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Thursday,
November
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SciSoc Wine and Cheese party, MC faculty lounge at 8 pm. $2 for members, $3 for others. EngSoc Beer Brewing Pub at the Waterloo Motor Inn, featuring Crawford. Admission $2, unless you’re female, an engineer or both. Scotland On Parade, 8 pm in the Humanities Theatre. Authentic Scottish entertainment (aye, laddie - from Glasgow they are!). Students $5.50, others $7.
Participate in the Torah-Thon, 6-8 pm in CC 135. Free supper for sponsored participants. Sponsored by the Jewish Students Association. Waterloo Christian Fellowship supper meeting, HH 280 from 4:30-7 pm. Come out and meet friends! CC Pub features Summerhill. Covercharge of $1 for feds, $1.75 for others after 7 pm. Psst! If you’re in the pub at 7 pm you get free admission. Walter Tait will talk on “If Christians are Free, Why do Good?” HH 280 at 4:30 ‘pm. Sponsored by the WCF.
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Friday,
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9:30-11:30 pm in CC 135. Socialization, bridge, chess, refreshments etc. Sponsored by the Chinese Students Association. Friday
Night Special,
Fed Flicks feature The Rocky Horror Picture Show (it’s kinky!!), 8 pm in AL 116. Feds $1, others $2. Conrad
Grebel
College
performing
en-
sembles present an evening of choral and instrumental music, Humanities Theatre at 8 pm. Students $2, others $3. Talk on apartheid in South Africa, “For Whites Only!” 3 pm in Conrad Grebel College room 250. Speakers Ernie Regehr, Jan Jorgensen and Donald M’Timkulu. Sponsored by the Peace Society. Agora Teahouse, 8-12 pm in CC 110. Discussion, music, fellowship and home baked munchies. Sponsored by the WCF. All welcome. CC Pub continues;. see Thursday.
Saturday,
Fed Flicks
November
(3:30 pm); a talk in EL 211 on Computers and Privacy at 7:30 pm. Go Association meets in CC 135 from 7-11 pm. Come and learn how to play this full-scale war game!
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continue; see Friday.
CC Pub continues; see Thursday. Nothing
else happening
today; you might as
well study! Basketball! The Naismith Classic continues today; see sports section.
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Sunday,
November
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continue; see Friday. Service with Clark Pinnock, 10 am at Conrad Grebel Chapel.
Fed Flicks Worship
.The G&y Cup will be fought for today. For the winner, see Campus Question. Campus Centre Coffeehouse, featuring Dennis D’Asaro, 8 pm in the CC Pub. $2 for UW people, $2.50 for others.
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Science
November
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I of
Objectivity; part of the “Science and the Public” symposium. 7:30 pm in AL 116. Sponsored by the Feds and OPIRG. Ski Club Meeting, 8:30 pm in EL 112. Featuring “The Other Side of the Mountain.” Trip information also available. Members free; others $1 for social membership. Campus Centre Crafts Fair starts today, and runs to Friday. Hand made crafts on display and up for sale. Why not do your Xmas shopping now?
CC Pub features Taped Muzak. Non-feds pay $0.75 after ,7 pm.
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Tuesday,
November
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meeting, 7-9:30 pm in the ML faculty common room. Are you bourgeois enough to contribute? FASS scriptwriters
A movie, “J.A. Martin, Photographe”, by Jean Beaudin and Jean-Marc Garand. In AL 124at an unspecified time, but probably 8 pm. and the Public continues: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm with movies in EL 107 on technology and genetics; talks in CC 113 on Recombinant DNA (1:30 pm) and Nuclear Contamination Science
CC Pub continues; see Monday.
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Wednesday,
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Campus Centre free movie: Singing in the Rain, with Gene Kelly. 9:30 pm in the Great Hall. National Tap Dance Company performs at 7:30 pm in the Campus Centre Great Hall.
Thursday
November
23, 1978; Volume
1, Number
14, University
of Waterloo;
Waterloo,
Ontario
8:30 pm in CC 110.
Gay Lib Coffeehouse,
Don’t be shy! Science and the Public: mobies on Sociobiology in EL 107 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm; talks in CC 113 on PCB Dumping (1:30 pm) and the Politics of Reproduction (3:30 pm); a talk on Public Participation in the Nuclear Debate at 7:30 pm in Physics 145. Tropical and Arctic Mosquitoes are the topic of a slide show and talk at the Faculty Club, 7:30 pm. Booze available; sponsored by BUGS. Prayer and Worship at mid-week. 4:30 pm in the Conrad Grebel Chapel. WLU Baroque Ensemble performs chamber works in the Conrad Grebel Chapel at‘12:30 \ pm. FASS scriptwriters meeting; see Tuesday Discussion Fellowship with Chaplain Remske Kooistra. 7-8:30 pm in HH 280. Supper precedes the meeting ‘at 6 pm. ’ Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic in the Math Lounge, all day! CC Pub; see Monday.
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Thursday,
November
Red Cross Blood Donor
Clinic
30 continues in
the Math Lounge. Be there! An Olde Tyme Carol Sing-Along, 8 pm in the Humanities Theatre. Directed by Alfred Kunz. Students $2, others $3. Science and the Public: movies from 11:30 am - 1: 30 pm in EL 107, on Computers; talks in CC 113 on Evolution (1:30 pm) and Community Health Clinics (3:30 pm); a talk on Sociobiology at 7:30 pm in MC 2065.
Graphic by David Anjo
The 1978-79 Warriors. Front r&w (left to right): Doug Vance, Steve Garrett, Tom Fugedi, Ron Graham, Richard Kurtz and Jim Commerford. Back row: Chris Rozad (trainer), Leo Tobi (statistician), Pat Brill-Edwards, Tim Harrold, Rick Giommi, Leon Passmore, Seymour Hadwen, Matt Ross, Clayton Nintram, Rob Tgkimoto (trainer/manager), Don McCrae (coach).
Naismith The , eleventh annual Naismith Classic will be hosted this weekend by the University of Waterloo’s basketball squad. The Naismith is an eight team straight-draw, meaning each team must win twice to qualify for the championship game. Losers in the first round of play compete for a consolation title. The Acadia Axemen, ranked number five in the country, should be favoured to win the tournament but not without some argument from the Winnipeg Wesmen
Classic who the Axemen will probably face in the semi-final or the Warriors who, if they can get their game together, should meet them in the final. Acadia have the distinction of being the first team to win the Naismith, beating Loyola in the 1968 final., They repeated in 1969 with a win over Guelph and were also runners-up in 1970 and 1975. Waterloo has &on the Naismith Classic - named for the Canadian who invented basketball - 4 times (in 1971, and 1973-75).
starts
tomorrow
Tipping off the tournament Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm will be Winnipeg and WLU. WLU has good height in Barry Atkinson, the 7 footer from Tillsonburg, and experience in Fred Koepk_e the two year veteran of the National team. However, Winnipeg, currently ranked seventh tie a strong, well balanced team. Ken Opalko, perhaps the best shooter in the country, and Dan Kinaschuk should be able to combine to beat anything the Hawks can throw against them. ’
The other former winner of the Naigmith present this year are the Laurentian University Voyageurs who have won for the past two years. Defending their title will be a tough job for Laurentian. The loss of the Philadelphia trio of Varick Cutler, Bruce Burnett and Charlie Wise, and also the loss of flamboyant coach Richie Spears has left the Voyageurs depleted. Their chances of making it 3 in a row should go up in smoke when they meet the Warriors on Friday night.
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Students picket Last Thursday’s informational picket at Queens Park went off successfully; according to the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS). About 450 students attended the picket, including about 20 from Waterloo. The picket was called by OFS to protest cutbacks in education, and to state their opposition to “underfunding and fee increases”, before the provincial government decides on these issues.
About 15 of the 35 people who signed up for the picket didn’t show up. Among those who did represent this campus were the Federation president Rick Smit and vice-president, Mark McGuire, the chairman of the Board of External Relations, a contingent from the Anti-Imperialist Alliance, some anarchists, and an assortment of other students. Smit told Imprint he was disappointed to see Waterloo represented by signs
The Canadian University Press commission investigating relations between the Chevron and the federation has finished its report. The commission has found the federation to have violated the letter, and the Chevron the spirit, of the CUP statement of principles. Commission chairperson Bryan Bedford of the Guelph Ontarian had the report ratified by the other two commissioners Wednesday. He spoke to Imprint in a telephone interview Wednesday night. Bedford said the commission was recommending to CUP a motion of censure against the federation, because it had exerted financial pressures against the paper. The commission will also recommend condemnation of “certain members of The Chevron staff,” at the CUP plenary this December. Bedford said that al- though the Chevron had abided by the letter of the statement of principles, it had not respected the spirit. He said the paper “never actively discouraged in, timidation”, within the staff. The federation violated both the letter and the spirit, however. Bedford said that it violated the principles by not consulting the Chevron
reading “Make the Rich out Pay! ” and “I dropped and I’m glad I did.” The Waterloo bus joined the circle of picketers on arrival in Toronto. At 1:30, the march through downtown Toronto began. The demonstrators waved signs, sang songs, and chanted slogans such as “Cut Bill, not Back” and “freeze tuition now.” The picket was well organized and there were no reports of violence.
