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University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 13, number 37 friday, march 16,1973 ,

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Bill’ to go?

Controversy over fingThe proposed replacement of an assistant professor in the computer science department has stirred up a few ripples in the placid atmosphere within the faculty of mathematics.

Bill Wadge, the professor in question, is not having his two-year teaching contract renewed.

The contract will expire this summer.

The tenured professors within the department decided in late january that his interests did not lie primarily in the field of computer sciences and his efforts would be best spent elsewhere.

Students who feel that he is an excellent teacher are upset at this decision.

The department had hired Wadge on a two-year, definite term contract, and had included a few qualifications to be considered in the event of a renewal of contract.

One of these was the question of field of interest, due to the fact that Wadge’s background had been pure mathematics, and not computer science.

On condition that some direction be demonstrated that he had a concerted interest in becoming a computer scientist his contract would be considered for renewal. A second qualification made was that Wadge acquire his PhD within a few months of the signing of his first contract.

P.C. Fischer, chairman of the department, feels that Wadge has not lived up to these conditions.

When contracted by the department of computer science, Fischer “knew that he (Wadge) was a pure mathematician, and that he would have to choose either to move to pure mathematics or become a computer scientist.”

In the eyes of Fischer, and the tenured professors in the department, Wadge has not shown any intention of “becoming a computer scientist”, and “while he is capable of becoming one, he does not want to.”

The second qualification, the doctoral degree, has also not been fulfilled. Fischer’s position is that “We expect our faculty to have and that, while their PhD.” waiting for eighteen months, Wadge has not received his yet. In addition to this stipulation, for the past two years Wadge has been contracted as an assistant professor, and been paid accordingly without the contingent PhD for that position.

Fischer also maintained that the level of teaching proficiency has been considered, and the ratings of Wadge’s ability listed in the mathsoc anti-calendar compiled last year. The evaluations of his teaching were not wholly laudatory-though well-rated for his computer science course, he earned a poor rating for his math class.

Students of Wadge’s one math class and two computer classes seem to have a different view of his teaching abilities though. All of his students talked to found him adequate as a teacher and most

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found him to be very good. He “gets a lot of response from his students but first year is so simple for him, maybe, that he has trouble teaching it,” said one first year math student. “He’s been teaching a lot better this term than last term,” she added.

The general reaction was much more favourable.

Students in the same class found him to be a “very good teacher. He knows people and their problems and is adaptable to his class. His teaching style is very refreshing.”

As one student put it: “We write the same exams as other classes. Our marks show that we are learning.”

This sentiment was echoed by students from - Wadge’s secondyear computer class last term.

“Everybody out of three or four sections took the same exam. In our section nobody failed ! This must mea% he is teaching us.”

Fourth year computer students in a class of Wadge’s were not unimpressed by his teaching abilities either, One student said, “It was a shitty course to start with and I don’t think anybody else could do a better job.” Another -continued

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Saltzman declines

Search Starts agam Sydney Saltzman, recommended for appointment as director of the School of Planning, has decided to decline-the position. The opposition aroused by this particular appointment among the members of! the school, most likely figured heavily in Saltzman’s decision, however, the reasons which he gave avoided this issue.

Apparently, the salary was not sufficient to justify the sacrifice involved in moving, considering that his son has free accomodation at Cornell. In addition, the Canadian taxation system would in actuality result in a net reduction in pay for Saltzman if he were to leave the United States to accept the position.

The complaints made concerning, the choice of Saltzman included the fact that straw votes taken within the school indicated disapproval.

There was also strong feeling that the only undergraduate planning programme in Canada should have a Canadian director, and considering that

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Saltzman is an American -it was felt that he was unacceptable.

On top of these arguments, his basic philosophy towards education, apparently bureaucratic and rigid, was questioned by a number of the students and faculty.

When asked about the possible directions in which the eventual choice of a director could go, Don Sinclair, an undergraduate member of the Search Committee, said that this development left the choice “right up in the air”. The choice could be made between the other two final candidates for the position, Kiyo Izumi and Jacobson, or the committee can look within the faculty of the department and make a choice from within that group. The latter procedure, while considering people that had not previously been screened, would not necessitate the mobilization of the entire search mechanism.

The fear had,’ previously been expressed that if Saltzman rejected the position, the dean of environmental studies, P.H. Nash would take over the directorship personally, until- a decision was made. This type of action would not be precedent setting for Nash, considering that he took the same action within the school of architecture earlier this term: However, the survival of such a move is’doubtful, as it creates the potential for opposition which is as heavy or heavier than that generated by the recommendation of Saltzman.

Sinclair asserted that if the “committee horses around, the dean can appoint a director for an interim period.”

The present director of the school, R.S. Dorney, is one such appointed director, with a term of office which will expire on january 1, 1974. Sinclair also mentioned that this approach

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has perhaps coloured the perceptions of both the position and the school.

In his eyes, there is a “need for more information on what the role of the director is, and on what the philosophy of the school is.” The interim choice is by necessity a scramble to find a qualified person to keep the machine operating.

Over the next week there will be student, faculty and search committee meetings in order to attempt to formulate some sort of strategy.

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course critiques (CUP)-Ontario TORONTO university teachers should attempt to deal with student evaluations of courses. So said the chairman of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations on march 6.

James Stevens, chairman of OCUFA, said the association was preparing up to 20 annual teaching citations for teachers who receive good marks from their students.

Stevens considers student evaluation of teachers beneficial.

‘If that (evaluation) is not done, teaching is evaluated by hearsay.’

But he wants more control of evaluations by faculty.

‘Students initiated the whole thing, but where students alone did it the effect has been disruptive,’ he said. ‘I know a number of faculty who almost had heart failure over what students said about them.’ But he didn’t say what could prevent a denunciation of teachers by their students, when they were given a chance to speak freely.

He gave two reasons for supporting student evaluations.

First, he said, most of Ontario’s 9966 post secondary teachers had been evaluated in some way by their students.

Evaluations are a fait accompli. He also said he wants to _see good teaching properly judged and. given equal weight with research and creative work in regard to promotion and salary levels. ‘If it comes. down to a hard _ discussion, no more than 25 per cent of the time is spent discussing teaching while the rest is spent discussing his research, scholarship, etc. ’ Although course evaluations have been in existence for five or six years, departments and universities have only recently adopted the idea of becoming involved in the evaluations.

Where they have control over the evaluation, they usually add comments by fellow teachers and edit the students’ comments.

Meanwhile, at the university of Western Ontario, students and faculty are locked in a conflict over who should administer course evaluations.

Faculty want a faculty-run, secret evaluation, while students want a student operated system which would make results available to all students.

Some faculty members are refusing to allow student evaluators to distribute the evaluation forms in their classes.

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added that “He’s got a lot of good features in his teaching style. He’s not great but he’s competent.

There is no valid reason to fire him and I’m sure that his teaching will get a lot better.”

‘When questioned about the position played by research in the evaluation of Wadge, Fischer referred to it as indicative of an interest in the given field. That Wadge had not embarked upon any research in the field of computer science until the past September, a full year after the signing of the contract, indicated to the chairman that there was a lack of interest on Wadge’s part. Fischer also stated that “Bill is capable of doing first rate research and first rate teaching, if he wishes to.”

Apparently, Wadge had been doing some research work, but the “fact that he hasn’t published shows that his interest does not extend to the writing. . .and the purpose -of research is to communicate new ideas.”

Commenting on the charges made by Fischer, Wadge felt that he was being considered unfairly 1 “About the PhD: my thesis was completed a long time ago, and the main theorems have appeared in print. ” His advisor left the thesis sitting on his desk unread for a year because as chairman of the department at Berkeley he was “too busy to read it.”

“Until he reads it and signs, I don’t technically have a PhD,” Wadge explained.

Addison, his advisor, has even been known to lose a student’s thesis.

Wadge also stressed that his research and publishing has not been ignored. “I will have three papers submitted or published this year. The first, done last year with D.M. Jackson, is on computing statistical error estimates.

The second, done this year with A.L. Davis, is about a new programming language. Only the third is in pure math and was researched before I came here. The first two are research done at Waterloo with members of the computer science department.”

Students are less concerned with research than with teaching.

As stressed by a second year student “research doesn’t affect us much.

We pay our fees to be taught and he is a damned good teacher.”

Many students are upset with Wadge’s dismissal and the reasons given for it. They are starting a petition calling for his reinstatement.

As one first year student put it, “Bill Wadge is the focal point of the whole thing but the actual issue is the fact that students have no say in administrative affairs in areas that directly affect us. Bill Wadge is \ only an example.”

In an attempt to discover more of the reasons behind the decision of tenured professors within the department, the views of W.M. Gentleman were asked. He quietly uttered that he’d “rather you asked the department chairman instead.”

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Michael Mather, one of the three U of T math professors who students occupied departmental offices on behalf of, was on campus tuesday to give his interpretation of the whole issue.

Speaking in the campus centre to a group of 50, mainly math students concerned with the firing of Bill Wadge, Mather outlined the genesis of the three firings and the ensuing struggle which followed.

He said that the reasons for his firing and .the firings of Da&l Spring and Stephen Saloff were never explained.

He stressed that in all three cases, and especially that of Saloff, the reasons were fairly obvious, though. Saloff for instance had opposed the power structure of the department on a number of issues. “Saloff was in trouble, He had access to no formal appeal mechanism.

He also broke the common faculty front and sided with students on a number of math profs fired at U of T, was on campus__- issues. The ensuing bad feeling in

Mike Mather, one of three tuesday afternoon to give his side of the sequently arose in the math department.

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the Third Wdd The capitalistic nations’ aid to the Third World cannot be referred to as such because it appears either in the form of loans or in direct monopoly investments.

With this in mind the panel discussion held on monday, march 12, on the nature of foreign aid, renamed it imperialism.

This type of exploitation while not as evident as the Vietnamese war, is nevertheless more \ effective since it comes under the pretense of the ‘World’ Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, etc.. . .and thus disguising its true intent.

The humanitarian claims of these charitable institutions is beyond belief and unfortunately their posturing is accepted as fact by most North Americans.

These institutions represent the interests of the United States and Canada, Japan, West Germany, Great Britain and France, but never the needs of the underdeveloped world. The reason is logical: the United States happens to be one of their main backers.

Dr. G. Francis, formerly with the ‘United Nations (which considers the World Bank its singular invention) apparently has not ridden himself of the blinkers common to those who associate themselves with such places.

Francis states that the World Bank chartered with the sole objective to help poor nations, provides such a service to the best of its ability. He laments that more funds need to be proffered so that things may be ‘better’. Francis, of course, never attempts to explain why assistance was refused to Guyana and Chile after the nationalization of the bauxite and copper mines.

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Mather described both Spring and Saloff as excellent teachers and added that the wide-reaching student support gave confidence in his own teaching abilities. ntro 11 i n g Mather’s. most interesting revelations came in his descriptions of the internal operations of the department.

He said that there was an average of 280 students per professor in the department, and that whenever there were budget problems first year courses were stacked up and untenured none other than Robert McNamara is currently the president of the professors fired.

“Many good World Bank and that the United teachers are lost. But this isn’t States contributes the \most even a budget issue because our financially.

Therefore, the World positions are being advertised.”

The departmental chairman, Bank cannot pardon the nationalizations of foreign con- , George Duff, does not delegate any and the faculty is terns carried out =by Chile and of his authority Guyana.

The World Bank must afraid to oppose him. No faculty heed American interests or else members would sign a petition asking for written reasons for the run the risk of losing its major financial source. _ firings, but after the sit-in had The other panelist Dr. C. Grant started many were willing to speak from Guyana presented a more up when they saw the issue had convincing report about the support. foreign imperialism.

The “Faculty in the department are Aluminum Company of Canada very competitive.

They are only (ALCAN) was nationalized by the interested in ‘getting something’ Guyanese government, due no on each other as security against doubt to the fact that the ex- attacks. They will not unite on any ploitations of the bauxite resources , common front because they are all could continue no longer at the afraid,” Mather explained.

“The expense of+ the Guyanese nation.

Faculty Association would offer no Once nationalized, ALCAN assistance at all. They will only protested iit is relevant to point out give advice on tax cuts and sabthat while some shareholders are baticals,” he added.

Canadian, the majority of shares Mather went on to tell why the are American) and Guyana, sit-in was abandoned by the boycotted by all the finance in- students.

“They felt that their stitutions, had to compensate energies could better be used going ALCAN for its ‘losses’. into classrooms and explaining The case of Chile is even more their position.” Hopefully they will clear, since Salvador Allende’s be able to continue the struggle in government has lawfully exploited the fall. “Right now students are the copper concerns of Kennecott without ‘power in the department (a U.S. multinational), Chile has but they are also the only ones who been faced with severe threats to have the potential power to make its primary export. Kennecott has any qualitative changes in the pursued its campaign to block educational system.”

Chilean copper shipments by filing At this point though, there have legal suits against three copper been no immediate gains for the using countries in Italy (as stated students. A departmental meeting in a Kennecott report). The stance called to discuss the sit-in (four of the World Bank et,al is not in the were held in two days, the first in least restrained, rather the efforts over a year) and decided to of Kennecott complement the establish two committees.

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sider restructuring of the department. Chairman Duff, however, refuses to name anyone to the committee.

In summation, Mather said that the dispute brought many important problems to light and faculty ‘gained a great deal.

“There is now an opportunity for change. I now have the confidence and the information to file an and have much more appeal, chance to have it granted.

Unfortunately, at this point, the students have gained nothing tangible. Their struggle will have to go on.”

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Day care wins out MONTREAL (CUPI)-McGill’s Alliance for Child Care finally won out March 7, when students at a general meeting voted to allocate $1 of their student society fees to a parent-run co-op day care centre.

The victory came with no credit to the McGill administration which obtained an injunction Feb. 12 forbidding the ACC from running a day care centre anywhere on the McGill campus.

The injunction effectively ended a ten-day ACC occupation of a university, lounge after the university had evicted their temporary centre from another building where it had been since November. j The day the injunction was issued to end the occupation, mcgill vice-president, Stanley Frost, claimed that negotiations, which had been broken off that morning, would resume three days later. Two hours later key ACC organizers were served with the , injunction.

When the injunction was issued, the ACC left the occupied area and established an interim centre in Hillel House. Hillel, a campus oriented jewish youth group, is not controlled by the mcgill administration, and therefore is not affected by the injunction.

The group fully backed the ACC action.

Observers expect the new ACC centre, financed by the student levy, will be located in a house near the campus to avoid the injunction.

In early March ACC members circulated a petition calling for a special student society meeting to deal with the issue. It proposed that mcgill students pay $1 of their $24 student union fee for an ACC run day care centre, with the proviso that students could request their $1 not be channelled toward day care.

The mcgill student society constitution provides for general meetings if at least 300 students request them. If 300 students turn out ,, decisions reached are binding on elected representatives? ’ Students at the general meeting approved the day care motion ,,, \ overwhelmingly.

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requirements of any students sitting on such a committee-they should or must firstly accept the standing rules and regulations under which the committee operates and secondly, they should be A or near A students. After all, he explained, “How else can we know they are competent for judging scholarly ability of a professor?”

J. Gold; of the english departr ment, brought up his brainchild-a committee on committees and suggested that the whole question of student representation could be dealt with in this manner. Under All in favour please signify ! being voiced from every possible the overwhelming criticism rising Make your presence known and side. Some made no bones about from council and the ray of hope take-a stand. Get the show on the saying they opposed student issuing forth from Gold,. thed on any committee. road and get out as quickly as representation students decided to withdraw their possible, after all you must have Others, the-friends-of-the-studentmotion rather than have it face a something better to do on a cause, said they appreciated the vote. Council gathered strength, tuesday afternoon. With the mood students’ concern but after Xl, ready to face the next momentous of the arts faculty council closely what do students want to be on this issue on the agenda. resembling that of a mutual ad- committee for anyway? According H. Kirk offered his little tidbit to miration society which has fallen to J. Wilson of the political science top off the afternoon; “that in light asleep, the academics stumbled department and J.S. Minas from of the problems that the Drop-Add their way through another session philosophy these questions, of period cause faculty, and students, of indecision. promotion and -the granting of students be allowed to register for D. Mcrae of the english departtenure, are really decided in the more than their regular number of ment chaired the meeting, individual departments with the classes and to drop the superdirecting the verbal traffic and committee only rubberstamping numerary ones within a threekeeping a rein on the rambunctious those decisions already made. week period, but that no one shall orators.

The motion had asked for the be able to add a course after appointment of an undergraduate classes have begun. I therefore Apparently the group was either asleep, completely caught off student and a graduate student to move that the Drop-Add period be the rubberstamping co-mmittee altered accordingly and so be reguard or in complete agreement that. grants professors their jobs. named ‘Drop’ period.” . with the first motion brought The opinion of the students taught Needless to say, this would before them. There was absolutely by those professors should be a seriously affect every student no discussion on what, to students major consideration in the registered in arts, being a conat least, is a very important evaluation of these people. If a siderable loss of freedom. To Kirk issue-the self-evaluation courses. professor’s job is to teach then this position is even too lenient, As of the vote on tuesday afternoon those being taught are the only because the drop-add period is only these courses will be for a credit true judges of his ability to do his a “sop for people who cannot only and there will be no grades some members of organize themselves”.

If he had possible. This was moved by the job. However, his way there would be choice dean of arts, W.R. Needham and council felt that two students would whatsoever.

