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Env stud sot sets aside funds for sot members The environmental studies society has set aside funds in order that its members can obtain small, short-term, interestfree loans. Environmental studies students can obtain a maximum of 100 dollars to help them ride

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The capital has been raised from various functions that the society has sponsored. Enquiries should be made at the awards office.

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The prestigious Laurel dining room, formerly a favourite noontime rendez-vous for campus gourmets, has been forced, by financial exigencies, to terminate its services. According to Uniwat food mogul Bob Mudie, the restaurant has not managed over the last few years to stay on its fiscal feet, and being required to work on a break-even basis, this branch of the Food Services chain has regretfully suspended operations. The

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The repercussions of the demonstration in front of the Toronto US consulate still are pending for some of the participants from Shane Roberts of Waterloo. physics and his brother Doug of integrated studies were both charged with causing a disturbance and will have their day in court on September 17.

History prof, Leo Johnson and a group of graduates from his departmen t are volunteering their services to the residents of the Kitchener-Waterloo community this fall. They hope to introduce history 2231224, a course in Canadian history, to people who, for educational, financial or other reasons have been unable to participate in university-level courses. Johnson, himself a returnee at twenty-seven, feels that this will give an opportunity to the lowermiddle and labor classes and the community in general to study the social history of their classes and the history of Waterloo County in particular. The course will allow the participants to study almost any aspect of history they choose. Johnson sees this as the best way of getting people involved in history. He cited a student in one

Three other Uniwat students have already been tried and two of them were given small fines. Bill Jackson had his charge of assault dropped. Bob Mertl of grad psychology received a 100 dollar fine for causing a disturbance and Dennis Wright received a 25 dollar fine for obstructing. /

Grad brief fo Benson asks for non-taxable grants Last month, the graduate student union endorsed a brief on Benson’s taxation proposals and forwarded it to Ottawa. The brief was prepared by the committee on the taxation white paper headed by Jan Carr. Of primary concern is the white paper’s suggestion that research grants be considered taxable income. Carr reports that a “small survey” of the committee’s finds 80 percent of the graduate students against such a move. The. reason given for graduate students’ objection is that grants are only designed to be subsistance wages. “The size of this living allow-

ante would appear to be about 2,500 to 5,000 dollars per year less than the net income that students would ~otherwise earn if they had elected to enter the work force rather than continue their education.” A suggestion that grants be raised to offset the added tax was raised in the brief but it also noted that it would be difficult for the government to ensure an increase in research support from non-federal sources. Another suggestion was to consider compulsory university fees, text book and other publication costs, conference expenses and learned society fees as allowable deductions. ”

of his previous courses in Ontario history as an example. The woman was a fur farmer who was taking her first course and didn’t know what to study. A suggestion and the history of fur farming became her specialty. In the end the paper she wrote was of such extent and quality that it was made ready for publication in an historical journal. History grad, Pete Warrian, feels that “the people and only the people are the motive force in the making of history.” This is one reason why he is involved with the course, to help. people understand the circumstances and effects of the events that mold his tory. The course and its direction evolved out of Johnson’s experience with labor people and their motivation to education.

In his post high school, days in the factories, he found persons who said that “it took guts” to return to higher education. “Once a person perceives, that it (education) can be done, it is simply a choice of study or no study. It doesn’t take guts.” “Most people in the factories don’t imagine that they can do it, that there is no way to learn”. “It can be done. All we have to do is provide a way.” This course could very well be the way, for it attempts to involve as many people as possible by making the course available as a regular credit, a diploma credit and gratis to the community who are interested in history for the shear joy of learning it. Find out what it’s really like! Attend the first lecture: Thursday Sept. 17 8 pm. al 116 r

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Fledgling sociefy sfarfs off fall with ,big bang

The environmen ta1 studies society is commencing an exciting new term in a brand new office, Social Sciences 135. Starting September 14 you can find them there between the hours of ten to three. The environmental studies : grads are there too. The office will be used for council meetings and as a study room and information center. As

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well, students can obtain coffee and donuts there starting september 14 for a trial period of a week. The society is planning an exciting fall for its students with both fun and education programs. On the 25th of this month they will run a “honky tonk” night and in October a trip to Toronto will take in a look at the plans for the proposed Harbor City. fee

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After months of indecision the University of Waterloo has finally decided to alot space in the Married Student Residence for a day care center. They also recommended that the operation be supervised by trained professional staff. This type of structure would cost $62 per child per month. night However, on tuesday more than 50 parents, many of whom are involved in the Waterloo Baby Commune, decided that $62 was more than they. could afford. Moreover, they preferred the co-operative structure of the existing center which allowed them to make the decision on the principles and programs and to maintain operations while charging between $30 and $40 a month for each child. The Waterloo Baby Commune is a co-operative baby care center which has been operating in the Campus Center since april. Together, the parents and volunteers with one hired staff organized to care for 25 children under the age of 3 throughout the summer. Because of their position of legal responsibility for activities on university property the administration initiated an investigation of the feasibility of day care on campus. The following is a condensed version of a letter summarizing their position. “Mr. N. Ozaruk, Director of Safety, was asked to investigate all facets of involvement by the University in a Day Care Centre. This included investigations into the municipal situation, Provincial regulations, and the interests of groups such as the Waterloo Baby Commune in the Campus Center, the University of Waterloo Women’s Club, etc. These investigations indicate that there is no licensed infant care center-up to age 2% in the Twin Cities, but that there are eight pre-school Day Care Centers are under-utilized. In which fact, many of the existing preschool centers would be severely hurt were the University to consider setting up a competitive preschool Day Care Center. Therefore, it is felt that a service of this kind on the campus must be directed towards the needs for infant day care. “Mr. Ozaruk also studied possible sites for the operation of an Infant Care Center. One site emerges clearly obvious which is the center at the Married Student Housing complex. The University is prepared to support the operation to the extent of paying rent for the use of the space in the Married Student Housing complex to the credit of the income of the apartments.... for a total of $5000.; for the use of the space as an Infant Care Center from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. five days, a week, 52 weeks a year. . . . This would still leave the space available for the tenants for other activities each evening, weekends and holidays.. . In addition, the university is prepared to provide the initial capital costs of furnishing and equipping the Infant Care Center. “The main question that remains is who will operate the center? The University Women’s Club is interested in this and, at this time, we are not certain whether the Tenants Association would wish to be the operators. At this time, investigation is

proceeding to determine which group would be willing to operate the center. The space will be ready about mid-September and conceivably a center could be operative by about the 1st of October. “The Waterloo Baby Commune in the Campus Center was given permission to operate in the Campus Center until September 1, 1970. In that undertaking it was understood that the Center would be licensed and that it would conform to the necessary Provincial regulations. This has not been the case, but I think most of those involved have not been too concerned on the understanding that the University was trying to find a more permanent basis for an operation. With matters progressing as described above, it would appear that there could be about a month’s gap between the existing arrangements and a more permanent arrangement for an Infant Care Center. On that basis it would not seem unreasonable to permit the Waterloo Baby Commune to continue until october 1. This is not to imply that the Campus Center Board, if it should require the space earlier, could not terminate the center at September 1 as originally agreed. In any event, the center should not continue beyond september 30, 1970. ” Although it does not state it directly, the letter seems to imply that the Waterloo Baby Commune is not a prospective operator of the University sponsored center. This is probably because the administration does not want to take responsibility for an unlicensed operation. The existing center is not licensed because their present. accommodation do not exactly meet the stringent provincial requirements. However the area in the Married Students residence would be qui$ acceptable. Also the Day Nurseries Branch, which is in charge of licensing, is requiring that a hot meal be served at lunch to those children who are eating regular food. In order to keep expenses as low as possible the Baby Care Center has each child bring his own lunch, which is usually a sandwhich, and therefore not acceptable. But the most important objection is that the staff is not considered qualified to supervise the care of small children. According to the Day Nurseries Act staff should be trained in the care of children of the age who are attending. However, there is no training in the supervising the care of children under 2% given in North America. The parents have decided instead to chose the staff on the basis of attitude, ability and commitment, rather than solely on academic qualifications. The meeting on tuesday also decided to adopt a new name, the Children’s Co-operative Day Care Center, as they soon hope to enrol1 children over 2%. This fall there are more than 40 children enrolled. As always, they need more toys and cribs and anything that children use. But especially the time, ideas and enthusiasm of people who love children. If you’re one come to the campus center, room 211, anytime.

First year students who have not yet picked up their orientation tickets may do so monday September 14 between 9 and 5 at the federation office, campus center.

Concerned pawn ts of the world plan stategJ> to what will happet? to their children, presen tll? under the care 0.f’ the Waterloo Baby Commune. The tllliversity administration would like to transfer the day care center from its present location in the campus center to the married student residences.

