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Commission An investigation into the chevron-student federation conflict began last Sunday. In a brief session the cap was put on what the chevron staff had been demanding for nine months - the paper has been reinstated and now an investigation into the closing last September and into its future relation to the federation of students is underway. The meeting in the Board of Governors room in Needles Hall was in accordance with the agreement which reinstated the paper and called for an investigation to begin by July 18. Don Martin a student on the investigation commission chaired the meeting in the absence of Conrad Grebel president Frank Epp, the commission chairperson. The main purpose of the meeting was to request some basic information from the chevron staff and the federation executive. The chevron was asked for names and telephone numbers of all staff on Sept. 24 (the day the paper was first closed) and the federation was qsked the same for executive members, councillors
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The commission to investigate the closing of the chevron will accept written briefs from any individuals, groups or organizations which have information relating to the closing of the chevron or information relating to the dispute between the Federation of Students and chevron. Written submissions may be left with the library staff at the main circulation desk in the E.M.S. Library or at the 1st floor reserve desk in the Arts Library between the hours of 9 am. and 5 pm. Address all material to: The Investigation Commission.
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and employees on that date. Each party was also asked for published material on the dispute, and names and phone numbers of any other persons who have information on the closing. Federation representatives, Math rep John Long and executive member Gord Swaters, complained that they were being asked to proviqe material published by every executive member but the chevron was only asked to provide their newspaper. Martin clarified the commission’s request saying what was wanted was material emanating from the executive and circulated on campus. He also asked the chevron for all published material, including leaflets which had been produced, but not necessarily printed in the paper. After more discussion, federation vice-president Ron Hipfner accepted the federation letter saying it was open-ended, a start, and adequate. For the chevron, editor Neil Docherty accepted the letter saying there would be no problem
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providing the required information. Martin also announced that the commission would welcome written submissions from anyone with relevent information. He warned that all submissions at this time would be considered public _. _ and _ the question of non-public submissions would be dealt with in the future. Docherty said that the chevron staff view was that all submissions should be public. Special boxes will be placed in the two main campus libraries for submissions, the commission announced. Commission meetings will be advertised in the chevron and on posters around campus. -neil -jules
Doug Thompson, is effectively no longer president of the federation of students as the federation board of-directors purged him from this position late last Monday night in Toronto. Thompson refused to resign as expected. Vice-president Ron Hipfner now assumes the role of “acting president” at .full pay until September 10/1977.” In an article in the Gazette this week, titled “Fed head quits”, it is claimed that “President Doug Thompson tendered his resignation Monday.” Thompson (before the directors’ meeting) is quoted as saying: “I’m feeling a tremendous sense of relief.” But Monday night, no such thing happened. Thompson got cold feet. In a closed-door session, Thompson told the directors he had not yet made his decision. Hipfner told the chevron July 13 (and many times before) that Thompson had decided to resign. Hipfner says that Thompson also assured him Sunday night that he would leave. He said they planned the details that night. The closed-door session was soon broken up and Hipfner stormed out of the room, furious with Thompson’s latest decision. Later, the meeting re-convened. Arts councillor Bruce Leavens then read a motion (which Hipfner had written moments before in the hallway) to get rid of Thompson. The motion extends Thompson’s leave of absence until September 10, but it will be without pay. At that time it says “the presidency will become vacant. ” ,It also calls for a fall election. The motion carried 4-O-l with Thompson abstaining. This &ded Thompson’s presidency which started February 9 in a board of directors’ meeting when president Dave McLellan appointed (president-elect) Thompson to vice-president and then resigned. In the February election, Thompson won with 804 votes. His closest rival, Joe MacDonald, was 35 Gates behind. Thompson had been on a leave of absence from the president’s office for about a month. He has had personal problems at home and increasing opposition on campus.‘ A recall petition had been started and was widely circulated in-Engineering. There was also a motion of non-confidence in Thompson on the most recent council agendas. Hipfner will leave campus September 10 as he is committed to a job in TorontoI’He says he is “extremely perturbed by the federation and with trying to accomplish something.‘? He further said that he could not provide direction since he was “not a political person”. The directors also passed a breakdown of the chevron budget as an interim measure (before it goes to council) so that the paper can pay recent bills. A motion proposed by Hipfner, decreasing the number of field-worker positions will be Entertainment Program Director, Para-legal Coordinator and one position under the Board of Education. Each will carry a half-time salary ($80 a week), though at present they are all full time. The possibility of leasing or purchasing a van for federation business was discussed. , It was moved that this should be further investigated.
