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Geoffrey Pearson : Pacifist Addresses M cGill
Photo—Peter Duval
Geoffrey Pearson: There is no peace without freedom and no alternative to peace.
minister Lester B. Pearson, is the ex ecutive director of the Canadian In stitute for Peace and Security. He was educated at Oxford and also at the University of Toronto, where he studies at the Centre for European Studies. His public life has included diplomatic ap pointments as well as the post of advisor to the Prim Minister on arms control. Having been Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Pearson is well acquainted with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov. These facts were emphasized in the in troduction to demonstrate that Pearson is eminently qualified to speak on the theme "Youth, Peace, and Disarma ment." Geoffrey Pearson echoes many of his father's sentiments on "the universal goals of peace, security and progress. The growing need and public support for greater worldwide cooperation is being put aside by governments that are slow to relinquish sovereign power. The political aspects of nationalism have to be submerged in order to achieve inter national unity." Geoffrey Pearson goes on to define peace and how to achieve it. He includes Neville Chamberlain's ide of "appeasement as a model of political action... applicable toward any state." Chamberlain's ideas influenced President Kennedy's peace strategy toward the Soviet Union. The long-standing question of Cana dians and Americans is "What is the Russian attitude to war?" The rigidity of communist ideology keeps East and West relations polarized, which leads to distrust. Without some kind of agree ment there is a greater chance of war. Pearson notes the incredible fact that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have only five percent of the world's total population, but ninety-five percent of the nuclear weapons. Asked whether war can be prevented, Pearson goes on to say that "East and West relations is a process that can go on for years." A question from the audience arose as to "what Canada can do to promote U.S. and Soviet understanding." Pear son replied that "With the remilitariza tion of the world and billions of dollars
already spent, thëre are no new answers. When difficult questions arise, it's hard for people to take positions. However we must pay close attention to immediate dangers and increase our capacity to know" all that we can on these vital issues. The key is to "find a way to negotiate. By gradually reducing weapons and taking steps to prevent un fortunate incidents and mishpas, much of the stress and international tension may be reduced." To be considered are the "joint causes of space, water and environment — how to preserve and protect them from outside threats. These are common causes and endeavors to be shared by everyone," including youth, who are our future. Pearson continues that "With a univer sity education comes the opportunity for taking on this task. When govern ments are unable to cope, they col lapse. Looking at the relationship bet ween what we do and they way the world goes, we have that moral respon sibility to contribute., to line up and be counte." Pearsqn stresses that "There's no need to become a martyr." Even though peace, as a concept, is too general and too all embracing, there are ways to start on a small scale in social communities — to cut down on violence and to improve social condi tions. There are two approaches. The first is to change human nature and the second is to prevent war among states. Coming against the wall of fear creates a terrible kind of reality." Pearson points out the "nuclear dangers when vyeapons are used in selfdefence. It is our own interest to survive combined with public actions and the pressure of citizens worldwide that gives some kind of hope for peace. There is no peace without freedom and no alternative to peace." He cautions against the "dangers of a nuclear holocaust that may have become ir reversible consequences if the nuclear arms race isn't halted. In nineteenseventy the United Nations proclaimed the beginning of the Disarmament Decade, but fifteen years later there still exists distrust, tension and violence."
