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University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 13, number 24 friday, november 17, 1972

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,A meeting between Electrohome Ltd. and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2345 called by provincially appointed mediator Hal Howell ended tuesday with the parties no closer to reaching agreement. The 2,400-member IBEW went out on a legal strike against the company for the first time in 65 years ‘on november 3 after negotiations failed to bring an agreement on a +new contract. Picketing is underway at all five KW Electrohome locations. Bargaining began in early july of this year with only one offer from the company by late September. Electrohome offered raises of 25 cents per hour for the first year and 19 cents for the second. Top pay for the lowest grades at Electrohome was $2.36 per hour. The offer was rejected. On september 30, the contract expired and the union voted to strike. The provincial government appointed a Howell, who mediator , Hal promptly called a meeting to reopen negotiations. Electrohome then made an offer of a 23-cent first year increase and a al-cent second year increase for the lowest grades of workers with 26 and 28-cent increases for the highest grades. This offer was considered an insult and an attempt to further emphasize the disparity between various grades of workers. The membership again voted to strike-by.923 to 526. There are now two major issues at stake in the dispute. The union is demanding two 35-tent increases across the board and the right to negotiate a contract for the new motor division plant opening in Galt. A number of minor demands have already been granted by the company. Electrohome however, wants to negotiate a separate contract for the Galt plant based on a lower pay scale corresponding to wages in the Galt area. The union hopes to avoid setting a precedent of allowing the company to dodge the union through relocation. Despite the inclement weather, the morale of the strikers is good, and according to shop steward Gene Lambert, “We’re enjoying this strike and that’s the best way the. to pressure on Put He added that the management.” strike has been quiet and the company has locked their doors. “All we can do now is wait for the company to make the next move so we can respond. But, if or when they open the doors up and let scabs in, they’re going to have trouble.” He felt that unlike the Dare strike, professional strikebreakers would probably not be used. “There are 2,400 of us and we won’t be pushed around,” he said. -ron

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WILLOWDALE (CUP)--Dare Foods Ltd. has threatened to prosecute a reporter for the Glendon college student newspaper for an article he wrote about the boycott, against Dare products. Bob Edwards, a fourth year political science student, has been given until november 15 to retract his October 18 story in Pro Tern on the five-month Dare strike. But Edwards says he has been advised he is not violating a court injunction as Dare ,alleges. He is not contemplating any retraction. Dare’s lawyer John Lang sent a registered letter to Edwards and to some members of the striking local 173 of the United Brewery Workers on november 8. It charges Dare has evidence indicating recipients of the letter have been involved in efforts leading to the cancellation of contracts with food store chains. In the letter Lang says, “In my opinion it is unlawful and a breach of the (june 12) injunction to do anything or say anything to any person in an effort to stop persons or corporations from handling products sold by Dare Foods Limited.” Edwards said he considers it a compliment Dare thinks his article had so much influence. But he pointed out it was published after the cancellation of contracts mentioned in Lang’s letter (with A&P, Steinbergs, Dominion and Loblaws >. Legal counsel has also advised Edwards that his implicit

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suggestion that consumers not buy Dare cookies until the company grants a fair settlement to the union and allows the continuation of a union shop does not fall under the constraints of the court injunction. A shopper reading Pro Tern has no contract to buy Dare cookies, counsel advised. Edwards charged Dare is trying to “throw its weight around” and is attempting to break, the union by intimidation. “Dare’s actions are a more blatant version of what every capitalist would like to do. I think that every employer has a latent desire to destroy their union. Dare just thinks it can getaway with it,” he said. Union member Andrew Diamond, who received the same letter, has told his lawyer to write Lang and demand a retraction of the statements in it. His lawyer, Brian Dunn, says the letter posed a threat and as such constitutes an infraction of the criminal code. Dare’s executive vice-president William Thorn said last week he regrets having to take such drastic steps but feels his company must stop people engaged in breaches of the injunction and the “dissemination of false information”. He charged several student newspapers have been printing false and misleading information about the Dare strike but refused to “particularize” or be specific . “We aren’t the bad guys,” Thorn said. “The union has tried its damndest to frighten management and to ~ destroy the whole operation, You are at university, you should know there has to be reason and if there is disregard for reason then there’s no law and order.” Local 173 struck the Dare plant in Kitchener last spring seeking better wages and working conditions. The company responded by hiring strikebreakers to keep operating. The boycott of Dare products is being supported by the Ontario Federation of Labour.

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n Nf d Nearly 1500 students occupied the arts and administration building of Memorial university in St. Johns Newfoundland tuesday protesting the stand taken by the university’s governing body regarding compulsory student fees. The decision, announced last thursday in a press release by administration president Lord Stephen Taylor, would effectively put an end to compulsory collection of fees leaving the student union no means of enforcing payment. The University of Guelph student council attempted to survive on the basis of voluntary fees about three years ago and soon thereafter the union collapsed from lack of funds. Memorial students feel that Taylor and the administration had no right to make this decision unilaterally and without negotiation. They believe the decision ‘as to whether union membership is to be compulsory or voluntary should rest with students, not administration. The administration timed the announcement for the first day of the five-day mid-term break and students had to wait until tuesday Defore they could take constructive action. Their first move was to

organize a general union meeting attended by more than 3000 students-a remarkable number for the usually apathetic campus of 7500 (remarkable for any campus this season). Although a small number of students expressed opposition to the union and the proposal to occupy the administration building, a strong majority voiced discontent with the fee decision and marched to the building to begin the occupation. The students occupied Taylor’s office and awaited his return from an engineering lecture. When he arrived, he was flanked protectively by 15 or 20 engineers, who said they were opposed to the council in its present form, and therefore supported Taylor. With the engineers in his office, Taylor said he would meet with demonstrators two at a time. They refused the arrangement, and Taylor left the building. Negotiations continued with a series of proposals and counterproposals between administrators and students as they attempted to decide how to meet to discuss the situation. Administratiors agreed to meet with a four-man negotiating committee of students, providing the rest of the demonstrators vacated the building. This offer was vociferously refused, and the stalemate continued into the evening, with students prepared to spend the night if necessary. Donuts, coffee, sandwiches, fried chicken and pop were brought in at various intervals to feed the hungry group and with shades of ‘68 a folk-singer led the demonstrators in “Get Together” and “Power to the People”. “Solidarity Forever” had already made the rounds several times. Morale was kept high by a continous series of telegrams and phone calls of support from student unions at Dalhousie, Manitoba, UPEI and the ‘College of Trades and Technology in St. Johns. The local bus drivers union presently on strike against city hall also voiced support for the student action, as did some workers in the administration building itself. There was no immediate action by local police, though at least two plain clothesmen were seen in the area keeping a close watch on the demonstrators. Campus security locked as many rooms as possible under the circumstances but did nothing to oppose the proceedings. The students say they are determined to continue the occupation as long as necessary in order to win their demands.

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Thursday evening, november 9, direct encouragement to the Vincent Ponti provided a lecture construction of many high rise “Montreal; the Multi-Level City”, office towers in the downtown another in the series of planning area, a process that has been sponsored by Enlectures identified as revitalization. Studies. The vironmental But this type of high rise presentation by Ponti was a development has dramatically colourful and slick examination of increased land values in the the re-development of downtown central city area. Higher land Montreal. The focal point of the costs and property taxes are now talk was the construction of beginning to place sudh a burden pedestrian, walkways which upon the residential and small isolated the people from the noise commercial sector that these types and fumes of cars, thus providing a of land uses are now being forced more palatable environment for out of the central city. H’ence, the, those on foot. This is not something residential areas in the city and new, for as Ponti pointed out, the those small esoteric shops that idea had been conceptualized by gave San Francisco its character Leonardo de Vinci. “Skywalks” and appeal are being replaced by have also been constructed in sky scrapers. London and have operated quite It is exactly this process that has successfully. Attractive walkways transformed the downtown area of for, the pedestrian are certainly the New York into nothing but a type of development that is concrete wasteland, a frigid desert required in order to make cities full of nothing but great phallic more appealing for people. symbols. Cafes, shops and But Ponti implicitly suggested residential facilities that have, in that the redevelopment of the the past, brought people into the downtown core was founded upon downtown areas, have been . the construction of sky scrapers rapidly disappearing. and other such symbols of It is the circulation of people that “progress”. This is an idea that makes cities healthy. Anyone who can not be applauded and passed has observed a city realizes that over as easily as the multi-level people are found, not around the walkway concept. high rise section (the area that is Actually, the “redevelopment” out of human proportion and has of Montreal and other major cities extremely unpleasant high winds looks more like the spread of a generated by tall buildings) but in physical disease than the so-called the section of low rise shops and “revitalization” of the downtown restaurants; the very section that core. It is a redevelopment that is is being driven out of the city by based on growth as the basis for the sky scraper and those evaluation. And there is certainly developers who profit from its: much circularity involved in construe tion. Toronto, for arguments concerning the city and example, lives on Yonge St. and its growth. Some argue that ,avoids the sky scraper section current growth trends in the large South of D&d&. Canadian cities are inevitable, even though this growth has actually been consciously encouraged by government programs (such as the Atlantic Regional Development Association). Others argue that in order to provide mass transit, the density of the city must be increased so as to create, through the concentration of people, enough of a traffic problem to rationalize the construction of mass transit. Or, in other words, the problem must be aggravated so that the solution can be applied, which, in turn, usually aggravates Such are the the problem. dialectics of planning. The assumption is, of course, that the growth of the city is inately a desirable thing. It is expected that the growth, realized through the construction of mamoth towers that would make King Kong look underdeveloped, will resolve the dilemma of the central city. It may resolve the dilemma of that small group of highly organized land speculators and developers who breed upon centralized growth, or the factory owners who want a surplus of cheap labourers, but does it solve the dilemma of those who live and work in the city. Let’s look at the practical reality of this so-called revitalization of the downtown core. San Francisco ~ provides a portentous example of the implications of spurious logic. As a result of the completion of the most advanced transit system in the world, (Bay Area Rapid Transit >, the limitations in growth in downtown San Francisco have been decreased. This has been a

Hamilton is another Canadian city that has recently fallen prey to this approach to re-edvelopment. The city ,has just completed a downtown revitalization project “Jackson Square”. The called project ‘consists of a multi-level pedestrian system, a theatre, and a high rise office tower, with more towers planned. What is interesting about this situation is that the people continue to gather and interact in the low rise downtown area that has not yet been demolished. The open space around the high towers, although separated from the wretched automobile, is relatively vacant. Cold winds resulting from the effect that high buildings have on air currents, and lack of human proportion are certainly Contributing - factors. At the same time, by physically centralizing office workers in so few complexes, the! Jackson Square development has aggravr ted the traffic problems that are already only too apparent. This, then, on a micro-level, demonstrates the implications of-- the logic of the existing economic organization of development. In other words, the so-called revitalization of the downtown core ‘outlined by Ponti may actually be nailing the coffin ‘shut. Multi-level -walkways, per se , are an extremely attractive and desirable development. But London is accomplishing the construction ‘of these walkways without the heavy emphasis upon skyscrapers. In fact, London is not begging, but ‘forcing the developers to build multi-level walkways. Therefore, Ponti’s suggestion that these walkways can only be built through trading off other restrictions, such as height limitations on the development, is an erroneous ‘arguement . On the basis of this type of experience, we must, at least, reevaluate the desirability of creating concrete towers that die at five and cities that will a few hours later. -tom

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develop a liaison between trade unionists appointed to such governing bodies by the provincial government, develop a program for them to follow, and create a system of accountability. The government usually names token labour appointees to lend an appearance of representativity to the governing bodies and blunt charges that’ they are dominated by business interests. Organized labour has no power to appoint representatives but they can submit names for consideration to the government. “I’m concerned whether these people are specified by federations of labour councils, or whether they are Liberal or Conservative hacks in the labour movement who get their appointments through political patronage,” John MacMillan, director of organization for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said in an interview. “A lot of investigation needs to be done,” he said. “If these people got on there through political patronage they have no responsibility to report back to labour bodies. Many labour representatives on city councils actually work against labour behind the scenes. ” The OFL convention also called on the Ontario department of education to include “‘in their approval list of textbooks, only those that offer an objective treatment of the contribution trade unions made to the development of society”. Delegates urged local labour councils to continue their efforts to get school boards to change “social study courses to include a more balanced treatment of the subject.” This move followed a report on school texts by the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, called “Teaching Prejudice”, which revealed the prevalence of unfavourable stereotypes in discussions of the labour movements. In dealing with possibly OFL’s most pressing concern, delegates established a task force to press for legislation outlawing strikebreaking in Ontario. The stress was placed on a campaign to win municipal support for the OFL’s demand for legislation by the province. Delegates singled out Richard Grange and his firm Canadian Driver Pool, a selfavowed strikebreaking company, for condemnation. A report presented to the OFL revealed that strikes in which the company employed Grange’s ‘goon squad services’, lasted three times as I long as strikes which did not involve professional strikebreakers.

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OTTAWA(CUP)--The Ontario Federation of Labor voted overwhelmingly to support the Ontario Federation of Students’ campaign against increased tuition fees and decreased student awards, at the OFL annual convention, which ended in Ottawa, november 8. Support for the OFS position by the 1,200 labour union delegates followed an earlier endorsement from the OFL executive and from the Labour Council of metropolitan Toronto. OFL policy calls for the abolition of tuition fees. In its annual presentation to the Ontario government last july, the OFL pointed out that the increase in tuition costs would cause difficulties for a large number of students in this province. OFL secretary-treasurer, Terry Meagher, termed it grossly unfair to expect all citizens to support the cost of institutions of higher learning through the present methods of taxation; yet bar the door of these institutions’ to the children of taxpayers with limited incomes through increased tuition fees. The OFL will ask all its affiliates, through Ontario’s’ fifty labour councils, to support the student unions in their campaign against the higher fee program. The federation also welcomed the OFS effort to give part-time students access to the Ontario Student Awards program. The change would particularly help union members who are trying to upgrade their skills and education through adult education programs. The convention also called for annual meetings of all labour representatives sitting in the governing bodies of Ontario universities and community colleges. The move is designed to

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The Dare workers remain determined to win their strike and to prevent their union from being broken by anti-union management. Workers picketing this week expressed the feeling that “everyone is still willing to stay out for as long as it will take. We plan to continue going from local to local and to consumer groups to press the boycott more.”

