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University of Waterloo Wate+loo, Ontario v&me 16, number 9 . friday, july 11, 1975

-.The beach party and boogie by Lake Columbia last Sunday complete with four bands, including Saltspring Rainbow Band (playing next week in the cc pub) was quite a success considering the numbers attracted to the event. Although not tried in recent memory the afternoon came off successfully with no-snags. photo by mim carter

This year% student housing crisis will be miuch worse than last -year’s shortage, says Carl Vinnicombe, University of Waterloo housing director.

It has also been predicted by a local Apartment Owners Association that apartment, rents will increase an average of twenty-five per cent, this year.

Student village one and two and all the church colleges have said they can add little relief to the crisis since all their accomodation was filled about one month ago. * Vinnicombe has requested Ron Eydt, warden of the student vilb lages, to possibly allow students to temporarily double up in residence

Hagey residence. sI-. rooms, halls and lounges to give cated forthe%most-part in the surVinnicombe said the- housing of- ~ rounding community of Waterloo is accomodation to those students ’ fice would approach fourth year who are unable to locate housing by well below the more than 1000 beds September. women to fill the residence if they the list contained last year. are unable to find enough graduate Eydt’s initial-reaction to the sugMost of the accomodation is for women. There is no chance of men gestion has been somewhat negaroomers and costs on the average occupying<ny of the residence tive because he sees the student re$15 a week without meals and $20 rooms. sidences legally bound to students to $24 with’meals.

A few vacancies are still availato provide single accomodation.

Students looking for houses and ble in the married student’s apartapartments to rent will be surprised At present village tutors are conments . Although university ,policy to hear landlords asking for two to sidering the proposal, however insists on all residents being marthree months rent in advance. One most feel the decision whether to ried the housing office will not evict I local landlord is asking $500 a move on it must be made by the non-married students unless ,other month for a five bedroom ‘house village residents. married residents complain.” and wants $1000 before the tenants The Philip Street Co~op reports The off-campus housing shorcan move in. there are still double rooms for tage will be particularly acute this Many landlords are withdrawing year, says Carl Vinnicombe.

This single girls. Vacancies for graduate their housing from the student women- are still open in Minota year’s housing list of 800 beds lomarket. Tony Bergmeir, president of the Waterloo Region Apartment Owners Association says he has found students to be among the worst tenants as they have little regard for the private property of the landlords. Due to the high cost of damages apartment owners are finding it more profitable to rent to married couples because -they sel. dom have damage problems with Whiplash is a two-person operathis group. considers that there has been a protion that plays recorded music to liferation of information at the UniFederation president, John Shortall-reports the federation will be entertainment events on campus versity of Waterloo for over five with the associataion to for a minimal fee. years which has exposed the op- ’ working The Radio Waterloo statement pressive human relationships of encourage them to give students a points out that though it might seem our-society and of our: style of life. ” - chance to rent their housing.

Waterloo landlords are also’ a-contradicti for Whiplash to reHowever, Radio Waterloo is fuse a contract in a time of scarce withdrawing housing from students _aware that one of the reason why because they can make more funds, this stance is necessary engineers are most prone to permoney during the Oktober “fun since “the staff at Radio Waterloo petuate oppressive human relabelieves that whereas it is very imfest”, than a whole term of renting tionships has to do with-their positheir rooms to students. A landlord portant for all people to have a good tion in society. can make as much as $20 a night time, it is just as important to have a In addition, the curricula and job critique of what a good time is all opportunities renting his accomodation to Waterof engineers forces about, and such critique is derived loo visitors while students only pay them into “oppressive modes of re$20 a week in rent. from a general critique of societal _lating ,” the press release states. relationships. ’’ One local women who controls But Radio Waterloo points out Y The release also ‘says: “The 600 units of housing in Waterloo that as far as is possible “. . .we can point is that to enjoy oneself, one, make necessary changes, at least in has withdrawn all her housing from dpes not need to be sexist, nor does the student market due to the unthe environments over which we one need to create any other form profitability of renting to students. have control ,” and the fact that enof oppressive human relation-’ _ Vinnicombe is hopeful ‘a bit of gineers have “consistently” reships .,” However, according to fused to see this has led the station ‘ ‘public relations ” work with local Radio Waterloo, EngSoc doesn’t residents and potential landlords to adopt its position. appear to have caught on to this Radio Waterloo decided to will increase the size of his office’s ‘way of /thinking. ’ boycott engineering events after housing list. He told the chevron, EngSoc’s lack of awareness is participating in the last “Thigh “every bed appearing on our houseven more disturbing “when one High Pub” held last winter. ing list was put there by our staff

Whiplash turps ‘down EngSo&pub @erformance Radio Waterloo’s disc jockey service, Whiplash, refused Ito perform at an Engineering Society party last night due to conflicting views on the all-encompassing area of enteminment .

- According to a press release, the ’ staff at Radio Waterloo felt that due to the attitudes. which engineers exhibit at their “Thigh-High Pub” they couldn’t possibly be concerned with bettering the relationship between women and men.

This lack of concern with developing a better relationship between the sexes leads engineers to: “. . .get violently, intoxicated and their relationship to women is reduced to watchingthem strip or enticing them to have fun at one of their events by providing a dis,count on the admission price in proportion to the amount of thigh that is exposed.”

The “Thigh High Pub’” is a semester EngSoc event that allows women a price discount if they wear the shortest skirt possible .

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personally telephoning each landlord last May”. _ In the housing director’s eyes one of the best solutions to this year’s housing shortage would be a splash of publicity on the front page of local newspapers.

Last year the Federation of Students “tent city”, which was set up behind the campus centre to house homeless students, was most successful at encouraging local people to open their doors and rooms to students.

Vinnicombe told the chevron, after the publicity his office received 100 offers of rooms almost immediately.

Local ministers also helped out last year by-armouncing from the pulpit that students were in “a real jam”.

According to Vinnicombe there is one happy note about the housing crisis he has experienced in previous years. “Once we’re into October the housing situation has always improved remarkably and we’re never in such a bad situation at the beginning of the winter; spring and summer terms,” Vinnicombe said.

University of Waterloo administration officials are quite concerned a September crisis *will dampen the increase in enrollment figures and might possibly decrease them, by scaring away potential students. .

It is recommended that all students who do not have confirmed housing by this time should start looking almost immediately.

Some students are renting accomodation for the month of August to ensure they will have housing in September even though they will be leaving the accomodation empty for a whole month.

The Federation of Students will have a housing office open in the campus centre in August during the day and also during evenings. The fed housing office can be reached at 8850370.

Vinnicombe’s housing office will only- be open during the day and i.ti can be reached at 8851211, extension 2715.

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This week on’campus is a free column ior the announcement.5 of meetings, special semindr.4 or speaker>, 5ocidl events and happenings on campus --student, faculty or stafi. See,the chevron secretary. Deadline is noon Tues-

Friday Eight From Town Exhibition. UW art gallery. Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4, Sun 2-5 till Aug. 22.

Campus Centre Pud opens 12 noon.

Garfield from the Garfield Band. 9-l am.

74 cents after 7pm.

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Crafts People-anyone a table in the September crafts must be made by made in Canada only. must be no later than Susan Phillips, Campus or phone 3867.

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Charles Bronson. AL1 16. 8pm. Feds $1. Non-feds $1.50.

Student’s international Meditation Society. Advanced lecture and group meditation. All meditators welcome.

8pm. E-3-l 101.

Gay Coffee House. Everyone welcome. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm. 110.

Monday

Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon.

Saltspring Rainbow from g-lam. 74 cents after 7pm.

Grand Valley Car Club welcomes you to our next meeting. 8pm. Waterloo County Fish and Game Protective Association, Pioneer Tower Road-off Hwy 8 between Kitchener and Hwy 401.

Tuesday

Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Garfield from the Garfield Band. g-lam. 74 cents admission.

Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon.

Saltspring Rainbow from g-lam. 74 cents after 7pm.

Federation Flicks-Mr. Majestyk with Charles Bronson. AL1 16. 8pm. Feds $1. Non-feds $1.50.

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Personal Women Alive is an information service concerned with forming a referral agency and compiling a library, relevant and necessary for women. For use of our services call 744-7011.

Gay Lib Office, Campus- Centre Rm. 217~. Qpen Monday-Thursday 7-l Opm some afternoons-counselling and information. Phone 885-1211, ext. 2372.

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Legality Night presented by the Engineering Society. 7pm. Mr. Art Wardell of the APE0 will discuss engineering aspects of the law. Mr. Morley Rosenburg, the federation of students’ lawyer will discuss more general aspects of the law. Questions will be answered.

Everyone welcome. Coffee and donuts.

Gay Coffee House. Everyone welcome. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm. 110.

