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lhiversity A group of concerned students and faculty who feel there are skills available within the university that can be used constructively in a broader social context transcending the physical limits of the university last fall formed the organization for social justice and reconstruction. It has been the feeling of O.S.J.R. members that the university has tremendous resourees that presently are rather poorly utilized. For example, they were concerned that a large portion of the student’s course requirements were purely academic and as such had no applicability to the larger social scene. Accordingly, a primary objective was to found a research group that would co-ordinate both student and faculty research. They hoped they would be able to extend the use of skills to aid both minority groups and powerless peoples, such as the aged and poor. The aim was not to study these people in the abstract but to put the tools developed at university, into use to understand the structural forces at work in producing and maintaining underprivileged and powerless peoples and once understanding those forces to disseminate the findings to the peoples affected to allow them to make decisions and engage in activities that are based on an analysis of the dynamics involved.

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should serve minority groups' to the policy of an articulate Indian population. Thus far the group has written a critique of Chretien’s white paper and printed a publication entitled This land was their land. Both the critique and the publication have been sent to all K-W Churches as wellas to all MP’s and MPP’s.

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In the cours.e of development O.S.J.R. made contact with an Ontario Indian reserve, where a number of members spent many hours talking with the Indians gaining first-hand information concerning the state of Indian affairs. According to the Indians at this reserve one of the great-

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est problems they face today is that of their identity. Indian children are caught between home and school, between the culture of the reserve and white canadian society, between Indian myths and the modern media. It was learned that the Indian language was growing weaker from lack of use, and Indian cultural history is nowhere documented in a specific way such that the -transmission of information and cultural identification can take place. The tribal chief spoke of the inevitability of Indian assimilation as it has been the policy of Canadian government for the last 100 years. This first-hand encounter

with the realities of the situation caused O.S.J.R. to re-establish priorities. The implications of the above for the direction of this group in terms of the placement of efforts were far-reaching. The quest% which has to be considered immediatt y was should the group devote time and -esources in an attempt to “smash” the white paper? If they considered in any way that one of the tasks was indeed to defeat it, they felt they would be overlooking the real fact that the government has the power to carry out and enforce its overall plan for the elimination of Indians. This did not imply that the white paper wouldn’t be used to show the oppressiveness of the Liberal government’s Indian policy, but it did indicate that efforts would have to be regrounded to avoid being‘ characterized as a “protest” group. Accordingly it was concluded that a prime task would be to involve the Indian people in O.S.J.R. research. In effect, working with an Ontario reserve would provide a microcosmic model of Indian society and a different perspective from which to view white Canadian society.

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Because of the group’s commitment to work with Indian people contact was made with Ontario native development fund, an Indian organization, which hopes to be a bank of resources to enable Indian people in many communities to move towards goals they choose. O.N.D.F. has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a portion of the funds from the K-W overseas aid committee which organizes the annual Miles for Millions march. After several promises to alter their charter to include the Canadian Indian in their aid programme, O.S.J.R. was informed at a formal meeting of overseas aid executives that such a radical change was not feasible. The executives suggested however, the group work from within the structure of overseas aid and perhaps in a few years succeed in altering the charter. Having decided that this is not feasible, O.S.J.R. is in the process of investigating other alternatives for immediate help. In an attempt to communicate the Indian issue and other related injustices, the group’s immediate activity within the local K-W community will take the form of assemblies at all local high schools. These assemblies will commence in the early part of March. They feel investigations, and other efforts will need to be an ongoing process that will continue until Indians, and all disadvantaged and powerless peoples are able to share in the benefits which modern society is capable of offering. Anyone wishing to contribute to, or avail himself of, the facilities of this organization in any way is urged to contact the :

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Although interested in the Canadian scene at large, O.S.J.R. found it necessary to focus concern in a particular area.\ Due to the june release of Jean. Chretien’s white paper on Indian policy, the Indian issue was deemed an immediate and pressing concern. The problems confronting the Canadian Indian would provide a microcosm through which the over-all structure of Canadian society could be looked at. At this point activities were organized in several different areas. One division of the organization formed a commercial and communication task force. Their main thrust has been a commercial endeavour established in conjunction with the Cassabonika Indian reserve. Since this particular reserve was unable to market their crafts, stalls were obtained at the Kitchener market where O.S.J.R. members sell the goods on weekends. The majority of O.S.J.R. members however have been involved in research largely centred around the white paper. They have undertaken a detailed examination of all aspects of this policy. l the deprived status of Indians in Canada, the government’s assumption that its “solution” (equal status under the law) will enable Indians to achieve full and equal social and economic status. l the tacit assumption that this legal equality, which is available to all nonIndian Canadians, as well as to Indians without legal status and Metis, has actually lead to their “full and equal” social and economic participation in canadian life. .O the long history of broken treaiies and empty promises which stands behind this Government policy l the actual stated aims and reaction

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A chicken in every pot and an outhouse in every backyard. . . just part of the comprehensive new plan outlined in Indian affairs minister Jean Chretien ‘s white paper. Pleased and delighted Indians told him to shove it,

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Wielding a g-foot effigy of judge Julius Hoffman, the demonstrators drove back the police and began running toward the campus. The crowd’s mood changed abruptly as more police entered the fray, and demonstrators began breaking store windows during the battle which raged over 30 city blocks. In the rush hour battle between chanting demonstrators, city and campus police, and angry commuters unable to get home, 10 persons were hospitalized, including six policemen, and at least 13 were arrested. At San Francisco, during a public meeting in front of the federal building, 20 lawyers symbolically burned documents which allowed them to appear in federal cases. At Chicago, demonstrations continued for the third day monday, at the scene of the trial of the seven persons charged with conspiring to cross state lines with the intention of inciting a riot during the democratic party national convention in august 1968. Meanwhile, lawyers prepared appeals to the sentences handed down by judge Hoffman on contempt of court charges.

AMERIKA (CUPI)-Demonstrators took to the streets of six U.S. cities monday to protest contempt of court sentences handed out over the previous weekend to seven defendants and two defence attorneys in the Chicago “conspiracy 8” trial. Although demonstrations were peaceful at Stanford, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, 33 persons were jailed and more than 24 injured after street battles between police and demonstrators broke out during demonstrations at New York and Berkeley. And a time bomb, exploded just after midnight - monday beneath a window at a SanFrancisco police station, injured another 7 policemen. were inEleven persons, including 7 policemen, jured in a melee which broke out between New York police and more than 3,000 demonstrators in front of the city’s federal building-scene of the current trial of 13 black panthers also charged with conspiracy. The riot-equipped police charged the crowd of demonstrators and were met with a hail of shouted abuse, and a barrage of sticks, stones, bottles and snow balls. Twenty demonstrators were arrested, and charged with disturbing the peace. At Berkeley, a happy, joking crowd of 1,500 persons marched from Provo park to the university-lighting fireworks and replacing an american flag with a garbagecan on the park flagpole-until their progresswas blocked by a cordon of police at one intersection.

Hoffman sparked the demonstrations when he sentenced the defendants and their two lawyers to a total of 168 months, 109 days in prison on a total of I59 citations for contempt of court ranging over the duration of the trial which began September 24,1969.

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Failure to obey the regulations SASKATOON (CUP)-A special . could result in a warning, or suscommission on student discipline pension expulsion or dismissal at both campuses of the university from the university, or imposition of Saskatchewan may back down of a fine. on submission of a report advocating some of the most hard-line In addition, the report recomdisciplinary regulations in the hismends that faculty and administory of Canadian universities. trative personnel. “who believes, The Carter committee to renew or has reasonable grounds to bediscipline regulations at the U of lieve, that a student has acted in S decided Wednesday to recombreach of any part” of the list of mend their report not be brought prohibitions, should have the powbefore the university’s faculty er to summarily banish students council at its next meeting februfrom classes or from the univerary 26. sity. The move follows a fast-increasThe report also recommends ing wave of resistance to the re- that administration principals and port, which students have describdeans have the power to summared as “arbitrary,” “repressive,” ily suspend students from campus and “fascistic. ” for three days without hearing., If approved, the report would Failure to comply with such spell the end of virtually all stuevictions or suspensions would re, dent protest activity at the two sult in disciplinary hearings leadcampuses, institute the principle ing to the outlined penalties. of double-jeopardy for student beHearings and punishment would haviour off-campus, allow stube meted out by a discipline comdents to be arbitrarily ejected mittee consisting of an administfrom campus for no reason whatration vice-pincipal, three memsoever, and give faculty the right bers of the university council, and to “shake down” anyone on campthree students appointed by the us for identification at any time. campus student council. In the broadest of terms, the The committee would meet bereport prohibits: hind closed doors, and have the l Any disobedience to any uni- power to suspend any accused-stuversity regulation, dent for the duration of his hearl Any student action which “creing. ates, or which may reasonably be The committee could also inexpected to create,” a disturbance vestigate alleged infractions of at any university function, rules on its own accord, without l “Any conduct whether on or complaint from any source. off university property, which may The Carter committee, originalbring the university or any of its ly appointed in november 1968 to officers, employees or students in- “review” existing disciplinary to public disrepute,‘* regulations at the U of S, made its report public january 29. l “Disruption of, or interference with” lectures, seminars, or The committee, chaired by SasX examinations, katoon dean of law Roger Carter, @ “Interfering with, or in any consisted of six faculty and administrators and three students. way disrupting” any meetings held Student committee members by either administration or faculty have since denounced the report, at any level, and denied committee claims that l The use of public address sys- the document was passed in comtems on university property except mittee without opposition. when authorized by the student At a teach-in on the report held Founcil, february 12, Saska toon students received support from committee l Failure to carry a library member Doris Dyke, who said the identification card.

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On monday night engineering society A made a decision which may bring them into a head-on collision with the department of coordination and placement. The decision was to oppose the policy which is embodied in a letter from the department of COordination. It has become evident in recent placements that employers are becoming more selective in their choice of students and particularly in regard to accepting students who are repeating their academic terms or who have failed a work assignment. This, we believe, you will find quite understandable. As stated in the university calendar, “the co-ordination department. is not responsible for assisting in the placement of students required to repeat an academic term, until evidence of the successful completion of such a term has been received.” However, (for the forthcoming interviews), a repeating student will be allo wed to participate in the employer interviews in the usual manner. Should he be unsuccessful in obtaining employment through these interviews, he then may be required to obtain his own job. In seeking his own job, a student should not approach co-operative companies without the approval of the co-ordination department. A large proportion of these firms will have filled their requirements through the interviews and will not wish to consider further applications. Co-operative companies usually will consult with co-ordination before hiring a co-

cision makers ‘on the sixth floor’ who come up with this sort of policy. Some of the engineering reps felt there were more reasons for this particular policy than a rigid and unconcerned bureaucracy. One person thought the letter was sent out as a cover for the fact that co-ordination does not have enough jobs available for co-op students. The companies are only becoming more selective because they can afford to be.