OFS informational officer Alan Golombek told Imprint that the event went off as planned. “We would have liked to have seen more people out, but we met our target,” he said. He said he was pleased to know that there are a number of “activists” working on cutbacks-at universities across the province. What’s the next step? According to Golombek, the students should align themselves with the faculty, staff and other groups affected by cuts in post-secondary n 1. tunding . He feels that after the P.S. Ross report on tuition fees is released, and after the government releases its funding figures for next year, there will be much more to complain about . Mark McGuire
completed
making major when changes to the budget. He also said that federation president Rick Smit misinformed the students about the consequences of a motion to make Chevron fees refundable, in a summer general meeting. The commission has recommended that the federation only advertise in one student newspaper, the Chevron. It said that no federation board chairperson or director should be a!lowed to contribute to any paper but the “official” one. Concerning the suspension of Chris Dufault’s voting rights, the commission ruled that it did not violate the CUP principles. However, Bedford described the action as a “mess,” technically. The commission recom: mended that notice of motion be required before serious disciplinary action against a staffer. Bedford also questioned the suspension because Dufault was “technically” acting in accordance with the staff position for separation. The commission ruled that the federation’s action against the Chevron’s typesetter was beyond their powers. It recommended that the federation reimburse the Chevron for any
, unpaid costs incurred in its use. However, the commission recommended that the Chevron purchase the typesetter, and any equipment used for the production of the Chevron as soon as possible. The typesetter is presently owned by staff member Larry Hannant. The com&ssion recommended that the Chevron incorporate as soon as possible. The Chevron should incorporate as soon as possible, but the federation should collect their fee, Bedford said. He said that the federation should collect their fee because of UW president Burt Matthew’s “history.” . The commission wants the Chevron to form an internal editorial board, and to change their policies concerning letters and editorial responses to letters. Bedford said responses should be infrequent, and contain only responses to questions or corrections, not a “forum for ideologies.” The commission was first called for in June and the report is more than a month late. Bedford commented on this, saying “actually, it’s two years late.” Ciaran O’Donnell
ture students, and one is re. nted by a family. The family is the only group protesting the plan. Wintermeyer told Imprint that her project would cost about $500,000.
Wintermeyer has offered the Federation two plans to choose from. The first involves the Federation renting space and paying for all the furnishings and fixtures. The second also involves them renting space but she would pay for the furnishings and fixtures. Wintermeyer said “If I furnish the place the Federation could ‘save themselves a large initial outlay of capital. In addition, they wouldn’t have to borrow money from the bank.” Federation vice president Mark McGuire hopes that the proposal will be studied by a committee of
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On November 30, the future of the Chevron as UW’s official student newspaper will be on the line. At that time, all full time graduate and undergraduate students will be eligible to vote in a referendum worded as follows: “Should the Chevron, as constituted November 30, 1978 (be it incorporated or not incorporated), continue to be the official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo, retaining its current office space in the Campus Centre, and current student levy? “The results of this referendum are to become effective on January 1, 1979.” If the students vote “no”, Smit said he would send a letter asking the administration not to collect the Chevron fee and the Chevron would be served with an eviction notice. He added that Federation by-law no. 2 concerning the Board of Publications and the status of the Chevron therin would have to be rewritten. If the Chevron staff refuses to vacate the office, Smit said he will turn the matter over to the university administration. Matthews would not say what would happen then. The Chevron stated in their November 17 issue that they will participate in the referendum, but will not recognize the off-campus vote. The staff want another vote in the winter 1979 term instead of a mail-out ballot November 30.
a planning student architecture, engineering students and Federation representatives. The results would then be turned over to the Students’ Council for them to decide whether it will be built or not. However Smit warned that currently the whole plan is still very tentative. 1Leonard Uarwen
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excellent 3.3% 1.o
good 25.0 20.7
adequate 41 .a 44.9
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terrible 3.9
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Dancing pub
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Last Thursday’s OFS-sponsored picket of Queen’s Park, protesting educational cutbacks, drew as many as 500 students from across Ontario. Pbto by John W. Bast
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ChevrOn vote .next week
New pub still pos sible = There is an outside possibility that UW students may get their promised; new pub according to Federation president Rick Smit. The latest proposal for a new pub was initiated by fourth year architecture student Sarah Wintermeyer after Smit’s earlier plans failed. Wintermeyer owns the land on tke northwest corner of University Ave. and Phillip St. beside the former Bank of Montreal building. In Wintermeyer’s proposal, the existing four houses and a garage on’the site would be demolished and a retail-commercial centre constructed. The new pub would be located in the basement of the building. Currently, two of the houses are occupied by UW students, one of them is occupied by two former UW architec-
23,. 1977.
Queen’s P
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CUP report
November
petition that got this referendum called was the implications of the 35% refund rate the Chevron experienced early this term, said EngSoc president Paul Johnson. At a committee ot presidents meeting Ott 13, Johnson said “There was a general -consensus that something had to be done.” The possibility of calling a referendum was not discussed. An informational general meeting promoting discussion about the Chevron referendum will be held on November 28 in EL101 from 1:30 to 3:30. On Ndvember 30, polls will be open from 9::3() am to 4130 pm, Helga Petz, the Federation office managerexpects the referendum to cost The impetusfor EngSocaround Sfjoo - $YOO. to initiate and organize the Peter Gatis
Smit said normal election and referendum procedure involves a one part vote with a mail-out ballot, though the last two referendums were exceptions to the rule. The 1977 referendum on refundable fees for the Federation was held in two parts because of a shortlived by-law which removed all voting rights of off-term co-op and regular students. The 1978 referendum on the separation of the Chevron from the Federation was called so late in the -winter term that a mail-out vote would haye been impractical. A two part referendum on the Chevron would contradict the terms of the referendum as stated.
