1975-76_v16,n12_Chevron by Editor Imprint

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume 16, number 12 friday, august 15, 1975

Inside It was a wet happy birthday fqr the floating UW_ villager whose friends set him adrift in Health ‘Services’ poWted pond while they ate his cake back at the student residence. He was later rescued by the Federation of Students recently annojnted fire department which was set up to take care-of emergencies such as these.

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More than half of Ontario’s 100,000 university and community college students may be unable to vote in the upcoming Ontario election because they’re moving back

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disquieting tion hopes government education tion issues.

to campus residences from homes while and summer jobs enumerators will be compiling voters’ lists, John’ Shortall, chairperson of the Ontario .Federation of Students (OFS), said at a press conI ference- Wednesday night.

because the organizato raisetie question of financing of higher and student aid as elec.

“The choice of the Sept. 18 date could be construed as a deliberate attempt to lessen the impact of the student vote in the election. This is particularly disturbing at a time of grave concern for the future of post-secondary education in the province,” said Shortall, reading

“More than 50 per cent” of the students will probably be caught in transit as the enumerators make their calls and will be “disenfranchised,” he said. OFS leaders find this prospect

Rent board act criticized The large majority of UW students spend an eight or four month period on campus, and will now have to either sign a lease and hope they can sublet their apartments or house, or go without housing altogether. The act’s binding lease provision applies to all apartment buildings with more than six units. The provincial government introduced the rent review board act two weeks ago in response to-Ontario tenants’ demands that rents were spiralling in Ontario. However the bill makes no provisions for rolling back or controlling rents. The Conservatives believe that rents can ,be controlled by the ‘shame mechanism’. Should the board decide the rent increase is exhorbitant, they feel they can reduce the rent by publicising the unfairness of the landlord. There is no limit set by the act as to how high rents-can go and no penalty for landlords who blatantly overcharge tenants. By announcing the rent review board now, Irvine has given the landlords the go ahead to raise rents as often and as high as possible because the

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OFS claims

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It appears University of Waterloo students will again get shafted -by the provincial conservatives’ new rent review board act which makes a one year lease on most accomodation binding on the landlord and tenant.

Renison affair ..................... Agriculture in China .............. Housing problems ................ ............ .; ........ Feedback

de-mand voting Toronto-Ontario university student leaders are demanding that the provincial chief election officer conduct a special publicity campaign aimed at the 50,000 to 60,000 students who will be “disenfi-anchised” due to the timing of the Sept. 18 election.

legislation will probably not take effect until after the election. In response to the review board act, Sandy MacDonald, Federation housing co-ordinator, phoned ‘the provincial solicitor general to try to ‘get students eliminated from the one year lease provision. Ross Cooper, the assistant to the solicitor-general told MacDonald he could see no reason why students should be exempted from the act’s stipulations. Co-op and fulltime students wanting to leave the area will have to sublet their apartment. Most landlords are against subletting, and-quite often it costs the student tenant an extra 30 to 50 dollars. The tories have been very close mouthed-about the recent bill due to the public reaction against the useless provisions of the bill. Even the reactionary Kitchener-Waterloo Record wrote a stinging editorial, condemning the review board: ‘The type of operator who relies on such methods (of exorbitantly increasing rents) is. not likely to be+ deterred by whatever amount of publicity- he may be subjected to’. Tenant associations in Toronto are up in arms over the proposal to set up rent review boards. The Parkdale Tenants Association said in their newspaper that the review boards would do nothing more than ‘guarantee high profits’ and that the shame mechanism was a ‘hoax’.

The Parkdale Tenants Association and the Federation of Metro Tenants have organized a petition asking for legislation to control and roll back rents. Federation housing co-ordinator Sandy MacDonald has obtained copies of the petition’ and is asking people in the federation housing office to, add their names to the petition. She is considering placing copies of the petition in the administration housing office if administration officials agree to it. MacDonald told the chevron: ‘in the past week we have had 60 people sign the petition’. The rent review boards will be set-up in Toronto, Thunder Bay and other centres where vacancy rates are below 2.3 per cent. Tenants in other centres can petition the government for a rent review board for their city,. but the response from tenants will probably not be overwhelming since tenant reaction to the boards is overwhelmingly negative. One group in favour of the proposed review boards, but adamantly opposed to rent controls, is the Urban Development Institute; a lobby of the largest developers and landlords in Canada. The institute told the chevron they were in favour of the boards because they. had no constitutional power to ‘roll back rents and hamper our affairs’. -michael

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from a statement endorsed by student leaders from 25 universities and community colleges earlier on Wednesday. / “Students, as the group most affected, must have the opportunity to vote. OFS is informing Student councils at all colleges and universities of the enumeration procedures so that they in turn will inform their members. “However, it is the government which has the greatest responsibility to ensure that its constituents are aware of the procedure,” the OFS statement said. “The calling of this election is typical of a government which has continually deceived and misled students. They (government leaders) have gone so far as to announce twice the OSAP weekly living allowance increase of eight dolkm. There were, however, only whispers about the $100 increase in the summer savings requirement under OSAP,” the OFS statement charges. It cites provincial treasurer Darcy McKeough as ‘saying over 70,000 students will be enemployed this summer, which when taking intoaccount a student workforceof 412,000 means that the unemployment is 16.9 per cent, twice that of last summer. “With an election on, it is now impossible for OFS to even attempt negotiations for special supplemental grants for these students.” “It appears that the Davis government fears retaliationfrom everyone involved with postsecondary education. Financial cutbacks, announced last Novembec will be severely felt for the first time this September. ‘ ‘If the University of Toronto, regarded as the most financially sound institution in the province, has been forced to apply acrossthe-board budget cuts of five per cent, one can well imagine what must be happening elsewhere,” the student statement said. “When government begins to pursue policies such as cutbacks in post-secondary education, the very reverse of its original policies, it has an obligation to seek a full

mandate for its actions. Instead, this government has chosen to pursue a course that threatens to disenfranchise a large portion of the population immediately affected by these policies ,” the OFS release notes. In an interview, on thursday morning, Roderick Lewis, Ontario’s chief election officer, said he couldn’t comment on the OFS demand for a special enumeration campaign since he hadn’t heard anything official about it. However, he pointed out that his. office was already conducting an information campaign on the election -aimed at the general public, using radio spots and newspaper ZldS..

He said the question of “student voting is a very difficult problem,” but remedies exist to ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots. Students should be enumerated at their “permanent, ordinary residence”, that is the homes of their parents, Lewis said. If the student is a ‘transient”, in other words “if his home is where he hangs up his hat,” then a university address is acceptable. “It is up to the individual to be honest with the enumerators. ” Enumeration begins next Wednesday and continues until Sept. lo-the deadline for revisions of the voters’ lists. The academic year starts at some institutions as early as Sept. 8 and as late as Sept. 22 at others. Many students prefer to vote at their campus address rather than travel to their parents’ home, Shortall said. Compounding the problem is the fact that many students aren’t living at home this summer. “Because of economic conditions many students have had to take summerjobs away from home, even out of the province. ” Lewis suggested students make sure they are enumerated at their parental home and if they .are unable to vote at either the advance pollssor on Sept. 18, a proxy vote can be cast. Information concerning any vot-ing procedure can be obtained fi-om returning officers.

A Welcome to Wof W from the Federation ’

SATURDAY, Aug. 30 Retreat details.

for all International

Students.

Call

885-74

for

for all International

Students.

Call

8850674

for

of the P.A.C. Featuring Stringband, Blackcreek Saltspring Rainbow. Sponsored by Federation of dents. Campus Centre Great Hall if rainy. Special ture: Kentucky Fried Chicken Snack Boxes for low of $.85 (reg. $1.25).

SUNDAY, Aug. 31 -Retreat

1090 AM 150 PM

MONDAY, Sept. 1 for all International -.

Students.

Call

8850674

for

3:30 PM 9:oO AM4:oo PM All

Day:

NOON1:W AM

8zOOPM

NOONl:W AM

8:W PM

Library Tours: Arts and E.M.S. meet at respective reference desks. Campus Tours: Leave from Scheduling Area, P.A.C. City Tours: Leave from front of CC. Orientation Program for International Students, Campus Centre, Room 207. Federation of Students Information Centre at Seheduling Area, P.A.C. Information about the campus and the community.

1 l:W AM 1:WPM 1:3Cb 350 PM 9:W AM 4:W PM

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THURSDAY, Sept. 4 10:30

ll:W AM Q:W PM 1:30-

3:30 PM 19:WAM4:w PM NOONl:W AM 150

PMPM

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3:30 9:W AM4:oo PM NOONl:oo AM

9:W AM4:30 PM 8:W PM12 MlDNfTE 9:W PM12:30 AM 9:3oPMl:W AM

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Federation, Flicks, AL ? 16. American tio’n Members $1 .OO, non-members

SATURDAY, Sept. 6 8% PMl:W

1:WAM

8:W 8%)

Graffitti, $1.25.

PM PM

8:WPM

All

Federation Flicks, AL1 16. American tion members $1.00, non-members * International Students may spend host families. Contact International details.

Day:

PM-

8:WPM

DAY:

Federawith local office for

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Arts &ind E.M.S.

meet

at respective

NOON1:wAM N-WN-

3:w PM All Day:

8:W PM PM

referEVENING:

lo:30 AM 1:30 PM 2lOOPM All Day: All

Day:

NOON1:WAM

350 PM8:30 PM

Library Tours: Arts and E.M.S. meet at respective reference desks. Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Federation of Students Information Centre in Campus Centre Great HalL Club Week. All interested clubs will set up booths in the Campus Centre Great Hall. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7100 PM. Covercharge after 7100 PM 74 cents. With McLean & McLean. Bluegrass Boogie. An afternoon of Bluegrass and Country Rock. Free admission, at the front quadrangle

Library Tours: ence desks.

2:w PM

All Day

1:W

Library Tours: -- ence desks.

2:00 PM All

F@lDAY,Sept. 1090 AM 1:30 PM

concert with Scrubbaloe Caine. Theatre of the Arts if rainy.

in MC 5136

2:w PM

meet

at respective

Day:

8:30 Pw 1:wAM

8:W PM MIDNIlE

850 PMl:w

7:w PMl:w

8:30 PMl:w

2:W PM NOONl:w AM

1050 AM 190 PM

Library Tours: ence desks.

7:w PMl:w

Arts and E.M.S.

meet

a? respective

8:W PM ’

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8:00 PM

SUNDAY;Sept. 8200 PM

8:W

8:W PM

All

meet

Day:

8:W PM

refer-

E.M.S.

meet

at respective

refer-

21 Yard.

Federa-

Theatre.

Inquire

Concert with Don Heron in Human&es at Federation office for tickets.

Sept. 24

George Wald (1967 Nobel Prize winner for medicine) in Humanities Theatre. For tickets enquire at Federation office. Sponsored by Boards of Education and External Relations, Federation of Students.

Fjnal

Day

of Orientation

Lottery

Ticket

Sale.

Concert with the Bee Gees, in the P.A.C. Also Orientation Lottery Draw. Ticketinquiries at Federation office.

LEGEND

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at respective

Arts Lec-

FRIDAY, Sept. 26

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Arts and E.M.S.

Sellers.

THURSDAY, Sept. 25

Math Sot Co-ed Slow Pitch. Village 1 Green. Math Sot trip to Laurel Conservation Area. Games and Barbeque. Enquire at Math Sot office MC 3038. .m’ Federation Flicks, AL 116. Chinatown. Federation Members $1 .OO, others $1.25.

Library Tours: ence desks.

Languille.

with Peter *

Federation Flicks, AL 116. The Longest tion members $1.00, others $1.25.

WeDNESDAY,

c 10:30 AM 190 PM

Paul

Arts and

TUESDAY, Sept. 23

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TUESDAY, Sept. 16

with Party”

Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. 74 cents with Phase. FoodServices Pub with Kenny Hollis and Grand Slam in South Campus Hall Festival Room. Federation Flicks, AL 116. The Longest Yard. Federation Members $1.00, others $1.25.

8:30 PM-

SUNDAY, Sept. 14 1:w PM 2:w PM

Humanities

SA’?URDAY, Sept. 20

refer-

Sports and Fun Day at Columbia Fields. Intramural Sports Competitions, Labatts Balloon Rides, Hot Dog Barbeque and Lake Columbia Raft Regatta. Lots of prizes. Enquire at Federation office for details and enries. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. Covercharge 74, cents. With McLean & McLean. Food Services Pub, South Campus Hall Festival Room with Mornington Drive. Federation Flicks, AL 116. Chinatown, Federation Members $1 .OO, others $1.25. Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NCCN-7:00 PM. Covercharge after 7100 PM 74 cents. W rth Phase.

