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~Hannant: Larry Hannant, a graduate student in the history department won the Tuesday election for the vacant graduate seat on Students Council by a vote of 102 to 43. His opponent was Ian Chaprin, a graduate student in the Psychology department.

This is the second election that Hannant and Chaprin have fought, the ‘first having been thrown out by Students’ Council after it was reported that a poll clerk told an inquiring voter that Mr. Hannant was a “comand that Mr. Chaprin munist”, was “just an ordinary student.”

Mr. Hannant is one of the more interesting of the current crop of “big men on campus”.

His long involvement in The Chevron and the AIA is an intriguing story. Here we present just a few of the highlights of the life and times of the new grad rep, and possible candidate for the editorship of The Chevron.

Larry Hannant, a University of Waterloo graduate student in history and an avowed member &&p &&Tq-?~&ja~~~~~ A;&;-[n a vain to become _editor of The Chevron.

And he’ll probably give it one more try this fall when the student newspaper re-opens.

His chances are better. .

If he grabs the position, Mr. Hannant should get a medal for outstanding . persistence.

After all, he predicted in early August that former Chevron Adrian Rodway would resign.

Rodway resigned Sept. 24 when he was tired of being intimidated and browbeatened

by Mr. Hannant and several AIA Activists.

Here’s an account of Mr. Hannant’s activities on The Chevron.

The AIA considers him a “comrade with , excellent journalistic skills.” Let the facts judge . . . , When the position of Chevron editor for the term May 1, 1976 to Apri! 30, 1977 was advertised last January, Mr. Hannant applied along with planning student Michael Gordon.

But Mr. Hannant was shot down by The Chevron staff. He only got seven votes on Feb. 6, 1976, while Mr. Gordon picked up twice as many. Most of Mr. Hannant’s votes were cast by AIA members on the paper’s staff.

During the selection meeting, Mr. Hannant’s politics were discussed at length.

TO gain an appreciation of Mr. Hannant’s political views here’s a quotation he gave to The Chevron a few months later about the need for selling The Peoples Canada Daily News a paper of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) : “We want to take PCDN to the people in the K-W area in order to raise their consciousness of classes and class struggle arouse and organize them to fight the bourgeois system of exploitation . and violence, and build support for anti-imperialist revolution and socialism,” Mr. Hannant said.

“Selling the paper is very important part of the program of AIA. If reactionaries at a place

the grad like WLU try to forbid sales, we must resist their attacks.” ( Wilfrid Laurier University tried unsuccessfully to ban sales of PCDN on campus. ) Mr. Hannant added: “We will resist vigorously as* long as there are people there who want to buy our literature and have discussion on the political line of CPC (M-L).”

And Mr. Hannant wanted and still wants to become editor of The Chevron, a paper paid for by students at UW. Let’s continue . . .

After Mr. Gordon said he was unable to assume the editorship of The Chevron because of a job ‘he was offered in Regina, Sask., Mr. Hannant re-applied for editor against Adrian Rodway, another history graduate student.

Hannant was slapped Mr. down once again by The Chevron staff members. who preferred Mr. Rodway.

But Mr. Hannant stayed around the paper during summer wait-

ingfor

another

chance. it on July 30

when he withdrew his application for Chevron news editor so he could attack &IL Rodway about an editorial matter.

Mr. Rodway had placed an editor’s note to a reply made

by Mr. Hannant and production manager Neil Docherty, another outspoken member of the AIA, to ,a letter criticizing Mr. Hannant’s coverage of a nuclear energy meeting.

The note said the reply made

by Mr. Hannant and Mr. Docherty didn’t represent a consensus viewpoint of staff.

Both Mr. Hannant and Mr. Docherty didn’t like Mr. Rodway’s assertion that The Chevron staff wasn’t 100 per cent behind them.

The letter, written by a student, questioned Mr. Hannant’s journalistic abilities since Mr. Hannant quoted himself in t@e nuclear energy story. Mr. Hannant, however, didn’t name himself in the article.

The two AIA m8mbers asked staff to demand Mr. Rodway’s resignation.

However, staff members vetoed the idea and gave Mr. Rodway a vote of conf idence.

Only four I staff members, three of them AIA supporters, opposed Mr. Rodway.

Mr. Hannant still hung around The Chevron waiting for yet another chance to be the editor.

HP mt

Larry Hannant The objective journaiist

Larry Hannant, a prominent staffer of The Free Chevron, endorses the paper’s editorial on Oct. 22 which asks students to judge the publications on its ef-forts.

Let’s judge Mr. Hannant’s track record.

Mr. Hannant arrived at the University of Waterloo in the fall term of 1975 as graduate history student. In the course of the term, he got involved ‘in the chevron.

He met Neil Docherty, who was then news edit& and a member of the Anti-Imperialist Alliance.

And Mr. Hannant who was sym-

rep who

pathetic to the Communist Pafty of Canada (Marxist-Leninist? soon found out that the AIA accepted the political leadership of the CPC (M-L).

Mr. Docherty and Mr. Hannant became political allies who both sought to give the chevron the correct political line dictated by the AIA and CPC (M-L).

Now whether Mr. Hannant has done his job is up to the reader to decide.

Listed below ‘are the headlines of stories done by Mr. Hannant from Oct. 3,1975 to Sept. 17, 1976.

Under the headlines are some quotes from Mr. Hannant’s stories. The dates and page numbers are noted for possibleverification.

The myth of overpopulation page 12, Oct. 3/75

-

“The Chinese Communist Party’s guidelines is a death blow to malthusian cynicism” - MP bemoans inflation - page 4 Nov. 28175

“A with

vigorous several

confusing economy (-

the

discussion accusing

ensued

Saltsman

of

the issues of political and classes in Canada.” above

was

co-authored

with Doug Wahlsten) - UNITA speaker coming to UW (page 11, Feb. 6/76) “In a January 27 interview the Peoples Canada Daily news. . .”

- UNITA blast fdreign intervention - page 7 Feb 3/76 “Live with the masses, fight with the masses, die with the

would masses and masses. ”

triumph

by David

Daunt

the labour Fights

32,000 workers protest ipage 3, March 26 1976)

cutbacks

“From the U of W the AntiImperialist Alliance led a delegation . . .”

-Alternatives to food (page 3, April 2/76)

(Marxist Leninist, which insists that: the Canadian working class must oppose its own reactionary ruling class, led by its revolutionary party, CPC (M-L). ” -Zimbabwe’s

“We want to fight our own battle and establish our own socialist nation in Zimbabwe.

monopoly

Liberation

4/W

(p.6 June

“In lieu of the true ZANLA commander, Jeffery Forest, spokesperson for the AIA, a .sponsor of the meeting, described the recent unification of the fighting forces inside Zimbabwe . . .”

-John Towler July 16/76)

quits

post

(p.10,

“Only the overthrow of the monopoly capitalist system which serves the majority of the people will yield a real change. ’ ’

“Members of the RAA occupied the office of Arts Dean J. Minas in order to force arbitration of the dispute between the Forests and Renison. .

-SCITEC Science probes out present and future -(page 8, May 7/76)

-Nuclear Power (p3 July 23/76)

Hannant, one of the three reporters covering the event, quoted himself at the conference so as to-be able to report on the correct AIA line for the chevron ‘.‘this is the way that US imperialism is shifting the burden of its own economic crisis onto the peop’le of Canada. ”

“The solution would only be found by eliminating the monopoly capitalist class and the social system based oh profit . . . ” -Azanians fight fascism (p6 Sept 10/76) “In conclusion, the chairman of the meeting, Hardial Bains, Chairn-123 of the Communist Party of Cana& (Marxist Leninist) . . .”

- Uniroyal strike . . .Students join picket line (p.5 May 21/76) -Grad Club Knocks Internation Student fee hike (p 3, May 28/76) -Angola’s Guerrilla War - Unita fights Cuban invaders . . (p 6, June 4/76)

“In contrast to this view is the three point programme of the COmmunist Party of Canada

savs Campus Is there a rape problem on campus?

According to reports from the Rape Distress Centre there have bm four or five cases of rape and several sexual assaults reported since early summer.

The problem has also come to the attention of the Toronto Media with an article in The Globe & Mail and a story on the CBC. Some Student Councillors have also come across cases of sexual assault that were not reported to the authorities.

Yet Campus Security said that they have heard of only one case of “alleged” rape since January.

Just what is the problem? What can be done about it?

First of all, if you hear of any case of sexual assault, don’t spread rumours.

Try to confirm details and urge the person involved to report the in&dent to either the authorities oi- the Rape Distress Centre.

When you are going to and from classes after dark in the danger areas, d6n’t walk alone.

Travel in pairs, or better yet, in groups.

Last Thursday, Students’ Council set up a committee to investigate the situation with

with

-UIW seeks support of page 5 Feb 20/76 Anti-Colonial War - Angola $On - (p. 9, March 19/76)

Rape problem d

be, editor

-Bethune

defamed

questioned

in special

..

play. .

(~25. Sept. &%j “SO the distortion of Norman Bethune by the Canadian mgnopoly capitalist class and its artistic agents has of late taken more sophisticated turns.

-Take a day off work. (g.5 Sept.

17/76)

oversold

Securitv

J

the emphasis on implementing The alternatives the committee a volunteer student patrol. The have looked at are: i) scheduling intention of the proposal is to convoys, (i.e. set times and places have pairs of people patrolling for people to walk towards comthe danger areas on campus. mon destinations)‘ ii) set up stu(Radio Waterloo Road, Trail dent patrols, iii) both, iv) press to the Co-op residences.

Village for better walkway conditions 1 & II and the trail by Minota (lighting, gravel, etc. - which are Hagey. ) It is the intent that . very important for future safety the people involved will be posbut do not deal wit& the present itively and brightly identified; situation). / will be briefed on proper conWhether sexual assaults prove duct-including never to be septo be a serious problem or not arated from your partner, and the committee needs your supwill encourage students to walk port.

Members on the comin groups. mittee are, Phil Marquis, (Kin ’ Dangers with this proposal have Rep) Diana Clarke, (Fed. rebeen pointed out to us. The search) David Daunt, (Science presence of patrollers might lead to a false sense of security on Rep).

Comments on these or other these paths, actually encouragproposals atie vital for an’ effecing people to walk alone and thus increasing the danger. There is tive and cohesive approach to this also a chance of irresponsible ac- situation.

So let these people know what you think. tion by patrollers.

Getting

it up for Mu0

Getting it up for Mao! 9 series of sex manuals, complete with quotes from the works of Mao, is selling like hot cakes in Red China. One of these, a manual for teenagers, says that masturbation results in overstimulation of the brain, dizziness, insomnia, general weakness and “the erosion of revolutionary will.” As a deterrent, young people are urged to devote full attention to “hard” study of the works of Lenin, Marx and Mao and to wear lose fitting underwear.

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bullseye

Up agah, has some

down again Task Force members confused’

On Sunday, Oct. 17, the task force which was established by Students’ Council to investigate the chevron affair, told Council that it wanted a new mandate to solicit information from all interested parties including the chevron and the Federation of Students.

The task force also recommended that the ‘chevron stay closed until the general meeting could establish some kind of solution.

Then on Wednesday the task force met again and decided that it did not have enough tive to prepare decent or well-thought out proposals.

The recommendation to council was to postpone the general meeting until such time as decent proposals could be made. The task force felt that bylaws created now would be done on the basis of guess-work rather than solid knowledge.

The task force is composed of representatives of the six faculty societies, Integrated Studies, St. Jeromes and Renison College.

The chevron had been asked to have representation on the task force but refused to participate unless the task force first addressed alleged wrongdoing on the part of the Federation.

The task force voted to reject this demand. John

_

Kessel, a reporter for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record had been a member of the task force at the beginning, but did not feel he could participate if the chevron didn’t. He said that this did not indicate he was on the chevron’s side, just that he felt he must leave the task force on principle.

The task force recommendation that the general meeting be postponed could not be carried out even if council had wished to. General meetings cannot be postponed.

On Thursday Oct. 21, the day after the task force meeting at which it was decided to seek a postponement of the general meeting, Cliff Maude, member of the task force from Renison College, quit.

In a letter to Students’ Council, he stated his reasons: “This is because of what I see as an almost insurmountable job to which the task force has been asked to address itself. Despite the mandate given to it by the Council on Oct. 17, (to solicit evidence, etc.)

I think the problem still remains.

“As I understand it, the task force was formed to evolve real solutions to real problems.

How-

Ch evron

office

A great deal of noise was made about how The Chevron staff “liberated” the paper’s office Sept. 25,1976.

Reports on the event by The Chevron staff give the impression that a large number of students were involved.

The staffers who were acting on behalf of the --I students at the University of watel.‘loo Xe listed below : -Doug Wahlsten, a UW psychology professor and leader of the AIA. -Harry Hannant, a 26-yearold UW graduate student and AIA activist. _ Chevron -Neil Docherty, production manager and AIA activist.

Mr. Docherty has never been a student at UW. -Nina Docherty, AIA activist and former UW student at Renison College now working for Waterloo Region. She’s married to Neil.

-Henry Hess, Chevron news

editor. Mr. Hess has never been a student at UW. While staff members of the Free Chevron constantly maintain the issue is freedom of the press and the Federation of Students is trying to curtail that free-

NSD WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS One of the activities arranged for NSD (National Student Day) is a series of workshops in the Campus Centre. The hope is that these workshops will get interested students together and initiate discussion on various issues with an eye to finding solutions.

Participation is the key to the success of these. Anyone is welcome to attend the whole session or just drop in.

and University:

11:00 a.m.

ccl10 This session deals with the unique problems women have in the university, particularly at UW where they are in the minority. It will discuss the common identity and ‘help women come to the realization that the personal problems that they encounter are also faced by many other women on this’ ‘campus. We hope that this session will not only generate discussion but lead to the formation of viable alternatives and solutions to these problems. Phyllis Burke (Educational Fieldworker for the Federation of Students), Isabel McKay (Asst. Dean of Women), and representatives from Health Services, the Pacer Committee and Paralegal Assistance will participate in the session.

