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U- of W ethics questioned WINDSOR (CUP)-University recruiting patterns increasingly resemble old-time raiding parties, the University of Windsor senate was told March 6. Last year the University of Waterloo conducted a telephone blitz in which almost all its high school applicants were called in an attempt to woo them away from their first choice of universities. University of Windsor president J. Francis Leddy said if universities don’t control themselves in their individual practices “the government of Ontario will likely feel it necessary to step in and impose controls.” Rod Scott assistant to the president, said “the recruitment process must be brought under control immediately, or the same stunts will happen again this year.” He referred to the recent case of a dean and faculty members from on a visit to York University Vancouver. They rented a hotel suite and placed a newspaper advertisement announcing they were recruiting students. Leddy said York University is not usually noted for aggressive recruitment habits, although Waterloo is. “What it boils down to is a matter of ethics,” Leddy said. “Somewhere, there must be a line drawn where public funds are spent for purposes other than imparting information to prospective students about the . university.” ‘-c. Students planning to enrol in the first -year of an Ontario university in 1973 will submit their applications through a new Ontario universities application centre. U of Windsor assistant registrar R. Carney said March 7 that the application forms contain places for students’ first three university choices. “The student fills out the forms, and sends them to the centre where they are counted and sent out to the universities mentioned as choices. ” “In this way, each university knows, at least to some degree, what to expect in an enrolment figure for the coming year. It also avoids the problems of duplication of application on the part of the student,” she said. From these lists U of W found all the names, some 14,666 of them, of those whom they called, last year. Waterloo has taken advantage of the lists to allay some of the fear that provincial grants will drop to reflect lower enrolment figures. Scott said “the University of Windsor faces increased competition from a greater number of schools that are sending recruiters into the Windsor area. Once one school pushes into an area, other schools feel they
must follow suit.” Just recently, minister of colleges and universities, Jack McNie, announced the government of Ontario has formed a revised method of financing grants to universities. Under the old plan, grants from the government were issued on a per capita basis on present enrolment. Starting in the coming academic year, a new plan called “slip-year” financing will be instated. The new basis for grants will be determined from the enrolment from the past year. If a university has had a drop in the enrolment figures, it will not necessarily receive a comensurate drop in grant monies from the government. In the special case of the University of Windsor, which suffered a severe drop in enrolment this year, the grant figures will be taken from the 197172 figures, ostensibly so the university won’t be penalized in two successive years with a low operating budget. Government sources stated they hoped the new system would alleviate some of the tensions involved in the competition to fill classrooms. The April6 meeting of the Council of Ontario Universities will discuss the report of its special committee on recruitment. Scott said in an interview that “the recommendations of the committee would be accepted and followed by every university in Ontario but one (Waterloo) .” “1t:s a crying shame when you consider how hard we have all worked to maintain the respect of high schools and their students, only to have it all shot down by one university, ” he said. “Either you’re all on the treadmill, or you don’t get on at all.”
Council meeting After failing to advance very far on any front tuesday night, the federation council decided to retreat. . .all the way to Silver Lake. The council members voted to engage in a three-day retreat at the end of april to try to get to know each other and attempt to agree on some basic direction for the federation next year. It was not revealed immediately what form the “getting to know each other” part is to take. continued
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Information, what info - rmation? Once again, the effectiveness of senators to deal with the questions brought before senate came under discussion at the meeting held monday evening. When a report from the Undergraduate Council was presented by P.G.Cornell (history), student senator John O’Grady asked about the list of course changes included in that report. Noticing that there was little description as far as what these changes were, O’Grady asked, “If we are receiving these for information, can we have some information? ” John Wilson (poli sci) suggested that the minutes of senate committee meetings be mailed to all senators. Wilson also raised a question concerning an apparent lack of spelling ability among those who drew up the report. The question was instigated by the use of the bastardized spelling of “honours” in the Undergraduate Council report. Jack Brown, director of the university secretariat attempted to excuse this exhibition of a colonial mentality by saying that it was the “smallest contribution we can make to efficiency in the use of paper.” Within the report brought forward by Cornell, a motion was made to drastically curtail the use of incompletes in the faculty of arts. Apparently, in order to protect students from absentee professors it is necessary to desist in the granting of incompletes. Yet the phrasing seems oriented, not so much to protect students, as control them ; “this extension of completion date is granted as a privilege and instructors should not feel that students have a “right” to an INC”. On this point O’Grady objected to the motion, maintaining that a student does have the right to an incomplete, if he wishes. It appears that, within the wording of the motion, there is more concern for the students’ tardiness in work completion, than with the problems of absentee
professors. The motion, passed with a rather substantial majority, called for specified time periods when incompletes are granted, and the drawing up of specific procedures within each department for the handling of incompletes. G.Cross, chairman of the senate ad hoc committee, presented a report on that committee’s investigation of the problems involved with the drawing up and acceptance of faculty constitutions, an investigation prompted by the prolonged difficulties surrounding an Environmental Studies constitution. The report, entitled “Guidelines for the Development and Approval of Constitutions of Faculties”, had received majority support on all points but one, on which the four man committee was evenly split. The issue over which the cleavage occurred involved the procedure to be followed in the event of “sigrZicant student opposition”. Doug Wilcox, Arts student senator and J. Wilson felt that in this event, the constitution should be sent back to the faculty and resolved at that level. In effect, they would say to faculty, “It’s your problem, you solve it.” Both the chairman and M. Brown (psychology) felt the issue should be resolved by senate. A vote was taken on the matter and senate decided it should weigh’ the merits of student discontent in such matters, and supported the position of Cross. With this decided, the complete package was referred back to the faculty councils for consideration. John O’Grady questioned Cross about the Environmental Studies constitution, since the terms of reference for the committee had been to look into that constitution in particular. Unfortunately this question was not answered, and the approval for that constitution was once more put off. H.E.Petch, vice-president academic, brought forward a number of proposed policy statements, among which were
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policies on faculty appointments, extra-university activity among faculty, leave of absence for faculty members, and selection procedure for the vice-president academic. While discussing policy concerning extra-curricular activities undertaken by faculty members, a sub-section dealing with conflicts-of-interest met with considerable disapproval and was consequently deleted. Further debate ranged through the moral implications behind strict policy dealing with the “off-hours” of professors. M.Brown was somewhat upset with the university’s claim on “off-hours” : “Given this understanding, any extra-university occupation that requires more than one work day a week should be examined - and judged very carefully.” However, in reading the phrase, Brown failed to notice the qualifying word, “work” and his disapproval stemmed from the apparent attempt to regulate the activities carried on during week ends and evenings. R.A. Staal (mathematics) considered the policy, in places, a “fundamental violation of the rights of the individual”, and was similarly opposed to the subsection outlined above. Brown felt that the first sub-section of the policy paper was strong enough to prevent abusive extra-curricular activities, and that the specific points outlined further were unnecessary. The first clause went: “Each individual case should be considered on its own but the overriding consideration in determining whether a given activity is proper is whether it impinges on the performance of those duties which are the prime responsibility of a faculty member.” When it was pointed out that Brown had misread the passage, the debate cooled and the policy statement was carried. In superlatively bureaucratic fashion, Burt Matthews managed to steer the meeting rapidly and efficiently through a myriad of possibly controversial maelstroms without incident. Hurriedly recognizing speakers, and circumventing many questions like the one raised by O’Grady on the Environmental Studies constitution, Matthews succeeded in finishing the business in a matter of four hours before calling for a confidential session, to discuss honorary degrees under the protective umbrella of privacy. -john
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Sex/with rubber gloves Sexuality appears to have hit the campus-at least in the form of seminars. Last Wednesday, I.R. Reiss appeared in the arts theatre to present a seminar on “premarital sex”. He remarked that this topic assumed marriage would be the eventual end of sexual relationships ; not a prerequisite assumption for his discussion. On monday, professor Greenland of Macmaster university, and two women students, gave a lecture on the ‘sensuous student’. Reiss quoted statistics from the Kinsey report and other American. studies. It appeared that more people accept pre-marital sex than extra-marital, perhaps because of the prevalent attitude toward marriage security. Reiss also noted a male-centered attitude toward sex, or as it is popularly known, the double standard. One study which looked at the effects of this standard on male-female sex responses exposed-men and women to a series of erotic slides and measured them physiologically for responses. Questioned about their reactions, the men said the slides were great and some expressed interest in seeing them again. Some were aroused to orgasm. The women however expressed disgust and embarrassment. Yet their physical reaction to slides was recorded as almost the same as that of the men. Reiss cited the cause as cultural conditioning, noting that women are not expected to deal with their sexuality as men are. Women are not culturally expected to react to erotic imagery nor to be a part of the power structure, he said. However, he stressed that physiologically women are equal to men, if not superior. Reiss summarized the double standard in conditioning as being part of the “ethical massage”. The point can be made by an investigation of most cultures. Historically men have held the power and have molded the laws for their own pleasure. It is this power base that Reiss blames for our attitudes towards sex. He cited the findings of Masters and Johnson and other researchers that states that women are orgasmicly better than men and more adept at adapting to looser sexual relationships. A study on “the swinging suburbs” was quoted in which it was found that men were encouraging their wives to have homosexual relationships after having sex with their male partners since the men were exhausted from their sexual encounters while the women were still going strong. The myth of chastity was broken down substantially by Reiss. First, he stated, it is rare for a couple to marry as virgins and remain true to each other for life. Never in one generation of males has there been a majority of virgins at 20 years of age. Their partners for the first escapade in sex were found in lower class women, prositutes, and more recently, the girl next door.
In old church records, notably those from Massachusetts 200 years ago, one third of !@9 weddings noted “confessed fornication” as a motive. Prostitution on the eastern American seaboard, in New Orleans, and the Samoan night crawl were all given as examples of man’s search for satisfaction. Reiss thought that the greatest advancement in sex was the invention of vulcanized rubber and its use in the condom. He listed the pesary cap, diaphragmand pill as being other achievements but more pretentious than the condom. He stated that the pill was. not being used to its fullest extent because most young women (15-19 years) see sex as a pleasurable experience that would be marred by the use of external contraceptives. In two studies quoted on contraception, most young women were not protected from pregnancy. The group that used birth control devices the most were the upper class and people in the professions. They were also found to be the m st fearful of unwanted pregnancie P . An interesting parallel was drawn between the two periods of history when the loss of female virginity drastically rose and the major periods of industrial and technological advancement. From 1915 to ‘1929, non-virginity rose from 25 to 50 per cent in women. It stayed at 50 per cent until 1965 to 1970when it shot to 79 per cent. Another plateau is expected to follow. These rises are theoretically linked to the appearance of the new, more mobile society. Rises in extra-marital relationships were also attributed to change in the general functioning of society. Reiss sees the society of the future as being more open in its attitudes towards sex. He thinks that there will be more alternatives to sexualtiy other than the or marriage. usual ‘affair’ Marriage will change drastically or eventually dissolve since it is, to Reiss, a legitimizing function for children and little else. In time perhaps we will see a change from the restrictive sexual attitudes of the past and present to a freer sexuality . Professor Greenland conducted his talk in a much different vein than Reiss. He was introduced as a professor who gave “fantastic lectures” but unfortunately. this statement did not adequately foreshadow the events to follow. Greenland’s research field is violent and dangerous behaviour. The first part of the lecture began with the tale of Arthur Bremmer’s fruitless search for the satisfying erection. Apparently, before he shot Wallace, Bremmer got his kicks from driving at 90 mph along the 401 and going to massage parlours. The sexuality course at MacMaster, of which Greenland is a part, is mainly designed for medical, nursing and social work students. Its aim is to relieve the student’s tensions about speaking3
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Among the topics touched upon during the sexuality series held at U. of W. over the past few weeks, was Charles Bremmer’s sexual impotence and the effect of pornographic slides upon both men and women. Professor Greenland, above, enlightened those who attended his talk on the dilemma of the “sensuous student.”
on sex and hopefully educate them on human sexualtiy . Greenland stressed that sexual relationships are not ideal for everyone and do contain serious difficulties at times. Another enlightening observation was that sex does not always improve relationships. In the MacMaster course they show films (erotic) to f‘flood away phobias”. Two visual presentations were shown at the seminar to loosen up the group for discussion. The first show was a group of slides entitled “Genesis”, in which man is created- and receives his first tool. Unfortunately, as we all know, he was not supposed to use it. The second film was called “Quickie” and can be left to your imagination. The first question asked after the visual presentation was “why did the slides deal with man’s uplifting problem and &not woman’s? ” The male student questionner went on to say that the man’s problem was based on the fact that men try to meet the demands that other men thrust upon them, no matter how. absurd -they are. His sexual prowess is overemphasized while the woman is underemphasized. Greenland said that what is ideal for one person is not ideal for another. <He noted a ‘conspiracy’ to suck people into the whirlpool of sex, although some people can take the pain and pleasure of a relationship while others prefer a more neutral position. A number of good points were brought out in the discussion, notably by students, but perhaps the most relevant picture brought out was that of uniwat’s “sensuous It was accepted that student”. most men who go to the pubs are looking for someone to lay while a lot of women go for a good time. Examples were given of ‘women who stay home in the villages, afraid that some “brute” ‘will attack them. Some feel obliged to bend to the man’s advances since he has supplied the beer and they feel they owe the men something. Apparently the “super stud” image is followed by a number of male pubbers. A general agreement was reached that it is unfortunate that there is no place on campus for students to mix socially without being drunk or exploitative of each other. Evidently 1 some village people.
want to get out of the man-woman confrontation at pubs but cannot find a real alternative. To end the discussion Greenland left by saying “there is much more to sexuality than the sex act.” And as he said at the beginning “those who can, -do; those who can’t, -kati
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Media choked (CUPI-CPS)-The HOUSTON “number one” struggle in the world is trying to -know what government and private interests are doing, American federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson told a national conference of student leaders at Texas A&M University recently. “There are people who benefit from your not knowing what they areldoing,” he said. He criticized government, officials and private interests, which he said force news media into self-censorship. Johnson stated the Nixon Administration’s attempts to intimidate the news media are succeeding. “Our problem is not just government censorship of the media, it’s also media censorship He charged that of the media.” choking off the flow of information is an Administration priority in the States. “Only one institution in America has the potential power anymore to comment on what the executive branch is doing. There’s only one ball player between Richard Nixon and the goal line, and that’s those three network news departments. That’s all you’ve got left, and that’s why the President has got to get them out of the way.” Criticism of the government is limited, he said; without a national newspaper and with broadcasting ownership widely disputed. “You are less well informed today than you were four years ago,” Johnson warned. Johnson has been a Federal Communications Commission member since 1966. His seven-year term expires June 30 of this year.
