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r gran Changes in student assistance were proposed to the provincial government this week, and while they are being hailed in the media as a great benefit to the poor, the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) has some severe reservations .about what is being suggested. The report of a two-year study by the Ontario Government’s interim committee on financial assistance was released Monday. It pronoses renlacing the present On-

tario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), with a new scheme dubbed the Optional Loan and NeedTested Grant Program (OLANG). The chevron was unable to get a copy of the report before going to press. However, OFS spokesperson Chris Allnutt said in a telephone interview that the present system of students having to borrow at’least $1,000 before they are eligible for a grant would be replaced with a two-tier scheme. Under OLANG, students from

ew families with a net income of $1,000 or less will get a grant, but whose net family income is $10,000 or over will get loans only. Dr. Stephen Dupre, who was co-chairman of the committee, and is chairman of the Council of Ontario Universities, has been widely quoted as saying the new scheme is designed to redistribute assistance to lower-income families. The net result, however, according to OFS, is that the $10,000 cut-ff for grants will mean fewer of

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;t was dead week ?or Arts and ES students

this week and this pit of that part of campus

shows just how dead it was photo by randy barkman

RCMP raid research centre RCMP officers raided a research centre supported by the Communist Party of Canada (MarxistLeninist), and four apartments in Waterloo early Wednesday, and arrested 17 people. Among those arrested were Hardial Bains chairman of the party, and UW psychology professor, and AIA spokesperson, Doug Wahlsten. An RCMP spokesperson told the m chevron the raid was,“solely for the purpose of identifying and arresting persons in violation of tJre Immigration Act .” But those arrested see it as political repression. The free chevron-was given an exclusive interview yesterday with Bains, Wahlsten and four others, at the research centre. Those interviewed described the following situation: A knock at the door at about 8:30 am. When it was opened, seven casually dressed men, one carrying a sledgehammer, said they were ‘police’. They barged in, overpowering a man at the door who asked if they had identification and a warrant. They said they had a warrant, but Bains said he was never shown it until he was being interrogated over 12 hours later in the regional jail. Bains and others said they were lined-up against a wall and a list of their names and addresses was taken. They asked if they were under arrest and received the reply: “We’ll tell you later,” from one of the officers. They say they were also asked to submit to group photos but refused. The police then announced that one of the men present, Frederick Mason, was an illegal alien. Therefore, everyone in the room, and those who came later, were arrested for aiding and abetting an

illegal immigrant. ’ In all, 17 people were arrested and spent most of the day and evening in the regional jail before being released. As of yesterday, however, only six had been charged. Those interviewed said no one was allowed to make a phone call. Bains and Wahlsten have been charged with ‘aiding a person to violate a provision. of the immigration act.’ Bains is to appear in court May 5, and Wahlsten April 7. Three women, Marsha Fine, Peggy Morton, and Nina Nasedkin, arrested in their apartment, face the same charge, and a charge of assaulting police. Frederick Mason has been charged with violation of the Immigration Act, for being in the country illegally after having been deported. Seven others have been served with an Appearance Notice to appear in court, at which time it will be decided whether to charge them or not. Witnesses report that the police left with four suitcases filled with documents from the centre. All those interviewed view the incident as political harassment. Baifis said it is an attempt to implicate him in some petty crime so that his Landed Immigrant status can be attacked. He pointed out that an American can cross the border easily and does not need any “aid or abetting”. -“Do they have evidence that he (Mason) was intending staying here?’ ’ , he asked. “I never got a place for him. I never got him a job,” he said. The CPC (M-L) chairman stressed that the government was just using the incident to attack the party. “The state wants to prepare for

war on behalf of the U.S. imperialists,” he said, and the only force in the country which can mobilize the people against this are the Marxist-Leninists.” He also said that the raid is part of a state campaign to disrupt the party’s Third National Congress which is currently being held. Wahlsten said he was at the research centre having a discussion with Bains on science. He said he had met Mason a few times but up until yesterday didn’t know his second name, and had no knowledge of his immigration status. The warrant for Wahlsten’s arrest alleges that he aided Mason in violating the act from June 1,1976 to Feb. 22, 1977. In an interview with the chevron yesterday, however, Eric Timmins, a local immigration official, said that Mason was deported in 1971/72 and returned without the minister’s permission just last week. An RCMP spokesperson stressed in a telephone interview that there were “no political overtones to the raid.” He would not, however, answer any questions about how the raid was carried out. Some of the particulars involve people’s houses being searched without their knowledge. Gilles Verrier who was arrested at the centre said his apartment was searched without his knowledge while he was detained. And Wahlsten, who spent-Wednesday in jail singing revolutionary songs with the others, said he’returned to his apartment Thursday ’ to find it “ransacked”. He said he was never told his place was being searched. -neil docherty b

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Ontario’s students will receive grants. UW awards officer Dave Reynolds confirmed Wednesday that this would be the case. He reserved judgement on the report, however, because he hadn’t been able to get a copy of it. A major change proposed in the report, and one which upsets Allnutt is that loans would begin accruing interest as soon as they are

Such a change would have particularly adverse effect on students in long-term programs like medicine and graduate studies. The amount of any award, be it loan, grant or both, under the new scheme would be assessed as it is under OSAP - the student’s estimated costs compared with the student’s expected contribution. But the expected contribution has been changed. A flat $500 is expected of all students, but it increases according to summer earnStudent Contribution to OSAP ings. On earnings of $2,000-$3,000 / Award: a student is expected to contribute 35 percent to his/her education. Male Female Above $3,000 it is 40 per cent. University 0 $384 $381 Under OSAP an arbitrary figure 1 $768 $672 Years was set according to sex and $848 $768 Completed 2 number of years completed (see Sept. 1976 3 $944 $848 ’ 4 $1024 $944 table). 5 $1104 $1024 So far the Ministry of Colleges and Universities is being very taken-out. Under OSAP, students cautious about the chances of the do not begin paying interest until report being accepted. six months after they graduate. Allnutt told the chevron that The change, Allnutt estimates, OFS has heard rumours that the would increase a student’s debt by government is not happy with it, 25 per cent. and is using it only as a trial balloon. He said it was significant that The interest rates on the the minister, Harry Parrott, was OLANG loans would be tied to not at the Monday press conferthose on Canada Savings Bonds ence when the report was released. (currently 9.25 per cent). A serious flaw in the report, AllTony Baine, Information Officer nutt said, is that a family with a net for Parrott’s ministry, was not keen income of $8,500 is expected to to comment on the chances of the contribute 21 per cent of each report being accepted, except to child’s post-secondary education say: “Put it this way: for it even to costs. If the family has two children be considered, Darcy McKeough at the books, then Allnutt said it is (provincial treasurer) is going to expected to pay virtually 42 per have to find another $13 million in cent of the costs. . the budget.” Another complaint about the reThe extra money would have to port is that “it basically eliminates come from Ontario tax payers, he independent status” said Allnutt. explained, because the proposed To be considered independent of plan would be an Ontario loan any parental contribution to his/her scheme. This .contrasts with the education, a student would have to present arrangement by which the have been in the workforce for federal government’s Canada Stuthree years, or be married. Under dent Loan Plan provides the loan OSAP the qualifications are two funds to be allocated through years in the -workforce or four years’ OSAP. in post-secondary education. -neil docherty

The chevron staff urge all students to attend the federation’s Annual General Meeting

EL 101 8pm.

Tues. March 1st.

AGM shaping up, for a big fi’ght The annual general meeting o the federation of students will b i held Tuesday, March 1, 1977, in EL 101 at 8 pm. The agenda contains some 25 items, including 22 proposed new by-laws or by-law changes. Some of the proposed by-law changes pertain to recall petitions, procedures for recalling elected officials, the revision of by-laws establishing a Board of Publications, and procedures to be followed at general meetings. There is also a motion of nonconfidence in Doug Thompson as president of the federation, and a motion calling for reinstatement and investigation of the chevron. A meeting of the new students council will also be held on March 1, at 6:30. President-elect Doug Thompson says the meeting is being called “for the purposes of appointing the executive board members and the Board of Directors of the federation of students.”

But federation by-laws stipulate that the Board of Directors is supposed to be appointed at the general meeting. Thompson is also planning an informal meeting of the new council on Feb. 28. The meeting is called so Thompson can introduce his choices for the new executive, to be ratified officially on March 1. Because of a recent by-law ‘change by the Board of Directors, each student at a general meeting can hold one vote by proxy rather than the five which could be held previously, Proxy forms can be obtained from the -federation offrce and the completed forms must be submitted to that office at least 24 hours before the general meeting. A student can proxy his or her vote for any or all items on the agenda. -peter

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second annual conference organized by planning students University of Waterloo PANEL Janet Howard, Kaye Parsons, Novia Carter, Karl Mallette, Herb Stricker, Tom Owen, Andy Melamed CASE STUDIES Berger Commission - Steve Goudge Greater Vancouver - Harry Lash West Montrose Dam - George Rich WORKSHOPS Official plans - Harry Lash YLocal plans - Dan Burns The law - Dennis Wood Berger Commission - Stephen Goudge Parks planning - Bill Sargent PLANNING EDUCATION AND THE COMMUNITY Peter Truitt, Sukry Roweis, Gerald Modge Non%tudents $15.00 Students $5.00 1:00 Friday, March 4 - 12:00 Sunday, March.6 Arts Lecture Hall For further information phone Duncan Bury, Ext. 2789.

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Notice of GENERAL MEETING (about the Federation representation issue) Agenda I. Call to order.

2. MOTION: The General Meeting assetis that the Graduate Club is the sole representative body of the graduate students at the University of Waterloo. The General Meeting endorses the request by the Board of Directors to the Federation of Students that the graduate constituency of the latter be eliminated, and that liaison between the graduate students and the Federation be conducted via the Graduate Club. 3. Adjournment. DATE: MARCH 3,1977, PLACE: AL 116 TIME: 7:30 P.M.

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Dean. passes buck to Burt The university will not be taking a public stand against Waterloo Region’s recent announced policy making graduate students ineligible for daycare subsidization, says Lyn Watt, Dean of Graduate Studies. In December the Graduate Club Board of Directors decided that just such a statement from the university was called for. The board called the Region’s singling out of graduate students a ‘discriminatory practice’. The board asked Bob Pajkowski, then president of the Grad Club, to write a letter to Watt about it. Pajkowski sent a letter to Dean Watt January 19 stating that “this decision of the Region demands an official response from the University of Waterloo, either from yourself as Dean of Graduate Studies or from Dr. Matthews as President.”

Watt, however, now argues that it was not a case of discrimination. He stated that the region’s policy puts graduate students in the fifth and lowest priority for subsidization because they have a previous degree and they had therefore chosen to forego the chance of higher income. (Because of lack of funds, no one in the fifth priority presently receives any subsidization.) When it was pointed out that some students with children and without the financial resources would have limited access to graduate school, he said that “one could argue, I suppose, with this, but it is really up to the region to establish its priorities.” He doesn’t think that it is the university’s place to tell the region how to spend its money unless there was a “clear case of discrimi-

nation.” Diaa El Gabbani, the newly elected president of-the Grad Club, supports the board’s position, that this is a case of discrimination, and feels “that the university should take a firm stand.” Pajkowski f&els that although “it might be premature” for the university to take a strong stand and so “harden the position of the government”, the university has too often just let these kinds of things happen without responding to them. Watt says that if there is any problem it lies with inadequate funding from the provincial government and if this-is so “it should be increased. ” However, he said hny public stand- on that matter should be made by UW president Burt Matthews. -dave

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Councildoesbusiness At Sunday’s council meeting, chief returning officer (CRO) Prudence still had not produced a report on the presidential council elections.