Jim Harding

Youth

crisis next

A former philosophical advisor behind the now disbanded Canadian union of students, Jim Harding, has applied to the faculty of integrated studies for a teaching position beginning in October. Harding, on campus for the orientation program earlier in the week, has based his application around a proposal to delve into the phenomenon of unemployed “surplus” youth and the examination of alternate “orientations” to the present social pattern-through existentialism, phenomenology and mysticism. Harding, who caused minor consternation at Simon *Fraser university in june by kissing the chancellor’s feet after receiving a PhD degree, sees modern, hitch-hiking high-school and university youth developing a communal spirit similar to that which developed among workers in the nineteen thirties. According to Harding, a crisis between society and this new “transient” class may be reached next summer. He fears the government will decide to handle large numbers of roving, unemployed young people by developing a military economy like the United States. Harding, began working in political science but has completed most of his degree work in psychology. He comments that the “pinpoint” focus of university education and training is an example of the false consciousness that governs most people’s lives: This consciousness breeds myths, such as the

sumtier

myth of professionalism, which become the basis of social structure and mobility. And he sees communes as one of the first real attempts to break away from the institutionalized myths of our culture. The culture, he claims, prevents any opportunity to “flow out” of itself and to provide built-in mechanisms for social change; choosing instead to entrench its rigidity. His approach to integrated studies would offer what he called a “being-with” type of learning; learning that might originally be compared to the student-centered teaching of american psychologist Carl Rogers. He contends the usual rigid “teacher” role required by most universities of their faculty makes it easy for them to co-opt so-called radical instructors because too ‘many of the intellectual leftists in Canada today are hung up in playing their various ideological roles. The left has become a collection of creeds. Harding says he does not pretend to define anything in any way, but intends to play with wordsnot generalize to allow for the formation of such creeds. It is Harding’s intent to “help us un1.ear.n.” He will return to his farm commune in British Columbia’s Fraser valley to help with crop gathering until October, when he hopes to hear from the university about his integrated studies proposal. He’s been hitching and on the road a long time and wants to get back to see his five-year old son.

Grad council discusses survey, orientation, grants and fees According to the referendum held by the grad student union this summer’ 573 students wanted out of the federation of students. Of a total of 1319 students 873 voted in the referendum. In the questionnaire which accompanied the referendum, fortyfive percent of those who voted demanded a voluntary union administered by the grad student union, The Grad Bag, the Creative arts programme, a graduate student phone directory, legal assistance, disability insurance and departmental graduate student groups were those activities which grads indicated they were willing to support financially. These results and other issues were discussed at the grad student union meeting, monday, august 24th. Grad services has initiated a temporary housing list for grad students without any place to stay in Waterloo. Although they had lined up thirty-seven families who are willing to take in these students, only one has so far requested

has not a room. This service been strongly advertised. orientation committee The mentioned that it is looking for volunteers to lead tours around campus for new grad students on September 14. It was suggested that grad service or ISA supply the volunteers but foreign student officer Edith Beausoleil objected to ISA people being used, since their thick accents make it difficult for other people to understand them. However it was pointed out that fifty-two percent of the grad students are foreign students. There seemed to be a general lack of manpower in the Grad Union. Absent council members and resignations were discussed by the council and volunteers were needed for grad activities. Following a decision to forward a position paper on taxation of grants to Ottawa, grad council debated the need for a minimum wage among grad students. engineering students Whereas receive a minimum of $3000., Art friday

students receive a maximum of $1500. and sometimes nothing at all. One engineer admitted receiving $6000. the year before. A committee has been established to look into the equalization of grants among all grad students. B. Kappel will be the pro-tern chairman of this committee.In a discussion of housing problems at the university, it was pointed out that a grad student was recently kicked out of his room at the village. He had failed to pay the rent for two weeks between summer and fall terms. While he was absent from his room, his belongings were packed up and moved out. He was moved out of his room to make room for convention goers. The meeting concluded with a suggestion for a fee-structure. In ‘such arrangement there would be both a compulsory and voluntary fee, for example $5. compulsory and $10. voluntary. This would commence in april, for the summer term. 7 7 September

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The psychiatrists were talking at the dignified american psychiatric association conference, about why Indians kill themselves. They had before them, many statistics and far-reaching facts on the sorry plight of north american Indians : a suicide rate ten times that of the rest of the population. Unemployment, ten times the national figure, infant morality 1% times greater than the national average, squalid, chaotic, living conditions on the reservations, epidemic alcoholism, loss of

“I keep wondering,” commented Dr. Karl Menninger of Kansas, “why more Indians don’t commit suicide under the conditions of life our society has forced upon m them for a century or more.” For quite a while, psychiatrists probed the indian condition-the “systematic stripping of tribal the banning of “primiidentity,” tive and barbaric rituals.” the forced sedentary, nuclear family set-up for a nomadic people used to travelling in extended families, the dependency on government handoutsPerhaps the psychiatrists were about to embark on therapeutic recommendations; perhaps a position paper was about to be drawn up. But suddenly the radical caucus of mental health workers who had throughout the convention intervened to bring up the topics ~\ of war, imperialism, racism, and the conspiracy against the Panthers, went into action. The appearance of a half-naked young man who jumped into the room, war-whooping, rather startled the doctors. “I’m a crazy Indian,” he shouted at the silence-struck room. “Look, I’m crazy, I’m an Indian!” Just as suddenly, the Lone Ranger appeared. Rushing down the isle, he faced the Indian with a cap pistol, and cried, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian! ! ” The Lone Ranger fired, the Indian fell, and the Lone Ranger turned to the psychiatrists. “The point,” he said, “is this: your talk here may be relevant and important. But genocide is just as important to understanding Indians as suicide. Remember.” The stunned audience of doctors applauded guiltily as the guerrilla actors departed. (UPS)

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Orientation Orientation ‘30 is moving along pretty well without too many foul-ups. The major problems this year have been the three Phases and the concert. The entertainment appearing at the Phases was to be a secret because it was felt. that no one knew what was going on; only those who were really keen would come out and the events could be held in the campus center. As it turned out the story of what entertainment was coming leaked out and the orientationpeople decided to move the events to waterloo arena which has more room and the events can be restricted by means of tickets to first year students. The concert started out being an evening concert at the physed building. The committee then decided to hold the concert outside at seagrams stadium with several groups. The groups were booked

Attention Ffancais > Les canadiens francais de l’Universite de Waterloo (etudiants, employes, professeurs) sont pries d’envoyer 1) leur nom, 2) leur adresse, 2) leur numero de telephone a Dieter Haag, journaliste pour la Gazette (library building). 11 s’agit d’un article que M. Haag est en train de preparer au sujet des canadiens francais en residence a l’universite.

but the committee was then informed that Lutheran had a football game scheduled there. Many efforts were made to get Lutheran to move the game to friday night which failed. The committee then had to get permission to use the gym but didn’t get final OK until last week. The

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acts were then told that they would have to play at night rather than in the afternoon. Motherlode was the only group who had taken another contract for that night, and have been replaced by the Cowsills. “All in all the past week has been a prolonged bummer,” said Larry Burko, orientation chairman.

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IS weekend stresses more positiveness Integrated studies kicks off the year with an integrated studies weekend starting this afternoon and continuing through to sunday, in the farmhouse on northcampus. (For the frosh that’s a little and a little east of the Columbia street entrance on north end of campus. You can’t miss it. It’s the red farmhouse. )

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until later on in the fall. The IS people see this as an impetus that will grow through the people to envelope the rest of the university community and its resources.

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The resource people invited, include Jim Davison and Harold Miller of educational pysch, Bob Thatcher and Bill Hudspa with their brain studies, psych profs Fred Kemp and Viv Walsh and registrar Peter Brothers. Even administration president Bert Mathe’ws promised to drop in.

Throughout the unstructured happening there will be some structure, with a non-electric jam session friday night and an all day paint-in on Saturday. Sunday will be reserved specially for the meeting of resource people and students and hopefully self-initiated seminars.

Although basically for the integrated studies students as an introduction to each other, it is open to others who are interested in IS or like to paint and renovate an old house.

The weekend became a reality this year because of the complaints of nothing happening in IS

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At what was termed a “get together luncheon” last thursday in the faculty club, administration president Burt Matthews indicated there was little possibility of any future teachers’ college being located on this campus. At the same time, he considered Waterloo was more than in the running for a medical school expected to be approved by the provincial government soon. Contenders with Waterloo are York, Lauren tian, Windsor and Brock, all of which were asked by the Ontario medical association to indicate their feelings in the matter. Matthews expects the extremity universities will not be chosen because of the cost of shipping equipment and their great distance from the Toronto area, even though the immediate and expected need for trained medical personnel in the area is great. Other questions and comments from the assembled half-dozen Kitchener-Waterloo and campus media people included: l Will the university support faculties’ offering courses to the public at no charge, such as the recently-announced history faculty’s decision to make its resources available to people -who would not ordinarily use themsuch as the underpriviledged and poor? Matthews said the university should provide courses, but in order to finance them, the courses should count towards a degree. He called on non-university collerre to heln in this field. 0” Are there inequalities in

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the manner in which graduate arts and engineering students receive monies and awards? Academic vice-president Howard Petch also present, said there was need for “reasonable uniformity” in the way grads received money and seemed to indicate he was already looking into the situation. Aside from some vague and loose generalities about the relation of the university to the community, Matthews did not, as was reported on one local media, make any important social statements-. The meeting was designed to introduce Matthews to the local media and proper liberal openers were offered by both information director Jack Adams and Gazette editor Bob Whi tton.