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Besides this major decision, council managed in a three hour meeting to ratify the choices of president Andrew Telegdi for the various boards and to engage in lengthy discussion of the record coop* Art Ram was officially pronounced chairman of the ‘new’ board of entertainment. The person intended for the chairman of co-op services withdrew his application, leaving that position empty. Dave Assman and Jeff Beckner were named the co-chairmen of the board of communications. After a few queries and a little bit of discussion, it became clear that Beckner did not want the position. By default, Assman became the sole chairman of the board-for the second time around.. The position of chairman for the board of publications came under slightly heavier scrutiny. The two contenders present to argue their cases were the past chairmanTerry Harding and the past cochairman of Radio Waterloo-Al Stirling. The committee’s choice was Stirling. Stirling’s qualifications for the position were seriously questioned by many ‘members of council, especially in light of the greater experience of Harding. The selection committee was asked to give the reasoning behind their decision. Shane Roberts, past president of the federation and now the chairman of the board of external affairs, was the first member of the committee to reply to the question. It was his opinion that Harding, although the more qualified applicant, was politically unsuitable for the position. When asked, several times, to clarify this opinion, Roberts was unable to state exactly why or how. Apparently, he felt Stirling would be in greater harmony with the rest of the executive. There was confusion, too, about the relationship between the chairman and the newspaper. Harding had to state several times that the chairman had no authority over the content or staff of the chevron, a misconception many council members seemed to have. Eventually council rubberstamped the decision of the selection committee. Stirling is the chairman of the board of publications. The last real issue that council attempted to face was a request by John Jongerius, manager of the record co-op. He asked for a full time summer job at a salary of $110. a week. This threw council into another maze of ‘what’s the motion, do we have the power’, and it was quite some time before they decided to refer it to the salaries and honoraria committee. At this time, it became apparent that there was a bar being set up for business at the other end of the room. Unanimously and in harmony the council adjourned itself. Perhaps the retreat will spread this harmony throughout future meetings, and all will be well with the world. -wan
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At it again! Tuesday afternoon, the Arts Faculty Council was at it again, this time to discuss the A and B requirements. The discussion rose directly from insistence of student representatives last march when they moved that A and B requirements be dropped completely. The matter was turned over to a committee whose report has now been examined and discussed by the council. The meeting’ this week was called only for discussion and therefore there was no decision forthcoming. However, it is worth noting the various opinions that exist on this campus and the context in which the student representatives are attempting to work. The meeting was limited, for the sake of expediency, to two hours dur%tion . J. Narveson of the philosophy initiated the department, discussion with his interpretation of the official and the unofficial rationales for the A and B requirements. Officially, the A and B requirements are to insure that every person will leave UW with a ‘liberal arts’ education. Unofficially, Narveson claims that the controls exist “in order that every department can get a piece of the action.” He also said that, “No one can or has justified the A and B requirements.” David Robertson, a student representative on the coucil, then explained that; “We are beyond the ‘liberal arts’ education. We should not require a student to do anything.” But, for the second week in a row, Robertson was moving too fast and was soon brought to a halt by an attack from J. Wubnig. Wubnig and Narveson are both from the philosophy department, but that is as far as the similarity goes. They apparently have somewhat differing views on the values and reality of the so-called ‘liberal arts’ education. photo
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JWubnig of the philosophy of a ‘liberal arts education’ requirements. .
Wubnig repeatedly spoke of ‘floating’ students and insisted that they were unhappy with their lot. Guidance and the A and B requirements were valid and necessary to the preservation of the integrity of the institution. If Wubnig had her way, there would be even more requirements and fewer electives. After all, if she made it through the system, why can’t everyone else? But perhaps the question might better be: should they want to. Another part of the issue is the economics of departments and survival of those departments that do not have a naturaltendency to attract large numbers of students. The language and classics departments were cited. It was hoped that there would be some way of subsidizing those departments that could not support themselves. The entire two hours was simply devoted to letting those interested speak their piece to an almost empty room. Everyone had gone to , On Wednesday afternoon about twenty well-wishers accompanied the meeting with a set opinion and Dare strikers Paul Pugh and Tom Scott to Waterloo county jail. These everyone left the meeting with the two workers, sentenced for contempt of court, will spend 30 days and same opinion. It was usually 10 days respectively in the jail. Plant chairman of the Dare strikers debatable whether or not ‘anyone bargaining unit, Andy Diamond, who has been sentenced to 60 days was aware that other people were for the same charge, rallied picketers for the jail-bound duo. of a different opinion than themselves. of the newly-formed National -Susan johnson Union of Students (NUS) in May. The conference will formally incorporate the organization under federal law and provide the organization with policy direction for the future. Lakehead University students joined 15 other campuses across Canada march 15 LONDON (CUP)-University of when they voted overwhelmingly Western Ontario students held a to join NUS. More than 250 “counterconvocation” yesterday students voted in favour of the to protest granting of an honorary proposal while only 90 students degree to an avid Canadian convoted against it. Reliable sources tinentalist . in Thunder Bay contend the move Broadcaster and author Pierre was predictable as Lakehead Berton and federal NDP leader OTTAWA (CUP)-Represstudents have always supported David Lewis received awards at entatives from 50 Canadian joining organizations that would the special convocation for their university and community college give them representation and contribution to Canadianism. UWO student councils are expected to Lakehead students support. gave an honorary LlD to Canadian attend the first policy conference remained in the now-defunct economist Harry Johnson WedCanadian Union of Students until nesday during the opening of the the very end. new social sciences complex there. The NUS steering committee is Johnson, a University of Chicago considering four sites for the may economics professor, advocates _a conference : Simon Fraser closer economic relationship University, University of Alberta, between Canada and the United Regina campus of the University States. He believes free market of Saskatchewan, and Halifax. A forces should dictate Canada’s role decision will be reached soon. in a world economy. To conA meeting of the steering tinentalists, Canada’s economic committee ‘was scheduled to be advantage lies in export of held in Saskatoon the weekend of primary resources to the United march 2. According to sources States. (John Connally, former within NUS, nothing was ac- U.S. treasury secretary and White complished because of a complete House heavy made the same lack of planning on the part of the demands of top Canadian Saskatoon student union. Apcapitalists at a Toronto meeting parently the meeting was moved earlier this week.) down to Regina where committee Johnson was invited to Western members were given a display of because members of the UWO facilities that would be valuable to senate’s convocation committee the holding of future conferences. regard him as a leading world So far five schools have officially economist. entered the organization while Students who organized the another ten, who have already counter-convocation said the inapproved joining, have yet to of- vitation to Johnson was “untimely ficially apply for membership. and inappropriate”, coming at a Some schools have already made time when Canada is involved in extensive plans for involvement crucial energy and trade with NUS. negotiations with Washington. The out-going treasurer at the WV0 president D.C. Williams University of Alberta made sub- called the student- action an atstantial allocations in next year’s tempt to embarass the university’s budget for NUS expenses. The convocation events. He implied outgoing U of A student council there would be no future c& prepares the budget which must be operation between students and department attempts to defend her idea approved by the in-coming council. administration on issues such as , and also to justify the need for A and B NUS officials hope NUS will have fee increases and the witholding of \ 25 full members by may. tuition.
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Student .loans to increase in BC VICTORIA (CUP)--‘% looks as though obtaining a student loan will be easier (for British Columbia students) next year,” an unidentified source in the B.C Student Affairs branch of the. Education department recently disclosed. The man, who did not want to be mentioned by name, was the western provinces’ representative at a recent federal student loan meeting in Ottawa. The meeting was attended by officials from the federal ministry of finance and education departments in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces. Since the meeting was not the annual plenary session on student loans, no definite decisions on loan requirements were made. The annual session will be held in Ottawa in late March. Last year’s loan requirements were a point of contention among B.C. students and administrators because of unequal treatment of the province’s students, compared to those in other provinces. B.C. students must enclose-a photocopy of their own and their parents’ income tax return, and copies of numerous other personal documents. The large contributions which B.C. students must make towards their education from their summer earnings has also been criticized. For example, a third-year male university student, if employed during the summer, was expected to save $850 in 1972 from his summer job before he could be eligible for federal support. A woman had to save $525. It has been argued that assessment should be made on an individual basis so students unable to obtain a job or unable to save a great deal of money would not be unnecessarily penalized. One of the recommendations to be considered at the plenary session at the end of March is a standard application form for students in all> provinces, equalizing loan requirements across Canada. B.C. will have a representative at this year’s federal-provincial meeting. Last year the Social Credit government did not provide money for a representative, which resulted in the unfair treatment accorded B.C. students. A top ranking education department civil servant gave one of his subordinates permission to attend the meeting and Sacred education minister Donald Brothers granted permission for a B.C. member to go to Ottawa. But a veto came from the minister of finance, one William Andrew Cecil Bennett.
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Demo at Queen’s Over 400 people gathered at Queen’s Park - on -Wednesday morning to protest the Ontario government’s discriminatory labour regulations. Initiated by the Dare’s Brewery Workers’ Local 173 of Kitchener, the mass picket was supported by the Ontario Federation of Labour and numerous other district locals throughout Ontario. A large - number of people from locals outside Kitchener-Waterloo were in attendance. Many, who could not find babysitters brought their children with them. For the little people, it was an outing. They carried placards, joined the picket line and raced around the circle of demonstrators. The youngsters counterbalanced the seriousness of the-demands of the workers. The Dare people have been out of work for the past ten months, unable to come to any reasonable agreement with management. Their major demands have been equal,wage increases for men and women, recognition of their union and an improvement in working conditions. The workers have been faced with bad-faith bargaining, strikebreaking tactics and court injunctions. Although six union members have been given jail sentences running from ten days to two months, the strikers have not lost their morale and unity in their fight with Dare. The determination to stand up to management, courts and government has, by no means, let up. ’ Determination was. the temperament of the group at the parliament buildings Wednesday. After an hour-long march in front of the buildings, several officials addressed the demonstration. Windsor MPP and New Democratic Party executive Steve Penner represented the NDP. David Archer, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, expressed OFL support of the Dare strikers, demands for a change in the Labour Relations Act and a request to all locals to support the boycott of Dare products. Ontario Liberal Party leader, Robert Nixon,- announced his disgust at such strikebreaking tactics as the use of the Canadian Driver Pool and expressed support for the unions’ demonstration. He was received with dubious enthusiasm. The Conservativ,e government chose to ignore the strikers and after the speakers, people began to depart. Andy Diamond, Dare ’ piant chairman felt satisfied with the Wednesday demonstration. He said, “It was successful because the labour movement in Ontario stood behind the Dare workers and
we were able to force a meeting between ourselves and the company.” He was referring to an announcement made by Norm Wilson of the Brewery Workers Union. Wilson told the demonstration that the ministry of labour had arranged a new negotiating session between the Dare management and Local 173’s bargaining representatives. There was no comment as to’ whether the company had changed its mind on the demand that the union shop and check-off clauses be deleted from the agreement. In esse-rice, this would mean an end to a duly chosen bargaining agent for Dare workers. The courts have not ruled whether this demand by the company implies bargaining in bad faith. Of the eight speakers at Queen’s Park on Wednesday, seven were there by the grace of their organizational bureaucratic positions. The other, Dare picketer Wayne Zettler, presented the day to day problems of the strikers. ’ He talked about the frustrations of the rank and file members of Local 173, and emphasized the hardships encountered by the Dare workers in their resistance to the company’s attempts to squash the union. The disappointment felt over the lack of support from fellow trade unionists was stressed by Zettler. In’an interview later that day, Zettler continued his criticism. Choosing his words carefully, he said, “I’m critical of unions who call themselves unions, but aren’t, like the CBRT (Canadian Brotherhood of Railway and Transport 1. “They continually crossed our picket lines to take out Dare products. There are lots of good unions. The teamsters are great. They don’t cross lines. At our demonstration at the CN yards in Toronto, all the trucks driven by Teamster drivers, respected our pickets. At the same time, four CBRT officials tried to wave the truck into the yards- and said they had a walkout recently, were in negotiations, and didn’t want trouble. “It’s about time that these things were brought out in the open. I’m not trying to destroy unions but just want to get them to smarten up. I’m critical of speech makers who don’t do anything. Three times reps brought up boycott assistance problems at the K-W Labour Council, yet to my knowledge, not one of those executive people joined our boycott pickets. “I want the unions to change. I only hope they wake up before it’s too late.”
