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Students )/ ignored \again The Planning Department has “elected” a new director. The whole farce began last year when the department was faced with finding a new head. A search committee was formed consisting of the Dean of Environmental Studies, a representative of the Vice-President Academic, four faculty members, one representative of the graduate students and two representatives of the undergrads. Although the Planning Department was not required to involve the students it was decided that a degree of student involvement would be desirable. The final choice of the search committee had to be ratified by a majority vote from the Planning faculty, although the students were not provided with the same opportunity to ratify. Of the five final candidates for the post of director, two were members (Burton and Izumi) and three were non-members of the Planning Department (Jacobsen, Saltsman, and Udy ) . The five were required to give formal and informal seminars at the university to enable the students and faculty to evaluate them. The committee finally chose Saltsman, who incidentally, was the only American in the bunch. The search committee was to have considered four areas of qualification. One was Canadian experience ; Saltsman has none. This candidate, in fact, when questioned in a’ seminar admitted that he knew nothing about Canada. Another criterion was a degree in Planning; he is an engineer. A third qualification was evidence of a broad concern and understanding of enviromental issues; Saltsman’s central interest is in the use of the computer. He is a civil engineer, whose con-

versation seemed to be that of a technician. Only in the fourth category did he qualify. The committee wanted someone with academic and administrative experience and this he did have. Two internal candidates qualified from the Planning Department in at least three of the four main areas for consideration. they bypassed Why l were especially when they are far more acceptable in the search committee’s own terms of reference? A fifth category, one would think should have received more consideration. How talented or intellectually gifted were the candidates? The superiority of the new director in terms of this category was certainly suspect. The choice of an American is, in itself impolitic, and will inevitably rouse opposition to- his authority from the beginning. The way that the choice was engineered, against the majority opinion as a whole, is also an obstacle to our ready and easy acceptance of his authority. One wonders how this choice could have occurred. Was there pressure from above? Was it because there was a minority of Canadian faculty on the search committee? Was it because the candidate had amazing skills and qualifications that could not be published abroad, and these qualifications were kept secret by the members of the committee? And if the department’s candidates were not good enough for one reason or another, was there not one suitable scholar and administrator in Planning to be found in the whole of Canada? But the most glaring inadequacy of the whole scenario was the inability of the selection committee to reflect the obvious desires of the faculty and students. Each representative of the com-continued

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Presidential election results Andy Telegdi handily upset current federation president Shane Roberts by nearly 400 votes in Wednesday’s presidential election. With slightly over one quarter of the potential voters turning out, Andy drew 1,619 votes to Shane’s1236 and Steve Silverstein’s 148. Jeff Beckner, the fourth announced candidate withdrew from the race at the beginning of the week. Ahane’s campaign had stressed upgrading and investigating the quality of university education, while Andy emphasized the more practical issues, such as parking and entertainment policies. Shane was elected to the presidency this fall during a special election called after last spring’s winner Terry Moore finally resigned after several threats to do so. Shane outpolled Andy in only two faculties-environmental studies and integrated studies-both of which are small groups. Shane also heavily won the out-term vote, 209-28, but it was not enough to offset large majorities for Andy in the bigger science, engineering and math faculties. The turnout was generally poor, with no faculty showing more than 33 per cent of its members voting. At Renison, from which came many of the current Terry Moore government membersonly 16 of 107 students showed up to vote.

Stephen Lewis had a few words for the Dare strikers earlier this week, mostly concerning how his party would support labour if it was elected to power. After lamenting that the next provincial election probably won’t be for another three years, he finally settled down to listening to the labour-management problems which have developed in this nine month strike.

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Promises left behind Stephen Lewis, in Kitchener Wednesday, was well received by the workers at the United Brewery Workers Hall, though his remarks did not initially warrant much enthusiasm. Feeling that he had to defend strike action in a business context, Lewis began by asserting that “strikes as such, occupy a fractional percentage of management labour interaction”, and that the number of man days lost as a result of strikes was inconsequential compared with other causes such as sickness or job termination. People don’t strike easily; almost 95 percent of unions negotiate contracts amicably. But the right to strike is fundamental, and according to Lewis, irrevocable. Lewis’ talk picked up in force as he directed his observations I toward the relationship between labour and the law in Ontario: “The tragedy of Dare is a tragedy of the law”. With this stance, Lewis went on to comment that,

in the case of Dare as well as in other labour disputes across Ontario over the years, the Labour Relations Act has seldom acted on the behalf of the worker. This inaction on the part of government is easily illustrated when one notes the refusal of the Women’s Bureau of the Ontario Human Right’s Commission to react, despite blatant sexual discrimination, on the part of women who are forced to receive less pay for the same work as men. The bureau will only intercede if a woman is refused a “man’s” job. In the Labour Relations Act, Lewis pointed out, is a elause which states that bargaining must be carried out in good faith by both parties in a labour dispute. Certainly, in the case of the Dare strike, such “good faith” did not exist on the part of management. Lewis emphasized that refusal to allow union security and check-off is bargaining in bad faith since it undermines the workers’ right to

organize action against the company. In this way, Dare _ management has violated the Labour Relations Act. He went on to comment somewhat .wryly, that if the union wanted to go through the expensive proceedings of having a company prosecuted, Dare could be liable for a wopping fine of between $200 and $1,000. Then, putting the party oar in, Lewis concluded that the NDP, if installed in Queen’s Park, would levy harsh fines on bad faith bargaining. Also, it would establish a labour council similar to that in the US, which would have power to require groups to bargain collectively and in the event of a breakdown, could independently decide a course of action. Lewis also said that the NDP would outlaw strikebreaking of any kind noting the Canadian Driver Pool as a prime vehicle of such abusive treatment of workers. Licenses are still given to firms similar to CDP which provides “protection” for business (doberman pinscers, cameras, guards-frequently armed, etc.). At the same time they can induce violence on the picket lines which will as the plan runs, bring about the necessary, court injunction. Police paid for by the taxpayer’s money, round out the picture as they are brought in to “protect” the owner’s interests, In the case of Dare, it was the Kitchener police who escorted CDP trucks and men into the city: “No one denies the police the right to keep peace and order when it is threatened”-but not when they act as strikebreakers. In addition, Lewis claimed that the NDP would put a stop to the use of the injunction and make it illegal for a strikebound company to hire scabs, both of which serve to upset the balance of bargaining weight in favour of business. The upshot of all of this, he added, is that no restraints would ever have to be made on business if the economic weight of labour management relationships wasn’t stacked on the side of management. Furthermore collective bargaining should not be restricted to wages. Nothing need be left to the managerial perogative. Whether Lewis will continue to stand so firmly on the right of workers to be involved in business decisions, remains to be seen. The Dare workers indicated that, with such support or not, they were determined to carry their strike through to the end. Strikers continue to be hopeful that a settlement will be reached, though no one is sure when. It was reemphasized in the question and comment period which followed that workers have to keep pushing the boycott. This is the only tactic left to the Dare strikers. For the general public ? Go into stores which carry Dare products and complain. Find the manager and spray his legs or. something but express your disgust at a company that supports the exploitation of workers. 4udley

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Strikers ask for support was hired to overpower a picket line, of which the majority were women, is appalling. And after having worked there for five years myself, it certainly does not give We are going into our ninth month me a feeling of trust in a company of striking. against the Dare Foods who could do this to their emplant in Kitchener, and our difployees. The management makes ferences are not so great that a no effort to conceal the fact that settlement could not be achieved if they do not want a union shop. the Dare management would They were forced into sending consent to accepting us back with out the holiday pay during the our union. latter part of the summer, and a We went on legal strike on may large number of us entitled to three 29, 1972, and the picket lines were or four weeks vacation pay from both normal and peaceful until our previous earnings have never Canadian Driver Pool, among received it. numerous police, was brought in Also, on approximately june 14 across our picket lines. This the company publicly withdrew all caused extreme violence and offers of a raise, although the damages on the lines for several management later saw fit to give it days and as a result the company back adding 10 cents difference in Louella Carnegie, Dare packer and obtained an injunction. The police women’s and men’s increases to committee. were all over the place, and at one induce union members and scabs time there were 28 policemen to to go into work. about 15 picketers to escort 3 scabs The company still refuses to over the picket line. bargain in good faith which is quite Things then quieted down, until clear by their last contract offer to july 6 when scabs were brought in our union. The company insists on by the company. The company no check-off and no security clause succeeded in persuading a number The Conference on Canadian which we have had over the. past of Union members to also go into Women at Waterloo Lutheran 10% years. The company wants to work by using numerous phone up on tuesday evening reserve the right to discipline and wrapped calls, house visits and letters with Kay Eastham speaking about discharge any or all employees the relationship between women which threatened the loss of their who have had previous convictions jobs. Once again there was against them during the strike and and the labour force. Eastham is a of the Ontario violence on the line, and a second have since been dismissed. Ten representative injunction was handed down Women’s Bureau, a governmentemployees will never be taken limiting 16 pickets to certain en- back, ten will be suspended- until affiliated organization. While the previous speakers had trances, half of whom were, to be May 1, 1973 and it shall not be a women. attempted, each in their own way, closed shop. The names of these to deal with the broader underlying Our only alternative at this point people will not be disclosed until was: to boycott and to ask for the the union executive signs this concepts of the women’s liberation Eastham managed to help of the public not to buy Dare contract, and the company says it -movement, cookies. The company in turn devote her time solely to the is non-negotiable. denied any loss in business of the situation. There This strike is not simply a statistics was no digression into the social, because of our boycott. However, question of whether the strikers Terry Meagher, the OFL and its political or religious aspects of the and their local will win a slightly officers, plus our union and many was greater share of Dare’s profits, but status of women. Everything of us received letters stating we strictly facts and statistics. a struggle for all organ&d labour would be brought before the Eastham received the greatest in the near future. Supreme Court and the OFL would We cannot return to work for this response from the audience group, be sued for 1.6 million dolanti-union company without our in terms of the number of questions lars. StiIl, we are with the help union. And on behalf of all my asked. Nearly every avenue of job of many groups and the OFL, was explored by the fellow pickets and local 173, I discrimination continuing the boycott. We also their would like to thank everyone who women who had brought have the assurance of several problems to the meeting, apis assisting in any way, physically, large chain supermarkets that parently aware that they were financially or morally. 0 they will cease handling Dare With your continuous help we going to speak to a veritable products until the strike is over. of knowledge. will win this struggle. Thank you. fountain The issue of this strike is not The proportion of women in the merely the difference in wages. Text of a speech given by Louella work force has increased from 27 The fact that Canadian Driver Pool Carnegie tuesday night. to 40 per cent, in the last twenty years. These women used to be either the young single girls Federation president looking for a husband to rescue them from their typewriters, the poor old spinsters or the widow that only returned to the working worldout of need. Now women are PhysEd Renison St. Jerome’s Arts IS. willing to begin working and expect to continue working after Telegdi 9 88 276 3 150 marriage and then again after the Roberts 6 38 226 18 70 birth of whatever children they have. Silverstein 0 6 10 1 7 The majority of working women spoiled 1 1 0 0 3 are middle-aged and married, Total 16 133 512 22 230 making only- 46 per cent of the wage of the average working male. Math Env Studies Out-ter ti Science Ew A statistic often quoted in an attempt to disprove the fact of job Telegd i 28 240 277 133 415 inequalities for women, is that they Roberts 209 112 217 192 148 make up 41 per cent of the Silverstein 20 ,, 21 19 6 8 professionals in this society. spoiled 45 8 0 0 0 However, when nurses and Totai 352 404 410 651 331 elementary school teachers are removed from this category, the Totals percentage drops to 18. 1619 Silverstein Telegdi , 148 After dazzling the group with 1236 spoiled 64 Roberts these statistics, Eastham went on to explain and justify the existence Total votes cast-3,067 of the organization that employs her. Brothers and Louetia Carnegie United Brewery

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seemed either oblivious to these questions or simply very neatly avoided them by spouting interminable facts and figures. More disappointing yet was the fact that no one in the group noticed the lack of an underlying theme or reason for the attack on the male and the institutions. The problem goes deeper than just the male dominance of the female. All the laws in the world are not going to alter the soul of the controversy. Eastham and the bureau must have some justification for what they are doing and it should go beyond the simple equality plea. The previous speakers had attempted to deal with the somewhat more complex problems raised by the whole women’s liberation movement. However, none did an even adequate job. Eastham was even more of a disappointment, unless you believed facts and figures really are the answer. -Susan

facts Initiated in the early sixties, the bureau is basically a pool of information. They give advice to the older women as to how to go about looking for a job and what to expect from employers; they also try to encourage these women to have a greater sense of self-worth. Eastham said that, “Women seem to naturally downgrade themselves and this is even more apparent in the older women who are returning to work after being housewives for a number of years.” The bureau is involved in career planning at the student level. It is still common to find the girls in high school and university that regard a job as only an intermediate period while they are “waiting for their prince charming to come along”. The younger women also restrict their view of what they can look for in the way of a job. The drganization also tries to develop new legislation, educate people to the laws that already exist and enforce those laws. The main points of contention with the employers are maternity leaves, equal pay for equal work and equal opportunity for those jobs. The Employment Standards Act prohibits dismissal for pregnancy and provides for 12 weeks unpaid maternity leave for employees who have worked for an employer for at least one year. This is divided into six weeks pre-natal and six weeks post-natal leave. Women can apply for unemployment benefits during this period. The question of equal pay for equal work has been dealt with by the politicians,sociologists and just about any other group you could care to name. However, this does not go into the deeper problem of equal pay for work of equal value. There is quite a difference between the two concepts. The first country to attempt to handle the second idea is England. That won’t be until 1975, but at least it’s on the books there. All of this is very nice but does not explain why these issues need to be dealt with or even if these laws and codes are really what is wanted or needed. Eastham

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u of 0 strike MONTREAL (CUPD-Students at the University of Quebec at Montreal began a general strike january 26 following a brief occupation of their administrative offices two days before. The occupation was broken up by 50 montreal riot squad police. There were no arrests. Both actions were taken by the UQAM students to protest the expulsion of 600 students who owed the university more than $500. Students are demanding the administration back down from their get-tough stance on fees and implement provisions for gradual repayment of tuition debts after graduation. At a press conference january 31, striking students said the administration has repeatedly sent police to interfere with picket lines, and that the administration has intimidated professors and employees into crossing the lines. An administration release to the media they said, announced that the university “is presently open, which implies that administrative staff 9 professors and employees are required to be at their posts in order to assume their normal service to the university”. The UQUAM administration announced the get-heavy-withdebtors policy in the fall with november 8 as the deadline for payment of past due accounts. Student protest at the time forced an extension of the deadline to january 26 when intervention by premier Robert Bourassa moved it back once again to february 15. All winter term fees must be paid by march 1. Meanwhile, at the University of Montreal students prepared to fight simiiar moves by their administration. A meeting of more than P,ooO U of M students voted january 29 to call on students to withhold psyment of tuition fees. As in many Ontario universities this term, withheld payments are to be deposited in a common account administered by representatives of the assembly. -

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mittee held a vote with his constituents. Clearly the votes of the faculty and students reflects a lack of confidence in Saltsman’s intellectual and administrative ability as opposed to the other choices. Only 21.5 per cent of the faculty and 15 per cent of the students ‘voted for Saltsman. It is obvious from these votes that the decision of the committee blatantly thwarted the spirit of democratic involvement. The desires of faculty, graduates and undergraduates were openly flouted. Even when the decision of the committee was brought before the faculty for final ratification, only 8 of the 13 faculty members felt that Saltsman was acceptable. It is interesting also, that while the decision of the committee had to be ratified by faculty, it did not have to be ratified by students. Indeed, the great tragedy of the whole affair was the inability of the planners to organize effective participation in their “citizen” ’ own decision making process. The sad irony of it is that planners profess the necessity for citizen participation in the world of planning. Lots of luck. -tom

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W. A. Benson of W. A. Benson and Associates Ltd last thursday treated Waterloo students to a display of “emotional sensitivity and intellectual rigor” in his treatment of the topic of man’s effect on the natural environment. The first part of his talk consisted essentially of an analysis of evolution and the process of orderly community change. , The type of life-forms in a particular community are a response to many factors including substratum, climate, etc-the theme being that each ecological community is adapted to the unique characteristics of a particular area. But man, adorned with a complex technology, can occupy any site, and without particular sensitivity or regard to the unique environmental characteristics of the region. Has man occupied land wisely? No, according to Benson. He cited the case of a pulp mill which began a locational analysis with a feasibility study done by an imported firm of consultants. The purpose of the study was to decide whether or not the company could make money under required government forest management practices and levies. From. a businessman’s point of view, the study was satisfactory. From an ecologist’s point of view, it might as well not have been done at all. The area has one of the highest temperature inversion photo by gord moore

probabilities (which can exacerbate air pollution). The site of the -whole complex also consumed some of the best agricultural land in the region. Were there any alternatives? Yes, and close by. A site with few inversion days, poor agricultural capability, and with adequate soil base for retiling lands. It is likely that the cost to the company of utilizing one of these environmentally more satisfactory sites would have been no greater than the cost of using the site that they did. But why, then, was such a thoughtless decision made by the company? Why was the spirit of the government regulations so easily circumvented? The answer lies in the lust for private benefit and indifference to public benefit. Private companies, such as the pulp mill, in the existing economic order, have the ability to avoid the major proportion of the costs resulting from poor environmental decisions. It is the consumer who has to pay higher food costs as a result of the pulp mill using high capability agricultural land. It is the people who suffer the cost of water pollution and air pollution. The freeenterpriser will argue that these types of dilemmas are resolved by the free market, by supply and demand. But, asks Benson, where was the demand for air and water pollution, higher food costs, or flooding of homes built on flood plains. Obviously the simple system of supply and demand is incapable of dealing sanely with environmental questions and ultimately with questions of life and death. Benson concluded by arguing that the economic system is a game devised by man; the economics balance sheet has no relevance to the earth, for the earth only knows questions of life and death. Whether a company makes a profit or not is insignificant. What is significant is the degree to which private endeavours affect total public benefit, the degree to which the company satisfies public needs. Benson’s talk had some serious implications for the present state of ecology and planning. Ecologists and other professionals currently are playing the en-’ vironmental game with antiquated rules that are incompatable with good ecological sense. Each of the examples that Benson quoted had a so-called professional on their staff who supposedly considered the environmental impact of the project, but casistently ignored many important and fundamental environmental variables as well as the ultimate social costs. These modes of thought doom us to our taking into account ecological variables only when a profit could be made or when they could be quantified and placed into the cost-benefit analysis. Just as the antiquated rules of the profiteer and economist are inadequate in the case of a dying patient, they are also inadequate in the case of a dying earth. The

