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mpl-oyee pressing $100,000lawSuit A major power struggle in the ranks of the senior administration .of the University of Waterloo has been brought to light by the January 26 dismissal of the director of the Physical Resources Group (PRG) and his subsequent suit against the university for about $100,000 in compensation. The dismissal of PRG director Bill Lobban has stirred up the PRG from the level of the maintenance workers on campus to UW finance vice-president Bruce Gellatly, whose jurisdiction includes the PRG, and has also reached UW President Burt Matthews. The shake-up in PRG has been the subject of grassroots speculation among workers at UW at least since Lobban’s dismissal was announced in a tiny article buried in the inside pages of the Feb. 15 edition of The Gazette. The article said only that Lobban “has left the university”. What the administration’s organ concealed was that Lobban was peremptorily dismissed at a January 26 meeting in which Gellatly told him to pack his bags, according to Lobban, but didn’t give him adequate reasons why. “It’s two months now since it happened, and I still lie in bed at night wondering what the hell it was all about,” says Lobban. If he’s taken to reverie about his dismissal from UW, he’s in the perfect setting for it. A former architect with the Royal Navy, Lobban lives in a palatial house in Beechwood surveying the university campus which he was influential in shaping during his 14-year tenure as head of PRG. Nothing illustrates the profundit,y of the shake-up better than this mansion, a stone’s throw from campus, whose owner no longer rules his former domain. But Lobban is not the only veteran boss in the PRG to get the axe in this shake-up of the department which plans growth of the campus and keeps it running. Two others have left the PRG within the past four months, and the departure of all three is related. The problem is partly a personality conflict among senior PRG bosses, but the issue goes much deeper. Another casualty is Dave Hedley, who was supervisor of buildings in the PRG and overseer of the tradesmen who paint, repair and maintain the buildings on campus. Hedley resigned in mid-January following the initiation of a grievance against him by Local 793 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees which represents the tradesmen working under Medley. A third casualty is Helmut Krueger who throughout most of 1977 served as plant engineer - in charge of fans, thermostats, heating, hot and cold water and so on. A probationary employee, Krueger was rejected as a candidate for permanent employment just as his probationary period ended late last year. Gellatly is close-mouthed about the reason why Krueger was not kept on at UW, as he is with the other facts of the shake-up. “It was a decision of his supervisor that his permanent appointment shouldn’t be made at the end of his probationary period,” says Gellatly. Further background material on Krueger and the others is not forthcoming from Gellatly for a variety of reasons - the information might be involved in the impending court case, because he doesn’t have time to check the files, because personnel director Ernie Lucy is on holiday, because the issue is “a private matter”, or simply because “I don’t think I even want to comment.” Despite the smokescreen, it is clear that the shake-up is more than a matter of a personality conflict. It also involves the problem of how

the UW administration can get more work out of the same number of, or even fewer, workers on campus. It is an issue which has been simmering since 1972 when cutbacks in education spending by the provincial government began to hit the university. A June 23, 1972, front-page article in the chevron introduces to UW both Dave Hedley and the consequences of the cutbacks for -the workers on campus. The article reports that university painters were angry about excessive supervision over them, a new policy applied as money became scarce following the boom of the 1960’s. The chevron article says that “This newer and harder stand on campus maintenance policy has been directed by David Hedley , the painters’ supervisor. Hedley came to the university about two months ago and ‘took over the supervision of the contract section with a fairly firm hand,“’ according to Shaun Sloan, who is now director of plant operations in PRG. Until the shake-up, Sloan’s immediate boss was Lobban, and Sloan was in turn the immediate superior of Hedley and Krueger. The accompanying diagram illustrates the ties of responsibility, and the battle lines, within PRG. Hedley’s reputation among the workers under him did not improve between 1972 and 1977. “He had a lot. of gall,” said one long-term PRG worker. The conflict came to a head in November of last year when Hedley called together the carpenters, painters, key control workers and others. “I used a little bit of derogatory language,” admits Hedley . The workers report that Hedley accused them of “fucking the dog,” on the job instead of doing a full day’s work. “I said we were all guilty of it,” insists Hedley. “Some of us realized it and some of us didn’t realize it. It’s not’ just a case of going out and knowingly misusing your time, but it’s a case of going out and utilizing your time to the fullest amount.” For many workers this was the last straw, and CUPE officials responded by initiating a grievance against Hedley, bringing the matter to Shaun Sloan’s attention. Sloan agreed with the union that Hedley ’ s tongue-lashing was ‘ ‘too strong,” Hedley says. “He told me how he thought it should have been handled, and I gave the men a public apology for it. I admitted it was too s trorig, that I could have worded it a bit more politely. But the message still remains the same.” The conflict cooled then, but a further eruption occurred about six weeks later when Bill Lobban learned of Hedley’s lecture to the workers. On Dec. 21 he suspended Hedley . In an interview with the chevron Lobban would say only that Hedley’s suspension was “over a series of issues.” But Hedley requested a formal letter from Lobban explaining the suspension and he confirms that his lecture to the workers was one reason. Another was that “he felt I had caused friction with the other group, ” that is, between mechanical and electrical sections of the PRG. Would this have something to do with Helmut Krueger, whose application for permanent appointment as plant engineer had just been rejected? “Probably,” says Hedley , who thinks that Krueger might have been the one to tell Lobban about Hedley’s lecture. Hedley charges that his suspension was-retaliation against him beContinued

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An l&year-old Kitchener man nesday that the investigation had been treated the way they were. I has issued a statement saying he been called off because the family belong to a church group and we all was assaulted by a police detective felt the same.” was pressing legal charges. At that and members of the special tactical The tactical squad made front point, however, the family told the squad. chevron that they were still relying page news two weeks ago when William McNeish, who police on the internal inquiry and would members of The Henchman acknowledge has committed no ofonly lay charges if that did not proMotorcycle club claimed they, had fence, and his father delivered a vide satisfaction. been brutally assaulted by’ the statement to police headquarters force. Inspector Marlyn Hallman, who Tuesday. is supposed to conduct the inquiry, McNeish’s statement on page 9. “I sure never thought an innotold the chevron that it is still on. cent person could become involved Meanwhile, Brown was being An internal police investigation in the horror and anguish I suffered is to be conducted into allegations: quoted widely in the local media at the hands of the tactical unit and -that the police broke in windows saying that the investigation is off. the police . . .” and doors to enter the clubhouse; As early as Tuesday he was quoted In the nine-page statement sprayed it with tear gas to prein the evening TV news saying that vent The Henchman from using it McNeish says he had guns pointed because the incident was in the at him, was at one point threatened media an objective investigation agam; that his “head would be blown off - forced the club members to could not be held. (The K-W Rehis shoulders”, was handcuffed, kneel against a wall while policecord ran a front page story Tuesday men walked on their legs; dragged upstairs by the neck, slapon McNeish’s statement.) -forced them to run a gauntlet of ped, and had his head smashed The police chief would not ansagainst the floor. wer any questions on the incident policemen who beat them, and The incident occurred March 22 when contacted by the chevron which ended with a dog biting when on a report that a gun had them; Wednesday. - on their way out of the police been fired in a Chestnut Street McNeish, who is currently laid house in Kitchener, the police and off from his sub-contractingwork station being made to apologise to on construction, has never had any the tactical squad cordoned off the the officers. street. trouble with the police before. Both Brown, who created the squad, The man who has since been he and his parents stress that they was quoted in The Record March charged with possession of a are not out to cause trouble for the 15 saying that he didn’t know about weapon dangerous to the public police, but they are concerned that the raid, but stated “If I had known peace, is William’s brother Robert, other people may be subjected to about the raid, I would have been in 22, who rents the house from his similar treatment and they want it favour.” He said, “I guess the special father. stopped. By the time the police converged McNeish’s mother, refering to squad is enforcing the law on this on the house, however, Robert had an unrelated incident two weeks group. ’ ’ left for work and William, who had ago, told the chevron “I even think -mark jardine -neit docherty The Henchmen shouldn’t have -4aurie lawson -peter hoy just arrived, was alone. The younger brother received a phone call from a police officer. McNiesh identified himself and told the officer that his elder brother had gone to work. The officer, satisfied that William was not the man suspected of firing the gun, asked him to come out with his hands up. McNeish says he complied and when he got outsid,e he was confronted by armed members of the tactical squad. His hands were handcuffed behind his back and he was dragged back into the house. In his statement he says the police drew the drapes and he was repeatedly assaulted by members ^ of the squad and a detective who wanted to know where the guns , where. “I had been beaten up by professionals who leave no visible i marks,” he says. The terror was such that McNeish lost control of his bowels) but was not given an opportunity to change his soiled clothing, he says. At one point during the ordeal his sister phoned the house and was told by a policeman that there was a party going on. She asked to speak to her brother but the police didn’t let her talk to him. McNeish was taken to the police station, but no charge was laid. Now he and his parents want an investigation into the affair which they hope will result in some officers being discharged, and the image of the police being improved, McNeish’s father told the chevron. Earlier in the week it was reported that the police department’s complaints bureau was conducting an internal inquiry at the request of With the increase in bus fares and the coming of spring chevron sports ’ police chief Syd Brown. writer Mary Campbell has started to cycling to camp& ---I on one wheel. Brown told the chevron Wedphoto by john w. bast

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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 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Bank of Montreal, King & Queen Streets, Kitchener. 4-5pm. Info: Southern Africa Action Committee, 743-0939, 743-7111. Peoples Food Commission. Community Supper, film, and informational meeting. Trinity United Church, 74 Frederick Street, Kitchener. 6pm. $3.00. Contact Global Communitv Centre, 743-7111. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing session. Players of all calibre welcome. 7-10pm. Upper Blue Activity Area, PAC. Citizen Kane - International Film Series. Orson Welles most famous film. Tickets are: membership $2 plus film fee of $1.50 (SS$l) available at the door. 8pm. Humanities Theatre. I

Federation Flicks - Barbarella 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. CC1 10.

Saturday Return of Dungeons and Dragons the fantastic role-playing game of Sword and Sorcery. (Wanted: Search party for two hobbits) Math lounge, MC 3002, loam. Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Upstairs at the Grad Club. Barb Fraser, Bill Stunt and Doug Reansbury. 8pm. Grad Club $50 students. I Cash Bar. Federation

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Students/seniors $5. Tickets available at the main box office. ML 254. 2pm. Humanities Theatre. Table Tennis Club. Regular playing session. Players of all calibre welcome. 2-5pm Upper Blue Activity Area, PAC. Eight years of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). Anniversary Rally. All friends of the party are invited to attend. 7:30pm. Physics 145.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra See 2pm. Transcendental Meditation. Advanced lecture for meditators. 8pm. E3, 1101. Federation Flicks - See Friday Worship. Lutheran Campus Ministry. MC 3010. 9:30 pm.

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Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office provides free legal information to students. CC 106. 885-l 084. Hours: 1:30-3:30pm.

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. loam. Arts Lecture.

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. 7:30-l 0:30pm. Senior Citizen’s Centre, 3’10 Charles Street East, Kitchener. Info: Mary Bish 744-4983. $1 per person per evening.

Tuesday Campus Centre Coffeehouse. End of term coffeehouse with Barb Fraser, Bill Stunt, Bruce Tomlinson, Susan Murphy, and other guest artists. Admission $.50. Coffee tea, cider and baked goods. 8pm. CC Pub area. Sponsored by C.C.B. and CKMS-fm.

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Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. 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 dahces. 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 m-ore, please come out to a meeting. LOOK needs you; LOOK is you!! For More information: Gay Liberation Movement, ext. 2372. 7pm. Gay Lib Office. Table Tennis Club - See Sunday. 7-l Opm. Chess Club Meeting. Everyone Welcome. 7pm. CC 113. WATSFIC: The University of Waterloo Science Fiction Club holds meetings every Tuesday at 7:30pm. in MC 3011. All are invited. Free donuts for members. On CKMS 94.5. A wide range of Chinese music and speaking in Cantonese. Music is the universal language. 8:30-9:30pm.

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Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office - See Monday. K-W Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic 2-4:30pm and 6-8:30pm. Rockway Gardens Senior Citizens’ Centre, 1405 King Street East, Kitchener. Lutheran Student Movement. Contemporary Issues Study Group. 3:30pm. NH 2050. Christian Discussion Fellowship with Chaplain Kooistra, discussing Reflection on the Psalms by C. S. Lewis. 7:30pm. E3, 1101. Coffeehouse. 8:30pm. CC 110. Sponsored by Gay Lib. Free Movie. Sponsored by the Campus Centre Board.

Thursday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Taped Music from g-lam. No cover. Legal Resource Office - See Monday Table Tennis Club - See Sunday. 7-l Opm. Jazz and Blues Club. Women in Jazz: some female piano players. Jack Williams presents records by Nina Simone, Mary Lou Williams and others. 8pm. Kitchener Public Library. Free lectures and practice in prayer and meditation. 8-10pm. 50 Peter Street, Kitchener. Sponsored by the Universal Peace Mission. 578-2584. Drama Dept. presents August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” at 8pm in the theatre of the Arts. Directed by Don Wiley.

Friday Campus Centre Pub opens at noon. Taped music from g-lam no cover. Drama Dept. presents August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” at 8pm in the Theatre of the Arts. Directed by t, Don Wiley. Workshop on Breathing; Heaven on Earth Learning Center, Highland Rd. l/2 mile west of Fischer Rd. 7:30 pm.

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Despite numerous pamphlets, leaflets, not to mention the centrespreadof the chevron, this was the scene in the Arts Lecture hall where the informational Genera/ Meeting to discuss the referendum should have been held. Rick Smit (seen posturing to the right of the photo’s centre, and Neil Docherty were quite ready to discuss the pros and cons of separation. The fear of student disinterest inspired by this room was quelled the next day by the massive voter turnout. Right: an HKLS student exercises his franchise. By noon in the Math and Science polls, the votes had exceeded two or three hundred. The results will not be available for some months. -photos by john w. bast and george lomaga

The results of the referendum on the separation of the chevron held Tuesday will not be known until sometime after May 16 when the co-op students now on work term have an opportunity to vote. Meanwhile, the voting lists and ballot boxes have been locked up in the post office until after the co-op referendum. Fed pres&ent Rick Smit said that the co-op referendum will be held on May 16 so that the wording of the referendum can appear in the chevron twice. (May 5 and 12) Smit also indicated that an engineering poll clerk ‘ ‘kept a running total in his head” and estimates that faculty’s turnout was about 30

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per cent. While denying that he had any indication of turnout other than in engineering, Smit has been telling students that there was a turnout of about 2500 and “I think it’s about 80 per cent for separation.” Fed secretary Pru Davidson confirmed the 2500 figure, based on the number of ballots printed and the number returned unused. Asked if there was a judicial committee to oversee the referendum, Smit replied, “W-hat the hell is a judicial committee? What do they do?” Bylaw 22 of the federation specifies that “The judicial committee shall be responsible for the conduct of a referendum and shall appoint a Returning Officer.”

