University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 16, number 11 friday, july 25, 1975
Inside The Campus Centre was graced by the Elizabethan music of “Music Four”, a mixed dance of folk dances and traditional ballads. “Music Four” kill be appearing in the Hagey Hall of Humanities quadrangle for more music photo by michael gordon and dance next Tuesday at 7 1.30a.m. and W30p.m.
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entrance A closer dialogue between UW and regional high schools to determine entrance requirements to university may be established this fall, Doreen Thomas, chairperson of the Waterloo county board of education, said Monday. Thomas said she’ll approach UW president. Burt Matthews sometime in August to talk about setting up some kind of liaison body to discuss “points of mutual interest to the benefit of students.” The liaison body will focus on the preparation of high school students for university education, which according to some university officials has been less than adequate, especially in the areas of English and mathematics. Asked about such a ssuggestion, Matthews said he’s happy that his recent criticisms of the academic quality of high school graduates entering university have met with some response and he hopes the dialogue will develop. He said he first suggested a liaison body last November at a Midwestern Ontario conference of board of education trustees and directors, in Kitchener, when he urged that better communication is needed between tertiary and secondary education in the area of programs and requirements. “Any steps which will create a closer liaison between universities and the high school system can only be of great advantage to students .” Thomas said that at the outset discussions will be informal but later they may evolve into the setting up of a liaison committee comprised of representatives from high schools and area universities. Thomas’ statements followed steps taken July 14 by the Wellington county board of education toestablish- a better communication system between post-secondary institutions and high schools. The board voted in favor of a suggestion by trustee Virginia Parker that it attempt to set,. some * , .‘<.,SL<,.‘l’., I
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form of mutual interest committee j only two subjects in their last with post-secondary schools. semester and could perhaps take a Considering the recent criticisms university course at the same time, Parker said. of the capabilities of students from high schools at university made by She said Matthews was receptive If the NDP ever formed a govMatthews; better communication to this idea when it was presented ernment in Ontario, it would ensure to recent trustees’ conference in there would be no barriers to those is necessary, Parker said. Matthews has repeatedly said London, Ontario, where he was wanting to attend university, Jack that some form of testing for stuguest speaker. Kersell, Waterloo North NDP candents in mathematics and English The University of Guelph and didate, said Tuesday. skills is necessary before they enter Conestoga College were two other ’ For those unable to cope with the mentioned for incluuniversity. The testing could be institutions expenses of higher education, the done either on a province-wide or sion on the committee. NDP would provide living stipends regional basis, he suggests. Both UW and U. of G. accept and bursaries to qualified students. The liaison committee could also students who have not finished The NDP would also abolish tuihelp establish alignment of high Grade 13, but have satisfied early tion fees as a first step in guaranschools with post-secondary entrance requirements with high teeing universal accessibility to marks in their first semester of post-secondary schools on the semester system. institutions in the Some high school students take Grade 13. province.
CSA -protests racial s/urs Last week UW Chinese students crowded into the largest engineering hall available to obtain a general motion of complaint over the Engineering Society’s newspaper, Enginews’, publication of racial “chink” jokes in its June issue. The Chinese students present were indignant at Enginews printing a joke stating that if one stays in the Math and Computer building after midnight one immediately turns The joke was acinto a f ‘chink”. companied by a graphic of an “average” Waterloo student turning into a “chink”. Those students attending hoped to present the motion to the Chinese Students’ Association to be presented formally to last Tuesday’s Engsoc council meeting. Apparently the paper’s infamous editor, “Nipper”, was responsible for the printing of the piece of “humour”. He had included the joke in the last issue of Enginews without the knowledge of the Eng Sot executive. The, EngSoc council, last I’ _ June
10, passed a motion opposing “any literature that discriminates on the basis of race colour or creed”. However, Enginews editor, “Nipper”, was apparently “pissed off’ at the council’s motion and believed the press should have complete freedom to publish anything they wanted. Sources close to “Nipper” say the inclusion of the joke was a “one man job”. / In the May issue of Enginews, “Nipper” included a full page of illustrated Pakistani jokes. Pakistanis on campus threatened the Engineering Society with legal action to stop the “racist humour”. However EngSoc executive voted unanimously to omit racism from Enginews. However, despite this motion the “chink” joke was included in the June issue. Nipper printed his letter of resignation in the June issue of Enginews after printing the joke against EngSot executive wishes. EngSoc executive and EngSoc president Kim Etherington are editing the July issue of Enginews. A chevron survey ^ -*‘.. ,r of * ,J .Waterloo . I 0 I I/ , . I ji .2
Chinese students revealed that many Chinese engineering students feel they .should demand their membership fees back from EngSot if the Racist humour continues in subsequent issues. One Chinese student said: “By not demanding our fees back I think we are supporting EngSoc and its ‘racial slurs. ’ ’ Another student said that although most engineers are willing to accept the Enginews brand of humour, she feels the Enginews should either cease publication or refrain from making racial jokes. An engineering prof told the chevron: “This time the engineers have just gone too far and some kind of action on the university’s part is immediately necessary. ” Another student said he liked the last Enginews and would miss Nipper’s “chink” jokes. The Chinese Students Association failed to show up at last Tuesday’s EngSoc council meeting, but Waterloo Chinese students are hoping some kind of action will be taken by the end of the term.
“The poor and the working classes must be given a chance to break out of the cycle which denies them the opportunity of furthering their education,” Kersell said. The NDP plan will cost a great deal of money, like any social reform, and it must be accompanied by massive tax changes, ‘Kersell said. These tax changes will involve increases in personal, corporation and resource taxes. According to provincial statistics, changes in resources taxation last year -raised $144 million, a three-fold increase, but mining profits for the same year were about $1.5 billion. Though personal taxes will increase, plenty of people are benefiting from the privilege of education without paying the cost, Kersell said. Because universities benefit everybody, education costs should be financed by people whether they’ve been there or not. Since poor people are reluctant to incur debts, financial aid for university training should be in the form of grants based on need rather than loans as is presently the case, Kersell said. He is strongly critical of James Auld’s , minister of colleges and universities, contingency repayment scheme under which students would pay back their education costs in long term installments. A study done by Marion Porter, in 1973, entitled “Does money matter? ’ Prospects for higher education’ ’ shows, after surveying 9,000 Ontario high school students, that money does influence the edu-cational opportunities for young people. The Porter study also shows that over 40 per cent c& grade 12 students don’t knm how much money they could get in government assistance if they went to university.