8:W PM

Food Services Pub with Zigzag, at South Campus Hall Festival Room. Federation Flicks, AL 116. The Longest Yard. Federation Members $1 .OO, others $1.25.

8:W PM

SATURDAY, Sept. 13 12 NOON-

refer-

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7:OO PM. Covercharge after 7XXI Pm 74 cents. With Phase. . etc. *.

8:30 PMl:w

“The

Library Tours: ence desks.

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NOON1:wAM

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Club Week. All interested clubs will set up booths in Campus Centre Great Hall. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7:OO PM. Covercharge after 700 PM 74 cents. With Paul Languille. Food Services Pub, SouTh Campus Hall Festival Room with McKenzie. Federation Flicks, AL 116. Chinatown. Federation Members $1 .OO, others $1.25 All Night Sci-Fi and Mystery Movies, FREE in the Campus Centre Great Hall. Sponsored by Sci Sot., Campus Centre Board and the Federation. Pancake Breakfast to follow movies. Features: Murders in the Rue Morgue, Slaughterhouse Fre, Play Misty for Me, Andromeda StMIl.

NOON1:wAm

Arts and E.M.S.

at respective

8:WPM-12:WAM

FRIDAY, Sept. 12 IO:30 AM 190 PM

meet

Arts Society meeting in outside courtyard Building. Theatre of the, Arts if rainy.

-outdoor Courtyard.

Math Sot Film Festival features: A Funny Thing Happened on t.he Way to the Forum, and Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness. MC 2065. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7fNl PM. Covercharge 7XIO PM 74 cents. With McLean & McLean. Campus Centre Great Hall Forum on c&is in Student Housing. Sponsored by the Boards of Education and External Relations, Federation of Students.

NOON-

Arts and E.M.S.

3:3OPM.

-free movie ture 113.

3:w PM

refer-

2:45PM. -general Humanities

7:wPmg.

3:W PM 8:W PM

at respective \

Library Tours:’ E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE. 12 NOON-7:00 PM. Covercharge after 700 PM 74 cents. With Phase: Arts Extravaganza. 11:30AM4:30PM -coffee shop. Humanities 280.

NOONl:W AM

-pub

NOON-

meet

THURSDAY, Sept. 18 lo:30 AM 150 PM

Library Tours: Arts and E.M.S. meet at respective reference desks. Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Club Week. All interested clubs will set up booths in Campus Centre Great Hall. etc.

2:w PM All Day:

Arts and E.M.S.

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. .FREE 12 NOON-7:OO PM. Covercharge after 7:00 PM 74 cents. With Phase. Campus Centre Great Hall, Forum on the Future of the University. Sponsored by the Boards of Education/External Relations, Federation of Students.. Arts Society Trip to Stratford. Featuring 12th Night and Saint Joan. Enquire at Arts Sot office. HH 178A, ext. 2322. Sponsored by Arts Society. Math Sot wine and cheese party. MC 5136. Tickets at Math Sot office. Free movie, King Lear. Sponsored by Campus Centre Board. Campus Centre Great Hall. Environmental Studies Society wine and cheese party. Inquire Environmental Studies Society office, Env 356, ext. 2321. . d

MONDAY, Sept. 15 MONDAY, Sept. 8

Library Tours: ence desks.

lo:30 AM& 190 PM

8:W PM Graffitti. $1.25. the day Students

10:30 AM 150 PM

T~~URSDAY, Sept. II

I SUNDAY, Sept. 7 :

Day:

Federa-

Food Services Pub, South Campus Hall, Festival Room, Band-Small Wonder. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre, FREE 12 NOON-780 PM. Covercharge after 780 PM 74 cents. Band-427. Federation Flicks, AL 116. American Graffitti. Federation Members $1 .OO, non-members $1.25. International Students Night at Food Services Pub. For tickets inquire International Students Office, Needles Hall.

7:W PM-

All

NOON-

Library Tours: Arts and E.M.S. meet at respective reference desks. Campus Tours: Leave from Scheduling Area,\ P.A.C. City Tours: Leave from front of CC. Orientation Program for International Students, Campus Centre, Room 207. Federation of Students Information Centre at Scheduling Area, P.A.C. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOoNPM. Covercharge after 7 PM 74 cents. Band-427. Engineering Orientation, All First Year Engineers report to Engineering Lecture Hall Room 101. Introduction, tours, and afternoon field day. Sponsored by Eng. Sot. Church Colleges Casino Night at St. Jerome’s College, sponsored by Church College Association. ,Church Colleges Movies & Pizza Night at St. Paul’s iCollege, sponsored by Church College Association. Pub, South Campus Hall Festival Room, 1 Food Services Band-Thundermug

Day:

12 MIDNITE

FRIDAY, Sept. 5

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17

10:s

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Federation of Students Information Centre, CC, Great Hall. Club Week. All interested clubs will set up booths in Campus Centre Great Hall. -. ’ Federation of Students trip to Stratford Shakespeare Festival, featuring 12th Night. For tickets enquire at the Federation office. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7%) PM. Covercharge after 700 PM 74 cents. With McLean 8 McLean. Church College’s Coffee House and Campfire at Conrad Grebel College, sponsored by Church College Association. Math Sot film Festival. Features Matchless and Topkapi, MC 2065. Free Movie: Sympathy for the Devil. Sponsored by Campus Centre Board. Campus Centre Great Hall. Environmental Studies Society Pub Crawl. Inquire at Environmental Studies Society office, ENV 356, ext. 2321.

All

8:W PM

FREE 12 7:00 PM. prizes.

8:W PM

re-

2:W PM

12:W NOON 1:W AM

Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. NOON-7:OO PM. Covercharge after Band-427. Church College’s Games Afternoon, with

at respective

LibraryTours: ence desks.

8:W PM

Library Tours: Arts and E.M.S, meet at respectivereference desks. Campus Tours: Leave from Scheduling Area, P.A.C. City Tours: Leave from front of CC. Orientation Program for International Students, campus Centre, ,Room 207. Federation of Students Information Centre at Scheduling Area, P.A.C. Information about the campus and the community.

meet

10:30 AM& 1:30 PM

1 .W

Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7XIO PM. Band-427. 74 cents covercharge after 790 PM. Free Movie: The Kiss of the Vampire by Campus Centre Board, Campus Centre Great Hall

NOON1:WAM

8:W PM 8:W PM

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 -10:30

Tours: Arts and E.M.S. desks.

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-7:00 PM. Covercharge after 7:00 PM 74 cents. With Phase. etc. Karl Friedrich Gauss Foundation movies. AL 116. Woodstock. KFGF 25 cents, others $1.00. Concert. “Myles and Lennie” and the “Garfield Band”. Humanities Theatre. For tickets enquire at the Federation office.

NOONl:W AM

Library Tours: E.S.L. meet at reference desk. Federation of Students information Centre in Campus Centre Great Hall. Club Week. All interested clubs will set up booths in Campus Centre Great Hall. Math Sot. Film Festival. Enquire at Math Sot office MC 3038, ext. 2324 or Federation office. Features: King Kong, Kelly’s Heroes, MC 2065. Engineering Society Welcome Back Stag at Glenbriar Curling Club for information enquire at Eng Sot office, ext. 2323. Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE 12 NOON-71000 PM. Covercharge after 7m PM 74 cents. With McLean & McLean. Karl Friedrich Gauss Foundation movies, AL 116, M&rterey Pop, and Gimme Shelter, KFGF 25 cents, others $1 .aI.

All Day:

Library Tours: Arts and EMS. meet at respective reference desks. Campus Tours: Leave from Scheduling area, P.A.C. City Tours: Leave from front of CC. Orientation Program for International Students, Campus Centre, Room 207. Federation of Students Information Centre at Scheduling Area, P.A.C. Information about the campus and the community. Start of Otientation Lottery. Tickets on sale through all society of!tces,.church college association offices and Federation office. Tickets $1.00, first prize . . .cash equivalent of tuition at University of Waterloo for two terms ($680.00). Campus Centre Pub, Campus Centre. FREE from 12:00 NOON-7:00 PM. Covercharge after’l:OO PM 74 cents. Baw27.

11:W AM l:W PM 1:30-

& . Library ference

2:w PM All Day:

TUESDAY, Sept. 2 10:30

2:W PM

and StuFeaprice

TUESDAY, Sept. 9

details.

Retreat details.

of Students

Arts-Arts Library. E.M.S.LEngineering-Math-Science Library MC 4th Floor P.A.C.;-Physical Activities Complex C.C.-Campus Cemtre Federation QfficeFederation of Students Office, Room 235, Campus Centre E.S.L.-Environmental Studies - Library, Environmental Studies Building Eng. Sot.-Engineering Society, Engineering 4 Room 1338 AL-Arts Lecture Wall Math Sot-Mathematics Society, MC 3038, ext. 2324

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friday,

august

the chevron

15, 1975

Daycare: right or privilege?

more high-rises The beautiful old homes of Downtown Waterloo may soon bezome a memory iflocal urban planners have their way. Ian MacNaughton, a Kitchener planning consultant told Waterloo city council last Monday that as nany as 20 new high-rises will have :o be built near downtown Water.oo by 1985 to house the city’s mushrooming population. This report follows another planning consultant report which surveyed downtown residents on their approval of-high-rise projects For the downtown area. An overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they did not want highrises. MacNaughton told council he expects Waterloo to have a population of 76,000 people and plans should be made now for high-rises to ensure that adequate housing will be available,_The Downtown Residents’ Association and the recently formed Downtown Merchants Association are expected to present reports on the recommendations in September. MacNaughton said that there are at least 22 locations near the core that should support higher density housing, and 20 sites are prime locations for high-rise apartment buildings.

Food Services

According to MacNaughton, at least 1,500 rental units may be needed in ten years to offset dwindling accommodations. He said only 600 rental units have been built in the city since 1963. “The number of high-rise buildings is a conservative estimate in this light. The city should provide release valves for the pressure that will build up,” MacNaughton said. M<acNaughton said in the study that the city should encourage redevelopment in the “priority locations” to help preserve the low density housing and profile of the more stable residential neighbourhoods surrounding the core. These are usually areas occupied by families, while planners believe students live in unstable neighbourhoods. The study prepared by MacNaughton and the consulting firm of Dryden, Smith and Lehman of Kitchener, is one of ten residential reports that will be used to update the city’s official plan. About half the city’s 45,379 reside-nts live in the study area bounded by University Avenue, Westmount Road, Weber Street and- the Kitchener-Waterloo city boundary ; The last residential consulting report which identified substantial opposition to high-rises was done in the same study area. -michael

Day care in the Region of Waterloo is becoming a privilege for those who can afford it, rather than becoming more accessible to those who need it. This is a result of a decision by the Regional Council of Waterloo to cut in half the allotted amount of subsidy that is to be made available to those families that require day care services but cannot afford the monthly fees. In the past there has been over 125 families taking advantage of this subsidy, but the-regional council has now placed a quota of 9O.families on subsidy. Presently there are approximately 110 . families on subsidy and this will have to be reduced below the quota of 90 before any more applications are accepted. This will seriously affect any students who were counting on the subsidy in order to be able to return to school. Day care costs range from $85.00 a month (for the lowest income bracket at the Klemmer Fara mhouse co-op day care, where fees are on a sliding scale according to income) to $150.00 at some of the private day care centres. Essentially there are four types of day care operations in the Region of Waterloo. The most ideal day care operation is the co-op day care where parents are actively involved in the, administration and day to day operation of the centre. The Klemmer co-op day care centre is an example of this type of day care and is one of the most totally co-operative day cares in Ontario. The centre was started by a group of concerned parents who wanted to be part of their child’s daily environment at the centre. Today the centre has room for 27 children and

has a staff of three full time day care workers plus a part-time cook and janitors. In addition to the full time day care workers, each family must put in four hours of time each week at the centre with the children. As well as devoting weekly time to the centre, each family must attend monthly parent meetings, where policies, rules, programming etc. are discussed, and be on one of several committees that deal with specific issues at Klemmer. Thus parents are aware of everything that happens at the centre and have a say in how it will be run. There are also centres run by private individualsor companies and centres run by the municipality. Both these operations are “drop off and pick up” type centres and the parents have little if any say in how the centre is run. Private day care centres tend to be lacking in some aspectssince the centres are runto make a profit and thus expenses are cut in areas which are vital to the children. The day care centre at the married students residences operates with a parents committee which is selected from the parents of children there, but all parents are not required to participate on committees, nor do parents spend time with the “’children in the centre. Home day care has provided the solution for some parents with respect to day care. If a group of parents need day care in their area, they can form a home day care system where one of the families will look after the others. This system can work in different ways. Homes can be alternated or one parent can look after the same children and charge the others for the service. As with everything else, day care costs are going up and more and more people are going to need help in order for both parents to work.

