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Riots follow court decision
“‘how should I know why the rents are so high at the married student housing ? I on& work here. ” says operations vicepresident AZ Adlington. On monday morning he’s going to have a meeting in his office with people in the housing OF fice and P.P. and P. to go over the expenses for the umpteenth time to see if there is yet a way to make those expensively built apartments rent cheaply. (See story on page 2).
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“If Rob Fennel wants a recount, he’ll have to do it himself,” was the conclusion that chief returning officer Kathy Dorschner came to tuesday night after close and tedious scrutiny of. the 125 ballots cast showed that he missed the fifth arts seat by a single vote. In fact, the voting was so close in tuesday’s council elections that a record low turnout of 4.7 percent gave Jennifer McDonald, who led the voting with 76, only ten more votes than Fennel. Paul Dube was second with 73, Derek Brown and Al Lukachko each polled 68, and Peter Desroches eked out the fifth seat with 67 votes. Ross Bell handily won the integrated studies seat, collecting 13 of the 21 votes cast. 40.4, percent of the 52 IS students voted.
Mike Drache received five votes, Tasso Lakas, two, and one was spoiled. There was no election in ehvironmental studies, as Morris Strasfeld withdrew monday and Rick Page was acclaimed. The Chevron had assumed it would be held on Wednesday, february. 25, and had reported it as such. But someone dug out a federation bylaw stating that council elections must be held no later than 21 days after the presidential election, which was held on february 3. An advertisement’ ‘appeared in tuesday’s paper announcing the correct date and posters were put up monday night in an attempt to correct the situation.
AMERIKA (CUPI)-Spontaneous demonstrations continued to erupt across the United States last week in the wake of convictions in the Conspiracy 8” trial here. At least 30,000 persons took part in protests thursday in ten locations across the country according to available commercial press reports. At-least 200 demonstratdrs were arrested in incidents arising from these protests. A protest rally in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre at Boston attracted 20,000 peaceful demonstrators. But in city streets, 5,marched 000 demonstrators through the business area smashing windows on their way to the Boston Common. Violence errupted when police attacked the demonstrators. At least a dozen people were arrested as ambulances hauled away the injured, including several policemen. In San Jose, California, jail guards used fire hoses to quell a protest by prisoners which began following a television broadcast about the Chicago case. At least six fires were set during the protest. Five persons were arrested from among more than 500 demonstrators who clashed with police near the Los Angeles campus of> the University of California. The protests began Wednesday by more than 7,500 persons across the U.S. after the verdict was announced in Judge Julius Hoffman’s federal courtroom the same dqy. On friday Hoffman sentenced David Dellinger , Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin to the maximum sentences of five years and a fine of $5,000 dollars each. In addition to the fines, Hoffman directed that the five.men also pay for the costs of the prosecution in the four-and -a- half-month-trial estimated to be at least $55,000. The demonstrations continued over the weekend, spreading across the border into Canada. In Toronto ,approximately 250 demonstrators splattered eggs fil& ed with red paint across the front door and official seal of the U.S. consulate on Saturday in protest against the convictions and sentences. One window was broken during the demonstration and one person,
Sherry Canipbell, was arrested on Jackson, a leader of the Southern charges of public mischief. Christian Leadership Conference, Demonstrators are currently orthat the “next conspiracy demonganizing a telephone harassment stration must be in Washington campaign against the consulate, with a million people to say, ‘no asking sympathizers to bombard more fascism, no more imperialtelephone lines with questions conism, no more capitalism.’ ” cerning the justice of the Chicago In Washington, where over 120 trial, police involvement in the were arrested ,op $ursd&y, aporiginal l-968 j “riots”, ahd U.S. ” proxim&ely a thousand dewonsovernment repression against the strators gather”ed across the street Black Panther Party. from the justice department to Also on Saturday, more than hear William Kuntsler, chief at7,000 demonstrators gathered outtorney for the Chicago defendants, side the Chicago federal building protest the convictions. Kunstler and asSistant attorney to protest the sentences, filling the Leonard Weinglass both received plaza outside the building with peaceful protest. sentences from Hoffman for contempt of court, but the two lawyThe crowd later moved to the Cook County Jail, where the coners had the sentences, stayed to continue the defence of their victed defendants are being held. clients. The crowd was told by Jesse
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OTTAWA (CUP)-In a poorlyattended referendum tuesday, februbary 17, University of Ottawa students approved the principle of compulsory student union membership, and accepted a new constitution giving less money to the
W&f accuses U.S. and Dow AMERIKA (GINS)-The U.S. Government and Dow Chemical are accused of war crimes and civil rights violations in a class civil suit (a suit filed in behalf of a group of people, in this case the citizens of the U.S., too large to name individually as plaintiffs) filed last week against Dow by the “D.C. 9” and 56 other plaintiffs in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit alleges that Dow’s sale of “chemical, biological, bacteriological, incendiary, and asphyxiatory weapons” to the U.S. Government makes Dow a war criminal under the Principles of the Charter of Nuremberg. Furthermore, the suit alleges that Dow and the-U.S. Government have “conspired to violate plaintiffs’ civil right to a lawabiding government”--ta right that the suit asks’ the court to declare to be guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment. The plaintiffs include Harvard biochemist George Wald and Yale chaplain William Sloan Coffin.
central council and more to faculty student councils. But the U of 0 administration, which councillors charged October 3 was trying to “undermine and weaken” the union by letting students register without paying student union fees, has not yet said it will go along with compulsory dues. During registration last september, the administration provided affidavit forms and a notary public to help students waive payment of union fees on the spot; “well over 3OO’T students took up the opportunity. The U of 0 itudent constitution allqws students to apply to withdraw from the union and receive a refund. In tuesday’s referendum, only 20 percent of Ottawa’s 7000 students voted 817 to 530 in favobr of automatic union enrollment. Approved in the same referendum, by a 1040 to 92 vote, was a new constitution providing for a smaller union executive and more money to student councils in different faculties. The decentralization move is seen as a partial response to charges by french-speaking students they are being swamped in the mostly-english institution. Only in a few faculties, such as social sciences, are francophone students a majority. Nearly 280 students, showing disapproval of both the old and new constitutions. spoiled their ballots.
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The housing office has recently warned prospective occupants of the married student’s residence that the rents may go up another ten dollars a month. Previously the rents were set at 125 a month for a single bedroom and 12 month lease. To this, add 10 dollars for a four month lease and 20 dollars for a double bedroom. The first rates were released prematurely because of the many inquiries about the rent rates.
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A Conversation \ on wit/7 Stanley Quebec CHEVRON-What are some of the myths that are prevalent in english Canada concerning Quebec? GREY-Well, from conversations with english speaking canadian students on one or two campuses, the. level of understanding is quite low and often there is an element of unconsciously developed racist attitudes towards Quebec, which leads to a very distorted picture. For example, a lot of people think that Quebec is a backward rural county-a big farm population dominated by the Catholic church. In fact Quebec is 85 percent urbanized, a higher percentage than exists in Ontario or anywhere else in the co.untry. The powers of the catholic church have been greatly reduced especially since the Quiet Revolution (beginning of the 60’s ) and the government’s bill 62 which abolishes all trace of church influence on the educational system. Also, a lack of information, understanding of what the independence move: ment and the National Liberation movement struggles of Quebec are all about. All the mass actions, even those that are solely centered around the national question of Quebec in the last two years, have been organized by the radical left wing. The extent that a right wing exists, it’s in the Parti Quebecois which I wouldn’t even - represent as the right wing. In I fact it is part of smooth, very , liberal, technocrats who want to *make a more progressive, indus: trializ,ed,..aa slick Quebec where $they are th.e political masters and controllers of it-otherwise -the American owned economy -they’re the right wing in’terms “of which other groups exist be‘cause the rest of them are on the left. In terms of comparison to English Canada, they’re the left of the Liberal Party of Canada, or Trudeau. There are also various elements of an unconscious racist attitude towards Quebec. They’re all a bunch of stupid reactionary backward people and nationalism, is simply a manifestation of some very fascist tendencies. This is the last thing in the world these people would say about the Black Panther movements in
the States or the blacks’ nationalist groups in the States, but in Quebec they assume, without any information that it is reactionary, which of course is the opposite of the truth. CHEVRON-What are the liberal arguments used against independence and socialism in Quebec? GREY-The argument, and the only argument used in Quebec (in Quebec I’m talking about -not outside of Quebec OK?) in Quebec against independence, which is termed separatisma perjoritive term used mostly by english speaking people against independence, is the argument of economic blackmail and the argument of an economic collapse- the big question is raised that if Quebec becomes independent there will be a flight of capital, therefore standards of living will lower and everything else-the Quebec economy will collapse. That is the only argument used in Quebec by any group against independence. Under the party, Quebecois, which proposes to increase the American investment which doesn’t want at all to nationalize but ‘it does want to when you touch Anglo-Canadian capital which is different-Rockefeller from New York has stated quite clearly that they will not oppose independence and american capital will increase. Last week James Roosevelt, from the international banking organization in Switzerland, stated exac: tly the same thing. For the Americans, you se&, investing in Quebec is like investing in Guatemala, Vietnam or Brazil-and Quebec is no more violent than any of these other countries. Secondly they won’t hecessarily oppose a French unilingual policy. They can operate in Quebec and therefore it doesn’t touch their economic interest, the dollar sign knows no language in the sense of a more modernistic American Imperialism-although it is true, and this is stated by the Party Quebecois and others, that english Canadian capital will probably flee because of the par-titular structures of anglo-canadian colonialism as opposed to the more modernized structures of American Imperialism. Those of Anglo Canadian colon-
. Grey
ialism depend on a cultural control, political control, a whole racist system, , an industry and education by which the resi-’ dent anglo-Canadian class rules Quebec and ‘therefore fantastic pulse independence feelings. But the Americans being foreign operators can operate Quebec as a branch plant economy as they operate in English Canada as a branch plant economy so I don’t think the arguments of a necessary state of economic disaster hold. Now I’m phrasing this in terms of the party Quebecois, a non socialist independence movement, if we became socialists of course, we wouldn’t want American capital. It is a completely different problem then of nationalizing industries and natural resources, using the profits of capital to build collectively a Quebec for the Quebec people. It is important to understand the development of the struggle of the Quebec people on language question and national question in the last year, to one and one-half years. That is the struggle for French unilingualism that french only be taught in schools and be used in public insitutions. Before 1968 it was very much of a minority movement, say small demonstrations of symbolic value by a small number of people. In September of 1968, in St. Leonard, we saw the first concrete victory of the movement in a suburb of Montreal; the school commission was elected with an explicit program of french unilingualism. Only a few months after, we saw 10,000 to 12,000 people in the streets for french unilingualization of a major english university -that-is McGill. Only a few months after that, in October of 1969 we saw 50,000 people in the streets of Quebec City (October 31) demanding french unilingualism in all levels-that is in industry, government, schools, with the support of the majority of french speaking people who supported french unilingualism at all levels in Quebec. They found also, that the degree of support for french unilingualism increased with the greater amount of knowledge a person had of the issues. These were clear majorities in the cases of different sectors of the working class. With the support in the common front which we had at the time, the big mass demonstrations, the student walkouts of the big labor federations of all the youth of Quebec, there were massive complete .walkouts in virtually all high schools, junior colleges and universities in Quebec. They just walked out ‘en masse’ in a spontaneous way, the whole week, as well as demonstrations throughout Quebec, not only in Montreal, but in small towns. Thousands of people ‘marching all over. (Now this shows fantastic sway in only one year). This gives the lie directly. to all the slanderous attacks and distortions found in the mass media and the government, that were just products of a bunch of extremist lunatics because. you have 50,000 in the streets -and the support, proven empirically scientifically for all your social science freaks, by the majority of the population. Then the minority, the extremist minority, is the government . The minority uses violence against ~the people and we are the majority in fact. I should stress as well that the struggle has not simply been
at the level of language and the level of race, but that it has also been in different ways at different times linked to the national struggle and class struggle as well. We had demonstrations for McGill francaise in march of 1968 or 1969. It wasn’t just for McGill francaise, but for the critical popular university the majority of the workers of Quebec rather than just the Anglo Canadian corporations that exploit the people. You look through a number of the mass actions particularly from those organized by the FLP (stands for socialist independence in Quebec). A good number of them have combined a class perspective, and a national perspective for a socialist and independent viewpoint.
During the time of the actions against bill 63, the forces of oppression were just too weak. In the mass movements in the streets, we were just stronger than they were, they could not repress. But when the decline of the movement had begun, the kids- had gone back to school again. In high schools in Montreal there were uniformed police and people were expelled everywhere. It’s now happening all over again. Political rallys are again banned and in the working class struggles, a large number of injunctions are used ’ in labor disputes and special laws produced force workers to go back to work, whether it’s the case of Vickers Shipbuilding Company which was the scene of a workers’ occupation or the Domtar strike, or the
CHEVRON-What is the nature of the oppression and how is the government dealing with it?
