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. Without a doubt, Doug Thompson’s proposal of reinstatement last week to the free chevron has baffled many students. They say to themselves: approximately three weeks ago Thompson offered the free chevron reinstatement without back pay and back debts, a procedure morally based on diplomacy and consideration; then, two weeks ago he, along with his “goon squad” physi-

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tally threw out two free chevrics from the office in the hope of sealing it off from Arse and eventually turning it over to the real chevron, an action morally based on violence ; then exactly one week ago today, he offers them reinstatement, again an action based along formal procedures. Thompson’s actions are contradictory. One moment he is negotiating and the next, he forgets

SUC approves In a regular meeting March 8th, Senate Undergraduate Council dealt with submissions from the Faculty of Mathematics and a presentation from the Correspondence Program. The minutes of the February 14th meeting were accepted. A proposed grading scheme presented at that time by Arts Associate Dean J.C. Gray which had been tabled was placed on the agenda for the next meeting. The 1978-79 Admission Rea quirements were referred to the “Associate Deans Committee”. This committee is taking shape to replace the practice of forming an ad hoc committee composed of the Associate Deans for Undergraduate Affairs for each individual item. A large number of mathematics courses were re-num. bered, and several new courses in Combinatorics and Optimization were approved. Renumbering of Computer Science 342 to become CS350 was approved, but a, renumbering of ~~150 as CS%b was referred . back to the Computer Science Department. It was pointed out that 70% of the students in this course take it in second year, but serious doubts were raised as to whether the course was in fact second year material:> r r 4 a

certain diplomatic conventional behaviour, not to mention the past negotiation, and attempts to literally throw them out, and then again resume a diplomatic appearance. Not only is Thompson’s proposal of reinstatement contradictory to his past actions and behaviour, it is contradictory to everything he has stood for in the past. His actions are contrary to:

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The scheduling of a one-hour non-credit course for first year co-op students, to be held at 4: 30 Monday during fall and winter terms, was presented for information only, not requiring Senate approval. This will provide the Department of Coordination with a regula: time-slot. A proposal to record NMRs Mark Recorded) for (No a student courses in which is registered if the student withdraws from the faculty after more than six weeks into the term, was passed 5-3; abstentions were not counted. A prime concern was that, while the proposal as presented did not mention an effective date, the proposal passed by Faculty Council was to be retroactive to this past January. council Many members felt that such changes to regulations should apply only to new students. A proposal which would “not normally” allow math students to take correspondence courses while registered as full-time students was also passed. An extensive presentation from the Correspondence Program dealt largely with enquiries from other universities

wishing -various types of asEspecially. significant sistance. from Queen’s was a report University, evaluating half a dozen correspondence programs. Waterloo’s had the largest enrollment (by a factor of 5 ) and was the only one to demonstrate a steady and significant growth in enrollment since 1970. It was decided to form a committee to examine the whole question ‘of supplying correspondence material to other universities. Several people expressed interest in serving on this committee, but since attendance was poor and the matter was not urgent it was deferred to the next meeting. A draft brief to the provincial study of the “SecondaryPost-Secondary Interface” was also approved. Finally, the council passed on to Senate a proposal to split General Engineering 116 into three sections by department. This proposal had been passed on previously, but Senate referred it back to Engineering Faculty Council to confirm that-it expressed their intentions. After consideration, it was resubmitted unchanged. After an hour and a half, the meeting was adjourned.

which is i. The referendum, legally binding, ii. His own election platform “I stand by the referendum”, iii. Consulting the Executive Board, iv. Consulting council, V. Consulting the Campus Reform Group (who supported him in the election ) , vi. The indicated vote of last student council meeting where Thompson was made aware of councillors’ lack of appreciation of him making moves on his own. What is the kind of rationale behind these actions? What is Doug Thompson up to? To most casual observers, or to those who merely listen to the campus gossip, it would seem that Thompson is giving in, capitulating to ‘the free chevron, a move most thought was the furthest from his mind. However, Thompson made it quite clear that he was “against capitulation. Yet, the Federation has to be realistic.” Said Thompson, “the Federation has to look at what it is trying to accomplish. Is it trying to prolong conflict with the free chevron or is it trying to establish a new student newspaper. “The Federation’s main concern is that of trying to establish a new student newspaper that is open and responsive to all students’ needs.” Since last September there has been virtually no communication between the Federation and the free chevron. The free chevron has made its case clear, that they will not compromise, and the Federation, trying all ways to get them out, has not succeeded. Without negotiation matters will stay the same as they have always been for the last six months. Negotiations so far have been fruitless. In 1976, fall term, under Shane Roberts’ , .i z+-+d~~tippJ J there I

from both sides as to ways the problem could be solved. There was discussion of optional mechanisms, including consideration of another general meeting, refer-, endum, means of consulting the student body, then the use of external experts including some sort of arbitration or inquiry group. However, the negotiation never ’ advanced far enough due to a “lack of agreement from both sides”. Then, last October, a task force was created by student council to make recommendations to the by-laws so that the chevron can be more’ responsive to student needs, and that day-to-day operations run on a democratic and cooperative basis. However, the free chevron refused to participate, for, as Docherty claims, “the main concern of the task force was to set up a new campus newspaper, whereas they should have investigated into why the chevron was closed down in the first place”. For that reason the free chevron refused to co-operate. As to what the task force accomplished, they refused to succumb to the pressures of the Federation Executive of dealing with by-law revisions, submitted only by them. They refused to succumb to the pressure of the chevron’s demands to reinstate them or they would not participate. The result was that the task force resigned as a result of pressure from both sides. Last September Thompson said he “urged” the chevron staff to accept the C.U.P. investigation. The free chevron asked C.U.P. to answer several questions regarding the C.U.P. investigation. They made it clear that their position was “Reinstate, Investigate”. By the time C.U.P. answered those questions, the time frame for the investigation had lapsed and so it

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Get-‘Letters A new Student Union Dear Editor, As the past year has proven, the Federation of Students does not serve the students’ interests. Living in their fantasy world of sandbox politics the Federation council has ignored cutbadks. tuition hikes, housing problems, transit problems, racism and other issues of concern to students. Obviously the present structure of the Feder,ation of Students cannot serve the students’ interests. What students need is a new structure, a new federation, that works! We propose: - dissoivi?g the existing Federation of Students - birth of a new democratic student union A new student union should: - have a parliamentary council with constiiuenties similar to the present ones - have council elect the Prime Minister whose powers will be extremely limited - executive nominated and chosen by council - have simple recall of councillors How can this happen? - recall Doug Thompson and all councillors who do not support a new student union -1 withdrawal of‘ societies from Federation of Students - have a referendum to establish an independent student newspaper structure in a manner similar to OPRIG DEMAND A NEW STUDENT UNION! The Underground

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English & Education This reaction to the brief on the “Sedondaryi Post-Secondary Interface” was not written by an ivory-tower academic, nor a bureaucrat, nor an “objective” researcher, nor a sensationalist reporter. This report is by someone who has crossed this interface in the middle of the seventies, by someone who has been there and is there, by one of the faceless mass called “students” on which the futures of the university, the province, the country, and, let’s face it, the world rest. “Where will you be in 19847” Whenever “modern” secondary education is discussed, the teaching of English js the greatest subject of controversy. Everyone is relatively sure what they mean by “calculus” or “biology” or “electronics”. Even the teaching of other languages, at least until the upper years, is fairly well-defined. English, however, is like a Rorschach test. A teacher can do just about anything under the name “English”. He/she may take the opportunity to encourage creative explorations in poetry or prose, to foster an understanding 9f Shakespearean tragedy, or to develop sound productive attitudes about interpersonal relationships. A complete exploration of media and adveitising, or political propaganda is quite possible. Alternatively, the teacher may choose to study the usual assortment of classical (antique) novels and a Shakespearean play in a humdrum “assign, discuss and test” fashion which leaves the students cold, and which requires little work and no thought on anybody’s part. The two teachers from high school who stand out in my mind were both American citizens. Whether this says anything about teacher training in Ontario is open to interpretation. One of them, in Grade 12, spent three weeks teaching elementary grammar. I did well enough on an initial test to be exempted, but I keptla set of handouts with exercises, which together made them the only clear grammar teaching material I ever encountered. My sister is finding them useful now in Grade 9. Yet on another occasion the same teacher showed films and led discussions on violence, pollution, ethics, and other concerns. ’ My main concern is that, in various “Curri-

culum Guidelines” being produced, the temptation to boldly step backwards into the future may prove too great for some reactionary politician. During the 1960’s. there were loud demands for “relevance” in education - for courses which had some connection with real, day-today life. What was provided instead was freedom of choice. I draw the analogy of a car. After many faithful years of docile service without lubrication, we discover that the engine requires a com, plete overhaul. So we change the oil. We would be silly, a few years later, to blame the rustingout of the fenders on that one oil change. I hope the implication is clear. There are serious problems in education, but if the only accomplishment of the 70’s is to undo. anything gained in the 60’s, it will have been wasted. I feel I have received a good education, but more by chance than anything else. I certainly wouldn’t send a kid of mine through this* system. -. D. Gillett

Do Something ! The new fed prez and possibly some of the Students’ Council seem to be too pre-occupied with the continuing CHEVRON affair. I would have hoped that at least Mr. Thompson would have learned from my own experience. For one, the large expenditure of time and energy on the issue need not continue‘. With the coming of spring if things are not otherwise resolved more opportune conditions will arise to re-apply previously tried &measures. Just a little patience. I am not suggesting that anyone -forget the matter. Nor that the Federation repeat mistakes it occasionally made while I was there of ignoring telling the students of events. Secondly, again alluding to mistakes of the fail, students should not be left to think that this is ail the Feds have been doing. There is always plenty going on or being planned that the Federation is contributing to. Many students are not even familiar with the day-today service enterprises that are provided or how they run. Why should students working in the Federation wait for some disaster or scandal before telling their classmates about what is going on? There are activities that are enjoyed by many for years but too often don’t receive enough publicity for the’ rest of the campus to know about it in depth until something embarrassing happens. There is news material all the time that could be passed on to the Real Chevron or Association of Society Newsletters. Getting back to the paper dispute, the Federation has done most of what it can in terms of establishing basic points - that was done by the campus-wide votes in the referendum and the elections. From here it need only followup as much as can be reasonably expected, by fulfilling its “constitutional” responsibilities. This does not mean negotiating questions that were already settled by the students in general at the ballot box. The place of negotiation is not over the terms decided by the referendum, but only on its implementation. Not on re-instatementzthe students said “no” 10 to 1 (if the Free Chevron is so hip on settling things democraticallj/ then they should not tell people to “boycott” democratic procedures). Not on who is to publish. If some group wants to publish independent of the Students’ Council then they can negotiate with the Board of Governors of the University for their own money, space, Not on editorial control and and equipment. policy - the students voted (by more votes than Thompson was elected by) for elected reps to What remains are questions be responsible. subordinate to these, on implementation of them, on procedures of advisement to the responsible persons. Any backing away from the resu!ts of the referendum is not only questionable legally (attempts to by any Fed officers could result in injunctions against them) but are in viola-