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Several people felt the coordination department is using students to find jobs for the coop program. When a student has to go and find his own job (without, approaching co-op companies), he is providing a convenient in for co-ordination There was little doubt co-ordination uses these ‘ins’ to bring new companies into the co-op program. The engineering society is presently doing a study to find out the real policy of the co-

ordination department and how that policy has changed over the last five years. They are particularly interested in who has the power to change policy. Glenn Hedge, president of engsoc A, is going to take the letter to the co-ordination student advisory council and the faculty council in an attempt to put pressure on the department to change the stand it has taken on repeating students.

The letter was mailed out to those students who are repeating an academic term. It was the feeling of the people at the meeting that the co-ordination department is backing out of its obligations to students. All co-op students pay the $47 fee for co-ordination. Engsot feels if they are repeating a term they will have enough trouble getting a job without the co-ordination department giving them more trouble. One student rep explained that it is bad enough when a student has to sit through the same classes again just because he had a fight with his girlfriend two weeks before the exams. There is no reason why he should go through an additional hassle with co-ordination, which is supposed to exist as a service for him. Most of the people at the meeting were very upset with the de-

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Counselling drug-users Where can a student on a bad drug trip find sympathy and treatment? The university’s counselling services has responded to this need in keeping with their role of offering guidance rather than judge, ment. According to Bill Dick, head of counselling services,” We are here to be of help; we do not condone or reprimand the person. We are not morally or legally bound to tell the police. ” The rap room, in the campus center is staffed by student volunteers. This extension of counselling services offers students a place to drop in and chat, or freak out. There is always a counsellor on call to assist them in any problems that are too severe for the volunteers to handle. When someone comes in on a bad trip, the counsellor may take any of a few courses of action depending on the severity of the case. According to Doug Torney who is the rap room’s consultant, a counsellor may simply advise that the person be talked down; be administered Valium, which can be obtained from health services. The emergency ward has been very helpful and cooperative when treating people although the doctors-on-call, who could be any one of a hundred people, may not be.

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operative student who is looking for his own job. (The list of co-operative companies is in the calendar). When employment is secured, the student must inform‘the co-ordination department indicating the name and address of the employer and the name, initials and title of the representative of the employer whom the co-ordination department should contact. The employment secured will be considered as a work term requiring a work report and emplo yer.evaluation and the student will be visited by a coordinator.

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Some people in the medical profession’ feel morally bound in aiding the police to apprehend “those who might be contributing to the delinquency of their children”. Although there is no law against being on drugs, a drug-taker would want to avoid being suspect. There have been times when the user made the mistake of having some drugs in his possession when at the hospital or health center in which case he could be convicted of possession. Valium is the downer drug that is usually used to counteract most chemicals and since it is a prescription drug, a record is kept of who it was given to. It is also used for other reasons such as to calm nerves,, so having taken Valium is not even sufficient grounds to render a persou suspect. The police have been checking doctors’ files in order to get names of people who frequently get drugs from various places. Health services has no firm policy ensuring a patient that his case remains confidential, hence leaving such decisions with the various doctor or nurse on duty at the time. At present, counselling services is trying to work out an agreement with health services on policy.

Radio

Radio Waterloo announces another addition to its rapidly expandLiterary campus ing schedule. makes its debut tuesday night at 8 with an hour-long radio play called The makiq of moo, by Nigel Dennis. The cast has been working on this production since last november and promises it will be a memorable experience. Following that, literary campus will become a half-hour show to be

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The producers of the show are looking for ideas for the program -satires, short stories, poetry, etc. -and invite anyone to submit their works. If you would like your own original masterpieces to be performed on Radio Waterloo, get in touch with Dave Gilleck at the station’s studios in the Bauer Warehouse.

Ramzi Twal and Nabail Arafat attempt to awaken their arab brothers to the slaughter going on in their homeland. As many arabian students do not have landed immigrant status, some fear of being deported hinders overt stands on the’arab-israeli bloodbaths.

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MONTREAL (CUP)-The administration of Loyola College ran into little opposition monday as it petitioned for a declaratory judgement in the case of dismissed nuclear physicist S.A. Santhanam. At the end of a day-long hearing in the Quebec superior court, administration lawyer T.R. Slattery, petitioned judge Leon Lalande for an outright judgement in the contract dispute between Santhanam and the college, after Santhanam’s lawyer agreed the professor had no legal claim to be rehired after july 31, 1969. Neither Santhanam nor the canadian association of university teachers, the national faculty pressure group which has backed him in his seven-month contract dispute at Loyola, are arguing that the administration was legally bound to hire the professor. Both maintain however, that the college was bound by a “moral” obligation in Santhanam’s case, and the legal decision which will result from monday’s court case is not expected to prevent further conflict between the CAUT and the Loyola administration. Santhanam’s firing from Loyola at the beginning of the fall term provided the fuel for one of the most extended conflicts in the history of Canadian universities, as students and faculty first protested the firing, and then escalated their actions when the Loyola administration attempted to purge 27 anti-administration faculty last december. Santhanam signed a statement

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in december 1967, stating his intention to resign in 1969, but was later given a contract for the 1969-70 year which stated it “‘superseded all other verbal agreements”, But the physicist was not rehired by the college, and a recommendation by the Loyola senate that his case be re-opened was rejected in june, 1969, by the college’s allJesuit board of trustees. No reason *was given for the dismissal. -

CAUT has not yet announced whether or not the organization will go ahead with an official censure of the college for ducking its ‘tmoral obligations” in the Santhanam’case. The censure would amount to an ‘official blacklisting of Loyola by the 12,000-member CAUT, which claims to represent the interests of 80 percefit of faculty in Canadian universities.

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.Mctn’s extinction The possibility of mans extinction is daily becoming more real, Dr. D. Chant told 350 people at Waterloo’s First United Church tuesday. Chant, chairman of the department of zoology and biology at the University of Toronto and a member of Toronto’s pollution probe spoke on the problems of pollution. He characterized the pollution problem as rising out of a world that is a finite environment. The resources of our environment are not limitless as we have assumed for centuries. Eventually nature rebels against the abuse by man and no longer absorbs his consumptions and wastes at a limitless rate. With a spiralling rise in population and no control on our use of the surrounding resources, the possibility of extinction becomes more real. “More animal species are extinct than are alive today, and the reason for extincfriday

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tion is inflexibility to some change in their environment. Man must change his course or perish. . The example of Domtar being fined a trivial $1000 dollars for polluting in northern Ontario was used to show the inadequacy of existing fines and legislation. Chant stressed the need for stronger penalties and more aggressive action by the people of a community. A need for the development of social consciousness was also mentioned as an important requirement. This is achieved through a process of self-edhcation, education of others and action ranging from quiet pickets and legal courts to civil riots. “Whatever action that is necessary must be used.” The formation of groups is also necessary in combating social problems such as pollution since the individual is powerless in a large bureaucratic society. 20 february

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He feels that there should be a- higher percentage of students on the council proposed by the act. When asked how he will represent his constituency, he replied, “I have a residence out-Dave Stephenson, math 2, feels’ look and m.ay have a bit of that council is irrelevant and trouble. representing math stu‘Mickey Mouse’. The apathy is evidence to this fact, he feels. t dents. ” Even if most of the seats were Cotton is also not as pessimisnot .acclaimed, the 1 ‘representic about the number of acclamatatives’ would still, only be intions as others.. “It does show I ‘,_.d: . dividuals.” apathy, ,but I’m not worrying. ‘I I Representatives ’ on> the single ’ ,“I say ‘it’s good. All, the I new tier. government would &ly j be. people will put newlife in the individuals whether ’ the, -. reps federation. Burko will not be are chosen from the -board of ,working ;with the old crew. We governors or thestudent body. may find a council going in one : * He ‘lists his qualifications as direction.

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Like so many other of the acclaimed council reps, hearty McFarland says the main reason he decided to run is that he agrees with Burko. “Math neonle a 1 ’ are very disinterested in the federation. They don’t like politics. Therefore, we should be a service organization. Math people do want this’. ” When asked how he will represent his constiuency, he replied, “I’m in math and I feel I know awhat students in co-op math want. By feedback, I will keep tuned in to what they want.” McFarland, who is in his setand year, thinks that the new university act is a step in the right direction. “I don’t know whether there. is enough representation for students and faculty, but .it’s .progress anyway.” he said. _ He has, mixed reactions to being one of the many acclamations. “It shows the lack of in;terest in 1the -federation in ti

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“The federation is a worthwhile organization. I’m hoping that it can take a more meaningful form. ” is the way Bob Epp, grad math, feels about student government. He said that he partially agrees with the direction that Bur.ko will be taking for the federation. “A federation which tries to represent all students cannot be a political vanguard. It can find a more meaningful policy direction that has a broader base of acceptance. Epp is open-minded about his position. “I don’t see myself as having any special qualifications for this job.” he said. “No more or no less than anyone else. ” He has mixed reactions to the new form of university government. “It could mean a mere change in structure which doesn’t allow the power to be distributed to the people any more than the last system. But if it con-

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Kathy Dorshner has been active in the Board of Student activities in the past and is chief returning officer in the present elections. She ran for council mainly because it looked as if there would otherwise be vacancies in grad. She felt that there should be-a representative from each constituency even if acclaimed. In this way at least some measure of representation is achieved. She considers herself as a qualified representative due to her previous- experience in which she has learned quite a bit about the federation. She agrees with Burko’s platform. She feels that council is irrelevant if it attempts to act as if it is completely iepresentative. The apathy on the part of the students in this elect& is an indication of the fact that the

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Mario Mekinda ran for s!&!dent council because “somebody asked me to”. Gerald Fuller, grad rep on the present student council suggested that he submit his nomination. Mekinda is very much in fatror of the president-elect’s platform and feels that many grads may reconsider wanting to opt out of the federation. When commenting on the most recent petition for withdrawing from the federation, he said that “I signed the petition but here I am on council”. He hopes that federation reverses it’s decision not to hold beauty contests and contributes to the financing of a grad house. His solution to the many acclamations this election is “If council positions were paid, say 75 a month or so, then more people would be running”.

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ideas for the federation, he replied, “There should be more available in the social aspect but the political aspect should be there at all times. ” Anthes does not see the new university act as much progress and would like to find out what the university’s policy is for hiring professors.