Plant chairman Diamond concurred with Zettler’s statement but emphasized those who really backed the strike. In particular, he mentioned the Teamsters of Toronto and Local 1005 Steelworkers of Hamilton and the United Electrical Workers CUE). The Dare workers have had a major impact on a number of other union locals and activist groups in Ontario.. Their militancy and internal unity is becoming an example for radical labour advocates in a number of centres. At the demonstration, picketers compared the Dare people to ‘les Gars de Lapalme’ of Montreal. These mail truck drivers became heroes and catalysts for the raising level of active solidarity within Quebec labour bodies. Whether the Dare strikers will raise the level of labour solidarity ‘in the future remains to be seen. One thing that is certain for the near future is that the United Brewery Workers local will be decertified from the Kitchener Dare plant. The workers will have been on strike for a year in may. At this time Dare can call a vote of the present plant workers to decide whether or not a union will be kept on as bargaining representative. Depending on the-vote, the Dare management can declare that the union does not represent the interests of the workers, in which case, the union does not exist as far as Dare is concerned. For the Dare workers and supporters there was more than just demonstrations taking place on Wednesday. Later in the afternoon, Tom Scott and Paul Pugh reported to the regional sheriff to begin serving their sentences for ‘violating injunctions’ (Paul had received thirty days, and Scott, ten). They were accompanied to t%e courthouse in Kitchener by a. group of about twenty wellwishers. These two workers and four other union members convicted with them will have criminal records: “all this, for doing absolutely nothing,” remarked one union member. “When do they ever jail the bosses”. 4udley
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In recent years, the campus centre has been criticised for its physical condition, not to mention its atmosphere. The campus center board has been trying for the past two years to improve the atmosphere as well as effect improvements to the furniture and equipment. The CC was described by the ever-observant Globe and Mail in 1970 as a speakeasy drug haven for teenage runaways and bikers. Since then, these activities have been discouraged and progress is being made- in changing the physical appearance. Following four months of negotiation this year, the board acquired $12,170 from the administration. An additional $4060 is available, providing the board can reach an agreement with the Waterloo fire department concerning fire exits from the four CC lounges. The following is a breakdown of the $12,170: Furniture repairs, rm 110,113$1,840 Furniture repairs, great hall .7,000 New furniture, CC board office 850 Miscellaneous new items 485 New equipment 1,395 Alterations 600 Furniture repairs include recovering all CC chairs and couches with material as near indestructible as possible. Alterations and new equipment include a stage, lighting system and piano for the pub area; speakers for the great hall speaker boxes, drapes, a new film projector and a liberal sprinkling
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Wednesday in Toronto union members and sympathizers protested strikebreaking and the position of the Dare workers. Four hundred people turned out to voice their, discontent with the present labour regulations.
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of ash trays. The board has only recently become organized enough to use the money granted to it by the university. There were times in the history of the board that money . was there to be spent but the board was nowhere to be found. At other times it was merely an extension of the president of the Federation of Students. The present board (and its immediate predecessor) have attempted to improve more than the building’s physical elements, by providing a variety of entertainment. The board is sponsoring pubs, free movies and performance opportunities for any musically-inclined artist who wants to appear in the CC. Board members have encountered the usual problems in trying to provide the likes of spontaneous music jams and theater performances. There is a lack of organizers and the CC depends on 10 or 12 people to prepare for most of the events. The board hopes to eventually attract more interested people to take the load off the present members and to try even more new ideas.
Fresh breezes In what was perhaps the most innovative learning experience attempted in FES this year, eighty students were given an extensive overview of environmental law in a two week crash course taught by Vancouver lawyer Barry Stuart. Displaying a definite Illichian bias against “professionalism” the course, part of Environmental Studies 400, was consciously directed toward creating a broad understanding of law as a tool to be employed by citizen’s groups. Apparently, in the opinion of Jack Kennedy, a considerable step was made in demystifying one of the most closed guilds in Canada. After a simulated court session, in which he acted as judge, the former chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board expressed disbelief in the quality and depth of the arguments presented by “counsel”. Needless to say, the scope of the course was limited by time constraints. Although a vast array of material was skimmed, the major emphasis was on common law as a private citizen’s remedy to water pollution. The greatest value of the experiment, however, lay not with the factual information conveyed, although on a general level, this was considerable. Rather, by exposing the students to actual cases, and presenting them with decisions of real judges, the fallibility of the law became obvious. More importantly, the possibility of successful legal action taken against both public and private polluters was planted in the minds of many people who would, at least theoretically, be receptive. In the wake of the Saltsman fiasco, the experience of such a course is refreshing. That such meaningful work must be generated from o&side the university, reflects poorly on the quality of teaching at Uniwat, particularly within FES. One ray of hope, however, is the enthusiastic reaction of some senior faculty members, notably George Rich. The course will continue next year, but will its momentum carry further course reevaluations to more valuable positions?
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Female undergraduates are needed for research on roleplaying being conducted by the Department of” Psychology, under the direction of Dr. D. Meichenbaum. The study will require two sessions, with a total time commitment of 2% hours. The experiment will include a treatment phase in which participants will be taught a method of portraying or taking on the characteristics of another person’s personality. No aversive stimulation is involved. Renumeration for participation is five dollars. For more information, all interested -parties should con tact : David Henshaw, Psychology Department, University of Waterloo. Or call 885-1211, Ext. 2551 or 884-3868.
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1971 Toyota C%olla, 4 speed, 1200 cc engine, radio, 34,000 miles. $1350 or best offer. Call 578-4304. 66 MGB, new paint job,%wires, hard top, summer top, overdrive, good running condition. $600. Phone 884-7905. 72 VW Beetie, 16,000 miles; warranty until 24,000 miles. Call Kurt 884-5305 mornings. RIDE AVAILABLE Going to Vancouver. Need one to share expenses and driving. Leaving April 17. Mike 578-1828. TYPING Reasonable rates for fast typing. Call Patti 744-7807
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Looking for summer work in K-W area? Check the Student Summer Job Center, opening April 16 at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.. Queen and Weber Street, Kitchener. For more information call 579-1550 ext 32.
Townhouse from may 1 to august 31, Lakeshore village; cable, broadloom, partially furnished,3 bedrooms,one double size; 1 month’s rent free. 8842524.
-Overland expedition to Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush Mountains via Europe, Turkey and Iran. Departs June 4. $600 plus $215 return flight Toronto-London. Phone Tony or Liz (416) 922-5006.
Townhouse to rent, may 1 to september 1; 3 bedrooms, basement, cable, carpet. One mile from campus. Only $165 per month. Phone 884-4903 or write G.Brown, 525F Sunnydale PI, Waterloo.
Musicians -and singers wanted for amateur talent show. Every Saturday at Jokers Two. Prize money. Apply 587 7010. FOR SALE 1964 Rambler automatic, radio, new plates. 7 glass-belted tires. (2 snows). Good running condition. As is $250. 578-0049 after 6pm 1970 Toyota Corolla good condition. Will accept best offer. Phone 1-2914610 after 6pm. Minolta SRT-101 with 55mm fl.7MC Rokkor and 35mm f2.8,for $240. Ask for Gord at 885-1660. “Eke” bass guitar and 40 watt “piggyback” amp. (built to Traynor specifications). Excellent condition. $250 or best offer. Call Dave 8843132. . Queen size bed, only 8 months old. Excellent condition. Reasonably priced. Call Darral 578-0332. One registered male Abvssinian kitten. Phone 884-9142. -
Furnished 3 bedroom apartment to sublet, May through August. Parkdale Plaza area. $150: month. Call 8849134. Three bedroom ‘townhouse to sublet May to September. Swimming pool, next to Parkdale ,Plaza. Easy hitchhiking, rent negotiabte. Call 884o26gTwo bedroom apartment available May 1 $138 per month, cable TV, 5 minute walk to university. Call 884-4396 or ext 2487. Apartment to sublet, May to September. Clean, comfortable, close. Two large bedrooms, two bathrooms, all utilities. Phone Liz 7444805 for a good deal. House available form May 1 to August 31. 3-4 bedrooms, appliances, partly furnished, large property, 1 mile from campus. $180 month. Phone 7424985. To sublet May to September, 4 bedroom townhouse furnished, byob, and by gosh the price is right. $195 month. 884-6453
BARGAIN BOOK SALE!! Friday, March 30, 12 noon toA pm, Special sale of children’s books 4 pm, t Saturday, March 31, 9 am to 12 noon. HILLIARD HALL, FIRST UNITED CHURCH King and William Sts,, WATERLOO (Sale proceeds for scholarships, communityservice projects of the KW University Women’s Club)
must be prepaid. Single and double rooms for rent, summer term, excellent kitchen and laundry facilities, males only. Call 884 1381. Three bedroom townhouse to sublet for summer term (may to august). Partly furnished. Lakeshore Village. Call 884-0363 or write D. Smyth, 529C Sunnydale PI, Waterloo. Live cheap on campus this summer.One bedroom apartment, all necessary furniture,’ all utilities paid. CableTV. Available May 11 Rent $130 or best offer. 884-1297 Ralph. We have the best cooks of any residence and they’re friendly too. Come live with us and know yourself at Co-op this summer. New house, fully furnished, 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, available mid-december 1973 to end august 1974. $225 month including utilities. 578-0695. Apartment to trade. McMaster student will trade two bedroom apartment in Hamilton for same. in Waterloo from May 1 to September 1. Pool, sauna, underground parking, 10th floor of new highrise. $149 month negotiable. Call Jim 1-416-689-1487 after 6pm. Furnished 2 bedroom apartment available april 30th to august 31st. Rent $165 Phone 885-0018 pool and sauna. Beautiful house, central, spacious. May to august. $150 near Farmer’s Market. Gupta ext 3962 or 578-7941. Apartment to sublet, ’ furnished 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, outdoor swimming pool, rent $150 negotiable on university avenue. 884-4920. Sublet one large bedroom, kitchen, living room. 5 minute walk to both universities. Only $151 per month (may-august) Phone 884-9225. Four bedroom townhouse to sublet may to august, furnished, Lakeshore Village, price negotiable. Phone 8847672.
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Need a couple more courses? Thinking of summer school? Co-op offers special six week summer school rates for room and board, bed and breakfast and room only. Further informat,ion available from WCRI, 280 Phillip Street. 884-3670.
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Student “The left has always fought itself more effectively than it’s fought the State or the capitalists.” A sad epitaph for a decade of activism, but one often heard for that international political phenomenon of the 1960’s, the New Left. Guest lecturer, UW’s Peter Warrian, spoke to a history 204 class tuesday on youth culture and radicalism in the 60’s. Warrian, actively involved in many of the organizations and developmental stages of the New Left in Canada, traced the movement from its British-derived pacifist days (‘59 to ‘64) to the disintegration into the present plethora of neoMarxist and life-style-oriented groupscules. A ‘ban the bomb’ type movement, the Canadian University Committee for -Nuclear Disarmament (CUCND), was in 1959 and established developed organizational groupings on most English Canadian campuses. Pacifist in tone and lacking an. analysis beyond the single issue that was its focus, the CUCND folded in 1964 with Lester Pearson’s introduction into Canada of NORAD’s Bomarck missiles. A Christmas, 1964 student gathering in Regina, Sgskatchewan, set the wheels in motion for the establishment of a new organization, the Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA). Its founders had been deeply affected by the growing critique of North American Society which evolved through the American Civil Rights movement,- Mississippi, the march , on Washington, SDS, SNCC. The focus had changed from “ban the bomb” to “poor peoples’ com,munity organizing”. By the summer of ‘65, 86 fieldworkers under the auspices of _ SUPA were working with Indians (mainly in the prairie provinces), blacks (the maritimes) and poor people. After the initial upsurge of enthusiasm for organizing oppressed people to fight for their rights, “people started to come apart at the seams because they couldn’t hack it.” As Warrian pointed out, the volunteers-white; middle class students-remained to some extent intruders in the com,munity they had chosen to work with. No matter how much you shared in the physical privation of ‘your’ people, “you could always get out. They would suffer the consequences long after you would be gone.” With the rise of SNCC in the states in 1965, it became more and more clear that wellintentioned white radicals were losing the place they had hoped to find in the slums, ghettoes and reservations of the continent. Cut off from ‘the community’ at one end and the now-distasteful
radicalism middle class shrines of family and university-“alienated from whence they came and from where they had gone”-the scene was set for a new stage in the development of young Canadian New Left theory and practice. Movement development between 1967 and ‘70 saw the input of large numbers of new people. Anti-war and civil rights involvement in the United States had fed into the university culminating in Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement and the first student-police blood bath. A critique of the university and the educational process and its ends became for the first time a basis for the movement. Some of that critique found its way into Canada as well. The SUPA remnants began directing radicals toward the Canadian Union of Students. By ‘67 student councils themselves were becoming increasingly radical, at least rhetorically, and CUS was a union of student councils, claiming to represent the majority of university students in Canada. Also in the spring of ‘67, th‘e first women’s liberation meetings were happening, also triggered by growing women’s consciousness within the American movement, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), (a voluntary political organization on its own terms. l’t did not have the claims to ‘representivity’ that CUS had.) Then in late ‘67, political action and react ion exploded around the world, creating conditions for qualitative leaps in the consciousness of North American rad ica Is. “Columbia, West Germany, France, the Pantherssuddenly, the whole political atmosphere changes. Suddenly, revolution is in front of us. You can hear it. You can smell it and you can feel it.” Combined in the U.S. with ‘escalation and polarization over Viet Nam, the movement wound its bloody way to Chicago, providing fuel and radical imagery for what was to come in the Canadian hinterland. Student councils and independent groups followed the tone of the times with rhetorically militant positions which sought confrontation with the universities, and created a substantial mobilization of students. Simon Fraser in the west and Waterloo in the east became radical foci. Here, the Radical Student Movement (RSM) napalmed a hot dog and occupied the library (among other activities). At SFU, the Political Science, Anthropology and Sociology (PSA) department (with student parity and staff involvement in decision-making) held a strike and two-week sit-in over departmental control and
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faculty firings. Eventually the alone the society, lead increasingly RCMP were called in and 114 to internalization within the students arrested. At Sir George movement. Williams in Montreal, charges and In an increasingly repressive counter-charges of racism in the and frustrating atmosphere. university] led to the occupation “radicals had stopped looking and burning out of the computer outwards and wound up only centre. ta Iking to themselves.” Vocal and visible, the radicals In ‘69 and ‘70, then, the focus, used what has since been labelled (given impetus by the women’s the ‘fleabite strategy’. “Maybe you movement which tended to blow couldn’t bring the motherfucker apart the internal structural down,” said Warrian, “but you makeup of the movemerlt) shifted whacked it and whacked it and bit to lifestyles and communes. The and bit, and maybe eventrend across Canada became one tually. . . . ” of looking backwards. More than any other issue, The split between lifestyle and English Canadian campus con~ ‘hard-line politics’ (neo-Marxist frontation tended to centre with old-line afaround tenure and non-renewal of groupings filiations) hardened. The split faculty contracts. Seen as part and parcel of the general upsurge in gave rise to the Canadian Party of Labour (CPL), the Communist the United States, it was a student Party of Canada (Marxistpower movement that involved Leninist), the Canadian Liberation more rhetoric, gesturing, and Movement (CLM), and as Warrian sabre-rattling than actual power argued, the Waffle. (Briefly to topple administrations. In this speaking, the CPL was “essentialy process the university was seen as Stalinist; the CPC, “Maoist”; the a red base from which to attack ClM had a nationalist working capitalism in the society at large. class position; and the Waffle was But, said Warrian, “the faculty part of the social democratic New sold themselves as police to the Democratic Party. government and administration.” When in 1969 Ontario’s council of “People went anti-political in university. presidents (CPUO) some s‘ense (sexuality, life styles, came out with a heavy disciplinary etc) or political in the sense of policy which would have had looking backward to previous st.udent ‘disruptors’ not only Marxist or social democratic kicked off the campus but jailed forms.” In two groupings there for two years, faculty largely was a mix of these tendencies: acquiesced. Red Morning in Toronto and the The explosion which had ocVancouver Liberation Movementcured in people’s minds had Partisan Party in Vancouverproduced’ a political and social each attempting to combine consciousness about the necessity Marxism with youth culture. These for societal change, but had found divi$ons have persisted to the no way to bring about that change. present. Failure and frustration in the Warrian believes there is no attempt to gain substantive power such thing as “the counteralterations in, the university, let culture”. Rather, he argued, there
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(rural groups) or by the hope for small-group production survival (crafts, organic foods, etc) ; economic and physical viability requires integration into the society at large. And the cornmodity relations of our society these days mean that rugged .individualism will land you in a jail or asylum as likely as not. On the other hand, the organizational remnants of the radical sixties no longer relate experientially to the present generation of post-secondary students. The activist ‘movements of the last decade suffer in retrospect from a lack of continuity with the activity of both the fifties and the seventies. One result of that discontinuity is the existence of a large group of people in their twenties and early thirties, with interesting histories, confused conclusions, frustrated dreams, and a lack of direction for the future. These are the people who could not find sustenance in the hard lines of the neo-marxist groups nor security and hope in hippiedom. They know that, like socialism, islands of peace and love. cannot exist. They also don’t know where we go from here. It is difficult to fit the traditional marxist model for the working class overthrow of the capitalist state to the incredible technology of North America’s monopoly capitalism. There are no models for our time; no easy way out. Warrian’s chronology provided interesting perspectives. It raised questions, but gave no answers. T Where those answers are to be found, how the strategy for social change is to be formulated and implemented-and what role students have to play-remain questions for the future. And a great many people are working on them.