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To: D. Thompson, President, Federation of Students, University of Waterloo; Student Councillors; Students bf Renison College : I, Larry Srriylie, Student Councillor for Renison College, hereby tender my resignation as Student Councillor. This resignation is effective immediately for the following reasons: 1. for 5% months a conflict has raged between the Federation and the Chevron. This has prevented committees and policies being formed and activated on Student issues of some importance; badly needed by-law revisions, fee hikes, needed housing and transportation problems, etc. ’ 2. neither the Federation or Chevron have supplied information to the student body to enable their . understanding of the conflict, rather, both the Federation and Chevron have put forward allegations, rumours, gossip and un.A ,.,q speculation, . . II= substantiatea opinions. ivloreover, a

what they “claim” has been perpetu- ’ ated against them yet also claims student’s rights must be recognized. Whose rights? Theirs only? 6. This evening, March 8th, 1977, after 2% hours of discussion the Students Council voted to table a motion which ordered both the Federation and the Chevron to present factual evidence. bqfore Students Commission of Enquiry (the council). Thus, again defeating this conflict being faced and resolved in the interests of the Student body as a whole. * 7. Students Council by their inability to face and resolve this conflict have in effect evidenced the inability to govern responsibly the affairs of the Students on this campus and thus enabled continuance of /a conflict which is sapping considerable energy and time which could well be better used in areas of fee hikes, housing, transportation etc. In conclusion, two points: 1 I highly recommend that the Students of great deal of the supposed factual state* Renison College petition the University ’ ments are made in a biased manner Board of Directors for: and in language which disgusts me. This 1 a) withdrawal of their membership in is supposed to be responsible governJ the Federation ment and responsible newspaper reportb) withdrawal of their Students fee ing: I don’t believe it is. from the Administration of the Feder3. The Federation in the-past has refused, ation by vote, to initiate an open, public inc) that their fee be transferred to the vestigation. Renison College Board of Directors 4. The Chevron has refused to participate for administration in areas of benein twd Canadian University Press infit t?, Renison Students (not ridiculvestigations, yet, they claim they subous assault court cases etc. ) scribe to the constitution and authority. 2 that Student Councillors who feel they 5. The Chevron refuses to participate in * have a responsibility to students by peal- any committee of enquiry of students. ing with issues fair government, resign unless the Federation is first found from council in disgust like I. guilty of improper action without the - L. Smylie benefit of a hearing. This is exactlv tion of the democracy of the UW students. Regardless of the impression among the AIA and some Free Chevrics that they themselves are the final arbiters of what is democratic, the UW students have had a series of (to use a word certain hypocrites are fond of) “mass” votes and have shown what they want and don’t want. Doug Thompson and other Councillors are under no special obligation to have to put their own bodies on the line to throw out the ers. That the.y tried to I think is to their credit. That Docherty and Hannant with others physically abused the Federation president as they were breaking back into the Federation pubiishing offices was a re-affirmation of their politics of violent hooliganism that the vast majority of students have rejected. Let them go to some other time and place that appreciates such behavior (Germany 1933?) The Federation should carry on with its other business and take the issue of space and equipment to the UW Board of Governors. It should

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provide the Governors with the results of the referendum, explain that one half of its space is being occupied by a self-appointed group that has broken into the space several times, and ask for new office area or the return of what had already been committed to the Federation. The Board will meet next term and each Society along with Students’ Council could make representations to the Board. The Waterloo ,I Christian Fellowship is only one of many groups on campus that is older and larger (and supported by more students) that is badly in need of office space. All such groups could be invited to speak to the Board. If the University has enough space that it can afford to give it away to such relatively new and exclusive groups as the, AIA and Free Chevron, then maybe it can give these other groups space as well. Or have conditions on campus so deteriorated th.at only with the threat and actual use of violence can students expect to defend their interests: Shane Roberts

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Masthead’ In these times of political, social, and economic upheaval, we, the staff of the real chevron, take time to R.B., Mike, Brenda, Pattijoy, DChris pause and smile. Weatley, and all of our contributors, and myself hope that you might take the time to read this issue in the good old honest sunshine that has been pouring down on us. We would like to wish Pattijoy a happy birthday and also thank those people who continue to offer their invaluable support and criticism. So long for now. -Wolfgang a

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OFS Conference The OFS/FEO Conference in Sudbury last week was attended by a delegation from this university. The four person delegation included Phil Marquis, Cord Swaters, Sam Wagar and Brian Burke. There were also members of the free Chevron present, however, these had no speaking privileges. The main events of the weekend - were a strategy session, a work-

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shop on student press/student union relations, and a community college workshop. Marquis stated that the strategy sessi6n dealt mainly with the ever prominent student money situation. It was generally agreed that it was necessary to continue fighting to roll back tuition fees, fight cutbacks, and apply pressure for student aid reform and summer

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employment. An effort was to be made to seek >endorsements of and general support for a tuition rollback with emphasis on the other problems of student aid and summer jobs. At the strategy session it was also agreed that a mass lobby be held at Queen’s Park on the first scheduled business day of the legislature. The plan is to send representatives of each area to their area MPP and get some straight answers about their position on student affairs. There was some speculation at the conference as to a possible up coming provincial election, at which time students could exercise even greater pressure. This pressure would come from an Election Preparedness Committee to be established on every campus. The committee would perform usual election functions such as enumeration, promotion of candidate meetings, etc., but it would also provide information and develop a local position on the election. What are the other courses of action available to students and how were they viewed by the workshop? Obviously OFS is not prepared to mobilize the student population, and has chosen, instead, to follow a more conventional route in the hopes that some politicians will offer the students what they want. What if none do. If no candidate is willing to respond to the question in the proposed election the government will continue to overlook student issues as it has always done in the past.

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Previous tactics employed by students were discussed by the workshop in order to find some working solutions to the problem. The Feb. 10th action was the main topic of conversation. The main problem was felt to

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have been the lack of mobility, or ’ ‘general apathy among students” as Marquis put it. This was blamed on the failure of students to reach an early consensus as to how they should deal with the situation. No blame was placed on OFS.

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Marquis stated that Feb. lOth, hurt the credibility of any students action and that it also hurt OFSWhat happened at Laurentian University is an obvious example. Laurentian students decided to set up picket lines to close the university for the day. No one was kept out of the front gates by force, however, people were approached at the gate and presented with literature in the hopes that they would be persuaded to support the students’ action. A woman from town went up to the university to take her child to the day care center there. She too was stopped by the students and presented with their position. After agreeing to go home the woman called the local newspaper and told them that she had been harrassed and refused admittance by the students. You can imagine the headlines that followed. This incident severely damaged any positive publicity which the strike may have otherwise received. On the U. of W. campus action was thwarted by indecision. Marquis cited Larry Hannant and Mike Dillon as two students who tried to organize some positive student movement but they were met with a poor .i response. Will the OFS/FEO plans for a mass lobby work? This remains to be seen. If nothing happens, however, students should prepare either their bank accounts or their protest placards.

As a result of the workshop report on student press/student union relations it was decided that OFS/FEO was in favour of advancing the autonomy of student papers from student governments without loosing accountability to the students. The conference came out in favour of separate funding for student papers and recom-- mended that ORCUP send a survey to the students on this matter. It should be stressed that OFS has no legislative powers in these matters and can only make suggestions as to possible courses of action. Bilingualism

Since premier Bill Davis has agreed to support bilingualism in the province it was moved that OFS apply for monetary assistance to pay for a translator at every OFS/FEO conference. It should be interesting to see how our tightfisted government responds to this \. request. Community

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Community Colleges have always been at odds with OFS on several matters since their internal structures and needs are different from those of universities. College delegates complain that they must sit through a lot of OFS business which does not concern them and still fail to get satisfactory solutions to those problems facing them and not the universities. A workshop has been set up to look into the problem and to study some of the solutions which have been proposed. There is every indication that the CAAT students’ associations may be considered, in future, as sub members of OFS and that OFS will act as an umbrella organization for the colleges. Separation of the Colleges from OFS may be averted in this way.

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I entertainment J Rocky Review Rocky is a second-rate fighter doing a circuit of sleazy boxing arenas in the area of Philadelphia they leave off the tour guide. - He’s an unexceptional, musclebound loner who has met a dead end half way through his life. While he should have been devel-. oping his talents, he’s been working as a part-time arm-buster for a loan shark. He’s not even good at that. He doesn’t have the temperament to make good his threats. Rocky thinks he’s dumb. Everyone else thinks_ _he’s dumb.. But . . his contemplative moods, his crude witticisms, his street philosophies and his empathy for the losers he meets along the way indicate a certain quality of insightful intelligence that is struggling to surface. His relationship with a mousy, withdrawn girl who works at a pet shop is. at first embarrassing, then tender. In a rough but sensitive fashion Rocky helps her out of her lonely world. Then, out of the blue, the prevailing heavyweight champion

decides to give an unknown a shot at the title, as a form of bicentennial celebration. Rocky is selected. . Plagued with publicity and offers from friends who never owed him any favours, he is bewildered. He’s also out of shape and his basic fighting style works against him. But, re-examining his life as a history of worthless achievements, the opportunity to become someone, however faint, sets him off into a rigid training routine. He knows he can’t win: All he wants to do is to “go the distance.” Stay in the ring as long as he possibly can. * Momentum and dramatic intensity increase throughout the film, only letting up when the major characters confront periods of self-reflection. The climax is one of the few truly personalized fight sequences. put on film. I have nothing but praise for Stallone’s performance. No only is he one of the few actoks that have written parts for them-

Shsgun What would you _think of a story with the blood and guts of Lord of the Rings, the diplomacy of Dune and the cultural romance of Hawaii. The next time a ‘long ago and far away’ mood grabs you, try ShGgun, by James Clavell. It’s huge, over a thousand pages, but don’t be- frightened, the book is written in a simple cle&, coherent style. The main emphasis is on the story line, which is not obscured by artful literary devices, hence, it reads quickly and easily, making a pleasant break from the ,usual intellectual dribble. Sh6gtin is about the clash of two cultures, both powerful, both interesting. We have all been taught, at childhood, about the marauding Drake, the Spanish Armada, and the European’s

struggle for naval supremacy. These stories are inevitably mingled with examplei of courtly behaviour which to a modern more and eye, are becoming more absurd. * In Shbgun, Clavell’s realistic style gives the story an air of heroism which it couldn’t otherwise have. By showing us the heroes of sea travel in clear descriptive language without powdering *over the grass conditions which prevailed among Europeans at the time, the author demonstrates how some humans, our heroes, can fight against their environment and become great. So much for the Platonic argument. , The real excitement, the depth of the reader’s enjoyment, comes from the“ strange and

Seminar on Prisons A series of public seminars probing the Canadian corrective system will be held this month at Wilfrid Laurier University . Dates

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The program, sponsored by the sociology and anthropology department at WLU, will feature specialists in Canadian criminology. The first three sessions will be held in the school’s mezzanine and the final seminar will be in Room 2C8 in the arts building at WLU. Each session will begin at 8 p.m.

selves (as a matter of fact, he wrote the entire’ screenplay) but he is physically perfect for the role. All at the same time, he looks like an embittered loner, a street tough and a dogged optimist. He integrates these qualities without creating ambivalences. Talia Shire gives an effective portrayal as the plain-looking introvert who is transformed into a woman of fragile beauty. This stereotyped role could have easily been fumbled in less dapable hands. Other good performances were given by Burt Young as a sleazy opportunist, ready to exploit his sister’s lover for the feel of money in his pocket and Burgess Meredith as a tough, leathery ex-pro who’s seen better days. The film, although I didn’t think it was as brilliant as some critics claim, was deeply moving. John Avildsen seems to have a knack of when to involve or alienate the viewer from the action. In these days of fast entertainment and’ pessimistic statements on morality, Rocky can be reflected on in an encouraging and thoughtful manner. -Chris Wheatley

New Network

Where “Rocky” made optimistic comments about the human being’s capacity to survive, “Netin a darkly work” examines, humorous fashion, the shabby morajes of a dehumanized society. Most of the action takes place in the offices of a fictitious fourth exotic nature of 17th century American network, the United Japan. Broadcasting System. Howard The culture is ancient and reBeale, (Peter -Finch), television fined. It mixes beauty and delinews anchorman, discovers that cacy with cruelty and death. his s’how is about to be cancelled Everything about the samurai because of poor ratings. Because had been refined to an art, with the show was the sole reason strict discipline tind accuracy, for his existence, he informs a from poetry to killing, from nation-wide audience that he will sodomy to suicide. kill himself, on the air, two weeks There is disgust and amazefrom that night. ment on both sides as the two Homo Sapiens being as they are,-expectant viewers make it clear cultures meet. This must have been the point in history when that they’d like to see more of Mr. human behaviour took on its Beale. Suffering from delusions most diverse forms, and Sh6gun of grandeur, and going over the plays upon this with interesting brink in general, Beale becomes results. y the mad prophet of the airwaves. Shdgun is a great book if you He cries about crime in the want to become completely abstreets, corrupt governors, and sorbed. Its length, however, alienation and then tells the namakes it dangerous to martion to “. . . stick your head out riages, an unavoidable hazard the window and shout, ‘I’m as during exam times and a permad as hell, and I’m not going to fect reason for delaying your take this anymore ! ’ ” Sure grocery shopping. enough, half of America shouts If that don’t make it good, back at the powers that screw. remember, it never needs dustProgram director Diana Chrising. tensen (Faye Dunaway in the on-Wolfgang Nagy ly role I’ve seen that truly suits her) is ecstatic over Beale’s ravings on the tube. Ignoring objections by Max Schumacher, this unfeeling bitch unknowingly exploits Beale for all he’s worth. She ultimately manages to manipulate an audience through their desire not to be manipulated. It seems that there is no end to the perverse ideas that are born during Ms. Christensen’s brainstorming sessions. We soon see a series evolve based on the activities of the Ecumenical Liberation Army (a SLA type of terrorist organization). Film of kidnap-

pings, armed robberies and bombings hit the screen on a regular basis. The ELA members are soon on the network’s back demanding to see some profit from the show. Sounds like none of this could ever happen? Some of it already has. Live coverage was given to the SLA shoot-out a ‘year or two back. Los Angeles residents cheered on as they saw the terrorists go up in flames. American news shows are becoming increasingly more sensational. “Network” struck me as being a very prophetic satire. . Max Schumacher, the only real human being in the .f ilm, comes close to personifying the cynical American masses. Decadence and greed taking its toll all around him, he feels helpless to react. He has a brief and hopeless affair with Diana Christensen, which he knows will fail from the start. In all her cold beauty, she can only give him poor momentary gratification. She is “television incarnate. ’ ’ Special mention should be made of the scene where Howard Beall’e meets the awesome president of the CCA, the massive corpora’tion who own the network. This part is played by Ned Beatty, full of I sound and fury. “YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE! THERE ARE NO PEOPLE! THERE ARE ONLY GENERAL MOTORS, GULF, IBM. . .” Sidney Lument handles the direction the only way he can. In a removed, impersonal fashion. The , lack of a musical background contributes to the almost documentary type of realism of the film. The strong screenplay by Paddy Chefsky leads to a black and frighteningly logical ending. -Chris

