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A delegation of UW students is at the proTincia1 legislature today presenting a petition against the recently-announced tuition fee increase of $100 per year. , The UW delegation is part of a larger group from universities and
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tion calls on the government to halt the deterioration of education quality, create more summer jobs and alter the Ontario Student Assistance Plan rules to make them more equitable.
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Roberts may< be out today By the time the day is out Shane Roberts may no longer be student federation president. At press time Wednesday evening Mark Wills of the recall committee said the petition had over 2,000 signatures and he expected to have accumulated the necessary 2,200 sometime today. Only 2,141 which elected (the number Roberts) are required, but Wills is going for the extra just to be safe. He said he wants all the petitioners to return their sheets Friday to either office 289~ in Humanities, or the chevron office. The committee, comprised of students from all faculties, has been campaigning for three weeks to recall the president. They have a long list of grievances which revolve around claim? of political patronage, and complaints that he hasn’t fulfilled his election promises. Discontent which, according to spokespersons, came to a peak when Roberts closed the chevron and fired staff without any investigation. With the petition hovering around the top of the thermometer which is being used to illustrate its Engineering Society A progress, entered negotiations with various groups and for a while it looked as though they would put it over the top. But all the talks came to nought for the recall and instead the engineering representatives forced Roberts to call a referendum on the chevron in January. (see page 3). The engineers had talks with Roberts, the free chevron, the Anti-Imperialist Alliance and the recall committee. Their position was that they wanted Roberts to resign or be recalled and for a December election in which a candidate of their choice would be acclaimed. According to EngSoc president Peter King and engineering student Max Mercer, the aim of this scheme was an early settlement to the chevron-federation dispute. Their candidate (who was not
named during the discussions) would, on taking office, immediately reinstate the paper and call an investigation, they said. He was also to look at the bylaws and generally try a clean-up of the federation before the normal presidential elections in February. When the winner is chosen at those polls, King and Mercer said, their president would resign and let the new president take office a month early, with campus life returned to normal. A key part of this plan was that ‘their candidate be acclaimed in December, giving him an extra month to complete his task, because if it went to an election it was feared that the clean-up campaign couldn’t start until mid January. Thus the engineers embarked on speedy negotiations. Information
meetings were held with the,paper and with the AIA, while the main negotiations involved the engineering representatives running between the recall committee and Roberts. Wills said the committee demanded that the engineers meet certain conditions before any agreement could be reached-. They were: that the chevron be reinstated and an investigation into the whole affair be established; that there also be an investigation into the federation executive’s actions since it took office, and in particular into its expenditures; that the engineering candidate present his stand on issues like the tuition fee increases for both Canadian and foreign students, the cutbacks, and housing; that the candidate inake a continued on page 15
.The UW delegation also intends to pay a viiit to KitchenerWaterloo area members of the provincial parliament to voice its opposition to the tuition fee hike. . At 3 pm the delegation will join with other post-secondary students in a special plenary session, organized by the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS), to evaluate the success of the day and make plans for a long-term campaign against the fee hike. OFS fieldworker Abdool Gafur tbld the chevron Monday that OFS hoped to present petitions with 50,000 signatures against the fee hike to Parrott today: The petition plan was approved at a November 27 emergency plenary meeting held in Toronto, called by the OFS, but attended by students from both member and non-member post-secondary institutions. The brief, two-week petition campaign was launched because “student unions weren’t really sure how mad students were,” said OFS executive assistant Peter MacDonald. MacDonald said there were fears the increase would be much higher than the $100 announced, so delegates at the emergency meeting were not sure how students would look at it. At least 6,000 signatures had been collected in two Ontario cities even before the petition campaign was begun. ‘At Cambrian College in Sudbury, 500 studepts rallied against tuition fee increases and collected 4,000 signatures against. the fee hikes in a one-day blitz November 25, the day Parrott announced the increases in the Ontario legislature. The next day students at Ottawa University collected 2,000 signatures against the fee hikes. At the November 27 emergency plenary meeting, some campuses wanted to consider a fee’ strike in retaliation to the announced increase, but the’y were the minority, OFS fieldworker Gafur told the . chevron. For the future, the OFS plans to “give leeway to campuses to take the initiative on their own,” he expmight favor a fee lained. “They strike or a boycott of classes.” At the last tuition fee hike in Ontario, January 1973, s.tudents at several universities, especially Carleton ,university in Ottawa, attempted to carry out a fee strike, but were forced to give in by lack of leadership and poor support from students throughout the province. At Tuesday’s council meeting, Federation president Shane Roberts said that after the OFS emergency meeting he wrote a let-
ter to Parrott asking for one meeting December 10 with delegations from both universities and col,leges, rather than two meetings, as proposed by Parrott. Roberts also drew council’s attention to an article in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, in which he expressed opposition to the tuition fee hike if the government would not increase summer employment. In council, Roberts said that he “would recommend opposing it ,” but cautioned that any plan to fight the hike would “have to take into consideration the large number who won’t accept it.” Environmental Studies councillor Heather Robertson criticized Roberts’ contradictory attitude towards the tuition increase promising to fight it but also providing conditions under which he would accept it. National Union of Students fieldworker Gavin Anderson, a guest at the meeting, called on the and orfederation to “identify ganize the students of lesser means”, and “make a commitment to those who are going to be hurt”. Grad councillor Larry Hannant asked whether Doug Thompson, former OFS liaison officer, or the federation executive would organize a conference early in January on the topic of how students could make the rich pay for the tuition fee increase. Thompson replied: “I’m dubious about whether this would do anything.” Council lost quorum before any other specific proposal was presented. In a statement following the announcement of the tuition fee hike, the Ontario OFS declared that “whatever the tuition fee increase in the other provinces will be, Ontario will be the new leader in tuition fees in most disciplines in the country.” The $100 increase for two terms, for university students represents an increase of 16.6% over 1976-77, while the $75 a year increase for college students represents a 30% increase, the OFS calculates. For Ontario universities, the tuition fee hike will provide $21.2 million. The universities have been put into the position of enforcers of the tuition increase, since their operating grants from the province will be reduced by an amount equal to the sum they would collect by charging their students the higher fee. Colleges and universities minister Parrott also announced on November 25 that total funding for the 15 Ontario universities would continued
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Visa fee h-ike stalled at lJ of T ‘There is a chance that the University of Toronto will not institute the foreign student fee hike recommended by minister of colleges and universities Harry Parrott last May. At a meeting November 25, U of T’s Academic Affairs Committee, a dommittee of the governing council (Board of Governors), it was agreed by a vote of 11-4 that the minister should be asked to reconsider his decision to triple tuition for foreign students. The Varsity, U of T’s student newspaper, reported last week that the normally staid board room at Simcoe Hall burst into applause when the students, faculty and administrators reached their decision. The decision is a rejection of U of T vice-president Don Chant’s proposal to pass the fee hike onto the foreign students. The fee hike is the result of the provincial government deciding that in 1977 it will decrease, by
about $1,000, its subsidy to universities for visa students, and Parrott recommends that the universities pass the cost onto the foreign students. But so far at least one university’ in Ontario has decided not to pass it on. Laurentian’s International Student Organisation successfully lobbied its senate last October to reject the increase. It is expected that this decision will be accepted by the university’s board of governors. The motion must also gain the approval of the university’s governing council where, according to Varsity editor Eric McMillan, it is expected to cause “a big fight.” The motion moved by a student representative and amended by a professor reads: “That the U of T not implement the proposed differential fee for international students and the Governing Council instruct the administration to inform the minister of the serious reaction on the part of the university community to the proposal as a
matter of principle. The university But student representative requests the minister in view of the Michael Treaty argued that a gravity of this reaction to reconbudget the size of U of T’s could afsider the policy. ” ford the cost. At UW the fee hike was accepted Adding weight to this decision, the university’s ombudsperson has by the board of governors in late September, when it was argued by also come out against the increase. finance Bruce GelIn an interview with the Varsity he vice-president, said: “It’s not a policy that there is latly that there was really no other choice. reason for the university to accept. It doesn’t benefit the university.” Gellatly said: “The minister The main argument used against (Parrott) has said that he anticiimplementing the hike is that it pates the increase will be passed would hurt the academic excelon, and we can disobey the minister lence of the university, since only so far but no further.” wealthy foreign students would be Vice-president academic Tom attracted there. Brzustowski, filiing-in for president S.tudent Administrative Council Burt Matthews who is on sabbatipresident Shirley French argued cal, also argued that the university that: “The issue of autonomy is at . had very little choice. stake. Will the university sit back So foreign undergrads attending and let the government do this?” UW after January 1,1977, will have Against this Chant argued tlfat to fork out $1515 for each regular the university couldn’t afford to two-term session, and $818 if they absorb the cost. Waiting to impleare co-op students. While graduates will have to fork out a ment the fee increase until next September, he said, will cost the three-term fee of $1,950. university $52q,OOO. -neil docherty
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II In his capacity as chief justice, federation president Shane Roberts has decided to defy the wishes of 366 Arts students and Bllow Don Orth to remain on federation council. His decision, announced at Tuesday night’s council meeting, was based on a technicality overlooked. by the recall committee. One of the two bylaws pertaining to the conduct of recall petitions had not been complied with, Roberts said. Bylaw 20 requires the signature of the chief justice prior to the circulation of any petition. This bylaw had escaped the attention 6f the recall committee, which had focussed on bylaw 23 dealing specifically with recall petitions. ES councillor Heather Robertson declared that Roberts is “manipulating bylaws to suit himself.” “It is not as though Klingender, Orth or even Roberts were unaware of the recall petitions. They were well publicized,” she pointed out. Robertson was referring to the fact that both Klingender and Orth in early were approached November by a free chevron reporter for comments on the recall petitions. In separate letters to the reporter, however, both Arts councillors (Klingender has since resigned) stated that they did not regard the free chevron as a legitimate student newspaper and therefore did not feel obliged to answer any questions. This was reported in an arti-
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accept Kevin Willis as the new Math regular representative. Addressing council as chief returning officer, Math councillor J.J. Long reported that Peter Blunden, the other candidate in the byelection, had officially contested the legality of the election because a polling clerk, Johann George, had advised a student on whom to vote for. After the votes were counted Willis won 68-58 - Long decided to reject Blunden’s letter of complaint and submit Willis’ name to council for ratification. Long said his decision was influenced by an allegation that Bltmden may have been “electioneering”. The other polling clerk, David Buckingham, told council he had informed Blunden “on various octo leave the polling stacasions” tion, because as a candidate he was not supposed to be there. Blunden replied he had “never
Federation president Shane Roberts intends to hold a referendum next term which he hopes will provide a solution to the chevron dispute.
include questions regarding different solutions to the problem, both long and short term. Though still in the formulative stage Roberts has several questions that will be included. The first query would be “Do you want a campus wide student newspaper or would you rather see the money go elsewhere?” Other questions include, “Do you favor reinstatement of the chevron?“, “Do you think the newspaper should be independant of the student government?“, “Do you think that there should be staff control or control by some other body either elected or appointed?” When asked what he expected to accomplish with the referendum he replied that “we have been subject to several months of debate. I hope it will show the students’ opinion about what should be done.” Chevron editor Larry Hannant argued that the referendum is not a solution. “Our position has always been that there should be a reinstatement then a full investigation in which all parties and students can take part. A decision coming out of that investigation could give a clear mandate to students for bylaw changes, to be ratified in a referendum or general meeting. Roberts’ proposals are only short-term and don’t address the issue of what caused the problem.”