Students poll UW entertainment views More than half of LJW students focus their social life off-campus, a survey of 1475 students has revealed. The survey was conducted by UW students Bruce McCulloch, Jay Biskup,ski and Dave Turner last March. It was sponsored by the Federation of Students, and the results were made available to Fed President Rick Smit at the beginning of this month. The social life of 5 1.3 percent of the respondents was foctised either mostly offcampus, and rarely oncampus (27 percent) or frequently off-campus and occasionally on campus (24 percent). Only 13 percent had their social life focused mostly on-campus and rarely offcampus. 14 percent were focused frequently oncampus, and 20 percent were evenly mixed. Overall, students feel that the quantity and quality of social facilities on-campus is adequate [see table 1). The survey found that students are generally sym-
pathetic to expanding social facilities. 42 percent were definitel>r -in faLlour and 40 percent possibl!. in favour. Six percent were against it. A clear majority (53 percent) of students thought there should definitely be another type of licensed facility on campus. 16 percent were against it. (see table 2) 63 percent are definitely or possibly support student funding to finance expansion of social facilities. 20 percent are against it. There is no one new kind of social facility overwhelmingly supported by students, however. 53 percent said they wanted more conceTts and 50 percent said they wanted a dancing pub (see table 3). McCulloch told Imprint that around 200‘ people wrote comments on the survey sheet. Generally, he said, the comments favoured expansion, although a noticeable minority said that the Federation had more important thingi to do. Ciaran O’Donnell
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News Governmimt Alan Strader of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association spoke at a forum on the activities of the RCMP last Thursday. Much of his talk dealt with a catalogue of the admissions and allegations of illegal activities of the RCMP over the past three years. Although he expressed concern for the activities of the RCMP, he was more concerned that the government has consistently refused to take any action after the acts had been revealed. Strader began his talk with a chronology of the known illegal activities, beginning three and one-half years ago when a bomb exploded in front of an executive’s Montreal home. An RCMP officer lost both of his hands in that event, because of the bomb. His motives were never established and it was passed off as an isolated event. Since then, however, there have been a series of these so-called “isolated events” and each time the government has stated that the newly revealed event was the last such occurrence. Strader pointed to the cases of the barn burning
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outside Montreal and the burglary of the Parti Quebecois office. He suggested that the RCMP was having great difficulty distinguishing between dangerous subversion and legitimate dissent. Strader also attacked Trudeau’s concept of ministerial ignorance. Until Trudeau, the minister was responsible, but Trudeau has stated that a minister cannot and sh,ould not know what is going on in his department. Strader expressed fear that this could lead to a complete lack of civil control of police forces, and also did not see how this is consistent with the authority of -the Solicitor-General to grant permits for wiretapping. Throughout his talk, Strader commented on government inaction against offences of the RCMP and was concerned that one set of laws is being set for the police and a different set for the public. He pointe-d out that when this is generally recognized, other groups may also argue this and disregard the law. In the discussion period, a member of the small audience raised the issue of the
Week’ ‘will look at issues
‘Food
in the planning stages, genFood is perhaps Canada’s eral themes have been choand the world’s most important resource. Yet, in sen. They cover such areas as Canada’s self-sufficiency Canada, food and food isin food, the nourishment of sues have a very low profile. Canadians, the efficiency of Because of the urban orienmodern farming methods as tation of our society, agopposed to traditional ricultural problems and ismethods, the monetary assues tend to be neglected. pects of farming and food KW Probe and the Ontario and government protection Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) want to help for farmers. If-you have an interest in people understand the isany or all of these themes sues and problems involved in agriculture. They will at- Probe and OPIRG can use help and/or ideas. - tempt to do this through a . your are needed to “Food Week” to be held on Volunteers make “Food Week” a succampus during the last cess. Call the Probe office at week of January. “Food Week” will be a 885-1211 (ext. 3780) or drop in to Room 214 in the Enweek of speakers, activities vironmental Studies buildand events centred around ing. food. Ian Mackenzie Although the week is just
Campus Question
Thursday
Who
RCMP
injustice of some laws and asked if Strader was saying we should submit to laws created by elite groups for their own purposes. Strader replied that we should, and emphasized that the CCLA is promoting rule of laws. He pointed out that if we may disobey un-
Last Thursday, UW played host to two lecturers from Nanking University in the People’s Republic of China. The speakers, professors Chen Ti-Chih and Chiang Ming-Pao, spoke on the state of historical research in China and on the movement towards the Romanization of Chinese characters. Although superficially uninteresting, their talks gave a much needed background to the present Chinese political situation, something which most North Americans know nothing about. Chen started by pointing out that in the past ten years, historical research in China has been difficult. He complained that since the start of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960’s, the study of history had been “disrupted greatly by the Gang of Four (the late Mao Tse-Tung’s wife and three other radicals) .” A person in the audience challenged Chen on this point, saying that historical research had continued throughout the Cultural Revolution. Chen answered by saying that the Gang of Four had disrupted research by turning historical questions into political ones. He cited the case of one historian who was attacked for questioning the official line that the 1949 revolution was a class struggle, rather than a fight against certain exploitative landlords. He said the “Gang” controlled periodicals such as the Journal of Historical Research and used them to undermine the leadership
lated asking for rule of law for police activities, exposed over the past few years.
Strader stated that he is in favour of just laws, but wants to see them enacted legally.
The petition has a difference since each signer must donate a dollar to a legal fund to contest the issue in the courts.
In terms of concrete action, Strader spoke of the current petition being circu-
politics
Chiang explained how and why the Chinese government is simplifying the Han language (written Chinese). The principal problem with the language now is that there are so many characters (at one point, there were over 42,000)) that obvious problems are found Chen said that, instead of in learning to recognize and being discouraged, students spell Chinese. are urged to enrol in uniThis also leads to probversities to do research in . Terns in typesetting and fields like law, economics computer programming. and religion. The Chinese government He said that China will be took steps about a year ago to radically alter the landeveloping an international guage. These steps, alperspective by sending thousands of students overthough supported in principle, met with much proseas to study.
of the late premier Chou-en Lai and to glorify themselves. He said they ignored Mao’s policy “let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”, thus discouraging new ideas from being brought forward.
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Strader spoke of the number of signatures (now over 10,000) as a reflection of the coming of age of Canadians out of a political naivete. He expressed a hope that this would result in a reversal of the pattern seen until now. Hugh Alley
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test from the Chinese people, and they are currently being revised. \ In the discussion after the talks, both speakers opined that now that the “Gang” has been overthrown, a concerted effort is underway to stabilize and “harmonize” the country politically. On the whole, the speakers gave the impression that they were explaining policies rather than preaching them. Except for one determined effort to bring ideologies into open debate, political judgements were kept to placing China’s woes squarely on the shoulders of the “Gang of Four.” John Malyon
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The Federation of StuTen thousand dollars was The co-ordinator was dents is revising its budget allocated for orientation, hired to train more volunto meet unexpected exbut orientation overspent by teers. penses. However, a deficit some $8,000, McGuire says. Only $2,000e was allocan be avoided this year if The money has already cated to train more volunoverspending stops, vicecome from some of the other teers. president Mark McGuire accounts. Only $2,000 was allosays. Federation council has cated in the budget for reThe largest unplanneddecided to provide back pay ferenda, elections and the for expense is about $18,000 for Denise Donlon’s ten council’s speaker’s honin National Union of Stuweeks of work as full-time orarium. McGuire says dents (NUS) and Ontario entertainment/education $3,000 is needed. Federation of Students programmer. She has been a The two salaries and the (OFS) fees. Former Treasfull-time employee since extra money for referenda urer Jayne Pollock did not November 1, and will be add up to about $5,000. At account for these in the paid from the entertainment this Sunday’s council meetbudget. budget. ing, McGuire will outline, The error occurred beThe back pay amounts to board by board, where the cause last year, NUS and about $2,000 and covers the money will come from.... OFS fees were not part of the .-period before Donlon was President Rick Smit spent Federation fee. This year, hired by council. $882 on books of matches $ they are. Council also hired a fullbearing the Federation logo. The $18,000 can be recotime co-ordinator for the The money came from his vered from the contingency Birth Control Centre for 3 presidential special projects fund to cover fee refunds. months at $160/week. The account and was spent last Only about seven percent of centre normally relies on winter before the need for students refunded their volunteer staff but this year, belt-tightening became apfees, but a fifteen percent remost of the regulars left parent. . fund rate was planned for. school or graduated. Art Owen
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Edmonton. Montreal’s Barnes is still hurt, and the weather will not be as bad as it was last year. Edmonton’s Wilkinson will go out big - he’ll win it for them. The Montreal offense will not be able to beat Edmonton’s defense.
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Movies
The Arts
sane things are happeninn at roughly the same time that the viewer is kept far too busy keeping track ot the madness to doubt the in bit parts - Carol Burnett, quality of the film - except I1esi Arnez Jr, Mia Farrow, in the cast: ~~~llr:re the person Lillian Gish, Lauren Hutton watching h;~s already abanand many others, lncludlng the t;lvk. anti, has > doned I ’ lapsed into 1ota1 bore&+$. Chaplin. “Nashville.” l ‘M*A*S*H” A plot summarv is irn~joB~:-: There are no true stars, for and “Brewster McCloud.” sible, and a list of events and “A Wedding,” like “Nashcharacters the groom Consider also how difville,” is a mixed bag: we are ficult it is to get peopleto introducedto perhapstwo who has impregnated his sister-in-laqv; the groom’s agree 011 which of lhjs dozen characters far too Italian father who is sworn movies many to easily lit us get _. are _good and which not to let any member of his are bati. and ~OLI can unciermore than a glimpse of each family overseas visit the stand Lvhy each new Altman character’s nature. film is greeted ivith mixed house; the bride’s mother Strangly enough, though, feelings. who falls in love with her Altman carries it off in his son-in-law’s uncle; the “A Wedding” is Altman’s/ .b$n manic style. As in “communist” great-aunt of newest movie. “starring” - _ “Nashville,” so many inthe groom who presents an avant-garde, nude portrait of the bride as a wedding present - would only confuse anyone who hadn’t seen the film. To say merely that the movie studies only the few hours comprising a wedding and the subsequent reception, And that lots of zany things happen, is inadequate. “A Wedding”, like a Mahler symphony though less successfully tries to encompass the whole world. In the attempt Altman manages to be both exciting and, at times, annoying. The worst of it is that the H ERMANY HAPPYRETURNSOF THE DAY.. . film leaves one with an ADD UP TO DIAMONDS empty stomach: the sense that, although things were Want this to be her brightest birthday? Only diamonds can measure up. Give her a dazzling tied up in the end, there gift of diamond jewelry. She’ll sparkle wasn’t much of a point to all with delight.. . it all adds up to the best birthday this nonsense. she’s ever had . . . and always remember. “Nashville” was a more just think, you made it all possible.. . with a coherent, more satisfying little help from us. film than “A Wedding,” and used the same frenetic approach. Altman may be unusual, but ah, is it Art? (0.5308 out of 20 011 the infamous J,~nles 1
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overview A year ago at the Science and the Politics of the Environment Confer-. ence in Toronto, Ursula Franklin, author of a Science Council of Canada repdrt on the conserver society, said “We really have a private sector, and a state sector and then we have everybody else.” What is the role of “everybody else” in scientific decision making and scientific issues? TO illustrate her point Franklin used James Robbins’ theory of “risk triangle” to examine environmental health hazards. At the three corners of th* risk triangle are those who create risks, those who regulate risks and those who suffer from the risks. Generally privately owned industry causes environmental hazards; governments act in concert with industry to regulate hazards, and at the same time assist in the privatization of scientific knowledge; the public, who are excluded from ownership of industry and from the knowledge of science, suffer from the hazards. Presently the three corner’s of the risk triangle are extremely far apart. Until the triangle can be contracted so that those who create risks or regulate risks will also feel the negative impact of those risks, scientifid application will be maintained in such a manner that the public will continue to suffer. In order for the public to assert its right to a clean physical environment and a healthy social environment, the public must first assert its right of access to the knowledge of science and business. Science and The Public: A Symposium is an effort on the part of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) and the Federation of Students to open discussion of scientific issues among non scientists and scientists from different disciplines. It is crucial that students about to enter the workforce in the pure sciences, social sciences, business and other disciplines grapple with questions of public access to scientific knowledge, public control of scientific decisions, and the limitations of science as we now know it. This centre spread is meant to be your guide to the events taking place throughout next week. The guide can be pulled from the Imprint and carried< with you for quick and easy reference.