IInylrtionaI

Students:

12: 30 p.m.

There are two questions to be explored in this workshop. The first question is that of differential tuition fees for foreign students. The second ques-

ever, it seems as though its usefulness may be reduced to its functioning as a propaganda outlet for various interests, as we have no way of verifying what is presented.

“At the present, I cannot allow my time to be used in this manner.”

The membership of the task force was designed so that there ’ was no direct representation from Students’ Council; except that the president and vice-president are ex-officio, non-voting members of all council committees.

With both the chevron and the commercial press represented, it was hoped that students, other than councillors, but still broadly representative of the campus, could come to us with some recommendations which all parties might accept.

The refusal of the chevron to participate sabotaged the work of the task force in some- ways.

The attitude of ‘do it our way or we won’t play ball’ has rendered impotent one of the key routes to a compromise solution.

The task force% credibility has come under grave doubt following the withdrawal of the chevron, Kessel and now Maude.

Liberated?? dam, the comments made by Mr. Wahlsten at a recent rally seem apt: “The only issue between The Chevron and the Federation of Students is the role of the ALA in the paper.”

ArtSoc prez

by Doug Kennohan The Arts Society opened nominations today for position of president. Nominations close Thursday November 4th, 1976. The former president, Cindy Seibel, resigned on October 13 for personal reasons. Her official resignation was accepted with much regret on October 27.

Good news, the fall society week has been planned. “Pandemonium Week” will be the week of November 14-20. It will see such events -as movies, a broomball the Arts Society tournament,

NSD workshops

Women

October

on campus

tion concerns the role which nonCanadian students play in the Canadian university community and society as a whole. This workshop is being run by the International Students Association.

Municipal ccl10

Elections:

2:00

p.m.

Our’objective in this workshop is to make students more aware of their rights as municipal citizens, such as the right to vote in municipal elections and hold municipal office. We will also be exploring some of the municipal issues that affect students such Alderwomen cutbacks. as transit Mary Jane Mewhinney and Marjorie Carroll from the City of Waterloo and Alderman Morley Rosenberg, candidate for mayor of the City of Kitchener will be present.

Housing:

quits

Spelling Bee, a “casino night” and on Saturday November 20, there will be a semi-formal.

Societies taking part in Pandemoniurn Week are Arts, Math, Science and Environmental Studies. All students interested in getting involved are asked to get in touch with their respective societies.

The Arts Society has finally published a newsletter.

The first issue of Arts Lion was yesterday, October 27. Anyone wanting to help and get involved should drop by the Artsoc office H.H. 178A, ext 2322. ,

11’:00 cc113

We will be delving into such areas as the quality of housing and the services that are currently being provided to help students in search of housing.

The workshop session will also focus on some of the legal aspects. For instance, the changes in the Landlord and Tenant Act and your rights with the Rent Review Board will be discussed. The results of the Federation Housing Questionnaire will be presented by Dave Millar who will also discuss his work on a campus housing development.

Jobs: 1:30 p.m. ccl13 Here, we will explore some of the problems faced by students in search

of a job; both summer employment and after graduation. It is well known that unemployment is on the increase and that the first and hardest hit are those who have little work experience such as the students.

The session should also touch on some legal problems that students run into involving unions.and pay being withheld. There will be representatives from the Dept. of Co-ordination and Placement and from Canada Manpower present during the workshop.

Student Aid and 11%) a.m. ccl35

Tuition ’

Hikes:

This workshop will be discussing the deficencies in present Student Aid programs (OSAP, CSLP) and possible ways that students can help get the programs changed. The issue of tuition fee hikes for Canadian students and their implications in regards to accessibility to post-secondary education will also be discussed. An OFS representative will be at the- workshop to answer questions.

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28, 1976

’omment

by Douglas

Thompson

Many are not yet fully aware of it, but Western Civilization has reached an historic turning point.

A crisis is beginning which will not end soon. Major economic dislocations have already started and there are more in store for us. The days of more and bigger and better everything are near an end.

As an wpensive government ward, Post Secondary Education (PSE) has drawn attention from the economic mandarins.

The ideas, beliefs and political atmosphere which spawned the dramatic growth in PSE in the past decade are changing. Government policies which effect PSE are changing too. While this change is inevitable, its direction is within our power to influence.

The task is not easy. The issues are complex. The “re-think” the government is undertaking in economic policy has hit universities and their students in many ways already. Tuition, Student Aid, Employment policies and Housing get the student right between the eyes.

The direct result is a reduction in universal ac-. cessibility.

That’s something the present government of Ontario refuses to even acknowledge.

But it is already happening. . The result of a changing socio-economic break3 down of student population, biased towards upper income groups, cannot fully be predicted.

But there are some general conclusions that can be drawn.

First, the expectations of lower socio-economic groups will begin to exclude PSE. Social mobility will be limited. Fewer opportunities will exist for people to break out of culturally and economically disadvantaged circumstances.

In the end this means a greater degree of class stratification.

That could have serious ramification for society for genera tions.

The general level of education within society will decline and the poor will be hardest hit. Since education is an important ingredient in political power, one effect will he a greater concentration of power -in the- uppereconomic echelons. .France last Spring. The government’s attempts to reduce funding to Arts programmes in favour of technical courses brought 70,000 students to the streets of Paris in protest.

Education must not be allowed to become just another component in a Centralized economy. . I have just touched the surface of some of the more important issues. Our success in stimulating public discussion and public awareness in the next few months could well have a significant influence on the kind of society in which our children grow UP. I suspect it is true that society and PSE are facing challenges the like of which we have never seen before.

We have to demonstrate the will to meet this challenge.

Other Issues to think about A big factor which must be dealt with is almost omnipresent in Canada today, that’s the “Let George do it” syndrome.

Most of the people who are students on this cam, pus have very little experience participating in the decisions which will ultimately affect their lives. From the cradle to the grave, the average citizen’s political involvement consists of going to the ballot box once every few years to choose a brand name. Even then, in civic elections, We UsU\ ally get less then half of them out.

In primary and secondary education, students are taught to be obedient as they’re led around by the hand. Universities are only a little different.

Authority is recognized and rarely questioned let alone challenged. j That social and cultural conditioning leads to a state ,of political illiteracy.

People do not understand the notion of taking effective action which will change their lives and their world. Few people have ever done it. Rare is the person who even knows of anyone who has ever done it.

We cannot take it for granted that people will respond when informed about the issues. As much as the reasons for responding, we have to sell the notion of response itself.

This is by far the greatest challenge facing the Federation.

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Educational Cutbacks and the Quality of Education: 1:30 cc135 Some of the effects of the government’s cutbacks in education spending and moratorium on new building construction will be examined in this session. Other things to be discussed in this workshop include; course critiques, comprehensive course outlines, professor evaluation, standard appeal procedures for appealing grades, etc.

- Michael Dillon and Diana Clarke

General 12:30

Meeting p.m.

in the

Friday

P%.A.C.

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STUDENT

ATIONAL

to, Think

Something

About!

the issues: @Education Cutbacks ,I @Student Aid ’

.@QuaIity of Education r aTuition

Hikes

iHousing-Shortages -the Law s:Now Graduation

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after

Students

Women in the University W’bnicipal

EIectiorw

National Student Day is a day for students across the country to discuss solutions to the problems they face. NSD is not intended to be an end in itself. We hope that during NSD, students will discuss the issues and then go on to implement some of their solutions.

--.

If you would like to help

.VOLVED!

this

day

a success

contuct:

make

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Art Board

bullseye

Eby - (right) is to “improve

at the Board communications

of External relations meeting with the community.”

LWprof With energy costs rising rapid-’ ly, and American sources for our winter vegetables threatening to disappear in the foreseeable future, it’s high time Canadians improved our greenhouse technologyThat’s the view of Dr. Ewart Brundrett, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Waterloo.

He has designed, and is constructing, an energy-saving greenhouse beside his country home west of Waterloo.

His new fuel-saving greenhouse differs in several ways from the conventional ones you’ll see at Holland Landing, or in the tobacco country near Delhi, or at Aylmer, or elsewhere in Southern Ontario.

For one thing it’s been sited so that it stands sideways to the sun, for maximum exposure.

There is little glass along the north side, which is away from the sun; the

north side is also well insulated.

Even where “glass” is used, it’s not real glass; ’ it’s a new, transparent, corrugated, polypropylene plastic which permits the light to come in but which doesn’t permit the heat to escape as readily, after the sun goes down.

The Brundrett greenhouse’s walls and roof are more sharply slanted, so the sun’s rays strike them more directly.

It’s also a good deal higher than conventional greenhouses . . . 18 feet from the floor to the centre ridge pole.

The idea is that the warmest air will rise to the top of the greenhouse. It will then be sucked down a pipe to the bottom (by means of a fan) and then pushed through large boxes of gravel which are being built into the ’ floor of the structure below the growing beds. The gravel will absorb the heat and store it, releasing it back into the green-

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the two committees was to include members of council and other interested students in an effort to coordinate the activities of several Federation boards involved in these issues. While the committees were to have no real power, they were seen by many as an important means for streamlining and coordinating efforts. The frame of reference included help-

Privi ege cards come under

fire = again

The controversial “Executive privilege cards” which were accepted by Students’ Council during the summer survived a challenge at the Oct. 21 meeting of Students Council. ’ The cards permit members of, council free admission to Federation operated events and services, such as the campus centre pub.

Since council members are not paid for their work, many councillors feel that this token recompense is entirely in order.

But the two ES reps, Dave MC-

Lellan and Heather Robertson, supported by Dave Daunt of Science and Doug Thompson of Integrated Studies disagreed.

Robertson and McLellan want to be able to convert their “funny money” cards into real cash in order to help pay for a party for their constituents. ’ The challenge was defeated by a margin of 6-4.

The funny money cards do not actually represent real dollars.

The organization where they are used merely absorbs the cost and no real money changes hands. *

21,

said

the photo

invents

New Committee struck by Students’ After much wrangling and sevStudents’ eral ammendments, ’ council decided to create a “joint” committee on social and living needs and educational opportunity.

Initially, Federation president Shane Roberts introduced two motions, one to create a social and living needs committee and the other for an educational opportunity committee.

The purpose of

Oct.

October

purpose by

Douglas

of the Thompson

In a wide ranging discussion which touched on many issues pertaining to the interactions between university students and the outside community, the Board of External Relations, Federation of Students, took off to a flying start under its new chairperson, Art Eby. The board has been without a chairperson since Mike Ura’s resignation early this Fall.

“The purpose of the Board” according to Eby, “is to promote communication between the Federation of Students, of whom all UW undergrads are members, and the international, national and local communities.”

Eby outlined three priority concerns for the board, National Student Day which is coming up Nov. 9, the municipal elections, which are slated for Dec. 6, and educational debate on such issues as Indian Land claims, mercury pollution in Ontario Lakes along with discussions about what kind of city we want to live in 20 years from now.

greenhouse

house air when required over a period of perhaps days. ‘ ‘Our calculations indicate that even in mid-winter we will be able to get enough heat from one day of sunshine to last through perhaps two to three subsequent cloudy days, ’ ’ Dr. Brundrett says.

“After that there would have to be some kind of a supplementary heating unit. In any event. however, we are confident we will be able to grow things all winter long in this greenhouse using a fraction of the fuel a conventional greenhouse would consume.

That’s partly why we are building it, of course . . . to find out how accurate our theories and calculations will prove to be.”

Dr. Brundrett has another reason for building it that is somewhat more personal: He’s a graduate of Ontario Agricultural Col- c lege in agricultural engineering and an avid gardener and loves to

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Council ing council and its boards to assess priorities, develop strategies and implement programmes relevant to the areas of the areas of the committee’s concern and otherwise make recommendations to council.

J.J. Long, council rep for Math regular felt that the frame of reference for the committees was too broad. Long moved an ammendment which would have seen the educational opportunity committee broken into two separate committees, one to deal with “internal education”, and one for dealing with government on the issues of tuition and financing.

Following the defeat of the ammendment Long moved another ammendment, which was finally accepted to join the two committees, educational opportunity and social and living needs into one super committee.

Apparently one joint committee solved Long’s anxiety , that each of the two original suggested committees would be too big.

The final .proposal, as accepted, has room for students to be either voting or associate members in addition to the councillors who were appointed to the committee. \

grow not only vegetables of all kinds but also a variety of exotic plants and flowers including some very rare African orchids.

(Dr. Brundrett’s interest in gardening goes away back; he recalls selling vegetables on the streets of Guelph when he was only 10. ) Before designing the new greenhouse, Dr. Brundrett did analyses of many types of conventional greenhouses.

He also took a good look at one recently proposed by the Brace Institute, at McGill University, and another known as “the wedge” from Scotland.

“What we’ve tried to do is develop a design for a greenhouse that will be best suited to the climatic conditions in Southern Ontario,” he says.

Dr. Brundrett and his wife and their three teen-aged sons have done most of the building themselves. The greenhouse will provide about 900 square feet of growing space, plus a root cellar area, and potting shed. The university gave him a small grant for some scientific instruments so he can accurately assess the performance of the greenhouse.

Prof. Brundrett has four undergraduate engineering students working on projects related to his greenhouse so for the present at least it has become something of a field research station for UW. One of these students is interested in the design of further, commercial-sized greenhouses em(Continued

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28, 1976

Eby hopes to begin working with more community groups after Christmas, both to give students the opportunity of learning from these groups, and to give the groups any assistance possible.

