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Student-teacher radi,o Waterloo by Eleanor chevron
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After an hour and a half discussion with students and teachers on a live radio Waterloo broadcast this past tuesday, the evening ended with the question by one teacher, “Why do we have to prove new programs to parents?” Sandra Sachs, uniwat and Allan street free school teacher, replied to the question : “Who is trying to educate parents in trying to teach them what subjects we should be doing in school? It may be our responsibility to show parents there is some thing more. ” Moderators Alan Gough and Dave Gilich, students Jeff Gilliland, ,Kim Weir, and Helen Raffan, and teachers Carol Stewart, Sandra Sachs, Roland Muller, Doug Thomas and Mike Ferguson, rapped in separate groups and then together on how they felt about education. Kim and Jeff, grade nine students, and Helen, grade eight,, were asked about what it’s like to be in high school. Kim said you have to join clubs to meet people. Jeff was told that grade nine
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was the hardest. He found it hard to adjust to subject changes from senior public school to high school. Helen -. thought, “It’s going to be big, and probably cold. ” The students became critical of their education when asked what they would do if they; were the minister of education. “Ban the strap and detentions,” said Jeff. “I don’t see how they better you.” He explained how detentions are given to students who don’t return their report card slips on time. He thought detentions “don’t get slips back on time. ” He also thought the three minutes allowed for students to get from ’ one class to another left no room to slow down between classes. , Helen said a crowded timetable sometimes meant being stuck with the same teacher for four straight periods which meant boredom. She wanted more discussions in classes and wished they could get their minds off school with home economics and woodworking. ‘ ‘School gets down,” said YOU Helen. -see
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Cross at CUGS conference
- ‘Gradschools by Barry chevron
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Speaking to delegates at the camian union of graduate students conference, held on campus last weekend, George Cross, dean of graduate studies said that graduate schools must undergo a radical change during the next decade. Graduate schools are facing a crisis, manifested by the shrinking job market for graduates, overly specialized graduate programs, the unacceptability of some graduates to fill the vacancies occurring, the incongruities between graduate programs and their specified aims and goals and the disenchantment of the Ontario government and people. Until recently the government and the public financially supported graduate education at a very high level. Ontario universi-
ties said they were attracting good students from all over the world, were expanding graduate programs, and that graduates were being placed in ever better jobs and schools. Now, however, we have a surplus of PhDs, and the government has determined to cut back its support of education at the graduate level. - Cross stated that some of the public’s animosity toward the universities has arisen partially because of “the sit-ins and disruptive and destructive procedures organized by students”. However, he continued, this image developed because of the actions of undergraduates and non-students. Yet support of undergraduates is being increased, he said, “at the expense of support of graduates’ ’ .
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Math 2B, only entry and eventual winner of the landwater relay, broke the existing record of 18 minutes and 46 sees, by completing the treacherous course in 39 minu tes and7 seconds.
Allan Lawrence, president of the staff association, dispelled the confusion among staff members about recently announced rates of pay increase at an open meeting tuesday, which was requested by the members. Members had presented a petition asking for the meeting in order to ask questions on the increase, but a detailed explanation by L-qwrence and Ken Fearnall civil engineering answered all questions that could have been asked. Lawrence stated that he didn’t know why the meeting had been called and still doesn’t. The problem seemed to be that most people had not had the situation explained to them. This was blamed on the poor method of communication. It seems that personnel called a meeting of department heads, who then explained raises to their faculty, who were to explain the increase to their subordinates. This method failed since some people heard about the increase on the radio first.
Cross suggests a new concept of post-graduate education, rather than cutting back support of graduate education altogether. One of the problems is that there are / too many PhDs- for types of employment we have had in the past. In order to better meet the needs of society Cross set four goals for Ontario graduate schools. c First, he said that the narrow specializa tion of the PhD programs should be discouraged. Also, because of the nature of the problems mankind will find most urgent in the near future, research in the humanities and social sciences should be made as attractive as it is in science and engineering. His second suggestion was an
sala ry survey The university policy is to base wages on a market demand basis. Cost of living has never been abasis. Personnel hires a firm to survey the wages paid to people in various job categories. In the A and B class, employees are offered a”’ wage better than that offered by seventy five percent of other employers, and better than fifty for service t-ype jobs. The only point that the association can argue is the companies surveyed, but can do nothing until they have facts and figures. A motion was made and carried that next year’s executive should begin steps to take their own surveys. Personnel claims that a two and a half percent increase will bring wages above market as of july first, at market by the end of the year, and half a percent behind a year from now. It is not the policy of the university to offer the best wages, but to remain competitive with the market.
