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Students/admin About sixty-five people attended a meeting in the fifth floor Math lounge Wednesday to hear the UW administration and the Married Students Apartments Tenants Association debate the proposed 13.2 per cent rent increase for fiscal 197879. ’ The result was a stalemate. The students were not impressed by the administration’s argument that the budget had to balance, and the administration would not move from its call for the increased rents. Tenants association spokesperson Linda Ross explained that last year the tenants had reduced a 13.8 per cent rent increase to nine per cent through negotiations, in which they agreed to cuts in maintenance and other budget areas. Ross said the university had underbudgetted and to make up had raised clothes dryer prices. “I figured out that my rent is 13.7 per cept higher than it was last year,” she said. She blamed much of the university’s current financial problem with the apartments on past mismanagement. Ross said the tenants association considered a six per cent increase sufficient this year “given the times we live in and the fact that nobody else’s money is going up 16 per cent .” Warden of Residences Ron Eydt said there were three unexpected factors that affected the budget this year. He said the university had expected a five-mill tax increase, but the tax rate actually went up 15.4 mills. Also, a moderate increase in utility costs had been expected, but the actual increase was 33 per cent. But, what was “very distressing”, according to Eydt, was the high summer vacancy rate. Experience over two or three years had shown the annual rate to be two per cent, he said. However, last year’s works out to four per cent. Like Ross, Eydt gave his explanation of last year’s negotiated settlement. He said that 13.8 per cent had been proposed last year to pay off the $63,000 deficit over one year. Through the negotiations it was agreed that this deficit could be paid off in three years. He said the money is owed to the Board of Governors and there is no interest charged . He said the cost increases mean that the deficit this year will be very close to $75,000. This deficit will have to be paid off over three years and, he warned, cost increases, such as taxes over that period are still not known. Current budgetting anticipates an increase of seven per cent in 1978 and 1979. Eydt said a first draft of the budget called for a 20 per cent rent increase, which the university regarded- as “totally unThe first draft of the acceptable”. budget presented to the tenants association called for a 16 per cent increase. This was accomplished by reducing the allocation for maintenance by $25,000. He argued that the proposed increase in rents at Married Students Apartments brings the rents to only 37 per cent above their 1970 level while the Consumer Price Increase over the same period has only increased 62 per cent, 77 per cent in the specific area of shelter. “What we have done in the management of the residences.. . over the past eight years has been cautious and conservative management,” he stated. A major problem in the apartments has been maintenance. Very little maintenance was required during the first four years. However, two years ago the inadequacies of the building began to show, said Eydt. He cited faucets that were so badly worn that installing a new washer would not stop I

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them leaking, ground wires breaking down on stoves and creating a shock hazard, and tiles falling off of bathroom walls. He said UW Physical Plant department. has estimated it would cost $3 11,000 to maintain the buildings in their present state, and to restore them to their original condition would require a further immediate expenditure of $300,000 cash. “The university has accepted the fact that they accepted that complex, and it was not well-built. And they knew it at the time,” said Ross. She complained also that the residents pay for upkeep of day care, which she regards as a basic responsibility of the university. She elaborated on her earlier charge of mismanagement, saying that the deficit could have been smaller had the university introduced small rent increases in earlier years. Someone in, the audience asked whether the students would have to pay for past mistakes if the buildings were under the Rent Review Board. Rent Review legislation does not apply to non-profit housing. Eydt countered that the review board had regularly allowed increases in KW and Toronto as large as the proposed Married Students increase. Ross objected, saying “In that situation we would have had a hearing. . . we could have presented our case . . . We can’t have a hearing, no one will listen to us and no one will help us.” Another audience member asked whether the administration’s recognition that better maintenance was needed was related to the decision to rent to faculty and staff. *‘Our aim now is to keep that apartment full . . .,” Eydt replied. Asked whether the increased vacancy rate indicated fewer students could afford to live there, Eydt said he didn’t know and suggested that it might also be that it has become known by word of mouth that the apartments are in poor condition. Eydt began comparing the Married Students Apartments to student housing at Brock. However, a student objected, saying the Brock units were townhouses and that any comparisons would have to be made on a per-square-foot basis. Eydt then compared the rents to other apartments near the university. Objections were raised that the city apartments were run for profit, while student apartments were a non-profit operation. Chevron editor Neil Docherty challenged Eydt on the non-profit concept, saying that “everybody seems to be making a good deal on it.” “The people who first built the Ca&llac (Cadillachouse, Fairview), they made off with $7,500,000. . . and what did they leave us with? They left us with apartments where the show-ers can’t withstand water, where the actual walls couldn’t withstand rain, where the stoves are dangerous. . . and the only people who seem to like living in them are cockroaches,” he said. He noted that not only were the students having to pay for the profit involved in the interest on the mortgage but they were paying for increased maintenance due to the shoddy building practices. He said it was wrong for the university to hit students with a 13 per cent rent hike when their living standards are already hard hit by inflation, fee hikes and threatened restrictions in OSAP. Several speakers objected to the administration’s stand that the question was one of balancing the budget. They reminded Eydt the apartments were built for the stu-

talks &alem%te dents and students could npt afford the increases. Suggestions were made that if the administration wouldn’t change its standit should change the concept of the apartments. One person suggested calling them “Richer Students Apartments”. Eydt was adamant that he had no alternative to raising rents, given the self-financing nature of the apartments which “is the way the university agreed to dothis.” Ross said that faced with what has been called “the new reality” the university and the students should become partners to go to the government for changes. “.I have one charge, and that is to

balance the budget,” said Eydt. However, he said he considered their concerns genuine and would raise them with UW President Burt Matthews. “In the meantime, what happens to the rent increase?” asked one person. Eydt said the increase would stand until he and Matthews could get some change from the government. Ross asked why Matthews was not at the meeting. She said he and the other Board of Governors members had been invited and only six or seven had replied saying they were unable to come. She criticised

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the administration particularly Matthews and financial vicepresident Burce Gellatelly for their lack of concern. “Many of the people here are students and parents and have part-time jobs, and we’ve made the time to come here ,” she said. After the meeting Ross told the chevron that she didn’t think anything was resolved and the next step for the tenants association would be the meeting of its negotiating committee with Matthews, which took place yesterday. “I hope they’ve seen just how adamant the tenants are,” she said. -jonathan

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The meeting between the Married Students tenants and the administrators drew an active crowd of students to talk with the administrators. Administration presented their position, and the students argued with it, but there is as yet no resolution to the conflict. -photo by john w. bast

Bio may adopt The department of biology may introduce a co-op program in September. The first class would contain between 25 and 50 students, to go on their first work term in the summer of 1979. An employer survey done by Dick Pullin of the department of co-ordination last year showed work-term employment potential to be higher than expected. A total of 43 visits to employers were made; 18 to branches of the Federal Government, 7 to Provincial Government departments, and 18 to private industries. The latter included food and beverage firms, consulting and pharmaceutical manufacturing businesses. Thirteen of the companies said they would definitely hire students if the -program was created. Another 13 said they would hire if funds were available, and four more were uncertain. Only 5 gave a definite no. Twenty-nine of the employers currently hire summer students. The types of jobs varied from mainly field collection and analytical lab technician jobs at the junior level to more project and research-oriented work at the senior level. The survey report was completed last November, and cir$ulated among the biology department faculty in December. They gave it their unanimous support. The proposed program must be approved both by the Science faculty and the University Senate before it becomes official. Biology Professors J. K. Morton and A. G. Kempton, who were involved in the survey, did not expect any problems in getting both bodies to approve the program. The only possible delay would be cost. Like all other co-op programs, this one will be essentially selffinancing, with students paying a co-op fee of about $60 a term. The cost to the department is that of a co-ordinator’s salary and ex-

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penses, which would total about $25,000 a year. Two previous small-scale surveys, conducted by the biology department itself, in 1968 and 1974, showed co-op to be unfeasible at that time. The 1968 survey found that few students were interested, while the 1974- survey, undertaken after a petition circulated by then second-year biology student Chris Dufault collected 342 signatures, found an insufficient job market. Kempton attributed the large increase in potential jobs to the rise in concern about the environment by both government andindustry. He also pointed out that the feasibility study had probably reached between 10 and 20% of the market, and many more jobs in different fields were expected. When it was pointed out that Ontario High School students planning to attend University this fall will have already made their three program and university selections, Morton said the department of biology would notify high schools of their program so that students might opt for Water‘loo when making their final choice. He was optimistic that the program. would attract a still-higher caliber of students, who would strengthen the department. One serious concern among faculty of biology professors is that no academic terms occur in the summer. This concern occurs be-

cause some faculty are engaged in field research which can only be done in the summer, and because they’ are reluctant to give up teaching only 8 months per year and having the rest for research. Morton said faculty was handicapped by the student-to-faculty ratio, which is one of the highest on campus. Summer teaching assignments will be/avoided by a special arrangment of study and work terms. First year will be taught as normal, followed by a four-month work term. Second year will also be taught as normal but will be followed by an eight-month work term. The 3A term will be taught in the winter, followed by a four month work term and 3B in the fall. By interchanging some 3A and 3B courses, increased teat hing loads will be minimized. After 3B, the students will have an eight month work term and a normal fourth year. The department plans to enrol1 between 25 and 50 students in the program, but feels a number between 30 and 35 would be ideal. After the first class has completed its final work term, there will be about 5 times as many students working in the summer as in the other terms. Although summer employment is definitely higher than other terms, it remains to be seen if such an -imbalance will create problems. --stephen

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Nominations for the Presidential election closed Wednesday, and when the dust settled, there were four candidates in pursuit of that coveted brass ring. The most renowned of the pack of presidental potentials, is the _incumbent, Rick Smit. Integrated Studies councillor, Sam Wager, Environmental Studies councillor Janet Rockosova, and the Warriors Band round out the contingent. At press-time it appears as if the Warriors Band will not be on the February 2nd ballot because it is not a student. The election will be held the first week in February with booths in all the faculties, for students to exercise their franchise. -doug b

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Friday Art Exhibition -A Foursome - four young Canadian artists. Admission Free. UW Art Gallery Mon-Fri 9-4 pm, Sun 2-5pm. Located in the Modern Languages Building. This exhibition runs till January 29. Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Silversmith from g-lam. $1.25 after 7pm. The Royal Courts revisited - with slides, talk and dance performed by the UW Renaissance Dancers, accompanied by musicians playing instruments of the period. Free admission. 12:30 Theatre of the Arts. Political Leadership in Africa a talk by Professor John Cartwright of the University of Western Ontario. Part of the Studies in politics, an informal series of occasional papers. 2:30pm. -. HH 334. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing session. Players of all calibre welcome. 7-l Opm. Upper Blue’ Activity Area, PAC. South Campus Hall Pub with the Lavender Hill Mob. 8pm. Admission $2. Agora Tea House. Herbal teas and home-baked munchies are available. A time for discussion and conversation. Everyone is welcome. 8-12pm. cc 110. Federation Flicks - Gator starring Burt Reynolds and Rollerball with

James Caan. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1, Others $1.50. Hockey. Waterloo Warriors vs. Guelph. 8pm. Waterloo Arena lnternatibnal Invitational Swim Meet. Athenas, Alberta, Oakland, Michigan and Toronto. PAC. WCF is sponsoring a weekend of winter fun in the Muskokas. The cost is $25 and transport is provided. For info call John 886-3846 or Debbie 885-2175.

Saturday International Invitational Swim Meet. Athenas, Alberta, Oakland, Michigan and Toronto. PAC. Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Silversmith from g-lam. $1.25 admission. Upstairs at the Grad Club: local musicians performing upstairs at the Graduate House. 8pm. Featuring Bruce Tomlinson. Admission $.50 students, $1 others. Cash bar. Federation Basketball.

Flicks - See Friday. Athenas vs. Ottawa. PAC.

Sunday Worship - Lutheran Campus Ministry. 9:30am. MC 3010. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing session. Players of all calibre welcome. 2-5pm. Upper Blue Activity Area, PAC.

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Monday Jewish Arbor Day (Tu b’shvat). Plant a tree in Israel. $3. Free Israeli fruit in honor of occasion. Sponsored by WJSA-Hillel. CC 113 10:30-4pm. Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office provides free legal information to students. CC 106 Mon-Thurs. 1:30-3:30pm. 885-0840. Term Paper Strategy: A workshop on Term Paper Survival Skills. Meet at the Information Desk in the EMS Library. 2:30-3:30pm. A one-hour seminar to learn about Government Publications and how to find them. 2:30pm. Government Publications Information Desk, 5th floor, Arts Library. International Folk Dancing. To learn and dance world famous folk dances. 7:30-10:30pm. $1 per person. Contact Mary Bish 744-4983 for more information. She Done Him Wrong (USA 1933) International Film Series screening starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Membership $2 plus $1.5O(SS $1) available at door. 8pm. Humanities Theatre.

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Legal Resource Office - See Monday. Term Paper Strategy - See Monday 2:30-4:30pm. Information Desk, Arts Library. . Chess Club Meeting. .Everyone welcome. 7pm. CC 113. Table Tennis Club. - See Monday. 7-1 Opm. X-C Ski Night. Tips on equipment and technique, waxing, demonstration, a movie, where to cross country ski all for only 83 cents (proceeds go to the Ski Team). 7:30pm. EL 101. LOOK coffeehouse (Lesbian Organization of Kitchener). LOOK’s first coffeehouse will open this evening with live entertainment, free admission and home-baked munchies. 8pm. CC 110.

Wednesday Tour of the Arts Library. A guided introduction to the facilities and services of the Arts Library. Meet at the main floor information Desk. 10:30am. Tour of E.M.S. Library. A guided introduction to the facilities and services of the E.M.S. Library. Meet at information desk. 11:30am. Campug Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office day. Term Paper Strategy-See 2:30-3:30pm.

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UW Flying Club next ground session starts today at 7:30pm., El 3516 and continues for the next 10 Wednesday evenings. Transcendental Meditation, Introductory lecture: to develop and enjoy an evolved state of tife. All welcome. 7:30pm. AL 211. WEN-DO: protection ’ against harassment and physical attack. 7:30-9:30pm. Corn batives Rm. PAC. WEN-DO advanced course. 7:30-9:30pm. St. Michaei’s Library Resource Room, 64 University ,Avenue West, Waterloo. $3/night. Basketball. Warriors vs. Brock. 8:15pm. PAC.

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One-hour seminar to learn about Government Publications and how to find them. Meet at the Government Publications Information Desk, 5th Floor, Arts Library. 10:30am. Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Chrysaliss from g-lam. $1.25 after 7pm. WJSA-Hillel Discussion Group: Modern Jewish Problems. Israeli lunch for participants is 75 cents. CC 113. 12:30-1:30pm. Niagara For Sale part of the Planning Film Series. 12:30pm. El-3516. Pioneers of Mo’dern Painting. Written and narrated by “Lord Kenneth Clark. This week Claude Monet (1840-1926). Admission free. 12noon-1 pm. K-W Art Gallery, 43 Benton Street, Kitchener. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. Term Paper Strategy - See Tuesday. Waterloo Christian Fellowship Supper Meeting. Ephesians study with C. Neinkirken. Topic: Keeping the Unity of the Spirit: A Divine Priority for the Church. 4:45-6:45pm. Hagey Hali, Undergrad Lounge. Pioneers of Modern noon. 7-8pm. Table Tennis Club 7-10pm.

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Jazz and Blues Record Sessions. Desert Island Discs: If you were to be shipwrecked on a desert island (together with a hi-fi system), what jazz records would you take along and why. Jacques Myon presents his choices: 8pm. Kitchener Public Library.

F.riday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Chrysaliss from g-lam. $1.25 after 7pm. FederationFlicks-Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, and l-lard Day’s Night, with the Beatlei. 8pm. AL 116. Feds. $1. Others $1.50. Yass Hakoshima, brilliant Japanese mime. 8pm. Theatre of the Arts. Admission $5, Students/seniors $3. Tickets at Main Box Office, ML 254. Table Tennis Tournament. This is your last chanc&to sign up for the table tennis tourney on Sunday, January 29. Sign up at the turnkey desk, campus centre. See article on last page for more details. Statistics Canada Presentation. 10:30am-11:15am - for the undergrad, some of the topics are the census, labour force, consumer price index. 1:30-2:15pm is the same as above, 2:45pm-3:30pm for the advanced researcher - hear about CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System), special tabulations, census tapes. Wednesday, February 1st. MC 5158. To ensure a seat, please register in advance for one of these sessions, either at the Gov’t Publications Information Desk, 5th Floor, Arts Library, or phone ext. 3754. Disco Pub in the Math lounge, MC 5136. Admission 50 cents, door prizes of 5 albums. Doors open 8pm.

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Theoretical The following three articles sfnopsize the three Hagey lectures held this week, given by academicians Dr. flise Boulding and her husband, Dry Kenneth Boulding of the University of Colorado. /

--Monday-

Above: Elise Boulding lectures to the-(below) three quarters full Humanities Theatre on Tuesday night. Turnout wise, the lectures were successful; intellectually, the lecturers were not above criticism and their analyses are debateable. -photos by john w. bast

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- Hold a week3 Preliminary plans for “ Cele bration of the Body Week” are being made under the supervision of Morris Ilyniak, Board of Education fieldworker, in co-operation with the Creative Arts BoardIt is scheduled for the first week of March. According to Ilyniak, the idea is “to improve people’s awareness of their own body in all its dimension’ ’ and “to contribute to personal mind-body development”. “Celebration of the Body hopes to expose the means by which people can liberate their bodies and minds and thus provide some of the elementary preconditions for self-actualization,” he stated in a Board of Education planning report. The report outlines three sub-themes. Lectures and workshops about nutrition, calisthenics, weight reduction and tai-chi will stress the physical development of the body. Mass participation will be encouraged in winter sports rallies, including a walk-a-thon and a dance-a-thon.

