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The UW student federation council officially closed the chevron in a chaotic six-hour meeting Thursday attended by more than 200 students. On the recommendation of federation president Shane Roberts, ‘council voted 19-2 to suspend pubiication of the chevron for a fourweek period. A task force to investigate the chevron was also set up on a 19-1 vote. A third motion introduced by Roberts - to fire production manager Neil Docherty and news editor Henry Hess - twisted and turned

closed through several revisions before emerging as a motion to eliminate the positions of the editor-in-chief, the news editor and the production manager and to give notice to the employees of immediate termination with two weeks’ severance’ pay. In a move apparently aimed at killing the regularly-scheduled chevron, which was already being typeset ,’ council rescinded ail pubiication dates after September 24. Later, the chevron learned that executive member Doug Antoine Dhoned Dumont Press Graphix

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immediately following the motion’s acceptance to order a halt to pubiication. Heather Robertson, one of two counciiiors to oppose the closing, urged council to “reconsider the ramifications” of the motion. How can students be informed of what is going on, she asked, if the newspaper is closed? Seima Sahin was the only other counciiior to vote against suspending publication. The task force to investigate the chevron is to be composed of rep-1 * resentatives from each of the ‘six societies, one each from Integrated

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CUP backs the chevron The Canadian University Press - the student press in Canada, and to :CUP) will underwrite the producshow support for the chevron. :ion costs of the chevron for two Benjamin also said that CUP weeks as part of a three-part plan to sees no need to call a formal inves%id the newspaper in its fight tigative comniiission into the federation’s actions because the against closure by the UW Federafacts clearly support the paper. The ion council. Tom-Benjamin, president of the federation’s actions clearly violate lation-wide co-operative of some many of the historical rights of the student press in Canada, as outseventy university and college also announced a lined by the CUP statement of prinnewspapers, cipies. eiephone and telex campaign for The federation’s actions directly :hevron support. This will include contravene six of the principles of ) call for financial assistance for the :hevron. CUP will also hold a the student press in Canada. The first states: “That the Caname-day conference here at UW on dian student press should be free October 16. The conference will bring tofrom pressure by student governments, university authorities, or gether newspapers from all across any external agent, whether or not he country to discuss the rights of

NSD to launch student politician National Student Day at UW nay see a student launched on a :areer in muriicipai politics. According to federation execuive member Doug Thompson, the dea of the federation funding a stulent in the December 6 municipal :iections is being considered avourabiy-by the executive. At a ecent Ontario Federation of Stulents Conference Thompson said he UW federation was likely to back a candidate with as much as ~10,000. He told the fzee chevron Tueslay that a student on local council douid be able to raise subjects which are not normally discussed. ‘he voice would ,be more imporant than the vote, he said, describlg it as “a louder way of cotipiain‘lg.” Housing a’nd transport are the lain student issues which he felt ouid be raised at the municipal :vei. Thompson suggested that a Genrai Meeting of the federation be

held on NSD at which the candidate would be chosen. Prior to that, prospective candidates could campaign for support, leaving the Genera1 Meeting to choose from a list. Other federation plans for the . . . . P day of- protest include a series ot panel discussions on transit, housing, tuition, student aid and unempioyment. Background pamphlets, posters and an information iable travel=iing the campus four weeks before’ the day are also part of the federation strategy. Thompson had budgeted $2.75 an hour at 30 hours per week for a trained person to take charge of the table. In order to maintain interest in the topics discussed, it is hoped students will form task forces to study the problems and will be able io get course credits for their efforts. The federation has set aside $980 for the NSD plans. -

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the press is a part of such an organization.. .” They go bn to say: “Whenever there are serious charges of irresponsibiiity on the part of an editor, the extent of their validity must be determined by due process before any action is taken,” which the federation had not used. The CUP principles go on to state that “student papers should be free of outside financial control’ ’ , and “representatives of the student government should not have direct or implicit power of censorship.” Two other principles violated were established here on the .U%V campus in January of 1970: A CUP investigative commission called at that time tb resolve internal problems on the paper established that: “Appointment of the editorial board and staff should be internal, not subject to the discretion of external bodies. ” They also found that: “The overall policy decisions should be made through collective discussion by the staff:

Studies, Renison, St. Jemme’s, two chevron staff members “appointed by the former editor” and one - professional journalist. By “the former editor” it was not clear whether the motion referred to Ad- rian Rodway or John Morris, since at the time the motion was passed Rodway’s resignation (tendered September 24) had not yet been accepted by council. The motion to fire the- remaining editorial staff was first presented to council in the form of Docherty and Hess both to be discharged with two weeks’ severance pay, and Rodway’s resignation to be accepted. That was subsequently split into three parts, with Roberts first caiiing for Docherty’s firing on the grounds that association with the Anti-Imperialist Aiiiance (AIA) had harmed his “discriminatory faculties.” He charged that Docherty’s writing had gone “beyond the bounds.” Roberts attempted to prove this by providing excerpts from a tape he said represented a confrontation which Jeff and Marsha Forest and Marlene Webber had with academic v-p Tom Brzustowski in February of this year, when Marsha Forest was fighting her firing by the Human Relations and Counselling Studies Department. Roberts claimed that Docherty had reported inaccurately by not attempting to write about everything that had gone on in that meeting. In the meeting, Jeff Forest told Brzustowski, “you’re part of a You’re a monster dying class. which is in its death throes, an aiiigator thrashing around blindly, fascist, bankrupt. ” Docherty did not report that quote. Docherty explained that he had covered the meeting in connection with another article on which he was working, and that the reported comments represented the essence of the lengthy discussion. Roberts charged that “the whole article was just a set up to come down on the v-p academic.” Docherty drew attention to the “complicity between the administration, which ha? _already fired three AIA professors” and this move by Roberts to oust him from the chevron.

Roberts alsoclaimed that Docherty had failed to report an alleged assault- during a political economy conference at UW in March, 1975. But when asked for substantiating evidence, Roberts admitted “I haven’t any’ evidence on that. I can’t produce a witness on that, just now.” Docherty in - turn charged Roberts with operating a “kangaroo court” which did not inform persons of charges against them or allow them to prepare a defence. Rob Morrison, president of Engsoc A, who was attending the meeting as a proxy voter, spoke against the proposed firings. He felt that it had degenerated into a “personal conflict” and said that he could not support the firings without further investigation. Council rep Ian McMiiian, on the other hand, felt that “if there were enough grounds to shut down the chevron. . . we #have no choice but to fire all the staff.“’ With the outcome pnciear, the motion to fire Docherty was withdrawn by Roberts and its place was taken by a series of motions and amendments proposing suspension without ,pay, suspension pending legal investigation and prosecution, and freezin’g of federation funds to the chevron. The proceedings appeared staile;d several times, with the debate punctuated by wranglings within the council, contradictory motions and partisan statements from the audience. Eventually, Roberts brought forward ti motion to dissolve ail the editorial positions and give notice to those people filling them. Hess protested, pointing out that it denied him an opportunity to dafend himself. He questioned what evidence Roberts had against him, and stated: “If I’m going to be fired I want to be fired properly. I don’t want to be dissolved.” The motion was passed by a vote of 11-8 with one abstention. However it was not clear whether or not this was sufficient, since it was pointed out that a vote to rescind positions created by bylaw requires a two-thirds majority to carry. Speaker Bob White ruled that a simple majority -was sufficient in continued on Daae 10

What is the free chevron? In one sense it is a cornpletely new paper and this is volume one number one, But more accurately it is the old chevron revitalized this year’with new staff and in the act of freeing itself from arbitrary attempts at manipulation by the federation. The free chev&, produced and pub/ished.by a volunteer staff, will continue to serve students until the chevron regains itsright to function freely. * ”

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Feds One of the more’interesting and ronic items that would have apbeared in last Friday’s cancelled hevron is a letter from federation :xecutive‘ member Doug Thompon. The letter begins: “This is just Lquick note to tell any of you who nay be concerned that the rumours ,f the Chevron being ‘shut down’ Ire greatly exaggerated. As you :an see the paper is still printing.” Nineteen of the 20 pages planned vere ready for printing when the ederation council decided to rereactively suspend publication.And although no papers reached ‘ampus, students will be paying llmost $700 in production costs run up (usually covered by advertising evenue). Council voted September 30 to uspend publishing the chevron for our weeks as of September 24. rhey also voted to set up a task orce to look into establishing a ‘new chevron”. Federation executive member

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press Doug Antoine left the council meeting following the first vote to call Dumont I Press Graphix and tell them tostop working on the paper. (The ‘chevron is typeset by Dumont.) According to two worke,rs from Dumont, Antoine told them that if the paper was not published they would be paid by the federation for their work to. that point. Antoine agrees he told Dumont that. their costs up to that point

would be covered. . Antoine wasn’t sure why the motion was worded so as to axe Friday’s regular paper: “1 wasn’t at the executive meeting that the motion came from.” He also said he wasn’t sure why federation president Shane Roberts was demanding the closure of the paper and the.firing of cheve;tafL fers, saying: “What Shane said was said by him arid only him.” -

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Qpen meeting? Environmental Studies representative Heather Robertson is seen here supporting the chevron at the September 30 council meeting.

