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NDP canddate Mary-lane Mewhinney is seen here addressin, 0 _studetits jn the Great Hall Wednesday. Listening attentive/y are her two contenders for the Waterloo North Riding, Liberal Herb Epp (centre) and PC Bob Cramlow.
The Waterloo North New Democratic Party has refused to place an erection ad in the free chevron for a political reason. And the campaign manager for V/aterloo North NDP candidate Mary Jane Mewhinney acknowledges that a discussion by the UW Board of Governors strongly influenced his decision to reject an ad in the free chevron for the June 9 provincial election. Last week MeWhinney’s campaign manager, UW economics professor Bob Needham, told Larry Hannant of the free chevron advertising department that the NDP would be interested in advertising its candidate in the June 3 issue of the free chevron. But when Hannant spoke to the campaign manager again, on Tuesday of this week, after a meeting of the Mewhinney campaign committee, Needham reversed his stand and told Hannant that “I just don’t want to put an ad in the free chevron.” Asked if his rejection was “for a political reason”, Needham replied “Yes.” Needham referred to a “brief paragraph” from the UW Board of
Governors’ minutes which indicated that “there might be some attitude taken by the board against local advertisers” in the free chevron. The Waterloo North Liberal campaign manager has confirmed an ad in the June 3 free chevron, and the Progressive Conservatives are considering it. Needham denied that his rejection of the ad had anything to do with the fact that Shane Roberts, the recalled federation of students president who instigated the closing of the chevron on September 30, 1976, and who attacked the free chevron after September, is active in the Mewhinney campaign. Needham urged Hannant: “Don’t make a big thing about it.” In the Tuesday conversation with Hannant, Needham did not mention cost as a reason for not placing the ad in the free chevron. However, in a subsequent interview with the free chevron, Needham said that the “number one reason is finances.” “Frankly, when we discussed it there were a large number of reasons and the one I want to make public is the budget.”
Society presidents are unhappy with council’s blunder disenfranchising off-term students from the federation. In February, council passed a bylaw restricting voting federation membership to fee-paying students. The intention of the bylaw was to oust the two grad reps, both free chevron supporters, from council, but it had theanexpected side-effect of disenfranchising not only grads but co-op students on woik - term and regular students during the summer. As a result. the Julv referendum on refundabli fees his been split into two independent referendums, one in July and one in November. Engineering Society “A” president Peter King, who has been pushing for refundable fees, feels that “it’s utter stupidity”. He pointed out that the original intent
was to get rid of grads, and that the federation is just taking advantage of a loophole to hold two referendums. He feels the full impact of the bylaw change hasn’t been felt yet. The bylaw’s redefinition of federation membership means that offterm co-op students cannot vote in federation presidential elections. King says he’.s tired of opposing the federation and he just wants refundable fees. Mathsoc interim president Andy Mueller didn’t know about the bylaw when it was passed but feels “it was a mistake”. He feels that students off-campus but preregistered for the next term should be allowed to vote. The Science Society president was unavailable for comment. -ciaran
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He would make no comment on his earlier acknowledgment that politics was the reason for refusing to advertise. The invoivcment of Roberts and Franz Klingender. another federation of student executive member who voted to close the chevron last September, had nothing to do with the rejection of the ad, he insisted. “I’ve made the decision and I’!! take the rap for it.” He confirmed that a paragraph in the board of governors’ minutes mentions pressure on the local businesses who advertise in the free chevron. But Wednesday, in a second interview with the free chevron, Needham said that the board of governors minutes contain only “a commentary” that the free chevron relies on local advertising for finances. It was the last paragraph of the minutes, he said. “It’s just a small, innocuous statement,” he insisted. The board of governors has met twice since the chevron was closed last year, on February 1 and April 5. Shane Roberts, who sits on the Senate ex officio (by virtue of holding the federation presidency from February March to December 1976) was appointed to the board of governors by the Senate on May 1, 1976. Roberts missed the February 1 board of governors’ meeting, but was present at the April 5 meeting, which was concluded by a confidential session. The minutes of the public sessions of the two meetings record nothing about discussion oft he free chevron, but discussion at the confidential session is not recorded. UW Secretary Jack Brown confirmed that minutes for the closed sessions of board of governors’ meetings is provided to board members only. Brown said he couldn’t comment on what is discussed at confidential sessions of the Board. He could neither confirm nor deny whether the free chevron’s finances were discussed at the last session. UW President Burt Matthews was not available for comment.
CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) -A motion censuring the University of Waterloo Student Federation for the arbitrary shutdown of its student newspaper was tabled by delegates at the National Union of Students Conference in Charlottetown, May 14. Introduced by Capilano College of Vancouver, British Columbia, and seconded by Memorial University of Newfoundland, the motion asked delegates to denounce the federation’s actions in closing down the chevron last September without prior investigation. I 1-I doing so the federation violated the NUS policy on freedom of the student press as outlined by the Canadian University Press (CUP) statement of principles. The Waterloo delegation of federation president Doug Thompson and vice-president Ron Hipfner left the plenary shortly before the motion was brought forward, and a representative from the University of Toronto, who held their proxy, moved to table the motion since Waterloo could (not speak to it. NUS Executive Secretary Dan O’Connor spoke in favour of the motion because it did not require “immediate attention”. But he disagreed that Water!oo’s presence would have made any difference. “What position is there fend‘? I don’t believe there
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Needham refused to divulge his source for knowledge of the paragraph concerning the free chevron, but said that the source was not Shane Roberts.