attempt to resolve the present ambiguity in the PhD program. While the certification provided by the PhD degree is more important if one plans to teach, the training offered is almost exclusively for research. Where training at the PhD level is directed specifically toward teachers, training should not be designed to produce researchers at the expense of training more suitable for prospective teachers. Degree programs aimed at future teachers should expose students to a broad background of subject matter while it teaches the basic character of pure and applied research. Thirdly, Cross suggested the development of part-time graduate programs to provide an opportunity to graduates to keep themselves up to date and to improve their performance in the new kinds of work that will appear. The fourth suggestion is a proposal to satisfy society’s need for people educated at an advanced level to do the jobs of the future which cannot be described now because .we do not know what they will be. These people need a base in creative research, interdisciplinary studies, and training in merging the academic with the non-academic. Cross stated that he expected considerable resistance to any attempt to implement his proposals by experts and planning committees because they do not conform to or satisfy traditional and dysfunctional criteria. He challenged the graduate students to exert their influence to try to make his proposed innovations realities.
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as the court of Nebuchadnezzar in ancient Babylon. (Was the Baaa-bylon really meant to sound so sheep-like?) The choir discarded its monkish clothing and replaced it with brilliant red-orangeoutlandish hooded vestments, finery fit for such a degenerate court! The play begins. The plot is simple. King Neb throws a feast for Shadrach, Meshack and Abendego, to celebrate their elevation to positions of power in his kingdon. Alas, the three brothers, faithful to the injunction. of their father, are reluctant to partake of the pagan food and drink. The king, egged on by his evil astrologer, takes offence. Strike one against them. King and astrologer build a huge golden idol and command all to worship it, or else. The broi thers three take the ‘or else’, and get heaved into a burning, fiery furnace. An angel saves them; King Neb is impressed, and the astrologer and idol both get the hoot. The plot we have heard, but not the music. Paralleling the choir was the harp, played by Erica goodm-an, flute, horn, trombone, viola, double bass, organ and percussion. Our limited experience focused on the more obviously outstanding performances of the harpist, and percussionist Ross Arnold, perhaps because such was intended by Britten. Opthofs powerful voice seemed to set the standard by which we judged
others. John Arab’s Nebuchadnezzar often dropped concluding words below’the limits of audibility, nor could we distinguish the words sung by several entertainers and pages during the feast scene. However, the notes of the rescuing angel, Paul Reid, sounded as pure as could be once a little initial harshness was overcome. The performance, was lifted and carried superbly by Benjamin Britten’s unique composition.
Space needed Quoting portions of the recent campus center study committee report, the federation of students has formally requested space be provided by the university administration for the reallocation of the offices of both the federation and the chevron.
Both are presently located in the campus center. In a memo to space allocation chairman H. E. Petch, federation vice-president Carl Sulliman said that while other university departments have been given room for expansion, student organizations have been neglected in “cramped conditions and even impossible locations” (referring to Radio Waterloo, presently about a mile from campus.) The campus center study committee recommended both the federation and the chevron vacate the campus center to allow more recreational space.
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We went to church last Friday. From our seats in the aisle (the pews were as hard as ever) we could see most of the chancel between two wide pillars, and the entire nave. The last of the sun’s rays teased to illuminate the donated-inmemory-of stained glass windows so the darkness was almost undisturbed when the lights went out. From somewhere in the rear came singing, male-voices ; latin, very, very religious-sounding. A candlelit procession of robed monks and acolytes trod slowly up the center aisle of the nave, their singing slowly gaining volume. The procession divided in two at the front and encircled the stage. Instead of an altar imagine a wooden platform, about twelve feet across, roughly circular, raised five feet or so and tilted forward through perhaps fifteen degrees. Gold-on-black curtains hung crudely in the rear. Steps led up to a small walkway circling the stage at a lower level. An effective setting indeed for the performance of Benjamin Britten’s second church opera. The Guelph spring festival in 1969 offered the first of the three, The Prodigal Son; The Burning Fiery Furnace made its Canadian debut last week under the musical direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt. The church opera revives the mediaeval mystery play, conveying no new messages, but recasting the old biblical stores in a musically exciting form. The head monk Cornelis Opthof, began by singing in his powerful bass his apologies for having to play the part of an evil man, and invited us to regard the setting
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Dr. Dan Andrew, the first fulltime director for health services in a recent inte&ew spoke of his role as director and that of health services. Since some university campuses have psychiatrists as part of the total health service to students, adding to the present uniwat service, a psychiatrist working out of Health Services is a possibility. This would mean the psychiatrist would most likely \;vork from downtown, maintaining a practice of his own, since a university community couldn’t support his practice singly. To be in the community at large is ’ important for the psychiatrist to maintain links with the local medical community, and to keep up with recent techniques and methodology.
