Farm land to b&come dump site Every hour 43 acres of land are lost to agricultural production, Ontario according to the Federation of Agriculture. The cityof London is keeping this figure up by proposing to take almost 1000 acres of land out of production for a landfill site. In January of this year the London Free Press ran an article stating that London was looking for a new sanitary landfill site. Some time later the city approached Westminster Township Council and received permission to test an unused gravel pit between the fifth and sixth concession roads of Westminster Township. While the crews were on that site they purposely wandered into the next I block, enclosed by the sixth and seventh concessions and theand Whiteoaks . Sideroad Wellington Road South. This second area is now supporting a dozen families. All the land is currently in agricultural production. The block is two miles 3 by seven-eighths of a mile and within it run at least three streams and one natural pond. It is the watershed for- the area which means it is the highest point of land. There are three radio transmitters on or within a half mile of the block. In February London City Council drafted a plan to take a total of 980 acres. It was believed in the community that London had only wanted the west half of the block. It was by accident that the residents learned the whole truth. London was really proposing a three-fold plan. They would first take the west half of the block, then the east and finally the remnant of the block directly to the west which had already been carved up by the 401.
On April 2, Westminster Township Council unanimously rejected the proposal. The London alderman, Julius Roman, who had originated the idea was present at the meeting and was most annoyed by the cavalier treatment accorded the city’s proposal. In his past career of aiding and governing the residents of London-he has fostered many brilliant plans. His most famous proposal was to establish for London a volunteer fire brigade and disband the London fire department. Julius Roman is chairman of London’s environment and protective services committee and London’s mayor, Jane Bigelow, is also serving as the chairwoman of the environmental pollution committee of the Canadian federation of mayors and
municipalities. Yet these people produced and accepted a plan to put almost 1000 acres of farmland out of l:se and waste the valuable resources that are contained in the garbage. The city of London informed the Township Council after it had rejected the proposal that London intended to go ahead regardless. The city plans to have everyone off the land and the first 500 acres in their possession by the new year. Professional negotiators have visited the families on the block and offered 1971 prices for the land and houses. The project is not feasible environmentally and spells financial disaster for those families involved. The residents of the surrounding community know that sanitary land fill sites are not sanitary. There will be flies, roving dogs and rats. Methane gas is given off by decomposing garbage. It is odourless, invisible, lethal and highly explosvie. The accident in Kitchener leaving eight injured is a warning. The concentration of gas from 1000 acres of garbage would be extremely dangerous and would poison the land probably forever. The local farmers are afraid of being run off the roads by the heavy dump trucks. Two private_ garbage recycling firms have expressed an interest in processing Toronto’s garbage. Toronto ignored them. In a ton of garbage the minimum values would be $15 of glass, $6 of paper and $15 of metal. Yet to date we have paid to bury these resources. London has not even mentioned recycling. Arguments that recycling is too expensive usually do not take into account the fact that landfill sites use up productive land. It was reported to the women’s Canadian club in London on April thag “we will have run out of arable farmland by the century’s end. Even if new methods are found to produce more on existing land, we will only have enough to meet our food needs until 2999” London took its proposal before a hearing with the minister for the environment, James Auld, on Wednesday. If favourable to the city, the proposal goes before the Ontario municipal board on June 15. This procedure is the same faced by all the citizen groups fighting dumps all over the province. Port Hope won their fight against Toronto garbage and Pickering is still fighting. Westminster has entered round one of her battle. -rosemary
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from the economic viewpoint of looking upon pubs as merely a “service.” At this point, both Valiant and environmental studies rep Allison Stirling objected strongly to talking about women “as a service to be provided for the men on campus by the federation.” Grad rep Steve Treadwell denied this was the intent of the policy. “No one has to sign a contract to go to bed with anyone when they come to a, pub. . . “, he said before being drowned out by boos and hisses. Valiant then proposed her motion, which would prohibit any price discrimination based on sex. Federation president Andy Telegdi asked council to back up Ram’s move, since Ram is running break-even summer pubs for the first time. Instead of costing the students money, it is-saving them rep: “I don’t think it5 a matter of money, he said. <Ram defended the- price structure, saying : “In the past nothing has been done to offset the problem of losing money in the summer. . . I’m sorry if I’m disciminating against anyone, but I’ve got to do something.” While Ram and Valiant continued to shout back and forth across the room at each other, integrated studies rep Shane Roberts told council that he was against discrimination in prinValiant told the council she is not ciple, but felt he had to apprqve of “in favour of subsidizing offthe pub policy. campus women and discouraging “I don’t think it’s a matter of males from attending pubs.” 1 pimping for the engineers,” he Head of the board of ensaid. “It’s just that more of a tertainment and originator of the balance is needed and wanted at unofficial policy Art Ram defended social events. ” his move, saying that “Pubs are The final vote on Valiant’s basically a product you’re trying to motion was 6 for, 12 against and 1 sell. . .and people prefer a mixed t abstaining. group instead of a stag.” He also Council members also voted said that Ontario law required at overwhelmingly to continue to least one-third of the people at the withhold all sales tax revenue over pubs be female in order to retain a five percent prior to the official pub licence. passage of the tax bill in the OnEngineering rep Tom Duffy tario legislature. added that fights and problems Slightly over $50 is involved. The had arisen in the past from offlegality of retroactive tax laws is campus men at pubs. now being tested in several Ontario Summer board of education co- court cases. In order to pass the ordinator Dave Robertson urged motion, council had to get a twocouncil to approve of the thirds majority to suspend Roberts philosophical stand against Rules of Order. discrimination rather than decide In other action, council : l Agreed to host a. conference here of Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) members, which would focus on educational programming, joint speakers bureau, etc. University of Waterloo l Camp Columbia was voted Waterloo, Ontario $200 more from the federation volume 14, number 3 budget. friday, june I,1973 l Telegdi brought to the council his objections to the amount of pay being given an employee of the day care centre, but the matter was ruled out of order and routed to the day care center committee. 0 Council accepted the resignation of Tom Duffy as chairman of the board of student grievances. He remains as a council member. l The council endorsed by a 14-l4 vote the executive’s recent actions in support of the Dare strikers.
Council ap-proves ‘feds-ferns’ policy After the most heated exchanges yet between members of the new federation council, the group by a two-to-one margin approved Tuesday night the new board of entertainment policy which charges off-campus women less to get into pubs and off-campus men more. The debate began when science rep Ann Valiant voiced opposition to the pub policy, designed to bring more women to on-campus pubs,. where the male-female ratio in the past has been overwhelmingly,. male due to the engineering and science bias -of the student body here. (Pub admission is now $1 for federation members and all women and $2 for non-federation males; previously all nonfederation people were charged at twice the federation charge.)