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You can‘t akays / get- whgt you want The chances are quite good that if you have eaten very often at UW you have had occasion to wonder about the food. “What is it?” “Where did it come from?” In an attempt to supply answers to these and other questions, the chevron conducted an interview with Food Services director Bob Mudie. Food Services is the administrative body responsible for supplying and manning the various food outlets around the UW campus. To this end it. operates two cafeterias in the student villages as well as four cash >outlets in the administration building, modern languages building, Campus Centre and South Campus Hall. It employs 225 workers, approximately half of whom are full-time, and operates from a budget of $1.7

million which is almost evenly divided between supplies and salaries. Although Food Services is geared to break even, unstable food prices during the past year, together with wage increases, forced it into the red to the tune of $50,000. This resulted in a 20 percent hike in the cash price of meals and an increase in the cost of meal cards for the village cafeterias. Mudie hopes that the increases will enable Food Services to operate within its budget during the coming year, although they will not do much for the students who -are getting the same food as before Jat higher prices. New for this year will be the establishment of a buffet luncheon in the Laurel Room of South Campus Hall. This is to open on Sept. 8, and represents an attempt to attract

This is the only aspect of Food Services that most students on campus ever encounter. Behind the scenes are the people and machines who purchase and prepare the food. You may not always like what-you get, but as long as you keep buying it you’ll probably keep getting it. photo by hen.ry hess

“steady users who appreciate this type of luncheon”. The proposed price of $2.75 seems to indicate that mostof the steady users will be faculty or staff rather than students, however students who can afford the tab will not be discriminated against. Bar service will also be available for those on a liquiddiet. For anyone still operating under a misconception, UW Food Services is more than just a series of fast food outlets. Before the food can be cooked/heated and dished out there is a certain amount of preparation involved, and much of this also takes place here. Supplies are purchased in bulk: beef is usually in quarters, pork in loins, etc. Vegetables are either fresh, frozen or canned, with fresh vegetables definitely being in the minority. Mudie indicated that he prefers to buy frozen vegetables rather than canned, but some outlets such as the one located in the administration building do not have the facilities to prepare frozen vegetables and are forced to use canned. All pastries are made on the premises and are noticeably better than the soggy cardboard which is often found masquarading as pastry in other institutions. The usual beverages are offered, with the tab being 15 cents for tea or coffee and 20 cents for milk. Tea drinkers will appreciate the crockery pots as compared to the stainless steel usually encountered elsewhere. Being an “institutional brand” however, theflavour seems to have been recycled. While Food Services is concerned with providing “a good meal for a good price” there ‘appears to be no real concern with how this is to be accomplished or at what cost in considerations not purely monetary. Because of “lack of space for dishwashing’ ’ , the outlet in the administration building uses disposable utensils and containers. This is considered to be cheaper than making arrangements for dishwashing, but fails to take into account the environmental h pact of non-reuseable plates, cups,

forks, spoons, etc. Apart from the waste and the cost in resources is the fact that styrofoam and other plastics have been shown to contain polychlorinated bi-phenyls which communicate themselves into food that comes into contact with them. These polychlorinated bi-phenyls are suspected of being carcinogens, which means that if you eat at admin you have a better than average chance of developing some sort of cancer. Mudie also expressed the feeling that it is “none of his business to get involved in politics” relative to boycotts. With regard to the boycott of California lettuce requested by the United Farm Workers (UFW) in support of their struggle for recognition by the growers, Mudie said that “the students want lettuce and we buy the best head lettuce we can get at the best price”. He applied the same principle to boycotts of Kraft or any other food producer: if they can offer what he wants at the lowest price he w$l buy from them. Unfortunately this opens the university for use as a dumping ground by companies who are being hurt by boycotts and are willing to cut prices to get rid of accumulated produce. Mudie suggested that if students feel strongly about a boycott they should stop buying the offensive merchandise and Food Services would then stop purchasing it. He did note, however, that lettuce in a bowl cannot be easily identified as California lettuce and therefore can presumeably be eaten with a clear conscience. He also noted that : ‘ ‘If students are serious about a boycott, they must be prepared to pay more for alternative produce.” Apparently he feels that this will discourage students from putting up too much of a fight to get rid of boycotted produce, and he may just be right. _, What Food Services is geared to. give you is a reasonable meal at a reasonable price. For anything more, you pay extra. -henry

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companied by a wide-spread cynicism and resignation about who actually benefits from present condican tions. “Minimal improvements be made, but isn’t it all really window-dressing?” Our key contention is that the isolation and alienation of the “common man”, both as producer and as consumer, reflects the form and content of the information he receives. Media information, especially newspapers, are the major source of detailed and consistent news coverage. As such they largely shape popular consciousness by what is and what is not presented. ’ First, news is presented in scattered bits. Individual news items appear over a period of time in isolation from each other. Take the following items from the Kitchener-Waterloo

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government policy initiatives regarding business are categorized off into the selectively read business section. Moreover, in both areas, articles cover what has been said, written, or released by existing groups or individuals. Beyond obvious collateral interviews, little investigative reporting occurs. Data presented often includes an interpretation implicitly in which sources are quoted and explictly in concluding statements. Thus, a K-W Record> article covering statements by Brian R. B. Magee, president of the Canadian Real Estate Association, chairman of A. E. LePage Ltd., and president of Markborough Properties Ltd., presents the analysis that municipal of‘i ficial plans are actually causing the housing crisis by disrupting the smooth operations of the private shelter sector. Though he says there may be some corporate responsibility for an “inflationary psychology” especially with small businessmen, the real blame lies with the myriads of local bureaucrats. (March 6, 1974) Left by itself, as it was, this is little more than industrial propaganda. Again, a massive spread on the Voisin Report submitted to the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce by a local developer in March, 1975, hits the municipal planning department for setting housing standards’ and growth goals. This both compounds the task and costs of the developer and is a far cry from the former supportive role taken by municipal councils, he says. Editorials will focus on government’s role in regulating and subsidizing housing and planning economic growth and repetitively bemoan unimaginative programs, minimal and belated funding, and expensive redundant studies. The average reader, if without leisure ,time for extensive related reading, can a la McLuhan, be “massaged” by this information, always partially reassured that things are moving but always vaguely aware that there may be no overall direction. To sum up, he ‘is a passive recipient of already semi-digested, semi-ana.lyzed data. He is a consumer of views. To conclude, a higher level of information is a necessary first step if the public is to understand the reality of housing provision in Ontario. Research must establish the present level of comprehension common to most people concerned with hougng. Next, empirical research into the roles of the development industry, finance, and government institutions related to housing must be undertaken. An analysis of this data will begin to expose the factors beneath the surface events and will delineate the constellation of power relations and initiate the task of examining alternative change strategies. Accompanying the collection, categorization, and analysis of data, at each stage there should be participation of community individuals and groups interested in social action. This rationale for an OPIRG housing research project is based on several assumptions: -housing is a basic social need experienced by all but differentially satisfiable given our_ present political-economic system; *-relatively disadvantaged groups involved in changing this reality must be armed with accurate data and well researched analyses if their social power is to have the desired effects ; -action research must involve those seeing themselves as change agents, should accent topic areas having both immediate relevance and long range implications, and should be presented in a form useable by them; and -to concentrate resources on a level where activity is soon feasible, studies on institutions or power relations will accent structures in Ontario with a special case study of Waterloo Region.

service rather .than.as a producer of materials useful to other sections of ., the dommunity; This highly individ-ualistic notionof ,making himself/herself into themost mar.ketabl+ dproducts forpurchase by‘ future_ employers-seems to accu’ rately -describe the general orientation. of most university and corn_munity college students. i Once establishing that the above1 the -average univerr’ desgriptionof. sity and community college student is accurate, it’s clearly not enoughto sit ,ba& and &at about student ‘*apathyt9 and seemingly happy in* difference with’ the world’s problems i For to assume such posturing is defeatist in the real sense of the While+’ formal leitures might . tquch upon problems such as hoisword. ing shortages, air and water pollu-So what can concerned students ’ con, escalating food PriCes_S;ouPled and interested community memwith deteriorating quality and in- bers do about bridging the gap betcreasing fuel costs, they don’t ween’ the university and- the- “real allow a student to connect indiworld”? -~ ._ vidual research with- the “outside Although at -first it ~might not world.’ and thereby make the findseem to-be the ideal solutzn to ings meaningful not only to the_stumtiy, UW%Ontario Public Interest dent involved but to others also. 4 Reseah Group(OpIRG) has made The reasons for This rift between * some, strides to lessen t this the Classroom and the “real world” dichotomy by setting up research is caused mostly by the very nature studies, in d&junction with formal -’ of the education system which mili&urse work, which willinvolve the - -tat& against students wishing to ‘student and the- p&f&or with bring about .important changes - society’s .myriad -of problems. .The pharmaceutical industry, through a systematic investigation to social problems,. The nature of the law industry, - the regulatory the school system tends to peragencies, ,the -food industry, the petuare the un’derlying myth that political parties, the advertising ineducation is something- that the -; dustry, housing, the, education instudent obtains in much the same ’ dustry, the energy industry, labour witty that he/she purchases or con- -* relations *and workihig conditions, sumes any other product.‘ are only some of rhe projects that sees -‘_ OPIRG is trying to engage students The student the%_hir nself/herself as a consumer of a in. -* Getting an .ed&ation at uni-. @rsity is more than just attending .cou-ntless lectures, taking p&i’ic notes and sitting through’ endless exams. IQ something -more I than. just that, it’s something that can’t ‘be measuredin terms of grades and diplomas. It’s something-that makes a uni,~versity student feel the need anddesire to discuss the problems-fading the world today. And once discussing them, -to researchsand propose viable so1,utions.w hich might, in the long run, help/better contemporary society. -.

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Students can also individuahy . come to OPIRG-offices and conduct research projects they’re in: - terested in under -the guidance of Reprinted ‘b&i233e introduction to OPlRC’s;h~wsing project Which staff research coordinator Dave ‘< r. 3, difkrcy7t coeuise areas tikfe intefjsiv&x$earch by studen&- &n - _&obertson. “- ; - Te -” _, cytlinesj be&k. Th& findinips will fhen _be &piled in a major-housing report by OPIRG will ask UW viceOP@G st&fek Th,e project @ve$gates the following ~reas:&mand and ‘- president academic Tom Brzussu@ply; the housing industry; the fjn;ince s&or; the state (federal, provin_ to-wski in the near future to see cd, regional Zmd municipal governments); cbnstruction labor; and pop&$ whether three proposedcourses on social action mbvementi. ,’ . - _ I _ , -industrial health hazards and houss /‘ ing can be initiated in the fall term. .’ As for-action, Moore said the OF- - y At a superficiaITeve1, the ‘&& government watch:dog agencies ganization is maintaining constant mon man” feels “he has an underplanners, and sensible develop: dialogue with labour &ions, standing of the housing “crisis”, ment -executives. It is a .matter of citizen’s groups, the Toronto De’ the factsand figures of the housing inefficiencies rather than any strutvelopment Education Centre and shortage. There is a sense of per- - tural inability of private enterprise the proOXFAM to gauge the impact of its ceiving some problemsin to-satisfy-real human needs. vision of housing- by private .com- ~_ Popular wisdom regarding research studies upon the nonthe _ parries for profit, butthese are more political economy is usually acuniversity tieommunitv. L -‘ ‘This ongoing relationship. can -0rganizational @&ions;‘-’ ‘bugs”. in -. determjine the kind- of research the system, all to be worked out by egn~inued on page