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Tenants have individually apchevron staff proached the student federation. Federation vice-president Carl A meeting of indignant tenants Sulliman has offered to back them from the towers of the married and fight it in court if necessary. students’ complex held monday The issue of the baby care center evening turned into a session of is far more complex. It is simply selfish, petty bitching, unwara fact of life that married people anted accusations, and general have children. In the infantilism. It started out to be, sometimes absence of parents, at school or at and should have been, a joint, inwork, these children must be looktelligent effort to find some solued after. When setting up a resition to the problems at hand. dence for married students, the Originally the meeting *was calluniversity simply ignored all this ed by a group of tenants who are on the grounds that they are not dissatisfied with the way their in the baby-care business. tenants association executives are Last fall the tenants of married handling such matters as the bid students’ residence voted to set up for lower rents tax rebates and day care in their community centhe ever-controversia/l baby care ter. Necessary alterations and center. equipment was paid for by A committee, presently negomoneys provided by a grant for tiating with u of w comptroler furniture in the residence. Arthur Headlam is asking for lowOne misinformed tenant stronger rents and a removal of the time ly objected to the money spent, limit on leases. This wotild mean thinking that. some way it was that people could move out any coming out of his pocket. In ‘fac’t time after giving reasonable the day care center is run indenotice. of ‘the residence. The Tax rebate is a foggy ’ issue. pendently cover cost and Married students’ residents are fees only partially approximately 1000 not getting it and university of- the deficit, dollars per month, is picked up by ficials have not given a straight answer to the committee inves- the university. Other members insisted that the tigating the matter. No one seems should supply day-care to know or cares to give the reas- university facilities, and the community cenon why. Rumour has it that the into just that. It university made a deal with the ter be reverted city of Waterloo at the time when was demanded that the day-care be closed down immed-there was a need to rezone the land center 00 which the residence was built. iately, for there are alternatives The fact that witholding tax re- available to the parents. However bates is illegal does not seem to this is not feasable, or practical. In any case, the center is planned bother city officials or university to cloie by the fall of ‘72. It is administrators.
The duties of the psychiatrist would be l meeting casually with pTple and hear what they have to say about the health services; l responding to change, people may approve his program of operation, after seeing the thing going for a while. Those who don’t or can’t work along with the program will make their own decision to work or not; and l chatting with students on drugs, venereal desease and birth control. Dr. Andrew said, “A full-time director can communicate with various services ,. qn campus, that couldn’t be done earlier with the limited time of a part-time director. ”
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hoped that’ by then the university has found some nook for the children on campus, possibly in the new student service8 building. Tenants,opposed to the day care center were perhaps justly demanding their rights, that is full use of their community center. But as the blood boiled and voices rose one got the nasty impression of ‘to hell with the kids, just get them out of here’. Sulliman who was present at the meeting and understandibly ,upset by the useless bickering, made an eloquent plea for unity amongst the tenants. As long as
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rents, tax rebates there is dissent within the student body precious little will be accomplished. The major problem of the married’ students association \ seems to be a general apathy. Now that things are not going well as they should, there is ani outcry. But where were these people when the initial decisions were made? If the present council is not doing its job, come next election there is the possibility of creating a new one. Of the 1200 people in there next fall, how many will even bother to find out what the tenants associatiQn is, and what powers
does it possess ? How many will bother to vote? Monday’s meeting at least proved that ‘there is a group of people who are really concerned, and who are willing to become envolved. The next itep is for, them to realize that they are in the same boat with those living in the courts. If those that have children are in the minority, so what! It will be a long and hard battle. However, confronted1 by a strong majority front the administration is bound to go into the day-care business. And maybe lower the rents, and give tax rebates.