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Speed reading; study skills offered again The counselling center is again offering its reading and study skills improvement program. “Many students experience panic when faced ,with ,what apeears to be an insurmountable pile of books to go through at university and we feel we could offer help, ” says Joan Walsh, reading counsellor.V “Our program differs from most reading courses in that each student can start at his own level and work at his own speed.” The program consists of a weekly group session and twice weekly lab sessions. The em-

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T MIGHT SEEM that a Pulitzer prize awaits the enterprising correspondent who uncovers full details of the CIA’s role in Sihanouk’s overthrow. For reasons one can surmise, the american newspaper fraternity has thus far elected to pass up the story. And so, at some future day, another historic episode of the sale guerre will finally break on a surprised american public. When it does, Americans will become familiar with two more strange names-the Khmer Serai and the Khmer Krom, two CIA-trained organizations of ethnic Cambodians living in Thailand and south Vietnam respectively. Still, sufficient has already appeared in print to fill in some patches of historical background and to suggest how the coup received its outside support. An article in Ramparts (August 1970), for example, gives the first coherent history of the organization of the Khmer Serai and the Khmer Krom. As early as april, french sources-often best informed on events in Indo-China-reported specifically on the CIA’s role in the mob attacks on communist embassies in Pnompenh. Using this data I.F. Stone, as might be expected, was the first american newsman to handle the story. His piece in the Bi-Week/y ( May 18, 1970) runs as follows:

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But to judge by H.D.S. Greenway’s intriguing Cambodia article in the july A t/antic, the Khmer Krom also had a finger in the pie. His information was picked up almost by accident, and his report deliberately refrains from spelling out its significance. Meeting up with one of the key operators in the sacking of the Pnompenh embassies, he presents him under the name “Omar Sharif,” as conveying the temperament of the man he discusses. His account begins with another nameless individual, called simply “the major.” This gentleman, who had served as a paratrooper with the french colonial forces, boastfully showed Greenway the bridge into Pnompenh where his Cambodian troops had fired into an anti-Len No1 “angry crowd, ” with heavy loss of life. Along with “the major”, the account continues, was a sleek, slim,

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exit the king by eugene The rugger on Coluuzbia

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The action continues every day during practice league game is scptcmbcr 26 against MC Master.

returt7s to roost, but reserves to rove

Rugger returns to the campus this fall with the regular Q-QAA league and a new programme, intramural rugger. Since the rugger club was founded, 3 years ago, the standard of rugby has steadily improved, and in 1969 the Warriors were runners-up in the 0-QAA western division. In 1970, with many experienced players from previous years returning, and new talent arriving, there is an excellent chance of winning the league.

Rugger is one of the fastest growing of Canadian sports and on this campus is strongly supported by the department of athletics. The club operates as a fraternity, encouraging players to enjoy the sport both on, and off, the field. It is not only players with previous rugger experience who make up the strength of the team. As in the past two teams will be playing this year, the First XV and the Reserve XV, and many people new to the game begin in the Reserves

and end the season playing for the Firsts. Expert coaching is provided for newcomers to the game. No previous experience is necessary and football players will find the game enjoyable - everyone gets to carry the ball! Training has already begun, and practices are held every day at 5 pm. on Columbia field, lasting for about 40 minutes. The first league game is on Saturday September 26 against McMaster University at 12 noon on Columbia field.

To speak critically of the athletic establishment is like attacking motherhood or some other sacred institution. Nevertheless, there is no evidence to prove that athletics build character or that the athlete makes a better citizen than his ordinary brother. The idea that the Canadian image is materially enhanced by the production of champion teams is naive; trying to bolster our national prestige by the superiority of our athletes is an indication of our immaturity. Each year the federal government spends large sums in training an athletic elite to represent us in international meets, but the search for personal identity or a new sense of nationhood was never realized by a hockey team or an Olympic championship. The obsession with record breaking is nonsense. The ability to put the shot 40 or 50 feet, especially by a girl, is no guarantee she is also well equipped with grace and \ good will.

of the same order as an imaginative concern for one’s fellow man. Such feats should set men and women apart as curios but not as heroes. Many towns now have their own halls of fame, which suggest that the athletic milieu is exceedingly rich, especially in terms of medals and cups. Archeologists probing into the ruins of our culture a century or so from now might well conclude that the mass production of so many trophies indicated certain narcissistic tendencies on the part of a large number of our citizenry. The athletic establishment has little sense of humor. They do not smile at their own foibles. They are .deadly serious and many of them are stuffed with self-importance or full of adolescent aggression They have made war out of the natural delight we have in games and play. They auction off their misfits and failures to the highest bidder. A heavy federal-provincial tax should be imposed on all professional athletic activities. The monies raised could be well spent on our alienated youth, and on the preparation and support of drop-in centres. Some of the money could go into research for the retarded,

into children’s hospitals and innercity programs. In Vancouver nearly 900,000 dollars has been spent on a kind of plasticized carpet to cover the grounds at Empire stadium. The carpet adds a colorful touch and, I’m told, provides better traction in a football game...but that’s a lot of money to pay just for traction, especially for big men wrapped up in burlap and corsets and fibreglass helmets. And it’s a lot to pay for wall-to-wall carpet on the good earth for the football hero to wipe his feet on, especially when we have homes in our town where the food is not quite so abundant, nor the steaks quite so thick, as at the training camps of our champions.

To dedicate yourself to the task of swimming on your back faster than any other human being, or leaping into the air higher than your fellows, or hurtling down a ski slope at breakneck speed are individual rights but they are not

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The second phase in the development of the university of Waterloo’s campus radio facilities has been announced by Radio Waterloo : Barring complications, the radio station could be included in the programming of Grand River cable as early as October of this year. This would mean a potential listening audience of over 45,000 for the campus station. Plans are also underway to introduce carrier current service for the immediate university area by superimposing the Radio Waterloo signal on hydro lines-enabling the station to be received by any standard AM radio. Costs of the carrier current installation have been estimated at $16,000 by Western telephone and telecommunications limited of Toronto, and Radio Waterloo is presently working out an arrangement whereby the administration would assume such installation costs. Service would extend to all church colleges, university residences ’ and nearby co-op residences. Cost estimates do not include serviceto Waterloo Lutheran, which also participates in Radio Waterloo. Lutheran’s administration will be approached for financial aid in extending carrier current to that campus., Carrier current has been in wide use‘for several years in the United States and has been successfully employed experimentally at the university of Ottawa. The move to carrier current and cable service marks adivergence from original Radio’ Waterloo plans which called for obtaining a regular FM licence from the can-

adian radio and television corn mission. But this plan$ording to station manager Jerry Cook in a brief to the federation of students in august, was shattered by a recent CRTC, ruling. “Provincial institutions,” he said, “may not now hold licences. ” ; (Original plans called for the licence to be held by the university administration - presumably a more “stable” bo’dy than the federation of students) “The ruling states that new stations will not be licenced and that stations now in operation must reorganize,” he said. The station will continue its nocommercials policy’ and hopes to extend information programming-including discussion shows and radio plays or poetry-beyond its present limit. . Former Radio Waterloo manager Bruce Steele saw the station’s present limited closed circuit operation- into the campus center and some residence lounges as constricting acceptable programming into a muzak format . “It is difficult to get people in a large group to pay attention to any thing, ” said Steele, “their attention span is shortened by the appeal of their surroundings. ” The features format of new programming will be planned as a “forum” available to all factions at the unihrsity. Features director David ‘&illick stressed that production staff will- be urged to be “unbiased$ though he did not rule out the ,,possibility that independent students producing one-view-programs would receive station assistance.

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FOOD For most university students, food has to at the same time be cheap, varied, easy, quick and nutritious. At the best of times it is difficult to satisfy all of these, and for those who have seldom had to do so before, it’s next to impossible. not in a residence, the monotony :- . -LrFor&dents +a~ning up cans of mush for one meal and eating the next bland one in a cafeteria is much too familiar” To help you find more palatable and cheaper food, this column will suggest recipes, places to eat, diversions, hints and anything else you might want to know. If you live in a residence I can only suggest that you give some of the recipes to the cook, or go out for dinner occasionally to keep your taste buds alive. Potatoes to lobster, leftovers to bought-especially’s: l-don’t-know-what-to-do-with’s to wouldn’tthat-be-good-in’s, all are good in SOUPS. A good soup can serve as a prelude to a meal, a light lunch, or a main course accompan’ed by bread, chetzse, salad, or whatever you like. Most soups will keep for a week, and many don’t need to be refrigerated if they are reheated every day or so. Although they often cook for hours, the preparation and attention necessary is usually minimum. And for flavour and price homemade soups are almost always better than canned or packaged. ones. Soups are healthful, cheap, easy to make, and best of all GOOD. Here are the’ recipes for some of the easiest, cheapest . and best. The quantities can be as large or as small as you want, and the ingredients adjusted to your taste. Three of these soups, and many others, are made with stock. To make a good beef stock, put one or more beef soup bones in cold salted water, cover, bring to a boil, and boil for about 2% hours. If the soup recipe calls for any herbs or spices add them with the bone. (Allow one pound of bone and meat for each quart of water.) Remove the bone and skim off the fat. If the bone has any meat on it, cut it off and s..r’d AL iC X-e Z-e Iswell pieces along with the other in.u..-&zir gredients. Chicken stock can be made in the same way with chicken parts and bones. Stock can also be made quickly but more expensively using instant powders, liquids or cubes, or these can be used with your own stock to give a better flavor. Any stock can be made whenever you have the bones or parts on hand and frozen in a covered container for latter use. Its a good idea\ to use water drained from cooked vegetables to add flavour and nutrients to stocks and soups. CREAM

