Jumping \ :onl theeinflathi :bandwagons French fries and a chocolate milkshake, hamburgers and french fries, and coffee and french fries, and the man behind it all is Bob Mudie of Waterloo’s Food Services. The chevron talked to Mudie on Monday of this week about the state of food on campus and the future of prices in the midst of rising costs. Waterloo is one of nearly half the universities in Ontario that have their own food services-which means university regulars can eat something a step above the machine quality. Mudie reported that his department spends over 700 thousand dollars each year on food, out of a budget of 1.6 million. The amount spent on food has been increasing at a rate of ten percent each year. With the operation supposed to be j totally “breakeven” that means the price of the food for the consumer has to cover the costs of the entire operation. Mudie believes that the prices in the food services outlets will be increased in the beginning of September, “in time for the new students”. Within the “breakeven” structure the increases are necessary since, in many cases, the costs to food services have doubled in the last year : “anything with sugar in it is going up-jelly powder (for jello) is up 75 per cent, canned goods are up 3O-40 percent.” In the old days (before gross inflation), the university with could’ settle contracts wholesalers for eight month terms but now purchasing has become “a daily chore”. Every day the prices change and the administrators of the food service have to examine them for the best buys, no wholesaler will settle for any longer than a bi-monthly contract. Ignoring all the talk of food Mudie states flatly “shortages” that he does not believe there is any such crisis in the world. The few people controlling prices in the world food markets have taken it upon themselves to increase prices and the shortage talk is merely cover. He openly declared that “anything can be bought if you have the money”., It all depends upon whether or not you can afford the price being asked. Prices and service are the only things that do affect the buying attitudes and activities of the food services management. The ‘policy of ‘not entering into politics’ means- food services will do business with anyone that will provide them with the service they wan&regardless of any ‘union’
increase-like the Guess Who or Steppenwolf. -Federation president Andrew Telegdi coyly side-stepped the issue when asked about the likelyhood of an increase, saying: “I’m going to leave it to council. If they think that it is the right thing then that is what will happen. They always \ do what is right”.
troubles a company may be experiencing. Mudie, asked about the Kraft boycott and food services laughed then exclaimed, “Kraft has boycotted themselves, but don’t quote me. They have boycotted themselves with their prices. I don’t buy Kraft at home because I can’t afford it. We don’t buy much Kraft here, mainly _ because of the price”. Mudie may be faced with his own union “hassles” in the future-at this point the employees of food services have applied for cerof all the shops. Mudie tification as a union, with the smallest would prefer that students ate in Canadian Union of Public Emdining ployees (CUPE ) . Their hearing is either the south campus on May 21, in Toronto. When asked hall, the campus centre or the administration building. These about this latest development Mudie had “no comment”. areas are less busy and could easily handle the traffic that Few workers in food services will be affected by the move to modern languages is finding unionize. Most employees are nearly impossible. In the area of nutrition Mudie is considered ‘part-time’, they work approximately twenty hours a just as passive. Obviously realizing that some of the ‘foods week. Only ‘full-time’ employees can join the union, and con- sold by the service are not of great sequently be affected by the “nutritional” value he refuses to remedy this and says insteadi “we changes to come. Individuals and individuality are leave this up to the individual”. At important to Mudie-and he may food services, according to Mudie, fear that this will be lost with the “majority rules”. introduction of CUPE. He does not One last word about those price according to Mudie, want to tell people where to eat or _ increases, what to eat. The modern languages “there is no way we can avoid it”. coffee shop is the busiest and the -phidias smith
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Along with just about everything else the federation fee is about to increase, or at least that’s the way the picture is shaping up right now. In the past month federation personalities have been discussing the need and justification for the increase, and’ twice they have attempted to have a formal council discussion about the matter and both times too few council members showed up. Federation fees are presently set at 11 dollars a term or 22 dollars a year. The fee is only refundable if you hassle them long enough and are willing to take the matter into legal hands. The amount was set in 1967, a good many years ago and according to the federation’s opinion is totally inadequate for \the needs -of today’s active federation. If the federation does pass the increase; and ‘itcertainly appears that they will,‘the matter then goes to the university administration in the form of the board-of governors (BOG). The matter is not deemed worthy of a- student referendum. An informed source, close to the heart of the federation advised the chevron last Wednesday that there was little chance that the fee in_ crease would be defeated, either in their council or in the BOG. Most councillors seemed convinced the increase is necessary, and plans have already been made for the money. At one council meeting the Board of Entertainment was promised preferential treatment when the money comes up for distribution. Council wants to see ‘large’ concerts come out of the
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I’m, pretty pissed off! Apparently there was some nice warm weather around here a few - weeks ago,,but as soon as I came to Waterloo everything got totally shitty. It has done nothing but rain, snow, hail, be cold and damp, and there has been no sun for giving me the beautiful tan that I usually get. ’ I don’t know who is behind it all but I’m warning you it has got to stop. I will not be responsible for my actions if I do not see the wonderful warmy sun in the next couple of days. I just got back from sweating my bag off on a lousy work term for some lousy com- pany that did not care if I lived or died. I guess I would have to admit that we might deserve this sort of treatment from Mother Nature, after 1all I liave been rbading everywhere lately that man has not been very nice to his environment and that in fact things are getting pretty bad as far as natural resources and things go. So maybe Mother Nature is trying to
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get back at man for doing all those terrible things to her and her little plants, rocks and air. But that does not mean that I should have to take any of the blame for it. I am only a product of my environment. I can’t help it if I drive a great big car-my Dad gave me the car as a @%duation present from highschool and I can’t very well sell it. It would break his heart, he wouldn’t understand. Anyway I need the car to get back and forth from the university. I think Mother Nature should take out her anger on those that are directly responsiblefor the mess. People that ryally control the condition of the poor little plants and rocks and other living animals.