The referendum is to be held the second week of January, and will
e published from R dWat funds In a bombshell disclosure to federation council Tuesday night, Radio Waterloo co-ordinator Dave Assmann announced that funds amounting to over $2,000 were drawn from the Board of Communications budget to cover the cost of two issues of the Bullseye. Radio Waterloo comprises the broadcasting committee of the Board of Communications. The transaction occured, Assmann continued, without the knowledge of Board of Communications chairman Ian MacMillan or any of the RadWat personnel. A cheque for $1,350 dated November 3 was made out to Dumont Press Graphix, and another one for $868 was made out to Fairway Press on November 17. There had been no authorization from council for the expenditures. Assmann asked whether councillors or executive members had any knowledge of the transaction or of who had signed for the cheques. Roberts replied that he could not be expected to remember one cheque when so’ many cheques are signed in a week. When the question was repeated, Roberts did not answer. Federation treasurer Manny Brykman said that monies sometimes are transferred from different accounts, suggesting that this is what may have happened with the Board of Communications budget. He added that he did not know who had signed for the cheques, but would look into the matter. Remarked an observer: “Is this ever a slipshod organization. ” On Wednesday it was discovered that the first invoice had been signed by Shane Roberts. The cheques had been made out and signed by federation business manager Peter Yates and Manny Brykman. The second invoice was signed by Doug Thompson, editor of the now-defunct Bullseye, and the cheques were again signed by
Yates and Brykman. Brykman also disclosed that the money was taken from the Board of Communications budget by mistake, and the expenditure will be transferred to the interim publications budget. Brykman, however, told chevron news editor Henry Hess on November 17 that the Bullseye’s costs were being paid from the Board of Communications budget. Donna Rogers, a member of the Board of Communications, said she is “outraged” that the board had paid for the Bullseye. She has addressed a letter to Ian MacMillan asking him to call a meeting of the board immediately. Also placed before council was a request by Radio Waterloo regarding their application for a non-cable FM licence. They asked for $5,000 for a new transmitter and for approval in principle to accept longterm financing of Radio Waterloo. After some confusion the motion was divided and approval in principle was granted while the issue of the $5,000 was tabled for the next council meeting. Council requested further information on finances but when Dave Assman of Radio Waterloo asked what else they needed he got no response. Assman brought the same motion to council four meetings ago. He then presented a brief to Treasury Council and received its support. RadWat will submit its licence application to the CRTC before Christmas and feels that the chances are good that it will be accepted. The earliest this could happen is next spring. In another Treasury Council motion the Warrior basketball team, coaches and trainers, were granted $1,000 for a basketball tourna‘ment ; in Israel. -vai moghadam -randy barkman
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Brian Hunsburger, a graduate urban and regional planning student at the University of Waterloo, surprised a number of people, including himself, as he placed first in the race for alderman in Ward 2 of Woolwich Township. Hunsburger was one of eight candidates running for the four aldermanic positions in the ward. The 27 year old resident of West Montrose polled 738 votes in beating the ex-mayor of Woolwich, Howard Ziegler, who got 701 votes, for top spot in the ward. Hunsburger will in all likelihood serve on Waterloo Regional council. It is traditional for Woolwich Township council to select the top alderman from each of the two wards in which the mayor is not a resident. The mayor himselfautomatically sits on regional council. Hunsburger said he was pleasantly surprised by his first place showing in the ward. In the course of his campaigning he said feedback had been good and he expected to be among the top four vote-getters who get on to Woolwich council. He had seen first place as only a distant possibility. Hunsburger ran a low budget campaign to the tune of $105. He avoided paid advertising in the newspapers. Instead, he spent his funds on the printing and mailing of a personal c&mpaign flyer to all of the township’s households.. The major issues of the campaign were basically planning oriented as far as Hunsburger saw them. Two of these were the nature and extent of urbanization, and the preservation of agricultural land. Hunsburger said he advocated a slow-growth approach. His excellent showing in the election indicates that his message did not fall on deaf ears. Hunsburger said he is looking forward to serving on Woolwich council as it features a mix of incumbents and new faces. Hopefully his presence will also be felt on regional council.
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In addition to being saddled with the costs of publishing Bullseye and the Real Chevron, UW students may still be paying for their federation’s decision to axe the chevron after classes end in April. The payment will be penalty fees for violation of a contract the federation signed with Youthstream, a national student advertising network. According to Francis Fuca of the Youthstream Members Board, the penalties may already amount to $1500 and will continue to add up so long as the chevron is suspended. ?he fees represent Youthstream’s charge for procuring and preparing ads. Normally it is subtracted from the gross cost of the ad, but when a paper fails to publish e it becomes liable for that charge.
Since the federation council voted September 30 to suspend publication of the chevron as of September 24 no Youthstream ads have been published. Neither the free chevron nor Bullseye or the Real Chevron are eligible to run the ads because they are not members of the Canadian University Press, with -which Youthstream is affiliated. According to Youthstream president Cam Killoran the assessment of penalty fees is made at a members board meeting following the end of the academic year. At that time the board decides how much of the advertising lineage not run is “through no fault of Youthstream.” In this case he felt that “probably the publisher (the federation) would be docked” because: “I believe the board
would take a dim view of the circumstances down there (at UW).” Asked for an estimate of probable penalties, Killoran said if the chevron does not publish for the rest of the year the penalty will be more than $3,000, but if the chevron resumes publication next term it would be lower. We’ve been making sure our ads didn’t run in the other paper,” he added, since “we have no business with the Real Chevron.” Killoran, a former UW student, also said he is surprised that the federation closed the chevron and is dubious about their methOds since, he noted, he knew the people who drew up the federation bylaws and they were “never intended to allow council to close the paper.” -henry
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LONDON Ont. (CUP) - Representatives of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) say they fear minister of colleges and universities Harry Parrott may be planning to interfere with the right of Ontario universities to set their own admissions standards. The comments were prompted by recent remarks by Parrott that “grade 13 marks do not adequately reflect the type of student the university will get”, and that the pro-’ vince is studying the idea of uniform university entrance exams. OCUFA vice-chair Graham Murray expressed concern that the proposed exams may test aptitude rather than achievement. “Since aptitude tests are no guarantee of actual performance,” he said, the government “may test the wrong thing.” continued from page 3 been told by either of the two polling clerks” that he should leave. Instead, he said,c he was informed “someone at MathSoc” once by that he was not supposed to be there. Blunden explained that he had been standing at the polling station awaiting the arrival of his scrutineer. ’ The important thing, Blunden reminded council, is that if a polling clerk tells a student how to vote, that election should be declared invalid. He cited as precedent the last by-election for Grad rep on council. The first election was declared invalid because a polling clerk instructed a student whom to vote for. Referring to the math byelection, ,federation president Shane Roberts said he didn’t feel that the student’s right to vote was infringed if he was “just told how to vote” by the polling clerk. Roberts declared that he didn’t “see any legal grounds to contest the election.” Council overruled Blunden’s objections and voted to accept Willis. Following the vote, Long announced that he is resigning as chief returning officer because he is “fed up” with the position.and also because he is about to be involved in an election campaign. -val
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Shane Roberts informed council Tuesday night that the legal firm currently employed by the federation has confirmed that proxies are indeed not allowed. Said ES councillor Heather “It seems strange that Robertson: only now, when Mark Wills is proxying for Donna Rogers, has Roberts looked into the legailty of Donna proxies. ’ ’ (Arts councillor Rogers is a supporter of the chevron.) Grad rep Larry Hannant continued: “This matter has been long outstanding. It should have been dealt with long agb.” Roberts said that he ‘.didn’t know exactly” when the question of proxies was taken to the lawyer. von Bezold asked what the federation lawyer had to say about the right of any student, as a member of the Federation of Students, to speak out at meetings without having to be recognized or deferred to by a councillor. von Bezold has consistently asserted at council meetings that The Corporations Act, R.S.O. 1970 ( 13 l(5)) confirms that right. Replied Roberts: “The lawyel has suggested that it may be so.” Speaker Bob White said, however, that he would “give priority to council members” during discussion. During the course of the council meeting, White proceeded to do just that: when von Bezold repeatedly asked if he had been put on the speakers’ list, White refused to say anything other than “maybe.” von Bezold declared that he found the chair’s conduct “disgusting”. When the ruling on proxies was put to a vote, council voted to oppose their use. -val
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Candidates Two students and a professor ran for alderman in KitchenerWaterloo and all they have left is their debts. Tom Cody, an ES student who ran in Kitchener, came in 21st out of 24 aldermanic candidates with 5279 votes. The last elected candidate got 983 1. For his small budget of $250, he is pleased with his showing. “I still fear that municipal politics involve spending a lot of money on ads”, he said. “Most people vote for an alderman because they are aware of him, not because they know him.” “I think I got a fair amount of support from Kitchener students, however I think Waterloo students let Tom Raidy down”. Cody is dissatisfied with council, noting all the incumbents who ran were reelected. He thinks the best of the new aldermen is Martin Bitzer. He is pleased about the decision in favour of the ward system. “I think that will make a real differ-
lations. When security decides to tow cars, the officer on duty or P.W. McKay, Traffic and Parking Supervisor, phone Active Towing, which then comes on campus to tow the cars. They are not allowed to come on campus without expressed permission from Security. There were no facts available on the number of cars towed daily. However, one tow truck driver on duty stated that he has towed up to 30 cars in one day.
