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Burt Matthews

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ELP exam flunks Zecent figures released from the en;lish Language Proficiency Program wing the purpose of the program urther into question. They are lnali/sed below by one of the vogram’s tutors, Don Martin, with he help of psychology professor loug Wahlsten.

In September 1976, the Univerity of Waterloo introduced an exmination to test the writing ability f new Arts students. Although the esults of the new Proficiency Exmination, which was failed by early half the students who wrote , did not correlate very well at all Jith secondary school grades in nglish, the university decided to =t aside the judgements of seconary school English teachers and 1 accept instead the results of the ingle, mass-administered Profiiency Exam. Statistics released on January 25 F this year indicate that the results f the Proficiency Examination do ot correlate with university rades either. Although students rho fail the English exam are eemed to lack even “minimal roficiency in written English”, rey nevertheless managed a healty 66% average on their univerty courses - only three per cent wer than those who passed the

exam. The correlation between the Proficiency Examination grades and the university course grades is so low (. 168), that a knowledge of a student’s success or failure on the Proficiency Exam provides almost no guide to the student’s course average; yet the rationale for the program is that students lack the basic skills needed for university writing. The strength of the relationship between course grade averages and Proficiency Examination marks is exceedingly low. That is, if one had available the course grade averages of all the students, those who passed the Proficiency Exam as well as those who failed, only 2.8% of the variance displayed in those grades could be attributed to success or failure on the proficiency exam. The criteria for grading the Proficiency Examination are vague and, according to some people, can never be clearly defined. The examination is administered to students under the most impersonal conditions and is virtually the first experience students have of the university. It is an injustice to compel students to assume an increased work load for no credit on the basis of a single examination which produces results contradictory to the judgements of experienced teachers and professors.

Hang on to your quarters and dimes, because it is almost assured that Kitchener-Waterloo bus riders will be paying 45 cents exact fare per ride by March 1. A Kitchener city council committee on Monday voted 7 to 2 in favour of increasing adult transit fares to 45 cents from the current 35 cents. The final decision now rests with these same council members when they deal with their recommendations at Monday’s regular council meeting (7:30pm in Kitchener City Hall). Mayor Morley Rosenburg was the only member absent. “The issues were pretty straight-forward,” said John Webster, Director of Transportation Services for Kitchener, “There was no talk of cutting back services to reduce costs, as we have gone as far as we can that way. It was just economics. We need more money, and therefore, some sort of fare increase was the logical answer.” Webster also stated that he would most likely return to council “recommending a 50 cent adult fare next year.” The committee also voted an increased fare for students aged 16 and under, and for senior citizens to 25 cents from 15 cents. The 15 cent fare has remained constant since 1973. The last adult fare increase was one and a half years ago when it rose to 35 cents from 25 cents. The action was the result of a Co-ordinating Committee report which stated that the increase would be the best way of decreasing the estimated $1,920,000 Kitchener Transit deficit for this year - $551,000 more than the previous year. The report rejected an increase in the tax rate, and stated that a reduction of services would destroy the viability of the system. Though some councillors argued different amounts, all were in favour of a fare increase. There are several factors involved in the increased cost of operation for the transit system, fuel being one of the major ones. Drastic increases in the price of both diesel fuel and gasoline made costs jump, as did the fall of the Canadian dollar, which means Kitchener Transit, which must import parts for their American-made buses, have to pay an extra 10 per cent. Alderman Allan Barron moved the main motion, stating: “I realise the hardships on certain portions of society, but on the other hand, the money has to come from somewhere .” -. A few councillors felt that there should be discounts for certain people and different times. Alderwoman Pappert suggested a special token rate and felt, as did others, that students (up to age 16) and senior citizens should pay less than the proposed 25 cents. Grace Stonner questioned the feasability of a special off-hour rate for senior citizens. Webster, however, responded that they were looking for increased revenue, not discounts. He explained that the transit market was mostly “a captive, not a It was hard to inchoice market”. crease ridership in hours which are not peak riding times,” he said. Alderman Paul Bitzer felt council was contradicting itself by imposing the increase after earlier complaining about the Bell Canada rate increases. He felt homeowners could afford a slight increase in taxes to aid the “lower levels” of society who take buses. However, he voted to increase the fares. A survey completed last year by KW Transit showed that 44 per cent of those riding the buses are workers, who use the buses because they must to get to and from

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work. Another 27 per cen.t of the transit system’s patrons use the buses to get to and from school. Many of them, who are under 16, pay reduced rates. According to one transit official’s estimation there are about 1500 round trips per dav from the University, so the proposed rate hike will mean another $300 daily from the university students, and staff who use the buses. Even with the fare increases Kitchener Transit is expecting a 3 per cent increase in transit usage. “A lot depends on its implementation.” said Webster. The report

reads: “If implemented in the immediate future, that is during the months of bad weather, people have relatively little choice and normally will continue to use the transit system notwithstanding the fare increase. ’ ’ It goes on to say that if the increase is implemented in the summer when people have “the alternative of walking, hitchhiking, riding bicycles, or whatever,” the drop in patronage and revenue “is likely to be much sharper and much more prolonged.” -randy -rick

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/t may soon cost ninety cents for a student to travel to and from school instead of seventy cents. fares on Kitchener Transit buses are going up to forty-five cents a ride. Can we take the change3

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No benefit Se to merging U’s Merger of UW and Wilfrid Laurier University is “undesirable, unnecessary, impractical, and affording no economic benefits”, according to a report of the “‘Cooperative Advisory Council” of the two institutions. Study of the merger question was prompted by a letter from Ontario Council on University Affairs chairman William+ Winegard to all universities asking them to consider the matter, given restricted funding and declining enrolment. For this the council established a small sub-committee October 3 1. The council recommends the merger question not be pursued, but that “the advantages of cooperation be more fully exploited by varying degrees of integration . of selected academic programs, departments, facilities and resources. ’ ’ The council also recommends investigating the economies of integrating support services and research resources and merging the universities’ libraries “administratively’ ’ . In a press conference Tuesday UW president Burt Matthews called the idea that money could be saved by merger a “simplistic view”. He said that under merger faculties such as Arts would become so large that they would require two deans, so that the actual saving in personnel would be one president. Matthews said he didn’t think

the government would impose a merger and that he didn’t consider OCUA was yet decided on the question. WLU president Frank Peters said he had feared his university could lose its advantage of small size, which he considered one of the reasons students choose it. Co-operation, however, would and already has allowed WLU students to also enjoy the benefits of a larger university, such as more extensive facilities, he said. The presidents explained that in small departments the courses required for a degree could be divided between the two institutions and the student would receive a degree from the university in which he/she was registered. Matthews said that on all the areas of co-operation the question was merely one of working out the details. He cited successes in current co-operation between UW and the University of Guelph in graduate chemistry work and between UW, WLU and Guelph in graduate political science. He said merging of the libraries would avoid ‘ ‘unnecessary duplication” in aquisitions of journals and little-used materials. He assured reporters any merging of support services would not involve layoofs as all redundancies would be taken care of by attrition. The report goes to UW Senate Monday and to WLU Senate March 1.

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Lutheran Student Movement.- Con temporary Issues Study Group 3.30pm NH 2050 . , 2:30pm. Env 330. ’ . Table Tennis Club. Regular playing Waterloo Vegetarian Association session. Players of all calibre welfirst meeting. 4pm. MC 5158. come. 7-1Opm. Upper Blue Activity Christian Discussion Fellowship wit1 Area, PAC. Chaplain Kooistra. Discussing Reflec A gora Tea House. Herbal teas and tion on the Psalms by C.S. Lewi: home-baked munchies are available. 7:30pm. E3, 1101. At time for discussion and conversa; Monday WEN-DO. Prote_ctioo again3 tiori.. Everyone is welcome. 8-12pm. .harassment and physical attac! cc 110. ‘Campus Centre Pud opens 12 noon. 7:30-9:30pm. Gem batives Room South Campus Hail Pub with the Ian Taphd Musiq from g-lam. No cover. PAC. $18. 886-3170. Thomas Band. Tickets $2.50 at the Legai Resource Office provides free Advanced Classes of WEN-DC Federation and Society offices, $3 at l egal information to students. 7:30-9:30pm. St. Michael’s Churc the door. Doors open 8pm. 885-0840. CC 106. Hours: Library Resource Room. 64 Universil The Feast of Dionysius and the Big 1:30-3:30pm. Ave. West, Waterloo. $3/evening. Scene. Two one act plays presented l n t ernational Folk Dancing. To learn Transcendintal Meditation: an ir by UW Drama Group. Directed by and dance world famous dances. Fried. troductory lecture open to all. AL 21 Robert Tickets s3p 7:30-l 0:30pm. Senior Citizens Students/seniors $2.8pm. Theatre Of Centre, 310 Charles Street East, j 7:3Opm. the Arts. Kitchener, $1 per person per evening. Coffeehouse. 8:30pm. CC ll( Federation Flicks - New York, New Info: Mary Bish 744-4983. * Sponsored by,Gay Lib. York starring Robert DeNiro and Liza Free Movie - Dirty Harry starrin ’ Minnelli. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1, Tuesday Clint Eastwood. 9:30pm. Campu others $1.50. Centre Great Hall. Sponsored by th Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. ’ Campus Centre Board. Saturday Lunch. Cancelled this’. Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. WJSA-Hillel Thursday week only. Shamus from g-lam. $1 admission. Legal Resource Offlee 2 See MonUpstairs at the Grad Club. Featuring Campus Centre Pub opens 12 nool dav. ---, Tex Koenig. 8pm. Grad Club. AdmisMackenzie from g-lam. $1.25 aftc sion $.50 students, $1 others. Cash Chess Club Meeting. Everyone Wel7pm. . come. 7pm. CC 113. Bar. Film Series ‘78. Pioneers of Model Greek Students Association. A Table Tennis Club - See Sunday. Painting. Written and Narrated t Greek evening, featuring Greek food, 7-l Opm. Lord Kenneth Clark. Edvard Mu< drinks, and dancing. Village 2, North Overeater? Anonymous. Are you a (1863-I 944) Admission free. 12-I pr Lounge. Admission $2. 8-lam. ~ compulsive gvereater? If so.. . we Kitchener Public Library, 43 Bentc The Feast of Dionyslus and the Big can help you. Come to Overeaters St., Kitchener. Anonymous. 7:30-9:30pm. CC 135. Scene - See Friday ’ Legal Resource Office - See MO WATSFIC: The University of Water. Federation Flicks - See Friday dav. loo Science Fiction Club holds meet-I’Sleigh Ride for the mentally and Waterloo Christian Fellowship SUI ings every Tuesday. All are invited. physically handicapped children. per Meeting. Topic: Spiritual Gifl Free donuts for members. 7:30pm. Contact Allan McIntosh 885-0568. Everyone welcome. 4:30-6:45pr MC 3011. Hagey Hall Undergrad Lounge. Hallelujah, 4 video -presentation on Table Tennis Ciub Sunday - See Sunda the eight-day symposium in Van7-l Opm. Sunday Worship with Chaplain couver B.C. in 1976. oresented bv the Kooistra. An interdenominational Humanity Found$ion. Featuiing Film Series ‘78 -See Noon. 7-8pn service sponsored by the Christian Buckminster Fuller, Theodore RosSpecial Film Showlng: Eckankar: Reformed Church. llam. HH 280. zak, David Spangler and others. 8pm. Way of Life. Everyone welcom SCH 231. Further inquiries should be 7:30pm. CC 1 IO. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing made through Marc L. Schwartz, session. Players of all calibre welJazz and Blues Record Sessions. C 743:8662H, 664-21828. come. 7-IOpm. Upper Blue Activity sert island Discs: One of the arei Area, PAC. leading’ jazz musicians takes the c Wedvesday sert island test. Come and hear t records that pianist Barry Wills WOL Anti-Imperialist Alliance Literatuie take to his island. 8pm. ’ E4, 43 Table. Literature of Marx, Engels, (lounge). Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tsetung and Enver Free’lectures and pract’ice in pra) Hoxha, plus revolutionary materials from Canada, Albania and other coun- ’ and meditation. Sponsored by t tries. IO-2pm. Arts Lecture. Universal Peace Mission. 8-l Opm. Peter Street, Kitchener. 578-2584. l

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A new Ontario student aid package to be unveiled late this March will include an eight-month eligibility clause for grant assistance, and a base line for parental contributions which Harry Parrot (Minister of Colleges and University) said “will fall short of the OFS expectations of $10,000 net.” Parrot would not release the parental contribution table, or give any specific information about the contents. He was meeting with the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) executive and representatives from most Ontario universities last Thursday, February 9. The eight-term eligibility clause means that students can obtain grant assistance only in their fast eight terms of post-secondary study. Professional and graduate students, therefore, will not be eligible for grants. Parrot was accompanied by Premier Bill Davis, Tom Wells (Minister of Education) and Keith Norton (Minister of Community and Social Services) at the meeting. After the meeting, OFS chair-

person Miriam Edelson said that negotiations had come to “a dead end’ ’ , and “We have gone as far as we can with meetings, negotiations and briefs. It is clear that something else has to be done.” Parrot was fielding questions on the student aid plan by using the “pie is only so big” argument. That line of reasoning drew an unfavourable response from OFS. At this time Davis walked in, half an hour late. Davis told the delegation that health care in the province would suffer if more money was channelled into post-secondary education. He maintained throughout the meeting that education cutbacks do not exist. Although the records show that Ontario is decreasing its commitment to post-secondary education, Davis shrugged this off by claiming that “figures can be used to prove anything’ ’ . While the meeting took place, 600 students at ,York university held a meeting to protest cutbacks. When Davis left the meeting, he accepted a “Stop Cutbacks” but-

Mathks may write non-credit essays Math students may have an extra requirement added to their curriculum next September. The requirement will be four essays, written by the student to show a minimum proficiency in writing and grammar. Each student would have to meet the standards set by the faculty to receive his Bachelor of Math degree. Assistant Dean of Math, Peter Ponzo said each student would be assigned a faculty member who would “see to it that the student wrote satisfactorily four essays.” At this time ther are no such requirements for math students. The Arts faculty instituted an

ton from a Ryerson College representative saying he could wear it because there are no cutbacks. Ryerson College faces a two million dollar cut in financing, as well as curriculum cuts.--When asked about the-quality of education in Ontario, the ministers were adamant that “there is nothing wrong with the universities in this province, and for that matter they are amongst the best in the country.” To that statement, a member of the delegation responded that Ontario universities are “the most expensive as well”. The ministers remained silent at this. The meeting ended with a discussion about the age of majority in Ontario. OFS recommended “the implementation of comprehensive measures aimed at dealing with the problems of teenage drinking through education, enforcement and other legislation before a raise in the age of majority is considered.” The meeting broke up with OFS receiving no tangible concessions except an implied recognition as a lobby group, and the promise that the government would meet at least-once a year with OFS in a similar manner. -rick -nick

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English -Proficiency Exam two years ago. The proposal first came up for consideration in the fall. Since then, it has been accepted in principle by the faculty curriculum committee. Ponzo said a subcommittee has been formed to determine the criteria for what constitutes an acceptable essay. The committee will establish a standard to give the faculty some term of reference when grading the essays. Ponzo expects the entire proposal to be accepted and adopted for next year. -jon

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in place The 1977-78 Graduate Board of Directors completed the last meeting of its term in record time Wednesday evening, dismissed itself before an hour was up making room for the 197879 Board which was convened immediately following and appointed its officers for the year. The only item of major importance on the old Board’s agenda was the announcement by Jerry Krauel, the chairman of the Graduate Committee for Graduate Student Support, that the administration was now “at least willing to listen” to the graduate concern for a guaranteed annual income. At the Annual General Meeting of the Grad Club, held January 25, a motion was passed unanimously calling for a $3000 guaranteed annual income for graduates. A similar motion, not including a specified income, was passed at last year’s Annual General Meeting. The new officers for the 1978-79 Board are Ron McClean, president; Diaa El Din El Gabbani (the outgoing president), vice president; Norm Fry, treasurer; Geof Dunlop, house manager and house co-ordinator; Maryanne Bowden, chairman ; Peter Douglas, interim secretary; Nick Redding, federation liaison officer; Sam Flores, legal aid administrator; Randy Menke, gnosis editor; Dave Dorvill, archivist; Jerry Krauel, chairman of the graduate committee for graduate student support; and Abdul-Fattah Aly Asfour, graduate services representative.

Seven of the twenty-five seats are still empty but the Board hopes to fill them within the next few weeks. 4avid

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Ontario Federation bf Students (some representatives of which are seen above) met last Thursday to discuss student aid programs. The 06 received no concessions, and the chairperson of OFS says, the organization having reached a dead end at this meeting, said “. . . something else .has to be done.” -photo by rick smit

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Although student council elections were called off this year for lack of interest, it appears that some students will have the chance to vote after all - in byelections. The three engineering seats which were left vacant after nominations closed Feb. 2 are now being contested by four Engineering students - Ernest Cormies, 3B Mechanical Engineering; Rod

Montrose, 2nd year Electrical Engineering; Steven Hudson, 2A Chemical Engineering; Malcolm McRae 3A Mechanical Engineering. But that will be the only election. The Grad seat left vacant is being claimed by Nick Redding, and the two vacant Arts seats by Brendan Crampson, 3rd year History, and Julie Valentine, a first year student.

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One of the three seats vacant in council will discuss whether to science is being claimed by Don re-open nominations for another Woodbury, 1st year student, while set of by-elections or to simply the other two were left unclaimed carry on with some seats unfilled. when nominations closed at 4:30 When nominations for student pm Tuesday. elections originally closed The co-op Math seat is being council on Feb. 2, no seats were contaken by Michael Toohey. Still vacant, besides the two sci- tested, 13 were filled by acclamation and the remaining 12 seats had ence seats, are the two HKLS, co-op and regular, and the seat for drawn no candidates. St. Jerome’s. On Sunday night, 4on martin

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Matt-hews The following feature, researched by Don Martin, David Carter, johnson Cheung, Neil Docherty, and Doug Wahlsten, shows that Burt Matthews’ main role since he/arrived on campus in luly 1970 has been to accomodate the ongoing education cutbacks of the Ontario Government.