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GREY,The government is constantly to smash union action dealing with it-it is responding where there was militancy. to mass opposition to the govAt a general political-level, you ernment, the protest, the polsee it in the greater number of arization that’s occurring‘ by search warrants and raids, not direct repression, the only way only on the left, but in fact, in it can respond, e.g. at the level every form, in every center of of schools. After mass oceupa- 1 opposition to the present governtion of junior colleges in October ment, citizens’ committees, un1968, immediately after kids ions’ groups, student groups, evwent back to school, there were erything. Where the police go expulsions of the core left, of in,. they don’t only search for the people who were involved in things; they seize documents, it. No arbitrations, no trials, files, printing machines, books, nothing, they just told them they’ 7 leaflets, Their only goal is to couldn’t come back. They didn’t. stop the groups from functioning have a chance to go to any other as an opposition group.’ We see college or university. They were it also in the charges of sedition blacklisted in fact. The same -I being.‘used’ against a certain thing happened in January. --It number of people advocating left happened again this time agwing ideas now considered to be ainst professors in all the-schools seditious. You see it in the antiin Quebec, twenty here, thirty demonstration bylaw in Montthere, fired without any due proreal; the Association of Reni Paul cess, no hearing, no CAUT who consistantly equates terrorcrap, just purged en masse. ism with any form of legal proAt the beginning of school test activity. All to him are ilyear 196%70, political Ille$iklgS~ ~.legal a;d seditious. and rallys were banned, as well - I . . ’ as handing out leaflets, in about ’ CHEVRON-What’s the role of 85 PerCent Of -junior Colleges and the Englishspeaking left? in all the high schools. Students, GREY-Understand the liberfor simply handing out a leafation movement; explain it to let, putting up a political poster, students and workers and support or calling a meeting, were exour actions. pelled from school.
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If you feel in any way upset by the conspiracy trial, sign the petition below. and send it to professor Joel Hartt, a t the CORD office, Waterloo Lutheran Univ ersitv. If you’re in the campus center on friday or monday, you can “sign the petition that will be -Y. available at a table in the great hall. All the signatures will be collected and sent to all the elected members of both the american and Canadian governments.
This Week’s
we, the undersigned members of Canadian universities, declare our opposition to the decision of Judge Julius J. Hoffman in giving contempt sentences to the eight members of the so-called Chicago Conspiracy and to their lawyers. We declare our opposition to the Chicago jury as well: who arrived at the verdict of “*guilty” in order to be able to go home. We deny the legitimacy of a court which can sentence David Dellhtger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, and A bbie Hoffman to five years in prison each and a total of $85,000 in fines for the crime of * assembling in the streets of Chicago to denounce the war in Vietnam and the unresponsiveness of american political institutions. We object to Judge HoffmanS
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depriving one of the defendants, Bobby Sea/e, of the right to -legal counsel of his own choice and to his having Seale bound and gagged when he protested against that deprivation. We see no difference between the political trials of the writers in the Soviet Union and the trial of the Chicago Eight. We deplore the hypocrisy of a country that claims to have an independent judiciary when the courts are becoming agents of political repression. We declare our opposition to this attempt to strangle‘ free speech and to suppress the right to oppose government policy. We are proud to declare ourselves in sympathy with the defendants and their lawyers at the Chicago , ‘%onspirac y -I trial.
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ton system and that of Waterloo’s Village and Habitat. Stu Iglesias, Carleton’s student rep on the panel and president of the association stated that “the basic unit is the floor and it is at this level that most decisions in reference to visiting, drugs and pets are made.” He went on to explain the judicial policy of the residence. “We recognize society’s laws, but will neither help nor hinder their enforcement. Our job is to decide-on rules that go above those of society.” He cited as an example the drug policy. Residents have the right to choose to ignore the federal drug laws, however they may not “use or store illegal drugs in such a manner that a non-user is placed in jeopardy.” In other words if your roomate objects to your blowing dope you either find another roomate or do it elsewhere. This policy is in the minutes and is obviously too liberal a stand for an administration controlled residence. The floor at this point was opened for discussion. A student delegate from Carleton explained the rapid development of student run residences with two comments. “First we don’t worry about ‘testing’ things.
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“It doesn’t really make any difference who runs the residence.” So began a student representative from the residences at the University of Western Ontario. He and three others, one administrator from Western and a student and an administrator from Carleton, were speaking on a panel at the second symposium on university student housing, held at Waterloo last weekend. The topic of the panel was listed as “Residence goals, philosophy and government.” - The selection of Western and Carleton to the panel was no accident. The two schools represent what could be defined as the- two extremes in residence operation. Western uses what many at the symposium referred to as an archaic, obsolete system of organization. Although the elderly administrative representative from Western launched into a pompous description of their residence philosophy as “part John Stuart Mill and part Aristotle”, it became apparent that the students were quite safely under the thumb of the administration of the university. The student representative demonstrated how well the system was working. He felt quite comfortable using the rhetoric of the administration such as the residence “should be a place for social and academic interaction and a place to develop maturity and responsibility”. This phrase seemed to imply to many that the students should be in control of their environment. However this appeared to be far from the student’s mind as he went on to advocate that “a person in control is necessary; he could be either a dean or a faculty member,” implying that this is the most acceptable method of developing “maturity and responsibility.” The Carleton experiment, although it had several flaws, seemed to embody many of the ideas expressed by most people attending the symposrum. The residents elect an executive body. Everyone involved in the residence, administration, cleaning staff, residents, etc. is a member of the Residence Association and has a vote in the executive elections. Decisions of the association are made in plenary sessions not by a representative council. This is the major difference between the Carle-
have been overlooked in their appeal for funds. F.J.P. French, director of student housing, Ontario student housing corporation, admitted that “the government has some fear of co-op housing as they are not as firm financially as a university. Someone has to meet the mortgage paymems.” Adelman put this statement in a slightly different context by saying the money “goes to the university because the government knows and trusts them.” He called for an assessment of priorities, suggesting that government housing funds should perhaps be divided between ‘old age pensioners, lower income groups and students with the first two getting the bulk of the monies. This led to a discussion of a community approach to student housing where the needs of all three groups could be met by a single complex. It was reported that this approach was now being used with some success in Sweden. Adelman stated that “by co-ordinating student life styles and building techniques the national housing problem can be solved within the present Canadian economy. Jim Small, a representative from the Ontario University Presidents Committee’s sub-committee on student housing, reported that the sub-committee had come to the realization that there is “no one ideal residence. There are probably four kinds.” He also said that they were considering the possiblilty of constructing buildings with a projected life of only twenty years “that would be quite literally scrapped after that time.” This would tend to lower the present cost of $6,000 plus per bed that is the average price of this year’s residences. Adelman claimed that this cost could also be lowered by a reassessment of present student life styles. “A two bedroom apartment can be built for approximately $14,000 and would house four students which makes the cost $3,500 a bed.” In general, the move seems to be away from Western’s style and towards that of Carleton. It was felt that students should be in control of their housing. This was evidenced by the deci&on that the delegations to next year’s symposium must be selected on the basis of two students to one administrator.
F.J.P. Frexh, “Someone has to meet the mortgage pay men ts If it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. Secondly, we have a director of housing services we call Norm and a dean of men we call Vic.” The effect of this latter point was demonstrated in that the Western student rep referred to his administrators as “Doctor” and “Professor.” A new tone was brought to the discussion by Howard Adelman, assistant dean of Atkinson College at York. He suggested that the group should “get beyond the power struggles. It is inevitable that the students will gain control.” “The contradictions in the system, whereby decisions of design etc. are made by non-users (the Board) and forced upon the users, will soon no longer be tolerated by the users.” ’ At another session, entitled planning, construction and financing, - Adelman went back to his call for consumer run residences. “There is a change in the life style of students” he said. The move is in the direction of co-operative residence. He criticized the government’s financing system as it has not dealt with this problem, merely stepped over it. Student co-operative groups
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The Palestinian Liberation organisation comprises several commando groups who are fighting Israel on Palestinian soil. They ,are exclusively A,rabs. They ali speak Arabic, they were all born ‘on Arab soil and all have one aim. The only difference between them is that they are Moslems, Christians and a product of intermarriages between Moslems, Christians and in some cases Jewish. The P.L.O., with Al-Fateh the largest group, are ordinary people like any others in this world with families and friends, and have at one time or another occupied a full time job, technicians, clerks or,university students and others. Al-Fateh leader and the leader of the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat, was an engineer and a’holder of two degrees. Dr. George Habash, a Christian Palestinian and the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a physician . Today, the P.L.O. has a large number of university students who have either left their professions or studies to stand for tihat they believe in. What is u&que about these young people is that they are perfectly willing to die for the Palestinian cause. What is unique about Fateh is that it does not have any plans for what type of political ideology which would be adopted when liberation is achieved. It is more likely that it will be neither the American type of capitalism nor the Russian, model of socialism. Most of the other groups are socialists. Fateh’s philosophy is that liberation comes first. The main difference between Fateh and the Popular Front is that the latter -believes in fighting Zionism anywhere in the world, while Fateh believes in fighting it on Palestinian soil.
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munity whose preoccupation is to till the land and turn the desert into a garden of eden. Prior to. 7938, the Zionist organization was anxious to get people of the jewish faith into Palestine. Many Europeans did believe that the land was without people and came to Palestine after they hadsold everything in their countries. The Western immij grants were put into various parts of the’country as a fighting I ::~.:::~&::.,::: ..i ....__ ::.,.. :,_,x.,“.““v’,,.:.: )’.,.,:::,,: .., .,.. “..... :...:.:c.:c.:f~~::~~ .A... ,.,.. . . . . . . . . . . . ...)..... ,_,,,,,,_ ~.:~:~~:~:~~:~:.:~::::::~::~:::~~::::~.:::,::.:~:.~ .A ““.. ‘. ‘..:‘:‘:‘.~..~‘.:~,:,‘.:.:.~.::..,~.:.: .::: y ..:.:., ., i L “‘““‘.“‘“..~~.:::.:..~~.:~.:.: ,. ,, _ 5;: :.::::.y ,~~ .,:,..,.,,,,,:,: . . . . i,. . :.::.:< “I( _ ~,,~, :,.;.,,,.::,:, _ /,,. 2: _ _,_ r~, ,, _ .,,,_,,.,_, I _ ,.. ‘.+-’ ..:.:.:‘..~~~~~~~::.:~::~:~~~~.~~. ~~~...~~~~~~~~~~~~?~~~;~~ .:.:.:..,:,.. :(;;~;;&&~;~ force against the natives. 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B y the middle 0 f the 7930 ‘s, -“~.‘.~‘~‘~‘a ....:.:.:.;;.. ,,._ .,..‘,.,., __ .~, .,,_ .fi.;.:.:.:.: __ ....,, :.:...:.:. ‘.....~.~:‘:.:.~~~~~:~:::::.:~::::~:...:.~.:.:~.:~ ..:.::.:.::~~.:.::::.:::::~::::I .._.. ..,c ....“......,.,.,.,.,,,;,,;~~,,,,., .........,.,. ...:. ..... ....,.,.r..... ./.,,., ...<,;,i ii...A ,:;.,, :,;..,.,_,,, ::,x:::::. .,:: __ 5’Z”‘.‘x’.. ‘+:‘.-.= s............ ...xn,. ,:. <g:$&:: .-: :c.:::+ ...~.........“,... there was a considerable number of Ashkinazim and a growing Palestinian resistance that it was necessary for the Zionist leaders / to change their tone! The new propaganda slogan became: “there are Jews in the ‘Land of Israel’, meaning Palestine, who need your help; they are fighting against the Go y, meaning Arabs.” It was not a successful campaign, however. When the Nazis started their extermination campaign against the jewish Germans and Europeans, the zionists were very happy. It was a golden opportunity which they must not miss. It was very logical that a german, who had a great piide in his country, to listen to the> Zionists, once his country failed him. The illegafimmigration promoted by the jewish agency (an arm of Zionism) caused much friction between the british administration and , (r. Zionism. By now it should be clear that neither piety nor the culture passed. from one-generation unto another which motivated the ingathering of the Jews-Zionist style. It was the horrible persecution of Jews in the West which facilitated the achievement of the Zionist aims. In the so-called St&e of Israel, today, there are more than 80 different languages. The kibutzim serve as fortifica-‘ tions against possible danger from’ the natives, and places of indoctrination and orientation for those Jews who are brought from various parts of the world. The moroccan Jew who is brought over with as many as twenty sons and daughters and three wives is an Arab not ready yet to live in a society with western ideals. The culture, customs and .traditions, much talked about, are not really there. The kibutz and the army are two ways of assimilating new comers.
The P.L.O. is a product of misery, injustice, poverty, oblivion, frustration, and the failure of the ,U.N. to implement its resolutions concerning the Palestinian refugees. This is in the 20th century, but such movements could? be traced as early as 8000 years ago. The- Palestinians have been militant people since the beginning of history. The conditions which prevailed at any time in their histoyry rebuired them to be so. The geography of Palestine has always been a boon as well as a disadvantage to its people. Lying between the Mediterranean in the West, Misopotamia in the East, Syria in the North and the Arabian peninsula in the South, Egypt to the South West, it was of literally the centre of the ancient world. Across its plains and valleys have marched the invading armies of many nations. Many of these armies left behind records of their presence. Today in Palestine, many places where Canaanite,cities, Biblical sites, Greek and Roman ruins, Byzantine Churches, Crusaders castles and Islamic palaces and shrines, still rem&n. It was the Phillistine who gave it its present name. P.L.O. is a resistance to just another invading army. The old invaders were gone or assimilated while the people of Palestine remained there, loyal to the land on which they have fought throughout the ages, an’d which was opulent with its trade and agriculture. In 79 7 6, there was an agreement between Britain and the Arabs which gave the Arabs an incentive to fight. By this agreement, England guaranteed the Arabs independance on condition that they fight the Turks from within, while Britain was fighting from without. As all honest people do. the Arabs fulfilled their part of the deal, while as all imperialist powers Britain did not. lnstead, Britain, by the Balfour declaration (nov. 2, 79 7 7) promised the Zionist leaders to give them Palestine as a national home for the Jews.