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Because some instant ingredients are cheapquick, and keep indefinitely they are sometimes more worthwhile than the tastier fresh ingredients. Dried minced parsley, garlic powder,. dried minced onion, celery salt, and almost all herbs are worth having. For the celery flavouring in this, and most recipes, you can use either fresh chopped celery, celery salt, or crushed celery seeds. 3 medium potatoes 1 onion 3 cups boiling water or any stock 3 tbsp butter or margarine 3 tbsp flour 1 tsp salt l/4 tsp pepper 3 cups milk

Slice and cook potatoes and onion in water or s-tack until tender. Then mash, or press through a seive (or blend) depending on whether or not you like potato soup lumpy (as I do). Melt butter, stir in flour, add salt, pepper and milk and cook gently until thickened (it takes a surprisingly long time), stirring constantly. Combine with potatoes, add celery and parsley. If desired (ie, if you have some), add 2 tbsp dry sherry just before serving. (Serves 4 or 5 VEGETABLE

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This is a soup that is great made with just about any fresh, frozen, or canned vegetables on hand. The herbs and spices listed are important for giving the soup its full flavor. about 1?/2quarts beef stock with some meat dash garlic powder 1%tsp crushed red pepper 1 bay leaf 1 cup tomatoes or tomato juice l/i tsp each of minced parsley, thyme, marjoram, sweet basil, whole allspice 3/4 cup each diced raw potatoes, carrots and celery (you can add turnips, cabbage, or whatever you like ) 112cup shopp ed onion Dump all the ingredients together and simmer for l/2,hour. (Serves 8 to 12) OivION SOUP This soup simmers for 4 hours but takes only a few minutes to prepare. To saute onions a half-and-half mixture of oil and butter prevents burning while giving the most flavour. Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce (in moderation) and Kitchen Bouquet add flavour to almost any beef base soup or stew. P dozen thinly sliced onions about 3 quarts beef broth % cup butter and oil 1 tsp each of Worcestershire sauce and Kitchen Bouquet % tsp Tabasco sauce Saute onions in butter and oil until golden (about 10 minutes). Add all other ingredients and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boiling, reduce heat, cover and simmer about 4 hours. The soup is best when poured over grated Parmesan cheese or Munster cheese in each bowl, or served with toasted French bread sprinkled with cheese and broiled until browned in the oven.

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This colorful cold soup can be made ahead of time and kept for several days in the refrigerator. But it should be kept covered since it has a rather penetrating odor. Tomatoes peel easily if they are dunked for a few seconds in boiling water, then in cold water. 5 or 6 large, ripe tomatoes, peeled if you wish, andchopped 1 each, chopped large onion, cucumber, green pepper and pimiento or sweet red pepper pinch of cayenne or % tsp black pepper some black olives (pitted > if you like them 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped (or about % minced garlic) 3 tsp oil (preferably olive oil) 3 tbsp vinegar (preferably red wine vinegar) Combine all ingredients; salt and pepper to taste ; cover and chill thoroughly. Float ice cubes in ice to serve, and if desired, sprinkle with bread cubes. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding FOOD, address them to FOOD, the Chevron, campus center University of Waterloo.

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Our social thinkers have a bad conscience about the student problem, but only because the real problem is the poverty and servitude of all. But we have different reasons to despise the student , and all his works. What is unforgivable is not so much is actual misery but his complaisance in the face of the misery of others For him there is only one real alienation: his own. He is a full-time and happy consumer of that commodity, hoping to arouse at least our pity, since he cannot claim our interest.

MIGHT VERY WELL SAY, and no one would disagree with us, that the student is the most universally despised creature in France, apart from the priest and the policeman. Of course, he is usually attacked from the wrong point of view, with specious reasons derived from the ruling ideology. He lmay be worth the contempt of a true revolutionary, yet a revolutionary critique of the student situation is currently taboo on the official left. The licensed and impotent opponents of capitalism repress the obvious-that what is wrong with the students is also what is wrong with them. They convert their unconscious contempt into blind enthusiasm The radical intelligensia prostrates itself before the so-called “rise of the student” and the declining bureaucracies of the left bid noisily for his moral and material support.

There are reasons for this sudden enthusiasm, but they are all provided by the present form of capitalism, in its overdeveloped state. We shall use this pamphlet for denunciation. We shall expose these reasons one by one, on the principle that the end of alienation is only reached by the straight and narrow path of alienation itself.

his separation is the false justification or raison d’etre of his poverty. Student poverty actually depends on that “outside” economic for housing, food, recreation, and even for the very buildings and personel which constitute his “academic world”. Student poverty is a self-enforced fiction. Nowadays the teenager shuffles off the moral prejudices ’ and authority of ‘the family to become part of the market even before he is adolescent: at fifteen he has all the delights of being directly exploited as a consumer. In contrast the student covets his protracted infancy as an irresponsible and docile paradise. Adolescence and its crises may bring occasional brushes with the family, but in essence he is not troublesome: he agrees to be treated as a baby by the institutions which provide his education. There is no “student problem”. Student passivity is only the most obvious symptom of a general state of affairs, for each sector of social life has been subdued by a similar imperialism.

The student really knows how miserable will be that golden future which is supposed to make up for the shameful poverty of the present. In the face of that knowledge, he prefers to dote on the present and invent an imaginary prestige for himself. After all, there will be no magical compensation for present drabness: tomorrow will be like yesterday, lighting these fools the way to dusty death. Not unnaturally he takes refuge in an unreal present.

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Up to now, studies of student life have ignored the essential issue. The surveys and analyses have all been psychological or sociological or economic : in other words, academic exercises, content with the false categories of one specialization or another. None of them can achieve what is most neededa view of modern society as a whole. Their error ~was long ago denounced as the attempt to justify the basic assumptions of science through the application of scientific laws. Everything is said about our society except what it is, and the nature of its two basic principlesthe commodity and the spectacle. The fetishism of facts and data masks the realities, and relegates the totality to oblivion. The scientist-academics consign to the limbo of fiction all “facts”, such as repression, that cannot be measured with their Objective Instruments. They make no distinction between repression and the preservation of order.

MODERN CAPITALISM AND ITS SPECTACLE ALLOT EVERYONE A SPECIFIC ROLE IN A GENERAL PASSIVITY

The student is no exception to the rule. He has a provisional part to play, a rehearsal for his final role as an element in market society as conservative as the rest. Being a student is a form of initiation. An initiation which echoes the rites of more primitive societies with bizarre precision. It goes on outside of history, cut off from social reality. The student leads a double life: poised between his present status and his future role. The two are absolutely separate, and the journey from one to the other is a mechanical event “in the future.” Meanwhile, he basks in a schizophrenic consciousness, withdrawing into his initiation group to hide from that future. Protected from history, the present is a mystic trance.

The student-whether in his dormitory or in his communelives out the rite of passage in an ascetic “separation ” from the realities of economic life. The student, by his poverty, attempts to avoid entering the existing economic situation ;

The student is a stoical slave: the more chains autlnority heaps on him, the freer he is in fantasy. He shares with his new family, the university, a belief in a curious kind of autonomy. Independence, apparently, lies in a direct subservience to the two most powerful systems of social control: the family and the state. He is their well-behaved and grateful child, and like the submissive child, he is over-eager to please. He celebrates all the values and mystifications of the system, devouring them with all the anxiety of the infant at the breast. Once, the old illusions were painfully transmitted by the endless competition of the wage-labor market; today, the specialist-to-be ingest them willingly under the guise of popular culture.

There are various forms of compensation for poverty. The total poverty of ancient societies produced the grandiose compensation of religion. The student’s poverty is by contrast a marginal phenomenon, and he casts around for compensations among the most decadent images of the ruling class. He is a bore who repairs the old jokes of an alienated culture. Even as an ideologist, he is always out of date. One and all, his latest enthusiasms were ridiculous thirty years ago. ONCE UPON A TIME

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The student persists in the belief that there is nowhere else worth being. But he arrived 150 years too late. The bygone excellence of bourgeois culture has vanished. A mechanically produced specialist is now the goal of the educational system. A modern economic system demands mass production of students who are not educated and who have been rendered incapable of thinking. Hence, the decline of the universities and the automatic nullity of the student once he enters its portals.

The university has become a society for the propagation of ignorance ; “high culture” has taken on the rhythm of the production line’ university teachers are all cretins, men who would get the bird from any audience of children. But all this hardly matters: the important thing is to go on listening respectfully. In time, if critical thinking is repressed with enough conscientiousness the student will come to partake of the wafer of knowledge, the professor will tell him the final truths of the world. Till then-a menopause of the spirit. As a matter of course, the future revolutionary society will condemn the doings of lecture theater and faculty is mere noise . The student is already a very bad joke.

\ The student is blind to the obviousthat even his closed world is changing. The “crisis of the university”-that detail of more general crisis of modern capitalism-is the latest fodder for the deaf-mute dialogue of the specialists. This “crisis” is simple to understand: the difficulties of a specialized sector which is adjusting to a general change in the means of production.

