a Morley Rosenberg, who tinues in his legal practice mayor of Kitchener, has lharging the Federation of ents up to $25 per minute for
conwhile been Stulegal
consultation since 1975, a free investigation has rechevron vealed. Rosenberg has received $10,000 per annum from the federation
since 1975, and for this fixed fee he agrees to handle student cases refered to him by the federation, usually concerning landlord-tenant problems.
University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 7, number 32 friday, june 70, 7 977
With much hoopla, the PC’s invaded Wilirid Laurier University last Monday for a campaign wind-up rally. There were bands, qingers, beer (75 cents), and hundreds of people. “Time has come when this political wasteland comes back to the Progressive Conservatives ” said Bill Davis to thundering applause. About a dozen UW students, and executive members of the Ontario Federation of Students protested the Davis government - especially concerning education and jobs - outside the WLU auditorium. A group concerned with religious practices in the SC/JOO/ system, and angther which opposed mercury pollution and its effects also demonstrated and handed out leaflets. photo by randy barkman
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Despite the abundance of Canadian universities offering undergraduate programs in Kinesiology, Canada does not produce enough Ph.D.‘s in Kinesiology to fill demands for faculty. Lynn Watt, dean of graduate studies at UW, told the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) June 3rd that for this reason the provincial government’s embargo on development of new graduate programs in Physical Education and Kinesiology should be removed. Watt was a member of a UW delegation which presented a brief to OCUA on future funding of Ontario universities. OCUA is an advisory body to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and will make recommendations to the government about future funding after hearing briefs from Ontario universities. Watt criticized one of the criteria advocated by OCUA for determining the merit of proposed new graduate programs. OCUA suggested that before a new graduate program is established, future need for graduates in that area must be demonstrated. Watt said estimates of future manpower needs are usually unreliable. In addition, it is not important that masters or doctoral graduates work in their specialised field. Rather, it is important that universities provide society with highly educated young people to solve future problems and to serve as leaders. When asked what criteria should be used to judge the merit of a new graduate program, Watt recommended consideration of student
demand and extent of subject coverage by the university system. Watt agreed with OCUA that new graduate programs should satisfy rigourous quality standards.
Enrolment
Trends
UW president Burt Matthews told OCUA that UW’s regular enrolment should remain at its present level into the 1990’s despite a projected slump in total enrolment at Ontario universities (due to population trends) during the 1980’s. As evidence that UW can maintain its enrolment level in the face of a general recession, Matthews noted that applications to UW have increased over last year, whereas the total number of applications to Ontario universities has declined slightly. Of all applicants to Ontario universities this year, 5000 name UW as their first choice: IJW has places for about 4000 frosh this year. Matthews told OCUA that UW would like to continue expansion of its correspondence programs. Enrolment in correspondence programs has increased from 338 in 1970 to 3029 in 1977. The government’s freeze on enrolment increases, however, makes the continued expansion of correspondence programs impossible. The government proposes that, in future, universities that increase their enrolment above current levels will receive only 50% of the per-student government grant for each additional student. Matthews said the cost of labour and materials for correspondence courses is too high to allow expansion without
the full government grant for each student. Matthews justified expansion of the correspondence programs by the fact that they make postsecondary education more accessible. People unable to attend regularly scheduled lectures at UW can take the same courses by correspondence. These students pay the same fees as regular students, and can earn the same degree (a B.A. was awarded to a correspondence student this spring). Matthews said that UW’s correspondence students are all over Ontario, and there are even some in Waterloo. In the face of increasing demand for correspondence courses, the expansion funding should be regarded as an important public service. -nick
