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If, the government had even made a “gesture” such as lowering the age of eligibility for _ old age pensions, something that . the NDP would implement, _ theNDP could have supported it. Commenting on the. Liberal budget, Saltsman felt that most of the proposals were unrealistic to the working class. For instance, in order to benefit from the tax free one thousand dollar savings,, aperson would- have to be earning fourteen thousand dollars a year in order to be able to save a thousand. As for the elimination of . the” - twelve per cent federal sales tax on clothing, Saltsman felt it would’ benefit the upper’ class who buy more ‘clothes than the working class, so in effect that proposal \ would benefit those who least need . it. I ’ Throughout the evening there was very little, if any actual debating. Each candidate stated his views and perhaps attacked another view, but there was no attempts to answer any of the attacks. There was also an assumption made by the can- j didates that all the people at the \ meeting would vote and that it was only a ’ matter of convincing them about which, party to vote for. There was no attempt to convinceany of the audience -that they should have faith in -a government or to get out and vote. For many people the real issue is whether or not they should vote-at all. ’ ’

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The five federal candidates in ’ this country and contends that it e the Waterloo-Cambridge . riding, has been mismanaged by the other parties. showed up Tuesday evening at the This -mismanagement has led to Picture Show to debate what ‘had what Carroll calls an inflationary been billed as the “real issues in e . \ the federal election”. *However, . psychology ‘in regard to connone of the candidates represen: sumerism. People are purchasing ting the Conservative, Liberal,’ _more goods now for fear that the NDP, Social Credit or the-Marxistprices will rise. This in turn drives Leninist Communist the prices up due to pressure on the party managed to clearly articulate suppliers. To help .break this the conservatives what the real issues were. psychology, Richard Rathwell, the Comwould call for an immediate ninety day wage and, iprice freeze. The munist candidate did manage to conservatives would also drop the give a fairly standard Marxian analysis of the present bourgeois eleven per cent federal sales tax on building materials, which Carroll state. This could ‘hardly be concalls government profiteering. sidered an &sue in the upcoming election, however, since Rathwell Brian Gaff, the Liberal canexplained that his party’s line was didate, stated that his party is running on the strength -of John not to win votes, but to expose the Turner’s budget which was fraud of the bourgeois elections. defeated by the Conservatives and Rathwell consistently attacked the -randy .hannigan NDP. The Liberals are. proposing “candidates of the bourgeois \ parties” on various grounds, and i appealed to the working ,class to organize and resist. / Rathwell was-particularly harsh with the NDP, accusing them of winning support from some labour groups and then using that support to aid the bourgeois ideology of the Liberals. The NDP are no different from the Liberals, according to Rathwell. One of the goals of the Communist party would be to nationalize all, industry, and- thus eliminate the profiteering by the USimperialists. John Long, the Social e Credit candidate, is considered a fourth candidate in this election and no more. Despite this, Long, talked in terms of his party forming the government. .“It took twenty-five years for the Conservatives ,and Liberals to sell Canada down the drain andi it will take -a good twenty-five years of Social Credit government to bring Canada back.” - j The main part of the Social Credit platform deals ‘with the vi11 v cl 31by 1 ul UIILU, monetary policies that presently The five candidates for the WaterlooXambridge ribing extolled their respective party’s vi&es dull@ a College in New Hampshire and exist in Canada. Long feels that the two hour session organized by the Audio Mirror p&oject. The session was aired over community radio ’ Bell Labs in New Jersey. banking system must be modified, \ station CK\i/R. Running in computers here and I since at present the banks control‘ in Toronto, the six contenders will over ninety per cent of the money nothing ’ new but instead are _ in Canada. The. problem with this terminals located in the playing defending their budget, claiming is that the people have no control that it is as anti-inflationary as the over what the banks do with that . The nrograms ’ to watch“ include country can maintain. money. The banks lend the money . Water&o’< RIBBIT (the official Goff feels that the proposed tax only for profit and not for the social on undeveloped land, along with good of the country., Large corthe tax free thousand-dollar-a-year porations have no trouble ob. savings plan were measures that taining some of that money, since Alberta’s WITA. The program’s would have helped offset theinFor the majority of students on parents to find alternate situations they are able to provide large designers could not afford to make. flation rate. As a Liberal canthis campus, /assuming i the .for their offspring.securities, but the individual or the trip here so-_ instead they didate, he sticks unerringly to majority do not have children, In the finest capitalist tradition, small businessman, who has few mailed in the program on party lines and is adamant in his daycare and the.- problems that many people have seen this as an securities, have trouble borrowing magnetic tape. Since the CSC is support for the Liberal leader, surroundit are not critical issues. opportunity to> make money and, any of this money. “experiencing some “difficulties” Pierre Trudeau. But for some students now, and therefore, chains of ‘daycare’ in getting the program to work on For the three “major’‘-parties, The incumbent in this riding, nearly all of us in the future, centres have grown throughout machine here, it was inflation seemed to be the issue of Max Saltsman NDP, is running <daycare is going to be a problem. Canada. One chain from the annot identical known at press-time whether it Waterloo campus has . three the night. The issue, however, was mainly on the strength of his past United States of the same nature be able to ‘parnot whether it could be stopped, performance in parliament., daycare centres+wo run by the called ‘Minischool’ has just begun - would actually ticipa te in the tournament. but rather to what. degree it could Saltsman feels that * the la&’ university and one run by the to move into Canada. _ For those interested in the art people that use it. This last centre, be con trolled. eighteen months of parliament In these centres the relationship and science of writing computer r - All the candidates agreed that it were the most productive of any called Klemmer Farmhouse; between the parents and thepeople programs which play chess, the, must be controlled and that it was -recent government sponsored a conference at and the *credit that run the centre is that of buyer CSC is offering a series of talks, the “little guy” that was being hurt for this must go to the NDP who Waterloo\of other daycare centres to seller. The parents pay a fee ta which will take place between two - the most by inflation. According to held the balance of power and kept - across southern Ontario. . the centre and in return receive ’ and five pm Friday afternoon in Glenn Carroll, the PC ‘candidate, Daycare centres are springing the government in line with the se.rvice. They have no say in MC 2066. anyone who didn’t receive a 12.8 ,needs of the country. Saltsman up across Canada in response to a the the policies of the centre, and , Play starts at nine am on per’cent increasein his wageslast claims- the the NDP.did not defeat new lifestyle that has- been adopted consequently, no say in the care of Saturday in MC 2017 and will run by many Canadians. Both parents year is losing money.. Carroll ‘the government, but that -John These centres are until Sunday afternoon. . states that his party is concerned‘ Turner committed suicide for the working and single parent/families : their children. con@nued on page 3 -Preston gur2 with the economic *environment of government. - __ have made it necessary for the

