University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 16, number 1 friday, may 9, 1975
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Burt Matthews, UW president, warned a gathering of faculty Deans ani;l Senate members they must prepare for substantial budget cuts in their faculty spending for the coming academic year.
If you plan to live off-campus operation with the Federation of next fall, you’d better look for a Students, trying to coax the Waterhome now as UW’s housing office loo Regional Apartment Owners predicts a 200-room shortage. Association to rent to student tenHousing director Cail Vin- ’ ants once again. He said last year there were nicombe said Wednesday that 3,700 off-campus rooms listed, now there are generally enough vacancies he only expects 3,500 this year. in the community to accommodate He expects that during the first the stu_dents, but owners are week of registration many students wary of renting to students because of a “rowdy” student image -’ will have no place to sleep. It’ll be more serious this year ‘than last created in the radical 1960’s. when there were 100 rooms left re“Apartment owners consider gistered by the end of September. students a high risk tenant and He urged the news media to pubwon’t rent to them due to this radilicize the expected shortage as’ a cal image,” Vinnicombe said. enticing “nonmeans of “This image in the minds of the landlords to make professional’ ’ landlords accounts for the shortage rooms available. The response to at the beginning of the term.” last year’s plea for rooms was more However, now the “whole atthan 100 families who offered titude of students has changed over makeshift accommodation solely out the last few years and they’ve beof concern for the students’ welcome more mature and responsifare, Vinnicombe said. ble,” Vinnicombe stated. So what So he hopes similar help can be is needed at present is better public relied on this year as there’ll be a relations with the local landlords to greater number of students searchappease their fears. ing for rooms at the last minute. Vinnicombe said he’s; in coLast year, Vinnicombe told stu-
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According to W. A. McLaughlin, Dean of Engineering, the faculty has only $6,500 available for new lab equipment for undergraduate courses. Last year the faculty had $59,000 for equipment, however even this figure failed to cover the $200,000 cost of required new equipment. To meet this expense the faculty had to dip into a decreasing surplus accumulated over previous years. McLaughlin told the chevron that with only $6,500 to spend this year, the surplus will disappear by the end of this year. At this time, unless more funds are made available by the province for education, no more equipment will be purchased. Undergraduate students will suf-
fer most because professors and graduate students receive funding from the government and industry. They can use this money to purchase any scientific equipment needed for their research. Though some of this equipment can be used when teaching undergraduate engineers, most of it is highly specialized, complicated and single-use’equipment. McLaughlin is quite concerned about the situation, “the lack of equipment threatens the viablity of our program because we depend on the labs for teaching”. _ This equipment is essential for an engineering education but it appears the provincial government is unwilling to increase funding. -robert ma klan
UW president Burt Matthews told a Senate Finance Committee last Tuesday “We must prepare for the worst’ without panic”. The committee had gathered to review a brief to bepresented to the Ontario Council of Universities Affairs (OCUA) to outline the desparate financial plight of the University of Waterloo. OCUA is the appointed body which advises the provincial government on university policy. The brief, prepared by university vice-president in charge of finances Bruce Gellatly models the effects the continued provincial government’s cutbacks in education would have on universities until the 1980-81 academic year. Gellatly told the assembly of ,Deans and Senate members the university might have to fire 60 faculty in 76-77 and a cumulative total of 137 faculty by 1981. The biggest cuts would have to be made in the 75-76 academic year when the sixty faculty might be fired. Geiiatly commented this model “OCUA just how must show ridiculous the situation is if the government does not increase grants in line with inflation factors’ ’ . Further to this Matthews added “if they are not impressed with our position we are in great trouble”. “The minister (James Auld) can say its a 16 per cent increase (the increase in university financing) on a system basis, but this does not do US as much good as we are only
dents’ council that during the month of August there were 50 students coming to his office each day looking for housing and that by early September 100 to 200 students were dropping in. Council, sensing there was a need for immediate accommodations, set up a “Tent City” outside the Campus Center for those unlucky students who couldn’t find a place to stay. “Tent City” was housing students until the end of September. -john morris
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getting 8.5 per cent”, Matthews added. Gellatly referred to a $2.1 million problem, the amount expenses will exceed income in 1976-77 unless the government changes the financial picture. The Senate Finance Committee now must find areas in the university’s budget where they can cut financing. Already _Gellatly is looking at professors’ paid sabbaticals as an area where cuts could be made. “Although this is a well accepted procedure (sabbatical leaves) in the university community, which we could not give up, at the same token we must eye the money available to us” Gellatly commented. The budget allocation used to repair university capital equipment and renovate or .alter university building has been cut to thirty-five per cent of last year’s level. The brief announced that the parking susidy , will be reduced 100 per cent which will result “in students paying a higher parking fee in 1975-76’ ’ .