There was no returning officer until one was appointed at Monday night’s informational meeting, after protests from chevron editor Neil Docherty . In the few days preceeding the referendum there was a notable amount of propaganda around. Among the more prominent were leaflets distributed by the fed executive and a minority position of chevron staff that attempted to refute the front-page chevron editorial of last week that was also distributed in leaflet form. An educated guess that Randy Barkman authored the minority position was confirmed by fed exec member Nick Redding. -case

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Co-op jobs around Despite a gloomy economic climate job placements in Co-op Math and Engineering for the coming summer term are roughly at a par with last year. Spokesmen for both co-op programs commented that the number of student placements was as expected for the time of year.

to student editor still fired The controversial firing of Maria Horvath, the Grad Post editor, was narrowly upheld at a marathon meeting of the U. of T. Graduate Student’s Council, March 23. The previous day the GSU executive had issued a letter of dismissal to Horvath which followed two earlier warnings. A motion to reinstate Horvath as editor and to implement the recommendations of the recent Canadian University Press report on the dispute was put forward near the end of the 9 l/2 hour meeting. The motion was defeated 11 to 10,

with the six executive members voting against it. The debate on the issue began with the procedural wrangle over the fact that the “personal matter” had been listed on the agenda as a closed session. Horvath advocated an open discussion saying that “by issuing the January 27 morning letter to CUP you (the GSU executive) have already made it open.” She also pointed out the deliberations wouldn’t remain secret for long since there were 32 council members present.

GSU Vice president, Leo Casey, stated that “closed session protects individuals from public trial.” And the GSU treasurer John Johnson gave his views saying, “It is not a primary but a secondary right for the public to know.” The council voted 18 to 11 to have an open session. When the agenda item finally arose Catiey spoke first on behalf of the executive. He prefaced. his remarks by saying, “This has probably been the most ugly incident in our lives.”

Maria Horvath, editor of the Grad Post, is seen’ here (centre) in a meeting of some weeks ago with the Ontario-= Region of Canadian University Press. ORCUP, after hearing the charges against Horvath, dismissed them as nonsense, and voted to support her against the GSU Executive. Despite this action, and a CUP investigation of the situation acquitting Horvath, she was fired. -photo by johrt w. bast

Casey then proceeded to read lengthy excerpts from the executive’s 25 page brief to the CUP investigation commission outlining the reasons for firing Horvath. He explained, “There was absolutely nothing else we could do to maintain the integrity of the GSU.” The brief included charts comparing in detail this year’s Grad Post to that of last year. Some of the comparisons made were, “amount of filler, copy, average number of photos per issue, and total number of copy inches authored by the editor”. Casey’s conclusion was that “unless the employee is dismissed then the GSU will be destroyed”. Horvath then presented an elaborate defence for over an hour. She refuted, among other allegations,-that she had had bad professional experiences in previous editorial positions as her dismissal letter had charged. CUP President Susan Johnson spoke next. She explained how the arbitrary firing of the editor had violated CUP principles which bar interference by student govemment in the affairs of a newspaper. Messages opposing the firing were read which had been sent by the UBC, the Manitoban, the Dalhousie Gazette, the Sheaf and the chevron. It was decided early in the meeting to hold the elections for next year’s executive on April 6 and 7. Opponents of the executive are running a slate of candidates. -lorne

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“Despite economic trends we’ve fared well’ ’ , stated a Math Co-op spokesman. Of 294 students to be placed, 92 remained without jobs at the end of the first placement round. Of these 92, all but about 20 are expected to have found employment by May 1st) when the ’ summer co-op term begins. This is comparable with past years’ placement patterns ., The spokesman was also optimistic about the longer temr placement prospects for the Math Co-op program and said there is no indication at present that these coop positions will be drying up in the future. He did, however, comment that at some time in the future it may be necessary to adjust the number of admissions to the Math faculty in keeping with the employment climate, but stated that this is not an issue at present. Dave Copp, the Co-op program administrator for Engineering commented that the co-op program has had to be more flexible in the past two years by adjusting to the economic situation. “We’ve had to do more chasing around in the last two years and it’s going to be tight”, he stated. Placements in some sectors of the economy are no longer easy to find. Fewer co-op placements in mining and pulp and paper are indi- . cative of the state of these industries. More jobs for this coming term have been found in the energy related industries in the western provinces however, and this has served to compensate for placements lost in other sectors. Copp stated that Engineering students have had to be less demanding in seeking co-op placements. This is particularly true of the first year undergraduates, who have been traditionally more difficult to place. In general however, “students have responded well going where the work is” Copp stated. -duncan -louise

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Lesbian-. organization _protests polic Sixty people marched outside Attorney General Roy McMurtry’s office in downtown Toronto March 23 to protest the charges laid against three members of the gay magazine body politic, and the seizure of its publication materials by police. Members of the newlyformed Lesbian Organisation of Kitchener (LOOK), and the Waterloo Universities’ Gay Liberation Movement were among those who participated in the demonstration. Four officers of the Metropolitan Toronto Police force and one of the OPP entered the magazine’s offices December 30, armed with a search warrant which has since been described by the magazine’s lawyer as illegal because it did not properly state the offense for which it was issued: it did not list with sufficient precision the materials which could be searched for and seized; and the Justice of the Peace who issued the warrant did not have reasonable grounds to believe that the December/January issue of The

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Stronger legislation intended to protect Ontario workers from potentially toxic chemicals and substances has been introduced partly because of the efforts of a 4th year . UW student. Charging that the proposed Occupational Health and Safety Act does not go far enough, John 4th year ManTidball, a Environment student, submitted 13 recommended improvements. The submission was presented to the Ontario Legislative Committee reviewing the bill. Tidball told the Committee that the Act is confusing for both workers and owners to understand and apply. Tidball’s focus was on Section 5 of the legislation dealing with toxic substances’. He pressed for standards with the weight of law behind them to replace the old nonmandatory guidelines. The legal provisions are designed to protect workers from over-exposure to chemicals and dangerous substances such as asbestos fibres. Having worked in industries such as Stelco and International h

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Harvester for two years, Tidball explained, he became interested in worker health safeguards. This year, he is reviewing Occupational Health Legislation for his Senior Honours Essay. In the fall, he plans to enter law school and continue his crusade. To encourage Tidball in his recent presentation, UW Environmental Law professor, David Estrin, assembled his students as a professional delegation. They called themselves the “Environmental Policy Analysis Task Group” with John Tidball as their spokesperson. Most other presenters were from industry, government and labour, all of whom will be subject to the new stricter regulations. Tidball’s group supported the two key demands by labour. These: mandatory health and safety committees at all places employing twenty workers or more, and the right for a worker to refuse unsafe work without penalty. Both these provisions are now part of the proposed Act.

Tidball feels that his strong recommendations were well received because the MPPs on the Review are predominantly Committee NDP and Liberal members. This situation is reflection of the present minority status of the Conservatives in Ontario. The inspiration for the presentation came from Estrin’s course “Issues in Environmental Law”. Estrin helps students to critically ’ review legislation and then to seek out channels for improving or changing the laws. In Tidball’s case, the Committee on Resources Development of the Ontario Legislature solicitied public submissions in January after second reading of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Other students plan to challenge the Federal Nuclear Administration Act, the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board, the Pits and Quarries Control Act, Y and a number of other problems in Environmental Law. -1ouise -duncan

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Job creation lags behind unemployment Reports in the commercial press state that provincial treasurer, Darcy McKeough, has promised to create more than 100,000 jobs this year. As part of the March 7 annual Conservative budget, the . government’s job creation program is intended as a follow-up to pledges made by Bill Davis during the last election campaign. According to McKeough, “Ontario recorded considerable prog-’ ress in expanding job opportunities . . . in 1977. Employment grew by 73,000 jobs or 2 per cent. December, 1977 over December, 1976 employment was up by 109,000 or 3 per cent. 70 per cent of the new entrants to Ontario’s labour force, which grew by 2.9 per cent in 1977, were youth or females.” However, both McKeough and Davis continue to overlook the fact that thousands of workers were also thrown out of work in massive lay-offs such as those at INCO and Falconbridge. Another problem group are those youths and students who can’t find work after graduation. The statistics show that the rate of unemployment grew by 0.8 per cent from 6.2 per cent to 7 per cent in 1977. The number of unemployed workers in Ontario actually increased from 242,000 in 1976 to

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Applications for the new Ontario Student Assistance Plan (OSAP) will be available by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week and students will find it has good and bad points to it. The good news is that a larger portion of the student’s award will be in the form of a grant, rather than as a loan. For example a student who would have received a $1000 loan and a $580 grant under the old plan would now receive $1350 in grant and $624 in loan. A student eligible under the old plan for only a $670 loan would now receive a $430 grant and be eligible for up to $580 in loan. These examples are based on examples given by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities in a recent press release. However,’ the ministry, according to the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS), overestimated the parents’ income tax, thus giving them a lower net income and inflating the amount of grant assistance the students would get. The bad news, however, is that parents are expected to pay more for those students not considered ‘ ‘independent”. Examples given by OFS show: a widow earning $10,000 a year is expected to

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- Iowa paper draws protest A new publication being circulated on some area university campuses has met with some protest. The publication, Today’s Student, is published by’an Iowa group called Life Now. One of its principals, Jim McCatter, states that he believes Today’s Student is a paper that caters to all spiritual lifestyles.

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Two days after Lobban suspended Hedley , Bruce Gellatly overturned the suspension. In turn, CUPE officials filed a second grieI vance against Hedley. The matter went before the management-union committee which meets monthly over labor-management disputes. The matter was taken up as a complaint, not as a grievance. Why was the suspension overturned? Bruce Gellatly says only that the subject is “something I’d rather not comment on at this stage,” because “it might” relate to the university’s court case with Lobban. Hedley charges that the management committee review of the union’s grievance against him was “an in-house witch-hunt.” The committee is comprised of Lloyd Brown of the Personnel of: fice, Shaun Sloan, Food Services director Bob Mudie, CUPE piesident Dave Kerr and “some other union members”, says Gellatly . “Personnel was conducting the investigations ,’ ’ recalls Hedley . “It just left a bad taste in my mouth.” Hedley decided to resign rather than keep fighting. Upon resignation, Hedley coneluded a settlement with the university which saw him receiving “.a very -smhll’ ’ amount of money. Hedley concludes that the univ&sity paid him out of “gratitude”,

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but Gellatly says that employees who resign normally receive some settlement sum. But he insiSted that Hedley’s settlement is “a private matter. ” The week after Hedley resigned Lobban was dismissed by Gellatly, who had kept Burt Matthews informed of the situation. CUPE preside’ht Dave Kerr told the chevron that “the Bill Lobban affair, that’s none of my business, that’s at management level. But the thing over Dave Hedley was with the union, and the outcome was satisfactory to my members, and I just left it at that.” He had no comment on other aspects of the’ shake-up in the PRG. Meanwhile, Bill Lobban is still unsatisfied with the explanation offered by the university for his dismiss&l and has launched a legal suit which if he wins could gain him a settlement of $100,000. Although Lobban suspects that the cutbacks in education spending were a factor in his dismissal, Matthews has categorically denied any such connection. But Dave Hedley insists that the cutbacks are taking a toll at the level of the ordinary workers on support staff, and that the cutbacks will hit there even harder in the future. He maintains that his November lecture to the workers in the buildings section of PRG was sparked by concern about the effect of declining funding for universities. “I thought that in future we were going to have. to improve our performance, and that we would be in for an awful lot of criticism if other departments were taking a cut and then they saw our men slouching around and sitting in the mechanical room or reading a newspaper.” Since 1971 the number of PRG staff has remained stable, although the total building area to be covered by the staff has increased by 15 percent, one worker calculates. If the attitude of the UW administration is that the workers should continue to bear a heavier burden because of the cutbacks, future conflicts in the PRG, and among other sections of the support staff, could be on the agenda.

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have a crisis of overproduction. \ With the supply of labour far in ex- ’ cess of demand &many workers are layed off and a reserve army of unemployed is created .which is, willing to work for very low wages in the interests of. the capitalists. In a sociali&&rada, the oil, which is sufficient, would belong to the people; prices would ,.remain stable; and , growZh and development would be planned and not li- -.--.. -- The Hungarian dahcers caught’in the motion of the bottle dance. during the I.S.A. international night. Among the mited as some people think Later in the eveningthe floor was participants was a Caribbean group, doing a Meringue, and the W.L.U. and U. W. Turkish students doing a candie opened up to questions on such todance. The evening st+ed and ended with Bruce Tomlinson and SueMurphy singing,some popylar folksongs. pics as women, wages, social ser-photo by peter nagal vices, art, etc. It was pointed out that art in the form of painting, cinema, dance, etc. thrives in Albania, but the subw - I-‘-- - - - - - jects of this art are not the “kings and queens.” Central to art is the The hunger strike clearly puts the world’s public _ about the Over ‘40,000 political prisoners subject of the ordinary people and realities of Iran. incarcerated in Iranian ;#prisons the Shah’s statements about the _ their activity. have been &agbg a hunger strike :“diminishing repression inside ‘2) A team of international obserOne person wanted to know since March 15. News of the strike, Iran’s jails” and the “improved vers .be allowed to inspect Iran’s what the role of women was in Alhas been blacked-out on orders of conditions of prisons” into the prison conditions. banian society. Bachir said that realm._ of the absurd. It has been over a year since the ’ women participate fully in the the Shah. The strike is to protest ’ -._-_ .purportedly ” ‘ ‘humanist’ ’ Carter In support of the demands of the economic and political life of the the deplorable conditions they are administration. was sworn into ofprisoners in Iran the Confederation country. He added that men and forced .to live under. fice, and almost as long since the of Iranian Students (National The prisoners have demanded women earn equal pay for equal State Department declared- that Union) has staged many Hunger ,) work; that nurseries are freely av- that: in Iranian prisons Strikes in such centers as London ’ the conditions ailable to the children of .allworking. 1) The harrassment of and the as- England, Stockholm, Frankfurt, had improved. The Hunger Strike women; and that 49 per cent of the sault on the prisoners by the police stands as proof that ‘the state of Washington -D.C., Los students in the universities are commandos and SAVAK agents be Milan, Angeles and Houston. Each Irathese political prisoners has not women. completely stopped. nian Students’ Association in the improved. The Hunger Strike is When questioned -about the 2) The prisoners be allowed -to respective cities is running the latest in the growing pattern of diswages ,paid to the workers in Alcommunicate with the outside stlik$%. content among the Iranian people bania, Bachir stated that the differworld. In addition - to holding these with the Shah and his govemmknt. ence between the highest and the Hunger Strikes the Iranian Stu4oug hamilton lowest paid workers in the country 3) Families and friends of political ’ dents have, issued the following (2 to 1) was the smallest in the prisoners be allowedqo visit their rtAmnrrrln. uclla.lu~. worldIn Eastern Europe this ratio imprisoned beloved. p’~E’Jj”CK”f ’ \’ 1) The news black-out of this acis as high as 20 to 1. 4) Prison conditions be improved. tion be lifted immediately to inform Anot&r person was curious There’s only one about the election proceedure in specialist.. . Albania. In response it was pointed out that there are ajor differences between elected oT icials in Canada and in Albania. Uhder socialism in The student’s heaven ’ Albania all officials including -OTTAWA (NDS-CUP) - After 13 Norden that France refused Maljudges and hospital administrators calm entry because French intelare subject to recall. and can be years, the case of assassinated civil t 32 Q-UEEN ST: S.,\’ called before a mass meeting of the rights leader Malcolm X isabout to ligence knew of a CIA plan to kill KITCHENER a- , / be reopened. the black leader, and feared the atpeople to render accounts for their (next Walper-Hotel) Officials have always maintained tempt might take place on French actions. This does not happen in -. --.. L 4 that his murder, on Feb. 2 1, AA/F 1yb3, son. Canada. And the administrators was the*,work of three assassins earn the same wages as the workhired by the Black Muslim religious ers. They do not eamhigh bureaucsect. Months before his death, ’ ratic salaries as they do in this - Malcolm repeatedly predicted that . country; the Muslim group was plotting his The evening closed with informurder. . ~ma1 discussion that carried on until _ I But recent court documents filed Applications are now being accepted for 11:00 p.m. , . by lawyer. William Kunstler, and - the Position of E&r for th’e Handbook