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I The faculty ‘association newslet- university department would proletter states this method of dealing :r has charged UW president Burt vide a list of serials divided among with the unavoidable cutbacks llatthews, with administrative “ad the various universities in a fashion would be much more appropriate iockery” over his recent handling consistent with criteria spelled out than the adminstration’s “ad hocIf the university budget cutbacks. in the approved model. kery” ,,Furthe-r-more the newsletter The faculty newsletter also urges Meanwhile the newsletter urges harged that ‘ ‘the administration president Matthews to actiindividual -faculty members .as not consulted faculty in any “through their faculty councils and vate the now defunct Senate’Longneaningful way about” the propterm Planning Committee. The in the Senate (where faculty have should then investigate representation) to protest any atsed 50 per cent reduction of all committee lbrary serials. every aspect of the university optempted implementation of the Although Matthews insists the eration and also be responsible’ for adminstration’s cutback proposals the generation of the university lolicy is just a proposal the newsuntil:’ appropriate cons-ultation has :tter states “there is the credibility budget. taken place-at all levels. OTTAWA (CUP)-The financial crisis ofthe National Union of The faculty association’s news-micha*el gordon ap that opens up every time one of Students is over. In May the national union had almost no money in hese ‘from-the-top-down’ re<the bank, many outstanding debts and no hope of fee revenue until uests is made.” the fall. / .. -- The newsletter further said the Now, after a two month campaign to raise funds from member nformation gathering for the pro.and non-member student’organizations, the union already has over ~osal was carried out as if the pro$25,000 in the bank, with some money pledged still to arrive. ’ losal was a directive. -NUS treasurer Don Thompson described the results of the cam-’ University faculty are concerned paign as ‘ ‘astounding . ” In a letter to “members and friends” of he proposal will soon be presented REGINA (CUP)-With Opporunion president, .,Jim Grey, said, NUS announcing the results he estimated that, once all the funds are o the Senate as a motion. Once tunities for Youth grants, Youth “students are already in a pressure in, the national union will have about $3 1,000 to show for its special bassed by the Senate and then t-he Employment grants and other such situation trying to find jobs and this financing drive. f governmentefforts failing to’ curb just adds tothis pressure.” loard of Governors the 50 per cent Thompson says :,‘the success should be seen not as proof that ut in library periodicals will bethe student employment problem Andrzeplied by saying the NUS can build on special financing, but as unexpected opportunity :ome university policy. Manpower office is acting in a this year, the Manpower Centre for to work on important issues and develop the organization without Ian Macdonald of chemical enStudents here has begun to refer neutral position offering services to the additional strain of serious- cash-flow problems’ ’ . rineering has suggested an alternastudents to scab in a local labour both the employer and the emp- . He stressed that NUS will have to continue to budget “conservaive “collegial” process to reduce dispute. loyees. tively” and the need for local student unions to finance referendum he cost of periodical subscripStudents have been referred-for According to -reliable sources; campaigns to join the national union. As membership increases, ions. First the administration work at Dominion Bridge where regular fee revenue will provide sufficient revenue for the operation students who have been referred to hould have asked the Faculty steelworkers have \ been on strike of the union. Dominion Bridge have either quit .ouncils to explore the possibility since last November. The student About half of the financial contributions in the special financing or have been fired. But the temptaIf a library consortium of MacMasManpower office maintains that campaign came fromstudent organizations who are not now memtion to work as a scab was made they advise students they will have er, Waterloo and Guelph Univer‘bers of NUS, he pointed out. very attractive by the company. , ities to share periodicals among to cross picket lines and thus have Some of the monies pledged came% the form of interest free Scabs were&ing paid $4.85 an ach university. to suffer the consequences but the loans ,_others were outright grants. hour while tradesmenat the plant Secondly the administration University of Regina student union The list of contributors, and the amounts paid by eachdre as receive. $4:00 an hour. The hould have developed several charges that the Manpower office is only follows: workers on strike have been denodels of this “consortium” and acting-as a strike breaking tool. I manding a base wage increase from _ University of Alberta $3,000; .Waterloo $4,000; British Columbia aken it to the Faculty councils and The student union, in protest, $2,000; Manitoba $3,423; Kelsey Institute $300; Saskatchewan $3.20 to $4.,00 an hour. Welders at Senate for consideration. has sent a telegram to the minister $4,000; Toronto $1,000; Gl en d on C o11ege $800; Brock $206; Atkinthe plantnow receive $4.19. .Thirdly , after approval of both in charge of Manpower and Immigson College $500; York $1,000; McMaster $500; Lethbridge $1,000; he Senate and the councils, each ration, Robert Andras . Student According to officials of the Steel Dalhousie $2,500; New Brunswick $500\; Nova Scotia Agricultural Workers of:America this is a new College $500; St. Francis Xavier $200; and Acadia University$200. tactic in strikebreaking for the Manpower offices and naturally 6 . 1 ’ they are unhappy that students are
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“unique features” that have not been spoiled by urbanization, said geography- student Jim Carter. Roads are rated on the distance that can be seen, alignment, scenic features and variety. Under these criteria scenic roads are usually found in areas with rolling and hilly countryside and along water courses. The project team is hoping to involve regional citizens in their final report because of the inherent “sujectiveness” of the ratings. --
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ina Tyrioszewicz reads from “Wounds”, Dr. Norman Bethune’s amous essay on the horrors of imperialist wars, at a meeting of the -Canada-China Friendship Society. The meeting,-which was held at-
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Trinity United Church on Monday night, aIso.f&tu+edJ-a fi/m onthe life of Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the Chinese during their war of liberation. c photo by neil dochwty