The discussion on the upcoming city elections had two major themes. One suggestion, that the Federation sponsor a specific student candidate and provide financial assistance was viewed by one observer, Tom Raidy, as less than ideal.

Tom, a former UW student who plans to run for city council in December, felt that it would be better for the Federation to endorse other candidates. Several of those present agreed, fearing an anti-student backlash if a well funded student candidate were to appear on the scene.

Raidy said that the Federation might be better off sounding out all of the candidates to find out what their positions were on such issues as transit and housing.

Raidy said that many of the aldermen in Waterloo were associated with the real-estate business in one form or another and did not have the interests of the bulk of the population at heart.

He felt that the Federation should draw attention to these factors and conduct an educational campaign for students on the main issues.

It was pointed out by Rod Hay, community fieldworker for the Federation that some 20 per cent of Waterloo residents are students, but the students have almost no voice on city council. He did not think that was fair. He was also concerned that many stuUf?IlL~ 17GZ.z ..uC C--.-zlk.-.*-L--‘-Lnature of the issues in the upcoming elections and that the Federation had a responsibility to get that information out.

Raidy pointed out that beyond housing ,and transit, areas in which the city does have direct influence, such issues as day care, health and social services, growth rate, development styles and waste recycling were important points to stress in a campaign.

He felt that aldermen in both Kitchener and Waterloo tended to ignore the quality of life of the less wealthy citizenry.

“They all have cars,” he said. “They don’t really know what it means to have to -hitch-hike to work or school.”

Towards the end of the meeting, Eby presented a motion for the board’s approval; “That students should become aware of their voice in city politics and aware of the issues that confront them and sponsor through educational activities and for representations to the candidates and that problems and shortcomings of the incumbents should be pointed out. ”

Radio Club still on table The initial request, made at the council meeting of October 17 was for $6636.80 to be repaid over a ten year period. The amateur radio club of the University of Waterloo wanted the interest free loan to buy new equipment.

After a twenty minute discussion the matter was tabled until the next meeting.

On Thursday, Oct. 21, after a review by the Treasury Council, the matter was again before Students’ Council. This time the request had been pared down to $5,000.00. The treasury council recommended acceptance of the proposal subject to the signing of a demand note by the treasurer and

president of the club. The repayment period had also been reduced, from ten to seven years, but it was still on an interest free basis.

The club explained that because most of its members were co-op students, there was little opportunity to pursue #alternative money-raising schemes.

The club plans to repay the loan through membership fees of approximater ly $9 per term.

After some objections were rais‘ed to lending one third of the Federation’s unallocated budget to a single group of some 40 to 50 members, the matter was again tabled by council, to be reconsidered in the near future.

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gets goes

The Maids Review

on

displaced gender, tends to make the first half somewhat awkward.

As well, though I’m not certain, matters seemed to be made worse by a case of first night jitters.

Once Karen Woolridge enters as Madame, the production seems to focus, and her departure after a few short minutes comes as a great disappointment . It soon becomes obvious that her presence gave new inspiration to the remaining two characters which lingers after she leaves.

The dramatic suspense which is lacking in the opening now solidifies and climaxes in two brilliant soliloquies by Solange.

I do not think it is unfair to say that, not only in the conclusion, but throughout, Stanton is much more convincing than Stetz manages to be. He gets more to the core of the character, while Stanton seems more involved in the drag aspect of his role. As Claire dominates the early part of the play and Solange the latter parts, this could be another reason the second half is stronger than the first.

The production benefits from some very good incidental background music, and is aided by lighting which is certainly adequate, if not outstanding.

The Maids is running now through October 30, with a special matinee on October 29. If you’re interested in experimental theatre, it could be well * worth catching.

the

by Jim Blackburn

Genet’s The Maids is billed as “an intense psychological drama”.

Half way through Maurice Evans’ current production you’re still wondering what drove him to turn it into a lightweight soap opera in drag. Then, however, it picks up and becomes an admirable attempt at a very difficult project.

The two central characters in the play are Solange and Claire Lemrcier.

Sisters, they are maids to a younger woman known only as Madame. They are unable to maintain an equilibrium in their struggle between love and loathing of their mistress, their lives and each other.

Claire is dominant and at the beginning in what we “Madame” plays learn is a regular “game” b,etween the sisters. Solange is more reserved, but from the beginning it is evident she has a source of hidden strength.

Claire knows this too, and constantly accuses the passive Solange of trying to dominate her.

Claire is played by Robert M. Stetz, Solange by Paul Stanton.

As the director says in the program notes, “with two boys playing the parts of the .maids we added to our difficulties but felt that we were contributing to Genet’s own feeling that everything in the theatre is illusion - nothing This lack of reality, is real”. compounded

by Genet’s deliberate confusion of roles and -the obvious disorientation caused by

THE MAIDS:

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incompetent

is a good movie to avoid: it’s an atrocity. If you do love Liza you’ll still be stunned by how poorly done the movie is, but it might be salvaged for you by a few vintage moments.

What the film would appear to be is an attempt by director Vincente Minelli to create an edifice to his daughter. The loving father has somehow failed to notice that she isn’t really that great an actress.

Her genius lies not in trying to be someone else but in being herself.

Daddy neglects this in an orgy of parental indulgence. For example, the film begins as Liza, playing the great actress Nina, is about to arrive at a press conference.

Before she arrives the press is shown a series of clips of her in her great roles. The net effect of the clips is ludicrous, to be charitable.

The real Liza only gets through occasionally, almost as if by accident.

Then her freshness bursts out of her inane surroundings in an in. eptly produced film.

Examples of incompetence are abundant. The colour runs in half the shots. In others it’s complete;

Students: $3.60 in advance $4.00 at the door -$4.OO for others I

*

According to informed sources, a new Arts Society newsletter will -make its .appearance quite soon. It is an effort by some interested Arts Students to provide

by Martha

Campbell

I_

and cliche

ridden

a melodrama of the late silent ly wrong. The images are always period. She is played by no less washed out and blurry. The movan actress than Ingrid Bergman. ie was filmed on location in Rome, on her perbut the hotel where most of the t My only comment formance shall be that she unaction takes place has balconies dersold herself in taking on an that look out on unrealistic backunsalvageable role. drops. The muzak is often comically inappropriate.

The camera The story is interspersed with technique is of a calibre and style the reminiscences and fantasies associated with third rate educaof the countess and Nina. These tional documentaries.

In one have a tendency to become unsequence the young Nina goes bearably silly, and seem to be sightseeing in Rome for the first propaganda for the belief that time. We are reminded of a true happiness can only be found cheaply produced travel agency through money.

(See what it film, and perhaps the most pathdid for Liza’s mother. ) etic thing about it is you get the Also punctuating the action feeling director Minelli thinks is the- occasional song. These he’s Fredrico Fellini. If he does, aren’t Liza at her best: she’s he is very wrong. trying too hard to sound like The story line ‘is introduced Striesand, though she’s A lover of Barbara as a “fairy-tale”. than Striesand when at Fa’erie lore cannot help but be better attempts offended at the misuse of the her best. The vocal aren’t helped by inane lyrics and term. What we get instead is a an insipid accompaniment. trivial and cliche ridden story of a poor little village girl who If you have a very strong will comes to the big city as a chamto believe you may find A Matbermaid and ends up as a reter of Time palatable.

If you nowned actress.

She is inspired don’t, you’ll see through the conto these heights by an aging trivances on which it’s based. countess who is a former glaWithout these there is no craft mour queen.

The senile and to be observed in the story or the bankrupt countess seems to be production.

All that remains is a stereo-type lifted directly from Liza.

New Arts

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of time:

by Jim Blackburn Are you a Liza freak?

If not, A Matter of Time

regarding

Check your name on the voters list in the Campus Centre on Friday and next week. You must have your name on the list if you wish to vote in the municipal election on Monday December 6.

If your name is NOT on the list you may go either to:

The

on left is actress Karen Wooldridge

A matter

AtiENtlON

the

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newsletter more events Arts.

information on with an emphasis Y

campus towards

There have been other similar experiments in the recent past, including the Knot Graden (Win-

r ter ‘74-Fall ‘75) and the Arts Weekly (Winter ‘76).

The new edition will be called the “Lion’ ’ ; possibly to express a sense of majesty, history and ‘strength.

At any rate, let the Arts Lion Roar I

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What’s behind

by Douglas Thompson Andrew Telegdi

and

It is very difficult for those new to. the AIA issue to understand just what is going on. The issue is far from simple and due to deliberate policies of mystification, all is not always as it seems.

After a summer of being very quiet, the AIA issue has once again exploded into the centre of controversy on this campus.

This time it is over the chevron affair.

Many people wonder still what all the fuss is about.

Sure, they may have never liked the chevron, but then the Federation executive has never liked the chevron. Why all of a sudden this dramatic action?

Is it as the AIA claims, that the current federation executive, and most of council for that matter, are a fascist clique under the leadership of the American subverive Shane Roberts, or is it something else? ’ Furthermore, who and what is the AIA, and who is this clique of Roberts’?

In this essay, the claims of both sides will be examined along with the history of the AIA on this campus and the history of the Communist Party of Canada, MarxistLenninist (CPC (M-L) ) with whom the AIA is affiliated.

WHAT

IS THE

AIA?

According to the six page green pamphlet circulated

by AIA members Salah Bachir and Doug Wahlsten at the Sept. 30 “Freedom of the press” rally, and bearing the “Anti-Imperialist Al-, signature liance”, the AIA is “a revolutionary organization of students, staff and faculty at the University of Waterloo which is led by the Communist Party of Canada (MarxistLeninist).

Founded Oct. 2, 1974, we ushered in a new era of political activism at UW which signified the beginnings of a new upsurge of the youth and students against the monopoly capitalist system and state .. . . .

“At the outset we lacked direction or an analysis of the situation

a beginners

in Canada. This situation changed rapidly when we organized a meeting on China, the Superpowers and the Threat of World War, at which Comrade Hardial “Bains, Chairman of the CPC (ML), spoke.

Comrade Bains presented a clear line on the world situation and the necessity for revolution in Canada.”

“Through our practice we learned of the importance I of waging our struggles in coordination with other progressive and revolutionary people across Canada, since our struggle was not simply to implement change in Waterloo. ,We were part of the nationwide struggle to transform Canada into a socialist state- by overthrowing monopoly capitalism.

Consequently we voted in March of 1975 to come under the leadership of the CPC( ML), and in November “of 1975 we became a unit of the Canadian Student Movement, the student wing of the CPC(ML),” Now the AIA is not the first group on campus to sound the call for social change, or even to proffer revolutionary rhetoric, or claim to follow the spirit of marxist-leninist-mao-tse-tung thought.

But they are the first group to pledge alliegance to the CPC (ML ) .

THE AIA POSITION CHEVRON

ON THE

Again quoting from the Sept.

30 green sheet, the AIA states its position on the chevron: “The allegation that we are trying to turn the chevron into our own propaganda organ is a deception promoted by the Roberts’ clique . . .

Our view has always been that the chevron should serve the interests of the majority of students at UW . . . . by printing the truth about events in Canada and the world; truth which is mangled in the capitalist press. .. . The chevron should have a mass character, . . . The AIA has long held this view and we believe that only the AIA can provide the correct leadership to achieve this goal.. . . ” “Chevron policy will also come to reflect our political line . . . be-

In the subsequent four pages, Bullseye has collected and condensed a number of documents which may help provide those unfamiliar with the delicate ins and outs of the chevron affair with some insight into the various and sometimes complicated issues.

Friday October 29, tomorrow, will see a Federation of Students General meeting at 12:30 p.m.

Every student has a vote at this meeting, and can carry up to five proxies from other students.

Several items of business are on the agenda. There are two slightly different versions of a proposed by-law No. 28 which would ammend all previous Board of Publications byTlaws (which govern the chevron).

Each is intended to solve some of the problems in the current by-law which do not clearly spell out lines of authority and areas of independence between the chevron and the Federation.

On page 11 there is a detailed breakdown of these two by-laws. .

The first item of business to be dealt with concerns a motion to adjourn. If this is passed, the meeting will stop at that point.

Motions to adjourn can be brought up at any time by any member of the Federation (all full time un-

cause . . . we lead by giving a clear and correct line supported by scientific analysis and convincing argument.. . . ” This is an interesting example of a very typical contradictory argument presented by the AIA. The statement begins by saying that Roberts’ clique is deceiving the people by saying the AIA is trying to get control of the paper.

They then go on to say that that paper should serve the interests of the majority, interests which by their belief, only they can serve, understand or define. Then they declare that “Chevron policy will come to reflect our political line”, all the while denying an attempt to take the paper over.

Paragraphs beginning with “no we’re not” and ending with “yes we are” tend to cause confusion.

- THE AIA POSITION ON ADRIAN RODWAY

Adrian Rodway was hired as editor-in-chief of the chevron in April of this year. The AIA candidate, Larry Hannant was defeated in the election by the staff.

Although claiming belief in democracy, the AIA commenced what they themselves called “a summer long struggle” to get rid of Rodway. The first attempt was a motion of non-confidence in *Rodway. This motion, presented at a staff meeting failed. Only four people voted against Rodway, of whom only one was a nonAIA member.

Labelling him an opportunist (which they define as anyone who is not a scientific socialist ), they attacked Rodway, not on his job but on his politics. performance, Quoting from the green sheet again : “In the sharp debate . .. we discovered t)at, he was a supporter of the Soviet-backed MPLA regime’ and the Cuban tropps in Angola. Open antagonism resulted. We denounced *Rodway and his- cronies for supporting the butchery of black Angolans by foreign mercenaries.”

“For us this was a major question of principle.

We will never

Meeting

dergradsaremembers).

Some members of the chevron Investigation task force have advocated that this meeting be adjourned since they have not had time to thoroughly review the problems and make their ~ own by-law recommendation.