Prudence, who is being paid $100 for his “trouble,” was described as “lax” by former CR0 John Long. Prudence has been criticized recently for mismanagement of the Arts, Integrated Studies and Science Co-op elections. President-elect Doug Thompson (who is also “acting president” and “vice-president”) assured council he would “make sure” Prudence had a report ready for the next meeting Sunday February 27. In other business, a motion by the temporary staff review committee regarding Radio Waterloo was carried. The Board of Communications will strike a hiring committee for the selection of a person to take up RadWat’s administrative and secretarial duties on a part-time basis. Another motion, also carried, called on council more fieldworkers for the duration of its term.

not to hire any

Sunday’s council meeting saw two new faces, both from engineering, among the councillors present. Albert Sweetnam said the last council meeting he’d attended was in September 24, while for Peter Trinsz, Sunday’s meeting was his first. Council also passed a motion allocating $850 for equipment (including an air compressor and a welder) and advertising for the engineering garage, which is open to all students. -val

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Grad divorce ifkvalized? _ A Special General Meeting of the Graduate Club Thursday, March 3, will discuss the graduate relationship to the Federation of Students. The meeting was called to deal with the relationship between the two student organizations after discussion on the issue was ab-

ruptly ended at the January 27 Grad Club Annual General Meeting. The discussion was sparked by a motion at the November regular grad club board of directors meeting which asked the federation to amend their bylaws to eliminate the grad reps from the federation coun-

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President-elect Doug Thompson may threaten to bring 500 engineers with him to the chevron offices, but the word from EngSoc is “nothin’ doin”‘. An EngSoc executive said of Thompson: “I think he’s gotten out of hand.” In’ a front page story in last week’s free chevron, Thompson was quoted as saying he would solve the chevron-federation”conflict “come hell or high water, even if I have to bring 500 engineers with me to the chevron offices.” Engineering student Karl Mitt hell told the chevron Tuesday that Thompson was “using our name out of place”. He pointed out that former pres-

ident Shane Roberts had made a similar statement, adding, “So where were his supporters when he was being recalled?” Mitchell also denied a report that engineers are planning to pull out of the federation, calling it a “vicious rumor’ ’ . He insisted there is “no basis” for the rumor, since “the question has never been discussed at an executive meeting”. When he was told that two engineering councillors spoke to a free chevron reporter of withdrawing, Mitchell replied: “They had no right to say that. It’s simply untrue.” -val

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cil. The board plans to replace the reps with a liaison officer to the federation, and wants the federation to choose a liaison officer to act with the grad club. The federation has not yet acted on the request. Although the grqduates have had their own student organization since 1972, and have not paid federation fees since then, the federation bylaws still allow the graduates full voting rights and two representatives. The Federation Annual General Meeting, to be held March 1 at 8 pm in EL 101, will also be dealing with this issue. The agenda for the meeting include: motions for the termination of graduate representation on Student’s Council and the repeal of graduate voting rights in elections, petitions, -referendums, etc. David McClellan, one of the sponsors of the motions, was asked why the termination of graduate voting rights was on the agenda of the gederation AGM, to be held two days before the Graduate Club General Meeting. He told the chevron, “I figure I don’t have to answer to you,” and hung up the phone. -dave

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The UW Senate has defeated a motion calling for an investigation into the academic implications of the differential fee and the prohibition on employment for visa students. The decision was made at the monthly meeting of the senate Monday. The motion, put forward by the Arts Faculty Council, was made in response to “some anxiety regarding the change in foreign student fees and the implications of the changed situation,” explained dean Minas. The motion would call for an investigation into the “effect on the total enrolment of foreign students’ ’ , the “intellectual effect on departments if they can no longer attract top students from all over the world”, and its “impact on Canadian students” abroad. Speaking in favour of the motion, history professor Ken Davis stressed the importance oftsuch a study. But dean of graduate studies Lyn Watt replied that it was pointless to conduct a study at this time, because the impact of the differential fee will not be known until next *fall. Only after enrolment figures are studied next fall, and the dean of graduate stud& and the registrar have made a report, can the results

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be acted upon “in a meaningful way”, said Watt. The motion was defeated overwhelmingly, with only Minas and Davis voting in favor. In other senate business, a letter regarding the ban on a German professor’s entry to Canada was received for information purposes. In a letter to UW president Burt Matthews, political science chairperson John Wilson called on senate to express its disagreement with the federal government’s decision not to permit Andr6 Gunder Frank from attending a third world conference at Queen’s University in March. Wilson’s letter explains: “Canada’s universities should always stand on guard for the preservation of academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas irrespective of their source.” Frank is a Marxist. Senate decided not to act uponthe request “for lack of more inalthough many newsformation”, papers have run stories on the case. The meeting ended*with the announcement that the undergraduate representatives to the Distinguished Teacher Award Committee are Bruce Leavens, Bruce Burton and Bruce Rorrison - all acclaimed. -val

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A- day in court Criminal chargks involving recalled federation president Shane Roberts, arts councillor Bruce Leavens and three chevron staff members come before Waterloo Provincial Court Monday., The federation is picking up the tab for legal costs incurred by Roberts, who pressed personal assault charges against Larry Hannant, Neil Docherty and Heriiy Hess following the typewriter debacle last November. Aided by Leavens, Roberts attempted to remove a typewriter from the chevron offices, but was stopped by Hannant, Docherty and Hess, who held on to the machine as chevron staff counsel had advised. Roberts cut his finger on the typewriter. Hannant, Docherty and Hess then pressed assault charges

against Roberts, and Hess against Leavens. At Sunday’s council meeting, former vice-president Dave McLellan confirmed that the federation is paying “for all legal costs incurred by elected officials in carrying out their duties.” . Federation lawyer Gary bard is handling the case.

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Sunday, Free chevron editor Larry Hannant asked presidentelect Doug Thompson whether the federation would pay for the staffers’ legal costs if the c-hevronfederation conflict were resolved and it were proven that Roberts and Leavens were acting incorrectly when they tried to take the typewriter* Thompson’s committal.

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11:3Oam Non-Violence Symposium - Them or Us - Reflections on Racism 2:45pm Down To Earth Festival Alternatives to the Supermarket Culture - Pt. 2 - Dr. Stanley from the University of Guelph discusses the dangers associated with home processing of food, 5:3Opm Current Situation in Southern Africa -Jacques Roy, Canadian film maker and frequent visitor to Southern Africa gives an account of how he views the current situation. 6:OOpm Radio Waterloo News

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11:30am Symposium on NonViolence -‘The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jim Lawson, Methodist minister in Los Angeles and a civil rights leader and coworker of Martin Luther King talks about the accomplishments of what has been label led as the King movement, including some historical background. 5:30pm Hagey Lectures - The Second Hagey Lecture delive‘i;ed by Dr. Hans Selye, from the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal. This lecture is dn Creativity and Science. 8:OOpm Live Sports - As on Friday, either Basketball or Hockey.

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12:iOam Mon Pays/My Country This programme focuses mainly on Canadian culture and intersperses

comm’ents and interviews with Canadian music; both French and English Canadian literature, music and viewpoints in national and international politics are reviewed. 6:OOpm Live From the Slaughterhouse -This week we feature Bill MacLean 7:OOpm Greek StudenbProgramme 9:30pm Live from the CC Coffeehouse - Pending permission we will be broadcasting live from the campus centre coffeehouse, where Sneezy Waters will be performing.

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11:30am Seven Arrows - Medicine stories of the Crow, BIackfoot and Cheyenne people. 2:45pm National Sports Roundup 5:OOpm From the Centre - This is the second part of a panel discussion entitled Adieu, Quebec? with. Laurier LaPierre, Broadcaster and Professor of History at McGill University; Patrick McFadden, CBC broadcaster and Professor Sabourin, Sociologist and Dean of Students at Glendon College. _ 6:OOpm Radio Waterloo News 7:OOpm New Developments in Science 9:OOpm Musikanada features Bob Webb 11:45pm Radio Waterloo News

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6:15pm Perspectives - From united Nations Radio a report on Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s proposed trip to the Middle East. 8:OOpm Live Sports - Depending on the schedule, we will either be broadcasting the basketball or hockey playoffs, depending on which team is still in the playoffs. The hockey game would be broadcast live from Toronto, whereas the basketball game would be from the PhysicaLActivities Complex. If both teams are in the playoffs, we will alternate from hockey to basketball for the duration of the games. 11:45pm Radio Waterloo News

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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 intrips to towns, clude chateaux, churches, and other monuments in the surrounding countryside. Virgil Burnett, Professor of Fine Arts at Waterloo, will discuss the sites, history, and style “of the various monuments visited. He will also give instruction in drawing. Students will be asked to keep an notated 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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partment of Microbiology, University of Guelph talks about the advantages of single cell protein, and the potential future for this valuable food source. Dr. Gregory outlines our present use of single cell protein, the technologies that are developing using single cell protein and the need for this alternate food source. 3:OOpm Greenpeace - An interview with a member of Greenpeace Toronto, outlining the current activities of Greenpeace, including the work being carried out to stop the seal hunt. 4:3Opm Poetry Readings 6:OOpm Radio Waterloo News 6:15pm Heritage - This programme focuses on issues of conkern to native people. 9:OOpm Visions - This programme features Boston (Rescheduled due to Hockey Game) 11:45pm Radio Waterloo News

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11:30am Canada and the 3rd World - The first part of an address by Shridath Ramphal, Secretary General of the Commonwealth. 2:45pm Down To Earth Festival Ethical Attitudes Towards NonHuman Life - In this portion of the programme, Gerald McKeating from the Wildlife Branch, Ministry of , Natural Resoyrses talks about the impact of urbanization on Nature and environmental ethics. He also talks about the urbanite’s value systems and the attitudes of urban dwellers towards wildlife. 3:OOpm Perspectives 5:30pm Community Services 6:OOpm Radio Waterloo News 6:15pm Research ‘77 9:OOpm Crawdaddy F@dio features Kenny Rankin and Franklin Ajaye. 11:45pm Radio Waterloo News

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11:30am From the Centre-Working Can Kill You - Dr. Irving Selikoff, Director, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of jhe City University of New York talks about occcupational health hazards. 2:45pm Down To Earth Festival Ethic attitudes Towards Non-Human Life .- In this portion of the programme Gerald McKeating talks about the importance of a natural environment for mental well being, the types of environments lost to urbanization and the failing of churches and schools to educate people in the area of land ethics. 5:30pm Sports RGport - Campus sport scores, and upcoming sports events are reviewed. 6:OOpm Radio Waterloo News 6:15pm Off Track Betting in Canada 9:OOpm People’s Music - Gary Gallant 11:45pm Radio Waterloo News

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With by-law changes contempt The Federation Board of Directors came under heavy attack Sunday for conducting meetings and \- passing motions in an “irregular” and “underhanded” manner. At a federation council meeting several councillors complained that the board displayed “contempt” for UW students by holding meetings at 2 am. and making “arbitrary” decisions on issues that should be brought before students’ council or general meetings. President-elect Doug’ Thompson, who, in his capacity as vicepresident served as chairperson at Sunday’s council meeting, was also the target of attacks for his role in the decision-making process of the board of directors. A board meeting at 2 am. February 10 with telephone authorization by two members was challenged by several councillors. Arts rep Don Orth complained that one of the items dealt with that night never came before an executive meeting. (Orth is an executive in charge of Co-op Services.) The item was a motion to amend the by-law pertaining to the recall of elected officials. The amendment would require a referendum to follow any recall petition to de- tide whether it would be valid. Orth demanded to know why he was never contacted. Thompson replied: “It’s hard getting in touch with executive members.” The board also unanimously passed a motion which cuts the

number of proxy votes which can be held by any federation member at a general meeting from five to one. The proxy change comes less than one month before the federation’s annual general meetmg. A board meeting held February 9 accepted Dave McLellan’s resignation and passed a motion making president-elect Thompson vicepresident and acting president for the remainder of the term. Although the move was unprecedented, it is legal. Another motion passed’ at that meeting called for an honorarium equivalent to a full-time salary for the editor of the “Real” Chevron. The new person in charge is Michael (Mad Dog) Dillon, former mathNEWS editor, who took over the editorship from R.B. Burton. The February 9 Board meeting was labelled “irregular” by free chevron editor Larry Hannant, who protested that only three members had been present and one contacted by phone. Speaking out against the motion for the honorarium, he noted that chevron has been the “Real” slammed for its sexist and racist content, and is therefore unworthy of support. Hannant pointed out that CUP president Tom Benjamin had called it a “rag” and reminded council of the decision to expel former editor Burton from the CUP national con-

ference in Vancouver last Christmas., In response to a question from Arts councillor Donna Rogers, board member J.J .Long said that the editor’s salary would be drawn from “unallocated funds”, some $3,480 put aside by council last October. Replied former vice-president McLellan: “There might not be any money left in unallocated funds. ” Rogers termed the recent board of directors meetings a “travesty of the role of the board and students’ cguncil. ’ ’ She pointed out that board meetto be a last reings are “supposed sort” and complaingd that the board was dealing with important issues which were then “brought to council after the fact”. “This way, it’s underhanded,” she stressed. The motion to change the recall procedure received considerable debate at the council meeting.Thompson maintained that the present by-law allows “a minority” (10 per cent of the student body) “to recall anyone, and disrupt business of the federation.” Thompson holds office on 6 per cent of the student body. Hannant asserted, however, that a “matter of this importance” should not be decided by seven people at a board meeting and ratified by council without discussion among the students.” “It’s arbitrarily done,” he declared. A vote to accept the minutes of the board of directors meetings was carried. &al

fessional engineers and engineering:related companies. The first awards to outstanding students will be made at the inaugural dinner, in the Great Hall of Vilage I, at 5 pm, March 7. Two public lectures will take place at the Theatre of the Arts, on March 7, at 8 pm. The lectures are free, while the dinner will cost $6. Tickets for it are available from Elaine Krug, 885-1211, ext. 3137. There will also be a display of Sir Sandford Fleming’s works in the gallery of the Theatre of the Arts, beginning at 10 am, March 7.

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Saturday, March 5, the Undergraduate Engineers of UW will be gathering together all their pushers. At 10 am they plan to push and pull a bus to raise funds for the Big Sister and Big Brother organizations of K-W. The bus will pass across University Avenue and down King St. to Kitchener, a distance of 4828 meters, (3 miles). Pledges are being accepted for the bus on a 805 meter (half mile) basis. Call 885-1211, ext. 2323 to place pledges and for further information.

