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-op math Math co-op may be restricted to honors students only, if a motion introduced to the Math Faculty @ouncil Monday is implemented. The faculty council also boosted grade requirements for rernaining in the co-op program.
of the university. If you put stupid students out working with the firms it doesn’t do anything to our public relations with the firms.” He also commen i ed. “That it will take a while to flush these students out”. Ponzo, who brought forward the motion, feels that by upgrading the Math professor J.F. Lawson standards it will release jobs fol moved “That the faculty of more promjsing high school Mathematips requires maintenance and wili keep only the of satisfactory standing in one of graduates, best students in the co-op program. the faculty honours programs inThere are i;~;ftcaf;ions that the &ding enroilment in the honours reasons behind the morions are not version in all appropriate courses, entirely academic. During the until the end of the 3B academic and subsequent interterm as a condition of remaining in meeting, views there appeared :o be finana co-operative program, and that cial reasons involved ,, and an apthis requirement be phased-in startparant lack of ct)-op jobs. $niy stuing with the first year ig 1978-79, dents enrolted in the hoi~ours progsecond year in 1979-80, and third rams will be able to work, even yex i980-81.‘1 though there is no evidence to show This would mean sLarting in geneI:al students tl, be noon-::! 1;>*:3- fC;- y;l,tyyJ F3:Mif)? :;j ;,j~i,,-q;~c, *c/ijY‘kel k. &sQ, h<;$ji’gyp; &i’iL.nrs wouici Ilot be allowed to study are worth more money to the unirhe co-op system. This under versity under the government grant would make co-op students work system. harder and longer for the “better” --peter hsy degree. Lawson feels the general program is of poor quality and “severely contaminates” the higher courses. The implication is that general co-op students are not as good The future of graduate studies work-term employees as honour programs at the University of students. Professor Harry DavisWaterloo is “relatively thin”, told the chevron. “Many of the Dean of Graduate Studies Lyn employers couldn’t care less Watt commented in a report to the whether the student is enrolled in Graduate Council Monday. “Exan honours or general program, pansion isn’t the name of the game any more,” he said. they are more interested in people This report argues that in a who will work.” He also stated, period of declining graduate enrol“The students are no worse in general programs than in honours ment and increasing job scarcities programs. There is not much dif“the challenge to the universities during the (coming) decade will be ference.” The motion has been referred to to maintain the strength of the research base upon which the the curriculum committee. graduate programs depend”. Professor Peter Ponzo moved The report goes on to argue that “That the current average refunding for universities quirement of 55% to remain in a “decreased generally may well mean that some co-op math program be raised to of the weaker programs will have to 6m. The new requirement to be be phased out rather than applied after 1B to all new admissions to co-op beginning in Sepstrengthened. Funding for new tember 1978”. It passed unanimprograms will almost certainly be ously. limited to those programs which C.F.A. Beaumont, commenting can fill a demonstrated need and do on the motion, stated: ‘.tThose not duplicate existing programs. ” people who do not get 60% will The report proposes concentrahave to drop out of co-op, or get out tion on those graduate programs in
- , A referendum on the future of the chevron has been called for Tuesday March 28 to deal with the question of whether the chevron should remain part of, or should separate from, the federation of students, and whether the chevron should have a compulsory or refundable fee. What is the significance of the referendum ‘? For more than a year the chevron staff has been engaged in an active program of defending the basic intgrests of the students at UW. In this period the chevron has taken up several issues important to the education standards and Iiving conditions of UW students, and the work has produced tangible results. Some of these are : 1) investigation and analysis of the 1977 tuition fee hike for all students a I?d tf:p qajc--,p . i:!<;;;~.$;:y,:a il !uilioy: fqfvisa s&dents. t;ie demonstrate& that the government’s announced reasons for making us pay more are bogus. ^ 2) Two major surveys of UW stu-
dents and graduates to inquire into their actual unemployment rate and financial aid needs. 3) Article after article citing evidence of the effects of cutbacks at UW - deteriorating education standards, increased workloads for students, faculty and staff. And we’ve also led disctission on the-cause and cure of the cutbacks. 4) Articles exposing’ Burt Matthews’ role as administrator of and accomodator of the cutbacks, 5) Active defense of the Married Students’ Tenants Association fight against rent increases of 9 percent in 1977 and 13 percent this year. MSTA leaders say the investigation presented in the chevron strengthened their case against the administration and the Board of Governors. c)‘A campaign showing the fraudulent academic basis of the ajnli:icst:~tiotl’s g& pojcL;r; the English Proficiency exam, and the connection between it and the cutbacks. 7) Exposed the fact that the big monopolies are making huge profits
which the university has demonstrated its strength. “This will mean that we will be unable to expand our graduate offerings to any significant extent”.
cade will be one of consolidation. This period of consolidation was contrasted with the growth and development of graduate programs in the period since the inception of the university.
Some expansion is visualized in the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Leisure ‘Studies which is the youngest faculty in terms of its involvement in graduate studies, but .in general the tone in the next de-
Last Friday’s Jesse Winchester concert at Bingeman Park lost $3,300, as only 350 people attended when 850 were required for the event to break even. The event was tco-sponsored by CKMS and the Federation Board of Entertainment, and now they will share the debt. However, all the money wiii uitimately come from the Federation, since CKMS I
their fees this money will be redistributed. The president’s budget has been doubled but this is because he is administering a $12,000 entertainment and special project fund for societies. Otherwise, the president has a 12.7 percent cut in funds. The portion of this $12,000 to be used for entertainment is about $7000. This was formerly in the budget for the Board of Entertainmerit, Thus entertainment spending is to increase by 10.7 percent. A subsidy for the federation’s Used Book Store of $1500 has been
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S, Apprehension in the face of refundable fees which come into effect next term is reflected in the draft budget presented to federation council March 12. All areas except entertainment are to be cut back and the overall budget has been reduced by 14.6 percent from last year. This year there is also a $40,000 contingency fund and individual Boards will be required to set aside 20 percent of their budgets as contingency funds. These funds make up 35 percent of the budget.\.If students do not choose to take back
The report will be submitted to the Senate’s Long Range Planning Committee.
cut from the Board of Co-op Services. Since the book store is only busy during the first few weeks of term its hours will be reduced in an effort to run it on a break-even c basis. The Creative Arts Board has decided to save money by putting on more amateur productions rather than the professional productions it has presented in the pabt. The bulk of the Board of Communications cutback is due to the incorporation of Radio Waterloo which now has its own fee. --shiela
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is iot yet separate from the Federation. BENT chairperson Nick Redding said that “The overall entertainment costs of $10,000 for the term is not bad, even though it is $3,3 10 over budget!” Last year, under chajxpersons Bruce Leavans and Bruce Rorrison, BENT spent its $42,000 allocation for 1977-78 by early December. Redding took over and was given a $6,690 budget for the re&mainder of the fiscal year, which ends April 30. He told council on January 10 “there was a lot of blatant spending last term, but as for us going over the budget this term, I guarantee that this will not happen.” Jesse Winchester was not the only flop last week. Sweet Blindness played to 50 people at South Campus Hall on Thuirsday and the Feds lost $1,200. The feds want CPI to pay them for the $786 spent in promoting the event and have threatened legalkaction if CPI refuses, as they had a written agreement. --peter by
while the standard of living of students and other ordinary people is falling. Our efforts have armed the students with facts and analysis about cutbacks, unemployment, tuition fee hikes and other problems. But it has made us a thorn in the side of the UW admjnistration and the Ontario governmant. Now, right in the midst of this work, the chevron staff has been forced to deal with yet another hastily-called referendum which could halt our work and make the chevron vu!nerable to direct closure by the UW administration. This is the significance of the March 28 referendum. The referendum says: A. The chevron should: Remain a publication of the Federation of Students. If so. the Federation would review and ~evlsc its by-laws in tbc fight of the c h e v r 8 II investigation commission’s report. r (or! Separate from the Federation of Students through incorporation, with a separate chevron fee of $2.00 per term and with the Federation reducing its fees by the amount of the current chevron subsidy. 6. If the chevron were to separate, its fee should be: REFUNDABLE in the first three weeks of term COMPULSORY. We call on students to uphold the majority recommendations of the chevron investigation commission. That is, to vote YES for the first option under section A of the referendum. The majority recbmmendations of the chevron investigation commission summed up the nine-month struggle for Reinstate! Investigate! waged by the chevron staff last year. The commission met for six months and the majority, having thoroughly investigated the facts, rei=qmmended the paper remain part of the federation of students. It concluded that the closure of the chevron was not the result of serious flaws in thze constitution relationship between the chevron and the federation of students’ council and executive. The commission concluded that the problem arose not out of the bylaws but out of the anti-democratic actions of the federation executive and council, led by Shane Roberts. No new facts to negate its findings have arisen since the commission reported. We entered into the Reinstate! Investigate! agreement with full intention to carry it out to its conclusions. This is a commitment. We consider ourselves bound to uphold the majority recommendation, and on March 17 the staff voted to do so. Before this staff decision was made we met twice with the administration to learn what their terms would be if the chevron were to separate from the federation. What guarantees .would we have that the administration would collect fees and provide offices for the chevron? The negotiations demofistrated that if we separate from the federation, the administration would want the authority to unilaterally and arbitrarily cancel any agreement with the chevron to
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Friday Campus Centre Pub closed. There will be a full moon meditation meeting at the Universal Humanity Centre, 14A Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario. All welcome. Admission free. 8pm. No Federation Flicks.
Saturday Full-Contact Kick Boxing Spectacular Canada vs. U.S. in the Evening. Limited Seating. WLU Athletic Complex. Martial Arts Open Tournament all day. Admission Day: $2 students, Night: $4, $3 advance. Phone 744-9551. Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Masquerade from g-lam. $1.25 admission. Iranian Students Association invites you to its New Year celebration. Program: songs, play, film, Persian dinner. Literature table, Persian handicrafts. Tickets $5 adults, $3 children. Available at Fed Office, Chevron, International Students Office (Needles Hall) 6pm. E3, 1101 Red Carpet Lounge. Upstairs at the Grad Club. Doug Reansbury. 8pm. Grad Club. $.50 students, $1 others. Cash bar.
Sunday Worship with Chaplain Kooistra. An interdenominational service sponsored by the Christian Reformed Church. llam. HH 280. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing session. Players-of all calibre welcome. 2-5pm. Upper Blue Activity Area, PAC. Lutheran Student Movement Co-op Dinner. 5pm. NH 2050. Enter from Library entrance of NH. Transcendental Meditation. Advanced lecture for meditators. 8pm. E3, 1101. Worship. Lutheran Campus Ministry. MC 3010. 9:30pm.
Monday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover.
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Legal Resource Office provides free legal information to students. 885-0840. CC 106. Hours: 1:30-3:30pm. All are welcome to attend a bible study and discussion session on Liberation and Politics of the Gospel. Sponsored by St. Jerome University Parish. 6pm. St. Jerome’s College, Coffeeshop. International Folk Dancing. To learn and dance world famous folk Dances. $1 per person per evening. Senior Citizen’s Centre, 310 Charles Street East,’ Kitchener, Info: Mary Bish, 744-4983. C.S.M.E. Final Night Meeting Guest speaker from Ford Motor Company on highway corrosion. Free refreshments, all mech. students and faculty welcome. Memberships available. 8pm. Faculty Club.
Anti-Imperialist Alliance Literature Table. Literature of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tsetung and Enver Hoxha, plus revolutionary materials from Canada, Albania, and other countries. IO-2pm. Arts Lecture. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. Health Studies Social. Come and meet the prof’s and fellow studerts. 3-6pm. MC 5136. (5hg floor lounge). Lutheran Student Movement. Contemporary Issues Study Group. 3:30pm. NH 2050. The Death of Muse by Professor Leonard Woodbury (U of T). 4:30pm. ML 246. Everyone Welcome. Christian Discussion Fellowship with Chaplain Koositra, discussing Relection .on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis. 7:30pm. E3, 1101. Arts Inter-club Pub. South Campus Hall. One free beer for Arts students. Free admission. 8pm. D.J. - Door Prizes.
Tuesday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. Kundalini Research Institute of Canada presents a lecture on Kundalini, the cosmic life force and evolutionary energy in man. CC 113 at 3:30 pm. All welcome. Student Choreography Workshop with Carousel. Everyone welcome. Free admission. 5:30pm. Dance Studio. PAC 2024. A vegetarian pot luck dinner followed by a short talk by Gordon Smith, naturopath. Bring one’vegetarian dish and utensils. Everyone welcome. 6:30pm. MC 5136 (Faculty lounge). 884-0324. Chess Club Meeting. Everyone wetcome. 7pm. CC 113. Table Tennis Club - See Sunday 7-1 Opm. Are you a compulsive overeater? If so . . . we can help you. Come to Overeaters Anonymous. 7:30 9:30pm. CC 1,35. WATSFIC: The University of Waterloo Science Fiction Club holds meetings every week at 7:30pm in MC 3011. All are invited. Free donuts for members. Lecture-Workshop. The Inner Life The Search for True Satisfaction. 4 session intensive course on meditation and spiritual philospphy. Admission free. 7:30pm. CC 135. Lesbian Organization of Kitchener (L.O.O.K.) We are a group of women meeting every second Tuesday to organize alternative events to bars and dances. Our basic purpose is to bring together gay women (but not excluding women as a group) and to nurture our strength and identity as lesbians. If you wish to know more, please come out to a meeting. LOOK needs you; LOOK is you! For more info: Gay Liberation Movement, ext. 2372. 8pm. Gay Lib Office. On CKMS 94.5. A wide range of Chinese music and speaking in Cantonese. Music is the universal language. 8:30-9:30pm.
Coffeehouse. Sponsored by Gay Lib. 8:30pm. CC 110. Free Movie - Great North Field Minnesota Raid with Cliff Robertson 9:30pm. Campus Centre Great Hall. Sponsored by Campus Centre Board.
Thursday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. All persons, dead or alive, are not urged to avoid attending the general meeting of the Karl Friedrich Gauss Foundation, postponed from 31 January 1976. Free donut. 7pm. MC 4112. Table Tennis Club - See Sunday 7-1 Opm. Free lectures and practice in prayer and meditation. Sponsored by Universal Peace Mission. 8-IOpm. 50 Peter Street, Kitchener. 578-2584.
Friday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No Cover. Oppose Canadian Banks’ Loans to South Africa. Demonstrate in front of the Bank of Commerce and the Bank of Montreal, King & Queen Street, Kitchener. 4-5pm. Info: South Africa Action r Committee, 743-0939, 743-7111. Peoples Food Commission Community Supper, film and information meeting. Trinity United Church, 74 Frederick Street, Kitchener. 6pm. Admission $3. Contact Global Community Centre: 743-71 Il. Federation Flicks - Barbare’lla with Jane Fonda and If.. . with Malcolm McDowell. 8pm. AL 116. Feds $1, Others $1.50. Agora Tea House. Herbal teas and home-baked munchies are available. A time for discussion and conversation. Everyone is welcome. 8-12 midnight. CC 110.
