University OF Waterloo Waterfoo, OnBario volume 7, nm2ber 3 I fridav I / /ble 3 i ?977
Last week UW held its 34th convocation in which 2390 students graduated. Honourary degrees were granted to Canadian novelist Hugh McLennan, Designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Optometrist Henry W. Hofstetter, Engineer Sidney Blair and Mathematician And& Lichnerowicz. “Distinguished teacher” awards were given to Raj Pathria, Phyllis forsyth and Gary Griffin. Alumni gold medals for top standing were awarded to Susan Lamb HKLS (recreation), Gordon Zimmerman Science (chemistry), Faith Whyne Mathematics (pure math and computer science), Michal Kubasiewicz Environmental Studies (urban and regional planning), john Chinneck Engineering (systems design) and Simone Keizer-Buchanan Arts (history). UW also granted its first degree to a student studyin g entirely by correspondence. -photo by randy barkman
Only 40.5 per cent of the almost 2,400 students who graduated from UW last week have found full-time employment commensurate with their degrees. These are the results of a survey carried out by the chevron staff. The chevron interviewed 700 of the 2390 graduates (over 29%) in the three-day period of commencement late last week. The statistics indicate that about 24% of the UW grads will be returning-for post-graduate studies in the fall (including teachers’ college and other professional schools). Of those who are not returning for post-graduate work siightly over half have commensurate jobs: 23.5% have been able to find part-time, or only temporary, non-commensurate jobs; and 23% have found no job at all. A breakdown by degrees ob-
tained (see graphs) gives a more specific picture of the fate of graduates from the various faculties. Although graduates in Arts made up only 24% of the total number graduating, they accounted for half of those graduating with bachelor’s degrees who are returning for graduate studies. Math and Applied Science ( i.e. Engineering) graduates made up 36% of the graduating class, and yet account for 70% of those with bachelors degrees who have commensurate jobs. Of the students within each area who are entering the job market those with Bachelor of Environmental Studies had the lowest unemployment rate 16.3% : Engineering graduates were next with 16.9% - despite the 0.75%) overall unempioyment rate for professional engineers quoted this week
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in Enginews; Math had 24%; Science 33%; and graduates with Bachelor of Arts degrees had the highest unemployment rate at 34%. Only 9 of the 25 Architecture graduates were interviewed - too few to draw conclusive results, however, those interviewed gave indication that about a fifth of them were returning to school, a third were unemployed, and the remainder had commensurate jobs. None of the eight IS graduates were interviewed. All of these statistics have been compiled by the chevron staff, and are available in detail to any interested student. According to our information this is the first survey ,3. ,. .* 1 . ot its type successtully completed at UW. --gerard kimmons --karen moore -&we carter -jules grajower
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According to government figures the 38 per cent of Canada’s students who borrow from federal coffers leave university owing Ottawa about $3,000. v the Claude Passy , of
government’s Guaranteed Loans Administration, told the free chevron that over 90 per cent of those who borrow from the Canada Student Loan Plan to finance their education accumulate a debt under $3,000. Passy said there is no breakdown per province, but cautioned that the $3,000 average is weighted low
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because of the large number of Ontario borrowers (55 per cent). Under the Ontario Student Aid Plan students have to borrow $1,000 before they are eligible for a grant. In other provinces, hswever, he said students have to borrow a great deal more. So in the Maritime provinces for example they probably graduate with a much larger debt. The percentage of students borrowing money, Passy said, has remained quite constant in recent years. Ht was 38.9 per cent in 1968-69 and has only fluctuated a point or two below that since.