tuesday Films Genetics: A Question of Morality Problems in genetic counselling and testing, sickle cell anemia, genetic screening and genetic modification are ‘discussed.
Recombinant Recombinant DNA is a revolutionary technique that permits molecular biologists to isolate, splice, insert and analyze genes almost at will. The potential application of this technology i’s enormous. In fact, the ability to manipulate genes may ultimately be used to modify the genotype of man. But Dr. Jack Pasternak of UW’s Biology department says that such mutation is the “stuff of science fiction” and unlikely given the limitations that research scientists face in matching genes. Nonetheless, research into recombinant DNA is viewed as potentially dangerous. The greatest fear is that a toxic or cancer inducing virus would be produced and escape into the environment. T,he Medical Research Council of Canada is trying to develop a code of safety for the DNA research. “As distinct from direct health hazards the potential ecological risks of generating novel recombinant DNA are difficult to assess. As a guiding principle . . . it would be prudent to consider that the artificial generation of any novel type of recombinant DNA that is not known to occur in nature does pose a po-
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- monday The Limitations We have always placed great faith in science and technology to provide us with the means to fulfil1 our growing needs, and to solve the problems of society. Irorii‘cally this faith has caused us to stop questioning science itself, although science is based on inquiry.,Seldom do we consider the limitations of science and the scientist. While scientific knowledge is multiplying at an ever increasing rate, often scientific advances race far ahead of appreciation and understanding on the part of both the public and scientists. Frequently new technologies which are based on concepts not yet fully understood, are developed and implemented. The incidence of environmentally caused cancer is too real a reminder of technology gone out of check. We tend to expect scientists to solve significant problems that face the world today. Unfortunately technological and scientific approaches are usually insufficient because these problems require a broader perspective encompassing economics and politics. This dependence on science based solutions has allowed energy to be focused on symptoms instead of causes. One pertinent example of highly publicized scientific answers being shown to be insufficient, is the case of the “Green Revolution”. In the 1950’s the Rockefeller
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funded Green Revolution brought high yield agricultural technology to less developed countries, touting it as the answer to world hunger. The technologies were energy intensive, not labour intensive and demanded high technical and chemical input beyond the means of most third world agriculturists. Although bringing about a short term increase in yields, the Green Revolution caused a loss in genetic diversity leading to environmentally unstable situations. Further and perhaps most important, the Green Revolution has had no significant impact on levels of hunger and development in the countries the new/ technology was meant to help. Dr. Hall will address himself to these issues drawing on his experience and examples from world food hunger, nutrition, cancer, and food technology. Ross Hume Hall is professor of Biochemistry at McMaster University and an internationally known nutritionist. He is consultant to the federal Environmental Advisory Council, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutritibn and Human Needs, and the National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternative Policies for Food and Agriculture. He is author of: “Food for Nought: the decline in nutrition”.
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Technology: Catastrophe or Commitment? This film questions the idea that advanced technology offers the ultimate solution to all of society’s problems, pointing out that some solutions kill even as they cure.
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tential ecological threat.” (UW Gazette May 1977) Initial concerns raised over the possible immediate hazards of recombinant DNA experiments have served to focus public attention on science and raised-the important qtiestion, “Should people who are to abide by research guidelines be allowed to draw them up?” Supporters and opponents of recombinant DNA work seem to be agreed that government regulation is necessary. The sugporters view federal rules as an alternative to a mixture of local rules and supervision while their opponents hope to see the government totally ban such research. Recombinant DNA is a new technology th’at has not been explored in Canada until this year. A Bio-Hazards Committee at U. of Waterloo is studying any research which is going on that wilq1 require lab modifications to meet federal standards for biological dangers Dr. Jack Pasternak is chairman of the Bio-Hazard Committee of the University of Waterloo, responsible for recombinant DNA safety. His current research is on molecular biology.
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Port Hope residents and members of Save our Environment from Atomic Pollution (SEAP) will be presenting their story as victims of science and industrial profit motives. Secrecy and misrepresentation on the part of government and the nuclear power industry prevented Port Hope residents from discovering the existence of long term radiation exposure during the past twenty years. There are two main sources of contamination in Port Hope: the waste disposal sites where Eldorado deposited residues from radium and uranium processing; and the rubble, fill and materia’ls from the old radium plant that were reused in buildings throughout the town. It was discovered in early 1975 that the 214 school children and teachers at St. Mary’s Separate School were exposed over a period of years to levels of radon gas twenty times the safe limit. One third df the town has been recorded as having above normal levels of radiation; some to a hazardous degree and all involving the unsuspecting public. There is still a wide
range of expert opinion on the hazard of radiation to human health. Safety levels are ultimately the result of a value judgement. It is now generally agreed that there is no “threshold” -no level so low that the possibility of producing an adverse health effect disappears. ’ SEAP members see a real immediate need for unbiased scientific work on the effect of long term low level radiation. SEAP’s interest lies in the people-whose lives have been altered and in the community that still reels under an avalanche of adverse publicity. Is this the price of nuclear power? Does the public have a right or a choice in what effects they may have to live with? Pat Lawson, resident of Port Hope ant active member of Save our Environment from Atomic Pollution (SEAP) has made numerous presentatioiis to government5 on the Port Hope situation and she has appeared in front of the Porter Commissior on Electric Power Planning. Doug Humphries, president of SEAF will also join the discussion.
Computers touch on our lives daily. Each person is filed and catalogued, numbered and coded, processed and reprocessed virtually in every segment of our lives. Computers keep track of telephone calls made, personal electricity use, where we spend our money, how much of a person’s income is kept in a bank, where we fly to, marks in school and performance at work, where we live and even the state of-our health. As pointed out by Eric Manning of the Computer Science Department at U of W, it is now feasible to electronically link machines belonging to various government agencies and private sector and to correlate data among these computers easily and quickly. The widespread use of the Social Insurance Number as a common record identifier greatly facilitates the construction of computerized dossiers on all of us. Ultimately these dossiers could contain all of the information known to every government or firm. Appropriate legal . and technical
safeguards against surveillance are not at ailable at present; a point that has raise! much concern in the past months espE cially with Minister Monique Begin’ proposal for universal use of SIN as iden tification. The implications and oppo~ tunities for abuse are both as frightening a they are endless. Don Malamet will be addressing thi issue of single identifying numbers and th invaiion of personal privacy by computer; As well he will provide an insight to con puter crime: the $12 million insuranc fraud and will discuss progress in the prc servation of privacy as pursued by ;h Canadian Human Rights Commission.
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Wednesday Films Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturali This film explores the behavioural research underlying sociobiology and looks at the theories and tests clarifying this new field.
Go Play in the Nuclear Power Park People interested in the situation at Port Hope should see this film about Grand Junction, Colorado, a town built around a uranium mine. Doctor’s Orders This film asks whether doctors are too libera1 in prescribing drugs and medications.