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Election Co-op math students will be going to the polls today to decide the holder of the co-op council seat. The co-op math seat is the only seat being contested, all the other co-op seats being filled by acclamation. Vying for top honours for the math seat are Lorne Gershuny, BrianGregory, and Doug McDougall. In other seats, Herb Malcolmson was acclaimed to-the HKLS seat, Gerard Kimmons is the new councillor for co-op science, Joe Crncick and Brian Stevens are the new reps from Engineering: Mark McGuire is again the rep for co-op Environmental Studies. -doug
hamilton
Rosenberg bills the federation quarterly for $2500, and issues a report detailing the work done in the quarter. The report for the first quarter of 1975 shows that Rosenberg gave 10 telephone consultations,kach about 10 minutes duration. Thus Rosenberg spent about one hour, 40 minutes earning his fee of $2500. Subsequent repoa show little variation in the amount of time spent in each quarter for his fee. Rosenberg’s bills to the federation rose from $2500 in 1972 to $8000 in 1974, and to $10,000 each year since 1975. Prior to 1973, Rosenberg was paid on a per-case basis. In a telephone interview with the free chevron, Rosenberg confirmed that he has received fixed fees of $8000 in 1974 and $10,000 each year since 1975. Rosenberg said that the work done for his fee is documented in his quarterly reports, with the exception of “corwhich involves the porate work” minutes and bylaws of the federation. - When asked how much “corporate work” he does for the federation, Rosenberg replied that he couldn’t say “off the top of my head”. Rosenberg said that he con-
A chevron study of a recent federation bylaw change reveals that students’ council will not be able to meet during this term, the board of directors can’t vote, and not only are off-campus students disenfranchised but so is federation president Doug Thomp’son. In essence, a motion passed by council March 23 has left the government of the UW Federation of Students in a shambles. The motion, a bylaw change intended to remove the two graduate representatives from council, and remove all graduate students’ voting rights in the federation was narrowly passed by Thompson and his supporters in a 9-8 vote. Both grad reps were chevron supporters. The bylaw states that only those students who pay a UW Student Activity Fee coliected by the university administration during registration, and later handed over to the federation, are “full” members of the federation. Only “full” members can nominate and second candidates, or be candidates in council elections, vote in federation elections, or sign federation petitions, vote in federation council or in the federation Board of Directors. If this bylaw change stands, the chevron believes there will be no one on students’ council who can vote. All the representatives for regular students who are off campus this term can’t vote because they haven’t paid their student activity fee, and there is no way for them to do so before next term. Also because they can’t vote it means all six coop representatives who have either been acclaimed or elected to council, as of today, won’t be able to take their seats, because there will be no council to ratify them. Although those six are eligible to vote, they won’t be able to, because council will be unable to muster quorum to accept them. Quorum is 13 voting councillors and as things stand there just aren’t 13 councillors who have registered and paid their fees this term. Indeed there are none. Furthermore, all five directors of the federation, who make up its corporate entity, can’t vote in board meetings, because they too are not full members of the federation as they have not paid their re-
siders his fees to the federation to be reasonable. When federation president Doug Thompson was asked if he thinks the federation is getting it-s money’s worth from Rosenberg, he replied that he doesn’t know. Thompson said that he plans to meet with Rosenberg in the future to discuss his relationship with the federation. The Graduate Club offers legal aid to graduate students as does the federation to undergraduates. However, the Graduate Club pays its lawyer on a per-case basis. At the annual general meeting of the Graduate Club this year, it was reported that most cases referred by the club require about 15 minutes of a lawyer’s time, at a cost of $15. Last year, the federation overspent its $10,000 budget for legal fees (all of it allocated to Rosenberg) by $2050. The additional expenses arose mainly from hiring Gary Flaxbard of Artindale, Whitfield and Cooke to take legal action against the chelron. Rosenberg declined to work for the federation in this area. At the time he was asked, he cited pressure of his campaign for the mayoralty of Kitchener as his reason for not accepting the case. -nick
