On paper the university has been granted a ‘10.4 per cent increase in its operating budget next year, but when all the pennies are counted and placed against costs it amounts to cutbacks. UW learned Monday that by the various government formulas it will get $62.637.000 for 1977-78, up
from $56,711,000 this year, an increase of 10.4 per cent. But it’s not that simple. At a press conference yesterday UW president Burt Matthews said the income the university gains from other sources is likely to be down, particularly from its investments. Everything considered, Matthews estimates that UW’s operating
budget will be up by 9;4 per cent (up to $63,566 from $58,094). Much of that, however, will be taken up with a 30 per cent increase in the university’s $3 million hydro bill, and by salary increases. So of next year’s $60 million budget Matthews said, “I can see nothing in here for enrichment other than $500,000. -
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‘“Essentially the departments will be working with the same budget as last year.” Where the cutbacks come in, is that the university expects a 6.6 per cent increase in enrollment next year. “So you co.lld argue,” said “we are going to be in a Matthews, situation of deterioration.‘? The president confirmed that there will be no money to hire any more personnel; a problem which has persisted since at least 1971. During the confei-ence the president said that while enrollment has increased by about 25 per cent since then, the number of faculty has remained co+nstant. “On that basis,” he admitted, “one might argue that the quality of education has gone down.” The actual figures which UW information director Jack Adams got from personnel later, show the following picture. Staff increased to 1811 in 1976 from 1738 in 1970, an increase of 4 per cent; faculty were up to 739 in 1976 from 721 in 1970, an increase of 2.4 per cent. But student enrollment has gone up by at least 28 per cent in those years. And even that doesn’t give the full picture, since the 1970 figure (10,836) which the 1976 enrollment (14,797) is compared to includes part-time students while the latest figure doesn’t. Added to this is the problem of replenishing equipment. Matthews
said the university has a $1.5 million endorsement fund, the interest from which is used to replace equipment. He described it as a disaster fund which doesn’t come close to being adequate. There is a possibility that there will be about $600,000 balance this year to be carried over to next year’s budget, but the president indicated that that wouldn’t alter the picture substantially. But if the situation is b’ad Matthews said it is not as bad as it was two years ago when the university had to run up a deficit because government funds were insufficient. The president feels the university is not being unfairly treated compared to hospital funding. It is not yet known-what the university will be granted for capital expenditure next year. -Matthews said UW has requested two and a half million dollars, which apart from going to repairing roofs and a host bf other necessities, would allow the-university to start on two building projects for whit h it has requested money for several years. Those projects are extensions to the Environmental Studies building, to accomodate the Architecture department, and onto, the PAC, to house HKLS. Matthews, was not optimistic about getting the funds for these schemes. -neil
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Supporters of federation president-elect Doug Thompson won a solid block of seats on council in Thursday’s election. Campus Reform Group candidates took all four seats in Math, one of the most hotly-contended constituencies. In Math Regular veteran councillor John Long walked away with 96 votes, 20 more than his CRG running-mate Bruce Mills. Campus Reform Group candidates Ron Hipfner and Steve Risto tallied 96 votes each, far more than Dennis Rekuta and Lorne Gershuny, who were supporters of the free chevron. At the Arts poll, confusion abounded as the.question of Val Moghadam’s eligibility continued to cause uncertainty. Several people at the Arts poll asked why Moghadam’s name wasn’t on the ballot, since she had conducted a public campaign for the Arts seat. Her name was alternatively on and off the ballot throughout the two-week long campaign, as Chief Returning Officer Gary Prudence tried to decide whether or not her nomination form would be ruled invalid because it was submitted 10 minutes late. Bruce Leavens and Doug Hamilton were the two Arts councillors returned to the 1977-78 council from last year’s council. Pattijoy Armoogan, a close personal friend of former federation vice-president Dave McLellan, and Brian Byrnes are the new councillors.
In Environmental Studies, Jamie Midwinter, a supporter of presidential candidate Joe MacDonald, avd Janet Rokosova, a Do‘og Thompson suppo:ter, took seats. First-year Integrated Studies student Eric Higgs .defeated second-year student Leo Hoicka by a close vote. In Science, Brian Hodgson won a large plurality over his nearest rival, Bruce Burke, who took the second - - seat. In St. Jerome’s, Brian Pearson soundly defeated D&g Goodfellow.
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President-elect Doug Thompson has offered the chevron staff a deal which he hopes will “defuse the bomb” of the chevron/federation dispute. ’ The proposal, drawn up primarily by federation lawyer Gary Flaxbard, would reopen the chevron and simultaneously initiate a twotiered investigation. The first investigative body would determine why the chevron was closed and the legality of the actions taken by the federation and the chevron staff since September 24, 1976. The body would be composed of a professional journalist, a faculty member, and a student or any multiple of that combination. It would hold hearings, calling on witnesses from both the chevron and the federation. In the end, the body would present a series of recommended future policies for the federation, concerning the closing of the chevron and the terminating of the employment of the staff. The second tier of the investigation, the presidential commission on publications, would recommend possible questions for a future referendum concerning the duties and responsibilities of the publisher of the student newspaper and any
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The agenda for the annual genera1 meeting of the federation of students, released today, contains 23 proposed new bylaws or bylaw amendments among a total of 25 items. The AGM is scheduled for March 1 at 8 pm in EL 101. A motion to reinstate and investigate the chevron will be introduced, but as with the October 29 Special General Meeting, the motion is placed near the bottom of the packed agenda. It is number 24 on the agenda. The only items which do riot introduce a new bylaw or amend an existing bylaw are 1)the election of a board of directors from among elected councillors, 2)a motion of non-confidence in preside@-elect Doug Thompson, and 3)the motion to reinstate and investigate the
chevron proposed by chevron staffers Peter Blunden and Ernst von Bezold. Federation president-elect Doug Thompson refused to release the agenda to the free chevron, although it will be published in full in what Thompson calls “the official federation publication”, the “Real” Chevron.
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a possible editorial control. The composition of the presidential commission would be similar to that of the first investigative body, but would include two members from the free chevron and two from the federation. The chevron staff was asked to reply to Thompson’s offer by today at 5pm. The investigation, if found acceptable by staff, was to get underway this Monday. Submissions from students and other interested parties plus a list of prospective witnesses for the first investigative body was to be submitted to the federation by Sunday, Feb. 21. At a meeting on Wednesday, the chevron staff rejected Thompson’s proposal. The staff then resolved to write an editorial outlining why they consider it unacceptable and offer Thompsdn a counter-proposal explaining in detail their position of Reinstate! Investigate! (It was not possible to write the editorial for this week’s issue.) Thompson in an interview Wednesday evening stated that the proposal was meant as a basis for discussion. Heedid not expect the chevron staff to definitely accept or reject .the proposal. “This is an offer from myself, as to what I would be willing to pursue 2s president. Council would have to accept it. Presently it is in no way binding on the federation.” Thompson is concerned that the chevron/federation conflict may end up to be the bottleneck for the. new council. “But I intend to solve this con:’ flict come hell or high water,” &Thompson stated “even if I have to bring 500 Engineers with me to the chevron offices.” -heather
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cil and a Thursday afternoon boycott along with a rally in the campus centre were planned but never occurred. Neither acting president (until Wednesday Feb. 10) Dave McLellan nor acting president (as of
Thursday Feb. 11) Doug Thompson, showed up for the open forum. Eighty-six dollars worth of posters, which arrived Wednesday afternoon, went to waste. Thompson, commenting about the failure, blamed. the “state of chaos” the federation is in, due to McLellan’s resignation and the “chevron affair.” He plans to reschedule the date of the rally. Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) Information Officer Allan Golombeck felt “the federation’s inability ‘to resolve the (chevron) conflict has made any organizing effort impossible.” Many campuses in ‘Ontario, however, did participate in the moratorium. Laurentian University in Sudbury was closed down after students set up picket lines around the University. Forty to fifty students also went into town to collect. signatures on a petition against the hike. The Toronto area fared rather poorly in comparison. About 15 percent stayed away from classes at U of T, and 300 students attended a rally at Convocation Hall. At a Toronto region Canadian University Press Conference (TORCUP), this was labelled a failure. At Ryerson a call went out from the president elect - who is also a member of OFS - to ignore the moratorium. Representatives from
Ryerson’s “The paper Eyeopener” argued the boycott falsely assumed “we are doing people a favour going to classes.” There was a symposium held on campus for which 50 students showed up. Members from the three major parties at Queen’s Park talked to 100 students at York University and 50 more attended a symposium. At Centennial College 200 rallied on the main campus as did 450 the day before at another campus. Carleton University set up committees for community support and had a 15 percent boycott of classes. Ottawa held a demonstration of 500 students on Tuesday and achieved a reconsideration of the differential fee for foreign students and a condemnation of the fee increase from their Senate. A “pennies for Parrott” campaign for Minister of Education Harry Parrott’s retirement was waged at Windsor. There was also a march of 100 students and a boycott with 50 percent success. Fifty students from Fanshawe College protested outside Parrott’s constituency office in Woodstock. One third of the students stayed away from classes and 200 attended a rally. McMaster held a “wincrease” lottery of $100 prize money to pay for one student’s fee increase. Five
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The. recently-announced increase in the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) allowance still leaves students far below their 1972 financial level, calculates the Ontario Federation of Students.
last literacy test OTTAWA (CUP) - After taking an English literacy test of the type administered to first-year university students, thirty University of Western Ontario professors concluded it was too difficult. Almost’50 per cent of the firstyear students who took a similar test last fall under the auspices of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) were considered as requiring remedial help. Forty-six per cent of 6,000 students failed the test. But many of the professors, who along with other sectors of the community considered “educated” volunteered to take the test recently, argued that it was no measure of literacy. According to one professor, “Whep I saw the results of the test given to the freshmen students, I was shocked that literacy standards have declined so much. But when I saw the type of questions that are supposed to measure literacy, I changed my mind. I don’t think this type of multiple-choice test really tells you anything:” “It tests some very fine points of grammar that not even the most literate people can always grasp. You can argue about some of their answers, too,” another said. And Robert Bailey, head of a high school English teachers’ association in Toronto, said, “The instructions are very complicated at times. Some of the questions. .. seem to be trying to trick people rather than test them. We need more evidence than this to suggest the students are illiterate.” Ross Traub, an education professor who helped decide what questions would be on the test, said
it was not meant to establish student literacy. “It tells you very little directly but if a student did well, he is likely to be a better reader and a befter speller.” He said the test “was not meant to be easy.” The similar test was taken by high school English seven teachers, 12 local school trustees, 18 Globe and Mail reporters and editors and the 30 professors. The high school teachers averaged 76.1 per cent in their scores, the newspaper people 78.3 per cent, the trustees 61.4 per cent and the professors 7 1.6 per cent. Collin Isaacs, a research assistant with the COU who is analyzing the students’ test results, said he thought students should be given more time since there were many unanswered questions on the tests. But he said the test was still in the experimental stages, and that, “We are moving into this type of testing in Ontario in a big way and it is necessary to proceed with caution.” He also said, “I am wary of coming to a conclusion on the basis of just a multiple-choice test.” When the results of the test were released last fall several educational experts were decrying what they called a falling student literacy rate. Literacy tests have been administered in various forms in many provinces in the last few years, with results similar to the Ontario test, at a time when financial cutbacks are made to postsecondary education budgets while enrolments are increasing. Many student groups, such as the Ontario Federation of Stu\
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dents, have expressed susp?cions about such tests which they say could be used to screen applicants and limit enrolments. The COU comprises the heads and their designates of Ontario’s publically-funded universities, and acts as an advisory body to the minister of colleges and universities. In recent years the group has studied ways to rationalize university resources as a means of coping with government cutbacks, and a COU subcommittee has twice recommended tuition fee hikes to bolster decreasing government funding. The two literacy tests so far administered at Waterloo did not originate from the COU. The first in Sept. 1976 was an American test which used both multiple choice and an essay to evaluate the students. The one used last month, however, was developed on campus. The results of both were that 44 per cent of those tested were deemed to be in need of a remedial course. The result of the second test is tentative pending completion of essay correction. Professor Ledbetter who has taken charge of the tests told the chevron that Waterloo places most of the emphasis on the essay, and the shortcoming of the COU test is that it relies solely on the multiple choice questions. The main objective of the test should be to identify those students who have severe writing problems, and then help them, he said. The COU test or any multiple choice test is not reliable for that purpose, said the professor.