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government other than the topics were “too controversial”. There was no explanation forthcoming as to exactly who these topics were controversial for. The topics cancelled .were women’s lib, gay lib, witchcraft, demonology, the Hare Krishna religion, communism, communal living, wine-making and occult study and ESP. The student government was forced to contact these groups, stating that they were not welcome to lead a discussion at their high school and yet they had no reasons to give for their cancellation. The Cambridge Reporter again led the public astray when they discussed the cancellation of the seminars. The Reporter said the the article of May 28 “Their cancellation followed numerous complaints by parents”-and made no mention of the support of other parents. The article went on to say that “These nine controversial topics were cancelled last week after a meeting .between Southwood principal Bernard Cayen, school staff and members of the student council.” Fact is that the members of the student council had no say in topics cancelled or retained and cancellation resulted only because of the stand taken by the administration. * Student response to the administration block was one of and a walkout was anger,. threatened. Cayen called an assembly and cooled the masses. SEED was still on. One of the topics included in The recent trend in high school and education has been toward a, less SEED was radio announcing, the speakers were David Assman disciplined and less structured Walker of Radio learning experience, and the and Paul Waterloo. They were contacted on student government at Southwood May 10 about the seminar and Secondary School (in Gal0 contact with the managed to carry this into a were in further student government when the nine Structured Educational Exseminars were cancelled. They perimental Day (SEED). The planned a protest letter to be sent purpose of SEED was to allow to Cayen, but agreed to attend students the opportunity to explore areas of knowledge not taught in their scheduled seminars. SEED day was a success in the the regular school curriculum. Organization and planning was sense that it did allow high school students the opportunity to speak completely in the hands of the their student government, within the -with people from within community that they would not see bounds of the administration’s in the’normal course of their lives. judgement. and conStudents and staff were polled as But the irrational descending conduct of both the to their interests and the speakers were contacted and confirmed. All students’ parents and the students’ administrators leaves one wonstudents were scheduled into their dering about that community. preferred seminars and staff members were in attendance as -Susan johnson well. No seminars were compulsory, only attendance of the day and any seminars that the student found appealing. Topics varied from business administration to horseshoeing, and included many’ fields that apparently were interesting on the basis of job possibilities; other topics were presented purely for interest’s sake. News of the plans i for SEED were sent to the Cambridge Reporter which 1found within that story something to delight the senses of the Galt For the third straight month, the community. showdown on the university’s Headlining their story of May 15 leave of absence policy for faculty “Witches, Others, Will Speak to was put off last week as the senate Students”,the newspaper em- voted to refer the matter back to committee. phasized the out-of-the-ordinary guests. Attendance was reported Just what committee it will be as compulsory without explanation referred to and what the frames of reference that committee will deal of the nature of the classes. Reaction on the part of parents with were left matters for conwas not totally favourable and jecture. letters to the editor soon began The real reason for the referral appearing. Threats of “moral is not the report itself, but the one erosion”, “the sin of issue which has been the point of homosexuality”, and finally the contention all along : whether professors on sabbatical leave will cry “I pay taxes.” The students and their sup- receive one-half their regular porters countered with more salary-anywhere from the on up-r letters to the editors and the $15,000~neighbourhood dispute brewed. Word hit the two-thirds of that salary. school board and then the word hit Senate originally voted for the existing one-half figure, but the Bernard Cayen, Southwood principal. Apparently Cayen met board of governors in its March meeting disagreed and sent the with the school board and -acting on their direction--cancelled nine matter back to senate for further meaning the -board of the scheduled seminars. He consideration, wanted the senate to pass the twomade no explanation to the student
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thirds policy rather than one-half. The senate executive recommended to senate this time around that it adopt the two-thirds figure, a stance Prof,. Kenyon-the mover of the adoption motion this month-labelled “a very reasonable proposal.” There was no discussion concerning why a professor could not do on upwards of $7,588 a year, nor did any of the professors on senate testify that they, personally, found the one-half proposal restricting. The only alternative presented involved how to go about giving the professors more than one-half their salary; I there was a suggestion put forth to award the one-half salary plus up to $8,000 travel and re-location expenses in the form of tax-free grants. One professor condemned that approach for giving more to the “haves and less to the “havenot&‘, as if the term “have-not& could possibly apply to persons in the professors’ salary range. Prof. Ross offered a cost-benefit analysis approach to the problem, and put forth a three-alternative formula by which professors eligible for sabbatical leave could choose the method best suited to them: (1) half-year at full salary; (2) a full year at half pay; or (3) two-thirds salary for a full year after eight years’ service to the university. (Present policy requires a professor to be here for six years before applying for leave of absence.) Prof. Avedon cut through all the flowery speech about academic improvement when he summed up his objections to the eight-year proposal saying : “But you get tired after teaching here for five years, and you’d be more inclined to accept the halfyear at full pay rather than wait another three years for the full year.” The truth was out-It’s a vacation, folks, not a chance ot improve academically and benefit, the university. Nobody mentioned that the janitors who clean up after the senate meetings and the ladies who serve food at the cafeteria and the secretaries who type up their reports also get tired after five years of work here.
In fact, only one senator-a student member-mentioned the fact that increasing money paid out to professors is “ludicrous” in a year that has seen all kinds of staff and student aid cutbacks. The senators seemed about ready to put aside all the debate and vote the two-thirds proposal through when Student Federation president Andy Telegdi was given a chance as last speaker on the topic. ’ Telegdi told the group that the students he had talked to had “applauded” their original rejection of the two-thirds policy and urged the senate to look instead to “other monetary priorities”, such as scholarships, library funds, etc. Prof. Irish then moved to refer the entire matter back to committee and his motion was easily carried, as senators backed off from the issue again. Near the end of the meeting, federation representative Shane Roberts asked permission to address the group about the Dare strike-senate had already deferred its 10 :30 curfew for half an hour and was only three minutes away from l&and was reluctantly granted the privilege when he assured senators he would take only a few minutes. He reminded senate that ‘the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) was one of the few groups which had actively come out against the provincial cut-backs in university aid this year, and said that now the OFL and Dare union members needed help. He reminded senators of the Saturday march in Kitchener. Then student senator John O’Grady moved a motion of concern and support for the Dare union. Several senators chimed in with that old familiar refrain: “If we get involved in this kind of issue, where will it all end?” and “I’m sure there all sorts of moral issues we could get involved in, but we simply can’t consider all of them.” The motion was ruled out of order. ,eorge
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Speaker Fred Brunen addresses a crowd of 5,000 at the Dare strike demonstration in Kitchener last Saturday. Since the strike was one year old Wednesday, the scab workers current/y at Dare can now move under Ontario law to decertify local 773 and set up a new union.
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Waterloo residents organize The Waterloo Downtown Residents Association, which grew out of the Albert street dispute, held %ameeting Thursday May 24. The organization originated on march 15 with the. initial protest against the proposed widening of Albert street. Encouraged by their success in blocking the proposal for Albert street, and frightened by lack of organization on their part and the far-reaching powers of city council, residents in the downtown area felt the need to create the association in order to protect themselves. WDRA adopted a constitution which makes every resident of the *defined downtown area a voting member. The reasoning behind adopting a constitution was the thought that in the future WDRA may want to approach the federal government for funds., Naturally they would be in a better bargaining position as a legally constituted organization, which they now are. The executive was named, consisting of those individuals that had been instrumental in the ‘Albert Street protest. This executive is in effect until the annual meeting which is held only for the purpose of electing an executive. A major problem that the residents have noted is their lack of information on the methods of the city planners and city council. Thursday evening they invited Waterloo city planner Don Scott to speak to the citizens and attempt to explain the workings of the city. Scott explained the nature of zoning and development, showing the different areas of the city, and informed the residents as to the regulations concerning rezoning. Scott made no attempt to explain the rationale behind any of the zoning by-laws, shrugging the responsibility off onto his predecessors and the city council. Scott interprets his job as that of a watchdog over the welfare of the city of Waterloo, trying to “make sure they do the right and proper thing with it”-“ it” being any land that is open for development. But there was no attempt to define what his interpretation of the right and proper thing could be. Discussion moved ’ onto citizen action and WDRA offered to attend city council meetings in support of Scott, after he claimed he was receiving little cooperation from the city council. Scott said he would prefer that they did not attend in support of him, maintaining that “pressure groups are not really valuable allies”. WDRA has organized a system of block representatives that work as watchdogs for trouble spots and, as well, pass information on from residents to the executive and vice” versa. One representative, explaining some danger signs of a disintegrating neighbourhood said, “university students in one house and then a few more in another house down the block.. . .obviously some one buying up property”. Hopefully a more informed residents association and one that is planning to work closely with the planning-department and city council will prevent further threats as the widening of Albert street and will prevent council from pursuing such ill-advised projects in the future. -Susan
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Oh dull There has been a great deal-of attention focused upon the socalled “Hitler revival”, and that attention bears partial responsibility for the continuing growth of interest in Adolf Hitler. During the past year, numerous books, essays, plays and films have been devoted to some aspect of Nazi Germany, usually centering on the Fuhrer. The study of Nazism is not new, nor is the interest generated by a man such as Hitler. There is, however, something new’ in the Hitler revival. Hitler has left the arena of history and entered the realm of entertainment. It was perhaps inevitable that the film industry would capitalize upon the Hitler boom. That is not necessarily an undesirable occurence. The medium has for far too long presented the Nazis and their followers as cardboard cutouts, fools and dullards. However much we may accept that view, the truth is of a different form. Hitler, his party, and the people he led to victory, then defeat, were neither fools nor imbeciles, nor were they all madmen and dem,ons. The difficulty in accepting these people as real, often intelligent, and, in fact, ordinary, is that such a view must lead to the inclusion of Nazism into the ranks of human endeavour. Hitler and his people have been placed alongside Attila and Ghenghis Khan, reduced to mythic /proportions, so that we may safely deny responsibility for the actions of our species. There is danger in that attitude. Hitler was unique through opportunity, not through his character, or his wellpublicized psychological malfunctions. History has thrown up many such men, and, unfortunately, will probably produce more. Yet, by our near-sighted interpretation of History, we have disowned Hitler from our species, and made him the product of mystical historical “forces”. In so doing, we conveniently dispose of the fact that Hitler was a man, whose paranoia and incredible bigotry are all too common components of many of our species, though we would like to believe otherwise. The film industry is an integral component of the Hitler revival, and by necessity, that medium must present Hitler as a man, notas the personification of the Devil.