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Here is the first chevron of the new year. You’ll probably notice some ’ reorganization of the chevron’s design this issue, and you’ll notice also more advertising than we’ve usually run in the past. We don’t like it eitther, but we can’t afford to run less. Any way, this first issue was brought to you by: don ballanger, Chris bechtel, dri, john morris, katl middletorr, vince chetcuti, john broeze, randy. hannigan, Susan scott, mel rotman, joe Sheridan, paul sharpe, betty a‘nn bagley, Charlotte buchan, ncik savage, Winifred pietrykowski, and suan, johnson. nbs.
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While y6u -were away Andrew Telegdi, after having won the last federation presidential election, is now faced with the job of ‘providing leadership to a -group of strong-minded and energetic society-based council members and concerned onlookers. Telegdi won the election on the support of most of -the organized societies and paid them back by placing most of their executives on his own advisory board. This year’s executive, made up of these old society people, has proven itself a tough ‘nut’ to crack. Holding several casual meetings between each general council meeting, the executive manages to present itself as a solid block of opinion. They bring motions to the council for discussion and debate but always have some sort of defense for any attack-and have yet to fail. Opposition has come from a few council members who have been feeling just a little railroaded, but as yet the majority of council seems quite content to let things go their way. During the spring-exam break this new group held two meetings-both of some importance. For the -first, even though it was held during exams, the attendance was high. However, the second meeting seemed to have suffered from the migration to the warmer climates and it was forty-five minutes before quorum could be reached, and even then it was only just quorum. A third meeting was planned but the majority of council was not in the area and the meeting had to be cancelled. L
The two big issues-of the time were the budget and federation OFY projects-summer jobs for the executive. Executive chose to discuss this second topic before the budget and with little opposition they got their way. . Four positions were up f-or discussion, none of which were advertised because the feeling was that the positions could be best filled by those who had initially volunteered to be co-ordinators (and then deemed it necessary that they be full time positions.) With nearly no discussion Art Ram, last year’s co-ordinator of entertainment activities on campus got rehired for another term of office at $6,000 a year. The second position was that of vice-president. Cindy Harris was hired for the summer to do what seemed to many people to be-the president’s job. Opposition to the move to hire her was ignored and Harris was hired to do a variety of jobs ranging from liason between societies and federation to working on course critiques. The next two positions were less defined ana do ~COVC (X lot more to the imagination of both the ennployee and the employer. Board of Publications chairperson Terry Harding was hired to hustle ads for three publications the federation expects to produce this year. The three include a telephone book, a handbook, and a monthly magazine-all of which Harding is to handle by himself, including the organization of writing, design and production. He also offered to look into the possibility of resurrecting the Waterloo. yearbook, the Compendium.