In addition to a tight schedule, the task force wasalso plagued by the refusal of the chevron to participate, the subsequent refusal of John Kessel of the K-W Record to participate and finally the resignation of several of its other members due to various dissatisfactions with the progress of the task force.

The chevron staff, or most -of them at any rate, seem to be in favour of a quick adjournment also. They seem to feel that the current by-law is adequate and have a variety of disagreements with the two options for a new by-law.

It is fairly certain that the General meeting will have some fairly wild moments, if some recent Students’ Council meetings can be taken as any indication.

A couple of these meetings have seen substantial crowds of supporters for both sides attempting to out-shout- each other.

Unless procedures are controlled tightly by the chairman, the meeting could possibly drag on

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the scheWon. a

guide-to

The General

October,

for hours, a wearing experience for all concerned.

It is also possible that a quick resolution of the problem will be effected if either of the two bylaws which have been proposed are accepted. The recent confrontation between the chevron and the Federation goes much deeper than a mere complication with the bylaws however.

Leaders on both sides have stated that the involvement in the chevron of the AIA (Anti-Imperialist Alliance) is at the root of the problem.

Neil Docherty, a member of the AIA, which is affiliated with the Communist Party of Canada, Marxist Leninist (CPC(ML)), feels that the Federation is trying to purge him from the paper because of his political affiliations. %- ’ The Federation has suggested that Docherty’s affiliation with the CPC (ML) has interfered with his capacity to be an objective journalist.

In addition to Docherty there are four to eight other members of the AIA involved in the paper at the present time. It is impossible to .determine the number precisely because the AIA refuses to produce a membership list.

On pages 8 and 9, a history of the CPC (ML) has been compiled.

remain silent in the face of such crimes against the people of Angola or any other country . . . As long as there is civil war in Angola, this issue will lead to strong divisions within the chevron.”

Here again we have an example of confused AIA doubletalk.

On the one hand they have publicly denied pressuring Rodway out and then they come out in print and justify such action in an open admission.

THE FEDERATION OF STUDENTS POSITION --

Rodway’s resignation as editorin-chief followed the same day

by Torrie”s resignation as Board of Publications Chairman precipitated the crisis.

Those members of the executive who had been on campus during the summer were not unaware of what was happening in the chevron.

The pressure on Rodway was seen as a manifestation of the most immature sour-grapes by the AIA. When their plan succeeded, everyone knew that stern action- would have to be taken to prevent the AIA from running wild and succeeding in their attempt to dominate the paper. The Executive did not feel that the students were willing to have their money used to fund a CPC(ML) propaganda organ.

In the past two years in this area, Dumont Press in Kitchener and Alice press in Guelph have been forced to take action against the CPC( ML). Both groups tried to ward off CPC(ML 1 infiltration.

Both succeeded.

In the case of Dumont some $200.00 worth of vandalism was done to their shop shortly afterwards.

In the case of Alive, the vandalism was much worse, even the layout tables and the airconditioners were stolen.

Wishing to prevent this sort of thing from happening, the Executive had the locks changed and the premises sealed.

In the end, the Aia succeeded in occupying the chevron office in spite of attempts by campus security to keep them out. The word was spread that the chevron had been shut down for no reason and the volunteer staff of thechevron was assembled.

All attempts by the Federation to negotiate with the chevron were

handled, on the chevron’s side,

by Neil Docherty, production manager.

Docherty adamantly refused to negotiate.

Docherty knew the Federation move would be hard to justify publicly and he was not about to accept a settlement when there was a chance to fight.

In response to a proferred olive branch, Docherty said “We have our line and we believe it, we will not compromise. ” Initially, the Federation called in a CUP commission of inquiry. Docherty, who now is calling for such an inquiry ‘himself, turned it down flatlysuggesting that he would refuse to cooperate with such an inquiry even if it were called. CUP therefore decided not to have one. In the absence of a CUP inquiry, the Federation called for another sort of inquiry, this one composed of society reps, the commercial press and the chevron staff. . But agin the chevron, or more accurately Docherty, refused to cooperate.

The AIA had been provoking the Federation all summer - they wanted a fight and once faced with the opportunity they were not about to pass it up.

Dochery’s refusal to negotiate, which was not shared by many of the volunteer staff, forced the Federation into a tougher position.

When the free chevron was born, under Docherty’s leadership, the Federation was faced not with the threat, but with the reality of an AIA controlled paper. Although the- CPC(ML) line was carefully covered by a smokescreen in order to prevent the alienation of tile new recruits, virtually all of whom were first year students, inexperienced with the AIA’s ways and means, a Docherty led paper was not viewed by a majority of the Students’ Council as the sort of thing the majority of students wanted their money spent on. .

The chevron had become, undsr the leadership of Docherty, a political weapon to be wielded by the AIA against not only Roberts, but the entire Federation of Students and a majority of students on campus.

No responsible student government could allow this to continue.

I Letter .from the OFSDear Shane: It was with regret that we learned that the presence of our observer at the Federation meeting of Sunday, Sept. 26 did not contribute to a resolution of the controversy and in some quarters further exacerbated the problem.

In light of this and what appears to be at Waterloo a misunderstanding of our role in such situations, we feel it necessary to make our position clear.

First, it was and continues to be our understanding that our observer was present at the request of the Federation of Students. A phone call had been received from Doug Thompson, who asked specifically that OFS/ FE0 send a representative to the meeting on Sept. 26. It is not our task as a federation of Ontario students to intervene in the internal affairs of-a student union- without being invited.

To do so could only be counter-productive and lead to acrimony. Should it become clear to either the OFS/FEO or the Waterloo Federation that our continued participation in the investigation will only result in further confusion, ill-will, and controversy, we will be more than ready to withdraw from the investigation.

Second, we do not conceive of ourselves as being in any way adjudicators of the controversy: that role properly belongs to the campus. Our Executive has been unable to consider even the

details of the case, let alone rts merits.

We are in no position to pass judgement, and- we must politely but firmly resist any attempt to construe our presence as in fact doing so. Our aim in any participation in the matter must be confined to providing advice based on our experience in order to facilitate a speedy resolution of the case acceptable to all parties and the resumption of the publishing of the newspaper as a vehicle independent of -direct control from any source external to the newspaper itself. This is consistent with our policy in this area. Needless to say, the merits of the advice offered will determine whether it is accepted or rejected.

We hope that this letter has eliminated the confusion and ill-will generated by our ambiguous situation. We are as always at your service.

Yours sincerely Murray H. Miskin Chairperson, Executive OFS/FEO

Committee

MHM/pjm cc.

Doug Thompson The Chevron Canadian University Press National Union of Students OFS/FEO Executive

October

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Down Wit-h.the FascistA sad on thse i-lmperidist Alliance and the- Students at t University of. Waterloo ,

These are merely trumped up The monopoly capitalist state and its agents have launched a charges to prevent the progressive. students, led by the AIA, tram vicious assault on the revolutionusing The Chevron to defend the ary students at the University of basid interests of the students.

Waterloo in Ontario. The struggle On Friday evening, September centres around th‘e students’ news24, the university administration paper, The Chevron, where the changed the locks on the doors of Marxist-Leninist line of defendThe Chevron offices, without ing the basic interests of the stunotifying the staff, and even withdents has become firmly establishout notifying the student Counciled as the line qf the paper. lors. When the AIA comrades on After a long hard struggle, the The Chevron staff learned of this line of certain opportunists who hitlerite manoeuvre on Saturwanted to use the paper for their day, they immediately went to own ends and to k,eep the masses the offices of the paper to confront of students from grasping the fact the American subversive who had their interests are inseparably assumed dictatorial powers over botind up with those of the prolethe premises.

Special instructions tariat, was defeated. Seeing that had been given to the campus the Marxist-Leninist lin6 was security police that they were td about to be consolidated as the obey his orders to keep the proleading line of The Chevron, the gressive students out of The Chevstate mobilized an imported ron.

However, the hitlerite AmeriAmerican subversive who has been installed as the head of the . can subversive was thoroughly denounced for his fascist attack on Federation of Students, to stage the democratic rights of the stua hitlerite conspiracy to muzzle dents and along with his police the progressives on The Chevron force was driven away in a panic staff. by the staff who immediately ocOn Friday, September 24, the cupied The Chevron offices. The editor of The Chevron resigned for staff then called a meeting. what he called ‘personal reasons’.

The entire staff of thirty-five This man had long been an inpeople attended the meeting to destrument of the American subnounce the attack of the reactionversive heading the Federation, aries as the “executive action” of’ who’is himself not even a student! a small clique. They resolved to On the same day the editor resignput out a special issue of The ed, the American subversive conChevron afid to expose these nazi vened a secret meeting of the ‘tactjcs.

Federation executive, all of whom The lies of the reactionary Fedare appointed by himself, not eration executive that the AIA elected by the students. He cook“discouraged” new people from ed up the completely bogus charjoining the staff is thoroughly exges that the editor had been posed by the fact that the large to resign by the pro“pressured” staff of thirty-five people is comgressive students in the Antiposed mainly of new students.

Imperialist Alliance (AIA) who They pointed out that the charge were actually leading the work of that the editor had been “presthe paper. He further concocted sured” to resign was also a lie, that the AIA was preventing new and that the Marxist-Leninists had people from coming forward to .won leadership in the paper by work as staff -on The Chevron.

putting forward the line of defending the basic interests of the students.

On Sunday night, at a meeting of the Federation, the reactionaries made use of the bureaucratic form to prevent the students from presenting their views. Even so, the Council was forced to pass a resolution calling on the administration to remove its new locks from the doors. Both the Canadian University Press and the Ontario Federation of Students, who had representatives at the meeting, opposed the arbitrary action of the American subversive and supported’ the right of The Chevron to keep operating.

However, both organizations participated in a decision of the Federation to set up a kangaroo court The Chevron. to “investigate” The staff of The Chevron militantly pointed out that it is not the paper which needs “investigating” but rather the activities of the hitlerite police agents who have been mobilizeg by the state to attack the students. They resolutely declared that The Chevron itself would carry out this investigation, and immediately went to work.

All day Monday, the staff was busy preparing the special issue of The Chevron which came out Tuesday.

This special issue repudiated the charges against the AIA members on The Chevron staff, and announced the beginning of the investigation of the American subversive and his gang of reactionaries.

This drove the reactionaries into a frenzy. They raved that it was an “illegal” issue, since it was put out without the “permission” of the American subversive.

This was the -second attack carried out against The Chevron and the AIA. The special issue announced that a

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mass democracy meeting would in the mass democratic style and be held at noon on Thursday to no one can impose arbitrary defully discuss the attacks of the cisions on the staff. This is the American subversive and the Fedrevolutionary-democratic form eration, which have been carried which the state and its agents are . out on the orders of the monopso anxious to smash. Naturally , oly capitalist state. the first object of their attacks are The reactionaries also planned the Marxist-Leninists who have a meeting on Thursday in order led in establishing the present to carry out still further attacks form and who struggle to uphold against The Chevron and its staff. and defend the basic interests of .

The mass democracy meeting the students. organized by The Chevron was atThese reactionary attacks are tended by 1,500 people. Large part and parcel of the state-ornumbers- of people participated ganized assault against the revin thoroughly discussing the issties olut.ionary political party of the and gave their views. Resolutions proletariat, the Communist Party , were presented at the meeting of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), in support of the democratic strucwhich has pointed out‘to the revture of The Chevron, but due to the olutionary students that the basic \ disruptive activities organized interests of the students can,only by a clique of reactionaries, no be achieved by taking up, and resolution was arrived at in the fighting for, the basic interests of I meeting’which lasted three hours. the proletariat.

The working class At 5: 30, the reactionary Counhas alwhys been denied access to cil met, with about two hundred the universities which have long people attending.

The meeting been a stronghold of reaction was well stacked with reactionwhere only the privileged few aries who, after six hours, passed were permitted to enter. With the a resolution to suspend operadeepening of the economic, politi_. tion of The Chevron for four Cal, and social crisis, the students weeks. The reactionary Council are coming under increased atalso eliminated the posts of editacks, and are being forced to tor, production manager and bear ever more of the burden of news editor in their attempt to the crisis. The only way forward purge the AIA influence from the for the students is to take up the paper. The Chevron staff opposed revolutionary politics of class all these reactionary manoeuvres struggle of the proletariat, the and stated that it is determined politics of Make The Rich Pay! to publish in spite of them. What The revolutionary students should the reactionaries are so afraid of demand that the working class is the revolutionary-democratic have free education, and that the form of the present Chevron, rich, who have always used their which they want to replace with a , wealth to shove aside the working ’ reactionary-bureaucratic form class youth, should be forced to which can be controlled by a pay to the maximum.

The rich small clique of reactionaries should pay not only for their ‘edu- ’ against the basic interests of the cation, but also for that of the students. At present, no one perworking class. son or small clique can control the It is the revolutionary politics content of The Chevron. The staff of class struggle advanced by has full discussion on all issues CPC(M-L) which earns the hatred of the monopoly capitalist state, which does everything to attack the Party and its supporters such as the AIA. Only a couple of weeks ago, the bourgeois press whipped up a huge sensation about CPC (M-L) allegedly “inciting” the Native people to be violent and financing them to take up armed struggle against the state. Last week, the state and its various agents carried out a repeated series of physical attacks on supporters of the Party selling revolutionary literature at 4he Rosemont CEGEP in Montreal and fired two communist teachers for defending the revolutionary students. None of these attacks stop NEWSPAPER the CPC( M-L) or its supporters from giving firm support to the struggles of the Native people 4, 1976 or tti the students, but merely increase the resolve of the comrades to carry on the struggle.

In the case of The Chevron, this too has been,blamed on the communists.

The Globe and Mail qrried an article which claimed that the University of Waterloo administration locked the doors of The Chevron in order to keep the Communist Party of Catiada (Marxist-Leninist) from taking over the student newspaper.