The average debt has also remained stable at around $3,000 according to Passy’s figures’. The number of borrowers, however, has certainly increased as is indicated by the amount of money loaned by the government. Passy said the 145.6 million which was on loan last year is up from the $62:6 million borrowed in 1968-69. About 170,000 students took advantage of the scheme last year. The default rate is 7 per cent, and that too has remained “pretty level” said Passy. -neil
docherty
Those leaving school this term are entering a job market which is one of the worst in Canada’s history. Canada Unemployment in climbed to 8.3 per cent in April. This figure represents only the seasonally-adjusted rate. The unadjusted rate of unemployment was 8.8 per cent which is the highest rate of unemployment since the depression Of the 193o’se Amongst the youth between the ages of 15 and 24, unemployment
was the most severe. reaching a level of 14.5 per cent. Nor will the situation get any better. A Statistics Canada report released on May 3 predicted that the number of unemployed youth in Ontario will continue to increase for the next 20 to 15 years- This increase will particularly affect graduating students. Between 1972 and 1975, Lnnemployment among graduating students averaged 5.3 per cent. Continued
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Tuesday Campus Centre Pub - see above. Transcendental Meditation - Free introductory lectures at noon and 3:3O p.m. in Engineering 4, room 3519. Sponsored by the SIMS Club.
Ontario has created 915,080 jobs in the past ten years - far absve the national average. We’re committed to even more jobs in the next ten years.
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An Eveming 0B Opera - 2 one-act operas “II Combattimento di Tanc redi” and “Gianni Schicchi” by Puccini from Wilfrid Laurier University in conjunction with the UW Arts Centre and the KW Symphony Orchestra. c%rmpus Centre
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Fed Flicks - see Friday Various Recreations for lnternational Students in the World Room. All are welcome to play chess, bridge; read’and relax there. 8:00-l 1 :CIOp.m. Campus Centre Pub Closed.
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Gay Lib Office, campus centre, Rm. 217C. Open Monday-Thursday-, 7-l 0 pm. Some afternoons - counselling and information. Phone 885-l 211 ext. 2373. Pregnant and Distressed? The Birth Control Centre is an information and referral centre for birth control, V.D., unplanned pregnancy and sexuality. For all the alternatives phone 885-i 214, ext. 3446 (Rm. 206 campus centre) or for emergency numbers 884-8770.
Urgent. Student with small family needs 3 bedroom housing or townhouse by June 17. Please phone B. Proudfoot 579-6837.
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typing 50 cents a page. 884-6913.
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Hi-l 1974. Il.9 per cent of the graduates were unemployed four months after graduation and a further 17 per cent were underemployed (i.e. had an annual income below $7,000). A year later, 7.2 per cent of the same class were still unemployed and f I per cent were still underemployed. -peter
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M,ith every new week the stuLients of the University of Waterloo ;are exposed to yet another example of federation dishonesty, disorganiz3.tiorr. blmdering an d 1~~~rea~1cracy. Can the federation of students really be as bad as it seems’? The question should be, has the situation ever been worse‘? It is no coincidence that the student union is being attacked on all fronts. Engineering society is pushing for refundable fees and, ifthis is not achieved. there is talk of withdrawing from the federation entirely. Tired of the federation’s lack of responsibility and acsountability to the students, the shady operations of the board of directors, and manipulations by-the federation president and executive. Engsoc sees no other option. Indications are that this sentiment is campus wide. At a recent National Union of Students (NUS) conference, a motion of censure was introduced against our federation for “the arbitrary shutdown of its student newspaper (the chevron).” The motion was tabled because federation president Doug Thompson and vice-president Ron Hipfner “had gone for a walk” and couldn’t speak to it. Dan O’Connor, executive secretary for NUS, considered our federation’s position indefensible, and stated: “I don’t believe there is any sympathy for Waterloo.” NUS, the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS), and Canadian University Press (CUP), are all opposed to the federation’s handling of the chevron affair and call for reinstatement of the chevron. So what is the federation doing to deserve such an adverse reaction‘? Surely we have advanced since the time Shane Roberts was recalled. Over 2,000 students took the initiative to throw out their elected president whom they found to be dishonest and inactive on student issues. But there was no improvement after Roberts. His hand-picked successor, Dave McLellan, continued the fanatical attack on the chevron, even going to the extent of calling the regional police onto campus. All this at the expense of reason and responsibility to the students.
