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Directives have been issued by the Kitchener-Waterloo regional police force that pinball machines are to cease operation by December 31. These machines have been used in the K-W region for the past. ten years ‘with no apparent effect on the region’s standards of morality but now there is a question regarding the legality of the pinball machines. Legislation that outlaws slot machines is being used against pinball machines. Waterloo campus could be effected -by this bold move if they ever:: come onto campus * and remove the pinball machines housed in the games room of the campus centre. A few years ago the campus centre board authorized the installation of #eleven pinball machines and since that time the federation has operated the venture.. ’ The question of whether or not pinball machines are illegal arose after a recent decision by Patrick White of the provincial court at a show-cause-hearing on July 12, 1973 in Ottawa. The-machines were found to be innocent. In spite of the decision by White, the police consider all the pinball machines seized in the Ottawa area to ‘be illegal under the Criminal Code. It was reasoned that White was concerned with one particular machine. The police, on the basis of legal advice received, believe that the machines seized contravened the Criminal Code as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Regina versus Toupin. The police in Ottawa see it as their duty to proceed in accordance with the Criminal Code where they find a machine is illegal. The main defense for the pinball machine, in the eyes of the law, is that it can be proven to be a ‘game of skill rather than just a game of chance. The following is the evidence given in Ottawa in an attempt to prove that pinball is a skill : “The evidence discloses that by inserting a ten cent piece into the machine a player will receive five balls. He will be entitled to a free game if his score exceeds 68,000 points. The game begins when the player, by means of a push button, causes one of the balls to be ejected out into the playing surface, which is essentially a table sloped towards the player. At the bottom of the playing surface there are two flippers, one on each side of the centre, with an opening between them approximately twice the size of the ball. These -may be put in motion by pressing a button so that if the ball comes in their direction it can be returned up the playing surface. Along and upon the playing surface there are various buffers, bumpers and other obstacles, some of which when struck by the ball will register points. Only one ball is in play at any given time. Should a ball be ejected and fall back down the playing surface and between the flippers without being touched by any of these obstacles, it is not _ expended as it would be had it first struck an obstacle, but continues in play by further ejection.

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. The object of the game is to keep the ball in motion and striking those objexts which will register the highest points and in preventing it from falling into the slot at the bottom between the flippers and thus being expended. Detectives Keeler and Ferguson, who were involved in the seizure of the machine, played a number of times and obtained various scores averaging around’ 20,ooO, with a high of 46,480. Mr. Patla, who was called by the respondent and who recently won a pinball tournament, played two games as a demonstration for the court. On each occasion he obtained a score in excess of 85,000. On all the evidence, I find that nudging the machine as the ballis

in play is an intended and essential proprietor of a hall where pinball feature of the game. If a player machines are used with running a nudges the machine too much, it common gambling house, will be will tilt and all balls will be forheard in Ottawa courts early in the fei ted automatically. new year. Some delicacy and experience are At a recent meeting of the Ontherefore required to know how far tario Police Association the zeal this action may be carried. It is against the pinball machines was with this action that a skilled and born. It seems that all the police experienced player is able to inchiefs far the various regions in Ontario decided that the evil influence the direction of the ball, the force with which it will strike fluence of pinball machines was the buffer, bumper and other suddenly too much for the provinces population. obstacle on the playing surface All thee operators of premises and where it will go after the obstacle is struck. The combination dealing in the K-W area with the of the nudging action and the use of exception of U. of W. and W.L.U. the flippers essentially corwere warned that the machines by the responds to the use of the cue in a were to cease operations end of the year. It is Wilfred game of billiards.” new year’s resolution A case in Ottawa, charging the I Heinrich’s

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that pinball machines will not taint the character of the local citizenry in the coming year. The Federation of Students at the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University sent a delegation to the meeting of the Police Commission held December 5th at 8pm at the Elmira Townhall. Federation President Andrew Telegdi brought the following points of information to the attention of the police Commission: 0 The Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation in Canada unanimously recommended that the Criminal Code be amended to exempt- from the definition of slot mac’hines any machines dispensing entertainment only, including free games, but not wares, merchandise or money. l Otto Lang, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has indicated that the recommendation of the Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation in Canada would be acted upon early in the next year. Provincial Court Judge J. Kirkpatrick, the chairman of the Police Commission, commented that in light of the impending legislation by Otto Lang, the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in Canada, to remove any doubt regarding the legality of pinball machines, perhaps a stay of execution was in order. The commission, along with Heinrich, were unanimous in attesting to the stupidity of the Criminal Code regarding the pinball machines. The Police Commission passed a motion that requested Heinrich to contact the Attorney General of Ontario and inform him of the statements by Otto Lang, the Attorney General of Canada regarding the impending legislation on pinball machines and request further direction. The Police Commission made it clear that if no directives are received from the Attorney General of Ontario by the Chief of Police, then he may enforce the law as he sees fit- Heinrich further continued in his claim that his hands are tied regarding the matter and that he was acting on the directive received from the Provincial Attorney General’s Department. Telegdi pointed out to the Commission that Heinrich as the Chief of Police has discretionary powers. The Police Chief in North Bay. rescinded his order to interfere with the pinball machines in his locality. Ottawa police, where the controversy over pinball machines has recently started, has only seized 12 machines. It would appear that Heinrich could at his pleasure either ignore the enforcement of the law which he acknowledges to be ridiculous, or seize a small number of machines. Since Heinrich has difficulty distinguishing between where he has powers and where he can only follow orders, pinball operators are hoping that the attorney general is quick to answer the mail. -andrew

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-We ‘t heed ou ‘Job security’ has never been a strong point of the hotel business but, nevertheless, many people find themselves in this unpredictable sort of work. The pay is never good-usually lousy-and the turnover of personnel is higher than in most other businesses. In a that boasts lively town ‘Oktoberfests’ the number of people involved in the hotel trade is perhaps unusually high. Also, in a town with a large student population a large number of people are interested in finding part-time, or make-do sorts of jobs. Waterloo Motor Inn, the recently completed local motel that receives much official university business,, is no different from the stereotype. Labour is not unionized, wages are variable, and protection from the whims of managers is non-existent. Part-time University of Waterloo student Ruth Plant began working for the inn on October 15 of this year. She was paid $2.25 an hour for working on the front desk. Plant worked an eight hour shift without ‘breaks. According to the department of labour, employers must allow their employees a half-hour break after five hours work although they do not at the same time have to pay them. Plant was paid every two weeks and on the second pay cheque she noticed a discrepancy between what she had tallied as her hours and what she was being paid for by the inn. Speaking to pay clerk Claire Jenkins she discovered that the inn had been deducting the half-hour from her pay every day, even though she had been working the day straight through. Plant brought the matter to the attention of her immediate superior, front desk manager Randy Foster. Foster was also unaware that the money had been deducted from the pay for a break that Plant had never seen. Together they went to b the vice-president, and part-owner of the inn, A. Kunschner and explained the situation to him. The problem seemed to be that there was no one to take over the desk when Plant took a break. The three resolved this problem and Kunschner, after first protesting that the amount of work did not warrant a break, agreed to allow Plant and Foster to take one halfhour break in their eight-hour day, as long as they punched out for that time. Plant asked that she also be paid the money owed to her in back wages; Kunschner replied that the ‘benefit’ would only be considered for this cay cheque. When Plant told him that she would take the issue to the Department of Labour, Kunschner responded with, “we ’ don’t need your kind around here”. In her last pay cheque Plant found that she had been reimbursed for the lost money-it

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amounted to about twenty-five dollars. But because she was so angry at the treatment she received from Kunschner the matter has still been brought to the attention of the Department of Labour. They intend to audit the books of the inn to ensure that everyone that should be receiving the back pay will, in fact, get it. -Susan

large in all its variety-income, ethnic background, religious background-in which these large numbers of young people are brought harmoniously into a public life which they are free to enter, to criticize or stand apart from. This is the rhetoric. “The strike brought down facts which were something like this: the university in its special interests of students, faculty and administration, was supremely indifferent to the fate of some five hundred working people who were subsisting on slave wages. When the strike came down so did the rhetoric. It became. more and more difficult as the days passed for indiffekent and hostile faculty members to sustain the rhetoric of their disciplines whether religion, social sciences, literature, history

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Berrigan Canada the Covering ground from struggle of-striking Western farm workers to Canada’s destiny and the mindless empiricism of university, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan sent silencing jolts into a reverent audience that would be the envy of any clergyman. Berrigan spoke to well over one thousand people last Saturday in Toronto’s Metropolitan United Church. Eighteen months in the Danbury Federal Penitentiary for burning draft cards and the therapy of probation has not “rehabilitated” proudly him, i Berrigan proclaimed. For the time being he’s fighting in Canada, his current warring territory the University of Manitoba where, as a visiting professor of Theology, he is religiously trying to organize support for the farm workers strike and university maintenance staff who are tryink to eke out a more equitable - place for themselves in that particular bureaucracy. Berrigan’s story of his colleagues and his institution is not new : “The university exists, according to its own rhetoric, as a community of compassion and skill in which large numbers representing the community at

posed and said so and welcomed scab labour to keep us from drowning in our garbage. In the religion department, things were a little bit more murky, as they have always been. One passed up and down the corridors separating the offices of professors thinking of nothing so sharply as a kind of big city’funeral parlour in which there was wall to wall death and the opportunity to view the corpses of

gurus who had declared themselves, either by inaction or overt hostility, indifferent to the issues of the striking working people. “They would neither appear on the picket line nor call off their classes. nor refuse to cross these lines, nor indeed, enter into something so modest as a -day’s boycott of classes in favour of discussion of the issues of the strike. ,“Suddenly those who were really trying for education into human life became aware of the enormous gap separating performance and language. Out of some 900 to 1,000 professors, some 25 could be found actively interested in the fate of those people-those invisible people-who had been serving them: that is to say, washing their toilet bowls, sweeping and mopping their floors, removing their garbage, serving their coffee in the lounges, making life easy for the intellect so the intellect might remain disembodied from human life.” Berrigan went on to explore that perpetual distance between words and performance when human life is in jeopardy-that distance which he characterizes as haunting academia in its impotence. Stripping away the illusion that many university people are “involved”, Berrigan chided students, faculty and administration. For all of Canada, he pointed out to the shallow comfort to be culled in realizing that Canadians have escaped much of the political experience which frayed the US in

the sixties; a comfort which he sees as cold indeed, since there is no longer any way of bypassing that experience when America is crumbling from top to bottom. “There is no one of us who has not had to see himself herself anew as agents of death or agents of a new life according to our choices. There is no one of us who has not had to reflect on the most distant implications of our most immediate activities on the lives and deaths of Chileans, South Africans, Brazilians, and above all, Vietnamese.” As a sympathizer, critical observer and now participant in Canadian life, Berrigan presented a mixed picture of optimism and suspicion about Canada’s destiny. He stacked odds of poor prognosis against another vision of this country with I a combination of circumstance, people and space a safe enough distance from the genocidal practices of the US which would still allow a rethinking of Canada’s future, particularly in its relationship to the States. Clear about the changing pyramidal structure of Canadian society with fewer families at the top and a widening base so that the rich become richer and therefore less open to conscience, he depicted Canadian poverty as ‘less and less’ visible, more and more present”. Speaking about the

Canadian complicity in Vietnam and Canada’s role “of mopping up after American murderers”, Berrigan, tentative but hopeful about any reservoir of human decency,. appealed to Canada to absorb Vietnamese prisoners now tortured and dying in Americanconstructed tiger cages of Vietnam. After his brief but scathing comments Berrigan responded to questions from the audience. He partially explained his capacity to sustain his own momentum and conviction while many other activists grow cynical arid cash in for an MG. “We are all of us afflicted with the illusion that real change is cheap or quick or without cost to us”; that without giving up much of la dolce vita, the world- will somehow change. Convinced that there are no shortcuts, “no bloodless, sweatless or tearless way” to deep and sustaining social change, he also made clear his belief that problems in the “Third are multiplied by the World” snail’s pace of moral change in the so called “First World”. “The cost of our ethical retardation and selfishness and. racism and warmaking is the constantly multiplied deaths of peoples around the world.” Towards the end of the evening as Berrigan was swarmed by members of the audience, many conspicuously of the cloth, it was apparent that the politics of religion are gaining fruitful recognition in traditionally cloistered minds. -marlene

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Divided bY The department of Manpower and Immigration compiled a summer employment survey of post-secondary students in Canada for 1972. An advanced report on the main findings was released in April and the final report, entitled “Student Summer Employment in Canada 1972” is now available. Based on responses of students at the University of Waterloo the following data was released. Of the 10,920 students enrolled in 1972, 10,480 sought employment. Only 5 per cent of those seeking work did not get a job. This finding, however, can be misleading unless the number of weeks worked is taken into consideration Of the total student population 74 per cent, worked between 1 and 12 weeks with 24 per cent of the total being employed for less than eight weeks. Only 26 per cent of the entire student body worked for what could be called an ‘entire summer’. There was some indication that for a significant proportion of the students (42 percent) working for less than the ‘entire’ summer was a matter of necessity not choice. Furthermore, as would be expected a greater percentage of the women students worked fewer weeks than their male counterparts (34 percent compared to 20 percent working less than 8 weeks>. Also, more women than men indicated a desire to work longer than they did. This would provide evidence for the fact that women are discriminated against in the-market place. The average earnings of all students was 1,043 dollars but this figure when divided by sex shows a great disparity. Men on the average earned 1,144 dollars whereas women earned only 683 dollars, about half the earning power of the men. This difference cannot be accounted for simply by the difference in time worked, it would indicate a great difference in pay. Women on the average also saved more than men did. On the average the men spent about as much as the women earned (673 dollars spent compared to 683 dollars earned). In both cases, (men saving 676 dollars and women saving 452 dollars) it-is not a good financial base on which to incur a 2,000 or more cost of a year’s education. In the case of the women it is not even enough to pay tuition fees. Considering the state-of-theeconomy it is safe to assume that the situation for 1973 will be worse than that for 1972 and yet there is no discussion of lowering the tuition fees which were raised last year or dropping the loan ceiling back to 600 dollars. -david

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Carrying on in Montreal Following the first in a series of thirteen trials for performing illegal abortions, Henry Morgentaler is back at work in his east-end Montreal clinic, providing abortions for those women that want them. Morgentaler, a qualified physician, was acquitted by a eleven man and one woman jury last month and has been freed while the prosecution gathers their strength for another round in the courts. Apparently, they plan to appeal the ruling and take the case to the supreme court. Morgentaler uses the vacuum suction method of abortion and has a 100 per cent accuracy rate in aborting pregnancies under 12 weeks in duration. The operation takes five minutes and Morgentaler averages about 10 to 12 abortions a day. Clients are, given birth control information and usually a prescription for the birth control pill. Morgentaler dissuades the use of abortion as a birth control method.

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Christmas is coming and while you may have visions of sugar plums dancing in your head the toy producers have something else in mind for themselves and the children they produce for. Toronto Star writer, Ann Farrell included this week a helpful list of toys acceptable for boys as well as a list of toys acceptable for those pretty little girls. For girls under the age of two Farrell suggests a stuffed animal or a musical box that can easily be attached to the crib. However, for little boys in the same age group the appropriate toys are either a building blocks set which “gives plenty of scope for construction” or a miniature railroad complete with “magnetic couplings, wooden track, and viaduct to assemble”. And then from the ages three to eight, the girls are still apparently interested in stuffed toys and little more, for Farrell has suggested that perennial favourite-raggedy ann. Of course, for the more advanced among the girls there are dolls that talk or play music from somewhere deep within their bodies. Meanwhile, the boys have moved up to dart games, a larger construction set or a kit designed to explore magnetic force through building and experiments. Then the suggestions take a strange turn-at the age of eight to fourteen there is no distinction made betweeen girls and boys. There are in fact no toys suggested and the only advice is that games should involve the whole family-“certainly these games often appeal equally to boys and girls”.