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A local landlord, attempting to evict a tenant from his $230 a month townhouse since January so that he could. move in, is still living in his $300,000 home. A writ of possession was granted May 17 to evict a UW student, Burns Proudfoot, and his family from their Westcourt Place home (see free chevron May 20). At that time it was made clear that Proudfoot must vacate the townhouse by June 20. *j
Clarification In the article “Investigation is forging ahead” in the July 8 chevron Brian Jones is reported to have been chosen for the Chevron Investigation Commission. Jones, however is not mentioned as one of the five commissioners in the following issue of the. chevron (the article “Commission launched”, p. 1). The reason for this is that Jones dropped out of the commission the day after he was chosen, saying that he did not think he had sufficent time for it. It was not clear in the last article on the investigation commission that of the four commissioners chbsen by the federation council and the chevron staff, three are students and one, Tom Hanrahan, is a former student who graduated with a masters degree this May.
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In the first accident, a Mercury Cougar (above) hit a Chev, Datsun, and Dodge, before coming to rest. The Cougar was totaled, and, had done considerable damage to the other three cars. While security was working at the scene of the first accident, a second car came around the corner and slammed into the rear of a Mustang. No one was seriously injured in either accidents, though the driver and passenger in the .first car were taken to hospital to treat minor cuts and bruises.
The basis for the eviction was the claim by Proudfoot’s landlord, Cyril Kayman that he wanted to move into the townhouse with his family. Proudfoot contends, however, that the eviction was nothing less than a vendetta in response to Rent Review hearings last year in which he won against Kayman. Proudfoot and his family moved out of the Westcourt Place townhouse on June 8. But Kayman and his family did not move in June 20. It is now July 22, nine weeks after the court hearing and six weeks -after the townhouse was vacated. The only sign of life having been in the house since that time is several articles of furniture piled in the centre of the living room -- apparently untouched since they were moved in in early June. Kayman’s claim during the court hearing was that he planned to move in as soon as possible. When asked by the chevron Tuesday why he had not yet moved he replied “I don’t think it’s any of your business .’ ’ Subsequently he stated that he would be moving in “as soon as the place has been cleaned up.” Proudfoot told the tchevron that ‘he had “left the townhouse spotless” when he moved, so as “not to provide Kayman with an excuse for not moving in.” Kayman insisted that any questions on this matter be directed to his solicitor W. Jenkins (of McGibbon, Harper & Haney). When Jenkin’s office was contacted, however, the chevron was informed that he was on holiday until August 8. -gerard
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Obtaining permiti’ I / may cause problbms payment can be made. This proLynn Watt, dean of graduate tects both the student and the unistudies at UW, will.invesugate the versity because visa students -who possibility of relaxing ‘some of the are paid without first obtaining a new constraints place& on visa permit face deportation, and the grad students recently. -. university would face prosecution. The chevron reported last week However, the payroll departthat the UW graduate studies adment could process a request to ministration now requires visa pay a visa grad, and then withhold grads to obtain work permits ‘for payment until the permit is obteaching assistantships before the tained. payroll department can process The chevron also reported last request to pay them. week that visa grads will have to This’ may cause delays in payobtain separate work permits for ment because teaching assistantteaching assistantship that ships are not assigned until the be- each they are assigned. This will require ginning of each term. The permit visits to the immigration office must name. the department in which the grad will work, and in ‘eachWattterm.pointed out that this is be-. some cases - particularly in cause many departments Mathematics - this information is determine which grads will cannot be emnot available until the teaching ployed more than one term in adassistantship is assigned. vance. However, in departments Members of the ‘Graduate Club where the amount of support -- is deexecutive met with Watt last Wedtermined annually, it will be possible for a visa grad to obtain a pernesday to .discuss this problem, mit which is valid for a year. and Watt agreed that the payroll departmentshouldn’t re&rire a Immigration officials have conwork permit to process a request firmed that they prefer to issue for payment. permits on an annual basis whenever possible. .Watt pointed out that a work permit must be obtained before -nick &dding