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1)Thompson, when elected, stated he would solve the conflict ‘“even if 1 have to bring 500 engineers with me to the chevron offices.” ’ 2)The March 1 annual general meeting, which could have resolved the chevron conflict, was chaired by two people rabidly biased against the chevron -former federation president Andrew Telegdi and Math G’ouncillor R.A.G. White (who arbitrarily ruled chevron motions out of order at the Oct. 29 general meeting). 3)ln the middle of seriolis negotiations between the chevron staff and the federation (and their lawyer). Thompson and about 10 hangers-on, acting like common hoodlums, physically evicted two chevron staffers from the chevron offices. This about a week after society presidents from Arts and Engineering warned Thompson against physical confrontation with the chevron staff. 4)Friday, March 4, Thompson reversed his position and said he was willing to reinstate the paper. He produced a signed proposal to staff, had his picture taken with staff, and said he could start paying free chevron bills by the following Monday. The next council meeting Thompson, succumbing to pressure from the CRG, lied to the councillors, saying he had not offered reinstatement but was instead merely trying to get our position down on paper. Our position, however, had already appeared in the Oct. 17 free chevron.
S)On March 13, council passed an investigation into the chevron. Thompson, always the democrat, said it would “determine whether due process was indeed violated or not” in the original closure of the paper” The investigation, however, was swept under the rug and never took place. The part of the motion that was important to Thompson, though, was carried out to the letter. The motion barred all talk on the chevron conflict from council meetings. To this day if a councillor starts to speak about the chevron he or she will be shouted down and ruled out of order - not the proper way to solve a problem. 6)Just after the annual general meeting of students voted to keep graduate students in the federation, McLellan. who “never wanted co~~ncil, with the full support of the this job in the first p!ace“, thankCRG, voted to kick them out. The fully r’esigned, leaving the following message: “I have faith that the reason is simple - both grad councillors were supporters of the free platform put forward ‘by Doug Both lost their seats, and Thompson in the election is the chevron. the CR6 lost opposition. only choice that will lead us to a 7)The federation, unable to solve stronger federation.” Stronger! its problems, sent a federation deSo the thread of incompetent and legation led by vice-president Ron anti-democratic government was Hipfner to visit the UW president carried on from Roberts to McLelBurt Matthews on Feb. 28, asking lan to Thompson. All had the same him to intervene and give them symptoms - each was instrumen“free and unencumbered use” of tal in the closure of the chevron: the chevron offices. Matthews deeach was incapable of responsible clined e leadership, and each has been (or @In early April, the federation will be) defeated due to his own intervened through the administraincapability and contempt for stution to stop the free chevron from dents. booking a room on campus for the Thorilpson, Hipfner and about chevron benefit. five others (who were elected to 9)The OFS and the NUS chaircouncil) formed the Campus Reperson positions on the federation form Group (CRG). The group executive were consolidated into campaigned on high ideals, but one to rule out a chevron staffer never intended to do anything v,rho stood a ,c:~d chance of being about them. elected to tine ,)o%irion and therefore to a place in the executive. The group that was formed from 10)When two chevron staffers “fru~.tration with what was deemed were to be acclaimed to council reto be ineffectual leadership from the president’s offIce” gave us cently, the deadline for I& po<i-tions was extended by %hompsa;r~, Thompson as presiclent. contrary to all eleciioi;i JK6\itlr e::. From the very beginning, Thompson and the CRC have No Chief Returning Qffic<r (“..‘XSC) shown that they a5’e willing to use had been appoir2ied :,G accept griec&llacioux argument and improper vances. It is clear- !i$:tl iix federation has procedure to win the chevron/federation conflict, the at no tirne been interested in a fair biggest issue on campus: , and reasoned solution to the chev-