“People’s Radio Waterloo, UW’s campus radio station still needs more volunteers to work on summer projects. Dave Assman a station staffer told the chevron “if anyone missed Thursday% summer organizational meeting to give the station a call or come up to Radio Waterloo in per: s 14 an cl 6-1? sf?ffer will introduce people to the facilities”. There are several distinct areas of interest within the station. Most popular in previous years have been the stations music shows which dominate its programming schedule. However, Assman emphasized the station is expanding into other areas this summer. Radio Waterloo will begin a new series “People’s Music” showcasing local musicians. The station has already taped ten shows to be broadcast during the summer. The station also hopes to provide the campus with radio news coverthe station will ” age. Furthermore,
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Government funding&r 1975-76 is not adequate to fund equitable salaries for Unkersity personnel in relation to comparable employees in the public and private sector, was another conclusion of the brief. The report noted that Waterloo did not grant any interim increases during 1974-75, though this was done at many other universities. The university has to be in a competitive position to hire good staff. However the Ontario Civil Service was recently granted a salary increase of 21 per cent. At present there is not any way the university can match these salary increases. The meeting adjourned with the gloomy faces of the university senate committee members having to face the possibilities of deteriorating buildings and equipment, firing university professors or’ perhaps worse having to close the university if a source of heat cannot be found (the university will be cut off from its oil supply by 1976). -michael gordon _-
music” provide live coverage of campus sports if they can find interested volunteers. Recently the station completed its four track recording and now needs people to operate the equipment. The facilities will be used by local musicians and other groups on campus and in the KitchenerY;atzrloo Cor+nUniijr . For the technically minded, the station has new equipment to be used for the station converts to stereo that needs to be built and repaired. Anyone interested in joining Radio Waterloo is welcomed to drop by the station facilities in the Bauer Wharehouse located about a half a mile behind the optometry building (or call university* extension 2330). The station always have personnel on hand to show newcomers the facilities and help them get into an area in which they’d like to participate. -michael gordon II
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Man-Environment students Sean Casey and WaIly Rempel presented a petition for separate convocation ceremonies to the Senate Executive Committee during its May 5th meeting. Representing approximately half of the students graduating in Man-Environment studies, they succeeded in obtaining permission to ho/d their own convocation onMay 25. Listening are Chris Redmond, editor of the Gazette, and history prof Ken Davies. photo by hess
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F&i’&bticin If you own a car and want to economize, you could do well to use the fix-it-yourself garage provided by the Federation of Students and the Engineering Society. The facility, dubbed the “student garage” by students’ council on April 22, should be ready by the end of May. It will be located in the south-west corner of the Bauer Warehouse (adjacent to Radio Waterloo). For use of the garage, a $2 per term fee will be levied and servicing will be limited to body work, lubrication, engine tune-ups, tire changes and exhaust system repairs. The garage will accommodate three vehicles at a time. The “student garage” will cost $7,000 to build, with the federation paying $5,000 and EngSoc $2,000. In a renort to council, EngSoc president -Kim Etherington said the purpose of the venture is “to provide a facility where students may
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Women across Canada have setaside the day before Mother’s Day as a time to make public statements clarifying their demands for change. On Saturday, May 10, marches and rallies are planned in many
’ Scientists Geoscientists from Canada, the United States and several other countries will be taking part in meetings to be held at UW from May 15th through 17th. The annual meetings of the Geological Association of Canada and the- Mineralogical Association of Canada will be held in conjunction with the North-Central section of the Geological society of America. The programme has attracted over 380 scientific and technical papers which will be presented in the Engineering Lecture Hall of the university. As of the beginning of April, several hundred advance registrations had been received from places as distant as Australia, New Zealand, India, Bulgaria, East Germany and Sweden, and it is expected that over one thousand scientists will attend the Waterloo meeting.