PCB Dumping: The Case in Smithville Chemical Waste Management Ltd. is using its industrial site in Smithville Ontario as a dumping station for a dangerous chemical. The company has the only licence in Canada to transfer and stockpile polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) used as insulating oil in electrical transformers. In recent years PCBs have been linked to cancer, liver diseases, nervous disorders and birth defects. Residents of Smithville are deeply concerned that the chemical will contaminate their drinking water, \;ause fire hazards, injure human health and affect the quality of their community. Despite the possible dangers of PCB waste leakage, the Ministry of Environment and the Niagara regional council have already approved the operation. Some Smithville town councillors told the Globe and Mail that they did not know that the plant involved hazardous material, and they’d been led to believe the company would operate a truck marshalling yard for electrical transformers. On October 16,1978,bver 450 residents came out to hear several technical experts
from the Chemical Waste Management company and representatives from the Ministry of Environment justify the establishment of the waste depot for the chemical, as it was the only facility in Canada that could handle PCBs. Following the meeting many dissatisfied residents formed SCRAM, Smithville Citizens for the Removal of Abhorrent Materials. SCRAM is faced with two courses of action; to force a ‘witch hunt’ inquiry on the safety of the plant, or to educate themselves about the potential hazards and alternatives and then demand government action. It is up to SCRAM to push for information and action on the issue of potential contamination affecting their community. ’
“Control of our bodies” has been an impotant slogan of the Women’s Movement for the past ten years. Only recently have the concerns expressed by this slogan been expanded to include an examination of the role of-the health care system in maintaining the state’s control over women’s reproductive capacity. The medical system directly controls access to sterilization, birth -control and abortion. Historically many different interests . have converged to maintain control over reproduction. People believing in eugenics, Malthusian theories of population growth, feminism, and sexual liberaiion have all been concerned with reproductive control. However, never have women, or the public in general, had control over the means of reproduction. Even today sexism, population limita-
tion of particular classes and races, and professionalism which excludes the public, predominate in fertility control services. Feminists, Native People, immigrants, welfare recipients, etc. must all fight to gain ‘community access to reproductive means and control. As well, economic and social deterents to having children we want when we want must be limited. Kathleen McDonnell will link historical and present day trends, discuss the various actors in reproduction control and analyse the role of the state and the medical establishment in setting the parameters of accessibility to reproductive control. Kathleen McDonnell, a writer with a strong interest in women’s health care has worked as a birth control counselor and teacher. /She is presently writing her second play.
Ross Hall, Liberal MPP for the riding has been investigating the issue since he first heard reports of the Smithville problem. He now sits on the Committee on Industrial Waste Disposal. Susan Knoedler, president of Smithville Chamber of Commerce will join Mr. Hall in the session.
The Politics of Reproduction
Public Participation The public right to participate in science policy planning, in particular, nuclear development, has to date been limited to two basic forms, the electoral ballot and the recent appearance of the environmental impact assessment hearings. But is it enough to have only two formal methods for vital public input? Robert Paehlke and Ralph Torrie will discuss the relative merits of participation in commissions of inquiry, and the other avenues open to people concerned with nuclear development. Both speakers in this session will be looking at the Porter Commission, an Ontario inquiry that took place from 1975 to fall 1978, examining the expansion of nuc-
lear facilities. The Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning involved not just a single project but the full range of long term plans of Ontario Hydro, Canada’s largest public utility and operator of the greater part of nuclear electricity generating capacity in the country. Despite the unique aspects of the Porter commission in encouraging public participation through travel to different parts of the province and grants to groups for research and presentation, there have been
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and Fall of DDT to use DDT anyhow valid is the DDT? The Flood This film focuses on the Biblical Flood and its changing status based on prevalent geological theories.
Films Computers: Challenging Man’s Supremacy The role of computers today is examined as well as the phenomenal possibilities for computers in-the future. -
The Biases of Creation and Evolution Many people are perplexed by the enigma of human origin. Are we the product of progressive naturalistc phenomena or the result of intelligent design? The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in whether evolution or creation is true. A corollary to this question is whether there is merit in consideration of both concepts as feasible. Disagreement in thk controversy is partly a result of a misunderstanding of terms and concepts. As presented in scientific textbooks, evolution proposes the development of life forms on earth by natural
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processes operating over billions of years. Creation proposes that various basic types of organisms originated by a special divine act. (excerpted from Liberty Sept. ‘78) Dr. Paul Morrison recognizes that the evolution versus creation debate is a heated one, with dogmatists on both sides. In the afternoon workshop he will avoid taking issue with one side or another and will instead address the biases of both evolution and creation. Dr. Morrison teaches in the biology department at the University of Waterloo. He is a scientific editor and a Christian.
Health Clinics: Client Involvement
Medicine is an application of science in which the public has very little input or control. The knowledge, the skills, and the power of medicine lie in the hands of an ‘expert’ elite, with no mechanism .for the individual or community to direct their own health care. An alternative to the traditional mode of medical care delivery is the community health care clinic, which by its structure allows the public consumer more say in the operation and direction of its health resources. A clinic is able to achieve a grass roots integration into the community, being sensitive to ever changing health care needs. Working on this level it can effect a preventative orientation to health, emphasizing surveillance, maintenance and restoration
Mike Racklass is a staff doctor at South Rverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto where he has worked for two years. He is chairman of the board of “Hassle Free Clinic” and chairman of the Metro Health Services Organizations Working Group.
Sociobiology: Science or Politics Since the publication of E.O. Wilson’s book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975, a controversy has raged within the scientific community about the extent to
in the Nuclear Debate: The Porter Commission
some distinct drawbacks to depending on public inquiries to present the ‘voice of the people’ on nuclear development. Robert Paehlke, from Alternatives will be presenting his impressions on environmental and social impact assessment hearings. He sees them offering a potential for “reasonably intelligent recommendations to the ultimate decision makers.” In his viewpoint, a formal public inquiry such as the Porter Commission, could function well to bring people into the discussion of science concerns, but only if it generates considerable public interest. Ralph Torrie, from the Ontario Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility will have a different outlook to offer concerning the Porter Commission, as he was an active participant from an anti-nuclear group. The inquiry process presented a formal exercise that could too easily exclude the views of the majority of the population, and serve to educate few. Such inquiries and commission have been frustrating barriers to effective public participation. Beyond the scope of inquiries, public involvement can take other forms such as entering the political arena with protests, briefs, letters and forums. Robert Paehlke is founder of Alternatives magazine and a contributing editor. He is presently a professor of political science at Trent U. and past coordinator of the Environment and Resource Studies Program. Ralph Torrie is an outspoken physicist active as consultant for the anti-nuclear movement in Canada, He is principal author of Half Life, a brief submitted to Ontario’s Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
as well as diagnosis and treatment. It attempts a shift from individual cure to community care which encompasses more than just medicine, but health education, community organization, and development. Dr. Michael Racklass will be speaking on the potential for community health centres to aid people in gaining control over their own health, in their personal self help care, and in prevention of health hazards in the community environment.
which human social behaviour is genetically determined. Wilson recently defined sociobiology as “the systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behaviour, including sexual and parental behaviour, in all kinds of organisms, including man. ” Theories of natural selection state that organisms reproducing most efficiently will be represented-disproportionately in the following generation. Similarly, sociobiology postulates that the most reproductively efficient forms of social behaviour should also come to predominate. The implications of sociobiology include many provocative suggestions about human social behaviour. One of the tenets of sociobiology, a theory of sexual selection, explains sex based differences in parental behaviour, in competition for mates, and in selection of mating partners. Another theory of sociobiology poses that altruistic or helping behaviour has arisen by evolution, that is to say, that it has a genetic basis. The most vehement criticism to sociobilogy has come from other scientists.
The Sociobiology Study Group, a collective of scientific academics, believes that sociobiology has dangerous political ramifications. Their 1976 letter in Science stated:
. . *sociobiological ideas do not arise in a social vacuum but rather reflect the dominant interests and attitudes of the class to which their authors belong. For centuries similar ideas, similarly unproven, have helped to preserve prevailing social conditions by lending an aura of manifest destiny to the particularities of a given time and place. Some opponents of sociobiology have charged that the study of such topics as IQ. and race or of the biological basis for sexual divisions of labour, is, in and of itself, politically irresponsible. Other scientists assert that selective limitation of scientific investigation on religious, political or ideological grounds is inherently dangerous to the existence of human rights. This debate has not involved the lay public. Where does the demarcation between science and politics lie? Can one concern be isolated from the other? Can scientists alone accept or reject theories which could have major social impact? Bill Cade will use examples of non human vertebrates and the invertebrates to introduce sociobiology from a historical and conceptual framework. He will also discuss human behaviour and natural selection in terms of sociobiology. Cade will be speaking from the viewpoint that Darwinian selection is, at the moment, the most promising and well defined model applicable to the investigation of human social systems. Professor Bill Cade, of the Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, has been researching behavioural and population ecology. He is particularly concerned with-the analysis of animal behaviour
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Polluted ~ Data The folowing article, excerpted from a longer one that originally appeared in “Science Magazine”, outlines some examples of grossly erroneous scientific studies. Not uncoincidentally, these studies were produced by industries who were required to prove the safety of products they wished to market. Epstein, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Centre, indicates that these are not isolated “Believe It Or Not” phenomena but a tendency serious enough that government agencies have been forced, on certain occasions, to re-test data presented to them. tive by the industry. In fact, these results were hardly interpreable because such high and toxic doses of both pesticides were fed the animals that many died early in the experiments before they could have developed cancer. Other data submitted by Shell and Velsicol were used to claim that their pesticides were not carcinogenic in mice, and that the liver lesions induced in them were not really cancers, but just non-malignant hyperplastic nodules. Review by the independent experts, however,. proved just the contrary. Faced with such major descrepancies and under pressure from Senator Edward M.