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The narrow ~highway connecting\ Nankingand Yangchou iSa.a maze of bicycles,: two-wheeled carts, and other slow-imoving vehicles #that challenge a bus >driver’s :patience.and overwork. the loud-horn- that helps clear :the way: Unusual obstacies include,a stretch*where ri@s spread!0 the SUP onhalf the black-topped roadway< ‘In fields along> the w thousands of men and wx&en w&kthe land with hoesand, othertools as their ancestors have for centuries. others with-baskets and shovels clean. silt from irrigation ditches, spreid- compost; scrape mud from canals and f&h ponds, andlevelfields. Water .buffalo sun th&%selves heraandthere, I and occasionally one. is seen .pulling a plow. p’ ’ The only evidence of mechanized faming in this typical rural ‘scene is Kiangsu Province are a few. tractors,: both smaI1 hand types and old Russian-made models, pulling carts along the road,‘$nd the overhead lines : that‘carry power to irrigation pumps and other rural electric outlets. Is this ~the&#&rlfural system the People’s.Republic ofChina relies on to produce food ‘for’ a, population estimated at between 800 and 900 million, and cl~iml$ng?IIow is starvation avoided with such :b*kward methods in a n&on with roughly &ie~fourth%f the world% pqople? What. about. diesel tr$ors and pesticides&edlots@d fertil@er tanks;cand other, scientificadvances that ~agribtisiness companies : tell us are yessent@ to; modern _ f-&&g? -*Lr I __ 1-‘,_ _ j _ 1. ’ .. ‘i ‘Answers to questions like these bega&&king &ape during-a visit to $$ngchou& l.ate January, probably the-&ost inf&mative p&t of a 15day ~~~~~~~~~al~~~~~Ya~~~~u had aprominent tilace on theschedule %tt&i& ‘,$i &ricult&& college: a research in&&e, and a huge. water + conservancy projectare all Iocate&ther%GWe weretold that we were the fust Americans to come to that area since the 1940s. b : Water’ project engineers explained how ~irrigation and flood conttol -&evelopments, now-protect most of dhina’s best cropland:, a tremendous &hievement in a country-plagued through history-by drought and devastating floods. A fast-developing-program of problem-solving research and technical assistanceto peopIe on the land was outlined by scier$sts at the, institu%-A?+.d professors at the college told how their students spend-time working on the commu.nes, with peasants evaluating their performance and submitting their gradesto the school. , ,My-conciusionfiom this at&e@&open&g vi&to the farming are& is that China, staggered by starvatiohand disease when it closed?ts borders to Westerners *more than 25 years ‘ago, has ;bu& astrong agriculture and appears now to be doing a good job of feeding itsPeople,. It has done this by tc -making agriculture its first prioi;it$? adopting .a system-thht &es&s pro- / ,; duc,tivity of the land rather than of labor, -and refusing to replace labor> .’ intensive practices proven overthe c~enturieb’withenergy=inQensive tech; ’ nology; .;! , ; k.. . ._ ’ :I .I , ,:’ I

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I -Mechanization is takinghold slowly, at least by AmeGagriculture: “Locally, there’s no such thing as a good or SELF-RELIANCE can standards, partly because an incredible amount of _bad farmer. Various farming regions may differ, but within skilled hand labor is available. Another reason is that the ’ a given locality the productivity on all lands has been - The-question of whether this agricultural approach is Chinese, seeing what has .happened in countries where raised to the same standard of excellence.” \ working no longer needs to be evaluated on the basis of farmers have become captives of high-energy fossil fuel . The scientific team headed by Dr. Wortman found that 6qd.s from Peking. A-recent study published by the U.S. systems, have decided to commit, as little of these nonthe Chinese had developed high-yield, dwarf rice varieties ‘government __ that Chinese peasants and highly.-----7 --- shows that are similar to the “miracle rice” varieties developed mechamzed U.S. farmers now produce the sameBmount -_ renewable energy resources as possible to food production. The multiple cropping and relay planting, which are by the International Rice Research Institute. “Much of the of grain on roughly the same amount of land, and that more like gardening than farming, also do not lend them- * . rice we saw would clearly yield six to seven tons per.. China produces three times as many hogs. hectare,” he reported on his return. “That’s extraordinarThe Chinese reported last winter that they have had 13 _ selves to large machinery. It is estimated that 600 million people live in the coun- , ily good by world standards.” good crops in a row, an unprecedented record, and much tryside. Although many are not directly involved in farmThe research projects also-stress the need to keep food . of the credit is given to the extensive irrigation and draining, working instead in light industry or providing services ’ ’ free of chemicals and to create an agricultural environment age ----- system. - -~- Another -_-. -significant --. -- result of tamingthe rivers in barber shops or clinics or similar places, they are availathat will endure indefinitely. The projects incude work on and developmg these water projects has beenthe ability to better methods of controlling weeds without chemicals, of ble if needed on an emergency. basis to help plant or barshift gradually from two to three crops a year-usually two vest a crop. The communes, however, have now begun propagating and releasing beneficial insects, of developing of rice and one of wheat in much of eastern China-with insecticides made from herbs,‘of improving strains of bacsupplementing this vast labor force by purchasing some important gains in total output. large Chinese-built tractors ranging up to 110 horse) teria added to the soil to speed decomposition of crop This doublingup is nothing new in China, where mulpower. residues, and of expanding an extensive program of biologtiple cropping and relay planting have been bracticed for . More popular, however, is the small “hand tractor,” aical control of insects. They reported good results with centuries. Crops are planted between the rows before ear- ’ powerful two-wheeled walk&g unit that can be maneubreeding “nurseries” turning out millions of bugs to attack lier crops are harvested and it is not unusual to see two or vered with ease over the small fields. These gasolineL and eat aphids, for example, and said the golden .bee remore crops growing together in the same fields. These r powered units, which also provide belt pulley power for leased several years ago has been effective in controlling combinations include fruit trees and vines, which are also small rice threshers and similar equipment, have been the cotton boll weevil.. planted around chicken and hog pens to utilize manure mass produced since 1964 at Tractor. Works No. 1 in washed away fiom,feeding areas- and to provide summer Shanghai and elsewhere. This tractor probably wouldn’t shade. Food is also<produced on all vacant areas in the BREAKING THE CYCLE selI .in America because-it isn’t much to look at. But the cities and, as one recent visitor put it: “Almost anyone in ‘factory manager emphasized that it was designed by enCan this strong commitment to agriculture be sustained China can walk out the door of his home and see where his gineers’who spend their summers out on the communes, is next meal is coming from.“in a country like China where there clearly are needs for just what the peasants ordered, and will be redesigned Althdugh most of China’s arable land has been farmed ,ddvelopment of heavy industry and other sectors of the anytime they decide they want something else. intensively for 30 to 40 centuries, the fertility of the soil haseconomy? One can only conclude that the total invoIvement of people in this effort, and the painful memories many have of starvationin the past, will make it possibleto maintain this momentum. There is no need in China to remind people where food comes from or for direct farmer-consumer marketing arrangements aimed at easing the economic strangleholdof a highly concentrated food industry. It is likely that more people have first hand knowledge of agriculture in China that anywhere else in the world. Even the soldiers in China are required to produce most of their own foodson their own bases. _ All high- school students are required to complete courses in agriculture, for example, and all city people in China spend one month every two years working on a commune as a kind of sabbatical. A large proportion of the high school graduates*lso work on communes for a year or two during the period when they are making arrangements. to enter an apprenticeship program, enrol1 at a university, or. take some other kind of training. Another strength is the commune system itself, which has retained some personalincentives not usually found in a communal society. It includes, a system of work credits for laboron the land, sharing of profits from other commune enterprises ,, and the small private lots.where rural families produce most of their own f 4 , keep a pig and some duas or chickens, and are able to sell whatever produce they can spare on the open market. The rural commune typically covers an area the size of a Midwest rural county, involves anywhere from 15,000 to 50,000 people, and is set up much like a large farming cooperative. The communes are organized into brigades, which do most of the accounting. and handle things like _ leasing machinery, and work teams which are made up of 20 to 30 families in a neighborhood who work the land in been maintained through a self-renewing type of agriculcommon. ’ ’ . TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS ture that uses the full range of organic fertilizers. An imThe Lou-Tang Commune, one of the 190 in the Shangportant source through the ageshas been “night soil;‘, the The input that farmers make in tractor design is just one - ‘hai area, is a Itypical .example with,; 15 brigades and 138 . example of the emphasis on exposure of scientists to.farhuman waste that is composted and put on the(fields in all production teams working a total of 2,400 hectares of land. mers and farmers to-scientists. The Chinese peasant may> . ’ .-Asian countries. Other important fertilizer sources include This commune was set up in.1958 with about 24,QOO people look backward, particularly when he is guiding a plow city garbage, hauled to the country and composted, and in 5,770 households. Rice is grown on 50 percent of its behind a slow-moving water .buffalo, but he is actually the rich mud reclaimed from the bottom of canals and fish land, cotton on 45 percent, and vegetables on the remaininvolved in’s highly-organ&d program of agricultural ponds> when they are drained and cleaned in the winter der. It also produces about 36,000 hogs a year. The comb education that results in rapid adoption of new farming’ months. mune also has 24large tractors,, 120 walking tractors, and techniques. Livestock manure has always been a valuable fertilizer has 95 percent of its land under electrically-powered irrigar tion. source in China and the peasants, unlike big U.S. feedlot The director of the Agricultural Research Institute at provide such services as farm impleoperators, have never questioned whether it was -Yangchou, which was relocated there after years in an I The communes ment repair and maintenance, hospital services, manage“economical” to haul it out on the land. Manure will urban setting at Nanking, explained that-scientific farming ment for large dairy and other livestock enterprises, carbecome even more important now as the,result of a decigroups operate at the commune, brigade, and-work. team sion to try to increase hog production to a level of three pentry and blacksmith shops, and a wide variety of jobs in levels. “About one million people are directly involved in. pigs per acre of cropland., This ‘decision appears sound light industry. Most of the peasants live either in the town our network of scieniific groups in Kiangsu Province,” he economically because pork produced for export is becomwhere the communeis headquartered, which is much like a’ said. “In that way r,esearch’results are adopted’promptly.” ing an important cash crop for the communes. There is county seat town in our rural areas, or in homes clustered Most of the institute’s research projects are on cornlittle doubt that the-pigs-per-acre goal will be reached in villages or scattered across the-countryside. A few have mune land where peasants. propose many of the projects, because pig manure is considered an excellent fertilizer by moved into new worker?apartments, making their former and watch the results. Seventeen problem research ten./’ the peasants, fresh pork moves well in the city markets, mud homes availa_ble for conversion to livestock shelter. ters are set aside for crop experimentation. Both profesand hogs are being used increasingly ‘to consume the ‘byThis system also makes it possible to implement a policy sors and technical people carry the program of experimenl .- of keeping people on the land and avoiding t he’kind of mass products of food milling and processing. tationpopularization, and demonstration to rural areas. ‘At the Red Star People’s Commune near Peking, for movement to the citiesAhat has caused such critical social This was verified in a question-and-answer session with I example, by-products @om a milk drying plant and a grain and economic problems in Third World cities, not to menmilling facility were providing all.the feed needed for 1,600 Sun Ping-Sheng, responsible member of the office at the : . tion our own metropolitan ,areas. The light industry being Evergreen People’s Commune near Soochowi “We are hogs. In a similar setup at Lou-Tang-People’s Commune ~ developed in rural areas is the kind that is labor intensive northwest of Shanghai, hogs were getting the by-products stressing scientific farming methods by shortening time of - and that can operate as more jobs are available in winter ’ from a plant turning out sweet ‘potato starch noodles. s ‘.~ growing, raising ‘outpuk per unit; and popularizing short- : ’ months when farm work is slow. The emphasis is on things term crops,” he told us. “We have agri-technicians in Using hogs as waste disposal units in this way, of course, is . like basket weaving, fan and rug making, and hand emevery brigade and production team and they work together a modern slant on the centuries-old practice of having a pig broidery that utilize skills handeddown through the generwith commune members to be sure this technology works in every backyard to consumel household garbage and ations and that turn out beautiful items that can go into the \ . .and is adaptable.” other edible wastes. export market and-provide a good cash return for the As more and more land is triple-cropped, however, orcommune. Also emphasized are silk! and tea production, ) Production ‘problems that appear are researched ganic fertilizer’sources fall short of requirements and it is promptly, mainly because the Yangchou institute’s -t‘open both traditional cash crops that involve a tremendous necessary. to -supplement them with inorganic plant foods. ‘door policy” keeps its staff on a@ree-year rotation, They . amount of hand labor. About\ 800 small fertilizer -plants are now in operation spend one year doing research at the institute, another China does not yet aim to be the breadbasket of Asia. making ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer from water and working. on research projects while living and 1working The hard-won miracle of the past 25 years has been more coaI. China also is constructing ten large fertilizer plants with the peasants, and the third ye&“‘ouring the province x ’ immediate and basic than that. Commune by commune, with a capacity >of a tho&and tons a day and these are to gather information on problems to be researched and to China has become a nation oflocal breadbaskets, economexpected to be op,erational in about two years. The share research findings through adult education classes. ically interdependent and yet at the same’ time selfChinese have plenty of natural gas for nitrogen fertilizer It is obvious to a visitor that China has been tremendsufficient. With a commitment- -by, thewholesociety to manufacturing, but for now, atleast, they indicated they ously@ecessfulin ‘technology adoptedat thefarm -share both its r&sources and its lab&, it would’ seem that, 1 _- _ __ .- getting .’ will;use. it _’ only as needed tosupplement the traditional ,

