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CHRISTMAS BbiNiXJET APPROACH Perhaps the biggest social event of the year on this campus is just a few short days away. Of course we are referring to the second annual Christmas Banquet. To those of you who have not bought tickets, we would suggest that you do so as there are only a limited number available. Rather than give your pennies to a restaurant that evening (the cafeteria will be closed) or dine on weiners and beans at the boarding house, we suggest that you come out and partake of a sumptuous repast amid the laughter and gay spirits of your friends. The program will differ somewhat from last year’s in that the after dinner address will be quite short in order that increased time be allowed for the variety of entertainment planned by the Music Council who are sponsoring this function. To enlarge on the entertainment aspect of the programme, it will take the form of a narrated Christmas fantasy entitled, “Christmas is Coming.” Judging from the re-
ports of the privileged few who have had a sneak preview of the performance, it is said to be an imaginative and highly delightful piece of work. The program for the evening is as follows: After the formal program has ended, it is hoped that the guests will remain and join informally in carol singing because last year, this proved to be a rather popular item and a pleasant way to end the banquet. Speaking of last year’s banquet, there were four hundred attended, and this year the sponsors are not being overly optimistic when they expect five hundred because it will be the type of evening which will produce a very pleasant memory. So come and lift the wassail cup and toast round all your friends with the cheer and joy of the festive season. Tickets can be purchased in R. 226, the Bookstore or any member of the various singing groups. Buy yours soon.
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Broad generalizations, made without reference to specific cases or facts, tend to be misleading and sometimes completely untrue. Such is the case in statements made concerning the “population explosion” and its effects on the welfare of countries. The idea we see appearing most frequently is this - that overpopulated countries have a -very low standard of living whereas sparsely populated countries are enjoying a much higher living standard, the inference being that the one is the sole cause of the other. It is interesting, to say the least, to note that two of the countries, often involved in such generalizations, Japan and India., speak of themselves in very different terms at times. Japan’s new problem is underpopulation. Labour minister Ishida was quoted in the press of March, 1961, as fearing that “shortage of labour, especially skilled labour, would hamper the rapid development of the national economy.” And again Premier Hayato Ikeda was quoted as regretting “that the peak of Japan’s labour force expansion will have passed in 1962-3; and that he would like to have more labour in order to press for faster economic development.” Apparently the great expansion of Japan’s economy is ab-
The University of Waterloo today awarded a $1,053,000 contract for construction of its Arts Building. The 55,000 sq. ft. structure, which includes a 500~seat Shakespearian - type ampitheatre, will be built by Cooper Construction Co., (Eastern) Ltd. of Hamilton, said Col. H. J. Heasley, chairman of the university’s building committee. The winning tender was the lowest of eight submitted. The first six bids were within four per cent of each other, said Col. Heasley, and the Cooper tender was only $l$OOO off the architect’s estimate. Architects of the building are Shore & Moffat, Toronto. The builders are meeting with the architects today and construction will start within a few days. The Arts Building is the fourth building to be erected by the University of WaterUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO loo since the new universitv QC&second RlnttutrlQLfghtmas: Banquet began its building program in 1958. A policv of winter DECEMBER 5, 1961 construction-has been followed for all buildings. SEAGRAM GYM-6.30 p.m. There will be five new Chairman: MR. JOHN BRAUN buildings under construction t on the University of WaterPROGRAM loo campus this winter. WithTHE BLESSING Dr. W. Rees in a few days, tenders will be GOD SAVE THE QUEEN ’ opened for the first Renison Glee Club College building on the camA TOAST pus. Renison is an Anglican DINNER IS SERVED church college affiliated with CAROL SING: the University of Waterloo. 0 Come All Ye Faithful Construction began two Hark, The Herald Angels Sing weeks ago on three buildings GIFT EXCHANGE: . for St. Jerome’s College, a Roman Catholic church colEngineering to Arts lege which is federated with Arts to Science the university. These include Science to St. Jerome’s a men’s residence, adminiSt. Jerome’s to Engineering . stration and teaching buildCHRISTMAS MESSAGE . . . Father Siegfried ing and a women’s residence, which is being built by the CHRISTMAS IS COMING: Sisters of Notre Dame. A Festive Cantata The five buildings repreThe University Glee Club and Chorus sent a total cost of more than String Ensemble $2.5 million. Toy Soldiers, Dancers Plans for the Arts Building Narrator: Terry Jones call for completion of the Stage Direction, Mr. Dust /’ teaching wing by August 31, Music Direction, Mr. Paul Berg 1962, and the Ampitheatre wing by October 31, 1962. Wir laden Sie herzlich ein Total cost of thebpildFbtu; ENG. STUDENTS zu unserem expected to $1,400,000, including the INTERVIEWED GEDICHTABEND building cost of $1,053,000 mit musikalischer Five of the leading enginplus furnishings, equipment, Umrahmung eering students were interlandscaping, connections to viewed on November 18 by in Amphitheater the heating plant and prothe Athlone Fellowship ComUniversitaat, fessional fees. mittee from England. The Physics Building Future building plans at students, who will be memthe University of Waterloo am 4. Dezember 1961 bers of the first graduating call for construction of a 20 Uhr class, will be competing with library building, and residenengineering graduates from unter dem Motto: tial college buildings for St. across Canada for the 31 Paul’s United College (Unit“Van der Klassik Athlone Fellowships which ed Church) and Conrad bis zur Moderne” are awarded each year by Grebel College (Mennonite the United Kingdom Gov- Es wirken mit: Church.) ernment to young Canadian The $2.5 million EngineerIrmengard Kirchhammer engineers. The coveted ing Building at the UniverViola Schulze awards provide for two years sity of Waterloo was comHans Walter Panthel study and training in Engpleted this fall and is now Manfred Kuxdorf land for either post graduate being furnished and equipwork or advanced industrial Der Deutsche Klub ped. Robertson-Yates Co. training. University of Waterloo Ltd., of Hamilton constructl
