1974-75_v15,n29_Chevron by Editor Imprint

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 15, number 29 friday, february 7, 1975

- Shortall Lameduck Federation of Students president Andy Telegdi and Phyllis Vanderphlug are elated over the result of the Ontario Federation of Students (O/3) referendum Wednesday, which gave OfS an 8 7.5 per cent victory. VW’s vote was the second highest in the province, just half a per cent behind Laurentian University.

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Village :fees smkyrocket next Ifall Students bent on living in the vilthat the increased rents would put a lages next autumn had better be further hardship on any graduate _ students who had no other source prepared to fork out an extra $90 of income except from teaching. per term for the luxury of weekly Despite this, the motion to imple_ room service. ment the new fee structure was The price of the room will passed with little comment, and skyrocket to $760 per term, while only one person opposed the move. that of the double will jump to $710. This increase was recommended Tuition question by warden Ron Eydt , after discusWith the decrease in government sions with the village tutors and the subsidizing of universities, it apchairmen of the . village - councils. pears that there will be an increasfailed to come up with any “altering pressure put on the administranatives to lifestyles” in the resition to raise tuition fees as a means dences, which could have resulted of generating more income. Howin lower fees. These “alternatives” ever, for the 1975-76 term there will included removing telephones from not be any increases in tuition, due all the rooms, going to a five day of meal plan, cutting out breakfast or to a directive from the Ministry Accordchanging the noon hot meal to a Colleges and Education. ing to UW president Burt Matthcold ‘lunch. However, all conews, the university can’t raise fees cerned felt that these changes as this is a matter that is dictated by would not be appropriate and the provincial government to detherefore the $90 across-the-board cide when and to what amount fees increase was recommended. will be increased. . The villages, however, were not the only residences to have fees inBIU values creased. Both Minota Hagey and During his analysis of the budget, the Married Students Apartments UW vice-president of finance were affected by fee increases. Bruce Gellatly, gave a historical Fees at Minota Hagey were in- perspective to the current financing creased by $85.00 a term, which problems. In 1971 there was an avbrings a room up to $445.00 per erage increase in the cost of living academic term. of2.9 per cent, but the BIU value for the following academic year Rents in the Married Students Apartments are being increased by was only increased by two per cent. , $15.@) a month’ effective May 1, In 1972 an average cost of living folr * 1975 for new tenants and upon re- increase of 4.8 per cent was lowed by an increase of 3.4 per cent newal of present leases for tenants. in the value-of value- of a BIU. In 1973 the The new rates in the Married Stud- figures were 7.6 per cent and 7.1 nets Apartments for a one bedroom apartment range from $155.00 to per cent, while the figures for 1974 were 10.9 per cent and 7.7 per cent $145.00fora twelve month lease-A respectively. Thus while the tne BIU Blu two bedroom apartment will cost value Alas been consistently behind value&as beh’-- 1 from $170.00 for a four month 11 the cost of living inci increase, the gap lease, up to $16O.OO,for a twelve grows month lease. It was noted that this between the two is steadily was the first increase in rents since ing. If this trend is to continue, the will face some sc very serithe apartments opened in 1970. university ous M This, however, is small consolation L problems said Matthews. to married students, many of whom I Cutbacks in are graduates and living on meagre &dent services salaries and loans, who must pay the increased rents. It was noted Student services ,was one of the

hardest hit areas of the budget with to pass the budget without much ado. cutbacks in counselling services Faculty salaries and health services being most obvious. Counselling services budget Earlier, the board passed a mowas reduced by $34,500 while tion which set a procedure for the c health services budget was reduced determination of salaries for the faby $15,500.00. This will result in culty. there being no on campus infirmary This procedure is based on a salnext year. Gellatly stated that the ary structure which defines floors infirmary at the present time is a for the three ranks of faculty. Then duplication of services now offered this is expressed as muliples of F. by the K-W hospital in its f For instance, tJhe floor for an assisemergency ward. But there was tant professor is l.OF. The floor very little discussion of the effects for an associate professor is 1.3F that these cutbacks could have on and the floor for a full professor is the students and the board went on 1.7F. Therefore, a faculty member

of any of the three ranks should be making somewhere between his floor level and the next highest floor level. The top salary for a full professor would be 2.5F. It was suggested that a- faculty member could proceed from F to 2.2F in 20 years, based on a system of selective increases. The faculty in order not to lose out to inflation, inserted in the motion that “the committment of funds required for this purpose shall have the highest priority in the preparation of the annual budget.” -randy

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The Renison board of governors are open to binding arbitration, but only if the terms are right, At a board meeting on Wednesday they decided that the proposals offered by The Canadian- As~ociation of University Teachers (CAU’I’) on behalf of profs. Hugh Miller and Jeffrey Forest “were not entirely acceptable. ” Although the board is considering binding arbitration in Miller’s case, the chairman, W.T. Townshend, said that he would prefer F;rO+ to deal with Forest’s case ‘l’$ expl “‘$ explained what has happened in the negotiations so far: Renison offered to put the issue before a chiefjustice and abide by his ruling on‘the appropriateness of our ac: tion within the terms of the Forest contract. ” But CAUT would not accept that that offer. offer accept CAUT and the UW Faculty Association which have asked the college to accept binding arbitration, are both more concerned with the reasons behind the firings than legal niceties. The Faculty Association’s tenure committee’s report Dec. 9, 1974 states: “Whatever legal standards may be, the committee addressed itself to the

point of view of proper academic standards. . . .It is our conviction that sound academic practice dictates that unless a faculty member holding a probationary appointment resigns or does not have his appointment renewed he must be -dismissed for cause in the proper way. To tolerate any other practice would undermine the whole purpose of probationary appointments.” The compromise on who should arbitrate, offered by CAUT, and discussed at Wednesday’s meeting, was that both sides should agree on an academic who was a member of a law faculty. However, Townshend fears that academics are biased and thus is concerned that Renison may not get a fair hearing. As an example of what he feels biased academics can concoct, he cited the Tenure Committee Report quoted above. Nevertheless, the board has set up a sub-committee, under his chairmanship, to consider possible candidates for the role of arbitrator. As for the terms of reference such an arbitrator would be given (i.e. the questions he would consider) there seems to still be differc

ences between the board and CAUT, but Townshend would not specify what they were. Biased academics are also to be found at Carleton University according to Townshend. That is how he viewed the faculty of Carleton’s school of social work, who passed a . motion on the Renison affair last week. The motion called upon the college to accept binding arbitration and stated that until such times as it does qualifications issued at Renison would be considered questionable. The board is now communicating with Carleton on this matter. Concerned that their degrees will be of little value if the dispute isnot ’ solved quickly, 59 Renison students signed a petition asking the board to accept binding arbitration. Two students tried to present the petition to the meeting but the governors voted not to allow this. Instead they were told that they could wait outside if they wished and that the board might hear their case after it had finished with the agenda. The students waited for three hours and had a brief audience with Townshend after the meeting. -neiI

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fwoC FRIDAY Steven Levine, (Social Science, York Univ.) to speak on “The festival & the critique of everyday life”. 2pm. Humanities 373 (Faculty Lounge).

Campus

Centre pub open at 12 noon. 1

Michael Lewis from 9-1 am. 5Oc admission after 6pm.

lxthus

coffeehouse 9-12pm, free coffee, speech and kipfels. Music by Dennis Walsh. Everyone welcome. CC coffeeshop.

Federation

Flicks: “Death Wish” with Charles Bronson. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1, Non-Feds $1.50.

The Peasants’

Revolt

FASS. $1.25 admission. Arts. 7 & 10 pm.

presented by Theatre of the

‘Cross-Country

Ski day. Call ext. 3533 for further details.

SATURDAY American activist-comedian

Dick Gregory will speak on “Pan-African”. AL 116 at 3:30pm.

The Peasants’

Revolt

FASS. $1.25 admission. Arts. 8pm.

Federation

Flicks:

presented by Theatre of the

“Death

Wish” with

This week on campus is a free col_umn for the announcements of meetings, special seminars or speakers, social events and happenings on ,campus-student, faculty or staff. See the chevron secretary. Deadline is noon Tuesdays.

Orienteering. Laurel creek conservation area. For further information call Frans 884-5035 or Dayle at 884-4071. MONDAY Duplicate

Bridge: Open Pairs. No experience necessary. Partnerships can be arr,anged. All bridge players welcome: 7pm. 3rd Floor Math lounge.

Political study Group. Discussion on a

Campus

variety of current political issues. 6:30-8pm. World Room. CC207.

‘pub. Opens

at 12 noon. Michael Lewis from g-lam. 50~ admission after 6pm.

Red Garter

Ball. Semi-formal sponsored by Environmental Studies Society. 8:30pm. Waterloo Motor Inn. Tickets in E.S. Sot.

Outers’

Club general meeting and movie night. Jim Gardner is giving a talk and slide show on high mountain travel in western North America. Also, two movies to be shown. “Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes”, and “len,Miles an Hour” Everyone welcome. 7:3Opm, Village II, Great Hall.

Club, Elora Gorge day hike (5-6 miles). For further information phone trip leader Bob Breuls--at 884-4619 or Ron lrvine at 884-l 373. Bring pack. lunch and mug or cup. (Beverage provided) Cost: 50 cents.

Para-legal

SUNDAY Advanced

Isabel McKay will speak on “Womenin

meditators

lecture for transcendental only. 8pm. ENG 3, 1101.

Greek

Cultural Activities. Music, dancing, meet with others who have lived or travelled in Greece. (or want to). 7-10pm. World Room, CC 207. Outers’ Club “Observation Hike” in general area of Uniwat. Contact Ron *It-vine at 884-1373 for further information. . Federation

Flicks: “Death Wish” with, Charles Bronson. 6pm. AL 116. Feds. $I., Non-Feds $1.56.

Assistance.

Providing free non-professional legal advice for students. 7-IOpm. CC 106. Call 885-0840 or ext. 3846.

Education”. 2-4pm. Cambridge 40 Thorne St. (Galt).

YWCA

Campus

Centre pub. Opens at 12 noon. Toronto Revival from 9-l am. 74c admisson after 6pm.

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Revolutionary

assistance.

Providing free non-professional legal advice for students. 7-10pm. CC 106. Call 885-0840 or ext. 3846.

Campus

Outers’

l-4 pm

Chess Club meeting. 7:30pm. CC 135. Para-legal

Charles Bronson. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1, Non-Feds $1.50.

Centre

Museum of games & archives. MC 6032.

Centre

,pub. Opens ‘at 12

noon. Toronto Revival from g-lam. admisson after 6pm.

WEDNESDAY Happy Birthday

74c

Wanda June by Kurt

in Canada, Spartacist forum. What strategy for working class revolution in Canada? What’s wrong with anarchism, Maoism, spontaneism etc. CC 113. 7:30pm. Pro-life will have a General meetina at 7:30 pm in ENG 4. 4362. All are welcome. ’

group

assistance. Providing free non-professional legal advice for students. 1:30-4:30pm. CC 106. Call 885-0840 or ext. 3846.

Museum

of games & archives.

l -4pm

MC 6032.

Happy students

Birthday

Wanda June. $1.50,

$1. Humanities

Waterloo

Theatre. 8pm.

Christian

Oriental

1-4 pm

Para-legal

assistance. Providing free non-professional legal advice for students. 2-5pm. CC 196. Calf 885-0840 or ext. 3846. Remkes Kooistra discussion group topic: the structure of the church. filmstrip on Bengladesh:8pm. ENG 3, rm 1101. A Brazilian evening. discussion on Brazil. Room, CC 207.

Slides, music and 7:30pm. World

Demonstration Fairview

of Tae IKwon Park Mall. 7:15pm.

Do in

Preparatory

lecture on the practice and principals of transcendental meditation. 8pm. MC 2065. ,

Baha’i

Firesides

(informal discussions) All students, faculty, staff welcome. HH 334. 7:30-9:30pm.

Fellowship. All those interested are invited to a short meeting of Christian singing, fellowship and encouragement. 7pm. CC 110. Campus

K-W red cross blood donor clinic. 2-4:30pm and ,6-8:30pm. Knights of Columbus,

Social

Dance

Club fea-

Campus

Centre pub. Opens at 12 noon. Toronto Revival from g-lam. 74c admisson after 6pm.

THURSDAY Student wives education

Centre pub. Opens at 12 noon. Toronto Revival from 9-l am. 74c admisson after 6pm. +

1IO Manitou Drive.

and Ethnic

club meeting.’ Special teacher Joan Harvey will

Dance Club. Learn Chinese classical and folk dances under the direction of Angeli Super. 7-10 pm. World Room, CC 207.

Navigators’

of Waterloo Universities’ Gay Liberation Movement to discuss a budget proposal by the K-W Lesbian Collective. CC 135. 8pm.

Paca-legal

Museum of games & archives. and 6-9 pm. MC 6032.

Free introductory lecture on transcendental-meditation and the science of creative intelligence. 8pm. MC 2065.

Something fo”ched’abouf:

speak on her work with mentally retarded children. 8pm. Eng 4, 4362.

Vonnegut Jr. A play presented by the U of W Drama Group. $1.50, students $1. 8 pm. Humanities Theatre.

tures the “Cha cha cha”. 8-l lpm. CC 110.

Now the glorious beer of Copenhagen is brewed right herein Canada. It comes to you fresh from ,the brewery. So it tastes even better than ever. And Carlsberg is sold at regulai- prices. So let’s hear it, Carlsberg lovers. “One, two, three n , _Cheers!” & -..I: r

7, 1975

fellowship have their weekly dessert meeting. This week “The Problem of Love and Justice”. 5:30pm. CC 113.

Gene?al Meeting Strategy

february

FRIDAY Federation

Flicks: “Catch 22” with Alan Arkin and Anthony Perkins. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1.) Non-Feds $1.50.

lxthus

coffee house. 9-12pm, Free speech, coffee and kipfels. Everyone welcome. CC coffeeshop. Happy

Birthday

‘Humanities $1.

Campus

Wanda

Theatre.

June.

$1.50.

8pm. Students

Centre pub. Opens at 12 noon. Toronto Revival from 9-1 am. 74c admisson after 6pm.

friday,

february

7, 1975

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says What’s the best way for Ontario university students to fight the provincial government’s cutbacks in education? By mass demonstrations in the streets? Not likely, if Shane Roberts, Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) executive, has his way. Students should write their local M.P.P.s protesting the cutbacks and urge their parents to do likewise, he suggested. “It’s far more effective to write your MPP’s than to spend a few noisy hours outside Queen’s Park demonstrating,” Roberts said: He cited the’ students’ council at Brock University as advocating street demonstrations as the only way to protest reduced provincial spending in post-secondary education. Roberts asked the UW Federation of Student’s council Sunday to send a telegram to the minister of colleges and universities James Auld saying that +‘the cutbacks will drastically affect, the quality of education. ” Councillors, with one abstention, passed the motion. “We must stand up now”, he arwill gued, “or the government mount up more cutbacks.” The current cutbacks are just the “be_ ginning of a trend”, Roberts stated. He also called for a special issue of the chevron as well as an ad in the K.itchener-Waterloo Record to explain publicly the effects the cutbacks will have on the universities. But Roberts alerted councillors to the possible negative reaction of the K-W community to the university’s financial plight, by quoting a Feb. 1 editorial from the Record that condemned students and profs at Carleton University for protesting the provincial cutbacks. The Record editorial charged students and faculty with disrespect for the average taxpayer by staging strikes to debate reduced government spending in education, Roberts said. However, Roberts said there’s still hope as the Waterloo Chronicle poimted out in a Jan. 5 editorial that: “In an effort to curb a staggering $1.2 million deficit UW administrators are giving their students the shaft. ” The editorial went on to list the various budget slashes affecting students: shortening library hours; closing the health services infirmary; increasing student-teacher ratios; and reducing undergraduate counselling. The Chronicle felt these slashes “will only produce greater repercussions”, Roberts said .’ The cutbacks in education were triggered when Auld announced that over-all. grants to the university-college system for 1975-76 would be increased by about 16 percent. Ontario university presidents were unanimous in condemning the increase as being in effect, with raging inflation, a cutback. They argued that on a per student basis the provincial grants increased by only 7.4 percent. ‘~ Roberts told councillors that OFS was sponsoring a plenary Feb. 7 with the participationof all university ca,mpyses to discuss the cutbacks and ways to convince the government to reconsider its posir tion with regard to education.

In other business, councillors allocated $2,000 to the Mike Moser Memorial Fund. The fund provides a bursary to third and fourth year students excelling in academics and extra-curricular activities. Council tabled a motion by math rep John Long who argued. for the federation to recommend to the Athletic Advisory Board (AAB) that the name of the Physical Activities Complex be changed to the Mike Moser Memorial auditorium. However, federation president Andy Telegdi felt Long’s motion was a bit premature as the AAB has yet to call for such a measure. Earlier, entertainment chairman Art Ram informed council that ‘the recent Leonard Cohen concert lost $5,500 and blamed the deficit on the “state of the music business at present”. : He also told councillors that currently the federation mans the doors at the Campus Centre pub and uses the revenue to cover entertainment costs. Meanwhile, the, university takes care of the “floor and bar”, Ram said.. The job of pub manager will soon be advertised, according to Ram, and he intends to apply as he’s now “going through a learning process”. In the agreement to be drafted between the university ,and the federation regarding the pub, the latter will assume control of the facility and hire a manager.