sympathy for Waterloo. ’ ’ O’Connor, however, noted that delegations “did not jump at the opportunity to denounce the federation.” NUS Ontario fieldworker Gavin Anderson said he has found that many student councils do not have an understanding of freedom of the press. “Anyone who defies a principle as sacred as that must be censured. Waterloo has to realize that they were wrong in the first instance. NUS cannot endorse a council closing down a paper anymore than an administration closing down a student council.” CUP President Susan Johnson called on delegates to deal with the motion immediat’eiy. "You don’t realize what the and the students of chevron, Waterloo, have to live with every day ,-’ she said. The NUS Central Committee last November did make a b\i;\tement on the Waterloo :tffiti!-. inwhich they called for reinstatsment of the paper, but this via\ the fil-\t time the membership wa\ a\l\cd to take a stand. The Waterloo delegates returned to the conference hotel after the plenary had been adjourned. They explained to NUS staff member Miguel Figueroa that they “had gone for a walk.” The motion of censure will be brought forward at the NUS conference in Calgary.
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The federation of students has extended last Thursday’s nomination deadline for the six co-op council by-elections, but the procedure used is highly irregular and has resulted in IWO acclaimations being denied. At the close of nominations last week two chevron staffers, Marc McGuire (Architecture), and Gerrard Kimmons (Science Co-op), were the only nominations for their respective constituencies. There were no takers for the two engineering seats, none for the Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies (HKCS)) spot, and three in contention for the Math seat. The normal procedure in such a case would be that McGuire and Kimmons would be acclaimed, nominations would close on schedule for the Math constituency, and the vacant spots would have their nomination deadline extended. But instead of the chevron staffers being acclaimed to council the federation decided to extend al! the nomination deadlines. This move places them in clear contravention of their own Policy and Procedures Manual which states: “In the event that the number of nominees in any constituency is less than the number of seats assigned to the constituency, nominations may be re-opened to fill the remaining seats.” (our emphasis). The action is also contrary to the Ontario Elections Act. Also there is no doubt that acclaimations were expected when the nominations opened. The ad for the by-elections read: “Elections ‘if necessary’ will take place Thursday June 2.” Federation vice-president Ron Hipfner, who was out of town when the decision was made, claims the deadlines for all seats were extended “since there weren’t enough people running to call it a democratic decision.” The extention, however, has not been publicly advertised: instead the federation has phoned the societies to tell them the seats are still vacant. Nor has the lack of numbers concerned the federation in the past. In the last election, three seats were acclaimed in Engineering, one in Science Co-op, one in Renison, one in HKLS and two in the graduate constituency. The decision to extend the deadlines was made in consultation with some federation staff members, said Hipfner, but without reference to the election procedure guide which was missing from the file. The guide, however, is also printed in the Policy and Procedure Manual which is readily available in the federation office. There is also a precedent by which to judge the .matter. Last October, when Ian Chapran ran alone for a grad seat, the deadline was extended, another candidate was nominated and an election was held. The federation then admitted that a mistake had been made in extending the deadline and a second election had to be held. When confronted with all this, Hipfner admitted that the extension of the deadline where only one candidate was nominated is wrong. “Who shall we shoot?” he said.
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The UW administration has thrown LIP a roadblock against a free chevron move to use university computer facilities to produce the student newspaper. Last week, UW president Burt Matthews rejected a free chevron request to use computer facilities at an inexpensive academic rate. And he warned that he would *intervene personally if any department in the university gave the chevron access ~to the computers on their own account. The chevron staff were looking into the possibility of using computer facilities to reduce production costs. At first, officials in Math assured the chevron staff that they would get the use of the computers at an academic rate. But when the time came to sign a contract the decision was reversed. In appealing, the chevron staff went to the top of the university hierarchy, Matthews. Matthews declared that to get computer services at the academic rate the chevron staff would have to be recognized by the federation as a student organization. He said this was an old agreement between him and thefederation, but was unable to produce any written proof about the nature of the agreement he said existed. Matthews insisted that he and the university administration as a whole are “neutral” on the chevron/federation conflict. In the interview, Matthews was confronted with the major facts which demonstrated collusion between the federation and administ-
ration against the chevron staff. These facts were: -September25,thedaythatthe chevron staff discovered that the chevron office doors had been locked, three UW security police, taking orders from Shane Roberts, then federation president, attempted to keep the staff out of the office. They told chevron staff members that security chief Al Romenko had instructed them to do so. - When Doug Thompson and about 12 supporters evicted chevron staff from the office February 27, it was campus cops who prevented staff members’ initial attempts to re-enter. One chevron staff member was assaulted and cut in the effort to drag him out of the office. - September 30, on the word of Roberts, the Audio-Visual centre refused to allow chevron staffers to borrow sound equipment for an outdoor rally until they made a $50 profit. At the time the chevron was still officially open, and it should have enjoyed its normal privileges. - November 17, on the orders of Dave McLellan, the administration cuts off the chevron phones. This is in spite of the fact that chevron staff had an agreement with the federation to pay phone bills. Locksmiths from Physical Resources have attempted five times to change the locks on the chevron office. Again, they acted on the request of the federation, although they are responsible to the university administration and ultimately to Mathews.
Have you had anything break recently? A pencil lead while writing a crucial exam? Your car axle when Active Towing absconded with your vehicle’? Well, your worries and frustrations may soon be International over. *. the Fourth Conference on Fracture is planned to take place here at UW June 19-24.