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Friday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon.

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Federation Flicks-Juggernaut with Omar Sharif and Richard Harris. AL1 16.

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juiy 11, 1975

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ealth -#care in China discussed

Professor Peter New, a behavioural scientist in the faculty of medicine at University of Toronto, left his Chinese homeland in 1948.

In 1973 he’returned with a handful of academics and made a film about health-care.

New, American trained, worked at the Shanghai Medical College in 1948, where he lived a privileged life and did little travelling outside the city.

Following a visit by two Chinese physicians to Toronto in 1971, New felt that he ‘should return to his country and see whathas happened since the 1949 revolution.

During the course of the next two years he and his San Franciscan wife met with other Chinese-born

“We are, we are, we are the Engineers”, WEEK.

North American academics and in 1973 six of them set off on a five week tour to film their country of origin.

One of their members, Diane Li, is a film maker at Stanford University.

She is responsible for most of the filming, editing, and narration of a colourful and technically sound piece of work entitled ‘ ‘Barefoot Doctors”.

New describes his role in making the film as that of packhorse.

He showed the film and answered questions at a well attended meeting of the Canada China Friendship Society on Monday night, July 7: - He explained before showing the film that in some ways it was a very narrow view of China because his group was mainly interested in

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care which had once been a privilege in China was now available in the most distant rural area.

Rural health care in China rewolves around, people whom the Chinese call “bare&t doctors”.

These men and women are the main subject of this film.

Barefoot doctors, it is explained, are peasants who, in six months, are trained in basic medical care, gynaecology, obstetrics, preventive medicine, family planning, and treatment of diseases prevalent in their area. They then return to their villages and divide their time between work in the fields and the practise of medicine. Their title is symbolic of their kinship with the rural peasant.

New explained that Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian communist who went to China in 1949 to help the revolution, was instrumental in starting the barefoot doctor system. But the system didn’t become widespread until Mao’s June 26th directive in 1965 when he stressed the need to provide adequate health care to all areas of the country.

How is medical care administered to 800 million people over an area of 12 million square miles? According to this film, and New, the barefoot doctors are the answer.

Peasants are chosen to be trained as barefoot doctors at public meetings. The amount of public work done, their aptitude, and their poli-tics are, all important for the prospective candidate, but above all the peasant must have shown him/herself to be motivated to serve the people, a principle in Chinese life.

The amount of drugs a barefoot doctor can administer depends on the amount of training received.

They all have to return to school for 30 days each year (as do all qual-

health care, especially in the rural communes where 85% of the country’s 800 million-people live.

“All five weeks westuck to our agenda”, said New, “ . . . we were somewhat impolite in demanding that we go and see certain things.”

Because of their interest, he explained, they did not go and see the factories nor the beautiful parts of the country.

But those five weeks had “a very great impact on New and his friends, The country they had left was one where disease ran rife and where the people had very little pride in being Chinese. In 1973 they returned to a proud country which had eradicated some diseases and had all others under control. Health

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Gue/ph student councilif neg&ilating agreement

Students students facing Foreign financial hardship “emergency” may be eligible for funds at the discretion of UW president Burt Matthews, Pat Robertson, director services ,‘ said of academic Monday.

The president will judge each case on its own merits based on recommendations from the intemational student advisor and the stu: dent awards officer, Robertson said.

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Negotiations are continuing between the University of Guelph and its student council to determine whether activity fees will be collected by the university for the council, student president Bill Gray said Wednesday.

Earlier, Gray said he was warned in a letter from W. W. Bean, U. of G. vice-president, that the university’s board of governors had cancelled on July 3rd a 1973 agreement with the student-council because it didn’t live up to its share of providing a proper audit for 1973-74 within a reasonable period.

Now, however, Gray said that the administration has promised it will continue to recognize the student government until negotiations are concluded over the letter of agreement in August.

If, in August, the board does go ahead and cancel the letter of agreement, it could mean that the university will not recognize or collect fees for the student council.

Gray said the agreement has been a “pain in the neck” for the university for several years because it gives students control over the property they occupy at the new University Center building.

Students don’t have to abide by the same rules that others do in the use of the University Center. Now that the letter of agreement is under review, students will have to abide by administration rules which will also prohibit the student council from delegating space in the University Center without going

through the proper channels of approval.

Last August there was a flare-up between the university and the student council when the latter allotted space, which was supposed to be for the student newspaper, to an alternative community school intended for Guelph secondary school students.

Another source of irritation for the university is the lawsuit the student council is pursuing in an attempt to recoup more than $1

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million in student funds contributed through the collection of student fees to the University Center, Gray said.

The students contend that the control of the $9 million building should be vested in a board of students, faculty and alumni. Student funds had been collected for the center since 1966.

The administration argues that the university controls the building.

-john

motris

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Pensions As of last December the value of investments in the university’s employee’s pension plan decreased 14 per cent. Adding last year’s 14 per cent rate of inflation, this figure amounts to a decrease of 28 per cent.

Losses were particularly heavy in two of the university’s four investment funds that make up the plan’s total resources.

In these funds losses <averaged 17 to 18 per cent without consideration of inflation.

This dramatic decrease in value, according to A.H. Boyd, administration chief for pensiqn plans has been caused by a general decline in value of funds in investment markets.

Boyd told the chevron, that in the long run should these losses continue they would be catastrophic

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for the pension plan and the country. “Pension plan funds are at the mercy of market conditions”, Boyd said. Conditions on the stock market deteriorated considerably last year.

Boyd assured the chevron the fund was at present having no trouble paying benefits to pensioners.

Despite the large decrease in value over last year the Pension and Benefits Committee, a body that advises the Board of Governors on pension matters, has not raised the issue of increasing the contributions university staff make to the funds.

Still optimistic over the future of the pension funds, Boyd told the chetion the market has improved somewhat since the date of the last evaluation of the pension fund.

-michael

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He said the senate student aid committee decided recently that funds will be awarded on the basis of a country severing diplomatic relations with Canada, a temporary delay of remittances from the country of origin or any other valid reason. The funds will be-handed out as either a loan or a grant.

No money will be allotted to students whose financial plight is caused by their own lack of foresight, Robertson said.

He said the committee heard nine cases being cited as examples of foreign students who are in need of financial assistance.

- The committee’s decision thus answered an appeal made at the last university senate meeting for financial aid for foreign students whose funds had been cut off due to unforeseen circumstances.

At that time, international student advisor Ruth Rempel informed senators that one of the main reasons for foreign students needing assistance is the changing political scene in their countries.

Rhodesian, Ethiopian, Chilean and Nigerian students are experiencing greater difficulty in getting financial aid from parents and because home sponsors governments are preventing the

ified physcians).

One of the basic tenets of the peasant doctors’ training, explained New, is that they realise their limitations. When cases occur that they are unsure about, they are instructed that the patient should be admitted to the district hospital where there are fully qualified physcians .

Another facet of Chinese medicine is its use of both traditional and modern remedies.

Acupuncture and ‘herbal medicines are combined with modern medicines to provide comprehensive health care. The barefoot doctor is t@$ned in both these facets.

The cost of the barefoot doctor service to the peasant is about one dollar (US) per year. The brigade, a local government unit of about 1500 people, contributes another dollar a head.

The cost of medicine has decreased by 80% since 1952, and for an average acupuncture session a patient pays five cents.

The results of the barefoot doctor system have been remarkable, according to the film. Typhus and cholera have been controlled, parasitic diseases greatly reduced, venereal disease eliminated, and a successful family planning system has been implemented which largely depends on the barefoot doctor, as does what New describes as “a fantastic immunization program”.

The barefoot doctor is also responsible for health education in the village and improved sanitation.

Preventive measures are a crucial part of Chinese health care yet, New explained, anti-smoking campaigns had very little impact, nor were they likely to, he suggested, so long as Mao at 82 continues to virtually chain smoke.

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aid-ed remittance of money abroad, she explained.

The university has 600 to 700 people on foreign student visas.

UW has the third largest number of foreign students in Canada, with the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto coming first and second.

Though Rempel suggested that immigration laws prevent foreign students from working to finance their schooling without working permits, which according to her are next to impossible to get, immigration officer Doug Davies said Monday that there are about 150 work permits issued to the 800 to 1,000 international student population in the region.

Since a fair number of foreign students are from the United States and quite a few of the non U.S. citizens go home during summer to visit their families, the 150 work permits issued shows a good record for the department, Davies argued.

“The conception that all foreign students are broke is completely wrong since most of them come from wealthy families. ” Davies said that those who say the immigration department. is insensitive to the troubles of foreign students are taking “unfair shots” since “we (at immigration) bend over backwards to help them.”