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of rather banal and insignificant events. Side One, which begins with the vaguely C & W-ish “It’ll Take A Long Time,” includes a passable version of Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is A Long Time,” and ends with the traditional “Quiet Joys of Brotherhood,” is sufficiently pleasing to at least motivate flipping the album over; but Side Two is one long boring dirge, its content so thoroughly pale and uninteresting that one is tqmpted to call for a moratorium on “original” songs which would probably have prompted some headrolling by Henry VIII. Again, Sandy has its enjoyable moments, but essentially it seems a superfluous release which fails to take advantage of Ms. Denny’s undeniable, if quite circumscribed, abilities. Even the albums discussed above, however, disappointing as they are, seem monumentally significant in comparison to the latest atrocity by Three Dog Night, Around the World (Dunhill DSY 50138). This band is a textbook example of how the most apparently innocuous studio group, turning out the odd middle-of-the-road hit, can be plasticized and hypified into producing homogenized schlock whose audience is either under 16 or over 3O-or should be. Two “live” (sic) Lps of this, artificially fattened with desperately dull instrumental solos, is about as close to pain as I want to come this week. Now for the good news. Wilson Pickett’s debut on RCA, Mr. Magic Man (LSP-4858), is much more successful in presenting a vocalist whose rough, feral voice never seemed completely at ease with the polite Muscle Shoals funk of his Atlantic releases. The arrangements here have more of an early Motown feel to them, with the strings masking Pickett’s weakness in the upper registers, and as a result this is the first album on which his ballad interpretations are something more than a hiatus between the latest versions of “Mustang Sally” or “Funky Broadway.” Mr. Magic Man is definitely a class production, featuring strong supporting musicianship and some excellent new songs, and indicates that RCA has finally learned how to showcase their black artists. While it is obviously an attempt at repeating the commercial success of Al Green (the formula is easy on the funk, heavy on the syrup), it should still be welcomed as a new and apparently refreshing lease on life for Wilson Pickett. Saving the best for last, it is a pleasure to report that Santana’s latest, Caravanserai (Columbia KC 31610), is their finest and most adventurous release to date. Although it is certainly not as immediately accessible as their first four albums-i.e. it would be difficult to carve an AM hit out of itpatient listening is rewarded with the realization that this is one long, flowing, beautifully integrated piece of music which deserves a very wide audience. Having previously typed Santana as an energetic but rather unsophisticated group, not least on the evidence of their funky-but-formless Lp with Buddy Miles, I’m just plain astounded by the quality of the instrumental musicianship here. Their rhythm section, of course, has always been delightfully incendiary; but the surprise here is the guitar work by Carlos Santana and Neil Schon, which carries most of the solo burden in wonderfully expressive fashion. In terms of the musical interplay
Y0 getting older, but 0.0 “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better,” one of the more offensive commercials has it, and while this may be generally true for one’s old man-lady (oldperson?), it is hardly applicable to the careers of most contemporary musicians. The sort of leisurely progress towards perfection granted classical and jazz artists, a function of the relative absence of commercial considerations, is unknown in the hit-oriented, trend-seeking world of pop music; and as a consequence, those performers who do achieve success with a particular style or schtick are under great pressure to repeat themselves ad infinitum (and all too often ad nauseum). While this situation may be transcended by the odd multi-faceted talent such as Frank Zappa’s, even such monster groups as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones soon reach the point where any change in style is next to impossible. Thus John Lennon, in his Rolling Stone interview: Sometimes George and I would like to bring ~somebody in like Billy Preston, that was exciting, we might have had him in the group. We were fed up with the same old shit, but it wasn’t wanted. Several recent releases by established artists appear to partake of this sort of fixated creativity. Two of the most disappointing are those by Poco (A Good Feelin’ To Know, Epic KE 31601) and Sandy Denny (Sandy, A & M SP 4371), who have both previously done some good work in the folkrock vein, but on these albums seem to assume that they can duplicate past successes despite major changes in the cir-cumstances of their recordings. A Good Feelin’ To Know is by no means a bad album, but neither is it the sort of highspirited romp achieved on Deliverin’, probably Poco’s most ingratiating release. Since their last personnel change-Jim Messina out, Paul Cotton (from Illinois Speed Press) in-Poco has moved towards a harder, electric-guitar dominated sound which is much less appropriate for their gentle lyrics, and compares unfavourably with the lighter touch so in evidence on their pre-Cotton Lps. Poco still manages some very pleasant vocal harmonies, but these are in such obvious tension with their instrumental sound that A Good Feelin’ To Know never rises above the mediocre, and is at times surprisingly harsh. While this may not deter either their more rabid fans or those with low-fi sound equipment, others will surely gain more pleasure from either of the two Loggins & Messina albums. Sandy Denny made her mark as an integral part of Fairport Convention’s and Fotheringay’s sorties-into the English folk tradition,‘but Sandy attempts to utilize this aesthetic on an album of mostly original songs providing few opportunities for a similar musical chemistry. Her voice, which is both limited in range and rather declamatory in tone, becomes quite wearing when experienced with Sandy’s largely self-effacing accompaniment; and her songwriting, while competent, seldom rises above the straightforward narration
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rock’n briefs American Pie (United Artists UAS 5535) by Don McLean: ,I ordered this one by mistake, but since I’m quite taken with it, a review for those familiar only with. the single of “American Pie.” The latter has become something of a minor classic, of course, and stands up quite well as a mildly bizarre meditation upon the history of rock and roll. Except for a very funny “Everybody Loves Me, Baby,” which sends up several generations of pop stars, the remainder of the album is a cleverly produced and lushly sentimental collection of ballads, occasionally veering towards bathos but usually succeeding as the flaky crust upon some deeply felt emotions. Piledriver (A 81 M SP 4381) by Status Quo: while 40 minutes of well crafted music should be a minimum standard for new rock Lps, it is so seldom achieved that an album such as Piledriver is as relatively excellent as it is absolutely mediocre. Stronger lead vocals and more distinctive material would be cause to rave, but Status Quo’s unassuming competence and obvious delight in making music still merits a qualified recommendation: for Food Services Pubbers, tailfeather shakers, and rock‘n’rollers of all ages. Wolf City (United Artists UAS UA-LAO17F)‘by Amon Duul II : although it’s difficult to describe Amon Duul’s music, Pink Floyd with a dash of The Mahavishnu Orchestra probably comes fairly close. Mixing Indian rhythms, several synthesizers, and conventional rock instrumentation is no longer sufficient to impress purely on the grounds of novelty, however, and once past the trippy sound effects Wolf City has nothing much to offer. For the most rabid heavy metal freaks only, and most likely not even for them. The Best of Mountain (Columbia KC 32079: when they stuck to basic cock-rock, as on “Mississippi Queen,” “Never In My “Roll Over Beet haven,” Life,” and Mountain was one of the better powerhouse electric bands; but they had a more pretentious side, too (“Nantucket Sleighride,” “ For Yashur’s Farm”), where their elementary instrumental abilities became painfully evident. If you’ve been grooving on the West, Bruce & Laing Lp, however, this is where West and Laing began, and there haven’t been too many changes made. Octopus (Columbia KC 32022) by Gentle Giant: somewhat different from their first Vertigo album, primarily in emphasizing lighter folk material which seems a bit overloaded by the instrumental resources brought to bear upon it (moog, horns, strings, etc.). Gentle Giant is an extremly resourceful and -dare I say it?-charming group, however, creating music whose freshness and eclecticism would deserve unqualified praise if it were not also rather aimless at times, and needing only a strong aesthetic hand at the helm to guide their abundance of talent. Stay tuned. , -paul stuewe