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Until the 19205, the Arabs did not know-about the Balfour declaration, they did not even know about the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France to divide Arabia among them. (may 79 7 6). A bit of resistance started when heavy jewish emmigration made itself felt in Palestine. This emmigration was engineered by the Zionists made possible with the assistance of Britain. These people were either ex-british ‘army officers and soldiers or eastern European Jews with guns. In order to’ ensure the implementation of its promise, England appointed Herbert Samuel, a prominent Zionist, as a governor geqeral in Palestine. Between 79 7 7 and 7948, the jewish population increased from 56,000 to 600,000, with the Ashkenazim
During the period between 79 7 7- 7948, events were recorded in the West different from what has really happening in the Arab east. The peoples of the West were $old that Palestine was a desert where very few Arab nomads lived. Even today, things are not clear yet. Many people think that a kibutz is an agrarian com-
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The reader might by now ask* . “where does P.L.O. fit into this long story. 7” The-answer is that they are a second generation of Palestinian resistance in the 20th century. Many of them are the sons and daughters of the old feda yeen who resisted British occupation and Zionist plans and atrocities in 7920, 79-29, 7933, 7936- 7939 and 7940’s, although among them are‘ some who fought in the late 7940’s. By .7940, through terror, the Jewish National Council (Vaad Leumi) has become an imperium in imperio. Shortly after the General Assembly of the U.N. adopted its resolution of november 29 7947 to partition Palestine (whose chief lobbyist was Lester Pearson), the British government announced ’ its intention of withdrawing its troops and administration from the country on may 75, 7948. The Zionists used the six months period between the two dates to seize as much of ihe country as they could befdre the British left and thereby confront the world with ;i fait accoTpli. One good way_ of doing that wa4 by terrorism. For example, ihe Deir Yassin massac.ce, 250 old men, women and children were rounded up and killed in cold blood while the young men were either in the fields or in nearby Jerusalem. One day before the evacuation of the British troops, Israel was proclaimed. The fedayden of Palestine found them&elves oyerwhelmed by the advancing Zionist .forces, while the inhabitants fled crying “Deir Yassin “. The Zionist forces consisted of lawless unscrupulous men many of whom were fighters under the British flag. They made sure that most of the british arms and amunitions were stolen before evacuation. Spitfire planes were stolen from England in the same manner the gun boats were recently stolen from France, except that the planes bombed Cairo on their *way to Palestine. The years which folio wed were dark for the Palestinians.. They had hoped that they would return hoye peacefully. Afterall the proclaimed state of Israel agreed to let’them back or compensate them. On the other hand those who knew the bitter truth about the real intentions of the Zionists were oppressed by Britain which remained in Jordan till the mid 7950’s. Many Palestinians here
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claimed to the rest of the world that they would be willing to let the. refugees back but they did not have any intentions of doing so. They also ignored the UN. resolutions. Consequently, the Palestinians decidea to fight their way back. During the dark days of 1956 Al-Fateh was born. The only trouble was that the conditions were different then. The Arab host countries were not, under any circumstances, willing to allow the Palestinians to take up arms. It would have been abortive to them and the Palestinians. So, Fateh remained an idea until January 1, 1965. That day a few men carried out their first operation. They swore allegiance to Palestine and they offered their lives as a price for the return of the Palestinians. To show their angeragainst such activities, the ‘Zionists just moved deep into Jordan and simply destroyed the village of Sammu. This incident was the second occasion on which the outside world have heard of Fateh. The first time Fateh’s name was revealed to the North American and European press was with the capture of the first Fateh member; Hrjazi was a sergeant in the Jordan Army then joined Fateh. He got life imprisonment for going home to Palestine. If conditions were bad prior to June 1967, they became impossible after. That date marked the determination of the Palestinians ~ to die on the soil of Palestine rather than live in a refugee camp. To the Zionists, this development in the Middle East was unexpected. For 20 years they have been telling the world that simply there were no Palestinians. Now, the P.L.O. is regarded by many as a defiant force in the area. The U.S. defense state department includes P.L.O. in its calculations.
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ing allegiance to the Zionists. The support to the P.L.O. among the educated people in the U.S. and Canada’is giving Zionism and the U.S. a good reason for night irritation. Whenever the G.l.s in Vietnam? are irked by the guerillas, they turn to the villagers for revenge. My Lai received much publicity ” recently. The environmental punishment, a concept developed by Moshe Dyan, is no less cruel. However, the Israelis have been very successful and quick in razing with bulldozers the villages of YaIo, Ertas, Beit Nuba, Halhoul and the Moroccan quarter in the old city of Jerusalem, and others. Prior to the 1967 war, Israelis were trained in Vietnam on Vietnamese human guinea pigs. At that time, Al-Fateh did not have training bases in Jordan so they were trained by North Vietnam.
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Haganah was originally (1880’s) a group of guards who used to protect the jewish property at night in case thieves came around to steal. This was the reason Zionism gave to justify their presence. Actually, it was the military arm of Zionism. Stern gang and lrgun were two other arms which ecologists developed for the Zionists. These two groups were simply terrorists, criminals and professional thieves. It was lrgun which committed the massacre of Deir Yassin, whose leader, Menachim Beigin is novi/ a member of the Cabinet. If you put the three groups on a (Zionist) scale, Haganah would be in the centre and the other two on the left. However, the three organs were equally responsible for acts of terror. Once a British court sentenced a member of these gangs for carrying illegal activities, they went to the beach, grabbed the first two English soldiers and hanged them tot death in retaliation. Since the P.L.O. and the Viet Cong are regarded as similar it The P.L.O. was never engaged in such activities, furthermore, would be proper to compare them. The Viet Cong as many know, their actions are directed against the army and installations. The is a name’given to those who are resisting the American presence 1 P.L .O. has never rounded up a village and killed its inhabitants. in the southern part of Vietnam and the corrupt regime there. It When the news are transmitted to North America about an atis also known that North Vietnam has a coalition government with the communist party as the strongest. North Vietnam is giving ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tack against a kibutz, it would be against a fortification not a .:::::.,‘.‘::‘:‘..” . . . . . . .,.__ . . ..‘.......‘......~.~.,,,.,.,,,~~~~ : * ~.+:+:xc-z ‘.:.:.....:...::::::f:~:::~ . . . . x.:.:.:.: ‘~:~“:::“‘:.“‘::~:‘:‘:‘:‘:‘:‘~ . . . . . . ..~.~.~...~.~....,. ,,.‘..,.“.:;.,,,. ‘...‘...‘2..... _ ,._ __ . . ..-..............__.~...,,,~,,.,,~~::; . _ _ _, (;i:,.,:,..,., ,, ,(,, ,, ‘ ~ ‘ ~ “ ‘ ~ ~~~~~‘ ~ ~~‘ ~ ~‘ ~ ‘ ~ ~‘ ~ ~~‘ ~ ~ “-.‘i.:..: . . . . ..“.............~.~.~.~..‘.~.~.~.~ :,:,: ,.,,,.,.;;,,...,,,,,,.,.,:,:. ....‘.‘...““VI ““i ‘?T ..‘........,T....’ .i......... ‘A:.::,:...: ,.:.:.:::..:;, >;,:,: ,:..’ (“.,.,,:,:,:,..,.:.:.:.: :,,,:,:,:,:,:.:.:,:.:.:.:,,,:,:,:,:,:,:... __ ..,_:\,,: ““~2?.~ ‘I:...‘::~~(:.:‘..~.‘:....:.:.:.:.... .:+.<. “‘~:i(.:~:.~‘..~.~ ‘C,.._ . . . ..A...A%. .i.............,., ,.:.,,.,.;_ ,., _ ;,;.j.; ,,“;_ ::,:.:,:,,,:,:,;:,:;;:.: ‘i%‘. ......~.‘‘.“...‘.‘.‘.’ ..A.’..‘:.‘~.’..“‘i.‘.““~:‘:..... ..,........,;; ,.....’ dwelling. Usually such news are twisted around in order to mis“‘6. ::“~‘.“~“~~.~.~.~.~.~.‘.‘I’..,.,.,............,..........,.,...,.,.,.,.~~.,~.~~~.~,, i ‘... “:...‘........‘......i’ ‘..a”._X. ‘_..‘.‘.“.‘.... “‘~‘....;‘.‘:‘:‘..‘.’ ““‘:‘:.:.:.~:,:~.~..:::~~:~,:::.:,::.:::~ ::::.:.:.::::,:.:,:,:,:,: “’ :::::::‘;::::::::: ‘““,,:,:,:,:,:,:.:,:,:; moral and material aid to the guerilla. ..‘.-“A” “““:‘:‘:‘: ...... ,:,:: :.:.,.:.:.. :.:.:.:.,:,:::: 8,::::::.:.:,: :.:,: :::.:~::~~:s~~~ ~:~:~:=.=::::$?::::.~~>:.: ::,:.:.:::.:::::; ..in: ..._..L .:.:.:.:<.:.:.:.+ ..~..,,.,.,.,.,.,,.;~ ,:.:.:,:,::::::.:.:.:.j:i’: _ :.,.:: ,,,,, _, .‘,‘:~,‘.:.~:‘:.:..:, ‘” ::“:.:.:.:.:.:t.:~.:-.:.:.:.:.::::::::~.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.::::~:::.~:::::::::.::::,~,~ :::::::::.:.:.:,;,:,:,.. i3,,~~~~~,:,,~~(~.,,,.,.~.,.,.‘~., .,:,:,:,:,: .,:.:.:,:,:. _,, / Among the p.L.0. there are ,.,o ,eommunists and they are not SO ‘~~~~~~~~~~~~~. lead the people of the West. .‘Z. .‘.‘.‘V..... . ‘-;i ....‘.,.~.,,,,,~z ,,,_. ),. ::.,,:,.,:,:.:.....,,:.. ““2=v.G% .‘.~‘:‘:‘:.::.:.~.;:.:.~:.;:.:.:..:~~ i1::I:.:.:.:...: :__ ...1,. I/.,.._ ::,.,,) ,~..,.,,,_,, ,. ‘~~.~.~::,.::,,:“-: ...‘.‘. .:‘,,fi .....):......: ..,.,., ._ ,,_,_ ;:$$.:.:y.y.; :.:.3:.:.:.x .....“” .d... .,.... ....~....“‘.‘..:::.~..‘::““....‘...~:~~,.:.:.:~..::::::~~::.::: . .._,__ It will be a long time before the people in the west are properly much encouraged by the governments of Jordan and Lebanon, informed about the true part of the’ Middle East story, it will,take to say the least. They are not allo wed to operate from Syria and many innocent lives before the awakening of the world consciousEgypt. The P.L.03 aim is not to drive anyone into the sea but to ness. This is a part the tragic story of the Palestinian people with allow the refugees to go back. However, they are resisting Zionstill many uncovered dimensions in the Zionist conspiracy. ism and American imperialism because of the fact that Zionism is operating in the Middle East with the help of the U.S. No U.S. preRamzi Twal is an economics student at the University of Watsident or senater can win without the ‘Jewish vote’: Zionism will i,nvolved with the Canadian arab student aserloo. He i.s have to give the candidate a laissez passer, but not until swearsociation.
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Chevron staff The arts faculty council decided on tuesday feb 10 not to continue alto wing the arts students to take mechanical engineering loo for credit. The course is considered an easy pass by the engineering students and it remains a mystery that the engineering faculty council al/o ws its students to take it for credit. This course is better known as R. G. R. Lawrence Q.C. s corporate law course. The final exam was held in the big lecture hall in the engineering sub where the classes are held and a multiple choice exam was handed out and completed by the class amidst a dull roar of voides interchanging so/u tions. The real exam was more of a farce than the critical university exam passed out ten minutes earlier (reproduced below) *** It was about the middle of last fall when a group of students identifying themselves as “‘crito tical university ” paid a visit one of R.G.R. LawrenceS law classes. Their purpose was not to provide excitement, nor was it to create a disturbance for its own sake. Instead they went in to see rf certain rumors they heard about the class were true. Here’s what they found. The average person in the Class found the lessons very exciting amusing. L a wrence and very created this kind of atmosphere scattering inserting jokes, by them liberally between bits and pieces of legal information. They found the course very appealing because as an engineering student put it, “Its an easy credit; all you have to do is memorise a few facts and give them back on the exam. * But the delegation from critical university did not find Lawrence very amusing. They found that once the jokes were pushed aside Lawrence propagated an ideology that was not very appealing and definitely not very funny. Lawrence talks about what the law says in print and not about l
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’ 1) The purpose of this course is : a) To groom the up and coming young businessman to avoid the spirit of the law by the law’s letter. b) To groom the up and coming .young businessman to create the correct spirit of the law. c) To confuse the up and comL ing young businessman on the spirit and letter of the law so as to make more work for lawyers. 2) The trouble with Canada today is: a) Too little government. b) Too much government. c) Just enough government. 3. If a picketer is hit by the pigs he is entitled to: a) Bleed. b) Be arrested for defacing
the up and what the law is in practice. He feeds his students fact after fact in such a way as to give mental indigestion so that when examination time comes around the student, who by now is overstuffed with legal points, readily vomits the information on the examination paper. His lectures are designed not to stimulate any discussion on such questions as why the law exists, whose interest does it serve, or why it is necessary. One could argue that before we can answer these questions it is necessary to know what the law says. Yet it would seem clear that without critically analysing law we would be subjecting ourselves to accepting the letter of the law and to avoid its spirit. Furthermore the absence of critical analysis can only have the effect of producing blind acceptance. That is to say that the overall effect that such a course can have on students can only be to accept the law as it is without question. On certain occasions Lawrence has displayed a definite amount of ignorance. Two incidents which particularly come to mind are his misconceptions about women’s role and his ignorance of the concept of socialism. On several occasions Lawrence has equated ‘too much government’ with socialism. He was very concerned that government was already meddling too much in the affairs of private citizens and private corporations..; .and he called this socialism. In Lawrence ls view the trouble with Canada to-day is too much government or in other words too much socialism. It is well beyond the scope of this article to explain what socialism is in theory and in practice. But it will be sufficient to say that it does in no way involve governments meddling in peoples private affairs. It does however involve control of production for the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of a minority who happens to own controlling interests of a few fac-
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tories. Socialism also involves a different style of life. Community among people is the key to destro ying the artifical barriers which isolate men from one another. This is possible within the frame work of socialist political economy where production is controLled for the benefit of all so that in order to exist one need not be infringing on someone elses rights and so ‘that everyone can realize his abilities to the fullest without worrying about financial burdens. On the question of women Lawrence propagates a typical exploitative attitude to wards
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Engineering public property by bleeding on it. c) Change his mind to become a scab and receive police protection. 4. Justice is: a) Legalistic. b) Idealistic. c) Chauvinistic. 5. Women should: a) Be kept barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen. b) Be kept barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen (and horizontal). c) Revolt against male supremacy. 6. Canada is an independent legal jurisdiction. This means: a) General Motors of Canada Ltd. is a fine, upstanding Canadian corporate citizen. b) Little or nothing. c) Canadians fight freedom
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This article, originally titled Dreaming in the beds of academe: the Rochdale experience, is reproduced from the current winter issue of This magazine is about schools, Toronto.
