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Governors University of Waterloo students were hit with a triple punch at the regular Board of Governors meeting Tuesday. The board decided that, as of May, UW students will pay more tuition fees, they’ll pay them quicker than before, and they’ll pay higher rents in university residences and married students’ apartments. About 40 students were present to make their case against the proposed tuition and rent increases but, aside from a hearing, the board gave them no satisfaction. The board approved a recommendation from Bruce Gellatly, vice-president of finance and operations, Ito raise tuition fees $100 a- year for undergraduate students and $50 a term for graduate students, as proposed by the Ontario government. A proposal presented by the married students’ apartments tenant association for a 9 per cent

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reject stu from 32 per cent of the budget in 1964 to 19 per cent in 1972. Atting federation of students president Dave McLellan told the board that the federation insists that the tuition increase not be implemented, “not for the reason that it’s not a good thing to do, but because it’s not justified”. McLellan based his opposition to the hike on three points. Before the government implements tuition increases it must make concrete changes in the Ontario Students Assistance Plan (OSAP), reduce student unemployment and ensure that there really is “universal a& ?$~‘s~ii~liy” to post-secondary .

ceiling on rent increases, together with negotiations about how to reduce the rent increases, was rejected by the board. But on the urging of UW president Burt Matthews, the board agreed to allow the president to continue to negotiate with the tenants’ assoc’iation to find a way to reduce the rent increase, if possible. The board also passed a motion that will force students to pay their total tuition and incidental (federation, athletic, society, etc.) fees at the time of registration. Until now, it was possible to defer part of the payment until later in the term. Gellatly told the board that the tuition fee hike is the third increase in tuition fees since the university opened in 1957. The first, in 1964, was $100 and the second, in 1972, was the same amount. Tuition payments made up about 17 per cent of the 1976-77 operating budget of UW. This was a decline

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The federation of students’ The chevron staff has ignored numerous demands to vacate their four-month long battle to destroy the chevron swings onto a new office, believing that the federation council’s actions were a contravenfront today. tion of bylaw and of democratic The federation’s application for an interim injunction against the right to a free- press. A decision in the federation’s chevron staff publishing a newspaper in, or occupying, the chevron favor today could lead to a court offices is to be heard today in the order for the chevron staff to leave Waterloo county court. the chevron office, which they have occupied continuously since The interim injunction is intended to give the federation control of September 25, when chevron staff the chevron office pending a full members defied federation presihearing on which group has the dent Shane Roberts and three campus cops to return to their locked right to use the office. That trial will be based upon the legality of the office. -larry haniiant federation council’s original action of suspending funding for the chevron and eliminating the positions of news editor and production manager. The federation’s affidavit outlining its request for an interim in- John Tromp junction is signed by acting president Dave McLellan. In it, McLellan asserts that “if the injunction is not granted, the Federation of Students will suffer irreparable damage, since the Federation will be unable to resume the normal publication of an official newspaper for the members of the Federation of Students . . .” In reply, the chevron staff has applied for its own injunction against harassment by the federation of students, pending a full trial on possession of the office, including the legality of the federation’s September 30 closure of the newspaper. *. The chevron’s affidavit cites a number of cases of harassment by the federation, including the suspending funds, cutting the phone 226 lines and mail service, appropriaIn a four horse race, it’s Thomption of cameras and photo equipment, and changing the locks on son by a nose! Douglas Thompson, Integrated doors in the chevron offices. Studies rep on federation council, In court, chevron lawyer Lee squeezed into the presidential posiFitzpatrick intends to argue that tion by a narrow margin of 35 votes. the case is sufficiently complicated The results, still unofficial at that it should be heard in a full court session, with both sides having the press time, gave Thomps.on 804 votes, Joe MacDonald 769, Mark opportunity to question witnesses. An interim injunction application is Wills 600 and John Tromp 226. Wednesday’s turnout was far normally held in the judge’s chambelow the norm for presidential ber, with only the two counsellors elections. present. Only 2,460 students turned out to The chevron’s case is founded vote, which represents only 16.4% on the contention that the federaof the electorate. tion council violated its own Following the count, the Macbylaws when it closed the chevron Donald campaign committee asked and eliminated two paid editorial officer Gary Prupositions at its September 30 chief returning dence to recount the.ballots. meeting. The close vote sparked the deciSince then the chevron staff has demanded a reinstatement, and sion by the MacDonald campaigsince October 17 has issued the ners. In addition, they requested that demand Reinstate! Investigate! to summarize its fight for due process all ballots arriving after the election and just treatment by the council. date, but postmarked before

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Larry Hannant, representing the Committee Against Cutbacks and the Tuition Hike, read a statement from the committee that called on the Board of Governors to implement the tuition increase for those who can afford to pay it, but not to implement it for those who cannot afford to pay.

ents’ call He explained that “most students can’t afford- to pay the higher tuition fees. But SOme students agree with the Ontario government that students should pay higher tuition fees, and can actually pay this increase.” He said that an across-the-board tuition increase only makes the existing problem of lack of access to post-secondary education for working class and low i-ncome youth more severe. Matthews urged the board to approve the tuition fee, but agreed that an across-the-board increase was inequitable. “To take the position that fees should be raised for everyone is to subsidize the rich, to ask the ordinary people in this province to subsidize those who can pay.” But he argued that the onus remained with the Ontario governmerit to improve student aid so that students in real need would be supported financially: Matthews said that the first re-

quirement of the university is to its total funding, although “we’d prefer not to have the load put on the students”. But he emphasized that “the decision is the government’s. If we don’t like the decision, I suspect there’ll be an election someday.” Matthews responded to a student’s appeal for an active unity with students against the Ontario government by saying that the universities would continue to oppose the tuition hike, but that “quiet negotiations,, with the Ontario government are more effective than demonstrations. “We don’t become-active on this matter by waving flags on the street.” On the question of the differential tuition fee increase for visa students, Matthews said he thought the UW board “made the right decisions” in October to implement the proposed increases of close to 300 per cent. Several Ontario university Continued on page 9 i

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804 January 31 be accepted. They suspect that a lot of the mail-out ballots were slowed by the adverse weather conditions. Normally, ballots are not accepted after the on-campus election. Thompson has agreed to the request of the MacDonald committee. Chief Returning Officer Gary Prudence told the chevron yesterday that there will be an official recount starting at 1:30pm. today. Prudence at that time had received 16 posted ballots dated before Jan 3 1. “We are keeping them aside,” he said, “until I can think about it.” Thompson said the main issue in the election was the chevronfederation dispute and the results clearly indicated the students were against reinstatement of the paper. Commenting on the results, Thompson said that although he didn’t have much of a mandate

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from the students he would try to pull the federation together. Commenting on the election results, MacDonald stated, “The results aren’t final. Things could change drastically, I’ll wait and see.” Tromp was not disheartened by his low showing. He stated that he didn’t expect to win and didn’t campaign to. “I campaigned to put my viewpoint across.” Tromp felt that none of the candidates presented his viewpoint. Ken Johnston, Wills’ campaign manager said:

subdued, however, there were reports pf poster vandalism. All the candidates denied knowledge of the perpetrators of such vandalism. In the 1976 presidentialelections 3681 students voted, or 25% of the electorate. The 1977 election is a decline of 33.2% in the total turnout. Thompson’s 804 votes gave him 32.7% of the turnout. In 1976, Roberts received 60.9% of the vote.

“This election, while inconclusive, does prove that the lines are clearly divided on campus. What is now necessary is an alliance of democratic and progressive people”. In the main, the campaign was

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The proposed rent increase for Married Student Apartments has resulted in the hasty birth of a new tenants’association. The increases of 13.0% to 13.8%, scheduled to take effect when present leases expire, led to a flurry of activity over the weekend. Organizers at the complex received an while enthusiastic response mobilizing support for a protest of the increase. Residents from 90% of the units indicated their opposition to the increase and agreed to join the tenants’ association. Over one thousand people are represented. At meetings on Sunday and Monday, the association’s steering committee formulated strategy for dealing with the increase, which was to be ratified by the Board of Governors. on Tuesday. Representatives of the tenants had already spoken to UW President Burt Matthews. He recommended that they let him present to the board a plan of consultation before ratification of the increase. * Although tenants had originally been encouraged to bring wives and children to the board meeting as a massive show of support, it was decided to send only a delegation. At the meeting on Tuesday, Randy Norris, spokesman for the tenants’ association, gave the the

As the chevron went to press, the latest word from the Canadian University Press (CUP) executive in Ottawa was that the investigation of the chevron controversy requested by the UW federation has been shelved. . In a telephone conversation with the chevron Wednesday, CUP bureau chief Kris Klassen reported that CUP president Tom Benjamin said the investigation is off. Benjamin arrived here Monday with two members of the commission, Algonquin Impact editor Randy Sweetnam and former Varsity editor Tom Walkom. According to CUP executive plan, the chevron was to have selected a third commissioner, a commercial journalist, and the investigation was scheduled to start Monday. At an informal consultation Monday afternoon, however, staff reminded Benjamin of their decision not to participate in the commission until the CUP executive formally answers a list of questions drawn up by the chevron-staff. The chevron was informed of CUP’s decision to conduct an investigation commission on January 25 four days after the federation’s request had been accepted. The chevron’s reservations about the commission were conveyed to the CUP executive by telephone. Staff decided not to act on the proposed commission until its questions were responded to in writing. Monday, Benjamin was given a copy of the questions, which had been written andreproduced on the weekend. -val

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reasons why they felt the increase was unjustified. They saw no reason that the university should move to recoup the current deficit at the apartments in one year. It was also considered unfair that the students should be made to pay for repairs resulting from the shoddy construction of the building by Cadillac. Examples of cockroach infestation (owing to poor ventilation), lack of insulation and crumbling wall tiles were cited. As an alternative to the proposed new rates, Norris suggested that there be a 9% limit on this year’s increase and a 7%limit on next year’s. Mark Mindorff then listed budget items that he felt could be reduced to allow for implementation of the lower increase. Matthews replied that he was willing to consult with the new group concerning the rent increase, with a limit of 13.8% set on the amount of the increase. Norris stated that such a limit would put the tenants’ association and the administration in an adversary position. Furthermore he said that his group had come to the meeting with a compromise which they felt the governors could accept. Although one member of the board agreed the 9% would be more humane, the motion to keep 13.8% as the limit was overwhelmingly approved. The next step for the tenants’ association is the discussion with Matthews. If that does not prove fruitful, further possible tactics will be con sidered. A general meeting is planned for February 15 at which officers will be elected and various committees that have been set up will give their reports. All interested tenants are encouraged to attend. -lome

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Randy Norris presented the view of Governors meeting. It was agreed that a 13.8% limit would be placed on reasonable limit but that contention

The General Meeting of the Graduate Club, held January 27, passed a number of strong motions opposing the government cutbacks in education. Three motions concerning a guaranteed annual income for graduate students, rent controls on all university residences, and opposition to the municipality’s cutbacks of student daycare subsidies were all passed unanimously. The motion for a graduate guaranteed minimum income fol= lowed a report from the Graduate Support Committee. The head of the committee reported that although the administration had accepted a graduate recommendation for a 10 percent increase in teaching assistants’ salaries for 1976-77, and had raised scholarship payments accordingly, the number of grads receiving “nil income had doubled since 1974”. A graduate student who had

Three of the five chevron cameras that were confiscated by the federation executive are now missing. The replacement cost of the three Pentax Spotmatics, and a wide-angle lens, will be from $800 to $1000. A cabinet containing the cameras and other equipment was taken from the chevron offices by then federation president Shane Roberts and executive members Manny Brykman and Doug Antoine Nov. 15. The reason given for the removal of the equipment was the supposed need to safeguard it. The locked cabinet was placed inside Business Manager Peter Yates’ office within the federation office. Leona Kyrytow, Board of Publications chairperson, was in charge of the equipment, and was the only personwith keys to the cabinet. One camera was signed out in name only and has been missing since November. The other two were not signed out at all and therefore remain untraceable. No cameras have been stolen from the chevron offices in recent memory. Kyrytow refused to speak with a chevron reporter about the missi& cameras, and when asked whether she took responsibility for them, she replied, “No comment”. Last week, confronted with the problem of the lost cameras, Kyrytow handed over the keys to the photo cabinet to federation secretary Helga Petz, claiming that she was tired of the responsibility. Roberts appointed Kyrytow publications chairperson ‘without publicly advertising the position, and despite the objections of several councillors who considered her to be incompetent for the job. At her appointment November 11, Kyrytow admitted that she had no qualifications for the position: In a statement explaining why it had locked out the chevron staff on September 24, the federation executive cited “past occasions on campus of theft, property damage and physical occupation of office of the chevron space. . , ” and its concern “about the protection office space”. Since that time Franz Klingender, a federation executive member, has thrown a rock through a chevron office window, and a chevron typewriter was damaged after Roberts attempted to remove it from the chevron office against the wishes of the chevron staff. --randy

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the Married Student Apartments tenants’ association at Tuesday’s Board of the tenants would be consulted before their rent increase was ratified and that eventual increases. Norris had previously suggested that 9% would be a was rejected by the board.

studied at McMaster mentioned that it had a policy of guaranteed annual income of $4500 for all graduates. Nick Redding, a member of the Graduate Executive, stated that the administration at Waterloo opposed this solution for two reasons. First, it can’t afford it.