Another fistful of dollars Westerns, as you may have noticed, have changed. No longer does The Stranger drift into town, dispatch a few baddies and ride off into the sunset-sometimes having found time to modestly kiss a demure young lady along the way. In the latest Clint Eastwood Western, the hero rides into town, kills three gunmen while getting a shave, rapes the town’s flirt, dynamites the only hotel to smithereens, rapes the hotel owner’s wife, kills another band of baddies, sets fire to most of the other buildings in town, and then rides off into the haze of the desert. The killings and maimings are at least in variety: an ear is graphically shot off, a man is stabbed through the throat with a sharp stick, another is informally hung, and so on. Not just your run-of-the-mill shoot-em-up. Eastwood was the star of the first ultraviolent “spaghetti Westerns” and now stars in, directs and produces High Plains Drifter, at the Capitol in which he tastelessly flirts with a pseudo-surreal setting and a pseudo-existentialist hero. Eastwood tries almost everything here in an apparent attempt to make people start talking about him as an “artist” rather than a second-rate B-flick actor. He even throws in some mock-Feliini scenes, along with a Fellini-like midget who becomes, the town sheriff and mayor against the townspeoples’ wishes, and is undoubtedly a symbol of something or another. But Eastwood the actor is wooden and humorless enough for one film; it cannot take an equally humorless Eastwood as director. If Drifter was meant as a parody of the Western as a film form, then Eastwood is several years too late. The perfect parody and tribute to The Western was made about four years ago when Sergio Leone directed Once Upon A Time In The West. If he was actually tryirig for serious comment, Eastwood’s sledge-hammer approach-touches such as re-naming the town “Helm” and having the townspeople paint all the buildings red-is so blatant and self-serious tha=t it elicits more groans and chuckles than anything else. The fact that confusion exists about what he did intend is proof that he failed in whatever intentions he had. The suspicion persists that money is the prime motive behind Drifter. Eastwood, by trading on his fame as actor in the previous “Man with no Name” movies, stands to make a bundle as star, director and producer. The ads and the TV commercials for the movie actually imply much more action and violence than this slowly-plodding and slimly-plotted picture reveals. But, the ads and Eastwood’s name have drawn the audiences in both here and in Toronto. These days, even the hint of ultra-real, slow-motion violence seems to draw the crowds. Eastwood knows how to make a killingat the box-off ice, if not on the screen. -george kaufman
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One of the many dubious gifts which this century of progress has brought us has been the necessity to concentrate on fields of scientific inquiry ignored in previous eras. The progressive ruination of our enviroment, for example, has impelled the allocation of vast (and so far insufficient) human and financial resources to the infant science of ecology. An unchecked population growth has forced new approaches to agriculture and the development of birth control measures capable of implementation on a mass basis. Similarly, the injection of various poisons into our foodstuffs, and the generally abominable dietary predilections of industrial man have brought new attention to the once predominantly theoretical science of nutrition. And, while the intensified focus on all these. areas has brought with it a concomitant burden of pseudo-science and faddistry, it is probably in the latter field that ungrounded expertise and popular misinformation have found their most fertile soil. On that basis, then, it is not surprising that the reaction of the medical establishment to Vitamin C and the Common Cold, though written by such a scientific luminary as Nobelprize winning biochemist Linus Pauling, ranged from snide contempt to outright hostility. This reaction was understandable, and even predictable, not only because of the aura of mythology which engulfs the field of nutrition, but because of the many vested interests which it challenges. Pauling’s thesis was that the common cold, together with an indefinitely long list of other . infectious diseases,is susceptible to prevention, and sometimes cure, by the intake of sufficient quantities of ascorbic acid. An obvious corollary to this thesis is that most other research into the control of these diseases is redundant, since the solution already exists. Furthermore, were vitamin C a regular component of our diet at adequate dosage levels, and did it live up to the claims of its proponents, the consequences for drug manufacturers would be disastrous, since many of their more profitable, but less effective nostrums would be unable to compete either medically or economically with ascorbic acid. In 1972 another researcher, Dr. Irwin Stone, authored a book called “The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease (Grosset and
D unlap) which documents and expands Pauling’s claims. It was in fact a letter from Stone which had earlier prompted Pauling to write his controversial exploration two years previously. Stone’s book was detailed and fairly technical, and failed, despite its topical content, to elicit much response. He explained that the vast majority of animals are able to produce their own supply of ascorbic acid, and the primates’ inability to do so results from an Klenner in 1948, and Dalton in 1962, reported their successful experiences with virus pneumonia treated with ascorbic acid in 42 cases and 3 cases, respectivley. Paez de la Torre, in ‘1945, found good results in measles in children. Klenner, in 1949, successfully used ascorbic acid as a prophylactic in a measles epidemic and gave a dramatic case history in his 1953 paper in the treatment of a ten-month-old baby with measles. Zureick, in 1950, treated 71 cases of chicken pox with ascorbic acid. Klenner also cites the dramatic results he obtained in virus encephalitis and also in 33 cases of mumps and many cases of influenza.
unfavourable mutation at some common point in our ancestries, when our fruit-eating forebears discarded one of the genes necessary to the enzyme process which in most species produces vitamin C. The most well-known consequence of this evolutionary accident is the fact of Man’s susceptibility to scurvy, which, if unchecked, is the fatal result of a diet almost totally lacking in ascorbic acid. It is Stone’s contention, however, that scurvy is symptomatic of only the severest vitamin C deficiency, and that almost everyone is operating at ascorbic acid levels far below optimum, with significantly negative results. For instance: One of the most important biochemical functions of ascorbic acid in the body’s chemistry is the synthesis, formation, and maintenance of a prote,in-like substance called collagen. Collagen is the ground substance or cement that supports and holds the tissues and organs together. It is the substance in the bones that provides the toughness and flexibility and prevents brittleness. Without it the body would just disintigrate or dissolve away. It comprises
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about one-third of the body’s total weight of protein and is the most extensive tissue system. It is the substance that strengthens the arteries and veins, supports the muscles, toughens the ligaments and bones, supplies the scar tissue for healing wounds and keeps the youthful skin tissues soft, firm, supple and wrinklefree. When ascorbic acid is lacking, it is the disturbance in collagen formation that causes the fearful effects -of scurvy, the brjttle bones that fracture on the slightest impact, the weakened arteries that rupture and hemorrage, the incapacitating muscle weakness, the affected joints that are painful to move, the teeth that fall out, and the wounds and sores that never heal. Suboptimal amounts of ascorbic acid over prolonged periods during the early and middle years, bJ its effect of producing poor quality collagen, may be the factor in later life that causes the high incidence of arthritis and joint diseases, broken hips, the heart and vascular diseases that cause sudden death, and the strokes that bring on senility. Collagen is intimately c0r-L netted with the entire aging process. Stone goes on to invoke a rather astounding list of properties he believes attributable to Vitamin C: as an activating agent for many enzyme processes; as vital to the body’s use of proteins, fats and carbohydrates; as an
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essential to brain c tioning of the nervoL “potent detoxjcant” ( and neutralizing the both organic (drug inorganic (mercury,21 credits ascorbic acid v carbon monoxide, s cinogens, making it protection we have a pollution and smol In 1957, Kirchmair u acid daily for five d: hepatitis and found weight gain and good days, rapid disappea. a the hospitalization t giving IO grams a day atitis, obtained result Dalton, in - 1962, also rapid recovery of a ci
therapeutic effect c medicines. Diabetics c requirement if large i were taken along wit It is even “a gooo Panaceas are notori days, and no less dif Stone’s enthusiasm fo bounds. He continues the following assuranl
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rstry and the funcstem. He terms it a ble of counteracting cts of many poisons, animal toxins) and it-). In addition, Stone the power to detoxify dioxide, and carhe only immediate st the bad effects of It increases the l
10 grams of ascorbic bn 63 children with irked improvement, ztite in the first few jf jaundice and half Baetgen, in 1960, 15 children with hepnilar to Kirchmair’s, lorted dramatic and bf hepatitis.
ifferent drugs and I reduce their insulin Ants of ascorbic acid 11 toxic diuretic”. y hard to find these t to believe in, but ; knows no apparent list of marvels with
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At relatively low levels (ascorbic acid) will inhibit the growth of .bacteria and at slightly higher amounts it will kill them. The bacteria causing tuberculosis is particularly sensitive to the lethal action of ascorbic acid. The number of bacteria that each white blood cell can digest is directly related to the ascorbic acid content of the blood. It is also a potent and non-specific virucide. It has the power to inactivate and destroy the infectivity of a wide variety of diseaseproducing viruses including herpes, poliomyelitis, vaccinia, foot-and-mouth diseases and rabies. It only does this, however, at relatively high doses.