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Nonmovement misformed There is a movement on campus, formed recently by spontaneous combustion, called the Unnamed Militant Disorganization of Inactivists. For purposes of persecution and-or deification, those unconcerned may (or may not) be identified by the use of greetings cum Versuch as “Concordia titate”, “Hail fellow, well met” and “How are the balls of your feet?“. Unfortunately (since he didn’t want to know), it has come to the attention of the Unofficial that there is subSpokesman versive action within the ranks. Some radicals, according to rumours upon which recently cancelled witchhunts will be based, are attempting to make success a means to failure through a mysterious quest for the actual number of individual cornflakes made since 1916. Since the orthodox wing- of U.D.M.I. shuns this active form of apathy, preferring rather to be approached by failure than to approach it, we let this warning fall on deaf ears: if we are informed of who is behind this quest, we will do absolutely nothing. sources close to the unofficial spokesman. e
Exhibitionist tells his version It is quite’ obvious from the numerous inaccuracies in her article No Cover, No Charge (march 16 chevron); that Kati Middleton was not actually present among the giddy group of gawkers who welcomed us so graciously to the women’s suana last week. As one of the two intruders in question, I would like to set the record straight. First of all, the actual day of the invasion was monday night, not tuesday. Secondly, it was quite unfortunate, but neither my cohort nor I had an opportunity to rip off a “quickie” before taking a suana, as was alleged. Ms. Middleton was quite right in stating there were no women in the suana at the time of our unheralded arrival. In fact, as I recall, with one exception, no WOMEN came into the suana during our entire stay. What did come in was an unexpected entourage of eager, young, well-clad (if not all well-endowed) red-facedbut-wide-eyed debutants. The time spent in the suana was by no means “unusually-long” for a veteran. True some of the ladies exercised their eyes too strenuously that first time and stumbled out early, but there were others who seemed to stay as long as their inexperienced bodies could withstand it. The reason for the excursion to the women’s suana was not a “piss pot heater” but a pissed-on heater in the men’s sauna thanks to one of our phantom marksmen. As far as the glances are concerned, they were directed at one of nature’s seldom-seen oddities-grown-up (and I use that term loosely)
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women struggling to take a shower with their bathing suits on, a most remarkable feat when tried while using soap. So get your pad and pencil and bathing suit ready Kati; because sooner or later the storm troopers will pop up again. george Dear George, I’d hate to disillusion you but I was present when you made your classic entrance into the women’s suana last week (sorry about the mix-up on dates). No, I was not among the “giddy gawkers”, and I am sure if any of the women present were asked about the appearance of giddiness they would disclaim your description. No women took showers with their suits on as you claimed and, as you must have noticed, there was little modesty in the showers. According to your definition, a female without clothes is a woman. I hardly think this is a very realistic view of human beings. If perchance we meet again, it’s Middleton to you, not Kati.
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As of january 1, 1973 under the new employment visa regulations, foreign student-visa holders have been seriously restricted in finding said that the opposition to Salta job. sman by the 85 percent Canadian On march 1, an action committee Quota Campaign and the Planning comprised of representatives from students was a witch hunt and various student organizations was nothing more. formed,- at the Univ,ersity of Such an irresponsible charge Waterloo on behalf of foreign must not be allowed to go unanstudent-visa holders. This past swered. The Waterloo club of the 85 week petitions were circulated on percent Canadian Quota Campaign in support of two campus supports the planning students in demands : their struggle and we urge them to l that all student-visa holders be tell Walker and the rest of the exempted from the new select committee their reasons for regulations and work permits be trying to stop Saltsman, reasons issued to them on the same basis as which are completely legitimate. in the past; The claim that such an action is l that the government allow all witch hunting should be made to student visa-holders in Canada look as ridiculous as Walker does before the deadline (november 6, for saying it. 1972) to apply for landed imhoward macintosh migrant status. math 4a Approximately 1,666 signatures Waterloo club were obtained, predominantly 85 percent Canadian from students (both foreign and quota campaign Canadian). On tuesday, march 20 the petition and a covering letter drafted by the committee was sent to Minister Andras expressing our opposition to the recent changes in the immigration regulations and requesting the exemption of student-visa holders from the new regulations. Gn friday, march 9, ,the committee approached Burt Matthews, I would like to correct a small President of the University of but important error in Friday’s Waterloo concerning our demands otherwise excellent article con- in an effort to gain his support. His cerning my case. It said that I was stance on this issue is in full about to have my association with agreement with our demands. He UW terminated; this is not quite has agreed bothto sign the petition correct because I ,have been of- and to write a letter to Minister fered a one year postdoc in the Andras in support of our demands, pure math department. Next week, the same petition is A postdoc is halfway between %a being circulated amongst faculty, scholarship and a job intended for staff and administration, in order someone who temporarily, wants togain the support of that sector of to concentrate on research. the university. The letter by Burt Sometimes a postdoc will teach Matthews along with the faculty one course. I am grateful for the and administration signatures will offer-and may accept it. However, then be sent to Minister Andras. since I enjoy teaching and am also The following week another interested in computer science, I. letter will be sent to Minister would prefer to have my original Andras-this time indicating the job back. support of the various ethnic bill wadge groups and student organizations math Prof. on campus. Through our continued insistence of letter and petitions to Minister Andras, as well as the supportive action of other universities, we hope to induce reconsideration of the regulations and ultimately their change. We are also in the process of Some “2500” years ago Cyrus, contacting other universities Shahanshah of Iran, (Persia), concerned with this issue in order established March 21 when spring to secure a stronger front. There is is just starting, as the new year’s the possibility that a province wide first day. meeting of all committees for In 1973, which according to the foreign student-visa holders from Iranian Calender will be 1352,UW’s the various Ontario universities Iranian students are preparing to will be held. greet this great inheritance. .About international students’ association 75 students and their families from Chinese students’ association different parts of Canada besides some Host Families from Kitchener-Waterloo will get l together on Saturday Mar. 24 on this campus for a typical Iranian evening. This New Year celebration is one of the most important traditions of I am writing this letter to see if it the country and Iranians are looking forward to their en- is possible if you could print a few lines of it in the Chevron Feedback. tertainment which will include folk As you can see by my address, I dancing and singing. in the This is the first year for an am an inmate incarcerated It gets Iranian New Year’s celebration on Ohio State Penitentiary. campus. Akbar Manoussi, a pretty lonely in here at times, and I thought that maybe there might be graduate student in Economics a few of your readers and students, who has been appointed UW’s preferably girls around my age, Counsellor for new Iranian that would like to correspond with students has organized the New Year celebration. He is trying to me to sort of help brighten up these establish an Iranian Students days in here. Association on campus in the near I have been incarcerated for a future. little over two years now, and I akbar manoussi don’t receive too much mail
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anymore. I am not from the State of Ohio, but I don’t think that has anything to do with it. I guess that .my family and friends have just put me down since I have been in here. There is a good friend of mine that is incarcerated with me here in the penitentiary, and he suggested that I write a letter to you to see if you would print it in your paper for me. It is heart breaking as each day goes by after every mail call, and my name is never mentioned. He told me how you printed his letter in the paper, so I am hoping that you will be able to print mine for me. The person that I am speaking of, is Frank Johnson that works in the prison hospital. So far I have read four issues of the Chevron, and I really enjoyed them. I saw Frank this afternoon, and he told me to say hello for him, as I told him I was going to write to you this evening. The lucky guy made a parole, and will be going home next month. I wish I was leaving this place, but all I can do for now is just that, wish.... In closing, I hope that I will hear from you soon, and many of your readers, and students. Thank you very much. anthony
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Shoot da puck? Today I attended an introductory program for high school students put on by the Math Faculty. On the way in a student handed me a leaflet that said a math prof, Bill Wadge, is being fired and that the university cares more about research ability than teaching ability. I asked Prof. Fryer about this and he said the university gives equal weight to teaching and research. Then I asked why Bill Wadge was being fired. Prof Fryer said that he didn’t know. Another student asked him what the conflict was wit Mr. Wadge and he stated there tv as no conflict. He then continued on, saying that if a hockey player has a two-year contract and it expires, is he fired? Mr. Wadge had better practice his slapshot ‘I guess. ben carter high school student
85% cttee. to ramparts ‘1 On march 6, at the last public meeting of the Select Committee on Economic and Cultural the National Nationalism, Chairman of the 85 percent Canadian Quota Cam,paign, along with some students, raised the question of the appointment of Sydney Saltsman as director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning. The point was made that Saltsman, an American who did not meet the majority of the criteria of the School’s selection committee, had been chosen instead ,of a qualified Canadian candidate who was the popular choice of the planning students. When it was mentioned that well over half of the planning students had signed a petition to Saltsman warning him not to accept the appointment, an attack on the Quota chairman and the planning students was made by a member of the select committee. Gordon Walker, a PC MP from London,
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Throughout The Dying Art of Language language is depicted as a tool, which like most tools, can be used with “precision” or, “abuse”. This, in itself, can be a useful and enlightening perspective, for example, it helps us understand hoti machine language (computers) has evolved. This view of is combined with other language, however, assumptions which, in total, become a highly questionable approach.
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Language, seen as spoken and written worqs, is given a near mystica’l, certainly overgenbralized role in human culture. In one place language is ca lied “the foundation of our humanity”, ip another the- assertion is made that the quality of “our civilization” can be measured by the complexity of its language.< Aside from the fact that it is not possible to talk-of “our civilization” at this point of historical tirmoil, this view of language is not tenable. It is the case that buman language distinguishes Us from other forms of Iife,.but this says nothing. The argument, however, is that language per se distinguishes‘us from other, species. This is simply not the case unless the word “language” is given a solely human reference. This is not a fair use of language. The fact is that communication through sounds, movements-including forms of labour and use of tools (sea otter, primates, etc.)-is widespread throughout all life forms. Because (most) humans are not included within the communidation nexus of a bird population does not mean that a form of languagb do& not exist. Inbreeding and -territoriality can even lead to recognizable “dialects” among the same type of bird (e.g. sparrows). Also, recent studies have shown that the dolphin (also whales), who lives within a highly
by Jim Harding audible environment, uses a sophisticated system ’ of sounds to communicate.. I The world is filled with examples to disprove the equation of language and communication with humans. This equation says more about a society which values the verbal to the point of obsession, to such an extreme that other forms of communication are relegated to the category “nonverbal”. A developmental approach to language shows unequivocally that preverbal modes of communication (e.g. touch) lay a foundation for verbal and cognitive skills. . It is more entightening to treat human language as only one form of communication. This makes us more sensitive to other levels and kinds (e.g. dance) ‘among all forms of life. In view of the deadly effects of a social system that is perpetuated by and perpetuates a human-centered view of the world and cosmos, surely it is time to look out to our interdependence with other life forms, not reinforce the assumptions that set us off from them. Taking written and spoken language as a norm for communication is bound to be depressing because lit / is one’ of the most mediated and manipulated forms in existence. It certainly is the case that this society manipulates symbols for the purposes of profit and propaganda. There is even some evidGnce that the more likerate and educated a population 3he more prone to advertising and other~forms of propaganda. This doesn’t mean that expanding verbal and language skills is necessarily a way’to integrate more and more people into a manipulative symbolic reality. But, as the Dying Art of Language itself stated, this is a main function of the present educational system. The dominant uses of language foday (e.g. bureaucratic, social control) level out or retard human communication and in the process further isolate people fr’om each other.