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Student leaders : mid Add ’ OTTAWA-.(CUP)-Stud&t leaders from across Ontario descended on Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities, James Auld, Jan. 31. The students are attempting to meet to discuss their. financial plight. The meeting was called at the instigation of the Ontario F&leration of Students who have been trying to set a-meeting with Auld for the past month but keep getting put .-. off. Auld says that he didn’t have time to meet with the students Jan: 3 1 but promised to do so “in a week or ten days.” He says he would rather have a long discussion with the students, “instead of just 10 minutes.” However, a meeting at a future ‘date will be too late since financial decisions on the Ontario budget are now being made. Once the budget‘ is set it will be too late to change the government’s financing plans for 1975-76. OFS spokespeople say that if they can’t meet with Auld then they will talk to members of opposition parties and will lobby their MPP’s. -‘The meetings and march on Auld’s office follow the Jan. 29 study sessions which were held province wide to protest the government’s financial plans for 1975-76 and their attitude towards student aid.

Universities to weather .-

OTTAWA‘(CUP)-The presidents of the University of Guelph and McMaster University have gone on record saying they will cover financial deficits by using existing reserves next year, but after that they’re out of money. The financial plight. of Ontario universities comes as a resultpf the decision by the ‘Ontario government to increase basic income un?t per student by 7.4 per cent for the academic year 1975-76. This increase is substantially less than the 16.4 per cent the universities said they needed to cover inflation, and comes after several years of lessthan-inflation increases. The less than expected, increase “came as a complete shock” to Guelph president W.C. Winegard, who is also chairman of the Council of Ontario universities (COU). The COU had met with the government prior to the announcement of the 7.4 per cent increase and expected that the government would not go below the 10 per cent figure. Winegard told a press conference held after the announcement that the problem was not that Ministry of Colleges a d Universities (MCU) officials. 4!il. isunderstood the financial needs of the universities. Winegard said the problem seemed to be getting information to the Ontario cabinet, which makes the decisions. “They just couldn’t have known the situation,” he said. The effect of the small increase will be to “destroy much of what has been built up over the’last decade in the system’ ’ , Winegard said. So cutting ‘costs while trying to maintain present academic programmes “as best we can” becomes the number one priority at Guelph. Winegaid says this will mean’ no money for new staff, restricting enrolment increases, maintaining the programme mix atits present level, no budget increases for equipment and supplies even to meet inflation, and the existing support staff having to service new buildings as well as the present ones. Winegard says the universities must increase their efforts in confronting Queen’s Park with the issue. He said that the decision of the cabinet to reduce their support is a political one, and one which

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should be met with efforts by the ’ sened next year after the provincial universities to counter their failing election. According to this speculapublic image. tion, the cutbacks to the univerBut Winegard’s response to sities are intended only to reduce the overall provincialdeficit during questions showed that he was not calling for a particularly highthe election year in Ontario, and that the government will pay off profile public campaign. Asked if he thought a provinceuniversity bank loans after the elecwide closing of all Ontario univertion. sities for one day would demonJames A&d, minister of colleges and universities for Ontario, denies strate the problem to the public he said that he thought that would do that this year’s squeeze on the universities is an electoral manoeuvre. more harm than good. He expressed more interest in “meeting with He says the universities are unMPP’s” and mounting a more orlikely to experience financial difthodox “lobby style” campaign. _ficulties in the coming year and has Meanwhile, McMaster Universtated that the government will not sity faces the same problem. Presipay off any operating deficits endent A.N. Bourns says the univercountered in the system. sity will sustain a possible $4.1 million operating deficit this year which will be met using reserves accumulated in earlier years. If the financial strain continues, he warned McMaster could go bank- ’ rupt “in terms of quality” because it would have to operate in an inflationary environment with no increase in available funds. VANCOUVER (CUP)-Capilano To slow down the drain on reCollege is offering a new and rather serves McMaster is attempting, to exceptional‘course-teaching wocut $3 .million from this year’s men how to deal with power. budget, and more massive cutWanda Tilley teaches the backs next year, according to three-month study session that has vice-president administraiion been prompted by woman’s recent D.M. Hedden. rapid ascent into corporate power Economies to be affected include structures. She says women someno increases in supplies and times must learn the skills of superequipment budgets, despite infla- ’ vising men and women while keeption; a rejection of the bid being ing the feathers of the others in the made by support staff for parity pecking order unruffled. . with medical workers; increases in “Women struggle twice as hard teaching salaries which will be less for power as men do”, Tilley says. .“When they get it, they sometimes than those offered outside the university; no net increases in teachforget the rules of the game. This ing staff; and an increased workcourse helps prepare them for adload for faculty as a result of an ministrative positions, among increase in the student/teacher other things.” ratio. Tilley feels that although things Bourn’s added ominously “if we are changing there still aren’t equal can maintain a reasonable atmos.opportunities. “Women aren’t trained to be phere of.teaching and research we wiil keep our best faculty”. Meanmanagers. They aren’t trained to while, the McMaster Faculty Asplan their time effectively. Men are sociation is reported to be planning counselled to take math courses to unionize, and some faculty/are while women aren’t. They aren’t reported to be seriously considergiven the tools of logic.” ing a faculty strike should working The- last course was filled. with women but Tilley stressed that men conditions and salaries deteriorate badly. I are welcome. Speculation in some quarters in“I would think men would want dicates, however, that the financial to be aware of the politics within crunch on universities may be le’s- their offices”, she said.

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.- Saturday Feb. 8 Noon Scope-United Nations 12:15 ,Music with Reid Robertson 3:00 Music with Ian Allen 6:00 BBC African theatre 6:30 Music with Jim Waldram 9:00 Music with Bill Culp Midn. Mu,sic with Don Cruikshank Sunday Feb. 9 12:00 Belgian press review 12:15 ‘Classical music with Dave Villenueve 3:00 Classicat music with Ian MacMillan 5:30 Music and musiciansRadio Moscow 6:30 Music with Steve Favell , and Gord Wood 9:00 Music with Phil La Rocque Midn. Music with Vic Decker Monday Feb. 10 , Noon Soviet press review 12:15 Music with Paul Bennett 3:oo Rest of the News 3:15 Music with Mark Perrin 6:00 Community services-HELP 6:30 Musid with Donna Rogers 9:oo Canadian concertBuffy Saint Marie 9:30 Mellow music with Tim Paulin 12:oo The Mike DeVillaer midnight music show

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2:45 3:15 5:30 ’ 6:30 9:00

Doug Maynes Perspectives-UN Music with Jim Oswald , and Ian Wismer BBC science magazine Music with Roger Gartland Black writers’ conference (Part 1). Produced by Radio t&Gill Music with Al Wilson .This week at the pub “Toronto Revival Rock &

9:30 Midn.

Roll” Music with Dave Preston, & Jack Langer Music with Bill Chaiton

VJ/ednesday,Feb. 12 9:00 Music with Rick Armstrong 12:OO Thinking 12:15 Music with Ewan ’ Brocklehurst 3:00 Rest of the News 3:15 Music with Pam Newman 6:00 The world around usHorace Campbell on racism (Part 2) 6:30 Music with Dave Horn , and Steve LaGear 9:00 Guitar player magazine , 9:30 Music with Bruce Armstrong Midn. Music with Ian Layfield Thursday Noon 12:15 3:00

3:15

Feb. 13 Rest of the News Music with Neil Green & Joe Belliveau Revolutionary theory&PostAllende-part one-the Latin American impact Music with David

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Buckingham Regional governmentinterview with ,Herb Epp, mayor of Waterloo 6:30_ Music with Bob Valiant and Hans Zschach 9:00 Music with Ivan Zendel Midn. Music with Larry Starecky j 6:00

Friday Feb. 14 9:00 Music with Dean Purves Noon . BBC world report 12:15 Music with Tim Bowland 2:45 Agency for International Development 3:15 Music with Phil Rogers -6:00 The World Around UsJacques Roy talks about Angola ’ 6:30 Music with Peter Chant 9:00 The Mutant H&r wifh Bill Wharrie Midn. Music with Gord Swatters

N FLD fishers blast payments ST. JOHN’S (CUP)-Trawlermen of the Fishermeri Food and Allied Workers Union (NFFAWU) marched on Confederation Buiiding Jan. 22, demanding that a fundamental changes occur in the systern of payments.

The dispute between the NFFAWU and the fish companies con&us acceptance of the Harris conciliation board report. The Harris Report has recommended a guaranteed wage to trawlermen fol the amount of work done as opposed to the present coadventurer system of wages tied to fish caught. Premier Frank Moores addressed the crowd of 300 trawlermen and students by stating that he “wanted to change the system”. Richard Cashin, president of the ’ NFFAWU, reacted to Moore’s statemeqt saying, “that it is one thing for the politicians to speak to him this way in. private, but quite another to make such statements for all of Newfoundland to hear.” The trawlermen were supported by a very small group of Memorial students. Cashin addressed this group at the Students Centre Gym’ before the march with the trawlermen. All speakers who addressed the demonstration delivered sharp rhetoric in support of the trawlermen. Andy Wells, President of the New Democratic Party, pledged the support of his party for whatthe termed, “a very just case.” The Newfoundland Federation of Labour, the St. John’s District Labour Council, representatives of the Buchans Miners, the Council of the Students Union, and NFFAW-U members Spoke before the group. CSU vice president Len Penton pledged “100 per cent student support for the trawlermen’s cause.” Addressing the group, Cashin called Newfoundlanders, “a nation of Judas Is&riots” because of their tieatment of tie Newfoundland fishery. Leslie Harris, vice-president of academics and head of the concilia- L tion board report, was praised by Cashin, “as the first man who dared to challenge the system.” Ca$hin raised the issue of a_moral decision by urging “all Newfoundlanders to stand with us or against us, and to ask themselves how it is with their souls.” He also (stated that “if the province is to survive it must have an equitable fishing industry.”

Tires to heat university c I%e to the shortage of natural gas used for heating the university, UW president Burt Matthews is considering an offer of used automobile tires for fuel. The regional municipality of Waterloo has requested Matthews to examine ‘the$easibility of burning the 33,000 tires that Uniroyal and B.F. Goodrich reject each month. This strange twist of events occurred because Union Gas’announced last September that it would cut UW off from its supply \ of natural gas by 1976 or 1977. As of yet, Matthews has been unable to locate any feasible new fuel sources for the university. , The university couldbum oil, however. this would triple fuel bills to more than $1.2 million. At present, the region is spending $1,000 each month to get rid of the scrap tires from Kitchener’s two tire plants. The region’s sobution will be passed on by Matthews to the university task force-studying alternative forms of energy. . Apparently, the thousands of tires piling up in Kitchenerdumps are raising havoc among the dump bulldozer operators who say: “It’s like putting a bulldozer on top of a trampoline”. As a temporary solution to this particular problem Goodrich has offered to install a shredder to cut the ‘rubber into small bits for easier disposal. Certain regional officials have suggested the rubber be used as a part of highway asphalt or used as highway barriers. Neither rubber companies have shown any interests in recycling the rubber into other forms of synthetic material.‘They both claim it is too costly. The region has also offered the university the 300,000 tons of combustible material dumped each year. Gerry Thompson,-the regional waste management engineer, promised Matthews that the university can help itself to all the ‘region’s garbage it wants. The university task force studying khis and other proposed energy sources will report back in thenext few months concerning its findings. / -michael gordon

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SOMEWHERE IN THE BAHAMAS (ZNS-CUP)-Esquire magazine reports that a small group of American busdness tycoons is secretly organizing a “rebellion” on an island in the Bahamas in case of a major financial collapse crippling the U.S: economy. . __.’ Esquire says that a successful private revolution will be followed by the setting up of an independent capitalist natio’n - as an international haven for wealthy< Americans. The ‘name of the island where the rebellion is reportedly being financed is Abaco, a 700-square-mile island in the Bahaman chain. The man behind the scheme, the magazine says, is millionaire U.S. arms manufacturer. Mitchell Werbell. Werbell is reported to have gathered around him a number of wealthy Americans who are convinced that an economic collapseis imminent. As a result, Werbell and his partners are said to be indoctrinating the native inhabitants of Abaco into starting-a revolution and then declaring themselves an independent sovereignty. Werbell is said to be operating a secret training base in Georgia to instruct residents of Abaco on the arts of ’ guerrilla warfare and fomenting- revolution. \

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. control and sanitation. Opponents to the warehouse scheme regret the loss of store’atmosphere and personal contact with others, the increased number of people required to package _ goods, and possible distribution problems at the cell level. Members - in rural areas are at a serious disadvantage as /well. Proponents of the modified store circulated last week. I’ suggest that the,number of Apparently only the core mem-m storekeepers be increased in order bers and more active participants that they may weigh and price _ of the groupadvocate the imgoods which members select a%d plementation of the warehouse syspackage themselves. In this way, Y tern., “Basically the idea is that people’could “shop around” in a stock be packaged as it is purchstore atmosphere and theft could ased; that orders are collated at the be kept to a minimum. Longer cell level and distributed at the cell ,hours of operation would eliminate level. The cells would continue to . check-out confusion. The success function as work units and’the food of. this mode of ope@ion would . would be paid for by the cellsto the depend on the clerks’ integrity, and , warehouse as a unit.” Adherents to ’ may result in lesser contact of peo- _ this proposal refuse to considerany ple within the individual cells. i compromise, and a split of the coThe compromise solution would op into two distinct organizations is allow both warehouse and store achighly probable. _ qivities to operate out of the same The possible advantages of this co-op. Successful implementation \ system are: better co-operation at seems unlikely since the.advocates; I the cell level; more equitable disof e&h of theltwo propositions tribution of‘ the wo.rk load; instrongly disagree. creased efficiency; and better stock --Man amos

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imposed by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) on the University of Victoria (U Vic) when the school refused to renew the contracts of three professors, will probably be lifted this year. In a joint announcement Jan: 22 U Vic’s pew president Howard Petch and CAUT president Richard Spencer said that the basis for settlement of the dispute would be special trust fund to be established (by CAUT) “to assist those individuals whose academic careers may at the university in -have been damaged ” -during the controversy 7 1970’-71. S. J. Cuncliffe, chairman of the university board of governors said U Vic would contribute $12,400 to the fund. But he added “by this action, the university in no-way acknowledges any fault, but that it wishes to settle the long-standing dispute in the interests of all concerned.” He said he hopes this action will contribute to a better feeling among faculty, staff and students, and at the same time enable the U Vic Faculty Association to increase its membership, “and to play a more * effective role in the university.” Spencer-said that on behalf of CAUT he welcomes the contribution and that he, “will now recommend to the CAUT board and council that the censure-of the University of Victoria be lifted.” The next meeting of the CAUT Council will be heldlin May. The chairmanof CAUT’s academic freedom and teuure committee, professor JimStevens, and executive secretary Donald Savage, qlso. indicated their strong support for the recommendation. President Petch said that he had placed the matter high on his agendaof things to be done following his appointment and was pleased that a satisfactory solution to the censure was being achieved. The university, in consultation with its faculty association, has already taken steps to alter the procedures governing renewal and granting of tenure so that similar problems which led to the dispute cannot occur in the future. .

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the University of Toronto’s nonacademic women &s still under formulation, controversy over alleged acceptance and rejection of several of the report’s recommendat$on> rages within the committee. The Task Force to Examine the Status of Non-Academic Women, a six member committee set up last year to investigate, “sexist hiring/_ practices” and to make proposals, hopes to submit the report to Governing Council’s internal and business affairs committees by next month. Committee member Howard Levitt who initiated the .working report la3 year accused committee chairman Gary Thaler of largely ig- . noring and white-washing many of the recommendations Levitt made on the grounds they were too “controversial.” Levitt called Thaler an “obstructionist” who has “viciously attacked anything progressive” in the report and “has3one his best to demoralize the committee by making long delays” in decision making. The committee has rejected the establishment of an appeal mechanism for non-academic staff with both impartiality and decision making powers. . Levitt said another rejected proposal was “that all nonacademic employees make a list of the functions they perform on their jobs, that’ this -be cross checked with personnel job description forms and that the job be reclassified accordingly. ‘2 Levitt said too often university employees such as secretaries, per, form their jobs, “at a higher level” than they are actually be,ing paid. A third proposal Levitt said was rejected demanded. “the dropping of all information on’ first names, sex, age and marital status from personnel files in selecting applicants for job interviews.” Thaler countered that this proposal need not be included in the report because the personnel department was already acting on it. In response to the rejected-proposal “that 50 per cent of the university job interviewers be ‘female,” Thaler said, “there is a general feeling among committee members that quotas as quotas are not the best method” of attacking sexual discrimination in hiring practices. The committee supports another demand for “economically accessible” day care for non-academic staff, Levitt said, but added day care is still “prohibitively xxpensive for many.” II Levitt called the proposals endorsed by the committee as either “innocuous and irrelevant” or “so vague that if the university wants to circumvent them it will be veryeasy to do.” -

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-Gay women --meet/ -/ (FNS)-Over 200 women from Canada and the United States gathered in Montreal Jan. 24-25, at the national lesbian conference, to discuss issues of mutual concern and to identify the directions ‘a I that gay women are taking in society. Seminars were h&ld on such topics& “coming out”, “on the farm”, “dyke separatis-m”, “multiple relationships”, “self-defense”, and “a search for national direction”. At- times the seminars bogged down when women from-America carried on discussions of politics in relationship to the current government and. society-unaware that thereis quite a difference between Canada and America in these areas. .For instance, America’s system of “checks and balances” differs substantially from Canada’s “representative” parliamentary system. America’s larger size.fui-ther complicates the ease in which different political groups and social strata can take action to change their envi) . ronment. /Evident at the conference wasthe fact that not all lesbians are radical lesbians, monogamous or into stereotyped role situations. The diversity of women at the conference, especially in personal politics, was a positive point. During the discussion of “multiple--relationships” women shared their experiences in both multiple and monogamous relationships. It seemed rather evident that while some women had trouble maintaining one relationship, others had the same problems, magnified, maintaining two or more. Moreover, the joy and anguish inherent in relating to other people was something that all the women shared _ Some women had doubts about the success-of multiple relationships while others had doubts about the viability of monogamous relationships. These dbubts and feelings did-not pre,ventthe women from sharing their experiences and feelings-on the topic. Perhaps the most lively discussion was “dyke separatism”. ‘Disagreements arose on what forms separatism could take. For, instance, there is the ‘question on whether people have to be physically separate in order to-be separatist, or whether a combination of spiritual/political.separatism in an ongoing society such as ours is also “separatism”. Questions also arose on the reality of separatism (whether it is really possible or if,it could survive without being threatened by the macrocosmic society). The women that came to the workshop and presented their proseparatist views certainly sparked a great deal of thought in the other women present.The conference peaked at the Saturday night dance when a women’s feminist rock band performed. For most women it was the first time that they had seen such a band. Women, as a whole, have very little of their own culture so that the emergence of a female culture often causes initial shock and celebration in most women. The Saturday celebr8: tions left many women dazed and exhausted at such a’show of solidarity and spirit. The lesbian conference in Montreal was just another example of the growing movement of women supporting women that is occurring across the world.