repairs may be effected.” According to a leaflet distributed The “minimum equipment” for to councillors, the, goals of YPLD the garage includes: a “sturdy but are: portable ramp”; a 225 Amp arc -to intervene and mediate in situawelder; a monorail with chain tions which would otherwise reach hoist; a hydraulic dolley hoist; a the courts; light duty air compressor; a library -to assist young people in the of repair manuels; a 1 lo/220 v. 3ph. courts, in association with other power supply; a metal work bench groups such as probation services; with heavy duty vise; an oil dis- _ ?-to monitor cases progressing posal tank and a fire extinguisher. through the courts; In other business, council gave -to collect and analyze data col$2,000 to the Young People in lected in the courts; Legal Difficulty (YPLD) to help the -to staff and maintain a home for project tide over hard times while it young people in trouble with the waits further federal and provincial law in the Kitchener-Waterloo government funding. area. One of the project’s directors, Former federation president Sandra Sachs, said that the main Andy Telegdi urged council to supobjective of YPLD is to orient port the project as it would do much young people coming to court for the first time. “ These people suffer from all kinds of problems such as no money, no job and no place to stay.”
to improve student relations with the community. He pointed out that as- a former member of a Local Initiatives Programme granting committee, he could safely say the project received the highest recommendation. 3 Council also approved several summer positions for <the various federation area boards such as entertainment, housing, education and publications. Entertainment orientation chairperson will be Joan Fischer; education researchers/planners will be Shane Roberts and John Morris; housing co-ordinator will be Sandy McDonald; and handbook editor will be Randy Hannigan. -john
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cities to focus attention upon the demands of the Women’s Movement. These demands include: Equal pay for work of equal value. Universal access to quality child care. Equal rights in marriage and property law. Safe and effective birth control for all. Removal of abortion from the criminal code. Freedom for Dr. Henry Mdrgenthaler. * The spread of the Women’s Movement has prompted govern-. ment policy makers to declare 1975 International Women’ s Year and to set up advertizing campaigns and offer grants for women’s projects. The question being asked by many
women, however, is “How much will all of this contribute to the concrete social changes that feminists are seeking?” Although International Women’s Year is described in one government publication as a” ‘grass. roots” movement, women across Canada feel that the government is not addressing itself to the most important issues and is trying to tell women what the issues are rather than to find out by asking. Women from the K-W Women’s Place are planning to join the demonstration in Toronto. It will begin at 1:00 pm on May 10 at the north end of Queen’s Park. Any women interested in joining are invited to contact Phyllis Waugh at 576-9477 or the Women’s \ Place,at 744-70 11:
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Campus centre. pub open There will be beer, liquor and nightly entertainment for all as the campus centre permanent pub opens its doors for another term The facility is being run jointly by the university administration and federation of students. Federation officials hope the entire operation will eventually be under the student management. At present Bill Deeks, university administrative services chief, and the federation are negotiating an agreement which will give the bar to student management. The signing of the agreement will cost the federation some fifty thousand dollars which will pay for the renovations and’additions of required bar facilities. * The pub was closed last fall for the renovations and opened again for business in the middle of January. Pub management officials are being very strict about those who contravene the house rules. During the third week in March the pub was closed for a week due to continuing abuse of the house rules. Deeks, in a recent chevron interview, said about this abuse “Well there have been many and they allhave a potential of affecting our license”. The Friday night preceding the shutdown a scuffle broke out in the pub and finally precipitated the dry week.