OFS Information Officer Allan Golombek told the chevron Monday that the $4 increase in the weekly board and room allowance, announced February 2 by minister of colleges and universities Harry Parrott, provides students with a real income 20 percent below that of 1972. The increase boosts the weekly board and room allowance available from OSAP to $61 from $57, a change which will take effect in May for the 1977-78 year. Parrott also announced that an additional $13 million will be put into the $74 million OSAP budget for the next academic year. The increase is intended to cover tuition fee increases of $50 per term for university students and $75 per year for college students, as well as cost of living increases due to inflation. The maximum allowance for books has been increased 11 per cent and several other specific increases were announced. OFS expects major changes to OSAP to be announced within the next couple of months, Golombek said. A provincial government advisory committee’s report on student aid is now on the colleges and universities minister’s desk, three months after it was due. Major changes are recommended in the report, Golombek says. When asked about the recent increase, Doug Thompson, president-elect, replied that it was “too little, too late”. In a Feb. 7 statement on the OSAP increase the executive of OFS said, “Although we feel the changes did not go far enough we view them as being for the better.” According to the OFS executive, the new allowance is beneficial, but because of inflation does not meet the level of assistance students received in 1969. OFS researcher Chris Allnut said the increases in the allowance since 1972, the last time the Ontario government hiked tuition, roughly parallel the rise in the Consumer Price Index between then and now - 42 per cent.
hundred students grouped for a rally and half stayed for a rneeting afterwards. Brock and Lakehead universities saw 100 and 125 students attend meetings respectively. Golombek couldn’t determine the overall success or failure of the campaign since it was hard to say how many students stayed away from classes. Some universities did not take part. However, it was “certainly an affirmation of people determined to fight the increase to get a roll back” he said. The moratorium, Golombek said, just played a small part in . combatting the increase - a fight that was boosted when 30,000 signatures were collected four days after the increase was announced. The fight goes on through research, contact with the press, the mobilization of students, and through community association. Support has already been given by the Metro Toronto Labour Council, the Toronto City Board of Education, the Sault-Saint-Marie District Council and by many community groups. Golombek described the moratorium as one way of manifesting student opposition to the increase and providing a forum for students to get together to describe the tasks that must be done. “In many places it didn’t work out that way.” . ”
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University of Toronto student president Shirley French said the $4 weekly increase was “probably not a sufficient increase, but at least it’s an increase, and that’s better than nothing. “We were expecting some restrictive changes in the independent student status category. That’s good news in that they haven’t introduced any new restrictions for those students.” OFS staff member Rick Gregory said Parrott’s announcement does not make clear whether the amount students or their parents are expected to contribute to the students’ education costs has increased under government estimates. “No mention is made of waiving the student contribution in cases of unemployment or underemployment ,” said Gregory. Last summer OFS representatives tried unsuccessfully to get Parrott to remove the criterion whereby students are expected to have saved a certain amount from summer employment to contribute towards their education costs. Parrott’s announcement reads: “Changes in assessing parental contribution to students’ education expenses will make allowance for increases in the cost of living.” Gregory also cited OFS estimates that about $6 million of the $13 million increase will be needed to make up the $100 increase in university fees and the $75 increase for college students. He said OFS was uncertain whether the remaining $7 million would be adequate to provide the increased living allowance for all students. Parrott also announced that the ministry’s computer system, which for the past several years has been blamed for the late arrival of students’ OSAP awards, has been improved to allow for more efficient processing of OSAP applications. May 2 is the ministry’s target date for beginning to procebs 1977-78 OSAP applications, and the booklet describing OSAP options will be out in April.
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Math snares students On Tuesday the Math Faculty Council voted overwhelmingly in_ favour of a motion, effective Spring 1977, to cut the time in which a student may nor,mally withdraw from the faculty. Formerly, students could withdraw up to shortly before exams. This has been pushed back to six weeks after the start of term, to coincide with the deadline for dropping courses. Another motion was carried, which prohibits simultaneous registration for Math students oncampus and in a correspondence course. Two other motions were referred back to the Standings and Promotions committee, who made the proposals, for further consideration. The motions read: 1. A student may withdraw from the Faculty of Mathematics within the first six weeks of classes in a term without incurring any academic penalty. A student who withdraws after this date will normally be responsible for that term’s courses in the sense that such courses will count as course attempts and be recorded with a grade of NMR. 2i. Credit will not normally be granted for Math correspondence courses toward an Honours B. Math degree. Zi. Concurrent registration by full-time students in an on-campus and a correspondence course will not normally be permitted. 2iii. Co-op students will not normally be permitted to take Math correspondence courses while on work term. This same restriction also applies to non-Math courses which are required for the degree programme in which a student in registered. For other non-Math courses, when overlap between the end of the correspondence term and the beginning of the subsequent academic term exists, an overall average of at least 70% is required. Motions 1 and 2ii were passed, and the others were sent back to the S & P committee. The intention of motion 1 is to prevent students from withdrawing merely because they haven’t been working hard, and expect -to fail their exams, explained Peter Ponzo, the mover of the motion. He cited an example of a student
who had withdrawn last term, then immediately submitted a preregistration form for the following term. The only essential change that the motion would effect, is that students would have to justify withdrawing before the S & P committee, once the six week limit had passed. Math Federation Councillor J.J. Long protested that the S & P committee had a record of turning down appeals. Ponzo in turn replied that the “S & P has to be the most soft-hearted committee in the faculty.” One professor objected that six weeks was not enough time for a student to determine whether or not he or she can justify withdrawing or not: often there have been no midterms or assignments returned by that date. An amendment to change motion 1 to read “up to 4 weeks before the last day of classes” instead of “within the first 6 weeks of classes” was defeated. Ponzo also explained that courses labelled NMR (no mark recorded) will count as course attempts, but will not count in the math average. Only passing marks are included. A student is allowed 30 course attempts to gain 24 credits in the honours program.
The purpose of the second set of motions, explained mover Peter Ponzo, was to discourage students who are able to take co,urses on campus from taking correspondence courses. Kenneth Fryer, Associate Dean, added that the correspondence program was never intended for full-time students - rather, it was meant for teachers who wished to upgrade their degrees, and other people in the work force who could not attend classes on-campus. The motion would not affect coop students wishing to take electives by correspondence, during their work-term. Again, exceptions to the motions could be made by the S & P committee under the “normally” clause. An article in last Tuesday’s special of mathNEWS listed several people to be contacted by students who wished to protest these motions. Although about twenty students did turn up at Tuesday’s meeting, there was little organized response to the motions, aside from a small MathSoc delegation whi,ch put forward its objections. The Math Faculty Council welcomes student input on the two tabled motions. -0scar
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Grads rate poor in gov’t Subsidy Virtually the last act of the 1976-77 Grad Club Board of Directors’ was to point out to the provincial government the harmful effects of cutbacks in provincial government payments to social service spending. At the final regular grad club meeting Wednesday, the outgoing directors instructed the president to write a letter to the provincial government citing as an example the elimination of day care subsidy to graduate students which was implemented by the Regional government in October. The letter is also to be made public through local newspapers. The motion arose after Grad Club president Bob Pajkowski reported that a meeting with Regional Medical Officer of Health Dr.
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G.P.A. Evans and Art Pope, administrator of social services, had produced no satisfactory response to his objections to the elimination of the day care subsidy for grad students. Graduate Dean Lyn Watt accompanied Pajkowski, and supported the grad students’ position, but has decided not to make public his support, said the grad club president. In December, the Grad Club asked Watt to take a public stand against the Regional government’s decision to cut off the day care subsidy for graduate students. Watt argued that to challenge the Regional politicians would only stiffen their opposition to the grad students, said Pajkowski. Pajkowski learned that the Region employs a five-category method of deciding who is eligible for the day-care subsidy. Graduate students have been put into the fifth category, competing with all people in the region who have no special -conditions like handicapped children or great need. The Region saves $7500 a year by this measure. The Metro Toronto government, however, puts grad students higher up intheir priorities so that they are eligible for the day-care subsidy. -larry
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OTTAWA (CUP)-The senate of the University of Ottawa has voted to oppose in principle the $100 tuition hike for Ontario university students following a demonstration by 500 students at the senate chambers, Feb. 7. The vote followed the senate’s rejection of a student union motion calling on the university to “refuse” the government-set tuition fee hike and a subsequent amendment asking the university administration to refuse to collect the extra $100 which is set for September of next _-_ academic year. The students met in a general assembly addressed by student union president Paul Roleau, then marched around and through the senate chambers where the senators were meeting to discuss the issue. The march on senate and the tabling of the student motion are the U of 0 student union’s answer to a province-wide student call for action on the Ontario government’s fee hike for colleges and universities. Most campuses, following the strategy laid down at a mid-January meeting of the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) have planned a day or half-day boycott of classes on or about Feb. 10. The U of 0 senate also unanimously called on the university governing board to reconsider its decision to implement a 250 per cent fee hike for foreign visa students. So far the governing bodies of three Ontario universities have refused to implement the hike, with McMasterjoining the ranks of opposition late in January.
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UWO repudiates LONDON (CUP)-A decision to reject higher fees for visa students in Ontario was narrowly passed by the University of Western Ontario’s Senate and now awaits a March 25 board of governors decision. By a vote of 28 to 26 the senate accepted a motion not to collect the differential fees for the 1977-78 school year and asked the provincial government to reconsider the policy. Student senator Kevin McKee, one of those responsible for putting the motion forward in November, supported a one-year delay on the two-tier system “so the university can deal with the government without punishing foreign students. We have to object in a concrete manner.” Another student senator, Willie Barth, told the Jan. 27 meeting he objected to the provincial government’s method of implementing’ the increase and accused the education ministry of using “sketchy and misleading, if not contradictory, data.” Critics of the differential charge it would save the province only 0.6 per cent of its current education budget and that the figure could be lower because there are difficulties in defining who is a visa student. One senate member spoke against the motion saying, “I really don’t like civil disobedience, which this smacks of. . .” He said the move was “20 years overdue .” The senate budget and finance committee estimated the university’s revenue loss at about $220,000, less than one per cent of UWO’s total revenue. The 250 per cent hike was announced by the provincial government in May and since then six Ontario university senates, including Western’s, and three governing boards have rejected the levy.
Grad club tElltied The officers of the graduate club were selected Wednesday evening at the first meeting of the graduate board of directors. There was only one election but the 23-member board was able to put forward candidates for all of the 17 positions. The positions were filled by: Dia El Gabbani, president; Nick Redding, treasurer; Ed Lacker, house manager; Maryanne Bowden, speaker; Bob Pajkowski, federation laison officer; Samuel Flores, legal aid administrator; Ray Blackport, h,ouse coordinator; John Varden, editor of Gnosis; Andrew Boyd, archivist; Margaret Young, publicity officer; John Omura,
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graduate services officer; Jerry Krauel, graduate support committee chairperson; George Bollis, judicial officer; Tom Cargill as Intramural Rep; and Bob Pajkowski, vice-president. In the final meeting of the 1976-77 board, held immediately preceding the meeting of the new board, a motion was passed to limit the number of proxies carried at general meetings of the grad club. Previously the number of proxies allowed was unlimited. The new by-law, if it is in accordance with corporate law, will limit the number of proxies carried at the special general meeting on March 3 to one for each member present. The general meeting will consider the question of the grad students’ relationship to the federation of
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While strolling through the PAC building chevron photographer Lomaga discovered these diligent dance studnets. Those familiar discipline will of course recognise that the students are brushing-up tendus.
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The possibility of a Canadian University Press (CUP) investigation into the chevron affair faded this week, but is still not dead. Wednesday, the CUP national executive had still not decided whether or not to call the CUP investigation commission which was requested two weeks ago by three CUP member papers in the Ontario region. This was the second recent request for a CUP investigation into the closure of the chevron. On January 21, then-acting federation president Dave McLellan called for the first CUP investigation. It was accepted by the CUP national executive but it called off the investigation after it could not be held
according to the CUP constitution because the chevron staff asked that several questions be answered by the CUP executive before the investigation went on. Februar-y 11, the chevron staff rejected the second CUP investigation because it would be a reversal of due process, which requires a reinstatement before investigation. Wednesday, CUP vice-president Dan Keeton said the CUP investigation would not go on as it would normally be constituted under the CUP constitution. “We can’t go ahead if you aren’t going to participate. But we may want to go through some sort of investigation.” -larry
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The economic “miracle” of Brazil has resulted in a reign of terror to eliminate protest against the regime’s economic model which provides luxuries for a few and oppresses the masses. BRASCAN - a Canadian multinational corporation - and CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency, which has recently come under attack for corruption - are Canada’s contribution to Brazil’s military-industrial complex and state repression. Since 1964, Brazil’s economic “success” has been lauded by the Western press as a model for Third World development. But Brazil has also been denounced as an oppressive police state by many individuals and organizations. The people have called for ag-
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Labor support TORONTO (CUP) - The labor council of metropolitan Toronto voted Feb. 3 to support the province-wide fight against tuition fee increases of $100 for universities and $75 for colleges. The increase will be implemented in September. At the suggestion of the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) the council agreed to: -support OFS in its opposition to tuition fee increases -urge the Ontario Federation of Labor (OFL) to appeal immediately to the minister of colleges and universities to suspend or withdraw the increase -send a statement to all three political partie?, in Ontario expressing their concern with the actions of the conservative government. The OEL will decide soon whether to appeal to the minister Harry Parrott, according to U of Toronto student external commissioner John Doherty.
Frisbees .mobiIize If you fancy playing frisbee in an organised manner, then go speak with Laurie Gourley, who can be found “turnkeying” at the campus centre. In a press release to the chevron, Gourley said he is looking for a enthusiastic bunch <of people, ‘..‘who may be into playing some recreational games: or, if tremendously enthusiastic, might be into challenging the impudent Brock Frisbee\team.” The Brock team claims to be the Canadian champs.
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The result was military regimes. At present only three countries in the South American continent are not under military rule - Guyana, Colombia and Venezuela. In response to a comment from a person in the audience that the term “neo-fascist” more aptly describes the repressive regimes of Latin America, Costa-Pinto said that while he recognizes the differences in historical conditions between Germany and Italy of the 1920s and 1930s on the one hand,
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The Fine Arts Department of the University of Waterloo will offer a programme of study in France during the month of August 1977. The course will be based in Paris, but will include trips to towns, chateaux, churches, and other monuments in the surrounding countryside. Virgil Burnett, Professdr of Fine Arts at Waterloo, will discuss t hqs;ites, 1history, and style of the various monuments visited. He will also give instruction in drawing. Students will be asked to keep annotated sketchbooks throughout the three weeks of study. Air travel and housing in Paris will be arranged by the Department of Fine Arts. For further information call extension 2442 at the University of Waterloo.