History For seven years cutbacks have..been chipping away at the quality of education at UW and students, staff and faculty have had to bear the burden. Now it is promised that things will get even worse for the next three years of what they call a “new reality’ ’ . But it is only in recent times that there has been any signs of serious resistance. So how did they manage to get away with it for so long? Well, one reason is that they have had a very able agent on their side - Burt Matthews, University of Waterloo President, High Priest of Cutbacks. Since he came here in 1970 Matthews has presided over a period of intense cutbacks. During his reign the real value’of the Basic Income Unit has plummetted (this is basic component of the government funding formula for universities); the student-faculty ratio has skyrocketed; workloads for students, staff and faculty have increased; departments have been chopped; services cut; and budgets for items like library serials and lab equipment have hit lean times. All of this he has been able to preside over while keeping any resistance to a minimum, barring one or two exceptions. His style has been to cut - but to look concerned while he is doing it. His forte has been bureaucratic goob. ledegook, i.e. language which conveys a message but is, vague enough for a university president to drive through unscathed. Take for example this gem which he served up to t~he Waterloo ‘rotary club in .’ 1971: -:’ “The question @“being asked with increasing frequency as to whether there is - not a larger component of individualbenefit than is currently reflected in the proportion of student fees to government grants.” (Gazette Jan 13 1971) Translated that means: “Don’t -worry guys fees are going to go up,” which they did in the next academic year, along with an increase in the OSAP loan ceiling from $600 to $800. We saw it coming High level rumblings concerning the on-. coming storm of cutbacks were first being heard in early 1969. Although some members of the administration such as professor Batke were still repeating grand projections “of university. enrolement which would reach 25,000 stu-

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- High Priest of Cutbacks dents by the mid 1980’s (Gazette, Feb. 14, 1969), those closer to the top were beginning to talk about a “period of consolidation’ ’ . In January 1969, Bruce Gellantly, the university treasurer, was estimating that UW’s growth would level off at about 14,000 in 197576. Gelletly was clearly more in tune with the position of Bill Davis, Minister of University Affairs, who was then making noises about taking in the “slack in the system” starting with the graduate programs. Always

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Then in mid 1970 our new president, Burt Matthews\-arrived on the scene to.herald in the new era. While the grow-slow policy recently introduced had been a product of government restraint, he claimed in Sept. 1970 that a limitation of enrolment to 15,000 would now be a good thing “from the academic point of view.” This accomodation to the great design has marked his reign ever since. In Jan. 1971 the government through the Committee on University Affairs unleashed the first of many forays against graduate students. It proposed and then later ,implemented: -a 30 per cent reduction in Ontario Graduate ‘Fellowships; -an $80 increase in graduate fees; -no government support for new graduate programs unless unique; -grads who receive over $1800 would not be considered in the government’s funding formula for universities. This was a major attack, yet according to the Jan. 27 Gazette Matthews only concern was the timing - “how ca’n we do this on such short notice.” In that same issue the high priest further declared his allegance to the government’s cutback policy. He said: “,The\ most important economies of all, however, will depend on initiatives outside the university. . .-. if society (read govemment) determines how large a population the university shall accomodate in the future, then provision can be made to develop an economically planned rate of development over the period.” Follows

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In March 1971 the new minister of University Affairs John White issued the slogan “More scholars for the Dollar”. He recommended: -less emphasis on research; -higher student-teacher ratios; -possible extension of school year to 10 months; -reductions in operating expenses. The message was not lost. In June, 1971,

Matthews reported to the faculty that there was pressure for accelerated degree courses and for ‘increased student-teacher ratios. UW enrolment was down that year; the BIU was being restrained; and the Board of Governors passed a budget with an allotment for academic equipment reduced from 6 to 3 per cent. This was done even though the Board realized that much of the equipment at the university was ten years old and due for replacement. The cutbacks were now beginning to take their toll. Graduate enrolment was down, and by Oct. the board had to freeze both the current and the next year’s budgets. Layoffs Matthews’ response to these hard times was again one of accomodation at the expense of students, staff and faculty. ’ In Dec. 15 1971 Gazette he said: “It is clear that this year and in the years immediately ahead UW will have to make many difficult decisions to prune our expenditures to match our income.” That year for the first time in UW history, seven workers were layed off. \Said Matthews at the time: “The simple fact is, that the money available for salaries for faculty and staff is less than we had previously anticipated, but’ hopefully in most areas layoffs can be avoided by normal attrition. ’ ’ So a new feature of campus life under cutbacks was introduced. Now when workers left their spot would not be filled, and instead their fellows would take on more work. During this period one professor suggested to Matthews that he promote faculty unions. Matthews opposed this saying if it happened, “We would have an organisation that might not be able to meet the demands made’ upon it by society (read government) .’ ’ Fee

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In April 1972, a rare thing occured. Matthews publicly decreed the announcement of a $100 tuition increase for undergraduates and a whopping 81 per cent increase in graduate fees. In May he told a meeting of 250-300 irate graduate’students that “there is no doubt that graduate students have a legitimate complaint. . . . They are considerably worse off than they were-five years ago; no other sector of society has been treated in this manner.” But if Matthews was so concerned about the plight of the poor graduate student, why didn’t he make similar public statements when the graduates were hit even harder with the recent absolute freeze on the Ontario Government’s Graduate Funding

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Our high priest was afraid that the increase in fees and the decreases in graduate incomes would scare the top-notch students out of province. With the disbursement of a few lucrative scholarships, this problem was solved. When the government announced a building freeze for the universities in 1972 - a major cutback decision - Matthews’ posi- * tion was: “I am sure they (the government) have their priorities.” (Gazette Nov. 29 1972) In the Gazette May 16 1973 deputy Minister of Colleges and Education Gordon Parr is credited with strongly suggesting, “the, possibility of faculty accepting more duties without a commensurate salary increase.” Such was the government’s determination to cutback in education spending. A year later Matthews suggests to a meeting of faculty and staff that “We must be creative, innovative - better programs, lower costs.” 1974-75 were bad years for the university. Administrators estimated that a 17 per cent increase in the value of the BIU was required, and appealed to the government. The government only forked out a 7.4 per cent increase and that sent the UW budget $3.5 million into the red. The library was one area earmarked to suffer as a result. Lamenting this situation, and the cuts that would have to be made, Matthews addressed faculty and staff Dec. 1974, but. all he could offer was more of same the treatment he had been administering since 1971. His speech ended: “Finally, I hasten to say .that while we must take seriously the financial problems that face us over the next few years, we must not allow ourselves to be overcome with doom and gloom. We will find a way that is sensible and sensitive. Our success is overcoming difficult problems in the past should re-assure us all in our present difficulties. ’ ’ A UW brief to the cabinet reported in the June 11 1975 Gazette left no doubt that the administration was prepared to accept cutbacks: It informed the Cabinet: ‘ ‘ The quality of our teat hing research and public service has already eroded. . . more erosion seems inevitable. ’ ’ Burt went on to give the assurance that, “The university can, given time, move to a new and lower level of quality of its programmes ifit is the stated goal of government that it should do so.” In 1976 with the smell of a tuition fee hike ’ in the air the university, in its brief to the Ontario Council of University Affairs, said little about the matter except that the assessment of fees “is a matter of social policy of the government.” Taking

Back in 797’0 when the cutbacks were just being announced and Bruce Cellaty was complaining that “Queen’s Park is really putting our generous Board of Governors purchased a .house at a cost of more than one hundred pressure; on the universities to cut costs”, thousand dollars for the use of the new president of the university - Burt Matthews. Burt, still comfortable in his house among the wealthy, recent/y demonstrated his compassion for other people’s housing problems by telling married students that if they couldn’t afford student housing they should move out.

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Foreign students The announcement on January Il, 1978, by the McMaster University administration that it would be tripling the tuition fees of foreign visa students drew the wrath of many students and other people in the Hamilton community . On Thursday February 9 the Hamilton Joint Committee of the ~-~East Indian Defence Committee, West Indian People’ s Organization and the Canadian People’s (Citizens and Residents) Defence Committee held a meeting at McMaster U “to denounce the visa student differential fees and the lying propaganda of the state, university officials and reactionaries who blame the people for state-organized racist attacks.” The Int. Stud. Assoc. at U of W was invited to participate and A. Makonnen, President of the ISA, delivered a brief message in support of the mtg . The speaker for the Joint Committee gave a highly informative speech. He pointed out that “the racist differential fees are a dress rehearsal for launching more vicious attacks on all the students” and that they “are clearly a forerunner of even greater attacks *by the state on all the students.” He cited the following facts: - in January 1977 the Ontario government implemented the differential fees for visa students all across the province. Less than two months later a general tuition fee increase of $180 per student was announced. This has been followed by a $150 residence price increase, reduced financial assistance to graduate students and proposed changes to the “student awards programme” reducing the size and number of loans available ’ to the students; I- in Alberta the government imposed dserential fees, and now all the students are being attacked with tuition fee increases ranging from 10 to 25%; - in 1967-68 overseas students’ tuition fees in Britain were increased by 250% (to 416 pounds compared with 182 pounds for British students). Last summer, however, the British government announced the abolition of differential fees and the fees of all the students, both overseas and home students alike, have been raised to 650-750 pounds. . The speaker concluded from this and other examples that “The attacks on the visa students are attacks on the basic interests of all He dwelt at great the students”. length on the issue of whether “the McMaster students. or the administration were the cause of the fee increases for visa students. The administration is putting the blame for the visa student fee increase onto the students. In April 1977 the McMaster administration launched a ‘ ‘fund-raising’ ’ drive “visa student bursar-y fund” - to raise $179,000 from the students, staff and faculty to pay for the visa students’ 1fee increases that had been imposed by the government. When this “fund-raising’ ’ failed the university administration claimed that they had been “forced” and “pressured” by Canadian students to triple the tuitionfees paid by foreign visa students. The view of the Joint Committee was that this was just a . set-up to “obscure who is actually responsible for this racist attack”. The speaker pointed out that “First they (the administration)

sent letters to all of the students demanding that they pay for the visa student fee increases; then when the fund-raising ‘failed’, they went to the foreign students and fascistically declared ‘See, the Canadian students are racist, they won’t support you’. Thus they attempted to divide the students in order to weaken their resistance to the state attacks directed against the whole student body.” He went on to point out that “the evidence clearly indicts the racist Canadian state and not the people as the source of the “pressure” and “demands” for attacks on foreign students.” The speaker cited the example of the Ontario Committee on University Affairs (CUA) which was an advisory board to the Ontario government. The members of the CUA included several big politicians and wealthy businessmen such as three Deputy Ministers’ of Colleges and Universities in Ontario, the former premier of Ontario, Leslie Frost; present Conservative MLA Pert-in Beatty; the head of the Economic Council of Canada; the President of the A.F. Ames and Company and the Manager of the Physical Metallurgy Department of Falconbridge Nickel Mines; and the Vice-President of Super-test Petroleum, to name a few. According to the speaker, the CUA carried a campaign against “non-Canadian” students from 1971- 1973. Between October and December of 1971, the CUA interviewed delegations from a number of Ontario universities, repeatedly raising the question of their “non-Canadian” students. For ,example, the CUA minutes on the meeting with the delegation from the U of T records that the Chairman of the CUA, D.T. Wright “referred to the brief and again noted the large participation of non-Canadian students registered in the graduate programs. He spoke about the desirability of establishing a quota on the number of non-Canadian students and inquired as to what size this quota might be. ’ ’ The speaker gave another example that the “attacks on the foreign students are coming from the highest levels of the state machine.” In December 1972 the Immigration Department introduced new regulations to prevent visa students from obtaining work permits in Canada. This was followed by further regulations in 1973 preventing visa students from applying for landed immigrant status from within Canada. Examples were cited from the government’s “Green Paper” on Immigration and the latest Bill C-24.

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oppose tuition ble marks. They get marks that our students can’t consider - 98%, 9%, one lad got 100%. The computer couldn’t handle it. It came out at 9%. The way they ‘do that is they don’t socialize. They don’t go out with girls. They don’t play sports. They don’t do anything but work.” “The situation about which Shulman was attempting to promote racist hysteria was that students were protesting against the medical school system. A large number of students go to the universities with aspirations of becoming doctors. Out of the several thousand that apply only a few hundred are accepted. This fact causes a great deal of upset and unrest among the students. For example, at the University of Toronto in 1975, there were 2350 applicants for only 240 places. “Shulman charged that 60 of the 240 places were occupied by various landed immigrants. Out of the 60, he speaks only of the students of Asian origin, to whom he attributes the source of all the problems. To further his racist hysteria he makes the absurd claim that these students were responsible for 2100 “bright hardworking students who didn’t get accepted.” The Joint Committee speaker went on to point out that “Shulman then proposed an interview system to correct this problem. This is what he says ‘one thing the interview system does, it weeds out those who can’t talk English.’ This is in reference to his further hysterical ravings that ‘landed immigrants largely from Asia couldn’t understand what the patients were saying and their patients couldn’t understand what they were saying because they had learnt English from books; they could read it and write it but they couldn’t understand it. They

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blames ‘them for all the problems, attempts to create hysteria and confusion, champions itself as humanitarian and ‘men of principle’ and blames the people for racist attacks. It carries out this activity in order to attempt to divide the people, to cut short any opposition to and isolation of the real enemy. ’ ’ After the main speech, messages of support were presented by the East Indian Defence Committee, the South Asian Students Organization, CPC(M-L) and from the International Students Association of the University of Waterloo. A member of the Student Representative Assembly and a member of the Graduate Students Union at McMaster also condemned the differential fee. -johnson

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made brief statements on the topics listed using periodicals and other material from China. The main features of Chinese education before the Cultural Revolution began in 1966 .were outlined: - universities enrolled senior middle school graduates on the basis of academic merit - exams were sprung “like surprise attacks, as if the students were enemies” - courses dealt in basic theory, and specialities divorced from practice. - students learned by rote Then the changes of the cultural revolution were outlined: - the number of years in school was reduced students had to become workers or peasants for at least two years - students were admitted on the basis of experience and desire

1978 article on the life of a mathematician was cited. It states that he has been working on a - exams were no longer of the “surprise attack” form, students could keep their books open and even discuss the problem among themselves - learning was integrated with practical work, farmers and workers were invited to teach part-time Education reforms announced in November will allow students to enter college directly from middle school, rather than having to work first, and admissions will be based on academic merit, judged by admissions exams. The AIA contends that the changes mark a trend to pre-cultural revolution conditions, since the emphasis is on book-learning rather than practical experience and politics and the system aims to produce an academic elite.

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Since the agreement would prqvide that the mines and Ontario Hydro split the difference,between a base price and the prevailing world price for this commodity,hhe said, “The greater Denison’s profit, the greater Ontario Hydro’s savings. ’ ’ Thus as the construction costs for building a nuclear station steadily increase it seems that the fuel will also cost more in the future. Such escalating costs will be directly reflected in your electric bills in the future. The alternatives to such a nuclear future are many and varied; If this sum of money was diverted from uranium supply to renewable energy systems such as hydroelectric dams or wind plants the capital expended, would continue to generate electricity long after all the uranium was spent in nuclear reactors. Such renewable electricity founded Ontario Hydro and would supply more jobs throughout the economv than would centralized nuclear plants.

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In 1972 the federal government of Canada, with the authorization of the Privy Council, organized an international cartel of uranium producing countries in order to increase the price paid for uranium by electric power utilities. Presently Ontario Hydro is pressing the provincial government for approval of a nuclear fuel deal which would pay Ontario based mining companies an artificially high price for this material. Ontario Hydro requires about 200 million pounds of uranium oxide in order to meet its projected needs between 1980 and 2020. Denison Mines (controlled by millionaire Stephen Roman) and Preston Mines (controlled by the Rothschild family) have agreed to supply this demand for the sum of about seven billion dollars. Such a contract would ensure that the companies received a profit of around two billion dollars over the life of the deal. A select committee of the Ontario legislature is investigating this proposal and several others of Ontario Hydro. Federal govemment experts, who reluctantly appeared before the hearings have said that the deals are a credit to all participants. However it is these experts who were also responsible for rigging world prices of this fuel. The accompaning graph shows how in its three years of operation, uranium prices increased almost tenfold. The chief operating officer of Denison, John Kostiuk, also presented the same view to the committee. He said that only Hydro’s skillfull negotiaters and Denison’s patriotism had ensured such a fine contract for the people of Ontario.

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budget, has stated that if budget cuts required under the current measures are held toi 580 of the 600 hours the faculty of arts now has with part-time instructors would be eliminated. Of the total deficit Arts has to cut $1,540,000. Other areas will fare no better. The Excalibur has begun investigation of all faculties, departments, programmes, libraries and services at York, and its findings thus far show that hard times are in store. The Faculty of Education is to be cut by $95,000, and Fine Arts

by $233,000 with an est; -!ated 15 to 18 courses to be aboi, rlcd. The Faculty of Science is face< with a loss of $275,000. Its largest department, Biology, received no increase in operating funds this year but had a 25 percent increase in students. Equally as hard hit is the Library System which faces a $239,000 cut next year on top of the cut this year of approximately $80,000. Administrative Studies will chop 37 half courses in order to meet its $137,000 reduction.

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The rich get .richer Oil and

Table 1 Company

Gas

1976 Profits (millions)

imperial Oil Ltd. . Gulf Oil Ltd. Shell Canada Ltd. Trans Canada Pipeline Texaco Canada Ltd. Norcan Energy Resources BP Canada Ltd. Consumers Gas Ltd. Husky Oil Petrofina Canada Ltd. Hudson’s Bay Oil 81 Gas Total Petroleum Pacific Petroleum Al berta Gas Canadian Superior Oil Home Oil Co. Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co.