There was once a vision-if an ideological oner of a liberal bourgeois university. But as its caste base disappeared, the vision became a banality. In the age of free-trade capitalism, when the “liberal” state left it its marginal freedoms, the university could still think of itself as an independent power. Of course it was a pure and narrow product of that society’s needs-particularly the need to give ruling class youth an adequate general culture before they succeeded their elders. But the bitterness of the nostalgic mandarin is understandable: better, after all, to be the bloodhound of the haute bourgeoisie than sheepdog to the world’s white collars. Better to stand guard on privelege than harry the flock into their allotted factories and offices according to the whims of the “planned economy”.

The university is becoming, fairly smoothly, the honest broker of technocracy and its spectacle. In the process, the purists of the academic right wing become a pitiful sideshow, purveying their “universal” culture goods to a bewildered audience of specialists. More serious, and thus more dangerous, are the modernists of the left and the national students’ union, with their talk of “reform of the university structure” and 3 i.e., the adaption of the university “a relevant education”, and of education to the needs of modern capitalism. The one-time suppliers of general culture to the ruling classes, though still guarding their old prestige, . must be converted into the molders of a new labor aristocracy. Far from contesting the historical process which subordinates one of the last relatively autOnOmOUS social groups to the demands of the market, the progressives Complain of delays and inefficiency in its completion. They are the vanguard of the cybernetic university of the future (which has already reared its ugly head in some unlikely quarters). The fight against the market, which is starting again in earnest, necessitates the fight against its cleverst lackeys.

As for the student, this struggle is fought out entirely over his head, somewhere in the heavenly realm of his masters. The whole of his life is beyond his control, and for all he sees of the world he might as well be on another planet. His relative economic poverty condemns him to a paltry form of survival. But, being a complacent creature. he parades his very ordinary indigence as if it were an original life-style: self-indulgently, he affects to be a Bohemian, though the notion that he could be a Bohemian without a complete and final break with the university milieu is quite ludicrous. The student Bohemian clings to his false and degraded version of individual revolt. He is so “eccentric” that he continues-thirty years after Reich’s excellent lessonsto entertain the most traditional forms of sexual behavior, reproducing at this level the general relations of class society. The artistic sentiments are limited to a cheap nostalgia for the entre-deux-guerres period; his religious propensities to a mystification of pleasure. His rent-a-crowd militancy for the latest good cause is another aspect of his real impotence.

The student’s position, however, does put him at a potential advantage-if only he could see it. He does have marginal freedoms, a small area of liberty which as yet escapes the totalitarian control of the spectacle. His flexible working-hours permit him adventure and experiment. But he is a sucker for punishment, and freedom scares him to death: he feels safer in the straight-jacketed space-time of lecture hall and weekly “essay”. He is quite happy with this open prison organized for his benefit, and, though not constrained, as are most people, to separate work and leisure, he does so of,his own accord: hypocritically proclaiming all the while his contempt for assiduity and grey men. He embraces every available contradiction and then mutters darkly about the “difficulties of communication” from the uterine warmth of his religious, artistic, or political clique.

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THE REAL POVERTY OF HIS EVERYDAY LIFE FINDS ITS IMMEDIATE, FANTASTIC COMPENSATION IN THE OPIUM OF CULTURAL COMMODITIES

In the cutural spectacle he is allotted his habitual role of the dutiful disciple. Although he is close to the production-point, access to the Sanctuary of Thought is forbidden, and he is obliged to discover “modern culture” as an admiring spectator. Art is dead, but the student is a necrophiliac. He peeks at the corpse in galleries and movie houses, buys its lady-fingers from the cultural supermarket. Consuming unreservedly, he is in his element: he is living proof of all the platitudes of american research : a conspicuous consumer, complete with induced irrational preference for Brand X (Camus, for example) and irrational prejudice against Brand Y (Sartre, perhaps). Impervious to real passions, he seeks titillation in the battles between his anemic gods, the stars of a vacuous heaven: Marcuse-Parsons-Fromm-DubosSkinner-Heidegger-Christ-Levi-Strauss.. . and between their rival theologies, designed like all theologies to mask the real problems by creating false ones: existentialism-cyberneticism-humanismfreduianism-behaviorism-functionalism-scientism-modernism ...

He thinks he is avant-grade if he has seen the latest Godard or “participated” in the latest mixed-media freak-out. He discovers “modernity” as fast as the market can produce is ersatz version of long outmoded (though once important) ideas; for him, every rehash is a cultural revolution.

His principle concern is status, and he eagerly snaps up all the paperback editions of important and difficult texts with which mass culture has filled the bookstores. Unfortunately he cannot read, so he devours them with his gaze and enjoys them vicariously through the gaze of his friends. He is an other-directed voyeur. In France, the student is passively content to be politicized. In this sphere too, he readily accepts . the same alienated, spectacular participation. Seizing upon the tattered remnants of a left which was decimated more than forty years ago by “socialist” reformism and stalinist counter-revolution. The right is well aware of the defeat of the workers’ movement, and so are the workers themselves, though more confusedly. But the students blithely continue to organize demonstrations which mobilize students and students only. This is a political false consciousness in its virgin state, a fact which naturally makes the universities a happy hunting ground for the manipulators of the declining bureaucratic organizations. For them, it is child’s play to program the student’s political options. Occasionally there are deviationary tendencies and cries of “independence! ” but after a period of token resistance the dissidents are reincorporated into a status quo which they have never really radically opposed. The jeunesses communistes revolutionnaries, whose title is a case of ideological falsification gone mad (they are neither young, nor communist, nor revol.ution,ary ), have with much brio and accompanying publicity defied the iron hand of the party . . . but f.)nly to rally cheerily to the pontifical battle-cry, “Peace in Vietnam.! The student prides himself on his opposition to the “archaic” gaullist regime. But he justifies his criticism by appealing-without realizing itto older and far worse crimes. His radicalism prolongs the life of the different currents of sugar-coated stalinism: russian, yugoslav, Swedish, fidelist, maoist, etc. His youth is synonymous with appalling naivete, and his attitudes are in reality far more archaic than the regime’s-the Gaullists do after all understand-modern society well enough to administer it. l

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Driven by his freely-chosen depression, he submits himself to the subsidiary police force of therapists set up by the avant-garde of repression. . University mental health clinics, free clinics, talk centers, and self-proclaimed “spiritual” advisorsall are insidious means of the re-integration of rebellion and critical consciousness into the stupidity of contemporary life. Like the Aztecs who ran to meet Cortes’ sharpshooters, and then wondered what made the thunder, and why men fell down, -the students flock to the psycho-police stations with their “problems”.

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But the student, sad to say, isnotdeterredbytheoddana~ He feels obliged to have general ideas on everything, to unearth a cohereal; woM-view capable of lending meaning to his need for activism and asexual promiscuity. As a result, he falls prey to the bst doddering missionary efforts of the church+ He rushes with atavistic ardor to adore the putrescent carcass of God (in the formof refurbished eastern dogma). and cherishes all the stinking detritus of prehistoric religious (in the form of occultisms) in the tender belief that they enrich him and his time. Along with their skbxual rivals the elderly provincial ladies, the &udents form the social category with the highest percentage of admitted adherents to these archaic cults. Everywhere else, the priests have ti beaten off or devoured, but univ@y clerics and self&rdained messiahs shamelessly continue to bugger thousands of students in their spiritual shithouses.

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The’studentt, if he rebels at all, must first rebel against his studies, though the necessity of this initial move is felt less spontaneously by him than by the worker who intuitively identifies hiswork with his total condition. At the same time, since the student is a product of modern s&e& just like Godard or Coca-Cola, his extreme alienation can only be fought through the struggle against this whole society. It is clear that the university can in no circumstance become-the battlefield; the student, insofar as he defines himself as such, manufactures a pseudo-value which becomes au obstacle to any clear consciousness of the reality of his dispossession.

The best criticism of student life is the revolt of those who could no longer stand to live in the academic “community”. Their rebellion has become one of the signs of a fresh struggle against modem society. After years of slumber and permanent counter-revolution, there are signs of a new period of strugggle, with youth as the new carriers of revolutionary infection. But the society of the spectacle paints its own ideological categories on the world and its history. Fear is theverylast response. For everything that happens is reassuringly part of the natural order of things. Realhistoricalc!hanges, which show that this society can be superseded, are reduced to the statusof novelties, / processed for mere consumption.

