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University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 13, number 3.3 friday, february 16, 1973
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on the spot BSA or#what may soon be known as the Board of Entertainment, presented a new by-law governing ,the control and policy of the - organization, to - the council meeting on monday night. It must have been this rumoured structural revolution that brought the council members out of the woodwork in droves to reach quorum in a record five minutes. The sentiment of BSA was that a quasi-separation from the- main body of the federation would serve to increase the variety of entertainment. How they arrived at this conclusion is a story in itself. At the meeting of the BSA executive on nionday, and again at the meeting Wednesday night, the thought was that control of council over the board and particularly, the control of the elected president of the federation who appoints the chairman of the board, was to say the least ‘dangerous’. Therefore they brought up the policy of internal autonomy, with decisions no longer to be subject to the ratification of council. Apparently the finer implications of these reforms escaped the members of council. When they were given the opportunity to question the proposers of the by-law, only Shane Roberts the present president of the federation, felt moved to respond. He did so with unusual force. The new policy would delete all reference to the council as a governing or decision-making body. The board would be composed of the social directors of each faculty’s society, and a chairman appointed by the council but subject to the ratification of the board. This apparently small change seriously threatens the present powers of the president _ and sets a perhaps dubious precedent that other boards could choose to follow. The purpose of this change was an attempt to thwart any possibility of an ‘undesirable’ occupying the aforementioned position of power. In the past, BSA members claimed there have been cases of people using their position to seriously change the face of entertainment at Waterloo. Several times the prominence of blues entertainment in this school t year has been used as justification of the need for this policy. However, the value of the sideeffects of such a reform are questionable. After a debate between Roberts and Jeff Beckner, co-chairman of BSA, the whole question was made to look rather ridiculous when Roberts pointed out another bylaw. In effect as Beckner commented, it gave council the power to “overrule anything it feels likeif it ever got up in the morning.” The interpretation that Roberts and Beckner deduced from the bylaw could have been seriously questioned by the members of council, but no one cared to tangle with them. By-law 1 gave council
the power to appoint the chairmen of boards and to delegate its responsibilities. This was taken to mean that no matter what any board decided, the final say was always in the hands of the council. . Anyway, the by-law went back to the BSA executive for reconsideration until the next council meeting at which time it will come to a vote and also go before a general meeting. The Board of Communication also presented a by-law to establish Radio Waterloo as an existing part of the federation. They had copied their draft from the new BSA by-law and therefore it presented the same difficulties. However, when these points were brought out, there were no qualms -continued
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Jeff Beckner proposed a new cotistitution for the Board of Student council meeting. The by-law, which received strong opposition from fectively altered the present power structure of the federation.
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The majority of the students in Urban and Regional Planning have spoken. Sidney Saltsman, the American engineer, is not acceptable as director of the school. A petition set out on monday, tuesday and part of Wednesday in the Social Science foyer garnered over soo signatures. As soon as the 136 signatures comprising a majority in the department were obtained, copies were sent to professor Saltsman in hopes of persuading him that the best interests of both he and the students would be served by his refusal to accept the post. A telegram informing him of the rising, tide of protests preceded the copies of the petition. Rumour has it that Saltsman has said he would refuse the position if there were strong opposition to his candidacy. Reasons for opposition included in the petition (drawn up’ by second, third and fourth year students and the 85 per cent quota committee) were: l straw votes taken among students of the school consistently indicated a strong majority for candidates other than Saltsman: 0 a straw vote among faculty showed that lo-of 13 supported candidates other than Saltsman. l a strong feeling that the only undergraduate planning program in Canada must have a Canadian director. l a strong feeling that implementation of Saltsman’s conceptual framework and educational philosophy would be detrimental to the development of planning education at Waterloo. Regarding the procedure for bringing directorship candidates to campus, rumours are rampant in the department. One concerns Gerald Hodge, a Canadian planner
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of some note. Originally he was slated to visit before Christmas. Unable. to appear in December, he apparently showed great interest in rescheduling his visit to January. Unfortunately, some unnamed search committee member in attempting to persuade him to make the trip before Christmas so. aggravated him that he withdrew his candidacy, thus reducing the number of Canadian candidates to one-Kiyo Izumi. Many students are dissatisfied with all the candidates and hope to re-open the process. Roughly 40 applications were received and it is assumed that the candidacy of many Canadians without their Ph. D’s were automatically dismissed. The necessity of this prerequisite ils questionable. Further, there is a call to make the list of applications public and allow suggestions for visits of final candidates to be made by the faculty at large. One fear expressed by faculty and ’ students anticipating Saltsman’s withdrawal is that Dean Peter Nash will step into the political vacuum and assume the directorship for the year. This action is clearly contrary to the spirit of the rules of procedure established at the inception of the selection process. If the search committee’s choice proves to be unacceptable, they are to choose another candidate. Earlier in his term as head of environmental studies, Nash took over the vacant post of director of the school of architecture, so the fear is not entirely unfounded. But this option is clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of faculty and studem. It is a non-decision, an abdication of the duty to choose. Further, despite his qualifications, Nash
would not be a wise choice even if he were not already the dean. IThe innovative and idealistic suggestion to emanate from the chaos is that of discarding the position of director in favour of a collective decision-making committee of students and faculty. The inherent authoritarian nature of a linear hierarchy of power would be avoided. It would be replaced by an infinitely more flexible and creative system ; Waterloo’s Planning School would be a unique experiment in citizen ‘participation. And since there is no director at present to defend his vested interest, the time is -most appropriate. When the search committee was struck last year, a minor protest erupted over the issue of student parity. The altercation was quelled by outgoing director Len Gertler. He employed the old argument that rational debate by students would be heard, and added another student to the committee, creating a total of three. The weakness of this approach should now be blatantly obvious. The voice of the
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An OFS executive report revealed the fee strike had.fai.led totally at some institutions and at others, such as Carleton in Ottawa, students must soon pay their fees or be expelled. OFS employs only two people fu&time, and did not have the human resources to co-ordinate the strike, a spokesperson said. Other executive members could not devote sufficient time to the strike because of classes and work with their own -student councils. The OFS report found the Ontario government “powerful and inert” and said new tactics and policies (which were not to be found in the report) are needed to promote student interests. Instead of a fee strike, OFS will publish a newspaper on the educational cutbacks and a leaflet outlining the reasons for cancelling the strike. Member student councils are requested to organize a one-day moratorium of classes on march 13. Seminars and discussions will then be held on the cutbacks, the recently releasedWright commission report on post-secondary Continued on page2 education in Ontario (COPSE) and why the fee strike was not successful. The february 10 session of the “OFS meeting was aborted by a bomb threat. University of Guelph campus police cleared the building where the meeting was being held, and the OFS chairperson asked delegates to reconvene in another building. No one showed up. For lack of a quorum-no new executive could be elected. The general meeting revealed a deep split between militant and conservative elements in the GUELPH (CUP)-The Ontario student organization. There was Federation of Students (OFS) strong disagreement about the cancelled its fee strike at a general moratorium and delegates were meeting held here last &weekend. divided about the COPSE report. Instead, it decided to hold a Most delegates had not read the province-wide moratorium of commission’s final report, but classes on march 13. agreed that a stand should not be OFS organized a provincial taken on the report itself but on the boycott of second term fee legislation which may develop payments to protest the provincial from it. government’s imposition of a $100 One interestingproposal tuition -fee increase and a $ZOO resulted in the striking of a comincrease in the student aid loan mittee to investigate the possibility ceiling. The fee strike began the of uniomzing students under the first of january. labour relations act.
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Dare strike hits CN CN express and truckdelivered freight operations for Toronto and North York were dismptd hst thursday morning by picketing by Dare strikers and supporters protestiug CN’S striktireakjng activities in Kitchener. Thedemonstration, wbicb began at 7 am and involval about 150 people,wasareactiontotheroleof CN management in ensuring continued shipment of the Dare scab produce. Since january, ‘CN truclcsbaveappearedatthestrik~ bound plant to load on products bound for Montreal. Drivers of the CN trucks, members of I4ca.l 164 of the Canadian Brothabood of Railway. and Trampod Workers (CBRT), atfirstrefusedtocrosspicketlines on Dare shippii entrances. CN management countered tbis by s&ding foremen with CN drivers todirectthetruckstoanenhnce wbicb is not picketed because of Supreme Coyrt injunctions. The CBRT has not gained a _ contract provision allowing them to refuse, witbout fear of losing their job6, to cross other unions’ picket lines. Four CN police aud 4 York Regional police were at the picket siteinthefreightyardseIlsuring the trucks would get through, ordering drivers to ‘knave along”, and shoving picketers out of the way. One of the strikers, after explaining to a police officer the reason for the picket line, asked “Are you trying to deprive us of our jobs?” “I’m just doing my job”, came thearcktypalresgonse. The picketers were able to slow down the shipping considerably, and distribute leaflets to the drivers. Five trucks, driven by Teamsters, refusedto cross the picket line, and one driver from CRRT managed to stall his truck for 20 minutes in the driveway. Among suppders who joined the 33 strikers on the picket line were members of the Teamsters union, members of the Waffle and the Old Mole, students from University of Toronto, York University and Glendon allege, as well as women flight attendants from Wardair. (The Ward&stewardesses have been on strike since january lZth, after 14 months of fruitless negotiations, to secure a l&hour limit to their workday, and wage parity with Air cgnada counterparts. Spokeswoman Gail Kumms, said, “It is not unusual for stewardessa to work 24 hours a day,ar&?!Bhoursofdutyareon The War&r stewarrecord.” dcssp receive 42-8Zper cent of the wages of stewardesses for Air CZUX&.) Dare’s United Brewery Workers union, local 173, originally struck on may 29,19X& for less oppressive working conditions, (described by . one worker as “deadly”), a fortyhwrw0thmdanequalpayd~
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for men and women (wom)en are 75 per cent of the work force at Dare). \ The demands were met by the appearance at the plant of Canadian Driver Pool, a professional strikebreaking firm, whose armed agents succeeded in provoking violence, while 40 K-W P&W stood by. The damage to the plant enabled the company to obtain an injunction greatly limiting union activities around the Dare plant, and resulted in the conviction of several strikers. The union is now seeking a conviction from provincial court against the DareFoods company and its vicepresident William Thorn for failing to bargain in good faith. The company lawyer prepared a motion to have the charges quashed on grounds of “multiplicity , duplicity and general confusion”, citing several precedents, all but one of which concerned traffic violations. The union’s lawyer called this a ploy to delay proper administration of justice, but Judge Kirkpatrick agreed to an adjournment until march 27 to review the charges and decide whether to proceed with the case. The union has also initiated a boycott of all Dare products. The effectiveness of the boycott is becoming apparent, as the company goes to great lengths to sell its products. Dare cookies, have now appeared in Sweet Williams, a clothing store. Dale salesmen resort to such tactics as offering special prices and telling store managers and trucking firms the strike is over. Further evidence of the effectiveness of the boycott is the public notice from Dare Foods Limited appearing in monday’s KW Record. It warns the public that any person who interferes with business relationships between Dare and other corporations or persons may be held in contempt of the injunction of june 12, and “will be dealt with accordingly”. The most recent management “offer” has been rejected as an insult by the union, ‘because it constitutes an invitation for the union to destroy itself. The management-proposed nonnegotiable terms would see a minimum of 59 of the 270 Dare strikers returned to work. None of the present scab workers would be replaced. Vice-president Thorn has been unavailable for a meeting with provincial mediator Hal Howell to hear union proposals. And so the strike and the boycott continue with the active participation of almost 200 union m members. -jan
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! More faculty unions? NELSON (CUP)-The Faculty Association of Notre Dame University (NDU) has reapplied for certification following initial rejection by the British Columbia Labour Relations Board. The association’s original ap plication was made in early december, 1972 and the faculty was informed on january 2!3,1973 that the application had been refused. Although no reason was given, it is thought a main reason was that part-time personnel were not included in the proposed union. The new application proposed in: eluding part-time personnel in the union. The faculty association is seeking certification as the only recognized agency representing faculty members in negotiations with the governing body of the university. The faculty association’s immediate goals are: 39 per cent increases, better fringe benefits, and improved working conditions. Association president, A.H. Child said the group hopes to reach a salary level that is “comparable” with the most poorly-paid public univeris ties in Canada”. Full professors at Notre Dame earn under $10,000 a year. Now, the Board of Governors simply presents the faculty with an unnegotiated offer on a take-it-or leave-it-basis. Administration president C.L. Kaller, thinks certicfication is an ideal administrative situation, but does not believe academic work can be done on a time-clock basis. Neither he nor the Board of Governors have taken an official stand. ’ There is concern in the university about the effect certification would have. The institution’s financial situation is somewhat shaky with an $8OO,ooO mortgage to be paid off to the Nelson Catholic diocese. To prevent NDU’s closure, the administration was force to seek an increase in its provincial government grant. It has applied to the Provincial government to become a public institution, but no decision has yet been made.
If certified, the faculty association would bargain with the Board of Governors. Howev.er, the faculty has two members on the Board which may be contrary to the” BC labour laws which ’ differentiate between labour and management. And although there seems to be little argument that the professors are underpaid, the university may not be able to pay them more. Some opposition has come from student leaders concerned about the effect unionization could have on hiring and firing within the as well as the university, possibility of a strike option. Students fear certification might give everyone automatic tenure. Child criticized those who are quick to condemn all unions. Those who denounce labour unions, he said, don’t criticize either labour legislation collective bargaining, butorthe misuse of them. Child said it was “‘insulting” to assume the NDU professors would be one of the groups who would mismanage the power unionization could give them. The only dissenting voices within the faculty association come from a few members who fear certification is the first step in a “downgrading” transition from a ‘profession’ to an ‘occupation’. At present, the Universite du Quebec is the only university in the country with a unionized faculty. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association is awaiting a decisiop on its request for certification.
Deny approval from page 1 students was heard but not listened ,’ to. The time has come to look for a major reappraisal of the current decision-making process. Assuming the faculty are truly interested in student input, the present situation must appear an unmitigated tragedy. Students and professors are moving into polar&d positions. If allowed to continue, the drift could lead to a total breakdown in communication and loss of all dialogue. We must act immediately and in good faith to mend the fences and develop a collective school in which students are treated as equals in all decisions. Two forums for discussing the problems and evolving lasting solutions exist at this moment. First, a curriculum review committee, chaired by Kiyo Izumi, is presently engaged in analysing the content and direction of all course work. Students must be included in this review, which should continue as an ongoing process. Second, the undergraduate contribution to the National Planning Students Conference is concerned with the philosophy and direction of planning education in Canada. No finer opportunity exists to distill and sharpen our ideas on understanding and improving the structures, and functions of the school. For meaningful and selfperpetuating evolution to occur, it is essential that students at all levels involve themselves in these two areas. In itself, however, this will not suffice; we must now move toward the establishment of a democracy within the school.
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2.7 milbon in un,paid loans * QUEBEC CITY (CUPI)-The Quebec Ministry of Education is planning to step up its efforts to recover student loans from those who cannot or will not repay them. Since 1966 when the student loan program began, the provincial government has had to pay banks about $2.7 million loaned to and not repaid by 2,812 students. Included in this delinquent group are ~75 people who died before paying off their loans. An additional 700 cases will cost the government an estimated $1.6 million during the 1972-73 fiscal year. The government is hiring more bill collectors to curb abuses of the student loan program. Martial LeMay, chief education bill collector, says increased manpower in his section will enable more direct contact with former students instead of just sending out letters urging payment. Apparently, the emphasis in recent years has been on controlling the issuing of loans and collection has tended to lag. If students do not get in touch with their bank to make arrangements for repayment of their loan when they finish school, the government must *y the bank the full amount owing and then attempt to recover the amount from the students.