Active Towing stores the towed cars in a compound rented to them by the University. ,The compound , surrounded Gy a fifteen foot fence, is located by Bauer Warehouse at the north end ofcampus. The cost of having your car towed is $11 .OO. If dolleys are required it’s extra. To have your car spend the night in the compound it’s an extra two dollars per night. If you feel that you have been unjustifiably towed, you can lodge an appeal with McKay. He then forwards the appeal letter to the Traffic and Parking Appeal Committee of which he is the recording secretary. The Committee comprised of five (students, faculty and staff) meets one once every two or three weeks to discuss the appeals. They decide if the towing was justified
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and if the person should be refunded. Some diehards have even ventured to the courts to fight what they consider to be unjustified towing. The same truck driver explained that these cases are thrown out of cdurt because towing is not an illegal action according-to the Highways Act. Active Towing then turns around and sues the plaintiff for loss of time and court costs. Even though Security can sympathize with consistent illegal parking because it’s so cold, don’t get caught, your car will still be towed away. Don’t blame Security - they’re only doing their job. After all, they do give you a ride out to the compound to pick up your car. -heather
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Twcls tile night before exams und cdl tl7rorrgil tl7e house, not 0 crewtrrre wus sleeping not e\‘en 0 morose. The crib notes were stujfed irp the sleel’es witlz great c’clre, in hope that good murks would be .found tllet-e. So I took some NODOZE crnd started some crammin’ so I could pass tile next dcrys excrmin’. The previous scenario is an apt description of what some students will be doing once exams commence. The noise levels at the villages will drop off sharply, pub crowds get smaller and the wind howls through deserted streets. In talking with students about the upcoming winter sweepstakes the consensus was that once classes end everyone will be going into
left with ence the next time aliound. It will give little spenders an easier chance of getting in.” “I am glad I ran”, concluded Cody. Tom Raidy, a former UW student who ran in Waterloo, came in 17th of 18 candidates with 1407 votes. The top runner got 6278. Raidy found the campaign “an enlightening experience”, and concluded: “You can’t get elected running at-large on issues. You have to know lots of people and belong to lots of organisations”. Raidy campaigned for .a ward system because it would mean .closer contact with constituents and less cost to candidates. He called the student vote “abysmal”, and criticised the federation’s lack of organisation. Commenting on the Village I allcandidates meeting fiasco (see last week’s free chevron), he said: “I couldn’t believe they could be so inept”. He also thinks both the chevron
monastic seclusion. For the uninitiated frosh, exams signal panic stricken marathon study sessions. Worldly seniors breeze through unconcerned (till they get their results) and grads, well they’re downright smug. First year students find themselves faced with an unknown ordeal that knowing elders have assured them is no worse than scurvy or the black death. Starting today, UW students will start to sweat over every subject from Anthropology to <oology not to mention systems design and statistics. Over the days from the 10th to the 23rd, caffeinated coffee, pep pills, and TV dinners will sell like hot cakes. Pencils will become
debts and the Federation could have covered the election better if their energies were not being drained by the current dispute. He is not bitter about the result, saying that he is glad so many peo-. ple worked hard on the campaign to get the issues out to the people. He had really expected to end up higher in the list, possibly at number fourteen. John Shortreed, a UW engineering professor who also ran in Waterloo, came in 12th with 2910 votes. He said he had hoped to do better, but was not very disappointed. He found it difficult to cover all of the polling districts with information. He spent $400 on his campaign and feels now that he should have spent more, especially since he produced only one run of campaign pamphlets. A ward system “would have made it cheaper,” he said, “but that’s not a particularly good reason to have one”. -jonathan
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shorter and textbooks will be magic markered in all the colours of the rainbow. When asked their opinions of . exams, students are very vocal: - “‘I think exams are great, ha, ha, ha.” -“I think they count for too much of the year, it shouldn’t be just three hours work.” - “I think there should be more emphasis on term work, classwork, but they should still have exams.” - “I think some are too close together, I don’t like them.” -“Why ask me?” - “Too much pressure, profs tell you how important they are and you know you’re going to blow them. Fifty per cent is too much, it should be more like 30 per cent .” -“Drop dead.” Bill Dick of Counselling Services said that the high water mark for students is prior to the exam period in the month of November. Most of the problems connected with exams are a form of preliminary anxiety and are dealt with in special classes designed to help the people cope with their problems, he said. Of the people who come in for counselling, Dick says, about half are there for academic reasons, like career planning, but the academic plans often have emotional aspects to them. Dick added that anyone who wishes counselling should just walk into the offices in Ira Needles Hall. Hours are 8 to 5 daily with offices open four nights a week. But if all the “dogged determination”, “sheer guts” and downright “intestinal fortitude” being displayed by students on campus is to no avail, we can all find solace in the words of the unknown student: “Well at least it’s only December. I can really start to work next term and knock ‘em dead in April.” -doug
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A former member of the Israel Permanent Mission to the United Nations attacked the UN here last week as “irrelevant to the Middlk East crisis” and a “theater of the absurd”. He also declared that “as long as Arabs want to see Israel at the bottom of the ocean,” and until both sides realize “the necessity for coOePAlMAd'CARRIE" APAUL MONASH Prtiucllon A BRIAN existence” there will never be an smng SIStYSPACEK end to the Middle East conflict. JOHNTRAVOLTA.ad?PER lAllRlE.scleenplaVbylAWRENCE O.COHEN Yoram Dinstein, currently a visBased on Ihenovelt,ySTEPHEN KlNG.~roducedbvPAULMONASH.olr~~edbyBRlAN OePALMA iting professor of international law at U of T, was invited by the UW Jewish Students Association and the Board of Education to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict. Upon his arriyal at the Theater of Arts last Thursday night, Dinstein was met by a group of anti-Zionist demonstrators that included members of the Arab Students Association, the Greek Students Association, and the Anti-Imperialist Alliance. In separate statements, the GSA and the AIA attacked Zionism as “racist”, and denounced the Israeli state for its close ties with the repressive regimes of Iran and South Africa. In his talk, Dinstein said the Middle east conflict involves “two peoples competing for the same
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territory,” adding that “both peoples are entitled to selfdetermination.” He also stressed that “ Palestinian” describes the Jewish inhabitants of that region as much as it does the Arab. The struggle of both groups for self-determination has erupted into a situation that could become another Hundred Years War, Dinstein said. To avoid that he sees two possible courses of action. The first, “some kind of confederation,” may appear to be an ideal solution, but is potentially problematic in that “the beast of separatism cari raise its ugly head after even a century.” The second alternative, partition, was rejected by the Arabs in 1937, 1947, 1939 and 1967, according to Dinstein. At this point a demonstrator interjected, “That’s because they objected to having all their lands taken over by the Zionists.” Dinstein continued that presently “quite a lot of Arabs ostensibly support partition.” But in actuality, even the Arab “doves” desire a “phase destruction of the state of Israel.” He referred to Egyptian president Anwar Sadat as a “dove” who
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d TORONTO (CUP) - The Ontario government has decided to freeze all funding for new graduate research projects; one of numerous recommendations in a Special Program Review report it voted on Nov. 23. The original version of the - 61-page document, also known as the McKeough-Henderson report, presented last November, focussed on government cutbacks of programs and alternative funding for post-secondary education. The report was the subject of demonstrations and rallies on Ontario campuses last year because of its recommendations for an immediate 65 per cent increase in tuition fees and a raise ip the student aid loan ceiling of $1,000 bringing it upto$1,800. The government accepted 108 items in the report, rejected 33, partially accepted 34 and deferred 12. Included in the deferals were
items concerning the “percentage of education costs which should be borne by tuition fees” and proposals to negotiate with other provinces to phase out student grants in favor of loan-only schemes. In addition to the two to three year freeze on new graduate research the government decided to discourage the use of academic achievement as a job screening method and to review the need foi manpower training plans beyond those of the federal government. New Democratic Party colleges and universities critic David Warner said the graduate funding freeze “backs up the government’s lack of interest in research”. and is of detriment to the training of qualified Canadian professors. “The government will probably lift the freeze in two or three Warner said, “and then years,” there’ll be a mad scramble for the available money. ”
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TORONTO (CUP) - Ontario Ombudsman Arthur Maloney hasn’t changed his mind about the rape law that allows defense lawyers to cross-examine victims on previous sexual experience. Speaking to 170 York University alumni Nov. 19 Maloney was remarking that the office of ombudsman has had “an uplifting effect on the civil service” when he was interrupted by a woman asking “Have you changed your views on women victims of rape?“. “No,” said Maloney. “A defense lawyer should be able to cross-examine a rape victim on her previous sexualrelations. I’m sure all the lawyers in the audi-
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nonetheless wishes to “annihilate Israel from the map of the world.” Sadat likes to talk of armistice now, said Dinstein, but “he is not prepared to concede that Israel has a right to exist .” Regarding Israeli occupation of Arab land Dinstein declared that the idea of a “semi-Nazi occupation” is “Arab propaganda”, and that “Arabs
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ory don’t react the way Arabs outside Palestine expect them to.” Since 1973, however, there have been some successful attempts by the ?LO to create incidents within the occupied lands, Dinstein said, calling these incidents “imported. ” He ended by saying that if Jews and Arabs can understand they can co-exist on an individual level, then they can realize they can co-exist on a group level. During the question period, several Arab students contested many of the speaker’s statements. One woman, who said she was jailed at age 14 in Israel, spoke of destruction of homes and the imprisonment and exile of Arabs by the Israeli government. Another woman in the audience said, however, that she had lived in Israel for two years and never saw any destroyed homes. Another student pointed out that Dinstein had ignored the historical aspect of the situation - how a predominantly Arab Palestine had developed into a Zionist state. He also questioned the close military ties between Israel and South Africa. Dinstein replied that “many countries” have trading links with South Africa, but only Israel is singled out and castigated. -val
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TORONTO (CUP) - There may be a desperate shortage of Canadian biologists in the next ten years forcing Canada to import scientists if the government continues to reduce university research grants, according to a York University professor. Kenneth Davey , York biology department chairperson, charged that the “de facto” freeze of university funding since 1969 has caused a decrease in PhD science students because of research facility shortages. “Good teachers become better teachers by virtue of research”, Davey said. Not only will there be fewer biologists he said, but the ones we have may be inadequately trained. Without funds for new equipment Canadian biologists will be lacking technical skills that will prevent international information exchanges. Davey said that government agencies which give research grants have no check on the performance of their staff. The national research council, responsible for university research funding, uses a peer-review committee to screen poor applications. Canadian research is unique, Dave y said. “Nobody else will do it for us.” The Canadian government’ is managing to ignore, and possibly destroy, an area of society that has already proved its worth in handling these problems, he said.
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Ottawa plays off Metis peoplti OTTAWA (CUP) - The federal government has agreed to fund land claims research for a rival group of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories. The Metis Association of the Northwest Territories has received a loan for $210,000 from the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, Warren Allmand, to proceed with its own claims research, in opposition to the land claim being developed by the Dene. The loan adds fuel to speculation here that Allmand is attempting to foster a split between the two groups in-order to undermine the Dene land claims. The Dene. are calling for recognition of their aboriginal rights to control territory they have occupied for centuries. They want their own government under the terms of confederation, with the power to control resource development in the Territories. The Metis Association, however, is recognized as being in favor of the business interests operating in the MacKenzie Valley. Association president Rick Hardy said recently he favors theconstruction of a MacKenzie Valley pipeline as soon as the land claims are settled. And the Metis Association has already gone on record as opposing the separate government proposed by the Dene. Ever since the Dene presented their position paper in the claim to Allmand in late October, observers
have been speculating that Allmand would fund a separate claim in order to divide the two groups, then step in with his own solution to the situation. Now, it- appears he has made the first move towards doing just that. Behind Allmand’s motives could lurk the desire to diffuse Native opposition to development in Canada’s north. It is highly irregular for the department of Indian affairs to fund a Metis land claims study in opposition to a status Indian claim. Legally, Metis do not have special status under the Canadian constitution, and the government has used this as an excuse to neglect Metis problems for years. . A new native political alliance is already in the works to combat the government tactics. The Dene and the Inuit, who last March laid claim to a “Nunavut” territory in the north, are beginning to work together to develop their claims. It is unclear at this time, however, how close the alliance will be. The action by the Indian affairs minister could also be seen as a response to the Berger Commission report which will be.brought down in the new year, and which is expected to be critical of northern development. The government could conceivably use the Metis Association to play off the Berger Commission against some Native people. -colin
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Racist - investigated ‘HAMILTON -A report enquiring into racial assaults at McMaster University is scheduled for release today by the McMaster Chinese Student Association (CSA). The paper, “Report of the Working Meeting of the CSA”, lists results and recommendations of recent meetings. It will be distributed to CSA members, the McMaster administration and the student ..newspaper, The Silhouette. - Clement Lam, chairperson of a committee set up to investigate the racist-attacks, said the report will “soundly scold” HamiltonWentworth police and McMaster security for their failure to serve Chinese members of the community.
Lam said the report concludes by stating: “The meeting ended with a standing ovation for a Canadian girl who witnessed the November 7 incident, and who, in the meeting righteously pointed out the inefficiency and the seeming apprehension of the security guards and the police that night - It was finally established and admitted by Mr. Welch, the duty chief of Hamilton-Wentworth police, that if what the witnesses said was right, then the police and security were wrong.” The report also states the McMaster security director has confirmed increased patrol services around the university, and the two university pubs “Downstairs John” and “The Rat” are now restricted to McMaster students. It is suspected that nonstudents were involved in the most recent attacks. . Another suggestion made by the committee is publication of a pamphlet by university security to “make known its role and jurisdiction and, provide guidelines which the McMaster community could find useful during emergency situations.” Members of the committee meet again today with the dean of students to discuss structure and guidelines for a permanent body of enquiry. But Lam says that most of the actions planned will be postponed until after Christmas when students have more time. The dean is quoted in the report as saying: “Racism is something we abhor; something we’ll fight to the very end.” The committee on racist attacks was founded last spring after Chinese students were attacked by Young Liberals following a Young Liberal meeting at McMaster. The CSA charged police and security with ignoring the attacks. - -shih
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with the extra $36,000 left in our budget the free chevron sent one of its best photographers to this quaint little settlement in the Alps to bring you this winter scene - you can tell your friends its a snow-clad Constable. There will be nn charge for those who wish to paste it on to some cardboard and use it as a Christmas message carrier. m.