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An article recently appearing in the local press stated that, according to Burt Matthews, engineers are becoming so scarce that one graduate at the University of Waterloo was offered an annual starting salary of 18,000 dollars. The article went on to state that starting slaries of 14,000 or 15,000 dollars were not unusual. The article further quotes Matthews as stating that the shortage would get worse. The article appears to be a public relations pitch for the engineering faculty in order to recruit students into this campus. However, when approached, Matthews stated that although the information, which came from the placement office, was correct, the article did give the wrong impression. This resulted in a subsequent press release which attempted to clarify the situation. _ \ Engineering dean Archie Sherbourne when asked to comment on the shortage and about the starting salaries, stated that there was a current shortage, but due to the cyclic nature of shortages it was not advisable for a student to enter engineering strictly on the basis of a current shortage. Sherbourne also stated that it was not the policy of the faculty to recruit on the shortage criterion. With respect to the starting slaries, Sherbourne stated that it was unusual rather than not unusual for those salaries to be attained by undergraduate engineers. Starting salaries of about 850 dollars a month are standard. ’ The figure of 14,000 dollars could be applied to the graduate engineer in industry, or the figure could be attained by the undergraduate engineer after -several years employment in industry. One of the effects of the current shortage of engineers is that industry is now using more technicians and technologists for jobs that were formerly held by engineers. Technology school graduates receive about 200 dollars less per month as a starting salary than an undergraduate engineer. The engineering faculty applications have increased by approximately fifteen per cent over last year, but according to Sherbourne the faculty f is not raising its enrolment quota. --randy .--
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Myles Lawlor, Board -of Education Chairperson won a position as education activities coordinator. He is to organize orientation, a pre-orientation for new students, a speaker series and some interaction between faculty and students in the fall term. The last meeting of the month was dominated by one certain matter, everyone’s favourite-the budget. Actually this meeting only terminated months of meetings and back-alley bargaining that scarred this year’s budget dealings. The council meeting turned into little more than a formality when Stan Boniferro, supported by the rest of the executive refused to consider any fooling around with the figures since it would mean messing up what had been planned as the last draft. .’ This position of the executive only applied to a request of councillor Ann Knechtel that honoraria (payment made for part time work done for the federation) be kept separately so as to be accessible to more than the predestined few. She maintained that several people work very hard for the organization, and_ in ’ the present philosophy of the federation, this means they should get some money for it. Unfortunately, there is no money available. And that is how it will stand for another year. Bonifero and council did accept two changes in the budget. The chevron and the Creative Arts Board submitted new budgets to the council, that dealt with their allocated funds in a somewhat diltfcmsnt TV.7 “3 thwl had (been previously arranged. These adjustments did not mess things up too badly. BOE presented council with a motion asking that - they remove ten thousand dollars from the chevron budget and devote it, instead, to ‘large’ concerts. By this they meant large in terms of “The Guess Who” or ’ Steppenwoif ’ ‘these were the two ‘big’ bands mentioned at the time. Council considered the motion, unhappily, and one member rebuked Ram for making council have to think about such a thing. They feared the BOE was using the council and trying to make trouble. The motion was defeated. Council did agree that if the federation, by chance,- came into any more money the BOE would get priority. BOE representative Sandy Moroz nobly attempted to refuse the offer, explaining that he needed to know right away whether or not to book any groups, and that later was just too late. Ignoring his protest council decided to give BOE the money later anyway. ’ The budget to receive the largest cut this year was, not unsurprisingly, the Board of Publications. Last year the board produced + only a weekly newspa.per, the chevron, and it was, at times, poorly received by some students. This year council is expecting that same board to produce the newspaper (with a budget cut of more than twenty a fall and winter percent), telephone book, a desk blotter, a handbook in September and a monthly magazine. All these en terprises atce to be heavily subsidized by advertising. The board has to raise a total of ninety thousand dollars in ads to support these ventures. All in all it has been a rather amusing if not occasionally interesting few weeks, and the year has just begun. -Susan
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Political Science department, objected strongly to Davies’ point about ‘his’ program receiving unjustified susubsidy, by emphasizing the ‘principle’ that ‘the wealthier departments can afford to subsidize the ones at the bot-, tom’. But Wilson did not address himself to the main issue: why does political science need a subsidy in order to maintain its program? To admit that the lack of students taking political science as a major is due to substandard teaching or to a lack of enticing subjects would be a truth too difficult to consider. While Davies still kept to his point about the unnecessary ‘subsidies’ Iand Wilson continued with his ‘principle’ of the rich giving to the poor, everyone else was left to meditate over the futility of the argument. For whatever the outcome of the _ debate nothing was expected,,tz QA*IC-*rCCVIA V-A- -cI “%l*b 4 i%.Y faculty budget has already been passed by the universty senate. -john
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“The people ‘we are addressing are the adventurous and uninhibited lovers who want to find the limits of their ability to enjoy sex.” The anonymous authors of The Joy of Sex, seem to have chosen their constituency well. Since its publication in hardcover in 1972, “America’s Bestselling Gourmet Guide to Love Making” has sold a reputed 14,000,OOO copies and is still going strong. One Toronto bookseller calls it the mainstay of this year’s book trade, and at $14.95 in hardcover and $5.95 in paperback his assessment is probably not far from accurate. Its astonishing and unprecedented success - in 1973 it outsold even the bible-outscales by far that of such other books in the same genre as the Sensuous series, or David Reuben’s Everything , You Always Wanted to Know About Sex. Superficially, its popularity is not difficult to explain: explicit illustrations and a racy text woven skilfully into an overall design format carefully calculated to convey respectability-a standard recipe for a bestseller. Beyond that, it must simply be considered the most successful commercial exploitation to date of this society’s growing obsession with sex and sexual topics, a trend which has expanded rapidly since the socalled sexual revolution of the 1960’s. The results of this trend are so .obvious they scarcely need documentationsex as a sales
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“All of us who are not disabled or dumb are able to dance and sing-after a fashion. This, if you think about it, summarizes the justification for learning to make love.” Regardless of its true applicability, though, this handy little analogy does seem to’ provide some insight into the consumer appeal of sex manuals, aside from whatever value they may have as masturbation literature. In a society where performance anxieties are already rife, it is not- improbable that the very existence*=of books which purport to correct one’s deficiencies of sexual technique is in itself enough to engender sufficient insecurity in a sufficient number of people to ensure that such books will find a ready market. This same principle probably applies to other
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later define as ‘normal’ “anything which you both enjoy” (and ‘both’ is a restictive enough proviso in itself), it is clear from the outset that the book seeks to institute a puritanism more subtle, but no less objectionable for that, than the one it is intended to supplant.