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7 campus Coupled with the recent IO-cent transit fare increase, members of the UW community will also see a reduction of service in the mainline route come the fall. Monday, Waterloo council accepted the North Waterloo Transit Stidy which will cut the Number 7 run to the university from a 20 minute to a 40 minute frequency after Spm. Six buses will be taken off this service. Council also planned to study a route change iwthe Lakeshore bus run proposed by Federation President Rick Smit. Smit’s plan would have the bus reach Phillip Street on the campus’ east end to accoinmodate students from the Sunnydale area. The change in the mainline route will be made in order to run a bus to the new Conestoga Mall which is located on King Street north of Weber. The move depends on the mall’s opening which could be delayed past the expected August deadline, according to Waterloo Transit Planner Bill Dawson. Smit complained of the rising
transit costs - from 25 cents in 1976 to the current 45 cents - and of the reduction in service. His suggested change in the Lakeshore bus route met with mixed response. Alderman Meston suggested a trial run for the route. Mary Jane Mewhinney felt that the university deserved something in return for the 50 dollars per student tax it payed to the city. Others felt that it would be too costly. Most said they needed more information. Dawson claimed that there was a potential university market that was not being served and said that they have been waiting on a Federation survey of students in the Sunnydale . area. Bill Deeks, head of Administrative Services, also opposed the mainline transit cut. The night time reduction was not wise according to Deeks with two theatres on campus and with increasing numbers attending night classes. He also pointed out that the University was not asked for input into the study. Alderman Meston felt that council had lost the close contact with
The University’ of Waterloo is missing $690,000 in the 1978-79 budget because of a new funding method implemented by the provincial government for the first time this year. The new funding method effectively penalizes a university for increasing its student population beyond an established base figure, and encourages it to reduce enrollment below the figure. For each student enrolled over and above the base figure the university receives only 50 percent of the normal Basic Income Unit grant for a student. The effect is..to put a ceiling on growth in Ontario universities. Moreover. the same funding method also applies to enrollment declines. providing SO percent of the normal BIU grant for every I-e; duction in the number of students from the base figure. In simplified terms, for every student who isn’t here this year, but who is counted in the base figure, the university gets half of the normal BIU grant. With a BIU worth $2,647 in the upcoming year, the result is that the university receives $1,323 for each of these phantom students, that is, those who aren’t here. UW’s problem - if you could call it that - is that we don’t have any of these valuable phantom students; only the half-price real ones. That’s the simplified situation, at least. The reality is slightly more complex. Here’s what it means for the 78-79 budget. The base figure (officially called the formula funding base) is established by taking the average of enrollments for the years 74-75, 75-76, 76-77. For UW that figure is 12,985 full-time equivalent students (undergraduates, not including affiliated college students). To decide how many students will be included in the grants for the upcoming budget year, the government calulates the average enrollment for the three years immediately prior to the budget year being considered. This is called the moving average; for the 78-79 year it is the average of the years 75-76, 76-77, 77-78, or 13, 429 students. The increase is 444 full time equivalent uadergraduate students. Under the old funding method, the increase would yield the university an extra 666 BIU’s
(since the BIU is based on an undergraduate arts student; engineering and science students, for example, are “worth” more than one BIU). But under the new funding scheme, the university receives only 50 percent of the normal BlU’s for that number of students. Several universities in Ontario are in the same position as UW, that is. being penalized for enrolling “too many” students. Those universities where enrollment is declining actually receive grants for students who aren’t registered. vice-president U W finance Bruce Gellatly told the chevron that the funding method “moderates the increases. but the offsetting advantage is that it moderates the decreases. too. If the provincial forecast is for a total system decrease. which indeed it is, then, since we’ve had to go along with the 50 percent funding decrease, it’s only fair that it would be 50 percent on the decrease, too.” The university has not calculated the long-term effect of this funding method, Gellatly says. The number of Graduate Funding Units, (the graduate student equivalent of the BlU) has been frozen since 1976. The 78-79 budget is the third budget in which this freeze has been in effect. The freeze means that the university may add to the number of graduate students enrolled, but it forces more students to rely on a fixed number of GFU’s. The Ontario Council of University Affairs is expected to issue a report next month discussing methods to change this scheme, which will operate at least until 1979-80. -4arry
the university which he felt they once had. Councillors agreed that the study should go on with UW involvement even though Commissioner of Works Jim Willis felt that the 102 people who use the service between 7am and 12:20am was not
a sufficient number to continue the A present service. With the implementation of the report, student% would still have a 20 minute service to King Street via the Number 8 bus at UW’s University Avenue entrance. From here,
the King Street bus will also run every 20 minutes. As for the changes in the Lakeshore bus run, Mayor Marjorie Carroll does not see changes in the current year. -randy
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S More than 2,000 students, staff and faculty from Ontario universities demanded that Premier William Davis and Universities and Colleges Minister Harry Parrott account for themselves March 16 at Queen’s Park. Neither Davis nor Parrott appeared, although a sharp-eyed chevron photographer spotted a treed Shane Roberts, recalled president of the Federation of Students, who came out of a yearlong hibernation to keep an eye on the action. Several veterans of the free chevron struggle were unable to coax Roberts out of his tree. The demonstrators were prevented from visiting Davis and Parrott in their offices by a line of police and a chain of the demonstration organizers counseiling the demonstrators to “Go back to your campuses!“, which raised a chorus of “Sellout” from the ranks.
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UW Senate approved a graduate actuarial science program Monday.
have been attracted by career opportunities in the insurance business, even though they do not have a bachelor’s degree.
The new grad program will offer courses that relate to the legal, economic, accounting and practical aspects of an actuary’s work. Subjects will include life insurance premiums, life insurance-taxation, casualty coverage and risk theory.
A third group of people who are already qualified, but want to do certain additional in-depth studies, are also expected to,mak$ use of the program.
The new program is for students who wish to become professional actuaries, and those who already
Frank Reynolds, lecturer in UW’s actuarial science program, is setting up the program, which will
be the only one in Ontario. Manitoba and Quebec offer similar programs already. Reynolds told the chevron that the demand for the program comes from government agencies, who have found these professionals to be extremely useful financial advisors in financial management of health insurance and social welfare departments. An undergraduate program in actuarial science leads to a B.Math. degree and is tailored for jobs with
insurance companies. Professional status as an actuary is granted upon successful completion of nine (life) or ten (casualty) examinations. The remaining skill requirements can now be fulfilled through the new master’s program, although a person completing a M. Math. program will still have to pass the full complement of exams before being granted professional status by the Canadian lnstitute of Actuaries. -dieneke than
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to vote. Voting will The polls will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4130 p.m* I.D. cards must be presented be by faculties, with polling stations located in the main foyers of the following bldgs.: Arts Lecture Hall Arts & Integrated Studies: ENV Environmental Studies: Eng 4 (EngSoc Lounge) Engineering: PAC (red north) ’ H.K.L.S.: M & C (3rd floor) Mathematics: l Chem-Biol Link Science (Opt., see below): Renison College Renison: ’ St. Jerome’s College St. Jerome’s: Optometry: Special poll from IO:30 to I:30 only:Optometry Bldg. All other times, vote at Science poll. By faculty, as above Graduate: The wording of the referendum will be as follows: A The chevron should: - Remain a publication of the Federation of Students. If so, the Federation would review and revise its by-laws in the light of the chevron investigation commission’s report. (or) - separate from the Federation of Students through incorporation with a separate chevron fee of $2.00 per term and with the Federation reducing its fees by the amount of the current chevron subsidy. B If the chevron were to separate, its fee should be: - REFUNDABLE IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF TERM. -COMPULSORY. Note: Poll clerks are needed Campus Centre Room 235. AN INFORMATIONAL
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ra A controversial proposal to establish an Environmental Studies based graduate program in resources management is currently being circulated in the E.S. Faculty. The proposal visualizes a three semester Master’s program. The E. S. Natural Resources and Ecology Committee chaired by George Francis from the Department of Man-and-Environment, argues that one major perceived gap in resource management capabilities in Canada “is the lack of enough people who can work effectively at various integrative functions at the level of policy analysis, strategy formulation and organizational management.” It is believed that the need to integrate these skills into a larger context of economic, social, and environmental issues “will continue to grow in the face of perceived resource scarcities and the increasing allocation conflicts among resource uses and user groups”. The proposed program would meet these needs through the use of a year long core course with workshops devoted to case study material, through a research project dealing with a practical policy and or management issue, and two full course equivalents of electives. In a significant departure from Faculty practice the proposal sug-
gests a “practicum” rather than a conventional thesis. George Francis argues that the resources proposal is an attempt to strengthen the resource management stream within E.S. and thereby add to the interdisciplinary potential of the Faculty. It is generally accepted that the initial goal of the Faculty to establish an integrative and interdisciplinary approach has been less than successful. The exact form which the program will take is unclear. Francis commented that the proponents “will have to go slowly and informally”. The effect of the new program on Geography, and Planning graduate programs remains to be seen and Francis hoped that con“academic turf” cerns about would not override an attempt to chart a new academic direction within the Faculty. Because of the current climate of restraint in university budgets, it is visualized that the initial program would be small (6 to 8 students) and that it would be offered through the existing degree programs in geography and planning. Such a structure would require changes in the current departments courses and programs and their openness to this possibility is not known.
The UW Senate, Monday, approved the establishment of a Department of Health Studies within the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies, conditional to reevaluation in 5 years time.
Over the last three years it has received $450,192 for research, and derived from contracts. This support has come from sources such as Health and Welfare Canada, Ontario Ministry of Health, Solicitor General of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Education and the Woodward Foundation. A continued high level of funding is anticipated, according to a statement from the National Health Research and Development Program of Health and Welfare Canada, that‘ “Particular importance is attached to efforts directed towards the description, development and
Currently an honours program in Health Studies, under Kinesiology offers 17 courses. Graduates of this program work in areas such as public health, community health education, private health agencies, teaching and research. The present program has been offered for several years and is well-established. An MSc program was implemented in 1977, with a maximum enrollment of 8 students. Health studies focuses on behavioural factors involved in disease prevention and the promotion of health. Topics such as careless driving, smoking, obesity, stress, drinking and lack of exercise are included in the areas of study. One objective of the program concerns development of strategies to influence health-promoting attitudes. Increasing recognition of the future roles of health promotion in Canada’s health delivery system demonstrates a need for doctoral level researchers as well. Hence, further development of a doctoral (Ph.d) program is foreseen. Health Studies is an innovative program, unique in North America. Funding has not proven a problem.
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The conflict between the executive of the Graduate Students Union (GSU) at the University of Toronto and Maria Horvath, the editor of the Grad Post, is approaching a crucial juncture this week. The GSU executive has come under attack for its threats of dismissal against Horvath and the subsequent secrecy with which it has shrouded its dealings. A Canadian University Press (CUP) investigation commission into the dispute recently found that the charges of the GSU executive did not warrant dismissal action against the editor. Horvath had been served with two letters of warning earlier this year by her employer, the GSU. Delegates at a recent conference of the Ontario Region of CUP were amused when Horvath read the charges in the letters she had received. They included claims that she had failed in her duties to cover important campus meetings, to prepare a budget and to pay outstanding bills. At the conference Horvath explained that the executive had not specified any meeting she had missed. She presented to the conference a budget she has been keeping. She also revealed that the papers unpaid debts go from 1975 and 1976. Other charges made were that there was a lack of photographs in the Grad Post and Horvath had left the office door open and that she had broken the Xerox machine. The last charge prompted a laugh from the repairman, according to Horvath. In response to the warnings, Horvath requested that her union, CUPE local 1281, launch a grievance procedure against the GSU executive. A number of lengthy closed meetings have failed to resolve the dispute. The meeting of’ graduate students on February 20, a letter from the Graduate Association of Students of Political Science (GASP) which expressed strong concern for the freedom of the press and concern that “the current difficulties between the GSU executive and the Grad Post get an open hearing and general discussion.”
evaluation of health promotion. .. and to further the achievement of optimal health for all the residents of Canada. ” The Department of Health Studies wilI be incorporated into the existing structure of the Faculty of HKLS. The Health Studies budget is already separated from that of Kinesiology , and the program has been operating as a semiautonomous unit for some time. The number of undergraduates totalled 113 in all years by 1977-78, and interest in the program is increasing. -dieneke
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Leo Casey, vice-president of the GSU, stated that if the current grievance procedure was allegedly confidential the material in the letter should not be discussed. Thus any discussion of the letter was ruled out of order as were all other attempts to talk about the dispute. The GSU executive then approached the Varsity Committee with their case. The Varsity Committee is the managerial board of representatives from Students Council and the Varsity that governs the business concerns of the Varsity. Casey presented a brief which claimed that “the confidentiality of this (the grievance procedure) was violated” by a report in the Varsity of the charges aired at the .ORCUP conference. It was shown that the contract under which Horvath was bound mentioned no confidentiality for the grievance procedure. According to the Ontario Labour Relations Board the procedure is not confidential unless specified as such in the contract. The executives demand for a front page apology in the Varsity was rejected by the committee. The GSU executive approached the Varsity Committee again after the Varsity published excerpts from minutes of a closed GSU executive meeting. Casey presented another brief which claimed that the Varsity had received stolen materials. The minutes show that Casey had recommended to other executive members to claim that they were “engaged in a confidential matter of a contractual nature and we are not allowed to cornment.” The Varsity Committee
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tally he referred to the thesis that all immigrants of East Indian origin have their roots in “South Asia”, irrespective of their country of origin, whether it be Guyana, Britain or India. It was poihted out that this position categorises people by race rather than by their nationality, culture etc. Wahlsteq pointed out that while the ‘report “failed to find widespread evidence of organised by thk Western harassment” Guard, it also found it “sad” that there was organisation taking place wifhin the East Indian community, based on “counter violence”.
Wahlsten denounced the Pitman report as a disgrace. On the one hand, he said, it ignores evidence of the Western Guard, and on the other it finds it sad that the people are organising against it. The exchange sparked a response from one of Pitman’s opponents who gave his views on the state’s attitude-to racists and antiI racists. He s\aid recently eight people were arrested in Toronto for putting up posters advertising a demonstration against racist attacks. While members of the Western Guard who were recently found ,guilty of about 150 charges including planting bombs, conspiracy, This was taken as a reference to were the EID\C, which has 2,000 mem- T and actual physical attacks, given a mere 2-year sentence. The bers in Toronto and upholds the man said people can get that for view that if attacked “self-defence driving offences. is the only way”.
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is concerned that visa students holding teaching assistantships at Canadian universities are in violation of this policy. The new regulations will require that a visa student has to have an offer of employment for a teaching assistantship from a university before landing in Canada. It may be necessary, Dean Watt commented, for universities to advertise teaching assistantships in order to assure federal officials that qualified Canadians don’t exist tQ fill the positions. Watt admitted however, that not all positions will be filled by this route, and that it is not yet clear how stringently the new regulations will be enforced. Watt reiterated are committed to visa students and Students do not dians. .