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Kenneth Boulding’s discussion of the nature and sources of peace on Monday night was a lighthearted presentation filled with quips and anecdotes. In a moment of seriousness, however, he warned that we live in an international system “under an indeterminate sentence of death. It will take a lot to substantially change this condition.” Stable peace exists and is therefore possible, Boulding said. “But we’ve managed to keep it more by good luck than by good management.” But he also noted that the Kruschev doctrine of peaceful coexistence “was an important contribution to peace.” Boulding explained that peace and war are alternating phases of the international system, and there is a clear transition between them. Most places and at most times, people are engaged in peaceful activities. But if there has been an increase in warfare in this century, “it’s because we’re getting richer, and can afford it.” Boulding presented four models of-the peace/war cycle. The situation in the Middle East since 1948 can be described as “unstable war’ ’ , whereby war is regarded as the norm but is interrupted by bouts of peace. An unstable peace exists when peace is regarded as the norm, and war interrupts it. The Atlantic system since 1948 is an example of this situation. Examples of stable peace are. US-Canada relations, the US and Mexico since 1920, and between the Scandinavian countries since 1815. And then, of course, there is the stable war. Boulding was asked after his talk why he had not’ mentioned revolutionary wars, in view of the great impact they have had in this century. The point was made that wars of liberation were the crucial question in Vietnam, in the Middle East today, and in southern Africa. It was suggested that Boulding had presented a highly normative analysis with respect to war and peace defined as relations between nation-states. Boulding’s response was that he took a “dim view” of revolutionary wars, and that social change could

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-TuesdayIt was like being back in the Sixties again. As Hagey lecturer Professor Elise Boulding spoke about changing our social structures, allowing children to daydream, and exte-riding our sense of responsibility to people all over the earth, it was reminiscent of the discussions students used to have in the days of flower children. Elise Boulding, a mother of five and former cellist, is a large-boned woman with thin grey hair pulled straight back. But she radiates a beauty and warmth that touched everyone in the audience at the Humanities . Theatre Tuesday night. Unfortunately about a quarter of the seats were empty because of stormy weather. Her subject was how our dream of a peaceful world has evolved through the ages. She believes strongly that these dreams and images enable us to bring about world peace. “The image is the motor that brings you to the future,” she emphasized. Although our present-day societies have an unprecedented capacity for violence, she said, our images of peace are growing. Every ancient society, including the Greeks and the Vikings, conjured up a paradise of peace and plenty. The European nations, as they developed, started bringing the dream down to earth - picturing Utopia instead of Paradise. The idea of internationalism started taking hold, and today we are beginning to include all the world’s nations and races in our concept of brotherhood. Disarmament isn’t going to happen, she said, until we can imagine what a disarmed world would look like. How are we going to get the imaginative people we need? By socializing children with a greater range of behavioural choices. The range of experiences we expose children to (TV, classroom, overdesigned playground) and the range of behaviours we reward as acceptable are much too narrow. Violence results when a person hasn’t learned any. other way of handling crises. She called terrorism “the strategy of despair”. If we are to create a less violent society we have to develop people with more imagination, with more alternative behaviours at their disposal. Although she has participated in revolutionary organizations (the last open meeting of the SDS before they formed the terrorist Weath-

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The “dichotomy of body and mind,” and other aspects of the mind will be discussed by speakers acquainted with yoga, biofeedbat k, accupuncture, sexual mores and psychosomatic illnesses.

ticipaction project m One of the objects of the program is “to involve as many people with different backgrounds as possible in the planning and implementation of this project.” Any

Various campus and community organisations, such as the Rape Distress Centre and the Birth Control Centre will be invited to participate. The “spiritual connection” between body and mind commonly expressed in artistic form is the third sub-theme of the project. Mime and dance performances will take place and people can participate in snow sculpting and square dancing. Visual art, “body beautiful art” and pornography will be displayed. Ilyniak and the project planners feel that the “Celebration of the Body Week” will appeal to a mass of students and may contribute towards both campus-community interaction and interfaculty cooperation. The activities will be one of Waterloo’s contributions to the Federally sponsored Par\

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.Can’t get a -break UW students who were planning to file an early tax return, and thereby receive early rebates, are encountering problems since two forms that are supplied by the University and are required for completing a- tax return, are not being mailed until March 1. Barry Scott, of Financial Services. said the University supplies the student with two forms. One form entitles a student to a $50 deduction for accommodation expenses, and the second is a tuition fee receipt. Since the forms are needed to fill out a tax form, students are having to wait. Scott recbgnizes the problems with the delay, but said the forms cannot be

mailed until students have completed payment of their tuition, which often takes until the middle of February. He added that past experience has revealed that mailing these forms prior to full tuition payment, only creates a series of headaches. Since the end of term is a period when students are in need of extra cash, an early rebate can often see a student through until the summer. To help such students, Scott promised that should a student have a special need, something could be arranged to allow that student to receive the forms early. -jon

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ermen was held in her living room). she believes that popular movements serve mainly as recruiting grounds. We really change the world by “using the social space we’re in”. by working on the social structures that immediately surround us.

In her landmark book on the history of women, The Under‘side of History, she claims that women from the .earliest times have played an equally important role as men in shaping human societies. They did this by working in “private spaces’ ’ such as the arranging of political marriages and the teaching of the young. The only tense moment of the evening occurred during the question and answer period, when a man in the audience charged that she had a “Communist bias”. The audience was irritated, but Elise Boulding, who undoubtedly has heard that line before, just laughed it off. -eleanor

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-WedhesdayThe third Hagey Lecture on Wednesday night consisted of a dialogue between Kenneth and Elise Boulding on the topic of a policy for peace. Elise Boulding stressed that “peace must take into consideration the principle of equity and autonomy. She also said that it was very important that we reduce peace-making to a local level. That is, peace should be developed without foreign interference. Kenneth Boulding stressed that it was important that nations develop national policies for peace and that the objectives of such national peace policies must recognize the existence of stable peace. The basic obstacle to peace, in Boulding’s opinion, was that people do not believe that stable peace is possible. “Peace and peace policy,” claims Boulding, “must be made a commonplace event.” He also stressed that the “personality of the peacemakers is of great importance.” Boulding claims that “the world needs commonplace leaders such as Eisenhower and Kruschev” and that the “hero mentality of peacemaking must be eliminated.” Elise Boulding said that “nonviolent defence” should be pursued. An example of this is the United Nations’ peace keeping troops. She cited Canada as a good example of a nation which has transferred money into UN armies instead of national armies. She termed this as a “role transformation for the military.” Kenneth Boulding claimed that the United Nations has been “surprisingly effective considering the little money which is put into it.” He advocated the formation of a “UN disarmament mediating organization. ’ ’ Elise Boulding said that the UN’s numerous agencies such as UNESCO serve a valuable purpose. She claimed that these agencies allow small groups of countries and territories to meet at theilcown level and “let things be resolved where the problems are” as opposed to using the central bodies of the UN. The Bouldings placed a great deal of emphasis upon the role of the numerous world-wide nongovernment organizations. Kenneth Boulding discussed the “integrative functions” of these bodies. He said that “Canada missed the boat in the last twenty years when it failed to develop something like the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research because of Canada’s unique position in the world.” Overall, Kenneth Boulding said he was concerned with establishing “good peace”. He said that “a bad peace may be worse than a good war.” -don

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The chevron has learned more about the non-renewal of professor Marlene Webber’s contract with the School of Social Work at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Webber was a professor at Renison college and was one of three professors let go by the Renison and’ UW administrations in what is widely considered to have been a political purge in 7975-76. All where members of the Antiimperialist Alliance. Below Neil Docherty gives details on the latest controversy based on information the chevron has received from Memorial’s student newspaper, the Muse.

In what is seen by many on the Memorial campus as a move of political persecution, the director of the School of Social Work Victor Thompson recommended that professor Marlene Webber’ s contract not be renewed when it expires in August 1978. In a Dee 6 letter to Webber, Thompson explains his reasons by stating: “Your political activities have indicated considerable divergence from the philosophy and purposes of the school and your involvement both on and off campus with a political movement which is totally inimical to and destructive of the system upon which our government is based, necessitates my decision not to recommend an extension.” Also in a Dee 2 interview on CBC Radio, Thompson said his reason for not recommending a renewal of Webber’s contract, “is really a basic one. I felt that Miss Webber’s beliefs, and the activities that stem from those beliefs, were not in the best interests of the school.” This and similar statements made by the Memorial administration have caused a strong reaction on the campus to defend academic freedom. The case has been given further fuel by the suggestion that the provincial government may have influenced the administration’s decision. In the CBC interview Dec. 2, Thompson was asked by reporter Rick McGinnis-Ray “Have you had any input from government on this whole case right now?” and the exchange went as follows: Thompson: “No, sir. Not directly.” Ray: “Indirectly?” Thompson: “Indirectly, yes.” Ray: “What sort of events did you find indirectly from government here?” Thompson: “I’d prefer not to go into that.” Ray: “Can you name who, what department has been involved with it?” Thompson: “No, sir.” On the Dec. 5 CBC television program ‘ ‘Here and Now” in an attempt to explain Thompson’s remarks a vice-president of the university Leslie Harris said: “I think what he said (Thompson) was that there had been indirect indication to him that the government was not satisfied. But I don’t think that really played a major part in our decision in any case.” To which interviewer Ann Budge11 responded, “Well I said to him ‘do you mean that the government did not want Miss Webber teaching the students?’ and he said ‘Yes’ “. Harris-went on to say that one of the courses taught by Webber was not a university degree program but a provincial government certificate qualification. “And I think it is true that the. . . urn.. . some government officials, or officials of that department have indicated to Dr. Thompson that they would not allow their staff members to be just taking courses

taught by Miss Webber.” Thompson has also been quoted in the St. Johns’ Evening Telegram (Dec. 3) as saying the decision on Webber was “not a matter of teaching skills.” Webber told the chevron in a telephone interview Tuesday that the decision is “part of an escalating national attack against the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Lenninist)“. She said the suspension of her former Renison colleague Jeff Forest from his teaching post at York university is part of this attack. Both Webber and Forest are supporters of the party. Webber also told the chevron that she will appeal the decision, and has gained strong support for her cause. The executive of the Newfoundland Association of Social Workers has passed a motion of support on three grounds: -that Webber is a member in good standing; -that she is the association’s representative on the Editorial Board of “The Social Worker”, the journal of the Canadian Association of Social Workers; -that the code of ethics for social work practice prohibits discrimination on the basisi of political belief. Webber has also gained support from many of her colleagues. A committee of Professors Against Political Firings has been formed and a petition supporting academic freedom circulating among the faculty has gained 225 signatures which is about one third of the total faculty. Students too have come to the defence of academic freedom which they see being violated in the Webber case. A meeting held in Dee shortly‘ after the announcement from Thompson attracted over 200 students to discuss the issue. The students council has passed a motion backing Webber’s case, as has the political science society, and an ad hoc committee of Students Opposing Political Firings has been formed. Webber told the chevron that a petition in opposition to the firing circulated just a few days before the end of last term gained 300 signatures. Of her teaching methods Webber told the chevron, “I teach different world views. That is I explain . . . lets take the question of unemployment for example, where I would give a Marxist analysis of what causes unemployment, which is that it is a structural feature of the capitalist system itself. I also explain what the capitalist world view is, to the students. So there is no question that I am promoting, or shoving, one world view to the exclusion of everything else. -neil

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The following comments written by two members of the Graduate Board of Directors deal with major topics which will be discussed at the Annual Genera/ Meeting of the Graduate Club on Wednesday, lanuary 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Arts Lecture 7 73. David Carter, in a shortened versiqn of an article which appeared in the chevron November 25, 7977, comments on the recent regressive changes in the OSAP program and other areas of graduate student support. Bob Pajkowski comments on the newly formed Ontario Graduate Association and suggests that graduate students support Waterloo’s participation in this organization. The second comment appears on page 9.

The upcoming Annual General Meeting of the Grad Club will be giving graduate students a chance to discuss opposition to the recent decision of the Ontario Government to deny OSAP grants to any student who has had more than four years of post-secondary education. This action is only the latest in a whole series of measures taken by the Federal and Provincial Governments and the university administration to phase out financial support for graduate students on the basis of financial need. The changes in the OSAP program alone will severely affect the incomes of one fifth of Waterloo’s graduate students. In 1976-77, 20 per cent of the graduates in this school, and over twice that percentage in the Arts and HKLS Faculties, were dependent on OSAP assistance. This is only part of the story however. Since 1973-74, the number of awards granted through the three major sources of govnerment scholarship funding have been drastically cut back. In the last five years the number of Canada Council doctoral fellowships and Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS) have been cut in half. The National Research Council (NRC) has cut down on the number of awards by almost one seventh in the same period. The government has counterbalanced this trend by greatly increasing the size of each award,far above the level necessary to keep pace with inflation. The OGS awards have actually doubled in size. The net effect of this policy has been to increase the real income of a decreasing number of students at the top of the academic ladder and to exclude other students from any kind of direct government support. The attitude of our own campus administrators hasn’t been much

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better. Even this is only half the story. In early 1974 .a committee of While the state has acted to defour administrators and three crease the income of the majority graduate students had actually of graduate students, it has also proposed giving all graduate stu- . mounted a parallel attack on the dents on campus a guaranteed ancost of living for these same peonual income. ple. Then only a few months later, in The recent decision of the adThis issue .will see the start of a the combustion may pose an even response to the new initiatives ministration to raise the rent at series by staff member W. Reid more serious threat. The one ditaken at the federal and provincial mensional modelling techniques Married Student’s Residence by Glenn on the specific topic of relevel, the committee changed its used to validate the above studies 13.2 per cent, following a 9 per cent innovations in technology and recommendation from one of fundpredict that NOx could increase or cent increase last year, the inventions and discoveries in the ing on the basis of merit or funding decrease the amount of ozone only municipality’s decision two years basic sciences. The purpose will be to those who were employed by very slightly (0.1 per cent). Howfirst to inform and to then illustrate ago to cut graduates off from dayever, water vapour, because of its the university. how such developments are radically care assistance, and the Ontario higher chemical activity and the It had been calculated that the chanainn all facets of our socjetv. government’s decision to raise tuifact that it could produce temperaguaranteed annual income would tion $50 a term for Canadian In the late 1960’s, environmenture and circulation changes in the have only cost the university graduates, plus a tripling of fees for talists scored a major triumph in sensitive upper atmoshpere, might $100,000. This was abandoned in foreign visa students, have all their battle against blind technolhave a greater effect on the earth’s favour of a $500,000 scheme to put increased the cost of living for ogy by preventing the developozone. more money into the T.A. budget, graduates at a rate which is higher ment of an American Super Sonic the scholarship fund, and the burthan inflation. Transport (SST). At that time, The final solution to this probsary fund. There was absolutely During the Annual General their success was based upon the lem and to that of long-term no guarantee that this money Meeting of the Grad Club, January theorized degradation of the upper weather predicitions will only be would be distributed in such a way 25, there will be a discussion on atmosphere’s ozone layer by nitric available when computers one or as to subsidize those with exthe new OSAP proposals and other oxides (NOx) formed during comtwo orders of magnitude higher in tremely small incomes or those government cutbacks. bustion in jet engines. Such a respeed and memory capability than with no incomes at all. Graduates should take this opduced ozone layer would intensify present machines, are manufacThe rational which was given for portunity to come out in large human exposure to ultra-violet tured. In addition to this need for this decision was that the univernumbers and adopt a strong moradiation from the sun and the better computers, satellite gathersity wanted to place its emphasis tion condemning the, Provincial threat of subsequently increased ing of atmospheric data will also on the maintenance of a “competiGovernment for its totally regresskin cancer effectively doomed the have to be substantially improved tive position with regard to sive initiatives and to discuss what U.S. SST. before the solution of such large graduate renumeration.” The real other actions can be taken to stop Recent reports presented in the scale models may be attempted need that many graduate stuthis government before it goes any United States have shown that this with reasonable confidence in their dents had for some kind of basic further. original fear was overblown but veracity. income was sacrificed to the -w. reid glenn 4avid carter that water vapour formed during University’s attempt to attract more top notch graduate students to the campus. The only saving grace of the University’s policy is that for the last three years the salary of the teaching assistants has been inUW Bookstore. creasing at a rate commensurate When does with inflation. Yet even this policy is now under review as part of Burt INTRODUCING HALFBACK start? Mathews’ ‘new reality’ approach When does it end? HALF BACK. to university expenditure.

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uate students to hold general meeting One of the important items on the agenda of the Graduate Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be a discussion on the recently-formed Ontario Graduate Association (OGA). To most, the acronym OGA-will as yet mean very little. The intent of this article is to acquaint students, grad and under-grad, with the aims and history of the OGA, as well as to present what the graduate students at Waterloo are doing about it. The new province-wide Ontario Graduate Association came into official existence on October 15 1977, at a meeting of Graduate Student Associations (GSA’s) in London attended by delegations from Ottawa, Queens, Waterloo, Lakehead, Toronto, Western and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and representatives from the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS). The OGA was established as an independent commission within the umbrella organization of OFS; the commission structure was felt to be the most desirable, as it allowed the OGA to be autonomous in the area of policy making as well as making it a financially feasible body. Three major policy areas were outlined for the newly-formed, organization: 1) Communication and resources - encouraging growth of and support of campus GSA’s; working with other student movement organizations at the provincial and national levels; changing the public’s and government’s perception of graduate education; conducting an unbiased investigation of unionization of teaching assistants and of possible alternatives to it; etc. 2) Graduate planning - proposed OSAP changes and student aid in general; seeking school-wide and province-wide assistantship rate parity (i.e. equal pay for equal work); financial cutbacks; democratization of graduate programs (i.e. giving grads a say in their programs); the proposed quinquiennial(5 year) planning scheme soon to be imposed on graduate education; etc. 3) Employment - implications of unemployment in -Canada, especially with respect to graduates; cutbacks and restrictions on graduate programs and future consequences; etc. Since the decade of the seventies began, the Ontario university system has been subject to increasing financial pressure. Graduate students and graduate education in general are particularly vulnerable to this tvne of fiscal squeezing. ‘1’ln.s was recognrzea 0y tne GSA’s of several Ontario universities who met in June of 1976 at the York campus. Out of that meeting came a committment to work toward the formation of a province-wide association of graduate students; this was seen as one aspect of a strategy to oppose the cutbacks in postsecondary education. With two further conferences and a great deal of work, that goal was reached in London. The October conference adopted a preliminary’constitution and a set of bylaws for the OGA. An interim executive of four graduate students was elected, one each from Queens, Western, Lakehead and Waterloo

As its first official act the OGA took a strong opposing position to the provincial government’s proposed reformulation of the OSAP program which would cut off grants after the first four years of postsecondary education, and thus force loans (and the resultant debts) on any student in need who wished to enter a graduate program. This stand was conveyed to Harry Parrott, Minister of Colleges and Universities, along with a request from the interim executive asking for a meeting with him to present the OGA’s specific suggestions and criticisms. The next conference of the Ontario Graduate Association will be held in February and a large turnout is expected; the aim will be to come up with positive strategy in a number of areas: OSAP and OSGP; enrollment and rationalization of graduate studies; guaranteed minimum annual income; un-

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Quebec students involVedin Students in Quebec are involved in many struggles against govemment cutbacks in education and attempts by administrations to shift the economic burden onto their backs. The student press service of Quebec, La Presse Etudiante Nationale (PEN) in its last bulletin, November 1977, is filled with reports of militant struggles. The situation has become very sharp as the students take on the administrations and the government in their opposition to education cutbacks. In one story from Montmorency CEGEP in Lava1 the “riot squad” was called out to forcibly evict 700 students occupying the college in a protest against cutbacks. The college administration later tried a lock-out of students in an attempt to quell their struggle. When it lifted it, however, it found the students were undaunted and the administration were prevented from entering the building by a picket of over 200 students. The last report in November was that the students were still continuing their fight and a general meeting of 800 decided not to return to classes until their conditions were met. The November PEN bulletin also reports on a successful struggle students at Lionel-Groulx waged against a proposed rent in-

crease. A picket line of 250 students was formed in the morning when they learned the administration was meeting to pass a 20 per cent rent hike. Here again the administration threatened the students with the riot squad unless they dispersed and returned to school peacefully. The students’ response was to occupy the CEGEP for the rest of the day. Following a general meeting the students went en masse‘to the administrative I council meeting where they pressed their case, “denounced all the administrators for trying to evade questions, and hid behind a mountain of incomprehensible figures” - finally the administration abandoned its attempt to hike the residence fees. In the conclusions to the articles PEN states “In their fight against the state’s education policies, students are acquiring a deep understanding of the nature of the state machine and its police, and recognise that they can count only on themselves to defend their interests”. Also that ‘ ‘more and more across the province students are refusing to pay for the economic crisis of the rich and develop mass revolutionary struggle to make the rich pay!” - -neil

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However, the commission’s proposal met with opposition from the College Board of Trustees, the Student Council, a United Steel Workers Local, the Federation of Teachers and various community organizations. Parrott rejected the closure, and stated that by continuing the funding, the College would be given a chance to prove its viability. He also made it clear that the longterm future of the college would depend on support from the local community. -jon

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An environmental assessment is being prepared on the Montrose Dam by the Grand River Conservation Authority. The final decision will determine the direction the CRCA is to take on water management for the Grand River. Decisions made must be made with a true understanding and sensitivity to the lives of people; a wrong decision on the dam could have a lasting destructive effect on the Grand River watershed. Read the following feature careful/y. The following feature submitted to the chevron by first year Environmental Studies Margaret Leighton explains the background to the dispute and concludes with her recommendation that the dam not be built.