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With the recall or resignation of federation president Shane Roberts imminent, it is interesting to look back on his campaign for the presidency in January 1976. Roberts was not a student at the time although he had been two‘ years in Science and one ye,arm Integrated Studies in the early 1970’s. His election platform called for the student federation to be more accessible and open to students: to make the university institution more democratic: to “strengthen and increase organisation in the federation” - to “investigate, organise, build and work.” “There are ways to let students know about the federation,” Roberts stated. Roberts claimed he would fight cutbacks and work on the housing crisis. He later stated that he had “the only position with an elabo-
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rated strategy to combat the cut-. backs.” A major thrust of Roberts’ campaign was the attack on the AIA an attack that hascontinued to this day. He accused them of confusing the issues, dividing the students, giving the students a bad name in the community, and being undemocratic. Phil Fernandez, who also ran for federation president (campaigning to sweep out the bureaucrats), made a prediction concerning Roberts just after the election: “Shane Roberts’ campaign was waged on lies, gutter politics and McCarthyism. In his backroom deals and manipulations, he has exposed himself before the students. Time will further confirm that Shane Roberts is a traitor to the students of the University of
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Waterloo.” The words of Roberts himself in his first council meeting are relevant. He informed council that if he felt any of them were failing in their tasks he would ask for their resignation. He also expected council to ask for his resignation if he was ineffective as federation president. Just such a motion was on the agenda of the December 7 council meeting, but it never came up. Roberts added (as reported in the chevron) that the coming year would see the council experimenting in the development of an effective fighting machine for students. ‘Some of these experiments may fail he added . . .which will leave council open to criticism by responsible and irresponsible groups - on campus.” -randy
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will also be conducted in the first or The National Education Week health hazards linked with the act. on Smoking (NEWonS) is being second week in January in classes The week was organized to held on January 9-16 this year, and commemorate at Wilfrid Laurier and U W . the statement issued is being organized by the local InThe results of the surveys will be by the surgeon general three years teragency Council. in by the 12th and will be broadcast ago which said “Smoking is .-The Interagency Council is part over Radio Waterloo, Radio dangerous to your health.” of a National Volunteer OrganizaLaurier, Conestoga Radio, the r The campaign hopes to: tion consisting of agencies, groups, local newspapers and distributed in 1. educate the general public on and individuals who are particuhandouts at the plaza. / the hazards of smoking; larly interestzd in the problems of Media coverage for the week in2. encourage young people not to clude: CHYM, CKGL, Big Councigarette smoking and its asstart smoking; sociated cardiac and respiratory try (CHYM FM), CKKW (Dan 3. explain what the rights of the diseases. The theme of this year’s Fisher Show), CFCA (CKKW non-smokers are. CFTJ (Galt), RADIO campaign is “JOIN THE MAJORFM), LAURIER, RADIO WATERITY - BE A NON-SMOKER”. A survey will be conducted on The objective of NEWonS Week is January 6,7, and 8 at Fairview Mall LOO, CONESTOGA RADI,,O, BETTY & FRIENDS to encourage young people not to. and at John Galt in Cambridge, and -The start smoking and to point out the will consist of 8 questions. Surveys SHOW on Channel 13, Community Calendar on Channel 12, and also the local newspapers. One week prior to NEWonS week the K-W Record will be doing teaser columns with one-liners like: The University of Waterloo is -spending by visitors; “You can tell a smoker right away worth $130 million to the Waterloo non-salary spending by the - they all smell the same,” “KisRegion this year according to a recolleges and university; sing a smoker is like licking a dirty - money kept in the community cent survey conducted by UW Inashtray,” and “Help the overpopuformation Services. by local families sending their sons lation crisis - smoke more and die The study also calculated that and daughters to U W; earlier.” - money recirculated the university creates more 3han in the CHYM radio will be covering the 6,000 jobs in the,> area, 2,815 procommunity after initial expendiresults of the surveys, and CKKW vided directly by UW and its ture. will be having call-ins and interThe survey points out that in adchurch colleges and another 3,200 views on the Dan Fisher show. created through spending by studition to spending, UW provides Channel 13 will also do a show at dents, staff and the university it“peripheral benefits” to the K-W 10:30onMonday. community. These include scienself. The campaign is being organized The figure of $130 million as a tific and technological aid to induson campus by third year Health cash flow for the current year try and cultural, intellectual and Studies student Vicki Asada. She comes from several sources: health benefits. said that non-smokers are becom-faculty and staff spending from An example of the latter is the ing less tolerant towards smokers take-home pay; . school of optometry, the only Enand are not being quiet about it. -spending by students; glish language one in Canada. -peter blunden
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Mental health care in China
‘Struggleagainstillness with revolutionaryoptimism’ \Recent years have seen Western doctors and scientists taking a keefl interest in Chinese health care techniques. The following article reports on a talk on mental health care in China given by UW psychology professor Doug Wahlsten to a meeting of the K-W C anada-China Friendship Society on November 29.
New treatment for the mentally ill is being practiced in many parts of China with remarkable results. Progressive and scientific treatment of mental patients has yielded a “very high rate of actual cure.” The current interest by the West in mental health in China, Wahlsten said, is based on some striking facts. The incidence of “schizophrenia” is approximately I/ 1000 in China versus l/l00 in the West. The number of hospital beds needed for mental patients is one for every 9,000 people in Shanghai and one for every 500 tin Ontario. Relapse rate, Wahlsten continued, is I5 per cent in China, whereas it is over 50 per cent in the West. Suicide is “very rare,” Wahlsten noted. Alcoholism, drug addiction, venereal disease are non-existent, and psychosurgery. and straightjackets are forbidden. The use of electric shock treat-
ment and insulin is “almost nil,” and drtigs to treat schizophrenia, such as chlorpromazine, are used in low doses, if at all. On the other hand, acupuncture, self-reliance and Mao Tsetung Thought are used in treating mental disorders. There is also an emphasis on prevention. Wahlsten said that as far back as the second century BC, herbs and acupuncture were used to treat mental disorders. But with the coming of Western cblonialism, particularly after 1800, traditional medicine was suppressed. The lucrative opium trade by the British East India Company which grew the narcotic in Bengal and imported it through Canton created serious social problems. The Hospital for the Insane in Canton, organized along Western lines in 1897, reached 500 beds and had a cure rate of only 2-! per cent. In 1919 the Peking Union Medical College was established by the Rockefeller Foundation. According to an article in the November 1968 issue of “China Reconstructs”, its main purpose was to launch “cultural aggression” and to experiment, using poor patients as guinea pigs. A description of mental health “care” in China in 1926 stated that
“mental patients constitute a very helpless class . . .most cases are kept chained at home . . .” AftFr the 1949 victory of the Chinese People led by the Communist Party, psychiatry improved and developed. But it was not until after 1958 that real progress was made. Chairman Mao declared: “Chinese medicine and pharinacology are a great treasurehouse, and efforts should, be made to explore them and raise them to a higher level. ” in June 1958 in Nanking, the First National Conference of Psychiatric Specialists convened. As a result, campaigns were launched to oppose individualism and promote collectivism. Doctors were encouraged to go to the rural areas, instead of staying only in hospitals and concentrating on their careers. Self-reliance and confidence were stressed: the Chinese people were encouraged to believe in themselves rather than rely on foreign authorities. a The conference denoun:ed “mechanistic methods” of treating mental disorders drugs, psychosurgery, binding, which treat the illness but not the person. Mental illness came to be regarded as an intense mental strug-
The most recent attack against post-secondary students came last week in the form of a $7 00 tuition raise announced by Harry Parrott, Minister of Colleges and Universities. As for foreign students, Mr. Parrott hadannounced on May -1 in the legislature that their tuition fees would triple beginning this January. The free chevron is printing an analysis of the foreign students fee hike published in the chevron on August 13, 7$76. The analysis was drawn up as an open letter to Harry Parrott by the Committee to Oppose Tuition fee Increases for Foreign Students and was endorsed by the chevron in a spirit of unity against Ontario governbent cutbacks. The chevron is planning to continue its inve’stigation and analysis of the cutbacks and how !hey affect students at UW. A detailed analysis will begin in January. This letter has been endorsed by over 12 Chinese Stdent Associations across Ontario and by the InternationaI Student Associations of UW and WLU.
