nineteenth Century Ireland, defined the essence of Ireland’s struggle with that succinct sentence.

T.A. Jackson, in “Ireland Her Own”, ,has done more than use Lalor’s words for his title. He has adopted that statement as a manifesto, and as a key to the understanding of Irish history.

“I write frankly as a partisan”, says Jackson, in his preface. “I have*done my best to be candid, but impartiality is is to beyond my scope .. . . . .. .my concern help forward the cause which I uphold”.

Jackson is, indeed, candid, and he is one of ‘many whose commitment to the cause of Irish freedom has manifeste$ in the form of lucid historical work. Jackson, as an was well aware of the Englishman, problems which Britain had nurtured in Ireland. Rather than bury his head in the sands of guilt, Jackson realized that, as English people can Marx put it: “the never -be free as long as Ireland is enOperating with that clearly in slaved”. mind, Jackson devoted a great deal of time towards what has become the definitive work on Irish history.

Jackson’s work is both an object lesson to those who would write general histories, and a refutation of those who would negate the role of class-struggle in history.

The writing of general histories presents c a built-in problem-a two-sided problem of emphasis and themes.

Dealing with eight hundred years in five hundred pages is akin to the task which H.G. Wells set himself in a “Short History of the World”; just where does an historian place his emphasis, given such a mammoth

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History does not lend itself easily to such long enduring threads.

That struggle for land was necessitated by the importation, from England, of Feudalism.

Not only were the economic freedom of the Gaelic clans disrupted, but the clans were also forced to become military units, for self-protection.

That metamorphosis led to interminable clanfeuds, self-interest groups, and complete eradication of former life processes.

As clan leaders vied for positions, they began to bargain with the English for support in personal power plays. The price of such support was, inevitably, fealty to English overlords.

Once the English were entrenched in Ireland, and the nature of their occupation became evident, various Gaelic leaders rallied to oppose the foreign presence. By that time, it was, of course, too late.

The inexorable pattern of conquest and colonization had begun, and that pattern became the premise for a succession of English conquests around the world.

Over the ensuing centuries, the nature of English dominance altered.

The changes were sometimes subtle, but more often blatant and violent.

The Church began to slowly occupy centre-stage, and play it’s now-familiar role. Events in England seldom observed the confines of boundaries.

Upheaval was England’s earliest export to Ireland, and the Catholic-Protestant dichotomy began to impinge on the Irish colony. Similarly, the everlasting and seemingly ever-present feuds between King, Nobles, and Church found an ideal battleground in Ireland.

“All Ireland wanted was peace; all Ireland got was invasion”, remarks Jackson.

Of course, for the Irish, peace’ implied a return to Gaelic status quo; England refused to admit the necessity of any status quo but her own.

Cromwellian torture Jackson swiftly parades the bloody Irish sun across an equally bloody sky of Cromwellian tortures.

It was never more evident that Ireland was bound to imitate England’s crises. No English Revolution could refrain from dragging Ireland into the abyss.

It was also evident that Ireland’s religious turmoil, so familiar to us today, was not home-grown.

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by Irish Protestants, then and now, as messianic, was in reality only a skirmish, and a comic one at that. However, such events are the enigma of Irish history.

Jackson is subtle and successful in pointing out that history is full of such minor events which balloon and burst, showering a nation with savage discord.

Lest one forgets that Ireland was shaped and reshaped

by Irishmen as well as English, Jackson relates the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of Irish efforts to regain control of their land. The Rebellion of 1798, an agrarian revolt in the main, gave Ireland a national self-respect.

The Act of Union with Britain, in 1801, only made more determined the efforts to evict’ the trespassers.

As these efforts gained more and more support, it became obvious that Ireland could indeed unite along class lines, regardless of repression or religion. Commentary on the view that the Rebellion was merely a Catholic display of religious bigotry, Jackson says: “ . ...it is a feat of hypocrisy so colossal that one stands in awe before its matchless impudence. ”

Home rule The nineteenth century saw activity reach a fever pitch. There was no respite from attempts to seize and unite the Irish nation. What had begun so many years before as a distinctly economic consciousness had evolved into social and political awareness.

Protective societies sprang up faster than they could be banned. “Terrorism” and “Fanaticism”, as it was labelled by the English, became an accepted facet of Irish life. People were fighting, not for ideals, but for their existence.

The famine years of 1846-1848 gave further proof, if it were needed, of the economic purgatory to which the Irish were condemned by “free trade”.

Ireland’s leaders began to turn to Nationalism and Socialism, strange bedfellows for pseudoMarxists, but practical for the Irish.

Ireland had been made aware, painfully, of the relationship between economics and politics.

Most political activity centred on the repeal of the Act of Union. Supported by Marx, Engels, and the First International, Irishmen began to enunciate their demands in political terms. The embryonic coalition of the English and Irish working classes presented Tories and Liberals alike with a chaotic vision. It is this vision, and the imperial apocalypse which it

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It was the attempt to dissipate that vision which led to the English attitude to Home Rule for Ireland. The Home Rule question which held the limelight for over thirty years, prompted Jackson to lay the blame where, in many ways, it belonged, on Irish leaders.

Parnell is one of the few Parliamentarians to emerge unscathed by Jackson’s criticism.

The struggle is presented as behind-the-scenes compromise, compromise which inevitably favoured the English position.

Home Rule, of course, had it’s way and the birth of a divided Ireland presented the world with another of it’s many bastards.

England turned a,blind eye to the child of expedient politics.

Ireland had what England presumed she wanted-let her get on with it. That Civil war was inevitable ih the new Republic was a nuisance, certainly.

That civil war was handled with all the dexterity of an arrogant parent - ignore it, the child wilI tire. .

Jackson ends his story in the explosive period after the civil war, and the signs he saw pointed to a more optimistic vision than recent events would justify.

Jackson quotes from James Connolly: “In ourmovement, North and South will again clasp hands...... the pressure of a common exploitation will make enthusiastic rebels out of a Protestant working class . . . ..champions of religious and civil liberty out of Catholics....and out of both a -united Socialist democracy.”

C. Desmond Greaves, in his epilogue, _ written in 1970, shows the shift in thought over the intervening decades.

For Greaves, the solution lies not with Ireland, but with England, and her Government: “...the only permanent solution of the Irish question is in the relinquishment by English Government of all claims of sovereignty in any part of Ireland.”

In what nation, and by which government, has power ever been quietly and gracefully handed back to the people?

James Connolly saw perhaps more clearly the future path of Ireland.

Sentenced to death for his part in the 1916 Rising, Connolly made the following statement to the tribunal: “We succeeded in proving that Irishmen are ready to die endeavouring to. win, for Ireland, those national rights . . . ..as long as that remains the case, the cause of Irish freedom is safe. ” -jon

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The essays which were written after Atwood’s book which concern themselves with Canada tend to see it as some sort of fossil which we look back at. We are able to diagnose our pountry’s disease, the split personality, but it is only with her latest book that anyone deals with the pain now.

In the face of everything, including the awesome wilderness, the split in humans here is roughly between the desire to keep warm and safe and alone and the need to strike out for and at the territory and the wolf eyes in the night.

It is difficult to introduce Margaret AtAnimals in That Country (1968) lacks the She represents a unique uniformity of her other poetic works but it wood. was never intended as a magnum opus. It is phenomenon in Canadian belles-lettresshe is the apparent master of all she sura collection of individual pieces-the sort of veys and her horizons seem very distant. thing that a writer keeps in a journal. The Wm. French in the Toronto Star has noted Journals of Susanna Moodie and that it is barely lunchtime in her career. She Procedures for Underground were both has succeeded where others, most published in 1971. noticeably Cohen, have failed. She is able to The Journals established Atwood as a cross the boundaries of genre because like major writer of this generation to be Blake her message is larger than any reckoned with. In the Afterword to the confines she sets for it. Consequently she is Journals she writes of her credo to that Introducing a cure presently the darling of both Canadian and point in time.

American critics. Cults are being created “We are all immigrants to this place In Procedures for Underground we first around her ivory bed as writer-in-residence even if we were born here; the country meet the introduction of‘ her cure. The this year at University of Toronto and she is is too big for anyone to inhabit comtheme continues and develops to Surfacing. heralded as the voice of the “new Canada”. pletely, and in parts unknown to us we She assumes a position on the edge. She Indeed it appears to be as in vogue to move in fear, exiles and invaders. This stays outside because she is afraid. The worship at her shrine as it is to decry t’he country is something that must be solution which she never follows completely labours of Northrop Frye. chdsen-it is so easy to leave-and if is to burrow underground but she can’t.

Born in 1939 in Ottawa she grew up in we do choose it we are still choosing a She is too fascinated with the death dance Northern Ontario arad Quebec (the latter violent duality.” of the moth. She cannot move forward: being the setting for her new novel). She Until this claim, I had written her off as a there is no turning back to the cave. She graduated porn the staid halls of Victoria pale imitation of the tragic Syl’via Plath. I has been frost-bitten and she longs for College, U. of T., and thereafter she lived in was proud of the epitaph which I had warmth but her limbs are frozen stiff. And Vancouver, Cambridge, Mass., (where the always there is the ray of cobalt which written for her.