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of modern society. Their modernity consists in the choice they are offered and are already making: total integration to neocapitalism, or the most radical refusal. . What is surprising is not that youth is in revolt but that its elders are so demoralized. But the reason is history, not biologythe previous generation lived through the-defeats and were sold the lies of the long, shameful disintegration of the revolutionary movement. In itself Youth is a publicity myth, ” and as part of the new “politics of hope” it is the potential ally of the capitalist mode of production. The illusory primacy of youth began with the economic recovery after the second world war. Capital was able to strike a new bargain with labor: in return for the mass production of a new class of manipulable consumers, the worker was offered a role which gave him full membership in the spectacular society. This at least was the ideal social model, though as usual it bore little relation to socio-economic reality (which failed to satisfy the consumer’s desires). The revolt of youth was the first burst of anger at the persistent realities of the new-worldthe boredom of everyday existence, the dead life which is still the essential product of modern capitalism, in spite of all its modernizations. A small section of youth is able to refuse that society and its products, but without any idea that this society can be superseded. They opt for a nihilist present Yet the destruction of capitalism is once again a real issue, an event in history, a process which has already begun. Dissident youth must achieve the coherence of a critical theory and the practical organization of that coherence. At the most primitive level, the (“delinquents” of the world use violence to express their rejection of society and its sterile options. But their refusal is an abstract one: it gives them no chance of actually escaping the contradictions of the system. They are its productsnegative, spontaneous, but none the less exploitable. All the experiments of the new social order produce them: they are the first side-effects of the new urbanism; of the disintegration of all values; of the extension of an increasingly boring consumer leisure; of the growing control of every aspect of everyday life by the psycho-humanist police force; and of the economic survival of a family unit which has lost all significance. The “young thug” despises work but accepts the goods. Re wants what the spectacle offers him,, but now, with no down payment. This is the essential contradiction of the delinquent’s existence. He may try for a real freedom in the use of his time, in an individual assertiveness, even in the construction of a kind of community. But the contradiction remains, and kills. (On the fringe of society, where poverty reigns, the gang develops its own hierarchy, which can only fulfil1 itself in a war with other gangs, isolating each group and each individual within the group.) In the end the contradiction proves unbearable. Either the lure of the product world proves too strong, and the delinquent decides to do his honest day’s workto this end of a whole sector of production is devoted , specifically to his recuperation. Clothes, records, guitars, motorcycles, stereos beckon him to the land of the consumer. Or else he is forced to attack the laws of the market itselfeither in the primary sense, by stealing, or by a move towards a conscious revolutionary critique of commodity society. For the delinquent, only two futures are possible: revolutionary consciousness, or blind obedience on the shop floor.

The revolt of youth against a&imposed and “given”” way of life is the first sign of a total subversion. It is the prelude of a period of revoltthe revolt of those who can no longer live in our society.

THE “CRISIS OF YOUTH”THE REFUSAL TO BECOME IS NEARLY UNIVERSAL

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The variations are, as we have seen, only in the form: delinquent, mental patient, revolutionary. Even the recuperated youth-social worker, “peace” corps seeks, in his guilt-ridden way, volunteer, peace marcherto rebuild the world. We have seen in the 60’s the rise of the “committed generation”, hailed by the dictators of power as the hope of the world. Youth everywhere is venting its dissatisfaction with society through more or less respectable political means. Of ten the refusal is expressed in pure form; at such times it is metwith brutal repression. More often, however, w’e have seen youth be fooled into the “politics of the possible”, which only serves to legitimize the prodess which-they oppose. “Fragmentary opposition is like the teeth on a cogwheel; they marry one another and make the machine go ‘round, the machine of the spectacle, the machine of power.” (Vaneigem)

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We see this fragmentary opposition characterized by the French national student union (UNEF), whichas the training ground for future “communist” parliamentarians. is nothing but the travesty of a travesty, the parody of a party which is the parody of itself.

Still, we find people insisting on the viability of an a-political way of life. Traditionally, so-called revolutionaries have attacked the drop-out or deviant as “useless’. But now, in a society so capable of recuperating disparate elements, being useless is a radical act. However, the drop-outs have elevated their uselessness to the status of a religion, complete with initiation rites (the Acid Test), priests (Leary and the rock bands), dogma (cheap pantheistic love, comic-book astrology, bastardized Zen), and the rest. The drop-outs themselves become missionaries, True Believers proselytizing other youths to their Way. Their critique rigidifies into Holy Writ; it undergoes a closure such that only those who have seen the light can offer criticism of the new religions, and these initiates don’t. You simply can’t talk to them ; either you understand and are with them, or you don’t understand and are dismissed as a heathen. This closure’ becomes the very means of their self-delusion, and is the source of false hope They call their counter-culture revolutionary; in the meantime, the spectacle society packages their symbols and sells them back to these revolutionaries in psychedelic wrappings.

We saw it in England, and then in France and the U.S., with the rise and fall of the peace movement. ‘The recent anti-imperialist marches lack the vigor of the early, naive british marches, even though the politics have “escalated”. Pleading gets to be a bore after a while. Aimed primarily at television, the marches should be shown on the late show with the other old movies. We see recuperation being purposefully perfected in America. The peace corps cherubs trudge off to exorcize their guilt;, they return more guilty than when they left. When they return to the States they spend their summers in the south or in northern ghettoes killing the poor with kindness. Then, since theirdevastating altruism knows no bounds, these children will walk a picket line in a trade union strike, mouthing incoherencies about restructuring the world through economism.

But what about Berkeley? Doesn’t the free speech movement transcend this naive reformism? American society needs its students; and by revolting against their studies they call that society into question. From the start they have seen their revolt against the university hierarchy as a revolt against the whole hierarchical system, the dictatorship of the.economy and the state. Their refusal to become an integrated part of the commodity economy is a revolutionary gesture. It puts in doubt the whole system of production which alienates activity and its products from their creators. For all its confusion and hesitancy, the FSM has discovered one truth of the new refusal: that a coherent revolutionary alternative can and must be found within the “affluent society”. There is an element of self-determination in their chaotic organization, but what they lack is genuine subversive content. Without it they continue to fall into dangerous contradictions. They may be hostile to the traditional politics of the old parties; but the hostility is futile, and will be recuperated, so long as it remains ignorant of the political system and deluded about the world situation. Abstract opposition to their own society produces facile sympathy with its apparent enemies, the so-called socialist bureaucracies of China and Cuba. Brandishing little red books, quoting the monstrous logic of Chairman Mao (“the enemy’s enemy is your friend” is like saying “if you hate Coca-Cola, you’ll love Pepsi”), many american students can in the same breath condemn the state and praise the “great proletarian cultural revolution”, that pseudo-revolt directed by the most elephantine bureaucracy of modern times. * We have seen, in the four years since the first publication of this pamphlet, the decay of the american new left in the reduction to absurdity of two tendencies which had plagued it from the beginning: economism and blind worship of the third world. The first tendency was manifestin the torturous strike at San Francisco State, where hundreds of students were injured and jailed while fighting for membership in the bureaucracy which repressed them. The second tendency is clearly seen in the amusing faction fights within SDS (Students for a democratic society), where each faction claims a third world bureaucrat/martyr as its guiding light in the fight for bureaucratic power within the organization. A neo-marxist economism has been adopted by the students through their curious relations with the trade unions: They lend support to wage strikes in an effort to “radicalize” the workers; yet by this very support the students actually reinforce union hierarchy. They go so far as to mimic trade-union style in their own “struggles” in an effort to “be like the workers”. The second tendencyworship of the third world-has its roots in bourgeois guilt (white skin privelege’ ’ ) and nihilism. ) Many youths have expressed their anomie in an a-politicality which rejects both the Huntley-Brinkley world of affairs and its new left antagonists. These non-political people often offer a more profound critique of the spectacle society than does any political opposition. They understand that their lives are impoverished and that no political party, right or left, offers a way back from alienation. So they drop out and try to establish alternative life-styles. Their refusal is limited, however, by their inability to sustain their life-styles in the face of either political repression, or economic exploitation by record companies, dope-pushers, and hip clothiers. Country communes fail to support themselves, city communes are busted for possession of narcotics, tribes degenerate into random accumulations of fragmented individuals, drop-out communities become slums rife with V.D. and hepatitis. The counter-culture is a mere alternative spectacle promoting consumption of alternative commodities: rock stars instead of politicians and football players, bell-bottoms instead of pin-striped suits, dope instead of beer.

The decay of the socialization process and of bourgeois has forced many to grab onto new ideologies no more viable than the old religions. We have what historians call an ethical vacuum, similar to that which existed before the rise of Christianity. In an escapist revolt against modern reality, many accept their politics as a profession of faith.

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This attitude is evident in those Europeans and Americans who follow Fidel and Mao like gods. Their refusal to confront the realities of advanced capitalist society is no less escapist than the mystic’s Tortured by guilt for living in imperialist countries, revelling in the scum of their own inadequacy, they desire only complete self-destruction. They thrill to the prophesies of their own annihilation: Believing the racist alarums about advancing yellow hordes, they run to prostrate themselves at the feet of the attacking conquerors. Their guilt is sr .dpassed only by their impotence. Countering this are the somewhat healthy impulses of the anarchists, which unfortunately do not find coherent expression. Like the anti-politician, the self-proclaimed anarchists reject the arena of power; distrusting all ideologies and leaders. % Their downfall is their purity, which is manifest in their blind faith in the label of Anarchy. Thus while rejecting ideology they reject all critical theory; while rejecting leaders and hierarchies they think that the way to eliminate them is for everyone to be a leaderless follower. They become helpless waifs, quivering meat for the grinder of power, distinguishable ,from the beats only by the nagging feeling that maybe they should do something. Only their adamant refusal to study the world prevents them from discovering what to do. We have outlined some of the roots of anomie and some of its fragmentary expressions. While embracing the “anti-social” sentiments of our contemporaries, we reject their manifestations when they serve to extend the sphere of power. We seek to destroy the hierarchical organiza tion of power. Therefore we need to be unflinching in our critique, even of those closest to us. For unless the impulses of alienation from the spectacle can be converted into a coherent social critique, the revolutionary project is impossible.