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Last week, Harry Daniels, president of the Native Council of Canada predicted that the Native People will participate in various acts of civil disobedience if steps \I are not taken bythe state to rectify the situation facing the native peo. . ples’ in prison. Daniels has estimated that some provincial prisons have .a consistent Native population of up to 90 per cent at any given time. ~He noted that while the Native People make up less than 5 per cent of the. Canadian population, that about 12.5 per cent of all federal prisoners are Native People.< A native group in Toronto (The Nelson Small Legs Foundation) recentlv
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The judge was halfLan-hourlate, The Native People have continu- C- the prosecutor never showed at all, ously demanded and are fighting and Marsha Fine, charged five for the immediate restoration of months ago, had to wait around to their heriditary rights, %hat is the the very last moment before leamright to live and, work as they ing that the charge against her was want. being withdrawn. - galah bachir Fine was arrested February 23, when the RCMP raided her apartment and charged her-with aiding Frederick Alan Mason to violate I the Immigration Act. Fifteen The established approach to this difficulty is to others were also arrested for aiding . compare the difference between DZ twins to the Mason that day when the RCMP difference between MZ twins. If the environmental raided the Waterloo branch of the ’ contribution to the intrapair difference is the same Norman Bethune Institute. (NBI is for the two types, then a greater observed difference a research centre of the Communist‘ between DZ than between MZ twins is evidence, Party of Canada (Marxistalbeit indirect, that hereditary differences contriLeninist). bute to individual differences in sleep patterns. Two weeks ago UW psychology However, if the magnitude environmental differ’ professor Doug Wahlsten, one of’ ences between the twins of the two types (MZ and those arrested; -had the charge DZ) are not the same, or ifthe experiences of the two against him withdrawn because the members of a DZ pair are correlated with their reprosecutor said much of the evispective heredities, then no conclusion’ whatsoever dence against him was inadmissacan be drawn concerning the cause of the difference ble. between the DZ twins. At that time prosecutor Doug The Queen’s study provided no evidence pertiMcDowell, who set all the trial nent to this question. In other studies where these dates, sent his partner Eric Hafeassumptions have been evaluated with direct eviman to court because he had to go dence, the assumptions have often been found unout of town. tenable. Fi’fre appeared in court on As it turned out, the Queen’s study found no sigY schedule at 10:00 a.m. Friday. nificant difference between the similarities of sleep Judge James Kirkpatrick came patterns of the two types of twins. Drawing the from his chambers at 10:30. He appropriate conclusions required by the stated purheard thYe,first case on the docket; pose of the study, it follows that “sleep is conand when he moved .onto Fine’s ditioned by the environment.” case discovered McDowell was not This is not such hot news. It is common knowin court. ledge that people who have to work at two jobs in order to make ends meet, or students who. must Fine demanded that the charge study long hours in order to get passing marks, do be dropped if the, prosecution not sleep with the same patterns as those who get a couldn’t even be bothered to apregular eight hours. Some people are so worried pear. Kirkpatrick, however, recesabout the future that they cannot sleep at all. Others, sed the court for 15 minutes so that such as members of the chevron staff, adopt a wildly McDowell’s office could be conirregular pattern of sleep because of the complicated tacted. nature of the struggles which they are waging. At 11:OO McDowell’s junior law The Queen’s study has no pertinence to the difpartner; Paul Heath, showed up to ficulties which many people have sleeping. Even if a say the charge was being withperson sleeps in an unusual manner because of some drawn. He said McDowell had, hweditary factors contributed by a parent, this does, “forgotten” about it and when rej not in any way mean that the sleep pattern cannot be minded did not consider himself modified by experience. Irrespective of the hereditproperly attired for the dignity of ary influence, knowledge of how to ameliorate sleep the court. problems can be attained only through attempts to The case was dismissed. Wahlactually change them by modifying the enviransten tried to point out to the judge ment. There is no possible human benefit to be dethat he had contacted McDowell rived from a mere comparison of how adult twins three times that week about the , sleep. case and had talked to him the day -doug wa hlsten before. He was._ going _ .___ to ask Kirk- . .