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Stone gives more than one hundred pages of descriptions of treatments using vitamin C, for a range of diseases and disorders which ex13’ 12 . pands yet further the list enumerated above. 12 The experimenters he cites report success with ascorbic acid in treating the common cold, 7 hepatitis, virus pneumonia, measles, chicken 19 pox, virus encephalitis, mumps, influenza, 15 rabies, mononucleosis, tuberculosis, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, bronchial asth4 ma, rheumatic. fever,, hay fever, snake and 19 15 spider bites, scorpion stings and burns. The different experiments discussed involved dosages up to 105 grams daily-more 17 than one thousand times the recommended daily allowances endorsed by such agencies as the Food and Drug Administration -in the United States. Of course, these dosages were references relating to mental stress and used in the treatment of sometimes critical mental disease affecting the ascorbic acid sickness, while the FDA recommendations are blood levels and also first calculated the for people in good health. Nonetheless, Stone ascorbic acid over dehydroascorbic acid believes that even a healthy adult requires ratios-morbidity indexes-which showed between three and five grams a day to mainsome startling statistics. tain maximum resistance to disease. Stone reports that a large amount of ascorbic These figures are assembled in the acacid eaten without other food may cause an companying table. upset stomach and diarrhea in some people, and so recommends that it be taken at the end The ‘normais had a morbidity index of of a meal, but admits no more serious side about 14 although an individual taking effects. He says it is no more toxic than I orhigher levels of ascorbic acid would have dinary sugar and far less toxic than salt. an even higher index. Those who were Ascorbic acid crystals can be bought at the critically sick but survived had a mortality local pharmacy for about $15 per kilogra mindex of about 1.0, while those who died 1% cents per gram. One level teaspoon is about 4 grams. Charpy, in 1948, got the idea that the ascorbic In the past year, since Dr. Stone’s book, a acid doses previously used were too low and fellow biochemist, the man who first isolated conducted a test using 15 grams of ascorbic acid ascorbic acid, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D. Ph. D., a day on six tuberculous patients. But even this and Nobel Laureate, has revealed that the test was bungled: the six patients selected for action of ascorbic acid is potentiated by wheat the tests were terminal cases expected to die germ. According to Szent-Gyorgyi, the wheat shortly and, in fact, one of the patients did die germ glucosides split in the body forming before the test could really get under way. Of methoxyhydroquinone and dimethoxyhydrothe other five, they were still alive six to eight months later, had gained from twenty to seventy quinone. The manganese of the wheat germ pounds, were no longer bed ridden, and had had catalyzes the autoxidation of the methoxya spectacular transformation of their general hydroquinone present and hydrogen peroxide condition. Charpy stated that while there was is formed along with the quinones. The not much modification in the physical apquinones are then reduced by the ascorbic acid pearance of their tuberculous lesions, they gave present, the ascorbic acid being oxidized to the impression of becoming in some way dehydroascorbic acid. The dehydroascorbic unaware of the enormous tuberculous lesions acid thus formed is then re-reduced to ascorbic they harbored. He noted that each patient had acid, completing the peroxidase system. taken about 3 kilograms of ascorbic acid during Szent-Gyorgyi suggests 2 grams of ascorbic the test with safety and perfect tolerance. a-cid daily with 2 ounces of wheat germ. Stone also presents a simple method of had much less, 0.3 to 0.5. During con‘determining the relative illness of a patient: valescence of the survivors, the morbidity In 1955, Chakrabarti and Banerjee index jumped to 3.0 to 5.0 determined both the ascorbic acid The comprehensive paper by Sokoloff (reduced) and dehydroascorbic acid and coworkers at the Southern Bio(oxidized) levels in the blood of many of Research Institute showed, among other their patients. They found that the ascorbic things, that blood-lipid abnormalities inacid levels went down and creased with advancing age and that dehydroascorbic acid levels went up as ascorbic acid at 2 to 3 grams per day for their patients became sicker and finally twelve to thirty months improved this died from meningitis, tetanus, pneumonia condition in 83 percent of their group of and typhoid fever. If the patients survived, sixty cardiac patients. The 17 percent that the trend was reversed. Hoffer and showed no effect may have been helped Osmond, in 1963, cited many other had their hypoascorbemia (vitamin C
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deficiency) been fully corrected by the use of more ascorbic acid daily. There are so many references in the medical literature showing that ascorbic acid requirements are increased in old age and that the elderly suffer from serious depletion, that only a small sampling can be quoted here. Yavorsky, Almaden, King in 1934, showed that the ascorbic acid content of human tissues decreases with age. The ages varied from one day to seventy-seven years in five groups and the tissues examined included the adrenals, brain, pancreas, liver, spleen, kidney, lu,ng, heart and thymus. A substantial drop was shown in all cases. Other references, indicating higher ascorbic acid requirements in the elderly and lower levels found in the body, are Rafsky and Newman, 1941; Thewlis and Gale 1947; Dawson and Bowers, 1961; Bowers and Kubik, 1965 ; Smolianski, 1965; Andrews and co-workers, 1966 ; O’Sullivan and co-workers, 1968 ; Mitra, 1970; and many more. Smolyanskii studied the effect of ascorbic acid on the production of important hormones from the adrenal glands of a group of 144 persons aged 60 to 90 years. He found that both the ascorbic acid blood levels and steroid hormone production were low. A single injectionof only 500 milligrams of ascorbic acid increased the urinary excretion of these hormones, indicating a rise in their production by the adrenal gland. Continuing these injections produced further rises in hormone production. It is likely that if these elderly persons had been receiving adequate ascorbic acid over the years, their hormone production would have been maintained at youthful levels. Anyone wishing to investigate further may find the following books helpful: The Healing Factor, Stone; The Living State with observations on cancer, Szent-Gyorgyi; Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling; Let’s Get Well, Adelle Davis; and the last several issues of Prevention magazine, published by Rodale Press.
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Orienteering got underway for another season with an meeting last organizational tuesday. There have been two meets-near Welland on may 13th, and near Acton on may 29th. Our club attended both sundays but the major rewards were the enjoyment of the outdoors and wet feet. A busy season awaits us as we are sponsoring a meet on june 17th. It is not too late to join so if you would like “to get away from it all” on the weekend you can get more information from our Secretary, Steve Wilson at 743-5384 or from our President, Dayle Vraets KINDER
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Registration is now open until monday, june 4 for the’ Kinder Swim Program. Classes are held tuesday morning from 9:30-11:OO am in the pool in the PAC for children ages l-5 of the faculty, staff and students. The cost is $2.66 to defray instructor costs. Each child is to be accompanied by an adult. Classes start tuesday, June 5th, at 930 am. To register, see the receptionist at the PAC. For further information contact Mr; Peter Hopkins at EXT 3532. CYSWOGINSTEIN
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Week Two-Six milesDominion Hotel-St. Jacobs, 8 p.m., thursday, june 6th. Monday, may 26th marked the first official week of Cyswoginstein. A lot of people have gotten a head start in the program in the last few weeks, but their miles will not be officially counted in their 100 mile total. Complete information on Cyswoginstein can be picked up at the Intramural Office or by calling EXT 3532. TUBING
After a year of resting on their the self -annointed laurels, illustrious waterbabies have returned to the tubes to defend their world championship. Six other contenders will mount their tubes in quest of the coveted championship. Other mounters include the pauliwogs, orphans, pool sharks, the a.s.t.‘s, titanics and water mothers. We know what will happen when the water mothers meet waterbabies. In the first week of play, the waterbabies played hard to get as they failed to show against the deadly pool sharks. The titanics sunk the pauliwogs with 10 shells to 8. The orphans drowned the a.s.t.‘s 13-10. Game of the week: thursday, June 6, orphans challenge their
womb mates, the water mothers. Game times are thursdays from 68 p.m. in the pool. BASKETBALL
Eleven teams started hooping and hollering monday, at 7 pm in
gyms 1 and 2 in the PAC. This summer, 2 leagues, A and B, have been set to balance the teams. After a two game schedule, the league will be reorganized as to strengths and weaknesses for the remainder of the schedule. Eight teams will advance to the playoffs. In league A the veteran coop math five played five players in double figures lead by D. Webers with 13 as they upset the defending champion St. Jeromes team 62-39. The village dons coasted to an easy 79-20 win over St. Paul%. In league B, south 7 pulled a one-up squeeze over south 8, 31-18. In the two remaining games some confusion reigned as the dribblebabies who were supposed to play the rookies from coop math went on to lose to math society while the grads who were scheduled against math sot defeated instead the rookies. Game of the week: monday, june 4, court 2,,7 p.m. The two mixed up teams mix it up against each other. grads vs dribblebabies. BALL
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After one week of play the t-nuts are the reigning favorites. In a somewhat one-sided effort they tooted past Chem Engineering 20 to 2. Not to be outdone, the roadrunners rushed past the architects 14-5, while f troop outflew the ball hawkers 6-l. In other games: ball hawkers and bearded clams drew 44, as did the ball hawkers and roadrunners 6-6. f troop upset the t-nuts 5-3 and the grads black balled the eight ballers 12-5. Game of the week: monday, june 4, 5 : 30 pm, f troop vs team 10. Game times are monday and Wednesday, 5:30-8:30 pm at Seagrams. SOFTBALL After 16 games
some interesting developments have occurred. Team 11, lower eng, has defaulted out enabling the feds to replace them for the remainder of the schedule. Kin 4 A looks very powerful in league I winning their first two encounters 21-10 vs south 8 and 15-4 against the kinnucks. Defending champions, math sot, used a few words and bats of their own in disposing of the seven words 15-6. In league III the jocks and socks squeaked a 9-6 win over the mudville nine, while grad chemistry pulled out all stops defeating the screaming yellow zonkers 9-2. In league II, upper eng shot down dumonts ducks 10-3 while the bagbiters chomped 4 A electrical 15-2.