OTTAWA (CUP)-The-president of the Carleton University Student’s Association may soon face possible impeachment thanks to a 300-name petition circulated on the campus by Doug Martin, as association representative for special students.~ The president, Jacqueline Lloyd-Davies questioned the legality of the petition callingfor the impeachment vote, saying that it should havebeen presented to the CUSA offes not to a student council meeting. Martin, however, says he will seek a court injunction if there is any unnecessary delay in the impeachment vote. ’ To date Martinh’as not made any statement outlining his reasons for . the recall motion although he said in an open letter in the campus newspaper that Lloyd-Davies was “the worst student president Carleton had ever had,” pointing to Lloyd-Davies’ attempt at the time, to hire her husband as Unicentre building manager. Martin has refused to comment on the charges but said he expects to issue a full report of the grievances against Lloyd-Davies in a “public paper”to be released sometime this week. _ Other members of the CUSA executive opposed the impeachment move because they felt it would do more harm than good to the organizat ion. A rash of resignations has left the council short staffed with LloydDavies both doing the duties of president and overseeing finances. Jim Wright, CUSA services commissioner, and the person who received official signing power as acting finance commissioner in light of former finance commissioner Thorn R-oberts’ resianation last week, said he thought the removal of Lloyd-Davies would- mean that an “incredible void” would open betw.een students and the, administration. He saidstudents would be without any elected student leadership whatsoever.

A representative of Aliqe Magazine, the largest Canadian literary publication , called for the establishment of a progressive cultural club at UW when they spoke to a student-faculty group here Jan. 30, Don‘MacLean, in an address entitled “Revolutionary Culture is a -A Practical Struggle”, pointed out-that Alive feels that conditions are ’ suitable for actual organizations being formed in the cultural superstructure all over southern Ontario. Alive is now calling for the formation of distribution/editorialcollectivesin the cities-and the formation of progressive cultural clubs on the campuses.” It is not the position of Alive that: “Cultural work, by itself, will be the actual method of overthrowing ’ the capitalist system. That actual work is done by the proletariat #under the leadership of the communist party. In Canada that lead-. ership, the communist party, is the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)“, MacLean .said.

North Carolina (FNS)_Joann Little, a black woman serving a 7 to ten-year sentence for breaking, entering and larceny is being held in North Carolina Correctional Centre for women on a one hundred thousand dollar bond for the murder of a jailer in--the Beaufort County Jail. Joann was serving her sentence in Beaufort in a cell block where she was the only prisoner for the majority of three months; Her linen was changed once in the 81 days that she was confined and the facilities of the jail were described as ‘filthy’,. In order to obtain some privacy from the guards Joann hung sheets across the bars of her cell. After doing this she was told that she was only allsewed one sheet for her use. On Aug. 27, 1974, a jailer, Clarence Alligood was found dead in Joann’s cell. He had. been stabbed with an ice-pi&that the jailers kept in their desk drawers. He was

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found, naked from the waist down with his left arm under his body clutching his pants. A stream of what appeared to be seminal fluid extended from his penis to. his -thigh. Joann turned herself in, after avoiding the Beaufort County officials for a week, to the State Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh, North Carolina. She stated that she stayed- at large in order to keep away from the Beaufort-County officials since she didn’t think she had much of a chance of being able to tell anyone what had really happened if she had been in their \ ihands. \ A bond of one hundred thousand dollars has been set on this woman. A defense fund has been started for her by Karen Galloway and Jerry Paul, 202 Rigsbee Av., Durham, N. Carolina. Hopefully, Joann will finally be able to obtain some justice from the American courts.

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MacLeflan spoke of -how. the Canadian people don’t .“ have ac:-cess to concrete-examples of their own culture inany substantial fashion” since cultural expression truly reflective of the Canadian people militates against the interests of the ruling monopoly capitalist class. Since the ruling class will do anything to protect its own interests and the imperialist interests of’the super-powers, publications such as Alive which seek to make contributions to overthrowing capitalism, are faced with great difficulties, he said. . M&Lean and Ed Pickersgill, w also a member ‘of the collective, talked about the history and strug\gles of Alive. The first issue was published in 1969 and since then the magazine has grappled success: fully with production and distribution problems. It took persistent and patient work to establish a network of bookshop outlets and direct street and campus sales to reach the current readership of approximately 5,000. /For selling the magazine, A1iv.e members have actually served jail -sentences. In Kitchener, two members sentenced for jail terms have not yet served time for their convictions. But as MacLeansaid, “this is a very clear cut example of fascism in its developing stages. For example, any time there is actual disruption of the capitalist system by the Canadian working class and progressive people, all those who have petty jail sentences outstanding can be picked up and removed from their: positions in influence.” --The imperative to jail- people who distribute a progressive literary’magazine stems from the fact that “the monopoly capitalists and the two superpowers have developed a cultural s.uperstructure which reflects and maintains their interests”, MacLean said. V s “Intellectuals are deliberately trained to be abstract, to be unconnected with the struggles of the real world. When they violate their training by making real contributions to revolutionary practice, the state will not hesitate in moving against them. Alive’s experience is testimony of this fact.” But despite the efforts of the state, Alive magazine is growing and flourishing. It continues to make contributions on the cultural front and to encourage that its history be examined by all progressive cultural workers, he said. ’ After the speech and the ensuing discussion, students came forward to express their interests in establishing a progre\ssive cultural club. -marlene

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i ,\ R ece by James Laxer Finance mi&er John Tut-he& recent budget faces away from the problem of inflation tg come to terms with the fast emerging problem of recession. The budget hands out a few crumbs-to the average Canadian in the form of a small income tax break. Turner ‘claims this tax break should ease wage demands in the huge number of contract renewals that * come up in 1975. HoweGer, the real thrust of the budget is not to put money into the hands of consumers, but to hand it over to investors. The budget indefinitely extended the program of “fast write-offs” on machinery and equipment for manufacturing. It gave . the oil companies a 100 per cent write-off on exploration costs. It removed federal sales taxes on transportation and construction equipment and reduced sales taxes on construction materials. In addition to these develbpments for big -

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invest more in exploration, the 100 per cent write-off of exploration expenses should leave them paying token federal taxes @ any case. ) Aside from the time honoured practice of rewarding your friends (which the budget does in spades), Turner’s measures are based on a theory about how to avoid recession in Canada. The theory is that if sufficient capital is placed in the hands otV investors they will place it in profitable ventures and will keep the econom’y clear of recession. .

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While it’s true that a downturn in capital I investment is the classic first sign of reties- sion, the Turner formula doesn’t take account of the nature of the worldwide recession that is the fact o_f life for Canada’s economy. The -recession -that is currently hitting most west&n countries is a classic crisis of

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commodity shortage bottlenecks in a number of fields. Significantly, the demand for steel in the U.S. was down 15 per cent in September as compared with the previous month. Part of the reason for the apparent suddenness of the recession was the falsification of statistics by the former Nixon administration. One of the key indicators of a softening economy is rising inventories of unsold goods in the hands of,business. For the first quarter of 1974 the U.S. Commerce Department originally estimated inventories at $5.5 billion. The Commerce Department later revised its estimate upwards to an unbelievable $16.9 billion,’ a figure that meant a, disastrous crisis of over,ploduction had been disguised in the first estimate.

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Not surprisingly, the leading edge of the current U.S. recession is the plunge in the . sales of new cars. The American auto industry is experiencing its worst sales slump since the depre& sion of the thirties, Sales of 1975 model cars are down sharljly by 35 per cent compared with the , same period last year. And last year’s sales performance was already poor. In 1973 the American automakers sold 11.8 million cars in the United States; 1974 models sold 9.7 million; at the present rate of sales, 1975 models will retail only 7.9 million. Arid it is the auto workers who pay the ’ price for lower sales. By the end of November, the car makers . had over 200,000 U.S. autoworkers OQ layoff (out of a total workforce of about 750,000) * ’ While all three of the giant auto producers were hit with heavy layoffs;~ Chrysler took the unprecented step of closing all but two of its American plants for the month of December, laying off a majority of its pro, ductipn workers. The crash in .auto sales has led to depression level unemployment in auto producing centres in the United States.

. Shock waves

Because the auto industry accounts for 15 to 20 per cent of the gross national product in the U.S., the slump in auto sales transmits shock waves to other industries, such as glass, rubber, textiles, plastics and steel. It is noteworthy that a 28 per cent decline in auto manufacturers’ purchases of steel have contributed to the softening of steel demand in the America.n economy. Canada’s problem in confronting reces- , sion is that its economy is controlled by the United States. American corporations dominate Canadian manufacturing and resource industries. Branch plant corpora: tions get their way more often than not in pressing for economic policies to their liking from the-federal and provincial govern’ ments. Now that the U.S. economy is in trouble in its dealings with other industrial countries, Washington hasbeen stepping up th& pressure on Canada to conform to American economic priorities. -

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business, the budget contained some good news for smaller investors as well. Well-off individuals will once-again be granted a real estate tax shelter which allows them to make tax free investments up to $1,000 on’ construction. Also, the wealthy will ‘pay no capital gains tax on the first $1,000 income on investments from Canadian sources. Not everything in the budget was to the liking of business. The IO per cent surtax on profits and the measure which stops the bil companies frorh deducting provincial royalty payments from their Corporation taxes were not appealing to business. But with both of these clouds came a silver lining. The long list of exemptiqns from the IO per cent surtax nullifies’ iss effect con&derably-it doesn’t apply to manufacturing and processing profits, petroleum or mining profits, Canadian-controlled private companies eligible xfor the small-business deduction, mortgage investment, mutual fund or non-resident-owngd investment corporations, or to the investment income of private corporations. And ceasing to recognize oil cdmpany payments to p^rovincial governments as deductible from federal tax will not be onerous for compan‘ies that reinvest their earnings in new exploration. Since the oil companies all claim to be champing at the bit to

overproduction. Industrial capacity throughout the western world now outstrips the available market and the result is a downturn in capital investments. Most western countries are now experiencing rising unemployment, plant shutdowns and #idle productive capacity. Business Week magazine sumnied up the course of recession as follows: “The list of dasualties around the globe is large, as the long shadow of recession stretches into the industrial nations, leaving bankruptcies, rising prices, falljng sales and layoffs., Worst hit are construction, autos, textiles,_and consumer electronics.” For Canada, it is the U.S. recession, now spreading north to us, that is of greatest concern. Output in the American economy has declined for three consecutive quarters, and the first time this has happened since the recession of 1960-61. In October, American unemployment reached six per cent. In September, manufacturers’ orders were down by over three billion dollars from the previous month and U.S. industry was operating at drily 81 per cent of capacity as compared with 87 per cent for the same month in 1973. ’ The slump -in the entire American economy was reflected in-the clearitig of

ment by the’corporations leads to an inability of people to’ buy all the goods that are being produced. Production workers are ’ being paid less for their labour than the value of the products they produce. NO worker is paid enough to buy back the equiyalent of the products of his labour. Corporations keep. the difference between the ‘amount paid to workers in wages, and the sale price of the products. . Unless corporations reinvest this surplus in hiring people to carry out plant expansions or to build new machinery, and pay out more wages by doipg this, the.population as a whole will not have enough purchasing power to buy the goods that are produced. As so00 as corporatiodns stop their capital investments, recession is the inevitable result.. When consumers are faced with falling incomes because of unemployment ox inflatio’n, they stop buying big items first -items like cars, refrigerators, or air conditioners. The market for these durable goods products shrinks quickly as recession develops. The decline in sales’bf durable goods leads-to further, unemployment and to further restrictio’ns on consutier spending. This leads to more layoffs, and so on. The cycle of recession deepens.

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The US. has pressed ahead with two overriding economic objectives: security of access to Canadian resources and guaranteed dominance of the Canadian market for American manufactured goods. - Since Canada’s trade with the U.S. is nearly equivalent to American trade with Japan, West Germany, France and Britain combined, the need for tEe U.S. to impose its economic program on Canada is pressing. Canada is the only majot supplier of ra’w materials amd semi-fabricated products to the U.S. that is also a majo{ consumer market for American manufactured goods. American pressure for access to Canadian resources has been matched by an equal pressure on Canada to increase its imports , of U.S. manufactured goods. As the U.S. recession worsens, American policies are further undermining the , position of Canadiarr manufacturing industries. In 1973 Canada’s deficit in its trade in . / manufactured goods amounted to $5.6 bill- -ion. So far this year, the deficit has been _ running at the staggering annual rate of $9 . billion. Canada’S. huge manufacturing deficit taken together with our huge export of resources means that more and mot-g we are specializing in selling resources and buying back the finished products. The result of this is the location of several hundred thousand jobs in the U.S. based on the supplying of the Canadian market. These jobs would be located in Canada were it not for the trade deficit. So far the recession is more severe in the U.S. than in Canada. The American unemployment rate in October was six per cent compared with a rate of 5.3 per cent for Canada. -r&rinted

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The;\cry of doom from \ I / Canadian, book pub .

by Michael Gordon Canadian publishers are demanding more governmental regulation of their industry due to surging foreign penetration of this sector. Canadian authored books as a percentage of publishers’ sales declined from 38 per cent of the market in 1966 to just 17 per cent last year. Although Canadian titles made up to 50 per cent of the national bestsellers lists compiled in 1974 by the Toronto Star, these titles are increasingly being published by American publishers. The largest sector of the total book market is texts for classroom use in schools across Canada. Global sales were $87 million in 1973, 30 per cent of the market. In this area, books by Canadians made up only 32 per cent of sales, while 68 per cent were authored by foreigners. Even more appalling is the percentage of school books printed by Canadian publishing houses. Last year less than 3 per cent of school texts were published by Canadian publishing houses. Recently Ontario ’ schools have cutback book expenditures. Although education spending since 1966 has doubled, book expenditures have dropped by 1.6 per cent. Publishers de- 1 scribe the situation as “a catastrophe for companies dependent on the sale of original Canadian educational materials” but set-back for foreign only “a temporary firms with a strong list of imported educational books to sell”. So in order to fight the mounting trend, Canadian publishers want provincial and federal governments to underwrite the massive costs of developing Canadian textbook and learning materials through low interest loans. University and other school libraries spend. ‘only 3 per cent of their funds on Canadian authored and published books. UW librarian Murray Sheppherd admitted to the chevron that the majority of UW library book expenditures go to foreign owned publishing houses. Public libraries spend a mere 8 per cent on Canadian published books. University bookstores across the nation spend 10 per cent of their annual $29 million budget on Canadian books. Meanwhile, in retail bookstores, Canadian books made up 20 per cent of their sales. However, Canadian books occupy a much smaller percentage of book store shelves, according to publishers. Therefore;Canadian publishers have asked federal governments to regulate book retailing so as to increase the Canadian content of book store shelves.

Canadian paperbacks negligible Of greater concern to Canadian publishers is the extent to which American publishers have cornered the highly profitable paperback market. Canadians annually spend $23 million on paperbacks, although Canadian books account for a negligible 2 per cent of this market. In #Canada paperbacks are supplied by national distributors to local wholesalers and large retailers. Of the 14 national distributors, 12 are foreign owned and foreign based. The system is designed and geared to the gigantic American market. Only two of the national distributors even bother to list Canadian titles: Bantam Books and New American Library. At bestBantam and New American Library plan to distri-, bute only 4 per cent Canadian content among their American titles. The remainder of the titles list consists of the latest bestsellers in the United States. Canadian publishers are demanding that the federal secretary of state Hugh Faulkner introduce legislation to regulate mass market paperback distributors and wholesalers to increase the percentage of Canadian titles. However, Faulkner told a conference of publishers at Trent University last .tinth that he could not meet their

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Federal programmes administered and introduced by secretary of state Gerard Pelletier in 1971 gave grants to publishers to finance the application of new titles through the Canada Council. Since then Canada Council has given publishers about $500,000. The Ontario Arts Council provided an additional $200,000 to Ontario based Canadian-owned publishers. However, compared to the $15 million in sales of Canadian books by Canadian-owned publishers in 1973, these grants can make only a marginal impact on the over-all situation faced by publishers. Publishers feel “only the Ontario loan programme has had a major effect on publishers, and this has been to enable a few firms to grow somewhat.” William Clarke, president of the Canadian-owned Clarke, Irwin Company comments: “Mr. Faulkner seems to have missed the point. Canadian-owned publishers are not suggesting that Ottawa should kick out the branch plants, even though it rankles us to know they are in a better position to compete for this country’s business than we are. We are merely saying that the Canadian sector of the industry is dwindling and that governments can help by giving us a market, for example the textbook market”. i

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demands and would not touch such legislation. “Such controls are under provincial jurisdiction’ ’ , Faulkner told the conference. However, Queen’s Park has made no move to implement such legislation.