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Cult&al differences The Enginews appeared on campus in July with sections which can be .classified as “racism”. I disapprove of this kind of ‘joke’ in general and ask you to publish this letter. There is a “root difference” between the Chinese Culture and the cultural background of this society. In the Orient, the relationship between people is a thoughtful one. People treat each other with politeness and respect. Very few people try to make fun of others. Among the “highly educated” persons, joking does not exist. This is reflected in the entertaining business. An oriental entertainer always tries to make a good impression for their audience with their skill, their elegant movehent, or their graceful voices. On the other hand, western entertainers cannot leave the stage without a joke. A professor starts his lecture with either an Hamiltonian operator or a joke. In everyday conservations, people here try . to make each other have a good time. We say “Hi” to each other a dozen times a day and replied “fine” for the question “How are things?” even if he is in his downs. The Chinese look upon this relation as being superficial, therefore, most Chinese students stay together as they can form a closer relationship with one another, and do not have to reach out to the. society for friendship as they should have. I am pointing out the basic difference hoping for a better mutual understanding between the Chinese community and the community at
large. “Jokes” such as the one appeared in Enginews does hurt the Chinese s’tudents, especially the newcomers. Nobody gets any pleasure over somebody else’s pain. How can one take that as a joke? There was another incident about two weeks ago. A Chinese Student and his girl friend was fishing at the bank of a river in which three boys were swimming. The swimmers started to insult the girl and then turn to the Chinese including words such as “fxxxxf chink”. The fisherman had a knife and showed it to the boys hoping that the insulting could be stopped, as a result, the police is charging him for the possession of a dangerous weapon and,is involved in complicated headaches. 1~ is a very unfortunate incident and it maybe true, that all the boys including the fisherman are very naive. In the University community, incidents such as these are relatively few. Not too long ago, I heard a story that a boy came home from school and told his mother that he hates to go to school and does not want to be a Chinese. The mother was furious. Apparently the boy had suffered enough teasing in school. My own boys also suffered from similar incidents. These boys were told: “You are Chinese and there is nothing wrong or to be ashamed of being a Chinese. These are the boys that you are going to be dealing with when you grow up and it is your responsibility to communicate, to them that you are proud of yourself regardless of what you are. Because those children are curious about Chinese and their culture, they are in a stage to find out but did not start the way we want them to.
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They have no intention of hurting you at all. There are things that are more important for you to do than getting upset with them. You should be calm and deal with them effectively. ’’ The boys ma;have listened, but I did not anticipate them to understand, however, they have not complained since. ’ P.C. Chieh Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry
Chinese students My name is Henry Lim and I attended the meeting of July21, 1975 concerning racism that arose in Enginews as an executive representative from the Engineering Society. I, myself, was born in Canton, China and I feel highly disappointed that we, as Chinese people, are so divided among ourselves as a whole on campus. It was depressing to find that when I attended the meeting, people were more interested in the fact of whether or not I was born in China or Canada, and not in my beliefs as a Chinese- Does it make a perison less Chinese if he wasn’t borq in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan? Does the Chinese Society represent all Chine-n campus or not? Are we* not entitled, as Chinese, to be heard and understood no matter what language we speak, whether it be Cantonese, Mandarin, or English? In a meeting that was supposed to encompass all Chinese on campus, should not a common language, or interpreter have been used so that one present could understand what was transpiring, or, are we just sheep used by the few radicals on campus as a platform to scream from? I, myself, feel deeply let down by the high and ,mighty attitude presented by some of my supposed fellow countrymen. In future, I recommend that all notices for events by the Chinese Student Association be in both English and Chinese; that when meetings of this type are held, again, that either a common language, understood by all present, be used or an interpreter be supplied; also, that the C.S.A. stop catering ,to only a fraction of the Chinese Students on campus. Henry Lim
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Before beginning a straight internship in psychiatry, I had lived in communes where only natural foods were used. Some of my friends in thealternate culture were devotees of Adelle Davis and her cogent arguments for the use and proper preparation of natural foods and vitamins. I realized when I studied her work that what she had done was to simply pull together, to review and summarize research that had been published in reputable medical and nutrition journals. An entirely new perspective was open to me- a fresher approach to the treatment of the same diseases and medical problems than that traditionally taught to me in medical school. Eicited by the possibilities, I began my parallel studies of psychiatry, nutrition and vitamin C. LINUS PAULING From _Adelle Davis, I quickly progressed to the writings of Linus Pauling. His book Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman, 1970), stirred much,controversy . He too had investigated and reviewed the m,any existing studies and papers on Vitamin C, and highlighted four double blind studies. These double blinds (where a control group is given a placebo and the second medication) are considered by Western scientists to be a necessary condition to prove the value of a treatment. There is much discussion as to the advisability and feasibility of such studies. The medical profession argued that since Pauling was not a medical doctor, he could not dossibily know anything about medicine. Your average GP, routinely dispensing antibiotics to 40 or 50 patients a day, knows more, they claimed.
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cause, as one Torontc more than just anno: Six times*more smc end of a cigarette th sides tream smoke, as It contains fifty time: much carbon monox zyprene, which may antly more cadmiun cause emphysema. nicotine. The pollutants cat tions, even though tl by spreading througl scientist calculates tl a typkal well ventila’ in the air to 36 time clean air standards. Nearly twice the d: was recorded in ant next to a person who one hour, in a vent& rations of carbon mc The danger level is 1 Ten cigarettes w another experi&ment the same dangerous ’ ing and non-smoking the -normal level of later, and twice the Blood clots can re: smokers inhale jus cigarette. Other expt C in your body is c smoke. In fact, smok much Vitamin C as medium sized orangl KIC Children are the cigarette smoke. Chil slower in school, ant whose parents do nc glish study. When bc twice as likely to get the age of one. Smok the risk of death for t substantially reduce! Precisely becau cigarette smoke can itself, perhaps even are no longer the sill
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They are asking people nbt to smoke in their homes or cars. The desperately addicted are requested to step outside-when they need a quick puff. The non-smokers demand’that the rules be enforced ‘k in no smoking sections ori plaries, trains and buses. You can do it too. Take a stand. Speak out. Join a non-smokers’ association.In numbers there is strength, and strength will be’needed to get laws passed to ensure non-smokers’ sections in movies, restaurants, sports arenas, offices, classrooms .. . Maybe someday smoking will only be allowed in private between consenting adults.