Guards- interfere People attending the Federatiop council meeting Septemb’er 30~were confronted by guards at the doors of the meeting room who demanded student identification cards as a condition of entry. Inside the hall there were also a sergeant-at-arms and deputies, all

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CR0 mistake u..sets election The votes” have been cast, some lave been counted but due to a ethnical blunder the results of wo student council by-elections emain uncertain. When voting stopped on Wedlesday in the Arts election Mark wills with 35 votes was squared bff against Bruce Leavens with 36, but there was one vote left to ount and it was sealed in the vrong box. An undergraduate had placed lis vote in the graduate box and lue to a procedural mistake it had o be sealed until students council ould decide what to do. After lengthy discussion last light council decided to reopen the ,rad election. Nominations will be ‘pen from October 12 - 19 and he vote will be on October 26. The result of the arts election hould be known today when the rad box is opened. The problem resulted from a misake by John Long, the chief returnng officer. Long, according to fedbration president Shane Roberts’ office, has misinterpreted the elecion guidelines when he extended he deadline for nomi;lations in the ecent by-election. The election was called because If vacancies in the Math co--op, ES Science regular, St. :o-op, eromes, Grad Studies and Arts #eats. At the first deadline there were wo nominations to the Arts seat, an Chapran was in the running for he Grad seat, and the other seats lad-no interest expressed in them, ;o Long decided to extend the Ieadline -to September 27. After the second deadline the andidates were: Wills and for the Arts seat ,eavens lnd Chapran and Larry Hannant or the Grad seat. Michael Lecuyel Ind Doug McDougall were given ,eats by acclamation in Science Lnd Math co-op respectively. The Ither seats were declared vacant. The mistake occured when Long ailed to specify which of the seats vlould have their deadline for lamination extended. According o election by-laws, the chief re-

burning officer can only extend deadlines in orders to fill the seat (first nominee in by acclamation). Unfortunately the deadline for the Arts and Grad Studies seats were also extended by Long. When Larry Hannant was nominated for the Grad seat during the extension it was decided to hold the election with Hannant’s name on the ballot, seal the boxes after the voting ended, and decide at Thursday night’s council meeting whether the ballots should determine the winner or whether to declare Chapran the winner by acclamation. , -doug hadton

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wearing makeshift badges stating their positions. All wore engineering T-shirts. Two people from Dumont-Press Graphix, who typeset the chevron, were prevented from entering the room by the guards, and, one, -Rosco Bell, was held by the arm to keep him out. Neither person was allowed to i enter until federation council member Heather Robertson sponsored their en-try. The guar’ds tilso attempted to keep out faculty member Doug Wahlsten, but Wahlsten refused to be excluded. When he questioned the guards about why they were keeping people out, he ,was told that they had just been following orders. This led to a confrontation with federation speaker Bob White, who first refused Wahlsten permission to enter, but tater reneged. _ Another chevron staffer, Marina Taitt, was told by the guards that the hall was full, so they were allowing inside only students with ID cards. According to Rob Morrison, president of Eng Sot, the guards were used to maintain order at the meeting. By arrangement, council members were to sit in the first two rotis of the hall, delegates behind them, with-spectators to the rear. -jules

Fed ckui~illor L maybe recalled There is a petition being Circulated about the ES faculty asking for the recall of student councillor Heather Robertson. The first Robertson heard of the petition was in conversation with federation executive member Doug Thompson. He said he had heard there was a petition out but didn’t know who was behind it. H-e had first heard of it at the rally last Thursday, but couldn’t remember who told him. About Robertson he said: “I think she has about as much political savvy as a snail, but I respect her as a human being.” He went on to say: “I admire her for the stand she has taken,” which he described .

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Fedsservechevrics me. . with eviction noticeThe federation of students right the federation has ro deny served notice late Thursday afterstudents access to the office. noon that it intends to evict chevPresident Shane Roberts replied that the federation is free ,to use ron staffers from the chevron of. the office as it sees fit. fice. The office has been occupied “It would be nice if people just and continuously since council tem- I went home for the weekend porarily suspended publication of left cameras and dther equipthe chevron Sept 30. ment,” said Roberts.. A memo from G. W. .(Peter) “What will happen to people federation who remain in the office?” asked Yates, business manager, distributed to chevron Robertson. “Are we going to physstaff, states that only the advertisdcally evict them? If we do, what ing nianager of the Board of Publiare the legal implications?” cations and the board secretary are No one on council answered her to be allowed into the chevron ofquestion. fices. Discussion occurred, however, The memo continued: “No on how to use the the-vron office. other individuals are presently enRoberts suggested that tele= phone lines be disconnected and titled to the tise of materials, equipment or space in the chevron that the office be locked in order to offices except as designated by the -cut costs, although students might book the office for meetings. students’ council or the federation executive officers.” Other proposals ranged from Yates requested that all &her keeping it closed, to opening it to people remove- personal belongstudents who want to type essays, to using it to produce another ings from the office and return borrowed chevron property by 4:30 newspaper. p.m. today. The cliecron staff intends to At the federation council meetdeal this this matter at its regular ing Thursday evening, ES councilmeeting. lor Heather Robertson asked what -larry hannant

as“... curious and changing,” but “I think she’s standing up for the people who want to put out a paper.” A petition for recall requires that a minimum of 15 per cent of the studefits in a faculty sign the form and that this not be less than the number who vokcd the member into office. ’ When a petition for recall is successful, .the member in question loses his/her seat on council ‘and the seat is declared open. Seventytwo hours after the seat is opened there is a’by-election in which the member who was recalled can run for re-election. -doug hamilton

An -attempt to silence the chevron at its planned mass meeting Thursday was described in a letter from Geoffrey Downie director of the Audio-Visual Centre. “On Wednesday September 29, Shane Roberts withdrew the Federation of Students sponsorship in matters concerning the use of Audio-Visual Centre equipment for the chevron staff,” he stated.

The mass fieeting was planned by the chevron staff as a forum to air the- complaints of the staff against the changing of the locks on the chevron doors and the allegations levelled against the chevron. The chevro’n had been closed by the executive Friday, reopened by council Monday, and was not officially closed until Thursday. Roberts was able to declare that “sponsorship in matters concern-

ing the use ot Audio-visual Centre equipment for the chevron staff’ was withdrawn while the thevron was still recogniied by the federation of students. When asked to explain the reasons he had taken the action Roberts was unwilling to comment. The prob!em was eliminated by Enrst von Bezol&, a chevron staffer, who was able to pay a 50 dollar .deposit to the Audio-Visual Centre -and obtain a portable lectern. Out; standing are the answers to two questions. How is the president of the Federation of Students able to unilaterally decide that a body is no longer recognized by the federation? What authority does the University of Waterloo recognize in Roberts that a member of the administration would comply with his . orders?

‘Blue D&wbe’ Information from two squrces, ES student-Tim Codey and student councillor Heather Robertson, suggests that there ‘was an-agreement between some members of the federation executive and UW security that, if the student council meeting on September 30 “got out of hand,” security could be notified by a phone call.using?he codeword “Blue-Danube”. Federation president Shane Roberts would neither confirm nor deny this, but suggested that this reporter contact the head of security. According to Robertson, David McLellan had tpld her. about the arrangement. He was supposed to

be one of the federation executives whp knew the codeword. McLellan, when phoned by the chevron, also neither confirmed nor denied existence of the ariangement but said:’ “I have never uttered- the words “Blue Danube” to any security people.” Immediately after this conversation, the federation office received a phone-call‘ for ShBne Roberts from McLellan. Head of security, Al Romenco, was unable or unwilling to confirm or deny the “Blue-Danube” arrangement. Although he did not admit to knowing anything about “Blue-Danubd’, he adaed that he did not wish to become involved in student politics. --Oscar

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One of the main personalities in the federation’s recent attack on the chevron has indicated that he would like to be at the helm of any new paper they set up.. At a federation executive meeting on Monday Doug Thompson (Integrated Studies rep and OFS liaison officer) suggested he resign and apply for the editorship of any newspaper the federation creates. Executive chairman Dave McLellan told the free chevron the matter was discussed but it was decided that Thompson shouldn’t get involved in the federation’s publication. McLellan said a federation newsletter, to keep the campus informed while the chevron is revamped, was discussed.

At noon on Tuesday Thompson said he had not tendered his resignation. Asked if he would apply for the position, of editor of the federation paper he ,said: “It is a \ possibility.” . He said he would make a state- _ ment within a couple of hours. Later he phoned to say: “The matter is on hold.”

Workers across Canada are being urged not to go to work on October 14 but here on campus the day will go virtually unnoticed. The faculty association, the staff association representing salaried employees, and the CUI?E local representing plant operations and food services staff have all decided against endorsing the action. The Federation of Students has not yet decided, but it seems likely that they will also be working on that day. Their attention will be focused more toward the National Student Day on November 9. The Canadian Labour Congress which called the day of protest has said that the federal wage controls are unfair to workers and to those on fixed incomes. Price controls, ostensibly part of the, ‘program, have been practically non-existent. In Kitchener-Waterloo, the day of protest has received support - THE

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Who’s.in charge-h&e? Though UW ‘fuiancial vice president Bruce Gellatly says the student federation has no direct authority over security, three security officers ‘ ‘took orders’ ’ from federation president Shane Roberts on Saturday, September 25, when

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From where harks “The Other Voice”? Following the release of the chevron special issue on Sept. 28 a new publication named “The Other Voice”.expressing support for the federation and a dissatisfaction in the chevron appeared at this university. Its origin is ambiguous and three major articles went unsigned. It was apparently “written, typeset, and published by the students of the University of Waterloo’ ’ , but it is still not clear who was responsible. Three societies (Arts, Engineering and Math) expressed their official position concerning the chevron while one article wrongly entitled “ESS Speaks” gave the impression that the contents represented the official policy of the ESS. This was not the case, according to Rob Furneaux, a member ofthe ESS executive and one of the four credited writers of the article (the .other three writers were also ESS executive members). The purpose of the article was to expressthe opinion of the authors only. Unauthorized additions were made, he said, but he does not know by whom. There are several other questions that need to be answered. How was it financed? How much did it cost? Who has the legal responsibility for it? Who wrote the copy? What societies contributed and if so how much? Some of the above questions were asked of some societies or their members. The Engineering society was given a written list of questions on Tuesday (at their request) and a re$ponse was promised by noon today by the president of Engsoc, Rob Morrison. The Math society was helpful. The chevron was informed by Robert White, federation math rep, that “The Other Voice” was typeset on a phototypesetter in the Math and Computer building and printed at’Kopy Kwik Instant Printing in Kitchener. Approximately five thousand copies were made, he said, however the final cost is not yet known. Contacted by the chevron, Kopy Kwik estimated a publication of this type would have a total cost of about $770. It is not clear where the money came from. According to the Mathsoc president Gary Prudence, the society has allocated $100 from their board budget. Arts society president Cindy Seibel stated to the chevron “I’m not prepared to say anything until I’ve talked to the other members Earlier in the day Arts society treasurer Karen’ of the executive.” Gemmel told the chevron she had no knowledge of “The Other Voice” and that she was never approached for financial contribution to the cost of the publication. The ESS, according to Rob Furneaux, has not contributed financially . So far no one has claimed legal responsibility and no one knows who will pick up the tab.