The book club . trade Another lucrative field for profit minded Canadian book publishers is the $23 million a year book club trade. In a sparsely inhabited country such as Canada where good bookstores are still few and far between, book clubs can serve as an effective distribution medium. Each month book club members are given a list of titles from which they chose a selection of books. At best, book clubs offer a title list of 85 per cent foreign books and only 15 per cent Canadian books. The three largest book clubs are all American-owned, Book-of-the-Month Club, Readers’ Digest and the Doubleday Book clubs. Titles are all selected in their New York head offices. They receive recommendations from several “literary experts” such as Mordecai Richler and then proceed to add any Canadian titles there are room for. Publishers have suggested the federal government offer special lower postal rates for Canadian owned book clubs. They feel “this measure would substantially increase ’ the Canadian content of all book clubs, and along with other ‘government measures could lead to the ‘creation of new Canadian-owned clubs”-. To further combat the growing American domination of Canada’s book publishing industry the people who write, publish and sell the country’s books have formed a ’ common front called the Book and Periodical Development Council to press for alternatives to what was described “an extremely disappointing” publishing policy outlined at the Trent conference by Faulkner. Toronto publisher James Lorimer, president of the Independant Publishers

Association, said “The new development council will exert pressure on federal and provincial governments to increase the presence of Canadian authors in the book club field, strengthen the privately owned Canadian book store network, stem the inflow of low priced foreign e.ditions of works by Canadian authors and encourage libraries and schools to buy more Canadian books”. In addition the new group will urge Ottawa to establish a loan programme to help financially distressed Canadian book publishers.

A public ’ outcry

Government funds began subsidizing the book publishing in Canada in mid-1970 as a result of the sale of Canadian-owned W. J. Gage to American owned Scott Foresman. Later, in December Ryerson Press, the oldest Canadian-owned publisher was sold to McGraw Hill. A public outcry and an upcoming election awakened Ontario,and federal politicians to the trend of increasing U.S. participation in educational publishing through new branch plants and takeovers which had been in process since the 1950%. Queen’s Park launched the single most important initiative by providing Canadian-owned publishers with low interest capital loans. The programme was too late ;to save W.J. Gage or Ryerson Press, however the smaller but well-known McClelland and Stewart publishing company was up for sale and only American firms were bidding. However, the firm was kept in Canadian hands by a $1 million loan from the Ontario government. To date, more than $3 million in loan funds have been made available to Ontario publishers by the Queen’s Park programme. The funds have been used to make it possible for two of the larger Canadian’ publishers to continue operating, in addition to supporting the expansion of some of . the smaller publishers.

But talk of giving the publishing industry money to produce texts raises groans at Queens Park where politicans already feel education budgets have grown too large and its now time to cutback. Also, textbooks were at one time standardized across the province. At that time such a proposal would be feasible, however now schoolsselect from a much larger choice of texts. “The publishers don’t seem to grasp the fact that a return to stimulation payments would interfere with the governments policy of granting school boards more autonomy in their selection of textbooks” says Clarke Mecredy, of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, who has been meeting with the book publishers. “And would the Canadian publishers really meet the challenge if the grants were revived?” asks Phillip McAllister of the Ministry of Education, who has worked closely with publishers as a member of the province’s curriculum branch. “We have asked Canadian houses for special materials before, but it has often been the subsidiaries that have come up with what we wanted. We once tried to get the Canadian owned Gage company to develop a Canadian reading series to replace the Dick and Jane books. You know who finally did it? The American-owned Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Meanwhile, federal government officials have leaked an upcoming Statistics Canada report on Canadian book sales which paints an even more dismal picture than the aforementioned statistics. The question at hand is whether any amount of government first aid can save Canada from complete American media domination. It appears Canada’s lucrative textbook industry may have escaped the grip of Canadian publishers permanently. Mass market paperbacks, the most vital sector of publishing are hopelessly under American domination. No amount of legislation and regulation can save us from the realities of continentalist economics, unless the government bans the sale of American books in Canada or takeover the publishing business. Canadian publishers readily admit they cannot compete with Ame~ricans without heavy government subsidies. Capital is available in greater amounts to American publishers than to Canadian and it is the nature of the present economic system that those with the most capital are those who survive. So bid farewell to the Canadian publishing industry as Canadian publishers bow to New York.

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, by Bob Gauthier (adapted by CUP) The Canadian government handles contracts for war products to be sold abroad worth more than $250 million each year. The companies involved and the government attempt to avoid controversy by saying they do not know where the products are going ultimately. The companies also claim their products are harmless by themselves. But an individual product or research on a particular defence application product may be important in the conduct of military activities. And this leads to the question of whether goods that might be considered innocent by’themselves implicate the manufacturer and the government when they become strategically important. It’s a problem all but ignored by the government policy makers and the corporation executives. What’s . important to them is maintaining productivity, the profit margin, and power-nota chance to choose between defence-related and civilian-related products. The relevance of the question is increased by the fact that the Canadian government is aiding the sale of ~ these products to the Pentagon-products which may have ended up in Vietnam or another war zone of Southeast Asia. Government assistance is provided through the industry, trade commerce department and through the Canadian Commercial Corporation,. a Crown corporation. The corpqration was established to develop an arms export industry in Canada. During the most intense period of the Vietnam war it filled contracts worth almost $500 million. Unfortunately, documents available are only of the restricted and confidential nature. There are also government classifications for defence products labelled “secret” and “top secret”. Little is known about these classifications, how much money they involve, and who fills the contracts for the Pentagon. -- Dofasco is one of the firms selling to the U.S. military. United States government documents that are public information in that country, but confidential information in Canada, show that Dofasco had sales totalling about $40,000 from 1971-I 972. Company sales-included steel sheet carbon and steel plate carbon, as well as steel sheets and steel bars. And, although these products may be harmless by themselves, when coupled with other materials they could have a significant impact on the U.S. military’s plans. No company spokesman, however, would say where the final destination of the products were or-what they were being used for. Bob Brechin, the head of foreign exports at Dofasco’s Hamilton plant said the company “supplies to the Canadian Commercial Corporation.” He said that Canadian companies aren’t competitive with companies producing in the U.S. for what he, termed as “offshore< defence.” The Canadian company, can send products to the U.S., he said, but there’s a 50 percent penalty for competing offshore, such as in Vietnam. “Take Vietnam,” he said. “I think you’d find very little involvement there by Canadian companies-if any at all-because of the 50 per cent penalty.” However, Brechin did not rule out the possibility that products sent to the U.S. military in that country may be transshipped to Vietnam. Noranda Metal Industries Ltd. is another company selling products to the Pentagon. However, in this case the military applications of-the product are more direct. For 1971 and 1972 Noranda Metal Industries sold about $260,000 worth of products to the Pentagon. Of that total $210,729 was collected by Noranda for “brass discs 105 millimetre cartridge cases for Ml 4 rifles.” And the Ml 4 was used extensively in Vietnam. Dave Stanyon, assistant to Noranda’s U.S. sales manager Jim Horler said that “the company does a lot of business with the department of supply and services (Canadian Commercial Corp.) We supply condensor tubing f,or ship applications and brass discs for making shel!s.” Stanyon said that as far as he knew the military products were shipped to Utah and Tennessee. He also said that “as a general rule the company doesn’t require knowledge of the final destination of the product. We usually take the attitude that that’s their business.” Lb _

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Project Anti-War, a Montreal based research group, found that 237 companies located in Canada received contracts from the Pentagon between -1967 and 1972. And the majority of firms are either U.S. controlled or owned. Myron Galan, a member of the Project Anti-War group, said that for years “Canadian industry argued that they simply soldthe goods to the Pentagon and took no responsibility for how they were used. The Canadian government.assured Canadians that, as far as it knew, military material sold to the Pentagon was not used in the Indochina conflict.” However, last June the Project AntcWar people produced documents that contradicted the statements of both Canadian government and industry.

Galan said that “documents from the Canadian and American governments and private industry indicate that the ultimate destination of products manufactured in Canada for the Pentagon is clearly known by both the Canadian government and the companies fulfilling the contracts. The ultimate destination has in many cases been South Vietnam.” But Galan says that according to the group’s research, no export permits have been granted to countries in the Indochina war zone. “The question then arises of how these products get to Vietnam.” Documents provided to Project Anti-War illustrate the pattern. In a department of industry, trade and commerce letter dated February 27, 1973, Rackow, head of the production and deuelopment branch of the U.S. division of the Defence Programs Branch, apologizes to Wire Rope Industries of Canada for the inconvenience of Canadian, export laws. Tk letter says: “For several yearsthis problem has been recognized and the U.S. Defence Department has instructed its procurement officers that Canadian firms must not be asked to make such shipments. Alternative shipping instructions are available from the Defence Administrative Service Office (DCASO) in Ottawa. “Should your company be asked to respond to such a solicitation please advise this office and we will endeavour to- have the consignment point changed.“, Project Anti-War also obtained documents indicating that Wire Rope Industries had shipped steel chains and wire ropes to various bases in Vietnam via Plattsburg and Delaware. Galan said that “sources in the U.S. Department of Defence have indicated that this is the normal procedure for other companies as well.” He says the implications of-the letter to Wire Rope Industries, dated one month after the signing of the Paris Agreements to which Canada is a signatory, clearly violates the spirit of these accords. “The Canadian government has been an active participant in the Vietnam War, and must share the responsibility of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people,” he said. “The government has consistently deceived the people and this deception has had a twofold purpose: to support the American government in its pursuit of the domination of Indochina and to facilitate the accumulation of profits by Canadian war-related industries-profits at the expense of human life.”

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Two thick catalogues crammed with military products form a central part of an extensive federal government effort to sell material to foreign governments. Our federal government has helped Canadianbased firms sell about $4.5 billion in military equipment since 1959, and as recently as 1970 Canada was the fifth largest supplier of military equipment in the world. Most of the sale-s have been to the U.S. under a series of defence production sharing agreements which have been economically profitable to Canada in the past but may prove expensive in the future. This country still remains one of the top producers of war material, due mainly to the large number of American subsidiaries manufacturing defence. products. here. No country produces more war material per capita than Canada. The government’s sales have also caused some conflict of interest problems for would-be Canadian peacekeepers.

Government departments involved One of the two government catalogues, Canadian Defence Commodities (directed exclusively at the U.S. market), consists of a section on more than 800 companies complete with addresses and sales contacts. ’ Other sections include listings of products available under various headings such as “launchers, rocket”, with the supplier listed beneath the name; a section of the services a company is capable of performing if requested and a section-on products, com,plete with photographs. Eleven Canadian sales representatives located in the U.S. are available for consultation and further information, one section States. They include consuls, trade commissioners, and “Canadian Liaison Officers” residing at various U.S. military bases. And if the federal government runs into legal snags in exporting a firm’s product it directs companies to other agencies where they can find outlets for their goods. The industry, trade and commerce department also is responsible for the International Defence Programs Branch which acts as an overseas sales and marketing agency for the- companies producing military equipment. Officers of the department stationed overseas work closely with the marketing and purchasing branches of the department and with the supply and -services department. And supply and services is responsible for the Canadian Commercial Corporation, the contracting agency between foreign governments that want to

purchase defence commodities and companies in Canada. The corporation receives requests on price and product availability from foreign governments, .I .I screens rnem rnrough the Export Contracts Branch of

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ments help out. These include industry, tra_de- and commerce, national defence and the treasury board, -which supply free management and support staff services. In the fiscal year 1972-1973, these administrative services cost the Canadian taxpayer more than $5.5 million. Canadian firms are perfectly free within Canadian export policy to sell directly to foreign gover-ents with whatever assistance the Corporation can provide. Statistically, the corporation’s 1972-73 annual report states that it received about 11,000 enquiries that year. It was awarded more than 5,200 contracts valued at $237.6 million by foreign governments, international agencies and the Canadian government.

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ues tenders to Canadian submitted to the foreign val or rejection. is is -r_esponsible for the n, various other depart-

Not so anymore. The U.S. faced with a balance of payments problem, is collecting its IOUs. Also the legal basis for the defence production cooperation is a “little unusual” says Robert Redford of the Institute of International Affairs in Toronto. He says that the documents establishing the program negotiated by the Diefenbaker government have never been made public, and they only took the form of an exchange of letters. “A more normal procedure,” he says, “might have been the exchange of diplomatic notes.” And there is no known time limit for the agreements. Only the word “indefinitely” is used in connexion with the memorandum of understanding of November 21, 1963. Redford- concludes that “at the time Canada entered into the defence production sharing program no one anticipated Vietnam. Perhaps it was a blind spot.” - But when in 1954 there was a chance that the U.S. might become involved in a war with the People’s Republic of China the Canadian government felt so strongly about this that it publicly disassociated itself jrom American policy. In the light of Vietnam in particular, the present policy is perhaps due for review and reappraisal, Redford suggests.

sharing agreements (1959-l 967) Canadian government and industry and the U.S. government spent a combined total of $298,776,867 on 306 projects being developed. Project Anti-War has documents that show that the University of Toronto received by far the largest grants in Canada for “basic scientific research” in the nonprofit institution category between 1967 and 1971. McGill University was a distant second. At the height of the Vietnam War in 1967 this university received $164,778 for defence research. Comparable figures for 1968-71 were $131,202, $101,702, $77,027 and $45,658 respectively. As the war wound down, so did the grant money. Project Anti-War also found that between 1967 and 1971 the department of industry, trade and commerce awarded a total of $458,643,906 to 154 companies located in Canada under the various research programs.

-The U.S. government was the largest single cusNDP the only critic ,, _tomer with contracts worth more than $110 million. So far there has been little criticism of the (The U.S. government was able to do further business government’s defence production grants program. Ed directly with the Canadian-based companies, but’no Broadbent, now NDP house leader, first raised the figures have been published.) question in the House of Commons in a speech in Major purchases through the corporation included March, 1969. The press all but ignored his comments. aircraft-engines, spare parts and overhauls ($30 millThe government’s research and development progion), ammunition hardware and material ($8 million), Taxpayers’ money for rams were “contributing to the establishment in communications equipment and maintenance ($41 Canada of a permanent industry based on warfare or million), sonar units ($3 million) and miscellaneous defence research defence, something entirely new in Canadian history items valued at $28 million. The Canadian government is also-spending heavily as a permanent establishment,” said Broadbent. All defence products, except those going to the’U.S. on defence research programs, with most of the His remarks recalled comments made by former require an export licence. And more than 80 per cent of money goinG to firmk controlled by U.S. interests. In prime minister Lester Pearson in a London speech in Canada’s yearly sales have gone to the U.S. under fact, the federal government annually allocates more terms of a series of agreements dating back to the - than 50 per cent of its research grant money tosupport 1968. Pearson said then: “The men who control these (defence) industries often wieid political and economic Second World War-. the development of military products. Under these agreements, the defence production of power to resist change even more effectively than men This year one defence research program alone will in uniform. When they are also allied with those men in the U.S. and Canada has become so integrated that cost the government more than $50 million. At least Canada has lost its autonomy in defence matters. uniform, you have a real threat to civilian supremacy four other programs provide assistance for defence In The War Business, a book published in 1969 and international progress.” research. about the international trade in armaments, George Ironically, the defence research program was exThe University of Toronto and Noranda Metal IndusThayer, an Americah political journalist, writes: panded under Pearson’s Liberal gover,nment in 1963. tries have received government research money for “Canadian arms salesmen, whether governmental or In his ‘t969 speech Broadbent mentioned a study contracts involving the U.S. Pentagon, according to private, are limited by the same structur_es applicable conducted by Carleton University professor N.H. Lithone government spokesman. ~ to U.S. arms salesmen. They operate in effect, as an wick that pointed out that over 50 per cent of federal Unaware he was talking to a reporter, the spokesarm of the (U.S. installations and logistics) office befunds going into research and development are used man said that all Canadian defence production and cause virtually all the weapons exported from the for military purposes. research is done in full cooperation with the DepartDominion are U.S. products manufactured under li“If profits from war industries are greater than those ment of Defence in Washington. “But we don’t like to cence.” derived from production for peace,’ are industrialists make this public,” he said. The sharing of defence production which existed likely to choose the latter?” Broadbent asked. “When the press gets after us about our defence during the Second World War was strengthened in But the government insists that the defence reproduction contracts we just yell ‘So you want \to close 1950 when only Canada was exempt from the U.S. search production program leads to technological down a plant and put people out of work, eh?” he Buy-Ali-erican A@. This meant that Canadian-based “spin-off” into the civilian sector, as well as providing laughed. firms did not have to pay the six to 12 per cent tariff that jobs for the Canadian people. But defence production research in the last 15 years covered a wide range of military commodities entering Arguments of this nature are contradicted, howhas be&me an extremely costly method of furthering the U.S. And U.S. duties of 12 to 17 per cent on ever, by critics such as Dr. Gordon Rosenbluth, an Canadian technological development. Canadian goods fiiling subcontracts from U.S. firms economics professor at the University of British ColFour federal government departments involved in also were removed. umbia. defence production programs are national defence, In addition, the 1950 agreemeni established a free In his book, The Canadian Economy and Disarmathe treasury board, industry, trade and commerce, and exchange of technical knowledge and productive skillsment (1969), Rosenbluth says: “The benefits of supply and services (through the Canadian Commerand “as it becomes necessary, co-ordinated controls civilian technology from the spillover of defence recial Corporation.) over the distribution of scarce raw materials and supsearch and development areslight... If the labour and Within industry, trade and commerce, the Defence plies.” resources now used in defence research and deIndustry Productivity program (DIP) is the largest inBut the agreement remained relatively inactive until velopment were used in civilian work, danada would dustrial incentive program. The DIP program is dethe 1959 failure of the Avro Arrow intercepter aircraft be in better technical shape.” signed to provide Canadian-based manufacturers program. The Diefenbaker government then decided He then offers detailed alternatives to defence with assistance from the research to marketing stages that mutual defence production was cheaper and spending and outlines government policies that could of product development. would benefit Canadian industry in the long run. prepare Canada for disarmament. Rosenbluth conAtid companies located in Canada even allow U.S. - The prime purpose of the 1959 agreement, howcludes: “The economic consequences of disarmamilitary personnel to use their facilities~ for product ever, was economic-the preservation bf asviable dement can be viewed entirely as opportunities rather ‘_ development. “The key to success in international fence industry in Canada. than as problems. The services of resources and markets is the closest possible working arrangement On July 28, 1960 U.S. Defence Secretary Thomas labour valued at about $1.5 billion per year (more in between government and industry,” explains a govGates issued a new defence department directive out1974) can be freed for uses that will benefit the welernment booklet outlining the DIP program. lining a “policy of maximum production and developfare, health and education of the community, raise the .And to assist industry the department of industry, ment program integrations in support of closely integtechnological “progress, and enable us to contribute trade _and commerce works with the International rated military planning between the U.S. and more to the development of less fortunate areas.” Program Branch’s many overseas marketing repCanada.” Finally; after some debate in the House concerning resentatives to determine the type of product needed The last step in the series of agreements was made the federal government defence production assisto be developed. These representatives “maintain a when the Pearson government in 1963 extended the tance programs, a policy review was prdduced in close liaison with the military services and their proagreements to areas of research and development. .1970. The task force de&ded to recommend that the curement agencies a_s well as with government deIn an article published this year in the book Contiprograms be continued or in some cases expanded, fence industrial contractors,” the government booklet nental Community, John J. Kit-ton wrote about some of but offered no rationale for its suggestions. states. the hazards of the defence production sharing agreeThe report concluded ihat there-should be no The DIP program, for example, cost the government ments. He said that Canada has had fdpay a political change in the DIR program and that it should be $48,324,792 in fiscal year 1972-73, and cost in terms of this country’s attempts to promote a amended “to provide a higher than 50 per cent share $23,495,340 f rom April to October, 1973. non-military solution to the Vietnam war because of of the cost when appi-opriate to the risks and the .the U.S.-Canada agreements. needs.” Diversity of government gifts As a member of the International Control CommisIRAP was amended “to provide support for existing sion Canada did not violate the letter of the law of the The federal government also operates other deas well as new industrial research teams and to extend I Geneva Accords by transshipping goods through the fence production support programs through the dethe time for support beyond five years where appropUnited States. But the government did violate the spirit partment of industry, trade and commerce. riate.” of the accords by saying it didn’t-matter where the Four of the better-known programs are: The ProgPAiT was amended “to provide financial assistance products went after they left Canada. ram for the Advancement of Industrial Technology in the form of grants rathsr than loans and to provide A diplomatic,note from the North Vietnamese gov(PAIT), the industrial Research and Development Innon-capital pre-production costs in addition to deernment in February, 1967 protesting these sales to centives Act (I RDIA);- the Defence Industrial Research , velopment costs.” the U.S. was not acted upon. And the government was Program (DIRP), and the Industrial Research A&isIn October, 1973, Broadbent asked in the House often aware products were going to Vietnam. ,tance Program (IRAP). whether the department of industry, trade and comThese agreements may also prove economically Companies developing defence-related programs . merce had conducted any evaluative studies of DlRP expensive to Canada in the future although they have can apply for assistance under any pf these programs. and if so the date of the latest report. The government been profitablein the past. Until recently, Canada has PAIT, for example, spent $27 million in the fiscal year spokesman replied that any evaluation was “ongoing” enjoyed a trade surplus under an agreement that was ending March, 1972. The program provides up to 50 and that “no specific report as such is prepared.“’ supposed to equalize defence1 production trade betper cent of the costs for product or process developMatters seem to be much the same wiih other progween the fwo countries. ment. rams. The Trudeau government, despite its recent But Kirton says the prosperity of the Canadian deIn 1972 iRDlA was generating about $30 million’per expression of a desire for -a “leftist” foreign policy, fence industry has become primarily dependent on the yeai in grants. A confidential document shows that appears to be only furthering the work of Pearson’s American demand for .- military commodities. during the first nine years of the defence production Liberals.