Unfortunately this seconded by P.R. Forsyth of the not really be a true representation of the students’ feelings. Only two issue will not be fully discussed classics department.

Discussion students could not know the wishes until next month when students are would have been forthcoming from busy with exams and will have no the student representatives on the or opinions, of students in every arts department-so let’s not have knowledge of these decisions that council but they arrived late and any. affect their lives. procedure could not allow a Another criticism of the proposal The meeting was amusing and reopening of the question. was the lack of definition as to how could have been really quite A second motion brought up by these student representatives were hilarious, given the antics of the Needham was given slightly more to be selected for this committee. bodies present, but there were a consideration by the bodies Election, appointment or some couple of sobering thoughts.

The present. This goodie was seconded other method could be conceived fact is that these people take

by M. MacDonald of the philosophy people involved. themselves seriously and that in The idea was to by the different department.

Narveson from philosophy these circuses they do decide the prevent any downward revision of J.F. presented an interesting opinion on lives of the students they purport to grades after they had been initially what he felt should be two teach. accepted and then to abolish any -Susan johnson change of grades after graduation unless the case was approved by the examinations and standings committee.

Provision was also made to notify the student of any change in the status of their grades-of course this notification would be after-the fact, leaving little room for appeal.

When a few of the bodies present voiced insecurity about the nature and intent of the motion, Needham saw fit to amend it. After several phrases were tossed around the room he settled on adding an ‘unless unusual circumstances prevail’ qualification to the end of the motion. This rallied the support of the council and all was well. The motion carried.

Next came the issue that raised many from their chairs and their slumber to voice that ever important personal opinion.

Unfortunately, this issue also died before reaching a vote. By this time the student representatives had arrived and presented their motion that the Tenure and Promotion Committee should have some student representation on it.

Although David Robertson, one student representative and the most vocal defendant of the idea, stated with his opening remarks that, “we are past the time when students have to justify their right to have representation on any committee” ; it was apparently too large a step for the academics to take at this time. Discussion did arise on this very issue, with views 0’ .

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What’s the motion?

And the beat goes on. . .

The new Federation Council, uninformed and unprepared even by the low standards of the past few years, plodded through its second meeting tuesday night, passing several resolutions while managing to confuse many others beyond recognition.

The newly&cted counsellorswith one or two exceptionshaven’t bothered to acquaint themselves with even the rudiments of the rules of order, and seem to have informed themselves even less about the items on the agenda.

But, the agenda was there and the council was there, so everyone present was subjected to a twohour-plus extravaganza of repeated cries of “What’s the motion? “, “What are we voting on?” and “Would you read that motion again? ” The meeting was held in the cafeteria of Village II, presumably as part of the new Federation policy to hold get-togethers in various spots around campus in order to allow the constituents a chance to see their government in action, but no one outside of councillors and hangers-on-plus one puppy-showed up.

It would seem that even the small minority of students who bothered to vote in the last Federation election are not concerned with the bureaucratic goings-on of the council. And, even as entertainment, the meeting suffered in comparison to other distractions such as TV, movies, sports, studying or wristwrestling : dramatic confrontations were nil, laughs few and far between and clarity of plot nonexistent.

Council members did pass two potentially important, but passive, resolutions during the meeting.

They agreed that the Federation shall send a letter to the board of governors supporting OPIRG (Ontario Public Interest Research Group), since the group has elicited more than 4,000 student signatures and seems to have the backing of a majority of the students. A resolution which would add a voluntary three-dollar fee to the UW student fee will come before the governors april 3, and OPIRG spokesman Bruce Hahn told council he thought a letter of support from the Federation would help legi timize OPIRG ‘s position .

Council also passed a resolution supporting in principle the opposition of Dare strikers, the Ontario Labour Council and the New Democratic Party to strikebreaking and strikebreaker companies.

The Dare workers; - labour councils and NDP will sponsor a demonstration march 21 at Queen’s Park to show their opposition to court-supported strikebreaking.

A letter of support for the current Counselling Services program on campus was also approved.

It will be sent to John New, chairman of the committee now reviewing , counselling procedure.

Other resolutions passed : o a five-member committee was established to study salaries and honoraria in the Federation. l a three-member committee

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was formed to study election procedure, especially as it affects coop students. l a “By-Law 28”, which will force any councillor to vacate hes (contraction of “his or her”) seat after missing three meetings without valid excuses.

A later proxy resolution was defeated after a dragged-out debate during which the level of argument came down to: “I think that’s absurd.”

“Well, I think your idea is absurd.” l student Brian Christie was authorized to consult the Federation lawyer about the tax status of students (claiming Federation fee just as union members claim union fees).

President Andrew Telegdi announced that the executive board has decided not to allow the Picture Show-the new theatre in Waterloo started by former UW students-to advertize on campus.

Grad rep Melvin Rotman asked the executive why Jason’s, a commercial pub in Kitchener, is allowed to advertize on campus and the Picture Show is not. He was told that Jason’s sponsors pubs to help Camp Columbia raise funds, although it was pointed out that the management of Jason’s gets all the profits from the bar sales. Rotman also asked whether Camp Columbia was any more a student organization than the Picture Show. He got no answer to that question, and finally agreed to take his inquiries to the next executive meeting.

Council will meet again tuesday night, this time in Village I. -george

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“Slip year” system * (CUP)-The Ontario TORONTO government has amended its system for extending operating grants to universities and colleges.

At the same time it announced special grants to the province’s poorest schools. In a statement march 2, the government said it has adopted a “slip year” system for allocating grants to postsecondary institutions.

Under formula financing, the schools receive grants according to their enrolment.

Under the new government policy, instead of requiring the schools to predict enrolment a year in advance, they will receive grants based on this year’s enrolment.

The system is designed to allow the institutions to better predict their financial resources, and engage in more effective planning. But minister of colleges and universities, Jack McNie, said the government will make some allowances for rapidly expanding departments or those which lose many students.

The government also announced special grants to 12 universities to compensate for the $1.3 million drop in grants caused by falling enrolment since last year. Last year the institutions were hurt when enrolment increased only half as much as had been expected, throwing their budgeting into chaos.

Bertrand Hansen, research director of the Council of Ontario Universities, said the slip year system meets most of the universities’ requests.

Another COU spokesman, John B. MacDonald, said the plan “allows them to plan with confidence and make commitments with confidence.”

But the COU is withholding further comment until the provincial budget is brought down aprill2. That budget may have bad news for students, requiring many of them to assume an even greater share in financing . . their - education.

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Abortion a right

NFU to bargain in P.E.I. CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP&The Prince Edward Island government has introduced legislation which would establish a framework for certification of the National Farmers Union as bargaining agent for the province’s farmers.

Potato producers will be the first to hold a plebiscite to certify the NFU as their bargaining agent under the new legislation.

It is the first time in Canada that comprehensive legislation to enable farmers to certify a farmers’ union as their bargaining agency has been introduced by any government.

It marks a significant and historical point in the NFU’s drive for fully certified, collectivebargaining rights for all Canadian farmers.

“With the introduction of the Prince Edward Island legislation, we establish the principle of certified collective bargaining for farmers,? and it’s a principle the other governments of other jurisdictions in Canada can ignore only, at their own peril,” commented NFU president Roy Atkinson.

“We’re very pleased the (Premier Alex > Campbell government introduced this legislation.

It’s being handled through a free vote of the

No cover, no charge Tuesday evening the women’s change room received two surprise visitors.

Two men deftly walked into the shower room, had a quickie, and then took a sauna.

Unfortunately for them there were no women in the sauna at the time.

Once the general predicament was known the majority of women donned their bathing suits and slyly entered the sauna. Rising temperature caused many women to spend a shorter time in the sauna than usual. However, some broke all previous sauna records.

The two men blamed a piss-pot heater in their sauna for their stay in the women’s sauna. However, it was noticed that they spent an unusually long time in the change room showering and basking in the sauna. Numerous glances were cast at the women showering.

When the men were asked to leave they refused.

Will exhibitionism return to the women’s change room? Well guys.. .

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The premier has indicated his support and we expect no trouble in seeing it adopted,” he said. “The first referendum will be of potato producers, but the legislation provides the same opportunity to farmers producing other commodities.”

Mr. Atkinson said it would be follish to raise peoples’ hopes by claiming the plan will solve all the problems -of Island potato producers.

“It’s a first step, an important one, but still a first step; and whenever you do something new, pioneer something, you always run into difficulties you didn’t foresee.”

Under the plan the provincial government will establish a potato marketing commission composed of three persons who will be selected by agreement between the minister of agriculture and the National Farmers Union. One of the three will by agreement be designa ted chief commissioner.

The commissioners may be removed from office at any time by the NFU. In such a case, a new commission or commissioner would be re-appointed through negotiations between the government and the union.

The commission would have the power “within the province to control and regulate in any and all respects, to the extent of the powers which may be vested in the commission, the marketing of pota toes, including the prohibition of marketing in whole or in part.”

The commission will be required to enter into negotiations with the certified collective bargaining agency-the National Farmers Union. This bargaining will result in an agreement stating the terms and conditions under which potatoes within the province will be marketed.

A copy of the collective agreement will be filed with the minister of agriculture.

The NFU’s negotiating committee is set out by the legislation as four persons-three potato producers appointed

by Island locals and a chairman appointed by the NFU. Only potato producers who are members of the National Farmers Union will be eligible to vote on matters related to the terms and conditions of a collective bargaining agreement.

A service charge will be deducted from the sale of all potatoes to pay for the operation of the Potato Marketing Commission, and expenses incurred by the National Farmers Union in respect of potato marketing.

After one year a petition signed by one-third of the registered producers can force a plebiscite on the plan. If a majority of people voting reject it, the plan will be discontinued.

Each local of the NFU on Prince Edward Island will select five members who are potato producers who will comprise a committee known as the National Farmers Union Potato Committee to act as a link between the Union and potato producers in the local.

The legislation is expected to pass through the house about ten

“Women that have abortions must account for their actions just as criminals do.” Such is the -position of our illustrious prime minister, Pierre Trudeau.

If you find that statement a little hard to swalI0.w you’re not alone. According to a recent gallup poll sixty one per cent of all Canadians favour the stand that abortion should be a personal decision between a woman and her doctor.

This would appear to be something of a difference in opinion between the people and their government, not that that is anything new. In this case it .is to be expected since Trudeau is both a man and a roman catholic, two conditions that certainly colour his perception of the problem.

These opinions and more were presented on tuesday evening at a GUELPH (CUP)-Students at the discussion on the abortion of Guelph have voted to question. Ellen May, a nurse and university establish a more viable student an active member of the Canadian council and end years of weak, Coalition, was the main speaker.

Her philosophy and that of the chaotic student government.

After seven days of balloting, coalition is that it is the right of a woman to decide when and if she is just over half the 7,566 eligible students voted in the referendum to bear a child. which required 50 percent turnout The abortion issue has become valid. Balloting the focal -point for much of the to be considered because the women’s liberation movement and had to be extended requisite turnout had not been has been the story most publicized gathered in the scheduled five-day by the media and the women period.

In approving the new themselves.

The question appears to have the support of the majority of the population, a population apparently heavily influenced by the U.S. supreme court decision of late. Their decision was that the foetus has no legal rights and that women do have a right to an abortion.

A major rallying point for support of the abortion issue is the This is a statement of philosophy of Andrew Telegdi, the president of growing realizatibn among women that they have been thoroughly the Federation of Students, as to how the federation should function. shafted by a male-dominated society. With all the technology in Federations in the last few years the hands of people at this time, proper contraception should be have been lopsided.

Either entertainment was emphasized available.

However, the industry (called Sandbox) or Educationand research into contraception is Politics was emphasized.

When a male-dominated field.

Subsequently, the products have been one was emphasized the other was ignored. There is no reason for largely improperly researchedpolicy! The no birth control methods are one such a narrow-minded Federation can and should serve hundred per cent effective and some have definite dangers for the the interests of the student body in health of the user. Also, con- a number of different ways. This traception has been left nearly principle is acknowledged by the fact that there a number of completely to the woman, with little thought given to the separate boards comprising the Federation which are into different responsibility of the man. / areas.

In addition to EnNaturally, May fell under and Educationcriticism from a few attendants of tertainment the talk, the usual problems and Politics there are boards for Coinsecurities that always surround operative Services, ComPublications, the question of abortion.

The munications,’ murdering of a human life, the Creative Arts and Student All of these areas rights of the foetus, the Grievances. psychological effects of abortion should be emphasized. Activities in any one of these areas should be on the mother, the general degrading of societies’ morals and limited only by student interest, not by philosophy. last, but unfortunately not least, It is the intention of this adthe role of the church in the ministration to create a complete question.

All areas will be May managed to field the Federation. funded so that each can criticism quite well, totally at ease properly with her preception of the problem carry out a complete program and her own answers. She made to the extent of student interest and involvement.

This Federation will little attempt to force any of her morals on anyone. All she is asking put on large concerts but it will also bring political speakers to is that it should be an individual choice whether or not you are to campus.

Students want their bear a child-not the choice of a Federation to provide a diversified government comprised of a and well-run programme of serdominant number of inept and vices, events and activities ! Those traditionalist men. Can anyone who pay the piper have a right to really disagree? _ call the tune.

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-council, students voted for a fee structure which could end the Guelph central student council’s dependency on local college council treasuries.

The referendum is the latest stage in the five-year history of student government floundering at Guelph, which began in 1969 with the destruction of the Guelph union council by the provincial government .

About 96 percent of the students voting Feb. 26-March 6 opted for a central student government with its own fee structure.

But by a narrow margin they chose a weak representation system which would still depend on local college student presidents for members.

The Guelph student union council was a fairly radical organization which roused the wrath of the late former Guelph chancellor George Drew, who denounced student radicals as communistic.

Drew, a former Ontario Conservative premier, was highly influential in the tory party when the union council applied to the government for incorporation.

The government refused to allow the council to collect compulsory fees and forced it to become incorporated under a voluntary fee structure.

Few students paid their fees, and the council gradually disintegrated.

The administration then backed the establishment of the Committee of College Presidents (CCP) to operate student services and provide a facade of student unionism.

Last fall CCP leaders voted to dissolve the organization after an election for chairperson in which the leading candidate overspent her permitted election budget.

A steering committee drew up two proposed constitutions for a new student organization.

One of these would have seen student council executives elected at large across the campus; the other, which was eventually adopted, would have council members chosen from individual college councils.

The new councillors would then choose the executive.

The reconstituted council may ensure-a sounder financial base for Guelph’s student newspaper, the ontarion, which before this year had been operating without student subsidy.

Although many students are glad student government has been formulated, others feel the new council will be no more than a reconstituted CCP. Throughout its life the CCP had been rocked by charges of elitism, incompetence, administration meddling and inefficiency. ._ I I

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“James Hartley” Pub. Food services 8:30 pm, Admission $1.00.

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Tom North&t, Village I Great 8:30 pm. Admission $1.00.

Federation Flicks-“Great Hope” and “CC and Company”, 8 pm. Admission $75.

Hall, White Al 116.

Free Campus Centre pub at noon with. “whiplash”.

Blackfriars-“ of an Author”. pm.

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IXTHUS Coffee House. A place to talk, free music, free coffee, free s eech, priceless. CC coffee shop 9 p n-F. Film, “The White-Haired Girl”-a modern Chinese dance drama.

Sponsored by Chinese Students Assoc.

M&C 2065 7 and 9 pm Members free, others $.50.

Pub with Bill King and friends in CC pub area. Sponsored by CC board. 8-12 pm. r

SATURDAY Tom Northcott, Village I Great 8:30 pm. Admission $1.00.

Federation Flicks-“G reat Hope” and “CC and Company” 8pm. Admission $75.

“Edward Bear”-Jason’s, Admission $1.50.

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Folk Song Collage-a new work for and orchestra-Premier chorus performance. Theatre of the Arts 8 pm.

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Federation Flicks-“Great Hope” and “CC and Company” 8 pm. Admission $75.

Humanities

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Brown Bag Theatre presents “Love Mouse” a play by Sheldon Rosen; admission free, bring your lunch.

11:30 am Humanities 180.

Brown Bag Theatre presents “Play it again Sam”, a play by Woody Alien; admission free, bring your lunch.

12:30 pm Humanities 180.

Circle K Club meeting. welcome. CC 135. 6 pm.

Everyone

Matheatre free films “Ski the outer limits” and “Pharmacist” M&C 2066, 2:30 pm.

“Immortal 8 pm.

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EL 101 Prof. Greenland talk on “The Sensuous Student” 7 pm. Admission $25 members $.5Q non.

Medical Science for the LaymanCancer. 7:30 pm Humanities theatre.

Admission $1.50 students free.

Dr. Pierre George, U. of Paris will ’ present a lecture on the Role of the Geographer in Society, lo:30 am Al 105.

The Jazz Discussion Group presents a series of informal record programmes in the Story Room of the Kitchener Public Library at 8 pm. This weekModern Jazz Trumpet by Marshall Pallet.

Pub dance with Chinook. 8 pm Village II Great Hall. $50 villagers $75 others.

Gay Liberation meeting 8 pm, CC 113.

Discussion on movements throughout Ontario. For more information contaot office CC 217C ext. 2372. Everyone welcome..