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The federation of students Annual General Meetingof March 1 will be the scene of much chaos. Plan to attend, for nowhere will You be able to see your council members in truer form. :* The last general meeting (Oct. 29, 1976) saw certain federation council members (including Doug Thompson) jumpingup and down trying to stall and adjourn the meeting since the vote was overwhelmingly against them - or pro chevron. Robert White, the “unbiased” speaker, illegally adjournedthe meeting after Shane Roberts’ by-law proposal failed. Over 50 students then stormed the podium in a fit of rage. Nothing has changed since then. The federation still has the same sense of justice. From the unjust closure of the chevron to the one-sided general meeting to the one-sided referendum, the federation has ignored discussion and has chosen to confuse students through its various publications instead of informing them. Nothing has changed. The March 1 meeting is scheduled for 8:00 pm - meaning that if allowed to finish it would take till about 4:00 in the morning. Motions from chevron staff are at the end of a 25 item agenda. Dave McLellan and Robert White, who took great pleasure in seeking criminal records for 40 members of the chevron staff and even, called in the regional police, have IO proposed motions on the agenda. All but one of these motions takes power further from the students towards a greater centralization of the federation. Doug Thompson has a motion making the recall of the president next to impossible, effectively closing the door behind him. There are seven other motions proposed by different people changing the recall procedure. Dates are changed, and counter-petitions, petitions of support and referendums are introduced. Anything to further deny accountability to the students. For detailed informantion, see Recall Comment on page nine. The succession of power, after the president, is officialized by J. J. Long’s motion 13: vice-president, treasurer, speaker - all being hand-picked by the president. Then there is the question of the chevron. The fanatical, unreasoned attack on the chevron continues with two motions proposed by McLellan and White. Motions number 5 and 6, “A By-law relating to the establishment of a Board of Publications” and “A By-law pertaining to the establishment of a Chevron Editorial Board”:are unjust, unworkable and contradictory. If the by-laws do pass they will fail, given time. The motion calls for an editorial board to “set out and enforce This effectively replaces the the editorial policy of the chevron.” open-ended staff control (with approximately 15,000 students eligible) of editorial policy with a closed shop of seven bureaucrats.If a presidential election can only muster 16.4% of the student body, think of what the turnout would be to elect an editorial board by faculty. The board in effect is a censor board. The paper, through staff control, has historically been given press freedom -the board is therefore merely given the power to say “no”, or to take these freedoms away. “The Chevron and the Board of Publications shall adhere to the principles and procedures described in the constitution, charter, by-laws, and code of ethics of the Canadian University Press” states the proposed Board of Publications by-law. Will it?: “That appointment of the editorial board and staff of the student newspaper should be internal, not subject to the discretion of external bodies.” “That overall policy decisions should be made through collective discussion by the staff, whenever possible.” The proposal of the censor board is clearly against the basic principles of CUP as expressed above. The student press is answerable to all students not a group of seven who claim to represent all students. McLelIan and White however care so little for press freedoms that they include the following in their proposal: “The editorial policy of the chevron shall be the prerogative of the chevron editorial board, but in the case that the board is not properly constituted then editorial policy shall be the prerogative of the Board of Publications.“! This shows clearly what the entire chevron/federation conflict has been about - the attempt by the federation to have control over the paper. This control is also seen in the setup of the non-voting members of the censor board: the president, vice-president, treasurer, chairperson of the Board of Publications and, swamped, the editor of the paper. CUP principles are clearly against such control: “That in no case should a representative or representatives of the student government or administration have the explicit or implied power of censorship or the power to set editorial or advertising policies.” The election of the editors under the McLellan/White proposal requires a majority vote by staff, ratification by the censor board and ratification by students’ council. This, besides being against CUP principles (“The editor of the student newspaper should be selected by the staff of the newspaper”) is totally unworkable. If staff chooses an editor which is then rejected by the censor board, it will simply elect the same person again. . . -and a stalemate will result. Who is to say a cloyed, elected bpdy of seven have the interests of the students at heart in contrast to the staff of the paper which is open? Staff under these proposals is reduced to a non-entityStaff democracy, which was won from the editor only after several years at UW, is destroyed. There exist controls over the paper without the need of an external board. The open policy of the paper is a control, as is the student body. Students’ council can also deal with the problems following due process, investigation and proper methods - contrary to the arbitrary anti-democratic method the federation used against the chevron.

Sanford Fleming gets the, nod . Big Push

One of Canada’s greatest engineers will be honoured, and a new foundation will be instituted at UW, Monday, March 7. Special displays, public lectures and an inaugural awards dinner will be held to usher in the Sandford Fleming Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to foster the development of engineering education and practice, with particular emphasis on the co-operative education concept intraduced in Canada by UW 20 years ago. The foundation is funded by donations from students, faculty, pro-

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It’s tax time again, and for most of us this means a chance to recover most of the deductions we lost from our pay cheques last summer or work-term. Even those of you who had no deductions make sure you file anyway because of the Ontario tax credit for renters. Generally if you had any employment earnings, scholarships or research grants in 1976 you must file a tax return. If you owe the government any money you must file your return by April 30, 1977. Mr. Trudeau is not as eager to hear from you if he owes you money. By February 28 you should receive your T-4 slip which records your employment earnings and deductions. You might phone your employer to jog his/her memory, as the earlier you file the earlier you will receive your refund. March 1, is the last day for purchasing a Registered Retirement Savings plan (RRSP) or a Registered Home Ownership Savings Plan (RHOSP) which are, as will be shown, viable ways of reducing taxable income. +++ Most people’s income is of the employment type that will include taxable’benefits such as OHIP premiums paid by the employer. An employment deduction is allowed from this type of income equal to the lesser of $150 or 3% of employment earnings. If you were fortunate enough to receive a scholarship, bursary or fellowship, the first $500 are tax exempt. Incidentally, the grant portion of student loans are also subject to this $500 exemption. However research grants are not but expenses of both a capital (eg. typewriter, books) and operating nature (eg. moving expenses) may be deducted from this type of income. Other types of income to be included for tax purposes might’ be earning from self-employment and a reasonable estimate of tips and gratuities. If you serve booze in a pub don’t forget about this source of income when filing your tax return. Tuition Now for those long awaited deductions from income: the first deduction that comes to mind for any student is that of tuition. Only the actual fee (excluding athletic and club fees, etc.) is an allowable deduction for any twelve month period beginning in the taxation year. For example, if you are enrolled in a co-operative program, tuition could be deducted for the spring term of 1976 and the winter term of 1977. However, only the student may deduct tuition regardless of who paid the fees. Moving expenses are generally deductible if the taxpayer ceases to be in full-time attendance at a university. This means that any moving costs (such as travelling costs, including reasonable amounts for meals and lodging in the course of moving, transportation of effects, and costs of cancelling a lease for the old residence) are allowable deductions. These deductions are also applicable to moving to co-op and summer jobs. Expenses incurred in moving to school are only deductible from scholarship and research-grant income. But that’s not all folks. The government, out of the goodness of its heart, allows an education deduction of $50 per month of full time attendance at university. This deduction is allowable only on a calendar year basis ‘iJ anuary to December) but part months are deemed to be full months. For example, if a student attended the spring term from April 28, 1976 to August 10, 1976 then this student’s education deduction would be for five months. RRSP can kelp It should be noted that any portion of the education deduction not needed to bring your taxable income down to zero may be transferred to the supporting relative of your choice. Also should your net income (i.e. excluding personal exemption and educational deduction) fall to an amount less than $1470, dear old dad or mum regains you as a dependent once again, even if you are over 21. (You then come under a classification for - physically infirm, mentally infirm, or student). Co-operative students have probably noticed that in years where they have two work-terms they must pay some tax, and in years where they only have one work-term much of their personal exemp- I tions are not needed to bring their taxable income down to either zero, or to the point where no tax is payable. This year that level is $1540. However, through the purchase of an RRSP, taxable income can be reduced by the amount of the purchase. Then in the subsequent year the amount in the plan can be taken out and added to a taxable income. The effect is to move an amount of income from one year to the next. For example, a person with two work-terms in 1976 and an income of $6000 could purchase an RRSP of $1200. Now after deducting standard personal exemptions of $2290, tuition of $700, employment expense deduction of $150 and education deduction of $200, their taxable income would be $1540 and no tax is payable on this amount. In the subsequent year the $1200 would be added to his income of say $3800 and as the reader can see no tax would be payable again. You may well be saying “Who has $1200 in February?” But your friendly neighbourhood trust company or bank is more than willing to lend you the money, provided you buy your RRSP from them. The deadline for purchasing an RRSP is March 1, 1977. Because we are residents of Ontario, Uncle Bill gives us back even more money through a program known as the Ontario tax credit. Basically you receive 20 percent of your personal exemptions less two percent of your taxable income. If you lived in residence however, you not only had to put up with the awful meals but you also are only allowed a $25 credit. If you run into any particular problem not discussed here simply refer to the tax guide provided or phone the District Taxation Office in Kitchener (579-6060). And remember - the earlier you file, the earlier you receive your refund. -jim

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The election of the editor would change from election by staff (ratified by council) to the election by staff and ratification by both the Chevron editorial,board and council. All three bodies must agree. Two other paid positions would be selected in the same manner. The handling of the electioin would be done by the Board of Publications Chairperson, not the chevron staff. The appointment of the advertising manager changes from the chevron staff to the board of publications. 6. Establishment of a Chevron Editorial Board Purpose: “To set out and enforce the all grieveditorial policy. . . to arbitrate ances ,brought forward by staff with regard to submissions to the newspaper . . ..” Membership: 7 elected students from 7 faculties, with voting rights; and the president, vice-president, treasurer, board of publications chairperson, and the chevron editor, without voting rights. The Editorial Board would be able to override the Board of Publications and members would be removed in the like manner as a member of council. 7. Recall Deadline for a by-election after recall is Nov. 15 instead of Dec. 31 for pres-, ident. Vice-president would assume presidential powers after this date. , Deadline for a by-election for students’ council is Dec. 15, not Dec. 31 and would be filled after this time “if council wishes to hold a by-election”. 8. Would eliminate voting rights for graduates. ..r 9. Recall Would disallow recall, within 90 days, of a council member having been reelected after being recalled. 10. Recall Would extend the life of a recalled council member form 3 days to 5 days from the submission of the petition. 11. Official policy Policy motions would require two-thirds passage in council to take

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1. Appointment of Directors There are 5 directors of the federation who together have complete powers over the corporation. The; include the president, vice-president and the treasurer, all ex-officio members of the board and two others chosen “if necessary, by lot” from voting board and council memoers. This is a standard motion submitted at every annual general meeting in accordance with Section 2 of By-law No. 1. Numbers 2 through McLellan/White.

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2. Federation membership Differentiates between regular members - the president, the-editor of the student newspaper, all full time employees and graduate students and regular members who pay fees. Only fee paying members would have voting rights, . 3. Would remove graduates from federation council. 4. A council meeting could be called by the president, vice-president, the speaker, or jointly by 13 council members. 5. Rewrites the Board of Publications by-law : The editorial policy of the chevron would change from the editor (in practice, the staff of the paper) to the “The Chevron Editorial Board . . .but in the case it is not properly constituted then the editorial policy shall be the prerogative of the board of publications.”

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federation. Council would be able to award two honourary memberships a year. 17. Recall Proposes a counter-recall petition to compete with a petition of recall winner takes all. Extends the mandate of a recalled councillor from 3 to 7 days. 18. Recall (Manny Brykman) Would allow Numbers 73 through 17 are proposed by 1.1. names to be removed from a recall petition Long. until it is handed’in. If the petition were ac13. Succession Acting president, if both the cepted, there would be a referendum within president and vice-president are vacant, 20 days deciding on the recall petition once would become (in order): treasurer, more. If the referendum showed opposition speaker, a board chairperson (and voting to the councillor there would be a byelection within 20 days. council member) chosen by the board of directors, and a member of students’ council 19. Board of Directors meetings Could be chosen by the directors. After Nov. 15, the called by all board members. acting president would be replaced by the 20. Students Council Attendance selection of a president by a majority vote (Rogers/Rekuta) A member would lose on council. his/her seat if absent without notice from 14. Students’ Council By-law changes made two consecutive council meetings,- , or if abby a majority vote in council would take sent from 4 meetings in a term. effect only when approved by a general 2 1. Non-confidence in Douglas Thompson meeting or referendum. When changed by a (Cody/Castillo) Calls for a by-election for two-thirds vote it would take effect but president. would expire at a general meeting - unless 22. Status of president when elected approved at the meeting or in a referendum. (Blunden/Moghadam) Must be a student Would allow for the president of the when elected, not “when first elected”. “Graduate Student Union” to be a non23. Chairperson for General Meetings voting member of council. Proposes “desig(Blunden/von Bezold) Would be elected by nated alternates” to be elected on the same the assembled members of the meeting and ballot as the constituency representative. the assembled members would rule (instead Proposes that president and vice-president of the Chairperson) on challenges to the run on the same ballot as the constituency chair. representative. Proposes that president and 24. Reinstate. Investigate. (Blunden/von vice-president run on the same ballot in Bezold) Asserts that since the chevron was January or February of each year. closed down contrary to due process, the 15. Council Meetings Deals with rules and federation must return to the paper its regulations of council meetings. status as of Sept. 24, 1976, and investigate 16. Membership of the federation the closure. Distinguishes between regular members and 25. Non-student councillors (R. B. Burton) full fee-paying members with voting rights. Would allow an elected councillor to retain Allows for past regular members and the his/her seat even if s/he does not register for UW community to buy their way into the the following term. -randy barkman

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effect. Official policy concerns day-to-day Federation of Students operating rules. 12. Recall (Thompson) Would allow all members of council for whom a petition of recall is being circulated to circulate a petition of support . . .where a signature of support nullifies a signature of recall.

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en In an effort to make sense of the 24 proposed by-law changes and motions to be considered at Tuesday’s Federation of Students Annual Genera/ Meeting, chevron staffer Randy Barkman has labored long and late. In the followihg article Barkman briefly capsulizes the essential change made to existing by-laws in the proposed by-laws, and de_ scribes the other motions, which includes a reinstate-investigate motion. For comment on the by-law proposals, please turn to page 5.