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This is the last chevron f6r three weeks, and our next issue will not appear until some time in the middle of July. Try to holdout -we can. When that moment comes,we anticipate some major changes in the paper’s format, though’right now it would be impossible to predict just what those changes might entail. Anyw,ay;‘in this issue you can look for the joint work of the following diehard truthseekers: Preston gurd, john morrid-gigolo for hire, betty ann bagley, randy hannigan,,don ballanger, Chris bechtel, Charlotte buchan, international scrabblechampion and investigative reporter margie Wolfe, melvin rotman, rod hay, jane harding and terrina, kati middleton, gary robins, Susan Scott (all-too-absent), Susan johson (all-too-present), jason ‘scarface’ hannigan, brian switzman, ian angus, margaret murray, meg aardvark, john broeze, loris gervasio, sasha johnson, nick savage, and lucy marr. njs.

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In an attempt to define its ’ account of the history dehind the priorities for the current year, the ( infamous University -of Waterloo Federation of Students’ couni3il Act, which I legitimizes this held b conference last weekend university in the eyes ’ of the a and ‘strongly’ decided to enprovincial legislature, and the co&a* course critiques on a studqnts’ six year position visa-vis this act. His presentation dated as campus-wide basis. ’ Also decided by the student far back as 1964, a time when the minions was the urgent need to university comm,unity thought ‘-it ‘actively’ encourage the student could do with a revision of its k ‘pursue faculty s+eties to gqverning structures. e membership on faculty pro-’ Three, years later,! the motions and tenure cominittees.’ Federation of. Students submitted ~_University president, Burt a report to the commit@e charged obviouily impressed Matthews, with reviewing the university’s ’ the student councillors with his act. In it the federation called for guest speech on the governing meaningful student representation bodies of the university and on how and for a unicameral structure as * he views the Federation of opposed to the existing bi-camera1 Student&@??or after he finished, the one. student councillors passed a The federation% position was motion which called for tmonthly endorsed bi the Faculty and Staff Associations, who both stood for a meetings between Burt Matthews’ from; the strong unicameral- structure along and representatives feder/ation and student faculty the same iines. In other words, instead of a Board of Governors societies’. separate from the university Dave Robertson, former vice, president of the federation, opened‘ senate, there would, be one body th’e conference with a detailed that would incorporate both func-

Daycare 1 I simply filling what they see as a consumer need, much as any othef company would go about selling a product: There are other daycare centres-as was well evidenced by Saturday’s conference. These centres, affectionately known as ‘co-ops’ have grdtvn out of the same need that spurred the consumer centres but have reacted to the same problem in a very different way. In one way or anither all of these co-op centfes are controlled by the group that use them-the parents, the employees and the children.* The means of that control does vary from situation to situation, depending upon the partjcular circumstances. The local centre, Klemmer, falls somewhere in the middle of a group of philosophies that cover most of these centres. The parents of the children of Klemmer are expected to volunteer four hours a week to the centre-in caring for the children. In lieu of this, the parents may provide another. service to the co-&like being the treasurer, or making ’ up - th6 menus. The idea is to leave everyone that is using the centre -w&king for it, and at the same . time keep the costs down. B One more radical centre,’ Campus Community Dajrcare in Toronto, as well as requiring the tiorkshift, attempts to break down the standard relationships between parent and child._ In this centre all parents are referred to _by their fir& names, in order that children should realize that their parents are not just their parents. Of ten there is experimentation with parents trading children for periods of time-taking home spmeone else’s child for one week. ’ The idea behind it all is an atfro&page

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tions : the academic and financial -_ as&s of the university. ‘The committee was going ahead ’ with the. unicameral structure’ said Robertson, and ‘the student representation was quite signi-

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c&led for 71 members, of -which twenty were -ex-officio, seventeen were faculty, . thirteen _ were students and the rest were staff, community and altimni members. Then; at a senate meeting, chosen Matthews-the newly ‘sensed there was a presidentquestioning of the unicameral structure’ and introduced the old bi-camera1 system with a few minor revisions. The revisions included, not surprisingly, a lesser number of student representatives in relation- to faculty members. ‘The bi-camera! . model as proposed by Matthews was eventually accepted by the provincial legislature two years later. The lesson to !be learned, according to Robertson, is that ‘it is, futile for students to continue to seek involqement at the level of th,e_ Board of Governors and senate because the decisions .are not really made there; rather they are made at the university, facu!ty And departmental level’. Robertson concludbd by urging that the student -councillors fclose the past decade’ and seek increased representation at both the departmental and faculty council level, -john