American experience influenced her less singes painlessly at the cancer of her than Dennis Lee), Montreal, Edmonton and For Margaret Atwood commitment.

Like Emily -Dickinson she is now she is living near her Alma Mater in saying: Toronto.

In 1971 she presented a PhD, “Would the real Sylvia Plath please put “I had a terror-since September-l *> dissertation at Harvard on Sir Henry Rider her head in the oven.” But The Journals could tell to none-andso I sing, as the Haggard (1856-1925) and other fantasists. changed all that. Her claim and her obBoy does by the Burying Ground(Haggard was the author of many popular servation of Canadian culture in that Afbecause I am afraid.” romances including King Solomon’s Mines terword were soon picked up and In 196.9 she published a novel The Edible (1886) and She (1887).)

She apprenticed developed in two later collections of essays Woman which the women’s liberation front at York University in 1971 as writer-inof our literature.

(Contexts of Canadian immediately swallowed whole, thinking that residence, a position earlier held by the Criticism-Eli Mandel, U. of T. Press, 1972; they had a disciple in Atwood. But she is professor there now, Irving Layton, who and The Critical Path-Northrop Frye, more complex than that. (She says she has once was convinced that the job was the Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1972) spent much time denying her intentions. touchstone for Canadian acceptance that The Journals of Susanna Moodie deals She wrote the book years before the we had a literature.

She is married and has with the Canadian experience of a gencurrent interest in the liberation no children. tlewoman who spent part of her life (1805programme but no one seemed to see it 1885) here in Ontario. Atwood proves that outside of that context.)

She has sumlittle has changed for us.

She writes of the marised the plot as: Literary credits arrival, the Moodies’ seven years in the “It’s about ordinary people who make Her literary credits are solid in a George Bush, and the more civil ised life in the mistake of thinking they are orHees sense and just as impressive. rln Belleville after the move, Mrs. Moodie’s last dinary.” addition to articles in magazines as diverse days and a very peculiar visitation that she The climax of the book comes on page as the Atlantic Monthly and the Tamarack spiritually makes to Toronto now. The 269 when she bakes a huge cake, moulds it Review, she has also published in New themes are constant ones with Atwood: into her feminine image and proceeds to Yorker and l-larper’s. dislocation, alienation, nature, the eat it, offering some of it to her finance. But Her books of poetry thus published are dehumanizing effect of modern urban it doesn’t end there. For At.wood there are no simple answers. five In number. The Circle Game (1966) society, the generation gap, a transplanted ’ immigrant culture and the Canadian ex“As a symbol,it had definitely failed,” ‘she won the Governor General’s Award for perience. writes in the next\ paragraph.

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This is a feast to be dealt with now.

Part of the reason for my early shying away from Atwood was that I came to her too late. Before reading the Journals of Susanna Moodie I read Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) by John Berryman that magnificent and now stilled poetic voice (by his own hand) from the University of Minnesota.

Just before I read Surfacing, I had been captivated

by Deliverance by James Dickey, ;! poet in residence at the University of South Carolina. Being a “small Frye” it was difficult for me to deal with Atwood. America seemed to be catching the same pulse just before us. But in Surfacing Atwood breaks through the water to gasp for air in a superlative manner. Her craftsmanship is to be envied.

For example, upon overhearing the clawing love-making of her two friends in an adjoining room she turns her back to her sleeping lover and tries to drown out the eating noises they make as they rip the souls from each other.

“Outside was the wind, trees moving in it, nothing else. The yellow target from Anna’s flashlight was on the ceiling; it shifted, she was going into their room and I could here them, Anna breathing, a fast panic sound as though she were running; then her voice began, not like her real voice but twisted as her face must have been, a desperate beggar’s whine, please please. I put the pillow over my head. I didn’t want to listen, I wanted it to be through but it kept on. Shut up I whispered but she wouldn’t. She was praying to herself, it was as if David wasn’t there at all. Jesus jesus oh yes please jesus. Then something different, not a word but pure pain, clear as water, an animal’s at the moment the’ trap closes.”

“It’s like death, I though{ the bad part ’ isn’t the thing itself but being a witness. I suppose they could hear us too, the times before.

But I never say anything.”

Or later when forced to look at an album of her childhood, a legacy from her mother she says : “No hints or facts, I didn’t know when it had happened. I must have been all right then; but after that I’d allowed myself to be cut in two. Woman sawn apart in a wooden crate, wearing a bathing suit, smiling, a trick done with mirrors, I read it in a comic book; only with me there had been an accident and I came apart. The other half, the one locked away, was the only one th,at could live; I was the wrong half, detached, terminal. I was nothing but a head, or no, something minor like a severed thumb; numb. At school they used to play a joke, they would bring little boxes with cotton wool in them and a hole cut in the bottom; they would poke their finger through the hole and pretend It was a dead finger.”

But she is not perfect. The metaphor on page 31 appears a bit too obvious.

“On a map or in an aerial photograph the water pattern radiates like a spider, but In a boat you can see only a small part of it. the part you’re in”.

And there is a crucial contradiction with reference to the child she kills and the guilt she cannot escape.

“Leaving my child, that was the unpardonable sin; it was no use trying to

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“I haven’t told Joe either, there’s no I reason to. He won’t.fi~,d obt the usual way,. there aren’t any pictures of it peering out from a crib or a window or -through the bars of a playpen in my bureau drawer-or my billfold where he could stumble across them and act astonished or outraged or sad. I have to behave as though it doesn’t exist, because for me it can’t; it was taken away from me, exported, deported.

A sect& of my own life, sliced off from me like a Siamese twin, my own flesh - I cancelled. &apse, relapse, I have to forget.” ’

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-Harry Boyle, a journalist from Toronto, part-time novelist, and an executive with the CBC has just simultaneously published in New york and Toronto, a middle-aged, middle-classed, memoir of what it means to be a Canadian north of the U.S.A. But he is destined to be out-shadowed

by Atwoo.d for she deals with this current cancer of ours in a brilliant way. She delves under- the bone like a Queen Mab and gnaws around at the real core. The Americans are given all the cliches in her novel with all the e&y nametags.

When two especially offensive men approach her on the water, with the flag .decaIIed on their boat, (or so she first believes), against the setting of a strung-up mutil_ated bird decaying in a tree, she finds that one is rea,lly from Toronto and the other from Sar ni ia. Her patriotic friend sees no sell-out when they drop everything to discuss theirfavouriteAmerican sports team. It is not difficult to recognise the enemy when he is in our midst but it is ghastly to se6 him as ourselves.

Is Atwood saying that the revolution cum evolution is over and we have I&t? or is she merely aware that each of us is our own worst enemy?

T-hroughout the novel.‘ the nameless iiarrator moves with a part-time:lover and two friends .from a residence in urban Ontario to a rembte island in northern

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Quebec to find her >father. who has. mysteriously disappeared.

Foi- ten days the four are isolated, and in their search .we watch them discover much about within themselves.

But there is no therapy in this alienated group sensitivity encounter.

When the final hold on reality is slipped loose the nart$tor, like Susanna Moodie, \ tries to blend into the elementat forces and gods around her. , “The animals have no ‘need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

I lean against a tree, I am a tree leaning.” (p.181) Ultimately she becomes an animal by choice waiting to’ grow fur on her naked body and shuddering with the cold in, _ the lair which she has built for herself in the woodpile. She is then able to appreciate the vegetables agony ai they bled from their stalks when she pulls them up to suck their vital juices.

“I walk to -the hill and scan the shoreline, finding the place, opening, where they disappeared: checking, reassuring.

It’s true, I am-by myself; this is what I .wanted, to stay here alone. From any rational point of view I am absurd; bu’t there. are no‘longer any rational points of view.”

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Atwood has stolen the Cyclopian eye of ihe V@ii%her in “The Fantastic Four.” She has o&&Ged from the edge of outside and her X-r-a); vision has gone, like the burn of dry ice through the external‘and internal’ landscape of where we, as human beings who happen by’ -chance to be born Canadians, live. It is truly an experience to come to immediately a?d so I recommend _ jthis book with much enthusiasm.

But you, like -Leander must enter this garden yourself: “Whose fruit none can describe but he That pulls or shakes it from the golden r tree.”

And where to next for this m&cian?

Soon she is to publis,h Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literatuie.

From one who has stolen an advance glimpse at the, galleys take this advice. Save your money, after you purchase Surfacing.

There is yet ,another feast in the orchard.

highlights off this evenly-constructed record, but “Wind and Sand”is far and away my nomination for most beautiful - : , ( ballad- ,of the year, and “Faithful”, . “Blue* River” and “Sheila” all place Andersen with the best songwriters of our generation. In fact, the only fault I can find with the album is that the haunting- lyrics are ndt included.