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professionals and the community presumptuous to insist that the cannot afford to work within these director of the only undergraduate artificially constructed con- planning program in Canada be a straints. The people involved must Canadian, it does not seem to much begin to ask themselves if the to ask that he or she be schooled in categories of the analysis of profit one of the more humanitarian and loss, cost-benefit, and supply aspects of planning. Will the future and demand, are suitable for see the School of Urban and Planning at the meeting the social objectives. The Regional evidence suggest that they are not. University of Waterloo become a Benson is really the true -Ph. D. factory like Harvard, ecologist. Too often ecologists, Cornell or M.I.T.? although aware of the complexity The selection process, which and interdependency of the natural culminated in /the choice of Mr. world, treat human society as a Saltsman, masqueraded as a monolithic unit. Benson however, democratic process-until the urged the significance of com- suggestions of the undergrads and prehending that society, like grads, who both rejected Mr. nature, is a complex and dynamic Saltsman, were ignored. After the sum of interdependent comstudents came to - the realization ponents. Only on this basis can we that they had been robbed, there hope to erase the simplicities and was no need to continue with the j grotesqueries s of some of our charade. In succinct terms, the perspectives of life on earth. faculty ended up selecting the -tom gunton person they wanted since they had the majority of votes in the committee. Comment Is it a’ coincidence that the students’ choice for director received little support from the faculty, or that Dr. Peter Nash, the Dean of Environmental Studies, who is also an American, was seen walking around with a big “people? choice” grin after Saltsman was chosen? Why did the faculty pretend to have the students’ interests at heart and, in There comesa time in one’s life effect, waste the hours spent when the issues of philosophy and meeting with the candidates if they appropriate direction must be didn’t intend to listen to the tackled. The School of Urban and results? Has concensus politics Regional Planning is reaching that invaded the education system to stage in its life and has taken a such an extent that students must major step in developing its agree with the faculty to have their philosophy by asking Dr. Sydney votes mean anything? Saltsman to accept the position of At the risk of sounding director. There is little doubt that nationalistic or anti-American, it is Mr. Saltsman will make an ex- time to stand up and let ourselves cellent administrator since he be counted. In no Canadian has the comes highly recommended from same qualifications as Mr. SaltCornell University, which as we all sman, it is time we gave someone know, is a hotbed of efficient ad- the chance to get them. Univerministrators. sities are not businesses and Unfortunately, the selection should take every opportunity to committee seems to have develop competent Canadian overlooked three important details administrators rather than going of Mr. Saltsmans’ resume. Firstly, to a well-stocked cupboard each he is an American citizen, which time. Give a Canadian, or someone may not be important to computer with an interest in Canada, a scientists but is a distinct disadchance to direct the School of vantage for social scientists. Planning in the hope that a Secondly, his undergraduate and Canadian planning philosophy will graduate education was in evolve. mathematics, civil and Planning is for people, and mechanical engineering, which computer specialists such as may help in understanding the Sydney Saltsman are becoming intricacies of the computer but very successful in helping social must be a disadvantage where scientists to forget this fact. In the social issues are concerned. interest of planning education, Mr. Finally Mr. Saltsman has admitted Saltsman should be approached to quite frankly that his philosophy on reconsider his candidacy for planning is integrally linked with director. He has a secure position the digital. computer and the at Cornell and the vacancy he quantification of social and leaves is not likely to be filled by a economic variables. Canadian. Although it seem rick hankinson -planning 4 may

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development and effects of chemical warfare. While he agreed that the U.S. Army had little choice but to dump the cannisters of nerve gas into the Atlantic Ocean, he warned that the statistics released by the Army about the harmlessness of the procedure are misleading. The Army claimed at the time that the hydrolysis of the Sarin . nerve stantan&“.?~!!bleb~lair that stu&es by himself and other researchers show that the half-life of Sarin is two days, and it might take up to six weeks to destroy it. “It is clear to me,” he concluded, “that a vast amount of sea life is doomed if it leaks during that period.” The Army claimed it had to dump the gas because the cannisters-which were made by and captured from the Germans in

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World War II-were showilig signs of corrosion and rust. Along with the Sarin, some amounts of VX were dumped into the ocean. Although still classified, Vx has been studied by Gribble and other chemists, and it is believed to be the substance which caused the death of over 6,000 sheep in Utah when a small amount was accidentally released during a test situation. As little as six milligrams of VX on the skin can.kill a human being, compared to “older” agents such as Sarin, which requires 1.5 grams. Gribble traced the development of gas warfare back to the trench wars of World War I, where gases caused 91,ooO of that war’s deaths and 1,3oO,ooO casualties. During the last year of the war, when both sides were using mustard gas (which penetrated clothing and skin and broke the “gas-mask deadlock”), one-third of all U.S casualties were from mustard gas. But Gribble’ described the crude efforts of that conflict as “laughing gas” when contrasted to the nerve agents developed in the 1940’s and since. In 1936, Italy used a form of mustard gas against the Ethiopians, as did the Japanese against the Chinese (but ‘never, strangely, against the U.S.). In 1943, a U.S. ship carrying mustard gas was sunk in an Italian port by German planes. The release of the gas killed 83 and seriously injured 534 of the crew members, who did not know what they were carrying. The incident was @p-secret and unpublicized until 1959. The only two uses since World War II have been by the Egyptians against the Israelis and by the Americans in Viet Nam. Gribble charged that two types of herbicide used by the Americans as defoliants in Viet Nam are potential birthdefect agents for both animals and humans. The agents contained a contaminant which caused them to be toxic. “Some reports have been received,” he said, “of birth defects but they have yet to be substantiated.” Gribble estimated that the amount of Tabun nerve gas captured by the Russians in Germany is more than enough to kill everyone in the world several times over. --george

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A psych course called ‘drugs and behaviour’ this week featured a visit by detectives Heiker and Scott (above) of the Waterloo Regional Morality Squad. With them they brought an extensive display of the various substances and utensils involved in the ingestion of illegal drugs. The session was sometimes informative and often humourous, but restricted to the parameters of “we don’t make the laws, we just enforce them”. When asked what would be needed to achieve greater !results in the ‘war against crime’, Scott replied, “More men”. There was no recognition that crime is not the criminal but a reaction to certain ,elements in society. Barricading those elements with armies of police will serve only to strengthen the reaction and escalate the war. Violence perpetuates violence and laws create criminals. Surely we are beyond the stage of believing that a- rise in ‘crime rates’ is directly attributable to a number of inherently ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ people in the society.

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short-term or probationary contract. The rest of the faculty leaving are retiring or resigning. The announcement was made at a hastily-assembled press conference in the president’s office january 81, following a- London Free Press story that morning on dismissals of five Canadians in the American-dominated sociology department. Williams complained that insufficient numbers of Canadian graduates caused the domination of the UWO sociology department by Americans. Two and possibly four Canadians in the department will be released-a contradiction Williams apparently chooses to ignore. Ascott people”, Pitt said. “Half of Many of the contracts not those affected are Ascott ap- renewed are for graduate students pointees and half were appointed maintaining themselves by before Mr. Ascott came to the \ teaching. Williams conceded that by reducing the number of these college.” Last week 27 per cent of the OCA positions, graduate students would student population of 950 signed a go elsewhere, where graduate statement that they would not teaching positions were easier to return to OCA in the fall if the staff obtain, and would probably stay there. cuts and curriculum changes are implemented as announced. Seven Asked whether the decrease in faculty members have already these opportunities would not resigned. Students demanded they contribute to a decrease in new be consulted about who should be Canadian faculty , Williams dismissed. They also want a replied : “Well, you can’t milk a continuation of the progressive cow at both ends.” approach to education in art At OCA, students felt demoralized after a meeting with initiated by Ascott. The announced curriculum changes revert to a Colleges and Universities Minister more Jack McNie. traditional masterStudent Barbara apprentice approach. Laffey, one of the organizers of University of Western Ontario opposition to the cuts, said, “I president D.C. Williams has an- don’t know what our next move nounced 82 faculty members will will be. There’s no use holding a be leaving the university at the end sit-in, we’ve just had our hearing of this academic year, and most of with the government. Perhaps we the positions will remain vacant. might start a- new school because Of the 82 teachers dismissed, 61 there is nothing in Ontario now have not been offered contracts for which provides the kind of next year after having served a education we feel we need.”

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On the politics of alienation “Students have become carriers of a disease, mannequins who go through the motions, and who have opted for the easy way out; the acceptance of a complacent, passive existence.” Strike a familiar note? According to Dave Robertson, it’s the logical product of a university system which perpetuates the development of a very consumptive passive people. In a discussion held monday in Jim Davi&n’s Educational Psych course, federation vice-president and executive assistant Dave Robertson and Brian Switzman, debated the role of the University within society and of the student within the university with Uniwat’s academic v-p, Howard Petch. The points made were ones we’ve all heard before, but the fact that it seems necessary to repeat them again and again is indicative of Robertson’s basic argument. The fact that the university, within the framework of socializing students to become “good”, “productive” members of society, reinforces the “mind-set” wherein students view themselves as unproductive members of that society, impotent to effect change in any meaningful way. It is a viewpoint which has its roots in the alienating structure of our educational system as a whole. According to Robertson, “from primary school on, students are departmentalized and routinized ; the first seeds of alienation and lack of control are laid, and the university serves to enforce this as an enduring perceptual set which extends to other aspects of life.” The first half of the discussion was centered around the theme of the university as an institution which produces consumers. As Switzman stated, “education as a

right is just mouthing words. You come to university as a consumer, to make more bucks and get higher returns later on-a student has as much affiliation with the university as a piece of cardboard passing through. ” Since students cannot relate the issues which affect them, such as the Wright Commission Report, to their own experience, they lose interest in these issues. The university acts to enhance rather than counteract the gap between one’s experience and the events which occur “up above”. According to Switzman, “it makes people like us become separated from the decisions which affect our lives”. Switzman also mentioned Student Aid policy, referring to it as a political decision on who goes to school in Ontario. The government has asserted that higher education is a right of all citizens, yet they have contradicted this policy by building a barrier to this “right” in the form of high tuition. To extend the paradox, student aid programmes are implemented in the form of contingency repayment plans, further perpetrating the image of the student as a consumer, who buys his education with the promise of reaping higher returns at some future date. Unfortunately, Petch missed the first part of the discussion, but arrived in time to take part in the question and answer period. He discussed the fact that he would like to see more diversity within, and as an alternative to the university, more freedom from prerequisites and structured courses. He was concerned with photo by david cubberley

theidea that there should be more opportunities to study thematic as opposed to discipline programs, stating that, “you have to cross at least four faculty lines, and at least a dozen departmental lines to get any kind of overall view of a given subject area.” He noted that, “a great deal of man’s knowledge doesn’t fit into one discipline, but should be regarded from several viewpoints ; ” citing the ManEnvironment programme as an example of this kind of approach to education. One of the more predominant questions was whether students should trust those who make decisions as responsible people who know what they’re doing. Some said interference with the process as it exists could bring everything down around our ears. “How many students are qualified to make decisions?“, _ was the question asked by one student, who added that “a certain amount of indoctrination is necessary.” In reply, Robertson said, “a lot of psychic violence is taking place. Education is concerned with opening our heads and pouring knowledge in, rather than being a problem-solving process”. He felt that the indoctrination of values is unnecessary, and should be replaced by the seeking out, discussing and implementing of alternatives. It was pointed out that for onesixth of, tuition cost, one can buy books and read them; why continue to pay fees and remain within the university system? In response, Petch said: “In many things you could learn better and more efficiently outside the university ; but the university offers you time to make a concentrated effort, as well as other resources such as professors and other students... At present the university is much too content oriented. You get on an academic escalator and stay on until you drop off after three or four years.” In all, though the discussion articulated the alienation and uninvolvement of student life, it did not offer any solutions or a prospective strategy for altering the situation. It served rather to emphasize yet again the fact that if any change is to occur, students will have to get up off their asses and effect this change themselves. They will have to try and break the circle somewhere. -Chris

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1bloody likely Do the university. administration, Al Romenco’s security force, and Active towing really love students after all? ‘Not bloody likely’ would be the response from most student car owners at least. The fact remains that this lessthan-loved triad has recently offered students a placatory jelly-bean by finding a new towing compound. They will thus save the victims of a zealous campaign to enforce the white lines and yellow gates, the cold car-less trip to the other side of Kitchener to retrieve their lost vehicles. The new lot is at the Bauer Warehouse on Colombia St-right next to Radio Waterloo. A security office receptionist, when asked why the lot had been moved, said in a most surprised ,tone of voice “Why.. .it’s much more convenient for students. . . ” Didn’t you just always know that’s what the admin-securityActive bunch’ had at heart-the convenience of students?

This week nature’s table will become a family column with the addition of companion planting. Companion planting was discovered by man as a natural way for plants to survive. Mother nature has been using it for quite some time before man “invented” it. However, it has still not been taken seriously by the agricultural industry. They prefer to spend their time applying artificial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to their fields when they could simply add the proper plants to cure the ailment. Mono-culture, or the extensive growing of large crops of one variety, has caused soil to become ill in many areas. Unfortunately, man-made chemicals cannot cure this condition. The soil must be allowed to rebuild itself to its former prime by the seeding of native plants to the area which, by succession, enrich the soil. These plants are generally the “weeds” that the agriculturalist sprayed with his ever-ready herbicide. Perhaps the greatest harmful prejudice man has is against weeds and “pests”. Without these natural living things the soil’s natural chains break down. The past summer I experimented with weeds by using them as a ground cover in my garden. They proved to be excellent as moisture and soil retainers. By comparing areas that had been obliterated of weeds to those that had become bushy with them it was noticed that the weedy area was moist. The plants growing among the weeds were in excellent condition and in some cases larger than similar plants in weeded areas. You’ may ask how you can use weeds for fun and profit in your indoor garden. Good question. It took me some time to formulate a use for weeds indoors. However it can be done. Dandelions can be grown by planting a section of root or seeds in a 6 to 8 inch pot. When the first leaves emerge they can be used raw. The older dark-green leaves can be boiled three times with two changes of water and also used in salad. The roots, cooked until dark brown are a coffee substitute. If you wish to let the plants bloom then you can also use the blossoms for dandelion wine. (There may be a column on this and other natural wines later on). Crawling weeds such as purslane and morning glory can be potted in the summer or late fall and used to wind around stair railings or hung from baskets. This summer try potting some of your favourite weeds so that you can also enjoy them in the winter. .By ‘now some of you may have plants coming up (if you labouriously follow every column). Once they are ready to be transplanted be sure to plant them with “companions”. Lemon balm makes an excellent companion for any plant since it neither deters other plants nor attracts insects. Tomatoes like to have many companions. Their favourite are basil, borage, mint, pot marigold, and parsley. Lovage and mar-

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joram should be planted with all edible plants as they improve flavour and plant health. Sage and rosemary make an inseperable pair. They also can be used in the garden to repel cabbage moth, carrot flies and bean beetles. Pot marigolds and pyrethrum should be grown liberally among your other pots in order to keep all creeping and flying insects from your plants. Keep both plants from pets and children since they can be harmful. If you have let the indoor gardening urge hit you then you will probably be considering, if not growing, some carrots. Chives keep the carrots soil nice for growing. However, make sure that you do not mistakenly trim your carrots’ foliage while cutting chives for the salad Small alpine strawberries can be bought at the market and used as a companion to greenhouse lettuce. By the way, if you buy any plants at the market or from a greenhouse, be sure to repot them into a bigger pot once you get home. A lot of the plants are root bound and will die unless they get more room for their feet. Coriander and anise are two other herbs well-suited for each other. Weeds that can actually be used as plant companions to herbs are yarrow and nettle. Once summer arrives plant companions will again be mentioned in relationship to the outdoor garden. Well, that’s it for another week. If you would like to know more about certain areas of gardening leave a message at the office. There will be an extensive column on plant diseases and their cures in next weeks column. Don’t hesitate to let us know about your tricks of the trade. Become a part of the green revolution ! -kati

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Fee hike in villages The fees for residence in both Villages 1 and 11 are to be increased next year, though not quite so much as originally intended. To cope with a forecast deficit of $166,072 and proposed expenditures amounting to some $3.3 million next year, the administration had decided to propose a $40 per term increase on Village fees . However, after protest from. members of the Village councils that part of the fee could be directed towards the building of more tutor’s houses, the proposal was amended to include a $36 per term increase. This was then passed at the Board of Governors’ meeting on tuesday. With such an increase, the cost of living in a double room at the Village will she $1,080 for the 73-74 year. But the raise in fees will not stop at that. Assuming a cost increase of 5 per cent for food and salaries over 73-74 another $30 per term increase was proposed for 7475. Both increases came with the blessing of the Village 11 council president, B .J. Danylchuck.

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Skinner in Bang ladesh Ralph Dent, a professor at the Ontario College of Education in I Toronto, appeared here on the campus of the University of Waterloo, quite unexpectedly on Wednesday night. This great event was, for Dent, a culmination of a very enlightening lecture series he enjoyed at Harvard, under B.F.Skinner. Another source of inspiration for Dent is Marshal McCluhan-i.e. a toilet bowl is an extension of man’s ass-man’s tools are extensions of his body. The theme of the lecture was international development-a euphemism for America helping third world countries. Dent is noted for his work in preparing the relief workers who were sent to help in Bangladesh. However, the discussion revolved around the important work he has completed in South American countries and the prolific model of reality he has somehow found in his relationship with caged pigeons. The discussion began with the usual banal introduction-Dent would not reveal any political affiliation in order that the lecture not be marred by students immediately either walking out or falling off to sleep. On that note he posed a question;; “Why are there learning failures?” The students present answered intelligently : lack of interest, poor teaching methods, interest in subject, relationship between teacher and student, prior learning and present knowledge of subject, teachers knowledge of subject, stupidity, subject is unteachable. He next asked the students who they felt was responsible for the failure, student or teacher. Ignominiously, they answered it was the students’ fault. Dent, however, does not agree. It is the fault of the teaching method. “You only think you don’t have the aptitude.” Girls in high school think they cannot do physics. Tactfully, he commenced with the core of the lecture, Basic Literary Training-having already established an experiential basis of understanding of the topic with the students. He disagrees with the theory that adults cannot be trained; after all, he learned Spanish from the groundskeeper and the cooks-they could not punish him if he failed. This is where Skinnerian theory comes in. People learn if they are led in small steps and provided that immediate positive feedback is applied. The operational definition he used is that no more than 10 per cent of the class is allowed to fail to grasp any particular concept. This can be difficult. For, when abstract concepts, such as zero, are used, 66 per cent of samples fail to absorb the information. Then what? You introduce concepts that they are more familiar with of course-like llamas and trees. The next problem he runs into is “how can I show them that order is important?” Once again, the

solution is mildly simplistic+lo not use 0x:x0 but rather childswith dog in front on leash; and then, child with dog behind on leash. Anyway, he claims to have trained a random sample of the same population to read within 48 to 96 teaching hours. One of the main applications of this Literary Training is to help introduce higher levels of technology to these people. To accomplish this you do not have much success with the old techniques like “shoving it down their throats” or propagandizing them on televisions and radios in language they do not understand. These approaches are very unprofessional. A more sophisticated approach is to organize friendly social groups ; and again, sticking to Skinnerian technique, use easy to understand conceptualizations of the idea. For example: naked man running after deer, low probability; man with bow and arrow/arrow through duck, high probability ; man pushing plow , higher probability-of obtaining food. As concrete examples. of the theory, he cited experiences in South America. Water in many parts of South America is polluted. “Now, take boiling water for the health of the community,” It is a real problem. “You see the people are in many cases starving anyway, so how the hell do you expect them to boil water, especially since collecting the scarce firewood is hard work.” Back to Skinner of course. For instance the Japanese transistor radio sells itself. All you have to do is flip a switch. This may seem flippant; however, it is that final crucial small step. Once they accept the initial bit of technology, the more profound implications will follow . Finally Marshall McCluhan’s theses wended its way into the thick of things-“man’s basic inventions being extensions of his own physical body.” Once again, Dent involved the students. He asked them for exa_mples of said theses-bicycle, legs and feet ; bulldozer, hand ; telephone, ears and mouth. This seeming nonsequitur was really a brilliant lead into one of the major problems of introducing technology to primitive peoples. It is difficult to predict problems that may arise. Even in western countries, small towns disappear because of technology. This also seems to buttress the Skinnerian notion of introducing concepts slowly. ‘U.S. foreign policy is a major example of the failings of nonskinnerian, single-dimensional approaches. They introduce changes and then go away for a couple of years. The people need additional supportive things-like comic books to keep up with their reading skills.