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about altering the wording to suit Roberts. The Day Care centre came under scrutiny as a result of the group’s’ request for financial backing of $1909. The centre has just moved into the farmhouse and the costs of setting up the licensed centre have been much greater than expected. They were required to hire two full-time as well as one part-time staff member. On the other side, they lost the majority of their children because they had been in the campus centre for so long. Parents did not feel comfortable leaving their children in that atmosphere. Roberts and Luke Aujame, Waterloo’s O.F.S._representatives, reported on the status of that body. The fee strike is to be terminated., by having two schools drop out each week until none are still engaged in the action. The withdrawal decision was forced by the administration threat at Carleton and other universities, . deregistration of students for nonpayment of fees. As a reminder of the struggle, a one day provincewide moratorium was called for the 13th of march. This meeting could have been a real confrontation of the issues with the political power structures of council being dealt with seriously. However, the level of interest and understanding made this impossible. -Susan
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The man partly- responsible for responsible for the decline of and the debut of Waterloo’s two student housing co- residences op complexes (Hammarskjold and fraternities. However, the old Oxford concept of residences still Phillip St.) came back for a visit Valentines Day. And his tune has struggled on. It was in this period that student changed considerably from the days when he promoted co-ops as co-operative residences appeared.’ *alternative’ (and cheaper) Universities were now being used Eing style. primarily to obtain a career or Howard Adelman, the wheelerimprove one’s class standing. The dealer who helped force the change poorer students originated the idea in government policy to allow of co-operative residences so that financing for the likes of Hammar they could financially exist in the and Phillip, says he no longer university. From its beginning believes in attempting to change during the depression to the society through such manipulative present, the coop residence movemanoeuvres as establishing co- ment has grown to the point at which it can provide a viable ops. Mind manipulation seems to be alternative to state-operated his newest game. His theory is that residences. people must strive, in all learning Residences in the future may situations, to know themselves become therapeutic institutions. However, student co-operatives do better. This increased knowledge will give them a better perception not need a vision of the future at of reality. The environment or present, but the means to survive society is a secondary aspect in the against governmental taxing and process L mortgages. Adelman could help to Harry Magdoff,-co-editor Review, was on of the magazine Monthly In a discussion at Hammarskjold to clear up co-ops’ hassles with the campus Wednesday and thursday of this week, delivering lectures and House Wednesday night, he said he government, however, it seems on modern imperialism. In dealing with had first heard from Eric Fromm that he wishes to live with his own holding informal discussions 20th century American imperialism, Magdoff stated that throughout the idea that -future co-ops would fatalistic view of the future. the expansionist history of the United States, from 1776 to the opening -kati middleton be “therapeutic communities”. war, that country was involved in some sort of frank goldspin k of the Vietnamese He sees a correlation between military action for three out of every four weeks. the activity of Thera-Fields and the future of co-ops. Thera-Fields is “a community of T-groups”, a meeting. It emerged that costs Students at UQAM and U de M for the meeting facilities were are the major group affected by presently operating in Ontario. the new provincial government fee However, Adelman didn’t being paid by the administration. mention the possibility that a Assembly participants denounced ruling which states that all past including second term Skinnerian community- could form the ad hoc committee’s attempt to debts, under the therapeutic label.) _. split the student ranks. tuitions must be paid by february Although he believes co-ops will - COPE spokespeople, in a 15 or students will face permanent expulsion. A more detailed study lose their diversity with the summary of the strike situation, said the UQAM administration’s by the students reveals that up to eventual application of state control, Adelman felt the recent actions are part of a 3ooo UQAM students and 1000 U de province-wide educational policy M students will be eligible for therapeutic concept wouldn’t cause. an equivalent loss of inof severe cutbacks in the number - expulsion by february 15. A student dividual diversity. An administration attempt to of university students. The new from UQAM expressed the financial barriers would be necessity for solidarity among He tried to apply his theory when split the unity of striking students students from all universities who, one person mentioned flaws in the at the Universite du Quebec a especially burdensome for if not now, will eventually face Phillip Street construction. He Montreal (UQAM), has resulted in working class students. suggested the person examine his the establishment of complete All this comes at a time when the similar economic blackmail. feeling of “being taken” which solidarity between full and partadministration is unveiling plans The students have denounced “economic measures’that become might be caused by more than poor time students and an overfor a $55 million expansion construction. His psychological whelming vote to continue the program. The $15 million in unpaid selective measures”. They want student fees pales to insignificance up to three years after graduation approach failed to stop others from strike and to bypass the adstating that they felt taken, not for ministration by initiating direct when compared to this program. to pay their fees, so no one will be COPE proposed the strike be denied an education through lack psychological reasons, but because negotiations with the Quebec there is a real- maintenance provincial government. continued and that a five-person of money. The UQAM administration problem at Phillip Street. The four-hour meeting, attended negotiating team be set up to deal Adelman, concentrating on his by 1400 students, was the largest directly with education minister continues to insist that the Francois Cloutier rather than the university is ‘open! despite the fact insight into his relationship with since the university was shut down the audience, had missed their by the strike which began january administration. The proposal that picketing has shut it down point. 25 in opposition to administration carried-130;0 for and ten against. since the strike began. Striking Adelman had begun his plans to expel 600 students for late Twenty minutes of cheering and students claim the administration chanting followed the overhas repeatedly sent police to indiscourse with a brief history of payment of fees. The meeting was universities and residences. The called by an ad hoc committee of whelming vote of solidarity. terfere with picket lines and is also first university, he said, started as students from the administration Money to pay for the facilities trying to intimidate professors and courses at the university, and was employees into crossing the picket a homogeneous mixture -of living used for the meeting was then quarters and classrooms. Students intended for part-time students collected, as the students insisted lines. only. The purpose was to discuss Despite these actions both the and their profs lived co-operatively the administration should not have and faced the same problems as the alleged “unrepresentaa hand in the operation. professors’ union and a union modern co-ops. Governments tiveness” of the Comite Provisoire Meanwhile at the Universite de which representsstudent empassed bylaws to outlaw their des Etudiants (COPE). COPE has Montreal (U -de M), students ployees at UQAM have recomexistence and only a proclamation been the spearhead of strike ac- decided to boycott all classes in mended that their members not . from the pope legalized the first tivity and the attempt to discredit arts and social sciences until a cross the lines. universities. them can only be seen as an effort general meeting could be held to The U de M administration, He also described the ‘Oxford to break the strike. fearing widespread discuss further actions. The student concept’ which saw the residence The ad hoc committee proved students at U de M are also protest, has offered to extend the as a place for people with common incapable of running the meeting, fee payment deadline to next protesting the threatened exinterests to live. The residents had however, and COPE members took pulsion of several hundred september. However, students are a common sense of values related over. Members of the ad hoc students for non-payment of fees. still opposed to this inadequate to their area of study. This concept committee were called on to an- As the students began to organize half-measure and plan to intensify of living is much the same as that swer questions from the general the boycott, news came that a the struggle along with UQAM followed by St. Jerome’s and assembly. The students demanded students in the weeks to come. general meeting of science Renison College. Ideally the to know who had financed the ad students had voted to conduct a They emphasize the need to fight residents are united in a common hoc committee, why the committee rotating class boycott. The 300 the ruling now rather than wait search for “truth”. called only evening (part-time) science students voted to attend until summer when the governThe growth of professional students to meet, and who had their examinations but refused to ment could railroad the ruling report for lectures. schools of methodology was given them a mandate to call such through with very little opposition.
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Good filrrls The Film Society of the University of Waterloo has a simple philosophy : ‘Let’s bring excellent films here so that those of us in the area who have been denied a really rich, rewarding film experience do not have to be denied this any longer.’ Because of commercial pressures upon distributors and cinemas in North America to release to the general public only films that can attract and appeal to every popular taste, we see only a small number of the films that are made, the ones which emphasize violence, sex, fashionable trends and superficial concepts of people. These stereotyped mass entertainment films flatten reality and simplify situations and characterizations so that we don’t have to think or come into contact with anything- that is true to life. The Film Society is attempting to introduce film makers from around the world, such as Satyajit Ray of India and Katsu Kanai of Japan. We hope to become more acquainted with many varieties of life styles so we can relate to more people as real human beings and understand that they go through the same processes of human inter-action -as we do. Since individuals have varied tastes and react differently to any a film situation, such as Bergman’s The Silence, which explores the relationships between two sisters and a child, may depress some people, amuse others, create an intellectual or emotional response, or do all of these things. Since good films are truly experiential-that is we bring with us our own personal experiences and ways of reacting-we may interpret the situation in a film differently than another person depending on our mood, state of mind or personal situation. -At least we can experience something that is meaningful to us. Membership in the Film Society is open to everyone in the general community at a cost of $1.00. Each screening will cost 50 cents for members and $1.00 for. nonmembers. Membership cards can be purchased at the door, MC 2066, at 8 pm every monday. General meetings of the Film’ Society are held each Wednesday at 7:30 pm, CC 135. thomas
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many different ideologies pervading @e Black scene. Seme of these ideologies seem to be canflitting, some seem regressive. Hopefully some of these ideologies, On the weekend of friday march March 2 and saturday march 3, the their origins, the reasons for their -- African Students Association and particular slant etc. will be made clear during the symposium. the Carribean Student Association I___--._-.will create a lively African atThe African peoples in this mosphere on this campus. The twocouiitry and the Americans make day Symposium of African Peoples up a stibstantial percentage of the should be a most mterestmg and a population. they occupy a significant portion of the Africa n very educationalweekend . The Symposium will attempt to land-mass and contribute 15 per cent of the global population. The bring to the students on this campus and the general public, direction that these people take in their journey toward progress will new thoughts about African peoples in particular, and the affect the future of- this world. These people then must be unThird World in general. Different perspectives will be presented on derstood. And this understanding theBlack man’s history, his origin, is best achieved through the eyes his relations to the ancient and new of the African peoples. This world-his contributions, his Symposium is a small effort subtractions. Presently there are toward bringing to the public’s knowledge - the people, the movements and the ideology of a race so frequently misunderstood. The controversial professor, Ben Jochannan will address the symposium. A walking encyclopedia of the history of the Black man from his shadowy Although the following information will be of value to all origins to the present era, he has a students, it was designed primarily for students in the co-operative literary record that speaks for, programs. itself. The author of a nuinber of GENERAL pamphlets and books about the Each student has the option of calculating his or her income tax Black man in Africa and the on either the conventional “calendar year” basis, or on an Western World (“Africa ; Mother “academic year” basis. Particularly for co-operative education of Western Civilization; ” “African students, the “academic year” method may result in a tax saving Origin of the Major Western and a more even distribution of tax payable per annum. Religions”; “Black Man of the All claims for tuition fee deductions must be supported by Nile”), Ben Jochannan is conreceipts. Documentation should include your fee statement signed stantly making appearances on at registration as well as receipts covering any amount outstanding campuses and at conferences. One at registration and paid at a later date by monies _- recieved from of the few acknowledged scholarships, or OSAP. authorities on Black history, he BASIC REGULATIONS makes it his constant duty to unA taxation year is the calendar year. fold and unravel the ‘fiistory of the All income earned during a taxation year must be reported for African peoples. the year in which it is received. ___Another Symposium speaker, Tuition fees, providing they exceed $25, may be claimed as a Rocky Jones, a dedicated deduction. Unlike income, which must be declared on a calendar protagonist in the Black man’s year basis, tuition fees may be claimed for any 12 month period revolution, is constantly involved provided that the period begins-in the calendar year for which taxes in grass roots organizing. From are being paid, and provided that the fees have not been claimed the prisons to the universities to previously. (Consult the diagram to determine the most adthe communities ; this brother is a vantageous methods of grouping academic and work terms). tower of experience. Thus NOTE ,qualified to tell the story of the It is the student who is entitled to use tuition fees as an income tax Black man, and a fluent exponent deduction, and not his parent or some other person, even though the of his ideology this brother makes latter may have paid the tuition fees on the student’s behalf. his points with marked precision. Howard Fuller, president of the ACADEMIC YEAR INCOME TAX DISTRIBUTION -L Malcom X University and a downW-Jan-April S-May-August F-Sept-Dee to-earth activist will also participate. He has been to a number of Black countries and com“8” MONTH STREAM munities throughout the world, and 1971 1972 1973 1974 ‘1975 1976 has been to the front lines of F W .S F W S F WSFWSF W numerous liberation movements in r Africa. Fuller hits hard and never 14. 1B 2A 2B 4A 4l3 3A, 3B fails to come home with his points. 2 “academic 2 academic 1 academic 2 academic His constant contact with various 1 work term 2work terms 1 work 2work terms involved and progressive Black “4” MONTH STREAM . movements authorizes him to expound the facts of the Blackman-on-the-move. These and other speakers and activities are planned for the march second weekend. Be 2 ttLtLniZA 4B assured that those who attend from the local universities and towns will be rewarded with a fruitful CHANGES IN INCOME TAX REGULATIONS experience they will never forget. Under new tax legislation, the parent or guardian is allowed a Watch for posters on campus and maximum deduction of $550 for wholly dependent children over 16 L later issues of the chevron for years of age. If the dependent’s Net Income exceeds $1050, that part more detailed information. in excess of $1050 is subtracted fromthe $550. That which remains is -clive bernard the allowable deduction for the parent or guardian for his wholly dependent children. Moving Expenses: If a student goes away to school the cost of getting there the first time may be deductable from the student’s - income, if he-she attends school more than 25 iniles from home and lives there. Vacation expenses to and from home are not allowed in this package. However, moving to take a new job after school (this includes each coop work term) falls within the deductions package. Coming home to visit does not. Scholarships, fellowships and bursaries in excess of $599 in any year are to be included in income. Full-time students are allowed a deduction of $50 per month for each month of full time attendance in the year. *DUBLIN (Reuters&A selfc A deduction of 3 per cent net employment income to a maximum confessed British agent was of $150 will be allowed as employment expense. acquitted in the Irish High Court IN CONCLUSION 2 Tuesday because the information The co-ordination department realizes that not all individual he was accused of obtaining was problems are covered in the above. If problems do arise, we too secret to be mentioned in court. suggest that you contact the local income tax office. We have been The state prosecutor said that if asked by the local income tax authorities to emphasize that all the contents of the offending members of their department are available to discuss your tax documents were mentioned the problems with you whenever the need arises; free of charge. court itself might be prosecuted for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
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an incomplete may be assigned by an instructor with his department’s consent. This extension of c mpletion date is granted as a pr’vilege s, and instructors should not feel that students have a right to an incomplete. The extension shall be for a specified period of time and in normal circumstances shall be no longer than three months for a half course or seven months for a full course. The opposition. This council appears to have _ an underlying philosophy of education that is both anti-progressive and definitely reactionary. David Robertson stated that “we should be moving in a direction of opening up possibilities for students, not restricting them; we should let the students pace themselves throughout their education, not limit their freedom. ” This argument was supported and elaborated by Jim Dyal (Psychology) who cited the Toronto experience. The defense. Ken Davies (History) said “We’re making this motion to protect the students against the professors that just take off and forget about the incompletes students have gotten. (And besides UGAG has worked for months on this, we just can’t throw it out).” Judy Wubnig (Philosophy) said “There’s one thing students have to learn in life and that is how to meet deadlines.” (doesn’t that smack of “Let’s discipline the little buggers.“) And another said “I’ve got incompletes from years ago, how can I mark a paper now, I have to go back and re-read other essays.” why? Opposition. Dyal said “don’t generalize your difficutly to the entire body.” Leo Johnson said “I want the right to give incompletes to whomever and for however long I want, without having to justify it. Students should not be restricted, some of them like to work over the summer and they must have that opportunity .” . Defense. Ken Davies again; “but there are literally hundreds of incompletes’: and by implication that makes things so messy and untidy-efficiency, long live ef ficiency 1. It’s strange that no one in attendance knew the present regulations, yet they wanted them changed to a more restrictive system. The vote is taken-21 in favour 8 opposed. Students lose again.. .Leo Johnson demands that the secretary record that the student members all voted in opposition to the motion. Isn’t that the way it always is.... Stay tuned for the next meeting and more fun and games. Items to be discussed are selfevaluated grades, and A and B requirements. What are they going to do to us next.