University of Waterloo &JW) graduate students working as teaching assistants will receive vacation pay for the last two years retroacfrom _the university, according to Bruce Gellatly, Ivice-president .~ tively of finance and operations. ‘~ The vacation pai will be calculated at two percent for the first year, -starting in September 1972, and at four percent from the beginning of last year until the present. r’ I ’ Apparently the ulterior motive behind this administration gesture arises out of the result of i settlemept won by the University of Toronto graduate students’ union over vacation pay. The Toronto GSU ’ sued the university in the Labour Relations Court over v’acation pay, two years in a&ears. The favourable settlement, granted to the Toronto GSU, prompted Burt Matthews, UW president, to go -to the local Labour ‘Relatiohs Court and trj, to work out an advance ‘settlement’ to offerc graduate r students at this university. Representatives of the GSU met with Burt Matthews and were told that only those graduate students who app\lied for theyacation pay would get the money. This policy would save the univer@,money as the costs of tracking down graduate stpdents who had worked at the university during the two year timeperiod would be sizeable. Ads for the retroactive vacation pay will be placed in the official university house organ, the Gazaette and there would be a time period . in which grads could apply. ---

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tempt to eqtablish a greater range Over a year ago the government of close, friends for the children so introduced a bill to govern thethat th& parent-child relationship monies available to daycare does not have to be one of centres-but did not provide any dependence to the extent that it is funding to carry out this proposal. now the rule. . . Apparently they are now ready, During the conference’s mar-to fund the legislation but ,in a way ning session on philosophy these that co-op centres -“see as being ideas received a hostile reception very nearly uselegs. The go\;ernfrom many of the people from ment wants to contr& the internal other centres. Worn& -declared operation of the centres (patio of several times that they “liked to be s(aff to children) and the budgets called mommy” and many people of the centres, but onl,y provide worried about the long term them with, at the most, eighty psychological eff&ts that this sort percent of the money they need. of conditioning would have on ths Government ’ . representative +..children. John H’aflood-. ejrpla’ined on And on the far side qf things, Saturday that the co-ops would be there were some people- that better off depending on municipal believed that to ‘qualify’ as a co- funds since the provincial scheme operative, Control of the board of is so peculiar. directors ’ was all that was Naming itself “Group 4 for‘ necessary. There is some ,danger Daycare Reform” the co-ops in this since the parents can h&e decided to hold &other meeting control df the board, set policy and early this summer in Toronto. ye& never know whether or not Memberihip to the lobby is -being those policies are ever followed. ‘If restricted to centres that run on a - the parents are content to rule in non-profit basis or the non-defined this way they may be surprised io parent co-operatives. , Municipal the actual goings-on of the ceqtrq. ~ centres .will be aligned with the Of course, for some situations ’ movement but not as membersthat is the only- alternative open to they haie sonic of\ the same con-. parents excluding the businessterns but do not fit into the loose type centres. At least in this way definition of a ~6-0~. parents ’ are exercising some The gr”oup has until September control-the only way they car;. to attempt to 1 inflvence the One centre in $orohio, Duke of government, but after that it .may York, arose from a working-class well be destined to raising their situation where a group of mostly prices because of decreased single, mothers got together with subsidies. the help of the local public school --Susan johnson I_ and established a centre in that school. In this case, the parents TERMPeERS SERVICE cannot spend time in the centre (Reg’d) . during the day because they are . papers on-file out ‘working. Instead they attend $2.00 per page ’ policy meetings at least once a month. For these people it is the (Catakgues $2.00 each) only way they cari have a co-op, 062 i which is what they see as the sane CUSTOM MADE * ~ way to manage things. I at reasonable cost The real high point of the day 416-783-0505 s ’ came when the co-ops decided to after hours 416-638-3559 organize a ldbbying force against the provincial government in -Suite 206,3199 Bathurst St., hopes of changing the policies TorontQ Ontario. affecting daycare,

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Even. though the subject of prisoners’ rights and prison. reform has been under discussion for at least two hundred year,& importint matters -affecting the civil and political rights of prisoners are not often mentioned in&imi?nal bodes and most often prisoners lose all h&r rights yhen convicted. 5 n the last few years there have -been some attempts at prison reform and’the reform of society’s attitudk to prisoners, little of which has had any Fffect upon Canada’s system of detention. In 1968 the Prev,ost Commiss’ion expreSsed its views in, unmistak&ble language : “The prisonebs themselves have rights., It is surprising,to find .it necessary to mention such obviousness ! Yet, over and over again, our penal tradition has allowed prisoners to lose, at the same time a’s their right ,to liberty, their right to intimacy, their right to written and verb‘al expressions, their right-to-a normal sex life ?\: . . And’yet even those who insist more on the protection of society than on the rights of human beings willing19 concede that society is adequately protected as soon as dangerous individuals are incarcerated:Society is not betteT,protected when a prisonek loses his right to write ! Society is not Imore secure nor mdre dynamic if a mari loses the right to gajngul work. Examples of this kind could be niultiplied indefinitely.” In order to spur the Canadian government into producing reform in the prison system,’ a group called the Canadian Federation of Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Associations (CFCLHRA > is proposing to study the Canadian scene ai;d draw up a report to be submitted to the :’ solicitor-general. / The program is being co-okdinated in Montreal but chapters of the organization all over Canada will be involved in the research a$ the final dra& of. the presentation. The group hopes to do a thorough inGestigation- of the per+ system and the rights of prisoners in this country. The research,wiii be handled by some graduate students and other research kams that will visit the institutions, appraise their donditions, Andy then bring their prooosals to the federal government. Anyone wishing further information should tiontact the K-W Human Rights Caucus through Colin De’Ath at university extension 3066.