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Kim suggested there be more availability of options the students initially chose. She explained many kids are forced into music since they can’t get home economics. “In music -the kids act out since they don’t want to be there.” On the .question of promptness, Kim said students are expected to be in classes on time, but when they have an appointment in the office for 9.15 they don’t get seen , until 11: 00. Between the separate student and teacher discussions, a partially taped program with Bruno Gerussi, CBC announcer, and Tony Barton, student at the ontario institute for studies in education, allowed the participants to hear a little about the Waterloo school boar$‘s decision to invoke the strap into the schools again. Barton said he passed messages along to the board from three of the best educators in Ontario. The board seemed not interested in the scientific research that stated punishment did not assist students to learn. “Well except three or four members of the board voted in favour of ryinvoking the strap,” said Barton. “Even their own psychologist voted in favour.” Barton explained the only legal recourse parents have is to write to their prin&pal and politely ask they would rather wish to have their chtld not strapped. The school must get permission of the parents fir&t. Barton was critical of the lack of student involvement and support. “There were no children at the meeting.” Maintaining the strap to enforce discipline, Stewart, said, “It’s
my personal opinion there should for we have no be strapping, form of discipline. ” She explained some teachers feel they need the strap for teachers get no respect from the kids. “They have nothing to fear if the child knows the teacher is going to’ do nothing. Where do we go?” Muller thought the whole strapping question was being sensationalized by the media. “The media picks up what people get upset about.” Sachs said the media furor was reported in a small article in the paper. Stewart recalled being strapped as a child. She said she became a little more cautious and tricky in the classroom. “Is that the kind of thing we want to encourage?“, asked Sachs. Listening and commenting on the teachers’ discussion the student& said, ‘ ‘Counselling services only helps in changing occupa tions. Sachs was asked what the Allan street free school was about. “Kids can do things rich and exciting. ’ If the child learns you never squelch his creativity and enthusiasm. ” Ferguson thought the school was the strictest of the army, church and school, for with discipline there is the lack of freedom of equals in relationships, for the students can’t fight b&k. “‘(‘he barrier between adults and students isn’t a part of the free school,” said Sachs. Muller said he sometimes feels like a . babysitter with students who really don’t want to be in school and there is no parental
pressure to keep the kids in. “The problem is we are supposed to control behaviour, but we are not given means to get stu- . dents respect,” said Muller. “We talk about students feeling like misbehaving, but we don’t talk about teachers misbehaving. Consider them equals,” said Sachs. Asked what the role of the teacher is Thomas said to get the student to fit into society. Stewart said to get the material covered that teachers have been told to complete. Muller said to give to the best of their ability. Thomas said he couldn’t educate anyone beyond himself and Sachs agreed. After listening to the private teachers’ discussioin the students were asked for their comments. Jeff said the teachers shouldn’t dominate discussion in the classroom. Thomas said he dominated discussion since he loved to hear himself talk. He liked to talk about risque and intellectual things. “I know I shouldn’t domina te. ” Sachs said, “Try to sit and wait for it.” “But we’ve only got 37 minutes,” joked a teacher. Thomas said there was also the pressure of having to cover a theme which may limit discussion. , “Teachers p.re$er lectures,” said Helen. Talkitg about her guidance teacher she said, “The teacher more or less has nothing to get across to us. Some teachers just can’t talk with it’s far safer to talk behind their backs. They dominate and have their own way all the time.” friday
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ORSE RACING has often been referred to as “the sport of kings -and fools”. I would . have to agree fully with that quote. To invest money in horses one must be either very wealthy and well able to absorb any consequent losses or one must be a complete and utter fool; the latter is the category in which I fit. To exemplify this analysis let us compare an investment at the race track to an investment into a bank savings account. When one places a, hundred dollars into a savings account he -may be assured of receiving his money back plus the interest accumulated on his investment while on the other hand at the race track one must. pay eighteen cents out of every dollar for the privilege of investing his money at the mutual wickets. That is to say that during a given period of time if one was to complete a hundred dollars worth of transactions one would have donated eighteen dollars to the coffers of the federal government, provincial government, and the Ontario jockey Club at which time this money is divided up accordingly. Therefore, it may be said that I am both a patriot and a philanthropist supporting both the government and the jockey club. This brings us to the question of why I would rather invest in a field in which if the luck factor is constant I am forfeiting eighteen percent rather than allow my money to remain stagnant. As far as I am concerned this is both true of a bank deposit or an investment in a field where the yielding curve is to my advantage.