Second, there are many graduate students who did not meet the entr-s ante requirements yet were allowed-to continue studies on the condition that they would not receive the full benefits of the T.A.ships, R.A.ships, etc. They argue that these students would not be- admitted if guaranteed annual income was introduced. . -One student felt that the second reason was a poor excuse and that the graduate students would certainly give support to a guaranteed income. A motion that “graduate students support a guaranteed annual income for all graduate students at the University of Waterloo”, was adopted unanimously. Although it was not known at the time, the graduate club had supported a similar motion in 1972. Melanie Campbell, the chief returning officer, (looking through the minutes of meetings held in 1972) located a motion supporting a guaranteed annual income of $2000. The present graduate executive was unaware of this proposal and the administration failed to remind them of it any time the topic came up for discussion. Jack Klieb, a psychology graduate student, wanted to pass a similar motion concerning rent control on university residences. As a resident of the married students’ residence, he recently experienced a 14 percent increase in rent. He pointed out that this “is above the 10 percent maximum allowed under the anti-inflation program’ ’ . Students can not appeal these increases to the Rent Control Board because the government exempted student housing from the guidelines as non-profit ventures. Klieb sponsored a motion calling for “Graduate Club support for the position of adequate rent control

for all university of Waterloo residences’ ’ . It was passed unanimously. Nick Redding gave a report on the daycare investigation, , stating that the Regional Municipality of Waterloo has ‘ ‘legalized discrimination against students” with its recent cutbacks in daycare subsidies. On September 15th last year, the Health and Social Services Committee of the Region passed a by-law stating that, “no day care subsidies be made available to children of students in graduate university programs”. Redding reported that the’ graduate investigation of daycare in the region has turned up two other “bones of contention” for students. Undergraduates are eligible for daycare for only three years and if they happen to be in a four year honours program they are cut off in their final year. Students who are on co-op are considered to be full time members of the labour force when they’re on work term. As a result, their level of subsidies is calculated on the basis of a yearly income whit h they clearly do not have. When they return to school they Bre reclassified as students. Redding stated that, “they very rarely get the subsidy” because of this. Redding reported that a researcher had been hired to compare the daycare policy of Waterloo with other regions and to help prepare a representation to the Health and Social Services Committee. He wanted to stop this kind of discrimination now. “Otherwise,” he stated, “what area of social services will be next?” A motion was proposed, “that the Annual General Meeting support the actions of the Board of Directors with respect to the daycare issue”, and was adopted unanimously. -david

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Come out come out wherever you are Once again a federation council‘ meeting was cancelled for lack of quorum. The meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 27 was can;elled after only nine councillors bothered to show up. is 13. - Quorum . Items on the agenda included two motions for’ policy pertaining to day care subsidy and student housing. The first one calls on the Regional Council to administer day care subsidy “strictly upon a means test without reference to occupation or social standing. ”

people of the North, one of the most important books on the Northwest Territories to be published in Canada. The Past and Future Land is far more than “An account of the Berger Inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline”, as it is subtitled. It is a history book, a sociological report, a xmoving and vivid documentary on a culture soon to vanish if the interests of monopoly capital have their way. Above all, it is the Inuit themselves, their words, their ideas, their aspirations and their despair. The pipeline companies compare the pipeline to a thread running the length of a football fieldI. O’Malley calls this a “facile analogy”, a better one being “the slicing of the Mona Lisa with a razor”. But for the Native people there is no analogy for their land - it is their home, the wellspring of their culture, their past and their future. “ . . .we own the land in our hearts, and we like it. . . .” They have declared themselves a nation, the Dene nation. As a nation, they are demanding control of their destiny and an end to the colonial status imposed on them a hundred years ago. The government has used two -main weapons to attack the native culture - alcohol and schools. Young people are taken from their families to schools where “if we spoke Indian they would whip us until our hands were blue”. Lost in the foreign atmosphere in which, they found themselves, they would

A studious audience of about a dozen people turned out to the opening forum in a series of presentations on political economy conducted by the Anti-Imperialist Alliance. As its title promised, the presentation sought to disprove “once again’ ’ , the theory that wage increases cause inflation. This theory, often referred to as the “cost-push” theory, is the one promoted by government and industry through the commercial press. Cases were given which disprove this theory. For example, between 1952 and 1969 the price of wheat dropped to $1.30 per bushel from $2.50, while agricultural wages increased to $1.55 an hour from eighty-four cents. The government’s White Paper on Inflation, released in October 1975, put the problem down to there being “too many people and too many groups trying to increase wages faster than the increase in national wealth.” The proposed solution was, according to Prime Minister Trudeau, a ‘ ‘wrenching readjustment of our expectations.”

Bourgeois ,economics states the formula: Price equals Wage plus Profit. In order for an increase in wages to cause an increase in price, the profit must remain constant. This, it was pointed out, is a false assumption. Last year profits in forest products fell by 29 per cent, while in the oil industry they rose by 13 per cent. Profits vary from year to year and from sector to sector. The analysis was made by studying Marxist economic theory and applying it to the concrete conditions in Canada. There is a key difference between bourgeois economics and Marxist economics. The former explains the behaviour of the economy in terms of the will and expectations of the capitalists and workers. The latter takes a more scientific approach, explaining the economy in terms of definite laws. . One such law is the law of supply and demand. This concept is familiar since it is also employed by bourgeois economists. The higher the supply relative-to demand, the lower the price and vice versa.

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return to their homes to find themselves lost again, for they had forgotten or never learned to live in the bush. Caught between two cultures, they turn to alcohol, whose cost, incidentally, is subsidized by the government. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the land to the Inuit. They have lived there for tens of thousands of years. Long after the Inuit are gone, the land will remain. They do not want to see the land destroyed and they believe a pipeline will do exactly that. The pipeline companies say that “this land. . .is not supporting the population”, that there is “insufficient opportunity for wage employment”. For one white man who has lived there thirty years, “the damage has been done. . the course cannot be changed”. He says “the wheel was started with the downfall of the culture of the -Northwest Territories”. The logic of a natural gas pipeline is inescapable. But a pipeline is necessary for only so long as there is something to pump through it - twenty years perhaps. Not a long time compared to the thirty thousand years that the Inuit have been there. Yet in twenty years there will be no Inuit if a pipeline is built. The Native people are not opposed to development in the Northwest Territories. They recognize that a return to the past is a dream, that the realities of the 20th century must be recognized. But

they are opposed to developmeni which would destroy them as a people, as a culturalentity. They are opposed to genocide. They seek instead “to develop an economic base which allows (them) to enjoy the benefits of equality with the residents of the industrial south”. The struggle for control of Canada’s North is far from over. Even if Justice Berger does recommend against building a pipeline, the government is under no real obligation to comply. Indeed, it will be under great pressure to give in to the pipeline companies’ demands. But regardless of what the government decides, The Past and Future Land is a valuable primer for understanding the major issues involved in one of the most important chapters in Canadian and Inuit history. -r.j.

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. . .one hundred years from now will the Indian people be indistinguishable from everybody else? I think that they must because we have to the south of us an example of what the melting pot theory produces, where you eliminate all the ethnic dtfferences and substitute some common denominator. The melting pot theory reduces to the point where all the scum and grease rises to the top and controls everything, and the meat and good bone sinks to the bottom and gets burned. p.224

Another major law is the law of value. For example, it was noted that wheat costs about two-and-ahalf times as much as oats. Wheat has a much lower yield per acre and so requires much more labour time per bushel. Price is not only determined by supply and demand but also by the amount of labour time required for production. To show that wage increases do not cause inflation, the AIA argument ran as follows. Unless there are unusual supply and demand pressures, commodities sell, on average, at a price equal to their value. The value is the labourhours necessary on average for that society to produce that item. Price is determined by these factors; one cannot set whatever price one desires. The capitalist makes profits by paying workers less than value they produce; the lower the wages, the higher the profits. So the real function of the AIB, set up by the Trudeau government to curb inflation, is to preserve profits. Before the AIB was formed, wage settlements for trade unions had been increasing. In 1970-72, the increases averaged 8 per cent, but during 1975 they increased 17 percent. Thus the organized workers began encroaching on the capitalists’ profits. , The AIB, according to the government and the commercial press, has succeeded in reducing inflation by controlling wages. It kept the rate of increase to 10 per cent in 1976. In 1975 the inflation rate was 10.6 per cent; in 1976 it was 6.5 per cent. However, it was explained, a large part of the reduced inflation is due to a drop in food prices, a sector of the economy not controlled by the AIB;. Inflation, not including food, was 9.3 per cent. So, the actual effect of the AIB was quite small. (All the figures used here for inflation are based on the Consumer Price Index. This figure best reflects the effect on workers). A brief comparison was made between capitalism and socialism. Under monopoly capitalism the means of production (factories, machines, etc.) are owned by one class, the bourgeoisie, whose motive for production is to make profit. Profit, it was explained, comes from paying the workers less than the value they add to the commodity. Under socialism the means of production are owned by aII‘ the people, and the bourgeoisie are compelled to go to work. The purpose of production is to improve the living and cultural conditions of the wa;ykep. The workers then get the value of what they produce, less any money they may wish to re-invest in order to improve pro. duction. In the rest of this series of forums the full causes of inflation, and more ‘discussion of political ‘economy will presented. Next week: “Unemployment: Causes and Cures. ” -

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be a by-election within 25 days to fill the post. After November 15 of the year of office, the vacancy is to be filled by the vice-president. The vicepresident is appointed by council, on the recommendation of the president, soon after the new council takes office in March of each year. The amendment also included changes to the procedure to come into effect upon the vacancy of a council representative’s seat. By the amended by-law, if the vacancy occurs on or before December 15, the vacancy will be filled by a byelection within 35 days of the se& becoming vacant. After December 15, the vacancy will be filled “if council wishes to hold a by-election”. The old bylaw said only that there would be an election for the vacant seat if the vacancy occurred after December 15. The amended bylaw must still be approved at a general meeting of all federation members. The Annual General Meeting will be held March 1. Mclellan told the chevron that he did not consider the method of making the amendment irregular. No one had objections to consulting with Daunt through aconference telephone call. Nor did he view as irregular the decision-making power giving council the choice of whether or not to fill a council seat that becomes vacant after December 15. “We saw the need for flexibility. I wouldn’t say it was unusual, no. If it were one person (making the decision), I’d say it would be unusual.” By setting November 15 as the deadline for a presidential election in the case of vacancy, the board sought “to ensure an election in that term”, said McLellan. McLellan said the bylaw was amended by the board of directors, rather than by council, because there is no guarantee that council will meet before the February 9 deadline for additions to the Annual General Meeting agenda. Items to be placed on the Annual General Meeting agenda must be in the hands of the federation of students by Wednesday, February 9. The bylaw was amended as a result of the confusion following the recall of federation president Shane Roberts last term. Roberts was officially recalled December 28+ but McLeIlan decided to put the question of the presidential by-election to a referendum. In the January 13 referendum on the student newspaper, students gave McLellan authorization to continue on as acting president until March 1, when the new council takes office. McLellan, an Environmental Studies rep on council, was appointed vice-president by council, on the recommendation of Shane Roberts.