. He said no decision had been made on a federation publication, either interim or permanent. . One development, however, is that the federation executive has scheduled a General Meeting for Oct. 29 where any bylaws required to set up a new operating structure for the chevron will be discussed. -neil

from the labour council, the K-W Labour Association. Orville Thacker, president, has estimated that more than 10,000 workers will go out next Thursday. This includes most of the major unions such as brewery workers, rubber workers, steelworkers, auto workers and public employees (CUPE). The labour council is planning to have’a rally and march to Speakers’ Corner in downtown Kitchener. The federation’s board of external relations is planning a debate for ‘Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. in the Arts Theatre. Representatives of the local chamber of commerce and the Anti-Inflation Board will be arguing the government and business position against Peter Warrian, a researcher for the Steelworker’s Union and another spokesperson for labour. - stu vickers

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Neil Docherty and several other chevron staff members arrived to remove their personal belongings p from the locked chevron office. When Docherty learned that the chevron locks had been changed, he phoned Roberts who suggested that he and other staff members might want to remove their personal belongings from the office. Roberts did not have a key to the office since “there was no intention to distribute keys” on Friday afternoon when the locks were changed, so he phoned security to send over someone with the only available key. When Docherty arrived with the other staffers he asked the three officers why they were there, and they replied that they were sent over by their supervisor. Roberts informed the staff members they would only be allowed to enter the office one at a time, accompanied by him:Docherty asked the officers if that was right. They told him it was. He then asked why they were taking orders from Roberts. They replied that it was because he was the president of the federation. According to Roberts, the reason three officers were present was that the first man arrived alone with the key. After waiting for-some time, his partner became impatient and joined him. Security sent a third man to investigate after the first two fell too far behind time on their scheduled rounds. -oscar

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Although the federation student Ontario in their attempts to buy alcouncil passed a motion at its meetcohol. ing on September 12 called for a It is now mandatory that the letter of protest against Ontario’s cards are the only acceptable age of majority cards, the campus method of identification for per centre pub operated by the federasons purchasing liquor at Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO tion continues to encourage students to get the cards, and to ask for Astores. And according to local liquor li, them as identification. cence inspector James Gilliland Federation president Shane within the year hotels will bc Roberts suggested to the last meetbrought under the same law. ing of the UW senate that the cards For the moment the LLBO re could be used to identify students stricts itself to making a “stron{ writing exams. suggestion” that hotels make use o According to pub manager Art card, and : Ram, the cards provide a service to the age of majority number of local watering holes, in students by “allowing . those young-looking 18 and overs” to eluding the campus centre pub, arc heeding the suggestion. drink in the pub. Application forms for the card: But many students interv-iewed are available in all LCBO store: by the chevron opposed the cards as an “invasion of privacy” and a and many hotels. There is a fee o two dollars for the card and twc “loss of rights.” Comments ranged photos are required, one to be at from: “The cards are bullshit!” to tached to the card and one for the “I’d rather give up a bottle of rye government’s files. than carry one. ” Bill Deeks, UW’s head of ad For the past two months the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario ministrative services, said that he i now working with graphic service (LLBO) has been promoting these cards as a service to the youth of to provide a cheap photo service which will “make it easier for stu dents to get an age of majorit; card.” . -dianne chapiti!

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In case you didn’t know it (and,1 didn’t until I started working on this story), the student federation currently employs four fieldworkers and one researcher-planner. Sometimes their work overlaps, and sometimes their duties are not well-defined. But they all urge you to get in touch with them if you have ‘any problems. But you’d better hurry, because sometime this month a council committee will review and “investigate” the phenomenon of fieldworkers, and they could just “can” the whole thing. Prior tolast May-, there was only one fieldworker employed fulltime to act as liaison between the feds, the faculties and the societies, mainly doing course critiques and prof evaluations. When his term ran out, Tom Morrissey submitted a report to student council and to federation

president Shane Roberts (and subsequently requested that it not ‘be made for public distribution) declaring that thework load was too much for one person. According to vice-president Dave McLellan, Morrissey recommended that the position be divided, and indicated where work was needed., It was decided that three campus fieldworkers and one community fieldworker be hired on a part-time basis - at $80/week for a period of one year. In August, a researcher-planner was hired too. Rod fourth-year Hay, a economics student, is the community fieldworker working under the Board of External Relations (which has been without a chairperson since August). As such, he deals with community relations, international students and affairs, and relations with other universities. This summer he got to know a two-page

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According to former chairman of the’ board of publications Randy Hannigan, that board has not been consulted prior to publishing special issues of the chevron for at least the past four years. Minutes from the last board meeting cannot be found and neither Hannigan nor board secretary Sylvia Hauck nor advertising manager Brenda Wilson can remember when the boardlast met. But the federation executive is charging chevron staff with publishing an “unauthorized” edition of the chevron on Tuesday, September 28, since they did not consult the board. According to the federation’s bylaws (2 sec. III) the board must hold regular meetings. Prior to recent events, the board was composed of Ralph Torrie, chairman, Brenda Wilson, advertising manager, and Adrian Rodway, editor of the chevron. Other positions are vacant, namely the editor of Compendium the university yearbook, and the editor of Liontayles, a poetry/literary publications. The last issue of those publications available in the chevron office date back to-1969. Shane Roberts last week delegated Dave McLellan, federation vice-president, to chair the board of publications since\Torrie has res-

igned. -Tuesday, McLellan told the free chevron he had resigned the chairmanship of the board of publications due to academic pressures. McLellan said the position reverts back to Shane Roberts. Ralph Torrie stated in his letter of resignation to the federation that his reasons for resigning from the board of publications were: no

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longer being a registered student; having other committments; and the resignation of Adrian Rodway as editor of the chevron. Sylvia Hannigan, who works for the board of publications and worked with Torrie on the federation handbook said Torrie spoke in July of resigning in the fall-of this year after the completion of the

handbook. An associate of Torrie’s who wished to remain anonymous said Torrie has talked of resigning for a couple of months. That person also said Torrie has a couple of incomplete courses to finish and is working for a lobby group against nuclear power. -harry

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The special issue of the chevron, schedule. A further complication is printed last week in response to the that technically Rodway was still federation executive’s attempted editor since council refused to acshut down of the paper, has caused cept his resignation at a meeting on great confusion in the federation. Sunday, September 26. The edition was at once labeled Following that meeting, federaillegal by the federation because, tion president Shane Roberts told due to the resignations of chevron the free chevron that he would editor Adrian Rodway and Board temporarily assume powers of of Publications chairperson Ralph Board of Publications chairperson. Torrie, there was no signing auThe chevron staff consulted with thority to cover the cost of the neither authority when they deissue. cided Sunday afternoon to publish Even though the board has not a special issue reporting the met since Torrie took office last weekend’s events. April’, the federation bylaws reAfter the paper came out on quire its approval for any deviation _ Tuesday, federation. treasure? publication Manny Brykmann instructed the in the chevron’s business manager Peter Yates to cut off the paper’s funding. Yates had,a letter typed informing the chevron’s typesetter, Dumont Press Graphix: “Please be advised that as of Friday, September 24, 1976, when both the editor in chief of the chevA task force is‘being set up this week by the Federation of Students to ron and the chairman of the Board look into bylaws and-set up-a “constitution” for the %ew chevron.” of Publications resigned, the FedAccording to federation president Shane Roberts, this is not an inveseration of Students will not be retigation committee to examine why the chevron was closed by a step sponsible for any costs incurred on towards “getting the chevron back on its feet”. It will include members, behalf of the Federation of Stufrom ther various societies and a professional journalist. dents by any individual or group The chevron staff decided not to place any members on the task force purporting to speak for the chevron because they oppose the federation’s imposition of a committee to decide or the Board of Publications. the future of the chevron, preferring to have an investigation by individual “We will notify you immediatel; students who can determine for themselves what is happening.. when the above ‘order’ is no longer This is the third committee set up for this purpose and according to in effect.” Roberts the previous two have been dissolved without ever having met.’ By the next day this decision had But student councillor Heather Robertson said that the second committee been reversed and Yates told the set up by council at its September 28 meeting has not been disbanded as far free chevron that the letter had as she knows. never been mailed. He said a temFederation vice-president Dave McLellan stated that he did not know porary Board of Publications the fate of either of the committees. McLellan was appointed interim chairperson had been appointed board of publications chairperson by Roberts but resigned last Monday. federation ’ vice-president Dave There is alsosome question as to what will happen to the money which McLellan. will be saved by not publishing the chevron for four weeks. Roberts said When interviewed McLellan that it will be usd to finance future chevron production and any excess said that he had been asked by will be channelled into a surplus fund at the end of the year. Federation Roberts to share the position, and treasurer Manny Brykmann was unavailable for comment. that Roberts had delegated signing -graham thomson authority to him using “presiden-jason m&hell tial discretion”.