TUESDAY

Advanced lecture on Transcendental Meditation and Science of Creative for Transcendental Intelligence Meditators only. Eng. II 1101, 8 pm.

Jewish Students Waterloo Crganization-Hillel is holding a PURIM party.,Tickets $1.75 in advance, $1.00 at the .door. 8 pm Humanities undergrad lounge.

Worship service lo:30 am-A Sunday morning chapel service at Conrad Grebel college chapel. Dr. Ken Davis of the UW history dept. will speak on “The Three No’s of Discipleship”.

Discussion to follow.

Everyone welcome.

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Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic 10 to 12 am and 1:30 to 4:30 pm 3rd floor lounge M&C 3002.

Matheatre am.

free films M&C 2066 10: 30

Brown Bag Theatre presents “Love Mouse”, a play by Sheldon Rosen; admission free, bring your lunch.

11:30 am Humanities 180.

Brown Bag Theatre presents “Play it again Sam”, a play by Woody Allen;

Admission free, -bring your 12:30 pm Humanities 180.

lunch.

Orienteering Club meeting 8 pm 1076 PAC. Elections will be held, newcomers welcome. Find out what the sport of orienteering is all about.

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Free yoga classes: some meditation and physical postures.

8:30 am Combatatives rm. PAC. Sponsored by Ananda Yarga Yoga Society. Everyone welcome.

Free Campus Centre movie “The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart” 9 pm. .-

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Come and join us 8:30 pm. CC113 Brutus pub Food Services.

Admission $1.00.

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CHILLIWACK WLU Auditorium $1.50 8 pm.

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Blood Donor Clinic Math lounge. Same I times as tuesday.

Blood Donor Clinic Math lounge.

10: 30-4:OO (continuously).

The University Players present WRAP UP written by U of W student Steve Free drama WRAP UP. 11:30 am Petch, directed by Ian Campbell. Free Theatre of the Arts. admission 11:30 am Theatre of the Arts.

Brown Bag Theatre presents “Paradiso”, a play by J.L.Balderston; Brown Bag Theatre presents “No admission free, bring your lunch.

Exit”, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre; 11:30 am Humanities 180. admission free, bring your lunch. 11:30 am Humanities 180.

Brown Bag Theatre presents “The Children’s Hour”, a play by L.Hellman; presents Brown Bag Theatre admission free, bring your lunch.

“Paradiso”, a play by J.L. Balderston; 12:30 pm Humanities 180. admission free, bring your lunch.

12:30 pm. Humanities 180.

Noon pub. Campus Centre with Whiplash.

Organizational meeting for Sailing Club for the summer. 7:30 pm CC 113. “Bread”-Waterloo Christian Anyone interested welcome to attend.

Fellowship invites you to a weekly

Federation Flicks-“Little Big Man” Al 116 8 pm. $75 members $1.25 non.

Students Wives Club. Miss Janice Edwards, an Electric Living consultant with the Hydro will be speaking to us about blender cooking. All students’ wives are welcome. 8:15 pm Eng. IV 4362.

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Zontains important papers. Contact Zompton Rambihar, no. 608, Waterloo rowers or leave at exit desk EMS ibrary.

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Volunteers who stutter are needed. Very little time Involved. - For information, contact Irwin Altrows, HUM290-C, 885-1211, sxt. 2140 or 884-4668.

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Looking for summer work in K-W area?

Check the Students Summer Job Center opening April 16 at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, -Queen and Weber Street, Kitchener.

For more information call 579-1550 ext 32.

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FOR SALE Minolta SRT-101 with 55mm f 1.7 MC ?okkor and 35mm f 2.8, for $240. Ask ‘or Gord at 885-1660.

1964 Rambler,

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Voice of the Theatre’! speaker en:losures. J.B. Lansing 15in. speakers.

6600 with horns. Paul 885-0845.

NANTED INe’re not particlarly choosy. We want /OU for summer ‘73. Join in the sunjhine at co-op this year.

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2 baths, sauna, cable. Ten minute walk, rent negotiable. Call 576-2575 or write 285 Erb street west, no. 402, Waterloo.

Co-op offers room only with .minimum commitments, as well as room and board. Find out more from the office at 280 Phillip Street, 884-3670.

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HOUSING wanted Need room close to U of W for first two weeks in April.

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thworms. foraging, living on the land, et&. are all -intensively covered in this bi-monthly publi@on.

It is published by a dedicated staff of earthy souls originating from North Madison, Ohio.

Three features that should) not be overlooked are Contact, Access, and Dear Mother. By writing to the Contact column you can ’ get together with people who, like you, may want to start a rural community, buy some land or grow some plants. Access deals with alternative establishments such as leatherworks, publishers, and paturalist ventures. The letters to Mother that can’t be categorized are put into Dear Mother. Mother can be obtained from the Book Barn on King St. or you can send them $6.00 for a year’s subscription. The address is P .O. Box 38, Madison, Ohio (44057).

The Rodale Press should not be omitted from this list. This press puts out some of the most comprehensive line of publications on organic farming that is available.

Organic

Gardening

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put out under the editorship of Robert Rodale, is a fine magazine that’s published monthly.

If you ignore the hypocrisies in the magazine you can pick up a lot of little tricks of the trade in gardening. Occasionally an article outlining the faults of mono-culture will be followed by articles stating how fields of one crop reaped fantastic fruits by farming Study the articles “organically”. carefully.

Usually the “fantastic fruits” were only grown for one year while the multi-culture farm repeated excellent crops continuously . Mail your $5.85 to 33 East Minor St., Penna. (18049) for a solid year of Organic Gardening.

Two “interesting reading” magazines currently filling the stands are Environmental Quality and Clear Creek. Environmental Quality is a slightly-political, quasi-scientific publication which attempts to bring ecological issues to the forefront.

Six issues will cost $5.50. Send the money to Circulation Dept., EQM, 6464 Hills, Canoga Ave., Woodland Calif. (91364).

If you have to choose between buying Environmental Quality or Clear Creek buy the latter magazine.

Clear Creek is just as informative as Environmental Quality with the added bonus that it’s also practical.

Eleven issues of Clear Creek cost $9.50. Address your envelope to 1 South Park, San Francisco, Calif. (94107).

Last, but not least, we reach the Canadian environmental publications.

Ot‘her than The Young Naturalist and The Ontario Naturalist there are some more obtainable publications.

The Alternative Society is a hard to find but very worthwhile little magazine which might be found in Toronto health food stores or book stores. The price ranges from 50 cents to 75 cents for an issue chockfull of tidbits on education, alternative lifestyles, food and government.

The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac has ceased or will soon

cease publishing but they are keeping a supply of backcopies on hand. It was started by some people who left the Whole Earth Catalogue and came to Canada to seek their fortune. What resulted was a detailed list of resources and materials that were obtainable in Canadd. The issue on industry and crafts is an excellent source of information for anyone wishing solid facts on ceramics, dying, jewellery, and composting.

For more information write to the Canadian Whole Earth Research Foundation, 341 .Bloor St. W., Toronto 181, Ont, d Don’t stop with this list. There are many excellent publications begging to be read. Keep your eyes open and send any golden finds to Nature’s Table.

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feedback . Observations on council It isindeed unfortunate that no chevron reporter was present at the first meeting of the new Council, Xmonday march 5). Quite by chance I stumbled upon a scene of devestating, if unintentional, hilarity. Had I bown of the highly coyedic qualities of council meetings I would have attended more performances than I had in the past.

The players though well skilled in their art were unable to do very much by way of illuqinating a rather complex and often obFure plot-line. As challenging a task as it is, I will attempt a short and understandable synopsis.

The show.. opened with Andrew Telegdi and his advisors seizing the opportunity of having an inexperienced council and attempting to push through his nominations for executive positions.

There was however some discussion about council being informed as to who else applied for these positions.

Council’s wishes were acceded to somewhat begrudgingly by Telegdi after a great deal of discussion. Council then went on to ratify all of Telegdi’s choices. This was really not surprising in light of the fact that in all the positions chosen for ratification there was only one applicant.

To this point it was all rather predictable and boring, it appeared as if council would agree to anything Telegdi et. al. suggested.

That is until the nomination of Bayla Sweet for Critic At Large came before the council.

Doug Austrom who is a member of the council was also nominated for the’ post. It was felt by some members that Austrom was much more qualified for the post and that Sweet’s nomination was a somewhat less than subtle political manoeuvre.

This led to ,demands that the applications for the positions be read to council in order that it be able to make a proper choice.

This was met with much vehemence on the part of some Council members, specifically : Steve Treadwell, Andrew Telegdi and David Chapley. David Chapley in the role of apologist maintained that a selection committee had already decided which was the better applicant. It is interesting to note that Chapley, Treadwell and Telegdi were three of the five committee members.

It is even more interesting to note that Treadwell was chosen VicePresident and that Chapley had been chosen Treasurer.

Bayla Sweet herself was also- on the ‘Telegdi ticket along with Chapley.

When asked if he helped choose himself for his position it was maintained that he “left the room during the discussions”.

Good for you David, even,if it’s as alleged that you were the only candidate.

After much argument and repeated offers

by Telegdi to

reconvene the selection committee in front of council members, a vote on Sweet’s nomination was finally taken. This sent Sweet down to resounding defeat. Once this was achieved, every parliamentary procedure available was used to try and keep Austrom from being elected to the post. That’s not cricket, Andrew, that’s not cricket.

It speaks well on Council that they were able to see the shoddiness of Telegdi’s regime and demanded to be able to elect the most qualified person to the post.

Even so we now have a graduate student (come April) as VicePresident.

Graduate students do not pay fees to the federation after having withdrawn their support of it. Graduate students have decided that it was more important to have their own bar and clubhouse than a voice in student politics on this campus.

We also have an experienced financial bumbler as Treasurer (See the Chevron Feb. 23 Benevoy Found Guilty) and a Machiavellian adventurist as President.

There is however some glimmer of hope in all this gloom. Council can reverse its erroneous decisions and it will only take a thousand signatures to impeach Andrew Telegdi. harry

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Alice Cooper and pigs At. $5.50 a ticket you don’t expect a hassle; but sure as hell representatives of Pig Nation were there to hassle you. We were heading towards our seats when all of a sudden I was thrown against a wall and searched.

What a great society we live in. . . . Oh, Canada our home and Police State. All we ever hear from them is that they need more and -more men to protect us from ourselves. A dozen boys in blue raided the Wackers dressing room and made yet another big bust-a small piece df hash. How great, eh. The Wackers are a decent sounding group what they did they did very well. Alice Cooper’s show was a true visionary delight, visionary delight, visionary delight.

The sound equipment was adequate for the front half of the auditorium.

From the bubbles to the toothbrush with every new show he keeps me entertained. john jongerius

Slandering the working-class In Deanna Kaufman’s review of Wedding in White she makes a rather jejune analysis of workingclass life and culture.

It would seem that Ms. Kaufman makes the empiricist error of mistaking partial experience for inalterable truth. Thus her attempted analysis becomes in effect, slander. terence

v harding

I would be impressed, Terry, if I knew what you meant. Also, I think libel would be a better word than slander since the review’ was printed. deanna

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What a pity?

I think all regular pub-goers realize that the pub facilities can only exist for the benefit of them if they give proper considerations in return.

On march 2, circle k held a pub in the food services as a student service,* even though there was competition from the village and the basketball games. The reward of this was that both wash-basins in the men’s washroom were uprooted, resulting in great upset from all corners, plus a damage of 200 dollars in parts and probably equal amount in labour.

Circle k is a service organization with no steady means of income.

We obtain our funds through commissions in operating the used bookstore, taking tours for people who wish to see the university, and, if any, the profits from the pubs. All these are done through many hours of unpaid volunteer help, all to be wasted over some drunk’s pleasure for a minute or two????

This large sum of money could have been used for some very worthwhile cause, like taking retarded childrez” on sleigh rides, sponsoring blood donor clinics, donating needed equipment to the community, etc., what a pity it is!!!!! godfrey lee circle k club

Lynn Bowers review cavilier I should like to comment on the somewhat cavalier dismissal of our Drama Division’s production of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, at the hand of Mr. Lynn Bowers.

It seems obvious from his summary remarks that he has not bothered to read the play, or for that matter, to find out more about Pirandello than a casual interview with someone might provide.

Had Mr. Bowers done his homework, he would have found out that no one expects the audience to be genuinely surprised by the staging trick with which this play opens. It’s a good guess whether even the first nighters were genuinely surprised in the naive way Mr. Bowers implies.

Most people read plays, particularly classics, before they go to see them staged. One %would expect critics to do ‘as well.

Had he done his work, Mr. Bowers would have attended a rehearsal or sets of rehearsals, preferably a run-through, in order

to see for himself how the play he had just read was shaping up, and what he might rightfully tell .an audience to expect, given some kind projections.

Thus he would have seen what one or two casual glimpses at the rehearsals have enabled me to see, namely, that this is likely to be one of the more memorable presentations this community will be privileged to see and one of Maurice Evans’ best ever ! Jude Connell, in particular, upon whose scenes I happened to chance once or twice, seems to me on the way to an unforgettable rendition of the elder daughter.

(I wish I had seen more than I have to be able to do justice to the others as well : as is, I am trying to meet your deadline ! ) That kind of acting usually sets the tone and helps arouse echoes in all the other performers so that, by a widening resonance, the level of the performance rises accordingly.

Had he done that, Mr. Bowers would not have slighted, out of sheer ignorance, people whose hard work and dedication deserve more than a casual dismissal-Noblesse oblige. He who would set himself up as critic ought to work at his, craft at least as hard as those whom he would criticize.

Should he abide by this ideal, Mr. Bowers would not mislead his readers into mistaking a frothy little revue, most of which could be seen here last year at one of the Brown Bag Theatre Productions (Men and Women, directed by Ian Campbell) for a genuine rival for Pirandello’s masterpieceFfeiffer’s unpretentious little romp about bedtimes and the New York set is nothing more than salty good fun with some shrewd glimpses of human nature to keep us all humble and amused.

It has its place, and I, for one, would urge people to go and see it in lieu of television anytime.

It won’t keep you awake nights and may relax you-a cathartic function.

As against this, Pirandello will take you on a different ride.

Though dated in parts, the “story” has lost none of its punch as the setting for the wider questions with which Pirandello involves us from the gut on up-with him, with his characters, caught as we are yet more violently and inescapably than we are in the peculiar vise life is, we, the audience, participate whether we know beforehand that it is only theatre or not. For the magic does work, whether you’ve read the play ‘till you know it by heart! And the magic is, as Mr. Bowers heard but did not understand, that the audience is roped in and made to identify and participate, principally because we too, at bottom, know ourselves to be “characters without an author”, flesh given a role, made word by life and our brethren, and then betrayed into remaining nothing other than what events made us.

Pirandello is one of the great “existentialist” playwrights by his themes, much influenced by Unamuno in whose novel, Mist, the character challenges the author by claiming to be more real than he; just as the “characters”, those blessed enough to be memorable by being saddled with a fate, any fate, are more “real” than the actors, as the Father says to the Director in the beginning of the play. Anyone who may have asked

himself, in joy or sorrow, at some peculiar, turn of events: “Why me?” will find in this play a savage yet poignant and misericordious expression of this experience, and through it, an attempt to fathom what it means to be human.

That such a play be attempted here deserves our attendance, that it be attempted and masterfully performed deserves our heartfelt appreciation.

It is with packed houses, Mr. Bowers, that one criticizes such an endeavour, not with a flick of the pen. jose huertas- jourda assoc. Prof. in philosophy

Drapes?

It has been noticed that drapes have been removed from the chevron office area.

As these drapes are part of the building furnishings, we request that you please re-hang them to maintain uniformity of window treatment .

These drapes can be left wide open and in so doing, they will not shut off too much light. building

ed knorr co-ordinator

Pink Floyd’s sound I’ll never be able to go to another concert again. The sound was great-quadraphonic.

Pink Floyd started off with Echoes from their Meddle Album-truly great. Two full sets and a long encore; what more could anyone ask for. Their sound and lighting men were also true musicians.

It was hard to believe that this is Maple Leaf Gardens and that no matter where you were sitting you were experiencing great sound and lighting effects.

Their lighting equipment included a huge silver ball which reflected colour into distinct streams in the darkness.

So this is the dark side of the moon.

I have trouble thinking what the next concert I go to will sound like.

It will be a drag to listen to a sound system which is being limited to being set up on the stage. I was just hitting the point of passing on concerts because the sound is almost always pure distorted crap.

Pink Floyd has restored and improved my hearing. john jongerius

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Thanks Circle K

On march 3rd the circle k club held a sleigh ride for the retarded children of the K-W area. We had about fifty children and about the same number of volunteers.

We couldn’t have done it without you.

On behalf of the club and myself, I wish to thank those volunteers.

Thank you letters and cards from the children have come to the office expressing the fun they had.

Thank you again from the children and circle k. bonnie ‘walker circle k club

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I leave it up to you to design the coupon. I suggest it be mailed to the Minister of Transport, or perhaps Premier Davis. I think you owe it to yourself and your readership to do something with .

Poem for Rick this On february 28, near Windsor, Rick Stanley Dixon, twenty-two years old, was asphixiated and his girl friend, nineteen years old, was perhaps injured for life. He was one of my best friends and all I can think of is what a senseless accident it was in a world which has all too much suffering. We hear of isolated incidents of this sort all the time, but they add up and we can’t allow ourselves to become callous to them.