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The food industry in Canada is dominated by a few companies who are causing price increases, putting independent farmers out of business, and keeping third world countries impoverished. Last week, in conjunction with Canada Food Week, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) sponsored a seminar on concentration in Canada’s food industry. David Robertson from OPIRG’s research department, presented an excellent talk which was preceded by a slide-tape montage “Food Production in Canada: Who Pays, Who Profits”, and followed by a discussion of possible courses of action to counter the existing state of affairs. Robertson revealed that while things may look okay on the surface, food retailing contains some painful surprises. Of the 23 supermarket chains operating some 1600 supermarkets across the country, four companies (Dominion, Weston, Canada Safeway, and Steinburg’s) control 77 percent of the market. The next four biggest companies bring the total to 95.8 percent. The raw figures and the different names of corporate subsidiaries naturally give the impression of a great number of competitors in the food business, but investigation reveals a high degree of concentration and dovetailing of corporate interests, said -Robertson. This means your food dollar goes to the middleman, the agribusiness concerns. Sixty-five cents out of every food dollar goes to the middleman. _Although food giants would have us believe that farmers are causing the price increases, in light of these statistics their arguments don’t hold water. Ultimately, in an oligopoly situation, the prices of products are fixed by the few competing companies to ensure a good profit for everyone, said Robert son. To bring the impact of concentration more into focus, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission estimated in a study a few years ago that food prices might fall by 25 percent if corporations were decentralized. An obvious implication of concentration is the consistent pressure it puts on independent farmers - more and more are going out of business. Perhaps even more than us, third world countries feel the bite. Entire nations are often dependent on the cash crops they raise; crops like bananas, rubber, coffee, cocoa, and cotton. Even though most countries could supply their own peoples’ food needs, the multi-nationals force the governments to keep producing export crops. If they didn’t, the companies would withdraw and plunge the nation into abject and devastating poverty, a position only marginally better than the one they now occupy. Although Robertson pointed out the current situation, he did not give a solution to the problem. The continued concentration of wealth is an economic law in a monopoly capitalist system, and Canada’s food industry operates in that context. Suggestions of viewing a supermarket as a “hostile environment” or buying more wholesome foods, with less food additives seem farcical when the power of corporations like Weston --dawid porter and Argus are revealed. --lacaues

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YA Make The Rich Pay! is the strategy proposed by the AntiImperialist Alliance to defeat the campaign of the Canadian state and monopoly capitalist class to make the people shoulder the burden of the economic crisis. Monday’s AIA forum was devoted to dealing with the first step in making the rich pay, that is, answering the question: “Who are the * rich?“. The Canadian state has done wide-spread propaganda claiming that it is the top 20 per cent of income earners who are the rich. The average family income of that in-’ come bracket in 1975 was$29,000. For example, a recent federal government investigation into who goes to university reported, said the AIA spokesman, that it is “the rich, the financially well off, the already-privileged classes” who attend, and that 60 per cent did not need to borrow from the government to complete their education. This propaganda has caused some confusion among UW students, and others, as reflected in recently-issued demands that would shift the burden of tuition fee hikes and rent increases onto the people. For example, the leaders of the Married Students Tenants’ Association called for a combination of a 9 per cent rent increase and maintenance cuts rather than a full 13.8 per cent rent increase. This would have cost several people their jobs, and the already-

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Similarly, the slogan “Implement the tuition fee hike for those who can afford to pay, but refuse to implement the fee for those who can’t afford to pay it” is incorrect and will divide students, said the AIA spokesman. “The rich are not those students who have an extra hundred bucks in their pocket.” Who, then are the rich? The rich are not defined by. monetary income. The Marxist analysis given by the AIA is that the rich are those who own the means of production of wealth and use it to exploit the labor of others, as well as those who make their wealth through ownership of land, stocks, or any other profit-bearing capital. The rich also includes those who dominate the state. The rich use their state in order to shift the burden of the economic crisis onto the people. In Canada, the rich are mainly U.S. imperialists finance capitalists who own capital, loaning it at high interest rates, and who own much of the resources and industries in this country. There are also some Canadian monopoly Iinance capitalists, and huge Cana-. dian Qmdlords who are among the rich. In May, 1976, Ontario Hydro borrowed $650 million through a bond issue, which was largely taken up in the U.S.

“It’s people who have money like that kicking around who are the rich,” said the AIA spokesman, not the family earning $13,000 a year. They are the ones who will have to pay increased hydro rates in order to pay off the $62 million interest on the 20-year bond. The main factor which distinguishes the rich is that they use their wealth to hire workers, that is, purchase labor-power, and put it to work to gain rriore wealth. The rich are the expropriators of the surplus value produced by the working clas-s. “And that’s the.only way to get rich. There simply is no job which will allow you to make enough to become rich.” “Only through this process of investing in production can you become rich.“The AIA spokesman contrasted the rich with the petit-bourgeoisie, the class which owns a small amount of capital in the form of land or machinery or some relatively rare skill or training. The petit-bourgeoisie, or middle-class, must continue to work in order to maintain an income. They are not parasites, like the bourgeoisie. “The key distinction is between earned income and unearned income. The middle class earns their income, through a high level of skill or ownership of some property.” Those wh-o own no wealthproducing property and who must sell their labor in order to survive, no matter what form that labor takes, or how much is received for

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it, are part of the working class. The working class comprises roughly 80 per cent of Canadian society, said the AIA spokesman. Together - with petitthe bourgeosie,- they make up fully 95 per cent of Canadian’ society. There are the Canadian people, who are exploited by the rich. . “We do not consider the monopoly capitalist class part of the people.” Make the Rich Pay is a slogan for all the people, for everyone but the exploiter, said the AIA spokesman. Make the Rich Pay! is a slogan with class content, addressed to all

of the Canadian people, and against the’ bourgeoisie. It means “overthrowing the U.S. imperialist domination of Canada” and waging class struggle against the state of the rich. But the details of how this slogan “can only be worked out in the course of actual struggles, not by reading some books or government reports and issuing directives from the sidelines.” How to Make the Rich Pay! will be the topic for next Monday’s AIA forum. --gerard -4arry

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Thompson is in, and he and his little clique are closing the doors behind themselves. Under the guise of making the federation more democratic and open to students, federation councillors are out to make it next to impossible to recall anybody. At a secret board of directors meeting held on January 19th the by-laws were amended so that if the president isn’t recalled by Nov. 15th then there is no by-election and the vice-president takes over for the rest of the defunct president’s term. Wait a minute! That means that unless the Robert’s recall had started in Septmeber then it probably wouldn’t have made the deadline. By the time the students realize they’ve got a turkey for a president its too late to beat the deadline. And if the president is recalled only after the deadline then the president’s hand-picked vicepresident takes over and of course theres no election. What a deal! Enter the board of directors again for another secret meeting. This time its held at two in the morning in McLellan’s house (also Roberts’ house) on February lOth, and more major changes to the recall by-laws are made. This time Thompson sits on the board because of an unusual by-law change at the January 19 board meeting. Under the new amendments if your pre,sidential recall petition does get completed in time to beat the Nov. 15th deadline then you don’t automatically get an election. Surprise, there is a referendum within 20 days to see whether or not he/she should be recalled. But the referendum isn’t even

son3 -crew fear \re binding. If the rep wins then he/she stays. If the rep loses then he/she gets another chance when the byelection is held under existing bylaws. What the heck is going on here? If your going to have an election to see if a rep should stay in power then why have a referendum first? The referendum is clearly designed as another obstacle slowing recall. To recall Thompson you must picture a $2,000 referendum and an extra month’s hassles trying to get the man out through a subsequent $2,000 election. Designed to turn people off who would prefer to save money and hassle and let the guy finish his term. Despite the fact that the Board of Directors acted arbitrarily in passing these measures, council saw fit to ratify them rather than bring them forward for impartial consideration by students at a general meeting or a referendum. If you still think a presidential recall is still possible then consider the proposal which president-elect Doug Thompson has put on the agenda for the March 1st general meeting. Thompson wants to have the recall by-laws further changed so that any member of Council can circulate a petition of support to literally nulify signatures on the recall petition. In other words, it’s a runoff between petitions. Thompson never mentioned such a petition proposal when he was campaigning, how come? , J.J. Long’s motion to the general fieeting (Long don’t forget is a CRG member) goes along with the same line as Thompson. Long also wants a counter petition-of support writt,en into the by-laws. But he

doesn’t want any nulification to occur. Rather he will be satisfied with a simple run-off between the two petitions and may the best petition win ! What kind of kindergarden rules are these? The feds are saying lets have a petition race to see if people want a referendum to see if people want an election to see if they want to get rid of their rep or not. Oh yeah, and a final kicker is a motion at the general meeting by McLellan which proposes that a rep not be recalled during his/her first 90 days in office, no matter what ! Why are the feds trying to make it extremely difficult to redall a rep and next to impossible to recall a president? And why are they enacting these changes at secret board meetings? Recalls aren’t a dime a dozen. The Roberts recall took two months, more than one hundred students carrying recall petitions and over 2200 signatures. And even then Roberts could run again to exonerate himself. The recall of arts councillors Orth and Klingender in November required 366 signatures on a recall petition when only approximately one hundred people had voted for them in the first place. Even then it was bounced out on a technicality. Recalls give students a chance to democratically force a rep to run for election again. It means students don’t necessarily have to put up with an incompetent and/or corrupt rep.

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Cons in the past two years has campaigned on a platform that included making recalls harder for students to get! Not Roberts! Not McLellan! Not Thompson! So why the sudden changes in the recall bylaws? Why do the feds want recalls to be tougher (impossible?) to get? Where is the student demand for these changes? What do the feds fear? A recall? What the whole fed tactic boils down to is not an effort to make the federation more democratic and open to students. It is clear cut effort to set up an obstacle course which makes existing recall bylaws virtually useless. Now that they’re in power your reps want to shut the door behind them by killing recalls! And this obstacle course is being set up in fair part by secret arbitrary means, not by an open democratic process. And it is being “objectively” reported but not investigated by the Real Chevron, a newspaper being used as a propof the feds. aganda organ They’re using students money to sell undemocratic principals and actions.

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I spoke with Brian Iler the Chevron’s legal counsel in Toronto about the bylaw changes and the manner in which they were enacted. Iler is a former UW student federation president who knows the ropes. He termed the Board of Directors actions “obviously undemocratic” and said that the federation is being run much like a business, and a bad business at that, and not like a students union. Iler was also concerned with the legality of the by-law changes with a particular emphasis on the by-law

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He said the by-law enactment might not be technically against the Corporations Act of Ontario, they could be declabed illegal because the directors acted arbitrarily and in a manner counter to the best interests of the shareholders in the corporation (i.e. us). Iler noted that some of the existing federation by-laws may in fact be illegal, in particular the one concerning the challenging of the chair at general meetings. I’lI go with Iler’s interpretation. He’s been right before on the legality of the referendum’s “bindingness” and about the fed’s improper actions concerning the interim injunction to throw students out of the chevron office.

Why? So start asking some questions. Like why have changes to the recall by-laws been undertaken in an arbitrary , secret and undemocratic manner? In a manner that may be illegal. And why are even tougher antirecall motions being put forward by the federation reps who have tried for so long to kill the student paper as they saw fit? And why are we the only ones telling you this? Having done this consider visiting the general meeting on March 1st and killing these by-law changes and their related motions, before your stuck with them and your reps for a long time to come. Railroads have gone bankrupt before. The same will happen to the McLellan/CRG/Thompson one if concerned students give a damn.

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Finally here’s a mo%ie that breaks away from the pretentious sludge, the remakes and the rehash. It’s true, “Rocky” is a strange amalgam of realism and fantasy: it’s a story about a boxer who falls in love with a girl who works in a pet store, and who gets a wild chance at the world heavyweight championship. The plot is too simple and unimportant to bear further explanation. What makes the movie work is the stunning performance of the lead-role by “Rocky’s” scriptwriter, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky is an intensely human, somewhat dumb person who boxes because he “can’t sing or dance”. By his own admission, “Only a moron would box”. He is proud of his nose, which has survived, un. broken, through numerous fights. He works as a collector for a loan-shark, but cannot bring himself to use his brawn for anything more than a threat-he even defies his boss, not to break a client’s thumbs. He lives alone in a decrepit room, with his goldfish and two turtles, which he bought from the pet-store girl. Stallone is supported by a magnificent cast of relative unknowns’

The Rites of Spring The University of Waterloo Reper-tory Dance Company and the Carousel Performing Group will hail the coming of spring in their major dance presentation in the Humanities Theatre, 8 p.m. on March 3 and 4. A special highlight of the evening will be performed by the Carousel Performing Group which is comprised of university students and children, under the direction of Ruth Priddle. Ballet pieces have been created by Lois Smith, faculty member and by Chris Bauman and Patricia Beaman both first-year students, and Lynn Superstein and Vickie Galea, third-year students. Modern dance numbers have been choreographed by faculty members Gabby Micelli and Judy Jarvis and by third-year students Paulette Bibeau and Edith Looker, also by visiting choreographer Diana Taplin. Admission is $2.50, Students and Seniors $1 SO. Available at the Main Box Office, Modern Languages building, UW Campus. 8854280 (Picture, page 3.) 4ebi

(Burgess Meredith is in it, but he wasn’t all that great). Acting aside, the filmwork is superb, and a brilliant opening heralded by a baroque trumpet call quickly establishes this. Extensive use of long lenses in many of the scenes, especially the opening, gives the viewer a paradoxical, remote intimacy - it thrusts him into the midst of action, without allowing him to take part in it. The excellent photography,

superb acting, and tight script allow each of the characters to express their relevant facets to the audience in an economical and touching way. Throughout the film it is impossible to determine how much of “Rocky” is realistic, and how much is pure fantasy - it is the perfect blending of the two that makes “Rocky” such an enchanting fable (The Lyric * * * *) -oscar m nierstrasz I

Music into pictures Tuesday night the third meeting of Mu (pronounced mu-sigh), an informal campus music and science group, heard, saw and talked about making musical sound visible. As part of the demonstration, Integrated Studies president David Harrison used a violin bow to vibrate a horizontal metal plate with Arts library ashtray sand sprinkled over it. The sand collected in nodal (i.e. least vibrating) points and lines on the surface of the plate, showing which parts of the plate were vibrating a lot and which very little. This nodal pattern, called a Chladni figure, is characteristic for the plate at given frequency(ies) of vibration. In a guitar or violin, front and back plates of the instrument (and airspace in between) amplify by resonating to the sound of the strings. Plates with a balanced response

over a wide range of frequencies, show characteristic Chladni figures when tested before an instrument is assembled. Some stringed instrument makers are using techniques like this to “make sound visible”, in order to improve quality and help develop new kinds of instruments. Acoustics researcher Bill. Gastmeier, who did a U.W. M.Sc. thesis on the physics of the guitar, demonstrated how you can test the resonant response of a guitar body by vibrating it with a speaker. A microphone in front ‘of the guitar’s airhole feeds an oscilliscope to show at what frequencies front and back plates, and the airmass in between, are capable of vibrating most sympathetically with the strings. For more details on this check Bill’s thesis; Mu-sci mailing list: Jim Parrott, E.M.S. library. -ernst

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The University” of Waterloo Drama Group gives you a chance to relive the 60’s March 7 to 5. “Kennedy’s Children” written by Robert Patrick focuses in on the mood of a turbulent decade. Admissitin is only one dollar and should be we// worth it. Curtain time is 8pm.