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Relationship The issue of graduate student representation on federation council remains in limbo following the Grad Club Annual General Meeting Thursday. A motion to discuss the relationship between the Grad Club and the federation was a late addition to the general meeting agenda, following a December request from the Grad Club board of directors to have the federation eliminate graduate student representation on the council. But the discussion had scarcely begun Thursday before it was abruptly ended by a vote to end discussion on the matter. The graduate students have two representatives on council and have membership rights for participation in all elections, petitions, referenda, federation-sponsored organizations etc. However, they do not pay the compulsory federation membership fees and do not receive discounted rates on federation activities. Graduate students decided in a 1970 referendum to withdraw from the federation and set up their own organization. Although this was formally accomplished in 1972 with the incorporation of the Grad Club, the federation never revoked graduate voting rights. On November 17, 1976, the board of directors of the Grad Club decided to request that the federation repeal the by-laws allowing grads membership rights. The request was conveyed to the federation in a December 2 letter from Grad Club president, Bob Pajkowski, to recalled federation president, Shane Roberts. The federation has not yet acted upon the request, awaiting a decision from the graduate students. At the January 19 regular monthly Grad Club directors’ meeting, Larry Hannant, a grad rep on federation council and a Grad Club board director, pointed out that since the referendum had been held almost seven years before, graduate students should have a chance to review and discuss the relationship with the federation before the separation is implemented. The board agreed and voted to take the debate to the general meeting. However, when the students, carrying proxies between them, assembled for the General Meeting,

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they were informed by the speaker that any recommendations voted on concerning undergrad-grad relationships would not be binding on the Grad Club. David Scott, the speaker, informed the members that since the discussion on federation membership had not been included on the posted agenda there was a possibility that people had signed proxies without knowledge of all the issues to be voted on. It was ruled that a discussion could still be held to clarify the issue for the members present. When the item came up, the second last item on the agenda, Scott put forward the case for total autonomv. He pointed out that the 1970 referendum, in which 66 percent of the grads voted, had returned a six to one majority in favour of separation, and that representation on council “is contrary to the wishes of those voting in the referendum”. Scott thought the best solution would be an “updating of the federation by-laws” and the “designation of two liaison officers”, one from the federation and one from the Grad Club. Jules Grajower, a history student, opposed this. He felt it most important at this time to maintain links with the undergraduates. He pointed out that both student bodies share such problems as increasing tuition, unemployment,

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A number of students felt that although the proposal may make it easier to fill the board, democratic procedure should be maintained. In a role call vote the proposed change was upheld. When the last item of business, representation on the Campus Centre Board, was covered, Melanie Campbell made one last attempt to resolve the issue. She called for a poll of the members on the question. It was ruled out of order by the speaker. The meeting adjourned at 11: 15 pm and the members departed for a free wine and cheese party which had been readied for them at 9:30. -david

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Race to the grad club A meeting for the Board of Directors of the Graduate Club has been called for Tuesday, February 8, to discuss means of maintaining strong links with the federation of students. Several members of the board hope to integrate the work of the two graduate reps on federation council with participation on the Graduate Board of Directors. To this end this end they have asked all graduate candidates for the upcoming council elections to come-to the February 8 meeting to solicit their agreement “to comply with the wishes of the graduate students, on this issue, as expressed through the Graduate Club,”

Donut stand in hole There was - or rather there was General not - an Arts Society meeting January 27. Quorum was 240 Arts students,’ but only 11 -The meeting was showed. promptly cancelled. Arts president Joe MacDonald reasoned that the meeting had to be held since they are included in the constitution. He felt Arts students, even those on the Arts council, are unwilling to take an active role in student government. At last year’s General Meeting over 100 students came, according to then Arts President Bruce Rorrison. He felt the higher turnout was due to a more favourable starting

larger classes, etc. He felt graduates should look carefully at any decision which might break down the links with the federation. The discussion had not gone far when one student moved that the meeting move ‘on to the next agenda item, and a vote showed 125 to 105 in favour of moving on. Earlier in the meeting there was another controversial decision concerning the elections to the graduate board of directors. The board had recommended elections not be held if there were not enough candidates to fill all the seats on the Board - even if there were more than the allotted number of nominees from any one constituency.

time (at noon instead of 7:00 pm) and better publicizing. A financial statement was handed out last week showing how the $17,000 Arts budget was being distributed. The Treasurer’s Report included a note mentioning a deficit of over $500 last term for the ‘at cost’ Arts Society Coffee and Donut stand. MacDonald, who managed the stand, explained that considering high wholesale costs, an increase in staff salaries and the low turnover in Arts, the service had to run at a loss. He mentioned that when he took over the job he informed council that the operation was losing $28 a week. Council, however could not believe this, he said, and when the salaries were increased the stand began to lose $56 per week. When asked why he did not change suppliers he said this decision was the responsibility of another student who also managed the stand. MacDonald felt that if a future change in suppliers would not solve the problem, the society would be willing to suffer a loss to provide a service to the “many students” who depend on it. -randy

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Henderson Don’t forget -the Henderson report. The report which came-out last year under the leadership of former Auditor-Genera! Maxwell Henderson and pro’vincial Treasurer Darcy Mc Keough, splashed on headlines with its recommendations for a 65 percent tuition fee increase. It was never adopted as official government policy, but in this feature Varsity editor Eric McMillan warns that it seems to be reference text for the Queens Park politicians.

By Eric McMillian Varsity editor Where do ,the government’s ideas come fi-om? In the case of Ontario, a lot of the&can be traced to a small group of businessmen, media personalities, and politicians headed by Treasurer Darcy McKeough. That Committee’s report - the “McKeough-Henderson Report” - was released in November 1975 but is affecting students now more than ever. Are your classes overcrowded? McKeough’s brain-trust said in 1975, when -some universities already had hiring freezes, that the number of professors should be cut back. Having trouble finding the course you want. 3 The committee recommended that community colleges phase out certain courses, that no new graduatd programs be funded, and that government financing of post-secondary education be reduced+ in proportion to rising tuition fees. Worried about making enough to pay next September’s higher education costs? This is the group that advocated raising fees 65 per cent over three to four years. The fust step-a hundred dollar jump (16 per cent)-is being implemented just slightly behind schedule. Community college students are being hit for an even higher proportion of the proposed hike - 30 per cent to be exact. Don’t look to student aid for fast relief either. The Ontario government made its first moves towards the Committee’s all-loan plan by increasing the loan portion (compared to the grant portion) so that a graduating student could face a debt of a thousand dollars for every year of study. The McKeough group also recommended lopping a thousand dollars off the maximum possible grant per student. The McKeough-Henderson Report affected students directly in one other way-it led to the largest student protest in four years at Queen’s Park. The anti-cutbacks dembnstration was January 21, 1976. Since then the Ontario Federation of Students has become convinced the report, though officially not government policy, is in fact being used as a guideline by the Ontario government to trim back postsecondary education. What one labor group called the “most reactionary document prepared in Ontario in the 1970’s” is being implemented, it is feared. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union warned this would “set back social development in Ontario more than 30 years.” Okay, the word “reactionary”’ gets thrown around a lot. Let’s look at the report and judge for ourselves. The committee’s terms of references indicate what was expected of it. The Order-in-Council says that because the government doesn’t want public spending to become an unnecessary burden, the Special Program Review should “enquire into ways and means of restraining the costs of. Government through examining issues such as the continued usefulness of

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backbone be blamed on too many jobs but high wages are attacked with a vigor that would do the AIB proud. The section called “Inflationary Factors” deals exclusively with the need to hold the line on wages for provincial employees. Report was opinionated The pro-business bias of the committee becomes rapidly evident. Chapter Three has been called the t“What’s good for General Motors” chapter. The trend is strongly towards returning services from public to private control. The parks system, for example, might better expand under the direction of “privately operated camping organizations rather than (under) the Province”-over the objections, no dsubt, of anyone who’s spent a night in the farmers’ fields which pass for some private campgrounds. “the province should Moreover, explore the possibility of transferring back to the private sector some of the activities that it currently undertakes.” One of the examples, given later

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t0 .the cutbacks would reduce the number of injuries and deaths in Ontario by 20 per cent, producing and estimated saving in hospital and medical costs of $35 million annually.” The report repeats that assistance to the disadvantaged must be a priority, yet persists in threatening to limit support to those who “really” need it-as if it’s assumed that too many people are ripping off the government for services they don’t need. No study is conducted to determine whether abuse of services is actually widespread. Laying off government workers doesn’t phase the committee because no one seems to be hurt by the attendant reduction in services: “Recipients of provincial services have not appeared dissatisfied with the quality of the services the’y are receiving.” No interviews with recipients or studies of their needs are included, however. Government not to blame Anyways, the villain is not the government, it seems. In the sec-

as job-seekers each summer and after graduation. The report argues that student tuitions at universities and colleges have decreased over the last few years compared to the increasing public support of the institutions. This is attributed to Ontario’s “open-door policy” which supposedly keeps fees down in order that merit alone allows entrance to post-secondary education. This policy may lead to higher taxes for higher education which accounts for 8.5 per cent of provincial expenditures, says the report. The response of the Ontario government- to the committee’s argument was that it “shares the concern that the user absorb more of the costs of post-secondary education.” Report recommendations The government’s response was released in November 1976 shortly before the’tuition announcements. It lists the recommendations of the McKeough-Henderson Report and stated the government’s agreement or disagreement with each of the items. All the pos’t-secondary-education proposals were either agreed to immediately or deferred for a later decision. Following are the responses which most directly affect students: -The government put off deciding about lifting its control of tuition fees but has since announced hikes for next year; -Partial agreement was reached on the recommendation that support of part-time general interest community college courses be phased out and that technical and vocational training be emphasized. The Ministry of Colleges and Universities suggested that a study of general interest courses be confined to part-time secondary school programs ; -The government imposed a two to three year freeze on funding for graduate programs; -Recommendations concerning student aid changes were officially deferred but the government went partway by reducing the maximum grant by $200 and increasing the loan portion by the same amount; -The report ‘asked for a bursary program for “outstanding students from low-income families” if the all-loan plan was implemented. The government deferred decision until after a report from another advisory committee. The Ontario Federation of

This was part of the scene last year at a january against the recommendations of the Henderson protest.