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Gord Dunbar’s letter of Jan. 24, 1975; Bitch bitch bitch. In his letter he states that he is finding the chevron to be “an enjoyable, interesting paper whose quality is - now rarely mediocre.” We are in general agreement with his views because in recent months, the chevron has done a good job of keeping UW well informed about student orienqed issues and activities, in addition to community concerns that affect us as citizens of this Region. ’ However, it seems unfortunate that the chevkon editors failed to heed his excellent letter before producing last. \n;leek’s issuk. If the Jan. 24 edition is an example of things to come, then it appears as if the’chevron will no longer be fulfilling its mandate as a s&dent newspaper in an adequate fashion. We are referring in particular to the s’ix separate first pages of “alternative papers”. We assume that the intent was to inform us of these various publications. However, if the article on page 3, “alterna’ tive papers”, had been expanded some\ what, we could have been informed of I these newspapers in a much better fashion. If the chevron is unable to use this space properly, maybe it should.consider a smaller-edition, and not waste the paper and our money. This is not to construe that we want the chevron to assume the very conservative nature of more traditional papers ‘such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. ’ On the contra,ry we feel’ihat it is the chevron’s duty not to follow the traditional paths. We encourage the evolution of the chevron to new and higher plateaus, however, we suggest tliat it follow a different path than the , one shown last week. Rob Roycroft - Alan Whittle

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Dear Professor Towler: We, the und,ersigned, members of, the academic cqmmunity in Ottawa, wish to express our great concern over the situation concerning venison College faculty members Hugh Miller, Jeffery Forest, Marlene * Webber, and Waterloo factilty member, Marsha Forest. Documents relevant to the case of the academic status of the above mentioned persons-including the report of the tenure committee of the University ‘of Waterloo _Faculty Association-have convinced us that a very serious breach of academic freedom and of procedures proper to the healthy functioning of an academiq community ’ have’characterized this sitbatioa from the beginoing. We wish to-urge in the strongest possible manner the reconsideration of the lament, able decisions concerning the dismissal and other actions taken against the above mentioned faculty mem&rs. We are following the investigation by the Cangdian Association of University Teachers of this affair, and we wish to impress upon you and Renison board of governors that the wider academic community will not allow such’s situation to be passed over- in sil-

ence, with consequences which can ‘only rebound against Renison’s reputation as a respectable academic institution. Reginald Whitaker, department of political science, --Carleton University. / Martin Loney, school of social work, Carleton University. Denis Olsen, department of sociology, ’ Carleton University. Janice Stephens, Concordia University, Loyola Campus. S. Langdon, economics department Donald Swartz, institute of public administration, I Carleton University. Mai Nielson, philosophy department, Ottawa Utiiversity . c Elizabeth N&son. 1 Leo Panitch, department of political science, Carleton University. Wallace Clement. l.5 department of sociology, i Carleton University. Marvin Glass, ’ philosophy department, ’ Carleton University. ‘\

To kill or I not to- kill Dave Spaetzel’s reply to my letter on the use of animals in research (not just frogs, Spaetzel) claims that I am contradicting myself by objecting to the kinds of research I mentioned while not being a vegetarian at the same time. This is not a logical contradiction but may be consid’ered a psychological inconsistency. Why do I object to killing in one situation and condone it in the other? Parenthetically, I am in favoui of abortion, I condone euthanasia in certain situations, I am not an antivivisectionist, I object, to capital punishment, I object to the seal hunts, the wolf bounties, trapping for furs, and’whale hunting, and I occasionally feed the ducks in Waterloo Park. To kill animals for food is not wrong, I believe, because eating is a vital function. It would be niw if the death of food animals were instant and painless as most slaughterhouses claim but as with most things in this world, what is said in the front office and what actually happens in the abattoir are probably not the same-. But the question of the method of killing and its efficacy is a different one, although one not to be ignored, from the purpose of the killing. That purpose is to provide food and that purpose justifies -the killing. (I will not make the ftivolous argument that to be consistent in my attitude I should not even kill plants for food. However, I suppose I would then starve fo death and would that not be killing? And again be a ’ reprehensible act ? A few people might think it a ,pretty good idea, actually). The. inconsistency that Dave Spaetzel points out is in my attitude to the fact of killing .- : .if I object to killing of sentient animals in one situation I should object in all situations. However, my original letter questioned the purpose of the killing and made moral judgments in that light. I be-

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lieve that there is no inconsistency in ob-jetting to research killing of the kind I specified and in not objecting to killing for food. However, I’m open to arguments. I do object to the fatalism in: “It can-be argued that the killing’ of livestock is wrong. This argument, however, would be a waste of time since the slaughter will continue no matter what the outcome:” I disagree strongly with the attitude of acceptance of and acquiescence in the status quo, right or wrong,-simply because it is the status quo. Wrongs need to be corrected and only people can correct wrongs. Those who sit on their asses, seeing thosetwrongs, pointing odt those wrongs, and then continue to sit on their asses because “there’s nothihg I can dot about it:‘, ought to be given a swift kick. The response of the biology department to my letter has been personal rather than public. My public challenge has simply been ignored-a powerful weapon of the status quo. I have spoken with both profs. Hart and Parker who were in charge of the lab I was involve‘d in and I have been granted exemption from certain lab periods providing I fulfil1 special requirements. Even though I pdinted out that a personal exemption was subordinate, to the major issue of-the laboratoi-y procedures and their moral context, nothing has been done or even seriously contemplated. I find it galling of the faculty who set tip laboratory procedures involving -killing of ’ higher animals to expect the killing to be done by all students without thinking, without consideration. The killing is seen in the narrow context of a necessary step in an experiment and in ~0 larger perspective, To maintain such a position is a siep on a path to moral bankruptcy. And again I challenge anyone, particularly members of the biology faculty, to ppbliciy justify the procedures I objected to in my previousletter. , Bruce W. Duncan

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ProteSt And the man on the bus ’ said it was a (pretty)! _ bank The pigeons liked it anyway all last sun;lmer they flew in and out of the gables and walked along the stone ledge high above the traffic and free the man said it was a (pretty) bank ,’ built out of stone and marble lines of art That only an ignorant blind man could see and up the street , a blue sign of the resurrection ’ The Bank of Montreal phi1 musgrave

Contradiction :j *_._ complimht I compliment the writer of Sexual Contradictions in the 70%. An article such a\s this is in the right direction in that it voices

an opinion from our campus. This does not mean that I agree with the author of the article. I suspect that the existing malefemale relationship you allude to may be felt on our campus because of the derth of females here. On this basis, I question the application of Marxian rhetoric to this problem. I wish to also compliment the’writers of Revolutionary Women. Much more of this type of an article is needed. With two such unusual articles, the chevron staff was conspicuous in their lack of coverage of the student elections.. One could not have got much tamer questions than the ones you asked of the candidates in the interview. If you could not think of any good questions, why didn’t you run some of those that were asked at the-forum on Tuesday? The chevron was also co%spicuous in not writing an editorial on either the elections or the O.F,.S. vote. How apathetic can you get! ,1 Las210 Szasz

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If \his articlk’ is any indication of his ’ views, Harding has proved beyond doubt that his appi-eciation of the purposes of the womens’ movement is shallow and his inj terpretations of the effect on modern males, unrealistic. Perhaps Harding’s article speaks the truth, for himself: but I will not agree that his generalizatiotis are accu-‘ r-ate assessments of the position’of a 1970’s male. It is fallacious to state that “women seem to be maintaining and extending their intimacies with both men and women; .while men are mostly left without such continuity.” With whom are these women‘ communicating except those very men whom Harding states are left out in the cold? ‘The fact that Harding himself has been unable to create relationships with women may indicate more about his own pei-sonality and level of liberation than about ‘70’s males in general. Where is his evidence for statements such as “the shrinking prospect of stab&zing man’s existence in the roles of the nuclear family” and “the fundamental loss of the chance to have children”? The theories which Harding-has used to support his male-denigrating position are simply a rehash of neo-Frewdian vagaries X which’could be culled from any introduqtory psychology course. Harding’s argument lurches and skews its way to a conclusion which makes as little sense as most of his arguments. In the second to last paragraph, he exhorts men to “form an emotional and political brotherhood in sharp contrast to the superficial and chauvinistic solidarities of men in . groups.” As a male, I cannot agree’ that men’s groups generally ‘are chauvinistic or superficial. If one is honest with oneself and responds genuinely to male and female alike, this whole ;emphasis on the male counter political group becomes unnecessary, and adjectives like “chauvinistic” and “superficial“ are out of plac$. Where are the sexual contradictibns? Why, they exist in the deprecating articles of those who- find in the women’s movement a threat to their fragile roles! D. Sam Scorgie -

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,th& foulTine eliminated the possibil: ity of those extt’a, vital points, the would have needed to’ Spartans win. Only 32% of .the foul shots _i taken were made good. ’ Ray DyCk played &ell and s.unk ,ll of i9 attempts, which made him high scorer with -22 -points. Rich 0 Heemskerk followed close behind with 19 points. His.advantage when shooting, is that, .his place 6f ex_ecution need not be strgtegic, because his flexibility and excellent jumping ability allows him to overcome his an+ Ted guards. Scott H@penny Darcie, whb always display what good btiskdtball should leak like, were good for’13 and 1f points, reLsp@fully. The Spartansplayed the Gtielph team two weeks~ ago in Guelph, and wo@y seven points. _

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ceeded- to the semi-finals for a match against Queens. York ven-’ tured to play the Western team in the other semi-final match. ‘The victors, Waterloo and Western, prepared for the final dual. I The Athenas played strong in the early portion of the game, and then got a taste of some of Western’s medicine: Lchoke’ . Western’s spiking is precisioned and powerful.

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Blocking would have been an essential defensive element for the Athenas. One spectator commented, ‘Once Western has’ the ball, you better watch-out!’ The Western I team crumbled the Athenas 15-6 and 15-3. The Athenas travel to M&aster, this weekend to, play their hosts and Western.

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The Warriors slowed their pace down a little last week playing an exhibition game against, the Toronto Blues and a league game against the doomed to fail Brock Badgers. In their. encounter with the Blues, the Warriors lost a 3-2 decision to the Toronto Dynasty. However the Warriors weren’t too upset with this loss for they were at the winning end of the league game ‘played against the Blues a few weeks ago: Although this game was a close scoring match, it lacked excitement as both teams failed to play with the finesse and accuracy they ‘have been labelled with in the past. Waterloo’s_ Lee Barnes opened the scoring fifteen minutes into the first period- when he picked up, a pass from Peter Ascherl and came from behind the Toronto net to tuck it in the left hand side. Waterloo seemed assured ‘of a 1-O lead into the second, when Toronto came through with the tying goal on a shot which hit the inside crossbar. with one second left till the buzzeK. Toronto recorded an additional two goals in the second while managing to keep the Warriors from adding to their tally. Although the Warriors ‘did narrow the Toronto lead to one, their marker wasn’t netted till the 18:00 mark of, the third period leavingthem little time to obtain a tie even with, the help of a sixth attacker. Eric Brubacher collected the Warrior goal in this period and Randy Stubel prevented the Blues from adding to their score when he blocked a shot headed for the empty net in the dying seconds of the game. Bob Hnatyk played a good game in ‘net for the .Warriors coming up with some great saves in the first period. Friday night’s game against the Badgers was little more than a practice for the Warriors who tested Badger goalie 3ohn O’Loughlin 67 times, 30 of these shots were fired in the second period. Eric Brubacher opened the scoring early in the first period and was followed by four other Warrior goals before Brock was alotted one, ending the period 5-1. Other Warrior marksmen in this period were Lee Barnes, Peter Ascherl, Bill Stinson and Mike Guimond. Brubacher paced the Warriors with two goals in the second period t,o complete his hat-trick. Singles went to Ascherl and,Barnes while the Badgers remained scoreless. The only busy Badger in this period was O’Loughlin who stopped 26 of 30 Warrior attempts. Randy Kubick replaced Hnatyk in the Warrior net for the third period, stopping all eleven Badger attempts in his first, league action. The Warriors added another six goals to the scoreboard in this period, winning 15 1. Marksmen were Dave McCosh with two, Bill Stinson, Peter Ascherl (his third),

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Athena b-ballWhat does a team do which has a bench of 8, and with still over 10 minutes left to play 5 of its players have fouled out? What can you do but grip and bear it, and bare the floor was as Sally Kemp, in a gesture of politeness, sent out three Athenas to match the remaining Laurier team last thursday night at WLU. However, the Laurier bench did lose their cool twice against the questionable refereeing resulting in two technical fouls. What first seemed to be a big joke for the UNIWAT bench turned to boredom and embarassment. Laurier had remarkably improved their shooting ability for this awaited rematch whilethe Athenas eagerly met this challenge. The game developed, into a close contest with Waterloo leading by 6 points at half time. Before they fouled out, Brenda Riddell hitting with her long outside shots and Lisda Grant setting up plays for WLU kept the Athenas hustling defensively. Once again Barb Benson and Debbie Sadler led the defense. Particularly agg essive offensively for Waterloo K -were Barb Benson with 12 points, breakaway expert Carla Organ 1 I points, Vicki Szoke 10, and Merry Morris 6 points:These girls saw little if any action durjng the final 10 minutes as Coach Kemp profited from the c situation to play those,who usually don’t see as much floor time. Kemp kept the bench under control encouraging the girls to take advantage of the opportunity where mis- h takes could be spotted much more easily. Barb Finley and Kris Ashbury, a native from the metropolis of Walkerton, tired their opponents out by adding to their respective totals of 10 and 7. The final score stood at 77 to 49 in favour of Waterloo. Get-well cards were suggested for the three Laurier girls who put up an admirable fight. ’ , 1 Shirley