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After the third week of the .strike, the union instituted its campaign of boycotting Dare products and picketing businesses which did any service for Dare’s. At various times pickets have appeared at Newtex Cleaners, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Sanderson’s Tire Service, Kresge’s, City Cab, Day and Ross, and Riordan Rentals. Leaflets and buttons urging people not to buy Dare goods have been distributed at local stores. Inaddition, strikers have solicited support from other trade union locals throughout Ontario in order to strengthen the‘ boycott. On September 8, the Ontario Federation of Labour further supported the strikers by asking the 56 labour councils and’ 18,000 locals across the province to participate fully in boycotting Dare products. With the Dare strike committee andthe OFL working together, the boycott has gained the cooperation of some large Ontario food chains. Steinberg’s was the first company to agree not to carry Dare goods after their on-hand stock had been sold. Other retail outlets that have followed suit are Loblaw’s, A&P Weo, Dominion and Highway Market. In the K-W area, Zehr’s, Dutch Boy, Warehouse Market, Central Meat Market and K-Mart (Stratford) continue to carry Dare products. As for transporting Dare biscuits and candies, Dare’s own drivers, Traffix Warehousing Ltd. of Brantford and A&H persist in driving across picket lines at the Kingsway St. plant. - The ’ boycott has become increasingly effective, such that Dare products are now being shipped from the plant in North Surrey, British Columbia, and from the To choose to go on strike has never been Kitchener factory to a distribution centre in an easy decision for most working men and Toronto. As a result, Dare attempted to women. The economic decision for obtain a court injunction in October to halt management is a matter of a fraction of the boycott. Their request, recognized as a their profit margin; for the worker it is a tactic to scare the ’ union and several I decision -involving his very economic organizations with threats of court action, existence. was not granted. The workers realize that Yet there is no replacing the right to while scab labour can be used to keep the strike. The strike has been the means of _ plant producing, a widely supported boycott achieving the 8-hour day, a minimum wage might apply the necessary financial for a decent life and tolerable working pressure to wrest contract improvements. conditions. ‘The right to combine and, if necessary, withhold their labour is the only Latest offer rejected positive freedom open to those who work for Up until the attempt to obtain a court others. injunction halting the boycott, Dare Foods By a vote of 97 per cent on may 27, the management remained intransigent members of United Brewery Workers Local throughout the various bargaining sessions. 173 resoundingly rejected the 25cent hourly On november 2, a mediator from the Ontario wage increase offered to both men and Department of Labour, reported Dare’s women by the management of Dare Foods latest contract offer. The core of the in Kitchener. The company offer left female “agreement” was based on the may 27 offer employees 10 cents an hour less in wage rate on which the workers decided to go out on than male workers; the benevelence and strike. Included in the company’s november generosity of Dare was clearly apparent. In demands were : an ad in the june 10th K-W Record, Dare e there is to be no union shop went so far as to say the settlement offered e there is to be no retroactive pay for the was “a generous one providing wages, fringe benefits and working conditions of period beyond the last contract l the company reserves the right to disciwhich everyone could be proud.” Dare also pline or discharge employees who have been originally offered to make all payments for charged and convicted of offenses (so far, the health plan, unless there is an increase over 40 workers have been charged) over the next two years, then the workers l the union will not discriminate against must make up the difference. those who walked across the picket line, and The issues which formed the core of the the company will not discriminate against union’s demands during the summer were those who stayed on strike equal pay raises-of 40 cents an hour for each l 10 employees will not be rehired, the year of the new contract, an 8-hour day-an names to be released after the union agrees item which many unions secured during the to this condition early 1956’s-and improved working con0 10 employees are to be suspended until ditions. The latter demand was part of the May 1, 1973, the names to be released after union’s list because of the incessant the union agrees to this condition assembly line speed-ups, insensitive l there is to be no negotiation on -these working supervisors and the oppressive points, they being a condition to any heat in the plant. Over 80 per cent of the 377, members of agreement local 173 are women. At the time of the In return for which, the company offered strike; all women were categorized as to withdraw its 38,OOOdollar damages claim, and to increase the original wage offer for “packers” and received $2.26 per hour. female employees by 10 cents in the second At the heart of the strike is not the current year. Also, Dare wanted a relations comunion demands, but the existence of the itself at Dare Foods. The mittee set up which would have a scab union (Hanna Meister) from the strike represent management has made no effort to conceal the union. Dare strikers naturally found the this fact: “It is not a legal requirement and “offer” insulting and completely rejected it. we are determined that it will never be necessary that you have to be a member of a Meanwhile, the various injunctions and union to work for Dare Biscuits.” law suits continue. Early in October the

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As the Dare strike goes into its sixth month with no settlement in sight, both the boycott of Dare products and the legally complex court cases continue. Above, from left to right, are Andy Diamond, plant chairman and chief picket captain, Lou Dautner, international rdpresentative for UBW loca1773, and Albert Gill, local-173 president. Both Diamond and Dautner are included in Dare’s 1.6 million dollar suit against the union and two members of the OH.

company filed a 1.6 million dollar suit against the OFL, local 173 of the UBW, and four labour officials-David Archer, president of the OFL, Terry Meagher, secretary-treasurer of the OFL, Lou Dautner, international representative of the union and Andy Diamond, plant chairman of local 173. The Dare management issued the suit because they said the damages that occurred during the strike were willfully caused by striking union workers. No mention was given of eruptions due to workers’ low wages, an unjust legal system, an arrogant management, an unsupportive city government and a group of strikebreakers. The strikebreakers were involved in the strike during june as they crossed legal picket lines in several attempts to transport Dare goods out of the plant. Dare strikers did not resort to violent means until Dare brought in Canadian Driver Pool, an avowed “strikebreaking” firm which over the last two years has had numerous successes at breaking legal pickets, intimidating union workers and forcing them to unsatisfactory settlements. Out of the prior confrontations with scabs, a number of Dare workers and their supporters have’been arrested and/or charged with various offenses ranging from breaking a court injunction to more serious ones of obstructing and assaulting a police officer.

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Last week saw the first of Dare’s court suits against the union. Dare vice-president William Thorn introduced a two-minute, 8 mm, colour movie, taken by himself, showing picket line violence at the Kitchener plant. Thorn showed the film himself and stopped it several times to identify people in the crowded scenes. Without knowing the persons involved beforehand, it is recognized‘ that identification would have been very difficult since the film was taken from some distance and did not pan in on individuals. This was part of the evidence in Dare’s effort to have five strikers declared in contempt of court.

Company lawyer A. M. Austin, using affidavits filed by Dare representatives, maintained that three of the strikers, Andy Diamond, John Horne and Paul Pugh, had disobeyed court injunctions prohibiting strikers from engaging in mass picketing or interfering with scabs entering or leaving the plant. While he asserted they should be jailed, he asked for “perhaps something less” for Pauline Breen and Tom Scott. The union’s lawyer, Brian Dunn, said applications against four of the strikers should be dismissed because the company failed to notify them of the court order. Dunn stated that the first injunction was not advertised enough and that Diamond, as chief picket captain and plant chairman, would be the only one who knew the significance of the injunction. Dare’s case is specifically harsh and undeserved in Diamond’s case though, because it appears Dare assumes any picket disruptions took place under his orders. Justice Thomas Zuber, considering the seriousness of Dare’s charges and made wary of the credibility of the makers of the Dare affidavits, said he-preferred to hear evidence from -witnesses and remanded the case until december 18. Still to come is the union’s law suit against Dare Foods, set for january 26. The present situation finds production tapering off at the Dare plant., Scabs who have quit say that the warehouse is “crammed with cookies in nearly every available space.” The impact of dwindling contracts has caused Dare’s to lay off 50 scabs in the past two weeks, so that 156 people are now employed for both shifts. The boycott continues to -gain strength . throughout Ontario. Messages of support for local 173 come from as far away as New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the U.S. and from Quebec. Additional fortification was given recently when the international of United Brewery Workers gave “further unconditional support for another six months.” Support the boycott. Don’t buy Dare products. -gord

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The recent dissolution of the organization followed elections for the chairmanship which were marred by irregularities. Odette Thomas, who won the election, was disqualified for spending more G I than the $200 permitted by the CCP regulations. Tom Skilman, who gathered less than half Thomas’ vote, was declared counci’ elected A threatened withdrawal by the Ontario Veterinary College (part of U of G) was staved off amidst rumored possible withdrawals by three other colleges. Under GUELPH (CUP)-The student Skilman’s direction, the CCP then -voted to dissolve itself and council at the university of Guelph has voted itself out of existence establish a six-member steering committee to draft a new conand established a steering comstitution and administer the CCP’s ’ mittee to form a new body. The prior commitments. move was just the latest in the bizarre series of events which has The CCP was originally formed about three years ago after the marked the history of student collapse of the U of G Student unionism on the Guelph campus. The council wasn’t really a Union Council. The union council council at all, but a collection fell apart when it tried to become of college student council an incorporated body. With adcame representatives who ministration pressure being levied together to form the Committee of over radicalism on the Founcil, the College Presidents (CCP) at the provincial government refused to central university level. All CCP allow compulsory fees collection. members were appointed by local Under a system of voluntary college councils. Only the chairstudent fees, the council lost its financial base, and after trying to man-was directly elected by the students and he had no vote on the stay alive for a short period,.finally committee. collapsed.

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0-Pirg petition grows Last week the Ontario Public Interest Research Group petitioned on campus. Of- the students solicited by 0-pirg volunteers, 96 percent signed the petition. To date, approximately 2500 signatures have been returned and more continue to flow into the office in social sciences 356. The petitioning will continue next as 8000 signatures are‘ week, needed to establish centralized university collection of student funding. Essentially the petition asks the university board of governors to increase the student fee by three dollars to support 0-pirg on campus. The fee is to be refundable to those who do not wish to support the group’s work. The Nader-inspired student group began its petitioning campaign with insufficient volunteers to reach everyone on campus. They found that their main problem was not lack of support, but scarcity of student petitioners. If 0-pirg members are successful with the petition, they will begin using the techniques of Ralph, Nader’s consumer groups in an effort to bring about necessary change in the areas of studentcitizen-consumer concern. A fulltime professional staff would be

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hired to work for and with students to provide a basis for responsible action through comprehensive research. Student-funded and directed, Opirg hopes to serve many important purposes. Governmental, administrative, and corporate decisions based on vested interests will be examined. Through involvement in community affairs, it is hoped, students will be able to better understand their roles and responsibilities in the broader community. The UW group has already begun to push for similar groups on other campuses. On monday, 0-pirg will meet to re-organize the petitioning ‘campaign. All students who are interested in becoming involved are asked to meet at the modern languages coffee shop at 7 pm. Speakers will be present to describe 0-pirg’s ’ methods and help new students become acquainted with the concerns that 0-pirg is now dealing with. -kathy

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The United Farm Workers have won a referendum vote in the state of California which could have stripped them of almost all rights to organize farm labour. With of Democratic the support congressmen and the California Council of Churches, the initiative was defeated by 4,554,600 to 3,317,ooo.

The initiative, which if passed, would immediately have become law, was promulgated by the Farm Bureau, a national organization of farm owners; the big local growers and rich conglomerates. An extensive media campaign on their , part pushed the issue, labelled proposition 22, as a bill to protect farmworkers rights; although it would have made illegal any union election in which over half the voters were migrants. It would have established a double standard for strikes: farm workers would face criminal charges, but owners would be subject to only civil proceedings. In addition, it would ,have outlawed all agricultural strikes and secondary boycotts, the only effective means by which farm workers can put pressure on California’s huge agri-business complex. The UFW is the group which conducted the international boycott against California grapes in a successful attempt to obtain collective bargaining rights for underpaid, overworked farm laborers, many of them spanishspeaking immigrants from Mexico. The union is currently sponsoring a similar boycott of lettuce in a push for decent working conditions and fair wages. For more mformation on the lettuce boycott, see last week’s Farm Workers feature. As was pointed out there, there is no excuse for 15 per cent of the farm workers showing symptoms of pesticide poisoning. There is no excuse for California farm workers having an occupational disease rate twice the rate for all other industries combined. There is no excuse for the lack of proper sanitation in the fields. There is no excuse for the fact that the life expectancy of farm workers is 49 years. The United Farm Workers are working hard to change these statistics. Apparently they have the approval of the people of California to continue the struggle against the exploitation of corporate agribusiness of its workers.

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Home grown talent For four days last weekend, the Waterloo Motor Inn was filled with booking and talent agents from various parts of Canada, representatives of recording companies and student delegates from campuses from Thunder Bay to Halifax. The occasion was the annual Canadian Entertainment Conference, and this year it was bigger than ever. With Canadian talent coming into a more prominent position on _ radio air time and at concerts, the entertainment conference has become a major event for promoting Canadian talent. This year, more than 40 groups were represented, the majority fro.m Toronto. Music ranged from the country rock of Valdy to the jazz of the Moe the Kaufman Quintet, to progressive rock of a group call@

Breathless. Ray Materick was there, as well as John Hartford and the Earl Scruggs Review, the Downchild Blues Band, Leigh Ashford and Tobi Lark. In fact, the list included almost every Canadian performer who has ever recorded out of Toronto. The conference was not all entertainment. Afternoon workshops were held, for tale& agents and booking companies to discuss business arrangements, promotion tours and concerts, how to maximize a group’s potential and how to promote Canadian talent-, all with the central theme of how to make the most money from a group. Each evening, a showcase of Canadian talent featuring about ten acts a night took place, with the last performances in the early morning hours of the next day. Each act played a 30 to 45minute set. The stage was constantly cluttered as each group had their equipment on stage at least an act ahead of their own. Acts went smoothly because groups were selling their act-not just playing’ to an audience of students, but to the people who can make life tough or easy for a group. Each act was introduced with the agent representing them and his room number. It is unfortunate that the general ,public was not invited to the showcases although those who knew about it came to witness just what Canadian talent exists and how it is promoted. Perhaps they realized that it is less Canadian talent per se that is to be worried about, than the promotion of that talent-the important step to recognitioh. This year, for the first time,

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Monday dope talk john Hartford fiddles and tries to convince promoters that his talents are worth selling at the Canadian Entertainment Conference held in Waterloo this weekend.

campus radio stations were invited to the conference, thus involving more students. Workshops were held on commercial versus campus radio, and the philosophies of campus stations and who they should be serving. Representatives of the Canadian recording industry and record companies discussed their roles in providing Canadian talent to the stations. Licensing of campus radio stations was also discussed with representatives of the Canadian Radio and Television

Commission, to establish the feasibility of campus stations being awarded F.M. licenses. During the conference, an association called Canadian Campus Radio was formed, replacing the now defunct Ontario Association of Campus Broadcasters. Through this association a tape exchange has been set up and it is hoped that this will form the basis for a campus radio news service, serving all Canadian camnus ---.------ _ -----Jr -- stations. --randy hannigan 1

The Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario has conducted one of the first scientific, long-term studies on the effects on human subjects of the killer weed, marihuana. Several male subjects were sequestered away from the rest of society for 14 weeks, making belts and smoking dope, under strict supervision. The results of the preliminary studies, not yet reported in the scientific literature, will be discussed by Dr. William Miles, the director of the experiment, in AL 105 at 7 gm on tuesday , november 21. Anyone interested in the latest findings on everyone’s favorite escape from reality is invited to attend.