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Dent then got heavily into everybody else in order that Skinner at Harvard and the caged everybody would be really good at pigeons-when he turns just a little what everybody did. However, bit; he has to go a bit further; Dent found this led to very sterile click, he goes to get the food. Dent work. The Skinnerian method is of got the pigeon to turn clockwise. course non-exploitive and reward Any small step in the right oriented. direction should be reinforced. “It -brian cere is however, one thing to say it, but quite another to learn it. It’s simple, it’s easy, but people don’t do that. They don’t understand.” Example : a woman weighs only 47 pounds. How did she get attention for not eating? If she is your sister then you probably give her the most verbal attention when she didn’t eat??? She was positively reinforced to not eat! Skinnerian psychology took her Yes, fans, it’s time again to start out of the situation leading to the thinking about Camp Columbia. disorder and isolated her. They June is still many cold days away, gave her music when she ate and but organizers of the camp are they talked to her too. It took only -already trying to line up support three years for her to gain 30 and sympathy. pounds. For the uninitiated, Camp From this “good news” the Columbia is an annual summer lecturer jumped back into the third camp for underprivileged world; “The peoples of this region children, run and staffed by must do things for themselves. You University of Waterloo students, can’t reach in and turn people and financed by government funds around.” Then came the ominous and private donations. question, do you reinforce for your Last year, four two-week camps goals cr their goals? As a were held, accomodating an behaviourist, Dent cannot answer. average of 60 children per camp. How do you know that I think he The kids range in age from 5 to 12, does it? I’ve seen him do it! and Camp Columbia is the only Jumping again, he mentioned a summer camping opportunity for Ford strike. Companies reinforce most of them. aggressive behavior by allowing U of W students can help the higher wages through strikes but organizers out and have a pleasant not gearing higher wages to time doing it by attending the productivity. In fact, Walter Camp Columbia pubs. Three are Ruether on behalf of the Auto already scheduled for the near Workers advised Ford that his future, and more to come. They representation was amenable to will be held february 3 in Village 11 such a proposal. The answer was and february 14 .and 15 in the flatly, no ! This was peculiar in campus centre, all beginning at view of the fact that Ford has noon. a resisted higher pay due to If you don’t dig pubs, but are productivity problems. willing to help, it’s easy. As well as The lecture closed enmeshed in money, the camp needs sports and the crux of the matter-control. camping supplies, used clothing, The existing power structure crafts materials and volunteers believes that to get people to co- willing to teach certain skills or operate you must rely on reward sports or just spend some time this and punishment-this can be summer with the kids. exploitive. He gave an example of If you have any donations, this system working nonsupplies, energies, hints or exploitively in his graduate class. questions, call 884-0370, or 884-6371 Everyone was very hard on or extension 3880.

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TORONTO (CUP&An administrator turned right-wing politician is suing the editor of the Seneca College student newspaper for libel. Richard Kirkup, Seneca’s director of student affairs, is suing Gunnar Forsstram over a series of articles in “The Senca” which linked his campaign for a Toronto aldermanic seat to key high-rise apartment developers. Kirkup ran against progressive alderman John Sewell and Karl Jaffary in Toronto’s working class Ward 7 in last december’s municipal elections. He attacked the incumbents for opposing indiscriminate high-rise development, and called for more apartment projects earning the label -“developers’ man”. Kirkup was badly defeated. Besides Forsstram, Kirkup is also suing the president of Seneca College, the student council president and several employees of the North York Mirror which reprinted one of the articles which appeared in the Senca in november. (The Mirror is owned by the Toronto Star.) Kirkup is claiming $266,666 in total damages. He took a two-month leave-ofabsence to campaign for the aldermanic seat and Seneca hired an assistant to help him discharge his duties. He is also involved in the student awards committee and has been under pressure to leave his Seneca posts because of his outside activities. Besides his latest venture into politics, Kirkup ran as a Conservative against New Democratic Party leader Stephen Lewis in the 1971 provincial election. He almost defeated the NDP chief. In early 1972 he led a supposedly reform group which took over the Toronto Humane Society. But he resigned as THS president during the summer. Observers are unsure why Kirkup has taken on the entire college in, his suit. He had previously threatened to sue the board of governors but now is apparently satisfied to only take action against the president. Forsstram has told Kirkup he will launch a counter-suit for slander, also arising from the Toronto election campaign. During a confrontation, Forsstram says Kirkup accused him of being “a communist, a thief and having been bought off by (John) Sewell and (Karl) Jaffary. He also sent out his heavies to harass me and (newly-elected mayor) David Crombie.” The december Toronto election resulted in a majority on city council opposed to rampant highrise development and generally in favour of more citizens’ participa tion in planning decisions.

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he is studying.” The size of the grant would be determined by individual personal / and family wealth, with an upper limit of $15,000. Lower income students would receive the largest grants of up to full tuition and living expenses. Repayment for loans would be based on future earnings with any student elegible for interest-bearing loans to be paid back over 20 to 30 years. For the first time, part-time students, would be fully equal to full-time students in eligibility for loans and grants. Commissioners stressed the Ontario postsecondary education system should be an integrated system with universal accessibility for people of all ages. They warned the Ontario government that the financial scheme should be implemented as a package and not on a piecemeal basis. - The report calls for the abolition of the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and its replacement by a new department of post-secondary education. TORONTO (CUP)_The final According to Commission member report of the Ontario Comission on John Deutch, principal of Queen’s Post-Secondary Education University, the new department (COPSE) was released february 1, would be a policy body adrecommending a consolidated ministering the province’s loan-grant system to replace all education system. current loan, grant, and In a minor change from the scholarship schemes. The system, draft report, the Commission the creation of four corn-bined with tuition fee in- recommends creases for graduate, professional advisory councils on university and community college studenti, affairs, college affairs, the open represents a new approach to educational sector, and the financing post-secondary creative and performing arts. The councils would control education. The final report is a l&member modified version of a draft report budgets and review policy for their released about this time last year, respective sectors. They would which has similar recominclude six public appointees, two menda tions . each from student and faculty organizations, and the Council of The report says students should contribute between one-third and Ontario Universities, as well as one-half of the total cost of their one non-academic support staff education. Because undergraduate representative. arts and science students are The report gives less power to the new planning and coordinating already doing that, the report says “the shift of the cost burden would councils, stressing individual autonomy and removing control not significantly affect the present fee structure for undergraduate originally recommended by the draft over new programs and the arts and science students.” Commissioner David Black (a discontinuation of unnecessary former secretariat member of the programs. The draft report had Canadian Union of Students, and recommended three 1%member now a member of the Ontario co-ordinating boards. The perPress Council) said at a Queen’s forming arts board was not Park press conference following mentioned in the draft. release of the report that the The creation of a permanent financing proposals would allow Ontario Committee on Postincreased accessibility to postSecondary Education is proposed secondary education. to regularly review post-secondary On the other hand, commissioner education in Ontario. It too would Vince Kelly, a Toronto lawyer, have 14 members, including four said the commission report on post-secondary representatives. financing was not adequate. In his Another significant new move dissenting report Kelly said was a recommendation that “tuition fees and associated costs church-affiliated colleges receive should be abolished by having the full funding, if they fulfil1 minor provincial, and indirectly the conditions. At present, they federal government, increase its receive only half the normal support to those institutions. ” He grants. The only other significant also called for quotas to ensure change from last year’s draft was that the representation of all socioa rejection of a previous recomeconomic classes be in proportion mendation for a quota of female to their population by 1990. staff hired for universities to inKelly demanded the corcrease the participation of women, porations and individuals who Commission member Reva benefit most from the economy Gerstein defended the action by pay for the educational system saying the quota established in the (which trains the personnel who early report was unrealistic. run and maintain the economic A strengthening of the fransystem). cophone education system in The new financing proposals of Ontario was recommended with the report itself lack a concrete funding priority for expansion of fees schedule since responsibility french-language programs in all disciplines in Ontario’s englishfor setting fees would rest with individual institutions. Black said speaking institutions. Earlier further across-the-board fee in- recommendations that high school be condensed into 12 creases would be inpossible if the education report were implemented. Black years and that professional status be granted through qualifying claimed “the public funds available should promote as much exams, rather than necessitating formal university or college ataccessibility as possible. The tendence, were repeated. major guideline is accessibility and fees will depend on ability to The commissioners at the press conference stressed that the pay.” The Commission’s loan-grant report’s recommendations were proposal recommends the grant intended to broaden the scope and accessibility of post-secondary program “be large enough to pay the student’s tuition fees. . .and edwatiti to all social classes and age gr&ps in society. provide for his maintenance while .i sII ! 7

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that it start asking itself a number of’ questions: Have the activities of OFS been successful in any respect? If not, why? Do by Luke Aujame the objectives set forward permit any success? My answers are no. At no time has OF’S given itself the means to implement its policies. For the referendum, it had one poster and a leaflet which tried to explain the how’s and why’s of the , referendum but was so obscure in across Ontario: it automatically As one of the participants of its explanations that it must left out those who had already the founding conference of the have left any student completely paid their full feessometimes Ontario’ Federation of Students lost. For the november the majority as at Waterloo. last spring, I feel it necessary demonstration, one poster; and after nearly a year of its In October, an OFS general for the fee strike, an inadequate existence, to attempt to draw a meeting decided to call a newspaper was issued. Not that balance sheet of the activities of demonstration on the opening all those things should not have this organisation, and possibly day of the legislature: 400 to 500 been done: their inadequacies, give a number of conclusions as students showed up. The failure considering the results, show of this demonstration was the only to its future course. that efforts should be result of lack of support by the multiplied. OFS’s activity was marked three major universities’ student from the start by two events: the That, apparently, is not OFS’s release of the Wright Report and councils, but was also the result executive intentions: in the the $100 fee and $200 loan ceiling of the method used by OFS. The preparation of a Moratorium day call assumed an understanding increases; and, logically, most of (voted 2 months ago), all its its efforts were . concentrated in by students of the “power of their organization was left to inorganising students against strength”, which they did not dividual campuses. OFS is thus those measures. and could not have. Such unseen solely as a “forum” for derstanding is the result of discussion It is no mystery that the first between gentlemenmajor action of OFS was a numerous experiences : the only bureaucrats, not as an demonstration at Queen’s Park of experience so far had been one organisational framework for the 1500 students, for it coincided demonstration and it was not the defense of students on the with the announcement of the fee best at that. A man who knew provincial level. what he was talking about once increases. The increases had a On this campus, OFS inability wrote: “the emancipation of the definite purpose: they were the to cope responsibly’ with the workers will be the task of the concrete application of the situation; accompanied by the workers themselves”. The same Treasury Board Report which consequences of two years of gave itself a goal of rejecting applies to students. sand-box federation presidencies 13,000 students from universities Meanwhile, the referendum and Terry Moore’s resignation every year for the next few years. had passed. It was not a failure, have led some people to theorize ’ The Wright Report outlined, far from it. The results showed “apathy” as an excuse to do hidden behind vagueand clearly the deep feeling among nothing; others to look at the sometimes not so students that “something”. had whole thing with the sarcasm of vague ideological arguments-the to be done. It was left to OF’S to poor taste. It has also made it principal means to be employed put forward the alternatives, and possible for three inarticulate in that, it failed miserablv. to reach that goal: students were candidates, all demagogues in to pay the price of their education That the demonstration was a addition to being intellectual failure was well understood by pygmies, to run in this federation up to 50 per cent of the /cost. Davis. A few days later the presidential Obviously, the reasons for this election, one of them government announced further must be linked to the overall logically winning. cutbacks in the education recessionary economic situation It is not possible that students budget. Not only had the (concretised by rising unemwill continue to accept the government not retreated, it had ployment). ’ deteriorating conditions of Back to the demonstrationgone further in the same education imposed on them: they the first show of opposition by direction. did not at Brock, they will not students to the government’s OFS decided to go on with the elsewhere. Demands have to be fee strike. Latest figures indicate policies. It was badly organised precise because it is behind such that around 26,000 students have and completely manipulateddemands that students can not paid their second fee in- mobilize themselves. most students came back stalment. However, when it came disappointed. The government The choice of refusing to accept to actual mobilisatioti, events did not budge. Any serious this situation appears at first showed that OFS had not organisational work before the purely defensive and “negative”. progressed: end of the spring term was too 100 students at Sensing that, OFS, following difficult not to be left for the fall. York, the same at Glendon, twice both CUS and OUS, has that at Western, occupied ad- elaborated Strategies and tactics were all kinds of “grand ministrative buildings to obtain discussed at various OFS conschemes” on OSAP or other OSAP cheque releases. Sporadic ferences during the summer. The financial and educational majority, decision which was expressions of a strategy that questions. Whatever may be the finally reached was to prepare a never was, they should nevervalidity of these “schemes”, a referendum theless not be overminimizedquestion must be raised: What through which by obtaining the release of the students would be asked to kind of government is going to support a number of demands cheques, they indicated that the put them into practice, what type and prepare for a “fee strike” in government’s position and that of government can satisfy the january ‘73. of administrations were not as students’ demands? The first demand read as secure as imagined. Certainly, it is not the Confollows: “The Ontario Federation On this aspect, events at servative government, or if it of Students demands that all fee Brock-on which OFS had no say does, it will be within a increases in post secondary and said not much-are even framework which it controls institutions be deferred until full more significant. The major entirely - the state’s inmobilisation of students after the consultation has been held with stitutions-in other words, it will affected groups, and in parlay-off of 16 profs (a general put in such “schemes” the meeting of some 1500 students ticular, that no increase be ap content of which suits its needs. and an occupation which inproved until full public The answer is not obvious. But volved hundreds of students) discussions have been held on the that is no tieason to escape it. The obtained a partial victoryfive Wright Report.” (my emphasis) necessity for an answer cannot profs were rehired. A somewhat To put it very crudely, OFS’s become but more evident for all majority of student councils was similar process happened at students as the present Ontario already saying to the governTrent. Both are the direct result government continues on the of the recent cutbacks, forcing ment: “Don’t worry, it isn’t the same path. each university to, cut into its It is not my intention to imfee increase that bothers us, itts the fact that we have not been own programmes. pose a “best” solution. Without consulted beforehand. Next time, Yet when it comes to the main justifying my position at this talk to us-then approve”. No issues, the government has’ time (also because of lack of essentially not changed its onewonder the government did not space), I simply want to state my track mind. And the Report of personal view, hoping that it will even consider the students the Commission demands: they were selfon Post open in this forum a fruitful Seconday Education released last defeating. Beyond the demands discussion: the only government themselves, the call for a fee week is here to prove it. that could satisfy the students strike could not serve as a This weekend OFS is holding demands is an NDP labor unifying factor for students its 5th general meeting. It is time government.