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limits of the purgeThe return of Juan Peron to Argentinian politics raised a number of questions as far as the political future of the country. The followihg article, by John Morris, seems to clearly outline a definite trend towards the imposition of an intolerant and repressive state, behind the guise of -~ popular government. “With his applause for the right wing and his allusions to the Juventud Peronista (JP, the Peronist Youth, a left tending group), Juan Peron has initiated the ideological purge that is being readily carried out by rightist elements. This is why we are analysing the situation, one which at present is less than encouraging”. In this manner one of the Buenos Aires JP leaders manifested his concern with Peron’s recent political manoeuver. The purge, initiated in early October with the publication of “Reserved Document #l” (Peron’s go ahead signal for the forces of reaction) has reached a critical point, in middle November, as the right has systematically attacked all leftist orientations within the Peronist movement. The complaint of the JP leaders stems from a speech that Peron gave to the CGT (General Workers Convention), in late November, when he stressed the need “to combat any infiltration in the ranks of the Peronist youth movement so that we can be assured our young pe.ople will be lead by people deserving of our (their) trust”. For the normally evasive Peron the attack could not be more direct: because with the exception of the Syndicalist Peronists (a ,remarkably conservative group) all the other Peronist youth organizations have leftist tending leaders. The attack was also quite unexpected, as it is the first time Peron directly attacked his youth but nevertheless his attack supporters, finalizes the pressure that was already being felt by the Peronist left. On November 12, the leader of the Buenos Aires JP, Carlos Dante Gullo (and apparently the JP leader of Argentina), consulted with the minister of the interior, Benito Llambi and the Federal police chief The topic of this congeneral Iniguez. sultation revolved around the, series of attacks the JP was suffering over the last two months, Gullo said that “from now on the JP will use the same weapons”. He was referring to the assassinations of the machine gunning of youth leaders, their offices, the kidnappings of their members and the extremely strong accusations made against the JP through use of advertising in the major papers of The gravity of the present Argentina. situation can be deterrrjned by the special - JP congress called for November 16th, “in a secret place”. In the Argentinian congress, on the other hand, a grand purge was also in the Peronist conservative workings: representatives prepared a document to

send to the Superior Provisionary C&ncil gf the Justicialista movement asking for the expulsion of JP representatives. In the universities, the appeasement promised by Peron does not seem to rest on paper. The president of the university of Buenos Aires, Enrique Marinez Martinez, the suczessor of Rodolpho Puiggros who was removed in the days of Lanusse, also runs the risk of not being re-appointed due to his affinity with the J .P. Martinez, like all other university presidents exercised the formality of resigning when Peron took power and to wait re-appointment. Peron, however, does not seem inclined to reappoint him but to use the occasion to substitute a moderate. Finally the confirmation of the members of the Superior Provisionary Council of the Justicialista movement, shows the rightist trend with the leader of the Republic of Argentina’s inexpressive Peronist youth (the JP’s most ferocious rival), being included as a judge. In the ideological purification in trade unions the purge reached its greatest intensity, and it increased the influence of Peronist syndicalism. A law now being debated in congress (where the Justicialists have a clear majority) will allow the CGT to :intervene in any trade union in the country, whether it is Peronist or not. THe basis for such a law is what is known as “uerticalidad”, the strange rule of Justicialismo that was mentioned by Peron at his visit to the CGT: “in our movement, one never orders, one guides. To order is to obligate. To guide is to persuade. Everyone has a right to his own opinion. Sometimes those nurtured with good faith think differently about a certain policy. Generally they are accused of being traitors. It is not that they are it is because they think being traitors, differently, whether they are right or the leadership of the wrong. We, movement could easily eliminate them totally, but we never will except through the disciplinary courts”. However, inside this apparent gentleness of guidance, the CGT through the Argentine Federation of Power and Light (one of the 62 organizations under the CGT, which in turn constitutes the strength of orthadox Peronist syndicalism) suspended the Light and Power Coroba union. This was one of the most important non-Peroniist leftist unions and was directed by August0 Tesco, who nearly ran against Peron in the recent election (September 23rd). The Cordoba union once purged, still voiced, the next day, its resistance declaration: “ the Cordoba Light and Power union will always defend the unity of workers, the right to approve or disapprove, to identify or reject and to applaud or critieize .” Within Peronism and still in the syndicalist sector, the Working Peronist Youth (ident’ified to the JP and not with the CGT) is threatened with a purge for its

opposition to a law debated in congress. One of its leaders was kidnapped November 15th. JP leader Dante Gullo discussed the matter with the secretary of security, who reassured Gullo that such kidnappings would not occur again. In the syndicalist conflicts it seems that the Peronist left were (are) placed in the same boat, suffering similar sanctions. And this sort of “disgrace solidarity” might develop among the unions not affliated with the orthodox Peronist CGT, in the conflicts. also reached the The purification provincial level and the mentioned Cordoba Light and Power union purge is merely one example. It is still worth remembering the recent rally on October 17th organized by the JP and-with the presence of Cordoba governor Obregon Cano and ex-president Hector Campora.. The right wing (within the Peronist movement) demanded the immediate expulsion of both Campora and Cano from the Justicialists (i.e. Peronist) movement for supporting a rally “where Peron was being insulted”. The conflict ended with Campora being appointed ambassador to Mexico and with the Governor Ricardo Obregon Cano nearly losing his position. Another governor close to the JP, Albert0 Martinez Baca of Mendoza also suffered serious threats. He had to negotiate for three weeks in Buenos Aires to continue as governor, and only after agreeing to change his cabinet for a more moderate one. Given the precedence set for these two governors, it is safe to assume that dissident provincial leaders will only stay, in power, after making important concessions. The governor of Formosa, another A rgentinian province, has also been under attack from the conservative Peronists. The situation in Formosa is a little more complicated since it ilivolves a conflict between the governor and the provincial assembly, the solution appears to be the substitution of the cabinet and the purging of various J.P. representatives. Similar conflicts seem to be brooding in San Luis and Buenos Aires, in the provinces Peron apparently prefers to “neutralize” the governors rather than to use violence as a means of inFervention. By confirming fourteen of the fifteen members of the Superior Provisionary Council of the Justicialista movement, Peron continues to give the conservative Peronist line the maximum political power. This was the council that drafted the “Reserved Document #l”, and the commandments which directed the purge initiated October 1st. The most discussed designation to council was that of. Julio. Ye&, the alleged secretary of the JP whose authority is denied by the JP, other members are: Jose Humberto Martiarena, leader of the CGT and Jorge Manuel Camus, secretary of Indoctrination and Information. The combination of measures, endorsed by Peron during the last year, and all

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accompanied by violence against the indicates that the Peronist left, Justicialista leader has reached a critical point, one where there might be a scission in his heterogeneous movement. The last announced measures if strictly enforced will assuredly provoke the split. On the other hand there is a distinct difference between making an announcement and actually carrying it out. Peron, remains the skilled inanoeuver (though recent reports question his state of health) who uses the tactic of promising one thing-to appease a specific sector-and not carrying it out because-it would upset the opposing side. His promise to the left upholds the belief to work “gradually” for national liberation. Thus to achieve independence from, foreign monopoly capital, the “impatient young ones” must remain in place. Peron minimizes the differences between the youth organizations and the syndicalist (i.e. orthodox Peronism) uniotis. “What would bother me greatly would be the lack of enthusiasm on the part of: youth and the lack of prudence on the part of organized labour”. He classifies the opposition within his movement as teudencies “contradictions in the people’s heart” and consequently secondary to the primary contradiction of the “Argentinian nation” versus “imperialism”. Making use of the principle of “verticalidad”, Peron requests the unconditional support from young people until he can absorb their demands. He emphasizes that the decisions are solely his and he will not be dictated to by “other ideologies” outside of those of Peronism. Given this state of affairs, one becoming more apparent daily, the JP and the non-CGT syndicalists find themselves in the dilemma of backing Peron in -the hope of achieving their goals or to disassociate themselves completely from the Justicialista movement. The electoral victory of Hector Campora (a leftist Peronist) seemed to satisfy the JP’s and the ‘independent syndicalists’ programme. However, now with Peron’s takpover the hope of achieving “socialism” through Peronism borders on wishful thinking. Peron also blames the world for what is happening in Argentina. Could it not be the example of the “rebel” 1968 ‘demonstrations in France that influenced the minds of the Peronists youth? And the murder of the ex-secretary of CGT was carried out by the extreme right wing group from France (the one that tried to assassinate De Gaulle). The objective according to Peron would be the destruction of the Justicialista movement and of Argentina, the last “stronghold” in Latin America. These explanations, verging on fantasy, are a clear attenipt to divert public attention from the conflict between the Peronist factions and also to deflate the importance of these factions, so to show that he, Peron, is still in control. His last measures seem quite different from his speeches. The depoliticization of the youth groups and the independent unions will no doubt provoke a reaction on the part of these sectors, towards Peron’s plan for “national unity”. The president might still go ahead with those sectors which accept, without restriction, his political propositions, and among them he could draw upon the conservative centre that gained 25 per cent of the votes against him. Where will Peron go? His political past (covering 30 years) is, to say the least ‘erratic. The refusal to represent any social class was (and is?) the consistency in his career. But, his second generation of “shirtless ones” (“descamisados”) expect more than promises, they want to see Iaction. If Peron does not define himself to his “young ones” perhaps he will not have, as he stated at. his inauguration, “anyone with which to entrust the Justicialista flag and mantle.” cl

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obiliting the middle class The last summer’s drastic increase in consumer prices has led many grassroots structures to try to organize around the middle income ($8 to $10,000) wage earner. Among these grassroot groups one can find the Ontario AntiPoverty Organization and the coalition to roll back prices. The objective of these two action groups (which in actuality are comprised of many more affiliated ones, hence the word “coalition”) is to mobilize the often called “apathetic” middle class, which has recently been hit the hardest by the price increases in food. clothing, health and medicare, housing and transporta tion (the middle class is now unorganized as opposed to the organized labour force>. The panel discussion in Guelph, last Tuesday, was one such attempt to mobilize the middle class. It was chaired by Patricia Crawley of the Guelph coalition to roll back prices, and the panelists were Margaret Bizzel, chairperson of the steering committee of the coalition to roll back prices in Toronto, Mike Carson, spokeperson of the Ontario Anti-

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Poverty Organization and -Eric Wynne, representative of the United Electrical workers of . increase. It certainly does not have Guelph. The discussion took place to pay any more for the fishing of at the Guelph Public Library and salmon because it owns the was attended by no less than company that has eighty fleets of twenty sympathetic people. boats. Neither does it have to pay Bizzel introduced the coalition as the processing an action group dedicated to . for the shipyard, plant, nor the advertising as “force government to roll back the “Weston is the sole owner” of all prices on the general strata”. these alleged individual comPrices would have to be reduced so panies. _that they kept in line with wage Before turning the floor over to increases. Bizzel then, to enlighten C&son, Bizzel completed her the audience on how “the scope of research on Weston by adding that monopoly corporations is just although there might seem to be incredible”, explained ‘the various types of salmon, all of operations of Weston, a company them are owned by Weston. She that in one year made a profit of concluded her presentation in $12,137,000 (June 1972-June 1973). calling for massive education Weston owns a salmon fishing programmes to demonstrate to concern in British Columbia and it consumers that the price increases controls the whole supply line from are not legitimate and therefore the catching of the salmon to the they should put pressure on their consumer’s pocket. But neverelected representatives to get theless Weston decided it could do “laws passed to halt increases”. with a price increase of salmon Carson pointed out that the due to “the costs the company has coalition to roll back prices has the had to bear”. support of organized labour (O.F.L., Teamsters), the United Bizzel questioned what costs Anglican and Roman Catholic does a company like Weston have Ontario Association, and various to bear in order to justify a price

professional communities. With all these organizations behind it, the coalition would have enough respectivity to encourage the middle class to abandon their normally quiet existence. He also went on to show why the middle income groups are,. bearing the burden of the corporations notorious tax evasions, disguised as “tax loopholes”. The blame for the additional burden cannot be found in lower income and welfare strata because these pay close to 40 per cent of their income in taxes. The blame can only be laid upon the corporations. The only way in the eyes of Carson to ameliorate the situation is for the middle class and the lower income groups to pressure their elected representatives to ,enact legislation to carry price reduction. “We elect them, so we got to get a government of the people’ ’ , said Carson. He calls his movement not a revolution, but “militant evolution”. Carson concluded his “militant evolution” by advocating that

everyone should be forced to vote or else lose their citizenship. Eric Wynne representing the electrical workers of Guelph summed up the feeling pervading in the room: “monopoly capital is the culprit of all the things we are presently suffering”. He expressed his encouragement for groups that work in the antipoverty campaign and who try to mobilize the middle class because this educational programme will show to the relatively better off that what is “happening to the poverty and welfare strata is what will ultimately happen to us”. Discussion such as the one in Guelph, although blatantly reformist in nature, can be useful in that if they succeed in mobilizing the middle class, the once activated class will then question further the reason for the anarchistic nature of monopoly capital. Since it will become obvious to the “mobilized” middle class that pressuring politicians will not “drastically’.’ reduce prices. -john morris

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Jo Surich’s letter entitled Marx below passing,” I could not helpbut be reminded of another fat little ‘German professor who helped humanity. I allude, of course, to Dr. Henry Kissinger to and humanitarian destiny whose “degree” Surich seems to be aspiring. I’m very tired, weary, or whatever bf the holier than thou posit’ion taken by New Democrats in Canada. (The holiest, of course, were purged. The purge -seemingly being the only vestige of socialism the NDP still embraces.) It appears that the only diff$rer-&e between the chair that I oticupy as a. i’coffee-shop revolutionary” and that Surich occupies as university functionary is about twelve or thirteen thousand dollars in wage-labour. As I no longer belong to the ,NDP, I cannot garner titles like vicepresident of finance chairman. As forchestthumping, well, what can a mere perSon do to upstage a man with such ,titles and obvious social standipg. ’ Without putting’ forward a “hair shirt” argument, it seems to me that a system that keeps certain bellies full, certain professors ridiculously well housed, and certain institutions-well financed, is a system which is well worth working on from within. I am weary of full bellies imposing the conditions of their security on those not as well nurtured. Because this is exactly what finance chairman Surich has done in the case of Chile. They knew enough to vote for a Marxist president, they knew enough to take the land from landowners, and they knew enough about humanity from their inhuman conditions. As for the insufficient development of the economic system well it was developed enough to produce an electoral _ - Marxist victory. However, it was not developed enough to withstand isolation from its normal trading partners. Theii” what country is? No, it wasn’t lack of the old Prussian know-how which defeated Allende. It was the fall of copper prices in spite of a world shortage. It was a cut-off of international credit. It was ITT and the CIA and Mitchell Sharp’s external affairs policies which undermined the Chilean economy. If Surich has any doubts about this, I advise him to contact John Harney of his own party. His muckraking is the only glimmer of New Democrat principles in this whole affair. Oh David Lewis expressed his Yes, humanitarian sympathy for Allende. But, his party continues to support a Liberal government which has been a major conspirator against Chile. decent housing. \ I am not against However, I object to the lack of housing,@ being blamed on chest thumping radicals. The NDP or the British Labour Party, even with assorted doses of power, have not met with much success either. Mr. Surich, all titles aside, is not convinced that “the nature of the decisions which are made by democratic socialist governments are not fundamentally different from the decisions made by liberal governments.” In light of the events in Chile and the subversive role a “Liberal” government played in those events, why does the humanitarian party of social democracy in Canada still support that “Liberal” government. 7 Mr. Surich-The burden of “proof” has clearly shifted to your titled shoulders. Account for yourself, before you enjoy the confidence of humanity. This confidence (unlike the arbitrary nature of classroom power) must be earned, not usurped. “McGill’s

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this reference and place only the number here. 9a Supply a reference for this statement lO.Use a streamlined procedure in which footnotes, references and bibliography are combined into one list. See E.J.F. for details. 11.Check your sentences by reading aloud the simple subject, the simple verb, and the object, leaving out all prepositional phrases, etc. Does your sentence still make sense? 12.Leave a 1” margin all around so there is space for these numbers!

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Writing is an important skill. Therefore in reading papers I try to give some constructive criticism on writing styles as well as on technical content. Since some of the same errors occur repeatedly, it is a shortcut to use a numerical code to indicate where they occur. This code is given below. Students are encouraged to come in for

further discussion of their papers, either in regard to writing style or technical content. Telephone 885-1211, ext. 3060, for an appointment, or stop by my office if you are in the SSC building. E J Farkas Fall 1973 1. This word may be incorrectly spelled. Check in a dictionary. 2. This sentence has no verb and therefore is not really a sentence. 3. What is the antecedent of this pronotin? 3a Whenever possible, don’t use the word “this” alone. This phenomenon is desirable, rather than This is a desirable phenomenon. 4. It is very bad TV join together two passages, each of which could be a sentence in its own right, simply by a comma. This is called a comma splice or a run-on sentence. 5. If your sentences are shorter, your paper will be clearer. Avoid having more than one major idea in any one sentence. Avoid sentences with more than 20 words. 6. When giving numerical values, the hyphen cannot take the place of a word. Example: wrong: values ranged from 2-10 right: values ranged from 2 to 10. 7. All non-text material should be either a Figure or a Table. All Figures should be numbered successively. All Tables should be numbered successively. Each figure of table should be referred to in the text and should be placed following the point in the text where it is first mentioned. 8. You need a connec tiye sentence here. 9. This information should be placed 6n a reference list at the end. Assign a number to

The whole question of racism, which has been bandied about in the pages of the ’ Chevron, is not so straight-forward as Jan Narveson would have us believe. That is, it’s not simply a question of whether or not this or that individual is ‘racist’. Racism is an institution in white North American society-in ‘philosophical’ terms it is a moral institution (but more to thepoint it is an immoral one>. As such, it is maintained not only by out-and-out redneck, Klu-Klux-Klan type racists, but is also strengthened and sustained by attitudes and tendencies among a large segment of the white population. The conscious racist is merely the ‘leading element’ of this institution-the tip of the iceberg so to speak. But by far the largest force behind this institution is whites, who have the attitudes and tendencies which can be mobilized by the leading elements. To look at the research being done on correlation between race and intelligence within the framework of whether or not the researchers are racists, is quite simply, a narrow and linear and irrelevant way of going about it. For whether or not the researchers are conscious, practicing racists makes no difference to the general effect of the research, which is to legitimize and sustain the whole question of racial differences within a superior-inferior framework. And that question is in itself, at’, least one of the stronger tendencies toward racism in North America An example might help to bring this point home to professor Narveson. Suppose some pure and clean academic ‘researcher’ put forward the ‘highly tentative’ theory that philosophy professors were more prone to be sterile and sexually incompetent than the general population. And suppose this person announced a program of investigation to examine this theory. Philosophy professprs might feel that the original hypothesis was) just a bit biased and bigotted against philosophy professors. And they would be correct! The inability of the Chevron to respond to Narveson in a clear and understandable way simply serves to drive home the fact that racist tendencies are deeply ingrained and have to be rigorously opposed if we have any hope of eliminating this divisive and inhuman institution. The response by Bill Wadge is not a clear response because it assumes the “legitimacy” of the original hypothesis in the investigation. The attempt to question the “scientific integrity” of the