Wheatley

Stones Surprise

It was rock and roll heaven for a few hundred fans in the El Macombo, a popular Toronto nightclub, as they watched a live Rolling Stones cancer t . The people in the club were just about the unanas surprised nounced performance as were those who jealously listened to the news later. The surprise evening was a solution to a difficult problem: how to cut a live album in front of a small audience without creating what would have inevitably become a riot. A .pop$ar radio station conipir. .

ed with The Stones. It announced that the contest was being held for tickets to an April Wine live recording session. To screen the contestants, they were asked to write about why they would like to attend a party with the Stones. After a brief concert by April Wine, The Stones appeared and are said to have played for two hours. On Saturday night the whole affair was repeated, however, the information leaks did not stop anything. -Why knows, something like this may happen again some time* ’ -Wolfgang Nagy

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poor. folks that .makes the rich ,,\ folks; an’ it’s the two of, ‘em that makes wars - rich folks. ram-roddin’ ‘em, and poor folks a fighten’ Tern. “I would have lots of fights if I had a nother feller to fight ‘em for me. But since I got to do my own f ightin’ , I try not to have trouble. Same way with everbody. Make ‘em do their own fightin’ - and you do away with fightin.” - from “Woody Sez,” by Woody Guthrie

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US. tax court rules wives a neccessary expense NEW YORK (LNS) - Wives’ “presence and demeanor . . . enhance the images” of their husbands and the bank. So asserted a California tax court in a recent decision to allow the Bank of Stockton to deduct from its taxes the cost of bringing wives to banking conventions. The bank was able to argue successfully that the wives of the bankers were “instrumental to the success” of social activities that were of “substantial benefit” to the bank. So important are the

wives, that the bank requires employees% to bring them along to attend business sessions, host hospitality rooms, and socialize with their husbands’ associates. The Internal Revenue Service had, argued that the cost of wives at conventions wasn’t a necessary business expense, and therefore shouldn’t be deductable; however they had no success in convincing the court. Interestingly, the women are not paid for their invaluable services.

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Photo -Pa Vibrant and exuberating perfectly describes the concert presented to a campus centre audience of folkconcert enthusiasts. * Truly entertaining, it represented some of the amateur talent of Southern Ontario. *The four hour concert featured eleven performances from Toronto, London, Guelph and Waterloo as well as featuring semi-professional Cathie Henderson (top right) of Ottawa. They displayed the talent and enthusiasm that makes folk music the warm and creative art form it is. Garry Dosa, who produced, managed and performed in the concert, indicated that his intention was to bring out the musical talents of students in Ontario Universities. The performers certainly didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the audience down as their selections included well known as well as their own compositions. Because of the tremendous success of the concert, Garry Dosa plans an encore performance during the next fall term and hopes this will become an annual event. Marvin Krym

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Traditionally, the engineer has tended to stick with his formulas and designs and leave the philosophizing to others. His value system h’as been limited to “good design” in the technical sense. Unj der this system a well-designed machine gun is as much a source j of satisfaction to the engineer as a device that helps blind people read books. Under this value system the decision to string power ~ lines between poles or towers above ground, or to bury them undergroind is made strictly on the basis of the relative installation costs. Wk are at the point today where we desperately need a new kind of engineer who will use technology to improve the quality of life The possibilities ,for everyone. opened up by integrated circuits. are fantastic, but without a basic ,change of awareness in the engineering profession; ICs may only complicate our lives with more useless gadgets. THE

“GOOD

OLD

DAYS”

In the “good old days” most people worked from sunrise to -sunset just to stay alive. Instead of having a furnace controlled by an automatic thermostat, wood had to be chopped, hauled, and split, and the fire had to be fed by hand all winter. To cook a meal, first a fire had to be built in the stobe. ‘Before taking a bath, the water had to be pumped, hauled, and heated on the stove. To keep food cold in

summer, blocks of ice cut in winter had to be cut, stored, and hauled dailjr to the ice box; Now we earn the money to pay for heat, hot water, and refrigeration each day in a few minutes of work. Technology, it would seem, has freed us from our slavery by making it possible to do a lot with a small amount of work. Today’s coal miner presses a button and starts a machine that digs as much coal in an hour as 50 miners with picks used to dig in a da . A modern tractor ploughs a Pield in an hour-; work that used to take days of backbreaking toil. Instead of hunching over a desk all day adding figures, a modern clerk simply presses a button on a computer and does the same work in a qinute. The really interesting question is why, if things are so much easier, do we ‘ball those days df backbreaking +work the “good old days”? The fact is that technology has been a mixed blessing: wit& advertising and just plain love of gimmicks, we have created “needs” that people never knew existed. To satisfy these “needs,” we work much harder thai? we have to. We have misused our technology to make most of our cities a nightmarish world of polluted air, traffic, noise, and giant rotating neon signs. We have used our new strength to carve graceful mountains and hills into staircases strewn with identical tract homes and forests of power poles and TV antennas. Even when camping in the forests, we are assaulted by

the squawk of transistor radios, the roar of motorcycle engines, and campgrounds that look like l parking lots. Our computer sysr terns have become enemies that deny our identity, invade our privacy, then send us irrelevant form letters in reply to our passionate complaints. TH-E

RAT

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Technology provides so well for our real and imagined needs that it even provides solutions to the problems it creates - and solutions to the problems created by the solutions. We can buy a power lawnmower, for example, to eliminate the work of pushing the mower. When our health suffers due to lack of exercise, we can buy a mechanical exerciser to create work to replace that eliminated by the power mower. We thus end up doing the same amount of exercise, but instead of working outdoors and having a sense of accomplishment, we can stare at the clock indoors while we pump the exerciser. The power mower and exercise machine are thus a’ matched set in that they nullify each other except for one problem: we must not only work to pay for both of them but also maintain them in operating condition and suffer the noise and smell of the mower’s exhaust. If we are truly successful, we can have the ultimate in both - a mower with a seat and a canopy ($500) so we need not walk or have the sun shine on us and an exerciser that has an electrical

i Social generator on foot pedals and a variable-load resistor to adjust the load presented by the pedals ($450). we can also buy a sun lamp to offset the lack of sunshine due to the canopy on the mower ! Unfortunately, such combinations, are not usually sold as matched pairs, because nobody would buy them if they saw the irony. Instead, they are promoted separately without either manufacturer really considering his product as part of a subtle trap. This, in fact, is the real problem. We have a process at work that is caused by a way of thinking rather than a conspiracy. Each person simply goes about his job mindlessly : the engineer designs the products, the advertiser sells them and the manager optimizes profits. The advertiser does not care whether he is selling cigarettes that cause lung cancer or ineffective medicine - he just does his job. The engineer likewise just does his job and probably even tries to do a good job, but he does not question the effects of the product on a society. ’ If we are to break these destructive patterns, each engineer must take a personal responsibility for his actions and their effect on society. When a patient asks a doctor for a drug that is harmful, it

Consequmc is quite natural for the doctor to refuse since he can personally see the harmful effects on the patient if he does otherwise. The engineering profession, however, has no such face-to-face contact with its clients. The engineer’s client is the entire society, rather than an individual. It therefore takes a much greater awareness on his part to see the ultimate results of his actions. The engineer can, in effect, produce heroin by the carload without ever rooking into the addict’s face. THE ENG’INEER DOPE PUSHER \

AS A

The IC revolution has put us in a position. of tremendous power. Suddenly we can do very complicated things for very little money. The backlog of jobs to be done is fantastic, and the order of priority for doing them will be determined partly by engineers. Already much of what has been done amounts to nothing more than complicated gimmicks that complicate life rather than improve its quality. . One of the first consumer applications of LSI, for example, is a. “digital electric range” which allows serially punching in on a keyboard the desired tempera-

Reza Baraheni was associate professor of English Literature of sity of Tehran. In 1973 he was arrested becquse of his criticisms and was held in the Komite Prison, in Tehran, for 102 days. He living in New York, writing and lecturing. This essay will be part book, The Crowned Cannibal (Random House).

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On the fourth day of my imprisonment I was removed from dungeon number fourteen to number seventeen. Number fourteen was completely dark in the daytime. Located in the worst part of the Komite Prison it was generally used for holding the “dangero!s elements” of the prison. There were three number fourteens, one on each floor, but that’on the first floor was the worst of all: wet and pitch-dark, facing the sole three open toilets, from which a nauseating odor permeated the entire ward. The little vent on the iron door was kept shut all the time because the guards didn’t want anyone to see who ‘was going to the toilets.They wanted to prevent the prisoners from being able to identify each other.’ But there were also other reasons. The guards loved to observe the naked bodies of their victims, particularly if these victims were in the awkward posture of sitting and shitting. And they didn’t want anyone to see .theq watching their victim-objects. I had been completely alone in number fourteen. Three days earlier I had been given seventy-five blows on the soles of my feet with a braided-wire whip. I had been threatened with a pistol held at my temple by the head torturer, Dr. Azudi. I was told that if I didn’t confess, my wife and my thirteen-year-old daughter would be raped in front of my eyes. One of my fingers was broken, and I had been beaten very severely. I couldn’t walk. I literally crawled into the only two places that one was allowed to enter in the Komite: the toilet and the interrogator’s of-. fice. But one usually went blindfolded even to these two places. Life in number seventeen was more tolerable for two reasons: first, because I met MA, who was a pillar of human resistance; and, second, because the sun, passing in its ordinary direction in the world outside, generously shed some shaded light onto the wall opposite the little hole located on top of the high wall. Later in my prison days, I would raise myself on tiptoes to allow this meager light to touch my face. This was my sole connection with the free world. I would woo the sun to take me out through the little hole, feed me to the birds and the beasts, and help me to avoid rotting in the hands of human executioners. MA tried to get up and shake hands, but he could not. He was a short and sturdy man, with heavily swollen hands and feet. The problem with him was that no matter how badly he was flogged by the braided wire, he couldn’t bleed. His swollen hands and feet gave him a primitive look, as if the rest of his body had grown into full humanity because of a miraculous accident, leaving his hands and feet in the primeval forest. His eyes shone like two spoonfuls of blood. He seemed to suffer from severe diarrhea, but he told me later the reason- for his travail: he had great pain in his testicles and penis, and‘ he pissed blood because he had been given shocks by means’ of an electric prod applied to his genitals. He was afraid that he had become permanently impotent, but a few nights later, when he had a wet dream, he was happy. He underwent torture twenty hours every day. This went on for ten days, until he was removed from my cell and I was left alone again. MA crawled into my-cell in the middle of the night. He would say: “I haven’t told them yet.” His torturer was a man called Dr. Rassouli. All torturers called themselves “Doctor.” The title gave them an ‘air of professionalism, pseudo-intellectuality, and a feeling of superiority. Dr. Rassouli, one of the most brutal sadists in SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, tortured those who were leftists. MA’s crime was that he had kept a copy of the Communist Manifesto in his room for one night. He told me that he hadn’t read it. In conversations we had together, he den&nstrated that he hadn’t read it. But since Dr. Rassouli hadn’t read it either, they couldn’t prove to each other that either of them had or had not read it. In the meantime, MA underwent all forms of torture. He’was thrown into the coutyard pool of the prison. The pool was small and shallow. Four or five torturers would beat him from outside the pool with sticks, maces, and batons. They would discharge water upon him from a powerful hose, and when he didn’t know where to turn, they would beat him from the edge of the pool. Then they would strip him naked, seize the braided wire, and flog him while he