It must simply be conside?ed the most successful commercial exploitation to date of this society’s growing obsession with sex and sexual topics, a trend which has expanded rapidly since the so-called sexual revolufion of the 19603. weapon in advertising, sex as a come-on in motion pictures, and sex to, sell magazines are all familiar. The rapid proliferation of sex instruction manuals for the do&-yourself enthusiast has been a logical and inevitable parallel development. This is not to say, of course, that other cultures have. not been similarly obsessed; indeed, virtually every society exhibits an understandable fascination with sexuality to some degree, and that sex manuals have been around for a long time is well attested to by the thousand-year-long success of the Kama Sutra, which only became .available to western audiences in the la& century. Nonetheless, sexuality in other cultures has not generally enjoyed the support of a developedmarket economy, and has not percolated so deeply into virtually every aspect of social life as is the case today. Puritanism has no doubt played its part in cultivating the obsession: lack of even in the anatomical sense, , sexual knowledge, was the rule until quite recently, and this must have aided enormously in arousing -many people’s interest and curiosity in their sexual selves. Still, sexual puritanism is not always so conspicuously unsuccessful in translating its values into practice as has been the case in most -western societies, and many countries even.today ’ are veritable hotbeds of chastity. In fact, much of our current obsession with sex did not really arise until the advent of our obsession with profit, and the rise of advertising, which created a demand for all manner of consumer goods using in many instances more or less openly sexual inducements; and thus further developed the demand for products which were themselves sexually orientedthe movies and the manuals. The differences between our own and other societies with regard to sexual obsession are in many ways only differences of degree, and their exact significance is thus open to dispute, but it seems safe to say that only under twentieth century capitalism has ,sex assumed its present universal social and economic importance. In this context, the success of The Joy of SexL itself a triumph of marketingserves as an excellent indicator of how far sexual concerns have permeated society;. apart from the mystique which traditionally surrounds. sexual activity, however, it is less obvious what motivates people as individuals to purchase the book, and others of its kind. The stated intent of the authors does little to illuminate the problem:
The Joy of Sex d qualifications, the v documented fact that degree bisexual. They bisexual activity is too for most people, and do experimentation: “Being problems in our society other-sex partner on wl most people’s most wort (our emphasis) . Group sex is another authors claim no experi their text *because, as t more acceptable socia reservations: since ‘real love between the partic love is by definition a group sex can never be ’ one of those emotional1 which it is best to a satisfaction, is probably The Joy of Sex doe: position on homosexualil
It is clearfrom the out to institute a puritanis less objectionable for I intended to supplant never openly discussed. buried randomly t hroul word is only mentioned Those few times are il occurs in ‘psychologic vulva, and some of thereto: “. . . It looks lik bleeds regularly, it s regurgitates it limp, it ( on. Luckily, few of these anxieties survive closer
books in the self-improvement category as well: the “Is there something your best friends aren’t telling you?” pitch is as powerful today as it was a decade ago, and applies itself to ‘sexual inadequacy’ no less than to bad breath or body odour. The authors of The Joy of Sex do tend in general to play the performance aspect downthough the implication is unavoidableand sometimes actively disclaim it. Even then, their message is far from clear; to justify their work they are forced to resort to a philosophical tangle of pseudo-liberation which does little to explain anything. They begin this heroic task with a lengthy exposition on the coy metaphor upon which the book’s title is based: Thk Joy of Sex is a cookbook, they say, a Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking, a gourmet’s manual to the fine art of ‘advanced sex’. They dwell upon their distaste for the hangups and repressions which prevent the complete fulfilment of sexual desires -and the realization of fantasies, and emphasize that their book is not written for those who are hung-up and repressed. , bb. . . We take some things for granted-having intercourse naked and spending time over it; being able and willing to make it last. . . ; not being scared of things like genital kisses. . . , and, of course, loving each other.” This final stipulation is the first clue to the limitations placed by the authors on what they term “valid sexual behaviours”. Although they
This is best exemplified, unsurprisingly, in those sections of the book dealing with pastimes in which the authors themselves are not interested. This category includes homosexuality and bisexuality, sadomasochism and group sex, all of which, in the authors’ estimation, lie more or less beyond the pale of valid sexuality. (Activities of a still less socially acceptable naturebestiality, for example-do not even rate a mention.) Such behaviours, according to the authors, restrict the enjoyable sex of the participants - “Straight man-woman sex is the real thing for most people-others need something different, but their scope is usually reduced, not widened, by such needs”-a double curse which even by their own count applies to a good many . people. The authors refuse to admit that they are indeed judging people, or telling the reader what is and is not sinful. On several occasions they refer with disdain to those “nineteenth century books about sex”. They do worry about labelling things normal and abnormal, and avoid doing so directly-their labels are well-hidden. In a section called “Problems” they discuss bisexuality and ‘perversion’ along, with a few safer topics like vasectomy, fighting and ‘defloration’ . Ironically, their discourse on perversion begins with: “In books prior to the. seventies, this meant, quite simply, any sexual behaviour which the writer didn’t himself enjoy”. They seem not to have noticed themselves falling into the same trap.