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He explained that Hardial Bains, the chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) who has been in Canada since 1959, and has organised against racist attacks, has been denied citizenship. Meanwhile Don Andrews, also an immigrant, has been g&en citizenship. At one point Wahlsten said that the world is divided into racists and anti-racists and that a person is
judged on where he stands. Pitman, however, said he felt this was simplistic and gave the view that there is “a bit of racism in all of us”. This brought an angry response from the audience, and Re-’ nison principal Ian Campbell adjourned the meeting, over the protests of those who still had questions for the Ryerson president. -dieneke chant -neil docherty
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for national liberation struggles. It was also emphasized that foreign students should pay no fees. This demand was supported by the fact that foreign students have had to seek education here because higher education is almost unavailable in their homelands. The cause of this, the newsletter states, is the impoverished state to which their countries have been reduced by continuous plundering for the past four centuriks. ISA goes on to point out that the multi-nationals, the ones who have benefited from exploiting Asia, Africa and Latiri America should pay for the education of foreign students. Further, because of the current situation in these countries, the, multi-nationals stand to gain from the skill acquired by those students when they return home. The ISA plans -to continue to organize cultural activities for its members and friends. “We are internationalists, national not chauvinists”, the newsletter states. “We believe in the equality of nations and cultures.” The newsletter also stresses the need for unity of the foreign students under ISA in order to fight attacks such as fee hikes, immigration law and racist attacks. _
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Anti-apartheid A demonstration against investment in South Africa by Canadian banks, scheduled for the campus centre bank Tuesday was called off after it failed to get the approval of campus centre co-ordinator Carol Hincks. Rita Niekamp of the Southern Africa Action Committee of Kitchener-Waterloo told the chevron that since the group was a community group rather than a student group “we were concerned about whether we had the right to use the Campus Centre.. . I thought we should go through
side effects of this chemical. Preliminary research indicates that paraquat breaks down into less harmful chemicals when the marijuana is smoked, but there is a danger for those who prefer to ingest marijuana orally.. In another aspect to this story, there appears to be little chance of stopping this dangerous practice. Despite considerable political pressure on the US State Department to withdraw their support of this program, and, warnings from the US Department of Agriculture of the dangers, the State Department protests that it cannot interfere in Mexican affairs. However, not only did the Americans initiate the program, they also provided the initial capital, provided the planes, trained the pilots, and provided the paraquat. -case
A survey to obtain undergraduate students’ opinions on social activities and facilities offered on campus is currently being administered by a small group of students sponsored by the Federation. The main facilities and events being investigated are the Campus Centre, South Campus Hall, Village and College pubs Campus Centre Coffee Houses and Society organised events. Students are also asked if the social facilities should be ex-
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We stmlgfy support the c n staff editorial on the referendum and offer this comment as an elaboration of our views on some aspects of the chevron staff position. We hold that the majority analysis an9 recommendations of the Chevron Investigation Commission are the result of an honest and serious investigation, and that opposing separation affords better protection for the paper, while ensuring greater accountability to the students than would a separate chevron, The investigation into the closing of the chevron was the tesuIt of a nine-month struggle by the chevron staff for “Reinstate! Investigate!“. The staff relied on the students of this campus to overturn the arbitrary lock-out and closing ofthe paper by the federation executive and council. led by then president Shane Roberts. j Because it was denied a fair- hearing the staff delmanded reinstatemen! of the paper to be followed by a thorough investigation ofthe charges against the paper as well as the actions of the federation leadership. The chevron staff held that it had done nothing wrong and that it had nothing to fear from a fair hearing and frum the verdict of such a hearing. Throughout the struggle, we were adamant that we would only accept both reinstatement and an investigation. Finally. on June 28, 1977 students council reinstated the paper and a binding commission was agreed to by both council and the chevron staff. The commission’s mandate was to: -investigate the closing of the paper etc.; -to investigate the legality and propriety of these actions; ----and to make recommendations on the future relationship between the chevron and federation. The commission met for six months, and the majority, having thoroughly investigated the facts, exonerated the chevron, chastised the federation leadership, and recommended the paper remain part of the federation of students. After serious deliberatian the majority of the commission in its analysis of the chevron’s closure concluded the closure of the paper was not the result of serious flaws in the constitutional retationship between the chevrun and the Federation of Students. The problem arose, not out of the bylaws, the commission concluded, but out of the anti-democratic actions of the Federation executive, and council led by Roberts. The majority of the commission found that the arguments concerning theinadequacyof the bylaws were merely put forward after the fact as excuses to justify arbitrary closure. To make such abuses more difficult in the future the majority of the commission recommended relatively minor changes to the existing bylaws. The option of the sepiration of the paper from the federation was considered by the commission, but rejected. This was done because the majority of the commissioners, in their anatysis of the paper’s closure. did not consider* rhe constitution to be the fundamental problem. The majority, felt that separation of the paper from the federation would raise new problems rather than solve uld ones, a conclusion which the chevron staff has found to be borne out in the recent negotiations with the administration. It is clear that, in the main, the majority of the investigation cummission carried out their obligation to conduct a thorough investigation of the facts. The chevron staff committed itsetf to Reinstate! Investigate! and is fulfilling its obligations in this respect. The Chevron Investigation Commission examining witnesses, tapes and documents, and in its majority analysis on the chevrun’s cIosure and its majority recomm&dations, also fuIfilied its obligations, of a full, fair investigation carried out on the basis of facts, with the conclusions arising From and substantiated by the facts.,In the light of this, why should the investigation commission not be upheld‘? Have any new facts arisen ta make the commission’s findings obsolete since it issued its report February 2? We have not found any. In fact our experience in examining separation further confirms that the majority of the commissioners were right, in opposing separation. While we are not fully satisfied with the wording of the referendum because it emphasizes separation rather the the majority recommendations of the commission - we nonetheless urge students to participate, since the referendum dues provide for ratification of the majority recommendat ions.
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The advocates of separation make two fundamental claims: one, that it vould provide the chevron with greater autonomy, and two, that if sepaate with a refundable fee, the paper would be more accountable to the tudents. Both these arguments are false. Separation would take power from the hevron and would greatly infringe on students’ power- to ensure accoun-
March 28 to deal with the question of whether the chevron should remain +part of, or should separate from, the Federation of Students, and whether the chevron should have a compulsory or refundable fee. For the past year, the chevron has been on the forefront to support our fight against rent hikes imposed on us by the Board of Governors. Their detailed research and investigation into the causes of t.he problem has been very valuabIe in our negotiations with the Board of Govern&-s. The publicity they gave to our fight has also helped tremendously in rallying support for us. 1 If separated. the chevron would be placed under the thumb of the Board Of &vemors, because they would have the arbitrary power to close the chevron by not collecting the fee for the chevron. In our dealings with the Board of Governors, we found that these people just don’t care for the interests of the students. Burt Matthews, the president, told US bluntly
debate could be collected on short notice -comments from individua/s and organizations about their stand on the issue, and as background, the majority recommendations oi the chevron investigation commission. Commission recommendations are on page 12.
tion. In negotiations with the administration on the matter we discovered that a separate;: chevron would have to have its fee collected at registration. This service, provided by the administration, came with the condition that it retain the wholly arbitrary power not to collect the fee should it feel so inclined, The staff voted not to accept this condition and was trying to negotiate a better deal. Now, however, a referendum in favour of separation will undermine any bargaining position and make it possible for the administration to impose its tet+ms LIpon us. In its agreements with other organisations the administration insists on this right without condition. These c~therorganisations like the federation, CKMS, and OPIRG have conceded this authority to the administration, none of them, howevet-. has taken up the same role as the chevron, to defend the basic interests of the students, a roje which has brought uS into conflict with the administration on many occasions. AceQuntable fc3 the BOG? The UW Boar-d of Governors, made up of bankers. business executives and sundry politicians. has hiked the rent for married students’ apartments, sanctioned an English Language Proficiency Fraud and tuition increases, for ya~:s has accomodated the education cutbacks. While perpetrating these acts the board’s main opposition in recent times has come from the chevron. Yet we are asked to believe that us being separate from the federation, and so subject to the arbitrary whim of these guys, affords us greater autonomy. But the autonomy fraud doesn’t end there because apart from being placed out on a limb for the administration to lop off, our negotiations indicated that in all likelihood we would not be completely separate from the federation Our office space would probably be granted through an agreement with the federation, thus opening up another avenue for interference. So the stark reality of this so-called separation is that we will be placed under the thumb of the administration, and will not even be completely free from the possibility of federation meddling.
Separation
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Under the present relationship chevron editorial autonumy is guaranteed in the federation bylaws. While students council retains some control through the budget’and other means, it has been proven any abuse of its power can be t.ectified . We can fight to recall corrupt and anti-democratic student politicians. or we can run candidates for students council, but how do you recall a memberofthe Board ofGovernors who has been appointed by the Ontario cabinet 1 Nor is it possible for students to have any control over the board. (An ironic footnote is that one of present students reps on the board is none other than Shane Roberts, and even though the students recalled him as president, his feltlow governors have not seen fit to banish him from their midst ) Thi other major quest&n is how would separation with a refundable fee make the paper more accountable to students‘? Certainly it provides students who don’t support the paper with the opportunity to pull their money out, but it also ailows for a situation where even if students supported the paper the last word would rest with the Board of Governors. Added up this package of so called autonomy and accountability would l eave the paper accountable to the students, certainly, but would also l cave us subject to the whim of the the fat cats on the board and to the possibility of intereference from the student politicians. It is a sham!
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We have always maintaned that the chevron is accountable to the students, and our whale struggle for Reinstate! Investigate? was based on the strategy of going to the students for support. Under our present situation we are accountable to the students in a very real SenSe __ not in the sense of some dry words on some constitutional parchment - but through real avenues of participation, and input; Anyone can attend our staff meetings, where they can air their views, move motions, and even write editorials and comments for the approval of staff. Persons concerned about the paper can join staff. We provide a large feedback section where discussion of the paper can take place in front of the whole campus. On top of this students have constitutionaf controls through students’ council, General Meetings and referenda. All render the paper accountable to students as it should be. / Vote no to separation, uphold the Investigation Commission. \ -jonathan tales
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in general to put the chevron, who has never against all kinds of attacks, under the power
Although the chevron may have some conflicts with the Federation of Students, it should not be assumed that this conflict has to continue. There is always a possibility that the chevron and the Federation ofstudents can work together on the basis of defending the basic interests of the students. We call on all married students tb keep the chevron out of the hands of the administration and the Board of Governors. Vote for non-separation! Vote for the first option of Section A of the referendum on Tuesday, March 28! -rick lee --betty home
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Before you vote in the upcomi3 sider both the relative merits ol’ i; implications of separation at pres Last July, a five-person comr chevron-federation conflict and tc status of the paper. Since this con) in investigation and since it repi-% staffs “Reinstate! Investigate!” ; taken into account. The commission divides the fll EI function and an editorial functior-r should remain with an expanded a tion, and that the editorial functic; chevron staff. T,he commission does not reco;) federation since it feels that the p:-! a publishing board. It says that. in in “two student governments”: I Federation of Students. Students are already burdene, elected officia!s and most of the< board of directors is a case in pi: would be a good argument agains’ is correct. Does the publishing function ~1 mission really require another .. + The publishing function is defir for the paper, the provision c>! schedule, an annual review. :: non-censorship, no holdup of fur! serious charges of irrespon.. non-interference in the editorial I Which of these functions requir statement of principles can be in sion of funds would be via the ; presentation of a publication sch dealt with at an Annual General Recall of the editor does not ret independent commission could investigation commission itself. 1 board not to interfere editorially The publication function as de’ essentially passive. It certainly d merit.” The commission “does not set This is understandable - several successfully separate. The commission does state tha it solves. But apart from the ques above, none of the pro’s and co‘ What are the relative advanl non-separation? Separation could give the stuc over the paper. Refundable fees cial support. The paper is thus di to the students. Separation could allow major 6 and responsibilities of staffers, tl policies for censorship to be sul Since the students supply the F is the student’s newspaper, the election directly. Those people working on the E paper. They would determine th of the paper. As a separate COT control over their budget. For in: facilities without outside apprc hejlth of the Federation. The staff should also be able 1 workers, forcing an election. Separation would allow studs paper would receive, directly, 2 tinue to exist. Separation could, theoretical’ sponsible to students while incn But the situation in practice is I tion has up to now refused to cc right to withdraw the fee arbitr; The administration has not en1 ing the fee fairly. Just before the the administration were going 0 Opponents of separation point the chevron’s hand, and weake But the results will only be kr dum, to be held in the summer. tions with the administrations lo If the administration remain: arrangements such as contractu looked into. The referendum is I tion would shackle the chevron Opponents of separation poin publishing function via student! This year, no council election acclaimed. Even if only 15% of 1 2000 students are still more rey Opponents of separation arl report must be upheld. This is o correct and complete - somet Opponents of separation arguf commissions report will have bf referendum. Upper year stude chevron conflict. No new evidc reported. Opponents of separation argu organization for all student activ protection. If the chevron was separate,
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s struck to investigate the >mmendations for the future ent rnore than seven months culmination of the chevron s recommendations must be newspaper into a paabllishing that the publishing function lblications under the federanain under the control of the 3rating the chevron from the action must be carried out by separation, this would result In publishing Board and the thora of organizations with are acclaimed. The OPIRG er unnecessary bureaucracy , if the commissions analysis jtion as defined by the comernment” ? . L neral statement of principles ,eparation of a publication tment to the principles sf oval of the editor except for d via due process, and “student government”? The 1’s corporate charter. Roviion. An annual review, and ,mall details which could be cling publications board - an when required, as was the for a non-existent publishing rsor-, etc. : investigation commission is ire another “student governn as an unworkable student newspapers
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1 causes more problems than dent government” dealt with ation are dealt with. idvantages of separation vs. nuch more immediate control student to withdraw his finanvrery meaningfully responsible baper policy, such ents to get a vote dent ratification. ,alaries, and since !ould choose the
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e paper far more directly restaff, s financial clout. ) simple. The UW administraper’s fee unless it retains the time. ated the possibility of collectwas called, negotiations with 3te for separation would force Fling position. ie second half of the referenI could complete it’s negotia:sults came out. tnt in its position, alternate ‘om the federation should be m the federation - if separaueferendum should be held. : students already control the since all the councillors were voted in the editor’s election, than 26. investigation commission’s if the investigation’s report is ith above. ;tent body is uninformed. The sarly two months before this ;ir direct knowledge of the beared since the commission the federation is an umbrella vron would be safer under its eration
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ron, then it would provide financial “cover, in the event of an administration attack. If the federation isn’t in the same bed, ideologically. as the chevron then it is better not to be sleeping with them at all. In either case, continued
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The question of how to vote on the referendum of next Tuesday is not a little difficult one. The answer is clear to any student who is aware of the chevron, and politics on the UW campus. The answer is, yes to separation; yes to refundable fees. The questions of accountability and student control are the main reasons, though the route suggested by the Investigation Commission (the alternative the “chevron staff,’ advoctites in this weeks editorial)* has provision for accountability to students, this provision is insufficient. Only through the movement to autonomy do you have the chance of gaining the student press UW students want and need. Separation of the paper must be rapid as possible. I want an accountable student paper AT ONCE. The reason is one which any good workman will understand: even one bad article is too many. And every day of the present set-up enables rogues to perpetrate crimes against the student body - such as the action against Chris Dufault (see the first footnote). The separation movement will defeat any attempt to “take over the paper’ ’ , for reasons explained later. The Commission makes the chevron accountable to the Federation, through the mechanism of an active Board of Publications. An autonomous chevron would be directly accountable to students; there would be no barrier between paper and student. * * The anti-separation people are backing their position with a sterile argument: that the Commission report is “binding” - must be carried through: “ A matter of principle”, to express Jules Grajower’s thought. The Investigation Commission’s re’commendations need not be “binding’ ’ , if both parties (Federation amd chevron) agree to annul the agreement. And above all, this word “binding” should not stand in the way of an intelligent look at the situation, in the light of the political realities of this campus. They are also saying that the Federation/chevron tie gives the chevron strength in any struggle between the paper and the administration, or with the government of the country. Under separation, there is certainly no reason for the chevron and the Federation to not unite, and for one to back the other; as well, presently, and doubtless in the future the Federation will be an organization which is not a fighter; one which does not actively campaign against cutbacks and the various evils of the administration. Being tied to this organization could well hold a fighting organization back - last year’s closure, for instance, is the biggest holdback of all. Others include the federation’s control of the chevron money; and Federation ratification of editor. It is quite possible for the Federatio’n to sabotage chevron operations. Under separation, this could not happen; if there was an attempt at this, there would be more alternatives available to fight it. Separation, basically, turns any control of the paper over to the students. Where it should be. \ What to do right now? Vote for a separate chevron and refundable fees. The chevron will continue negotiations with the UW administration, for the administration to collect ttie fee. Chevron is aiming for no restrictions on the collection of the fee, no right of the administration td arbitrarily withhold fees. This is good: the administration has less right to hold the purse strings of a student newspaper than the student government. If the administration demands to have control - to judge the paper, and if the paper has been attacking administration interests (as it most certainly would), cut off money - then there shall be another referendum, asking students if they would approve the chevron remaining part of the Federation until administration capitulates. There should be a mass meeting to decide how the chevron corporation should be organized; students should demand at that time safeguards against the ills which have plagued the paper for the last year. I have every confidence that refundable fees and separation will win this referendum: through this route there is absolute certainty of a UW students’ newspaper. -john w. bast production manager the chevron * the last staff meeting is viewed by several staff members as illigitimate. Evidence: a motion, “that no punitive action be taken against Chris Dufault because of his institution of the referendum”, (an approximation of the actual wording) had the vote of 11 for. 11 against. 11 staff members then left - the “no ” ‘s. The remaining 11proceeded to vote to suspend Dufault’s vote, and reverse the chevron stand on separation. As Randy Barkman neatly summed the situation up: “The staff meeting turned into an AIA meeting”. This staff meeting was not a representative of the whole staffs will. ** The commission spoke of an autonomous chevron setting up “another student govemment’ ’ . Autonomy wouldn’t create another government: but it wouid create a completely student organization, with direct controls by the students. Such a setup would, correctly designed, be more accountable to students than our present Federation.