Games are played every tuesday and thursday at 5 and 6%) pm. SOCCER
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mixed teams and others participating. Eight teams will advance to the playoffs after the 36 game schedule. On a cold and grey Waterloo evening, the 1973 intramural soccer season got off the ground after a week’s postponement due to bad weather and wet fields. The first game of the season saw the defending champions, the professionals, struggle to a l-l draw against a surprisingly strong crusaders squad. Despite the various backgrounds of the professionals, El Khashalo gave the crusaders a quick lead which they held until the dying minutes of the game when their defense began to crack- under strong pressure from the opposition. The crusaders could easily be the team to beat if only their forward line begins playing as a unit rather than showing off individually to their beloved fans. Math united, supposedly the farm team of manchester united, went all out in the first 5 minutes of their game, were rewarded by a , beautiful goal from leftwinger, Rick Cunningham, and then ran out of steam. The co-ed systems team immediately got the goal back and took complete control of the game from then onwards scoring yet another goal on the butterfingered Steve Smith and a totally disorganised math defense. It seems that the systems lovely playing on defense had the math offense entirely mesmerized-Ha ! Math sockets on the other hand showed up with only 8 players but experience combined with luck saw them hold the 73-A civil engineering squad to a 2-2 tie. Monday, may 26- more lousy weather and wet playing conditions created comedy for all. It was very difficult for players to prevent colliding into each other and to judge the speed and direction of the ball. In any event, systems united took advantage of the sloppy play by beating the fighting saints 3-1. Systems now lead the 10 team league, having won both their games to date. The other game had the
Canadian connection, a team that has looked very promising in their practices, win their first game over south 7 and 8 by default. 7 ASIDE
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The b’s better known as the “B.S.” are already enthralled in dissension. Rumour has it that players are disgruntled with their perfect schedule, own rules and footballs. A number of players remain unsigned. Furthermore, this year only 6 of 8 teams advance to the playoffs putting them in an awkward position of having to win a game. However, overcoming this denoument of power they upset south 7, 38-o. In other games the village dons blanked renison 28-0, and math sot socked their blood brothers 32-O. Game of the week: Wednesday, june 6, 7 p.m., Columbia 4, the b’s vs the blunt end.
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It looked like a tight game for the kin 2 b ballers,Monday night as the infamous Waterloo wonders surged ahead to a 9-3 lead at the end of the 6th. Stalwarts of the staff team dominated play from the start with 3 runs in the first. “Jerking” Judy Moore performing in the centre field position grabbed balls left and right. Backed up by a team of exceptional talent ranging from Sally “The Clipper” Kemp to Pat “Hands” Davis, the wonders were able to contain the bailers. It was 6-1 at the end of the 5th and 2 B finally came back to life. Not that they scored any runs but they managed to pick off a few hits and out the wonders 3 straight in the 6th. “Slim Pickins” McBride on third ,-finally got her game together and combined with Jackie “Grabber” Moad to outwit ‘the wonder batters, Barb, Pat and Gail on 3 successive _--plays. The wonders were wondering what was up and when Karen “Pinger” Pawelko came up smiling on first after a wonder miscalculation. The next 6 batters were also able to manage base -continued
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The officials for the Canadian University team going to the World Student Games in Moscow in august have been announced. Two members of the University of Waterloo community were among those named as officials of this team. Bob Graham, a member of the department of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies and UW’s swim coach, will take on the duties as coach of the women’s team. His previous experience as manager of the swim team for the 1970 Universiade held in Torino plus’ being voted university swim coach for 72-73 makes Bob Graham one of the best qualified officials on the team. The other university member to be named to the team as an official -was Paul Condon. His position with the team will be that of manager of the men’s basketball team. Paul Condon is a member of the athletic department and Director of Publicity and Public Relations for the Ontario University Athletic Association. Although this is his first involvement with major international athletic activities his past experiences with athletic events on campus and in Ontario gives him the background needed for the task. The other officials for the swim team are : Fouad Kamal, University of Ottawa (men’s coach); Robin Campbell, U of T (team manager); Lawrence Smuk, University of Calgary (diving coach). The ‘other basketball officials are : Paul Thomas, University of Windsor (men’s coach) ; Norm Vickery, UBC (women’s coach); and Pat Jackson (women’s manager). Those named as officials for the gymnastics team are : Tom Zivic, York University (men’s coach) ; Arno Lascari, UBC (men’s manager) ; Sandra Hartley, University of Alberta (women’s coach). For the track and field team the officials will be: Rolf Lund, Queen’s (men’s coach); Wendy Jerome, Laurentian (women’s coach); and Lyle Sanderson, University of Saskatchewan (team manager). The officials for the volleyball team are: Glen Conly, University of Winnipeg (men’s coach); Dennis Nord, University of Winnipeg (men’s manager) ; Frances Wigston, Western (women’s coach) ; and Mark Tennant, University of Saskatchewan (women’s manager). The officials for the wrestling team are : Gly~ Leyshon, Western (coach); and Gordon Gravie, Lakehead University. There will be some observers visiting the Kitchener-Waterloo area within the next few months to see if this area is suited to host the 1975 World Student Games. The final decision for the site of the 1975 Games will be made in Moscow this August.