Canadian environment has already been set up in Canada.
Over 600 engineers, scientists, designers, and health workers from around the world will be among those attending with the purpose of furthering scientific study of how and why things break i ships, aircraft, bridges 9 human bones, plastics, ice, metal alloys, etc.
It’s hard to believe but the executive of the Board of Governors (BOG) have hatched a scheme which‘ could net UW its second domed tennis court. At a meeting of the BOG execu‘tive, May 24, it was announced that the university had made an application to the Ontario government for a Wintario grant in the amount of $30,000. Every dollar that Wintario gives will be matched by funds from the Waterloo Tennis Club and money from the university coffers. Though the application has been made, the plan has not yet been approved by the BOG. If the plan succeeds, the number of tennis courts available for yearround use will double from two to four.
Sessions presented are to include “Fracture, Politics, and Society” and “Fracture EducatIon”.The latter topic, despite its everincreasing importance, still plays a far less centra,l role in the engineering curriculum than it should. Dr. David Taplin, UW mechanical engineering professor and chairperson of the conference organizing committee f says that a new body which will concern itself with practical problems related to the
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The brief stirring in the Campus Centre Great Hall Wednesday afternoon was an all-candidates meeting for the riding of Waterloo North, with the Progressive Conservative, Liberal , and New Democratic Party contenders on hand to present their views. In a low-key one-hour session the candidates went through their normal routine. Waterloo Mayor, Herb Epp, the Liberal, said the Conservative government was tired and was trying to apply age-old solutions to new problems”. He promised innovative and challenging solutions from a Liberal government. The government was criticised for accumulating a $7.4 million debt, and he promised to ease un-
- Mail addressed to the chevron has been re-directed to the federation. The postman no longer comes to cc140. When confronted with these facts, he explained “We have an agreernent with the federation and that space over there is space that we have long ago allocated to the federation of students to use as they
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“Anything to do with that space, we simply take our direction from the federation.” Questioned about the federation being supported by security police Matthews said, “They have a right to that space, . . .it’s the same as anyone else that has a right to space, we would protect their right as far as we could.” When it was suggested to him that there was some inconsistency between this agreement and his stated position of neutrality he said: “Well, I’m neutral in the dispute. But the fact remains that the space belongs to the federation and we have no reason to change that. ” -jonathon
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with an incentive employment program to businesses to create new jobs. He suggested businesses be given $2,000 per new job to a maximum of $20,000. The Liberals, he said, are committed to creating 100,000 jobs a year for three years, and to limiting government spending to the AIB guidelines. The PC runner, Bob Gramlow, said he was more interested in fielding questions than giving a speach. In his brief comments, he said all the parties are interested in the same problems, cautioned that the government must be careful in creating jobs so that it doesn’t produce an inflationary spiral, and said the government was “working in the right direction” on the preservation of farmland a Mary-Jane Mewhinney of the NDP complained about the rapid growth of the city and the lack of a land-use policy. She promised a freeze on prime agricultural land, and an income stabilization program for farmers. The NDP would like tuition-free education she said, but cautioned that this is “perhaps utopian”, so for the short term she offered im-v provements in student aid. She complained that “It is the exception that people from lower income families get to university .” She also said she is opposed to foreign students paying higher fees than domestic students. In the question period chevron editor Neil Docherty asked Me-
She replied: “As a candidate I don’t get involved in that part of the process. ” Docherty also expressed concern that recalled federation president Shane Roberts and former Arts councillor Franz Klingender , who became wellknown when he threw a rock through the chevron window, were on her campaign. Her response was, “Shane Roberts is a very effective canvas organiser.” During the brief question period there was no marked enthusiasm to quiz the candidates. One of four questioners asked about the differential fee for foreign students. Gramlow said he was in favour of it: Epp said he was embarrassed by it and opposed it: and Mewhinney said she was against it. Another questioner criticised the idea of businesses being paid with taxpayers money to create jobs. In response Gramlow never really answered the question but instead lamented the problems of small businesses. E p said he saw nothing wrong wit R the scheme, while Mewhinney noted that the over-riding issue is profit, “and that’s fair ball”, but she suggested that workers and management hold more discussions. -jonathan
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visa fee hike is n c University President Burt Matthews seems to have reversed his position on the fee increase for visa students. Originally in favour
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of the increase, he now appears to have changed his tune. When Matthews and other administrators from the University of Wa$rloo go to London for the June 3 meeting of the Ontario Council for University Affairs (OC UA), they intend to ask that OCUA keep “an open mind” on the subject of visa students. According to Matthews, the Waterloo delegation will ask OCUA to reconsider the impact of the fee hike on visa students. Said Matthews at a board of governors executive meeting Tuesday, “we don’t like to see discrimination based on economics”. Instead he personally favours a system where marks are the criteria, not money. He said that a quota system might also be another way of regulating the flow of visa students. Last October, the board of governors passed the visa fee hike which represented a tuition increase up to $1,500 a year for any foreign student registering after May I, 1977. Burt Matthews is on record for saying “the board made the right decision”. (free chevron feb 4/77) Though the decision to pass the increase was left to the governors of each campus, only three Ontario universities, Laurentian, Trent, and McMaster. decided against differential fees for the upcoming year. -doug
Finally, some campus artwork is being appreciated as this photographer snaps a picture of one of those noble works. This concrete sculpttire outside the Campus Centre is one of several works of art erected between 7969 and 7975 at a cost of over $25,000.