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Fire safeguarding Thousands of UW and WLU students live off campus in haphazardly subdivided older homes that are potential fire traps. Students are often unaware of the dangers and their causes and cures. Mr. Robert Beckett, Fire Prevention Officer for the Waterloo Fire Department emphasized that, although regulations and bylaws regarding landlord-tenant fire protection have come into operation, potential fire hazards in homes are as significant as they were years ago. The student
can simply contact and have his or her apartment inspected. If the fire prevention officer finds deviations from the fire prevention edict, he will contact the landlord and will demand that the landlord provide the apartment building with safety devices specifically designed for the particular problems found. The tenant’s name will not be mentioned. If, after the inspection, no problems are found, everyone can go home happy. The Fire Prevention Bureau was formed for the sole purpose of saving lives. ’ This bureau constantly enforces the specific rules of the edict for the protection of people from legacies of landlord neglect. The Fire Prevention Bureau looks for and enforces the following: the fire department
1) If the basement is to be occupied a second exit leading directly .to ground level is required. *windows are not acceptable. 2) Five-pound A.B.C. (U.L.C.) type fire extinguishers must be provided throughout the dwelling upon officers’ request. *number of extinguishers is at the discretion of the fire officer. 3) Combustion detectors (smoke detectors) may be required by the fire officer. 4) A proper fire escape, leading directly to ground, is required on all dwellings of three stories or more. 5) If an area where there is furnace is occupied, the furnace must be enclosed in an ‘hour fire rated enclosure’. Chuck Devison, Chief Fire Inspection Officer is responsible for the organization of the fire prevention program for the Waterloo Fire Department. In his interview, Devison also made it clear that under no circumstances can the landlord be held responsible for the loss of tenant belongings in a fire. Both Devison and Beckett can be contacted through the Waterloo Fire Department, and an appointment for inspection can be made at the caller’s convenience. -Scott
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hurts After having explained wages, prices, profit, and unemployment jin the first two forums, the AIA series on political economy went on to describe the causes and cures of injuries on the job. First, the high rate of injuries in Canadian industry was established wit.h a few facts. In 1975, 1,495 workers died at the place of work. A major steel mill in southern Ontario, employing 12,000 workers, has an injury rate of 8 percent. Of the 500 workers at the Johns-Mansville asbestos plant in Scarborough, fifty have lung cancer or asbestosis. There were 73,050 non-fatal injuries in 1974-75. The number of injuries is increasing. The number of deaths has increased 23 percent since 1972. It was then noted that the explanation commonly heard in Canada is that the workers are to blame for injuries. They are careless, “accident-prone”, or just have “bad luck”. This line is promoted by the state through “industrial programmes that emsafety” phasize precautions for the individual worker, such as wearing hard hats and safety boots and learning the right way to do heavy lifting. No mention is made of the capitalists’ improving the safety of the machines or doing something about “occupational hazards”. The AIA spokesperson was directly opposed to this view. He stated that each injury has a cause. The machine may be faulty, the worker may be tired from a work speed-up, there may be “occupational hazards” with cumulative crippling effects. There are no “accidents”, but there is uncertainty as to when conditions will finally deteriorate to the point where somebody gets hurt. The reason why these unsafe conditions are not corrected is that it is not profitable for the capitalists, whose aim is to maximize profits. For example, if a capitalist has a certain amount of capital to invest, he/she will invest it in machinery and processes that
increase production (ie, profit), rather than in devices to prevent injuries, which only cost money, and detract from profits. There are plenty of workers on the market (889,000 unemployed), so it is not at all difficult to replace one that is injured or killed. In the present crisis, capitalists are reluctant to invest money in new machinery, let alone safety equipment. Hence, the old equipment is used until it is completely worn out. Thus the equipment becomes very unsafe. . It was shown how the government protects the capitalists from responsibility for injuries. For exwhen it created’ the ample, Workmen’s Compensation Board, it took away the right to sue the employer. The WCB gives subsistence level compensation, just enough to keep the worker alive until he or she has recovered sufficiently to go back to work. In fact, many companies employ their own doctors, who lie about injuries and send the worker back to work before the injury has fully healed, aggravating the problem. When conditions become so bad that there is public concern, the government sets up a commission to investigate the problem, but never takes strong action.. The few safety standards that do exist are a fraud. In 1974-75 the average cost to the capitalists in fines for violation of the Industrial Safety Act was 37 cents per injury. The prescribed cure for this problem was the overthrow of the capitalist system and the building of socialism. Under socialism, production is for the benefit of the people, not to make profits. Thus, safety measures are taken. The current worsening of conditions in Canadian industry is part of the capitalists’ shifting of the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the workers, in short, making the people pay, And they do pay, not only economically, but in physically, in broken limbs and diseased bodies. -jonathan
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Kids were treated to tractor rides through the village of Elora last weekend as part of the Heritage festival activities. Students from Man-environment have been jnstrumental in organising the fest ‘val since its inception three years ago.
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Mifd spell didn’t-stop Saturday marked the third annual Elora Heritage Festival. The little town of Elora welcomed hundreds of visitors to a wide variety of events designed, it seems, to drive the blues out of a persistent winter. The festival was originally taken to Elora as a project by a group of students in the department of Man-environment Studies at UW. The tradition was carried on this year as Richard Wong of Manenvironment worked with Elora residents to co-ordinate the project. The village was decked out with information booths and fast food outlets but, as Wong explained, some of the regular events had to be cancelled because of the mild spell. Skating, .for example, could not take place because the outdoor rink had turned to a pool. Originally this event, one which helps establish the festive mood, was scheduled to take place in the new arena. Unfortunately, the new arena was not completed in time and alternate, less satisfactory, locations had to be found. The list of activities advertised in last week’s free chevron included
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some interesting and folksy displays. Particularly so, was the raku firing conducted at one of the shops (Nepenthe) on the west edge of the village.
Heritage ,may have been the name of the day but business was the name of the game as many visitors were attracted to the small artsy craftsy shops and will return.
Two tractor loads of energetic kids careered about the village for part of the afternoon, and for the older folk, a square dance in the evening was a gathering point.
The bacon burgers were great, the coffee was the pits, the fun was’ in abundance and no one mentioned the bridge. -robert
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MSTA pre ares The first general meeting of the Married Student Tenants’ Association was held on Tuesday in preparation for discussions with the administration regarding the proposed rent increase. A council was elected including representation from each court and tower, as well as seven membersat-large. Sam Flores was designated as co-ordinator of the association and an executive was chosen from among the council members. A constitution for the association was ratified, after which several members gave their reports. Randy Norris described the confrontation at the Board of Governors’ meeting, where the board refused to accept the association’s
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compromise offer of a 9% limit on this year’s rent increase. Instead, the original proposed increase ofup to 13.8% will be used as the limit in the forthcoming negotiations. Mark Mindorff explained the proposals which he plans to present to the administration in the hope of getting some reduction in the rent increase. He has examined the budget for the apartments and be&eves there are service costs ithat can be cut. Five members of the association council will meet with five administration people today to begin determining the ultimate rent increase at the apartments. -lorne
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The second annual planning conference entitled “Who’s afraid of citizen participation?” will be held at UW on March 4, 5 and 6. The conference is organized by undergraduate and graduate planning students enrolled in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Last Thursday night between 7 UW. Sponsors include the Federaand 9, over 100 people attended the tion of Students, Faculty of En2nd Annual Scarlett Snowball Plant vironmental Studies, Planning StuContest at Renison College. Many dent Association, Environmental of the over 150 plants entered had Studies Society, and the Canadian to be carried through the nasty Institute of Planners. * Waterloo winter weather. Last years conference was orPerhaps the chief grower of the ganized around the theme of planshow would have to be Heather ning education, and this years conBlacklock, whose plants carried ference is about citizen participaseveral categories. She is a third tion. year science student. Honourable A number of guest speakers from mention would, of course, have to across Canada will speak on varigo to .broad-leaved cannabis plant ous issues ranging from the succesentered by a Renison student. ses and frustration of citizens parOther spectacular plants were a ticipation in the planning process to Pappirious plant, a Swedish Ivy, a an examination of various commisspider cactus and a Chick pea sions and reports. plant. Registration is on Friday, March The people represented in this 4, and is $5 for students and $15 for contest were about as varied as the non-students. -peter blunden plants. There was a healthy mix-
PUrple plant wins ture of young and old and philodendrums and ivies. Greg Michalenko of Environmental Studies finally had his plantoccupied office pay off when he won second in the most eccentric category, while Ann Bennent of Renison won the Healthiest in Renison with her “Purple Plant.” The judges also represented a vast variation in taste. Of these were Kiyohiro Yamamoto, from Yokayama Prefecture University in Japan, who is doing reseach at UW concerning sports sociology in the department of leisure studies, Linda Wang, a first year co-op engineering student freshly arrived from Hong Kong last year; and representing basic Ontarian tastes, Janice Young, a third year math student. -shih
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The quality of student government here at the University of Waterloo reached an all-time low in late 1976. The chevron affair, internal, federation problems, and failure in combatting education cutbacks have all been grim realities that students have had tq face these past few months. It is indeed unfortunate that our student government has been totally impotent at solving these dilemmas. However, what is even more unfortunate is that at a time when student unity is absolutely essential, the large majority aren’t even interested, and those that are, are politically fragmented. To make matters worse, the Grad Union is now considering breaking ties with the federation of students altogether. I believe that such action would only fragment the student body further. All students, graduate and undergraduate, face the same problems. To split up now would only make it more difticult to fight these problems in an effective way. Most pressing of student problems is of course the cutbacks in education. The recent failure to prevent the tuition hike provides ample evidence. Some students would interpret this to mean that our bosition is hopeless. However. I disagree. Giving up wo~ild only make it easier for the government to implement further increases. Our position may be far worse today if not for the limited student opposition in the past. I say “limited” because the number of students who have become actively involved in opposing cutbacks is very small. Thus. an important step is to get students motivated to unite. The major barrier to this end. I feel. has been poor student government. Just -look at the chevron affair. For over four months now. students. council has tried numerous attemp!s at solving this dilemma. but the situation has only worsened. Had they even the slightest degree of insight into the REAL problem. they would have taken the action.tht; -has been staring them in the face aII along Reinstate! Investigate!! Of course. that would have meant admitting that they h’id made ;I mistake. To make a mistake is forgiveable. but to smugly deny it is inexcusable and certainly degrading. As long as students see council as an incompetent and il;l-esponsible body. they will never acquire the incentive to work with that body. In the past. federation position\ have often been, filled with friend\ of the president and/or executive. While this kirld of placement certainly creates ;I friendly clique, ot student politicians. it also ot‘ten creates an incompetent bunch ot‘ bureaucrats. While on council I will adamantly oppose any such “friendly” job placements. and
urge that positions be given using qualifications as the only criteria. There are many internal problems with the federation that must be straightened out. The present system not only allows incompetence and irresponsibility, but actually encourages it !! For example, if a student politician or federation employee is alleged to have abused funds or privileges in some way, she or he is given twenty-four hours to come up with an excuse or escape. I believe that an excuse for almost anything can be fabricated in that.length of time. If the person has done nothing dishonest, just an hour OI- two should b.e plenty of time to provide the necessary evidence. This twenty-four hour escape mechanism can only foster unscrupulous student government. I feel that it’s time that student politicians acted in a manner that is deserving of student support. This support is essential if anything is to be done to save OLII- dying educational system.
students: i.e. the cutbacks, the newspaper, municipal daycare policy, etc. I would encourage all graduates to come to this general meeting to take part in the discussion on this issue. I support the democratic principle of due process for the student newspaper. The chevron should be reinstated as it was on September 24, 1976, and then an investigation by and for the students should begin. The investigation can look into all the charges made against the paper at the time of its closing, look into the undemocratic actions taken by the federation at that time, and implement changes where necessary.