He cited the recent case of 740 Ethiopian students who obtained work permits due to pressure brought about by the immigration department upon manpower minister Robert Andras. These students were in a severe financial situation due to a political upheaval at home and “it was only because of our lobbying that got them the work permits ,” Davies said.

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. Orientation When September finally arrives, signalling yet another session of toil at the University of Waterloo, a curious event, traditionally known as orientation shall wind its way through the first three weeks of the fall term.

Now, as the word may imply, orientation means a sort of “setting straight” of newcomers to the campus and community.

In the past, this has taken the form of various atrocities committed upon the freshmen, or in the modem days of women’s lib-fresh persons, or still more conveniently-frosh, during the dreaded “initiation” ceremony. In a progressive society such as ours, initiation is no longer accepted as the thing to do.

In summary, what Orientation has come to mean, by the simple

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process of eliminating what has failed from past orientations, has come down to the two cornerstones of university entertainment-pubs and concerts.

With this in mind, the Federation of Students will be waiting with open arms for all the newcomers, and veteran students alike, in the now-permanent licensed Campus Centre Pub. Operating on a daily basis from noon till 1:00 a.m., Monday through Friday and from 7:OOp.m. till 1:OQa.m. on Saturday, the pub will open right after Labour Day. As for the concert scene, it is still too early to say for sure which acts will be appearing. We may have up to three large concerts in the Physical Activities Building and a series of three or four smaller shows in

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Tours of the Campus, illustrating the layout of buildings and various student services and of the local area showing the sights to our new residents, will be conducted on a daily basis to help assist the new student to get acquainted with their new environment.

On the first day of classes on September 8, a Bluegrass country rock concert is planned for the late afternoon. This show will be free of charge. It will be located in front of the Physical Activities Building.

On September 10, the Federation will be offering some culture, in its highly successful annual milk run down to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

This year the afternoon matinee is Twelfth Night. Tickets are limited for this show.

On Sept. 13, the first Saturday after classes start, a sports-daybarbeque is planned on Columbia Field near Lake Columbia on the North Campus. This will feature hopefully the First Annual ’ Lake Columbia Raft Regatta-a raft race pitting the nautical might of all the Faculty societies, church colleges and residence groups and independent entries in friendly competition.

One of the big events in this year’s orientation is the Orientation Lottery.

This lottery is in part an attempt to demonstrate the high costs of university education by raffling off the ‘price of a full year’s tuition as the prize. Proceeds from the lottery will be allocated to the Ginny Lee Memorial Fund, a fund to help students in short term financial difficulty during the school year. This fund is administered through the awards office and is funded by the Federation of Students.

All the faculty societies, colleges and residence groups will be staging their own orientations within the three week period in September, in addition to Federation activities.

This is just a quick preview of what lies ahead. Later on, in the summer, a comprehensive programme of orientation events will be posted in the chevron with full details.

Till then, enjoy the rest of the summer and see you in September!

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rtage: .. worse this “This year, I am truly concerned about the housing situation. It appears now as if we will be short anywhere from 200 to 800 beds this fall. ’ ’ This concern is voiced by UW housing director Cail Vinnicombe, who admits that this is the first year that he has been concerned about a serious housing shortage developing in the fall.

Vinnicombe went on to state that there are presently $00 beds listed with the administration housing office and that all residences are full and have been since early June. The only exceptions are Minota Hagey, which has room for some women graduate students, Phillip Street co-op which has room for a few more women, and the two co-op houses in the villages which are short of women who wish to live in mixed houses.

The waiting list for the villages stood at 300 before-Vinnicombe decided to chop the list since there was no hope of getting 300 students housing in the villages. The usual drop-out rate or “no show” rate is about 30 to 40 beds for the both villages and these beds are filled by lottery from those names on the waiting list.

The Federation of Students, after last years housing crisis, predicted that this years shortage would be even worse and that a downward trend in the availability of housing would continue for the next few years.

There have been several factors contributing to this downward trend, and the federation has been studying these to find out if there are any solutions to these problems.

One of the most prominant causes of the housing shortage; is the fact that students are not desirable tenants in the eyes of the landlords.

Many apartment owners have stated. that they would rather let their apartments go vacant for two years than rent to students.

This attitude has been fostered by the fact that many landlords have experienced a disproportionate amount of damage by student tenants. While the exact extent and nature of this damage, and even whether or not students are the worst offenders, is hard to determine, some apartment owners have shown the federation of students some graphic examples of damaged apartments that they claim were occupied by students.

Another common complaint is’ the “irregular hours” that the student tenants keep.

This type of complaint seems to originate from other tenants in the building who for 1

some reason or another object to these “irfall can expect a twelve per cent increase in This area of complaint, regular hours”. their rent according to Tony Bergmier, preshowever, seems to be the least rational of the ident of the Waterloo Region Apartment objections to student tenants. owners. Bergmier stated that the average Students are also beingpenalised, through rent for a one bedroom apartment this fall no fault of their own, for the short duration of will be one hundred and sixty-five dollars their tenancies.

Landlords claim that the with two bedrooms going for one hundred cleaning bill and redecorating costs make it and eighty-five dollars. So, apartments are unprofitable to rent to students for eight not easy to get and if one can be obtained it months. will be expensive.

Basically, a student now looking for an If apartments are scarce, what about apartment is faced with two hurdles, one rooms? The room situation seems equally being the past behaviour of some student bleak as more people pull their extra rooms tenants and the other being that the student off the market. Vinnicombe feels that the does not represent much of a profit for the only hope of providing adequate housing for landlord. ’ the fall is to convince people who have extra Students who do have apartments for this rooms to list them with the university.

Housing handbook To emphasize the need for improved relations between student tenants and landlords, the University together with the Federation of Students, is publishing a student tenant handbook.

Entitled simply “Student Housing Handbook” or “How To Avoid Tent City”, the handbook will deal primarily with the Landlord and Tenant Act. This act is often confusing for both parties involved and, therefore, a questionand answer format has been adopted.

The booklet attempts to answer the most frequently asked questions . These include the definition of a lease, security deposits, subletting and the responsibilities of both the tenant and the landlord.

It also tells you where to find legal advice.

Apartment living seems to be one of the most popular types of accommodations for students. Suggestions such as what to look for, rental examples, location and choice of roommates are all discussed.

The importance of any agreement put in writing is particularly stressed.

A Section on room and board gives the student some ideas and suggestions as to what facilities he/she should look for. Either a detachable checklist or separate checklist will be included in the handbook and the student can take this along when searching

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There is, of course, not a hope in hell of the university building-more residences and the tight mortgage market and general low economic level rules out the federation building any residences; a thought proposed last year during the housing shortage.

What then seems to be the immediate solution? Unfortunately there is no immediate solution. The only avenue that seems to be open to students is to pressure the government to provide more funds for student residences. But if the recent cutbacks are any indication that will be a long and hard battle.

So for the meantime, if you want accommodation for the fall get it now; and in the case of apartments that will probably mean paying for it now.

for a place to live. Also a section on pertinent answer questions and letters and offer suglocal by-laws is included. gestions which may prove helpful.

This handbook is being published to help This service will be particularly beneficial the student and the landlord avoid problems. to freshmen who are unfamiliar with the By knowing what to look for, how to handle 1 K-W community and will be living offcertain situations, by using your common campus. If at all possible don’t wait until the sense and respecting other peoples’ property end of August or the first of September to and privacy, many unnecessary problems come to Kitchener-Waterloo to find accomcan be avoided. It is hoped that through edumodations.

For many students this will be cation and awareness of each other’s rights impossible owing to distance, but for those that relations will improve and we can help students within commuting distance it usuprevent a housing shortage. ally is possible and necessary. Not much can. be done for the student living in Manitoba and unable to come down here to find a place but if he or she is willing to share accommodations we will post a list of their names and addresses. Just write to the Federation of Students Housing Office, Campus Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3Gl and,%give us particulars such as your faculty, year, type of accommodation you’re looking for, a price range, any preferences, i.e. non smoker, etc., your age, sex, name, address and phone number. Please don’t phone collect as we can’t accept these The Federation of Students is very concerned with the housing problem and for this calls. We will post this information and make reason will be operating a housing office to it available for those who have found accommodations and are looking for students supplement the services offered by the unito share the costs. Last year, 2,000 students versity . took advantage of the Federation Housing The Federation housing office will operate Office service and it is expected that the from August 1st to September 14th from 4:30 - 6:OOp.m. weekdays and 1l:OOa.m. to number will increase this summer.

The Federation will also be doing a tele6:OOp.m. on weekends and will be located in the Federation of Students office, room 235 phone survey to promote new student housing. A city wide appeal utilizing all the media in the Campus Centre. The office staff will list available housing, distribute maps of the will begin the end of July to emphasize the area as well as bus routes and schedules, severity of the problem and encourage homeowners and landlords to rent to stuhand out room and board listings, provide telephones, a daily copy of the K-W Record, dents.