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&at the book seeks noresubtle, but no !, than the one it is I references to it are lt the text, and the passing a few times. 3sting. One instance disquisition on the folklore pertaining astrating wound and lws the penis and probably bite and so ogically programmed luaintance, but they
are the origins of most male hang-ups including homosexuality .” They do not propose an origin for female homosexuality; instead they point out that “women exciting each other are a turn-on for males”. The references to ‘biological programming’ occur frequently: “We all have pregenital needs, however we were weaned, potted or reared, just as we all have fingerprints and a navel”; “Preoccupation with the size of their genitals is as builtin biologically to men. . . as sensitivity about their breasts and figure is to women”; “Most young children are biologically programmed to interpret the sight or sound of adult coition as evidence of a violent assault”; etc. Although such >statements as these are, in the main, incidental to the authors’ arguments, they do reflect poorly on the level of thought which has gone into the book as a whole. The extent to which psychological characteristics are genetically determined being a matter of fairly heated dispute right now, particularly in light of the infamous Jensen debate, the off-handedness with which these pronouncements are made is astonishing. But their negligence in not qualifying such statements is only typical of the murkiness which consistently shrouds the exposition when they find themselves discussing any of the moral and ethical, rather than purely mechanical, aspects of sexuality, and in this way they mystify the. subject instead of clarifying it. This is best illustrated in their frequent condemnations of the sexual repressiveness of western societies, which are belied by an implicit emphasis on adjusting to, and in the end conforming with, the very attitudes they reject. Indeed, the authors of Joy of Sex point out on several occasions that in a truly liberated society sex manuals would be redundant, and that many of the behaviours which they now discourage as emotionally dangerous could then be practised in
safety._It is unlikely that their wishful thinking going to bring that society about; meanwhile, they are content to write their sex manual and watch the dollars roll in. Considered purely as an instruction manual, the book is far less ambiguous, and for those whose imaginative faculty is somewhat stunted it may even provide %ome new ideas. In general though, half an hour’s moderate mental exertion should be sufficient for most people to work out for themselves most of the permutations of appendages and orifices to which the design limitations of the human body confine us, and in relationships with any degree of communication, the particular species of sexual athletics employed will presumably depend on mutual consent rather than the dubious authority ’ of sexological prophets. In fact, the major merit of The Joy bf Sex might be that it makes us abundantly aware that sexologists are no less peculiar than any of us. Their terminology is consistently coy (‘pussy’ for vagina, ‘handwork’ for masturbation) and often sickeningly so (a woman using contraceptives is ‘storkproof; if she is menstruating she is ‘closed to the public’). Their favourite techniques tend to
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mirrors, and enough bedside drawers to hold such extras - as lubricants, vibrators and contraceptives. “A well-designed bedroom can be a sexual gymnasium without it being embarassing to let elderly relatives leave their coats there.” One might justifiably conclude from all this that sex is an activity to be engaged in exclusively by the leisure class; to indulge all the luxuries described in the above passage and elsewhere would certainly cost several thousand dollars, the kind of outlay which anyone less affluent than, say, a university professor could not easily afford. This is a far cry indeed from the good old days when sex was possible amongpeople whose only assets were operable genitalia and a certain measure of -enthusiasm; as liberation proceeds, and the population problem worsens we can no doubt expect to see sexual activities increasingly restricted to the upper levels of the bourgeoisie, and the expensive furniture required for meaningful intercourse will become as much a status symbol as a third family car or a winter in Bermuda. As long as sex isn’t going to be dirty any more, it might as well not be cheap either. Maybe this isn’t what the authors of The Joy of Sex are driving at. Perhaps, too, they really believe that in writing their book they have -advanced the ‘cause of sexual liberation, and perhaps they did write it from conviction rather than greed. It is even possible that some people will have been helped by the book, though surely there are better ways to help them. Nonetheless, they have succeededin the financial sense only. By failing -to carefully examine their own assumptions about ‘sexuality i the arbitrary limits on ‘normalcy’, and the culturally conditioned dependence of ‘real’ sex on romantic love-they have performed a net disservice to those of their readers in whom the same assumptions will be reinforced. Had they instead chosen to examine the role of conditioned sexuality as a conservative social force, or the function of the romantic love-based nuclear family in the privatization of the individual, or even considered the impact of these factors on their subject, The Joy of Sex might have been more useful. Of course, it probably wouldn’t have made as much money.