First step First of all, before I can convincingly point out the advantages of investing my money at the race track as opposed to any other investment media, let me point out that my attitude towards investment is derived from John Maynard Keynes’ attitude towards economics. When Keynes was asked why all his theories were short run theories he replied, “in the long run we’re all dead”. It would be unfair to say that I invest my money in race betting for the sake of showing a profit. It is true though that I invest for reasons of a possible quick yield. Now, assume that I have ten dollars in my pocket but I need one hundred dollars in order to take a week long vacation. I then visit my friendly neighbourhood race track and- proceed with all my self-thought skills to attempt- to make ten dollars into one hundred. I am fully aware that this ten dollars will more than likely be made into zero but nevertheless the possibility of making the ninty needed dollars is there. Where else does such a possibility exist? The chances of a 1000 percent increase in any speculative stock over a period of a few days is very doubtful.
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In all sincerity I feel that there are no comparisons between investing on the horses as opposed to investing in blue chip stocks but on the other hand I do feel that I would sooner invest my money . in bets at the races rather than in speculative penny mine stocks, for no other reason then the fact that I feel I have greater knowledge of horses than I do, of mines. As a matter of fact I will go as far as to say that through my knowledge of horses combined with statistics I could probably earn as much on investing in betting-as I could in investing in any other field. A possible reason for my not making large profits at the track is that I treat it as a hobby and not a business venture. For example, if I were to go to the track with a given amount of money I would spread my money into each race whereas if I were out to earn a profit I would bet only on those races which I felt that a particular horse was a clear cut winner. This would mean that I would probably end up betting . one or two races a day and often I would bet no races. It is also possible to bet the horses ‘on the use of statistics alone rather than on the merit of the horses. For example, in the past five years ap-
proximately 35 percent of all horses that were favoured won. Therefore it would stand to reason that if over a period of ten races at a particular track no favourites had won then you would bet the succeeding race. Then if the favourite were to lose you would bet an even greater amount on the favourite in the next race and so on until you have won, making back not only your investment but also a profit. True, this sort of betting requires a large amount of capital but then again so does any other worthwhile investment.
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Another advantage of race track betting to the other forms of investment is that at the races if you wait long enough before placing a wager, you know exactly how much of an investment is needed to gain the desired return whereas when purchasing stocks or investing in land, the return or investment is uncertain. _. The most important reason I would rather invest money in betting horses than in stocks or other forms of investments is that I have found a system that might possibly beat the horses. This system is almost infallible and requires no knowledge of horses. It took just over three months of going through five solid years of “Daily Racing Forms” issues to develop this system. The system is based wholly on statistics and will be applicable only at largely attended race tracks, such as Aqueduct in New York. At Aqueduct over the past five- years 29 percent of all favourites have won, and 61 percent of all favourites have come in the money. Approximately 45 percent of all favourites ran first or second. The idea behind this system is to wait until percentages are in your favour. You wait until four favourites in a row have not come in first or second, then you place a wager on the favourite to place. In case of a loss, you double your wager, and keep-‘doubling the total value of your losses until you win. Over five years a favourite has never run worse than second for more than eight races in succession, and the average place price has meant a 100 percent return on investment. It seems that this gives a greater yield with less risk than investing in most other forms of investment.
Takeachance To say that there is a better field of investment, with as high an immediate yield as betting the horses is ridiculous, as far as I’m concerned. In all fields of investment, the amount of yield is usually reflected in the risk. Thus taking all things into consideration, the amount of yield overshadows the risk when betting the horses, especially when we consider that in this century, in the investment field, we have faced the stock market crash, the bankruptcy of trust companies, and the folding of large corporations, all of which had investors who lost their all. Thus all investment has its risk - although one may not discover the risk before it is too late; in the case of the race track, you know before you start that there is a high degree of risk. And the percentage yield is higher and time for turnover less than in any other type of investment.