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“Presidential discretion isn’t subject to council approval,” said McLellan, “He can do anything he wants, so long as he ratifies it with council later. ” McLellan said that funds had not been cut and that Friday’s paper could publish as usual. However, Thursday. might council voted to cut the funds retroactively from September 24, and Friday’s chevron was halted in mid-production. McLellan has since resigned from that appointment due to a heavy study load. * The responsibility reverted to Roberts. Although McLellan said that the Tuesday issue would be paid for, Roberts later said he wasn’t sure about that and a decision might be made at the October 7 council meeting. I 1

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list of KTW groups and organizations; he is the person to see if you want to do coursework in the cornmunity. Hay, a former chevron production manager and an OPIRG researcher, often finds himself up against “bureaucracies at different levels” and council members who are not interested in what he is doing. Another difficulty is “trying to persuade the federation to take a stronger stand on issues such as cutbacks, fee hikes for foreign students, and October 14.” “Something should be done to overcome the gap between the feds and the students at large,” Hay said, “ and fieldworkers can bridge that gap.” One of the three campus fieldworkers, Phyllis Burke, works within the faculties of Arts and Science. She would not comment on her work, but she reputedly handles immigration problems as well as course critiques. Gary Dryden is the fieldworker for Math and Engineering. A former councillor and president of MathSoc, Dryden recently put the finishing touches on ANTICAL ‘76; some 2,000 copies of the profand course-evaluation booklet were printed. Doug Thompson, the fieldworker for HKLS, Environmental Studies and Itegrated Studies, is also a member of council and the executive Board as well as a fulltime student. Among his concerns are setting up a faculty-wide course evaluation system for ES, getting IS recognized as a student association, and creating a united student association for HKLS. Says Thompson: “Students who have trouble in their faculty should get in touch with their fieldworker. We can create a fair amount of shit ,on behalf of the student.” In early August, Franz Klingender was hired for a period of six weeks as researcher/planner for the Board of Education. He was (and is) chairperson of that board,’ too, though he insists that there is nothing unusual about that. At any rate, he worked on pre-orientation and orientation, as well as other odd jobs. He also says he recruited some 20 people for the board. He will mention all this when he finally gets around to writing his report. Last week, former ES treasurer Diana Clarke was hired as full-time researcher/planner to succeed Klingender. She -has taken a year off from school to devote her time to her $160/week job, in which she plans events for the board, oversees course evaluations, and deals with individual students’ problems. -val

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Staff not called “It was just the way things worked out,” said federation president Sh’ane Roberts when asked why he did not inform chevron staff that their office had been locked September 24. Roberts said it took him a “long time” to find the phone numbers for production manager Neil Docherty and news editor Henry Hess but that he was “just about to call” when Docherty phoned him for an explanation. The executive board of the Federation decided on the afternoon of September 24 to order the locks on the chevron office changed. But, no chevron staffers were informed that the decision had been made. Both Hess and Docherty pointed out that their phone numbers are

readily available from a number of sources. Both numbers should have been held by Ralph Torrie, the newly resigned chairperson of the board of publications. The numbers were also posted in the chevron office, to which Roberts had access. Hess’s number was also available from directory assistance or Andrew Telegdi. Roberts knew that Hess lived in the same house as Telegdi last year. Docherty’s number ‘is not listed under his name in the phone book. However, two close acquaintances of Roberts, John Morris and. Dionyx McMichael, had worked for the chevron in the past and had phoned Docherty many times. -dave

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c/oser than ,y& While the student federation claims it doesn’t want to spend students’ money to present the political opinions of a minority on campus, it recently spent almost $900 on the board of education’s program “Towards 1984”, which attracted only about 200 people. The program, designed “to “make of the students more aware increasing restricgovernment’s tions of civil liberty”, was planned during the latter part of August by board chairperson Frani Klingender, together with federation president Shane Roberts, fieldworker Rod Hay, and former board of education chairperson Tony Piggin. Meltings to discuss the content of the program were held during the last week in August, which is the official -university holiday, and were advertized only by word of mouth, so Klingender said it was difficult to get student input into the decisions. The program finally presented consisted of two movie nights and four guest speakers. The federation had budgeted $730 for the event, but a decision by Klingender to donate $150 to one of the speakers ran the final bill to $866. Klingender said he is satisfied with the turnout for “Towards 1984”. “In a program like this if you reach 10 people you’ve accomlished something,” Klingender felt.

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Science Council Is the Science Council of Canada an “elite little group” which peddles the viewpoint of the government or a “non-political group. . . representing Canadians at large”? These two viewpoints met on Thursday, September 24 -when Joseph Kates, chairman of the Science Council of Canada, was brought to campus’by the Federation of Students as part of its “Toward 1984” program. The Science Council of Canada is. made up of 25 members from universities and they are appointed by the govertiment for a three year _ -.. term. The meeting, was attended by about 4 people (taking away Kates’ entourage, and the organizers and reporters) but was the scene of a limited yigorous discussion. The program began with a slide presentation put together by the Science Council expressing its viewpoint on different issues and its future plans. A major part of the pr&entation’ concerned “the energy problem” and “overpopulation”. The slide presentation promoted the idea of a “conserver society’ ’ . Kates posed the question to the four people attending of “how to change over to a conserver society and keep the social stability”.

ESP: the psi factor

The Science Council’s view on the question of poverty and population was denounced by grad. student Larry Hannant. He claimed that the Science Council gives a “scientific veneer to the unscientific views of the Canadian monopoly capitalist class”. On poverty and population, the examble of China ias held up as refutaiion of the Science Council’s views. “The same things were being said about China before liberation”, commented Hannant. Kates wanted to get away from “political discussion”, holding to the claim that the Science Council .is apolitical. -salah

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RCMP The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has a century-long record of resisting and discouraging social change, a professor at -the University of Regina told a UW audience S.eptem_ber 23. Despite its long history of repression against the working class, Native people, immigrants, farmers, and left-wing political parties, the RCMP has a good public image, said Lorne Brown. “They’re probably the best force in the world for public relations. That gives them a great advantage. It becomes almost unpatriotic to criticise the RCMP.” Brown spoke to an audience of seven people at the sixth event in.

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saline solution (salty water) treated or one’s own experience. Both auThe Realms of Healing by Stanley in this way were found to be more thors are professors, i.e., teachers Krippner and Albert; Villoldo. likely to germinate than seeds waas well as researchers, which fact Published May, 1976 by Celestial partly explains the book’s nearly Arts, Millbrae, California. 336 tered with untreated saline. comprehensive scope as a current Infra-red (IR) light absorption in pages, $7.50 softcover. the wavelength range of 2,800 to instructional survey and guide for International Interdisciplinary 3.,000 millimicrbns was also reresearch into ESP in healing. Conference on Consciousness and Some schools, systems or Healihg. Convocation Hall, Uniported to be affected. methods ndt discussed or menversity of Toronto, October 12-15, “For the “untreated” saline tioned by name, which I think are 1976. Registration $30, students there was about an 80 per cent worth attention, are an$15. transmission of IR light but for the throposophical medicine, astrologThe book title might well be “treated” saline, 63 per cent ical psychotherapy, homeopathy, “The Realms of Paranormal Healtransmission,” Dean (E. Douglas paradialectical materialist health care. ing’ ’ . The authors, De-an, one of the researcher%) Possibly the guiding principles of psychologists both, report on the noted: “This result at this IR bond the first two could be reconstructed practices and worldviews of suggests a change in the oxygenor inferred from material given or “schools and systems about which hydrogen bond distance (0.95 Angreferred to in the text and bibliogwe know so little: the shaman and stroms) or in the amount of hydraphy. Perhaps the emphasis of the medicine man, the African healers, rogen bonds which are the bonding latter two-might appear to fall the espirita, Huna practitioners, of one water molecule with the mainly outside the scope of this esoteric healers.” Throughout the water molecules around it.” rather eclectic work. However, all report of their investigation KrippSome of the other experiments these approaches, explained within ner and Villoldo describe and expreviewed were concerned with lain problems involved in the inapparently contradictory worldthings like healing at a distance, views, appear in the same world. If terpretation of reality in the course and learning to induce certain “alwe want to take and use what is of perceiving and analysing some tered states of consciousness” asgood, I believe it will help if we are phenofiena which appear relasociated with increased healing ef. as open to recognizing it as the _ tively strange to many workers in fectiveness. other fields as well as to many genThere are first hand accounts of book’s authors. eral readers. healing sessions including some in My confidence in# the care with which they have put together this They outline a history of healers which the authors were treated by and healing methods which emor assisted the healer, and interintroductioq is slightly checked by phasizes a “whole person” apviews with healers such as Rolling minor but noticeable logical errors (stating interpretive assumptions in proach; the willful participation of Thunder, Olga Worrall, Josef quantum theory as facts) in the acthe healee becomes an actjve force Zezulka, Dona Pachita, Faust0 _ in the restoration of health. Valle and Juanita Sisson. I found count of physicist E.H. Walker’s proposed quantum-theoretical In a chapter entitled “Payanorthe report and analysis of their mechanism of interaction between ma1 Healing In the Laboratory”, worldviews helped me to look more consciousness and matter. (Walker the authors review field and openly and critically at the authors’ laboratory research into healing presentation of interrelatable modis reported as stating that conThey state that. els (“physical”, “psychological”, sciousness acts as a hidden variphenomena. able, by means of an “information “ There are four major categories of “psychic”) which could,be used to psi phenomena: telepathy, clairtry to understand healing processes field”, to induce electron wave voyance, precognition, and and procedures with increasing packet collapse, i.e., selection of psychokinesis.” Experimental predictive reliability (i.e., when elgctron position from among posat nerve fibre work described in some-detail insomething is going to help) and to sible locations branchings, cludes effects of the laying-on-ofdevelop more effective methods. thus controlling the hands by healers on the rate of healAt the end of the volume 203 renervous system.) ing of cuts on mice, and on activity ferences are given, many of them to Errors like this most likely occur because the authors, who are not levels of the enzymes trypsin, primary sources. Good, fairly tight nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide arguments in the first part of the physicists, have had to rely on con(NAD), an@ amylase-amy lose. book detail reasons for ex.tremely sultation with experts in quantum cautious openminded checking of mechanics, which esoteric field Laying-on-of-hands was found to . one’s assumptions in interpreting probably was not emphasized in increase haem,oglobin levels ifi humans. Seeds germinated with field reports, experimental findings continued on page 7