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Doug Austrom, who is in first year international studies, will be representing Renison college for the next year. He outlined his reasons for running for council. “I’m interested in becoming involved in the activities of the federation and student council is the most direct approach. I would like to represent Renison and its interests. ” He thinks there should be a compulsory federation collecting fees plus a vo1untar.y union to subsidize it. “The present amount of apathy is due to the past performances of the federation in the last half year.” stated Austrom. Ho*.-iever he doesn’t think that taking the politics out of student council will so’lve all the problems. “There will still be some conflicts with th. administration. ” he said.

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The Annual Meeting of the Federation of Students be held at 8 pm, Monday March 2, in M&C 2065. The agenda is as follows:

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1. Appointment of Board of Dikectors for 7970-77 2. By-law No. 20-A by-law relating to Petitions for Referenda, Recall, Extraordinary General Meetings, and Initiative. 3. By-law No. 27-A by-law relating to Extraordinary General Meetings. 4. By-law No. 22-A by-law to amend by-law No. 6. 5. By-law No. 23-A by-law relating to the recall of members of the Students’ Council 6. By-law No. 24-A by-law relating to a Ptitition- of Initiative. 7. By-law No. 5 25-A by-law to amend Section 2 7, Paragraph 3, of By-law No. 70. Each member of the Federation may act as proxy for no more than five other members, provided that a written proxy is deposited with the Business Manager not less than 24 hours before the meeting. Tom Patterson, Chairman, Board of Directors PROPOSED BY-LAW No. 20 4by-law relating to Petitions for Referenda, &all, Extraordinary General Meetings, IndInitiative. 3e it enacted as a by-law of the Federation If Students, University of Waterloo, as follWS: . The exact wording of the item of busin!ss for which a petition is to be presented lhall be submitted to the Chief Justice of the ‘ederation before signatures are solicited. %e Chief Justice may recommend alteraion of the wording, but shall not alter the vording without the consent of the requisiionist. I. The exact wording of the resolution shall te shown over the signature of the Chief lustice on each page upon which signatures u-e to be collected. The signature of the hief Justice shall be proof that the wording containedin the petition form shall be that vhich is presented to the extraordinary generalmeeting, referendum, or Council. I. The Chief Justice shall designate the peron who submits a resolution for which a betition is sought, according to Section 1 of his by-law, as the mover of the resolution. ‘. Signatures of members of the Federation accompanied by student ID numbers shall bethe only signatures accepted as valid. I. In the event of any conflict between reluisitions, the decision of the Judicial Comnittee shall be final, and the following regllations shall apply : a. If the Judicial Committee receives requests for more than one kind of decision-making procedure pertaining to the same item of business, referendum shall take preference over extraordinary general meeting, which shall take precedence over initiative. b. If the Judicial Committee receives requisitions that specify differing resolutions pertaining to the same item of business, the Committee shall, in e consultation with the requisitionists, establish wording which combines similar resolutions and gives clear choice between conflicting resolutions. c. No petition for referendum, extraordinary meeting, or initiative shall be accepted by the Judicial Committee if a referendum pertaining to the same item of business has been held within 90 days of the receipt of the petition. d. No petition for extraordinary general meeting or initiative shall be accepted by the Judicial Committee if an extraordinary general meeting pertaining to the same item of business has been held within 60days of the receipt of the petition. e. No petition of recall shall be accepted by the Judicial Committee if the member named in the petition has been recalled for the same reasons and re-elected within 90 days of the receipt of the petition.

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PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 21 A By-Law Relating to Extraordinary General Meetings Be it enacted as a by-law of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, as follows : 1. An Extraordinary General Meeting shall be defined as a meeting of the members of the Federation at which all members shall be eligible to speak, to inove, to second, and to vote upon motions ; and which shall be deemed to have all the powers of the Students’ Council, subject to the regulations governing extraordinary general meetings contained in this by-law. 2. An extraordinary general meeting may be called by any of the following methods : i) a 2/3 majority vote of Students’ Council ii) a petition of 206members of the Fed---*: -erar1on iii) upon the call of the President 3. The requisition for such a meeting shall state the general nature of the business to be presented-to the meeting and shall be deposited at the head office- of the Federation. Upon the deposit of the requisition, the Judicial Committee shall call forthwith an extraordinary general meeting of the Federation for the transaction of the business stated in the reauisition. 4. Notice of an extraordinary general meeting shall appear in the form of-posters placed on all Federation bulletin boards, and of notices in the student newspapers when possible, and on the campus radio station when possible, all of which shall contain the following information : day and time of the meeting, place of the meeting, and the topics of business to be discussed. Such notice shall appear not more than four days after the deposit of the requisition, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays being excepted from this consideration. The meeting shall be held one week (7 days) from thg day of posting the notice on the bulletin boards. 5. All decisions on the topics designated in the notice of the meetine. which are made in accordance with this by‘liaw by a meeting at which a quorum is present, shall be binding on the Federation. 6. Additions to the agenda of the meeting may be made at any time during the meeting. but decisions made concerning such additional business shall not be binding on the Federation. 7. A quorum for an extraordinary general meeting shall be 500members of the Federation. 8. Procedure followed shall be according to Robert’s Rules of Order Revised, except where otherwise set out by the by-laws or policies of the Federation. The Speaker of the Students’ Council shall be chairman of the meeting unless replaced by the meeting. 9. The chairman shall announce at the beginning of the meeting and whenever so requested by a member, whether a quorum is present. 10. The Speaker shall appoint a minimum of five clerks who shall normally, but not necessarily, be members of the Judicial

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Committee of the Federation. Each clerk shall be provided with alphabetical lists of the members of the Federation. 11. If the chairman cannot determine the result of a vote by show of hands, standing, or division of the house, each member, upon presentation of his validated student ID card, shall record his vote with a designated clerk, and the numbers of the recorded votes shall be final. 12. If the aggregate sum of the number of votes recorded for, against, and abstention, does not equal or surpass the quorum number, the motion shall be deemed to hav6 failed for lack of quorum, and the chairman shall immediately close the meeting. 13. In order for a decision on a topic designated in the notice of the meeting to be binding on the Federation, the decision must be made by a recorded vote as described in Sections 11and 12of this by-law: 14. The records kept by the clerks shall be retained and be available for insnection bv any member for a minimum of thirty days after the meeting, and all main motions voted upon shall be published as soon as sible inthe student newspapers. 15. By a 2/3 recorded vote in the meeting, the business described in the requisition may be submitted to a Referendum for deci-

Federation for the purpose of passing information and promoting discussion. This meeting has no powers whatsoever. The Chief Justice of the Federation shall call an Informational General Meeting for discussion of the resolutions to be decided by the referendum, the meeting being subject to the following Provisions: i) The meeting must be adjourned no later than 12 p.m. of the day previous to the referendum. ii) The time and place of the meeting shall be advertised in the same manner as the referendum. iii) A representative or representatives of the requisitionists of the referendum shall be required to present the resolutions to be submitted to referendum: If the referendum has been called by the President, the President or his delegate shall present the resolutions; if the referendum has been called by Students’ Council, a representative appointed by Council shall present the resolutions; if the referendum has been called by a petition, the mover of the resolutions as designated by By-Law No. 20, or his delegate, shall present the resolutions; if the referendum has been called by an Extraordinary General Meeting, the requisitionists for that meeting shall present the resolutions. iv) An Informational General Meetingshall not be required for the carrying out of a referendum if the referendum has been called by an Extraordinary General Meeting with quorum that met within two weeks (14 days) of the date of the referendum. PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 23 A By-law relating to the recall of members of the Students’ Council. Be it enacted as a by-law of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, as follows : 1. Any elected member of Students’ Courr cil shall be required to resign upon the petition of members of the constituency of Council which elected him. The constituency of the President of the Federation shall be deemed to be the entire membership. 2. The following regulations shall apply to the petition of recall: i) the number of signatures required to make a petition of recall binding on a member of Council shall be determined according to the following table : Number of full-time students Percentage registered in a constituency Required 59 1’ - 100 49 101 - 200 201 - 500 39 501--1090 29 1001-3990 15 over 3000 19 ii) a petition of recall shall state the reason or reasons for which the resignation of the member of Council therein named is requested.

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PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 22 A By-law to amend the Referendum Section of By-Law No. 6 ” Be it enacted as a by-law of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, as foll-_____ uws; The Referendum section is amended to read as follows : 1. Referenda may be held only in the following circumstances : i) Upon the decision of a two-thirdsTote of the Students’ Council, or ii) Upon the petition of 5% of the regular members of the Federation, or iii) Upon the call of the President, or iv) Upon the decision of ‘a 2/3 vote of an Extraordinary General Meeting with quorum. 2. The following provisions shall govern the conduct of a referendum : i) The Judicial Committee shall be responsible for the conduct of a referendum and shall appoint a Returning Officer. ii) The question to be decided, with the exact wording, shall be published in the campus newspaper and placed on all Federation bulletin boards not later than 72 hours before the opening of the polls. The results of the referendum shall be published in the campus newspaper and placed on all Federation bulletin boards immediately after the referendum. 3. The results of all referenda called according to the by-law shall be binding on the Federation. 4. An Informational General Meeting is defined as a meeting of the members of the

iii) a separate petition shall be requirec for each member of Council whose resignation is sought. iv) all signers of a petition of recall musl be registered in the constituency rep. resented by the Council member whose resignation is sought. 3. A petition of recall shah be deposited ir the office of the Federation, and the Chid Justice of the Federation shall: i) verify that the petition has been draft. ed according to the provisions of the by-laws. ii) inform the member of Council named in the petition within 72 hours of the receipt of the petition that his seat iI declared vacant, and the vacancy shall be deemed to be effective 72 hours after the receipt of the petition. iii} call a by-election following the stipulations of By-Law Number 1, Section 16. 4. Any member of Council required by a petition of recall to resign shall be eligible for reelection. PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 24 A By-Law Relating to a Petition of Initiative Be it enacted as a By-Law of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, as follows : 1. A petition of initiative signed by 206 members of the Federation of Students shali require the Students’ Council to place the resolution stated in the petition to be placed on the agenda of a Council meeting. 2. To be valid, the petition of initiative must be deposited in th,eoffice of the Federation no later than four full days, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays being excluded from this consideration, before the meeting at which the resolution is to be considered. 3. A resolution requested by a petition of initiative shall, save for the provision of Section 2 of this by-law, be placed on the agenda of the next regular meeting of the Students’ Council, and Council shall do one of the following: i) vote on the resolution during this meeting ii) table the resolution until the next regular meeting, but shall’ not table it a“.-.;.. ~a111 iii) refer the resolution to an Extraordinary General Meeting or to a Referendum. PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 25 A By-law to amend Section 27, Paragraph 3 of By-law No. 10(7) Be it enacted as a by-law of the Federatior of Students, University of Waterloo, as follOWS: Section 27, paragraph 3, is amended as foil ows: The President of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, who must be a stu dent of the University of Waterloo when first elected, the Editor of the student newspaper published by the Federation, and all other full-time employees of the Federation shall be regular members of the Federation of Students.