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No. work? You ain’t the on-Zy One Things ain’t the tiay they used to be. Once upon a time students could easily get jobs, now they’re lucky if they land casual employment. Tough shit, federal ministers say. The ministers ought to know as they’re well aware qf the magnitude of not on/y student but genera/ unemployment in Canada.

Debra Lewis, a researcher for the Ontario Federation of Students, wrote thi; following feature for the Canadian University Press and she explains how the federal government is trying to obscure the nature of student unemployment and justify iti “band-aid” solutions.

A major problem in trying to find out about summer employment for students is the lack of information available, both with respect to the evaluation of past programs and the projection of the situation in the future.

Although manpower is a matter of federal concern, the government at this level has done virtualy no analysis of the success or failure of employment schemes for students.

Up to 1972, the federal government carried out an annual Survey of Student Summer Employment, which provided at least some information on trends in summer employment opportunities.

But rather than expanding the collection of data it was inexplicably decided a few years back to discontinue the survey altogether, and it is unclear whether any alternative will be considered for the future.

We do know that the government does have some information, but the problem is they do not want to- release it to the public.

One such source of information is a 1974-75 Student Labout Market Survey which was considered by the federal cabinet in their formulation of federal government employment policies last year.

From the government’s refusal to release this study one can only assume that it painted a picture so bleak as to be dangerous. One government source indicated that the study projected a possible unemployment rate among students for this summer at upwards of 15 percent, causing the govemment to suddenly allocate funds for -federal make-work projects.

The government has also done an evaluation of the effectiveness of student manpower centres which is also impossible to obtain through government channels. Since thesecentres, located on campuses and off, are allegedly important mechanisms for minimizing student unemployment it seems logical to question the reasoning behind the withholding of the document.

When questioned on this, one federal spokesman explained that “the information isn’t confidential, but the document is”.

The only figure the government will release is that 196,000 “placements” were made through those centres last year. But even this figure should be used with caution.

Manpower considers a “full job placement” any position of a minimum of three days.

Thus one student may appear in the statistics a number of times for several placements of perhaps a few weeks each.

Manpower officials concede that the almost total lack of available information on summer employment does hamper public discussion of the matter. Yet the thick, blue-covered document containing the report with the information remains stacked in boxes in the offices of government bureaucrats, stamped “CONFIDENTIAL”.

Summer jobs vs. the economic crisis Despite the abysmal lack of information in this area it is possible to discern some trends in student summer employment.

While the occasional placement officers claimed just a few months ago that the employment situation for students this summer would not be significantly worse than last year, now all sources indicate it is a situation of crisis proportions.

An official in the Youth Employment Section of the Department of Manpower and Immigration recently stated frankly, “It’s going to be a rough summer,” and further noted that firms which had previously hired perhaps 2530-students in the summer are now drastically reducing that number.

Often, he said, they are eliminating summer employment programs entirely.

A glance at the job situation in the private sector gives another clue. General Motors, which hired 1,247 students in the summer of

1974, has laid off well over that number from its regular hourly-rated work force in the past year. They say it is unlikely they will hire a significant- number of students this year, except about 200 who will fill during vacation periods.

Other large companies, including MacMillan Bloedel, Bell Canada, and IBM also report substantial decreases in the number of students to be hired: 38.8 percent-, 51.2 percent and 37.5 percent respectively.

According to a Bell Canada spokesperson, “the general economic slowdown has somewhat affected demand for our services and inflation has necessitated a tighter control on expenditures .”

It is clear that the general crisis in unemployment will result in the inability of many students to obtain jobs in the private sector.

But even before the current crisis it was clear that summer employment has been inadequate, both in terms of financial and nonfinancial rewards. A report submitted to the federal government’s Committee on Youth back in 1970 notes: , “The present pattern of summer employment, adopted by the overwhelming majority of post-secondary students as a system of financial subsidy, is growing increasingly

The campaign is comprised of two types of propaganda-that which is directed at unemployed students-ostensibly to relieve the possible disastrous situation which faces students this summer; and employeroriented advertising summed up under the slogan: “Have a Young Summer-Hire a student.”

The content of the ads is not as altruistic as it may seem at first. As govemment policy moves in tlfe direction of placing more of the cost of post-secondary education on the backs of the students, the ads subtly convince the public that this is just and employers that they have an obligation to cooperate with the -plan by hiring students.

One example is the ad which asks employers to remember what it was like to be a student. “Will you become an instant dropout because you didn’t earn enough to pay your way?” it asks. The onus of responsibility for post-secondary drop-outs shifted from government policy to those students who cannot get jobs and those employers whom heartless enough not to hire them in the summer months.

On the other hand, if the employer does succumb to the government’s plea on behalf of impoverished students, the employer will

telligence of students. The action of the government in this area is as much an attempt to propagandize students and the public as it is an attempt to alleviate unemployment.

Little wonder that the government refuses to release information on the real situation of student summer employment.

Women hit hardest Some groups of students do worse than others when it comes to summer employment. One such group is women students.

During the time in which they are students, as afterwards, they suffer from additional problems in unemployment, underemployment and differential pay scales.

Summer employment of\ female students has serious implications for the financing of their educations.

First of all, it is clear they have more’ difficulty than men in attaining summerjobs.

A 1972 survey showed that 12 percent of women students as compared to seven percent of men were unemployed during the summer, More recent figures show that, in 1974, only 30 percent of women as compared to 47 percent of men registered with Canada Manpower were placed in jobs.

The 1972 figures also showed that women’s work periods during summers was shorter than the the averages of men: 11 weeks as compared to 12 weeks. Average earnings were much less for women than men: $780 as compared to $1295.

The results of such discrimination are that women students are likely to be subsisting on less than men. Additionally, larger proportions of women students are dependent on parental support as compared with men. A 1971 study done in Toronto showed that 43.5 percent of women depended on parents for support, compared to only 31 percent of men.

In a society ‘where a higher priority is placed upon education for men than women, these facts have a devastating effect on the ability of women, particularly those from lower income groups, to attend postsecondary institutions.

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“l’ve co/led the family together to announce that, because of idution, I’m going to hove to let two of you go.”

P “feel like a hero”-or so the ad says. The impractical for students, employers and irony is they will indeed be heroes-to the Canadian society . . .it is indisputable that government desperate for a band-aid solusummer jobs are increasingly more difficult tion to the problems of unemployment and to procure and increasingly less relevant to student aid. everyone.”

In these ads, students are portrayed in the Speaking financially, past studies have most paternalistic fashion. After all, “You shown that many students are unable to find can get a lot of mileage from an easy-toemployment sufficient to meet their needs in handle student. ” Employers are asked, in the coming year. In a 1972 survey, nine percent of post-secondary students seeking essence, to exploit this resource to “pack your boxes”, “wash your dishes”, “wait on summer employment were unable to find your tables” and “pick your peaches” in employment at all, but again the figure must be used with caution. It does not include order to “help? a nice kid earn a buck or two. Students are subtly promoted as a rethose students who could not return to school due to insufficient funds, since the servoir of scab labour, willing to work harsurvey was done at the schools. der, longer, and more cheaply than members of the work force at large.

The study does show that, of those who The ads directed at students are not less did find employment, many found work only for short periods, inadequate to meet their insidious. Students are told that if they can’t get a job they should travel around the counneeds. In 1972,40 percent of those who were try, stay in youth hostels, and maybe get a employed and who were covered in the surjob “picking peaches in Niagara.”

Peach vey said they wanted additional weeks of picking seems to be a favourite of the work during the summer but were unable to Department of Manpower and Immigration get work. The average number of additional in their “bread and circuses” approach to weeks desired was five, and the problem was student unemployment.

If you can’t get a job particularly acute in the Atlantic provinces just spend the summer wandering around the and Quebec, where almost half of those empcountry and something, somewhere, may loyed wanted additional work. come up. If not you’ve had a good time tryThe Committee on Youth Report also ing . noted that: “At least 24 percent of students Students are also warned not to be choosy categorized as those who obtained work when it comes to a summer job. It accuses earned so little that it seems virtually irrelevstudents of “selecting (themselves) out of a ant to speak of them in statistical terms as summer job.” Again the responsibility for ‘being employed’ “. unemployment does not belong with the economic system or government policy, but rather with the individual. Another ad indicates that, if you are resourceful enough, With a general unemployment rate hoveryou will certainly be able to get some kind of summer joI%% other words, if you are uning above eight percent and with projections for summer unemployment as high as 15 peremployed and have to drop out of school for cent, the federal government has assembled financial reasons, it’s your own fault. a massive advertising campaign designed to In general, the federal campaign is a blatconvince students, employers and the public ant misrepresentation of the real problems of that things aren’t as bad as they seem. student employment and an insult to the in-

The Fed’s CON JOB

Students from abroad studying in Canada are the hardest hit group when it comes to summer employment.