If anything, Andersen has improved upon the quality of his poetry from. earlier compositions. i Despite the perfect blending. of all elements, it is ’ still the stunning presence of Andersen. himself which makes this albqm sparkle: the honesty of his quiet, mellow voice and lyrics and the quite unique piano style which fit around his fragile melodies perfectly. , “d the only song here not written by Atidersen might as well have been: David Wiffen’s “More Often Than Not”, perhaps the most honest and evocative piece written about _ musicians themselves fits Andersen’s style and mood perfectly9 and is given just the right spark with Bromberg’s I first heard Ericy&lerskn last year dobro work. . during his week-lofig stand in- the Without trying to make ’ Andersen campus centre for Cap-au-Vin. Oh, yes, sound like the second coming, I can’t I’d heard his albums many times recomment Blue River highly enough. ’ before< but until I heard him live I did It’s Eric Andersen at his best, and not realize what an outstanding writer thdt ‘s about as good as music gets, and performer he is, possessing a rare quality which had jtist not b&un to be Ux$ortunately, I am pot able to -encaptured- on a record. AfterwardS, I do&Y’&ti Croix (Epic 3#%) so easily. played old LP’s over and over, trying to Jerky La Croix born& with good ’ re-capture that feeling he had created credentials, having been orie of the . in the intimate atmosphere of the coffee driving forces behind White $Trash, . house, but ‘it was no use;‘ the-voice, the along with Edgar Winter and Rick timing-the feeling-just did not belong Derringer. to the Eric Aaderson I had discovgred.

Several members of Trash have Then, this summer, Col!umbia issued -stay&l with La Croix for this LP, and a new Eric Andersen album, Blue River I the rockin’ ho&s which were missing (KC 31062), containing. all his new from Winter’s sound last Thursday at _ -compositionswith which he’d laid me tie’ Rock Palace-are right here on the out last winter. And, miracle, the real album. La Croix and sax player Jon Eric Andersen had finally been put c&o Smith are obviously more than cotia record. . petent arrangers, laying down-the same .

Blue River is. the mellowest, most driving horn lines here that sent Trash sensitively put together album I have soaring.

- ’ heard since’ Bruce Cockburn’s “High Sadly, that’s where the. comparison Winds, White Skies.”

Ironically, this ends. La Croix35 .vFals and Barry hag happened under the pr@uction Rillers’s lead g$$ar simply . cannot hand of Norbert Putnam, whose Nashmake up for t&v! &@y of Winter and ville Mafia have flattened put many a Derring&. good musician with their competent but It’s tdb bad that this record must much too uniform brand of backing and inevitably be compared to the Trash, slick production. The credit for this one because it is a competent, well-mixed seems to lie with the perf& blend: an rock band in its own right. It just is not outstanding .talent on which to fqcus, outstanding in the way that White exceptiorial material and excellent Trash stood out from all rock groups backing artists infused with a tasteful before it. sense of balance. ( LaCroix and company, for instance, For the first time in a long while could learn a -little something by 1 Putnam, Buttrey, Briggs and company ljstening to a ‘cheapie cut-out I picked seem to haye acquired a -sense of up last week in the record co-op, called subtlety and the result is the perfect Eric Quincy Tate, featuring Tony Joe backing for Andersen’s sensitive, White and the Memphis Horns, among beautiful music - and lyrics.

Other others. This group knows how to rock talented people sit in on several cuts to with a full band and still put some good provide just the right touch‘ behind, old Southern Funk into the music, too.)

Andersen’s rich, soothing voice-arLaCroix comes: recommended, but tists like Joni Mitchell, the Jordanaires, only if you don’t have both White Trash David Bromberg and Eric’s wife, albums. Otherwise, spend your money Deborah Green Andersen. there.

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A recent offering in the John Hammond Collection is an album of old acetate pressings from the late thirties and early forties spotlighting the innovative work of one of the first amplified guitarists, Charlie Christian.

The guitar had never been a major solo instrument in bands until the late thirties when a technique was developed to use metal strings with electromagnetic pick-up coils and an amplifier to produce volume. This revolutionized the role of guitar and its subsequent use in bands. It became possible to do solo work with that added volume and steel string bite. As it often happens, the genius came ,along who knew what to do with a technological advance.

Solo Flight (Columbia G30779) contains almost all the recording work done by the young guitarist Charlie Christian.

Historically it is especially interesting and merits careful listening for the classic riffs and melody lines that a long series of imitators including Charlie Bird and Les Paul have made so familiar.

Although most of the tracks are from sessions done with the Benny Goodman Sextet, Christian’s work is what clearly sets things up. On several tracks vibist Lionel Hampton and guitarist Christian really liven the mood and add a smooth balanced touch to some otherwise common tunes.

“Rose Room” illustrates just this; with Hampton and Christiandeveloping a bopping melody line and Fletcher Henderson adding some fine piano work to round things off. Much of the album contains songs that remind me of the classic performance of Benny Goodman and his band with Krupa at Carnegie Hall in 1938. In fact, “All Star Strut” has many of the personnel that worked that classic date.

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Christian’s recording career should have- been more prolific.

The sad fact is however, that he spent few sessions in a studio, and even fewer as a soloist. It’s those few that were recorded that establish him as a major jazz artist.

The three tracks that feature‘ his solo work are outstanding.

Considering that amplified guitar was then a new instrument, Christian still shows its potential.

“I Got Rhythm” “Sta rdust”, and “Tea For Two”, although known now as standards, in Charlie’s capable hands show a fresh&s and brilliance that is hard to surpass. The problem with these tracks, however is the technical quality of the recordings which in this case is similar to some of the poorer bootlegs.

The brilliance does come through however, and this is what impresses one about the man’s work.

His sound is involving and light-a pleasant stone. Some tracks may seem repetitious but this is excusable when one considers how few recordings there are of Christian-it is the solo guitar work that is really being spotlighted.

“Seven Come Eleven” shows nice spiff, very clean work (which is effortless it seems) and a good series of riffs in which Hampton and Christian really set to work. In contrast “Honeysuckle Rose” has some really tight brass work that leaves one wondering if there has been any real improvement in horns since 1939.

Christian often worked with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and others in an off hours bar called Minton’s.

These jams eventually produced a major stream in jazz-bebop.

“Till Toms Special” shows the cool guitarist doing some really interesting chord work and lovely throw-away lines with clean pauses to break it UP. It was indeed unfortunate that such a talented performer should have died so young (Christian was only twenty-three).

In <1941 Christian discovered he had tuberculosis but he refused to stop playing. Finally, he had to be hospitalized.

According to John Hammond, it was in the course of his recovery that a friend, taking pity on him brought in some marijuana and a woman-two weeks later he died.

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In the 1st round, played on a cold, windy course, the scores were .a11 fairly high.

Dave Passmore led Terry Redvers by 2 and John Metzger by 3 after the 1st 18 with a score of 78. On the final 18. Passmore held off a determined charge by Redvers as they both shot 74’s, to win the Paul Knight Trophy by 2 strokes with a 78-74152 total.

Tournament

Men’s In Intramural Lacrosse action this week, Village %South defeated Village a-North, 4-3, with Warnick Hiscock scoring the winner to break the 3-3 tie. Paul Scott had all 3 Village a-North goals. In a high scoring game the Barflies, led by Layne McGee and Jim Skelly who tallied 10 and 6 goals respectively, defeated Renison 18-9. Jack Dowding netted 3 for the losers.

Math took over undisputed possession of 1st place by defeating St. Jeromes 14-6. Don Yaschyshyn, Pat Fallon and Doug Bannon tallied 4 each for the winners.

CURLING

CLUB:

“It’s a good time to get acquainted It’s a good time to know All the curlers, at least the good ones, That are here to make things go.

Good-bye chilly shoulders !

Good-bye glassy stare !

When we’re all on the ice tonight together There’s real friendship there ! ” If you are looking for friendship, exercise or an excompetition, citing new sport, think about joining the University of Waterloo Athletic Curling Club.

Curling begins on Monday, October 16th at 4 pm and Thursday, October 19th at 4 pm, so make sure you drop around and register then. Where?

The Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club, corner of Agnes and Park streets (in Kitchener).

“We slide from the hack with the greatest of ease, Sometimes on our fannies, sometimes on our knees, Our actions are graceful, we try hard to please, But oh, how those stones,roll away!

The broom our skip gives us, we try hard’ to take, And if we succeed that is one lucky, break; The shots that we miss would make any heart ache, In the University of Waterloo Curling Club.”

1972 INTRAMURAL TRACK FIELD MEET RESULTS:

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This year saw the largest turnout to the Track and Field Meet. There was a total of 289 competitors in a total of all events. In the team competition, St. Jeromes narrowly defeated Phys Ed and Ret by 264242 with a strong team showing of 51 points in the discus event.

In third place was Science with 90 points.

In individual competition, new records were set in 5 events. M. Strenge of Math ran the 1lOM hurdles in 15.6 seconds.