by Margaret Leighton ‘ ‘ Sometimes distasteful decisions, sometimes decisions that are negated, changed or reversed j but we still must make decisions. We’ve accepted a public responsibility ... none of us has anything to gain by this but a great deal ~of heartbreak, because we know we will affect the lives of others.” James Bauer, chairman and spokesman for the Grand River Conservation Authority, said this on the advent of the. Guelph dam construction. All too often politicians, with the aid and advice of bureaucratic agencies make decisions for- us. Sometimes we do not even know about these decisions until after the plan is implemented. These decisions directly affect the lives of people. The GRCA is preparing an environmental assessment of the proposed Montrose Dam. The final decision is in the hands of the provincial government. This decision will determine the direction the GRCA is to take on water management for the Grand River. Hopefully* the environmental assessment (the fast of its kind in Ontario) will force politicians to look more carefully before they lead into something which could have a lasting destructive impact on the Grand River watershed. Politicians are known to make mistakes, and they admit it. On vital issues, such as this, I believe we have a responsibility to ourselves and future generations, that mistakes are not made .NWe must ensure that our environment is used efficiently and wisely. Decisions that are made must be made with a true understanding and sensitivity of the lives of people. So that we may continue to enjoy nature’s abounding pleasures. The West Montrose Dam Proposal History: The area of the Grand River covers 2,600 square miles of Southern Ontario; extending 180 miles from the source of the Grand to its mouth at Port Maitland on Lake Erie. The basic flood problem has been caused by the actions of men in the past. Before man settled in the valley, flows in the water remained constant. There were odd spring floods, spilling onto the floodplain; which is the river’s natural outlet for excess water. Most of the water was stored upstream in swamps, bogs and bush. They acted as natural water storages. Due to slow release it maintained the river levels during the summer months. How-ever when man settled, he cleared the forests and drained the swamps for agricultural purposes. By doing this the natural water storages were lost. ,They simply dried

up. This increased the run-off and flooding in spring months. Water tables dropped and river levels became low. The flow of a river is just as important as flood control. A sluggish, stagnant river is a bad blemish on the landscape and breeding ground for insects and algae. This becomes unsuitable for recreation and can be a major health problem. Humans have built houses and mills close to the river. Villages and towns grew. Now they are threatened by floods. The GRCA sees dams as the only possible solution. They see dams as an artificial replacement to duplicate nature’s role of capturing excess water in the spring and gradually releasing it in the summer. This also gives the surrounding communities additional water supply for the future. But can man effectively duplicate nature’s way without upsetting the ecological balance of the environment? For over twenty years the Ontario government has been planning the West%Montrose Dam. In 1954 a Hydraulic study recommended the construction of five dams along the Grand River and it’s subsidiaries. In 1966 the Grand River Conservation Authority was formed out of two existing agencies: the GRCC and the GVCA. Between 1969 and 1973 the provincial government put the Montrose Dam low on their priority list. During this time they experienced fmancial restraint in the grants with regard to capital spending projects. With cutbacks and pressure from the taxpayer, the Montrose Dam project was virtually shelved until May 1974 when the worst flood in the history of the Grand River occurred. Heavy rains and full reservoirs at the Belwood and Conestoga dams caused severe flooding in Bridgeport, Galt-Cambridge area with damages totalling five million dollars. An enquiry headed by Judge ‘Wilfred Leach recommended the immediate construction of the Montrose Dam. He stated that although the GRCA’s main concern then was not flood control, no blame was placed on them. This left the citizens of the Grand area angry and upset. The GRCA was absolved from blame even though they were caught with their dams full. They were obviously more concerned with water storage. Judge Leach recommended that the main purpose of the Montrose Dam should be for flood control. The future site of the West Montrose Dam is on the main branch of the Grand River, three miles up-stream from1 West Montrose and seven miles south of Elora. It would consist of a ninety foot gravity filled dam, 2,300 feet long with a concrete spillway. The reservoir created will be six and one quarter miles long, having an average width of one half mile and covering a surface area of ftiteen hundred acres when full. The reservoir .will contain 55,000 acre’ feet of water which is roughly fifteen billion gallons of water. , The land needed for the dam is approximately four thousand acres. The GRCA now owns one quarter of this, or one thousand acres. They do have the power to buy the remaining acreage, if and when they need it. The land surrounding the proposed dam site is class one and two (7%) agricultural land. There would be a loss of 3,500 acres, all productive agricultural land. The provincial government has finally stepped in and said “no” to the GRCA. They

cannot acquire any new land for the proposed dam site. Public Opinions: The most influential group that is pro-dam is the Grand River Conservation Authority. They see a real need for water control structures. The need arises from a growing population in the area. Therefore they feel it is their responsibility to supply enough clean water for the increasing population. The Region of Waterloo projects increases between 7% and 100% within the next 25 years. With growth comes a more intensified use of the land and water, both rural and urban. More industries produce more waste which they dump into the rivers; more farmers need more land to cultivate and so they require increased water supply to nurture their crops. Farmers build more drainage systems, therefore there is an increased percentage of agricultural chemicals and waste being poured into the rivers. It is untrue that industries and urban areas are the only ‘ ‘bad guys’ ’ destroying our environment. Farmers in rural areas are just as much to blame for the continued contamination of the Grand River. As a result, the GRCA must have a large supply of clean, undiluted water that, when poured into the river will wash away the waste.1 Whether this is an acceptable method of water management has not been questioned, until now. The main priorities of the GRCA conceming water management are: (1) flood control; (2) water supply and low-flow augmentation; (3) pollution control; and (4) recreation.

water supply is the primary concern. With more people comes the need for more houses, schools, etc. Economically, growth is essential for the stability of the country. However, ecologically, growth of an area requires that more land be purchased, land which is usually first or second class farmland. Once a factory or housing development is on it, the land cannot be replaced.1 We have only a limited amount of prime agricultural land, which developers and economists seem to forget. The real issue comes down to whether the Waterloo region’s cities be allowed to grow at everyone else’s expense. The cities cannot grow without water and without a place to dump their sewage effluent. When Judge Wilfred Leach recommended the immediate construction of the dam, I don’t believe he fully realized the total impact on the environment that the dam would cause. His recommendations stemmed directly out of public alarm and fear caused by the 1974 flood. This is perfectly understandable. The people must have aguarantee that their land, businesses and towns will be protected from future floods. But there are workable alternatives to the dam, that with proper control , ’ and legislation can be effective. The Project Team which carried out the environmental assessment consists of consulting firms concerned with ecology, planning, engineering, soils and public information, and representatives of the GRCA, Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of

The GRCA was established in 1966 under the Conservation Authority Act. The GRCA is responsible for the “conservation, restoration, development and management of natural resources other than gas, oil, coal and minerals. ” The Authority is made up of forty-two people. Thirty-four are appointed by their municipalities, and ,eight appointed by the Province. The Region of Waterloo has the largest voting block with fifteen members. Brantford and Guelph have three and the remaining fifteen are from smaller townships and villages. Brantford, a city of 65,000 people, takes it’s water directly from the Grand River. They are dependent on the dam’s control of low-floor augmentation to provide enough drinking water. This is a process gradually releasing the water to maintain the flow of the river attimes of low flow. Cambridge has large businesses located on the banks of the Grand. It was severely affected by the 1974 flood. The city council and merchants want flood protection by the control of the Grand River. Municipalities tend to be selfish. That is although they may be concerned about environmental problems in general, their basic concern is how best to provide for and protect their own municipality. City coordinator of Kitchener, Jim Darrah, admitted the dam would flood good farmland and could cause environmental problems for other municipalities. “From our point of view and in my opinion, the question of flood control and effluent control is the best answer.” Developers and planners of this region foresee a large population growth, where

Natural Resources. The project team’s job is to determine the GRCA priorities in water management. They first looked at the need for water controlled structures; based on water supply for a growing population and increased pollution in the rivers. They must look at the alternatives, based on a study of all available information. This enables the project team to determine the effects and adequacy of each alternative. The results of their findings are available for public comment and scrutiny. A Citizens Advisory Committee was formed to solicit the views of the public. This ensures that the public is kept informed at all stages of the project. Out of twenty-one alternatives considered, the project team concluded that only four structural projects were realistic solutions. This is how they ranked them: (1) The Montrose Dam and reservoir, plus channel improvements. Total estimated cost: 50 million dollars. (2) Montrose Dam and reservoir alone. Total estimated cost: 35 million dollars. (3) Channel improvements and improved waste treatment. Total estimated cost: 33 million dollars. (4) Freeport group of dams and reservoirs. Total estimated cost: 84 million dollars. The project team concluded that the Montrose project was the best, out of all the other alternatives, for economic and environmental reasons. Project team director, M.A. MacKrell remarked to the CAC (Citizens Advisory Committee) that, “So far we haven’t discovered any alternatives we think are better than West Montrose.”

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obvious that the Montrose Dam has support from the project team. But port also recommended that most of -structural alternatives be carried out of the long-term approach to manag)urce s . Ion-structural alternatives are as fol) Flood plain zoning, including flood ce . (2) Clearing of the flood plain of -es likely to be damaged by floods. (3) Iroof individual buildings now rn the lain. (4) Re-forestation in upper valControl agricultural and municipal (6) Buy more wetlands (source areas :r supply). (7) Control excessive use chemicals. (8) Flood warning sysMontrose Dam would cost far less : Freeport group of dams. The Prom feels that although by combining improvements with improvements .e treatment a feasible alternative 5, it would not provide any source of apply . Therefore by straight eliminaproject team proposed that the Monam and reservoir alone would be the onomically and for the basic need of upply and flood control. nvironmental

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pose is the protection, conservation e management of the environment. vironmental assessment questions fication of a project in terms of long ocial and physical changes it will t also’puts a dollar value on’intangithe long term advantages or disad3 and the costs and benefits of dent policy. This act holds great im: by forcing the GRCA to examine y the alternatives, evaluating c benefits and finally weighing the Lges and disadvantages of each isessment act is the first of its kind in and allows for consideration of the f the developments proposed on the ities and the environment. The govis now willing to take into account public has a right to participate in ision making that directly affects he Environmental Assessment Act, Id hope that the GRCA will examine ns and give full consideration to all natives at hand and study all the ive approaches with regard to soorical, economic and ecological sysis a great deal of skepticism that the ias no sincere intentions to chose natives. Their planning on the dent proposed is solely based on ; that are affected by political presBrn the municipalities and the govto choose the Montrose Dam as the ition. :orge Priddle, professor at the UniIf Waterloo, who specializes in remanagement studies said that prop )uild a 35 million dollar dam at West e are “short-sighted”. Dr. Priddle 171,000 dollar cost of the dams was ely related to an environmental ast, as required by the Ontario Enltal Assessment Act. He declared 1 was nothing more than a poorly 1sales pitch for the Montrose Dam. d that in the report there were no proposals for non-structural alterAll the other structural alternatives : Montrose Dam look good in com-esult of this, Dr. George Priddle d his resignation. im Zimmerman, research cor of the Guelph OPIRG (Ontario terest Research Group) felt that the lollars to help GRCA “sell its prograter management; which includes rose Dam is a waste of tax-payer’s n other words, we are being told to 116,000 dollars to help the GRCA ts program. Now I may be old1, but it seems to me that if--the ere doing its job of conservation, it need a ‘community relations of116,000 dollars to convince us’.” ,merman goes on to accuse the

GRCA of being “irresponsible”. Mr. Zimmerman has personal concern with the reservoir since his one acre Pilkington Township property would be directly affected by it. Dr. John Roff, a University of Guelph biologist, stated that c,ombination of improved sewage treatment and flood protection channels has twelve advantages over building a dam at West Montrose. Dr. Roff is a voting member of the GRCA. He handed in a 24-page report stating that only three of the twenty-one alternatives are useful. He ranked the Montrose Dam as second instead of first. Dr. Roff s reasons for improved sewage treatment and channeling are: lower total cost, higher benefit/cost ratio, more benefits to environment and water quality, less consumption of farmland, greater flood protection and greater potential for improving recreation facilities. “The presence of a dam at Montrose is therefore certainly not a necessity for the regional municipality of Waterloo as a water supply before the turn-of the century and probably not even then.” Recently he stated ‘ ‘A West Montrose Dam would do nothing to improve the quality ‘of the Grand River water.” Hugh Lemon, a University of Waterloo professor of urban planning, and a member of the GRCA said, “ To me, it (building the dam) is like fixing a leaky faucet by buying another bathtub and without examining why the faucet’s leaking.” Betty Schneider of Kitchener, also on the GRCA, favoured restricting urban growth to limit the need for increased water supply. Other opponents of the dam have formed a group called “Stop the Dam Committee”. Doug Ratz, who is co-chairman and in charge of public relations, has been a very active member. He presented a brief to the CAC questioning the process that the CAC has been given to follow. He felt that the environmental impact draft statement as it stands now in government decision making, was not an effective tool in protecting the environment. Through January 1972, 1300 draft statements covered 2400 actions sub jetted to environmental effects, a total of 214 alternatives were listed, all of which were rejected. Mr. Ratz feels that if all the purposes of the dam have not been firmly estab lished, how can one determine the flood plain lines and the effects. Mr. Ratz goes on to question how the CAC can determine the effects on Pilkington Township with regard to agricultural and building losses. The main concern of Doug Ratz is: are the CAC really looking at how the people in the area will be affected? Are - the efforts of the CAC no more that a “gobetween” from the GRCA to the public? “We from the Committee to Stop the Dam would not like to think that the efforts made on both our part and that of the CAC were allocated to a process designed only to appease public reaction. ’ ’ The residents of Pilkington Township have the most to lose if the dam is built. If a decision is made to go ahead with the Montrose Dam, it would mean the relocation of approximately 226 people and the demolition of over 76 buildings. The lake created would extend through the entire width of the . township, which would split it in two. This could mean the end of Pilkington Township as the remnant parts would have to join other municipalities. Other distinct communities located in the “-Larea that would be destroyed are: the hamlet of Inverhaugh, the Estonian Summercamp, the Mennonite culture’, and the farming community. There is a real possibility that at least 15% of the residents in Pilkington would lose their jobs. This could have a negative long-term effect on these people and their community. There would be disruption of transportation networks and relocation of roads, which would have a dir&t social and economical affect on the residents. Perhaps one of the most important factors that was overlooked is the effect of the ecology of the valley, where the dam site would be. The valley is full of life which would be destroyed. . . . Maple, Birch, and Hornbeam trees cover, ‘_ . .

the valley slopes. The floodplain is mainly #White Cedar, Basswood, and Manitoba Maple. Deeryards would be destroyed along with the extinction of muskrats, beavers, and red foxes. Birds, 1Wild Duck, Geese, and millions of red and white Trilliums (Ontario’s Floral Emblem) would be destroyed. One of the GRCA’s reasons for building the dam is for recreation; but - if the dam is built, recreational activities such as horseback riding, skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, camping, canoeing, and snowshoeing would be eliminated. How the GRCA can justify the dam on a recreational basis is beyond reason. Two Solutions

1)-The Montrose Dam would solve the problem of water supply, flood control, and improved water quality. It would keep the municipalities happy because they would enjoy all these benefits. Financially the dam is less costly than the other structural solutions. To the taxpayer it seems to be a good solution. To the GRCA it is the only solution. However, there are concerned groups such as the “Stop the Dam Committee” and qualified academics who feel there are workable alternatives . 2)-It has been recommended that a number of collective alternatives both structural and non-structural be used. The structural alternatives that are best suited for the problem are: a combination of sewage and channel improvements. The estimated cost is 15 million dollars. It would reduce flooding and there would be less consumption of farmland. Other non-structural alternatives such as induced infiltration would be a guarantee of water supply in the low summer months. This is a process of filtering the water through gravel in the river beds. In a way it is recycling water. Before outlining my recommendations there are several questions I wish to bring forth now. Does the public know what the GRCA main priority is? Is it flood control or water supply? They seem to change their priorities when the financial need arises. “You have to tailor your presentation to the kind of grant structure that is available to you to get any kind of support. . . . You have to adjust your story, as it were, to place the emphasis where you can gain support.” James Bauer, chairman of the GRCA. If the GRCA main concern is with water supply and flood control then they are changing the entire meaning of the word conservation. In essence they change from a conservation authority to a public service. If the meaning of conservation is to insure the health and stability of the environment, then surely ecology should be the GRCA’s main priority, rather than money and politics. Is conservation to be thrown away for growth : , ,’

and technology? Can technology solve all our human problems? We have seen time and time again where technology only creates more problems for man to face. When the provincial government has the power to make the final decision on this project, what are the chances of the people involved having any real input that matters? The Statutory

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sures the protection of the rights of individu’ aIs affected by a decision. These rights include: the right to be present, to be heard by an impartial person, to have evidence recorded and to have a decision with specified reasons. The legal costs of taking the government to court over a decision on the dam are immense. Most people are likely to trust the Ministers’ decision on the report. My recommendation is for a combination of sewage and channel improvements plus a number of non-structural alternatives to be carried out as part of a long term approach to water management. The latter is one of the project team’ s recommendations. The initial cost is lessthan half of the dam and it instigates a program of recycling which is a good conservation policy. The level of government involved would be regional, municipal and provincial with perhaps the federal government setting ,up some guidelines. Agencies such as the GRCA would most certainly be involved. Financing would come from all three levels of govemment, with the provincial government paying the most, obviously, because it has the most monies available. Enforcement would vary depending on the restrictions involved. I would like to see a major campaign involving all governments and in every household, school, and factory for the conservation of water. This would mean everyone would have to cut down his or her consumption of water. Water meters could be placed on kitchen taps, toilets, hoses etc. This would enforce everyone to limit the amount of water used each day. If anyone went over their limit they would be subject to a fine and/or imprisonment, depending on the degree of the violation. Californians have been limited to water for over a year now, but they consume water which is vital for fighting forest fires. I see -dams as a short term solution to a long term problem. Inevitably we will need to conserve our water consumption. Why not start now? Instead of spending thousands of dollars on questionnaires and models for the Montrose Dam, we could be using that money for the education of water conservation, in the schools and in the homes. The Ontario Hydro has an enormous campaign on conserving energy. There is no reason why the GRCA and the governments cannot start on a similar campaign. Must we wait for a crisis before we act, before it’s too late?

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Not of the family going to work, by someone but by somehis son attending high thing.” school, and the housewife David Mansell came out As he trailed ‘about remaining at home to of the mall and headed up twenty or so feet behind clean her upper-middlethe hill upon which he rethem, he noticed someone class house. sided. A colossal apartapproaching from the conment building was being It may hav’e been that crete tunnel - an old felconstructed at the foot of Peter Mansell was suspiclow, wearing a worn grey the hill. As he climbed the ious of machines because coat and a matching the computing machine numerous steps, which led engineer’s cap. And he that he had been working to the street where he lived, wondered fearfully on for an infinitely long he could see the crane, at friend or foe? period of time had given the top of the building, in A car sped by. Again he him and his co-workers a operation. It was lifting a felt the cool but foul breeze serious amount of trouble. bucket of ready-mix conplay upon his features. The crete attached to a long, old fellow was getting sturdy cable. And then, closer. “The best thing to without warning, the cable do is to show no fear, don’t snapped. alter your gait, just march The bucket jumped to the right in unafraid,” Dave ground and landed upon thought. They walked past the driver of the ready-mix each other with exprestruqk. A mass weighing sionless faces. A sigh of remore than two tons dislief. tinctly trisected the driver’s But he suddenly felt a: body. new and present danger. It Normally, such a sight seemed as if someone was would have sickened following him, watching David, but by then he was him closely. He dared not with and used to turn around, but kept on familiar the pitfalls of a civilization walking at the same speed. where staying alive is a A train engine pulling two heavy task. cars passed over the tunnel “Nothing to fear,” he just before he himself enthought, “except fear ittered it. ’ self.” “The number on the train - 3102 - mustn’t forget Cliick - Click. that!,” he thought. “But “Crazy damn’ toaster.” why?, What’s so important Peter Mansell frustratingly about a number?” He threw the screwdriver onto could hear the reverberatthe dinner table. He could ing rumble of a train pas- not fix the breakfast apsing overhead. “Everything pliance. It was ‘as if the has a number these days. machine had a mind of its Trains used to have names own. Mansell believed he like, ‘Elsie’ or ‘Seymour’; could sense this horribly now they have numbers evil malignance about the like ‘3102’. 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She once this machine is comour ruin.” varied greatly from her pleted, because it will be inHe emerged from the husband; they were almost fallible in itself. It will be the tunnel to find himself on exact opposites. Perhaps most powerful thinking desunny, snow-covered 33rLi they had a happy marriage vice in existence, several Street. Walking towards because of this. I don’t rethousand times more effithe ce,nter of town, he saw ally know, for I did not keep cient and complex than the three young boys with a constant watch on them. human brain.” This was Mr. skates around their necks David entered the room. Rutherford, Mansell’s He quietly walked over to skipping merrily towards wealthy employer. He the town arena. “Rethe chair where he was acwould make a large fortune member their smiles; that customed to sitting, sat from the computer - if he. may be the last bit of joy down in it, and proceeded could see its completion. to eat his breakfast. David you’ll ever witness.” The engineers who were Four-lane, one-way trafwas not talking to his partrying to construct the fic ran down 33rd street. ents on that day. He wasn7 computing machine did Dave Mansell saw all the necessarily mad at them, not believe that it could noisy motor vehicles, all he jyst didn’t feel like havpossibly be finished. Manthe Saturday afternoon ing conversation with sell knew that it had a mind shoppers hurrying on their them. of its own, and that it was One might at first think own ‘busy wai, the black, continuously breaking itapathetic buildings that he resembled neither self down in places so as to perched over the people of them in his behaviour, never be brought to enidealisms, or beliefs. But, like vultures over a dying tirety. he had inherited striking stallion. “The mechanized socicharacteristics from both A dangerous, Damoclean ety!“, he thought. “A city parents. air lingered about the facfull of transport trucks and Both his father and himtory where Mansell worked. self had minds of their own. building cranes, new modHe could smell its maliciern conveniences and elecNeither one of them could ousness, and his fellow tric gizmos, smokestacks tolerate machines of any workers sensed its pressort, yet they were, both in- ence. Eventually and skyscrapers, and peothe perilfearful of ,them. ple. People!, Ha! More like stinctively ous, odour filled robots. Becoming slaves to They could not explain this Rutherford’s nostrils, and their own creations. Well, fear, but they felt that it had _’ he was ready to scrap ,the something to.do with their ‘.project at all due expense.. . you cati keep on living your

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He felt the cool tingle of water droplets spraying across his face as the huge transport roared by. It was indeed refreshing, but it smelled of city life - of asphalt and rubber mingled with carbon monoxide gas. Ahead of him, and heading towards the tunnel, was a young couple taking their time, strolling along arm in arm, interested not in the affairs of the world around them, lbu’t only in each other.