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ST BTEMENTOFTHE “Rochdale council urges selling experimental college. ” And the government replied in the house: “We would consider -taking over the building, but we feel we would need several butterfly nets and a couple of white coats to clean up the mess.”
Later in the day John Bradford, Big Daddy of the Rochdale council, desk the following memo:
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“‘In view of the present situation, I think security should have uniforms. Each member of security should have a white coat and a butterf/y net. -Edward Walsh Security ”
There were more memos and phone calls that wintry november 13. Ab Campbell, now chairman of Toronto’s metro council, called offering to buy the place for a nursing home. The other ‘offers to purchase’ are inflated, but Campbell still says, brisk. ly, “I think we can match that.” Bradford wanders out of his office and wonders out loud why the city of Toronto wants to buy the place a week before the election. He floats down the hall. There are freshly-painted signs on the door proclaiming “Long live free Rochdale.” Such exuberance. Such solidarity. The building is in catharsis. Everyone gathers round to save it from its demise. But Bradford, having been on this trip before, shakes his head, “The only ones who want this building are the university students who like a groovy place to live. Rochdale is not the building. We could save Rochdale and lose the building. ” Which may be true. Rochdale is the much-proclaimed 18 storey free university built on a prime spot of land near the University of Toronto. It houses 850 people, many of them students or hippies from a rather disintegrated hip community which used to -gather several blocks away from the building. In the beginning the focus of Rochdale- was on education projects and community living, but recently, as Bradford, past chairman of Rochdale’s council, bemoans, money and energy is now being poured into “saving the building” from a major financial crisis.
The roots Rochdale’s been in continuous metamorphosis since it was dreamed up in the winter of ‘65 by a men who had built an empire of co-op student housing in Toronto. Having lobbied for a change in the national housing act to free up financing for new co-operative residences, they had constructed a four-storey co-op in Waterloo in 1965. Plans for a similar project d.eveloped in Toronto; a project much grander in scale, and even in the drawing stages remarkably daring for Toronto.
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Projects this swinging were only supposed to happen in Vancouver or Montreal. Negotiations were made with a big Toronto developer for the purchase of land just one block from the University of Toronto. At the same time another group emerged-a conglomeration of old co-opers, liberal profs from the U. of T. and a smart cynical peace-movement radical who was to leave before the building opened. Profoundly dissatisfied with the university, they sat in the high-ceilinged living-room of an old co-op house and talked of the possibility of turning Rochdale, the high-rise residence into Rochdale the free university. Seeing the multi-university as an institution which compartmentalized knowledge’ which inhibited learning through its structures of grades, degrees and large classrooms, they dreamt of Rochdale as the true liberal college. By ‘liberal education’ I mezint any study which liberated a person from unreflecting reliance on the assumptions, structures, models, categories that he had soaked up from his family, school, church and society. It encouraged him to steep himself so deeply in a discipline-philosophy, say, or economics or theology-that his mind and imagination came to recapitulate the structures and categories and models that inhered in that discipline; at that point his mind had a new order accessible to it--not as an object of .study, but as itselfwhich cast things in a new perspective. And it brought him through the educational proCeSSeS-f Saw them in terms of an idealized Oxbridge education: immersion in the subject, testing conclusions against the mind of a tutor, re-jmmersj& jn the subject-by which that initial liberation could be repeated and extended as he pushed into new disciplines, or deeper @to one which became his vocation. (from “Getting to Rochdale,” Dennis Lee) ..
But others in the group didn’t share those hopes. They didn’t see themselves as scholars or intellectuals. Instead of an institution trying to live up to the image of a “community of scholars,” Rochdale to them was to be an umbrella for writers and artists who would gather around them a group of likeminded people and “.do their own thing.” They saw the education part of the college in the communal living and operation of the building. And they talked of a sculpture workshop set up by a Hungarian refugee and of the coach house press, which using old hand-set type had produced some beautiful books, posters and postcards. But in arguing their different positions, it became clear that basic to the clash was a difference in temperament. The liberals, articulate’ cool and earnest, angered the others who argued hotly and passionately for their position. They continued to meet all that year, ‘67 and ‘68, their membership increasing from a dozen in early
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The momentum of bc and the education comrr home along Bloor stree bulldozer chopping a hl time, the spring of 1968 groups involved in the, group, the education car To some it looked like 2 In the Rochdale contex blend of friends with a 1 started to appear on b seminars on “joyful cap been the ‘prime mover claimed a-s the “new could use the tricks of i ings and money to be u sive ends. The spirit of the planning and the fir! was relaxed and hopefur began to expand as the announced Rochdale as college in north America But then people start The developer who was was far behind his COI+ that many of the rooms i The managerial staff 1 bout and start sending o double up or find a1te-m; first month. And the ed, seen Yorkville, Toror’d bury, subjected to inten: summer of 1968, realii were going to congrega Rochdale’s warm buildil size of the building beta floor after floor. And so 1 herent community out hippies, radical activisl who were preparing to rr It didn’t help that the certain solidarity amo group argued vehement. eurs had set up Rochdai tion only because they tax rebates that way. kn who had had a difficult 1 op at Waterloo, advoca space in the building fo old houses that campus tique of Rochdale as a grown so much that the the building and into a p lems most hadn’t bargail
Middle-class? Many of the .problem, building. High-rises arc volve a hidden social cos vandalism and robberies middle-class people, the: selves so visibly, for UI maintenance men and se the chores that housewti do. Instead of each fam walk, taking out the gal children out the windo--transfer themselves imy They become services, b( not simply the number of gether in these complext the lack of imagination ned. The draw-backs of hi& Rochdale. The number ( corridors, elevator lobbic plenty of ‘ ‘dead-space’ ’ throw cigarette butts. college, brightened only shaped in a sideways L -? by the two wings of the I of gum and cigarette wra The architects got stuc some imaginative room other elements of tradi militated against cornF1 elevator was at war with floor communes because vertical central street. I decision-making body fo sides it was a street,.whi zons to its inhabitants, clc Even as you wandered September day, it was ( where you could rent a months there was no cer wicket. For some reaso broadloomed splendour, 1 floor. The whole floor hd! ar rooms, publishing pro, as; most never material way up, the different ser a little more obvious.
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he management group e picked up as, walking ley peered at the large In the ground. By this zre were three or four ling-the management ttee and the architects. terlocking directorate. was considered a nice f special talents. Signs tin boards announcing ” and the men who had the project were acepreneurs, ” men who system to create buildfor joyful, non-represold houses where both lar program took place 2 visions of the building advertising brochures largest experimental 0 get a little nervous. istructing the building In date despite the fact lready been rented. ,o do a complete turna&ices asking people to accommodation for the ion committee, having niniature Haight-AshIlice harassment in the that the street-people large numbers inside ‘o both groups the very ,eal as workmen added he task of making a coie volatile mixture of id university students in. thdale people lacked a themselves. A small at the new entreprenan educational institud get [ederal building :ew like Judy Ramsay, rience at a similar cotrading the education ,ms and studios in the 1 owned. But the mystt free university had letus swept them into f administrative probor.
Even the names of the rooms suggested something exotic. If you were wealthy, straight or stable you might be tempted into an Aphrodite or Zeus suite, rather typical one and two bedroom apartments located in the west wing of the building. The more exciting rooms were on the other side. The Ashram, like a university residence, consisted of eight rooms, a washroom, a living-room and kitchen. The Franz Kafka and Gnostic Chambers had a double and single room, a washroom and in the former, a kitchen. No one cared if single men and women shared the same rooms. A girl offered herself as a chaste housewife and psychiatrist in exchange for someone paying the rent on her Gnostic. The 14th floor organized themselves into a commune and interviewed each person the rental department wanted to put on their floor. One of the 4th floor Zeus suites was the Rochdale nursery school until the lawabiding provincial government said you couldn’t have a nursery on the 4th floor. In the spirit of “Death of a bureaucrat” nearly everyone had negotiated an individual rental policy. And no record existed of all these exceptions. So when the rental manager left for a farm in B.C., the whole office was to be thrown into chaos. The cleaning crew was suffering the same disorganization. They started by discovering that the storage space for equipment was grossly inadequate and that the budget allowed for cleaning was half of what it should have been. They also developed a rather unsuccessful work arrangement where residents would do a job in return for a meal ticket. If the fellow who was cleaning the 14th floor happened to catch a lunch with a friend, the cleaning crew was minus one worker. They began these administrative procedures in a jungle of concrete and window frames. When the first ten floors of the building opened, the glass in the windows wasn’t installed and you would get out of the bath to find a construction man putting the finishing touches to the baseboards in the hall. Psychologically and financially it gave the building a bad start. But despite all the tiresome administrative problems, some exciting workshops and seminars were meeting. Theater Passe Muraille, which like the coach house press had existed before Rochdale, was developing some good actors. As one of the Rochdale calendars described it: They function in and out of the Bloor Street building with a startling corn bination of professional standards and amateur excitement. Improvisations are likely to occur anywhere in the building at disconcertingly unlikely times. The groups first production was a 3-night (till the fire marshalls heard about it) subbasement production of Tom Paine; their second one was a production of Futz at the Central Library Thea-
ter, which made Toronto legal history when the mar: ality bureau decided to serve obscenity summonses on the entire cast as well ‘as director and producers at each performance. The play was greeted as an “impressive performance - by first-night, pre-bust critics, and “as the arrival here in Toronto of the new theatre” afterwards. l
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Also, the Indian institute which spread itself out on the 17th floor became, during the year, a major clearing-house ,for information on Indian activities across the country. Young Indian kids wandered round the halls or sat on the sculpture outside. Most, new to the city, had either read some,publicity on Rochdale or had been steered to the institute by friendly contacts in social agencies. Conferences and T-groups with Indians, ministers and probation officers provided a cultural confrontation whose shock value was enhanced by the anxiety produced by the filthy washrooms. The more academically-oriented projects didn’t fare so well. Most of them had been-inspired by Dennis Lee, an intense humanist scholar, a refugee from the University of Toronto. Lee, a Toronto poet and publisher, had come to Rochdale because of slowly dawning realization that the university to which he had committed his life was a lie. ,’ Though I still couldn’t articulate it, sitting there removed from the seminar and Yeats, I knew that things made sense from this perspective, the university as a fraud. For when you looked at it as an academ y fallen away from its own ideal of liberal education and struggling to find its way back or ahead. it just didn’t add up- there was too much that was downright loone y. Yet viewed as a different kind of animal, one that had come to mantiest ,a different style of education, a different set of goals, a different ethos, a different logic, dMerent procedures, the university was a thoroughly intelligible place. It merely had little to do with what used to be called ‘university. It was this shift of focus that had stymied me for so long-the shift to recognizing that the university was functioning quite adequately, but in a different educational universe from the one I thought it occupied. I had kept on asking why no one shot the puck, but it was easy: we were all playing basketball.
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room, after a class, Lee would carefully .and critically go over a Rochdaler’s poem or short story. Apprehensively, Lee and Mackenzie and others who were “resource people” for seminars, watched over the small faltering efforts, waiting somewhat cynically for kids to break out of their freeze and start reading and writing seriously. They waited and waded through masses of flowery, drifting poetry for some poets with “power and clarity to their writing. But few people read the books on Heidegger and Hegel and Laing that they came together to discuss every week. Resource people who wanted to connect the wisdom of the Hegelian dialectic with the kids’ own experience, who wanted to draw something out of their own middle class perceptions, realized that there was little valid experience on which the kids could draw-no cop-chasing, no blackness. Middleclass Canada and its school system had provided a fragmentation of knowledge so important that kids skipped every three lines they read and judged resource people so harshly that only the most swinging could survive. The concept of “mastering” certain books or philosophies was alien to the new Rochdale residents. Their orientation was toward sensual, bodily kinds of activities. The- projects that gathered and kept them were the creative arts-batiking, photography. As any creative project does, it narrowed their vision and concentrated it on something tangible like a leather purse or belt. It was reflective, unfrenzied work, but it did not require as a prerequisite some experience in the world. The older people involved in the project had shared this need to be reflective, but the gap of 10 years between them and the kids had meant that they had experienced and reacted to a non-reflective society in a different way. They hated their high schools and universities, too, with their fragmentation of knowledge, six subjects and six exams. They hated the image of a tough, competent businessman or lawyer that they were expected to emulate. But they were, unlike the Yorkville and Rochdale kids, in a twilight zone, between their parents who remembered the depression so vividly and the teenagers who were hitchhiking to pop festivals all across the country. Instead of joining a business or smoking grass, these people devoted themselves to a pursuit of truth and they chased it with the same rigorous competence that businessmen twenty years ago had built their businesses.