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The best Western I have seen in years is Te// them- willie boy was here, directed by Abraham Polonsky from a script he based on a novel by Harry Lawton. The picture abounds in the pleasure of its form: desert scenery, frontier types, a sustained chase and a tense stalking match, great horsemanship, and not one but two pairs of star-crossed lovers. But what gives the film a dramatic stature overshadowing the most adroit of horse operas, is that it’s got its values right. The picture, based I am told on a true incident, occurs at the turn of the century, when the Indian was being transformed in the white man’s eyes from the most exciting of big game, to the most despised of minorities (he lacked even the economic value of the Negro). It opens, as so many memorable adventure stories have opened, with a man dropping off a train on a remote section of the track. That is Willie Boy, an untamed Indian returning to the reservation. And that, without going into the plot, which I would rather not do, is an adequate summary of the picture. The very look of Willie, the way he walks, the way he leans against a wall is enough to set itching the trigger fingers of the last of the Indian hunters. And the new breed of Westerners, those merchants and traders who think they have solved the Indian problem, are as dumbfounded as the,y are bruised by the consequences of underestimating Willie. His effect on the other Indians is enigmatic; a good deal of the picture takes place in the eyes of the tame braves who ride posse in pursuit of Willie. His girl’s father will not accept him as a suitor by Indian law or by white man’s law; to the

HERE tribe he is a birthright they have renounced; an ancient glory and a present reproach. There is no place for Willie. I should exphasis that if there is any moralizing in the above, it is mine, not Polonsky’s. He has a tale of high adventure to tell and he goes about it with the extovert tools of his trade. Relationships are established on the spot, with conventional gestures and the minimum of dialogue; suspense is built by the conventional cutting back and forth from hunters to prey. We have all been raised on the belief that the Western is the Hollywood’s greatest contribution to popular entertainment, and Polonsky trusts that assumption enough not to hedge his drama with sophistication. The cast is splendid, particularly Robert Blake as Willie, and Robert Redford as the sheriff who knows that hunting Indians is no longer a vocation. Susan Clark is the reservation agent, doctor, teacher and reluctant mistress of the sheriff, a kind of Katherine Hepburn girl, whom she plays with personal charm and enough plausibility to keep the plot rolling. Katherine Ross, as Willie’s bride of abduction, is lovely and obviously worth the gamble he takes, but the squaw role is inevitably recessive. The best thing about the cast as a whole is that it looks as though it has never heard of Paladin. Wi/lie boy is a personal victory for Mr. Polonsky, though that may taste a little bitter in his mouth. He made his first picture - Force of evi& - with John Garfield - in 1948; this is his second, more than twenty years later. That is what the blacklist did to him.

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Do you want to see a movie that will make you remember your childhood days when you sat in front of the T.V. on Sunday evening totally involved in the Disneyland scene, and at the same time present the wonders of animation drawn to classical music? Well if so you will enjoy Walt Disney’s Fantasia.

Apparently, it’s one of the first animated colour films ever made and it can be admired from that aspect. It is not an ordinary cartoon show where the background doesn’t move with the characters in the foreground, but presents complete animation of a scene - something like a regular motion picture only completely hand-drawn. There are about five really don’t remember, some aspects of each.

you don’t want to see the movie, then listen to the music and you can probably figure it out. It would be advisable to listen to the music and admire the colours in the next section rather than try to follow the story. It’s the typical boy meets girl routine. The boys and girls ae centaurs with the most exquisite human bodies. Cherubs and flying horses also are included. A Hippopotamus ballerina and all the charms that such a creature could have is the star of the

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The movie begins with the orchestra. A man is talking about how the movie came to be made. This man, and he could be famous, speaks after every segment of the film and before the next part.

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- the famous Stravinski - comes The conductor up to the podium and the music begins. Different colours appear when new instruments join in the symphony and seem to be reflected onto the conductor. Then the screen becomes nothing but colours. Colours that flow with the music. It is something you feel you see when you close your eyes and visualize colours. Journeying along with the music, next there is a fantasy scene to the music of the Nutcracker suite. Little fairies dance around bringing out the spring flowers then the fall leaves and then present an ice fantasy. Oh yes, mushrooms do a little dance also. If fairies turn you on ok. The animation and colours are enjoyable. Onto the next segment, which probably everyone who ever was an ardent fan of the Disneyland show will remember - the Sorcerer‘s apprentice. It’s all about Mickey Mouse who is the apprentice to the sorcerer which means he does all the joejobs. Mickey has a bad time with a broom that magically becomes many brooms after Mickey hacks it up. Violence is justifiable you see, because he couldn’t stop the broom from carrying the water by any other means available to him. The music is quite intense while Mickey tumbles about in the water. It gradually builds up to the climax where the sorcerer appears and puts an end to all the confusion and turmoil. Sympathize totally with Mickey. How many times have you been caught in a similar situation and what happened to you ? Well I won’t spoil the suspense. If

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The best way to redistribute wealth is a good game of poker. 0 Self-righteousness is a form of salvation-it allows one to sacrifice others without remorse. l There are two classes of men-the inferior and the superior. The inferior suspect as much; the superior know it. l It is never a question of ‘changing’ one-s values; it is more correctly a question of ‘whipping them into line’. l Never give a liberal an even break. l Revere thy elders-patience rewards all men. l Few men would rather think than obey. This is a perfectly natural condition. l Never put off til tomorrow who can be ‘done in’ today. 0 Qualification is secondary to desire; Carnegie was a self-starter. 0 Watch closely the man who utilizes the media-some men are of less noble intent than John Wayne. l Spare the rod and spoil the world. 0 All men love a man who succeeds; if they pretend otherwise, its just sour grapes. l Abstinence makes the passions stronger. l To err is mildly human; to forgive-decadent. l Never before have so few taken so much from so many-but that-s what makes a country great. l Give to charityit never quite gets there and @‘s tax deductible. l Get what you like, it’s for others to like what they get. 0 Divine Right is great, but a lash sure comes in handy. 0 The road to hell is paved with good intentions; therefore, the road to heaven must be paved with bad ones.

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LTHOUGH MUCH public attention has recently been focused on Edgar enson’s White paper on taxation, there has been another white paper ‘presented by the government, the white paper on indian policy, which is worthy of equal consideration by the Canadian public. This White Paper is important in the first place simply because it proposes to legislate out of existence the roughly halfmillion registered and non-registered Indians in Canada, a policy that has led to the charge of “cultural genocide” from many Indian spokesmen. Secondly, it is of great importance because it. provides a classic example of how western, liberal governments forever fail to arrive at real solutions to the problems they face because they are unable to comprehend, or admit, the true nature of the society in which they exist. The White paper on indian policy does not appear as a monstrous, immoral plan for the elimination of the Canadian Indian popula’tion. Rather, it is more subtle. The government admits, albeit quite paternalistically that the Indian populatian of Canada is faced with grave problems; an incredibly high infant mortality rate, an average annual income of less than $2,000 a life expectancy drastically less than that of white Canadians, and inore. . The government also agrees that something must be done about these problems. Thus it presents the white paper, cloaked in liberal sentiments, as the “final solution” to the Indian problem. On the face of it then, there is nothing blatantly immoral about the government’s intentions. But given the massive Indian outcry against this policy, it would seem obvious that something, somewhere, has gone wrong. What is needed, then, is an examination of some of the significant passages of the government paper to see just where the problem arises.

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This fatuous beginning sets the tone for the government’s condescending approach to the Indian’s problems throughout the paper. Of course the Indian is a man. Did anyone doubt that he was a human being? But the government seems to feel the need to reassure the Canadian population that Indians are people. To be an Indian is to lack power-the act as owner of your lands, the power your own money and, too often, the change your own condition.

power to to spend power to

This again states the obvious; if the Indian had political power, then he would have no need for the government’s special legislation. ,But more importantly, this admission damages the government’s contention that all the Indian needs is equality under the law. Simple legal equality cannot ever guarantee the political power that the government admits the Indian lacks. Not always, but too often, to be an Indian is to be without-without a job, a good house, or running water; without knowledge, training or technical skill- and, above al/, without those feelings of dignity and self-confidence that a man must have if he is to walk with his head held high.

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What is important about this passage is that it exposes the government’s euro-centric conception of culture; thus the government believes that running water and good houses form the basis of all culture, without examining the indian idea of culture apart from these material things. All these conditions of the Indians are the product of history and have nothing to do with their abilities and capacities.

This passage is crucial to the whole government argument, for by attributing the Indians’ problems to an abstract entity called “history”, the government mystifys the situation. History does not produce things, men do. And the men who produced the problems of the Indians were the white men. Thus one would think that Indians might have a legitimate claim against white society for reparations for past wrongs. However, by attributing these wrongs to “hisprecludes the possibility tory”, the Government Indian relations with other of such a claim. Canadians began with special treatment by government and society, and special treatment has been the rule since Europeans first settled in Canada. Special treatment has made of the lndians a community disadvantaged and apart.

This passage presents the second main point of the government’s argument, and it is equally as misleading as the previous one. Special treatment did not make the Indians disadvantaged; it was only harmful special treatment that did this-that is, the murdering of Indians and theft of indian lands by white men. But the remedy for this negative “special treatment” is not the abolition of special treatment, but rather the institution of positive treatment. Now that Indians have been reduced to a disadvantaged status, the solution to the problem is not to suddenly decide to treat them as equals without first raising them up to real equal economic status. Rather, what is required is positive special treatment, which would first provide Indians with a material basis of equality before engaging in empty egalitarian rhetoric. This proposal is a recognition made plain in a year’s intensive Indians people throughout Canada.

of the necessity discussions with

This passage makes a factual claim which simply does not seem to be true. The “intensive discussions” consisted of brief meetings with various indian bands; at no time were the indian organizations and brotherhoods consulted. And the government’s claim that this of needs brought out policy is a “recognition” is belied by the fact in these “discussions that the major point of the policy is the abolition of indian reserves; yet this was not mentioned in any of the Indians consultation hearings. The policies proposed recognize the simple reality that the separate legal status of Indians and the policies which have flowed from it have kept the Indian people apart from and behind other Canadians.