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sorbing labour SO fast that there are many shortages in industrial centres. Japanese economists believe that Japan’s post-war prosperity has little relation to the birthcontrol movement. The rebuilding of industry and agriculture, the development of foreign trade, these were not brought about by the use of contraceptives and abortion. Per capita production and levels of living rose as a result of economic progress, not as a result of fewer babies. India is another country often used as an illustration of the same fallacy of simplism. Belti Shah Gilani, former member of India’s Congress and now visiting professor at John Carroll University recently stated that “within the next few years and certainly by 1965, India will be a surplus producing country and a possible threat to export nations like the U.S., Canada and Australia. ” “If the thesis of Malthus were correct,” he added, “the population explosion would have come and gone several times in the past 200 years.” These are only two specific cases but they more than refute the generalization that overpopulation causes underdevelopment and low living standards. Barbara Austin,
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N.F.C.U.S.GOES for“Nolackyouof funds. can’t”, my Negro pleaded. “Maybe we INTERNATIONAL friend could help you in some way; (A report from Bruce Rawson, NFCUS Past National President). “I thank God for the spectacle of student picketing - even when they are picketing me and I think they are wrong. I thank God for students protesting and freedom riding, for students going into the fields with migratory workers and marching off to jail with our segregated Negroes. At least we’re getting somewhere. The colleges have become boot camps for citizenship and citizens are marching out of them.” Governor
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of California. At an international meeting in Holland this summer I happened to *mention to the president of the Congolese Students’ Federation that NFCUS might have to abandon its international program ed the 133,000 sq. ft. Engineering Building. Earlier buildings on the campus were a 110,000 sq. ft. Physics and Mathematics Building, built in 1959 and a 55,000 sq. ft. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building built in 1958 - a year after the university first offered courses.
we need your neutral western leadership!‘? Financial assistance from the Congo - that’s a twist! Involvement in international affairs costs money . . . it costs each of us the price of a cup of coffee. Let’s hope we can afford it. Not only Governor Brown but a great number of Canadian students are beginning to give serious consideration to the international aspects of the NFCUS programme. There is a quiet revolution in the university student community from St. John’s to Vancouver. In the past we have built a strong reputation for impartiality. Canadian students are in a unique position. We are not an imperialistic, colonial, or militaristic power ; therefore, we are not feared. Representatives of 95% of Canada’s university students at the Kingston Congress this fall unanimously decided to concern themselves with situations where human rights, academic freedom, or material well-being of. students were involved. Our rising social conscience is evidenced in this involvement. All over the world, students are being arbitrarily imprisoned, murdered, or torCo&d. on Page 4
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The CORYPHAEUS Published by the undergraduate student body of the University of Waterloo, under the authorization of the acting Board of Publications. Publications Office, Annex 2, The University of Waterloo, Phone SH 5-0571 and SH 3-2681 The opinions expressed herein represent the freedom of expression of a responsible, autonomous society. Editor-in-Chief: George Welsh Associate Editor: Brendan OConnor Production and Circulation: Jim Stewart, Bob Sexton Feature Editor: Sandra Sanders News Editor: Earlby Wakefield Engineering Editor: Adrian Weerheim Arts Editor: Ron Hornby Sports: John Stirrat, Lewis Taylor Science Editor: Joe Mazur Contributing: Paul Beam, Wallaee M. Krawczyk
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The Editor, Coryphaeus, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Dear Sir: On behalf of the University of Waterloo Students’ Council, I would like to thank Mr. Paul Dirksen for the tremendous job done in the organizing and building of the float, which represent,ed the University in the K-W Santa Claus Parade last Saturday. Credit should also go to those who went out to the cold barn on Columbia St. to help Paul with the actual construction. Thanks Paul for a job well AGAIN + l ,(, The Chosen People? done. Yours very truly, It is virtually impossible to criticize Jews today without Paul M. Koch, Pre’sident, someone eventually accusing you of being anti-semetic. University of Waterloo The pendelum has swung to the other extreme because our Students’ Council opinion has been rather jaded by the suffering of these people during the war and by their struggle to establish Mr. Whiz: a homeland afterwards. When we think of Jews, we think I regarded with disapnot of a man intolera,nt and arrogant driving an Imperial, pointment and no small anrather we think of him as a dark determined young man, noyance your apparently clad in khaki, with a spade in one hand and a rifle in the desperate attempt to find a other ready to build and fight for Israel. As our vision space filler; namely, I read .of the Jew has changed, so has our vision of the Arab. He that lame and pointless atis still clad in a dirty burnoose, he is still looked on as a tack on Jazz. I call it lame rather “slinky” character but he has changed his camel for because the only evidence and oil well and a gun. He is now a terrorist ready to kill advanced for this ill-considand pillage in a land which God and the British