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Youth days he was beat up by seciaf tactical sguad thought I was lying and it would be useless to try to convince him otherwise It is reprinted with the permission of Mr. McNeish. I was brought into the front bedroom by a taller, skinnier police/t was dictated to his mother three days after the incident occurred. man from the tactical unit. He told “We have nothing but the truth,” Mrs. McNeish told the chevron. The the others that he would get it out of decision to make the statement public was a very difficult one she explained, me. He closed the door. I was terbut made in the hope that it may put an end ‘to this-sort of treatment. rified but I told him there was never a sawed-off shot gun in this house She believes they are in a good position to fight because her son has never and that I had never seen one exhad any trouble with the police before. cept on T.V. The police a/so acknowledge that Mr. McNeish committed no offence. He asked me what was the make (see story on page 7 .I. of the other gun that was kept in the house. I told him that it was a 22, As you read this report, don’t get “Either one or two”. “Which is it? semi-automatic. He seemed to be the idea that I’m down on all police. Is it one or two?” demanded bigguy more understanding than the rest. and he slapped me on the head so He grabbed me by the arm and I know there are still some good cops, like the Hamilton policemen hard it banged against the wall. I brought me back downstairs much who pulled me over and told me was shocked and couldn’t believe easier than the way I was taken up. that my tail lights were not on. he was doing this to me. I was led through the living room While they checked my I.D. they “I don’t know, but I think there into the dining room. Blond guy lent me a flash light and I fixed the might be two.” He slapped me hard pulled the drapes. I was afraid of tail light by the time they finished. across the cheek this time with a him, he looked #so cruel. He asked Now that’s what I call good cops. hand that felt like a hunk of iron me more about the 22 and dePolice brutality was something I padded with leather. He told me manded to know where it was. I that I had better know where the had heard about, but never worried said, “If it’s not in the house, I don’t know where it is.” I had to get down on the floor again, face down. I thought they were going to kick me in the ribs so I turned my head to look at them so I could prepare myself for the blows. Someone told me to stop peeking. They didn’t want me to see their faces. about, because I always kept myguns were. One of them threatened me by self out of trouble. I sure never saying that he would blow my head I said “There’s one gun behind thought an innocent person could right off my shoulders unless I told that door,” and pointed to the door become involved in the horror and just outside the kitchen. him where that 22 was immediately. I told him again that I anguish I suffered at the hands of But there was no gun there and didn’t know where it was. Blond the tactical unit and police who big guy was raging mad. He told me were sent out to 114 Chestnut to go face down on the floor. guy pidked me up and shoved me Street, Kitchener on Wednesday Another policeman from the tactiwith such force that my jaw March 22, 1978. cal unit stepped on my right thigh crashed into the wall really hard. Big guy stepped tip and slapped me while big guy grabbed me by the About 2:30 p.m. that day my sis- back of the head and smashed the then shoved me into the corner. ter, Evelyn and I decided to go over I was fackg the comer and sid9 of my face against the floor. to see my brother, Robert, who “Don’t lie to me. Where’s the couldn’t see any of them for a few rents my Dad’s house at 114 Chestguns?” he demanded. moments: Blond guy came back. nut Street. A friend of Evelyn’s “Start remembering”, he said as he I had never been treated this wqy went along for the ride. turned me around and pushed my before and I was terrified. I didn’t jaw up so that I was facing the ceilknow what to do because the last We arrived at Robert’s just as he ing. time I saw .the rifle it was behind was getting ready to leave fo? work. I told them that it might be in the that door. I knew I was really in for Robert asked me if I would drive him to work. I told him I wanted to it. I felt my stomach roll and I trunk of my car because I had gone couldn’t control my bowels. . hunting a couple of weeks before change my clothes, which were my jaw still I told them I thought there was a that. He cranked dirty from working on my car, but higher, stretching my neck and shot gun upstairs in the closet of the that his friend and Evelyn could making it difficult for me to speak. I borrow my car to drive him to front room. They hit me again beshould have known by then that I cause I said “thought”. They told work. couldn’t use the word “might”. I me, “Don’t just think. Be sure”. I I was in the house for a while told him it “is” in the trunk of my offered to show them where the gun when I received a phone call from car, although I was pretty sure it might be and,hoped and prayed that the police. He asked me if I was it was there. wasn’t. I didn’t want to lie but at alone in the house and I said, this point I was willing to do almost Big guy grabbed me by the neck “Yes”. I told him my brother, anything to get them away from and dragged me up the stairs to the Robert had gone to work and that second floor. It was difficult and me. my name was William McNeish. painful going up these stairs with I was still standing in the corner He told me to go out of the house hands handcuffed behind my back. of the room with my face toward with my hands up. I asked if it I was dragged by the neck in such a the ceiling and they were asking me would be ahight for me to go out the way that it cut off my breathing where my car was. I was so dazed side door and when he gave me while going up the steps. My body arfd confused I could hardly think. I permission to do this, I went out the hit the wall as I staggered and told them it was at the plaza. side door with my hands up. stumbled up the stairs in this awk“What plaza?” they asked and Policemen came at me with guns ward, painful position. By the time {lapped me again. I couldn’t reand ordered me up against the wall. I reached the top I was starting to member the name of the plaza and I 66 I stepped back. That wasn’t good enough. They swung me around facing the wall, yanked down my left arm and twisted it behind my back, pinched a handcuff onto my wrist, then yanked down my right arm, twisted it bqhind my back and pinched the second handcuff onto black out. I felt dazed and couldn’t said, “Stanley Park”, but realized. my right wrist. / think straight anymore. that wasn’t right. I tried to correct They found the shot gun and myself as they slapped me and fiI was dragged _back into the took it out of a gun case. At the nally blurted out that it was the one house by a big guy in a bullet-proof bedroom door stood a blondish up the street. I was still standing vest, who seemed to be the leader policeman in a light coloured with my face up when I heard them of the group. (I shall refer to this tell somebody to check it out. trench coat. This was the first time man throughout the rest of this re4 had noticed him. (I shall refer to A nicer detective came into the port as ‘big guy’). him in the rest of this report as room and asked me my name, adHe put his arm under my chin ‘blond guy’ although his hair dress, etch I was able to put my and pulled me by the head up the wasn’t really blond.) . head down again and felt a little steps into the kitchen. I would have He slapped me and asked me more at’ease. been willing to go on my own, but I where the sawed-off shot gun was. The telephone rang and the dewas never given a chance. I told him there wasn’t any and he tective went out leaving me alone in First, they asked me how many slapped me viciously with a mean, the dining room. I stood still, afraid guns were in the house and I said, angry look on his face. I kney he tq move in case they wopld start. a The following is the full statement of William the victim of a vicious assault by the Kitchener

McNeish who says he was special tactical squad.

“He told tie to go face down on the floor. Another policeman from the tactical unit stepped on my[right thigh while big guy grabbed me by the back of the head and smashed the side of my face again$t the ‘floor. ”

. I turned my head to look at them so I could prepare myselffor the blows. Someone told me to. stop peeking. They didn’t want me to see their faces.”

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beating me again. They watched me from the kitchen. I could tell by the way they were talking that it was my sister on the phbne. The policeman lied to her on the phone by telling her there was a party going on and the rest of them started laughing. I didn’t think it was much of a party and wondered how they were allowed to lie like that. It didn’t seem right, especially after the way they slapped me around and called me a liar when I was telling the truth. I wished that I could talk to my sister and ask her to call Dad, but I knew it would be useless to try. It seemed that lies were the only thing these men understood because I more or less had to lie about the gun, there was only a remote chanbe that it was in my car. Finally they took me outside. I was really embarrassed to walk, handcuffed in front of the neighbours. One neighbour felt sorry for me and asked me if she should phone my parents. I nodded. Her kindness made me feel a little better because I thought maybe she could get hold of my Dad and he might be able to stop them from beating me down at the police station. I had

he was there. My nerves were shot and I couldn’t control my bowels. My jaw was sore, my head ached, my neck and back hurt when I moved. I felt my face, it was puffy. My Dad drove me back to my car and I was finally able to change my clothes. Dad said I had better call the doctor. I couldn’t get our family doctor and the one who substituted told me to come to the office the next day. Maybe he didn’t want to get involved, I don’t know. I went home. My mother and oldest brother saw the shape I was in. I was still having diarrhea. My jaw was too sore to eat. They decided to take me to St. Mary’s hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor in charge checked me over. I felt bad about messing up their nice clean sheets. A couple of policemen came into the hospital on another case. My stomach turned at the sight of them. I came home from the hospital and talked to the family. We realized that I had been beaten by professionals who leave no visible marks. Some enamel had been chipped from two of my teeth, but even that would be hard to prove.

“My nerves were shot and I couldn’t control my bowels. My jaw w\assore, my head ached, my neck and back hurt when I moved. I felt my face, it was puffL.” heard about the room they have down there and I was afraid of a worse beating if they didn’t find the gun in my car. I was sitting in the police car with my messed pants. I stunk, but I didn’t dare ask them if1 could clean myself. One policeman said, “You messed your pants, didn’t you?” I answered, “Yes”, and noticed the look of disgust on his face. At the police station I was still afraid. Blond guy told me I‘ was lucky compared to what most guys get. I was taken into a small room and told to write out a statement telling what happened from the time I arrived at 114 Chestnut Street to the time the police arrived. I was thankful that was all they asked because I was afraid to tell what had taken place inside the house after the police arrived. I was wishing my Dad was there because I was still afraid of more beating. After I wrote out my statement I went to sit in the waiting room. I saw my sister, Evelyn, and when a cop took her‘statement she came over and sat near me. I told her that the police had beaten me and that I had messed my pants. She got excited but I told her to be quiet or I might be beaten again. She was really worried and said she could smell me. Finally they let my Dad in and I suddenly felt a lot safer. I found out later that he had been trying to get in to see me for about thirty-five minutes. I sure wish I had known,

No one could see the pain in my jaw, neck, back and head. No one could see my mental anguish and horror. I felt helpless. I felt like calling the police. I had always thought of them as protecting me, but I realized that this time the very opposite wa? true. I know now that being innocent and trying to stay out of trouble is no guarantee of the freedom I had always enjoyed. Robert came home. He said the police that picked him up told him he was lucky he wasn’t at home, and that the guys from the tactical unit sure scared the shit out of his brother when they raided his house. They made it sound as if it was an everyday thing to treat people in this manner. I wonder how many people in this city have been treated as I was. Three days have passed since my ordeal. I find it difficult to swallow because the muscles in my neck are still sore. My stoniach still hurts and I don’t feel like eating. Although I feel miserable, I know that I am not hurt seriously. However I feel this type of rough treatment by the police is unjust and inexcusable. This information in this report is true. Nothing has been changed to protect the innocent or the guilty. I have written this report, not with the idea of revenge, but with the hope of preventing other innocent people from suffering as I did. . Will~iem . . McNeish _ r

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Individual taxes raised; Corporate taxes lowered While granting tax concessions I to the owners of the mines and fat’ tories, the Ontario budget brought down on March 7 further taxes the vast majority of the people. The Ontario government increased tobacco taxes, liquor taxes, rapid transit fares, OHIP premiums and provincial park fees . At the same time it provided for handouts to multinational corn-. panies, concessions for the mining industries and also for the insurance companies. Graph 1 shows the sources of the federal government’s revenue, mainly by personal taxes. The graph (presented for purposes of comparison) divides personal taxes into direct and indirect taxes. Indirect taxes are taxes on sales, tobacco, gasoline, alcohol, etc. In the Ontario budget the government increases indirect taxes (see graph 2 and table 1) while “ANOTHER \r’EAK OF BALAMEG GR~M/J-&' handing out at least $5 million to the mining industry for exploration (they were given $2.77 million last year) and over $2 million to Bell Rise in Indirect Taxes Canada, etc. I975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 While personal income tax (di(Interim) (Estimated) rect and indirect) is skyrocketing, Gasoline taxes $505 $508 $525 $537 income for the average worker in Tobacco tax 104 157 215 253 Canada is not keeping up with inflaLCBO, profits 273 302 321 350 tion - 7.1 per cent increase in inVehicle come, according to the Department Registration fees 222 223 286 305 of Labour, while inflation runs at Fees & licences 165 190 215 234 9.5 per cent. On the other hand the (fishing, hunting, etc.) government is giving the concessions to the corporations which enjoyed a 29 per cent increase in profits for the last quarter of 1977. Net Income 5 year growth rate ’ Great West Life Assurance Co. $16,147,000 13.6 London Life Insurance Co. $10,439,000 16.9 Crown Life Insurance Co. $7,269,000 17.8 These are the 3rd, 4th and 8th largest insurance companies (the others do not report profits). The Ontario budget for 1978 gives a tax concession to the insurance

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Communication If the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” still applies to today’s way of life, just stop and think for a minute about a thousand words, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It’s hard to imagine life without words isn’t it? When man moves about he ripples the outer world, just as water is rippled by the swimming of a fish. The insight of these words reflect the creative energy expelled by Yass Hakoshima’s performance Wednesday night in the Theatre of the Arts. Knowing little of Hakoshima’s background prepared

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me for an evening of orientally based mime with little application to a Canadian audience. Much to the contrary, the variety and universiality of the performances could and have entertained audiences the world over. Hakoshima wastes no time in getting the audience into a laughing mood with what seems to be one of his earlier and most steadfast num. bers entitled *‘Fisherman”. With the art of mime, I am never ceased to be amazed by how so much can be said with no words. This same ability to create, is obviously Hakoshima’s strongest performing characteristic. Very seldom through eleven different numbers