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At an all-candidates forum Wednesday at UW. Mary Jane MeWhinney was ‘;lsked about the NDP’s refusal to advertise in the free chevron. She claimed that she had no knowledge of the matter. “As a candidate I don’t get involved in that part of the process,” she said, but “1’11 look into it.” --neil - -4arry
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e CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP, Fighting student unemployment has become the number one priority of Canada’s student leaders, following a five day national conference here May 10-14. Delegates from student unions across Canada decided at the Na+ tional Union of Students (NUS) fifth annual general meeting to reaffirm the importance of the unemployment issue and to work with organized labour and other interested organizations in preparing strategy to fight unemployment, which has reached eight per cent of the work force according to official count. Youth unemployment is calculated to be much higher than other unemployment in most areas of the country.
A meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau was one of the more interesting highlights in a series of’ motions on unemployment, many of which were simply reaffirmation of policy developed at an NUS meeting last October. At that conference delegates agreed to make student unemployment the organization’s major priority, but a December meeting of the national executive replaced that demand with a fight against arbitrary across-the-board tuition increases that were surfacing in many provinces. Student leaders at this latest conference have committed their national organization and themselves to work on student unemployment through the summer and the fall by
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se ltar be a viru Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, a lethal neurological disorder which until recently was believed to be a “genetic” disea,se, has now been identified as a virus which can be transmitted from one adult to another. The cost of this new knowledge has been at least four human lives. Persons afflicted with the disease show dementiaat an early age, and are afflicted with incoordination and muscular degeneration. The disorder has long been known to run&r families, and on this basis alone it was designated as a “genetic” disorder. One compilation of such “genetic” disorders reported that the Creutzfeld-Jacob syndrome was an “undoubtedly and that inheritance in some cases heterogeneous disorder” “may be as a recessive”, although in one family there was “dominant inheritance”. (R.T.C. Pratt, The Genetics of Neurological Disorclers) However, the New York Times recently reported four cases where people unrelated to anyone with CreutzfeldJacob disease contracted it as a result of surgery. In two cases, the corneas from patients who had died of the disease were transplanted into healthy individuals who needed new corneas. Both recipients developed C-J disease, and one has already died. Two other victims were epileptics who underwent brain surgery in which electrodes were implanted into the brain in order to study epilepsy. The electrodes had previously been used on a patient who had C-J syndrome. Both of the people suffering from epilepsy then contracted C-J disease. One has’ already died, and the other is in a coma. Many experts now believe that the disease is in fact a virus difficult to detect and is resistant to which is “extremely sterilization by boiling, ultraviolet light, formaldehyde and other chemical disinfectants.” (K-W Record, May 10, 1977) This is not the first case where a disease is held to be “genetic” because it occurs in families but then is later discovered to have some other cause. Kuru disease, a progressive, lethal neuromuscular disorder known only among the Fore native people of New Guinea, had prompted geneticists to devise numerous models of its inheritance, but it was finally proven to be caused by an infectious agent that thrives in brain tissue. Pellagra, a disorder caused by dietary deficiency of thiamin, was at the time of the First World War believed to be a hereditary disease because it occurred with high frequency among many poor families in the southern USA. Evidence of its environmental origin was suppressed for 20 years, and many poverty-stricken victims perished because of this atrocity . These and similar examples show how the common view of heredity, besides being unscientific, can cause great and unnecessary suffering. According to the modern concept of. heredity, what is inherited is a set of “genes” located in the chromosomes, and if a certain gene is defective, the result is a hereditary disease which cannot be cured. It is common knowledge, however,.that both wealth and poverty can be inherited in our society. It is also well known that many substances quite apart from some genes on the chromosomes can be passed directly from mother to child. Drugs pass through the placenta readily and can cause addiction in a fetus whose mother is already addicted. Even small virus particles in the mother’s blood can pass to the fetus and cause infection, and immunity to many diseases can be transferred to the child via the milk of the mother who has already acquired the immunity. All of these things are hereditary, and all of them can be readily changed by modifying the environment. Creutzfeld-Jacob disease provides striking proof that a disorder can be hereditary without being carried on the chromosomes. The next step is for medical researchers to find a cure for it and wipe this rare but deadly scourge off the face of the earth. -doug
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doing the following: - local student council operating in the summer months are to help unemployed students and youth “to press for adequate government programs and to publicize the unemployment situation found locally” and; National Union of Students staff people will research unemploy-
ment and gather material for “possible mobilizations” of the unemployed, and generally prepare for further action to be planned at the October conference: the NUS national office is also to prepare a manual to assist local student councils in organizing students around unemployment issues. The entire campaign will centre
around three demands: the creation of massive government funded job programs, the elimination of arbitrary summer savings requirements in Canada Student Loan Plan, and that the government maintain and some regions reduce the required a eight weeks work before unemployed persons are eligible for Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
ment in establishing a massive job creation program. These include the creation of community oriented and community controlled programs which would include, but not concentrate exclusively on, sum-
mer jobs for students of both limited and unlimited duration, controlled at the national and regional levels by advisory bodies comprising representatives-of students and labour.