It was senseless. I know it could have been prevented.

My friend was driving a 1964 Ford because he was saving money to go to university next year. He didn’t know much about cars, and probably felt that things like this tragic event happen only to the “other” guy. I don’t think that any more, but then, I saw my best friend stretched out in a coffin.

Yet it could have been prevented by stricter laws (since I don’t believe that reading warnings can accomplish anything.

I’m sure Rick was “advised”. > Something concrete must be done.

It is intolerable that old cars, which are notoriously liable to sudden mechanical failure, are allowed or! the road without a thorough inspection to make absolutely sure that the essential working systems-the brakes, the steering, and exhaust-are in good condition. If Rick’s exhaust hadn’t killed him, I can see that chances are that something else might have gone wrong, and even more innocent people might have been injured or killed. This madness can be stopped, and it must, be.

Laws are going to have to be tightened up. Perhaps every year when getting license plates, a car should be gone over completely with more sophisticated tests than are currently used. I don’t care what the practical details or cost is-they sent a man to the moon.’

Surely our respect for the dollar isn’t as great as our respect for innocent life.

In 1964, Rick was 18, and the car that would kill him was being built.

Look around you-maybe your child or friend’s fate is rolling off the lines in an auto plant, or ‘being unloaded in Vancouver or Halifax.

What I want to know is why that car had only 8 years of use in it, and if it only had 8 years, why it was allowed to be driven in its 8th.

Rick still had at least half a century of useful life left.

I call upon anyone who has ever lost a relative or a friend in a car accident to act positively-NGW. Take a minute to fill in the coupon and mail it in. As university students, it’s about time we got off our asses and did something constructive.

I wrote the enclosed poem the night I learnt of Rick Dixon’s death, and though it may be poor poetry, it has the virtue conferred by truth. I had to do something.

jim yaworsky, II year university of toronto.

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Susan Gabel’s miserably maudlin, (to be polite) review of Ingmar Begman’s The Ritual is tantamount to describing the Last Supper as a stag dinner for ex- ’ Jewish boys. It is filled with every trite phrase, and cliche one can imagine.

Consequently it offers nothing in the way of criticism or enlightenment.

Sue h vacuity serves to illustrate that mere pronouncement is no substitute for erudition. terence

v harding

Further contribution With regard to Anne Dagg’s and David Cubberley’s recent articles on university education and the role of the professor, I would like to contribute the following from the 1899 edition of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia : “Professor:. . .any one who publicly teaches or exercises an art or occupation for pay, as dancing-master, phrenologist, balloonist, juggler, acrobat, boxer, etc.”

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On tuesday, march 20, at 3:30 pm in Arts lecture 124 the second last in a series of many Arts Faculty Council meetings to discuss a & b requirements will take place.

The outcome of this meeting will be the base upon which the final decision will be made at the April session. Once again the AFC will be exercising it’s prerogative to make decisions that affect and direct the educational experience of all Arts students.

Furthermore, out of a body that consists of potentially (if they come out to vote) all the members of the Arts Faculty there are only three students who have voting privileges.

As such, then, this article is an attempt to inform students about the nature of the alternatives and the consequences of each; and in addition to urge students to come out either to speak on their own behalf or just to watch what happens.

Before going on, I will outline what the present a & b requirements are. I do this in case there are some students who are not familiar with the existing structure (even though their degrees depend on it) and also to facilitate the understanding of the alternatives that are presented later. It should be noted that the following requirements are over and above those set by each department.

From the U of W Calendar (page 97) : Group A and Group B Requirements In order to earn a B.A., a student must complete, with the necessary cumulative averages, the necessary number of presribed and elective courses for either the General or the Honours Programme.

All Arts students in all Arts Major and Honours Programmes must also meet the Faculty of Arts Group A and B requirements. Group A comprises courses in humanities, and Group B comprises courses in the social sciences: English, History, Philosophy French, Germna, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, I Spanish,Ukrainian (see Note) Drama, Fine Arts, Religious Studies Group A (iii ) Group B Anthropology, Economics, - . Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology Group A(i) Group A (ii 1

Before being admitted to the degree an Arts student must complete with passing marks a minimum of three full course equivalents from Group A and a’ minimum of two full course equivalents, not both in the same subject in Group B. The student should note that Group A is further subdivided into Group A (i), Group A (ii) and Group A (iii). Of the three full .. course equivalents required of each student in Group A, a student must complete with passing marks.

-A minimum of one full course equivalent from Group A (i) -A minimum of one full course equivalent from Group A (ii) Special Note Arts students should note that they may elect to meet the Group A (ii) requirement in their second or subsequent year by completing with passing marks one of the following courses: French 291/292; German 2717272’;Russian 2717272’; Spanish210;Classical Civilization 20L;/202’orItalian 2305.These courses are not’open to first year Arts Students. These courses are the only approved alternatives to the A (ii) requirements.

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There is no attempt made to justify these requirements either in the calendar or elsewhere. It appears that many things are done, and many situations exist on this campus, without a coherent underlying philosophy of education.

However, if you understand the university for what it is, this becomes understandable.

Some-background Last March, in the midst of the heated debate on Canadian content in existing courses (or more appropriately, the lack thereof) two student representatives (Peltz, Robertson) put forth a motion to abolish all a & b requirements.

The reasons put forth centered-around the issue of freedom vs

the A&B requirements hours of discussion, restriction in post-secondary education. would remain as they are.

The Council was annoyed at the apparent audacity of its recently enfranchised student members (the question was raised whether or not students could both move and The alternatives brought forth by the second a- motion) and quickly ruled the committee are as follows: motion out of order. The students, then l ‘Adjust A&B requirements by keeping mindful of the correct Parliamentary procedure, raised the question at the next * Group Ai but moving religious Studies from Group Aiii to Group Ai. Allow one course out Council meeting. At this time the language of faculty to substitute for any one of five’. department was out in force to make sure In essence, this recommendation abolishes the motion was defeated. The arguments the language requirement, but still a student presented by the opposition consisted of the has to take either two or three courses rhetoric of a Liberal Arts education (depending on whether or not he takes one (anachronisms from the 19th century) but out of faculty substitute) from English, after successful parrying by the supporters History, Philosophy and Religious Studies of the motion, the rationale shifted to that of and one or two courses (depending on ‘in loco parentiskliscipline!

Most of us are substitutes) from Group B. familiar with this approach.

We know of l ‘Simplify A&B requirements to three situations where parents cannot justify or do courses in the Humanities (Groups Al, 2, 3) not wish to justify their actions and resort to cliche : “Because I said so.” I raise this -and two in the Social Sciences (Group B).

Allow one out of faculty substitute.’

This point simply to hint at underlying reasons also abolishes the Language requirement. for opposition that were not articulated.

‘Require five courses in five different There appears to be a fear on the part of departmentsXat least four in Arts Faculty) .’

Language faculty members that if A&B l ‘Recommend strongly rather than require requirements were abolished fewer one course from each of the following students, and thus fewer B.I.U.‘s (Basic groupings : Humanities, Languages, Fine Income Units) would flow in the direction of their departments.

The fear is justified, but- Arts, and the Social Sciences.’ l ‘Allow each department to recommend forcing students to take courses for independently the course a student should economic reasons is not. I believe we could take.’ The word recommend is very imall agree that if the modern languages were portant here-1 have a fear it may in fact considered important we could subsidize become synonomous with require. them directly and more honestly.

All of the above alternatives are better The result of the meeting was that the than what we have at present. All of them motion was tabled. It came up for discussion abolish the language requirement. at the following meeting at which time it was decided that a committee should be However, it is very important to understand that there exists another alternative even formed to investigate the matter more fully. though the committee didn’t recommend it.

After a year, on March 2, the committee The other alternative is ‘Leave A&B reported back to the Council.

In the requirements as they are’.

That is the major preamble of its report, the committee problem ; the minor problem, but still of outlined some of the problems that it was consequence, is which 2of the five alterfaced with and brought forth five alternatives should be opted for. natives to be considered. Before the Council It appears that within this ‘community of got started with new business it was scholars’ there still exist some stoic faculty recommended that a special meeting be members who adhere to the philosophy of a held solely to consider the alternatives.

This ‘liberal arts education’.

That is, students meeting is to be held March %Nh, 1973. It experience a wide variety of was also recommended that no motions be should disciplines to broaden their considered at this time but a decision be academic and to be exposed to different deferred until April, at which point if no -knowledge, modes of thinking. To insure a ‘breadth of decision is arrived at after one and one-half

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exposure’ our liberal educators support required courses. As such, we have A & B requirements-five courses in different areas ensures that we, as students, have a well rounded education, With this philosophy it appears that many faculty absolve themselves of all further responsibility in developing a university curriculum which pertains to the students’ life and interest.

A foreign language was considered essential in the development of renaissance man. However, after realizing the difficulty involved in making language a compulsory course our educators provided us with a culture course as an alternative.

Where do the arguments fall down? First of all, the dividing of the requirements into different units (Group A and B) is just another example of the artifically separated and compartmentalized approach to education. In the real or natural world, does knowledge consist of separate units or is it a unified body? Rhetorical.

In the university world, knowledge is packaged and sold to the student as requirements for a liberal arts degree.

Today the possibility of the renaissance man does not exist; the philosophy that supports this conception is an anachronism.

Five courses (3 hours a week for 16 weeks) cannot possibly ensure the development of an educated person.

More appropriate today, if we accept the contention that a specialized approach has its shortcomings, is to construct a thematic approach to education.

This however, presupposes a great deal of thought, hard work, and a radical alteration of our curricula, its content and its method. By and large, our educators would rather simply support the ‘status quo’-it’s safer and easier.

A student’s confrontation with a foreign language in one course by no means ensures an understanding of it. Furthermore, a culture course-which is the equivalent of a grade 10 history course-is by no means a adequate exposure to a country’s customs, history, language and people.

As such, then, any attempt to preserve A&B requirements must be seen as an economic move or an unjustified continuation of our present system, not a decision based on a philosophy of education, relevant to today’s situation.

The issue is not simply one of freedom versus restriction in University education.

The arguments for students directing and having control over their own education are valid, but in isolation from the social circumstances they are simply vacuous statements.

The university has to confront itself, if for no other reason than survival.

Its role in society, its relationship to other institutions, and its whole method of educating have to be critically examined. The university’s raison d‘etre must be reformulated and reestablished.

This task is to make the university both personally and socially relevant.

By and large it appears that this responsibility must be assumed by students. It is obvious that vested self-interest groups in the fashion of faculty guilds, and the administration are dedicated to the maintenance and defence of the present system.

(I exclude the few concerned faculty members from the above comment).

I raise these points to emphasize that although the student representatives will be defending the fourth alternative as the only possible one acceptable to us, it by no means indicates, if accepted, that our goals have been reached.

In fact they haven’t been considered.

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Canadian “observers” are back in Vietnam now after another great power has withdrawn from the country.

Although the Americans’ have not left Indochina-they’ve only pulled across the border into Thailand-perhaps in the next few months Vietnam will be freed of foreign occupziers for the first time since the initial French incursions occupied Da Nang in 1859.

No one can seriously believe Richard Nixon’s claim that he obtained major concessions in the truce terms, or, as he put it, “a peace with honor”.

Looking at the rejected October text and-the one signed in Paris on January 27, one can see the Americans obviously gave the concessions.

The Paris Accord stipulates the withdrawal within 60 days of all American “troops, military advisors, and military personnel, including technical military personnel and military personnel associated with the pacification program,” plus advisors from all paramilitary organizations and police forces. The original draft only mentioned withdrawal of troops, military advisors and personnel.

The agreement makes no mention of the demand made by Nixon and Saigon dictator Nguyen Van Thieu to have all National Liberation Front (NLF) forces withdrawn north of the 17th parallel. After the Vietminh defeated the French in 1954, they ‘agreed to regroup north of the 17th until after the holding of the free elections as agreed to in the 1954 Geneva Accords.

(The Vietminh was a coalition of communist and non-communist nationalist forces who fought the Japanese-with American aid-and then the French to gain in@endence for Vietnam from foieign occupiers.

It ‘was led by Ho Chi Minh, a communist nationalist.

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The elections never took place because the dictator the Americans set up, Diem, refused to hold them.

The 1973 Paris treaty calls for the release of the 300,000 mostly political prisoners in the Saigon regime’s jails within 90 days.

The aprotocol provisions maintain that all “civilian _ detainees must be treated humanely”: “They shall be protected against all violence to life and person in particular against murder, and forms of mutilation or torture and cruel treatment and outrages against personal dignity. . .”

Although the Americans and Thieu were demanding a 5,000 man heavily-armed control commission, the accords provide for a force from Hungary, Indonesia, Poland and Canada with a maximum strength of only 1,200 troops. The force is supposed to’ do little more than observe and report disputes. Hungary, Indonesia and Poland do not recognize the Saigon regime; they recognize only the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).

Canada recognized the Saigon regime when it was established and the DRV only last Feb. 7.

The agreement confirms the Geneva provisio’n that the 17th parallel is only a provisional demarcation line and “not a political and territorial boundary.”

Again free elections have been guaranteed-if the present Saigon government can be trusted to co-operate in conducting such elections considering its past refusals.

Canadian involvement in Vietnam is back virtually to where it started almost twenty years ago.

On July 21, 1954 the Canadian government received messages from the British and Soviet cochairmen of the Geneva Conference.announcing an agreement and brazenly stating that “an international commission shali be set up...composed of Canada, India, and <Poland”. Canada had not been told about the commission and did not even have copies of the agreement.

Before accepting, the Louis St. Laurent government first consulted and received support and encouragement from the United States administration, according to a press release from the Canadian department of external affairs dated July 27, 1954. ’ Although it was never officially stated, Canada was considered to be the representative of Western interests, while Poland would represent the communist position. India was supposedly the neutral chairman, but until recently sided with the Americans.

Canada’s role on the origin31 I,nternational Control Commis’sion (ICC) can best be described. as being it? support .of; the‘ Americans.

Before the Fre.nch detest at Dien Bien .Phu in 1954, they had set up a virtual puppet Xcivilian government in Vietnam within the French Union.

The French Union, like the British Empire, was a development of the imperial policies through which the French government could essentially maintain its colonial rule. Bao Dai was set up by the French as emperor of Vietnam.

When the Americans replaced the French, they soon replaced Bao Dai with their own puppet, Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem was in the U.S. while the Viet Minh were fighting to end French colonial rule.

Diem cancelled the elections and answered civilian dissent with imprisonment and torture.

Former U.S. president Eisenhower revealed in his memoirs the real reason for halting the elections. “ I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochina affairs,who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the signing, possibly 80 percent of the population would have voted for Ho Chi Minh.”

The policy of repression \;vas Diem’s downfall

resulting in the reportedly CIA-instigated military coup in November 1963. The coup marked the first of five government changes within 18 months ’ ending with the triumph of a group including current president Nguyen Van Thieu.

Diem announced on July 16, 1955 that the Republic of Vietnam was not bound by the Geneva Agreements.

In August 1955, Canada provided Diem with a “false juridicial basis” for renouncing the Geneva Agreements and the up-coming elections by submitting a minority statement to the Fourth Report of the I.C.C. The Canadian statement claimed the Saigon government was not “formally engaged” to carry out the terms of the agreement and therefore had a perfect right to call off the elections.

The Geneva Agreements of 1954 was signed by France on behalf of the “Associate State of Vietnam”, before the Republic of Vietnam was given its “sovereign” status. The Agreement contained a clause binding the signatories and their successors to the terms of the agreement.

The treaty with France, which established the Associate State of Vietnam as a sovereign entity, stipulated the Republic of Vietnam would “take over from France all the rights and obligations resulting from international treaties.”

But treaties in international law are not binding on nations possessing the might to break them.

So under the legitimizing cover of the Canadian report, the American crusade against the communist menace began to surface into full view.

Canada’s next major contribution was the ICC “Special Report” of June, 1962. The report, supposedly based on the “conclusions” of the “Legal Committee”, contended that “aggression from the North” was occurring.

These conclusions have never been presented to the ICC, nt>r have they had the ‘sanction of the ICC or any of its cbinmittees.

In making the report Canada ignored well-documented violatiofis of the Agreements by the Americans and the Saigon regime. Only the insistence of the Polish representative ensured this documentation was included in the report.

The Americans then used the “Special Report” as justification for their increasing intervention in Vietnam. A U.S. State Department white paper called “Aggression from the North”, quoted the report to give its claim to credibility.

The Canadian Minority statement of 1965 again quoted the report, or rather the “conclusions of the Legal Committee”, as the basis for the claims of “aggression from the North”.

While the American and Canadian governments held the aggression theory as the undisputable basis for the massive intervention that ‘followed, ‘the. aggre&iov theo?y has been revealed as a convenient fabrication.

American officials cannot discredit the Pentagon Papers which show the’ facade the U.S. used to justify their massive intervention.

According to CIA reports, the Saigon regime had alienated the entire population by 1959. The antiSaigon guerillas were people in the south-not from the DRV. The weapons used against the Saigon troops had been captured from them. Until the Americans openly intervened with troops in 1965, the National Liberation Front needed no supplies or men from the DRV. But the Saigon regime depended heavily on American support and would have fallen if American troops and aircraft had not been introduced into Vietnam. The Americans were and still are, supporting an unpopular, repressive dictatorship under the guise of protecting democracy.