Shah of Iran’s Torture was wet. His mutilated body would be taken and-set in front of the “Doctor.” The question would always be the same: “Who gave you the Manifesto?” The answer was also the same: “I don’t know.” MA would not betray anyone. He finally told them, because the very individual who had given him the book was confronted with him, and the man admitted that he had given the book to MA. MA could no longer deny the charge, and he was sentenced to eight years in prison for having seen the Manifesto and for “Communist activity” based upon this sole fact. I heard in March 1975 that he was shot. I do not disclose his name because I cling to the hope that what I heard was wrong. In conversation the interrogators call the prisoners “sons of bitches,” “mother-fuckers,” “catamites,” “pimps,” and “prostitutes,” but in\the written reports they refer to us as “Mr.,” “Master,” “Your Excellenand “Madame.” cy, ” “Miss,” All the written documents are purged of obscene abuse. In the middle of the interrogation, the interrogator gets up and beats the shit out of the prisoners or hands them to the guards to be raped; but when he returns and sits at his desk to record his questions, he writes: “Your Excellency said yesterday that...” These moronic minions of the shah’s bureaucracy play their game of democracy -hypocrisy as crudely as the shah himself enacts it on the national and international stage. The “benovolent monarch” rapes and mutilates his nation in the name of social progress. The interrogator is at once an emblem and a surrogate of the mbnarch. And even as the monarch has his agents everywhere, these petty rulers of the torture chamber have agents of their own through the prison. A young man was thrown into dungeon seven&en. He told me that he had been in Qasr, one of the oldest prisons in Tehrpn. But he didn’t look like a prisoner. Incarceration in an Iranian prison produces very serious qffects on the face and the eyes of the prisoner. The face yellows in a few days, and the eyes become frenzied out of fear, morbid dread, and insomnia. Nothing of such a transformation was evident in this man. He also appeared to be extremely brash and reckless, compared with the rest of the prisoners. He talked incessantly of revolution, the situation of the Iranian nationalities, of language and culture and their relationship to imperialism, the Arabs and Israel, the Palestinians and their connection with the Iranian opposition. He ended every ideological discourse with a leading question : “What do you think ?” He also seemed to have read some of my work. I gave him very vague answers. He pretended to be perplexed that I, “a revolutionary,” should give such uncommitted and ambiguous replies. I told him that my feet hurt terribly and that I wanted to rest. He said that he might be taken out any moment to be tortured and that he wanted “the benefit” of my knowledge and specific opinions on all these matters because he might not see me again. I told him that because of my physical condition, I couldn’t think properly. He began to talk about the death of a famous wrestler at the hands of the SAVAK torturers. He described the process step by step and in minute detail, as if he had been present when the wrestler died. I had heard about the death of the wrestler and simply nodded when this apparent impostor spoke. He was disappointed. He was subsequently blindfolded and removed from my cell before supper. I was to see him two months later, sitting at the side of one of tlie interrogators. The night after ,our conversation, the following habpened to me: I couldn’t sleep that night, nor-could anyone else. There was an infant crying in a cell by the iron gate of the ward. He screamed incessantly, and whenever the voice died in his throat, his mother spoke, pleading with the guards pitiably: “The electric prod has dried my breasts,” she said. “Get me some milk; my son will starve.2 But her pleas had no effect on the insufferable indifference of the guards. One of them shouted: “Shut up, you whore!” She became silent for a short time, but the child continued to scream, and again she began asking for milk. Suddenly, the door of my cell was flung open, and someone landed a

heavy fist on my chest. This blow wa &from other assailants. I started to J tackers continued pounding and kit taken out. I was dragged to a room several times by then, and I could tel I was. I stayed there for about half a told rnp to leave. When I replied thal my eyes, he came over and took me k Then the ritual of intimidation star that it had apparently assumed for t me by the spy. A cloth was thrown or fold was taken away by the same ma At first I couldn’t recognize the huge the heavy, black cloth. Then the re was none other than the famous Azu could easily kiss or bite each other. some cheap, male perfume permea huge, black eyes that I had seen oq now had a doubly demonic quality. Tl of this ghost hidden with me under 1 most an evil-spirit straining to invade and sheer nightmare overtook me. ‘ ‘Why don’t you tell me who told yc alities?” the ghost asked, seizing rn! ing it very hard. “I wrote the article my sides and began pressing. “Tel: and squeezing. I fell short of breat squeezing and started kicking me h; cles. I fell down, the cloth dropped, on the balcony. The beating now began with the h endless time, until I fainted. When I whispering to each other. Someone 1 then I made the attempt again and I again. The whispering also started u] “Not tonight,*’ Azudi said. “Mr. the man in charge bf all the torture spite of his absence. Later it seemed to lift the blindfold. Someone slappc up. It was early in the morning wht standing by me to taKe me down fo _ downstairs and the blindfold was tak Rezvan, hadn’t yet arrived. There in front of me stood Dr. Shac about the prison with a whip in his h; out fingernails. But early in the mo nails. “Open the palms of your bar flogging me like the dutiful torturer turned my hands into pieces of mutil The young man is brought to my cc and Industry. We ail have our dirt pants and clean, colorful shirt. He i; in an hour. Mustapha, a prisoner frc ugly truth. Already I have become I ers and torturers. I tell him that 1 they will take him out to the tortu pointless; we came out alive, and so The young man objects, “But it thing! ” I tell him. that most of the nothing but that they were neverthe waits until they come after him as dirty blindfold over his hazel eyes. 1 has his own problems to worry about I II . .*

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of Engineering The number entered is auomatically. checked for reasonLbleness, and an error message is reduced if it is out of range. A ligital display indicates the temberature setting as well as time. Xgital times can also be entered o program the oven on and off at rarious times. Our exciting new vorld of electronics has thus reduced an $800 toy for adults vith essentially no real advantage ver the simple mechanical aproach used previously. Where the power of ICs could lave *been used to help the blind o see or relieve the tedium of aoutine jobs, it has been prostituttd to provide gadgets to keep tadget addicts, working 80 hr a veek to support their habit. The simple reason people today never ;eem to have enough money, !ven though they can earn enough .o satisfy their basic needs with 2 ir of lab&r a day, is that they are vorking to pay for such gadgets. lust as with heroin addiction, the leed is never satisfied but only irows the more it is fed. The en;ineer, with his love of gadgets, ias been the all-too-willing creaor of such traps. If society is to escape these pitalls, the new breed of engineer nust design products that make a iositive contribution to the quali-

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1 by kicks and other blows l’t!” but the unknown at?n I was blindfolded and rd floor. I had been there h the blindfolds on, where ‘ore someone came in and t see with blindfolds over and led me to the’balcony. ent on in the same pattern s wrestler, as reported to 1 someone else. The blind; with me under the cloth. ning in front of me under dawned on me: the man ces were so close that we ation of onion, g rlic, and lace under the cl3 th. The le first day of my torture sinisterly from the depths This man had become alA mixture of black magic that article on the nationek in his hand and squeezI said. He grabbed hold of me! ” he kept repeating rted panting. He gave up stomach, groin, and testi?re in the open moonlight Jrs, and itlwent on for an r eyes, the torturers were get up. I tried and failed; The blindfold was put on deh isn’t here.” (He was ne whispering went on in had all gone away. I tried d on the face, and I gave 2 came and told the man ation. But when we went my new interrogator, Dr. tall man who always went eat expertise was ripping idn’t feel like pulling out louted. I did. He started d didn’t stop until he had )rn the Faculty of Science ;; he has his tight-fitting e that he will be released I, asks me to tell him the n the habits of executionDome after him and- that r. I tell him that fear is rue. I haven’t done ave seen here have ?d. He sits in a corner He goes away with 11 about him..Every

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ty of life. Digital electronic wrist watches are yet another of the first consumer applications of LSI that have essentially no advantage over the previous approach other than novelty. Although they will certainly decrease in size and price someday, the only advantage they presently have over mechanical, self-winding watches is accuracy. Unfortunately, accuracy has never been a problem with mechanical watches - except with people who like to keep their appointments within 0.25 sec. Contrast this with the LSI pocket calculator, where the capabilities of LSI were used to do something useful that was never possible before. It is interesting to note that, while we have put so much effort into developing LSI circuits to turn our ovens off and on, virtually 100% of our telephone calls are switched by relays. Likewise, the telephone itself is basically unchanged since the turn of the century. The same carbon microphone used by Alexander Graham Bell in 1877 is packaged with the same dial used by Strowger in 1895. The only real change is a sleek, molded plastic case. Who knows what kind of rate reductions would be possible if IC technology were applied to our. tele-

THE NEW BREED OF ENGINEER

If technology is to liberate man, instead of enslaving him, we need a new breed of engineer who is more thanjust a narrow technologist. He must be aware of the social consequences of his actions and must consider the aesthetics as well as the economics of a problem. If we are affluent enough to have digital ovens, surely we can afford the extra 10% it costs to make a computer system respond to people’s names instead of numbers, or squeeze them into one of 100 categories instead of four. Computer systems can be dehumanizing or not, depending on how they are programmed. They can send inappropriate form letters that make us feel like numbers, or with a little more effort they can efficiently take care of routine correspondence, yet refer the interesting problems to people for solution. A perfect example of the result of applying .pure economics to a problem is the decision to put power lines above ground. A pure economic analysis shows that it is cheaper to string the lines above ground. However, what is the hidden cost of the ugliness of the power lines, and the deaths due to electrocution or crashing cars into the poles. In recent years many communities finally passed laws prohibiting aboveground utilities.

Then the door of the cell is opened, and a heap of broken bones and mutilated flesh is pushed in by the guards. He has been given electric shock, tortured by the pressure device, and beaten all over. We can hardly recognize the,face, the body, the pants, and the shirt. When the door is closed, I take his face in my hands, stretch his legs straight to the wall, put his head- on my knees, and pour in his mouth the lukewarm soup we have kept for him. I use the bowl itself, because forks and spoons are considered to be dangerous and we are not allowed to have them. Later I carry him on my back to the toilet. I have carried several prisoners in the past. I have told them that it was all right for them to take a crap while they were hanging from my back. I-have told them not to piss while they were doing that, because they would be pissing on my back. But I knqw that it is very difficult for them to hold in their piss when they are shitting. I washed them as a Moslem washes his ass. Then I carried them back to the cell. You don&t learn the art of humility in schools. You learn it in an Iranian prison.... For the second time they take me out of the Komite area, blindfolded and handcuffed, to the central police station close by, to see my wife. The station and the prison are attached. I can hear the autumn wind rustling through the trees of the large station courtyard. We go up the stairs and walk through long corridors. We stop. The handcuffs are locked. The blindfold is removed. The door is opened. I walk in and sit down by my wife. Then a girl is brought in, hardly thirteen years/old. She sits across

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Once the power companies were forced to develop the techniques for installing underground cables, equipment was developed that actually made it cheaper than going above ground. Early digital systems often tried to fit the people to the machine rather than vice versa. Now that digital logic complexity is so inexpensive, we can begin to make devices that do exactly what we want them to do. As storage costs come down, for example, the additional cost of using someone’s name instead of a number becomes insignificant. When machines used to do their work like obnoxious, inflexible clerks, they can now be programmed to do routine work like a splendid, efficient employee with a perfect memory. Machine-made parts have always meant boring standardization, but now we can begin to make machines that can be ,programmed tomake an endless variety of parts with the same cost advantage formerly available only if all parts produced were identical. The individuality of furniture, trim and so on, of the good ,old days, when everything was made by hand, can now be produced by programmable machines. In the early days of automation there was much fear that it would produce widespread unemployment. Time has proved, however, that this is not so. New industries created by automation have provided as many new jobs as have been eliminated.