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I have been acclaimed to one of the graduate seats on students’ council, but I don’t want this to be an excuse for anonymity on my part. I want to use this opportunity to inform graduate students of my platform. I stand foi- concerted action to oppose the cutbacks. strengthened the underlinks between graduates and graduates. and reinstatement and investigation for the chevron. The opposition to the cutbacks has to go beyond the empty calls to action experienced in the past. The program for fighting the cutbacks must involve solid investigation and the building of an informed, student body which c;tn take on active opposition with confidence. I would iike to \ee the graduates and the undergraduate\ build stronger links to deal with our common problems. As a member of both the students’ council and the graduate board of directors I will be abie to heip develop these links. However. there is’ a certain amount of ambiguity concerning the present relation:,hip. Graduates have full voting- rights within the student federation yet they do not pay federation fees. In November. the graduate board of directors took the position that these voting rights should be terminated and the graduate representatives removed from council. However. the board has called ;I general meeting for March 3 so that aI 1 graduates. may have a chance to discus\ this move. My position is that. while there are problems u,ith the present reIation\hip. it doe\ pro\,ide graduate student\ with an opportunity to be involved in ;I forum which make\ decision\ on i\\ue\ concerning aII
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I think that the most important issue on campus right now is- the chevron problem. Although I do not agree,with the political position of the present paper, I do support their right to just treatment under the law. both federation and legal. For this reason, -I support their demand for reinstatement followed by an investigation. However. the results of this investigation should be the basis ofa referendum which tr;hall decide the f‘utwe of the paper, as well as examine the chevron affair to date. Personally, I like John Tromp’s proposal for an editorial board elected by the students. but this and other proposals will have to wait. I think the free chevron has a larger readership than the real chevron, and most students would probably agree that it ii the better paper. However, I must reemphasize that just treatment under the law is the overriding issue. All students will be hit with a tuition increase this fall. Although I don’t think-there is anything we can do about the one for domestic students, there is still achance that the foreign student hike may be rescinded. Another student expense is the compulsory OFS and NUS membership dues. I think membership in these two organizations should be I-e-examined with the possibility of making these fees optional and/or holding ;I referendum on these two issues. Many students write to the campus newspapers complaining about the lack ofconcerts. A present rule of the PAC prohibits I-e-scheduling even intramura1 sports for concerts. Changing this rule should be ;I priority item. Whi!e on council. I will try to co-operate with all other councilIor\. free chevron. CRC. and independent, as well the executive to make the student ciJuncil more productive. My last promise i\ to attend als many council meetings as po\\ible. to be\t represent my con\tituent\.
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pleted. No advertising !-evenue w:;s collected ~OI- this issue, and the federation footed the whole bill. 2) The cost of this tabloid. which appeared September 29, is unknown. but MathSoc ha\ admitted to paying 5 100. The federation received one bill for S335. and the rest is unaccounted for. “The Other Voice” contained statements from the various societies which trumpeted support for the federation. 3) The Bullseye. edited by Doug Thompson, carried 94.8 per cent federation advertising. The paper was the federation’s organ for three issues from Oct. 13-2X. This cost does not include Thompson’ls salary of $240 as fieldworker for this period. -4) The “Real“ Chevron carried 2,568 column inches of federation ads (S5,778 at 5. 2.25 per column inch - if it was all paid) and 1,259 column inches of non-federation ads ($3,65 I. 10 at $2.90 per column inch average). The percentage of federation ads for the paper comprise 67. I per cent while during the same period of the last year in the chevron (7 issues, volume 16, nos. 23-29) federation ads were 16.48 per cent of total ad space. In other words, the federation is stuffing and expanding federation ads in order to finance the “Real” Chevron. There have been 10 issues of the paper from Nov. 22 to Feb. II. 5) When the -*Real”* Chevron first started publishing, council allocated three week’s salary at $160 per week to Bruce Burton, the editor. Earlier this term, council was to deal with a motion to give Burton a regular salary and retroactive pay. The meeting never obtained quorum, nor has any meeting since. Business manager Peter Yates acknowledged that Burton continues to be paid $160 per week. The claim by Burton that the paper makes so much money that it pays for his salary is untrue. Total cost of the paper is X9,680.20 while total ad revenue (including federation ads) is about $9,429. IO. The paper has a budget of $3,000 to absorb extra costs. Now Mike Dillon has taken over Burton’s job and salary. The cost is for I I issues. 6) Brenda Wilson, former ad manager for the chevron, for a long period of time did nothing or worked only periodically for the federation, although she continued to receive a full-time salary of $160 per week. She now obtains ads for the “Real” Chevron. 7) Youthstream is an ad agency for Canadian University Press (C U P) papers. In closing the chevron and firing the staff, the federation broke the Youthstream contract and now pays penalty fees to that organiiation. Estimate by Youthstream president Cam Killoran. 8) In his dying days as president, Shane Roberts sent Ron Hipfnel and Bruce Burton to Vancouver to attend -a national CUP conference., Burton tias booted out and Hipfner lasted three of the einht days of the meeting.*Cost includes retufn air fare and accommoda/ tion. 9) Mailing out the referendum cost about $800 while the costs of running it were about St ,000. This is a rough estimate made by federation secretary Helga Petz. 10) Lawyers fees will be astronomical. Costs are piling up from the seeking of injunctions. writs, and other legal action against the chevron by federation lawyer Gary Flaxbard. The federation will also pay lawyer’s fees for Shane Rob’erts’ and Bruce Leavens’ assault charges coming up Feb. 28. The only information on this is from Flaxbard who, when asked, admitted his salary was less than $60 per hour. 11) This ad revenue only includes non-federation ads (or nonstudent money) in the “Real” Chevron. It must be noted that in the chevron’s budget, federation ads are included in with the nonfederation ads as revenue. Therefore, the 1976-77 chevron had a federation subsidy of X15,430, OI- $20,070 including the salary of “news editor or equivalent positions.” Adding on federation ads (using last year’s figures) the cost ofthe chevron for this year would have been about S2X;OOO for 39 papers. -randy -jules
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Geneticist, lecturer, TV personDavid Suzuki ality, and writer spoke to an audience of over 250 students Monday. Suzuki’s talk summarized a book he and his wife are currently writing, entitled “The Titan’s Return: Science in the Modern Age”. The book traces man’s scientific development from the earliest times to its present rampant stage. His contention is that man’s “morality and wisdom have not kept pace with his scientific development” and that at this stage, when “science is the most powerful force on earth” , it can mold and destroy cultures before action can be taken to even understand what iS happening.
the only ones that can apply science on a large scale.” Unfortunately, industry and the military are concerned with short term goals, not what is best in the long term. This point is everyday becoming more obvious, not only in physics, but in geography, ecology, biology, the social sciences - in fact, in every research field.
Suzuki’s ideas were a subjective and selective distillation of what he considered to be the trends of scientific development. Until very recently, Suzuki asserts, there has been a general ignorance of science by the populace, accompanied by an attitude of “let the scientist alone he knows what he’s doing.” This relinquishing of science to the scientist has lead to the sciences and humanities being split into two distinct disciplines.
Science is very much viewed as a panacea to all of mankind’s ills. This view is perpetuated by the scientific community as a way of protecting themselves from competition, and ensuring themselves money for research. Mystification primarily allows the scientific elite to continue to govern the distribution of knowledge and consequently to keep for themselves a great deal of power. Suzuki asserts that it is time for the public to take a more vocal and informed stance on many of sciences’ controversial issues. It is more unfortunate that individual scientists have not taken a personal responsibility for their work. Suzuki, while advocating more public participation in decisions on science’s applications, still does nothing to dethrone the “elitist” attitudes of his own profession. In fact, he encourages them at the same time that he condemns them. Suzuki feels that the struggle between the sciences and the humanities is epitomized by recent work on recombinant DNA. From the 1950’s on, what Suzuki calls “The Golden Age of Molecular Biology” has seen the isolation of the first gene, the combination of plant and animal genes, the build-
Suzuki’s contention that morality and wisdom are lagging behind science suggests strongly that Suzuki separates these two areas. He seems to feel that there are two types of people on this earth: 1) a scientific elite, in charge of the gathering and differential distribution of knowledge, and 2) people who live from day to day and cannot understand the higher workings of a scientific mind. Most people today, says Suzuki, feel an impotence when dealing The present with science. economic system is structured such that it serves the pursuit of profit and power, represented by the military-industrial complex. Its suppbrting agencies, the military and private industry, “are
The mystification of the science profession began early in the twentieth century. Technical jargon and restricted labs added to its ‘incomResearch became prehensibility’. diversified, scientists very specialized to a greater and greater extent, until we’ve finally reached the point that an aggregate view of ‘science’ is almost impossible.
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A popular CBC radio luminary, David Suzuki, spoke Monday at our university on topics ranging from the origin of life to the prospects of annihilation of life by starvation and world war. Billed as an expert on science, he behaved more like a priest intoning homage to the gods of speculation. Suzuki told LIS repeatedly that the world is not knowable, that there are definite limits to our knowledge. The first organic molecules, he ’ said, I evolved “spontaneously”. The first appearance of Hominids on the earth was a product of “chance”. Agriculture was said to be discovered by some “neolithic genius”. In the realm of sub’atomic physics, he held that there is no absolute truth, only indeterminacy. Although he slanderously accused ordinary people of settling for mysticism because they find modern science too complex. he himself promoted mysticism as an ideal because objective truth supposedly does not exist. As a’ corollas-y to his thesis that
title the world is not knowable, OLII- visitor asserted that scientists have the right to hold their personal opinions about nature and history, and that they need not struggle to determine whose viewpoint is correct. We were subjected to his “personal reconstruction of history”. which included discourses on chemistry. biology, archaeol, physics, O.!zY’ anthropology psychology, political economy, history and Feligion. A synthesis of diverse fields of knowledge is certainly a laudable undertaking if its author has serious knowledge of the respective parts. Suzuki, however, proved to be a dilettante who flitted from one idea to another without‘explaining anything. In physics and psychology, disciplines where 1 have some knowledge, I can attest that the man is quite. ignorant. His repertoire included a host of reactionary theories, such as these: I ) The “essence of human makeup” 9 as wsll as human personality, are determined by DNA molecules which are inherited. 2) Human beings have a “need for order’ * . 3) The planet is threatened with
ing of new genes and, last month, the combining of plant and human genes. The potential good from such research is tremendous, but as with all such things, there is a great deal of potential danger, too. Because scientists were afraid of Lbplaying God” and perhaps unleashing unknown disasters on the world, the “prestigious American Academy of Science declared a moratorium on recombinant DNA studies until safety guidelines could be established. Essentially this merely restricted research to those actively involved in the field.” In 1976, the NIH (National Institute of Health) came out with guidelines dividing work into four categories, based on their potential danger. Other countries, too, have endorsed these or come up with theil own precautions. However, in every country except England, the,se guidelines are in 90 way policed or enforced. The science world, then, has paid lip service to their concerns, but has taken no effective action to curb their research. They obviously have no interest in restricting themselves too much - research is what gets the bucks. Last year, a significant hearing took place in Cambridge, Mass., home of Harvard and MIT. A large group of very prestigious scientists presented their case to build a research lab in Cambridge especially for work on recombinant DNA. The opposition group was “an odd collection of scientists, researchers, and concerned members of the public”. After a very long, emotional meeting, Cambridge politicians decided against building the lab. The decision against building was made in the face of great pressure from the military, business and the government. Unfortunately, after the decision was made, the pressure didn’t subside. Suzuki revealed that the decision not to build the lab was just reviewed and was overturned only last week. As a last word, Suzuki urged his listeners to realize that the absolute expansion of knowledge cannot go on indefinatell. We must develop an ethic for science, and we must learn to deal with each other now. -david
porter
doom because there are too many people in the world. These unsubstantiated opinions Jead straight into racism, fascism and genocide, respectively. With his slick, informal bluejean style, he put on progressive airs, but his message was nonetheless the same as that of Konrad Lorenz. Arthus Jensen and Hans Eysenck. The shallowness of his scholarship was painfully evident when he stumbled through a reply to a question about genes and personality. After- mumbling something about twins, he reminded the audience that scientists had different opinions, and then he abruptly called for the next question. This Suzuki. has no right to call himself a scientist when he behaves this way. He exhibits no interest in establishing the truth. Behind a CBC microphone where he can carefully choose his colleagues, he may be able to maintain a facade of omniscience, but in person and in the face of opposition, he proves to be an arrogant braggart. The title of his talk was ‘:The Titan’s Return”. This brings to mind a famous ship, named after the same God, which set off on a tour, enjoying a virtual ocean of support. One good chunk gouged into its superstructure, and the unsinkable Titanic elegant, plunged into -obscurity. This UBC professor is on a CoIlision course with serious scientists in Canada. It won’t be long before he too runs into an icy reception. -doug
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Several days :qo, a week’s uncertainty on my part ended when Helga Petz informed me in no uncertain terms that my nomination for an Arts Seat on Students’ Council had been rejected. Ms. Petz, by the way, is the awesome woman in the federation office who seems to be running the show. In a sense, 1 was relieved to be final.ly certain of my status. On the other hand, 1 consider the whole affair to be reprehensible. It constitutes a grave irregularity, invalidates yesterday’s election, and warrants an immediate Arts by-election. Between Thursday, February 3, and Wednesday, February 9, Chief Returning Officer Gary Prudence changed his mind about my nomination a total of six times. 1 had submitted my nomination form 10 minutes after the deadline. I find it surprising that a mere 10 minutes should make such a difference, though I recognize the need for, and validity of, certain rules. However, in his capacity as CRO, Prudence declared last Thursday evening that he was accepting my nomination. (There is precedent for this. Bill Baker’s nomination for president was submitted late and accepted. Only after it was learned that he was no longer a student here, and therefore ineligible to run for president, was his nomination rejected.) Had Prudence simply said “no”, that would have settled it, but he told me and several other people that he had accepted my nominatiop. This led me to commit myself to a campaign into which I put time, energy and money -but-which uItimately proved to be futile. No>one should have to put up with a CR0 who is irresponsible, indecisive, and incompetent - and is paid for it! Prudence should resign immediately, or be fired. At the same time, I feel that a clarification of Ms. Petz’s position in the federation, her responsibility and’the extent of her authority, is also in order. + On Tuesday she told me Prudence “iad no business” accepting my nomination, saying “I have given him a piece of my mind” and that it was not the CR03 prerogative, but her’s, to enforce the by-laws pertaining to elections. So what I want to know is, who the hell is Helga Petz? -vaI
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Chess The K-W Winter Open Chess Tournament held the weekend of Feb. 5 produced some upsets, and notable among them was chevron chess writer Robert Inkol’s victory over severa/ more experienced opponents to take first p/ace with 4 and a ha/f points out of a possible 5. Rick Martin andjohn Armstrong were tied for second and third with 4 points. P. Basciano, A. Sodhi, D. Hergott, H. Whitney and D. Pabke were the winners of the class prizes. ’ The following is an outline of the game which was crucial to Inkol’s victory.