As a seperate realitg ,We will ‘never ‘understand nor remedy this situation by focusing on language per se. Reducing communication to language leads , to the attribution
of an ontology (separate being) to words. Words do have a material reality in books and libraries and in this sense have an existence apart from those who create and use them. But this isn’t what I mean. There is a Platonic tradition -common to ivory tow.ers, whether adjuncts to the church (seminaries) or to the state and corporations (universities, research centers) which, because its use of language is mostly self-enclosed and incestuous ends up espousing a view of language which is ‘idealistic (e.g. ungrounded) and elitist. Words become things, reified. Generalizations that in fact depend upon a particular practice become universalized. Debates about essences (of concepts) cover over existential and- historical contradictions and realities. And on and on. While there is no explicit argument that language has an essence, the approach of the Dying Art of Language tends more in this direction than towards the existential and historicat. The diagnosis of the decay of language is mostly in terms of an essential language than in terms of the consequences upon people’s daily lives of the uses of language within a society segregated in terms of sex, class and race; In the computer we see the use of a highly precise language. In human relations, however, words are never the beginning nor the end of anything. Sometimes, as in writing this, they are a by-product of our lives. Usually they are an aspect of the flow of thihgs: sometimqs a means to manipulate and concjition behavior, tsometimes an aid in carrying;‘*through ari ‘activity. Rarely are words used as a form of art, or a craft, to be mastered for certain literary or journalistic pur.poses and audiences. It is therefore impossible to obtain-an adeqwate model of language from within the circlks whose practice has to do.with creating words. The media certainly provides no such general model. Neither do literary circles in any culture. These will tell you more about how power and social class mediates the uses and effects of language than anything about the potentialities of human communication. Language is, among other things, a very powerful class tool, and often what is thought to be universalistic linguistic criteria are simply subtle forms of maintaining class’ rule. It is regarding the matter of meaning and changes in meanings that The Dying Art of Language becomes most confusing. Initially the article implies that meaning has to do with an +zontinued on page 12
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The nightmare is seen as directly a result of the abuse of language. A rational analysis of the accurate and precise use of language. The society is seen as more and more difficult as impression is given that some universal the abuse grows. A totalitarianism results. structures underlie meanings. (At the level of Without words with precise meanings we universal human needs this may yet prove to become more enslaved. Paraphrasing Orwell be the case.) Later it is acknowledged that the article says “if the words necessary to form “language is something remade through use”. a treasonous thought do not exist, then treason cannot exist”. From the stance of the former assumption the If we are isolated from each other, withdrawn decay of language has to do with its vulgarized and resigned, it may be that control of language use in this society. This is a somewhat aloof, means control of thought and of behavior. And conservative critique; something reminiscent certainly there is a strong degree of this in this of an english professor’s despair about slang. society. But to figure out how and why this From the stance of the latter assumption, works we have to look not to words per se but however, you would expect an evaluation of the to the basis of isolation and passivity. And this meanings of language being remade through is not the result of the abuse of language. No its present use. amount of linguistic refinement will coma No such luck. The present uses are misuses. pensate for a set of social institutions and This, I suppose, to ultimately be shown by relations that privatize us from each other. referring to the dictionary. But you can’t have it Yes, learning to analyze our situation is an both ways. If the meaning of language is aspect of understanding it. And analysis has historically and existentially contingent then it something to do with a skillful use of words. To is not enough to claim abuse and decry its begin to achieve understanding, however, we decay. It is necessary to evaluate the uses of language in practice, in particular contexts, to have to be in the process of change: to be able determine its role and the outcomes. To the to reflect, compare, crit icize and hence ana lyze or synthesize. In a society which is highly extent that The Dying Art of Language implies that meaning is in the words themselves, mediated by language (intellectualized?) one probably needs to break oneself from the rather than in the relationships occurring, it universe of discourse, to get outside oneself makes such an evaluation difficult if not im( metanoia) as a social, sym bolized being. To %a possible. An analysis of the “linguistic of the “catchy phrases” of adever have anything direct and meaningful to wrongness” say one has to be free enough of one’s convertising will never explain why they “remain ditioned past and self to experience in a direct in the mind”. Nor will saying that people are and meaningful way. To ever approach an lazy, ignorant or under the force of bad habit. existentially-grounded and historically relevant From the stated criteria of preciseness and use of language we may have to stop talking discrete meanings it may be that the present uses of language are communicating more and ’ and writing for long enough to unlearn habits moreabout more and more. Overstimulation of that impede communication. Unlearning the meanings may be responsible, in some part, for conditioned mental superstructure mentioned people dropping out of good english. The in The Dying Art of Language may be a escalation of specialized languages in science prerequisite to communication with and and the professions does not necessarily mean without words. better communication. In fact the seemingly I am left with an ambivalent feeling by the precise uses of language in a scientific era may article. I may be misreading the words and have more to do with fragmenting comtherefore tending to create straw men to allow me to make my own points. I think not. I share munication than a so-called abuse of language. the concern with communication, though do The precision may stem more from the ennot think that this is centrally or strategically a forced division of labour (including mentalproblem of language abuse or precision. The manual) than from the fulfillment of human underlying assumptions about the place of needs and wants. Many precise languages language in human relations are too restricting might prove to be esoteric and obscurantist if to do justice to all forms and the potential of the division of labour into classes and status human communication. Both the approach to groups (professions) were historically surmeaning, which is atomistic rather than conpassed. textual, and the political analysis of/language are sufficiently shortsighted that one is left with more of an elitist program (“mass than one relevant to the collective Referring to the manipulation of language in uplifting”) needs of all of us who suffer from the lack of the capitalist marketplace The Dyiilg Art of community and communication. Language speaks of an “Orwellian nightmare”.
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Begging to differ Paragraph one of the response erects a false dichotomy between “abuse” and “precision”, which is maintained throughout the rest of the article. Precision-as should be apparent from the way it was developed in The Dying Art-for us meant the quality of making one’s message understood to the maximum degree, as opposed to mere semantic precision (the meanings of individual words). It is the latter meaning that Harding attributes to us (note the reference to “machine language”) ; communicative precision can never be achieved by fottowing a set of universal procedural rules; when we strive for precision we are in fact striving to say precisely what we mean to say. l
Harding accuses us of claiming that theA quality of a civilization can be measured by the complexity of its language. A closer reading would have perhaps led him to the following: ‘“In many respects, the quality of a civilization may be measured by the expressive range, and, to an extent, the complexity of its language; quality of thought is almost directly dependent on quality of language.” It is sheer nonsense to infer that we regard linguistic “complexity” as the absolute indicator of the “quality” of our civilization.
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l When Harding criticizes the “platonic tradition common to ivory towers” and its relationship to language, we share both the basis and the substance of his criticism. Harding mentions that “debates about essences (of concepts) cover over existential and historical contradictions and realities”. The Dying Art makes the same point; it notes) that “in the university. . . (inbred house) languages serve purposes other than the development of an accurate, flexible description of the reality of social life” and that -what is experienced in this process is “the attempt to treat as universal and sacrosanct pronouncements which are in fact perspectiva I . . . ”
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o “Later it is acknowledged that ‘language is something remade through use’ “. Harding seems to be asserting that while we haveacknowledged the role of the human in making meaning, this is mere lip service and that the ‘movement of the article suggests the existence of more of these “Platonic” or non-temporal essences behind words-in effect that the dictionary is for us the repository of all meaning. It would have been much better had Harding proved this contention, by quote or paraphrase from text, as opposed to merely asserting it. To address the matter of “meaning” in terms of either-or polarities is a mistake--something we understood from the outset and tried to work with whe? writing our piece. While it is true that men make their own meaning and, derivatively, the symbols through which that meaning is apprehended and analysed, they do not do so as a matter of whim-each use will be, is necessarily, made against a multiplicity of prior determinations. The Dying Art-chose to examine, on a rather humble level, certain major-social agencies and their techniques for controlling, and directing meaning-hence action-through language; in this endeavour we stressed the determinations and addressed ourselves directly to the potential we believe exists in the reading audience to subvert these institutional influences. Descriptions such as-“aloof, conservative critique”, “reminiscent of an English professor’s despair about slang” and “saying
that people are lazy, ignorant or under the force of bad habit” imply that we are placing ourselves above our audience in a rather haughty fashion. To begin to respond it needs to be said that we wrote the article out of our own situation-enmeshed in a determined language and forced to use it to make sense out of our own lives-and that the thoughts contained in it are a beginning investigation built on our own frustration, without the help of outside agencies, and drawing in the main on qualities and tendencies and situations of which we have direct experience. We are and have been and continue to be part of and subject to that which we describe. While an “analysis of the ‘linguistic wrongness’ of the catchy phrases of advertising will never explain why they ‘remain in the mind’ “, we are afraid that we will have to leave the niceties of the latter research for those with a little more academic repose; it is and was hoped that addressing the very fact that they do remain in our minds would begin a concentration on their increasing frequency which might someday result in the elimination of the forces which produce them. l
“The escalation of specialized languages in science and the professions does not necessarily mean better communication”precisely, and if read the article criticises the bias which claims that it does. It notes that people leave the school system imbued with ‘las much specialized technological jargon as may be necessary to performance of (our) chosen trade”. It goes on to suggest that higher education in the sciences entails “an intensification of the high school experience, in which the level of use of specialjzed scientific terminology escalates”; moreover it contends that even in the social sciences we witness a “general incorporation of pseudo-scientific language and technique into the study of social life”. Each of these instances was examined for its overwhelmingly negative effect on the use of language. l
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l We feel, in conclusion, that Harding’s article contains much potentially valuable insight: however, we feel these insights would have been better expressed without reference to The Dying Art, particularly since the connections he makes between his article and ours are often unjustified. It was especially disappointing to find that many of the points he made, intended as refutation, were in fact virtual paraphrases of what we had said, as many of the above examples show. Finally, it can hardly be claimed as Harding does in his last paragraph, that we are propounding an “elitist program” as a solution to the problem of “language abuse”. The “mass uplifting” suggested in The Dying Art refers to the potential of modern media to perform the function of consciousness-raising on a massive scale; it did not carry with it the connotation of an amorphous marxian mass, nor the suggestion that the change be effected manipulatively rather than participatorially. 3 So be it.
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Many Canadians are surprised to learn that Canada has a racist immigration policy. After all, the Immigration Act and other related regulations do not even I mention race, they just leave a lot of points at the discretion of immigration officers. (Points are awarded to a potential immigrant for evaluation purposes.) The point system, however, makes it easier for a particular type of individual to immigrate in spike of his race and the immigration officer assigned to review. his case? The written laws and regulations may meet the highest standards set by the U.N. Charter (and the principles for which the Commonwealth stands), but their enforcement leaves a lot to be desired. The net effect is that the implementation of “fair” laws produces a Canadian Immigration Policy that has racist leanings. The immigration policy is racist because: l the uneven international distribution of Canadian immigration offices makes a mockery of opportunity to equally qualified potential immigrants in different parts of the world; I l the many Canadian offices in Europe spend public money on promoting immigration, while the few offices in non-white areas are clogged with unprocessed applications ; i treatment of non-white visitors to Canada has been inhumane. Unnecessary harassments, exacting of bonds, and withholding of passports and even returning of plane loads of qualified visitors is unknown to whites; l until very recently Canada had quotas for non-whites. Still, many of today’s immigration officers are the same people who administered a blatantly racist policy before. And it is hard to believe they have all changed their former attitudes towards the policy. ’ As it stands, the policy does not bar people of other races than whites from immigrating to Canada, but it does ask of them an unusual investment in both time and money before they are accepted or even considered.
Non-whites:(better Canadians? The question naturally arises about the ability of non-whites to adapt and become good Canadian citizens. The Canadian experience is contrary to such beliefs, as is supported by Prof. W.E.Kalbach in his book “The Impact of Immigration on Canada’s Population”. If intermarriage is the final test of adaptability then empirically it can be shown that Asians have intermarried in greater proportions ‘than Italians, Jews and British. All these latter groups are known for their strict adherence to different varieties of JudeoChristian ethic. l If taking out Canadian citizenship is an indication of commitment to Canada, then those with least propensity to do so are the immigrants from United States, U.K., France and other central and northern European communities. Statistics are not available on their immigration. Moreover, the last word on English and French adaptability has yet to be written.