Now they tell us
CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) The major achievement of National Student Day (NSD) - a nationally and provincially co-ordinated action on student concerns last November 9 -was the recruitment of several activist students to the student movement in Canada. This was the consensus of student leaders at a NSD post-mortem conducted during the National Union of Students conference here May 10-14. Other than the success with recruiting, the NSD action across the country was poorly organized and equally poorly attended. (UW’s NSD was a classic example. Federation co-organiser Michael Dillon slept in and missed the start of the day’s events: barely 70 students in all showed up for the various workshops, where they found most of the federation’s officials lacking even basic facts and a large number of administration people who gave their view of things.) However, there are. unlikely to be any more “‘national days for concern”. Instead the student leaders adopted the idea of a national conference of student and labour representatives. Critics of NSD‘s failures focused on what they saw as poor media relations and a lack of consensus on NSD’s purpose. Events were mainly organized and initiated by the local student unions, and the focus of the action was usually left to the campaign organizers. However, there were no suggestions of how student leaders could learn from the experience and improve their organizing abilities, and there was little discussion of the original aimsof the national student day. The workshop discussion lacked, as did the November 9 day itself, any assessment of which issues should receive priority, how these should be analyzed and whether a national student day was the appropriate means to express any concerns. Despite the failure of the workshop to produce any strategy for future, many delegates the favoured greater cooperation with organized labour. Simon Fraser University delegate Brain Emery said that the student leaders should sit down with a group (organized has more experilabour) “which ence than we do”. University of Winnipeg delegate Ben Parker said that the action with labour was necessary so that student leaders could have “more visibility to students”. A hotly debated motion from Atkinson College delegate Jack Gazan calling for a national conference between student and labour representatives resulted in an agreement that a NUS priority would be the organization of a national conference of labour and students leaders and “other interest groups” to establish a co-ordinated action on the unemployment issue. representatives The student reaffirmed a program adopted at the October 76 conference listing a series of demands on the govern-
Tourists live off * A UW sociology class returned last May 13 from Haiti, where they had been studying social problems, including why the people suffer from drought and starvation while the rich and foreign tourists enjoy plentiful food and water. This year’s group consisted of eight students who were given a full credit for the three week field study. Professor Sawatsky, academic dean at Conrad Grebel through which the course is given, said that Haiti was selected over other perhaps more progressive third world nations because of the low cost, and that “there are few other places where poverty is so apparent”. “Haiti”, said Sawatsky , “provides a great variety of attempts at dealing with poverty. It provides a laboratory setting where most of the island can be covered in the allotted time.” Professor Winfield Fretz, the group leader, said he saw numerous cases of famine and starvation. “It wasn’t uncommon”, he said, “to see people whose hair was turning brown or red and easily falling out, as well as their stomachs being extremely swelled.” “This”, he sign of the said, “is a common symptoms of certain diseases caused by malnutrition. This verifies a report two weeks ago by journalist Pierre SaintGermain of Montreal’s La Presse in which he says that some people had been living on lemonade and bread for a month.
The Cuban newspaper Granma reports that a large number of people have died of starvation and lack of water and medical care in the northwestern region of Haiti -the area hardest hit by drought. “The dead are buried in shallow graves, and public authorities are not informed, so the exact death toll will never be known . . .The rich and the members of the Haitian government have water trucks at their disposal and tourists continue to enjoy the fresh running water in the capital while poor sections and the interior are hard hit.” Professor Fretz said that this starvation was “only to be expected, after all they are poor, you know . . In a country such as this where social policies are of a very low priority, what else can you expect? You can’t change it.” When it was pointed out that Cuba, Haiti’s Caribbean neighbour, has made relatively great gains in this respect the professor replied,“Yes, but that would mean changing the government.” The Regroupement Forces Democratiques of Haitians centred in Montreal has laid the blame for the drought’s extreme effects squarely on the Duvalier regime. “This wasn’t the first time Haiti had been hit by drought Everytime there are more victims, but the present regime and those before it haven’t done anything to solve the problem.” -shih
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incsm The graduate students, upset that many of them receive little or no income for their university work, are following up on a motion of support for the principle of a guaranteed annual income, passed unanirnously by over a hundred students at the last annual general meetingofthe Grad Club in March. The Graduate B oa rd of Directors set up a committee to draft a position paper on the need for this guaranteed income at its last meeting May 18. The position of the graduates has already been made known to the administration, but according to David Scott, a grad rep on the president’s advisory committee on graduate student support, they aren’t “taking the proposal very seriously.” He stated that they seem to be more opposed to the principle than the cost. At the board meeting, Scott produced_ figures from a recent report on graduate income which show the cost to the university to increase the graduate incomes to a level of $2000 would be no more than the cost for its planned increase of T.A. funds by eight and a half per cent for the 1977-78 year. Dean of graduate studies, Lyn Watt, said of the principle of a guaranteed income, “I don’t think the university could accept it as a principle. It would deny some students admission to the graduate progrAm” because we won’t have the funds to support them. The proposal for a guaranteed annual income has been around since May 1974, when it was presented in a report drafted by a committee of graduate students and administrators and submitted to president Matthews. Matthews rejected the recommendation and the issue remained buried until just recently. While the average income of graduate students has been increasing over the last few years, the number of students without any income or an income of less than $500 a year has also been on the increase. In 1971-72 3.3 per cent of the. graduates taking thee terms of fulltime study made no income. By 1972-73 this had increased to 5.6 per cent. In a recent study it was found that 10.3 per cent of all gra.duates taking three terms of fulltime study made no income. By for those students making less than $500 per year. At last week’s board meeting, Grad Club treasurer, Nick Redding, pointed out what the McMaster graduate students had done when their administration tried to cut back their incomes. When their administration announced that the guaranteed annual income of $4,500 would be cut by $1,250, 170 graduates withheld the marks of their students. And when the administration did not fully repeal the original decision, the graduates started to organize a union which to date has a pledged support of 35 per cent of the constituency. Redding, not hopeful about negotiations with the administration, stated that UW grads may have to go the union route. To date Toronto and York graduates already have unions and three other universities in Ontario are actively organizing them. -4awid