Canada’s economy. Governments have introduced new program,s to create more jobs and have sought to alleviate hardships resulting from the rapidly rising cost of goods and services. This pattern has become a vicious circle, because one of the consequences of increased government spending at current levels is that it fuels the very inflation governments are fighting.” Without debate the committee accepts the analysis of Canada’s economic crisis which says there’s no way out of the inflationunemployment cycle except “to face up to the difficult job of cutting back.” On page three Ontario’s problems are pin-pointed as inflation, unemployment, and public debt (the high cost to the province of borrowing capital). A few pages later the report lists the areas to study (mostly social services) for possible budget cutting. By the second chapter it becomes clear why the report raised labor’s ire. Not only could inflation

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in the “Health Care” chapter, may be “alternatives to the public hea!th system. . .provided these services can be operated at a lower cost and ease the need for hospital facilities.” Whether this means private hospitals or just cheaper health care, it jives with other proposals “to constrain the supply of physicians” in Ontario and to seek ways “of reducing the total paid hours of hospital staff. ” The report also recommends considering “phasing out surplus beds,.and expensive treatment facilities in some hospitals, particularly those in or adjacent to urban centres. ’ ’ These proposals didn’t fall on deaf ears, it appears. Recall I+ealth minister Frank Miller dodging snowballs from irate patrons of hospitals he tried to close down last winter. And in case you thought we’re wearing seat belts these days because the government wants to save us pain,’ the report states: “The universal use of seat belts

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tion on collective bargaining the committee concludes that labor demands themselves cause unemployment and other social ills: ’ “Increasing labour costs lead to price increases and ultimately to decreased consumption and growth in the unemploytient rate. The housing and automobile industries are suffering from this sequence of events,at the present time. The solution, of course, lies in moderation, either voluntary or imposed. ” If that last line sounds a little ominous, there’s good reason. The report goes on to recommend wage guidelines be established by Parliament each year. Two months later on January 14, 1976, the Ontario government jumped on the federal government’s wage and price controls bandwagon. The McKeough report had even specifically opposed cost-of-living clauses which allow wages to rise with increasing prices. Students are doubly vulnerable to the thrusts of the McKeoughHenderson Report, both as consumers of a service (education) and

Students (OFS) saw the changes in student aid as a ploy to justify According to an higher tuitions. OFS National Student Day publication, “All calls for higher tuition are accompanied by a plea for a revised student aid programme to protect studentsin low income families . . .Strangely enough, in the nine provinces where fees have increased this year, there has been no significant change in student aid schemes.” Apart from being hit in the pocketbook this year and next, students face difficult times upon graduation, if the committee’s report is further implemented. Among those occupations which should be cut back or held at present levels, according to the report, are faculty, campus workers, _university administrative staff, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and public servants in general. Last week saw the first anniversary of the January 21 anticutback rally at Queen’s Park. While student leaders seem split over whether to celebrate-OFS did it with champagne according to a participating source-or to observe a minute of silence for the lack of action since that time, the government has been moving ahead

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=ocusing -in ofi Bog Businessmen and a smattering of ofessionals and community acrists decided on Tuesday that ddents should pay a $50 per term ition increase beginning May 1. With little dissention or debate, e Board of Governors approved e recommendation of finance ce-president Bruce Gellatly to in‘ease tuition. Who are these governors, and hat gives them the right to deterine the fate of students at UW? The bdard is composed of 36 embers, 17 of which are chosen am outside the university comunity, seven by the Lieutenantovernor-in-Council (the Ontario lbinet). Ten are elected by the )ard itself. In the main, most of these outde members come from profesonal organizations or from the recutive boards of large corIrations. Of the seventeen, nine are, or ere, president, vice-president or I executive of a large corporation i Ontario. Two board members represent le labour vote, one elected by the aard atid the other selected by the :ovincial cabinet. One &ember is ice-president of a large union and le other is a regional director for lucation of the Canadian Labour ongress. Two members of the Board of overnors must be UW alumni. 0th seats are filled by profesonals. Of the remaining board memsrs, one is a representative from Le community at large. E.F. Atmidge was involved in the opjmetry school at UW, and has also :rved as President of the Colleges I Optometrists of Ontario, the sensing body for optometrists. The faculty and student rep:sentatives who sit on the board re chosen from ‘the-senate. T~Q lore faculty members are elected t large. W.M. Rankin, chairperson of the oard since October 1975, was ice-president bf Bell’s Western egion. He once served as the resident of the Ontario Safety ouncil League and continues to :rve as Vice-Chairperson on the oard of the Central Hospital in ‘oronto , where he lives. Appointed by the board as a representing the lember 1963, ommunity-at-large in ankin’s term ends in 1977. Rankin believes the principal roblem for the government in the 1st three to four years has been to :duce the amount of money spent n the universities. “We’ve got government expen2s to the point where we can’t live rith it.” He felt that “reductions in costs ave been possible and have been lade without affecting the quality f the education.” During a discussion about the loard of Governors, Rankin stated lat the board was a policy-making lement and not a body that gets lto the very details of the operaon. He felt that student input on the oard is good and creates a forum 3r a more full discussion on tudents’ problems. “I’ve not noticed any difference 1 any member of the board, they ll seem to have the same view .” Pattison, vice-president, Interational Union of Electrical Workrs, was appointed by the cabinet 1 sit on the board. Pattison

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committee. He lives in Brantford. The labour movement in Ontario asked to have representation on the board, says Pattison. “We’re watchdogs.to see what is going on. As labour we work through the OFL; on the board we’re individuals. ” A board member since, May 1975, Pajtisoti observed last sum: mer that no real decisions were made at the board meetings, but that the members were not just rubber stamps. Last August, after only three board meC=tings, he noted that “half the Board of Governors are like me, green at it and unprepared to express a contrary opinion.” Tuesday, Pattison supported the tuition increase. “Personally, I think it was out of our hands. It was decreed by the government, they dictated that in order for the Board of Governors to get funds they had to increase tuition fees.” “Personally I think the students are paying enough. But the Board of Governors had no choice but to approve tuition increase; they would have lost $1.3 million when the budgets would have come out.” “I sympathize greatly but the fight is with the government.” “The student union needs to put pressure on the government. It’s unfair of them to expect the Board of Governors to do anything.” Students were first given the right to sit on the board of governors in 1969. Then federation president John Bergsma argued that 14 student representatives should be allowed on the 60-seat governing body. Bergsma is now one alumni rep on the board. Student representation on the Board was first recommended in a report in 1968. It called for a revamping of the entire system, that a board be established with only 36 members, 2 of them students and 5 faculty. Since 1972 there have been five student representatives, three undergraduate and two graduate. One of the three undergraduate seats .on the board is taken by Kathy Reynolds, a fifth-year architecture student. Reynolds, who voted against the tuition increase, was optimistic about the value of student membership on the board. She felt that students were well represented. “The number of votes doesn’t matter, just being out there (does).” Reynolds, also an executive board member, feels that board members are anxious to hear what students have to say. “Everyone (on the board) is sympathetic.” Reynolds maintains that student views are considered by board members. Questions and ideas that

she has brought to the executive board have been used in statements by the Board. “They really listen with wide ears.” She considers the board merely a “rubber stamp”. It is composed of “distinguished” people because only “distinguished” people get appointed. “It’s‘ considered to be an honour to sit on the board.” Reynolds was also sympathetic t9 the situation the board members face. “It’s really a Catch-22 situation.” Reynolds explained that if the Board doesn’t approve the fee hikes then there is the chance that the government would be less generous when distributing funds. In 1972, the university adopted a bi-camera1 type of government. . _ A bi-camera1 type of government exerts control of the university through two decision-making bodies. One of these bodies is the board of governors, the oiher, the senate. The board is responsible for the financial matters, and academic decisions and policies are left up to the senate. Most of the financial matters brought to the board are recommendations made by the president and vice-presidents of the university. The board makes the final review of administrative decisions and policies already set by university executive. The board is given wideranging, but mainly formalistic, powers over virtually every facet of the UW operations. -heather

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concerns with others. We invite you to become involved either through direct participation in the fast or through sponsorship on a per meal basis. Money raised will be used to support projects overseas. Donations can also be sent to K-W Overseas Aid/Direct Aid Fund, c/o Global ~Community Center, 94 Queen St. S. Kitchener, Ont. Sponsorship forms and additional information are available from Hilary Lawson (HH 127) and Jim Handy (HH 152).

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UW Icti Men lose two-tie If the Waterloo hockey Warriors are to be in the playoffs this season, they are going to have to dig deep and hope for a little luck. The cold weather seems to have slowed the Warriors, and they picked-up only one point of a possible six last weekend. Their woes started Thursday in Guelph, where the Gryphons skated circles around the Black and Gold. UW, in turn, just plain skated in circles, and got shellacked. The first period was uninspiring and Guelph came away with a 2-O margin. They extended their lead to 3-O in the middle frame. Had the Warriors been able to rally, they might have been able to cut the margin. Instead, the Warriors remained stagnant and allowed Guelph four goals to close out the scoring. Friday evening, The Warriors hosted the weary Laurentian Voyageurs. It took the Vees ten hours to fight the inclement conditions on the trip from Sudbury to the Twin Cities. It looked like the hometown Warriors would run the visitors out of the rink as they rifled in three goals in the first three and one half minutes of the game. Ken Greene paced the UW scoring with a pair of markers and turned in a hustling effort throughout the game. Rookie Don Langlois had the third UW marker. However, the Warriors decided to ease off, and found themselves staving off the Vees for a 3-3 tie, and their only point in the standings for the weekend.

one About 350 hardy fans braved the cold and blowing to urge the struggling Warriors onward. About twice as many people were on hand Sunday to watch the Black and Gold take on their old nemesis, Toronto Varsity Blues. The Warriors badly needed the two points, since Guelph had lost to Ottawa a day earlier. (It looks like it will be Guelph and Waterloo fighting it out for the third and final playoff spot in the OUAA west.) A win would have put the Warriors up two points on Guelph with one game in hand. But the Blues, following what seems to be a script they rewrite yearly, spoiled a spirited UW comeback by scoring at 19:13 of the third period to pluck a 4-3 win. . The Sunday encounter started slowly, and the opening period ended in a scoreless draw. Toronto quickly went to work on the Warr,iors in the sandwich session and jumped to a 2-O lead. The Warriors started on their comeback midway through the period when Eric Brubacher, playing in his third game since returning from knee surgery, took a Dave Jutzi pass, made a beautiful move on the Toronto net-minder and closed the margin to 2-l. Several minutes later, UW’s Italian stallion, Joe Marcaccio raced to the Toronto corner for a puck shot in from centre-ice. He out-distanced the UT defender and slipped an obstructed pass to centre Don Langlois, who raised the rubber to the upper corner for the tying tally. The second period

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ended in a 2-2 knot. The Warriors scored first in the third period as Harry Robock tipped in a John Campbell blast from the corner and the ‘Warriors had their first lead of the evening. But, several minutes later, poor clearing by the Warriors in their own end resulted in a Toronto goal. Warriors played hard throughout the final portion of the game and threatened several times, noteably on efforts by Marcaccio and Brubacher. At the other end UW goalie, Bob Clarke , was turning in an extra effort in covering up numerous defensive errors by his mates. But with only 47 seconds remaining, Toronto’s Don Dalvise broke down the left side of the Barn, eluded defenceman John Campbell and directed a rising shot to the upper right corner for the game winner. UW pulled Clarke in favour of an extra attacker, but to no avail. It was a disheartening loss, which ‘saw the Warriors outshot 40-39 in the close contest. The Warriors played well enough to win and showed a guttiness not often displayed thus far his season as they overcame an early deficit. The Warriors don’t seem to have the wherewithal to overcome an opponent’s lead. Although at times they do build up a lead (Western,

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Laurentian) they have a nasty habit of squandering it. The Warriors appear weak on defence, just now. On offense the McKillop-men have trouble breaking out of their own end. Their overall play seems without a system, and if it’s there, it’s not being optimized. Warriors are now 7-6-2 on the 20 ,game season and are in a dog-fight with Guelph for third and final playoff spot in the division. By the time this article is read Friday, the Warriors will also have played the front-running Laurier Hawks (Thursday) and will face Windsor tonight. Both are must games.

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For encouraging news, Brubacher looks to be rounding nicely back into shape. He and hard-working Dave Jutzi teamed up with Bill Daub, maybe the punch the Warriors need, to help Robock and hard-charging Ken Greene. The final forward trio of Langlois, Longpre and Marcaccio can also tally, but all three lines need help from the defence who must initiate the plays. Jeff Aidding is also back from knee surgery, but looks to need some conditioning yet before he sees a regular shift. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the hockey Warriors.

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Wednesday evening the Waterloo basketball Warriors squeezed by the University of Manitoba Bisons 70-68 in the Mike Moser Benefit Game. Warriors Bob Yuhatz pulled the game out for Waterloo, sinking two free throws with only one second remaining in the game. Manitoba Bisons are the defending national champions and fans were treated to the most exciting game yet witnessed this year. Mike Moser bursaries were awarded to john Furin (kinesiology), Maura Purdon (recreation) and Mike Haze// (planning) at the game. photo by george lomaga

The Rugby Club has been faring well in intramural racquet sports. Dave Dyer, club MVP, and Bill Steffler captured the men’s doubles badmington event last week. After closing in the semi-finals they came back through the double elimination round to face’ the victors of their loss. There they won in two straight matches. On the tennis scene, the rugby team of Isaacs and Hazel1 seem to be the team to beat as they head into the first finals of this double elimination event in the A division. This week the letterman’s club lounge opened. The lounge is located in Blue North in the PAC rm. 2012. Equipment with pinball machines and coloured tv, the room often has the executive of the Men’s Council sitting in it; president Mike Renaud, vice-president Mike Hazell, secretary-treasurer Archie Chase. The room is intended to serve as a meeting place for varsity atheletes. Tomorrow Sat, February 5 Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall will be playing in the Kitchener Auditorium. Tickets are $5, $6, $8, and $10 game time is 8:OOpm.