In 1973, the federal government changed its regulations regarding the issuing of work permits for such students. The new regulations stated that work permits would be issued only to those students with jobs for which no Canadian was available.

In practice, this means that only a handful of the 21,000 foreign students presently studying in Canada are able to attain work permits for the summer months.

Technically, it should be possible for foreign students to find jobs in areas designated by Canada Manpower as skill shortage areas. Except that Canada Manpower has refused to issue a list of where manpower is need. As a result foreign students are unable to go directly to those jobs for which there is some chance of obtaining a work permit and must try to “second guess” Manpower in order to obtain employment.

The reasoning behind the hard line posi_ tion of the government is that foreign students should not be allowed to compete w&h Canadians in the summer job market. But when the small number of foreign-students as compared to the total student population is taken into account one wonders whether the threat of competition is all that great. Considering that about half of the foreign students are graduate students, the number of foreign students likely to seek employment for the summer is probably in the 10 to 12,000 range.

The result of the government’s refusal to allow foreign students to work is that students from abroad coming to Canada to study must be well endowed when they get here, meaning that only the wealthy or politically favoured are likely to be able to attend.

Student groups have taken the position that it is the inadequacy of summer employment opportunities for all students, and not the presence or absence of foreign students, which is the relevant factor. Just as immigrants and other minority groups are often the first targets in times of economic recession, so are foreign students being used as scapegoats for the current crisis in summer employment.

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,I VW students may be asked during this year stages- .of ‘-development 1for >an area. of their or next to vote in a referendum on. whether . as$oi=iation% concern-they aierbetter abig to -2 they should join. the National Uiiion of Stuunderstand the>area and canact with a much dents at the cost of one dollar per head. In the -. wider perspbctive. ’ \ following piece, erstwhi/& chevron staff wriier ‘-‘The second benefit is the relohn Morris takes a sometimes though not toestablishment bf a natiohal student lobby in tally cynical view of the wobbly future of naOttawa. Governments-respond to pressure; tional Canadian student unionism. and they rely tipon the reaction and opinion

ofinterest groups forinformationessential i’n For nearly three years, Canadian univerthe deci&n-making process.

Since Cm& s sity students didn’t-have a national-union’to dissolved there has&een no organization or defend their varied interests. method to fei=d student& views into governAnd they paid dearly for it. . ment decision-making, or to apply students’ Because during that short period of t@e , pressure upon government. ) there was&o national lobby for post‘ tThe consequence was that students resecondFry students vis-a-vis the federal ceived little consideration as federal-and ‘gove’mment, .a@, as a result-,- since l-969 \ fedeial/proviticial decisions were made. ‘there was little or no legislation favorable’ to NUS has resumed lobbying. ajon .students’ L students. behalf. . . Already-govemment.agenci&are ’ Ontario students, for instance, paid dearly asking for the student p,osition on a number: J for the lack of a’ national student >erganizaof matters-when in one-day a federal cabinet;. tion when the province slapped on’s $100 minister rec?eives over 20 phone &lls from all tuition increas’e and-jacked the- OSAP loan regions regarding an NUS request he &ndws ceilinq to $800 from $600 in April, 1972. that students must be listened to a$ theiiI The absence ofauch a structure prevented / view%.considered in making a decision that ’ Ontario students from exert&g much presaffects thei. .sure on Queen’s Park in September, 1972, as organiza’ \ ’ *. “The . third benefit . ana a*imormario_r!

Fof B national A*’ services.

0‘ .*a they didn’t have, the res’ources of a national [ion is. researcn Al’1 rather than a provincial union such -as the gain when, through pooled r&oufces, items Ontario Federationof AStudents. behind of cdncem‘can be researched in depth by a them: national organization, and when needed in/ formation can be ‘easily obtained from a ci=n- xI tral source. ” So gradually, student leaders began to The letter, to point otit the dire need for a realize that they needed ‘to fill the vacuum ’ natio_nal organiz&io&proffered the foll-?jw. left with the demise of the Canadian Union of ing exainple of post-setiondary education: 1 Student3 (CUS) in 1969 to cotinter the fedr -“~.ss TV I India ~-r”’ - “The basic p‘attqm qf @pding for -post..-1 “2.-..rs.A-A’2i~m +,__ 3 Cst~Cl cra1 go VC1 ullcuL secondary educatidn is established in .the simpljl _not ‘solicit studet It Opinion dn / the 1966 Fiscal Arrangements Act. Two impor- - I 1..,...4.,,. many issues of {tertiary euur;aLlull. which more p$ogressive-groups can channel and failed to”see them as citizens also, ,who tant features are that a nrnvince receives This re&lization led to the setting up df .a. federal transf ‘ers eallsl to about 50 per cent of their ener&$ aid perhaps have some imcoped with ti rnah broader, “so+&al~~ . five-member steering committee to investi;. the operating-&&&& - of post-secondary:’ community than that associated with the old.

Pactgate the feasibility of starting a new national > “ivory tower” concept. educ@& in that nrovincl 1-a-- Ye ., . _--_e and that tci trans- . In addit’ion, it should be borne in mind that student Fnion qt a University -of Windsor along NUS lities is by .A second point was that, though”NFCUSDvince onlv increase bv a a national organization fe’r to the prc ---- .- can ---~ ---,~~~ - -1-z---1 ---LITA-________ ~_ __ L _ ‘L ,Conference in May, 1972 . lVIU3C Ndnm* VIJ UlG+L y1nwnuxe1y an nd’means a _radical body,-. but mc--‘--- ap-- ( clau-neu one 01 its purposes was to - -aavance miximuin of 15 per cent per year. This ict . _ 4h:” 1ll~~~ll5 mas+:rrrr vinces were representecl._ilra r\+ .&1115 ot the. parliamentary liberalthe legitimate student interests ,” the federa-. unlocked federal’money for the provinces so pendage which only goes to show that student leaders democratic system. Since it seeks to change, tion ~icirrowly defined those interests along long as post-secdndary;education expanded. across the country had similar feelings about - the s ysteb from “wit&’ ’ by acting virtually the lines of service-oriented programs - * the need for national cooperation. as&pa&amenta~y lobby group, it can%go’L-suFh as charter. flights,, intmaiio&l j stu-:-“As times havechanged’that Act has be-However, the, confe+entie proved to be fw+.7propti&g solutions for the radical dent fights, and. link ups with.,everal inter: f &me a’ sourceof educatian. cutbacks, since only a partial suecess;_For though it defiled of society. .

-national organizatim$ to p‘rovide students 0 any cost increase above. 15 percent~must be transf&mation the need for; a national .brgafi?atiOn, with summer jabs --’onh an._ex&angk basis ’ pa@ forcom@etely by -the pruvince raher .- ..m&feng . I +&ion\ his&fy analysed the errop of CWS, established-a set ( than 5Q@; ,Th&se .cutbaeks- have, 1in :.tum,’ I’ -overseas. ,, of procedures &at wouldi ti* .aVrnational The October, f963; N’FCWS--congre&“ esteere$, most provinces in the direction of association into’ reality and brought, together In order to understand better the signi& / marked the beginning of a restructuring of . . tuitioti increases as a source of .funds for student offidials from-more than 40 institucance of NUS, it seems appropriak to rej the national organization, with Quebec-stuiexpense increases over the 15 per cent.” tiqns, it failed to inclticfe students from capitulate the history of student unionism. : . dents being ailowed an equal voice in alT The NJJS letter argues thaf it was o,$y Quebec French-speaking institutions ,or For- almost 43 years, from-1926 to 1969; matters concerning them (the name of the’, through its-efforts that most student associafrom &he non-university post-secondam inqarious national stud&t associations i com/<t@tiization was also changed to:the Canations learned about, the Act, “and only stitutions. grised lmgely of university-students existed dian Union of Students).lBut one year later, thrg)ugh NUS’the national organizaNeverth@l&, the steering Icommittee - Qc&becois del@ates took their imiorig o@ of tion-will student$l%able to establish a well -in Canada. The longest lasting or&mization began to Coordinate a conference to estab11 developed position on post-secondary - was the National Federation, of Canadian, - CUS-and later fgunded their owcorganti: lish. a new national student union; at the.

Univer@y Students (NFCUS) which sur- - .tiori, Union Gene&e des Etudia..ts de” fintincieg and pressure th& eleven g&etisame time, it drafted. an initial con>titution vived bntil 1964 (except for a shqrt suspen-1 ‘Quebec (UGE.Q).