This simply restates the government argument that special (or separate) treatment has created the Indians’ problems. And as seen above, this is not the case; oppression and exploitation at the hands of the white man has done this. The remedy for this is not simply to stop the oppression, but to repair the past wrongs, as as much as possible, perhaps in the form of reparations. In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the Indian population. Their health and education levels have improved. There has been a corresponding rise in expectations that the structure of separate treatment cannot meet.

This claim is simply not true. As a matter of fact, the Indian mortality rate has increased by six percent over the last three years. What is needed is immediate attention to the problem (that is, special treatment of some sort) not the governmental formula of treating everyone equally without provision for special need.

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But unequal partners, operating from unequal economic bases, soon find ‘that their partnership dissolves into a single-partner pArtnership, as the lajrger partner dominates and overwhelms the lesser. For a true partnership, the material basis of equality must first be provided. Governments can set examples change the hearts of men.

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This statement is simply false, as any observer of modern mass media’s ties with governments will well know. Indian people must be persuaded, suade themselves, that this path will to a fuller and richer life.

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This statement seems out of place in a paper supposedly offering a tentative policy for consideration, and it contradicts the government’s assertion that the ‘hearts of men cannot be changed’. If the government claims that Indians must be persuaded, it would seem the policy decision has -already been made, and that the only task left is to implement it. This seems to be a long way from the stated government reliance on consultations, discussion, and meetings with the indian people to determine their future. If Indian people are to become full mimbers of Canadian society they must be warmly welcomed by that society.

This again shows the euro-centric outlook of the government, since it places the burden of acceptance on the white members of that society. Nowhere is it mentioned that the Indians might not wish to join our white society. The policy rests upon the fundamental right of indian people to full and equal participation in the cultural, social, economic and political ltie of Canada. 1 To argue against this right is to argue -#Or discrimination, isolation and separation.

Again the government states its fundamental position on the Indians’ problems: namely, that they must be integrated into Canadian society. Of course, the government does not state just how “full and equal” this participation in canadian life will be if no special treatment is given to Indians. We may easily foresee the Indians being forced to give up what assistance they now receive and instead rely on welfare, but other than this the government seems to have little to offer. And of course, to argue against the government is not to argue for reparations to first enable the Indians to achieve economic equality before taking away their treaty rights.

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It is all very well to E discrimination, but this lem unless the fundam discrimination is also ren And this will not be d dians to the welfare dole. As blacks in the U.S: I at a lunch counter mean! afford a hamburger. Also, the present legisl; unjust and must be cha1 measure of protection f struggle for his human , ernment policy would ab tion and still not ensure rights. 2. There must be posit one of the unique contr to Canadian society.

This is a basically for it does the Indians lil for their contribution to society still continues to E 3. Services must come nels and from the sap for all Canadians. This is an undeniable been shown many times follows from separate st argument about the pr vices. It is right.

Here again, the govex damental assumption th necessity for the just socil But as pointed out ea sarily the case. Equal fied in the case of equa needs are great. Also assumption that comma for the needs of non-In And, as anyone with al fare services will tell yc case. One significant exam Metis ; These people, non-Indian and provided services as other Ca admitted to be in a v registered Indians who ha 4. Those who helped most.

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No Canadian should be excluded from participation in community life, and none should expect to withdraw and still enjoy the benefits that flow to those who participate.

An important clue to tions may be garnered sage.

This cquld be the giveaway to the government’s reasons for this policy. What is brought up here is the question of taxes. The government is saying that it will not provide services for people who are not in a position to pay taxes. And this is crucial, not so much in the form of. income taxes (since most Indians do not make enough money to pay such taxes), but in the form of land tax, which will certainly affect the Indians drastically once the reservesarebrokenup.

Private investors capital for projects pledged as security.

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With this, the government concludes its basic arguments for the proposed policy, and turns to the specific points of that policy. L egislative and constitutional bases of discrimination must be removed. Canada cannot seek the just society and keep discriminatory legislation on its statute books.

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American companies development of the cam Canada Development Cc do so as long as the ind area are protected from ment, as is required by the However, once the go tection, as it proposes tc the indian lands will be security for developmt have little other resour they themselves could p necessary development ultimately then be taken o This is ‘one of the wea. ments’ proposals, espec government’s past histc al obligations to Indians.


e self-evident.

The recently-announced Canadian government White paper on indian po!icy proposes to commit cultural genocide in eliminating what even now are minimal indian rights, and completely ignores the historical fact that whites, as exploiters of indian lands, owe financial and material reparations to every Indian. So claims the Organization for socialjustice and reconstruction, a committee of students and professors at the university of Waterloo who are beginning a program of research for the behefit of minority and repressed populations.

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relies on its fun1 treatment is a his is not neces!nt is only justiand the Indians t in this is the zes has provided ople in the past. liarity with welis surely not the the case of the ;h classified as he same nominal are generally tuation than the rate services. behind

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yer to begin the lrth via the Midbut they cannot erves within that on by the governIt Indian Act. lnt lifts this prothe white paper, to be pledged as ace the Indians ! land is all that n order to obtain . The land will lian control. nts of the governven the Canadian recognizing” leg-

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- ,This history of broken treaties and false promises raises grave questions as to how these “legal” obligations are to be fulfilled. Yet this is one of the crucial issues concerning indian policy since all indian spokesmen seem to agree that before further steps are taken to formulate an indian policy it is absolutely necessary to fulfil1 existing treaty obligations. However in response to this concern over treaty rights, the government simply proposes to appoint a commissioner who will: classify the claims that in his judgment ought to be referred to the courts or any special quasijudicial body that may be recommended.

What this does is simply to remove the fulfillment of these obligations one step further from the government. In effect, the government will not only decide what is “lawful”, but it will also appoint a functionary who will be the sole judge of what claims will even be considered as either lawful or unlawful. Further, although some brief mention is made of these “lawful” claims (that is, treaty rights), no mention is made of “moral” obligations. This quickly absolves the government from any responsibility for the great number of Indians without treaties. It eliminates any basis for indian claims for reparations. And it effectively proscribes any of the aboriginal land claims, such as those being put forward in British Columbia. The government ends the specific mention of these claims by stating: These are so general and undefined that it is not realistic to think of them as specific claims capable of remedy except through a policy and program that will end injustice to Indians as members of the Canadian community.

The final point of the government’s proposals is perhaps the most significant, for on face value it seems reasonable and just. However, the reality of its implementation could have disastrous consequences for Canadian Indians. 6. Control of Indian the Indian people.

lands

should

be transferred

to

Thus, it surely seems just that Indians have control of indian lands; however, certain problems quickly come to light. In the first place, as previously noted, the government will be the final judge of what actually is indian land. Secondly, the question arises as to how long this land will effectively remain within indian control. Given the reality of expropriation, the earliermentioned need to pledge the land as security in order to obtain necessary, development capital I (most probably with U.S. corporations), and the problem of land taxes, it would seem unlikely that the land would remain under indian control for a long period of time. And thest ment isions ing :

despite its earlier claim that “those furbehind must be helped most”, the governdoes not intend to make special tax provfor the Indian, as evidenced by the follow-

When the Indian people see that the only way they can own and fully control land is to accept taxation the way other Canadians do, they will make that decision.

The Government then proceeds to investigate the problems of implementing this policy. The Government proposes to ask that the associations act as the principal agencies through which consultation and negotiatiens would be conducted, but each band would be consulted about gaining ownership of its land holdings.

And this, in itself, raises further

problems.

The indian associations mentioned were not consulted by the government in the formation of this policy but now they are to be consulted about its implementation. Given the past history of the “consultations” it would be quite surprising if the associations felt much would be accomplished by more “consultations” with the government, concerning a policy especially “consultations” to which they are solidly opposed. Secondly, the Government states that each band would be “consulted” about its particular holdings. D The problem here is that the band is not an indian organization at all; rather it is a unit of Indians set up for governmental administrative purposes, often overlooking tribal differences. This concept is explicitly defined (by white men, of course) in the second point-of the Indian Act. It is with this unit, and not with the indian organizations that the government will discuss specific land transfers. The Government hopes’ to have policy in effect within five years.

the bulk

of the

This passage is significant in two respects. In the first place, it seems to show that the government is not really too concerned with the proposed “consultations”, and is preparing to go ahead with this policy. ’ And secondly, it shows that the government is not at all in touch with the reality Indians would face once this policy was put into practice. Given the government’s avowed intention to proceed, its refusal to consider special treatment of some compensatory sort for the Indians (perhaps reparations), and the reality of the class society and economy into which the Indians would be thrown; it can only be concluded that the government - consciously or not - will prepare within the next five years the final elimination of the Canadian Indian as a definable body within this society.

Ottawa

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too much

concludes

the white paper on indian policy by stating: A policy can never provide the ultimate solutions to all problems. A policy can achieve no more than is desired by the people it is intended to serve. This shows the government’s aversion to realassumes ity, since it seems the government this policy is actually desired by the Indians as the solution to their situation. But in actual fact, this policy has been virtually unamimously decried by Indian spokesmen as a program of “cultural genocide”. Finally the government states the essential feature of the government’s proposed new policy for Indians is that it acknowledges that truth by recognizing the central and essential role of the indian people in solving their own problems. It will provide, for the first time, a non-disciminatory framework within which, in an atmosphere of freedom, the indian people could, with other Canadians, work out their own destiny.