government ered and conveniently suddestined for the Jews. The Arab is not all black and the den opinion was the fact that Jew is not all white. The stories which we get from the you personally didn’t like Middle East tend to paint the picture this way and it is Jazz. Well, I don’t begrudge this lack of first hand objective reporting which I dislike. you your opinion. But the Our North American attitude of cheering for the under- tone of your article strongly dog has won us to the Jewish side. We had pictures presented implies that modern Jazz is to us of a few thousand survivors from concentration camps some sort of bogus article struggling to enter Israel and our hearts were with them foisted on a purposely conbecause they were going “home”. With one hand they tilled fused public. According to and made green a barren land while with the other hand you, the modern Jazz men they fought off the murderous Arabs. It is the type of are criminals. Jazz has offensuccess story we delight in hearing but we fail to consider ded the ears of the omniwhat made the Arabs murderous to begin with. Only students scient one. It is therefore of contemporary history know the Arab side of the story, bad. “Why pick on these we only know the ‘(Exodus” side of the story - the Jewish people?” “I’ve heard their superman. music.” Sez you. The fact If a rather bitter tone has crept in then I regret it. that I’ve heard Casals cerI simply feel that the Jews are getting too much good tainly doesn’t qualify me to “press”, more than they deserve while the Arabs are getting criticize him. From Leonard exactly the opposite. Both sides have good arguments and Bernstein or Gunther, Schulrather than taking this editorial as a slam against the Jews, ler (both staunch supporters I would urge you to take it as a reminder to examine all of the Brubeck and Mulligan the facts and think objectively before condemning one cause schools respectively), I would and lauding another. accept such a poor slur. But I won’t allow you, Mr. Whiz, a new Queen is elected the to carry your misconceptions FROSHTRATED following year. to print. Let me draw this analogy: Because most girls are in EDMONTON (CUP) three year arts courses, this I am sure that a musical Freshettes no longer particirestricts the candidates to John Q. Public would never pate in the annual Engineers’ venture to criticize classical second year students. Queen contest at the Univereven if he detested it. sity of Alberta. Mrs. J. The ESS, wanting to main- music He has it on the best authorGrant Sparling, dean of wom- tain a healthy co-ed relationthat this is top-calibre en, announced this week the ship is going along with the ity stuff. Similarl,y the best musnew plan. Moe Lamonthe, ban was being imposed. ical authorities would never She gave the high failure ESS President, told the Gate: to affirm the claim rate among frosh Queens as way (U or A’s campus paper) hesitate Jazz is a musical form her reason for the prohibithis will “limit our freedom that of equal or near-equal calition. She felt that upper-class but there is no use in argu- bre, both technically and ment.” He added, the nomiwomen will be more mature As a columinst, and will better understand nation of second year girls emotionally. will be “ . . . beneficial in you should be aware of this. the rigours of the campaign. Perhaps you feel that Jazz The Engineering Students’ that the quality of the Queen a technical puzzle and the Society will not accept grad- will be improved. The girls is exclusive property of musical uating girls as candidates will have a more mature Well, I would because the Queen is expect- attitude toward the cam- culture-snobs. not dilute a Mozart cantata ed to be in the campus until paign.” to ‘make you happy nor would I water down a Kenton arrangement to suit your l l taste. On Thurs. evening, Nov. is known today, as introducYou say you “like to pick 23, the second meeting of the ed by Descartes. on these, types.” Are you University Math - Physics The extra-curricular interconfusing the Jazz musicians Club was held. est in Math and Physics is with the whole mob of beatTo kick off the meeting, commen.dable and the Club niks, pseudo-intellectuals and the first of a series of lectures is doing a valuable service in Jazz phonies? It’s a mistake that too many people make, by club members was given. encouraging this interest. Don Curran spoke on the The feature of the evening Mr. Whiz. “Development of the Num- was the informative, ‘though You still think you know ber System,” tracing its his- at times quite technical, ad- all about it? Well, buddy, tory from the times of the dress given by Dr. A. Szabo, how could you equate two use of strokes for numbers, an electron physicist ,with people as diametrically opthrough the use of an abacus, the National Research Coun- posite as Monk and Bruto the Descartes system of cil in Ottawa. The topic was beck? That’s like saying that x’s. The evolution of simpler “Microwave and Optical you can’t tell the difference notation was demonstrated Masers.” This field has been between Bela Bartok and by showing the various stag- only a fairly recent develop- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. es of develo ment - from ment. Simply stated, a maser Own up, Whiz baby, you the use of E atin words to is a device which amplifies have goofed! denote the mechanics of an electromagnetic energy, its Duff y Peppler, equation to the system as it Co&d. on Page 4 Arts I
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Here are a few ideas which come to mind and which I hope are constructive criticisms. Firstly, I would like to point out that the Coryphaeus is our paper. If it expresses our ideas poorly then we the students are to blame. Thus, I feel that more students should be writing articles for this paper. Let’s not leave the Coryphaeus in the overworked hands of a faithful few/We, as future leaders, should know how to express our ideas intelligently and precisely. The university paper offers a training ground for just that. Still in this vein, let’s hear more from our friends at St. Jerome’s College. Everyone I know must realize by now that we need to have regular new reports from Students Council. Many of us didn’t know that the Council did anything till they closed the common room! I am convinced that we need to know what students all over the world are doing. How many of us are aware that student opinion and action can and is moulding government policies in many countries? The article, “A Communist Turns”, in last week’s Coryphaeus is an interesting example of how a student in Peru thinks. Let’s have more of this type of news. Finally, I would like to make a few remarks about humour in the Coryphaeus. I enjoy a good joke and I am not prudish. But, I do feel that humour in our paper should not become synonymous with immorality. Also, malicious jokes that hurt other people do not make good humour. I would strongly recommend that the humour editor read the essay “Humour As I See It” by Stephen Leacock, an expert in this field. I must say however, that the cartoon on the lecturing professor was excellent. The Coryphaeus is improving and will continue to do so if we all contribute our ideas. Malcolm Cock, Science III