BothJJGEQ and CU$ ments to accept it.” ’ -‘u arid encouraged camp’us-wide debate on the, sion’ during World WZ$ II) as a service orimmediately aitempted to go beyond the nardirection .of @e new union. \.--gani&ion -for university ~students, .as rep- ’ row self-imposed limit@isns of ‘NFCUS and . _ Early November, 1972,. the Natibnal reSented by their-campus student cotincils; L.began to become involved with stucfentprob: ‘Union of Students (NUS) foun!ding cptierMe+nwh&,.critics have saidfhat whilethe lems ‘on &political level.

- . NFCUS proved to be &pmduct.of its envien& was held.- in Ottawa with 50 -studept fo.undeTs ‘of NUS we.6 careful *to d&en-* .mronment; -Ear %hough the omnization did.

- CUS: and UgEQ examine&questions af- ’ associations --& attendance. : At the. same , .,t~i&&eorg&zation so as to avoid the one. much to :promote . student u&hi&m during fecting the day.mto-da$lif~,of students,. sGch -. meeting, a coBst&ution w,aa ad+Qpted J ._. major;&& ‘that led :to the demise’ of CUS, .the more.tbn three decades of&existence, as .housing, uneinployment, fi%+cial assispriorities of &&kWAhOl'ld fitinCing;iS$dept :---they~~tgo~~Fandturmedtheo~g~nization'. its obj~tives.were~conse~atively~oEe~~ed, tance and visas. The vrganiza&F alsatiok.‘ housing atid eeoyment were determined, s, _ inb smwh:it&irted controversial iss;ues _ the &udena-e:a good &i&n&*; a.‘. a more r?dical poli&&;tone than, that-of their . and the -fu-st NUS. ce-vtral committee was r and me&ly followed the stance taken by its . relectibn of his societc ’ ’ predecessors, examinifig accessibility to the -elected.

NFCLJS’ position -within Canadian pblimembership. university; university power structures- and. es -Thereafter, the central committee began _ ’ However, the critics concede that the re-. tics was eiemplified’by it? objectives: the the role the university plays in the world of tq httempt to broaden the base of NUS by sultant decentralization may have pos,itive promotion of a bette-r u,nderstanding among < government. contacting all post-secondary institutions in effects in terms -of a national odnization j Canadian students; a higher degree of coopThe question of universal accessibility led Canada and informing them of its existence more attuned to its member constituencies, ‘eration among all stpdent organizations; the the member organizations to see the problem _ and encouraging new members.

And bY but they wonder whether there could be a advancement of legitimate student interests; as “the abolition of all social and-financial May, 1975, there yereJ9 member instituof relationships witk; compromise between the “push-pull”tasks ’ -an+ the-development barriers to post+secondary education.”

But ._ tions in NUS from seven provinces. of the leadership-following. other national and intematisnal groups. the organizations (and their student leaders) A recruiting letter from NUS best exempThe question the critics ask is wheth& a The NFCUS program had several_drawbecame ineeasingly eoliticized when, exalifi’es t,he arguments -used to- entice new seemingly toothless national organ@ation is backs, but it reflected the pre-1960s political mining the question of universal accessibilmembers by saying: “It waq, and is, felt that better than notie at all? mood .-Whereas. the 1970s appeal.so far to be ity, they began to realize that they had to aunational student organization offers three ‘But both critics and proponents seem to a period of political retrenchment; the- mid to consider all aspects_ of education and socibenefits to -students andstudent tissocia.agree thaththere are some immediate, late 1960s saw definite extra-parliamentary ety , “for it is impossible to change the utii_ tions. The first is a regular face-to-face, ex-d Ipiece-meal advantages in a national s$udeRt . political involvement.

The universities also - versity substantially without ch-qnging socichange of ideas between students fromf;all .\ .uniq-ss.uch. & l&by‘ing;- ..inforrn&on;- and ; ~p~ovi&d ‘,‘&fi&;~ound.f’~r sod~f~~ent’~’ ety.” . .

7 -.-” . parts of the country. . ? organization.

5and NFCUS .faile‘d to grasp t’hi m&&g+ and ., At the same time that CUS was becoming I - Nevertheless,, it shbuld-be-stressed that-a re~t~‘of,~h~t~e~~‘~,~~~t~~ ig Canadian 1 more political;it’~~~~~~fl,top~ovide essennrttiunaIor@nizatioti:can do little byitsolfas : univer&ies and‘ other post-s&ondary in- ,*I ~~~s~~i~~~~~~~~~~~~a~ions on to“This has;often provi&d instant ixpetiI,. as-an ~rga&ingvehicl+& the res tmcturing ‘.stitutiofis-. -For one, it narrowly .defi&d ho’ ,pies such as co-“opl~, e&eat&n, housing and ence t’o newly chosen student representa’ ofisoCietJi;. But it can s&e Bs z-body through pie who attended, university Bs Vsttidents’) .( cdntinubdon page 1.8

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ads cost SAC nearly $7,000, but with the combined circulation of these papers, the message was carried to a potential readership of over 800,000. It is this widespread circulation that most likely brought the strong reaction from the provincial bigwigs.

The big newspapers themselves came down hard on the SAC ad.and the student officials. Writing in the Globe and Mail, columnist Norman Webster stated that the ad “ . . .might be best termed an aggressive distortion of the facts. Anyone coming to the ad with the naivete of a child would believe Mr. Davis (who hates young people) is planning to hike tuition fees horrendously, dump a huge debt load on students and push dass sizes beyond 300. Ridiculous.”

The Globe, on the following day, April 25, carried an ad attacking the factuality of the ad.

Not to be left out, the Star, on April 29, carried a column by Dalton Camp which ripped not only into SAC, but also university students in general, the student president, and our generation.

While on one hand Camp’s column makes amusing reading for those with a taste for biting ridicule, the column shows no sympathy for student problems. Nor does Camp empathise with past efforts of students to draw attention to serious concerns.

On April 23, the University of Toronto’s Of four letters to the editor printed by the Student Administrative Council (SAC) ran Globe, two criticized the ad while two letters an ad in 13 Toronto area newspapers headed backed SAC. Members of the Ontario Fed“Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to go to eration of Students staff have reports of at university”.

The ad made three points about _ least two dozen additional letters from vari-provincial government planning: ous campuses that were never printed which -that it is considering a “massive tuition supported SAC. & one of the letters printed, increase’ ’ ; a high school student related his unsuccess-that it is converting the student aid scheme ful attempts to earn and save sufficient funds to a ‘$,ebt programme”; to attend university and said that;&he knew -th&t it is “making the classroom (and lab) t,hree others personally from his graduating class who could not go on to tertiary educasituation so bad that students won’t be able tion for financial reasons. to learn”.

As might be expected with an election in Ifi another letter to the editor, an indidthe offing, the response from the govemvidual expressed some bewilderment that on ment was fast and heavy. James Auld, ministhree critical points SAC asserted that things ter of colleges and universities; retorted: “I were .being considered by the government am appalled by its flagrant disregard for the that would threaten both accessibility to truth.”

At the same time Premier William university education and the quality of that Davis said: “That ad is untrue. It’s as simple schooling and each point James Auld rebutas that. ’ ’ ted. TheJetter’s author concluded ‘ ‘Who do SAC placed the ad in the Globe! and Mail, I believe? Well, after four years of the Davis government, I’ll take the word of the StuTordnto Star, the Sun, plus local papers in Etobicoke, Mississauga, North York, Scardents’ Administrative Council. When they borough, and six other publications includtell me Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to ’ ing four ethnic papers. The placing of these go to university, I believe them.”

In his press release (composed the very day the ad appeared) Auld commented that : “Students have a valuable role to play in formulating the policies that will guide the continued from page 3 future development of the universities.

But the incorporation of student associations. where are the responsible, thoughtful stuThe national union also operated research dent leaders who can help us in this task? services which developed positions on stuObviously not in the University of Toronto’s dent representation and participation in uniStudent Administrative Council .”

What is important, though, is not what the versity government.