McQueen of Lower Wng ran the 800M course in 2:05.4. Campeau of Environmental Studies ran the 5OOOM in 16 : 14.0 While Ted Porter was setting a new height of 10’7” in the pole vault. McQueen again set a record by running the 400M dash in 53.9 seconds. Brian McFarland of Phys Ed also doubled in winning the javelin ,and the 2OOMdash events.

Other winners were Gadula of St. Jeromes in the long jump (19’9.5”), Tessier of St. Jeromes in the high jump (5’4”), Church of Science in the triple jump (39’6” >, Cook of Coop Math in the shot put event (42’9”), Ciupa of St. Jeromes in the discus (119’S”>, Brett and Lackery tied for the 1OOM dash at 11.7 seconds and Coop Math took the 4xlOOM relay in 48.4 seconds.

Complete results of the meet will be displayed in the PAC Red North Entrance.

Women’s Flag Football

seems to be the main line of interest in Women’s Intramurals this week.

‘Five battles took place on Monday night on the Village Green. Village l-North finally set foot on the field for the first time this year. Great renovations had been made by the team for this year’s schedule and they didn’t disappoint the fans Monday night.

North looked like they were not adjusted to the new blocking rules as was indicated by the numerous roughing calls.

Probably inexperience. Their opponents Village 2-West, were quick off the line and their quarterback was a one man show, and a good one at that.

Village l-North looked good all around with Jan Maclean running the plays. It was quite a game with only one touchdown for North which was disallowed.

North’s phantom kicker managed to boot in a couple of singles to give Village l-North the 2-O victory.

The other games Monday were just as exciting. St. Pauls downed St. Jeromes (alias Notre Dame) 60. It was an astounding interception by Millie Pierce that put St. Pauls on the score-board, however the scoring ended there as a convert attempt was .missed.

Village l-South and Village 2East were battling it out as both teams scored points. That spry B. J. Danylchuk got the lone touchdown for Village l-South. It was some play as B. J. took the kickoff and started up the sidelines.

No one even cane close to catching her as she flew up the field. Village lEast chalked up 3 points on singles provided by their anonymous kicker.

Who are you anyway?

Final score was Village &South 6, Village a-East 3.

Phys Ed and Ret posted their first victory of the season by blanking Conrad Grebel 12-O. Pauline Daling scored a touchdown on a well executed sweep play. Later in the ’ game, Beth Palmer got the 2nd touchdown on a pass into the endzone to complete the scoring. Phys Ed and Ret are looking for their second championship of the year after capturing the slow pitch title. How about that, North?

And then of course there was Village 2-North-Village l-West game. West got their touchdown on a pass (? > to Darlene Koskie with a completed convert by Nancy Reid.

A single by Joan Walker later in the game clinched the win for West. North didn’t manage any points but they played a good game. North 2 seems to have lost a bit of the magic of last year but will probably turn it on in the end. And that was flag football Monday night. So, in summary : I Village PE&R v 1-s St. Pads V 1-N

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Conrad Grebel got their season underway by defeating Enviromental Studies 13-O. Env. Studies looked good, but the lack of players on the team may have hindered their playing. The second game of the day was an even match all the way. Phys Ed and Ret scored a touchdown in the first couple of minutes of play on a long bomb. As it turned out, there was a line penalty and it didn’t count.

Phys Ed and Ret were on the opponent’s a-yard line but failed to score once again as there was a holding penalty. Debbie Luckham then kicked a single from 12 yards out to make the final score 1-O for Phys Ed and Rec. The number of team was players on each phenomenal.

If there’s anybody out there not on a team and who would like to play, see Sally Kemp.

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The warrior footballers made it two in succession last Saturday when they defeated Macmaster

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The Warriors look as if they could have scored mdre points, but they had some difficulty in moving the ball when. they were deep in marauder territory.

The only major error committed by the warrior defense resulted in a seventy-five yard touch down run

by Mat. Offensively the warriors appear to be heading in a positive direction as they have, for the first time in many years, a stable backfield.

Bob Spree, a transfer student from St. Mary’s df Halifax, has

taken over as the number one quarterback for the warriors this season. Spree appears to be the quarterback that the warriors have been looking for to lead the team to a successful season.

In the running department Rich Howes and Geoff Sutherland are the leading rushes, averaging over five yards a carry, while Brian Beatty leads the warriors in passing. Peter Bedford, the leader in the interception department, saved the warriors from a possible defeat at mat by intercepting a

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marauder pass with less than a minute to go in the game whencontinues. mat was getting close to fieldgoal The ultimate test for tne warrior range.

-footballers takes place at J. W. The total number of points Little stadium at the University of been decreasing for each sucWestern Ontario tomorrow.

The cesyive game. The reverse of this questions that arise are: will the trend is taking place in the total defense be able to stop the team number of points scored against that won the national title last the warriors.

What all this means year; can the offense reverse it’s is that the difference between the trend; and how many players will warriors score and that of the be injured (Mat lost six, including opposition is approaching zero and their entire starting offensive could possibly become a negative backfield in their game aglainsf value for the warriors if this-trend West&).

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(calling themselves trojans) also blanked the St. ‘Catharine’s group 11-O. Press releases from the team Soccer repeatedly state a new togetherness and cohesive team attitude.

Last Wednesday, they s‘uffered dismal defeat at the hands of’ the madmen from Western, but this * thursday return to Macmaster to attempt another victory over the marauders.

In their last battle, the warriors took ‘the mat-men with A tru c e little effort.

The travelling bus had little to scrap about following the Brock encounter because the soccer team * also scored a blanket victory The mighty rugger warriors winning 3-O. Mcmaster will provide another took time off from -their weekly and team battle with the soccer squad to attempt in co-habitation travel. Here’s hoping they again tromp the guys from Brock score double victories or who University last weekend.

The first team took the brockknows how many will be left for the men is-0 while the second squad next series of games.

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November 22, or thereabouts has been set as athletic referendum day. Undergraduate students will be given the opportunity to decide whether intercollegiate athletics deserves their support to the extent of seventeen-and-a-half dollars each school year.

The referendum decision was suggested by the president’s fee study report group last spring and was accepted by the athletic advisory board, a few weeks later.

The wording of the referendum passed through the AAB last week and last Wednesday, the president’s advisory council okayed the proposal as stated.

Realizing a complete outside control of student funds, the last federation of students regime attern-pted to radically upheave the structure of the AAB making the completely studentbody controlled falling directly un’der the auspices of the federation. The rationale seemed sane, because students fund more than ninety per cent of the athletic programme at the university.

The proposal was shelved while the group anxiously awaited the report of the fee study committee.

The committee announced a suggestion that the intramural fee be absorbed by the university in operating funds while the % intercollegiate portion of the student funds be put to a referendum to decide if students really cared about varsity sport on campus.

The implications of the fee-study report was not to make itself felt until the school year beginning in September of 1973. However, students returning to school this fall found their fee statements to include an intercollegiate fee of fifteen dollars instead of the former 22 dollar ‘activity fee’. There was no reduction as one may assume, instead, the intramural and recreational fee was ‘buried’ in the general operating budget while the intercollegiate fee remained conspicious.

All this one year before the suggestions were supposed to take effect.

Whatever the * lead-up, a referendum is pending and the date has been set. The wording of the questions has been agreed on by the federation of students, the AAB and the president’s advisory council.

There will be two parts to the referendum.

The first asking “a compulsory student fee is required to operate the men’s and women’s athletic intercollegiate programme.

Do you wish to continue this program?”

The second would dispense with additional payment to attend sport events asking ‘The operating costs of the 1973-74 intercollegiate athletic programme are estimated to require compulsory fees -of $17.50 per year plus admission charges.

Would you prefer an estimated $20.00 per year which would include free admission for students to all regularly scheduled events? ’ Both questions will be presented for ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers with no ‘maybe’s’.

At the AAB meeting at which the motion was passed, federation president Terry Moore argued a proposal to have the athletic advisory board made up of a student majority.

At the end of a heated discussion with former AAB president, and athletic spectator Ken Fryer, Moore saw his proposal passed 8-l. The opposing party is obvious.

Last year, the AAB voted for an individual (other than an athlete) who had added most to the cause of athletics at the University of Waterloo.

Above an Olympic wrestling coach and others, the board presented the award to one Dr. Ken Fryer. So, there you go babe, there you go.

jockhorts families have entered and other interested joggers, who just want to get some exercise fill out the field.

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Ontario’s only covered bridge will be one of the high points viewed by tired eyes in tomorrow’s octoberfest marathon run. The world’s longest race is being-sponsored by the Waterloo family YMCA, this university’s athletic department and a downtown shoe manufacturing company.

Hoping to attract some of the best marathoners on the continent, the press releases speak of a run through ‘miles of the most picturesque country in southern Ontario.’

As of last week, there were twenty-three entries in the long, gruelling event, led by warrior track coach Arthur Taylor, who has recorded one of the five fastest marathons ever run in this country.