264.0 165.9 135.8 76.8 86.7 36.7 32.1 37.0 30.0 22.0 78.6 10.4 66.4 39.4 38.3 30.4 39.4

Companies Assets (millions) 3,139 2,045 1,753 1,615 940 950 580 835 s529 510 669 265 748 945 254 440 945 Source:

Not everyone is being affected by the current economic crisis in the same manner. While wages were kept down during 1977, prices and profits increased, dramatically. The year in review can be described as one in which the rich got richer and the people got poorer. -

Profits: After-tax profits of ninety five corporations operating in Canada increased an average of 15.1% in 1977 over 1976. The increases were 155% in Miscellaneous Industries; 48.6% in Western Oil; 40.2% in Paper and Forest,. 36.0% in Trust and Loan and 34.w in Transportation.

Prices: The rise in prices (9.1% in 1977) clearly shows that the “AntiInflation Board” was not concerned about controlling prices. Prices rose by 9.2% in 1975, the year that wage controls were implemented. Food prices went up by 11.2% in 1975 and by 15.2% in 1977. Some items, such as meat, went up over 25% during 1977.

Wages:

While profits rose by 15.1% and prices by 9.1% in 1977, wages were held to 7.7% according to the Department of Labour. This figure is deceptive, however, since it only includes unionized workers. They are better off than other sections of the

continued from page 8 to serve the people, rather than book knowledge On the other hand, a January problem known as the “Goldbach conjecture” since 1963 and spends all day in the library. It mentions nothing of political study but does note that his work was threatened by the political line of the “gang of Four’ “. The “serve the people” trend of he cultural revolution was denonstrated by another Chinese aricle announcing the success of rail prevention techniques. In ‘Canada farmers are helpless as. :very year hailstorms destroy a :ertain portion of the crop. The Chinese developed this ethnology themselves. The new ,egime, it was pointed out, now jroposes the importation of oreign technology with payment n the form of the natural resources :xtracted. This was parallel to lanada, where American-owned ompanies extract and export urge amounts of oil and minerals. Also, China is going into debt 250 million to a French bank and 5 making agreements with other ountries to import technology rhich in some cases they already ave. An example was given of hips, which China used to build nd power with its own diesel enines. About 35 people attended the neeting which was marked, by long nd lively discussion which lasted ntil 1 a.m. -jonathan

coles

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% Foreign Ownership

Profit Change 1st 9 months 77 compared to 76

69.6(U.S.) 68.3(U.S.) 71 .o

+9% +8% +13% +13% +52?& +lO% (entire yr.) +61% +20% (entire yr.) +36% +47% +26% +69% +29% (entire yr.) +65% +49% +21% +85%

68.2( U.S.) 65.5(U.K.)

53.O(U.S.) 49.0( France) 48.4(U.S.) 53.3(U.S.)

The Financial

working class and represent only one third of workers in Canada. The figure also fails to take into account the nearly one million who are unemployed and the many people on fixed incomes and pensions and who are impoverished by the

Post Corporation

Service

’ continual erosion of their buying power. - Also through the “AIB” the government wilI limit the wages of over one quarter million workers to 5.4% until the end of 1978. -salah bachir

Table 2

Top

Five

Financial

Institutions

Company

1976 profit (millions)

Royal Bank Canadian Imperial Bank -Bank of Montreal Bank of Nova Scotia Toronto Dominion Source: Table 3

Leading

. The Financial

Property

Cadillac Fai rview Ltd. Trizec Corp.

Company

Canadian Pacific Bell Canada lnco Alcan Aluminum Brascan Massey Ferguson Seagram Co. Noranda Mines

The

Top

Assets (millions)

168.8 150.6 122.0 131.5 100.1 Service

Companies i977 profit (nine mths)

15,397,OOo i 7,084,OOO 1,600,OOO 2913,000 The Financial Post Corporation

Source: Table 4

157.4 145.9 95.9 116.9 92.2 Post Corporation

i976 profit (nine mths)

Company

1977 profit (millions)

Profit Change +ll% +45% Service

Industrials 1976 profit (millions)

6,821 ‘190.0 6,657 287.0 3,595 195.0 3,062 43.6 2,560 101.6 2,241 114.6 2,108 78.5 2,093 46.7 Source: The Financial

1977 rise 1st nine months 77 compared to 76 +45%

-39% +650”/ +32% -72% +9% (7 months) +23% (6 months) Post Corporation Service

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an analysis by Epp and Hanrahan (Minority report) 1. Preamble This analysis assumes the validity of two principles relevant to the publication of a student newspaper: the principle of press freedom and the principle of press accountability. These two principles have also . been referred to as “autonomy” and “control’ ’ , respectively. The principle of press accountability is protected through the publishing function. This function is lodged with the publisher namely the Federation of Students through Students Council and the Board of Publications. Publishing authority includes: ownership or trusteeship of the paper; purpose and nature of the paper; annual provision of funds; annual appointment or ratification of an editor; and annual (perhaps supplementary) approval of publication schedules. The publishing responsibility and authority is real, but it is also limited. It does not allow for changes in the budget or removal of the editor in the course of the year except by due process. Such intrusions (and others identified in the report on the future of the chevron) subvert the principle of press freedom. The principle of press freedom is protected through the editorial function carried by the editor-in-chief and the editorial staff. The editorial function includes editorial policies and procedures; recruiting and training of reporters; editorial and news content; and, in general, the routine production of the paper. Press freedom does not extend to usurpation of the publishing function. It does not mean licence. It does not allow slander or libel. It is not an excuse for editorial fallibility or poor performance. It does not mean that an editorial staff is entitled to perpetuate itself. It does not permit exclusive political alliances. It does not excuse non-recognition of a publisher and of legitimate publishing authority. The publishing function is stated in various Federation by-laws (1, 2, 9, 14). The editorial function is most clearly articulated in the Statement of Principles of the Canadian University Press (subscribed to in bylaw 2). Neither must be read without the other. By themselves, both are incomplete. In this particular case, they must be read together because they contain ambiguities, not to speak of contradictions.

2. The Closure The closing and non-publication of the chevron for a period of nine months happened in several stages: First, the Federation Executive locked the offices. The lock-out was unsuccessful because staff gained entry and then didn’t leave. (The AIA took credit for this occupation). After a few days the lock-out decision was reversed. The chevron staff, acting without an editor ratified by the Federation, published an unauthorized issue (in the sense that it was outside the schedule approved by the publishers). Second, the Students Council, responding to this apparent insubordination, terminated several staff positions and temporarily suspended publication for a maximum period of four weeks. A task force was established to chart the reopening of the chevron. Unable to report in the allotted one-week time period the task force came to naught. Meanwhile, the chevron staff proceeded to publish another newspaper (the free chevron) from the chevron offices.

3. The Reasons

’

The lock-out and the temoprary suspension were due to the Federation’s attempt to retain, regain, and reassert publishing control over its newspaper, the chevron. The Federation felt that it had lost some legitimate control and was in danger of losing even more. In the process, legitimate concern expressed itself in very questionable actions. There were several conditions that contributed to the situation that led to the closure: 1)

First, there was an ambiguity in the by-laws which allowed for diverging interpretations of the

relationship between the eration and the chevron.

Fed-

The by-laws of the Federation, felevant to publication (1, 2, 9, and 14) were clear enough. The ambiguity resulted from the assent in by-law 2 “to the principles and procedures.. . of the Canadian University Press”. In other words, the Federation had built into its by-laws a conceptual and structural dualism, which had been smoothed over by custom and tradition, but which surfaced rather easily in times of tension. At such times the interpretations of the bylaws tended toward polarized points of views. The Federation could emphasize ’ ‘control’ ; the chevron could emphasize “autonomy”. The Federation could insist on ratifying/appointing - the editor; the chevron could rational& its monopolization of the selection process. The Federation could complain about inad,equate campus news coverage; the chevron could invoke CUP ‘in defense of the newspaper’s primary role as a political force. The reconciliation of the two points of view would have been simple enough if both the Federation and the chevron would have kept in mind the two principles: press freedom and press accountability. The one expressed itself in the editorial function and editorial control, the other in the publishing function and publishing control. In times of tension, both editors and publishers were tempted to minimize each other’s functions and controls and to maximize their own. On the part of the publishers this maximization tended toward interferance in the editorial process. On the part of the editors this maximization tended to deny any other publishing responsibility than the provision of funds. 2) A second condition, which the evidence suggested precipitated the power struggle between the Federation and the chevron, was the presence and influence within the paper of the AntiImperialist Alliance (AIA) a student arm of the Communist Party of Canada, MarxistLeninist. The AIAaappeared .on the campus in 1974. It brought political ideology and strategy to the campus at a time of student apathy. With great vigour the AIA took on the Renison ‘firings’, the cut-backs in education, proposed changes in immigration law, and oppression, both in our own country with native peoples and in foreign countries like Chile. There were ideological, political, and programmatic vacancies to be filled and the AIA was ready to fill them. It is only to be expected that such an active political group would gravitate towards the campus paper and that some of its members would eventually come to assume senior staff positions. Though the AIA never in any way took over the chevron their influence even in their own estimation was significant. While the AIA brought ideology they also brought a new order of political manner and tactics. Repetitious rhetoric, sloganeering, name-calling,

. harassment of individuals, and disruptions of meetings were to become AIA trademarks. It was within this context that the relationship between the AIA and Federation, especially its president, would over the years develop into a mutuallyescalated, politically-exploited antagonism - as both parties publicly focused on each other as the most immediate intolerable threat to the students’ interest. In September of 1976 the problems of this dualism came to a head when the editor resigned. The Federation could assume, and did, that the chevron did not have an editor until such a time as a new e,ditor had been ratified. Indeed, since the process of selecting a new editor began and ended with the Federation (by-law 14), it could assume, and by its actions it did, that the powers of the editor had been transferred to the Federation (Board of Publications and Students Council). The chevron staff assumed, on the basis of custom and the principles of CUP, that the selection of the new editor was entirely in their hands. Hence, they viewed the Federation’s assertion of its publishing role as an intrusion into the editorial function. As already indicated, prior to these events a certain amount of custom or common law had come into play in regulating the relationship between the Federation and the chevron. The Federation had not always taken very seriously its duties as a publisher. Partly this was due to convenience and comfort; few people were interested in ‘hassles’ with the chevron. Partly the failures were simply due to neglect. In part also there may have been ignorance and misunderstanding of the publishing role. This latter fact could be true especially in times of rapid turnover in student government. Be that as it may, the relative inactivity and ineffectiveness of the Federation’s Board of Publications symbolized the powerlessness that had come to the Federation. Lack of initiative in the Federation was often off-set by strong initiatives in the chevron. Thus, the power that was lost by the Federation was often gained by the chevron. Supported by statements of the Canadian University Press, by precedent, and influenced by extreme definitions of “autonomy” the chevron embraced every new power, gained by default, as their right and responsibility under the doctrine of freedom of the press. The Federation, however, did not completely forget the powers of ownership, control, funding, editorial appointment, and schedule approval. Occasionally, efforts would be met to exercise these responsibilities. But authority once lost was regained only with difficulty. A very big effort to regain authority came in September of 1976. Thus strong and determined individualists in all three organizations - the Federation, the chevron, and the AIA - met head-on in the ensuing power struggle. The result was name-

calling, harassment, disruption, and malcommunication. A key figure was the Federation President, who had campaigned on an anti-AIA platform, and who could not possibly forget his own physical ejection from an AIA meeting, which was cosponsored by the Federation. Thus, personal vendetta became mixed up with the important issues of publishing responsibility and press freedom. While his tactics became his undoing, the president’s concerns and feelings regarding the situation were hardly his alone. The action of the Executive, of the Council, of several Societies, and the Student Referendum all indicate that the president was reflecting a significant concern regarding the performance of the chevron, though he may also have been generating some of it. This then was the situation in September of 1976: ambiguity in the bylaws, uncertainties about the structural relationship between the Federation and the chevron, a, shift in power from the former to the latter, and the presence of a political power struggle be-

AP 1

Alleaations ai and e presented tc -w

CHARGES OR ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE CHEVRON Alleged

paper

"takeover" by the AIA

Alleged lack the Chevron and dismiss hold positions news editor, manager, etc.

the

of procedure for staff to choose the people who of Editor, production

Alleged lack of formal procedure to pro tept democratic decisionmaking.

Alleged "ma ssive discontent" with

Alleged problem

student the paper.

recruitment of __I_The Chevron

Alleged that resignation of Rodway/Torrie brought about "a crisis"

Alleged possible danger of "theft t property damage" . ..arising out of "no one in charge"

Whereabouts of keys was unknown--hence the necessity to change locks

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and reprehensible actions. The lock-out is one example. To justify their actions Federation spokesmen made unsubstantiated allegations, which only served to obfuscate the basic issues. Moreover, everything that was done at that point could be viewed as the curtailment of press freedom.

tween the Federation and the AIA whose major legitimate bastion lay within the chevron. 3) The condition that precipitated the confrontation that led to the two closings was the resignation of the chevron editor. The editor’s sudden departure was due to internal harassment by leading staff members who were also AIA members, as well as personal difficulties. When this happened the Federation felt an opening to assert its authority. It began with the legitimate concern regarding its responsibility as a publisher. It ended with improper interferante in the proper functioning of the newspaper. The Federation at that point could have, and should have, exercised its powers under bylaw 14. It should have begun the process leading to the selection of a new editor by calling for nominations and then ratifying as editor a satisfactory selection from the names brought forward one at a time by the chevron. Instead, the Federation resorted to highly questionable

The chevron in turn, influenced by its defmition of autonomy, supported by custom, charged by the politics of the moment, and eager to defend the free. dom of the press, proceeded on its own authority and published an unscheduled issue, an issue clearly illegal under by-law 9. Its justified urgency from a journalistic point of view may have made it desirable but not legal. At that point the Federation should have exercised legitimate publishing authority, in ways other than suspending publication. It could have issued a reprimand; it could have called for an investigation by the Canadian University Press.

st the chevron once commission PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION bers were always in a minority on ff. 4 articles were voted out of The by the staff. shows that in 1975-76 The --- Chevron zd articles giving a variety of 31 opinions, many of them,opposed UA. political variety existed right le closure.' . [M-L) of which the AIA is a.student LS its own newspaper--the People's Jaily Rews. rice is presented to support the .ons of "take-over" by the AIA,

---

Iron has a democratic procedure L the staff--the students and others he work on the paper decide who se positions; there is a formal rocedure. ran has a written policy manual freely accessible. e regularly scheduled staff meetings YSnd agenda of meetings are shown on oard in the Chevron office. etings are open, ron has a "Feedback" column which s all letters to the Editor those expressing racist or sexist ?e of letters expressing paper did not support discontent.

disco,ltent the allegation

Its testified that they were actcruited and given much encourage;rork on the paper just before the

estified that he expected The to carry on as usual after his esignation until another editor en by the staff. of the Chevron staff meeting after resignation indicated no panic phere of crisis, the resignations, every chevron mber expected to publish the paper occupation of property in the s previous to the Chevron closure of the Art's arch 1975 . ..occupation ffice by the Renison Academic --a student defense organization. pation was supported by the FederThrere was no physical Students, on business manager Peter Yates Keyholders st of all keyholders, n for their keys and each key is il with the words "not to be ed".

For its part, the chevron too had other options than it exercised. With the initial closing, the chevron too could have initiated an investigation by CUP with or without Federation consent. The irony of the situation is that both sides believed themselves to be defending press freedom. The Federation saw itself as the democratically-elected representative of the students defending the chevron from takeover by an unrepresentative political group. The chevron saw itself as a democratic organization standing up against an arbitrary and dictatorial Federation.

4 Legality The question of legality must ultimately be determined, if it is to be determined at all, in the courts. The Commission did not have the mandate or the resources to seek a court ruling. The Federation and the chevron staff apparently both assumed the legality, or probable legality, of the suspension and staff dismissals at the time. The creation of the free chevron was essentially an assumption that continued publication of the chevron would be illegal. We as the Commissioners wrestled with the following issues: 1) The full meaning of ownership and “control” (By-law 1). 2) The relationship of “control” in by-law 1 to “autonomy’ ’ in the

frank

Epp, president of Conrad Crebel College and chairman of the Commission, makes to council prior to presenting the report. In this issue: the minority report, written by Epp and Hanrahan. -photo by john w. bast

remarks

principles of the Canadian University Press assented to in bylaw 2. 3) Legal considerations and precedents that are more basic than Federation by-laws or CUP bylaws or both. 4) The locus of editorial authority when an editor, nominated by the chevron and ratified by the Federation, resigns. 5) Financial obligation of the publisher as a test of legality. That is, if the chevron staff could have legally forced the unfreezing of the publishing budget, then obviously the Federation action would have been illegal.

5. Propriety The Federation actions which resulted in locked doors, the suspension of the chevron, and the firing of paid staff were improper and unwise. In the first place, the actions taken were not necessary to deal with the legitimate concern of restoring publishing authority. As indicated above, the Federation had other options open to it. The most obvious one of insisting on the ratification of a new editor was not pursued. In the second place, the actions extended beyond legitimate concern and interfered

with the editorial process and as a consequence were a violation of press freedom. The chevron staff also acted improperly and unwisely by failing to recognize the authority of the publisher and by resorting to an unnecessarily high level of confrontation tactics. One can, for instance, visualize a different turn of events if the “locked-doors-won’t-stop-us” battle cry in the unauthorized issue of the chevron would have been withheld- or subdued after the Federation had recognized the foolishness of the lock-out and reopened the doors.

6. A Concluding

Word

The Federation rightly perceived a problem in that legitimate publishing control had been lost. It erred in the methods it chose to deal with the problem and in its transgression into the editorial area. The chevron staff rightly perceived that the excessive assertion of publishing authority could translate itself into editorial control. It erred, however, in giving extreme applications to the meaning of autonomy and in its nonrecognition of legally-constituted publishing responsibility and authority. The Federation had inadequate notions of press freedom. The chevron had a limited notion of press accountability. There will have to be improvement in both areas if problems of this nature are to be avoided in the future.