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shows up by himself, snatches one of each of the handouts and begins reading’(1 still to this very date am not at all sure what happened to Jeff Beckner’s) Shane is still nowhere to be seen. The sky darkens ! Andrew walks forward and starts the first of the horrors hoisted on the honourous heirs. Before this issue was pseudo settled our beloved CR0 had made several final decisions-all of them different ! And 7 hours later neither Shane’s nor Andrew’s letters were enclosed. But even before- this had our “fuck ups” begun, Andy had his campaign posters up before nominations had closed, which as we all know, is contrary to our nonexistent rules. But this time ignorance of the law was an excuse-or reason? The next- episode I found of corrupt campaigning came at the first “Meet the Candidates” “meating”, where Tom Duffy of EngSoc obviously preoccupied peuqued out the already dead issue of the out-term vote. Shit was called for and 80 asses strained. Telegdi & Duffy went back to the CR0 after the ballots had been mailed and demanded another final decision that the ballots be spoiled and the Federation pay for the printing up of 4 other bulletters and hold a revote holding up the election date. I would now like to make a short note that Tom Duffy is up for Telegdi’s vice President. -As things turned out, our crusading CR0 threw out the idea, to say the least-and Andy got 28 misguided votes. Back on campus, Andy realized that if he were to win this election he would need an overwhelming majority of on campus votes to countermand Shane’s co-op conquest. Thanks to the brilliant minds of Doug and Era, Andy’s campaign managers, this election was bought and paid for in one of the most blasee manners. It is rumored from reliable private sources that Mister Telegdi shelled out more than $500 to buy votes. Is this an example of how our finances will be handled in the future? Or will Andy tone down his extravagences when it comes to our quarter of a million dollar corporation?
w-hat r happened? What happened? Twa weeks ago nobody thought the incumbent Shane Roberts could possibly be defeated. I myself had severe doubts about the election; though Andy seemed to be rather optomistic, or at least lead people to _ believe he was optomistic since the onset. It is for this reason I wrtie this article, to shed a little light on the black minds of Waterloo students. It is evident that the students of Waterloo no longer wanted the beacon of Shane Roberts on their rugged coastline; or is it? I have never seen the likes of which this election was held and won before in my political history. The out-term vote (co-op students on work term) indicates firstly the probable outcome of the election if, and a big if, there had been no campaigning. That is, Shane’s 200 votes to Andrew’s 80. Why, might you ask did I, an unknown student get more than double the out term vote of Andy? Well, this was due to one of many out and out fuck ups in this election. Because of a lack of any real bylaws governing candidates, campaigns or elections a certain gruesome twosome made up of a Federation secretary and CR0 decided that back stabbing and secret dealings might as well begin with the dispersal of nomination forms. In the past, it has been federation policy to allow one “bullshit” sheet per candidate to go out to the co-op students in the same envelope as the ballots. The deadline given for these sheets was a tuesday morning to some can-. didates whihe others were not informed of this service or deadline at all. As a result, our stalwart noble new president Andy had his conglomerate cutup concocted that tue,sday morn. And Shane seeking to subdue this subtle sting, refuted, rebutted and retaliated in his tardy tender. Tuesday went by, as did wednesday the date by which nomination forms were due.- I handed mine in one hour before the deadline and was informed that if my handout was to be hussled it would have to be in, in an hour, but out of the sheer goodness of the secretary’s heart I was granted an extention to the following morning provided I like the other candidates supplied 8 campaign workers to do the envelope stuffing. Thursday morning and 12 thousand pieces face me alone to be stuffed into 2 thousand envelopes. One hour and 700 en- velopes later Andrew promptly
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This was a long letter and (like many of the others) hand-written and difficult to read. The spelling and grammar are pretty much what the cynical news editor of a ‘student’ ‘newspaper’ comes to expect from university students. They do however tend to obscure what might be valid points the writer is trying to make. I do not mean to center Steve out. Judging by the copy which flows across my desk each week en route to the pages of the chevron, he is not atypical. The tragedy of the situation lies% in an educational system which after 13 to 20 years immersion therein, churns out the ‘educated’, many of whom have still not ‘learned’ either a facility for, or a love of, their native -_ language. When a news story comes in, it is edited for spelling, grammar, punctuation, flow, sentence structure and sometimes, with the
reporter, content. Feedback presents a problem. It is a forum for you, the readers, to express opinions, criticisms, approvalwhat ever you will. It is never edited for content. It is my personal opinion that such letters should appear exactly as written. rrrrrr All potential contributors to chevron’s feedback column, please note: in future, all feedback letters will be run exactly as submitted. UNTYPED LETTERS WILL NOT BE PRINTED, unless valid reason is given to justify having our meagre staff spend the time involved in typing other people’s copy.. You are welcome to use our typewriters any time the office is open. Please double space and use a 32 or 64-stroke line. All letters should be signed with name, year, faculty and phone number. This information always appears in the feedback logo, so this is the last time warning will be given in the column itself. -the lettitor
I do write! Dear Sports Editor, In reply to your suggestion regarding women’s intramurals in the last feedback column, I would like to inform you that it was not necessary-I do write the women’s intramural report! As a matter of fact, it was at your ‘own typewriter that I wrote that letter to you as well as some of the intramural reports. ‘I can sympathize with you in your position, for I too am not only following an academic course but also working full time. I must agree with you in that criticism with no tangible results is of little value. Unfortunately, at this time, there are other things higher on my. list of priorities which prevent me from involving *myself much further than as an athletic rep and intramural reporter. If for no other reason than having created a little publicity for women’s sports - and drawn students’ attention to them, I thank you for the opportunity to air my discontentment. Perhaps we’ll finally collide someday in the chevron office. cyndy
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Uncle Bill? <We the students of U of W have lost what many of us considered to be a good Prof. Bill Wadge has been recently fired from his position in the Faculty of Mathematics. Although his students have done well and he is well liked by his classes, his research is not considered ‘acceptable’ for the renewal of his contract. This is unfair to Bill and the students. If a professor can teach a class and the class can enjoy it at the same time, that is the best kind’ of professor. In my opinion the administration should review this decision. leonard
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Twinkles stops bus Sunday evening the Graycoach Bus was delayed for forty-five minutes due to a small kitten named Twinkles. The bus driver, (who wouldn’t give his name) after hearing the kitten’s Meows, stopped the bus in Dundas, indicated it was against the law for animals to ride the bus and that the owner would have to take Twinkles off the bus. The lady (owner) indicated that she had no other way of getting back to Waterloo. The driver stated to just let the kitten go and she could continue the ride. She refused to move from her seat. The driver said then that he would have to get the police to remove her. By this time a police car had stopped and the driver crossed to the car and after talking with them for some time returned, and drove on to a telephone booth to make a call. Upon return he took the lady’s name and address and the bus continued on to Waterloo. Will this lady be fined for this offense? If she is, is it fair? Isn’t the intent of the law to protect the safety of the passengers? Shouldn’t circumstances be taken into account in laws? Twinkles obviously was not a threat to safety. Maybe Mr. bus driver just had a bad night. In any case I think the case should be followed up. rob Stirling
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This letter is another in protest against the unnecessary release of good profs. Bill Wadge has shown himself to be a sympathetic, approachable professor who consistently held interesting, and consequently, well-attended lectures in Math 129 and Math 240B. For this, the university is letting him go, supposedly a measure forced on them by lack of funds. If this is so, why are they hiring new postdoc’s? Why must we gamble on some new lecturer when Uncle Bill has already proved that he can do a competent job? The university should grab good lecturers, not release them. diane downes dave bennett
Problem in planning I am concerned as many other planning students are, over the recent results of the director search. It seems to be general knowledge that there is a feeling of discontent over the fact that the applicant who was chosen is American as well as being specially versed in quantitative methods. The problem is augmented when Saltzman (director elect) is not viewed simply as another American faculty member but rather as an American who will have quite a significant role in directing the planning philosophy in Canada or at least the educational philosophy of this field. I feel that there still remains a distinctive cultural difference or feeling between the two nations. I am not waving banners nor brewing nationalism but rather am hoping to save our environment from the mistakes that we find are so evident in the U.S. Canadian cities are, still full of vitality. They are social, living organisms, and thus far the planning school has attempted to reflect this and emphasize the social elements. Many American cities in contrast are sickly, desolate, and ugly. Perhaps I am being too presumptuous in assuming that the realities of the American situation are in part a result of the attitudes of the people. Often Canadian cities are described as the America of twenty years ago, so it is upsetting to see Canadians import the American way. ken moffatt planning 2
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Birth Planning Again : Open discussion at Health Services each Wednesday
Gay Liberation Movement, general meeting. Everyone welcome. For Further information: CC 217C or call extension 2372. Jazz discussion group meeting. Topic “The Use of the Bass in Jazz”. Everyone welcome. 8-10 pm 39 Spring Dale Dr., Bridgeport.
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TUESDAY SUNDAY Arab Variety Show. featuring dancing and Arabian music. Admission $1.00 for ASA members, $2.00 others, children !§.50. 2 pm, Theatre of the Arts.
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PAL. Do you need legal information? Have you got hassles with the law, your landlord? Do you want to know your rights? 7-lo:30 pm Renison College main building. Paralegal assistance call 884-4400.
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bedrooms, 2 fuil bathrboms, kitchen, living room, dining room, dining area, $225 per month. 578-0695. Townhouse to sub-let summer term (may-august). Ideal for 4 people. Lakeshore Village. Partly furnished. $188 per month, Call 884-0363 or write D. Smyth, 529C Sunnydale PI., Waterloo, Ont. Apartment to sub-let. May 1 to Sept. 1. 2 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 minutes from Westmount Place, 10 minutes from campus. Phone 7458562. First deadline for summer applications (for seniority to count) for co-op is march 9. Information and applications available from Waterloo Co-operative Residence Inc., 280 Phillip St., 8843670. Get yours in on time. Make swapping and sharing assignments easier. Take advantage of a group plan from co-op for summer ‘73.
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The men who run the giant oil companies are by -far the most powerful men in the industrial world.- The modem industrial state depends on energy, and accordingly the men who control the energy in large measure control the state. When they choose to wield their power, the oilmen are listened to, and usually obeyed. They have chosen to wield their power now. The result is the Energy Crisis of 1973. In Canada, the crisis has given new urgency to the continuing energy debate, a key part of the more general debate about who will control the Canadian economy, who will profit from it, and how it will be run. /Until recently, most Canadians have understood little and cared less about energy, living in a happy ignorance carefully nursed and tended by successive federal govemments. But with the growth of such movements as consumerism, environmentalism and nationalism in the late sixties, people began to make it their business to know just what was going on in the shady nooks of government economic and trade policies, areas previously assumed to be beyond the ken of the participatory hordes. The Great Canadian Energy Debate was inaugurated by the unforgettable Joe Greene, then minister of energy, mines and resources in the Trudeau cabinet. It happened in - of all places - Washington, the date was December 4, 1969, and the occasion later came to be known as the Gee-Whiz Conference.
Thirteen years earlier, President Eisenhower, in keeping with the protectionist policies of the United States at the time, imposed quotas on U.S. imports of Canadian crude oil. The quotas at the time were meant to shield the domestic oil industry in the U. S . from outside competition. They have since been a lever, for the Americans in any trade negotiations with Canada, as the Canadian industry has always sought to extend foreign markets for its crude oil. But now Walter Hickel, the American secretary of the interior with whom Greene had just met, was proposing a new idea: continental energy integration. Greene could not contain his enthusiasm. He told the press later that “this is a great opportunity for Canada. ” Asked whether it would mean a substantial economic integration .of the two countries, Greene replied: “Yes, I think it ;vould . ’ ’ All over the world, the last forty years have witnessed the struggles of dozens of countries, from Mexico to to regain control of economies Libya to Indonesia, strangled by American ‘ ‘multinationals’ ’ and especially the powerful oil companies: Standard of New. Jersey, Standard of California, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf. And now Joe Greene was going to reverse the tides of history over lunch. Back home, Greene met the full wrath of betrayed nationalists and a horrified cabinet. The continental energy scheme wasn’t going to happen quite as precipitously as Joe had thought. Greene himself, in one of history’s more startling turnabouts, later turned up as a nationalist of sorts.
In the summer of 1971, President Nixon announced that the U.S. would remove quotas on Canadian crude if the two countries could reach agreement on dealing with oil supplies in an emergency. The U.S. was in sight of an energy shortage and needed a stable supply. No such agreement was reached but short-term energy deals were made, and there were massive Canadian sales to the U.S. At the beginning of this year, rumblings of an energy shortage in the States grew louder. Instead of isolated stories on the inside pages of newspapers there , were now front-page items on the closing down of schools in North Dakota for lack of heating fuel. Economists gave dire warnings of severe price increases, in Canada as well as the U.S., that could accompany a shortage if the American crisis were not relieved. Senator Henry Jackson, chairman of the U.S. Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, stepped up his call for freer oil trading with Canada. Always an advocate of a continental energy policy, Jackson now called for an end to the oil import quota system where Canada was concerned. The energy crisis was taking shape. Monday, January 8: Shell Can~du announces an increuse of 20 cents per-barrel in the price of Western Canadian crude. The domestic price of gasoline will therefore go up one cent per gallon. Tuesday, January 9: Imperial Oil, the Canadian subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, does the same. Three others follow suit. Wednesday, January 10: Senator Juckson opens the Sennte Committee hearings on energy policy in Washington. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton argues before the committee that the US. “must pursue’ ’ a continental energy policy regarding oil, gas and other energy supplies to North America. He dismisses the Soviet Union as a, potential source, saying “I can think of a lot of better places to spend our money. ’ ’ Senator Jackson urges his government to give “much higher priority to relations with Canada as far as our energy problem is concerned.” J Thursday, January II: The urgency of Senator Jackson’s position is underlined by a rash of newspaper stories about heatless homeowners, schools shut down, airlines running on minimum supply, and industrial employees laid ‘off, primarily in snowbound Minnesota and the Dakotas. “Winter moves fast. Oil moves slow. That is, the trouble,’ ’ says a: petroleum industry spokesmun. The television program CBS Reports makes the suggestion that the oil is moving slowly not because it h hard to get but because the oil industry is making sure it is. The oil companies have in fact said to the American government that unless it will grant them the price increases and protective tarifs they demand, they will not “be able to extract and refine the existing petroleum resources in a wuy that is economically feasible for them.” As a measure, there are reports that three producers in the oflshore Louisiana fields have asked for an immediate 73-percent price increase and want further annual increases which would drive their prices to twice * current levels within seven years.
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The head of a southern gas company says, “We don’t have enough gas to go around. We can’t get en&gh to keep everybody in gas.” Donald Macdonald, successor to Joe Greene as Canada’s minister of energy, mines and resources, is. attacked in the House of Commons on the government’s stand on the energy crisis. The NDP’s Tommy Douglas points out that the demand for oil in the U.S. is already pushing up the price we must pay for oil here. Don Getty, Alberta’s minister of intergovernmental ufiairs, is quoted QS warning that Canada is now facing an energy resources crisis of its own. &&&&uzld replies with his-intention tif’ ‘reserving supplies agaitist thefiture needs of Canada, and then selling any surplus. ’ ’ adding that “there is no danger to Canadian energy supplies.’ Headline in the Sarnia Qbserwerr “Energy Crunch Reaches Sarnia. ’ ’ W. B. Caswell, manager of Dome l
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Oil Co. in Sarnia, reports that its storage supply of 500,000 barrels of liquid petroleum gases is depleted and its plant is shipping directly-out of production. Statistics Canada reports cheerfully that energy shortages in the United States mean increases in Canadian mineral production, notably fuel production, which in 1972 rose by $2.3 billion or 15.6 per cent over 1971. Friday, January 12: The U.S. Federal Power Commission reports that U.S. natural gas reserves fell in 1971 by 7.1 per cent to 161.3 trillion cubic feet. To remind us.
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Wednesday, January 17: President Nixon signs a proclamation increasing the quota on Canadian crude oil imports east of the Roxkies by 93,000 barrels a day to 675,000. This means Canada will export at least 30 million more barrels of crude and finished oil to the’ United States this year than in 1972, if the Canadian government so wishes. Monday,.
January
22:
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Jackson
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his
Scenario by James‘
government to abolish the importquotas entirely without asking any return concessions from Ottawa. The irony and inappropriateness. of the ofSer is apparently lost on .Donald Macdonald. , At this point, both sides revived the Mackenzie Pipeline debate, dormant since the October elections. The oil companies and other proponents of-the pipeline from Alaska and the Canadian Arctic to southern Canada and the American midwest stepped up the campaign to get on with the building, which has also been dormant, in the midst of the panic. Tactics have included newspaper stories like one in the Winnipeg Free Press of January 23: “Pipeline Would Aid Unity, Says Geologist. ” The man was talking about Canadian unity. Meanwhile, opponents of the pipeline increased their publicity campaign, as the National Energy Board hearings on the project, scheduled to begin in March, approached. Wednesday, January 24: Donald Macdonald announces the government’s intent to hold hearings on the environ-
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mental and social eflects of the Mackenzie pipeline, in addition to the NEB hearings. He told a Toronto audience that the pipeline ’ ‘would be essentially to meet Canadian rather than American needs. ’ ’ For a man who could take advantage of hindsight, Macdonald is sounding oddly like Joe Greene without the bells on. Nixon’s relaxing of the quotas without, so far as we know, any concessions on “security” from Ottawa is a clear admission of desperation. But it is open to several interpretations, ranging from the plausible to the paranoid. l Does Nixon need new fuel supplies to call the bluff of the oil companies, who now have guns in his back? l Are the companies and the U.S. government cdoperating in a massive effort to exert moral suasion on the Canadian people, who will be portrayed as refusing their bounty to freezing schoolchildren? Meanwhile, the B-52s executing the last, purgative raids of the war over Hanoi did not suffer for want of fuel.
sell-out
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For a few weeks now, American energy companies and the Canadian and U.S. governments have been treating the people of both countries to a well-orchestrated energy scare so that they can carry out programs that will rearrange the energy industry on this continent. Hearings in ‘the U.S. Senate, a report from the Ontario government and planned hearings by Canada’s National Energy Board have been highlighted against the backdrop of a winter oil distribution crisis in the United States. The crisis is being built up to convince Americans that unless the plans of the energy companies are allowed to go ahead, the U. S . will face cold, empty schoolrooms in winter and failed air-conditioning equipment in summer. For Canadians, as the Ontario government report put it recently, the energy crisis is a “spill-over” from the crisis in the United States. The American crisis flows from a record of bad domestic planning for the past 20 years. It arises from the Pentagon’s fears of America becoming too dependent on oil imports from politically shaky countries. A further worry is caused by environmentalists, who have been getting in the way of the building of electric- power plants and strip mining for coal. These factors, taken together, have created an energy problem which Washington authorities see lasting until the mid-1980s. After that, they hope, technology will bail them out and new sources of energy will become available and take the pressure off fossil fuels. American proven reserves for both natural gas and oil stand at about 10 years supply. Natural gas, the non-polluting wonder fuel, is in the most serious trouble. In 1971 it supplied 35 per cent of U.S. energy needs and only. three per cent of this was imported. The U.S. National Petroleum Council projects that by 1985 the absolute amount of natural gas used will decline slightly, and that, relatively, natural gas will fall sharply from more than one third to about one sixth of American total energy supply. About one third of this gas will be imported by 1985, according to this projection. Just over 40 per cent of U.S. energy supply now co-mes from oil, 30 per cent of which is imported., According to the National Petroleum Council, by 1985 oil will still provide the same proportion of American energy as it does today - but by then 60 per cent will be imported. A sure sign of the current crisis is the revival of coal production in the U.S. It will move from supplying under 20 per cent of American energy to almost 25 per cent - passing natural gas in importance. 2 / Last Post Special
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Of course, these projections for U.S. energy use are ,based on the assumption that the same philosophy of energy use will remain dominant. Fully 50 per cent of American energy output is now absorbed by transmission losses, mechanical inefficiencies and incomplete combustion. And that is without even questioning the priorities of U.S. energy use. It is obvious that a country that maintains 93 million cars and 185,000 planes and that charges cheaper rates for fuel the more an industry uses can only survive by living off the energy resources of much of the world. In the long term, the Americans are hoping the energy crisis will be ended by nuclear power, and particularly by the fast breeder reactor which produces more fuel than it consumes. They are also looking to giant windmills, solar energy, hydrogen fuel for jet aircraft and even human waste as potential sources. The assumption is that technology will come through as it always has. And whether or not+ that assumption is correct, the effects of the energy crisis on Canada will be determined by that view of the problem.