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The. housing. crisis: \ I A’ who’s to *blame?by Michae! Gordon

7Each year camptis housing offices are jammed with students in search of a roof over their heads. The housing lists are quidkly reduced to the dregs whose landlords live downstairs and want to run your life. Most students do find housing eventually but quite often the rooms are small, poorly painted, smell, and have accompanying exorbitant rents-in other words accommodation which is’ inferior and price-wise, a rip-off. To Kitchener-Waterloo landlords; students, after pets, are the least desirable. This quickly forces students to grab accommodation that most people in Kitchener would not accept. Many students are renting houses or apartments for the month of August to ensure they will have accommodation in September. One student checked the newspapers finding that either the accommodation listed was gone or the landlord had a grudge against students. He then proceeded to phiine more than forty realtors and finally found,a house. Others are finding that landlords insist on having “references” from their previous landlords. Quite often these are next to impossible to obtain since the student has spent the stimmer months in another city. Experiences such as these are not uncommon and each year the indignation increases because of having to plead for housing from a landlord who thinks you have less stature than that of a dog or cat. ‘Ihe hotising problem is certainly not new% the students, the. UW administration and the various levels of government. As early as September 1968 a tent city fo! homeless students was set up in front of the Arts libr!ry. :That year’s housing crisis ended in a housing forum with well over 1,000 students &tending. Sound familiar? Last year’s September housing crisis necessitated the use of tents for temporary housing and another housing forum giving offlc;ials a chance to express their doubts over whether anything could be done about the problem. Waterloo MP, Max Saltsman (NDP) told an assorted group of homeless students that when he was a boy, students “had

to sleep in relatives kitchens”’ have a home of their own. Saltsman’s words are useful in coining the attitude of most government officials to the ever apparent housing crisis. Municipal, provincial and federal levels of government have been talking about their solutions to housing for years now. And yet each year groups such as students cannot find reasonable accommodation. This leads one th ask the questions: Are the government programmes working? The answer is a big NO! For you the student, these housing programmes the government introduces with huge splashes of urn-pah are of little benefit. The housing programmes have not been set up with your needs in mind. Firstly governments, especially the Canadian federal government have long used. housing as a “Keynesian lever” to prop up the economy when unemployment is high. .The federal government through its agency Central Mortgage. and Housing (CM)-IC)-administers and guarantees loans of capital to developers to produce a certain quantity of “housing I, starts”. In a politician’s head, the more starts he can achieve the less unemployment he’ll have to contend with in the next election-. The size, type5 location, price range of units is not their primary concern, unetiployment is. In fact the government is quite wary of even dabbling more that a toe i$o the complex-housing problem. Until recently, CMQC’s main function was to guarantee mortgages and loans being borrowed from established Iending institutions, to build housing. In other words, the government took the risk for the lending institution of not obtainisng loan repayment and the lending institutions were guaranteed a profit. . .a cosy relationship at best. M,ost of the loans went to build single family middle income homes _ out of reach of those who could hardly scrape together their rent. Since this’ loan agreement was established in 1954 more than sixty percent of the housing fhe government was involved in, was financed in this manner. Although during the secon,d world war the federal gov-

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ernment initiated and devel6ped much badly needed cheap housing the government now wants only the role of approving and guaranteeing loans for the development industry. The government leaves the type of housing to the determination of the development industry whose only incentive is to make “profit” , not reasonable, inexpensive housing that guarantees Canadians housing needs are hl: filled, In response to the growing liberalization of North American society during the sixties the government undertook public housing projects in most major centres in Canada. The projects consisted of for the most part, highrise towers that were supposed to house families. The most frightening aspect of the federal governments api preach to the problem for the poor resident were the mas- 1 sive “slum” clearances. Middle-class CMHC bureaucrats ‘, pitied the “poor” people who had to live in “slums”. Little did they realize how strong the -attachments poor people had to their homes, m&tly tightly packed singlefamily housing. Federal officials felt they were doing the residents a favour by maying them from the small.deteriorated houses to the much more institutionalized apartment towers that were much less desirable for bringing up small children. The federal government’s sad attempt at providing housing for the poor finally exploded in a d&put& in Toronto. CMHC was attempting to construct more high-rise public housing towers on Trefann Court, a neighbourhood located in ‘Toronto’s working-class’ Cabbagetown area. Local residents quickly organized a citizen’s group to stall and hopefully stop the high-rise project. After months of haggling with Ottawa.officials, the residents were victorious. They forced the government to let them work on a working committee to design new housing for the area. After several years’ work the residents came up with a proposed row of small town houses to be built in an area which the group had collectively decided needed rehabilir tation.

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. ..more on the housing crisis The Trefann Court residents were perhaps more successful than they had hoped. The debacle, debate and controversy focussed attention on the ridiculous public housing schemes the government had come up with. Meanwhile, in 1968, the federal liberal government appointed a new minister responsible for housing, Paul Hellyer. Hellyer undertook a nation wide tour of public housing and other housing projects in Canada. The Task Force was particularly critical oflarge high density public housing projects. The high-rise projects were labelled “ghettoes of the poor” by the Task Force. CMHC began to take-a tougher stand with the provinces who were responsible for the project size, site planning and design. The province most directly affected was Ontario. Ontario had argued strongly for a continuation of the massive highrise housing projects because the high cost of land, especially in Toronto, made highrise development “the only economical solution”. Also at this time the development industry which was constructing the public housing was gearedup to build high-rises. The provincial government’s agency, the Ontario Housing Corporation which is responsible for buying and developing land for housing in Ontario for the most part ignored Hellyer’s suggestions and continued on its own with high-rise housing. Another important point brought up by Hellyer was his belief in the ability of the private development market to design, develop and build housing which filled the needs of Canadian residents. His report called for the rationalization of the housing market to ensure the continued profitability of housing projects. He felt the major reason why the housing was not being built was because of the scarcity of capital for such projects. Hellyer called for an increase of mortgage rates from their already high levels, and longer periods to pay off the loans. In other words Hellyer did criticize the development industry for their high-rise projects which were backed by public funds but then his solution was to provide the property industry with more capital to build better housing. This type ofgovernment policy clearly explains why housing is so expensive and is inflating in price. The government encouraged the development industry to increase the interest rates to pay for housing which left the Canadian resident with the prospect of carrying an emerging nationwide industry on their backs. Hellyer was clearly an ideological cousin of the development industry. He added a second set of recommendations calling for “the rationalization of the development industry”. It was his belief that “the present system for assembling and servicing land in much of urban Canada is irrational in concept and inefficient in practice”. Hellyer’s solution was the vertical integration of smaller companies into larger companies to ensure planning could be done on a “rational basis”. Translated, rational basis meant assured profits for the development industry, already making a 20 to 30 percent profit on their invested capital. Furthermore, the report called for the return of public housing to the private sector by attempting to-house all people in their own homes. Finally Hellyer pulled the plug on student housing. After examining the costs of student housing Hellyer decided the students were being over subsidized and few residences were built thereafter. In conclusion the Hellyer report offered little in the way of public low income housing. UW students are now suffering from the shortage of low income housing because reports such as the Hellyer report strongly recommended against public housing in any shape or form. Certainly the high-rise public housing

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projects were not adequate housing, but the answer to the increasing shortage of low income housing was not to leave it to the development industry who had traditionally ignored low income housing because of its low profitability. increased awareness of low inThe government’s come housing shortages did lead to a CMHC report on low income housing in Canada. The reportfauthored by Michael Dermis, now housing commissioner for Toronto mayor David Crombie, and Susan Fish was so damning that CMHC refused to publish the report. The report blasted CMHC’s low income housing programmes and its use of housing as a Keynesian tool to stabalize the economy. It gave priority to housing as a social policy rather than as an economic tool. The report identified the unfairness of the present development set-up where developers gain super profits on land because land inflates in value after the government has used taxpayer’s money to service the lots with sewer and water lines. Within a city the servicing of an area of land immediately inflates the value of the land 30 to 50 percent. The developer and owner of the land is able to reap profits from this increase and yet he has not improved the land and put any investment funds into improving the land. Dennis and Fish also proposed a shelter allowance for 10-w income families who cannot afford adequate housing. Their report stated that in 1967 approximately 400,000 low income households (approximately 1.2 million persons) spent on the average in excess of 40 percent of their incomes for housing alone. When household operation, telephone, furnishings and equipment are added the report stated, the percentage is more than 50 percent. Compounding the problem is the fact that almost 50 percent of these low income houses were renting accommodation. Not only were these tenants plagued by high shelter-to-income ratios and poor physical conditions, but also tenants do not have the security of tenure since most are without leases. Most certainly, students are within this group. Say a student saves $2,000 during the summer to live on during the eight months of school. This gives him or her, $250 a month. A “cheap” two bedroom apartment would cost at least $180 a month. Divided two ways and adding expenses for utilities, telephone and household expenses, the student could be spending between 40 and 50 percent of his or her income on housing. Meanwhile persons in the top income brackets (the highest 40 percent of income) are spending on the average less than 10 percent of their income on housing. At the same time the government through CMHC has spent an estimated 80 percent of their mortgage funds on building suburban middle to high

income housing. In effect the government subsidizes the rich and wealthy homeowners with single family homes while those at the bottom end of the ladder are having great trouble finding adequate housing they can afford. Dennis and Fish’s solution to this problem was the provision of a shelter allowance for those who were spending too high a proportion of their incomes on housing. Dennis and Fish accepted some redistribution of income via the allowances however this adds one undesirable element: the government is telling people they must spend the funds on housing, not for the needs they themselves consider more beneficial. The authors of the report are quite unconcerned about this paternalism. However, this is the difficulty liberals often get into when they propose solutions to a problem.-Both the Hellyer, and Dennis and Fish reports accept the development industry as the only way to develop the nation’s housing. None of the reports hint at any kind of nationalization of the industry even though the poor are being gouged by the property industry in the form of exorbitant rents and rent increases. Public ownership .of development would be most desirable as a tool for effective planning and as a means to recapture for the community the “unearned increment” in land value which is entirely due to actions and investments by the community. Housing is one of the three basic needs of Canadians, and certainly when the property industry development industry is not fulfilling those needs then a society cannot tolerate such activity-. Historically the development industry has not served the needs of Canadian society. First, the industry is profit-oriented not need-oriented. This is a fact of capitalism. The industry will not invest capital in certain types of housing when other types of housing yield more of a profit. Developers discovered during the late sixties it was more profitable to build up with high-rises, rather than out with single family housing. Increasingly in the sixties, a large white collar sector of workers were working in office towers in the downtown cores of major metropolitan centres. This factor was a ready and willing market for the high-rise apartments. However at the same time the working class and the unemployed weren’t a profitable high-rise market unless the developer could obtain government subsidies for the housing. Also the development industry was and still is involved in block busting in working-class neighbourhoods where they were building the luxury highrises quite out of reach of the local low income residents. So little housing was geared to low income groups. In 1970 the federalgovernment admitted that despite the public housing they had built during the sixties, “the number of low income families, individuals, and elderly people being excluded from a free choice on the open market, continued to grow”. It was obvious that housing investment capital was following the most profitable route to the development of luxury accommodation. This year in Waterloo students are faced with many landlords wanting to turn monthly rental apartments into “condominiums:‘, which are owned by the tenant. Just as students are not able to afford the high costs of a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, other low income persons do not have the resources for the purchase of an apartment. The landlord can earn back his investment much faster than if he rented the apartment. The need for the investor to obtain as high and quick return for his investment sacrifices the. low income student’s housing needs, all in the name of profit. Secondly, the development industry is building less quality into their housing. Developers justify the cost cuts on materials, design and innovation to keep the price of housing down. However this justification is faulty at best. A developer’s primary motive is to receive as high a return on his investment of capital as possible. Housing that is of low quality deteriorates much faster than the staid old homes found in downtown areas. One local developer who works for Cambridge Leaseholds estimates his houses will last twenty years at the-outside. In an interview he explained his logic: “If a house is falling apart in twenty years it’ll look bad and dirty, local residents will complain about the deteriorating quality and want newer housing. Then we step in and build something bigger, like a high-rise, and may I add much more profitable than a single family house. ’ ’ Obviously this person is not concerned about providing housing that fulfills the needs of the community, he is only interested in his own investment and profit. The .federal government has made attempts to build low cost housing for low income residents beyond their aborted high rise public housing projects. The federal government realized funding pri-