The non-whites thus not only intermarry but become Canadian citizens in higher proportions than many traditional immigrants. 2 One could easily recommend nonwhite immigration on this basis. Some small ‘1’ liberals, however, have been found to adhere to two., myths :
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(1) The needs of the Canadian society are the needs of an industrialized society, so one must find “suitable immigrants” from other industrial societies alone. Assuming this is true, why has Japan received so little attention compared to Europe? (2) The encouragement of immigration from developing societies causes a “brain drain”, and so technically poses a moral problem. To dispel the second myth one need only look at India. It has tens of thousands of unemployed engineers, who can leave India without jeopardising it’s well being; at the same time it has made the relatively scarce number of doctors very difficult to leave. Globally speaking, the cleavage between rich, white nations and the poor nations is growing. Political independence of the former colonies has yet to break down the centuries old chains of European economic domination. It is the product of imperialism that no jobs other than those in mining resources and subsistence farming are left in areas assigned to the bottom of the economic ladder. Those people with more than mining or farming-abilities are compelled to follow the resources and profits. The ineffectiveness of the United Nations should be no excuse for Canada to not act as a responsible nation, and help out by at least easing the racist antagonisms at home. Economic antagonism, of course, requires a broader effort to correct. Yet this does not deny co-ordination of immigration with the absorbing capacity of the economy.
Recentexperience The only major conscious acceptance of non-whites has been the 5000 or less Ugandans in 1972. It is sad to note that because the natural escape route to Britain was blocked by the British racist immigration policy, Canada only yielded to British persuasions. Remember that Canada did fail to act in the absence of such persuasions when similar or more severe conditions beset the people of the Commonwealth. Remember Biafra and Bangladesh? On the other hand, it did respond to Czechoslavakian and Hungarian emigrations beyond the so-called Iron Curtain. Canadian sympathies are certainly not colour blind. The much talked about limit of 5000 Ugandans is itself arbitrary, inhumane and racist in view of the fact that more than 100,000 people immigrated to Canada last year. How did representatives of the Honourable Mitchell Sharp say “No” to the 5001st Ugandan? Did they use the excuse that there are too many Indians? Changing the rules for visitors who apply for immigration from within as the government did on the night of november 3, 1972, is at best erratic, arbitrary management. It reminds one of the recent stories of “God told me so”. It certainly is no compliment to the Liberal government, which supposedly is devoted to practising participatory democracy. Refusing to accept applications at 12 noon, november 3, from people who had been waiting since 9a.m., operatively speaks for an inhumane and inconsistent bureaucracy. It looks like Big Brother is here. All those whose legal expectations were frustrated overnight are now stranded--with only a hope that someday they will be landed immigrants. They have nothing to go back to, and they continue to hope for another reversal. All those who entered Canada before december 3 (one month after the november 3 deadline) should receive our utmost sympathy. The Department itself set an excellent precedent earlier last summer when it summarily disposed of the many applications waiting for processing by the Immigration Appeal Board. Something similar needs to be attempted now, because if those who are trapped do not receive a proper legal status they will either go underground to work illegally, or possibly later appear. on the criminal roles. This, of course, is conducive neither to developing the quality of Canadian life nor to public security. It may sometime later reflect on the racist administration of Canadian justice. The press very conveniently dubbed the visitors applying for immigration from within as “backdoor immigrants”. It also conveniently ignored the fact that most of the visitors applying from within come from non-white areas where either there are inadequate immigration facilities or none whatsoever. One can not blame someone for coming through the backdoor if the front door is not open to him.
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It is disheartening that many responsible persons have not yet realized the importance of immigration. Racially homogeneous nations potentially have the same advantage and risks in this world of shrinking distances and increasing insecurity, as separate development has in blatantly racist South Africa. In view of the above let all those who are human beings first, demand the following:
(1) All those who arrived in Canada before december 3, 1972, be given a chance to apply for immigration and their cases be summarily disposed. (2) Visitors from countries with inadequate immigration facilities be al!owed to apply for landed status as before until the immigration facilities in those countries are brought up to a minimum acceptable level. Such a level could be defined as being one immigration officer for each country with a population of more than 10 million people. ,For countries of less than 10 million people, regional officers might be assigned. An extra immigration officer might be attached for every 50 million people in a country. (3) Immigration decisions like other government decisions be made public. Sponsors of immigrants be allowed to appeal decisions. (4) Immigration officers need to be selected on the basis of their sensitivity to other cultural and racial groups. They should be trained and examined periodically as to their ability to implement the intent of a fair law. . Robert Andras (in private) has claimed he will show an I interest in fighting racism if he is provided the necessary evidence. I would suggest he look closely at his own department’s practices regarding the exacting of bonds, detentions, deportations, etc.. These undisclosed statistics will reveal more to him than any evidence a private citizen can provide. The NDP, which holds the balance of power in Ottawa, should demand that justice and due process be met at the hands of the Department of Immigration. It is high time they took inspiration from their predecessors, who opposed the internment of JapaneseCanadians in World War II. It is time they raised their voice and were counted for their principles. Students, who are the leaders of tomorrow, have the most at stake. They will have to shoulder the burden of solving the problems posed by shortening distances and increasing insecurity. More and more it will become obvious that the world is notonly economically and ideologically divided, but is also not too unlike South Africa - it is racially divided too. As a multi-cultural country Canada can, hopefully, play a useful role in coming to terms with the acute survival game which mankind is confronted with. I sincerely hope that the leaders of tomorrow will not shirk their responsibility today. I believe they share my vision of a multi-racial Canada and a peaceful world. May I suggest that students take active interest and leadership in such matters by raising their collective voice loud enough now, while there is still pome time left.
References 1. Kalbach, W.E., The Impact of Canadian Population, page 333.
2. Ibid, 3. Corbett, 177.
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Rocky road to liberation “We are sent here by our Theatre Workshop and the closing session ‘with Ben Jochannan respective ‘independent’ giving what he called “a safari into governments to be trained as the African history”, counter-revolutionaries of toIt would serve little purpose to morrow. At this symposium are review specifically what was said the revolutionaries and the and done. The struggle centred on counter-revolutionaries of the future. Those of us who swallow racism and capitalism and the the white education and get in- altempt to define a strategy for digestion- will be the revolutionblack liberation in a class society. aries, and those of us who don’t What follows, then is a brief-atget indigestion...” tempt at a synthesis of the content Those comments came from of those discussions. The significance of the struggle participants of a seminar called for black liberation should not be ‘Black Liberation-how when and underestimated. It can have farby whom?’ The seminar was part reaching implications for the of the Symposium of African future of fiorth American society. Peoples held at UW march 3. About 250 black students from - It could be a focus for the broader Africa, the Caribbean and North struggle for human liberation. It America came together at the could also become a tool for the symposium to discuss mutual ruling class in the dominant problems and a strategy for capitalist society for the maindevelopment. The energy and tenance of their hegemony. intensity evident in the Racism is a particularly ugly discussions marked the immanifestation of class society. It portance of the symposium and provides a basis for the superexploitation of large segments of the participants’ interest. the world population. It is the The lack of ‘ white particpation (only 15 or 20 attended) is a comment on the disinterest which white people feel toward the history and culture of African people. This disinterest and the consequent lack of understanding are the roots of racism and flare up into virulent antagonism in times of conflict or crisis. More often, though, racism is simply a matter of less spectacular racial discrimination, which continues because whites are ‘not interested’ enough to do anything to change it-or themselves. Nonetheless, there was a beneficial aspect to the nonattendance of whites at the symposium. Instead of dealing with the racial mystifications of the non-African, people empha’sized questions of strategy for the development of black liberation. Although more participation on the part of UW students was hoped for by the campus groups which organized the conference, such participation might have strained the interaction. Since this was not the case, the symposium quickly moved into a discussion of how to deal with racism and exploitation. I am white and make no pretentions of writing about the symposium from any other perspective. Any one of the blacks at the gathering could better deal with the relevance of the discussions to her own people. But I learned from the symposium, and came away with a, new and increased interest in black history and culture, as well as new insights into what racism is about. Consequently, I am writing this article for the people-who didn’t go to the symposium-in particular, the white students on this campus. The content of the discussions is important to you; and I’d like to generate in you some of the interest generated in me. I arrived late, missing the morning seminars and speaker Rocky Jones. I attended sessions on Pan-Africanism, Black Liberation, the Afro-Caribbean
basis too for the violent suppression of human rights (in North America, South Africa, Puerto Rico, and on, and on). And is also the basis for the individual acts of bigotry, ego-tripping and outright sadism which black (and other non-Caucasian peoples) face day- after day in situation after situation and which create an incredible amount of pain and anger. _ The blacks say they’ve had it with this treatment and will fight back. In the Third World (Africa and the Caribbean specifically), ’ the blacks see colonialism as the primary contradiction. For black nations like -Mozambique and . Puerto Rico, this--means direct control of the economy from without. For others, like Jamaica and South Africa, it means the existence of white and black “puppet regimes” which manage the countries and keep them in economic bondage to the economies of Europe and America (neo-colonialism). But the African peoples who met here also know any real struggle for liberation must deal with capitalism and class. “Blacks are quite capable of exploiting blacks”, was an oft-stated point at the symposium. Uganda was given as an example of such a setback on the rocky road to African liberation. In Uganda, a rising class of blacks have no intention of reading a mass liberation movement. Their
political leadership comes from General Amin and his government. Their main development is the expulsion of the 50,000 Asians who hold privileged economic positions in the country. But, as one participant commented: “There are 50,000 Africans behind Amin who are ready to step into the privileged positions. These blacks will then’carry right on with the exploitation of the mass of Uganda ns.” The Ugandan expulsion orders against Asians is an example too of the racism which has its roots in the class society. A native government and ruling class may appease the nationalists who deplore overt foreign control, but their policies will not necessarily be any better for the majority of the people as- long as power and wealth remain concentrated among the minority. In Africa and the Caribbean, then, black liberation was clearly delineated as a class struggle. In North America where blacks are a minority group (albeit a. large one), this was less clear. The white working class rather than identifying common enemies, is easily mobilized by big business interests into racist and reactionary programs. In -North America, blacks (like other bottom-of-theheap. activists) are in direct confrontation with the heart of world capitalism when they attempt to deal with racism’s class roots. ---
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But if the black movement turns to a class analysis as a basis for strategy and should .-a more general struggle on class lines develop on this continent-the North American power structure would be faced with the threat of revolt on at least two different fronts. And North American business interests are finding it more difficult to provide a high living standard to a large segment of the white working class alone. One of the- most successful tactics for the ruling class of people is an old one-divide and rule. One way to keep the lower classes (the majority, the work&s) at each other’s throats (as opposed to at each other’s sides) is through the manipulation of racism. The media and the police in particular (and most clearly in the U.S.) perpetuate daily the myths and paranoias of black-white relations. The racism here has a clear parallel with the sectarianism of Northern Ireland. The strategy of the ruling class in turning that sectarianism to its own benefit is universally applicable in such situations. The least classconscious, most terrorist elements of the protestant population of Ulster are able to find ready supplies of funds and arms from rich Ulster businessmen. And the Provisional IRA,-which split from the socialist Official wing gets its guns and funds from the businessmen of the Irish Republic. The protestants and the Catholics slug it out while the business interests try to find a solution which will keep them on top. A united class stand on the other hand would move to oust the British army as well as the local government-and in the process would certainly spread to the South and possibly even Britain. A strategy for liberation, whether in Ireland, Africa, America or Canada must cut through the lines of sectarianism and racism. It must confront the nature of a class society which is the root of both. It was apparent at the symposium of African Peoples that black students are trying to develop such a strategy. -bill
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ratings nonetheless for achievement within many standards, so should all sports accommodate varying performances. The acceptance of women in athletics means a rehumanizing of sport so that its benefits as an activity can be shared beyond the ranks of the super-stars. -reprinted from excalibur
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by tom mcdonald