During his lunch break, thorities. Don’t worry about Just have fun on Mansell had attempted to anything. vacation. Relax your purchase a cup of coffee Come back only from a vending machine in awhile. when you’re‘ fully rested the company cafeteria. After he deposited his up and sure that you can ,work again.” money in the specified slot, “I’ve saved the world, the coffee ran out, disaphaven’t I, sir?” peared in the grating “You certainlyhave, below, and was followed Peter. You’ll be a hero. Bye immediately by an empty cup. Mansell thought to now.” Once Mansell had left the himself, “Why did that instarted to sane machine have to room, Rutherford think to himself. He was cheat me? Why is every if there was any machine in the country to- wondering truth to what Mansell had tally and completely ago said, in against me? Could it be only moments Rutherford had they know I am aware of. what thought was the state of their evil plot to take confrom overtrol of the woirld? That’s it! mind resulting They’re trying to get rid of work. He decided, even if it did seem a bit unusual, to me before I tell everybody be on his guard -he could in the world all about their not afford to take any devastating plans. Imwith human fife. agine! I alone can save the chances Rutherford hoped that he world because I alone have was not cracking up. seen through their disguises! Who should I tell Cliiick click. first, though? I’ll give Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Mansell decided to go to Las Vegas for their vacation. They registered at the Las Vegas Hotel-Casino, amazed t,hat they had not encountered any difficulty with any machines on their way to Nevada. On the way up to their room, they were detained for a half hour when the elevator which they had hoped would take them up to their hotel room floor, suddenly stopped between floors. Passengers were rampantly and repeatedly asking each other, “Why would an elevator in this fairly new building break down all of a sudden?” Mr. Mansell knew why it had stopped. His wife was reconsidering the validity of her husband’s theory about machines plotting against their creators. Evening hours approached with some uncertainty, and the Mansells felt the bestial urge to gamble away some money. They went to the penthouse casino and tried their luck _-on the various slot Rutherford the honour? machines mounted along all walls of the room. “Mr. Rutherford, I have Speculators on both sides something very important of the Mansells were winto tell you.” ning jackpots, but the Man“Oh! What’s that, sells did not encounter the Peter?” feeling of victory at all. “I know why that-compuSaddened greatly by ter cannot be finished.” “You do? Well then tell their losing streak, Mr. and Mrs. Mansell retired early. me.” Mrs. Manse’11 went straight “All right. That machine to bed and a good night’s cannot befinished because but her husband it doesn’t want to be sleep, finished. It has a mind of its could not rest. He was wondering why the auown, sir.” thorities had not taken ac“Does it now, Mansell?” tion against the machines, “Yes sir, and so do all thi! in their horrifying plot of other machines in the They’re getting conquering the world. It world. had been two days since ready to conquer the world, Mr. Rutherfor,d had supsir.” “Peter, I’m going to overposedly infornied them. look what you’ve just said. ‘I A few hours later, Manrealize you must be depresell went up to the pentssed because of our failing house, where he again tried his luck on the slot computer project. You’ve been working here for a machine which had taken a lot of his money earlier in long time, and lately I’ve the evening. Amazingly noticed that you’ve been enough, he hit the jackpot working very ‘hard perhaps to o hard. Take a so often that he won back what he had lost, and vacation, Pete. Stay as long plenty more besides. He as you like. You’re valuable had beaten a ma,chine! In a to me, Peter, and I want you state of ecstatic joy, he left to stay thatway. Take your the casino and entered the wife along; I’ll bay tar the elevator which he hoped vacation.” would take him back to his “Don’t. you believe me, Mister R,utherfo;d?“. . floor. LcCprtainlj/,,l belie\e’you.‘. : .Once in. the .elevator, he But don’t br&the,a word qf .pushed. the button for .the what.yoir’kn&$ tb’anyo’f the’ Gprr&.t.. .flo,qr. . Cooking other: e,ngio+?rs. ITI.I yepqrt aro,@nd. th,e; confines of the .the to . the. au-.’. cage,: . he. that. he . . machin&. . . * . @served ‘.... .

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was the only person in the elevator. He knew that the machine would not become stuck between floors this time. In fact, it was gaining speed -going faster, faster, faster - and finally, it stopped - anu Peter Mansell was crushed under a collection of scrap metal and elevator cable. Hq had lost the battle. Meanwhile, back in NeM York, Mr. Rutherford wa: putting some money in the company vault. The vaul, was so large that he coulc step into it and walk arounc inside. He was still ponder ing over what Mansell hat told him. He had had some problems with machines ir the past few days and hc felt inclined to believe every word of Mansell’: story. “It still isn’t too late,” hc thought. “Must go tell the world.” As he turner around to walk out of hi: huge vault, the door slam med shut in his face, as 1 the contraption had a mint of its own. It was Frida, night, and nobody woulc come to the office unt Monday morning. His fat was sealed. Oh well, nobody woull have believed him anywa) Cliick - click. Mrs. Mansell awoke t find her husband missin< She phoned the hotel des and the clerk informed he that her husband had diet “Killed by a machine. H was making sense after al I’ve got to warn everybod else. Somebody out ther has to believe me.” She left her hotel root and walked down the ha Seeing the button on ttwall, she pressed it forcl fully. The doors parted atshe stepped inside. It w: only after they had close that she realized exact where she was. She cou not push’ any of ttelevator’s buttons, bc cause she knew that tr elevator would destroy hl in the same way his budc killed her husband. And : Mrs. Mansell curled up one corner of the deat trap, and died of fright. Cliick - click. David received the ne\i of his parents’ deaths t1 next morning. “I’m the la one,” he thought, “the on person who can warn?1 rest of the world about tf dangers of our mechanic civilization.” He ran out of t.he hou! and headed .for the ci police station. Before t even made his way dow town, he was accidenta run, down and killed by cement truck. Cliick - ctick. You might, by now, t wondering who I am. True am the narrator of ,th story, but I am also the Kit of all machines on th planet. I have a million ey and ears all over the worl They are my army, the machines; someday we rule and Man will becon extinct - or else he’ll t come our slave. That d may be tomorrow, it may a hundred or more ye? from now. But until ttday, we lay in waiting, ga ing power while watchi mankind slowly putting end to its reign. Until the day of victo then.

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keyboards, grand piano, and Moog synthesizer. This is all on a velvet black stage with all manner of trap doors and elevators to enable instruments to appear and disappear so subtly you hardly notice. Emerson and Palmer are the primary entertainers in the group, with Lake’s style as a performer providing an interesting contrast. Emerson’s keyboard calisthenics are second to none in the rock business, and he uses pantomime, theatre and pyrothechnics to stunning advantage. Palmer drums with intense energy and enthusiasm, yet with surgical precision. Lake is more of a performer than an entertainer, always playing and singing with reserve, yet with considerable emotional impact. His phrasing is immaculate and vocal deliver-y mature and disciplined. Indeed. if there is anything single trait which elevates ELP above their immitators, it is discipline. The surprising thing about ELP’s music is perhaps that it appeals to such a wide range of people, because much of it is complex and cerebral. The Wednesday night crowd, however, was obviously appreciative. -peter

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HTB od’d on yalium After listening to the Hometown Band’s’ debut album Flying, I thought, okay, here is a group of fine musicians who were rushed into recording an album on the coattails of their success with Valdy . Unfortunately, it would appear that, given more time to produce a second album, T.H.B. still has very little worthwhile material and consequently their performance is quite listless. Technically, most of the band members are competent. Reedman Claire Lawrence has more than proven his ability over the years and Shari Ulrich can produce vocals that send shivers up your spine. Geoff Eyre, Robbie King and Doug Edwards turn in some fine work on percussion, keyboards and bass respectivly. The bands only uninspired member is guitarist(?) Edward Patterson, who not only lacks any creative ability but obviously flunked out the Duane Allman school of guitar style. The effect of the album after a while is that the

group O.D.‘d on Valium. You want to scream “Hey, wake up folks!” The band’s primary weakness, if not their total undoing, is their lack of strong material. Side one opens on a mediocre note with ‘What Would I Do’, which contains a guitar/organ hook straight out of Andreas Markides and his Bouzoukis. Next is “Feel Good”, a nice song ‘but not enough to save the album. No other song deserves individual mention. except “Let The Music Play” which has the worst lyrics I’ve heard this week and a guitar break that is positively embarrassing. (Give it up, Ed!) It’s unfortunate that a band with so much individual talent can’t seem to come up with six or seven good songs for an album. Maybe the answer is to do other people’s material as well as their own. In fact, the best song on their first album was Joe Mock’s “Flying”. Hey, Hometown Band, don’t give up but please, find a new guitar player.

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excellent brass and percussion. as far as I know, only three other The recording itself is slightly disrecordings available by him, all on tant, or rather lacks disparity, DG, of the four Piano Concerti by which would be .especially desiraRachmaninoff. The LP of the first ble in a Romantic piece with many 1 two, with Tamas Vasary on the changing moods such as this. The piano (DG 2530 7 17), is a fine inpoint is minor, though, and it is terpretation, and, together with the otherwise difficult to fault the re- “Manfred’ ’ , would indicate that cording. Ahronovitch is a conductor to be Yuri Ahronovitch seems to be reckoned with. quite a new conductor. There are, --Oscar m nierstrasz

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possible for instrumental fills and the instruments just right to passages. achieve good seperation. The arrangements throughout The album jacket eerily depicts are spicy and surprising, the band the group engulfed in flames, and playing all the while as if possesfurther copies will be changed after sed. The heights of expression the photograph was deemed less reached are essential to how suc- than tasteful by family and comcessful the songs will be, and all of pany executives, following the them make it on some level. The crash last year that decimated the lyrics are fairly easy to track L group. It is ironic that in the photono tricky language here and deal graph, Ronnie Van Zant, one of the generally with the basic feelings as- three band members who perished sociated with Skynyrd, namely ’ in the wreckage, is wearing his drinking, dying and loving. “Tonight’s The Night” shirt, taken The best items are “I Never from Neil Young’s album of the Dreamed’ ’ , “One More Time”, same name which dealt with and “That Smell”, the last being Young’s bitter reaction to death. especially persuasive. Mixed in This album is doubtless the best with the originals is a hearty workof their career, and it is unfortunate out of a brisk mover “Hanky Tonk that we will never know if it was Night Time Man”, written by just a fluke or indeed a giant step in Merle Haggard. The recording is the right direction. Five stars. quite good, someone finally miking -peter smith

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r Santa: hanks for all the wonderful Christmas presents: you were really good re this year. Only one small complaint, Santa, you sent me this ELP irn when I asked for the Sex Pistols. I’m sure it was just a small rsight on the part of one of your elves; probably the post office had ething to do with it. Normally I’m not too hard to get along with, but heard Works Volume I, and there’s no way I want to go through thing like that again. Besides, everyone knows this is just a bunch of avers that have been lying around for years that they threw together lake money ‘cause they lost such a pile on their last tour. If you’ll just 1 Never Mind The BoIlockqHere’s The Sex Pistols, I’ll be sure this back to .you. Sincerely, Markie T. January

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r Santa: hope you received my last letter regarding the ELP album you gave for Christmas. I’d really appreciate it if you could help me get rid of thing; I can’t stand the thought of it being in my house - I mean f’re so. . . excessive. I hate excesses! Give me no frills music, Santa! : me anarchy or give me death! Send the Sex Pistols please! Your friend, Marke T. -~ January

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Santa: ow, I played it! I can’t believe ELP would put out a single disc with ve songs on it. No-excesses - what a ridiculous concept. Emerson’s : piano pieces. “Barrelhouse Shake-down”, “Maple Leaf Rag” and nky Tonk Train Blues” you can actually dance to; “Tiger In The light” almost rocks. and “I Believe In Father Christmas” is the enjoyable ELP ballad since “Lucky Man”, even if it is two years And the rest of the album is quite listenable. I knew I had it made 1 my mother started singing the words to “Show Me The Way To Iome” - 1 didn’t realize it was that old, but that doesn’t matter. lks Santa: you’re a genius. I really do believe in Father Christmas. ,e’s justice after all. With admiration and respect, Markie T. Could you send me the Sex Pistols next year anyway‘?

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UW hocke; WZUAO~S bomb Guelph, tie York Winder, but couldn’t find the reThat the Waterloo Warriors have a very good hockey team has never bound before John Goodish found been a point of contention in the net. A minute after that Jeff Fielding had a break-in for UW but OUAA circles this year. The came away empty. At 11:48 Gary reason they have dwelt in the cellar Dvignam made it 2-O with Don since the first puck was dropped Langlois off for a hooking infracthis season is their uncanny ability tion. After that rne play was all not to score goals. Despite a wealth Waterloo, who had at least a man of opportunities to do so, the Waradvantage over the final six miriors have been consistently inacedge for curate and frustratingly unlucky. _ nutes, and a two-player two minutes. But still the cupboard But on January 11 Waterloo proved they had all the firepower in the was bare and they ended the period world against one of the finest net- scoreless. minders this reporter has seen to With golden opportunities netdate, and the league is full of good ting nothing, Waterloo’s resolve ones. appeared to weaken, and lackadaisMemorial Arena in Guelph was ical defense contributed to an easy the place, and the hometown York goal which came out of an Gryphons were the hosts. These goalmouth clearsame Gryphons were the very team innocent-looking ing play that backfired. A little that had started UW’s season on more than a minute later an equally such a sour note back in November harmless looking play gave the (“Gryphons Got Lucky”, the Warriors their first goal and chevron, Dec. 2, ‘77) with an upset pumped new vigor into their attack. 6-2 victory. Goalkeeper Scott At 5:44 Jeff Fielding set Machesney of Guelph was the up Derek “Boomer” Schmuck inside the standout performer in that game, Yeoman blueline for a high, blisterbut the Waterloo forwards paid him ing drive that Bosco blocked on the back in spades with a 10-3 rout. stick side. Although he could not Rick This time it was contain the ‘rebound, he managed Nickelchock’s turn to make several to regain his feet and set himself for dazzling saves that were a deciding the second shot. Ken Greene, factor in determining the course the however, made a superlative move game eventually took. The de- to beat him in close and give UW its fense, usually the backbone of the first tally. team, played well, but the forwards Waterloo applied solid pressure ,played their finest game of the sea- for the remainder of the period, but son to date, keeping the Gryphons Steve Bosco was equal to the task bottled up all night, and rendering in York’s goal. The Toronto club ineffectual the delaying tactics em- applied some heat of its own in the ployed by the Guelph defense in the dying minutes of period two, and last match. Bill Daub was the UW Rick Nickelchock got the opporstickout, having his best night of tunity to strut his stuff. One play in the year, and pacing the Warriors particular stood out when he made with a three-goal performance. two eye-openi;lg stops on Bob Many observers expected the Schnurr who was in all alone at the visiting York Yeoman to blow the corner choice. of Rick’s lowly Warriors away last Friday, Nickelchock’s own OHA experibut the score would indicate that ence with the Kingston Canadiens Friday the 13th brought Waterloo also came in handy. only good fortune. However, just the opposite is true. The Warriors Neither team could find the mark came up with a fine effort and man- in the third period, and tempers aged to catch York on an off night, wore thin. There were several outbut a 3-3 deadlock was all UW breaks of violent temper. The most could salvage. The, Warrior scorers notable followed Bob TempI were blanketed by somebody, and lehagen laying Bosco out behind his own net. Yeoman captain Dave it sure wasn’t the York defense. Yeoman goaltender Steve Bosco Chalk (a teammate of Mike Zettel’s was sensational throughout, but on a recent European tour) took it the UW squad still should have upon himself to discipline Bob and come away with something after ,an imbroglio developed. The period one, but it was not to be. period was characterized by sevWaterloo marksmen hit the goal- eral shorthanded situations for post on five occasions in the openboth teams. With time running out ing stanza alone, and Bosco made it appeared York was going to be phenomenal grabs on the shots that able to sit on their one-goal lead. were true. Bosco played with the But Dave Jutzi saw things differToronto Marlboros two years ago, ent, and with less than a minute left and that major junior experience he found yet another Bosco reobviously stood him in good stead. bound and scored the equalizer. Indeed, UW came within a hair’s York opened the scoring midway through the first when Nickelchock breadth of winning the game but it made a super glove save off John was not to be.