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months, who is outraged by this latest attack by Trudeau on the youth and students of Canada. With the current economic crisis deepenof the reactionary ing, the response bourgeoisie is to “make the people pay” by Stu Vickars has used the Feb. 23 RCMP maintaining high levels of inflation, increasraid on the Communist Party of Canada ing unemployment, cutting back in health (Marxist -Leninist) as the occasion to attack and social services and implementing wage and price controls. Students are faced with CPC(M-L), slander the Chinese people, falthe dismal reality of a 14% unemployment sify Chairman Mao’s line on the correct rate, yet Trudeau’s response to the just dehandling of contradictions among the peomands of the students for jobs is to get out of ple, and promote his ow,n anarchist politics Canada and “find another country which (see the free chevron, May 20). needs university graduates”. Turning truth Speaking as one of the persons arrested in on its head, Trudeau points the finger of the Feb. 23 RCMP raid on the Norman blame at the students for the high level of Bethune Institute in Waterloo, I don’t want unemployment, saying, “There are just too any support from an anti-communist like many university graduates, that’s all” ! On Vickars, and I note that he has not offered the contrary, it is Trudeau, the monopoly any support, either. Instead, he has given capitalist class, and the sellouts to U.S. imreal support to the reactionary Canadian perialism, who should get.out of Canada. state in its attack on CPC(M-L). This fascist addition to the vicious camVickars hopes that “Wahlsten and his paign of slanders launched against the unfriends. . .are never in a position to make employed, youth and students and working laws and pass judgements over other peoclass of Canada, brings to mind the current ple.” That is exactly the hope of the U.S. struggles of the revolutionary youth in Zimimperialists, the Canadian monopoly babwe, Angola, Spain, Italy and all across capitalists and all reactionaries, and they are the globe. I think of the historic role played persecuting the Canadian working class and by the students of China who led the May 4th its political party, CPC(M-L), precisely so Movement in 1919 - a cultural revolution, that they do not achieve political power. significant because of its thorough and unThe bourgeoisie know that if the working compromising opposition to imperialism, as class, which comprises a large majority of well as feudalism. The youth and students of the population, ever achieves state power, the world have a proud and heroic history of then the rich will be expropriated and lose rebelling against reaction, international imtheir freedom to live like parasites off the toil perialism and the reactionary bourgeoisie of of workers. their own country. There is no state or democracy above Enver Hoxha, 1st Secretary of the Party of classes. Every state is the instrument of opLabour of Albania, states that “in the pression of one class or classes by another bourgeois and revisionist countries, uncerclass or classes. Heretofore, every state, be tainty for the present and fear of the future it in slave, feudal or capitalist society, has nags at the youth day in and day out. Every been the dictatorship of a minority of parasecond of every hour their minds are sites over the vast majority of working peopoisoned by confusing propaganda, urging ple. them to an empty, dissipated life, devoid of Today, there are socialist states in Albania ideals, which alienates them from the revoluand China, although the great socialist tion, which drives them to the road of crime Soviet Union has now returned to the and hooliganism, and casts them into anarchcapitalist road and has become a socialism, utopia, and despair.” (Report submitimperialist and fascist state. Canada is now ted to the 7th Congress of the Party of on the threshold of a new society with a Labour of Albania, 1977) democratic, independent am1 social-ist state. The new Canadian state will provide the The reactionary bourgeoisie of Canada broadest possible democracy for the workhas the evil scheme of mobilising the Canaing class while suppressing those reacdian youth for fascism. This programme, calltionaries who want to restore the rule of ed Katimavik, plans to mobilize a fascist imperialism. This new state, this genuinely youth corps of lO,OOO-25,000 youth for the democratic state, will be an important step war preparations of the Canadian state in the towards the withering away of the state alservice of U.S. imperialism. This, indeed, is together and the establishment of a classless, the ‘“bleak future” Trudeau has planned for communist society. the Canadian youth. If Vickars picks up the black flag of In contrast, Enver Hoxha further points anarchism with his puny “smash the state” out that the youth of socialist Albania “are inscribed upon it and launches an attack on surrounded by the special care of the Party the new socialist state, then he will undouband the entire society. Great prospects tedly be smashed by the iron fist of the prowhich guarantee their present and future and ‘: letariat. give lofty meaning to their life have been If Vickars has one drop of progressive opened to them.” blood in his veins orjust a tiny germ of hatred The free chevron, supported by the demofor the monopoly capitalist system, let him cratic and progressive students of UW, is show this by doing something practical to showing that the youth and students are fillsmash the bourgeois state. ed with revolutionary spirit. Faced with the The best support which anyone can give underhanded conspiracies and frauds of the me is to join the struggle, to unite in action local reactionaries, the students are waging a against our common enemies, U.S. imvaliant struggle to uphold their right to a perialism, Soviet social-imperialism, the democratic student newspaper which deCanadian monopoly capitalist class and all fends the basic interests of the students. reactionaries. Whatever the intrigues of the reactionary Make The Rich Pay! forces, the just struggles of the democratic Doug Wahlsten forces shall be victorious. Thisis the era of imperialism and world proletarian socialist revolution. Revolution is the main trend in the world today. The response of the students must be to denounce and oppose the state of the rich by organising with unemployed youth and the working class to demand -----~ -- ~jobs and take up the tactical line of MAKE ’ -~ -4% THE RICH PAY! Greetings. I am writing to send my support * Sylvia Collins for the contifiuation of the publication of the free chevron and request that my subscription be sustained throughout the summer months. Enclosed is a modest amount of fifteen dollars to help cover the mailing and publication costs. I have received the free chevron during the 1976-77 semesters and have found it to be a vivacious and informative student news’ paper. The letter entitled “Down With Trudeau” in th’e free chevron dated April 7/77 has, pi-ompted me to write, as I am a graduated student, unemployed for three