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It is most unfortunate if the chevron insists on responsibility to no one, not . even to its own “community”, and if it is incapable’of any response to concerned retaliations, criticism other than, sloganizing and sloppy -hysterical reporting. I have yet to read a rational * defence of your policy of promoting / cheating. Rather you throw out the redherring of the threat of censorship. If. your policy is defensible and supported by the student body, prove it; otherwise re-evaluate and consider a change. L .NQ one has advocated any censorship of free reporting or the free exchange of ideas, but rather a policy compatible with responsibility to your community. I suggest that any given community is morally obliged to keep any part of itself., sustained by itself (in this case, its paper), from blatant racial and sexist prejudices, from disr$gard for its laws, moral insensitivity and from gross towards those compelled (all stugents in this case) to pay the shot. For example, “freedom of the press”, which most free people support, ought never to become an excuse Tbr “illegal” ’ actions; I consider a policy of ‘allowing the use of the chevron to promote both the buying of term papers and their use to be both immoral -and illegal within the context of our university community i.e. their use- breaks “our” laws and could lead to expulsion of the- offenders. ~ I un&mtand that the Albertan (sic) r has been charged precisely on a parallel point, that to incite to break the-law is equivalent to doing so oneself. No “free press” is free to act thusly . If the chevron is truly a student ‘paper, then it . should be morally - obliged to act as responsibly to its own community as the law of the land requires on the outside. If the chevronas presently organized rejects any direct responsibility to the Board of Governors and the Federation of Students and thus to its community, then I must challenge it to have the courage to= go it alone, to make itself directly responsible to its public. Quit taking compulsory financial 5 subsidy from %tudents (many ‘of whom you offend by such _ policy) and sell your product on the open university market. . To be responsible to no one is intolerable and to appeal to absolute freedom, highly naive. Professor K. Davis 4 Historypept. How nice to hear from you! ,We at the chevron were thrilled to regive your eloquent and persuasive letter on this all-important point. There are a few factors which we’d like to bring up, however, which not to YOU seemed consider in framing -your well-worded and otherwise rigorous argument,, It could easily be, for instance; that many-perhaps m%st-of the students on this, campus disagree with certain aspects of this newspaper’s editorial policy. This . is precisely ‘why the chevron’s subsidized independence, and its freedom from “direct responsibility to the Board of -Governors ‘and the Federation of Students”, are so important. Probably the chevron would not survive on, the open market, since we know by experience that the ideas-even the facts-contained in its pages rarely find expression ‘in commercial media, but means surely freedom of the press something more. than voicing -the opinions of a paying clientele.You accuse us of breaking the accepted laws-of the‘ campus community, in this case at least. You’re quite right. There are other laws that we would break too, if we could: -for l

instance, the de facto law that women a “Unborn Child” (a plea toe reconsider never be admitted to the upper levels of decision to abort) becomes editorial in university administration, and rarely ’ the sardonic remark “Sounds like a into the upper levels of faculty;-also the ‘Right to Life advertisement.” And the law that student tuition fees rise at a Birth Control Centre offers its wellrate oay exceeded by’ the salary- inknqwn services as abortion referral .&eases accorded to the professoriat , agency in the want-ads. never badly off to begin with. Granted, da While “Cloned” makes an uneasy then,, that we contravene the law, but 4 appeal for responsibility and prudence in let’s not denythat legality ‘and justice moving into genetic engineering, and the are not always synonymous. If the a lettitor column (June 14) demonstrates a university were truly. a haven -for general queasiness toward ’ the meaningful learningand + spirited’ 9 possibilities of such a move, others inquiry, none would decry the Termblithely state that the individual liberty paper market more-stenuously than we. to kill a human feotus is a human right. Sincefhe university manifestly does not - This juxtaposition of attitudes is answer to that description; however, but neurotic: a very real fear of violation of’ ‘rather fuctions, on the whole, as a path something sacred to all of us, namely our to professional and academic prosperity individuality, then about face, and a call on the one hand, and as ,a corporate to be free to destroy another human training-ground on the other, we feel no creature when pressed upon by compunction. -Not that we such emotional or/other threats. especially ’ support the Termpaper are’. In my experi&rce, most abortions Service and similar enterprises-we ilo, performed for one of two reasons: fear of not. Nor is the small amount of ad- social censure; and for the gain of such vertising revenue they yprovide very negotiables as a university degree or important to us. We nonetheless feel professional - standing, or for piain for those who are willing to accept capital (earnings) or goods. Not to be - that the risk of punitive measures,. and who forgotten is the fact that abortion in the for some reason need to’do so, the essay US is now a. highly competitive,%multiservices provide a means of coping with million dollar business -look at the want this debilitating institution which may ads of any large American paper. Of the at times be justified. To be ‘responsible’ thousands of abortions performed in to your archaic academic canons would Toronto last year, . only one was be intolerable,.and your appeal to these acknowledged to have saved the -actual principles is, we find, highly naive-the life ofthe mother. While the law does not lettitor: - recognize these/ facts, , the-society unt/ . > derstands them perfectly: ‘several major/ _ . A _woman’s magazines from the US -in recent .months (Redbook, May 74) have . run articl.es in which abortion is declared a dependable method of birth control, albeit having \economic and emotional side effects. While the authors of, “Everybody How, in such a society, is it possible to Must I~Get Cloned’_’ make‘\ us rightly . legislate restrictions on foetal research and exploitation by certain professionals uncomfortable. about the shapes of when by another law, “any woman can”? things to co-me, other articles in the same . You cannot, and that is why vast issue of chevron (June 7) reflect a’ more numbers of human foetuses in the US careless position. The review given

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and Britain are being used, living and dead; for experimental research. If the horrendous questions of valueand dignity of human life are answered flippantly or selfishly,. they become policyi for later decisions. They are not private questions. Abortion is not a private matter. It is public subject to normal I political process, and to restrictive legislation. Please consider the questions carefully. James Ross U.W.Pro-Life Group .. .