Canada has backed the Americans continually throughout the war’s long and dirty history. The continued

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Gulf of Tonkin incident in August, 1964, which Lyndon Johnson used to get a virtual free hand in Vietnam is a good example. American warships supposedly were attacked without provocation by three DRV patrot boats.in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Canadian , government should have seriously questioned the American claim.

General Ky who then ruled the south, openly boasted that South Vietnamese commando units were carrying out raids against key industrial and harbour facilities in the North during July that year. American destroyers collaborated with the commandos on their hit-and-run raids and that the attacks had increased during July.

The DRV complained to the ICC on July 27, 1964, that American and Saigon warships intruded into its territorial waters and carried away eleven ‘fishermen.

The DRV iodged a further complaint on t July 31, protesting the bombardment of two small islands by two Saigon patrol boats under protective cover of the U.S. destroyer Maddox. It is now known that the Maddox, at the time of the infamous August 2 exchange, was violating the twelve-mile territorial water limit recognized by the DRV.What was the Canadian government’s response?

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Pearson approvingly said, “the action taken (by the Americans) was a reaction to an attack made on the United States ships on the highseas.”

United Nations Secretary-General made repeated attempts in 1964 to get the warring sides to negotiate. A Newsweek magazine interview with Thant in December 1966 revealed: “Early in September.. .Thant sent his inquiry to Ho Chi Minh: would Ho agree to an unofficial dialogue?

This was Thant’s first contact with Ho since 1954. The message was oral, and it went through the Russians. Three weeks later, the Russians came back with Ho’s answer.

He welcomed Thant’s suggestion, and he would send a Hanoj envoy to meet a Washington envoy. Thant reported to (American U.N. Ambassador Adlai) Stevenson.

And Stevenson was elated.

Then-the silence of Washington, once again: Thant f$lt no great alarm at first; the presidential campaign was on. But the silence persisted.

Finally, with the end of the year, he had to go back to Stevenson in January of 1965.

The ambassador was deeply distressed.

He had been advised that Washington had made its own soundingsthrough Canadian channels in <Hanoi-and

had concluded that Ho Chi Minh had no interest in talking peace.

To Thant, this judgment seemed unreasonable.

For if Ho wanted’private talks, how could he be expected to announce this to any inquirer?

Moreover, the only possible Canadian source was Canqda’s representative in Hanoi on the international Control Commission.

So Thant made his own checkwith the highest officials of the Canadian government.

They quickly confirmed his belief: their ICC representative dealt only with lesser Hanoi officials-with no direct access to Ho Chi Minh whatsoever.”

Not long after the bombing of North Vietnam began.

Did the Americans conceal U Thant’s contact with Ho from the Canadian government, or did the Canadian government knowingly collaborate in the escalation of the war? Either way, the government should not have kept silent when it knew the Americans were not telling the truth.

But, could anyone expect the government to act in any other way? On April 2, 1965, while External Affairs Minister Paul Martin was telling the House of Commons about Canada’s “balanced position” comparable to that of the United Kingdom-or the Scandinavian countries, Prime Minister Lester Pearson was south of the border at Temple University reassuring Americans their motives were neither “mean” nor “imperia!istic”, but “honourable”.

“The government and great majority of the people of my country have supported wholeheartedly U.S. peace-keeping and peacemaking operations in Vietnam,” he declared.

This was a remarkable statement for Pearson to make, especially when he must have known: first, the U.S. had resisted the efforts of U Thant and the French to effect a reconciliation among the Viet-nainese themselves in the autumn of 1963 and thereafter; second, the U.S. had spurned a reconvening of the Geneva Conference in July of 1964; third, the United States ignored U Thant’s plan for secret negotiations in the autumn of 1964; and fourth, the United States had refused to approve a ret nvening of the Geneva Conference in January an February of 1965.

Lester P %arson and Paul Martin have left the Liberal government to be replaced

by Pierre Trudeau and Mitchell Sharp. Has there been a cha,nge in policy as a result?

According to Mitchell Sharp, “Canada is not a supporter of either side in this tragic war.” Unfortunately for Sharp, actions speak louder than words and Canadian actions have been heavily proAmerican. Several factors support this conclusion.

One is the large number of arms shipped from Canada to the L&to feed the ultimate machine of destruction.

Another is the diplomatic recognition and monetary aid the Canadian government has given to the Saigon regime. Yet-another is the party Canada consults on matters concerning Vietnam.

Canadian industry has given considerable military support to the U.S. for the Vietnam war.

Until this year, the government refused to release a list of companies who received military contracts from the Pentagon.

The situation results from the U.S.-Canada Defense,-Sharing Agreement of 1959.

The agreement gives Canadian companies a -special position in bidding for war contracts.

Canada already had “defense” agreements with the U.S. through NORAD and NATO made at the height of the cold war.Project Anti-War, a Montreal group, released a study of Canadian economic involvement in American militarism in October 1972. The study was appropriately called How to Make a Killing and was compiled by a group of McGill university students and professors.

How to Make a Killing attempts to list all Canadian-based companies receiving mihtary contracts from the Pentagon.

The Canadian government at first refused to release any names, so the group went to the Pentagon for the information; and they got it. When contacted by the study group, the Canadian government refused to divulge any names of companies holding military contracts with the Americans.

After the study group obtained the information from the Pentagon, the Canadian government released a list of companies under contract through the Canadian ‘Commercial Corporation (CCC). But it still refuses to release names of companies holding contracts directly with the Pentagon. The government’s official position is that to release such information would “affect the competitive position of the companies concerned”.

The government’s position appears “laughable”

when the Americans release -the list of tl-The group also had the ownership Of mar only incomplete infot public.

The total value of rr than $10,000 award. since 1959 is $540,: awards from 1969 tc whose ownership the $83,050,727.

Of this percent went to Amer a not her $1,035,000 companies.

The official rationa provide support for government does n Canadian-owned and Most unclassified cot-1 L Canadian Commercial unable to identify ret sub-contracts.

The department of ir has a program callec tivity (DIP) that, coii, operation since 1959. provide money to COI dustry so export sale!

During the period companies received $ least 45 of these corn and received $224’49 total. The figures coul fortunately, the study \ ownership of 52 of th Let us examine onI panies. Litton Systems percent American-o weapons release sysl Phantom fighter, or sophisticated fighterSystems of Rexdale WE $3,025,139 research from the U.S. departm the contract went to California, and Litton ir contract is for ASN-9 Navigation Systems (( In 1971 the Canad)‘ Systems, which was thl for the U.S. departmenl the Defense Produc Canada, a $8,051,000 the war business here. were $6,57 l,OOO-SUI Canadian government! in the U.S. also strong tatorship and enjoys SC contracts in the world The American head Ash, is now director 0’ and budget, a Nixon ap Senate confirmation.

To promote researc government awarded a $299.2 million respecti and 1968-69. The govl and $72 million resp development in miIitar) A minimum of $30,1 Canadian educational by the U.S. defense dtracts on research, evaluation work from minimum of $4J83,1E Scientific Research”.

These minimums at-1 figures are unavailat-!, Fuibright read into the on May Day 1969, that $9,760,340 on resea r-t Pentagon figure is $6, even more significant w figure -includes $5,; Canadian Commerci; Fulbright’s figures have ccc.

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I difficulty establishing he companies because n is available to the contracts worth more Canadian-based firms 15. The total value of 1 going to companies ly could identify, was nt, $71,628,727 or 87 wned companies, while to European-owned the agreelnent is to adian business.

The fferentiate between lian-based companies.

Ire routed through the Dration. The study was ts of $485,355,202 in y, trade and commerce rise Industry Produc.aIly, has also been in purpose of DIP is to es in the defense inbe increased.

1967 to 1971, 154 43,906 under DIP. At i are American-owned or 47 percent of the much higher, but unlable to determine the Ipanies involved. these Canadian com?xda,le, Ontario, is 100 . Litton makes the omputer for the F-4 the world’s most zrs. In 1972, Litton lrded one-quarter of a jevelopment contract f defense. The rest of n in \Woodland Hills, ,ake City, Nevada. The rier~ Airborne Inertial )* Jernment gave Litton nd highest contractor fense operating under iharing Program in ly for participating in I’S Pentagon contracts :ially less than the ly. Litton managemnt Iports the Greek dicthe largest Pentagon

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Mitchell Sharp, a former vice-president of the giant Brascan corporation, now occupies Paul Martin’s position as external affairs minister.

In a Canadian Press report of December 18, 1972, Sharp said, “We’ve had direct word from Hanoi that they,would like Canada to be a member of the supervisory commission.

They positively want us.

They rely on our objectivity.”

“We’re not in touch with Saigon,” the minister added.

Sharp quickly retracted those incredible statements when pressed for an official statement.

On January 2’1973, an external affairs official said, “no formal invitation has been extended by the participants in the Vietnam negotiations to any of the four proposed members of the new commission”. c Sharp told the House of Commons on January 17, 1973 Canada had definitelynot received any request to participate on a truce force.

Sharp regularly consults United States Secretary of State William Rogers about Vietnam policy. The day after the Paris signing, Sharp flew to

the Second World War. The United Nations relief organization not only provided Chennault with profitable contracts after the war, but with planes at bargain prices and a loan to pay for them. With thisgenerous aid, he only needed another million dollars to establish the airline. This was supplied by T.V. Soong, then Chiang’s ambassador to the U.S., whose personal holdings in the United States, after administering the Chinese-Lend-Lease program, was reported to be $47 million in 1944.

Chennault’s number two man, Whiting Willauer, went on to play a key role in the CIA-organized

The most renowned of Air America’s subversive operations in Southeast Asia is its involvement in the opium trade. The company supplies the Meo tribesmen, a mercefiary army financed by the CIA . to harass Pathet Lao forces with guns, ammunition, mortars, rice and even live chickens and pigs. Air America also carries out the Meo’s main cash crop-opium-for sale. ’ Queried about the use of Air America equipment, a Canadian external affairs official bluntly stated it doesn’t care whose equipment it uses to do the job.

The same official served with the ICC in Cambodia,

ion Industries, Roy L, office ‘of management !e who did not require Canada, our federal of $261.4 million and or the years 1967-68 !nt spent $68 million !ly for research and ce during those years.

10 was funnelled into ion-profit institutions lent for military conopmental, test and to 1971. A further s granted for “Basic curate and the true lerican senator J.W. Congressional Record entagon would spend Canada. The official 32. The difference is ne finds the Pentagon 0 granted to the rporation in 1969. $114,000 going to the t’s aid to Vietnam? ias only gone to the jximately two million 1966. More students ,rth Vietnam for -postan any other country. in 1967. aid was strictly for ! of no value to the led,” said David An. Liberals, and former gram in Vietnam.

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Washington for talks with Rogers.

No one, not even the Toronto Star, can believe Sharp’s threat that Canadian troops will be withdrawn from the commission if the government is displeased with events in Indochina. The Canadian troops will withdraw only if the Americans consent, because it fits in with their, schemes.

There are “our boys” in Vietnam to keep the peace, led by Michel Gauvin, a member of the old ICC. If there is dissension among observers, Gauvin has promised Canada will submit its own report. Hopefully the reports will be founded more on fact than the reports of the old ICC were.

The press has publicized the eagerness of the Canadians to get into action on the truce lines. The eagerness included not waiting for the Joint Military Commission to provide transportation for the truce teams. (The Commissions is composed of all parties in the dispute.)

The first group of observers left Saigon on February 5 for the provincial capitals of Hue, Da Nang and Pleiku aboard a C-46 aircraft rented from Air America. Air America is a front used by the CIA to carry out its operations throughout Asia.

Air America, formerly known as Civil Air Transport (CAT) was formed

by General Claire Chennault who fought for Chiang Kai-shek during

deposition of Guatemalian president Arbenz in 1954 to protect the land holdings of the United Fruit Company.

Willauer later became U.S. ambassador to the Honduras.

But his chief claim to fame is his role as one of the two chief officials responsible for planning the 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion against Cuba.

CAT flew twenty-four C-119 aircraft to drop supplies for the French at Dien Bien Phu. These planes were on “loan” from the American Air Force and some of the “civilians ” flying them were US. military pilots.

CAT’s C-l 19’s were serviced in Vietnam by 200 mechanics of the USAF 81st Air Service unit. Five of these men were declared missing on June 18, 1954. Thus a CAT operation brought the first official U.S. casualties in Vietnam.

CAT’s purposecan be best summed up by a February 12, 1955 Saturday Evening Post eulogy: “If the Communists thrust at Formosa or Thailand or Southern Indochina.. .CAT has become a symbol of hope to all free Asia. Tomorrow the Far Eastern skies may redden with a new war and its loaded cargo carrier may roll down the runway once more.”

On September 30, 1959, the name was changed to Air America.

where a coup, reported to have had CIA backing, toppled the generally neutralist Prince Sihanouk in 1970 because he would not support the Americans in the Vietnam war.

Although the ceasefire agreements have been signed and the Americans are leaving Vietnam, the war has not ended-it has merely entered a new phase. Thieu does not dare stop the war. If he does, the corrupt Saigon regime will crumble under his feet. Saigon troops are already reportedly selling American equipment on the - black market onlyhours after receiving it. If the estimated 300,000 political prisoners are released, one can expect it is highly unlikely they will support Thieu.

The National Liberation Front controls at least half of southern Vietnam. It is in its interest for the fighting to cease so it can establish a stable political structure among the Vietnamese people to challenge the Saigon regime’s authority.

The NFL also wants to end the fighting to repair damage caused by American bombing and defolients.

The Americans won’t start anything until all their prisoners are released. Don’t be surprised if the DRV releases the final Am.erican prisoner only as the 60-day deadline draws near. After all these years of fighting, one cannot blame them for being sceptical of American promises.

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Few recording artists dan suivive th-e waves of destructiveness which crash down on them with th< advent of superstardom.

They rarely surface again to remain genuine to themselves or their mode of expression.

In the yocess ‘of idolization, the superstai relaxes control and is overcome, by the flashes of impending _succesk., It i,s during- this period when managers,_P-R men and other related media mythmakers. rus,h in to form “his image”.

Once the image is devel’oped. the star often-reacts accordingly.

If he is unsure df himse!f, he begins to, mold his life and art (often unknowingly) to fit the image; but if he is fully aware of this manipJlation he fights to regai,n control of his artistic direction in order to avoid the stagnating predictability ah exploitative system (the record industry) I demands.

Cat Stevens and James Taylor have both become superstars and both of them. initially appealedto a similar audience.

Their songs were simple yet, powerful enough to hit home with subtle emotional impact.

-When their debut albums were recoTped, bothzshad recently come out of mental institutions and so, not surprisingly, their lyrics were heavily laden with sorrow, soulsearching, and self-doubt-content with which confused aging adolescents dould identify.

Their reactions to super-stardom, however, have been sloticably ‘different: the Cat has moved into cosmic and .prophetic spaces, though he lacks the originality and foresight to be ex; ceptional; James, on the other hand, has stumbled into a-fog of self-imposed confusion, seemingly a permanent state of mind”for him. But in both cases pretentiousness has replaced their .-authenticity.

It can be stated, therefore, that the phenomenon of superstar has claimed, for the time --being at least, another two victims.

In the case of James Taylor I find it difficult to understand why he held such esteem in the first place. Feeling that-l had succumbed to the hype and hysteria given him in Rolling Stone and Time makes me shudder.

Me? A puppet of the straight media?

Never!

Yet at Sweet Baby James looking retrospectively, it is hard to come up with out.standing concrete exampl’es to answer this self-imposed icterrogation .satisfact&iCy. True, jhere are one or two songsthat still sensitively express ‘feelings of loneliness and emotions of loss,iespecially the ldss of dear friends, I yet the Quality of most of the songs , reveal a melodious mediocrity.

One Man Dog (Warner Brothers BS’ 2660), Taylor’s la_test album is conclusive proof that he is ‘now a limited artist.

He continues to write personal songs, in order for them to be artistically effective,they must be written , with an insight that transcends the limits of a personal - viewpoint and allo.ws” the listener to relate his experience‘ to ‘th8m.

Taylor, who was losing‘ this ability<with Mud Slide Slim, appears to have.completely lost it with his latest effort.

Instead of selfhe -gives us sel’fexpression, indulgence.

From boring boasting in “One Man Parade”, to babyish tantrums

in “Don’t Lst Me 88 Lonely To&t” to $wghable &ug pfaiso in ‘%kcaliio’~, all these songs give wldence of q picture of a guy who doesn’t have much to say, but 1~ saying it anyway. .

‘1: Musically the album *ad great potential..

Taylor’s back-up musicians make it obvious that he is not using th;eir talent to its fullest ex\enti .lt Is as if he has ordained that the, music not exceed the quality of his -lyrics,.‘.thereby ‘restricting their efforts t,o the mundane.

Even the instrumentals, which -are so short they appear to be filled, have a characteristic dullness .prevalent throughout the album.

However, the 6uSicians almost break loose of J.T.‘s control in “Faniare” and in the medley on ‘side two, but their efforts are straggled before they really -get going.

As with most poor a_lbums, one can &iCl find one or two worthwhile songs.

Ironically the only one I could find is not a-Taylor composition.

“One Morning in May” stand3 out as a beautiful ballad, a song given an- impressive charm by. extraordinary vocals courtesy of Linda Ronstadt and Taylor’himself.