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The UW Drama Group’s latest effort was, while not an outstanding example of student acting, was a pleasant way to spend about two hours of the afternoon . . . after all, admission was free. However, only 35 people showed up for the beginning of the first one act ‘play, ‘ ‘ The Tiger’ ’ , and only a few more for the second, “After Margritte”. The two plays, billed “Two for the Show”, were advertised as comedies. However, only the second qualified; the first was a drama. This error in advertising gave me to pause for a moment when the first play began. . . where is the humour in a woman being dragged into a man’s dirty apartment with a raincoat tied over her head, in all probability to be raped? However, once I had reclassified the play, it was easy to understand this comment on present-day urban society. There are two characters in this play; Benjamin, a strongly built, has an virile man who acadamician/philosopher’ s mind, who to make ends meet, works as a postman; and Gloria, a pretty redheaded housewife. In the world of the play, these are in fact the only two “characters”, as one of the messages ofthe play concerns the blah, plastic, and boring “sameness”. of everyone else in society. Benjamin is revolting against this society; he finds in himself an urgent need to express what he calls his ‘ ‘own primitive soul’ ’ , what the play characterizes as “humanness”. He is “the tiger”,

and he has seized one of the sheep (Gloria) off the streets as prey. He sees nothing but powerwhich he has, and weakness - which Gloria is, and he sees her has an out to his built up frustration with society; he said, “Tonight . . . I have you to play with!” Gloria tames “the tiger”, which I thought was a rather cliche way of dealing with this issue. It would have been a more effective message if “the tiger” had successfully preyed on humanity, helpless and devoid of power. Gloria teaches him French: Benjamin ‘had a language block which prevented him from passing his entrance exams into college, and doubtless this is the root of his problems. Mankind in the person of Gloria lets him take out his agressions on the world - now he can go to college; incidentally, Benjamin’s change is sealed with Gloria’s body. He takes her, not unwilling, to bed. Possibly the message is that an appropriate mixture of individuality and the sheeplike following of society is a beneficial mixture. Doubtless it is. But it’s also nothing new. The actors portrayed their roles well; Patricia Anderson and Nelson Dyck were both quite believeable, though Patricia’s physical type didn’t fit the role of Gloria corn: pletely . Dyck muffed a line only once, that I noticed, and the only obvious criticism of- him was, his voice

easy without words and two hours of performing is there thematic or presentational repetition yet similarly, lighting and innovation in music, develop a tempo which is consistent from the start to the finished product. Hakoshima spans the possibilities of letting the audience into his shoes as in “Laughter” to the sad outcome of a Puppet escaping from its strings. He even fakes you on a voyage into the human anatomy, a feat similar to a Fantastic Voyage, but his treatment is uniquely carried out and resolver. Hakoshima reveals a definite preoccupation with a man going beyond himself through his suggestive motions. The scene called

‘ ‘ Thinking’ ’ is a fine example where the visual removal of the brain brings laughter and an apparent reckoning within himself, plus a greater understanding of the nature which surrounds him. The concern for nature seems to be an ideal which Hakoshima shares with others of his profession. The last scene, simply called “Eagle’ ‘, is short and strictly to the point of this concern.

A fine turnout of people paralleled an equally fine performance given by Hakoshima. The obvious physical condition of the man speaks plainly of the physical condition necessary for such an exacting art form. Yass Hakoshima is a name well worth remembering and if the opportunity to see him perform comes up, missing it would be your loss. -mark

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passable could have been more controlled and modulated. His role called for much shouting, but not as much as he did. The directing of the play was done well. Stage setup was good, lighting and sound were used effectively, and general technique was good. The second play was indeed second to “Tiger”. It, “After Margritte” was definitly a comedy, and not a very good comedy at that. It had only a few really good laughs; to characterize it, think of an old “Doctor in the House”, as it’s an English situation comedy of a sort. There’s not a lot to say about the plot, involving a few good lines, “Inspector Foot” (Of Scotland Yard), (Played by Allan Templeton); Holmes (Peter Huisman), his assistant; Harris, the man of the house (Howard Brown); and his wife Thelma (played by Val Campbell). There was also (there has to be) a mother in law (in this case, Thelma’s), played by Cathy May. Directing in this play was less well done. Blocking was done poorly in several instances, though with this number of characters on the Theatre of the Arts stage, dif’ ficulties are understandable. In total, the two hours or so were well spent. I didn’t expect anything brilliant - after all, the Drama Group is largely, or all, student performers - but what did appear was of good quality. And after all, it was free. -johri’w.

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then. It carries its audience within its system, and its explanation will Eome across today - as clear, lucid descriptions that are’ a pleasure to watch. CITIZEN KANE has an ,intemal dictionary which its spectator can use to comprehend the film’s unique message. It has its own map and instructions and has been so successful at explaining itself that no one has ever been concerned about what it means. Instead, critics have marvelled at its beauty and its awesome aesthetic charm. Charles Foster Kane is an antihero. The film does not ask what he should do,or how he should do it, but rather who was he, and why did he do what he did? The solution does

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reverse a chord, or repeat a bar, if without accompanyment. He has been playing solo piano on recent tours, as he stated, having just returned from Australia, and South America. His performance at UW included such famous pieces as “Blues of the Prairies”, and a Medley of Duke Ellington Tunes incorporating “take the Eight Train”, and “Satin Doll”. However, because none of the songs were introduced, no other songs could be positively ’ identified by this reviewer, although some others were easily recognizable. His playing fre-

quently reached dramatic speeds, and at other times, drifted into totally relaxing bars of very mellow tones. His reputation as one of the greatest men in jazz to play the ivory was well deserved.

concert until the date itself, Oscar Peterson may have lowered his $5,000 fee. Recognition is also extended to Artsoc, who cosponsored the event. --stephen w. coates

The KW Rotary Club did not fare so well, however. The concert was supposed to be a benefit for them, but due to insufficient attendance, probably broke even at best. Not knowing that this was a benefit

Well’s album is 3 sad dog “Eli’s ComSpain”, “Shambala”, ing”, “Try A Little Tenderness”, and a whole slew of other Three Dog Night radio classics is the same one which croons “I Know You’re Willin’ Darlin’ ” and “You’re My Day” on Touch Me. In fact, I refuse to believe that Cory Wells has sunk to such lows on his own; he must have had a lot of help. David Anderle’s production, which absolutely oozes with Las Vegas schmaltz, is no less than the musical embodiment of the middle-age paunch. This major failing is all the more unforgivable in the context of the genre: MOR music is not only being mass produced on an incredibly pervasive and successful level, it’s being done very easily. Anderle himself has accomplished phenomenally superior results on the still syrupy Anytime.. . Anywhere LP which vaulted Rita Coolidge into the top ten. Touch Me has none of the minor charms which have characterized even the weakest of Three Dog Night’s material. In place of the former’s tough pop and gritty ballads is a collection of watered down disco and hopelessly feeble love songs. Only David Gate’s

‘ouch Me :ory Wells L & M Records It’s hard to believe that the roice behind “Mama Told Me Not Yo Come”, “Never Been To

3ecord not xetentious ust good This album brings Wakeman ack to music. His solo career tarted brilliantly five years ago Iith “Six Wives of Henry VIII”, allowed quickly by “Journey To ‘he Centre of the Earth” and “The Myths and Legends of King .rthur”. But the same messianic omplex which caused him to wear oluminous robes on stage began to rterfere with his composing. Epic jck in a symphonic style is fine as mg as the musical idea chosen is 2pable of variety. But when you In out of good themes, the result is monotonous and predictable, as ere his last three albums. Not so with “Criminal Record”. espite what the jacket says, the rly common thread here is the ti3s (much like the first album), all ’ which deal with crime and jus;e. Four of the pieces employ ‘akeman’sbarrage of synthesizer, ano, organ and mellotron, and )me very good sounds result. empo and mood are kept continulsly changing, varying from slow acabre andantes to quick lgtime-inspired vivaces. “Birdan of Alcatraz” is a classical ece utilizing twelve pianos, and Judas Iscariot” is a grandiose lmber employing a church organ, id choir, reminiscent of “Jane :ymour” on Six Wives. The most important thing about is album is that it doesn’t take self too seriously. Gone is the prentiousness that made “No u-thly Connection” a monumental iviality . In fact, “The reathalyzer’ ’ contains a short Fcal by an English comedian, a freshing change from the weak calists Wakeman usually hires. Wakeman would be the No. 1 yboardist in rock were it not for e fact that his classical roots reict his composing style, a disadntage that Keith Emerson does t have. But certainly his technie is unequalled. Here he swings -ough jazz, classical and blues th equal ease. This is an album to ce over to your resident guitar sak and show him that six strings not a world make. When Wakem finally saw where his solo reer was going and rejoined Yes !t year, he must have made some cisions about his style as well. r I don’t have to be ashamed to mit I listen to Rick Wakeman ymore. And it’s about time. I

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FREE ADVICE “Boy! That was a keen vampire show !’ ’ , exclaimed the young lad in the back seat of the car as his parents were driving home after watching a drive-in movie. It was a hot August night, a time when an awesome mingling of evil and eeriness seemed to linger in the darkness. Mr. and Mrs. John Nigel and their son, Mark, had taken in a film about vampires, which seemed to have made a deep impression on Mark. The trio returned to their apartment home, which was located on the fourteenth floor of a costly new residential building. It was fairly late for the youngest member of the family, and so they went straight to bed upon their arrival h,ome. “So you’re interested in bats, eh Mark?“, came the paternal remark at the breakfast table. “I sure am, Dad”, ‘replied Mark. “Do you think yov could get me a book about bats today, huh Dad?” John Nigel glanced questioningly at his wife, who smiled warmly -in return. * “Well, I can’t see why not!” When Mark’s father returned home that afternoon, Mark ran up to him to receive the book, thanked his father, and went immediately to his bedroom, where he read the book until suppertime. “How’s the book?“, asked Mrs. Nigel of her son during supper. “Just great, Mom. Did you know that bats are sorta’ the same as mice with wings, and they use radar to ‘see’ things, and they sleep upside down, hanging from *roofs or windows or anything that’s handy. It’s really interesting.” Mark gulped his meal down in a matter of a few minutes, then excused himself from the table. ’ “You know, John, I’ve never seen Mark this ‘alive’ before. It’s good for him; I was worried for a while when he wasn’t showing any interest in anything. I was afraid he might be ill or something.” “ This ‘bat thing’ is turning out really well for him”, added the husband, who might have been speaking too soon. An hour or so later, Mrs. Nigel decided to check on her son, who was still in his room. She knocked and then opened his door. “Well Mark, how’s it go. . .” She stopped dead in her tracks upon seeing only the bottom parts of Mark’s legs. The rest of him was hanging outside the fourteenth-storey window. At first, she didn’t know what to do. If she screamed, she might scare Mark, making him lose his

Suspended.. . Weightl,ess on a lake without boundary; Unconscious in a fluid stupor Mist. . . Enveloping, Isolating Surrounding senses. Hush . : . Slowly, silently, quietly Down, go down, gently go down To float and mix with the mist. Senses flaking into the pool that is eternity; To mix with the mist. Down . . . ’ Go down.. . Drift into the aura that is us, Float the waters that are we, Dissolve our senses into those that are one..

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Run, run now with me, To the top of the mountain overlooking the violet sea, Where Dawn spreads her pinkish fingers across the eastern She rises from the bed of Eros and begins a light filled day that will last an eternity. Faster, faster now we climb To the top of the mountain overlooking the violet sea. The wind rushes in our ears, the first rays of light sparkle on your golden hair. Closer and- clbser we reach for the summit, our hands grasped tightly so as not to fall, Each step a thousand times more difficult than the last, but the increasing light constantly draws us to the goal. And in an instant, eons of time flashes past, we reach the summit And view an intense golden-white orb of light lifting in the eastern sky. Our faces now fully illuminated by the light, We stand in enchanted trance before the sight. n

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grip on life. Regaining her logic, she rushed to the window and steadily pulled her son in from the black night. “What do you think you were doing, young man”, she gasped. “Hanging from the window upside down, just like the bats do”, came the cool reply. “Well you’re not a bat, you’re a human being. You could have killed yourself, do you realize that?” ‘ ‘Aw , don’t worry about me, I can handle myself.” She raced from the room. “John, our son is hanging out the window like a bat!“, she exclaimed to her husband. “We’ll keep a watch on him, and if he tries it again, we’ll get some pi-ofessional help. But don’t worry about it. You know how kids are. They’ll try anything once, but they’re quick to learn what’s right and what’s wrong.” About a half-hour later, she found her son hanging like a sleeping bat again, so she dragged him in to the kitchen where she could keep an eye on him and consult her husband. “We have to get hold of a psychiatrist or someone to help him out”, Mrs. Nigel lamented. “Psychiatrists cost money. We’ll ask my sister, she’s studying to be a psychologist. 1’11 phone her right now. ’ ’ He picked up the receiver and dialled his sister’s number.

“ Hello, Marian? John. We’re having trouble with Mark. he’s become so interested in bats that now he’s hanging out his bedroom window upside down just like bats do. What should we do about it?” “Hmm. It sounds like some kind of childhood stage he’s going through. He’ll have to grow out of& But until then, don’t talk to him about it and don’t try to convince him that he’s not a bat, because that may adversely affect him. Keep a careful watch on him, to make sure he doesn’t hang out the window or try to fly away. It might be a good idea to move to a ground floor apartment, where he can’t hurt himself. But remember, do not try to convince him that he’s not a bat, he’ll learn that himself.‘: Mrs. Nigel, who was listening on the extension telephone, interrupted, “Are you crazy or something? My son thinks he’s a bat, and you tell me to ‘let it pass’. We’ve got a grave problem here ! You’re no help at all. Goodbye!” She slammed the receiver down. “John, we’ve got to call a psychiatrist!” “At this time of day? He’ll cost us a mint!” “Well, we’ve got to do something, before it’s too late.” “All right.” He picked up the telephone directory. “Hello? Dr. Periphery? We need your help right

away. Your after-hours rate? That’s quite a bit, but we’ll pay it. Can you come right over? John Nigel. One thirty-one Richmond =Crescent, apartment 1426. , Thank-you.” “Well?” “He’s coming right over. And at a hundred bucks an hour, he better be good.” Mrs. Nigel replied, “We’ll soon see how correct your sister’s free advice really is. ” “Good Evening. I’m Doctor Periphery. ” He was a small, dishonest-looking sort of person. “Won’t tor? Our

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Nigel. “We’ll pay our bfi, don’t worry. Now you can do what you came here for. My son, Mark, is in his bedroom, there.” -The three adults entered Mark’s room to find him hanging out the window again, in his bat-like stance. His parents heaved him back inside, forgetting to close the huge picture window. They seated him on his bed, and pulled up a chair for the psychiatrist to sit in while interviewil‘g Mark. “Will you leave us alone now?“, demanded the shrink. The Nigels looked at each.

there has a problem; he otherworriedly,and graduthinks he’s a bat. What can you do for him?” The psychiatrist stepped inside. He answered with, “Well, first of all, I want to make myself clear on the amount you’ll be paying me. It’s a hundred dollars an hour, from the time of your phone call until I arrive home. There is also a fifteen dollar trXlSpOI?a~iOIl fee each way, to cover the cost of fuel and vehicle upkeep. ” ‘ ‘ Fifteen dollars each way? But you only live around the corner.” “It’s the same charge whether you live just ‘around the corner’ or several miles away. That way, people in my field compete, which is all the better for the customer . ’ ’ “Never mind the childish chatter”, interrupted Mrs.