The future of the chevron IV. THE

FUTURE OF THE CHEVRON

A third, purpose of the Investigation Commission was stated as follows: “To make recommendations concerning future policies, >by-laws, and structures of the Federation of Students concerning the operation of the chevron and the employment of the chevron staff and generally conceming the publication of student newspaper(s) at the University of Waterloo”. The Commission recommends the following: 1. That whatever arrangements be entered into with respect to the future of the chevron, two functions be clearly delineated and two related principles be diligently safeguarded, namely: a) the publishing function and the editorial function; b) the principle of press freedom and the principle of press responsibility. The Commission cannot emphasize this point strongly enough. One of the problems that came to a head in September of 1976 had to do with confusion of these two functions and these two principles.

The best guarantees for the desirable freedom and the necessary accountability, in its opinion, require: - clear differentiation and separation of functions, - clear delineation of authority and responsibility, - clear descriptions of the relationships between the two. 2. That the publishing function be defined as including: a) A statement of purpose and general policies concerning the nature of the student newspaper (this statement to be drawn up by the Federation, ratified by the chevron staff, and incorporated into the by-laws); this statement could be a reconciliation of the present by-laws and CUP statement of principles, as follows: i) The chevron shall exist to provide. news and commentary to the student body. To that end, it should be primarily a chronicle of campus news but not to the exclusion of off-campus and nonuniversity news which may be

of interest to groups within the university community. ii) Another major role of the student press is to act as an agent of social change, striving to emphasize the rights and responsibilities of the student citizen; the student press must, in fulfilling this role, perform both an educative and active function. iii) The student press must present local, national and international news fairly, and interpret ideas and events to the best of its ability. iv) The student press must use its freedom from commercial and other controls to ensure that all it does is consistent with its major role, and to examine the issues which other media avoid. b) the provision of funds on an annual basis; c) the approval of publication schedule on an annual basis and any proposed deviation therefrom; d) an annual review, including a continued

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continued

from

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on report by the editor-in-chief publication in general and finances in particular; e) commitment to the following principles: i) non-interference in the editorial function outlined below; ii) non-removal of the editor except for serious charges of irresponsibility (financial mismanagement or nonobservance of general policies) and then only following due process; iii) no holdup, decrease, or discontinuation of funds once a budget has been set; c iv) no censorship by the pub‘lisher of editorials, articles, or advertisements. f) see attached minority view on the appointment of the editor. 3) That the publishing function be carried out by a Board of Publications as a division of the Federation of Students. The Commission does not recommend “separating” the chevron from the Federation, because of its view that, separated or not, the publishing function must be represented in a publishing board. In the case of separation: a) this would in effect, result in two student governance structures (the chevron Publication Board and the Federation); it could even result in two newspapers ; and b) this would mean confusion for the students and possibly more disenchantment with student governance, inasmuch as they would be confronted by two sets or _ of _.. fees, refundable not, le vied by two taxing bodies. The Commission does not see separation as an unworkable model, but it believes that it would create more problems than it solves. The Board of Publications should be an active and effective agency. It should consist of five members, including a chairperson and two other Federation representatives (elected by and from Council) and two

representatives (one of whom would be the editor-in-chief). 4) That the editorial function include the following: a) the editing and production of the newspaper in the context of the general purpose and policies advanced by the publisher, the publication schedule agreed upon, and the budget; b) the development of a basic document or manual on editorial policies and procedures (to be ratified by the Publishing Board); c) the determination of what goes into every issue of the paper; d) the recruitment and training of staff; e) the creation of such internal bodies as are required by the manual on editorial policy and procedures;

for everything published. Racial or sexual bias or prejudice should have no place in the editorial policy of the newspaper.”

6) That the by-laws provide for the setting up of binding commissions to settle disputes between the chevron and the Fed-

mistakes.

The editor should fully realize or her personal responsibility

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his

all culpable

chevron

february

change its documents without these changes becoming part of

5) That the by-laws eliminate the disparities between CUP statements and student government by-laws by incorporating relevant portions of the former (guarantees of freedom and guarantees of responsibility) into the latter. In a sense this has already been provided for (see 2a, 2f,

the Federation

by-laws.

eration

that cannot

be settled

normal

and regular

ways.

The Commission has found the present arrangement a good

one, namely

a membership

five, all from community,

members

the University including two

selected

by the Fed-

4f), but it is repeated here for the sake of clarity. Not only

eration and ratified by the chevron, two selected by the chevron and ratified by the Federation, and a chairperson

will this provision eliminate ambiguity now, but also in the future, inasmuch as the Canadian University Press can

7) That the by-laws be revised with the help of legal counsel to accommodate all of the above.

selected

by the four.

f) the observance of a code of ethics, such as the following (to be reviewed by the chevron staff

and ratified by Board and incorporated into the by-laws). “That student journalists should strive continually to be fair and accurate in their reports, and should strive to equip themselves adequately with facts to support published statements. They should realize fully their personal responsibility for everything submitted for publication. They should not falsify information or documents, nor distort or misrepresent the facts. Student journalists should respect all confidences regarding sources of information and private documents unless this interferes with the freedom of the press or the need to inform the public on vital matters. Student journalists should be familiar with the laws ,of libel and contempt of court which exist in this country and should observe the international copyright agreement, unless this interferes with the freedom of the press or the need to inform the public on vital matters. The editor should rectify in print, at the first available opportunity,

The Commission, by majority vote, leted the following from the document: “the ratification of an editorin-chief, nominated by the chevron staff; the editor-inchief is to be nominated and ratified on the basis of professional editorial competence and not on the basis of political views”.

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I regret the deletion. In my opinion, the present by-law re: ratification of the chevron editor by the Federation should be strengthened, not weakened. I am ready to compromise in favour of the status quo. IIowever, I am not ready to deny the Federation a role in the appointment of an editor. If this can’t happen it would be better to separate the Federation and the chevron. This view is based on the assumptions to which we have agreed, namely that the publishing function is vested in a publishing board and the editorial function in the _ -editorial staff. Responsibility and authority in both areas must be real, though well-defined and limited. In my opinion, there are five roles which legitimately and properly belong to a publisher: ownership or trusteeship, defining the basic purpose and nature of the

newspaper, establishing a publishing schedule, appointing an editor, approving a budget. To take away any one of these inevitably affects other areas. A publisher, without any real authority in the area of staff, will exercise undue authority in other areas, like budget. Let me say it in another way. If part of the publishing authority (appointment of the editor) 1s transferred to the editorial staff, the publishing board will tend to compensate by interfering in one way or another in the editorial process. In other words, there is a great&r threat to the freedom of the press in a publisher, whose authority has been halved, than in a publisher whose legitimate authority is constitutionally recognized and delimited and who in turn fully recognizes that the responsibility for the editorial function has been passed on to the staff. ’ One of the problems in September of 1976 was not that the by-laws included a ratification clause, but rather that the provision had lost its proper and effective meaning.

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Hot Roxx’s lead singer could obviously get excited about his group’s music, though the crowd was less so. The South Campus Ha// Pub of last week was genera//y successfu/, despite some technical difficulties. Tonight’s Ian Thomas pub may well b6 sold out. -photo by ron reeder

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Hott Roxx gave Waterloo a taste of the Rolling Stones at last week’s South Campus Hall pub. The crowd of 250 people gave the Toronto band a good reception and called them back for the customary encore. Their choice of songs and the Jagger style movements of their lead singer indicate that Hott Roxx has been greatly influenced by the Rolling Stones. While the six-man band has had great success with Stones material, they also proved that they have some creative abilities. In the later sets they played many of their own compositions. Many of these songs will be included on their first album which will be released this April. Though played by a low quality sound system, the band showed good form. As the night wore on the technical troubles diminished, and much of the crowd was up dancing 2nd applauding the band’s efforts. Last week’s crowd was somewhat typical of recent SCH Pub :rowds. It was moderately large

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and fairly active. On the average SCH Pub attendance has risen greatly from last term’s dismal turnouts. A heavy advance sale and a possible sell-out is expected for tonight’s pub with Ian Thomas. The Canadian recording artist, probably most famous for his hit single “Painted Ladies”, drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to the SCH Pub when he appeared last September. -jj long

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There was music - lots of it-at the Campus Centre Coffee House. Headliner Bob Burchill, with his casual ease and humour, performed two sets of original songs. He was accompanied most of the night by Glen Soulis, a fine fiddler and flautist, and Fox Watson, who tossed out some nice licks from his Strat. Among the many well-known Burchill compositions the audience received bright and fresh versions of ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘Will I Ever Get To Heaven?‘. (Bob’s latest album ‘Will I Ever Get To Heaven?’ was recorded at Trak Four Studios at CKMS-FM). Earlier in the evening, Tom Greenwood delivered a nice set of his music, accompanied by Adam Roth on electric piano and string machine. This combination of distinct musical perspectives produced a blend that approaches the folk-jazz idiom, and was enthusiastically received. I was happy to join as second guitarist to innovative singersongwriter Barb Fraser. Barb’s music is nicely elevated by her fine voice and interesting - guitar technique; we enjoyed her music immensely . Upcoming Coffeehouses: Feb. 19th - Ed Koenig and Gord Ogilvie - guest artists: the Stephen James Band; Feb. 26 - Mick Delaney - guest artist: Tom Wilson. Auditions for a guest set at the CCCH will be held Wed. Mar. 1st in the Campus Centre. Any musicians wishing to audition may contact the Turnkey Desk for more informa: I tion. See you Sunday! -b.

Bob Burchill (above) played at the Campus Centre Coffee House last Sunday evening to a three-quarters full house. Tom Greenwood opened the evening, followed by Barb Fraser. Next week: Ed Koenig and Cord Ogilvie. -photo by john w. bast

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It’s about time to wrap up one of the worst years for movies in a long time. The 2 best of ‘77, “Annie Hall” and “Star Wars”, were kilometers ahead of anything else (though I’ve heard “The Goodbye Girl” is really great). Usually you can expect several top-notch movies to appear in any given year, but 1977 seems to have missed its quota by a long shot. 1978 might be better, with another Stanley Kubrick masterpiece due (probably “Salem’s Lot” by the author of “Carrie” - the rationale is that Kubrick took a financial beating with “Barry Lyndon” and he needs a “popular” movie to make back his losses), and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” on the way. So far, however, the prospect is still grim, with advance reports that and Mel Brooks’ “ High Anxiety” Ingmar Bergman’s “The Serpent’s Egg” are proving to be prize turkeys. (There is still hope for Lina Wertmiiller’s English-language film debut, “The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain” (whew!).) The result of this cinematic wasteland is that huge lineups of movie-starved people went to the Capitol on the weekend - some were even turned away on Friday night -to see 2 very unremarkable new films:

Bujold plays a doctor at the Boston Memorial Hospital, who discovers a scheme by which unsuspecting patients are fed carbon monoxide (nasty stuff!) while under anaesthesia, and their organs sold on the black market. Most of the atmosphere is of the “yuck!” kind - lots of blood, dissected organs and grisly corpses. There’s even a good old-fashioned electrocution with giant sparks flowing from the recipient’s eyeball. The director, Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay from Robin Cook’s book, is the man who gave us “The Andromeda Strain” and several other novels. He should stick to writing. His direction consists mainly of making resident doctors act suspiciously, and making sure the “yuck!” factor is maintained. The screenplay also contains some inept, irrelevant women’s lib material. Here’s one representative gem of dialogue between Bujold and her lover, Michael Douglas: Douglas: “Do you want me to heat up the dinner? Is that what you want?” Bujold: “I want some respect.” In other words, really great stuff! Sheesh! 0.00153 out of 20 on the James Wark scale (a cinematic coup, a work of true genius).

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Even Showbill, the magazine which approves of everything, calls “The Betsy” “an unbashed potboiler’ ’ . Somehow Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall got mixed up in this one, but their presence does not raise the movie from the level of soap opera. Like “Coma”, however, “The Betsy” will while away a couple of unneeded hours, and will pleasantly occupy your tired mind with some amusing nonsense of absolutely no further consequence. The plot is all but non-existent Loren Hardeman number 1 is an

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After “Le Roi de Coeur”, an enchanting, off-beat anti-war fable dating from 1966, Genevieve Bujold’ s track-record has been very uninteresting; Michael Crichton’s “Coma” is no exception. As far as mindless entertainment goes, it will probably keep you amused for a couple of hours, and you need not worry about quickly becoming bored, but a thriller it is not. You experience about as much suspense in “Coma” as you do trying to anticipate Food Services’ “Special of the Day”.

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She sang easyturned in a natural, convincing perlistening folk tunes, and popular tunes from the ‘60’s. formance as Betsy, and Tommy -photo by john w. bast Lee Jones was likeable as Joe Schmuck, Angelo Perino . Olivier was pretty silly, using a strange, unidentifiable accent for the old man. Robert Duvall was hardly noticeable, and everybody else As a solo performer, one has ing to unravel the clues. hammed it up pretty well in the complete control over that which Jarvis began the programme with good old soap-opera fashion (sniff! sets the mood, atmosphere and au- an intense, silent work entitled pass me a kleenex). dience reaction in the theatre. The Prophet. Seated at center stage, T%e very f%re screenplay was struggle to captivate and impress is body and face enwrapped in silver based on Harold Robbin’s book, far harder than for a group. Last silk cloths, she barely moved but for the elastic resistance of her and surpasses even the great Saturday night I witnessed my first Shake-and-Bake commercial solo dance concert, performed by head against the pulsing stretches (“Gee, it’s been so long Judy Jarvis, a well known Canaof her arms and torso. Wavering since. . . .” ) and Irv Weinstein’s d’ian dancer-choreographer. between the drooped stance of sorJudy’s famous news report of December row and the heavenly projection of performance surely left many a 12, 1974 (keep up the good work, soul-searcher pondering over the “belief ’ , the figure encompassed Irv!). infamous question: “what is the space, finally rising to occupy AnYWaY, let’s have SOme more * dance?” Yet, regradlessof the it. To my surprise there it ended, really good movies like this one, answer, what was seen on the leaving me puzzled and somewhat short of fulfillment . ok? 0.000733 on the James wark Humanities stage had stronger scale. The next few pieces followed theatrical elements than most -Oscar m nierstrasz d ante events do contain.-Each suit. Flight was a metaphorical representation of the freedompiece - whose lengths varied captivity dilemma we are all subpresented a statement in itself, communicated via movement and ject to. With precise articulations of the arms and legs especially, Jarvis’ intimate manipulation of costumes and props. However, Jarvis successfully portrayed the rhythm and motion characteristic just what she wanted to communiof the bird. Although again a very cate wasn’t always clear to me, short piece, it was one of the few in and I spent the lengthy breaks bethe first half that I found totally intween numbers restlessly attemptvolving and undisturbing. Ophelia and River were the next two on the programme; as with Flight, these were the only pieces in which Jarvis performs without a mask. Ophelia is as immobile a work as Prophet, with Jarvis strongly circling around on her backside, arms outstretched, legs ‘Orgy at Lil’s Place” bicycling continually. River Area Premiere contains more dance locomotion than any of the others, yet here too “Hot Times” it is minimal and somewhat stilted. American Graffiti but But, Jarvis moves with a solid, central axis, and harmonious yet protruding limbs. Show times: “Orgy” 7:15 & 955 Gf the three pieces in the second half, the opening one, Dark “Hot” 8:30 nightly. Animal, was for me the height of Matinees: Wed. & Thurs. 2 P.M. the show. Already attuned to the masked faces, the lack of scenery 6 Princess St. W. 8864970 and the strangeness of the music, I was able to receive this work with greater involvement. The excellent *********A******** *******a costume, designed by Susan Rome, 4 appeared to be a conglomeration of 41 T blankets and cloths, with one large head-like clump resting on each of Jarvis’ shoulders. To loud, panting sounds, suggestive of the creature’s breathing, Jarvis crawled and stalked through a large space. She appeared to be two, sometimes three distinct beings, constantly enveloping, capturing, and rebounding off one another. Jarvis had taken me through a spectrum of reactions. Although the consis4 often uncomfortable, ADVANCE DOOR shades kept me 4 tently transforming 4 stimulated and aware of her every ADVANCE DOOR She had effectively 4 move. 4 catalyzed my curiosity as to where FEDERATION OF STUDENTS : she would lead me the next time : BENT 4 around ! 4******************************* -levy

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ing .a beautiful trombone e solo by Birch Johnson. Woody then changed the pace with a jazzed up version of Aaron Copland’ s ‘ ‘ Fanfare for the Common Man”. After heari ng a version of this modern classical composeris piece recorded by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the author found Friday’s readaption quite a surprise. The second half s performance included ‘ ‘Reunion at Newport’ ’ , Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t she Lovely’ ’ , Webb’s “McArthur’s Park’ ’ , and Woody Herman’s theme, “Blue Flame”. These songs included some excellent solos by Mark Johnson (bass) Glenn Drewes and Dennis Dobson (Flugelhorn), Jay Sallemberger (trumpet) Birch Johnson and Larry Farrell (trombone) Bill Byrne (trumpet) Bruce Johnstone and Frank Tiberi (saxes) John Riley (drums) ‘and Alan Broadbent (trumpet). But the members of the Thundering Herd who showed the most lightning were Dave Lalama

Year’s top live album ‘Circles In The Stream Bruce Cockburn lkue North (CBS)

The double live album appears o embody the weakest aspects of ~11records. First, 95% of today’s jopular artists have great difficulty n turning out .one good LP each rear, let alone two; * and second, ive albums, ,are. notorious for failng to add anything to previously ecorded studio material. Fortu-. lately, Circles In The Stream is a rappy anomaly. Certainly, Bruce Cockbum has mecorded enough superlative matrial over the course of seven solo ecords to fill three times what is Iresented here. However, the real trengths lie in the new fullness which a backing band adds to what lrere largely acoustic songs in their rior form. The tastefully retrained playing of bassist Robert loudner, keyboard man Pat Godrey, and percussionist Bill Usher re particularly effective on “Love ong” and “God, Bless The Chilren,” while Cockbum has the ood sense to perform other numers by himself. The best of the five new selecons includes the instrumental Deer Dancing Round A Broken Iirror,” and the lilting “Free To e. ” The former is a delicate and Jrightly acoustic exercise, while

the latter, despite its rather cloyingly simplistic chorus (“Grow up you/ Grow up me/ Grown together/ Free to be”), is melodic enough to support the lyrics, and vaguely recalls the musical humour of “ The Blues Got The World. . .” Other highlights are the totally acoustic version of “Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long,” and the unique Tibetan rhythms of “Joy Will Find A Way.” The concerts, which were recorded last spring at a pair of Massey Hall dates, boast the wonderful acoustics of that building, something which is especially important on some of the more quietly solemn pieces, such as “Dialogue With The Devil” and “Never So Free.” In fact, Cockburn concerts have lent a new meaning to the_ word intimate, as attested to by the sounds of people coughing during some of the songs. Overall, this has to rank as one of the best live albums of the year, and an accurate representation of what it’s really like to see Cockbum live. The high technical quality of the recording and the very reasonable price tag should allow any fan to buy himself an early Christmas present. -john