Mr Parrott; You have announced in the legislature May 4th, 1976) the Ontario Government’s )olicy of massively increasing the tuition of ‘oreign students in Ontario universities and Jolleges of Applied -Arts and Technology CAAT). For foreign students beginning a prog‘amme in the universities, you propose a uition fee increase from $585 .OO t0 $1500.00 ‘or two terms (almost triple!). For three erms the tuition will be $2,250.00. This is to ake effect in January, 1977. For foreign students beginning a prog.amme in the CAATs, you propose to in:rease tuition fees from $250.00 to $750.00 br two’terms (exactly triple!) This is to take :ffect in September 1976. In your announcement .of May 4th, you ;ive two “circu.mstances” which you say these Jrompted you to take neasures: 1) “Mounting public concern egarding the cost to the Ontario taxpayer of :ducating foreign students in our post secmdary institutions”, and 2) “this Xvernment’s concern to restrain the growth of Government expenditures”. As to the first of these “circumstances” or ‘easons, that is the “mounting public con:ern” for “educating foreign students”. We lave not seen any! Just the opposite, Mr. ‘arrott. we have seen mounting public con:ern in the universities against cutbacks, in:luding your hostile reception by 300 stu!ents and%aculty at this UniVerSity aSWell G. ‘our hostile WXptiOn in UniVerSitieS aCrOSS )ntario. We have also moted the mounting )u bfic concern regarding 1he C~QS~IJ~of van-iMS Ontario hospitals and the hostile recepion, by the communities cOncerned,OfyOUr ~110~ cabinet minister, Mr. Miller (Health \
Minister). We would further like to note the mounting public concern of various student and non-student organizations and individuals concerning y&r present attack on foreign students. YOU must be aware of the fact that foreign students, that is, students from abroad on tempqrary student, visas, are forced to bring with them into Canada at least $3000.00 a year. Further, except for a small number who are able to get work with their study programme (a few graduate students), government regulations make it extremely difficult and usually impossible for foreign students to take part time or summer jobs. Furthermore, foreign students are unable to get any governmental assistance from the Federal Qr Provincial governments, with the notable exception of scholarships provided by the Canadian International Development Agency (C. I.D.A.). This orgtinization is able to yssist only about 4 percent of the foreign students in Canada. Mriny students from the Third World ,come here by having their families bear a heavy financial burden, scrimping and often borrowing from friends and relatives and their situation is worsened by unfavorable currency exchange rates. are not Furthermore, foreign students permitted to stay in Canada once their studies are completed. With a!1 these restrictionS and hardships, you Sir, ha,ve contributed
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gle, arr$abiljty to deal with the objective world correctly, as well as a cerebral malfunction. In treating this, ideology and education with Mao Tsetung Thought was combined with humane physical therapy. The- large health campaigns of this period followed the principle of bringing knowledge to and involving the masses in solving their problems, as well as the mass line of learning from the people. Political mindedness was promoted among mental patients: they were encour?ged to read newspapers and to do productive labor. Hospitals were transfqrme 5 into “family-like institutions,” so that patients could lead normal lives. Medical staff and patients became closely integrated. An article written in 1974 by a Hong Kong physician states that optimism and high morale became evident. Patients were told that they
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Globe and Mail (April 30/76) which supports your position, attempts to do so. It raises the point that in 1973-4 there were at least 10,840 foreign students on student visas in Ontario universities and that “the province pays an average of $2,940.00 a year for its university students”. The editorial further notes that this means a cost of $32 million to the province for educating these students. The editorial did not mention, however, that whereas the provincial government spends $2940.00 per university student, the foreign students must bring in at least $3000.00 per year, which amounts to over $32.5 million coming into the Ontario economy. As to the savings for the Ontario Government. The president of the Students Administrative Council (SAC) of the University of Toronto determined that the revenue generated by raising the tuition of foreign students would be less-than 0.6 percent of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities budget (SAC: June 3/76). While you claim to be concerned about the Ontario taxpayers, the fact of the matter is that the Ontario government expenditure in 1975-6 was $11.3 billion, a rise of $I .5 billion from the previous fiscal year..Your touching concern for the Ontario taxpayer is more clearly noted by the fact that the present 0 n t ario government deficit is a record ,$I ,889 million for the 1975-76 fiscal year, and annual interest payments for that year on the provincal public debt were a record $719 million (source: I976 Ontario Budget). When we examine your actions in the light of the real situation they reveal much more than a righteous attempt to save a few paltry dollars. You are singling out foreign students for attack, and in essence blaming them for problems in the financing of ,your governmeet, as well as trying to make them pay for ‘these problems. This action is part of a concerted effort by you to split students in the face of education and social service cutbacks and to prepare conditions for the intensification of the cutbacks themselves. In view of the fact that out of a total of 34,700 foreign students in post-secondary institutions in Canada at least 24,600 are from the Third World (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) this attack is linked to the racist Green Paper campaign launched by the federal government (figures from O.F.S.). Just as the fed-
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should “struggle against their illness in the spirit of revolutionary optimism,” bec’ause “the hospital is also a classroom for learning and practicing communism.” Despite all this, many doctors and hospitals did not take up these calls, said Wahlsten. The Party “capitalist-readers” opposed Chairman Mao’s line on health. Chairman Mao denounced the Ministry of Health as the “Ministry of Health for Urban Overlords,” and in June 1965 he called for a stress on rural areas in medical and health work. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966 adopted Mao Tsetung Thought as a guide to action to “arm the patients’ minds to fight against their illness.” ’ A 1971 article in “China Pictorial” describes new treatment for the insane in the Mental Hospital of Chenchow prefecture in Hunan province. A medical group from the People’s Liberation Army had been at the hospital since April 1969. Western categories of mental illness are rejected there, and each case is studied on its own merits. Reports from visiting Western medical teams, as well as information in Chinese medical journals indicate diversity in the approach to mental illness. Some hospitals have not taken up Chairman Mao’s line on health. Hospitals in Shanghai, Peking, Nanking still use Western diagnostic categories. At Chenchow and Tienstin, however, Chairman Mao’s line on health is practiced, and thee medical staff treats cases individually rather than classify patients as schizophrenic, neurotic, etc. -val
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era1 government blarnes immigrants from the Third World for the economic problems of society, you use foreign students as scapegoats for the economic problems of the Ontario taxpayers. In addition, this attack on foreign students follows the outlines of the Henderson Report (or “Report of the Special Program Review”) which is a plan to further attack the university communit_y as well as other sectors (hospitals, civil servants, etc.). The Henderson Report, a government study, recommends a 65% tuition increase beginning in 1977-78 bringing tuition fees from an aver‘age of $588 in 1975-76 to $970. The report also suggests that the government adopt an all loan-no grant scheme. If universities are not prepared to accept a 65% tuition increase, then they could be faced with a 20% staff cut. Clearly an intensification of the attacks on the university community is on the agenda. We note the position taken by the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS), who have condemned your attack as the promotion of racism and a prelude to an attack on all students (resolutions, OFS conference, Ottawa, July 3-6/76); and note also the statement by a representative of the International Student Association (ISA) of UW: “the increases are part of an attack on all students through the educational cutbacks and a continuation of the Green Paper anti-immigrant campaign.” (Chevron, June 25/76). This attack on foreign students is part of an overall attack on all students through the education cutbacks, and part of the racist Green Paper campaign. It is also a movt: to prepare conditions for further attacking all students, fa&lty and staff through the education cutbacks. We agree with all the other student and non-student organizations and individuals who oppose this attack on foreign students (OFS and various university student councils, ISA at U W, etc. >and fully support their demand that it be revoked. AS for your attempt to split students, it IS going to fail miserably. We are determined to unite with all other student ;trmd non-student organizations to fight this sinister move. We are determined that the attack on foreign students be defeated.
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The last crafts fair for this year will draw to a \ close today. The fair, sponsored by the Campus Centre Board, hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been as successful in terms of sales as it was in the past. Twenty-four craftspeople are at the fair displaying wares such as leatherwork, silver jewellery, wood carvings, candles, knitting, glass work, batik, pottery, macram&and s\/t/eaters. Each craftsperson is required to submit an application to the Crafts Committee. The committee, composed primarily of turnkeys, screens the applicants according to the samples they shoti at a general committee meeting. for this crafts fair there were we// over 30 applicants. Of the craftspersons interviewed, most seemed satisfied with the way sales were going, but the success in sales seems to vary according to the type of craft.
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Intramural basketball concluded Vednesday night as the new ‘A’ nd ‘B’ league champions were rowned. In B League, the four 3p-ranked teams that reached the emi-finals where the Odd-Balls Jere leading undefeated Eng I at alf-time (18-17) but lost a close l-37 decision. Two other undefeated teams met I the other semi-final in which last 5, after leading Renison by nly 1 at the half, played a strong econd-half and emerged with a :n-point victory (50-40). The semi-final ‘A’ league games :atured two see-saw battles which Jere both decided in the final miute of play. In one game, the uneaten Waterloo Wizards were loslg (21-15) to the Toddlers at half[me, but played a strong second alf and won by two (43-41). The ther game saw top-ranked ;irehouse move to a quick fourteen loint lead over the Rats but were nly leading by 7 at the half. The Rats tied the score early in he second half and the lead hanged back and forth several mes until the final minute of play. Vith seven seconds left the Rats ad a one point lead and were one-and-a-bonus. hooting ‘irehouse captured the rebound t-om the missed foul shot and loved down court where Jeff ,clutch” Scott sank a bucket at the uzzer to give Firehouse a one’#oint victory (46-45). The ‘B’ final matched undeeated Eng I and East 5. In a battle etween the speed of Eng I and the eight of East 5, Eng I scored the lrst three baskets and led 27-14 at ?e half. East 5 came alive in the econd half and quickly closed the ap as they began to utilize their reounding power, led by 6’ 8” Pete jroen. The game was in doubt until he last few seconds when East 5 missed several opportunities to tie he score and Eng I emerged vic3rious (39-37). Top scorer for Eng was John Vinke with 12 points while John Vanderwielen had 8. ‘eter Groen was top shooter for last 5 with 14. The ‘A’ final was also a showown between two undefeated earns. Firehouse once again tarted quickly and held an
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eleven-point half-time lead (35-24). Waterloo Wizards came back in the second half led by ‘Stormin’ Norm Myrie to close the gap to two but couldn’t keep up their pace as Firehouse moved away in the final ficie minutes to win by fourteen (67-53). Stormin Norm and Frank Timmer were the top scorers for the losers while Jeff Samson led the winners with 18 points followed by Chuck Mathies with 13 and Sandy
Hosre with 8. Congratulations are extended to the ‘A-champion Firehouse and B-champion Eng I teatis for their fine victories. This term has seen some of the most closely contested and exciting playoff action in lntramural history, and thanks are extended to Referee-in-Chief Doug Richard alid Convenor Ray Clement for their many hours spent in making the season successful.
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Mike Moser, an outstanding athlete with the UW basketball Warriors and with Canada’s national basketball team died in January, 1975. In tribute to his memory the university established the Mike Moser Memorial, Fund last year. The fund is to be used to provide a bursary for a third or fourth year UW student with an exemplary academic record, a high level of accomplishment in extra-curricular activities and financial need. Last year Joan Wenzel received the $500 award. Applications for this bursary should be submitted in writing and prior to January 10, 1977 to associate dean for undergraduate affairs W. N. Widmeyer, faculty of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies.
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fees remained at the existing rates.” The OCUA omitted any allowante for the approximately $24 million shortfall in funding experienced by the Ontario universities over the last two years. The OFS concludes that “the government’s intention is to make students pay for the difference be-
twe& nelds and funding over the last two years. It should be remembered that this ($24 million) deficit represents an actual decline in the quality of the system.” In compensation for the tuition fee increase, the colleges and universities minister announced an increase of Ontario Student Assis-
tance Program grant funds from of $13 million, from $61 million to $74 million in 1977-78. In the legislature, Parrott said that “currently students are required to borrow $1,000 before they can receive non-repayable funds from the province. I am pleased to confirm that this level of required borrowing will not have to be increased.” The required loan sum was raised from $800 to $1,000 in May. Moreover, the ministry has consistently underspent its allocation for OSAP, since the amount spent is determined by OSAP regulations (and the number of applicants;). NOT by the amount announced. “A $13 million increase will not be enough to even maintain the present inadequate aid scheme.” since fees and the cost of liking have risen and 5 per cent more students are predicted to attend Ontario universities next year, concludes the OFS brief. -larry
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OSAP FaiYlks ““Bad. Light” 1 am writing this letter in regard to the XAP loans for the fall term ‘76. Due to the :omputer being slow in processing the appli:ations many students hadn’t received their oans as of the middle of November. I was )ne of them. Fourteen weeks after I received he letter from OSAP, I could wait no more. I Nas flat broke, and was forced to withdraw. The registrar’s office was very helpful. They igreed with my decision saying, ‘You can’t :xpect the government to pay your way hrough.’ So now I am waiting my tuition *efund which is already late itself. My real bitch was the amount I was to -eceive. It- wouldn’t have been enough to survive on anyway. The problem is OSAP’s )nly consideration is your parents financial status, not the students. I found it impossible :o save enough money working only 5 weeks his summer and completely supporting my;elf. The registrar’s office says your parents u-e supposed to contribute to your educaion, but what if they don’t? Name withheld by request
Complaints With regard to your last two editions (vol. 1, numbers 8 and 9)) I noticed a few errors. In lumber 8, an article stated that Burton Cummings would be at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium on Friday (he was :here on Sunday). I pointed this out to some Free Chevron staff members; however, no :rrata was printed in number 9. As well, after the concert, I was talking to some staff members. I asked if a review of :he concert would be published (if not, I wanted to volunteer to write one). I was told hat a staff member was in the process of writing a review which would be very comalimentary. No review was published and I would like to know why. In issue number 9, on the last page, under :he heading, “Briggs retires”, the first Jaragraph reads, in part, “ . . .CIAU champonship game of 1974-75,. . ., when number !l , 6’ 5” Trevor Briggs swished a corner ;hot (to) clinch the game for the Warriors >y one point .” It makes for good reading, unfortunately, t’s not true. In that game, against Manitoba, t was Phil Goggins, after receiving a pass i-om Charlie Chambers, who swished a :orner shot (with two seconds left on the :lock) to win the game for the Warriors doesn’t that bring b&k memories?). John Ellis 3s Mathematics ‘m looking into your ‘question about the reriew, John. It would help if you could let me cnow the names of the staffers you were talkng to, though. No one I’ve spoken to yet riows anything about the review. -henry hess
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Sorry folks. I made a booboo! Mr. Ellis i’s ight, it was not Trevor Briggs that scored he final basket that clinched the Warriors he 1974-75 championship game. It was Phil ‘noggins. It does bring back memories. In the last minute of play Briggs hit a 20 ‘oat jumper which pulled the Warriors within 2 pts of the Manitoba team. Briggs, second highest Warrior scorer, chalked up 19 pts that game and picked up many imporant rebounds. In response to the question as to why he lad decided to leave the Warriors Trevor iaid, “I had discussed it with the coach ibout a month ago at that time I said that I vould give it a try to see how it would go.” “I’ve found lately that I just did not have :nough time to do everything I wanted to do. must keep my marks up above 75% average f 1 expect to graduate with an honours de;ree in Social Science. With all of the time hat I was spending on basketball I was findng it difficult to devote the necessary time to ny academic work. ” Trevor’s hard work on the floor, at both :nds of the court will be missed. Good Iuck. ,n your studies Trevor. Sorry about the mistake Mr. Ellis but renember to err is but human to forgive is dirine! Sports Editor Mike Hazeli
MR. D.E.G. HARE: With regards to your request for a factual, objective, and non-sided account of the “Student Intercepts Chocolate” article, I don’t feel that the incident is important enough to warrant a second reporting. However, I do feel that it is important that people, such as yourself, be educated as to what exactly factual, objective, and non-sided reporting entails. So for this reason (despite the fact that I thought I made myself quite clear in my previous letter) I will once again explain how the Real Chevron was negligent in fulfilling its statement of intent. Basically, all the article consists of is a statement from Mr. Blackburn and a closing line that says that no other information was available at press time. It is this line that exposes the paper’s failure to uphold its statement of intent. The truth is that more information certainly was available. The editor of the Real Chevron certainly knew that Blackburn’s statement of mentioning Wahlsten “in an unfavourable light” was indeed a euphemism for malicious slander. However, they did not report this. Thus they were not factual in their account. It should be pointed out that a newspaper must take responsibility for statements that they print. If the paper knowingly prints an inaccurate statement, without declaring it as so, then it is as guilty as the person making the statement. I will now explain why the Real Chevron was not objective in its covering of the incident. The statement that Wahlsten was mentioned in “an unfavourable light” implies that the things said about him may have been true. Certainly, Wahlsten’s actions could not be defended if the things said about him were true. The fact that Wahlsten has opposed Roberts and certain members of council and the Federation, who the Real Chevron has continued to support, is certainly the reason why the Real Chevron did not print the fact that Wahlsten may have had some justification for his actions. The Real Chevron purposely tried to keep Wahlsten “in an unfavourable light” by leaving the article so vague. Granted, the Real Chevron was quite subtle in their bias. However, I don’t think that subtlety should be condoned. An obvious bias is honest and easily recognized; thus it can be accepted or rejected by the reader. However, subtle bias comes very close to downright deceit. I have no intention of paying my money to a bunch of fed hacks who are goi,ng to try to deceive me, and I hope that students will unite against this kind bf treachery. Only in this way can we get rid of all the dead wood in the federation whose pulp product can only be a scab newspaper. Mike DeVillaer
Fair shake I’m an outside participant who’s been reading the free chevron for sometime now, and I think the free chevron captures every item of importance as far as U of W is concerned. Being an outsider and now a regular reader I think the paper itself is the most informative and the best ever to come out. Well to come to the point from what I’ve read about this so named ‘crooked president’, I don’t like him. To me he doesn’t seem to be the type of guy that sports a golden ring above his head, you know what I mean? With the more I read and hear about this crooked president of yours the more I start beginning to believe it. I also believe in the solution that seems to have cropped up recently. If the president won’t set up a truce or even offer a fair shake to the editor, I think that the crook should be recalled. After all the main reason he got all fired up was because the editor was letting the public and University Student body read fact. Fact which was backed with a thorough investigation (which it always has been) about how student money is possibly being ripped off or overspent.