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for most countries. At the moment, no one is providing free nuclear power plants. The desalting process envisaged for large scale irrigationof arid land represents a scope of operations that exceeds anything that has yet been attempted. How will the water be drawn from the ocean? Probably, the sea water will have to be treated in large stilling basins, filtered and strained. These are expensive processes. What effect will the discharge of the hot and concentrated saline solutions have? Costly piping out to the sea may be required. What will the ecological costs be? What are we going to do with the mountains of salt produced from the desalting? Adverse ecological effects of dumping such wastes are already evident. Clawson, Landsberg and Alexander in 1969 suggested that many proposed desalination projects overlook some of the simple but essential requirements of water for farm use. First, large scale conveyance of the water is inevitable. Moreover, the demand for water by the farmer is on a different time sequence than its production. Thus, water will have to be stored and transported at specific times. At each of these steps some water loss will occur. For example, a 10 percent water loss would raise the cost of the remaining water by 11 per cent. The more costly the desalting process, the more costly the loss of water in storage or in conveyance. The value of irrigation water is effected by many soil, fertilizer use, parameters such as - climate, markets and production efficiency, to name a few. As well, the efficiency of the desalting plant is important. A large scale plant working 85% of the year would produce enough water for 35,000 acres. Theoretically, this would increase the amount of arable land in Africa by .009 percent. In addition, as Resources for the Future, Inc. query : “What reason is there to expect that provision of irrigation will immediately transform a backward, traditional agriculture into a modern or futuristic efficient one?” There is nothing magical about desalted water; it is simply water. In general, the future prospects for desalting seawater are reassuring but continued research, more experience with nuclear power sources, including the construction .of pilot plants are absolutely necessary. We must pursue the matter fully and with a sense of urgency. But lets not delude ourselves and the rest of the world that an early and practical solution is at hand. Paul and Ann-e Ehrlich in their study, Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology, state “. . . the general public tends to assume there are easy solutions where none exist and to foresee panaceas where, in fact, scientists in the field concerned see only potential palliatives that would require much time and huge sums of money.”

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GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD Goin Down the Road is an achievement which will offend a good many of its viewers. It is a work of art which exhibits fine talent on all levels. The film is directed against the complacency of our world, the ‘novelty’ of its Canadian setting serving only to aggravate our displeasure. A simple beginning portrays a journey west by two disenchanted easterners, Pete and Joey, who exude a naieve optimism which we find almost touching. The mood is quickly set as writer Fruet and director Shebib mature our ‘heroes’ against the Ontario industrial setting. The simplicity of the eastern cultural traditions are displayed with a biting accuracy against the stark truths of that concrete mecca, Toronto. Situations are manoevred in an almost merciless - fashion, stripping away layer after layer of the early optimism. The panacea of the pop plant is revised by its relentless monotony; the innocence of their desires and dreams is exploded by the untouchable sexuality of Nicole and the unwanted pregnancy of Betts. Time and again the individuals will is dispersed and frustrated by the fixities of an unfeeling and disinterested world. In a tragi-comic scene, Peter tries to explain his displeasure at work to Joey: he wants ‘something that matters, something that shows for myself, something that says Peter McGraw was there.’ The problem escapes Joey ‘(a job’s a job,‘) who is moving rapidly towards the married life and the subsequent security.

The safe, comfortable world of credit, modern apartments and rooms filled with furniture ordered off the back page of tv guide turns into a nightmare when the boys are laid off in the fall. Our characters are ingraciously transported from the world of high rise to the cluttered back streets of Toronto, where the rest of the tragedy unfolds. Winter descends on the trio and its bleakness parallels the style of life they are forced to lead. We are uncomfortably aware of the absence of former intimacies and tenderness; gone are the laughs- and the naive hopes; the fleeting contact with the Younge St. world is revealed as a mirage, an untruth. Antagonisms form and are exacerbated in the face of poverty and defeat; the power of money is vividly portrayed through the welfare-world of a part time pinsetter and those who depend on him. The tragedy culminates in the supermarket rip-off. The world of caviar and shrimp is posited against the bumbling innocence of their plan; the store attends vicarious morality frustrates their act of desperation; the structures%f today’s world provide the fear which pushes them towards the open road once again. And so the movie ends, our heroes left with no dignity and the job of transforming the road into the rainbow it had once seemed. And we are left to deal with the after taste that Fruet and Shebib have produced, for they have mirrored what really exists behind the ‘concrete and dust’ of our cities, if we will but see it.

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Can war be abolished, pollution 1 limited, and the best econimic 1 organization for everyone be I brought about by countries act1 ing . separately? Or even by 1 grqups of countries? Many think1 ers, seeing how interdependent l the people of the world now are, , have said there is a need for world ; governmeht. The largest orgaization working for a world govern1 ment is the World Association of World Federalists. Last month it held its congress in Ottawa. in Ottawa.

munity must now be added to, and become dominent over, other allegiances. . . . Mankind cannot proceed, or even survive at all, as a divided and warring ‘species.” “Horse-trading

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Other spe$kers covered a wide range of topics. Danish Prime Minister Baunsgaard called for a broadening of the concept of effici,ency of industrial products to include their effects on the environment. Chief Adebo, former Nigerian Ambassador to the U.N. and now Executive Director of UNITAR, criticized U.N. dele-. gates for “horse-trading” instead of considering issues on their merits.

Chief speaker at the congress was U Thant. “I believe that .the heart of your programme - a world under law - is realistic and attainable”, he said. U Thant World Federalists generally considers the unprecedented adagree that the U.N. General Asvance in science and technology sembly’s one-nation one-vote of immediate concern. “This formula is unsatisfactory. Hanna advance has served as a ‘multiNewcombe and Robert Betchov plier’ in every aspect of. human presented papers considering 20 life,” he explains. “It has multiformulae. They decided that the plied man’s capacity fqr destrucbest was one allotting ‘half the tion. Since 1945, instead of disseats to countries on the basis of armament, we have witnessed a population and half according to terrifying and apocalyptic arms their energy consumption. Anrace,. the cost of which could dreas Papandreou claimed that have literally transformed the there is a contingency plan for face of the earth. At the present a military takeover of every f-time, nations are spending some member of NATO similar to that $200 billion annually on such arms which took place in Greece. Can- and only for the purpose of ada is a member of NATO! nullifying the arms of each World Federalists’ policy has other. ” been to work for the conversion Thant expresses deep concern of the ‘United Nations into a world over the rapid consumption of government. They agree that the worlds resources because many changes must be made of this needless production. He in the U.N. Some believe that a “We have seen the comments, world government must be set ‘multiplier effect’ in the demand Others consider UP at once. non-renewable resources, for it more- realistic to try to bring which are being exhausted at an it about gradually. Many Federever-increasing rate. Here I must alists are disappointed at the point out that a small handful progress made by the U.N. At of nations are using up most of least two other groups ha-ire the resources that’ must be adopted more radical apdeemed to belong to all manproaches. kind. “Progress in development of A world constitution the human community and the institutions 6f world society has The World Constitution and _ been substantial, even remarkParliament Association is setting ‘able, during the same period, but Peoples World ParUP “The at nowhere near the necessary liament. ” The International Corrate to cope with the progressive poration for World Confederation growth of technology and its plans to hold a convention to problems”, he adds. I draw up a World Constitution. This constitution will then be subUN misused mitted to governments for ratiThe UN, as a world governfication. One of the commissions ment, .could be a solution, but, at the World Federalists congress says Thant, “Too&any nations... recommended that the Federaltend to evaluate it (the U.N.) ists continue. to concentrate on ‘according to its possible use in the U.N. but also give some supadvancing their own goals rather port to these other approaches then the central instrument for (in case they work! > forging solutions to world probOf course one of -the biggest lems in concert with the rest of questions to be asked is, can a the world community. world government be established? “Management of problems Cynics say no, and there- are which. are global in scope remany obvious obstacles in the quires extension of authority to way. Perhaps only a nuclear war world agencies. or other disaster would cause the human race to set up a ‘world urgently recom“I have government in one step, but some mended, that global authorities small steps have already been related to the United Nations be taken. While the U.N. itself has established to deal with serious had only a little success some global problems. I have in mind other. world organizations such particularly my recommendaas the Universal Postal Union. tions for creation of a global and the International Civil authority to deal with the probAviation Organization have been lems of the environment - with highly successful. Probably more the life-support system- of our power will be given to them and spaceship earth, now in serious to existing world organizations jeopardy. The air and water of by governments which find the earth circulate universally. more need for them. Thus a They are- no respecters of naworld government will gradually tional boundaries or of any other evolve. Their’ man-conceived barriers. If you are interested in obtainprotection and purity are the ing further information on the ciQncern of a!l. world federalists, contact either Geoff Richards at ext 2503 or “I d6 not criticize national pride. . .I only say that the sense Bob Whitton at information services. of belonging to ‘the human com-

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I am a 28 - year - old mother, teacher and lover of kids and other living things. I get “up tight” when I hear so much undeserved criticism of kids and frustrated when I feel many of the critics lack any understanding of them. It was especially upsetting for me to read the july 6 issue of the Spectator because I found four articles that proved to me that kids are often maligned by a complacent adult world. As briefly as possible I will discuss these accounts in the light of my own ideas. I wish to criticize the editorial, “Nonsense about a house,” concerning the student opposition to the $150,000 house bought by the University of Waterloo for the president. Aren’t people ready to accept the fact that the students

have something to say instead of just dismissing their demonstrations as so much nonsense? The president of a university should have no better housing than any professor at the university. I agree with the students at Waterloc that a $150,000 house is pretentious and a waste of money. If university presidents paid more attention I to their students and less to entertaining, most North American campuses would be more meaningful places to be. You ask which the taxpayer would prefer - real estate or academic accommodation for young folk? Does real estate have more value in North America than people? You imply that it does. * * * I suggest to all of us over 25 years of age, that we wake upbecome aware of kids as people. We’re alreadv alienated in some ways. Let’s open our heads and hearts to them instead of shutting them out. . TERI FREEMAN Hamilton, Ont.