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on piano and Bill Ross whoplayed sax, alto flute and picolo brilliantly . Woody himself did occasionally take up the alto, and sop-, rano saxes and clarinet but mostly

played the roll of conductor of the \ 16 member band. The audience gave the band an immediate standing ovation as soon as they ended their set, which

Amid the landslide of glowing ibutes which immediately folIwed the death of Elvis Presley, ne perspective, which, under any ther circumstances would have 3en cruel, stood out as refreshLgly honest: Elvis was too old to :member what rock ‘n roll was. t a final tribute in New Times, Luen K. Truscott IV called Elvis . . . an ideal mutation of .mself. . . a human exclamation ht. ” Elvis In Concert, a soundack from a television show, plus lditional recordings from his final ur, provides the musical proof. The shift in Presley’s career, specially in the last decade, is lrticularly evident on this two re-

cord set. The classic rockers such as “See See Rider,” - “Jailhouse _Rock,” “Hound Dog,” and “Johnny B. Goode,” are given perfunctory treatments, in which lyrics are forgotten or omitted, while the back up band provides the kind of nostalgic pseudo rock accompaniment that suggests a greater affinity for elevator muzak than the blues. The MOR cover versions of “If You Love Me (Let Me Know),” the Pointer Sisters’ “Fairytale,” and Lightfoot’s ‘ ‘ Early Morning Rain,” are more indicative of Elvis’ musical sensibility than even the moving spiritual numbers which represent the album’s high points. Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect Presley to remain faithful to his roots at the age of forty-two. , As several critics have pointed

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Drama serves up Schnitzh. The UW Drama Group did in- Schnitzler has created.. The thin to laugh at him but the deeper cyn& deed have their hands full with the line between reality and just cism of his character speaks another role is never established, most plainly for the cruelty of his portrayal of Arthur Schnitzler’s productions “The Feast’ of which creates a dual feeling of feelings of love. Is his dream realcatharsis for not only the lost ity or reality a dream? Konrad acts Dionysus” and “The Big Scene”. of out his marriage just for the sake of The difficult task of resolving the wives but also the shallowness acting. situational conflict between hus- the male half of the relationships. apprehension of Anthony Mancini as Edgar Gley band and wife, which appears in The nervous Chris Newton as Dr. Guido Werasserts fine bursts of emotion but both plays, comes to bear for both nig effectively sets the stage for unfortunately the, confrontation actor and director. This underlying the verbal and mental manipulascene lacks the fluid progression conflict delves into Schnitzler’s tion which Felix Staufner, played necessary to retain heightened .often satirical look at the superfiJoel Kaiser commands tension. The scene tends to drag as ciality of love during the turn of by throughout the play. The “phala result but could easily be rethe century bourgeoise but focuses name of medied in rehearsal. Recognition more upon the value of love for the lic” symbol which-the Felix would represent could be is in order for Francesca Mallin as “artiste”. Vilma Flamm who sets a fresh Love and the role of wife be- improved upon in as much as the sarcasm necessary for his apparent tempo for the beginning of “The comes a game of ego reinforceBig Scene”. ment for the leading men of the control over Dr. Wemig is lacking. The character of Konrad Herbot is For an opening night perforplays, leaving the women subject much more difficult since its commance, the plays merit the qualto little depth in character. These plexity is made visual by the image ities of a well polished effort makdefinitely are not productions for women’s liberationists. Jane Pil- of Hamlet. The comical irony of ing the evening well worth an portrayal of the evening away from the tube. key in the role of Agnes reflects a Bruce Fowler’s “ham” actor allows the audience --mark iardiire passive indecisiveness ‘which leaves the viewer less than surprised at resolution in the play. Similarly, Karen Woolridge as Sophie in “The Big Scene” shows The cold, bleak winter term is upon our fair kingdom once again: a naive sincerity which denies a cold. in degrees Celsius, and cold with human apathy. I must once woman, on the brink of leaving her again appeal for help. Of our 17,500 citizens, there must be more than husband, the emotional triumph of a dozen who are willing to swell the ranks of our glorious band. All making a decision on her own. who join in this mission of good will are promised lots of fun, travel to The leading men of the plays set major sporting events, and a chance to vent their suppressed feelings. the stage for the actual motivation All musical notations will be supplied to players, and a few new behind the apparent love which instruments have been recently acquired for their use. Further information can be obtained by dialing VI, III IV - V, III, VII, VI. Our people deserve better and louder music.

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out, Elvis always reflected the state of America, from the sensual raunch of his rockabilly begininings to the bland Las Vegas glitter of the Seventies. All of this is further reinforced by the idolizing fan comments which are spread throughout the record, and the screaming from the middle-aged women who still see their hero as he appears in the glorious cover shots of years past. Unless you can allow your ears to be affected by an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, or take some sort of interest in the historical aspect of Elvis In Concert, it would be wise to avoid this collection. Presley’s place in rock history will never be threatened; but I’d rather listen to the original version of “Hound Dog” than a polite recollection of it. -john

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fridav, The second of six reasons - of which all six are disgusting but four not discussed - that this essay does not have three parts is this: a third part to this essay may invite uninvited (not to mention - though in menunwarranted tioning it I have created an apparent paradox) - comparison of this essay with the Trinity; by fanatic, over-zealous, exegetes who are so into theJudaeoChristian context that it woulc j

The purpose of this paper is to contain the ink printed on it. The purpose of this essay is to assay the purpose of Valentine’s Day; yet, the purport of this paper will amuse most, offend all and defend none. The scope of this essay will ranae from lewd to crud-e. Certainly anyone who reads this essay and is not offended must needs be called tasteless. Likewise anyone who reads this essay not and is tasteless anyway, need not be offended nor called anything. On a more general level, anyone who reads this essay at all must be called tasteless merely for having read it - regardless of their opinion of it, which is as irrelevant as is this essay itself. This essay will be divided into two parts: the first part, and the second part. The second part will follow the first pat-t, as is the custom in strictly regimented, formal essays. Both parts will be equally nauseating. The first part of the paper may be said to function as the introduction in the production of this paper. The second part of this paper may be said to be the conclusion. This is what the two parts may be said to be. What they in fact are is yet to be seen. The discriminating reader may have noticed that this essay (as _ . .. take major surgery to get them opposed to any other essay) out. This essay should definitely lacks a body. The discriminating not be compared with the Trinity, reader would have stopped readperfect, for: ing this essay be now. There are for it is not nearly.as six reasons why this essay lacks a the Trinity has three Parts, which body, two of which will be disFuse into a Unity, this essay has two parts, which confuse into a cussed, and the other four calamity. Hence, this essay can neither discussed (not to be cononly be two-thirds as perfect as fused with disgust), mentioned or alluded to. The first reason the Trinity, at best. that the body of this essay is not In the beginning, how did discussed, though it is disgustValentine’s Day originate? This is ing; is that it would disrupt the a good question. There is no continuity of the argument in- , question about that (that is, there itiated in the introduction and is no question about the origin of closed in the conclusion. Valentine’s Day). Yet, in hind-

ness their caves are not quite as sight, perhaps we should define dirty), the husband would wake the term “a good question,” before we get any further in answerfrom his sleep, and rise from his ing our first good question, bed, in that particular order every time. On this sacred day he would which must now only be consi-. take special‘care not to urinate dered an alleged good question, until there is no question about on his children, step on his dog, what a good question is. What is or kick his wife in the ribs. a good question? Now there is a Then he would make a fire in good question! For the puposes the hearth. Anthropologists are in opposition with their supposiof this paper, which is purposely tions as to what the fire meant. purposeless and proposes plenty of putrid proposals (the worst are The U. of Waterloo department insists that the fire was a symbol yet to come), a good question has these qualities: it is good, it has a of the eternal love and burning goodness about it, you feel good passion that burned in the asking it and you get a good feelhusband’s heart (not to be coning answering it. Now, how in- fused with his hearth). Other deed did Valentine’s Day origimore radical schools propose nate? that the fire was used for providOne is tempted to reply, “Who ing heat for warmth and cooking. cares?” Yet, the question m&t, Once the fire was started, he be answered. (The reader is would wake up his wife by gently warned that the next part of this beating her on the head with a essay will feature some exhuge club, shaped like a Valentremely crude, rude, lewd and oftine -wielding it with the utmost fensive images). caution so as not to disrupt the We know from Neo-Classic furniture. Once the wife was Pakistani cave-drawings (found -awake, the man would blindfold in the Math building, since there her with a ceremonial rag and is an apparent shortage of caves place her in the fire. While the in Pakistan) that Valentine’s Day wife burned in the fire, the husis as old as Time itself. But how band would take a sharp knife old isTime? That question will be and place several ritualistic cuts answered in due time. (This is deand gently take her heart out. At finitely worse than FA%!) this time the wife was free to step out of the fire, take off her blindThe Anthropology Department fold, and freshen-up a bit. Then, at the U. of Waterloo has been the husband would take the studying Valentines for hundreds heart, place it in the palm of his of years now, and this is what right hand and while standing on they have surmised. Apparently his left foot, crossing his right the first people (not to be confoot back and forth over his left fused with huinan wretches, knee: he would smear the heart which may easily be confused with Heinz ketchup and sing a with Engineers, henceforth joyous paeon of praise-sweetly termed Frigid Fools), to send and quitely so as not to wake the Valentines were the Prekids: Neanderthal cave dwellers, who dwelt in caves, during the PreThis is your heart so red, Neanderthal period, as was the Some would think it’s blood, custom established by the PreBut it’s ketchup instead. Neanderthal cave-dwellers. So go chew your cud. Traditionally, tradition has it Your heart is so pretty that at Valentine’s Day’s dawn and so nice, (not to be confused with Village That this dainty ditty Dons, which may easily be con3won’t suffice. fused with Pre-Neanderthal At this time the ritual involves the cave-dwellers, though in all fair- ,wife getting on her knees and

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reaching up for the heart. Then, the husband sings heartily as he hurls the heart into the hearth, this song:

Please be my Valentine today Ho-Ho-Hey-Hey. We’ll never be apart. So go fetch your heart. Pick it up - Pick it up And shake off the blood, Collect it in a coffee cup And throw it in the mud. Be my Valentine, Valentine mine Or I’ll rip out your eyes And soak them in brine. At this point the ritual aspect ceases, and a much more informal role is played by the wife, as she screams in pain and convulses about the cave until she dies - still being careful not to wake the kids. So much for the origin of Valentine’s Day, which is in fact, too much. Who can deny the importance of Valentine’s Day? One need only look at history. The Greek heroes led by Achilles sacked Troy after twenty years of seige by sneaking themselves in in a giant Valentine shaped like a horse.,The great wall of China is actually made of millions of little brick-shaped Valentines. The Roman Empire declined. Why? ‘Because they did not send Valentines, and because they were Italian. In the Book of Matthew we read the three wise men bore gold, frankincense, and Valentines to the Christ child, being led to his birth place by a bright Valentine in the sky, shaped like a star. Columbus and his crew set out on their voyage on the Nina, the Pinta and the Valentina. The Pilgrims of the Mayflower left for the New Colonies because the Church of England did not allow them to exchange Valentines. France gave the United States a huge Valentine, ‘shaped like the Statue of Liberty. The examples are as endless as this essay is ridiculous. Now I will begin the conclusion. The End. -panteley tritchew

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ON THE SNOWSTORM, JANUARY 26-27, 1978 Let’s take a lesson from this, kiddies. Cabin fever ain’t no picnic. We bore each other ad infinitum. Whiskey sours used the last of the drinkable boozoo, I’m afraid. Mother’s ruin just ain’t my style, and I’m sick to death of cookies. This goddam snowstorm has got us all bizzaro, like, chewing our collective toenail is the most exciting thing to happen all night. Dinner was great, though. Nobody could think of anything else to do but cook. Even the cats are gone stir-crazy - they want to go out in that blizzard! God bless ‘em and send ‘em on their way, I says. Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry, you know what I mean? Anybody wanna play crib? (oh my gawd!) Another hand, my old buddy? Oh yeah, the power went-that was an exciting two or three seconds. The boys and me idea ten minute rendition of the Great Root Bear theme, but everything good is over too soon. Did I water the plants yet this hour? What is normality? Paul agrees with everything. At least I have that. CHAPTER 2 Well, here we are again, folks. The school is the only thing open in this godforsaken weather. But Optometry knows when they can’t see. It’s paper ah-plane and straight jacket time. Put ‘er into neutral, boys. A simple friendly game of cards. Hold the phone. , It’s getting pretty whack0 in here. I think we’re in a time warp. But the cars are starting to move. We’re stuck here as usual. Around the bend, signal your turn. Jeff arrived safe and sound from To. for the weekend. ‘ ‘There’s nothing wrong, the roads are clear” What about we berzurkos inside? If the boys aren’t back from the pub in an hour (yep they went, the nurds), I’m sending a posse. But it’s all over no,w, baby blue. -lyne waddington & the 5098 weirdos

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Ottawa in town for 4th annual Moser game Tomorrow night the Warriors will entertain the Ottawa Gee Gees in the fourth annual Mike Moser Memorial game. Ottawa is currently in 3rd place in the OUAAEast. Mike Moser, a former great with the Warriors, died suddenly while the Warriors were in Florida for a Christmas tournament in 1974-75. The annual game was initiated shortly afterwards to honour the man who was felt to be the top player - _ in the country. Proceeds from the gate will go towards funding a bursary which will help further the academic pur-

suits of four students. The recipients will be named later in the season. The Warriors brought their season’s record to 9- 1 with a 75-67 victory over Brock and an 88-72 win over Western. The Warriors are currently in first place. Mat and Laurier follow the Warriors with 3 losses each. Waterloo has two league games remaining, in Guelph next Wednesday and at home against the hot Hawks from Laurie;a week tomorrow. The odds that the Warriors will finish on top of the OUAA-West

are good and this is important for it will determine where the play-offs will be held. Laurier is the only team now with a chance to catch Waterloo and they need some help from the Warriors themselves who would have to lose in Guelph and then lose to the Hawks by more than 12 points. Ted Darcie continues to lead the way for the Warriors, scoring 16 against Brock and 20 against Western. Meanwhile, Seymour Hadwen continues his mini%lump having scored only 24 points in his last three games.

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behind on the scoreboard. Half‘time showed Waterloo leading by only two points. Brock tried to press in the second half, and the Athenas broke through to put themselves up by ten in the last ten minutes. UW never really broke open the game to take over, but they won 60-53. They didn’t really show any desire and only played well enough to win the game. Sue Lindley again scored 12 points, and Sue Porter and Lucy Patterson each put up 10. The next step on the way up to the Ontario Championships is Ottawa University on Saturday February 18. Good Luck, Athenas!

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of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, a corporation under the laws of the Province of Ontario, to be held on Monday, March 6, 1978. The directors of the Federation will be appointed at this meeting, in accordance with section 3 o,f by-law no. 1. Any other item for the agenda of this meeting must be in the hands of the President of the Federation of Students by 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 22, to be considered at the annual meeting.