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Quite simply Fried Tang, boiled Tang, filet of Tang, poached Tang, Tang soup, toasted Tang and Tang salad mixed with shredded Tang are only a few of the delicacies Fass’77 has to -offer. If this menu does not appeal to your palate, there are many more tidbits, appetizers and wild dishes being served during the three-hour qrgy which will supply you with plenty of belly-laughs, occasional gut-reactions, and perhaps some indigestion. In short, Fass’77 has everything to delight you, appal1 you, and brighten an otherwise dull evening.

ets role i fed flit I’m still waiting for “Network” to hit town. In the meantime there’s nothing to review except “Missouri Breaks’ ’ , this weekend’s Fed Flick. This is a thoroughly untypical western - unlike anything else ever made - but that isn’t necessarily a merit. “Missouri Breaks” marks the meeting of Jack Nicholson and his idol: Marlon Brando. The occasion, however, is not as momentous as their fans might have expected. Nicholson plays a shallow and

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uninteresting cattle rustler whose cohorts have been plundering the local cattle-baron’s herd. .The cattle-baron hires an infamous but eccentric bounty-hunter (no, not Elmer Fudd) to bring back the rustlers (dead or alive, of course). Marlon Brando is the only thing that almost rescues the movie. His bounty hunter is delightfully insane. He disrupts a wake, disguises himself as an old lady, and whispers sweet nothings into his horse’s ear, and much more in the course of the film.

If the movie had been entirely in this tongue-in-cheek vein, it might have been more successful - indeed, while I was watching it I had difficulty making up my mind but it ultimately falls prey to the sin of taking itself seriously. If you try really hard, though, to ignore the bit of pretentiousness that occasionally spits in your face, it’s quite possible to get a good laugh out of this film. Don’t expect too much, and you may be pleasantly surprised. -oscar

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a social comment. This album is no different, with “Gavin’s Woodpile” being a sharp criticisim of the often uncaring and bureauocratic nature of government, in particular in the light of the Reed Paper scandal in Northern Ontario. “Silver Wheels” also is a fast paced ode to the boredom of the .- life of a touring musician. Cockburn has another side to his image that makes him an even more enjoyable performer: the way that he pays more than just token lip service to french, our second language. He has all his lyrics and liner notes in both languages, and one of the best songs on the album is i jazzy french turn called “Vagabondage. ” The song is a beautiful melody about his life and family played and sung exuberantly and optimistically. One verse talks about how when he is gone there will always be someone to take his place, et bient& dans le ber$eau un autre petit tzigane qui jouera du piano pour les chemineaux dans les bistros de la lune The song high-lights the natural lyrical nature of french and the more rythmic nature of the language makes the music melt into the words creating a memorable song. The album ends with Cockburn playing guitar solo on a song called “Festival of Friends”. The song is basically a Christian Ballad about the afterlife. some of us live, and some of us die someday God’s going to tell us why and- A_/ - .. _. . , L /,

black snake highway-sheet metal ballet it’s just so much snow on a summer day whatever happens, it’s not the end we’ll meet again at the festival of friends Cockburn may not have the fame that some of his less talented peers have acheived on poorer works but it is patently obvious to anyone who listens to any of Cockburn’s works that it is the making of music that is pleasing to himself and others rather_ than the hopes of becoming a “star” that Cockburn holds close to his heart. (All lyrics published by Golden Mountain Music Inc. (BMI)) -doug

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The Eagles’ release, Hotel California, has left me feeling certain that if I ever hear another 00000 - whooooo or mmmmm hmmmmm, I may die of dehydration. Take away these‘ harmonies and the soupy string arrangements added to several tracks and you have some pretty mediocre music from a group often touted as America’s greatest rock band. “She was terminally pretty,” is the description of the sex object of the third track, and I find it an apt description of a large part of the album itself. The cover is one of the prettiest of the year, the jacket folds out prettily, and an enclosed three foot poster of the boys in the band is also very pretty. Finally, the sleeve listing credits is done in a very pretty robin’s egg blue and black. Such elaborate packaging might lead you to question the quality of the disc itself. In this case, a very wise question. It is plagued with background noise, and overall sounds as though it was recorded through a sock. The Eagles have added the talents of Joe Walsh to the group for this album. But as any student will tell you, when you add ham,burger helper to hamburger, you’re still stuck with hamburger. , Walsh .s.

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It takes you aboard the Starship Saterize (where the sole staple is Tang) whose Captain James T. Jerk bemoans to the audience his lamentable crew, and through ai incredible series of adventures, and the search for a size 14 ring modulator on the planet Fed. The entire spectacle takes the form of a parody of Star Trek, appropriately “Star named Travesty”, and a complicated, though thinly disguised plot used, as an excuse for a variety of skits. The skits actually portray various aspects of university life, and some current events (yes, Virginia, even the ‘ ‘chevron affair’ ‘) . The humour is low,- bawdy and often tasteless - the kind we all need and love every once in a while to purge our souls and give our brains a rest. A lot of the jokes depend on puns which (surprisingly) work quite well (although groans in the audience were not infrequent). Many “well-known” people on campus were pointedly caricatured, though the scriptwriters appear to have exercised great restraint in not crossing the .threshold of viciousness. Most of the “victims” I think, would have a good laugh at their own expense. One of the most bizarre examples was the case of “Torn Brzustowskabil”, an unusual extreme of the campus bureaucrat. A special mention goes to the voice of Burt (Matthews), presented by Ma Bell. Since the styles of the various skits vary, even though there is consistency of the story-line, it leads one to believe that the fifteen people who pulled the script together did the skits separately or. in small teams, rather than as a group. A few of the skits are outrageously funny, whereas others occasionally drag a bit - though never enough to’ ruin the enjoyment. This inconsistency of style would probably not throw you off, though, unless you were actually looking for it (of course, since I’ve told you, you probably will). It occurs to me that I haven’t mentioned the music yet, although the songs form a solid part of the production. They are all the MAD magazine sort of song parodies, with new words put to familiar songs in order to fit the plot. Some

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of the lyrics are astoundingly clever (better than MAD’s track-record of late) . . .and others are low-key time-fillers. The pianist deserves special credit for his endurance, and for sounding better than a lot of the singing . . . A lot of the gags were old ones revived, and many allusions were made to Monty Python; even an unsuccessful attempt was made to mimic Monty Python’s style. What the jokes sometimes lacked in originality, though, the production made up for in persistency, integration of skits, and lively performances (in most cases) by the huge cast. FASS, to my knowledge, ap-pears to be a sort of tradition at UW for a reason that no one remembers any more. It attempts to create an unholy alliance (what a great expression!) between the Faculty, Administration, Staff and Students -hence the acronym FASS. Every year it fashions another original (?!) comedy (!?) to inflict upon the university, and to generally let off steam. It also has its own internal traditions - the customary “going out and getting smashed” after each performance, and the attempt to break the yearly fecord for the number of FASSers doing so together in the same place at the same time (void where prohibited by law). Admittedly FASS does not seem to qualify for most people’s definition of “culture”, but then this is the same city that produces Oktoberfest. Art be damned, and snobs desist while FASS is on the loose! The show is continuing for tonight and tomorrow night only. Tickets should still be available at the Central Box Office. Even if the idea of a constant barrage of sexist jokes, toilet humour, tasteless puns and otherwise campy material does not appeal to aesthetic senses, it may appeal to the decadent, mischievious boor that lurks somewhere between your medulla and your cerebellum. Many people will say that I’ve been too harsh, and others will say I’ve been “too kind to this trash”, but I don’t care; I’ll go again next year. 4scar

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gives the schmalzy Eagles sound an edge but all told nothing new is added that any one of thousands of other guitarists could not have added equally well. The lyrics by. members of the group describe and deplore the decadence of California on some tracks and promote decadence on dthers. All songs should be stamped with the label: written by a graduate of the L,eonard Cohen school of literary obscurantism. The Eagles see humans as limited in their purposes. Women are sex objects only and men are sex-object chasers; all are contentedly tangled in pubic hair. Why then is the album enjoying such success? Its surface prettiness is only a small part of the answer. The media hammers this product relentlessly because it is the product that sells and it is the product thBt sells because the media hammers it relentlessly. The media is an extremely important part of the superstructure of monopoly capitalist society in general and of U.S. imperialism in specific. The media is owned and controlled by the monopoly capitalist class. The Art and artists are owned by the same bourgeoisie (in this particular case by WEA, a giant business) and serves i,Sl music ‘. NC, L

their interests. It is patently clear that the bourgeoisie will not pay for their own overthrow. It is also clear that the Eagles will not bite the hand that feeds them. The constant emphasis of the themes of inadequacy, complacency and powerlessness serve the interests of WEA very well. It reinforces the feeling of isolation and the notion that anarchy is the only solution. - The longer we listen to the Eagles tell us, “We are programmed to receive i You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave,” the longer WEA can sell more of the same and the longer WEA can continue to maximize profits. The Eagles’ music is not pretty, it is ugly. It describes the world as decadefit and the people as the creators and perpetrators of this decadence, all the while emphasizing that change is not possible. This is blaming the victim for the problems of the bourgeoisie. It is mystification, it is fascism. To the Eagles from Chairman Mao Tsetung, “Stop your windy nonsense! Look, the world is being tbrned upside down.” -martha

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Pasternak &ill not satisfied The major point in my recent letters to the free chevron seems to keep eluding Professor Wahlsten. It is irrelevant whether I have tenure, or that he thinks that I am hysterical, panicky, incoherent, confusing and sarcastic. The issue here is rather simple. Professor Wahlsten stated unequivocally in his eulogy to Lysenko that “the truth of the matter has not been established” about Lysenkoism. To be sure, Wahlsten did grant that some of Lysenko’s views should be discarded, although he has not yet told us which ones. Why doesn’t Professor Wahlsten make his thorough study of Lysenko, and prepare, for public scrutiny, a report on his researches? In an attempt to find support for Lysenk: oism, Wahlsten has turned to recent studies on recombinant DNA. No one would quarrel with his major conclusion; viz., a bacterium can be manipulated by artificial treatment with diverse DNA such that the acquired information can function and be perpetuated asexually through many cell divisions. This pattern of inheritance shouldn’t have surprised Professor Wahlsten. He must be well aware of the area of study called “extrachromosomal inheritance” and the limited number of examples that display this system of heredity. (See any recent genetics text, Doug.) The problem for Professor Wahlsten is that all df the examples of extrachromosomal (non-Mendelian) inheritance are totally incompatible with Wahlsten’s example from recombinant DNA studies, he would have to grant that the hereditary material and DNA were one and the same thing. Unfortunately for Wahlsten, Lysenkoism vehemently denies the existence of any “organ of heredity”. Professor Wahlsten can’t have it both ways. On the one hand, he cites an example that agrees with his personal concept of inheritance of acquired characteristics, but at the same time, he contradicts the most fundamental tenet of Lysenko’s theory of heredity. Wahlsten’s example suffers in other, albeit less important, ways. Lysenko’s theory stated that an environmental treatment, when applied at the correct stage of the organism’s life cycle, would destabilize the normal heredity of the organism and thereby render it alterable. Establishment of recombined DNA in no way “shatters” the genetic make-up of the recipient cell. Again, Wahlsten’s example fails to conform to Lysenko’s theory. Quite simply, Wahlsten has chosen a minor but interesting class of phenomena that complement rather than contradict Mendelian principles and the gene theory. Certainly, the demonstration of so-called acquired inheritance by constructed plasmidsdoes not in any way support the that the Lysenkoists’ contention chromosomal theory of heredity is’invalid. ‘As well, for a true Lysenkoist, not only are acquired characteristics inherited, but this is the norm. Since the modification of bacteria by recombined DNA is an exceptionally rare phenomenon, Wahlsten seems to be supporting an alleged universal principle based on a few unusual cases. Indeed, even these cases barely adhere to the rudiments of Lysenko’s theory. Apparently, to bring Lysenko into the 1970’s Wahlsten picked a sentence from Lysenko-‘s famous 1948 speech. In it, Lysenko seems downright prophetic, if one avoids the specifics. Needless to say, the sentence has been plucked out of its true context, and in isolation loses much of its Lysenkoist flavour. However, I was struck by a familiar ring to Wahlsten’s choice. Back in 1917, Vavilov, later a lukewarm antiLysenkoist, said with the characteristic optimism of a Mendelian geneticist, that the