In addition, CUS sponsored a life insurgovernment has had to say about the points ance plan, operated a travel service and permade in the ad, but what the Davis government has ndt said. This is indeed what the ad formed lobbying functions in Ottawa. CUS helped to create, for example, the Canada campaign was all about-what is being disStudent Loan Plan and lobbied for legislacussed and considered behind closed doors about a multi-billion post-secondary education allowing students to deduct the tional system built with taxpayers’ money. academic portion of their tuition from their When the student officials at Toronto taxable income. placed the ad in the newspapers, they also However, CUS became increasingly politprepared an information packet for the ical in tone and the service aspect of the national organization began to fade from newspapers detailing their reasoning behind view (though this part of CUS’ program still the points made in the ad. They explained existed, it was pushed to the background by the figures they had used in the news kit and the militant language of CUS leaders). what statistics weren’t included in the @ are Vanguardism became the orientation of readily available not only from the Ministry, the national organization, and by choosing but also from many student councils across this path CUS national leaders forced the the province (including Waterloo). exclusion of many progressive organizations Nonetheless, the government rebuttals to the ads (and the newspaper columns and and people. CUS folded primarily because it’ “more progressive” than its editorials coming down on SAC) never deal became member organizations-i.e., by taking more with any more of the SAC statistics than they it became counterabsolutely have to. That is, the righteous militant stands, productive. gasps at the student council “distortion” The CUS national leadership lost touch deal with the figures printed in the ad, as they with campus student leaders and the overinescapably must, and hardly venture into whelming majority of students, it was facing the political mire of additional facts and-figquestions and searching for solutions that ures. were still largely considered taboo by most The minister and the Premier defended the government position on the basis of its past university student councils.

Thi? inevitable happened and CUS folded record. What they would appear to have in 1969 after most of its members voted to (purposely?) missed is that SAC was talking about the future, not the past. withdraw.

The next year, UGEQ went the same path.

In all fairness it should be pointed out that It’s most unusual for government officials to take more than a passing interest in post-secondary students’ gripes, so when both Premier Bill Davis and James Auld, minister of colleges and universities, lashed out at a paid ad in several Toronto newspapers entitled: “Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to go to university”, even the.fossilized pundits had to take note.

The ad, put together by the student _ council at the University of Toronto, pointed out several inadequacies in provincial funding to tertiary education.

And it goes without saying that the blimpest reactionary columnists of the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star had more than a few nasty things to say about students in general, using the ad as a pretext for venting their prehistoric views.

In the following article, Federation of Students executive Shane Roberts offers a brief analysis of the reasons behind the student ad and examines some (space constraints tiles out a total pitture) of the contradictions of the Progressive Conservative’s government regarding higher learning support.

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So atelection time when Bill Davis being open to everyone regardless remind hi’m of -the above facts.

the provincial fathers do discuss the “future” of tuition fees and student financial aid-the “future” right to the end of this coming school year. It should be noted that i’t is a matter of surprising coincidence that this is the maximum future that there can be before another provincial election.

As it is, the government’s countel-attack contained some financial figures about its track record that hold several suprises, if these figures were meant to be a defense of Progressive Conservative educational policy in Ontario. The figures relate to the SAC assertion that Davis is “converting the Ontario Student Assistance Programme (OSAP) to the Ontario Student Debt Programme. ’ ’ Mr. Auld characterized this second point in the ad as “nonsense”.

He then goes on to, inform us that the OSAP 6b . . .budget for grants in 1971-72 was $44 million but only $29 million of this amount was paid out. In 1974-75, $40 million was @aid out. The grants allocation for 1975-76 is $46.5 million.”

Now these figures pose several questions.

For example, why, after the Legislature set aside $44 million to help people go to school did the Ministry only use $29 million in 1971-71? And while the 1974-75 expenditure in grants increased 38 percent, why was it still 10 percent below the amount that was seen as needed by students in 1971-72, especially after three years of inflation?

Looking at the grants allocation for 1975-76 we may at first glance take comfort in seeing an increase of $6.5 million over this last year (assuming that unlike 1971-72, the Ministry intends to use the full allocation). ’ But this is equivalent to an increase of 16.3 percent in lump grant money in a year when there are projected enrolment increases of eight percent in addition to estimates of inflation that alone run as high as 16 percent. Nor should we expect that this eight percent growth in student populace nepessarily rep,resents students any wealthier than the present student body. To the contrary, both new and returning (post-secondary) school

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the Ontario government IS constderlng guldelines that would convert the present grant ,i loan scheme to d n dll loan programme.

Could vour child afford to repay a $6,000 to 125,000 loan (9 -l/ 4 percent interest) upon graduation?

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students seem most likely to need a proportionately greater amount of financial assistance with the employmetit scene being what it is.

Even if we choose to ignore the accelerati ing pace of economic events that mean additional financial .burdens for students, there was already a trend of increasing need for financral assistance among students. During the last three-year period, when there was an increase of 38 percent in awarded grants, there had been a 99 percent increase in the number of students applying, a jump from 45,116 students to 90,000. If we care to play with the Ministry’s figures further, which you remember are supposed to show that the SAC ad is “nonsense”, we can see that while grants have increased some 38 percent, loans (student debts) have increased in the corresponding three years a total of 82 percent.

So, with loans to students increasing at a rate greater than twice the rate for grants, this is why SAC chose to speak of an “Ontario Student Debt Progxamme”.

In order to substantiate the third point in the ad, one can quote from the University of Waterloo’s brief to the Ontario Council of .

University Affairs: “The University can, given time, move to a new and lower level of quality of its programmes if that is the stated long-term goal. But we must not delude ourselves (or allow ourselves to be deluded by others) that with substantially fewer resources, quality will be maintained and accessibility will be retained.

“The teaching, research and public service programmes that have been developed at Waterloo through the dedicated efforts of many people and at considerable public expense over more than a decade. now stand on the brink of being substantially degraded. ” But who knows, maybe the Progressive Conservative Party has spent 26 years in office in/Ontario developing “new math”, a math which uses statistics to confuse atid -. mislead the public.

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One resident Canadian author, Barry Broadfoot, has jumped on the depression. bandwagon and produced Ten Lost Years, a collection of transcribed interviews he made with hundreds of Canadians who survived the 1930’s.

His basic idea for the book’was sound. Letting Canadians tell for themselves what those years meant is at times much more real than the academic postulates recounted by “Canadian historians”.

Afterall, it was the common man in Canada, not the academics, who saw and felt the misery of the thirty’s economic crisis.

Although some of those interviewed have little that’s interesting to say, almost all the interviews reveal the tragic fate of men and women oppressed by. a declining economy and do-nothing ‘Conservative’ and ‘Liberal’ governments.

Ironically the book’s only weakness is when Barry Broadfoot subjects us to his empty-headed purple prose. In fact his ideas and writing are quite laughable when one finishes reading a few pages of heart-felt recollections.

Lines like these abound in his vacuous introductions to interviews: “And they did crazy things, perhaps for the first time in their lives, and perhaps for the only time, but it was not always so.”

Broadfoot attempts to speak the

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language of the people he is inter- ’ viewing, but because, (as he admits), he never experienced the full impact of the depression, his words become empty rhetoric.

But I’ve dwelt too long on the author’s shortfalls.’ He does keep his comments reasonably short and only takes up 30 of the book’s 400 pages. Broadfoot is to be congratulated for restraining himself and his typewriter.

The experiences recounted in Ten Lost Years are wide and varied.

The people have tales to tell about the inhuman government relief camps for unemployed men and many Japanese civilians, the revolutionary aspirations of some Canadians, the hobo jungles, the prejudice against groups of Indians, Japanese, English and French-Canadians.

One section of the book allows people to explain whose fault the depression was. One person in-. sists: “The enemy of my generation has not been the German out in front of me in his own trench; the enemy was my own generals, and government stupidity.”

Another describes Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935: “Mr. Bennett was pompous, smug and rich. No, he was not a man of the people. I don’t think he knew a thing about the stories are those told by the hobos Canadian people’ ’ . who rode the rails for five years, It is interesting to note that not the farmers who lost everything, one of those interviewed had anythe fishermen who subsisted on nothing kind to say about politicians, thing and the labourers who government or businessmen.

The searched for work in vain. Reading views of these people are seldom . Ten Lost Yeam is comparable to sitrepresented in this book and when ting by a campfire and listening to they are they complain only of the an old-timer spin stories of ten deshortage of money and trips abroad sperate but also adventurous years and good servants.

One wealthy in the depression. woman recounts how she was able No, these years have not been to hire five servants for less than lost, for those who speak in this fifty dollars a month. book will never forget them.

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This week “Indoor Gardening” - M. Tsujita Fri. July 16 530 Drugs and Society “The Role of Industry in the Combat of Narcotic Abuse” Dr. I.J. Pachter. Industrial firms have been workrng to combat narcotic abuse by finding replacements for opium, by preventing abuse of legitimate drugs of commerce and by seeking more effective, long-acting and non-abusable replacemnts for methadone. Laboratory and clinical findings of promising current research will be described in detail.

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The incident at Toronto Hydro is not an isolated case where the coop program serves the interests of the company against those of labour. Pratt & Whitney Canada Ltd. (the new name of United Aircraft of Canada Ltd) in Longueuil, Q‘uebec, has been conducting a campaign to break a strike and its union for the past two years. At least six co-op students are working there. These students, though they are not directly strikebreaking, do replace managers, technicians and others who then go out and do the jobs of striking workers.