The /-/o&y Warriors have appeared to turn their season right around in the last week with a win over Cuelph ar big tie against the strong York Yeomen. A third period rally in the York game bought Waterloo two g( and a point in the standings. Here in the third period of the game the Warriors swarm around the York goalter iooking for a loose puck. -photo by john ren

Standouts in the game included Mike Zettel, John Campbell, and Randy Neal on the defense, as well IS Dave Jutzi, Ken Greene, Joe :vIarcaccio, and Jamie Hodge among the forwards. Hodge has been one of the Warriors’ finest players all year long, since joining the club after captaining the Penn. St. Nittany Lions in the USA last year. Had Waterloo been able to knock off the Western Mustangs, still reeling from an 8-3 loss to Laurier, on the ensuing Saturday, they would have vacated the OUAA Western division basement in favour of Guelph. Unfortunately they were unable to regain either the emotional or physical peak of the night before, and bowed 7-2. ‘Western led 5-O after two on goals by Randy Neal, Mark Beech, Chris Harrison, Jim McIntosh, and the exciting Dave Nadeau (another of Zettel’s teammates in Europe). In the final period the clubs twice traded goals. Bob Horton and John Stanley counted for the Mustangs, while Don Langlois and Jeff Fielding replied for UW. The Warriors are but a point behind Guelph, and it is not unreasonable to expect them to overhaul the Gryphons in the standings, but to overtake Windsor for a playoff spot seems a difficult task. -brute

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The deeper meanings of “Star Wars” are only now being seen. The film was originally touted as g “swashbuckler” with a nice oldfashioned theme of the good guys Deating the bad guys. But to the politically oriented, ‘ Star Wars” meant a lot more. The French Communists called the film Anarchists in srypto-fascist. California have taken it up. This viewer felt that the film had antipro-revolutionary imperialist, overtones. And now, one of the principal figures in the production team that helped director George Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz create the science ,fiction film has spoken of the politics of “Star Wars”. In an interview with Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post (which appeared in the Sunday edition on December 18), Charles Lippencott said: “ ‘ Star Wars’ is so transplanted that most people have no realization that part of it is about a Vietnam situation. ’ ’ It also concerns the American fascination with technology. As Hoagland points out, both in “Star Wars” and Vietnam, technology’s

equal potential for violence and for fantasy were fully exploited. (Fantasy in Vietnam? Apparently so. Hoagland quotes from a Vietnam called book on Dispatches : “Flying over jungles was almost pure pleasure, doing it on foot was nearly all pain . . . You could fly up into hot tropic sunsets that would change the way you thought about life forever.“) In the interview, Lippencott told Hoagland that “Star Wars” was conceived in 197 1, while Lucas was preparing to make a combat film about Vietnam. Lucas backed off the combat movie and went to work on “Star Wars” instead. Explained Lippencott: “It would have been impossible to make the film then and have it be so successful, because public sensibilities about Vietnam were so much more exposed.” Unlike the highly ambiguous “2001: A Space Oddessey”, “Star Wars” is fairly straightforward. Looking beyond the incredible technical aspects of the film, “Star Wars” is about a heroic struggle waged by outgunned rebels backed by their determination and convictions, against an imperialistic regime prepared to use its technolog-

ical superiority to destroy entire civilizations . The rebels win. Symbolism abounds in the film. Gestapo-like figures are seen among the ranks of the repressive forces; Darth Vadar wears a German-looking helmet, and one is reminded of the Nazi propaganda epic “ Triumph of the Will”. These men and their machines are, however, “paper tigers” when confronted with the will of the people. In the film, the politically disinterested realize that they have a responsibility to fight oppression. Overcoming insurmountable odds, the forces of progress triumph over the forces of reaction, in that final and utterly fantastic battle in space. Hoagland writes that “Star Wars” is a disguised forerunner for all the major films about Vietnam, or the war’s impact on America, that are being released over the next six months. These include “Heroes”, “ The Deerhunter”, and “Apocalypse Now”. They will probably not be so enormously successful as “ Star Wars” has been. For the film appeals to everyone. It is at once exhilerating fun and deeply political. -val

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Mae West returns;’ Free piano Mae West’s classic The curvaceous, blonde sensation of a few decades ago, Mae West wowed audiences in this adaptation of her famous stage hit Diamond Lil. The film, entitled “She Done Him Wrong” is a USA production of 1933, in black and white, directed by Lowell Sherman and also features a young Cary Grant, with Gilbert Roland, and Noah Beer-y. In it Mae West lords it over a rowdy Bowery salon. Her version of the song “Where has my easy rider gone?” is often credited with having done more to bring on the Hollywood Production Code than any other single scene of the time. The screening will take place on Monday, January 23, at 8p.m. in the Humanities Theatre. The finale of the evening will be Chapters 7 and 8 of the continuing serial “ The Phantom Creeps’ ’ . These chapters are entitled ‘ ‘Menacing Mist’ ’ and ‘ ‘ Trapped in

the Flames”. Admission is by membership only, and memberships at $2.00 are available all season at the Main Box Office, Room 254, Modem Languages building, UW or at the door. Film fee per night is $1.50 (Students/Seniors $1 .OO). For more information call 8854280. Piano Recital I On Wednesday, January 25 at 8:00 p.m. Damiana Bratuz - a musician of many talents - artist, teacher, linguist, lecturer - will give a piano recital of works by Bartok and Liszt in the Conrad Grebel Chapel. Admission is free, and the public is invited. Born on the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, Damiana Bratuz grew up in the turbulent political climate of central Europe. Her teachers, DeRosa, Cortot, Boulanger, Sirota, Sebok, and others, illustrate the multi-national influences on her artistic develop-

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ment. Now, as a citizen of Canada, she finds many opportunities to use the varied traditions and elements of ethnic cultures in its music. Ms. Bratuz has given concerts, as soloist and with orchestra, in many European countries and in the U.S. and Canada as well. She came to the U. S. as a Fulbright Fellow and is currently Professor of Piano Literature at the University of ‘Western Ontario. Through her numerous master classes she has conveyed her belief that cultivated and well-informed artists need to introduce greater numbers of children to the art of music. She feels that the larger the groups of welltrained young people, the more truly excellent artists will emerge. On Thursday, January 26 at 12: 30 in Conrad Grebel Chapel one of Dr. Bratuz’s students, Ken Hull, will perform a Schumann Piano Quartet with other graduate students from University of Western Ontario.

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Flamenco guitar music is one of few traditional forms that maintains an international popularity. It also is music that is more difficult to actually listen to - one tends to use it, as an escape, perhaps, rather than to analyse it as with classical music, jazz and much-rock. To properly obtain the total effect that it is capable of producing, one needs live flamenco dancers pounding their heels and sweating their guts out, if you’ll excuse the tacky imagery, but this addition is, I suppose, rather pointless in a recording. Last Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 14 and 15), two Vancouver brothers, Harryand David Owen performed flamenco music, without dancers, in the Theatre of the Arts. The absence of dancers not only shifted the emphasis but the effect of the music - though this, in itself, is not a criticism; those dancers can get pretty annoying after a while. There was, however, a slight problem with acoustics, since the Theatre of the Arts didn’t allow the sort of intimacy that the music virtually demands. Nevertheless, the audience being attentive, and between 80 and 100 in number, this allowed everybody to sit closely and hear well too. Owen and Owen are not Segovia and Montoya - both are still quite young - but they are regardless very competent musicians. At thestart-of the evening they seemed uneasy: Their playing lacked subtlety and sensitivity id range in volume. This improved-slightly in the first piece, but the third piece, Camino de1 Agua, seemed complicated beyond their powers, and they faltered occasionally. Almost as a warning, the programme notes describe it as “one of the most difficult pieces to interpret”. Perhaps in a few years . . . . Aside from their occasional lack of precision and-their still limited, but growing, virtuosity, the Owen brothers were able to provide an entertaining and enjoyable evening to a receptive audience. They saved the best piece on the programme for last - I don’t know whether they were closer to the work, Questa de1 Sol (Setting Sun), or whether they had, by the end of the evening, become more comfortable with the audience, but the performance seemed to be the best of the show. The audience, in fact, was so appreciative, that they were able to entice them into doing an encore, which everyone enjoyed. (What kind of a way is that to finish a review?)

Japanese Mime Yass Hakoshima, the Japanese mime will perform at the Theatre of the Arts on Friday, January 27. Tickets are available at the Main Box Office, Rm 254, Modem Languages Building.

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Reinis says that “It is estimated that one blue-collar worker in the U.S. industry is able to perform the work of 1500 workers using simple tools.” This is because of trained “equipkent designed by specialists” and “the know-how, the design of the car, the design of the means of pro, duction which the worker uses” etc. He argues that this “equipment designed by trained specialists” and the “know-how” of the “ brain workers” has led to a situation where the “development of our society went, therefore, in another direction” than that predicted by Marx. Reinis proclaims that these are new factors that eliminate the truth that the rich het richer and the poor get poorer under capitalism. Does technology improve the conditions of the worker under capitalism or impoverish the workers? Reinis says: “It is estimated that one blue-collar worker in U.S. industry is able to perform the work of 1500 workers using simple tools”. He talks worker” but about the “ one blue-collar Marx talks about the-1499 “workers using simple tools’ ’ that are displaced by the trained “equipment designed by specialists”. Engels explained very simply that: “It is the motive force of the social anarchy of production which transforms the infinite perfectibility of the machine in largescale industry into a compulsory commandment for each individual industiral capitalist to make his machinery more and more perfect, under penalty of ruin. “But perfecting of machinery means rendering human labor superfluous. If the introduction and increase of machinery means the displacement of millions of hand workers by a few machine workers, the improvement of machinery means the displacement of larger and larger numbers of machine workers themselves, and ultimately the creation of a mass of available wage-workers exceeding the average employment needs of capital, a complete industrial reserve army, as I called it as long ago as 1845, an army available at times when industry is working at high pressure, to be thrown out onto the streets by the inevitable ensuing crash, a constant dead weight on the feet of the working class in its struggle for existence with capital, a regulator to ’ keep wages down to the low level which suits the needs of capital. Thus it comes nbout that machinery, to use Marx’s phrase, becomes the most powerful weapon in the war of capital against the working class, that the instruments of labour constantly knock the means of subsistence out of the worker’s hands, that the very product of the worker is turned into an instrument for his enslavement. Thus it comes about that from the very beginning economy in the instruments of labour becomes at once the most reckless squandering of labour-power and robbery committed against the normal conditions requisite for the labour function; that machinery, the most powerful means for shortening labour time, is converted into the most unfailing means for transforming the entire span of-life of the worker and his family into- disposable labour-time for the purpose of expanding the value of capital. Thus it comes about the overwork of some becomes the precondition for the unemployment of others, and that large-scale industry, which hunts the whole world over for new consumers, confines the consumption of the masses at home to a starvation mumimum and thus undermines its own internal market .” (Socialism, Scientific or Utopian, PP. 83-85, Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1975). Anyone who cares to may go to Government Publications in the library and look up the statistics for unemployment in Canada which the government has been recording since 1945. There is not one year where there is not unemployment. That is, there is a permanent reserve army of unemployed. In the past few years there have been many strike stuggles in Canada where the workers

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are fighting for job security and against technological changes. In 1973 over 50,000 railway workers went on strike, and one of the main issues was job security. When diesel engines were introduced, thousands of railway workers lost their jobs. The introduction of diesel engines did not improve things for the workers or for anyone except the CPR and CNR. A look at the state of passenger train service in Canada will confirm that! In Vancouver the dockworkers have also been fighting for job security. The capitalists are more and more using containerized freight which eliminates a lot of handling of goods and eliminates many jobs for the workers. The postal workers are fighting against the automatic mailsorting system in order to defend their jobs. This technological change is not to benefit the postal workers or for that matter the Canadian people. Most of the mail that is moved within and outside the country is that of the U.S. imperialists and Canadian monopoly capitalists. Furthermore it is the Canadian people that will have to dole out millions of dollars through taxes and increased postal rates to pay-off ITT who is providing the automatic equipment and I quarantee you it will not be at any loss of profits for ITT. Machinery and technology are weapons in the war of capital against the working class. They are a weapon to impoverish the workers. Machinery and technology cannot eliminate the truth that under capitalism the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. a worker

Reinisput up or shut up In the last two issues of the Chevron many people showed Stanislav Reinis to be a supposed liar on every point he claimed was the “essence of Marxism”. All the letters were well researched and provided what Marx wrote and not some concoctions. Now, Mr. Reinis, can you please provide me with examples of where you got your “essence of Marxism”, from which book by Marx and Engels? If you don’t sir, the only conclusion I can draw is that a “constant liar” on what Marx said can only be a constant liar on most other questions. Peter Murray

RCMP ban is justifiable I’ve noticed that the chevron has decided to refuse military and RCMP advertising. If you can refuse ads for supposedly being sexist, I can see no reason why you cannot refuse RCMP ads. Actually the articles on the RCMP and the military were among the most interesting in your otherwise boring low-quality paper. I actually had some sympathy with your position. Pierre Trudeau is apparently on an ego trip. Instead of using military expenditures to defend an attack from the Soviet Union, he seems to be willing to use the military to suppress dissent at home. Apparently he sees himself as the savior of the country. Does he really thirik he can force Quebec to stay in Canada if they don’t want to? Does he intend to suppress civil liberties and jail his opposition ? I hope not, but I have my doubts. I would not like Quebec to be turned into another Vietnam or Northern Ireland. I have nothing against the RCMP as a whole, but it seems like Canada is not to be outdone by the U.S. The recent revelations suggest a Canadian Watergate. I wonder if this time the coverup will suceed. I know the RCMP ride horses in shows and are nice guys, but these actions by their security division must be carefully regulated. Despite what -some may say Richard Nixon, Trudeau, Levesque, or even Neil Docherty

are not equivalent to God. They should reahze their llmlts and act accordingly. So a ban on RCMP or military ads for now could be justified, though three articles about it was not necessary. However one should be willing to re-evaluate one’s position about these organizations if. there is a change in circumstances in the future and these groups clean up their respective acts. I myself shall do the same thing if the chevron cleans up its act. J.J. Long

Shih is appalling I was appalled at the ,attempts of Shih Knag-ti to revise the history of the People’s Republic of China (chevron, Jan. 6) under the guise of defending Chairman Mao. Shih actually promoted Nehru as antifascist and even pro-communist, quoting him as saying: “. . . as between Nazifascism and Communism my sympathies were with Communism. . .” What is the truth about Nehru? The so-called “independence” granted to India on August 15, 1947 by the British colonialists was actually a compromise struck by the traitorous Indian bourgeoisie led by Jawahar La1 Nehru and M-K. Gandhi with the feudalists and the British colonialists. It was a declaration of war against the anti-colonial and antifeudal democratic revolution of the Indian a declaration of enslavement people, against the nations and national minorities living on the Indian subcontinent. It led to massive bloodshed and the division of India by the British colonialists. It was under Nehru that the barbaric suppression of the glorious Telengana armed uprising took place in 1953. This uprising had liberated hundreds of thousands of people, and detachments of the People’s Liberation Army were formed and fought valiantly. Nehru was the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. He and his cronies worked closely with both U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism to attempt the encirclement and isolation of People’s China. On August 25, 1959, the Indian reactionaries provoked the first armed conflict on their border with China, following the failure of counter-revolution in Tibet. “On October 12, 1962, Nehru issued the order to ‘free’ Chinese territory of Chinese troops. On October 20, 1962, the Indian troops launched a massive general attack.” (The Truth about How the Leaders of the CPSU Have Allied Themselves with India against China ; Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1963, p. 12) This Indian aggression had the support of the Soviet revisionists: “From 1955 to April 1963, the Soviet Government gave or promised economic aid to India totalling five billion rupees, the larger part being offered since the Indian reactionaries began their campaign against China.” (Ibid, p. 24) (Note that the Soviet Union did not begin supporting the Indian reactionaries until 2 years after the death of Stalin.) It also was supported by U.S. im“Radhakrishnan, the President perialism: of India, issued a joint communique with U.S. President Kennedy on June 4, 1963, openly declaring that the United States and India agreed that ‘their two countries share a mutual defensive concern to thwart the designs of Chinese aggression against the sub-continent.” (Ibid, p. 26) Shih also mystified the nature of U.S. foreign policy with regard to the Chinese revolution, saying that the U.S. ambassador to China during the civil war, Patrick Hurley , was assigned “to bring peace and coalition government but he achieved the opposupposedly because he unwittingly site”, What an inbecame “a Chiang puppet.” credible fabrication! Let us look at what the Chinese have to say about this. A footnote to Chairman Mao’s famous “Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong, August 1946” cited in Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tsetung (1971) says this

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“To help Chaing Kai-shek start civil war against the people, U.S. imperialism gave his government a very great amount of aid. By the end of June 1946 the United States had equipped 45 Kuomintang divisions. It had trained 150,000 Kuomintang military personnel - army, naval and air forces, secret agents, communications police, staff officers, medical officers, supply personnel, etc. U.S. warships and aircraft transported to the front against the Liberated Areas 14 Kuomintang corps (41 divisions) and 8 regiments of the communications police corps, or over 540,000 men in all. The U.S. government ‘landed 90,000 of its marines in China and stationed them at such important cities as Shanghai, Tsingtao, Tsientsin, Peiping and Chinwangtao They guarded the lines of communication for the Kuomintang in northern China. According to data disclosed in the United States Relations with China (The White Paper), released by the State Department on August 5, 1949, the total value of various kinds of U.S. aid given to the Chiang Kai-shek government from the time of the war of Resistance Against Japan to 1948 was more than 4,500 million dollars (the overwhelming bulk of U.S. aid given during the War of Resistance had been hoarded by the Kuomintang for the coming civil war against the people.) But the actual amount of U.S. aid to Chiang Kai-shek far exceeded this total. The U.S. White Paper admitted that U.S. aid was equivalent to ‘more than 50 percent of the monetary expenditures’ of the Chiang Kaishek government and was of ‘proportionately greater mangitude in relation to the budget of that Government than the United States has provided to any nation of Western Europe since the end of the war!” Both Nehru and Hurley perpetrated the slaughter of the Chinese masses, but Shih Kang-ti defends them both and viciously attacks Stalin, who was a genuine friend of both the Indian and the Chinese people. What he has written is not history: it is a Han Suyin soap opera written to defame genuine revolutionaries and praise the imperialists and their lackeys. R. Singh

Kang-ti to Georgia On January 6, 1978, Shih Kang-ti wrote a letter to the chevron attacking Joseph Stalin. This is my reply A Short Story: Mr. Shih Kang-ti Goes to Georgia * (* note - Georgia was the birthplace of Joseph Stalin) In 1960 the Soviet revisionist clique headed by Nikita Krushchov issued a stamp to commemorate the birth of Krushchov. On the stamp was a profile of Nikita Krushchov. After the stamp was in’circulation for one month, the Soviet revisionist authorities began to notice that a lot of the mail from the Republic of Georgia never had stamps of the envelopes. The authorities were dumbfounded and could figure out no reason for this. They waited another month, but the problem just go1 worse and worse. Rumours and talk began to spread. Finally, Krushchov heard aboui it and called one of his top ministers to the Kremlin. Krushchov: Minister Shih Kang-ti! Mq picture is supposed to be on every envelope in the Soviet Union. Why doesn’t the mai from Georgia have my picture stamp on? Shih Kang-ti: I will personally investigate it, right away. I will get to the bottom o this, Comrade Nikita. So Shih Kang-ti caught a train to Georgia and in a few days he returned with a repor for Krushchov. Shih Kang-ti: Comrade Nikita, those Georgians are nuts. They are imbeciles They are stupid. They cannot understanc simple Russian. They are blockheads. 1 doesn’t matter what you tell them, they al ways spit on the wrong side of the stamp. B.C