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Drama group’s (“Antigone” remeains a tragic success Antigone, a pale-faced, boyish girl, enchanting, stubborn creature who defies a king to bury her brother, chooses death over ambiguous life. Her impulse staves off corruption, even when her actions support the corrupt. “Antigone” is Anouilh’s interpretation of Greek drama, refreshingly performed last week for UW audiences (for free) in the Arts Theatre. “Antigone” is a’tragedy,

Show deserves last rites ~ Last week the Theatre of the Arts was graced by “The Rites of Nuliajuk”, a performance which was supposed to recreate the ritual of the hunt on the icefloes of Arctic Canada. Thinly put together by musician Douglas Pringle and artist Michaele Breman, the show is the worst thing to come out of the Canadian entertainment scene since the Defranco family. Described as “a new musical artwork” in the accompanying programme, “The Rites of Nuliajuk” was more thiatre garbage than theatre moderne. The show was essentially an hour and a half of rock band featuring sleazy keyboard and squealing guitar work, which altogether sounded l&-e lemmings dropping into the Beaufort Sea. At best the band belongs in the campus centre pub and not in a theatrical production. Backing the band< was a disjointed slide show which had an endless number of close up shots of animal carcasses and a soundtrack which constantly spewed forth references to guts, trembling, raw flesh, tears of blood and primaeval forces that control m8n. Any of the spiritual significance of the hunt is easily lost in the blood and gore

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ks far as the actual theatrical acting goes, it’s kept to a bare minimum. The only memorable portion comes midway through the performance when Michaele Berman does a reasonably credible job portraying the spirit of the sea creature Nuliajuk who, according to Inuit belief, surrenders a part of herself to mankind as a sacrament when an animal is killed. The other acting is hopelessly out of place and secondary to the band blasting away. The worst sin of all is the Eskimo, Norman Ekoomiak, who is cast in the r6le of a lifeless stage prop. All in all, “The Rites of Nuliajuk” proved to be a cheap peep show - a quick tourist trip which sentimentalized over the traditional arctic, but feared to face the frightful realities of today. Now the bulldozers indiscriminately carve up the landscape, native children boil records for the .alcohol, and the Territorial government seems to serve no one but the Ottawa-type civil servants who man it. Overall, “The Rites of Nuliajuk” is a good idea which went astray. They at least tried to. bring a portion of Arctic Canada down

south to people who have only the slightest idea about what it’s all about. They at least tried to reduce some of our ignorance about a land and a people we all too easily run roughshod over every single day. But their efforts were for naught because they failed to reach out to their audience on a genuinely personal basis. -tom

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says the chorus, as opposed to a melodrama, because the fate of the characters is never in doubt. We know from the beginning that Antigone will die, Haemon, King Creon’s son, )who loves Antigone, will die, Eurydice, the queen, will die. Creon himself, is doomed to live on a contradictory life, plying his “king’s trade”, doing what he does not believe iti for the sake of his people. The tragedy, it seems, is not Antigone, for she will die with a clear conscience, in innocence. The tragedy is Creon, who is trapped, of his own free will, by a destiny @at will not let him be free. In general, casting was quite good. The strongest performance was of Creon (Chris Newton) -the epitome of the tragic hero, despicable, yet sympathetic. We begin to understand why he will not allow Antigone to bury Polynices, her brother, even though he does not find the idea appetizing. Antigone too (Karen Woolridge) was strong, but far more difficult to .

play, since Antigone is so remote, psychologically. Most of her part was acted as though she were standing, shivering in rainstorm, in the middle of a dark, desolate field. Occasionally this hindered dialogue, but the effect was worth it. Nkxt worth mentioning is a delightful characterization of a disintergsted guard by Daniel Wood. The r6le, though a comic one, was saved from being just that, and a scene between him and Antigone, in which he desperately tries toavoid involvement, succeeds in being touching as well as humourous. A small part done by Bruce Fowler, was also, fortunately, well done, as it brought the news of the deaths of the main characters, and tied up the action of the play. “Antigone” should serve as a lesson to UW students who ignore the on-campus events open to them: you all missed a great fulllength play, Better luck next time! -0scar m nierstrasz

Seger sparkles The latest album from Bob Seger, “Night Moves”, is another fine collection of music performed spiritedly by the man from Detroit. The first side starts right off with the best song on the album, “Rock and Roll Never Forgets”. The lyrics, the roaring band, the fast beat and Sege’r wailing in characteristic style, transplant the listener into the golden days of rock and r&11. Try keeping your feet still after the second time you’ve heard this song.

The pace then slows for Seger’s current single, “Night Moves”. It is another reminiscence, but this time a more personal one. The brassy sound of the band is replaced by a piano, guitar and backing vocals to give a quieter effect. Seger comes across as a simple story-teller. Back to a pounding beat and whining guitar for “The Fire Down Below”. This song is not as melodic as the first two, but Seger

sings out his view of the world intensely and convinces us that this is a good song. Seger open-s side two,with a funny, bouncy song about a girl who took off on a vacation with his credit card. Despite the fact that “Sunspot Baby” is not too melodic, the whole band comes crashing through and makes for a catchy tune. “Mainstreet” is a complete reversal. Haunting guitar work is used as the background for a sad story. After a few times, The refrain begins to grow on your mind. This is followed by the first of two songs not written by Seger. “Come to Poppa” sounds more like a Wilson Pickett special, complete with interminable repetition of the title. It is to Seger’s credit that the song sounds as good as it does. Hopefully, the listener will not be so turned off that s/he ignores the next song. Seger is really smooth on “Ship of Fools”, a beautiful, easy ballad of the sea. It deserves to be as memorable as “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ ’ . To finish, Seger chooses a typical 1955 rock-and-roll number, “Mary Lou”. The deep-voiced male backing vocals are there, but the song is embellished by some modern electric guitar and, as in all songs on the album, Seger’s singing. Although the album does riot reach the musical excitement of his 1975 masterpiece, “Beautiful Loser”, Bob Seger certainly deserves all recognition he receives from the release of this album. -4orne

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Genesis displays wares Last monday, at Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, the band Genesis transfixed thousands of happy and high fans with two solid hours of their wares. Genesis consistently performs a good cross section of all of their music at concerts, and this concert was no exception. The selections ranged from their latest album Wind and Wuthering to their early albums Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. The band - Phil Collins, Steve Hacket, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks -was complemented by Chester Thompson on an extra set of drums. Phil Collins divided his time between singing and cavorting on centre stage, and playing his own set of drums. The concert commenced at 825 p.m. with Dance on a Volcano from the album A Trick of the Tail. The acoustics were good-- throughout the concert, and the music and vocals were crystal clear. This is in contrast with their performance at UW last year; the acoustics in the PAC did a lot of damage to the sound. Dance on a Volcano was followed by Eleventh Earl of Mar and

Your Own Special Way, both from the album Wind and Wuthering. Unlike many bands, Genesis performs as well on stage as in a studio; the melodies and atmosphere of Wind and Wuthering were reproduced with great accuracy. After a forceful rendition of Robbery, Assault and Battery (from A Trick of the Tail), Genesis played Firth of Fifth from the unsurpassable album Selling England by the Pound. This was the album that made them famous, and it retains its popularity as was evidenced by the loud cheering that accompanied the selection. ‘The Carpet Crawlers (from the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) was performed reasonably well, although this reviewer was a little dis’appointed. At their concert at UW last year, Genesis was accompanied by a graphic light show and The Carpet Crawlers by a fascinating film. Unfortunately, the Mdnday concert was without such a show, and The Carpet Crawlers was somewhat lacking. On the whole, the lighting was good; an above-stage setup occasionally encased Phil Collins in a

cone of coloured light and streaked the ceiling with green. Supper’s Ready (from Foxtrot) and The Musical Box (from Nursery Cryme) are two early pieces which came out better on stage than they do,on the albums. They were accompanied by billowing stage smoke and some especially impressive fighting manouvres. Genesis returned to A Trick of the Tail for the finale - Los Endos. The crescendos were highlighted by the mixing crew to the point where everyone was literally vibrating. Fantastic! The inevitable encore brought the title track from the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and -I hate to be such a wet blanket-I was again disappointed. Not, however, due to lack of visuals but because of a lack of energy which may well have been the result of a two hour set. How can the tone of the music be summed up? “Dreamy” said o‘ne of the fans, and I think I concur. Genesis is in the major league of concert bands; if you enjoy their albums but haven’t seen them in concert, you have yet to be fulfilled. -

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safety In the first part of this letter (free chevron 11.2.77) I dealt with the views of Marx on the question of workers’ health and safety, and with the various distortions on this question presented by the bourgeoisie and the labour Marx’s view aristocrats (union “leaders”). is that capitalism attacks the health and safety of the workers both through the intensification of the productivity of labour (resulting in speedups and overwork which attack workers safety) and through the tendency to reduce to a minimum the value of the constant capital employed in the production of a commodity (resulting in poor working conditions). (1) As was shown, the bourgeoisie’s only interest is in maximizing profits while the labour aristocrats’ only interest is in selling out the working class by appealing to the capitalistsfor a “new value system” which puts people ahead of profits (shades of the N“D”P). I Where does the Workmen’s Compensation Board stand on this question? Is it some sort of impartial body or does it serve the interests of the workers or the bourgeoisie? Does it, as our friend McCartney implies, dish out payments to injured workers en tiasse? Not surprisingly, the answer is that the WCB serves the interests of the bourgeoisie and that workers who are injured have an extremely difficult time trying to collect money from the WCB. Even the Ontario ombudsman criticizes the WCB for procedures “so complex and confusing that they (injured workers making a claim) cannot, on their own, exercise their Various bourgeois politicians have rights.” also stood up to call for eliminating the “anticipated and time-consuming appeal system” of the WCB, and replacing it with a procedure designed to promote “speedy, fair, and sympathetic assessments of claims.” But what if the workers can’t even make an appeal’? “Eighty-one uranium miners died of lung cancer between 1955 and 1974, thirty-six more than ‘expected’ by the bourgeoisie. In. Quebec, 15,000 asbestos workers are daily exposed to deadly asbestos fibres in concentrations twenty times over those considered ‘safe’ even by the bourgeoisie. Workers at Stelco and Dofasco in Hamilton, and at Algoma in Sault Ste, Marie breathe coal tar emissions in concentrations sixty times greater than those ‘acceptable’. At the Canadian John Mansville asbestos plant in Scarborough, workers die of stomach cancer.” (2) ‘And none of these “accidents” are even recognized by the WCB! An av?rage of 1,094 workers were killed atinually in Canada from 1966 to 1975, and 860,997 were injured ‘(345,530 disabling injuries) annually during the same period. (3) As far as the bourgeoisie is concerned, life is expendable as long as profits are maximized. It is cheaper for them to pay some pittance to injured workers and to the families of murdered workers than it is to take proper safety precautions. Their total disregard for human life is nauseating, to say the least. For instance, when Village Building Supplies Ltd. of Toronto pleaded guilty to a charge of “failing to take reasonable precautions to protect workers on the job” which resulted in the killing of a worker, they were sentenced to a mere $2000 in fines. And there are several such examples in Canada occurring daily. The WCB also promotes the line of t,he bourgeoisie in attacking workers by doing propaganda that it is workers themselves who are responsible for their injuries. For instance, the WCB ads on TV give the slogan “Preventing accidents takes knowhow - you’ve got it, use it.” This is straight-forward lying propaganda which completely mystifies the cause of “accidents” at work. There are three other points raised by McCartney which deserve mention. I%, McCartney asserts that “ . . . as a chemical engineer, I am supposed to face twice as

great a risk of developing cancer, compared with any other group in Canada.“’ Now this is a lie. For example, “ . . . workers on the top side of coke oven batteries with over five year’s experience have a 10 times greater risk of contracting cancer than normal.” (4) Also, why is McCartney so complacent about the fact that chemical engineers must face higher cancer risks than is normal? Why does he resign himself to this fact being unfortunate but necessary? The second point, McCartney says that it is naive to suggest that “workers of suffer from inhospitable working Canada. . . conditions, unjust and heavy taxation, lack of true political power, (and) exploitation on the job. . .” Why is this naive? Because, McCartney asserts, “the APE0 . . . (has) less political clout than any Union of Postal Workers. . . and “engineers and all other management people pay.. . the same unjust and heavy taxes.” What nonsense? Why doesn’t McCartney deal with the question at hand? Why is it naive to suggest these things? Is it because “the opportunities for advancement are there” for workers to “start up their own businesses and become ‘aggressive fat cats’?” Thirdly, McCartney says “Labourers. .. (and others) must work in inhospitable environments in this land of ours.” Why? Canada is a rich enough country - surely we could provide proper health and safety conditions for labourers. There’s only one thing preventing this though. The motive for production under capitalism is maximum profit, which simply means that if it’s not profitable to have proper safety precautions taken, no safety precautions will be taken. It is only by demanding safe working conditions that the working class can make the capitalists pay to implement proper safety procedures. The workers should make them pay - they have every right to do so! Peter Blunden Footnotes: 1) Under capitalism, the ratio of constant capital to variable capital is constantly increasing as a result of the increasing socialization of Iabour and the increasing use of more sophisticated technology. Thus the view that capital tends to reduce to a minimum the value of the constant capital employedshould not be confused with the view that capitalists employ the minimum of constant capital, which gives the opposite impression of this process. 2) PCDN, volume 6, no. 60. 3) PCDN, volume 7, no. 44. 4) Executive, October 1975,“Health and Safety: The biti will be huge”. l