A fight has broken out over the chevron again. A referendum has been called with the sinister intent of putting the chevron at the mercy of the U .W. administration if the referendum goes for separation. If separated. the administration will collect the $2/term/student fee for the Chevron and could stop collection at any time it wishes. In the past, the chevron has supported the fight of the internationai students against the anti-immigrant Bill C-24, differential fee hike, racist attacks, etc. It pvblished our statements against the anti-immigrant Bill C-24 and endorsed our open letter to Harry Parrot opposing the differential fee for foreign students. Now a handful of characters, both within and without the chevron are trying to put the chevron under the,thumb of the administration in order to sabotage this fighting orientation oIlthe chevron. It is the administration which implemented the differential Tees imposed on us by the Ontario ‘government, also raised the rent for the Married Students. raised tuition
The referendum on the chevron next Tuesday, March 28 will ask students two questions: should the chevron be independent of the Federation of Students, with a separate fee levied at registration (and a corresponding reduction in the Federation fee)? If so, should the chevron fee be compulsory or refundable? Over 800 students signed a petition calling for this referendum, and many of them feel, as does the Federation Council, that the chevron should be separated: a newspaper can only be ensured of press freedom if it is free from political and financial control by any government. A newspaper cannot exist as an autonomous, democratic body under the wing of a government because the student body can affect the newspaper only via the action of the government. If the newspaper is autonomous, then the government (and hence the student body) cannot take any action against it. The newspaper is then not accountable to the student body, and hence undemocratic. Conversely, if the chevron is democratic then it cannot be autonomous from the government, since the student body can only act via the governmerit. Some may argue that “autonomy” from a government only means freedom from arbitrary actions which are not supported by the student body. However, the chevron affair saw both sides claiming to have student support, with neither side being able to prove it. The subjective nature of “student support” for the actions of a government in dealing with such sensitive issues as the media precludes any firm distinction between actions which have majority support and actions which do not. A separate chevron will allow for direct student input into the newspaper, via chevron genet-al meetings at which all fee-paying members can vote. At present, the Federation Council has virtually no control over the chevron (due mainly to the chevron affair), and a student who wishes input into the operation of the paper must invest a great deal of time contributing in order to earn a vote. The chevron staff are presently split on the question of separation. Until a meeting on March 17, the staff position was to support separation. However, the March 17 meeting reversed this stand by a vote of 11-O-O. None of the 11 staffers who had voted in favour of separation were present at the March 17 meeting. The main argument presented by the opponents of separation is that the chevron should not be subject to control by the UW administration, which might reserve the right to stop collecting the chevron fee at registration. However, no administration would be so foolish as to attack an organization supported by the student body, be it a newspaper, a radio station or a student union. Both the Federation of Students and CKMS are supported by fees collected by UW1 and it is hardly conceivable that UW would stop, collecting the fees without assent from the students via referendums, even though it reserves this right. On the question of compulsory or refundable fees for a separate ch&ron, the Federation Council has not taken a position. The chevron staff voted for a refundable fee at the same time as they originally voted for separation. Many of the arguments in favour of refundable fees for the Federation of Students apply to a separate chevron. The organization becomes even more accountable to the students, who have the option of withdrawing their financial support. However, a refundable fee also encourages disinvolvement: a student has the option of “copping-out” and ignoring problems with the organization, instead of staying with the organization and trying to solve the problems. Whatever your decision is on compulsory or refundable fees, voting for a separate-chevron is the first step towards obtaining a representative student press on campus. --Federation
of Students
executive
ar We support a separate and autonomous student press. A newspaper must-be ust%e free to find the truth and inform the students. To put the chevrqn at the mercy ofeitherthe Federation ofStudentsorthe UW administration would Duld curtail that freedom. However, we are not living in a vacuum and certain questions must be answered swered before the chevron can become truly separate and autonomous. Afitter chevron staff had voted to support separation in principle, a delegation met with Burt Mathews. It became c!ear during that meeting that the Board of Governors would demand the right to discontinue collection uf a separate chevron fee at virtually any time. This would mean that should the paper displease the Board of Governors (which it has been known to do in the past1 they could simply close us down. The chevron staff rejected giving the Administration any such arbitrary power at the Feb. 24 staff meeting by a vote of 14-3-l. With this mandate a second &legation met with Vice-President Bruce Gellatty. Several alternatives, such as a seven-year contract between the chevron and the administration. were discussed at that time. In fact, Z+ellatly said that given the refundable nature of the proposed separate fee .he Board of Governors may nut demand the non-collection clause. Ofcourse, now the situation has changed quite drastically. The chevron
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Who are these characters who are trying to kill the fighting spirit of the ’ chevron’? Some of them openly declare that the anti-immigrant Bill C-24 is O.K.: some say that the differential fees fur foreign students should be higher: one even calls the liberation fighters of Zimbabwe, the ZANU, terrorists while praising Ian Smith etc. The practice of these characters clearly c;hows that they do not have the interests of the students at heart. All they want is to kill a paper which is working vigorously to defend the basic interests of the students by delivering into the lap of the UW administration. In light of the above, the executive ofthe ISA calls upon all its members and supporters to come out to defend the fighting orientation of the chevron by voting for the first option in part A of the upcoming referendum on March 28. lnternationai
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A third purpose of the Investigation Commission was stated as follows: “ To make recommendations concerning future policies, bylaws, and structures of the Federation of Students concerning the operation of the chevron and the employment of the chevron staff and generally concerning 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. bne of the problems that came to a head in September of 1976 had to do with confusion of these two
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functions and these two principles. The best guarantees for the desirable freedom and the necessary accountability, in its opinion, require: and sep- clear differentiation aration of functions, - clear delineation of authority and responsibility, of the rela- clear descriptions tionships 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 bylaws); this statement could be a reconciliation of the present by-laws and CUP statement of principles, as follows: 1) 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 non-
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collect fees, the same kind of authority it has for the federation of students, CKMS and OPIRG. But the simple fact is that the chevron is not like these organizations. They have never taken the fighting stands which have brought us into conflict with the administration. Separation would place inordinate power in the hands of the administration and the Board
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Student journalists should re- spect 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 jourrialists 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, all culpable mistakes. The editor should fully realize his or her personal responsibility for everything published. Racial or sexual bias or prejudice should have no place in the editorial policy of the newspaper. 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, 40, but it is repeated here for the sake of clarity. Not only will this provision eliminate ambiguity now, but also in the future, inasmuch as the Canadian University Press can change its documents without these changes becoming part of the Federation by-laws. 6) That the by-laws provide for the setting up of binding commissions to settle disputes between th.e chevron and the Federation that cannot be settled in normal and regular ways. The Commission has found the present arrangement a good one, namely a membership of five, all from the University community, including two members selected by the Federation and ratified by the chevron, two selected by the chevron and ratified by the Federation, and a chairperson selected by the four. 7) That the by-laws be revised with the help of legal counsel to accommodate all of the above.
of Governors, and give them an easy mechanism to muzzle the chevron. Closure of student newspapers by administrations has occ,urred several times in Canada. As a watchdog on the administration and the Ontario government, both of whom are powerful opponents, it would be foolish for the paper to place itself in a position which would allow arbitrary closure. The UW BOG is dominated by bankers, business executives and
sundry politicians, none of whom has hesitated to hike the rent f-or married students’ apartments, sanction the English Proficiency exam and raise tuition fees. We are not so naive as to believe that to put ourselves under their domination will afford us the slightest autonomy. Although the chevron is also a watchdog of the federation, the federation simply is not now capable of closing the paper in the manner of Shane Roberts. PO attempt this would put Rick Smit in the difficult situation of having to justify closing a paper which he acknowledges to be “the leading paper in Canada on cutbacks.” Continued operation within the federation of students is the surest way to guarantee the autonomy of the chevron at this time. The federation and the chevron need not forever exist as adversaries. It is entirely possible for a chevron and a student federation to unite if they both defend the basic interests of the students. We call on students to keep the chevron out of the hands of the administration and the Board of Governors. Don’t give Burt Matthews arbitrary power to cancel an agreement with the chevron and shut us down! Support the stand of the chevron in defense of the basic interests of the students! Support the implementation of the majority recommendation of the I chevron investigation commission! Support the stand of the chevron in defense of the basic interests of the students! NO! TO SEPARATION! UPHOLD THE INVESTIGATION COMMISSION MAJORITY REPORT! VOTE YES FOR THE FIRST OPTION OF SECTION A IN THE REFERENDUM! -the chevron staff
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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 of fees, refundable or not, levied 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 would solve. 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 chevron 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 an4 policies advanced by the publisher, the publication schedule agreed upon, and the budge’t; 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; 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.
paper-government co-operation is best voluntary. This referendum asks you whether you support separation. It does not specify the details of how sepa.ration will be implemented. Hence, when votipg, vote on the principle. Vote on whether separation is a good thing, or, conversely, whether the investigation commission’s report is correct. But remember that if the principle of separation is passed, and the administration will not allow a truly independent chevron, Lhen a second referendum will be required.
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finds itself once again the subject of a poorly-thought out, and hastilycalled referendum. The effects of our negotiations will be made void. The administration could now say “Sorry folks, you have to separate and we want the non-collection clauses. ” Where does that leave freedom of the press? We must resist this attempt to force the chevron under the collective thumb of the Board of Governors. We must support a fighting watch-dog press with ties to no one. If we vote not to separate at this time we may be able to negotiate a fair deal with the administration in the future. We must maintain the status-quo until all aspects of separation have been investigated and discussed by the chevron staff. Qnly then will the students be able to make an informed decision concerning the future of the paper. Separation will be an excellent thing for the chevron. Students will then have direct control via refundable fees. To force the paper into an unfair separation now, however, could render it unable to fight for students’ rights. And who else is fighting for you‘? -4aurie -peter
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Drawbacks A positive look at the Jesse Winchester concert could only create a statement something like, “well more people showed than advance ticket sales would have implied”. The truth of the matter is, a fair amount of effort was wasted in setting up chairs for people who had no intention of attending the concert. If atmosphere is needed for the type of motivation necessary to give a fine performance, Winchester was playing with a liability hard to overcome. The open coldness of Bingmen park hindered the lay _ back and take it easiness that his music implies, especially when the seats were wooden auditorium style ones.
jesse Winchester’s performances lack of turnout, uncomfortable repertoir were some of them.