In the U6ited States the abortion business is just that-a businessbecausethat is the nature of the United States and because abortion is illegalin / so many areas. The chevron is quite‘openly and clearly * pro-abortion, it is not a ‘careless’ position. Forced-pregnancy is only one more way this society sees fit to keep women in a subservient ‘and helpless role. \ ’ It is not theI chevron’s place to advoc& . the domination of one people over ,another, and in this case one sex over another-the lettitor.

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Your article “The Game of Growth: Stacking the Odds at MIT” (Chevron June 14, 1974, pp. 6-7) was brought to my attention by one-of my students who ‘heard me speak recently on ‘the Club of Rome undertaking. The piece isthoughtfully written,and I wish to compliment you for 7 printing it. However, I would like to take issue with: (1) the *“facts” utilized; (2) the faulty logic employed in several instances; and (3) the many non sequitur conclusions, including the final paragraphs. Would you please let us know the ’ name and affiliation of the author... (I assume Chris -Bechtel ‘74 drew the sketch, but did not write the piece.) This should be - “standard, operatfngprocedure” for ANY serious article you : especially, ‘if youdesire conprint ,. structive criticism. In this particular case I will be,happy to spend the time to dissect “The Game ,of Growth” if the , article was written by a University of Waterloo student or faculty’member. On the other -hand, if the article is merely a . reprint of an anonymouspiece of propa%ganda I would not list it as a ’ “High Priority’ --*item on my list of things to do as a member. of the community of scholars at the University of Waterloo. So-may we have the- source _ of your stimulating article? Peter H. Nash Faculty of Environmental Studies \ The source of the -stimulating article was-staff member John Morrisand the chevron apologises for its slip. We certainly hope it won’t happen again. And we also look forward to your response-lettitor. \

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-- The latest crisis deserving the rapt attention of both parents and teachers is thepervasive emergence of the so-called 1 “hew illiterate’. This prototype of formal education manifests itself whenever a student shows signs of being incapable ‘of putting-a few sentences together coherently. And though this crisis of formal education is generally recognized, hardly anyone wants to assume the blame for such a -development. . Hence high school teachers wonder if the students were ever taught phonetics, while elementary school teachers question the,. students’ social background. Finally university professors, _ in their collective wisdom, solemnly proclaim that the fault resides in the lack of required english courses being taught in high school. In addition many conferences are held to find solutions to eliminate this grave shortcoming of institutionalized -education;From these workshops remedies are proffered and though they may differ in intensity, they all focus on the problems of poor grammar, irregular spelling and non-existent punctuation. Predictably, the cure offered is simple.: to writing’ develop- send the students ment courses where they can learn ‘proper-’ grammar .’ TKis way of approaching problems is typical of-western societies: the problem is posed in a purely technistic manner. For by isolating ‘grammar’ from the ’ development of a critical outlook-on life, the problem is thus obscured and the resulting ‘solution’ can only touch the surface of a serious social problem,. Tech&tic solutions such as the one prescribed to resolve the-dilemma faced by the ‘new illiterate’, can only be superficial for they do not question the goals and rationale of the institution (i.e. I the school). W-hen one does not question the existing structures, all that can be . done is to make. use of the latest _ educational gimmick in- order to solve the above dilemma. But when ‘one does question the present way of doing things, the answer may be quite simple. As the Brazilian educator, Paul0 Freire, author of ,the l?edagogy of the Oppressed, has shown, illiteracy is part of an overall pattern of life: powerlessness; impoverishment and the inability to read and-express in print are closely connected,The Third World illiterate- is submerged in his- experience and thus lives in a ‘culture of silence’. And he more often than not is castigated as ‘marginal’ or ‘sick’. His consciousness -. is not critical. In fact ,, the illiterate, although wise and skilled in many ways, looks to the urban centres and thinks -of himself as less -than human. For Freire the process of becoming sense of the word. But what this really Xterate isnot just learning to decode and means is that Canadians can read ladencode a symbol system. In-his words, vertisements , billboards, drugstore ‘to acquire literacy is more than to magazines, simple machine operating ‘and mechanically psychologically instructions and the daily’ newspaper. dominate reading’ and writing Canadians can read words but they techniques. It is to dominat-y these remain confused, bereft of a sense of the techniques in terms of consciousness; to meaning of the social facts strewn before understand what one reads and to write n them. what one understands;’ it is to comThis apparent paradox, that is municate graphically. Acquiring literacy ,_Canadians can read and yet not, know ’ of creation and re(is) . ..an attitude creation, a - self-transformation produc; the meaning of .anything, makes sense when, following Freire, the literacy -hg a stance of intervention in one’s problem is located in. the structures of context .’ . society. J?reire argues that comLiteracy, then is never a mere end in prehension and expression must be seen ~ itself: the parrot fashion memorization in relation to the democratic possibilities of primers prepared by those outside the for collective participation and control of illiterate’s experience. Critical literacy the environment, be- it community, should-provide the tools to comprehend school, factoryoffice or mass media.Few one’s shared experience in order to will deny that in the Canadain society change it. Reading and writing-, -in ’ any’ the major decisions affecting the lives of with political culture, is charged the majorityare made by a handful;‘ that meaning. all of the institutions from schools to. . At first glance Freire’s ideas may finance ‘companies are bureaucratized seem I irrelevant to I the ‘advanced and hierarchically organized . All feelings’ -capitalist countries. With the exception perceptions, repressed I of pockets in the Canadian hinterland _ and are Canadians feel powerless because they (northern Indian reservations, northern are powerless and socially and politically Quebec, parts of the Maritime& most illiterate. . ’ Canadians are literate in-the traditional