Over one-hundred and twenty five persons have entered the five-mile bier doktor’s jog which will wind its way around the picturesque university of water100 campus, three times around the ring road.

Thrice, runners will see the math building, arts library and the only covered campus center in southwestern Ontario.

Entries for the jog have come from all age categories.

School teachers have entered their students; track coaches have entered their runners, entire

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completions, in 43 attempts against Queens. Greg Plyley of Waterloo took a punt return 50 yards during the Guelph encounter to record the longest the league has seen so far this season.

Windsor’s Andy Parichi tossed an eighty-one yard completion against lutheran to lead the league in that department.

Last week, western blanked the yoemen from york 24-0, windsor took the ,,golden hawks 26-11, while the warriors fought their 9-

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activity with participation their desire and winning non-essential.

Squashers requiring instruction in the fine art can receive same through the auspices of the magnamic intramural department. Although meetings have already been held to sign up early-birds, the tardy players are still being acoepted.

By calling john cushing at 744-3666, instruction may be arranged.

Clinics will be held regularly on Mondays and Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from lo-11 :30 am in the mornings this is.

Judo for beginners takes place on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7-8: 30 pm in the Combatives Room of the PAC with the advanced group filling in at 8:30 to 10 pm.

Karate classes convene Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm in the Red and Blue Activities Area. Bring along the new yell of your choice.

For those iyho haven’t had a chanse to skate regularly and would like to take in this great Canadian pass time, we have clinics at the Waterloo Arena on Tuesday October 10th and Thursday October 12th at 7:30 pm.

This time will also be available for free skating for all those who wish to come out. For anyone I new to Waterloo ‘The Barn’ is down town.

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While some Canadian universities have been channeling large chunks of money saved by disbanning their intercollegiate football squad into other athletic activities it isn’t the case with Ontario community colleges.

The Ontario College Athletic Association announced tha t a four- team football league has been sanctioned involving Algonquin, Humber, Sheridan and Seneca Colleges. So far one game has been played; Humber losing 26-O. While there were many reasons why football was started up, John Cruickshank, athletic director at Sheridan said there had been “strong pressure from the administration for football because they felt it would help school spirit. ’ ’ Chuikshank added that football was also the last activity to come to Sheridan after intra-mural activities had been established; but it was the first intercollege sports event.

Humbers athletic director Rick Bendera added that students who couldn’t get into universities are now able to continue their 7 victory over macmaster. education at a community college and were able to mix studies with OUAA rugger sees the warriors football like all those university tied with guelph and toronto for first although the latter two grid iron experts.’ teams have only played one game Over one hundred basketball to Waterloo’s two.

On the coaches and players showed up weekend, the rugger warriors for last Saturday’s basketball took mcmaster 2-O. clinic held in the uniwat sports The Waterloo-mcmaster soccer palace. Organized

by Sally Kemp game on the weekend was the of uniwat and Clarence Willson of only one slated.

The Waterloo the Ontario ladies basketball crew came away with a victory association, this session for /and a temporary lead in the “coaches and players who are league. interested in coaching” attracted Winning and losing are almost a most attentive crowd. coincident for Harold Ballard, For six hours the audience president of Maple Leaf Gardens listened to three top coaches Limited.

First, he lost his first lecture and demonstrate court bout being convicted on 29 +basketball basics. Don McCrae of counts of fraud and theft in- the warriors led off the morning volving about $200,000 of with an explanation of shooting ‘Gardens’ funds. His investments skills.

He was followed by seem to be a much better Warren Sutton who coaches the alternative as the Gardens women’s gee-gees at u. of Ottawa. reported a 41 per cent higher net Sutton chose to split up his spiel after nine income months. on defensive work-first dealing Directors declared a three dollar with individual skills and then per share dividend. elaborating on team work.

“Very simple,” Ballard said, Later in the afternoon, Earl when asked to account for the Begg brought out his junior girls gratifying earnings jump. team from hamilton to illustrate “Hockey revenues of course are offenses they use against man-onfixed. But we’ve had a lot of rock man and zones. shows and other entertainments Of the women and half dozen this year.” He went on to specify men who participated in the the resources pulled from a recent clinic, most were-satisfied with Rolling Stones concert, comthe approach and material menting, “after that concert, we covered and a few expressed walked to the bank with over interest in future clinics.

It 55,000 dollars.” appears that the university of Not bad for a guy who has one Waterloo-with its facilities and manpower is in a good position to foot in a jail cell. But how much help out the rest of the comdirecting can one man do from munity and the success of this behind bars; or does our society clinic indicates a direction for allow people like Harold Ballard in prison cells? such help.

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Track at Mat The Waterloo trkckpeople are in for some heavy competition this season, if last Saturday’s Macmaster invitational meet serves as any indication.

The University of Toronto, pulling the cream of the metropolitan high school crop, came through with an easy victory over the other ten schools gathered for the affair.

A strong Queen’s contingent took second place slightly ahead of Western with Waterloo dragging in fourth spot.

Dave Jarvis, competing for the Queen’s golden gaels provided top times for a rather lack-lustre meet. He took the first event easily, winning the 400 meter hurdle with a swift 53.3 second clocking. The listed OUAA record is seven-tenths of a second slower.

Later in the day, Jarvis sprinted to a 14.6 second victory in the 110 meter version of the first event. To top off an excellent day, the versatile runner lead off the Queen’s 1600 meter relay squad with a subfifty second quarter.

The University of Toronto was also responsible for some added quality as Bruce Simpson showed his Olympic pole vaulting style to capture one of varsity’s five first places. Simpson, who is ranked fifth in the world, waited until all competitors had done their best, had the bar raised three feet and with two vaults, won the event at 16 feet 9 inches.

Although finishing a respectable fourth, the warriors amassed their points on second and third place finishes only ending the day with no first place personnel.

Bruntz Walker performed an almost impossible double in the 800 and 1500 meter events. He ran an easy second in the latter, but was outkicked by freshman Mike Lanigan to finish third in the longer race.

Warrior javelin hurler Glen Arbeau was not present at the event, but in his absence three competitors showed a preview of a tough OUAA competition, chucking the spear over 200 feet.

The eventual winner, Folgo della Veddja of Laurentian, recorded a 212 feet 8 inches effort to present Waterloo’s former Canadian team member with formidable opposition.

The sprinting events once again did not see Mike Murray, but Queen’s speedster Hugh Fraser, double sprint champion at last year’s OUAA, showed himself to be in top form. Fraser passed up the shorter 100 meter event allowing Tony Powell to take it in a slow 11.1 seconds, but stretched a five yard lead in the 200 meter dash to win in a quick 21.5 seconds. After the race, Fraser commented, “Not bad for only three weeks of training. ” The cold, wet fall weather always has a dampening effect on Fraser and he said, “I just don’t feel like running when it might snow any minute.” ’ In what can only be called a ‘judge’s decision’, warrior George Neeland was awarded second place in the 100 meter sprint.

Immediately following that finish, Neeland jogged to the starting line to commence the 110 meter hurdle event. Jarvis’ speed and Neeland’s

tiredness combined to produce a second place finish for the former Canadian champion, and the first college loss of his career.

Coach Arthur Taylor did not seem the least bit disheartened by the results saying, “This team did not reflect our total strength or depth.”

He added that many athletes who couldn’t compete in London last weekend, made this trip but most of those present at Western didn’t make it to ‘Mat’.

Most of the Waterloo distance runners passed up the event to conserve energy for the classical Springbank event the following day.

Once again, the female Waterloo competitors were not at full strength, although the everpresent Marg Cumming managed a personal record of 2 : 32.5 in the 800 meters.

The field events saw few Waterloo participants, as newcomer Willie Clark of Western took the horizontal jumps with fairly good marks. His 47 feet 1 inch effort in the triple jump should prove him just competition for defending champion Bill Lindley of Waterloo who won the OUAA event last year with 47 feet 7 inches.

Coach Arthur Taylor has not yet fielded a complete Waterloo team this season, but a winning tradition will have to be bolstered by maximum performances by each athlete if the championship is to remain at uniwat for the fifth year.

The brightly clad football team playing on an adjacent field proved to be a contrast, not only in their victory but also in their attire. The Waterloo trackmen again this year wore a variety of clothing to remain warm, nothing similar to uniforms provided by all other teams in the league. As one athlete from York commented, “they may win every year, but they sure don’t look too shit-hot without team sweat-suits. ” ‘Nuff said.

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Coach Bob Vigars of the University of Western Ontario has compiled some interesting track statistics from last years outdoor season.

The sprints proved to be rather spectacular with eight sub-losecond one hundred yards recorded and three sub-Z-second furlong runs. Hugh Fkaser proved to be the all round speed king of the OUAA '71 season and is continuing to burn up the track again this year. Last weekend he ran a 21.5 second 200 yard event.

Mike Murray of Waterloo was the fastest over the long 100 yard run doing a 10.6 seconds for metres which 8converted is around 9.7 seconds.