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quorum. The elitist Board of Directors is never used. There are competent people on council (with notable exceptions) and on the executive. BENT is the only budget in the red. Thirdly, is Smit oblivious to his problems? No. The BENT budget is now tightly I would like to present many criticisms of controlled under the competent hands of ast week’s chevron staff editorial: “Smit in Nick Redding. Also Smit is making plans for he same mould as Roberts”. refundable fees. After living through Shane Roberts’ I do not say that Smit (or myself for that n-deal, as a free chevron staff member, I feel matter, since I am on the federation execuhe comparison to be unfair and unwartive) is doing all he can on “critical issues *anted. Yes, Smit’s disdain for the AIA confronting students.” But it does not give :quals Roberts’. It is also true that Smit acts the chevron much credibility when it writes: n an eruptive manner at times. But surely, “Now Smit may be doing nothing (my emhrowing snowballs at the editor’s window phasis) to -defend students against the Isn’t comparable to closing down the chev- government. . .” A Nov. 25 chevron editorron; nor is calling certain staffers “turkeys!” ial stated : “Federation president Rick limilar to calling police onto campus, as Smit’s confrontation with Harry Parrott last Roberts vice-president did. week and his insistence that Parrott try and explain the government’s cutbacks is a Smit, his childishness aside, has in fact flicker of the sort of resistance necessary. It andled his disdain for “certain members” is a long time since a UW fed pres actually f the chevron staff in a democratic way. his voice in anger against the .ast November, with his love for these peo- raised government. . .” He has further expressed le as vacuous as it is today,, Smit voted to his disappointment in the federal Liberals’ :lease News Editor Johathan Coles’ salary. Ie even waived the ratification process, a handling of Into’s lay-offs, when a cabinet minister visited campus, and on their policy ontentious point for some councilors. This towards Uganda and South Africa, in a letem of business was a ‘hot potato’ under ter. But really, he has only been in office lree presidents’ administrations before two-and-a-half months and there has been a lmit came to power. lot to clean up. In his letters to the chevron, he states The editorial makes a point of saying that learly: “ The impetus for change must come Smit did not vote against the federal rom within the chevron, From students government’ s immigration bill and ‘ ‘ spoke in iorking on the paper. Participation! . . .” defence of the Liberal government policy.” Jot like Roberts. Staff ignores the fact that he considered this Can the chevron staff, in its increasing a mistake in last week’s chevron. hetoric, believe that “(Smit) is trying to use he worn-out tactic of anit-communism to atFurther, there are many things to defend sck the basic interests of the vast majority in Canada s immigration policy. The specific If students”? Is it clear to staff that Smit’s points that were objected to were not deim is to attack students? Smit did not call “for the ousting of the fended by Smit. There are so many things. You quote the ditor and news editor, elected by staff’ called specifically, in last week’s feedback” as KW Record where Smit supposedly the chevron an “editorial rag”, even though tated in the editorial. Why then is this tinted? He told 5 “turkeys” to “flock off!” ‘2r you knew the quotation was suspect. Smit :ven if he had he would-have just been ex- \+denied saying it - he toldthe Record and the chevron in October. And it was written by a ressing his views. I would find a similar gets chevron and tuation in Smit calling for the ousting of the reporter who constantly federation stories wrong. ditorial staff of the chevron, (considering Lastly, the editorial takes a quotation is dislike for its “editorial slant”), and from Smit’s feedback letter suggesting that it lose on the chevron who support Smit’s referred to chevron staff. The quotation usting, (considering their dislike of the way (“Why do you conduct yourselves . . .,“), e is handling the federation). however, refers to five specific people only The editorial makes great mileage - not the chevron staff. So why is this menilometerage?) out of linking Smit’s distaste tioned? r the chevron’s editorial slant to an’ asThe editorial was written by Neil Lmed distaste for chevron editorials. Had Docherty. It was written because he hates aff asked Smit, he probably would have Smit as much as Smit hates Docherty . A reed with the listed editorials. Besides personal vendetta that Neil should have itorials, the editorial. slant of the paper is signed himself. Instead he presented it as an termined by what articles/ editorial, and - unfortunately - the majormments/features are chosen to be printed, ity of staff supported it. It is a shoddy piece iat prominence each is given, what bias is of work, but more than that, it is petty. Who :sented; and it is also determined by what is is provoking whom? t printed. Randy Barkman It is not by co-incidence, and I believe that is not without engineering support, that 1gSoc president Peter King ridicules the levron’ s “editorializing”, in the latest ;ue of Enginews. He does not list editorials his objection (though they might be) but, stead, lists - humourously - ‘ ‘Wahlsten titles and Benfu revolutions.” Just as the Ironto Sun has earned the reputation for It seems that the chevron editors are never ing a’conservative paper, the chevron has quite so happy as when they are reliving past glories. Admit it, guys: you actually had a rned a campus- and nation-wide reputaIn of being ultra-left?This even with many better time agitating in the free chevron than offers with a moderate or even nonnow when you are not quite so “oppressed”. Your editorial last week reflected that fact. I istent political line. have been following the letters Rick Smit has Also, in an attempt to only portray Smit in been sending in to Feedback and found them Bad light, staff obscures the truth. Mentionto be intelligent, to &he point, and in keeping ; that the federation “for the first time has with the general viewpoint of the students. survive on refundable fees” and that the When I read the article in which Smit talked tertainment program is in disarray, staff about the “editoral” slant of the chevron, I ’ ncludes that Smit is “the captain of a sinkunderstood it not to refer to the official ; ship who seems oblivious to the holes in editorials, but to the articles on socialist and ; own hull”. communist causes appearing out of all proportion to ‘ ‘the basic interests of the stuFirstly, if I can assume this, why does the zvron staff link refundable fees to a sink-. dents”. Not only do you flare up unnecessar: federation? Having taken a stand in ily at this, but you accuse Smit of calling you “turkeys” and throwing snowballs.. I’ve rour of refundable fees I would have mght that its implementation would im- heard you called much worse, and I recall at )ve the situation in your eyes. Secondly, I least one instance where a more deadly misn’t see other evidence that the federation sile was hurled. The chevron is totally out of touch with what the average student wants a sinking ship. Council always gets

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to see in a newspaper. I suggest that taking some genuine opinion polls might show that Smit’s comments are indicative of the attitude of most students at UW. Smit has taken on a thankless job, and I felt that despite the many pitfalls he has had to face, he is doing a pretty good job. I wish I could say the same thing about you. -prabhakar

ragde

chevron at new low I find it hard to believe, but last week’s chevron has reached a new low. It is filled with bias and distortion of the truth. First I must mention the editorial on page 15 written by Neil Docherty and signed by the chevron staff. Much of the editorial was based on quotations from a KW Record story on Rick Smit - a story in which Smit was misquoted. DOCHERTY KNEW THIS, YET HAD THE GALL TO WRITE THIS SHAMELESS DISTORTION OF THE TRUTH. But that’s not all. This editorial replaced a letter from Rick Smit. Of course nothing else could have been cut. The four AIA-inspired letters attacking Stanislav Renis, for instance, had to stay. One was written by Neil Docherty. Others were from “an admirer of Karl Marx,” and “a proletarian”. Yet another was by “David Ricardo, Economics”. A fear of obscene phone calls is not the reason that David’s name fails to appear in the student directory. In fact, DAVID RICARDO IS DEAD. David Ricardo, the famous British Economist, passed on to the great Wall street in the sky in 1823!! Isn’t it interesting that these Mickey Mouse letters get in with little trouble, but letters with “reactionary” viewpoints get delayed, as in Smit’s case or for weeks pending author authenticity checks and even staff discussion. Because of the viewpoint of ‘ ‘David Ricardo’ ’ , I doubt that any authenticity checks were made. I see that allihe CUP papers including the chevron, won’t be running RCMP ads anymore. No doubt this action was spawned by recent accusations of RCMP wrongdoing. You seem to forget that these are ACCUSATIONS. If indeed there is reason to believe that actual criminal offenses have occurred, then these people should be brought to trial. But until such time they are innocent and would remain so unless proven otherwise. Surely the chevron, which fought so hard for due process in its own battle for existence last year, must recognise this. Yet the chevron delegation under Docherty at the recent CUP conference not only supported this anti RCMP motion, but INITIATED it. This truly is hypocrisy at its worst. No mention was made of course, of the good things the RCMP do. It’s no accident that Canada is one of the world’s safest and freest-yes freest - countries inthe world. The “historical examples” cited by the chevron in their case against the RCMP read little better than an AIA fact sheet. It’s obvious to me that the chevron is simply a Waterloo edition of Peoples Canada Daily News. I call for the resignation of Neil Docherty for using the chevron for his own political gains, and using students in the process. Christopher

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i lettitor The letters referred to were authenticated, and of course it is quite normal for the chevron to allow pseudonyms. Take for example a letter signed by “Joe Student” (Dee 2) praising the Karl Frederich Gaus Foundation, an organisation Chris Dufault has been associated with - no complaint about that author being afraid of obscene phone calls. Also It is quite normal for letters to be held for a week. In this case it should be noted that Rick Smit’s letter was sent In late. Also his was not the only letter pulled, another, written by Doug Wahlsten was held over. One further point of note: several of the letters referred to had been delayed from the previous week due to lack of space.

StHFier sees; the enigma Why is the chevron in the state it is, and why will it never improve? Some clues and further symptoms can be found in the meaningless drivel on the editorial page last week (Jan 13 1978, p 15). This editorial is crammed with assumptions, non-sequiturs and absolute gibberish: Because Federation President Rick Smit dislikes the paper’s image (correctly attributed to AIA - and supporters), he is equated with the mentality that resulted in last year’s conflict. This naive simplification continues when the writer infers that Smit’s objections to the paper’ s “editorial slant” means that he is opposed to the stands taken in the chevron’s editorials. The writer then neatly compiles a list of everything that Smit is against by rattling off the contents of the editorials. The conclusions are, not surprisingly, nonsensical. Smit is shown to be a racist, an enemy of the students and (gasp!) an anti-communist. The writer’s case is, in fact, so bankrupt that the most concrete evidence he provides for denouncing Smit is that he has thrown snowballs at the editor’s window. My heart bleeds for poor, poor Neil. Isn’t that Ricky Smit a mean@old bully! Careful scrutiny of the editorial will demonstrate that there is absolutely nothing intelligent or relevant in it. Similarly, the cover story of the week before illustrates another attack on Smit with a phony issue. The article “ISA and Federation deep in conflict” is complete nonsense: Either Salah Bachir’s presidency was unconstitutional, or it was not. What is “according to Smit” is irrelevant. The only evidence of “conflict” might be Smit’s hostility expressed by his tearing down of “a number of posters” etc - though the extent of this is suspect, given the minimal credibility the article deserves. The writer (David Carter) then continues with an irrelevant discussion on why Bachir is a good guy (he defends “the basic interests of the students” etc). The’ article finishes with the thinly disguised implication that Smit be a racist (closing with Smit’s words, “I am not a racist”) - borne out by the sickening letter by Mae Chong & co the following week. The reason Smit is being attacked is that he is concerned about the pathetic state of the paper. The editorial staff (and friends) are entirely disinterested in improving the paper. Not a single original idea for varying the paper’s content has come from them. The “editorial stance:’ that Smit means is perhaps the habit of drawing unintelligible CUP stories like .“Webber” (Jan 6, p 3), reporting on the paranoid fantasies discussed at AIA forums, printing one-sided, jargon-bestrewn press-releases from ZANU, and otherwise cluttering editorials (etc) with cliches, slogans and hackneyed phrases. Doesanyone object to this? No, of course not - only “fascists and reactionaries” (This “proof by definition” has been used at various occasions by prominent staffers Doug Wahlsten and Jules Grajober). At this point I should mention that “the chevron staff’ signing an editorial is, in fact, merely that body of staffers who, on actually having read it, don’t object with enough of it to have it thrown out (not exactly a staff “position”). A portion of this staff enjoy, at staff meetings, turning arguments against detractors by questioning their motives and methods, and denouncing them as “anticommunists” (This has been done to &ran O’donnell, Randy Barkman and, most recently, Nick Redding and Jayne Pollock, when they argued Jonathan Coles’ incompetency as News Editor). Another gimmick is the meaningless slogan, “Defend the basic interests of the students”. Does this mean more beer and sex? Defend? In what way? Basic? That word belongs in the same garbage can with “essential”. An “interest” is a nebulous enContinued

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tity somehow associated with you - does it have to belong to just some students, or all students, or no one else? You can use it any way you want: ‘$We defend the basic interests of the students. Great! That means we’re the good guys. He doesn’t like us, therefore he is against students. Sounds pretty bad; we’ll have to denounce him!” The chevron “core” is so isolated from the student body that they are incapable of recognizing the paper’s problems. They can’t believe that students, for the most part, do not take the paper seriously. They have not only alienated the students, but they have effectively forced it into a cul-de-sac: T,he only ethical way to obtain an honest, varied and representative newspaper - barring the hysterical tactics used last year - is by ordinary students becoming involved. But it is precisely because the paper is not like that, that that group will never join it. In short, nobody gives a damn. Sad, but, I fear, true. Oscar

M Nietstrasz

‘t like stanc Your editorial-last week was a perfect example of why Rick Smit and thousands of students do not like your editorial stance. There are inaccuracies and misconceptions in your editorial, but to point them all out 1 would probably exceed the 1200 word limit. Besides you wouldn’t believe me anyways and explain that I must make a six-month investigation of the problem. If you have a “lettitor” he/she/it will probably give us some story saying that I have a “fascist” history and thus my analysis is incorrect. It seems to me that the real “fascists” are people like the AIA, whoever that secret organization is composed of. You are not defending the students’ basic interests, instead you are attacking the students’ interests. You are a real gang of crybabies. If things don’t go right, you whine and try to get your own way. I will say you are doing a very good job of defending the basic interests of the AIA. I hope Hardial is proud of you because the students aren’t. I know you will disagree, but I’ll close with a typical chevron tactic; “I’m right and you’re wrong”. J. J. Long

it smites There are several items in last week’s chevron that I feel I must comment on. “Smit is a true racist!“, is a statement that can in no way be substantiated and as for the authors of the letter, I feel that they are somewhat misguided with respect to the information concerning myself. I voted against the resolution as stated by NUS concerning Bill C-24, not from the position of a racist. It is truly unfortunate that you don’t ask me what I do concerning world affairs because if you did you would have seen letters condeming the regimes in Chile and South Africa as well as that pimp of a dictator (Idi Amin) that you equate me with, that I sent this Christmas. The Federation of Students did give $50.00 towards the ISA Christmas party and there was no attempt to stop any member of authority in the ISA from booking the room. Finally, when you quote someone you should not quote out of context. When I said “I am sick and tired of hearing about the racist attacks against the people . . .“, I also ended the sentence “by the state”, an institution to which you misguided malcontents have great difficulty in identifying or relating with. My letter about the United Trails buses (a subject to which the chevron has no real interest) was pulled from the last issue so that the editorial denouncing me could be

included. Perhaps that was wise, I mean you wouldn’t want to break up the AIA domination of last week’s feedback. You seem to forget that once your bullshit is pnnted, people know you for what you truly are. It seems evident that Neil Docherty is no longer capable of being the editor of the chevron. He appears to have an inability of being able to differentiate between “editorials” and editorial policy and slant. The editorial goes on to say that “He is trying to use the worn out tactic of anticommunism to attack the basic interests of the vast majority of students.” The same cliches crop up time and again, anticommunist, fascist, revisionist and as for the vast majority of the students I think that you will find cold responce to y-our “basic’ ’ ideologies . The AIA in the form of the “gang of five” as previously mentioned, and a collection of leftist puppets are the problem facing the chevron. As for the snowballs Docherty, I think that you are the one who is the child, so devoid of feeling or free objective thought. You probably don’t even have a soul. You state that I am “more intent on fighting the chevron staff instead of the Ontario government.” I know many people that work or worked on the chevron and they know me for an active supporter of good student press and journalism, two institutions that you are bringing ruin upon. You like it when you can put that lable “-the chevron staff’ on the editorial rather than Neil Docerty. Coward! Get thee gone to Albania, puke ! Rick Smit, President Federation of Students

The editorial in last week’s chevron begs for a reply; it is full of lies and distortions, not to mention an air of hysteria resulting from criticism of the paper. It shocks ‘me that the chevron staff, whom I once considered to be rational people, have descended to the level of vicious slander. Before I make a point by point rebuttal of that sleazy editorial, it is interesting to note that last week’s chevron also contained a letter calling Smit a racist, but omitted Smit’s letter about the Federation’s bus service to Toronto. It seems that Smit’s letter discredits some of the things said in the editorial, and so it was censored. This seems to be a fair conclusion, since tihen editor Docherty was asked why the letter was omitted, he lied by saying that it had been misplaced. The truth came from production manager Bast, who confirmed that the letter had been typeset (and the typeset copy is sitting at Dumont Press Graphix) and the decision ‘was made not to print the letter. No doubt the chevron’s reply to this is “lack of space”, but if they give space to people to lie about Smit this excuse doesn’t hold much water. That little business out of the way, let’s look at the editorial in detail. It claims that Smit was quoted in the K&W Record as calling the chevron an “editorial rag”. It is true that this “quote” appeared, but not true that Smit said it. Both the Record and the chevron were informed of this misquote. That was a distortion, and it also casts a bad light on the journalistic expertise of the chevron because one of journalism’s maxims is “never trust what other newspapers say; check it out for yourself.” The editorial continues by objecting to Smit’s criticism of “editorial slant” in the paper. The editorial claims that Smit is referring to editorials, when in fact he refers to slant in news stories. Everyone expects to see slant in a piece labelled “editorial” (last week’s is an excellent example of a slanted editorial), but there is no place for slant in news stories.

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this distortion; why should Smit-write replies to editorials when it is the slant in news stories that he objects to? And this brings us to the first blatant lie: to say that Smit has no position on education cutbacks is absurd. Last term; Smit harangued Harry Parrot in Toronto, and the chevron printed an editorial praising Smit for his stand! It amazes me that the chevron will contradict itself in its mad scramble to discredit Smit. The chevron again contradicts itself when it claims that Smit supports Bill C-24. This was explained on page one of the first chevron this term, and again the chevron has contradicted itself. The editorial claims that Smit has taken up “mission” apparently left uncompleted ty Shane Roberts. Again, the distortion that Smit objects to editorials is being used. I reiterate: the objections arise from slant in news stories The editorial continues with some hysterical gibberish-related to the fact that Smit criticizes the chevron at all. At this point, I would like it to be known that Smit is not alone in hurling snowballs at Docherty’s office window. It was yet another distortion to omit the fact that I engage in this sport as well, and so do others. It should also be known that the snowballs arenot directed at the chevron so much as at Docherty personally. I urge all who feel as I do about this despicable wretch to exercise their arms! Finally, on the subject of harassment, snowballs pale in comparison to the harassment which I am subjected to by the chevron staff. For example, a few weeks ago I required an old free chevron for my work in BENT. I myself was a free chevric, and I wrote for that particular issue. However, when I went to the chevron offices, I was physically prevented from taking a copy from the fuing cabinet (which contains past issues for exactly this purpose). While I argued with Salah Bachir that I am entitled to a copy, Docherty flung papers at me and told me that I am an “ass licker” because I left tbs chevron to work for the Federation. It offends me that I fought as a free chevric for the right of communists to speak, not to mention Docherty’s salary, and I am now rewarded by this sort of treatment. I am finally disgusted with the chevron staff. Nick

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lettitor Smit’s letter was withheld because we needed the space for the editorial. We also had to pull a letter by Doug Wahlsten. Both appear this week. As for misquoting Smit: the K-W Record reported that Smit called the chevron an “editorial rag”, while Smlt claims that what he actually said was “editorial sheet”. Some misquote! They both mean, as you elaborate, that we editorialise in our news stories. It is not enough for Smit to merely assert that we are guilty of rampant editorialising in news copy, he must prove it. Jonathan Coles News Editor lettitor II: The responsibility for the exclusion of Rick Smit’s letter of last week has to rest with me, as Production Manager. At the time I didn’t know that President Smit had a letter in Feedback, as a most competent volunteer regularly deals with those pages. The pages were laid out without making room for the editorial of last week, and when the editorial page was being pasted up, I simply told the woman working on that page to pull the last two letters, which is standard and traditional chevron practice. The last letters are removed first. Feedback letters are removed on the assumption that any letter is equal to any other - Smit is equal to any student. In short, there were no ulterior motives, connivance, or “censorship” involved. Neil Docherty is not responsible, I am. I apologize to the extent that I should have known that Smit was writing a letter, and perhaps should have pulled an earlier letter for his. Feedback on the issue of whether or not the President’s letter is worth more than another letter would be appreciated: I tend to think it should be. John Wallace Bast Production Manager

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I would like to make known my disconter with the first two issues of the Chevron i .1978. After slowly improving following th re-opening, the paper has taken a turn for th worse, resembling the forgetable pre-closin issues. To begin with, in the January 6th issue, tl reader finds a large page of Doug Wahlsten’ discourses at an on-campus talk. Now I al not saying that this shouldn’t be reporter but at what length! The article is 22 l/2 co umn inches long, which is quite a section ( paper when one considers that co-op place ments got 9 and CKMS got 7 l/2. Of these Z l/2 inches, only 3 describe the meeting (wh spoke, what went on) and the remaining 1 l/2 inches were devoted to regurgitating tl bulk of the talk, which was for the most pa rumours and allegations about the Canadia government supposedly masterminding r cist attacks. The reporter, Jonathan Cole made no mention of the attendance, whit probably was low, and just used the cove age to give Wahlsten a chance to air h views. For those who want to attend these mee -ings and believe these ideas, they have tl choice, but for the 9% of students WI don’t, a short summary is enough, and the dissertations should not be shoved down tht throats.