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types and a different assortment of presses. In the centre is a designing area with layout desks, plastic triangles and paraphernalia. The ceiling is low, the walls are painted in bright colours and all over are posters, poems and postcards, some dug up and copied from old art books at the central library. Long-haired,. bespectacled Rochdalers walk around, setting type, making plates-with a sense of order and neatness that defies the categorization of sloppy hippies. There is a quiet deference to Stan Bevington, the man who started the press. He wanders about in his blue denim smock, and usually answers questions with “Well, try it. What do you think will happen?” Or he’ll startle you by suddenly looking at the tube of ink you’re using and the paper you’re about to print on, saying, “The acid content of that paper is much too high. We’ve been given a bum lot of paper.” And sure enough a week later, the load of paper will come back from Domtar or some other company with profuse apologies. Upstairs, the atmosphere completely changes. The lights are dim. The walls are lined with books the coach house has printed, like Signs of Life by Toronto photographer Tom Wakayama, or a History of America by Bill Hutton. You creep around Victor, a poet-printer who is having a philosophy class at the orange picnic table. In the corner is a record player which pipes music downstairs and there is chocolate and coffee brewing on the stove. The whole building speaks of sensuality and a love for the work that’s being done. The people that come there every day want to be there. The usual split between work and pleasure is absent. In the melding of the two, a very radical sense of art and business grows. You suddenly realize, having talked up the Press around the city so they’ll get more business, that they don’t want more business. Because they aren’t in this to make momey. They’re a group of artists who will take enough jobs to live on and that’s it. More work just takes them away from what they want to do. And they will not keep producing simple books and posters with classical lines and sparseness. They won’t keep producing “pretty” art. They want to go beyond our perceptions of what art is by overlaying and superimposing type on type, photographs on art work. This radical artistic sense suggests alternative ways of thinking about space. Bevington says: “I think that Rochdale should install turnstiles in the lobby and have people pay for the amount of time they spend in the building, like parking meters.”
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style, which Unspoken but clear messages transmitted them- , Rut that kind of quiet and meditative selves to the stoned kids around them-most re- is an absolute necessity for the artist, is harder to encompass in the administration of a larger prosource people expected intellectual rigor and comject, like the Rochdale building. The style becomes petence. These two sensibilities were at war. They an administrative hindrance and the necessities of had been in evidence during the education commitadministration deform the style. It becomes yippietee and they had been at the bottom of the split bestyle anarchism and tends to diffuse decisions and tween the cool liberals and hot radicals who had directions. wanted an “umbrella” approach to the building. Like in this Rochdale executive meeting one hot They existed not only within the matrix and ethos of summer night: The big daddy of the Rochdale exthe building, but somewhat uncomfortably under ecutive is castigating his flock for treating him as the eyes of the hip administrators who were still the Big Daddy. He’s complaining that he can’t running Rochdale for campus coop.. Part of both stand being stopped in the,hall every two minutes sensibilities was the strong feeling that material by residents upset that their cat fell out the 17th possessions should be shared by all members of the floor window and didn’t land on its feet. He says community. he’s going insane and plans to take off to the mounThe coach house press was an example of this. tains of B.C. Outside in the hall, people are taking The Press, though it had expensive printing equipbets that he’ll change his mind. And sure enough a ment, opened its doors to many people at Rochdale week later he does. who wanted to come and learn to print. In a materTo balance this loss-gain the radical on the fourialist society it is a revelation and a joy to watch a man executive resigns himself charging that Rochpress-man walk out the door late at night, look over his shoulder at you gingerly squeezing ink onto a dale members are unwilling either to take radical actions in the world outside or expose the rather letterpress, saying: “Make sure the rollers aren’t questionable methods by which the building was down when you leave.” financed. Someone suggests that the third man reIn fact, the coach house represents what Rochdale was striving for. It moved into an old garage in sign because he alienates people and the fourth man on this smooth-running executive, a middle-aged a back lane behind the building, with the first floor expert on witchcraft with curly brown shoulderhousing all the old wooden trays of small metal
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length hair bangs his gavel in a request for order. After the speech from Big Daddy, the activist gives a lucid report on rentals, a young hippy girl confesses to the expert on witchcraft that though she once had a group of drug-freaks as friends, she no longer associates with them and therefore should not be kicked out of the building. She’s referred to the appeals committee. It’s becoming apparent to everyone in the room that the straights have been rather over-zealous in trying to get the place cleaned up. Later in the evening the full scenario of Rochdale’s administrative problems begins to play itself out. A member of the previous administration has rented a Zeus suite on the 18th floor and there is a move afoot to deny his rental contract and get him out of the building. People are feeling rather vicious. His wife turns around at one point and says “Don’t you hit me.” Behind the struggle on the floor is a long history of animosity between the original management group, called Toronto student management services-a group formed out of the original campus coop members who had started the building, and the present council. The first spring that the building was open (1969), the registrar, general manager and others associated with the financing of the building were charged by the present council with administrative incompetence. A group of council members sent a documented brief to the central mortgage and housing corporation, the building’s principal mortgage holders, outlining a long list of interlocking corporate ties and dubious financial arrangements. The group they were accusing were the “joyful capitalists” and new entrepreneurs of three years back-Howard Adelman, who had built campus coop’s large empire of houses, Jack Dimond, past president of campus co-op and ex-registrar of Rochdale, John Jordan, former managing director of coop College, Rick Waern, registrar prior to Dimond’s appointment , and finally, Bernie Bomers, general manager of Rochdale. And thus the biggest experimental college in north America had slumped into civil war about money and administration. The Rochdale project had been considered a local project of‘a holding, company called coop Colleges Residences Inc., just like campus coop and the Waterloo project previously mentioned. Architects for all the projects were Tampold and Wells, both of whom sat on the board of the coop. The council members had this to say about the joyful administration: Things were worse than we had expected. Files that should have been current didn’t exist; there was no co-ordination between departments and no cooperation or systematic organization within departments. A bookkeeping system was in effect that no one knew how to use and which depended on a nonexistent constant flow of information. We were running a restaurant-cafeteria operation that was losing up to S12,ooO a month, lacked inventory control and was unsanitary. Our rental department was split internally and had an average age of perhaps seventeen. Most of these problems stemmed from, and were exaggerated by, a seemingly complete lack of planning or forethought before the building was opened. The incomplete state of the building when it opened further complicated the situation; and, despite having paid one present co-op college project director (Richard Waern) %8,500 to fill the building and establish a system, we were without any realistic method of dealing with the problem of admissions and screening for at least four months. Naive and foolish interpretation of co-operativism had resulted in an incomplete building being opened before it was physically or organizationally ready. Co-op College and Rochdale staff involved in the project development spent most of last summer on preparatory work for, other projects, juggling priorities on time between the Waterloo project and Rochdale, or extending the myth of Rochdale without firming the substance.
Continuity People close to Rochdale had felt that the straighter administrative types that came from campus co-op would provide the firmness to make such a fluid community work. What they discovered was that the men instrumental in the project were guily of the same naivete that the hippier types like Bradford were. They thought they could do a job and then leave, without making sure that there were others in the building who would carry on. Some like Adelman left well before the building c was even occupied. Others, like Waern, filled the building and then retired to his apartment on the 18th floor. Jordan spent the whole summer traveling around to Ann Arbor and other places in Canada and the U.S., setting up other projects. Besides the chaos all this resulted in, it also led to hirings and firings throughout the year, the election of a new governing council in january ‘69 and the re-call and re-election of that council the following june. The new members of the council, particularly John Bradford and Paul Evitts, went on a reformist kick during the summer of 1969. They drew up a brief to the central mortgage and housing corporation. They hired an excellent manager for the cleaning crew. The spirits of the community picked up. The place looked cleaner. Locks were changed. Evictions of speed freaks continued. And Rochdale sponsored a summer festival that attracted major science-fiction writers from across north America. All over the building, seminars met. Out in the bandshell groups played all day, with Rochdalers and their pets hanging out of the windows right up the side of the building. But soon after the festival came another let-down. Rents weren’t being paid on time. The vacancy rate was high despite the fact that it was nearing September and students were coming back to the city. The restaurant and cafeteria had been franchised to an outfit that had little experience and produced the most sterile food imaginable, while down the street one of Toronto’s newest and most imaginative restaurants, j Meat & Potatoes, was started by former Rochdalers. These difficulties, though a legacy of the previous administration, could not be blamed solely on them. The hippy style of the present administration just did not allow them to deal with the major crises of the building nor with the more minor bureaucratic problems. The chairman and council members would be missing from crucial meetings or would stumble in at midnight, go on some fantastic ego trip and leave. The Roth Daily, a well-written information sheet issuing from the pub on the second floor, recorded numerous complaints like this: thieves, prevaricators and Ladies and gentlemen, other assorted slugs: One principle which must be understood and accepted and adhered to strictly, is that a budget must be undertaken to which the management must adapt itself rather than applying a budget to the existing situation. This budget must be a reflection of existing income rather than expected expenses. There has been a great deal’of attention given to the fact that and can therefore operate we are a “big business” extravagantly and expansively giving subsidies to deserving parties and so on. Well, it just ain’t so friends; we are a relatively simple, yes simple, organization with a fatally self-destructive penchant for taking on the airs and mannerisms of a burgeoning prosperous corporate entity. This has got to stop! We are a small struggling corporation with a recalcitrant and impoverished market that has to do a lot of belt tightening if we are even to have a hope of independent and therefore free survival. We must also stop playing pretentious political games. This building and this corporation has for too long been in the hands of people to whom control, power, and prestige are more important than personal private self respect. There are of course, reasons for this, and they are of course, tied up with the generally shoddy forms of society ‘b the/-directedness “ that north American
has gotten‘into in the last hundred years or so, orperhaps these things are a concomitant of urban civilization in general. To get back to the point, however, management in .Rochdale must be treated as a job not as a performance or a style without substance. Lionel Douglas on the financial predicament
But the residents in a particular ashram or floor. rarely got together at all to organize themselves collectively. They treated the building’s general council like any other administrative body-a force that could be carped at and criticized because they felt no part in it. But the problem was more profound. It lay in the contradiction between the protection of individual liberty (“do your own thing”) and the power of the collective to enforce decisions. On the one hand, there was an absolute insistence on people’s right to act autonomously from the group; and yet the structure and ethos remained I that was striving for communal decision-making.
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They didn’t understand that one’s freedom is integrally tied to the freedom of other people, that a new, self is created as the community hammers away at the old. That with solidarity, we drown and dissolve only to emerge again as ,changed and more profoundly social beings. The lack of that collective, together with the sense that things should have been better, made many of the organizers bitter. As this fellow in the elevator said : Rochdale takes everybody and turns them inside out. If you*re a middle-class kid looking for your new utopia, you come to Rochdafe and really face yourself. You get food stolen off you by kids just like yourself who have an ethic of non-property. You start locking your door and never going into a communal area because. its such a pig-sty. If you’re more serious and together than the average hippy, Rochdale kills you. You go to the library to read and it’s locked. You try and get a film shown in the lounge, but some cat is ‘*doing his thing” with the T.V. turned up full blast. You know you start to get very mean and straight about these kids. You forget that Rochdale is supposed to be an experiment in community living and learning. The message isn’t any longer to shake up people’s property and spatial concepts. You stop thinking of groovy ideas like turnstiles at the doors where people pay for the time they occupy the building. Instead you find yourself locking up the goddamned doors, evicting speed freaks in the dead of night
I’ve got to like Rochdale and the people that live here and from what I can see it’s the only place to live, but the bureaucratic structures here has only just got so tight that one has to fight it continuously and that’s not my idea of living. If I want hassles I don’t have to, come to R.ochdale; there’s more than enough of that wherever else one goes. Maybe that*s the trouble with Rochdale, it’s getting too much just like any other place. I’ll be keeping in touch and may even move back again when things get better; I hope so, I mean, who likes moving? I hate it. Karl910
The communal structures have to be worked at. Collectivity is a totally alien concept to north American society. And what happens to an enormous project like Rochdale is that its people never see themselves as part of a social whole. Instead the resident member, like the voting citizen, stands apart from the discussions of the rulers. A master-slave pattern reasserts itself. The slave-resident comes to the master-management asking him to change his behaviour, not realizing that he is expressing both his lack of confidence in his own power and his disbelief in the communal forms. It becomes “them” up there and “us” down here. The “them and us” syndrome partially developed from Rochdale’s lack of any notion of social activism. It had only an ill-defined philosophy to bring people together. Until the recent financial troubles, there was no sense of “being in the fray” together. Rochdale’s emphasis was. on “being” not acting, and there was nothing pushing people to go beyond their own selves. In the past, collective action has always reached its highest point through the struggle to change oppressive structures-in the Russian and Cuban revolutions and in the last rebellions in France and even in the small, leftist groups in Canada. The leftists have that adopted history of solidarity behind them. They call each other comrade, sister ‘and brother and, though the history is not their own, it creates a community style. There was none of that history behind the Rochdale experiment. The residents were true north Americans, out of the tradition of Hobbes and Locke-bourgeois freedom and self-determination.
have to live in high-rises, or the assumption that we take speculative land prices for granted, should be made at all. For Rochdale is decentralizing. To old houses on Beverley Street, in american exileland, Toronto’s new ethnic community. To farms in Killaloe where they build goedesic domes among the rolling hills of the Ontario shield. To an old garage on DuPont street and a big parish hall in downtown Toronto. Rochdale phase II, decentralizing communes appears to be progressing well. Rochdale, phase I, an eighteen-storey pre-formed building. Well,. there’s a new home and school association and a lot of brave and hearty signs reMaybe questing money for the white elephant. they’ll save it. And all those U. of T. students will have a “groovy” place to live. Perhaps that’s what they had in mind all along-a groovy residence. Some people had hoped for more.