Another incident in Alcan in Jonquiere, Quebec illustrates another way in which the co-op program works against the interests of labor. The union protested a certain student’s work for

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he was doing a job which is normally carried out by a union member. The company was able to pay the student less than it would have to pay a union member.

Reprinted above are two letters concerning co-op students and labour. The first letter is written by T.A. Brzustowski, UW vicepresident, academic. In the letter he claims students were not strikebreaking at Toronto Hydro.

The second letter is a reply by W .P. Baker, president of CUPE local one, in which he not only argues that the students were strikebreakers, but he also questions the whole relationship of the university to labour.

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In April of this year, Toronto Hydro workers went out on strike.

At that time there were three co-op students from the University of Waterloo working for Toronto Hydro who continued to work during the stike.

As a result, these students were viewed by the strikers and their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), local one, as strikebreakers.

Hoping to clarify this situation, the union sent a three-person delegation to the university to discuss the relationship between co-op students and labor.

The university, in response to CUPE complaints, stated in two printed reports, a letter addressed to CUPE printed below and in the Gazette dated May 14,--l975, they had checked with the three stu-

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dents employed at Toronto Hydro and had been assured they they had not worked in strikebreaking jobs.

However, one of the three students in question claimed he had only spoken to a university official once a few days before the strike when his co-ordinator was conducting a routine visit.

This was before CUPE had made its complaints.

Now students working at Toronto Hydro have to join the union.

Apparently despite UW administration claims, the students were working in union jobs and thus during the strike did work as strikebreakers.

A stated policy of the coordination department is that when a co-op job is found, the arrangement is just between the company and the university.

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We are writing in reference to the front page article of the chevron dated June 6, 1975 titled “Federation Will Ask Students to Vote N.D.P.” The opinions expressed by Mr. Shot-tall in the Chevron interview by John Morris are his own, they have not been discussed with, nor have they been condoned by the Federation.

These opinions also violate the recommendations of the Ontario Federation of Students. In fact to quote from a Canadian University Press release on the O.F.S. .Meeting of May 29-June 1, “the province wide student union” (OFS) “will not support the campaign of any particular party or organize students to vote as an Clearly, Shortall, alorganized block.” though an executive member of the OFS does not speak on their behalf on this issue although the chevron article could beconstrued to mean that NDP support is an official position.

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We should suggest that if Mr. Shot-tall wishes to do campaigning for the party of his choice he should not do so in a manner which misleads people into thinking he is speaking on behalf of some organization.

We also find it curious that the chevron would print an interview in which an OFS executive member is allowed to represent his personal political outlook and not give any concrete report on what happened at the OFS meeting. One wonders why the interviewer, John Morris, who also attended this meeting as a delegate from Waterloo (although he is not an elected representative) did ,not question Shortall about the concrete work of the meeting.

OFS is an organization to which the students of this campus pay over $18,000 per Annum for membership.

We have a right to know what happens in OFS conferences and our “student” paper should report on these. The political allignment of one individual is irrelevant.

We judge these to be serious errors on the part of Mr. Shortall and the chevron and would encourage their rectification.

Mark Wills, Arts Rep. Don Banyard, H.K.L.S. Rep. Barb Innes Nunn, Renison Rep. Hugh Alley, Eng. Rep.

Student cutbacks With reference to the letter from Marsha Forest, I am pleased that she has received satisfactory and worthwhile service from this Department and I trust we will be able to continue to provide it.

In regard to cutbacks, the Department is . not experiencing any retrenchment in excess of that experienced elsewhere. What we are having to do is.. twofold.

First, charge out for services which are outside our mandate of service to teaching academics in course of their teaching; and secondly, charge backs to the departments for certain services which are agreed to be an extravagant use of the Centre’s resources. Specifically, at present, the indiscriminate

use of students

projectionists.

The Department will continue to react constructively-to demands and restrictions placed on it by the University community in the expectation that if we remain useful we will be adequately funded. If there are

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Omigod!

Omigod! How classic. Judy McMillan has decided that the Engineering Society is still racist. Congratulations, you’ve just branded about 1200 individuals with two common traits: racism and sexism.

Doesn’t this stereotyping remove each person’s individuality, isn’t this stereotyping similar to the attitudes subscribed to by racists and sexists? Are you a sexist or a racist, Judy, or are you just a facultyist?

I hope you’ve enjoyed your little game of, Engineers are wrong when they stereotype, but I’m not when I stereotype.

I do hope that the day will come when people can accept other people as individuals, and not strictly as members of a group. Judy, I hope that someday you will be able to do this, too.

3A Electrical

Len Trembley Engineering

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 water-loo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Off ices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331: Congrats must go to the feds for the weekend beach boogie and party. From all reports it sounds Uniwat swinged last weekend. Nothing better to welcome in engineering week. . . nudge, nudge.. . beware the public teachers we remember from “the good old days” . . . have come to Uniwat to roost. As you may guess from this issue the housing crisis will become much more real to us this year than it did last year. Most people haven’t even considered looking. But no matter where you are, Muskoka, Toronto, Northern Ontario or perhaps outside the province you should ensure you have accomodation for the month of September. Uniwat administration is already contemplating students living in Village hallways. Now I remember the Village one and two hallways were not the most comfortable.

Good Luck!. . . Students are being forced to live further and further away from the campus

each year to find housing. An hour bus ride to work at eight o’clock is no hell; perhaps, but best call a few friends and get it settled . . .You may be able to still flnd housing in August, but September may fail to spark nostalgic memories in the future. And now the credits.

Centre stage in the chevron office c. c. (not the other) a wide variety of chevrics put in starring and cameo appearances.

Welcome home Nadine, you’ve got food ice-cream, thanks for the helping hands of john carter, the perseverence of john morris, the chevronads from diane ritza, and the Twoc award goes to henry hess this week for his hospitality throughout the week, randy and Sylvia, persevered also, along with neil docherty, helen witruk, andy schermann, denis andre, loris gervasio, Pierre elliot trudeau (sorry about the capitals) michael gordon, carol pierce, jim carter, the dumont ducks, renzo bernadini, a gudafternoon, and take it easy.. .mg.

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MEXICO: The Frozen Revohtion

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Repairs to-all makes of bicycl& We sell Mop-eds

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A graphic delineaticn of the political reality of Mexican history, including never-before-seen footage of the uprisings of 1910-14.

The dominant lives, ideologies and social forces that have shaped modern Mexico - Madero, Zapata, Villa, Huerta, Caranza - are all here: Cardenas’ attempts at reform; the latter-day bankruptcy of Diaz Ordaz; the 1970 Presidential campaign of ‘Luis Echeverria Alvarez; the inherited rhetoric of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) contrasted with the repressive reality of the Indianpeones, Mexican farm laborers, aging veterans of Zapata’s legions, and the Summer ‘68 massacre of hundreds of students at the Plaza de Tlatelolco in Mexico City.

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1976 -Winter . Term Room & Board

Tuesday,-July 15, 1975 Eng. Lecture 211 890 pm.

Free Admission

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Mexico/Argentina, 1970 Directed by Raymundo Gleyzer 60 minutes, 16mm, colour Spanish with English subtitles and narration

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

j;ul.y 11, 1975

Dag Hammarskjold $510.00 Double $570.00 Single $630.00 / Large Single Non-Resident

Phi/lip Street $520.00 $580.00 $640.00

meal , plans also available.

Waterloo Co-operative Residence Inc. 280 Phillip St. ’ Waterloo .,. 884-3670

JULY 11 & 12 - 8 p.m.

I AM A CAMERA (drama)

by John v,an Druten directed by-Maurice Evans

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Cabaret” Admission $7 50, Central Box Office ext. 2126 Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students ’

JULY 23-26 - 8 p.m.

THE CARETAKER (drama) by- Harold Pinter directed by Carl Gall

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In “The Caretaker” seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive meaning’,- haunting pathos, and hilarious comedy. The play is infused with the private terrors and personal farce of everyday life.

Theatre of the Arts Admission $1.50 Central Box Office ext. 2126 Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students j SPECIAL OFFER WHILE IT LASTS

(buy these two great plays together and you pay only $2.00) TUES. JULY 29 - 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

For further information contact john shortall in the federation office ext. 2405.

MUSIC FOUR

performing a programme of dances, vocal and instrumental ‘music from sixteenth-century Italy, England and France.

“We’ll sing, dance in costume, and play recorders, rebecs, lutes, crumhorns and viol.”

Humanities Building Quadrangle (Theatre of the Arts in inclement-weather) Free Admission