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based on support of any kind for the present government, but on the very real need for effective representation for those Canadians who found themselves in Chile during these events. As you may know, there were a number of Canadians detained and questioned. It is extremely important a 11 a A that our embassy is able to help these and other people who require our government’s assistance. Any help we can offer is of In karly September 1973, immediately course only effective through the channels after the legal Allende government was of diplomacy. crushed, I wrote a letter to the prime Our decision was carefully thought out. minister asking that Canada not recognize We would not have taken this step if we had the fascist junta. (Canada extended ~ not been satisfied that the present diplomatic relations several days later 1. authorities are able to govern the country -On Dec. 3rd, I received a letter from Mr. and are willing to fulfil1 Chile’s international Trudeau, (must be near election time). In obliga_tions. this letter, he tries to justify why Canada is I know I share your hope that democracy holding hands with the bloody murderers. will be restored to that country very soon. He also empasizes the regret that he feels Pierre Elliot Trudeau for the “tragic death” of President Allende. He reassures me with the fact that he feels sympathy for the people of Chile. -According to the K-W Record; last week; when Madame Allende was introduced to the House of Commons, she was applauded by both Liberal and opposition MPs. Sharp and Trudeau did not clap. (Perhaps the guilt and hypocrisy was too much even for them.) Here is the letter. It helps to explain why People are asking where to obtain information about the international language Canada extended diplomatic relations: International obligations. Yes-return the ESPERANTO. As the promoting peoples’ mines and factories into the hands organization is a non-profit one, with small of the American criminals. Roughly 40,000 funds, would you please indicate that many dead. public libraries have books; there are Pierre Trudeau, I hate you. contacts in three thousand places throughout the world, 72 places in Canada; Joe Fraracci and particular addresses may be found in telephone books or obtained from the Dear Mr. Fraracci: national office, Esperanto, Box 174, RoxThank you for’ your recent letter comboro, Quebec. The next international menting on the coup which took place in Esperanto Congress will be in Hamburg, Chile on September 11. Germany, opening on July 27, 1974, with two I appreciate and share your concern over thousand expected. Any Canadians who the removal from office of a democratically would like to go should send now for elected governement and the subsequent enrollment forms. No classes or teachers and tragic death of that country’s president, are necessary in order to write-and speak Salvadpr Allende. I regret these events. Esperanto-some people compose letters in it after a few days, as there are no irregular When the Canadian government learned what had taken place in Chile, we sent a verbs, exceptions, idiom, and it is phonetic. message of sympathy to the people of Chile It is the perfect language for science and for and to the Allende family. international ;?ffairs and is too little known in Canada: On September 29 the Canadian government extended formal diplomatic Lorc6n 6hUiginn recognition to the present administration. Esperanto Information Section Our reasons for taking this action were not Ottawa

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. investigation does not fundamentally challenge the basic institution of racism in any more than a superficial way. , And the Chevron cartoon which was attached to this article is quite simply obnoxious. A quick glance at the cartoon, which is probably all that 90 per cent of the Chevron readers will give it, leaves one with the feeling that the Chevron may support the belief in racial inequality. And even after a close examination the real content of the cartoon is at best a cynical type of defeatism on the whole question. This subtle and cynical attitude toward questions of importance has been creeping rnore and more into the pages of the Chevron. I would strongly recommend that the purpose of the YOU re-examine newspaper with a view to clarifying the content instead of allowing this type of development. Liberalism is the* product of material which says what the reader wants it to say. And the only way to avoid this is to strive for clarity and explicitness in everything we do. Keep Struggling Bill Aird

Sometime last week, no one seemed to be around and I didn’t have anything better to do so I phoned Hi-line, mostly just out of curiousity. I didn’t know what I actually phoned for, so I started by asking what Hiline did. After a few more minutes of tense and insignificant questions we began to talk, we just talked generally. Boy was I surprised, the girl on the other end didn’t try to counsel me or any of that kind of shit, we just talked. After finally hanging up I realized that she had actually listened to me, something a lot of people only pretend to do. I felt, and realized that Hi-line wasn’t only there for serious problems but even for people that just felt like they wanted to tell someone about their problems without obligations. Anyway, my thanks to Hi-line for just being there. A. Walsh biology 3

Chevron praised? The Chevron is to be congratulated on its expose last week of grave misdemeanors by members of UW Information Services over the past seven months. It is right that the University should know what has been done in its name by officers of the University in positions of responsibility and trust. I say nothing of the disturbing relationship between UW Information Services and the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, which in itself calls for further enquiry. May I express my disgust that these shameful things went on at a University, and my hope that the authorities will take prompt action, punitive and remedial. It needs to be made clear that conduct of this sort will not be tolerated. Thank you for bringing these facts to light. associate

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last word We of Integrated Studies would like to respond to Mr. Boyes letter of November 9th. Although we cannot understand Mr. Boyes equating frisbee-throwing and potsmoking with Integrated Studies, we do ’ understand that he is remaining true to his discipline in his insistence on living in the past: We would like to extend our condolences to Mr. Boyes, and as a ‘word of advice suggest to him that he strongly consider the possibility that one’s education does not end with the acquisition of a degree. Elaine Bruer Leo Yerxa ’ Jim Rootham Chris Wood Doug Thompson Ken Ellis Linda Yule Linda Lounsberry

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e The United States has caused more pain, suffering, fear and hatred than any other state in the history of civilization. (If the NAZIS had a-bombs, napalm and Honeywell Corporation, I’m sure that they would have used it; but the fact is they didn’t.> I want to refer to the recent Chevron articles by Wadge and Higgs which link IQ, genetics and some “top” American psychologists to rascism. I’ve read their three articles and done some outside reading as well. Any psychologist worth a grain of salt knows that Jensen, Hernstein et al. are a bunch of shit. We have a lot of American professors at this university-the psychology department included. Where are the fuckers? Why haven’t they thrown their support 100 per cent behind Wadge and Higgs on this issue? (It has obviously become a local campus issue. > Could it be that they perceive the university as a “liberal institution” which must respect and honour even the most horrendous ideas ? (Put them against a wall ! ! 1 Or could it be that they /fear Professor Dyal (heys noted as being one of “the biggies” of the department.) The Yankees might get their hands slapped. Maybe I will be academically penalizkd for writing this. I don’t care anymore. Joe Fraracci honours psych III’

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murals Basketball In the Men’s intramural basketball final defending champions St. Jerome’s Bagbiters went down to defeat at the hands of the T.O. Trotters. The final score was 63 to 61. It was’ fouls that killed St. Jerome’s effort especially in the fourth quarter. The Trotters scored on 19 of 22 shots from the foul line including two that tied the game with only five seconds remaining. On ‘the whole, St Jerome’s held the advantage in shooting from the floor being good on 26 of 65 attempts. Comparitively the Trotters were 22 of 58.

Floor Hockey A fast and furious floor hockey final saw the Mucket Farmers surprise the Raiders 6-4. The Farmers had previously knocked off‘ the Attilas who in turn had bumped the favoured 69’ers.

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This year’s event witnessed excellent competition especially among Reg and Coop Math students who finished in the top four positions. Winner of the tourney Steve Astrop of VI South who outlasted Arios Petersons of Coop Math in an exciting final:

Hockey The teams that finish the regular season with the best records gain their just deserves by being ranked high and are pitted against teams of much lower ranking and presumably much less ability. In hockey, the intramural office encourages the convener and the referee-in-chief to make a complete ranking of the best 12 teams and seed them accordingly. Well, so much for the ranking. One by one the first six ranked teams were eliminated. First to go was K,inesiology who were upset l0 by an inspired St. Jerome’s team. Next, went ESS who were checked into the ground by a determined Village 1 West squad. Village 2 West was the next team to be surprised as Village 1 East with superb goal tending from Ted Masiewich rolled to a 3-O win. Defending champion Reg Math, seeing the next four ranked teams beaten, were quite confident the Bullbrook Cup would remain in their custody. Village 1 West had other ideas. In a close checking, hard hitting semi-final Math and West became deadlocked in a 2-2 tie. After a scoreless overtime, the rules required that the contest be determined by a series of penalty shots. Each team alternated taking 5 shots. However, the first two sets of penalty shots ended in a draw. Finally, John Kemp from West with the score tied at 7 apiece, scored the winning marker advancing them to their first final

ever. Village 1 East, the 9th ranked team then followed West’s giant killer example by outskating and out-muscling a surprisingly intimidated Bagbiter team. The stage was set for a final which for the first time in intramural history saw two Village teams contesting. Final score was 6-3 in favour of Village 1 East.

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The final Fryer competitive standings based on 15 events is as follows : St. Jeromes 359 Kinesiology 235 Reg Math 182 Vl South 119 Vl East 112% V2 South ,i 104 Recreation 93 l/i V2 West 93 St. Paul’s 92 l/2 92 Upper Eng \ Coop Math 91 Renison 89 Conrad Grebel 82 ESS 81 l/2 Vl West 8OY2 Lower Eng 79 Science 77 coop 74% V2 North 71 Optometry 63 V2 East 53 Grads 50 Vl North 38V2 Arts 35

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Congratulations to Kinesiology for winning the women’s competitive volleyball league and to Lakeshore for ‘being victorious in the consolation division. The winner of the badminton singles was Wendy Pritchard of Village 2 West. Congratulations girls. Next term will be filled with activities and competition for all. Some of the events for the winter term are co-ed basketball, squaliball, co-ed waterpolo, badminton tournament, and competitive basketball. The entry date for basketball is January 11 so enter your teams as soon as you return.

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Competitive team activities for this winter include hockey, basketball, floor hockey, and volleyball. Team tournaments will again feature doubles badmintion, 5 pin mixed bowling, men’s curling, mixed badminton, ring road relay race, mixed volleyball and men’s broomball. Individual tournaments include wrestling, snooker, skiing, table tennis and wrist wrestling and one-on-one basketball tourney. Recreational Team Activities next term will see hockey, co-ed broomball, co-ed volleyball, co-ed innertube waterpolo and\ ball hockey. Also set to go is co-ed squaliball and 5 aside indoor soccer. Again, next term the usual instructional programs will be offered with the addition of golf. Clubs are also operating in the same vein as in the fall. For information regarding all these activities, see the blue news letter that will be distributed throughout the campus when you return from the holidays. The Intramural Office is also happy to announce the names of the six students who will be working in the various aspects of the program this winter: Publicity Director-Sisler Aquatics Director-Young Co-ed Co-ordinator-Sperl Recreation Co-ordinator-Redvers Co-ordinatorTournament Epstein Intramural Trainer-McKendrick

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Last weekend the swimming Warriors and Athenas competed in a total of four meets against tough competition in Michigan and Indiana. The Athenas lost the first meet against Michigan State, who incidentally rank in the top five in the United States, by a score of 103 to 28. The Warriors then lost to Western Michigan University later the same day by a score of 79 to 34. Many of the swimmers were quite tired after the nine hour bus ride, but still performed well in most cases. After a fine sleep of about five hours the Athenas broke fifteen records at Valparaiso pool University winning the meet 100 to 29. The Warriors then swam against Notre Dame the same afternoon losing a close one 63 to 50.

Badminton The Athena badminton team is setting a record that will be hard to beat in years to come. In the preChristmas half of the league tournament, the team of Ellen Hunter, Maggie Acheson, Nancee McDonald, Sue Hamilton, Wendy MacKeigan and Mary Kiviste have competed against nine other Ontario university teams. A total of 81 matches, both singles and doubles have been played. Waterloo has won 77 of those matches and to-date have not lost a doubles match. The tournament is arranged such that the players are ranked 1. through 6 in singles and the same girls must play doubles, ranked 1 through 3. Each player plays within her rank and thus a champion is declared in each of the singles and doubles ranks. Presently the Athenas as a team have the-first place standing as a team with 77 points. Western follows with 71 and Toronto with 52. The tight race is between Western and Waterloo. All teams will meet again after Christmas when the Athenas will once again

have to prove themselves against the Western gals. Three Athenas sport perfect records. They are Ellen Hunter, Maggie Acheson and Sue Hamilton-1st 2nd and 4th singles. These girls have a very good chance of winning their rankings. The other three team members must defeat Western at their next outing to be viable for an individual championship. The Athenas have a home tournament on January 18-19th at the PAC building, that spectators will be welcomed at.

Curling Mixed recreational curling was a tremendous success this term, with almost 100 people out burning up the Granite Club ice. If you want to get involved in this great social sport, come out to the K-W Granite Club on Agnes Street in Waterloo. Curling begins next term on Monday January 7th and Thursday January 10th from 4-6 p.m. Bring your friends! If you don’t know how to curl but would like to learn, come and see us; we give instructions to all beginners. You don’t have to be a good curler to join our Curling Club; just be able to enjoy the sport. In men’s varsity competition, Brian Glover’s rink of Kevin Richardson, Dave Polley and Tom Strickland won the Fall term division. They defeated Steve McKelvie’s rink of Murray Ross, Jim Currie and Reg Weber by a score of 10-9. Glover’s rink won 4 straight games to win the title. They will travel to the St. Clair College Invitation, the University of Toronto Invitational Bonspiel and the Queen’s Invitational while representing the University of Waterloo. Other Waterloo rinks will be travelling to St. Catherines for the Brock University ‘Spiel. Winter-term men’s varsity competition will begin on Thursday January 16th at 10 p.m. at the K-W Granite Club.. This competition will be single-knockout’ with the winning rink playing off in a playoff situation with the Fall term on January 21st. All entries must be in by 6 p.m. Tuesday January 8th to Mr. T. Olaskey743-0760.

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The men’s varsity basketball t,eam needed two free throws in the final 15 seconds Wednesday night to.defeat Guelph 76-74, in a league game that often looked more like a football playoff than the beginning of the dribbling season. The Warriors led comfortably by 14 points at halftime, but fell prey to the Gryphon full-court press and the visitors’ physical style of play. Mike Moser fouled out with two minutes remaining after turning in a typically excellent game and scoring 30 points.

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In an election on November 27th the following persons were elected Members-at-Large for the Women’s intercollegiate Council : Sue , Hamilton, Wendy Gray, Debbie La Salle and Jan Thorne. The executive for the 1974 term were elected at a council meeting on December 3rd. They are Roberta Awde, president: Irene Kwasnicki, vice-president: Judy Halaiko, secretary : Jo-anne Stewart, athletic assitants chairman and Dawn Mathieson publicity. We wish this council the best of luck for the new year.

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cker 0,wer In the past week the Warriors played three games and managed only one win. Their first encounter was an exhibition 5-3 loss to the Toronto Blues last Wednesday in Varsity Arena. The Warriors took an early lead with Captain Mike Guimond netting two goals. This margin lasted until early in the second when the Blues scored on two powerplay deflections leaving the score at the end of the second period a two all tie. Up to this point Waterloo had played a strong game, but folded giving University of Toronto the opportunity to collect a trio of quick goals. The game’s final marker was scored by Warriors’ Ron Hawkshaw ,on a play with Guimond and Staubitz. Should the Warriors learn to play three full periods instead of two they will definitely be contenders for Toronto’s hockey crown. Friday night the Warriors hosted the Western Mustangs in a showdown for first place in the OUAA Western Division. Both were undefeated in regular season prior to the contest. Western left, a tired and humble hockey team as the Warriors branded them with a 6-l loss. The outcome of the contest was never in doubt as the Warriors matched their first period 3-O lead with three more in the second. Defenseman Danny Partland began the scoring parade followed by Hawkshaw and Jim Nickleson. Partland’s goal seemingly began a competition among the rearguards as point men accounted for all three goals in the second frame. Veteran Frank Staubitz tallied two and Doug Colbon the other. After Western opened the third period with their only goal on a mental lapse by University of Waterloo’s goalie Jake Dupuis neither team posed a threat. Warriors made few mistakes defensively and offensively. This was the first game in which the defensive brigade was unitized. The win leaves the Warriors regular season record at 3 wins and one tie. The annual excursion to Ithaca, New York left an exhausted Warrior team easy prey for Cornell’s Big Red. The Warriors dropped their seventh straight game to Cornell 12-4. American College hockey rules and scrambly play had the Warriors down 8-3 at the end of the second. Two goals by Frank Staubitz, his fourth in two games, and one by Mike Guimond were joined by Ron Hackshaw’s ’ third period marker for the Warriors final output. Warrior Russ Elliott will be lost for one month with a broken. hand after stopping a shot. Injuries plague the Warriors at Cornell. Last year Lee Barnes suffered a shoulder separation, and two years ago goalie Doug Snoddy was crippled with a pulled hamstring. Over the Christmas holidays the Warriors will be in Oswago, New York for a tournament. They resume regular season play January 4th when they host the York Yeomen.