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by Sophie Wilson The Engineering Expansion Pro gramme has caused a lot of feather ruffl ing and office shuffling around the Mac Donald Harrington building in the past year. The expansion programme is an of ficial effort to accomodate increases in engineering research grants and student numbers overthe past five years. To pro vide the engineers with several thou sand square feet of badly needed space, McGill's Space Allocation Committee (SAC) decided last year to empty the Macdonald Harrington building of its occupants — not a popular decision. As SA chariman Chuck Adler noted, "In my twelve years here I've never known any department to willingly want to move... Faced with the issue twenty years ago, we'd build anew — that's just no reasonable today." SAC is a standing sub-committee of the senate that, in the words of Adler, "knows who's using all the space." Facing the Undergraduate Library on the main McGill campus, Macdonald Harrington has been the home for several "progressive " interdisciplinary centres on campus. Finding themselves allocated to more obscure locations are the Centre for Developing Area Studies, Graduate Communications, The In structional Communications Centre and James Green gave his all. Did you? The M cGill Blood Drive continues till Friday with prizes and Northern Studies. The one group that has visibly suf rewards for everyone. Help others survive in '85. fered from the engineering expansion is offer the only practical studio course for organisation responsible for all audio revitalise the system. The ICC's new location in a high rise the Instructional Communications Cen students in the Film and Communica- and visual equipment on campus. They tre (ICC). The ICC is an umbrellla tions departments, and are an instruc- tional service for professors wishing to building off campus has only helped to isolate them from the university com munity they were created to serve. With no high ceilings, and thus, no studio space, the ICC has been forced to cancel its practical studio course for undergraduates. Director Bill Hilgartner by Olga (astremsky On September twenty-sixth at four o-clock Geoffrey Pearson was to speak in the Faculty of Law Building's Moot Court. However an announcement was made that Pearson's train had been delayed for fifteen to twenty minutes. The room was half full, just over fifty people, but until Pearson appeared more students filled the seats to about three-quarters capaçity. When Geoffrey Pearson son of Nobel Peace Prize winner and former prime
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hopes for a return of ICC-offered courses, "possibly next year... but building the kind of facility needed is expensive." The ICC is still waiting for a SAC deci sion on an eventual permanent move. In the other centre involved in the Big Move, initial fears of loss of visibility have been clamed since SAC first pater nally informed them that they were moving out of Macdonald Harrington. Professor Warwick Anderson of the Centre of Developing Studies (CDAS) confirmed that "the move was to our advantage." CDAS will move to a house of their own on Peel Street. Northern Studies director Marianne Stenbaek doesn't know where they're moving to, but hopes "they'll find us a place to ex pand." Graduate Communications, also relocated on Peel Street, has greater space, and new computer andphotocopving equipment.. "From that point of view everyone is happy with the administration", says Communications Professor FinalyPelinski. The big winner in the Macdonald Harrington shuffle is, obviously, the Engineering department. MacDonald Harrington is being renovated accor ding to designs developed by McGill and Ray Affleck, architect of the Maison d'Alcan. The renovation is expected to cost McGill "between one and two million dollars," said Professor D. Drummond, director of the School of Architecture. Besides creating more room for the engineers in McConnell Engineering Building, the move give the architecture department a building vir tually to themselves, with a "face on campus." Said Drummond, "We're Delighted."
Internationalism at M cGill Drops by Ting Chang The declining enrolment of interna tional students at McGill is in the words of Registrar J.P. Schuller, "bleak and depressing.” In a recent article in the R eporter, it was revealed that "only 2% of the total number of students at McGill come from outside Canada, a 2% drop from previous academic year." In fact, the decrease was from 3.6% at the undergraduate level in 1984-85 school year to 2.4% in 85-86, which is a drop of one third, Schuller said. Schuller said that "the highest con centration of foreign students at McGill is and has always been at the graduate level. In fact, a significant proportion of grad students are foreign." Kathy Mayhew, one of McGill's Ad missions Oficers said that she "did not have sufficient statistical data to com ment on the accuracy of the figures quoted in the Reporter," but speculates that "differential fees must be a factor contributing ot the ever decreasing number of international students at McGill. There has been a steady and continuing decline in enrolment of foreign students in the past several years." Until the late 1970's, McGill's tuition
tees for foreigners and Canadians had been at parity. Then, it jumped to $1500, and has inceased to $5800 in 1984. For the 85-86 school year, tuition for foreign students remains at $5800. "At $5800," Schuller noted, "McGill is a bargain for Americans who could af ford and wish to go to an Ivy League school. For those who can't afford a private school education in the U.S., McGil used to be an affordable alter native to American public universities. Now, with differential fees, we're losing those students who want to come here instead of going to a state university. We are no longer cheaper than those state universities." "Everyone is opposed to differential fees for foreign students, but unfor tunately that will not change. We've been arguing aginst it for years to no avail." "Differential fees are creating a poor image for Canada. Every Canadian university has experienced declining enrolment of international students, even those schools without differential fees, as is the case in Manitoba. For McGill, a school that has benefitted greatly from a reputation of having a rich and cosmopolitan student popula tion, this is a very sad trend.
Black Students Network created..........pg. 3 The best department at McGill?............pg. 5 Artists against Apartheid......................pg. 6 D E S : A n U n c e r t a i n L e g a c y .................................... p g . 8
Women's Rugby, Soccer & Hockey..................................... pg. 9 & 10 Mystery Photo buried......................... pg. 11