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My criticism is not of the Coryphaeus directly but rather of those students who use it as the battle ground to attack other students. The Coryphaeus is a university newspaper; it is not a faculty newspaper, and much less is it any one student’s newspaper. Nevertheless, some students insist on using it as a means of attack on contributors for the views they express therein. Note, I have said an attack on individuals, not on the ideas expressed. Every individual has the right to express his own views and every other individual has the right to criticize those views if he wishes. But just what is accomplished by a vicious attack on the holder of those ideas?..Be such an attack genuine or for mere amusement, I am certain that it holds little or no interest for the other readers of the paper. Name-calling as such is irrelevant to the issue at hand, and serves only to create diversion. Let’s start showing a little of that maturity we would like credited to us and stop using the Coryphaeus for childish tricks. Susan J. Nichols, Arts I
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Two things can improve the Coryphaeus: one of these will come naturally, and the other may never come. When the staff members gain more experience in serious thought and the serious expression of that thought, the paper will improve and establish for itself a tradition that will help support those people who will succeed the present staff. But plaguing them all will be a curse common to most journalists: the need to fill space and to meet a deadline. If the contributors could write half as much and spend twice as long writing it, the paper would be considerably improved. W. K. Thomas, Projessor of English *
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THE PURPOSEOF W.U.S. 8 8 8 Imagine the world’s two and a half billion population compressed into a single community of 1,000 persons. There would be six Canadian, 60 Americans. The other 934 would represent the rest of the world’s population. Now, imagine you were one of the 66 Canadians and Americans living in that polygot town. What kind of a life would you lead? You’d live in a magnificent home on a spacious treelined street. You’d have every comfort and modern convenience. You and your family would be well-fed, healthy and happy. Could You Be Happy. You’d be happy - that is, if you had no heart. Or, if you could avoid seeing most of the other side of town -
the area across the tracks that houses your 934 fellow citizens. The difference between the two sections of town would be incredible. For, while you would be living amidst beauty and in great comfort, most of your neighbours across the tracks would be existing in degradation, filth and squalor. More than half would be starving. One-third of the children get only two meals a day. More than half would be living in overcrowded, unsanitary slums which would be breeding grounds for disease. Whole families, crowded together in tiny rooms would be ravished by epidemics and famine. Spindly legged children, continually exposed to chronic and infectious disCont’d.
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As of yet I have not yet collected my feelings on the campus policeman so I hesitate about voicing an opinion on him. It may be safely said of him that he has a moustache which “hath a pleasant seat”, he wears his uniform well, he appears to be good natured and is conscientious about his duty. Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what our policeman is made of. Let us endeavour to exercise some Christian charity toward the gentleman because at times, his job may not be an easy one. He has the task of enforcing various rules on young wits who believe themselves to be beyond regulations because of their so called “intellect”.
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I was reminiscing with my roomate the other night, he is an intelligent but introverted lad of twenty years and we were discussing our bathroom. Last year, our landlady put a very large potted palmin the bathroom and it was most unnerving. One always had the impression of being in the out of doors and constantly kept looking around for peeping Toms. As a permanent fixture, the palm has been replaced this year by two engineering students who house with us. To their discredit, they monopolize this vital room. One is obsessed with combing and arranging his hair, while the other either likes to r,ead or else he is afflicted with an acute digestive problem.
* A proposed Toronto by-law stated that “It is an offense to blow your nose in public without proper safeguard.” The proposed by-law has since been dropped. The only reason I can see for its potential existence is that some responsible type on the local board of health must have bought some Kleenex stock and was hungry for dividends.
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There are three items which are troubling me: 1. Architects these days are demanding and getting a fee of 7% of the total cost of the building they design. 2. Victorianism, with all its reservation and prudery is enioving a rebirth on this campus. 3. I dislik; a lecturer who adopis the attitude that we must like the! matter that is being taught in that class. Can’t the dear person simply lecture and let us decide on the merit of the matter ourselves?
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I spare you the agony of a lengthy colum this week good people. I spare George Crabbe my weekly jibe because I find that my back is against the academic bulkhead and still the water is seeping through.