ron conflict, but it is not only this affair which exposes their nature: -the February 10 OFS moratorium on classes did not occur on our campus. Poster-s were made - some of which were put up the afternoon before) and a rally in rhe campus centre was planned and advertised --but never took place. Thompson didn’t show up and said he wotlld reschedule the event but he never did. -- in February Thompson and his friends, who had witnessed the recall of Shane Roberts by the students, changed the recall bylaw in a 2 a.m. Board of Directors meeting thereby making the recall of the president harder to achieve. - two half-time salaries on the federation’s paper “The Real Chevron” were not ratified by council. Thompson chose to pay the two people since they needed the money according to “Real Chevron” editor Bruce Burton. - The federation erased the voting rights of all off-term co-op and regular students due to a mistake in a bylaw change that was meant only to eliminate graduate students from the federation. The federation, however, is using this mistake (which they intend to change later) to allow two referendums on refundable federation fees thus delaying the results until November. The result is utter chaos. Incompetence is the norm. Any chance of building a fighting student union is negated. The rising cost ofeducation, the cutbacks, the decrease and the restriction of university enrollment - none of this is dealt with. The only thing that remains for the federation are the few services it provides. We can go to a Sunday night coffee house, a pub, fed flick or buy an
ice cream cone. The federation brought Bruce Cockburn and Valdy to campus. They have also set up an employment centre and a housing centre (which duplicate existing services). Though the federation is also incompetent in providing services (witness other campuses with much smaller budgets), the point is that a student union must be much more than a service organization. It loses its purpose otherwise. The federation has become a bureaucratic, uncaring monster which spends 53 per cent of its budget on salaries and honoraria. And the trend is towards even more. Now the vice-president receives a salary for what once was done for free. Federation executive members in the CRG make a pretense of changing the federation for the better. The latest saviour is Math councillor John Long’s bylaw commission, which is supposed to change all the bylaws. But the intent is not to clean them up to serve the students, but to change them for their own advantage. An example is the bylaw that
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removed the graduates from the federation which was co-sponsored by Long. The bylaw change only caused more chaos and was used to serve the ends of a small cikjue. The b~l:~~;j,,rreview commission is aj&e, aallt~win; Long the chsrxe he has alwa>;s wanted to play Pawmaker (this tsilI bs his fifth year on council). One of the four members of the ‘“c131mmissisa?,” ha%n’t even been contacted -- he is a chevron supporter -- meanwi& the corn. . “\/<S (f-p,rJ&‘:’ f mi~~lon n-z4, Fhe prc3bhl is not the 5vIaws but the peoD!e ii;? rhe fcdecation themselves. -The federation keeps sinking into a deeper and deeper hole under contemptuous as well as incompetent leadership. The solution lies in creating a democratic federation: one in which student representatives do reIy on their original election to office for their authority. Student leaders should be responsible to the students at aKl times. or else be recalled. And a democratic student newspaper is a requirement, to keep them honest. -the
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The latest outrage of the federation happened Wednesday when president Doug Thompson slammed his door in the face of seven students who wanted information from him which is supposed to be public. They wanted to see the nomination forms for the candidates in the upcoming student council byelection which according to federation policy are supposed to be open for public scrutiny. The incident started when chevron staffer Randy Earkmen, who is also a member of the federation executive, asked to see the forms for a report in the free chevron. Thompson, though confronted with the policy, refused and said: “Will you do me a favour and get out of my of6ce”‘. The chevron then recruited five students from the campus centre who, accompanied by two reporters, returned to the president’s office. The students asked to see the forms but Thompson refused saying he was having a meeting and slammed the dbr.
Shane Roberts,
former cederation president, despite being recalled by the students, sti!E manages TV stay in [he good graces of the Board of Governors. He gets a seat on the podium at convocation aithoergh he has been here seL,en years and has yet to get his degree. As a student rep OE the Board he can go to their c~nfidentia! meetings that no ordinary student can attend. His term doesn’t end until April 30, 7978.
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The Campus Cenrre wa_c the site of an ail-candidates forum Tuesday. The candidates speaking were those running in the Kitc!lener riding. Pictured from left to right are Sid McLennan (Progressive Conservative), Cam Conrad (New Democratic Party), Evalina Pdn (Communist Party of Canada), and /in-r Breithaupt (Liberal). Campaign literature was handed out at the forum, including a leaf/et’ by the Anti-imperialist Alliance, which exhorted students not to vote since the candidates are all the same.
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