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Dudley with his high sense of relevence afterall does not think so. ’ In his reporting in this article he Can you begin to smell the fish, not only did not cover some of the basic facts, but shows a distasteful or to quote “ ...something is rotten I in Denmark”, take your choice. choice of the two pictures When the car was removed there published along with the article. was considerable damage done to He does not report even: 1) the it. A dent in the right front fender names of the panelists and their $85; front end alignment and bent educational background. 2) all six tie rod end $65; damage to the panelists for the two shows were automatic transmission 3185. The male (not unusual for U of W, but damage to the automatic was then there were so many girls in caused by towing the car with the the audience). Pithy Paul could front wheels raised, leaving the have made an issue of Waterloo I find the optimism of the Dean rear wheels to turn the tranOCA AXES INSTRUCTORS. of Graduate Studies about the rosy women accepting their roles as sex BROCK FIRES 16 FACULTY. smission. Any ‘asshole’-well PhD graduates objects rather than be fully parfuture of almost any ‘asshole’-knows that ticipating human beings. But, no TRENT GERMAN PHASED OUT. distressing. Apparently women Sound familiar? It should. It is the only proper way to tow an are not worth considering, except he was attacking the concept of the automatic is with the rear wheels TV show “Under Attack”, being what is happening in Ontario to collect tuition fees from, since disconnect the education today. And it is going to raised, or he is not concerned that a large fully aware I hope that nobody and raise the front significantly read his irrelevent continue. Unless...unless we do driveshaft proportion of them cannot find wheels ; this was not done. article anyway. Do you know the something about it! work. With all the monies that are Indeed, I for one have been associate editor of “Under Attack” At Brock, our students are fed up gouged from students and others is a woman? with ever-increasing study costs unable to find work for over a year. for towing, you would think that a Perhaps this is not surprising since 3) He could have found out if he coupled with enlarged classes, responsible operator would rewished that two of the three atreduced faculty, and diminished the doctoral degree is ideally invest some of his profits, and our course-offerings. They are worried suited for university teaching and tackers on Mr. Cummings have hard earned money to educate his the University of Waterloo has an been formally trained in “Peace about the quality of their ‘cowboy’ employees in proper education. Their concern has active policy against hiring Research”. I bet many of you methods of towing. If you’re going women. Many women study readers have not heard those two created an intelligent, orderly to continue to pay you might as science, but one of the hunwords in that order before. I doubt campaign against a provincial worth. government. whose policies are well get your moneys dred or so science professors is a if Mr. Dudley Paul knows anything Seeing that this is not being done woman. about it. systematically decimating the beyond a liberal arts programmes of On- one can only assume One University of Waterloo 4) A huge picture of Bill Walker reasonable doubt that this reflects tario universities. The students department chairman stated that is hardly information to anyone the intelligence, mentality, and he would never hire a female especially when Mr. Lyman Kirkhave stood up and been counted. level of total incompetence of the Now it is our turn! They need and professor and a dean has told me patrick, former executive-director administration, its employees and categorically that he would oppose of the CIA (another not so deserve our support. the community at large. Total irrelevent personality) did not We ask you to join us (and them) giving tenure to any married damage to the car was $336, and woman. “You couldn’t give a meal in: 1) supporting all decisive deserve a photograph at all. $10 for Active Towing, to remove ticket to a housewife !” he said, in 5) Had Mr. L. Kirkpatrick been representations by students, faculties, and adminstrations to the car from the compound. those exact words. Better that the photographed, you would have salaries be funneled to realized dear Reader that he was change the provincial governA few days previous to this in- university ment’s devastating short-sighted cident, an automobile was broken the many hundreds of nonon a wheelchair, a rather unusual policies and priorities in higher into in ‘C’ lot and some articles Canadians teaching at the qualification for a CIA-executive director. Is it not so? education ; 2) In initiating in- were removed; but fortunately for university. telligent and enlightened protest at the owner they were inexpensive. anne dagg, phd. 6) Complaining about sales display put up by Mr. Cummings your own institution; 3) Telling the If security would do the job they government and the community are being paid to do, instead of on free TV time, he printed to other private ‘conphotograph of Mr. Cummings what you are doing, what a catering university is, what it does, and why cessions’ and devote their time to displaying the deadly-ware. Mr. it deserves their support. more meaningful things, they Dudley Paul could have caught him with the/many uncomfortable We are in a crisis. This is a fight might earn respect and therefore for our survival. If we do not speak become ‘normal’ members of the faces that we forced him into. No, out, if we do not act, we will lose by human race. For those of you who like to but he was dreaming of attacking the concept of Under Attack (as he defaul. The choice is yours; join Getting back to the car in gamble; have I got a game for you. question; it was removed from the It’s called Ring Road Roulette. All said in a telephone conversation) a us. department of germanic popular national TV show in a compound without signing a you need is a car, money, and and Slavic studies damage release form, which lectures before 10 : 30. university newspaper on page 3. In brock university the process, of course creating gentlemen, leaves you fully wide If you fill all the requirements, and apathy. open for damages, and further then you have the challenge of more disinterest goes to show the intelligence, or driving around the ring road, 7) He forgot to mention the The preceding letter was capacity crowd (except the received on Brock University lack of it, of this whole circus. finding lots A, C, and M full, and stationery and signed by eight parking in a forbidden zone. balcony) laughing at Mr. CumCircus meaning, Burt Matthews, mings couple of times. I am sure faculty of that institution’s Al Romenco, Active Towing, and Sometimes you win-but if you department of Germanic and the whole campus at the Univerlose, security will have your car you will see some of it if you watch Slavic studies. Copies have been sity of Waterloo. towed away. Then you need ten the TV show and Mr. Dudley (chevron) has the curtesy (sic) to sent to all German and Russian Unless full restitution is made dollars to pay off your gamble. inform you. departments in Ontario. Other for damages incurred by the peter sild 8) He of course did not realize Brock department faculty are irresponsible parties at hand, the opt 2 matter will have to be forwarded to that his keen mind was capable of being urged to follow suit. asking a relevant question from lettitor _ responsible people so that more the floor. information on this whole The article by Mr. Dudley Paul I ‘operation’ can be brought into have used as an example, because better perspective, and end once and for all the politics of conI am familiar with it. The lessons from the above to me are: a) The cession of this administration. Check gentlemen, and it’s your federation should have a closelook at itself. move. Or will you again crawl into The chevron of january 26 was your hole and try to weather the an eye-opener in many ways. b) The chevron the other student “Given enough time-and barrage . . ..anyway all’s fair in love Page 1 reported David Robertestablishment should spend some assuming the existence of enough time criticizing what they publish and war, and believe me this is not son, federation v-p, worried about ranks in the hierarchy-each how the student population is in the previous issue before ememployee rises to, and remains at, love. caught in the muddy quagmire of barking on the next one in a routine three-hundred strong his level of incompetence”. manner. Don’t let reporters put box ‘t’ apathy. Lawrence J. Peter, The Peter campus centre ‘(any” irrelevant thoughts into Principle university of Waterloo. Page 3 reported an article on the words. In light of recent irresponsible staged TV show “Under Attack’ by c) The chevron should notspend ‘cowboy’ towing activities on the costly newspaper space on highDudley Paul titled “A tasteful University of Waterloo campus by touch of irrelevancy”. headed ego trips of misplaced Active Towing, Hwy 8, Cambridge, reporters. in co-ordination with the security Last page, 28, asked in a half d) The chevron and the force of the same administration, page advertisement “Come down federation should deal more with To whoever sends the chevron to we no longer feel we can take this isolated on to the chevron and learn how to put immediate student concerns of fee shit lying down. Recently an students like myself, hikes, education cutbacks, not the other side of the province for 4 your thoughts into words”. was removed, automobile I was one of the panelists with foolishly attempt Jto destroy confebruary 1, 1973 and towed to the months. the president of the largest armsThank you; it was a breath of cepts of well-established TV Physical compound behind trading company in the world shows, and like. Resources on Phillip Street by home. Please keep it up. (hardly an irrelevent personality), jody mcmullan c.k. kalevar Active Towing, a compound owned Deadly math 1 Mr. Samuel Cummings. grad, systems design by the U of W.

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‘Pithy Paul’ strikes back In response I would like first to suggest that Mr. Kalevar read more than just the head-line of an article, before he goes on to make observations such as those of the above letter. For, a part of his criticism seems to be based on the assumption that I was asserting the irrelevance of the characters who appeared on the program “Under Attack”. In fact, as the text of the article indicated, the irrelevance was not felt to be on the part of the people in the program, but in the program itself. The point of my article was to illustrate, somewhat, the weaknesses of a program which, in one hour, postures as highly controversial and meaningful while, at the same time sells soap or insurance-whatever the weekly sponsor has to offer. This possibly does not sit too well with Mr. Kalevar who apparently feels that the time allotted to his attack of Samuel Cummings permitted him to succeed in extracting “the many uncomfortable faces that we forced him into”. I trust that Cummings, who laughed and joked in the spirit of that particular taping, \ feels differently. Nonetheless, “hear hear sir...” your debiting ability is to be commended in the spirt of “Under Attack”. It is true about other details which Mr. Kalevar described. My face is red. I, for instance, didn’t name the names of the panelists or shed any light on their performances. I thought it best to allow CHCH television to mark their place in posterity. And again I am guilty. I didn’t print a picture of Lyman Kirkpatrick in his wheel chair. Certainly the paralysis of a former CIA director is a thing of some importance as it related to a show like ‘Under Attack**. (as a matter of fact, I neither took the pictures nor made the final selection based on quality of prints, of which was to run.) Also, I didn’t make an issue of the fact that no women appeared as panelists. Due to my chauvinism, “Under Attack’s” gaudy display of woman as “sex objects rather than fully participating human beings”, escaped me. Indeed, I should have realized that their abscence from that night’s panel of atteackers was a blatent indication of sexismdefinitely illustrating the universal objectification of women. And there are other aspects of the program which I failed to bring out into the open, I must admit shamefacedly. It is true that the producer of the program is not Canadian but English. It is also true that the program was produced by CHCH television, that Bill Walker appeared in a movie recently aired on campus and that the movie was one of the first 3-D movies; that the equipment used to tape the program was not made in Canada and, finally, that the taping will be shown to a large audience in qntario and possibly, other provinces in the near future. And yes, the hall was filled except for the balcony. That to Mr. Kalevar, the show was a very edifying experience, seems obvious. I beg to differ. pithy paul deadly dudley

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feedback Sexist sports? As probably not too many people are aware, a women’s intramural report is submitted each week to the chevron. On several occasions this article has not appeared in publication-not due to any negligence on the part of the reporter. I do recognize your right to edit material (within reasonable bounds) and trust that the judgements made are fair ones. Perhaps I am being overly idealistic and naive in my views, but in light of these expectactions, I fail to understand why the men’s intramural report is seldom if ever omitted. Are the women’s intramurals not as news worthy? Certainly I will agree that they do not receive as much attention as do the male participation sports; but this is not the point of contention. The question is-What is the reason for the apathy toward women’s sports? There seems to be a strong but subtle implication by the deletion of these events that they are in some way inferior. Surely, if space is at a premium, any excess “trivia” should be done away with. But is this the way the chevron categorizes women’s athletics (or any purely female event)-as Trivia?

Frequently the chevron has published articles defending and pointing out the equality of what

women’s position in society should be. There seems to be little consistency or even’ sincerity when one faction of this paper can, with cloaked implications indicate the opposite. Please don’t discount me as a frustrated fanatical feminist: All I ask in this particular instance is that you be a little more fair in your editing-even (if I dare suggest it) try omitting men’s intramurals once in a while. At UniWat, women are a minority group who tend to placidly accept their position without thinking. Some are so conditioned that they actually believe that such strenuous and competitive fields such as athletics should be male dominated. I wonder where they got that idea? cyndy

My apologies for the omission of women’s intramural reports i the recent omissions have been purely accidental. Time is difficult to stretch. When a person is pursuing both an academic and athletic career, as I am, the amount of time left over for other activities in a day is just limited. There are just too many things to be done and not enough .people around who are willing to do them. If there were more people interested in the production of the chevron, the errors that you have mentioned would not happen. My solution to your problem is that you can come into the chevron office on deadline night (wednesday from 9 pm to thursday 6am) to make sure that your in-

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House for rent. 4 bedrooms, livingroom, diningroom, kitchen. Close to universities. May 1st. $200. Call 745-2147.

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Mobile home. On lot near university. Cheap, comfortabJe living. Owners graduating. Perfect for couple. 8841908.

Had enough of nosey landladies and your own cooking? Co-op has rooms available right now and for Summer 73. W.C.R.I. 280 Phillip Street 8843670.

Drapes, mainly sheers, various sizes and qualities. All excellent condition, I reasonable. 578-0695.

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Room in townehouse available march 1st. Lakeshore Village. $65. month, plus share of gas bill. 884-5031.

and elusive emotions to the point where we forget they’re there and don’t bother stimulating them. How long before we have “feelies” a la Brave New World? . ..The only difference between The Godfather and Irv Weinstein’s 11 o’clock news on Channel 7 is in the style of presentation-it’s the same view of reality.. . Films like Deliverance, Valachi Papers, etc rarely go deep enough into their characters to show the suffering that violence really inflicts. Perhaps people would see through the fantasies and sterotyping if they’d show The War Game or suitable equivalent as a short before such movies! dave marmorck man-env

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1972-13 ft. “Baler” travel trailer. Sleeps four. 2 burner propane stove. phone 885-0594 after 2 p.m. 3 speed male bike ; toaster; seal fur coat (from a suicidal seal); t.v.; kay guitar and extra strings; levi-straussblue jeans. phone 884-3574 evenings.

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The Theatre Arts Group presents Bernard Shaw’s “Overruled”, a farcical demonstration on. Monogamy, Polygamy and kindred topics. Directed by Peter O’Shaughnessy. 12 noon. Admission Free.

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The Theatre Arts Group presents Bernard Shaw’s “Overruled”, a farcical demonstration on Monogamy, Polygamy and kindred topics. Directed by Peter O’Shaughnessy. 12 Noon. Admission Free. Film on Hitler’s rise to power. “Triumph of the Will”. 9:30 and 8 pm. Theatre of the Arts. 2 WEDNESDAY Canadian Symposium of Water Pollution Research. Theatre of the Arts. Do you need legal information? Immigration, landlord, lease, drugs. All these areas relateto the law. Call 8444400 or drop into office. Main building Renison College; 7 to l&30. Birth Planning. Open discussion at Health Services each Wednesday evening at 7:30. A counsellor, birth control centre rep. and a medical person will be present to discuss contraception. Come alone or bring your mate, but bring your questions. Everyone welcome. Free yoga classes: some meditation and physical postures, sponsored by the Ananda Marga Yoga Society. Everyone welcome. Phys. Ed. Bldg. Combatives Rm. 8:30 am to 9:30. English Society. Faculty and Student night. 8 to 12 pm, in Faculty lounge of the Humanities Bldg. All Students in English welcome. Free introductory lectures on Transcendental meditation and science of creative intelligence. MC 2065, 8 pm. There will be a social gathering, in a licenced atmosphere, of all english students and faculty members of the _ english department. Faculty Lounge HH 373, 7 to 12 pm. Hammarskjold House Lounge, 8 pm, dining floor, Howard Adelman, philosophy dept., York University, founder of Ontario Student Co-ops. Talk followed by discussion and free refreshments. THURSDAY Canadian Symposium #of Water Pollution Research. Theatre of the Arts. Black Forest II Coffee house. Folk and Blues music. Live entertainment. Admission $75. St. Pauls College, 8 pm. EMS library offers informal introductions to library use. M.eet at the reference desk. 9:30 am lo:30 am, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm. Free introductory lectures on transcendental meditation and science of creative intelligence. MC 2065, 8 pm. Are you in need of any kind of legal information? Immigration, landlord, tenant matters or anything else relating to the law. Call 884-4400 or come to office. Main building Renison College. 7 to lo:30 pm. Waterloo Christian booktable. It’s there for you to see. We’re there to talk too. Come see us. Eng. Lecture 2nd floor. 11:30 to 2:30. The Theatre Arts Group presents Bernard Shaw’s “Overruled”, a farcical demonstration on monogamy, polygamy and kindred topics. Directed by Peter O’Shaughnessy. 12:30 pm. Admission free.

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should be deteriorating as rapidly as it is, and that this deterioration should go, if not unnoticed, then at least ignored by the large majority of us, and especially by those who are best equipped to remedy the situation-the mass media and the schools. This problem, while of pressing and fundamental importance, is extremely difficult to deal with because language does not readily admit analysis of itself since it is the only available medium through which this analysis can take place; exploring the limitations and potentialities of words with words themselves is an inherently approximate task. However, the immediacy of the problem suggests that analysis is necessary, approximate or no, and it is on this basis that the following examination of some of the more- abhorrent forms of our language’s decline is presented.

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by Nick Savage and David Cubbetley ne of the distinguishing attributes : that separates Man from the other animals, perhaps the most important of these in view of its role as the basis of civilization, is his use of language. In many respects, the quality of a civilization may be measured by the expressive range, and, to an extent, the complexity of its language; quality of thought is almost directly dependent on quality of language. Correspondingly, the ability of an individual to reason, and to express his thoughts and feelings to others, consists largely of his ability to exploit the potential of his language, and it is consequently vital both for ourselves and for our civilization that we should do our utmost to ensure lthat our ability to think and communicate is not hampered by avoidable shortcomings in this area. Within this context it is particularly disgusting, for what it means to us individually and as a species, that language, the foundation of our humanity, should be so widely abused as it is today; that it

he theoretical function of advertising in the capitalist system is fundamentally simple: to permit rival manufacturers the opportunity to inform a discriminating populace of whatever positive characteristics and special qualities their product may possess-to allow competition based on rational choice, and thus a Darwinian survival of the fittest, supposedly resulting in a responsiveness and adaptability to the public need. In this way, it is argued, goods of highest quality and lowest price will survive in the harsh environment of the marketplace; inferior and higher-priced goods will be rejected. To serve this function, it is clear that advertising, as much as any other communications medium, must strive for clarity, accuracy and (derivatively) honesty in language; it is equally clear that, since advertising is itself an industry, and since to achieve maximum profit for itself it must also produce maximum profit for its corporate clients, it must turn from informing to persuading and propagandizing in order to compete within its own sphere. That we find, then, that most current advertising is obscure, vague and consequently dishonest should not surprise us; neither, however, should we ignore this aspect of capitalism’s perversion, and perhaps the best place to begin an examination of the problem is with

albeit the best available to us for many purposes. It is also true, though, that language can be used in such a way as to exploit almost maximally its communicative potential, and equally that it can be used in such a way as almost to destroy this potential altogether, with an infinite range of intermediate gradation. Many factors are involved in achieving the -maximum level of precision that language is capable of affording us: important among these are such technical necessities as grammar, vocabulary and punctuation (and punctuation’s spoken correlate, intonation) all of which to a greater or lesser degree affect its efficiency. Furthermore, the ability to adapt language to the needs of a specific situation requires a certain amount of creativity and effort on the part of the user-to effect an adequate transference of meaning demands a strenuous process of selection and discrimination. It is not difficult to show that in every one of the above ways the advertising trade violates the principle of effective communication. In common speech, the reason for such misuses is usually laziness, ignorance or force of bad habit; in advertising we find that, while these other faults are by no means absent, there is also the tendency to exploit language’s capacity to distort in order to delude its victims. One instance of the form which this deception takes is advertising’s tendency to employ inappropriate and unwarranted superlatives (the best beer, the, whitest wash, even, excruciatingly, the whiter than whitest wash) in order to invest a product with a drama and notability which mere unvarnished description could never elicit. There is also the dependence on the catch-phrase, slogan or punch-line (“I don’t believe I ate the whole thing”; “We try harder”) which is usually devoid of meaning, and almost alwa,ys of relevance, but which, because of its all-important ‘catchy’ quality, remains in the mind, and which becomes linked with the advertiser’s name sufficiently to affect sales. Often, the phrase may even enter the language, at least temporarily, generally to its detriment. ’ The catchiness of a slogan frequently lies in its very linguistic wrongness (“it’s the refreshingest”) which lends it, however distastefully, all the more impact. Advertising is quick to seize upon

misuses culled from the common speech, to endow its pronouncements with a colloquial, just-folks flavour, friendly and persuasive ; spread through the massmedia these misusages become reinforced .and probably permanent. One word which has been effectively destroyed-partly through this process-is ‘fantastic’ ; I as in “fantastic bargains”, “fantastic values” and the like;, bereft of meaning, the word is reduced to an ignoble,

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ancillary function as an unspecific modifier with some feeble connotation of unusual worth; its value to the -advertising copywriter lies chiefly in its colloquial quality. Contrast the above usages with the dictionary definition of the word: extravagantly fanciful, capricious, eccentric ; grotesque or quaint in design (Concise Oxford Dictionary, 5th edition) ; it becomes obvious that this once valuable word, with a precise and useful meaning, has been ruined except as a bloodless epithet empty of any real significance. This is a continuing and expanding process: advertising sullies almost every word it uses, robbing it of specificity, diminishing its potency and furthering the misusages which make communication more and more nebulous and less and less effective. In George Orwell’s 1984, one of tRe factors which helped guarantee the stability of the totalitarian regime he depicted was the invented language Newspeak, with its carefully controlled vocabulary designed to limit thought patterns by proscribing certain words and formations: if the words necessary to form a treasonous thought do not exist, then treason can not exist either. continued on page 16

The dying~ art of language , , language: at once the root of advertising’s power and the hapless victim of its ravaging influence. It has long been recognized that language suffers from certain internal limitationsany word is merely a symbol for the shared characteristics of a set of objects, ideas or feelings; rather than a distillation of the essence of any unique object, idea or feeling. Language is, therefore, and must be, an imperfect communicative device,

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A slow but certain death In a more haphazard form, advertising’s friends in the informational media, such as the newspapers, the family magazines and the television news, are subtly achieving a like result. Operating from their unique and unchallenged position as the public dispensers of ‘fact’, their power does not consist in merely being able to decide which fragments of reality shall be accorded the status of ‘news’ (although this in itself is sufficiently terrifying). From within a framework of fundamentally similar attitudes and beliefs, they couch their condescendingly proffered tdbits of information in a narrow, standardized linguistic format which depends upon a few key terms and simplistic categorizations to depict all phenomena, past and present, as resulting from the interaction of a relatively small number of social forces, whose individual natures remain, by and large, undiscussed. This trend, combined with the frightening penetration of our culture which the mass-media have so quickly and easily achieved, has led to a situation in which these deceptive generalizations are so ingrained into our consciousnesses that they now present a formidable obstacle to rational analysis of our society: our thoughts become increasingly a succession of media-spawned cliches, trite and unsatisfactory, and so not only the manner, but also the content of our thinking is modified thereby. The horrific aspects of this insidious loss of independence are obvious, and bespeak all too clearly the impending realization of the Orwellian nightmare. -s Apart from the necessity to hurdle the barriers of cliche which the media have thrust upon us, communication has also been progressively undermined as more and more words whose usefulness would otherwise be inestimable have been degraded by label-happy newsmen in their ceaseless effort to condense history into bite-size digestible morsels of verbal insipidity. Witness the fate of ‘anarchy’; this word, which was once the name of an idealistic political philosophy has ‘now acquired negative connotations of disorder, disruption and mayhemanarchy now means ‘crime in the streets’. Naturally, there has never been a period in history when language was not abused, nor when communication was much better, probably, than it is today.