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Le Groupe de la Place Royale, modern dance company, will present its new creation Nauti Malam in the Campus Centre, Great Hall March 30th at 1200 noon. In Nanti Malam, Le Groupe de la Place Royale continues in the direction taken in previous works; the dancers perform both the music and choreography. Nanti Malam was created by choreographer Jean-Pierre Per-
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reault in close collaboration with composer Claude Vivier. Vivier’ s score reflects his deep love of musical theatre and vocal music. Nanti Malam is a complete program without intermission, of fixed structure and variable length. The title means “later, this evening” in Indonesian. Jean-Pierre Perreault and Claude Vivier share memories of similar experiences in Bali. This piece, while not a copy of balinese
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Electric as hell Infinity Journey CBS Records Journey just may be the most unknown great band in rock and roll in this country, at least. In America, they’ve built up a substantial reputation as the concert group par excellence, no small accomplishment in the wake of a massive initial hype that flopped about as bad as those things can flop. Up here, however, no one’s paid much attention to them, but albums like this one and a forthcoming tour should change that. Stylistically, Journey is solidly in the great American tradition; in other words, they’re electric as hell. At various times in their brief career they’re sounded like Mountain, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Queen, and the American Medical Association. But, unlikely as it seems, considering the scope of their influences, they’ve always managed to sound like themselves; no matter who they were copying at any given moment, the sound was always colored by an identifiable personal vision, due largely to guitarist Neil Schon, who has consistently come up with sparsely lyrical, moving music, and to keyboard player Greg Rolie, who is developing into a major songwriter and is already a first-rate rock-and-roll singer. “Infinity” is a bit of a departure, being much more solidly entrenched in the shorter songs people can remember longer. They still
can chug like Led Zeppelin, but not to excess. The Zep is a band for which I have a sort of grudging respect; all their albums have had a few incandescent moments surrounded by great heaping gobs of overblown silliness, but those moments have been definitive rockand-roll. The problem has always seemed to me that Jimmy Page (who is the group for all intents) is either afflicted with a cynical contempt for his audiences (justifiable) or, less likely, blessed with sporadic good taste (there are too many moments when the only reaction to his music has to be “he must know better” .) Face it folks, the average Zep fan would buy four sides of Page playing “Lady in Spain” ifit came with pictures. But, for those of us who would rather listen to a 60 Hertz tone for comparable excitement rather than Led Zeppelin, Journey is here. Here are some scattered disappointments alleviated by a wash of pleasurerelief at hearing a new rock album by musicians who know what they are doing, an increasingly uncommon experience. A band with these kinds of resources can certainly get bigger. So buy “Infinity’ ’ immediately ; and, while you’re at it try to grab the band’s early albums before they’re lost to history. If you’re lazy of course, you can always wait for Columbia to reissue them as Masters of Rock, but if you hurry you can still out-hip your friends. -peter
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Chester who appear to do their job but often little more in the overall impact of the group as a whole. There seemed to be a large physical and emotional gap between Winchester and his band which could be felt into the audience. Winchester’s interpretation says it all, while the freshness of his mat-
erial is lacking. Jesse’s music is hardly fresh but the alternatives to an incense stenture and all the side effects are apparent. Personally and I am sure appropriately, special thanx should be sent to Harold the bus driver for making the trip back home more enjoyable. --mark
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Winchester’s lyrical content deals with mostly himself, a man split between his southern roots and more recent home in Canada. He is a transitional man whose moods range almost geographically in style and context, but are strongly “country” with a plus. The concert was clear, clean, and, concise almost to the extent of being overdone, but his most well known and appreciated numbers were always treated warmly before and after being played. Winchester seemed to take pride in his “little country numbers” which in many cases have a unique twist on an old theme. The band is comprised of four Toronto musicians excluding Win-
forms, bears witness to a quality of life there which touched them both deeply. Deborah Jowitt, dance critic for the Village Voice in N.Y .C. writes: “the dancers’ attentiveness to each other is one of the most beautiful things about the company; it creates the feeling of a closed, deeply concentrated world, and build a kind of natural drama”. Le Groupe de la Place Royale is a professional modern dance company founded in Montreal in 1966. It consists of two artistic directors/choreographers and seven dancers. Le Groupe is on many counts an experimental organism. Last summer Le Groupe moved to Ottawa to pursuit their creative inspirations and open a school. It is with pleasure that the Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students present this noon hour concert, free admission on Thursday March 30th in the Campus Centre; Great Hall! 4eborah
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Student, faculty fine arts display . Bent wood sculpture, space-age images. behind plexiglass domes, colourful graphic paintings, miniature meditative renderings, whimsical and surrealistic drawings are all part of an imaginative and varied collection of art pieces on view in the UW Arts Centre Gallery for the UW FINE ARTS FACULTY AND HONOURS STUDENTS SHOW. The exhibition runs from Thursday, March 30 until April 16. The informal opening at 8 p.m. on March 30 will provide an opportunity to meet the artists and to discuss their works with them. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The UW Fine Arts department offers a third year degree and a fourth year honours degree programme. Students may choose a major in either studio or art history. In the studio option, the students must produce a coherent body of work, and this is the work on view in the current exhibition.
Fred Gee was the main performer at the CCC/-i last Sunday. The band which played before him, “Phoenix”, seemed to gain a better audience reaction than Gee, though Cee was also well received. Audiences to various entertainment events seem to be dropping; jesse Winchester, the SCH pub, and Upstairs at the Grad Club a// had poor turnouts. CCCH has recently been suffering from a similar phenomenon. -photo by john w. bast
Hakoshima not stopped and gain momentum until he seems to throb with life-action. It is an exciting display of concentration and control” and Radio Free Berlin said: “an aspect of absolute pantomime which goes beyond the human, makes one breathless. With the face masked in bronze, he performs nature itself, and that is great, like Marceau’s life”. Yass Hakoshima’s repertory inMime is an art form which has eludes numbers that embody produced relatively few great prachumour, pathos, frustration, grantitioners and comparisons of one deur, and a symbolic struggle for artist with others seem to be inevitfreedom. Among these are Fisherable, and yet Yass Hakoshima, man, Illusion, Dream, Labyrinth, seems quite’unique. He has created and Eagle which he will perform at a subtle blending of Western and -Waterloo along with others. These Far Eastern art elements, and does works have been created by him as not imitate or derive from anyone. a personal statement of his art. AlHe is the only Japanese performing though they have their roots in one pantomime in the Western world of the oldest Japanese dramatic and has presented his original progforms, pantomime, Mr. ramme in many European counHakoshima has used his long traintries and throughout the United ing in Japanese classic dance and States. Non-Movement, as well as WestDance Magazine reviewing one ern pantomime, to demonstrate of his performances, said: that the art of silent performing can “Hakoshima encourages an almost - contain dramatic tension of the imperceptible energy to burgeon highest degree.
Yass Hakoshima, the brilliant Japanese mime artist, will perform in the Theatre of the Arts on Wednesday, March 29. Originally scheduled for January 27, Mr. Hakoshima’s performance was snowed-out in the big storm that hit the area at that time. Tickets for the January 27 performance will be honoured on March ,29.
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Poor batid grabi low audience” turnout Sweet Blindness played to a crowd of about fifty people last Thursday at the South Campus -Hall. The size of the audience made people wonder whether the rest of the campus was “blind” to the existence of the group. One of the reasons for the low crowd may .have been the sound of the band. Though their selection of material was good, their delivery left something to be desired. Aside from a few solos by the lead guitarist, the band played very loudly. The loudness when amplified over the sound system, tended to produce a scratchy sound. Some members of the audience were disturbed by this sound and left the pub early. Sweet Blindness has played at U W before, In 1976 they appeared in\ a concert with Mike Mandel attracting a very small crowd. In 1977 they returned and played to a fair-sized crowd at the South Campus Hall. From the comments of some of the audience, it appears that they were not among
the ,better bands that have played . SCH this year. The small crowd also can be at. tributed to the lateness in the term. While the pub was welladvertised, it was competing with events in the villages and the fc+llowing night’s Jesse Winchester ‘%* concert. Though the crowd for the Sweet Blindness pub was small, most SCH Pubs this term have had large or fair-sized crowds. In $hat respect this term’s pubs have differed from those last fall. During that term a large crowd wasconsidered more of an exception, than a rule. Last week’s pub was the last Federation Pub at SCH. No details have been announced concerning next term’s plans. Last night Math Sot ,held a SCH Pub with Columbus. It is not been confirmed whether any other societies will hold any more SCH Pubs this term, through there is a possibility of an Arts Sot disco pub. -jj
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Author, Ntozake Shange, director Oz Scott and the seven actresses who. make up the cast of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf ’ , (running until March 28 at the Royal Alex in Toronto) present an unusual but compelling combination of recitation, dancing, singing and acting. Literally, the play treats the problems encountered by people suffering the twin indigjnities of being female and black in America. “For Colored Girls” achieves an impact that a conventional play or musical never could. The audience is carried from the
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ticket policy F “ For Colored Girls”, played before half-empty houses at the Royal Alex. Apparently Ed Mirvish perfers to see empty seats at eight, ten and twelve dollars a piece rather than filled seats at a more reasonable admission price. Must theatre be such an exclusive place that those who would appreciate it the most can’t afford it while those who can afford it don’t attend because they refuse to understand it? Standing room tickets and student prices would help to provide this superb production with the audience it deserves.
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Morris Ilyniak’s letter in the February 24 Chevron shows him to be an excellent example of the kind of student that the status quo adores, that is, a mindless parrot who spews forth uninvestigated dribble at the drop of a nickel. Ilyniak gives himself the liberty to defend the racist Pitman Report, because he has heard Pitman speak, has spoken to him, and has spoken to students at Ryerson College where Pitman is president. The problem, though, is that on each occasion Pitman was not speaking about his racist report; neither was Ilyniak, nor the students he spoke to at Ryerson. Second, Ilyniak has never read the racist Pitman Report. This he admits in his letter. Thirdly, he gives himself the liberty to slander the Marxist-Leninists for denouncing the Pitman Report as a racist and fascist document. Yet Ilyniak has admitted that he has never read a single article written by the Communist Party of Canada (MarxistLeninist) about the racist Pitman report. Now, more than a dozen such articles have appeared in People’s Canada Daily News, the organ of CPC (M-L). To begin the education of Mr. Ilyniak and his cohorts, I have asked the chevron to reprint an article, titled “Pitman’s Mystifications Will Never Justify State Attacks”, which appeared in PCDN the day before the letter appeared in the chevron. One further point: Ilyniak considers it an embarassment to read that a delegation of people from UW, who ark members and supporters of the Canadian People’s (Citizens and Residents) Defence Committee attended a rally against the Pitman report. I think it is a glorious thing that this organization is taking up the struggle against racist attacks, and I think it is an embarassment to all students that a third year student can foam at the mouth with his uninvestigated dribble, to speak about something he knows nothing about. The immigration policy of the Canadian state has always been to import whatever kinds of workers and professionals are required at the moment by the monopoly capitalists and the state itself, and then once the immigrants are here, to attack a certain section of them viciously and blame them for all sorts of crimes which are actually the deeds of the rich. The report of the Task Force on Human Relations is a further illustration of the vile propaganda against both the Canadian working class and the immigrants. The Pitman Report portrays the workers as being lazy, jealous and racist; whereas the immigrants from India are portrayed as arrogant and prosperous reactionaries with great love for the Canadian state. The report sets up definite stereotypes in order to create public opinion for strengthening the police and persecuting the proletariat. In its “scenario of a racial attack”, which is admitted to be an idealized concoction, the report asserts that the racists in Canada are the poorly educated, unemployed youth, not the state and highly-educated rich. It sets forth a motive for the physical attack on a thirty-three-year-old engineer from the Punjab by an eighteen-year-old youth who dropped out of school after grade nine. The youth supposedly believes that he cannot find a decent job because hordes of immigrants are coming here from Pakistan. Furthermore, he of is said to have “a fear and jealousy superior economic status, work habits and social and familial cohesion” of these immigrants. The East Indian engineer, on the other hand, is portrayed as a great advocate of fascist law-and-order who sees the solution to racist attacks in strengthening the state. He is said to be most upset by the delay of several months in bringing his assault charges to trial, which shakes his faith in the “great tradition of English Common Law”. Furthermore. he “does not believe that this law protects the liberty of anyone but criminals”, a standard tenet of fascists who want
to hand all power to the police. Indeed, he “does not believe that this system is fundamentally corrupt, but he does believe that individual police constables show something less than zeal when dealing with inter-racial assaults”, which just happens to be the point the Pitman Report was commissioned to confirm. The lie that immigrants take jobs from Canadians and are opposed to the basic interests of the Canadian workers is a cornerstone of anti-immigrant propaganda of the state. On this foundation the racist ideology is built up that it is specifically immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America who are flocking here to grab scarce jobs. It claims that Canadian youth are denied higher education because of competition from ambitious and extremely hard-working immigrants, in order to create divisions among the people and prevent them from getting united ‘to fight their common enemy, the state and the rich. It is true that the state imports many educated immigrants, to the extent that in occupations such as nursing the number of immigrants substantially exceeds the number of people trained in Canada (see chart). The fact is that large numbers of doctors, teachers, professors, engineers, etc., were imported into Canada in order to service the rapid expansion of the state infrastructure in the 1960’s when U.S. imperialism was setting up many branch plants here. In the 1970’s the state brought a rapid halt to the expansion of education, health and social services; and actual cutbacks in spending on these things began. Accompanying these cutbacks, the state initiated hysterical propaganda that immigrants and foreign students were taking university positions away from Canadian youth who wanted to become doctors and teachers. In Ontario and Alberta the foreign students were hit with heavy increases in tuition fees as part of this anti-immigrant campaign. Health and education cutbacks are implemented by the state to shift the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the people. Enrollment in universities is restricted, financial aid is reduced, professors are compelled to teach larger classes for less pay, and students are forced to study harder in order to compete for scarce jobs. Yet the state and the media of the monopoly capitalists try to pin the blame for many of these difficulties on immigrants and foreign students. For the bourgeoisie it is always extremely profitable to bring in educated people free of charge instead of undertaking expensive training of Canadian youth. Furthermore, \ under monopoly capitalism anarchy of production prevails, and planning the quantity of professionals to be trained to meet the needs of the rich several years in advance is extremely difficult. Hence, the Canadian state relies on immigrants to fill many of its needs. There are particular occupations where immigrants are relied upon heavily, whereas in others such as law and dentistry, mainly Canadian sources are used. Although immigration policy is used to attack the working conditions and wages of certain occupations such as nursing and teaching by establishing a large over-supply of trained people, this is not true for all occupations. Medical doctors are predominantly reactionaries who are actually part of the bourgeoisie with state power, and their professional associations work closely with the immigration department to limit the supply of doctors, enabling them to force up their already exorbitant fees. These same professional associations also exert great influence on the state funding of medical education in order to keep medicine and health care in the hands of the rich by restricting enrollments in medical schools and denying financial aid to students from the working class. As far as which specific workers or professionals are admitted to Canada, the state takes great pains to make sure that they are not progressive. It is well known that any nazi is welcomed by the Canadian state, whereas people known to be communists or communist sympathizers are forbidden to enter Canada. There are certainly a few East Indians in Canada who are reactionaries, as portrayed