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Though we can certainly work fewer hours to produce the same things, the work taken over by machines is the backbreaking, boring, and routine part of the job. The portion left for people is the interesting, creative work. Just how successfully we make technology our servant instead of our master will depend on the awareness of our new breed of engineers.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baiabanian, Norman, “Technology and Values” (letter), IEEE Spectrum, February 1974. pp. 26-27. Blake, Peter, God’s Own Junkyard, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1964. Braden, William, The Age of Aquarius, Quadrangle, Chicago, 1970. Christiansen, Don, “The New Professionalism,” IEEE Spectrum, June 1972, p. 17. Fromm, Eric, The Revol&ion of Hope, Harper & Row, New York, 1968. Grosch, Herb, “Problems and Priorities, ” Datamation, March 1972. p.48. I.E. E-E., Commiltee on Social implications of Technology Newsletter (a free newsletter to members of IEEE). Kemeny, Man and the Computer, Scribner’s, New York, 1972. Toffler. Alvin, Future Shock, Bantam Books, New York, 1970. Young, Louise, “Forests of the Future,” Sierra Club Bulletin, September 1973. _

from us on the chair. Dr. Rassouli comes in and sits behind the desk. Guards are seated all around us. Then a man walks in. The girl gets up, lifts herself on her tiptoes, and kisses the man. The man is tall and resembles a schoolteacher. The girl is crying. The father tries to console her. But the girl goes on crying. My wife and I can hear everything she says : “That man sitting there is Dr. Rassouli. He is my interrogator. He is the one who raped me.” Now the father is crying, too. My wife goes away first. I am blindfolded and handcuffed again. Back in the small courtyard of the prison, I am taken upstairs to my interrogator’s room on the second floor. The blindfold is taken off. Dr. Rezvan isn’t there. But there are screams coming from the torture chamber on this floor. The handcuffs have been unlocked, and the guard has gone away. I walk to the window. A little girl, scarcely six years old, has been placed in front of several men in handcuffs. Hosseini, the professional whipper of the Komite, asks the girl questions about the identities of these men. The girl hardly understands what the torturer is talking about. She is beaten on the face, and her ears and hair are pulled. The question is repeated, and the girl is terror stricken. Hosseini beats her again. This procedure goes on for some time until one of the men in handcuffs cannot stand it any longer and betrays his identity. The girl is taken back to he&cell. The man is taken up to the torture chamber on the third floor. I go back and sit down on the chair until my interrogator comes out of the torture chamber. \ We were taken to’the showers on Fridays. We were ordered to throw our jackets over our heads and to hold onto someone’s shirttail from the rear. Others behind would hang onto our shirts. Thus we walked to the showers, which were located to the left of the wards on the first floor. The guards watched us, with belts, whips, and batons at the ready in I their hands. They would use these indiscriminately on anyone they considered to be doing something wrong. It would take the inhabitants of each cell Only three minutes to occupy one of the shower booths; wash themselves under the cold, pressureless showers with the rock-hard soap; and dry themselves with wet towels made of red cloth. On the way to the showers, Peeping from underneath our jackets/ we saw hundreds of confiscated books stacked by the walls. We faced the walls so that others passing behind US could not recognize us and we could not identify them. BE was a handsome, young student of metallurgy in the University of Tehran. He was in my cell. He had been asked to become a member of SAVAK and had accepted out of fear for his life. He did not tell me at first. But then, one night, he woke me up: “Listen! They offered me the chance to become a member of SAVAK, and I accepted. What can I do I about it?” The offer had been made by one of the torturers. called Dr. Tehrani. I tried to talk him out of it. He’was convinced that he should do something about it before it was too late. He finally asked the guard to take He went away and came back a few hours later, him to the “Doctor.” beaten up. I was convinced that he had rejected the offer. He and 1 would go to the same booth in the showers. The door was left open, The guards loved to watch his ass. They would even point it out to each other and giggle passionately. Sometimes they would come closer and touch his ass with the tips of their belts or batons and SW something suggestive. I could see that the guards already had hard-ons and that beads gf saliva played on their mouths. During these moments, BE would ask me to help him. I would stand by the door of the booth with my hairy back to the guards,‘obstructing their erotic vision of passion with my own ass. It geemed that they didn’t fancy my ass. Rhythmic blows of whips and batons would fall on my wet back until BE finished washing. Then he would stand by the door with the loincloth around him until I had washed. With jackets covering our faces, both heads bent so that we saw only our own feet, we would walk back to our cells. On Fridays this was our only torture. God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The devil a destroyed the world in one day and rested six days. An Iranian

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’ Stalinism At the request of Messieurs Wahlsten and Kang, I am “coming out from my hole” in order to respond to their requests for a more detailed explanation of my belief that contemporary communist systems are anti-democratic anp antiprogressive, bearing more of a resemblance to an older oriental despotism than to modern society. As I had already written in a letter to Dr. Wahlsten last week (presently unpublished by the “free” Chevron), six years of my life were spent in a country occupied by Nazi Germany, followed by another eighteen years under StalinKhrushchev-Brezhnev communism. Much of what I shall say, then, has been part of my personal experience. If Messieurs Wahlsten and Kang expect me to produce the bones from the graves of those countless numbers of Stalin’s victims, then I admit a certain documentation is lacking. Dr. Wahlsten and I once discussed Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, a quite lucid and informative source of information. Those hundreds of witnesses should provide sufficient documentation of the crimes against the people‘ committed between the years 19 18 and 1956. Unfortun-ately, unlike Solzhenitsyn’s works, most of the other personal accounts did not reach the West. The real evidence cannot be found, conveniently wrapped up, in the free brochures distributed by communist embassies “around the globe. Much of the real evidence can be found in clandestine Samizdat publications in the various native languages, expressing the realities of poverty, hopelessness and frustration. To be a revolutionary here in Canada seems very much to be a fashionable avocation. But, under Stalinism, e.g. resisting arrest was more often than not just cause for summary execution at the hands of the police. To be found in presence of an illegal immigrant would get you years in prison. To speak of oppression here seems quite hollow in comparison. Democracy is, and will probably always be, the most progressive system in the history of mankind. This history of mankind is, however, also a process of struggle. Democracy did not evolve automatically, it has unfortunately always cost lives and effort. Working democracy also implied a mutual agreement; it may prosper only if most members of the society agree that the will of the majority has to be honoured, and the rights of the minority have to be protected. The minority of today may become a majority of tomorrow. Both sections of society have, however, to act within certain rules or guidelines. Lw These things are almost trivial truths. But democratic achievements often, historically, were lost when people took democracy for granted, where they simply did not care, or when they expected their adversary to be as’democratic as they. Sometimes, there are forces within a democratic society whose aim it is to permanently limit the democratic rights of all others. Often, they look ridiculous, illogical and are ignored by the majority. However, in spite of this, they can represent a real danger. It is strange that many such groups claim to have roots in Marxism, to be revolutionaries, in effect helping all those ignorant democrats. The teachings of Karl Marx were in the past considered to be humanistic, liberating mankind from all the evils. Now, one reads horrors about the atrocities of Marxists in many countries, oppression of the masses of people by Marxist governments, etc. What has happened to Marxism? Where is the contradiction? I do not consider myself a Marxist, although I do occasionally use Marxist terminology so that many people will understand my meaning. But otherwise, I prefer unprejudiced analysis of phenomena to ready-made solutions, even if they were offered by Marx or Lenin themselves. In the same way, I don’t want to be called a Crick-Watsonist, because I use the term DNA. Marxism is today the state ideology of two atomic super-powers, and in the process of acquisition it has lost much of its original humanistic character. That is probably not what Marx wanted, but unfortunately it is what happened. And, by gosh, that is the main reason why l’ don’t want to be called Marxist. Because of the association of Marxism with the state machinery, it is impossible to determine today what is the “authentic” marxism and what are the “revisionisms”. Marxist teaching is more often modified today according to the momentary power struggles than to a really altered social situation. After the death of Karl Marx, and with the changing world political climate, marxism split into several directions. This seems to be what usually happens after the death of a‘ Leader within the marxist movement. The two directions were quite important: One is the social democracy of the Bernstein- Kautsky type which is at present a successful ideology of parties in Sweden, West Germany, etc. The second direction was leninism, which was actually the first vjor revision of the original Marxist ideas. Marxists hold that development is actually the negation of the old exhausted phenomenon (e.g., the chicken is the “negation”

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of the egg). Lenin “negated” and modified Marxism into a specifically Russian phenomenon, in altering its following components: a. Theory of revolution. For Marx, the proletarian revolution was change in the social system carried out by the working class in order to extend and further develop individual freedom. Revolution was therefore a logical continuation of the democratic traditions of Europe. Lenin on the contrary believed in revolution organized and carried out by the party elite, as a revolutionary dictatorship over the proletariat and other classes (for &further details see Svitak’s book, “Dialectics of power”, Index, Munich 1973). b. Dictatorship of proletariat. Marx does not stress this component of his teaching very much, but Engels described the dictatorship of proletariat as a system with the plurality of political parties, civil freedoms, elections, etc. Lenin understood the dictatorship of proletariat to be an absolute and unlimited power, the dictatorship of professional revolutionaries over workers and citizens. c. Role of the party. Marx relied upon the development of the working class, and was convinced that the workers could liberate themselves. Lenin created a party of a new type, a corps d’elite of professional revoIut/onaries, a party which would not tolerate any other political parties, but would struggle for the complete monopoly of power. Lenin formed a new elitist organization, a power system which later developed into contemporary party bureaucracy. The revolutionary party of the leninist type was small and disciplined, but maintained some degree of internal democracy which Lenin called “democratic centralism” (see Svitak: “Dialectics of power” or Svitak: “Man and his world” for details). Leninist parties attempt to influence the mass es by a system of “levers and transmissions”, trade unions, anti-imperialist and pacifist organizations etc. The activity of the party must have a predominantly clandestine, illegal character, with some observedly legal actions. The revolutionaries are bound by the “Communist morality” which has but one commandment: Everything that advances the cause of the revolution is permissible. It is easy to find evidence for this description. The whole of Lenin’s works is loaded with further details. Sometimes, it is not easy to find the truth, and only the comparison of everyday life in communist countries with the theory may show how Lenin’s work is really prac&ally used. I recommend that interested individuals read, Marx: Philosophical Notebooks, and Lenin: State and Revolution, and see the difference. Modification of the original marxism was probably necessary in a pre-industrial absolutist Russia with poor and uneducated masses of people. In this situation, where the possibility of the legal organization was absent, Lenin’s strategy was successful. The professional revolutionaries were, however, in most instances not workers, but intellectuals Most names associated with the bolsheviks, such as Lenin, Trotsky, Martov. Zinoviev, Bucharin, even Stalin, were dropouts from universities and church semjnaries. something which gave a special character to the party. After the revolution, the state as anoppressive force was supposed to disappear. However. in the transitory period, Lenin already felt that the relationship of his party to the proletariat was a class relationship. He said that class relations in the transitory period from capitalism to socialism are: 1. ?he relation of the avantgarde of the proletariat (;party) to its masses. 2. The proletariat to the peasants. 3. The proletariat (and peasants) to the bourgeoisie. (Collected works, vol. 32, p. 336, Russian f Edition). No one knows what would have happened if Lenin had lived longer. Even before his death. the “Red terror” organized by his party against all who disagreed with him surpassed everything known in Tsarist Russia. Stalin, the successor to Lenin, did not substantially change Lenin’s theory. He only developed organic faults of Lenin’s interpretation of marxism. Stalin’s primary contribution was the use’of monstrous fraud and systematic lies as a means of manipulation of masses. The most important change that Stalin made was that he turned the means of the Red Terrorpolice, labour camps, propaganda additionally against the members of the party itself. He ,effectively altered the dictatorship of the party into the dictatorship of the bureaucratic apparatus against the masses of workers, peasants. non-Russian nations and even against members of his own party. He created an oppressive system which absolutely suppressed basic human rights, introduced a type of oriental despotism and molded the party into a disciplined paramilitary organization dependent upon his absolute personal power. Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago’” provides hundreds of pages of facts about these activities. Thus, Stalin only accomplished in practice what Lenin proposed theoretically. During