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gistration fee. This includes the federation president. Nor can they get round it because they are not registered students this term. Federation business manager Peter Yates confirmed this week that there is no way to pay the federation fee out-, side of registration. This leaves federation vicepresident Ron Hipfner in a bind. He claims to have paid $13.75 for an ice cream cone at the federation’s ice cream stand, thereby paying his federation fee, and thus becoming a full member. Hipfner has no receipt and there is no record of his overpriced cone at the ice cream stand. Such a purchase, however, is of little consequence since Hipfner admitted to the chevron Wednesday that it still wouldn’t have made him a full member of the federation under the new bylaw. At best his $13.75 would buy him associate membership with full social privileges, which is a classification in the bylaw for “members of the UW community or past regular members’ ’ , and which, essentially gains them student rates at social events. But it doesn’t give Hipfner voting rights because the “University of Waterloo Student Activity Fee” required for full membership under the bylaw has to be paid at registration. Hipfner is a co-op math student who is technically on his offcampus term and so hasn’t registered as a full-time student. And any thoughts councillors may have had of paying their fees at the ice cream stand were quashed this week when Yates returned $13.75 of the $14.10 Math councillor John Long had paid for a cone. Yates told the chevron that there was no way to pay federation fees other than through registration. It is a strict interpretation of this March 23 bylaw which Thompson and Hipfner claim forces two re-s ferendums to be held on voluntary federation fees. They claim that, as a result of the bylaw, regular and off-term co-op students couldn’t vote in the summer. Thus referendums are scheduled for the summer and the fall term. -jules grajower -randy barkman -ernst von bezold -neil docherty
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The conference on Writing Skills and the IJniversity Student, held at Conrad Grebel College on June 3 and 4 as “a research project” funded by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, was a pseudo-conference and an attack on students. High School English teachers from across the province were informed that large numbers of their graduates were poor writers and were soothed with booze and kind words of concern over their heavy work loads. The possibility that students write as well as they ever have was never seriously considered at the conference even though a report issued by the Ontario government in January indicated just that. The conference also failed to examine the
allegation that the so-called problem has developed only recently. In fact, 65 per cent of U. of T. English students failed a basic English test back in 1950, in the so-called “good old days” when students knew how to write. and the president of the university concluded then that High School English was no longer adequate preparation for university. Since the so-called problem is neither real or new, what is going on’? Why this flurry of activity with conferences and Proficiency programs now rather than back in 1950? A squeeze is going on. In following issues the free chevron will examine this clamour for English Proficiency in its relation to cutbacks in educational spending. -ckevron staff
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firing is wr quality of Sylvia’s work and have found it satisfactory. Sylvia has too many talents and too much useful knowledge so that president Ron tjipiner by executive the Federation can’t afford to lose somemember Don Orth concerning the dismisone of her calibre. sal oi federation staffer Sylvia Hannigan. What I find personally disgusting about this whole affair is the manner by which Dear Sirs, she was fired. To the best of my knowI am writing in regard tothe unjust firledge, no executive members or counciling of Federation of Students employee, lors were consulted. I find it highly quesSylvia Hannigan. tionable that it requires the approval of At*a staff meeting held on June 6 and council to allocate funds and create jobs attended by its four members, Doug within the Federation but it only requires Thompson (President), Ron Hipfner four people, of whom Peter Yates is in no (Vice-President), Martha Coutts (Treasway a student representative, to termiurer) and Peter Yates (Business Manager) nate these jobs. The whole firing was plus other federation personnel who are done in a callous manner and Sylvia was not staff members of the staff committee, not even consulted about what was going it was decided that Sylvia Hannigan.s job to happen. This incident demonstrates was “redundant” and she was laid off the immorality and unfeelingness of the (effective July S/77). present leadership of the Federation of The obvious motive for the firing was Students. It is an embarrassment to be that Sylvia was sympathetic to the Free associated with such people. Chevron cause and this provoked Doug I call upon all students with a sense of Thompson. Ron Hipfner claims that social justice to protest the firing of Sylvia Sylvia’s job was that of office manager for Hannigan and demand that the staff the Chevron (and Board of Publications committee re-hire her immediately. This secretary) and since the