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“I’ve read about bats, and it seems like they have such great lives, so I want to be a bat instead of being a hu;an.” “What’s wrong with being human? ” “People have too many problems. I’d rather be a bat, because they have no worries at all. They just eat and sleep and fly around.” . “You’d like to fly?” “ Sure. Wouldn’t you? Being a person, I can’t fly, but if1 was a bat I could fly all over the place, and be absolutely free.”

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‘ ‘ Free? From what? ’ ’ “Free from all the othe people in the world, who d nothing but bug me any ways.” “Mark, look at yoursel. You’re a person, not som kind of winged creature. Yo belong with others of you type, here on the ground. A for the problems and peopl bugging you, you’ll have t learn to live with it. Othe people have, and so ca you.” Mark ran to the windo\ and stood on the sill. “I don‘ want to be a person. I’m bat, do you hear me, a bat!’ The psychiatrist move1 towards him saying, “NC Mark, you’re a person, ju: like your mother and fathel and just like me. . .” “No! Don’t come an closer. I’ve had it with all yc silly people, always tellii me who I am and what I’ suppos’ed to do. I’m going fly away.” And with that parting r mark, Mark Nigel, eig years of age, stepped off tl edge, his arms outstretcht like wings. Dr. -Periphery opened tl door and entered the kitche where the Nigels had bei waiting. “Well, Mr. and Mr Nigel, my’ work here finished. You’ll receive n bill in a few days. Got evening. ’ ’ He had meant to tell the about Mark’s death, but tl thought had slipped his mil at the time. -earl

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headed by Teng Hsio-Ping who usurped state power in a counter-revolutionary coup detat, are again opening up the door for imperialists to plunder its natural resources and to enslave the Chinese people. The Chinese people who have a great tradition of fighting against oppression Gill never submit to neo-colonial enslavement and will definitely overthrow these traitors. John Tayler

On March 1, the Gazette ran an article saying that “China is putting a new emphasis on science and technology”. What is the issue here? Was science and technology n& emphasized prior to the reactionary coup in Sept. 1976? A glimpse of. issues of Peking Review, China Pictorial, China Reconstruct prior to Sept. 1976 will clearly show that this is not the case. The recovery of man-made earth satellite according to plan after orbiting the earth, the man-made synthetic insulin and the measJust a brief letter as I am sure other progurement of its crystallized structure, the new ressive people will also denounce the libelmethods of forecasting earth quake, the ous letter of Enrico Pavlov (chevron Mar. building of 10,000 ton ocean-going vessels 17, 1978 p. 22). The picture in the Montreal with home made materials and equipment, Star was not of Hardial Bains Chairman of the new series of oil extracting technology in the Communist Party of Canada (MarxistTaching and the artificitil hail-prevention are Leninist) and the story of “airport bejust some of the achievements of science and haviour’ ’ was a fabrication to discredit technology in Chairman Mao’s China. More Comrade Bains. Conceivably there was importantly, all these are accomplished on another traveller called Bains in Montreal the basis of self-reliance, without incurring that day but this would hardly be news exany debt, either external or internal and cept that the coincidence in surname gave without relying on any imported foreign this despicable yellow journalist a chance to technology. Furthermore tho’usands of slander CPC(M-L). Like one of Pavlov’s workers and peasants vigorously participated in scientific experiments and techdogs, Enrico just regurgitated this B.S. at the command of his master. Too bad for nological innovations. So what is all these claptrap about “new emphasis in science you, any faCade of credibility you and your and technology? This can only be part of the associates had is now shattered. programme to prepare public opinion for the As I am sure other progressive people all round capitalist restoration in China and will also be writing to denou&e this libel-on the opening up of China to neo-colonial expHardial Bains, Chairman bf CPC(M-L), this loitation and plunder. This is what the letter will be brief. Gazette is up to and this is why the Gazette Bernard Chan has become interested in China. After the reactionary coup in Sept. 1976, ~ particularly after the ‘restoration of Teng Hsio-Ping, China has concluded several trade agreements with the European Economic Community and Japan. On Feb. 3 China signed a trade agreement with the EEC which stipulates that goods produced Reinis makes serious mistakes in in China will receive “most favoured nagrammar and history. This professor should tion” status with in the EEC. In return China take an English proficiency test and not be has agreed to hold talks over any problems involving -sped’ific commodities, such as allowed to write letters to the chevron until he learns to distinguish the past, the present coal, tungsten and possibly oil. China is also negotiating for a loan of $250 millibn from and the future. Reinis’ statem&t “the proletariat .is disBanque Nationale de Paris to finance the appearing as a class’? contains a serious mispurchase of French oil drilling equipments. take. The proletariat will disappear as a class As well China is negotiating for the purchase in the future just as. the bourgeoisie j will of British Harrier Jet war planes.-Just a few also disappear as a class. In the future all weeks ago a long term multi-billion dollar classes will disappear. trade agreement between Japan and China A., similar problem concerns his latest has been signed. This agreement stipulates statement claiming that Marxism-Leninism that China will export $10 billion of crude oil predicts “that socialist states would not -and coal to Japan between 1978 and 1982, even exist. As soon as capitalism was overwhile importing $10 billion of steel plant and thrown, the state would wither away”. technology as well as construction materials (chevron March 17, 78~. 23) As Lenin during the same period. Under the agreewords regarding the ment, China’s purchases of plant and techpointed out, “Engel’s nology and construction materials will be “withering away” of the state are so widely made on a deferred payment basis with inknown, they are so often quoted, and so terest. clearly reveal the essence of-the customary These trade agreements are aimed at prycount&feiting of Marxism into opportunism ing open the gates of China for imperialist that we must deal with them in detail” (Lenin: The State and Revolution FLP Pekplunder. The rightist in China are treacherously portraying these as a principled policy ing p. 19). What Engels said was: “The proof establishing trade relations on the basis of letariat seizes state power and to begin with ‘ ‘ equality and mutual benefit’ ’ . transforms the means of production into What kind of equality and mutual benefit state property. But it thus puts an end to is this? For centuries Japan, the EEC counitself as proletariat, it thus puts an end to all class differences and class antagonisms, and tries, U.S.A. and other colonial and imperialist countries have plundered enormous thus also to the state as a state. Moving in amount of natural resources of countries of class antagonisms, society up to now had Asia, Africa, and Latin America either by need of the state, that is, an organization of the exploiting class at each period for the sheer force of arms or under the hoax of maintenance of its external condition of pro“economic aid” and “providing advanced technology”. These recently signed agreeduction, that is, particularly for the forcible ments means putting China into debt to the holding down of the exploited class in the foreign money-bags, and importing foreign conditions of oppression given by the exist“advanced” technology and manufactured ing modes of production . . . . in antiquity the state of the slave owning citizens, in the goods and pay for them by permitting the plunder of its natural resources. In other Middle Ages, of the feudal nobility, in our words, turn China into a neo-colony. -time, of the bourgeois. When ultimately it The Chinese people have a history of fightbecomes the real representative of the whole of society, it renders itself superfluouh. As ing against all kinds of oppression. They desoon as there is no social class to be held in feated the fascist Japanese invaders and in subjection any longer. . . . . . . there is no1949 overthrew the traitorous Chiang Kai thing necessitating a special repressive Shek clique. During the cultural revolution, they smashed the capitalist headquarter of force, a state. . . . . . the state is not Liu Shao Chi and his right hand man Teng ‘abolished’, it withers away.” (Engels: Hsio-Ping. Today the rightists in China, Anti-Duhring FLP Peking p. 362-363.)

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Unlike Reinis who lives in a dream world, in which past, present and future are mixed-up in utter confusion, most people have a historical perspective of human s&iety: in the past there were the states of the slave owners and of the feudal nobility; in the present there is the state of- the bourgeoisie, and in the future there will be the state of the revolutionary proletariat organised as the ruling class and-ultimately the disappearance of al?l classes and the withering away of the state. Lenin further pointed out: “the bourgeoise state does not wither away, but the proletariat puts an end to it in the course‘ of the revolution. What withers away after this revolution is the proletarian state or semi-state” (The State and Revolution, p. 22) Such is the true meaning of the withering away of the state and the disappearance of the proletariat as a class. krnard Chan

Defend our interests The only correct decisions are informed ones. Time must be taken to fully investigate _the many aspects of a situation, and the consequences of acting in one way or another. A reluctance to provide an adequate forum for full discussio&s generally a manifestatidn of a fear of the correct decision being made. The upcoming referendum on the the vron is a case in point. Why is it that suddenly, in the last few days of classes, and in the midst of preparations for exams, a referendum on this matter has been thrust at us? A brief historical perspective is required to answer this. The question of a “separate” chevron first seriously arose in the context of the chevron investigation commission, after the paper had been reinstated. Various student hacks put forward the claim that it was the relationship between the chevron and the Federation that was responsible for the 1976 closure, rather than their own abuse of the positions they held on Students’ Council. After six months of intense investigation, having accepted statements and heard testimonies from all sides, the chevron investigation commission refuted their claim sta$ing clearly in its report that it was an abuse of position, and usurpation of powers, that were responsible for the closure. The bylaws had indeed provided protection for the paper (autonomy), as well as providing numerous channels for any students with legitimate complaints about the paper (accountability). The investigation commission recommended against separation of the chevron, stating that such a move would create more problems than it would solve. The chevron staff, however, felt that it was necessary to carry out still further investigation into this option of separation. Preliminary negotiations began with the administration, which upon separation would be responsible for collecting and forwarding the chevron fee, but it soon became clear that they would only enter into an arragnement whereby they retained the option to arbitrarily cease collecting fees for the paper. This is totally unacceptable to the chevron staff. In the face of mounting evidence that sepa&ion would be a mistake, and before there had been a chance tvprovide the students with this evidence, a small group of proponents of separation hurriedly passed around a petition calling for a referendum on the separation of the chevron from the Federation. Why? Is it that these individuals believed that the chevron’s autonomy and accountability would be improved, or would even exist, with separation? No, this is not the case, it is abundantly obvious that placing the financial control in the hands of the administration will: 1.) pose a clear threat of withholding of funds, thus making the paper much less autonomous than it is now, and 2.) remove the safeguards that the bylaws currently provide students with for controlling, mainly through Students’ Council, the newspaper, thus de-

stroying one aspect of the chevron’s accountability to students-. The true motive for this referendum has nothing to do with autonomy, accountability, etc. Certain people, both on and off the chevron staff, want to kill the paper, for they oppose the chevron-‘-s current orientation of defending the ,basic interests of students. The chevron has been fighting in support of the married students’ struggle against unjustifiable rent increases, in opposition to the English Language Proficiency (ELP) exams, qgainst foreign student differential fees, against increasing tuition fees, and against the education cutbacks in general. On the other hand those who want to kill this oqientation of the paper hold, among their ranks, such positions as: “the married students’ apartment rent increase is justified’ ’ , “the foreign students should pay an even greater differential fee”, “the ELP exams are a good thing”, etc. The issue in this referendum\ is not, as it seems, one of separation or not. Rather, the choice is whether students want a paper that defends our interests by fighting on these “issues - in which case staying within the Federation is the only choice - or whether students do not want such a paper - in which case a vote to place the paper under the administration’s thumb, whkre it would surely be crushed (financially), would serve this purpose. It should now be clear why we are having another referendum shoved down y:lr throats. Not only are those calling this referendum afraid of a corr‘ect decision. - that the chevron remain within the Federation of Students - ensuring both adequate autonomy and accountability, but they are deathly afraid that by first informing the students of the real issues they will have their own anti-student views exposed. A full public discussion is the last thing the proponents of separation want, for they realize it would undoubtedly end in increased support for the present oreintation of the chevron -in defense of the students’ interests! Gerard Kimmons

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Ever since my arrival at Waterloo in 1972, I have noticed a great deal of discontent with the so-called “student newspaper”, the chevron. I’ve talked to very few people who claim to like the chevron, and most of those who do are on the chevron staff. Occa’sionally ,I will pass a group of people discussing the paper, invariably from a negative point of view. A recent survey of about 400 students representing most faculties revealed that a decidedly larger number of students dislike the chevron than like it. A chevron staff member circulated a netition calling for a referendum on cheiron separation from the Federation, and was able to collect over 800 signatures in two days. Last fall, the Federation produced a short film in an attempt to create some favourable pubiicity. I saw the film twice, once in the math lounge and once at the Fed Flicks. Both times, the audience was relatively quiet until the chevron was mentioned, at which point there was a rather loud chorus df boos. Some student’ s criticisms are unfounded. Occasionally, I still hear complaints about too many Albania articles or too much corn- s munist propaganda, although we’ve been spared from much of this in the past few months. Yet, most students still dislike the paper. Naturally, one is tempted to ask why this situation has o.ccurred. As I see it, the problem lies with the decision making process of the chevron. Chevron staff operates on the principle of a “participatory democracy”, that is to say, those who participate in the production of the paper are responsible for deciding the content and direction of the paper. While I agree with this idea in princiContinued on page 16.