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TORONTO TRIAL doctor, Terry Anderson, wrote in the C and the Common Cold: a CMA journal “Vitamin Double Blind Trial ,” tha;t this study showed that HEALTH AND PiOFlT subjects receiving the vitamin experienced approxThis battle typifies the nature of health care and imately 30% fewer total days of disability than those the society of which it is a part, stiowing how the receiving the placebo and that there was a statistisystem is unwilling to change in spite of overcally significant difference between the two groups whelming evidence and pressure, and the cost to the in the number of stibjects who remained free of ill. health of the people. What is not apparent is the ness throughout the study period. Despite this, Ancontrol behind the scenes. As in any other sector of is derson ends with “. . .until more information qur society big business lurks behind the scenes. _ available, . . .we do not feel that any firm recomThe drug industry has enormous control over the mendations can be m&de concerning the place of affairs of health. In every medical journal there are large doses of ascorbic acid in the preventio? and -many two or three full-page colour advertisements treatment of colds or other acute infections.” After urging physicia’ns to prqscribe various drugs. Why 40 years resi?arch and even a study in Toronto, he drugs? Profits! Profits are the focus of interest of still wants more information. So? j these multinational corporatiotis. Despite fhe fact - So, Anderson has&recently finished anpther study that some of these pillars of society also manufacin which he shows that people who took vitamin C 3 ture vitamins, the game is suckthat profits are very were off sick -30% fewer days than people who high indeed on-drugs. When a‘new drug is de* didn’t, and that vitamin C users had about 10% fewer veloped, a patent is obtained which gives the manhead colds. It will be interesting to see what concluufacturer the exclusive, right to sell that drug at sions he will draw from this one. Since Dr. Anderson T whatever price it decides on fo? 17 years. Without is well respected in the--tiaditional medical clique, competition these prices *remain high until other some attention had to be paid. If I had written the companies are allowed to manufacture the same ’ exact same article, ’ I’m sure it would have been product. This keeps the companies rich, and the sick completely ignored, or contradicted. ’ people poor as well as sick. This whdle prbcess is ‘Now at last, Toronto doctors have to concede that imposs’ible with vitamins as it is impossible for a there is a role for vitamin C in the common cold,; and pateit to be secured on samething that occur? natur. indeed, the rest of the slumbering North American ally. Thus the-drug companies-must compete with . medical community has also begun to change its mind. Cautiou\s protectors of the public health that they are, they feel further study should be done. They raise the question of harmfulxfects. Purely on the basis of theory, with no- back-up-double blind studies, they say that vitamin C causes kidney stones. They.theorize that the vitamin would acidify the urine and precipitate stones in predisposed individu‘als. The medical establishment having been , forced to change its mind is not going to give up the battle easily. \ SELF-HELP _I I began to take vitamin C myself in an attempt to decrease my frequency of colds. For mariy years (_ I’ve had an allergic rhinitis-a great’ inconvenience. _ A short while later I noticed that my nose had stop ped running. Now when this happened I- didn’t connect it with the vitamin C because I was taking C for , H. J I colds, and Pauling had not mentioned that vitamin C acted against illergic rhinitis as an antihistamine. _ many others in the sale of vitamins’. No monopoly! When I read Irwin Stone’s book The ‘Healing Factor, N/o super profits! the connection became clear. Now my nose is cl&uAs a pure exercise in greed: would you as a drug _ and stays clear as long as. I take 3000 mg. of vitamin company executive advertise in medical journals or C daily’. ’ fund research to-say that vitamin C could treat or Dr. Abram Hoffer”referring to the continued ‘+C prevent colds knowing that this would profoundly critics) use two Controversy’,” has said: “(These affect the sale of your prescribtion patented drugs sets of logic. Before they are p&pared to look at Dr. (antihistamines-,decongestants, antibiotics) for Pauling’s hypothesis, they demand the most figorthese same colds? Not if-you wanted the industry’s ous proof, but when arguing against his view& refer’ profits toremain high& than.that df any other indkto evidence of the flimsiest sort for the toxicity of try in the country! This is where the true control of ascorbic acid. ’ ’ the“‘Vita-min C Contrc5versy” lies. Not so much in doctors’ offices, or research laboratories, but in ex-- SCEPTICS SCOFF _I ecutive b&d rooms, where decisions are’based on Irwin Stone in his recent book, The Healing profits, not health. Factor, reviews the last forty years of research on SCIENCE AND POLITICS vitamin C, much-of this from the “standard” m&i-CAN’T BE SEPARATED : , cal journals. He shows how vitamin,C acts as a? excellent antibiotic (viruses and-bacteria), antihis-Since multinational-corporations exist in-all sectamine and healing factor. By reviewing research tors df life, is it not possible that similar politics already done, he shows the beneficial use of C in the happen elsewhere ? Is there nothing being done trehtment of the commori cold, virus infections, bacabout mercury poisoning & native people because terial infections, heart disease, arthritis, aging, there is no danger, or t,o maintain Dow Chemical’s.asthma,,zallergies, hay feve’r, stomach ulcers-, diabprofits?-Did, the CIA intervene in Chile-to help the ‘etes, hypoglycemia aind cancer. The sceptics scoff at people, or protect North American corporate in- _ the many claims, but it is -important to remember terests? The fact is that in our societjr, money talks, thgt all vitamins are found throughout the body and and the people that haxe it are the corporations. participate in almost every bioche+nical reaction. Therefoie the corporations -talk in such a way as to This suggests that vitamins have far reaching effects perpetuate their own interests with no regard for the with certain vitarhins being useful in specific areas. individual. The “Vita&n C Controversy” is only one desperate example of this tragic fact. CANCER AND VITAMINS Our political-economic system places the highest Of particular hope isthe use of vita&n C in the value on capital, money and material things with prevention and treatment of cancer. One study by terrifying consistency. Our System is such that we W.G. Deucher in.Germany found the. use of 4 grams cannot expect it to do- otherwise. No amount of of ascorbic acid daily had a remarkably favourable band-aid reform or modification can change what effect on patients’ general condition and increased the system was constructed to do; but we should . their tolerance to X-rays, while another study by have the right to expect it to.do otherwise-to revon Wendt in that countrjr, used 2 grams of ascorbic verse its priorities and to place the welfare. of theacid a day combined with large doses of Vitamin A people as the top priority. and reported favourable effect. Still another study by Schneider used ascorbic acid, 1 gram daily in, The two above articles were reprinted from a pew magazine combination with vitamin A to arrest cancers and on health and disease, The Critical Lid Copies of the found it to be more. useful against epitheliomas magazine ca_n be obtained in the OPIRG office located in rather than sarcomas. A review of the work conthe Chem-Bio link. A Toronto