The extra effort he gave.to this song has paid off.

It has a soothing freshness, an essence , thai is missing from the- re& of the album. ’ Cat Stevens hdlds - an extremely -ambivalent position in my estiimatibns of recording artists.

He has ‘recorded one of my favourite albums, Tea for the Tillerinan, yet he has also put out one of y the worst albums I’ve ever listened to, namely, Teaser and the FirecgLNevertheless, I was willing to explain the latter efftirt as an overreaction to super-stafdom as I gave an optimistic ear to Catch Bull at Four (A&M SP4365).

Th,is album is definitely an improvement.

There is only-one song that resembles the sublime ridiculousness of Teaserand that is “Boy with a Moon and a Star on his Head”. The rest of the album ranges from mediocre to excellent in style and effect, though the excellence rears its head infrequently and only on melodious forms with which he is most familiar. .

Stevens is a master of technique rather than an artist with original ideas to exprpss.

He has perfected a method of musical arrangement that barrages his songs with such energy that oftentimes he loses musical equilibrium.

For example, he has an.excellent voice arid usually he uses it for-maximum affect, yet there are- places on-- this album where he sings himself into magnificent emotional states which are not -really called for. Thus it l&es the G;_t, if you’ll pardon the expression, dangling on a limb. Embarassing..This over-exu beran.ce can. also have humorousconsequences: during, the mus&aI interlude in “Angel Sea” the sytithesizer (with Stevens at the con:, trols) trips off into an electronic freakout which sounds very muc.h like th8 needle whisking across the record.

Stevens lost a lot of his stat& as an outstanding -Songwriter with the release of Teaser, and he tries hard to. regain that status with, Catch Bull.

Un- fortunately, he doesn’t quite -make it.

With the exception of “Boy with a Moon” etc., his love songs are less pretentious and on the wh’ole quite pleasant, but nothingto rave about. He even tries social criticism, and while these. songs are initially Jmpressive, their lack of insight ultimately destines them to fall short of signific.ante.

Consequently, Cat Stevens has given US a likeable but by no means extraord.inary album.

He has harnessed a few\ new techniques and has applied them successftilly to give further ,8x-. pression to his musical style. But still it remains strictlyfor the, easy-listeners.

For those who can easily submit to the Cat’s dramatic charisma, Cat@? Bull will be a welcome addition to their collection.

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Psychblogy of Music

by Carl Seashore. I Dover Publicatior;l Inc., (New York: 1972).

, While ’ one might th.i’nk “the psychology of music” a broad, and potentially fascinating topic-, . this. reprint of Seashore’s 1936 opus proves to be extremely. limited in scope. The author’s overrid,ing concern ‘with< establishing scientific ,methods for the study of physical sound (which takes up over 90 % of the book) dominates his thinking to the extent that his ‘more general remarks are always puerile andQften objectionabl& with the result that~ it is difficult to imagine anyone outside the field of ’ musicology having m’uch interest in Psychology of Music.

In Seashore’s view, -music is a “purely‘ objective” discipline whose creators and interpreters are defined by’ their ability to- J reproduce the physipal characteristics of sound.

Although .he pays lip .service to $;9e s.ignifican_ce of, such difficult to measure phenomena as the performance setting and the. emotional states of the listener and the performer, they are not “the music, itself,” and thus need not b&considered, by the psychologist of music.

In purging music of the immeasurable, Seashore ends up. in a position not unlike that of the contemporary analytic’ philosopher,. who knows more and more, about less’ and Vess as htirtifically reduces the -sphere of the meaningful.

One gains the ‘ivpression, in f&t, that,‘Se&hore would be happier in a world’.:where only per-forming mu’sicians existed, since merelisteners have reactions which are. “largely subjective,” nonquahtifiable, and difficult for the dedicated scientist to. encompass-in his research-s, more’s the pity. _ -_

The danger of this soit of perversion of the spirit-.of _inquiry is that it will repeat “You are blind” so often that eventually we will be unable to see. If we . followed Seashore’s prescriptions fop ,musical education, for example-, we -would administer universal tests for the ability ‘to recreate the physical in early characteristics of sound and pr’ogressively select childhood, those mobt capable‘of perfection in this We might lose an un* regard. conventional genius here or there, but musicians atmost we would gain machine-like in their competence-say, there’s an idea! Musicians, even after the most rigorous coqdi,tioning, might. still. exhibit some all-too-human trajts of temperament, and wouldn’lt it be convenient if we could jvst turn them on wh,en we wanted to. . .

J’he exremely cultur&bound aspects of Psychology of Music; most, evident in Seashore’s denigration of “primitive” mbsic (pi’ty the,poor Black native,.unhip . to the subtler -aspects of vibrato), are algo annoying, as is his assumption that the only true musicians are those who adopt certain defined ‘social roles (composer, conductor, virtuoso, , or teacher).

Although one would not want _ ‘to c.oncIude that this invalidates his ibsearch into the measurable attributes ’ of musical sound, Seashore’s simple, minded> scientism is so potentially destructive that Psychology of Music should be retjtled, abridged, and branded with a “Qangeiogs to Your Health”motto, lest some unwary reader _ assume that it.has anything to-do with the psychological aspects of. music.

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(I am interested, to find, in Geiringer’s Life of Brahms, that the composer undertook a study of Bach, among other old masters, in the peridd following op. 10. His immense respect for this and other composers of a century earlier paid off handsomely in terms of formal command, a respect in which Brahms is superior to, I would say, all’other Romantic composers.)

Concert wms hearis The noon concert of Joanne Elligsen on march 7th in the Theatre of the Arts proved, as one would expect, another of the concerts.

Her yea r’s outstanding programme was not chosen with a view to avoiding difficulties: the Brahms Rhapsodie in G Minor, op. 79, no. 2, and Ballade in D op. 10, Beethoven’s “Tempest”’ Sonata, and the first prelude from Debussy’s Book I, and the Prelude from Pour le Piano contain difficulties aplenty, interpretive as well as technical. Elligsen showed herself a master in both respedts, with playing that put the work of some professionals we can think of rather in the shade.

The first of the Brahms works mentioned is deservedly popular in recitals.

It has a splendid elemental passion and drive, but contains all its ardour in a formal structure of great clarity and ‘economy, in contrast to many of the earlier works for the instrument of which Brahms himself was a master exponent. Elligsen did not get off to an ideal start here; a number of missed notes and, it seemed to me, a certain indecision in the placing of some accents, somewhat marred an otherwise good performance.

My inclination is to suggest that this is not a good “opener” piece; the tran&tion from audience noises to brief silence to the immediate storm level of this

The Sorrow and the Pity On Thursday March 22, ManEnvironment is sponsoring the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity.

Admission is free, and it is being The shown in Physics 145. documentary starts at 4:30 pm and goes to 10 with a half hour break at 6:30.

The Sorro-w and the Pity was directed

by M. Ophuls and produced with the aid of the governments of France, West Germany and Italy. The film is by far the best documentary of its kind, it proves its points without bludgeoning the audience to death. reconstructs the German Ophuls occupation of France by interviewing people who lived through the occupation.

His technique is incredibly powerful and the impact on the audience is such that one actually becomes emotion al ly involved.

The documentary erases the myth of a unified France fighting the Nazis at every moment and situation.

The movie deals with prison camps located in France as well as traitors turning in members of -their own family.

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Beethoven’s sonata op. 31, no. 2, is an extremely attractive piece, even as Beethoven sonatas go. In addition, it is strikingly original, again even by comparison with its predecessors.

For one thing, it opens with a slow introduction lasting just under two bars. Surprising changes in tempo, with alternating passages of great rapidity, contribute to a general agitated surface prefiguring the great Appassionata of abo@ four years later. We are certainly sliding over the brink of the classical period into Beethoven’s peculiar kind of romanticism here, for sure.

At any rate, Elligsen distinguished herself ;Igain in the sensitivity with which all these mottled surfaces are revealed and yet held together.

Still, the pieces de resistance here had to be the two Debussy numbers, which were given extroverted, gallante readings at a blistering pace. The house was, deservedly, brought down. Joanne, you are a winner of hearts.

(Postscript: somebody in the audience should be told that Beethoven did not mean his adagio to be modulated by crinkling cellophane candy wrappers being undone; and in general, the biggish audience could have done with a bit more deference to the considerable musician to whose efforts they were bearing privileged witness.

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High on Jesus The End of a Road, by John Allegro, Panther Books, (London:1972).

For many, the thesis that Christianity is based on the esoteric code of an ancient fertility and drug cult means little more than another, somewhat fascinating (and ironic) nail in an already sealed coffin. But, for most of Western society, Christians, pseudo-Christians and general hangers-on, acceptance of John M. Allegro’s work The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross should mean a highly critical appraisal of an eitire way of life. It is in an attempt to stimulate this appraisal, and no doubt bring his major thesis back into the flighty bestseller limelight, that Allegro has written The End -of a Road.

For those interested in the main ideas of The Sacred Mushroom without wishing to confront the dry, often tedious, text itself, the first chapters of The End of a Road serve as a good summary.

Much of the book is not new; criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church, valid though they may be, are old hat now, and arguments in favour ofabortion or euthanasia are just common sense to any concerned atheist.

More originally, Allegro emphasizes the often overlooked basis of morality and law in the dogmatisms of Christian doctrine.

“Perhaps the greatest single effect of our

new understanding of the origins of Christianity will be to make us look again at between religion and the relationship morality.”

Now that the origins of Christianity seem to be in the writings of a small band of drugged phallus worshippers, Allegro quite understandably calls for the adoption of more realistic moral views.

At a time when Christianity is becoming fashionable once again, with Jesus freaks outnumbering Woodstock nationalists (even sending bearers of “The One Way” on missionary expeditions to Britain), Allegro’s book will at best face considerable skepticism.

At worst, the book will be ignored. Unfortunately, Allegro’s academic stature is too clearly evident in The End of a Road.

The book lacks any of the emotional irrationality that will be its primary source of criticism.

A ‘scholarly’ religious exposition of so fundamental a naQre, with arguments based on (stoic) ratiohal lines of thought, stands little chance of effect beyond preaching to the converted.

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Poor bU t Jules Feiffer, the darling of the radictil chic, has adapted his cartoon characters to play form being presented this week by the Waterloo Lutheran university player’s guild.

The play, called naturally enough Feiffer’s People, brings to the stage 75 of the artist’s cartoon scenes.

But the often poignant comic strip, characterized by sparse line and detail, suffers from the WLU players’ interpretation.

Feiffer is masterful at conveying the foibles of liberal society, building the cartoon strip frame by frame for the funny and often cutting ending. This strength does not often come across in the Lutheran production, perhaps because of the play’s length (over two hours) but also because most of the actors could not portray the self-conscious posing of the typical Feiffer cha ratter.

While one-liner jokes serve to lighten a more integrated production, a whole play of

one-liners tends just to become confusing.

There was little focus in Feiffer’s People, no abvious movement in any direction.

That this became a problem is even more evident when comparing the WLU presentation with an hour-long adaptation of Feiffer cartoons last year by a University of Waterloo group.

The U of W production called It’s You Man (Woman) concentrated on the relationships between men and women, and as a result of the central theme the play itself became more dynamic and the content became more important.

But Feiffer himself is also to blame for much of the dismay I felt while watching the production.

As self-deprecating Bernard delivered a monologue ending with “usually I’m just me. That’s why I drink” and a parent tells his unathletic son “Being grown-up is enjoying things you don’t like to do” the resignation of the characters became more and more apparent.

It could be argued, I suppose, that Feiffer, by exposing this type of thinking to ridicule i‘s criticising it. True, he is doing that, but through the almost endless repetition of the submissive state of mind he seems also to be perpetuating that way of thinking and acting. Destructive relationships between the sexes always to be the same; is there a way out of a Feiffer cartoon strip?

Seven actors portray the varietyof characters in Feiffer’s People dressed in costumes based on variations of orange ‘and purple. The small stage draped in black is supplemented by two curtains which enable the actors to change scenes quickly so the pace of the play seldom lags. Mark Cumming as Bernard has the best grasp of his character with Shelleen Nelson presenting a fairly good characterization of the naive young girl. The actors attempting older and more sophisticated parts unfortunately were not as successful.

The acting was backed up- by three musicians providing music which was unnecessary and often too loud, drowning out the weaker-voiced actors.

Peter Cumming was the director.

The presentation continues tonight and Saturday night at 8 pm, room 1El at Waterloo Lutheran university.

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o speaketh God, via Bokonen, via Vonnegut.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., no matter what else you may think of him, has turned out to be one of the most widely-read, most written about and most intriguing authors of our time. While he seems at first glance to fall right in with the recent line of popijlar American writers-Mailer, Wolfe, Southern, closer examination Berger, Brautigan, etc. -upon ’ he stands singularly clear’ of current American authors, both philosophically and in his social life.

Unlike Mailer or Wolfe, Vonnegut does not require a university degree to be understood, and unlike Southern, his appeal is not so limited to the “young Ii berateds” ; he is, in fact, the first widely-accepted writer “of and for the people” that America has nurtured in some time. If he shares ,close literary affinity with any living author, it must be Thomas Berger; both are middle-aged, both zero in on the absurdities, contrad.ictions and banalities of everyday life and both seem to present one main ,theqe--although involving several ’ main characrers-which is explored from book to book as their characters meet, pass each other and revolve around one novel which forms the major statement of their writings.

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“And God said, ‘let us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done. ’ And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as *man alone could speak. God leaned close as man sat up, looked around and spoke.

Man blinked.

‘What is the purpoSe of all this?’ he‘ asked politely. “ ‘Everything must have a purpose?’ asked God. “ ‘Certainly, ’ said man. ” ‘Then .I leave it to you to think of one for all this,’ said God. And He went away.”

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onnegut. . . . . . is from the American Midwest.

In each of his books, someone will invariably turn up who is from Indianapolis, like Hitchcock appearing in each of his films. . :. was captured by the Germans in World War II, and sent to Dresden, a safe non-military city. Dresden was fire-bombed and virtually destroyed

by Allied bombers while Vonnegut was there. . is an individualist and a non-intellectual md; really anti-intellectual].

He has refused both to become the peace-freak prophet his young worshippers went him to be or a safe member of any of the’North American cliques of writers which, together, form’ the clubbish and removed fraternity of literary artists who 1 have become rich and successful. . . . first got published as a science-fiction writer [whatever that is], and had to fight hard to shake that stifling title. . . . says he is a pessimist with good reason to be and not a fatalist or determinist, as many of his critics claim.

hile Vonnegut does indeed charge into the s-f realm of universe-straddling fantasy, his books and characters are very much of .this earth. None of them, it is true, are characters that come to life, that we know in our own experience; they are caricatures, cartoons embodying our follies

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basis, Vonnegut is searching for perhaps a new value. But, perhaps-as he admittedly fears-not finding that new value, he must confess there is none, that we have overestimated our lives and our the human worth, we have over-romanticized condition.

The Tralfamadoreans of his creation see life as a continuum without the limits of time; anything that ever existed or will exist exists right now and forever.

Perhaps Vonnegut is saying that this, the ability to see the brief human experience as a free-f lowing part of all experience everywhere rather than something individualized and immortal, is our real value. Perhaps the “Church of God the Utterly Indifferent” really is the worshipping-place of our generation.

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and our limitations.

To al-l his main characters is eventually revealed The Truth According to the Gospel of St. Vonnegut.

It is the truth spoken by Billy Pilgrim, Stoney Stevenson, Bokonen, Howard Campbell, the Tralfamadoreans.

It is an ironic and is Sad, unsettlingly contradictory truth : Life Sadness is Beautiful, You Must Try to be Good , because You Have No Choice.

New Aphorisms signposts along

ut, admitting that pessimism, does it follow that we should not be concerned with the conditions of our stay here, that there is really no difference between ourselves and those who died in Dresden(Dachau, Hanoi, Nagasaki, Kent State, Biafra, Bengali, Guadal Canal,continue your own list)? Is the only difference that we lived through slightly different experiences during our lives, and some lives lasted a few years longer than others?

Are we not to work to prevent other Dresdens (war measures acts, abortion deaths, etc.)?

Does the final reconciliation with mortality mean the end of compassion -or empathy ? Vonnegut’s characters seem to say so. While most other authors see fatalism in apocalyptic terms-the end of the world-Vonnegut seems to say that the end of the world occurs every time a person dies.

But there also seems to be a voice crying out from behind the words and characters of Vonnegut’s novels which contradicts the message written there, a voice which occasionally-especially in Slaughterhouse-Five, - builds to a scream to be recognised.

“There are almost no/characters in this story,”

for Our Age are -planted like the route of Vonnegut’s fiction:

‘It ‘was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too. ” “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”

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since written political articles for American magazines would reinforce that. A look at his new book will be needed to confirm it.

Well, the reason I have touched the tops of all these questions about Kurt Vonnegut is that I have been in the process of reviewing a book which does barely that, much less examine those questions closely. ’ The Vonnegut Statement, edited

by Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer and published by Delacorte Press, fails to even come close to being any kind of definitive work on Vonnegut.

It is a collection of original essays on Vonnegut’s life and works which, in the end, do little to shed light on any of the above questions, considering the scope and the length of the book, which stretches 14 essays over 250 pages.

Instead, about 10 of the essays either deal clinically with Vonnegut’s novels and characters or serve up unenlightening mini-biographies of the writer.