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in iron ore count Summer has come for most university students, which means we’re all out looking forjobs to pay for school again in the fall. Only this summer, it’s different. More people are out of work this year than any other year since the Depression. It’s running at about ten per cent of the labour force right now. Young and foolish as I am, I didn’t let such facts worry me when I started after ajob. In late April I went to the iron mines in eastern Qukbec and Labrador, riding high with the confidence that I’d be employed within a week. I had three factors going for me: 1) The area is barren and lonely, with snowfalls in nine months of the year, therefore few people would go there to work; 2) Production of iron ore was just beginning in April, after being closedi down for the winter, creating hundreds of jobs; 3) I had worked for the company for four months in 1975, had a good work record, and I had been laid-off rather than being fired or having quit. I felt so sure that I would get a job that I didn’t register at Manpower before leaving for Qukbec. Bad omens, like the front page story in the chevron on few job opportunitie’s in K-W and a CBC news broadcast about a Newfoundland mill shutdown, didn’t bother me personally. When I got to iron ore country, I found a very different story than the one I expected. There were no jobs there, and none were coming in the forseeable future. The significance of this may be hard to fathom to a Southern Ontarion, but here’s some back-up info: hundreds of workers had been laid-off for the winter in November, and all but four returned to the desolate, lonely town after spending the winter in warmer, exceiting places like Mont&l. 1977 is the first year ever that that mining company is not looking for workers. By the time I got there, people had been in town for two months waiting for the first job vacancy. With a heavy heart and the dread of applying for a student loan (I’ve always paid my own cash for anything I bought), I started heading west for Qntario. On the way I stopped at four towns that depended on the mining industry just to check for any possibilities. It was the same story everywhere. Every company had far more applicants than they didjob vacancies. I’m back in Toronto now, with two part-time jobs paying minimum wage. I’ll be lucky to make even a hundred dollars a week. Not even assembly-line work is available in factoryrich Toronto. I’ve learned another lesson the hard way: Everybody, including myself, is affected by a heavy unemployment situation. It’s something for everyone to think about, because it seems the provincial and federal governments don’t want to. , Jamie Thiers
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A member of the Canadian University Press, the free chevron is produced ’ and published by the chevron staff and is typeset by Bumont Press Graphix. The free chevron is produced from Room 140, Campus Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. Mail should be sent to P.O. Box 802, Waterloo. Telephone (519) 742-5502. The summer heat is on but the spirit of the staff is not dampened, even if there was no air conditioning on the hottest days. In our continuing attempt to carry our struggle outside the confines of the office and beyond the pages of the newspaper, we have entered teams into the ball hockey and soccer competitions. So far we’re on a losing streak but the moral and competitive spirit are building. Thanx again to the following: will (randy) barkman?, phil rogers, larry hannant, henry hess (a good friend back from the sticks for a visit), henry crapo, peyton, joanne monroe, Carolyn harris, mark mcguire, tom cody, peter blunden, lorne gershuny, nick redding, karen moore, mary faught, shih k’ang-ti, marina taitt, jonathon coles, heather robertson, salah bachir, gerard kimmons, jules grajower, ciaran o’donnell, mart shafroth, jamie thiers, doug hamilton, doug wahlsten, and peter tompson. And a sporting thanx to those who helped us go down 3 to 1 in the soccer game: jacob, lori, dave, and the man we picked up for the
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though In an era where violence, in its Dogs” and “The Getaway” Hoi- - there were respites like his simple many forms, is the current “The Ballad of Cable lywood rage, it is only predictable classic about a self-determined Hague” that the master anti-sadistic sadist, man who “found water where there Peckinpah, be allowed Sam another shot at a movie (and various individuals’ stomachs). There was a time - just after “Major Dundee” (1965) when Peckinpah was virtually blacklisted from the industry. He cel?ainiy wasn’t the first (witness Von Stroheim, Griffith etc.) and it shows how quickly directors can be out of work when film budgets are bigger than the GNP of certain countries. Then came “‘The Wild Bunch” in 1969. Producers swallowed Peckinpah’s individualism an d again accepted him. The film made money. It also htid another impact: opening the way for the very violent film. The violence seemed very realistic. yet was distant and artfully directed. Some viewed it as grotesque while others like myself, felt it was visually beautiful - a ballet of death. The trend he started, he continued in such films as “Straw
wasn’t”. Now, in the typical Hollywood tradition (ie. the bigger the better), Peckinpah has abandoned the
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“Time Loves a Hero” Little Feat’s sixth release is the group’s tines? album: a stunning collection of ail the best aspects of 1970’s rock. The music that Little Feat creates is intelligent and stylish. You won’t hear any of the long boring instrument solos that mar the music of many rock groups. Rather, their music is cohesive the musicians play with the rhythmn of the song rather than over top of it, which happens unfortunately ail too infrequently in rock music these days. The result is music that sounds fresh, inventive, and incredibly varied. The material on “Time ranges from hard Loves a Hero” funky rock to electric jazz to country oriented folk. The group, consisting of Bill Payne on keyboards, Sam Clayton percussion, Ken
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western and tackled World War Two. An ideal setting for a man who lines up his shots through a machine gun rather than a camera. The possibilities of carnage are
way of Captain Stransky (Maximiiiian Scheii) and his quest for the iron cross of bravery. Stransky , a Prussian aristocrat, is “fighting for the principles of (his) country, right 01- wrong.” He is willing to forfeit Steiner’s life for what Steiner considers “a piece of woodiess metal”. Steiner is hooked on war and on leading a man’s life. He hates ail officers. The main characters are Germans fighting Russians (on the Tamen penninsuia in 1943) but it really doesn’t matter to Peckinpah. War is hell no matter which side you’re on. (“They’re not fighting for their country or the party, but for their lives” .)