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the “Towards 1984”. Brown is the co-author (with his wife, Caroline Brown) of the book “An Unauthorized History of the RCM_P”. In the course of researching the book the Browns f‘just scratched the surface” of grievances against the RCMP. “Part of the problem with the RCMP is that it investigates its own complaints,” said Brown. “There’s no civilian board investigating complaints.” The RCMP was organized as a military force in 1874, following the form of an army. Its tight discipline, isolation from ordinary people and secret nature were established from the beginning, and still grip the&force. During the industrial unrest of the 1920’s and 1930’s;the Canadian government learned that it could not rely on municipal police or the army “to take the side of capital against labour.” Municipal police tend to have working class backgrounds and roots in the communities in which they serve. This makes them less likely to act as strikebreakers when their brothers or cousins and friends are involved in strikes against em‘ployers, said Brown. In contrast, .the RCMP recruits young men from rural areas, trains them in barracks, inakes them feel different from ordinary people-and moves officers from post to post frequently. Leading members of the RCMP “developed an ideology to the right of centre” which often results in publid statements supporting fascism and condoning Nazism being made by senior officers. This ended in 1963 when the federal government banned -political statements. Confrontations between the RCMP and workers during the 1920’s and 1930’s often became “essentiall~police-riots”. During the 1960’s the RCMP concentrated its investigation on students and farmers, but during the 1970’s has declared the Native people “the greatest threat to peace for the next few years.” The RCMP has also tied itself into the U.S. police network, charged Brown. ’

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Media The control of the news media in Canada may be soon out of the hands of everyone except’the rich and powerful, according to media critic Wallace Clement. As part of the “Towards 1984” seminars last week, Clement told

an audience of 20 people of the impjications when large corporations buy up small independent newspapers and broadcasting facilities. “Since most people get their ideologies by socialization outside personal experience” this has a great impact on Canada. Ma.ny high placed people in the controlling media corporations also sit as directors of major Canadian economic institutions. By virtue of this situation they “set limits of tolerance within their own editqrial departments”, thus avoiding damaging influences that could hurt their positions. By selecting the stories that fit an established pattern of operation, newspapers and broadcasters become oriented not only politically, but also economically. Citing the Santa Barbara oil spills as an example, Clement pointed out that coverage was equally spread between environmental and business interests when the coverage was in a local paper. But on a national level business got 93 per cent of space and environmentalists received seven per cent. Such content analysis of the news must become more common than is now the case, according to Clement. , The situation has been tiorsening recently. . The Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) is supposed to be a yatchdog against the corporate takeover of news outlets. But in one instance recently the CRTC quickly and happily favoured the purchase of Standard Broadcasting by the Argus Corporation. Since Argus had just a short time before bought Bushneau Communications it leaves questions as to whether the government is doing a proper job in its supposed protection of the citizens, the reason for the creation of the CRTC. And with the gigantic Power ‘Corporation sett,ing its sights on Argus there is the possibility that four key media complexes would have been reduced to one in just under seven years. Which is also the time since the publication of the government’s Senate Report on the Mass Media. In the report i: was recommended that there be a dissolution of the concentration that was at that time inherent in_Canadian newsreporting. When that decision was used as the basis of the first anti-trust suit against a media in New Brunswick, corporation, the decision was promptly overturned and the corporations have since grown even larger. -brian

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Development depends . on contradichs -Contradictions form the basis for change, motion and development of all things. In order to accelerate fundamental change, we must analyze contradictions in our concrete situation, formulate rational plans and test these ideas in practice: This conclusion was reached in a series of weekly forums on th-e philosophy of Mao Tse tung which was begun on Sept.26 by the AntiImperialist Alliance. Besides discussing the essay “On Contradiction”, participants tried to identify contradictions in Canada and espe-. cially at the U W. The universal character of contradictions was. easily graSped. They were shown to exist in things such as human society, the atom and the solar system. Contradictions even exist inside “elemen-

tary” particles in physics, inside objects such as billiard balls which superficially appear homogeneous, and within social classes. However, each specific thing is characterized by its particular contradiction which differs qualitatively from the contradiction in another thing. The particular contradiction can be identified and then resolved only by’ comprehensive investigation and repeated attempts to change the world in a desired direction. On the UT campus, contradictions were identified between -the Federation executive and the AIA; within the Feder,&ion executive; and within the chevron staff. It was also agreed that contradictions must necessarily exist within the continued on page 10

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Xamond’s beautiful noiseThe Neil Diamond of Beautiful oise bears little resemblance to ie man who gave us “Cracklin’ osie”, “Brother ,Love’s Travelng Salvation Show”, or “Holly oly.” Instead of the irresistible melodies, the gutsy vocal perforlance, or the haunting arrangeent which compose Diamond’s ‘eatest strengths, Beautiful Noise :rves up an unappetizing mix of nbarrassing forays into reggae rd gospel, and showcases the inseasingly familiar sound of the up mpo numbers. What remains are e ballads, indeed, the only ing. that salvages this LP from :ing a total4 waste of precious nyl. The two major weaknesses in iamond’s newest offering are a lift from the pop/rock of “Brother to slick Broadwaytunes we” ch as “Surviving The Life” and Beautiful Noise”. Even though e album is already bound for’ -oadway in 1977, and the song yle pays tribute to the record’s n Pan Alley day theme, the selecIns represent pale mimicry rather an enjoyable reminiscence. The LPalso drawsattention to a ndency of the faster selections to und disturbing like the single ,ongfellow Serenade. ” In addi-

tion, the reggae tinged second single “Don’t Think . . .Feel,” whose opening bars recall an Exlax commercial, contains some of Diamond’s worst lyrics ever, (“You don’t need plans to clap ‘your hands/When it feels nice just don’t think twice . . .) and the pseudo gospel of “Surviving The Life,” with its cloying observations of what Diamond apparently regards as the general state of affairs, (“Life ain’t easy but it ain’t.that bad . . ./You’re alive, you might as well be glad . . .“) doesn’t fare much better. While side one, with the exception of the two ballads “Lady-Oh” and “If You Know What I Mean,” is a complete loss, side two is a large improvement. Although only the touching “Home Is A Wounded. Heart” really stands out, none of the remaining four cuts offend the ears. “Streetlife” and “Jungletime” are varied enough to avoid being boring, and both “Signs” and the Diamond-Robbie Robertson collaboration “Dry Your Eyes” are enjoyable if rather average ballads. Again, the lyrics aren’t exactly memorable. Even the album’s best moment, the superb first single “If You Know What I Mean,w resolves it-

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self into a trite cliche as an anticlimax to the powerful imagery of the refrain. However, this one song still reveals the Neil Diamond of old, with the wonderful sense of melody, the impeccable vocal phrasing, and the irresistible chorus that stays in your mind long after the three minutes and fortytwo seconds listed on the label. But one song does not an album make (unless of course you’re “Yes”.) The much publicized role of Robbie Robertson turns out to be another disappointment. Although he does a more imaginative job than Tom Catalan0 (Diamond’s former long-time producer), he also brings along the dull, lacklustre finish which mars much of the Band’s work. Beautiful Noise also boasts the presence of such talented folk as James Newton Howard (keyboard whiz from the Elton John Band), Dr. John, Robertson and Garth Hudson from the Band, and-jazz pianist Bob James; all of which results in great performances of weak material. -

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Kese errors reflect a need for bss-disciplinary work which can apt to the possibly ubiquitousnae of the phenomena being died. They also indicate the conuing incompleteness of the sciific search for truth. As the au,r-s point‘ out, they believe that )r all its faults, science is the best bcedure that human beings have ented for discovering truth and aining agreement about their jwledge of the universe.” Iruth is stranger than fiction. llker, in an introduction to the >k, says, “If we discover that chic healing is real and employs hniques that are novel to orldox medicine, we will have nd new paths to health. And if in Ierstanding these phenomena alter our basic picture of the verse, we will win a new fue. ,, dy copy will be in the (free) :vron office this afternoon (Fri0 and -all dzy next Tuesday if ders want to look at it; at other es by agreement. f you have read this far you may 11be interested in an Interdiscipu-y Conference on Consciouss and Healing -being held at qvocation Hall, University of

Toronto, (U of T), October 12 to 15. It has been organized by people working in and through the U of T Bureau (phone Advisory 97%2684), and the speakers’ list is outstanding. The organizers say that “The objectives of the Conference are to make clear to the public and to professionals of different fields, alike, some of the important issues in the new model of the Universe that modern science is exposing in this seventh decade of the twentieth century. * Every attempt has been made to obtain a recognized international authority in his or her area. We are hoping to bring together revolutionary discoveries in modern physics, the cosmological model of the universe emerging from Altered States of Consciousness research, research findings in parapsychology and theories and observations about new and old methods of healing. It is hoped’that a clear sense of what we need to learn about, most in this interconnected urgently, area of concerns will emerge from this 4 day conference. Net proceeds, if any, will be used to support research and other activities in the area of consciousness and healing.” A slightly condensed schedule of events is reprinted below: Tuesday, Keynote

October Address:

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Canned heat is cooking All you wasted hustlers can “shake you booties” till Dylan does the bump, but I’ve seen the light, or more correctly, seen the fire.