That particular fact reflects on the student body. The money issues about rip-offs and overexpenditures are quite strongly pointing toward the presidents activities. If I was the president I-think I’d be in a shit-ass mood ioo, and try to cover up for the facts that are slowly being fed to the student public. Kind of reminds you of Nixon and the Watergate days, doesn’t it? Most of all know what they did to him for covering up facts from the public about his true nature. Despite all his crying and trying to cover up he was still pulled from office. The president is turning otit to be a fake, a personality endowed in a bed of lies and falsehoods. Sure he’s done a little good to shut the student-public up. But that doesn’t make up for all the bad he’s doing at present. He’s taking you for a ride. In the president’s case he’s made his slip, the facts behind him are being discovered and made public. I say there’s only one fairly obvious choice for the student public to make.. Recall the President ! Butch Evens
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Dear Mr. Bernier, I commend you on the decision of Nov. 24176 to spend $250,000 for the maintenance and development of snowmobile and crosscountry ski trails. This funding will be of benefit to a large number of people in Ontario this coming winter. However, I believe that there is still a need for more studies (eg. - with mind to a special funding committee of the Trails Council of Ontario), and that along with this you should review the ministry’s position on the needs and benefits of hiking/walking trails to the people of Ontario. With this in mind I have, in the following paragraphs, made some comparisons bet*een the sports of snowmobilinglcross-country skiing and hiking/walking, as well as some genera! statements. I would ask you to take these into consideration with the urging that you not look at decreasing the amount of spending to the snowmobilers and cross-country skiers, but rather look, at least, towards raising the level of funding for trail activities to the former level of 1974-75 - $l,OOO,OOO. I would also ask that you keey! in mind the Minnesota Trails Program serving Minnesota’s population of 4 million people with a 1976-77 budget of $5,765,336 and a, as 1978-79 budget of yet unapproved, $10,775,369; Ontario’s current population of 7,50O,OOO, I believe, cannot be served adequately by as small a sum as the $250,000 that it has received this year. I would therefore ask, with all due respect, that you keep these points in mind as you review the following statements and comparisons: (1) hiking can and does appeal to a more diverse and wideispread segment of the population. ie. - the poor and the rich and the young and the old have the ability to walk, whereas not all people have access to a snowmobile or skis; (2) less maintenance at less cost is required for a hiking/walking trail (than for snowmobiles); (3) little hazard is involved in hiking - as could be seen by a review of numbers of people injured on, or by snowmobiles as compared to hiking; (4) little or no infringement of the immediate vicinity (by noise) is imposed on other persons by hikers and walkers, as there is by snowmobiles: (5) less potential exists for damage to the environtient, or to people, by hikers/walkers, than for/to snowmobilers and their machines; (6) hiking/walking is much more healthy ,and requires- more total exercising of the body (given Participaction’s urgings); (7) there is ;-more Ieisurely interaction between man/woman and the environment and therefore much more opportunity for
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understanding and learning about the cornplex and varied relationships that exist (either in the urban area or the countryside); (8) there is no consumption of a valuable, diminishing resource (ie. - gasoline) by hikers/walkers; (9) there is a relaxing - a psychological releasing of tensions and frustrations along with a chance for contemplation that is inherent in the sport of hiking/walking. And given: the amount and cost of grooming for snowmobiling which must be paid each year, it would seem that the initial high cost of acquiring land for a hiking/walking trail can be equally justified by the fact that that cost will only have to be borne once in order for those 1andS to be owned by the public for perpetuity (whereas snowmobiles would need that cost, plus grooming and maintenance costs.) And given: a very small amount of funding and the encouragement of trail club volunteers, those lands can be easily maintained. And given: that hiking/walking trails can be and are compatible with existing parks development and the incorporation of unique geological, floral and wildlife areas which can be explored and observed by current and future generations. And given: the wide spectrum of the population which hiking and walking can and does appeal to, along with the consideration of the responsibility of this population to all future populations. And given: the current trend of diminishing availability of land due to residential development, speculation, public needs (highways, hydro, etc.) and industrial demands; I would urge the following; that you consider the allocation of funds for the use of acquisition of lands, as they come onto the market, for the specific use of hiking/ walking trails and/or: I would ask that you re-assert and make functional the agreement of a few years ago whereby the ministry would match $3 for every $1 of public monies which were pledged to conservation areas and parks, for the acquisition of lands. I make these requests in order that the present and future generations of the people of Ontario may be given access to a functional means of re-acquiring the privilege and benefits of walking unfettered over the land. I would finish by stressing that this letter is not meant as a condemnation of your funding of snowmobilers and cross-country ski&s. Rather, it is sent as an appeal for quickaction now while still possible, and as a proposal that the most efficient means of supplying the public needs at this moment (with regard to trails) would be in the form of increased allotment of money. I would appreciate your response to this. Thank you for your time. Laurie Gourlay
Support by U of A/b Congratulations on your work and perserverance. We’ve waited to send you words of support because we’ve heard so many conflicting reports of the situation out at Waterloo but we’ve found the best evidence of all is your paper - the free chevron - and we find that speaks loudest of all about your situation. We strongly oppose the moves by the U of W Students’ Union to stop you from publishing and strongly support your resolution and work which has kept you publishing over the last hard months. We find president Shane Roberts’ actions unacceptable and we would support any move on the U of W campus to remove Mr. Roberts from his office. Hnfringcmerit of freedom of the press (whether that press be student or otherwise) is one of the most serious violations of the right to freedom of speech --- what we consider one hi our most basic and supreme rights. Here at tlfae Gateway we $eem to hold thy’ continued
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continued from page 13 idea of freedom of speech in a little higher regard than many others - that’s because we went through the same situation the folks at the free chevron are currently going through. In 1971, the Students’ Council on the U of A campus voted to oppose the appointment of the editor chosen by the Gateway staff and, in his stead, appoint their own editorial candidate. As a result, the entire Gateway staff walked out of the office and began their own newspaper, Poundmaker. Poundmaker survived 2 112 years and did a helluva good job putting out a newspaper which was critical in its reporting and strong enough to stand behind its convictions. But the Gateway, left without experience, public support or any critical platform to fall back upon, spent two years languishing in near obscurity, wallowing in its own lack of journalistic talents and the malaise brought about when the Students’ Union dictated to the letter the type of material published on its pages. We see the same situation developing at the U of W and we can only assure the students of that campus and the SU on that campus that they have made a far worse decisi& than they can possibly realize at this time. You, the U of W SU and the students on the U of W campus, will reap the benefits of a good newspaper as long as .the devoted group of individuals who are presently publishing the free chevron continue to do so. But when they grow tired of their hard work (which will reap them few benefits) they will soon cease publication. Then you will have destroyed anewspaper. What that me&s is you will have destroyed a critical voice within your particular community. You will have destroyed the efforts of people who are not afraid to challenge the status quo and attempt to view situation from a different perspective. You will have destroyed one of the strongest single fibres contributing to the fabric of university life - its student newspaper. In its place you will have a “Student Federation newspaper” or (in other words) a bulletin to keep you “objectively” informed of the activities of your elected leaders. You will be able to find out the latest listings for student cinema on campus but not the latest ideas being discussed by the’ various individuals around your campus. You (by your implicit or explicit support of the reactionary moves by President Shane Roberts) will have ensured unequalled mediocrity in your student newspaper for a good many years (for no journalist with any pride and integrity will work for a newspaper whose policy is dictated by the very people he is expected to be critical of.) Good luck with your free newspaper, free chevron staffers. It’s more work for you people and certainly more frustrations -but at least you have some satisfaction at knowing you’re fighting for something worthwhile and not fighting, as Shane Roberts does, out of a sense of blind and ignorant disagreement. You can stand up and answer your questioners; we note with interest that Mr. Roberts cannot. Gateway staff (student newspaper at the University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Quotes turbing In your article about the Plant Contest “Cultivate an Interest” written by Shih k’ang-ti, page 9 of the free chevron, Vol. 1 number 9. Starting on paragraph three it reads “This year the organizer, Curtis Smith, has be& voted the above amount only after it was cut from $190.00. When the organizer was consistently questioned over the amount budgeted, and not charging an entrance fee, he replied, “We want to make this free to all students. We want all students to feel able to enter this event even though their plants may not be that good.” Chairman Doug Antoine rejected this, though, with a blunt “We aren’t in the habit of totally
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subsidizing an event, arid we don’t want to begin here.” First of all, I would like to say that the quote attributed to me is correct, but it is totally taken out of context. After I suggested to the Board that we reduce the subsidy to $150.00, I asked Mr. Smith if he understood why I reduced the subsidy. He told me that he didn’t and then asked why? It was here that I gave the quote thaf appears in the article. The article reads though, as if my statement was a “rejection” of the previous quote attributed to Mr. Smith. I was further disturbed to find out that the statemevt was “blunt”. I find this hard to believe, considering I took the effort at the Board meeting to make sure Mr. Smith understood why 1 suggested the Board reduce the subsidy. I also found the article quotes disturbing, because after reading the article, I could not remember seeing Mr. Shih k’ang-ti at the meeting. As it turns out, Shih k’ang-ti is the nom de plume of none other than Mr. Curtis Smith himself. Doug Antoine Chairperson, Board of Entertainment,
Clarification In your article “Winter Madness” page 3, Vol. 1, number 9 of the “free chevron”, the opening paragraph reads “Pandemonium week . . .of fun and frolic ended by wiping out the Board of Entertainment’s Societies’ fund.” The last paragraph of the article reads, “The subsidies given the societies have left the fall societies without any funds”. I would like to clarify any wrong impressions that these two paragraphs and the article might have left. First of all, society subsidies are divided into three segments of allocations over the course of the school year. There is a separate allocation corresponding to each of the three school terms. For example, the first allocation in the Board’s budget is for the Spring term (summer), which was $1200. The second allocation and the one that we are presently in, is the fall allocation, which had an allocation of $2200. The third allocation is for the Winter term with an allocation of $2600. By the way, these allocations and the Boards total budget is displayed in the Federation of Students Information Handbook 1976-77, page 10, which was distributed in September. The Spring (summer) subsidies at the end of its four month term had $600 left in it. The Board decided to divide the remaining six hundred, thereby raising each of Fall (present one) and Winter subsidies by $300. This left the Fall with $2500 and Winter with $2900.