\ IN AID OF FIRST AID Last week a woman student’s gums began to bleed badly during lectures. Having no idea where First Aid could be found on the campus, she went to the Registrar’s Office. They were equally in the dark about where such help could be located. Gums still bleeding, the student was finally able to find a First Aid Kit in one of the Second Floor administration offices. The girl in charge of this Kit could offer nothing to stop the bleeding except “some gauze to absorb the blood”. My first concern, upon hearing this, was how many others besides this student and the staff in the Registrar’s Office, do not know where First Aid may be found on this campus? After checking with Dr. McBryde, I can now tell you that besides that on the second floor, there is a First Aid Kit in the Machine Shop (Room 124) on the ground floor, and a similar one on the third floor of the Chemistry Building. I can only assume that the contents of these boxes justify their right to be
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called First Aid Kits. However I question the adequacy of the persons administering them. None of those now doing so have taken the St. John’s First Aid course, and none are registered nurses. What are the contents without knowledge of application? We all know how to apply band-aids and “gauze to absorb blood”, but this in no way covers the needs of an emergency which could occur any day. If we had a nurse on the staff, we would need the authority of a doctor behind her, before she could be allowed to administer drugs. Surely this is easily arranged. Lack of space rules out any type - - of dispensary or infirmary until next year (unless some unclaimed space is discovered in the Engineering Building). However we obviously cannot wait until next Fall before we get at least one qualified person in charge of the First Aid Kits. As a public institution, this University is under a moral obligation to provide adequate care for its inhabitants. Unfortunately, one does not have to be “qualified” to be a part of an emergency or accident. Sandra Sanders
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Last year women students, being the smallest minority on campus, were willing to co-operate with the University’s limited facilities, and accept the tiny two-couch rest room in the Chemistry Building as a token offering. Now the time has come for an open complaint, for this year there are more women students and even less space provided for them. Figures can be boring, but since we are dealing with women’s figures, we take the liberty of presenting a few. There are ‘77 women students on campus and only 54 women on the staff, yet the staff has been provided with the following facilities in the Physics and Mathematics Building: 3rd Floor: Large faculty and staff room containing tables. vending machines, %nd lounging chairs. (It is of interest to note that when checked during the 12 to 1 lunch hour, the tables and chairs were occupied by women staff only). Library Periodicals Room: sink an-d counter, where coffee and steam kettle are kept. Library Order Department: the same. Library Cataloguing room: the same. Rest Room explicitly labelled ‘Staff Only’, containing Ehhe;terfields and 2 lounging
“I can see a great difference in the world today from what it was sixty years ago. In my lifetime the change has been what you might call a bloodless revolution - its been through the ballot box and not through the machine gun.” So says Vie Hudson, caretaker for the University Annex and Cafeteria, and a man much loved by those students who have been lucky enough to meet him. Vie’s first reaction, when approached by ‘Profile’, was, “What do I know that would be of interest to a university paper.” After some reflection he added . . . “On second thought, I must be one of the oldest persons on the campus, and my thoughts of the world as I know it, and the world you are inheriting, might be of some interest.” Of interest they are, as anyone who has heard his bits of philosophy, spiced with humour knows. Vic was born in Rutland, a village in the Midlands. One of his earliest memories is the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, on June 23rd, 1902. “All the children of the village were presented with new history books, with a full-page picture of Edward VII in a Field Marshall’s uniform. This was on the Rectory lawn, and the books were given by the Squire of the village. He owned everything in the village, and no2nd F’loor : one else owned a stone.” Washroom for ‘Women His next memory is of the Staff Only’. General Election in 1908, This leaves women stu- when the Liberals defeated dents with the Common the Tories. “I remember Room. In other words, they walking down the street with have no place in which to my father and a neighbour rest in private. Last year of his, after a Tory meeting, such a place of quiet was and this neighbour telling provided - for use by both my father that if the Liberals male and female students got in, there would soon be but this has since been con- a war. The Liberals were verted into the above-menlooked on as the Pacifists.” tioned faculty and staff rest When the First World War room, with no explanation started, Vic remembers the offered. recall of Lord Kitchener, as The only place on the he was about to board a ship whole campus where a wom- to return to the Sudan, to an student can go to rest or become Secretary for War, read in quiet and comfort, is the formation of the Kitchthe niche in the Chemistry ener armies and the subseBuilding, in which four quent passing of the Conmakes a crowd. Since this is scription Act- in the Spring also used by the women of 1915. Vic’s two elder staff, it is filled every day brothers joined up immedfrom 12.00 to 1.00 - the iately, but he had to wait very hour when most stu- until June of 1917 before he dents are free to rest. (This could be sent over to France. is not to condone some He can talk vividly of the incidents of rudeness dis- many incidents during the played by the students to, war, but the most memorable ward the staff. The Chem- day of the whole war for istry staff faces the same Vic was the end of hostilities problem of lack of space and on November llth, at 11.00 has equal rights to this a.m., “when everyone went room). Last week the women nearly mad with joy. Perhaps staff made an attempt to, I should have said it was the have this niche officially end of the fighting, for the closed off to students during war has been continuous ever this same hour. They felt an since.” On the 15th of Febhour was not too much to ruary, 1919, “I arrived home ask. and if we were not so at midnight when no one cramped for space, they expected me. The following would be quite right. The morning I went out and staff of that building has started to work as if I’d since been promised a lounge never been away.” in the Engineering Building Vic was one of the original within the next three weeks. members of the Graded Milk They deserve such a room, Producers Association (beand presumably this will fore pasteurization). “I was leave the Chemistry lounge at the meeting when the open to students only. Yet grades for milk were being are we, to be grateful that designated. We decided on now, at the most, four of us Grades A, B, and C, until a at a time can have some medical officer pointed out privacy? *Obviously not! that no woman would ever I realize that once an go into a store and ask for administration has granted a Grade B or C milk. After privilege to a particular that, milk was called either group, another group ineviGrade A or Regular!” tably asks for the same. Vic worked on his father’s Cont’d. on Page 5 farm for about ten years, and
then got a farm of his own, just down the road. “I won the fourth highest record in all England for milk production, but aftr the Socialists got in power, they took one-third of my receipts away.” The farmers had to ’ pay their workers a certain minimum wage, but eventually the minimum wage beeame the maximum. “You couldn’t get any good men to work for you. All the best men left the land and never returned.” Vic finally left himself, and headed out for Canada with his wife and two-year old son. “I was so disgusted with the Socialists, that the devil wouldn’t have stopped me. Socialism does not build anything - it pulls one down to a lower level. It is to me as a red flag to a bull.” At first Vic worked on a farm in Brampton and later moved to Kitchener. He began to work for the university four years ago. “The opportunities for the young are one hundred per- ’ cent more varied and extensive in Canada than in Britain. I definitely think that Canada and Britain should do more to help the young people with initiative and ability, to come here and help make Canada great. My son joined the Canadian Air Force with the equivalent of your Grade 12 education, and by his own initiative and perseverance, he got his permanent commission four years ago. He is now in the Command Headquarters in Winnipeg.” Later Vic returned to his favourite topic . . . polities. “Can you realize the horror and shock that would be felt if your Television and Radio programmes were interrupted by a special news bulletin, that John Diefenbaker had been assassinated, that the whole of his cabinet had been rounded up, and that the Rebels had taken over all Government buildings? We take everything for granted in our daily lives, as though nothing else could happen to us. Since the end of the last war, hundreds of thousands of refugees from other forms of government, have fled to our shores, seeking peace. This, to my mind, is one of the greatest compliments that could be paid to our system of government. If you young people neglect the ’ political life of your country, in the end you are just as likely to be thrown on the dirth heap by Communism.” Even those who have yet to meet Vic, have felt his presence, for every flower you see on this campus, owes its health to Vie. We are grateful to have him with us.