The‘ occasion was ‘the Canned Heat concert last Wednesday. Sponsored by the board of entercision will rest upon joint agreeIn a recent meeting of the chevtainment, featuring opening group n staff, a resolution was passed to ment .” Whistle King, the concert was bet“The author will be notified of ter attended than the previous vote more time and space to the committee’s decision. Whether week’s Sweet Blindness concert. native writers on campus. In para piece is immediately accepted or The crowds were let in shortly ular, the chevron will publish is obliged to after eight, and soon after that the me poetry and short stories as a not, the committee upon it. The only comment warm-up act began to play, a four gular feature each week. foreseeable restriction is that of man entourage from Oakville who A new committee was formed to length. But, then again, if we are go by the name “Whislte King”. ndle the problem of what to pubfaced with a longer piece of subPut together last Christmas, they h and what to hold back. The stantial merit, we will approach the are still in the process of learning mmittee, organized by chevron ’ chevron staff and suggest that it be how each other plays and getting ima critic Myles Keston, will be printed in consecutive issues, as a their stage act together. ‘en the responsibility of reading serial.” The group started the set with incoming material. Any student is invited to submit some soft rock featuring keyboard ‘Obviously,” Kesten exphis/her best work. All submissions - player Nick Peter. “Next Time”, ned,“ we are expecting to read a must be typed (you can use our “Ancient History” and “I Can :at deal more than we will be able typewriters if need be) on a 64 Save Your Lovin’ ” were some of publish. Our space is limited.” character line. The student must the tunes Peter sang, each an original and all of them very good, “Before any work is accepted for bring his/her address and telephone though a bit Elton Johnish. The lblication, it will be read by at number along with the piece to the chevron office. Just ask for Sylvia. highlight of Peter’s .vocals was a ast three people and the final de-

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quickly set the mood for the rest of the evening. Highlighting the song was the harmonica work of Bob Heit, and the heavy back-beat laid down by Richard Heit, James Shane, and Fito de la Parr-a. The music the band played was some of the best rhythm amd blues I had heard since I listened to an old . copy of the Rolling Stones’ “Their Satanic Majesty’s Request”. Beautiful music to your ears, thundering drums, thumping bass, rhythm guitars snarling through the set, soaring lead. guitar, all these elements blending with the gravely bass voice of Bob Heit. They played masterfully through the old blues classics “De Blues”, “Strut My Stuff”, “My Babe”, “House of Blue Light” plus two of their own songs, “Let’s Work Together” and “The Boogie”. In totality it was a unique experience. The emotion of the evening can be best described by the words Neil Young wrote neariy a decade ago : “The lights turned on, ‘And the curtain fell down. And when it was -over it felt like a dream.” broken arrow music- 1967

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STAN PsychopharGROF, M.D., macologist, Esalen Institute. “Transpersonal Phenomena Associated with Healing” lo:30 A.M. Dr. KARLIS OSIS, Ph.D., parapsychologist, President . of American Society for Psychical Research. “Out of the Body and Death Experiences and their Relationship to Healing”. 2 P.M.ANDRIJA PUHARICH, M.D., LLD. “The work of Nikola Tesla and its relationship to quantum physics, bioenergy fields and healing’ ’ . 39 P.M. Breakdown into small group interactions with speakers or resource persons. Participants must have preregistered. 8 P.M. FILMS Thursday,

number called “All Go To Heaven” with some brilliant work by Nick on Moog Synthesizer. Next, guitarists Dave Broadbent (bass) and John Simpson (lead) let loose with some good riffs on the last part of the set, playing material considerably tougher than previous songs. Outstanding were three topical songs, “Tearing It Down”, “The Holocaust”, and “Just The Way It Is“ - the first two about government requisition of private homes and Armageddon, respectively, the last about society in general. Whistle King ended their set, left the stage and it was intermission. It took the roadies half an hour to set up Canned Heat’s equipment, causing the crowd to get restless, but the jeers ended as the group casually strolled on stage. Crowd reaction was enthusiastic as it became apparent that there was a Canned Heat contingent on hand. Bob “the bear” Heit rambled on stage and announced the group was going to take all the “DRUGS” the kids had so they wouldn’t hurt themselves. No one offered any so the band launched into “Amphetamine Annie”; a hard paced boogie blues tune that

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Good performances were put in by all the members of the team, especially Jamie Harrington, Ralph Jarachow, D.Dyer and S.Dibert, who put on a spirited show. Though the Warriors are tied with Queen’s in games, they are behind in points. This should be rectified Q when the Warriors meet R.M.C. at home on Saturday at Columbia field. If you aren’t going home for Thanksgiving, come on out and give us a cheer. .*

The ball was moved well by the backs out to the wingers, Ron Fukashima and Peter Quen, who both scored two tries each,. Even Mike Hazel from the forwards got into the act by going over for a try, as did Dave King, who also kicked three conversions and a penalty goal. Dave Parry, outside centre, moving well during the game, went in for two tries.

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Soccer teain. -7emains unbeaten The University of Waterloo Soccer team won its third consecutive game this past Sunday against its old rivals, the Queen’s Golden Gaels, with a 3-l victory. _ The Warriors desperately wanted to win this game to avenge the closely contested pl ayoff game which they lost last yea r by a mere 1 goal margin. Spectatc brs at Seagram Stadium were treai ted to what turned out to be one o f the finest soscer games ever pla yed at this university. Midfielder Brian Filion gave the Warriors the opening goal in the

first half. In the second 45 minute of play the Gaels responded with goal by Gord Taylor. The Wai riors’ second goal came off a per alty kick by Jim Valiant, and Mik Mohan scored the clincher. This year’s club looks excep tinI‘“IILa.‘J nallw ctrnnn rn~nxr wntnr~n .zTC1”“6 “”with 1111l‘lcll‘y * GLbficl,, returning. This Saturday the War riors will face the Guelp Gryphons, who lost last week t Queen’s (2-O). Guelph will be hur gry for a win. The Warriors can’ afford a loss. It will be an-_excitin_. game: 2p.m. Saturday at Columbi Field. -michael

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The University of Waterloo’s cross-country team made its debut at the Guelph Invitational crosscountry run. The 4 l/2 mile course presented the usual obstacles cross-country runners have come to expect: mud-plowed fields, large hills, fences to jump. The race was won in 23:08 by Paul Williams of Guelph University with Adam Shoemaker of Queen’s in second position.. Paul Crossely was the first to finish for U. W. He placed 7th in 23:58. The other Waterloo results were Paul Barron 14th, Tom Boone 18th, Peter Gove 23rd, Allan Baigent 25th, Garth Jones 34th, Paul Stachour 43rd and Mary MacKenzie 45th in a field of 50 runners. The team, comprised of mainly first and second year students, finished third behind Queen’s and Guelph.

its 2-yard line against the WLU Hawks. The Warriors, after a tight first half, lost 4 I- 14. Last weekend the Warriors lost to Mc,Master 20-a. \ B\

The next run is at York sity this Saturday. -stephen

UVV track The first track meet of the season was held at Queen’s Saturday, September 25th. Waterloo’s tenmember team obtained 3 firsts, one second, one third, and one fourth. . Gord Robinson won the 110 meter hurdles in a time of 15.3 sets. - a season’s best; Mary MacKenzie won the women’s 3000 meters in a personal best time of 11:43:2. Other notable performances were: Peter Gove, 4th in5000 meters; Craig Spears, 8t,h in 5000 meters; John Doyle (who wishes to say hello to his mother) 4th in 100 meters; Gord Robinson, 1st in long jump; Paul Dowhanielk, 3rd in long jump; Ri’ck Reemskenk, 2nd ‘in high jump; Don McQueen, 8th in 400 meters. /The next meet is at McMaster University this weekend. -stephen peet

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U. W. Sailing Club sent four members to participate in the “Sail Qntario” regatta held in Toronto’s outer harbour Sept. 25. Waterloo’s competitors were Gord Worjey and Laurie Young on “A” team, and Elizabeth Pearson and Craig Camplong on “B” team. U.W. finished tied in last place. At Kingston last weekend, the sailing team fared well. The “A” team placed third, “B” team fourth, of seven teams. Another meet is sch.eduled for this weekend. For further information about this and other meets contact Mike Ruwald at 884-9042. The team is still looking for competitors, so, come on out! -Christopher dufault

Conrad Grebel smashed Environmental Studies by the score 7-4 in intramural waterpolo. /Members of the team had a victory tour of the Free Chevron sffices where they saw the sights and handed in their report (which is why they are mentioned in this paper). Members of the Grebel team are: captains Dave and Fred Neufeld, Randy Jim Buchanan, Frieda LePP, Winter, Joan Waples, _ Sharon Steinman, Diane Haggan, Neil Freiter, Will Flick, and Ken Watson who played net for the enemy. No wonder they won! -doug hamilton