Now, each terms subsidy is used in turn. That is, each society allocation within the Board’s budget for a particular term is there for the six societies on campus to draw from for the purpose of subsidizing the society events in that term. Each society has a social director which comprise six of the Board’s eight voting members. Each subsidy can, as in this term, be used up, or, as in the Spring term (summer), leave money. The point is, money allocated to societies is there to be used. Now, with reference to the paragraphs between the first and last one, I would just like to clarify a few points. Paragraph three, second sentence reads “The societies were given $1300 grant from the Board of Entertainment, along with $550 per society from the fall society subsidy, also from the Board’ ’ . A $1300 subsidy was give to four societies, Arts, ESS, Math and Science fo,r the week’s activities excluding the semi-formal. This is different from a grant in that the $1300 only pays for deficits up to this amount. If the deficits are less than $1300 they only receive that amount of the incurred deficit. The remainder of the subsidy stays in the Board’s societies, budget for later use. The $550 was the total given to three societies, Arts, Math and Science for the Semi-Formal (at this point ESS was not in on the Semi-Formal), not “per” society as thk
article states. The two separate allocations of society subsidy in this case $1300 for weeks activities (4 societies) and $550 for semi-formal (3 societies) are not lumped together. Each allocation is only used for that particular part of the “Pandemonium” budget that it is allocated for. ~1hope this will clarify any misconceptions that might have arisen about the societies’ subsidies from this article. If you have any questions about the Board, please contact me in the Federation Offices, Campus Centre, room 235. Doug Antoine lettitor The second quote you refer to actually reads: “‘The subsidies given the societies have left the fall societies fund without any funds.” We believe this is accurate but regret any confusion it may have caused.
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After watching the chevron/federation struggle for some time, we have finally become so fed up with what is happening that we feel we must express to you our thoughts on the subject. First, in a past issue you published a cartoon showing the Federation about to be sunk by the iceberg of the student body supporting the free chevron: We have enclosed two further cartoons, both of which are a lot closer to the opinions of the people we know. One of these illustrates what the Feds figure is the campus opinion. And the second is what we think is the feeling of a significant portion of the students.
I see by last week’s chevron that close to $400 worth of glasses have vanished from the campus pub during November. Does that mean that if we want to prevent loss of our glasses, we should wear contact lenses to the pub?! Christopher Dufault Beerology ‘77
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resp In a letter to the free chevron of December 3, Patti Gilbert, a former AIA member, repents of her ways as an AIA member, and apologizes and asks the forgiveness of anyone who she “may have hurt” while she was an AIA member. Gilbert is not the only former AIA member to publicly recant. In the first edition of “Bullseye”, Phyllis Burke “tells all” about her AIA experience. Burke declared she left the AIA because she supported the the Federal government’s Green Paper on Immigration, while AIA and CPC(M-L) condemned it as a racist and fascist document. Gilbert was one of the AIA meinbers who denounced the Green Paper, along with thousands of other Canadians. A poem, “Against the Green Paper”, by Patti Gilbert, which says, in part: “We oppose this racist andfuscist Green Pcrpei And ha\ye pro\!en it in mctny different
Other than the above comments, we have no wish to get embroiled in the arguments of the two sides. We have decided that there is no way that we can believe anything the free chevron or the Federation says. The statements issu’ed by the two sides are totally contradictory, and each claims to be right. Larry Hannant, in a reply in the free chevron (Dec. 3) said with regard to the interim paper, the real chevron, “We ask the students to decide for themselves whether or not such an expenditure is justified.” Our response is that the real chevron is the best thing that the Federation has done in a long time. There is finally a paper that provides a very useful service, in a nice package.
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Gilbert also wrote several poems denouncing the racist and fascist Ian Smith regime in Zimbabwe, a sentiment shared not only by the Zimbabwe people, who are daily sacrificing their lives to eradicate their oppressors, but also by the people of the world. Now Gilbert issues an apology to anyone whom she “may have hurt” as an AIA member. Ian Smith, the Western Guard, and the Trudeau government will certainly be gratified to learn their forgiveness is being begged! Gilbert also extends her apology to Shane Roberts, who has suffered “severe wounds and hurts” since the presidential election campaign last February. Gilbert begs the forgiveness of a social-fascist who, after years of deception and corruption, has finally been thrown out by students. So- here we see the people who have deserted and denounced the AIA - open or tacit supporters of racism and fascism. AIA is better for having eliminated these cancers from our ranks. The Anti-lmperialist Alliance
And our biggest gripe: All the people ir this fiasco are acting like fools. We were going to say children, but child&n forgive and forget as quickly as they start a trivial ar gument. We get the same feeling from thi: battle as from nuclear disarmament. “1’1 back off, but only if you do it first!” Ant these people are university students who wil be part of the backbone of society in ter years. No wonder the government does no wan,t to increase spending in universities i all they get out are inconsiderate fools. Most people are not looking for much fron either party. Just that they forget what hap pened two months ago, stop wasting energ! and resources, and get on with the real prob lems on this campus rather than the fabri cated problems. Hugh Alley 25 Systems Design Doug Osborne 1 A Art! Keith Seiferi 1A Science
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Signs of whdf is to come appear in this weeks paper. Feedback has one letter from a stcdent who can’t dfforcl to return to scho01 next term, and on this page we are printing ~7 letter fr-OUJ third year Arts student fhil Rogers who has heen squeezed out oi university by the tuition fee increase announced Midstweek. More will follow unless heed is taken of Rogers’call tbrstudents to fight back.
I noted with great interest last week’s announcement by the minister of colleges and universities that tuition fees will be increasing by $100 next year. Although the announcement did not surprise many people, the reaction of our “student leaders” certainly surprised me. I was shocked to read the statements by Peter King, Mike Kubasiewicz, Joe Macdonald, and Harry Strothard which in effect supported the tuition hike. ALL students should oppose this hike, even if they can “afford” it, because there are many of LIS who will not be able to bea this further burden on our already limited financial resources. I appeal to all University of Waterloo students to actively oppose the tuition increase, and to demand that these student leaders do the same. The monetary problems which face students have hit home for me. As soon as my academic work ends for this term, I shall be leaving the university.
The reason: I can’t afford to stay in school next term, and have no choice but to sally forth into the work force. My situation is not a unique one. I have spoken to a number of other students who face a similar problem. The Ontario government, by such actions as tuition increases, is making access to colleges and universities impossible for increasing numbers of students. It seems to me that this is a deliberate attempt by the government to exclude lower income students from attending university. Dr. Parrott stated that government assistance will be adjusted to account for the increase, but for many students the amount of assistance they are receiving is pitiful. So the tuition increase will only make it more difficult for students to cover the cost of attending school. Why should those who wish to attend university be stoppea because they don’t have the money? I want to again urge all students to oppose _the increase and to demand that “leaders” such as Mess’rs Kubasiewicz, Strothard, Macdonald, and King oppose this and any other attempts at preventing students from having the chance to attend university. In closing, I wish all of you the best in completing your stkldies and to those of you who are in the same situation as me, good luck in finding a job, because. you’re going to need it. Phil Rogers
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“It’s not as bad as it could have been.” The opinion of one federation councillor is a view held by some students following the tuition fee increase of $100 a year announced two weeks ago. If we are to believe many UW student representatives, students agree with the government that the tuition hike is a good and necessary thing. In council Tuesday, many councillors expressed reservations about the willingness of students to stand up for themselves, especially in view of the “moderate” dose of bitters administered by.the provincial government. Federation President Shane Roberts told council he “would recommend opposing it” but that “a large number of students accept it”. TheOntario Federation of Students threw a limp-wristed punch at the fee hike in the form of a petition campaign. We at the chevron have no time or sympathy for such resignation. In this week’s chevron, two students tell how they’re being forced to quit school. The reason isn’t just the tuition fee hike. It’s this hike, the tuition fee inci-ease for visa students, plus the increase in th,e loan ceiling for OSAP, the criminally-late arrival of the meagre financial aid that’s available, the lack of summer jobs, the crowded classes, all the thousand ways the government is trying to hit students. are not willing victims to this assault. They’re bewildered victims; --. Students some are angry, some passive, all lacking leadership. At the same time, the chevron doesn’t blithely dismiss this confusion and indecision. The disaster caused by lack of organisation at the time of the last tuition fee hike in 1972-73 is a clear lesson to students today. The 1972-73 fight was a long, losing battle that sapped students’ spirit of resistance. And the misleader? who came to the fore to sink the opposition to that tuition hike are still around. Conditions now are different from 1972. That hike signalled the beginning of the cutbacks, the turning point away from the trend of annually-rising student aid and university grants that had prevailed for the previous decade. Four years later, the toll has been counted. The damage is severe. Accordi.ng to the OFS, “the government’s intention is to make students pay for the universities’ operating deficits of the past two years”, resulting in “an actual decline in the quality of education”. Not only has the quality of education declined, many students now face outright exclusion. Working class students do not have the same right to education held by students frdm rich farnil&. Today, students face the problem: What to do about the government’s latest assault. Here at UW, some students representatives a;e whimpering that students don’t oppose this new financial burden. Certainly there wasn’t a spontaneous expression of outrage on the atinouncement of the fee hike. But why is this? Clearly, resistance to the tuition fee hike, and to the cutbacks as a whole, has been blocked for the same reason why the October 14 day of protest, National Student Day and the municipal elections were abysmal failures: the Federation executive and certain council members have devoted their full energy to trying to demolish the chevron. The man who was elected federation president with “an elaborated strategy to combat the cutbacks” has shown more determination to silence his critics and hamstring those who want to organize the fight against the cutbacks than to carry out his mandate. University of Waterloo students have cast their judgment on Roberts. Today, the petition for his recall is virtually complete. Roberts’ recall, and the.disunity of UW students that has been caused by the war of annihilaiion waged against the chevron, must become a lesson to guide action in the new year. The councillors and executives who succeed Roberts must resolve the war by implementing a just, democratic solution to the unjust, anti-democratic closure of the chevron. Reinstate the chevron as it was on September 24 and investigate how and why it was closed. Then get to work informing students and leading them against the government& attempt to shift this added burden onto our backs. -the chevron staff
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The foI/owing is a transcript ota smL711portion 0iTuesday night’5 counci! meeting. After Shane Roberts (at press time, federation president) had outlined his proposed strategy to fight the tuition fee hikes people responded. National Union ofStudents iieItlworker Gavin Armstrong oiferedother solutions for the fight, while council member Heather Robertson said that she felt Roberts’ strategy dea/t mostly on how to cope with the cutbacks insteadoion fighting them. Then Grad rep Larry Hannant a/so spoke on the fee hike issue. Doug Antoine is chairman oi the Board of Entertainment while ‘mad dog’ Dillon is the chairperson on the joint Committee on Social & Living Needs . . . Council Meeting: December 7, 7976. Transcr;pf Hannant: I think Mr. Roberts has a history of not opposing tuition fee hikes. Roberts:Jtuffit up your ass! I’ve done a lot of. . . funintelligable) Iaughing, shouting C hai r : order order because ot shouting, chairman calling for Roberts: I’ve got four years . . .(unintelligible 1 order, banging gavel on table.) ’ Roberts: The reason I haven’t completed my degree-is that I come from a family of eight children and I have had to support my family and you’re just trying to go to university You’re a hu/7ch oibourgeoib swine. Antoine: What the f&k have you done Hannant! Dillon: You ,Ind your f&cist A/A. Chair: Mr. Dillon. Mr. Antoine. Dillon: Make the rich pay. Ha/f your A/A is the rich. Do they pay! Bunch ottl/cking fascist capitali.5t.s. Clapping. Chair: Mr. jl’~~nn~~ntyou have the floor. Hannant : Well, c717ywL7yhistory speaks for itself.