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The World Student Games held in Moscow this past August was a competition between teams from nearly every country of the world, but it was also more than just a sports event. The controversial “incidents” which occured when the Israeli team played Brazil in front of a the strict security Russian crowd, measures which were a reflection of the Munich tragedy and many other facets of the Games made world headlines off the sports pages. Here, a University of )Waterloo staff member who served as manager of the Canadian basketball team to the Games, presents his own impressions of what happened in Moscow, off-court as well as on. ********** hen you’re up against good competition and you finish fourth among ‘28 teams, you’ve played good basketball. And that’s just what Canada did at the 1973 World Student Games. * At times, Canada not only played good basketball but excellent basketball. Such was the case in the last half of the CanadaRussia game, a game in which Canada came very close to upsetting the Olympic champions. Also in the games against Poland and Yugoslavia, Canada displayed superior basketball skills. More about the Canada-Russia game a little later but first a short explanation of the tournament. The twentyeight participants in the Games were seeded on the basis of their finish in the 1971 Games. Those teams that did not participate in ‘71 were positioned in the tournament by means of a draw. Canada, as a result of their ninthplace finish in ‘71, were placed in a fourteam group along with Iran, Mexico and Poland. All four-team groups then played a round-robin series. The top two teams-in each of the four-team groups were then another two teams matched against according to a predetermined formula and once again the teams participated in fourteam round-robins. At the end of the second round-robin series, the top two teams advanced into a modified single elimination tournament. In its first game Canada played against Iran. It was a rather sloppy game from Canada’s standpoint as we continually experienced turnovers in our attempts to get the fast break working. Canada defeated Iran by a score of lll71, after leading 49-27 at the half. Of the 71 points scored by Iran 35 of them were scored by one player and almost all were scored from a distance of 21’ or more from the basket. While Canada did win the game fairly easily they suffered a severe loss when Bob Town was forced to leave the game with a dislocated toe. Town, the graduate of the University of Manitoba, injured his foot in the third minute of play. While leaping for a high pass, Bob came down on another player’s foot, forcing the big toe out of place. Bob dressed for two games

later in the tournament but he did not see any game action. In game number two for Canada, we faced Mexico. The Mexican team had players who perform for American college teams during the academic year. The Mexicans had/an “unofficial” coach from the United . States. Quite frequently during the game, the “Mexican Coach” became excited over the calls of the referees. He received two technical fouls and was threatened with removal from the bench if he continued his misbehaviour. The coach’s hostility may have reached his players as there was a lot of bumping and shoving going on under the basket. In one minor altercation, a Mexican player grabbed Canada’s Jamie Russel. Russel (from Colgate University) swung away from the Mexican player’s grasp and walked away from the play. Both players were thrown out of the game. The expulsion brought a one-game suspension for both players. Another Mexican player was also sent to the bench during the game. In the Canada-Mexico game, Canada started fast and went into a quick five point lead. The Mexicans came back however, and took a 13-12 lead. They went on, keeping the Canadians off balance with their pattern passing and high percentage shooting, to lead 39-34 at the half. Canada pressed and forced the play in the second half. Led by the playmaking of Bill Robinson, the Simon Fraser graduate, and the shooting of Phil Tollestrup (Brigham Young and the University of Lethbridge) Canada took the lead at 4544. The final score was Canada 71, Mexico 60. Tollestrup led the Canadian team with 23 points, followed by Bill Robinson with 18 and Jamie Russel with 13. In spite of the fact that he was the smallest player on the floor, Bill Robinson led the Canadian rebounding with 9, all defensive. Jamie Russel, prior to leaving the game had 8, Ken McKenzie and Phil Tollestrup each had 7 rebounds. Canada finished first-round play by winning its third straight game of the tournament, a 98-61 victory over Poland. I recall recording after the game that this was the best I had ever seen a Canadian team play. The players came out flying. The fast break was working to perfection, the rebounding and defensive effort was overpowering. Canada left the floor at halftime leading 65-39. The play wasn’t quite as sharp during the second half. The Canadian players were content to slow the play down and conserve some energy for the second round of games. During the second half, Canada outscored Poland 33-31 for an overall score of 98-61. Bill Robinson, who was rapidly becoming a favouritewith the Russian spectators (my interpreter said that they referred to him as Little Bill-Robinson is 5’10” tall) led the Canadian scorers with 18 points. Lars Hansen (the University of

Washington) had 16 and Phil Tollestrup added 13. All pla ers made the scoresheet. Ken McKenzie (f rom the University of Montana) led the rebounders with eleven. Hansen pulled down eight. Game three was played in the Ice Palace of the Central Army Sports Club. This Ice Palace or Arena was the largest gymnasium that we had played in up to this time. It seated about 5,000 fans. The court was set up on what would be the ice surface during the hockey season. The roof of the Ice Palace was constructed of what appeared to be sections of some type of enamelled substance. It had much the same appearance as a series of white refrigerator doors stuck to the ceiling. When events were being televised, large, powerful, hooded lamps were pointed at the ceiling from the floor. The reflection helped to increase the illumination on the court without producing shadows that we so often see on North American television. The effect- of the lights on the temperature at floor level in August was quite pronounced. It was very, very warm. Canada’s second game had also been played at the Central Army Sports Club but in the Palace of Weight-lifting. There were approximately 1,500 seats around the court. The basketball floor was slightly elevated from the rest of the floors in the building. The first game against Iran had been played in the Demonstration Hall at the University of Moscow. Of all the gyms in which the Canadian team played while in Moscow, the Demonstration Hall was the least elaborate. Seating was confined to the two ends of the court where there were three rows of seats. There was a balcony along one’ side of the court which held one row of seats. The actual floor of .the Demonstration Hall was composed of 6” planking that looked like it had never seen a sander. Only the fresh paint kept the slivers down. Canada was to meet Denmark in the first game of the second round. As was our custom we left our residence at the University of Moscow in plenty of time and headed out to the Central Army Sports Club, a ride of about one-half hour on the bus. Upon reaching the Central Army Sports Club we headed for their Hall of Sporting Games, the third gymnasium at the Club. Everyone was aware of very tight security on this trip. As we approached the Hall we were stopped twice by the militia and directed to a different checkpoint. We were made to pass through the last checkpoint in single file and every pass was scrutinized very carefully. All Canadian participants in the games had a pass with their picture on it. This pass had to be shown before entry could be gained to the official residence or to any of the areas of competition. As the team entered the Hall of Sporting Events, the shouting and cheering was quite loud. The whistling was quite loud as well. As we moved close to the floor we saw that the game between Israel and Brazil had just started. As soon as Israel gained possession of the ball, a large segment of the crowd would begin to whistle. This kept up for the entire game. A smaller segment of the crowd, sup,porting the israeli team, would cheer the good plays of the Israeli team but they would soon be drowned out by the whistling. Being somewhat shorter than the rest of the team , members (that’s an understatement) it was a little while before I made my way to the front row of the standing room crowd (estimated at about 1,500) and got a good look at the game. Sitting in the first row on all four sides of the gym were boys dressed in blue sweat suits. I asked my interpreter what they were doing there. She didn’t know. However with her customary efficiency she dragged me off to find the facility manager. The manager explained that the “bluesuited” spectators were there to keep the fans away from the players. Some of the blue-suits joined in the clapping or whistling but not one left his seat that I

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could see. When I returned to Canada from Russia I read that the Russians had staged an incident at this game. My experience was that they did everything possible to make sure that an incident did not take place. They had extra heavy security measures before anyone could gain admittance to the Hall; they had a row of persons (the blue-suits) around the gym to keep fans and players away from each other (the first row of seats was quite close to the court) and a third precaution that the organizers took-was to allow the bus transporting the Israeli team to come right up to a side exit of the Hall, where the team could board it without walking among the crowd to the bus depot used by other teams. I was to see other examples of where newspaper reports may have exaggerated events or did not tell them like they were. In the game against Denmark, Canada started very rapidly and took control of the game from the opening jump. After it was obvious that Canada’ could win fairly easily the players let up to conserve their energy for the big game against Russia. The score at the half was Canada 50, Denmark 33. The game ended up 94-43. Phil Tollestrup led the Canadian team with 21 points. Bill Robins followed with 14. Jamie Russel scored 13 points and Mike Moser (from Kitchener and the University of Waterloo) added 12 points. Jamie Russel took down 17 rebounds followed by McKenzie and Tollestrup with 8 apiece. Prior to arriving in Moscow, the Canadian Team had played some games in England and in tournaments in Czechoslovakia and Poland. As I’m sure everyone knows, when you’ve been travelling for a long time it’s easy to misplace something. Such was the case with some of the Canadian uniforms. Canada arrived in Moscow with a couple of missing jerseys in the series of numbers from 4 to 15 (the only numbers they would allow performers to wear) and an extra uniform with the number 22. After much persuasion, again through our trusty interpreter, the Game Officials allowed us to play the first game with the number 22. You’ll recall that in the first game Bob Town dislocated his toe early in the game and it looked like he wouldn’t play again while in Russia. We thought that we would then be able to use Bob’s uniform and not have touse number 22 for the remainder of the tournament. As it was, we had a lot of persuading to do before every game to change some of the numbers that had been assigned to the players. The Games organizers prepared the score sheets, stat forms etc. well before game time. We found it necessary to go to every scorekeeper, statistician etc. and clarify who was wearing -what number. As the game with Russia approached, Bob Town indicated that he would like to dress for the game even if just to sit on the bench. When we approached the organizers to see if we could resurrect number 22 we received one of our many nyet’s. It was about lo:30 a.m. when we put in our call for help to the Canadian Embassy. , We explained our predicament and received a very sympathetic hearing. The Embassy was aware of our progress, indeed the Canadian Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Ford had already attended two of our games. The Canadian Embassy dispatched a car to the, University of Moscow. They picked up the jersey and said that they would have it back to us before the 4 p.m. game with the Russians. About one-half hour before the game, Peter Walker, one of the persons attached to the Canadian Embassy arrived with the jersey. The colour match was superb. Somewhere in Moscow today, one or two females ,w.orking in the Canadian Embassy have a large patch missing from the lining of one of their dresses: that is where Bill Robinson’s numbers came from for the Canada-USSR game, and the CanadaYugoslavia game. And what a, game it was, Canada vs USSR. Canada started well. It was good

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basketball going both ways. With the score 23-22 for Russia, Canada hit a dead period. Nothing seemed to go right. The Russians took advantage of everything to jump into a 35-23 lead. They finished the half with an eighteen point lead 49-31. Our interpreter had approached the game with mixed emotions. Basically she said that she wanted Russia to win but that she hoped Canada would play well. As we headed to the -dressing room she said to me, “Well, it’s like I told you, the Russian team is too good.” I smiled and offered the old bromide that it’s only halftime, there’s a long time to go. Canada was capable of playing better basketball than we did in the last part of the first half, but whether or not we could make up such a large deficit was another question. During the halftime interval, the coach of the Canadian team, Dr. Paul Thomas from the University of Windsor emphasized that we had only to outscore the Russians by one basket every two minutes to be back in the game. The team must not go out and try to close the gap in the first few minutes of the second half. Canada didn’t start exceptionally well in the second half. But panic didn’t set in either. Russia increased its lead to 61-42. The score then went to 61-45,65-48,68-56. Canada was forcing the game and many of the Russian players were getting into foul trouble. The score moved to 68-58, 72-62, 73-64. At about this time during the game the official time clock went out of order. I had to go and sit at the head timer’s table where we kept time with a small, hand watch. It was interesting to me to see that “nerves” get to the Russians as well. The head timer’s right hand, in which he was holding the watch, was trembling so hard that he had to rest it against the table and hold it with his left hand so that we could both see the time on the watch. The score moved to 73-64, 75-66, 77-68, 77-70 on two baskets by Alex Devlin of Simon Fraser University. We’re down to less than two minutes in the game. George Rautins (from Toronto and playing for Niagara University) scored to make it 77-72. Phil Tollestrup scored, 7774. By this time, the crowd, the Russian players, everyone is really excited, to say the least. For a Russian crowd to come alive by our standards is something, but this crowd was very much alive. Bill Robinson scored to make it 77-76. There’s less than 25 seconds left in the game. Canada steals the ball. With approximately 18 seconds left in the game Bill Robinson goes up for a jump shot. I feel fairly certain that by North American standards Robinson would have gone to the foul line with two foul-shots. However, the referees saw otherwise. The ball was knocked away, Russia got a fast break and the score was 79-76. Canada came down in a hurry, took a shot; it missed. Russia got a fast break, scored and the game ended; Russia 81, Canada 76. What a game against the defending Olympic champions. George Rautins was Canada’s leading scorer with 17 points. Bill Robinson and Phil Tollestrup each had 16. Our leading rebounder against Russia was Ken McKenzie with 6. The game with Russia ended the second round of play. Late that night the Games organizers and the team officials had a meeting to clarify who and where each team played next. By some complicated formula it worked out that Canada was to play Yugolsavia with the winner to play the winner of a game between Bulgaria and Russia. Nothing was taken for granted in the game against Yugoslavia. All of the Canadian players knew that the World Champions of 1970 would be a handful. Both teams played fairly cautiously at first. Yugoslavia moved into a lead and held it until half time when the score was 45-41. Canada started fast in the second half and took the play away from the Yugoslavs. The game ended with Canada in front by a score of 85-72. “Little Bill” Robinson thrilled the crowd at the Ice Palace of the Central Army Sports Club

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with his excellent outside shooting and his great ball-handling ability. Robinson finished with 26 points. -Phil Tollestrup had 20 and George Rautins 10. Lars Hansen and Ken McKenzie led the rebounders with 10 each. Canada’s second meeting with the Russians was scheduled for the Palace of Sports at the Central Lenin Stadium. This is the arena in which the Canada-USSR hockey series was played. Canada had a practice scheduled for 4: 45 p.m, on August 22. We were to play Russia the next afternoon. While at practise, we heard rumours that there had been a long and serious disruption of the Cuba-USA game. In the second meeting between Canada and the Russians it was much the same story as the first game. Both teams played good ball b’ut then the Russians drew ahead. The score at half time was almost identical to the score in the first meeting. 49-32 this game vs 49-31 in the first game. In the second half, try as we might we couldn’t cut into the Russian margin. Both teams scored 42 points in the second half. The final score was Russia 91, Canada 74. The Russian shooting percentage for field goals in the second game jumped from their 50 percent in the first game to 57 percent. However in looking at the statistics for the game, a big chunk of the 18-point winning margin came from free throws. The Russians scored only one more field goal than Canada but they shot 78 percent in their free throws (25 of 32) while Canada shot only 43 percent (6 of 14). The last game played by Canada in the World Student Games was against Brazil. This was the game to decide third place in the tournament. On the night before the game against Brazil I had been awakened and informed that there was to be a meeting of the Jury of Appeal the next morning. The meeting had been called as a result of some protest arising out of the Cuba-USA game. Prior to the tournament, I had been appointed to the Jury of Appeal. At the time of appointment it was mentioned by the Russian chairman that he hoped we would never have to meet. However the Jury was called into session at 9 a.m. on the final day of the tournament. It was like a miniature United Nations meeting with represenfrom Spain, Italy, Lebanon, tatives France, Russia, the United States and Canada plus interpretors sitting around a table. The protest had been filed by the United States representative who felt that

the penalty assessed the Cuban team as a result of the disturbance in the Cuba-USA game was not severe enough. Two Cubans had been expelled for the remaining two games of the tournament. The United States representative stated that the same type of incident had happened at the Turin games in 1971. They went on to hint, even state, that unless a more severe reprimand was handed out they would consider withdrawing the United States from future participation in World Student Games. The discussions moved back and forth for approximately 1 ‘/z hours. Still were examined, photographs various witnesses offered their observations etc. Finally a representative, the chairman I believe, of the organizing committee for the games asked permission to speak. The representative of the organizing committee gave a very persuasive speech. He pointed out that other Cuban . and U.S. competitors had met each other without incident; that the Cubans had even offered their hand in friendship to the U.S. team and finally an announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from future competitions would reflect unfavourably on what, up to that time, had been very successfully staged games. The U.S. representative agreed and said that in order not to cast any reflection on the current Moscow Games and in the spirit of USA-USSR friendship, the U.S. would withdraw their protest. In reading a writeup on the incident on the way home from Moscow, I read where a U.S. spokesman had said that another reason that they had ,-withdrawn the protest was that they felt that they didn’t have the support of any jury members except the Canadian representative. I had certainly offered no opinion as to what my decision would be on the protest and I had not intended to do so until I heard all the facts (I had not witnessed the game or incident in question). This was just another example of the manner in which the news media may be guilty of not presenting the full or accurate story of what transpired. The U.S. representative may have been accurately quoted but the reporter did not check with the “Canadian Representative” for his version. In the game with Brazil, Canada may have allowed the Brazilians a little too much leeway at the start of the game. The Brazilians were allowed to take the lead and they held it through the first half. The halftime score was 43-33. Canada’s second half surge fell just short of being enough. The team gradually narrowed the margin, especially in the last

two minutes. With 13 seconds, I believe it was, Canada trailed by one point 80-79. \/I We had the ball out of bounds deep in our forecourt. Alex Devlin went over to speak to Bill Robinson who was inbounding the ball. With three players breaking towards Bill at the side of the court, Alex, who started on the side near Bill, made a wide circle toward the basket. Bill Robinson took a step backward and lofted the ball to Alex underneath the basket. Alex caught the ball, he was all by himself when the referee’s whistle sounded. The referee then motioned the defending player to give Bill more room and in so doing probably took away a chance of Canada’s winning the game. In the remaining seconds, every time that the ball was inbounded the Brazilians would draw a foul and Canada would take the ball out of bounds once again. In the last 13 seconds Canada did not have a shot at t’he basket. Some questions must be asked. Would a team with the skill that Canada exhibited in this tournament not be able to get off a shot when given the ball deep in their forecourt? And must not one of the fouls that the Brazilians committed been of the deliberate nature which would have allowed a Canadian to go to the foul line? Should there be a return to some variety of the rule which says that all fouls within the last so many minutes of the game allow the team the option of shooting the foul shots or taking the ball out of bounds? In my opinion the rules must be either rigidly enforced or changed. There is no way that a team like Canada should not be able to get away a shot or have an intentional foul committed by, the opposition in a 13-second time span. In reading reports of this game upon my return to Canada I was surprised to see that Canada was reported to have been denied a victory because Ken McKenzie had missed a driving layup with a few seconds left in the game. Ken had to fight his way out of the clutches, pushes etc of the Brazilians just to get the ball. When he gained momentary possession and attempted to turn for a shot he was almost pulled out of the arena. However, the referees saw it some other way or maybe failed to see it at all, and Canada finished behind Brazil in fourth spot. The United States took a gold medal by defeating the Russians in the champions hip game. Some Observations: l having the team play in other countries under international rules gives the players a certain mental toughness which they would otherwise not have. If the team had gone directly from Canada without this international competition, I am sure that many incidents would have upset the players. As it was they were used to them and they could tune them out, concentrating only on the game to be played. l there is a great variation in the calibre of international referees, if the Moscow games were an indicator. Many referees seemd to be programmed into one step over centre and then backxdown the floor to a position under the basket, often after the players have arrived there. l Moscow is an interesting city but it is certainly not geared to hosting large numbers of tourists from the Western world. l Once during our stay in Russia I had the feeling that big brother (or big sister) was watching me. During one of our practises, our interpreter said that a young lady wished to speak to me. I went to the side of the court and the girl introduced herself. She opened her purse and produced a picture of me. The picture had been taken in the gymnasium at the University of Waterloo. The young lady explained that one of the other two persons in the picture had been corresponding with her since they met a few years ago on a student tour. 0 given the selection of talented players combined with a period of team training, Canada can not only hold its own, but indeed do exceptionally well, in international amateur basketball.