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I ‘suppose the best thing about the Jerry Jeff Walker hassle was that it introduced this campus to Fox Watson, a young folk blues singer from North Carolina. Fox played at Cap au vin the night Walker walked out and returned here last week to play at. Conrad Grebel’s Missing Peece coffeehouse. Fox grew up in the mountain country of North Carolina and learned his songs and guitar and banjo styles from all sorts of weird people, like old men living in little log, cabins on the mountain sides. Most of the songs be sang were traditional, backed up by some fantastic guitar and banjo picking. Songs of his own composition, as well as instrumental solos, showed the strong traditional-country background that Fox has been exposed to. Regardless of the musical abilities ‘he possessed two features of Fox’s playing set him apart from other singers heard recently. One is the tremendous enthusiasm he brings to his songs and which he is able to project to his audience. The audience is caught up in the songs,
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Gaking the people, places and happenings in them seem much more real because of this feeling. The most remarkable feature of his performance were the stories that he told of his life in the southern USA. We heard about his brother Douglas and about a pig he owns that was drunk for three weeks from eating corn mash from moonshine liquor. About sneaking into a performing arts Festival (completely stoned,) through a stream filled with toads and snakes and creepy-crawly things. Fox told of attending a Billy Graham revival meeting with his brother, getting wrapped up in the spirit of the Lord at the meeting, and dear old Billy himself almost getting crushed to death in the middle of a ’ prayer by a runaway hot. air balloon (that may seem too ironic but Fox swears that’s what happened). Fox’s mother, by the way, plays bridge with Mrs. Billy Graham for those of you who like collecting little bits of trivia like that. Fox Watson is currently back in South Carolina _ trying to convince the draft board that he’s just too weird to be in the army. However he should be back at the Missing Peece in three or four weeks so watch for the signs and wrap yourself up in a little bit of North Carolina for an evening.
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Monday nighbin the world of the blues musician, was for getting together. After weekend gigs, Blue Monday, as it came to be called was a blues social - jamming, rapping, passing rumors, getting stoned; it was a night to relax with your own. This tradition came to Toronto monday past with the authenticity guaranteed in advance. Looking for a press pass, your intrepid correspondent called little Dickie Flohill, concert promoter. The response: “Shit, man, I’m dropping $4000 and everybody wants a handout.” Very blue! But when your correspondent laid out five big ones to get in, Blue Monday was a living reality. Yet, it was worth it. The blues freaks were there in force, bobbing, weaving and shouting. As Whiskey Howl, a competent Toronto group was introduced, a nameless soul in the gallery greeted them with a rousing “Fuck Mayor Daly!” The Whiskey howled (Taj Mahal’s Katy was particularly good) but with a total lack of audience contact, quickly lost momentum. Obviously nervous, the lead singer’s faltering speech and stage presence were unintentionally arrogant. Also, the guitar sound was too damn harsh to be convincing. All that was lacking was confidence and experience, two qualities which the next act unmistakably possessed. The Buddy Guy Blues Band was right on. Bathed in an iridescent blue suit, Buddy Guy was irrepressible. Both he and his saxophonist, K.C. Reeves, established instant rap. Buddy would moan “I’m gonna get nasty...” When shouts of “Do it, do it” came back, he’d hang a long chord or do a riff with one hand, -his whole body hanging out and twisting with the scream from that guitar. Traditionalist Reeves unsuccessfully tried to suppress a wide grin at Buddy’s Hendrix antics and then gave up with a booming “go on now” as Buddy,
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Flanked by his own guitarist, Michael Brewster, . and joined by Buddy Guy, Bobby began to coax them both in his mellowest tones. Brewster sliding through some very fine Wes Montgomery stylings, and Guy, flowing freely, provided one hell of a windUP. Probably the evening’s highlight was an unscheduled appearance by Lonnie Johnson. But it couldn’t have been just a standing ovation for a grand old man who originated the blues: It remained for Flohill to provide the macabre tinge. Coming on stage, he explained that he had originally booked a gentleman (the name escapes me) who passed away. Then Sun House to cancel after spending the night in a snow-bank. Finally Otis Spann called up the day before from a hospital. Lonnie Johnson was left. Recovering from a near-fatal heart attack he came out softly, cane in hand; and as his surprisingly clear, young voice penetrated the hall, one couldn’t help think that his time, too, was about up. It made the “blues” real. And when he shuffled off, head high, smiling deeply, they would have stood there cheering as long as he wanted it. It’s strange to see a world where the.old are so honoured. COOL
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spirational type one commonly associates with black gospel singers. They are able to cover up some of their faults by using the services of two drummers, two organs, two guitars and seven female singers. With that many people it’s difficult to tell where the mistakes are coming from. They started the evening with a rendition of that by now classic modern message song, Aquarius Betwe_en each song, their spiritual leader and advisor (a strange fellow with a cute white collar) told us how the church must become a part of the real world and stop making differences between that which is sacred and that which is secular. He
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message that could be personally advantageous to the person transmitting the spurious feelings. Miller documents his first marriage as testimony to this superficial aspect that could affect all our lives if caught in the trap. He then suggests that prior experimentation might be a beginning for a person to realize the immaturity of basing a relationship on sex. Eventually, sex for the sake of sex becomes similar to screwing “a bag of oats”. Miller reaches this conclusion after his first marriage and begins to act out the callous attitude that women are only good when they open their legs. After this causes the eventual breakup of his marriage Miller continues his life until he realizes the superficiality of his sexual life. He then suggests that love and sex are reciprocal and can only involve the total self without creating hypocrisy within one’s self. The - self, when fully developed, is the realization of a person’s maturity. Love is not the creation of a bond between two people but the natural extension of a person’s self in another person or persons. The implications of Miller’s ideas are revolutionary. He believes that, to the extent a person is mature he is sincere and rational to another human being and by extension to other groups of people. Acting from maturity and love is the way of the true revolutionary.
Love, peace, and happiness forever is a wonderful concept. Can this marvelous idea ever become a reality? Henry Miller enjoys talking about love. It is the Tropic of Capricorn and main topic of his book Nexus, SeXus, and P/eXus. The War/d of Sex is a summary of his concepts of love and sex. His conception of life involves a distinct emphasis on the joys of sex accompanied by the emotional involvement of two or more people. The intellectual difficulties for any person to work out in his mind become great . In Miller’s mind any person who feels only sexual attraction for another person is being only half a being. The human part is left out. Love to Miller involves the total person. His mind, body, and emotions, all become part of his self in the search for loping people. The self, the total man, is more of a sexual concept than a pair of choice breasts or a sexy penis. This does not mean that you have to stop looking at other peoples’ marvelous bodies. All it indicates is that sex-involves more than just fucking. Miller emphasizes his concepts with examples from his own life. He describes life as his personal struggle has shown it to be. He demonstrates the ease with which any person can be coerced into love through sex. Sex can be simply a medium to get across a false
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in addition to the motive which the gadget worshipper finds for his admiration of the machine in its freedom from the human limitations of speed and accuracy, there is one motive which it is harder to establish in any concrete case, but which must play a very considerable role nevertheless. lt is the desire to avoid the personal responsibility fo; a dangerous or disastrous‘ decision placing the responsibility else where.. on chance, on human superiors and their policies which one cannot question, or on a mechanical device which one cannot fully understand but which has a presumed objectivity.
It is this that leads shipwrecked cast’ aways to draw lots to determine which of them shall first be eaten. It is this to which the late Mr. Eichmann entrusted his able defense. It is this that leads to the issue of some blank cartridges among the ball cartridges furnished to a firing squad. This will unquestionably be the manner in which the official who pushes the button in the next (and last) atomic war, whatever side he represents; will salve his conscience. And it is an old trick in magic-one, however, rich in tragic consequences -to sacrifice to a vow the first living creature that one sees after safe return from a perilous undertaking. Once such a ‘master becomes aware that some of the supposedly human functions ; of his slaves may be transferred to ma: chines, he is delighted. At last he, has found tl&enew subordinate-efficient, subservient, ‘dependable in his action, never talking back, swift, and not demanding a single thought of personal consideration. ’ Such subordinates are contemplated in Capek’s play R&R. The Slave of the Lamp makes no demands. He does not ask for a day off each week or a television set in his servant’s quarters. In fact, he demands no quarters at all but appears out of nowhere when the lamp is rubbed. If your purposes involve you in a course sailing pretty closehauled to the moral wind, your slave will never reprove you, even to the extent of a questioning glance. Now you are free, to dree your weird where destiny may lead you! This type of mastermind is the mind of the sorcerer in the full sense of the word. To this sort of sorcerer, not only the doctrines of the Church give a warning but the accumulated common sense of humanity, as accumulated in legends, in myths, and in the writings of the conscious literary man. All of these insist that not only is sorcery a sin leading to Hell but it is a personal peril in this life. It is a two-edged sword, and sooner or later it will cut you deep. ’ In the Thousand Nights and a Night, the tale of the “Fisherman and the Jinni” is well to the point. A fisherman, casting his nets off the coast of Palestine, pulls up an earthen jar sealed with the Seal of Solomon. He breaks the seal, smoke boils out of the jar and takes the figure of an enormous Jinni. The Being tells him that he is one of those rebellious beings imprisoned by the great king Solomon; that at first he had intended to reward anyone who liberated him with power and riches; but that in the course of ages, he had come to the decision to slay the first mortal he might meet, and above all the man who should bring him freedom. Fortunately for himself, the fisherman seems to have been an ingenious fellow, with a rich line of blarney. He plays on the
vanity of the Jinni and persuades him to show how such a great Being could have been confined in such a small vessel by going back again into the jar. He claps the sealed lid on again, throws-the vessel back into?@ sea, congratulates himself on his narrow escape,“and lives happily ever after . In other tales, the chief character does not have so accidental an encounter with magic and either comes even closer to the edge of catastrophe or incurs utter ruin.- In Goethe’s poem, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the young factotum who cleans the master’s magic garments, sweeps his floors, and fetches his water is left alone by the sorcerer, with the command to fill his water butt. Having a full portion of that laziness which is the true mother of invention-it led the boy who tended Newcomen’s engine to fasten the valve string which he was to pull to the crosshead, and so led to the idea of. the automatic valve gear-the lad remembers some fragments of an incantation which he has heard from his master and puts the broom to work fetching water. ’ This task the broom carries out with promptness and efficiency. When the water begins to overflow the top of the water butt, the boy finds that he does not remember the incantation that the magician has used to stop the broom. The boy is well on the way to be drowned when the magician comes back, recites the words of power, and gives the apprentice a good wholesome scolding. Even here the final catastrophe is averted through a deus ex machina. W.W.