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“Bite the Bullet”, the Richard Brooks directed film playing at the Capitol Theatre in Kitchener, is being trumpeted about as a -“new Western classic in the tradition of ‘Shane’ and ‘High Noon’ “. Now I’m not usually so naive as to be taken in by the inevitable bullshit bandied about by the introduction of any new film, but on the basis of having heard vaguely favourable murmurings about this film together with a,certain mental confusion resulting from seeing Brooks and thinking Mel (“Blazing Saddles”, “Young Frankenstein”) rather than Richard (?????), I wandered down to the Capitol on Sunday night and payed my $2.75 to view this new classic. I’m sorry .to have to report that the state of the art in the classics has certainly deteriorated since I saw “Shane” and “High Noon”. Not that I am a particular affrcionado of the duster genre, but I have seen the above-mentioned two together with various “spaghetti-westerns” and vehicles for John Wayne and Rod Taylor. In anycase, I know when I’m bored, and boring is the best word to describe “Bite the Bullet”. The pace of the film is usually pedestrian, alleviated only by a chase sequence (apparently a stock routine in every film since “Bullit”) with James Coburn and Gene Hackman mounted on a vintage Harley Davidson and armed with rifles and dynamite pursuing escaped convicts who have stolen their horses This is the highlight of the ftim, but unfortunately was shortlived and ended predictably. The plot of the fdm is set around a 700 mile horse race, a sort of rally for hayburners, with a $2,000 prize /
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Hailey in -high finance The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey Doubleday, 472 pages, $10.95 The Moneychangers, as its title implies, is a novel set in the exclusive world of high finance. Hailey’s latest book closely follows the - same pattern which made his previous novels so successful. As was the case with Wheels, Airport and Hotel, The , Moneychangers contains much more factual information than one would normally expect in a booklabelled as fiction. ’ Money is both the subject of the factual part of the book, and the moving force behind the fictional plot of the book. So many people seem interested in Hailey’s description of ~the financial community that ‘The Moneychangers has jumped to the top of the list of national fiction bestsellers in Canada. The rights to the novel were bought by Paramount Television before the novel was published. The setting for The Moneychangers is a large American bank. The moneychangers mentioned in the title are the people who run the bank-or at least try to run it. As the plot proceeds, the bankers run into some unusual problems which make running a bank a difficult business. Their main problem is that the presidency of the bank is up for grabs, and two of the bank’s senior executives have entered into a no-holds-barred contest to gain [the vacant post. The problem is complicated by the fact that the bank’s board of directors is more interested in making profits for its own members than in directing the bank in a responsible manner. The leadership dilemma splits the bank’s employees into two opposing camps. One side wants the presidency to go to a young, ‘with-it’ executive who opposes certain bank policies which cheat the public in order to earn greater profits for the bank. The other side favours an ambitious, - money-hungry banker in his attempts to make more money for himself and for the bank’s share-holders, regardless -of the means used to achieve such gains. We see, in miniature, the familiar fight between big business economics (ie. profit) and those who advocate consumer rights. A few of the illegal and unethical practices employed by some businessmen are revealed. In turn, Hailey gives a few choice examples of how the public can force a large business to treat its customers with more consideration. Within the framework of the plot, Hailey gives his readers an extensive knowledge of banking operations. We are shown how the tellers, branch managers, economists, bank detectives, money traders, and upper level policy-makers work together to milk a profit from the depositors’ dollars.
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is described in detail in With money figuring so prominently in the plot, one would expect a few dollars to change hands dishonestly. Leaving the violent ‘shootout’ bank robberies to television, HaiIey explores a few other types of crime encountered in the banking business. These include embezzlement ‘by bank employees, counterfeiting, abuse of trust by a bank’s board of directors and theft of credit cards. The FBI and the bank’s security department are kept very busy throughout the story by the assortment of shady characters trying to acquire the bank’s cash. As may be expected with Arthur Hailey’s almost non-fictional style. of GCtion, the characters are almost lost amid the intricacies of the plot. It seems more as though the characters’ actions are dictated by the plot, rather than by the characters’ own emotions and desires. Perhaps these transparent characters are merely imitating the fast-moving, transparent business environment in which they live. Despite its complexity, the book still succeeds very well as a work of fiction. Besides discussing money, a topic of interest to everyone, The Moneychangers touches upon several other related topics. These include the dangers of leaving the gold standard, and the problems which credit cards can cause for both the banks and the people who use them. Hailey also considers the question of what cons tiututes ‘proper’ corporate policy: should a corporation be allowed to pursue any policy which eanrs money for its shareholders, even if such policy is harmful to the general public? The latter problem should receive increased attention in Canada soon, as Prime Minister Trudeau has appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the activities of large corporations. When reading The Moneychangers it is . necessary to keep in mind that the descripThe Moneychangers.
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tion of banking in the book is a description of the American system of banking, which differs from Canada’s banking system. Canada has about ten banks, each with branches distributed throughout most of the country, and each chartered by Parliament to operate in cooperation with a single central bank (The Bank of Canada). In contrast, the United States has about 14,000 independent banks, all supervised by the Federal Reserve System. Although some of the banking technicalities mentioned in The Moneychangers do not apply -- _ to Canadian banks, this should not hamper a Canadian reader in enjoying a book which is both informative and stimulating . +len dewar
No kinder words than drivel The Alpine
Path
by L. Maud Montgomery Fitzhenry and Whiteside I realize that the profound irritation that overwhelms me when I read such gushy tripe as The Alpine Path is not sufficient reason for a legitimate critical rejection. What’s more, I have to admit that calling a famous Canadian author’s autobiography ‘ ‘tripe” is a bit foolhardy. I might even find a kinder word than “gushy” to describe L.M. Montgomery’s prose style. And for that section of the chevron readership who have missed out on the “Anne” books, I-will even postpone my tirade until I’ve given some factual material on the famous author in question. Lucy Maud Montgomery, the creator of Anne of Green Gables, was born on November 30, 1874 in Clifton, Prince Edward Island. Her mother died in 1876 and she was raised by her paternal grandparems. She received most of her education in P.E.I. with the exception of her last year of high school, which was spent in Prince Albert, where her father had moved upon re-marrying. She earned a teacher’s certificate -and taught for several years. As well, she took a year-long English literature course at Dalhousie, in Halifax, which opened her way to a job on the staff of the Halifax evening paper. Even before becoming a journalist, she was making a livable income by her writing , having “acquired the habit of accommodating (herself) to the whims of the editors. ’ ’ After a year with the paper she returned to the Island where she lived with / her grandparents and wrote for nine years. It was during this period that Anne of Green Gables, her first un-serialized novel, was written.