Two Kniahts’ WHITE: B. Dbthwaite 1 P-K4 2 N-KB3 3 B-B4
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. .. last move with a double attack on the wins a pawn by force since 4 . . ., P-Q4; 5 PXP, NXP? is unattractive for Black after either 6 NXBP!? or 6 P-Q4! when White has strong pressure. On the other hand it is rather early to e be attacking like this. Black’s
King Bishop Pawn. This virtually
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A daring move with great surprise value, hence the exclamation mark. Black announces that he will take the initiative even if it costs him material to do so. 5 BXPch
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White’s last move was a normal developing move, but the position demands a more dynamic continuation. Necessary was 9 P-QB3! or 8P-QB3! with the intention of playing P-Q4! to limit the range of the Black King Bishop and to create countekplay against the Black King by threatening to open up the center files. White’s actual moves are mechanical. With the center closed Black’s King is safe while his White counterpart will have to contend with an energetic Black offensive based on Black’s command of the King Bishop file and his superior development. , B-KN5! 9 .. . Q-K1 10 N-KB3 N-R4!? 11 B-K3 12 N-Q2 ... Possibly 12 B-N5ch was best here. black mtist then play 12 . . -, N-KB3
as 12..., K-K3?? loses to 13 N-Q4ch. 12 BXB would not seriously incOnvenience -Black since after recapturing Black will be able to strongly post his Knight on KB5 and White would not be able to exploit the tripled Queen Bishop Pawns for a long time. 12 . . . 13 BXN
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White evidently decided that the Knight was more obnoxious than the Bishop, but now Black is able to quickly concentrate the heavy artillery on the King-side. 14 P-KR3 might be his best hope now. 14 K-R1 15 Q-K2 16 R-KNl
Q-R4! QR-KBl! RIB1 -B3!
16 . . .. RXN? would have been premature RXB! and White can hold on. 17 N-B1
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White’s last move apparently loses material for nothing, but in reality he has nothing better. On anything else Black quietly continues with 17 . . ., R-R3! when White will be unable to prevent a mate on KR2 in view of Black’s threatened sacrifice.. .RXN! 17 . . . 18 Resigns Recapturing will cost White
RXN! his Queen.
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Wms-tidden train mo.vie . sets new disaster standards “The Cassandra Crossing” is first-class film entertainment. As a disaster film, it’s the best; and as a suspense drama, it’s very fine indeed. The special merit of the film is its success in not allowing the disaster proceedings to overshadow equally important human drama - a success, that other films of this nature cannot claim.
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The film focuses upon the containment of an accidently unleashed plague. To begin, three men attempt to plant a bomb in the American wing of the International Health Organization building, Geneva.
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Once discovered, two are chased into a laboratory and unknowingly exposed to a deadly virus - one escapes: He boards a train and begins to show signs of sickness, meanwhile exposing passengers to the virus. The authorities determine that he is on the train and the train is rerouted. It is then stopped, sealed off, and boarded by armed men in protective gear.
the lack of overexposed or sunlight shots; the warm colours of the train’s interior shots -these things give the lilm a definite visual texture.
solve into cliche, though the film avoids this tendency more so than most. Richard Harris and Sophia Loren play the leading roles. Loren is magnificent and lends a presence The photography is absolutely to the film that is hard to estimate. professional and in some instances Burt Lancaster plays the same kind exciting. The film’s central disaster 0-J. occurs suddenly and quickly and is _ of role he did in “Airport.” Simpson does a poor job in a role so well shot as to leave you stunfor which he was miscast. ned. The best performance is given by Music makes a notable contriburenowned New York acting coach tion to the film’s impact, from the Lee Strasberg. He plays to perfeceerie accentuations to a piece of tion a sensitive role that almost theme music that catches the mood begs to be overacted. Others will of the movie perfectly. likely recognize his performance The characters of the story are with awards; I can only praise it. an unreal sampling of train passenMost everything about “The gers - this is to be expected. This Cassandra Crossing” is done well is entertainment, not reality, and and it’s ajoy to experience. It sets a the characters presented make for new standard for disaster films and much better entertainment than the success suggests a new maturyour average C .N. trainload. Some ity in this genre of film. characters and their actions dis-jim brett
The train continues on under order not to stop until it has crossed the Cassandra Crossing (an old railroad bridge) and arrived at a quarantine area within Poland. Enroute the problem of the virus resolves itself, but circumstances face the people of the train, alone with yet further peril. This leads to disaster and the end of the movie. The film is a masterful blend of style and suspense. The medicaltechnical details and implications are not dwelt upon at length while too the arty aspects of the film are functional and not self-conscious. This is not a story of man and his science versus the virus; in fact, imminent personal disaster actually replaces concern for the virus long before the end of the film. It is an unclinical and actually fairly stylish film. The overall proceedings have a distinct European flavour to them and it’s hard to imagine the movie having been as successful had it been filmed in the arid American mid-west or. some such place. The rich, dark, hushed woods and hills;
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On Saturday Feb. 12, the UW cross country ski team competed in the Queen’s Invitational just north of Kingston. After the race, we decided to call ourselves the UW water Ski Team! The first kilometer or so of the rac’e crossed a couple of lakes which, with the mild conditions, had turned into slushy and almost open water conditions. Putting weight on a ski at the wrong time resulted in knee-high soakers for some skiers. Despite the lake conditions and the last hill which felt like a mountain to climb, we all ‘enjoyed’ ourselyes immensely. Our men’s team officially finished in fourth place with 205:53, just 1:34 off Carleton’s third place finish. First was Queen’s, second U of T, fifth was Ottawa, and RMC was sixth. (Points are calculated by adding the best 3 times of each team: the lowest score wins.) Skip Callahan was our only woman skier, so no team position could be calculated. Individually, Skip placed fifth of eight competitors on the five kilometer course. Stuart Stark, Toni Scheier, Mark Arbogast, Dave Dyer, and Greg Derbyshire placed tenth, fifthteenth, twentyfourth, twentyninth, and thirtysecond, respectively’ in the twelve kilometer,
fourty-three competitor event. Our next races are in Midland for the OUAA Championships on Fri-
day and Saturday, 19. Wish us luck!
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Squashes team places third The varsity squash championships held last week at York University saw the powerful University of Western Ontario squad once again dominate the field. They came up with a convincing win with an overall point total of 18. University of Toronto was next line with 13. Third place was shared by York University and our own Warrior squad, both scoring a modest but respectable 5 l/2 points. Guelph, Laurier, and McMaster brought up the rear. Unfortunately the Queen’s squad, through a mixup, failed to be included in the draw. The six man teams were divided into three flights, ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’, corresponding to the top two, middle’two and bottom two players on each team. Draws were then made up independently for each flight. UW’s No. 1 man, Don Brunker, put in a fine effort against a too strong Dave Mitchell from York.
Our other A flighter was Al McCormick, who won his first round and then was dropped in the next round by Canada’s current Amateur Champion, Phil Mohtadi of Western. Bert Keene, of our B flight, dropped his match but went on to’ win the consellation draw, gaining an important 1 l/2 points. George Krausz, our second B flighter, won his first round against Guelph, but lost his second round match to U of T, making him ineligible for further play. Rob Mitchell and Dave Porter, the C flighters, both came through with a win in their first rounds, gaining one point each. Weakened by the loss of two powerful hitters this year, Waterloo did well to secure third place. Each player should be awarded a badge with the inscription “In the face of insurmountable odds, They gave Their All!” -don brunker, dave porter
Euripides ‘Medea’ -2,500 years later Tonight is your last chance to see UW’s original musical adaptation of Euripides’ classic, “Medea”. Medea is the witch and princess who a,ided Jason in his many tasks in quest of the Golden Fleece. “Medea” begins after these adventures, when Jason already has two children by Medea, whom he has married. Jason wishes to settle in Corinth, and marry the daughter of Corinth’s king, Creon - it was apparently quite legitimate for a man to have more than one wife at a time in those days. Medea, though, is not too thrilled by this, despite Jason’s explanation that it will strengthen their status in Corinth. Creon is afraid of Medea, and promptly banishes her from his lands. Moved, though, by Medea’s lament to him, he gives her a day’s grace. In this time she weaves a wicked plot to gain revenge on those who have brought this fate on
When Peter Gabriel, lead singer and contributing song writer, left Genesis a few years ago, it was feared that the very life of the group was in jeopardy. Genesis at the time was a superb band which featured excellent art rock, especially
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a good ballhandling guard and a strong zone. They prefer to play a man to man defence and can quite often be driven to the boards and scored against, but if you miss forget about a rebound. With their rebounding strength, a fast break can occur and they will exhaust most teams trying to scramble back. The Ball hogs on the other hand, are a ballhandling team, fast and accurate but couldn’t control the boards against East 5. Remember last year’s C.S.A. team? Well this year the Chinese Student Association, number one team, have a’3-0 record. Quite an improvement. Look for them in the playoffs. Next week, how the A league playoffs will look.
Men’s Competitive Floor Hockey The league has been going now for 3 l/2 weeks. There have been some really good games and as of now, there are only 6 undefeated untied teams left in the 4 leagues. In league 1, EE Explorers are on top with an impressive 4-O record, while in league 2 Roy’s Raiders lead the pack with a 3-O record. League 3 has both Oldtimers and Chem Grads with identical 3-O records. League 4 also has 2 undefeated teams in O.T.T.T. at 3-O and Mad Asses ‘81 at 2-O. The “player of the week” is Brian “Gus” Gastaldi, the cagey veteran inbetween the pipes for the Oldtimers. He has performed unbelievably at times and has led his team to an undefeated 3-O record.
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“Monday Night B-ball” February 14th was the evening for turnovers ! Every game was crucial for team points as the squads head into the last stretch towards the playoffs. The individual game re-
instrumentals, and a stage show which had become next to legendary. Genesis created “Selling England By The Pound”, a tasteful work which satirized the British way of life.
sults from Monday lows:
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A League Notre Dame Vl EasF St. Paul’s West Wildcats
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Layups Basketcases Conglomerates Brenda’s Babes
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B League V2 East B ’ V2 South Conrad Grebef co-op
8 16 12 14
School Marms Renison Vl South South B&C
8 14 20 12
As the game results show, each game was a struggle, demanding optimal performance from each team in order to secure a win! Note: West Wildcats were undefeated before Monday when a less prominent team, Brenda’s Babes, decided that it was time to show other squads how to play Basketball. Also a game deserving mention was the match between the School Marms and V2 East B which resulted in a tie but never-the-less an exciting and well played game for both squads. The accumulative results of this tournament are as follows: A League St. Pauls West Wildcats Brenda’s Babes ’ Conglomerates Notre Dame Basketcases Vl East Layups B League School Marms Conrad Grebel Vl South V2 East B Notre Dame Renison South B&C co-op V2 South V2 West B
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Games to watch for on Monday, February 28 (no games during reading week) are: at 10:00 p.m. Basketcases versus Layups and at 8:30 p.m. Notre Dame versus VI East.