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new science of genetics would enable us “to sculpt organic forms at will and constant forms at that. In the near future man will be able, by crossing, to synthesize such forms as are entirely unknown in nature. Biological synthesis is becoming as much a reality as chemical.” Seeing into the future wasn’t just Lysenko’s forte. It is interesting to note that Lysenko replaced Vavilov as Director of the Institute of Genetics in 1940, after Vavilov’s arrest by the state police. Later, in I943 Vavilov died in a Soviet prison camp. In his reply to S. Gabow, Wahlsten states “that bacterial heredity may be modified directly by the antibiotic in some cases and not merely through selection.” This is an inI wish that Professor triguing statement. Wahlsten had cited his source. Since he didn’t, I will stick my neck out and make an assumption - which is a dangerous thing to do with a tenured professor like Wahlsten that my assumption is correct, then Wahlsten’s Lysenkoism suffers again, because resistance transfer factors are DNA molecules. R. de Grass believes that in humans, culturally inherited qualities are more important (relevant?) than those that are genetically derived. In the main, he is probably correct. However, it is important that one appreciate the potential significance of adopting the view that acquired characteristics can be inherited. Briefly, the traditional theory postulated that hereditary particles migrate from various parts of the body to the sex organs at the time of reproduction. In this way, environmental influences affecting the body parts were supposed to be transmitted to the next generation. This theory has had interesting social ramifications. For example, (1) it was used to deny equal opportunity to various segments of society because it was assumed that the long term impact of substandard environmental conditions had become so engrained biologically that no amount of environmental change could ameliorate the situation; or (2) it was thought that a better environment, usually undetined, would automatically produce a social utopia that would last for generations. Needless to say, such a biological theory is totally irrelevant for a legitimate equitable social policy to be implemented. By the same token, it isn’t necessary to adopt fallacious biological doctrines in order to substantiate and support specific social policies. Professor Wahlsten, I am still waiting for your report on the validity of Lysenko’s theories and observations. In the meantime, you may want to ponder an aphorism of V.I. Lenin: A single claw ensnared, and the bird is lost.* *I know, Doug, in New China they would cut off the claw, save the bird, and forevermore maintain true-breeding clawless birds. J. Pasternak

Reporter off track

The free chevron printed an article in the January 28th issue entitled “Job series misI believe it is the author of the ses mark”. story who has missed the mark. The purpose of the article is a critique of a series of articles in the K-W- Record which reviewed the job situation. The author’s main criticism of the series and other publications (eg the Ontario Youth Secretariat’s booklet) is that they provide plenty of information about how to go about finding a summer job, or even permanent employment, but nobody is saying that the odds are very much against one’s getting such a job. This is a very valid comment about the articles, but it is not a valid criticism of them. What the statistics say about finding employment is insignificant: if you really want a job, you still have to look for it, odds notwithstanding. I think some things need clarifying. First, no one has the right to a job. If you want a yourself to an empjob, you have to “sell”

loyer, and “sell” is the right word: the employer is buying your skills, knowledge, and natural ability; you are a resource that he uses in the operation of his business. He has the right to determine how he spends his money, and that means he has the right to determine which of the various human resources he hires. To use an analogy, would you buy an opened, broken, and bent box of Corn Flakes if there was another in good condition sitting next to it for the same price? Of course not. Second1 , it is not necessary to be the best of all the aE plicants for any particular job. It is only necessary to be the first applicant to meet the prospective employer’s standards. If an employer doesn’t know that tomorrow’s mail carries an application from a student with a 98% average at UW, and you meet his standards, he will hire you. Third, it is not the responsibility of the government to find anyone a job. In fact, if it were so inclined, the government could just sit back and tell students to find their own jobs or drown in their spare time. The government is not taking this position, as is evidenced by the existence of the Ontario Youth Secretariat and its booklet. Likewise, the K-W Record was not required to publish its series on career opportunities. Criticizing such unsolicited assistance is like a starving man refusing a steak because it was cooked - medium-rare instead of welldone. Mr. Coles, in this article, notes that “Aspiring architects are told that it ‘takes exceptional people’.” He seems to think that this is unfair. But, Mr. Coles, if you were building your own home, would you hire an architect you believed was not qualified? If anyone really wants a job, I know where they can probably get one: McDonald’s Corporation has an average turnover of about 60% every three months; it takes no great intelligence to work there; they hire extra people for the summer and having a school year that ends in April is an advantage; you need no prior work experience anywhere; there are three McDonald’s in Kitchener; and they pay minimum wage to start with but they have pay evaluations every three months - sooner if you’re good. Working 40 hours a week you can make about $1,800 in a summer, and can work part-time during school. That’s nothing to run, jump, and scream about, but it’s certainly more than a start. If the student gets OSAP money it becomes even easier. The job hunting system isn’t perfect. There are inequities in every system of human design and somebody always doesn’t fit the system and gets screwed. But if you really want a job, you have to work for it. I Only a fool cannot distinguish his allies from his enemies. I think it is time Canadian students recognize that the government is an ally, that it is concerned about the job situation, and that it does offer assistance. But in the final analysis, it is the student who must convince the employer that he or she is the right person for the job. D.E.G. Hare lettitor My article may have missed Mister Hare’s point, but certainly not the one it was written to make. The criticism of the emphasis ‘on personal drive and self-sell is not that it is made, but that such an emphasis is fraudulent. In the present economic crisis the government, ably assisted by the commercial press, is not only shifting the economic burden onto the backs of the workers but the moral burden. Workers are now being told that not only is inflation their fault, but so is unemployment. It is interesting that Mister Hare thinks statistics are insignificant. Since when are facts about the concrete conditions in #he economy “insignificant”? There is something essentially demeaning about seeing workers as commodities, like boxes of Corn Flakes, to be sold to employers. Mister Hare’s second point, that you need only be the first applicant, not the best, is at least naive. Why do businesses conduct in-

terviews if they will hire the first person who comes along? The third point comes close to the heart of the matter. The government obviously doesn’t consider finding jobs for people its responsibility. It demonstrates this by the fact that it does “just sit back and tell students to find their own jobs”. The Ontario Youth Secretariat does not promise to find jobs, it promises only to be “your voice at Queen’s Park”. It is good that the government is the ally, isn’t it? True -the K-W Record was not required to write the series. Offering this kind of “unsolicited assistance” to a worker or student facing the prospect of unemployment is not like offering a starving man a steak, but rather like offering him a bow and arrow and a field that may contain some cows. Thank you for your advice about McDonalds. There are more than 700,000 unemployed people today, I hope McDonalds is planning an expansion. -Jonathan Coles

Injury ’ undone’ I noted with a great deal of amusement the charges laid against the Real Chevron in the free chevron (Jan 21) concerning “People’s names . . . in the masthead who have never contributed to the paper” (Really Not Responsible, pg 15). Way back when, September 1976, my name mysteriously appeared in the masthead of the “illegal” edition of the chevron. Sept. 30. At the Student Federation meeting on the chevron affair, Neil Docherty admitted that my name had been entered erroneously, and promised to tiention so in the next edition. Come the beginning of December, I happened to run into Neil and mention that the correction had yet to be printed, when he again promised to refer to the error in the next edition of the free chevron. It is now almost the end of January, and still no word from Neil, or the free chevron, for that matter. Now, about those accusations ... Mat Vomberg Man-Environment, Year 2 Okay, Mr. Vomberg, we confess! Your name listed in our September 28 special issue of the chevron. This most grievous injustice has persisted four long months without correction - just as long, in fact, as this “minor” business of the arbitrary closure of the chevron. Please allow us to formally correct the matter of your name: Mat Vomberg was erroneously listed as a contributor to the September 28 special issue of the chevron. Now, about that “minor” business still unresolved ...

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A further’ proposal It has now been a few weeks since the referendum, and nothing has been resolved. After about 5 months of bickering, I think that most students would like to see the affair ended, but ended justly. The referendum itself showed that over 2,000 students were opposed to reinstatement. However, careful examination of the referendum showed that complete support of the free chevron could not be expressed. And the fact that over 2,000 people signed the petition to recall Shane Roberts, (whose most famous doing was suspending the chevron) shows that free chevron support is not weak. Nobody knows how many students want an investigation. To try to find a fair solution, I propose to continued on page 14

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meet with a representative of the free chevron, and a representative of the Federation of Students, and put together a referendum which would allow both points of view to be expressed, and leave no relevant questions unasked.

Since both

sides claim

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support, I would interpret a refusal from either side as an admission that this is not the case. If such a refusal occurs, I will report it in another feedback letter. However, I would hope that both sides would prefer to let the students decide. Stephen Coates 3A Applied Chemistry

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the article about the EIDC I feel that an alternative viewpoint on this unfortunate topic is necessary. I must first point out that more than half of the article was quoted from an EDIC leaflet which used the issue of racial attacks as a ground for airing a variety of political beefs and fabrications of the EDIC, To begin with, the leaflet accused the police (specifically, the Toronto Metro

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To further examine the causes of racial tension, the social behavior of immigrant groups must be considered. Many immigrant groups try to stand with “one fodt in Canada, and one foot in their old country”. They speak their native language as often as possible, retain their native customs, and often live in self-segregated areas, inhabited predominently by their own immigrant group. .By doing- so, they are rejecting the Canadian way of life. I have stated what I think are the causes of racism, and ultimatly, the racial attacks. I offer this as an explanation, not a justification. There are no justifications for racism. Unfortunately, comments approaching racism appear at the bottom of the article itself. At first, self-defence is advocated, then a few lines later, fighting “revolutionary struggles” against the Canadian government are urged. Remembering that the Canadian government ,is elected by, agd represents, the Canadian people, it is obvious who the real target is. Such a comment can only be detrimental to the racial situation. After all, it is the Canadian government who gave the immigrants permission to come here in the first piace. They should be thankful for that (which, however, does not mean accepting racial humiliation) and ultimately work towards being Canadians. Stephen Coates 3A Applied Chemistry

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tacks. But how many people have been attacked by either on or off-duty policemen? At the same time, the-leaflet praised the Canadian people, stating that they aren’t racist. Yet this is a contradiction, because the Canadian government, and, indirectly, the Canadian police forces, are chosen by the and are staffed by Canadian people, Canadians. Then what is racist? The constitution? The parliament? The democratic system?

Examining the attacks themselves, I admit I am not well informed about these attacks, but I do remember

reading,

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Star, about a 55 year old immigrant from Tanzania, (mistaken for a Pakistani) who was pushed onto the subway tracks by two

We would like to express our acknowledgements and thanks to the service centres, the patrons, the co-sponsors and the various communication media. With their support and advice China Week 77 passed with success. Special appreciation is due to the campus centre, the graphic centre, and the audio-visual department. Organizing

men in their 20’s. Both assailants were convicted, and sentenced to jail terms last November. According to the leaflet, however, instigators of racial attacks are never arrested or charged. The leaflet goes on to state that the immig-

rants have come from countries

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tory of anti-colonial and anti-feudal struggles, and this ingrained tendency scares the Canadian government. Well, for those who haven’t learned their history yet, Canada ceased to be a colony in 1867, and feudalism, which was never firmly established in Canada, has also been long gone. So what do we have? A democratic, free enterprise system that has given Canada one of the highest standards of living in the world, as well as all the other desirable features of our country which attract people from all over the world. If immigrants are trying to destroy this system (as the leaflet suggests they should) then I wouldn’t blame

the Canadian people for reacting. But are they? It is my belief that most immigr-ants come here, not to destroy Canada, but work within it, and that the above mentioned semi-anarchistic hypothesis is one put forward by the racists themselves.