She married at age thirty-eight. Her marriage entailed rather extended duties, Montgomery having married a Presbyterian minister. Even so she continued to write prolifically, publishing four books and her autobiography in the first five years of her marriage. By her death in 1942 she had acquired an international reputation as an author, was a successful wife and mother and left behind a considerable fan club. As a borderline member of the club, I feel rather like a traitor. I really loved L. M. Montgomery’s books when I was young. They were comparable only to Louisa May Alcott’s in their attraction for me. But they surpassed even those, chiefly because “Anne” and her successors had that magic quality, imagination. And now it’s that very quality, that fanciful turn of mind, which irritates me when I read the books. I had hoped that her autobiography might shed a new light on my old favourites and that I might appreciate them again, with a “grownup’s” eyes. But the reasons for her particular style are almost more, namby-pamby than the prose itself. Literary fashions change. The kind of exaggerated, half adjective by volume prose which strikes a modem reader as a bit flowery and excessive was evidently (judging by Montgomery’s financial success) quite suitable to the tastes of earlier readers. And it is not precisely her style I object to as it is, for its kind) very good. It’s like a polka or a waltz, flowing and rippling with its well-balanced complex sentences. It sins, however, in being perfectly suited to its content which is predomin“antly sentimental fancy of the airy-fairy variety. I had hoped that she had written that way to suit “girlish fancies” in her children’s books. But it seems that her mentalcapacity to see the world as a sugar doughnut was her pride and joy. I’m not sure that it is her kind of world view that repels me. She may genuinely have been blessed with an ability to see glorious beauty, and feel “thrills of delight and horror” within no wider experience. than any other woman of her time. But her effort to communicate the joy she found in every day life is, quite simply, overdone. She writes like the epitaphs on old tombstones which, instead of preserving the memory of a good person, ludicrously suggest that the deceased was a perfect saint. On a gravestone it’s amusing and perhaps touching. In a book, which is considerably longer, it degenerates rapidly to drivel. Oddly enough, something which my jaded eye can recognize as real occasionally does slip through. Montgomery’s story contains enough of the rythm and landscape-‘of her home province to arouse a the like of which few of us have experienced. If you’re a Hemingway affcionado, enced. If you’re a Hemingway afficionado , The Alpine Path will nauseate you. But if your tastes can encompass a gentler, prettier style, you might find it worth while to spend a few hours in the “kingdom of ideal beauty” with Maud Montgomery. -Shirley
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Racism today by Mike Ura
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Something ugly is happening in this country. Full scale riots have broken out between white and Asian Vancouverites. A book that viciously attacks the Native Indians has sold more than 8000 copies in north Ontario. In Toronto Sikh temples have been defaced and blacks are harassed daily by both police and self-proclaimed Nazis. Racism is here, and it seems to like the Canadian environment. -But these are only the superficial asing classes spans from the white male at pects of a whole complex of developthe very top to the black female child at ments at the base of Canadian society. the very bottom with its separate inThey are rooted in the changes that have terests, each with a specific and particubeen wrought by massive immigration lar relationship to capital. It is this from the Third World. specificity that defines the total social and It has almost become a truism to claim cultural life of each section. And it is this that encouraging immigration is a tactic experience within the hierarchy of labour the state uses to provide a cheap labour that has shaped what is now described as force, while the ensuing competition for a black nation within American and jobs keeps the wages of the indigenous British societies. workers down. However, Canadian lefWhat presents itself as a racial conflict tists have not yet developed this analysis is in essence a conflict between different towards deeper conclusions. In England, levels of the hierarchy and it is through where Third World immigration predates the unceasing conflict between the differits appearance in Canada by more than a ent sections that capital has established decade, left militants have been forced-to its domination and continues to dominate deal with this issue far more creatively. us all.” Race Today (RT) is a radical English Two points are worth examining here. magazine dealing-with racism. It is writFirstly, workers are seen as possessing ten by black militants who believe their the strength to force changes in social task is to “record and recognize the reality in a meaningful and purposeful struggles of the emerging forces as manmanner. In such a perspective, they are ifestations of the revolutionary potential not the victims of class contlict, but its of the black population. We recognize too protagonists . the release of intellectual energy from Secondly, racial and other divisions in within the black community, which althe working class are not looked on as ways comes to the fore when the masses false, subjective problems of consciousof the oppressed by their actions create a ness, but rather as objective and material new social reality.” divisions forced by the capitalist hierarTheir first and most significant deparchy of labour. Racism is a function of the ture from a traditional Marxist analysis white workers reahzation that immigrant centres around the question of power. In competition for jobs will restrict wage England (as in Canada), it has been taken raises. for granted that blacks, like other workTherefore, RT demands that the strug: ers, are helpless, powerless victims of gle of immigrants should be controlled by capital. RT digs deeper into the reality of immigration. immigrants, i.e. that they should be autonomous of other struggles. As evidence In point of fact, Third World immigrants have participated in victorious nafor its position, it uses the experience of the Imperial Tobacco Strike. tional independence struggles. Accustomed to regarding the state as a hostile In May of 1974, 600 Asian workers walked out of a Leeds factory to protest and alien force, the semi-official racism they undergo in England and Canada intolerable working conditions and lower wages than whites. In turn white workers reinforces this attitude. launched a furious and overtly racist atRT points to the experience of the American blacks in their liberation tack on the Asians. The union continually refused to make the strike official. movement, and claims it has “by its The strike proved that the union was overwhelming rebellion, redefined class not simply to include millionsof blacks not interested in fighting the racism of its workers. RT concluded that “managebut to make the black working class fundamental to any revolutionary strategy. ment cannot police hundreds of workers where in the backwoods they are able to The hierarchy ‘of labour within the police a mere handful. They need the whole of the American and British work-
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-. union to negotiate and enforce produ,ctivity agreements, to reinforce the division of labour along race lines. Who gets what for how many hours is as much organised and directed by the trade unions, as it is organised and directed by management. Here the struggle between the races is sharper only because capital has brought them physically face-to-face with each other. Hence in the struggle, the union is ever present as capital’s henchman. Yet in this very arena is a final resolution of the conflict within the working class possible. - Alas, the very forces that perpetuate racism from the old world to the new, in actuality, create the conditions in which it is possible to subvert it.” Thus, by refusing to allow their struggles to be co-opted, immigrants will evolve independent selfactivity and organization. While inter-class conflict will at times fragment the class ,Jt is to be rememberedthat “in the same way that capital dominates us through the varied contradictions within the class, so too it creates the dynamism nurtured within the heart of the conflicts to shatter these divisions and break the rule of capital once and for all. ” At the same time, youth in England are waging a struggle against the imposition of forced labour as a condition of life. By rejecting the production ethic, youth is denying capital/the right to accumulate profit from them. In struggling against work, they are providing a service to other workers. For example: Before the advent of immigration, work at London Transport was relatively well paid. Competition from the unemployed in the Caribbean, to whom a wage in London was a better proposition than starvation in Kings ton, pushed the wage of the London Transport worker down. By refusing to compete, (because that is in essence what they are doing), young blacks contribute directly to pushing the wage of the worker upwards. That goes for all workers, black and white. To support the unemployed is to support yourself.