in the Pitman Report, but these comprise a handful of entrepreneurs, professors, doctors, etc. They are not the ones bearing the brunt of state-organized racist attacks. On the contrary, they are the source of the traitors and sellouts whose class interests are with the big bourgeoisie. The majority of the East Indians in Canada, and the overwhelming majority under attack by the Canadian state are workers and their families who hate the oppressor state. The East Indian workers face the same layoffs, inflation, health cutbacks, etc., as the rest of the working class, plus they are subjected to racist attacks and persecution because of their immigration status. The Pitman Report was designed to exonerate the rich and the state of any blame for racist attacks and instead to pin the blame on the working class, especially workers hardest hit by the economic crisis. The fraudulent “scenario” concocted by Pitman’s Task Force is just wishful thinking on the part of some opportunists and traitors who would like to see the masses of unemployed youth focus on the immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America as the source of their troubles, and who would like to use racist attacks as an excuse to bolster the very state apparatus which is organizing the racist attacks in the first place. The claim that working class youth are “jealous” of educated immigrants completely mystifies the reasons why immigrants are imported into Canada and why the working class youth are cut off from higher education, blocked from all sides and given no way out. 1966-70 Immlgrwt~
Occuprlion Phyrwan Dem5t Pharmacw Nurse School Teacher Pr0kWX Archwct Lawyer
5,945 440 5% 16,891 24,897 9.960 1,354 376
1971-75 Trained in Canada 5,167 1,671 1,928 5,327 47,435 5,894 1,190
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5,032 380 422 6.&x) 8.497 5.736 706 402
Trained in Canada 8.914 2,243 2,574 5.754 74.173 9,234 1,815 12.292
Swrccs lmmrgratron Srarwcs, years 1966-75, Department of Manpower and imm~grarion, Education UI Gnada 7976, Advance Srarmm of Educarmn, 1977-78: Canada Yearbook, several yearsall Stattrttcr Canada. Figures gwe number of degrees granted m each profession. Number of Professors tramed m Canada actually represents number of PH.D. degrees granted, some of which wil be employed m Industry
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Bachir
defen re: Letters from Hannant and Bachir (March 10) First of all, in Salah Bachir’s letter, he attempts to show that JJ Long “Has recruited MATHnews (sic) also to back Rick Smit’s bootlicker”. This is unfounded. The opinions of individual mathNEWS staffers or columnists are not necessarily those of the editorial staff or the majority of staffers. The policy of the present editor is that all students of the Math faculty have an equal right to state their views in print, be they pro- or anti-administration, pro- or anti-anything, barring racist or’ sexist views. The preponderance of anti-chevron columns is perhaps an indication of dissatisfaction toward the chevron in the math faculty. In Larry Hannant’s letter, he attempts to make two points, firstly that mathNEWS has “absolute contempt for facts and responsibility to Math students”, and secondly, he implies that MathSoc has editorial control over mathNEWS. All material printed in mathNEWS is accurate at the time of submission, to the best knowledge of the editor. Unfortunately, since mathNEWS has an all-volunteer staff, and is chronically short-staffed, occasionally errors will slip past, as they do in any paper. For example, if Hannant or Bachir had bothered to refer to an issue of mathNEWS, they would have reafized that it is not spelt MATHnews or MathNews. This is admittedly a trivial point, but it brings me to the second point that Hannant attempted to make. Hannant asserts that Geoff Hains, MathSoc vice-president, had “better clean up his own filthy house. He should keep his mouth shut until MathNews (sic) begins to serve Math students”. Is Hannant advocating that council control mathNEWS? If he had looked at the masthead of a recent issue, he would have
noticed that mathNEWS is financed by, but independent of MathSoc and views expressed therein are not necessarily those of MathSoc council. Although MathSoc supplies funds, and ratifies (but does not appoint) the mathNEWS editor, it has no power over content. We do however, occasionally print articles written by council members, just as we would those written by any Math student. Mr. Hannant, does the fact that the Federation controls funds to the chevron imply Federation control over editorial policy? William Macaulay mathNEWS editor
I was rather surprised to read Larry Hannant’s letter entitled “Gutter Journalism”. Mr. Hannant concludes that Geoff Hains, Mathsoc Vice-president, has no right to complain about the chevron, because of a rather poor article which appeared in mathNEWS. I fail to see the connection. If Mr. Hannant had taken the time to read the masthed of mathNEWS, he would have realized that mathNEWS is financed by, but editorially independent of Mathsoc, a situation similar to that which exists between the chevron and the Federation of Students. Now, if Larry Hannant assumes that Geoff Hains has some special control over mathNEWS, it would seem fair to conclude that Rick Smit should control the chevron, or more to the point, past Federation presidents Shane Roberts and Doug Thompson should have controlled the chevron. Yet, Mr. Hannant was quite involved in the conflict between the Federation and the chevron, on behalf of the free chevron. (see his “prose” entitled “The Night They Tried to Close The Chevron”) The point of this, Mr. Hannant, is to show to you that Geoff Hains is not more responsible for that article, than any other math student. (with the exceptions possibly of its author and the mathNEWS editor) If Mr. Hains has no right to criticize the chevron, then it must be concluded that no math student has that right. That’s what I call democracy. The only conclusion I can draw is that Larry Hannant has used the article as a rather feeble excuse to attack a critic of the chevron. Richard Devitt
I’m writing in reply to Peter Hafeman’s letter “Paper Defended” from the 10 march chevron. As long as homosexuality is not totally accepted by society as a legitimate facet of human sexuality, there will always be discrimination against all gays. Talk of insidious plots by wild-eyed homosexual extremists to “get our kids” is so much selfdeceptive piddle. As long as the heterosexist view is the only one allowed in the schools, hate and fear of gays will continue to be the only emotion instilled into children’sminds. Discrimination against individual gays follows as a direct result. Vacuous platitudes about allowing homosexuals to do their own thing are deceptive without a parallel acceptance of homosexuality on all levels of society. So as not to disappoint you, el gordo, I now call on all progressive radicals and urban guerillas to unite and form the Ad Hoc Brigade (Lavender) To Perpetrate Political Fanaticism And Turn All Children Into Immoral Homosexuals AHB(L) TPPFATACIIH$$ We want your children!!! your sycophantic sybarite go2 lyv
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More to. Hafentan The bigots are starting to come out of the woodwork. In the feedback section of the chevron of Friday, March 10, 1978, Peter Hafeman wrote: “Anita Bryant clearly states that she is not out to discriminate against homosexuals as individuals; she is against the militant movement which, if allowed, would incorporate homosexual role models into elementary school programs and other educational institutions.” Hafeman’s argument is a common one with homophobes. They argue that children need massive child care and protection. And for good reason; they are being brainwashed into becoming straight, production units in patriarchal capitalism. But this is the same argument that says that women are weak and stupid and need a man to defend them (generally from other men!). Just like the statists insist that we need the state to defend us from other states, likewise we are told by the hete?rosexists that children need adults to defend them from other adults! A secondary argument used by homophobes like Peter Hafeman is that children need good ‘role models’. Without adults, children just wouldn’t know what to do. But role models aren’t statues to copy: they’re commands to obey. Children need role models like they need H-bombs or DDT. Besides, all roles are lies. No one is the model they pretend to be. “The natural,” said Oscar Wilde, “is such a difficult pose to keep up.” ’ Gays do not want to be role ,models. We want rights that should be extended to everyone. We want to be protected from being fired from jobs because of whom we love. We want the right to be KNOWN to be gay by our co-workers and the children themselves. Anything less would confirm the lie that our sexuality is somehow harmful to children. It would also mean, would it not, that we don’t care how children grow up, don’t care what they are taught about themselves, about us and about the world around them. But we do care. We want them to grow up free of the sexism that has ruined the lives of many. In closing, I would like to ask Peter Hafeman two questions. What is heterosexuality? And what causes, it? Joe &alai
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As a non-Christian, I nevertheless respect Dr. Schroeder’s right to worship his God in whatever way he pleases (feedback Mar 10). I will even defend his rights against all comers, counting this as no virtue in me, but my simple duty as his fellow-citizen. As a non-homosexual, Dr. Schroeder wishes to abridge my civil rights, control my free choice of sexual partner, limit my choice of careers and end my freedom of speech. Great! N.J. Livesey
Letter of protest! This letter is to protest the misuse of the section of the March “Prose and Poetry” 10th chevron by Larry Hannant. I was always under the impression that this section of the paper was for those students who wished to contribute “ creative fiction’ ’ or poetry. The main reason for this view is that “factual” pieces are supposed to appear as articles. However, the piece by Mr. Hannant is just another of many endless rehashings of the Federation - chevron conflict and the incidents surrounding the closure. If the piece was fiction, then you people were lying all through the conflict with the Feds; if it is
fact, then why was it not submitted as an article? Were there no no other contributions available? And this from the same person who suggests that a person unconnected with mathNEWS (except as an occasional contributor) clean it up before he starts to complain about the chevron. I would suggest to Larry Hannant that he try to make the chevron a bit better before he starts to complain about mathNEWS. Especially since we take student criticism seriously’ enough to try to improve. Read our last four or five issues if you want proof of our improvement. Jim Bakker lettitor My story “The night they tried to close the chevron” was printed as creative writing. Mr. Bakker has drawn his own purely-artificial distinction between fiction and non-fiction, and now complains that the chevron’s material doesn’t meet his criteria. Art has a habit of defying such classifiers. In reply to Mr. Bakker I could simply ask if he believes a photograph of a real object could be a creative work. As for his fiction about mathNEWS, I’ll save my reply for a more thorough letter. larry hannant
Cancel/ation reviewed
I have before me “Epp a Hypocrite” (March 10) by Doug Wahlsten. I will not reply to the personal charges. Rather I would like to report the College side of the story regarding the CPC (M-L) event of last July 14. The Anti-Imperialist Alliance asked the College for the use of its auditorium. Our past experience with the AIA suggested that we should be reluctant and cautious, perhaps even negative. Yet we said “yes” because a “campus club” was asking for space and because we believe in academic freedom. As the announced date approached, the community-wide publicity was of such a nature that we felt obligated to reconsider the
space reservation, and that for two reasons: 1) We felt we had been misled. We thought we had given space to the AIA, a campus organization. The posters said the meeting was sponsored by the Communist Party of Canada (M-L). 2) We thought the limits of academic freedom in our context were being surpassed. In the same way that The Chevron will not give space to racist and sexist materials, Conrad Grebel College is not interested in giving its space to advocates of murder and death. Yet the posters of CPC (M-L) did just that, not only for enemies of Albania but also for certain people
in Canada.
In our consideration of what we should do at that stage we decided to give Prof. Wahlsten a hearing before we made a decision. The space reservation was not cancelled. We resolved, however, to’be more cautious in the future and, if at all possible, not subject the College to deception and abuse again. Frank H. Epp, President ’ Conrad Grebel College Waterloo, Ontario.
Uphold the ‘Report’ What a travesty! The Board of Governors, the body that brought you higher fees and higher rents (two years in a-row) could now get to decide on whether the chevron, which has opposed them right down the line, gets to publish! The referendum, to take place Tuesday, will offer students the choice of following the chevron investigation commission’s recommendations (that’s what it was there for!) or becoming a separate corporation, with one big catch: the administration reserves the “right” to stop collecting the fee at any time. Now would this group of responsible (and rnostly rich) citizens do anything to hurt stu-
dents? When the Ontario Government tactfully suggests that foreign students pay $1000 more tuition, they move. When the government says grads should be funded on the basis of “merit” (profitability), they do it. Not that they’re without initiative. They approved English Proficiency Exams and rent increases in the Married Students Apartments all by themselves. The point however, is that they care nothing for students, in fact attack students and should not be entrusted with the student newspaper. . The way I see it students should get out en masse to vote to uphold the chevron investigation commission report. Mark Aerulis
Thanks for your body Celebration‘of the Body Week ended on Friday March 10th with undoubted success. From the feedback that we have received, many students on campus enjoyed participating in the activities and expressed their appreciation to us. The purpose of this letter is to thank all students on campus who helped make this project a success through their participation, their active support, and their contributions. Our objective was to make people aware of their bodies in as many different facets as possible. We hope that Celebration of the Body Week had achieved this goal. Once again, our sincerest thanks to everyone who made it possible. Morris llyniak and Deborah Fraser, Federation of Students.
Students must fight The organization week’s occupation at McMaster
occupiers had believed Parrott when he said he would provide Ontario students with a
and leadership
of last
of the Student Aid office University is yet another ex-
ample of self-concerned student hacks acting as parasites off student angerdirecting the thrust
of the students’
enthusiasm
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leading to their betrayal of the students’ interests. The lead article in last week’s chevron correctly portrayed the anger of the students involved in the occupation, but an important aspect which was overlooked was the sell-out nature of the leadership, which minimized the effects of the students’ rage. Mike Hayes, a member of the student council of McMaster Student Union (MSU), proposed the occupation as part of his defence of MSU, which was under extensive student criticism at a general meeting last week. Much of this criticism was of MSU’s consistent lack of action in fighting the cutbacks, tuition hikes, etc. Hayes admits having considered this action before the meeting. When he proposed it at the meeting Hayes was encouraged by his fellow student hack Steve Shalhorn. It should be noted that this proposal came forward in opposition to the attemted discussion of the details of the proposed OSAP changes. From
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santly referred to as a “peaceful occupation”, not intending to “burn papers, etc.” and not aimed against the McMaster administration. The “student leaders” came from the telephones at one point asking the students to choose representatives to send for discussions with the administration. The reply of the students was that “if they want to know why we’re here then let them come and find out.” They came, and after discussion left. The administrations opposition to the students was clear, and the students remained. Within a half hour the administration phoned again and the “student leaders” said that since the administrators came to the students last time, this action should be reciprocated. So these traitors set themselves up in a private meeting with the administration, but some students insisted that a few others go along as well. Upon returning the “student leaders” advocated that the students should end the occupation at 8: 30 am, six hours early, because the administration did not want it to draw too much attention - as they feared it would beyond that time. Many of the occupying students were outraged at this and several of them left over the next few hours. On the other hand some were apparently overjoyed at this turn of events (besides the administration and the Ontario government). Miriam Edleson, chairperson of OFS, and Stu Reid, president of MSU, both made appearances only after this “agreement” had been reached with the administration, even though they were both well aware of the action since its inception. But the sell out nature of these “student leaders” is not yet fully exposed. The next day a second leaflet appeared on the McMast,er campus entitled “Why did they occupy?” This leaflet calling on students to attend an MSU rally later in the day, totally misrepresented the intentions of the majority of those who took part in the occupation - for example the leaflet claimed that these
set foot
in the Student Aid office the “student leaders” attempted to take complete control of everything - contacting media, erecting barricades, etc. -while leaving most of the participants in confusion as to what was going on. But when these “1eaders”began reading a list of their prearranged demands (suspiciously similar to the demands of the occupiers at Trent) the students stopped them and demanded a full discussion of the proposed OSAP changes. From this discussion evolved a position paper that was distributed on campus as a leaflet, and which formed the basis of a press statement. But despite this clear direction Hayes (among others) proceeded to make press statements inconsistent with the stated position - instead he promoted himself as the ‘ ‘organizer” of this action which he inces-
fair student aid plan, and they were disappointed to find that he had broken this promise (the same attitude taken by OFS). In fact
the occupiers stance,
they
never
adopted
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straight-forwardly
naive
opposed
Parrott’s new program. The best is yet to come. After continuous attempts to prevent discussion among the students throughout this entire event and to present instead their own sell-out philosphy, Mike
Hayes crawled
on his knees before
the
administration apologising for “causing” such trouble for them. The rightful wrath of the students was channelled by these characters into a “protest” that they felt capable of controlling, so as not to bother the administration in any way. These bureaucrats rode the crest of student aspirations to confront the government, using the occupation to promote themselves as “leaders” while at the same time necessarily betraying the student’s interests. This is not an uncommon phenomenon these days, when even a university degree cannot guarantee a job - many student hacks prepare a career for themselves by aligning with those who are in a position to offer future employment (while pretending to represent the student’s interests). We must be wary of these individuals, and always rely on our own strength. BEWARE OF SHEEP IN WOLVES’ CLOTHING. Gerard McMaster
Kimmons Student
Struggle in sta*f We find it rather ironic that the people leading the current attack on the chevron are former members of the free chevron staff. We hear these characters every now and then boasting about how “democratic” they are; about how they joined the free chevron to “defend the right of communists to speak” as a “principle”.