This being the case, then why are people racist? Although I am not a psychologist, I think-that many racists have become so after comparing the success of a group of immigrants to his or her own failure in life. However, the real cause, is the existance of a racial mixture. It is a sad, but inescapable fact that everywhere in the world where there is a non-homogeneous population, there is racial tension, and often open - conflict. South Africa, Rhodesia, Uganda, Ziare, Lebanon, and the United States are just a few examples. In countries with a homogeneous population, -notably Japan, racial tension does not exist.

I saw two - count ‘em, two replies to my anti-Erhard Kienitz letter in your 28 January

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twenty, in view of the way the staff of the free chevron have been foaming at the mouth lately when persons such as myself have challenged their lofty ideals. Let me see,

now, who were the writers? Ah, yes, Heather Robertson and “An Angry Worker. ” Who is Angry Worker, please? Does he sleep in the Campus Center with the rest of the Great Canadian Heroes? Before-I start to pick apart the aforementioned letters, let my say that I am not unacquainted with the hazards that often go hand-in-hand with a job as a labourer in Canada. I was employed as a labourer in a number of cemeteries in Toronto in 1972. In July of that year, a summer student had his leg badly mauled when a co-worker was negligent in the way he handled his chainsaw. I drove the lad to the nearest hospital, where he was treated and, after several days, released to convalence at home for the rest of the summer. The Workmen’s Compensation Board saw to it that he received 75% of his wages during that time. By September of that year he had recovered, and is now an Engineering student here at Waterloo, I believe. I’m sure that his injury caused him a great deal of pain once the initial shock wore off, and that ahe days he spent at home were not the best he had ever seen, but a few of the other workers were of the opinion that it would have been worth the trouble to be-

come injured and collect $120 p&,week for sitting at home watching Dialing For Dollars. It was the memory of this incident that prompted me to question Kienitz’ integrity. The fellow who makes the most fuss tends to get the best treatment. Kienitz didn’t reveal any details of his own injuries, and I think that his campaign may be not for the benefit of his fellow workers, but merely a tactic which will help him get more benefits from the W.C.B. whether he needs them or not. You have Kienitz put his money-where his mouth is and I’ll stop niggling you on this matter. Don’t insult my intelligence by trying to make me believe any unproved,allegations. I am not that ntiive. Some of Heather Robertson’s ideas must have been born of naive& such as her assertions that “Workers of Canada not only suffer from inhospitable working conditions, unjust and heavy taxation, lack of true political power, exploitation on the job by aggressive fat cats who only want to make a buck.. .” but that they must take a lot of crap from critics such as myself. What nonsense! T-he A.P.E.O. (Association of ProfesSional Engineers of Ontario), of which I will become a member in two years or so, wields much less political Clout than any Union of Postal Workers local in Canada. They can threaten to strike when their contracts are up for renewal. The only benefit an engineer can count on from the A.P.E.O., aside from relatively cheap insurance, is the ability to affix the initials, “P. Eng.” after his signature. Engineers grid all other manageme%t people pay the same government the same “unjust and heavy” taxes; they’re no better off than anyone else in that respect. Only a very small percentage of graduate engineers will start up their own businesses and become “aggressive fat cats;” we, too, must respect the wishes of our bosses. Labourers, too, have started up their own businesses and become management operatives in Canada. For a good example of this, see “The Risk Takers,” by Alexander Ross, and read about four ex-production line workers from a defunct Dunlop Rubber plant in Toronto who started manufacturing rubber handrails for escalators and did $1 million worth of business in less than two years, as well as providing good jobs for 13 other people. Aggressive fat cats;, indeed. Here’s another interesting fact: as a chemical engineer, I am supposed to face twice as great a risk of developing cancer, compared with any other group in Canada. Labourers aren’t the only ones who must work in unhospitable environmentsin this land of ours. Get up and run around your desk a few times, Robertson, and wake up! I do agree that we must often work in hazardous environments. That is why people take safety precautions on the job. This may entail the wearing of a hard-hat (required by law), or avoiding any obstacles in one’s path, precautions which your unfortunate (and un-namedtfriend, who bumped his noggin on a low doorway, failed to observe. He signed himself, “Angry Worker.” Why not? I’d be downright pissed off if I walked into a doorway, especially if some of my buddies saw me do it! I’m damned if I’d write to the free chevron and tell il to the world at large, to boot! I’m not that proud. Or that stupid. I’m no coward either, Angry Worker (mind if I call you A&W for the sake of brevity? Or-chuckle - how about Chubby Chicken?). I sign my letters with my real name, and take whatever criticisms my detractors would care to offer. I also put up warning sigris, and paint obstacles, such as your friend the doorway, in bright colours and, if necessary, attach thick foam padding to them. The latter should have been a simple enough thing to, do in your case, since you worked in a furniture factory. You called me a capitalist, oh Chubby Chicken. I’m glad I’ve finally made the grade. Even though I’ve only sixty dollars in the bank, I, the son of an Irish immigrant family, am now qualified to wear a dark suit and s&-ut along Bay Street at noonhour. I-Iooray! My folks were working-class people, and now, thank

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God, I’m not. We all had to work hard at effecting the transition. I’ve never been much of a scholar; the parents pushed and I resisted, but the two of them were stronger than I and somehow the momentum has carried me to the. point where nothing short of an environmental cataclysm or a disastrous spillage of beer will prevent my graduation. That’s one good thing about this country; the opportunities for advancement are there, even though you have to dig for them. It sure beats simply cruising along, putting in time, the way most folks do. The way you have done, Chubby Chicken. Tell you what, though. You sit down and try to invent some kind of machine or system which will eliminate all hazards from all jobs tind guarantee everyone a good wage. Make sure that you patent your idea oy process. I’ll design and start up the plant which produces your machine, and I promise you that we’ll use all of the profits to install the free chevron in a luxurious suite in the Waterloo Towers, pay the staffers a hefty salary and support whatever noble schemes you’re into at the time. Sound good? That’s capitalism and it does work. Try it. After all, anything is better than camping out in the Campus Center. P.S. I think it to be most regrettable that there are still two student newspapers on this campus. I will put my political views aside for an instant and say that you free chevron people have shown some degree of courage in sticking around the way you have, and that you are pretty good journalists. Perhaps if you weren’t so unbending, you could be reinstated and therefore spend more time reporting more important issues, like the dreadful state of our environment, the encroachment of foreign competitors upon our domestic markets, and other factors which are tending to make it tougher to get by in this country. However, Bs long as you persist in presenting your ideas in such a sensational, inaccurate and biased manner, I and others like me, will continue to oppose you. .-

Mike McCartney Chemical Engineering

The Arts Lion is not just a bunch of posters stapled together as Arts Society president Joe McDonald stated to me. It is much worse. The slanderous MATHnews deserves more credit than the Lion for it at least is open to comments and letters by math students. The Arts Lion allows such feedback only to its editor - Doug Kernohan who admits to having dictatorial powers. Though comments by Arts students have not been allowed (as a rule), Bruce Rorrison (Rorry) has been given a free reign. A letter from thi: Campus Reform Group (CRG) has been printed along with a comment by Rorrison on a council meeting and the CRG - of which he is a member though he did not admit this. The paper remains passive except during crisis points. A front page comment on the referendum was run and now a slanted inaccurate front page comment (Kernohan has the nerve to call it a report) by Rorrison appears attacking a presidential candidate. It is not that the lion bears great influence -no one reads it -it should just make up its mind. It is either poster sheets or a newspaper with student--- not just CRG - input. Kernohan should stop playing with Arts students’ money. Randy

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Correction ‘A late correction, not made in production, to last week’s article on stress researcher Hans Selyes’ views: “Nice old man” should read “friendly assertive man”. No prejorative implication based on age was intended.

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r questions This was followed by an emergency Dear CUP National Executive, meeting of ORCUP called at your request, at We learned through a phone conversation which you voted, along with all the papers with president Tom Benjamin on Tuesday Jan. 25, 1977, that you have decided to call present for the following motion: an investigation commission into the This special meeting of the Ontario chevron-federation dispute. The chevron Region of the Canadian University staff is concerned and disturbed by this deciPress on October 16, 1976 expressed sion and would like you to address yourselits firmest support for the chevron in ves to the following questions. its fight against the anti-democratic Our main question is: Why do you want a and arbitrary suspension and firings CUP investigation commission? used against it by the University of’ It is our understanding that the CUP naWaterloo student federation council, tional executive has committed itself to supled by Shane Roberts. port of the chevron and opposition to the University of Waterloo Federation of The struggle of the chevron staff to Students’ actions, on the grounds that the oppose this attack is a just one and closing of the paper and subsequent action merits the aid and admiration of all by the federation violated CUP’s “StateCanadian students - journalists or ment of Principles of the Student Press in not. The action of the UW federation Canada”. council is deplorable and must be conThis Statement of Principles notes: “That demned. We call on the UW council to the Canadian student press should be free reinstate the chevron and its staff as it from pressure by student governments, uniwas September 24, 1976 before its atversity authorities, or any other external tempted closure. To the council we agencies, whether or not the press is part of say: Hands off the chevron! such an organization. . . .” This motion was later endorsed as an offiWe understood from the beginning that we had your support. At the September 26,1976 cial ORCUP resolution at the October 31, University of Waterloo Federation of 1976 conference in Toronto. The free chevron gained further support Students council meeting, only two days from you and the other member papers at the after the federation executive unilaterally 39th National Conference in Vancouver in locked the chevron staff out of its offices, December ‘76/January ‘77. There, at the CUP vice-president Dan Keeton and former CUP president Francis Fuca told the UW first plenary, we were given voting rights as the chevron. At the mid-plenary the memfederation councillors that their executive’s to eject the action to lock out the chevron staff was bers voted overwhelmingly editor of the UW student federation’s tabclearly in violation of CUP principles. chevron, as a scab editor. And when an unrepentant federation ex- loid, the “real” Kris Klassen, the CUP Bureau Chief, told ecutive and council decided to continue its the mid-plenary at the 39th conference that campaign against the chevron, you took swift and direct action. As reported in the the national office had refused to co-operate with the UW federation by sending the fedfollowing passage from a front-page article eration or its paper any material they requesin Volume 1 number 1 of the free chevron t-A (Oct. 8, 1976): We interpreted all of these actions as clear “The Canadian University Press (CUP) will underwrite the production support for the chevron staff and opposition costs of the chevron for-two weeks as to the federation’s actions against the newspart of a three-part plan to aid the paper. The UW Federation of Students undernewspaper in its fight against closure by the UW federation council. takes in its own constitution to abide by the CUP Statement of Principles (By-Law 2). It Tom Benjamin, president of the is clear to us that they have violated these nation-wide co-operative of some seventy university and college newsprinciples, and we understood that you were equally firm on this. papers, also announced a telephone It was Dan Keeton and Francis Fuca who and telex campaign for chevron support. This will include a call for finantold federation council on September 26, cial assistance for the chevron. CUP 1976, that there was/no need for a CUP investigation commission because such an inwill also hold a one-day conference here at UW on October 16. Yestigation could only conclude that the The conference will bring together federation’s action was wrong. Tom Benjamin confirmedthis opinion newspapers from all across the counwhen he announced the national executive’s try to discuss the rights of the student support for us. In the same article as quoted press in Canada, and to show support above the free chevron reported: \ for the chevron.” LCU.