memorized dialogues in i’ languages learning are coupled _ with archaic. methods of evaluating student progress to render the student mute. By the time the student is in his late teens he/she has had a great deal., of practice in articulating somebody else’s thoughts. Dummies ,on the ventriloquists knee. Bored sixteen year old girls from Willowdale sitting around a library table preparing an essay on some facet of Greek history: ‘just copy from &he- book and add a couple of. “I think’s” ‘, sap one knowingly. ACIYYSS the table sits a thirteen year old-boy* burrowed in history books. He is preparing an essay. on ‘The 1History of Minnesota’. Not a thought is their own. Because the students’ experience with , print have been coercive, their feelings have become detached from both- their. thought and experience. A terrifying mental emptiness is reflected in the deadness of the language and thought of many community college students. No one wants to read, because their language has -become foreign and the world a series of unconnected headlines. This anti-intellectual attitude is conducive to the maintenance of the social system. For what is needed in the system is not intellectuals who might question it, but a great mass of people thoroughly conditioned to participate in society only at the point of consumption. These people are also equipped with an apolitical literacy level which corresponds to their position in the class structure. The factory worker, in Ontario, largely recruited from the immigrant population or from occupationvocational graduates or high school \ dropouts, requires- little or no literacy. The community college student acquires a narrow specialized technical literacy appropriate-to his future position as. a low level technician or lower to middle level powerless company hack or civil servant bureaucrat. \ And the universities, still falsely perpetuating a critical image, train the professional and middle to upper level technocrats and administrators of the system.’ Their literacy is Icapitalist similarly uncritical and _ technistic k because it is ‘driven by one concern: the efficient management and manipulation of personnel in the interests of maintaining institutional order and maximizing corporate profits. In Ontario , of course, the real power to shape society lies outside: in the headquarters of the multinational corporations. Thus it-is completely in the interests of the , Ontario power elite to have a large number of ‘new illiterates’ clingling to dilapidated myths about democracy and free ‘enterprise. and pluralism as they This silencing process begins in the joyfully consume nuclear family. Constantly parents train shoddy consumer goods, canned ideas and escapist entheir children that ‘silence is golden’, tertainment . ‘speak only when spoken to’, ‘do as yo-u , are told’, ‘how many times have I told . At the root of critical literacy is the you not to say that?’ These common restoration of voice to al silenced people’ phrases- are more than mere metaphor or or class. Since the. ‘literacy problem’ lies . in the anti-democratic 5ature of the sound advice. The ,oppressiveness -,of social structures, devising yet another social relations reflects itself in everyday plan for the ’ efficient teaching of conversation. grammar or composition will not work. When the child leaves his home, he then ,attends school. -There the child is \L When the Canadian people awake from a supposed to learn basic skills as well as long slumber and begin an arduous how to be a good citizen and worker. In struggle for control of their resources, unions, industries, schools, mass media reality he is educated for domesticity. and communities, a critical literacy will He is systematically plundered of a critical sense of the Canadian reality be possible. through carefully programmed learning. i The acquisition through struggle of He learns the ‘language of negotiation’ . social power will necessarily interweave (the art of manipulating language to , with thedevelopment of new, vital forms please those in authority). Rather than of literacy for all. But as long as the-few *being helped to fashion language that decide -for many, critical knowledge is expresses felt experience and analyzes inessential, passivity optimal, illiteracy the ‘world out there’, he learns to choose the order of-the day. and use ideas and words that are lapIn the -meantime, educators must proved by his ‘superiors’. . function as catalysts, providing theAt least in elementary and high silenced ‘with the tools to make sense of school, students learn that their voice is their socialexperience in order to build a not ‘important. _ Controlled readings, truly free society. , -jo hn mo+s classes , which consist ‘mainly of lectures,