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ew magazines in the United States deal with capitalism or ecology in the fashion of World magazine. Its editors think of their publication as being unique-a magazine drawn along the lines Review yet far more of Saturday politically vocal in a “world sense”. Their central editorial idea is aligned with people’s thinking of themselves as “members of a human race now dependent on the same earth life-support system.” They are also convinced that “new world institutions must be created to protect such things as people’s lives’ their values, property, culture and environment.” In a recent issue of World, an American economist attempted to “forecast the future of capitalism,” and at times succeeded in superficially touching the ecological implications involved. The essential argument used is that “the two most cogent predictions with regard to the future of capitalism have both been tried and found wanting.” As an established institutional economist, Professor Robert Heilbroner sketches the obstacles to be overcome by capitalism, all the while arguing in support of increased centralization and corporate ownership of property. In referring to the first of the “two most cogent predictions”, Heilbroner opens with a very brief examination of why capitalism is “not an inherently selfdestructive social order.” No mention is given to the squandering of physical and and the equally human resoures, destruction significant ecological produced by such a social order. Heilbroner quickly brushes aside any valid analysis of his controversial “When the storm of fascism statement: has passed, capitalism re-emerged in excellent health, as witness the post World War II histories of West Germany system did and Japan. . .The economic not collapse, but instead the combined economic and technological pressures of an expansive system. . . contracted the numbers of the proletariat, opening the way for many to join the ranks of whitecollar workers.” By supporting the second prediction of the future of capitalism, which was supposed to have been “tried and found wanting”, Heilbroner makes clear his own ideological inclinations. He is a firm believer in capitalism’s ability to “continue its impressive record of economic growth. ” In addition, he maintains that capitalism can improve the distribution of income and the provision of social services. To achieve such equalization and humaneness, Heilbroner limply suggests that maybe the obsolete priveleges of inherited wealth should be altered and that powerful vested (economic and political) interests could be reconciled with ‘ ‘ needed social policies”. From such statements it is plain that Heilbroner is unwilling to go to the roots of the problemthat these ends will not be realized in a non-exploitive and enlightened fashion unless social reconstruction occurs first.

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Heilbroner rightly points to another symptom of the existing system. This has to do with government collusion in attending to the interests of the economic ruling class, and Western governments’ intervention to “maintain capitalism as a system in good working order.” But this behavior is given little heed since it is Heilbroner’s clear intention to prophecize on the future of capitalism by extending the existing doctrine. And his decisive revelation is this : “....due to the development of social purpose, as opposed to ‘social fatalism’, there now exists the necessary stimulus to fight for the eventual attainment of a good society, be it capitalist or socialist.” His terminology as a “noted economist” is directed towards achieving economic success in order to guarantee social harmony. A “good society”?-good for whom? Does not the attainment of a “good capitalist or socialist society” still

century market relationships, involving private ownership and periodical government control under the auspices of capitalism, have reduced the planet to a resource for exploitation, sometimes converting vast continental areas into factories. As a result, what now confronts us are long-lived toxic and mutagenic agents such as radioactive isotopes and chlorinated hydrocarbons. In addition, and no less alarming, is the mounting accumulation of non-degradable wastes, lead residues, pesticide residues, toxic additives to food, destructive thermal pollution and carbon dioxide pollution. The ecological crisis is further sustained by extensive scarring of the earth as a result of mining operations, lumbering and real estate speculation, and compounded by increasing chronic urban stresses due to congestion, noise and mass living. Modern society, especially as we

use the maxim ‘Production for the sake of production ‘? In the few decades since World War II, the result of such thinking is that the earth has been despoiled on a scale that is unprecedented in the history of human habitation. At the roots of Heilbroner’s analysis and forecast lies’the coercive and dominative basis of modern society. The notion remaining, which emerges directly from the domination of man by man, is that man must dominate nature. Ancient examples of human parasitism were essentially local in scope - examples of man’s potential for destruction. Human parasitism, today, disrupts not only the atmosphere, climate, water resources, soil, flora, and fauna of a region; it upsets virtually all the basic cycles of nature and threatens to undermine environmental stability on a world-wide scale. Twentieth

know it in the United States and Europe, is being increasingly organized around immense urban belts at one terminal, a highly industrialized agribusiness at the other terminal; capping both is a swollen, anonymous state apparatus. The burden this type of urbanized and centralized society places on any continental area is enormous. The liberal expressions for such vast urban development are “growth” and “industrial s,ociety”. Yet even Heilbroner recognized in his article that “enormous economic change has taken place and social harmony has not resulted. Economic growth, in other words, did not prove the great solvent for social difficulties . . . . Indeed, growth has brought new problems, environmental and other.” This “growth” has produced a “consumer society”, in which needs are

tailored by the mass media to create a public demand for utterly useless commodities. This liberal tendency to identify the market place with “human needs” and capital with technology in turn neutralizes the social thrust of the ecological crisis. But Heilbroner finds a challenge to all this - “the challenge of rising affluence.” As he puts it: “Economic well-being, however little it speaks to the question of social harmony and content, assuredly does bring one consequence: the ability of those who enjoy some degree of affluence to withstand the pressures (such as monotonous and unrewarding labour) which underlie the smooth operations of all capitalistic systems.” All the while, Heilbroner appears blind to the waste produced by “affluence” and the shredding of ecological links vital to human survival. An article written in 1970 by Murray Bookchin, entitled “Toward an Ecological Solution”, places the ecological problem in a short perspective: “Within the next 5 years, lumber production may increase an overall 20 per cent; the output of paper, 5 per cent annually; folding boxes, 3 per cent annually; plastics (which currently form 1 to 2 per cent of U.S. municipal wastes), 7 per cent annually. Collectively, these industries account for the most serious pollutants in the environment.. . .The only question is can the earth survive its looting long enough for man to replace the current social system with a humanistic, ecologically oriented society.” As “growth” continues and wasteful enterprises advance in the market place, modern society remains in awe of the economic complexity that surrounds, controls and dominates them. As Heilbroner understands it, this is simply accepted as given in the “fight for the eventual attainment of a good society.” Undoubtedly Heilbroner mistakenly grants that modern society must consist of property, production for the sake of production, competition, capital accumulation, exploitation, centralization and bureaucracy. Bookchin, who believes that the ecological crisis has reached the critical stage in man’s existence, properly asserts that we should not resign ourselves to such thinking. “Propertied society, domination, hierarchy and the state, in all their forms, are utterly incompatible with the survival of the biosphere. Either ecology action is revolutionary action or it is nothing at all. Any attempt to reform a social order that by its very nature pits humanity against all the forces of life is a gross deception and serves merely as a safety valve for established institutions.” From this thinking we should realize that arguments such as Heilbroner’s, outlining the hurdles to be leaped by capitalism, serve nothing but to sustain and aggravate the existing ecological crisis. For in the final analysis, it is fundamental that imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has created in the social world. -gord

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0-PIRG general meeting. All people interested in 0-PI’RG are asked to attend. The petition results will be discussed and a speaker will talk on OPIRG’s progress to date. 7 pm ML coffee shop.

Nigerian Weekend. Nigerian display. Continuous film and shows. 10 am AL212.

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.Nigerian Weekend. Lecture on Nigerian Modern izat ion with Dr Ukandi Damashi, Princeton University. Also films on Nigeria. 8 pm AL124. Some refreshments will be served. Free yoga class. 8 pm CCllO. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

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Waterloo Jewish Students organization Hillel games night. Cards, Scrabble, chess, group games, etc. Refreshments served. 8 pm CC113.

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TUESDAY Chess Club meeting and start of Canadian Federation of Chess players rated tournament. Everyone interested is welcome to attend. 7: 30 pm CCllO. Fine Arts Guild meets with all students of Fine Arts interested in discussing topics of concern and to help to determine future directions for the Fine Arts Guild. 1 pm HUM174. Free yoga class. 8 : 30-9 : 30 am physed corn batrves room. Sponsored by Ananada Marga Yoga Society. inaugural meeting. Climbing Club Anyone interested in joining is welcome. 8 pm CHEM I 251.

Red Cross Blood donor clinic sponsored by Circle K Club. Please ‘give blood and support your faculty in winning the Blood Bowl trophy. loll : 30 am and l-4:30 pm. 3rd floor Math lounge MC3002. Free yoga class. 8: 30-9: 30 am physed combatives room. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

THURSDAY Novemberfest Bavarian beer night with Romeros. 8:30 pm food services. Admission 50 cents engineers and chicks; $1 federation members; $1.50 non-federation members. Sponsored by Engineering Society ‘A’ Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30 am phsyed combatives room. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society. BaHai’s on campus-fireside. SSc355. All are welcome. formation call 745-8097.

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Waterloo Christian fellowship supper meeting. We offer food for stomach and thought and good fellowship besides. All are welcome. 5:45 pm CC113. Students Wives Club. Mr. J. Silaschi, president of the Home Builders Assn. will be speaking on what to look for when buying a home. All students wives are welcome. 8 pm E4-4362.

Student Liberal Meeting. Future directions and plans for the upcoming regional policy conference will be discussed. Everyone welcome. 2 :30 pm SSc351.

Psycho Winology with cheese presented by the Psychology Society. Psychology undergrads, grads, and professors welcome. 3-6 faculty lounge humanities.

Religious studies open lecture. Topic: Ideology. Speaker is Dr George Grant, McMaster University. 3:30 pm ELlOl.

A special presentation of works choreographed by company members. 11:30 am Theatre of Arts.

Red Cross Blood donor clinic sponsored by Circle K Club. Please give blood and support your faculty In winning the Blood Bowl trophy. lo11:30 am and l-4:30 pm. 3rd floor Math lounge MC3002.

Canadian studies lecture series. Topic: “Religion in Canada”. Speaker John Moir of History Dept. U of Toronto. Everyone welcome. 7-9 pm. BIO I room 271.

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Weekly meeting of the University of Waterloo Christian Science informal group. Discussion and experiences related to the practical value of an understanding of God. 3:30 pm HUM151.

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to the steering committee of student loan officials from the provincial and federal governments. The brief attacked the recent changes in the loan regulations, as well as some of the original regulations. The changes included a demand that students save ‘a certain amount of money over the summer, and the compulsory mclusion of photostats of- the student’s T-l tax return form, birth certificate, and social insurance number with a loan application. The brief questioned the reasoning behind these government moves. < Finance Minister John Turner has claimed in a letter to the vice-

verification of date would, in my view, be an irresponsible use of the taxpayer’s money.” The BCASU brief claims the federal government has offered no figures to justify the changes. It says any extra costs could result only from interest payment on the portion of loans gained by the submission of false information ; by the extra administrative cost involved; and by unpaid loans originally. gained by the submission of false information. The brief,also says the reference to the 75 percent is irrelevant because it refers to Quebec which does not fall under the Canada Student Loan Act. Because the Canada student loan application is a legal document and can be used as evidence under the ‘Canada Evidence Act, the required photostated material is unnecessary, the BCASU says. The students also term it discriminatory because other federally guaranteed loans do not require all these documents. Photostats are just as easily falsified as written statements because no cross-referencing is permitted the Department of

this program over the past seven years has indicated that unsubstantiated data submitted by applicants cannot be relied upon.” He said that “...it had been discovered that false information on application forms was being submitted by some 25 percent of the applicants (in the case of one province 75 percent) .” He coneluded “.. .to fail to require

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Girl required to share furnished apartment with same from january to april. Rent quite reasonable (negotiable). Very close to campus. No rules. Call 884-1047 collect., Two girls or couple to share large room. in new townhouse. January to April 1973. Lakeshore Village. Share all expenses. Phone 884-1894. Two double rooms with kitchen and bathroom facilities for male students january to april. Separate entrance, parking. Apply 91 Blythwood Road or phone 885-0914. Attention co-op students 3 bedroom townehouse for rent. May to august 1973. Cheaper than residence, close to university. 884-7922. , Two bedroom sublet january

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requesting that applicants specify their existing financial support. The number of student loan applications at the University of British Columbia has dropped by some 50 percent this year. Meanwhile, the same trend is being experienced across Canada because many students are not returning to school. Many of the ones who are come from higher income families. Department of Finance statistics show the total number of loans granted last year decreased by 7,314 from 1970-71. A total of $91,839,573, a decrease of $221,786, was awarded to some 128,585 students. The year before (70-71) some $92,061,359 was awarded to 135,879 students. Since the ’ plan began in 1964, about 800,000 students have received about $490.4 million.

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Finance under law. The BCASU brief attacks the regulations on financial independence, as being unrealistic. Under present regulations a student must be at least 21 (25 in some provinces) and have been employed fulltime for 12 consecutive months to be considered ’ independent, or have successfully completed four consecutive years of postsecondary education, or be I married f (It would thus be possible for someone to be declared dependent on his parents if he was 35 and hadi been living independently for 15 years but had never worked for a consecutive 12 month period. The BCASU brief suggests the provincial age of majority to be the sole factor in determining independence, because it is the student who is liable for the repayment of the loan. -The brief also suggests the elimination of the summer earning chart in favor of the old method

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Thoughts & music by MSCB 4:66 pm Planning lecture 5: 60 pm Peoples music 6:~) pm Waterloo at dusk 6:45 pm BBC world report 7: 66 pm Drugs & society symposium part three 8:oo pm BBC dateline london S:SO pm Words on music 9:66 pm Record review, Paul Stuewe JZ George Kaufman 16: 00 pm Subterranean circus.

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Two comments re: letters last week. First, the letter about beer in campus pubs. Labatt’s ‘monopoly’ results from three factors which come to mind (it’s years since I worked a bar here, but I’ve slung many a beer across the campus centre counter >. We originally carried Molson’s, Labatt’s, Carlings, Formosa (even). Well over 56 per cent-and I think I’m being conservativewanted Labatt’s and bitched when it wasn’t there. It happened back then (I forget the circumstances) that the salesman from Labatt’s was a lot more willing to do whatever he could to help us hold pubs than were the others (I know he’s paid to do so, but so were the others ! > I doubt that there are many people left around who remember trying to handle six or eight different kinds of beer in a CC pub, but if you ever meet one, I think he’ll agree with you that it’s a bitch (so is having customers piss on you for not having their pet brand, particularly when the bartender has no control over choices anyway). Handling one ale and one lager is bad enough. If a pub organizer wants other than Labatt’s, all he need do is specify his choice of brand(s) . When nothing is specified, Labatt’s is chosen, primarily to minimize customer bitching. Quite frankly, I’d sooner see Whitbread’s, Bass and McEwen’s. Now, about the letter about milk-does Nigel Burnett (and the rest of you) realize the much more frightening implication of an 8 oz. half-pint of milk (as opposed to 10 oz. >? .. .Right-it ain’t one of oursit’s one of theirs! It seems to me definitely characteristic of the whole U.S. thing that, having long ago broken away from British rule and British everything, they chose to define a liquid measure 20 per cent smaller than, yet having the same name as the original. So it isn’t just inflation, is it-it’s one more sign of creeping U.S. imperialism. So bitch

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Further on the x Fox fest After .perusing George Turzanski’s pompous and pretentious “review” of the Fox film festival in last week’s chevron, I must comment. To merely state that I, personally; disagree with many of his self-important declarations about the relative “goodness” or “badness” of individual films would only serve to compound his silliness.