But it is only in the twentieth century, enormous power of the mass-media, possibility -for a near-total decline or uplifting in the quality of language (and the quality of our society) has been made Unfortunately, with the media at the are heading precipitously in the wrong

with the that the a masshence in possible. helm, we direction.

Education uch of our language’s current degeneration derives from attitudes ingrained in the public mind by our school system; the prevalence of these attitudes is a direct result of our pedagogical method, the form and techniques of teaching held to be adequate to our social needs. The mainstay of this technique is its authority structure, in which the teacher acts as a medium through, which universally accepted knowledge is relayed to the student. Utilizing the terrain which falls between the power of scientific fact and the power of physical punishment, the teacher nurtures the mentality of the ‘perpetual apprentice’ among his students. Success at school depends primarily upon the individual’s willingness and ability to study-that is, to memorize. Society-glibly refers to this process as the development of the well-rounded individual, -the one who has been equipped to think for himself; yet the operative reality is simply the propagation of rote, the ability to replicate taught arguments without challenging either their validity or the authority of the individual(s) delivering them. Since students are neither contributors to, nor users of, academic knowledge, their relationship to what is learned, and the language used to convey it, exhibits a passivity reflective of this lack of participation. Words are taken to have absolute meanings which, through memorization, we can make ‘our own’; the majority of words in the average vocabulary come to have ‘slots’ wherein their meaning is guaranteed through regularized usage. Over time this condition precludes a consciousness of words as preserving distinct traditions and origins, or of words containing varieties of subtly different meaning, dependent on context or intonation for their full value. The flat structural definition suggested by the dictionary,

or, more often, by the teacher, tends to be treated as an infallible datum as opposed to a mere outline guide with as much potential for bad use as for good. This passivity towards meaning requires a simultaneous inner pasivity. At no time IS there incoporated into our schools the consciousness that language is something remade through use; that each of us exercises a coercive and creative power over the forms our descriptions take; that all usage serves to diminish or augment the varieties of meaning and historical significance condensed in any word. That this order of learning can maintain its hegemony several things are necessary. One of these is that the potentially regenerative areas within the curriculum-history an,d english literature-be addressed by teachers and viewed by students as areas of inferior status, as frivolous in a practical sense. It is essential that culture and art be seen as ornaments, necessary attributes without which a society could justly be considered barren, yet ones which adorn social development rather than guiding and challenging it. History is the study of humanity’s past; we do not allow or encourage it to make claims against our society’s present and future. The classes wherein these subjects are taught lend us a few moments in which we raise the monumental questions of Life, questions which remain esoteric in that the life to which school confines the young prevents them from drawing any essential parallels. The remoteness of literature and its language is broadened within the schools through the means by which proficiency in ‘socially necessary’ language is imparted. Foremost is the fetish of form in the teaching of language, a procedure in which defined structures are built up to aid memorization, in the hope that a sensibility towards linguistic taste and a feeling for semantic accuracy will arise unassisted. This technique, with its necessary recourse to an all-powerful web of procedural rules-all of which, taught in exile from illustrative usages, force the acceptance of painful and essentially boring a prioris-dulls the audience to the legitimate need for an operative structure in any language. It also encourages an attitude, which may only blossom later, that holds as a virtue the flaunting of language rules for its own sake-the exact negative correlate of a grammar taught for its own sake.

Similarly composition, language for the purpo creasingly to be an activ structural format-the munication is the manip tested formula (introduc denouement) over Iite perience. Forgotten ent structure is any attempi making whatever formal strictly in the service of tl experience and intent. With this general exber of us go forth into the wo one type or another, ( specialized technologici necessary to the perform With this decade-long rr

and linguistic possibilil remain easy targets and j agencies of decline activ An increasing number tinue in the ‘educational them to new and equal individuals opt for th mathematics what occur the high school experienc of specialized scientific te association with discipli social and political life i$ If the ‘arts’ are electec

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he act of mastering the 2s of writing, tends iny taught by imparting a ey to successful comlation of a simple, timeon, rising action, climax, ally any range of exely in this recourse to to encourage the art of the author adopts work ! peculiar qualities of his me in hand the majority d, semi-literate clerks of quipped with as much jargon as may be Ice of our chosen trade. tilation of their literary

s over, most people lling accomplices of the within our society. people of course conVocess’, which subjects ruinous influences. If natural sciences or is an intensification of n which the level of use linology escalates while s treating directly of rastically reduced. lere rapidly occurs an

over-specialization of study-area as the student is initiated into an in-bred house language. It should be admitted that specialized languages have and must continue to have their place within the parent language; one would expect to see their rise, refinement and integration into the general language structure as their use and accuracy are proved. However, in the university these languages serve purposes other than the development of an accurate, flexible description of the reality of social life. Atomizing what is in fact an interconnected whole, the ‘social sciences’ see themselves as discrete entities with absolute intellectual dominion over their area of concentration. What we experience is the attempt to treat as universal and sacrosanct pronouncements which are in fact perspectival and whose overall meaning can only be understood by examining its connections with all other perspectives. The failure to build languages adequate to that which is studied is amplified grotesquely by competing power groups within each knowledge empire; aggravating the tendency of each academic clique to contrive a new language is the general incorporation of pseudo-scientific language and technique into the study of social life, an ignominious effort to achieve the same degree .of absoluteness as the natural scientist. This illegitimate and publicly unexamined theft of tools and language lends, given the stature of modern science, a weight and credibility to the discipline and user beyond that which their results merit. Within the institution words are used for stature, both academic and social, and for marks; there comes to exist a veritable ‘top forty’ of overworked words and phrases. Kitsch formulations, which may have made sense within the system of thinking through which they originated, come to be used more for the sense of drama and wisdom that we allow them to invoke (witness “anomie”, “schizoid” or “Kafkaesque”), than for their applicability to any specific reality described. More serious is the wholesale destruction of valuable terms like “alienation”: words which have precise meaning and use value within the context of their own history but which have been pulled from that context, broadened and diluted

such that -they cover infinite ranges of circumstance, eventually serving the god of ease rather than the god of accuracy. While each echelon of the school system, once completed, produces a categorically different product, all three tiers imbue in this product a common property. Each serves to promote the rise and acceptance of “functional” languagevocabulary which is retained on the basis of its’ ability to achieve for the user certain socially necessary forms which elicit uniform responsefrom persons and institutions no matter who employs them.

That a vast educational network stretching across an entire civilization should be so almost conspiratorially intiolved in encouraging us to cut our linguistic throats is both remarkable and unfortunate-that this encouragement becomes stronger with time is tragic and alarming.

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ne of the most pervasive areas of language’s current decline is the rotting away from within- represented by the uncritical use of slang, particularly noticeable in the increasingly popular “counterculture” patois. Slang is part of that insidious mechanism by which semantic precision is sacrificed fi>r the convenience of an idiom which lumps a whole range of objects or concepts under one generalized, hence inaccurate, label. -The outcome of this phenomenon is to dull the effect of the words we use, to render them vague and essentially meaningless, reducing our ability accurately to convey ideas with the minimum of distortion which effective communication requires. Examples of this debilitating trend are rife: “farout”, for example, can signify an entire range of widely differing attributes from unusual, exotic and eccentric through wonderful, exciting, exhilarating and remarkable, and even, more blandly, praiseworthy, interesting and many more distinguishable characteristics whose only common factor is that they denote an attitude of approval or wonderment on the part of the speaker. It would be possible, though tiresome, to break down in this manner almost all the words which have found their way into the hip lexicon, words and phrases like “too much”, “heavy”, “dude”, and, particularly repellent, “peace’‘---all formulations which do more to disguise than to express the realities which they are intended to describe. Politics, being more intentionally deceitful, because it is more comprehensive than the counter-culture, brings into existence an everexpanding net of slang designed to entrap and beguile the user. Political slogans work to manipulate our minds; repetitious use of catchy phrases, as in advertising, triggers stereotyped imagery concerning the essential goodness of the person, party or program of the user and, usually, the essential badness of an opposition. In every case slogans contrive against an individual choice based on reasoned argument and operate subrationally to dupe or lull us into acceptance or neutrality. While one must admit to the absolute necessity of generalized claims concerning the nature and direction of society by those wishing to @reserve or transform it, the need for systematic analysis and the resultant categorical generalizations in no way justify an increasing reliance on the slogan as some type of “necessary evil”. Rampant sloganeering is equivalent to the admission that above all else the pursuit of power is important and, moreover, that it is irrelevant whether power is achieved by convincing the populace or by cajoling and harrying it into compliance. While we have unfortunately allowed ourselves to expect and endure the salesmanship of the established parties (“the land is strong”), it is alarming to note its increasing incidence in the groups constituting the remnant of the “new left”. The uniqueness of the new left, its ability to imagine a society beyond that of-the present, coupled with its refusal to engage in the severely circumscribed language and tactics of its forebears in the effort to create that society, is disappearing rapidly under the aegis of a growing doublethink, a new jargon-riddled language incorporating the worst mistakes of its predecessors.

Negan( n)epant; also negani-: [of obscure etym] some kind of East Indian piece goods imported in the 18th century. 1725 Land. Caz. No. 6388-2. The following Goods, viz...Negannepants, Tapseils,..Perpetts, Welch Plains. 1757 Tr. Cuyon’s Hist. East Indies 11.145. 360 Neganepants. 1783 Glasgow lmpolicy Slave Trade 104. In the second class may be reckoned.. Chelloes, Nicamees, Neganipants.

Beyond accepting as commonlfare the presence of catch phrases and slogans (“off the pig”, “end Canadian complicity”, “running dog”), which tactically contribute either some nebulous spiritual reinforcement to the user or provide blinders to channel his vision towards the important result, this usage increasingly debases the analytical value of leftist philosophy, systematically reducing it toa small number of universal claims, all of which are expressed by a few ungrounded key words. Reality becomes simply “capitalism-imperialism”, the antidote is the “proletariat” whose short term task is the eradication of the possibility of “fascism” ; an endless rhetorical manipulation of these terms in the service of the revolution depletes the positive and once-potent analytic contained within left language while producing, rather than creative insight on the part of the user, subservience or allegiance to a cause already completely defined. It would of course be fallacious to suppose that the effects of slang and jargon are entirely negative: without doubt, used sparingly and carefully they can do much to add colour and interest to our language, and often slang expressions eventually achieve orthodoxy and respectability as a valuable addition to t’he public vocabulary. This should not obscure the fact however that the commonest use of slang is as an inferior substitution for the more precise words which in many instances can be more colourful and more interesting, simply because of their higher degree of precision.

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hat we must r&ognize then, is that language, or, more exactly, the kind of language which permits a satisfactory degree of meaningfu.1 communication, may no longer be regarded as the exclusive province c>f pederasts and intellectuals; that we can no longer separate the problem of a deteriorating language from the problem of a deteriorating civilization. Perhaps the fundamental reason why this decay has been allowed to occur is precisely because this artificial division is unconsciously made in the minds of most people: language is seen as an already developed tool which is serving Mankind to -its fullest potential; an essential tool, of course, but far less a shaper of society than, say, economics, sexuality or even religion. Not until we realize as a species that our use of, and attitudes towards, language vitally affect the way in which we think and feel will we be able to progress toward a higher level of civilization. Honest!

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Booi< of bays-1973. Rolling Stone Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco. It’s Too Late to Stop Now by Jon Landau. Straight Arrow Books. Mindfuckers ed. by David Felton. Straight Arrow Books. The popularity of the Rolling Stone can be partially attributed to that smorgasbord quality which also characterizes its Con II equivalent, Time: browsing among the chitchat from the rock world, reviews of new albums, those trippy letters on Page 3, etc., usually results in finding something to read while heeding nature’s call. These three books represent some polar aspects of RS, contrasting particularly its success as Hip Capitalist Enterprise with an occasional willingness to probe the seamier side of the peace-and-love business. While one could be excused for believing that RS exists simply to sell records, such recent articles as the indesribable-but essential “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and an extended interview with Tom Hayden continue the magazine’s tradition of sporadic excellence. Far more typical, of course, is the sort ofPsychedelicatessen naivete’exemplified by Rolling Stone Book of Days-1973, a desk calendar replete with photos of everybody’s favorite folks: Chairman Mao, Mick Jagger, the Big D, etc., as well as such Playboy Party Joke material as the fact that February is National Cherry Month. Ho hum. Well, if you really need a $3.00 desk calendar. . . maybe you’re. . . into that. Turning to the back of RS we find the record reviews, once a model of my own modest efforts in this area, but recently infiltrated by critics who consider themselves apologists for particular musical genres-l find Vince Aletti ‘( Motown) and Bob Palmer (jazz) the most offensive, but perhaps only because I’m more familiar with their subjects. Such special pleading has not, however, been characteristic of the writing of Jon Landau, whose It’s Too Late /to Stop Now collects his reviews and essays of the last few years into a provocative and useful volume. Standards of rock criticism being what they are (abysmal), it would be insufficient praise to describe Landau’s book as standing head and shoulders above its competitors, although this would also b’e quite true. His most donspicuousasset is a background in both performing and producing music, with the happy consequence that he always considers new recbrdings in the context of the recording process, rather than as vinyl incarnations to be approached in awe and ignorance. Thus his devasting analysis of Blood, Sweat, and Tears (their second album) combines note-by-note examination of their songs with an explanation of the group’s history and aspirations, and is as fine an exampI of close-to-the-grain rock criticism as I’ve ever run across. Landa; does, however, fall prey to a syndrome common among critics of the less prestigious “Arts,” which might be described as “The Imputation of Significance Where None Appears to Have Been Intended.” That most rock albums contain 10-l 1-12 apparently discrete songs becomes a challenge to Landau to find some connecting thread, no matter how tenuous. Thus we are treated to such deathless insights as “Cahoots (The Band’s 4th album) is about finding a place for yourself in the restless age” (try thinking of anything that isn’t) and that Tupelo Honey is Van Morrison’s “domestic” album because it expresses his appreciation of “those people who now give him l&e and strength” (again, hardly sufficient basis to describe it as a “concept” album). Since he does not fall into this trap in his reviews of albums by soul and R & B artists, one can only hypothesize that Landau has decided inferiority feelings about the intellectual content of rock music, and has overreacted to them. Fortunately Landau usually supplies detailed descriptions of whatever he is

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discussing, so that his more fanciful ideas fall of their own weight. For the most part he is a sensitive and articulate observer of the contemporary rock scene, alert to the inadequacies of many groups as live performers and appreciative of the excellence regardless of musical genre. Although Landau must be read with several grains of salt, in a world of deaf rock critics the oneeared man is king. Mindfuckers is something‘else again, a collection of three long articles (all of which originally appeared in RS) on the theme of psychedelic fascism. If you haven’t been “mindfucked” lately, the word refers to the use of psychedelics (often in conjunction with various psychological techniques as a means of controlling people, as agents of enslavement rather than liberation. As has been the case with other scientific “adva rices,” psychedelic drugs are a multiedged sword which may be used for a variety of purposes, and must be considered in a context of ends and values which go beyond the question of their intrinsic properties. The subjects of Mindfuckers are three men who have used psychedelics and/or sophisticated methods of psychological control to construct small medieval fiefdoms characterized by the debasement of the serfs for the gratification of the master. In the case of Victor Baranco, a California con-man who appears to have successfully applied the techniques of franchising to the operation of a chain of communes, “mindfucking”assumes an almost benevolent aspect: the residents of his hippie Holiday Inns are _ youthculture rejects, drop-outs unable to find a place to drop in, and Baranco’s enterprise is in a sense a socially useful response to the intolerance of conformist longhairs. Baranco has also organized a number. of expensive “courses” for which his tenants are pressured to register, but basically he’s “only in it for the money.” His brand of ideology consists in little more than some Norman Vincent Peale insights on the order of “Life is a banquet at which most poor fools are starving,” he prefers to call himself an entertainer rather than a guru, and it is probably stretching a point to label him as a “psychedelic fascist.” The real heavies of’ Mindfuckers are Charlie Manson and Mel Lyman, whose “families” have more in common with the clans of organized crime than with the ideal of the extended c0mmuna.l fraternity. The success of Ed Saunders’ The Family testifies to the terrible fascination which

the Manson saga holds for us, combining as it does an ultimate rejection of the American dream with the “sleazo-inputs” (Saunders’ phrase) of that multidimensional weirdness endemic to comtemporary California. In terms of understanding, however, The Family seldom rises above mere reportage, whereas the David Felton-David Dalton “Year of the Fork, Night of the Hunter” in Mindfuckers provides a searching and thoughtful analysis of the development of the Manson menage. There has been a lot of nonsense written in the underground press about Manson’s status as a hippie revolutionary offing the rich honkey pi@. If this should strike you as perhaps having some superficial validity, in the sense that violence is a correct tactic at certain phases of a revolGtionary program, it should be completely dispelled by a reading of “Year of the Fork, Night of the Hunter.” Through interviews with and participant observation of the surviving Mansonoids, Felton and Dalton establish that Charlie was not simply a charismatic leader organizing a revolutionary Children’s Crusade: he was also a practiced hustler, adept at easing the anxieties of his “marks” and inducing their gradual complience, as well as a racist (manipulating fears of an apocalyptic Black revolution) and sexist (treating women as interchangeable cunts). In his hands, psychedelic drugs were simply a faster method of overcoming resistance to his whims, a new tool of repression presented as a “liberation” from the dreary status quo. Far from being some sort of turned-on Che Guevara, Manson’s beli?fs and activities parallel those of the man who came into the world bearing the name Adolf Schickelgruber; and if his career has come to a somewhat more abrupt end, this is clearly cause for rejoicing rather than mourning. “The Manson family preached peace and love and went around killing people. We don’t preach peace and love...” Although the activities of the Lyman have not yet included mass “family” murder, this quotation from member Jim Kweskin-that’s right, good old Jim of the good-time Jug Band-suggests that violence voyeurs may not have long to wait. The thoroughgoing repressiveness of their Fort Hill Community in Boston, extreme even by Mansonian standards, has been detailed for us by Rolling Stone reporter David Felton, who persevered on a nightmarish assignment which culminated