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According to the July 12, 1977, issue of the K-W Record, a Queen’s University student is doing a study “to determine whether we inherit the way we sleep or ‘whether sleep is conditioned by the environment i ’ ’ Besides describing some rather shoddy science, the Record article is incredibly out of date. A phone call July 12 to the student’s advisor, Dr. W.R. Thompson of the Queen’s psychology department, revealed that the articlewas based on an interview given to the Kingston Whig Standard in November 1976, after the student placed an ad soliciting subjects, and in the mearrtime, the study had been completed, finding no significant results. According to the Record news desk, the article came in on the CP wire service and had been sitting around the office for some time before they decided to run it last Wednesday.. The Record did no investigation of its own into the progress of the research to supplement the unsubstantiated speculation which it regarded as news. . The experimental design of the study is no better than the Record’s “journalism”. The student obtained five pairs of fraternal (two egg) twins and five pairs of “identical” (one egg) twins. Sleeping pattern was assessed by measuring electrical brain’ waves and eye movements. Each pair of twins was tested together in the same laboratory on the same night. Furthermore, each pair of twins had been raised together in the same home. As a result, it is utterly ,impossible to evaluate the relative contributions of environmental and hereditary differences between the twins to differences in sleep patterns. Fraternal twins develop from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm, whereas “identi.cal” twins have a common origin in a single fertilized egg which later divides into two separate embryos. Hence, the heredities of “identical” or monozygotic (MZ) twins are much more’ similar than those of fraternal or dizygotic (DZ) twins. I Even if twins are raised in the same home, their environments or experiences are never identical. When MZ twins differ substantially on some characteristic (e.g. sleep), it is reasonable to infer that the cause of this difference is a difference in the environments of the two individuals. However, for the DZ twins the causes of the difference in their characteristics cannot be ascertained directly; it could be a difference in heredity, experienee or the interacting ’ a.-%a.. rPv,-“.“. _.-of.~ both. beffects
*Patrick to hold the prosecutor in contempt of court because he had obviously not forgotten. But the judge would not let him make his point. He insisted that the case was dismissed and there was _ no reaso-n for Wahlsten to tell him anything. Fine protested the whole affair, saying it was the latest in a series of harassments because she was prog. ressive and a genuine patriot. The judge cut her off, saying she was in the wrong forum to make her corn-. plaints. She was successful,, however, in demanding. that material taken from her apartment be returned. She said “I want all the material stolen from me, including my social insurance card, . . . and a poster of Comrade Hardial Bains -hailing the Third Congress of CPC(M-L)“. She said the theft of this material proved that the raid had nothing to do with immigration but was political persecution. Kirkpatrick ordered that the material be returned. . Hardial Bains, \ chairman of CPC(M-L) and Richard Rathwell still face charges of aiding Mason. Rathwell has a trial date in September and Bains in October. ~ .