And his elitist put-down of the “common” film-goers (i.e., not himself or his “fellow film enthusiasts”) was hard to swallow. Perhaps someone who appreciated a movie he did not would write a “review” of the way he kept walking up and down the aisles to and from the lobby while “reviewing” other customers. That “demur” scruples humane

he should choose to (object on the grounds of > Russell’s “forceful and manner” of directing The Devils because vulgarity “has no place in what was an act of enormous faith” betrays a lack of historical knowledge of the events Russell was portraying. If he thinks the witch trials of that period of France’s history were “acts of enormous faith” and not poli tic al-sexual circuses, he should do some reading. And to dismiss the film as “undesirable” (despite the fact that it drew above-average attendance in its second appearance in this town) is without grounds other than pseudointellectual arrogance due to the fact that it is fashionable among critics to snub Russell. And to discuss The Conformist in terms of “homosexuality as a breeding ground for fascism” is an absurd and insensitive summary of that powerful film. I could similarlytackle most of the films so glibly capsulized by Turzanski, but-as I stated-it would only be another futile exercise. Suffice it to register a vote against turning Turzanski loose on film reviews for a few months while he catches up on his reading and takes time out to actually converse with a few “common” film-goers. a chevron

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Serbo- , Croation offered Siide show There will be a slide presentation held in arts lecture 12jl at 3 pm on friday by the grad planners who went to northern Manitoba for their field trip. After sorting out over 3,696 slides the group picked out the best for presentation. Included will be a sunrise over Hudson’s Bay, polar bears at fifty feet, miles and miles of railway tracks, sunsets from Transair’s Golden Route to Thompson, our northern seaport at Churchill, Canada’s missile range, mines, houses, trees, people we may or may not know, and others. The showing is well worth the free cost of attending for anyone who is interested in the north. Ako for others who want to go north, but don’t have the money for the trip, or still want to stay here in the Waterloo banana belt-here is your only opportunity for the best ,j. ,_... ,“__.... iofk /both . . worlds.

Winter term will see the introduction of a second South Slavic language at the University of Waterloo on an evening, non-credit basis. Currently Slovene is being taught, and Serbo-Croatian is scheduled to start monday, january 8. Two graduate students in the Germanic-Slavic department, Nikola Bogdanovic and Dusan Mirkovic, will teach the courses. Serbo-Croatian 101 (beginners) will. be given once a week for ten weeks, Wednesdays from 7-16 pm, Serbo-Croatian (advanced conversation) will be twice a week for ten weeks, mondays and thursdays from 7-9 pm. Rooms for both classes have yet to be announced, and the hours are subject to change if they prove inconvenient to enough students. Although there is already sufficient enrolment for both 101 and 251, interested students are welcome to join the classes. They may pick up enrolment forms from Nikola Bogdanovic, ML 316, or from the Germanic-Slavic secretary, ML 214. There will be no fee for the courses, which are not officially ’ sponsored by any university department.

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fbrtunately, the shortcon event such as this do not mayor, but rather the Canadian-sport in general. the impact of a Montrea groups of people: “For me, the lesson fror that the games cannot COI up to this point. They are community, far to unmai number of people that hav they are far too nlnf manipulators and stratel the people who have-powc on the ‘outs’ as in the ca: “When the eyes of the v becomes a very valuable wants to use it, and sport in the process. “The Montreal situatio reinforces the need to c( solution for these games. considerations and th sideratiohs -which one u looking at the future of titularly Quebecwere sideration in the decision Games for Montreal in 1 “Certainly the people u the responsibility for thes their legacy for sport in really consulted by Jear barked, during Expo yeaI man-mission* to bring t Essentially Drapeau, as I trip and the delegates of t Committee (IOC), who art good time and a chance grow bigger and bigger ev argument. “Drapeau got the gamt he was able to wine, bril: delegates at the 1967 Ex newspapers at that time, : every member of the I pleasurable week in Mor “Secondly, the politirs rnajority of the countries United States get the SUI centennial in 1976, and would run in oppositio: seemed a good bet to get siderations were never re: awarding those games tc “Sport can only thrive i harmony with the comm and doesn’t fold up unreasonable demands j believe the Olympic ca

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November 1972 is almost the same as any other november in the minds of Canadians. Time, perhaps, to go to the last few football games in raw, autumn weather; but if the out-of-doors seem too ha&h, then a warm arinchair, cold beer and a videoversion of hockey provides a comfortable alternative. All is not the &me though; the summer which has just expired has done much to bring the world of sport toward reality in a manner not easily ignored. The Russian hockey team served as a sobering cold-splash on faces which shouted of _ Canadian world supremacy. Now hockey fights in Canada will have to produce a bit more quality to satisfy the recently-educated followers. An axe swung by the Palestinian guerillas in \ Munich added the final .blow which toppled the overgrown myth of ‘sport sacredness’; no longer under that shadow, Canadians can view sport in all its impure lights. The spirit of peace udder which the Olympics has existed was questioned long ago, but the brutal slaying of hundreds of students prior to the mexico event brought to direct light the extent to which governments extend themselves to ensure the noninterruption of this ‘peace festival’. The tiellpublicized ‘Munich massacre’ sets the stage for the 1976 ver!%on with the question, “can Montreal top this?” Mayor Jean Drapeau, fresh from his Expo ‘67 world party, will now try his hand at a world gettogether of another variety, but this may prove more difficult than the world’s fair. Drapeau was invited to a symposium On ‘Politics and the Olympic G&es’ hosted by Queen’s university, but did not attend. Present at the discussion, among others was former track and field competitor Bruce Kidd who is now a political science instruct& at the University of Toronto. Another student of political science, Abigail Hoffman, herself an Olympic competitor, also spoke before the small gathering. ’ Hoffman introduced the topic by statitig that the Olympic Games were never devoid of political significance despite constant claims to the opposite. She developed this further stating: “What has developed over the last few Olympics is what I believe to be a myth-the myth that it is possible to have an Olympic Games without there being all kinds of political issues raised. It is my contention that the games have always been political both in the modern version, since 1896, and the games in antiquity. “Mottos like, ‘winning isn’t the important thing, but just taking part’, are part of the mythical structure of the Olympic. Games. They have nothing to do with ihe actual conduct of the games. “If we look at the Olympic Games in Greece and in Rome, there are a number of political connections we can-make. F(irst of all the importance of nationalism. “Nationalism in sport is by no means a new phenomenon. If we look at the Grecian games, we can see how important the rivalry was between city states. Winning was critically important. If someone won an Olympic victory, they would certainly be materidly very well oti for the rest of their life. “It is interesting to note that in those ancient games there were rio records kept of anyone finishing worse than first, re-emphasizing the importance of winning ‘in those days. The winners almost achieved the status of deities. That city state rivalry is the same thing we see today in our I nationalism, par titularly between capitalistic countries and those communistic.

“We &ink fair play was the order of the day in the ancient games, but if you read accounts of these games, you can see that deception of all kinds took place which would make today’& activities seem to be child’s play in comparison. The desire for victory was utmost. “Baron de Coubertin, who revived the Olympic Games as a young man, was very concerned about the ability of France to withstand aggression from Germany. He saw that the English school system combined physical and intellectual ideals while France emphasized only intellectual pursuits. He thought, by reviving the games, ‘Frenchmen would be ashamed at their physical ineptitude. “The games from that point became more and more infuse@ with nationalistic tendencies. By the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the games were devoted exclusively to a festival demonstrating to the world the superiority, importance ?nd significance of German national socialism. They were staged in a theatrical sense to prove to the world that the Nazi system produces superior athletes. “It then became a political festival by the addition of many pageantries, including the Olympic torch ceremony which has now become a custom. Added as well were art and music festivals to present the significance of German culture at that time. A German film-maker produced an excellent propaganda film on the games. Given the ceremonial aspect of the games, it became impossible after that time to have an apolitical Olympics. W,e’ve been past the point of no return. “Its interesting to compare the Munich ‘72 games to the one in Berlin. This time they tried to was trying to impresent a contrast -Germany press upon the world that they had changed in the elapsed 36 years. “We, in Canada, also justify our poor performances on a political basis, we say its okay th& we didn’t do so well; that just proves that there is no compulsion in our culture. People can do whatever theu want, they can be mediocre if they want. Canadians don’t have to worry about being sent to Siberia if they don’t do very well.

“There is another level of political usage of the games not related to a country’s love of performance, but countries or individuals who use the Olympic games as a sort of theatre in which they can play a role Gn the Olympic stage. “The Arab guerillas chose the Olympic Games as a stage on which to take an agressive act against Israel. They ‘knew th_e attention of the world during those three weeks was on Munich, so this was the ideal stage for them to make their pitch to the world. Similarly Mexico City and Munich to a lesser extent, was the case with black power demonstrations by American athletes. .“The Olympi(c Games has also been used as a time for demonstration by dissident groups within the countries themselves as happened in Mexico City when ovef 300 students were shot a few days before the games opened. This fact was not adequately covered by the media in Mexico City. “The press and television people can manipulate and pervert what actually happens in the Olympic Games by being selective and discriminatory in their coverage. The media people themselves are propagandists. “There are two Olympic festivals taking place simultaneously, the athletic contests (and along with these are the people watching)-those people are there as a part of the stage, the hands, the actors and part of the props. Then there is .the political festival, and those are the games that are put on television. “I’m not too sure that there is any way we can get away from that, but thereis one set of Olympics for the athletes while those other people promote the gsimes in order to make the stage available for political statements. “I feel that the games are totally infused with activities of various kind6 and I’m not particularly optimis’tic of successfully separating the sport from the politics.” Given the political significance a?d world wide impact of the Olympic Games, it is no wonder that mayor Drapeau found it appropriate to jump on the bandwagon-such is his style. Un-

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Igs of hosting a gala directly affect the good guebec taxpayer and iruce Kidd spoke about llympics on these two the Munich Olympics is inue as they have gone r too costly for any one geable given the large ;o be accomodated, and al2e to the political its-whether these be or the people who are of the armed giierillas. rld are on the games, it stage for anyone who ?comes very vulnerable .s a specific case which .e up with a different i my opinion, sporting social-political contld have to consider in stern Canada and par2ver taken into conapply for the Olympic

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strain on the fabric of Canadian society, if not tear it in some irreparable fashion. “There is a tremendous cost in staging the Olympic Games. The Munich games cost a total of 780 million dollars (gross expenditure). Premier Bourassa says the Montreal games will realistically cost 300 million dollars. “The 300 million dollar figure is sizeable; it is about the cost of all the health and hospital services in, the province of Ontario in one year, for example. “It not only costs dollars, but our best brains. An event like the Olympics requires tremendous organizing and creativitywe just don’t have that many people in our society today. For the last four years in Munich, there has been an apartment of professional people,- economists, city planners, engineers, architects working on the gamesthat’s a tremendous output of creative and intellectual talent to go into a two week event.

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) will bear the brunt of Tames and particularly is country, were never 1rapeau when he emarticularly, on his onegames to Montreal. !e it, is on another egoInternational Olympic rimarily interested in a see their little circus y four years, fell for his I feel, for two reasons: and whore all the IOC . If you will check the1 will see that virtually 2 came and spent a 3al that summer. the IOC were that the id not want to see the ler Olympics for its bi,erefore any city that to the United States e games. Sporting con7 taken into account in rlontreal. 1 grow if it is in general ity which supports it,lat community with order to continue. I s will place a serious

Abigail Hoffman “In order to sustain the cost of these games our society will halre to foster economic growth so that we can reap additional tax revenue to pay for it entirely. We all know the tremendous crisis we are facing at our present rate of economic growth. The Montreal Olympics will require that we completely abandon an effort to come to terms with that crisis in order to support it. “In deciding to put out this tremendous amount of money and to invest in continued growth for the purpose of supporting it, any society must make two kinds of decisions. One along the whole gambit of public needs and public expenditures; the trade off between high unemployment, environmental protection measures, social services and so on. Now, with that trade off in the province of Quebec, one wonders how important a major sporting event of this kind is. \ “They already have the highest level of unemployment in the country and the sewage problem around the St. Lawrence river is Canada’s number one pollution problem. The social services of that city have already been considerably cut back by the expenditures for Expo and the son of Expo. “Drapeau said he was going to support the structures from the recreation budget; well, the recreation budget last year was 6 million dollars. In order to support the facilities he has in mind, it has to be cut back and possibly put in the red for some time. During the Expo period many public serviceswere cut back; for example, very few libraries were able to buy new books. ’ “A second kind of decision that has to be made is what kind of recreation programs expenditures one wants to make. I said before that the people involved with recreation were never consulted and I suspect if they were, the Olympic Games would be far from the top of their list. “We have a tremendous shortage of facilities in this country; in our national sport, hockey, for example, we have a desperate need for ice space. We don’t have enough swimming pools; people cannot swim in the winter although a lot of time is spent around water in the summer months. Indoor tracks are also necessary for athletes and others who want to keep fit during the winter, as are

hiking trails and canoe routesthings which are fully in keeping with the climate and activities, which are based more on public interest. “This is not the time to go ahead with the Olympics in this country; in the last ten years this country has just-been coming to grips with how to develop a sports program. We’re still working out the bugs, we don’t have enough trained officials or trained coaches. Where, for example, are we going to get track and field officials and how are we going to train them? “‘I think we are in the situation now where the government is ready to go ahead with the games, but both the city of Montreal and sport as a whole will suffer if some of the adverse problems we see coming down the road are not averted. “Montreal is a real hot-bed politically and Drapeau is an extremely powerful but increasingly unpopular dictator - a dictator who is so unpopular now that he has to travel around with a bodyguard all the time and only travels in an elevator, according to the latest press reports, with his dog. “Every population in recent years has been disenchanted with the money allocations for the Olympic’Games, in Mexico there were riots prior to the games. I suspect the demonstrations occurring in the two previous games will be very small compared with what will occur in Montreal. “Sport development will be set back because we will not be able to get our own development on track, we’ll be spending all our energies on the Olympic Games. We’ll be so exhausted after ‘76 that there will be little funds and less energy for further development of sport. “Drapeau is interested in providing a- beautiful city for conventioneers; he is not primarily concerned with the people who live there. The- Montreal Olympics was not designed for sport or with the best interest of the citizens of Montreal in mind. Alternatives “The most popular alternative to reduce the number of competitors is by gliminating, essentially, all the team sports where the great majority of athletes come in. “Another alternative is to decentralize the games in one of two ways, within the countries which host the games (in Canada that would mean having various competitions in different cities). Another possibility would be to decentralize the games around the world as is done with the European games, the second largest activity in the world of sport. “A third alternative would be to select a permanent site for the games. This could be a permanent site for the entire games, which in the intermediary years, could be used for other games. Another alternative would be to have the games as they are now, but stage them over a longer period of time so that only a limited number of athletes would. have to be acsgmodated at any one time. “In conclusion, I believe the games cannot go on as they are without even greater crises. I believe the Montreal Olympics are more vulnerable to the kind of crises mentioned and I also believe that the staging of the Olympics in Canada at this time is singularly inappropriate. “I think the only people for whom the games should be staged (the athletes) should get together and put pressure against the present method of staging the games. All the other people interested in holding games are interested in the gigantic staging of a little&cus, they are not interested in sport and therefore they are not willing to do very much to change it:” The cry by Kidd, Hoffman and many others involved with the analysis of the Olympic games is for ‘pure athletics’. Separate the games and disallow any possible political platform. The only alternative to continuing the games in their present form, changing sites every four years, would be to submerge politics even more in the sport arena. The Olympics will die a painful death if present trends continue. Why not honour the passing away by opening the political platform to perform some

function of peace where the financial expenditure will be toward some idealistic pursuit of world harmony, where the athletes wilI serve the same minimal function they do now? This obvious question, when posed by the chevron, met with the following response by Bruce Kidd: “The british commonwealth games, the pan american games or the european games are the ones where the mythological values are somewhat attained because they are much smaller. “The community gets much closer to the athletes when they are staged on a smaller scale. The people of Winnipeg, for example, were very much involved with the games and the athletes during the pan american games. There is just too much attention focused on the Olympics to really get anything together.” photo by chuck