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Risk involved When speaking of betting as an investment it can be compared to other fields of investment in that there is risk involved and there is a yield involved. It is possible to minimize your risk in horse racing. All you have to do is look for a horse which very seldom if ever has run out of money, running in his proper class, in a five horse field and bet him to show in which case you receive at least the government allotted minimum of fi>ve percent on your investment should the horse finish first, second or third. There is no such thing in horse racing as certainties, for it is always possible for a horse tobreak a leg; thus there is a degree of risk involved. However, there are some horses that never run out of the money. For example, Northern Dancer raced eighteen times and was first fourteen times, second twice and third twice. He was what you might call an almost certaintyL‘ To my mind it would be as good an investment at five percent sure interest to invest in Northern Dancer, as it would be to invest in a blue chip stock. The chances of a Northern Dancer breaking a leg during the running of a race are minimized by a veterinary check the day of the race to make sure the-horse is sound; thus the chance of mishap over a period of years is just slightly greater than the chance of a company the size of General Motors going bankrupt.
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So far over 50 teams have enter’ed softball, basketball and ball recreational hockey summer leagues. More teams are still required for touch football, soccer, team squash and rugger. Today is the closing day for team entries in the latter four activities. Simply complete your form and return it to the receptionist in the athletic complex today by 5:00 p.m.
Water relay up creek The last annual land-water relay was staged last Tuesday with the courageous death-defying team from Math 2B. Their team consisting of captain art smith, first-mate car1 millar, 2nd mate john bradley and crewman rick valdamanis traversed the treacherous water in a near record time of 39 minutes 52.3 seconds. Although they had some difficulty navigating the one inch, waves on’ Columbia, they had little trouble with the 500 yard portage in their manmade craft - “All in the Old Sailor”. Congratulations are extended to this one team who were permanently awarded the Black and Gold Paddle for their efforts. Thanks also to the-whitewater club for their safety assistance.-
Softball faster than ever
Some 28 teams will participate in the summer league - 12 from engineering, 16 from faculty, staff and others. The total is divided into 4 leagues each team playing 7 league games with the top 4 in each league advancing to the playoffs. All games will be played tuesdays and thursdays on the four fields on- campus. Top teams predictions League A - Civil 74A I League B - 4A Mech League C - Kin 4A League D - The Jolly Green Giants with Furri Freaks a close second.
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Golf tourney On Wednesday, june 2nd from beaverdale golf course, you will probably hear a few “philosophical” comments from the arts prof’s, a few clubs being broken by the jocks prof’s, engineering profs welding their clubs together and the math profs calculating the angle of trajetory of their golf ball as it soars into the w?ter, sand-trap and trees. Why? - the second annual putton and glutton faculty and staff golf tournament. Cost $6.00 includes green fees, meal and prizes. If interested simply see mary in the athletic complex, pay your fee and choose your starting times.
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Wome.n’s summer fun The women’s summer fun program will suffer some switching of nights next week due to holidays, classes and convocation. The league opener in slow pitch will take place on Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. The league will continue thereafter on monday nights with *games scheduled. between 6:30 - 8:00 pm. A complete schedule will be posted in the athletic complex today. Competition in the league looks to be good with two teams entered from Kin 2B, one from recreation, one all women staff team and a co-ed team from physics staff. Spectators are welcome at all games. On tuesday night 18 field hocenthusiasts ventured to key guelph for a game with a group from university of guelph. It was a good opportunity for many of the new players to have a game experience and hopefully this competition will continue throughout the summer. Anyone interested may join in a game schedul-
ed for Columbia field at 3:45 pm on tuesday. Summer basketball will have few interruptions over the next Those interested few weeks. should keep an eye on the notice board in the athletic complex.