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ade 20 to 30 percent , documented. In 1970 federal liberal cabinet minister Ron Basford had committed the government to lot be a good idea use as much as 30 achieving 200,000 housing starts. The same year the mortgage market tightened considerably and it ap; for their own profit peared that only 160,000 housing starts would be e polls. So CMHC achieved. Basford scrambled for a solution and their “Limited Dicame up with a $200 ‘million disaster, “the innovaas to fund private tive, low-cost housing programme”. er income persons I. Housing was built Although the government introduced the progIf the needed capital ramme with great fanfare, the idea was basically an I the developer that “innovative high profit housing programme”. The the project. But one programme did not produce the expected 40,000 y which can easily windfall of new houses. In fact only 14,100 were want to be involved produced with eight corporations receiving 35 percent of the windfall. One disgruntled CMHC staff y able to earn these member told Dennis and Fish “The only thing in1 the CMHC rules.’ novative about innovative housing is the profit.” fidential CMHC reThe goals CMHC set out to achieve through the of the programme. programme were innovations in: tenure, sponsorcut costs in the proship of housing, integration of lower and middle : to put up the extra income groups, economic land uses, building ickly increased the methods, and financial arrangements. However a bercent. Many times review by CMHC and reported in an unreleased t wrongly that costs report found an epidemic of dilapidated igswould have to be developments -cheap materials, poor finishing, falrs who were vertiling plaster, cramped space, lack of landscaping, no 1 the planning and recreation areas or other community amenities crube done at cheaper cial to the well-being of the family. uld give to smaller their own planning CMHC officials were hopelessly out of touch w,ith :s is long and yet the the builders and the buildings that were being 2 to alter the progfunded. And once again it was after the $200 million had been blown on the developments that CMHC lent disaster in the discovered the whole project had been a disappointlsing has been well ing failure.

Still, CMHC does hold the key to solving the present housing crisis. CMHC has capital, in total assets exceeding $6.6 billion dollars, making it almost, as large as the chartered banks. In 1974 its budget spending increased 50 percent to $1.“5 billion dollars from its 1973 level. What does CMHC do with all this money? Most of the funding has gone to financing upper and middle income housing in the suburbs surrounding every metropolitan centre in Canada. CMHC funding has not been concentrated where it’s badly needed, in the low income sector of Canadian society. Until now CMHC has maintained a cosy relationshi,p with private developers. The current president of CMHC is William Teron, formerly one of the ten most powerful developers in Canada. The liberal party granted the presidency to Teron because he managed to obtain Toronto harbourfront land for a park. The liberal party was able to make the announcement of the park during the 1972 federal election. No doubt the relationship between developers and the liberal party is one of: “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”. CMHC bureaucrats continue to pooh-pooh such ideas as Co-op Housing and Non-Profit housing developments and refuse to promote them. As early as 1944 the federal Curtis Committee on Housing recommended the federal government concentrate on co-op housing. In such projects a group of people would-agree to collectively build housing for themselves. During the 1950’s the federal housing agency supported the activities of building co-operatives which built only single family dwellings. No multiple, rental dwellings could be built. No support was given to continuing co-operatives, non-profit selfhelp groups which wanted to be owned collectively and rented to individuals. They were denied any kind of preferred rates, though quite legally they could offer it to them. CMHC still refuses to grant funds until they are satisfied that at least 80 percent of the units will beoccupied by co-operative members. Dennis and Fish noted in their review of low income housing that non-profit organizations “are not welcomed at CMHC with the enthusiasm’ reserved for builderdevelopers”. Apparently CMHC officials feel nonprofiters are “amateurs”. They find dealing with them “requires patience”. After all at CMHC the most important matter in their heads is to get as many housing starts going at once and non-profiters only put up at most one hundred units. The CMHC attitude toward non-profit cooperative housing is reflected in a report from their policy advisors: The home isa very private thing and anything to do with one’s own private home is best kept independent and separate from the friendly contact with neighbours. . . . . .I can’t think of anything more likely to jeopardize this kind of stability of family life than becoming involved in a venture of co-operative housing”. And so the funding of the only alternative to buying houses from the development industry has been minimal. Both British Columbia and Quebec have built the most non-profit housing, notably more than Ontario, even though this province has a much larger population. In short, co-op and non-profit housing has never gotten off the ground because CMHC does not favour it. Because CMHC’s policy advisors are dominated by a group of men who favour development and housing through the regular channel of capitalism. Co-operative and non-profit housing are a challenge to the success of the development industry because co-operative and non-profit housing is

cheaper than housing bought and sold in the market place. However it appears the marketplace is having a hard time providing students with a decent place to live. Government agencies who some believe to be serving the interests of our society, are not. Not only students, but all low income persons are facing the same struggle to find adequate housing. Landlords these days do not want pets, students or young children. All across Kitchener-Waterloo students hear the same thing each September: “We would prefer a couple.” Many wonder: “Why me?” First, students are a minority in this town and couples are not. All students get singled out as .an identifiable minority by most landlords. Within this group there are admittedly a small number who trash apartments and houses and establish a reputation for students as “a risk”. Secondly, students are still at the bottom rung of the economic ladder and generally have low incomes. As discussed earlier the government has been ignoring low income housing as a priority for many years. CMHC officials insist this housing is provided for by the “trickle-down” theory. The trickle-down theory is working in most cities where older middle-class housing is slowly converted to rooming houses and/or divided into apartments for low income housing. Around most downtown cores there is a ring of such low income housing, beyond this ring as the housing becomes more modern, more and more middle to higher income neighbourhoods are found. Students, when looking for housing, are generally relegated to this area. Run-down old homes and divided houses become the student’s home because he or she can afford nothing more substantial because of his or her low income. During the late sixties and early seventies Waterloo grew about 50 percent in population. In’ effect this excluded University of Waterloo students from having a large selection of older homes that have trickled down to the low income groups. This has left the UW student forced to find newer accommodation in the brand new townhouses of Lakeshore Village. Of course landlords were after tenants who would be there more than eight months a year and so the new townhouses were not immediately available to students. Most landlords either had a quota of townhouses that could be rented to students and once this quota was filled it was too bad for the homeless students. This year the largest owner of townhouses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Major Holdings, is not renting to students. Another landlady who controls 600 units has pulled all of them off the student market. Throughout the housing industry this year’s housing starts are as much as 50 percent below last year’s levels. Because the new accommodation is not being built middle-class families are not continuing their exodus from the city core to the suburbs. Less old housing is being made available to low income groups and the student is even more squeezed to find housing. There is very little older housing in Waterloo and many students are forced into an hour bus ride to Kitchener to find the older housing that is available to students. Students will be in a real jam this year. The housing list numbers a skimpy five pages, only a month before students arrive. Students are not the victim of some unknown devious depression which has slowed the construction of new housing. Students are the victims of a federal-government that is happy to ensure the housing industry has a feathered bed of loans and capital grants. Meanwhile, low income groups in our society, which includes the student, wni contmue to be left with the dregsand discards of other people’s houses.

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The 1 housing \crisis: some I solutions ,

How does one solve a housing crisis? Governments, tenants, homeowners, and other critics of the government all have their own solutions which they insist are better than others. We’ve been exposed to the federal government’s band-aid solutions which involve notliing more than ensuring a certain number of housing starts per year. Meanwhile, the government ignores-the problems of half our society not being able to afford the housing that is built. The preceding three pages examined the federal government, its-agency CMHC in its att?mpts to solve the housing crisis and one can conclude they have consistently failed. Foes and critics offer other solutions, some good and some not so good,. Conservatives, such as Ontario provincial premier Davis have answered the problems of skyrocketing rents with “Rent Review Boards”. The review boards are quite harmless to the gouging landlord but certainly of little hope to the tenant. The review boards have no power to roll back rents. Provincial housing mnister, Donald Irvine, who announced the plan several weeks ago insists the review boards will work through the “shame” mechanism. Should a tenant complain to the board of what he or she feels is an exorbitant rent increase, then the review board will consider the fairness of the increase. If the board decides the increase is too much then, Irvine feels confident, the rent can be decreased by publicising the increase in the surrounding community. h-vine e ‘pects the landlords will quickly lose prospective t/i .Iants because of the bad publicity. : Irvine almost certainly has never been a tenant. Tenants are at the mercy of the landlord because low vacancy rates in the community’s housing, force the tenant to accept almost anything he or she can lay his or her hands on. No amount of shaming can force a landlord to not rent out the housing at a high rent if someone is willing to pay the rent. Because-of low vacancy rates just these landlords can continue to gouge tenants. There is no review board slated for KitchenerWaterloo, even though Ontario officials are quite aware of the student housing problem in this community. Indivi&Jals in a community can request a review board for their city if their vacandy rates are low enough. As yet there has been no such action taken in KitchenerWaterloo. It appears militant tenants already know how worthless this board will be. In Kitchener we have the Tenant Advisory Board, which is run by the local regional government. Once again this board has no power to roll back.rents and the regional government is- not after this jurisdiction. At present the advisory board only counsels tenants on their rights and any other questions the tenant may have. A more effective method of reducing rents is via rent controls. Vancouver has already introduced rent con-