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in personalized death threats from the Lymans’ goon squad. Like Manson, Mel Lyman was a social misfit who picked up on psychedelics in the same sense that a Nixon would cream over a super-duper H bomb. Although his clan differs from Manson’s in a few respects, notable in their much more sophisticated use of group pressure to achieve the submission of the individual, they are sufficiently similar to raise some questions. Why is psychedelic fascism happening? Is it 3 a passing fancy br a trend? What, if anything, can we do about it? I’ve been running these around my brain for awhile, trying to get beyond such truebut-banal insights as “the breakdown of contemporary society” and “the logical consequence of giving increased power to ethical neanderthals”, and I came up with one new-seeming (to me) idea. Namely, that Manson, Lyman, et al. can viewed as a kind of Lumpenproletariat edition of those who are engaged in the field of “Human Engineering,” whether psychiatrists, industrial psychologists, or programmers for the Muzak Corporation. The common ground is the attempt to manipulate human behavior through psychological and/or physiological means, coupled with the belief that this is,all for the good of those being manipulated; so good, in fact, that it usually isn’t necessary to consult them about it. The point is not that Manson and Lyman are in some sense “justified” by the putatively respectable efforts of others in the “behavior mod” game; they most certainly are not, and indeed the Manson case is one of the few effective arguments for the retention of capital punishment. But I would like to suggest that we try to move beyond their foul deeds as “psychedelic fascists,” beyond the fact that they did bad things with potentially good acid, and examine the extent to which their actions were savage parodies which point to a more generally accepted attitude towards manipulating socially desirable consequences. I think that we must devote a lot of thought to the question of manipulation, in other words, and not confine ourselyes to moral judgements about the goodness or badness of specific cases of human engineering. For all the bullshit about “participatory democracy” that we hear, there is a booming little growth of industry in the technique of positively and negatively reinforcing people into doing things that they wouldn’t do without such reinforcement; and if you need conformation of this try and read the November ‘72 issue of Psychology Today: “classrooms, kitchens, mental hospita Is, . . .churches, reform schools, nursing homes,. . .factories, movie theatres, national parks. . . ” are some of the scenes made by the new breed of “behaviour controllers,” and they aren’t standing still while we debate the ethics of their profession. Maybe (homosexuals electroshocked into “normalcy” by U.S. Army) we should start (depressants administered to hyperactive Omaha grade-schoolers) thinking about “behavior mod” (52 per cent of Oshawa assembly-line workers on Valium) a bit more seriously. Or maybe not. Maybe it’5 all for the best. Perhaps we shouldn’t worry about it. I mean, sure, it wouldn’t be so hot if the wrong people were using it...but we’ll worry about thatwhen and if it happens. When it happens. If it happens. Step softly, Mr. Blue, We know what’s best for you. We know where your precious dreams will take you , You’ve got a slot to fill, And fill that spot you will, You’ll learn to love it or we’ll break you. What would it take, To whip you into line? L A broken heart? A broken head? It can be arranged. It can be arranged... (Tom Paxton, “Mr. Blue”)

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moralistic memoir-like diary of his war years or heavily anti-war nonfiction. What emerged was a fantastic examination in fiction form of the structures which force men into wars and the flesh-and-blood people who fight in them and support them. He doesn’t stop at relating the horror of the Dresden fire-bombing-which he lived through as a prisoner-of-war in that citybut probes further into what he considers the even larger horror of what happens afterwards, of what is happening in the United States right now in the wake of the “settlement” of yet another war. It is the subtle and everday horror of the common, unthinkingly critical human beings who allow themselves to participate in wars and then force themselves afterwards to forget about it, or think of it as a “necessity” and even take pride in it. In Vonnegut’s book, Billy Pilgrim winds up in one scene sharing a hospital room with a retired*miIitary man who is writing a book f&l of statistics and moral arguments proving that the fire-bombing was necessary and right. (What if it was a. civilian target? So was London, and the Nazi’s didn’t hesitate to send rockets into the British capital.) As the general and his young girlfriend talk about the book, Pilgrim comes to and murmurs, “I was there.” The general is taken aback for a moment-being confronted with a human being instead of statistics-then dismisses Pilgrim with : “Screw him, let him write his own book.” Well, Vonnegut did write his own book, and we can only assume it was his conscious decision that he didn’t try to attack the general’s view with counterarguments and counter-statistics (which only a few military historians and academics would read) or with an Audie Murphy-type autobiography which would probably do more to reinforce views of war than challenge them. So Slaughte’rhouse-Five is about a passive, unquestioning citizen who goes to war, is captured, lives through the firebombing, sees his Army buddy shot by the Germans, helps burn the unidentifiable bodies after the bombing, goes home to America to become an affluent optometrist and president of the local Lion’s Club and

raises a son who eventually “straightens out” and becomes a Green Beret in the U.S. Arniy in Viet Nam. The cycle remains unbroken. Pilgrim accepts all this as “normal”, and in the end is taken off to the planet Tralfamadore where his passive approach ot life is legitimatized by the inhabitants who inform -him that everything that happens always has and always will, and onlyon Earth in the entire universe is there any mention of the ridiculous concept of “free will”. Is Vonnegut to be wedded to that concept ? Or is Tralfamadore his almost-Biblical heaven-and-hell-on-Earth metaphor for that place inside us all where we take things as they are, where wars are begun, where corruption and incompetence in government is accepted as the. norm, where we excuse ourselv s from complicity because we were only foll 1 wing orders? Are we embracing the Tralfamadore‘an philosophy every time we buy a 50-cent article on the excuse that our 50 cents won’t help or hinder the boycott against that article’s makers? Well, all this is in prelude to examining the mot ion picture based on Slaughterhouse-Five, now playing at the Waterloo theatre 28 years almost to theday after the Dresden bombings. Before even discussing the film itself, the obvious must be pointed out in view of the above remarks on black humor: at least a half-dozen major “anti-war” films have preceded this one to the screen (Dr. Strangelove and a strange and mostly overlooked film called The Americanization of Emily at the top of the list) and thus the surprise or shock factor of this film is already seriously diluted. The film’s power is further jeopardized by the uneven direction of George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and the screenplay adaption by Stephen Geller. Vonnegut’s literary punch is brought dangerously close to the border between genuine black comedy and Hollywoodformula farce in the hands of Hill, who seems to have grasped little of Vonnegut’s subtle sense of balance. Several scenes are played purely for slapstick yuks-notably a Keystone Cops-like car-crash sequence which is completely out of place in the Vonnegut context of irony-and so take the pressure off the audience. It is only fair to say that a lot of scenes do work in this film, but in a tightly-controlled piece of irony it takes only one scene in which that control is relaxed to nullify the film’s dramatic impact. Thus, the scenes in which the characters are allowed to clown rather than act as grotesque resemblances to human archetypes collapse the fragile wall between laughs and insights. Michael Sacks, however, provides the near-perfect vision of Billy Pilgrim, taking the nuances of the literary character into the cinematic idiom with amazingly few flaws. And the scenes that do work are devastating in their own right. The timejumps and the intercut scenes are quite powerful, since that sort of device is more cinematic in nature than literary’ anyway. Eugene Roche’s portrayal of Edger Derby as the perfect upward-striving middleAmerican is a triumph. And a spellbinding camera-tour of Dresden accompanied by Glenn Gould’s classically-inspired music sets up the contrast later with the hellish piles of rubble and unidentifiable bodies after the bombing. But the rest of the cast and too much of the direction is off-target of Vonnegut’s literary tenor. To say that it will amuse and entertain many members of its audience as a comedy is to say that SlaughterhouseFive essentially fails to sustain the. tightlycontrolled level of performance with which Ku brick controlled actors Ii ke Peter Sellers and George C. Scott in Doctor Strangelove. So, while it is certainly many cuts above the usual Hollywood comedy, and even well above the average as an anti-war film, it is not the powerful and definitive film that could have been-and still might beconstructed from Vonnegut’s assemblage of characters. -george kaufman

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Tim Buckley has emerged from his colourful internal world full of idealistic loves and ecstasies to an external world bestowed with sadistic whores, bestial desires and blood loving ex-G.l.‘s. He has waved goodbye to the world as he dreamed it and, leered hello to America with all its decadence and perversity. He has sent us Greetings from L.A. (Warner Brothers BS 2631) With Hello Goodbye Buckley was angry but optimistic. He was rejecting the world of empire-builders and warmongers and was warning us of the growing technological meatball. He envied the life of the hobo for its freedom and its mysteries. He questioned the traditional male myths and roles and by his own example tried to define a maleness which could include an overt gentleness presently taboo in the male psyche. But when he discovered that self definition without an acceptable mythology can be a painfully depressing process, he withdrew into himself, turn&g his energies inwards. He probed his misconceptions and I fantasies about the world and produced a very subdued, ’ lamenting Blue Afternoon. . ’ The development from idealist to introspective is understandable. Yet his latest effort reveals an unexpected and unwelcome bend in his artistic direction. Bluntly stated, he has become the nihilistic violence reveler. He seems to be ashamed of his previous innocence with the world and to be intent on losing that innocence by exposing himself to the world’s seediest and most questionable elements. Violence has invaded his imagery with nauseating effect. He sings about “a red neck son of a gun” who wants to kill a gook before dawn. He cherishes the thought of messing with a black woman and getting the shit kicked out of him by her black man. Finally with lyrics rivalling the subtlety of “Hanky Tonk Woman” he squeals and moans in “Get on Top” more for sexual extraction than for mutual gratification. Ardent Buckley fans may try to rgtionalize his latest album as a “way it is” statement. They may think that he is revealing to us the sexual mania rampant, the senseless violence seekers, the erotic fun-bun lovers and the masochistic misfits in modern metropoles, but if this is so why does he conjure such an effective selfinvolving aura? His musical arrangements, from the primitive erotic rhythyms of “Monkey Rub” to the grandiose orchestrations in “Make It Right”, imply total engulfment. The music -would be very enjoyable was it not supplementing such disturbing ideas. The distinctive Buckley trills, excited ramblings, and animal outbursts also suggest self-immersion rather than voyeuristic description. Unfortunately these same vocalizations which gave the magical frenzy to “Gypsy Woman” (Happy Sad) can only inflate -these songs with hollow sexual simulation. With “Greetings from LA” Tim Buckley has certainly lost his artistic virginity. --doug

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ergman’s pas sionate vision .

“A child who is born and brought up in a vicarage acquires an early familiarity with life and death behind the scenes. Father had a burial, a marriage, a baptism, a retreat, he wrote a sermon. The Devil was an early acquaintance, and in the child’s mind there was a need to personify him.” -1ngmar Bergman

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Bergman has just his thirty-first film, Cries and Whispers. In it he shows us again his profound awareness of death, physical and spiritual. And as our manipulator, he now acquaints us with the devilwhatever our individual devils may be., As for Bergman, he is surely his own. Almost without exception, Bergman’s films have an overwhelming presence, power, control. This sense of personal vision (which almost all other movies lack) is evident primarily because he writes his own screenplays. In the case of film, the greater the number of craftsmen and egos, the lesser the degree of coherence and unity. But Bergman’s films are outstanding for other reasons too. He exhibits a fanatical sense of vocation that is truly rare in today’s Western world (let alone the film industry). Says Bergman, “Loss of equilibrium has consequences more dire for the conscientious film-maker than for a tightrope walker or an acrobat who performs under the circus tent without a net. For the film-maker and the tightrope artist, the risk is of the same order: Falling and For him, this is killing oneself”. not an exaggeration, it is reality. Bergman’s dedication and conscientiousness, combined with his talent, have brought great rewards. He has almost singlehandedly brought back the Swedish film to its former eminence. And like the earliest of Swedish films, there is that dark, gloomy preoccupation clearly in evidence. Bergman admits that his great literary experience was Strindberg, whose plays were hairraising and grave. To produce Strindberg’s “Dream Play” is Bergman’s own dream. One can’t come away from a Bergman film feeling complacent. One can’t help but come away feeling uneasy, naked and alone. One will find a large dose of gloom about man’s spiritual condition, usually precisely on target. If Bergman is merely commentating on life as he sees it (or lives it) 9 he is nevertheless doing a superb job.

Yet is Bergman an isolated example of man? In film, a message _ without means is disastrous, or at best mediocre. Here again Bergman triumphs. He manifests a ,genius for inspiring actors, and for controlling them.- Most of his films would have been considered farces, if his actors had not made them so incredibly believable. Seventh Seal (19561, the allegorical tale of Death plucking off his victims, might well have seemed absurd. Yet Bengt Ekerot (as Death) and Max von Sydow (as the knight) present a thoroughly chilling picture as they sit engaged in a game of chess (death versus life). Bergman tends to use the same group of actors for most of his films (Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman and .Bibi Andersson) . Each of them has been trained in a specific, highly disciplined style. None seems to outscore the other, even when one has a more prominent role. This is one of the joys of a Bergman film, the flawless orchestration of characters.

(and I feel it a glaring one) was Bergman’s first English, first colour film (1970), The Touch: Elliot Gould as the source of Liv Ullman’s humiliation and anguish, was unconvincing, at best, in his role. He lacked depth and control, and seemed oddly out of place. What puzzles me is why Bergman would, switch to an American personality-did he see potential in Gould, feel it time for a change, or, more likely, view Gould coldly as a caricature? Bergman undid the personal once before, in Shame (1968). The theme here was the demoralizing effects of war on personal relationships. The people disintegrated in pace with the environment. The hero (Max von Sydow) was treated harshly by Bergman and was seen as weak and self-absorbed (similar to Gould’s role in the Touch). Bergman’s movies have great visual impeccable appeal, photography (i.e. Wild Strawberries) and universal rather than national themes. However, he is often overconcerned with detail, (especially religious) to a distracting extent. He explains the major role that religion plays in his thinking and film making : “To me, religious problems are continuously alive. I never cease to concern myself with them, and my he one exception

concern goes on every hour of nothing physically or technically every day. Yet it does not take wrong with the records, and I have place on the emotional level but on yet to find any defiencies in any of an intellectual one.?’ the deletes I’ve purchased, and For Bergman, every film is a that adds up to nearly half my dare, a bet with the devil. He is collection . said to be utterly exhausted at the Deletes generally have a hole end. When asked what his purpose punched into the corner of the was in making films, he drew the album cover, but this is just to analogy of a single craftsman designate it as a cut-out. The going working on a small section of a price for deletes is $1.90499, but cathedral. He is still the only man you may find certain stores trying working on this par titular to charge -more o&if you’re cathedral, plugging along in the lucky-a few stores cut them down same spirit as thirty years before. to even less if -,they don’t move His personality is sealed on quickly. If you are hung up on every film: the morbidity, wry wit, running out and buying every intensity, dramatic psychology. album the minute hear it, or His films, as himself, are somber possessing the Top-40 albums, and grave. He chooses the very deletes will, naturally, do you no gravest subjects: the absence of good; keep putting out that fiveGod, the shadow of death, the spot. futility of life. Bergman speaks: “It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it is separated from ut, if you are willing to sift worship. It severed an umbilical through cut-out bins for cord and now lives its own sterile oldies that you hold dear life generating and degenerating or might have not been hip to at the itself.... time they were released, the ‘:‘Today the individual has market is wide open. Often, too, become the highest form, and the albums less than a year old will greatest bane, of artistic creation. appear in the bins, but here is The artist considers his isolation, where the work comes in. You’ve his subjectivity, his individualisfn got to know the places that handle almost holy.... deletes, know which ones have the “Thus we finally gather together fastest turn-over (and so get new in one large pen, where we stand orders in more frequently) and you and bleat about our loneliness must visit the stores fairly often. It without listening to each other and helps to talk to the person who without realizing that we are orders the records, and he will smothering ourselves to death. The sometimes tell you when the individualists stare into each shipments will come in and what other’s eyes and yet deny each titles are and are not available to other’s existence.. . . him. There are stores, of course, “We walk in circles, so limited which will not be that acby own anxieties that we can no comodating, but these are longer distinguish between true generally the places to stay away and false, between the gangster’s -from anvway. whim and the purest ideal.” The .following is just my own Bergman, undoubtedly one of the personal evaluation based on the greatest directors in the history of past two years’ experience, and film, has penetrated the human not an endorsement of any store. spirit. As for the large amount left There are undoubtedly places I’ve unsaid in his movies, he has left-out or don’t know of: probably gone so far in human The-Muntz Centre; known mostly horror that he can’t keep turning for handling tapes, is probably the back to explain. best store in the K-W area for a large and --susan ga bel deletes. It carries mostly good selection of titles, charges the going price and-best or‘ all-the record-purchasers there seem to care about the quality of the deletes they carry. Almost as much care seems to go into the purchase of deletes as in tthe purchase of their regular-priced albums and tapes. Even-more than that, they know their music, and so titles show up at Muntz by design which show up elsewhere either randomly or not at all. Towers also has a large and good selection at most times, but it is more erratic than Muntz; the sense of care and knowledge of the music is not there. But if you’re If you like your music, but can’t seem to justify making Sam the willing to haunt the place and look at a lot of records, you might get Record Man five dollars richer lucky. K-Mart used to have a good every time you buy an albumtake heart. There are a lot of us selection, but recently have seemed to drop that policy for one around. of handling the higher-priced TopAnd there is a way to add good 40 albums only. An occasional sale records to your collection without will bring in one shipment there, going broke doing it. Many people Same for Highway know about, but most don’t take however. full advantage of it. It takes a little- Market. time, and a little knowledge of your Sam’s (Kitchener) is generally music, but it has the advantage of a place to avoid when looking for deletes. The selection is small being cheap. The a record comand generally poor, and mostly panies regularly cut out a number over-priced. of albums from their regular stock, Cut-outs priced at $1.90 elsewhere often turn and ship them out to record stores up at Sam’s for a dollar or more at reduced prices. These cut-outs above that. The places which just (deletes) are reduced for a number carry record bars, such as Woolco, of reasons, ranging from overdo not even carry stocking of a particular title to loss etc., generally deletes and when they do the of popular appeal by a musician. Record Distributors claim there is selection is poor.

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Strangeley enough; Sweet William’s in Waterloo carries an on-again’ off-again stock of sale soul albums that is probably the best of that genre in the Twin cities. The price is $2.99 for most, but they are top-notch Motown and Memphis albums from a few years back featuring the best of the groups and performers, like Impressions, Stevie Wonder, Supremes, James Brown, Jr. Walker and many others. (I am talking here of records which have been reduced from original price rather than so-called “budget” albums which are price-and usually producedbelow normal standards. As I said before, deletes can be distinguished by the hole punched in the album cover.) In Toronto, Sam’s and A & A both have poor selections of cut-outs and both pander to the Top-40 trade almost exclusively. Your best bets there are Sherman’s Music Centre near Yonge and Bloor, and Round Records on Bloor. Sherman’s has the most extensive and best selection of cutouts I’ve come across, and a lot of titles I’d thought were out of stock have shown up there. Round Records carry a lot of second-hand used albums and, while there is no guarantee of factory seal,etc., your chances of getting more recent records are best there. Now, what kind of records are available on deletes? Almost any kind you want, except current bestsellers; Since Steppenwolf has broken up, nearly all their albums can be found in delete- bins ; old blues albums turn up frequently on long-out-of-circulation labels’ good artists like Lightnin’ Hopkins, B.B. King, Charles Musselwhite, John Lee and Albert Hooker, Muddy Waters and many anthologies ; lots of old Vanguard albums turn up: things like Mimi and Richard Farina, Carl Oglesby, the first SiegelSchwall album, etc. ; the early Elektra albums, like those fine Tom Rush LF% ; lots of Jazz, on Impulse and other labels ; a lot of Motown stuff, but you’ve got to know your music here; and, of course, lots of trash you wouldn’t want to spend even ’ the two bucks on. You can find the early work of a lot of artists that didn’t become well-known until late in their careers; sometimes these early albums deserve their anonymity, others are fine music. People like Rush, Butterfield, etc., seem to have done their best stuff on these early albums. Lots of rock is now in the delete bins: James Gang, Rascals, Youngbloods, Mountain, etc. And there is the rare but worthwhile once-in-a-great-while find. It all depends on your taste and what you already have. The great part of it is that, if your musical taste does not change every time the Rolling Stone ads say it should, yeu can pick up a lot of good music for cheap. If you still dig folk, blues or early rock, check into the deletes. It sure beats the weekly “specials” at Sam’s -gesrge kaufman

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universal rule-he even described his office as ‘set in the midst between God and man, below God but above man’. Bull ‘Unam Sanctum’ Boniface VIII came through in 1302 with the heaviest claim-the papacy had not only the spiritual sword of government but also the temporal one. Too much, said the king of France and tossed the man in prison. The people were getting a bit wary of the church’s authority and nationalism was growing. Martin Luther the monk came in, not as the belching peasant of much popular legend, but as a theologian and professor. “My theology, which is St. Augustine’s is getting on, and is dominant in the university” he said, but added few comments about someone else

Unity, 1972.