Genesis’s pinnacle came with “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadan album describing a way”, youth’s experience in New York City. The ‘Lamb’ both intrigues and mesmerizes the listener. When Genesis sans Gabriel introduced “Trick of the Tail” last year, it was obvious that the band was not about to fade into oblivion. Phil Collins appears to have taken over leadership of the band.and the result is an album of intricate musical detail which few Genesis fans could complain about. Their latest album, “Wind and Wuthering” carries on the style of a group that is obviously refreshed. It uses strong solid instrumentation by guitars, synthesizers, mellotron, and organs to continue their style of music which is both innovative and pleasing. This is an exception to the general genre of “modern music” (especially disco) which hauls keyboards and strings into a studio and slams sounds together in any haphazard fashion, the result being sheer trash. Genesis has never gone anywhere near that trap. Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks know their music well and prove it in “Wind and Wuthering”. \ The opening cut on the album “Eleventh Earl of Mar” is the brightest part.of the album. It features rapid keyboards, good guitar work and pleading vocals to create images of the helplessness of a child seeing his father off to war. “One For The Vine” is a beautiful song which touches every .plateau of music that Genesis has attained in their past works. The lyrics start out: Fifty thousand men were sent to do the will of one His claim was phrased quite simply, though he never voiced it loud I am the chosen one. In his name they could slaughter, for his name they could die. Though many there were believed in him, still more sure he lied But they’ll fight the battle one. The song has empathy for a man who refuses to lead or be led to fight his fellow man but, in the end, finds this to be an inescapable fate. “Your Own Special Way” is a glowing ballad which essentially
her, and she also tragically destroys those she loves.. . . UW’S “Medea” is a rockmusical version directed by Maurice Evans, with original music by Stephen McKernan and choreography by Lia Sargent. The set and costumes were creatively designed by Virgil Burnett, Betty Mulholland, and others. Aside from the lead vocalists, Madonna Hagerty and Mike Day, with the rest of the chorus and dancers on stage, there is also a 16 member choir and a 16 member orchestra in the pit. A synthesizer accompanies the orchestra (some use of mini-microphones is made to avoid drowning out). In a production of this size, working with full-time students and non-professional actors, it is not surprising that the result is less than. perfect. Second best, though, turns out to be one hell of a show (at this
says little but expresses a feeling of contentment which is in contrast to many of ,Genesis’ works. _ “Wot Gorilla?“, the final number on side one is a quick instrumental which deserves little comment. It comes and goes and fails to impress. The opening number of side two “All In A Mouse’s Night” conveys the emotions of one who is chased, cornered and meets one’s fate at the claws of a formidable opponent. Although the imagery is quite alive and the emotions credible, the number is nevertheless rather pointless. “Ballad on the Rooftops” is a fine parody on the media morons who squat before their TV.sets and collectively lull themselves into a state of unknowing, uncaring boredom. The next number “Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers. . . in that quiet earth’ ’ is somewhat of a surprise contribution to the album. It is a smooth instrumental voyage which is reminiscent of some of the early works of Genesis with tinges of a Yes and Rick Wakeman style. It should be noted that the latter two have combined talents for an upcoming album and concert tour. The closing song on Wind and Wuthering is “Afterglow”, a ballad which finishes the album in a gentle fashion. All in all, Wind And Wuthering is an excellent album true to the Genesis style of music. It should disappoint few of the group’s fans and will probably bring them recognition by listeners who have passed them by for much too long. Thus, while Peter Gabriel has split the scene to seek out his own musical career, the group he left behind does not seem very concerned with the loss. Wind And Wuthering proves that Genesis is as good as ever. -tom
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point it would be relevant to mention that 1 only saw last Sunday’s dress rehearsal - tonight you will probably see a far superior rendition). The first person to be cornplimented is Medea (Jan Schmalz) She stood out by far as the best of the entire cast. She had most of the lines, carried most of the weight of the play, and made the fullest possible use of the opportunity for development of her character - the whole point of the play. She made use of melodrama without being melodramatic, in itself a remarkable task. The result was that the audience could sympathize with her, and hate her at the same time. An unfortunate side effect was that other characters were pushed to the wayside, and the audience could never really get to understand them as fully as might have been possible. Jason (Mike Hilborn), for instance, when he speaks, does so in a harsh, angry, tutorial tone which *makes him seem jerky and robotic. The intention was undoubtably to make him, like Creon, seem like another wall closing in on Medea, but Jason’s character suffers too much from it. A more devious and clever Jason would have made the play more interesting. A clear understanding of Medea necessitates a more lucid presentation of the environment she now inhabits. The characters that surround her, however, appear so briefly that this is not possible. Perhaps a different interpretation of the psychologies of Jason, Creon, the nurse and the children’s tutor would have given these actors more freedom to present the audience with an accurate description of Medea’s surroundings. Again, Jason’s role, which seems crucial to the conclusion of the play, loses much of its effect because of this lack of freedom. Medea makes up for this, however, and the music and choreography almost form a show by themselves. While complementing and emphasizing portions of the play, they also serve the function as separate entertainment altogether in that the musical and dramatic halves could almost (but not quite) be enjoyed separately - I’m sure this idea would horrify the creators of “Medea”, but it is the truth. This could also be construed as a fault: the chorus does not do very much when they don’t sing.. This serves to weigh down the stage, fixing the action, and thus making the scenes far more static than is healthy for a good play. There lies a fault in my reasoning in that, although the things I men: tion are unaesthetic, they mimic the caged state of Medea’s frantic mind. You can, of course, in this game explain anything away. Minor complaints aside, the set is great, there are some stunning special effects, the dancing and singing are good, and the actors appear to do their best with the interpretation. Footnote: If you go tonight (8:OO in the Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall) try to find the face of Euripides in the set. _oscar
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Scabron denouncedPigs ! ‘No, let me not resort to inaccurate curses - calling lowdown people animal names to curse them only lowers the animals to their level. I could take it apart, word by word, sentence by sentence -’ like the quote from Steibeck (sic). May the Panthers come and scratch your almost‘blind eyes out while you remain asleep! This sexist article is another sample of the incredible stupidity and waste perpetrated week after week by the ‘fed hacks’. Incredible if we didn’t see it so continuously. I cannot adequately express my rage in words - slow death for the hacks comes to mind as just retribution for this blatantly, self-declared sexist article. It must be easy for you, writing out the shit from your mind, your low, stupid, cowardly what-passes-for-mind. Easy as diarrhoea. Cowardly, because there’s no by-line. And rightly so - you know what would happen to your already apparently empty, miserable life if anyone knew your name. And don’t tell me I have no sense of humour. The oppression of women (and men, and children) is not funny. If you get your jollies from stomping people who are already down, watch out-we stomp back. It’s trash like this article that radicalizes people. I hope you _. never ‘get any’, and I don’t wonder that you find yourself usually ‘hard up’. The only anything you probably ever can or do ‘get’ is through deceit or force - if you have the guts to force anyone. I know -it was just an attempt at ‘original humour’ and put down, to fill the pages of your scabrous paper, which is so ‘hard up’ for copy that it uses whatever it can get. Such a travesty - that the students of UW must pay for this shit and salaries for a ‘staff of stupid lackeys and for court actions against -other students who had their budget illegally cut off (and must raise the money for redundant defence and to publish the student paper). . .not to mention fee hikes. I hope you choke on your typewriters. Charlotte von Bezold
Don? pay for scabs A lot of people have stated that the free chevron has no right to exist: (by a lot I mean Doug Thompson and his Campus “reformers’ ’ , a collection of five or six). The issue isn’t whether the free chevron should exist BUT WHETHER STUDENTS SHOULD PAY FOR THE REAL CHEVRON! As a student my money goes to pay for a paper that has printed outright racist material, outright sexist material (see the piece of shit on the Grand Hotel, on page 6 of last week’s paper). I don’t pay for the free chevron, but if I am -going to pay for a paper on this campus, that’s gonna be the one. I say STOP STUDENTS’ MONEY FROM GOING TO THIS PIECE OF SHIT! OUTRAGED! _Laura Buchanan
Democratic dynamics? Instead of beating the shit out of those rouge rogues occupying the chevron offices, our reps, the Feds, did the democratic alternate, invoke the law,of the land, etc., etc. Upholding all the usual principles, etc., etc., the FREE chevrics tore up court orders, thereby showing beyond anyone’s doubt their true devotion to democratic process, one they cherish especially when required to further anything BUT democratic ideology.
How the hell are we going to get rid of these self-serving left-handed democrats so that the newspaper financed by students for students is once again full of the wonderful EngSoc, MathSoc, and all the other sot’s news and whimsical academic banter for which a students’ paper exists and which concerns us NGW instead of getting regurgitated gloom and doom accounts of how the tommies fared this week in Angola, Iran or Chile? Does anyone, know? _ K. Schonfeld 38 Civil Eng. Our correspondent asserts that the “democratic alternate” for the federation was to go to the courts, that is, to appeal to an outside force to step in on their side when they cannot force the chevron staff to bow down to their arbitrary measures. For the chevron staff to tear up court orders is true devotion to democratic processContrary to the Gazette’s article, it does not constitute contempt for the whole legal process. It was a statement of contempt-for the fed hacks’ use of an outside power to take something out of the hands of the students. The courts have no business in this matter. To have the students decide their own affairs -as the chevron has consistently demanded by calling for reinstatement followed by an investigation by students -is the democratic method. Let’s settle our own affairs using due process and democratic principles. -lettitor
cording to most Marxists, anti-Semitism, and racism in general, arises from economic and material conditions. Thus, as there have been Jewish anti-Semites nurtured by these forces, there have also been (black) “Uncle Tom’s’ ’ . Though the latter group” were merely apologists and not active racists, their analysis could not serve as valid moral justification for the treatment the blacks suffered at the hands of the plantation owners in the south or the exploitation they were subsequently subjected to in the industrialized north. No useful purpose will be served by debating Mr. El-Saad and others who think in the same way until they demonstrate that they are prepared to do some original research instead of merely duplicating the contents of ill-conceived and misleading propaganda. Philip Cramer
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Originally, I did not want to enter the discussion on Lysenko, because Dr. Wahlsten is a good colleague of mine in the department, and I am following the development of his political and scientific views with great interest. However, I feel that Wahlsten has pulled a particularly rattling skeleton from # the Stalinist closet. It seems to me that the actual issue is not whetheracquired characteristics may be inherited. This issue will have to be solved in the laboratory, not in the “free” chevron. The problem which Wahlsten wanted origiHafiz El-Saad’s letter “Racist redefined”, nally to discuss was: in which manner has Lysenko contributed to the further dewhich appeared in last week’s free chevron velopment of scientific thought in this area. contains one of the most common manifestations of moral myopia that arises when the The answer to such a question is easily proMiddle-East question is considered. vided. During my university years in a country controlled by hard-core Stalinists I was The line of argument is simple: if antito take several courses dealing Semitism is expressed by a Jew, it is not a required racial slur, but fact. El-Saad quoted Israel specifically with Lysenko and his “struggle against reactionary MendelismShahak as saying “Any Gentile woman is. . . However, even if she Morganism’ ’ . In retrospect, it was quite fun. an impure slave”. converts to Judaism, according to Shahak, Once one grasped Lysenko’ s terminology, further study was unnecessary. One did not “she remains a whore”. even have to listen. There just were no hard The laws in Israel which govern the intermarriage of Jews and Gentiles are based data. Everything was presented in juicy Stalinese, a language still prevalent in such upon Jewish religious law. Nowhere in publications as Pravda, the People”s Daily Jewish religious law is a Gentile woman referred to as an “impure, slave” or a and, quite often, the “free” chevron. A What Shahak refers to as being forceful presentation about fascist Johann “whore”. Gregor Mendel was deemed sufficient. Acimplicit in Israeli law is merely his own twisted interpretation. In fact, he is attackcording to Lysenko, genes and chromoing Jewish law and culture. This is not a somes were capitalist propaganda. He never mentioned anything like DNA. Such things political analysis of the existing social conditions. This is just another form of Englishgo beyond mere absurdity, but later I saw man Houston Steward Chamberlain’s “ sciclearly the tragedy of the situation. While as detailed in his book, working as a medical student in an agriculentific racism”, “Foundations of the Nineteenth Century”, tural cooperative (JZD) in Knezeves in written towards the end of that century. Western Bohemia, I was shown the “ yarovized” wheat fields by a cooperative Chamberlain was one of the-most eloquent proponents of a racial theory justifying chairman, a man named Karel Konvalinka. There was simply nothing growing. I assume Jewish persecution. Up through the middle-ages and until relatively recent that Dr. Wahlsten could attempt to communicate with the man, in the event he is still times, Jews have been persecuted on the alive, in order to obtain first handinformabasis of their religion, but with the advent of scientific research in the late nineteenth cention on the colossal failure of the yarovized tury, the religious orientation of anti-Jewish wheat project. Unfortunately, not Lysenko, but farmers were blamed for this failure. thinking has given rise, through a dialectical process; to modern anti-Semitism. Also, Praxis is the criterion of theory, isn’t it? However, I personally prefer the ordinary there is much use of pseudo-scientific -Mendelist-Morganist wheat in my bread. It hocus-pocus to “prove” such absurd asserhas one advantage: it exists. tions as “acquired characteristics can be inherited’ ’ , etcetera, ad nauseum. However, Lysenko, shortly, was no scientist. There in certain respects, Shahak is a throwback to * is nothing to discuss. His attempts to alter were analogous to those of a high the preyChamberlain days. Although he is hereditary scientific in that he purports to be a conveyor school student trying to make liquid nitrogen in a refrigerator. His theoretical views were of facts which have been garnered by means mixtures of cheapest slogans, unsupported of empirical observations, he is unscientific in that he cannot discern between religious statements and ignorance. One may spend years studying his “work”, but it was simply and political arguments. On the basis of the anti-Semitic nature of not science. El-Saad’s source, one may discount his let-The,re is yet another aspect of Lysenko’s ter. The myopia I referred to at the beginning activity. Unlike his wheat, Lysenko conof my letter is that most Arab propagandists tinued to thrive. During his struggle for wear the garb of the “anti-Zionist” but are power he quite effectively liquidated those apparently unaware that they base their around him who were much more able political rationale on anti-Jewish and antigeneticists. It was as if Burt Matthews would engineer your transfer, Doug, to Baffin Issemitic arguments. land as a consequence of your “free” chevAn anti-Semite is an anti-Semite whether s/he is a Jew or a Gentile. His/her analysis ron articles. The idea that President Matthews would-send anybody to the concentracan throw no light on political issues. Ac-
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tion camp is absurd. The condemnation to Gulag was both tragic and absurd, but very real for Academician Vavilov and many others. Lysenko was part and product of his time, ideology and opportunity. He was no exception, no freak. Stalinist system who gave him his chance is still very much alive. It is a system based on inequality of people. Ifone reads in the statements of AIA: “The people under the leadership of party . . .” etc., then this practically indicates that the inequality of people is very much embedded in the very essence of present-day marxist political thinking. There are two classes of citizens in the dreamlands of the AIA: those who lead, and those who are led. Those who lead are selected, not elected. Those who are led have no voice in politics, science, justice, and are expected to-do as the leader decrees. Even if that leader should be Lysenko. Stanislav Rein& Psychology