Within the same paper is another length (18 l/2 column inches) article; abo Rhodesia. This article is not signed, b worse still, does not make reference to a cal pus talk of a campus event of any kind. Wf is it doing in a supposedly student neu paper? In the January 13th issue, a lengthly at-tic about an AIA forum appears on page 5.1 though this one was written by Salah Bach it, like the one about Wahlsten, made mention of the attendance at the forum, t merely repeated the bulk ofthe speake talk to the tune of 26 column inches! Agair have no objection to having AIA forums, any other on-campus events, reported, bL do object to using the report in this studs newspaper as a vehicle for publishing I entire speech! About 99% of the studel on this campus are not members of the AI and have only a passing interest in its ; tivities, and should not have it shoved do their throats!

Next to this manifesto, we have anotl chapter in the continuing saga of the life Hardial Bains. (It’s beginning to sound 1: NBC’s “ The Fugitive”) Bains isn’t nor 1 ever been, a UW student, nor does his dra (soap opera?) hold much of a rating with UW audience. Eight inches to tell us the tl has been postponed.. 13 I could have done i one. One much more serious problem that m students aren’t aware of is the news se1 tion and rejection that goes on behind scenes. A student will immediately see w was printed, but not what wasn’t. To m; room for the above-mentioned delibe tions, two photographs of mine, one of blood donor clinic (which attracted m than 700 students, compared to a few do for an AIA forum) and one of a group of year Chemistry students dressed up as mafia to solicit donations from student5 buy toys for underpriveleged children, w held back from both issues. While a rev of mine was printed in the January 1 issue, the photographs were omitted. And this is not new: while the Chevron found it a top priority to cover racist attac an article of mine documenting cases wh the instigators of racist attacks were gi, stiff sentences, was rejected last year. While I have found the news and eve coverage disappointing, I think the spo entertainment and prose and poetry sectif have been ‘excellent. They have held

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Distortrlbn being fought For the past two months a small handful of reactionaries “feedback” compatible

has been doing propaganda in that Marxism-Leninism is inwith “democracy”. They slander the AIA and the Marxist-Leninist teachers, especially Stalin and Mao Tsetung, as being anti-democratic. Now Mr. Shih Kang-ti has added a new twist to this line, saying that Stalin was just a mass murderer but Chairman Mao was really a liberal: “ . . . Mao’s interpretation of dialectics brought him to believe that anyone was salvageable, and that once they saw the trtith, they would change.” (chevron, Jan. 6) This gross distortion of Chariman Mao’s views is being promoted by Mr. Shih in order to suppprt a bunch of counterrevolutionaries led by Teng Hsiao-ping, who have seized control of the Party and state in China through a reactionary coup d’etat in October of 1976. These renegades from Marxism are scheming to restore capitalism and replace the dictatorship of the proletariat with the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. They are revising Chairman Mao’s line on the correct handling of contradictions among the people by advocating that capitalist roaders in the Party be “ salvaged” through education instead of being overthrown. While Chairman Mao was alive, Teng Hsiao-ping was branded as an unrepentant capitalist roader and suppressed. This quote from Chairman Mao’s essay “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People” expresses the MarxistLeninist line on dealing with capitalist roaders under socialism: “Our state is-a people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. What is this dictatorship for? Its first function is to siippress the reactionary classes and elements and those exploiters in our counrty who resist the socialist construction, or in other words, to resolve the internal contradictions betwekn ourselves and the enemy. For instance, to arrest, try and sentence certain counter-revolutionaries and to deprive landlords and bureaucrat-capitalists of their right to vote and their freedom of speech for a specified period of time - all this comes within the scope of our dictatorship . . . Our socialist democracy is democracy in the broadest sense such as is not be found in any capitalist country. Our dictatorship is the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the workerpeasant alliance. That is to say, democracy operates within the ranks of the people, while the working class, uniting with ‘all others enjoying civil rights, and in the first place with the peasantry, enforces dictatorship over the reactionary classes and elements and all those who resist socialist transformation and oppose socialist construction. By civil rights, we mean, politically, the rights of freedom,and democracy.” (p. 437, Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tsetung; Peking, Foreign Language Press, 1971). For Marxist-Leninists, freedom and democracy do not exist in the abstract, only in the concrete. In a society divided into antagonistic classes of exploiters and exploited, democracy can only be democracy for a class. Freedom and democracy for the capitalists necessarily means a lack of freedom and democracy for the proletariat. In a socialist country, democracy for the working class requires suppression of the exploit; ing classes who want to regain power and restore the capitalist, system. Reactionaries like Stanislav Reinis talk about democracy in the abstract in order to preserve democracy for the rich and exploi-

tation of the workers in Canada. Opportunists like Shih Kvg-ti talk about democracy in the abstract in order to facilitate the. “salvage”, i.e. restoration, of counterrevolutionaries in China who had been removed from power during Chairman Mao’s lifetime. Doug Wahlsten

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There seems little point in continuing my written attack on the gang of five which has infected the chevron with a seemingly incurable dogmatic literary disease. There are more important issues that must be dealt with at this time.

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Court handed down a judgement last week that might jeopardize the federatiois’ bus

service to Toronto. The judgement was handed down against United Trails, the company which charters the buses to us, for operating what the judge termed a “recurring service’ ’ . We at the Federation won a decision this past summer which allowed United Trails to keep chartering buses to us. , The ministry of transportation atid com-

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You now have to start asking yourself what and who is behind this action to suppress a service which is obviously of benefit to a large number of students at Waterloo. I

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that servant of the public good, Greycoach, called me the other day and asked if they could help us out during this problem period, which is interesting since they were instrumental in spearheading the effort in realizing this very injunction. Grey Coach is owned by the TTC which in turn is knee deep in government influence. My heart relly bleeds for Grey Coach but as president of the Federation it is not my concern. My concern is in providing active and useful services to the students at this university.

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which was founded on laissez-faire principals and where a spirit of competition usually yields the best product. It seems to me that the government, in this case the ministry of Transportation and Communication, only adopts this philosophy when it is beneficial to its awn subsiduries. I claim that the judgement handed down by Judge Mossop constitutes a repressive act which could stifle a very needed service and force a lot of students to resort to an inefficient and expensive means of traiisportation. You the students who use the service can do something to help us fight this repressive judgement. Those of you who use or have ever used our service could sign the petition that will be presented to the court in the next’ series of appeals, ‘stating, that the service we operate is a ne’eded one. If we the students show a united front concerning this matter there is a strong possibility that we can thin and subsequently keep the service. Remember, bbssing at The University of Waterloo is not a dii-ty word. Rick Smit, President Federation of /Students

“Upstairs at the Grad Club” a few Saturday night get-togethers, when in fact it is a regular weekly ,event . It is unfortunate that the author Hugo Morris thinks he can write stories about the Federation without talking to any feds. He seems to dream up his own quotes, since I have never used the term “shoestring budget”. Another outrageously slanted story ap peaqs on page 11, entitled “Great coffeehouses without Fed support”. This headline implies that the problems with the coffeehouses last term stemmed from BENT. This slant also appears in the article, which states that “Federation support for this term’s: performances was withdrawn after organizational confusion led to financial problems .” The problems were with the coffeehouse staff, who blew their budget wide open! But the chevron implies that the problems were with the Federation. It is interesting to note that the authors of this article (Dave Assmann and Clayton Burns) have been involved with the coffeehouse both last term and this term. It seems to me that they are trying to shift the blame for their own mistakes onto the Federation, and BENT in particular. This is quite unprincipled, and it is unfortunate that the chevron (once a champion of principles) assists them in this endeavor.

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Nick Redding, Chairperson of Entertainment

We stand by our story. The Board of Entertainment, which was ostensibly in charge of the Coffee House, never showed any interest in the running of the Coffee House, did not keep files on the Coffee House, did not keep tabs on expenses, or even keep track of who was authorized to make purchases on behalf of the Coffee House. We did not intend to accuse the present Board of Entertainment of mismanagement, and see no reason for the present Board to be upset about the artlcle. The headllne for the story, incidentally, was chosen by the chevron, not by the writers of th9 article. Burns - Assman

Anarchy Foster I have read the poster, “A Message to the People’ ’ and am confused about several things. First, there seems to be a contradiction-between the definition of the word ‘anarchism’ and the goal of anarchists. I, like many others, thought that anarchism stood for lawlessness, disorder and chaos. Yet, the poster stated that “anarchism is a theory of social organization”. Could someone enlighten me. Is there not a contradiction here? Another point of confusion stems from the statement that anarchists favour small autonomous communities. How is this possible? Technologically the world is becoming smaller, a “global village’ ‘. While economically many countries have integrated markets. Are anarchists advocating a Rousseauian return,!0 a golden age where we would all live in pastoral villages? Do we toss out technology? How is free ,association to work? It would seem to me that even if anarchists are not terrorists they are utopian fools. Perhaps, jesters would be a more appropriate word since their sole purpose ap pears to be the same as that of the court jesters during the medieval period. Wiz Long

I object to the page 3 story last week entitled “BENT limps along”. I know that the chevron is reluctant to print anything good about the Federation, but this sort of slant is outrageous. BENT is not limping, and to say that it is requires substantiation. The article itself is just as bad as the headline; it implies that entertainment this term will be sparse. This is not true; entertainment will be more diverse so that a broader spectrum of the campus will be served by BENT. The article supports this slant by calling

of I rCh We would like to respond to Yuen Che Hung’s letter of January sixth. We agreed with many of his criticisms of the ‘Anarchy’ poster which has recently,appeared on campus. Yuen pointed out that terrorism can not be discussed outside of the “reality of oppression and counter-oppression”. Unlike the author of the poster who claims that

“Anarchists do not favour terrorism”, as anarchists we do not wish to be included in such an all-inclusive statement: It is not the left, the anarchists, or other insurgent groups which determine the level of social violence. Rape, child abuse, attacks on East Indians, industrial accidents, and the chemical deluge of the work place and the food market all take their toll. Moreover, there is the institutionalized violence of the school system and the three ‘R’s - religion, repression, and reaction. Then there is Anita Bryant who has been creating a climate of terror within the gay community. Institutionalized violence of the prisons and mental hospitals and psychiatric imperialism belie any claims that westeti capitalism has I to liberal-humanism. Violence for the marginalized groups in this Bociety is a fact of life. Women, indians, prisoners and immigrants have formed armed and unarmed self-defense groups. Workers have militantly defeqded their rights against scabs and police. Ii this “ terrorism” ? Certainly the bourgeois press would like to label it as such to isolate these groups. U.S. capitalism has given no indication that it has any moral reprehension about using violence on a mass level, witness Vietnam and Chile. Are we to believe that they will be any less ruthless whether they are threatened in North America by either violent or pacific struggle? Are we to give up in dispair at the potential horror of it all? As anarchists we must repudiate violent acts which treat others as objects to be used for our political ends. We cannot view killing as a heroic act but must do it only with great reluctance and despair. But as revolutionaries we must confront the fact that violence is an inevitable part of social change at this particular time in history and we must begin to prepare ourselves for active struggle. We can (and should) emphasize the cultural and ideological struggle which not only increase the size of the anti-capitalist, antibourgeois forces but demoralize elements within the ranks of the repressive forces and reduce the ‘mass base’ of the right. Most radicals today fail to see that the repression is here already. It is rather ironic ‘that there are more Canadians in mental institutions than are on the left. Perhaps it is because the main threat to the corporate state in not the generally ineffectual left but those who cannot fill their social roles as housewives, assembly line workers, the unemployed students etc., etc. The prisons and mental institutions are filled with people who have threatened the stability of the marketplace (theft), the family (there are more women in mental institutions then men), or the moral standard (drugs, etc.). So the left must begin to lose its selfacclaimed historical importance and realize that they aren’t the only ones to make history. Political violence during the last few years has usually been initiated by rightwing vigilantes. This allows the state to maintain its ‘neutrality’ while the left is intimidated unless it can respond. A counterattack may not be the best possible response but it is an eventuality that we have to prepare for. Violence and non-violence are not either/or. ’ They both have their uses and can complement each other. B’oth h&ve their own peculiar dangers. But armed resistance can’t be ruled out. Militant demonstrations ‘on the streets will be the best way to oppose the armed intervention of the Canadian state into quebec . Similarily , ‘ spectacular’ actions aga&st military equipment or particularly obnoxious state agents such as lobotomists or cops responsible for soliciting ‘information’ from suspects through the systematic use of torture are clearly ‘enemies’ and their elimination is clearly an example of ‘counter terror’ which can raise mass consciousness, More later. We neither “advocate” nor glorify violence. But to suggest as the poster does that as anarchists we do not favous terrorism indicates that the author is more interested in gaining abstract moral brownie-points than in attempting to’understand the present and future dynamics of class struggle in Canada. Anne

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,-My erstwhile colleague Stanislav Reinis is claiming (chevron, Jan. 13) that he is the blameless victim of a typesetting error in the chevron and that my criticism of him (chevron, Jan. 6) missed the mark. He denies having written that “According to Lysenko, genes and chromosomes were capitalist propaganda.” Instead, the fault is mine, he suggests: “After one year of hard work you discovered one misprinted word. Why didn’t you ask me in time?” Stan, has your memory failed, or are you justtrying to save face by denying the past? Let me remind you of the events surrounding your Feb. 18, 1977, letter attacking Lysenko and me. In the Jan. 14,1977, issue of the free chevron I wrote a comment declaring my intention to investigate what T.D. Lysenko himself wrote. Between that time and your Feb. 18 letter, you never raised any of these issues with me. This certainly was not for lack of opportunity for discussion, because you and I shared the same histology1 lab, and our offices were only two doors apart. Indeed, one week before your Feb. 18 attack, I was in your office asking your views on RNA-dependent and its relevance to the _ - DNA polymerase inheritance of acquired characters. As I discovered, right around that time you gave your slanderous letter to one of the workers in the psych department to type on my typewriter. But you never mentioned it to me. The afternoon it appeared in the free chevron, I stormed into your office and, as you may recall, denounced you up one side and down the other and challenged you to substantiate your charges. This was in the presence of another faculty member, right? I then put a copy of your letter on your office door Monday morning with various sentences circled and a request for evidence attached. One of these was the sentence: “According to Lysenko, genes and chromosomes were capitalist propaganda.” I saved a Xerox copy of this document, part of which is reproduced. here as Exhibit A. In the Feb. 25, 1977, free chevron, I alluded to this sentence, saying “I have submitted to Reinis a list of other charges in his letter which I defy him to substantiate.” Well, Stan, “Why didn’t you ask me in time?” sort of falls flat now, doesn’t it?

But there is more. I don’t believe this “misprint” crap at all. The sentence as it was published is entirely consistent with the ravings in the rest of your letter. Notice the preceding sentence about “fascist Johann Gregor Mendel”. Lysenko never called Mendel a fascist. He criticized the doctrine that all inheritance is Mendelian, calling it idealism. The .obvious intent of your letter was to smear Lysenko, make him appear as a blithering idiot with nothing to say to a serious scientist, and discourage people from investigating for themselves. You were trying to use your so-called “authority” as a first-hand “witness” in Czechoslovakia to persuade the readers of the free chevron to pay no attention to what I wrote on the subject. You said Feb. 18: “There is nothing to discuss.” You can’t write anything better than slander and innuendo on Lysenko because you don’t even know what his views were. As you confessed Feb. 18- “Once one grasped Lysenko’s terminology, further study was unnecessary. One did not even have to listen.” So you didn’t even listen: I have found plenty of solid scientific analysis in Lysenko’s writings. On the other hand, what you write to the chevron is better described as a mixture of “cheapest slogans, unsupported statements and ignorance.” To this must be added - “and a sprinkling of \ lies.” SO far you have put on a pathetic performance, and I’m betting that the show isn’t over yet. I regard you and your petty agent provocateur activities with utter disdain, or, as you may prefer to call it, communist arrogance. Douglas Wahkten iettitot in a letter last week professor Reinis accused the chevron of making a misprint in a letter he sent to the free chevron last year. He suggested that we, or our typesetters, changed the word “in” to “and”, thereby opening him to criticism from professor Wahisten. it is chevron policy to print corrections to typesetting errors. in this case, however, there was no mistake on our part. The letter was printed as we received it. Chevron policy is to save ail letters to feedback for at least one year, just in case a dispute of this nature arises. We reproduce as Exhibit 8 the pertinent passage from the Feb. 18 1977 letter of Reinis. Since Reinis sent us a xeroxed copy for pubiication it follows that he must have the original with the offending “and”, which means Reinis stands accused of telling a lie.

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Socialism worst evil The last two issues of the Chevron devoted two full pages to responses to my letter of Dec. 2, 1977. I may be happy now; this is what I call publicity. They even organize the movement to expose me. I hope that everybody who read all those comments returned to my Dec. 2 letter and studied it carefully. Some of those comments, coming obviously from one source, are just a typical example of intimidation inherent in the supporters of the pseudoradical wing of Marxism. Some are anonymous, and I do not wonder-why. I would not sign the letter of “admirer of

Marx” or a “proletarian” (!) either. The last time I saw this type of red rage was in Nazi propaganda tabloids during World War II. But, to make the discussion more meaningful and useful for everybody, I have to start with some basic facts. Bachir, Docherty and others struggle to.impose upon Canada the socialist system, without knowing in detail how such a system actually works. I spent almost twenty years in a similar socialist system and, due to this, I am convinced that socialism of the Marxist type would immensely harm Canadians. There are millions of refugees from the Communist countries living in the capitalist world today. Millions more struggle to get out. The refugees coming out immediately after the communist takeover may easily be explained, in Marxist terminology, as former members of the bourgeois class, political

parties and the oppressive apparatus who escaped from the just anger of the victorious proletariat. But - what about those like me, who twenty years after the communist takeover preferred an uncertain life in the capitalism, unemployment and inflation to the life in the continuous happiness of Socialism? Why do young Chinese swim across the sea to Hongkong; why do Vietnamese three years after the war risk their lifes to get out in small boats; why there is a Berlin wall to prevent East Germans from leaving; why did 130,000 Czechoslovaks leave the country when their government opened the border just for few months; why are there l,OOO,OOO Cuban refugees from Castro’s paradise ? These people are not capitalists. None of my relatives many generations back was a capitalist. The refugees are skilled and unskilled workers, intellectuals, students, poor farmers. Why did they leave? Here is the answer: The socialist (proletarian) revolution in the Marxist sense means that all means of production are expropriated and become property of the people. You may read this in statements of our local radicals, in Marx, Lenin, etc. To let anybody decide everything about expropritated industry is however not practical. Besides, there is the avantgarde, the Revolutionary Party which won the revolution. Thus, the party, through the apparatus of the1 socialist state, controls the means of production. All this means that the state and the party become practically an exclusive employer, real owner of all means of production, a monopolist supplier of goods, a monopolist supplier of information, a Supreme Policeman, everything. The party and the govemment, therefore, handle the economy of the communist state in the same way in which a big corporation controls its assets. The whole communist state is directed by the Politburo - a Board of Directors - and a president of the corporation, e.g. Leonid Brezhnev or Teng Hsiao-Ping. By all this, the state wields incredible power. There is absolutely no place for democracy in this system. The theories of democratic communism suppose that this monstrous monopolist system may be controlled by a plurality of parties. I am afraid that this can never work. Such a monopolist system creates imperialism. The war between Cambodia and Vietnam is, I am afraid, first in the series of imperialist wars at least tacitly initiated by communist superpowers. Thus, the communist system is actually a super-capitalist organisation, and I did not find any exception to this rule. Such a monopolist corporation is, in all existing socialist countries with the exception of Yugoslavia, centrally directed by a plan. Yugoslavia pays for its modification of Marxism by a high rate of inflation and unemployment, but this does not interest us at the moment. The plan is an invention of Stalin’s era, and gives production quotas to each factory, workshop or institution. The creative work, the preparation of the plan, belongs to the leading state and party officials only, and only they may change the plan. And now imagine that an engineer somewhere proposes something useful what would mean improvement, more goods or better productivity. This will damage the plan, and thus, it is usually not allowed. It takes years before any alteration is approved by the communist bureaucracy, So, the factories produce, according to the plan, all kinds of outdated equipment, clothing, etc. This is one of the

reasons why the creativity of the people is not utilized in socialism. The productivity of the industry stays far behind the productivity under capitalism. No new idea can emerge in time. Just one simple example: The Russians obtained at the end of World War II plans and equipment for the production of the German Opel automobile. They produced them, under names like Pobeda, without any modification until the late sixties. Then, they purchased a car factory from Fiat in Italy, and from many years to come, they will produce Fiat cars without any change or improvement. For this reason, the communist countries will always depend upon capitalism because of their inherent lack of intellectual superstructure of adequate management, research and knowhow. Have you thought, all you admirers of Marx, about the system you advocate from this viewpoint ? The system where all are subordinate and only few are monopolist rulers leads to frustration and alienation of the masses of people. They are worse off than in capitalism. Their creativity is suppressed. They are not supplied with necessary goods which we here take for granted. For thirty years now, the Czechoslovak industry is unable to produce, of all things, enough toilet paper. This is just one anecdotic example of ineffective production, there are many more. It is a relief after all this tc live in capitalism. We are now facing a decision: either tht worst evil, socialism, or a lesser evil capitalism. I am no promoter of capitalism. I however believe that capitalism gives at pre sent much more freedom to the forces whicl may eventually eradicate the inflatior (which is an outright robbery), unemploy ment, racism and all the evils of the past. P communist system cannot give the peopk what they need. Due to my past, I have lesr illusions than people like Salah Bachir have They promote something they know ver! little about. Now, when they (rightfully) re fused both Russia and China, they are rea orphans. Why don’t they look to the post Marxian philosophers instead of promotin; something what had always created misery alienation, imperialism, wars and suffering’: The theory which I presented on Dec. 2 i not my theory. No, David Ricardo, you can not call it “his theory”. When Eugen Loebl convicted in the Slansky mock trial in earl fifties, was held for five years in solitar confinement in a communist prison, he for mulated this theory. Since he was not al lowed to write, he memorized everythin and published later several books after hi arrival in the West. His books “My mind o trial’ ’ , “Conversations with the Bewil dered,” “ Humanomics” etc. contain justif cation of what I briefly explained in my lel ter. It is a great work, and something whit everybody should study. Now, I have only one more short con ment to those anonymous (and other) letter in the Chevron. In spite of an obviously er tensive search of the Marxist classics, a letters obviously failed to prove what the intended: 1. That the theory of the importance of tlintellectual work in the development of th production and society is wrong. 2. That the theory of the importance of tl intellectual work is correct, but that it ha already been formulated by Marx and EI gels. ’ Try to find more documented quotations S. Reini Psycholog