Pub workers complained about “a minority of patrons, travelling from table to-table with drinks in their hands which is in direct contravention of liquor laws, and also moving tables from room to room”. Other offical house rules include: identification must be shown on request at the door; the management can refuse to admit anyone; and the service of alcoholic beverages is available only to students, faculty, staff and their registered guests. , Pub qfficials insist the liquor license can be withdrawn at any time should a liquor license board
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After an absence of one year, the Warrior Trophy Track and Field Championship for high school students, will be resumed this coming Saturday, May 10, 1975. The athletic department of the university of Waterloo was forced to cancel last year’s Meet due to problems in communicating with the high schools ‘around the province. This situation was brought about by some-problems within the mail-handling industry. Another feature of the resumption is the return to full use of Seagram Stadium. The stadium has recently been refurbished with new seats. When the Warrior Meet was last held in Seagram Stadium (in
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corn-ing ‘73) the spectators were confined to the first few rows of seats: The other seats in the stands had been declared unsafe. The meet director, Bob McKillop, has been very encouraged by the number of entries that have been flowing into his office. “In spite of the number of new meets that have sprung up in the springtime, we will still have a very large . number of entries this year. It certainly bodes well for interest and enthusiasm in track and field in Ontario. Leading the entries will be the perennial powerhouse from Toronto, Michael Power. Michael Power has won the Warrior Trophy in five -out of the last six years, its string broken only in 1970 by Parkdale Collegiate from Toronto. The Michael Power Trojans, led by their coach, Father John Redmond, have another excellent team, this year. The Trojans, always strong in the track events have some very good performers in the field events this year. Leading the field event competitors is Ed Kwiatowski in the discus. Last week, Kwiatowski set a Canadian inter-scholastic record with a total of 186’5”. ,’ If Kwiatowski can come anywhere near his throw of last week, he will have a good chance of breaking the longest-standing record in the Warrior meet. The discus record for the Warrior Track and Field Meet was set back in 1966 when Zenon Andrusyshyn, now a kicker with the Toronto Argonauts then performing with _a@ Oakville-Trafalgar threw the discus 177’. - The Warrior Meet will get underway at 11:OO on Saturday (May 10) with the heats in the 110 meter hurdles. There will be a track break from 1250 until 1:30. The last event is schedule&for 5:20, the 4x100 meter relay. Spectators are welcome to attend the event. There is no admission charge. There is adequate free parking beside Seagram Stadium.
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Bluegr ass It was only a few years ago that all the music being played over the air waves could be classified as one of three different types. The music was either rock and roll, country and western or classical. however, these Today categories are no longer sufficient to classify any one song. Rock groups have teamed up with symphony orchestras, rock operas have come on the scene and very defmite country sounds have pervaded the top forty charts. While the country sound has definitly formed a separate identity apart from “western” music, with western music still being dominated by a twangy voice, there is a part-of country music that is gaining steadily in popularity. The music originated in the hills of Kentucky and came to be known as bluegrass. With instruments such as lead banjos, fiddles, guitars, mandolins and stand up bass, groups came out of the Kentucky hills with a unique picking style that culminated in the now famous “breakdown music”. This foot stomping music began to move north, and his gained alot of popularity among the “back to the land’ ’ -people. Although originally, there were no electrified instruments used in bluegrass, and there still remain groups that refuse to use amps, the electric bass and to some extent the electric guitar has come onto the scene. However the basic, footstomping fast paced music is still there. Locally, bluegrass music or bluegrass oriented music has been introduced by such bands as Kit Carson, The King City Slickers, Salt Spring Rainbow and perhaps the best known bluegrass group in Canada, the*Good Brothers. It would probably be a surprise to most music fans to learn that the largest music festival in Canadais a bluegrass festival held each year at Carlisle near Hamilton. In it’s third year, the festival has grown from an attendance of 2600 persons to a