Nor is the refusal of work confined to young West Indians. What else is absenteeism in the mining industry? How else do you describe resistance to speed ups on the assembly line? Only recently the Sunday Telegraph ‘complained’ that Ford Motor Company found it difficult to impose the work ethic on West Indian workers. It is clear that young blacks are taking this tendancy to its logical conclusion. A defeat for them at this time is a defeat for the whole class. Women, too, are seen as an autonomous sector of the working-class. As employees , they are the worst paid and most poorly treated sector. As housewives, they clean their husband’s clothes, cook his food, warm his bed and budget his wage. In short, they do what has to be done at home for him to go to work the next day. Furthermore, they bear, nurture, and train the next generation of workers. Thus, when their husbands get paid, he receives two wages-his and hers. By demanding equal pay, free abortion on demand, and wages for housework, women in England are making themselves felt as an independent sector of the working class. Race Today is an example of a serious attempt to analyze the problems of racism and immigration. While it would be a mistake to take their entire analysis and hold it up as a precise example of Canadian conditions, there are many striking similarities between the English experience and ours. On August 5th., Dar-us Howe, editor of Race Today, will address a meeting at U of W. For those interested in racism, sexism and libertarianism, it may be the most important get together of the year. Race Today has at least put together an overall strategy for change within those sectors of capitalist society which have all too often only been given token recognition. All serious proponents of radical change in this society must come to terms with the RT analysis even if they cannot lend it full support.
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Thigh-high is quasiprostitution The practise of soliciting female comby encouraging quasipanionship prostitution is objectionable to any person concerned with the elimination of sexism. The decision of Whiplash to boycott the ‘Thigh High’ Engineering pub is to be commended. One would hope that the Engineering Society will discontinue sponsoring such events. Perhaps more importantly, however, women themselves should demonstrate an equal awareness by refusing-to patronize such a blatant example of the still existent double standard. Department
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the spelling, it just does not make sense. Being undergrads, we do not know all the implications of the effect of the professional engineer’s position in society. Is this something we missed during work terms -this horrible menacing source of oppression? Furthermore, we don’t see how the effect of curricula and job opportunities on any particular student results in the group being limited to having “oppressive modes of relating’ ’ . The behaviour of any group is often Iimited, and it cannot be referred to as being individual. It is unjust to imply that all individuals behave as the group. “Tex’r
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Janet Siitanen of Sociology
Women don’t m,ind ’ Is Radio . engineer’s I Waterloo god? sexism Brilliant. Whiplash refused a contract to -provide their services at the Thigh High Pub because, in their opinion, the event was not concerned with bettering relations between men and women. Does Whiplash want to play at conferences on roles in society and forums on liberation, or at Pubs? Since we “Engineers have ‘constantly’ refused to see” the light, Radio Waterloo has decided that we and all women should only enjoy themselves if they are not sexist. Perhaps the women attending don’t mind being “sexist”. Are you the ones to decide what is good for them? If they don’t want a discount, that’s all right, and if they ’ don’t want to come, they won’t. Then there won’t be a Thigh High. But not because it disagrees with someone of sufficient power to prevent it. The withdrawal of services is discrimination-in defense of anti-sexism. Sexism has been ingrained since the amoeba (or if you prefer, Adam and Eve). It is absurd to try and stamp out sexism by using unlawful discriminatory practices. It is the Federation’s responsibility to serve its members. Engrmeers form a large part of the Federation, and we all are helping to support Whiplash “in a time of scarce funds”. If Radio Waterloo has “decided to boycott” against us, then we should have the option of not joining the Federation, as it is no longer in our best interests. If Radio Waterloo is aware that one of the reasons why engineers are most prone to perpetuate oppressive hum~an relationships has to do with their position in society, then please enlighten us. Aside from
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I am writing in response to the absolutely ludicrous article, “Sewage Sleuths are Unsung Heroes”, which appeared in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, July 14th. After digesting the article I could find no reason to Hurrah for the men and women who are supposedly making the environment safe for our grandchildren. Sleuthing is, indeed, a marvelous endeavor, but, what happens after all the time and energy is expended to trace these “bacteria killers” back to their corporate sources? Certainly it is true that recognizing the source of the problem is the first step but it should not become the goal in itself. It is also incumbent on the Region to take measures to enforce its waste bylaw. The bylaw -becomes a farce when we permit companies to purchase a permit that gives them the absolute right to pollute in excess of the bylaw guidelines. Therefore, if, as Mr. Luhowy claims, the Pollution Control Laboratory becomes selfsufficient, it will be accomplished by money made on excess pollution. The
collected in 1974 was made by the permits that allow companies to polexcess of the bylaw. The contradicboth absurd and selfievident. proof of this is that no company in-
the area has ever been charged or prosecuted by the Region for polluting. Yet reg:
ional companies are polluting above bylaw levels everyday with the official blessing of the Regional government. Mr. Luhowy’s suggestion that the Region can refuse to treat the sewage of uncooperative firms is also preposterous. If the region refused, for instance, to treat the sewage from J.M. Schneider, that company would have no alternative but to dump its raw sewage into Schneider Creek. The health hazard of this sewage (approx. 1 ,OOO,OOO gallons, daily) makes refusal impossible. It becomes apparent that the purpose of this article is to justify the existence of the pollution “control” operations of the Region. This self-justification takes the form of the goal of financial self-sufficiency. Sewage sleuths can only become real heroes when they are given the power to force companies to stop polluting instead of being used as Regional salespeople selling , licences to pollute our environment! 1