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The cream coagulates The cream of CPC (ML), hidden behind different aliases, attempt by sheer volume of the piled arguments to win this discussion. I am trying to do my homework, but to extract a reasonable content from all those anonymous letters and to answer everything will require some time. I have to stick to the main points and omit letters which contain only hatred and nothing else. The discussion degenerated mostly into the use of obscenities and a very unimaginative type of humor. This shows how weak are their ideological arguments. This does not mean that we may afford to ignore them. Several events in this university showed that unless they are stopped, they become louder and more destructive. Now, I want to return back to the question of the ‘ ‘proletarian queen”. That was originally my ironic statement. Some people decided not to understand the irony of it, and for several weeks now, they attempt to convince us that the Queen is really no proletarian. Of course it is nonsense to say that Q.E., Members of Parliament or professors of this university are proletarians. Queen Elizabeth is rich and everybody knows that; but, she is also paid by the state, and even complains periodically how low is her pay. Then, the Parliament gives her more. Only according to Salah Bachir’s definition, she falls into the category of proletariat. I only tried to show how absurd this definition is. Neil Docherty in his letter of Jan. I3 did similar thing. He attempted to prove the pauperization of proletariat by showing that profits of farmers are lower now than in 1914. But - farmers own their land and means of production, they are no proletarians either! Where is the root of all this? Let us start with the definition offered by Engels in 1888 English edition of Communist Manifesto: “By proletariat, (it is meant) the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. “ According to British Thorndike dictionary, labourer is “person who does work requiring strength rather than skill or training”. This is how the word “proletariat” has been understood throughout the whole his. tory of Marxism. This class must not be confused with other wage earners - politicians, police, teachers, priests, supervisors of workers, officials of the state etc. When Karl Marx described the life of the proletariat of his time, he did not describe the life of wage-earning policemen or judges. What is, therefore, the difference between the proletariat and all other wage earners, executives of the companies, queens, professors, and actually also a majority of the contemporary industrial workers? The proletariat gets just the subsistence wage. This is the wage sufficient for the reproduction of the working power. It covers food, some shelter, some clothing, something to keep the children alive up to the moment when< they earn their own living. There is no money, of course, for marihuana, entertainment, cars, T.V. sets, four bedroom house, trip to Bahamas etc. The worker is not able to save anything. Subsistence wage is so low that the proletarian must come to work next day in order to survive. When the worker earns more than just the subsistence wage, his situation changes. He may save some money and put it into the bank. By getting interest on it he participates in the exploitation, because interest is a form ofthe distribution of the surplus product. He may invest into some pension fund of Canada Savings Bonds with the same effect. He may buy a house, use it for a while and sell it with a profit. He may invest the saved money into his own business and leave the proletarian class completely. He may stop working for some time and use his savings. He may buy many things which make life pleasant. He may even become happy and lose his revolutionary zeal. Proletarians are

revolutionary because they own nothing and have nothing to lose. This is not true when somebody earns more than the bare minimum. Therefore, the precise definition of the term “proletariat” requires not only the status of the wage-earner, but also the amount of the wage earned. The professor of the university is no proletarian not because he owns his research, as Bachir claims, but because his wage is above the subsistence level. He may reinvest part of it or do whatever he wants. All this is a basic issue for the Marxist parties and that is why they are so furious. They have to justify their existence. In the absence-of a real proletariat living on subsistence wages in inhumane conditions, they have several choices: First, they may stick to the original unrevised meaning of the word and watch how their revolutionary class is disappearing. Or, they may change the definition of the proletariat. Our local radicals did exactly that. If they want a proletarian revolution, they need proletariat. Since the proletariat described in Das Kapital is getting scrace, because the workers get more than the subsistence wage and are anything but revolutionary, they had to employ all wage earners as proletariat. This is how most of them, boys with university education, from good middle class families, became proletarian members of a proletarian party. The third choice, and that is my choice, is to leave Marxism completely and try to find real sources of progress of our society. Now, to David Ricardo: I called you how you wanted to be called. I think it is cheap and unproductive to accuse others of the lack of knowledge of David Ricardo or some other classic author. I got your message quite clearly, and I am fully aware that Loebl is not precisely in line with Ricardo, Adam Smith or even Keynes. This quotation is important (from “The Responsible Society”):_ “Marx acknowledged the existence of universal or natural economic laws and agreed with Ricardo’s theory of subsistence wages. He maintained, however, that this theory was valid only in the capitalist system. Once private ownership was eliminated, and capitalism was transcended, this law would disappear, along with the system that supported it. The followers of Marx also felt that the laws could not be changed, and hence, for them, the only reasonable way to improve conditions for the workers was to abolish capitalism. Yet those who were the most affected by these “ironclad” laws the workers themselves - reacted quite differently from the rest. They refused to be ruled by theoretical laws ‘a-id began to fight for the improvement in their hard and inhuman way of life. The pressure they were able to put on those who owned the means of production eventually resulted in a search for solutions to the problems of low wages and poor working conditions. The solutions themselves involved the transcendence of “economic laws”. Innovations inthese cluded more efficient ways of organizing the workers in the shops and advanced technology that made it possible for more goods to be produced with less effort. As the production .process was based on higher level of thinking, and as science and technology developed further, the demands of both capitalists and the workers could be met. In this way, the human element, common sense, celebrated its first victory over economic theories.” This is also explanation why former proletariat does not live on subsistence level any more. This quotation also contains some hints how the questions you asked may be answered. But, sorry, my letter is already long enough. Some other time. When Salah Bachir and all others talk about subsistence wages given to the proletarian, I cannot disagree with them. However, Bachir also says: “. . . even those who only do “brain work” are part of the proletariat if they have to sell their brain working power as a commodity to gain the means of subsistence. “Here, he replaces the term “subsistence wage” by the term “the means of subsistence’ ’ . This causes that his formulation becomes fuzzy. Any wage earner, even that high above the subsistence wage, uses part of his salary as the means of subsis-

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things from beginning to end contain the movement of opposites. (5) Mao held that through directing the base and motive of this contradiction that the bourgeois, in socialism, could be transformed. In Mao’s eyes “criticism” and “suppression”, “Bourgeois” and “Socialist” are harmonized with the new winning over the old.(6)

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Suppression by a workers state could be seen as the shield, while criticism or education is the sword. Suppression is required to protect the basis of the state from counterrevoluntionary advances. The sword, (criticism) is used when the bourgeois is passive or co-operating. One doesn’t destroy them but transforms them. Each “weapon” compliments the other and to throw away one would be to encourage an overall weakness. Even Wahlsten’s queen Chiang Ching supported criticism over violence when in 1967 she told the Red Guards they should “Attack by reason, defend by Force”. Wahlsten’s slogan “overthrow capitalist-roaders” is most similar to that used by proven counterrevolutionaries Wang-Li and Lin Piao during the 60’s when they said: “Drag out the handful in the army who are capitalist-roaders!” so as to facilitate their taking power. In the end their motives were exposed. Those like Professor Wahlsten who irresponsibly advocate slaughter or emphasise the suppressive part of a workers state serve only to perpetuate capitalism. They alienate the broad masses and therefore will always lose. 1. “Correct Handling of Contradictions,” Selected Works, FLP, Peking, 1971, PP. 435-437. 2. Ibid. PP. 435-437. 3. Ibid. 435. 4. Ibid. P. 458. 5. Ibid. “On Contradictions,” P. 91. 6. Ibid. P. 89. Shih K’ang-ti

The false teachings of Professor Wahlsten can be demonstrated in the examination of his letter (chevron 20 January) attacking my letter “Who Does the Killing” (chevron 6 January). The main reason for Mr. Wahlsten maligning me was for my letter allowing the comparisons of Hitler and Stalin to stand. Mr. Wahlsten didn’t take up this issue in his letter but instead said I had “distorted Mao” by drawing distinctions between Stalin and Mao. Mr. Wahlsten’s letter of loose accusations and unsubstantiated “fact” only serves to confuse the Canadian Left. The basis of Wahlsten’s attack centered around my having said: “ . . . Mao’s interpretation of dialectics brought him to believe that anyone was salvageable, and that once they saw the truth, they would change.” This quote was used as his only evidence for me having said that Mao was a liberal, and thus concluding I was distorting Mao. Mr. Wahlsten went on to prove Mao wasn’t a liberal by quoting Mao’s Correct Handling of Contradictions (1) (the part saying that suppression of reactionaries is the chief function of the socialist state). He appeared to have “proved” I was “distorting Mao to serve ‘counter-revolutionaries’ in China”. Lets examine how Wahlsten pulled this out of the hat. Even though I never said Mao was a liberal, Wahlsten in his letter said I did and then after lieing goes on to prove Mao wasn’t a liberal. It is generally accepted amongst Marxists that the state during the socialist stage must serve to suppress reactionaries, so as to protect socialism. Wahlsten in order to make me look as though I was distorting Mao gave you a quote of Mao speaking of this role of state suppression. (2) What he didn’t quote was the immediate prelude to this quote which has Mao saying almost exactly what I was saying which is that there is no need for human slaughter at this stage. between Mao here said: “The contradiction the national bourgeoise and the working class is one between the exploiter and the exploited, and is by nature antagonistic. But in the concrete conditions of China, this antagonistic class contradiction can, if properly handled, be transformed into a nonantagonistic one and be resolved by peaceful methods. ” (3) Wahlsten’s quote of Mao was academically dishonest as one could not use it in the context he did without the above modification. I drew my conclusions of Mao disliking the killing of man from several of his writings and co-relating these with his historic actions. For example his position when he said: “We cannot abolish religion by administrative decree . . . we cannot compel people to believe in Marxism ” is not uncommon. Neither is it when he said: “Actually’ there are bound to be some who will always be ideologically reluctant to accept Marxism-Leninism and Communism. We should not be too exacting in what we expect of them; as long as they comply with the requirements of the state and engage in legitmate pursuits, we should give them opportunities for suitable work.” (4) Contrary to this, Mr. Wahlsten sketched a Mao who must occasionally have bloodbaths so as to ideologically cleanse himself. Anyone opposing this view to him isn’t a “Marxist-Leninist” but called either an opportunist or revisionist. His only proof of this type “Mao” was the one out-of-context quote of Mao supporting state suppression of counter-revolutionaries. If you read Mao’s On Contradiction and Handling Contradictions Among the People you’ll discover the Wahlsten lie. Mao held that all living

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The recent lecture by Mr. Greene during China week has sparked a controversy about freedom of speech. I would like to express some thoughts on this topic. It seems that the conflict occurs between the right to present ideas freely, and the right to oppose ideas which you believe are wrong. In this context I would like to propose a distinction between public lecture, and public debate. When a group is interested in hearing the ideas of a certain person, or in making those ideas known to others it holds a public lecture. Since they have invited the speaker, booked the room, and arranged the publicity, they should be able to hear the whole lecture without interference from any’other group. They should have the choice of whether or not open discussion is allowed, and what its format should be. In this sort of meeting I feel that the purpose of questions is to clarify what the speaker has said. It is also appropriate to raise questions about the validity of the speaker’s points, but the questioner should discipline himself to questioning, to stay on topic, and to not give a lecture himself, remembering that the intent of the meeting is to expose the audience to the speaker’s views. A public debate is organized to provide an opportunity for the participants, and the audience to challenge each other on their opinions and beliefs. In this context it is not proper to suppress discussion, although it may be necessary to limit the contribution of any one speaker or group so that all interested parties have a chance to speak. Here again all participants should exercise the self-discipline to keep to the topic and not drag in irrelevancies which, although important to them, do not have a direct bearing on the subject of the debate. Within the framework of this distinction, let me suggest that it was not the repression of democratic freedom when discussion was limited at Mr. Greene’s lecture, it was asser-

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tion of the right of the organizers to hear the lecture they had intended. Freedom of speech gives the right to those with different views to organize a lecture and present those views, and to themselves enjoy the freedom from interruption their opponents have the right to. Finally, to better serve the community, by presenting opposing views in direct contrast, one group may invite the other to a public debate, chaired by a suitably neutral person, who will insure that both groups are free to express their ideas. If any one desires to gain respect and an audience for his ideas, he must, by his courtesy show that he respects the right of other people to present theirs. David Brown 4B Coop Math

Co/es cries over news Jonathan Coles article (Poor Survey. . . chevron No. 3 1) has some basic slanderous inaccuracy’s that I feel should be clairified: (a) I never stated that ALL students ripped off OSAP but that our survey revealed that SOME students did. After the article in the Record people from both universities have approached me and said that they were not surprised by the findings. (b) The person who administered the questionair made it clear that living expenses were included in the term schoolexpenses. (c) Coles quotation “I didn’t do it to hit students, I did it for marks. It’s worth 15 percent.” implies that we (I didn’t do the survey alone, I was only the media contact) came to conclusions that would give us a good mark. When I discussed the issue with Coles he asked if it was a classproject and I said it was and it was worth 15 percent of our total mark. The sentence “I didn’t do it to hit the students” came from another part of our conversation. It seems to me that Coles is crying over the fact that our survey was published in the Record while the chevron didn’t get theirs in the paper, and therefore Coles uses every way possible to slander and discredit a small class project. Krister Ulmanis Wilfrid Laurier Un. lettitor YO lu misunderstood my article. The intent was not “to slander and discredit a small class project” but to show that the KW Record promoted it because its conclusions serve the current propaganda campaign being waged by the government and the press against the students. You admitted your methodology was “not so hot” and subsequent letters to the editor in the Record have agreed with you and joined me in denouncing the Record’s journalism. The government is cutting back education, including student aid. The press creates the necessary public opinion. For the introduction of “proficiency tests” and eventually admissions exams to restrict enrollment it says that students are illiterate. For further restrictions on OSAP it says students are “ripping off” the system. The chevron has exposed both these lies. Obviously, a chevron survey showing students’ legitimate needs just doesn’t fit, so it is ignored. I’m not “crying”, I expect no better. Students must defend themselves against these attacks by building their own organisations, including newspapers, to defend their basic interests. Jonathan Coles

y lies I attended the symposium on “Racism and the Community” at Wilfred Laurier University on February 1, 1978. I heard the most filthy lies from a stinking traitor to the Afro-American people by the name of Wilson Head. He is a racist to the core and presents the same theory as Hitler.

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Wilson Head’s main point is that the whole history of Canada is a struggle between “white” and “non-white” and that the basic division in Canadian society is between “white” and “non-white”. He says that the “whites” are inherently racist. His outlook on society is the same as Hitler’s who looked at history and society from the point of view of “Aryan vs. Non-Aryan”. His view is the same as the Zionist fascists who consider that the history of the world and the basic division in the society is between Jews and Gentiles. Every single racist and fascist in history denies that the history of society has been a history of the struggle between the rich and the poor, between the exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed. This has also been the history of Canada. The foreign and domestic exploiters committed and to this day commit genocide against the Native Indian people to rob them of their lands. Look at Reed Paper Co. which is subsidized by the Ontario government and the poisoning of the Native Indians with mercury and the robbery and rape of their lands. The British colonialists and their agents suppressed by fire and sword the nation and people of Quebec and this subjugation persists to this day. The U.S. finance capitalists are bleeding the people of Quebec white through debt payments on hydro utilities. The Irish people were driven from their land to Canada to serve as cheap labour for the exploiters in order to build canals, railways, etc. They were viciously discriminated against. Yet they are “white”. The Doukhobours were also racially discriminated against and persecuted by the Canadian state so that the exploiters could rob them of their lands. The same story applies to the Italians, Portuguese, Ukranians - they were all discriminated against and singled out for social and political persecution and superexploitation by the Canadian state at one time or another. While very definite sections of the people are singled out for attack by the rich and their state throughout Canadian history, the basic issue is the struggle between the rich and their state, the exploiters, and the people. Wilson Head “proved” his racist theory by giving such unconvincing arguments such as “the Japanese were interned” during WW II but “not the Germans”. This is supposed to prove that the issue is “white vs. nonwhite’ ’ ! Mr. Head failed to explain, then, why so many “white” unemployed workers were interned in forced labour camps during these times. He cites the mass murder of Chinese working on the railways in B.C. to “prove” his case that the issue is “white” vs. “non-white”. This only proves that the railway capitalists of the likes of the CNR and the CPR did not discriminate against anyone when they exploited the people. They robbed the Native Indians and Metis of their lands; they drove the farmers off their lands through exorbitant freight handling costs etc.; they murdered the workers who worked their mines through unsafe working conditions etc. Some were exploited and others super-exploited. Head’s real racist nature comes out when he describes the rebellions of the AfroAmerican people in the United States as “race riots”. Yet everyone knows that the struggle of the Afro-American people has never been a struggle against “whites”! It has always been a struggle against the American state and its repressive police apparatus, its racist laws and educational system. Head absolved the Canadian state and its representatives of the blame as the organizers of racist attacks on the immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially those of East Indian origin and blamed the people as being the cause of the racist attacks on the immigrant communities. Many people present pointed out evidence of the state-organized racist attacks: - RCMP agents in the Western Guard admitting to organizing 200 racist attacks between 1975 and 1976 in Toronto; the anti-immigrant Bill C-24, and the differential fee for foreign students. Wilson Head, however, defended the anti-immigrant Bill C-24. He defended the police and said that “they are just ordinary people out of uniform”. He even admitted

that he works with them as a -police colbriefly, the former are a matter of drawing a laborator and informer. clear distinction between ourselves and the Wilson Head had good company in the , enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a distinction between right and wrong. It is, of person of an individual from the “Human course, true that the distinction between Rights” Caucus who believed that the fascist ourselves and the enemy is also a matter of Western Guard should have been allowed to right and wrong. . . but it is in a different spew their racist “Keep Canada White” filth at the Immigration category. ’ ’ and again: “What should our pol“Green Paper” hearings icy be towards non-Marxist ideas? As far as in 1975 in Toronto. He even denounced unmistakable counter-revolutionaries and those progressive and democratic people saboteurs of the socialist cause are conwho opposed the Western Guard. cerned, the matter is easy: we simply depEven though Wilson Head is an Afrorive them of their freedom of speech. But American, that will fool no one. Every incorrect ideas among the people are quite a community has its patriots and its traitors. different matter. Will it do to ban such ideas U.S. Ambassador to the United Sttates, Anand deny them any opportunity for expresdrew Young, is one of the traitors. He works sion? Certainly not. ’ ’ to crush the national liberation struggles of Who is this Felix Greene? He is nothing the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin more than an apologist for the counterAmerica on behalf of U.S. imperialism. On revolutionary ideas and policies of Teng the other hand, George Jackson was a patriot Hsiao-ping and other right opportunists who who fought against the American state and have seized state power in China and are died a martyr for the people. Wilson Head is doing their best to restore capitalism. As a a traitor who wants to destroy the united resistance of the immigrant communities and crony of Teng Hsiao-ping, he is a saboteur of the socialist cause. It is absolutely correct to other sections of the Canadian people oppose him. against the state-organized racist attacks. Among the many attacks of Teng HsiaoThe Canadian people will not only defeat the ping and his gang against all the progressive state-organized racist attacks on the immigpeople of the world, I will name only two: he rant communities but they will put these even supports the Pinochet regime in Chile traitors in their place too. and made a speech at the U.N. in which he Paul Rogers states: “the socialist camp is no longer in existence.” His three world theory and other concoctions have made him and his cronies the enemies of the world’s people who are fighting imperialism. If Tim Little is genuinely interested in the events in China he should have attended a mass democratic forum on China before and after chairman Mao’s death, organised by The latest Nick Redding antic, as seen in the A.I.A. on Feb. 10, 1978 in which there last week’s feedback, has him puffing out his was open and full discussion, unlike the stiflchest most indignant that a member of the ing, undemocratic organisation of the Felix Married Students’ Tenant Association Greene meeting. should say that the chevron is the only group C.W.B. on Campus to assist this group in its fight Selected Readings from the Works of Mao against rent hikes. As was shown in the letTse-tung p.435 and p.465 Foreign Language titor, Redding’s claim that the chevron did Press, Peking. not cover this subject until after the Grad Club pledged money to MSTA was shown to be yet another of his lies. But most outrageous of all is the fact that Redding finds the excellent investigative work done by the chevron on the Married Students’ rent hike repetitious! Well, the Married Students’ find very repetitious the fact that they were hit with a % increase last Randy Barkman’s article on differential year and an impending 13.2% increase in fees at MacMaster in the January 27th chevrents this year. ron, belongs in the administration organ The The work the chevron has done in defense Gazette and not the chevron. Barkman’s arof students is to be commended and the only ticle is totally based on an interview with an thing I find repetitious is the series of cheap administration official who is part of an adshots Redding has engaged in ever since he ministration that has slandered MacMaster became one of Smit’s executive hacks. students as racist in an attempt to justify the Karen Smith implementation of an increase of 25% in visa students’ tuition. Barkman quotes this official as saying: “There are people that still object. . .” but he sees little opposition to its implementation now, which is one of the lies that this administration is giving to justify its slander of MacMaster students and to justify the in-. crease. Tim Little’s letter (Feedback Feb. 10, Had Barkman any interest in the truth, he 1978) takes a quotation of Chairman Mao out of context and distorts it to attack the A.I.A. would have interviewed some of the stuand other progressive people on campus. dents involved. He would have found out The statement quoted is from Chairman that the MacMaster Student Union is opMao’s speech at the Assembly of the Repposed to the hike, so is the Graduate Student resentatives of the Shensi-Kansu-Nigsia Union, the South Asian Student OrganizaBorder Region, on November 21, 1941. tion, the Chinese Student Association, etc. Chairman Mao was addressing the progres. Nor have these organizations kept their sive people, communists as well as nonviews hidden. Thousands of leaflets have communists, in the liberated area, who have been passed out pointing out that it was not united as one people to defeat Japanese ImCanadian students that have launched this perialism. The question he was addressing is attack but the racist Canadian state. Resoluthe question of contradiction among the tions exposing the lying propaganda of the people, not the question between the people government that foreign students are to and the enemy (i.e., counter-revolutionaries blame for certain economic problems have and other reactionaries) which requires quite been passed by International students and a different approach. other organizations and circulated at MacIf Tim Little is honest and sincere, he Master. should study Chairman Mao’s famous essay Further two bulletins of the organizing “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions committee to found the Hamilton Joint Among the People” which discusses these Committee of the East Indian Defence questions in great detail and is a classic of Committee, the West Indian Peoples OrMarxism-Leninism. Space will only allow a ganization and the Canadian Peoples Defew quotes from this famous essay: “Since fence Committee have been circulated in the they are different in nature, the contradicthousands. These bullettins raised the fighttions between ourselves and the enemy and ing slogans of: The Canadian State is Racist the contradictions among the people must be Not MacMaster students!, Blame the Rich resolved by different means. To put it cont’d on page 22