Benjamin also said that CUP sees no need to call a formal investigative commission into the federation’s actions because the facts clearly support the paper. The federation’s actions clearly violate many of the historical rights of the student press in Canada, as outlined by the CUP Statement of Principles. So why now, four months after the chevron was closed, do you want a CUP investigation commission? Our position remains - “Reinstate! Investigate!” The chevron should be reinstated because we were convicted (closed) without a trial. An investigation should be launched so that the charges made against us can be checked for their validity, and so that the affair can be resolved and recommendations made to avoid a recurrence. Throughout this affair we have always held ourselves responsible to UW students; we have continually put our case to them and want them to investigate us as well as the actions of the federation against us. We understood that you agreed with us and supported these demands. ORCUP fieldworker Dave Colburn left us with little doubt when in a letter reprinted in 1976 CUP House Organ No. 3 (page 24) he stated:

,paper, the free chevron, every week, despite having our cameras confiscated, our locks changed, our mail intercepted, our phones cut-off and almost daily harassment. We are the ones fighting to uphold the CUP Statement of Principles. So we respectfully ask: Who is in the best position to judge if the light “has dragged on and on with no possibility of being resolved” - the CUP national executive in Ottawa, or the chevron staff? As a CUP member we feel, given the circumstances, you should wholeheartedly support our demands. In light of your latest decision however, we would like to know: Does the CUP national executive still support the chevron staff in its fight? W-e would also like you to explain why we were not fully consulted before you made to launch this commission. Since you made the decision on Friday, Jan. 2 1, why were we not informed about it until Torn- Benjamin phoned Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 25? A little tardy we think, since we were expected to locate a commercial journalist, with time to spare to work on an investigation commission, before the end of the week. We were perplexed about why you feel compelled to observe the federation’s request for a CUP commission into this four month long dispute. As publisher, the UW Federation of Students has the right to call The federation of students at the for an investigation commission, but the University of Waterloo in an action same federation has thrown asunder its that ignored due process, democratic commitment to abide by CUP rules, yet you principles and the CUP statement of feel obliged to uphold an agreement long deprinciples closed the chevron. They stroyed. Will you please explain why? have never been able to cogently expWe remind you that the Oct. 3 1, 1976 lain their action. They have been unORCUP conference passed motions of cenable to provide a shred of evidence sure against the National Union of Students that the paper is controlled by subverand the Ontario Federation of Students for sives or any other form of goblin. Innot taking a stand on this dispute. deed they haven’t even been able to . Against NUS because it resolved in 1973 demonstrate the chevron staff incomto uphold the CUP Statement of Principles petent. and against OFS because in the past it has “The position that the over sixty free defended papers against councils who have chevron staff members are taking is violated those principles. quite simple: 1) Reinstate the chevron NUS and OFS have both since issued as it was before it was closed. . . 2) statements calling for reinstatement of the Investigating the circumstances chevron. around the closing of the paper. Until In view of the above why is the CUP nathese conditions are met, they intend tional executive now calling for a CUP investo continue production of the free tigation commission? Has the CUP national chevron and occupying their offices. executive’s position changed with regard to This position is also the official CUP the CUP principles? position . . .” Before any further action is taken on this So, CUP national executives, we war uld matter we would like a written response like to know: What has changed? from you to all our questions. In view of the seriousness of this matter In the phone conversation with one of our of this statement to all staff, Tom Benjamin suggested that the dis- we are sendinpz:opies -pute “has dragged on and on with no possi- CUP memb _ papers bility of being-resolved”. Yet we are the ones doing the fighting. Awaiting your reply, We, the chevron staff, have put out a newsthe chevron staff/

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With the emergence of February, this week’s issue is dedicated to groundhog day when Thompson saw his shadow on the federation threshold. But only a few short feet away, the chevron staff (whose number rises close to the presidential election turnout) was working relentlessly to bring the students their news. Constantly contributing to the UW newspaper are val moghadam, ernst von bezold, douglas hamilton, larry hannant, t a beamish, Oscar m nierstrasz, jonathan coles, henry hess, neil docherty, nina, brent and dennis (x-rookies), Scott barron, salah bachir, rabid rabbit, dave carter, peter blunden, heather robertson, dianne chapitis, doug goodfellow, mike hazell,.jane pollock, marina taitt, jules grajower, randy barkman, lorne gershuny, phil Cramer, rick degrass, mary fraught, jamie thiers, tom cody, rob taylor, roscoe bell, mark mcguire, Charlotte von bezold, and to Mark: the future is bright; the road is tortuous. sb.

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The Warrior basketball team defeated the Windsor Lancers last Saturday night in the PAC by the score of 84-82. The game was marked by physical contact to an extreme, and scoring bursts by both teams which resulted in a very emotional, seesaw contest. The Lancers started strong limiting the Warriors to only two points in the first five minutes. Waterloo then opened up the game scoring 21 in the next five to move ahead 23-20. Both teams showed erratic play, in particular, their shooting from the outside, in the first half, was inconsistent. However, the fast pace of the game and the extremely tight defence explain the shooting. At the half, the Warriors held a slight margin, 36-34. Windsor came out strong in the second half opening up a four point lead and then maintaining that margin for seven minutes before the Warriors exploded, took the lead, and then extended it to ten points. Then with five minutes left the Lancers started to come back. They came within a hair of pulling it out of the bag. It was the foul shooting of Waterloo which captured the game for them, and ironically, it was that

which nearly lost it for them. In the first half they shot two for 11 from the line. They improved that in the second half to 11 for 15, but it was the fact that they shot six of six in the final three minutes which secured the game. Outstanding for Windsor were Charlie Pearsall and Dan Devin. Pearsall, the 6’9” center was the star of the game even though he scored only eight points. He was responsible for at least 10 blocked shots, grabbed 11 rebounds and scared six of his eight points in the final three minutes. Devin was the high scorer for the game with 21 points, 11 of them in the final seven minutes. Top scorers for the Warriors were Mike Visser with 20, Bob Yuhatz with 19, and Seymour Hadwen with 11. Lou Nelson and Pat Brill-Edwards also had strong games for Waterloo. The win moved the Warriors into a lirst place tie with Windsor, but also assured them of having homecourt advantage in the play-offs provided they are still in thatsame lirst place position with Windsor. Needless to say, that will depend on the results of the next three weeks and, in particular, the results of the next game with Guelph. -jacques

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Ruggers honoured The University of Waterloo Warriors Rugby Football Club’s 2nd annual Awards Banquet held at the faculty club, almost wasn’t last Friday night. Despite the fact that the elements prevented the guest speaker George Gones from attending the banquet, 68 other souls braved the elements. In that dauntless Rugby spirit and flair for social comraderie, the whole affair was a very great success and marks the end of a successful season and the beginning of a new rugby season. Last November the Rugby Club finished first in the OUAA lea<gue. The 1976 season will get undq vay February 17 when the club let .es for New Orleans and the Southt- -r Louisiana Mardi Gras Tournament. Once again the team demonstrated its proficiency for drinking beer and its ability to overcome all obstacles in the way of a good time. It was a rare event for the rugby historians on campus as this -was the first time that rugby players have been seen in ties and jackets and with female companionship at a one to one ratio. In fact, the girls at this event actually outnumbered

UW Letterman’s lounge opened providing a relaxing atmosphere

the men by a one person margin ! Awards for the evening were presented to Dave Dyer,, MVP; Dave King, most valuable rookie; Bernie LeSage, most improved player; and Mike Hazell, greatest contributor to the club. Ken Brown, the president of the alumni association was awarded a special mug and reciprocated by awarding the club with a rugby - - book from the alumni. Team colours and ties were awarded to ‘twelve individuals: Dave Dyer, Jamie Errington, Jeff Ralph Wilson, Regan Sage,, Trethewey, Peter Kewin, David King, Dave Parry, Bernie LeSage, Steve Webb and Kirk Obenuk. Dave King was presented with a special award for capturing the ?UAA scoring title. Coaches H~mphr’ss and Panker were also awar& c %a1 cups for their contributions. The club wishes to extend a sincere thanks to i . -yulty Club who provided an excellent meal and to Steve Cupid, Disc Jockey, who-managed to provide music of such quality that the rugby team decided to refrain from singing for an evening.

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~--dntrasport This weekend, Director of Men’s Intramurals, Peter Hopkins and a group of seven students including such notables as Tom Graham, Bill Kyle and Janice Crago and other members of the Men’s and Women’s Intramural Council will be attending the Student Intramural Conference at Erindale College in Toronto. Over 75 students from schools all over Ontario will be in attendance at the conference that was first started 8 years- ago by the University of Waterloo’s Intramural Departmerit. The Student Conference brings forth recommendations that are then presented to the Director’s Conference held in April. Over the years the Student Conference has proved an invaluable source for the Directors in solving problems that arise in ail f9rms of Intramurals ranging from the High School to the University level. On Saturday, February 5 at the Elmira Curling Club, the Intramural Department presents the men’s Silver Boot Curling Tournament. Eight teams, ivvill compete on Saturday starting aL s:OO pm: The Letterman Award Mixed Bowling Tournament is also being held on Saturday, February 5 at the Waterloo Bowling Lanes starting at 1:00 pm. On Sunday, February 6, the Ground Hog Ring Road Relay takes place on campus. Teams consist of 4 man teams with each person completing one lap of the Ring Road. Coming Up - Men’s Doubles squash tournament. Sign up before Friday, February 11 in the Intramural Office. Thursday, February 17 is Intramural Ski Day at the Chicopee Ski Club. Sign up before February 17 in the Intramural Office to obtain the cheaper rate offered. ($3.00 in In$4.00 at tramural Office,

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Chicopee). Buses are provided and will leave the Campus Centre at 12:15 pm. Rentals can obtained at Chicopee and can be booked one week in advance by calling 578-1740. There will be a Giant Slalom Ski Race held the same day. Interested participants can sign up in the Intramural Office. A reminder, that due to the number of participants in the Doubles Tennis Tournament it will be continuing this Sunday at Seagram’s, check in the Intramural Office for times or phone Peter Howe at 884-3501. There will be ati RLSS Examiners Standards Clinic on Sunday, February 13 at the Breithaupt pool, Kitchener. It starts at 9:00 am to around 12:00 noon. The sign up sheet is on the bulletin board in the PAC reception area. Men’s

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By the latest revised standings, the basketball team to beat in Men’s Intramural league are: the Summer Rats, Basketballers and Renison Rats. All of these teams have 3-O records. The week 1~:~s Ilv:‘hout coniroversy, as on Sunday night The Firehouse vs. Summer Rats game erupted into a penalty filled affair. A number of technical fouls were received as tempers became short while the fans cheered their teams on. Although not an extremely physical game, the few calls missed by the officials were enough to touch off both teams as each felt they were at a disadvantage. When the game ended, the Summer Rats had won 45-36 and apologies were forthcoming. _It was good to see that most of the players were able to forgive the oflicials and their opponents. The A league game of the week was Alufahons vs. Engineering. In a close tight fought battle, Engineering squeaked by Alufahon

42-4 1. By no means a one sided affair, the lead changed hands several times and the score was always close. In B league, we had a new basketball power as the first Chinese Student’s Association team defeated Nuts and Bolts 46-44. Although not top quality basketball, this is the beginning of a winning streak for C.S.A. as they have finally assembled a respectable team. I look for them to clinch second place in their division. Next week - a rundown of the teams that remain undefeated. Men’s

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In a preliminary game to the Warrior University of Toronto contest on Sunday, January 30 West Attilla defeated St. Jeromes A by a score of 3-l. West Attilla, the B champs of last term, took a 3-O first period lead on two goals by Peter White and a single by Mike McQuade: St. Jeromes A league champs from last term finally got on the scoresheet with a goal by Mike Rutledge. , Congratulations are extended to West A who entered the game as underdogs, but should receive full credit for their victory.

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Feb. 8 - Feb. 19 hilen’s Schedule Sat. Feb. 12 Men’s Basketball: Guelph Fri. Feb. 11 Men’s Hockey: Guelph Fri. Feb. 11 Wrestling: Guelph Sat. Feb. 19 & 20 OUAA Finals: Wrestling Women’s Schedule Wed. Feb. 9 Basketball: Guelph Fri. Feb. 18 & 19 Volleyball Finals