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Striking students demand return of fired teachers The following day a meeting was held to clarify the college’ s position. Watson did not appear and Bowman, as chairman, closed the meeting. Then Watson decided to meet the students but he refused to form an investigating committee. Watson also denied that Schaeffer had been swomto secrecy A document proving the secrecy charge was produced by Bayefsky 9.n the interests of accuracy and indeed honesty .” Watson after some probing by other faculty members, agreed to set up a committee. Then, on Feb. 21, Bayefsky and Freifeld were called down to Watsor?s office. In the presence of the heads of all the college”s departments and, curiously, student-council representative Wes ITAngelo, they were handed envelopes that con%a.ined letters of dismissal, Students reacted with uproar when they learned of this. They organized a sit-in in the college”s auditorium for the following day. On Friday the demonstrators asked for and received help from other student bodies. Watson then held a faculty vote in support of the administration, He told the staff they would not be fired if they voted against him. The vote was 39-6 in his favor, Although the sit-inhas lasted several days he has preserved a wait-and-see attitude toward it. Some body found out thatwritten consent from the minister of education was needed for immediate dismissal of college staff. Although this is written in the instructors’ contract, Watson repeatedly denied it. This discovery spurred the march to Queetis Park.
TORONTO (staff&Students of the OntarioColE, ege of Art marched on Queen’s Park Wednesday to protest the recent firing of two drawing and painting instructors. The students carried a petition from 730 of the college’s 1050 students to education minister Bill Davis. They demanded reinstatement of the instructors and a promise of no reincrimination against the staff and students who participated in the demonstration. The college’s principal, Sidney Watson had disp missed Abe Bayefsky and Eric Freifeld, who have taught at the college for 12 and 22years respective1Y. Watson claims Bayefsky had called him a liar and Freifeld had suggested he was unfit for his job. Davis met a group of 11 studentsin his office for an hour. He said afterwards he wouldface the student body Friday afternoon at the college. The whole dispute began three weeks ago, over alleged changes in the drawing and painting curriculum. Last spring Carl Schaeffer, head of the drawing and painting department, told a meeting of the instructors that revisions were being planned, but that the principal had forbidden him to reveal the changes. When students recently heard rumors of the changes, they moved to investigate. Students still feared the drawing and painting course would be amalgamated into the commercial art course. On Wednesday, February 15, students formed a committee and appointed John Bowman, a fourth year student, to present their grievances.
Looks &:This university is hard up. We are just pot going to have the funds to do somethings we want to do, We just can? seem %o get this accross to paople? This feeling of frustration expressed by academic vicepresident Howard Petch is common to all who have large incomes but even larger lia@ilities. The unitersity operating budget is in the neighborhood of $20 mIllion. In addition, research grants are expected to total two-and-ahalf million dollars and ancillary services has a budget of two million dollars. The operating budget covers only the normal operations of the unCapital expenditures on iver sity. new buildings are handled on a project basis.. Academic e,xpendi%ures grab the lion”s share of the operating budget. Some 60 percent goes to pay salaries, teaching fellowships, and library acquisitions for the faculties. Another 20 percent goes for academic services. This includes the audio-visual center, computer
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services, the registrar’s office, coordination, and graduate studies. The remaining 20 percent is spent on administration. Physical plant and planning gets the largest share, taking 12 percent of the budget. Student affairs gets about three percent of the budget. The money supports the provosVs office, health services, creative arts board, and counselling services, Research grants are normally made for specific projects so they are separated from the operating budget. There is almost onegrant for every faculty member in the university. Most of the grants come from the natfonal research council but some are given by foundations or the defence research board. Ancillary services also have a separate budget. This covers the book‘store, food-services, and residences. Each of these operations is required to break even over %he year. The university gets most of its money from government grants calculated on a formula system.
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The engineering faculty doesn’t seem too eager to let students sit on their examinations and promotions committee* At the last EngSoc A meeting Jim Pike, mech 3A, ouflined student representation on governing bodies within the engineering faculty 0 Pike, along with GusCaemmert, a grad, are student representatives on the engineering faculty council. They have asked to attendmeetings of the examinations and pro-
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The literary journal, Liontayles, another board of publications presentation, is still three to four weeks from arrival on campus. Mary Lou Eaglesham, English 3, who has been reappointed editor for next year, said there have been over 60 submissions from the university community. The 30 or so that are included in this issue include poems, stories, drawings and photos. It’s free.
At the recent convention on Toronto several U of W students were chosen bosses of the Ontario, Quebec and Maritime region. Dave Rupar, applied analysis 4, is czar-govert1or and Dave Sheppard, math 4, becomes secretary for the district. The local group UniWa%CircleK was chosen most active club in the O&M area and received the Kerr trophy, Their infamous scrapbook” Waterlog” gathered in a setond place for the gang.