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Bruce Kidd The Chevron: What would make the West Germans more capable of staging a successful Olympic games than the \Canadians could? Hoffman: Although the situation has improved last summer, the people in Montreal have hosted the worst track and field meets in Canada, as an example. That Europe versus Americas meet in 1967 was an embarrasment, they almost abandoned the series as a result. Kidd: The level of performance of athletes and officials in West Germany is so much higher. The demands of ‘a world class athlete is much higher than a guy who has not met that standard. Canada has not got many in that category. I would like to know how they intend to acquire the expertise. The Chevron: What, in your opinion, is the hierarchy of importance placed on the groups of people involved with the Olympic games? Hoffman: Initially, you can’t deny the influence of money. So in Munich,’ the people who put the games on for the prestige of Germany-the money class and the political class, these are primary. The political elite are in the forefront. Next are the people who are going to make money. The developers, the people who are going to build the stadii’ are about par with the press and television people who were treated very well On the’ next level are the IOC people (International Olympic Committee), this is their big party every four years. \ The athletesare next, I imagine the spectators get it socked to them worse than the athletes, but they haven’t invested the time that the athletes have, Throughout the world, athletes are hard at work in preparation for another Olympic games, most realize the shortcomings of the Olympics but find it the only opportunity to compete with the best in the world. All this, while the symptoms of disaster in Montreal are too obvious to be ignored. The Olympics as we all know it to be, from the two hour synopses the CBC allowed us, is an ailing festival which doesn’t manifest its major symptoms in the living room television, but gravely ill, nevertheless. Attempts at healing were applied in Munich, but Montreal, from all indications, will be the graveyard. .

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grateful while we have him! The audience’ is a service to musical culture hereabouts made clear their approval of the ‘deserving of our support. Besides, if the ’ proceedings, to my elation. group sticks together for further years, its After the intermission, the orchestra tonal deficiencies will slowly disappear devoted its efforts to two twentiethand we shall have an outstanding little century pieces, The Divertimento for orchestra on our hands. String Orchestra by Morawetz; and Ernst The program consisted of half baroque Bloch’s Concerto Gross0 for String Orand half modern workswell representative of the situation for chamber orchestra with Piano Obligatto. As the program notes were devoted exclusively to chestra, a group which was largely ignored in the heyday of Romanticism (notable the orchestra and not at all to the works exception: the string symphonies of on the program, I shall have to assume Mendelssohn). First off, a rather inthat the Morawetz in question is Oscar different piece by Boccherini, himself not Morawetz, one of Canada’s leading one of my favorites, it must be confessed. composers and, I think, presently and for This piece, the “Riterato di Madrid”, is a some time past on the Music Faculty at The second concert in the Performing Toronto. As contemporary composers go, real curiosity, though. Were the players Arts series this year took place in the his music is fairly _conservative, and I tuning up in unison at the start, or was Theatre of the Arts, Saturday night (Nov. would guess that this piece would have that in the score? And then there is a real ll), to a nearly packed house. This group, been written some time ago as well. live ,Spanish street song in the third led by Victor Martin, who is the principal it is no more advanced movement, with a certain amount of Harmonically, violin teacher at the Faculty of Music in than, say, Bartok’s fine .Divertimento for charm, and some decent writing for the Toronto, consists of 14 young string String Orchestra, which was already cellos and violas alone in the second players, all professional musicians in the rather conservative at its date of commovement. Turning to solider stuff, there Toronto area;_ its size borders on the position, 1939. Morawetz’ piece is not to was the splendid Concerto in D Major for biggish for Baroque chamber works, but be classed with Bartok, but struck me as afour violins by Vivaldi, from his L’Estro admirabl,e for later chamber-orchestra work of its kind with a few Armonico, op. 3. Considerable dryness of respectable works. One was surprised to find no use of details. four-square, . interesting tone, plus a slightly the harpsichord in the baroque works; The performance didn’t help matters unimaginative rendition, kept this conperhaps the group was unaware of the much, as shortcomings of intonation and certo from achieving the high peak _of University’s instrument, or found it roughness of tone were perhaps most in vivacity and elegance one hopes for from Thundermug Strikes, but the spark unsuitable for continua work with such a evidence in this piece. But the Bloch Vivaldi. But of energy and quite accurate doesn’t catch. What can you say about a big-sounding group. matter. This fiddling there was a-plenty, and the performance was another Southern Ontario hard-rock group who Before considering the particular works splendid piece, surely one of the great resultswere happy enough. (let me put out a first album which doesn’t stink on this program, a few words about the things for string orchestra in this century, commend to you the performances of these but also doesn’t present anything new? The program notes group in * general. received the outstanding performance of Well, in the end, you can say: Sure, if you wonderful concertos on Vanguard, -with spoke in strong tones of the group’s the evening on the orchestra’s part: Rossi and the Vienna State Opera like solid hard-rock live, go see Thunabilities and attainments - strong enough Chamber Orchestra, by the way, if you possibly because much of it requires not dermug next time they play the K-W area. to consider the subject of relevant comsubtlety and sonorousness but a big, full, want to hear a splendidly idiomatic But that’s because none of the really good parisons. My hearing, assuming that the performance). aggressive sort of tone with lots of sweep hard-rock groups will visit the K-W area, group was not way off, would suggest that and vigour, and in those departments the Next we had what was undoubtedly the and you’ll have to settle for the best of the it is not in the virtuoso class of such orchestra does well. The piano part in this musical high point of the evening when locals if you want good live hard-rock groups as say, I Solisti di Zagreb, or I piece was ably done by George Brough, Harry Sargous, the principal oboist of the music., Musici, or that paragon among small who does good work-in the accompanist Toronto Symphony, joined with Mr. The album itself, recorded in Toronto by orchestras, Neville Marriner’s Orchestra field around Toronto. There was a problem Martin in the Bach Concerto in C Minor Axe (AXS 502), is repititous, derivative of the Academy of St. Francis in the of balance here, for in a small theatre with for Violin and Oboe. One of Bach’s really and singularly uninspired. As for their Fields. Generally speaking, the ensemble a small orchestra, it was necessary to keep ‘superb, worldbeating concertos this is, musical ability, suffice it to say that I playing of the group was very good inthe lid closed on the piano, but this dulled and Mr. Sargous’ yummy tone and utter could not pick out any wrong notes. Fairly deed; but the individual players simply precision-plus his ability to sustain a down the piano tone rather too much, both competent hard rock they are; Led aren’t good enough to add up to a in muting the brilliance of the high notes delicious low note for about five minutes Zepplin they are not. So, how can I urge whole. , Intonation faults, superlative and in keeping the volume level of the without exploding-had everybody you to buy a competent album, when so frequently, and a certain roughness of piano somewhat less than competitive drooling in their chairs. He brought out many outstanding albums rank above it? tone, on which we can fault not only the with the orchestra. However, this didn’t the best in Martin, too, whose tone seemed To encourage a local band? CCT nonsense. rank and file, but also, more surprisingly, keep the performance from being very to me notably more opulent and brilliant The-album is, in fact, so derivative that Mr. Martin himself, prevents the group of satisfying. There is great passion and in the sometimes demanding violin part. the best cut on here is Ray Davies’ old bringing off the interpretative nuances so vitality in the opening prelude, some But I was too busy lapping up Sargous’ Kinks hit “You Really Got Me.” It is well essential in most works for tiny orchestra. delicious melodies in the slow movement, contribution to pay as much attention to done, in a copy-cat-sameness fashion, but All this being said, I hasten to add that followed by a lively peasant-dance, and the rest of- the chaps (and, I admit, nothing new at all. “I’d give it an 8/5, Mr. the Players are a Good Thing. It is no concluding with a dandy, fully-developed recalling the dandy performance of this Clark, cause it has a good beat and you shame to take second place to groups of by . David Oistrakh and fugue with a real baroque flavor about it, same piece the only time I can dance to it”. Luckily, the level mentioned above, nor for indespite modern harmonies - something of Sargous with the T.S.O. last year!). know of they’ve played around here was stance to take --second place to our Sargous, who is about 23 years old or so, I a tour de force, I’d say. If you liked this when they warmed up for Edgar Winter’s National Arts Orchestra or to chamber is one of Toronto’s real piece as much as I do, keep an eye out for understand, performance at the People’s Rock Palace, orchestras occasionally carved out of the under Hanson “finds” in recent years, and it is sad to the very good performance and Winter’s group quickly came out and Toronto Symphony. This group can give a symphony on Mercury, think that in time, no doubt, somebody in and the Eastman put them in their proper perspective. They good, if not brilliant, account of anything which has the equally interesting 2nd the Philadelphia Orchestra or some such were way in over their heads. in the literature for orchestras of its size, Concerto Gross0 composed 2’7 years later, stellar establishment will retire and Harry Going from the ridiculous to the sublime and that there should be a real live orin 1952, on the other side. Sargous will go off to replace him, leaving is a pleasant task always, and the more chestra bringing this great literature to us Unfortunately, the audience’s enus to start over again. Well, well: let us be pleasant for me when the sublime is a new thusiasm brought on an encore, which I John Renbournalbum. This one, called think was Joaquin Turina’s “La Oration Faro Annie (WB-Reprise 2082), is the best de1 Terero”, and it is strictly dullsville. Renbourn offering to date, much less What’s more, it would require the utmost esoteric than his previous LP’s like “Sir sweetness of string tone and perfect inJohn Alot of”, and so more appealing to a tonation to bring off well, being a sort of general audience. Renbourn’s music showcase for strings, one gathers; and becomes three-dimensional here, as he still unfortunately , showcases reveal flaws as offers traditional folk music-which he mercilessly as aSsets. Besides, it was too and Pentangle have been into for a long long. Leave this one to Kostalanetz, I say. time-and adds some fine bluescuts, but This may be the place to say a word he has also added blues harmonica, fiddle, about the Arts Theatre as a concert hall. and vocals by a y’oung lady named Dorris For small groups‘ and soloists, I have Henderson, who compliments Renbourn’s always regarded its acoustics-highly; but rough voice perfectly. Renbourn himself, for this smallish orchestra with its biggish ’ who has until now limited himself mostly sound, I wonder whether the theatre isn’t to the fine acoustic guitar work he and perhaps a bit too dry and confined; it’s Bert Jansch excel at, sings, plays harpossible that the group’s tone suffered on monica and sitar, and adds some justthis account. The Humanities Theatre right aver-dubbed electric guitar breaks. would have been much better for it, I The offerings range from the poetic think. Also I must reiterate my longtraditional ballad “Willy O’Winsbury” standing complaint about the air- -(which Pentangle as a group did on their circulating system, which is just too latest album, “Solomon’s Seal”) through noisy; it obtrudes in every soft passage. . classic American blues songs like When theatres -are built, I wish people “Kokomo Blues” and “Come on in my would think about such things. Kitchen” to instrumentals like the title cut, on which Renbourn improvisies with In sum: a, good group, with excellent Pentangle teammates drummer Terry Cox ensemble, reasonable precision, lots of and bassist Danny Thompson. spirit and energy, and quite a bit. of work cut out-for it-in matters of tone and polish If you’ve been seduced by Pentangle, but before listening to it can be an unalso wished for a little more variety in 1 their material, this is what you’ve been mitigated _pleasure. I hope it hangs waiting for: unamplified, unhyped together, and look forward to hearing them again- in a year or two. musicianship.

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n “The Storming of the Mind”, Robert Hunter examines society’s easy acceptance of phenomenal changes in our physical world: incredible technological differences from preceding decades which affect every aspect of life from communications to weaponry to medicine to industry. We accept these changes with barely a thought-they are gifts the gods of technocracy have willed to us. Yet the same society has exhibited a simultaneous refusal to accept even “a marginal re-adjustment in relationship to our psychic, emotional, and moral environment”. The example Hunter uses is that of the reaction to marijuana. The social attitudes our society has developed towards it, terror, antagonism, exaggerated punishment, are completely inconsistent with the learned ability to cope with a nuclear reactor next door or men actually walking on the moon. But the negative reflex-actions to the thought or sight of someone smoking marijuana is not just a simple inconsistency it is the “inherently unintegrated nature of the consciousness which is now totally dominant in all highly technological nations.” Hunter next leads into a discussion of the mass schizophrenia our society has developed as a reaction to our inability to solve, or, for that matter, even comprehend and evaluate constructively, the metaproblems, overwhelming yet almost pedestrian in their frequency, that nuclear arms, overpopulation and devastation of the ecology pose. Man’s answer to these problems has been essentially to become apathetic, to hide his head in the sand and hope for rectification or a miracle. And avoiding even the thought of our slide into disaster has resulted in mass irrationality. (In turn, the sadness of it is that this irrationality is borne from basically rational (i.e. positive) reject ion of evil and -disquieting anxiety makes on the individual level. Collectively, however, all the rational reasoning on earth has created an irrational and chaotic and fearful monster.) One might assume that forty years ago, when man was incapable of obliterating the