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Tuesday night, about 50 spectators were treated to a glimpse of Canada’ s Womens National Basketball Team as they scrimmaged against the WC1 boys senior .basketball team, this year’s city champions. The WC1 team was missing a few players, and for both teams this marked their fiist‘com-
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game in control beginuingthe second half. However, an effective press and aggressive play’ by the girls led to many turnovers and breaks in the Nationals favour as the girls outscored their opponents 45-38 in thesecond half, even after falling behind by 20 at one point. Particularly impressive for the girls were Liz Silcott with 19,points and Candy Clarkson with 13. However, it was the team play of the girls which was most impressive, and there were several others who showed they could score as well,‘as four others had six points each, many coming from outside shots. For the WC1 Seniors, Rick Zellers was top scorer with 18 points while Tim Harrold netted 16 and Rich Nemesuari added 14. Since it is generally accepted that the level-of basketball now played by Womens National Teams is comparable’ to that displayed by major- Mens High School Teams, this game augers well for our future in international competition. _For the past six years, six different coaches have guided our girls team, and it is hoped that the fouryear appointment of Waterloo’s Don MacRae as head coach for the Girls National Team will supply the team with much-needed stability. The team leaves Friday to partici-pate in a major European touma-
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In A-league, Turbos were high . Intramural basketball concluded after knocking off the Rats in the. Wednesday night as the A and built an B-league champions were decided. d semis, but the Toddlers In B-league, Psychos met East 5 ’ early 11-2 lead and led at the half, 24-20. Toddlers again took comafter knocking off heavily mand in the second half and they favoured Engineering., Pyschos won the hard fought struggle by a appeared ready to lock up the vicguards 49-41 score. Although entering the tory until both starting fouled out with a few minutes left to second half with a five point lead play. Some good shooting by Fred (27-22) Pyschos’ aggressive play soon got them in foul trouble as Dimson brought Turbos even and Phil Schlote hit a free throw with East 5 came back to challenge two seconds remaining to give their lead. In the lastfour minutes, Turbos a 44-43 victory. Congratugood team play earned, the to all four Psychos several quick breaks as I lations are ,extended finalists who demonstrated a high they’ put the game out of. reach. calibre of basketball and Bob Ley scored 20 for the winners sportsmanship. while Mike Hunter added 12, John \ Wagner netted 17 for the l i’ losers. j ,
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ment whichincludes strong teams from the Soviet Union, United States and Japan. Although Womens Basketball is a new sport at the Olympid level, Canada already is behind the other basketball powers as we finished sixth out of six. teams at the last Olympiad. .The girls average about 5’10” in 7 height, with one at 6’6’ and five girls over 6’. Their biggest asset, ’ however, has to be their hustle and desire, combined with several excellent lo@-range shooters. The game Tuesday was;quite rough at times but the girls refused to back 1 r
down or be intimidated by the WC1 team,as they fought hard for every rebound and loose ball. More competition is necessary to improve the, girl’s timing, which will lead to fewers turnovers, especially -as coach MacRaefinds which combination of players- are most effective I The upcoming tournament will be the first major test for the girls, and if they can maintain their desire and enthusiasm, European-basketball fans will be treated to some ’ highly entertaining action.
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The open-to-all badminton tournament organized by thechinese Students Assoc. ended on July 7 in two breath-taking games. The Association was rather pleased with the warm response from students. There were a total of forty participants in woman’ s single, man’ s single (A), man’s single (B), and double. However, woman competants were comparatively lowin percentage. It is hoped that there will be more female participants in the future. The tournament reached its highlight in the final match of man’s single (A) between Leung Goh and Colin Field. All eyes were drawn to the 1 perfect stroke and-foot-work of both players. After losing a few. points consecutively with,back-hand stroke on the baseline, Leung used the strategy of inserting stroke of netball in highball or smash to alternate. baseline angles. Although Colin remained firm and powerful-in his return, Leung managed to gain points when Colin showed errors in judgement. Leung won the game by 2 to 1. It was a hard won game $or him and .L well-played on both sides. ’ The final match in double was less exciting than that in man’s single (A). The players were Robert Adiwanta, Raymond Lee, and Leung Goh, Joseph Lui. The champion was in the court again, but his team lost the match. The victors showed superiority in co-operation, partly due to the fact that they were even in strength/and skill. Whereas, Leung was exhausted in the previous final match in single. The champion of woman’s single was Cyd Ho, and the runner-up, Rosa Jim. Kwong won the +mpienship in man’s single (B) and the runner-up . was Scott Kan.