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Call a Doctor You take good medical eases, would have much less care for granted. You have a chance of reaching adulthood doctor constantly in attendthan would your children. ance. But a single nurse, But, as one of the town’s aided by two or three annual 66 elite, none of this would visits from an out-of-town affect your way of life. Your doctor, cares for most of the clique controls half of the remainder. town’s total income. Your That’s why the majority average yearly income is of your poverty stricken $3,842, as compared to the neighbours cannot live to 40, $50 annual wage of two- while you have an average thirds of your neighbours on life expectancy of 70 years. the other side of town. *Despite this, you spend Though you comprise six almost $8,000 on ornaments per cent of the town’s popu- for every dollar you spend lation, you produce almost improving health conditions 20 per cent of its food supply for those in the poorer part and eat 98% per cent of of town. Maybe that’s why what you produce. You tend your area bristles with the to feel rather suffed after latest defence weapons. meals. That’s because you’re You don’t realize - or eating 72 per cent above you don’t want to realize optimum food requirements. that half of your neighbours You could actually save are ravaged by plagues, malmoney by giving away excess aria, cholera, smallpox, tyfood, but you store most of phoid and tuberculosis; that it in great warehouses. You continually exposed to disthink that giving it away ease-carrying germs and inwould disturb the economy fected water, many suffer of your part of town. from chronic debilitating diseases which sap their physicAlways Hungry Across the tracks, most of al and mental energy. the people are always hungry Don’t Even Notice - There is a constant tenBlinded by the chrome of sion because they never your shiny new ear, you know whether they’ll get even notice that most enough to eat. One-fifth of don’t the town’s inhabitants are the deaths in this section are of poor, sick, hungry and ignordue to faulty environmental conditions that you have ant. Almost half cannot read never experienced: lack of or write. There are only 300 in town. Approxisanitation, ignorance of ele- Christians mentary hygiene, lack of mately 70 of these are Protestant. You, as one of the proper housing and nutrition. On the average, you have town’s 303 whites, are out15% times as much of every- numbered by more than two thing as does the average of to one by the 697 nonthe 934 other citizens of your whites. town. You have 12 times as You’re too well off to be much electric power, 22 times interested in the dogmas of as much coal and 20 times as communism, but there are much general equipment. at least 80 believing ComBut you take all this munists in town and 370 abundance for granted. You people under Communist are accustomed to space and domination. convenience: you have 125 And, with conditions as times as much room to move around in! six times the they are, it is likely that, transportation facilities. You very soon, more than half have your own subway and the town’s population will be rapid transit system; a car heaping ,of Karl Marx. in every garage. On the other (This article is reprinted side of town, the majority with the kind permission of walk or use outmoded con- The Toronto Daily Star). veyances. You have a television set, a washing machine Would anyone interested and a sewing machine. Many in WUS please contact Mr. “downtown” have never seen Terry Jones, P. Voldner, or these modern inventions. Mr. Handa.
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MATI. & PHYSIGS CLUI Cont’d. principle being, that, if the atoms of the maser medium are at their highest energy level, more energy is given off than was passed into it. One of the main advantages of the use of an optical maser is that the resultant beam is narrower than ‘an ordinary light beam and thus can travel further and more accurately. Applications of the maser principle are to be found in radar, long-distance communications (outer space), and the possibility of wireless hydro. A demonstration of an optical maser, with ruby as its medium, was given, and, fortunately, the demonstration worked. . Before the group broke off to “experiment” with the liquid nitrogen used in the demonstration, Pres. Peter Shantz handed out the first set of problems set, and to be marked by, Dr. Stanton. Prizes will be awarded to the members that are most successful. Lots o’ luck.