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and Not the people for Racist Attacks!, An attack on Visa Students is an Attack on All Students!, and Self Defence is the Only Way! These bullettins pointed out that the motive of the differential fees and the administration’s slanders against MacMas“split the people and ter students is to paralyze their ability to fight against the shifting of the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the people. Tuition fees (for all students) are up, residence fees are up, etc.” The bulletins also announced the calling of a rally against these attacks (details of the rally are in this week’s chevron). Barkman’s article is just a mouth piece for some administration official to spout his attacks on students, and belongs in the Gazette or a garbage can. Salah

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CSA slaps Makonen On January 19th 1978, the Caribbean Students’ Association (C.S.A.) at a general meeting was approached by Mr. Aberra Makonen of the International Students’ Association with a petition involving several issues for which he solicited our support. One of the issues on this petition was to recognise and support Mr. Makonen as the elected President of the I.S.A. The C.S.A. voted to support Mr. Makonen and the petition. Re: 27th Jan. 1978 edition of the chevron, ‘Feedback’ pg. 17. After the letter of petition was published in the chevron, it was brought to the attention of the members of the Executive Committee of the C.S. A. that certain pertinent facts concerning the election regulation, as stated in the Constitution of the I,S.A., were not made known to the members of the Association by Mr. Makonen. A general meeting was called on February 2nd by the C.S.A. to which Mr. Makonen and Mr. Yohia Chindaya, the former Vice-President of the _ I.S.A. were invited to present both sides of the story. After hearing both parties, the members of the Association voted to withdraw the support given to Mr. Makonen. The Caribbean Students’ Association therefore is making an announcement of its decision to withdraw its recognition of Mr. Makonen as President of the I.S.A. We would like to see a Constitutional election being held to resolve the conflict within the I.S.A. When this occurs, the Caribbean Students’ Association will recognize the duly elected President. Caribbean

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Four weeks ago Oscar M. Nierstrasz (OMN) wrote into the chevron attacking the paper’ s slogan, “defend the basic interests of the students.” He called it a ‘gimmick’ used by some members of the staff, said it suggested that the word was ‘meaningless,’ ‘basic’ belonged in the ‘garbage can,’ and said that the word ‘interest,’ was ‘a nebulous entity somehow associated with you’ (the promoters of the slogan.) OMN wasn’t dealing with the content of the slogan - its actual practical utility. He was simply dumping verbal refuse on it, and from that concluding that the use of the slogan was a bad thing. In my own letter to feedback two weeks later, I carefully defined the slogan and backed this up with examples. I wanted to publicly debate its meaning with OMN. To repeat myself, since it didn’t seem to sink into his head: A defense of the basic interests of students is a defense of “those interests which if denied to students threaten the very existence or utilf ity of their education.

“On that count I wouldn’t include ice cream, beer, and movies. But they aren’t even threatened. . .. “I would include in a defense of the basic interests of students, and these have been the major points of,emphasis in the paper, editorially and otherwise, a fight against exorbitant increases in rent and tuition, or decreases in government assistance. If zi student can not afford an educatioi, he/she will cease to be a student. To this list can be added

increases in student/teacher ratios, the decreasing quality of such student resources as lab equipment and library services, the lack of jobs, etc., all of which threaten the utility of education. What can be more basic than that?” OMN said the slogan was ‘meaningless’ so I presented him with both the meaning and some case samples. But does OMN confront this argument of mine? No! Rather, he attempts to divert attention away from any dealings with the real meaning of the slogan through the use of some quite obscure sophistry. He now says he is opposed to the use of all slogans: “because they are necessarily vague generalizations that either seem self-evident or assume an arrogant tone of truth. If they are, in fact, self evident, then they are superfluous, otherwise they stand for a larger, more complex argument of dubious correctness. Slogans are invariably applied to a body far too large for their scope.” etc. etc. I must admit this wordy convoluted argument is a bit too much for me. I don’t understand it. It is clear that OMN says slogans are of no value. Let’s put this to the historical test. If all slogans were meaningless then we would have to say that they never played an important role in the history of human struggle. But isn’t it self-evident that such gseat slogans as ‘ Liberty, Equality, Fraternity )’ ‘No Taxation Without Representation,’ and ‘Land, Bread, Peace’ were extremely important in their day. Or how about, and this one was close to OMN’ s heart, ‘Reinstate, Investigate.’ OMN proudly fought for what that slogan represented - the right to a trial before conviction. He is even still known to wear his ‘the free chevron - Reinstate, Investigate’ button. If OMN truly believed, as he stated in his recent letter, that “a newspaper, of all things should not be bound to the tiresome rhetoric of a slogan,” why didn’t he object to the use of the free chevron slogan last year. After all, there was no absence of people who criticized the Reinstate, Investigate slogan in the exact same way as OMN recently criticized the slogan of ‘defend the basic interests of students.’ If he truly felt so strongly about ‘all slogans’ he should have raised his voice with those other critics. But he never did. I submit that OMN is not opposed to ‘all slogans’ but only to those he disagrees with. If this is true, he should clearly state his differences. He should leave his jargon about the so called meaninglessness and generality of slogans behind and get down to the hard core meaning of the slogan and its practical application. Possibly OMN is afraid to admit that he opposes the practical use of the slogan. David

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I have decided to write this letter to comment on the support and the non-support recently expressed over the issue of the’ rent increase at the Married Students Apartments. First, the comment on support; I will address this to Nick Redding (re article Feb Nick. lOA - please do not be disturbed There are many tenants who have their set priorities, while a few have elected to set aside these priorities to fight this horrendous 13.2% rent increase. These few people formed the Rent Negotiating Committee in accordance with the provisions of the Tenants Association. With the almost daily

meetings, it is difficult to communicate our actions to the tenants on a regular basis. Obviously, many tenants would not know that the Grad Club and the Feds offered financial assistance to the MSA. In fact, many tenants are unaware of the many hours spent in reviewing budgets, planning proposals and the time consuming leg work. Many tenants are also unaware of the extraordinary efforts and thankless hours provided by Linda Ross, chairperson for our committee. While our committee does not seek praise or thanks, we however do thank you Mr. Redding and the Grad Club, the Feds and especially Linda Ross. Recently, the issue of the rent increase at MSA has brought to light the negative if not hostile viewpoints directed towards the married students. Hostile attitudes are expected from the Board of Governors and the administration, but from fellow students it’s totally unexpected. When all students are , facing increases in tuition, the loss of funding, as well as daily increases in living expenses, we would expect students to support students to drive these costs down. So, I will 1address this comment to Stephen Coates and John Long. One would think that these two mental midgets involved in student political life would have some basic knowledge about students attending university. There are many working people, thousands in fact, that have sought to better themselves by returning to university. Some of these people may be married and some may even have children. To return to school is a tough decision, it means a drastic drop in income and time away from the family. These disadvantages weighed against the possibility of student assistance and low cost housing greatly influence the success of this return. When I read the statement “we didn’t give them (children) to them”, by Mr. Coates in the chevron (Feb lo), I became very angry. I find it difficult to believe that a student representative could utter such dribble. I can only infer from that statement, that Mr. Coates is totally devoid of character and humility. The attitude expressed by the BOG was predictable. However, the statement that students should be humble is the epitome of arrogance. I will address this final comment to Margaret Munnoch member of the BOG. Munnoch has reminded students that tuition is partially subsidized. I will remind Margaret Munnoch that Burt Matthews home is totally subsidized. The cost of this home more than equals the deficit at MSA. I suppose if I were the University president eaming a substantial salary with a home provided to boot, I too would be humble. Margaret Munnoch, I suggest to you that students are indeed humble. Humility these days is a necessary condition for students. Humble describes those students willing to assume any work to pay their way through university, keeping in mind that available work is almost extinct. Humble decribes students facing bleak economic conditions, it describes students earning less than subsistence wages on research projects while the product of this research funnels millions of dollars into the pockets of industry. Humble is definitely not Margaret Munnoch. It is not being vice-president of the Oxford County Muscular Dystrophy Association. You Margaret Munnoch do not conduct the research but you actively seek the glory and recognition. Humble is not being the Ladies President of a golf and country club or the chairperson of the Arena and Recreation Commission in Woodstock. If I were as humble as you Mrs. Munnoch, I would be a rich man. I suggest to you Margaret Munnoch, that you have confused humility with pomposity. /

Jack Clary

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Ian Macdonald is speaking in Room 2066 of the Math and Computer building at 7:3OPM tonight for the purpose of mystifying the causes of of the deepening economic crisis by blaming the Canadian people, especially the working class, and exonerating the rich who own the big farms, factories, mines and other means of production in Canada. In essence, his thesis is that inflation and unemployment occur because workers are too lazy and greedy. However, this thesis cannot withstand the test of facts, and’we predict that Macdonald will flunk this evening’s oral exam. Instead, he will be exposed as a windbag and reactionary of the first order who has been commissioned by the rich to defend the monopoly capitalist system and keep it from being overthrown. This man has no solution for the economic crisis. All he can offer the working class, students and teachers is repression and political persecution. According to Macdonald the economic crisis occurs because “we want more, but we don’t want to work for it”. He is making a big mistake to say such a thing in Waterloo. On our campus workloads for students, workers and faculty alike have increased substantially over the past six years, yet we are getting less reward for our efforts. If it were simply a matter of working harder for less pay, the crisis would be over already. The truth is that the present economic crisis is inherent in the monopoly capitalist system. It is a crisis of overproduction. Too many goods are being produced relative to demand, which causes prices of commodities such as wheat, nickel, copper to fall. Rather than endure a decline in profits, the big capitalists lay off workers on a massive scale (Into, etc .), creating a huge re-, serve army of the unemployed and leaving a large proportion of industry idle. Now 900,000 workers are walking the streets of Canada looking for scarce jobs. Just last week in Kitchener 200 people showed up to apply for five parcel delivery jobs that had been advertised in a local newspaper. But Ian Macdonald says “we don’t want to work”. His solution is for people to work harder However, if the intensity and therefore the productivity of labour increase, still fewer workers will be needed to produce the same amount of goods, and unemployment will actually increase. Over 100 years ago, Karl Marx made this remark about bourgeois political economy: “It was . . . no longer a question, whether this theorem or that was true, but whether it was useful to capital or harmful, expedient or inexpedient, politically dangerous or not. In place of disinterested inquirers, there were hired prize-fighters; in place of genuine scientific research, the bad conscience and the evil intent of apologetic.” Ian Macdonald is presicely this sort of apologist for the big bourgeoisie. His services to the rich extend beyonc distortions or political economy. As presi dent of York, he has promoted the Cana dian “unity” fraud of Trudeau, made York a stronghold of Zionist reaction, and lead ir imposing education cutbacks on the univer sity. He has also become notorious for or. ganizing a cowardly and fascist attack dur ing November of 1977 on the York Studenl Movement, the student wing ‘of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). and Dr. Jeffrey Forest, a professor at York, First a gang of Zionists was mobilized tc attack the regular YSM literature table, and when the Marxist-Leninists defended themselves, M,etro Toronto Police came ontc campus and arrested them. Then Macdonald revoked a permit for the YSM literature table, banned Dr. Forest from the campus without any investigation, and tried tc prevent mass democratic discussion of the issues surrounding this incident. The intenl of the campaign was clearly to ban Marxist-Leninist ideology and create a cli mate of fear on the campus, but it failed miserably because of the vigorous struggle of Comrade Forest and his supporter: against this malicious political, social and academic persecution. Dr. Forest has published a pamphlel

which thoroughly exposes Macdonald’s many services to the U.S. imperialists and the reactionary bourgeoisie. The AIA is distributing this statement tonight so that the people at Waterloo may become familiar with the underhanded tactics the Canadian state uses against progressive academics. Comrade Forest was one of the main activists who founded the Anti-Imperialist Alliance on October 2, 1974. Less than one month later he was fired from his position at Renison College for teaching Marxism and mobilizing his students for revolution. Now the state is persecuting him again. The AIA hails the just and principled stand which Comrade Jeffrey Forest has taken against the reactionary York University administration, and we call on democratic individuals and organizations at the University of Waterloo to support his struggle. The struggle against political persecution is part and parcel of the struggle against the shifting of the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the people. The rich have only one response to the crisis - make the people pay for it. However, the people have their own solution - MAKE THE RICH PAY! The rich do not want to pay, so their state persecutes those who are leading this struggle. Ian Macdonald is attacking the people on two fronts. He concocts theories resembling science and political economy which absolve the rich of any blame for the economic crisis and instead blame the people. When this mystification fails to keep people away from Marxist-Lenninism and revolution, he attempts to suppress the dissemination of progressive ideas altogether. The capitalist system has had its day. So has Ian Macdonald. MAKE THE RICH PAY FOR THE ECONOMIC CRISIS! DOWN WITH THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF JEFFREY FOREST AND CPC(M-L)!