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-A report, on youth in Albania explaining Canada (Marxist-Leninist) at the invitation. understand the youth of Albania one must keep in mind .their role, both past and prestheir role in socialist construction and their I of the Party of Labour of Albania. The delegation was led by Hardial Bains, chairman ’ ent. significance for Canadian youth was prewho has been touring Canada sented at Conrad Grebel on Thursday, July ’ of CPC(M-L), It was the youth who fought in the Na” delivering reports on various aspects of life tional LiberationWar and established 14. The meeting was attended by over 70 in Albania. People’s Power in 1944. The average age of The reports always include a large dis- - the 28,000 martyrs in the liberation war, the people, who watched an Albanian film on play of photographs and political posters People’s Heroes, is less than 20 years. These the war of National Liberation, and listened from and about Albania. The display was so -to the report with great enthusiasm. youth were faced with the question of ’ Albania is a small socialist country on the large in fact, that some of it had to be set up liberating their homeland or capitulating in Adriatic Sea,It was visited recently by a in the hall outside- the meeting room. the face of attacks by foreign facist powers. ,. In his speech Bains emphasized that to delegation of the Communist Party of. Today’s youth are faced with much the same question, said Bains, for Albania is encircled -by hostile _ countries, both capitalist and revisionist (those who have given up socialist construction and are taking the road to capitalist restoration). The Albanian people have a proud tradition of struggle. “ There were a large amount of uprisings -in the period of 500 years of Ottoman rule in Albania, and- they have a tradition of fighting. The people of Albania literally had to fight for everything, for their language, their traditions, for -their culture, to establish their nation state, and all this,” Bains said. Since liberation, living conditions have improved tremendously. For example, the life expectancy of”an Albanian in 1938 was 41 to 44 years; it is now 68 years. ’ Great advances have also been made in education. Before 1944 there were no universities and few high schools. The schools were only open to the propertied’ classes and all-the university-educated people were educated abroad. -Now. there is extensive education, all free. In addition, much of the responsibility for early education in patriotism and serving the masses is placed on Hadial Bains; chairman of the Communist Party of Canid? (Marxist - Leninist), delivers a the parents. - 1 ceport on youth in qlbania at a meeting on Thursday, luly 14. The meeting was organized as part The youth not only have formal educaof a national tour to inform the Canadian people about life in socialist Albania; tion, they also learn from participation in .._ --photo by neil docherty mass organizations, Qne such organization, \ .
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The University of Saskatchewan is over recommendation-in March was that it be set ‘proficiency tests for foreign students, and up immediately. . tuition increases. l,QOO miles away, but the situation there One of the items which has cut into the 1 According to Pugh, Toth has supported sounds a lot like Waterloo. A conflict between the student news- - executive’s time is a retreat they had with a these and similar policies, so in a comment paper, the Sheaf, and the &dent-govemcounsellor in group relations, who was hired in the Sheaf he calls for the president\ to 6e to teach the members how “they could best ment has been _raging, the administration impeached. 1. relate to each other. has interfered in student affairs, there is talk Stobbe reports that preliminary plans are of recalling the student president, and the But the major event of the summer has being made to recall the president next slogan Reinstate! Investigate! has been been Pugh’s removal from office. On May 4term. raised. ’ 2, two months after he was elected by the The Pugh purge $urther exacerbated the students, and at the-end of term when there Gne of the key figures is David Toth the Sheaf-student union conflict. In its first their teachings that adulterers were few students on campus, the universtudent president who ssys :he doesn’t like summer edition the paper ran a front page _ despite go to hell. sity administration declared that .he was inthe content1 of the-campus newspaper. story and an editorial on it, but the issue ’ would Anothermass movement of the youth is eligible to hold an executive position on the’ was seized by the union executive before it ’ A simmering dispute between the paper, student union. andthe student government culminated last could be distributed. The paper was re-- volunteer labour. All the -Albanian railroads were built by the youth; none existed before. The administration claims there is a uniMarch in motions to close it down. leased ‘a couple of ‘hours later after Stobbe Liberation. ’ versity rule that only full-time students can Instead of that drastic step, council was protested. Bains also described the cultural life of hold such positions and that a student is persuaded to call an inquiry by the CanaToth told the chevron he seized the paper the youth. The Albanians play many sports only considered