Federation was not producing a newspaper there was no was a crass political firing and only lends itself as further evidence as to why Doug work for Sylvia to do and therefore she Thompson and Ron Hipfner should be was fired. removed. This is obviously a political firing. SylSigned: via is not the most junior staff person working for the Federation. She has been Don Orth, chairperson co-op services working for the Federation for nearly 2 Co-signed: years and if there was a lack of work it Doug Hamilton, councillor (Arts) Randy Barkman, would appear to me that someone with co-chairperson board of publications less seniority would have been dismissed. David Carter, councillor (Grad) This is normal union procedure. ReGord Swaters, chairperson OFSINUS cently, the Federation has employed sev(acting) eral new staff members and the viceBrian Byrnes, councillor (Arts) president began receiving salary. ObviMike Devillaer, councillor (Grad) ously there is no lack of funds and if payKimmons, councillor (Sciing Ron Hipfner isn’t redundant, then 1 Gerard ence) don’t know what is. Being on the Federation executive now Jamie Midwinter, councillor (Enfor 1 l/2 years as chairperson of the Board vironmental Studies) of Co-op Services, I have witnessed the Mark McGuire, councillor (ES co-op) The iollowing is d letter written to iederation president Doug Thon~pson and ~/ice-
Ekecutive closes its doomven to one of its own members It was an executive meeting. That’s what it said on the blackboard in the federation office, and that is why federation secretary Prue Davidson was instructed to call up some executive members to inform them of the event, but it quickly became a “private gathering” when Randy Barkman turned LIP. As co-chairperson of the Board of Publications Barkman. a chevron staffer, is an executive member. He was never informed of the meeting, however, and learned of it at the last moment when the free chevron heard it was taking place Monday evening. He arrived at the federation offices to find president Doug Thompson and his executive in conference. He asked why he hadn’t been informed of the meeting and Thompson told
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him it was a private gathering. While he and Thompson argued the point vice-president Ron Hipfner rubbed the sign off the blackboard. Thompson asked Barkman to leave. He refused, and Thompson said the meeting was over and it would reconvene at his house - without Barkman. At this point, OFS Liason Officer Gord Swaters stated that the meeting was an executive meeting and that Barkman had every right to stay. The meeting began to disband and Barkman. joined by Don Orth, Chairperson of the Board of Co-op Services, and Swaters. left in protest.
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iible Last week federation president Doug Thompson slammed his office door in the faces of seven students. This blatant display of contempt is only the latest event in a whole history of undermining student struggle, while feigning concern and a desire to lead. His career is characterized by conflicting statements and outright lies. His “work” on cutbacks is an illustration of this. He won his first seat on council, as “to voice my concern about threatened tuition increases Integrated Studies rep, promising and to object strenuously to any cutbacks in faculty or student enrolment.” Apparently flush with desire to fight the cutbacks, Thompson became National Student Day co-ordinator for UW. He outlined ambitious plans for panel discussions, pamphlets, posters and task forces on student problems. All this enthusiasm evaporated, however, and he quit as NSD co-ordinator less than three weeks before the event so that he could edit the Bullseye, a scab publication dedicated to creating maximum confusion on the issues in the chevron/federation conflict. As a paid federation fieldworker he spoke at the National Student Day workshop on cutbacks in education: he presented few facts and was eventually forced to admit that he had done no research. “I don’t have any background”, he said. He did not do much better at the OFS moratorium. A rally was scheduled for the afternoon of Februarv 10 to protest the tuition fee increase and students were expected to boycott their classes. Thompson, however, was so busy as acting president that he couldn’t attend. In fact, very few students attended, $86 worth of advertising didn’t arrive until very late the preceding afternoon. In his campaign for the presidency he had stated that on cutbacks “We need informed However, he has never organised debate or debate and discussion, not idle sloganeering!” discussion or defined a program for students to fight the cutbacks. To date, all he has done is to put out a special election pamphlet which outlined the platforms of the local candidates in the provincial election and exhorted students to attend the two all-candidate meetings to question the candidates. However, the pamphlet came out a day late for the first meeting and Thompson attended neither