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A successful concert is totally dependent upon the many variables involved in its production. The performer, the audience, and the buildingatmosphere all influence the nature of the performance and the relationship that will be established between the audience and the artists. The expectations of the individual also eff&t the final verdict-whether or not the concert is considered a success. Most of us have grown up on a diet of performers attempting to make music in a building with the acoustics of a barn-both gyms and arenas have this unique -quality. We expect little in the way of quality sound /but do expect a great deal in the way of audience-performer rapport. / Recently the student government on campus has attempted to- change all of that. In the last couple of years Waterloo ’ has seen the growth of the ‘miniconcert’; smaller events located in the Humanities Theatre or the Theatre of the Arts. These have a nature all their own. They are quiet, more personal events. The artists have to be selected :with care since many could not fit into their atmosphere. Now BB King can make a claim to having experience with both kinds of audience, atmosphere and *acoustics. He probably .prefers the second-it is ’ a much easier way’ to make a living than playing the gym-arena circuit. In the fall of 1972 King was presented in the Waterloo gym and played a three hour concert to a few thousand people. Last April he tried his hand at the smaller, more intimate type concert at the new and very fancy Hamilton Place in downtown Hamilton. No doubt he was paid more for it, and he certainly worked less. The concert was sponsored by DuMaurier (the cigarette company)’ and King played for less than two hours. Hamilton Place is their answer to Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, and Royal Alex. It’s the new cultural centre for Hamilton and it seems they are attempting to make something of a name for themselves; it is not the sort of place you are welcome wearing blue jeans. For the King concert (the King of the Blues) the audience presented itself in formal gowns, the latest in hairstyles and all accessories, tuxedos and formal suits with ties, of course. In return, the performers also showed wearing tuxedos and formal gowns. It was a very ‘proper’ affair. Amazingly enough the concert did have a few interesting, and even good points about it. The acoustics of the building and the technical excellence of the performers made the whole thing an enjoyable listening experience. The lighting, seating and the “comfy’ atmosphere all contributed to the feeling of well-being and, to carry it a little further, opulence. And the theatre is licensedhence the rush at the intermission to the foyer. I
However$ all those things (excepting the musical excellence) also contributed to the peculiar feeling of discomfort. It seemed unnatural for all these people to come to hear King in evening gowns and suits and ties. It seemed unnatural to be ‘restricted to sitting in a plush orange seat passively receiving the energy the performers were expending for the audience. Undoubtedly, there are some performances that could well be handled in this way but King and the music he makes is more something that needs to be responded to, not passively received. Some of thelisteners handled the energy by clapping their hands in time with the music, or stoniping their feet. In the last five minutes and for the official encore many people rushed down to the front of the stage to dance and sing with the performers; and that , was probably unnatural for Hamilton Place. This was the first time that King had tried to play his music with a symphony orchestra. He deemed it a success and was thankful to the point of being sickening for having been’ given the opportunity.. He spent ten minutes of the last half thanking the city of Hamilton, the audience, and anyone else for the ‘wonderful qpportunity’ of being allowed to play with their ‘wonderful’ symphony orchestra., The humility was unbecoming. He played one blues number especially arranged for the symphony. It involved long pieces of orchestration interspersed with long pieces of King and his wailing guitar. Seldom did they try and mix the two and the attempt at blues, with accompaniment was fairly unsuccessful in this instance. In other sections of the concert the blues definitely gained an entire dimension with the symphony background-it was ~ an asset when held in control. King worked his way quickly through a variety of numbers from his many albums, mixing ‘oldies-but-goldies’ with some more, recent material. The audience acted like they loved them all. He had done some considerable editing on all of the pieces, none lasted more than three minutes except for a few with long guitar solos. It is unfortunate that he could not have reached the audience in the same . way he did when at Waterloo a year-anda-half-ago. He seemed to have slicked himself up and his act-probably in expectation of the character of the faudience. His understanding of them was fairly. accurate. ’ Both kinds of audience-performer involvement have their drawbacks-one is too constraining and the other technically unacceptable. Perhaps we will find a happy medium sometime / soon. -Susan
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Valdy “Landscapes” (A & M) Well, when you come upon a musician, who, in his native land, has practically walked off with all the musical awards for one year, you get the feeling that he must be good. The folksinger is Valdy and his album was “Countryman”. Now Valdy has a new album out that promises to be just as good. It’s called “Landscapes” and it is full of nice, mellow songs. The first cut - on the album, “Landscapes”’ has excellent background orchestration (as with the rest of the album) but it sounds similar to that played on Joni Mitchell’s “Court and Spark”. Perhaps it’s just the Canadian essence sneaking through., Speaking of Canadian essence“Bitter Green” is one of the songs on the album. To date this seems to be the finest version audible. The songs definitely centre on Canada. It’s like the “from sea to sea” theme we heard repeated so many times during. Centennial year. The listener travels from “Arnold’s Cove” to various locals in Canada. You travel from country to city without so much as a blink. “Gypsy Ways” which is a soft, flowing song of travelling, leads into “Java Jeff”, song speaking about coffee “that tastes
like powdered marble” and gets you going for the day. “Christian Life” is one of the more humorous cuts. The predicament a Roman Catholic “youth” falls into is illustrated by showing the frustration he has listening to his parents, priest and girlfriend. By far the best lines are; “Don’t you go smokin’ that stuff son, or you’re sure to go to Hell. You run into, a toke or two, you’re thinking well, well, well, well i well, well, well,. well.” From that you listen to “Passin’ Through”. It’s not a hymn, but it sounds very much like one. “Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, now that I’ve run into you. . . . Tell the people. that you’re sorry, passin’ through.” is definitely an “Landscapes” album worth obtaining. One single ‘!Simple Life” has already won a Juno, and who knows, maybe next year it’ll be a Grammy!