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Soccer and softball are the two new areas of liberation on campus this summer. 1 Originally intended as malesonly, soccer has been integrated by an entry from math’s class of 74. On Wednesday, the chevron learnt that the team (known as “liberated studies”) is onethird female. Organizer Bruce Batchelor says,’ “We’re quite serious about playing and will take on anyone in Z. ‘soccher - socchim’ game. The girls will be playing regularly and some are excellent players. “One good prospect, Martha Mamen played for McGill’s la-’ dies team and another, Julia Lowenthal wants to stop balls as a goal-tender. ” By press time, the math< freaks’ only opposition was an entry from the male chauvinists at St. Pauls, but entries will be accepted until next Wednesday. Four teams are required to form a league with games scheduled for monday evenings. Dr. Jack Kruuv is the other liberator on campus. To most of his .colleagues, he seems to be an ardent researcher hot on the trail of a cancer cure. However, during his extra-lab hours, ‘01 dot kruuv formed a co-educational team to challenge all comers in, ‘what was formerly the ladies slow pitch softball league. A staunch believer in the equality of women for many years, dr kruuv has shown no preference in his choice of animal cells, accepting as many from the female of the species as from the male. Passing up many tempting names ( ‘jack’s pot’ ; ‘kruuv’s killers’), the suttle captain decided on a simple team title ‘physics co-ed’. The team should finish somewhere in the top ten, but dr .kruuv has some reservations, stating “.. .if we win our names will be mud.. . if we lose, then it’ll be just as bad.” He summed up the frustrating situation with, ‘I don’t know why it always happens to me.’
Low line split action in warrior The word is that the ‘furry freaks’ are also intending to include a few chicks in their line-up. Ads have been placed in the chevron for assistance in all departments.. this is a desperate plea from the jock department for help in covering all the oncampus sports events this summer.. . there will be a hell of ‘a lot happening and people are definitely needed .. . . no tremendous writing ability or previous experience is necessary . . . . ‘sides there’s free pizza twice a week.. . chow.. .
Jack Kruuv. Rumour has it he will shave before the first liberated game to avoid publici ty.
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New - -coach ___---The basketball warriors have inherited another high school coach attempting his first bout with college athletics. Mike Lab velle has proven that the transition can be smooth and success-. ful, so the athletic department is continuing the practice. As Lavelle heads to Erindale College in Don McCrae will Mississauga, assume the responsibilities of head coach. Coaching university teams seems to be the only area of experience which McCrae lacks. Queen’s Western and McMaster have supplied him with intercollegiate experience at the competitive level. In 1959, McCrae was a member of the national ’ basketball team at -the Pan American games. A year later, he was selected to travel with Canada’s Olympic team which competed in Rome. In his eight years of coaching in the Kitchener school system, McCrae’s teams have won four city championships and the ontario championships once. They also came within a few points of making it two in a row last season.
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BOUT THE MOST INTERESTING part of Senator Keith-Davey’s speech Wednesday to the United Church of Canada’s Hamilton Conference in the modern languages building was the preceding presentation by a fragile spokeswoman for the United Church summer camp program. Accompanied by the full regalia of what the United Church perhaps feels to be the epitome of modern audio-visual techniquea still slide projector-the young lady took her audience through a tripsy tale of goodwill that set the stage beautifully for the ponderous message of media monsters and communications megalomania which followed. “Join us, and we will work together . . .” signalled the slide in glorious color. “Join us, and we will work together . . .” said the charming, gaily-dressed church worker, pressing the slide advance lever and turning to smile at the flock. “Camp life fosters good spirit,” whined the next slide in glorious color. “Camp life fosters good spirit,” she beamed, wheeling around. Whirrrrrr; Clank. “You (and I), the soggy center of the politic,al spectrum, must realize our role and responsibility as media consumers! ” Thus spoke Keith Davey, member of the senate and head of the senate committee on , mass media. In what appears to have/been a standard delivery (a bit superficially spiked here and there by over-use) to a good portion of the soggy center of Canada’s apathetic political spectrum, Davey went on to tell the United Church people that indeed, a whole new way of living was just around the corner and that it was ineed, more significant than sideburns and colored shirts. Tender applause. Davey went on to explain that the destiny of media in Canada lay not with the tycoons who have built press or broadcasting empires, but with ordinary people. (Ordinary people, it might be assumed, who would sit through thirty minutes of “Camp life fosters, etc.“)
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publishers, but tends to soft-peddle in criticism. As Davey said Wednesday, there exists the “alarming prospect of fewer controlling more and . and fewer owners more media, yet it is a mistake to overemphasize evidence of abuse.” Davey said owners who appeared before his committee agreed there was a point at which ownership of many media outlets by one person or group was bad. Then again, none of the owners would say how much was bad. Sixtysix percent of daily papers and 50 percent of radio and television outlets are presently members in concentrated ownership families. “Some publishers,” said Davey , “are not willing to make excellence an equal footing with profitability.” The sky is blue (most often, that is), and in summer at least, grass is generally green-but that’s another Report.