BUfeC#UCfd COngfaid for better. f egistf uSon I would like to ~congratulate (for a change) the registration department for the job they are doing this year. This is the first year since I have been here that it took me less than eight standing and waiting hours to get registered. This year’s registration has been handled much better than in previous years, whether because of pre-registration or just luck. While people on campus for the first time may not appreciate this stepped up service I’d like to tell the registrar that students who have gone through the lines other years certainly do. FRED WEBB arts

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Everything THE COURSE of the last three months, significant changes have been made in the traditional format of the chevron. Notable among these changes has been the disappearance of the editorial page; that mainstay of bourgeois journalism in which culturally and economically biased elites pretend they are the t r u e friends of “the little guy” and watchdogs for the public-good. The editorial page has come to be an excuse for the fact that every other page in a newspaper is bought and paid for by advertisers who can (and will) withdraw advertising at the drop of a hat; or more appropriately, at the drop of an adjective which maligns or criticizes the favorite minority or -ethnic group to which the advertiser belongs. The editorial page is designed to perpetuate the myth that, irrespective of what news is covered in what manner, the newspaper is beyond approach in the final analysis. But it is not. Today’s periodicals are fraught with bias-a bias dedicated to the status quo, law, order, “good” government and caution. For newspaper publishers are in a racket to make money, just as any Toronto Bay Street tycoon. Wielding assumptions about the tastes and intelligence of ‘ ‘average” readers, newspapers offer the Pablum of news; flavorful enough to attract attention (sensationalize), mixed liberally to take out all the lumps (who, what, when and where, but hardly ever WHY), and bland enough to appeal to “all segments” of society (more people buying means more profit). Today’s newspapers, and more importantly, the people whp read the daily press on a regular basis claim the content of say, The Kitchener - Waterloo Record or the Toronto Telegram does not reflect any bias. They are wrong. The bias is there. It may be in the form of a memo from publisher to editor to supress certain stories or facts. Telegram publisher John Bassett gave direct orders several months ago for his staff to rip out an article dealing with homosexuality from the Montreal supplement

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Weekend, to which his paper subscribes. If this topic offended Mr. Bassett’s moral fibre SO much as to prompt his action, how will he instruct his staff to deal with, for example, labor stories? For winning fair working wages and contracts for working people will ultimately mean reducing the bank accounts of the John Bassetts of this country. Just how, then, does a newspaper staff - reared to believe in free’ enterprise, competition and the sort of pathetic resignation to fate that accompanies such indoctrination - deal with, report and evaluate situations, people and concepts that arise from a/ternate v&es? Values based on socialism. On Marxism. On existentialism. On communal sharing, not on private property. From the reporter to the lay-out man there is bias, bias in favor of what is and against what might

be.

And what is most absurd is that almost never is this bias admitted. For indeed, almost never are newspapers aware of their bias. The reason for this lies in the insidious process of double - think which silently proceeds on a series of assumptions : Assume the number of papers sold indicates an acceptance of editorial content and approach. Assume this content and approach is a reflection of the normal order of things. Assume we need a normal order of things. Assume anything that does not “fit” must be classified as apart from and tangential to the on-going process, to be judged and eventually evaluated in relation to what is assumed to be what most people want. Therefore, assume “hippies,” assume homosexuality as a “problem,” assume even ‘ ‘homosexuality,” assume “unrest,” assume “radicals,” assume “right,” assume “left,” assume the silence of the great majority means contentment with things, when in fact, what should be seen is that the great majority just isn’t aware that its security-based existence is the product of a society sick with the pursuit of material wealth. A society which constipates fulfilling human relationships with status, competition, suburbia and American Express. Awareness is the key. So much of our socialization process acts to limit awareness and cultivate acceptance of norms and values. The source of this phenomenon can be traced by endlessly trite and political phraseology; but simply

HREE DAYS BEFORE the interview, he found himself faced with possibilities. It was a dread disease, this matter of contriving the many bridges that might have to be crossed. He slept little; dreaming, when he managed sleep, of falling prey to dragons and demons and dogs that drew blood with fangs that were sharpened in deep dungeons and caverns by wizards and witches who cast spells over projects that lay in the minds of aspiring young makers. There is a certain poetry to the pathos of paranoia, a rhythm and consistency that attracts a man. And thus it was that he became spellbound to despair, and spent every waking moment in the contrived reality of the hunted. But when the hour of the interview approached, he was filled with a strange confidence. for he had managed all manner of protection from attack . . . potions made of words that surely would shield him from his interviewers’ inquiries. When they asked “this”, he would respond “thus”. To a query with regards “that”, he would point out “those”. He had desire, purpose and direction, the aids that gave him confidence, the readiness to defend, at all cost, his idea and opinion. He was a fortress of strength. And as if to give approval to his preparation, the interview began, as he had imagined, in an air of conviviality and “good faith”. He waited anxiously for their attack, ready to swing his armaments into position. But they did not attack. They waited for his proposition and listened for his concept. And he had nothing to give but his words of defence, phrases that came tumbling out from the weight of contrivance. When he was finished, they sat in silence. They were not confused. or inspired. or in the least way interested. They thanked him for his interest, promised their consideration and bade him adieux. He left them in anger, frustrated and confused and determined to achieve his end. He wrote letters of protestation, demanded action, cried for audience . . . and received the silence of their amazement and pity. And what was the idea?

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it is true that the great silent majority, especially through media though no less through university job-training is trained to do little, if any, really independent thinking. It proceeds with the bias of nonawareness. The chevron will be biased. But take notice here and now, it admits its bias. It will notbe guilty of the crime of advocate journalism as is the administration organ, the Gazette. The soul of the Gazette is bought and paid for by the liberal bureaucrats and pontifical faculty contributors who are not aware of their bias. At least if the chevron decides not to cover Warrior football games it will be because the staff has decided - as an independently thinking body-that such is not a vital part of the chevron bias, which may or may not be to present “alternate” viewpoints. It is a myth to believe that a tabloid such as the chevron should be “responsible” - to the tastes of people who actively resist awareness of everything that does not reinforce their learned concept of how things should be. It is a myth to believe that a tabloid such as the chevron should be “representative” - of the great silent blandness that afflicts all cultures bored to death by the weight of its obesity. It is a myth to believe in anything, let alone either majority “opinion” or the chevron. Instead, it may be wise to admit that the chevron just may be able to offer a chance to expand awareness beyond the atrocious pap of the Kitchener-Waterloo media. The chevron will have no editorial page to propound its version of the Truth; non-believers beware! When and if a news story Lor feature makes a statement all or part of the staff feels must be accompanied by a counter-statement, such a statement, signed, will appear beside or as near to the story or feature as possible. It will bear the heading “bullseye” and an appropriate title. It will be biased. What the chevron covers in news and presents through features will be biased. But the chevron will not claim to be something it is not. - Alex Smith, editor.

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Alex Smith, editor It was a struggle getting this issue out, but the few people we had worked hard. This is an open invitation especially to faculty, but certainly to all students, to contribute to the chevron; gee, its really a drag working here til four-thirty in the bloody morning on a Wednesday night and then having to get up the next morning to go and spend another four hours standing over a hot layout table while this damned thing gets pasted up. “The eloquence of the masthead is inversly proportional to the amount of shitwork engaged in the night before.” That’s Hack’s Law. And oh, yes, our posters, “be an info-monger” made two mistakes: one, we didn’t say where the chevron office is - its in the campus center; two, we said there would be free pizza. Well, there will be when we get some petty cash. Until September 25, we’re flat broke. See ya after registration, and all. production news & sports coordinator:

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To whom it all obtains: Kathy Dorschner, Johanna Faulk, Kathy Ellsworthy. Marie Kennedy, Leslie Buresh, Joan Walsh, David Cubberly, T.A. Bissen, Geoff Richards, Brenda Wilson. Tom Purdy dedicates all pictures in this issue to Sharron.

IN THIS ISSUE: PAGE ONE, PHOTOGRAPH DESIGN AND FXECUTION, TOM PURDY. THE POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE, PHOTOGRAPH DESIGN AND EXECUTION, TOM PURDY; LAYOUT DESIGN, ALEX SMITH, THE BACK PAGE, PHOTO AND EXECUTION, TOM PURDY; LAYOUT AND DESIGN TOM PURDY & ALEX SMITH.

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