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Jacobs, an english writer of the beginning of the present century,- has carried the principle to its stark logical conclusion in a tale called “The Monkey’s Paw,” which is one of the classics of the literature5 of. horror. In this tale, an english working family is sitting down to dinner in its kitchen. The son leaves to work at a factory, and the old parents listen to the tales of their guest, a sergeant-major back from service in the indian army. He tells them of indian magic and shows them a dried monkey’s paw, which, he tells them, is a talisman which has been endowed by an indian holy man with the virtue of giving three wishes to each of three successive owners. This, he says, was to prove the folly of defying fate. He says that he does not know what were the first two wishes of the first owner, but that the last one was for death. He himself was the second owner, but his experiences were too terrible to relate. He is about to cast the paw on the coal fire, when his host retrieves it, and despite all the sergeant-major can do, wishes for 200 pounds. Shortly thereafter there is a knock at the door. A very solemn gentleman is there from the company which has employed his son. As gently as he can, he breaks the news that the son has been killed in an accident at the factory. Without recognizing any responsibility in the matter, the company offers its sympathy and 200 pounds as a solatium. The parents are distracted, and at the mother’s suggestion, they wish the son back again. By now it is dark without,
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a dark windy night. Again there is a knocking at the door. Somehow the parents know that it is their son, but not in the flesh. The story ends with the third wish, that the ghost should go away. The theme of all these tales is the danger of magic..This seems to lie in the fact that the operation of magic is singularly literal-minded, and that if it grants you anything at all it grants what you ask for, not what you should have asked for or what you intend. If you ask for 200 pounds and do not express the condition that you do not wish it at the cost of the life of your son, 200 pounds you will get, whether your son lives or dies. The magic of automation, and in particular the magic of an automatization in which the devices learn, may be’ ex,pected to be similarly literalminded. If you are playing a game according to certain rules and set the playing-machine. to play for victory, you will get victory if you get anything at all, and the machine will not pay the slighest attention to any consideration except victory according to the rules. If you are playing a war game with a certain conventional interpretation of victory, victory will be the goal at any cost, even that of the cxtermination of your own side, unless this condition of survival is explicitly contained in the definition of victory according to which you program the machine. This is more than a purely innocent verbal paradox. I certainly know nothing to contradict the assumption that Russia and the United States, either or both of them, are toying with the idea of using machines, learning machines at that, to determine the moment of pushing the atomicbomb button which is the ;/tima ratio of this present world of ours. For many years all armies have played war games, and these games have always been behind the times. It has been said that in every war, the good generals fight the last war, the bad ones the war before, the last. That is, the rules of the war game never catch up with the facts of the real situation. ’ This has always been true, though in periods of much war, there has always been a body of seasoned warriors who have experienced war under conditions that have not varied very rapidly. These experienced men are the only “war experts,” in the true sense of the world. At present, there are no experts in atomic warfare: no men, that is, who have any experience of a conflict in which both sides have% had atomic weapons at their disposal and have used them. The destruction of our cities in an atomic war, the demoralization of our people, the hunger and disease, and the incidental destruction (which well may be far greater than the number of deaths from explosion and immediate fallout) are known only by conjecture. Here those who conjecture the least amount of secondary damage, the greatest possibility of the survival, of the nations under the new type of catastrophe, can and do draw about themselves the proud garment of patriotism. If war is utterly self-destructive, if a military operation has lost all possible sense, why then the Army and Navy have lost much of their purpose and the poor loyal generals and admirals will be thrown out of work. The missile companies will no longer have the ideal market where all the goods can be used only once and do not remain to.compete with other goods yet to be made. The clergy will be cheated of the enthusiasm and exultation which go with a crusade. In short, when there is a war game to program such a campaign, there will be many to forget its consequences, to ask for the 200 pounds and to forget to mention that the son should survive.
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The big question on everyones minds is where will the warriors be after this weekend’s OQAA playoffs - heading for Charlottetown or la Place Pigalle on avenue road. In a year where warrior losses have been more illustrious than their wins, anything is possible. A brief review of the season shows the, team having reached all-time highs and lows. Never before had we beaten Alberta and tied Toronto twice, only to turn around and suffer the indignity of losing a pair to lowly Windsor, not to mention the horrid showings against Lutheran and York. Former Waterloo teams have shown great ability to trounce weak opponents but lose most of the big games. This year’s squad generally has done the opposite, with the exception of the struggles with old nemesis Toronto. For -the first time in several years Waterloo hopes will ride largely on an all-out team effort, instead of the play of several key individuals. Goaltending will un-
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Rick Bacoll The Toronto blues head into the weekend with their usual one loss season and must be favoured to win it all. Led by high-scoring centremen Laurent, Wright, and St. John, the blues are the fastlest college team in the country, with the capability of breaking a game wide open at any moment. Their goaltending is usually solid and with their big defence most teams get few’ scoring opportunities anyway. Toronto’s main weaknesses lie in their inability to keep the play in an opponents end for very long and their poor If the blues disforechecking. play their usual finess in front of the net, they are going to be very hard to stop. The Montreal Carabins and Ottawa Gee-Gees are two rather unknown quantities. Past performances have shown the eastern division of the OQAA to be inferior to the west, but this year could be different as the gap has undoubtably been narrowed. The Carabins, who play the blues at 6: 30, are led by Michel Guay and Pierre Arsenault. If Luc St. Jean has a hot night in net the blues could be in trouble. Former Nat Paul Cadieux and ex-junior A players Bob Arnot and Don Gendron head an impressive Ottaw;! roster, not to mention Bob and Bert Aube who led the league with 32 and 28 points respectively. The gee-gees, who practice seven days a week, are a very hungry and spirited team, quite capable of pulling a surprise or two. PREDICTION: Watch for an upset in’- the Waterloo-Ottawa game. Don’t cry over your spilt beer if the blues win by three Saturday night .
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The University of Waterloo Warriors finished fifth in a field of ten in the OQAA swimming and diving championships last friday and Saturday at McMaster. The University of Toronto blues won the meet for the ninth consecutive year, running up a total of 475 points to secondplace McGill’s 380., Western and Guelph followed. The fifth-place finish for the warriors realized the goal set for the team by coach Bob Graham last fall. After only two years of competition the warriors trail only the Big Four in OQAA swimming. The team’s 129 point total nipped, Mat by 8 and a half and left it 68 behind Guelph who will be the target for next year. The warriors’ best performance was turned in by diver Brian Hilko who finished fourth in both diving events behind three of the last divers in the country. Lester eighth in the Newby finished one-metre and tenth in the threemetre. Both divers are freshmen. The best swimming performance was by George Roy who came fifth in the 200 fly, sixth in the 200 free and eighth in the 100 fly. He also swam the second leg of Waterloo’s fifth-place 800 freestyle relay team. Roy’s time of 2: 13 in the 200 butterfly qualified him for the British Empire games trials although he missed a bid to qualify for the CIAU national meet in Montreal this weekend. >Doug Lorriman finished seventh in the 1650, eight in the 200 individual medley and tenth in the 500 and was also on the 800 relay team. Haig Moreton came ninth in the 1650 and twelfth in the 500. , He swam the anchor leg on
the 800 relay and, lead-off in the McGill’s Dave Johnson, the 400 freestyle relay, in which Wat- ’ meet’s only triple winner, lower’ erloo also ed his own records in the 200 Brian Cartilidge was also free, and the 1650 and 500. He on the 800 relay and on the 400 took over 33 seconds off the 1650 relay with Moreton, Brian Bachrecord with an 18.27.8. ert, and Warren Page. Another strong performance Toronto picked up nine wins was turned in by McGill’s John in the seventeen event meet inHawes who beat Olympian Jim eluding two of the three relays. Shaw of Toronto in the 200 backThey also won the 400 free relay stroke in 2: 01.2, over five secby a full second over McGill but onds below the old record. were disqualified. Although Waterloo failed to pick Some measure of Toronto’s up a win they had finalists in strength can be gained by noting six events and picked up points that they gave up 32 points for in thirteen. that relay and still won by alWith almost the entire squad most a hundred. due back next season and expectTheir strongest showing‘ came ed continued improvement from in the 50-yard freestyle when such swimmers as freestyle their four entrants took the top sprinter Cartilidge, backstroker four places. Bachert and breaststroker Hans Twelve of the fifteen swimBongertman, coaches Graham ming standards were lowered and Doug Paton can set out for and one tied. Roy can take some third or fourth. In the third year, consolation in the fact that no that would be some accomplishone was able to match the 2:06.2 ment. he swam last year in the 200 (and isn’t Hans a good name fly. for a breaststroker. )
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Now that the official basketball season has come to a close I would like to recognize some of the people that made it enjoyable. First of all I would like to thank the cheerleaders for their efforts during the games. We all recognize the difficulties under which they are working and I know the Athletic department would like to help their situation. Their enthusiasm was always contagious for both fans and players. As for the Warrior Band, I feel that it is one of Waterloo’s great trademarks. They help make the whole affair top notch. They probably help get the team up for games as much as anybody. Visitors to our games always comment on the atmosphere in our gym, mainly created by the band. Maybe next year we can get a bandstand under the clock for the band-a front and center show! I would also like to thank the Chevron for their coverage of events, particularly Ted Pimbert, Pete Marshall and Rick Hankinson (although I can’t say I agree with him all the
time, or ever). Their coverage definitely helped in attracting people to the gym. As for our fans: support -was tremendous this year and I know we let you down a few times, but the players were always of their responvery concious sibility toward you. For the most part the plagers did not want to cheat you and sometimes as a result they tried too hard, but that’s something that they have to work out for themselves. Without your co-operation we could never have established the tradition at the beginning of ball games of standing until we got our first basket. This is just great although at times I was concerned about the length of time that we were kept standing. Next year we should keep track of the length of time it takes to score and establish a record of some sort.. But this kind of participation .by fans was just tremendous. Next year the team will play more exciting ball and bring to a head the first class show you helped to initiate. I would also like to thank our statisticians Rick Baka and Don Ablett and our workers at the scorers desk, namely Dave
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The feedback section makes interestingreading, mostly in reference to all the different topics covered. For what it’s worth, I thought that I would try to add additional variety. Someone might even benefit. I’ve taken an interest in athletic clubs, weight-lifting in particular, A. C.‘s are a brave new experiment on the part of the intramural department, I believe: There. are twelve clubs established with others in the organizational stage. They range from archery and badminton to underwater and weight-lifting. Contrary to a few opinions, we have some of the best recreational facilities and intramural set-ups in Canada and the U.S. The department continually receives requests for its program from schools across the continent. I mentioned weight-lifting. Several fellows have organized a club. It hasn’t been easy, in fact it has been a whole education in itself in terms of organization, plans and problems. There are many possibilities for this club and I hope it reaches its goals. I would like to list some of the things done, some of the efforts in process and many of the things we hope to accomplish. First, we hope to survive. The club will never get I a better chance to do so. We have a modest but substantial bank account to establish basic operations ; there is an active executive and we have submitted to the athletic directorate a budget request for next year. These are for any major requirements club. We hope to go beyond this. To those approximately 75 to 100 fellows who use the weighttraining room: we intend to draw some attention toward its improvement. It is very possible that we can donate extra weights for a start. The club has arranged to donate to the arts library some instructional booklets, texts and a monthly periodical. Check the posters in the weight room for all available materials. Weight-lifting is a sport and our primary goal is competition. The club is negotiating for affiliation with the amateur athletic union of canada and plan to put a varsity into team of novice lifters south-western Ontario competitions next year. We have made excellent contacts for obtaining experienced coaching -and provided that we can get the necessary equipment, the club can get a proper start next fall. Club meetings take place every two weeks. If interested, or just curious, attend one and ask questions. Inquire about the other clubs too; you will likely find something worthwhile. In regards to weight lifting’s merit as a sport, it isn’t as dull as is popularly thought. ’ It equals and surpasses other sports in terms of skill, timing, speed and (believe it or not) psychology, besides strength. Though pos-
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Your article in the february 20th Chevron regarding confidentiality of information given to health services and counselling services misconstrued what I aimed to convey. Health services does keep information about patients strictly confidential -with but one type where keeping the of exceptionindividual’s confidence would harm the community’s good. Health services has said the habitual drug user who fully intends to comm<end use to others might well fall into this category and they would feel obliged to report him to the police, Counselling has felt his confidence too should be maintained. Therefore, health and counselling are working toward a consensus how to react to such individuals. I hope this clarifies the stance taken to ‘patients and reassures students their confidentiality is highly respected. D . J . TORNEY Counsellor Medical p&y
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The february 20th issue of the Chevron suggests on page 3 that “H.S. has no 5firm -policy” on confidentiality. Enclosed is the most recent h.s. brochure . . . . similar to others which have been used during the past five years at Uniwat. Your staff’s attention is directed to the centre page which outlines our policy on confidentiality. One of the earliest meetings of the health services committee in 1965 clearly delineated that medical records are privileged communications. H.L. REESOR University health services considMedical records are ered privileged communications and may not be released without your consent, even to other officers of the University. The one exception is in the case of information that is necessary from health. the standpoint of public The student health services will be glad to supply your family physician with information about you, when requested by you. The article was referring to the health services’ policy on whether or not the doctor or nurse iri charge would consider it a moral obligation to inform the police if, say, a patient was found to be in possession of some narcotic drug. The word ‘case’ in the article referred to the series of events surrounding a patient’s encounter with health services and not just the medical history of the patient. -the lettitor
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We read in the Chevron (FriFeb. 20) the comments under the picture of two Arabs protesting the bombing of Egyptian civilians by Israelis with much surprise. We were in no time concerned about awakening the Arab students. We believe that the almost daily raids on our homeland by alien peoples is a good enough reason to keep our people awake and alert. We were protesting a crime; the slaughtering of 70 Arab workers in cold blood by American planes, weapons and bombs, under the banner of Zionism. We regret that the educated people in this country still believe that love and humaniterianism are the motives behind Zionism. We regret that our Arab brothers have doubts, and for good reasons, about the democracy in this country. We would like to emphasize once again that our attempt was to awaken the students and faculty on our campus not the Arabs. The Arabs have been pushed around long enough that it is not logical to describe them as dormant. NABIL ARAFAT sci 3 RAMZI TWAL econ 2
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According to the university administration , we have currently registered, at the U of W, 1622 married students of whom 526 have a total of 894 children. Four of these students have six or more children. You may be sure the faculty and staff are not far behind, although their totals are not known. All these figures reduce to one simple fact: the University is long overdue for some form of day-care program. The nature of ethis program is up to the parents. Do they want a drop-it-offand - it - might - be - there - when - you - return nursery for which they pay a pittance; or, a prop.erly administered centre in which they feel their child is receiving the best of care? The University of Waterloo women’s club has been actively involved for about a year in organizing a day-care centre to which they feel students, faculty and staff would bring their children. They have been beset with numerous problems; the most frustrating one being lack of capital. Recently, a letter was sent to potentially interested families requesting their support in this endeavour. Needless to say, the more interested replies received the stronger the base on which the women’s club has to bargain for financial aid. It is hoped that the federation of students can, at least, be persuaded to subsidize the children of those students who cannot afford the going day - care rates. In some cases, it is possible for
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Last year I was told by Stewart Saxe, then editor of the Chevron that all signed letters received by feedback were printed, regardless of political affiliation of the editor. Apathetic though I normally am, I decided that it was my duty as a student to enter the literary labyrinth of feedback with my creations at least annually. The first letter didn’t get printed. This year, I once again composed a literary gem, a veritable semantic masterpiece to bear my name into the immortality of chevron archives ; forever preserved in indelible printers ink. Imagine then, if you can, my shock, my horror, my surprise, when on this inauspicious friday 13th, I picked up a Chevron. Not only had my modest effort not been printed in our glorious people’s newspaper, but it had brought down a hurricane of abuse upon my humble head; “lack of maturity . . . frothing at the mouth . . . people such as Andris Stivins . . . epistle to ignorance. ’ ’ Alack and Alas! Woe was I: for the Chevron has taken my name in vain. The only crumb of comfort remaining to me was a negative one. Since “epistle” means message, and the person making the remarks about me received, he is revealed either as abysmally ignorant of our language, or as considering himself ignorance incarnate. Now I ask you ladies and gentlemen, have I been treated fairly? Instead of printing my letter and then adding his comments, the lettitor has condemned me as immature and ignorant, evidence hidden from his readers. If he really thought what he claims about my little “epistle”, he shoulcl have told me privately why he wasn’t printing it. Since he used my name publicly, the letter should have been evidence.