Irrational ramblings This letter initially criticizes Mr. Doug Wahlsten for the type of comments he made about Dr. David Suzuki’s lecture, but it later contains a suggestion, which I would like to make, to everyone who is annoyed by any of Mr. Wahlsten’s irrational ramblings.The whole point of Dr. Suzuki’s lecture was that the direction of science is not just the responsibility of scientists, but of nonscientists as well. To deliver this message it was completely within his scope to make generalizations in order that he might instil1 in us the idea that science left to the scientistsis as dangerous as war left to the generals. Indeed, the main illustration in his argument was that of the hearings on recombinant DNA, in Cambridge, Mass., and about this particular point Mr. Wahlsten has no qualms. Why then, does Dr. Suzuki’s thesis pass right-over Mr. Wahlsten’s head, so much so that he accuses Dr. Suzuki of not being a scientist? I submit that Mr. Wahlsten is simply mi>re interested in getting in on the attention by tryi<g to place himself above a man of accomplishment, by denying those accomplishments. Surely it must be as invalid for Mr. Wahlsten to deny that Dr. Suzuki is a scientist for this reason, as it is for me .to say that Mr. Wahlsten is a neurotic because of his irresistable compulsion to dominate the journalistic conversation when he has nothing to say. It is clear to me that Mr. Wahlsten is not speaking to us to make us aware of any inherent dangers in the world, but is only doing

so to engage in the art of debate. This is not an ungracious pastime, provided one follows the rules of logic and does not resort to character slurs when confronted with an insurmountable objection to ones own belief. There is also room to “agree to disagree” when there is insufficient evidence for either side to establish rigorously their argument. However, Mr. Wahlsten takes no note of any of these rules; and thus it can be seen that it is futile to engage in any sort of discussion with him. Therefore, I suggest to Dr. Pasternak and Dr. Reinis, who are currently involved in the debate on Lysenkoism, and anyone else who ha; made comment on, or feel they must make comment on, any of Mr. Wahlsten’s writings, ‘that to prevent personal frustration, they desist and refrain from providing fuel for Mr. Wahlsten’s illogical hachine. Let us exercise our right to not listen to garbage. If Mr. Wahlsten no longer has anyone to fling his mud at, he can only fling it on himself and hopefully be buried by it. Warren Christiani (Pure Mathematics, Yr. III)

Principled discussion In his letter of Feb. 18, Stanislav Reinis of the Psychology Department accuses the AIA and myself of advocating a political sysem which amounts to a fascist dictatorship. I publicly challenge Professor Reinis to demonstrate in the writings of either the AIA or myself where such a thing is promoted. I have submitted to Reinis a list of other charges in his letter which I defy him to substantiate. As it stands, his letter is nothing more than a barrage of slanders. To have principled disagreement and discussion about political line is legitimate, but to attack me and the AIA for views which we have never held and have in fact tenaciously opposed is a rotten tactic which raises serious questions in my mind about the motives of Professor Reinis. I will reserve judgment in this matter until he has either produced the citations which supposedly support his charges or admitted that he lied. Regarding the example of some empty wheat fields in Bohemia which Reinis observed, it has as little to do with Lysenko’s theories or the inheritance of acquired characters as does the fraudulent cask of Kammerer’s midwife toad cited by Professor Pasternak. The sheer stupidity of some of the arguments so far presented in this debate astounds me to no end. A single crop failure or a single specimen of a toad are so prone to biased sampling that they Ijrovide no basis whatsoever for an inductive generajization. Doug Wahlsten

Planted in the wind With your head high And your blue button shining With varying intensities Of each seasons sun You cry out “Reinstate-Investigate” We have seen even needles fall from limbs But you remain standing with your feet firmly planted. You stand tall for what you believe in And the winter does not fade you. Has the suns bright reflection on the spring snow made you squint? Are your eyes half closed? Should you stand so erect? Or bend with the breezes of yet another season. A new proposition Rejected The order is all wrong? Who is right “them” or you? Don’t let your shadow chase you into hiding Mr. Groundhog We don’t want another six weeks or six

months or six years of ludicrous turmoil. Stand tall and let us see your shadow

doesn’t scare you Let them walk around you and try to push you over You’ve stodd too long to let any idiot wind knock you down. Let them investigate then they’ll have no choice but to REINSTATE. Ma,v

Magpie

Scientific reality? Heading: - Student Gord Webb, not impressed with Doug Wahlsten’s article in Friday’s free chevron, offers the folzowing points of ‘criticism’. An unpopular professor, Doug Wahlsten, wrote Friday on topics ranging from David Suzuki’s supposed lack of s&e&i& grounding to his ‘racist, fa‘scist and genocidal opinions’. Apparently billing himselfas an expert on science, Wahlctt‘en behaved more like a priest intoning homage to the gods of jealousy. Wahlsten “ignorant”,

that Suzuki is that he has no scientific know-

told us repeatedly

ledge. Wahlsten said that Suzuki was a “dilettante” and “quite ignoiant” as well as being a ‘shallow scholar’ and an “arrogant brag-

gart” to boot. In the realm of Suzuki’s opinions, Wahlsten held that they lead straight into racism, fascism and genocide”. Prof. Wahlsten, I could go on reversing your article (free chevron, Feb. 18) but I think my point is made. Anyone can make a slanderous attack on another; it is much more difficult to chal-

ledge someone on a scientific and logical basis to reach some sort of constructive understanding. Obviously you wished to avoid this and get down to some honest-togoodness mudslinging. Criticism (which your article was billed as) implies the skillful fault-finding in a piece of work, article, etc. - none of which was evident in your ‘comment’. I would like to address my hopefully critical remarks to just a part of your article. What is so “reactionary” about the “essence of human makeup” being determined by DNA molecules? Are you using “reactionary” in the sense that the theory of genetic heredity is, scientifically, a retrograde tendency? This bears little credence seeing that this has been one of the largest recent steps forward in biological research, effecting not only that science but many others. Or are you using it in the sense of a politically backward step? In which case you would probably like to attack the law of gravity as giving too much -advantage to tail people. You cannot deny scientific reality for the sake of a moralistic dogma, it is far better to accept it and work on a political system based on this reality - not an illusion. To call the proposal that human beings have a “need for order” as ’ ‘reactionary” completely mystifies me. Are you stating (as it would seem to imply) that we do not need order? I didn’t realize that there were ani true anarchists left in to-day’s world. And how the very real threat of over-. poulation can be called by that catch-all word of “reactionary” puzzles me. If you had substituted ‘scientific’ for “reactionary” your article would have made far better sense. These are scientific

theories, and as such scientific investigaand debate. If you, had advanced some sort of

are open to discussion, tion, rational thought

Prof. Wahlsten, reasoned basis for you comment9 I, for one, would have been far more interested than in

your

own

“unsubstantiated

opinions”.

Rather than using Suzuki’s talk for your own personal ends (and in so doing misleading many who read your article but did not hear

Suzuki), you would have done us all a service if you had advanced the opposing (nonreactionary?) theories, discussing their merits and letting us decide as to where we stood. Gord

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article is not a matter of interpretation. The former editor of the scabron, in his doggerdly’attempt at excusing his promotion of sexism, has stated, “No material in itself is racist, sexist, fascist, communist . . . Not only does this statement reek of fascist mystification, but illustrates the total bankruptcy of the scabron. For “on page 6 of the same issue we find an article entitled “Racism; Sexism in Textbooks.” Burtonfurther elaborates that the purpose of the Grand Hotel article was to “point out that many people possess minds of questionable content”. Are people bol;n with this sort of mind or is it people like Burton, who pub-lish pornography, who fertilize this outlook? Is the content of the engineers’ disgusting. newsletter or the content of the shameless publication which was circulated by trotskyist Sam Wagar (now acting chairperson of the B. of Ed.) earlier. this fall, in order “to point out that many people have minds of -.questionable content”?, If the scabron were genuinely interested in * taking a stand against sexism or racism, it w.ould suppress all such material. Instead, it is’advocated. The scabron and its scab writers have a history-of promoting anticommunism, racism and sexism. The democratic student_ at UW have nothing but the utmost contempt for this rag.

so consistently wrong. It has come to the - point at the University of Waterloo that. whenever’the initials AIA are signedto any document, you can almost be certain that if you oppose their argument, then youwill -come up with the correct interpretation of, -T the situation. In their. letter entitled “Zionism is Racism” this point is blatantly obvious. They have so misconstrued, misin_terpreted, and misquoted -every reference they refer to, that it boggles the mind as to where to begin to refute them. ~ F To argue as to whether Zionism is racism or is not racism is absurd. The statementin itself is obscene and was concocted by a group of misfit tyrants at the UN. This is the same body that on one hand condemns Israel for killing six persons in the Gaza Strip, but on the other hand makes no mention anywhere to the war in Lebanon in which tens of thousands were slaughtered. No where in its transcripts does it-ever mention the war in Indochina. No where does it mention the invasion of a sovereign state (Lebanon) by alien forces (Syria). But of course to the AIA I Dianne Chapitis this does not matter. Their way of,thinking - permits them to overlook these minor travesties and continue to berate the issue of Israel. I think that Idi Amin would be very proud of their work. They say that “The Palestinian people . were driven from their homelands by force This just is -, of arms wielded by the Zionists.” not true. It is a lie. First in 1922,80% of what I spent part of this morning trying to plawas the historic land of Palestine was se? cate a village resident who felt like beating vered by the British and later became Transup the tow truck driver who had just towed jordan and is now Jordan. In 1947, UNSCdP away his car for the second time. I explained .., (UN Special Commission on Palestine) rethat I sympathized with>is feeling but the ’ commended partition of the remaining 20% blame and his anger should be aimed at the university. of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. The UN commission,was comprised of 11 Staying calm’ wasn’t particularly, easy, nations. Seven nations:Canada, Czechosespecially since I’d stayed up all night working on an assignment and had only two hours lovakia, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, and Uruguay/recommended parsleep when a guy on my flog woke me with a 3\. titian‘: India, Iran and Yugoslavia recombig grin to tell me they’d got me again. Pm probabIy going to set a new record. I mended a unitary’state with Arab and Jewish provinces. Australia abstained. The ad hoc ’ stopped counting when they got me three committee of the UN General Assembly retimes in as many weeks. (8 times this year.1 think - at $11 .OO a shot) jected the Arab demand of a unitary Arab My argument to calm the upset villager state 29 to l-2, 14 abstentions, 2 absentees. /was that 2 times was only\ an initiation in The UN resolution was adopted by a vote of 33 to 13, 10 abstentions. - ’ comparison. (When I reread this I can un-. There is no-argument as to Israel’s right to derstand why he regarded me with disbelief.) I moved into the village inJanuary. Con-. exist. The plight of the? Palestinian Arabs I think however is a necessary point of discussion. , sidering the high cost of residence However, as has happened before, the parking should be included but I was totally Palestinian Arabs are a political tool. First willing to pay separately. I was told there they were used by their so-called Arab bretwere no permits. hren in Jordan, then in Lebanon, and finally The alternative has been (or used to be) to bySyria. Now they are further used to help parkin the public lots but now cars left over spout the Marxist rhetoric of the AIA. ‘_ night are towed away. Nothing warms me Ifany person wishes to discuss this issue more than our over zealous security towing a with me, my number is in the book. Unlike public lot twice on a fine morning. the person(s) who wrote the AIA letter, 1 am Because towing costs were costing me not afraid to sign my name and do not hide , more than running my car, I approached security for a solution. I was chee’rfully inbehind a pseudonym. ( - Larry Sheldon formed that if I parked in Seagrams ,my odds j of being towed would be halved. How reassuring . Security told me parking space was the responsibility of the village. The village office told me it was the responsibility of security. It’s about time someone not only took Fascism promotes decadence and festers ’ responsibility but took action: -in an sutlookofmysticism, racism, nihilism Being a car owner without a permit makes - and pessimism. Burton’s moans about violme a member of a small minority (at least 10 ent cop shows and dead baby seals leaves people I know in Villagel). I hope this will little room for optimism. In fact, such an not be used as an excuse to continue this outlook gives rise to the attitude that nothing unjust and unfair procedure. Automobile can be done to change the world. It is preownership is in fact fairly high at Waterloo; a cisely on this outlook that the fascists aspire good percentage of students live outside the to mobilize the youth. K-W area. Hopefully I can find a sympatheBy advocating the line that reality is a tic ear. matter of interpretation, Burton exposes We have a large campus with a lot ofun_ himself as a traitor to not only the students at used land. If provision’cahnot be ‘made to this university, but a traitor to oppressed accomodate all students. within existing people of the world. Is the $100 fee hike a facilities, let’s build more. And until we do matter of interpretation? Is the racist Green so let’s provide a temporary system to fill the Paper on Immigration a matter of interpretagap. If those responsible have no ideas to tion? If the Pope had written Mein Kampf solve ,this .problem I would be more than willing to help them-find a solution. would that negate the fact that it is a fascist document? And, similarly, a blatantly sexist Though I amunsure whether this letter

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sufficiently expresses my frustration, I must conclude. My car has beenin the same location for over two hours and there is no use in tempting fate.