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PHILADELPHIA-Every morning at 5 a.m. there’s an odd carnival atmosphere in this city’s deserted old skid row, as thousands of blacks and Puerto Ricans pour out of the ghettoes to board rickety old buses that will ferry them to apple orchards, tomato fields, and turnip patches in Southern New Jersey where they work as day labourers. Vendors holler out the foods they can buy for breakfast. In the predawn murk, the workers-mostly men and women in their 50s and 60s who learned to farm as the children of Southern sharecroppers-munch sausage sandwiches or crumbly pastry. They gather in large

groups on the desolate street, gossiping noisily, sharing bottles of cheap wine or rawa smelly scotch. Each time a bus arrives, the labor contractor (who is paid by the number of workers he can deliver to each farmer) hustles up and down the block, hawking his particular farm and crop. He prods stragglers with loud jokes about their laziness. The buses are too small for the number of men and women they carry. During the journey to the farms, they’re cramped and dark. The passengers are indistinct shapes. They drink or doze until they reach the farm. Or they complain about yesterday’s frustration-a trip to Easton, Maryland, which was worthless because it rained before the apple picking could begin. A potato field, supposedly lush, which yielded just $3 for workers, who were paid by the bushel. I showed up two mornings, presenting myself as a laborer, not a reporter. I was the only white person there. One day I worked in a turnip field, the next in an apple orchard. There were about 60 men and women in the turnip field, doing piece work which paid about 45 cents a bushel. I was one of four rookies. Two of the others were high school students. The third was a retired construction worker who was looking for diversion now that Watergate was off the air. When we got there a grandmotherly black woman,

who kept insisting, defensively, that she wasn’t our boss, tried to teach us the etiquette of the field. Each of us had to work our own thin patch of ground,she said-a straight line from the first bushel basket we picked-and not poach on anyone else’s territory. She’d done piece work all her life, she told us, and witnessed countless bloody knife fights between people who warred over a particular cluster of crops. When she saw our first bushels she gave us another tip. We had to fill them several inches over the basket’s edge or the man would never pay us. It was slow, tiring work. No single motion required special strength, but you did have to keep crawling around on the grass to search for the biggest,%pest vegetables. You had to stoop once to pick them, a second time to put them in the basket. It drizzled off and on all day. Many old people were worried that the damp would seep into their joints and aggravate their arthritis. Hecause the ground was so soggy, many of the turnips were filmed with dirt, which lodged grittily under your fingernails when you picked them. The wet turnips stalks kept brushing against one’s mouth, one’s nose, one’s eyes. Last spring they were sprayed with tons of pesticide, organophosphates which have replaced DDT -and which were initially created by the military for chemical warfare,. Government doctors are beginning to think that, over time, pesticides may

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.fields. ta cut the greens off the tu blades. The farmer ga mves 9with-d-he steJ?n pay $2 if we lost *th for first aid-not even bard-ads-event though the knives and turnips were slippery on that day,. and sevfml people cut th&r hands rather badly. The working day lasted about nine hours (not .~~unting the bus ride), from 7 a.m: to 4 p.m. We weren’t giverm’ any lunch break. There were no

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It was impossible to earn much money. I was averaging a bushel every 45 minutes, and the best workers were only 15 minutes faster than I was. They picked two bushels (90 ~ents~ an hour. By 4 o’clock on a l~~~~less, watedess a~e~oo~ many of them had grown so discouraged that they were dozing in the damp field, or gather~g turnips to take home themselves I) When the farmer’s aide final our day’s baul we were supp baskets in a perfectly straight line. IIe marched briskly down each row, ~~u~t~g them. Then he tmmd the pay sheets over to the black labor contractor, protesting himself from any disruptive incident that might develop during the exchange of money. The most anyone earned that day was $8.55, . well below the federal min~um wage of $1.35 an hour or the New Jersey min~um wage of $L8& When I grumbled about that to the oth I realized that not a single one of them were protected by those laws. Leaving the field, the high school students and the retired, construction worker told me they’ never hire out as day laborers again. The old man didn’t need the money; the kids could earn more in Philadelphia. It was the kind of filtration process that must take place every day. Only the most desperate people- the very poor, the winos, , the borderline psychotics-had to keep working . as day laborers. Most of them woke up at 4 a.m., and went to bed at midnight. Wine was their only source of comfort. Most of them were too bitter, too weary and scared to organize for their rights. Instead, they relieved their rage by fighting with one another. They were mired in the lower depths of American labor. . On the way back to Philadelphia we made the day laborers’ cherished stop, at a “‘happy house”, a bar near Glassboro. When we got there most men and women hurried out of the bus and spent between $2 of their earnings on cheap wines like Thunderbird and $5 on more expensive scotches like Seagram’s I .was so hungry and thirsty that I took a pickled sausage and a bottle of Miller’s and began to eat them before I paid. The bartender, a white

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She hollered and threatened all the home, and only refra ause the people sitting n nk, were ready to po aggressive move e It’s much more pleasant to turnips. You stretch alI day in so your afternoon’s ailments are those of an athlete who”s tried too much rather than an inmate who’s been cramped in a small cell. Besides, the orchard I worked in (Betty-Jo’s, near ~hapley9 New Jersey) paid b e hour, not the. piece. We were supposed to $17 for a ninehour day, though in fact t money to pay for a Iunch that was served in a canteen near the packing beuse. I have severe a~~o~bobia. While we were still on the bus, someone told me-we’d be working on 2%foot ladders, that there were no first-aid facilities in the orchard. I felt my stomach convulse with fear. I must have sounded terrified, too, because several people prickly assured me that, as a new man, I could work on a seven foot ladder, And in the orchard everyone was especially protective of me. Our gang leader, Sho look older than 48, told me he’d in the orchards about 45 years. lement his income with social security or weI 9 as many other workers di e day-hauled four days a week, helped distrib a commu~ty newspaper two more, and part every Sunday. Most years he worked well pa the first snows, into midDecember, stripping the last frosty apples from the trees and then cutting off the dead limbs. One winter, a decade ago, he sought farm work‘ in Florida, but living was so expensive and jobs were so precarious that he spent more than he Now he stays in South surviving on what he can make during the harvest season. IIe taught me to treat the trees with the same wary respect a hunter accords* dangerous game. It’s crucial to know how to use the ladder. You have to be sure the legs are the right distance from each other, that they’re planted on firm soil, so that you don’t suddenly topple in mid-air. Each time you ascend the ladder you have to test its stability by hopping hard on the first rung. You’re never supposed to stand on top of it, for fear of losing your footing. You must never jeopardize your balance by putting too many apples into the half-bushel basket strapped to your waist.

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his stain oulder Bike a cape, he kept the Latin in the game by repeatedly calling him a coward. By the time the bus foamy arrived the l?urto Rican had lost his full day’s pay. The labsr contractor was a thin, dapper black

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tes he shivered and began to shatters Wbe~.his seatmate asked him what was wrong d said he’d been to ted to know his sym~toms~ As looked at me angrily and said, with- questions like that. Can’t you see I’ve been poisoned? They’re all poisoning me.‘) Then he buried his head in his hands, img his fingers into hi lids whenever. the accoughs came in prolon Later Shorty told me he frequently . sometimes he was sick, somet~es he had the d.t.‘s. But he’d probably be back in the orchard in a day or two. Like the rest of them, he had nowhere else to ea iving. k* About a week after Philadelphia photo

ck to town. The white boy from Tennessee who r&s to go home and open 2nn well wasn’t going to agh to risk a fracas. 3f them uow had their ae fields with them, and as they talked. re clouding quickly. The adders. Soon the trees ted while the men looked . I kept working until hing me all day, said in a chiding, partly helpful9 man’s not paying you

It was an absurd gesture. Every other worker had filled sacks or shooting bags with their own groundhogs and they weren’t planning to return them. They simply kept their plunder close to themselves and remaine inside the packing house’s darkened shed. When the bus came they boarded it q~i~kly9 carrying the apples under their coats. When the farmer paid us we had to form a tight cramped line in the rain and file past him one by one while he counted out the cash. Though it was 5:30 the bus- hadn’t come, but the money gave some of the men an expensive pastime. Back in the shed a Puerto Rican took some dice out of his pocket and began fooling around with them. Soon some of the other worker% smoothed out a wide

man named Wiley Brown, who wore a Panama hat and a Hawaiian shirt. y law, contractors are supposed to be the workers’ representative-to make sure they know their rights, that the farmer is providing them with adequate health and safety facilities, to furnish them with an itemized pay sheet at the end of the day. But they rarely comply. They put their energy where the profit is: in the number of workers they can produce. Brown’s bus, when it finally arrived, was already full. Before we arrived at the ‘happy house” -a package liquor store owned by a man named Ted, who gave Brown a cut of every purchase his workers made- we’d picked up more people at another apple orchard and a tomato field.

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The driver leapt off the bus, ran toward Wingell, and demanded the film. For a few minutes Bill tried to reason with him. It was still dark, so he’d had to use a strobe and there was almost no chance the drivers face would be recognizable. But the driver was not s said worried that if the picture was publi Internal Revenue Service after ough he was careful to te he’d paid his taxes. Then he said he still had the camera .of the last person who’d tried to photograph him. About 30 people were su~ounding Wingell and the driver. Though some of them kept defending Bill’s right to take the picture, most remained silent. He decided to s~~euder the film and, a few ~nutes later to go home without a picture. 0

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One of the truisms of current movies is that if there is no sex and no violence, then the movie must either be lacking a plot or is bound to be a box office failure. Fortunately, though, it is still possible to create a successful film without a plot, but relying heavily on the cinematography. Such a film called Ski Movie 1. It “is the finest feature length lecture film on skiing ever produced, penetrating the freedom, the excitement and the emotional depths of the skiing experience.” That statement is made in the-promotional brochure for the tiovie, and for those persons who are involved in skiing the movie does live up to the statement. However, and this is one of the strong points of the movie, the movie is not just for skiers ts enjoy. Anyone who appreciates excellent cinematography or just beautiful scenery will enjoy it. Ski Mavie 1 was a product of ten years filming by Summit films, who have’produced other ski movies such as Ski tde Outer Limits and Outward Bound, and-the footage qomes from the ma&r ski areas of North America and Europe. Ski acrobatics forms a large part of the film withskiers such as Art Furrer, Rod Hebron and Tom Leroi-the latter who, in addition to being the first skier to _-_ do three back flips on skis, performs a hundred foot somersault from a tiliff at Jackson Hole. There is ski racing as well as shots of some of the best powder skiing to be seen anywhere. The excellent cinematography results f?om the fact that the cameramen have utilised every cinemagraphic trick or technique in the book. There are lots of strange camera angles, abundant use of filters to break the coloul: down into its three primary hues; infra red film is used as well as slow motion and time lapse photography. The last ten minutes is the most spectacular and the producers have used this footage to enter Several film festivals and have won an impressive number of awards. This last ten minutes is a collage of the best footage from the film plus more unusual and innovative camera techniques. Lest anyone think that this is the perfect movie, the movie does have its weak points. The major criticism is the trivial footage dealing with. the social side of the sport which was used to link the various scenes of skiing. The fihnakers’ attempts at comic relief also are very weak, especially when contrasted to the more dramatic content of the film. The producers of the film have chosen to release this film in a sixteen millemeter format only, this

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The general The General, playing this week in the Arts ‘Theatre is presumably a story set during the American Civil War, in which a young union soldier finds himself stranded in a small inn with a one-armed woman who we discover at the end of the play, is a rebel cons’pirator or collaborator. The soldier gives his trust to the woman who betrays him and the play ends with the gunshot that is piesumably the signal for the betrayal. Presumably, b&use this play, written by Steve Petch and directed by Maurice Evans, never rises ’ above that level of coherence. There is one actor and actress together on a very simple set, who have the task of drawing the play together’in the course of its twenty-five minute duration, to be something more or less intelligible. Unfortunately the two (Cathy Karpinski and Glen Soulis) weren’t able to convey Petsh’s story. The acting bn the whole, was pretty wooden and couldn’t convey the emotions and energy that must have been fundamental to l&ding the play something that one could grasp at and understand. There wasn’t the sense of reality conveyed that would have drawn the audience into the expression itself -it remained throughout a play; its main failure. There was just the vague impression that between the time the play began and ended, something about the Civil War was related, but as to what that was or was supposed to mean-that’s a-bit foggy. At least the idea of the noontime plays is a good idea and it is a pity that this one and others haven’t drawn more people. The noontime efforts are both a good way to develop theatre here and work out some innovations as well as to give the campus an atmosphere of theatre which is ongoing. -d

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BurlesqW , Response to the Drama Division’s presentation of Troilus and Cressida last week offered yet more proof that the “present eye praises the present object”not quite the ironical intent of the play, however. Director Peter O’Shaughnessy treated the audience to a “laugh-in” of clever dimension, but little substantial to think about once it was over. Variously classified as a “tragic”, “dark”, or “problem” _ play, Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is not the shallow Burlesque that Mr. O’Shaughnessy chose to present. And it does not end inconclusively with a sort of nihilism. Shakespeare does turn the illusions of honour, war, love and justice as they are used as rationale for all of men’s enterprise -seamy side out. But does he repudiate the values themselves? The performance excelled in Caricature: from Menelaus (D. Gowland) the. cuckold with brolly and hat; the “hermaphrodite” FRod Conway); to Archilles (P. Reilly) in satin boxing-ring garb. The men in the audience &pecially laughed at the gay overtdnes of the latter two. The old Greek power triumvirate was also excellent. The debauch in the Trojan camp, redolent with senti &Z;‘, was especially memorable in the scene between Helen (Ruth McArthur), Paris (-James Purvis), and Pandarus (Jose Huertas-Jourda). Pandarus who should really dominate all debauchery and lechery, only emerged as a central character near the end. While the Playbill seemed to promise setting-up the title characters as the central tension of the play, their backdrop of burlesque (and ,heavyhanded burlesque) undercut any of their efforts. Troilus (G. McDougall) and Cressida (Judy Prowse) portrayed young, sincere and idealistic characters - not quite applicable in Cressida’s case. From the promise of the large and talented cast, it is not clear why O’Shaughnessy decided to settle ,for cheap burlesque of Troilus and Cressida. But perhaps it is consonant with the tendency evinced earlier (in his Diary of a Madman)> to popularize his works. -cat