I am left with only three possible reasons for the man’s bebaviour: First, the criticisms were fair and unanswerable. Second he has sullied a radically pure and unbiased mind with an equivalently pure dislike. Possible since I discovered he’s the same person who refused to print last year’s letter. Thirdly, he may be suffering so sadly from cultural and moral deprivation that my scintillating prose and brilliant insights have impressed him. I may have stricken a responsive chord within him and perhaps he is saving up copies of original works of mine so that he may publish them all in a special chevron issue printed in edmund burke society green. But remember, publish or not, the mad writer will strike again. ANDRIS STIVRINS sci l-2 Big Brother long before
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I thought I’d let you in on my thought for the day. Today I thought about Big Brother, and how he is coming along. And I thought, not badly. Let’s see, we have marijuana and its affiliates in speed and LSD, along with other goodies, to send us off to ether-ether land. Big Brother even worries about our money for us, trying to make sure the rich don’t get richer and the poor don’t get richer. Why, I hear a bureau of information is in the offing. They’ll learn about sex without us having to iell them. Big Brother will be very good to them; almost like a mummy and daddy rolled into one. But we’ll teach them some things. Daddy can show them how much fun it is to watch TV. The big team fights sundays are good, especially those with the fellows who walk on knives, and swing sticks and shoot rubber bullets at each other. They sometimes even just use their hands. Mummy can teach them how to take pills (she takes at least one a day) so they can take all kinds. And one a day is always good company. Yes, Big Brother should have it made by 1984. But then, why not by 1970? The sooner the better, eh? PETER W. ARMSTRONG the discriminatory advertising expert eng la/b (of course)
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“The question is not what will happen to me if I help this man: but what will happen to him -if I do rick?” Martin Luther King by Andy Chevron
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There are a lot of really good people in the States, really good friends and potential friends, and they are getting it in the ear by the system. The society in which they live is rapidly becoming a’military regime, with the local police acting as the arm of the Pentagon throughout the nation. They see their freedoms being slowly choked by the inexorable grasp of their government and industry, and they are fighting it. We should help them in their fight, for their work is our work. If the’ situation in the States is not soon rectified, Canada too will succumb to the onslaught of fascism from the south, as indeed it already seems to be doing. Drapeau’s anti-demonstration by-law is an example of a government attitude that could all too easily spread across our country. All it would take is extreme pressure from the United States, (the owners of our industry), to make us feel the pinch economically and otherwise-and our feeble approaches at legislative reform would halt. We, like our american brothers, would then have to take our fight to the streets. If the U.S. continues in its present course we will soon be living in the shadow of a supraparanoid 200 million-man insane asylum. To some of us, it already seems to be a nut-house, and the dangers inherent in the situation need to’be deliniated. The Chicago riots of 1968 and the resulting “conspiracy” trial serve as an excellent example of the situation. Our press gave these events the usual conventional, dubious coverage, straight off the US wire service. The data in itself is enough to chill one to the bone, yet apparently it hasn’t aroused us sufficiently to effect any overt response. Let’s take a look the straight at the trial from several vantage points: press, The New York Review of books, and Abbie Hoffman’s Woodstock nation. A nice short article in The february 23 Toronto daily star, snuggled in beside a long article on a reconciliation between Nixon and Pompidou, reads :
the court (Judge Hoffman), assistant U.S. attorney Schultz, and defense counsel, Weinglass, were engaged in a colloquy, the defendant Seale interrupted Weinglass, and the following occurred:
SEALE: Hey, you don’t speak for me. I would like to speak on behalf of my own self and have my counsel handle my case on behalf of myself. How come I can’t speak in behalf of myself? I am my own legal counsel. I don’t want these lawyers to represent me. THE COURT: You have a lawyer of record, and he has been of record here for you since September 24. SEALE: I have been arguing that before that jury heard one shred of evidence. I don’t want these lawyers because I can take up my own legal defense, and my lawyer is Charles Garry. THE COURT: I direct you, sir, to remain quiet. SEALE: And just be railroaded? THE COURT: Will you remain quiet? SEALE: I want to defend myself, do you mind, please? THE COURT: Let the record show that the defendant * Seale continued to speak after the Court courteously requested him to remain quiet. WASHINGTON (AP)-Senator John Stennis DKunstler, too, had a few words with judge Hoffman: (Miss) suggested yesterday a constitutional amendment KUNSTLER: I might say, your Honor, you know that I to eliminate the right of trial in some cases such as the have tried to withdraw from this and you know that Mr. recent Chicago conspiracy trial. Seale., . Stennis said he feels the trial, in which five men were THE COURT: I don’t know what you tried to do. I convicted last week on charges arising from street violknow your appearance is of record, and I know I have ence during the 1968 Democratic national convention, your assurance orally of record that you represent this was a disgrace and an attack on the judicial system. man. “If we can’t remedy that in some way,” Stennis said. KU NSTLER: You have a withdrawal of that assurance, “we will have to pass a constitutional amendment, to your Honor. You knew that on September 30, you knew say that under certain facts a person would forfeit their that Mr. Seale had discharged me. right to trial.” THE COURT: You represent him and the record shows it. The meat of the article could best be expressed KUNSTLER: Your Honor, you can’t go on those semthus: The government of the U.S. should deny the right antics. This man wants to defend himself. totrial in whatever crime it chooses to designate. THE COURT: This isn’t semantics. I’m not fooled by In the “Conspiracy” trial they have chosen to conall of this business.
centrate upon those people the country. In 1970, love become a crime against the The december 4 issue of books gives a clear view Chicago.
who might re-humanise of your fellow-man has U.S. government. of the New York review of Bobby Seale’s trial in
The right of self-defence is guaranteed under the Constitution as well as by statute, and has often been exercised, especially by defendants who feel they are on trial for their political views and who want now only to defend themselves, but to use the courts insofar as rules of procedure allow, as a political forum. Judges are required to grant this right provided it is requested early enough in the trial so as not to interfere with an orderly proceeding.”
Seale attempted to obtain the services of a wellknown defender of the black Panthers, Charles R. Carry. For a variety of reasons, (including his being in hospital when the trial opened), Garry was forbidden by Judge Hoffman to plead Seale’s case; instead, William Kunstler was designated as his attorney. Kunstler repeatedly tried to convince Hoffman that he was not Seale’s attorney, explaining that -&ale wanted to plead his own defense. This difference of opinion resulted in several heated exchanges between Seale and Judge Hoffman. During the morning session October 14, 1969, while
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SEALE: I still demand the right to defend myself. You are not fooled? After you have walked over people’s constitutional rights? THE MARSHAL: Sit down, Mr. Seale.
When Seale was taken from his cell in San Francisco and brought under heavy guard to Chicago by federal marshals, he was unable to communicate with his defense lawyers, who feared for his safety and were eager to consult with him on the preparation of his case. It was to see- Seale in Cook County Jail that Kunstler, one of the defense attorneys, filed an appearance on Seale’s behalf, that is, he agreed to serve as his attorney. It is partly on the basis of this agreement that Judge Hoffman denied Seale the right of self defense. The law can be applied as seen fit by the judge in any case, within certain limitations. In any legal proceeding the judge can choose to either help or hinder the application of- justice. Even the most superficial reading of the transcript of the trial, conducted by Judge Hoffman, makes it evident that he was not the least bit inclined to regard the defendants in anything but a completely negative light. Hoffman implemented every regulation he could come across that would make things difficult for the
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defendants,. and disallowed their attempts to apply proceedings that would be to their benefit, whenever possible. During the trial Hoffman became so incensed with Seale’s outbursts of frustration that he had him brought in from the cell bound and gagged, and lashed to a chair. Had Seale been able to plead his own defense, such a farcical situation in a court of law would not have taken place. In Woodstock nation, Abbey Hoffman says: “The hard rain’s already fallin and it isn’t just the politicos that are getting wet. Read the list: Jimi Hendrix, MC5, The Who, Phil Ochs, Tim Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jim Morrisson, Creedence Clearwater, the Turtles, Moby Grape, Ray Charles, the Fugs, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez... all have been busted recently. Busted because the authorities want to destroy our cultural revolution in the same way they want to destroy our political revolution. Maybe the man,can’t bust our music but he sure as hell can bust our musicians. If the government wanted to, it could bust rock groups on charges of conspiracy to incite riot. Last year Congress passed an anti-riot act which made it illegal to urge people to go to an event at which a riot later occurs. The law makes it illegal to travel from state to state, write letters or telegrams, speak on radio or television, make a telephone call with the intention of encouraging people to participate in a riot. A riot meaning an act of violence occurring in an assemblage of three or more persons. The people doing the urging never have to commit an act of violence or know the people who do. They never, in fact, have to urge a riot. William Kunstler, famed constitutional lawyer, feels “rock-androll stars and promoters could be prosecuted under this law if violence occurred at a show.”
Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, and Tom Hayden were pulled into court on a “Conspiracy” charge. Last week, they were found guilty on an “Intent to incite violence charge”, sentenced to five years each, and fined a total of $85,000. This week, Abbie Hoffman is in solitary confinement for calling a Chicago prison guard a pig. In Woodstock nation, Abbie has said of the system that has now incarcerated him: “They have adopted Catch-22 as their motto which states. if you remember, ‘we can put anybody in jail who we don’t like no matter what the fuck the constitution says.’ ”
The Chicago “Conspiracy” trial, now concluded, has demonstrated the truth of Abbie’s words. And once they get the people they want behind bars, all of them, they’ll be free to go on polluting our atmosphere, building bigger bombs, and ever so thoroughly fulfilling the conditions described in Orwell’s 1984. And we, too, will feel the eye of big brother in our lives. , Pastor Neimoeller said of his experiences prior to World War II, “When I saw the Nazis attack the communists, I was concerned; but I was not a communist, so I did nothing. When I saw the Nazis attack the jews. I was concerned; but I was ‘not a jew, so I did nothing. When I saw the Nazis attack the trade unions, I was concerned; yet I was not a tradesman, so I did nothing. When I saw the Nazis attack the church, I was concerned; and I tried to do something, and found that it was too late.”
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“Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards or weaklings, and our honour false in all its points. George Bernard Shaw “Its sympathies are all with misery, with poverty, with starvation of the body and of the heart. I call on it to sympathise with joy, with love, with of heart, true sincerity, the bond happiness, with beauty.... .Give me warmth of sympathy with love and joy.” George Bernard Shaw
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All who achieve real distinction in life begin as revolutionists. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older (e.g. Bertrand Russel-ed’s note), though they are commonly supposed to become more conservative owing to their loss of faith in conventional methods of reform”. , George Bernard Shaw . “I am afraid our property system will not be settled without violence unless you make up your minds that, if it is defended by violence, it will be4 overthrown by violence. George Bernard Shaw
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The conviction of the chicago five has laid bare the truths of the repressive movement in the United states. ‘While the leftist and radical groups in the states have been pushing their congtitutional rights to the limit, an equally strong and right wing radical faction has arisen to meet and counteract this movement. Throughout the history of the twentieth century, this sort of event has been repeated. It is not particular to the US either. In Quebec during the Duplessis years the unions united to oppose the strike breaking activities of the government. In the US where the left and other radical groups have become increasingly militant in the past few years, the establishment has become increasingly intolerant of such disturbances. They work as vociferously against the rights of protesters as the protesters press their rights in an effort to realize social change. The Chicago five, the panthers and many others groups strive to tear down the very institutions which are now condemning them. They mocked the courts and judge in an effort to shine light on the need for radical change. The
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establishment which is being threatened then reverts to the use of the courts to keep these people from being active. This situation is not unique to the United States.’ The legal system in Canada also serves as a means of protecting the interests of established powers. In. Quebec the police have been given extraordinary powers to quell ‘terrorist’ activities - and control demonstrations. The courts back up the police with heavy fines and jail sentences for all offenders. , T.hrough the use of injunctions and a multitude of laws against obstructing, impeding etcetera, the power of strikes and pickets are very much controlled and these restrictions will only be increased if labour shows any signs of militancy. These and many othe,r cases only prove that the Canadian legal system serves the same interests as its American counterpart. The conclusion which we must reach from this is obvious. We must support the Chicago 5 in their opposition to the powers that exist. If we let them fight on without us then we too will stand alone when we come into opposition to that system.
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