“bad” guys among both homosexuals and documented evidence he has conscientiworker. Being a good worker does not heterosexuals and articles that blame the ously gathered in this respect. atone for the physical threatening of anywhole because of the few is scapegoating. Further, I find myself continually choking one. It does not atone for illegal use of To insinuate a casual connection between a on the constant reference to Mr. Milojkovic firearms. There are no exceptions to urban ‘as?& worker” and to crown officials as bylaws that allow guns to be shot upward. It person’s choice of lover and such heinous crimes as rape and child abuse is faulty logic the : ‘state”. I hope, Mr. Hannant, that I would certainly never have atoned if the as the one does not necessarily lead to the have misconstrued your meaning. I hope man at the other end of that gun had been other. that I am wrong and this is not another ill- shot. Who is the real enemy in our midst? disguised attempt to portray every enI suggest that too often the underpaid, unHomosexuals who, by and large, are ordicounter between government and public as thanked, overworked police officer who puts nary citizens desirous only of living as free that government’s deliberate attempt to athis life.on the line every working day of his human beings without being coerced into tack, discredit, and otherwise injure what life is too often the forgotten man by people set roles and patterns which serve no one you label in various terms “‘the lower strata such as Hannant. Officer Barens is not an except the status quo, or fundamental chrisof society”. I think I have had enough of the instrument of the state. He is only a very tians like Anita Bryant, the members of Refantastic fabrications of such as Doug sad man who tried to do.his job, and he will naissance and those who work for the propWahlsten (whom I consider to be a mental have to live with killing a very sick man for the rest of his life. Your painting him in a aganda weekly, today’s student? These pygmy quite out of touch with the real questionable light, Mr. Hannant, confounds people are using the bible as a social world) and various ethnic “defense commitweapon to pervert, harm and dehumanize tees” which suggest this. my sense of reason. any person who does not conform to their I think further that Mr. Hannant has paid But I will go further than just offering my nihilistic ideals. undue heed to the comments of Mr. support in this specific case. As I said beWiz Long Milojkovic’ s immediate family. They are fore, I deplore any suggestion of a police Pequegnat Collective hardly objective observers, being understate. But the fact remains Mr. Hannant Kitchener standably bitter. The assertion that “she that they are necessary. Yes, Virginia, they did not feel in personal jeopardy” leads me do protect people. Someday they may have to wonder why Mrs. Milojkovic ever cause to protect you when someone objects phoned the police. The fact that Mr. Milojto your ridiculous politics. kovic answered the return call by the police The innuendo that perhaps these squads After having read the latest issue of leads me to suggest that perhaps she was are there to protect the state against dissitoday’s student, I am outraged that such not in total control. Having made the call, dent insurgents is not without foundation. she probably would have been anticipating hate literature is allowed to be freely distriBut the state has that right, mister, when buted on campus. Can anything be done to and prepared for its return. If Mrs. Milojthese insurgents hold ideas such as those kovic “was never threatened and never in stop it? espoused by the AIA and other radical I suggest Anita Bryant and her backers are well or- danger from her armed husband,” write-off groups. Political ideas that vary she might have done him far more good by ganized, lavishly financed and energetic. from the norm are certainly to be desired so They are also sexist. They see only one role never having made what purports (accordas to act as a check on the system. But ing to her claims) to have been a needless for women and only one role for men. They when they advocate immediate and violent call. The uncontested acceptance of the ‘are opposed to the rights of children, overthrow of the state and can offer no viaclaim that Mrs. Milojkovic never mentioned women and gays. In attacking gays, today’s ble alternative, then these people threaten student has shown itself to be part of the a gun when she phoned the police is equally the state. What you fail to realize, Mr. Hancontentious considering her emotional rightist offensive and should not go unchalnant, is that the state IS the people. The state. Memory of that night could not possilenged . state has no interest in suppressing its peobly It is no coincidence that at this time - have been unerringly clear. ple. If enough people want a different type At any rmconsiderit to be irrelevant, today’s student is trying to create and bolsof state, so be it. Even, perhaps a commight ter anti-gay sentiment. The Legislature in as I do the fact that Mr. Milojkovic munist fairy-tale. The same people will rise have fired in the air. The fact remains that Toronto will shortly consider the inclusion to the top anyway. Anti-Imperialist Alliance he aimed a shotgun at Officer Barens, reof “sexual orientation” in the antidiscrimination provisions of the Ontario fused an order to drop it, and advanced on I suggest) Hannant, that you give a little Human Rights Code. If the right is successBarens and aimed the gun at him. What more thought to genuine political reality, have had Barens do? ful in its campaign of distortion, hate and would Hannant and a little iess to revolutionary rhetoric and misunderstanding, then the protection of Perhaps he should have allowed himself to chronic discontent for its own sake. be blown to duck droppings and commented gay people will not be included in the Bruce Beacock status as a good Political Science Human Rights Code. If that happens, gays on Mr. Milojkovic’s could be fired from any job, denied housing, denied access to government services simIn times of economic hardship, political ply because of whom they love. uncertainty and social confusion, repressive The forces of the right are on the move forces emerge the strongest. Even such a and today’s student is part of this reaction. I ‘liberated and enlightened’ institution as the challenge all “progressive” students to University of Waterloo is not protected speak out against all aspects of oppression against so-called sincere and well-meaning whether it be economic, social, racial or individuals who want to restrict the freedom sexual. of people who do not agree with their absoJoe &alai lutes. I am referring to the weekly, today’s 43hPequegnat Ave., No. 3 student which is freely distributed on camKitchener pus. In particular, I wish to draw attention to the latest issue which reported an exclusive interview with Anita Bryant. The article on Anita Bryant is an abhorrent piece of journalism. It is biased, sensational, and its partial truths present a distorted picture of homosexuality. For example, the article quotes the Los Angeles Times to support Dear Sir; their anti-gay arguments, and by itself the I find my conscience dictating that I reply quote is very damning of,gays. Rather than in some manner to the comment made in the screaming title, ‘ ‘ 30,000 children sexulast week’s issue of the Chevron concerning ally abused by homosexuals in Los the inquest into the death of Mike Milojit would have been more factual Angeles”, kovic, by Mr. Larry Hannant. It was very had the line read, “ 112,500 children sexufar from being an objective journalistic efally abused by heterosexuals . . .” I base my fort, and seemed throughout to be headed in Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members statistic on another quote taken from the as narrow-minded and unwavering a direcof the workers’ union of dumont press graphix and publish&j by the federation same newspaper. On October 28, 1973 the tion as Mr. Hannant claims the coroner’s of students incorporated, university of water-loo. Content is the sole responsiLos Angeles Times quoted from a report by inquest took. I am as staunch an advocate bility of the chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; the State Department of Mental Hygiene in of civil liberties as Hannant will encounter, the matter of child molestation. and range myself as far opposite the con(519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. “That study of 887 pedophiles (percept of a police state as anyone. Unfortu. . .somewhere over the rainbow and beneath the federation office this night at three in the sons favouring children as partners) nately, Mr. Hannant is reading far more into morning there lurks those who know about the uw-wlu merger, a new math program, someat Atascadero State Hospital - 65% the inquest than he is warranted in doing. thing more on proficiency exams, the Ontario federation of students meets bill davis, and a of them from Los Angeles County He does justice to no one - the crown at- handfull of other things. now you do, too. But ron reeder, levy, Oscar m. nierstrasz, don martin, revealed that 75% were heterosexual, torney, the coroner, the regional police, the salah bachir, mark mcguire, john shaw, rick smit, nick redding, and w. reid glenn knew first. while only 20% were (exclusively) government, Mr. and Mrs. Milojkovic, and other chevrics “in the know” this week are ruth harris of the charming accent, michael somebody or other - welcome to the show, folks! nina tymoszewicz, brenda rootham, george homosexual.” least of all to himself. sotiroff, brute beacock, david (interminable sentences) carter, jacob arseneault, jules graIf the above quote had been placed juxThere are several points of contention. jower, andrew vanwyck, jayne pollock, ciaran o’donnel, honorable mention cody who taposed with the quote from today’s ,student, The claims that the “inquest. . . was a shot by, jj long again, Christopher dufault turned graphicist, Stephen coates,to tom mark jardine, then a. different understanding of the probwell-orchestrated whitewash of the tactical john sakamoto, and some anonymous married student bundle carriers. sorry about the lack of lem of child abuse emerges. Since the writer squad” and that “the inquest was stagesparkling wit this masthed, but i’ve been depressed lately.. .began to be that way.when laurle of the Anita Bryant article only picked managed from beginning to end” are no less lawson offered to drop me out of her van; when docherty got mad ‘cause i hadn’t finished the quotes which condemns homosexuals, the defaming than they are unfounded in fact. paper yet it got worse; things became the pits when Sylvia squawked about the photo cabinet, whole article is reduced to propaganda of An interesting claim to say the least. I and jonathan didn’t help matters either way. but i guess i can live with everything except the jwb. the worse kind - hate literature. would be obliged if Mr. Hannant would do part about laurie, mainly because i’m the mad photographer Obviously there arc “good” guys and us all the honour of publishing the

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Wanderers play winning hockey The Waterloo Wanderers played four games since they were last reported in the chevron. Their game against Milverton, the second place team in the league, ended up as a 2- 1 loss. Milverton scored first late in the fist period, and Waterloo evened the score on a power play goal by Bonnie Zagrodney, assisted by Bev McKeown and Mary Campbell. Milverton scored what turned out to be the winning goal at 8:14 of the second period.

The Wanderers next game against Plattsville ended up as a 3-2 loss. Waterloo started the game off very slowly, and did not pick up much speed until the third period. By this time, Plattsville had built up a 3-O lead. Waterloo narrowed down the score on goals by Bev McKeown, assisted by Cathy Cumming, and Mary Campbell, assisted by Helen Mackey and Lynn Hoyles. However, time ran out as Waterloo formalized

Sports Shorts UW wins in gym The U of W Gymnastics team competed in the OWIAA finals which were held at the University of Toronto on February 11. Six other universities also entered teams in this competition. In the Senior division the U of W team won the team title followed by McMaster and York. In the Individual events Lynne Rougeau won second all-around, third on beam, floor and uneven bars and sixth on vault. Ann Samson tied with Diane Chown of McMaster for third all-around. Arm also placed second on floor and beam, with a fourth in vault. Though Brenda Hawrylow did not place she scored solidly in all events. Louis Love and Linda deBoer competed in the Intermediate diviwon sion which was won by the McMaster team. Karen Mckibbin sixth on floor in the Junior division which was also won by McMaster. Western won the meet taking the title away from York for the first time in seven years. McMaster was second and York third. The U of W Senior team will be competing in the Nationals being held in Winnipeg this year. The senior team will consist of Louis Love, Brenda Hawrylow, Ann Samson, Lynne Rougeau and coach Kevin Eby. Waterloo ties for third The rescheduled tournament due to the snow storm of January 27, 1978 took place for the women’s badminton tournament at McMaster this past weekend. The story was a little different than last year, lowever! Last year the snow storm cancelled the tournament preventing Waterloo from advancing from fifth to fourth place. This year :he team responded well, entering the tournament in fifth place and Xshing tied for third with Toronto. One tournament remains today gain at McMaster. It doesn’t look like the two front runners, West:m and McMaster can be caught. The Waterloo girls hope to pull away Tom Toronto (tied with 58 wints) and Brock (with 56 points) finishing alone in third place. Strong performances by Betty van Zoelen (6th, singles) and Jenny rorlett and Celestine Neoh (2nd, doubles) helped the team’s totals. Both units won all their matches. The only other tournament the girls have entered

Ryerson

Invitational,

where

they finished

second

this year is the behind McMaster.

Volleyballers tied for first and Saturday February 17 and 18 comes the moment of truth for the Athena Volleyball team. The 17th and 18th are OWIAA finals for Women’s Volleyball. Being held at Western in London, the round robin tournament will involve four teams: Queens, Guelph, Western’ and Waterloo. Only one team from this final will continue into the CIAU’s in Moncton, New Brunswick scheduled for the middle of March. At the conclusion of their season the Waterloo Athenas find themselves tied for the first position in their league with, none other than the long-time power, Western. This tie is by virtue of the fact that both Western and Waterloo suffered defeats to one another in season play. In summary, the Waterloo season play is as follows: 1st 2nd Wat. vs Brock 3-o 3-o Wat. vs Queens 3-o 3-l Wat. vs Windsor 3-o 3-o 3-O 3-o Wat. vs McMaster Wat. vs Western O-3 3-o All league play boils down to the OWIAA championships this On Friday

weekend.

Squashers in close competition Five members of the University Squash team competed in the Ontario ‘B’ singles championship held February lo-12th at the Kitchener-Waterloo Raquets Club in Kitchener. UW’s Don Brunker seeded second in the tourney lost to top seed Bob Kerr of the K-W Club 3-1,. in the closely contested final of the tournament. The final was an excellent display of tactical squash providing enjoyable viewing for the gallery. George Krausz Tom U of W defeated John Hohmeier 3-0, and upset 4th seed Gary Kritz of the K-W Club 3-1, before losing in the semi-fmals 3-0, to teammate Don Brunker. Warriors Rob Bertram was defeated by Bob Kerr in the first round of the tourney while Boby Murphy lost to Chris Gray. Gary Kritz defeated UW’s Al Mason. Men’s doubles title taken David Petroff and Harry Camourian, both members of the Warriors tennis team, won the men’s doubies title at the Cambridge Open held at Oxford Racquet’s Club last Saturday and Sunday. The U of W pair were seeded first in the tournament and upheld the position by winning the final with a come from behind 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 tally over Harry and John Greenan; both from Oxford Racquets.

their final attack. I think the Waterloo Warriors and Wanderers should get together and figure out how to play strong hockey for the first two periods as well as the third! Waterloo met up with Tavistack, the number one, undefeated team in the league, and came up with a 1-O victory. Both teams had equal scoring chances, as there was end to end action. However, Lynn (Bubbles) Preston came up with 27 saves to earn the shut out and MVP of the game. Waterloo’s winning goal came at the end of the second period, by Helen Mackey, assisted by Roberta Hull and Bev McKeown. Waterloo played as a strong unit, both offensively and defensively, and this is what accounted for the win. Last Saturday, Waterloo played St. George and beat them 5-1. St.

George opened the scoring in the first period, but it was the Wanderers’ game from then on. Scoring for Waterloo were Bev McKeown with three goals, and Bonnie Zagrodney with two. Assists were earned by Helen Mackey with three, Bev McKeown with two, and Bonnie Zagrodney and Donna Smith with one each. These last two games counted as four points each, because of snow cancelled games, and so Waterloo earned eight points this past weekend, to secure them firmly in third place. On Friday February 10, the Waterloo Wanderers played Ayr and beat them 2-O. There were lots of infractions, as both teams played aggressive hockey, but only two penalties were called on each team. Waterloo scored at the end of the first period on a breakaway by Mary Campbell.

With

Closing

the Gap

approximately

two weeks

left to register, there still is hope for our University of Waterloo joggers. Latest statistics show that

we are only

170 behind

Victoria.

“Last week we were over 300 behind. Maybe just maybe, the U of W spirit is alive and well,” says Intramural Director Peter Hop-

kins. Although ’ balmy

they are running

13 degrees

amongst

fodils,

U of W joggers

dismay,

the Ground

the daf-

should not Hog saw his

shadow, indicating only 6 more weeks of winter. Our objective is 10% or 1421 joggers. There is still time to Participact. Challenge

best represents their enthusiasm to become physically “ACTIVE’ ’. Here at the University of Water100, we are planning fun activities for the “Day” on March 9th but we need some input on how we are going to participate. For example, if 10,000 students each walked around the ring road, we’d have walked a total of 16,000 miles in one day. Maybe to complement our Jogger’s Challenge we can simulate a run to the University of Victoria. Come on in and let’s talk about it in the Intramural Office room 2040 PAC. Participaction Week

If you

Results

1. Engineering lenge: 1. Engineering 2. Math 3. HKLS 4. Arts 5. Science 6. E.S.S.

Societies

Chal228 131 109 102 68 51

spend

Caption

your

spare

of the

time

St. Jeromes Challenge St. Jeromes Notre Dame Renison Conrad Grebel St. Pauls

Committee

of the Waterloo

Region

has announced that March 9th, 1978 is the “Day” in which the whole

cluding

Waterloo

Community

the U of W campus

(in-

course) will stand-up and participate in an activity of some sort that

getting a spare tire, maybe

it’s

time you get rolling on your fitness txogram. I

Tennis Tourney Telegram The Intramural Tennis Toumament got under way on Sunday, January 29 and was completed on

Sunday,

February

5. Those

who

participated were categorized in either men’s A, me’n’s B or

Women’s, all of which were doubles. The highlight of the day was an inaccessible court due to water complications, rescheduling

which resulted of games. Despite

in all

the mishaps, the participants were very understanding and the tournament ran smoothly.

Athena swimmers go high in championships

Last weekend the Athena swim team traveled to Toronto for the 53 Ontario Womens Intercollegiate 30 Swimming and Diving Champion27 ships. The final point standings 12 were as follows: Toronto with 388 5 points, Western 369 points and Waterloo with 296 points. Coach 3. Village 1. Challenge Cronin was pleased with the many 133 fine individual 1. Village 1 performances and 2. Village 2 88 the extremely high team spirits. 3. Minota Hagey 6 Waterloo started the meet off with a win. Leslie Patterson broke It should be noted that Diana the Ontario record for the 50 yard Gill of H. K. L. S. is our first female freestyle held by our own coach faculty to register. In total, there Claudia Cronin. Leslie, our top are 51 staff and 29 faculty regissprinter, placed second in the 100 tered. Final sign up date is Wedyard freestyle and 12th in the 100 nesday, March 1, 1978. CAN WE yard butterfly. Co-captain Patti DO IT! Gorazdowska’s leadership qualities were revealed as she cheered Outer’s Club the team and contributed vital Attention all those outdoor re- points. Patti placed third in both creation enthusiasts! The Outer’s the 100 and 400 freestyle events. Club offer equipment rentals from She placed 5th in the 200 yard a campus outlet with hours every freestyle. Karen Murphy, the Monday between 11:00 a.m. - Athenas other co-captain, swam 12:00 p.m. and Thursday between superbly. The Ontario record hol4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Anyone interested der for the 400 individual medley, in this club’s services contact she placed first in the event. Karen Lawrence Thompson at 884-6276 placed second in the 200 individual or Lynette Chubb at 744-4081 or medley and 8th in the 100 yard butthe Intramural Office at the PAC terfly. Our only sprint breastroom 2040. stroker, Karen Stewart, placed Participaction “Day” third in the 100 yard breaststroke. She placed 4th in the 50 yard freeThe Participaction Steering 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

-‘sport’

e-Play

Intra-Play U of W Joggers

Ayr hit the goal post late in the third period (thank god) which would have tied the game. Waterloo then scored their second goal by Roberta Hull, assisted by Bev McKeown, on a close-in play. Waterloo played Ayr again Sunday night and beat them 2-O. Scoring for Waterloo was Helen Maelcey, assisted by Roberta Hull and Bev McKeown, on a’brilliant passing play which left Maelecy all alone in front of the net. The Wanderers scored their second goal on the same shift, by Bev McKeown, assisted by Cathy Cumming. Waterloo did not get any penalties; a rare occasion. Coach Bruce Zagrodney credits the victory to this phenomenon. Waterloo is playing in the Plattsville Tournament this weekend. First game is at 7pm. on Friday February 17 against DorChester in Plattsville.

style and 5th in the 200 yard breaststroke. Jane Orr, one of Waterloo’s top middle distance freestylers placed 5th in the 400

yard freestyle, 6th in the 200 yard freestyle and 8th in the 800 yard freestyle. Cathie Coulson and

Stacy Forsyth are the two star rookies of the swim team this year. Cathie placed third in the 200 yard backstroke, 4th in the 400 yard individual medley and 7th in the 200 yard butterfly. Stacy placed 4th in the 200 yard breaststroke, 5th in the 800 yard freestyle and 9th in the 200 individual medley. Peggy Mattson placed 10th and 11th in the 200 yard backstroke and 200 yard butterfly respectively. Brenda Lowery swam the 200 yard backstroke and the 400 yard individual medley and placed 1 lth in both events. Jane Goodyear placed 12th in the 200 yard freestyle. As always the divers contributed many valuable points. Laura Hecker placed first in the 1 metre diving and second in the 3 metre. Liza Ireland placed 10th in the 1 metre. The 400 yard freestyle relay of Leslie Patterson, Karen Stewart,

Jane

Gorazdowska

Orr

and

Patti

placed an extremely

close third behind Toronto and McMaster. The 400 individual medley relay of Cathie Coulson, Karen Murphy, Stacy Forsyth and Jane Goodyear placed 5th.

This

year

Waterloo

is sending

eight girls to the Canadian

ionships:

Cathie

Coulson,

champ-

Stacy

Forsyth, Karen Murphy, Karen Stewart, Patti Gorazdowska, Leslie Patterson, Jane Orr (lets go Jane!) and Laura Hecker have all qualified. The championships will be held on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool in Toronto. -sue Webster