Probably the best attempt at clarification comes in the last chapter

by John Somer, one of the co-editors and a professor of English at Kansas State Teacher’s College.

He points out that Vonnegut wanted to write a “lousy little book” on Dresden after the war, but couldn’t sit down and write about it. “It took him 23 years and six novels to write his ‘lousy little book’ and it cost him much money, anxiety and time.”

Vonnegut could not come home and write the book, says Somer, “because his real subject was not the destruction of Dresden, but the destruction of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.“, and his beliefs up to that point. Somer makes an intriguing attempt to trace Vonnegut’s search for a literary “hero” to write about; eventually Vonnegut rejected the idea of writing about a hero he could identify with, all the inand instead incorporated consistencies and ugliness of the people around him into his “heroes”.

Says Somer: “In Mother Night Vonnegut dismisses romanticism, with its anthropocentric notion of guilt, as a valid response to Dresden and announces the proper role of imagination : ‘We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.’

Howard Campbell, the protagonist of the novel, is given the opportunity to become an ‘authentic Hero’.. .and becomes, for the Nazis, a propaganda specialist, whose speeches contain coded messages for the Allied forces.

In order to live with himself, he turns his speeches into satirical attacks on the enemy. His wit betrays him, however, and his clever satires are taken literally by the Nazis.

Consequently, he actually strengthens the forces of ‘evil’.”

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in the beginning of “and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces.”

Elsewhere in the novel, Vonnegut’s voice breaks out again, not content to create characters and situations, commenting after one of his minor characters in a boxcar of Nazi prisoners had spoken, “That was I, that was me, that was the author of this book.”

Perhaps, Vonnegut is saying, the only human value left after disavowing afterlife is life itself. We must respect each other simply because we are here together and uniquely aware of our own mortality.

In God ‘Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Elliot Rosewater greets the Moody twins with the baptismal speech of the unbelieving age: Slaughterhouse-

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Stylistically, Vonnegut is very much a writer of our age, which is not really an age for serious writers.

His books are all highly cinematic-short scenes following closely one upon the other and often intercutting or fading into each other, with frequent flashbacks and time jumps-and oral: sounds play a heavily important part in Vonnegut’s narratives.

The contradictions in Vonnegut’s projected outlook are even more puzzling and harder to deal with than the Great Truths put forth by his characters.

Vonnegut himself appears to care very much about pe.ople and where-they are taking Planet Earth; but his characters seem not to care at all. Is Vonnegut holding them up for our scorn? Are the passive, unquestioning Billy Pilgrims of the worldthe Silent Majorityhis target? If so, his scorn is gentle and loving.

Like his character Elliot Rosewater, Vonnegut seems to love the “little people”, the simple, confused\’ people caught between the taunts and promises of politicians and theorists to the right and left. Yet his almostanthropological examination of the human species and its’ fatal flaws certainly do not make heroes of these “little people”.

Rather, -they turn out to be insignificant, hopeless and helpless, nameless cordwood for such bonfires as Dresden.

Not consciously a “black humorist” despite the tone of his writings, Vonnegut simply sees ironic tragicomedy as the style of our age-“romantic tragedy just is not possible in an age of concentration camps and mass death by bombing.”

In a generation in which all the traditional tribal or personal ,human values seem to have lost their

writes

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“Hello babies.

Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

It’s round and wet and crowded.

At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know, babies‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”

J.D. Bellamy says that “. . .Vonnegut as fatalistic moralist, cynical pacifist, holy atheist, antiintellectual philosopher, apocalyptic futurist and grim humorist complexly encompasses all the right paradoxes of our age. . . ” The fact that Vonnegut bothered to write about the horrors he lived through in Dresden, about the horrors of our own lives which followed World War II, about horrors of the future, would seem to indicate that Vonnegut himselfshould not be wedded to the hopelessness of his characters.

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o it goes.

Unfortunately, Somer himself never gets into the question of whether Vonnegut, by parodying the passive, fatalistic “common citizens” who make up armies and silent majorities, might actually be adifying their passiveness.

He does go on, however, to examine Vonnegut’s evolution of style and outlook, and to place him in a fairly acceptable frame of reference among other authors and thinkers.

In a chapter entitled “Why They Read Vonnegut”, the other editor, Jerome Klinkowitz, does a good job of identifying Vonnegut and his works with Vonnegut’s middle-class, middle-west background.

He shows Vonnegut as very much a son of midwestern populism: “Yet Vonnegut’s views are after all not revolutionary; he represents in fact a counterrevolution to the real direction of ‘progress’, ever the path of advancing technology and science for its own sake.”

Indeed, Vonnegut’s first novel was a reaction against the corporate technological environment in which he worked before becoming published.

If the two had been as thorough in selecting the other contributors as they were in writing their own articles, the book could be recommended to all interested persons with fewer qualifications.

As it is, the definitive Vonnegut book still has yet to be written ; perhaps it won’t be until its written by Vonnegut himself.

“Another one said that people couldn’t read ,well enough any more to turn print into exciting situations in their skulls, so that authors had to do what Norman Mailer did, which was to perform in public what he had written.

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, ‘To. describe blow-jobs artis tically. ’ Another said, ‘To teach wives of junior executives-what to buy next and how to act in a French restaurant. ’ ” -Slaughterhouse-Five

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Atiards, awards, awards, Iawards, awards, awards, awards, avvards, Tuesday night was the scene of another Athletic Awards frenzy.

Top honours went to Toos Simons and John Buda. The Dean of Women Award and Totzke Trophy were awarded to the respective athletes.

This year another top award, besides the Silver Pin Award, was presented to both tynda Biklacich and Edith Pollard as exemplifying the “outstanding womens program assistants.”

As graduation approaches each female athlete contemplates the Dean of Women and Silver Pin Awards.

The Dean of Women honours one graduating athena who the awards committee feels is deserving.

If in the opinion of this group no women meet the criteria the award is not presented.

To be eligible for the top award, an athena must be a recipient of the second top award-the Silver Pin. A Silver Pin candidate must have attained seven points-easy stuff.

There were thirty-five graduating athenas but only thirteen reached\ that mark. These women are then looked at for the contribution they have made in sports, in the university and in the community.

At the twelfth annual awards night eight girls were honoured.

Patti Bland; an excellent basketball player.

During four years of play, she has been on three Ontario winning teams.

As captain and M.V.P. candidate, Patti has been an avid supporter of women’s athletics.

Her work as publicity chairman for all athena intercol!egiate sports has established a much needed communication route for women in sport.

Lynda Birklacich-two years as a member of athena field hockey and volleyball teams, and team manager and trainer for three years was also the initiatoF and first chairman of the Athletic Assistants Committee.

Besides this she also organized and ran many ‘tournaments, ‘clinics and sports days for women’s athletics.

Jane Fraser-athena volleyball player who has during her five years of play, been captain twice, on league championship teams twice and gone to the nationals twice.

Besides participating in track for one year, Jane has done extensive clinic work for Waterloo and the O.V.A. She was a member of WIC founding committee and also responsible for the athena team crests for tournaments.

Sue Murphy-basketball, field hockey and track competitor.

Sue was with Ontario championship teams in both basketball and’ track, was a trainer for the athenas and an all round outstanding athlete with great team spirit.

Toos Simons, the blonde in the middle of the action was this year’s recipient of the Dean of Women Award.

Besides starring in field hockey she was also a team leader in basketball.

Big number 66, John Buda wis the outstanding male athlete this year. Buda not only was an all-star in football but also took up the grappling game this winter.

Edith Pollard; a member of the women’s field hockey team and the first president of the women’s intercollegiate council, also held the position for a second year. She has represented the athenas at OWIAA meetings and the intramuralintercollegiate workshop.

Edith was a key person in the building of WIC. Sue Robertson; an athena ‘swimmin women’ has been with the team in all five years of its existance.

She also has been on three OWIAA championship teams, one OQWCIA champion squad and made the nationals once. Besides this Sue was also a member of the women’s intercollegiate council.

Di Scarffe has made a significant, contribution to the athena volleyball team in the last four years. Di was an outstanding steady player and dedicated team athlete who has been a great inspiration to fellow team members.

The moment everyone was waiting for at the tuesday night awards presentation was the presentations of the major two awards.

On the women’s side ‘Toos Simons took not only the basketball MVP but also the covetted Dean of Women Award.

Toos played basketball for five years and was on the field hockey squad three seasons.

She also places high value on team co-operativeness and team spirit and leadership quality.

Admired by her coaches and fellow athletes she was captain twice and was on the basketball team when they won two Ontario championships.

On and off the court, Toos’ ability was a great inspiration.

Like many .of the other silver pin winners Toos also took an extremely active administrative role on WIC. She was one of the original members and helped to build the foundations of this student organization.

It should also be said here that her talent is not just in the athletic field, as she wrote the words to the athena basketball team song. ’ The winner of the Totzke Trophy, this year’s outstanding male athlete went to footballer turned wrestler John Buda.

Buda was a star in all four years as a lineman and made the OUAA allstar team for the past two seasons.

In 1971 he also made the national allstar team on the offensive line.

When football was over this year, Buda decided to give wrestling a shot even though it was a new experience and it was probably on the mats more than the turf that his athletic ability came through even more.

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awards, awards, football where he had many years of experience, the grapling game was an untried sport. Even so he came second at the OUAA championships in this his initial season.

Asked after the presentation whether he would like to turn pro in . either wrestling or football Buda said he would take his chances in the latter.

We wonder if anyone has mentioned 1’ the bucks heavyweight wrestlers make these days?

The other award winners this year were athena swimmer Joy Stratten chosen by the team as the athlete who has contributed the most this seasonAt five-thirty in the morning when all the including the cheer of the year. Joy has sports of all sorts is in and you still have a full been with the team two seasons, and page left over what do you do? has been honored with this award both Well, anyone in their right mind after playing a basketball game, one waterpolo game, an years.

She also was a member of innertube match, downing a couple of drafts, championship squads both times an.d hitting some classes and going on a sightseeing likewise made the nationals twice. tour of the twin cities in the fog would say screw Brenda Erkchardt, took the field it and go home. hockey MVP but being a co-op student Fortunately for all, including the reading public, the joe in the john, and the likes, there is wasn’t around to pick up the plaque. As one final sports story that has to be reported a team leader and excellent player in and with drooping eyes, one single typewriter is this rough sport the choice was exclacking out the good news. And now its fivecellent. thirty eight.

On the men’s side the Geoffrey As you have probably guessed the amazing Chevron Waterbabies, yes the world champion Dyson Trophy went to triple-jump Waterbabies made their annual return to specialist Bill Lindley.

Waterloo to take on the best the country could Bob Willis was the initial winner of throw at them. the volleyball MVP while the HageyUnfortunately for the large crowd present for Siegfried MVP for basketball was the spectical the opposition blokes were not up to snuff-at least not up to the Waterbabies picked off by Mike Moser who in his excellence.

1 first year with the team was one of the In order to make the match more equal the OUAA league’s outstanding players. babies gave the reckin tubers a few of our Diver Lester Newby- was chosen the better more amazing ball handlers including none other than our editor in chief, our man athlete contributing the most to the about town, and baby among ‘babies, that eagle swimming and diving team.-Newby won scout himself dirty davey cub-er-lee. approximately eighty percent of all Although some of his dope-y moves as seen in events he entered in this season inthe accompanying picture are suitable for cluding the one metre OUAA crown. framing, we might add, fooled some of the people some of the-time but it failed to fool the Lester was one of the five swimmers Waterbabies once. We practiced with him and divers who won OUAA events this before. year.

To make the game even more equal the large There was a joint winning of the Dick majority of Waterbabies voluntarily took off Aldridge Trophy MVP for football.

Both their glasses, kept one hand tied behind their back at all times, and put dunker mcgill, better Stu Koch and Paul Coleman have known as killer in net. Naturally he wasn’t starred in their appearances on the allowed to face the court of play and as was gridiron. expected was not too successful in stopping the Hockey’s Mike Guimond took the Rafferty Trophy for his outstanding play while Dave Northey who \ season’s won the OUAA individual chamseason at the CIA& held in Guelph. pionship in the cross country comHis win this season. made up for his petition took the Bob Finlay Trophy personal disappointment last year presented

by Grant McLaren one of when he was injured in the OUAA’s.

Canada’s outstanding runners.

Team victories were also a premium Egon Beiler took the wrestling MVP this year. Beiler was another OUAA this year.

Only two squads, the athena’s swimming and the warrior’s champion in the 142 pound class but golf teams had top success. unfortunately was unable to compete The amazing ‘swimmin women’ have in the CIA& due to a knee injury. now won as many championships as Waterloo only had one national any team in the school’s history taking champion this year and, as has been no less than four league titles in the the tradition in the past, it was a five years of their existance. _ grappler.

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splash again reckin squad’s underhanded, overhanded, twohanded, illegal and immoral blooper shots.

Because of this total incompetence between the posts dunker was asked to remove himself to a position up the court.

The red bearded wonder, rotten mal the mauler took over the goal tending duties and from then on the ‘babies took command of the game. Mauler deflated two yellow polo balls with his vicious grasp, and then proceeded to go after the female opposition.

The Waterbabies were bolstered by the old pros of the game, the Kaufman Kids. Deanna and her sidekick dribbles played two of the harder positions of the game. Both were opposite left and right defensive and offensive middle to the court frudgs.

The positions, usually reserved for the more spasmotic members of the team, were played with great poise and skill. Dribble’s under-theass fake pass had to stand out as one of the game’s lower moments and will be soon forgotten by even him.

And now it’s six o’clock and the sun will soon be shinin’. Larry Caesar a super star from last season’s world championship team was back in excellent physical form. His masterminding of the intricate plays was one of the major reasons for the big success of the team.

Larry had been working for over four months on one single play which was explained to the ‘babies in great detail. Unfortunately it was so complex it failed first time out.

The defensive team of Katie Middleton and

I OWIAA championships and scored over 110 points ahead of the second place team. Besides this eight swimmers made the nationals where the team placed second, the first time any ‘eastern’ team has ever come close to the top. Their goal next season is to take the national title and the chances are very good.

The other team that cannot bk overlooked in any way even though they don’t hold their competition in the athletic building is the golfers.

They had an outstanding season. i

John Keyes were all that the ‘babies needed to fend off the reckin squad. All the useless twits that were sent down court by the opposition were quickly scratched by Katie. With the ball popping loose John, who is as blind as a bat at the best of times, dug-around and found the big yellow object and quickly~fired it with lightning speed to a superior Waterbaby breaking in on net.

On the forward, inside the goal mouth, three other ‘babies played, or tried to play the offensive role. Rotten Ron, Rough Ron and Jock McCallums churned the waters white, through left and right hooks, deflated the reckin tubes, and generally played what was described by themselves as a surferb game. There was never a finer example of sportsmanship displayed anywhere; in the area.

And now it’s six-fifteen and the score still hasn’t been given: As expected, the bookies wouldn’t lay any odds this year, the World Champions-the one and only team of the past, present and future did it again. Their style, grace and willpower was something not seen in world tubing circles this year. The International Tubing Federation, or Federation International Tubing for short, is definitely in strong hands when they saw the Waterbabies in action Wednesday night.

The past president of the club and former member of the team said and we quote, “this year’s edition of the Waterbabies played one of the most perfectly played matches ever witnessed.” Naturally this statement reached the hands of the Waterbabies just before game time and was a major factor in spiriting the team on, around and down. , $I there it is, what else has to be said.

It’s now an hour later, the sun she is a risin’, the clicking has almost run out of clacks and the sports desk and riters have decided to call it a night-and a year. May all who read this at sixthirty am sleep like a Waterbabie.

Under the direction of coach Jack Pearse the five men stroked to a top: four total of 603, and none had scores over 160 over the two rounds.

This was no less than the third ti.me in four years that the men had taken the OUAA title.

Unfortunately there is no national university championships in the sport.

All five, Dave Bogden, Dave Hollinger, Ed Heakes, Tim McCutcheon and Fred Wilder will likely be back next year and you can count on them being at or near the top again.

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the very last intra&ral event of the year, one-on-one basketball.

Their enthusiastic participation allowed the bagbiters to secure the . Townson Trophy for yet another season, with kin & ret right on their tail.

After st. jeromes warmed up their ninety-two competitors, some being of unknown quality, kin & ret proceeded to place the top two competitors of the 140 who participated.

Don Weber took the final by a 12-6 score over Leo McBride after a long night.

Other players making the finals were Les Parsneau and Dale Hajdu who lost a tough one to McBride 30-26 in a supposedly 12 point game. The large number of competitors made up most df the cheering sections, as they were treated to some great competition, along with comic relief as some less experienced players took to the courts.

Basketball playoffs

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Intramurals Broomball Spring is the season for cleaning up the debris that has accumulated during the winter months but, for the broomball people it is the time to hang up the brooms.

For the last time this year, the broomball types made their weekly attempt to clean the ice surfaces of the local arenas. St. Pauls succeeded in placing the black blob (ball) in the mixed bag’s container twice while the bags failed to knock the blob into the saints container at all. The outcome of the game decided the winner of the league championship for this year.

The winners for this year are the st. pauls saints.

In the consolation village (whoever you are for we do not know because the information failed to reach the chevron sports department before deadline) team overran village 2 north 1-O in the fading minutes of the game. (now back to the intramural writers report).