Superfly! : ’ Since both greed and a certain amount of optimism are among my more prominent dispositional tendencies, I tend to order more review copies of new albums that I can in fact enjoy reviewing; and when faced with a foot-high stack of records by The Raspberry Muffin Goodtime Band, The Highflying Lowdown Brothers, and The Electric Mutants, I often curse those subterranean impulses which led me, in the dim and distant past, to volunteer for the post of Tripwire on the Early Warning of Defense Against Cultural Inundation. At such moments there is only one kind of music which will sooth my battered soul: some call it “funky,” some call it “soul,” some call it “Black,” but whatever you call it it’s a music which has married passion to sophistication, rhythm to melody, and beauty to energy. Manifesting itself in such diverse forms as jazz, blues, and R good fingerpoppin’ music, but in the & B, it speaks across socio-cultural end fails to convince me that their boundaries as a metaphor of that One “composite truth” is anything more Big Union (Spiritual Division) whose than a partially digested collection of realization otherwise appears inthings that other people do better. They creasingly unlikely. show enough promise to bear continued Among the several concrete examwatching, however, and I must admit ples discussed below, Superfly (Curtom that I wouldn’t feel too ripped off if I’d CRS 8014~ST) is a definite standout. picked this one out of the $1.90 bins. Although it is the sound track to one of To turn to some more established the more inept “Black Hustler as artists, John Lee Hooker’s Live at Hero”movies, Curtis Mayf ield’s music Soledad Prison (ABC ABCX 761) is a is so far superior to kitsch of the Shaft good new blues album flawed only by variety that it will undoubtedly be the presence of John Lee Hooker Jr., remembered long after the film has who disgraces half the cuts with slick, been relegated to The Late Late Show. commercial vocals totally unsuited to Superfly does contain two more or the raw sound of John Sr. and his less forgettable instrumentals, but the working band. Fortunately, “The balance features Mayfield’s richly Hook” does the honours on the expressive vocals over some incredibly remainder, and acquits himself fine orchestral arrangements. “Fredpredictably well. die’s Dead”, an AM hit, is the\funkiest Several show blues, including a eulogy I’ve ever heard; “No Thing on surprisingly bland treatment of “Serve , Me” is a good-to-be-alive song Me Right to Suffer,” are merely which, surprisingly, makes me feel adequate; but the band catches fire on good to be alive; but the killer, the “Boogie Everywhere I Go,” far superior numero uno, the superfly song of the to anything on the Endless Boogie year so far is “Pusherman,” whose album, and “Bang Bang Bang Bang,” an percussion effects alone are sufficient energetic reworking of “Boom Boom.” reason to beg, borrow or steal this Although by no means a consistently album as soon as possible. “Superfly,” engrossing record, Live at S&edad in ghetto argot, means “outasight,” to Prison is a cut above most recent blues which I will add only “right flaming on!” releases, and should be considered in Down an inspirational peg or two, but that light. still excellent, is War’s new release, Esther Phillips is a less well-known The World Is a Ghetto (United Artists performer who nevertheless possesses UAS-5652). A somewhat more comformidable vocal chops, previously mercial venture than their previous exhibited in a super-charged blues outing, AI/ Day Music, this Lp nevermedley on The Johnny Otis Show-Live theless includes its share of characat Mon terey. Her new album, Alone teristically War-like touches; a long but Again, Naturally (Kudu KU--g), is well sustained jump up and boogie plagued by some mediocre number (“City, Country, City”), chanted arrangements and a largely uninspired choral vocals which make up in power selection of songs, but still contains what they lack in finesse, and a level of enough of her passionate singing to instrumental musicianship not all that justify its release. far removed from current jazz stanMs. Phillips has the sort of clipped, dards. elegant delivery associated with Eartha War is still not afraid to flout conKitt and Dinah Washington; but at her vention, featuring Lee Oskar’s harbest infuses it with a degree of emotion monica and Charles Miller’s baritone which puts over even such weak sax and clarinet when the mood strikes them, and ger\erally avoiding’ the rigid material as the Raymond O’Sullivan title track. Although it is regrettable formulas which aspiring “soul” artists that she has not been given a more all too often fall into. From their humble suitable showcase-nine ballads out of beginnings as Eric Burdon’s back-up ten cuts makes for some heavy goingband, War has risen to a place among her album will go into my downstairs, the most adventurous ‘and musically next to the stereo co1lection (displacing satisfying contemporary groups, and Crown of Creation, for the curious). The World Is a Ghetto is quite highly recommended. Finally Lights Out: San Francisco Mandrill’s Composite Truth (Polydor (Blue Thumb BTS 6004) is a 2-Lp collection of previously unreleased 2391 -OSl), contrastingly, illustrates some of the pitfalls menacing a band material by a variety of artists. It which has not yet settled on a personal contains just-what-you-would-expect style. If you didn’t know that the album contributions from Tower of Power, (their second) was by one group, you’d John Lee Hooker, and Dan Hicks and probably think it was some sort of His Hot Licks, but also includes some sampler: “Hang Loose” by James less familiar performers: Clifford Coulter, whose jazz quartet shines on Brown, ’ “ Golden Stone” by Chicago, and “Polk Street Carnival” by Malo, the 7% minute “Voco”; Sylvester and except that each song is clearly an His Hot Band, a “glitter’‘-ing group whose “Why Was I Born ” suggests that imitation rather than the real thing. Very strange, very strange-Mandrill they may actually have a bright future; has considerable talent, makes some ,and Fadil Shahin and His Casbah Band,
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ascertain the discrepancy between diatonic and chromatic, I nevertheless unfold here an interpretation of the choral-orchestral concert. Alfred Kunz, as conductor, provided a welcome bit of levity throughout the performance. His ‘Encore Surprise’ did indeed turn out to be a surprise. Who would have thought that the winner of ‘GWSS A Fugue’ would direct the nextscore? The lucky blond young man who correctly named Beethoven as composer, then, went on to win wild acclaim as he conducted his first symphony. Performing were the University of Waterloo Concert Choir, Concert Band, Chamber Choir and Little Symphony Orchestra. Ah, what symmetry of voice and feeling! Such These performers have made noticeable even since the Christmas progress, Carol Fantasy. Presented for the first time was ‘Folk Song Collage’; an enthusiastic selection of folk tunes from around the world. The Collage was originally ,written for the 100th anniversary of the Concordia Male Choir, and will be performed again this summer. Also presented was Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Fugue in G Minor’, composed in 1715 when Bach was court organistat Wiemar under Duke Wilhelm Ernst. It may be noted here that Bach made a transition of musical history during his lifetime. He ran the gamut from attunement ‘with nature to attunement with man’s emotions. Because of changes in religious thought, Bach’s music was ignored for, over 50 years after his death. Returning to the performance, we are greeted by the Chamber Choir’s rendition of Johannes Brahms’ ‘Liebesl ieder Waltzes’. These were originally written for a vocal quartet (soprano, contralto, tenor, bass) with two pianos; were composed in 1868 and published in the year following. The waltz, a dance in moderate triple time, originated about 1800. Brahms became a notable composer of this musical form. He is considered as well to be the greatest master of symphonic and sonata style of the second half of the nineteenth century. Brahms’ essential quality is perhaps stoicism, and since he destroyed at least three quarters of what he composed, it is fortunate that the Liebeslieder Waltzes were ,not included. During Brahms’ waltzes and J.S.Bach’s ‘Concerto for Two Pianos’, Joanne Elligsen and Kenneth Hull acquainted us with the intricacies of the keyboard. Carol Cole’s nicely nuanced voice performed a delicate solo (for the former), while the Concerto conveyed a feeling of spontaneity in the theatre. The only contemporary selection was Frank Erickson’s ‘Mexican Folk Fantasy’ based on Mexican folk tunes. Director Kunz pointed out the difficulty in these pieces, which was primarily due to the shift in time. ‘Matchmaker’, ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, and ‘Sunrise’ (all from Fiddler on the Roof), brought us another change in pace and time. The entire evening was a study in versatility and good training. With a balance between classical, folk, and contemporary, the collage was never tiresome, sometimes surprising, and consistently enthusiasm-generating. For those sad-hearted readers who1 missed out on the ‘pot-pourri-pourtout’, the concert may be repeated. Alf Kunz brings us the word: “This may pose some problems, but the proposal (for a repeat) is being considered.” / One big problem seems to be the gawd-awful lighting in the Theatre of the Arts. If one is any farther back than the fourth row, they can count on seeing, fuzzy 3-D, black, double or nothing. The continuous strain from pupil (i.e. of the eye) dilation and vacillation is tiring, annoying, and pointless to talk about because nothing will be done to rectify the situation. Yet . . . ..maybe. --susan ga bel synergy!
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ROCKIN’ BRIEFS Morse Code Transmission II [RCA VPS6092): a definite improvement over their bubblegummy first album, with “Son of Deep Purple” perhaps the most appropriate identification for /l’s music. Two Lps of thumping bass lines and anguished organ solos go a long way, however, and probably only those who need a steady diet of elemental hard rock will gain much enjoyment from this one. Gate/y-.- Still ‘Round (Janus 9098-3049) by Michael Gately: lightweight pop-folk which makes it for good arrangements and unpretentiously charming songs, both appropriate for Gately’s anonymous but adequate voice. “YOU Just Run Away”, which Carole King could easily have written for the Shirelles, and “All Too True Blues,” a witty portrait of a liberated Ms., are particularly pleasant examples of his craftsmanship; and if there were any justice in the music world, Still ‘Robnd would send the Osmonds and Carpenters back to the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. Faces (A&M SP 4363) by Shawn Phillips: although I still question his lyric-writing ability, Phillips’ new album is so well produced and sung that one can pretend it’s in Albanian and enjoy it nonetheless. If he could get a record of Donovan songs together, however, I suspect that he would transcend his current status as a cult figure. The Four Seasons (GRT 9230-1022) by Moe Koffman: It’s Roll Over, Vivaldi, this time around,, and the surprise is that it succeeds fairly well. Koffman sticks to Vivaldi’s melodies closely, intersperses them with jazzy rhythm breaks by Terry Clarke and Don Thompson and appropriate string arrangements, and an interesting if necessarily superficial album is the result. Cries of “sugar coating” notwithstanding, similar rip offs by classical composers were so commomplace that efforts such as this have some historical justification ; and since the album’s strongpoint is Vivaldi’s thematic material, it could well encourage listeners to try the real thing. -paul stuewe
Syncopated soups In the Theatre of the Arts this satu rday last, and presented to a portion of the Kitchener-Waterloo society, was a Folk Song Collage for chorus and orchestra. In spite of an essential inability to
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Provouxtive production Pirandello has been dogged persistently by his legend as a “cerebral dramatist” to the misfortune of many stage productions that have been mounted around this initial false assumption. Maurice Evan’s production of Six Characters in Search of An Author at the Humanities Theatre march 21-24 is not a victim of the legend. Thankfully Evans, like Pirandello who never pretended otherwise, sees drama as “converting the intellect into passion.” The stuff of Six Characters is, in spite of its rather vaguely defined situation, sex. It is dressed up with Pirandello’s typical concerns : with the three-or more?-levels of reality; with the multiple personality; and with a sort of nihilistic relativism. While these concerns may pander to an academic audience and reap self-conscious metaphysical discussion during the intervals, alone they make for a dullevening of theatre. To relieve the message, Evans exploits the technique of surprise. He immediately involves the audience in stage business. The play begins with a curse and a laugh. Players amble in from all sides, forcing the audience’s collective head to swivel in order to keep up. Conventionally the company is interpreted as being similar to a chorus, functioning as a satiric frame to make the audience more aware of disjunctive reality. In this production the company is established as the active arm of the audience; at once a part of it, sitting in the seats, and an extension of it when roused to action. Strict attention is paid to establishing the individual member’s character lines: the ingenue, Louise O’Leary, the guitarist, Robert Schwab, emerging easily (from the crowd by their skill at mime and natural stage presence. The mugging of only one over-enthusiast, Clarke Reichert, which extends to his when the mother upstaging “ugh” unveils, is the only jarring element in the company. Good interaction is established economically by the company’s two leads on their entrances. Jay Moore as the leading man, although indifferently costumed, establishes his character by his walk and supercilious angle of head. The leading lady Ruth McArthur is afforded a wide-brimmed hat and regal white sweep across the stage. Although the reason for the blocking is artificial, it is staged with a keen eye to effect. The two easily re-establish the tension between them even after several breaks in the action by a brief and inaudible sequence. For some strange reason, less attention seems to be paid to establishing characterizations for the main “six While the company characters.” members are given stage business, from knitting needles to guitars to cigarettes, no such business is given to four out of the six main characters. Cheated of this aid to inner motivation, it is no wonder their characters fail flat. Evans’ formation of the mother, played by Elly Torbeck, with two children at her knees has all the dynamic energy of characterization of a still photograph : far too literal a stylization of passive victims. It is lucky that young Alyson Knight has pliable knees: she must, for she sits on her knees without relief for almost two hours. The son, played by J. Sherman Simpson, stands woodenly
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through most of the action. This is apparently rationalized by his being aloof, and excused ironically by his own remark “I am a dramatically unrealized character”. Simpson, like the mother and children, is also a victim, the victim of two awkward moments of mime where he tries to escape from the stage but is locked into the action by invisible bars. By this curious technique, or absence of technique, Evans further weights the script to favour the father and stepdaughter with the bulk of the audience’s attention. A cameo appearance by the outrageous Madame Page, Shirley Shearer, and the brief philosophic tangents that “director” Karl Wylie introduces, are the only interruptions of consequence. Burns, the defeated S-curve of his body testimony enough to his sorrow as the father, and Cavell, as the vitriolic and vengeful step-daughter, dominate the stage. Burns’ only unconvincing moments during the production’s first official performance were as a lascivious old man. He could not seem to shake off his mask of sadness long enough. Cavell, however, sustains her energy well throughout. Consistent to her characterization as a prostitute, Cavell is absorbed by tricks; from flaunting her black wrap to the rednailed hands caressing her belly. Only once is the hand movement to excess, as when she shrieks “you want to take my scene, my life and twist it” and batters the air. These two characters in search of an author keep the action galloping apace to its surprising climax. This requires complicated stage business which is well engineered, if hasty. Consistent with Pirandello’s philosophy that truth is always concealed, the production leaves the audience wondering. The enigma of the human situation is stylized excellently by having the six characters stand behind the scrim curtain which creates a gauze-like effect. It would be enough: Instead, Evans betrays the economy of style he maintains up until this point. He adds a tape possibly by Burns, although the melodramatic tremulo is hard to recognize, to intone “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is reality”. Still not content to leave the audience with its thoughts, he shatters them with a siren. The implications of the metaphor are lost. It would be far more faithful to Pirandello’s cynical vision to add a Nietszchean peal of laughter, “to send
all the packing”. alone.