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Young socialists The federation of students claims to be the champion of demo-” cratic rights and the concerns of the overwhelming number of students. We hear the same extravagant claims from the government of this country. They tell us-that wage and price controls are suppoi-ted by the overwhelming majority of Canadians, they tell us that tuition hikes are necessary to pay for education, they tell us that t-here are too many foreigners in CanBda and they cause unemployment. Then they make decisions against the people on these matters withdut consulting us. In 1970 thire was said to be a conspiracy to overthrow the government - something which has since been proven a hoax - and so they sent several thousand troops to occupy Quebec without consulting parliament. We have an analogous situation; the federation executive has heard rumours of conspiracy and has enacted its own war measures act and used its own troops to attempt to take over the chevron. This was done without prior consultation in council. This is a great political mistake; if there are of transgressions of rumours democracy tiithin the paper whynot open up a discussion before a huge forum of students where different viewpoints can be expressed and where a certain period of .discussion can take place-to see what the views of students really are? Why cut off $iscussion before it.% begun, engage in a palace coup and then present the staff of the chevron as criminals? We may not support the editorial policy of the chevron at a given time and have found ourselves in opposition to it in the past. But we certainly do not support executive privilege in the federation and any attempts to muzzle the student organ. Contrary to the executive’s claim that they are protecting students, they are attacking students - not only here in Waterloo, but across universities in Canada. If we allow the executive

to go ahead with its plan, then what will happen is that we have created history. Any administration, any students council will feel encouraged to take away the right for a newspaper to be critical of the student council. The repercussions of this are devastating, one only need think, of newspapers being afraid to publish their viewpoint for political repi-isals. This is hardly freedom of the press. The executive has suggested a editorial board to check, the editorial policy of the paper. It is said that it would be independent and truly represent the university community. The whole idea of this student newspaper is to allow a forum for progressive ideas. The student council executive wants another level of bureaucracy to govern a students’ newspaper. We suggest what will happen is that this board will in time just become absorbed by the greater executive bureaucracy and the objectivity, of the chevron will be destroyed. The young socialists stand firm in their support of the chevron workers and state: HANDS OFF THE CHEVRON! Gord Swaters

Hysterical hyperbola To the ‘temporary Editor, * Forgive me if I fail to become upset by the whole issue of “Chevron versus Federation”. Each time 1 look at the Tuesday “special” edition of the Chevron, 1 m&t suppress a wry smile or a loud guffaw. Fqr a paper that intimates representation of both or many sides of an issue, 1 could find the hysteiical hyperbola reprehensible. However, 1 only find it humourous and-typical. In the past five years, I’ve found the Chevron offers some enjoyale reading through its. campus news articles, sports, movie and book reviews; and its stories of Federation business. That’s why 1 read it; not for the usual poorly researched articles on Chile’s revolution, or Mao’s latest sayings, or a recent update on Marxist theory.

1 help finance a newspaper that should be primarily concerned with the life on the university campus. A newspaper reports (ideally) in such a manner, that as much as possible of all sides are presented without judgmental paragraphs trying to weaken one point of view or another. Anything other than strict reportage should be restricted to editorials. But don’t tell me 1 should help out if 1 want to change the Chevron; 1 don’t have=the time and 1“m not interested in working on a newspaper. (Yet I’ll still give my free advice, since 1 back the paper financially -. and 1 like to see my name iq print.) Working as a Chevric is no virtue, nor does it give you the right -to ignore proper newspaper; ethics. If you are ‘a newspaper, then start acting like one. Use some of-*your obvious to start emotional enthusiasm creating an ideologically perfect campus newspaper. If you put as much effort into that as you.do to outraged protests, you’ll probably far exceed any paper that has ever been published. Thank .you. And.. . if ,at first you don: t succeed.. . . Chins up me hearties! Gord Dunbar

Swampy lowland Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, -is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.,Different forms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if-administrative measures ire used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to-ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion.’ frpm: On the Correct Handling,of Contradictions Among the People, Feb. 27, 1957 Mao Tsetung 1 would like to take this opportunity to thank ALL the parties involved in what 1 have come to think

of as “The Chevron Fiasco”. In particular, Shane Roberts, Neil Docherty, and the various people tod numerous to list here, who are associated-lwith the federation, .the chevron, and the university community as a whole. The thanks. are for- starting this whole ‘crisis’, and stimulating, even if unintentionally, so much discussion and thought. 1 do not condone in any way the actions of the security police of the university (who were just obeying orders, perhaps.. .?) or of Roberts in inciting them to do what they did. ’ 1 have grave doubts, based on both personal experience and on many things whic,h other people tell me, about the integrity of Docherty and Hannant, and the mysterious ,. AIA. But 1 do not feel that anything very useful (at least at first glance) or good is accomplished by using force, threat, or related violent actions. 1 feel tkat there can be NO excuse for such actions. We do not end oppression by being oppressive ourselves. This is something which 1 find so obvious that it seems redundant to mention it here. But i$ also seems that we ’ humans have very short memories, and must remind-ourselves from time to time that it is not necessary, that it is indeed undesirable, to behave in negative, unproductive atid violent ways. IF, and it is a big IF, requiring constant attention, lest it slip away, drowned in the swampy lowlands of our learned competitiveness and fearfulness - If we could keep in mind why we are here, the apparent hostility and anger might just fade out, and be replaced by cobperation and mutual assistance. 1 think that the people at the university are there to learn. I was, and 1 know that 1 am still learning, partly-through association with the university, and, of course, because 1 have tried to make it a habit (or, it wasn’t driven out of tie by,the educational system of the state). The situation surrounding the chevron and the federation and their reiationship-strikes me as an excellent learning opportunity. Myself, it helps me to clarify my own thought on various matters continued this case dissolve since the tion was reed that

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continued ‘from page 6 AIA, alihough they are obviously not as intense as some of the others at this time. In Canada as a whole, there is a sharp contradiction between U.S. imperialism and its ally, the Canadian monopoly capitalist class, on the one hand, and the vast majority df the people on the other. . There is abo a contradiction between the owners of the means of production (the bourgeoisie) and the wage labourers (proletariat) whom they exploit. Furthermore, there are contradictions within the ruling class and among the people. Within the family there are contradictions between the husband and wife, parents and children,, and among the children.. The development of these various contradictions was shown to be quite uneven. Some become suddenly intense or are rapidly resoived. Others require many years to undergo qualitative change. Differ-

ent contradictions are not necessarily isolated: development of one may strongly influence others. For example, at times the con: tradictions among chevron staffers have been intense, yet when the federation executive tried to close the paper, the staff united, temporarily submerging their differences in order to oppose their common enemy. The differences among staffers do not vanish, but qualitatively they become less intense. By analysing- contradictions scientifically, it is possible to identify which one is principal and thereby not be diverted into a struggle of a secondary nature. Everyone acknowledged that analysis of contradictions on campus was in its infancy, but participants resolved to undertake this new work in conjunction with the struggle against the education cutbacks and certain federation “hacks”. -doug

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like freedom of speech, freedom of the pres:, freedom of discussion, responsibility. For the record, at this time (and f& some’time past) 1 think that 1 should openly declare on ‘these matmY “philosophy” ters. 1 also think that anyone may (has the right, and maybe even the duty) try to convince me to change my mind. But 1 would protest as strongly as possible, short of vioience (I’d probably run away) anyone’s right to FORCE me, against my will, to do or not do anything. This goes for the individual (eg, rape) through to the State (eg, Rochdale College, 1975 May30-July3 1). If we are all here to learn, maybe we cduid start by trying to learn to trust one another’s intentions more, and to help one another. Co-operative methods may be slow.. (very slow, sometimes), but they are infinitely preferable in the long\ run to authoritarian methods, no matter who’s involved. May the Revolution Live On! Charlotte von Bezold (BIS’71)

Fire al! four It is impossible to write an unbiased letter. 1 am .neither a FED nor a CHEVRIC. I have no source of information except my own biased memory, but I feel that the majority of students may feel as foilows: The chevron is a reputable newspaper-and those people who work for it should be congratu-+ iated. It takes a lot of work to publish such a paper. The FEDS also do their best to please ail the stu-’ dents, which is difficult. In the last year we were made to vote for a Federation President. The vote is over but the war still rages! If Neil Docherty, Larry Hannant and Henry Hess continue to operate “a newspaper unequivocally opposed to Shane Roberts and his like” and Shane Roberts continues to fight the AIA members at the chevron:. THEN ALL FOUR SHOULD BE FIRED. You will never accomplish anything for the student body.while fighting among yourselves. 1 do not intend to vote for either faction in any upcoming election. J.C. Wagar might be in order. At dissolution, Docherty declared to the meeting that despite the “elimination” of his job, he would not leave’ the chevron until staff voted him out. _ The rauc_ous meeting fell into complete disarray about 12:30 am. In a meeting following the council’s decision, the chevron staff unanimously voted to continue publishing the chevron. Engineering students were particularly vocal at the meeting, with representation from every fourth‘year study division, each presenting a petition unanimously opposed to the chevron. One engineering society president summed up by saying that the engineers are not served by the federation, but that they also received “not a penny’s worth from the chevron.” Earlier in the day more than 1,000 students converged on the arts quadrangle for a mass democracy meetin‘g sponsored by the chevron. The meeting was marked by heated confrontation and serious debate on-the issue of the chevron and the federation. Again, engineering students comprised* large part of the audience; and at least 40 remained after the three-hour session to continue discussion.