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On thursday, march 8, the mixed volleyball tourney was held in the gym on 4 nets. The matches were exciting and the winners usually unexpected.

Arts went a long way only to be knocked-out in the finals by st. jeromes “A” team 11-8 and 11-5.

The consolation winner had the hysterical team US the complainers (arkitex vs st. jeromes “B”) with arkitex winning 13-11 and their giving up for a 11-5 victory.

Waterloo triumph Last Saturday the university of wa terloo weightlif ting club sent a team consisting of four lifters to Centennial College in Scarborough to compete in the category 1 and 2 Championships which were being held there for first and second category weightlifters.

The contest lasted for ten hours and when it was all over the muscle men of Waterloo had come up with an admirable showing.

Lifting for Waterloo in the first category (0-330-lbs total

tentative schedltle: for two lifts) were Cecil Welsh Thurs, Mar 22 and Randy Hodin.

Cecil managed a total weight series of 253 lbs. narrowly missing a 3 pm A reg math vs guelph 165 lb. clean and jerk which 10 pm B env st. vs lutheran would have been a personal best __ F’ri, Mar 23 for him. series Randy dodin just missed western vs york 9am C placing with a total of 319 lbs.

10 am D toronto vs mcmaster We’re looking for Randy to move lpm E Winners A vs C into the second category after the 3pm F Winners B vs D next meet. First in category 1 All above games at Moses went to D. Deroche of Sarnia who Springer Arena totalled 345 lbs.

Lifters in the‘ second category Sat, Mar 24, Waterloo Arena (330-415 lbs.) were Mike 9 pm Winner E vs Winner F Yurrouich and Ron Johns. Mike Admission $25 each day $.50 for final lifted a total of 385 lbs. which proved to be his personal best up to this point.

Competitive table tennis Ron Johns was the hero of the day for the university of Waterloo Exceptional play was shown weightlifting club. Ron tion the by professor Culik and his second category with a total of student, Opatrany (Grad).

440 lbs. which consisted of a 255 Professor Culik defeated his lb. clean and jerk and a 185 lb. opponent C. Cheung 21-15 and snatch. In exceeding the 415 lb. 21-13 in a rousing match into the limit placed on the second wee hours of the night. Except category Ron graduates into the for the poor tables, all considered third category in which he will be it was a good time and most left competing in the upcoming meet contented after a game or two on april 7in Woodstock.

The u of depending on the length of the w Order of the Bar will be there.. wait before next match time.

In the semi-finals Karel Culik ( fat) defeated Opatrany (grad) in Hockey tournament slated four games while C. Cheung (vle) defeated D. Yool (coop) in three unofficial Ontario The straight games.

Universities Intramural Hockey Recommendations Championship will be decided The table tennis tournament is this coming week with the one of the few tournaments held inaugural University of Waterloo at the university for which we Intramural Invitational Tourhaven’t equipment. any nament.

TABLES. In the area I looked Commencing with two games at: involving local teams on thurKitchener Parks & Ret- 7 tables sday, march 22, the tournament -damaged beyond repair will continue all day friday, -no nets march 23 with the championship -poor legs game slated for Saturday, march -half size tables 24. All preliminary games will be held at Moses Springer Arena Waterloo Parks & Ret- 10 tables (Lincoln and Weber Street) with -5 usable but poor the final to be held at 9:00 pm -took 7 but only used 5 for Saturday at Waterloo Arena. play, 2 for practice Six other universities are expected to send teams.

McReasons -Village tables have Master university will likely be had new bases put on them, represented by traditional powerwhich are fixed, making it imhouses edwards hall while the possible to be moved from the university of western Ontario will lounge. likely send king’s college. The -St. Jeromes only 1 university of guelph, Waterloo table but was donated after lutheran, york university and the March 8. university of toronto are also -Notre Dame-no expected to participate. tables donated.

Representing the university of I -Village I donated 10 Waterloo will be four time paddles-no tables because of champions regular math and the poor condition. team regular math edged 1-O in the winter play-offs this termOne on one basketball environmental studies.

The two Last monday night, st. jeromes societies of the faculties of math managed to get everyone but the and env. studies are jointly sponsoring the event. Here is the cook into the gym to take part in

Basketball actionwas fast and furious. St. jeromes trounced arts in back and forth from behind to victory at 54-43. St. jeromes fourth straiiht and probably one or two more to come but the jocks with-their new found rivalry shall be lurking. Semi finals were also in the eyes of some an upset as the jocks lost to S.J. 45-44close; and Arts won 46-29 with US. The most b-ball of any season has been played this year and also perhaps one of the super events possible putting down all other competitive events in the future, maybe similar to iowa university - 900 teams.

Floor hockey Village I west runner up for two years in a row were part of the great floor hockey upset.

Renison defeated village I west in an extremely rough game and an almost out of hand- match between the two goliath teams.

The other upset was when the mucket farmers (number 1 rated team) were cleaned and grads wiped by village I by the same score of 3-O. But congratulations anyway players.

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by the notre dame A team. They defeated Kin & Ret 16-14. In the consolation Renison game, defeated South C 10-6.

Congratulations go to Barb Murphy-winner of the tennis tournament.

The Brownie trophy was won by a church college again this year-you guessed it, St. Jerome’s are the winners.

As the year nears a close, WIAC is busy preparing for 7374. The newly elected executive are Lindsay Beattie, pres; Marg McSween, officials; Joanne Rowlandson, publicity; and Leila Luomala, sec. The best of luck to them for next year and thanks for being interested enough to offer their time and energy amidst this sea of apathy.

~nchmniked swimming Waterloo synchronized swim team wrapped up an arduous, but exciting season on february 23-24 at a York University meet. U of T, Queens, McMaster, Western, Guelph, McGill, Windsor, and York comprised the opposition.

Waterloo placed a close second with 38 points, only three behind first-place Queens.

This is an improvement over the previous meet at j Western in january, where Waterloo placed second but trailed by ten points.

The Waterloo team was represented in the three types of competitions.

In the solos Denise Bonnell took first place while Karen Gibson placed sixth.

We took second place with Denise Bonnell and Mary Ann Finn’s duet and fourth with a duet by Sandy Cook and Karen Gibson.

The figures competition saw Denise Bonnell place first and Sandy Cook fifth.

Waterloo’s team routine, consisting of Suzanne Charette, Mary Cowan, Karen Gibson, Marg Love, Celia Ross, Jan Tilston, and Andrea White placed a close third.

It is regrettable that more universities are not sponsoring varsity synchronized swimming teams.

It is even more unfortunate that our own team is fighting tenaciously for recognition on our campus. photo by pad watkin

St. jeromes in action against mcmaster during the Renison College basketball tournament.

St. Jeromes was defeated in the final by a college team from the university of toronto.

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by Paul Stuewe “Any nation that moves down the road to addiction, that nation has something taken out of its character.”

Richard Nixon Alfred McCoy, the author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Harper & Row, N.Y. 464 -pp. $12.60), began his research into the international heroin trade with impeccable “Establishment” credentials.

The son of a career U.S. Army officer, McCoy’s childhood dream of attending West Point was frustrated only by poor eyesight; settling instead upon the Ivy League bastion of Columbia, he rowed Freshman crew, joined “preppy” Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and earned a - Dean’s List B.A. in Japanese and European History.

Although we were members of the same “fiat”, I was three years older than Al and just did get to know him before graduating.

His jockish exterior concealed some very strong in. tellectual interests, and we eventually discovered a mutual fascination with the Oriental Studies courses at Columbia which led to some excellent I can remember conversations. thinking, however, that he would probably be drawn into the Law or Business Schools and a subsequent. career on Wall Street, which at the time represented the summum bonum in the mind of the typical “Alpha Delt.”

But Al stuck to it, earning an M.A. in Asian Studies from Berkeley and then moving on to do graduate work at Yale, where he co-edited Laos: War and’ Revolution (1970) and became interested in cultivation of the opium poppy (the- source of heroin) as a mainstay of the Southeast Asian economy.

Pursuing this line, he discovered that the region’s boom in opium production was linked to American support of its thoroughly but nominally “anticorrupt, communist,” governments, and has published his findings in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia.

The title is somewhat misleading, in that McCoy has also provided an extensive review of the history of opium use and manufacture which places his more timely concerns-the spread of heroin addiction among the North American population in general, and among Vietnam War veterans in particular-in the context of imperialistic efforts to subjugate colonial populations characteristic of recent Western history.

And many of his conclusions, impressively documented as they are, will shock those who still view colonialism as a necessary, if perhaps overly harsh and bloody, process of conveying “modern” countries. techniques to “backward” In the 1500s European merchants introduced opium smoking; in the 1700s the British East India Company became Asia’s opium first large-scale smuggler....At every stage of its development, Asia’s narcotics traffic has been shaped and formed by the rise and fall of Western Empires.

(Politics of Heroin, pg. 59) Lest this raise visions of clever social manipulators using opium as “The opiate of the people,” it should be made clear that economic gain has always been the primary motivation ., of . e-t__” . 0 b’. * \ 1 j ..__“.I.,.

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It should not be difficult for Canadians, aware of the fact that about 85 percent of American investment in Canada is financed by the profits of Americanowned Canadian companies, to understand the advantages of a “pay as you go” imperialism which purchases the natives’ property with monies extracted from the natives themselves ; whether you want to conceptualize this as “The Theory of Unequal Exchange’, or a simple rip-off, it is an obviously attractive technique on a par with having your convict population willingly construct their own prisons.

McCoy sets this forth in convincing detail with regard to the French and British colonial administrations in Southeast Asia, establishing that income from control of the opium trade had .become such an accepted source of revenue that even their gradual withdrawal brought little change in the situation.

The one major change in the region’s post-World War II opium policy was caused by the voluntary suppression of production by\ China (after the overthrow of the Nationalist regime) and Iran, which necessitated the development of a self-sufficient indigenous supply of this highly lucrative drug.

Thus the 1950s saw a great expansion of opium cultivation in Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle,” which consists of northern Laos, northern Thailand, and northeastern Burma. The process through which this occurred is an incredibly complex one involving Nationalist Chinese bandit armies, the political ambitions of small sectarian movements, and the French intelligence services’ clandestine financing of covert (i.e. hidden from their own government) para-military and is much too comoperations, plicated _1. c , I 1) , to. r t Ibe , _ *summarized _ , , ‘\ , \ h $ . \ . \even : 7

broadly here; but the result was a flourishing trade in opium carried on with the tacit consent, and often the active participation, of Southeast Asian governments.

Although direct U.S. military activity remained small-scale until 1965, the C.I.A. had long been involved in trying to prop up first the colonial regimes, and then the weak successor-states established by the 1954 Geneva Agreement.

In the process of investigating the deficiencies of these governments, C.I.A. agents often came across official collusion in the opium traffic, but were pointedly discouraged from making an issue out of it.

“Don’t you have anything else to do? We don’t want you to open up this keg of worms since it will be a major embarrassment of a friendly government.

So dro,p your investigation.”

(General Edward G. Lansdale, recalling Washington’s response to his reports of French military encouragement of opium production, The Politics of Heroin, pg.

102) Despite the C.I.A.‘s deep involvement in South Vietnamese politics in the 1960s’ extending even to the sponsorship of the assassination of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, no apparent effort was made to curtail the government’s love affair with opium.

It is understandable that this was not done publicly, since the visible corruption and incompetence of South Vietnamese off icia Is a I ready sufficed to make even American “hawks” despise them; but it is much more difficult to comprehend why no private initiatives were taken to end a situation which contributed greatly to. the ineffectiveness of both the American and South Vietnamese military forces.

McCoy provides a detailed account of just how opium is brought from the “Golden Triangle” to South Vietnam, and establishes that such comic opera organizations as the South Vietnamese navy spend far more time pushing dope than pursuing their putative enemy.

Once in South Vietnam, the opium is refined into heroin and distributed to users by private criminal syndicates, paying a percentage of their profits to officials through the euphemism of business licenses and the good old “shake down” technique.

Again, it must be stressed that American military, intelligence, and embassy personnel are aware of this situation, and have failed to react to it in anything resembling a positive manner.

As long ago as 1968, Senator Gruening released evidence of opium trafficking

by Marshall Ky, but the U.S. Embassy squelched this with a flat. denial.

An American member of the customs advisory team succeeded in having a special committee formed to deal with it, but this was disbanded because of “pressures which are too well known to require enumeration,’ (the words of the customs officer involved).

And- when the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division supplied information to its embassy about the opium smuggling activities of General Ngo Dzu, it was completely ignored until publicized by another U.S. Congressman, at which time the embassy replied that it had no evidence whatsoever relating to any activities of General Dzu. It is less difficult to comprehend the C.I.A.3 reluctance to move against the opium traffic.

In the course of building up a pro-U.S. military force of Meo tribesmen in Laos, the C.I.A.‘s charter airline, Air America, flew the Meo’s opium harvest to refineries elsewhere in Laos, where it was “probably destined. . .for GI addicts in Vietnam;” C.I.A. agent Edgar Buell “utilized his agricultural skills to improve _-Me0 techniques for planting and cultivating opium ; ” and the C.I.A. has consistently opposed attempts by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics to investigate the Laotian situation.

This is all well established in McCoy’s book, and despite C.I.A. efforts to censor it before publication, Harper & Row were so unimpressed by the agency’s rebuttal of McCoy’s charges that they published it without alteration.

In the light of this and other similar occurrences documented in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, there seems to be but one tenable conclusion: such a consistent policy could only have been the result of a high-level decision to ignore the existence of the opium trade in an area where-American influence was, and is, overwhelming.

We, and McCoy as well, can only guess at the motivations of the bureaucrats responsible; indeed, the sole major weakness of this book is its failure to provide a convincing explanation for this seemingly irrational behaviour.

This is hidden, no doubt, from casual observation, but McCoy is so good at smoking out the indiscretions of Southeast Asian officials F 1> %

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that one wishes he had’ ,spenf more time investigating their ‘American counterparts.

-1t is, to put it mildly, difficult to believe thatconcern for the public image and ‘quaint native customs of the U.S.‘s allies constitutes , the whole story.

The failure to more concretely attribute responsibility is even more disturbing when one reads of the consequences for U.S. soldiers stationed in South Vietnam.

Readers wilt again be sufficiently familar with ,- the plight of these men to realize that the ready availability of heroin would naturally lead to its embrace by an al\ienated, and at times more or less _ mutinous, conscript army.

sympathies must first go out to the Vietnamese ’ victims of American military intervention, we must also take cognizance of the American victims of this incredible folly-not l by mid-1971, U.S. Army medical least because they are likely canofficers estimated that between didates for continuing heroin addiction 10 and 15 percent (25,000in a society whose contemporary 37,000 soldiers) of enlisted men serving in Vietnam were heroin problems are Canada’s future ones. users.

McCoy’s book does make som‘e effort l A U.S. Army survey of March, to deal with potential solutions of the 1971 showed that 22 percent of U.S. heroin epidemic, but it is here’that ,all returnees to the U.S. had tried his nerve in a sense fails him. Having heroin at least once, and that, 11 clearly demonstrated that the opium percent were regular users. traffic in Southeast Asia is inextricably l Few returning addicts are given linked with the legion’s corrupt any followkrp treatment: in political and economic structures, he August, 1971 the Chairman of the still can think of nothing more effective Mouse Subcommittee on -ePublic than’ “enormous political pressure Health stated that “Veterans from the United States” as a spur to Administration hospitals have reform, in effect disregarding ,hisown handled only three referrals out findings as to the U.S.‘s interest in of on heroin.“’ perpetuating nominally “friendly” I 12,000 servicemen governmentsregardless of their- moral turpitude.

In view of this, the oft-heard A far better clue is provided by the denunciation of the Vietnam War as a experience of those two Southeast “criminal” enterprise acquires some Asian countries which have thrown off addit’ional meaning.

Although ,our the last vestigesof colonialism, namely China and North Vietnam.

Although the idiot fringe of the American Right has often accused these nations of flooding South Vietnam,. with heroin so “our boys” will become addicts, the reality is startlinglydifferent.

With regard to China,- the’ U.S. Bureau of Narcotics recently issued a report recognizing China’s suppression of opium cultivation; with regard. to North Vietnam, the U.S. Army Provost Marshall stated in 1971 that its opium production was “closely controlled by the governmentand none of the crop is believed to be channelled illicitly into international markets” (both quoted in McCoy’s book).

This is not to suggest that either China or North Vietnam is the ideal society; but it is to suggest that with sufficient will and dedication there’ is no reason toview heroin addiction as an endemic characteristic of Southeast J Asian life. And if this is the case, in an area where the opium poppy grows wild, it would seem Jpossible to imagine similar success in an area such as North America, where only a very . inferior grade of poppy can be , cultivated and heroin addiction is a comparatively recent phenomenon.

It‘ is probably pointless, however, to even think about,eradicating domestic problems in a society so compromised by worldly -‘ambition as the contemporary United States.

The bitter, but perhaps poetically just, irony- of American involvement in Southeast Asia is the strung-out ex-GI “bringing . the war back home,” prepared to ravage his own society in the same way that his dkluded political leaders , him to ravage South - encouraged Vietnam.

For presenting this in all its sordid ‘and yet compeliing detail, we , should be grateful to Al McCoy and The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, while hoping that he will continue to ferret out the truth and will devote a _ bit moreattention to the root causes of these incredible phenomena.

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