“‘It is finished” the man Christ said shortly before his final breath. To commemorate, a three-day easter weekend adorns the calendar of working people in the west. His birthdate now is the holiday just before our new year begins and historical data is determined either before or after he walked, sandaled and cloaked, through Nazareth. “It has just begun” would have been more apt had he been speaking of man’s interpretation of his words. Barry Till, an English theologian, traces these interpreta tions, misinterpretations and reinterpretations through 524 pages (from preface to epilogue). Indeed a detailed account, The Churches Search For Unity utilizes the ecuminical movement as a base to present a historical account. Paul (the man from Tarsus) began the effort to unify the rapidly-growing church. He pleaded with the church at Corinth to 6. . .stop arguments among yourselves. Let there be real harmony so that there won’t be splits in the church’. Later in that first letter to the Corinthians, he slapped their wrists for what he considered misguided emphasis on points of faith. Not twenty years after the Calvary affair, rifts were already evident. Then came the gloryseekers, ‘some of course are _ preaching the Good News because they are jealous of the way God has used me. They want reputations as fearless preachers! ’ Paul said, and the race was on. Contending were those stalwardly claiming a corner on the -truth and those attempting to form a unified body. According to Till’s account on the state of Christianity today, the former have the edge. Till documents that as early as 325, a general council meeting was convened to decide on ‘belief ‘. An honest attempt was being made to keep things together but by 451 council meetings were being held seperately in the east and west leading the author to state, “after that the lasting schisms in the truly ecumenical, or world-wide, council could not be convened”. During these Christian gettogethers scenes of slander and violence were not :-uncommon, attacks on personal morals were used to reinforce accusations of heretical opinions. The patriarch of Alexandria even attempted to intimidate with threats of his ‘fierce and unruly monks’, leading . the eventual answers in the direction of the strongest protaganist. And so it went through

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four, centuries after the Christ. and Constantinople became the polarized leaders of the west and the east respectively. Up north, the Russians wanted a bit of the action “. . . he is on earth the sole Tsar of the Christians, the leader of the ’ Apostolic Church which stands no longer in Rome or in Constantinople, but in the blessed city of Moscow. She alone shines in the whole world brighter than the sun.. .two Romes have fallen, but the third stands, and a fourth there will not be.” It was the old vision in a new setting. On November 4,1917 Tikhon, the archbishop of Moscow, was chosen patriarch of all Russia. Two days later Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained control of Moscow and relieved the church of its former authority. Tikhon was inflamed and fought back, but was tossed in jail to cool off. He returned from prison a changed man talking as vehemently as before but of a different doctrine. His successor took over in ‘27 and went a bit further---orthodox churchmanship became identified with Soviet citizenship. This church-and-state controversy always has been a touchy one. Innocent III (pope 1198-1216) gota bit ahead of himself claiming

whose words were prominent in academica, ‘Aristotle is going clown hill and perhaps he will go all the way to hell. ..“. Luther and a rising wave of German nationalism made the slogan ‘justification by faith alone’ the watchword of religious reformation. ‘Sola fidelism’ could not be easily worded into the catholic formula so the schism began, and the reformation was in progress. Till says, “the open Bible had become the symbol of the reformation and once men-many of them barely literate-began reading the Bible without the tramline guidance of the traditional teachings of the church, trouble was bound to come. The Bible is full of apocalyptic images which have a strange fascination for the simple, as is shown by the history of many modern sects.. .“ A group called the ‘New Zion’ reaped a bit of havoc in Holland bent on exterminating the ungodly. They were eventually quietened by an ungodly ‘search and destroy’ effort; but now the populace became fearful of anarchic extremism and where ever it popped up, was immediately put down. No more papal domination the people wanted, but no New Zionists either. The Anglo-Saxons did their bit of reforming beginning with Henry

who hungered for Anne Boyelyn and a possible male child. The church didn’t go for negating marriages so in 1584 good king Henry declared the throne ‘supreme head of the Church of England’ (the face-saving clause‘so far as the law of Christ allows’-was omitted) and the ball had travelled a complete circle since the days of Innocent III, pope-to-the-world. Till then turned his attentions to this continent and the many Christian deviations’ which found root in American soil beginning in 1831 with the Seventh Day Adventists. This group placed a strong-though frequently postponed+?mphasis on the second coming of Christ and the millennium. A little slower in forming were the Mormons although Joseph Smith had discovered the book of Mormons in 1830 and added it to bibical writings. Mary Baker Eddy appealed to better-off Americans with her Christian Scientist writings claiming the true teachings of Christ Scientist, to a neurotic age. And so it went, schisms and heretics were everywhere depending on where one stood. From the time of Paul until today, efforts at union were stymied on all sides. The most evident absentee from the countless councils was, of course, the Roman Catholic church which stuck stubbornly by its dogma, and in so doing gathered more ‘believers’ than any other section. Their slow-changing policy elicited confidence as far fewer followers fled the organized Roman religion. The history of the churches fight for unity makes interesting reading and the fray is definitely continuing, but as Till states in his final paragraph: “Must they not now be thinking in terms of decades rather than centuries? If they fail to do so the revolutionaries may fling away the glass of organic unity, and even of institutionalized religion. Or the world may simply discard it as meaningless and unworthy of the great truths it once seemed to contain.” Barry Till wrote about a bit of his tory from an interesting viewpoint. Reading his book may make you wonder if 9at this point in time, the church is passing away or simply sleeping-as it has done so many times before. Or maybe it’s just the shattering of those stone-churches the man talked about before the whole thing began

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Van Morrison the young man with the cocky-smooth voice who used to make young girls squeal with delight, has grown up. Fortunately, he still has that drawly, hypnotic vocal power which made

songs like “‘Brown-Eyed Girl” and “Brand New Day” his own; unfortunately, he is still so taken up with his own formula of musicmaking that he has failed to wander even a short way from the style which made those hits so popular. However if you are a steadfast Van Morrison fan-and there are many-r if you are not that familiar with his work, his new album, Saiut Dominic’s Preview (WB BS-2633), will probably be a welcome addition to your record collection. All the songs here were, as usual, written by Morrison and more care than usual seems to have been put into their construction and arrangement. The most striking piece hereand one of the best Morrison has ever recorded-is a lo-minute cut titled “Almost Independence Day”. The song has really only two basic chords which are repeated, and the tune itself is simple to the extreme. But it is a tribute to Morrison’s genius as arranger and, especially, vocal interpreter 9 that he starts the song off on that basic level and builds it throughout the 10 minutes to a hypnotic powerful and listenable piece of music, revealing along the way several unexpected levels of complexity. This is in part due to the fine band he has assembled behind him here, and partly due to his own la-string guitar work, but mostly-and most strikingly-to his amazing voice and his sense of timing and phrasing. I can think of few artists who have the vocal competence or the imagination and sense of. presence to carry off an extended cut like this. Morrison has a unique ability to build a song, play with it, simmer it, build it again, tease it and then either bring it to full climax or fade it out tenderly and lovingly, and nowhere has he used this power to the extent of “Almost Independence Day. ” The title tune and “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)” are also both fine exhibitions of the Morrison voice, and the latter displays a swinging, toe-tapping fusion of Morrison’s vocal and his back-up band. The band is excellent throughout, and puts out a tightness which is all the more amazing when you find that the personnel change drastically from cut to cut. So, even more credit seems due Morrison both as musician and producer of the album for the uniformity of musical excellence here. This, to me, is the finest example so far of Van Morrison’s music, pleasurable for old fans and newcomers alike. The only real criticism I could find of the album is that I found myself wanting him to turn his band members loose on several occasions where he seemed to dominate vocally too much. But perhaps that tight control over his back-up is what makes the Morrison voice shine so much, and if that is the case I withdraw my objection. -george

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Another brief glimmer A very appreciative audience of several hundred was present in the Arts Theatre for the noon-time concert of the Madrigal Singers on January 31. This group has sung on several previous occasions as a component of a larger enterprise, such as the “Festino” program last autumn, but this was their first hour-length concert as a group. Its members are Margaret Elligson and Joan Venn, sopranos, John Cappindale, counter-tenor, David Walker, tenor and leader of the group, and Ernie Lappin, bass. Some of these names are familiar from previous occasions: Margaret Elligson has performed in the theatre as soloist, most recently in the Debussy concert of last November; David Walker and Ron Reade performed works for tenor and lute some time ago. The present progam ranged over a good part of the literature for this type of group. The madrigal, as the name suggests, ’ originated in Italy in-the late Renaissance and, owing to a sort of international traderoute of musicians at the time, made its way to England where it had a kind of second renaissance around the turn of the 17th century. A good deal of this kind of music is now recorded, having had still a third renaissance in the LP era, and delightful stuff it is. Our group performed both English and Italian, and also a couple of French items. Pieces by Weelkes, Morley, and Purcell were familiar to me, though the name of Thomas Vautor is not, and the whole of Adriani Banchieri’s delightful madrigal entertainment, “Festino”, was done in Italian. Additionally, two French pieces and, representing the “third Renaissance”, Mr. P.D.Q. Bach’s modification of Morley’s “My Bonnie Lass She Smileth”, entitled “My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth”, and John Capindale’s Anglican chant setting of the Uniwat Parking Regulations. . There’s a good deal of talent in this group, and quite a bit of hard work has further improved them. In some of the first pieces, things weren’t altogether right, with a bit of pitch uncertainly and other faltering; but things were never bad, and as the concert progressed the standard of performance got very high indeed. The “Festino” in-particular was admirably done throughout, including the imitations of jews’ harps, donkeys, cats, dogs, and whathave-you. Once again the enterprise of faculty, staff and students provides an oasis in the otherwise pretty dreary musical life at U of W! (For thos’e who were hooked on this delightful literature,a few recordings: Banchieri’s Festino very nicely done on Turnabout 34067s; many good performances by Alfred Deller’s consort, e.g. on Vanguard Everyman SRV-157SD (Morley and Wilbye) ; a goodly selection entitled “Metaphysical Tobacco” Argo ARG 572-amid many, many others.)

Carmen The 5th seasonal concert of the K-W Symphony in our Humanities Theatre brought us a concert version of Bizet’s opera ‘Carmen”, conducted by Raffi Armenian and employing the talents of WLU’s University Choir and Collegium Musicum as chorus (plus the Stratford Boys Choir) and a group of soloists led off by no less than Maureen Forrester in the title role, Victor

Martens as the hapless Don Jose, Alvin Reimer as the bullfighter Escamillo, Lynda Neufeld as the faithful and also hapless Micaela, and lesser roles filled out by Mabel Enns, Patricia Pascoe, Paul Frey, Robert Mang, Dan Lichti, and Keith Knights, most of whom are students of Martens. This was an ambitious undertaking, and it was on the whole a great if not altogether’unqualified success. The orchestra sounded rather better than in their Mozart concert of a month ago, the chorus was, if rather youthful, not only enthusiastic but accura’teimportant in this opera in which an unusually large role is given them-and all the soloists sang at least adequately and mostly better than that. To proceed to particulars: first off, Armenian’s conducting and his general concept of the work was, I thought, absolutely first-class. Concert performances are hazardous in that no stage action is available to make the less inspired portions of the score intelligible for the audience; _Afmenian mostly avoided pitfalls from that quarter by keepicg things going along at a good pace-the only exception being the first part of Act Ill which is scarcely salveageable without the stage and might better have been cut down a bit. In general, the very good impression this lively conductor made on me with his Beethoven’s Seventh of last October was more than sustained in this difficult job. As to the soloists we must of course begin by acknowledging the prowess of Miss Forrester, whose splended voice and excellent musical intelligence were here applied in a role in which she could hardly be expected to be at home. So if one does not have the “natural” Carmens of Maria Callas, say, or Grace Bumbry ringing in one’s ears, Forrester comes over surprisingly well. Not as much, unfortunately, can be said for Martens, who seems not to have been in good voice. (I heard the Sunday performance, in which he was said Classical music can be divided into five to be inuch better than the previous night.) parts, each of which has a particular sound Don Jose’s is a rather a taxing role, and which, despite someZimes great-differences Martens’ voice was showing definite signs between works by composers of the same of wear and tear by the end. On the other period, may be called characteristic of the hand, I thought his characterization imtimes. proved from being rather too spineless This next series of columns will deal with even for this admittedly rather weak each of these divisions; medieval and character at the beginning, to being at the renaissance, baroque, classic, romantic and end an approximation, anyway, to the tragic modern, recommending records which, in character Bizet has-in mind. It was amusing addition to being worthwhile by themto watch Alvin Reimer in the blood-andselves, also give a good indication of the guts role of Escamillo, rather a far cry from flavour of their period. the Bach cantatas and such at which this Medieval and renaissance music has the excellent singer excels. If the characmost distinctive sound of any period, not terization lacked something in authority, only because of the music itself, but also though, it was a very good try indeed, and because it is played on the strange sounalways most listenable. The Micaela of ding instruments then in use. These later Lynda Neufeld, a recent graduate of WLU, evolved into the more modern forms was very well cast-just the right sort of familiar to us, but in these recordings lightish but pure soprano. In act I she was provide a variety of unusual, noises. Unlike admirable; the more demanding role in Act later music, these pieces were not intended Ill is still a bit beyond her, I think. Among for posterity, and undoubtably much has the minor parts, one must single out the been lost. Zuniga of Keith Knights, who has a dandy They were written by men wholly supbass voice-he was in thorough command ported by patrons for such memorable of his role all the way. Thoughts of the occasions as the great man’s meals or Commendatore role in Mozart’s Don social getherings. This had the effect of Giovanni leap to mind for this singer-will making the music rather frivolous in some producer please take note? Also excontent and so, very light and listenable. cellent was Robert Mang as Dancairo, and Since it was not usually written in any perfectly suited to the part; he and Dan standard form of notation, and often the Lichti did very good service, along with the groups of instruments for which it was Mercedes and Frasquita of Pascoe and intended were never noted, the music is Enns, in the opening of Act II which is wide open as to interpretation and perrather a difficult ensemble. I thought Miss formance. Most groups do their own Pascoe also excellent and ready for a larger research and interpretation, so a group role; Miss Enns, as Frasquita, has good top with a Iikeable sound on one record is a notes and control, but her voice lacks good bet to be equally Iikeable on others. weight and tone. Paul frey was very Among them, there are two fairly famous satisfactory as Remendado, and doubtless groups performing, the David Munrow the Toronto Opera School, in which he is a Consort and the New York Pro Musica. student, will find more use for his talents as Each plays in an “authentic” style, or in well. other words, uses as their guiding principle Only one small complaint: the female the educated consideration of what singers, especially, were for the most part arrangements and styles were most likely dressed about as inappropriately as to have been used, rather than what possible for the roles. O.K., so it’s not a possible arrangements are the most stage production, but it does take some pleasing to our modern ears. This getting used to to see Carmen with blonde philosophy gives them a rougher, cruder hair and a pink evening dress! Well, sound than groups guided by the latter perhaps it’s better not to try at all than to view. try and fail. One such group performs on a record -jan narveson which is, in my opinion, the best place for

graphic by don ballanger those new to this kind of music to start listening. They are the Collegium Terpsichore, and the record is Dance Music from the Time of Praetorius. This is the kind of music that is hard to dislike. It is lively, rhythmic stuff, written near the end of the pre-baroque period and is comparatively advanced in style to the more commonly heard earlier works. Modern arranging knowledge seems to have been applied to the use of ancient instruments so that the end result is much lighter and fresher than would be the case if a more “authentic” sounding group were performing. One characteristic of all the composers of this period is that none-of them become as famous as later composers such as Bach and Handel, despite their considerable skill. These now almost unknowns were the initiators of a style which quickly developed into the one known as baroque, of which Bach and his contemporaries were the masters. Praetorius’ music appears on the Archive label, DGG’s scholarly music history series, for whom this album was a very unexpected best seller. Further exploration of DGG’s pre-baroque output is available on the album Festival of Hits Before Baroque, which includes a variety of music, including some vocal material. I wouldn’t buy both this and the Praetorius album since a rather long selection from Praetorius is also included in the Hits album. The New York Pro Musica is available bn the Decca label; but be warned, their “authentic” sound is not to the liking of some. However, a few of their albums are quite O.K. The album Medieval Roots is as good a place as any to sample their sound. It contains earlier music than Praetorius’, the kind more frequently heard on early music records. Roots contains some vocal music, but if this is not to your liking, there is a purely instrumental album out called In-strumental Music from the Court of Queen Elizabeth and King James, which is less representative of their style and less Iikeable also. With one excep-tion, David Munrow is only available on the Musical Heritage label, which can be had only be mail order from the Musical Heritage Society, 1991 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10023, U.S.A. This independent group has a most extensive catalogue of early music available from the above address. I will be mentioning -more about recommended discs of his music in a later column. -recommendedDance Music from the Time of Praetorius, DGG Archive 198166, collegium Terpsichore, dir. Fritz Neumeyer. Festival of Hits Before Baroque, DGG2538150, various artists. Medievil Roots. Decca DL d179438, New York Pro Musica, dir. Noah Greenberg. Instrumental Music from the Court of Queen Elizabeth and King James, Decca DL79415, New York Pro Musica, dir. Noah Green berg.