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Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewed other industry data on pesticide. Twenty-four pesticides were selected on the basis of their highest tolerances on common foods, and their extensive toxicological files, which had been previously submitted by a wide variety of manufacturers, were then independently re-evaluated by Melvin Reuber on behalf of EPA. In a report of April 9,1976, it was concluded that with the possible exception of one pesticide, all these data were so inadequate that it was not possible to conclude whether the other pesticides are safe, and whether any carcinogenic or other hazard in involved in eating commoi7. foods with now legal residues. These and other equally grave deficiencies in the EPA data base on pesticides were discussed in a 1976 congressional staff report: “EPA almost exclusively rules upon data submitted by pesticide companies, This data is the informational linchpin in the Agency’s regulatory program. Yet in spite of repeated warnings, beginning at least five years ago, EPA has failed to take corrective action designed to discover and supplement further data. ” Even worse than these examples of improper or inept design was the fiasco of nitrilotriacetic acid. In 1970, Maonsanto and Proctor and Gamble were posed to launch a new type of detergent onto the market, based on nitrilotriacetic acid instead of phosphates. This would have resulted in the annual discharge of approximately five billion pounds of the new detergent into the surface waters and ultimately, the drinking waters of the U.S. The industries concerned had spent about ten years investigating the toxicological and ecological effects of nitrilotriacetic acid, concluding that it was noncarcinogenic and that it degraded in water into harmless constitutents. In fact, the industries had not done a single test on the nature of the intermediary degradation products of nitrilotriacetic acid, nor of the possible interaction of such products in water. The industry had also failed to appreciate that degradation was incomplete over a wide range of operating conditions with the resulting likelihood that drinking water could become contaminated with the detergent. These and other considerations led to the withdrawal of nitrilotriacetic acid from the market, with a loss of some $300 million to the industries concerned. The detergent builder was subsequently shown in studies sponsored by the National Cancer ‘Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to produce cancer of the kidney and ureter in mice and rats. Similar examples are endemic to the whole field of safety testing, whether of drugs, pesticides, food additives, industrial chemicals and even motor cars. -Samuel S. Epstein
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Doing What Comes Naturally Doctors Orders . Go Play in a Nuclear Power Park
Commitment or catastrophe
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P.C.B. Dumping:
The Expert Vs. the Public
The Case m Smithville
Prof. JackPasternak
R. Hall, Liberal-MPP Susan Knoedler
University of Waterloo
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Politics of Reprodueiion Kathleen McDonnell
Does the public have a say? The Fort Hope Case
Toronto Birth Control
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cc113 Limitations of Science and Scientists RossHume Hall McMaster University
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Toronto Lawyer
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Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Robert Paehlke Alternative magazine
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet evoked a mostly restrained, but occasionally enthusiastic response from a full house Tuesday. The opening piece, entitled “Festival,” provided an engaging kaleidoscope of colour and movement, accompanied by a vibrant musical score. The orchestra, conducted by Kerry Duse and later Neal Kayan, was excellent and it is unfortunate that the highlight of the evening, “The Rite of Spring,” was performed to a scratchy recording. The other pieces bentifitted greatly from the live accompaniment. “Festival” was followed by “Glinka pas de Trois,” choreographed by George Balanchine. This traditional l31let piece was generally although somniferous, amusing in parts. The two ballerinas clearly outclassed their male counterpart. Throughout the performance, the male dancers were less fluid and supple than the ballerinas. The first of the two major works, “Pas D’Action,” was a spoof of story ballets and melodrama. The beautiful Princess Naissa, danced by Sheri Cook, awaits the ‘revolution demanded by her oppressed subjects. She dances to distract four male foes, while her father organizes an uprising. The satirical interpretation of classical ballet movements evoked laughter and appreciation from the audience. The finale of the evening, “The Rite of Spring”, featured most of the company in a dramatic and violent performance symbolizing the “unique acts to celebrate
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the cosmic forces incarnate in man.” The Royal Winnipeg Ballet showed its originality with a mixture of ballet and both modern and primitive dance in this piece. For reasons which will probably remain unknown, the stage backdrop was not used for “Rite,” thus providing a panoramic view of various items of junk at the rear of the stage. Most distracting and reprehensible. Overall, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet proved itself versatile and innovative. The principal talent of the company is in its ballerinas, most of the male dancers
large. cro being somewhat inferior by comparison. Because of this weakness, the performance was uneven in quality. In spite of this, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet provides
St. Paul’s College presently has openings for the Winter Term/79. Persons interested in on-campus residence, please contact St. Paul’s College, Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, or call 885-l 460.
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The comments on this page give viewpoints on how students should vote on the referendum (:hevron would seem to indicate their alliance is contradict itself in doing so. It has become obviconcerning the Chevron’s official status. Although the Imprint staff has decided not-to take a not a federation. ous to me that the Chevron’s major aim is onI>’ I position on this issue, we feel it is our responsibility to prov’ide students with a balanced spectrum On the other hand support for the Imprint. one: to survive. It is self-righteous and exists of opinion, both for and against the paper. which like the Chevron has dedicated workers only to further its own aims; it is thus not a The Chevron was offered space, but they declined. EngSoc, who petitioned for the referendum, on its staff. does not impl!’ support for Rick Smit. legitimate representative of students. has a submission. The bther four submissions were written by individuals. Two urge students to The Chevron has made a lot of enemies. but In closing, let me sa>* that I don’t support support the paper, and two urge ending it5 official status. this is easil!, rectifietl. There is room, great room either Imprint or the federation. I cannot COI:for inipro\rement. Hopefull! it is not naive to and find out ho\r many support the (:ho\~o~ anti done the federation’s previous attacks on the During the month of’ September. studenrs at bt!lieve the (:hevron can change, if students the University of Waterloo. for the first timt:. had how man!’ (lo not. Chevron. Nor do I say that the (:hevron is all bad. support it single ne\vspaper. Many of its efforts are thorough and accurate. the opportunity to withdraw financial snpport I fail to sot: \vh!’ the Chevron staff is so (:OIIThis campus needs a newspaper. The Chevron derned about the referendum. If indeed theit It has taken me time to learn, however, that the from the Chevron. Over 35 percent of the stuis the official newspaper. If !rou believe the first claim that liS percent of the students support the Chevron won’t support me. the student. unless it dents on campus exercised this new right b\ statement. you will suppori The (:hevron. Th.e!v paper is true. how can the referendum be view*etl suits itself. Because of this. and the fact that in taking ba-ck their $2 per term fee. are not ogres, neither is the Imprint staff. The the past. the Chevron’s journalistic st!rle has i‘he final count on Chevron refunds has been by them as anything but a vote of confidence. As referendum will have a low turnout, it is too been childish and insulting to me, I will vote on interpreted in several opposing ways. The (:hevwell, the committee of society presidents has expensive. and it is a waste of time and energ!’ ron has concluded that since only 35 percent of indicated that to date. the whole referendum has the 30th of November that the Chevron should for all concerned. Let’s get this’stupid thing over not remain the legitimate student press. been conducted in an exceedingl!, fair manner. the students ivithdrew their fees, “65 percent of with. I write for the papers because 1 like to 1urge ever\rone to financialI>. support the stuthe students gave tangible support for the ChevIt is important that everyone express their write; politics do not and should not enter into denf press, to examine the situation closel!9, and ran.” On the other hand, almost everyone I’ve opinion about the paper b\v voting on November the picture. We need onI>, one paper. Is it too to vote in the upcoming referendum. talked to disagrees with this conclusion and has 30. wild a dream to belieLIe in a combined ImprintKeith MacNeiL?Paul Johnson indicated that the 65 percent represents apathy. Chevron’) A vote for the (lhevron would make Year 2, Arts not support. The very simple answer to this President \ this possible. prohlnm ic tn nnlj th 61c:tllrlcnts h\r a referendum Engineering Society ‘A’ Jim Doyle History Grad. The chevron has stated that it will not recnessed a relentless campaign of systematic ognize the mail-out ballot to co-op students in harassment directed at our student press, well as the referendum November 30. The staff insist cour)tless irresponsible and immature acts of that the vote be held over two terms, even vindiction. This has to be the ultimate rethough the petition calling the referendu&. ferendum; an irrestible opportunity for stuand precedent. is against it. Why? The>? need First of all, I would like to know whatever In light of the upcoming referendum on the dents to put an end to the insanity which has some excuse to delay or disqualify a vote the! happened to the principle of determining the Chevron. there are a number of comments I plagued campus life at UW for far too long. know they will lose. Chevron’s status on the basis of refundable fees. would like to make on the situation. Vote YES in the upcoming November 30 reThe Cheirron’s stand is also hypocritical: in This is the option which UW students chose in a ferendum and allow the Chevron to retain its The first goes back to the fourth week of this an editorial of June 3. 