Al Monks, a warrior freshman last year, covered the 440 in 49.3 seconds at the OUAA championships, the fastest at that distance.

In the middle distance events, Kip Sumner a former warrior but running under the gaels banner

last year, was the fastest over the 889-yards and the mile in times of 153.4 and 4:ll.l respectively.

Kip is not competing in the league as he went down under and is residing in the land of the kangaroos.

Grant McLaren, who made the Olympic track team took the three mile title in a fast 13 :56.8. McLaren who ran for Western is also out of the league. Brian Armstrong of Toronto, took the final distance event, the six mile run, in a good time of 29 36.0. Again the time was posted at the championships held in London.

Warriors hurdler George Neeland was by far the best on the OUAA scene last year posting four of the five fastest times for the 120yard high hurdle event. His fastest time over the distance was a 14.1 however with a 9 mph wind assisting.

Dave Jarvis of Queens was the best intermediate hurdler with a best performance of 53.8 at the championships.

In the relay events, the University of Toronto dominated both the 4x 110 and the 4x 440.

However Queens took the latter race at the championships.

The 4x 880 was taken by Western in an impressive 7:48.1 at the UWO invitational.

No one university really dominated the jumping events in the OUAA competition last year. In the high jump, Western’s Ray Anthony was hitting 6 ft. and 8 inches while in pole vaulting Bruce Simpson, who had one of the best showings at the Munich games, placing fifth, dominated the event.

Simpson was clearing the bar a full three feet above any of his challengers, if they could be called that. This year he continues to reach above the clouds hitting 16 ft.

9 tinches last weekend at McMaster.

Dennis McGann, competing in the warriors black and gold last fall took the long jump event at the championships.

Bill Lindley, another warrior was McGann’s closest challenger but was still six inches behind the winner’s 22 ft 81/4 inch best for the season. This year, with Dennis now an associate coach with the warriors, Lindley has an excellent chance for top honours. Toronto’s Dave Watt had the best triple jump distance in ‘71 of 47 ft. 11% inches however, Bill Lindley came through with the big performance last year and won the OUAA crown with a jump of 47 ft.

2% inches.

In the throwing events, Harvey Barkauskas of Western took the shot put? heaving it 49 ft. 83/4 inches, Grant Tadman of Toronto fired tile discus 160 ft. 6 inches, while the javelin flew 215 ft. thanks to Folgo Dellavedova of LaurenI tian.

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The other was the chain of events that led to the deaths of the lsreali athletes. TV commentators covering the zames expressed much shock that the ‘Olympic peace’ had been shattered.

And, there were loud laments that ‘politics had invaded sports.’

One may of course wonder about the sort of mentality that equates a peaceful boycott against a racist regime with a commando action that leads to 11 deaths.

And, the people of Vietnam may be excused if, in the midst of the daily hail of American bombs and deaths, they wonder what the American news media mean when they say that the ‘Olympic peace’ has been shattered.

Nor was there any ‘Olympic peace’ for the hundreds of student demonstrators who were simply rounded up and shot by Mexican troops at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

It’s interesting to review the record of the sporting establishment that wept such plentiful tears at Munich.

Once before there was a German Olympics.

And, then too, the Olympic kingpins charged that politics had invaded sports.

The incidents which at that time sparked a mass movement in America to boycott the 1936 Berlin games are eloquently described in professor Richard Mandell’s book The Nazi Olympics. At that time, the issue was whether Hitler was barring Jewish athletes from the German Olympic team.

The American Olympic establishment repeatedly claimed that the Nazis weren’t discriminating against Jewish athletes or, if they were, it was irrelevant.

Eventually, as the movement to boycott the Olympics gathered momentum in America, they sent General Charles Sherrill (a member of the American and International Olympic committees) to Berlin to negotiate with the Nazis.

Sherrill vigorously opposed the boycott and, upon his return, discussed the reasons for his mission : “I went to Germany for the purpose of getting at least one Jew on the German Olympic team and I feel that my job is finished. As for the obstactes placed in the way of Jewish athletes or any others in trying to reach Olympic ability, I would have no more business discussing that in Germany than if the Germans attempted to discuss the Negro situation in the American South or the treatment of the Japanese in California.”

He also claimed that he knew many Jews who opposed a boycott and who feared that it would be overplaying the Jewish hand in America-as it was overplayed in Germany before the present suppression and expulsion of the Jews were undertaken.

The next day, Frederick Rubin, then Secretary of the American Olympic Committee announced his position : “Germans are not discriminating against Jews in their Olympic tryouts. The Jews are eliminated because they are not good enough as athletes. Why there are not a dozen Jews in the world of Olympic calibre.”

General Sherrill later appeared before the Italian Chamber of Commerce in New York and praised Mussolini as “a man of courage in a world of pussyfooters”, adding, “I wish to God he’d come over here and have a chance to do that same thing.”

The president of the American Olympic Committee (and- close colleague of Sherrill and Rubin) was Avery Brundage.

He remained at the top of the Olympic establishment until this summer when he resigned as head of the International Olympic Committee.

He opposed the antiNazi boycott just as he opposed the black

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boycott. He opposed exclusion of Germany in 1936, of Japan in 1940, and of Rhodesia and South Africa in 1968.

In 1936, according to Mandell, Brundage and his supporters posed as being far above petty chauvinism, a position that did not prevent them from occasionally praising the visible accomplishments of the Nazis, and from slurring the adherents of (the boycott) Committee on Fair Play as being “reds” or even “ communists”.

In May 1968, Ramparts magazine reported that Brundage had told an AAU national convention that the German Jews were datisfied with their treatment under the Nazis. Was this just a hastily thought out view based largely on

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Apparently not. For, even after Brundage made the trip to Nazi Germany with the 1936 American Olympic team, he returned to a packed rally of 20,000 at Madison Square Gardens with heady praise for the Nazi establishment.

According to the October 3, 1936 New York Times, Avery Brundage brought his audience to’ their feet cheering in an outburst of enthusiasm when he paid tribute to the Reich under Adolf Hitler. He told them: “We can learn much from Germany. We, too, if we wish to preserve our institutions, must stamp out communism.

We, too, must take steps to arrest the decline of patriotism.”

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head of Citizens to Keep America Out of the War, a group now known to have been Nazi-supported.

It came as no great surprise that the only two Jews on the American track and field team, Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman, were mysteriously dropped from the 400meter relay team just before the start of the Berlin games.

No one would argue that the Nazi Olympics weren’t ‘political’. It might also be argued that all of the other Olympiads and indeed all of our big-time sports programs have been political too. Though Brundage has always been very concerned about politics invading sport when fascist countries were threatened with debarrment from the Olympics, he never worried himself unduly at the exclusion of Communist Russia from the Olympics until the 1950’s. And ever since then, it has not been uncommon for the American news media, despite their professed concern that politics should stay outside sport to report the games as if they were a main event of the Cold War contest: America versus Russia.

“Olympics athletes,” writes Alex Natan in his book Sport and Society, “have become soldiers of sport who are indoctrinated with grotesque conceptions of national prestige.”

Today, international competitive sport has become everywhere, whether openly or secretely, a propaganda weapon in world affairs which through the incitement of inherent nationalist instincts points ways and means to new methods of psychological warfare”.

In short, the Olympics has become nationalism in a jockstrap.

But, except in degree, this is hardly something new.

The nationalistic militaristic element has always been present in sport. Indeed, what we call sports evolved historically out of the sort of “blood sports” that provided practice and preparation for battle. Thus, even in the original Greek Olympiads, the sorts of skills emphasised (things like speed of foot and javelin throwing) were the sorts of things thought most useful i-n battle.

So, too, with the gladiator fights of the Roman ampitheatre, the _jousting tournaments of Medieval knights, and even with the rebirth of the Olympics in 1896.

Professor Mandell points out that, though Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, is usually depicted as some sort of saint concerned solely with the welfare of mankind, he was in reality a French jingoist, nursing a grudge against Germany for her victory in the 1870 France-Prussian War. Baron de Coubertin explicitly proclaimed that he saw the Olympics as a badly needed way of reinvigorating French youth, and toughening the nation up for another round with Germany.

A position, incidently, not so different from that of President Kennedy, who saw competitive sports and the Olympics as a good way to build up the ‘national fiber’ for the Cold War with Russia.

A couple of years ago, paraphrasing the Duke of Wellington, the deputy editor of the London Sunday Telegraph, Peregrine Worsthorne, noted that what he called “the race of Imperial Men that built the British Empire” was formed on the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the elite English prep schools. Peter McIntosh in his able book Sport in Society, notes that the militarized games like rugby that gained popularity during the renaissance of British Imperialism in the latter part of the nineteenth century “encouraged just those qualities of co-operation and conformity to the needs of the herd which were so much prized by a middle class which was establishing its power and influence throughout the world”.