Just as all the other attacks by reactionaries on the communists have been defeated, so will this attack be smashed by the revolutionary students at UW. PCDN hails the revolutionary spirit of The Chevron staff to carry on in the face of the reactionary attacks.

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0 I WHAT

IS THE CPC (ML) AND WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SO DOWN ON IT?

The word “communist”, in the Canadian context, conjures up in most people’s minds the image of an ideology somewhere to the left of the New Democratic Party. While the many Canadians who believe in Capitalism might not agree with that political orientation, they see no more reason to restrict them ’ or repress them than they do to restrict or repress the NDP. This is especially so since the CPC (ML) candidates in the Federal elections have never succeeded in getting more than .l per cent of the popular vote.

At worst the CPC (ML) seems on the surface to be a group of fringe loonies who present no real threat due to their small numbers.

Yet the ability of this small group to successfully employ disruptive tactics, become the major issue in a Federation of Students presidential election, through their Front group, the AntiImperialist Alliance (AIA) and otherwise disrupt every serious attempt at political debate and dialogue is rather extraordinary.

Although proclaiming a leftist ideology, their tactics are more reminiscent of the extreme right, and have earned the CPC (ML) undying hatred from every left wing group in the country that has ever encountered them.

Anyone, be he right, left or centre, who criticises them in any way earns the title “fascist”, which for the uninformed observer, obfiscates the fact that their own tactics and methods would have looked good on a man like France, the former fascist dictator of Spain.

Even other communist groups in Canada see the CPC (ML) as a serious threat, not because of competition for public sympathy so much as because of the bad name they give to socialism.

The Mouvement Revolutionnaire des Etudiants du Quebec (Quebec Students Revolutionary movement), compiled a history and critique of the CPC (ML), some of its front groups and its predecessor organizations last year.

We have quoted extensively from this book because of the insight it can provide the concerned reader into the nature of the CPC (ML) organization.

The Origins

of the CPC (ML)

CPC(ML) and its antecedents have been on the Canadian political scene for over ten years now. However, most people are not aware of their origins, early history, style of work, and political line. And this is not surprising, for CPC (ML) has consistently distorted and falsified, its own past, painting a picture of immaculate conception, tit-for-tat struggles, flaming victories .. . onward and upward along the glorious path from the Internationalists to the CPC (ML). While not as unilinear (i.e., CPC (ML)‘s metaphysical habit of relating its past as one straight line of victories and progress) as the latter would like to make it,’ CPC (M L)‘s history is nevertheless consistent-from counterrevolution to counter-revolution.

In order to have a correct understanding and appreciation of the nature of CPC (ML), it is important we analyse its origins and past practice.

Brief

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History

of the Internationalists (19634969)

The Internationalists were first formed by Hardial Bains (1) as a discussion group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1963. It appears that at the beginning it engaged in a number of progressive activities, that is, while Hardial Bains was away in Ireland. (He received a teaching post at the University of Dublin.) When he returned, the “progressive era” of the Internationalist ended. This was to be the first in a long line of sabotage, splitting, wrecking and ultimately swallowing-up activities engaged in by Bains and his organization&.

According to CPC (ML), the Internationalists underwent a series of transformations, becoming first a “centre-left organization based on opposition to imprerialism” in 1966, then an “anti-imperialist youth and student movement” in 1967, and finally a “marxist-leninist youth and student movement” in 1968.

Parallel to the group’s development in Vancouver the Internationalists began to do work in a number of other countries.

Hardial Bains spent his time going back and forth between Dublin and Vancouver during the years 1964-69 in order to develop the work of the Internationalists’ organization.

In December 1967 the Internationalists staged their first event. The “Necessity for Change” conmajor “international” ference, personnally organized by Hardial Bains, was held in London. The conference, attended by about 50 delegates from England, Ireland, Canada, Scotland and perhaps the USA, was based on a document entitled “Necessity for Change”. This little booklet, apparently written by Bains himself, is a hodgepodge of intellectualism, pseudo-Marxist psychology and confused political principles. It is devoid of class analysis and harps on the alienation of the individual or “I.” It is quite difficult to read. A few passages will suffice to illustrate what we mean: “The socio-economic and political history of mankind has always 6een a struggle between the various classes of people who have usurped power by force . . . and the classes created as a result of their policies. ” (p. 3) “The Will-To-Be demands crisis of itself, and that demand is heeded in the negative way by the historical crib (The latter is “the particular prejudices of society”‘)” (p. 6) ” ‘I’ is a relate or relationship . . . ‘I’ is being incarnate ...I’ (p. 9) “I is an active disease . .. Anti-consciousnessbeyond-in-itself (ACBIS) is the most unexploited feeling amongst children”. (p. 14) and “The historical con text of the latter half of the twentieth century is fundamentally the context of the struggle between the Imperialist and the Revolutionist (i.e. Anti-Imperialist) societies of the world . .. Within the context of this struggle, the Anglo-American young people are rising to support the Revolutionist societies, and for that purpose 7. are meeting in England from August 1st to 15th, 1967. The historic significance (sic) of this conference can only be understood with the realization that we are the movement for the development of a new man, the revolutionist man. ” (p. 23).

1. Although Marxist-Leninists do not believe in psycho-history, villain worship, or the “great men of history” school, historical materialism does not negate the role of the individual in the history of nations or organizations. The politics, personality and power of Hardial Bains are central to the understanding of the nature of CPC(ML). Intellectually quite astute, capable of inspiring a blind servility and devotion among the inner core grouped around him, Bains is a bourgeois careerist and “revolutionary” pretender. Right from the beginning he has pushed himself forward as “the” !eader of the Internationalists and CPC(ML), at times even going

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f so far as to place his statements beside those of Lenin. A life-size picture. of Bains stands in the window of the party’s national headquarters. Revolutionary leaders are not hatched. Their capabilities, charisma, and leadership qualities develop in the heart of the mass struggle and over a considerable time period. It is only when the people themselves have recognized the correctness of his/her political line and witnessed the person in action, that their confidence, admiration and respect will be reflected in pictures and quotations. Hardial Bains, leader of the Canadian working class what an affront and insult to the intelligence of the Canadian people! (To illustrate just what Bains is like, in the Appendix to this brochure we have added some of his poetic efforts).

An entire issue of Mass Line was devoted to reprinting this gem, this creative development of bourgeois psychology!

It was here that the formal basis of unity was created among the different Internationalist groups.

By 1968 it is clear that the Internationalists had developed contacts across Canada and they had by then created both the “Canadian Student Movement” and the “lntellectuels et Ouvriers Patriotes du Quebec” (IOPQ). In March 1969 The Internationalists in Canada were formally dissolved to form th.e Canadian Communist Movement (Marxist-Leninist), the center for the inauguration of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist- Leninist).

During their life span (1963- 1969) the Internationalists underwent a considerable political development.

They changed from a group which, for all practical purposes, had no clear political line, to a group claiming to base itself on MarxismLeninism. We have few documents on the earliest period of their existence (1963- 1967) and we can only really begin to follow their development closely since the “Necessity for Change” conference.

However, it is this later period (19681969), during which the Internationalists claimed to base themselves on Marxism- Leninism, Mao Tsetung Thought that is particularly relevant for our purposes. In their documents on this period we can already find certain key errors;

The CPC (ML) ‘s Political

Line

When one undertakes a study of CPC (ML)‘s political line, one of the first things which one notices is that for the greater part of tb “Party’s” history there is a complete lack of concrete analysis and clear statement of CPC (ML)‘s line and views.

During the entire early period of the CPC (ML)‘s work, no serious attempt was made to study the conditions in Canada and-apply Marxism-Leninism to them. As mentioned in the previous section, CPC (ML) was completely cut off from reality.

A quick glance at any issue of the People Canada Daily News, particularly in the first year of its publication, shows clearly that the CPC (ML) was out of touch with what was going on around it. A person knowing nothing of Canada, who read CPC (MLr texts would be under the impression that the Canadian masses, under the leadership of the CPC (ML) were in the process of preparing directly for armed struggle against the U.S. agressors, and that this armed struggle was to begin any day. The following quotations, taken from different issues of the PCDN (mostly in 1970) are quite revealing.

- *A new upsurge of mass democratic anti-imperialist revolution is taking place in Canada today. I* - “‘glorious mass democrat y ” was the caption that appeared under a photo of no more than 50 people.

- “the PCDN was ‘inet with enthusiam and large scale interest by the broad masses of people in Hamilton. ” - “. . . fine revolutionary situation in Hamilton. ” - “Get organized for national war against U.S. imperialism and defeat the reactionary civil war of the Canadian compradors to suppress the national liberation struggle of Quebec. ” - “The year 1970 was the Grea f Year of the Great Revolutionary Upsurge. ” The above examples are only a few from the hundreds we could give that show CPC (ML)‘s complete distortion and misrepresentation of reality. Much of the distortion is done with the intention of applauding and glorifying the work of the CPC of 50 people.

(ML) itself - th us the “glorious mass democracy” Canada was not in 1970 nor it is now, in a situation of “great revolutionary upsurge”, nor are the masses, as yet, clamoring for Mao Tsetung Thought as the CPC (ML) would have us believe. In its portrayal of the Canadian situation the CPC (ML) shows contempt for the masses and through distortion is in fact trying to dupe the people. In the end they are duping only themselves in that the articles that appear in their newspapers are so absurd to the workers that the CPC (ML) loses any credibility it could possibly have.

Not only was the CPC (ML) isolated from the real world but (as mentioned in the previous section) it also projected its subjective impressions on to the real world. For example, during the period where they defined their task as to “build the resistance movement”, the CPC (ML) spent all its time getting into fights with the police and getting’its militants arrested. Particularly between April 1970 and March 1971, nearly every issue of the PCDN carried at least one article on the courageous comrades who either “fought the fascist judge”, “opposed the fascist rules and regulations” or “denounced the fascist jails”.

It almost appears that if the CPC (ML) didn’t always get its militants arrested, there would be very little news to print in the PCDN. (At times CPC (ML)‘s “revolutionary self defence” was about their only activity). In fact, some entire issues were completely devoted to talking about the arrests, trials and resistance of their members. It is quite obvious that the CPC (ML) considered getting arrested to be a good thing. While genuine MarxistLeninists must not adopt “legalist” attitudes, they do not just break the laws because it’s there. When communists decide to carry out illegal actions they do it for a specific purpose and after weighing the effects of the action. CPC (ML) seems to have gone around trying to provoke confrontations with the police. The year 1970 was summed up in the following terms: “‘during this one year of the decade of liberation, the Canadian working class and people have won tremendous victories. Today, five of our comrades are in the comprador jails.. . ” A strange idea of the tremendous victories of the Canadian working class! It seems that the CPC (ML) feels that the more communists in jail, the greater the victories!

To cite a few more examples of the CPC (IvrL)‘s handling of arrests, they proudly mention in one issue of the PCDN, “during the year of 1970 alone there were over 120 arrests of over 70 members and supporters of the CPC (ML) from all walks of life.” In a call issued to youth and students in September 1970, CPC (ML) asks them to “follow the courageous example of Comrade Robert Cruise . . . who has never flinched from taking revolutionary action against reactionaries”.

The article then asks them also to follow the models of three other arrested members as “.. . heros who have stood up for our people, our land, the national liberation struggle, the dictatorship of the

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proletariat, Chairman Mao and Mao Tsetung Thought.”

In later articles, the slogan “Hail to the 120 comrades who defied the reactionary authorities” was put forward. As we mentioned above, this extensive preoccupation with arrests in the CPC (ML) newspapers was prevalent during the period of “building the resistance movement”.

Since CPC (ML) has not said otherwise, we can only presume that the period of building the resistance movement has ended, and thus, recently, CPC (ML) has paid less attention to the arrest records of its members. However, apparently the CPC (ML) still feels that getting arrested is good for publicity. (Note for example the incident at McGill last year where the ,CPC (ML) physicaly attacked some Zionists in the student union building, were arrested and barred from campus, returned, arrested again, etc. etc...)

In a press conference, Hardial Bains boasted that I‘... over 2,000 arrests of our comrades took place between 1969 and 1973 and are still continuing . ..‘I (PCDN Feb. 20, 1975). Doing a little calculation here - subtract the 120 for 1970, and that leaves 1880 arrests in the four years 1969, 71, 72, 73, or an average of more than a militant a day. This is quite a feat considering that we are in a period of bourgeois democracy and the CPC (ML) does very little mass work!

Needless to say, the continual arrest of their members has caused a lot of ups and downs in the consistency of their work.

The most notable example of this is the practical liquidation of their work in Montreal for example of this is the practical liqurdation of their work in Montreal for several months after everyone got arrested at a demonstration on May 20, 197 1 (We shall return to this debacle in more detail later.)

Without any analysis of the concrete conditions in Canada, completely cut off from the real world, the CPC (ML) resorted to the dogmatic application of the experience of the Chinese revolution to Canadian conditions to help determine what to do here. This took many different forms of which two are especially obvious: first the massive indiscriminate reprinting of articles from Chinese periodicals, and second, advancing slogans and analysis appropriate for China and applying them to Canada.

First, the- CPC (ML) has reprinted in its newspapers a huge quantity of articles from Chinese (and Albanian) periodicals.

This is, of course, a good thing; however, when entire editions of their newspapers are filled with nothing but reprints from Peking Review, China Reconstructs and Hsinhua, it is another matter. Many issues of the PCDN, as well as their other papers are mostly or entirely devoted to these reprints. Generally, they are presented with absolutely no attempts made to explain their relevance to the revolutionary struggle in Canada.

(Incidentally, it isn’t all that hard to publish a daily newspaper if half the content is reprints from other publications). This fervent reprinting has continued right up to the present day. The PCDN is frequently filled with reprints from China or articles on China, as well as on Albania, Korea, Vietnam.