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Energy companies expect an announcement soon from President Nixon that the Federal Power Commission will take the price ceiling off natural gas and allow it to rise to levels determined by market forces. This will set off a frantic exploration surge for the remaining reserves in the U.S. It will also increase the price of natural gas in Canada. Even before the recent distribution crisis in the U.S., Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed had announced that he wanted a two-price system for natural gas - one for Alberta and one for the rest of North America. Under Alberta’s royalty arrangements, two thirds of the proposed increased price would go to the energy companies, and one third to the provincial government. Even if the federal government or the courts finally decide that Alberta cannot establish a two-price system for gas between Alberta and the rest of Canada, Lougheed will have won popular support within Alberta for his increase . And now Ontario has got into the act with its own report on energy. The report, produced by a task force
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chaired by former Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada John Deutsch, warned that the large bulk of Ontario’s energy is imported from outside the province, and that it can expect supply problems and cost increases related to the American energy crisis. The energy crisis is being handled both in the United States and in Canada to convince the public that a price increase is justified. Also of great importance is the effort to convince people that we are facing an emergency, and that environmental purists who have been gaining an audience lately shouldn’t be allowed to interfere with the quest for life-giving sources of fuel. In Canada the crisis mentality is being fostered to convince Canadians that it is reasonable to expect that much more of our oil and gas will be exported to the thirsty U.S. and that we had better start tapping Arctic reserves fast if we want to‘ heat our homes and fuel our industries. ‘\%The Mackenzie Valley pipeline is now being floated on the psychology created- by the energy crisis. First conceived in the late sixties, the pipeline would bring natural gas from Alaska and the Canadian Arctic to southern Canada and the American midwest. Several years of intense jockeying between two rival Project Study Group and syndicates - the Northwest the Gas Arctic System Study Group - each with its own scheme for the pipeline, has now ended in a merger. To this merged syndicate were added Imperial Oil Ltd., Gulf Oil Canada Ltd., Shell Canada Ltd. and Canadian Pacific Investments Ltd. Add to that the Canada Development Corporation controlled by the federal government and the result is the most powerful array of corporate and state power ever gathered on behalf of any project in this country’s history’. Liberal cabinet ministers have been toasting the pipeline with rhetoric for some time. Prime Minister Trudeau described his vision of Mackenzie Valley development in these terms: “It is expensive, but so was the Canadian Pacific Railway a century ago. Is it too big a project for Canada? Only in the view of those who have lost faith in what Canada is all about. ” Before the end of the year, the National Energy Board will begin hearings on the mammoth project. The NEB is now considering ways to prevent the hearings from being bogged down by “nuisance groups” like PolluTion Probe that have no “legitimate” financial stake in the development, but who are merely concerned with such vagaries as the future of the Canadian environment. For Canadian government ministers though, the coming NEB hearings are little more than a formality. In March 1971 Jean Chretien, minister of Indian affairs and northern development, told a Dallas, Texas audience: “We in Canada would welcome the building of such a gas pipeline through our country and would do everything reasonable to facilitate this particular development . . . An oil pipeline would also be acceptable. In other words, if it is felt desirable to build an oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay direct to the mid-continent market then a right-of-way through Canada I am sure can, and will be made available. ‘) Shortly thereafter, Jack Davis, minister of the environment, stated in Vancouver that he was 90 per cent sure that the building of the Mackenzie Corridor could begin by 1973. Clearly government ministers were willing to move on the pipeline more quickly than the oil companies. It is difficult to disagree with Dr. Douglas Pimlott, chairman of the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, that “the Mackenzie Valley would probably have had a hurryup pipeline if the international petroleum executives had opted to put one there. ” Canada’s energy minister, Donald Macdonald, has. added his praise to that of other cabinet ministers for the initiative being shown by the o&companies in moving into the north. He has also been trying to convince the. Americans that a Mackenzie Valley pipeline is preferable to a transAlaska and west-coast shipping route for Alaskan oil and gas. In May 1972, Macdonald highlighted the security of the Canadian route as its chief advantage for the Americans. In a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, the energy minister wrote: “There would be many advantages arising from the use of a Canadian pipeline route. We believe it would enhance the energy security of your country by providing an overland route for your Alaska oil production, thereby servicing the oil deficit areas of the mid-continent and also the Pacific North West. “Canada has an interest in the energy security of your country, and this land route fbr Alaska crude oil would enhance that security of supply to deficit areas in the
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United States. Furthermore, this security of supply could be further enhanced during the interim period of northern pipeline construction by extra Canadian-crude. “’ Not only has Macdonald been using the se;urity argument as the key to attracting the Americans to the Mackenzie Valley route, he has also been engaging in secret talks with the U.S. on the security of eastern Canada’s oil supply.
U.S. demands security The security issue is critical to energy negotiations now-going on between Canada and the U.S. ’ When the U.S. contemplates the prospect of importing 60 per cent of its crude oil from abroad by the early 198Os, Pentagon strategists are filled with terrified visions of political unrest in the Arab countries. The Shultz Report, entitled The Oil Import Question: A Report on the Relationship,, of Oil Imports to the National Security was presented to the U.S. cabinet in February 1970. The ultimate nightmare of the authors of the Shultz Report (George Shultz is now Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon administration) was that all the oil producers of the middle east, -north Africa and Venezeula could get together and boycott the markets u of western Europe and the United States to get a better trade deal with industrial oil-consuming countries. A major part of the solution to these fears of insecurity of foreign supplies lay in locating “safe” sources of foreign supply. Throughout the report, Canada was assumed to be the best bet. “The risk of political instability or animosity is generally conceded to be very low in Canada. The risk of physical interruption or diversion of Canadian oil to other export markets in an emergency is also minimal for those deliveries made by inland transport”, said the report. But the Shultz Report was not entirely happy with Canada. The problem it saw was that east of the Ottawa valley, Canada’s oil markets were supplied from the middle east and Venezuela. Therefore, in the event of a ‘supply interruption, Canada might be expected to shift its western oil from the United States to Montreal to supply eastern Canada first. This problem tended “to subtract from the security value of U.S. imports from Western Canada’ ’ . The report concluded: “Some provision for limiting or offsetting Canadian’ vulnerability to an interruption of its own oil imports should therefore be made a precondition to unrestricted _ entry of Canadian oil into our market. Full realization of the security benefits implicit in such a preferential arrangement is also dependent on the development of common or harmonized United States-Canadian policies with respect to pipeline and other modes of transportation, access to natural gas, and other related energy matters.” What the Americans want from Canada is not simply a commercial source of oil (they can get that from the Middle East more cheaply), but a political guarantee of security of access to resoumes that will involve a commitment by the supplier country to give up frge choices for the future in defining surpluses, ownership and marketing methods for resources. In 1970 however, the Canadian government was unwilling to talk to the U.S. about the security of eastern Canadian oil supply. In a speech to American oilmen
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Of the mines of this vast region little is known of that part east of the Mackenzie River and north of the Great Slave Lake . . . . The petroleum area is so extensive as to justify the belief that eventually it will supply the larger part of this continent and be shipped from Churchill or some more northern Hudson’s Bay port to England. - Third Report of the Senate committee on northern resources, 1888 We must develop all our resources. We are told that Mackenzie, going down the Mackenzie river 130 years ago, found oil in that section of the country. I have statistics to show where we buy our gasolene (sic) from, and most of our money spent on gasolene goes to the United States. We have our oil wells up in the Mackenzie River district and we need a railway there to enable private enterprise to develop them. Of course the great Imperial Oil Company will put in their plant, but that will be another monopoly. If the Imperial Oil Company, the big child of the Standard Oil Company puts in a pipe line, you will not see cheaper oil. A railway line must be built or some other method of transportation provided. It would cost a great deal of money to put in canals or locks, but there should be some way of getting into that vast territory. . - W. K, Baldwin (Stanstead) Debates, House of Commons, 1921 Last Post Special
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Valley gas, and later Ail pipeline is begun, it will affect this country”s ecmomy as well as 2s sovereignty. The most obvious eff&t &bill be to raise the cost of oiI and gas in thada, Canadian natural gas prices are already rising to meet the US. cost, in part because of 1 sale to that country in September 1970 of 6.3 trillion cubic fet of gas, worth about two billion dollars. When Nixon lifts * price ceiling on natural gas, we can expect more upward pressure on the price for .. Canadians. And, of course, the export to the US, of about half our output of gas and oil depletes our sources in Alberta more quickly, forcing us north to the more expensive reserves, Macdonald pointed out that at our present rate of consumption (including e&or& to the U-S.) we have proven resenves for something like 18 years in oil, and 28 years in natural gas. Tberefm, we must be active in expanding the resema through exploration, esp+ally in the north. More than half our oil production is now exported to the U.S., compared with only, 22 per cent in 1960. T’he problem is that oil and gas is an increasing-cost industry in which economies of scale work only in transportation, “I”be more you extract the higher the cost of ex&action becomes as you move to more distant sources of supply, We can expect another steep increase in oil and gas cmts for Canadians when Arctic supplies come into production. Of course, this problem of cost is also a problem for the US, When they think of increasing the deficit in their energy trade hrn the current level of four billion dollars a year 1;o twenty billion in #be early 198Os, they are terxified of the eff’ts on their already negative balance of trade, If they are going to buy vast amounts of oil and gas 6rom abroad, *y must maxim& the profit flows back to the US &rough American ownership of the foreign supplies. Canada% oil and gas industry, 82.6 per cent fmignawned, is ideal from this point of view. In addition, they must muscle their way into the markets of the supplying countries for more of their manufactured gmds.
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and for the James Bay hydro development project in Quebec (total cost $12 billion for the two projects) will drive up the value of the Canadian dollar and hurt our export industries. (If the Canadian dollar is valued at $1.10 American it takes more American dollars to buy a dollar’s worth ,of Canadian goods. This amounts to a self-imposed hurdle for our exports.) A California economist, concerned about the U.S. balance-of-payments crisis, has worked out the following estimate for the trade effects of an upward revaluation of the Canadian dollar: a five per cent increase would result in a $7 15 million negative trade shift for Canada with the U.S. ; a 10 per cent increase would result in a $1.6 billion negative trade shift. There is, of course, one way around this problem. If the foreign capital raised for the project is simply spent abroad, it will not affect the Canadian exchange rate. But it will create no jobs in Canada either. If dpending is done in Canada, it w,ill affect the exchange rate and will hurt export industries, while providing a temporary boom in the building of steel pipe. Ironically the Americans may well prefer to have the bulk of the capital for the pipeline raised in Canada, and they ma) well prefer Canadian control of the whole venture. This way, the very heavy cost of construction would fall on Canadians who would then earn a low fixed rate of return on the pipeline which, as a common carrier, would be treated like a public utility. Meanwhile the real profits would be made by the petroleum countries whose gas would flow through the pipe to market. Significantly, when the Committee for an Independent Canada asked for assurance that Canadians would control the pipeline, Donald Macdonald said that he favoured this arrangement himself. Nothing could be more ironic than a demand for Canadian control of the pipeline causing Canadians to put up the long-term, high-risk involvement for the pipeline, while American oil, companies walked away with all the real benefits. If the pipeline is built through funds raised in Canada, it will mean an knormous mobilization of Canadian capital which could otherwise be used to create jobs for Canadians in the manufacturing sector of the economy. When asked on a television program early in 1973 why Canada did not place more emphasis on manufacturing cn its development strategy, Macdonald replied that there simply were no available markets for Canada’s manufac Wring. He ignored the fact that Canada is by far the world’s leading importer of manufactured goods, bringing them in at a rate of $463 per capita ,per year compared with $116 f& the United States. If, instead of building the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, the government set as its objective for the seventies the reduction of Canada’s per capita manufacturing imports to the U.S. level, an additional annual market of seven billion dollars for Canadian manufactured goods would be created. By itself, this project would create enough industrial jobs and related service jobs to eliminate Canadian unemployment. The’ Mackenzie Valley pipeline, on the other hand, will create no more than a few hundred permanent jobs. A recent background study for the Science Council of Canada by Pierre L. Bourgault, Dean of Applied Science at Sherbrooke University, warned that Canada’,s mushrooming expansion of resource extraction is driving this country rapidly up the cost curve in resource industries. At the end of the road, he warns,, we will have depleted our resources while having created no other economic activity to take their place. Environmentalists, of course, see the problem not sol&y in economic terms but in terms of human and nonhuman survival. They point out that the assumption that technology will cpme through with the answers is poten-
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tially fatal in an epoch when man’s impact on the environment is already vast. They advance the principle that the onus for proving that developkent will not have more negative than positive effects should be placed on the developer. Further, they insist that when problems are foreseen, steps in economic development should not be taken on the assumption that scientists will save us before the problem materializes. Most directly concerned with the environmental aspects of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline are the permanent inhabitants of the north, the original peoples. The Canadian government takes the view that these people cannot be allowed to stand in the way of progress. Opposition to the energy deal and the Mackenzie-Valley-pipeline is forming in Canada. The opposition bears little resemblance to the powerful assemblage of corporations that have gathered .to push the project through. Made up of &dinary citizens who are concerned with the political, economic and environmental consequences of the pipeline, the opposition is beginning to form into small p&kets of resistance acioss the country. But before the year is out a national coalition dedicated to stgp the pipeline may be formed of what is now a disarray of Indians, Eskimos, ecologists, trade unionists, socialists and nationalists. The coalition will have to demand a ban on all further resource development in the Canadian north until the rights of the original peoples have been fully recognized and until the answers to environmental problems become much clearer. If development later proceeds, it must involve local control fo&the original people of the north as a basic, principle. As well as calling for a moratorium on resource development in the north, an opposition movement will have to consider the demand for public ownersbp of the energy resource industries that are now in production in southern Canada. Public ownership is the one way to stop the flow of profits out of Canada and to end the pbwer of the corporations that are now coming togethq to launch the pipeline. Profits from publicly-owned energy industries could serve as the basis for investment in secondary industry that could give resource-producing areas like’ Alberta balanced, long-term economic prospects.