nationalized. Even the NDP governments in British a reasonably successful rent control programme for Columbia, and Saskatchewan and Manitoba have made several years. no move in the direction of nationalizing land. However 1,Fontradictions do appear when rent controls are intioduced. Quite often vacancy rates in the Nationalization should not necessarily be cornered in community decrease to even lower levels. Smaller landjust the land sector of construction costs. Certainly all lords will pull their housing off the market if they feel sectors of the housing industry are in need of nationali.they are not receiving a high enough return for their zation. It is quite evident that the housing industry is investment. Rent controls are not a long term solution unable, within the rules of capitalism, to offer cheap, to a housing crisis. In some ways the rent controls only reasonable housing. The housing industry is not needworsen the situation for the tenant. The private housing oriented but is profit-oriented, and no amount oflegislamarket simply cannot bear the contradiction of trying to tion can reduce capitalism’s orientation. The tenant attain as a high areturn on invested capital as possible and the homeowner have for years been victimized by a and still contend with rent controls which limit the housing industry that offers no alternative but to take investment return. If the investment is limited in one I the housing it offers, even though it is quite beyond the sector of the economy, eg. housing, and left unlimied means of the tenant or homeowner. The number of and uncontrolled in another sector, eg. oil industry, homeowners in Canada who are paying off 20 to 30 year then capital will be drawn increasingly away from the mortgages on their homes because the previous landhousing sector. After some time this process will snowowner decided to triple or quadruple the land’sselling ball and then vacancy rates will plunge downward even price is appalling. This situation will continue for many more. In the long run this liberal solution does little to years because nice guys in the Liberal, Conservative help the tenant’s situation. and New Democrat parties are unable to deal with this In the CMHC paper on low income housing, Michael situation. Dennis and Susan Fish suggest another liberal solution However, the tenant or homeowner can take action. to the housing problem. Although the report admitted Across the country local residents and tenants are form“it is clear that in terms of housing price and quality, ing unions to fight landlords and government action. neighbourhood services and tenurid rights, it is the There is a potential for organizing within several buildpoor and the moderate households who bear the brunt ings owned by the same corporate latidlord and then of our haphazard system for providing housing,” Dencalling rent strikes. When 400 or 500 tenants are united nis and Fish insist on leaving the provision of’housing in action the landlord is not able to evict everyone and in private hands. They do express concern that more must consider their demands. In Britain several unions aid in housing will flow directly to the housing producer have taken over whole buildings, run them corather than to the user and conclude that our society operatively ynd then excluded the landlord. . must redistribute income-a good proposal. However Also in Britain the squatter movement ha,s grown the method of this redistribution gives the goverhent quite strong. For years the British governtient has left control over individuals’ lives. whole neighbourhoods of houses empty, waiting for The redistribution would come in the form of ihelter demolition. Squatters move into the houses and refuse allowance doled out to tenants according to their ability to leave. The government and the police have found to pay for their housing and their housing needs. The themselves powerless to stop the squatters. Many government tells the recipients that they must spend the houses in Kitchener-Waterloo have been left empty for money on housing, rather than allowing the individual several years, but few squatters have t&ted the present to decide his or her own needs. This type of paternalism law. One UW student moved into her new house to find does not breed a healthy society and creates a world of several people who had previously lived there but had hangers-on who cannot properly run their own lives paid no rent. Even though she was paying rent on the because of the paternalism of the state. home and they were not, she was powerless to ask them Another way of narrowing the gap between housing to leave. Perhaps the laws of the land cannot contend r needs and the ability to pay would be to nationalize with such action, but people should not victimize unwilland, or at least control the sale of land. This is one ling residents. I method being considered by the more radical housing bureaucrats who want to avoid eradicating capitalism in However, most of the solutions are more on a longer the development industry. One measure the governterm basis and of little help to homeless students who ment could introduce would be the extensive expropriarrive on campus in September. For these students there are several alternatives. First, find a friend whi> ation and public land banking of a majority of the dehas a living room to spare. Another suggestion could be velopable land surrounding a city. the lounges in the Philip St. Co-op. During my days at This proposition would be expensive for the ‘taxthe co-op, students were allowed to sleep in the lounges payer. Land prices average five to ten thousand dollars and no residents hassled them. I’d suggest you ask per acre. Defenders of this strategy insist that only a people on the floor about their own feelings and most large enough portion of local land to control land prices likely something can be worked out. You will be less -would have to be retained. welcome in the Village lounges but they are worth a try Anoiher, more, radical land proposal suggest the too. The Campus Centre has many reasonable comcomplete nationalization of all land ownership. Cerfortable couches in the darkened alcoves. Be sure to tainly this would be, cheaper for the taxpayer and likely check in with the turnkey. Some turnkeys might hassle the more effective. For years landowners have earned you but most will be happy to accommodate you for a exorbitant rent from simply holding onto a piece of few evenings. There are several decent areas to camp in land. A land owney’s land increases in value due to the , the North Campus of the university, although several surrounding development of other land. Land takes its friends of mine found it got :+1:it cold around Thanksgivgreatest leap in value when the community’s taxpayers’ ing. Don’t forget the Nee,.iles Hall and Fed Housing money pays for the servicing sf the landowners’ land. offices in the Campus Centre, they just might have The landowner receives superprofits when he sells the something. land, and_yet he has made no productive contribution to the land. Certainly the nationalization of land would Do?‘t give up hope. At warst you might spend Sepreduce the most expensive sost of housing, but the tember without a home or even a roof over your heads. opposition to such a measure from the property indusBut by October the housing situation does ease up try (with assets in the tens of billions of dollars) would somewhat although you’ll likely find the accommodabe a hard lobby to fight in Ottawa. One can almost tion unreasonably expensive and inconvenient. Whatcertainly say that as long as we have any oi’ the three and don’t let the housing crisis get you down. major parties in power in Ottawa, land w.\J not be

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caverns, and of suspense at what will be found within. It is a well mixed piece. “Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua” follows, and is the only piece on the second side whose theme at all resembles that of Promenade. This is a very orchestral piece, the mellotion playing a large role. Next is “Baba Yaga (Hut on Fowl’s Legs)“, which closely resembles the version done by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. That is, except for the extreme treatment of electronics which Tomita includes. This song shows that he has complete range control of his instruments, from the most powerful bass notes up to the highest trebles. The last, and longest piece is “Great Gate of Kiev”. This is always the most dynamic song in the “Pictures At An Exhibition” composition, and Tomita follows suit. It is certainly the most beautiful piece on this album. The piece is so powerful throughout, so totally encompassing, and yet it saves power back so that the end comes in a beautiful but all too soon climax. Great Gate of Kiev has always left me wanting a bit more of the ecstacy which it encompasses. This is a beautifully written song, and Tomita has performed it well. End of the album. Tomita’s musical style is still growing up. He is still experimenting, with the result being that at times this album seems disjointed, jerky, and unpolished. Whatever flaws within, it does represent a serious and talented interpretation of a good composition. Isao Tomita is becoming more popular and with this encouragement he will most probably explore these electronic instruments to a degree that we have ’ ,= never seen before. It should be quite interesting.

romita P&tired ‘ictures At An Exhibition ‘omita Once again someone has interpreted and e-recorded Moussorgsky’s Pictures At An Mibition, with their own unique twist to . In the past we have seen this piano comosition performed by various pianists, by ~11 orchestras, by the rock musicians !merson, Lake and Palmer; and now it is ‘electronically created” by Isao Tomita. Tomita has one previous album re:ased, entitled Snowflakes Are Dancing, ‘be Newest Sound of Debussy. The title of ris album adequately describes its con!nt. Though I have never heard this album have been told that it is a good piece of rork. Other achievements to his name are riginal musics for certain Japanese televi10n programs. Tomita performs his versions of the Pictures” on $150,000 worth of synthsizers, mellotrons, organs, keyboards, ignal generators, amplifiers, mixers, hasers, recording equipment, and various ther electronic music makers. It is his opinion that, at present, there are o true masters of electronics, as there are iolin masters, concert pianists and so on. omita appears t.o view the true nature of iectronics as being somewhat different tan many people before have. He states tat the true nature of the synthesizer is yet ) be determined. The result of this is that usicians become disoriented and contsed. They employ the instrument as an nitator of other instruments, or else their 3e of electronics simply results imnoise. In a sense I agree with Tomita on this oint, as I am certain that there are many ;pects of these machines which are still to : discovered. Ibelieve that pure musicians ?these instruments will spend much more me exploring the possibilities that are av-. lable. The machinery is incredibly inJlved, and is getting more complicated as chnology improves. Considering comlterization of keyboards and synthesizs, and the programming of these, the posbilities are becoming greater all the time. should be quite interesting when and if a pure” form can be determined for the ectronic instruments. Even considering the ground yet to be lvered I should say that I have been quite tpressed.by the electronic works that we Ive seen to date. Already there have been Ime true artists of this musical form. Tomita’s music is generally very precise rd sharp. He rarely plays the keyboards such, but rather his style is to employ pnals, beeps, buzzes, and tones in comnations that result in musical sounds and elodies. He is constantly fading in and out uious electronic sounds in such a manner at they result in a total musical composiIn. “Pictures At An ExhibiIn recreating In” Tomita has used all of the established ricks” ,of Electronic music. These inJde phasing of signals, creation of orLestral and choir-like sounds, creation of lo vocalists, powerful scale runs, wind neration, and so on. He also has included ose cold electronic beeps and buzzes that re associates with computer banks, or ience fiction films. It is difficult, if not impossible, to’deribe the actual flow of Tomita’s “Picres At An Exhibition”. I think it better to st try to relate the feeling of the music; e flavourof it. Side One begins with “Promenade”, the le which holds the fabric of the total

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composition together. This is an orchestral and choir piece which is repeated between-the other themes in order to maintain con- tinuity to the total structure. It is followed by “The Gnome”, a quick choppy piece of phased buzzes, wind recreations land electronic bleeps. After another helping of Promenade comes “The Old Castle”, a slow, bassy, melodic piece. The Old Castle is, for me, one of the best songs on this album. It carries an electronic depth which is truly expressive of this piece’s theme. We hear‘ more of Promenade and then “Tuileries”, a short bouncy treble recreation. This is followed by “Bydlo”, a piece which brings to mind images of vast armies marching; confident, with purpose, many people as one unit. It is similar in style to The Old Castle, yet with less variation in theme throughout. Our final sample of Promenade follows, and this time it is more

electronic than the previous orchestral versions. The last piece on the first side is “Ballet of _the Chicks in Their Shells”, a short fun song which really does bring up this image of baby chicks dancing. Tomita’s electronics and his treatment of the signal phasing are well done on this piece. The total pitch time on the fast side is 21 minutes and 14 seconds. + Side Two has a pitch tune of 20 minutes and 50 seconds. It begins with “The Two Jews”, a very withdrawn piece at the beginning; with a precisely phased bass bleep continually moving from side to side. This later changes to a treble bleep, (the second Jew). The piece alternates between the two basic signals, with a choir always on background. Next is “Limages/Catacombs”, another piece composed of two themes. The first is a very- quick percussion-like theme, while the second half conjures up

an album released around 1967, has recently been rereleased by Columbia. I don’t know precisely why they chose this time or this record for re-release, but they could have done a lot worse. The Byrds were one of the really fine groups to appear during the mid to late sixties. At least one reviewer, looking back, described them as “the first American supergroup”. The Beatles went to hear them, and Dylan, after listening to them perform his “Mr. Tambourine Man”, encouraged them to record it. “Mr. Tambourine Man” was The Byrds’ first hit single back in 1965, and it. gave Columbia Records their first charttopper since Steve Lawrence recorded “Go Away Little Girl” somewhere back in the dark ages. This was the beginning of the _ Byrds’ successes; which continued on through such hits as “Eight Miles High” land “My Back Pages”, the latter again borrowed from Dylan. The early Byrds, led by Jim McGuinn and consisting of David Crosby, Mike and Gepe Clark and Charlie Hillman injected something-of the freak into the previously staid and sterile atmosphere of Columbia, thus paving the way for other groups to follow and, incidentally, possibly laying some of the groundwork for the recent shake-up at Columbia Records. Probably fortunately for the music ‘industry but unfortunately for The Byrds themselves, their life as a group was not particularly long. Members began to break away to pursue their own interests, and the sound of The Byrds inevitably changed. Possibly the most telling blow came when Crosby left to form first the Buffalo Springfield and then Crosby, Stills and Nash, to which Neil Young was a later addition. The music of The Byrds’was never the same-after this, and though a group still bears the name, neither the performers nor the sound bear any real resemblance to what The Byrds once were. So it is good to have them back, even if only via re-release. Younger Than Yesterday was an excellent album in 1967, and it has not suffered noticeably with time.