point where this year producer, Don Bird, is limiting ticket sales to thirty thousand. The groups that have been signed for this year’s festival include Bill Monroe, the “father of bluegrass” from Kentucky, the Good Brothers from Toronto, the Country Gazette, the country Gentleman the Seldom Scene all from south of the border, Josh Graves and Norman Blake and many others. These names may not mean much to the uninitiated but the festival will provide the biggest cross section of bluegrass music ever assembled in Canada. The festival begins on Friday June 6, 1975 at noon and continues until midnight Sunday June 8. The festiv’al area is a large park near Carlisle on highway 6> and the park has a large camping area for all those attending the three day session.~ The stage is separated from the camping area and there-will be a craft city set up where crafts will be displayed and sold. Food will be sold on the site, and for those camping liquor will be allowed at the tents, since that will be the place of residence for the weekend. While the main attraction will probably be the stage shows, there will be other attractions also. Bluegrass groups have a habit of, jamming just about anywhere and there will be workshops held for those who want to learn about some of the finer points of picking or playing a breakdown. The cost for the weekend is thirteen dollars which includes the camping and parking fee, and there will be a one day ticket for Sunday only which will cost about eight dollars. Tickets are available at Sams in Kitchener. For those unfamiliar with bluegrass, listen to John Denver’s new release or remember Dueling Banjos which was formerly called Feuding Banjos and thats music with bluegrass roots. -randy
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ihe Good Brothers, perhaps the most prominent Canadian bluegrass group will be performing at the third annual BluegrassTanada festival. The festival, he/d near Carlisle, Ontario, is expecting-over thirty thousand persons during the june 6, 7, 8, weekend. Crafts and music workshops will form an impor, tant part of the festival.
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NUS-pushes for changes in student. aidcLprogrammes . of those receiving stuprivilege, and the way to imple- ’ However, ment this is to have no financial dent aid, about 54.8 per cent- borbarriers whatsoever.” row under $1,000 during the entire NUS deals with the federal persperiod of their studies, the report pective of student aid and leaves asserts. provincial assistance programmes So given the current figures, the to such regional unions as the Onreport states that “a large proportario Federation of Students, the tion of students attending postdes Association Nationale secondary education have better Etudiantes de Quebec, the Atlantic financial means than the majority Federation of Students and the of Canadians. ’ ’ British Columbia Student FederaBut the report warns against tion, Ouellette said. . “the extreme caution now ‘being However, the regional student taken in increased spending on unions depend upon and use a con“The concept we go by is post-secondary education” which siderable amount of NUS research. is “due to the fear fostered by that education is a social Ouellette pointed out that ~the politicians, of overspending on righlt and not a privipolitical stands of NUS will “progeducation at the expense of other lege. . . ” ’ ress only as far as students have social needs. ’ ’ For, although stuintemalized the arguments of their dent enrolment and government lead r-s.” Student officials should funding increased considerably be“The concept we go by is that to be tween 1960-61 and 1970-71, these education is a social right and not a pres f ure their constituency concerned with society as a whole figures “are far less alarming when and not just with self-centered is- one realizes that only in recent sues. years was thefinancing of postsecondary education recognized as // . when informed, stu- a government responsibility. d& will