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theatre arts students, petitioned this body for financial assistance. Jarrett reports that the Committee’s concern was that the programme be “good enough to buy into”. They wanted ‘to hold off any decision to forward money until they could assess the show. This, Jarrett feels, is incompatible with the intent of educational and experimental theatre. Eventually the Committee allotted an additional $250.00 to the $100.00 the Company could claim because of,its status as a studio production. The Federation is giving $500.00 as a result of Jarrett’s with Mike lzma of the negotiations Creative Arts Board. The rest of the company’s budget comes out of the eight mem beys .poc kets. As of Wednesday, the cbmpany still did not have their truck. The university Purchasing Department was withho!ding any’ order for a truck until the settling of insurance -arrangements. The cast of the Canada Duck Truck is certainly going to get a valuable experience in “educational theatre” while on tour. But equally valuable is the experience in the “guerilla theatre”-of.politicking they are getting before even setting a foot off campus. --catherine murray
Cana,da du-c-k truck Friday, february 16 the Canada Duck Truck, provided the red tape sorts itself out, leaves for a ten-day tour of several campus theatres in the northern States. The Duck Truck Company is representing the U of W Theatre Arts students in an “educational theatre” exchange. Their satirical revue “Oh-h-h Canada, or Where Did You Say You Were From?” provides a short and typicaliy self-deprecating collage of Canadian history, wit, music and cultural stereotypes. The Duck Truck will visit New York, -Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington and Ohio and at-each engagement, will present the revue and participate in a workshop to explain techniques and intentions. In this way they hope to promote a “two-way learning ,experience”. Director Larry Jarrett, veteran of a tour last year to Plattsburg with the show Dr. Umlaut, is intrigued by the differences in theatre studies at American and Canadian universities. He sees the American apI” whereas in proach as “professiona Canada it is more “academic”. “Oh-h-h Canada”, presented as a noonhour studio production on campus this week, assaults the audience with glib “quickies” from Canadian history. The theatre arts class from St. Jerome’s high school sitting in on the monday performance especially enjoyed these. Confederation is like “a mail-order bra...intended to contain and uplift” it merely draws “attent ion to the ’ cleavage”. Following numbers exploit French, English and Indian stereotypes and several- wellknown artists. One selection, ?he poem “fingerprints” implies that Canada, like the person in the poem, refuses to face, the dawn with “fingerprints on”. The troupe’s last song invites the Americans to come up and drink booze, see igloos; “we’ll be just as Canadian as you please and make darn sure your money doesn’t freeze”. An attempt to present real Canada, it obviously 6 isn’t. Generally, the company manages to sustain a quick pace and adequate articulation. The two weak selections, “Love Mouse” and “Night in the City”, show little consistency with the theme. “Mouse” is too slow and certainly not justified by any particular talent on the part of the playwright or the actors. Russell Scott’s original arrangement for Joni Mitchell’s song is complex and the cast has trouble coordinating the vocals. Especially a propqs is the sketch about “God at the Employment - Agency” preceding Scott’s all-too-brief time on the banjo. The Studio Room’s facilities could not support the equipment necessary to show the slides of the Company’s Duck Logo between numbers. Although Director Jarrett intends to include these on tour, the home audience is left to guess at their potential for knitting the numbers together. Duck Truck Company may present the show again to the U of W audience after its evolution on tour. _ The genesis of the Duck Truck Tour has not been easy. Red tape hassles have been exacerbated by the current disarray of the theatre activities on campus. Because the Theatre Arts Group is no longer affiliated with the English Departme-nt, all business is funnelled through an Ej<ecutive Committee chaired by Dr. Cornell. The Duck Truck Company, all but one of whom are
.- Why men don’t dance In the past several weeks, the instructors and students of ballet at University of Waterloo have- noticed an increased curiosity among male students watching various levels of technique classes in progress. I have attempted to create an interest for men’s ballet among the male population of the university, but more important to safeguard a manly technical training in the dance program. It is appropriate therefore to address some remarks to you bystanders. / It% self-evident, of all human arts there is a certain reluctance among men to dance. If dance in theatre is an experience intimately related to human life, dance as ati art form must be &mpleted by the participation of male dancers. Although the neo-classical ballet is a man’s art, there are few male dancers to begin with. Why then do men not dance? As a dancer and dance critic I have observed that some men reject the “inner aesthetic sanctums” approach to dance. Dance is a physical not a mental discipline. The concerns of so-called philosophers of dance are not very compelling on a man’sview of theatre. Questions like “What-are the common motional problems of man in the twentieth century,” or “Do we move differently indoors or out,” are not relevant to dance for dance sake. Yet since theorizing makes the intelligentsia of modern dance happy, I will leave well enough alone. A pseudo-intellectualism will not attract men to dance. However is the insight, a reason not to dance or appreciate dance at all? lf intellectualism does not work, then why not make art and dance vernacular? Take away the threat of achieving standards, then men will dance. However, there are reasons not to think so. The unstructured nature of modern dance is one’way of discovering the limits of the human body kinetically. Interpretive dance fosters a feeling for what one would like to be doing. However. the mastery of the- body required by male students of dance is not achieved without the structures and discipline given in a ballet training. Ballet then is a system
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of technique which describes how movement is executed to command the total illusiori of stage presence in spite of the limits of the human body it-i space and time. BRUISED EGOS A problem with any dance program at university is the threat of attracting “bruised egos”. Individuals unsuccessful in previous dance training tend to. use, as compensation, a program which does not encourage technical development. Vernacular art is an attempt to make people involved with aesthetic activities but it should not be offered as a substitute for frustrated professionalism. A dance program founded upon the aesthetics of remorse will only foster bad amateurism. If students are not encouraged to -fight for theatre standards at university, it is doubtful-they will push for standards in Canadian theatre outside. Without high standards at the professional level, you will not be encouraged to dance. The modern dancer, Eric Hawkins, explains the reluctance of men to dance as follows: ‘Prima facie, women have erotic dreams about Spanish men and satyrs.’ Therefore the traditional ballet is passe. Was there something about the classical ballet which cautions men from studying dance? The decline of the male dancer was a result of the romantic ballet,- although notable exceptions were Denmark and Russia. Choreographers of the nineteenth century did not provide for an -extended development of male technique after women mastered difficult feats on points. Since choreographers of the romantic ballet did not give the danseur noble a style of his own, the romantics witnessed the eclipse of the male dancer. Fewer boys were attracted to dance, and those who were, had no ideal to emulate. As for the present, the caution against neo-classical ballet is not justified. Contemporary students of ballet-- are not confined by the oversight of the romantic ballet. In Canada for example, Grant Strate, director of dance studies at York Univetsity, recognizes the probiems of giving men a good training in dance. Boris Volkoff of Toronto has produced many fine dancers and is still admired as an excellent teacher of Russian character dance, a form of discipline for building up the male dancer. Dance critics are beginning to acknowled_ge the work of Larry Graddus in Montreal. Eric Hyrst, former premier danseur of the Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, is currently on staff at University of Waterloo. Sam: men have made a mark for high
standards of ballet ‘in Canada. What alternatives are there for bystanders? One obvious q@ion is to take advantage of some of the (ballet) classes available at U of W. If the number of bystanders is a prediction of interest for men’s ballet, an exclusive class for the development of masculine technique can be formed. If men are to regain their prestige as dancers, it is necessary to let men be men. Dance must be permitted to become manly if its devaluation is to end. Modern dancers attempt to make ballet “historical”% “uninteresting to our lives” without developing a thoroughly manly technique of their own. Accepting the untidiness of movement from everyday life as its criterion, interpretive dancers are hopeful about producing art from spantaneous game situations. However, a male dancer must be able to compete on an international standard of competition. Unlike modern dance, ballet does not require a cultism for its survival because the theatre discipline of ballet is international. Modern dance, being a mental pursuit, does not build up a repertoire or syllabus of movement and must therefore be sustained by an intellectualism if it is to. survive. In the american school of ballet, Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine have given americans an identity through the male dancer using the classical tradition. Unfortunately a similar identity has not occurred in Canada. The current dance scene in Canada is a power struggle between selfmade professionals .of dance and selfimportant academies which insist Canada is yet a British colony. Canadian ballet is like a pas de deux between a spermatozoan and- vacuous uterus. A Canadian theatre of ballet will not emerge on its own merit at an international level of competition until informed men and professional dancers of international calibre are permitted to ravage Canada’s accidental virginity in the performing arts. One last caution. Modern interpretive dance does not encourage manly choreography because modern dancers do not give men roles to differentiate and define their movement on stage. A host of interpretive choreographers, the majority of whom are fe’male, openly admit not knowing what to do with men when they have them. Intending to liberate men fom heterosexual roles in dance, women have made interpretive choreography asexual and effectively sterile. Modern dance was founded and sustained by a discipleship of women using “da rice” as an emotional outlet for psychological tension. It goes without saying, women with emotional complexes cannot develop a male student of dance. Mothers of the empire who have fallen into aesthetic menopause make the male impotent in his dance. I dance because it is an entertainment embodied in the rich traditions of the theatre. I grow in my relations with other people because4 have fostered the physical and intellectual demands of a classical ballet training. The uniqueness of ballet is the enviable ideal of movement and deportment it seeks to emulate. The discipline requires the individual to accept . his qualities and deficits equally if he is to mature as a dancer or student of ballet. You do not dance because you do not know I possess this knowledge. My knowledge is nothing until you know I possess it. Aavid scheel
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Da&d E. Lewis (not to be confused with the politicos), writes good short stories. So good, in fact, that McClelland and Stewart (“the Canadian Publishers”) is bringing out a collection of seventeen of them sometime this month. The book is to be called A Lover Needs a Guitar, the title of \ one of the stories. Three of the pieces have appeared in Macleans (“The Canadian National Magazine’!)-“The Night John Diefenbaker Stdod on Guard”, “Miss Jean Murdock in her Prime”, and “Notes of a Native Ostrich-St. Pierre-Miquelon, Mary and me.” D.H. Luft in a letter to the editor announced that it was time that Lewis took up the mantle of Leacock. Surely Lewis deserves a more fitting cloak than that. One thinks of those other humorists from the Maritimes, Thomas Haliburton and Thomas McCulloch. Milton Acorn has told us that Canadians have a monopoly on humour...in fact, we invented it for the rest of North American literature. But Acorn is wrong on this point too. Nowhere is the dearth of humour in literature so complete as here in Canada. Witness Turvey by Earle Birney. Even Richler is no longer considered as a comedic Canadian writer...he is hardly still Canadian, nor is Eric Nichols. By virtue of elimination, Lewis stands a good chance of being heralded as the next winner of the coveted (?) Leacock Medal...unless, of course, Richard Needham puts together another collection of his Globe and Mail columns! The market then is ready and the competition is in exile-what there is of it. McClelland and Stewart should be congratulated not only for spotting the heretofore “still, small voice” of Lewis out of the East but also for giving him room to wedge into their busy presses. Lewis writes from and about Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. A Lover Needs a Guitar is in fact held together as a series of young man’s reminiscences of the little town with a population of 1,078 made up, Lewis writes, “of 459 maiden aunts-the rest are ma iden uncles”. The narrator speaks in many voices. He is a Conservative, (one suspects when it is speech writer, expedient ) ; a political (when it pays); a man who plays the piano (almost anything but “0 Canada” in C) especially the minute waltz (in just under three); a teacher who was always the. pet but “never the victim” (shades of Atwood’s folly) of his grade school Miss Murdock; and a madman who conjures up the Cookie Monster while at home recuperating from illness with bribes of ginger snaps on friday and who has learned to count to fourteen without taking off his shoes. But this is the narrator. The writer Lewis,is just as mad. But then he has reason to be. He has spent sixteen years teaching Latin after taking two
degrees. He has worked on the Halifax Herald, with Canadian Press; as music librarian with radio station C.H.N.S. (Halifax) ; written weekly newspaper colukns in the N.S. area for years; and he is a closet poet. “I hesitate to show it to ‘people because poetry, like eating, is an intimate revealing milieu. It’s like leaving your diary in a bus stat-ion.” But he has enough for a small volume and for the moment, he reads, writes, and hides it away. He is also something of a gourmet. “I’ve discovered that the most intimate way to entertain and get to know people is t‘o eat with them-slowly, with all the Roman accoutrements (except Nubian slaves and acrobats, which are both extremely rare in N.S.) ” “Bit I am a Roman at heart. Their word for a dinner guest was “conviva” which is a beautiful word-someone I want to live with, and from what we know of the length of the Roman Feasts, literal. I find myself somewhat cautious with whom I eat, because next to sex, it is the most intimate human relationship.” He probably even reads The Reader’s Digest. Sounds boring as Bridgetown? Well, I suspect that he is not and his stories certainly aren’t. Lewis is a master of characterization. Each person is full of “humanness”. There is: the ‘swot’ Alice Newport in her prime; the flamboyant and vulgar Conservative Lortimer Smith-Diefenbaker as smalltown small-time oracle and grind old man of Canadian politics living out ‘his myth; Miss Jean Murdock, the schoolteacher who is dried up like a prune and yet still issuing pedagogy by rote, a teacher who “instils” rather than “teaches”; Lola LaTour (nee Barbara Graham), a Montreal stripper from Bridgetown’s grade four class, voted most likely to succeed in her year; the madamecum-landlady in the vacationer’s paradise St. Pierre-Miquelon, a chic looking blonde who resembles Bardot’s grandmother andor Dietrich if she thought that she really was Lilli Marlene; and the delightful Mary, an innocent abroad with Lewis but not for a moment is she an innocent broad. Instead she is one who delights and captivates with an authentic charm, grace and wit. Lewis’ reading is reflected in his writing. His favourite authors are Thornton Wilder (particularly Ides of March, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Cabala), AE Housman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Somerset Maughafn, Mary Renault, and Kahlill Gibran. (Not a Canadian in sight and his stories soar perhaps because he has remained his own man.) “I read all the time (if there’s nothing else around, I read the crap on the cornflakes carton). I love talk: I think two of the most pathetic losses to our age are the art of writing letters and the art of conversation. No one seems to know how to do either. I think why we have let go of them *is
that we fear communication, and these are the two most intimate milieus. I have news for Thomas Merton-all men are islands.” Humour in literature is not faring well in the rest of the country nor in the world as a matter of fact-not even in England where it once excelled. Whatever happened to Waugh, Maugham, Shaw et al. as well as their successors? Perha.ps in Bridgetown there is a remedy to the fact that humour is no longer a popular commodity. Perhaps Theatre of the Absurd has not won-perhaps we can still laugh. Since George Bernard Shaw, no one has picked up the jester’s cap-nor his lanceto make a professional career of humour with any lasting success. Occasionally a glimmer of hope shows through but the ov&rall picture is pretty bleak. Those essays and belles-lettres of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would seem to be gone forever and their passing is to be sincerely mourned. In these days when all antecedents are looked upon as binding, pedantic, and generally dreary, so much has been misplaced. To scorn Hazzlitt, Lamb, Dequincy and certainly Wilde and not to wish for a Canadian version is to”jest at scars that never felt a wound”. So what does Lewis have to say to us? One might say that for a generation of people who buy old schools for homes, and bakitheir own bread and weave their own wool, we might say,that he will take us back to a hatural world...‘not only where we were but where most of us would rather be in a Toffler, Reich mould. But thi‘s is not true, for in A Lover Needs a Guitar we have not a middle aged man’s past, nostalgic and warm; instead we have the vision of a happy, contented man who sees the world and himself and laughs. -. Maybe it’s contagious!