Press responsibility More astutely, Davey does point out significant lapses in press responsibility. Indicating “change has become the central fact of life,” he says the traditional newspaper obsession with facts and events is no longer enough; causes, effects and trends are now important if a newspaper is to fulfil1 what he sees as its responsibility to prepare readers for social change. This message may be new to big-city journalism, but is old-hat to many university and underground papers which have attempted to do just what he suggests for the last three years. At least three university papers-the chevron, the Carillon (Saskatchewan) and the Peak (Simon Fraser) have been pointing to trends and causes for three years, and these papers and others have been given good coverage in his report. Why, for example, did the Quebec crisis loom as a bombshell in the english-speaking press? Why, in the opinion of many people outside Quebec did the media itself cause the Quebec ‘ ‘crisis ’ ‘? The answer, which Davey accepts, lies with the almost total ignoring in englishlanguage papers of the historical social, conditions and political climate in Quebec which indeed created the violent reaction to established authority. In other words, the english press had ignored its responsibility to provide adequate b information ; information which might have told english-speaking people why the crisis was imminent and even how it might have been averted. Again, “alternate” journals such as the Last Post, Canadian Dimension and university newspapers were informing their readers of these conditions long before the Quebec crisis actually occurred. But they don’t have the money to buy circulation. Davey commented that the accessibility of media to the outspoken elements of both far right and far left make the press’ biggest enemy the vast, silent majority. It is these people, alarmed when they find their traditional values challenged, who opt for government press censorship and control. Again he pointed to survey statistics to this effect. Though most people would deny it, Davey is probably right when he says “if media turns people off, it’s because society turns them off. ”
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He stressed further that Canadian media must .have an obligation to promote Canada’s apartness from the United States, and received more tender applause when he pointed to the difference between the two countries’ founding principles. “The BNA act,” he said, “talks of peace, order and good government; the american constitution refers to ‘pursuit of happiness’ -a psychic steeplechase known to lead to insanity. ” Well, it was our , media’s belief in the myth of peace, order and good government that led to the insanity in Quebec. Hopefully, with our own insanity to cure, we - need not import more from the United States. s HoPefu11Y 3 witb Our Own insanity cured, we can expect peopleoriented media.
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Power regains Warrior Michael Power high school of Toronto dominated the middle distance events and emerged the handy winners of the 11th annual Warrior Invitational track meet held last Saturday at Seagram Stadium. Their personable coach, Father Redmond carried off the Warrior Trophy for the third time in the past five years. Mike Housley led the Power ath-
letes with victories in the 1500 meters and the 800 meters. The latter saw one of the most exciting finishes of the day as Housley edged teammate John Tierney for the victory after the pair ‘had matched strides from the corner to the tape. Both were clocked in1:55.8, tying the meet record. Tierney added a second in the 400 meters won by Central Tech’s
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Kingsley Hurbs in 49.4 seconds. Hurbs clipped six-tenth of a second off the meet record which was set last year by Russ Gnyp. Outstanding in Saturday’s meet, was Bishop Dolegiewicz of Parkdale. Entering the meet with a personal best performance in the shot put of 57 feet 10 inches, he surprised spectators and also himself when he heaved the ste.el ball 59-9 to better the Canadian juvenile record by more than a foot. Dolegiewicz added to his .victory in the shot by claiming first place in the discus also. Toronto’s Central Technical School amassed 60 points to grab second place, 36 points behind the winners. Techls Steve Hunt took the 200 meter dash in 22.3 secI and later joined Hurbs and company as their relay team came through with another meet record in 3:22.3. In another close finish, the Tech boys completed the relay sweep by edging Burlington Nelson in the 400 meter relay event by a scant tenth of a second. A strong headwind throughout the day hampered the sprinters and hurdlers. However, it didn’t prevent Harold Gretzinger of Grand River from turning in the best performance of the day by a local athlete. He sped to an easy victory in the 110 meter hurdles. The highlight of the girls events was a 56.3 second 400 meter run by Joan Eddy of Ancaster. It is one of the fastest times for women over that distance in Canada at the present time. In two special invitational events run in conjunction with the meet, Ken Hamilton of the Toronto Olympic club won the 5000 meter run in 14: 59 and Nigel Strothard a U of W athlete took a slow but closely contested 800 meters in 2:Ol.l.
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