This underscores the whole problem of the government’s proposed indian policy, for it again shows how far removed from reality the government’s assessment of its own society actually is. The government is able to offer this policy as a framework within which Indians will work out their own destiny only because it subscribes to the myth that non-indian C’anadians, who are afforded legal equality, are able themselves to control their own destiny. However well-mean-

ing or malevolent, no government can hope to provide a realistic solution to problems when it bases its whole approach on the assumption of a myth. * * * In view of this examination of the White paper on indian policy it is obvious that something is drastically wrong with the government’s proposed “final solution” to the Indian’s problems. This does not seem to result from any manifest government hostility or indifference to the problem (although this hostility very well might be present but unspoken). And it does not result solely from the internal inconsistencies, distortions and half-truths found in the paper. Rather, it follows from two main assumptions that the government makes -assumptions common to any liberal investigation of a problem which renders any liberal solution to the problem all but impossible. THE FIRST ASSUMPTION is that “history” has somehow created all these problems for the Indian. But as shown earlier, this ahistoric approach (common to most liberal spokesmen) serves only to obscure the fact that history consists in the actions of men relating to their specific socio-economic situation, and that white men (not some abstract entity called “history”) have done this to the Indians. Thus, the liberal approach precludes the possibility of reparations to the Indians for past wrongs suffered at the hands of white men. SECONDLY, THE government states that “special treatment” of the Indians has made them a disadvantaged group apart from the rest of Canadian society. This ignores the historical fact that the Indians’ plight had been created by negative special treatment (such as the payment of reparations to Indians to bring them up to a standard of life whereby they could enter Canadian society as truly equal economic partners if they so wish). The reason the Government cannot deal with this point is that it assumes the common liberal myth that society, as it is now t constituted, affords an equal opportunity to all of its members. That is, society forms an undifferentiated whole, devoid of classes, and that given /egal equality, the Indian will be able to proceed up the ladder of social mobility as can non-indian Canadians. This liberal myth of a classless, upwardly-mobile socio-economic whole had been ably exploded by John Porter’s book The vertical mos&, which clearly documents the existence of rigid classes, without possibility of upward movement in Canadian society. Thus, in the final analysis, the government white paper cannot hope to offer a viable solution to the problems confronting Canadian Indians because it is based on a mythical model of Canadian society which does not oorrespond to the socio-economic reality with which all Canadians, indian and non-indian, are faced.

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If last Saturday’s action was any indication, the battle for positions behind Toronto, McGill, and Western at this week’s OQAA swimming championships will be the highlight of the meet. The warriors and McMaster marlins, two of the four teams behind the top three, battled to a 57-56 warrior decision that went right down to the final relay. On form, the warriors have to worry only about beating either Guelph or Queens to reach fifth place, the goal set for the squad by coach Bob Graham at the beginning of the season. But the marlins will still be heard from, especially in their home pool, and the warriors could just as easily end up seventh as fourth. Saturday’s dual meet was an extremely hard-fought battle. After losing the opening relay, Waterloo’s Doug Lorriman and Haig Moreton came one-two in the 1000 to tie the score. The warriors moved ahead with George Ray’s win in the 200 free and were never headed from that point. With two events to go, Waterloo held a slim one point lead. Since Mat had a lock on the final relay, it was up to the divers. Lester Newby and Brian Hilko performed in fine fashion to sweep the S-metre board. The resulting victory will give the warriors a great psychological boost for the OQAA meet. In addition to his victory in the 200 free, Ray notched wins in the 100 and 500 free events. Lorriman, who won the 200 and

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The basketball athenas had a pre-tourney scrimmage against the London grads of the Ontario Ladies Basketball Association League. The grads took a 60-55 win over the athenas, using their height to good advantage. In shooting, the two teams had even percentages but the grads controlled the boards and thus were able to put up more shots for the win. Waterloo scored 19 points on free throws, taking advantage of the bonus rule used by girl’s teams in the OLBA league. Leading the athenas both of-

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The basketball’s regular season ended last monday night. Resounding victories were recorded by grads st. jeromes, vi11 north, renison, phys. ed. and rec., habitat, upper math, and frosh eng. In the close contest of the week, frosh arts finally found the range and edged env. studies 2-O. Next monday marks the beginning of the playoffs. These are the lucky teams chosen from their respective leagues, and their first round opponents. Renison squares off against phys. ed. and rec., st. jeromes meets habitat, upper math vs frosh arts, and grads will confront vi11 south.

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fensively and defensively was Sue Murphy, playing her best game of the season. Murphy made good moves under the basket to turn rebounds into points. She was top scorer with 16 points and top rebounder with 10. Second in scoring for Waterloo was MaryAnn Gaskin with 11. The top point-getters for the London team were Jane Garris and Elaine McRae with 14 points each. The London grads represented a stronger challenge than any O.Q.W.C.I.A. team thus giving the Athenas a chance to realize the full potential of both their offence and defence.

hi-lights In hockey action last. sunday habitat doubled the score on vi11 north 4-2, vi11 west squeezed by vi11 east, and upper eng defeated st. jeromes 3-l. On tuesday, upper eng continued to win beating science 6-0, Conrad grebel whipped co-op 5-1, and st. jeromes bounced back tb beat renison 5-l. League action winds up this sunday night and hopefully all playoff positions will be finalized. For those of you who read all this break week and now need exercise, get out and support the mixed badminton tournament to be held next Wednesday from 7-11 p.m.


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The basketball warriors are no longer in the race for the second and last play-off spot in the league as a result of a sound defeat at the hands of the Windsor lancers. Again it was a bad second half in which Windsor took control that ruined the warriors. Plagued by bad shooting, no rebounding, and a good Windsor defence, the warriors fell more and more behind and finally lost 79-62. Waterloo opened up a lead of 3428 with about two minutes left in the first half. Up ‘till then, the score had been tight, as each team exchanged baskets. Two clutch baskets in a row by Dal Hajdu put the warriors up, but trying to ride the momentum they had built led them to be too anxious for the long pass and the quick basket. Windsor was able to make interceptions or catch the warriors up court and came back to tie the score at 34-34. The half ended 37-36 for Windsor. Jaan Laaniste led the warrior offence, scoring 12 points, and Dave Crichton led the defence with his rebounding and defensive

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Rumour has it that something is.wrong with warrior Dennis Wing. Dave Cricton looks into the subject. , Leading scorers in the game were, for Waterloo, Laaniste with 21, Kieswetter and Hamilton 8 and Bilewicz with 7. For Windsor, Lenti had 19, deLaire, who was played very sparingly (thank God! ), had 13 along with Salvador, and Orange had 10. The warriors did not exactly go out this year in a blaze of glory. These last two defeats were pretty discouraging for the kids who followed the warriors closely and felt that they were good enough to win.

Undoubtedly they have shown that they are good (Western, last Windsor game),but it seems to hinge on putting their scorers together for a good night. Against Toronto Laaniste could not support the forwards with his shooting and they lost. Wednesday, the forwards were unable to score up to par and the same thing happened. The warriors end up the season on Saturday with a game against Guelph in which all that is at stake is remains of the warrior pride.

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to draw fouls and reduce Windsor’s rebounding strength. The trick didn’t work as the refs weren’t in a hurry to call a foul. Windsor started to run away with the game after a rash of giveaways by the warriors in the second half. For several minutes, the warriors seemed to be really slow to react and Windsor, stepping in front to pick up loose balls, scored themselves into a 44-38 lead. Poor shooting by the warriors, which had been costly in early games of the season, came back to haunt them in the second half. From 49% in the first half, they dropped to 22% in the second as successions of close-in shots were missed and the outside shooting power of Lozynsky, Kieswetter and Hamilton was non-existent. Three of thirteen shots by Jaan Laaniste found the hoop in the second half. The Windsor defence rarely gave a path to the basket and the warriors ended up taking low-percentage, showman shots out of desperation. Probably the biggest factor in the warrior loss was their complete lack of rebounding. In the 2nd half, they were out-rebounded 23-9. On the game it was 50 to 28 for the lancers. Windsor was able to control both boards through out the game. Jack Orange was the big man for the Lancers as he pulled in 14 rebounds, while Laaniste, a guard was the best warrior as he got 8. Even when the warriors did get a rebound, the lancer defence was very successful in tying up the man under the basket.

first place In the past the enthusiasm of Waterloo fans has. prompted visiting sportswriters to conclude that they’ve been “locked up in cages and released just prior to game time.” Can you imagine the psychological effect on a team like Toronto who, in their dressing room, can hear over 2,000 people roaring at the top of their lungs “we’re number one”-a full hour before the game even starts!

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night Waterloo fans will go wild; the barn will never be the same again. Loose pucks : Toronto’s John Wright leads the league with 19 goals and 17 assists for 36 points. Teammate Paul Laurent is second with 31. With no less than eight of the top ten scorers coming from either the blues or the warriors, no wonder the league is so unbalanced... Waterloo’s Bill Hogan and blues Len Burman have both been suspended for this game.. . . ..At present it looks like Ottawa

When the warriors step on the ice tonight before a thunderous ovation it will mark the most important hockey game this university has ever participated in. This match brings a focus to the entire OQAA schedule. For the warriors it will be their first chance to finish number one in the league while the Toronto blues will try to stave off famine after seven glorious Win, lose, or draw, it will be a years of feast. great evening. One thing is for In other seasons Waterloo has sure: if the warriors do win tobeen in similar situations but the end verdict was never in doubt in anyones mind. But this year is different. In two meetings so far they have tied the blues 3-3 and 5-5, looking impressive in both. Just as the first two games were spine tingling thrillers to the last minute, so too will this one. The warriors head into the struggle in the best shape they’ve been in since Christmas. Defencemen Phil Branston and Peter Paleczney have both recovered from leg injuries and should be in top form. Bob Reade, who was out last friday with a bruised shoulder, will also be back. Barring any unforeseen circumstances coach Bob McKillop should be able to ice three full lines and a solid defence, thus avoiding the tiring of several key players which has occurred so often in the past against Toronto. The blues, led by the finest centremen in the league, are also in I top shape. In a contest of such importance you can be sure that coach Tom Watt will have his team flying. He would dearly love to extend his long unbeaten streak in what Toronto supporters deBlues goalie Adrian Watson misses scribe as our “insane asylum.”

and Montreal will represent the eastern division in the OQAA playoffs next weekend at Varsity arena. Lava1 (8-6-O) still has an outside chance of catching Montreal.. In two key games last weekend Loyola edged into first place of the OSLAA with a 7-4 win over Sherbrooke and Calgary annihilated Alberta 9-l.. . Boston University recently won the “Beantown Championship” by edging their crosstown rivals Boston College. The game was played before close to 1500 fans-a far cry from Canadian intercollegiate crowds.

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Other Waterloo winners were Jack Welinga, three bouts; Fred Scheel, three, all by pins; George Saunders, three, all by pins; Wim Verhoven, two wins, one draw; Gary MacDonald, two; Brian Westell, two ; Wayne Gontier, two; John Berry, two; Don Petrie, Milt Gluppe and Doug Elliot, all one win and Nick Cherri, one draw. The strong performances of the warriors this year makes them one of the top favourites to capture the OQAA championships, which take place this weekend at Western.