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’ -More than 5,000 fans witnessed another excellent display of basketball at the P.A.C. last Saturday night when the Waterloo Warriors .- met with the Canadian champion ~ Guelph Gryphons. The Warriors played one of their best games of the year in downing.Guelph 107-73. - The Warriors made no contest of the affair in the opening minutes as they opened a 23-12,lead. Trevor Briggs started the team off on the right foot by scoring 10 of the team’s first 18 points and then left 7 the heroics up to players such as Bill Robinson, Art White and Phil Goggins. Waterloo played a sound -- all around game with some well distributed scoring and strong rebounding, also balanced among the r club’s front line. Half-time score was 49-30. for the-Warriors. Both coaches, McCrae and Henley were _ disgusted with the refereeing of the game. The referees missed some obvious goaltending calls and fouls were numerous. Guelph was, outclassed completely . Their shooting percentage for the game was 25 per centcornpared to Waterloo’s 49 per cent. Fans often connect poor shooting percentage with a team that has a cold hand or a bad night. Many times this can be attributed to the fine defense by the opposing team. On Saturday night all-Canadian c Bob Sharpe scored a meager 10

points although getting his share of shots. When he went up for a shl Charlie Chambers or some ot . . defender had a hand in his face 3r made him force his shots resulting in his low point contribution! The situation was similar‘ with many other Gryphons. Waterloo dominated the boards _ and outrebounded the Guelph team 55-35. Phil G oggins in coming off -the bench and playing an inspiring ga-me led the team -with 1-l ,rebounds. Bill Robinson was again up to his fancy’antics and many times had the fans shaking their heads in amazement. He received standing ovations-for some fine assists and a total of 28 points. Briggs finished with 18 while Art White played a great game at both ends of the court and scored 17. Phil -Goggins pumped in 16. Phil Schlote rounded out the double figure scoring byhitting with 12 points. Henry Vandenburg and Al Gr?.mys were best for Guelph with 16 each. A week’ago Wednesday the Warriors played the hapless Wilfrid _ Laurier Golden Hawks and although playing a poor xgame managed to ,humble them 96-68. The Golden Hawks ‘known for their great number of turnovers which coach Don Smith complains about every game were topped by the Warrior turnovers. The Warriors we%e forced into 25 turnovers, 5

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more than the Golden Hawks. This was not, however enough to change the outcome of the game. Coach McCrae platooned throughMoses Springer Arena. out the second half in experimentTOURNAMENT TALK ing with two separate lines and BASKETBALL BITS Today is the entry date for the switching every 5 minutes. Trevor Sunday nights A league basketEnglish Squash tournament which Briggs, the most consistent Warball- competition saw no surprises will be held starting Monday, Febrior, scored 26 points. Art White ruary 10. Entries can be made in as the Summer Rats, Kin A and chalked up 16 points and led both Pentagon all won their games. room 2040 in the PAC by 4:30 p.m. teams with 14 rebounds. Phil GogIn the Monday battle of the today. gins scored 13 coming off the bench -giants, St. Jeromes defeated the Men’s Curling and Mixed Bowland Bill Robinson in an off night hit ing Tournaments Tiny Toddlers 54-39, like taking are being held for only 8 points. Joe Macrito led -’ tomorrow. -The Curling begins at candy from a\ baby. the Golden Hawks with 20 while St. Jeromes B is running away 9:00 a.m. at the Glenbriar Club Neil Hegeman was close behind as they have while bowling starts rolling at 1:OO with League--B1 with 18. scored 200pointswhile having only I p.m. at Waterloo Lanes. Bill Robinson was named the 57 scored against them. In the other INTRAMURAL PUCKERS Warrior of the month of January k B league V2 North and VlNorth St. Jeromes upset the highly and was awarded a duffle.bag from are both undefeated as are Helen’s ranked Kin team last week by a the Carling O’Keefe company. Popcorn and the People’s Choice. score of 6-l to take the lead in A -The Warriors have a heavy RINGROAD RELAY league, West Alumni, E.S.S., Math schedule in the upcoming weeks A and the Gay Blades have 4 points ’ - RACE which began on Wednesday night against McMaster. They travel to each at press deadline (Tuesday). = An excellent day for the race, alLast terms champs, Conrad GreWindsor tomorrow night. The beit the day before groundhog day, bel, have-six points to lead League Lancers were-defeated by McMasprevailed for eight teams -of jogB. The other 4 B leagues have close ter last week by the score of 88-87. gers. races ‘and- it appears as if another The Lancers are almost unbeatable The Faculty Joggers w’ere vicexcellent term of hockey is immiin the close confines of St. Denis to&us with a winning time of 33:54 nent. Hall. Fans will recall how the Wara new record in intramurals. The My predictions have St. Jero.mes riors were beaten soundly in the team members were ‘-Rliler Mike and West Alumni in the finals while Lancer gym last year but came ,Hou ston’ ’ , “Joggin’ Jay Thompshould be a right back to give the Lancers a the B championship son”, “A trophy -Al Salmoni”, showdown between Nursing and whipping in Waterloo. The War“Invincible Ian Williams” and Conrad Grebel. riors certainly have their hands full. “Runnin’ Rob Brown”. _Next Wednesday Waterloo travels GAME OF THE WEEK The Kin team ran a mediocre to St. Catherines to play Brock.. E.S.S. vs Co-op-1l:lO p.m. at second with Science a close third. r

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S trawbs On Sunday, February 2, 1975 in the WLU Theatre-Auditorium we were treated to. two shows of the English rock band, Strawbs. The concert opened loudly with the warm-up band, Man. Their ’ overall style\would most probably be called sad rock, or depressing rock; not because the Band was poor but because the music was the ’ basic rock style done with a strong twist of sorrow. In a way this style was a fitting introduction for the harsh cynical themes set down by the Strawbs’ leader and composer, +David Cousins. The warm-up set was also a demonstration of the volume that the equipment could put out. This band did one very fine boogie tune, which met with-much approval from all-. This set was re. ally quite fine, yet the audience didn’t find it good enough to ask the band back for another song. I would like to be able to praise Strawbs at great lengths, yet _ . after wishing at times that they * would simply tone down the music, I-findX such praise difficult. I think. the band may,be ready for a live - album, their stage presence and arrangements are good enough, but ’ they would have to be quiteselective in the material used. The set began with three familiar songs taken from. ‘Hero and Heroine, the first album by this new Strawbs ’ band. These were melodic, at an easy volume, and

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generally done as a Strawbs fan has come to expect them. We we-r-e then introduced to new material, from the, recently released album Ghosts. Certainly the band’s style has not shifted radically in their recorded material, and I quite enjoyed this original music., Then the style changed. The familiar folk-type rock ,melodies were gone and a barrage of keyboard and synthesized drum “noise” arrived in their place. This occured in the middle of a piece which had probably carried on too long already at too high of a level, so that the addition of this “noise” .became oppressive. Perh.aps I was in the minority, yet the crowd’s lack of excitement must have meant something. Perhaps this reaction is because I have been into this band’s music since From the Witchwood, (1971), and have seen the old band perform beautifully to ‘an audience who just wouldn’t let them go. It’s just that somehow this display of sound and volume did-not-seem right for this band. Strawbs ended after a short sixty minutes and were called back by an audience who gave me the impression that they almost didnyt care, everyone sitting on the floor politely clapping for the additional tune they knew’would always be there. Though the concert was generally quite good I left wondering what is the future for this style of show. I’ll still buy the Strawbs’ albums,’ but I doubt if I will go to watch them perform. ,-\ 1,

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C&eti .’ superb . - . The Leonard Cohen concert Thursday night afforded superb musical entertainment for the fans in attendance. The back-up band, in particular, did a tremendous job of adding harmony and quality to the sound. Cohen, the Montrealborn poet and singer who still considers Canada his “last home”, ‘quickly established a close bond of warmth and; frankness with those present, and then went on to do a wide variety of his songs: both old and new, joyous and sad. Leonard -Cohen’s poetry provides a deep and profound insight into the happiness’and pain, the closeness and the loneliness of being alive. His subject matter is the entire wealth of human experience, and in a cold and . dehumanizing society, his message is one of an intenselove for life, with a special mention of all “brave female warriors”.

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-- any the less real than the other. It is full of Genesis are probably the most British of all English rock bands. They have existed different themes and ideas on contemporary life which are carried out in this flux of since 1968, though their first really popular different realities. At times we begin to album didn’tcome until 1971, with Nursery wonder whether Rae1 is creating’ the exCryme.-Since then both their music and periences himself,.or whether there is-some stage show have improved with regularity. In 1972 Foxtrot was released, introducing more powerful force, (probably the their first lengthy composition, “Suppers bizarre, offtimes senseless nature of our society today), which is in fact pushing Ready”, and a superb live show. Selling him, trying to mold him, and mostly abusEngland By The Pound was released in 1973 and the band picked up even more of a ing him. There is much reference to fear and death throughout the piece. It seems following, with their beautiful melodies, that Rae1 is quite accustomed to having moods, rythms, and arrangements; and these ideas imposed -on himself from outequally as important the acting out of these pieces on stage with the use of costumes, side. He is also allowed his small ecstacies / masks and pantomime; -A live album was throughout the tale, yet these eventually put out in 1974, perhaps just to fill the void turn into more abuse forhim. It is only at the end when Rae1 is let free in an ecstatic while they worked on new rnaterial. The’ wait was worth it. X dissolvinginto a oneness. The whole story c --strikes me as. perhaps being a man’s jourGenesis’ latest piece;. The Lamb Lies ney through to his death, yet I must admit ‘1 Down on Broadway, is certainly the best that there may be many other interpretathat this band has ever done, and that is no tions to thestory, or else Peter never meant easy accomplishment considering the \ for it to be interpreted. ’ beauty and complexity of “Selling England ’ If we wanted to comparethe story to any By The Pound”. The new album is not other previous works the closest match really a “concept” piece, as some people - / would be Quadrophenia, by the Who. It may want, tointerpret it. As Peter Gabriel, also is a story of one man and his struggles, (the lead spokesman for the band), deboth mental and physical, with life, -himscribes it the album is more a story than -. self, and society. -anything else, a modern fairy tale. Certainly the lyrics and the story inside The music is really what makes this will not always make sense at the outset; album th_e success that-it is. It is characyet there-is a basic story line, and along terized by their usualshifting atmospheres with this line there are tangents, social and moods, “laced with mellotron -and \ comm,ents, and absurdities. Putting it exmadness.” Genesis has put together four of tremely simply it is the story of a half the most consistently beautiful sides of Puerto-Rican from New York and a momusic that I haveever heard. In fact there ment in his life. It’s a world, we are told ‘;is only one piece, “Experiments with from the start where, “the going gets tough Foreign Sounds”, which did not appeal to I and the tough gets going.” The story unme, it being somewhat out of character folds, generally being told by our hero RaeI, with this band and with the majority’of this yet also by numerous other characters album. Generally the musical themes deI- who Rae1 becomes involved with. The veloped on “The Lamb” are totally new story seems‘to be played out in asplit bet- _ from anything that Genesis has done before, and yet these sounds are so-familiar to . 1 ween the physical world and the mental someone who has enjoyed the band in the world, yet neither of themis’shown to be

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past. It is really impossible to isolate any one member and call him the best in the band. This is probably due to thefact that Genesis has had absolutely no personei changes for the past five years. The result. is music and vocals that are put together by the five members working as one. Gabriel tells us that the band enjoys composing and recording the-best of all of the aspects in a band’s life. The result .of this devotion is truely beautiful. The. music begins somewhat light in mood and then quickly-increases in seriousness and intensity, so that the second and third sides come off being very intricate, with all five members playing almost all of the time. It is complicated and dynamic, yet so beautiful. The moods of the music follow those of Rae1 as he struggles throughout the story. At the end the heaviness disappears and again the ~mood becomes faster and lighter, so that when Rae1 reaches his ecstacy of merging with the one the music peaks to this height also. This paralleling of moods, ideas, and music at all times results in an album that is a. unified whole. So often on a two-record set at least one-of the sides is of much lower quality than the rest. “The. Lamb” is notone of these, not by luck, but due to the talent of the musicians who created it. Phil Collins,_the drummer (it has been said that Phil has at least four arms), shows his abilities and adaptabilities very well here. At times it is the beat set up by Phil which carries the other members along. At other times he relaxes and provides backing vocals. His style can change from a quick running pace into deep reverberating beats, and through the whole range in between. Michael Rutherford, wfio plays bass, twelve string guitar, and acoustic guitars-is generally called on to compliment the.rest of the band. Yet his talent is also one of a soloist, using his array of guitars, effects and even an electric sitar. Lately Michael

has been jamming with other well known artists in the field, diversifying himself. Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist, combines both the straight sound of his guitars and such effects as fuzz boxes, echo effects and other assorted machines. His place in the music is not always explicit due to the nature-of his guitar work in %ombination with the other-people. Having seen the band in concert it is easier to separate the music and the effects produced by Steve. His is an integral position in the music providing most of the highs and lead guitar work ins the compositions. Tony Banks, the keyboard artist, x has perhaps the most central role in the music. His emphasis is with t-he mellotron, giving an orchestral and choir type of sound throughout much of Genesis’ music. Woven in, around, and on top of this are the other keyboard instruments; the piano, organs’, and synthesizers all of which Tony plays with an equally high degree of talent. H Peter Gabriel, the vocalist, and central figure for the band, when in concert, has one of the most controlled and unique voices in the business. Combined with special effects such as echo, phasing, and changes in depth, his is also a focus for the band. Not only does he tell the whole story, but when onstage he also acts it out, using props, masks, head gear, and lighting. It is quite an exciting performance done well by the man who first introduced such theatrics into rock music. The Lamb- Lies Down On Broadway is ‘Genesis’ finest most involved work to date. . This incl>des both the album and the stage show, which employs more sophisticated costuming for Peter than -ever before, a slide show series of over-3,000 siides, and numerous lighting Andy other special effects. It will undoubtedly confirm many - Genesis fans in their respect for the group, and should increase the size of the groups following considerably. -bill

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about the double-whammy of being in short, the films stunk. In the on the Department the content of and the Changing Since 1967 the, National Film X the Maritimes Freudian manner, N.F.B. simply >the films is generally government Metis and female. She finds no ac- , Roles of Women. Board of Canada has produced’appropaganda. ‘It is an instrument of ceptance in any society. She takes couldn’t understand what women proximately 35 films for a series In the spring of 1974, 12 women the state used to maintain the status wanted. any job in order to sustain herself . in organizing called Challenge for Change. These I who were involved _ ~ a‘nd her family but is ill prepared for quo. Women’s Centres were invited to a I recently view.ed these films .. films are social commentaries deal“The Extended Family” portrays the jobs available to her. She can again in a Human Relations course. ing with such subjects as Native screening of the film series concommunal living in a style that, is trust no one and illustrates her This time it was suggested weas--cerning women. Our task was to Peoples, Single Parents, Poverty,, acceptable to our socigreat difficulty in fitting into white how closely the films’ sess them on the basis of their so- s completely Housing, Economic Depression in determine ety. The male is dominant, is well society. Eventually she falls prey cial and political contentIn order message echoed the philosophy of to alcohol and welfare payments. “Women’s Moveto understand’ the politics of the educated and his profession facilithe amorphous manu-type The film takes us full circle when tates the purchase of a $40,000 merit”. After squirming through 3 films, one, should have some back,( she returns to the reservation and The complete typing or 4 films our unanimous decision ground on the history and function home. The- women’s vocations are finds peace and abstinence by lookwas that they have limited educaof the National Film Board. of a lesser status than the male’s, service. Special to ing after hef‘family on a small farm being teachers and day care worktional value and the low key apuniversity students: and selling home-made crafts. proach would not encourage many ers. The story ofthis family, largely N.F.B. has found the solution to told by the male would have us bemanuscripts, essays, women to assess their roles or redilieve this life style promotes indithe “Indian problem” and t/he rect their lives.. We felt these films theses, resumes. Tt was created in the mid 30’s and vidual development, provides ideology remains. Nowhere does reflected an establishment point of acted as an advertising machine inPhone 8850795 for the message come across that her * freedom-from financial worries and view and were therefore in conterpreting Canada to Canadians day-care need not be a problem. problem is a collective problem tradiction with the real economic complete information. and Europeans. During W.W.11, This film offers no challenges: the born in the very nature of capitalist and social struggles of women. We We are the t)pe to Captain Canada took on the job of society. Again it re-inforcesthe changes are superficial and it intold N.F.B. we would dispute- the -- glorifying enlistment and hawking know. sideously reinforces the ideals of myth-Indians should be on reserword “Challenge” in the title and . ’ Canada Victory Bonds. Under the consummerism and sexism. , vations, ,&omen should be in the department of the Sec. of State, the home and we can find individual N.F.B. still sells the imperatives of solutions to collective problems. _ the state machinery which operates The next film was a tidy story of in the interests of the ruling class to “Like the Trees” is an interview a Quebecois woman who takes empwith a Native woman. She talks all Canadians. Since it is dependent loyment while raising a family. She takes a typical female job in an of-fice and the whole family is quite pleased. They share the household tasks as welt as the, camping equipment her pay-cheque purch% ases. Baby-sitters are her respon‘PHOTOiiRAPHER sibility and neighbours’ criticism 350, King St. W., Kitchener, Ont.,; Phone 742-53,63 , makes her feel guilty. There is little re,ference here to the reality that women work outside the home because they have to and not just to -enrich their lives with- material things. The roles are clearly a FEB. 6 - MAR. 2 defined-she looks after the kids needs-he helps the kids with their WOODBLOCK PRINTS woodcut and wood en. homework. Again the pji-oblem is (in colour) \ ’ individual, the solution is indig ravi ng ,/‘I .vidual. Alistair Bell,,G. Brender a Brandis, Brigid Grant, Dr. No. 1 - 31 - 85 x 107 Mounted $29.06= 661t’s not Enough” is’a little harRobert F. Hughes, Rosemary Kilborun, Robert der to analyse:- It starts out in a Langstadt, Sharon Merkur, Carol L. Schiff leger, highly statistical fashion revealing I figures about women,in the labour No.242 - 54 x 75 Mounted $32.00' Telesforas Valius, John Wheejer force, the comparative wages of Gallery Hours: Monday. - Friday 9 ,-.4 p.m. _ ’ women and men and the economic No. 3 - 2 - 8 x 10 Mounted Sundays 2 - 5 p.m. ,need for two incomes. The figures $36.00 3 -5 x 7 Mounted are alarming in the area of single .Closed Saturdays . ’ mothers and also the greater per, Free Admission . 6 Wallets 12 Wallets - $12.00 - $ 8.00 centage of females who support relatives other than their own’chilFor further information-contact Marlene’ Bryan, Galdren. It takes us along an” institulery Administrator,v ext. 2493 tional cafeteria area to show us the boring repetitious work women do. \ This film almost exposes the rotten treatment women get and almost “ SUN. FEB. 9’- 8 p.ml deplores this treatment; then, suddenly, as with a splicer’s scissors, CHRISTOPHER PARKENINGClassical the documentary turns to personal opinions. These conversations ‘, Guitarist . . mirror the ideals of capitalisin-it’s RUSH SEATS AVAILABLE, Theatre of the O.K. to work but homeand chil/’ dren come first. 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(In analysing these films and4ooking at the capitalist propaganda, the ideology is abundantly clear.’ Women should be first and foremost bearers-nurturers. This . perpetuates and justifies a system of exploiters and exploited in the interest’of the bourgeoisie. There is a clear statement in favour of treating the symptoms and not the disease-a band-aid is all we need. Our society is not at fault, it’s our fault if we don’t succeed. The films subtly endorse consummerism and not so subtly endorse racism and \ sexism. I’m comforted by the fact that there is no rental charge only a small library fee for these films. You usually pay for what you get! At one point I would have said let’s get offour duffs and succeed, now I J say let’s’get off our duffs and sucpeed in changing the sy3te.m. -dlyene mcewen \ .