Cambodia, and Laos. For example, the January 27, 28 and 29, 1975 issues of PCDN were devoted entirely to reprinting of documents from the First session of the Fourth National Peoples Congress of the People’s Republic of China. There has also been a massive reprinting of documents from Cambodia.

Attitude

Towards

the Socialist

Countries

CPC (ML) puts enormous amounts of energy into carrying out work around the socialist countries - reprinting speeches, holding meetings, etc. While on the surface this might appear good, in fact, two points must be made. First, CPC (ML) has always done this in order to present itself as the “pro-Chinese” group in Canada. Knowing full well that many progressive people support socialist. China, the CPC (ML) has cheered China loudly in order that some of the support for China can rub off on them. Second, objectively the CPC (ML) does not develop support for the socialist countries, but rather decreases support.

CPC (ML) does not present China and the other socialist countries in a lively manner that could interest people with progressive sentiments in learning more about how socialism is being built. Progressive individuals, seeing how CPC (ML) is always praising China, begin to wonder if people in China are like the CPC (ML) - dogmatic, always shouting slogans, etc. CPC (ML) is even used as an example of just how bad it is in China. In fact, CPC (ML)‘s “support” for the socialist countries does much more damage than good.

In the introduction to this chapter we talked of the CPC(ML)‘s dogmatic application of the experience of the Chinese revolution to the conditions of Canada. We would like here to come b,ack to this question for a minute since it is related to CPC(ML)‘s perception of the international situation.

In the past, the CPC (ML) had practically a religious attitude towards China. While marxist-Leninists around the world must recognize the importance of the People’s Republic of China, they should not in their policies mechanically follow CPC. The CPC (ML)‘s erroneous attitude was revealed in Hardial Bains’ New Year message for 1975: “Every revolutionary must orient his policies according to the policies of the socialist People’s Republic of China. ” At present there is no Communist International. There is no uniform “discipline” in the International communist movement.

Revolutionaries in each country must orient their policies oo the basis of Marxism-Leninism and Mao-Tsetung Thought and their analysis of the concrete conditions. The Communist ‘party of China has tremendous revolutionary experience, and naturally everyone should pay attention to understanding their analysis of the situation, but it is up to the revolutionaries in each country to decide things for themselves. The Chinese comrades bend over backward not to give directives to Marxist-Leninists in other countries.

CPC( ML) ‘s Practical

Support Struggles

for Anti-imperialist

As always, it is in the realm of practice that we can most clearly understand CPC(ML)‘s real nature. In order to see a little beyond the simple positions that appear on paper, we have presented here a few examples of CPC(ML)‘s practical activity in support of anti-imperialist struggles.

Perhaps this can be better described as CPC(ML)‘s activity in sabotaging support for anti-imperialist struggles.

A huge demonstration was called for January 20, 1973 against U.S. agression in Indochina. The demonstration was organized and supported by 30 organizations in Montreal. It was, for Montreal, the first truly anti-imperialist Vietnam demonstration organized by progressive forces. A great deal of preparatory work was done. Pre-demonstration rallies were held around the city. Slogans and chants were selected by the or-

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ganizing committee, How did the CPC(ML) show its support for the Indochinese people? They did not participate in any of the organizing or build-ups for the demonstration.

They came and refused to follow the slogans of the marshals. After the demonstrations, when it came time for the mass meeting, they refused to enter the hall and instead stood outside singing the Internationale.

Another examole would be their participation in the October 1974 Haitian demonstration, organized by the Comite d’Action Anti-Deportation. and their participation in the 1973 Palest\ne demonstration.

These two ’ Montreal demonstrations can be lumped together not because of the issues involved, but because of the “consistent” participation of the issues involved, but because of the “consistent” participation of the CPC(ML).

At both demonstrations, the organizers asked that only the banners of the organizers be present (CAAD and Quebec Palestine). At both demonstrations, the CPC(ML) brought its own banner. Why w’ould a group bring its banner when it was asked not to and did no work in order to organize the event? The answer -is opportunism.

They bring their banner in order to make it appear as if they are the leaders of the demonstration, when in fact they are not. They attempt to have their banner lead the demonstration, in these cases, pushing aside the Haitians and the Palestinians involved. Demonstrations turn into races, with the CPC(ML) pushing to the front and everyone else then havina to push in front of them, and so it continues.

The CPC(MLy) members in these demonstrations marched together and chanted their own slogans - always different from those being shouted by the rest of the demonstration.

They also always hand out their leaflets along the demonstration route, trying to make it appear that their leaflet is the official leaflet of the organizers. After the demonstration in support of the Palestinian people, the spokesperson for the organizers denounced the CPC(ML) openly for trying to sabotage the demonstration.

We could give many other examples. For instance, the CPC (ML) frequently holds “mass democracies” in support of antiimperialist struggles. While not exclusively used for the question of anti-imperialist struggles, the so-called “mass democracy” is used often by the CPC(ML) for this purpose.

For those who have never participated in a CPC(ML) “mass democracy” we should perhaps here take a minute out to explain what they are.

It starts when the CPC(ML) announces the event a day or two beforehand in its local newspaper or in a tract specially prepared. The announcements call on the masses to attend a at such and such a place and time. CPC “mass democracy” (ML) usually holds the meetings in a crowded place such as a cafeteria in a university or in the lobby of a student union building, etc. begins when a CPC(ML) spokesThe “mass democracy” person gets up on a table, chair, or anything else around, and begins screaming slogans at the top of his or her lungs. In general, the “mass democracies” fall into two types: those in which no one listens, and those where a few students participate. In the first case, the CPC(ML) members (for often they take turns standing on the table, chair, or whatever) Iiteraly talk and shout slogans on and on for an interminable period of time, for example, one hour. This is completely independant of -’ whether anyone stops to listen to them or not. It is not uncommon to see the CPC(ML) members talking to one or two and sometimes no “masses”. On other occasions (particularly when the question is topical, such as the Palestine question), the CPC(ML) manages to draw a few people around to listen and debate. Debate is perhaps not the correct word here, since in fact CPC(ML) does not respond to the arguments of their opponents, but only repeats a few basic statements, frequently resorting to shouting slogans to drown out the opposition: “Death to reactionaries”, “Death to this, Death to that . ..“.

“Long live this. Long live that . ..I’ ‘As often as not the whole thing degenerates into a brawl.

The CPC(ML)‘s “mass democracies” do an excellent job of developing anti-comminism among the masses. If the “mass democracy” is of the first type, people are led to think that communists are all “crazies.” If it is of the second type, people are absolutely convinced that communists are crazy. We are, of course, not opposed to communists using different method of agitation to gain access to the masses. However, through carrying out this type of work, the so-called “mass democracies”, CPC(ML) “waves the red flag to oppose the red flag”, denigrates communism in the eyes of the masses, and sabotages support for the struggle they claim to be supporting.

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odicals in Dublin for any other part of the world. Apparently for Bains, the only way the revolution woulo develop in the world was if he exported it himself. What pretentiousness!

5. Although the Internationalists claimed that they would do political work in the workplace, in the community, and in the university, they fortunately did not fulfil their promise until a couple of years later (c. 1971-1972).The vast majority of their time was spent on campus.

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This point is, of course, closely related to the preceding ones.

Because of their lack of a basic assimilation of the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and because of their inability to make a concrete analysis of a concrete situation, the Internationalists often mechanically transferred the experience of the Chinese revolution to quite different conditions.

Their newspapers abound with examples of this.

It was rare indeed for an Internationalist publication to carry an analysis of a concrete event in Canada - a strike, a political happening, the nature of the economy, etc. In short, there was almost nothing about the objective conditions in Canada and the struggles of the Canadian people. Reprints, ryes, reports about the Internationalists and their umpteen conferences and statements, yes, but the concrete situation’ in Canada (or for that matter, anywhere) . .. no!

What then did the Internationalists do? They harassed students (5) by waving the little red book in their faces, they disrupted conferences and demonstrations, they got arrested for no good political reason at all, they published reams of material which was easier obtained from China, they poured scorn on all those who disagreed with them, they mystified Marxism in the eyes of the people and they split, wrecked and undermined.

A public statement issued by the Chairman of the Internationalists in 1968 proclaimed.

“We do not recognize that any ‘anti-revisionist’ groups are closer to being Marxist-Leninist groups, and so we will not abandon our organization in the hope of guidance and direction from these groups.. ” (The Internationalists Newsletter, Dublin, July 19663, p. 9).

Hardial Bains was attempting to organize the world revolution around himself, to make his own little International. An issue of “World Revolutionary Youth” published in April 1969 claimed that it was printed in German, English, Spanish, French, and Hindi, and that for more information one could address oneself to Progressive Books and Periodicals in Montreal (for North and South America) and to Progressive Books and Peri-

Communist Movement (19694970)

(ML)

After the dissolution of the Internationalists in March of 1969. the Canadian Communist Movement (Marxist-Leninist) was formed. (5a) Mass Line, the newspaper of the CCM (ML). never gave an analysis of from where the CCM (ML) came or a clear statement of principles. Whatever information on their line we have has been pieced together from various issues of Mass Line.

What was the nature of the Canadian revolution? CCM (ML)‘s answer to this question clearly illustrated the backwardness and bankruptcy of its analysis: The leading aspect of the contradiction is to smash U.S. imperialist domination of Canada and build a people’s democracy under the leadership of the proletariat. The first and foremost task for the proletariat is to lead the anti-imperialist democratic revolution and secondly to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The first step must be taken before the second can be achieved. (Mass Line, July 23, 1969) (CPC (ML) will later change this to a one-stage anti-imperialist proletarian revolution - old wine in a new bottle.)

This position can best be explained by understanding their total lack of appreciation for the objective conditions in Canada.

The position put forward is a total juxtaposition of the experience of the Chinese revolution which did proceed through a two-stage revolution. The only problem comes from the fact that China was a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society while Canada is a developed capitalist power. Canada’s revolution must be a proletarian revolution, not a people’s democratic revolution.

The CCM (ML) contributed more theoretical confusion when it came to the national question in Quebec: ‘Quebec’s struggle for National Liberation is an integral part of the international struggle against U. S. imperialism. (Mass Line, July 4, 1969).

And later in the same issue: ‘Ouebecois people resolutely support the Canadian working class in their struggle against the common enemy - the Canadian bourgeoisie lacky of U. S. imperialism. ** (emphasis added).

5a. It appears there was also founded a Mouvement Communiste Quebecois (ML), but it must have been nationally oppressed for traces of it are hard to come by.

If the enemy of the Quebec people is the Canadian bourgeoisie, then why is their struggle principally aimed against U.S. imperialism? The same mix-up follows in Canada when they state that the “main contradiction is between the Canadian people and imperialism” while saying the enemy is the Canadian bourgeoisie.

Mistakes in analysis are inevitable, but with practice and study these are corrected. Above all, it is necessary for an organization to sum up its experience. A good understanding of criticism, self-criticism can help correct many errors. But throughout its existence, the CCM (ML) never tried to clearly analyse anything or correct any of its errors. They acted as “copy-cat town criers” in Canada, not as Canadian revolutionaries. Almost every article ended with the slogan “Long live Chairman Mao”, regardless of its relevance. They based their analysis on the ‘Thought of Mao Tsetung - the MarxismLeninism of our era.’ If they had studied Marxism-Leninism, they would know that we are still living in the same era as Lenin did, the era of imperialism.

The CCM (ML) also had a habit of throwing the word fascism around as if it had no special significance.

Any communist militant can understand that if there was a rising fascist tide, tactics would have to be drastically altered.

CCM (ML) never provided an analysis of fascism, nor an explanation of its manifestations.

The only examples of fascism ever mentioned, and in fact, mentioned very often, are the police attacks on them (CCM (ML).

A final look at their dannerous line is their position on trade unions. Instead of working for meaningful unions which are both democratic and militant, they dogmatically attack all international unions as being lackeys of imperialism. Anything to do with the United States is bad and must be struggled against.

Their position directly leads to a form of dual unionism. Instead of working to push the unions leftward, their position would leave the majority of unions and workers in the hands of reactionaries.

If ever there was a group that called itself Marxist-Leninist and wasn’t, it was the CCM (ML)!

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0 The strike at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) In the fall of 1972 the administration of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) attempted to institute a number of restrictive measures: they forbade the use of the library without an identity card; they demanded that all debts to the college be paid in full in order to be able to receive a loan or bursary; and they ordered that no one could register unless they had paid their fees intiull by November 15 (later changed to February Y 5 after student pressure). Since the vast majority of the 1 1,649 students at UQAM owed that college money in one form or another, they did not take these ultimatums sitting down. Rallies, boycotts, demonstrations, and finally a strike was the response of the students. But what was the response of the MEQ - the student wing of CPC(ML)?

In the autumn of 1972, the students organized a boycott of registration as a method of mobilizing students against the administration’s “reforms”.

MEQ did not participate at all.

After three months of various forms of struggle by the students MEQ finally appeared on the scene of January 9. 1973 - the first of their tracts made its way onto the camps. Among other things it condemned “the ferocious repression, the despotic and fascist attitude of the administration which limits tlie professors’ salaries” (this and future translations, ours), and the tract humbly presented itself as “the first scientific analysis” of the struggle! Primitive science, perhaps. A week later MEQ called for a study session to discuss “the crisis in the educational system and the role of a communist intellectual in the national liberation struggle.”

Of course, by coincidence, the Comite

d’Organisation Provisoire des Etudiants (COPE) - the recognized leadership of the struggle - had organized a study session on the same day. MEQ up to its splitting tricks again. Twenty people showed up, but undaunted they called another one two days later. The following day the students voted to go on strike, and MEQ was quick to reply: the strike was “spontaneist and adventurist” and did not correspond to the scientific method of “investigation-analysis-action”Also, given the “state of disorganization of the student movement” the strike should be opposed because it played into the hands of the administration. And what was MEQ’s alternative: students should organize on the basis of their own analyses of their departments.