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The Waterloo basketball Athenas travel to York University in Toronto this weekend for the O.Q.W.C.I.A. tournament. As defending league champions, the Athenas will be playing to retain the trophy. The strongest threats for the league title will probably come from the Windsor and University of Macdonald College of Montreal. The top three teams from the east and west divisions of the league enter the championship round while all other teams are in the consolation. and Macdonald, Montreal Carleton will represent the east in the top flight while Waterloo, Windsor and either Lutheran or Laurentian will represent the west. Lutheran and Laurentian will have a playoff on Thursday night to decide who will get third spot and thus a berth in the championship round. Windsor and Waterloo ended their league schedule with 9-l records, tied for first place in the western division. Waterloo was awarded the first place tournament position by the flip of a coin. The tournament schedule ingames for each *:olves three team. The teams play the entries from the other division. If there is a tie at the end of this series, a final playoff is needed. The Athenas will play University of Montreal at 9: 30 on ’ Friday morning and then meet Macdonald College at 3: 30 in the afternoon. On Saturday at 1: 30 the Waterloo girls play Carleton. If they play a playoff game, it will be at 4:30 on Saturday. Waterloo is not scheduled to ,neet Windsor in the tournament but might see them in a playoff. For the past two years, Wa14

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terloo and Windsor have ended the season tied. Each year, both teams have won all of their tournament games to force a playoff game. In the playoff two years ago, the Windsor Lancerettes took a close 25-21 win. Last year, the Athenas captured the championship by a 63-53 victory in the deciding game. The tourney could very likely follow the same pattern this and the playoff game year could go either way. In their meeting this year, the Athenas and the Lancerettes have split games. In December, the Athenas took a 43-37 win and Windsor came back in January for a 50-40 victory. Both teams won their game on home court and if they meet on a neutral court this weekend, a close match could result. Injuries could play an important role in the tourney as both teams have been plagued with many all season. Offensively, the Athenas have had their best season yet. In 21 games, league and exhibition, the team has scored 1026 points (average of 49 per game) while allowing only 640 against them. In league play, the Athenas have averaged better than 45 points per game while allowing an average of only 27 against. Leading the Athenas in scoring is five year veteran Mary Ann Gaskin with 186 points. Gaskin, last year’s MVP, also had the highest scoring game with 23 points. Second in scoring and leading the team defensively is Patty Bland with 167 points. Charlotte Shaule follows with 105 points. Waterloo will enter the tourney this weekend sporting a fine winning record and regardless of the outcome, for the Athenas, it has been a successful season.

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Hi there kids, how’s it going?... Oh, that’s too bad. Well, as long as you’re working hard. Univerlity is pretty important, you ‘now.. . .Yfm’r.e not ?...Why, what’s What do you mean i,he matter?.... seem somewhat ?‘our “courses rrrelevant in places?” . .. . Well, rea,ee ,. . . . . . What?. . . . .Yes, I iize that you won’t use a lot I of the stuff you’re learning, but you must remember that it’s not what you learn so much as the fact that you’re learning it. That’s what the employers are looking for you know.. .Now really, I don’t think that’s fair. You can’t call university “a selection agency for industry”...Yes I know that most of them require a degree, but that’s only to show that you have the ability , to learn.. . A “four year aptitude test! ” That isn’t very fair either. What you’re saying is that university serves as preparation for the business world. What’s wrong with that?.. . What do you mean “subordinate to industry”?. . .I see. Well, why shouldn’t it be? I mean, you must admit that industry and technology are pretty important.. . .Sure they’re as important as “studying what goes on in peoples’ heads and hearts”, if I understand what Well, we YOU mean.. . .How? didn’t get automobiles by sitting around and philosophizing about “what goes on in peoples’ heads 2nd hearts”. . . .Yeah, I know a lot of people get hurt and killed, but that’s because some people misuse cars.. .. I heard that! What did you mean by “heads and hearts”?. . . .Yeah, I bet you didn’t. Anyway, look at space We’ve reached the exploration. moon through industry and technology.. . . What?. . . It means that we’ve reached the moon, goddamit! Man has wanted to do that for centuries.. . .Yeah, yeah, I know all about the poor... .and and the hungry..... and pollution all that, but we’ve got to move ahead on all fronts... . We are so moving ahead on those fronts . . . .As fast as possible - don’t interrupt so much - it’s just that we’ve got to move faster in technology and defense.. . .Because if we don’t somebody else they’re building will.. . . Because I arms as fast as we are and if we slow down they’ll get ahead and that will be all for us. . ..But they , will ! Isn’t it obvious?. . . . Of course we wouldn’t, but.. . . well, maybe not, but I think they they’re the would.. . . Because type! Look, they took power originally by overthrowing the existing government, didn’t they? . . . .Alright, and.. . that shows how ruthless they are! Please don’t interrupt like that. Anywhich Indians?. .. . What away.. . . bout the Americans Indians? . . . . . . . They didn’t have any government! Talk sense man! Now, where was I?....Oh yeah. And besides that they’ve taken over neighboring countries too.. .Canada? Latin America? The States didn’t take them over....Nof militarily or any way! On the contrary, look at the foreign aid they’ve sent in. Those countries wouldn’t be half way to where they are today without the help of

the U.S.. . .Well, they’ve gotta get something back for their investment, don’t they? I mean, they aren’t doing it for their health.. . .Of course they’re helping the people. The revolutions would have come anyway. But this isn’t what we started to talk about. You said that the universities were “subordinate to the industries”, I believe.. *Yes, well, suppose you tell me what you think is wrong with that.. . . yes.. ..uh-huh.. . .I see . . . .suppression of freedom, eh? But don’t you think....OK, I won’t interrupt . . uh-huh.. ..yeah.. . .sounds like come munism.. . .OK, OK . . .. . yes. . . . .. . . . . . . OK.. . .surely you aren’t trying . . . . sorry.. .Hah ! It looks to me like you’re trying to change the world!. . . .Oh, I see. GORD BRADSHAW Waterloo

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Knowlton’s last gasp revealed him for what he was: the mouthpiece of the money that runs U of W. All the stuff about the president search committee was a load of bull. The truth is that the committee never existed ! No name was taken to senate. There was a long senate meeting, but the subject was the liquor licence for the faculty club and only senators who were members were notified of the special meeting. As for the president, of course Adlington appointed him. Al owns the place. RON NASH math 1 Mech eng Knowlton

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Knowlton Collister was a good hoax. His column “On the Hustings” was often witty and sometimes quite amusing even though it was seldom accurate. The auoccasionally thor (authors?) showed flashes of insight into the problems facing both a president of Uniwat and the search committee, but all too often he (they?) sacrificed accuracy for mockery. The last column was typical. The description of the final stage of the search committee’s activity was pure fiction. In fact, the search committee chose Dr. Matthews deliberately and not by default, the search committee was required to bring only one name to the senate and board, and the senate approved the nomination by a majority of sixty-five percent. I am amused that many faculty and students who are otherwise critical of the Chevron were ready to swallow Knowlton Collister without question. It would be a pity if the author of “On the Hustings” remained anonymous and missed his duecredit for the longest running gag in Chevron’s history. T.A. BRZUSTOWSKI mech eng

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I am not writing this as a pissed off Neil Diamond fan. I left the concert before Diamond came on so that both the am radio loving audience and the am radio star would not depress me. If anyone knows anything about music they should be amazed at how Diamond manages to churn out song after song by simply varying his essential chord structure E, A, and D. Montony for the masses. Okay. Assuming that his performance was nothing out of the ordinary, I’ll give the reviewer credit for realizing the mediocrity. I’ll agree also that Dion was very good. But what about the Kinks? No one payed any attention to them. I was in the fifth row and the sound was soft compared to the ear piercing sounds which I remember emanating from Johnny Winters’ amplifiers. Hasn’t anyone heard Face to Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, or Arthur? If *you haven’t, you are missing some of the best writing and performing to be found in- rock, today. Arthur has already been rated bv some critics as the ‘album of the year, It is a work of genius by writer and lead singer Ray

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Tsk, tsk. What will our selfstyled revolutionaries of the press think up next ? A year ago a university president, dean, or professor was regarded merely as part of the establishment. Today he’s, of all things, an imperialist! Can we expect to be elitist vipers next year? This widespread inability of the student press to criticize except at a single level of atrocity is creating a Babel-like effect - its own credibility gap. I recall an observation of Barry Callaghan that it always falls to the poets to resharpen a language made blunt by its politicians. Poets (student and otherwise ), your hour has come! RR. HUDGINS’ them eng

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It is a must for anyone seriously interested in music. So, taking this into account, it was rather sad to see so many people completely missing everything that Davies was pouring out. “Clap politely. Just so they won’t feel bad. I rememb‘er ‘You Really Got Me’, but it’s old. And besides, the Kinks died years ago.” So, all in all, not only the audience, but even the wonderful reviewer does not know enough to listen to what is there. Instead of marvelling over the cover up men and the broken string, listen to Arthur and then try to remember what you missed. The Kinks forever! SAM TURTON arts 1

sand victims are sacrificed in the transportation war, while too many others are wounded. In addition, our cities have become ugly mazes of fuming traffic jams and monotonous parking lots. Electric streetcars and gardens full of oxygen producing plants could happily replace these crowded asphalt deserts. Riding* bicycles downtown would prevent heart attacks at age forty as well as provide clean and convenient city transport. And now, above all else, it is apparent that cars and their fuel processing industries are polluting our air at a rate that will terminate history in less than a century. In the name of survival we must all realize that owning and operating a car will have to be classified as a crime against common sense, and as a sin against the future. RANDAL LEAVITT Math 3

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most stupid Indian create a worse mess than has been handed him by the missionaries and .bureaucrats over the past one hundred years? As long as the government persists in using education for its own designs, education will continue to be an unpleasant, frightening and painful experience for Indian children who have little reason to like or be interested in school anyhow. . * * * Housing has been a major reserve problem for as long as anyone can remember. Belatedly, but finally the government discovered this and .. ..set about doing something to alleviate the problem.. . ..as the houses took shape, the people could see they would offer little improvement upon the shacks they were to replace. When they complained, the agent said, “What do you expect, castles? The government only allots seven thousand dollars for each house”. Before the end of a year, frames sagged, doors hung ajar and wouldn’t close, windows wouldn’t open, plumbing was out of line and wouldn’t function, insulation against the wintry blasts of our northland slid down between walls which had sagged every which way. The houses had been built in the worst possible location on the reserve, squarely in the middle of the only swamp available. They had no foundations. * * * The white man who finds himself in an unstructured, anxiety provoking situation is trained to react with a great deal of activity. . . . ..but the Indian, put in the same place is brought up to remain motionless and watch. Outwardly he appears to freeze, Inwardly, he is using all his senses to discover what is expected of him-what activities are proper, seemly and safe.