Vehemt pro/test

Brian Byrnes

I ‘must vehemently protest the treatment accorded to my letter in your issue of last week. The most blatant error is the misspelling of my name; perhaps your “lettitor” waslooking at the ‘real’ chevron of the previous week, instead of the foot of the &%tter where the name was both signed and typed. Even more damning, was the heading “Copout”. I am already a.representative on Mathsoc council, and senate undergraduate council, as well as taking a full honours course of study with extensive extra reading. Recently I assumed the job of Mathsoc education director, a job which has gone undone for some time. In this light, running/for fed council required an extension of myself which could only be justified if absolutely necessary. The presence of other viable candidates removed any necessity for my candidacy. I find it interesting-that the label “Copout” was not applied to your staff member, Salah Bachir, when he withdrew from the federation presidential campaign a few weeks ago. Any comment? You should also note that “mathNEWS” is ALWAYS set in bold face. It was in bold face in the original letter; publications referenced by a letterfrom the “Anti-Imperialist Alliance” on the same page are set in bold face. Note: besides the responsibilities mentioned above, I contribute to mathNEWS on a regular basis. I trust that such shoddy “lettitorship” will not appear in future. David W. Gillett The wrong spelling of your name (Gillett with one 9”) was the fault of our typesetters as we simply sent your original copy down to Dumont. We apologize. That “mathNEWS” Js not set in bold face is your own fault for not underlining the same. You made the same mistake in this letter. The head “Copout” is indeed our fault for editorializing your letter. Heads should merely reflect copy. Again we apologize. lettjtor

Scabron I sexist * The scabron has consistently demonstrated its total contempt for journalistic principles (in keeping with the federation which it serves) but the article on the Grand Hotel which appeared in the Feb. 11 excretion was the lowest. The unsigned article described women in terms more dehumanizing than those the same person would apply to some inanimate object. I hope the women referred to will meet the writer of the article in an alley and demonstrate how animate they are. Perhaps upon regaining “consciousness” the writer could examine its attitudes andrealize that sexism not only has no place in journalism N but that sexism has no place. f

-Robert

Taylor

Kyryt& .decrie-d

25, 1977

febrqary

’ Two w;ks ago in the ‘real’ chevron, Leona Ky(rytow, the supposed chairperson of the board of publications, replied to a story I wrote entitled “Who Lost the Cameras?“. She labelled it an “outrageous lie”. In my article I state thpt 3 cameras are missing and in her letter she refutes this: “There is no equipment missing from the cabinet.” Of course, there-were no cameras missing .at this time (see ‘Cameras Reappear’ in the Feb. 11 chevron) but the question is, had they been missing? Two or three weeks before-my article appeared, Kyrytow made an open statement in the federation offices that thre cameras -were missing. This was heard by business manager Peter Yates, Loris Gervasio,, and Sylvia Hannigan, among others. Y7ates got mad at Kyrytow, asking her about the two ‘unaccounted for cameras that had not even been signed out. Kyrytow now claims that the cameras were being safe-kept by Doug /Thompson. But Gervasio, a student photographer, who has worked’for both papers say&she ‘didn’t ever make an inference that they were being safe-kept. If they were, she, was lying to Yates, Sylvia and myself.” Kyrytow further states she ‘never told Helga Petz, federation secretary, that she didn’t want the responsibility of the cameras and that she would resign if this were the case. Petz reaffirms this to be true. Gervasio, however, maintains that in a telephone conversation Kyrytow said she handed the keys over to Petz, saying she was tired of taking care of the cameras and that if anything happened-it was not her responsibility . From *what I can piece together, one camera suddenly appeared on Peter Yatks’ desk the week after my Feb. 4 article. The other two cameras were returned by Doug Thompson that same week. As to Kyrytow’s claim that the article was “ a personal aftack” on her character, this is untrue. That she obtainsd her job under less than normal circumstances; that several council members considered her incompetent for the position, and that she herself admitted she had no -qualifications for the job, are based on a Nov. 19 article in the chevron, and remain relevant. --The facts are there - cameras were missing from the cabinet for over three weeks. Xyrytow obscures this by saying the cameras are now back. If she wanted the cameras safeguarded, is not the. proper place for them locked in the camera cabinet? As to Kyrytow’s assertion that if she 5 wrote to the chevron we would “twist’everything I say or misquote me to their own advantage”, this is untrue. I challenge her to defend herself. It is futile to ask for her resignation - under the present administra, tion she fits like a grove.Randy Barkman -Since this letter was written, the chevron has learned that Leona Kyrytow has resigned as chairperson of the Board of Publications.-lettitor

A member of th@ Canadian University Press, the free chevron is oroduced and published,“by the chevron staff and is typeset -by Dumdnt Press Graphix. The free chevron is produced from Room \140, Campus Centre, University of Watirlo6,.Waterlbo, Ontarib, Here it is again, the masthead that you read every week; and this weeks’ one is special -this is the twentieth issue of the free chevron,-and surely an occasion (I’ll drink to that);-Another occasion that might have been worthy of at least a beer was the half-hearted return of sprin,g at the beginning of this week; this was quickly eradicated by Wednesday’s weather, and ole man winter returned once again. The following free chevrics braved the weather to bring you this weeks paper: randy barkman, phil Cramer, val moghadam, larry hannant, mike hazell, ernst von bezold and sister Charlotte, ruth, shih k’ang-ti, dave carter, Oscar m nierstrasz (who is falling asleep in the graphics-room), jonathan coles, lorne gershuny, mart shafroth (token reactionary for Ad-3), heather robertson, peter, blunder& jules grajower, tom cody (not the commander), neil docherty, stan switalski, jayne pollock, dianne chapitis (smiley), nick redding,, Sharon fletcher.(a new writer), co-writer vicki asada, jim macneill (anotheF68w recruit), doug wahlsten, rob taylor, doug goodgellow (what catrlsay?), d c fraser, donna wills, scott barron (almost forgot you there), commodore Chris dufault (a sailor!), and of course the dumont ducks. This paper,gets b,etter and better each week, but to make it even better we need you tq,co$ne on down to the office; you’re always welcome. Stay tuned next week! t. alex / - %%

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An open letter to Doug Thompson:.’ Last week the chevron staff received your proposal for a solution to the chevronfederation conflict which appears to concede to our demand of Reinstate Invest igate. We reject your offer as a basis of settlement to the present conflict. We find it unacceptable because, while it uses the term “re-instate”, it does not, in fact, offer reinstatement of the chevron as it was September 24,1976. And while it would set up two investigations it does not, in fact, offer a thorough, student-run investigation into the chevron-federation conflict. The “reinstatement” you propose is not reinstatement at all - only a partial re-opening of the chevron. It specifically exciudes full restoration of the chevron budget to the chevron staff. You state “This reinstatement does not involve the assumption of any back debts of the free chevron or the payment of back debts to any terminated employees.” Moreover, it does not say that the positions of the “terminated employees” will be restored to the chevron. You also propose a contingent reopening which will not guarantee that the chevron will remain open. Instead, the reinstatement is effective “until the report of the investigative body is made.” This would guarantee that the chevron is reopened for one week only, regardless of the findings of the first investigation. Instead, there should be a full reinstatement of the chevron until such time as a decision of an investigation recommends otherwise and these measures are adopted. The federation executive and council’s initial lock-out of the chevron staff from its office and closure of the paper were carried out on the basis of rumours and allegations, witfiout investigating whether they were true. In doing so, the federation executive and council acted arbitrarily and undemocratically, violating the democratic rights of the chevron, the principle of due process -a fair trial before a verdict -Canadian University Press (CUP) principles and the constitution of the federation of students. The federation must rectify this wrongdoing by fully reinstating the chevron as it was on September 24, 1976. To exclude back pay from the paid staff, whose jobs were eliminated in the illegitimate closing of the chevron, is to say that these people had their positions eliminated legitimately and that, in fact, there is some legitmacy in the federation actions against the student newspaper. This is not so. Also, the chevron staff have continued to put out the student newspaper, the free chevron, despite every effort of the federation to prevent them from doing so. The free chevron is at present the legitmate UW student newspaper - it is the chevron minus its publisher, de facto, by virtue of the actual cutting off of fundsand a number of services by the federation. The restoration of the full chevron budget to the chevron staff would recognize the legitimacy of the chevron staff’s struggle against the arbitrary and anti-democratic actions of the federation executive and council. The restoration of the budget to the chevron staff means the assumption of any debt the chevron staff may have incurred in the course of their struggle, including publication of the free chevron, lawyer’s fees, etc. This is only right. You propose two ivvestigations. The first is to look into the legality and propriety of the closing of the‘chevron; the second is to ascertain what kind of newspaper c students want. We reject two investigations. There should be only one intiestigation. This investigation must be thorough, and deal with the whole matter; it must examine the ‘charges and grievances against the chevron, the actions of the federation in this affair, and make suitable recommendations which will resolve the problem. In other words, it should be wide in scope and make recommendations appropriate to deal with the problem. It will not do to have one investigation broach the question of justice, while a second does not. The question of jusiice is fundamental tb this whol&ssue. It cannot be skirted in any manner whatsoever. The first investigation proposed by you is rushed and limited to one week of operation. By its terms, students who want to speak to it would have to submit a formal request, complete with the essence of their submission, one day before the investigative body is to convene. Also, the two contending parties, the federation and the chevron staff, would have to submit a list of witnesses by that same day.

This is completely unacceptable. Under these constrictions, new evidence could be prevented jrom seeing the light of day, and it could allow false evidence which could not be countered because new witnesses could not testify. We do not find either the time limitations or the restrictions of evidence acceptable. The investigation must be thorough, not. rushed, clearly fair, and open to the . presentation of arguments and evidence from any quarter. Moreover, the composition of the investigation bodies suggested by yourself is also unacceptable. Of the three persons on the first commission, just one is a UW student (the others would be a faculty member and a professional journalist). Of the seven persons on the second commission, the chevron staff would appoint two, you w.ould appoint two, one would be a journalist appointed by the KitchenerWaterloo Record, one would be a faculty member selected by the UW president, and one would be a stud,ent elected by the Committee of Society Presidents. The investigation comittee we want convened after the chevron is reinstated must be composed mainly of UW students. It does not have to be extilusively composed of lJW students. CUP representatives might also be included, as this issue is one‘which clearly affects the role of the student press in Canada. But in the main, UW students must compose the overwhelming majority in the investigating committee. This is so, because the chevron is the newspaper of UW students and must be acceptable to them. Likewise, the federation is also an institution of UW students and must be accountable to them. We note also that, while the members of the first investigation are to be acceptable to both sides, this does not apply to the second investigation you prop&e. We seriously question the impartiality of the UW administration, which &eni campus security to the office when the staff was locked out and agreed to federation demands that the chevron office locks be changed. We also question the impartiality of the student societies, which participated in the denunciation of the chevrbn at the time of its closina and some of which continue to do so up to the present time. We also question the impartiality of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, whose news coverage of our position is only occasionally accurate. We believe that a good resolution to this question is that all members of the investigating committee be acceptable to both the fdderation council and the chevron staff. We must ask the question of why there should be two investigations with the second stacked against us. The second investigation would go on no matter what decisions are reached by the first. That is, even if we were found innocent of the charges against US in the first investigation, the second would proceed on its merry way, regardless. We see a real possibility that the first would exonerate the chevron staff, but that the second would attempt to kill the chevron as an independent, watchdog press, despite the ruling of the first investigation. We note that the first investigation you propose is to abide “by the rules of natural justice”. To our way of thinking, the question of justice, of right and wrong, is fundamental. The investigative body must examine the cases of both sides on the basis of hard evidence, not rumours, allegations or speculation. It must vigorously oppose a priori conclusions. It must be composed of honest men and women who uphold democratic rights and principles. It cannot be composed of over-lords who do not hold themselves accountable to UW students. It must conduct itself in an appropriate manner so as to leave no doubt as to its integrity. We tell you this so that there can be no mistake. Our position is that the premises of Reinstate! -that is, complete and total reinstatement of the chevron -and Investigate! -that is, a full, thorough, open, democratic and student-run investigation are non-negotiable. Details as to how to carry this out are negotiable. We have prepared a proposal of our own which clarifies our demand of Reinstate! Investigate! in some detail. We believe that our proposal is both just and reasonable. We propose that you, and your associates in this struggle, examine it carefully and in all earnestness. With all due sincerity, the chevron staff