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils (A & W This album is definitely another “goody” from A & M. The Ozarks are what sounds like a combination of country, rock and blue grassThat’s as,close as they can be classified. When you play such diverse instruments as electric and acoustic guitars, fiddle, mouthbox, percussion, autoharp, chicken squawks and, saw and board, it’s guaranteed that no one will ‘be able to classify your music. Being a new band, they’re not well known yet but at a glance they seem destined for stardom. Their level of style is comparable to the Allman Bros. “Eat a Peach” and “Brothers and Sisters”. They’re fantastic! Well, (You may ask) what do they play? Good question. They range from a light *‘Country Girl” that sounds much like the Good Bros. music to a soft slow “Spaceship Orion” (the mellowest of mellows) to.. . in fact, every song is so individual and distinct that they can all be listed. Well, maybe the lyrics can give an indication of what the band is like. The words areJike the songs,
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the crowd, the management turned on the power and Ochs, ended off by playing Chuck Berry’s “Schooldays”. Ochs is interesting to view in this album. He presents “classic” material in a different way. He tries to raise the consciousness of his audience. Aside from this, the album is also good to listen and, dance to. ’
away. Laser beam in my dream I can’t get it on, I can’t get it off ’ Laser beam’s like a sawed off, , dream.” ” It looks like all the lyrics will have to be fisted too. Well, the only solution to this quandry is for you to go out and buy the album. It’s that good. You’ll be able to dance and dance to it, eat to it and sleep to it. Then , try to explain -it to someone. Good luck!
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Court and Spark-.loni MitchellASYLUM (7E-1001) It’s Joni Mitchell: It’s her style. It’s a little more hep (jazzy) and it’s the L.A. Express backing her up, not to mention David Crosby, Graham .Nash, Cheech & Chong, Jose Feliciano and a host of others. Although the sound doesn’t meet your expectations-of Joni Mitchell and what you knew of her before, her new album “Court and Spark” is worthwhile buying. ’ Joni Mitchell is an artist of distinct style, which has developed through the years from a kind of folk presentation to more intricate accompaniment with piano, dulcimer, and voice that at times is as delightful as any flute. The combination of. a solo artist with an already developed style and a band as tight and smooth as the L.AI Express is quite an accomplishment., Tom Scott plays flute and saxophone while the L:A. Express adds more variety to. Joni Mitchell’s sound. However, if you’re a Joni Mitchell fan of long standing, the music in “Court and Spark” is more ‘a n addition than a prerequisite to buying this album. It’s Joni’s poetry that makes her the star she is; a poetry, very female. Each one of Joni’s songs tells a story, whether it be her trip to Europe and back (Blue), home in Canada (For the Roses), or her latest: playing the concert circuit in “Court and Spark”. She is a woman poet who sings out her . fears, apprehensions, dreams, loves and ambitions. She’s a woman with movement and passion. She belts out from her hip and pelvic bones a rhythm that rings to the guitar sound of Wayne Perkins (electric), and Robbie Robertson in “Raised on Robbery”. Her words are clear, honest, and with a force they didn’t have before. For Joni Mitchell “Court and Spark” is a bigrbreak from her more quiet and thoughtful presentations. “Court and Spark” gives you a beat to remember her words by. Something that makes you want to dance when you hear it come on : “Just Like this Train” and “Raised on Robbery”. -Winnie pietrykewski
Gunfight at Carnegie Hall, starring Phil Ochs (A & M) Phil Ochs, like Bob Dylan and _ Pete Seeger, has been around for a while. However, like Seeger and Dylan he has been unable to settle on a method’of presentation that could guarantee him the success of his compatriots. He has been in a rut of still water, for even though he was saying relevant things he wasn’t projecting as successfully as he could have been. Ochs is a very talented man and a thinker. In 1970, at Carnegie Hall, he wanted to present a show that would illustrate a little bit of America to his audience. This was done by playing tunes by Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty and Merle Haggard. He appeared in a gold lame suit like the kind worn by Presley. The first song, “Mona Lisa” ’ freaked the audience out a bit but they relaxed when he began “I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore” an old favourite. Ochs kept explaining what he was trying to do. Before he sang “Oa kie from Meskogee” he said that the “right” usually didn’t have artists to speak for them and that they relied on t.v. and various other media. However, he stated, the “right” now have an artist to mouth them, Merle Haggard.. He used this to stress the emergence of “Fascist America” and how it will be a big thing ‘in the seventies. At various points during the concert Ochs was booed. People yelled, “We want Phil Ochs” when he played Presley and Holly. -He finally made it clear to them what he was trying to do and at the end received two encores. The management at Carnegie turned off the power for the et+ cores. This pissed everyone off considerably but after a, while of incohesive yelling they began to chant “We want. power”. After surveying this growth of unity in