N.F.C.U.SCont’d. tured. A protest to the nation guilty of these actions is bound to be called unwelcome interference. Does this negate our right to protest? Such expression, based on reliable information is the duty ‘of us all. Even if the opinion of students differs from that of national governments, it is not necessarily invalidated. Our meetings on the international level are with students who will be members of their country’s governmental hierarchy in the near future. This is particularly apparent in the underdeveloped countries, where the students of todav are cabinet ministers tom&row. We must, therefore, increase our support, where our conscience permits, and establish active contacts -with this embryonic, developing leadership class. Students have been looked on in the past as a harmless and privileged group, and perhaps even considered irresponsible. But recent events in South Korea, Hungary, Turkey and Japan have shown that students can, and do wield a positive force in international affairs. Responsibility is the key word. Let’s hope our campus NFCUS councils will consider their international opportunities. Or would you ask the Congo to pay for our coffee? The Local Scene Our NFCUS Committee is considering its international opportunities. We hope to receive the Middle East as our international project, which means we will be in touch with students from that area, and will do a close-up of their activities and problems. If you are interested in being a part of either our international or national committee, or in hearing further about them, leave you name, addressed to Doug Macintosh, our NFCUS Chairman, in the Student Council Box (across from the Registrar).
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Organized on October 30, the University of Waterloo Curling Club have elected the following executive: President: John Eix, SC. II Vice-President: Monty Kerr, Eng. II Sec.-Treas.: Cynthia Chapple, Arts I Ice is available from 4.00 to 6.00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at the Kitchener Granite Club (Agnes St.). Brooms are available at the club. A draw for Tuesday’s was formed and sixteen of Waterloo’s best (enough for four rinks) joined the action with several beginners among them. The competition was close and keen. ,
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No. 4, Jim Hann. Aged 19. Jim comes to us from Sudbury H. S. He’s 6’ 2” qnd 185 lbs. and plays Forward. In 20 games last year, he scored 94 points for a 4.7 avg. Jim had a 42y0 F.G. avg. and a 76Cr, F.S. avg. and had 99 rebounds. He shows good speed with plenty of hustle and spirit. A good aggressive rebounder with a good outside jump shot.
No. 3, Dick Aldridge, aged 20. Dick come to us from Runnymede, Toronto. He’s 6’ and 175 lbs. and plays at Guard. Last year, he scored 209 points in 21 games for a 9.9 average. He had a 40% Field Goal avg. and a 64a/, Foul Shot avg. Band had 132 rebounds. Dick is a good driver and a very good clutch player.
No. 5, Ray Palmer. aged 21. Ray is in Theology III at St. Jerome’s and from Central Catholic H. S. in Wheeling, West Va. In 21 games last year, Ray scored 326 points for a 15.5 avg. His F.G. avg. was 38% and F.S. avg. was 77% and he had 74 rebounds. Ray is 5’ 9” and 160 lbs. Ray has an excellent jump short, a good outside set shot and a very good drive. He’s one of the better defensive players for his size and can go all out, both ways for the entire game. Ray has a potential of over 20 points per game.
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STUDENT COUNCIL REPORTS A special meeting of Student Council was called on Wednesdav 22 Nov. to discu.ss measires taken by S. C. to obtain student cdoperation in keeping the common room in a habitable condition. Discussion began without a quorum and questions from the floor were answered by Mr. Paul Koch, S. C. president. After ascertaining the right, power, and reason of S. C. action on the matter the S. C. was requested to withdraw its ban as its aims had been achieved. As this would mean a retraction of a resolution and would mean that S. C. was controllable by social pressure the request was denied. Several propositions were made and Mr. Gordon Van Fleet in the speech of the evening summed up the main points. He reiterated that since S. C. constitution had not been ratified,, they had no real power at present. However, S. C. with student co-operation was a functioning body and he hoped would continue this way. As regards its activities it was proposed that a publicity director be appointed and that adequate coverage be given S. C. activities in the Coryphaeus. On the topic to hand he reaffirmed the proposal that a common room committee, composed of its most permanent inhabitants, be - set up to see that it be kept in respectable order; to draw up a set of regulations for common room behaviour; to execute these regulations with S. C. support: and to report directly to S. C. Mr. Don Curran was nominated and accepted the chair for the committee. Other proposals were that waste baskets and standing ash trays be provided in the common room. There being now a quorum present this action was adopted and the meeting adjourned. The sixth and regular meeting of S. C. convened on Tuesday 28 Nov. (C154) with its regular chore of duties. Most important highlights of student interest were the following: The Treasurer’s budget
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proposed a fee of $14 per academic year be levied on each student at registration time. This is slightly higher than the previous fee. Engineers may note a marked increase but this is mainly due to the new academic year being 8 study months instead of 6. Of this $14, $5 will be allotted to S. C. for student adtivities and $9 to the Board of Pubs for Publications. The most dramatic event was the closed Executive discussion of appointment of publicity director. Mr. Terry Jones entertained in the corridor while the secret conclave sat for several hours ~ or was it quarter hours? The decision? Mr. Paul Copeland to be publicity director for S. C. whose duty it is to publish its activities. Any student suggestions for S. C. are welcomed and should be placed in S. C. mailbox (2nd floor Physics Bldg.) The common room regulations were passed and will be posted in a framed document in the common room for all to read and observe. They are included in the minutes of the meeting and will be on the bulletin boards as usual. Space does not permit their inclusion here. A question of the term was popped “Should Student Council hold a Formal Dance?:’ - and they mean Formal - sometime in the Spring. It was derided to get student public opinion. Well - what is it? Another student public opinion was required . . . “Should we have a University jacket? A committee was set up to look into the feasability and design. Again your opinion is solicited. Before the meeting was closed someone suggested that S. C. buy a gavel for the chairman to maintain order - you’re right - it was Mr. Gordon Van Fleet. Motion was passed. Nobody had better question the power of S. C. again. Nuclear disarmament unfortunately does not cover Council presidents with gavels. Brendan W. OConnor Your Reporter