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our counter proposal

I Reinstatement of the chevron: The chevron is to be reinstated as it was on September 24, 1976, in relation to the charges of wrongdoing, old grievances concerning the chevron when it was closed and in the course of the conflict, proposed changes to the paper, the role of the publisher, federation of students. The reinstatement must be complete. It entails the following points. editorial control, and the philosophy of the student press. 1) The federation council is to condemn and repudiate the thr:;motions it passed on As well, the investigating committee will examine the lock-out of the chevron staff. September 30, 1976 - namely the motion suspending publications of the chevron, the The investigating committee will have the right to look into all aspects of the federation motion eliminating the positions of the paid full-time staff, and the motion establishing a of students relevant to this matter. It will open the books of the federation and examine task force to set up another student newspaper. how the students’ money has been spent in the course of the conflict and matters related to 2) The federation council will fully restore the chevron budget allocated for the it, including the creation of new positions-in the federation and the hiring of lawyers. 1976-77 fiscal year to the chevron staff, to determine as the staff sees fit the paying of debts The investigating committee will have the duty and responsibility to deal with questions of t,h& free chevron, the reimbursement of the full-time paid staff for their work from of justice of the matter and make recommendations as to how to prevent a recurrence of September 24, 1976, and other costs that the chevron staff may have incurred in its this affair, including appropriate bylaw or similar changes, should they be deemed necessary. struggle with the federation. 3) The investigating committee will be based on the principle of seeking truth from the 3) All cameras, typewriters, and other equipment taken from the chevron office will be facts presented. It is to seek and act on the basis of evidence, not rumours, allegations, returned. 4) The original locks in the chevron office will be restored. speculation, gossip and unsubstantiated opinions. The committee must act in exactly the 5) All mail and telephone service which was cut off will be restored. opposite manner of the Kangaroo court procedures that characterized the federation 6) All legal proceedings by the federation against the chevron staff in order to evict council when it closed the chevron on September 30, 1976. them from the chevron office and other legal actions against any member of the chevron 4) Both sides to the conflict, the federation on one side, and the chevron staff on the staff will be dropped and all lawyers engaged in these proceedings will be dismissed. . other, will have the right to present their arguments and evidence for their positions. Both 7) All harassment of the chevron staff by the federation (such as periodic invasions, sides are entitled to any counsel they desire. Other groups and individuals will also have changing of locks, taking of equipment, throwing of rocks through windows, etc.) will the right to present their arguments and evidence. 5) The investigation will be held in open, public, easily-accessible and wqll-publicized cease. 8) Publication by the federation of the scab journal “the real chevron” will cease. The forums. federation is not to seek to establish another scab journal or aid and abet in the establish6) The investigating committee must be composed of honest people who uphold m&t of one in any way, shape or for’m. democratic rights and principles and will seek out the truth from the evidence prese’nted 9) The federation will guarantee that no further actions will be taken against the and make appropriate recommendations to UW students. The real strength of the comchevron or the chevron staff until the results of the investigation are known. In particular, mittee will lie in the extent that it acts in a serious, investigative, democratic, and just who are not accountable to students, thereby the president-elect, his supporters and allies in opposition to the democratic demand of manner, and does not act like overlords Reinstate! Investigate! are to stop all manoeuvres or attempts at trying to make legal or gaining the respect of the students. constitutional the undemocratic and unconstitutional closing of the chevron. All attempts 7) The members of the investigating committee are, in the main, to be UW students. to do so for the Annual General Meeting of March 1,1977, are to be dropped either before This is so because the chevron and the federation are institution-s which must serve and be or during the AGM. accountable to UW students. II Investigation into the chevron-federation conflict: 8) The members of the investigating committee should be acceptable to both the An investigation committee to examine the chevron-federation conflict is to be estabfederation council and the chevron staff. The composition of the committee can be ’ lished after chevron is reinstated. worked out by both the federation council and the chevron staff. The investigation will entail the following points: 9) The investigating committee is to have adequate time to conduct a thorough 1) The scope of the investigation will be the whole chevron-federatioii conflict, with investigation of the matter and make judgments and appropriate recommendations to UW the aim of resolving it in a just manner. students. 2) The investigating committee is to make a thorough study of the chevron-federation 10) The federation council is to allocate suitable funds, which are to be determined by so that this committee can do its work properly. conflict. It is to examine the cases of both sides to this conflict. It will investigate the [he needs ofthe investigating committee, I

the free chevron

rriors explo The Warrior basketball team stormed back after a mediocre first half to dump the McMaster Marauders 95-83 in a OUAAWestern divisional semi-final match Tuesday night in the PAC. Both teams had trouble hanging on to the ball in the scrappy first half. The Warriors, in particular,

were guilty of very sloppy passing, under the basket, turning over the ball 10 times. They were fortunate to salvage the 36-36 tie at the half. The strongest performances of the half came from Ingor Kongats for Mat who shot nine for 16 and 18 points, and Lou Nelson who went five for six, and shot 13 points.

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uelph ties ‘em in double knots Last weekend the OUAA wrestling championships were held in our PAC but the meet belonged to Western and Guelph. Both teams dominated the meet, taking all but one gold medal. Guelph finished first on total points but Western won more gold, taking 6 ofthe first place medals while the Gryphons only took five. The University of Toronto finished third and the Warriors finished fifth. Waterloo’s Don Marrin was the only Warrior to qualify for the Canadians. He finished third in the 134 lbs. category. Normally only the top two contenders qualify for the CIAU’s from the OUAA’s but Marrin lucked out as first place finisher Mike Barry will be competing in an international meet in Cuba. Guelph’s gold medal finishers were Bob Price (109 lbs.), Pete Park ( 150), Olympic performer Richard Deschatelets (190), Mike Koppel (220), and Wayne Brightwell (super heavyweight). Western’s gold medalists were Bob Sean Barry (126), Olympian Mike Barry (134), Joe Dell’Aquila (142), Tom Jackson (158), Brian Renken (167) and Grant Hughson (177). The only non-Western or Guelph finisher was York’s 117 lb. star Jim Stitt. York’s coach John Pickard was given the coach of the year award for the tremendous job he did this year, moving York to a fourth place finish after a bottom place finish last year.

the 50 metre mean that she will be invited to compete in the National Indoor Senior Championships to be held in Montreal on February 26-28. If Faye wins -here she will then compete in a tri-country meet between Canada, the US and Russia at Maple Leaf Gardens March 3 and 4. Long jumper and triple jumper Gord Robertson also put in commendable performances finishing third in both events, jumping 6.81 metres in the long jump and 13.82 in the triple jump.

Faye Blackwood is now ranked as the number one woman in Canada in the 50 metres. Last, week she proved why at both the Highland Games and the CNE meet. Blackwood topped the Highland Games’ record in the 50 metres, clocking a 6.2 second run. At the CNE meet she ran a 6.4 second race, finishing first in both races. Blackwood also ran in the 200 metres in the CNE meet and finished third in 25.8. Blackwood’s performances in

VARSITY NOTES: Should the Warriors (Basketball and Hockey) win their quarter finals playoff games, the semi-final and final games will be broadcast on Radio Waterloo. Friday and Saturday Hockey from Toronto Basketball - Friday and Saturday from the PAC

Mike Visser became the third OUAA player to score over 1000 points in his basketball career. The Warriors’ 6’4” forward first played university basketball at Laurentian where he scored 148, 212, and 264 points in his first three years. In 1976, he transferred to Waterloo where he scored 150 points. This year he has led the Warriors’ scoring with 239 points in 12 league games. SWIMMING: Waterloo finished second to U of T in the OUAA Swim Championship at Guelph last weekend. The Blues finished with 528.5 pts while the warriors totalled 511. Dave Heinbuck of Waterloo won the 200 yard free style and the 100 yard breast stroke. His brother John won the 1650 and the 500 yard free style events for Waterloo. Claude Cormier won both the one and three hundred metre during competition for Waterloo.

Wilfrid Laurier’s Hockey Hawks finished in first place in the Western Division.

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n d win r In the second half, both teams got of to a quick start exchanging baskets before the Warriors exploded for 13 straight points to break the game wide open. In that half, the Warriors shot 25 for 34 for a phenomina173 percent from the floor. They scored 59 points in the second half. Leading the way for the Warriors were Mike Visser, with 20 points in the second half (nine for 10 from the floor) and 27 for the game, Bob Yuhatz with 22 points and Lou Nelson with 21 points. Nelson was instrumental in the victory, putting together two strong halves. In addition to his 21 points, he grabbed 14 rebounds. Also a key to the remarkable transformation which took place during the half time interval, was Pat Brill-Edwards. Brill-Edwards had some trouble getting into gear in the first half and the Warrior running game, as a result suffered. However, he was in top form in the second and the difference was visible in the entire team.

BaII dribbler, Chris Timms, was one of the main reasons the Athenas beat Queen’s. She was the game’s top rebounder, pulling in 77 and the Athenas’ second highest scorer with 70 points. She is covered by Donna Roman No. IO and Penny Wedd, the Gaels’ top scorers with 9 points each.

A thenas take playoff Mike Visser, the top scorer for the Warriors with 27 points, puts a move on Marc Dubois before moving into the clear for an easy 70 foot jump shot mid-way through the second half. The Warriors won the game 95-83.

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The University of Waterloo . point-getters for Queen’s, were Athenas have made it into the Penny Wedd and Donna Roman playoff tournament for the with 9 points each, and Cathy Gilwomen’s provincial basketball lies with 8 points. Waterloo was crown, in Sudbury, on the weekend particularly sharp at rebounds, of Feb. 25-26. beating Queen’s with 38 versus 25 They had to beat Queen’s to in this department. qualify, and came through with a Athena coach Sally Kemp was close 45-44 pt. victory. The game pleased with the victory. She said was a tightly fought battle, .with the that the team’s shooting was a little lead rapidly changing hands, thriloff, but good defense and fair runling the spectators until the very ning game made the difference. lash second. At half time, Queen’s Looking ahead to the four team led, but only by a mere basket, tourney in Sudbury, she sees a 22-20. tough task at hand. Their first game High scorers for the Athenas will be against Laurentian. were-carol Kozlik with 18 points, Kempsaid that Laurentian is the and Chris Timms and Norie Spense team to beat. She described them with 10 points each. The best as “a powerhouse that’s beaten

berth opposing teams by as much as 40 and 50 points and Laurentian’s 15-O win-loss record speaks for itself.” However, Kemp thinks that if the Athenas play to their full potential, they could put a stop to this. The winner of the Ontario women’s university basketball crown will go to the national championships in Calgary on March 3rd, 4th and 5th. Non-Ontario teams which have a good shot at the nationals are Victoria, Alberta, Winnipeg and Regina in the west, Concordia in Quebec, and probably St. Mary’s in the Maritimes. -tom

Intriasport Report A few weeks ago, a number of fast talking Intramural people went to Toronto to participate in the Student Intramural Conference at Erindale College. The goal of the conference was to inform and discuss the different factors that contribute to the number of people participating in Intramurals. Lectures were given in the morning, and afterwards, smaller groups were formed to discuss the matter and to inform others of their own program. The conference was not limited to university types. People from both the public and high school levels were present. Some of the factors influencing the participant were: officiating, fairness in competition, publicity and a variety in the type of competition. But the most significant point made, was “to stress a program so that people with less ability can enjoy it,” commented conference goer Matt Weaver. In every stage of a student’s career, the emphasis is on intercollegiate sports when only less than 10 per cent of the student population can be involved in this highly specialized program. Another problem occurs in the public and high schools where ‘there is a very limited amount of Intramural or Recreational sports. Many people can be turned off from sports by the time they reach grade 7, simply because there is nothing organized for their skill level. The conference concluded that the basis for student involvement must start in the public schools. where, a program that caters to a person’s ability level and emphasizes the “having fun” aspect of sport and fitness. These recommendations will be taken and introduced at the Annual Intramural

Conference

Upcoming

to be held in April.

Intramural

Events

Ski Trips - On Monday, February 28, a trip is planned to Osler Bluffs in Collingwood. This private club is only open once a year to the public. The cost, including bus fare is $10.00 for ski club members and $12.00 for non-members. Blue Mountain Trip - On Friday, March 4. This was originally a weekend trip but is now just for the day. Cost is $10.00 and $12.00. Sign up for both trips in PAC Red South. Plan ahead to go on the Whistler B.C. Trip April 23-30. $385.00 gets you everything but the food (i.e. transportation here and there, tows,-accommodation). A deposit of $75.00 is needed. Sign up now at the Red North reception. Men’s Broomball --Sign up before 4:30 p.m. today. The tournament starts Saturday, March 5. The captains’ meeting is on Monday, February 28, at 5:00 p.m. in room 1083 PAC. Men’s Volleyball - Sign up before Monday, March 7, for this round robin tournament that occurs Wednesday, March 9.

Results from the Men’s Doubles Squash , Tournament A Individual 1. McPherson and Fauquier 2. Capobicci and Boyko 3. Wiskin and Inglefield B Individual 1. Beelen and Phelan 2. Paicoupoulos and Robinson 3. Restoulde and Handy 4. Spriet and Wever 5. Bennett and McDonald A Unit 1. Faculty 2. St. Jeromes 3. Math and Science

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B Unit 1. St. Jeromes 2. co-op 3. E.S.S. 4. St. Jeromes 5. Vl South and VI East

Men’s

Competitive Basketball

This week, in Men’s Intramural Basketball was quite different from the usual hectic pace. Due to the O.U.A.A. wrestling competition, all of Sunday, no weekend games were played. As a result, a total of only 9 games were played. The three A league games resulted in the following results: Alufahons over St. Jeromes A 42 to 40 in a surprise win, Waterloo Wizards 69-‘Engineering 45 in what seemed to be a poorly-played game for the Wizards, and Tiny Toddlers brightened their chances for a playoff berth by defeating Phantom 57 to 49. B league play saw some disastrous games as the Piranha Brothers bombedcutsets 47 to 6, and C&A. I saw their first loss of the season to MT0 42-45. Waterloo Towers maintained their perfect record by topping Nuts and Bolts 60-24. Coop and the Beavereaters met in a close confrontation which saw Co-op win by 10 points, 43-33. Both teams now have 3 and 1 records. Rounding out the week, Dynamos easily defeated Physics Flyers 43-19 and V2 West E handled Team East Four 50 to 35 in league B3 play which remains the closest B division. - With playoffs just around the corner, competition is keen for these last playoff positions and the next week’s play is particularly pressing as each team plays an out of division game.