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It down to receive their imaginary a production of some substance should talk about how after a day guests. They address their guests kick-offthe Summer Theatre in the rat race or stuck at’ home by their titles and chit with them, with the kids there might still be a -and series at the Pi&ire Show. one does perceive their little left-over to prove that we The play’ ‘It’s Drabber was presences. Finally the orator,. written and produced by Murray have an imagination that wants to played by Lawrence Jarrett;. Black and Tom Foster, ,the owners be exercised: and that we are arrives, the old man delivers a doing work that makes us feel that of the theatre. Bijled -as’ an enfarewell gddress and, he and the * we have something of value worth tertainment, it conveys .a simple old woman jump out the windows\ message by making use of expressing to other people -and plunge to their deaths. The recorded video, through words, music, dance or music, orator proceeds, but utters coreographed dance, and an onthings we can make. nothing more than. grunts and stage flute performance ac, Perhaps this failing comes out groans and other unintelligible strongest in the slides and-in Glen companying a slide presentation. ‘noises. _ Basically the authors are Soulis’ performance. Splashed -The ‘interesting aspect of-> the criticizing those who choose the across the backdrop were scenes play are the, diverse] themes mental obesity of t.v. watching to of the villagers and landscapes of running through the general story, sampling the pleasures and-pain Africa. Diseased and starving doeIn-the first half of the play, we are _ eyed peasants stare at ,_the presented with an in depth study ot direct living experience. . cameras produced by a society of marriage. A particularly astute Lounging centre stage,\ Drabber, that has, turned these countries scene is one. in which the old IaCly played by Murray Black, offers himself totally to the flickering eye 1 into supply depots’ for the goods asks to hear again a story which of television.w2 wasteland. The t.v. that we‘don’t need. Yet at the end the old man has repeated every of the pictorial presentation, all we set is mounted on a video machine day for seventy-five years, a situatjon that speaks <for itself. ‘which periodically’spurts to life. $ were left with is the beauty of the ‘Orally .*-satiating himself. with landscape and the IOWIY inTher.e is also the scene in which cigarettes and potato nocence of the suffering.‘peasants. , the. old man and the old woman chips, Drabber see-ms oblivious ts the . Just like on t.v. but we are hip are talking independently to their first of the intrusions which atfictitious’. guests. They are becau_se we care and give to the tempt to break the hypnotic \ aPp te charity. discussing the same’ subject; a . The innaneness of ’ Soulis’ ’ parti&lar event in the old man’s hammerlock of the boob tube. ’ To the strains of ‘,‘Georgia on my parting line, “Drabber, if’ you took pest. However; it seems as if there your eyes away from the’t.v. for were two different people inMind” a dancer, Carole Waynio, five minutes you could change: volved. The effect is to point ‘out , weaves and prances around our that even after having lived with hero as a sensual offering.She is What’s happening- ‘around You,” points out the whole weakness of another person for a lifetime there obviously not in the same class as the play. Of course five minutes are still aspects, of the other Police Surgeon, as Drabber’s gaze couldn’t change anything of TI person which remain never falters in its mesmerization may significance’and that is why the - unknown to his mate. Or possibly, with the action on t.v. The same drabber in us stays to sit a few one might not really know oneself. fate befalls a poetry reading from minutes longer in front of the boob _ But even the author’s own inlocal writer Rienzi Cruz’s work; to sights are pushed to the limits and, and a slide presentation ,.of ‘the _tube. T-here , is no attempt , examine any way 30 start to made absurd. drought victims of east Africa reclaim our ability to create-what As’ tor the guests, are they accompanied by the loftin’g airs of we want and how we want it done. supposed to be real people, or are 7 , flutist Glen Soulis. Posturing isn’t changing. they s,upposed to -be the ‘- Combatting this worldly onMost of the performances are representatives of the delus!ons slaught are the netherworld of a senile old couple? Isthe final noteworthy by their laclustreness. characters - who appear on the The title role may call for no effort half of the play supposed to mean video monitor. The main luciferian and dullness but Murray‘ Black that people may as well not be at a character, Mr. Video, played by carries it to the-extreme. The copresentation that will afford them Tom Foster presents the abunan insight into the question that author Tom Foster has the perfect dance of t.v. land awaiting face for his Mr. Media but just haunts *every person i “the Drabber in return for his loyalty to because he looks like the devil he meaning of their life”, because television -watching and to the doesn’t have to play dead. On the even if they .were told they products advertisedon air. The other hand Bruce Steele shows wouldn’t listen ? Is the orator’s -! supporting video cast of Mr. blood how,a cameo role should be acted. grunts, etc. supposed to tell us and guts, performed by Bruce Veins just dripped from his mouth. there’ is no meaning to ,life? Or Steele and Miss lush-lips played Glen Soulis proved again his even if there were a meaning he by Veria Holiad promise even astute virtuosity on the flute. could not formulate the words to more of the violence and titilation Carole Waynio’s dance left me express them? Or was the author which are the meat of most of with mixed feelings. Its lack of trying to show us that we are present day fare. _ fluidity left it short of the siren call _ absurd for trying to find-a meaning Yet in the end the play falls far it. was attempting to portray. from, a play called The. Chairs * short of its attemptedgoal. Rather Perhaps, if fhe musical score~was because everything is’absurd. than criticizing‘ the -way Drabber “Sweet Georgia Brown”, a better The performance3of Betty Trott chooses t0 live his life, the dance performancecould have been as the old woman, and Russell SeCpienCe, pdetry reading, and coreo~~phed, Scott as the Old Man are without slide presentation beco:mes short The weaknesses of this perdoubt, examples of superlative episodic diversions. They become f ormance were glaring but’ theacting. These two pe$ormers glide \ items of consumption competing t epic area chosen and the attempt through their roles as if they inwith Mr.- Media’s offering. at presenting locally produced deed had gone ’ through a Surely the major statement 6 work ‘bodes well for future metamorphosis and had actually \ which a play of this genre must presentations of Summer Theatre .become the characters in the play. make is that life today brings out at the Picture Show. . The directing, by Jason Moore, the buttsitting, potato chipibrian switzman that must have gone into such a tight knTt performance migtit only munching Drabber syndrome in be described as excellent. all of us. Surely a critique of this Although this play may not, at the should be to find other ways of organizing ourselves rather than Playing along with- St’s drabber time of this review, beappearing, ’ finding more chic ways of being at the Picture Show is the play The , it would be well worth while to catch future ‘performances done entertained. ‘\ Chairs. by Eugene lonesco. This An entertainment such as this playwright wrote within the by this grow. -e, rot;an should be suggesting ways of framework , of the modernist I... :/ I e