Tom’s testa’ment Finally it happened. After years of damage to gym floors and the refusal of the concert goers to be discreet about empties or even make sure that their butts and roaches were out before contacting the wooden gym floor, it fell upon the folks. We had hassles.’ And whose fault is it? Why, none other than the havoc-minded children who go to concerts. I’m not suggesting that the administration or the head jocks were justified in the action of coming dowh heavy, but rather that the whole thing could have been avoided if people had been more considerate. Is putting out a cigarette or carrying out a bottle such a hard fucking thing to do? Isn’t the threat of no more concerts due to thoughtless damage enough to get some responsibility out of supposedly mature people? My idealism tells me yes, yes, but there’s no, no, in my mind. And now a personal anecdote: I was walking down the bleacher with some icecream and a rather muscular inebriate was blocking the aisle, conversing with a friend. When he moved for someone else I deked by and chanced to nudge him. He kicked me in the leg. Somewhat perturbed, I explained that the collision had been unintended. He responded by smiting me on the side of the head, with sufficient gusto to knock me down a bout three steps. ’ What do you do? Well, you just sit there and hope that someone can find your glasses, consider how huge the guy is, wonder about getting him busted and become about two-hundr’ed degrees more disillusioned. So to all you long-haired pseudo-freaks who seem to devote your lives to bugging the rest of us, go fuck your coSIective selves. Oh, one more thing-my big antagonist did apologise for his actions. I’m sorry, but everything isn’t made all right by it. Once again :_-go fuck yourself. End of note. -tom
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Pass that” k joint - . The evils of marihuana, a killer drug rampant throughout the _united States, respohsible for the frayed moral fibre of unsuspecting youth, has raised its head as . a threat to modern civilization. The tenor of the less than classic 1936 film, Reefer Madness, is not dissimilar to the above statement, and in a cliched psuedo-parable, the producers of the “movie” attempted to enlighten their contemporaries to the threat of marihuana. The resurrection of this film as a cornbination bf nostalgia and comedy, was most recently manifested at the Capitol, in Kitchener. Screened with other celluloid non-masterpieces of the time, the show was groomed and billed to cater to the “youth” of the community. Strategically cut, the print show,n at the Capitol was obviously geared for its comic’ appeal, and commercial value, leaving much of the original on the cutting room floor. In its ,entirety, the film has a duplicate effect; in addition to making the moral aspects of the film, and the missionary zeal of those who produced it, seem somewhat on the incredible and comic side, the genre of film within which this work exists, is exposed in all of its ‘banality and lack of artistic understanding. The cliches are emphasized, the lack of character development is obvious, and a generally uninspired, and uninspiring utilisation of celluloid is demonstrated. The complete, unexpurgiied print of this film was one of the two films chosen for screening at the opening night of the Picture Show, a new cinema scheduled to have opened its gates for the first time last night. Similar to the Capitol, the management seemed to be partially catering to the “youth culture” who would get a laugh out of viewing such a film while , passing-that-joint. However, the screening of the entire film exhibits a somewhat less commercial zeal, and the second choice, the feature billing for the evening, of Man Oncle’ Antoine demonstrated, hopefully, some taste in the choice of material, and perhaps an intimation of things to come. Renovating an old Masonic Lodge, the people behind the Picture Show, hope to heighten the cinematic atmosphere df. the community and will be focusing on works which are not carried by the larger, more commercial cinema. The first week, including opening night, features the screenings of both Mon Oncle Antoine, Reefer Madness, as well as a new film put together by the Firesign Theatre, Martian Sp9ce Party. Being a Canadian premiere, this particular work should lend some added spice to the midnight show of Reefer Madness and the Firesign film. The success of the theatre is dependent upon a qumber of factors, perhaps foremost among them, being the selection of films. The admission price of $1.50 will be somewhat prohibitive in the case of poor selection,. and while lower than the commercial cinema, is reason for second thought. When one considers that with a seating capacity of about 200, a full-house would gross a tidy $300 on one showing. The sale of “shares” in the theatre also adds an air of commercial incentive to the enterprise, so the subtle allusions to a counter-theatre, must be taken with a grain of salt. Such questions, while worth consideration, should not completely obscure the issue. If this venture manages to elevate the tenor of cinema in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, it will be a welcome addition. -john
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Breakin’ up is ’ hard to do In the brief but turbulent history of rock, the most artistically successful groups have been able to produce a “sound” which immediately distinguishes them from the morass of ,bar bands, lounge lizards, and Top-40 bubblegummers. That this is usuallya collective endeavour, rather than a case of the dominance of a gifted individual, is clear from an examination of the solo albums resulting from a group’s disbanding: while Neil Young, David Crosby, et al., have done some excellent work, none has recreated the sound of The Byrds or The Buffalo Springfield, and the same can be said of Messrs. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, and Starr with regard to The Beatles. In the.course of their lo-year existence with the same personnel, The Who have also developed a unique style, combining the energy of “My Generation” and the structural sophistication of “Quick One While He’s Away” into the recent masterpiece Who’s Next. That this has not been accomplished without submerging some individual egos, however, seems to be indicated by the release of two new solo albums: guitarist Peter Townshend’s Who Came First (Decca DL 79189) and bassist John Entwhistle’s Whistle Rymes (Decca DL 79190). As a certified fave-raver for The Who, I was pretty boggled by the thinness of these two records. I listened long, I listened stoned, and I listened straight, but other than being a bit freaked by the content of Whistle Rymes, neither album made much of an impression. Both would have been consigned to the limbo of ROCKIN’BRIEFS, in fact, were not their creators men of some reknown and past accomplishment-and were fellow Who fans not likely to automatically purchase them. Peter Townshend’s effort, Who Came First, does achieve a degree of mediocrity with material such as “Pure and Easy” and a softer but never“Sheraton Gibson”, theless identifiably Who-ish vehicles reminiscent of “Going Mobile” on Who’s Next. More typical, unfortunately, are abrace of banal message songs (“Nothing is Everything”, “Time is Passing”, “Content”, “Parvardigar”) on which Townshend attempts to accompany himself on bass and drums, with disastrously plodding and pedestrian results. Their lyrics, .which he attributes to the influence of the late Eastern guru, Meher Baba, reveal only that the latter’s teachings must have been somewhat less profound than those of Kahlil Gibran, and have no competition for the “Cosmic Atrocity of the Month” award. Who Came First also includes an acoustic guitar duet with Ronnie Lane (“Evolution”) and a Hookfoot-ish rock thing by Caleb graphic
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emotions, without any.evident awareness of the desirability of transcending them. If this rather abstract description of his plight excites our pity, his decision to release Whistle Rymes should arouse a corresponding degree of revulsion, in that it is the musical equivalent of making an obscene phone call or writing a poison-pen letter: a projection of personal anguish which seeks release through hatred of “the other”, and thereby denies the possibility of self-understanding. To John Entwhistle, then, a competent psychoanalyst, *the complete works of Andre Gide, and a large mirror.
Quaye, short, pleasant and otherwise unremarkable pieces which would have provided some iariety if they had been more intelligently spaced; but they weren’t Who Came First shouldn’t have been, and as Thelonius Monk would say, “Well You Needn’t”. To Fove from the uninteresting to the rebarbative, John Entwhlstle’s Whistle Rymes is an incredibly chauvinistic album even by the standards of the thoroughly sexist rock world. Of the many possible examples, these two quotations from his lyrics are perhaps the most blatant: When I’m feeling I stick a pin in the Beside my bed And I feel better. When I’m feeling I remember that worst lay I ever And I feel better.
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I’m on the ledge outside my window, The ground is ten stories below, As I look down, the crowd look up, Wonderin whether I’ll jump or not... Thinking it over, I decided not to bother, I decided to save my own life. Thinking it over, I decided not to bother, It’s too high a price to pay for an unfaithful wife. (“Thinkin’ It Over”)
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Imagine this extended over two album sides and you’ll have some idea of the effects of listening to Whistle Rymes. I suppose it should also be said that nething in Entwhistle’s vocal delivery or musical arrangements indicate that satire or parody is his intent; on the contrary, he belts out his hatred and distrust of women with all the passion of Robert Plant hollering “Squeeze my lemon...” etc. etc. In a sense, of course, Entwhistle is merely carrying to an extreme the sort of male chauvinism endemic to both our culture and our music; but he is a bit different, I think, in that he goes beyond the familiar stereotyping of women as mindless sexual objects and berates them for having any sexual desires at all, except as those relate to his personal gratification. He objectifies his pain in the person of an unknowable (and therefore incomprehensible) Woman, intensifies it by creating appropriate musical correlatives, and finally traps himself in a nightmare of his own construction. Which is not to say that many of us have not experienced ‘similar feelings, or that these are inherently evil. The point is that on Whistle Rymes Entwhistle stews in his I
I Lead a Life (Blue Thumb BTS-40) by Ben Sidran: after a long career as a journalist, producer, and session musician involved with Black music, Sidran has finally been allowed to record an album which compares favourably with Motown’s better releases. Mostly lightweight pop-soul perked up by imaginative production flourishes, with two notable exceptions: “Eliyahu”, a lovely setting of some verses from the Jewish Passover Service, and “Back Down on State Street”, as bluesy a chunk of straight-ahead funk as ever came out of Chicago. Pleasant, unpretensious, thoroughly enjoyable music. Why Dontcha (Columbia KC 31929) by West, Bruce, and Laing: that’s Leslie, Jack, and Gorky, two-thirds Mountain and onethird Cream, and that about says it. West is still high on my list of unfavourite guitarists, but Bruce gives this group a much stronger bottom than Mountain ever had, and seems to have imparted a few Ginger Baker licks to Laing. WB & L’s bluesy-trippy numbers are passable, if quite anonymous, and West’s and Laing’s vocals are- never far from excruciating; but they often strike sparks as a loud, sloppy, in heat rock’n’roll band, and for that are recommended if you’re into the hard stuff. The Barbecue of DeVille (Blue Thumb BTS 42) by The Hoodoo Rythm Devils: slightly greasy, R 81 B-flavoured rock of the Black Oak Arkansas variety, although HRD’s vocals are a bit smoother. They seem to be hanging back a bit-they’re reportedly a wipeout *in concert-but some nice ballads, notably “I Was Wrong” with The Pointer Sisters on background vocals, raise the album a tetch above the ho-hum level. Dakila (Epic KE 31756) : another entry in the Latin-rock sweepstakes, this time from a Philippine group who sound like a slick night-club act given unassimilated injections of Santana and Malo. Some smooth vocal harmonies and a capable organist named Romeo Bustamante fail-to conceal the fact that Dakila doesn’t have anything to say. Much as I’m into Latin music, even an apprentice conga drummer has to draw the line somewhere. In the Can (Sovereign SMAS 11115) by Flash: a very dramatic and ambitious album out of the Yes meld, which to my utter amazement I found myself rather liking. Their melodies and lyrics are derivative, but interesting arrangements and excellent musicianship more than compensate for an initial “I’ve heard this before” feeling, and guitarist Peter Banks has as much “flash” as anyone could desire. Along with Jade Warrior, Flash is one of the more promising English bands to surface lately, and recommended to Yes-EL & PKing Crimson types. Charlie McCoy (Monument KZ 31910): the Nashville’ cats backing McCoy’s harmonica on a country-easy listening album a shade too plastic for my taste, although harp freaks and Area Code 615 fans will probably like it. These guys can, and perhaps do, tossoff an acceptable version of “Me and Bobby McGee” in their sleep; but until someone records them live with a few bottles of Boone’s Farm under their belts, I’ll take Commander Cody’s undisciplined energy over their spiritless perfection every time. --paul
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Middle class morals Pete ‘n Tillie are a middle class couple who meet, go to bed, and after a decent interval, get married so asfurther to enrich their existence by living in a ‘comfortable’ suburb and having a son. The film tries to examine the r‘elationship between Pete and Tillie as it changes and develops but instead inadvertently exposes their sickeningly traditional codes of behavior. Tillie is thirty-three when she meets Pete, a blind date thoughtfully arranged for her by a friend concerned about Tillie’s marital status. Naturally, Pete’s similar situation is regarded as fortunate as he is an eligible bachelor. At their first encounter, Pete makes suggestive remarks about Tillie’s sexuality, body language, and manner of dress to which she understandably takes offense. Hooray, we cry! She’s not going to fall in love with him out of desperation. However, when he doesn’t call her, she says “I never call men!” and does adamantly, anyway, to subtly inform him of her availability. And so it goes. Unsatisfied with their premarital sex arrangement, it is she who utters the now familiar, “The honeymoon’s over, it’s time to get married.” After the mdrriage, Tillie quits her secretarial job to become a housewife, drive the inevitable station wagon and procreate. When a friend arrives bearing bad news, Tillie withdraws to the easy chair, while Pete, being the man he is, listens and endures. The film is supposed to be a comedy, starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, but only Mathau manages to deliver the few successful jbkes. Pete is a relaxed, laconic executive who combats fear and tension with jokes and belittles his adequate advertising job with outrageous slogans (e.g. “Shove it!” for1 a sanitary napkin). The character suits Matthau’s casual acting style well and he is strong in all scenes but the serious dramatic ones. Carol Burnett, on the other hand, seems bored and expressionless except when she is being vehement and emotional. Though the film is trying to study the change in the protagonists’ attitudes towards each other, there is no real change. Tbere are many fluctuations-and influential events, to be sure, but the happy ending reunion of the couple is caused more by the “absence makes the heart grow fonder” axiom than by any significant development in their feelings. The, left-handed significance of the film lies in the unconscious acceptance of essentially sexist values and behavioural attitudes by all the characters in the film. A sub-plot to Pete and Tillie’s conflicts is the eternal question of a certain well-preserved woman’s true age. The intrigue is overplayed and ridiculpus, yet fits in with an exemplary line like, “In the house, son, what your mom says, goes”. The women shop and go out for lunch, the men work and carry on adulterously. The roles seem so blatantly distinct that director Ritt might be interpreted as trying to expose them as such. But they are included as part of the necessary fabric of Pete and Tillie’s society and thoughtlessly accepted by all. -kim
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Oct. $13587.87 There are no outstanding works for guitar Nov. $14,376.02 from this period so the best way to develop a Dec. $11,754.63 taste in this area is to go ahead and explore Jan. $10,611.97 ’ it. In vocal music, although the voice was With an average monthly sales of $12,000, by an intrument as comour profit would be approximately $900. Of Many new forms of music were created in often replaced posers developed orchestrative techniques, this, $600 is spent on-salaries for the people the baroque period, yet the music styles of two forms involving choral and solo singing working. Many people have asked what the different composers and nationalities had reached a peak of effectiveness in this time. result of the federation’s decision to pay two not yet become so divergent that they were The cantata and the oratorio both told a dollars an hour -well--some of the individually distinctive. Thus baroque simple story, usually biblical, by alternating people working suggested that we pay music maintains a consistency of style chorus and solo singers, each of whom people the money for the first two hours and which makes it the ideal area for a bit by means of a volunteer to work the extra third hour for newcomers ’ to the classical world to advanced the narrative little song. Bach was a prolific composer of free. This system has worked out well and discover first. . cantatas, writing over two hundred, while leaves us in the same position as before the The baroque style was one of orHandel is famous for his oratorios, of which decision. namentation. As in their buildings, rarely the Messiah is only the most well known. At present we rent a truck at a cost of $30 were simple musical lines left undecorated. For those interested, Israel in Egypt by every two weeks to go to Toronto and pick up The bulk of the output of this time conHandel (DGG Archives. 2708020) is as our albums. It would be impossible to have sisted of light music for solo instrument or quickly paced and enjoyable as any. In our albums shipped to us because of the high small group. Because of the current revival addition it is sung in English, which incost of shipping. that some of these have undergone, this creases appreciation of the work many material is finding new audiences. The reason we eliminated special orders times. The most popular baroque instrument is I will often recommend a less famous was because we were getting 150 special the organ. This was the focus for much of the orders a week, which ran into more time work in place of a well known one to avoid age’s most powerful and moving music, what can be called the ‘what next’ syndrome than I even want to remember. However, we especially by the composers Buxtehude, will order any album that is listed in the which vcurs when, after buying a famous Walther and J.S. Bach. Bach’s toccatas and there is work, there exists no obvious followup. As Schwann’s catalogue. Unfortunately fugues in D minor and F major and his no guarantee that these albums will come preludes and fugues in E Flat major and G well, there is less chance of being disap in. It has been my experience that only 50-60 pointed when a work holds no e_xpectations major are his most famous works. for you. per cent of the order sent in is received. So Thefugue was a common form for another please, don’t jump on our back with that Of cqurse, there are dozens of other intrument which found its greatest period of famous line, “Well, I ordered three weeks groups and soloists with some recorded ‘expression in the baroque, the harpsichord. material available but I can’t mention them ago.” If you request an album that is listed I would look for such names as Ralph Kirkwe will order at least three copies, so come patrick, George Malcolm, Thurston Dart or all. If you have any artists or records you in the day after the shipment arrives and if would like to see discussed, drop me a line Glenn Gould in performance. As for the it isn’t there tell us and we will order it again c/o the chevron. music, most composers left behind a healthy and again and again. amount of it, so take your choice; Bach, -pete smith
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their games in a high school gym and about the time that the warriors were ready to start their warmup, it was discovered there was a scheduling conflict. Two local girls’ teams had apparently been slated to play at the same time. After much deliberation it was found that the girls had priority since they had booked the facilities first, so they got to play and the warriors got to take off their uniforms and go home early. On Wednesday the Waterloo dribblers played their last road game of the season. The game, played in St. Catherines was against the brock ’ university badgers. The result of the contest was never in doubt, as the warriors ran away with it right from the got a little frustrated by a couple of start. The score at half time was bad refereeing calls. One thing led to another and the referee laid a 54-36 and the final tally was 119-73. The, warriors shot 56 per cent couple more fouls on them. This from the court as in the previous time they were technical fouls game. They managed to get a lot of however and that didn’t smooth things over any. inside shots from right under the Windsor pumped in a few quick basket. The guards were exbaskets to put them ahead by 6. ceptional at getting the ball to the Then came the turning point in the inside where Waterloo forwards game. The Waterloo squad bore did the rest. Paul Bilewicz led all down and really worked. Their the scorers with 27 points. He had a defence was superb and their ofstrong second half during which he was 9 out of 10 from the court. Paul fence consistent as they ate up the is from St. Kits and this was the lancer lead and built one of their first really good game that he has own. During this 5 minute stretch played in front of his home town the warriors outscored their opposition 12-O and had a 6 point lead fans as a warrior. Mike Moser had a great night all around, 24 points, with just 1 minute to go. Windsor 16 rebounds, and 12 assists. Jim didn’t give up but they couldn’t MacLean, in his rookie season with catch the warriors who were ahead Waterloo, got his first real chance at the final buzzer, 80-77. Mike Zuwerkaiow was a steady to play a substantial amount of a game. He looked very impressive influence on the warrior play. Although he didn’t score many and played aggressively, netting 10 points he was always digging. Phil points and grabbing 9 rebounds. Schlote and Tom Kieswetter were Warriors’ passing was exboth instrumental in the warriors’ ceptionally sharp and exact. A lot of baskets were a result of the one final assault, showing the leadership quality that the team good pass that made it easy for the shooter. needs. Mike Moser played a strong second half and finished as the \: Leading scorer for brock was Phil Lewis with 24 points. He was leading scorer with 17 points. one of the few badgers who looked Billy Lozynsky topped lancer like he knew what he was doing in scorers with 13 points. Warriors brock atshot a hot 56 per cent from the the very disorganized tack. court as compared to the Windsor Waterloo finishes off its schedule percentage of 34. with a game tomorrow night The following day the warriors against the western mustangs in travelled across the border to play the phys ed complex at 8:15. There shaw college of detroit. Shaw plays
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will be no preliminary game prior to the Waterloo-western game since the owiaa volleyball championships are being held in the gym throughout tomorrow morning and afternoon. The warriors will enter the playoff scene next tuesday night when they host the fourth place team from their division. It will be either guelph or mat master. The game time is as usual 8: 15. This playoff game is not included in the season ticket plan that is offered to warrior fans. The reason is that once the playoffs begin the league as a whole, get the gate receipts for them, no matter where the games are played. Tickets for this playoff game are available in the athletic department office. Price: students $1.60, adults $2.66. Tickets for the ciau basketball championships March 2,3, are also available in that office. Prices: all 4 games 83.75, Friday night double header $2.66, saturday’s consolation final (10 : 66 am) $1.00, Saturday’s championship game (2:oO pm) $2.00. Waterloo
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The first game of the consolation round of the OWIAA Curling Championship proved to be a motivation force for the athenas. The athenas lost the first game, -then went on to win their remaining matches and the consolation championship. The second round of the OWIAA Curling Championship was hosted by guelph last, weekend. Waterloo entered the consolation round as a result of being eliminated from the finals in the preliminary rounds held a couple of weeks ago. In their first game the athenas lost to the host team, guelph, by a score of 6-4. The loss was enough to shock the Waterloo rock throwers into a winning streak. The first team to get swept under was queen’s, by a score of 11-8. - Eleven must have been a lucky number for Waterloo as they stoned Carleton 11-6. The final game for water100 was against their old rivals from mcmaster. It was shot for shot until the last four end, then the athenas began to creep slowly ahead. The final outcome of the Waterloo-mcmaster contest was 84 for Waterloo.