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species in a matter of hours, his attitude towards marijuana would have been tempered by rational thought (collectively) because the horrors of the time were not overwhelmingly sufficient to produce a mass irrationality which would negate reasonability on the pros and cons of marijuana. In other words, marijuana would be treated in those days much like alcohol was. The main concerns around marijuana would be financial-who was making money from its illegal sale-rather than questions of actually smoking it. Marijuana was a known factor four decades ago-people in all walks of life used it but it was less publicized than alcohol. (In fact, during the thirties, the La Guardia Commission results in New York indicated no harmful effects from smoking grass and hence little was made of the study.) So, all in all, albeit with strange logic, I had determined that the feeling towards marijuana in the thirties would have been less intense, less polarized, than the antimarijuana reactions we witness now. “Reefer Madness” blows this assumption completely to hell. Made in 1936, it is one of the most incredible films I have ever seen. To us, in a retrospective sense, the overall effect of “Reefer Madness” is ludicrous and almost mad; but to the less.well-educated (by the media) of the thirties, it seems to have been one of those insane moments which surely formed attitudes and laws which have managed to hold on to us to this day. The film’s premise is simple. Marijuana is indeed the killer weed-more dangerous than heroin or opium (no shit). In the opening sequence, a doctor speaks to a home and school group and warns them of the impending doom that awaits their unsuspecting children-marijuana. He proceeds to relate a tale of debauchery, sin and submission to evil that shakes the listeners to their roots. His story is of the ithappened-right-in-our-own-backyard variety. An organized gang of lechers and hedonists lure unassuming students, all pure as the driven snow, up to their There the apartment for a “party”. revellers are tempted and coerced into partaking of the killer weed. And unbeknownst to them, the dope takes hold of

their souls and does them in. One becomes a hit and run driver, another a fornicator, another a manslaughterer. Other unhappinesses that befall our heroes are rape, murder, suicide and hopeless insanity. Ruined scoff-laws and sinners all, they pay for their unrepentant brush with‘ ungodliness. In one marvellous sequence, an agent of the constabulary discusses the evil of marijuana with a perturbed high school principal. He produces a drawerfull of files proving conclusively that the drug Mary Jane is public enemy number one. He relates a tale of gothic horror to the aghast administrator: a fifteen year old lad, having experimented with marijuana, runs amok and slays his entire family with an axe. The principal, wide-eyed, demands police aid in stamping out this body lice on the offspring of the proletariat. The depictions of people. smoking their dope is treat to behold. To begin with, it was obvious that none of the actors or the director or, for that matter, anyone involved in the whole production, had ever gotten stoned before. Because if they had, someone would have informed them that they were doing it wrong. The cinematic stonees would put the joint to their lips, suck back a puff, and literally spit the smoke out, hard and fast, within about %th of a second of the inhalation; it seemed to me their joints had been rolled with something much less tasty than grass, like, say, stale kitty litter (and judging by the overall production quality, I’d say that particular substitution is a distinct possibility). Instantaneously, the effects of the drug take over. However, to my way of looking at things, the portrayal of being stoned was somewhat less than accurate. I assume that at one point the actors inquired of the director how they should go about faking a stone. The results on celluloid tell me his answer was something like: “Come on like a demented cretin, only play it up”. The end result was something like Ken Russell’s madhouse sequences in “The Music Lovers”. Near the end of the flick, one characters, whose dialogue begging his girlfriend for some me a reefer, I’ve gotta have

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completely 00’s and goes through an incredible homogenization of his brain. His eyes blacken, he giggles, salivates, stares, whines and all in all enacts his own interpretation of a wolverine in heat. He is ultimately brought before a wise old judge who is informed that the poor fool, because of his oral fixation with dope has become an incurable madman not fit to stand trial. The judge with a paternalistic and compassionate sigh, sends him off to an institute for the criminally insane for the rest of his days. Ans so it went, “Reefer Madness” is a film devoid of intelligence or any useful social commentary. As a whole, it would have been eminently forgettable had it not been pervasively riddled with excesses and lies. Luckily, we can look at the thing and laugh at the stupidity of the concept, inane dialogue, amateur shoddiness of production and actors with the net vibrance of a garbage skow. But it must not end there; a bit of thought on the matter makes one realize how sad and dangerous “Reefer Madness” really was. How many naive minds were warped by it, how much of the lies’ and bullshit found Its way into the courts of law and the minds of the lawmakers, and how niany innocents were ruined, by the ugliness this film convinced administrators to be the reality?, I need not go into this matter further-anyone having thought at all about the variety of questions which always arise concerning marijuana realize the negative and downright harmful effects a movie such as this would have. If it was the intent of the producers of this film (and I suspect Uncle Sam was involved) to perpetuate myths which in turn would perpetuate archaic and garrot-like laws, I would commend them on their success. And in destroying my earlier premise of the thirties reasonability, “Reefer Madness” portrays to us some of the roots of our present inability to cope with human and moral problems-perhaps we had best restrict ourselves to the technology we seem best able to function within. The present distributors of the film (and recipients of about 40 percent of its profits) is NORML, the American-based group publicly striving for the rational repeal of the ludicrous marijuana laws now on the books. My money goes to their efforts with my blessing. Lastly, I would like to note that I saw “Reefer Madness” in Toronto at the Kensington Cinema on College St.; this theatre charges 99 cents admission, a commodity I thought had gone the way of the 5 cent cigar. Also on the bill was another thirties effort, a documentary on the effects hashish has had upon the populace of Egypt, a Captain Video serial and joy of joys, a Betty Boop cartoon. Betty proved to be both morally and professionally an infinitely more sterling effort than the trash “Reefer Madness”. -bryan

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Remembering when Nostalgia is a tricky business. If “The unexamined life is not worth one’s memories are leading,” sometimes best left at the fringes of consciousness. Old friends reencountered may provoke a exchange of pleasant reminiscences, but can also lead to the awareness that time has brought about divergences, that shared past experiences are no guarantee of empathy in the future. Ideally, I suppose, this should cause a re-examination of what was valid or invalid about the relationship; but I suspect that awkwardness, silence, and deceptively hearty farewells are more typical, perhaps because the memory can be preserved only by negating its failure to survive into the present. Musical nostalgia is probably less chantey, if only because it usually evokes associations which overcome any intellectual qualms as to its intrinsic puerility. Even here, however, I’m all too often dumbfounded by the sheer idiocy and lack of substance of songs unheard for many years: reviewing Remember When (Scepter SPS 2-599), a double set of the Shirelles’ greatest hits, thus results in the near-total deestimation of a group previously held in some regard, as it becomes painfully clear that, despite some excellent material (“My Prayer,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “Twist and Shout”), the Shirelles were vocally undistinquished collectively as well as individually. Better to have left well enough alone, better to have left undisturbed a time when “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” was always answered by “Of course”.... Otis Redding is another story entirely. Although he died in 1967 without having achieved much commercial success among White audiences, people turned on to “That’s How Strong My Love Is” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by the Stones have since discovered this incredibly dynamic performer, and The Best of Otis Redding (Atco 2SA-801) will certainly convert some more. The album is, indeed, “The best: ” “Respect,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “Tramp,” “A Change Is Gonna Come”, and while. the purist in me suggests that Otis Blue, Dictionary of Soul, and Live in Europe provide an even broader sample of his art, these two Lps are highly recommended to everyone. Redding was a master of the soul idiom, and sensed the importance of absolute sincerity and emotional involvement in putting over this apparently simple music; the only sad aspect of this release is that, in his own words, “You don’t miss your water till the well run dry.” Buddy Holly, who also died prematurely (in a 1959 plane crash), is even further removed from us in terms of time and sensibility, but A Rock & Roll Collection (Decca DXSE 7-207) is by no means of only historical

interest. The songs, many of which _he wrote himself, are uncomplicated wails of the loved youlost you-want you back variety, as insignificant or as profound as adolescent Sturm und Drang: performed in Holly’s nasal country twang, and kicked along by some hard-driving guitar, however, they are nicely evocative of the hillbillyturned-popstar phenomenon of the 50’s, and of white sportcoats, pink carnations, and wakin’ up with Little Suzy in compromising circumstances. That’s part of my experience, but children of the Psychedelic Age may find it unfathomablealthough there seem to be plenty of longhaired shit-kickers around, for whom Holly’s music should be just a slightly more antiseptic version of Commander Cody. A Rock & Roll Collection includes all of Holly’s biggies-“Peggy Sue,” “Oh Boy!,” “That’11 Be the Day,” “Maybe Baby”-and while I found it very enjoyable, anyone unfamiliar with Holly should probably listen first and consider buying it later. As well as the originals, of course, there are contemporary recreations of the oldies available from several sources, of which Sha Na Na is one of the most prominent. Their new album, The Night Is Still Young (Kama Sutra KSBS 2050) isn’t the rill thang, but it is a definite improvement over their previous records, as they discover that something more than an intricately choreographed stage show is demanded by contemporary audiences. The Lp includes several reasonably authentic originals, some humour (“The Vote Song” ‘s Platterish refrain of “Vote for me, my baby, vote for me”), and adequate covers of “So Fine” and “In The Still of the Night.” Although Sha Na Na won’t eclipse your memories of the early days of rock, their music is valid to the extent that it avoids both gross satire (too easy) and note-for-note copying (too difficult), and instead makes its own small contribution to an ongoing tradition. Said tradition’s vitality stems from its concern with the fundamental experiences of coming of age in North America; and as these continue to be traumatic, mystifying, and artificially separated from the rest of society, the words of Buddy Holly’s “Rave On” will remain relevant: Rave on, rave on and tell me Tell me not to be lonely Tell me you love me only Rave on (with me)

Rockin’ briefs Laura Lee (Hot Wax HA 714): Ms. Lee wails like a gravel-voiced Aretha Franklin, and only the predominance of second-rate songs (including a female

chauvinism number called “Rip Off”) keeps this album back in the “promising” category. The backup musicians are excellent, although uncreditted, particularly on such stone soul Memphis-itis as “If You Can Beat Me Rocking” and “Crumbs Off the Table.” The album jacket lists two songs which aren’t on the record, contributing to the impression that the folks at Hot Wax don’t know their good thing when they got it. Doug “Cosmo” Clifford (Fantasy 9411) : “Cosmo” he may be (from the Factory, get it?), but cosmic he ain’t. Gargled vocals, puerile arrangements, and a raft of insipid Clifford originals belie the presence of Donald Dunn, Stu Cook, and the Tower of Power horn section, who labor valiantly but fail to lend credence to the idea that Clifford deserves revival. Rock musicologists may be interested in his rendition of “I’m A Man,” which must be the worst version ever of this hard-to-screwup song. Others, beware. Geronimo Black ( Uni 73132) : Yes, boys and girls, Jimmy Carl Black is the Indian of the group, a sextet of fun kyTtun kers sparked by Bunk Ga’rdner’s jazzy reed work. The excellent original songs are just like those the Mothers used to make, performed somewhat less zanily but equally well on an album which deserves far more hype than it’s received. This band is at home with rock, jazz, blues, and country material, and their first Lp is definitely superior to Frank Zappa’s recent work, and not all that far removed the classic early Mothers’ albums. Good show. Mar Y Sol (Atco 2SD-705) : a double set of limited appeal from the Mar Y Sol Festival in Puerto Rico last April. About half consists of nearly identical version of familiar material (B.B.‘s “Why I Sing the Blues,” the Allman’s “Ain’t Wasting Time No More,” Osibisa’s “Do You Know”), the remainder being given over to such modestly talented ravers as Cactus, Nitzinger, and Herbie Mann. Jazz fans should not be sucked into buying this album because of the presence of a 13minute “The Noonward Race” by the Ma havishnu Orchestra : it’s godawful, and raises some serious questions about the musicianship of John McLaughlin’s group. If you’re one of those “Live rock is more exciting than studio rock” people, Mar Y Sol just might change your mind. In A Broken Dream (,GNP Crescendo 2066) by Python Lee Jackson : a uniformly mediocre release which exudes professional competence, but has none of the joyful punkiness fundamental to good rock’n’roll. While Rod Stewart’s vocals on three tracks are pleasant enough, PLJ’s songs are so lyrically predictable (“Boogie Woogie Joe” and “The Blues,” no less) and structurally unimaginative that even the Mighty Mite can’t lift the album. If Hookfoot-Argent-Wishbone Ash are where it’s at for you, this album may be your slice of Levy’s, but it left me feeling...nothing much at all. Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Truckers Favorites (Paramount PAS-6031) by Commander Cody: sophomore jinx time again, C & W freaks, with this very disappointing album of truckin’ (the vehicle, not the dance) songs, these being interspersed with a few of the super-sentimental ballads which made Lost in the Ozone such a delight. “Cravin’ Your Love” and “Mama Hated Diesels” are enjoyably campy, and “It Should’ve Been Me” is o.k. if you’ve never heard Ray Charles’

version, but the remainder is barely distinguishable from the plasticized kitsch available for free on your local country station. Back to the roots, please. Scraps (Kama Sutra, KSBS 2045) by NRBQ: blue-eyed R & B of ‘such a bland amorphousness that both senior citizens and teeny-boppers should find it acceptable. Given the substantial numbers of each at UniWat, probably a monster. Flying High Together (Tamla Motown T318L) by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: complex and superbly executed vocal arrangements, as well as careful production, are hallmarks of Smokey Robinson’s releases, and this is no exception. A few of the songs, particularly “Theme From Love Story,” are throwaways, but even here the Miracles’ beautiful harmonizing makes CSN & Y sound like a bunch of ruffians. A marvellous album, unfortunately reminding us of Smokey’s decison to concentrate on writing and producing rather than performing. Reconsider, baby! Where It All Began (Chess 9033-50016) by Bo Diddley:

Had It Hard,” e.xcept for “I’ve which revives the chunka-chunkachunka style of Bo’s early hits (and should be released as a single), this is an uninspired and unnecessary album afflicted with cutesy-pie songs (“Take It All Off,” “Look at Grandma”), the requisite soul sister chorus, and a generally leadfooted rhythm section. Having twice seen Bti energize lethargic Toronto audiences, I’m at a loss to explain the deficiencies of this album-but it is a mess, quite unworthy of one of the seminal figures in rock history. Valerie Simpson (Tamla Motown T317L): the distaff side of the noted Ashford & Simpson composing team has here ventured into Carole King territory with disappointing results. The songs are scaled-down Motown, their lack of substance emphasized by low-key musicianship and tepid arrangements, and despite Ms. Simpson’s vocal excellence are incapable of sustaining interest for an entire album. Stronger material and/br fuller production will be required if this potentially valid approach is to succeed. -Paul stuewe

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Warm up for tonight Tuesday afternoon the b-ball warriors played the first game of their exhibition season. Hosted were the mohawk mountaneers of Mohawk College in Hamilton. The warriors outclassed their opposition throughout the entire game especially in the first half as the 48-21 half time score indicates. In the second half however, the Waterloo team was a bit shaky at some points and most players were guilty of sloppy passes or getting a little too fancy at one time or another. They still dominated the game though, with the final score being. 89-51. IThe. mountaneers offered little competition and seemed very disorganized. That is not to say that they did not have determination such as that shown by Ed Will, number 34 for the mountaneers who slid, bounced and fought his way through the game. The warriors missed a few easy shots during the game but their overall percentage was 49, which is very good to see this early’ in the season. It is felt that most of the fans in attendance would admit to having seen more exciting games, but this could be attributed to the poor competition and the fact that it was the first game of the year for the warriors.