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“The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the. writing of history. It is part of its being, its reason for existance, to falsify all goods . .. .And the best paid historiography is that which is falsified for the purposes of the Engels, the bourgeoisie” - Frederick preparetory material for the History of Ireland. ’ There is no better interest to the truth of Engels’ statement, than the mass of twentieth century texts on the history of England’s “agricultural district”, Ireland. Since in general, the writing, of Irish history is undertaken by English ,Liberals and Tories, this recently published volume entitled Marx‘ and Engels &n the _’Irish Question, is welcome indeed. As stated in the introduction, neither Marx nor Engels were able to devote the necessary time to’ . specific volumes on purely Irish matters. This collection comprises all or most of the references, articles and letters rel.evant to , the “Irish Question”. It does indeed, of a scientific inprovide the “basis terpretation of the history of Ireland” though it can be considered no more than a beginning, a point of reference. Engels, before his death,- had prepared many notes for his planned history of Ireland. From the substance of these notes, his position can be outlined-and it is a position which is largely unassailable. From the original English invasion of 1169-1171, until Engel’s death and after, Irish history presents a dominant picture of invasion, both physical and economic, met with constant but disorganized native resistance. Each renewed English attack solidified the alien presence, carving slices of the land in preparation for gift wrapped delivery to carniverous English lords and kings. The Irish were supplanted in every sphere by their English cousins, until the country became one large feudal estate. Each and every Irish rebellion was destined for failure due to the inability of clans to organize and unite. The gradual pre-eminance of the English settlers, in the form of a bastard Anglo-Irish nobility made the Irish task virtually impossible. Impossible, that is, until the screaming infant capitalism gave precocious birth to its hoped for negation, the working class movement. It is largely ‘the period of that birth and after, which concerns Marx and Engels in this volume. possessor of his own instruments of Engel’s notes for his History of Ireland labour), but also a part of his normalwere sketchy and we can therefore only wage, which he would otherwise receive make rational guesses as to the content of for the same amount of labour.:.the such a work, had it been finished. landlord, who does nothing at all for the However, Marx and Engels, On The Irish improvement of the land, also exQuestion dealing in the main with Ireland propriates his small capital...this is from the famine until the fall of Pas&l in precisely what the usureer does...with just1890, eliminated the need for guesswork the difference that the usurer would at concerning this crucial period. Both men least risk his own capital in the operation” were quite precise in the lessons they drew (A more precise statement of the root of from that Irish experience. the. Irish land problems cannot be found. Much of the Irish experience in the 19th It is from that root that - the rural Century took the form of a bourgeois agricultural proletariat sprang; and with national liberation through such vehicles the late 19th Century advent of urban as the Repeal of the Act of Union and industrialism, so too came the urban “petty middle class” men such asDaniel proletariat. O‘Connell. G‘Connell, says Engles was The bulk‘ ‘of urban working class simply “a two faced Whig”, who would’ movements came after Marx’ death, yet soon find himself in the wilderness. Both much of what he and Engels had to say about the urban English counterpart held Marx and Engels were able to make the important distinction between the Irish true for the Irish. The factory slave workers and their leaders. Through such, system was nowhere more cruel than in men and false idols as O‘Connell, said, Belfast and Dublin Of Dublin, Engels remarks; in 1892: The bourgeoisie have Engels, the workers would receive this isI made further progress in the art of hiding “political education.. .and ultimately-for no one more dangerous than the distress of the working class”. for (O‘Connell) himself”. h%wever, it is still “only the pigs and the The basis of the Anglo-Irish struggle heaps of refuse which are no longer had been for centuries, the land question. tolerated”. The English working class leaders, Subjected to the tyrannical control of their land, high rents and the threat of upon whom Marx once relied, appeared eviction, the Irish lived in fear of thusly to Engels in 1894: “The \In-dispossession. 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‘1 t State z of i Siege State of Siege, at the Hyland, is one of those rare motion pictures which gets beyond the unquestioning formula approach of the “entertainment” industry and carries the medium of film to the idealistic heights which we are able to glimpse so seldom. Reviewers like the KW Record’s Victor Stanton can’t even begin to cope with it: he dismissed it because it does not offer the “drama” or entertainment of the normal “thriller.” Too slow for Victor, not enough’ of that good old \ Hollywood icing. What Costa-Gavras is seeking in State of Siege is not entertainment, but political education and insight, if such words can still, be used in reference ‘to ma&distribution movies. He has forsaken the cheap and easy little “entertainment” tricks in this film even more than in “Z”, his controversial previous film. The subject of the film is the political conflict in Uruguay between the’ rightist government and the leftist underground movement, mirrored in the interplay of those two forces and all the hidden, outside forces which come- to bear when the underground members kidnap several foreign “diplomats” in their country. Chief among these is an American “communications and traffic expert”. As the narrative unfolds through interrogation and flashbacks, the reality of this “diplomat’s” mission to Uruguay becomes apparent: he has been sent by the U.S. to train the military (police force) in counter-insurgency and torture methods. It also becomes clear that the American “advisor” has previously fulfilled similar functions in other Latin American countries where the government faced uprisings and underground movements. The style used incorporates reality into

a-dramatic structure which then turns itself back to depict reality in a coherent expression -pseudo-documentary; contrived yet too simple and straightforward to-be thought of that way. It is reality made coherent -like taking documentary editing to its proper conclusion-a documentary shot after the event when all the details can be explored and examined and presented neatly. The reality of this is that Costa Gravas would never have been allowed near the events and thus, had to reconstruct them. And this style adopted by him takes all sense of “entertainment” from the film, and lets the audience know early that this film is a serious attempt to expose what is happening around us; the fact that the events portrayed actually occured three years ago in Uruguay (in the film identified simply as a country bordering Brazil) adds to the impact of the-contents. There are no diverting “romances” here, no James Bond gimmicks or supervillains, no obligatory thrilling car (boat, plane, motorcycle) chase; this is a recounting of how real people acted, were tortured and died. The exposes over the past decade of U.S. “aid” to foreign countries makes State of Siege more than just the story of what happened to one American or one underground movement or one country; the film is the story of American treachery as much as it is the story of Uruguay. Costa-Gavras might just as easily have chosen Santo Domingo, Haiti, -Peru, Brazil, Chile, Viet Nam, Cambodia or any other from a long list of Third World countries in order to explore the ties between the U.S. government (CIA, -USIA, etc.) and “friendly” right-wing governments. That Stanton could have approached State of Siege from the perspective of entertainment is in itself a comment which can only illuminate the intent and value of a film like this. His separation from the events held out glaringly by it is eloquent and serves almost as an epilogue to the film. Or, as one woman complained after the show: “It didn’t have any action!” which is a problem for this culture.- The documentary goes beyond the limits of itself by the response it evokes. Which is the value of a movie like this and the potential social value of film itself. State of Siege has merely depicted reality, but in doing so, presents something which both deals with a universal situation and deals’ with it concretely. To talk today about the nature, intent, effects and fact of US imperialism ‘is concrete. To deal with the‘ problem through the use of film-tot’ use the immediate reality to depict the universal political, fadt- has. to be the ultimate motive for the medium. Because, in this instance, the film doesn’t simply say that an event took place, but demands the change that corresponds. It doesn’t deal with people isolated from their surroundings, but is graphic in its description of them-political, economic and sociai and the interelationships of all people with them. Things are not- the result of’ a few people acting independantly . The conspirator finds his action in response to the imperialist reactionary and vice-versa; and all people, from reactionaries through liberals to conspirators, have no alternative but to feed the course of events. The liberals in the government “don’t like the methods” of the Tupamaros (underground) group but deplore the ruling party’s policies and -tacticsthe dilemma of the “middle” long can it- deny its party ; how relationship with the situation? Thus the film presents the factors to. any such event. To deal with a situation properly is to ‘deal with it in the interraction of the particular and the whole- specific people and the context that each finds himself operating in. Film has the potential for doing this graphically, though it seldom does. With State of Siege, Costa-Gravas has managed this-you leave feeling and thinking very much differently than when you began to watch and this seems to be the most necessary level on which to praise the film. . -d pad and gs kaufman

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A lot of big-name rock groups have released albums recently ,-but rather than being a cause for rejoicing among the initiated, most of the LP’s are simply further disappointing testament that rock music needs a big shaking-up. A genre onceinot so long ago, alas- so dynamic and impudent in its young, innov.ative energy has mostly degenerated into the same sort-of copy-cat sameness which rock-n-roll had falleninto when the Beatles-led British invasion and American West Coast rock came-along to regenerate things. So, from where is the shaking-up to come this time around? Probably not from any of the established rock groups since, unfortunately, a great flock of them are turning-rather than to new formsblindly back into comfortable, nostalgia (‘*good old rock-n-roll”). Well, ‘there is probably room for one Sha-Na-Na, and a few tired old “rock-n-roll revival” concert tears by the balding and pot-bellied hipwigglers of yore; but there’s got to be more than just a frantic rush to cash in on the music side of the current Nostalgia Boom. Surprisingly, the Band-once a trendsetter-is at the front of this month’s GetYour-Nostalgia-Dollar parade. Their new album, Moondog Matinee (Capitol SW 112 14) comes ’ complete with the kitschiest and most useless album cover yet devised (it folds out into a greased-up and romanticized scene of the “Cabbagetown Cafe”, complete with that glowing altar of the fifties, the juke box) and the record and cover together are not worth the price of the cellophane covering. Not only do the old “Hawks” trot out some drearily standardized versions of “Holy Cow”, “The Great Pretender” and other non-hits, but they include-for reasons beyond caring about-an inane, Muzak-y instrumental of the “Third Man Theme”. You figure it out. Things are only a little better on Frank Zappa’s new album, Over-Nite Sensation (Warner Bros. 0629). Instead of turning back into R and R, Zappa and his new Mothers delve deeply back into Southern California Psychedelic Rock, which has long since ceased to be musically -or socially interesting. Oh, they try-and occasionally succeed- to get into a few good jazz licks, but it mostly collapses into wall-of-noise acidrock with zapped-out voice-overs or careful off&&y ‘>2”:. vocals.. The shame of it all is that Z$@pa’s new group can be a fine, al combo, as evidenced e appearance on this is an extremely ’ ‘z-7,

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multiple-keyboard and synthesizer man, and while Zappa is no John McLaughlin, he has grown into a pleasing and creative guitarist. Onstage, the rest of the players meshed into a brilliant unit, soaring to ensemble blasts and excelling in solo work. But little of that has been captured on this record. It has all been cut down into seven radiodigestable cuts and the production by Zappa himself does not take advantage of the stereo medium, despite the herd of technicians and engineers involved. The Grateful Dead, of course, have become a veritable institution of the rock world-and a very financially stable institution in a particularly fickle industry. The Dead were there when the_ whole West-‘ Coast wave started, and it looks as if they’ll be there still when San Fransisco tumbles into the Pacific. If Wake of the Flood (GD-01) is any indication, Garcia and gang are not turning backwards or forwards for inspiration, but are stuck in a rut, doing the same thing over and over. The Dead, like Zappa’s group, are impressive performers onstage, but this LP is just full of welldone, I ‘ve-heard-it-before rock which Dead fans have come to love and pay for. It’s not bad-though its a long way from the brilliant heights of Workingman’s Dead and Live in Europe-but it’s all just blah. Paul Butterfield is a musician who has tried his hardest to stay out of ruts. He was one of the first young white punks to become accepted by black bluesmen. He played in a handful of top black blues bands before starting his own groundbreaking white blues band, whose famous members-have since gone on to their own highs or lows. That group produced two great albums (East-West and In My Own Dream) and then Butterfield started adding horns and more amps, and a new group emerged for two albums, a great live group but one which never transferred that sound to record. Tiring of -- that, Butterfield serendipitously got together his current band, Better -Days. Their first album, released last year, was-and is-a joy to hear, good clean acoustic and low-profile electric blues and country-blues, with horns every now and again; but, mostly, out-front, the voices and Butter’s own inspired harp work. Their second LP, It All Comes Back (BR 2170), is a competent re:run of the first: and that’s not bad news to those who liked Better Days. Butterfield still stands front and centre with his fine blues harp work’-on cuts like the rocking “Two

Many Drivers”, he evokes, the best cuts ( off the old albums-and Ronnie Baron on keyboards and Amos Garrett. on -guitar are outstanding again. .Gusty vocals by Butterfield, Baron and Geoff and Maria Muldaur breathe life into the otherwise pretty-much-alike. material. So, if more of the‘.same is good enough for you, Butter fans, the band is still in fine form. Valerie Simpson and Nicholas Ashford have jumped from Motown .to Warner Brothers,, and- the result is a slightlysweetened but joyously spirited funkysoul LP called Gimme Something Real (BS 2739). These. two have just the right voices for this type of Motown material, ‘and the arrangements rarely let them down. The title- cut, in fact, has all the makings of a Soul Classic, building from a soft call-and-answer “personal testamony” of the nature of real love to a rousing, triumphant chorus climax. While they, occasionally go overboard into romantic sweetness-and-pain stories, this LP can confidently be recommended to any hard-core Motown fan-la breed, alas, which is all too rare in whiter-than-white southern Ontario.) ’ . Alan Price hasn’t been heard from since the earliest blossoming of British rock, when he spent some time on keyboard for the Animais. Well, he hasn’t exactly moved to the edges of innovation since then, but he has-managed to take the best elements of Beatle-inspired British rock and turn-it into a very listenable soundtrack to the film 0 Lucky Man! (BS 2710). . To many, Price’s up-tempo score was about the only interesting thing about the Lindsay Anderson-Malcolm McDowell movie, but that’s another story . altogether. The music was treated quite uniquely in that shots of Price and his band actually playing the music were iblcorporated into the film,, giving a sense of life and. immediacy which few films achieve with soundtracks, usually added as an - afterthought . .’ Some of the enjoyment is lost when this music is transferred to cold vinyl, but several cuts-the title tune,, “Poor People” and “Sell Sell”-retain a vitality --and sardonic intelligence. ,Price’s voice is unabashedly unsophisticated in a way only those early British singers seem to have been able to convey, and his fourman band fills in, with sparse but justright backing. Speaking of revivals, MCA has brought about one in the most unashamed and crass way possible: if a current band playing the “good old” stuff is great, then I actually bringing one of those “good old” groups together again to cut an album would be gangbusters, right? That’s evidently the thinking behind The Original Blues Project-Reunion In Central Park (MCA2-8003), and it -does just what it promises, a live, two-record performance. All the middle-aged original Project fans in the world must have shown up at the concert, because if my memory serves, the group was not a very outstanding or popular band even when it was “original”. But, as we know, legends grow larger than reality, and these guys probably have as much right as anyone to cash in on the Nostalgia Trip. There are occasional flashes of life, such as on the raunchy Chuck Berry tune, “You Can’t Catch Me”, but most of the stuff here is off-key re-hashes of the real California folk-rock which these guys were vainly trying to imitate in the first place. Al K.ooper is as self-indulgent and flatvoiced as ever, and Danny Kalb’s guitar work has not improved. To legitimize their name, Al . announces, “Here’s some blues”, and they launch into some Lovin’ Spoonful-white electric blues for which they should be drummed out of the musicians union. ‘Nuff said. If you’re still hot for a revival after all this stuff, take the money you would have spent on these white punks, and invest in a little of the real thing, Atlantic’s fantastic 25th Anniversary double-LP, The Son1 Years (SDZ-504). Atlantic is the label that was recording soul back in those lean days in the 50’s when only blacks were buying “soul” records. All the great classic cuts are here, the best of Brook Benton,,Booker T, Clarence

Zarter, Ray Charles, the Coasters, the Drifters, Arthea Franklin, Wilson Pickett, 3tis. Redding, Sam and Dave, Percy Sledge, Joe Tex, the Spinners and many Dthers. If you can field a better line-up for a revival of the “real stuff”, I’ll eat my Bobby Sox. The liner. notes by Atlantic producerdeluxe Jerry Wexler, who was responsible for discovering and/or producing many of the,‘musicians on this album,, are almost worth the price of the LP alone. He reminisces about each cut, recalling how he tried to court white record buyers in 1957 by putting a chorus of white singers behind .Chuck Willis ,on -“C.C. Rider (the results of this compromise not only didn’t draw the whites, but .predictably sounded terrible), or how .he didn’t want to release the, Drifters’ “There Goes My Baby” because it was so terrible-of course, it was the Drifters’ biggest hit and started a whole new trend in music.” ’ Steve Miller has also been around since the beginning of this whole white rock thing, and he has miraculously avoided atrophy’ by changing personnel often. The “Steve Miller .Band” has included numer.ous rock luminaries. ranging from Boz Scaggs to Paul McCartney; but, through it all, Miller has managed to maintain control of the sound and, despite the personnel, all cuts have come out with the Steve ,Miller stamp on them. His current band and LP are no exception. The Joker (Capitol SAMS 11235) is full of good, honest, hard-rocking Steve Miller music. The title cut, which has gotten a bit of radio play, is that sort of straight -ahead, tight-but-not-suppressed rock which filled four sides of the Steve Miller Anthology with pleasurable rock. Two live cuts, Robert Johnson’s “Come On In My Kitchen” and “Evil”, don’t quite come up to the level of the studio music, but give good display to Miller’s smooth, elastic voice and guitar work. Sneaky Pete followers will be pleased to note that he sits in to add some fine pedal steel licks on the ballad, “Something to Believe.” -george kaufman .