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ple, there are a few poblems which occur when it is put into practice. What is decided in staff,meetings may not be representative of the staff, because the meetings, which start Friday afternoons, often last well into the evening. With the limited amount of time students have, how many are going to keep their Friday evenings open for chevron staff meetings? Unfortunately, at best we can expect the chevron to represent the views and ideas of chevron staff, and if chevron staff is not representative of the students, the chevron also lacks this representation. It then becomes the responsibility of the students to ensure that the paper adequately reflects their ideas. Because many students believe the paper does not represent them, they feel that they do not belong on chevron staff. In fact, the reason I joined was because I knew another moderate student who was also interested in the paper. Since joining, many people have asked me why a moderate like myself has joined the staff of a radical newspaper. - Often, those moderate students who do join are intimidated by certain other staffers, and called the usual names (Reactionary, Fascist and Nazi) Now, moderates are being accused of involvement in an alleged conspiracy to mislead the students, and spread rumours and lies in an attempt to take over the paper. There have also been attempts to take away the voting rights of certain moderate staff members. Furthermore, it seems that students are expected to give up certain rights when they join the paper (for example, the right to circulate a petition dealing with the chevron). FinalIy, when some students do try to get a sample of student opinion (survey or petition), they are attacked in staff as being subversive or fraudulent. Typically, the.attackers are the ones who should be listening to what the students have to say. In conclusion, I believe that the students do not have adequate control of their newspaper. I ask all those who are unhappy with the chevron to vote for a separate, refundable fee. In this way, if the paper remains unchanged, the students have the right ‘to withdraw support from the chevron. Richard Devitt

Demand resignations Whereas we have lost all confidence in the Editor of the chevron, Neil Docherty, and in the News Editor,- Jonathan Coles, we, the following staff members, call for their immediate resignations. Nick Redding Peter Thompson Chris Dobbin Ciaran O’Donnell Randy Barkman Brenda Rootham George Vasiladis Oscar Nierstrasz Steve Hull Bruce Beacock Jayne Pollock Stephen Coates Rick Smit Dave Anjo Richard Devitt Ruth Harris Mike Webster Jacob Arseneault Chris Dufault Ron Campbell Ron Reeder Mark McGuire \ Val Moghadam

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This three-lined unexplained statement to Feedback is devious, unprincipled and splitist. Everyone knows that a dispute among the staff should, and properly can, be dealt with in a staff meeting. Were these people seriously interested in the paper’s well-being that is the course they would take. But that is not their interest, all they want is to fuel some reactionary pubflc opinion against the paper. Why they “have lost all confidence” is not explained, and that is exactly the problem they would have if they took it to a staff meeting, because there they would have to explain and substantiate their case. Instead they chose to write a glib three lines and phone people up soliciting signatures, in a forum where rumour mongering can go unchallehged. Several of the signators are seldom in the office and have never attended one full staff meeting. One of them, asked if he knew who

the editor was, said: “No, never seen the guy.” Until we see a documented case we will consider this the pouting of some children who haven’t got their way. And if they have a case then we challenge them to bring it to staff and have us recalled. Neil Docherty Jonathan Coles

te A fair bit of confusion must exist concerning the chevron referendum this coming Tuesday. To begin, the ad announcing the referendum date and the informational meeting was’withheld from the March 17 chevron by a small staff meeting the Wednesday of that week that decided by a vote of 8-l-6 that the whole issue needed to be discussed fully by staff first on Friday, before the ad be printed. The referendum was called by over 5% of the student body in a petition circulated by Chris Dufault, a chevron staff member and UW graduate (see the letter concerning his suspension from staff). The ad was required by by-law, and all the circumstances were strictly legal, so the chevron staffs interference was tantamount to an arbitrary veto of the ad and, by implication, of the referendum. Until March 17, the chevron officially endorsed the principle of separation, and, although the chevron did not report this, the March 14 Federation council meeting also voted to endorse separation. Incidentally, the wording of the referendum called by the petition was one passed by an earlier chevron staff meeting, at a time when the chevron, supported separation. On March 17, the chevron’s stand on separation was reversed by a vote of 11-0-O. Interestingly, none of the people who originally supported separation were present at the -time of the reversal. Evenmore interesting is that the staff members who reversed the stand were the same group who elected to suspend Chris Dufault’s voting privileges. Again incidentally, this same group included 9 nonstudents, even a professor: AIA spokesperson Doug Wahlsten. I ask that students voting on Tuesday consider these points and take note that the groupsinvolved and their motives are not as simple as one might first guess. The chevron staff, at least, is far from united about the issue, despite what letters, comments or editorials might this week imply. , Oscar M Nierstrasz Chairperson Board of Publications

Lettitor Another distortion from the unprincipled bloc on staff. Nierstrasz claims there were nine non students who voted to suspend Dufault. There were eight and they fall into the following classifications: two are full time chevron employees; two are former students who, like several others, flunked their courses during the chevron-federation struggle. They were also financially unable to return to school until now. Both will be registered next term; one is a UW professor; one is a UW staffer (he was also taking courses but dropped these to serve in the chevron Investigation Commission.) and two are in the same category as DufaultUW graduates. The chevron has an open staff policy of allowing anyone a vote who makes six contributions to the paper. It is this policy which grants voting rights to such non students as Rick Smit, Randy Barkman and others who on most occasions cast their votes en bloc with Nierstrasz. However, it should be noted that the vast majority of about 70 voting staffers are current UW students. -Neil Docherty

Dufault . off staff?* An extraordinary was held last Friday

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of it was to discuss my carrying of the petition which forced the coming referendum. I carried this petition as a chevron staff member, without informing them of doing so. Thus a long dicussion (marked by considerable shouting as usual) was held about what I had done, and whether or not I should be “punished”. I At the end of the afternoon, a motion was put forward “that no punitive action be taken against Chris Dufault . . ..” The vote was 11 in favour, 11 against and 2 abstentions. Most rational people would interpret this as meaning that the staff had no mandate to take action against me. The people who had voted in my favour began to leave immediately because it was past 6:00 pm on Friday night. As the last of us put on our coats, the AIA and friends put forward another motion condemning my actions and calling for my expulsion from the staff. After we left, it passed 12-O-l. They also overturned a staff policy supporting separation, which had been arrived at some weeks before. In their minds, this is a legitimate procedure. But to me and I’m sure most people, this “democracy by attrition” reeks. They overturned previous decisions simply by waiting for a few people to., leave. You may ask, “What about quorum? What about limiting lengths of meetings?” No such rules exist in the chevron’s socalled policies and procedures. The way things stand now, two people could in theory hold a meeting to do whatever they like. Last Friday was characteristic of the way things have been going lately at the chevron, and it shows how necessary a referendum is. The chevron has lost the ability to govern itself fairly and effectively. Thus I urge students to vote on Tues. March 28 for a refundable fee,‘ collected separately from the Federation fee. It would be more effective than battling the present ridiculous situation of “democracy by attrition”. Christopher Dufault P.S. Last week the chevron refused to carry the federation ad advertising the referendum.

Lettitor Dufault’s letter is the typical fare of an element on staff who are quick to’take events out of context and to distort them so as to create public opinion against the paper. To understand what actually happened it is necessary to provide some background. At the time of Dufault petitioning the referendum several important things were happening. The official staff position was to separate, however, initial negotiations with the administration revealed that they wanted an agreement with us which would allow them not to collect our perstudent fee should they feel so inclined. The staff, unwilling to allow the administration such arbitrary power, rejected their terms. Negotiations _ were continuing, however, in an attempt to get a better deal. Meanwhile the staff position to separate was being questioned by several of us, on two grounds: 1) that the chevron Investigation Commission report, which recommended we not separate, had not been discussed by the staff; 2) that tactically it was better to deal-with the federation than the administration. But even though negotiations with the administration were continuing, and a full discussion on separation and the commission report was scheduled to take place within staff, Dufault petitioned a referendum without our knowledge. By skulking behind staff’s back he effectively sabotaged both the negotiations and the internal discussions. It is clear Dufault feared that if staff had a full discussion on separation it might well reverse its original stand. He favoured separation, and rather than argue his case in staff he decided to circumvent discussion by foisting the referendum on us. And it is this character, who undermined staff democracy, who has the audacity to charge that the staff is no longer democratic.

Also it should be noted that he was not expelled from staff. His voting rights were suspended for six months, which does not stop him from submitting articles etc or from participating in staff meetings. Nor is it the case, as Dufault claims, that: “They (the chevron staff) overturned previous decisions simply by waiting for a few people to leave.” Notice of motion to reverse the staff position had been given for three weeks. I had postponed the discussion at one meeting because not enough proseparation staffers were present. It was well known, however, that the matter would be discussed at that meeting. And it was made all the more pressing by Dufault petitioning the referendum. Further, as most of Dufault’s supporters started to leave in unison they were told that the meeting was not over and that there would be discussion of Dufault’s actions, the referendum, and separation. They were only,present, however, to see that no punitive action was taken against their underhanded friend. What position the chevron would take on the referendum, how it would campaign, was of no concern to them. Similarly they had no interest in a discussion of the Investigation Commission report and separation. When their vote failed and they realised that they didn’t have a majority they decided to abandon the meeting. Their disinterest in actually dealing with the issues was made crystal clear by the actions of a leading member of their camp, Randy Barkman. Though he had not been present for any of the discussion on what, if any, action should be taken . against Dufault, he appeared when the vote was called and cast his vote in favour of Dufault. The normal staff practice is that if a person hasn’t been in on the discussion s/he abstains in the vote as was done by two people who had arrived before Barkman. Barkman was not so principled, and having cast his vote he immediately left. (This is the charlatan who earlier claimed there was an AIA bloc on the paper whose members voted together irrespective of arguments presented.) Those of us concerned about the paper and its future course remained and continued the meeting. There is nothing “extraordinary” in this, indeed it would have been strange had we not continued and dealt with such important matters. Dufault was asked to stay but left; discussion continued, and a motion to suspend his voting rights passed 12-O-I. The motions to reverse our original position on separation and to campaign in the referendum passed by greater margins than did the original motion. Also a special staff meeting was called for Monday to pass an editorial on the referendum. We phoned everyone possible for the meeting and again the new chevron position was passed handsomely. All of this I hope ensures our readers that the chevron continues to be a vibrant, democratic paper, which strives to defend the basic interests of students, despite attempts to sabotage it from within. -Neil Docherty chevron editor

Democrats triumph The March 17 feedback section was certainly a championship session for hysterical gibberish from the moribund minority clique on the chevron. Randy Barkman and Stephen Coates have both fallen out of their respective trees, degenerating into weird maniacal sarcasm. Michael Webster contributed to the insanity with his nonsensical playlet in a vain attempt to slander the chevron’s editor. Nick Redding’s letter more closely approximated normal English syntax but is just as much an exposure as the others. Continued

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Redding’s letter and all others are attacks on Neil Docherty . The whole campaign exposes the fact that the rabids have no principled ground on which to oppose David Carter as candidate for editor of the chevron. This was obvious in the screening session at the election meeting and has proven true since. David Carter upheld the democratic rights of the paper throughout the free chevron period. He spent a lot of time coordinating the employment survey at the beginning of this school year, as well as working on the survey of grads at convcation last spring. He has genuinely supported defending the basic interest of the students, and not just ice cream, beer and tug-of-wars. His letters to feedback are a refreshing break. His arguments are always based on principles and facts. The only criticisms raised against Carter in Redding’s letter are that he is taking a vacation and that he advocated the elimination of secret ballots. No principled reasons for questioning Carter’s record or his qualifications for being editor. At the election meeting, Redding was shown to have attacked new recruits publicly, attacked the Married Students publicly, and lied in his feedback letter, although only “in the strictest sense of the word’ ’ . Since the minority clique cannot offer any legitimate criticism of David Carter they need to resort to such desparate garble as appeared in the feedback section. I have every conf!dence that the honest democrat will eventually triumph. Lorne

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livith .Doyboy Well last Friday the anti-student block of the Chevron demonstrated their complete devotion to facism and low life tactics. A neil by any other name would smell just as bad. Now here is a recreated scene for the education of all. Mike; Say Neil you look a iittle down in the mouth. What is the matter. Neil Doyboy; I will tell you Mike. My wife keeps feeding me cow pies for breakfast. Something about being a vegitarian. Mike; Well I should not worry, no one is going see the little extra excrement in your mouth. Say could you tell me why you kicked Chris Dufault off staff? Neil Doyboy; Well he actively participated in anti-mass struggles and once he even called me a dirty name. Mike; Say that sounds pretty dangerous, but highly unbelievable. What is the real story here. Neil Doyboy; Hell how should I know! I am just the editor. I do not know anything about real news. Mike; Don’t be coy doy, ‘why was Chris kicked off staff. Neil Doyboy; Well Mike I will give it to you straight. Chris is too good. He is a funny guy and a very reasonable person. But the big thing is that he is intelligent, works for student concerns and does not like me, D. Farter or the rest of my boys and girls. Now J. Graduatemouth would have liked to execute Chris. But that would look bad on my record, so I disallowed that. So me and my merry band waited until the meeting broke up and then voted Chris out when everybody had gone home. Slick, eh? Mike; Does not that seem a little unfair and quite a bit like Hitler’s tactics? Chris carried a petition calling for a non-binding referendum about the separation of the chevron. For this you and your cronies boot him off staff. Neil Doyboy; But Mike by doing this he seriously weakened our bargaining position with the administration. We are right now negotiating with them about this very issue. , Mike; That is pretty weak Neil. The paper exists to serve the students. It does not exist solely for the staff. Surely the students desires must come first.

Neil Doyboy; Now that is a typical neo-nazi attitude bordering on complete demagoguery and perverting ideas about democracy. Mike; You mean because I am right and you are wrong? Neil Doyboy; Yeah uh that is basically it. See when you have far-ted around here as long as I have, you develope the ability to blather on for so long you confuse the person and he or she forgets what the question was. Mike ; What? Neil Doyboy; See, it works. Mike; The only thing I see is that you do not really grasp what is important to the student. And besides that most of reality seems above your head, too. Neil Doyboy; To hell ‘with the students. If they want something covered on campus let them write a story about it. It is not my job, as editor, to run around finding interesting stories. I mean be reasonable. Well last year there was at least 2 decent stories, so what more do you want? Mike; I would like better journalism and no more purges like Chris was subjected to. Neil Doyboy; Cannot do it Mike. See if we did this people might actually come down to the chevron office to help. Not only would I lose my majority, but the students would get to see D. Washyourstien, D. Farter, Jonboy Coles and the rest of my merry gang in action. Now would you wish that horror on your worst enemy? Mike; Well no. But what about Chris? Neil Doyboy; See I am trying to spare you all the frustration of dealing with nincipoops like Graduatemouth and the rest. So I am going to kick you all off staff. I am so nice. Mike; Why not kick the other people off staff? Neil Doyboy; Stop asking hard questions. You are so mean. Watch it or I will get L. Hanney to write a mean letter about you. Now go away I have to do some hard work. Uh yes is it i before y except after pi? Or is it more transcendental than that? Michael

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This sort of vile propaganda, based on distortion, and the McGuire graphic are the level to which a bloc on staff has descended. In keeping with the demand for my resignation they do not present a case. In lieu of substantiated argument they have to concoct these defamations. In lieu of presenting their case to a staff meeting where they will be asked to prove their allegations they find it easier to slobber from the end of a pen and submit it to feedback. The clear purpose of all this activity is to try and cast the paper in a bad light. It is’scurrilous activity of the ilk that we associated with Shane Roberts and Doug Thompson and their notorious scab slander sheets The Other Voice, Bullseye and The Real Chevron. These characters have suc. ceeded in tainting the paper but only in so far as people now know that we have staffers who wallow in such low buffoonery. Neil Docherty

Staffers -for Dufault

On Wednesday, March 8, Chris Dufault, a chevron staff member, began to circulate a petition demanding a referendum on the issue of the possibility of the chevron’s separation from the Federation. Two days later he had over 800 signatures, safely above the 5% of the student body required to ‘call a referendum. As a result, the referendum was called for Tuesday, March 28.