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On the evening of Nov. 1.6, last, a rather illustrious youp met to enjoy one of the .!! v vonders of modern-day livi-ng the dinner meeting. 1rhe group was the members C If Engineering ‘63 and an almple sprinkling of profesS ors and heads of departr nents who are directly con:erned with the present f’ ourth engineering year. The Coccasion was “To hold a dinner whether ‘cgraduation Fve make it or not,” as it was atptly put by the toastmaster I!tir. Mike Matthews. It was f elt that many of us had 1:)een here so long that we ddeserved a “graduation” dinr ler. Things started off well vith most of the guests Ireparing themselves for dinler in a short “Oiling Ses,ion.” After which we easily #lid into place to enjoy some )f the best beef prepared in ‘hese parts for quite a while. Xnner was followed by prolosing two. toasts - one to (he Queen, of course, and the Ither to the Alma Mater. llike Matthews did an ex!ellent job as toastmaster tnd it is fitting to quote here lis toast to the university. “Each time we make a !oast to our Alma Mater as ve go through life, we can be )roud of the one helluva ;ood education it gave us. 1nd the hundreds of extra nemories. This may well be the first ime an undergraduate class las toasted the University )f Waterloo, so let’s do it vith gusto and set an extmple.” It ’ is also fitting to note hat contrary to what seems o be public practice toasts hould be made with somehing stronger than water f only to enjoy them as we njoyed those mentioned. Dinner put away and liqlid supplies restocked, the Croup settled back to journey vith Mr. Jack Ellis of the electrical Engineering Dejartment through England, Scotland, France, Spain, Austria and the unforbidden )arts of Russia. It was a ruly rewarding journey, the lides being excellent and the ommentary accompanying, xtremely timely and sharp. Ve all wished we could njoy a trip such as Mr. cllis. There occurred after this alk a sudden exodus of brofessors home to their, or omething, and the other business of the evening beran. This was a “Gaming lession?” But soon the evenng came to an end and we navigated our way home hrough the fog that had ccumulated over the even-
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“Tension overshadows all we are all involved and committed to the crisis” of the world situation by our basic conflict with the Soviet Union asserted Dr. A. M. Schlesinger Jr. at the Sir George William College’s “Causes of War” conference today. He asserted that there is a profound disagreement over the concept of history and the universe between those who see history set down as law, and those who see history as “open to human will and human reason.” Dr. Schlesinger denounced Communists for their relianee on dogma - its attempt to explain the past and the future and the fact that it guarantees the future. “Communism claims to possess the secret of history, therefore the key to the THE
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Lobbying for Lounge Cont’d. Surely, however, if a room similar to that promised the Chemistry staff, was allotted to the women students, it would be a right being presented to them, and tidt a privilege. Let Us remember that there are at least twenty more women students than staff to accommodate, and that it is the former who are paying the fees. We do not ask that any of the facilities offered to the women staff be taken away only that the women &dents be given at least the equivalent.
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IGNORANCE, ’ The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine Vol. v, p. 23 OF
CHASTITY Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. E. W. HOWE, A Letter from Mr. Biggs OF
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He stated that the world situation would remain unstable as long as nuclear testing continued. In this vein, Dr. Sehlesinger further stated that the fewer countries that have nuclear weapons, the better. Concerning the so-called neutron bomb, he said this “exists more in the minds of newspapermen than on the planning board of American scientists.”
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of mankind,” he said. It appeared from his speech that the United States would not change its foreign policy until the Soviet Union adopted a more conciliatory attitude. In a subsequent press conference, he condemned the Soviet Union for disregarding its treaty commitments. He particularly emphasized the treachery of the Soviet resumption of nuclear atmospheric testing.
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, R. 6. Anthes Appointed Professor R. G. Anthes has been appointed Acting Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, it was announced today by Dr. D. T. Wright, Dean of Engineering. Professor Anthes succeeds Dr. B. R. Myers, who has resigned to return to the United States. Professor Anthes joined the University of Waterloo faculty as Professor of Electrical Engineering in June, 1960, following extensive teaching and industrial experience in Toronto, Winnipeg and Hamilton. A native of Port Colborne, he received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in applied science from the University of Toronto where he also taught from 1937 to 1948. Further teaching experience was gained a’t th.e University of Manitoba from 1948 to 1953. He then joined Canadian Westinghouse Ltd., in Hamilton as an advanced development engineer in the Electronics Division. While at Westinghouse, he won a Westinghouse Inventor Award and during his career he has had several papers published in leading engineering journals. The appointment of Dr. A. H. Qureshi and R. G. Van Heeswijk as lecturers in the of Electrical Department Engineering was also announced today. Dr. Qureshi, from Pakistan, holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Peshawar University, Pakistan, and Doctor of Engineering degree from Aathen Technical University, Germany. Mr. Van Heeswijk has been a development engineer with the Canadian General Electric Company in Guelph since 1954. Born in Indonesia, he holds the engineering diploma from the University of Technical Delft, Holland.
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