A -fantasy’s renewal . The Carol Fantasy, performed last weekend in the Humanities Theatre under the direction of ‘Alfred Kunz, was the ninth such occasion the campus has witnessed. It was also the best, by and large, if I do say so myself. Since I write ,from the perspective of the bass sectionof the choir, allowance will have to be made for bias, no doubt. And it is very difficult to judge how things sounded to the audience when one is on the other side of the conductor’s baton; but as a sizable sample of the iaudiences have been consulted, I hope a tolerably fair picture will emerge. - As. usual, the event began with a biggish program from the Concert Band, an organization that is hampered probably more than most, by lack of practice time and related’ problems, with resulting problems in tonality and precision. Still, they are improving, and on Saturday sounded pretty decent, here and there. The Festive ‘Overture of Shostakovitch is brassy and not very profound, and tends towards meaningless noise, but on the second night came out coherently. Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture is a dandy piece which does not go easily into a band setting, I think. The big problem here was to sustain the lines--apart from hitting all the notes right, which we can’t expect yet. The Haydn Divertimento following contains the famous melody which was the basis for Brahms’ superb Variations on a Theme of Haydn. It has to be. a bit overblown when played by several times the originally called for instrumentation of five winds; and more security of intonation would help, too. But it went over well, especially in the Saturday performance. The Wagner march from Tannhauer could go over very well with a large and highly disciplined band; the

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\ requisite gravity could not. be achieved with our forces. The close and unresonant aco,ustic does not help matters in these, enterprises, either. But the band is coming along. Besides, without it we would be deprived of the sight of Doug Young playing the triangle! Main event of the evening, of course, was Bach’s Magnificat in D Major, sung by the choir with the Little Orchestra in attendance and five soloists from the area. This piece, it need hardly be said, benefits from a church setting; our performance in St. Mary’s, Kitchener, on Sunday had much the ‘best of it in terms of sheer sound. But a packed house in the Humanities Theatre on both nights received a reasonably effective per-\ formance, especially on Saturday when we got used to the theatre environment. It was, I think, a more penetrating conception of the score than was evident in the several other recent choral concerts I commented on last week; but credit goes to Alfred Kunz for aiming at, and mostly getting, a bright, vivid rendition even if goodness knows, we rank amateur singers were solely taxed in the process. The orchestra remains a problem, but again was much improved over last year, I felt. Praises bb to the two oboe players, and especially the principal Vicki Poppy, _ whose reliable pbbligatto playing, the result of long hours of hard work, added immeasurably to the general level of , support. The fiendish high trumpet part was attempted by Craig Thom$on of Londo’n, who gets credit for trying and often, if not always, succeeding; when things went well, he and his colleague+ sounded magnificent. The violins were less rough and timid than last year, though certainly not suave. Bass and c&lo hung in there respectably, and Joanne Elligsen tinkled away with utter reliablity - on the somewhat amplified university harpsichoid; on Sunday she niade up for it by thundering&away on ,the St. Mary’s organ, to great effect. And how did we sing? Well, first off, the women are better, almost uniformily, than the men. At their best they sounded very good indeed; and the youthful quality of sound is very suitable to this kind of music. Tenors are thinnish, but worked hard a@ came through pretty well in some perfectly wicked parts; The’ Basses, such as yours truly, lacked strength and solidity, mostly. Everyone, by dint of hard work on th? part \of both ourselves and Director Kuni, got through his or her lines reasonably well. Many thanks to the soloists for singing along with us; that helped. University Chamber Choir did two things: Bach’s motet,Lobet den Herrn, l and Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata. This small group has a high level of tone and vocal agility. They can be very good. Being‘ small, the tolerance for error is far smaller than the big choir; and neither piece was exactly a pushover to perform. The Bach is the niore demanding and, I think, didn’t go as well on any night. But when it went respectably, and came to a good conclusion especially. The Pinkham is a most attractive work, which calls for reinforcement by several brasses from the band. They obviously put work into it, for here they sounded very well, for the most part. The chamber choir’s performance, especially on Saturday, was very good indeed, and the final “Gloria i’n Excelsis Deo” is exciting. ’ Concluding number was Kunz’ collection of carol and carol snippets, the Christmas Ktileidoscope, also calling for audience participation on a couple of numbers. While a mite gimmicky, perhaps, it is sotie cuts above the usual effort of this kind: cute without being coy, and un-hackneyed. The Chamber choir suspended themselvks up in the rafters for this one and supplied angeiic commentary on the goings-on below, managing even to be more or less in tune while at it. There are some nice bits for the band-orchestra, as in the “alla marcia” section, and these went off tolerably, apart from some pretty ragged entrances. The pjece builds up a nice head of steam, we sing our lungs ou‘t, and on Saturday the audience cheered and stamped their feet until Kunz repeated a bit of it. Gee Whiz, fellers.

All in all: it’s getting so that ;ou don’t have to have a sister of friend performing for it to be worthwhile making the effort to hear the annual Christmas concert. If it keeps improving at the rate it has, it will become one of the events in the community, on artistic merit alone. I need scarcely say what an achievement this is for utterly amateur, voluntary performers with full loads of courses or other work and very little time to rehearse. , -jan narveson

. ..more fantasy Concert Fantasy & Andante and Finale by Tchaikovsk$, Werner Haas, piano with the National Opera Orchestra of Monte Carlo cond, Eliahu Inbal. Philips 6500316 It used to be that record companies contented themselves with issuing and reissuing the old standards and favorites of the classical field. qow , encouraged by soaring sales (30-40 % of total record sales) much material SQ nearly forgotten it is new is being released on major labels performed by major artists.The latest on the Philips label is the Concert Fantasy and the -Andante and Finale, both of iwhich were originally intended as Tchaikovsky’s 3rd piano concerto.

The Concert Fantasy is very reminiscent of other of ‘Tchaikovsky’s piano works, almost typical, if that is possible.* The $ano and orchestra are in I combattant. roles--much in contrast to the Andante and Finale which was actually constructed by an eminent pianist of Tchaikovgky’s time from various sketches left uncompleted at the composer’s death. Here the piano and orchestra co-operate much as they do in a Mozart concerto. In addition much of the easy music flow and lyric appeai of authentic compositions has been lost. However, taken for what it is, an inr formed guess as to what might have been written, it is fairly enjoyable and interesting as a work not likely to be heard too often. The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar, various soloists with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. London OSA 1293 Although many individual moments of instrumentation in this work are quite

-. satisfying, a severe lack of dramatic in-’ spiration is pervasive throughout, it. It is difficult to recall any really memorable passages once the work is over. Three are no climaxes or noticeable high points . in its entire foui- sides, Although it is deeply religious subject matter, that of the prayerful demise of Gerontius and his entry into heaven accompanied by wordy supplications of hosts and angels, demons and mortals, may excuse a certain lack of flash, there is no reason tolllet the work sink into a state of near somnolence. The lyrics of this oratorio-like composition do little to help either, consisting of a turgid mush of religious mythology by a 19th century Cardinal of the Church. Really the only saving point is the fine quality of the performance and recording especially in the choral passages which are very pure aud clean in tone. The constant interplay of orchestra, chorus and soloists is very well brought out, miked at a diqtance to emphagize\ the work’s ethereal . spirit. But after 90 plus minutes, it all begins to sound alike-more and more and then too much of the same.. -pete smith

Sayage rejoinder Ever ‘since my J introduction to Maria Muldaur’s enchanting brand of vocal styling with the “Richland Woman” track from Jim Kweskin,and the Jug Band’s See Reverse Side for Title album long years ago, it has been my cdnsistent and unfilled expectation that, this wantonly ignored artist would one day be accorded a solo album. For some inexplicable reason however, the record companies have been far tardier than I in recognizing_ the except’ional worth of her Ffforts. Until now. With very few reservations, it is my unabashed pleasure to recommend to chePpon readers Warner Brothers recent &lease of Maria Muldaur (WB 2 148) wherein the amazing Muldaur voice

consistently overcomes the occasional vicissitudes of over-instrumentation and compositional shortcomings of a variety of material which strikes -a neat balance between big-city and down-home country folk music. A plethora of stellar musical per- ’ sonalities ffiom Ry Cooder through Dr. Joh+Mac Rebennack to the ubiquitous Klaus Voorman also appear on this album, but the main attraktion throughout is unmistakeably the singer herself, always managing Eo impart musical success to sotigs which frequently descend well into the so-so. Then again, on “some trackse.g. Jimmy Rodgers’ “Atiy Old Time”, or the deceptively simple “Work Song”the material is in no danger of being upstaged by the perform&, and the producers have wisely refrained from deluging the arrangem&nt with the excessive backing inflicted elsewhere on the album. None of the selections were written b,y Muldaur ;’ in an age of self-indulgent Carole Kings, creatively bankrupt Bobby Dylans and insufferable James Taylor/Carly Simons, it is refreshing to encounter a performer with no pretensions tp profundity. Indeed, the album speaks well for the now-unpopular @ilosophy that specialization has its place in the world of show-biz; that some folks can, write, and some folks can sing, but precious few can do both and do them well. Maria Muldaur sings well. ’ For musical fare of a quite different kind, turn to King Curtis and Champion Jack Qupree, Blues at Montreux (Atlantic SD 1637), a loose, high-spirited session recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festiva! three months before Curtis’ldeath by stabbing in 1971. Together with Dupree on piano and vocals, and’curtis on sax, the album also features Cornell Dupree (no relation to Jack) on guitar, Jerry Jemmott -on bass, and Oliver Jackson on drums. The composer credits (the songs are attributed to both Dupree and Cbrtis) are belied by the obvious spontaneity of much of the material, ajnd apart from Dupree’s often ad-libbed lyrics, tend to showcase the musicians’ expertise within traditional forms, rather than exploring anything that could be remotely be considered “new ground”. This of course is hardly a disparagement in a genre as thoroughly explored as the blues, and the unbelievable mastery of both the star performers -though particularly, to my mind, King Curtis-combined with the high ‘spirit which perieates ihe entire venture leaves me with no hesitation in r recommending the album. I wish the same could be said of the Firesign Theatre’s latest effort, Not Insane (Columbia KC 31585)) which to me at least, is, a considerable let-down a&er their previous outipgs. The Theatre showed themselves, on such titles as Waiting for the Electrician or Don’t Crush that Dwarf (both released on Columbia) to be an innovative and ingenious comedy team, frequently able to impart a sense of depth to their work lacking in almost any other available canned humour; This album, however, marks the decline of their innovation into gimmickry, and their ingenuity into trendy devices which ’ capture the attention btit obscure the message. I personally found their new dependance on *electronics and sound effects sufficiently annoying as to make listening to the record a truly painful experience, and was distinctly disappointed to find that the studio tricks they exploited so brilliantly on We’re All Bozos on This Bus are here so badly misused. So much for the light grown dim. Here’s one on a light that never was. I refer, of course, to the inimitable (the record cover says “incredible” and that’s true too) Simon Stokes and his Black Whip Thrill Band (Spindizzy KZ 32075). This supremely -forgettable album, . suffice it to say, has one pardonable cut“The Devil Just Called My Name”-and absolutely nothing else to recommend itself. In the field of pervo music, I know of at least one local band-the inimitable, some say incredible Running Dog and his Electric Lackeys -who put this collection of gimmick-ridden -hacks to shame. -bertram

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The Liberals can barely find their way lome, burdened as they are with trendy 3xford radicals. In so many ways, Britain finds herself the now paying the price of colonialism. Immigrants, whose grandparents were economically raped in return for British citizenship, now come here presenting Britain with the as yet unpaid bill. “Racial harmony” reports notwithstanding, the presence of a large “foreign” populace in xenophobic Britain is a serious problem. It is nowhere near solution, and there are Few signs that anyone cares to find an answer. Enoch Powell will supply suggestions to anyone who will listen, and his audience is greater than the “liberals” would care to admit. The irony of this colonial “backlash” lies in the fact that those who benefitted least from imperial policies-the working class-now bear the burden of paying the toll. The monied classes have no less money than before, and like good monopoly capitalists everywhere, manage ;o turn a gigantic social dilemma into nore gigantic profits. The cliche about six or more black or coloured families to a house is true over here, for a very simple reason. The price of houses, high to begin with, is much higher for immigrants who are not blessed with lily-white skin. Therefore: in order to find some form of shelter, families must pool resources, and the cliche becomes a vicious social stereotype, reinforced by political fodder. Race problems here bear the stamp of British subtletya prejudice more psychologically harmful because it is obscured by the numerous assertions of paternal feeling for the less fortunate colonial wards. A large part of the nonwhite population feels that it could not possibly be less fortunate now that it is in Britain. Despite the facade of harmony, any black man will be quick to relate the ,number of pubs in his area where a blind eye will be turned when it comes to acis social suicide. ,tually serving “these people”. Thus, in spite of the fact that Labou iDespite - ineffective, limp, racial has done very little for those whosl e discrimination laws, there are definitely support it relies on, there is little two worlds here, distinct and probably likelihood of a great change in othe !r eternally separate. Not even the common directions by voters. The Labour Party, i n bond of Labour sympathies can break that its pseudo-socialist role, has seemingl, Y rigid barrier. Politics, bad as they are, are precluded the possibility of a real socialis it still considered a white playing field. The alternative for its country. Non lpolitical solutions, if they can be found in P? traditional politicsthe “authentic’ this mad-hatter world, must not only sue h left- have little real support, and speak to the important and very real support as exists comes, in the main, fro1 n question of class structures and the Communist Party. separations, but also to the artificiallyThere can be little doubt that th .e breated problem of , race. ’ The two economic and social questions now facin, EC buestions are inextricably linked, and the this country cannot find suitable answe !r failure to solve both, or even one, in the twelve-month eye-on-the-electorat ,e’ could well represent the final failure stop-gap measures which will likely corn Le ,that colonial adventure must from either Labour or the Conservative! 3. inevitably bring. cl .’

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The Labour Party in England has been looked upon as the model for social reform by those socialists enamoured with present democratic, institutions. The compromise, polemic and general political maneuvouring inherent in, contemporary democratic institutions almost precludes any strong ideological divisions of the magnitude necessary to the total disruption of the social fabric, concomitant with a victory’of the worker over those who exploit him. Jon McGill, having discussed the particular problems found in social democracy in X light of the recent coup in Chile, proceeds to look at the total political climate in England-a climate imbued with tradition and conflict .

No one seems to know where this country is going. At least, no one is in a position to affect directions. / Political traditions die hard, and often violently. Here, political tradition is virtually all that is left. The substance is gone. The two main parties -the Labour Party, led by a now ludicrous Harold ‘Wilson; and the Conservatives, led by Britain’s Bob Stanfield, Ted Heath-are so intent on following formula political solutions that they’cannot see the change in the nature of the problems. The third party, a semiconscious Liberal mongrel, barking at parliamentary heels, has pretensions to power, if not grandeur (there is no grandeur in the days of fading empire!). ’ There is, as yet, little evidence to support Liberal optimism. The British are tied to the tradition of a c choice between one of two parties, though many seem to recognize that one party or the other represents no choice at all. The , Labour Party, rich in twentieth-century trade union history, has fallen into the same apologetic stance as the modern trade union. Despite re-assertions of “roads to socialism”, the party is further from that road, and that goal, than perhaps at any time in their history. They are rigidly bound to . the coat-tails of “free” enterprise, lacking the courage to follow up a hastily spoken vow to ~ nationalize the twenty-five largest corporations. When backed up to a wall, the Labour Party found more than enough of its “socialist” members willing to compromise with the oft-avowed “enemy” of corporate capitalism. The political alternative, realistically at least, is the Conservative Party. If the Labour Party is offensive in its lack of the Conservatives are odious .- conviction, in their implicit racism and explicit class content. The deep-rooted class heritage is not

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readily understood by even the most expert English observer, let alone one who has been in the country only briefly. Yet some aspects are so ‘highly visible that they cannot be either misread or overlooked. The role that class plays in British political leanings has the obvious characteristics of North American “democracies”: the well-to-do and the business interests stick close to the party of the status quo, in this case the Conservatives. The working class can be expected to vote largely, if not exelusively , for Labour. Herein lies a problem -political choice here is dictated to a great extent by tradition. Allegiance is pledged not to candidates but to the party, and for a Labour man to turn to other possibilities

In his “response” to Jon McGill’s article entitled “The Demise of Reformism”, Jo Surich informs us that “all social democrats will learn lessons from its (parliamentary socialism’s) apparent failure” (in Chile). 5 However, Surich goes on to say that there are, apparently, only the following two reasons why socialism failed go I establish itself in Chile: (1) “The economic system was not sufficiently welldeveloped to take the initial strains that go along with attempts to do things differently ,” and , (2) “the people did not have the expertise required to allow them to make all of the decisions necessary for _ the establishment of new relations of’ production .” In the opening paragraph of his letter Surich apparently questions Jon McGill’s marxism. Surich , would do well to examine his own. The very essence of capitalist societies is the class-structure that forms as a result of the economic system. Just who are “the people” whose underdevelopment precluded the “necessary” decisions required to bring about socialism? As if all that is necessary for the “change-over” from capitalism to socialism is to make correct decisions! *How can\ Surich possibly overlook the fact that within a capitalist society, different classes have necessarily different interests? The bourgeoisie in Chile was threatened economically by s Allende’s \

Social Democracy: in defense of the status quo * Unidad Popular and its working class supporters. International capital, including that of‘ the Canadian government, was also threatened and quite naturally reacted to this threat by, among other things, completely cutting off economic credit to the Allende govemment. How many countries in the world could have escaped tremendous internal problems as a (result of such a situation? The only “aid” Chile received during Allende’s entire term of office was military assistance from the American govemment, assistance which was eventu ly Y used to overthrow the government. The’ people of the ‘Third World particularly have experienced time and time again the true face of capitalism when it has perceived itself as threatened. The violence ‘of police in support of the management of the Artistic Woodworking Co. in Toronto is child’s play when juxtaposed to the violence of the ruling classes in the Third World, in their efforts suppress national to liberation movements. The fact that the United States has “sold” over seventeen billion dollars’ worth of military goods and

\ sevices around the world (source: NAGLA Latin America and Empire Report, Vol. VI, No: 1, page 5) between 1950 and 1972 is directly related to. the American ;bourgeoisie’s desire to protect its out-ofcountry investments., By propping up local bourgeoisies through military and police assistance America protects the status quo from the evils of indigenous national liberation movements. Surich’s statement that “it is doubtful that humane values can be generated among the population byviolent means” indicates his total lack of understanding of capitalism in general and the Chilean situation specifically. It is abundantly clear for all those who take the time to look at those who belong to :the capitalist class, their supporters and agents , will not hesitate to use whatever means necessary to maintain their hegemony. Surich’s stated dislike for violence is purely and simply an expression of a social democrat’s desire to appear respectable. Surich, like most other politicians, would support the use .of force if the cause justifies its use, and all other

methods fail. The war against Nazi Germany is a case in point. The.overthrow of capitalism does not appear to be a sufficiently lofty goal to warrant Surich’s support for the use of violence. In discussions regarding violence, social democrats usually fail to make any distinction between “the violence of the oppressed” and “the violence of the oppressor”. To absolutely deny the use of violence in overthrowing an oppressive regime amounts to de facto support for the status quo in most countries of the world. t So continue your efforts, Mr. Surich, to “chip away at the power of the corporation”, “eliminate the harsher con- ’ . sequences of the capitalist economic sytem” , and “to provide decent housing for people who don’t haveit”. But don’t fool yourself into thinking that your efforts are a fundamental challenge to capitalism. As your fellow-traveller, Dave Barett, the premier of B.C. put it in an interview likening himself to Franklin Roosevelt, “1 am not out to destroy capitalism but to save it”. I don’t think that marxists, as a whole, would argue that ‘there are absolutely no differences between democratic socialist governments and ‘liberal’ governments. However, Surich’s argument that the differences are “fundamental” debases the meaning of the word and is an obvious statement of his vested interest. l’erry