act again.” “Prior to 1951, the only federal financial assistance to postsecondary students was the ‘Aid to Asked about the image of the 20 cents off Veterans Programme’ and until the “apathetic” student depicted in reon any sundae Canada Student Loan Plan came cent stories run in the daily press, into effect, there was virtually no Ouellette noted that “even in the government student aid that was militant 1960s only 20 per cent of meant to be directed specifically to the student sector participated in’ Good at any 6 K-W locations those who could not afford to pay the movement and that when inOffer expires May 15, 1975. formed, students will act again.” for their own educational costs,” I the report states. He cited last fall’s student The report stresses that govemmarches and strikes in Quebec ment should consider how the where over 100,000 students opmoney is spent and who benefits posed the government’s assistance rather than how much is being scheme as being inadequate and inspent. efficient. * disc jockey ’ Active lobbying on the part of . . . money does influence NUS to push for reforms in student -dance service issues will enable the movement to the educational oppor‘ ‘blossom”, Ouellette said. call: tunities for young pe&le. In a plenary report on student aid-, NUS charged that the present In addition, the report cites the educational system is unequal for Porter study entitled “Does Money three reasons: ,Matter? Prospects for higher edu“-the financial and social barcation” (conducted in 1973 by Marriers which continue to exist; ion Porter, John Porter and, Ber“-the lack of information about nard Blishen) which affirmed, after educational opportunities and stusurveying 9,000 Ontario high FRIDAY SATURDAY & dent aid programmes ; school students, that money does ALL NEXT WEE‘K “-the inequitable manner of influence the educational oppordistributing these funds.” tunities for young people. Dancing.to The report says that federalThe Porter study also showed provincial government commisthat over 40 per cent of grade 12 sioned research, the Peitchimis students didn’t know. how much Report, 1972, has shown students Blue Grass Country Rock money they could get in govemfrom low and moderate income ment assistance if they went to uniFully Licensed under the Liquor Licence Act underfamilies are “greatly versity. L Just for the fun of if! represented in the post-secondary This leads the NUS student aid In 1973-74, pnly school system. ” report to assert that: “If students at 35 per cent of university students this point in their education are not received federal and/or provincial informed of the financial assistance Open Mon - Sat azisor>‘s TAVERN. assistance leaving. the remainder available to them, then we can only 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. Downtown Kitchener 579-6970 dependent on parental contribu, conclude that the government aid is not intended to serve as an incentions or savings. tive to higher education.” In order to assess “the extent of educational equality,” the report ’ AUDITIONS recommends that “to ensure that Thursday, May 15 8-10 pm Humanities Room 180 the appropriate changes may be for the Summer Drama Production of made to achieve maximum accesI AM A CAMERA sibility to post-secondary education in this country,” surveys be by John van Druten conducted of: Directed by Maurice Evans -all individuals in the ap.-
The drive for a student aid programme aimed at breaking down the financial barriers for students from low-income families remains the key concern of the National Union of Students (NUS). . Other priorities include the publication of a university women’s survival manual and investigations into student housing and employment problems. * NUS met last weekend at its third annual meeting in Toronto to draft an “action list” for the upcoming year and to discuss prepared studies of the diverse facets of student life. Over 80 delegates , from 25 post-secondary institutions across Canada attended the conference. In an interview, NUS president Pierre Ouellette said presently the
main goal of the union is to push for ‘ ‘a more equitable student aid programme” which would involve a substantial revamping of the existing federal and provincial assistance ‘schemes. He argued that a more equitable programme would further the breakdown of the current elitist image of the universities as a greater number of students from lowincome families could attend higher education.