Returnees from last year, Ed Dragan, Phil Schlote, Mike Zuwerkalow, Bill Ross, Tom Kieswetter, and Steve Ignatavicius played well during the game. The only rookie who played in the game was Jim McLean who looked very impressive and scored 11 points. Others who were new to the warriors but not new to intercollegiate play were Bob Simons who played for mount allison last season, Ed Talaj who played at york a year ago, and Gord Wilson who played last year at lutheran. )Not seeing action in tuesday’s game were veterans Fred Dimson who has an ankle injury and Paul Bilewicz. Pat Woodburn and Bob Smeek both of whom played at lutheran last season, Mike Moser who played at Brown university, and Frank Moskal all sat out the game. -aThe next warrior encounter will be in the jock shop tonight and they will definitely have ample competition from Detroit’s Shaw College. -wheels

Squash starts swinging This weekend, the warrior squash team travels to Toronto to play in the Ontario team championships in their first outing this year. Although the warriors are not expected to fare as well as the top teams from the Toronto squash clubs, they will experience some of the best squash played on this continent.

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The team has been practising in the early-hours of the morning for the past four weeks under the direction of coach Bob Ward, who is the squash professional at the K-W racquet club and who will be teaching tennis at the Waterloo tennis club during the warmer months. Bob comes from the cricket club in Toronto where a junior development program has brought forth some of the best squash players in Ontario and Canada who have taken several of the nation’s top junior tournaments. One new member of the varsity team this year is Al McCormick who has been involved in this squash development program at the cricket club. A ranked junior in Ontario, Al will be playing in most of the provincial tournaments. Others who are trying hard for a position in the top five are John Frittenberg, Bruce Clarke, John MacDonald, Dance Hector, Al MarshaIl, and John Pezzack. However, they are facing a lot of stiff competition from the four returnees from last year’s team, Doug MacLean, John the Weasel Frederick, John Cushing and Abe Ibrahim. Both MacLean and Cushing have already parprovincial ticipa ted in two squash tournaments this fall and Frederick and MacDonald were in one two weeks ago in Toronto. With the return of the top four players from last year, the improved playing of other members and the addition of Al Mcalong with the Cormick assistance of coach Bob Ward, the squash team should be the best the warriors have ever had. On the intercollegiate scene, it could very well be that they can be surpasse the York Yeomen into third spot which would certainly be an improvement from last year’s position in fourth place way behind York and just ahead of Queen’s. The university of Western Ontario squad still appears to be the team to beat, however U of T has definitely improved according to wellinformed sources. The Warriors open their exhibition season next weekend when they host the squash team from Queen’s, who have a completely new line-up from last year. For those people who intend to watch the warriors’ matches, the schedule given out by the athletic department has not been confirmed. Notice will be given once matches have been confirmed. By next week, a squash ladder will be in operation. This ladder is located just outside the men’s locker room on the blue north side of the jock building. The ladder is open to anybody who wishes to participate and rules will be posted.

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The Waterloo athenas took to the floor Tuesday night for their first league game but were unable to come up with a win for the home side, dropping the game 4742. The Athenas started out playing a zone defense in an effort to cut down Guelph’s effective running attack and to capitalize on the fast break op,portunities. Unfortunately that plan was not as effective as had been hoped as Waterloo failed to score on their breaks and started Guelph eventually putting in the outside shots. Offensively, the athenas never really -got rolling. They seemed reluctant to try for the one on one opportunities that could have been set up. If they did get inside they failed to sink the two pointer. The percentage for the evening was less than 30 per cent, not good enough for this league. The athenas changed tactics several times during the game coming up with some effective pressing which kept theti in the offensive game. However, mistakes became costly as a good steal was nullified by a bad pass. There were a few bright spots in the game for the athenas. Joan Parker, who has been playing much improved ball this year, came through with several fine drives through the center, sotie good outside shooting plus ‘100 per cent from the foul line to top the athena scorers with 13 points. Jane Liddell also came- up with some good offensive moves to finish with 9. Yonna Luypaert and Mary Ann Krzyzanowski came up with good defensive games combining on the defensive boards for 15 of the 27 recovered rebounds and doing excellent job9 on their individual checks. Guelph played a fine game. Their shooting was good and their offensive team work was Gery effective. High scorer for Guelpb was Peg Stoddart. Waterloo plays their next home’ game on Tuesday at 8 p.m. against McMaster.

Unfortunately, no report was made in the chevron concerning the outcome of the women’s flag football championship. St. Paul’s are the new 1972 champs as they defeated Village 2 South Bay Bombers 13-6. In the consolation game Kin & Ret beat Village, 1 North 7-O. Congratulations go out to all those involved. The volleyb&l league is well under way but the number of flefaults last Thursday night is discouraging. ’ : Scores were: Village North 21 SC 11 SE J. 21 WC 10 NB 21 WC 12 S6 21 WC 9 Math 21 s5 9 NC 21 St-. P: 11 Kin & Ret 21 ND 2 Kin & Ret 24 NC 22 EB 21 ,St. Paul’s 11 Math 21 E2 12 s5 21 St. Jeromes 14 E2 21 EB 9 Kin & Ret 21 EB 9 NC 21 s5 8 All other games were, defaulted. In League A north 6 is putting on a good display with 5 wins-no losses. In League B Kin & Ret holds a similar record. Looks like these two rivals may meet in the volleyball finals. \ The saunas were open again last Sunday morning. Although the turnout was not as big as the grand opening, enough interest lies out there to keep the saunas going. Why not come out on Sunday between lo:30 and 12:31) Pm. The co-ed swim rn@& held last Tuesday night was a great success. Events were well planned and a lot of laughs. In the girls division, Renison placed first, St. Jeromes, second, Village 2E was third and St. Paul’s fourth. Ice hockey at Queensmount Arena saw a bigger turnout last Friday. Once again, it’s from 12:00-2:00 p.m. with rides provided at Blue North. There are a few good skaters but most are rookies and when we get the basketball players off the court, there’s a couple of good teams. Ice hockey is a little different from field hockey, eh team? Anyone wishing to play is welcome. Bring your own stick and skates. I Hey gals, the tennis courts are open. There is -a very limited supply of rackets available in the women’s tote room. If, you want one for Sunday morning, don’t forget to pick it up before 5 p.m. on Saturday.

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Men’s Intramurals Flag football Kin and Ret teams in flag football have tended to fit the clichealways a bridesmaid, never a bride. In the past three years, the always strong Kin and Ret teams had found ways to lose where it seemed there was no way. Two years ago, they lost in a muddy game 3-1 in the semis. them to advance to the finals. But this year the jocks finally put it together to come out the champions by beating defending champions Conrad Grebel 24-14. Kin and ret jumped out to a 12-2 lead a& the half as quarterback Bill Dalliday hit 47 per cent of his passes including a touchdown pass to Brent McFarlane from six yards out. The other kin and ret touchdown was scored by McFarlane on a trick play as he lined up onside of the punter, then sprinted down, picked up the ball, and ran it 25 yards for the score. The second half started with another kin and ret score to make it 18-2 as Rod Botteril caught a 6 yard pass. But then the Conrad Grebel offense began to move, and suddenly the score was 18-14 with 2 minutes left in the game. Quarterback Blair Taylor connected with Ross Gerber and Rob Griffith on touchdown passes. But then Kevin Kennedy assured a kin and ret victory by running back the ensuing kickoff all the way for the final score. Quarterback Bill Dalliday had an excellent day for kin and ret as he hit on 16- of 32 passes and 2 touchdowns. Said Bill about the reason for their victory, “We were going to start out coming long but they cut it off pretty quick so wb started going short and it worked, especially qver the middle’ ’ . This can be evidenced by the fact that the leading receiver for kin and ret was the left end, Rod Botteril, who caught 9 for the day. Blair Taylor of Conrad Grebel had an off day

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as he hit on only 12 of 31 attempts, as well as 4 interceptions. Leading receiver for Conrad Grebel was Griffith with 6 catches and 2 touchdowns. Commented defensive captain Bryan Gordon on what went wrong, “We didn’t move the ball in the first half. We were inside their 10 yard line twice and couldn’t score so we were trying to P;lay catch-up for the rest of the game.” Captain Tom Miscelli of kin and ret summed it up for his whole team. When asked to comment on the victory he said, “After four years we won. That’s all!”

Competitive soccer Last Thursday at 3:00 p.m. V II N and Co-Op Math squared dff for the final game of the Intramural Soccer playoffs. ‘Rick Schinkel opened the scoring for V II N by putting a corher ball kicked by team mate Bill Bunker behind the Math goalie. In the second half V II‘N kept the pressure on early in the game, resulting in a high lob shot into the corner of the net by Bill Bunker giving V II N a 2-O lead. But then Co-Op Math began to fight back. Persistent pressure forced a mistake by the V II N defense and Tim Skinner booted the ball past Sandy Rose, the north goalie, to make the score 2-l with 5 minutes remaining. On the last play of the game, a Co-Op Math player put a hard shot to the top cornerfbut goalie Rose managed to get a, hand in front of it to prevent the goal and salvage the win for the V II N squad.

Lacrosse Regular Math completed the list of competitive intramural league champions by taking the Vinnicombe Cup from St. Jeromes 17-7 in Lacrosse action. Math scorers were led by Pat Fallon and Doug Bannon. Archery Tournament ’ Monday at 8:00 p.m. in the red activities area, the first round of the archery tournament will be held. Bows and arrows will be supplied.

Women’s athletic council ’ elections Women; intercollegiate council elections take place for all females on campus. That is, all females at the university of Waterloo are eligible to vote, upon presentation of their student ID cards. The nominees for member-atlarge are: Roberta Awde, first year kin with experience in volleyball and track and field; Brenda Eckhardt, third year kin, a inember or the field hockey and basketball team; M arleen Grolmaa, third year recreation, a member of the basketball team; . Sue Hamilton, first year arts, on the basketball team; Carol Rawls, kin two, on the volleyball teati; Joanp Stewart, kin two, active with athletic assistants; and Marilyn Wadge, kin one, a member of the field hockey team. ’ Elections will be held on thursday, november 23. Polling stations will be located in the arts lecture hall from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm and the physical activities building (red north) from ll:3O am to l:3O pm and 4:30 pm to 7: 30pm. The duties of the members-atlarge are: to represent the women at the U of W interested in entercollegiate athletics, attend all meetings of the council, to act as liason between WIC and any outside group wishing to approach council, to serve on awards committees and to submit a resume of her term in office at the, completion of her term.

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by Ed Fiqn At a time when most provinces, backed by-public opinion, are inclined to restrict the freedom of collective bargaining, Manitoba is moving decisively in the opposite direction. Its .new labour legislation, which becomes effective next january 1, will extend the right to strike to ,policemen and employees of crown agencies, greatly facilitate union organizing, do away with compulsory conciliation, provide for compulsory checkoff of union dues, and make technological changes negotiable during the contract term. It is difficult to assess the impact of the new Manitoba labour code prior to its application. The wording of the statute is not, in itself, a reliable guide. Its interpretat ion and enforcement can sometimes be much more significant. As a “Far better to have a sage once remarked, bad law administered by a good government than a good law administered by a bad government.” Whether the Schreyer government is “good” or “bad” is a judgement that may vary. Predictably, most employers and newspapers have denounced the Manitoba legislation as _ being heavily slanted in favour of the unions, and warn that it will impair rather than promote industrial peace. Conversely, Manitoba unions have publicly hailed the new labour relations act as “the most progressive in Canada” and predict that it will enable unions to organize most of the provinces 300,000 non-union workers. No matter how this’experiment turns out, it appears to be a courageous-some would say “foolhardy’‘-enture by a government having a slender majority and facing an election in 1973. If it should backfire’ it could not only imperil the NDP’s electoral prospects, but would also reinforce the trend toward greater rather than lesser government involvement in collective bargaining. A closer scrutiny of the new Manitoba labour code, however, indicates that the Schreyer government is not really taking that much of a risk. The new laws are neither as innovative nor as radical as they seem at first glance. The easing of union certification requirements, for example, is a-direct copy from the new federal labour code. And SO, with some variations, is the section on technological change, whose clauses on advance notice and enforcement are notably weaker than their federal I forerunners. i

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Elimination of the enforced conciliation officer or board within 14 days of a ,process is indeed a “first” for- Canada, threatened strike% lockout. And of course permitting unions and employers to strike the legislature can still act on an ad hoc or lockout as soon as the agreement exbasis to prevent or halt strikes that menace pires. But this has long been the practice in the public interest. the United States and other countries. It It may be significant that the right to won’t automatically cause more strikes. strike has been withheld-temporarily, we Instead, it will apply pressure on the parties ’ are assured-from teachers’ civil servants and firemen. Paulley may be waiting to see to start negotiating sooner and work out earlier settlements. how other workers exercise their new “We believe the responsibility for solving freedom before extending it to these labour disputes must be borne primarily by providers of “essential” service. the employers and the unions,” said The Manitoba code is not nearly as biased Manitoba Labour Minister Russ Paulley. toward unions as its critics claim. Its less The government, however, has been careful desirable clauses did not escape the atto retain the right to appoint a conciliation tention of the Manitoba Federation of

Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress, which privately requested over 40 amendments to the original draft legislation. But only seven of labour’s requested changes were acted upon, so that the new Act incorporates several features the unions find objectionable. Probably the most unwelcome aspect of the code is its attempt to apply the socalled “equal treatment” principle to unions and employers. The Act makes unions liable for damage suits for the actions of individual members. It imposes identical penalties (fines and/or jail terms) on corporations and unions, bosses and workers, regardless of relative ability to pay. Individual workers, as well as union leaders, will incur $500 fines and/or imprisonment for two months for participating in or condoning wildcat strikes. These are much harsher penalties than those provided in the new federal labour _ , code, and in most other provincial jurisdictions. The “equal treatment” policy is based on two fallacies : (1) that companies and unions are comparable entities; and (2) that they are equally powerful and affluent. The corporations’ vast power and financial reserves completely dwarf the bargaining and financial strength of most unions. Only if the balance of power bet_ ween unions and employers were equal would legislation based on the principle of equality be justified. In bending over backwards to deal with both labour and management on a parity basis, the Schreyer government may-in the application of penalties, at least-perpetuate an already existing power imbalance that favours employers. The new Manitoba legislation is permeated throughout by an undue emphasis on the legalistic and punitive aspects of industrial relations. The impression is given that the courts will play a prominent role in implementing the new laws, and that batteries of lawyers will have to be hired to fight numerous court battles. If this is the case, the burden of legal costs will fall much, more heavily on unions than on employers. It is questronable, too, whether the courts will be truly impartial in dealing with alleged company and union offenders. The federation of labour reflected these fears in a private submission to Paufley, contending that “our people are generally more vulnerable before the courts than employers.” It suggested that “the courts would be more likely to mete out jail sentences to unionists than they would to corporation worthies.” Making unions legally accountable for the