of them. But conflicts between words and action were not confined to cutbacks. In his presidential campaign he also said he wanted to make council “a much more important element in the decision-making process” and “see important and expensive decisions taken out of the federation back-rooms and conducted in public wherever this is possible.” It is quite ironic that Thompson’s reign began at a 2 am Board of Directors meeting, convened not in a federation backroom but in the house of then vice-president Dave McLellan and recalled president Shane Roberts. What of this promise of making council more powerful, of making a return to democracy? Thompson has used the Board of Directors to legislate, bypassing students’ council. The Board of Directors, a five-member body consisting of the president and four others whom he appoints, normally exists only because the Corporations Act, under which the federation operates, requires it. Although it has supreme power, in the past it has not been used to change bylaws. Recently council was decimated by the decision that all students who do not pay federation fees for a given term cannot vote in federation elections in that term. Thompion has strong feelings about what he calls “democracy”. He became most upset about the recall of Shane Roberts. In a letter to the Real Chevron December 3 he declared, “To recall the president now would be to recaI1 democracy.” (At the 2 am meeting that made Thompson president, bylaws were changed to make it more difficult for him to suffer the same fate.) However, as the recall gained signatures he and some of his cronies changed their position. They formed the Campus-Reform Group and began to attack Roberts. They blamed the protracted chevron/federation dispute on both “free chevron fanatics” and federation led by Roberts. One of them remarked, perhaps in an attempt to explain “bureaucrats”, away that all of them had supported Roberts’ motion to close the paper, that bureaucracy was “a disease caught from Shane”. Thompson and the CRG still seem to be seriously infected. Salaries and honouraria already take 53 per cent of the total federation fees paid by students and the bureaucracy is still being expanded. The most blatant example of political twisting and turning is his handling of the chevron. One of his main platform planks was “to uphold the referendum”, called by Shane Roberts for January 13 to determine the fate of the chevron. Ignoring the boycott the chevron organised protesting the biased referendum, Thompson said the results were a clear no to reinstatement of the paper and that he would stand by the decision. But he didn’t. Only a week after becoming president he offered the chevron partial reinstatement, thus initiating negotiations. In the midst of the negotiations, while waiting for a reply from chevron staff, he led more than half a dozen goons into the chevron office and forcefully evicted the two staffers maintaining occupation there. His eviction attempt was not successful (staff got back in about four hours later) and so the next week he returned with a signed proposal, which staff accepted as a serious basis for negotiations. When the offer went before council Thompson denied that it was a proposal, saying the document was merely “an effort to clarify for this council the position of the free chevron.” Thus he proved that not only is his word worthless, but so is his signature. In his campaign for council in February 1976 he said, “I welcome it (the election) as an expression of growing interest in the Federation and as an opportunity to increase this interest.” Last week seven students showed interest in the federation and what it was doing, and he slammed the door in their faces. -jonathan coles
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esrreetion In last week’s free chevron, the second last paragraph of the chevron editorial should have read, “The solution lies in creating a democratic federation one in which student representatives do not rely on their original election to office for their authority.” In the same issue, on the front page, the figure entitled “Graduate Prospects”, Nthe number graduating, was erroneously printed as 2930. The correct number of graduating students is 2390.
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Providing students with services - movies, pubs, concerts, etc. are the main items of concern for student governments. This was the consensus of eight student unions at a conference of western Ontario schools, held at Waterloo on Wednesday. Many of the delegates pointed to the difference from the 1960’swhen students were concerned with , political issues, but, said a member from Brock: “Students have changed. Society has changed.” He said that student governments had accommodated this organizations change. “We’re now. We’re running a business.” ’ The delegates were confronted with the problem ,of getting students to participate in the organization of these services. All agreed . that their campuses were “rife with apathy.”