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Dear Mr. Chretien. I am a university graduate, with four years experience in social work among Indian and Metis people in the northern half of the Yukon territory, centred in Dawson city. In those four years I was fortunate to be close enough to some Indian and Metis, friends to help them realize that as a race, the whites are not entirely bad. I am 27, and want to spend my most active years in the Yukon, working among those people who have need of a friend. I cannot return. During my last, six months as a government employee, I was suspended twice; dismissed once (later revoked); the doors to my office were literally padlocked against my admittance; my replacement was advised by two superiors not to talk to me; I was told by my supervisor that should I resign within one month /: would receive a good reference from them; but should I stay on, every effort would be made to have me dismissed. He also admitted at the time that no one was actually able to assess my work, since I had gone virtually unsupervised during my tenure. In one year, my employee assessment rating (re-done 3 months after I refused to resign until the fall) plummetted from C-plus to an E average. I had to fight to see the assessment which is now in my personal file in the government offices, and which I am legally obligated to sign after discussion. There was neither a discussion nor a signature, but the assessment remains on my file, for all my future employers . to see. Why? According to my director, I had committed three sins against the government and the civil service: l I had typed a letter to the Yukon Commissioner, written by a friend who wanted to see reforms in the department of education. I did not agree with most of the letter but placed my initials at tie bottom. With very little ?ouble, the government was able to discover who had typed the letter and for this I was made to apologize to the director of education. My friend (a Metis teacher) resigned and I was the only one left to suffer the ire of a government spurned. l I am a member of the liberal party and served coffee at one meeting, and pop at a teenage dance, both sponsored by the liberal party, during the 1968 campaign. As a civil servant, I could not “campaign”, although many other civil servants were involved in the _ election in a much more important way.

l I had the audacity to speak to you Mr. Chretien, honourable Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, for ten minutes about Indian housing and as many other subjects, as I could squeeze into ten minutes of your time. It was my understanding at the time that you wished to speak to someone about the problems for which you hold a portfolio. For my efforts, the Commissioner of the Yukon demanded my resignation from my director. Neither the commissioner nor anyone else, knows to this day what I said to you, our elected representative and appointed minister. As the commissioner’s words were quoted to me by my director, he said: “‘I will not have one of my employees speaking to my Minister. ”

All that was needed to solve the administration’s problems about me was a replacement to take my job-a difficult task, when the work demands not only an ability to cooperate .with every member of the commun- . ity as well as clients, but also to remain on call 24 hours a day, and attend to various details such as changing tires in the middle of the night on an empty gravel road with no settlement wt&in 50 miles, driving in 50 and 60 below zero weather to cover the area and do every kind of social work in the book (as well as much not found in the social work manual). They finally found a replacement, with a Master’s degree in social work, who wan ted to come to Dawson city because her boyfriend was stationed there. She admitted to me that she disliked the cold, the flying, (necessary to get to one part of the area), night and weekend work, and the basic type of social work required to deal with a very heavy caseload and an enormous area. She replaced me in September, and has since resigned. We were never allo wed officially to discuss cases together, nor to work together (since I was suspended). This presented quite a handicap for her as she was already experiencing personal difficulties in adjusting to life in the North. I have been advised by a friend in the Yu.kon to be absolutely certain of my facts should a newspaper publish anything I have to say, since the government would consider launching a libel suit against me. Since I am already in debt over lawyer fees, I am hardly ready to contemplate the possibility of libellous charges.

Would you like to know the story of two boys who were to be sent to a sister in one of the provinces, but who had to wait in foster homes for 9 months because no one in the head office had the energy to telephone the province (which I was not allowed to do)? Would you care to think about an unwed mother who was not paid maintenance for 3 years (from an agreement that our department had set up) because no one in the head office could be bothered to telephone our legal adviser to see about taking the putative father to court? Can you allow yourself a moment to grasp the possibility of probationers who are sent thousands of miles to juvenile homes outside the territory and returned. within weeks because of over-crowding in these Homes; or adoptive parents waiting 3 years for approval of their adoption although they are already looking after the child in their home; or neglected children being assessed by a psychologist and a psychiatrist, who recom,mend removal to an institution but no action is taken? Would you care to be the social worker who had it written in to her assessment that she writes “many irrelevant memoranda*’ about these and other cases, (none of which were worked on by the time I left the Yukon)? Would you want to return to help and not be allo wed to? Within one year of beginning work in the department of welfare, I had been there longer than anyone else on staff, except for my F supervisor and director.

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One of the main problems in the North is finding qualified people to work and stay there. Everyone deplores the rapid turnover in Government staff at all levels.:’ I have a friend who was dismissed for objecting to welfare practices. Another friend resigned to complete a university degree and it is well known that she will not be allowed back into the enclave because she disagreed with practices within the Department. There are many others who quit in disgust, rather than fight a losing battle against bureaucracy and pettiness. They do ’ not return. The ‘servile servant” is breeding rapidly within the borders of the North, and, Mr. Chretien, if you are interested, the North and your department, are the losers. Yours

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Who’s your Indian? Most Canadian whites are racist, bot ,h in their activity and in their attitudes toward Indians. They engage in racist activity by supporting an economic, social and political system which is racist. Racist attitudes are often openly expressed. “Indians are drunken, innaturally lazy, ferior people who deserve nothing better than what they have.” Students and professors have been heard to make this claim and gone unchallenged by the people who have heard them. It is more frequent however, that racist attitudes are very. subtly expressed. All forms of paternalism, concepts of charity and ideas that the Indian can not manage his own affairs are racist. These forms of racism are openly propagated and go unchallenged in the university and in society in general. The Indians are not _the only group which suffers from the activity and attitudes characterized by racism. The same attitudes and discrimination are carried on and propagated about poor people and manual labourers by the middle class, about women by men, about ethnic minorities by british descendants, about new immigrants by older ‘citizens’. Each economic and cultural group propagates group supremacy toward all other groups which; are below it on the socioeconomic ladder. But they do not do it. naturally. The interests of each group are played off against the interests of the other groups by the people who control the media, who control production, who control private and government economic policy. Poor people try to maintain their position of supremacy over the Indians by supporting and propagating racism. Labourers encourage and promote discrimination against poor people and Indians not because there is an inherent difference between them and poor people which makes them superior but because under our economic system poor people and indians are competition for blue collar workers. On the top of this whole pyramid of racism, supremacy and discrimination sits the middle class. Teachers, professors and clergy propagate these ideas so that each group knows its position not only in relation to the groups below itself but also in relation to the groups above it. Scientists engineers and sociologists manipulate people secure in their belief that others do not know how to manage their own affairs. Social workers, the military and cops police the other groups knowing they deserve their own middle class position but these other groups don’t. That’s what they were taught. The entire middle class is the chief propagator and sustainer of this system. And the benefit that they. receive is affluence, and status.

But the middle class too is powerless to change the structure of society. Their middle class position is only maintained so long as they perform their function within our society. Any move that they make toward change is a threat to that ‘_, position. The truth is that their position is not secure even if they perform their duties faithfully. With the present use of the universi ty as a reserve labour pool, middle classdom is becom-. ing competitive and companies more selective in their choice of technicians. The people who have the power, have in the past brought society to its knees. Indications are that our economy is once again headed toward a depression. If this happens even professional status will not be security.’ . It is in the interests of the middle class as well as all other lower groups in the socioeconomic scale to change the structure of society so that all people have the social awareness necessary to understand their positions, the freedom to be creative social beings and the power to act for change. This change is basic and radical. It means taking the power from the few people who have it now and it means people working together to further their mutual interests. Only by recognizing that our interests lie in united action can we begin to understand how this economic control works. Only by engaging in action together do we have any chance of taking away their power. If we do not work together we will be fighting against each other. If we do not choose to \work together we will be choosing to fight for the perpetuation of the present system against the liberation of all people. Professionals must begin to understand that they do not help minorities or other oppressed people or for that matter themselves by propagating racism and group supremacy. To be more specific they cannot solve the problems that Indians are facing by going out on a government grant and doing research on the Indian problem, which will be used by a government bureaucracy as justification for the decisions which they make. The Indians are capable of deciding how their interests are best served. The professional must be willing to admit this and work with Indians to solve our mutual problems. This means that he must use his skills to do research under the direction of the Indians.

Whites must also recognize the destructiveness of racism. White racism is possibly the greatest problem that, the Indian faces. We must not allow others to propagate racism. We must challenge it whenever we do see it and we must struggle with the racism that exists in ourselves. .

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Right on, ’ Engsoc The Chevron collective supports engineering society A in their attempts at uncovering the highly bureaucratic nature of the co-ordination department’s insistence that engineers, whether they are repeating their term or not, must pass within their realm. Co-ordination demands that if co-op students find their jobs without the help of the department, they must report the name of the company to them. If co-ordination still intends to abandon students who fail, it should not attempt to eat the cake too. Why do they feel they can determine what companies these students can or cannot contact. What right do they have to force the student to continue bullshit job reports and other trivia most of which will primarily facilitate adding the new found company to the co-ordination corporation.

If abandoning these students is an attempt ai covering up the fact that there won’t be enough jobs available for co-op students next term, then the co-ordination department should make this known in a more direct way. Let’s call a spade, a spade. We suggest to the engineers and co-op students in other faculties that they strive for the removal of the $47 fee and set up their own employment placement scheme run by students on a voluntary basis. Another possibility is that the co-ordination department remain, with students using the service on a voluntary basis for the same fee. Otherwise they could save the $47 and find their own jobs. Finally, we wwld like to offer the engineers investigating the matter the opportunity to publicize their findings on these pages.

&Revron member: Canadian university press (CUP) and undergroundpresssyndicate (UPS); subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (GINS); published tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the federation of students (inc.), university of Waterloo: content is the responsibility of the Chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration; offices in the people’s campus center; phone (519) 578-7970 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748; circulation 12,500 Digging out from under the Indian theme issue, pollution, and council reps, we want to call our spades, spades. Looking up Jim Bowman, Bob Epp (our first acclaimed grad rep), Jim Hart, Judy Freiburgher, Winnie Lang, Bill Aird, Alex Smith, Una O’Callaghan, Bruce Meharg, Andre Belanger, Pete Marshall,Ted Pimbert,John Nelson, Eleanor Hyodo,Al Lukachko, Jim Klinck, Rhonda Kemlo, Bill Aird, Ed Hale, Jeff Bennett, Steve Izma, Ross Bell, Bill Sheldon (Montreal bureau), Phil Elsowrthy, Doug Minke, all the guys that came to disrupt our sports desk on deadline night, and a hello to Brenda and Gary out in Bennett’s Columbia, and a big one out to the twenty percent of you who weren’t here to see this paper arrive.

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