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-dunker My apologies to those of you wha were anxiously awaiting the results of the OUAA men’s volleyball finals. After the tournament at Queen’s I was not in a In the queen’s Invitational great hurry to report on the hapSquash Tournament held last penings. weekend, Doug MacLean, the Due in part to the late night game on thursday in Toronto, a warriors top squash player had by far his best tournament of the long bus ride friday and the mother year. Doug got to the finals of this trucking bus that was left running tournament by all night outside our motel we individual defeating three opponents before arrived at the queen’s physical he faced Saul Ticktin from york activities complex in relatively university. zombie-like condition. Ticktin continued his winning Through the warm-ups it was streak to four major tournament , apparent that some of the team this season by defeating would come alive and spark the victories rest to their normal level of ac- MacLean 3-l in games. Ticktin also tivity but such was not to be the smashed past Ron Fenn of queen’s for the second time on route to his case. The games were dominated championship. by the opponents that Waterloo In getting to the finals, MacLean faced and yet there were some had to squeak by two tough points where the warriors actually In the second round, he took the offensive to make most of players. took queen’s Stu Watt by the the game scores close. closest margin, 15-14 in the fifth The results of the tournament had york the winners followed by game where he called no set at 14 14 and taking the final point on a queen’s, western and then Waterloo in that order. That was nick in the back court. With his old rival, Paul Frost two weeks ago. from York, MacLean played much Last weekend the women’s team better than a week before when he and some of the men’s squad travelled to Hull, Quebec to par- lost to Frost 3-6 in games. This MacLean ticipate in the Ottawa Valley open. time in the semi-finals, fought it out to the end winning the The women’s team faced tough fifth game 5-2 in overpoints. competition and had to play hard Although MacLean played well, to come away with two wins out of the other four players on the the eight games they played. warrior team could only win four The uniwat men played as part while losing eight. of the YMCA team from Kitchener . matches Waterloo finished close The ‘Y’ played rather well and yet However, second place york still lost to some of the top teams in behind university by some four points. the country. The Canadian Open Queen’s won the team honours by champions for the last ten years and the current Ontario open just one point over York. The warriors now get set for the champions were there as well as OUAA’s which are being held at the top teams from the Ontario york university february 23-25. Volleyball Association. All in all it was a good time in -john cushing

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Warriors.. .Pucked In The Ear ! “there once were some warriors who appeared to have weaknesses right in the middle of the forehead.. .. ‘Cause when they played good, they were very very good, but when they played bad they were HORRID ! ” Last friday night the hapless Waterloo hockey warriors faced western mustangs in a game to decide who will probably end up in first place at the end of the season. Both teams appear to have pretty soft latter halves of their respective schedules, so last friday’s tilt was supposed to be a big one. Well to make a long story longer, Waterloo managed to blow a 6-3 lead and lost 8-7. Now how do you manage to score 7 goals and lose a hockey game, especially when you have the best goals against average in the western division? Both teams failed early to get any kind of tight passing game together and after several quick cheapie goals, the game degenerated into wild passes, leaky goaltending and lots of petty fighting and arguing. At one point, the warriors held a lucky 6-3 lead, but watched that disappear as the mustangs poured in five unanswered goals to lead 8 6. Twice in the final period the warriors had the vistors down by two men and failed to take advantage of it. During the last twoman advantage, western controlled the play so well that a mustang player got an open run at the Waterloo net, though he failed to embarass them further by scoring. Waterloo might well have come out with a tie had it not been for a goal scored by western’s Pete Fraser at the end of the second period. Fraser fired a slapshot from just outside the warrior blue line and it skipped past Waterloo goalie Jake Dupuis. just before the siren sounded. Dupuis, who seemed to have let up on his alertness thinking the period over, came charging at referee Jim Sandlak along with his teamates, but their protests were naturally in vain. Dupuis was kept in the net for the entire game ; Pete ’ Lambert yielded four of the Waterloo goals in the first period, then gave way to Nick Mancini, who absorbed the other three.

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Mike Guimond and Ron Hawkshaw were the standouts for the warriors according to coach Mckillop, and also former warrior Dick Ourderkirk from western played a superb game and was the only defenseman on the ice for either team. Goal scorers for the warriors were Russ Elliott with one, Dickie Smith with one, Dave Simpson with one and’ two apiece for Guimond and Hawkshaw. On tuesday night the warriors travelled to guelph to play the bottomless gryphons and easily hammered them 11-4. Goal scorers for the warriors were Dickie Smith with 2, Mike Guimond with 2, Kaptain Kropf with 2, Elliott with 2, and singles to Stinson, Hawkshaw and Nickleson. It wasn’t much of a game, since the warriors led 5-6 after the first period, and 7-6 after two. It is interesting to note that the warriors had a 2 man advantage for ap-proximately thirteen minutes and a man advantage for a total of 17 straight minutes. During this time they only managed 2 meagre goals ! Not even point hungry Elliott could manage to dent the twine as the scoring title appears to rest with Mike Guimond who has 11 goals and 20 assists for 31 points in 13, league games. Jake Dupuis returned to form and played an excellent game to undo the nightmarish result from the previous game. Dupuis enjoys the guelph arena as it was his home rink last season with the guelph cmc’s who won the junior b national title. As far as the caption goes about having “weaknesses right in the middle of the forehead”, the hockey warriors are suffering from problems with their mental aspect of hockey. They have had physiologists improve both their conditioning and their diets in some cases, so it appears time to bring in the sports psychologist for a quick analysis of the mental letdown. Jimmy Fidler from hollywood’s hotline has added the fact that winger Dave Simpson has left the team for the remainder of the season after only playing one shift in the guelph game. Every year there appears to be a problem when the chips are down and the warriors are forced to come up with the new strategy or the big surprise. They have fallen on their foreheads in the past two seasons,

of their soft season also) 1 If both ~ZZZnZ~~r~ZiZ remaining games, then western ends up in first (to play against the second place team in the east which will be York), and the warriors will end up in second (and face the first place team in the east which will be toronto). In either case, the play-offs won’t consist of more than one- game for the warriors if they can’t tighten up a few screws and put on the big performance for the remaining few games in ‘73. Next home game is here friday the 16th of february at 8:30 against mcmaster. Sock it to ‘em hockey warriors and pin one on them for clipping our ball team. -gordy

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Peter McConville led his western team to victory in the University o Toronto Invitational this past friday. McConville won the Molson Aware by edging Doug Carter from Toronto and the Neilson brothers both fron queens. Carter leads the aggregate standings with 18 points, one poin ahead of Jamie Neilson and three ahead of Ian Neilson. A strong tean showing from Waterloo gave them second place while Laurentian ant Trent followed in third and fourth positions. In the women’s event, C. Linvak of Sheridan college captured the to1 spot. Nina Sparks of trent was a close second and Carol Eastmere 0: mcmaster was third. The team victory went to queens followed bJ western and Waterloo. In the cross-country event, laurentian’s team won the Molson Awarc based on the first place finish of Daryll Frank. Toronto’s Garfield placec second as did the toronto team. Both the giant slaloms and cross-country races were run in rain3 conditions at Blue Mountain and Midland respectively. The third race 01 the Ontario University Ski Series is the OUAA Championships thia coming weekend. The men’s event will be held at Mont Ste. Marie and hosted by Carleton. The women’s event will be held at Bethany and will & hosted by trent.

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\ Mat victory mars Waterloo’s perfect record onto a slim lead early in the second Wednesday at the peoples gym, half. However these illusions were disaster struck the -Waterloo dribblers’ hopes for a perfect shattered with 13 minutes to go, when the marauders took a lead season, when the mat master marauders handed the warriors a which they never released. was within striking stunning 70-61 defeat. When the 2 Waterloo distance even up to the 19 minute teams had met in hamilton previously, the marauders gave mark when they trailed 64-61 and they had possession of the ball. But the then number 1 team a rough time in the first half. However the they blew this attempt to overtake warriors had rebounded in the the marauders, as they did with all the remaining chances they had, second period to put down the mat team. by throwing the ball away on some type of turnover. When the This was not to be the case Wednesday night though. The pressure was on the warriors they marauders were just a bit too fell down and died. Mat took adand much for the Waterloo boys as the vantage of their opportunities home team stayed in the game cushioned their margin to the final 70-61 score. until the last minute but then went into a tailspin and lost all chance of Larry Lavelle, Joe Martin0 and victory. Sam Kaknevicius led the After even play in the opening marauder scores with l7,16 and 15 minutes, mat took a half a dozen points respectively. Team average point lead. Their big weapon in this from the court for mat master was drive was their up the gut driving. 54 per cent. This is the main reason To overcome this the warriors that they won the game. They only employed a zone defence. This attempted 52 shots the entire game manouver worked as the layup and they had to score a high perroute was cut off and by half time centage to win. warriors led 35-31. Visions of a repeat of the game in Mike Moser led Waterloo scorers hamilton came to mind and were with 15 points, 13 in the first half, shot reinforced as the warriors held only 2 in the second. Warriors

per cent but could only get 62 shots into the air. This is a low total for a typical warrior attack. Theyseemed afraid to shoot from outside which would have loosened up the mat defence. This was the first league game that the warriors have lost and it is also the first game that coach McRae neglected to utilize his entire bench reserves to a substantial degree. Mike Moser was in for the entire game and although he played well in the first half, he showed signs of. weariness in the last period when his performance fell off drastically. Surely a fresh Bill Ross, who didn’t play at all, or Mike Zuwerkalow could have given him a timely rest. Mike Z who has started the last few games ( played only the last 17 seconds of the game when the outcome. was already ensured. Pat Woodburn land Ed Talaj who are both experienced veterans were used very sparingly. In fact at many points in the game the marauders were substituting more freely than the deeply talented Waterloo team was. Warriors will have to pull up their socks before they dare enter 41

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st. denis hall in Windsor to take on 15 points although he shot only 5 for the lancers in a game that will 19 from the court. His low perlikely decide first place. The centage could be attributed to the lancers who until the mat game warrior policy of allowing him only were ranked number 2 in Canada the shots that they knew he wasn’t are always tough in their own gym especially sharp on. These were and this Saturday night will be no the ones when he gets a pass and exception. Following the Saturday shoots immediately. They noted night game in windsor the warriors that when the guelph center has a will cross over to Detroit for an chance to dribble and then shoot, exhibition match against Shaw he is much more accurate. Concollege on sunday afternoon. Then sequently they let him have the next Wednesday they play at Brock former type of shots but as soon as against the badgers. he started to dribble they played The guelph gryphons were the b- him very closely. Paul Allen and ball warriors’ opposition on friday Bob Sharpe both added 12 points in night in the pat. A capacity crowd the losing cause for guelph. was on hand to watch the -wheels gryphons try to avenge their 1 point loss to Waterloo in guelph. Waterloo had learned a great deal Waterloo Mat about guelphs strengths and Ignatavicious 4 Baldauf 3 weaknesses from the previous Kieswetter 13 Martin0 16 contest and using this information, Bilewicz 10 Lavelle 17 had no trouble downing the guelph Smeenk 9 Kaknevicius 15 team -by a 82-58 score. 2 Simpson 8 In the first half, the warriors led Simons 8 Waugh 9 all the way. They led by 10 with 2 Dragan 15 Krywionek 2 minutes to go in the period but Moser 61 70 guelph got a couple of quick baskets to bring the half score to 34-28 in Waterloo’s favor. Wayne Waterloo’ Guelph Morgan was in foul trouble early, Ignatavicious 7 Alien 12 as the guelph scoring threat was Kieswetter 10 Juzenas 2 called for 3 infractions in the Bilewicz - 20 Morgan 15 opening minutes. This cramped his Smeenk 4 Smith 11 style severely, enabling the Wilson 2 Sharpe 12 warriors to more Dragan 8 Leon 4 play aggressively against him at both Talaj 2 Grunys 2 ends of the court. ROSS 2 58 When Morgan got his fourth Moser 27 personal late in the second period, 82 it was all over for guelph. The ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES warriors used plays that set up Moser or Bilewicz, shooting or driving against Morgan. He Western Section couldn’t take any chances of being GWL F AP forced out of the game on a fifth Waterloo 9 8 1 757 616 16 foul, so he had to give the warriors Windsor 8 7 1 725 583 14 a little more room to shoot. Using 9 5 5 7.23 707 10 this as a lever, Waterloo coasted on McMaster Western 8 4 4 642 683 8 to their 24 point win, shooting 57 Guelph 8 4 4- 613 579 8 per cent from the court in that half. Lutheran 9 3 6 624 696 G This brought their game average Brock 10 0 10 643 866 0 to 48 per cent. Guelph managed to Eastern Section hoop only 33 per cent of their shots. Moser led all scorers with n Laurentian 9 9 0 707 538 18 points, with a good effort. Paul Carlton 8 5 3 547 547 10 Biliwicz dropped in 10 in each half Ottawa 8 5 3 602 520 10 for a 20 point total. Warriors York 11 5 6 727 737 10 grabbed 55 rebounds, Moser Toronto 9 4 5 685 693 8 getting 19 of them. Queen’s 8 3 5 575 576 6 For guelph Morgan contributed Ryerson 9 0 9 507 739 0

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Zonk Ithaca ans stunn.ed The Athenas did something friday that no other team was able to do for the past five years-down the New York State champions ithaca college in their home pool. The team led by Joy Stratten and Maida Murray took first place in all but one swimming event and the one metre diving competition. The final score, to the amazement of ithaca, but of course not the athenas, read 82-43. The oldest team record, the 200 yard freestyle relay, which has survived since the 1969-70 season, was smashed in the Joy Stratten, Sue meet. Murray and Alderson, , Marg ,Judy Abbotts teamed up to go 1 50.7 seconds, lowering the old mark of 1 :54.0 by 3.3 seconds and quite naturally won the event. Ithaca couldn’t get on track from the opening gun as the - Athenas, after a long six hour road trip won the first seven events. The 200 medley relay of Marg Murray, Maryanne Schuett Judy Abbotts and anchor Sue Alderson handily took the 200 medley relay. Then Joy Stratten went her personal best in the 200 yard freestyle, a 2: 06.7. Maida Murray followed winning the first of three individual events, the 100 yard individual medley in a good 1 :09.0. She also came in ahead of ithaca swimmers in the 100 yard butterfly 1 :06.3 and the 200 yard individual medley, I 2:31.4. Sister Margaret Murray wasn’t pushed in either the 50

or 100 yard backstroke events winning in 32.4 and 1 :11.4 seconds respectively. Liz Saunders had a real battle on her hands in the 50 breaststroke but managed to stay ahead of the ithaca swimmers while ‘Boots’ came in third. Athenas Sue Alderson and Joy Stratten came home onetwo in the short 50 yard freestyle while captain Judy who is just now Abbotts, getting into form, has been consistently going sub 30 seconds in the 50 butterfly and again went a strong 29.8 seconds to win the event. Divers Jane Williams and Maryanne Pelker, the latter in her first meet for the Athenas dove well but were outpointed by the strong ithaca three. Even so, both got good scores and will be placing high in the OWIAA championships next weekend. Joy Stratten and Sue Alderson again teamed up, this time in the 100 yard freestyle to go one-two in times of 59.7 and 1 : 00.4, respectively. The athenas now have a week off from competition and are in final preparation for the championships to be held at McMaster on February 16 and 17th. By all indications ‘the women’s team could take the league title if everyone remains Presently, however, healthy. the flu is taking its toll.

Warrior action The Warriors swim team had their ups and. downs against dick mcgill

american teams this past week, but even though losing two and winning one, they did put in some excellent times. Friday night saw the uniwat splashers in Oswego new york where they lost a close battle, 66-47. Personal best performances were posted by Doug Munn in the 200 breaststroke, Jim Low going 2:14.6 in the 200 yard veteran backstroke while George Roy won the 200 yard butterfly and Ian Taylor went his best time of 1 :55.1 in the 200 yard freestyle. In Buffalo Saturday the warriors captured all except two swimming and two diving events and won 76-36. Top flight performances were established by Richard Knaggs in’ the 200 individual medley, and co-captain Doug Munn who captured the 1000 freestyle, his first ever. He also led the field in the 200 breaststroke. Ken Hill the lone diver to make the trip was second on in the one metre board Oswego, and scored high in the Buffalo meet which only featured the low board. Wednesday afternoon at home the roof caved in for the warriors as they faced a peaked and shavened niagara college squad. The final outcome was 68-45 for the americans. The warriors were only able to capture three of thirteen events in the meet. Diver Lester Newby, in his usual great form won both boards while Ken Hill placed third. Chris Radigan, just coming back off a bad bout of the flu, also scored very high but was in fourth spot. Backstroker Eric Robinson, - who has been coming through all season was the only other uniwat winner capturing the 200 yard event in a good time of 2:13.9. Jim Low, now swimming the best he has all season, placed third just six tenths of a second behind Robinson Co-captain George Roy, who always gives one hundred per cent, was under the weather but managed a second in the long 1000 yard freestyle and a strong third in the 200 yard butterfly. Bo Jacyzen who is just was returning after illness second in the fly. Doug Munn continued to do great times in the 200 yard breaststroke going an excellent 2:32.8. Ian Taylor was third in the breaststroke and also placed second in the 200 yard freestyle going 1 :56.1. Niagara college took both relays and were, outstanding in the freestyle events. This was the second year in a row the warriors have had water splashed in their face by the but are american squad, confident they can come through against the remaining competition this season. The final home meet this year will be against Windsor a week tomorrow starting at 2 pm. This sees high school sat u rday action in the swimming natatorium starting at noon. Finals will be held in the eveing starting at 7pm. --rgw

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Doug Munn shows off his versatility against the powerful ni agara college dbwned 68-45

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the individual medley The uniwat squad was

Surprise!

The Waterloo track and field team won two out of a possible four events at the college section of the Star Maple Leaf Games last friday. Bruntz Walker won the one mile by inches or less. Coming from behind on the last turn Bruntz pulled even with Ken Buckley of York. As they headed down the straight towards the finish line they were inseparable. It was a dive at the tape that gave the win to Bruntz. -Mike Lanigan continued his winning streak but his race was less dramatic than Bruntz’s. Mike took the lead early in the race and was never really chal lenged. Conditioning was one of the major factors in the two events that Waterloo should have won but did not. Python Northy and Murry Hale placed third and fourth respectively in the two mile event. Both are still recovering from injuries and had just started to train a few w’eeks ago after a lengthy layoff. They should have placed one-two if they had been in condition. The other sure win, which didn’t turn out that way, should have been in the 50 yard hurdles. Conditioning was a major factor in this race also. George Neeland competed in both the 50 yard dash and the 50 yard hurdles, which should have been easy for him to handle. Unfortunately the meet director did not anticipate any of the competitors competing in both the hurdles and the dash. The two races were set up such that when one finished the other started. Neeland no sooner finished one race than he had to return immediately to the finish line for the next race. Four races, heat and finals, in about a half hour were just too much for him to handle in his condition. Dave Jarvis of queen’s had the race won at the sound of the gun. The win by Jarvis was no surprise to Neeland who knew that Jarvis could beat him. Neeland had to settle for second while Jarvis tied the record held by Neeland and Brian Donnelly of queen’s. The surprise for the Waterloo

team came in the person of Al Schwieger. Al placed second in the high jump with a season best of six-two. That’s not bad for a guy who stands about five-seven with thick soled shoes on. One section of the college 600 yard event was an anxiety level raiser. Marg Cummings, who is becoming an experienced indoor runner, took the lead at the start of her section of the race. She built up a good lead and was not challenged until the last lap of the race. Going into the last corner, with about 50 yards to go, Marg had a stride on her nearest challenger. As the two runners came off the last turn Marg did what most good runners do, she drifted slowly out of the inside lane into the second forcing her challenger to move out to the third. Once on the straight-away Marg leaned forward and managed to maintain a slight margin over her rival. Although Marg won her section two other competitors in another section ran faster times than she did. Marg finished third over all. In the international meet on the last friday evening, Waterloo relay team of Bruntz Walker, Dave Grant, Mike Lanigan and Phil Pyatt placed third in the two mile relay. athlete, One Waterloo Marlene Peters, who had been told by meet officials that she would be competing in the international meet was told the day before the- meet that they no longer wanted her to compete. Marlene was to have competed in the 50 yard dash which was dominated by American sprinters. George Neeland was “blown off- the boards” by American hurdlers in the international 50 yard hurdles. He did not do his usual thing of giving everybody a head start then trying to catch up. It all happened when they all reached the first hurdle at the same time-Neeland felt as if he had stopped dead as the Americans accelerated by him at this point. He had a good view of the finish of his heatfrom behind. *orgie

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