In our own increasingly turbulent era, there are many important voices in the athletic establishment who look upon sports almost as a weapon of class warfare. “To me,” said Washington State University football coach Jim Sweeney a couple of years ago, “football and athletics are a fortress that has held the wall

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elements. I look for them to continue to play that same role.” Speaking before a chapter meeting of the American Association of University Professors last year, the University of Tulsa football coach declared that “football prevects comThe rationale for this kind of munism”. thinking was given a few years ago by Homer D. Babbidge, president of the University of Conneticut.

“Our teams and remarked Babbidge to the our players”, National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors, “by and large, are the guys in the white hats-they keep their hair cut short, they’re clean, they’re orderly, aware of the importance of law and order and discipline.

The students and others who come to watch us play are the people who respect tradition and institutional pride...”

“Football is not a democracy,” says University of Pittsburgh grid coach Carl DePasqua.

“There’s nothing to debate.

The players can debate in political science class.”

Syracuse’s Ben Schwartzwalder agrees. H\1! says that, as coach, “you look upon yourself as a kind of benevolent dictator.” back in the days when the jocks at the University of California, Columbia, and a score of other institutions were beating up student demonstrators, there was no great fear that the athletes were ‘political’. Jim Bouton, in his book Ball Four, points out that as long as professional baseball players could be depended upon rabidly to support the Vietnam war, the army, the generals, and the flag, no one in baseball’s establishment -worried about what they were saying or whether it was ‘political’.

In 1970, for the first time in history, the American broadcasting Company (ABC) refused to televise the half-time show of the Holy Cross-Buffalo football game because it was ‘political’.

The Buffalo marching band had scheduled simuiated formations of smoking factories and exploding bombs and would play such ‘controversial’ songs as ‘We Shall Overcome” and “Give Peace a Chance”. A few weeks later, ABC and the NCAA proudly televised the half-time at the army-navy game, complete with a squad of Army Rangers who had just returned from an abortive raid on a North Vietnamese POW camp, and greetings from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Nothing ‘political’ about that.

Similarly, when the two black American trackmen Wayne Collette and Vince Mathews were evicted from the Munich Olympics, many American sportswriters complained that it was because they were trying to make a political demonstration.

This may well be true. But, the fact is that the playing of national anthems at an international sporting event that claims to be above politics is, in itself, a highly political act. The fact was then that Collette and Mathews were thrown out, not for anything they did or didn’t do in the actual Olympic competition, but because their casual behaviour was regarded as an unwarranted ihterference in what amounted to a political demonstration by the international Olympic establishment.

Nor is the Olympic competition itself all that apolitical. Though the actual athletic events themselves be as pure as the driven snow, when you introduce nationalistic tv commentators to root for their national teams, spend millions of dollars on build-up and promotion, fill the stands with thousands and thousands of fans (not to mention the multi-millions of tv watchers around the world), you end up with something which is so overblown that it becomes what the Roman emperors used to call bread and circuses for the masses.

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For a newspaper which seeks to remain nonpartisan, the chevron has some perverted notions of impartiality.

Aside from the snide remarks and misdirected emphasis throughout your coverage of the meeting of the 85 percent Canadian Quota Campaign, about 25 percent of your article is the opinion of Ron Colpitts (and the chevron staff?) In addition there are several factual errors.

Barry Lord did not say that action would be taken only after “everybody” belongs to the quota committee. However it should be obvious, even to the chevron, that any movement needs grass roots support. A larger membership is a means for contacting more people in the commtiity.

Your handling of the Lakehead incident shows inexcusable bias. In an article so highly opinionate&, even the few facts you presented were mostly incorrect.

The person rehired was on the university payroll (but not a teacher). What you forgot to mention was that the president of the university was forced to resign under pressure. You have no right to trivialize our achievements with quotation marks when you must selectively exclude the truth to do it. If you were unclear about these facts, would it have been too much trouble to clear them ujj afterwards?

At least the K-W Record had the courtesy to do that. Or perhaps you could have stayed for the discussion to hear Ron Lambert tell why he is no longer opposed to an 85 percent quota.

I can answer your other criticisms, specifically that we do not address the class nature of Canadian Society and its inherent problems, with two words. So what?

All classes but the sell-outs are oppressed by U.S. imperialism.

Our petition has been received enthusiastically by all patriotic Canadians.

In fact our strongest support comes from the working class. An 85 percent quota of Canadian faculty, in itself, will not win independence for Canada. However it is a necessary step along the road. We have kept our demands simple, so that there is a clear choice. Do you or do you not want Canadian universities?

No attempt has been made to formulate a broad issue of social reform. We have only one issue to agree or disagree on-an 85 percent quota of Canadian professors.

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Letters must be typed on a 32 chara cter line. For legal reasons, letters must besignedwithcpurseyearandphon number. A pseudonym wilt be printed ii you have a good reason.

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al mckeating, math 2a The chevron does not pretend to be non-partisan.

Right now it is a collection of individuals and reflects a number of individual biases. Hopefully the chevron will at some point reflect some coherent collective biases. We do not wish to be non-partisan, ever.

Admittedly 25 per cent of the article was my opinion (which I still feel is valid). I am sorry that i was not more successful in putting forward a coherent political critique that dealt with the committee in a less trite manner. I did not wish to impute that the commit&e was irrelevant but that jt demanded criticism.

I feel that the national question is one of the most important facing Canadian political development and should have written less flippantly.

I do not accept an approach which ~demands uncritical nationalism as a basis for supporl4n fact I consider such an approach as dangerous.

About the Lakehead University incident-what qualitative changes came about because the president resigned?

None. I do not consider that a uictory.

Changing one administrator for another when most are interchangeable anyway does not impress me much.

You say “so what. 3” to my criticisms about your lack of class analysis.

If you see no contradictions stemming from the structure of our econorriic system which cannot be resolved simply by the rejecting of outside ‘involvement in capitalist development in Canada, then I cannot accept that. I see most of the problems we face stemming from “our” economic structure.

Having a small group of Canadians rather than a small group of Americans control my life does not seem to me to be much reason for rejoicing. Capitalism operates on the profit motive (period).

“Patriotic” Canadian capitalists may be nationalistically inclined to avoid American competition rather than to protect their fellow Canadians.

And what kind of Canadian university?

C$e which defines people’s lives, trains them to fit into the system and how to keep others there with them, as Caedian universities do now ? As long as it’s Canadian, its alright?

Do you think that merely changing the instruments of this process from American to Canadian will enable students to develop a critical approach to this society? If you feel this is enough, I do not believe you are trying to make any qualitative changes in our society, but simply promoting vulgar chauvinism.

This will not change peoples lives but will only distract them from dealing with the society in a critical way, as well as restrain them from trying to take control of their political, economic and social environments-and of I their own lives.

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Zap. mastheac country. sit back awhile, light up a cigarette, relax and read another masthead. rher’s no telling what’s going to be in the masthaad these days. there’s hardly any telling that it’ll even make the copy deadline anymore. possibly some one could undertake the writing of the masthead late (and i mean late) Wednesday night. how about any time after 1 :OO a.m.? any takers? anybg@ who writes for this paper can have it. hopefully it can get done before thursday night at 9 p.m. from now on, ‘cause i hear rlimours that this lateness just won’t do; and who the hell wants to get stuck with it at this late hour anyway.....not i. maybe we can do away with the official masthead, which is usually at least as meaningless as this one, and just list the participants. Like Ihrs: ron colpitts, melwing, ellen tolmie, tom mcdonald and his elongated graphics pens, peter Watson who came by to see how 4hings are going, krista tbmory, dudley paul and the unsolved case of tow trucks in the night, david cubberley (a lot of laughs, this kid), tony difranco (what can you say about a guy whose cigarettes keep going out?), grod gord, liz willick, bob yaffee and his discourse on whatever, gorgeous george on fiddles, dennis mcgann at the starting gate, jon mcgill, mike rohatynsky, brlan cere and brute Steele who returned for the dying moments of Wednesday’s deadline, chuck stoody, janet stoody, glen arbeau, Steve izma, brian switzman, terry moore, dave peltz who made it into theoffice about six different times for at least six different things, why-hello-there-Paul stuewe, joanne, ian angus, deanna kaufman, winnie lang, john keyes, renzo bernardini, kati middleton and kim moritsugu (how could we ever forget them?), doug epps, dick mcgill, and likely a cast of thousands that have been just plain forgotten in the long hours since yesterday. We leave you with the following thought: “we were worlds apart before we realized we were in the same world. it was more than just a touch, a caress, that opened our eyes. it was that knowledge of trust held in our mutual silence. And we filled that silence abstractly. Ho hum. the same to you too, buddy. 3030zapglm

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The government of Ontario proudly claims that the intent of the Ontario Student Awards Program (OSAP) is to ostensibly facilitate attendance at post-secondary educational institutions, by anyone who possesses the necessary desire and qualifications to get there. Supposedly no one is to attend a university, community college, teacher’s college etc. for financial reasons. The P.C. ‘s call this their ‘OpenDoor ’ policy.

The recent changes in the government’s financing policies for students provides us with an opportunity to focus attention on some of the less ‘obvious isswes inherent in the existing educational system.