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Randy Barkman, and other pious liberals, who form the current fifth-columnist forces in the chevron, try to reduce the entire free chevron struggle to a matter of defending some communists. Now that the free chevron has been reinstated and their liberal consciences soothed, they feel free to pursue all kinds of anti-chevron activity and to make alliances with the biggest reactionaries on campus. They find no contradiction between their current activities and their stand in support of the free chevron. The free chevron never raised the slogan “Defend the Communists” but instead issued the slogan “Reinstate-Investigate”. Why’.’ Because the slogan ReinstateInvestigate meant a struggle for due process, opposition to arbitrary and anti-democratic actions, and opposition to lies and slander. It ushered in a whole new era of student journalism: of investigation before action; of democratic staff control: of maximum discussion of issues and opposition to bureaucratic methods of work. This is why the struggle of the free chevron didn’t end with reinstatement. It is a struggle still going on today, only this time it is a struggle within the chevron staff. On the one side are the people who have carried on the free chevron struggle with investigative journalism of basic issues affecting the students. On the other side is the Barkman clique, posing as so-called “moderates”. Throwing all their shallow principles to the wind, these people have actually carried on the work of Shane Roberts to institute “real chevron” type journalism in the chevron. If Roberts yere here today he’d been kissing their asses for what they’re doing. Under the guise of so-called “objectivitg’ and ‘&campus news” they are trying to liquidate the struggle against the cutbacks, etc. In practise they have called for bureaucratic methods to be employed; they have suppressed discussion at staff meetings; they have skulked around behind the backs of other staffers and carried on a vicious slander campaign against certain individuals. They have resurrected all the worn out lies prom.oted by Shane Roberts and arrogantly shown their contempt for staff and students. In short, they have betrayed the very principles the free chevron staff fought so long to implement. The struggle against these characters will only intensify in the c0min.g months. Even if they do manage to seize control of the chevron, as they hope are attempting to do, they can be assured that those carrying on the free chevron struggle will never give them a moment’s peace. LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE FREE CHEVRON! Peter Blur-den Heather Robertson
A couple of weeks ago a few of us had developed a theory. based on study and inve\tigation, that Stephen Coates is unable to think properly. We partly based this view on letters he had written to the chevron. In one letter two married students reply to Coates support for the 13.2% rent increase. Coates said that the married students should have to pay the increase and biamed the married students for having children. In the same letter Coates claimed that the union workers made $15-20 dollars an hour at Married Students Apartments. This same assertion was refuted in a letter to the March 10 Chevron which pointed out: “I can assure S.- Coates that we do not receive $15 to $20 per hour, scarcely a third of that. Of course, I can appreciate that with today’s inflation the ten cents necessary to call and confirm his allegations would be crippling to his budget (although I did hear a rumour that on-campus calls are free). And then of course there is the workerstudent alliance which doesn’t exist. According to S. Coates this doesn’t exist because non-union residents wouldn’t be hired in place of union employees. Since when does the union set hiring policy and since when is administration’s policy indicative of working class perspective‘?
For the record, the union here at the university has negotiated in the past and will, no doubt, negotiate in the future for student wages - of course this seems to he conveniently forgotten. But then in order to check his facts he would now run into a gargantuan phone bill of twenty cents (unless of course, that rumour is true). As a matter of fact, Mr. Coates, the men here in the shops thought of taking up a collection just to keep you in dimes so that the next time you say what you think you can well afford to think through fully what it is you ought to say - unfortunately no one donated. Mr. Coates has yet to find the words to reply. At this point our medical analysis was being formulated that Mr. Coates is unable to think properly; there was one dissenting member of the medical team. After another letter, in which Coates admitted to several staff members that he had lied on about eight points made in the letter. The letter claimed that the chevron censored articles and letters to feedback (another lie). On this question Mr. Coates has also not found the words to reply. (How about for this reply sorry guys, but I am a habitual liar. ) At this point our analysis became stronger - that MI-. Coates is unable to think properly. (we still had one dissenter). Then last week Stephen Coates wrote in a letter that one person was “a fake proletariat” i.e. one person was faking being 80% of the Canadian People and at the same time this students was an “upper-crusted bourgeouse” (sic&boor gaze’?). With this letter the dissenting view won over the committee. She presented a similar case of a person by the name of Stansilav Reinis who at the beginning she also thought could not think properly. Our medical committee was convinced by her analysis which was that MI-. Coates like Mr. Reinis has a very bad case of Diahrrea. Salah Bachir
Two weeks ago you published an.article named ‘The Rich Get Richer’. The figures you presented may look impressive and they may be totally correct, but I think that the figures are slightly misleading. For example, when you -mentioned that Alcan had a rise in profit of 6CO%, wouldn’t it be helpful if you mentioned thai Alcan made vei-y iittle profit in the first half of 1976. It also might be useful to mention that Alcan’s Canadian division lost money in the first quarter in 1976. It would also have been useful to show if the entire stock market was in a slump in 1976 and whether or not the market came out of a slump in 1977. These facts might take a lot of the impact out of your article, but would make such an article less misleading. I hope that next time you present such an article you give a little background into the figures you present. Thank ysu
Dear Mr. Hannant; In last week’s chevron, you quite clearly stated that you thought that mathNEWS was a piece of gutter journalism. The only fact that you claimed was that mathNEWS had incorrectly reported that Neil Docherty was running for editor of the chevron. Is one mistake enough to claim that the paper is no good‘?‘?!!!‘!‘? I n last week’s chevron, 1 noticed that there were at least two corrections from the week before. By using the same logic you do, the chevron uses twice as much gutter journalism as does mathNEWS!!!!! You also stated that the article was just an excuse to bad mouth Neil. I feel that you1 letter was just an excuse to bad mouth me. I am also disgusted that when I went down
to the chevron office to talk to you, I was told to ‘ ‘fuck off ‘. I know that you were in a staff meeting at the time, but I do not feel that was enough to justify the other staff member’s obscenity. Is this the way you treat the people that read your paper? If so, WHY??‘?? By the way, Larry; how did you know that my “house” needed cleaning when you have never been to my apartment?? (have the A.I.A. been bugging our apartments??) Before Larry directs any more complaints towards mathNEWS he’d better clean up his own filthy paper. You should keep ybur mouth shut until the chevron begins to serve the students of this university - by reporting facts, at least!!! Geoff Hains
Stephen Coates, chevron staffer, is a reactionary member of the bourgeoisie, and as such deserves to be denounced and exposed (despite the cold weather). I know this because of his attempts to confuse the people through his involvement with CKMS (Canadian Karl Marx Station). I oppose him for attempting to lure the proletariate into a false sense of security by playing music of “the great masters”. It is an outrage that he should encourage this music which was once written for the bourgeoisie. Who cares if it sounds nice. Coates is a Co-op science student, and as such, is spending his present work-term in Needless Hall, that ivory tower of administrative repression. His office is even on the same floor as Burt Matthews. I am thoroughly disgusted by this capitulation on his part when he could have studied something useless and been unemployed as all university students should be. Coates has also written feedback letters condemning PCWC (People’s Canada Weekly Chevron). He is upset by the fact that some staffers claim to stand up for democratic principles, but allegedly sidestep democracy. Coates doesn’t seem to realize that the end justifies the means. We must fight for the revolution, and abandon all principles in doing so. He has shown his disdain for this coming revolution by doing such things as taking concert news photos. He’ll do anything to distract from the irnportance of the revolution. Coates is also a staunch supporter of the present class system at the university. He has been known to attend classes for years, and is showing no signs of letting up in the future. He also is committed to obtaining high grades, yet when asked why he felt marx to be important, he showed his obvious ignorance of the Manifesto. This character must not be tolerated. I can only feel udder disdain for this creature of capitalism. Christopher Bufau~t
To Larry Hannant, Salah Bachir, and other Flunkies Firstly. to the flunkies, you can’t win them all!! Secondly, @@news is the most entertaining paper on campus, that is if you like their sexist humour. mathNEWS may not be the best paper around, but, it is enjoyable, funny, and relevant to the Math Students. Mathsoc does not necessarily ‘support the views of mathNEWS, but mathNEWS is a math student newspaper, NOT a Mathsoc paper. mathNEWS is completely voluntary staffed whose members do not feel compelled to produce a paper the quality of The Wall Street Journal. Libelous statements, Larry, like the ones you directed at Geoff Hains, are uncalled for, especially from a competant journalist like yourself. As far as JJ Long is concerned, he is not on my list of most favorite people (e.g. Charlie’s Angels. Barbie Benton, Linda Carter, etc.), but. he has done more for the math students in 1,2,3,. . . .n years (who’s counting) than
Neil Docherty, Larry Hannant, Salah Bachir, and Jonathan Coles have done for the students of this university. Doug Thompson is not a NAZI and neither are his friends, thugs. People are not normally referred to, in public, as anything but their right names or proper titles, not Nazis, tommies, etc.. As far as the annual general meeting of Oct. 29 is concerned, it was not cancelled, it was adjourned at a set time so the PAC could be used for other purposes. If you check mathNEWS (Nov. 5, 1976: vol. 12, no. 6) you will see this is true!! The chances of the chevron’s reports changing the bureaucratic ‘RED TAPE’ are about the same as the Cleveland Barons winning the Stanley Cup this year!!! By the way, what do you mean, ‘the likes of JJ Long’?‘ Andy Mueller Matksoc President P.S. Thanks Neil, for the reporting on the Honourary Membership that we gave to Gary Dryden which included a rare picture of our most recent presidents taken by Rick Smit .
Is the reactionary Reinis less harmful than he seems? Does this psychology professor, running amock in the Feedback pages of the chevron, heaping allegations upon allegations of wrongidoings in supposedly socialist countries while refusing to analyse concrete conditions in Canada, refusing to discuss the crisis of capitalism, actually getting some honest people interested in finding out more about Marxism-Leninism? I find these questions very interesting because I am the “doctor in the K-W Hospital” that he refers to. When- professor Reinis wrote that I was a “self-confessed member of CPC(M-L)” I had not even heard of CPC(M-L). (Incidentally neither did I possess a brand new Porsche). But I must say 1 straightaway went to find out a little bit about CPC( M-L). After all if somebody, especially a professor, said you are a member (self-centred at that) of something you had better find out whether it is good or bad. And so, after living in blissful ignorance in Waterloo for 5 years, I discovered the AIA. You see, dear professor, like so many of your kind you underestimate people’s intelligence. And I don’t mean IQ scores, I mean simple things like the curiosity to find out facts for oneself. As the chevron struggle has shown, it simply doesn’t work to heap allegations upon allegations of wrong-doings as though sheer volume impresses people. The readers of the chevron deserve better than that. We all know that the Soviet Union and the countries under its domination are not socialist countries, that their communist parties are not Marxist-Leninist parties. So would you please quit this silly line of yours‘? Your total lack of historical perspective is amazing. It is ludicrous to say “What happened to Cambodia may happen to any nation” not only because it is not clear what you mean by what happened to Cambodia except an unsubstantiated scare story, but more importantly what happens in any country in any given epoch is determined by the concrete conditions of that country in that epoch. The conditions in Canada in 1978 are characterized by domination by US imperialism, capitalist crisis of overproduction, and .attempts by Trudeau and his gang to shift the burden of the economic crisis on the backs of the people. Witness the huge foreign debt, massive unemployment, inflation, cutbacks in education, health care and social services. As well, the Canadian people are being slandered as lazy and racist. These straightforward lies are daily promoted by the state and the press and media of the rich. The youth are especially subjected to attack not only along the above lines but also because the bourgeoisie promoted a decadent culture. These are things which are actually happening in Canada. Unlike you, most ordinary Canadians
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don’t have to t-cad a Readers Digest publication about another country to find out what can happen here. As to violence, what can be more violent than the numerous wars launched by the imperialists to divide the spoils? As Lenin wrote, “Imperialist capitalism has become the greatest oppressor of nations . . . it has developed the forces of production to such a degree that mankind is faced with the alternative ofgoing over to socialism or of suffering years and even decades of armed struggle between the “great” powers for the artificial preservation of capitalism by means of colonies. monopolies, privileges and national oppression of every kind.” (Lenin on War and Peace, FLP Peking. p. 8). Dear Professor Reinis, 1 have learned a few things since you told me about CPC(M-L) but you have learned nothing. Dr. Bernard Chan
ortunists always lie La\t week some local opportunist wrote a letter to the chevron reprinting some gossip from a neo-Trotskyite newspaper in Toronto. This hinihter article claim’s that Hal-dial Bains wa\ in Montreal during the recent Mirabel airport strike carrying out antistrike and anti-worker activitie\. It even has “evidence” in the form of a picture of “Hardial Bains and family” at the airport waiting for a plane. Of course, the person in the picture doesn’t even look like Hal-dial Bains. but this is hardly surprising. You see. Lit the same time that this yellow newspaper claimed Bains was in Montreal he was addressing the Third Annual Convention of the East Indian Defence Committee in Vancouver. What this really shows is the utter bankruptcy of the opportunists who use gossip and straight-forward lies in order to prop themselves up as “genuine” socialists. These dogs’ only mission in life is to tag along at the backside of the workers movement while flinging dung to and fro at others to hide their own class nature. Such is the practice of this yellow rag in Toronto and of their opportunist friend here. Peter Blunden
Pitman is a racist Having attended Walter Pitman’s talk at Conrad Grebel College March 16 I couldn’t help but recall a comment made in the February 24 chevron by Dr. Frank Thompson. Thompson disagreed with the International Students Association’s denunciation of the Pitman report as racist. Specifically he defended Pitman by asserting that “Walter Pitman is no racist.” However, at the March I6 meeting Pitman openly admitted that he has racist sentiments. He said “There’s a bit of the racist in each of us.” “Speak for yourself’ was the response from many members of the audience, who took great offence at his attempt to attribute his own personal pre-judice to them. One member of the audience pointed out that the Pitman report presents a racist theory by saying that “browned skinned people” regardless of whether they come from Guyana, Uganda, India, South Africa, Britain or Canada. all have their “roots” in South Asia. This theory arbitrarily labels a person on the basis of their biological race. irrespective of the person’s real culture, language and nationality. Thompson’s defence of Pitman shows that he was so anxious to attack people with progressive political views that he did not even bother to do any investigation of the matter. But the facts have proven that Pitman is a racist and have exposed Thompson as a fool. Thompson’s Fe’,Jruary 24 letter a:so states “I trust that these maicvolent attacks on his
(Pitman’s) report will contribute. however. indirectly - to getting for it the attention it deserves.” Thompson’s wish has been fulfilled. The Pitman report has certainly received “the attention it deserves” - exposure and denunciation by the ISA and the Canadian People’s (Citizens and Residents) Defence Committee. John Boyd