useless Privilege of Sex _---- -_ by privilege of sex, a divinity and an idol, a (a Century of Canadian Women) victim or a toy, is not her position quite as Ed. Eve Zaremba lamentable, as false, as injurious to herself and all social progress, as where she is the drudge, slave Anansi, Toronto, 1974 This book fills a gap in history-the history of and possession of the man? women-with excerpts ,from the journals and The second section deals with the “survival” in writings of Canadian women who existed in the its raw essence of two women, Theresa Gowanlock, 19th century. It is divided into three sections, and N. Davenport. Gowanlock ‘writes in a cool, “Brothers, Husbands and Fathers”, “A Woman’s detached tone but it is quite logical why she does Place...” ‘and “Changes”. The divisions are partially so. Her story is about a North-West massacre in chronological and partially cultural (for the women which her husband was killed and she taken came from different backgrounds and cultures). captive by Big Bear’s men. She stays in the woods Anne Langdon’s journal begins the book. two months, tormented by the Indians and her Throughout her journal it is evident that she insecurity. A man that worked for her husband realizes the feminine role that she must assume -(and took part in the rebellion) tries to claim her. but adapts it to the life of the pioneer woman. She She realizes that he had wanted her even before notes that her life in the new world expected her to the rebellion and that it was his plan all along to “lower” herself at times to do menial tasks but she possess her. After being rescued Gowanlock could never attempt to do those things that men travels back to the world of men, and goes to live did. This was out of the question. She questions her with her father. role and social position frequentiy as seen in the Davenport’s journal deals with her journey to following quotations. Lake St. John with her husband. What starts out as a pleasure trip soon becomes a nightmare. Their “-Women *are very dependenthere, and give a good deal of trouble; We feel our roadbecomes a path and then bog and quagmire. weakness more than anywhere else.‘: Their foodsupply dwindles, the horses go lame “I have sometimes thought,. . . . . .,(along withanother man and Davenport). What is woman is a bit of a slave in this country.” interesting ~is how, through near starvation, sickness etc. the Davenports succeed in retaining Frances Stewart emigrated to Canada in 1823, their social standing and the proper postures and with her three children and her husband. They actions in the most ridiculous situations. This were searching for a better life than the one they had left behind. She constantly worries about her journal is a travelogue which seems unable to --. capture the hopelessness of the situation. health, the children and-survjval. Privacy and this is because it is evident that they relaxation are rarities for her. She remarks “all 1 (perhaps want is a little rest sometimes for mind and survived since the journal is written in the past body.,.“. The life in the country is a hard one for her. tense.) “Changes” is a collection of intellectual writings ?Old pleasures and stimulations disappear, she speaks/of her mind “degenerating”. Her husband by Nellie McLung, Marion Cyan, Marjory Macmurchy, and Agnes MacPhail. This section is inkeeps an iron hand and will not allow the children teresting for the women seem to be very much the to mix with others as Frances wishes them to. same in their ideology. They are very strong, in. Anna Jameson is a woman socially advanced dependent women. @Clung as a child delivers a from the preceding two. She was an intellectual dissertation on Riel to a meeting of men at her who, travelled, observed and wrote. For eight home. She later becomes a schoolteacher with months she “visited” her husband (attorney general at that time) in Toronto and then left him. rather original but at times misunderstood What she says is perceptive and advanced in met hods. thinking above the other women of her time. On Agnes MacPhail ends the book with her feelings about women, divorce and marriage. She exposes education she remarks, “...education...is to fit us for the circumstances in which we are likely to be the myths of women held at that time. placed”. Her words on women form the title of the This is an interesting herstory recommended for i book, when she asks, “Where she is idle and all people. -kati middleton,
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