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Findirtg Below one of the class of ‘77 explains her situation in trying to find work, during an economic crisis, and her view of the governments’ suggestions. As we enter 1978, the Canadian economy is still plunging deeper and deeper into crisis. Unemployment is soaring as over 400,000 young people in Canada are unemployed. A recent article in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Dec. 31,1977) revealed that at the University of Guelph, 18 per cent of the University’s graduates (or one out of every five) are still looking for full time jobs, eight months after graduation. Guelph is not an isolated case. In fact, the survey performed at Guelph is indicative of what’s happening to university graduates all across the country. I am one of those graduates. I have been looking for full-time work in urban and regional planning since May. I worked for the summer and was able to collect UIC for part of the fall but now my financial situation is such that I am looking for any kind of job, in any field, parttime or full-time. I have been registered at Manpower since September. Manpower, I thought would be one of the best places to look for work. However, it was far from what I expected. Firstly, I was harassed for not iooking for

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work sooner than I had. I went to Manpower one week after I was laid off! I explained that I had looked for permanent work all summer but that didn’t seem to be enough. All fall I struggled with Manpower to allow me to apply for jobs. A real victory was when they allowed me to send in my resume for a position that was most probably taken. The Manpower counsellor explained that unless I had a lot of experience there was no point in applying for these jobs as employers didn’t want to be overburdened with applications. I explained to the Manpower counsellor that one of the best ways to get a job is to apply to as many places as possible to get your name around. Then, should something come up someone might remember your name. This little gem, I explained, I have gained from past experience. Since the fall, Manpower has allowed me to apply for only five positions advertised by them. I have received replies from all those places stating that the position had been filled sometime before receiving my application. I wasn’t all that surprised, the Manpower counsellor told me that many of the jobs were already filled - a self confession, I presume. Having given up totally on government agencies, I now daily plod the streets looking for jobs. I figure it takes about four to six hours a day. Below I have tried to outline the hiohliohts - of the past week.

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This original piece was written by a group of veteran observers of UW campus politics, known collectively as Mr. Felix Fairfax. Fairfax told the chevron that he has become fed up with a long series of what he calls underhanded attacks in the feedback section of the chevron on certain progressive individuals. He also expressed contempt for elected officials who criticize the chevron for a lack of what they call “humour”. These things prompted Fairfax to give what he calls these “Genuine” turkeys a dose of their own medicine. The skit makes reference to a letter in last week’s feedback by a certain psychology professor who claimed that the Queen of England must work parttime for a wage in order to subsist. Lizzy The Part-Time Proletarian Queen (A skit in one act) Scene: A small office in London’s East End. A large oak desk is piled high with paperwork. Wearing a simple blouse and slacks, a gloden crown, and holding a scepter, the Queen is sitting slouched in a straight-backed chair, looking weary after a long day. She has kicked off one shoe, and the other is swinging from the end of her impatient foot. As she is writing out a grocery list before knocking off for the day, there are two sharp raps at the office door. A courtier enters just far enough to stick his head in the room and announces Courtier: Reinis is asking for another audience, your grace. Queen: But it’s nearly 4:30, quitting time. I’m off tomorrow, so set him up for . . .oh, let’s say, . . . Thursday. Courtier: He says it’s important, your grace, and from the looks of the fellow, I’d say he means it. Queen: OK, OK, but I want time-and-a-half for this. Courtier: Of course, your grace. Reinis enters, trying to catch his breath, and holding in his left hand a pencil worn down to a stub. He goes down on one knee in front of the big desk and appeals to the Queen with a gesture of his right hand Reinis: Your majesty! The Marxist-Leninists and their crowd are on the they’re writing the most awful letters against me, and I’m in trouble, just can’t think straight any more, and, your majesty. . . (sobbing). . I fear you may get it next! Queen: (bored) We’re all workers, aren’t we? So what’s your worry? Reinis: But they’re saying you should be overthrown, tossed out onto the street and hounded like a criminal. Queen (indignantly): What?? Why those bloody scabs! Wait till my union steward Mr. Callaghan hears about this. They’ll never lay off this queen without a fight, that’s for sure! She gravely reaches for the phone, picks up the receiver and begins to dial. Then she pauses, puts the receiver down briefly and turns to Reinis Queen: Reinis, for your loyalty you shall receive tenure. ,i.Reinis (gratefully): Your--majesty, I don’t<know what to say. Courtier: (aside) What a brain worker!

Monday, I did the tour of Waterloo Square, Every store I went to, which was every store in the square, wasn’t hiring because business was so poor after Christmas. On top of that, I answered four ads in the paper, three of which had already been filled despite that they had just been advertised in Saturday’s paper. Tuesday, I answered an ad for a sewing machine operator. I had little experience but the supervisor allowed me to try the company’s speed and accuracy tests. I completed the tests faster than other women but still wasn’t given the job -I had too much education. The supervisor explained that it was too costly to train someone who was a prospective risk and likely to move on in the near future. There I was, unemployed with a university degree and unemployable because of,my degree. When I was filling out applications Wednesday, I noticed that amongst the applicants there was little, if any discussion. Then I realized that among forty applicants, each person was simply a threat to the next. The waitressing positions seem to be the most difficult to attain. Each employer receives well over forty applications for each job and explains that because business is so bad he had to take the most experienced person who is willing to work for the lowest wage. . Despite their difficulty to get, waitressing jobs are still the most popular. A new pizzeria opening up in Kitchener secured the assistance of Manpower for interviewing and receiving applications. The company advertised only on Saturday. Monday the Manpower counsellor explained that when he came to work that morning there were people lined up outside the door to get applications for the jobs. He said that those people alone had used up all the interview time allotted (all day Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-

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day as well as Wednesday evening). He was willing to still take applications, however, he estimated that at least 20 people per hour were coming in to fill out applications. In all, I estimate that I have applied for nearly 35 jobs this week and that’s applying for all the jobs I see and know I can do. Only one of them is promising. What does the government do to alleviate the problems for student graduates? Well, Trudeau tells students to leave the country and Parrott tells us that we aren’tentitled to jobs that they promised us when we entered university some 4 or 5 years ago. Then they shift the blame of unemployment on to the immigrants and institute such bills as Bill C-24. The only thing the government offers the unemployed is a job with the military, a chance to be cannon fodder. The blame for unemployment doesn’t rest with the students or the immigrants but with the economic system. The large companies in Canada have been reducing their production schedules due to an overabundance of goods (eg. Into). No company can maintain high profits and keep making products that have no high demand. However, rather than reduce profits, these large companies to maintain their high profits, slow work down and lay off workers. That’s why workers and students alike should demand jobs. The issue isn’t lack of money to hire, but having to reduce profits. Companies maintain these huge profits and the government grants these companies all sorts of tax concessions and favours so they can do just that. As students we must recognize that Canada belongs to us and we are entitled to jobs. We must reject these things the government and large companies tell us and from them DEMAND JOBS and a decent livelihood! -heather robertson

Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers’ union of dumont press graphix and published by the federation of\students incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. . . .all through the paper you’ve been reading about the presidential candidates, the treatment of married students as tenants, the hagey lectures, some heavy feedback on last week’s editorial and related matters; you’ve even had comic relief with that absodamnlutely ridiculous page three thing on “body week”. whatta world! but now, faithful chevron reader, you’re out of the woods and into your and my favourite part of the paper, the real MEAT, the great and glorious staff box which makes this whole pizza pie tiorth while. so: the minor dieties of journalism this week included peter smith, Oscar m. nierstrasz, scott barron, mark mcguire, george vasildais, john renaud, brucebeacock, hugo morris, h. robert pajkowski (welcome to the staff box!), don orth, eleanor grant, doug hamilton, ron reeder.who should have two years struck off his alloted time in hell for his headline work tonight, don martin, john shaw, stephen coates, heather robertson, val moghadam of whom i thought better before tonight but she showed her true colors when she didn’t leap at the chance to do some exciting headlining and she will suffer the consequences in the hereafter.. . unless she makes up for it next week and that goes for all the other bimbos too. . . robert carter, andre gervasio, peter thompson, nash dhanani, brenda rootham, maria cataflo and her dog, andrew vanwyck, jules grajower; and that about covers it excpet for those who will never be covered because they twitch too much; neil docherty, jonathan coles, Sylvia hannigan who didn’t show up tonight (feel guilty: you could have helped with headlining), laurie (CC pub) lawson, and your faithful (join the chevron, folks - headlining i’s fun! and thanks to val mansour of the dal gazette for a graphic!!) mad photographer jwb.

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Last week at the University of overtime was then 61-59 for the Toronto, the At henas Basketball Athenas. High scorers for the game were team pulled off a close victory in Norie Spence, Carol Kozlik and overtime play. Sue Lindley each with 12 points. In the first half, both teams were Lucy Patterson, Jan McMullen and slow to get started and the refereNorie Spence were the key reeing was of poor quality. If fouls bounders. were committed on the shot, there The one high scorer for U of T was nothing called and the shots with 17 points was B. Grochowski. didn’t go in. The players found this Toronto scored only 36 points in very frustrating. the second half as compared to the U of T was playing a super game 43 made by Waterloo. of basketball and UW was not covSaturday evening, Laurentian U ering very well on defense; At halfacame down to meet the Athenas for time, the score stood at 23- 18 in a regular league game. This team favour of Toronto. from Sudbury has won the National Waterloo was determined to play championship for the past four better. The first five minutes back, years running. The reason for this they ran the ball up and down the is very obvious in their play. floor. This served to disrupt the U A very aggressive team, they are of T lead, and to get the Athenas in excellent physical condition. For moving. At one point,. UW was down by 9 the first quarter of the game, both points. It took them a long time to teams seemed to be testing each other out, leaving the score even. even up the score. They really never exploded to take over the By the end of the half, the Laurentian Vees had taken a definite lead game. of 19 points. The Waterloo defense improved with more aggressive checking. The LU defense was excellent. Shots were going in and the fast They held off the Athenas for an breaks were paying off with points. eight minute stretch of no scoring. In response to upcourt pressure, Being in shape, they are tough and go after the ball for the steal. The they made lob passes to break full-court zone press and the through it. UW pressed Toronto double-team made their defense too, after each basket, and the conalmost impenetrable. tinual play kept up their momenWaterloo showed off their defentum. sive skills also. The last quarter The score was tied with less than was especially good. They held off a minute to play. At six seconds, offense well, hustlone of the UW players was too far the Laurentian out to shoot, so just held the ball. ing after the ball and being aggressive. Marg ‘Ralph’ Kerr made In overtime play (which lasts five minutes), Toronto didn’t have the some nice steals in the second half. Jan Trombly and Chris Critelli of same hustle as before. UW was up are both extremely eftwo points with 17 seconds to go, Laurentian, fective on the offense. Accurate and missed the shot. In possession from the outside, they also have again for an out of bounds pass in, some great moves under the basWaterloo held the ball till the clock ran out. The final score after the ket. Trombly chalked up a total of

Warriors outswim the oppositionS The Warrior swim team responded to their toughest test of the season two Saturdays ago as they downed the powerful York Yeomen. The 69-43 score was a surprise because many swimming experts picked York to upset our defending national champions. York’s Olympic silver medalist Gary MacDonald won his three events but some of the other talented Yeomen, even though well rested, could not swim by the fired up Waterloo fish. Dave Heinbach did his thing which is winning all his events, while Ron Campbell and John Heinbach added a pair of victories each. The Warrior divers came through with 16 points. Thank you Brooksy and Claude. Last Saturday the Warriors and Athenas travelled to McMaster where the women found the going tough against the Mat females. Our women waited until the last swimmer of the last relay to pull out the victory as Jane Orr held off a fast

closing Mat swimmer for the seven relay points and the meet win. The men’s part of the meet is not even worth talking about because the teams were so uneven. In some events the Warriors captured the first five places ahead of weak Mat swimmers. The next< swimming meet at the PAC pool is on Thursday as the Athenas take on Oakland while the Warriors travel to Toronto to battle a travelling Alberta squad. Big meets coming up are the Women’s International Invitational the last weekend in January and the long awaited men’s quadmeet including teams from Simon Fraser, Toronto, York and Waterloo in early February. Don’t miss these meets if you want to see some of the best swimmers in the country and, in the case of the men’s meet, some of the finest swimmers in the world. More details about upcoming meets in the next swimming artitle. -ron

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UW is on the- tube Everybody wants to be a TV star and here is your chance, Saturday, January 2&h, 2pm. The CBC national network will broadcast live the Waterloo vs. Guelph basketball game from the PAC. (Note that it is a 2pm start and not an 8: 15pm start.) CBC university productions are sometimes somewhat lacking, so any banner made and hung in the PAC is sure to get coverage.

The CBC last broadcast a game from here in 1975. Waterloo is referred to as the basketball capital of Canada and the Warrior fans are known and written about in many other cities and papers, so don’t let their reputation down. Come out January 28 at 2pm and cheer at the PAC. Let your mom and (send money) dad see you on TV. -andrew

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25 points, while Critelli put in 18. In the second half, UW outscored the opposition 31-27. The majority of the points for Waterloo were made from the foul line. Jan Trombly has nice elbows, and both Aggie Balson and Mich Belanger fouled out in the second half. To break the pressing defense, UW made long passes down the court. Having the foul shot advantage, they were in bonus-shooting early in both halves, which helped to rack up the points. Coach Sally Kemp feels that perhaps the players’ were intimidated by the foulson the shot. This could explain the great difference in the number of shots taken from the floor. LU took 64, UW only attempting 33. Final score for the game was 63-47. Jan McMullan was excellent under the basket, scoring 8 points, some being from the foul line. Sue Lindley put in 13, and Carol Kozlik contributed 6. Defensively, Bonnie Zagrodney was digging for the ball. Lou Taylor, also a guard, was looking to intercept the cross-court passes. All players felt they had played a really good game. Last -year, the Athenas met up with the national champs twice, and both times lost by a margin of about fifty points. The league game this Tuesday versus Guelph will be very important in terms of standings. Waterloo.is now at 4 wins and 3 losses. If they lose to Guelph they will be in contention with U of Ottawa for third place. The Ottawa game will be played this Saturday, January 21, at 2:00 pm in the PAC. Ottawa has a fast breaking hustling team. Come out and watch the Athenas take them on! -‘B’

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result: 86 - uwo

Top scorer for the Warriors was Tom Fugedi with 18 points. Top rebounder was Brian Ray with 16.

warriors he but with honor Windsor won the basketball game 77-69, against the Waterloo Warriors in Windsor last Saturday but failed to beat them. The game was closer than the score would indicate. With about 2 minutes to go the Warriors were within 2 points but pressing Windsor only drew fouls, therefore by the end of the game there was an 8 point difference. , The Waterloo defence kept high scoring Windsor to 77 points which is one reason the ‘Warriors lost the game but were not actually beaten. Pat Brill Edwards and Symore Hadwen got into’foul trouble early and the freshmen on the team responded with a strong performance again, as they did against St. Mary’s. John Freund scored 20 points. Don McCrea noted that Windsor did not play one of their . better games. A week ago Wednesday the Warriors won and beat McMaster 90-65 at the PAC. McMaster, who may be overated, came up flat and trounced by the Warriors. Don McCrea was happy with the team performance sine% they beat McMaster rather than just win the game as they did all last year. Next action for Warriors is Wednesday, 8:15 in the PAC against Brock. Warriors -have a break this Saturday. -andrew

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Lucille Patterson of the Athenas shoots over Chris Critelli in second ha action at the PAC last Saturday. Kim Hanson of the Vees looks on. Laurentia won the game 63-47.

Table tennis:

Tournament

upcoming

The U of W Table Tennis Club will be holding a tournament, open to all students, faculty, and staff, on Sunday January 29. The results will be used as a basis for choosing a team to compete in a tournament in Guelph next month. There will be two divisions in the double elimination tourney, with trophies going to the top two players in each division. Playing will commence at 1: 30 pm in the Upper Blue Activity Area (UBAA), in the PAC. The entry fee of 50 cents is payable at

this time. Contestants must sign u at the Turnkey desk by Friday Jai 27. Anyone wishing to practice fc the tourney or just to play son table tennis may do so byjoinir the Table Tennis Club. Everyone welcome! The club playing time are Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7- 1Opm, ar Sun. 2-5pm, in the UBAA, PA( For further information on tl tournament or club, come to one I the above sessions or phone Raj at 884-6957.

UW swimmin’ womer are still winnin’ Waterloo Swimmin’ Women continued their winning streak last Saturday by defeating McMaster with a score of 58-50. One of the highlights of the meet was Patti Gorazdowska’s 400m freestyle in a time of 4:56.0, qualifying her for C.W.I.A.U.‘s. She also won the 200m freestyle. Other top point getters included Karen Stewart winning the 1OOm breaststroke and 1OOm freestyle events, Jane Orr placing second in both the 200m and 400m freestyle, and Jane Goodyear placing second in the 1OOm free. Waterloo also placed second in both the 1OOm butterfly by Cathie Coulson and Sue Webster in the 50m free. Stacy Forsyth performed well in the 400m individual medlay and Vivian Van-

derhazel in the 1OOm backstroke. winning freestyle relay team of Si Webster, Jane Goodyear, Brent Lowry and Jane Orr provided : exciting finish to the meet by OL touching Mat by two tenths of second. Divers Darryl Holle Vicki Woodridge and Sherri Br mar contributed to the point tota The Athenas will be competi, in their home pool this Friday al Saturday in the International In tational Meet. Defending cham ions Clarion State will be swir ming as well as other top teams j eluding Alberta, Oaklan Michigan and Toronto providi some tough competition - so car out and give the Athenas SOT support!