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Nazis, flies, and ., group therapy ,

Once in a very long while% clrn appears that by its bizarreness gnaws at our sensibilities. One such film is Liliana Caviani’s The Night Porter. Were it not for the mean-spirited attacks by a host of film criticson this exquisitely complex work of art, my present defence of it would perhaps,be quite unnecessary. As it is, this tale of love between a Nazi officer Max, and his victim, Lucia, is laced with haunting memories, incredible tenderness and cruelty that may titillate some, tantalize others, shock or horrify many, and overwhelm those whose repertoire of experience or imagination does not exclude the ‘insanity of loving’. “Sane-insane. Who is to judge?“-as Max asks. Indeed, it is this fragile, thin membrane. that separates the ‘sane’ from the ‘insane’ the film sets out to explore. And discovers inthe process those who are inextricably caught in the memories of their past and those who have ‘filed away’ the past in an incinerator. Those who, like Max, seek redemption for their sins through an act of renewed love and way-but not without credibilthose who create an illusion of ity-they “fall in love” tending, purge through a vilification of the nourishing and hurting each others present. The Night Porter presents wounded venerabilities. the eternal nature of evil, ever so Then the separation! Fifteen present, not in a grand, isolated and years later, Lucia is the ‘normal’ abstract fashion, characteristic of wife of a successful opera conducmetaphysical rhetoric, but with an tor, and has, it would seem, overexpressionistic concreteness of come the difficulties of the past. two lovers, in flesh and blood. Max is now the night porter in Thelocale for this rather unusual Hotel Zur.Oper in Vienna, where story is amongst the horrors and his cohorts are meticulously preperversities of Nazi era and- the paring’to face the trials. They wish all-pervading stench of the conto erase any signs of testimony centration camps. Those who inagainst them, for “memory is not flicted pain and humiliation, and made of shadows but of eyes”. those who suffered it and were its They try to purge themselves of the victims didn’t behave in an easily past by burning documents and by, comprehensible “human” manner. ‘filing away’ any living entities. For In the midst of such deluge of calcuthem “guilt complex is the sickness lated destruction, were there no- of the soul” and all “investigation signs of apprehension or misgiving is to liberate Max and themselves or irony or tenderness or love, of-the past”. And yet, in a moment however small, however personal! of frenzy, unflinchingly they procWell, there were and Night Porter laim that if they were born again shows ho,w even such feeble signs they will do exactly what they did were curiously mutilated by all the before. Does it sound familiar? perversions all around. Max is however weary of the linMax, the Nazi officer, passes gering decadence at the hotel, and himself off as a doctor who wants to is riled in a haunting past. Conrecord on film ihe humiliation of stantly wiping the dust off the table Nazi victims: the twitching lip, the and bed, like Lady Macbeth, he is drooping neck, the cold frightened trapped in the irredeemability of his skin, the scream, the shake. Till he . “own cruel past. He has “a sense of meets “the little girl” Lucia who in shame of light”, and the only way a strange, curious way not only dehe knows how is to hide away “like fies the pain, but is even titillated a church-mouse” in some dark re. _ by it. And in an equally curious cesses.

Then a reunion! As if veterans of anguish, what kindles their present is their past- memories, laced with tenderness and cruelty. For Max, to “protect” Lucia from those who wish to ‘file away’ this only living remnant ofthe past, is his supreme endeavour for redemption. As they walk across the bridge-of time, of space-in the gentle rain, they fall, without a cry, without a whimper, to an unseen assassin’s bullets.’ The Night Porter is not an ordinary film. Any attempts to compare it with Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris or Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien are frivolous. Any comparisons worth mentioning are Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, and Mattson’s The-‘Doll. However, if you are looking for a touch of that old-fashioned sado-masochism or a wholesome romp-in-the-hay pornography, you will be bored and very disappointed. Yet that is what attracted a great many people to it.. The Night Porte; is a complex film, but notan obscure or pretentious work. It is an unusual story, yet not without credibility. It is romantic, but not ‘schmaltzy’. Like the love between Max and Lucia, this film is cruel and tender, exquisite and shocking, lyrical and jolting, very decadent and very, very, very, beautiful ! / sami gupta

Wanda June rehearses / Have you got your ticket yet? Happy Birthday, Wanda June starts Wednesday of next week! There isn’t much time left. The sets are in the final stages (no pun intended) of preparation, the sound and prop crews are nearly’finished their tasks, the last stitches are being made to the costumes and the people taking care of lighting are working on schedule. The people whose job won’t be finished until Saturday after the last show are the actors. They’re working harder than ever putting the finishing touches on blocking andline interpretations. In the early_ scenes are rehearsed stages, separately-to aid the actors and for greater scheduling ease. Now the cast goes into run through . rehearsals-the entire first act one night, Act two the next night until they run the entire’play just as it is to be performed for you the.audience. It must be a great joy for a

director to see all his ideas maturing in these last rehearsals. This pat-tic&company seems to have a very good spirit. They work very well together and although my own association with them has been sporadic, they seem ready and eager to include everyone in their “bonhomie”. I would not have thought this company would be so tightly-knit if I had looked only at their backgrounds. They are of vast and varying experience. Although most of the cast are D and TA (drama and theatre arts) majors, that is not to say others are excluded. In fact two of the more important characters are not. Also, the theatre-majors are from different level/s so the common ground is not rested in that fact. After talking with each cast member about his/her feelings on the production, perhaps the most

overwhelming common attitude was the love of, Vonnegut’s work. Each of my interviews included phrases such as “Vonnegut is good-really good . . .I love his humour. . .the play is loaded with meaning but comedically presented.“-,The general popularity of Vonnegut is substantiated by one’s realization that the people speaking have had solid theatre backgrounds, some including pro or semi-pro work. One ofthe most important things resulting from a group that works as well together as does this one, is that the attitude, the spirit, the comraderie will exist on stage during performance. There are no barriers to try to work through-the easy opennes-s will aid everyone’s performance. So once again I must urge you to be sure you don’t miss this show. It’ll be one YOLI won’t soon forget. L. Waddington

Last .Friday night I-was given an Players’ Guild members and for the sake of the whol’e university camopportunity to see the latest production by Wilfrid Laurier pus.” While it is questionable University’s Players’ Guild entiwhether or not it is necessary to bring to light this death.and sicktled I was a Teenage Nazi. ness it is also questionable whether It was obvious that much work or not the play actually does so. It is was put into the production, and a visual and aural cacophony of isthe cast must be commended for sues and images. Attempts to deal theirdedication to the play, but the with the subjects of the degeneraevening was lacking in several very tion of the English language, the, important respects. brutality of World War II concentThe play unfolds (unravels’might ration camps, the faultsof be a better word) like a combinamaterialism and mass media advertion of Lord of the Flies and a group tising, fall by the wayside in the therapy session. The plot barrage of ideas hurled at the audiinvolves fourteen teenagers ence. In the end, nothing is dealt stranded on a stretch of beach with to a great enough extent in a which belongs to someone called play which drags on to over ‘two the Landowner, who does not want hours’ length. them on his land. He and his AssisThe play is riddled with religious tantvisit periodically, appearing on and biblical symbolism, perhaps in a walkway constructed above the an attempt to make it appear beach and below the audience, and “deeper” than it really is, to make ‘demand that the group leave the one think it is difficult to under, beach, which they have no intenstand because of the weightiness of tion of doing. And so it goes on., the allusions. However, Capson The group contains quite an ashas made the allusions so numersortment of characters, as we disous in 1 Was a Teenage Nazi that cover about every fi,ve m-inutes they overlap and soon conflict. ~ when one of them is given a soliloquy and dredges up a sordid past. The Landowner is, of course, the “Willy” is contemplating suicide God-figure, and the Assistant a and writing a book-when upset, pseudo-Christ. But that is about as far as one can go: in or-de-r for the hecaws like a crow. “Connie_Bullock” is a domineering female who Assistant to appear and talk to the claims near the end to have been kids alone, the Landowner must be -out of the way, so he becomes holding the group together, some“sick”. The group then cajoles and thing I hadn’t noticed till she persuades a timid and reluctant pointed it out. “Mertha” is “total “Christ” to come down into their woman” and performs an attempworld and see what it is like. He ted seduction which borders on finally consents and hides from the % hysteria: the audience echoes the Landowner. After the deaths of the reply of the object of her seduction teenagers, whom he calls his w‘ho silences her with “You’re sick, Mertha.” “Hunk” once “friends”, he istold by “God” that he must make up his mind as to buried 4000 Biafrans in one weekend, after being “caught in whether he wants to live “up here” the middle” of-their war: the dead or -“down there”-he cannot do bodies dance in front of his e.yes both. It is difficult to reconcile this throughout the play and he con4 with any picture of Christ, and tinually screams, “The four doubly difficult when another thousand!” Thelist goes on and on, Christ-figure appears. “Hunk”, some things more bizarre than obsessed by the four thousand, is others: the audience is further enshot several times by thecommantertained by-grotesque descriptions dant,’ while being held in a crucifixand portrayals of three Chinese ion posture by two-members of the men hung by one of the characters group. Later, he rises and exduring another war, an episode as pounds new revelations on the exone of them watched (and helped) perience of death,\of the body and an old man die in a hospital, and so of the soul. Hunk is also the only on. The self-styled commandant of one to stand up again after the the group is the or& wearing .the machine-gunning, and he and the khaki jacket and carrying the gun. -Assistant console each other at the To prove his position of authority, end of the play, confusing the mathe is the one who screams and ter-even more. Throughout the shouts the most. play, the characters singularly and . Sidelights include a visit by a in unison “yell at God”, at various businessman who wants to buy the times asking forgiveness, acknow\ beach, gets swindled out of twenty iedging weakness, and demanding dollars and jumps around a lot, and retribution. Then, Willy appears, his Jewish secretary, a feeble imitaattesting that God has finally “yeltion of television’s “Rhoda”. The led back”: he has seen a vision. play runs the gamut from canThe garbled symbolism of the visnibalism through numerous beation is quickly forgotten, and Willy ings to a shooting to the final blast is no different for having seen it. of machine gun fire which, at the As a whole’ the-play was a hororder of the Landowner, wipes out rifying experience. The dialogue is the beach’s population. Prominent banal, the action futile, the meanin the set is a de ted red Voling obscure, and none of the symkswagen, which se’;i2 es primarily as bolism ever, seems to “click” toa place of refuge for poor Willy gether. The only thing which satisfrom the turmoil of the group. fies a viewer is that for at least five However, it eventually causes his minutes the characters march death, when the others trap him inaround shouting “All must die!“, / side it and let “the sewage in his and then they do. / _ mind seepout and poison him”. A frequently-repeated line in the No_t to worry, however: at the moplay, said by several characters, is ment of his death, his former friend “I’m trying”, and credit must be and confidant picks up Willy’s given to the members of the _ peculiar caw. and his spirit lives on. Players’ Guild for at least doing . So much for the plot, if one can that. There was evidence of a lot of call it that. The writer of the play, rehearsing’ and some of the choral Louis Capson, also the Guild’s diand chanting, sections were very _ rector, says in the programme that well done. But with a play like this he wrote I Was a Teenage Nazi to work with, nothing much could “from out of the lives of the be expected. It is regrettable that Players’ Guild members. It is an the actors’ hard work and willingattempt to bring to light the death ness to perform were wasted on and sickness always present inside such an unworthy piece of writing. -these students-for the sake of the -debbie jongsma

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It’s indeed odd, if not amusing, to contemplate, in sedate surroundings, Jhe current crisis in post-secondary education: the drastic cutbacks and the accompanying wailing I on the part of university presidents Pnd stddent bureaucratssone are the days of waste and unrestrained growth. The time has come to tigh<en our belts, given the fact that we live in a? era of raging inflation and deepening recession, state the government “experts”. So when one closely examines the effects this capitalistic pantomime holds for mere university students, one is then ready to pack one’s bag and split the province. tiowever, the folio wing article, by Doug Mcln tyre, the president of the University of Toronto Graduate Students Union offers some background on the crisis and surprising/y encourages the would-be cynics to reconsider travel plans, and fight the govenrment’s chaotic schemes to dismantle the present level of education. In short, this is the last stand of student economism.

by Doug McIntyre ’ The current administration of the province has created a crisis in the financing of the public sector. With a strong reluctance on the part of the Conservatives to tap the under-used tax reserves in the corporate sector, the provincial government, claiming unmanageable hosts, has reversed its emphasis on a major push in social development which was evident through the Whether it ‘be through resixties. privatization of a social services responsibility as in incentives to’the private sector to assume the obligation fo,r provision of day care facilities; the imposition of ceilings on public institutions as in health, * elementary and secondary schools, and post-secondary institutions; or in shifting the costs of education to the individual by increasing tuition fees ,$decreasing;fellowships and increasing the loan portion of Ontario Students Assistance Programme (OSAP): it is clear that this administration is determined to crack down on the escalating costs of social services, Highest priority was accorded education back in the sixties when Bill Davis was preparing himself for the premier’s office as minister of education. In a speech to the Rotary Club of Toronto in 1963, education _ minister Davis declared that, in spite of the even then anticipated rapid escalation of government expenditures, education would not suffer: We must view these coming events in the proper perspective. Part of this requires that we put first the things of real and lasting worth, which to me means giving top priority to education during at least the next two decades. We must plan for continued and-fairly rapid growth in education ‘/

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Individual power and access to the society’s economic and cultural wealth derive from the attainment and rational use of information. In an industrial society wherein social, political and economic relationships evolve to ever increasing complexity, the individual’s freedom, development, and even survival depend on access to appropriate educational services. Ontario society makes claim on an egalitarian philosophy. Given the extreme variation in financial resources among our population, a central factor in progress to-ward the egalitarian ideal is the complete removal of financial barriers to education. Despite the rapid expansion of post-

post-secondary, plus years of professional or graduate training. The daughter or son of a family with very limited financial resources is met with the prospect of providing for his/her livirig costs soon after the age of compulsory schooling out of family financial necessity. Given the current cost of living, coupled with the inadequacy and heavy loan burden of OSAP, tuition fees and other education costs, further education remains out of the realm of the possible for many in our society.

A more sophisticated argument is sometimes raised against increased grant schemes or decreased or elimination of tuition. The very data which shows that the poor and working class individuals have dropped out of the educatiqn system before reaching the post-secondary system is used against them. “Why waste public monies in subsidizing post-secondary education”, so the argument goes, “when the individuals who will be using it are mainly of middle and upper middle class background?” But such an argument misses the whole point of what determines accessibility. Certainly the children of the’ disadvantaged are not well represented among secondary school graduates and therefore are not in a position to take advantage of post-secondary support systems. But why are they not there? It’s not bejause they don’t have the native intelligence. It’s not because they don’t value education. It’s precisely because they perceive (accurately) that the fmancial support is unavailable for carrying them through the last’few years of secondary school, plus three or four years of

But the deeds of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) speak otherwise. _ Tuition fees have increased. The grant portion of OSAP has decreaied, increasing the emphasis on loans with their obvious deterrent impact on the poor and working class. Support to graduate students has been drastically cut. Most serious of all, inflation has eroded all student support systems; the current decline in real dollar value at 14 per cent per annum is not being met by, corresponding increases in the value of the support packages

Egalitarian ideal

The rhetoric is still with us. COPSE0 in 1972 recommended that: The guiding principle of the province’s policy of financing postsecondary education should continue to be universal access to appropriate educational services for all who wish and are ab e to benefit from them. All financial li arriers to accessibility should be progressively abolished.

Students as scapegoat ,’ The announcement in November from MCU on the level of operational grants to community colleges and universities for 1975-76 was a major disappointment to everyone in the post-secondary sector. Following several years of shortfall in funding, the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) wasexpecting a basic income unit adjustment in the order of 16 per cent: the .