Stalin’s life, the class of bureaucrats became a collective owner of essentially everything in the country. The behavior and relationships within this class are beautifully described in Hedrick Smith’s book The Russians. The existence of antagonist class relationships in the “socialist countries” were analyzed by Milovan Djilas, and his book “New Class” should be studied by everyone who wants to know something about real structure of the “socialist” state. A detailed economic analysis with precise data was presented by Polish economists Jacek Kuron and Karol Modzelewski in 1965. After Stalin’s death the nations living in the countries hoped that their situation “socialist” would improve. By that time a New Class was already firmly in the saddle and no inner force was able to change anything. Occasional outbursts of popular anger were easily suppressed by tank divisions which replaced the proletarian internationalism. The New Class is suspicious of all other classes in their countries: of intellectuals, workers, peasants. Why not say it directly: I was there, I saw it. I remember them very well, comrades from regional, central and whatever committees, uneducated, primitive, greedy, frightened by everything original and independent, sitting on their privileges and power. They do not resemble Western Capitalists; they are much worse. An interesting book confirming my experience is Otto Ulc: Politics in Czechoslovakia, W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco 1974. The contradictions are, of course, more intensive in the countries which, before the Communist takeover, were already highly industrialized and democratic. A highly developed and educated working class, technically skilled farmers, intelligentsia with old democratic traditions and independence e.g. in Czechoslovakia suddenly slipped into a lower, less progressive social system, something only slightly better than feudalism. The change could only cause immense harm’to the whole nation. There are, at present, several marxist derivatives of the original Leninism-Stalinism; All of them, if they hold power, have much in common: 1. They are always single-party systems. The “Leading Role of the Party” is often even embedded in the constitution, if there is any. 2. Marxism-Leninism is a ruling ideology, but usually, it lacks the flexibility for development. The only accepted author and the First Philosopher is the Leader. 3. Civil freedoms are practically suspended, and will always remain so. With civil freedoms for all, the New Class cannot survive. 4. The country is usually hermetically closed, and even the movement of people inside may be limited. The travel of foreign&s into the country is usually limited to a few areas only, and unsanctioned emigration is a crime. 5. There is absolute cehsorship of the media. 6. If there are elections, only one candidate is available, and is usually “elected” by 99.98% of the voting population. 7. The trade unions are government controlled and no worker has any method of defense against the ruling decision. 8. The police system pervades all aspects of life in the country. 9. The armies steadily grow, disproportionately to the national income. Lenin wrote that imperialism is a last stage of capitalism. Well, then, how does one reconcile the Chinese assertion that Russian Communists are imperialists with the Russian claim that Chinese Communists are imperialists? The explanation may be, that society where rights of the majority are trampled upon breeds imperialism as well. Absolute power can be a difficult thing to control, and why should those who wield it recognize. independent sovereignties when the cause of world revolution beckons? Lenin and Stalin’s transformed marxism from the ideology of the working class in industrialized countries into an ideology of revolutions in undeveloped countries where feudal relations still prevailed. Tactics and strategy formulated by Lenin helped to destroy old feudal systems in China and elsewhere. These revolutions were led by the parties whose basic character I just described, and they succeeded. The problem remained, what would the leninist party do with absolute power after the revolution. The deveP opment of a bureaucratic class invariably followed the revolution. In China Mao Tse Tung tried. an impossible task. He attempted to interfere with the development of the new class with his Cultural Revolution, an antibureaucratic peoples movement engineered from above. Within months after Mao’s death, Hua Kuo Feng, a former chief of the Chinese police, rose to pow,er and started a “realistic” development. There will probably be no more Cultural Revolutions. It is difficult to understand the development of marxism in China. The early years after the revolution cannot say much about its further fate. There are still former soldiers of the revolution around and it takes some time before the new class shows what they can do. In th$ regard, Mao’s fascination with Napoleon should be mentioned. In 1973, Mao in discussion with former French president Pompidou said: “Napoleon’s methods were best. He dissolved all parliaments and he himself selected the people with whom he wanted to rule ....” “... years ago I spoke with one Russian in Yenan. He valued the emperor highly. Also Marx and Engels were influenced positively by him ...“. This interview was published in France after

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Mao’s death, and these quotations may give us a clue to his understanding of the role of the people in history. Philosopher Ivan Svitak wrote: “The ideological caricature of Marx can perhaps be adequately conveyed by the absurdly surrealistic metaphor of one sociologist, for whom Marx, perverted and deformed in the consciousness of society, is a monster with two heads which are trying to shout each other down, one with Soviet and one with Chinese slogans.” Detailed study of life in the “socialist” countries shows that this is not the way most people would enjoy. Revolution which means the limitation of civil freedoms is nonsense. Even if, in a developing country, such revolution may temporarily help the people, in long run it has disastrous consequences. In an industrial country, such revolution means a step backward. And the moral of this story? In the past fewmonths the normal life of the student community has been disrupted. In this letter, I tried to explain generally the%”philosophy of the groups which substantially contributed to this disruption. , Only a group which does not follow democratic rules, a group of self-proclaimed Leaders of the People who believe that they are more knowledgeable may simply refuse the results of the referendum, elections etc. Comrade Lenin also used derogatory name-calling when he spoke about parliaments, didn’t he? We have been told that there were 2000 members of CPC(ML) arrested and 25 deported from Canada. Already Comrade Lenin recommended to organize illegal activities of the party. In Stalin’s times, his nod was enough for the exile of wholesale numbers of people to Siberia. Here, in Canada a legal process is needed, everything must be proven, and no one is deported without reason. There is no doubt as well that these people are attempting to make a case in proving that Canada is a police state whereas in the communist countries there is freedom. That is an effort , similar to the squaring of the circle or perpetual mobile. There are many people living here, working in the university, who spent years under communism and know what real oppression, the lack of civil rights, and permanent fear are. Some of them are stili afraid to talk. Still, by talking about their experience, they may endanger their relatives in the home country, and even their own lives here. My previous two letters evoked a senseless outburst from Dr. Wahlsten and his “lever and transmission” associate. The use of words such as “raving idiot” must mean that I have touched a sore spot. This type of name-calling in place of reasoned discussions is yet another example of the application of Leninist rules of struggle. Discussion seems only for those who agree with them; those that don’t are subjected to insults. But, do tell us what you think about Stalin and Lenin. Tell us what you know about Lysenko. It should be interesting. Show where I am wrong. Prove your point. I do understand that there are problems in this world and in this country. But it is difficult for me to understand why, for whatever reasons - romantic or otherwise, some individuals choose to admire tyrants of the Stalin type and philosophically embrace their destructive policies. Is the denial of the existence of ‘those atrocities described in the Gulag Archipelago so easy? I will close with a quotation from Milovan Djilas: “Those who wish tq live and to survive in a world different from the one Stalin created and which still Mists and is as strong as ever, must fight for their lives”. ‘Stanislav

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CC Pub. Michael Hasek (Folk) 74~ after 7 pm. Ascent of Man, Music of the Spheres Part 5.3: 30 pm. EL 105 Good God Darling Not in the Nude! and Le?mie’s Jumped the Gun. 2 comedies in the Humanities Theatre at 8 pm. $1.50. Native Northamerican Film Series.. Our Land ‘is Our ‘Life, Cowboy and Indian, Travelling College. Free admission. NFB Theatre. Suite 207, 659 King St. E., Kitchener. Films start at 2 pm. Chess Club Meeting. 7:30 pm. CC 135. Music Four and Renaissance Dancers present a program of music, song and dance from Medieval Europe. 8 pm. CC Great Hall. Great Film Classics. The Big Broadcast with George Burns and Gracie Allen. 7:3Q pm. at the Kitchener Put#c Library. Free admission.

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CC Pub. Michael Hasek {Folk) 74~ after 7:00 pm. Ascent of Man, Starry Messenger Part 6.3: 30 pn% EL 105. Ascent of Man, Knowledge of Cettainty Part II. 4:30 pm. EL 105. Good God Darling Not in the Nude! and Leonie’s Jumped the Gun. 2 comedies ‘in the Humanities Theatre at 8 pm. $1.50. Ukr&inian Students’ Club. Final General Meeting. 7:00 pm, CC 113. Pub at Grad House following the meet: ing. Everyone welcome. Rock & Disco Pub sponsored by Mathsoc.\ MC5 136, 8:00 to 1:OO. Cash bar. Mathies 756, Others $1 .OO. Waterloo Jewish Students Association Luncheon and Discussion. l-1 :30 am. CC l-12. Admission $1 .OO.

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Drain the tuna and flake it with a fork. Add the eggs and mash them up and mix together well. Add the relish, cheese spread and onion and mix well. Add enough to suit you (you will probably need at least l/4 cup). Salt to taste. Fill hot ’ dog -buns with the mixture, wrap the filled buns in foil (shiny side in) and heat in 350 oven until hot through (about 15 minutes). These can be kept in the refrigerator for 3 or 4 days and heated when needed. Reheating isn’t advised. (Makes 8 to 12,- depending on how full you fill the buns.) Wiener

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1 cup uncooked macaroni 3 or 4 wieners (more if you like) 1 garlic clove, finely chopped l/2 small onion, chopped 1 - 28 oz. can tomatoes l/4 teaspoon basil dash worchestershire dash tabasco l/4 cup ketchup if desired salt and pepper to taste

Cook macaroni in boiling salted water for 6 minutes (macaroni will be slightly underdone). Drain. While macaroni is cooking chop the wieners into pieces about l/8 to l/4 inch thick and saute with garlic and onion in frying pan for about 5 minutes. Place all other ingredients in a saucepan and allow to simmer while the macaroni and wieners are cooking. Add to this one macaroni and the wieners and allow the whole thing to simmer for at least 10 minutes. Serve on warmed plates with a tossed salad and whole wheat bread. (serves 3 to 4). Leftovers from this dish can provide a different supper the next day if you add to them more leftovers such as diced cooked meat, diced cheese, leftover soup (especially tomato), leftover vegetables, and cracker crumbs to soak up moisture. Top with buttered breadcrumbs in a casserole dish and heat in 350 oven until browned and hot through (about 20 minutes).

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Two of the items broughfto Senate Undergraduate Council this week by Math Faculty Council seem deserving of 0 personal comment. Several weeks ago, math students suddenly discovered that the faculty’s Standings and Promotions Co.mmittee . was-bringing a set of motions to Faculty Council which would place sudden and severe restrictions on students, especially those in marginal academic circumstances. This is not the first time math students have averted what appeared to many to be disaster at the hands of this committee. Regardless of the motivations, many students have come to believe that the sole purpose of this committee is to annually attempt to put one past the students. There is a belief that some day students will suddenly discover that enrolment in a math honours program will require total dedication to the pursuit of unattainable percentages by any means, fair or foul. The volume of student concern aroused at extremely short notice was not discussed by Undergraduate Council. Somehow, in the process of moving from Math Faculty Council to Senate Undergraduate Council, the phrase “retroactive to January 1977” was misplaced, lost, or omitted, so that no date appeared on the version presented. Several councillors were concerned that students k should be able to complete a year, if not a program, under the rules as they existed when the student enrolled. While . this is standard in several, if not all, other faculties, it is an exception of special note in Math. A representative from Environmental Studies reminded council of a point raised in past rule changes. Does the University have a contractual obligation to adhere to rules as they exist at enrollment? Next to this, the renumbering of CS150 as CS250 seems trivial. This is meant as recognition that 70% of the students in this course are in second year. The Computer Science department evidently feels that renumbering of this course would be sufficient recognition of this fact. ’ Students in the course (including myself) however, feel differently. What is needed is a complete revision of the course material. Students in mathematics require a minimum of two half-credits in computer science.. For most students, these are CS140 and CSl80. Thus students in CS150 are generally (a) students whose major interest is Computer Science, or (b) students taking an additional course beyond CS140 and/or 180. Since some students never encounter computers before university, a “holding hands” attitude in CS140 and 180 can be tolerated. However, by the time most of the class has taken at least one course and, as pointed out, 70% are in second year, such an attitude, especially in the teaching of elementary material, becomes not just amusing or irritating but in fact discourages learning and/or interest in the field. Said one student, “First and Second year computer science will cure just about anybody who’s only a little -bit interested.” And that’s not because the material is too hard. , -Dave Gillett

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Chop tomatoes and cook them in nothing but their own juices uncovered over medium heat _ until they cook down to a thick pulp. (If you use canned tomatoes, drain them well first.) This takes about 15 or 20 minutes (more for a larger quantity). Stir from time to time. When thick remove from heat and stir in about a tablespoon of butter or oil to make a puree. While tomatoes are cooking. narboil the ma- I caroni in boiling salted water- for 4 minutes (not more) and drain immediately. Add the drained macaroni to the hot oil in a large skillet. Let the macaroni cook until it is all crisp and golden (about 15 to 20 minutes). Stir often, and add more oil if necessary to prevent sticking. When browned add the tomato sauce and mix well. Heat through for about 5 minutes and serve on hot plates (serves 4 to 6). The tomato ‘sauce is good in any recipe calling for tomato sauce, or by itself on any pasta. Sausages

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Saute onion and sausages (pricked with a fork) in 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet. Cook until lightly browned and add white wine and consomme. Stir while adding tomato paste. Simmer, covered for 10 to 15 minutes, until sausages are cooked through. Put the sausages on the toast on a heated platter and keep them warm. Cook the sauce until it is reduced to about 1 cup and thicken it with 11/z tablespoons flour mixed with the 2 tablespoons butter. Stir until smooth and thick. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour the sauce over the sausages on the toast. (Serves 6). This is particularly good when served with boiled rice. Boil about 2 cups long grain rice in a large pot of salted boiling water uncovered for about 15 minutes (just until tender through). Drain and surround slices of toast with border of rice. Address all correspondence column to FOOD, the Chevron, University,of Waterloo.