Separation investigated Back in June 1 volunteered to serve on a commission of investigation into the closing of the chevron. The whole chevron affair had had the campus in an uproar for nearly a year and had become an issue of national significance. Like virtually every other student on campus I was extremely interested in understanding the positions at stake and in findingout what exactly had happened. Who was right? Who was wrong’! The hours of grilling I received from the chevron staff and from student councillors before being accepted, as a commissioner served to confirm that the parties to the dispute took the matter of an investigation very seriously, The commission would investigate the closing and decide on the basis of the investigation whether the allegations made against the chevron and its staff were true or not. Along with the rest of the commicsioners I assumed that we would get the investigation started in August and have it wrapped up by the end of September. The chevron affair would be over and we would get back to OLII- courses. It was clear to all of us that the purpose of this commission was to bring the dispute to an official close. We would look at the evidence and decide whether the actions of the Federation had been legal and proper or not. We would make appropriate recommendations and the affair would be over. We did get started by August, but by the end of October it was apparent that all hope of passing courses was gone. In the end we spent hundreds of hours in listening to evidence, examining docurhents and piecing together actions and motives. Six months went by. It also became very apparent that principles of democracy had been trampled left and right by the executive and council of the Federation of students - but especially by the exectitive. Slander and anti-AIA, anticommunist hate mongering had been at the bottom of the closing. Actions commendable in anyone else were atti-ibuted to sinister motives if taken by AIA members or supporters. Actions perfectly legitimate if done by anyone else were not to be allowed for AIA members. Finally, at the end of January, our report was complete. We submitted it to the chevron and to the students’ council. Both organizations completely ignored it. The chevron gave no considerations to our recommendations but proceeded to set out in a direction completely contrary to the recommendations we had made. The Federation executive made no attempt to check them but in fact encouraged them. Before staff members of the chevron had even read the report, let alone considered its recommendations, there was a great push on for getting the chevron separate from the federation. Exactly what we had recommended against. After a little while it became clear that the chevron was not at all unified on the questi;n of future relations with the federation. The editor and many senior staff members were opposed to rushing ahead with separation. They urged discussion of the commission recommendations and reconsederation of staff position. Notice was given that Neil Docherty was opposed to separation and intended to have staff reconsider and reverse its position. As the split became deeper it was apparent that those who were pushing hard for separation were mostly toadies of the federation and old enemies of the chevron a\ well as anyone they could mobilize to join them. Even J.J. Long, whom investigation had revealed as one of the chief anti-democratic
people in the chevron-s long struggle. who had actually participated in a mob which had violently evicted free chevron staffers from the office, even jj was recruited onto the chevron by Rick Smit’s call to “change the paper from within”. By the time the election for editor came up the staff was immense. And split down the middle. On one side were those who urged thorough discussion of all issues and emphasized the need for investigative reporting, defense of students’ basic interests and the importance of the free chevron struggle and the commission report. On the other side were those who urged immediate and massive changes to the paper, to its relations with the Federation and to the democratic prcicedure of the staff. The latter camp was closely associated with the Federation president and his cronies. They included Randy Barkman who, as Board of Publications Chairman and chevron staff member, pretended to negotiate with the university administrqtion for a deal on separation from the Federation but who urged immediate capitulation to unreasonable demands. They included Chris Dufault who, while a new negotiating team was tackling the problem of separation, set out to deliberately force the issue and undermine the chevron’s negotiating position. Once again the democratic chevron is under heavy attack. The McCarthyist battle cries, “Better dead then red” and “Drive out the tommies, by force if necessary” are in the air. The political chameleon, Nick Redding, has again switched to what he thinks will be the winning side. There are no logical reasons for separating the chevron from the Federation of Students. Although the Fede-ration is a moribund institution and an expensive dcag on students at this time, there is no reason to suppose that it will always be so. To split these organizations will not result in a stronger, autonomous paper. The chevron will not be autonomous in any case. Whatever occurs the chevron will retain some contractual link with the Federation. The so-called “separation” which is being advocated only alters the relation between the paper and the Federation: it does not break it. In the event that another totally corrupt Federation bureaucracy should attempt to destroy the paper, it would still have means at its disposal. Furthermore, the administration, which can not now attack the chevron without attacking the whole Federation, would have a clear target and an obvious weapon (cutting off funds) if the chevron should “separate”. “Separation” is in the interests of only those who wish to weaken the political organization of students. The Federation leadership, if it does not discourage the move foi separation, will deserve the contempt of even those few who voted for it, since it makes no effort to preserve its own strengths. If the Federation leadership actually encourages the move for separation it will reveal itself clearly as traitorous to the students and deserving of recall. Don Martin
unciation I guess I’ve really made it. Not only was 1 denounced, but I was denounced twice by Salah Bachir and by Neil Docherty. However while some of my friends congratulated me, others didn’t care saying that they were called worse names than myself. Some of Neil’s and Salah’\ comment\ were correct, some were exagerrations, and others were based on misinformation or personal opinion. I have done some things which I know now to have been wrong, but I have accounted these to the students and do not need to account to Docherty and his domain. I realize that it wa\ wrong to try to change the chevron by force. Other means must be used, if we are to have a paper that really is for the students’ interest\. not one that says it is. 1 wish Neil and Salah would not try to dig up old dirt, but perhap\ they want the paper closed again. Such an action would rnal\e them “martyrs” again and perhap4 destt-o) the Federation. I will not be closing the paper, I hope othdrs will not either. It is interesting that Docherty. while denouncing people for trying to get Redding elected. seems to be getting people to join staff who support his cause. It is interesting to see Johnson Chang, James Kang, and Barbara Rowe join staff. Is it likely they will vote for Docherty’s friend Carter’! I’ll stop here. Thanks for the denunciation guys, it is a nice way to end my career with the Federation. The amazing thing is that you both spell mathNEWS wrong in two different ways. J.J. Long
e I would like to speak to one point made in Nick Redding’s letter in last week’s feedback section. Redding states “ . . . more thought will have to be given to making the articles concise.” What exactly does this meant? When interviewed for chevron editor on March 3/78, he complained that the Jan. 13 articles on Married Students Apartments needed shortening. In Redding’s opinion, the charts explaining the major costs in the budgets of married Students, the Villages, and Minota Hagey were needless. When pressed for reasons why, he admitted that he had not even read the articles and so did not even know that the charts in themselves,‘comprised a separate article. What is this “wider scope” that Redding hopes to bring into the paper? It is my belief that he and his kin wish to change the direction of the paper, to cut out the investigation and work done to defend the basic interests of students and to leave the students without a fighting newspaper. Dianne
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Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers’ union of dumont press graphix and publish,ed by the federation of students incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Offi’ces are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. . ..first peter blunden had it, but he ieft...then salah bachir had it, but he fell asleep...and by that time, everyone had forgotten about it, so the hegemony of jwb is back, HQ transferred to the typesetters, written at the very last minute. this issue: bent loses money, math standards are up, co-op fees rise, and all hell breaks loose in the centrespread as the merits and demerits of separation are debated...all this and more because of the inimitable talents of lorne gershuny (foreign correspondent), Willie herman, mark (born late, arrives late, writes late) jardine, deborah fraser, duncan bury, louise atkins, dieneke than, larry hannant, randy barkman, jules grajower, salah bachir, Scott barren, peter hoy, shiela stocking, ciaran (the dog) o’donnell, jj long, case van case van maanen (did i do that right? bloody typesetting machine...)ron reeder, mary Campbell, peter smith, john Chichester, peter towa, nina was at the office last night, so was don martin, ruth harris helped a lot in distribution, and i think that covers it. greetings to c.k. and m.j....this may be the last time i get to write this this term, as doubtless last week’s usurpers will accuse me of not calling them in to do the masthed because of my loathsome empire-building...but with the noting of neil docherty, jonathan coles, Sylvia hanniban, and staid laurie lawson, i can, with good conscience, sign miself mad photographer jwb-
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The Waterloo Wanderers have won their semi-final series and are ready and waiting for the final series to begin! Here is an account of the action that led up to this historic moment:
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This winter we made a simple request of the U of W Community involved in the to get participation’s movement toward personal fitness. We wanted people to walk, run, swim, ski or simply to move in some way. Your response for involvement has been overwhelming. To site a few ways we all participated may I take a few lines. 1. 997 joggers officially registered for the U of Victoria - U of Waterloo Jogger’s Challenge. 2. 300 teams participated in competitive and recreational leagues 3000 people. 3. Over 1000 Participants engaged in ten tournaments this term. 4. Over 700 people were involved in Club activities. 5. Our instructional program registrations surpassed expectations causing classes to swell. Over 700 people received instruction -this term. Other. little known highlights of this term include Jim Walker, et al. development of an A-V Intramural Bruce presentation through Steele’s Communication Course; the 4th year Research Studies on: a) Non-contact I-Iockey - Murray Recreation: Mclaren, 4B b) North Campus Field House Design - Randy Pickle, of 4B Engineering: c) Squash Survey; d) Women’s Toteroom Survey WIAC Council: and e) Recreation 220 Students Involvement in Tournaments. In summary) your involvement surpassed our expectations. Thank you for your interest and support,. Thank you Ml ’ 1 personally would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to my resource people. As I assumed this role as Publicity Coordinator, I found that sharing info and promoting programs was extremely difficult unless I utilized my resources. To these supportive and quite pleasant people, I thank you!! Lynn Montag, Intramural Department; John W. Bast, chevron; Rick Campbell, Waterloo Chroni.cle; and to Peter for giving me the opportunity and guidance to grow ! I
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The A and B finals took place March 15th at McCormick Arena. Both games were excellent and by far the best hockey I’ve seen this term. In the B finals the Rockers edged Co-op 3-2. Graham opened the scoring for the Rockers in the first period and Bell gave them a 2-O lead just 30 seconds into the second period.@-op fought back quickly and made the score 2-l less than a minute later. Bell added his second goal of the night to give the Rockers a 3-l lead. Co-op closed the margin to one with 6 minutes left in the game. They kept the pressure on for the last 6 minutes and were failed by Boggs, the Rockers goalte, on numerous occasions.’ Worm and Schreiner scored the two Co-op goals. Congratulations Rockers! Optometry A and the Longshots were the A league finalist. Both teams were in the finals last term. Optometry were the A finalists while the Longshots won the B championship. Clarke opened the scoring for the Longshots late in the first period. White made it 2-O at the 11 minute mark of the second period and Davidson added the final Longshot’s goai just 2 minutes later. Burnside played an excellent game in the net for the Longshots. He stopped lmany scoring drives with the goal posts on his side on more than one occasion. The game was very clean having only two penalties called. Both teams should be complimented on their ability to play good clean, competitive hockey. Congratulations Longshots, the new A league champions!
On Tuesday, March 14, Waterloo travelied to Plattsville to play what was supposed to be the-last game of the series. However, the Wanderers lost 4-2, and therefore the series was tied up again. Water-
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Men’s Volleyball was conquered by George’s Giants, an independent team. St. Jeromes took second and fourth place, with the Smoke Eaters of Village II South taking third.
There was a large turn-out of non-shoe teams for the tournament this year, totalling 17 teams, with only three teams entering the shoe division. Unfortunately, the Hot Dogs defaulted which left only two teams, Seaforth Sweepers and Thee Team, to clash for the title in the shoe division. Seaforth Sweepers was composed of good individual players, but were no match for the team-work of Thee Team (Renison) who won the game 4-O. The Turkies beat out Contemporary Issue, 1-O for top honours in the non-shoe division. Neither team could muster much offence, but the Turkies were strong defensively even though their star defenceman was unable to play, due to an injury. Congratulations to both champions and to all who participated.
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One-on-One Basketball Men’s A was stampeded by St. Jeromes, who placed in all positions except fourth, which was taken by Jamie Anderson of Geography. An excellent showing by Frank Depalmas, Mike Thackrey , Larry Baldissera and Kreso Pehar of St. Jerry’s. In B, One-on-One Basketball, D. Clifford of St. Pauls took first with J. Milner of Engineering took a close second. B. Fitzpatrick of Kin, A Stretton of Engineering an+ J Soules took places respectively.
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The Mixed Curling Bonspiel was a great success with 54 participants at Ayr Curling Club on Saturday, March 4, 1978. In first place, with no losses, was the Recreation team of Brian Glover, Peter McGovern, Ruth Burgess and Loreen Davison. The team of Don Wakefield, Sue Gordon, Steve Bennett and Kathy Wal-, lace from Engineering came second, again with no losses. In third place was Gord Walden, Brenda Fenn, Brian Cook and Rose-Ann Della Penna from Village 1 South. The surprise of the tournament was the Kin team consisting of Lynn Montag and Val Mason, IM secretary and receptionist respectively, who tied for fourth place with team mates John McIver and skip Roger Gillespie. The other fourth place team was Ian Munro, Steve Legg, Trish Munro and Sandra Kieth of Math.
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The mixed volleyball tourney took place on Tuesday, March 14th with 25 teams entered and plenty of eager finger tips. The winners of A fliiht werk the Kilbers who were severely challenged by the Optometry squad. In the B flight, Fingers defeated the tough and rugged Ret B squad only in overtime play. C Flight saw Renison crowned as victors over the competent Electric Elks. In Flight D, V2 South and SJC team No. 8 battled for 45 minutes before V2 South came out on the winning end. Congratulations to all champions and to all who participated.
Rugby On April 2 at 12 noon the Waterloo Warriors club will have its annual intrasquad game. For further information contact Bryan Tyrrell or Mike Maniw .
victorious in University ball hockey playoffs Monday night, capturing the A division championship. Hogans defeate&North D by a score of 14 to 6. Hogans defeated West D in the semi-finals and North D defeated the Grizzly Baars to reach the finals. In B division action West D defeated team G by a score of 8 to 4 to. win the B championship. A total of 21 teams took part in the playoffs.
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HOWEVER, on Friday, March 17, Waterloo stuck to their stringent game plan and beat Plattsville in the do or die game 3-2. The Wanderers contained Plattsville’s breakaway play and forced them to make errors in their own end. Plattsville scored first at 7: 34 of the first period, but Waterloo answered this with two goals in the same period: one by Bonnie Zagrodney unassisted, the other by MO Jo Long, assisted by Cathie Manna. There was no scoring in the second period, but the play was furious with end to end action. In the final period., Plattsville had the nerve to tie the game up on a play that left one of their players alone in the slot. But on-the-spot Waterloo player Helen Mackey scored the winner at 5: 15, assisted by the Wanderers leader in penaity minutes, Donna Smith. Waterloo played an. all out. aggressive , skating game to put them into the finals. Not bad for a first year expansion {earn ! Special mention goes to Tammy Home and Lynn Hoyles who gave thci:- ;iiI throughout the game. The Wanderers have to wait for the other series between Tavistock and Milverton to finish. Next game is Tuesday at 8:OOpm at New Hamburg Arena against Tavistock. Appreciation must be expressed to the fifteen-odd fans who came out to support the team. It really makes a difference to have a cheering section.
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loo got off to a very slow start, as Plattsville scored four unanswered goals. One was on a breakaway, another on a give-away, one on a power play, and the other was so insignificant I cannot remember it! (Ask goal,ie Bubbles Preston!) Waterloo did not get into the game until the second half of the third period, where they scored two goals, by Bonnie Zagrodney and Helen Mackey . Cathie Manna assisted on both goals. The Wanderers allowed Plattsville to play thei type of game and it hurt them badly.
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The Floor Hockey Season wrapped up last Thursday night with Plummer’s Choice taking the championship defeating the Old Ti mers 5-2. At the end of the regular season 16 out pf 32 teams made the playoffs. Of those 16 teams, 4 had perfect 5-O records. They were Plummer’s Choice, Jerital Jets, Farmer’s Pigs and the Old Timers. This then set the stage for the very interesting playoff schedule. In the second round of the playoffs the two major upsets were Co-op defeating Farmer’s Pigs 3-l and also Chem Cougars defeated Jeritol Jets 6-3. In the, next round, Plummer’s Choice defeated Co-op 5-3 and the Old Timer’s defeated Chem Cougar 2-O.
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