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acts of its individual members is a backtripling of unionized workers in Manitoba within the next four or, five years. ward step that especially alarmed the federation. It pointed out that “even the Federation President Len Stevens most responsible union cannot control the confidently predicts that the new code will conduct of every member,” adding that result in another 200,000 workers in the existing laws already adequately cover province joining union ranks. That may be illegal acts by individuals. an unduly optimistic estimate. But one thing is clear: If unions in Manitoba don’t These arguments were rejected by the succeed in organizing Schreyer government. So were strong most of‘ the labour protests against the new Act’s inunorganized there, they won’t be able to trusion into internal union affairs, the blame their failure on legislative shackles. The new code removes all legal barriers to broadened definition of the word “strike” organizing, and cracks down hard on to include slowdowns, the right given to a companies that try to-keep unions out by single worker to challenge a union’s cerintimidating or bribing their employees. tification, and the extension of strike vote rights to non-union employees in a The code even puts the onus on the company to prove that any punishment of bargaining unit. employees during an organizing campaign Under the new code, “any activity ... that was not inflicted because of union acis designed to restrict or limit output”tivities-a provision, incidentally, that has including slowdowns and working to rulebeen in the Quebec labour laws for the past will be regarded as a strike. An emulation of six years. (Hitherto, it was up to the the new federal code, this broadened definition drastically reduces a union’s penalized employee to prove that he had options in settling disputes. If every union been fired, suspended or demoted for supporting the union.) action is aimed at putting pressure on an The new code’s crackdown on unfair employer is to be defined as a strike and labour practices by employers is firm and subjected to the same restrictions, the. all-inclusive. Every conceivable kind of effect will be to encourage more strikes rather than their less disruptive alterdiscrimination against employees for union activities is specifically prohibited, and stiff natives. Taken in conjunction with the fines-up to $l,OOO-and jail terms of two heavy fines on individual workers. for ,months are provided for corporate ofstriking illegally, this all-encompassing fenders. definition of “strike” may prove a serious Reinstatement of employees after str‘ikes handicap to Manitoba unions. By giving individual employees the right and lockouts is made mandatory, and to apply for a union’s decertification, the employers are prohibited from changing Act opens the door to dissidents and wages and working conditions as of the corn pany “stooges” to harass a union date a union files application for certification. Employees cannot be penalized through various legal and technical procedures. If an employee applying for for refusing to perform work normally done decertification can prove support from by striking workers, or for refusing to “Just work hard fok the next 20 years, son, and more than 35 percent of the employees in perform *work “which would directly the bargaining unit, the Labour Relations facilitate the operation or business of maybe you’[l be where I am now.*’ Board will conduct a vote. Since a ceranother employer whose employees are 1 4Where’~ that, Pop?” . tification vote can also be obtained with lawfully on strike ...‘I These are major Wn this ride of the mrchint.” just 35 percent support, this absurd breakthroughs for unions on the legislative provision could lead to an endless sucfront in Canada, and explain why the unions example-as Saskatchewan’s NDP will be in effect before the next election in cession of certification and decertification in Manitoba, despite their distaste for other government did with Medicate-that is so Manitoba, expected before the end of votes. sections of the code, decided to give it obviously successful that other govern1973? The unions aren’t likely to -act The technological change section of the genera I endorsement. ments can’t ignore it. irresponsibly or abuse their new rights in Manitoba code is inferior to the federal The decision of the Schreyer government Whether this will happen with Manitoba’s legislation in several respects. For example, this brief period, so the outcome may hinge not to extend bargaining rights under the new labour code is a matter of some conon the reaction of employers. They could, although it provides for 90 days’ notice of new Act to teachers and civil servants cern. It has so many features that could be conceivably misuse the legislation and changes likely to have an adverse effect on. raises nagging doubts. Labour Minister applied to the detriment of unions that it forment strikes and labour unrest to ema substantial number of workers, it will Paulley says these and other excluded might do labour more harm than good to permit an ad hoc arbitration board to barrass the Schreyer government. Whether groups will be brought under the code next have it emulated in toto across the country. they do or not depends on how much they decide if a change falls in that category. year, but why not immediately? Is the Uppermost in many unionists’ minds is resent or fear the new code, and how This is bound to result in less consistent *government fearful of broadening the another question: Will the. new code get a desperately they want to end the NDP’s and dependable verdicts than those coming code’s coverage before the next election? If fair trial in the comparatively short time it tenure. (as under federal law) from the labour so, it reflects a regrettable timidity on the -reprinted from Canadian dimension relations board. part of a government that has otherwise In Manitoba, an employer who fails or displayed the courage of its convictions. refuses to give the 90 days’ notice will not’ One of the most controversial parts of the be penalized, but will be obliged to give the new legislation is the elimination of the required notice only if an arbitration board mandatory conciliation process. Ever since rules favourably on a union appeal. Unlike it was introduced by Mackenzie King more the federal code,. the Manitoba Act does not than 60 years ago, this has been a corcompel an employer who flouts the nerstone of all federal and provincial labour technological change procedure to reinlaws. Now Manitoba is saying to unions and state and compensate dislocated ememployers, in effect: “It’s up to you to ployees. resolve your own disputes before your These and other defects of the Manitoba existing contracts expire. If you don’t, member: Canadian university press (CUP) and Ontario weekly newspaper association legislation make it far from ideal, from a you’re free to strike, lock out or negotiate a (CWNA). The chevron is typeset by dumont press graphix and published fifty-two labour standpoint. Why, then, have the contract renewal, without having to submit times a year (197271973) by the federation of students, incorporated, university of unions described it as “the most to government-enforced conciliation.” Waterloo. Content is the responsibility of the chevron staff, independent of the progressive in Canada”? Simply because, in Critics of the code charge that this infederation. Offices are located in the campus centre; phone (519) 885-1660, 885-1661 several areas of industrial relations, it novation will foster more strikes, but that’s or university local 2331; telex 069-5248. deserves that accolade. The clauses not necessarily true. It could well have a covering union organizing and unfair labour sobering effect on the parties that will practices by employers are notably promote early bargaining and settlements. superior to those in any other jurisdiction. Knowing they can’t rely on conciliating Friday circulation : 13,000 Equally pre-eminent are sections covering officers or boards to bail them out, they may union security and the protection of be more inclined to bargain in good faith The kids: brian grupp, barbra fraser, nancy boyd, tom gunton, jon mcgill, mel rotman, murray noll workers’ interests during and after a strike. from the outset. jan narveson, george kaufman, paul stuewe, kate williams, dennis “celibate” mcgann, george Understandably, the unions refrained The importance of the Manitoba neeland, ron smitty, kyas ‘n fuzz, leo mcbride, duncan tee, sue murphy, ann stiles, wheels and from openly attacking the legislation, for legislation, in the national context, is that it. dribbles back in action on the bb front, ron colpitts, liz willick, cubberley, difranco, jaine o’connell, fear that their criticism, combined with that may set precedents for other provinces. Susan johnson, paul bamford, gord moore and more, john keyes, don ballinger, fred kemp, aaul of the OppositionTories, employers and the Not being one of the major industrial watkin, bob parkins and the harbingers of a long, long winter. wee Willie and Suzanne stopped by press, might prevent or delay its enactprovinces, Manitoba in and by itself can’t from drapeau’s dump and said hello to everyone in Waterloo. randy, your fotos were out of focus. and george, you’re the eighth wonder of the world. ment. Despite their qualms, they didn’t directly influence the thrust of labour want to risk killing a bill that may lead to a legislation nationally, but it can set an

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Full house for athena swhiming /opener A full house witnessed the closing of the barn doors on the Guelph swim team by the Athena squad Wednesday evening. The locals opened the long swim season with an impressive 81-21 win at the U of 8 w pool. The girls won 11 of the 12 events, broke four team records and one OWIAA league record on their way to the first of many victories. Newcomer Maida Murray set the league record in the 100 yard butterfly in 1:06.7 lowering the old mark by eleven-one hundredths of a second held by team captain . Judy Abbotts. Maida also captured the 400 yd. freestyle driving the old mark of 4:44.3 down to 4:35.6 seconds. Besides winning the fly and freestyle she also went into the 200 yard individual medley and just missed another record. Even so she won in a very fast 2: 27.4 seconds while Cathy Adams also a newcomer on the Athenas squad was second. Margaret Murray, the other swimmin’ sister also will go up on the record board as she won the 200 yard backstroke in a fast 2:36.6 seconds. She took 19.7 seconds off the old mark. Laura Foley, also captain of the Athenas was second with Sue Gillespie coming in third some six seconds ahead of the first Guelph swimmer. The other record set Wednesday . went to sprinter Sue Alderson in the 100 yard freestyle. Sue went a fast 1:00.5 seconds over the distance lowering the old ’ mark which has stood for two years by one-tenth of a second. Sue also took the 50 freestyle but with two other Athenas Debbie Farquhar and Kathy Brown close behind in second and third spot. Diver Laurie Martin’ impressed the large crowd when she took the three metre board winning handily nailing all of the six dives. Laurie also won the one metre event but by only eighty one hundredths of a point over Guelph’s Ruthanne Snider. Maryann Schuett, now in her third season with the Athenas won the 200 yard breaststroke in an excellent 2:57.5. This was the first time she has cleared the three minute barrier and puts her within five seconds of the team record for the distance. Liz Saunders was second also in an excellent 3m.4 seconds and will be a threat at the OWIAA championships. Joy Stratten who has rejoined the Athenas for another season of 1650 yard swims again proved she is in form with an excellent 2:17.5 seconds. This was only some seven seconds off her team record established in the 1970 championships. Sue Robertson, now on her work term came in for the meet and sent another excellent time going within a second or two of her personal best. Sue also doubled in the 400 freestyle to go a fast 5:31.0. Other standouts for the team in Wednesdays meets were Kathy Brown, coming second in the 100 butterfly, Bridgette Zirger, doing some of the best opening season times of her career. Chris L&on

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Gals ‘ball victory Those who missed the first Athena Volley ball League game missed a grand opening. The Waterloo athenas downed the Gelph gryphons three games to zilch. BANG! BANG! BANG! It was as simple as that. The movement on the court Tuesday night possessed finesse , which was lacking when the athenas faced York university in exhibition play, last Thursday. The team was caught with their pants down as they won two and dropped three to York. Those

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Tonight the Warriors host Shaw College at 8: 15 in the People’s jock Shop. Waterloo has eight returnees, six transfer students and two rookies ready to slay the giant. The giant refers to the height advantage that the brothers from Detroit have over the Warriors. Leading the attack on the Warriors wiI/ be six-foot-eight Herb Dickey, the team’s leading scorer. To assist Herb will be six-foot-ten ]im Floyd who, because he was a freshman last year and cannot play pro ba// until he graduates, was unable to join the Baltimore Bullits of the

Tuesday night, heard shrieks of NBA ’ laughter, excitement and maybe ’ even surprise. Cheers emanated from loyal fans and words of wisdom from the coach slipped past the referees. The guelph coach resorted to several time-outs in an attempt to “psych out” our girls. But, the athenas, led by fouryear veteran Jane Fraser,and second year setter Sue McTavish continued to fly high and drive the ball into the areas left unprotected by the gryphons. - The blockers .were also on top of the game, much to the opponents surprise. Credit is due to Di Scarffe, Irene Kwasnicki, and rookie Ina Van Spronsen who I A saved the troops from disaster in many instances. Joining the seven veterans this season, are seven promising rookies. The team acquired height, blocking and spiking power with _ 5’9 learnington rookie Deb Sadler and 5’8 Ina Van Spronsen,, from Mississauga. Other spikers joining the lineup are Cheryl Mango& The warrior volleyball types Mississauga, and Roberta Aude, were at McMaster last Saturday, Toronto. To assist in setting, the for their second exhibition tourteam now has Donna Walters, nament of the year. The from Napanee and Deb LaSalle of volleyballers did the old come Capreol who have potential to from behind trick when they met become fine ball-handlers. Mohawk College in their first Within the next week there are contest of the day. This appeared two chances to watch the athena to set the style of play that the in action. On warrior would follow for the rest of volleyballers Saturday, Waterloo is hosting an the tournament. Give the other guy Ontario Volleyball Association five to six points then try to catch tournament commencing at 9: 00 up. a.m. Next Tuesday, the 21st of November, they face McMaster on In two of the twelve games of the home court at 6 :00 p.m. for their round-robin section of the toursecond league game of the season. warriors unnament the -ron smith derestimated the opponents

Warriors win at Mat

potential. But the two losses were not enough to keep Waterloo out of first place at the end of the roundrobin section. Waterloo and Western would be the two teams to enter the second section of the tournament, to decide the eventual champion. Consistent as they had been -throughout the competition the warriors spotted the western team six points then they began to score. Waterloo won the first game of the match 15-9. In the second game of the match the intrepid warriors granted their opponents a seven to nothing lead. As had been the happening of past games the Waterloo crew started their come from behind pace, but their attempt failed. The rubber match was no different from the other warrior starts, but only six points this time. The warriors used superior jumping, hitting and conditioning to overcome the deficit and turn it into a victory. With the victory over Western went the -championship in the first annual McMaster Invitational Tournament. Next Saturday the v-ballers venture to University of Western Ontario to play in the first round of the western section play of the OUAA. The following sunday, after the Naismith Classic they commence the second round in the People’s Gym. ’

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colquham

The warrior soccer team finished regular season play on a happy note with a 3-O win over the guys from Brock. The team finished the season in fifth position based on a 4-win, l-tie, 7-10s~ record. The university of Toronto won the league title with McMaster in second position. Waterloo showed early strength by blanking the Macmaster marauders 2-0, but could not retain that high calibre of play * Offensively, the team proved to be a more cohesive group potting 18 goals against their opponents while the defense , allowed 31 hardfought goals. Francis Benoit took third position in the league scoring race with six goals, but will not be with the warriors next year due to graduation. Benoit is a veteran of four years and his enthusiasm has been a major part of the team’s overall cohesiveness. Also graduating this year will be team captain Ed Farrell who played three years for the warrior squad.- Rookie coach, and former warrior player, Hans Weisner is looking toward next season with much gusto. Many of this years veterans will return and he hopes I for some immigration to booster a. hot rookie rank.

Against the intrakral

all-stars

The weather was approaching winter as the varsity squad met for their final get-together; this time the opponents were the ‘all-stars’ from the intramural league. The intramural squad showed much more enthusiasm than the tired varsity players and extended an early lead into a 5-2 lop-sided victory. Early in the game, it was apparent that the ‘all-stars’ were up for a runningame and scored their first goal after only nine minutes of the first half. Before the varsity players could organize, the all-stars netted another on a breakaway. The varsity players showed some mid-season form late in the first half when Francis Benoit combined with Colin to place their first marker into the ‘all-star’ net. The first half ended on that note with the ‘all-stars’ leading 2-l. Shortly after the second half began, a melee in front of the varsity net resulted in a pictureperfect goal by Dennis Alolett to give the ‘all-stars’ a two goal lead. A few minutes went by before Dave Brock, by far the outstanding player on the field, scored for the ‘all-stars’ to put them three-up. The varsity team decreased the margin to 4-2 midway through the half, but their energy level was still below the intramural ‘allstars’. A three-way passing play by John Frederick, Tom Dabrosky and Dave Brock easily put the latter in the clear to finish off the scoring for the day, and all headed for warmer quarters. -mcbride

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