endless. “Cross of Iron” involves the individuaiistic corporal Steiner (James Coiburn) who stands in the
The audience identifies with the Germans just as they would Americans or British - it isn’t hard since most of them speak with British (or Welsh) accents. They only sing in German. James Mason (Colonel &ant) and Scheii excel as character ac. .. . * YV. ,. . tors while David Warner (the priest from “Cable Hague”) is even better in the part of a worn-out officer. Coiburn, as usual, is a good lead.
That’s a fit title. And if you like what Van Morrison does then I imagine you’ll like this album, and eventually appreciate it. I enjoy it. It’s techriicaliy perfect music that he’s turned out here for us, filled with Van’s prachard-nosed sort of ticed, philosophies. Lines like “You gotta make it through the world if you can”. “You gotta do and die”, and “I’m gonna follow the road that will take me right back home” are threaded through ail of these songs, and their meaning to us is as valid as ever. Yet clearly lacking here is the total innovation of his best albums. And the excitement and intensity that ail his previous music has had, in one form OI- another, didn’t so
instance, “Jackie Wilson Said”. Nothing here has the mystic quality of “Listen To The Lion”, “Snow In San Anseimo”, or any of the cuts on Moondance. We don’t quite have here the assurance or direct connection of “Hard Nose The Highway” and “The Great Deception”. I don’t want to be too hard on this album, because it is good music, but really - I was more excited ten years ago when “Gloria” came out. You can see, though, that ail these comparisons have been only to his own past work. He’s almost an archetype in his field, now, and doesn’t relate to Peter Frampton, Bruce Springsteen, or Patti Smith. This is his first album in three years. It’s been a period of transition and of setting himself away
The plot is secondary to the directing and possibly Peckinpah’s message, as old as it may be. WWII seems a massive excuse for Peckinpah to destroy property and blow up, shoot and stab people. Machine guns are emptied into bodies, hand grenades throw bodies twenty feet into the air, bodies are run over by trucks . . .Women - what’% neur’? - are abused. Peckinpah dresse\ I’P the wounds with artistic Lose cf quiet. quick editing . and the now familiar use of slow motion. The \,iolence in some scenes is oler-whelming with blood spiurting betureen ekery edit. Soon nothing \frill be shocking. There are many great scenes in the film. Steiner. recuperating in a hospital. has visions during his recovery and attacks ci dinner table and some officers. A Russian tank attack stops at nothing to seek out the enemy. They follow them e\‘en into buiidings. “Cross of Iron” lacks the depth a movie needs to be great but Peckinpah shows that he is possibly the best special effects director in the business. --randy barkman
with his art. I suspect that what comes after this period will be more exciting, more involving to us than what happened during it. Special mention to two songs, though. The opening cut - “You Gotta Make It Through The World” was well chosen to begin this album. That, and then Morrison’s consistent proficiency and honesty through what follows brings you through his record without suffering any profound displeasures or major disillusionment. And then you reach that last song, “Cold Wind In August”. Listening to that cut made me really happy. This, you think, is why you bought yet another album by this man. This is where the transitions and changes come through to a completeness - a fuifillment, you could call it - and then ysu find yourself finally relaxing, sitting back with your eyes closed, far away, and you listen to Van Morrison, full-warp, doing what only he can do. --pey?cm
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ste Clover is a plant daily stepped on or mowed dam in Waterloo. its true merits seldom appreciated. One asset is that much of it can be eaten, not just by livestock, but by humans. Wherever there is green, clove1 can be found. Because of its abundance, many rank clover as a “survival food” and it has indeed saved a good many lives. The young leaves and flowers can be eaten raw or briefly cooked. Clover is also used in flavouring cheeses and I
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often creep into this collection. Those original horn sections, where the sound seemed as full as it could be made - her’e those horns are solid, every arrangement tight: but they just can’t or don’t reach the fullness you encounter in, for
from the crowd. He’s evidently been r&arranging his style of musiCal thought, his ego in relation to all sorts of things, re-assessing his future aims in the music industry, etc. Lots of things happen in three years. He’s been at work, busy
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