Robert
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Radio Waterloo has again shown that its call letters should be GOD. Over the past few years our radio station has refused to use commercials on the air. I am sure the administration at Radio Waterloo find it much easier to accept handouts from the students of this University. During the Spring term, about half of the handouts that Radio Waterloo received were supplied by engineering students. It is wrong for Radio Waterloo to take our money and refuse to provide their services (in the form of Whiplash) to the engineering students, or for that matter, any student on this campus. The hypocrisy of Radio Waterloo amuses me. According to the article that appeared in last week’s chevron, Radio W,aterloo decided to boycott engineering events after last winter’s Thigh High Pub. They claim engineers “Get violently intoxicated and their relationship to women is reduced to watching them strip”. If it is true that Radio Waterloo is boycotting engineering events then why did they supply the sound system for the spring term engineering stag? The reason is that the people from Whiplash enjoyed themselves at the Stag, ‘getting intoxicated and reducing their relationship to women by watching them strip’. One of the operators even went as far as to dare the strippers to incorporate the “Rigid Tool” into their act. It is true that Radio Waterloo should-not be so arrogant as to turn down paying jobs at any time. It is time that the students of this campus require Radio Waterloo to be more economical with our money. Radio Waterloo should use commercials on the air to save us money. Remember, it is a time of scarce funds for students as well. t Len Trembiey 3A Electrical Engineering
Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron istypeset by members of the workers union of dumont press graphix (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Off ices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. One m.ore chevron thissummer and that’s it until September 12. Just today I had a long chat -with an Engineer who told me the majority of engineers think everyone in this university is against them and think that engineers are creeps. Well sorry to disappoint you chevric haters out there but members of the chevron staff do not!& down on, distrust, dislike or
even f&I uncomfortable around anyone who happens to be an engineer. My god, my father’s an,engineer. Sorry, guys, we just disagree with some of your-attitudes that’s it, full stop . . .By the way, ail next term you can receive the chevron, FREE, in the mail. Just drop down to the office and ask one of the chevrics to put your name down on our list. For those who cannot make tt across campus to our offfce in the campus centre, simply put your name and address in an inter-office envelope and send it to, chevron, campus centre. . .We aim to please . . .Hope the exams are not getting you down.. The one good thing about exam time is that moment when you finish your final exam and it’s on to the wine, women (men) and song. Good luck to those facing a work term next term, hope the next job pays better, you never know when you’ll land that job we ail dream about, snicker, nudge . . .anyways it’s getting late and the sun set long ago behind the PAC building . . .have a good summer and we’ll have more for you when you get back.. .the chevron was directed, written and produced by a merry band of chevrics, come and join the fun when we put together our August 15 issue . . .wemiss you,YThis week tulips and other goodies go out to henry hess, diane ritta, john iiloftjs, mike ura, michael gordon, randy hannigan, john carter and his brother jim, dou$ ward, Sylvia hauck, Shirley tiilotson, bill mccrea, ai whittle, marilyn turner, where are yvu? glen dewer, and may your days go well, untji the next issue :. ..gudafM~~n,mg=~ _ . e.
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wrapup
Basketball champions On Wednesday July 16, 1975 the 3A Civil basketball team defeated the former champions, the Pheasants, in a close match by the score of 4944. After a slow start the engineering team began fighting back and -trailed by only 26-18 at half time The third quarter saw the team come out flying (strategy against the Pheasants) and outscored the opponents 11 to 4 to trail by a single point at three-quarter time. The lead changed hands several times during the last period and with 22 seconds remaining in the game Greg Steels sunk two free throws to give the engineers a 45-44 lead. Their always tight defense held the Pheasants at bay and with 3 seconds remaining Dave Bailey, the team captain, grabbed a rebound and was immediately fouled. , He connected on both free throws, while playing in his best game of the season, both in leading the team and in scoring. He iced the cake by scoring yet another basket as the final buzzer sounded. The 3A civil eng. team, which
The new intramural basketball champs are 3A civil engineering. Pictured left to right are: /. Chow, Al Reynolds, D. McCready, Manny Coetz, john VanderWeilen, the convener, Manny Brykman, Morgan (Too Tall) Hanam, Dave Bailey (captain), Greg Steeles (below), and Randy Pickle. Also on the team is photographer Keith Parrot. Behind the team all the way are their loyal fans Me/, Mary Lynn, Carol, Don, Kathy and Maurice. photo by keith parrd
finished tie for first place at the end of the regular season, easily disposed of 4A mech. eng. in their quarter-final game, where they were led by John VanderWielen scoring 24 points. John, who averaged 20 points per game, had his season highlighted by a 30 point
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game in the final regular season match. In their semi-final game 3A Civil defeated Village I Sl and S2 53-35 to gain their birth in the final. The 3A civil engineering team consisted of: Morgan (Too Tall) Hanan, 6’6” centre from the lumberjack country of Northern Quebec; John (Just Your Average Superstar) Vander Wielen, 6’2” Forward; Dave (Star) Bailey, 6’3” Guard; Greg (Stuff) Steels, 6’5” Forward; Manny Brykman, 5’10” Guard; Manny Goetz, Randy Pickle, Keith Parrott, John Chow, Dennis McCready and Big Al Reynolds. The team would like to thank their 7 supporters, whose- enthusiastic cheering and confidence inspired them to the championship.
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