At the Friday March 17 chevron staff meeting a motion to suspend Dufault’s staff voting privileges for &months was passed 12-0-l in spite of a prior motion not to take punitive action, which, after lengthy discussion, tied 11-l l-2. The latter motion read as follows: “Whereas Christopher Dufault has undermined staff democracy and undermined staffs position in negotiations with the administration on separation by circulating without the knowledge of staff a petition on a separation referendum, and whereas he stated at the March I7 staff meeting that the chevron staff does not have the capacity to make decisions democratically (be it) moved that. Christ-

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opher Dufault be suspended as ,a voting member of stafffor six months.”

In other words, a portion of chevron staff has decided that Dufault’s voting rights should be repealed because he has exercised his right to freedom of speech and has implemented student democracy. This could set a precedent for the political censorship of any person who expresses an opinion that staff disagrees with. This purge is not an isolated incident: AIA spokesperson Doug Wahlsten has announced his intention to remove Ciaran O’Donnell and Peter Thompson from staff for conducting a private survey on the chevron which he claims is fraudulent. We, the undersigned chevron staff members, do not recognize the suspension of Chris Dufault’s voting rights, for the act implies the existence of a power that chevron staff cannot and must not have: the power to restrict a staff member’s personal liberty and, more important, the power to regulate a staff member’s freedom of speech. Such powers are totalitarian, not democratic. Steve Hull Randy Barkman Ciaran O’Donnell Sylvia Hannigan John Wallace Bast Scott Barron Nick Redding Richard Devitt Peyton Brien Mark McGuire Jacob Arsenault Peter L. Thompson

Oscar Nierstrasz Jayne Pollock Stephen Coates Ruth Harris Ron Reeder Michael Webster J.J. Long Tony Pan Rick Smit Ron Campbell Peter Town Val Moghadam

Lettitor This letter is also splittest and unprincipled. If you are so outraged about a decision of a staff meeting then the proper course is to raise it at another meeting and argue that it be reversed. It remains my view, however, that the action taken against Dufault was proper and approp riate. By going behind staff’s back and calling a referendum Dufault denied us the chance to deal with the whole issue properly. It was our intention tocali a referendum, but several important matters had to be dealt with first. One was the question of the recommen-

dations of the binding chevron Investigation Commisslon which staff had not discussed, because an element in staff lead by Randy Barkman was trying to ignore it and railroad staff into a separation position, which, of course ran contrary to the recommendations. Another important item was the terms of any agreement with the administration should we separate. Of particular concern here was the administrafion’s desire to retain the arbitrary power not to collect the per-student fee. The options open to Dufault, who was obviously bursting for the paper to separate, were: 1) to join the open staff committee which was conducting negotiations with the administration; or, 2) if he just couldn’t hold it in, to move a motion in a staff meeting that we petitlon a referendum immediately, and win a majorlty of staff over to his view on the strength of his argument. instead, while staff was trying to deal with these matters, he skulked behind our back Also not only did he deny us the right to deal with the issue, by sabotaging the discussions and negotiations, ‘but he also showed contempt for staff democracy as is explained in the motion. The chevron staff have to take a firm stand that issues to do with the paper are dealt with in staff first, if not how can there be any staff democracy and control of the paper. Such a crass violation of this could not go unnoticed. As for Doug Wahlsten’s charge against the survey’his charge is not that the survey was just fraudulent, but that it was a fraudulent survey designed to influence the election of editor.

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from page 17. - _ like Doug Hamilton, Doug Goodfellow, quate. This is due to the ease with which Laurie Lawson and a host of others are not students are able to obtain money to pay afraid to come forward and fight alongside their library fines, (or wait for amnesty). the AIA on the chevron on a principaled Further consideration indicates that the basis on just stands. They aren’t afraid of being labeled AIA members or AIA dupes. penalty, as it exists, does not provide suffiIn fact they find these redbaiting charges and cient deterrent. Our response to this is the implementaattacks on their intelligence actually amustion of a new library >Penal System. ing. When I told a democratic and progres1) Taking a book. out and keeping it out of sive friend that if she joined the chevron and voted for Carter (who incidentally,is not AIA _- circulation for a period of over three days, as Santora the liar would like us to believe) will result in the loss of your reproductive organs. , , that she would be labeled AIA her response -2) If a periodical is out of circulation-for the was laughter and the comment “Aw too ’ same period of time, it -will result in the loss much!” What bums the rabids the most is that of all pubic hairs.. these progressives and democrats refuse to 3) Any persons causing excessive noise bemobilized on the basis of lies. They within the library will lose both eyebrows search for facts and listen to both sides of an and a patch of bodily hair. These penalties will become effective as agruement, before acting. Honest just try lying to one of these people and see how far of April lst, 1978. We know that these penalties will de& <you’ll get. Bonne chance mes enemy! As a consequence the federation maggots nitely result in a more efficient library syscannot mobilize democrats and progressives tern. Richard Murphy in their attempt to change the chevron from a ISS 4b top notch paper that fights for students, /---I among other things, into a.whimpish, gutless rag that would make Burt Matthews smile from ear to ear. So Santoro your AIA minority is in fact a broad based majority on staff made up of AIA, progressives and democrats who will not accept your lies and will actively fight against them. In the course of reading last weeks chevTom Cody I ron ,I noticed the most glaring innaccuracies and unproven allegations in a letter by Nicola Santora. I’ll try to avoid Santora’s references to the “central committee”, “sub-leninists”, “neo-Christians” and the breaking of “balls and ovaries”. These mindless meanderings deserve little of my Being a Short One Act, One Line Comattention. Santora’s letter paints a picture of and semi-illiterate the AIA “minority” versus the “normal ma- plaint by a Nonentity jority” on the chevron. He states that “the (also known “widely”as a rabid antiAbl[A took the position’that only the people communist and Fascist sympathizer). Go! who stay until the’end of the discussion will Stage. Directions: Anne eyerate reeder rites have the right to vote.” He then talks about Inn Abbot “zem piples” PULLING ‘Prose “the-other people, the normal people” who and Poetry’ onyx Aw !ccasion. “had the wrong line but also time conStage Line: “Well!?” Slephen Webb straints.” Santora somehow “forgets” .to mention the democrats and progressives , who are not AIA but voted with the AIA-on this motion against the “normal majority”. . _ Is Santora implying that these people are AIA members or maybe brainless dupes of AIA?, He forgets to tell us that the “AIA .minority” was in fact a majority of staff. members made up of AIA, democrats and In the upcoming referendum on the chevwho -beat his “normal’major/’ ,-progressives ron the students of UW will finally be able to ity ’ ’ , a minority of staff members. ,Try and state an opinion, in written form, on the fuget it right next time! ture of their student newspaper. . And how does Santora explain how his Reluctance to go this route has been ‘ ‘AIA minority” (the majority) beat the shown by the aborted. referendum of Pres. “normal majority” (the minority) on the Eric Higgs in October, unwillingness of the vow how the editor was chosen. Let’s majority of chevron staff to support it, and - quote *his letter again: “So these neothe need for petitioning students to remind Christians started to attack by filling the time Pres. _Rick Smit of his campaign promise. up with slogans. They opposed calling the Given a variety of suggestions for the future question until they were sure people were of the student publication, I see nothing inconfused, tired and fed up; in other words, sidious about asking the opinions of the stuuntil they were sure that they were going to dents who financially support -- it. Certainly, win. The discussion on this motion last four those in-a democratic chevron should have hours from 1 pm to Spm.-ThelAIA won. At nothing to fear in a possible-separate, re5:30 the crime had been committed. At lam fundable fee/if they truly have the popular ’ the corpse was already stinking.” support of the democratic students at large. = Santora wants up to believe that the AIA However> if a large bloc of chevron staff was able to confuse people to vote the wrong should choose to oppose a referendum after way or make them tired and fed up and therethe struggles of the past year, then I find this fore vote the wrong way - the AIA way of somewhat suspicious. To oppose the chance course. Where does he get-off? Four or five to be an independent student watchdog, free students stated in the course of the meeting from Federation interference, in favour of that after hearing additional arguments, strong financial and administrative ties with “’ which Santora suggests was mere philerbusthe organization (Feds) that it dislikes and tering, changed their minds and went to the attacks is not in the student interest and AIA, democrats’ and progressives’ side of would suggest that, the students ‘are being the issue. They changed their minds on the used for possible alterior motives. basis ,of factual information. The AIA, Bruce Rorrison democrats and progressives, who form the 3rd Yr. Arts majority of staff, won. They won on the . basis of reasoned arguments based on facts that backed up a just stand. That’s a principled approach most of the members of Santora’s “normal majority” are very keen of. avoiding. Santora, if and “crime” was committed it was your distortions, and as far “stinking”, your letter qualifies. Well, Mr. Reinis, the “I-was-there” white In the end what really burns the rabids i& Baron expert. on Marxism strikes again! Santora is the support that non-AIA democrats and. progressives are willing to give the After displaying some quotations from- Marx -&IA on key issues on the chevron. People ‘and Engels to,prove he at least knows how to r c-.

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read, Reinis proceeds to confess he “had to former enemies, the. much celebrated omit the whole dialectic materialism, many “human face” Dubcek and his fellow “civilized” and pragmatic bourgeois intelproblems of the Marxist economy, theory of alienation, class struggle, and also many erlectuals capitulated and submitted the Czech rors and false predictions of Marxism.” nation once again to the jack boots of a Small omission! foreign army. . v -The central feature of Herr Reinis’ s think. Of course Reinis. has utter hatred and fear ing which students should grasp is that he is a of the modern industrial proletariat of typical Czech bourgeois intellectual. This Czechoslovakia. He’ll never forget the millstrata of “civilized” and “learned” men ion armed factory workers who took over have caused utter disaster to the Czech na- Jhe streets of Prague in February 1948 to tion for several generations. One section of throw out his bourgeois heroes caught in the the Czech bourgeoisie (represented by act of plotting yet another sell-out, in those Reinis) kisses the boots of the “civilized” days to the Anglo-American imperialists. imperialists of the’ West led by the United The dictatorship of the proletariat led by the States. Another section of the same traitorCommunist Party meant that the Czech peoous class poses as “Marxists”, and are the ple had stood up. Alas that theirParty should qevisionist boot-likers of the Russians preshave been corrupted by another crop of ently in power in Prague. “brain workers” like Reiriis. The consequBoth groups of these Czech bourgeois and ence of their ascendency over the-proletariat ~ their intellectuals are essentially the\ same has meant once again the loss of indepeneven though they serve different masters. dence and national ,oppression. These On the one hand they are sancophants crawl“brainy” Czechs Reinis loves so we,ll someing on their knees in front of the >prevailing how always manage to be saluting foreign foreign power, and on the other hand are armies in Prague. . puffed up arrogant chauvinists towards Meanwhile Reinis, an impotent represen“less civilized” nations, and bureaucrat bultative of that other section of the Czech lies towards the industrial workers. bourgeoisie has thrown himself at the feet of To understand.thementality of Reinis is to his “human rights” “liberator”, US imunderstand some historical facts about how perialism. He foster$ vain hopes an Amerithe- “civilized” Czech bourgeoisie and its can army will restore his lost paradise in intellectuals have sold out to, one foreign Prague and r$le on the backs of the propower after another in their quest for some letariat and peasantry there. So naturally it trappings of. power and philistinic- comfort suits Reinis’ private interests to railagainst and privilege. This class has won the utter the crimes of the revisionists and social imcontempt of every. revolutionary in Europe. perialists in Moscow and call this “corn-’ munism’ ’ , “Marxism” etc. -He needs these Before World War One the Czech renegades to cajole the Canadian people and bourgeoisie served on bended knee the Auoffer them wise advice: don’t unite with the strian Emperor Franz Joseph, and the “old communists to .fight, for example, against timers” of Reinis’s class still regards this period as the “golden age.” In fact it was a racism. This is the big game being played out these days by the Russian “socialists” and period of ruthless exploitation of the prothe United States “human rights” champ letarians and national humiliation for the maions. It is meant precisely to stop the world’s jority of the Czech nation. people from -uniting with the MarxistThe Czech bourgeoisie won its “indepen: Leninist communists, from rising up in violdent” state’ riding on the coattails of the .vicent, revolution to secure the freedom and torious Anglo-French imperialists. They independence of their countries and kicking merely switched masters. The price they both the Americans and Russians and all paid for their “independence” was turning reactionaries right out of power. an army-of 500,000 Czech war prisoners in Thus Baron Munchhausen Reinis gives Siberia over to the Anglo-French imhis gratuitous advice to Canadians., as the perialists to be used as cannon fodder to spokesman of one of the most impotent,.deassassinate the Russian socialist revolution. spised national sell-out sections of the EuroThis was the contribution to “European pean bourgeoisie. Of course his craven adcivilization’ ’ made by Reinis’ humanist vice of sell-out to US imperlialism falls on heroes in those years. the receptive ears qf the Canadia>n In the 1930’s this samepss of bourgeois bourgeoisie. This no ‘doubt explains Mr. traitors capitulated the Czech state and sac- ’ Reinis privileged position as a “brainy rificed the Czechnation to the tender merworker” in the university. cies of the German Nazis. The Anglo. But if the Canadian people follow the ad- * French masters had-found it pragmatically vice of the Baron, don’ttake up the road of useful to abandon the Czech ship of state social revolution, of national and social they had floated after the First World War. ‘emancipation relying on our own efforts, Today this same Czech ‘bourgeoisie, albeit a where will we land up except in the arms of different section, defends the Russian Jimmy Carter? To follow Reinis’s advice is social-imperialist occupation of Czechosto follow the road of national disaster. Just lovakia, and rationalizes this as “fraternity look where Reinis’ class led his own nation of the socialist community” and -parrots for over a hundred years. Thanks, but no Brezhnev’s doctrine of “limited thanks, Mr. Reinis. I’ll put my faith in the. You see, several generations sovereignty”. “manual workers” of Canada, use of these pragmatic Czech bourgeois have Marxism-Leninismas a guide to action, and been “realists” and “practical men” when it follow the leadership of an Indian immigrant comes to licking the boots of foreign oppresto Canada named Hardial B&s who shares sors. my deep contempt for your “glorious, civiliBut the groaning of the Czech nation zation’ ’ , and whose heart seethes with those under Russian boots has nothing to do with of the “nobodies” of this country to free it Marxism (as do none of the other crimes from the tyranny of capital and foreign listed by Reinis). The betrayal of Czechosdomination. , ‘_ lovakia has everything to do with the likes of A Worker the good Baron Reinis and his cowardly class of national traitors who have always submitted to one of the “strong men” in Europe, today the United States and Russia. Reinis chooses the US ‘while his “Marxist” counterparts in Prague.choose the Russians. In the. 1930’s various civilized Czech bourgeois gentlemen considered themselves far and above. those “barbarian” Balkan peoples to the south. Yet the Greeks; Albanians and Yugoslavs took up their rifles to fight the fascists and! nazis, while the good bourgeois humanists like Benes surrendered to Hitler a modern armed force with tanks and airplanes without a whimper in 1938. The same in the 1960’s. While the “back-a ward” Albanians led by those ‘,‘dogmatic” Marxist-Leninists defiantly kicked the Kruschovite Russian imperialists out of their country while not ~giving an inch to their