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-‘I various motives and inner drama of a’society.” Sport is, in essence, the socialization of fitness, in McLuhan’s sense, for it-represents a microcosm of society’s inner aspects of competition, co/ operation. Society is goal=oriented as is sport. Sport, as an institution, must be examined in terms of its goals for, like society, it- may in , its development lose contact with its primary function. In the case of sport, this is the integration and coordination of the body into the life of the individual. If this is not done. the role of the body in general becomes dissociated from the day to day functioning of the individual in society. It is in the province of education that values must be defined and then instilled. But. in this area educators have failed not only in developing value systems that are humanely compatible with society, but also in making the body a significant part of one’s life. For the most part, sport, and. more importantly physical fitness, have been _ treated with a degrading jockstrap attitude by educators in the country. At a time when children could be instilled with an awareness of the importance of fitness, of the importance of integrating all aspects of their lives to attain a greater understanding of themselves, educators have instead instilled the impression that the locker room is the place for morons. The result is a fat society which conceives of the body as a utensil with which to eat, to sit and to fuck. Sport .has become a passive spectatorial activity, physical fitness a synonym for the absence of disease. Competition is conceived of as being a factor destructive to socialorganization ; however, this is a misleading half-truth. Competition as it exists, or as it is defined in terms of professional sport or even aggressive inter-school activity has as its emphasis winning at any price, development of acquired skills is an incidental characteristic . However, the real value . of competition lies in the development of individual skills. As such, competition does not exist outside of the realm of the individual player or the team, but its ties to the cult of head-hunting promoters .and fans and the ensuing social implications for the athlete have perverted its meaning. This phenomenon will exist as long as educators ignore the role of the body in education -but, in the same breath, perpetuate the overemphasized role of spectator sport. Sport must be an area of massparticipation as well as an area for the specialized super-athlete. The delicacy of the balance cannot be overestimated. With all fairness to most sports,’ organizations in the country, there is a general awareness that measures must be taken to change, the attitudes towards the education of youth in regard to sport and fitness. This has resulted, with the co-operation of the _ federal government, in the establishment of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Directorate (FASD),. a body of administrators whose function is to
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ternational competitions. With _ regard to this aspect, Sports Canada, part of FASD. coordinates administrative procedures and finances the various organizations. While on the surface Sports Canada seems in agreement with the philosophy of raising the level of international competition by raising the general levels of fitness in the country, they are, at present, takikig certain short cuts to ensure a little more immediate success than their programmes could venture to offer. The government, faced now with the financing of Montreal Summer Olympics in 1976 and possibly with the financing of the 1975 World Student Games in Kitchener, are t&ing a hard line on sports.TheI government’s concern with sport heightened. after the fiasco caused by the Canada-Soviet hockey series and they are now demanding results from the ‘proffered subsidies to athletic organizations. They are hoping, by this hard line, class that pressure can-be applied and _ results coerced. ‘FOUND However, the threat of financial withdrawal does not push athletes Fold necklace found near Health to faster times-it pushes promoters to shady deals. at the Services on May 21. Phone 884-7865. expense of the athlete and the LOST -, taxpayer. The promoter in this case is Sports Canada and the Brown -wallet with ID; brown leather sha-dy deal is the selling out of purse shoulder handle; blue-jean Canadian athletes in favour of jacket with with ID card at May 17th better athletes from the States. Mathsoc Pub. contact MC 3038 or ext ’ Sports Canada is demanding that 3134 the selection committee for the World Student Games select from PERSONAL * not only Canadian athletes attending Canadian schools, but also New French restaurant requires exthose attending American schools perienced, personable, waiters for full on scholarship. They are in ad- . time summer employment; possibility dition, stretching the limits of of part job year round. Mrs. Schwartz 653- 1108. ‘Canadian’ to ~ include those athletes who because of parental The Body -Politic, A Gay Liberation nationality are technically Journal available only at the Book Canadian, though they have lived Barn, 12 King Street North, Waterloo. in the U.S. all their lives. The general procedure for these _ We dare where others fear to tread. athletes is, failing -to make the FOR SALE American team, they then try out for the Canadian. Billy Watson weights with The threatened withdrawal of Whipper barbell-bar; 2 dumbbell-bars; 75 Ibs. financial support, 3 seems, has in weights and lead shoes. Very good .Pushed Sports Canada to the point condition t $20 . CalI 579 1806 . where-it must contradict itself. By extending the parameters of the’ 1 way ticket to London from Malton concept of ‘Canadian athlete’ expires June lb. $89. Phone 579-5527 Sports Canada is defeating its own or 5788814 evenings. purposes. It “Is presuming that Canadian athletes are not good King Size Waterbed, double bag with enough to earn the required built in foam pad, stained wooden -prestige for the country. While frame with lining. In excellent condition best offer over375.00. Call 576perhaps this is a valid assumption, 2701. it does no good to the programmes established in Canada to improve Stereo cassette deck, Dolby, CR02. the quality of athletics. This rather undignified scramble to the %win- Warranty of parts 1 year. $300 new ; sell for $170. 885-0951. ners podium is an indication that the government convictions are not what they should -be. By its Shaipe Mk. II headphones.- List price $50; asking $25. Call Bob 579-6798. actions the federal government has consented to forget its -WANTED representatives in _ 2 order, primarily, to gain prestige, and Small upright refrigerator wanted in then to gain a majority at the polls. _,good shape. Call 885-1660 or ask for -.
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Inside a explained she had always brought her receive unemployment benefits but does children up to respect the police but not know what she will do after they run “when I saw what happened and how we out. were treated by our own city police, I had “If they run out then I’d have to look no more respect. ” for another job. I know it would be hard to adjust to another job because when you Both she and her husband are now on Behind fhe picket get to a certain age....’ 7 unemployment and while the financial -____the mass rallies, _____. is moderately good now, she . or Pauline Moser the past year of situation lines and the headlines, are women does not know what they will do if the the strike has been a frustrating benefits are cut. But to her the support the experience but also had its who have-kept the strike against the union is receiving from other people and moments of fun. Sitting in her comfortable Dare going day-by-day the support the Dare workers give each ’ living room, she and her husband Willard -- company other makes her ready to carry on the described the time they followed a truck for a full year nowi strike and continue the boycotting. trying to unload cookies. They finally Not all the people who have been out on caught up with it at a terminal after a long strike have been active and committed. chase around the city. According to Grace Litwiller, the union Her husband, 15-year-old son and crew, and a lot of married daughter, have given her a lot of really has a skeleton by deanna kaufman support in the last year. Her son has people who never went on the picket line or went boycotting still received their distributed leaflets and her daughter strike pay. helped her keep a scrapbook on the strike. steelworkers in Hamilton, autoworkers in portrait of a Dare striker does Although money has not been too big a She is concerned, because if everyone and electrical workers from not fit the stereotype of a Oakville problem with the Moser family, it is who was out on strike had worked the unionist. Most of the people who around the province, they do not hide their always something that has to be conboycott would have been even more efhave been out on strike for over. a year are bitterness about what they see is a lack of sidered since Mr. Moser has knee trouble fective. Although she has complaints women, middle-aged or approaching it, help from unionists in the K-W area. and at times cannot work. about slackers, she found those who married with children still in school. “Our own twin cities don’t support us; “We missed the income at first, it would worked together discovered new ways of . But it has been women like these who it’s very poor. Maybe it’s because they have helped us. We lost a lot of money expressing themselves. have stayed on the picket line throughout think it’s not their problem, not their during strike. But you,can manage if you concern. I know, before I got involved I the, winter, talked to grocery store “The strike has done something for want. I’d scratch at anything before being never thought about it.” managers countless times about not some women. It’s made them realize that a scab.” She warned that it was not just a case of selling Dare cookies and driven across the they have rights. Now they speak up A *tall, thin woman, Moser has been one union against one company in an province in search of support for their without being bossy. This is something especially active on the boycott. Although isolated incident. Problems are coming in strike. stores they have previously convinced to wonderful to see and it’s not just hapThey are mothers with worries about many factories and workers there could be not carry Dare products have gone back to pening to young women, they’re now just success in school and faced with the Canadian Driver Pool their childrens’ carrying them and have to be talked to coming out of themselves.” strikebreakers, she added. meeting the payment on the house. But once again, she thinks that a boycott can What happens now that the strike is a Another striker, Grace Litwiller, beyond their similarities with almost any be an effective weapon. year old and the union is in danger of agreed. Not too many unions around here women in any neighborhood in Kitchener“The boycott would take about a year being decertified is a question that none of . supported us, especially where there were Waterloo, the women who worked at Dare or year and a half to break him. We should the women could answer. There is a feeling a lot of women working in the factories, and are now out on strike have learned have started earlier to beat him out. We that they have wasted a year, but there is she said. something in the past year about should have begun in June or July and not also pride that they did not bend under and “Why women would treat other women relationships between companies have waited until fall.” pressure, that they just did not drift away. unions and have _ also discovered that way is beyond me. We women They discribed morale as fairly high but ‘I learned an awful lot in working definitely have to make a stand together.” something about themselves and each they also realistic and know that evenwith the union,” she added. “I learned The greying, middle-aged woman said the other. how a company like Dare can be so tually they may have to look for other had not hurt her as much This is in no sense an attempt to make a strike work. terrible. You have to be strong to beat Mr. as it had women who were the survey of all the strikers