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T-he last birds anybody-badminton Birds birds that is, there was a flock of them at western last week end during the OWIAA badminton finals. Going in to the final round of the tournament the athenas alid mcmaster were holding down fourth place. The big match of the competition was in the first singles between Waterloo’s Maggie Cunningham and Linda Fabis from u of t. Fabis defeated Cunningham in both games of their match. Cunningham finished the tournament in the runner-up position in the first singles division. Nancee McDonald was runnerup in the second singles division. In the first doubles the Waterloo team of Cunningham and Mackeigan finished in a tie for second with laurentian. The final standings were: queen’s-120, western-log, toronto-104 and Waterloo-91.
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At l2:oO pm Saturday feb. 17, the stage will be set for an entirely new spectacle to move into uniwat’s “Columbia Sports Complex”. As p,art of the st. valentine’s week (also known as massacre engineering winter weekend) an exibition motorcycle ice race will be held. This sport, tremendously popular in Europe, has seen rapid growth rates in Canada recently. Large and enthusiastic, crowds witnessed the Canadian championships in barrie on the weekend past. Many of the top riders have consented to display the excitement and skill involved in ice racing on our campus. Nick Hapta, holder of the 1972 and 1973 open Ice Race Championships will be riding a German made maico. Canadian Ron Keys, the number one motocross plate holder, heads the Yamaha team. His teamate is Kari Nissinen wh3 in 1971 won the Senior Mote-cross Championship of Finland. Kari chose to ride in Canada this year and has added greatly to the racing scene. Finland, a country famous for all winter sports, has contributed another talented rider in Heiki Ylonen. The reigning 25Occ Motocross Champion, Heiki is kawasaki’s number one rider. He will be astride a 125cc factory special which many believe to be faster than most open class bikes. Also representing Kawasaki will be Stu Donald, a young rider with unlimited potential. Rob Jordan, who has travelled throughout Europe competing in World Championship Rounds for Great Britain will be campaigning a Swedish made husqvarna. The other member of the husqvarna team to watch is eighteen year old ace Mike Brenneman, riding in the 250~ class. These are but a few of the many stars appearing in tomorrows program. Engineering Society B proudly presents this exibition and it’s all FREE! Activities start on Columbia Lake at noon. Plan to make it part of your weekend. -the rigid tool-
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hztramurals Wrist wrestling It resembled a Japanese bar in Tokyo-two chairs to a table; a table here and a table there. Although it really wasn’t a hotel bar, the competition invoked that atmosphere. Guys usually engage in this activity after a couple of beers’, but last Saturday students staged a new intramural event, wrist wrestling, in the People’s Palace. At first it appeared not enough people would arrive for a competition. But the boys of St. Jerome’s saved the day as recruits came’pouring through the door. “Gimme five minutes and I’ll be back with more.” So the event began with 36 entries, all to find out what the rest of these strong guys were really like. Not only were most from St. Jeromes but the collegians brought their own cheering section as well. Some of the matches were over almost as soon as they started. Others proved to be drawn out stalemates which sometimes had to be interrupted because of technical difficulties. Fatigue was the only factor which finally stopped them once they ‘were resumed. Additional rules were incorporated as the competition progressed, because of factors which weren’t considered when the original rules were drawn up. At times the event appeared somewhat disorganized, but hopefully next time a few of the problems will be ironed out and things will run smoothly. Some of the suggestions presented by the competitors should also improve the competition for next year. For all its entries, St. Jerome’s did end up with a champion-Vince Conroy ,in * the under 140 lb. class. Science won two divisions, with Mike O’Gradey taking the 141-166 lb. class and Mike Yurkocich winning at 161-180 lb. Dennis Harrison of Village 2 South won at 181-200 lb. and John Buda of Renison College led the big guys at more than 266 lbs. defeating Geoff Sutherland and Mike Flynn.
Ski day There was more than enough snow for the intramural ski meet to produce a day of fun and excitement for all
concerned. Some of the slopes were iced at the tops but, with aid of the snow machines most of the problems were solved. The slalom *events went off smoothly; our thanks to those who helped: Shooshing to a first place win by 0.1 of a second was Dave Mavmovelc of ESS with a two run total pf 63.3 seconds in the men’s expert class. In the men’s novice it was Murry_McComb of village 1 south with a single run time of 35.8 seconds. The womens novice was won by Judy Krav from notre dame. Using the scottish technique Gail McReynolds overwhelmed the rest of the field. (Her time was not submitted to, the chevron, but it was stated that the intramural department refused to release it. It can be assumed that the time was better than the men’s expect time but only the timers and the intramural department know for sure,)
Badminton
Positional Unit points St. Jeromes 2 Renison 7 Village 2 North 14 Village 2 East 1 Env. Studies 6 4 Science 0 Biology 0 Kinesiology Math I Coop Math Upper Eng
Final standings 1. Coop Res 3 2. SJC 3 3. Renison 1 4. Math (4th yr) 5. SJCl 6. SJC2’ 7. SJCS 8. Renison 2 9. SJC4 10. -Coop Resl ‘11. Vl East
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On Wednesday, January 31, the badminton tournament was opened at 7:66 p.m. At the close Gene Chu and Steve Paul won out over Allan McLelland and Sergio Manera l5‘13 and 15-16 in a two out of three series. Team
Last Saturday, February 10, the University of Waterloo Bowling Club held its first annual competitive intramural bowling tournament. Judging by the enthusiastic response of some 66 people who felt they could get up by noon on a Saturday, it won’t be the last. The tournament was won by a team from the Coop Residence consisting of Bob Sisler, Neil McKendrick, Carolanne Hearns and Cindy Corp. They had a total of 3961 for their 26 games (including handicap) which was 81 pins better than a team from St. Jerome’s College. Third place was held by a team from Renison College, only 1 pin behind the St. Jerome’s team. The highest for one team in a single game was 814, rolled by a team of 4th year mathies who ended up in 4th place. In the same game a member of that team, Joan McKellar, bowled the high single of the tournament, 324. Joan also had the highest five game set, 1068 (with a zero handicap).
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The Glenbriar Curling Club was the scene of the Men’s Intramural Bonspiel. On Sunday, Februray 11, 16 teams’ took to the ice to compete for the “Silver Boot Award”, donated by the University of Waterloo Curling Club. Larry Manley’s rink from Upper Eng, defeated the Science rink skipped by Bob Cummings 10 to 8, to take first place. On the next ice, the Lower Eng. rink skipped by Rojer Beaulieu defeated last year’s champions, Len Gaston from Optometry, by a score of 7 to 3 to place second. The results of the Bonspiel are as follows: 1. Upper Engineering (42)-Larry Manley (skip), M. Davenport, C. Whalen, D. Billing. 2. Lower Engineering (37%)-Rojer Beaulieu (skip), B. Benn, D. Doubt, J. Currie. 3. Regular Math (32%)-Jim Coyle (skip), R. French, B. Gerrard, J. Ratz. 4. Arts (30%)-Hugh McCharrel (skip), I. McLennan, P. Britton, Jim McFadgyen. ’ Captain’s
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Broomball and recreational hockey are not being reported and they should be. Please help keep the intramural office informed, captains, or we will not be able to tabulate the standings, which could result in no play- ’ \ offs. Entry date: Friday, February 23. Tournament: The Week of February 26: Gym 3, PAC To participate: Must leave your name at the Intramural Office or with the PAC Receptionist. Type of tournament: Round Robin per Weight Class Previous champion: St. Jeromes
Wrestling For those of you who wish to participate in the wrestling tournament, you must attend at least one training session. The purpose is to prevent injuries and to ensure use of proper forms and rules for this tournament. The times will be posted in the glassed bulletin board outside Red North PAC. Entry date: Friday, March 2 Tournament: Week of March 5 To Participate: Must leave your name at the Intramural Office or with the PAC Receptionist Type of tournament: Single-Elimination with Consolation Previous champion: Larry Lee, Grads Yilia&
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Results of the OUAA Western Division Tournament: epee team competition, Waterloo first. The following fencers, who fenced extremely, well, will be going to the OUAA final in Toronto today: Ken Marten, a member of the Olympic modern pentathalon, Frank Winkler, coach, Fred Hisza, a first year fencer. Sabre team competition, Waterloo fourth. Bob Gemeindl, Jim Bradford and Ken Rhodes of Waterloo all fenced extremely well considering they have had less than a year’s experience. Foil team results, Waterloo eliminated in the semifinal round of competition. Members of this team were: Roy Gorka, Igor Rodela and Allen Bennet-Brown. /
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The Ontario Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Association Volleyball championships are being hosted by waterloo. The matches start at 9 am this morning and end at 7 pm tonight. The competitions continue stomorrow from 10 am till 7 pm. The competition includes both championship and consolation divisions. The championship round will include western, mcmaster and Waterloo from the western division with toronto, Ottawa and york representing the east. Competitors in the consolation finals will be lutheran, guelph, Windsor, Carleton, queens and laurentian. Entry into the consolation and ’ was determined after the championship divisions 5 regular season play. The athenas finished the season in second place behind western. This puts them into an excellent position to get another crack at their adversaries. This weekend offers an excellent opportunity to watch volleyball at its best.
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Basketball results st. Jeromes “b” wally’s wunders 58 i 78 village 1 south village 2 %est village 1 north 30 village 2 north village 2 east village 1 east 45 terry & pirates-win by default over rotten runners village 1 west village 2, south 20 village 2 north “a” 75 elect. trotters lively ex hawks 36 chevron optometry 50 env. studies science wins by default over geology jocks 78 math 1 us 59 coop. res. st. pauls 33 hillsdale gang st. jeromes “a” 70 renison
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The warrior wrestling team is back on the winning side of the slate once again. The wrestling types defeated toronto, Windsor and york to win the tournament they hosted last weekend. The warriors are the defending OUAA champions and they are hoping to make it four in a row with a win this weekend. Windsor will host the OUAA Wrestling championships this weekend. Coach Kurt Boese, who is also the Canadian wrestling coach, has been assisted this year by George Saunders, a member of the Canadian Olympic team. The week has been a week of hard work on technique and loss of weight. If there is one who wishes a crash course on losing weight just talk to a wrestler. One word about wrestlers crash courses on losing weight, it is not advisable to stay on them for more than a day or two, in other words they may sound intersting but it is not advisable to use one. The results of last weeks tournament are as follows: waterloo-81, toronto-67, windsorand York-23.
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This week being slack week, there is no overwhelming amount of scheduled events. But, if you are left kicking around campus with not too much in particular to do, come over to the P .E. bldg. to play bordenball. It’s not necessary to have a team-just yourself. Give your name to the office sometime before Thurs. 22 which is the day of the event. Next Tues. 27 is the tennis tournament so get those swings in form. The slack week is a good opportunity for you to ute your facilities since there won’t be the crowds. Those squash courts which have been so much in demand that it has been necessary to book them 2448 hours in advance should be more easily come by. How long has it been since you played a good game of tennis or swam until those lazy muscles yelled oww? Try something!, You just might find it worthwhile enough to return again once the peace is replaced by chaos. Last but not least, don’t forget about the sauna. This is an ideal time to introduce yourself to our newest ‘facility. Feb 26 is the deadline for the nominations for next year’s WIAC. Forms can be obtained from Sally Kemp’s office. To qualify for any position other than pres. (which demands experience to help create & guide a cohesive body) one need be nothing more than sincerely interested. Perhaps you know of someone who would do a good job as an official or in publicity or even as vice-pres-nominate them!