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In preparation for their last-minute remeeting. He was present at the March 17 ferendum Tuesday on the chevron, the Fedmeeting and stated his case during discuseration executive produced a last-minute sion. A motion not to take disciplinary action against Dufault failed to carry a majority leaflet attempting to refute the chevron staffs stand against separation of the chev- s (the vote was tied) but a later motion to susron from the federation. pend his voting right for six months was pasThe Federation executive’s “reply” is so sed. Dufault was not “expelled from staff befilled with lies that this point-by-point rebutcause he circulated the petition for the retal is necessary to correct the misinformation which has publicly issued. The leaflet is ferendum.” His voting right was suspended because he took action without consulting a serious affront to students at UW who bestaff, without our knowledge or agreement, lieve that decisions like the future of the all in order to frustrate the staff position. He chevron should be made on the basis of was aware that negotiations were going on 1 facts. It declares that the Federation execuwith the administration and that the call for a tive has nothing but contempt for this procereferendum would weaken our hand in these dure. Lie.No. 1: “None of the 1i staffers who negotiations. In short, his voting rights were originally voted for separation were insuspended for “undermining staff democracy’ ’ , for undermining staff’s negotiating formed or present when the vote was position, and for his contempt for the chevtaken.” Fact: Notice of motion to overturn the ron staff. staff position in favor of separation was given on February 24, three weeks before Lie No. 3: The Fed executive claims that the administration would have no real power the March 17 staff meeting at which the decito strangle the chevron if the paper were sion was made. The matter was also brought up at a meetseparate from the Federatioin. They say “if ing one full week before March 17. The the students indicate by a referendum that they wish to fund a newspaper, there are no March 17 agenda, written as always on the blackboard in the chevron office, contained grounds for UW to deny them.” the notice for one week before, the meeting Fact: In two negotiation sessions with the administration, the chevron staff still has no which passed the motion. assurance that the administration will yield A major part of the block of people who in their demand to be able to stop collecting were opposed to overturning the decision were actually at the meeting and left it en fees for the chevron at any time (with a certain number of months notice). The masse, even though they were told that the executive’s claim that “the administration is meeting would continue and even though they were urged to remain and deal with the relaxing its demands” is hollow. matter. Furthermore, administrations certainly Lie No. 2: The Federation executive atare not the nice-guys the Federation executive tries to make them out to be. One examtempts to prove that because a staff ple of an administration intervening directly member’s voting right was suspended the in the affairs of a student newspaper is the chevron is not accountable to students. McGill administration’s disciplining of three They plunge right off the deep end in baldfaced lies and defamation against the chevMcGill Daily staff members in 1967 because the administration judged as “obscene” an ron staff. They claim: “Staffer Chris Dufault article reprinted in The Daily. was expelled from staff on March 17 because Just last year the administration of the he circulated the petition for the referendum. His expulsion was done in the same manner University of Saskatchewan used a technicality to prevent Terry Pugh, a member of as the reversal of staff position: in secret, the U of S student newspaper, The Sheaf, without his knowledge.” from taking the position of vice-president of Fact: Like the decision to reverse the supthe student federation despite his legitimate port for separation, the suspension of Chris Dufault’s voting right for six months was not election to the post. In short, university administrations “keep done in secret! their noses clean” (using the Federation One week before Dufault’s voting right executive’s words) only when student was suspended, the chevron staff agreed that Dufault and his referendum would be the newspapers and unions keep theirs clean by refraining from criticising the administrafirst item on the March 17 meeting agenda. tion. Certainly the Federation executive Dufault was formally told on March 13 that his action would be taken up at the March 17 may be prepared to play along with the ad-

Students in the Math co-op program are being threatened by two motions introduced in Math Faculty Council on March 19. One of these motions has raised the criteria for passing from 55 per cent to 60 per cent, and the other proposes to block all students in the general program from the co-op system. Besides kicking additional students out of university because of their grades, these motions would squeeze out others who cannot continue for financial reasons unless they get co-op jobs to earn their way through university. These moves are the response of certain faculty members to the consequences of education cutbacks - crowded classes and heavy workloads with reduced budgets and also to the tighter job market that has resulted from the economic crisis. The number-of jobs for coop students appears to be declining, so some people use this as an excuse to raise criteria for remaining in the coop program. Faculty are implementing the slogan for education cutbacks given by the Ontario government: “More Scholar Per Collar.” This is another concrete example of how the people are made to pay for the economic crisis. This squeeze oflstudents is analogous to the tactics of the big oil monopolies which are able to force the people to pay more for energy by restricting the supply of oil and gas. The supply of jobs for math students is declining, so they will be forced to work harder to get those jobs. But who gets the blame for this situation -the multinationals and big financiers who are responsible for the economic crisis and profit from unemployment, or the students who are the victims? Professor Beaumont of the Math Faculty ignores the role of the rich and instead blames current problems on “stupid students”. This is a base slander against ‘math students. When jobs were plentiful, there was no outcry about the need to turf out “stupid students”. The economy has changed, not the students, but some people are unable to see where the blame belongs. It is Professor Beaumont who looks really stupid. The attitude taken towards students who encounter difficulties in their studies is a matter of principle. Some people, including the chevron staff, advocate that these students should be given special assistance in order to acquire the necessary skills. Not just the faculty, but the most capable students also should. help the less capable students. Others, like Professors Beaumont, Ponzo and Lawson, want to kick students when they are down, heap abuse on them (“stupid students”) and throw them out onto the street. This sort of attitude encourages division and hostility between faculty and students and among students themselves. It stifles the enthusiasm of students for learning and indead threatens them with severe punishment if they fall behind the rest of the pack. These questions boil down to the question of who is served by university education the people or the rich. Students want to acquire more knowledge afid make a contribution to society. The people need better and more science - better health care, better weather forecasting, safer au‘tomobiles, more effective and efficient pollution control devices, etc. Students trained in mathematics can contribute to the solution of these important problems, and they are eager to do so. Obviously, cutbacks in education spending and increases in passing criteria are not being implemented because the needs of the people have already been met. On the other hand, the multinationals, financiers and big government want a relatively small number of highly skilled people at minimal cost to themselves, and they want them to serve their own private interests. At the present time, education serves the big monopolies first and foremost. Professor Beaumont acknowledged this when he expressed concern about “our public relations with the firms,” not our “public relations” with the students or the working people of Canada who pay the tax bill for education. * The increases in criteria for remaining in the math co-op program come at the behest of “the firms” who want a more skilled product from the universities at less cost to themselves. The chevron opposes this latest attack on students. We call on the Math Faculty Council to reverse its decision to raise the passing criteria and to reject the proposal to cut general students out of co-op. Instead, professors should join the opposition to the education cutbacks and attack the government, not the students” -the

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Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers’ union of dumont press graphix and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. . . .there’s nothing sure in life but death and taxes.. . i’m back again, and loving every sensuous minute of it! a good paper this week; a good measure of it deals with our local SWAT unit, but the story doesn’t have a happy ending . . .then there’s the grad post - a fellow newspaper smashed into the ground, those swine! . . .there are co-op jobs (so says the article, but are there other kinds of jobs?) and we’re all left hanging by that referendum. i hate secrets. tomorrow election of editor. we didn’t get it right the first time, so we’ll try again. for the betting folks: carter is favorite, but redding is available on long odds. refer to the first sentence of this paragraph. anyway, blasting right along, voting in the first line are george lomaga, doug hamilton, salah bachir, mark jardine, barnard fitzpatrick, john Chichester, peter nagal, louise atkins, duncan bury, margaret leighton, wiz long, Steve sartor, Sheila stocking, case van maanen, stephen coates, and doubtless there were a few others whose names i couldn’t dig up in the copy ( or see -the blood is thick at three o’clock). don martin, fr’instance, was here; and larry hannant. this is the second last issue of this term and knowing life this might be my last words in print. so long world, you’ve been wonderful and i hope to meet you again some time. assuming this is my last writing . . .goodbye to laurie lawson who is leaving us for the wild west; it’s been fun. same notation for neil docherty and jonathan coles; ends of respective terms have been reached. Sylvia hannigan will be around;. honourable mention to the dumont ducks; and i will remain (some things should never change) mad photographer jwb.

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The Waterloo Wanderers played their first game of the best three out of five final series on Tuesday night against Tavistock. Unfortunately, they lost 2-1, but the score is an indication of how tight this series is going to be. In Tuesday’s game, Waterloo outshot their opp6sition by a a fair margin, but just could not put the puck in the net. Tavistock opened the scoring at 802 of the first period, on their first shot on goal. Waterloo evened the count at 6:26 of the same period, on a goal by MO Jo Long, who was in the slot, on a great pass from Bev McKeown. Tavistock scored a short-handed goal with 15 seconds left in the second period on a fluke goal that trickled into the net, and which proved to be the winning goal. This did not make Waterloo very happy, and they were ready to play their second game, which was on Thursday night. The third game is tonight, March 31, in Wellesley at 7

pm. All fans are expected to be there. These are the finals, you guys! (Thanks to Ken and Cathy for coming to foreign territory on Tuesday!) The Wanderers are going to have to keep skating, play the man a lot more, plus have a better power play to achieve success against this team. It can and will be done. Come see us in action! The Wanderers will be on television this Saturday, April 1, on CKCO-TV, channel 13. They are on a show called Open Roads at 2pm. They played a team of NHL Oldtimers in November, and at last it will be shown! This is a show not to be missed, as it includes the dressing room scene, furious action (on the ice), hard hitting, a little cheating and good fun. Don’t miss it! Just think, you don’t have to travel to Wellesley to see the Waterloo team play great hockey!

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UW honors its best athletes The seventeenth annual athletic awards banquet gave many reasons for UW students to be proud of their athletic program. Two OUAA (fencing and championships rugby), one OWIAA championship (skiing), and another national swimming title highlighted the evenings agenda. In addition, we have these two other honoured winners: This year’s winner of the Totzke Trophy which is given to the Most Outstanding Male Athlete is . . . (drumroll! !) . . . from the Swimming and Diving Team. . . Diver Claude Cromier. Claude has had an outstanding career to date: Just recently at the C.I.A.U. National Swimming and Diving Championships Claude was voted the ‘Most Outstanding Diver at the Meet” where he placed 1st on the three meter board and 2nd on the one meter board (missed 1st by less than one point). Also in 1978 at the Ontario Senior Diving Championships he At the recently

held Athletic

was the top Ontario Diver winning both the one and three meter diving and placing 3rd on the tower. On January 28, 1978 at the John Dickinson Invitational Meet in the Etobicoke Olympium he was again voted as the Most Outstanding Diver. Claude also represented Ontario in 1977 at the Canada Games and placed 2nd on the tower. Congratulations “Claude”. This year’s outstanding female athlete is KAREN MURPHY.’ Karen’s swimming history could be aptly called a career. She began swimming at age eight. She moved to Florida for two years where she achieved All-American status. Returning to Canada she competed extensively as a top provincial athlete. Karen then entered the University of Waterloo in 1975 as a Psychology major and began her contribution to our swim team. Here are. her achievements for the last three years. Freshman year, 1975-76 Waterloo team won the Ontario’s and the C.W.I.A.U. Champion-

Awards

Banquets,

Hagey Siegfried Trophy Rookie of the Year

Cross

Bob Finlay Trophy Rookie of the Year

Country

in the slot, and she shot

Tim McCutcheon

Hockey

Robert Rookie

Rugby

Roger Downer

Soccer

Harry

E. Rafferty Trophy of the Year

each

other

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Cooper Murphy

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Memorial

(MVP)

(Rookie)

Mike Zettel Jamie Hodge (co-winner) Rick Nickelchok (co-winner) Ralph Jarchow Brian Filion (co-winner) Derek Johnstone (co-winner) Derek Johnstone

Dave Heinbuch Claude Cormier

(co-winner) (co-winner)

Geoffrey Dyson (MVP) Rookie of the Year

Rob Town David Zappardi Tom Fitzgerald

(co-winner) (co-winner)

Volleyball

(MW

Ed Vande

Water

Polo

Nick

Wrestling

Kurt

Boese Trophy

Intramurals

K.D. Fryer Trophy Father Bill Townson McCormick Trophy Whiteside Trophy

(MVP)

Award

Graft

Mensink

Maldwyn

Cooper

St. Jerome’s Engineering/St Jerome’s Guy Caporicci Peter McGovern

Student Administrator Award Totzke Trophy

J.O. Hemphill

Basketball

MVP

Carol

Kozlik

Field Hockey

MVP

Mary

Campbell

Swimming

MVP

Pat Gorzadowska (co-winner) Laura Hecher (co-winner)

Volleyball

MVP

Maureen

Intramurals

Outstanding

Students

Administrator

Silver

Award Award

Brownie

(Athletic Trophy

Ted Schaefer Male Athlete

Pins

Director’s

Athletes.

Paul Barron Ray Costello

Len Shore Award

Dean of Women’s congratulate

the following

Golf

Student

The Wanderer:

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honoured

Seymour Hadwen Leon Passmore

John Furin Bill Crawford George Vasiladis

Graduating

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Dick Aldridge Trophy (MVP) Doug Shuh Trophy (MVP Linesman) Rookie of the Year

Track/Field

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ships. Karen finished nationally second in 200m breastroke, second in 200m individual medley, 2nd in 400m individual medley, second in the 400 m. medley relay, and third in the free relay. 1967-77 Waterloo finished third in the Ontario’s and sixth at the C.I.A.U.‘s. Karen places with two firsts, a second and a fourth in the Ontario’s. 1977-78 - Karen’s senior year; Waterloo finishes third at the Ontario’s and fourth nationally. At the Ontario’s she had one first, two seconds and a fifth. At the CWIAU Championships she finished sixth in three of those events. Overall, Karen has held Ontario records, she served as a captain for tw,o years and she has been a finalist in every event that she swam at the National Championships (for three years). Notwithstanding her tremendous individual accomplishments, Karen has swam several events that were not her specialties in order that the team do well. CONGRATULATIONS.

Football

McKee

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the University

Basketball

Swimming

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Bev McKeown and MO lo Long starting Waterloo’s only goal.

march

Claude

Cormier

Long

Marg Bannon Sandy Gilmour Pat Gorzadowska Betty Jewel1 Brenda McDonald Marie Miller Karen Murphy Janet Passmore

Award

Excellence)

Kevin

Eby

Karen

Murphy

Notre

Dame