All of MEQ’s brilliant suggestions and criticisms were never (but one) submitted to the General Assemblies of students where from one to three thousand people were present. The one exception was the “demand”

by MEQ to send a ultimatum to the Dean of the University asking to explain his actions. Considering that this was a “fascist dean” who was responsible for “many crimes” one wonders what MEQ wanted the Dean to say.

However, it was on the picket lines set up by the students that CPC(ML) demonstrated its many years of experience in diversion and sabotage. Members of MEQ would try and convince the picketers that the strike wasn’t doing any good and that students weren’t supporting them. But fear. not, for the copies of the “little red book” which MEQ just happened to have on hand, would solve everything. and a few weeks later, just to prove they were for real MEQ condemned “the establishment of fascism at UQAM” (the police had arrested and injured a number of students the previous day) and called for a “mass democracy” in the cafeteria of one of the campuses *.. However, there was one problem: COPE had instructed the students not to enter any of the buildings. For once, CPQ(ML) was clearly struggling against a line - the picket line!

However, all was not lost - there remained one last feeble parting shot for our glorious anti-imperialist heros on the student front. In a tract MEQ announced the formation of an “antifascist committee”.

This was another one of those phantom organizations that were created faster than you can say “Hardial Bains”. It again demanded that the Dean “explain his criminally fascist conduct and activities __.” A few days later it disappeared. Thus ended another episode in the inglorious history of MEQ - the student wing of CPQ(ML)!

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CPC(ML) and ANEUI \ In the establishing of ANEQ. CPC(ML) carried out all sorts of opportunist manouvers. Among these we can note first of all their infiltration of student associations (not all that difficult considering the small number of students who are interested in these associations). in order to get them to join ANEQ. In schools where student associations did not exist the MEQ took the initiative to create them or support those who did so. This was done with the participation of only an insignificant minority of the students.

The procedures used by the MEQ in the stude’nt meetings. where the question of ANEQ was debated are themselves worthy of note. Completely incapable of carrying out a political debate, the members of the MEQ did nothing but give false and mystifying speeches to the students. In their dogmatic interventions they said for example, that it is urgent to organize to defend student interests (without ever defining these interests), that it is not even necessary to be organized locally to join a national association, etc., etc. Those who do not understand these “‘arguments” or who wish simply to have more information about ANEQ are treated as halfwits. while those who try to carry out a political struggle around the question are treated as splitters and wreckers.

Their political weakness obliged the members of MEQ to use tricks of procedure or to declare that the question of ANEQ should simply not even be debated. For example, at the meeting held at UQAM to discuss the question of joining ANEQ - (a meeting so sparsely attended that the MEQ could “pack” it). after fifteen minutes of discussion the MEQ proposed the vote!

Further, during the preparatory congresses for ANEQ (to define its constitution etc.). the members of MEQ developed a firm alliance with the most opportunist student bureaucrats.

They supported the most right wing propositions and struggled to defeat anything which aimed to give ANEQ a more militant character or more democratic structures.

In short. the activity of CPC(ML) in the student milieu displays a blatant distrust of the masses (among whom they develop anti-communism) and the worst opportunism.

This opportunism was denounced by Lenin in his time, when he emphasized at the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour party the need to ‘:.. beware of those false friends of the youth who divert them from a thorough revolutionary training through recourse to empty revolutionary or idealistic phrase-mongering and philistine complaints about the harm and uselessness of sharp polemics between the revolutionary and the opposition movements, for as a matter of fact these false friends are only spreading an unprincipled and unserious attitude towards revolutionary work;... (Vol. 6, p- 471).

At present CPC(ML)‘s objectives on the university campuses are threeford.

1. To support the creation of a national student organization which appears prestigious and strong (and incidentally is encouraged by the Quebec Minister of Education), in order to occupy its leading posts and to develop the influence of the “Party”’ (not to mention all the money that will end up in CPC (MLI’s pocket). If ANEQ fails, MEQ will expfain this failure as the work of a gang of “saboteurs” and “anarcho-syndicalists”.

The Party’s line on the student question will be above criticism.

2. To sabotage progressive and revolutionary &work in the schools Particularly the work of the student support committees for workers struggles, committees to struggle against the capitalist school and progressive student newspapers.

3. To hinder as much as possible the development of the struggle for the unity of Marxist-Leninist which is presently developing. by attacking MREQ and trying to get cfose to certain honest forces who are confused about the nature of the CPC(M L).

And now this ame CPC(MLj. ted by Comrade Hardial Bains, is playing its dirty tricks in Ontario through its foster child, the Anti-Imperialist Alliance.

Although the chevron affair has only been with us in full fury for a month, the build-up has been going on for some time. To understand the nature of the chevron affair and to have a hope of grappling with possible solutions, one must understand the CPC (ML).

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professor of Political Science The tactics of most extremist political organizations, be they fascist or Maoist are similar. Indeed, much of what has occurred at Waterloo around the Anti-Imperialist Alliance and its many front organizations can be best and understood interpreted through a reading of the collected works of Mao ‘Be-Tung. , The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist Leninist) is constructed on the vanguard model which was so successfully developed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks before the. Russian revolution. A small group of people typically controls the direction and ideology of the movement and membership is very difficult to attain.

In the 1930’s the old Moscowline Canadian Communist Party would organize through the medium of unemployed marches on Ottawa, through protests and unrest of many other types, and finally through the organization or at least assistance in the organization of most industrial unions in Canada. Always, members of the Party would be involved in the leadership and direction of ‘progressive’ movements, usually not openly.

The purpose of all this activity is to emphasize contradictions, to show that established authority is irretrievably opposed to the interests of the working class. They theorize that if workers could see sufficient proof they would

by Douglas

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“Down with the fascist assault on the Anti-Imperialist Alliance and the students at the University read the headlines of Waterloo,” on page one of People’s Canada DailyNews on Oct. 4, 1976.

“The monopoly capitalist state and its agents have launched a vicious assault on the revolutionary students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The struggle centres around the Students’ newspaper, the chevron, where the Marxist-Leninist line of defending the basic interest of the students ’ has become firmly established as the line of the paper.”

People’s Canada Daily News (PCDN) is the official organ of

the Communist Party of Canada, Marxist-Leninist.

Many of the chevron’s defenders in recent weeks have claimed that there was little or no AIA influence in the paper. The AIA, (Anti-Imperialist Alliance) is a unit of the student wing of the CPC(ML).

Shane Roberts, president of the Federation of Students, has claimed that there was significant CPC (ML) influence in the paper. The former production manager, Neil Docherty has stated publicly that he is a member of the AIA. Several other writers for the paper, Larry Hannant, a UW grad student and Doug Wahlsten, a UW psychology prof have also proclaimed themselves to be members of the organization.

PCDN agrees with Roberts that there was a degree of CPC (ML) influence in the chevron. The Oct. 4 story goes on to say “After a long hard struggle, the line of certain opportunists who wanted to use the paper for their own ends and to keep the masses of students from grasping the fact their interests are inseparably bound up with those of the proletariat, was defeated. Seeing that the Marxist-Leninist line was about to be consolidated as the leading line of the chevron, the

support the new movement.

Mao added the guerrilla war to the vanguard theory because it represented a continuous confrontation with the established power structures and because in a rural environment it could, over time? create whole sections of territory which would be controlled by the new movement.

As part of the strategy of the guerrilla war, a number of tactics were evolved.

Political terrorism is one of the key ones: Wherever possible the movement must discredit or destroy the existing leadership.

It is generally much easier to place your own ‘cadres’ or members into positions of significance and leadership if the old types have been eliminated.

Therefore, the Chinese Red Army ‘eliminated’ big landlords, village chiefs, etc. wherever possible. In Vietnam, the revolutionary forces made it a practice to assassinate the village leaders as they moved into an area. Nor did the Americans hesitate to assassinate the chiefs in areas that they had ‘liberated’.

Control of a territory and its people requires that the old leaders be exchanged for the new. In the same manner, Shane Roberts’ credibility will be destroyed.

Vanguardism assumes that the masses must be led for their own good. The cadres of the revolutionary party know what is needed because they have studied the great masters - Marx-EngelsLenin, or Marx-Engels-Trotsky.

state mobilized an imported American subversive who has been installed as the head of the Federation of Students, to stage a hitlerite conspiracy to muzzle the progressives on the chevron staff. ” Presumably the American subversive referred to is President Roberts who was born in the United States. The use of euphemistic labels in the place of people’s proper names makes it more difficult to press charges of libel.

PCDN continues “On the same day the editor resigned, the American subversive convened a secret meeting of the Federation Executive, all of whom are appointed by himself, not elected by the students. He cooked up the completely bogus charge that the editor has been “pressured” to resign by the progressive students in the AIA who were actually leading the work of the paper . .. These are merely’ trumped up charges to prevent the progressive students, led by the AIA, from using the chevron to defend the basic interests of the students. ” It is particularly interesting to compare the page one allegation that the “pressure” on the editor Adrian Rodway, was a trumped up charge with the page 2 admission of “an entire summer of pressure” on the editor.

This is another example of how the CPC( ML) re-writes history, except that this time they couldn’t even agree with themselves as to how it was to be re-written.

The Freedom of the press rally which was called by the chevron on Sept. 30 is labelled by the PCDN as a Mass Democracy meeting which is described thus: “The mass democracy meeting organized by the chevron was attended by 1,500 people. Large numbers of people participated in thoroughly discussing the issues and gave their views.

Resolutions were presented at the meeting in support of the democratic structure of the chevron, but due to the dis-

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or even Marx-Engels-Lenin-Mao. The group you pick depends on whom you prefer.

The essential thing though, is that the masses don’t yet understand.

Revolutionary activity consists of demonstrating the bankruptcy of the existing system and the benefits to be derived from a new regime.

Violence is used when necessary, although its utility is limited in a society like ours because you’re too likely to get caught.

However, every issue and every example of injustice is exploited and organization is built around it.

Therefore, we got the Renison Academic Assembly, The AntiCapitalist Alliance, the WaterlooWellington Student movement, the Kitchener-Waterloo On the Line and variety of cultural organizations such as the Progressive Culture Club and Cinema Solidarity, which encourage the study of Chinese culture (after Mao) on the surface and which serve as recruiting grounds underneath.

I would be prepared to argue that all of the organizations listed above, and probably a number of others all exist or existed under the leadership of the members of the Anti-Imperialist Alliance and in turn under the leadership of the CPC (ML ). Most of the members of those organizations were not members or supporters of the WC (ML) and probably many of them would hotly deny any connection.

That is the essential nature of a ‘front’ organization - an issue is exploited, new people are attracted around the particular issue-and by implication they become a part of the fringes of the movement they lend strength to it without often even knowing that they’re doing it.

Of course, the typical North American liberal cheers them on - after all, the Americans should not have been in Vietnam in the first place. People in China are better off in every respect now than they were before the victory of the Communists.

And there are a lot of injustices in our society, or for that matter around the University.

Nobody wants to see people fired for their political beliefs.

Everybody believes in freedom of the press. Most of us believe in the sacred right of people to make up their own mind, to believe what they want, and for that matter, to be wrong. In a sense, that’s the basis of a democratic society. People do what they want as long as they don’t break the law, and if they don’t like the law they can always elect a new government to make some new ones.

We ordinarily believe in the right of people to form organizations like the CPC( ML) and the AIA. That’s what a democratic society is about. A lot of people went to Europe in the last war believing that they were fighting for that right.

Therefore, when Jeff Forrest gets fired over at Renison college

and when he argues that he was fired for political reasons, a large number of people rally to his support. Political persecutions are unacceptable and must be opposed. The same situation applied when Marsha Forrest was fired and when the chevron was closed

by Shane Roberts and the Student’s Council.

Our traditional liberal response is to oppose actions of this type because they attack the fabric of our basic rights and beliefs.

But, you say, who cares anyway?

It’s a minor thing in the context of the whole of Canadian society - tomorrow is another day. And in some ways, that’s the purpose for the exercise.

The revolutionaries want to bring you along in small steps they’re serious about their business. When people show up at one of the AIA meetings that they don’t want they eject them, and . if the\ people don’t leave peacefully they eject them physically.

The things liberal society values are despised as weaknesses which must be exploited.

That’s the nature of the trap the average liberal-democrat gets into, The interference of the student bureaucrats in the operation of the chevron is unacceptable. ,But the domination of the chevron by a small, basically elite group of political fanatics is also unacceptable.

The firing of a professor for his or her political beliefs is unacceptable.

But the exploitation of a person’s opposition to this kind of activity by a group which seeks to establish 3 political society which tends to kill those that oppose it is also unacceptable.

So what do you do? You can try to join the CPC( ML) but it’s PCDN also said “These reacunlikely that they would let you. tionary attacks are part and parcel You can join one of the front orof the state-organized assault ganizations, but if you do, reagainst the revolutionary political one of the many Maoist party7, of the proletariat, CPC (ML 1 member slogans : “Unite the lesser enemy ..... to fight ‘the greater.”

The probThe PCDN account of the affair lem is that eventually you’ll probconcludes with this gem: ably become part of the greater enemy.

“THE COMMUNIST STUOn the whole, you have to fight DENTS AT WATERLOO WILL for their right to exist, but always CERTAINLY WIN! THE REACretain the* right to oppose them TIONARIES WILL CERTAINLY democratically.

BE DEFEATED!”

ns “F scists” ruptive activities organized by a clique of reactionaries, no resolution was arrived at in the meeting which lasted three hours.” * The K-W Record estimated the crowd at 500. While there certainly was some discussion, t he charge that no resolutions were voted on is false. A resolution in support of the Federation was presented

by Federation Vicepresident Dave McLellan and received overwhelming approval.