1977, the Chevron previous referendum and it is a sound democraeighteen-year status as the official student press term, after the final figures were available on claimed that the I+‘ederat ion’s refundable fee tic principle which allows students to express at the University of Waterloo. The paper will refunds af Chevron fees to the student hod\.. referendum should be held in one term, an;i their dissatisfaction with the Federation, the then be in a position to fulfil1 its obligation to the 35% of the students took back their fees, and yet attacked the I’ederation for having a tivo-term Chevron, and the societies by withdrawing fistudents be separating from the Federation the Chevron interpreted this as being student Irote on refundable fees, sapling that the split nancial support from any or all of these organithrough incorporation and negotiating with the support to continue its work. referen(luni \\*as ii clelo!~ tactic. zations. In contrast to this, a decision by referenadministration for the guaranteed collection of I see here an obvious discrepancy. The Che\lBut now that the vote cbncerns the Chevdum carries with it no assurance that democracy their levy, conditionally based tipon the democron seems to take it for granted that the fact that ron, their arguments are the opposite of those will be served. According to Federation by-laws, ratic and constitutional principles of refunda65% of the students chose to leave their fees in. of 1977. \!‘hile the engineering students \j’ere only as few as ten percent of eligible vaters need ble fees’and adherence to the CUP Statement of means that 65% of the students support the r;orrect in calling for a referendum on the cast their ballots for a referendum to be consiPrinciples. This is the direction students have Chevron. While this may in fact be true finanI’ecleration. the!, became “traitors to the studered binding. chosen in two previous referenda and we should cially, I don’t think it holds true as far as moral dents” \vhen the!, call a referendum on the It appears that, having failed to muster the not allow a small group of malcontents to casusupport is concerned, for the following reasons. ,Chevron. The (Chevron claims that the enminimum fifty percent Chevron fee refunds really ignore the fact. PersonallJr. although I wasn’t wild about the gineers promote the most backward culturt~ ot quired to rescind the paper’s official statis, cerVote YES and supp.ort the preservation of Chevron in September\ (and am fed up to the ignorance, drunkeness and crass sIupidit!f. tain disgruntled individuals are once again trydemocracy at the University of Waterloo. Vote teeth with them now), I left rn>r fees in, because I Quite a comedown for a group of students ing to force their will on the student- body by YES and show your desire for a return to sanity. don’t believe in refundable fees. While students \vhom the (:he\rric:s once called a Democratic. means of this referendum. In doing so they are Steve Beattie may not support a particular newspaper or fedpower base on campus. ’ effectively ignoring a collective democratic deScience 2 eration, I think it is essential to students’ rights The (:hevron has a reputation for tr!ring to cision made by students during the refund that all’ students finance a student press and a wriggle out of an!’ ajudication against them. ’ period. The Engineering Society’s call for this The Canadian University Press investigation student organization. Its like paying taxes. t3!, referendum, together with such blatantly obviOn November 30 a referendum will be held called to consider charges and ct,unterexercising your right not to financiall>r support ous Federation and Imprint complicity in the to determine if “The Chevron“ is to continue the Chevron or the federation, J~OU absolve J~OUI charges bet\veen the (:hevron and the ITederaaction, thus constitutes a severe abuse of democin its capacity as the official newspaper of the right to get in on the goings on later. (This seems tion ivas declarecl biased b!p the (:he\Jron beracy at the LJniversity of Waterloo. Federation of Students. The Chevron should to me to be in line with the principles of democcause there \vas a good chance that it \vo~lltl This vote also comes at a time when students ‘be supported in this referendum. This stand is racy. which the Chevron so strenuousI!, uprule against the paper. One can hardI!, belie\re are still awaiting presentation of a report from in no way due to my political philosophies. I holds, and yet it was a major proponent of retheir concern fog bias, after their first selection the latest CUP (Canadian University Press) am opposed to the strong leanings of the fundable fees when t’he!, were initiated last, for the commission membership was ruled inCommission investigation into FederationChevron’s editorial content. This does not year.) l:or this reason I didn’t reclaim rn!r fees valid because of bias towards the Chevron. Chevron relations. The whole question of imply opposition to the paper. It has a bias and I’m sure there are others like me. Given that one dismisses the Chevron’s arwhether or not an informed decision will be that is quite clear; they have a right to do that in guments against the validit!! of the referen1 rendered by this exercise is further aggravated their editorials. Also, people who are new on campus \vould dum. why should its status as “official” stuby the mail-out ballot for students in CoI am voting in favour of’ the Chevron on not have wanted to take out their fees without dent newspaper be terminated? The most Operative programmes. How can anyone who November 30 because: 1) I support the posifinding out for themselves what the Chevron pressing reasons concern the paper’s’ attitude has not had access to the last twelve issues of the tion that a democratic press should exjst on was like. I know last Jrear. it appeared to me that towards student opinion. If one argues that campus dependent on no external influences. Chevron and Imprint, the Chevron Report to UW the Chevron was the onl!, group on campus that students don’t like the Chevron the way it is. 21 I am in favour of their being a Federation students, or the CUP Commission Report possiseemed to be fighting for me. I ha\le since they yell *‘ n o evidence.” When one conducts : bly make an informed decision on the issue? of Students newspaper. As of this writing, this changed rn!r mind. ’ an opinion poll on the Chevron (i.e. lasi An educated consensus among students with paper is the Chevron. In light of these considerations. it appeaqs that LVinter term’s survey of GOC)students from all regard to this conflict is important becguse of the I have written only two kntertainment artithe Chevron’s assumption that 65% of the stufaculties), the Chevron hollers “biased evi-’ cles for the Chevron which certainly doesn’t complexity of the issue. Yet it is becoming indents support it, is a fault!! one. and its claim to dence!” and dismisses it. But lvhen was the creasingly difficult to recall what all the fuss was qualify me to speak for it. However as a stulegitimacy on this basis is a last resort where no last time the Chevron itself conducted a poll about in the first place. That is, before.the perdent at this university since 1973. I feel it is other was available. of student opinion ‘! Thev used to be consonality conflicts of a select few took over and time for a decision. For too long have Another point 1 want to comment on is Diane ducted at the end of each term, but the campus mushroomed into a never-ending wave of irra“Bulls-Eves”, Telegdi’s “Coryphaeus 1973”. Chapitis’ ‘Comment’ column of November 3 hasn’t seen one for over two years. tionality and petty vindictiveness. There has “Other Voices”, and “real Chevrons” sprung (CUP\Iz’: under attack). This is such a childish It is unprofitable to argue with the “correct certainly been a lot of mumbling in dark corners up and withered. The Chevron has long been attack on the Imprint that it hardly deserves line” mentalit!, of those leading the paper. about the Chevron being a “commie rag,” but opposed by other papers, which have existed reading. The item under attack by Chapitis is the This is the rl:ason that the wild and craz) only to oppose. The current opposition paper honest evaluations of the paper’s content have cover of the October 19 Imprint, a cartoon porthings the Chevron writes go undisputed. Its always given the lie to these allegations. Such the Imprint is largely put together by former traying a K-W transit worker and a letter carrier critics no longer feel the paper is taken seriappeals to anti-communism are reminiscent of Chevron staffer?, who for various political and telling each other “Your service ‘stinks!” It ously. It’s always a good subject for a laugh in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s .witch-hunting heyeditorial differences left. This opposition’ has seemed to me to,be a rather drily humorous look Enginews. MathNews, FASS and passing conday in postwar America; a idark period in recent made the Chevron a more responsible paper at the-situation we all found ourselves in during versation, but beyond that the Chevron has behistory when paranoia was rampant and politithat it has been the past few ye’ars. More these strikes. Chapitis’ article, however, found come a boring topic. cal freedom nonexistent. sports, more entertainment. and in short more this the basis for making a vicious attack on the The dissenting elements on the Chevron Fully thirty-five percent of students withdrew STUDENT news can now be found in the Imprint, and then for making politically biased staff have left the paper in waves. Last Winter their Chevron fees this term. While this figure Chevron. comments under the guise of commenting on a term was characterized by intimidation and But problems are created. Heated and often falls considerably short of that needed to revoke campus situation. This attempt to malign the denunciation of those staffers with differing the paper’s charter as the official student press at silly campaigns are being waged. No one can Imprint in such a way is, frankly, insulting. viewpoints. One staff member was kicked off UW, it is certainly a clear indication to the Chevbe sure if one story in one paper will be deThere are many more things I’d like to comthe paper and an attempt was made to expel ron staff that a significant minority of students nounced as lies in the other. Charges of “scab ment on at length, but there just isn’t room; so I’ll others. Here were the people who opposed the journalism” are dissatisfied with the paper. If no efforts are and “guilt by association’* fill the go over them briefly. political firing of Neil Docherty and Henr!, made to change this regrettable situation. then Chevron it its campaign against the Imprint. 