Publications there is also Entertainment, Housing, Transport etc., and, according to Thompson, never took place. “the matter’ is taking a disproOn Feb. 16th, the Federation ofportionately huge amount of time fered the free chevron reinstateand energy in being dealt with”. ment without back pay and back Thompson said that “the probdebts. Back pay and back debts lem should not be allowed to being the subject of investigation continue to go on if they expect binding arbitration on that. to do anything for the students The Federation received a response from the free chevron on of this university:” Something has to be done. The Feb. 18th. The free chevron reFederation cannot just sit around fused the proposal in that it was and expect miracles, they canthe main reason unacceptable, not expect their problems to be being that back pay and back solved unless they both agree on debts should be awarded and not certain courses of actions. to be the subject of investigation. Doug Thompson’s proposal is a On speaking with Doug Hamilstep towards negotiation, negotiton, Arts council rep. and free ation being used in the general chevron staffer, he stated that sense of the word, in that it is “the free chevron staff believes only through negotiation that that it has been illegally closed both sides can settle their dispute, down and therefore Docherty since other forms of ‘communicaand Hess deserve back pay”. tion’ proved unsuccessful. On March 4th, 39’1’1, ‘l’hompson Thompson’s most recent prowith said that “in consultation posal of reinstatement is not an several people I sent a document indication that he is ‘jumping down to the free chevron, the ship’, but should be viewed as main purpose being the clarificaan attempt to get specifically tion of their demands for the beneand explicitly an indication of fit of council”. what the free chevron want. The crux of the matter is that Despite the fact that Thompson this whole affair cannot continue. and chief executive No matter whose side you’re on is president officer, this gives him no power the case remains that the,Federaas to the final decision. tion - Chevron affair has to come All matters are ratified by to an end. comes from The interest of the students on council. Ratification the majority vote of about 26 this campus is the Federation’s representing all the main concern. The chevron is councillors, various faculties of this campus. just one small part of the FederaBoth heaven and hell could be tion’s ..,i> r t’- organization, \r, * * * ;* . L 3 as/ * besides \ ‘4‘i L -I ,>*.x*. :* 5%*..,:..* 1. (Continued

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dents and obstructed from doing Larry Smylie, (F&ison Rep.) business for all students? We’re sponsored a motion ordering both not here to play games”. the Federation Executive and the The debate continued over a chevron to prepare and present 2% hour period. Finally council evidence and witnesses to resolve decided to continue the discussion the chevron dispute, at the counat a later date. cil meeting on March 8th, 1977. Mr. Smylie stated: “All stuSmylie rose and tendered his dents are entitled to a commisresignation from council, stating sion of ‘inquiry into the Federation that councillors were being ir- chevron conflict”. responsible by not facing and not Dave Carter, Grad. rep. and dealing with a conflict that had free chevron staff member said obstructed business from being that “reinstatement should take conducted for six months; that place before investigation ; that council might as well all resign to do otherwise is a contravenand let the chevron govern this tion to the democratic principle campus, as council was letting of being innocent till proven guilthem do it anyway. ty; the right to trial before conHe then walked out of the mpetviction”. ing. White replied that “reinstateThere was discussion, followment does not deal with a proposal ing Smylie’s departure, as to the for an investigation, but states motion of making Mike (Maddog) what the chevron demands; that Dillon , ‘real’ ch’evron : editorial the council meeting of Sept. 24th, co-ordinator, and Randy Bark‘77, had thirty student delegations man, ‘free’ chevron staffer, cowhich brought forward and prechairpersons of the Board of Pubsented their views on the free lications. chevron”. John Long stated that the two Carter then said that “the free chevron would not be co-operative ; could not work together.’ Council voted 9-9-2, and Maverthat the best position for council nac, the speaker, broke the tie to take would be to form a comvoting in favour of the motion. mittee to negotiate with the chevA revote was called upon and ron on investigation”. the speaker again broke the tie. J.J. Long (Math reg. ) pointed The final vote is 11-10-o. but that “the free chevron just J.J. Long was nominated by wants what they want; they want as chairperson of the total capitulation. Council’s re- Thompson sponsibility is not to satisfy the free chevron, but all students”. Bruce Rorrison, Creative Arts ’ _ Board Chairperson, stated in support of Smylie’s motion that “the proposal of a student investigation comprised of elected representatives from all faculties on _ campus, is the most fair proposal to come forth. I have enough faith in council’s judgement. The proposal could be changed to improve it”. Smylie stated that “council has a responsibility to all 15,000 students on campus, and they, council, should seek the truth from factual evidence, not from allegations, rumours, or unsupported opinions. A student comrinission of enquiry, composed of the entire student council, should be public, open to all students. All students ire entitled to be made aware of the facts by student counnil"

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By-law Review Committee. Said Thompson, Long is familiar with the total body of the by-laws having worked in the Federation for three years. Thompson then stressed that the chairperson does not have decisive powers. He finds problems in the by-laws, makes recommendations to council for ratification. Carter spoke out against Long calling him an “impetuous” person and recommended Brian Brynes (Arts Rep.) for the position. He said that Brynes was independent and impartial. Leavens emphasizedl that experience was the main qualification for the position. Council voted Long - 11, Brynes -8. The last item dealt ‘with was - whether or not to continue Federa tion privilege cards. Mike de Villier and Donna Rogers spoke against the motion saying that councillors should not be rewarded for their work. Rogers said that c’b’uncillors and other people in the Federation holding privilege cards and Fed. “playmoney” use it to pay for their friends at pubs and fed. flicks. When put to the final vote, the motion passed in favour of continuing privilege cards, 8-6-4. Council then adjourned. - Battijoy Armoogam

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Waterloo’s two wrestlers in the CIAU finals did not fate as well as might have been hoped. Both were eliminated from further action by superior grapplers, one by an injury. Peter Muirhead and Don Marrin both made it to the National bouts, but found that the competition was a bit ovei- their heads for this year. . Marrin had finished third in the 134-lb. weight class, and had been chosen because the winner decided to wrestle in an International meet in Cuba. Normally, only the top two wrestlers advanie to the Nationals. He lost his first bout to BillSandford of Dalhousie, by a 9-4 decision. In his second match-up, he injured his knee, and, although he managed to finish the fight, losing by an ‘11-l decision, he was unable to continue- the tournament, and, forfeited his remaining two matches. Muirhead advanced to the competition by dint of another competitor choosing to go to Cuba, and the injury of the third-place finisher at the OU’s. Unfortunately, as the fourthplace finisher at the OUAA Championships, he was unprepared for the calibre of wrestling at last week’s meet, and lost all four of his matches in the 177-lb. class. Coach Kurt Boese said, however, that it was “great experience for them. ” The team members will continue to work out with area wrestlers for the rest of the term, and part of the summer. Waterloo is hosting the Junior Championships this weekend, with the Senior Nationals being held next weekend at McMaster. On March 23, the National Champions will meet the touring Iranian National Team, with a clinic being held the following day, from 2:00-6:OOp.m.

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Spurred on by their close second place finish at the O.U.A.A. meet two weeks ago, .Waterloo’s Swimming and Diving Warriors claimed the all - important C.I.A.U. National Championship last week-end at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool. The Championships were hosted by Toronto who have held the C.I.A.U. title for 10 of the past 11 years. But this-was the meet the Warriors had long been waiting for, and they made no mistake in relegating Toronto’s dynasty to the history bodks. This year the championships were truly top in calibre with an incredible 15 record-breaking performances in the 16 swimming events. Waterloo’s star breaststroker, Ron Campbell set two of the three National open records established at the meet. His time of 58.43 in the 100 yd. breaststroke took 9 seconds off the old mark while his 200 time of 2 : 06.58 lowered that time by 1.02 seconds. In addition, a total of 14 C.I.A.U. and 14 Ontario senior records were broken last week-end. To win this meet, the Warriors knew they had to force the Blues behind them in the points standing from early in the meet. Keeping them there would have a powerful psychological effect as Toronto is unaccustomed to the pressure of having to make up a points deficit. That was the Warriors’ plan and they made it work by adding many life-time best performances to the astute line-up of coach Claudia Cronin. The first event was the 4x100 medley relay and Waterloo’s championship team of Brian Harvey (back), Ron Campbell (breast), Bo Jacyszyn (fly) and Tim Wilson (free) chopped 4 seconds off the previous C.I.A.U. and Ontario record finishing in 3: 32.80. Reinforced by strong swims from John Heinbuch and

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Coach Cronin pauses to contemplate the C.I.A.U. point standings at the end of the first day. Waterloo went on to win the Championship bv 6 l/2 points.

Warriors The last two games of the seaon for the Waterloo Warriors team were both close, asketball ut the decisions went opposite Jays. In the semi-final match against he eventual-Champions Acadia Lxemen, they lost by virtue of a ast-second basket, 65-63. In the Consolation final against he McGill Redmen, ‘they pulled he same trick to their advantage, vhen Mike Visser dropped in the inal field goal a split second. beore the buzzer,’ for, a one-point, O-79 vie torv.

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Jane Orr, Leslie Patterson, Val Quirk and Karen Stewart. Judging from the many fine performances turned in by the team it appears that the last word has not been spoken about our Swimmin’ Wimmen’. For complete details on the results see next week’s Chevron. - KarenMurphy

Waterloo’s proposed $700,000 skating arena will be built near Seagram Stadium city council decided Monday. The site is the practice field on Seagram Drive at the east end of the parking lot. The site was chosen over a’ site adjacent to Waterloo Arena that had been proposed earlier. Ken Pflug, community services director, said’ in January that the city would likely consider another location because of the poor soil condition at Waterloo Arena. The idea of the skating arena was conceived in 1974 by the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club, which plans to raise $150,000 for the building. The project which would include a community hall in the upper level, has already received $150,000 in grants from Wintario and the ministry of culture and recreation r under the Community Recration Centres Act. The city will provide the land and make up any difference. In a report to council Monday, Pflug said about $200,000 could be saved by choosing the Seagram site- because the soil there- was

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much better than near Waterloo Arena. . He also said a skating arena next to Seagram Stadium “would present the opportunity to develop an excellent recreational complex with the stadium, park, tennis courts and skating arena.” “During the summer skating schools, skaters training at the arena would be able to use the adjoining facilities, such as the stadium track and gym for their program.” Pflug also told council that esthetically it would be difficult to combine the old Waterloo Arena with the new skating arena and that there would be additional costs to connect the two buildings. The Seagram site offers parking and is in a heavily populated area, which “could be beneficial in helping to generate revenue during public skating time.” About the only advantages of the Waterloo Arena site was an op; erational saving of $12,499 a year and the need for only one ice resurfacer.

wen took the inbounds pass, and / dribbled the ball down to the Mc_ Gill end. He faked a 25-foot jump shot, and passed off to Visser, on the McGill baseline, who banked the ball off the back-board for the winning points. Visser, in his last game of University basketball, scored 18 points, Hadwen sank 17, and Doug Vance tallied 13. Lou Nelson was high scorer in the game with 21 points, and, along with his strong performances in the previous two games, was picked as part of the six-man Tournament All-Star Team, along with seven-one Jim Zoet of Lakehead, Mel Bishop of Lakehead, Alvin Jessamy of Acadia, and Frank White of St. Mary’s. Most valuable player for the tournament, and rounding out the All-Star squad, was six-seven Axeman, Ed Shannon. This is the second time in as many years that Warriors have finished third in the CIAU tournament. They won the title two years ago, when UW hosted the event. The National Crown went to the Axemen, when they defeated Lakehead University, 72-63, in the eightteam event’s final game. St. Mary’s was fifth in the tournament, by virtue of their win over the University of Prince Edward Island _in a high-scoring game, 106-94.