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Be It Enacted as a By-Law of FEDERATION OF STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO as follows : PURPOSE

AND FUNCTION

The purpose and function of the Board of Publications shall be: to serve and express the needs and interests of students by publishing a’ student newspaper ; to publish other authorized Federation publications, subject to the direction of the Students’ Council ; to promote the facilitation of among the communications members of the university community ; to serve as a repository of knowledge in the fields of publishing and communications and ‘to co-ordinate activities in those areas ; E to be responsible for the editorial policy of the student newspaper.

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MEMBERSHIP

A The following shall be voting members of the Board of Publications: a. the chairperson, who shall be appointed by the Students’ Council upon recommendation from the president of the Federation of Students ; b. the editor-in-chief of The Chevron; c. one unpaid member of The Chevron staff to be appointed by and from The Chevron staff; d. one voting member of Students’ Council, to be appointed by Students’ Council; 8. one member who shall be selected by an assembly of Faculty. society presidents.

shall be nonB The following voting members of the Board: a. the president, the vice-president, and the treasurer of the Federation of Students, all exofficio;

manager ; ’ b. the advertising the secretary of the Board; ii: the editor 6f the Student Handbook ; e. the editor of the Student Directory ; .

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DUTIES

AND POWERS

a. seventy-two (72) hours advance notice must be given of any meeting unless all members of the Board are present and do not object to a special meeting being convened; b. a quorum at a properly convened meeting shall consist of four (4) voting members of the Board. voting members may designate a proxy to act for them at any meetings; to recommend and administer all budgets for the programmes and activities of the Boards; to consider and recommend agreements and contracts relative to the activities of the Board; to co-ordinate activities which involve a number of groups or which span a number of publications; to maintain a record of all Federation publications; to advise and direct the editor-inchief with regard to the editorial policy of The Chevron; to formulate its own rules of procedure and policies; I to make recommendations on appointment and dismissal of personnel under the Board’s jurisdiction.

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publications of the Federation of Students : A Newspaper a. The official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo shall be called t‘The Chevron”. b. The Chevron shall exist to provide news and commentary to the student body. To that end, it should be primarily a chronicle of campus news but not to the exclusion of off-campus and non-university news which may be of interest to groups within the university community.

C!. The Chevron and the Board of Publications shall adhere to the principles described in the code of ethics of the Canadian University Press. d. The editorial policy of the Chevron shall be the prerogative of the Board. e. The Chevron shall be published according to a schedule submitted to the Board for approval

by May 1 each year. Deviations from the adopted schedule shall require Board approval. f. The Board shall establish rules to define the membership of Chevron staff. g The term of office of the editorin-chief shall be May 1 to April 30, except where the selection procedure has not been successfully completed, in which case he shall hold office until his successor is appointed.

B Other Publications a. The Board may publish or aid in the publishing of such other publications as may be of value to the university community. or co-operab. Each temporary tive publication may be undertaken for a period of up to one year and shall be renewable.

C. Each temporary or co-operative publication shall be undertaken subject to the signing of an agreement or contract between the principals, clearly defining the liability of the Board and ensuring a suitable method and date of distribution of the publications. d. Each temporary or co-operative publication shall report through a co-ordinator to the Board. ,

the editors of newspapers published by Faculty-wide student societies of the University of Waterloo ; such persons as the Board of Publications may from time to time see fit to appoint to the Board.

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The following shall be the official publications of the Federation of Students: A Newspaper a. the official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo shall be called “The Chevron”. b. The Chevron shall exist to provide news and commentary to the student body. To that end, it should be primarily a chronicle of campus news but not to the exclusion of off-campus and non-university news which may be of interest to groups within the university community; C. The Chevron and the Board of Publications shall adhere to the principles and procedures described in the constitution, charter, bylaws, and code of ethics of the Canadian University Press; d. The ‘Chevron shall be published according to a schedule submitted to the Board for approval by May 1 each year. Deviations from the adopted schedule shall require Board approval; e. the editorial policy of The Chevron shall be the prerogative of the Board of Publications; f. the staff of the Chevron may be defined at any time by the following procedure: a staff committee appointed by the editor-in-chief shall compose a list of names of staff members.

An appeal committca consisting of the editor-in-chief of the Chevron, the chairman of the Board of Publications and one member of the list of staff membels.

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The duties and powers of the Board of Publications shall be: out the purposes and A to carry functions as outlined in Purpose and Function, subject only to the instruction and approval of the Students’ Council ; B to hold regular meetings in accordance with the orders or bylaws set out by the Students’ Council. The following orders shall apply to these meetings: a seventy-two (72) hours advance notice must be given of any meeting unless all members of the Board are present and do not object to a special meeting being convened ; I PURPOSE AND FUNCTION b. a quorum at a properly convenThe purpose and function of the ed meeting shall consist of one Board of Publications shall be: half of the total voting memA to publish a newspaper produced . ,/ by volunteers among the students bers of the Board; to service the students of the Uni- C. voting members may designate versity of Waterloo.

Paramount to a proxy to act for them at any any aims or rationale of the volunmeetings ; teers, the primary purpose of the d. there shall be at least four newspaper is to service the students meetings per academic term. of the University of Waterloo. This newspaper shall be named “The C to recommend and administer Chevron”; all budgets for the programmes B to publish all other authorized and activities of the Board; Federation publications, subject to to consider and recommend the direction of Students’ Council; agreements and contracts relaC to serve as a repository of knowltive to the activities of the edge in the Fields of publishing and communications and to co-ordinate Board ; actiyities in those areas; to co-ordinate activities which D to ensure that the needs and interinvolve a number of groups or ests of the students of the Univerwhich span a number of publicasity of Waterloo are’fuII?iIIed in The tions ; Chevron; E to be responsible for the editorial to maintain a record of all Fedpolicy of The Chevron. eration publications ; II MEMBERSHIP _ to formulate its own rules of procedure and by-laws ; A The following shall be voting to advise and direct the editormembers of the -Board of Pubin-chief of the newspaper with lications : regard to the editorial policy of a. Chairman of the Board of Pubthe student newspaper ; lications to be appointed by the of President of the Federation of I to appoint the editor-in-chief the newspaper; Students and ratified

by StuJ to hire and dismiss temporary dents’ Council ; personnel, in the latter case by of the student b. the editor-in-chief at least a two thirds vote of newspaper ; Board members. member of the C. one volunteer student newspaper staff to be III DUTIES AND POWERS appointed by and from staff; The duties and powers of the Board d. one voting member of Students’ of Publications shall be: Council, to be appointed

by A to carry out the* purposes and Students’ Council ; Functions as outlined; B to hold regular meetings, at least e. one member who shall be selecttwice in each academic term. ed by an assembly of FacultyThe following orders shall apply to wide student society presidents. these meetings: II

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elected by the other members of the list, shall hear appeals against the composition of the list and shall render decisions which shall be final; the selection of the editor-in-chief of the Chevron shall be determined by the following procedure: The Chairman of the Board of Publications shall call for applications for the position in the Chevron by January 15 in each year. All applications shall be submitted by January 31. The chairman shall submit the applications to a meeting of the staff of the Chevron. The staff shall select one applicant and shall submit this selection through the chairman of the Students’ Council for ratification by the last day of February.

Should the Students’ Council not ratify the staff selection, the staff shall submit another name, following the same procedure. This procedure shall be repeated until successfully completed including the reopening of nominations if the staff so directs, the term of office of the editor-inchief shall be May 1 to April 30, except where the selection procedure of 9 (2) IV A (g) has not been successfully completed, in which case he shall hold office until his successor is appointed.

Student Handbook the Board shall publish a student handbook to provide members of the Federation with information about campus services, events, organizations, and regulations.

Student Directory the Board may publish a campus directory each fall as well as supplements in the winter and summer terms; the directory shall contain such information’ as is decided by the Board; the use of the directory for commercial purposes shall be forbidden except by the written permission of the Board.

Other Publitiations the Board may publish or aid in the publishing of such other publications as may be of value to the university community; each temporary or co-operative publication shall be undertaken for a period of up to one year and shall be renewable; each temporary or co-operative publication shall be undertaken subject to the signing of an agree-. ment or contract between the principals, clearly defining the liability of the Board and ensuring a suitable method and date of distribution of the publications; each temporary or co-operative publication shall report through a co-ordinator to the Board; the Board of Publications shall be responsible .for the editorial content of any temporary publication,

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The duties and powers of the Board of Publications shall be : A to carry out the purposes and functions as outlined in Purpose and Function, subject ‘only to the instruction and approval of the Students’ Council; RESPONSIBILITIES

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A The Chairman a. to call meetings of the Board at least four times per academic term and subject to such rules as the Students’ Council may set; b. to be the sole representative of the Board of Publications on the Students’ Council; C. to act in the name of the Board of Publications and with full Board authority between meetings, except with regard to the editorial policy of the newspaper, and subject to ratification by the Board.

B The Editor-in-chief of Newspaper a. to act in the name of the Board and with full Board authority, with regard to the editorial policy of the newspaper; b. to be responsible for administration of all by:laws and poli-

ties with regard ‘to the newspaper; recommendations for C. to make the appointment and dismissal of all other paid staff of the newspaper; d. to recommend to the Board such contracts as may be necessary for the production of their publications.

C Qdvertising Manager a, to be responsible for ensuring that adequate advertising revenue is obtained for each publication ; b to be responsible for inserting advertising and for *billing and collecting revenue accruing from advertising ; C. to maintain adequate records for his department and provide periodic reports to the Board.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

The responsibilities of the Board of Publications members shall be: The Chairperson A a. to call meetings of the Board at least twice per academic term, subject to such rules as the Students’ Council may set; b. to be-the sole representative of the Board of Publications on the Students’ Council; C. to act in the name of the Board of Publications and with full Board authority between meetings, except with regard to the editorial policy of The Chevron, subject to ratification by the Board.

B The Editor-in-chief of The Chevron a. to act as chief representative of the gaff of The Chevron; b. to be responsible for the appointment and dismissal of all other paid staff of The Chevron subject to majority approval of an assembly of The Chevron staff; C. to act in the name of the Board of Publications ~and with full Board authority only with regard to the editorial policy of The Chevron; d. to recommend to the Board such contracts as may be necessary for the production of their publications; e. to be responsible for the administration of all by-laws and policies with regard to The Chevron.

C The Advertising Manager a. to be responsible for ensuring that adequate advertising revenue is obtained for each publication; b. to be responsible for inserting advertising and for billing and collecting revenue accruing from advertising; C. to maintain adequate records for his/her department and provide periodic reports to the Board.

D The Secretary a. to act as recording secretary for all meetings of the Board of Publications and The Chevron; b. to perform other duties as set out by the Chairperson.

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OF MEMBERS

A Any member except the chairperson and the editor-in-chief of The Chevron, may be removed from the Board by the body responsible for their appointment.

B The editor-in-chief of The Chevron may be removed only by following the procedure designated by the Canadian University Press.

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The duties and powers of the Board of Publications shall be: A to carry out the purposes and functions as outlined in Purpose and Function, subject only to the instruction and approval of the Students’ Council ; B to hold regular meetings in accordance with the orders or bylaws.

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OF OFFICE

The term of office of the Board of Publications shall correspond to that of the Students’ Council, except as in B. The term of office of members of the Board shall terminate with the election or appointment of their successor.

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This week’s crew of running do9 lackeys‘$f the capitalist: imperialist class of oppressors of the downtrodden (downtrodding??) masses - hacks, scabs, etc., includes: Mike Dillon, Andy Telegdi, Doug Thompson, April Bingham, Doug Kernohan. Jim Blackburn, Eric Higgs, Bruce Rorrison, Diana Clarke, David Daunt, Don Orth, et al.

Many thanks to Fairway Press for typesetting and printing this exemplary piece of hitlerite, fascist - and what the hell,’ throw in Satanist and Stalinist (for good luck) piece of revisionist right-wing????? propaganda.

The infamous Opportunist, Revisionists, Anarcho-Syndi-. Q calist, plagiarists and -non-scientific socialist anti-Marxist Leninists, Andrew Tele‘gdi and Douglas Thompson would like- to share with you this lesson that has been taught by Chairman Mao regarding future AIA attacks: “it is good if we are attacked by the AIA and the CPC (ML), since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarkation between the AIA/CPC(ML) and ourselves. It is still. better if the AIA and CPC (ML) attacks us wildly and paints us utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarkation between the AIAICPC (ML) and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work!” from dt, at and the whole gang at bullseye, -1goodnight. e $

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bodying the principles incorporated in the Brundrett greenhouse.

Another ‘is making an analysis of glazing materials including the \ one Dr. Brundrett has chosen and a number of others. A third . is-doing a thermal systems analysis hoping this will lead to3 an optimal design. Still another is studying ways of “retro-fitting” or altering existing greenhouses to make them more efficient. , As Dr. Brundrett points out, this . is but one of a growing number of projects at Waterloo related I. to solar energy. e

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- CC Free Movie 10: 15 pm CC Great Hall, Play It Again Sam - CC Pub Whistle King $1 .OO after 8 pm

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- National Students Day - UW Concert Band Great Hall 12:30 pm - 7 Drop-in workshops from 11 am to4pm in CC 110,135& 113 on various student concerns--housing, jobs student aid women inte;national students, educational cutbacks & the quality of education, municipal elections - 7:00 pm Humanities Theatre Forum on “What Is The Future Of Our University?”

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- Dan Hill Concert 7 pm & 10 pm Humanities Theatre Students $3.90, others $4.0(! at the door $4.00 Tickets at Fed Office - CC Pub Disco 5Oc after 8pm

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