Doug Thompson, president of the UW federation, suggested arranging “course credit for student union work. ” Other delegates recommended instituting a parliamentary system or introducing a devil’s advocate in council meetings to develop stu-’ dent interest. Gord Swaters, OFS liason officer for the UW federation, tried to swing the discussion over to developing “strong student leadership” to “fight the cutbacks” and other economic issues facing students. Swaters was cut off by Ron Hipfner, chair of the meeting and vice-president of the UW federation, with: “I think we’re getting way off track. We’re talking about participation.” -david
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What “The Exorcist” did for “Audrey Rose” tries possession, to do for reincarnation. It hits you with occurrences that are so weird and ugly that you willingly succumb to the explanation that the film gently rams down your esophagus. Reincarnation appears to be the only answer in poor Audrey’s case. The story of “Audrey Rose” actually parallels quite closely the plot of “The Exorcist”. It sometimes seems like “Audrey Rose” was made from out-takes of “The Exorcist”. Actually, the story was inspired by an eerie experience that happened to the author, Frank De Felitta. One memorable day five years ago, he and his wife were shocked to hear their six-year-old son, Raymond, playing the piano uncontrollably. Raymond had never displayed any hint of musical talent. As a result, De Felitta began investigation into reincarnation, mysticism and life after death. After a year and a half, he had finished the story of Audrey Rose. Just as in “The Exorcist”, the grown-ups are partying downstairs when the first symptom of the little girl’s horrible affliction erupts. The parents leap up the stairs and approach the bedroom in classic horror movie fashion. The scene they haunt witness continues to throughout the film, although it is
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continued from page 3 After which, Hipfner told the free chevron, people stayed and the “private gathering” continued its discussion. He said he had called the meeting and that advertising it as an “Executive Meeting” was a ‘ ‘ misnaming’ ’ . It was really a gathering or a party, he said, but he had put executive meeting because: “. . . it doesn’t look as silly” . Barkman has had a motion on the students council for months calling for executive meetings to be open . to all students, and has complained that the federation is now being run through informal sessions where no minutes are taken. He has also been reprimanded in the past by Thompson for releasing non-confidential information on discussion of the executive board. -neil
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screaming fits of the child, known to her current parents as Ivy. The incident leads to a court trial where Hindu philosophy is given its fullest and most convincing promotion. The technique used to persuade the viewer is sophisticated. A guru in traditional garb is presented as a very credible witness to explain to the jury how it is perfectly logical that the soul of the dead Audrey Rose now inhabits the body of Ivy. His testimony is heard while we are treated to scenes of a religious funeral in India as well as mobs of Hindus bathing in the sacred Ganges River.
There is no sympathy for the skeptical father. He is furious when his family is harassed by this mystery man, who claims to have been Audrey’s father in her previous life. Her present father’s wild rage turns into a violent attack when the man calms one of the frightening
But the scary ‘aspects of the film are only of secondary importance. The truth of reincarnation is the
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not as repulsive as the grotesque acts performed by Linda Blair in “The Exorcist”. No rotating heads, no levitation, no knives. But eerie all the same. Marsha Mason is the bereaved mother who watches her daughter become uncontrollably hysterical. As Ellen Burstyn, the mother in “The Exorcist”, was eventually convinced that an exorcism would cure Regan, Mason is won over to a belief in reincarnation. In fact, she passes through the same series of emotions as Burstyn did: horror, disbelief, frenzy, hopelessness, despair, anger. She even looks a little like Burstyn. Her mind follows the same process. At first, she naturally denies that this could be happening to her child. Then, as the strange behaviour persists, she is drawn towards the unscientific answer to the problem,’ as is the viewer. Mason turns for help to a man who has the power to quell the girl’s riotous outbursts, like the way. Burstyn suspended her disbelief and sought out the exorcist.
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