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L_ the same house that tells the post- _ In another area COPSE0 calls for secondary students that it cannot afford representation from the community in to continue to pay the cost of education in ’ labour, management, the professions and Unfortunately, it is this _ this province.’ community-groups. However, they do not same government with which the Ont_ario mention the origin of these groups, nor Federation of Students has to deal. This how they would go about getting week OFS published their response to the representation. “While the Board of OXI Post-Secondary G overnors Commission have had over-abundant Education in Ontario~~ The folIowing representation from the wealthy corporate article by Susan Johnson deals with this sector, they have had precious little in-put brief. from those without similar status and -. wealth. -COPSE0 naively assumes a of interest between management After the unsuccessfu! fee strike of last harmony and tenants, the rich winter many critics_ and supporters of the and labour, landlords Ontario Federation of Studentsand the poor.” OFS insists that the Federation des Etudiants de l’ontario disadvantaged groups must be wondered what they could find to keep guaranteed representation on the decisionmaking bodies of the institution; themselves busy and, in turn,-justify their :existence. Many saw the fee issue as the‘COPSE0 also recommended ’ that. only one that students in this province representative student organizations be would ever possibly mobilize around, and funded by provincial moneycriticising that did not happen on any large scale at this idea would put OFS. in a strange all.,, position much like that of the opposition The executive of OFS and active parties in the house that would like a raise members assured ever$ne that they, in, but no doubt realize that their confact, had so much to do that they needed ‘stituents do not want them to vote forthe even more money <and a larger paid staff in raise. In an effort to relieve their order to handle all the issues. This year discomfort OFS has agreed to graciously they sponsored the unproductive so-called -accept ‘any funding if that should ever ‘women% conference’ and they have held come about, but they have also put some some provincial conferences of their restrictions upon that acceptance. members. From ’ the provincial con“Student organizations must not find ferences pages and pages of resolutions themselves ’ in a situation where the were drawn-:all of which had to be government could cut off funds if anissue ratified by the member student councils. of controversy. arose. Funds should be Only from this last effort have there provided with- absolutely no strings at-. been any visible results. This -week OFS j tached.” ’ has published its position paper on the Moving away from the \very general COPSE0 report that - the government recommendations with which they dealt in committee issued in 1971. Their brief deals the first section. of the paper, the OFS *also with regidences on student position -paper then goes onto the basic campuses, tenure, the status of student issue of the f[&ncing of post-secondary unions and the organhti9n'S po&iOE On education. OFS examined five different * education in Ontario. reasons for cutbacks in education . OFS will present their paper, verbally, spending. to the Committee on University Affairs on The first reason given is that if December 16; as well, the report has been education spending was to multiply ti it made ,available to the government of did through the sixties then other areas of Ontario. OFS’s comments were solicited’ ‘social’ needs, such as ,public housing and by (=UA, but since CUA is either ignored pollution control would necessarily have by the provincialgovernment whenit%rits to suffer, The second reason claims that the moment or it is inconsistent in their recent trends indicate’ that fewer people own approach to education and cannot are interested iin following through with therefore be a reliable body to leave with post-secondary learning and therefore the: decisions. fewer people are using those very ex- Initially the report deals with some pensive schools. ,These reasons, apgeneral recommendations found in the parently contradictory, reach the. same COPSE0 (Commission on Post Secondaryconclusions -that education spending hai Education in Ontario) report-The report to be cut. recommended that’ ‘“students and faculty Another, and no doubt less popular a . -

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explanation in the house, is that - the phenomena of cutting back spending in _this area is not exclusive to Ontario. “In most western industrialized countries, government expenditures. have been exceeding revenues . . ..the public costs of maintaining a highly technological economy is a burden that governments are having difficulty bearing.. . .while personal income taxes have recently climbed steadily,. corporate taxes at the federal -_and provincial levels have substantially fallen.” The last two arguments are rather cynicah Since the taxes of the lower class families are still being used to educate the children of the rich, increased education spending will only widen this gap between the users-and those people that pay. As well, it is argued that,it is now the trend in politics to talk about cutting down on ’ spending in education, whereas a fewyears -ago it was popular to talk about increasing spending. . The argument about the-huge costs of education was discussed in a more rational light than done in most cases. People are fond of speaking about the quadrupling of education costs between l&6-1966 <but usually forget to mention that the proportion of spending in 1973 had not increased since 19664967. The percentage of spending from the-budget has not increased since that time and has remained at 30 per cent. ’ a The OFS report also points out that education should not be, viewed as spending such as the other services but rather that as John Robarts said, “Ourtrue wealth resides in an educated citizenry, our shrewdest and most profitable investment rests _ in the education of our people.” The benefits of corporations and governments in educating the people are enough to ’ warrant these two groups paying the costs of that education. The Ontario budget from 1973 reveals that while personal - income tax has increased from 16.2 per cent to 19.8 per cent, the tax paid by the ! corporate sector has dropped from 11.3 per cent to 8.6 per cent. On 1the national - level,, personal income tax has increased by over 23 per cent while corporate tax was decreasing by 38 per cent. With the coming-of-age of those babies wrought --F from the ‘baby-boom’ after the second world war, larger numbers of citizens are paying those high income taxes - giving the government little reason to cry poverty. OFS insists that the argument for education cutbacks. based on potential government poverty is unfounded in fact. The reasoning behind the greater class -division due _ to increased education spending was examined in the report. This I is a false issue if one does not examine the background of, the people. eligible for university. In truth; potential students from the lower income- brackets are deterred from - attending university longbefore they ever reach that decision. Students streamed. through are *I highschool often- if not always in acto their parents financial _r cordance backgrounds. Parents own confidence will directly affect 0the child *when thinking in‘ terms of whether or not to continue on into post-secondary schools. R.ather than proclaim the situation to be hopeless, OFS takes a diffG%nt stand and says that this is only another reason that education sho_uld- be totally free from cost to the student. Only in this way will postsecondary education become truly accessible. One would assume that they also . would like- to see some reform in --the manner in which students are streamed in the highschools. They do-not mention this

- in the report but do-mention something about ‘ ‘broader social reforms”. Summing up the official OFS policy the brief states: “we favour the abolition of all tuition fees and the subsequent provision of student living stipends. Education is a social investment from which the public I benefits, and for which the student pays in income tax at a later date> A progressive income tax would eliminate the inequalities in the present method of financing higher education through taxation. The student must not be treated so crudely as a consumer, nor education as a rare product that must be bought on the market (at inflated prices). Education is a social right, not a chosen class priviledge .” Therefore, on- principle, OFS must oppose the proposals of the COPSE0 report which implies-higher tuition to be . paid by the/student and does not at the same time guarantee that grants will be available to-pay these tuitions. Any loan system where interest must be paid at a commercial rate (for part-time . students the interest rate is now ten per cent and begins while they are still in school)will be a deterrent to students coming out of the lower classes, or any class where their parents are heavily in debt Bnd the students can see no better future for themselves. A peculiar suggestion coming from the - deputy minister’s office is also dealt with in the OFS brief: Apparently one reason for increasing student tuition is that this will make the students more ‘independent’ and the education -institutions more - ‘responsive’. As suggested by OFS, “this strikes us as the most patently ‘absurd defence of the . ..scheme”. This whole concept tries to imply that because the student will_be paying for the education the institutions will pay.-more attention to them- just like- consumers have control -over the quality of a product because they pay for it. The only way OFS sees any chance of student have a meaningful part to play in the decision making processes of the university, is by having parity on all decision-making boards and committees. COPSE0 also suggests that less government subsidizing of universities and colleges will make them- more autonomous. To students, without parity on university boards, this is meaningless an,d understandably so. ‘. With this background to their position and views as, to education financing in . Ontario, the Ontario Federation , of Students presented their recommendations for the future: l OFSKFEO stands resolutely opposed to any further increases in tuition fees at post secondary institutions in Ontario. * OFS-/FE0 believes in the progressive abolition of all tuition fees and t-he subsequent provision ‘of student living stipends. l ~FS/Ftii;o ,,recommends that the government of Ontario in consultation with OFS/FEO, draw up a. schedule for the progressive abolition of tuition fees and the provision ‘of adequate living sti‘pends over the next ten years. l OFS/FEO 4 recommends that the government of Ontario immediately institute a system of progressive taxation along the lines suggested in the royal commission on taxation (Carter) report, 1966, and should encourage then federal government to do likewise, and that such . taxation be levied on corporations as well as individuals. ~ l OFS/FEO recommends that tke loan ceiling on the present Ontario student awards program be returned to $6,000, for \ /all Ontario students. Y OFS/F-EO recommends that a .

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maximum fixed interest rate be established by the federal government for the repayment of Canada student loans; and be reduced on accordance with reductions in the prime lending rate. l OFWFEO recommends that until such time as a maximum rate is established, the interest rate on student loans be fixed at the time that the loan is contracted. l OFS/FEO recommends that the bursaries provided. to part-time students in the recently announced pilot project, be extended universally so that all. Ontario institutions are covered- rather than _just the present four universities and five colleges. . l OFWFEO recommends that the Ontario student awards program be reestablishedthrough a statuatory act of the -legislature and that the act and the regulations under which the act is to be administered be drafted by a committee which is in communication with students organizations including OFWFEO as well as other community groups, and which shall cause to be held public briefings and hearings on the subject of student awards. l OFS/FEO recommends that the minister of colleges and universities make available to the public the yearly “policy and procedure manual” presently only sent to student awards offices, and that proposed or actual changes in the OSAP procedures and policies be sent to any interested particularly to party, recognized student unions. l OFWFEO recommends that the appeal procedures associated with OSAP and the deliberations of the review board be made public and permit personal or professional direct representation by the person making such an appeal. l OFWFEO recommends that the in-vestigative force employed by the minister of colleges and universities to investigate students receiving awards be legally ‘defined as ’ to its authority and duties or. be disbanded. l OFS/FEO recommends that a formula determining the amount needed by a student to cover their living expenses be established which automatically responds to the changes in the cost of living. Further, that the amount be reviewed annually before the* fall term and be changed from time to time in accordance ‘with changes in the consumer price index. l OFS/FE’O recommends that “class status be redefined B” - independent taking into account an individual’s actual status and broadening eligibility to those who although not meeting present criteria, are financially independent of their parents. -l OFS/FEO ‘recommends that when a student has neither completed his course of studies nor withdrawn from the institution the interest free.period should be extended to one year-. This is of particular importance to semester students, many of whom attend several semesters in a row and then take one year off. This would enable the student to use the money which would have been paid in interest to further his education for the next year. l OFWFEO recommends that when an award is appealed and the appeal is successful shy money received that brings! the student’s total award above the loan’ maximum be distributed as a grant. l OF!WFEO recommends that a. student be reimbursed for interest accrued due to an emergency bank loan because of failure to arrive in time when and if the delay is due to administrative deficiences rather than due to some error on the part of the , student. From here the OFS brief moves through a discussion and some recommendations on faculty tenure to an examination of the

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student housing situation in Ontario. OFS criticises the government’s yet untitled and unpublished report on housing using information they gathered from one of the report’s authors. Apparently high vacancy rates were discovered during what the authors termed the ‘peak’ period of occupancy. This, to them, is the month of February. To OFS it seems more reasonable to have September as the peak period-when the most students are going to be in the residences, before the drop-outs begin. This government survey has concluded that student housing in the province is more than adequate and recommends that no ne&r housing projects be initiated. As well, the report does not deal at all with the problem of housing for college students. (At present community colleges are not permitted to build residences on the campuses and students must board in any towns that happen to be nearby the college.) There are 40,000 fulltime college students and as many as 70 per cent of those may be out of town students that have to find a place to live. This unpublished report also does not deal at all with any questions of why students are turning away from residences, the costs to the students or the quality of life in student residences. OFS conducted its own survey as to the occupancy rate in residences across the province and found, that contrary to the government report, all but four of the residences were filled to capacity and with long waiting lists. The highest vacancy rate was five per cent. So the organization included in their presentation to the CUA the following recommendations on housing: l that the recent survey-report on university residences be released immediately by the ministry of colleges and universities. l that a new comprehensive study - be undertaken in consultation with OFW FE0 into the need for student housing across the province, and that this report inquire into the quality of living conditions in campus residences as welI as into the availability of student housing. l that approval for the building of student residences be given to the University of Ottawa and to Byerson Polytechnical Institute since the need for housing has already been well established on these campuses. l that the policy preventing community colleges from building residences be lifted immediately’ and construction of residences for the community colleges in need be undertaken immediately. l that, student. residence contracts be subject to the regulations of the LandlordTenant Act. . l that any future plans or actions by the ministry in the area of student housing be with formulated in consultation OFWFEO. If the Ontario government were to accept some of these recommendations OFS would be guar-pteed a place for many years to come, rather than as it is now, looking for issues with which to justify its existence. Perhaps the strange position in which OFS finds itself could be the cause for much of their apparent selfcontinuing policies. OFS also finds itself trying to make sense out of and deal with a government that makes decisions that affects the lives of their constituents and they have to deal with the realities of that. So instead of dealing with attempting to change that system that students find themselves in, OFS is content to try and make the student lot a little easier while staying within the already existing structures.

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The Kaufman Years ’ It-was a cold, fog-shrouded mom& in 1945. With the second world war barely over, aud a better, colder w.ar about to begin, a certain Ms. Kaufman of remote Nebraska could hardly have guessed that the baby boy to which she was about to’ give birth that chilly November 18th would grow to be one of the most feared and respected journal&s of his time. Even had she made this unlikely assumption, however, events would not have borne her ‘out9 and George Silas Kaufman went on to establish a firm minireputation for a unique brand of literary mediocrity never equalled iu the nondescript, one-horse towns where he was occasionally able to find employment. -After a career studded with memorable highlights of solid inyestigative reporting-it was Kaufman! for instance, who first opened up the Wilmot parking-meter scandal which shook this area for months . 1968-the bushily-mustachioed American was able to reahze a boyhood dream, and was appoiutedto the editorship of the University of Waterloo”s prestigious newspaper, the chevron, iu the spring of this year, In, the mtensive grilhng session which preceded his accession to this position,’ Kaufman answered questions on subjects ranging from his controversial, sometimes left-leaning politics, to his much-discussed and turbulent love-life. This latter he dismissed with a wave of his hand, as he was so often forced toLand went on to outline the reasous why he had applied for the job. Neither fame nor fortuue, he said, were major consideratious~ in his application. His brief army career had taught him that these material goals were of far less value than the higher aspiration of doing service to one’s fellow man. How better to do this than through the pages of the chevron? George certaiuly didn’t know. Under his leadership, Kaufman foresaw, the alreadyrespected orgau would* arrive at still

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His performance since then has beenas some have put it-of legendary proportions.~ Politicians and high-ranking bureaucrats, from the president of a wellkuowu student union to the equally disreputable president of a large southern Ontario university, have quailed at the pungent words which sizzled from Kaufman% fiery, and often leaky, pen. But his achievements can not be reckoned in headlines alone. The private, personal side of GS Kaufman, what he likes fm call “the blank pages of my casebook personality”, reveal him to be *a gentle, sincere human being whose only commitment is to the people of the world, and whose only bias lies in his unshakeable belief that all men and women are created equal. “After this -chevron appears on your front door, George Kaufman will be leaving the newspaper to devote his life to missionary work in distant Toronto; his --&s&g will be mourned. It is not that his talent is irreplaceable-far from it. Nor is it feared that without George’s charisma to hold it together the paper will lose its coherence or its direction. Anyone who knows George realizes that this is emphaticahy not the case. Rather it is the iutangible qualities of the man that will be missed: the puppy-like enthusiasm that he brought to all his work, or the bovine stupor into which he frequently slumped during deadline nights. Kaufman-believes that despite his departure the futui’e of the chevron is bright, and it is difficult for his fellow workers to disagree. Nonetheless, the chevron staff is united in wishing George Kaufman a heartfelt Merry Christmas, good luck in his new life, and a special kind of pointless desperation in the lacklustre projects to which he will no doubt be devoting his illspent time from now on.

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Goodbye George...hello emptiness--this week’s Xmas issue was brought to you by : john keyes, randy hannigan,-paul sharpe, andrew telegdi, +xic robinson, Chris bechtal, Susan johnson, john m’orris, tony jenkins, dudley paul, jan narveson, jon mcgill, manuel can-openers, marlene weber, david robertson, &anta and his elves, don ballanger, paul hartford, the kaufpersons, Catherine murray, linda lounsberry for good luck, mel rotman, charlotte buchan, alain pratte, mihail murgoci, and me savage. See you next term revitalized and c.

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