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Allegations about the chevron have run rife in the last week or so. The chevron has made a comprehensive 1 /;st of them and below some of the more glaring ones meet their rebuttal. The allegations are taken from the minutes of the executive board meeting of September 24 and the statement which accompanied them to the council meeting of September 26, and from The Other Voice. - ‘editor’s resignation shows that something is obviously wrong in the Chevron;

recruitment will be affected.’ (E.B.M.) -Four editors have resigned in the past four years: Adrian Rodway, Michael Gordon, Sue Johnson, George Kaufman. There is a larger and more active staff this year than there has been inthe past five years these people (about 35-40) have stayed with the paper and are still putting it out. - ‘lack of formal procedure to protect democratic decision-making (eg. no quorum specified).’ (E.B.M. & Statement (2)) -The Chevron has a policy and procedures manual drawn up by staff and according to which it operates (a portion of it was reprinted in the Sept. 10176 Chevron); staff meetings are regularly held every Friday afternoon; notice of meeting and agenda items are prominently displayed on a blackboard in the office. -concern that “freedom of press’ is becoming propaganda organ. (E.B.M. & Statement (2)) -Cr#ical examination of feature material pubflshed in the Chevron refutes the claim that it is being used as a propaganda organ by any one political party. The features reflect political diversity, and AIA has often lost votes on ‘features. The only AIA summer feature was run as counterp.oint to another one. - ‘no one was clearly responsible for Chevron following the resignations’. (Exec. Statement). -Staff has always controlled and “been responsible for” the Chevron; everyone expected to carry on as usual until an editor could be found. The editor is a COordinator, not a controller, and has one vote just like all other staff members. - ‘rumours had been circulating / about the state of affairs in the Chevron.’ (Exec. Statement) -Action was based on “rumours” and not on investigation. occupation by political groups - exec. concerned --‘past occasions of ‘. . .physical about protection of Chevron office area.’ (E.B.M. & Statement; O.V.: “Fed. Exec. Moves”) -The only case of physical occupation of offices in the past two years was occupation of the Dean of Arts office by the Renison Academic Assembly (Mar. 1975); that action was supported by the federation, and there was no physical damage. - ‘although Rodway gave no reasons for resigning, members of exec. believed from what they had seen and heard,that minority bloc had been exerting pressure on the editor’. (E.B.M. & Statement; O.V.: “Fed. Exec. Moves”, & “Freedom or Licence.“) -These allegations are unproven; there is evidence that Rodway resigned because he didn’t like sharp political debate, he had personal pressures on him at home, and he was not competent for the job, never having worked on a newspaper before. - ‘AIA is trying to gain influence in the Chevron.’ (O.V.: “Fed. Exec. Moves:‘) -AIA has influence on the paper, but it has that influence because people have taken up its line that the Chevron should be democratically-run, open to all students, and should defend their basic interest. Also that its main emphasis should be on campws or on news that affects the campus. - ‘the fact that‘they drove out the editor . . .has left paid staff in hands of AIA man and AIA supporter’ (O.V.: “Fed. Exec. Moves”) -No evidence of editor being driven out; the fact that staff makes decisions means that it is impossible for any two persons, no matter who, to exert control. --‘Tuesday’s edition was political pamphlet’ (O.V.: “Bogus Chevron Published”) -Unlike the Other Voice, Math News, and Sci Sot News, the Chevron reported on what had happened, printed allegations against us, and provided our reply. - ‘coverage was biased and lacked solid argument’ (O.V.: “Bogus Chevron Published”) -Havipg gone over the allegations by the federation executive, it becomes obvious which position lacks solid arguments. Furthermore, what is biased about the opinions of new staff? -Chevron submission deadlines are indefinite, the paper lacks contradictory points of view and editorial meetings are non-representative due to lack of public notice. (O.V.: “E.S.S. Speaks”) -there is no evidence for these charges. In fact: -definite submission deadlines are promintitly displayed in the Chevron office and are available on request to anyone; -come to staff meetings if you want contradictory points of view (see ed. page of last regular paper); -meetings are every Friday afternoon at one o’clock. Notice and agendas are ’ posted in Chevron office and are available on.re,quest (also printed in some Chevron mastheads). - ‘feelingthat Chevron doesn’t represent interests of UW students’ (O.V.: “Math Society”) -Can and is being remedied by involving more people in the paper; traditionally it has not represented students’ interests and this is one of the main things we set out to change this year. -‘large portion of voting staff are associated with AIA’ (O.V.: “Math Society”) -Absolutely false, as witnessed by the votes AIA has lost on features or positions. - ‘someone who writes-controversial articles cannot get them approved and cannot become a voting member’ (O.V.: “Math Society”) 4 -Hardly anyone becomes a staff member by writing features; one joins staff by participating in the day to day activities of producing the newspaper. - ‘some older staff members have left due to political pressures making it difficult for them to contribute’ (O.V.: “Math Society”) -The only political pressure at the Chevron is the weekly debate on feature material; if someone does not care to join in debates that is their personal decision; no one has been forced out of the paper. +Chevron not controlled by students’ (O.V.: “Engineering Society A”) -Staff, the vast majority of whom are students, have complete control over the Chevron through “staff meetings. --‘Chevron used as vehicle for expression of national and international political viewpoints and biased reports.’ (O.V.: “Engineering Society A”) -National and international viewpoints are valuable and will not be abandoned; what the chevron does need and is getting is much more campus news as well. l

A newspaper recognized and supported by the Canadian University Press (CUP), the free chevron is typeset by members of dumont press graphix and published by the staff and friends of the, old chevron. -Content is the sole responsibility of the free chevron staff. Offices are located in the campus centre, room 140; (519) 8851660 or ext. 2331. Thanks to all those who have dropped bv the chevron office to pledge support, to help or just to talk about what’s happening. We are dedicated to continuing to publish a free student newsPaPer and we call for at1 ‘those who support that ideal to join with us. Putting their heads and fingers to the Paper this week were: marina taitt, sam wagar, brian pepperdine, val moghadam, larrY hannant, robert taylor, salah bachir, neil docherty, henry hess, doug hamilton, beverly blaney-jackson, stu vickers, doug wahlsten, ernst von bezold, barry hoch, john jackson, graham thornson, jason michael, dave carter, diane ritza, linda hess, dianne chapitis, Oscar m nierstrasz, rohert hyodc, jufes grajoner, lisa kwas, t alex beamish, mike hazell, jamie thiers, mark wills, dave colburn, mary, eric, gerry, garard, ken, lorraine, heather and others. Special thanks to cup and the dumont ducks. See you next week. hh

Investigation an urgent need It’s been an instructive two weeks. Compressed into the days since the September 24 closure of the chevron office have been months’of lessons for the chevron staff and all students at UW. The situation is this: The chevron was attacked by the federation executive, led by president Shane Roberts, and council ratified this action. The chevron staff could have bowed down before Roberts and his campus cops, before Roberts and his handful of goons, before Roberts and his executive power. Instead, chevron staff workers stood up and fought. We’ve been fighting ever since, and learning from,every round. In the September 28 special issue of the chevron, the staff defiantly stated thal “This chevron you are holding is a declarationof intent. “It is the statement of the chevron staff that we will not be silenced.” On that straightforward declaration, friend and foe are demarcated. Friends say the chevron’s cause is just, uninhibitedly express support, and volunteer real aid. The foes come in varying guises - unassuming and apologetic, conciliatory, aggressive and blustering. Whatever their facade, they’re all forced to acknowledge one fact: the chevron continues to publish, and has vowed to carry on the work that it began before Roberts had the university administration lock the chevron doors. In fact, our determination to serve students and investigate the federation has stiffened because of the attack. In a September 28 resolution, the chevron staff declared that what needs investigating is not the chevron, but the federation executive, which closed down a democratic newspaper in the most anti-democratic manner. To that point we’d already had a strong dose of Roberts’ style of “democracy”. But a further ten days of action, along with our own investigation into the things going on upstairs, have left us even more convinced of the virtue of our case against the federation council. Just a brief list of facts dug up by chevrics during the past week, and appearing ‘in this week’s chevron: Federation fieldworkers, employed for months on student funds, have done no. thing to even begin organizing against the cutbacks. This despite Roberts’ claim in February that, of the presidential candidates, he had the only “elaborated strategy to combat the cutbacks.” Eight months later, Mr. Roberts, where are the results? What about the boards which are vital organs in the federation? Well, just a week’s enquiry has revealed that the all-important Board of Publications - whose chairman was “driven out by pressure from AIA” - has not met in years. Chevron staffers could not even locate a person who could recall a Board of Publications meeting. Who’s running the show here - besides a picked crop of Roberts’ appointees? The federation council’s suspension of the chevron is a direct contravention of six articles of the Canadian University Press charter, under which the Board of Publications is supposed to work. The arbitrary closure of the chevron office September 24 reveals blatant collusion bet,ween Roberts and the UW administration. The entire episode requires deeper investigation. And ‘we want answers, not the “no comment” apologies chevron staffers have been receiving from federation and society executive members who claim to be responsible to the students! Roberts and his executive have raised a great clamour about the “illegality” of the September 28 chevron special issue. But no special issue of the chevron during the past four years has received authorization from the Board of Publications. By what authority did Shane Roberts deny the chevron access to audio-visual equipment for the September 30 mass meeting ? Why would a man who acted September 24 “to preserve democracy” attempt to stifle free discussion about the action among the students? What do you fear in open debate, Mr. Roberts? Who is taking responsibility for The Other Voice, the most fascist ru’mour-sheet to ever appear at UW? Curious chevron staffers were greeted with the resounding thunder of fleeing hacks when they tried to discover what persons or organizations paid for, and accepted responsibility for, The Other Voice. Is The Other Voice the prototype,for a new federation organ, now said to be in the works? The council meeting which closed the chevron and eliminated key chevron staff positions was a crudely-staged exercise in authoritarian manipulation. Despite the obvious planning for it - including bouncers culled from the ranks of the engineering students, operation “Blue Danube”, and “evidence” against Neil Docherty supplied by the UW administration - the meeting, was still a chaotic kangaroo court. And fiasco is a mild word to describe the way that the federation by-election was conducted this week. But if all this historical evidence is not sufficient to prove that something is rotten in the federation, consider what the executive has in store for the future. National Student Day will be used to launch a student candidate in the December municipal elections. Part of an “elaborated strategy to combat the cutbacks?” An elaborated strategy, all right. But not one that has either the approval or interests of students at heart. More likely, a strategy to advance the career of a friend of the present federation executive. At the September 30 mass meeting, Roberts announced that “It’s either Docherty or me!” We should advise him. now that if his feeble case against Docherty is not fully presented, he’d better scurry round’Tom Brzustowski to scrape up more “evidence”, because the chevron has only just begun to marshall its evidence to prove conclusively that it will be Roberts* who takes the long walk down University Av* enue. We call on people who support democratic principles to put that support- into lractice by uniting in defence of the chevron.

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