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Could anyone on your staff kindly inform me as to the reason for the grievous oversight that permitted the criticisms of your paper to be omitted from my campaign statement, in last week’s paper? As editor of the real chevron, we have a policy of printing exactly what a candidate wishes us to say, since it is their platform, n-regardless (sic) as to what criticisms it might contain concerning our paper. I would hope that your paper would be open to criticism, even though it would be printed within your paper. R.B. Burton We would like to apologize for any misunderstanding caused by the accidental omission of the following sentence of your campaign platform: “A good example of this is that they provided the questions for each candidate to answer, without asking us what we wanted to say.” Usually the chevron only accepts letters which are typed, yours was not. In th$ transcription of scribble, things get lost. This should be clear to any journalist, even a scab one. -lettitor
APmvY demanded “Chicken Man” has laid yet another egg. This ‘Real’ chevron member who originally signed himself “Chik k’ang-stu”, pronounced “Chicken Stew” has now decided to sign himself “Chicken Man” after having the racist nature of his first pseudonym pointed out to him and his ‘paper’. The more this fellow squawks the more plainly the students of UW see his gang’s real intentions. _ The major flaw was in changing his name from “Chicken Stew” to “Chicken Man”. By doing this, he and the ‘Real’ chevron acknowledged by original charge that the use of “Chicken Stew” was a deliberate racial slur against a minority’s pronunciation of English. This simply will not do! I demand not just that they acknowledge their racism but that they apologise to all UW students for it. The second problem is that if they were to give a sincere apology, it would of course have to be signed with the author’s real name. This would prove risky for the writer, not only for a future career in political opportunism, but as well for his present physical well being. By this I mean that though the federation talks about student apathy in politics, the students of UW have proven encouragingly enthusiastic when it comes to smashing racists like “Chicken Stew” with pool cues. Secondly, “Chicken Man” personally attacked me in choosing to use my Chinese name in his ‘Real’ chevron of February 4. This is the name I am most associated with, both in my classes and at the free chevron. I do not hide the fact that I have an English continued on page 14
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continued from page 13 name, but I prefer to use my Chinese name. If “Chicken Man” had investigated first he would have discovered that entertainment board chairperson Doug Antoine had ‘exposed’ this trifle in his December 10 letter to the free chevron. In conclusion, allow me to report what my best friend said about these happenings. My best friend is a duck named Winston Ya-tzu Smith, who lives on Columbia Lake when the weather permits. When Shane Roberts was booted out of office I asked him to run for president. At first he said I must be joking, but when I pushed him for a reason as to why he wouldn’t run for fed president he said: “Now listen here K’ang-ti, you must be out of your mind. I can sit here all day and swim, quack, and eat to my gizzard’s content. Why would I want to be president? If elected, I’d probably forget to fly, then I’d get so fat I would sink instead of swim. The freedom of carefree quacking would soon be lost as I would have to worry about what the helots thought of me. Soon I myselfwould be co-operating with Burt and the boys at Elec; trohome head office to raise the standards and tuition so as to keep people in the factories. After all this I would have to keep people mystified so that they would keep looking up to Burt and myself, so I would have a newspaper diverting student attention to strip shows and gold fish swallowing. I would require a covey of geese helots to surround me so as to peck at anyone getting out of line. The newspaper would be called the * “Real” Duckron and would demand that Red Ducks be first eliminated from campus before we fought against the real enemies: tuition increases and the National Rifle Association. The paper would attempt to express this line. The problem is that eventually we could no longer duck the issues. It’s much better to stay freezing on the pond than it is to be conned into being barbequed because you had a swelled head and wanted to be prez. Furthermore, one would have to smile with people who actually make you sick and shake hands with people who have the heart, guts and minds of chickens.” Shih K’ang-ti
Don,? deify Lenny In the February I1 free chevron, Bill Glenn reviewed the movie “Lenny” under the headline “ ‘Lenny’ falsifies Bruce’s Life”. But how do we know the movie does this? Does Glenn have data to which other movie-goers do not have access which proves that Lenny lived differently than the way he was depicted in the movie? Apparently, Glenn’s key to what Lenny Bruce was really like is the fact that he has read Paul Krassner’s review of the film. (In fact, over half of Glenn’s review is simply a quotation of Krassner’s.) Thus we are confronted with two opposing views of what Lenny was really like: Krassner’s and the movie%. Glenn openly embraces Krassner’s - presumably because he believes that Krassner was Lenny’s friend - but why should we? Could it not be the case that .the very fact that Krassner knew Bruce and esteemed him is enough for us to be suspicious of Krassner’s opinions? Consider, for example, what Albert Goldman, in “Ladies And Gentlemen: Lenny Bruce’ ’ , says about Krassner (p. 5 19): “Krassner was the perfect Lenny Bruce groupie. You have to picture this little, runty, essentially ugly guy, with a fantastic ego and the chutzpa to match; an ambition in search of a career. What Krassner wanted out of Lenny Bruce was precisely what everybody wanted out of Lenny Bruce the vicarious thrill of being a really bad boy.” I rather suspect that the only kind of movie based on Lenny Bruce’s life of which either Krassner or Glenn would approve would be some sort of paeon, which, of course, would
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Zionism is racism! In the January 28 free chevron, Phil Cramer picks two lines out of the book Zionism is Racism to accuse the AntiImperialist Alliance (AIA) and the Communist party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC(M-L)) of being racist. Cramer claims that AIA believes that “the characterization of all ‘Jewish leaders’ as ‘Zionist chieftains and all ‘Jewish communities’ as ‘Zionist ghettos?, is accurate.” Nowhere in Zionism is Racism is it stated that all Jewish leaders are Zionist chieftains or that all Jewish communities are Zionist ghettos. In fact, there are many anti-Zionist Jewish leaders who have denounced Zionism as racism. There are also many Jewish communities which have nothing to do with Zionism. The article, which Cramer ‘misquotes, states: “In other Zionist ghettos around the world (which the Zionists like to call “Jewish communities”, and where the Zionist chieftains call themselves “Jewish leaders” or “Jewish deputies”) they propagate self-segregation, playing on what they call the “eternal insecurity of Jews among the Gentiles” in their own homeland countries. At the sameltime they work hard to provoke and fan the flames of racial hatred and superstitions toward people of Jewish background, and then urge their conditioned *ghetto victims to give more of their money, soul and body to Zionist Israel which they present as the “haven homeland of the Jewish nation”. Zionism% and antisemitism are identical. They both believe: 1) that racism is natural and eternal 2) in the fiction of the international Jewish “race-nation” 3) in the idea that people of Jewish background are aliens in their own homelands and therefore should get out and go to Israel. Let us look at what the Zionist chieftains (which incidentally are also called “Jewish leaders” by the Zionists) have to say: David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel states that “the life of a Jew is incomplete unless he goes to ‘Israel”. (Moshe Pearlman, Ben Gurion Looks Back, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965, pg. 244). In the introduction of the Israeli Yearbook, 1953-54, pg. 35, Ben Gurion writes: “When a Jew in America or South Africa speaks of “our Government” to his fellow Jews, he usually means the government of Israel. . .” Golda Meir re-affirms this ideal: “We want the Zionist movement to be the force that harnesses.all Jews, that brings them to Israel, and as long as they remain in Galut (exile) gives them a meaningful Jewish life with a knowledge of Hebrew and a deep Israeli atmosphere in the home and in the upbringing of their children. And if there is talk of a university, it should be the University of Jerusalem and not any other . . .You say that this is double loyalty, that it means creating a Jewish ghetto in free America. Yes, I should like to see in free America.what you call a ghetto - Jewish children brought up in Jewish homes with one goal and one thought, to be in Israel.” (The Encounter of Two Ideologies, The Middle East Institute, 1965). Ben Gurion continued: “It is without wit or profit to argue whether immigrants are to be counted in thousands or hundreds of thousands: the duty of the state (of Israel) is to end Galut (exile) at last.” But how might the Zionists end this “Galut”? - e specially if many anti-Zionist Jews were denouncing the state of Israel? How might they increase immigration to Israel? What if screaming that you are “incomplete as a Jew if you don’t go to Israel”
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Washington Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 5, doesn’t work, what then‘? “I shall not be ashamed to confess that, if 1 June, 1964, pg. 398.) This resolution was had the power as I have the will, I would re-affirmed by the United Synagogues of America in 1959 in their rejection of the select a score of efficient young men - intelWorld Zionist Organization (Dr. Elmer ligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with desire to help redeem Jews -and I Berger, Israel According To Holy Scripture would send them to the countries where Iowa: Ingram Press, pg. 18-19.) Jews are absorbed in sinful self satisfaction, If Cramer had read further in Zionism Is plague these Jews with antisemitic slogans Racism he would have found the majority of such as “Bloody Jew”, “Jew go to Palesthese sources and arguments, and would tine” and similar intimacies. I can vouch that have seen the relations between Zionism and the results, in terms of considerable immiganti-Semitism - the old twins. ration to Israel from these countries would But Cramer is not at all interested in readbe ten thousand times larger . . (the editor of ing and learning. Davar Zionist daily, mouthpiece of the IsCramer and his ilk may squirm and whine raeli “trade unions”, quoted in What Price and bicker all they want. The fact remains the same: The Palestinian people were driIsrael? 1953, pg. 207.) One of, the main Zionist theoreticians ven from their homeland by force of arms came to the following conclusion: “Instead wielded by the Zionists. Their struggle will of establishing societies for defence against continue until that injustice is avenged. As for Zionism Is Racism, it is a book antisemites, who want to reduce our ?ights, which wholeheartedly supports the Palestiwe should establish societies against our friends who desire to defend our rights.” nian people. The AIA is proud to distribute (Krisis und Entshudung by Dr. Jakob Klutthe book and CPC(M-L) deserves nothing shim, quoted by B. Matover, The Zionist but praise for publishing it. Wish and The Nazi Deed, in Issue winter Zionism is racism! 66-67 pg. 10.) Anti-Imperialist Alliance Ben Gurion, so-called “father of Israel”, wrote that “if the Jewish Agency gave help to German Jews fleeing Germany” and “if Palestine will not absorb them (and) another territory will then Zionism is endangered.” Dr. Nahum Goldman, president of the World Zionist Organization, warned Jews that “a current decline of’overt antiCongratulations on your victory over the Semitism might constitute a new danger to Jewish survival” (ie Zionism). (From federation hacks! The decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the principles of the “Opening of the World Jewish Congress in free chevron was the most satisfying and Geneva”, July 1958.) Rabbi Mordechi Kershblem, of New York exhilarating thing to happen on this campus told the Zionist General Council, “I in a long time. Keep up the great work! I’m with you all always fear lest the anti-Semites have adopted a new method. Instead of torture the way. The free chevron is the only paper and persecutions, they say, ‘Give them worth reading on campus. Once again, congratulations, with love peace and they will disappear of their own accord.’ ” (Jerusalem Post, January 14, and kisses. 1966, pg. 8.) A. McRae In his book, The Decadence of Judiasm in 8ur Time, Moshe Menuhin, a deeply religious Jew, writes of “the wave of antisemitic outburst in Argentina last spring, apparently triggered by the execution of Adolph EichIt is with a certain regret, but also certain mann, who was abducted from Argentina by relief, that I must announce my withdrawal Israeli agents . . . Youth shouting antisemitic from candidacy for Federation Council. Obslogans have beaten Jewish men and viously, I owe the students an explanation; women.. . . The Argentine Jews, for dewhy submit a nomination if I would withcades living in a happy prosperous and integdraw a week later? rated community suddenly became The major issue of this campaign is the alarmed . . . Then of course, came the logical student newspaper. Any statement relating (hoped for?) next step” - here Menuhin to the campaign must address this issue. quotes the Zionist Jewish Chronicle of Let me make it clear from the outset; I 20.7.62. - “Argentine Jews turn to Israel. have no personal grudges. In fact, every Many planning emigration. With proper chevric I have met on a personal basis has Zionist organization, and given continuation convinced me that they really believe they of the existing circumstances, there is no have been mistreated, and to be fair I must doubt that Argentine antisemites could have agree. On a visit to the “free chevron” ofone positive consequence: an influx of fice, I found people friendly, helpful, and highly capable human material into encouraging. Israel . . .” Menuhin remarks on how easy it \ However, a decision must also take into would have been for 1,srael to extradite account the public actions of senior chevEic hmann instead. rics. Several weeks ago, I attended a Federa“It is, of course, not customary for us to tion Council meeting. The obstructionist talk about it in public, but many of us felt a tactics I saw being employed by chevrics, tiny bit of joy when we read newspaper renot all of them council members, disgusted ports about the swastika epidemic in Europe me. in 1960 or about pro-Nazi movement in This contrasts sharply with the “Campus Argentina.” (Yediot Aharonot, 9.2.1969). Reform Group”. When this group was Zionism is a movement hostile to the spirit formed a month ago, it announced policies of assimilation and for the setting up of a aimed at restarting the Federation, represJewish ghetto. Herzl, the founder of enting the students. Commendable ideals; I Zionism, campaigned against assimilation wonder whether it was jealousy, ego, or a and for ghettos. He stated in 1898 that .the guilty conscience which led the “free” chevJewish communities “must never be used ron to persecute them. A recent letter to against the concept of peoplehood. .-. I promathNEWS labels them the “UnproducpoSe capturing the Jewish communities as tive” element in Federation Council; my exone of our next targets.” (Zionism Is Raperience is precisely contrary. cism, pg 39.) I had doubts that! my academic career The Zionists have to create Zionist ghetcould sustain a position on Federation tos where the blood and money of people of Council. I feel that university is more than a Jewish background have fed the Zionist factory; it is a community of human beings leeches for so many years. and I felt a certain responsibility not to abanSince the founding of Zionism and the sodon the race to the sort of obstructionists called concept of “peoplehood” or “racewho have caused so much trouble in the past nation”, Jewish leaders have responded to term. My withdrawal is in confidence that this call. In 1938 the Jewish congress deSteve Risto and Ron Hipfner, both of whom clared: “We consider ourselves no longer a are older and more experienced than myself, nation but a religious community.” This was can better represent the interests of stua direct response to the idea of redents. establishing a “ghetto”. (The George David W. Gillet
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Presidential “Give the federation back to the students” was the Thompson campaign slogan. k And yet, in one short week, following his election, Thompson seized control of the federation without the consent of students or students’ council. About Wednesday last week, actingpresident Dave McLellan appointed Thompson interim vice-president. McLellan then quickly jumped ship, leaving Thompson as interim vicepresident acting in the absence of the acting-president. All this, only two short weeks after Thompson’s hollow words, “I’ll stand by the referendum.” The Thompson appointment is characterized by contradictory statements and illegal actions. Thompson and McLellan both claim in the Gazette that McLellan appointed Thompson. However, in an interview, Thompson said he was appointed by the Board of Directors. What is astounding is that neither method is correct! Bylaw 1, Section 8, outlines explicitly the powers of the Board of Directors. “The directors of the Corporation may administer the affairs of the Corporation in all things.. . save as hereinafter provided . . .” Section 19 of the same bylaw states: “That the other officers (exclrrding the Pt-esiderzt) of the corporation shall be appointed by the Students’ Council” It was the responsibility of Students’ Council to appoint Thompson and not the responsibility of either McLellan or the Board of Directors. In fact, Thompson isn’t acting vicepresident at all. He’s only the presidentelect who has been catapulted prematurely into power. The function of constitutions is not only to ensure that some established procedure is followed, but to guarantee rights to all constituents.