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is sponsored jointly by the division of drama and the creative arts board. It draws on both community and professional talent. Perhaps because of this triple infusion of energy, it emerges as a provocative production. It is the first of a two play series, followed by Chekov’s Three Sisters next week. -Catherine-
murray
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winter concert of the university’s and instrumental forces took Saturday in the Arts Theatre, Alfred Kunz’ direction and with a spring blizzard roaring outside to the crowds away. Nevertheless, hundred or so defied the conand were treated to a very good for their pains. start off, there was the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, sung by the Chamber Choir, a well-balanced group of sixteen voices, and accompanied by Joanne Elligsen and Ken Hull, four hands-piano. (Kunz suggested that the unusual accompaniment was explained by the fact that Brahms had a friend with four arms. Other scholars have muttered things about Siamese twins.) These lovely pieces are for four-part voices, and while anything from one voice to a part on up is permissable, they work best, I think, with just one or two to a part. Even with a very small chorus, the effect of the very fine piano part is often obscured. Still, the Chamber Choir acquitted itself reasonably well. There were initial problems of adjustment, it seemed to me, the sound in some voices being a I!ttle rough at first. I felt that the group was really warming to the piece by about the eighth or ninth of the eighteen waltzes. Two particularly lovely ones were handled in solo by Carol Cole, very ably indeed. Her light
mezzo-soprano, extremely wellcontrolled in matters of pitch and phrasing, was a highlight of the performance. Among the rest, I would single out the bass voices as the most consistently attractive in tone. Problems with the tenor voices we have always with us, on the other hand; and being a bit weakish to start with, they also got the worst break competing against the dreadful air-conditioning system which mars every performance in the theatre calling for soft passages of any length., Still, all problems on this occasion were minor, and the over 311 perfo mance was very pleasant indeb:d, consistently well sung and admirabiy accompanied. Ken Hull and Joann Elligsen returned to play the Concerto for Two Pianoes by JS Bach in C minor with The Little Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra was in good form for this concerto, the violins in particular sounding better than usual, and that factor plus the splendid musicianship of the pianists combined to make this piece very successful. Some music scholars have suggested that the concerto was orginally scored for oboe and violin and in fact that is the way it was played in Waterloo last term by the Toronto Chamber, with Harry Sargous of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra playing the oboe. The brasses and winds played Bach’s Fugue in G Minor and in general they were also sounding quite good, though with a bit of murkiness here and-there in the lower registers. The next two pieces-Mexican Yolk Fantasy arjd selections from Fiddler on the Roofwere well received b!l the audience (and the percussionist, who usually plays the horn, stole the-. show with his execution of a part that must have been written for an octopus). The solo trumpeter deserves a word of praise for his fine performance too. Encore Surprise was just that, or almost that. It was a surprise, but not quite an encore since it was the penultimate piece.-Alfred Kunz offered a “door prize” to anyone in the audience who could identify the composer.. . “Beethoven!” someone guessed and after the laughter died down a bit (would Beethoven have written such a rousing little piece?) the chap was declared the winner of the guessing game. Beethoven had indeed been commissioned to write it, and the “prize” consisted of the golden opportunity to conduct a repeat performance (which the anonymous winner gamely did). Folk Song Collage by Alfred Kunz ended the program. The Collage, written for the 100th anniversary of the Concordia Club, is a collection of international, and mostly familiar, folk songs, woven together and orchestrated by Kunz. The orchestration which was often good was often exactly right...the lovely accompaniment to the Japanese song Sakura comes to mind as one that was particularly effective, making use of bassoons and gongs to evoke a peaceful, timeless, oriental atmosphere. This performance was a preview; Folksong Collage will be officially premiered at the Concordia Club’s festivities this summer, so if yc j were unlucky enough to have missed this concert perhaps you c..jn hear at least part of it in Kitchene; later this year. - ian narvessn
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Brown Bag theatre is annually presented by the drama department’s directing class. Students must choose, direct, and perform an hour long play. This year, for four days in humanities 180, six plays were performed.
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Love-Mouse is a short, nonsensical play that shared the bill with Play It Again, Sam two days this week at the Brown Bag Theatre. ’ The play is the story’of a middle-aged married couple, Harry and Sheila, who are stranded in their kitchen for some months by a ridiculous series of . catastrophes and during this period of isolation, rediscover their passion and affection for each other. The flooding of the dining room floor, the ringing of a dead phone and other incredible occurrences endured by the unhappy couple are solely engineered by a man clad only in diapers, the ‘mouse’ of the title. He is at times a mouse, a baby and a wolf, his role fluctuating to serve his foggy purpose of bringing Harry and Sheila together. The play is nowhere consistent or logical. In one part of the play, the dining room floor is known by the audience to be flooded only in the imagination of Harry but soon afterwards, he is swimming in the new lake there. Harry, as played by Andy Robertson, had many witty oneliners that he delivered with an admirable pokerface. He communicated a relaxed atmosphere and seemed at ease in his part, as did both Sheila and the mouse. Sheldon Rosen wrote the play, and though it could not be a subject for serious critical study, it was well suited to the classroom environment of the noon-hour theatre and was very a nice touch to a routine amusing, school day. No Exit, by Sartre, was shown along with Paradise during the other two days of Brown Bag Theatre and dealt with Sartre’s particular vision of hell. Three people in hell are situated in a Second Empire drawing room for eternity. ‘The man, M. Garcin, was a deserter from the army and shot to death by a firing squad. His sin, however, was his cruel treatment to his wife and his cowardice in running from the war instead of voicing his pacifist \ beliefs. Inez, one of the two women, is a hardened, bitter lesbian, whose raison d’etre in hell is her ruthless manipulation of another woman which resulted in both of their deaths. The third character, Estelle, is a fluffy society lady who caused her lover’s
suicide by killing their illegitimate baby. The three realize early on in the play that they are there to torture each other and there is no fire or brimstone, despite the high temperature in the room. The whole action of the play is their torture: gradually each person’s ability to follow their past friends’ lives fades out and they are left facing and After much torturing each other. agonized deception and realization, they finally ‘realize’ they are truly dead and the play ends. The sense of the confined space that they must endure eternally is well communicated so that, by the end of the play, the audience seemed glad to get out of the small room. It is a heavy and agonizing play, not a happy experience but perhaps a stimulating one., Sheila Jourard as lnez was bitingly bitchy and relished her intellectual clawing with restrained fervour. Lee J.CampbelI as M.Garcin was almost overemotional in his suffering as was Nina Lytwnec as Estelle. However, the play as a whole came off quite successfully and the tension of the action was held well ,by all the actors. Rick Worsnop as the valet was nicely sinister, managing not to blink once while on stage. -kim
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Once more, Sam Lunch hours can be more profitably spent when one chooses to feed the mind rather than joust for chairs in the modern languages coffee shop. This was evident again this week when the Brown Bag Theatre presented two performances of Play It Again, Sam, a three act comedy by Woody Allen. Allen creates a glimpse of the neurotic life of a New York cinema writer whose wife has just left him. His film idol and would-be alter ego is Humphrey Bogart and from him he constantly seeks direction : what would ,Bogey have done? or said? or thought? The role of Alan is skillfully played by RUSS Scott, though it is arguably overplayed in parts. Sometimes the comic sketches, especially those involving the telephone, come too close to becoming slap-stick of a sort which quickly loses its impact. Yet there is an aura of truth around Alan’s life as he straddles the fine line which divides the real and the absurd. In his constant self degradation, he is an example of the man who is a pessimist, simply so he will never be let down. In his actions and moments of reflection, he acts out “many of the classical American ideals of manhood and virility. Throughout much of the work, Alan plays a role which is neurotically childish. He is like a small child handling his emotional crises, shouting
that he’s going to run away and join the circus to escape his life. When his friends Dick (Steve Petch) and Linda (Susan White) set up a date with a friend of theirs, Sharon (Johanna Smith), Alan acts like an apprehensive teenager on his first date, instead of like a 29-yearold man who has been married for two years. Dick, his best friend, is an almost perfect business man-machine who must constantly phone his office to let them know where he is and where he will be. Dick’s wife, Linda, feels neglected by him. Finally Alan has a one night affair with her, entering a kind of lovetriangle I by default. *‘Overnight, he becomes a “man” in the best American tradition. Yet, Linda and her husband reunite as a result of the affair and on the insistence (unnecessarily) of Alan. Any recriminations Alan has are dismissed by the omnipresent Bogart in the background who reassures him of the rightness of his actions. “If I’d-done that, there wouldn’t have been a dry eye in the house”, Bogey says, but the tears are of laughter, not sadness. The final scene is an unneeded denouement. Everybody’s idea of the girl next door (again Johanna Smith) has locked herself out of her apartment. Upon learning that Alan is the same “authority” on Bogart whom she has referred to in a Ph.D. thesis, his masculinity asserts itself and Alan, not the boy but the man, has achieved a happy ending to his problems. In all, the play was well done, full of life and good acting. The lighting, handled by Mike Ebejer, was technically effective. Tape recordings, used as a medium of expressing Alan’s thoughts and Bogart’s advice to him, were shaky at first, as the operator had some troubJe in selecting a speed to synchronize the soundtrack with the actions on stage. This was not a great enough flaw to detract from the play as a whole. The hour spent in humanities 180 made one glad, for a day, to get some amusement in comedy instead of suffering the tragedy of cafeteria food. -john
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Just existing Life- after death-or more to the point, existence after death-was the subject of Paradise, a one-act play in the Brown Bag Theatre series. The play by J .L.Balderson is actually an extended joke building up to the oneline finish with a kind of 0. Henry twist. The play is highly dependent upon the tight interplay between its two characters as they build the situation to its ironic conclusion. Unfortunately, the two actors, Rene Dowhaniuk as soul and Jane Thomas as personage, were not entirely successful in their portrayals of the newly deceased arrival to the afterlife and the obedientservant able to satisfy all wishes. Dowhaniuk, especially, seemed ill at ease in the part of the former businessman. Soul who is ~initially“, delighted in having all desires met at the snap of the fingers, soon becomes bored with redecorating his mansion and collecti’ng priceless art objects. His boredom revolves around the fact that nothing is priceless after all-everyone can have the same beautiful objects, everyone’s wishes can be grantedtherefore nothing is worth striving for. Keeping up with or surpassing the Jones has no meaning, soon soul’ decides there is nothing worse than just existing in eternity, and ‘that what he really wants is to feel some pain. But this is one wish that cannot be granted. Pleasure can have no contrast and so to him life becomes meaningless. Directed by John Sharpe, Paradiso was a pleasant noon-time diversion; with tighter acting it could have been quite funny. -deanna
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Good for a laugh There are certain films which, because they have gotten so much“ publicity-both planned and word-ofmouth-before you have a chance to see them, that your expectations of them become either ridiculously high or ridiculously low. If they are too high, it will take an exceptionally excellent movie to break through those expectations and if they are low, any semblance of competence will knock you right over. It is tempting to place Steelyard Blues (at the Waterloo) in this category: of a half-dozen reviews I’d read, none gave it a better word than “disappointing”, and equally as many friends gave me tne thumbs-down sign. While it was . hard to imagine Jane Fonda, Peter Boyle and Donald Sutherland-at this point in their careers, when they can afford to be choosey-participating in a real loser (especially with music in which Paul Butterfield and friends had a hand), nevertheless I was prepared for the worst because of the overwhelming negative reaction. And, it must be stated here, that while I understand fully the objections of those who disliked the film, I did not find myself sharing those objections during one of the most enjoyable movies I’ve seen in a while. Given the suspension of credibility necessary in most brands of comedy, Steelyard Blues is filled with amusing characters and easy laughs and-rare on the screen these days-several genuine belly-laughs. Not profound comedy, ‘and not really comedy pertinent to anything, but ‘just good laughs nevertheless. This film is a send-up of the Hollywood Dream and the American Dream jammed together; it is a fantasy version of Cool Hand Luke, a movie with which admittedly it shares only the subject of its focus: the “totally free” individual trying to exist in a society which cannot tolerate total individual freedom. Sutherland’s “Veldini” is a hammy but thoroughly engaging characterization *of the man-outside-the-law, combining nicely with the other “characters” -in the true sense of the word -in this farce, topped by a surprisingly funny Peter Boyle as “Eagle”, the out-of-work and more-than-slightly demented human fly. Unfortunately, Jane Fonda is miscast in yet another whore-with-a-heart-of-gold role (only this time she’s supposed to be funny, and isn’t) and walks her way through her dull part and is completely wasted in the film. The music, alas, also turns out to be rather bland, considering who took part in making it, and is misused on the soundtrack. The list of other deficiencies is nearly endless. The direction is weak and uneven; and the film might have ranked right up there with a bit of the judicious editing which Robert Altman sensitively applied to M.A.S. H. \ As it is, the production is slow and halting in developing the plot-line and often embarassingly amateurish. But, with all the flaws, the audience we saw it with loved it, perhaps even a bit too much for what it was, and the total effect is unadorned entertainment. -george
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t is very hard to define -art as being good or bad in a way that is congruent with the method in which these words are commonly used. Good art too often becomes that which is technically sound and bad art that which the viewer doesn’t understand. The only way to legitimately approach art is by realiring that it is not only a physical form but also a type of communication. When asked what a finished piece means, the artist could reply that if he was able to explain the ideas he wouldn’t have had to express them as art. The message can be one of emotion, mood or politics. In any case, the-artist is always trying to expose some part of himself. When faced with the “ab- stract”, -it often isn’t the idea, but rather the language that the viewer balks at. This language can be obscured by poor organization and execution, or the audience may not have the understanding it needs to interpret the work. An attitude prevalent in the fine arts department at this university is to always try and execute a piece in the way that best expresses an idea in terms of the medium and its technical
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Ii,mitations. It is this type of professional approach to art that made . some of the pieces stand out more than others in the fine arts student show in the Humanities building this week. There were hard edge acrylics with well-chosen colours and sharp con-’ trast, drawings with clean lines and well defined shades, plus prints and sculpture that indicated the artist was controlling the medium rather than it controlling him. Some things were not that well planned or rendered. However, the show was not intended to expose only the best work, but to be a cross-section of what various people in the department were doing. Student shows in the studios are often more honest than student shows in galleries, the Waterloo display also being a relief from the often pretentious “professional” gallery showing. It would be interesting, however, to see some of the better pieces more suitably displayed. A painting sitting on a window ledge is never as precious as one that is properly hung. Some of the subtleties of the drawings and prints were lost because of overcrowding in the small rooms. There were works for sale and it’s a matter of personal taste
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as to whether or not they were worth the prices asked. The few realistic .pieces that were shown werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a good enough indication of the talent that exists in this area. There are a number of people:in the life drawing classes, for example, whose work would have added an interesting dimension to the show. Some of the artists I have talked to said that due to the present lack of studio space, it was often hard to work on a
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scale that they enjoyed or at times in which they felt the most productive. A student show is a sampling of potential. The Waterloo show revealed many naive student attempts at art, but more importantly showed that the people on this campus who have defined themselves as artists are placing the emphasis on producing thoughtful, technically polished works of art. -tom
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