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The Can-Am weekend of 1974 has passed by leaving one with mixed feelings about it. Rain fell in; termittently throughout Saturday drenching a good number of the spectators on hand. Nonetheless a > carnival-like atmusphere pervaded as everyone’ made the best of the situation at hand. Most found consolation in the beer, polishingoff case after case in order to forget about the wet and the cold around them. A few brave souls doffed their soaking clothes to set about streaking around the racetrack amid shouts of encouragement and approval from the thousands of people on hand. Cheers and screams of joy filled the air ‘whenever the- rain let up’:allowing swarms of tent dyellers to emerge ’ and greet the” sun. *Campfires strained to keep j,aflame while exhausted looking I individuals’ <huddled around the fire in order to keep, warm. Dune.buggies and , motorcycles ran rampant, in every direction drilling the air with their unmuffled .- roars and ,gcattering --everyone before them. Car stereos ; blared loudly into the night as the crowds partied on and. on in their alcoholic stupor . The races provided ‘a fair a/mount of competition and. excitement throughout the weekend. \ Among -the races held, the Formula 5000 and the Can-Am races the main attractions I 1 were In the time trials for the Formula 5ooO races Brian Redman in a Lola T332 firmly established his machine’s superiority over those of both Mario Andretti and David Hobbs also in%olas. All appeared -2 .well for Redman until he spun off the track coming out of corner five and sustained cor&Yderable damage to the front of his car.’ Fortunately his team managed to, repair the damage and place him‘ back in contention for the race the , next day. Redman, Andretti, Hobbs, and Eppie Wietzes, an *outstanding Canadian drivelc;, appeared to be the -main competitors for Saturday’s Formula 5ooO races. . i

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During the first preliminary heat race Andretti ran away from the rest of the pack in an outstanding drive through the pouring rain. It seemed almost ILunbelievable how , skillfully he manoeuvred his Lola along the slippery track to win -by a large margin over Wietzes. The rain stopped during the second heat race and the competition became tighter on the drying track. Hobbs battled into the lead and held on to- take the chequered-, flag with favoured ,Redman finishing in third place. All indications pointed to a very interesting feature race. As the green flag fell, Andretti. instantly began to outdistance the rest of the field. Each lap saw him gain a few, more seconds on the others. His driving was,flawless and he ap-, peared to be on the way to an easy victory. Behind him Redman, Hobbs, and, Wietzes fought a very close battle for second place. Just after half distance, with Andretti close to a lap ahead of the rest of the field, his car developed engine trouble and began coughing out smoke whenever he changed gears-The trouble was serious and within a *few laps Hobbs and Wietzes had caught up. to him. Redman was nowhere to be seen. After setting the fastest lap time of the race he had the misfortune of being hit by a slower car and was knocked out of ‘the race. Hobbs took over the lead followed close behind by Wietzes as Andretti began to slip farther back due to engine trouble. At the ‘finish line it was Hobbs ‘who won the trophy edging out Wietzes while Andretti limped home in fourth place. It had , been a fine race with a great deal --of excitement and hard fought F competition. The Can-Am race -was not quite as spectacular as’ it has been in’ recent years. This year the series is dominated by the powerful UOP - Shadow team which demonstrated its total superiority over all the d other cars in Friday’s qualification runs. All the other Can-Am machines wereobsolete old I \

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designs achieving pathetic lap times. The two Shadows of George Follmer and Jackie Oliver were in, a class by- themselves. It was evident that the race would be for first and second between these two cars. The only other drivers with a dim hope of keeping up with the Shadows were Eppie Wietzes in a , Ferrari 512M and Scooter Patrick in a McLaren M20. + During the preliminary -sprint races the Shadows left the rest of the field far behind them as expected. Follmer had taken the lead from Oliver in the first turn and began to pull farther away from him with each lap. A third of the way through the race O&er’s car developed trouble and he. pulled off the track ending his race. Follmer continued to charge on winning the race by a very wide margin. It seems that an argument developed between Follmer and Oliver in the pits after the race and’ fists began swinging. This episode set the stage for an interesting feature race. Here were two drivers. from the same team ’ at each other’s throats and each determined his to prove superiority over dthe other no matter what was involved. Further complicating the,plot was the fact that Follmer sat at the front of the starting grid-while ‘Oliver was way back at the end of the field due to dropping out of the preliminary sprint race ’ The green flag dropped to begin the race and Follmer instantly roared away from all the others. Back in the field Oliver was beginning to carve his way up through the pack driving magnificently. After just a few laps Oliver had already achieved ’ fourth place while up ahead Follmer was enjoying an ever increasing lead. At the quarter distance mark the Shadows were running first and second with Follmer leading by a wide margin. Just as it appeared that Follmer was well on his way to proving his point a rear tire puncture sent him into the pits. Confusion broke out as his mechanics fumbled to change tires while Follmer sat and c fumed in his car for over a minute seeing dliver streak by into the lead. Out on the track again, now , in second place, Follmer began a fantastic display of driving as he strained to catch up to Oliver. In . the process he set a new lap record , but it- was to no avail. At the chequered flag Oliver has beaten him by just 1.9 seconds. Standing on the presentation stand Oliver grinned, broadlyFas he accepted the victory wreath hwhile Follmer-‘ parked his Shadow and disappeared from view. .

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