The relationship of education to the economic structure and therefore to the priorities of the Tory government, was a significant factor contributing to the decision to raise tuition and loan-ceiling levels. The real moving forces behind the government’s moves are the desires, and needs of our capitalistic wishes, economic system; not bullshit nambiepambie liberal concerns such as the ‘accassibility’, ‘equitability’, and ‘universality’ of education in Ontario.

The point, it would appear, has been reached-as far as government expenditures on education are concerned-for a reassessment of the relationship of education to the economy.

Actually the reassessment has probably been already carried out. The discussions following the release of the final report of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education (Wright Commission) will give us some idea of the rationale the government will use to explain away its designs for bringing education more in line with the expediences of the market place.

In the meantime, the draft report of the “Wright Commission” and a federal government document called the “Peitchinis Report”, give us some insight into what methods of control are being considered at this time, Among other things the “Wright Report” recommends coordinating boards for the three categories of post-secondary institutions (universities, community colleges and “other inThese boards are to be stitutions”). populated by a government-appointed majority and are to have direct control over such things as which programs get funded, which new programs get developed, where, and by whom, and which programs should be discontinued.

The “Peitchinis Report” priorities board” recommends a “social again made up largely of government (federal) appointees. This board would have the power to put the money where the government’s priorities are.

A quote from a report co-financed by the Department of Labour and Imperial Oil Co. Ltd. clearly illustrates how close the values of the industrial bourgeoisie and the government are linked together :.

“Another difficulty is that-even if the projections are roughly correct insofar as the desire of students or of parents for their children zre concerned, there is still no assurance that the type of students trained will be what the economy requires for production purposes. ”

Both the federal and provincial governments have an overwhelming tendency to view education in terms of the system’s ability to produce persons trained in the skills requires by “private enterprise”.

For those individuals enrolled in programs that don’t necessarily provide them with skills that are in demand by the private sector, the future looks pretty bleak.

Some of the government’s brighter “Backroom boys” obviously understand that a large pool of graduates with expectations of large salaries and interesting jobs might cause problems in the future, if their dreams aren’t fulfilled. From this point of view it would be more advantageous if a good proportion of these people were to join the work force after grade thirteen when their expectations are closer to reality.

In order to accomplish the above as well as to bring the increasing costs of postsecondary education more into line with what they perceive to be it’s real economic value, the government has decided to stabilize enrolment.

The fee increases and the loan-ceiling changes are designed to bring the increasing enrolment figures to a halt. In the Treasury Board’s own words, “limiting enrolment will mainly affect those students entering the system who are the least employable of the 18-24 age group. In terms of 72-73 projection this will reduce the freshman intake by 16,000 and may result in a shift to part-time study.”

The government has the advantage of being able to limit enrolment while still preaching its “open-door policy”. Under the formula-financing system now operating in Ontario the government’s contributions to universities are tied to the enrolment figures. Lower enrolment means decreased costs to the government in the three areas of student awards, operating funds, and capital grants.

At least three Ontario universities (Western, Carleton and Laurentian) are faced with actual enrolments substantially below what they have expected for this term. Waterloo has met its fall projections but is expecting no increase at all for next year. It would appear therefore that the government is succeeding with its plan to stop further increases in enrolment.

What does the future hold? From the information available to us at this time, we can look forward to increasing government control, a relatively stable student population in numerical terms, and more programs directly linked to the specific needs of monopoly capital.

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I Fighting - the fee hike On October 11 and 12, students at U of W and on campuses across Ontario will be voting in a referendum.

The immediate issue that will be put to the students is whether they will take action against the $100 increase in fees and the increase of $200 in the student loan portion of the student aid program.

Regardless of the outcome of the feewitholding vote, it is important for students to educate themselves in regard to the importance of the issues -and to take action accordingly.

There is more at stake than simply a price hike.

According to a confidential document prepared by the Treasury Board secretariat of the Ontario government dated november 1971, it is the intention of the Davis government to hold the line on student enrolment to 18.9 percent of the 18-24 age group and to shift the costs of post secondary education onto the students.

The question that must be asked is why is this happening now? The government has in the past held to a policy of open admissions-any student that qualified

academically. should be financed in his/her post-secondary education.

Now the government is withdrawing from that position and has decided that only some will be allowed to get an education beyond high school.

The answer at its most simplistic level, is that the overall costs of post-secondary education has increased at a faster rate than income revenue.

Student population has tripled during the last 12 years. According to the Canadian department of manpower there were 101,934 university students in 1959-60, while by 1969-70 there were 299,317.

In Ontario alone last year there were 176,000 full time post-secondary students.

On the other hand the Ontario economy grew at a rate of 12 percent during 1963-69, and per capita income at ten percent.

Provincial spending on education went from $261,000,000 in 1961-62 to $1,335,000,000 in 1969-70, an increase of over 400 percent.

While 29 percent of the provincial budget went to education in 1961-62, the figure for 1969-70 was 42 percent.

The reasons for the growth of our school system are obvious. There was a great increase in the school age population resulting from the post-war baby boom (World War II ’ ended with a bang). In addition, it is a fact that education is perceived as an important means to upward-mobility.

It wasn’t just the perceived need of the individuals and their families that induced the growth of post-secondary education.

Economists were quick to supply the quantative evidence that education contributed more to economic growth than other factors.

In the beginning of the 1970’s things began to change. Individuals still perceive higher returns for investing their time and monies in higher education.

On the other hand, corporations went into a business recession and couldn’t handle highly educated graduates. With all the millions of dollars spent on the give-away programs to corporations, we still cannot provide jobs for many Ontarions.

Yet the Conservative government of Bill Davis seems unable or unwilling to take a full-scale attack on the foreign-controlled business community which has, to a large degree, underdeveloped the potential growth of our province.

In 1968, long before David Lewis discovered the “corporate welfare bum”, the Canadian Union of Students warned that the federal and provincial governments’ sell-out of our economy and the maintainance of a regressive tax system would eventually mean that many social services such as education would be curtailed.

Because these positions were described as too radical, The organization was red-baited and eventually smashed, but the problems raised by the English-Canadian student union are now being realized.

Yet our governments are doing next to nil to change these situations.

Rather than attacking the corporate bottleneckers, and increasing potential revenue for funding social services, the provincial government is shifting the cost on to the student.

The unfairness of this approach can be even more readily seen when the job training aspect of education is examined.

Even up to only 20 years ago, the vast majority of manpower training was performed on the job and thus financed by the employing company. Later, the companies were able to shift this cost onto the taxpayer by having the state expand the educational facilities and increase enrolments in postsecondary schools.

In the last few years, through the explosive expansion of the community colleges of applied arts and technology, the skills required by companies have ever been more exactly catered to. In most CAATs, each department has representatives of local business and corporations sit on the curriculum committees to decide what programs will be taught.

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Now, the government has gone even one step further.

Not only are the taxpayers paying for job training for corporations through supporting the schools but .comdirect financial panies can receive assistance for those people that it continues to train on the job.

The question still remains however, of what students can do about it. If we point out that education is a social priority that all capable people can partake in then we should not only fight the fee raise and loan increase, but we should agitate for a reduction of the cost to the individual.

This demand can only make sense if we also state clearly that the provincial and federal governments must overhaul the tax system to make it equitable and begin to retake control of our economy. In that way if a person benefits financially from a university education, h&he will pay for it through higher taxes. If we as Canadians regain control of our ecomomy, we might plan our growth better--certainly it couldn’t get much worse.

Aid programs which shift the cost to students are a farce unless students have a meaningful deciding role in expenditures.

If the government wants to push the line that students should pay for what they get, then it follows that students should be able to decide what they get.

The incredible waste that the taxpayer now has to take up is being further shifted on to students. The graduate library at U of T cost $43 million dollars and it is grossly inadequate in terms of what it was originally planned for. The Robarts library costs seven million dollars to operate which is one million less than the amount the province pays to operate all of the public libraries in Ontario. The students and wage earners of this province have to pay for such follies as a man-made lake costing hundreds of thousands of dollars at Lakehead University because the administration president there wanted one.

Students at the U of W do not have to look very far afield to see this kind of incompetence in financial decision making.

The overpass over University avenue cost $250,000. Physical plant and planning could win the bungler’s award in any competition of Ontario universities.

To take the case one step further, students should take a look at, and maybe should begin to get involved in, deciding the priorities of spending the revenue at our university.

The budget for this year at U of W is about 46 million dollars. Of this, approximately 60 per cent of the money goes to faculty salaries. When this amount is broken down, 57 per cent of the full-time faculty receive over $17,000 a year. This puts them right up in the top 5 per cent of wage earners in Canada. Thirty-nine members of the faculty receive over $30,000 per year. This does not include any additional revenues received for royalties, or research and consultation fees.

Regardless of the outcome of the fee referendum , it will be important for students to share the knowledge that they possess in order to develop programs not just for the problems facing us now, but for future developments.

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