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candidate make a statement on his view of ctudent government: and that a public statement be issued explaining the reasons behind any agreement. The scheme failed, according to King, because by Monday it was apparent that no matter what, candidates for any presidential vacancy would come from other quarters. . He said federation treasurer, and engineering council representative Manny Brykman told him that if\any agreement was reached with the recall committee he would definitely run for president against the EngSoc candidate. King was also concerned -that rumours were circulating about the engineers trying a powerplay to take over the federation. He said the society had been getting a lot of negative response, because of the rumours. If the EngSoc candidate couldn’t be acclaimed in December, King said, it was felt that there wouldn’t be enough time for him to complete the task, so they decided to scrap the prbject.
The society has now adopted a POSILIOI~UI neutrality on the petition, and has opted for a referendum on the chevron to be held the second week of January. That was the final position put to Roberts on Monday. Mercer told the free chevron, the president was warned that if he didn’t accept it he would be recalled. It seems Roberts went along with the idea since Tuesday he announced a referenduF for that
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Wills said the main problem with the negotiations was that: “The engineers wanted to deal with Roberts and have him approve of the whole scheme.” ’ But even without EngSoc’s official approval Wills is confident that a new president will be needed before the end of term. After that he hopes to turn the comniittee’s attention to the cutbacks and other student issues. He also hopes the committee will produce candidates for the council elections in February and a presidential candidate when required. -neil
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Come and Join the Chevron 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 in the campus centre, room 140; (519) 885-j 660 or ext. 2331.* tilocated T
“the free chevron” is .an incredibly long and complicated affair to watch. Produced inadvertently by Shane Roberts and directed by the players in a mock-documentary style, it pokes fun at bureaucracy and raises many interesting questions about democracy and free speech:1 still don’t know how it all ends. It is brilliantly acted by: salah bachir, Scott barron, randy barkman, t alex beamish, roscoe bell, randy beaulieu, Charlotte von bezold, ernst von bezold, peter blunden, dave carter, dianne chapitis, tom cody, jonathan coles, phillip Cramer, rick degrass, neil docherty, jules grajower, doug hamilton, larry hannant, Sylvia and randy hannigan, mike hatell, henry hess, john jackson, henry jesionka, shih k’iang-ti, gerrard kimmons, lisa kwas, val moghadam, jayne pollock, heather robertson, donna rogers, phil rogers, marina taitt, rob taylor, jamie thiers, nina tymoszewicz and a supporting cast of thousands. The dialogue is brilliant, and the plot is littered with complications of law suits, vandalism, “red scares” and endless surprises and twists. A sequel is due to be released early in January. (* * * * playing continuously at the Campus Centre) -0 m n +
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Bity s With all the snow we have been having recently, it looks like the skiers are in for a good winter and coach Mike Renaud feels that he will have an especially strong team this year. Despite all the snow the ski team is still engaged in dry land training. ’ Thereare 20 people trying out for the men’s team so far this year. The team, once it is selected, will be cut
down to 6 competitors -and one spare. Coach Renaud points out that although there are no returnees from last year’s squad, which finished third in the Molson’s Series behind Toronto and Queens, there are a number of skiers who look strong. So far he has been impressed by the likes of Chris Yeastman, a former member of the Upper Ottawa Val-
arriots hot on ice For the first time in the history of the series the Hockey Warriors defeated the Big Red from Cornell University. The score of the game was 7-4 in favour of the Warriors. The game was played in Ithica, New York on Sunday Nov. 28. The Warriors played Cornell on their way home from a tournament which was held in Binghampton, New York. The Warriors took the consolation title in the Binghampton Tournament. In the opening round of the tournament, the Warriors lost, to Colgate 7-4 while York defeated the Air Force Academy 7-l. York, the only undefeated O.U.A.A. team this year, went on to win the tourney while the Warriors beat the Flyers 4-2 in the consolation. Mike Zettel of the Warriors was named to the All Tournament team. The Warriors saw action twice last week. On Wednesday night they hosted the Western Mustangs, whom they tied 2-2. The Mustangs, who were early season favourites in the Western division, beat the Warriors 10-2 in their first meeting of the year on Nov. 17. On Friday night the Warriors hosted the Guelph Gryphons who also beat Waterloo earlier in the season (4-l) Nov. 11). Heads up hockey, good goal tending and back checking saw the Warriors
come out on top in this latest encounter by a 6-2 score. This win and the tie place Waterloo in first place in the Western Division. Despite the loss, of two of their best players, Chris Chappell and Eric Brubacher, the Warriors seem to be playing hockey better and better as the season progresses. Brubacher, the Warriors Captain, may be out for the season. He was operated upon on Tuesday, Nov. 30,1976. He could be back for the playoffs. I The Warriors will resume league play after Christmas on Jan. 8 with a game against Laurier. The results of the Dec. 8 game against U of T were not available at printing time. The Warriors will be practicing over Christmas. Coach McKellop is also trying to organize two exhibition games against York and Three Rivers for Dec. 27 and 28 but there seems to be a problem finding ice time. This weekend those players who can afford the study time will be travelling to Bowling Green for a tournament* Waterloo is in an advantageous position. They lead the standings race by one point and have a game at hand. It looks like the Warriors are on their way to another divisional championship.
ley Ski Team, Gord Reese, an exLake Superior Ski Z,one Team member who finished third in last year’s Ontario Winter Games and Peter Hartel. Although these skiers have had little or no experience at university racing, they are seasoned veterans in racing. The skiers will have their first chance at competition on January 2nd and 3rd when team trials are held at Georgian Peaks rather than Chicopee. This will give the skiers longer more competitive runs. Renaud points out that anyone can compete in the time trials but they must register with him first. On the basis of last year’s performance, Waterloo has been invited to compete in the Can Am racing series that will be held at Georgian Peaks on the 4th to 8th of January. Renaud, a member of the Can -Am Executive Committee, points out that this is the first time the Can Am has come to Ontario. Throughout January and February, the ski team will be competing in the Molson Series. This is a series of 6 races held in Ontario sponsored by Molson. Waterloo will be hosting the Molson Series Championshops. This championship will lead to the March Can-Am Series that will be held at Waterville Valley Ski Area in New Hampshire. The top three teams from the Molson Series qualify for this event. Last year with the likes of Steve Shaver, an ex-member of the national ski team, John Genest, and skier coach Mike Renaud, the team fared well. While these competitors will be missed, Renaud feels that there is more than enough talent to compensate for their loss. He is impressed with the spirit and attitude of this year’s competitors. Anyone that is interested in this year’s team is urged to contact MikeRenaudat 884-8101.
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Warriors outjump Aussies The basketball Warriors scored 2 victories over the weekend, beatingthe University of Toronto Blues 68-63 on Saturday night, and an all-star team from Australian uni-
night’s game.
versities the previous evening 78-52. The Australian game was a rather lackluster affair, frankly. With only a few exceptions the Au-
stralians seemed exhausted from the four game tournament at Concordia University which they finished the night before. The Warriors were bigger and stronger and dominated the game. Bob Yuhatz and Lou Nelson played very strong games scoring 19 and 17 points respectively. The biggest attraction, however, of the game was the play of Richard Kurtz, Ron Graham, and Ted Dartie -none of whom had seen much time on the floor this year. Darcie played a strong game hitting on 3 of 5 shots and grabbing 5 rebounds. Graham and Kurtz finally got enough time on the floor to gather their composure. Both played well in their short shifts although Kurtz was unfortunately reluctant to shoot. He has a good shot and yet, he passed up several opportunities to score in fwur of passing to someone in a less advantageous position. This, in fact, is a weakness of the Warriors. In addition to Kurtz and Graham, Tamburino, Vance and Brill-Edwards are also reluctant to shoot. The effect, of this is to sclerose the offensive alternatives leaving them, sooner or later, vulnerable to the opposition defence. This weakness becomes all the more significant with the absence of Trevor Briggs. Somehow, the Warriors are going to have to either utilize the scoring power they’re not using, or develop it if it’s not there. Clearly, they have done little towards establishing which direction is most appropriate, as yet.
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Guelph outvolleyed Playing without the services of Seymour Hadwen, the outstanding volleyball and basketball player, the Waterloo Warriors swept a 6 game match with Guelph on Friday, Dec. 2. Scores for the games were: 15-8, 15-9, 15-3, 15-10, 15-13 and 15-2. Veteran players Bruce McDonald, Tom Jarv, Kevin Munhall, and Dave Monteith more than compensated for the absence of Hadwen with superb. blocking and spiking. In the first game, Guelph took an early lead and the Warriors had to struggle totie the game at 8-8. They
finished strong winning 15-8. The remaining games were decisively won by Waterloo. The team goes into retirement over the Christmas break and has it’s first big match against league leaders, Western, on January 13. The Warriors are now in second place with a 12-4 record. If they can hold that position by beating McMaster on January 21, they should have a playoff spot in the OUAA finals. CIAU finals will be held at Waterloo and the Warriors will be playing as the home-team representative.
Sport shorts sport Athena’s Basketball: The Athena’s registered their third victory in five games last Saturday, beating Queens 61-5 1. Chris Timms and Eva Stewart paced the winners with 15 and 11 points respectively. The Athena’s were up by 8 points at the half and outscored Queens 31-29 in the second half. York University is rated Number One in the University Hockey Circuit in Canada. The Toronto Blues are on tour in China presently. They won their first game 1 l- 1 in Hong Kong.
The McGill Redmen’s Basketball team registered its eleventh consecutive win and second tournament title for this season at the Western University Tournament. In the final, they beat, who else? Western by 67-52 score. Did you know that booklets on Intramural Weight Training and Intramural Jogging Programs can,%be obtained through the intramural office? Drop by and get your copy. These booklets set out philosophy, warm-up excercises, and all sorts of helpful hints.
Phil Tamburino harasses the quick Australian guard Brian Need. Both Tamburino and Need had outstanding defensive games for their respective teams. Need was his team’s highest scorer with 72 points.