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The Warriors played their entire final game from the lower end of the score, being down by 13 points twice in the match, at the half, and with 11 minutes to play * Waterloo dominated the last part of the game, however, to tie the score at 75-all with 1:42 left to play. They went ahead in the last minute, kto lead 78-77, until McGill’s six-nine centre, Charlie Galbraith sank one with seven seconds, to put the Redmen ahead, 79-78. After time out. Sevmour Had-

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Himpered by graduation of half their team last season, Waterloo’s famous Swimmin’ Wimmen took a creditable 6th place at the C. W.I.A.U. Championships held last week end at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool. Representing the Athenas were Laura Hecker, Patti Murphy, Gorazdo wska , Karen

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Ron Campbell in the 1650 freestyle, the Warriors finished 12 points ahead at the end of the first day. Throughout the rest of the three day meet, the Waterloo team continued to pile on the points and the previously invincible Blues who had started second, finished second. The final scores were Toronto 369, Waterloo 362%. portant in University league swimming, where the number of events per competitor is limited, true credit for the Warriors’ victory must go to the performances which they themselves turned in at the Championships. For the team, this meet represented the focus of six months of hard training and preparation at their home pool in the P. A.C. building. There, often unnoticed, they practised twice-a-day five days a week and, barring an away meet, on week-ends as well. Add to that the positive psyche of a team with the will to win and you have a dynamic combination, Waterloo’s Swimming and Diving Warriors ; Rich Adamson, Paul Ahloy, Steve Brooks, Ron Campbell, Claude Cormier, Carl Cronin, Brian Harvey, Dave Heinbuch, John Heinbuch, Tom Hett, Bo Jacyszyn, Eric Moffatt and Tim Wilson. Congratulations to Waterloo’s C.I.A.U. Championship only Team this year, to rookie coach Claudia Cronin and to volunteer diving coach Marnie Tatham. Since the Warriors will only lose one member through graduation this year, their continued strength in C.I.A.U. It ague swimming is assured. Waterloo may have to get used to being the home of the C.I.A.U. Swimming Champions. Next week, a tribute to the Swimming and Diving Warriors.

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Hockey: Friday, t March 11 - B league at 2:00 p.m. and A league at 3: 30 p.m. both games played at Moses Springer Arena. Look for the game “A” West Alumni and Bad Company or St. JePomes. Floor Hockey: Thursday, March 17 5:00 p.m. at Seagrams. Basketball (Men’s Competitive) Monday, March 17 at 7:OO p.m. in the Main Gym. Women’s , Basketball - Monday, March 14 at 6:00 p.m. and 815 p.m. Broomball Tourney - Friday, March 11 from 12 : 00 noon - 3 : 00 p.m. at Moses Springer and McCormick arenas. Tournaments

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while D. Gote and B. Robinson proved to be the hero for the Opreplied for Optometry. tometrists as he fired the winTeam Alufawhore closed out ning goal at the 2: 55 mark of the session. M. Falke picktheir season by downing the Can- .overtime ucks 3-l and remaining undefeated up two goals for the winners ed. The game was a very chippy while R. Moore scored once. S. affair with 15 penalties being as- Johnston, P. Bromley, and Clarke scored for West Atilla. sessed during the match. Dave Benson led the way for the In the other A League playoff game on Maroh 2, West Alumni Alufawhores with two goals while linemate Mike Dempster added dropped Math 4-2. Gary Fick popthe third Alufawhore marker. ped in two goals for West with D. Brian Watson scored the only Bourgeouis and J. Bobette scoring one apiece. S. Sutton and E. goal for the Canucks. Lebar replied for the Mathies. ’ A League : In other first round action on A League hockey action came March 6, St. Jerome’s overpowerto a close on February 28 when ed Medicine 6-2 and Bad ComBad Company defeated Medicine pany squeaked by V2 South 3-2 in 5-2. B. Sarazin seored twice for overtime. Bad Company with singles going Aldwinkle picked up two goals to D. Barnoski, H. Kantor, and for St. Jerome’s with singles D. Marshman. Connell and Reid going to Dawling, Orsini, Elliot, scored for Medicine. and Field. Graham and Stark rePlayoffs - A league: A League plied for Medicine. playoffs got underway on March 2, with West Atilla meeting OptoD. Barnoski snapped a 2-2 deadmetry A and West Alumni versus lock between Bad Company and V2 Math. South with an overtime goal and A defeated West ‘enabled Bad Company to advance 1w Optometry Attila 4-3 in an overtime thriller to second round playoff action. that saw Optometry A tie the game Bob. Ballantyne and B. Nielson with one second remaining in the scored one each for Bad Comfinal period and then go on to vic- pany while Mannilla and Sandertory in overtime. G. Leinweber 4 son contributed one goal apiece

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for the Villagers. In second round play, West Alumni will go against Optometry A and Bad Company will meet St. Jerome’s. Bad Company is slightly favoured over St. Jerome’s by virtue of their undefeated season while West Alumni has a small edge over Optometry also because of an undefeated season. B League playoffs: Conrad Grebe1 rolled to an easy 612 win over Optometry B on March 3, with Franzen, Millar, Lofthouse, Dick, Filion and Block scoring for the winners. Robinson and Gote picked up one goal each for the Optometrists. “. In other playoff action on March 3, the Rockers defeated VI East 4-3 in a game decided on penalty shots after overtime failed to settle the stalemate. Thrasher proved to be the hero for the Rockers when he cashed in on his penalty shot. Other scorers for the winners were Holroyd with two, while Harris added a single. Hammill and Mockler scored for VI East. On March 4, VI South,edged the Rideau Imports 3-2 to advance to second round play. Farquhar scored twice for South with Clark

picking up a single. J. Handy and P. Bell scored one each for the losers. VI West nosed out St. Paul’s 2-l on March 4, with McCormick and Joslin scoring for West while Bowery picked up the only St. Paul’s goal. In second round play, Coop will meet the Rockers, East A plays Conrad Grebel, Coca’s Nuts goes against VI South and Team- Alufawhore will tangle with VI West.

ron says no. Yet they persist in their demand that we accept their point of view without any sort of investigation. Speaking of action based on rumour and allegation. .. At this time Students’ Council is once again torn over the newspaper controversy. One side is demandingtotal reinstatement, The other says investigate first. Yet in January 2286 students voted against the very position the free chevron says it wants. Only 224 supported the free chevron position in the referendum. On Feb. 2 there were three antireinstatement candidates and one pro-reinstatenqnt candidate.? The pro-reinstatement candidate received only 600 out of 2400 votes cast. In the council elections all of the avowedly pro-reinstatement candidates save one were defeated. Those pro-chevron people that are on council were acclaimed for the most part. The students of this university have clearly spoken against capitulation to the demands of the free chevron. They continue to display what I can only call contempt for the expressed wishes of the students by insisting that council do nothing at all until it meets their demands. Press Canadian University (CUP) has tried twice, to invest-

igate the matter. The Federation has tried three times. The free chevron has stalled all five. We have tried to negotiate, we have tried to compromise. We have put the question to the students. But still the free chevron refuses to budge. “Reinstate”, they say. So what can UW students expect from their Federation in the next few months? Negotiations? Well, I’ve tried to negotiate, but all the free chevron is willing to talk about are terms of reinstatement, not whether or not reinstatement can or should occur. Investigation? Yes! We’ will hold an investigation and if past actions are any guide, no matter how fairly we attempt to construct the investigative group, the free chevron will boycott it thus making it illegitimate in their eyes. Reinstatement ? No ! The students have spoken clearly against that and until an investigation or a possible future referendum reverses that verdict, no responsible student representative can stand against the clearly expressed wishes of the students. Eviction of the free chevron and the establishment of a new paper? It looks like it will come down to that. I stand for a free, open, democratic student newspaper’ that is responsive to student wishes and for which there is some kind of appeal for dissatisfied students. After all, your money goes to pay for part of the publishing costs and salaries in the student newspaper. I would much prefer to come to an agreement and compromise with the free chevron so that the talents and skills of their staff will not be lost to the new paper. But their refusal to negotiate on anything but the acceptance of their own demands makes this more unlikely with every passing day. But if agreement is not possible, I will fulfil my campaign promise to pursue every legal avenue against those who are occupying Federation office space illegally SO that the resources can be made available to student journalists who are willing to be responsible and accountable to all students of U.W. Doug Thompson President/Federation @f Students

Co-op and Conrad Grebel are favoured to advance to the semifinals while Team Alufawhore and Coca’s Nuts should meet in the other semi-finals. The finals for both A and B leagues will be played on Friday, March 11, at Moses Springer with the B league final getting underway at 2:00 p.m. followed by the A league final. Hockey

Update

West Alumni defeated Optometry on Monday Night 5-2 to enter-the finals in A league. Mark Richer had 3 goals and Ted “Jethrot’ Sanders had 2 for the winners. The A final is 3:30 p.m. this Friday.

Men’s Competitive Basketball

This week saw some excellent basketball play as the regular season drew to a close, These games were however, overshadowed by the, strong play shown in the first round of playoffs. In what was considered by many to be an upset, The Mists showed their best form of the season in defeating the previously unbeaten East 5 Selects. East 5 was seriously undermanned from the start, fielding only six players, and showed their weariness late in the-second half. The Mists managed to dominate the strong-rebounding East 5 team and stole more than one basket. A line game throughout, , tempers flared on several o$cas-’ ions and the game became extremely physical. The final score: 27-31, Mists over East 5. In other B league playoff games, The Ball Hogs showed themselves to be a team capable of going all the way by destroying the Nuts and Bolts 45 to 31. Although starting off as a close game, the Ball Hogs pulled away to a large lead in the second half and won the race. Sunday saw no less than 3 defaulted playoff games including one in A league. We can only conclude that these teams were unable to be reached by phone, while at the same time, neglecting to for a playoff schedule. At any .rate, the one A league playoff game between Firehouse and the Tiny Toddlers was well played although extremely physical and ended in a 59-52 win for the Toddlers. This places the Toddlers in the position of having to defeat the unbeaten Waterloo Wizards who seem destined for the league final, it should prove to be=quite a game. i With East 5 out of the race in B league, it could almost be any. one’s championship, but I lean toward the Mists or Ball Hogs for a berth in the final, facing almost anyone of the four remaining teams. At any rate, both league finals are in the main gym at 7:00 and 9:15 p.m. on Monday, March 15. If you want to see some of the best Intramural basketball of the year, plan to be there. Men’s

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B League : Regular season play in B league came to an end on March 1. On February 28, the Rideau Imports ended their season on a winning note by edging Optometry B 3-2. .R. Russell, L. Groulx and -7 St~nrnn c~nrd fnr the Imn&.s

PRESS RELEASE from the office of the President Since the end of September, the Students’ Council of the Federation has been locked in a do or die, all or nothing conflict with the staff of the former student newspaper, the chevron and the staff of a paper which followed it, the free chevron. After five and one half months of confrontation, discussion, negotiations, proposals and counter proposals, the situation has hardly progressed an inch. Claims, counter-claims and accusations of wrongdoing of all sorts from all sides have been running rampant. Yet every effort to conduct a’ thorough and fair investigation of these claims and accusations and the events which spawned them has been met by a refusal to cooperate in any way by the free chevron.

Why? The free chevron claims that the old chevron was closed illegally and on the basis of rumour and allegation. They have refused to consider offers to reopen the paper or even rehire the fired staff unless all back debts and back pay are provided by the Federation. No investigation and no reopening will be considered by the free chevron without a full reinstatement as the paper was Sept. 24, back pay and back debts included. In February, I offered the free chevron limited re-instatement, with only back pay and back debts withheld until an investigation could sort out the conflicting claims. Was the closure legal? Was due process followed? Our lawyers say yes. The free chev-

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Summer ‘Rats Firehouse Tracksters Dromedaries Conrad Grebel E.S.S. LEAGUE A2 Waterloo Wizards Phantoms St. Jeromes A Engineering Tiny Toddlers Alufahons

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The Sport Group of the UW Chinese Students’ Association won the all-round championship of the annual ‘Orient Bowl’ tournament on Feb. 19, organized by the U of T Chinese Students’ Association. Sixteen sports groups representing 16 Ontario and Quebec universities participated in the ‘Orient Bowl’. The areas of competition were; basketball, badminton, and table-tennis. The basketball team of CSA/UW won the basketball championship by out-matching the Windsor team. In the badminton competition, UW came third. As a result of winning the championship, CSA/UW gained the honour of organizing t\e 1978 ‘Orient Bowl’. .

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