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. CNE is the- strbngest expressionofwhat As a Toronto kid, s&k in the city during 1for. the ‘Ex, , the tail end of the summer holidays, the - the p&iod,meant / The impressive stru@ure was opened in Canadian .National Exhibition (CNE) in @27 by the Prince of Wales. and still stands Toronto was theone reprieve which made ’ today as a, monument, to the times, much __ : August bearable.’ like today’s skyscrapers. .However, if the present CNE board‘of By the beginning of the SeGond aWorld directors have- their way the garish rows ‘of War; the CNE’s board of-directors became -midwayrides and Vietorian display halls &vous. bout theirmonuments and build- 7, will be demolished to make way for a more , isgs. TlJ transportation buildings, and the profitable businessmen’s trade show a.nd L-Food building were both encased in convention Fentre. , James Lorimer, inhis book The Ex, un- ’ plywood false fronts to Yupdate or modernize” their architecture. The still standing L covers these plans and illustrates‘the band shell was the only up-to-date ar7 J .CNE’s deterioration from a world yechitecturethe CNE could-afford when it nowned exhibition inthe3irst part of this wasbuilt inthe midst of the last depression. century, to a mere proliferation of-&heap quick sell exhibits; IA -* It was’also during this period ‘that . Lorinier% book examines the history of Boulevard Drive (now, Lakeshore the CNE with the help of a large colle@on ‘Boulevard) was built,: separating the fair ’ of pictures, graphic and ‘posters dating grounds f&=om.t@lakeshore. At the time the 1 back to 1852. ,’ x C&E directorslauded the road ,as an addi@&ally the present site was Opened for tion& the. fair grounds, however todayone the fmt annual exhibition in 1879; City politicians invited repres&Mativesof t&e ’ would well’ appreciate better acd,ess to the lake. The present day six-lane road can business, labour -and industrial organiza-tons to set up atbody t0 run an annual fair. , ody. be safely crossed ‘via an overhead ,, *. ‘ ’ ‘. ’ : . All groups involved agreed that holding the - plkw~y. ‘fair was a good idea and would benefit - CNE gtis cqmmercial =: -.? ‘everyone. con&rried, ‘particularly local <Lorimer takes issue with recen , de-’ hoteliers and- transportation *companies velopments on the CNE grounds si n!‘ce-the, who were the prominentmoveF behind / the ’ last World- Wari He co&ilainj of the “flat, exhibition. -7,_I , squat; square, unimaginative boxes, overgrowi supermarkets to entilose the large% t First Exhlbitldn :_ possible spaces in which big co~e&ial,f exhibitors &uld “sell the public’?. The -first :aniiual exhibition opened on I.- ‘j-e author nos@&i$ly ree& the d8ys _, Septemb& 5, -1@79 and paid admission .t+ Were-just displaying talled m&e than $100,000, a large figure for ‘, when Igafiufa;cture~~ th - &lays. The fairgrounds tionsisteldof a L this& prodvcts “to impress people’> However when dealing &ith,m-anufa&urers Who. .. similar to a huge ornate cry tal . Pal-e, have algays derived$reir profits from-selgreenhouse, a grandstand seating 5,000.and &u.MWto tinsumers one -must ’ numerous display buildings. All buildings ’ Ji&-their doubt hoti -Lorim& can draw; a. lin$- bet‘were fimanced*(and‘still are) by the city of w&enya m&f&~& &&jj& &+&&* .Toronto,in return forall the CNE’s profits co~um~rsj - ‘-7 ; -1; JI 3from -admissions. ‘By scanningthe early’photo&phs of the For the first twenty years the ,exhibition : Ex when Lorimer contends manufacturers _ ‘we aglorified agricultural show, reflecting were simply out to in&+$ people, one the character, of .Bthcent&y~nt%rio. fmds ju.st aS great a proportion of advertis; Tl&big ‘event at the fair-was. the,:‘swi& ing signs, ,rows and rows of: sample ‘pro-/ beauty Contest+, . Prizes Were also&en for. ducts and legions of smiling salesmen. best looking cow&d horse, and fist to Nevertheless, Lorimer off&s an infor@h p&es were offered for 36 varieties terestingwarning of _what the%NE may of @&sand for 44 different kinds of cl&kens; become&the CNE,board of directors are . --’ _ ‘, / given a free< hand. In 1971;) $Ieuopolitan * Toronto tiouncil, now, the governnent r agency whichprovides funds for CNE cap- , I GoodMtendance at succeedirig fairs and ifal expenditures, ap‘proved a master plan the mdustrialization ’ of Southern Ontario for future development of the grounds.. The, led to ,%he construction ,of many exhibition plan entitled ‘-‘~Proposals for the Rehabilita. buildings for ,the purpose of exhibiting ~tion of Exhibition Park” is an effective manufactured goods. The new Manj blueprint for transforming the, park: into a ’ ’ ufaauturers Building was heralded as/conr centre for Toronto’ and ’ stiucted “&iostientirely of ‘tioncrete ‘and , giant convention , visiting business. . : steel’“. Indeed the turn of the century was i the heyday of the Ex. Virtually the .entire Wectors cringe exhibition was rebuilt, between &902 and 1912. In total nine buildings werebuilt’. Present directors cringe atthe thought of i Constructionsosts were tiny com~at%l to. the grounds’being ,utiltied only th$e weeks .@days. ‘construction costs. The largest _ of the year. A>onven.tion centre would building, the Manufacturers Buildmg;,was bring in money $ll yeaPround. - ’ I. erected at a cost of $106,000. . The plan calls for a-massive demolition The $eriod following the First -world programme. ~owslated for the wrtiker’s War tias a confident one, as expressed by:‘- ’ lqall qre the GraMstand, the Shell toweT; :, . the -buildings architecture. 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Up to this time-1 have remained silent amidst all the bullshit around me. I have stood by and watched, not only your reporters but my colleagues as well, make fools of themselves as they attempted to explain my actions as Enginews editor. It is not my practise to argue when I know I am right. But this situation is getting a little out o&hand and I feel a few words are in order to put things back into perspective. Regarding thh apolbgy to the Chinese Student Association in last Friday’s Enginews by the new editor, I would like to know where he got his degree in psychology. I did not print racial jokes because I had a demented childhood. They were printed because they were funny. ..period. My policy as editor of Enginews was to print anything which I thought engineering students would enjoy. And engineering students enjoy racial jokes just as they enjoy sexual jokes; Artsie jokes and Systems jokes. No minority is sacred as far as I’m concerned (kven Japs), and I hope that Enginews continues to poke fun at everyone because of race, creed, colour and sex. I, personally, have no apologies concerning the dontent of the issues that I edited. If I had to‘do it over again, I’d dc&j . the same. Regarding your recent article entitled “CSA protests racial slurs”, Mr. Gordon should do a bit more research. I do have a rea! name you know. Nipper is a nick-name which is used by my friends and associates in day to day dealings, and in Enginews. If you wish to criticize my work and make judgements about me, then I would appreciate it if you would use that name. The inclusion of the “Chink joke” in the July issue of Enginews was not “a one man job” as my staff was fully aware of the &tent of the paper. While it is true that Kim Etherinton Eng Sot president attempted to censor the July issue and that I printed four extra pages without his approval or censorship (including the front page, my editorial and the debate between the Paki and a goose), the “Chink joke” was not one of them. That joke was shown to Kim and he approved its inclusion in the July issue. In closing, may I quote frommy editorial in that now famous issue. “...that being made fun of and name calling is not necessarily racism. Being of a minority can be an advantage. One just has to have a mature attitude about it and make the best of it. Too bad others can’t. It sure would solve a lot of problems.” Rob Murakami Former Editor-Enginews

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The Chinese Students Association wish to comment on the article written by Michael Gordon and the letter by Henry Lim, both of which appeared in the chevron, Jtily 25th. The Chinese “jokes” appeared in the July,issue of Enginews not the. June issue. More importantly, Mr. Gordon did not mention that the Chinese students present in the meeting were more indignant over the fact that the “jokes” contemptuously stated that a Chinese is worse.,than a pumpkin, than any other racial slurs. Since neither the meeting had requested, nor the Engsoc had invited, the Chinese Students Association to attend the July 22nd EngSoc council meeting, the Chinese Students Association did not “fail” to show up as Mr. Gordon claimed. However, the Chinese Students Associationdid present a letter’of protest demanding an apology. The Chinese Students Association wish to assure Mr. Henry Lim that it represents the interest of all Chinese students on campus regardless of place of origin. It seems

that Mr. Lim is very unfair to the organizers of the July 21st meeting by describing them as radicals just because no interpreter was present. The Association, during its general meetings, has provided and-shall continue to provide interpretations whenever requested. However, the language problem can be solved only when all Chinese students can speak and tinderstand one dialect fluently. Therefore, the Association encourages all Chinese students to learn to speak pu-tong hua (Mandarin). The Association can only reflect the views of the Chinese students on campus if it knows what they are. As Mr. Lim may know that the success of an association depends on the active of its members. Since the execut he Association cannot possibly contact all Chinese students on campus, the executives hope that all interested persons express their views either through the Association’s mailbox in the Federation Office, or the suggestion boxes in the E.M.S. Library and the Chinese Library (basement, campus centre). Chinese Students Association

employment, (especially students) this plan would only make hatters worse. The irony of the whole thing is that while the plan would supposedly give the poor a chance to break out of their cycle, the socialist tax changes would leave only one cycle: the poor. I find it most disappointing that the chevron can’t write an article about the subject of health without taking a poke at corporations. (readers note that according to the chevron all corpbrations are multi-national) But looking at the figures the “big bad” corporations made a profit of $5 million on revenues of $1.5 ‘billion. That is only 0.33%. The government is making a rip-off profit in this case,: $720 million, ‘which works out to 48%. ,. -

If this sponging is typical, our country would be &a sad shape if the government owned all the industry. Let’s just leave industry in the hands df people. Stephen Coates 2A Applied Chemistry.

-The chevron would like to suggest you consider the realities of Canadian capitalism. Canadian corporations are not run democratically by the shareholders but are instead run by a small corporate elite. Wallace Clement in his book, The Canadian Corporate Elite, re~eais that only 100 di’rectors in Canada hold “342 of the dominant directorships held by Canadian residents: 59 of the directorships in the five big banks (28 per cent) and 35 insurance directorships (25 per cent). Certainly those who compare the decision-making process& of capitalism to .a democratic system are talking through their hats. -lettitor

Unfair to engineers It is indeed heartening to note this week that Max Mercer’s stand on racism had nothing to do with his losing the Engsoc presidential elections. Human credibility and beliefs have been trampled upon by a small--minority of journalists who have been quite vocal Fbout their anti-engineer sentiments. The engineers can only hope that these chevrics will take off their blinkers and see the senseless prejudice they are aitivating. Engineers on this campus are not always going to tolerate the chevron and its “I think engineers are fucking assholes and nothing else” attitude. The Chevron has managed to refrain from making “racist” remarks about other faculties. Lets hope‘ the Chevron can be persuaded to act the same way towards engineers. David Alexander 3A Mechanical E’ngineering tf you take a look at the masthed in the last issue of the chevron you will see that it is not persons but attitudes that we oppose. If you are racist or sexist we are going to tell you so, .and we don’t-really care whether you are Joe Engineer or Pope Paul. -iettitor

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I have read about the NDP’s ‘no barriers’ proposal in the last chevron and I am not impressed. First of all, does the guaran:. tee of “universal accessibility” of postsecondary institutions mean that anybody in the world can come to Ontario Univer,sities, at no cost to them? Perhaps the NDP would put notices in foreign newpapers saying “Get a free education at the expense of the Ontario taxpayers” to promote their scheme. The living stipends would be ‘in incentive to attend university, especially to those who could not find jobs. Does Jack Kersell not realise that this mass influx of students would crowd classrooms beyond the limit? I think tliat students should foot at least some of the bill, because they alone are receiving the benefit. The statement that universities benefit everybody is only partly true: without them we would be in a mess, but a society needs only x engineers, y physicists and z actuaries. A surplus of University graduates would cost the taxpayers a surplus amount of money, but would not do society much good. Like all NDPplans, this one would cost a lot of money, and again, like all NDP plans, this one would.be financed by massive tax changes (the word changes is always used where increases are intended). With the current &onomic recession, and high un-

Member: Canadian university press (CUP). Thechevron is type‘set by members ofthe workers union of dumont press graphix (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility ofthe chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331. And so the summer chevrons come to an end . i .and a huge roaring welcome from the chev&n to ail you first year students panting at the gates of the university. High school is over and you 1better beiieve it. For tb month of September, the weather will be fine and warm, there’ll be lots of musk and fun . . .but September is also a month qf elections in Ontario and the big biue machine will be trying to take our hearts away, buy us off and perhaps even try to squelch any student protest. Local NDP’ers believe the Davis tories called the election in September to reduce the student vote which would be gecidedly against the-tories. Sony, but you’re arriving on campus just as the education cutbacks are grabbing hold and strangling the quality of education. For example, engineering spent $200,000 on equipment for their labs, where much of the engineer’s education occurs and yet t,his year the university has bn forced to cutback the lab spendingto a mere $6,500. One engineering prof was heard to say, this year we’ll have to avoid many of the practical aspects of engineering and delve into the theoretical aspects because we’ll have little if any equipment. For the arts end of campus things are no better. The, arts library is about ready to cut subscriptions by one-half. Now this may riot seem too important now, but when you sit down to write ari essay, ftiu’ii find the books lack the up-todate information found only in the latest periodicals. Ho hum. Noti for the brighter side‘ of the picture. The chevron NEEDS YOU! The chevron is desperate for your eager helpful hands because putting out a paper is no ,easy task. Don’t forget we have a staff recruitment meeting Monday, September 15, 1975. The Chevy has ail kinds of interesting and rewarding experiences to offer so give us a try. This week’s chevron was put put by the pleasured hands of john “moriarty” morris, saucy syivla hauck, henry hess, defiant diane ritza, john carter, bill mccrea, sleepy doug ward, neii “mad Scot” docherty, shane “robot” rober& handy randy hannigan, and me, muscular michaei gordon, and to all a gudnite . . .mg.

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