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The great doomsday debate of the past five years seems to be drawing to a close. The likelihood that the experiment of human evolution will shortly be brought to an abrupt close by any of several possible catastrophes-nuclear or biological warfare, ecological disaster, population collapse, the I war of the southern poor against the northern rich or massive outbreaks of correlated disease and famineseems to have become more distant in many people’s minds. The “facts”, of course have not changed, and I am talking here only of the psychological aspects of the paradigm Robin Clarke is a science writer involved in- debate between those who believe that the future will progress smoothly and improve, in biotechnic setting up a project and those who believe that it will undergo a development. He was formerly a consultant and suddenly worsen. to Unesco in Paris, and before that editor of sharp discontinuity Here it is not so much the facts which are Science Journal. This article is reprinted important but the values and beliefs held by from New Scientist. men who cowern themselves with the future. To some of those, of course, real Doomsday would be reached were the world to continue smoothly on its present course of mass exploitation and pillage of the environment. If then we now look round at the confusion 16ft by half a decade of Earth days, Stockholm conferences and anti-Vietnam peace marches, what do we see? First, I believe, one lasting effect is that science and technology have taken a severe pounding from which they will not recover. The naive analysis that even if most of our troubles
stem from science and technology then -only more science and technology will ever cure them has proved too frail a prop for any but the most thoughtless technocrats. On the other hand, and this is the point which now needs emphasis, the blanket rejection.of all things scientific and technical-so notable a feature of, for example, the counterculture’s retreat to the woods and fields of America and northern Europe-is also faltering. The new view that emerges is still that science and technology will not themselves find a way out of the present crisis-but that any real way out certainly will involve a science and a technology, even if those activities in the future bear little quantitative or qualitative resemblance to science and technology today. All this is evident from the concern now being shown for the invention of new forms of science. The literature includes suggestions for a compassionate science, a subjective science, a morphic science, radical science, democratic science, critical science, adversary science, science for the people and even a science for those experimenting with altered states of conscioustiess. It is evident too from the attempts now being made to invent new technologies ; words which three years ago were known to few indeed have begun to feature in sources as far apart as United Nations publications and the underground literature; they include intermediate technology, alternative graphic
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I technology, village technology, appropriate technology, people’s technology, organic technology, ecological technology, biotechnics and “soft” technology. Each of these sciences and technologies has its own exponents, and serious attempts are being made to outline their properties, and to assess their advantages. -New Sctentist readers have already been well cared for in the general area of the existing critiques of scientific progress in the form of the writings of men like Rozsak, Mishan, Galbraith,, Skolimowski and Ravetz. But they have not, I think, yet been exposed to much of the constructive thought that is now beginning to find expression in many parts of the world, and this may be a good opportunity to light a candle for some bold new experiments. In Ethiopia John Morgan, with the help of the University of Addis Ababa, is working at the level of village technology, producing a heady blend of primitive technology and counter-culture inventions such as the solar heating device developed at Drop-out City in the United States. In Cape Cod, California, New Mexico, Costa Rica and soon Nova Scotia, the New Alchemy Institute (“to restore the land, protect the seas, and inform the Earth’s its stewards”)continues programme to promote social and biological transformations. Its director, John Todd, who believes that we should turn people into scientists as it may be too late to make humanitarians out of scientists, is the only man I know who has actually, set in operation a science performed- by the people for the people. Through the pages of Organic Gardening and Farming he has persuaded Americans from &ll over the country to join with his institute in making their own experiments with highly productive, small scale food producing systems. The most notable is that in which the experimenters construct small geodesic- domes in their back yards which act as hot houses for the breeding of protein-rich Tilapia fish in tiater seeded with algae and fertilised with grass clippings contained in a child’s paddling pool-a development which promises to make the protein yields of the protagonists of the green revolution look frankly silly. In India a weekly newspaper on village , development and technology is soon to appear and several model village de’velopments are underway or being planned. From Salzburg Robert Jungk is spreading the message of soft technology to the 50 or 60 people he appears to meet on his average working day. In ,the Ardeche in southern France Phillippe Arreteau began last summer his three month courses on intermediate and soft technologies, designed equally for students from the Third World and from the French communes. In Paris Yann Burlot and others are setting up the Institut Goreme for the collection and dissemination of information and soft technologies. In London the Intermdiate Technology Development Group continues to gather strength, and a company called Low _Impact Technologies has been set up. In Normandy and Wales, Biotechnic Research and Development (BRAD, with which I am involved) is about to begin research operations in its two centres which are designed to becom\e models of how small groups of people might want to live in the not so distant future. What is interesting, then, is that the entirely negative stance of the professional doomsayers is transforming itself slowly into a faltering enquiry into possible new directions for new forms of “progress”. At this stage it is perhaps more important to dwell on this general trend rather than to analyse in detail any one of the new sciences or technologies which is shaping up on the drawing boards of theoF?. An@ in-broad terms they do all share common features which contrast harshly with those of existing science and technology. To generalise, they seek to put men before machines-, people before governments, practice before theory, student before teacher, the country before the city, smallness before bigness, wholeness before reductionism, organic materials beforesynthetic ones, plants before animals, craftsmanship before expertise, and quality before quantity. One could go on, and I do not pretend that any of these vague forms of words summarise succinctly any of the exact aims of the practitioners of the new science and technology. But I do think that a philosopher of set theory would find in these loose
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associations a cluster which may mark the beginn&ofanewscientifica.ndtechnical paradigm. We see emerging a science and techn$ogydesignednottodominatenature but to mesh with it, and one whose objective will not be to push mankind ever faster into new follies but to help fulfil, along with other equally valuable forms of knowledge and technique, an ethical and social function within the norms, of a new society. One of the most attractive features of the new paradigm ‘is the way it deals with “sideeffects”. In the old paradigm, for e&mple, the cruciai question of any technical development was how to evaluate the negative effects of the advance and how to arrive at a: conclusion that they were either smaller or bigger than the positive ones. Thus arose such bizarre concepts as “safe” levels of radiation, pollution or environmental destruction. Economists would calculate “permissible” levels of domestic saving in theory attainable by a grindingly poor people to achieve a level of economic growth which in the end benefited only the already rich. In the press men became counted as statistics and a development which‘ produced a mortality of say, only 0.005 per cent could be heralded as “completely<safe”. In fact 0.005 per cent of the world population is more than 150,000 pe0ple, and if you were one of them you could surely be excused for a refusal to partake in any such elaborate calculus. Take thequestion of thermal pollution from power stations, a problem which seems to worsen all the way along the technocPatic line from fossil fuel plants to conventional nuclear, ones, to breeder reactors tw fusion factories. The old paradigm makes a theoretical calculation about the amo&t of heat that must be lost for every kilowatt generated, discounts for heat exchangers and cooling towers, plays amund with the idea of transferring the &t33nal waste from one area to another (and thus neatly losing it from the calculations), estim6tes that even if 20 billion people used M) kilowatts each the black body radiation temperature of the Earth would rise only a degree or so, and declares the matter closed. The new parad.&& says, quite rightly, that if you put that power plant on my doorstep I will certainly feel the effect and the matter is far from closed. Instead, it says, it will use solar power or wind power, sources which add precisely nothiig to the Earth’s thermal load and hence make meaningless the whole question of “safe thermal loads”. And if tbse sources do not provide enough power, then two things are needed: more rmrch, and cultural and social adaptation, the two factors to be considered carefully in conjunction with one another. “How safe is safe” thus becomes a meaningless question (and in any case we always knew it was unanswerable): the meaningful exercise is to find the new technology which blends so well with the natural systems on which we depend that the question never arises. In this context, it should be noted that a new technology is far from the easy way out and certainly requires fiendish bcientific ingenuity. The old cliche that any future lapse from current forms of science and technology will in some curiouS way leave man’s brain in an addled condition is thus disposed of, without recourse to arguments about what it was hat went on in the minds of Beethoven, Bach, Plato and Abelard. Nothing, of course, is ever really new and the *‘new” directions into which science and technology soon seem bound to venture have an important political, if not technical, history. Going no further back than the 19th century, otie can site first the Russian prime Kropotkin and the American writer Thoreau as examples of people who were already searching for new meanings to the Victorian ideal of, progress in the form of constructive anarchy. In the United States the movement flowered briefly in the 1939s under the gentle patronage of men like Ralph Borsodi, Scott Nearing and Peter van Dresser. In 1938 the latter wrote for Har-. per’s magazine an article entitled “New tools for democracy” which described how the liberating force of science and technology could be used to spell out a nontechnocratic future on a human scale. With the date changed by 34 years, that article would still pass as a perfect critique of our present ills, and it provides a vivid comparison to van Dresser’s 1972 publicatiov A Lalidscape for Humans khich describes a detailed plan for a gentle and ecological ,
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development of a part of New Mexico. More recently, the philosophy of Ghandi and the efforts of Schumacher in England in setting up the Intermediate Technology Development Group in the 1960’s are classic examples of dissident attempts to reunite human beings with human tasks. i And now that the ecological input has been added, the contemporary writings of Murray Bookchin take on‘ huge significance. Bookchin was one of the first to try to unite an anarchist libertarian philosophy with the revolutionary implications of science and technology. The flowering of local culture, individual expression and human diversity which has always been ‘a hallmark of constructive anarchy seems almost too perfect a fit with the “new” discovery th@ nature abhors not only the vacuum b t also monoculture: diversity, as a key w x d both in global political development and in- the management and orchestration of natural systems, is certainly in the ascendancy in this Age of Aquarius. I have left to last the most important question: what, exactly, is it that these and many other people are driving at? First, they would like to see the appalling global flight from the country to the city halted and reversed, in the name of sanity, ecology and the population explosion (which in most countries of the world is evident only in to capital intensive, cities ; thanks mechanised large scale farming techniques, the countryside has in many places- been reduced to a desolate, food-producing factory). Second, they would like to see real development for the Third World as fast as possible-but a development that benefited the people, was compatible with existing social norms and cultures, and made maximum use of local resources. Third, they would like to see the ecological crisis resolved in what is the only possible ‘wayby a reintegration of .man with the natural systems of which he is and must always remain a part. And fourth they would like to see science and technology reduced to a proper perspective from its present monopolistic position in relation to all other forms of disciplined enquiry, craft tecmque and creative activity. One might imagine the landscape of this new Utopia looking something like this: a countryside dotted with windmills and solar houses, studded with intensively but organic@ly worked plots of land; food production systems dependent on the integration of many different species, with timber, fish, animals and plants playing mutually dependent roles, with wilderness areas plentifully available where perhaps even our vicious distinction between hunting and domestication was partially broken down; a life style for men and women which involved hard physical work but not over excessively long hours or in a tediously an architecture. which repetitive way; sought to free men from external services and which brought them into contact with one another, rather than separated them into cubicles where the goggle box and bed were the only possible diversions ; a political system so decentralised and small that individuals-all individuals-could play more than a formal, once every five years role; a philosophy of change that viewed the micro-system as the operative unit; and a city-scape conceived on a human scale and as a centre for recreation. Whoever conceived the idea that the country was best suited to become a human dormitory, and the city best suited to provide space for people to sit at desks, has much to answer for. If there is hope that a future of this kind might one day be realised, it is not because men who are clever enough to go to the Moon can fix anything. But it may be because once having been there, and seen what it’s like, men could once again learn to rejoice in the greenness of their planet and, to use Ivan Illich’s words, “celebrate their diversity”.
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ahem, having nothing of any particular merit to pass on at this time, except perhaps the minor request that all those delinquents from feedback freaks right on down to regular stafkrs learn to use a typewriter really fast, or find a friend who uses a typewriter realm fast, since therearea few of us down here who are getting tired of doing the mounds of shit work necessary to pmcess your excrescence to the point where typesetters will consider looking at it, which goes doubly strong for the sports department co-ordinators who are tired of being machines ati intenaI Po start chucking your bullshit scOres if they aren? suitably transformed into readable, informative, nonmacho, non-sexist articles, which brings us back to the masthead in which we find melvin rotman, , Susan gable, pete smith, catherine murray, david scheel, paul starewe, kim moritsw, &are matcollough, john keyes, george neeland (who threatens that this might be the last Gme), ron smith, judy moore, pater hopkins, sally kemp, susan johnson, sue murphy, brute dqper” a group of egotistical fencers, wheels, rand stevenson, brian switzman, thc#nas sharkey” rail@ kofler” joh morris, david cubberley, clive bernard, kati middleton, david robertson, ,george k&man, john o’grady, jan jonsson, bill aird, tony di franoo, dudley paul, Ii+ will& ron colpitts, ati moses whose visit we enjoyed from a distance, frank goldspink, alain pratte, nick savage, gord m&e, brian cere, dick mcgill, tom mcdonald, don ballanger, tony jenkins, &nd to anyone we missed a profound apology, gudnite.
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In the backroom cauldrons of education policy makers a strange brew is being concocted. Certain to effect the lives of hundreds of thousands of present and future students, this project is labelled the Contingency Repayment Student Assistance Program (CORSAP). It is aimed at solving the problem of student aid. Government policy makers often refer to this as, ‘the-how-to-create-haif.hearted-programs-to-heIp-some-students-jump-over-the-economic-barriersto-university-entrance-which-wewe-created-in-the-first-place’ problem. As these Jack Benny you can imagine, educational e&omists are true wizards. Their first act was alchemy. The impure substance to be transformed was called the Educational Opportunity Bank (EOB). It originated with Milton Freedman back in 1955, at the un’iversity of Chicago; was kept alive by Seymour Harris; and took form in a study completed during Lyndon B. Johnson’s regime. As in all other American conservative economic schemes, the basic tenet is a return to a ‘free’ market of competitive consumers and producers as espoused by the 18th Adam Smith. This Century writer, proposal has not been implemented in the USA. In Great Britain a loan scheme was proposed to the Robbins Committee on Higher Education in 1963, but it too was never recommended for implementation. Because the greatest strength of our’ -_ government planners has been adapting foreign models to our specific needssuch as convertible cars. and skyscrapers-we quickly produced a\ ‘made in Canada’ proposal dubbed CORSAP. The major designers were professors Cook and Staeger. It is interesting to note that Professor Staeger is now working almost full-time for the Canadian federal government. An outline of the Cook-Staeger proposal was described in a report by Gary O’Brien of Glendon College. In it ,he stated, “Tuition at a_ll post-secondary institutions would be raised so that the full cost of
higher ‘education would be borne entirely by the students who attend, thus allowing -the government to ultimatkly *withdraw its financial support.” All students could apply to a fund established by the government to cover the full cost of tuition and living expenses, which for a student enrolled in a liberal arts programme, could amount to $3,000 per .yea r. “The conditions of repayment would be stated at the time of borrowing. A surtax on future earnings would be paid for the amount borrowed and repaymentwould be set for a specific limit (Cook-Staeger suggests 3@years), after which no further repayments’tiould be required. When the graduate repayments equalled the initial amount borrowed plus the interest rates ,compounded annually, the individual would be required to make no further reoayments. Thus a graduate earning a high salary could get out of the programme before the specific time limit expired”. This kind of prograin reduces education to a consumption item. More precisely, it turns students into objects that/ borrow money to gamble on the chance that higher education will help them get a better paying job than if they had not continued past high school. It is the ultimate in the Quy now and pay and pay ‘and pay later plan. The arguments advanced for implementing CORSAP deserve attention. The most often quoted rationale for doing away with OSAP and replacing it with a graduate income surtax is that it will save money for the overb,urdened taxpayer. At first glance this argument sounds convincing. How often have tie heard our parents complaining that it isn’t even worth taking home their paycheque anymore because of the deductions. The only thing the government hasn’t taxed yet is urine (except for a few brands of beer). A deeper look at the argument howeier suggests the authors of the CORSAP are not acting in as humanitarian a mode as they would have us believe. What must be
asked is why most people are overtaxed? The answer might be that the present taxation system is regressive. According to the 1971 Budget Estimate of Ontario, the corporations of this province, who make profits from the pljbliclyfinanced graduates they hire, only pay 8 per cent of the total government revenue. In this light CORSAP proponents appear garbed in the colours of the Torybusiness alliance that runs Ontario. The second major argument is that students are the major beneficiaries of education and are not paying a proportionate amount. This assumption is more difficult to debate because of the different sets of statistics used.’ Thus if foregone income (money that could have been earned instead of attending school) and educational expenses (most research and a great amount of capital equipment) not used by undergraduate students were considered, students must be seen as paying for approximately 50 per cent of direct operating cost. This is the percentage that Staeger recommends. A deeper aspect of this assumption also revolves around the question of what is private and what is social benefit? Wouldn’t a society benefit from a more innovative and cultured society? These unquantifyable concepts are dismissed by the CORSAP designers. It is interesting to note that one of the major currents found in the graduate surtax plan is equitability. It is more than evident that our uni\iersities are most unrepresentative of the provincial community that supports them. According to the Morand report, the families of Ontario earning over $10,000 are overrepresentedby 10.1 per cent while the families of the under $3,000 are underrepresented by 14.8 per cent at all postsecondary institutions. The differences are even greater when the universities are considered seperately. The question remains, however, whether CORSAP would remedy these inequalities. Perhaps this is answered in a critique emanating from the Ontario Council of Faculty Associations, entitled
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Toward 2000. It states, “Equity must be determined by examining a person’s position relative to others. When the benefit conferred imposes a penalty (fifteen years of indebtedness at prevailing interest rates (which is not required of those who enjoy the same benefit because their parents can afford to help them, this is scarcely equitable. “It is a fine-sounding phrase to ask at what stage does the individual accept hisshare of responsibility for meeting society’s goals, but under this proposal, only the poor would be faced with accepting such responsibility. It is a reactionary social philosophy that would put so many in the debtor‘s prison at a time in their life cycle when their indebtedness will be increased by mortgages or other expenses connected with establishing themselves in society.” In spite of the obvious undemocratic and regressive nature of a program like CORSAP, it appears that the government is proceeding with its implementation. For the reasons listed above, it is important for students to oppose proposals such as CORSAP. Not for just themselves, but for those who couldn’t afford to cbnie to university now; or who may not be able to in the future; but also for a society where educatiqn should be valued as a right. If we believe that this is the kind of society that we want to live in, there is a counter-proposal we can make. In the first instance we should be vociferous in demanding equity in our taxation system. In 1967, the Carter Commission brought down its report. The commission was established by our federal government to end tax rip-offs. The final recommendations were summarized in ihe phrase ‘a buck is a buck’. No more favouritism would be- given to big corporations that get fatter and fatter at the expense of wage .earners and Canadians on fixed iccomes. Needless to say, the business-oriented Liberal party buried this document. We should demand the implementation of the Carter commission report.. If this happened, then any financjal benefit that a person received from higher education would be taxed appropriatley. It would then follow that there would be no need for students to pay any of the direct costs of post secondary education. As it is, the first twelve years and almost all graduate costs are payeq for by the people of Ontario, because an educated populace is recognized as a social (and economic) priority. t The one problem remaining would be that many students from lower economic class backgrounds require incentives to pursue higher education. These incentives are referred to as ‘positive bias’ by professor John Porter. He has spent a great deal of time analysing social class problems, particularly in the educational system. Students from poor families need more than to be told that they may attend a university. It is a great risk for them to go for one or two years and then not make it in our middle class institutions. All they would end up with would be a large debt to show for their efforts. There is also the consideration that some poor families encourage their children to leave school early to earn money to support the family. For these reasons, it would be necessary to establish some form of student stipend or salary, on a sliding scale, to overcome these difficulties. The specifics are important to work out, but first we must get government policymakers and the public to accept the principles underlying these proposals. While student organizations wage their proper-legal-channels-lobbying for whatever effect it can gain, individual students may be able to make a more’ important contribution. The proper education of a parent, neighbor or acquaintance about the real nature of our universities and the provincial goverrime&business manipulations of taxation and priorities could prove to be a moi-e effective way to tip the cauldron and send the back-room planners ‘back to their chalkboards.
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