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sesondary enrolments through the sixties. we have not reached or come near to our ideal. The children, of poor and working class families do not reach our universities and community colleges in numbers proportionate to their population. Within the post-secondary system, the disadvantaged of our society are least represented in those programmes which require the greatest personal financial investment and which lead to the greatest personal rewards: the professional schools, medicine, law, and our graduate schools. Some have argued that the support systems necessary to equalize access are already in place, that the lack of poor and working class representation in our post-secondary institutions is owing to a devaluing of education or a lack of native intelligence among these populations.. Data indicating the contrary has been available for many years; those who argue that the poor don’t want education or can’t’get it for other than financial reasons are not making a sound argument, but rather are engaging in a class slander. I

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Just one decade later the rhetoric and action has turned full circle. Over the past few years we have witnessed increases in tuition fees (with threats of much more via Committee on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario (COPSEO), decreases in grants-increases of loans under OSAP, a dismantling of the graduate student ‘sup: port system, expenditure ceilings in public and secondary schools, a freeze on capital spending in the university system, a freeze .y to be followed by a cutback in graduate programme, and recently annual adjustments in the allocations to community colleges and universities which fall well short of the rate of inflation. “Real and lasting worth” does not buy you much with the ? Ontario P.C.‘s. /

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announced 7.4 per cent increase nas created a crisis atmosphere; marked by university presidents crying foul and desperately reviewing budgets for services to cut, programmes to slash and additional’ revenue sources to tap. Fortunately for students, 1975 is an election year in Ontario. The P.C.‘s have made enough enemies over the past few years and their popularity has hit a 3 1 year low. Coupled with the announcement of the BIU increase for 1975-76 was a commitment that tuition fees will be held for one more year at their current levels. Unfortunately an election atmosphere happens but once in four years; and the groundwork is being laid for increases in coming ‘years. The Canadian Association oft University Teachers, aware of their needs in inflation years, has called for increases in tuition. John Evans, president of the University of Toronto, is pushing the superficially beguiling proposal that tuition be raised only at a rate equivalent to the annual increase in the BIU. Beguiling, until one does some calculating to realize that at an inflation rate of only 10 per cent (conservative, by today’s forecast), in five short years undergraduate tuition would be pushing $1,000 per annum. President Evans is winning friends to his proposal among his colleagues in COU; we can only regret that he did not show such zeal for the erosion of student support systems in real dollar terms over the past few years. ’ In addition to the savings which the provincial government can achieve by shifting the burden of increased costs to the individual student, a second method for controlling the MCU budget is through incentive to universities and community colleges to cut enrolments. The counter-rhetoric remains: in the BIU announcement for this election year a claim was made that sufficient support was being provided for natural enrolment increases. However, we have seen a move in the last two years to a slip-year financing system under which post-secondary institutions receive revenues each year on the basis of the number of students enrolled the previous year. Clearly, such a move gives universities the option of meeting inflating costs through allowing enrolments to decline. Perhaps because this system does not seem to be operating as the provincial administration had anticipated, we see in the announcement of the method for distributing incomes to community colleges for next year a move away from formula financing. As the formula system as originally conceived served aS an incentive to increase enrolments, it is reasonable to assume that this shift is the tip of the iceberg of plans to force enrolments down. Couple this with statements from MCU representatives that many students are enrolling in community colleges who are not suited to such advanced study, individual university plans to lower -average ‘grades, and statements from MCU that the reason that the full 1000 Ontario Graduate Scholarships were not “distributed in 1974 was that there were not enough graduate students in the‘system of outstanding calibre, and it becomes apparent that the attitudes are being created which would allow for a substantial cut in the number of students in the post. secondary system.

Education and manpower policy The move by COU to rationalize graduate programme (ACAP review, process) suggests that the universities have either been tricked into or acceded to a provincial model of advanced education based on a strict manpower forecasting planning system. The ACAP reviews each adopt an approach to planning under which the number of graduate departments across the province as well as the enrolment of

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each department is geared to the projected demand for qualified graduates in the economy. Several very serious dangers are ievident in such an approach, especially if it were to be applied not only to graduate schools, but to undergraduate and community college education as well. In the first instance, manpower need forecasting in a dynamic industrial ’ economy is notoriously inaccurate. It is extremely difficult to predict what types of skills will be-required by the Ontario workforce in five or ten years. While it takes many years to build a good programme at any level, of the post-secondary system, programmes can be dismantled over night only to find that the forecast of needs’ was in error. Just as importantly, the’ curtailment of enrolments implicit in this approach to post-secondary planning, constitutes a further retreat from an egalitarian society. With the unwillingness of the province to mount adequate financial support systems, it will again be the poor and working class students who will be denied access to educational services. As the lowering of expectations of the opportunity for further education spreads throughout the society, the economy will suffer from a trend away * from excellence to mediocrity. Why expend a great deal of effort in one’s education if the opportunity does not exist for continuing through the educational system to the post-secondary level. Perhaps more serious still will be the frustration and anger of those who see themselves denied the opportunity for advancement through education. Under a manpower model of education both the quality and economic payoff of education will suffer. The negative effect of competitiveness in the learning situation has been well documented. Our society has opted for an ideal of cooperation rather than competition in learning and work. Competition in learning dampens ‘creativity, stifles intrinsic motivation and encourages a sense of urgency in the learner leading to memorization rather than understanding. The province should not fear temporary over-production of graduates in specific fields. If individuals are willing to face the possibility of -a lack of appropriate emp-, loyment upon graduation, the economy is the better for it. The history of all sciences, especially in the area of technological application, gives witness to the notion that creativity, breakthroughs, often arise thr:>ugh cross-fertilization of ideas. The dy;Eamic for change in our society depends to a great extent on the insights of individuals bringing the models of one discipline to be;-r on the problems of another. Finally, we can not afford rigid manpower forecast planning because we do not knclw where the solutions lie for many of the- serious twentieth century problems currently facing our society. If we cut off the natural growth of departments of materials science, for example, we may just be blocking the development of a technology and a workforce which, while not currently , projected as necessary, could hold the key ‘\ to our future energy needs,.

Staff freezes

Many post-secondary institutions are being forced by the inadequacy of provincial funding to forego hiring new faculty as retirements and transfers open positions in various’departments; in some cases young, untenured staff are being dropped at the end of their annual contracts. Should our universities and colleges require such a policy over even the short term the effect will be a decline of innovation in. the very institutions on which the society depends for new solutions to its pressing concerns. The next few decades will challenge Canadians with the serious crisis of our dependency on dwindling energy and material resources. We can’t afford to forego the enthusiasm, energy and creativity which young faculty bring to the challenge of . theoretical solutions in physics, chemistry, , biochemistry, engineering, architecture and design. *

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system in Ontario could afford an increase in student-faculty ratio to 100 to\l. Such a , comment shows a complete lack o,f understanding of the nature of the teaching and ledrning process. Of course, it’s possible to lecture to 5,000 students in an introductory psychology or economics class; which is the implication of the minister’s comment, as advanced courses, specialized courses and research supervision by faculty will always require low ratios necessitating compensation by large lecture classes to average the total ratio. It is possible to have such mass lectures, that is, once we have made huge capital, investments for numerous large auditoriums on each campus. The effect on the learning process of students would be disastrous. Meaningful learning requires dialogue and interpretation available only where there is close interaction of student and teacher. Increased ratio,s w.ould lead to passivity in the learn* ing situation, a non-personal atmosphere marked by rigid formality and resulting in alienation of students from the institution and, most seriously, from their chosen fields. An increase in failure or a declinein standards would encompass the entire system. \

Twentieth century lacks a vested interest One could enjoy the irony,‘were it not so tragic, of one university’s response to the short-term problems of the BIU squeeze. The post-secondary sector lacks public support in its opposition to provincial funding shortfalls for the coming year. One reason for this lies in the past isolation of our institutions of higher learning from the public, the lack of responsiveness to conerns of neighbouring communities, the lack of relevance of programmes to societal issues and needs. Despite this obvious image problem, not to mention the ethical imperative on a major public institution, the first major programme cut at the University of Toronto is its interdisciplinary studies programme. The programme is new, hence its lack of vested interest in the university. It just happens to be the programme, however, that has initiated courses in women’s studies, environment and society, alternatives in education, community involvement: information sciences, urban planning, Canadian issues and environmental research. Unfortunately, for many post-secondary administrators, the understanding that a post-secondary institution with 5, 10, 20,000 students, many living on campus, has an obligation as a community has been not too well groundJed. Some universities are achieving budget savings through curtailment of student services.

Libraries In information centred organizations, which our post-secondary institutions most assuredly are, libraries serve as the prime focus of activity. The MCU budget for the coming year means a diminishing of information access for faculty, students and for the communities which our colleges and universities are meant to serve. A major reason for the failure to date of post-secondary institutions in generating public support of our need for increased funding, is that our libraries have not served as an information resource to the public. Our universities and colleges could, indeed, have an obligation to reach out into the community with information of local concern. University libraries are,repositories of organized, specialist information in all branches of knowledge. Consider, for example, \the collections on the effects of lead, silica dust and asbestos, the studies on modes of public transportation, on planned cities, on resource economics, on health delivery systems: the list is endless of information available on issues of continuing concern to the public. Our libraries must begin to make their communities aware of, and provide access to, this information. Far from this ideal, we are forced with the curtailment of library programmes, to suffer shortened hours and decline in acquisitions. In specialist areas, collections will quickly become outdated, thus severely damaging the quality of education within the system itself.

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OTTAWA (CUP)-A combined federal-provincial task force reconsidering the whole question of student aid in Canada has been quietly operating since last fall. The task force meets only in closed session, releases no minutes or records to the public or press and has no student representation. Documents from the committee she-w that the task force was set up last August through an agreement between the chairman of the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) and secretary of state Hugh Faulkner, at the initiative of CEM. According to one document, marked “Draft mandate” the purpose of the task force is to,“give immediate consideration to those changes necessary in existing federal plans for-student assistance in order to bring them into line with existing needs and-educational pat, terns.” The task force is to report its findings next August and make recommendations to CEM, also a closed body, and to the secretary of state in Ottawa. Bob Buckingham of the National Union of Students (NUS) wrote the CEM on December 4, 1974 stating that NUS “has learned that the Council of Education Ministers is considering proposing changes in the existing federal plans-for student assistance” and requesting that students be represented in these deliberations. . The reply from CEM secretary general Maurice Richer made reference to “ongoing studies regarding possible changes in existing student assistance schemes” but - gave no indication of the existence of the high-level task force set up last August. Richer rejected the possibility of student representation on the CEM because, ‘ ‘council policy precludes representation on our committees _ by professional or other interest groups.” “I can assure you, however, that the provincial authorities are giving very careful consideration to the students’ concerns and this, in turn, is reflected in the deliberations of the council”, he said. ’ He advised that students in those provinces “where such input has not yet been arranged” might obtain representation “by addressing the minister responsible for higher education.” As set up in August, the task force consists of representatives of the federal government and of all provinces except Quebec. According to the minutes of the November meeting, Quebec may have already dropped out of the discussions. Quebec operated its own student aid plan and does not participate in the Canada Student Loan Plan. The full term of reference contained in the draft mandate, which are believed to be incorporated into a letter of agreement between CEM and Faulkner, “in order of priority of consideration. and action” are: ‘ ‘to give immediate consideration to those changes necessary in existing federal plans for student assistance in order to bring them in line with existing needs and educational patterns, including such problems as aid to part-time students; varying concepts of need (i.e. married

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students); debt problems for lower socio-economic groups; age of majority and parental responsibility; repayment patterns, including concepts of forgiveness. To establish with federal representatives the probable time frame within which the various changes identified can be made, and to set in motion specific steps in those areas which can be rapidly accomplished. To study possibilities of co-ordinating and/or rationalizing the variety of existing federal student support patterns, i.e. Canada Student Loan Plan; Manpower training allowances; OTA; Canada Assistance Plan. “To study and report on other proposals for student assistance which might ultimately replace or substantially modify existing plans.” The provincial representatives on the task force are: G.M. Davies, co-chairman (Manitoba); D.L. Clarke, (B.C.); P.A. -Tientzen (Alta.); D. Cunningham and Dr. A.Y.J. Guy (S&k.); J. Bonner (Ont.); R.B. Mills sand Evelyn Briggs (N.B.); D.MacPherson (P.E.I.); D.H. Hemming (N.S.); and D.H. Wood (Nfld.) R.J. Lachappelle of the secretary of state office in Ottawa is the other co-chairman of the task force. Other federal representatives include F.C. Passy, chief of the Guaranteed Loans Administration, dept. of finance and P. Skippon of the privy council. The secretariat of the task force consists of M. Demisch and Y. Habib, stationed at the CEM offices in Toronto. The total cost of the task force which will meet for five full days through the year, is estimated at $9,000 and is shared by the CEM and the federal government. The next meeting of the task force is scheduled for Feb. 13 in Ottawa. The meeting is closed to the press.

Larger loans?, OTTAWA (CUP)Documents from a federal-provincial task force on student aid indicate that an inter-provincial agreement has been reached on raising the loan maxbum under the Canada) Student Loan Plan (CSLP). Under the present federal regulations the maximum student loan for an academic year is $1400. The ‘proposed change in loan ceilings, would provide for a maximum $1900 loan per year, allowingAhe provinces to reduce the grant component of student aid programs. Provinces now set their own loan ceilings ranging from- $800 to the maximum $1400. If the agreement becomes law provinceswill be able to raise loan ceilings up to $1900. The change in the loans ceiling was submitted to the provinces last October at a plenary meeting of the Canada Student Loan committee, and has now been referred to fi-

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OTTAWA (CU&--foreign investment in Canada was still increasing in the early 7 970’s according to the latest figures released by statistics Canada. Direct foreign investment in Canada amounted to $27.9 billion at the end of 7 97 7, an increase of $7.54 billion (5.9 per cent) during the year. Some 80.2 per cent of a// foreign direct investment iii this country was owned by the United States, Other major investor countries were the United Kingdom, with 9.8 per cent of the total, and the Netherlands, France and Switzerland, each with between 7 per cent and 2 per cent of the totak. During 797 7;there were increases of $986 million and $227 million, respectively, in direct investment in Canada owned in the U.S. and the U.K. Direct investment in the petroleum and natural gas industry continued at a high rate. In dollar terms, the $547 million rise in direct investment iti petroleum and natural gas outstripped increases in any other industry, anb’ in relative terms represented an increase of 8.3 per cent compared with the annual increase for a/l industries of 5.9 per cent. In manufacturing, which accounts for 39.7 per cent of the total stock of foreign direct investment in Canada, the increase during 7 97 7 was $30 7 million. Direct investment in the financial sector rose by $282 pillion to a total of $3.7.3 billion. investment from the United Kingdom in the real estate and insurance industries was the jargest single element of the increase and represented more than one-half of the overall increase in direct investment by U.K. residents in all industries: At$257 million, directjnvestment in the mining and sfielting industry rose 8 per cent during 7977 to reach $3.49 billion at the end of the year. Sources at Statistics Canada indicated that while direct investment was rising at $7.5- billion a year, investment from retained earnings in Canada was rising by almost-$7 billion per year making the total increase in foreign investment in Canada a/most $2.5 billion per ye_ar in 7977, ‘the latest year for which figures are available. c

nance minister, John Turner, for consideration. Und.er the Canada Student Loans Act, the minister of finance is responsible for the plan. . The CSLP committee meets on an annual basis and consistsof representatives from the federal and provincial government. The plenary provides a forum for a consensus to emerge between the provinces and Ottawa on the operation of the CSLP, according to a federal official. There is no student representation on the committee, its meetings are held in closed session, and no record of discussions or decisions is released to the public. But a report of what occurred at this year’s meeting on October 11-12, 1974, was contained in the November minutes of the federalprovincial task force on student aid. According to those minutes: “Amongst the changes submitted to the provinces for confirmation were a 16.9 per cent increase to all allowances with accompanying changes in parental contribution tables, as well as minor amendments to and clarification of, existing criteria” which were unspecified in the report. It continues: “Several-items, such as modified Group A Status (i.e. provision that students be treated as independent upon completion of four years postsecondary education) increases in loan ceilings to $1800/$900 (loan grant) from $1400/$700 and aid to partfti,me students had been referred to the minister of finance for consideration.”

NUS urges survey , l OTTAWA (CUP)-The National Union of Students (NUS) is continuing its campaign to have the government send out adequate questionnaires assessing the effects of socio-economic factors on students attending post-secondary institutions. NUS has already participated with Statistics Canada in a survey that will assess student financial needs. -This questionnaire will be sent to 50,000 to 100,poO students and will be used as a basis for a revised Canada Student Loan Plan. A federal-provincial task force of education ministers has been meeting for several months to look at the old CSLP and revise it. NUS approached Stats. Canada about participating in the survey and were asked to contribute to it. As a result several of the NUS recommendations will be incorporated in the questionnaire. However, NUS feels that while the questionnaire will provide information on the financial needs of students, it will not provideinformation on’ students who couldn’t attend because they.didn’t have the money. “While we think the survey will be valuable for us it doesn’t question non-students. All that can be l

determined from this questionnaire is the financial status of present students. It will not show to what extent socio-economic factors affeet a person’s decision to withdraw from university or not,” says Hilda Creswick, a NUS national office researcher. She says that NUS wants a supplementary survey sent out to those students who have attended university for a year then dropped out or who were accepted by a university but couldn’t attend because they didn’t have the funds. NUS feels that the present survey will be insufficient unless the ’ supplementary is also sent out. They also complain that the pre- c sent survey is seeking objective information. Though it is essential it doesn’t touch on the many personal and subjective reasons why people decide to discontinue their education. In 1971, Stats. Can. points out that 19,Oo undergraduate students who completed their year failed to re-apply and 5,000 students who were accepted didn’t show up mainly becase of financial matters. NUS has asked its members to prepare a supplementary questionnaire they will present to Stats. Can. and the secretary of state this week. I

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