1 don’t understand how the paper claiming to Hess by the Shane Robert’s Federation in 1976 refunds may very well exceed fifty percent in The Imprint on the other hand seems to publish doing exactly the same thing themselves in be the democratic representative of all students some future term. In this event, the Chevron’s at times only to justify its existence. can so heartily condemn one group of students, 1978. official status shall have been annulled by ‘1have been told by Larry Hannant of the Chevthe Engineers, and justify locking a legitimate The Chevron has become the classic case means of a democratic method students have ron and John W. Bast of Imprint that “the others” Eng Sot demonstration out of its offices. An study of ideological takeover. The Antichosen for themselves, and not by an ad hoc present such opposition that it is impossible for obvious contradiction. Imperialist Alliance’s economic a,nd political measure designed to manipulate student opinthem to work together. viewpoint in the paper is insidious and perWhy must we hear so much about the state’s ion. Understandably the Chevron is jealous of oppression in Albania and Rhodesia when we vasive. In many respects, the Chevron is a paper Imprint’s ad revenue from the Federation. The Part of a r.ewspaper’s credibility is based on hear nothing of the legitimate struggles of native which UW students can and should be proud of. Imprint is en\fious of the office space belonging what it selects to print. Are a wide variety of people (Indian and Inuit), against Canada’s It’s comprehensive ‘research into government (for the moment) to The Chevron. The repetition viewpoints expressed or sought out by tht technocracy, in our own country? cutbacks in education spending remains unsurof stories which appear, make two papers reChevron’! The political viewpoinfs in the The Chevron’s,opposition to tuition and rent passed by any other student newspaper in dundant. Both cover the same sports events, repaper are one-sided and AIA members have beincreases as ~$11 as cutbacks ‘is well known. Canada. (Consider the irony behind the view the same movies records and speakers, come columnists. -While examination of these is definitely neceswith minor exceptions. Federation’s cutbacks information display in the The (:hevron does not serve the function of sary on campus, outright condemnation of them The Chevron may have the edge on campus Campus Centre a few weeks ago. Most of this a student newspaper on our campus. For this politics. The ZANU interview may be one of the as attacks by the state is foolish and helps no one. exhibit was comprised of articles clipped from reason, students should vote to end its official most importa5t stories printed on this campus. The dollar is shrinking, and cutbacks, to an exrecent issues of the Chevron.) Chevron investigstatus on November 30. But for the most part students are sick of the. tent. seem inevitable. Yet the Chevron has not ations into such matters as the management Voting against the CIhevron will not prevent shake-up in the Physical Resources Group and bickering to the point of being total137bored with told us how we ma)’ survive them better, and in the paper from publishing. It will however the whole issue. No one cares an!’ more. this way their opposition is futile. the excesses of our regional police force have end their claim to represent the students on The referendum seems to me to be a waste ot All of these things point out to me that the revealed many facts which were either suppresthis campussomething the>r obviously do not money, for it will accomplish nothing. The same Chevron does not belong on campus as the ?epsed or ignored in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record do. conflicts will still exist. The Chevron editorial and other news media. The high quality of invesresentative press of all students. It seems ob\fiRandy Barkman tigative reporting in the Chevron is a tribute to staff, whether one agrees with them or not. are a ous that the Chevron is a paper using the guise of i ex-production manager, the chevron dedicated group who will not give up in what student press to furfher its own political aims. the progr&sive attitude of students at this uniCiaran O’Donnell they believe to be a just struggle. Any opposition to it is labelled ‘racist’. ‘sexist’. versity. ex-newswriter, the chevron Support for The Chevron, does not impl>~ supI am certain that a majority of students at this or ‘anti-student’, and yet the Chevron has never Nick Redding port for the AIA. The Chevron and the AIA halve university share in my view that the madness proven to me that it is on nij’ side. It utilizes its ex-newswriter, the chevron must end. Over the past two years we have byifbeen closely associated. but m!’ writing for The opinion to further its aims. whether or not it ma\’
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In a pair of interesting games Monday evening, this term’s intramural basketball champs were decided. In B-league, St. Paul’s with their considerable bench strength and fan support edged out the Ball Boys 43-42. The Ball Boys looked like winners until their strong centre fouled out with eight minutes left in the game. I 4n A-league, the Over The Hill Gang beat Engineering 5-5 by a score of 57-53. It was an aggressive game with some fine shooting, and the officials had a tough time as fouls mounted and tempers flared. Former Warrior Mike Visser led the OTHG with 24 points. Jeff Poss
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manageLd to keep the score High scorer for the close. Athenas in both games It was Barry Atkinson was Liz Silcott with 32 and The University of Waterwho dominated the game 40 points respectively. loo men’s basketball team (the first half anyway) for The Athenas suffered a ran into a stone wall last the Golden Hawks. The defeat Thursday night at Saturday at WLU - the 7’1”, 270 lb. forward played Guelph, however. The score zone defence of the Hawks. was 67-74. in the centre of the WLU Competing in the fifth zone and with Larry Labaj annual WLU invitational - (the tournament MVP) and Athena tournament, the Warriors Fred Koepke on either side met Laurier in the final after volleyball presented a formidable deedging past Brock Univerfensive wall to the strugglsity Badgers 83-75 on Friing Warriors. The Athena volleyball day. The Warriors not only team kept- its unbeaten The Warriors were comlooked ineffective against streak alive Tuesday with pletely unable to penetrate WLU but also showed gapan important victory over the Hawk zone and had to ing mental lapses against a the York Yoewomen. settle for a 65-60 loss in the small but quick Brock team The Athenas took thechampionship game. on Friday night. UW won by best-of-five match in four The zone and how to play 8 but had a lead of over 20 games of 15-13, 15-8, against it will, no doubt, be points reduced to 3 with just 15-17, and 15-8, in front of a topic of conversation at over a minute remaining. a large number of supporWarrior practices this week. Jacob Arseneault ters. It was the zone which was For the most part, the Warrior undoing 2 Athena Waterloo showed dominaweekends ago against St. tion of fine play, particubasketball Francis, as well as last week larly in the second game, against the Hawks. The Athena basketball when the Yoewomen were Apart from short bursts of team now has a 2-2 woneffectively trounced. outside shooting from Doug lost record in the Ontario Coach Pat Davis told the Vance and Leon Passmore Women’s Intercollegiate Imprint that she was well and some fast break work Athletic Association folpleased with the team’s which kept them close, lowing an active weekend performance, which folWaterloo was not in the of three road games in five lowed a tiring week that game. They managed only 2 days. included two road games. points in the first 6 minutes Friday brought a 81-57 She was also pleased with and 10 points in the next 10 victory over Queens, and of the minutes. Full credit must go was quickly followed by a the performance and the versatility to the Warrior defence who 90-50 win while at Ottawa. - rookies.
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Last Friday, the OUAA West Division began league play, with the Warriors taking on the Mustangs in a four game match, at Western. In the first game, both teams matched each other point for point, until at 7-7, the Warriors exploded to pull away to a 12-7 lead. Western fought back to close the gap to two points but the Warriors came through with good serves and agressive blocking to take the game at 15-11. In the second game,
The UW Warrior Hockey team continued league play on Saturday as they travelled to London. . The Warriors managed a 3-3 tie with the Western Mustangs, which gives the Warriors 3 points for the season. Waterloo played a solid game, and led 3-1 midway through the 3rd period. However, the Mustangs were not prepared to give in, and they rallied for two quick goals. Waterloo’s goals came from Leo Lefebure, who had two, and Dave Jutzi, who got the third. Coach McKillop was happy with his team’s performance, and he saw no major problems. However, the Warriors are suffering with some injuries, primarily to’the defensive core. McKillop would also like to see his offence taking more shots on net. Waterloo doesn’t play a home game until December
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