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But led by Thompson and McLellan the Bo.ard of Di rectors has swept away those guarantees and has taken to changing bylaws without public discussion or agreement, without consulting the elected student representatives, and under the most clandestine conditions. For example, the bylaw dealing with-the recall of council representatives and. the president has overnight been rewritten by the Thompson junta. The Board- has changed the recall bylaw, making it much more difficult and time-consuming for ordinary students to recall their council representatives who are serving unsatisfactorily.
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Under the newly-revised bylaw, once a petition is submitted to the federation, it is frozen for a week, during whioh time the petition is declared either valid or invalid. If the petition is declared valid, a referendum is held in the council member’s constituency within 20 days of receiving the petition. If a majority of students then vote to have the councillor removed, he or she is out; if not, he or she remains. This change was made at two o”clock in the morning, with two of thefourdirectors having only telephone contact with the meeting. Asked why the existing recall bylaw had been changed, Thompson replied that “a
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This week’s contributing staff worked hard getting this great piece of history out to the students undaunted by Thompson and his CRG who are trying to reform this campus out of existance (not to mention his so-called justice). Every issue sees more exellence in the chevron’s production yet there will never be enough help to go around. So if the interest is there then come down; doors are always open! This week’s production was brought to you by the following fighting free chevrics: heather (first) robertson, peter blunden, randy barkman, marina taitt, tommy cody, mark and donna wills, neil dochertydand nina, jonathan coles, jamie thiers, mini,tom hunsburger, phil rogers, salah bachir, larry hannant, valentine moghadam, lorne gershuny, Charlotte von bezold and brother ernst, t. alex beamish, phil Cramer, shih k’ang-ti, dennis rekuta, jayne pollock, dave carter, dave porter, doug wahlsten, Oscar (our man) nierstrasz, dianne chapitis, doug (SO good) goodfellow, mike hazell, jules grajower, rob taylor, mark mcguire, jim brett, mart shafroth, the ‘dumont ducks’, and Phyllis waug’h (for the contribution). -scatty and hamilton
students’ minority shouldn’t be given the opportunity to stall or disrupt the-presidency.” So a councillor or president may be elected with the most pitiful plurality of votes, but an expedient recall by dissatisfied students is made extremely unlikely. Yet another case of bureaucracy stifling the initiative of students and blocking their easy access to the federation. Thompson believesa voting minority is a firm demonstration of support. But when the same number of student votes are on a recall petition, well that’s a minority “disrupting the stability of the federation.” Why did Thompson do this? Is he himself afraid of recall? So where do students figure in all this? Somewhere between File Z and the garbage can! But that’s not really so unusual. McLellan did it before Thompson, and Roberts before McLellan. As they become ever more unpopular they become ever more desperately set against open democracy for the students. How can Thompson claim to be giving the federation back to the students? He doesn’t consult with council. He doesn’t even bother with his executive! Monday’s executive meeting didn’t even muster quorum. But Thompson had invited several “guests” who filled in for the absent elected executives. Thompson and his flunkeys are not of the “new blood” they claim to be. They’re merely continuing on with the methods of a degenerate president who was recalled in December. It‘is time to put an end to this persistent bureaucratic undermining of democracy. Students must stand up in defiance of the malicious contempt Thompson has showed for students. -1arry”hannant -heather robertson -mark wills
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The Warrior basketball team, in two important victories, took a big step towards securing first place honours in the OUAA-West. A week ago Wednesday, they travelled to Hamilton and became the first team this year to beat the McMaster Marauders at home when they just managed to hold on to an early lead, winning 86-85. At home last Saturday, the Warriors entertained the Gryphons from Guelph in a see-saw game which saw Waterloo pull away in the final four minutes to win 90-84. The Guelph encounter was a contest between the Warrior fastbreak and the outside shooting of Henry Vandenberg, Vito Bommarito, and Bob McKinnon who, together, accounted for 65 of the Gryphon’s 84 points. But it was the speed and precision of the Warrior running game, their board control, the defensive work of Bob Yuhatz and Lou Nelson, and the scoring of Mike Visser, Yuhatz, Nelson and Seymour Hadwen which decided the game. Waterloo opened the game quickly by moving into an 11 point lead mid-way through the first half. Guelph began to respond, cutting the 45-30 margin down to size. In the final 3 minutes, they outscored the Warriors 1 l-2 and left for the half down only 47-41. Five minutes into the second half, the Gryphons had narrowed the margin to four points. In the next five minutes they moved ahead of Waterloo, establishing a three point lead, only to have Waterloo come back again to take the lead. With seven minutes left, Guelph again took the lead, however, Waterloo was able to limit the Gryphons to one basket inthe final five minutes to secure the game. Crucial to the Warrior victory was the play of Yuhatz and Nelson. Yuhatz was given the assignment of covering Henry Vagdenberg who in the last Guelph-Waterloo game shot 75% from the floor. Last Saturday, however, Yuhatz virtually shut him out in the first half. Vandenberg managed only 6 points in that half but two of those baskets were scored with Yuhatz on the bench. Nelson had to handle Jim Cotta, the aggressive and talented center foi’Guelph, and he did a remarkable job. He held him to eight points and Iive rebounds; Nelson scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds. But it was not the game to pick out a few who *played well. Everyone on the floor had a good I game for both teams. The Warriors showed why they are fourth ranked in the nation, and‘ the Gryphons showed why they should be ranked higher than ninth. UW was at their best and they had to be because there’s very little to choose between the two teams.
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Had the game been played in Guelph, the decision might have been reversed. The more than 5,000 people in attendance and the familiarity of the surroundings in the PAC are not to be discounted as factors. In point of fact, the only real difference between the teams this year has been their performances against McMaster. Waterloo has won both times against Mat, but Guelph suffered a narrow defeat at the hands of the Marauders in Hamilton. This was a fate nearly experienced by the Warriors also. In the Mat game, which was played four days before Guelph, Waterloo again established an early lead which they slowly extended. Leading 49-42 at the half, they widened their margin to 14 points mid-way through the second half. With less-than five minutes to play, they still held a 10 point advantage. However, at this point, Mat began to use a full-court press and it was their excellent defensive work in this respect which nearly stole the game for them. The press and the strong shooting of Valaitis, Kongats and White narrowed the gap to one point but there was not enough time. , Kongats had 20 points for Mat, Valaitis 14, and Roser contributed 13. For the Warriors, Visser had 26, Hadwen 18, Nelson 15, and Yuhatz 13. As is often the case, the crucial difference between the teams was the foul situation. Mat took 19 player fouls while the Warriors were only called 12 times. When this is translated into free throws, UW comes up with an advantage of seven points, shooting 16 for 22, while Mat was 9 for 13. The reverse was true in the Waterloo-Guelph game, although in this instance both teams had similar numbers of player fouls. Guelph was 16 for 20 from the line while the Warriors were eight for 17. In addition, six of the Warrior misses were the first shots of a one and one situation meaning of a possible 23 points which they might have scored, they wereonly good for eight points. While in the final result it made little difference, since they won, such a performance in the future could mean elimination from the play-offs which begin on Tuesday. Top scorer for Guelph was Vito Bommarito with 25 points; McKinnon added 22 and Vandenberg was good for 18. Mike Visser again led the way for the Warriors with 27 points, Yuhatz had 17 and Hadwen 16. As yet. none of the play-off positions have been finalized. Five teams are still in the running with Waterloo, Windsor and Guelph battling for the top spots, while Western and McMaster struggle for the final berth. If Waterloo wins
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Athenas clean-up UW women skiers have been burning up the slopes. They have scored their second straight victory at the York invitational held at Devil’s Glen last weekend. Sue Graves paced the Warriors finishing first place in the slalom race. This first place victory means that Sue stands tied first place on the university circuit with Andrea Esson from U of TI Patsy Chambers and Nancy Rosewarne also put in strong finishes capturing third and sixth place, respectively. The Warriors also put in a good day. They finished third overall. Gord Reese put in another ourstanding performance to lead the
Warriors. He finished fourth. His first run went badly but he made a great comeback in the second run finishing first by two seconds’. _ Chris Yeatmen~ and Chris Young finished twelfth and eighteenth in a field of ninety. Remy Cloutier from U of T finished first in the men’s event to lead his team to the overall point victory. Queens placed second. Gord Reese’s fourth place victory gives him a sixth place standing on the men’s circuit. Next week the UW Invitational Meet will mark the end of the regular invitational meets and decide which teams go to the Pan-Am finals in New Hampshire.
their final two away games against Western and Brock they will clinch first place. Second and third spots will probably be decided next weekend. Windsor must travel to Guelph tonight, and then to Hamilton tomorrow night to take on the Marauders. Mat, in turn, has to travel to London on Su@ay to play
the Mustangs in a game which could decide the final play-off spot. To explain the play-offs, we will select the scenario of Waterloo finishing in first spot followed by Guelph, Windsor and Mat. If this were to happen, Mat would play in Waterloo and Windsor in Guelph next Tuesday. The two survivors
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down the court. Lou Nelson (44) and Bob Yuhatz (35) follow while Seymour for a pass. McMaster, after trailing by as much as 74 points, staged a last minute comeback the Warriors. ‘Waterloo won 86-85.
Intrasport Report Up and Coming Tournaments Men’s Broomball: Defending champion Whiz Kids are already preparing for this popular tourney durjng the 1st week of March. Sign up before Friday, February 25 in room 2040 PAC, 15 players/team. Ground Hog Ring Road Relay: delayed from last month, will be held on Sunday, March 6. There are 5 runners/team each competitor runs 1.7 miles around the Ring Road.
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In one other game on February 9, V 1 West defeated the East Animals by a score of 4-2. H. Camblin led Vl West with two goals while B. Goslin and R. Stanczak scored one a piece. Jamie Herington and George Berzecki handled the scoring for -the East Animals. A League: On February 13, West Alumni reached first place in the A 1 league by virture of a 4- 1 victory over St. Jeromes A. Ted “Jethro” Sanders, John Bobette, Dave -Bourgeouis, and Morgan Pirie scored for West Alumni. Mike Rutledge notched the lone St. Jeromes counter. In other A league action, on February 8, V2 South Edged Renison by a score of 2-l. Rasula and Mitchell scored for V2 South, while T. Hayies replied for Renison. Also on February 8, West Alumni routed Science to the tune of 8-O. Dave Bourgeouis and Morgan Pirie picked up three each for the winners with singles going to Eric Moody and Bert McIlwaine. Come into the Intramural office for a look at the standings.
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This week’s play in the Men’s Intramural Basketball league, left only Summer Rats and Waterloo Wizards undefeated in A league play. Both were extremely strong teams and appear to be headed toward the A league championship game. In A league play this week, Firehouse edged Conrad Grebe145 to 43 in the longest A games of the week. B league play provided all the thrills, however, as the East 5 Selects squeaked by the Ballhogs 49 to 47 in overtime. With both teams remaining -undefeated going into the game, it had to be done. East 5 ran up a 9 point lead at the half and although they controlled the boards, appeared to tire. Continuing to drive back the man to man defence of their opponents, the Ball hogs went one on one on a number of occasions and seemed to score easily. In overtime, the Ballhogs were unable to overcome the height advantage of East 5 as the winning basket was sunk. East 5 appears to be one of the teams to beat for the B league An extremely championship. strong and tall team, they lack only
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