at Dare and to monetarily There is regret about the strike and its Dare, you have to be determined.” sole support of their families. arrive at something or someone called Evelyn Henderson is anot%‘& long-time consequences. Although they did not like “I actually went out to work for the “typical”. The five women interviewed, ail the working conditions at Dare, it was worker at Dare, generally happy to work little extras. We had to cut these out. Our though active, were not union leaders who to work there since they lived there because it was convenient and one convenient food budget wasn’t cut but not quite as generally were the men workers. And like in the east end of Kitchener. Dare Foods who voted against the strike. But she too many clothes were bought. many of the other women in the union, the has found that her outlook has been Ltd. has lost some of its most loyal, “But it wasn’t the money that suffered, reason they worked at Dare was to competent employees and turned them changed during the past year. it was the morale. I enjoyed working at supplement the family income; only one “I don’t care about my job any more. I into active union supporters. The strike Dare, it was close to my home. I didn’t woman was the chief money earner for want to see Mr. Dare put in his may have been lost but in the process a lot vote for the strike.” However, once the ther family. Diane Pruderer, a young place. ” But the company is not the only of women seem to have found that they union members made their decision, this petite woman with dark hair, summarized thing that she is disillusioned about. She can fight back. mother of five children stuck by the the attitudes of a lot of the women before vote the strike vote last May. “I was a union member because I had to “I couldn’t work with people like that be a union member. It was just another again; couldn’t look at those so-called everyday thing.” Now, although she was bosses. Dare makes us out as some kind of one of the 50 on the list selected by Dare to monsters. This is principle with me that go back to work, Pruderer is vehemently I’ve stood up and been ridiculed for a year. against the company. Till the bitter end I’ll stick to it.” “I thought that list was a real farce. It was the action of the Dare company calling in the Canadian Drivers Pool as Dare knew we wouldn’t accept something strikebreakers, hauling scabs across the like that.” Pruderer, who is single and picket lines that made generally softliving at home, initially voted to accept spoken older women find a principle-the the contract but went along with the continuation of the their union and their strike after the majority voted for it. cause. While before the union had been a “I’ve been wakened up a lot since convenience, something that one had to then,“she said. Since the strike started have in ‘a factory for a little protection, she has had to go to work to support after months out on strike the union and herself but was laid off in January and is now drawing unemployment. From the the people in it become much more im,first of the year she has been active in the portant than lost wages. One woman who is the sole support of boycott against the company; trying to her eight-year-old son was able to survive get people interested, trying to keep the the first bad months with strike pay, food boycott moving. Like many of the other women, she has allowances and because at one point the union helped pay her rent. traveled from city to city talking to other “This was the very first time I was in a unions about getting support and money, union”, Jeanne Gagnon said, “and now I The marchers who showed up for the rallies and the persons who spoke at them and and, also like them, doing something she would never go anywhere without a the persons in the headlines because of court actions were most/y men. But it was had never dreamed of before the strikewomen who made up the majority of th’e Dare workers’ union and it was the women union.” Speaking slightly accented talking in front of a large group. who did most of the work behind the scenes and, perhaps, who learned the most from English, she said that family finances But while the strikers are pleased about the year-long stfike. were better now that she was able to the support they have received from the
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By and large we pay far too strongly against the prevalence of sexist niuch for bands which couldn’t survive attitudes in the administration and the outside the high school dircuit; they are student body, in every instance from too loud and too low in quality for the preferential hiring practices to the use of price we pay. Better groups-even if strippers at pubs. economic considerations meant fewer The elevation of) specifically anti-female pubs-would draw better crowds. attitudes to the level of council policy was Also worth a look is the inhibiting accomplished via the resounding defeat of nature of the, now-burgeoning price of a a motion which would have abolished ‘the drink. Recetit legislation in the province Board of Entertainment% practice of has placed a new levy against every tie setting up a preferentid pricing structure of beer and bottle of liquor sold under a for women at all federation pubs. banquet licence, the kind which allows .us The rationale stated for t&is policy by to have our pubs. This levy is -a direct result of-the hotel-motel owners prided Board of Entertainment chairman Art of the Tory Ram and assented to by president Telegdi ’ position in the waist-pocket (of course the type of action has it that pubs are a “product” that the government required to do something on this level is federation is out to “sell”. Presently this pblitical, and we shouldn’t commodity is doing rather poorly and the avowedly our effi+ncy men to get their major reason which Ram and friends have ‘expect hands dirty on that score). In response to isolated for this is the poor attendance the levy and “increased labour costs”, bar ratio on the part of ,women. The way around this is to assure ‘a good, turnout of services has raised its prices thu,s placing beer and liquor (in any worthwhile women-whi&h will in turn bring men-by quantity) beyond the means of most setting up a di$covnt structbre for .women. students. Five bucks for ten With the meat rack well&packed, the . university consumers will come in droves to gape and beers at the pub doesn’t balance out so well against the same amount for twenty fondle. “four beer at home. One, wonders when contemphting this More importantly though, if council logical tour de force, ‘this well-spring of chooses to bypass these and other equally whether the current clear thinking, valid considerations and elects to settle on federatioxl types haven’t forsee the the absence of women at pubs as the key to the businessentire operation inhibiting factor in running 4 financi~y administration, efficiency man ethos. It is viable operation, they would do well to dip certainly true that at times federation beneath the surface of things and ask pubs are poorly attended; however ‘it does themselves just why-when so much not follow (except perhaps in the Board of energy and ‘time are expended on en. ~Entertainment macho doublethink) @at tertainment L-women don’t come. Will we must immediately opt .for some someone suggest an innate hatred of behavioural incentive - an ‘ ‘incidentally” boogie bands among the women of this sexist one-in order to make people are? Perhaps a widespread incidence of participate. withered feet which allows only a lucky few to get about without crutches or Federation representatives are always wheel&h+? An epidemic of alcoholic frothing at the mouth about the fact that fathers ‘put all of them off people who they are first and foremost a service organization; this argument has it that drink? Hot likely. . A more fruitful explanation might be the money collected frdm student activity derived from a quick glance at the atfees should be used to provide basic ti&des and practises of the male services-and conveniences which otherwise population that frequents the pubs. The would be unobt&nable on campus., fact that many women don’t care to be Proponents of pubs, concerts-and special mentally undressed and raped everytime weekends inevitably arme that “students want” whatever it is they are pushing as they move across a dance floor, that they the rationale for the budgets they wish to don’t care to be badgered about whether have passed. It is thus exceedingly odd’ or n_ot they like to fick, that in essence they may not c&e for the belligerent, that when one of thqse serv@es, which slobbering sexism that is cornrnoII’ fare at everyone desires so much, is in e&nomic jeopardy, the immediate response is to a lot of campus pubs, seems not to have the minds of federation find a gimmick which will mak& the old crossed representatives as yet. There is every “prod&t” more easy to peddle. One would that women like to de, dance ’ think that the consumer is telling us ‘possibility tid make love as much and Fore than the something about the seryice offered-i.e. male bonvivants at Waterloo-and that that th&y simply aren’t interested, or that
they do not need to be cajoled into it by, preferential price&i there ‘is some indication that m&my of them, when they dc~ participate in these things, @fer to do it on .a more liberated level than that encouraged and tolerated at campus gvents. If there is any single factor which keeps women away from pubs, it is most certainly the sexually repre?sed, inverted maleness : that reduces everythingespecially human 1;ove &d passion-to a commodity to be consumed, a reprehbnsible activity that we allow to pass for’ human behaviour. The only way to run really goo&ubi Ga congenid atmosphere in ,which people can really 91&c and get it on, is ti attempt to counter and eliminate that type of behaviour at-all times. Maybe that entails educating ourselves a little more clearly about sexist attitudes and behaviour, about where they are propagated and what keeps them alive. Maybe that entails carrying on educational programs on the setting up sessions around campus9 human sexuality and the warped forms of expression so many peo$e are pushed into by their upbringing. Maybe that means challeriging the fibre of university life, which is rigidly se&t, in order that all those why spend time here may be/encouraged to learn to play differently. And maybe that means that it takes a little longer before things are “balanced” at federation pubs.
Of course these types of consideration hold no sway with a council and executive that eschews the connection between mnomics and @h@losophy, in ord& that their conscien~ 6ll fe&l better. Art Rani has sug&ested that “people prefera mixed g;roup instead of a stag” and so long as it can be shown that this lead@ to a healthy budget, then our council members have no qualms about chucking -any&i& as tattered~ as “mere principre” out the window, Art Ram says’ he’s ~rry “if I’m discriminating against anyone, but I’ve’ got to: do something”,; the books m&t ljalance, its economic&y necessary. Shane Roberts, past federation president, says he doesq’t think “it’s. a matter of pimping for the engineers”, it’s just a question of achieving a balance at so&&events. Bullshit. It’s &cessa.ry if we are to live as self-respecting individuals that we place our beliefs above the dictates of the market place ad allow the former to determine the course of the latter. It’s necessary to take a stand oq principle first, then to ask ourselves what’s financially possible next. No matter how blind people choose to become by the waving of the banners of efficiency and expediency, their elevation fo a guiding . principle means in this case that women are being addressed “as a seryice to be provided”. In the meantime these people speak publicly on our behalf:
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ART EXHIBITION-High School Art University of Waterloo Gallery ’ until June 3 From June 6-29: 60 Years of Picasso. Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9am.-4pm. Sundays 2pm.-5pm. Admission is Free
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The Seventh Sealdirected
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ART EXHIBITION-“ART FORMS ‘73” A Juried Show of Area artists Opens June 7 K-W Art Gallery 43 Benton St., Kitchener
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