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- . propriate age bracket not enrolled in ‘post-secondary institutions; -those who enrolled but never completed their courses; ‘&those who were accepted but failed to enrol. “The completion of these surveys is essential if we are to determine to what extent those who do not receive a post-secondary education are restricted by financial considerations ,” the report asserts. The report urges that the surveys be conducted as soon as possible as both the federal and provincial governments are considering policies on student aid without this information. It also lists the following recommendations to improve student assistance: “-that the provincial and federal governments undertake a thorough review of their respective aid schemes with the intent of consolidating these into one national aid programme ; ‘ ‘-that this programme include abolition of tuition fees and an adequate living stipend for all students; “-that the costs of this programme be borne by the federal govemment ; . “-that this programme assess the students’ needs according to the following criteria: 1) the age of independence to be 18; 2) students’ needs to be calculated by taking into account the individual student’s financial resources: income, gifts, bursaries and scholarships; 3) all students regardless of discipline, type of institution or year of study to be given equal consideration; 6c--that Dart-time students be eligible - for {he programme with the same considerations as given fulltime students, their needs to be assessed on a pro-rated basis with full-time students; “-that governments expressly recognize the right of representative student organizations to participate on all government bodies determining policies, criteria and administrative procedures, and . that immediate discussion be opened with the National Union of Students to achieve this goal; “-that the formulae for student aid be thoroughly publicized to all adults and high school students; “-that any’ form of the cantingency repayment scheme whereby assistance is given in the form of loans be rejected. ”
“Our society mySt be transformed into one in which full educational equality exists for all citizens.” Finally, the report notes that: “Our society must be transformed into one in which full educational equality exists for all citizens. No one should have to forego an acceptable standard of living in order to attain the education he or she wishes.” -john
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Engineer t j defends .* RCMP ’ Re ‘the Art of Interrogation’, April 4, ‘75. This booklet was meant to accompany or supblement the author’s lectures to RCMP trainees. The RCMP makes no attempt to censor any of their lecturers. (Shades of Renison). The lectures are ineant to expose I the trainee to as many facets of the society in which (s)he will work as possible. The RCMP prints “lecture notes” for those lecturers who do not have the facilities to print a 6opy for each trainee, (thus the RCMP crest on the cover), and what is printbd does not necessarily represent official policy. The trainees are expected to make up their own minds about the use or applications of what they read or hear in lectures. (Most people that I know, or know of, know something about the Germans’ treatment of Jews during the war. Because they know how these things were done doesn’t mean they do them. I have yet to meet someone who has taken his neighborhood jew(s) and roasted them in an oven.) Keep your eyes and ears open. You, too, could have obtained this information. Fora short article, I think that ‘the Art of Interrogation’ is a good description of some common non-violent interrogation techniques. Paul van Leeuwen 1B mech. eng.
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It may not be known to most of the students at this University who pay an annual sum of $22.00 towards Athletic fees, but a conspiracy has been taking place: in the Jock Palace. (otherwise known as the P.A.C.). The weight room is .permanently occupied by a variety of barbells, dumbbells (not all human), a leg machine, and two Universal weight lifting machines. Out of all the equipment in the room, the Universal machines have the largest work loads. Having used the room for two years now, I can honestly say that students have taken better care of the equipment this year than they have in the past.’ But, the puzzling thing (one of the 8 great mysteries of the world) is that the equipment is in the worst condition that it has ever been in. What could be the cause of this unbelievable fact? The answer-poor maintainence by the administration. The only reason the equipment is breaking is because the equipment is receiving no maintenance care. I think it is very senseless for the University to spend our money to buy new equipment and then leave it there to take care of itself! When you buy a new car, do you sit back, and let the car change its ownoil, add its own antifreeze, fill its own tires with air or even wash itself when it is dirty? Of course not ! And, I assure you that a weight lifting machine has no more intelligence than a car; so somebody better get up to that room and do something about the expensive equipment that is rotting there! There is only about half left that is still useable,. All that is required is a little time to oil the ‘machine and replace wornibut parts with new ones. I admit that consultants have been called in to examine the faulty equipment but after heeing and hawing for half an hour or so, they could do nothing but suggest that they should go for a coffee to think over the situation! It is also unfortunate that a person using
the machine received an ugly gash across the back of his neck when a cable snapped and the weight came crashing down upon him. After his blood was spilt, we naturally figured something would be done about this intolerable situation. But we were left standing there in the cold with our jock straps in our hands! As you’ve probtibly noticed, the crime rate on campus has been quite low this year. This is partly due to the fact that, Captain Power and his fellow crime fighters (with the likes of Clark Kent, Shazam, the Mighty Hulk, and Steve Austin) have been working dut daily at the weight room. But, if the administration doesn’t fix the equipment, these heroes will be forced to leave the area and give Security a headache they may not be able to handle. So, don’t give our weight lifters a let down ! Please fix the equipment! / Zorro Well I wouldn’t hold your breath. The provincial government is forcing the university to cut its budget for repairs, 65.5 percent. In the next year alot of equipment will be falling to seed due to the . lackoffunding. ’ -1ettitor
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below-their dignity to be “bullied” by that bureaucracy. If it’s not these uncooperative sorts it’s those who get their thrills stealing the books we need. They are the ones who should face the firing squad. All these cases are blamed on the library staff. Do you think that’s fair? Do you khow how difficult it is to keep track of almost 700,000 books and periodicals? Our library is free of all the red tape like they have in Toronto. We can even enter the stacks to look at the books before we take them out. This makes for a lot of work, reshelving, shelf-reading (to put books on sheIves back in order after we’ve screwed them up) and finding the books requested that are in the library and not on their proper shelves. . These people aren’t being paid all that much and on top of it they get some pretty degrading treatment. I don’t think what is usually said about them is very well thought out. Just think about some of the pressures they have to contend with. Then look at all the criticism of late and see if it’s either misplaced or just plain petty. Art Farquarson 3rd year Sociology
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This letter in reply to the critique of the Yes “Relayer” album in the March 14 Chevron. I was wondering how many times the author has listened to that albuin before making his judgement? The reason why I ask is that I believe one needs to seriously listen to Yes’ works many times to fully appreciate the intricacies and fine melodies thai combine to create the whole. Each listening unfolds new textures and colours making the songs fresh and vibrant. If Yes is the progressive group I think it is, then it is headed in the right direction in that the members are not afraid to change and experiment instead of stagnating in their past accomplishments. To me all too many bands choose the latter thus becoming little more than music machines. When the author compares Yes to Santana, I get the impression that he feels Yes is not being original. But then again, is San;tana being original? Not really. Is there anything wrong with returning to original music sounds and re-interpreting them? Does a group have to be totally different in orde?%o be termed “successful”? I’m not trying to undermine the author’s comments, for music is relative to the listener. I simply wish to offer another view. of some serious artists that deserve merit for their: willingness to grow instead of lying fat and fallow. Gordon
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I would like to comment on G. Finlay’s article “How the drug companies handle your headaches” which was printed in the last issue of the chevron. The information given on the composition and effects of the various drugs on the market was very useful, but the undertone and conclusions of the article were wrong: too much blaming “them”, too little realising that it is we ourselves, allowing ourselves, to be conned by advertisement and other factors into the simplistic thinking “this @lI will make my headache go away in a moment”. Particularly what was said in the last paragraph-how can one be so naive to think that socialism will cure our societal headaches in a moment? or even at 4 all? . Looking at the various “socialist experiments” presently “making progress towards communism”, and at history, it seems that no “system” as of yet has not been corrupted soon by individuals of that society. The capitalist profiteering attitude of the drug companies (like those of other industiies), is found in other societies as well, and in a different form, the “me first” attitude, is in almost everyone every\ where. t Chris
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Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers union of dumont press graphix (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. .As the sun sets behind the PAC building tho& chevrics who never give up are putting out the first issue of this years’ chevron, volume 16:l. The chevrics are an optimist lot, we’ve scheduled forty-nine issues for the coming year. This is an increase over last year’s publication schedule of eleven issues which is accounted for by the chevron scheduling an issue for every week of the summer term until July 25. Also the chevron will begin publication on a twice weekly basis beginning next January. Now you ask why the chevrics have decided to increase the number of publications. It’s simply because we figure the faster,we can get the news out to you the better service we are providing the campus communuity. So give us another read and I’ll’ bet you’ll find something you would like to read. So good luck on the summer term and enjoy the first few slack.weeks..Also don’t forget we are having a special meeting on Monday at 2:00 in the chevron office, campus centre r-m 140 for anyone interested in putting out a newspaper that gives this student body the quality news coverage it deserves. Production on this weeks’ paper included john morris, henry hess, randy hanriigan, Sylvia hannigan, diane ritza, and michaei gordon, peering up at passers-by between the PAC and the campus centre, hope to see you on monday, mg.
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