full-time when s/he has dian University, Press (CUP) and the Nabecause he was concerned that some of the and-set up various friendly &nte&: For completed three full-time courses. . tional Union of Students (NUS). comments in it were libelous and the news example they held-quizzes to see who best Pugh, who was taking three courses, story wasn’t fair. - ’ The inquiry met-and reported its findings .Aknew the resolutions of the Party of Labour dropped one in between the time when he He claimed the story made no mention of in April but that hasn’t settled anything. at its seventh congress last November. was nominated and the election. He and his the administration’s case against Pugh. The .E verywhere the delegation went they found Since that time the summer on the US supporters say this administration rule, CheyrOn, however, has ShXlXXkWd aCOpy the youth energetic, he said. campus has been marked by: which the administration has not been able of the Sheaf in question, and the front page - Terry Pugh, a sheaf staffer elected to! the The evening ended with a short fdrn and a to furnish in print, is irrelehnt. The student story makes clear the administration’s student union executive, being purged from -constitution, brief%ultural program of revolutionary they-point out, states in Bylaw reasoning. Also, there is nothing in either the position by a dubious administration songs. No. 3, l(b) a candidate must be registered rule which the student union complied with; the story or editorialwhich seems libelous. . -jonathan coles - the first summer edition of the Sheaf _as a full-time student in the year during Since the seizure incident Toth has interwhich the student seeks to-be elected. fered with a Sheaf decision to change prinbeing seized by the executive before it According to the student union constitucould be distributed; ters. Stobbe said the paper moved to tion the candidate need only be registered - the executive interfering in -the paper’s another printer because theywere offered as full-time in that year; while the administ, choice of printers; better service at a cheaper price and- the,, ration rule says the student must have com- and editorial salaries being held-up. new? printing shop was unionized. He completed three courses. plained that the old printer used to hire - --~ -,--- -- --In its report the CUP/NUS inquiry cast Stobbe, who has been pressing the adChilean refugees at below minimum wage. A representative of the Zimbabwe ADA some blame on both sides of the dispute, ministration for proof of this rule, points out rican National Union will be making a recommended “ . . . fieldworking, plenty of that if it is followed then no one would be a Toth, however, phoned the new printer tour of 23 Canadian cities to speak on the it, from both CUP and NUS,” ,and sugfull-time student until the end of the year. and told- him not to publish any more papcurrent situation in Zimbabwe. The tour gested a commission be set-up to reToth, however, claims that Pugh is ineligers. He told the chevron he took the action is being organized by the Zimbabwe Solevaluate the structure of the paper and its ible/because he dropped the course. He said because the student union was not mformed and will feature the relationship to the student union. of the Sheaf’s move. He said the service * idarity Committee -he and his executive complied with the adZANU representative in Canada, A.M. Council agreed to set-up the commission ministration ruling. from the old printer was excellent and it was Chidoda. and charged Toth to establish and head it. To replace Pugh they appointed Fred bad business ethics to move. A meeting in Kitchener-Waterloo will That was in March but the commision ha$ Racz, whom Pugh defeated in the election. The Sheaf is now being published by the not been set up. Sheaf editor Marc Stobbe Racz also has a history of opposing the old printer, who has reduced his’ price, de- - be held on August 5 in the Breithaupt Centre, Room 207 at 7:30. spite Stobbe’s preference for the new shop. told the chevron that the CUP/NUS inquiry Sheaf. He seconded a.motion in March to ZANU and its armed wing, the Zim, Another example of ‘“petty harassment” I in an oral report to Students Council reclose the paper. babwe African National Liberation commended the commission be established The Pugh purge, has raised protests’ on according to Stobbe is that he has now Army, are leading the struggle to overimmediately.’ He said it is recorded in the campus. The Sheaf ha9 run an editorial calworked three months but so far has only throw the racist and facist regime of Ian council minutes and he believes Toth is stalling for him to -be reinstated and for an inbeen paid a reduced salary for one. He has Smith;ling -on it. vestigation into the administration’s and the been toldtthat there was a mistake in proIn recent weeks the ZANLA fighters The student president, however, claims executive’s actions. There have also been cessing his wages. Toth said he knew nohave scored numerous victories over the that the executive has. not had a solid block letters of support from campus organizathing about the delay and that the empSmith regime, which will be elaborated of time to deal with the commission. He told tions. The letters point out that Pugh is an loyees are paid through the administration’s on by the speaker from ZANU. the chevron that it would be underway by outspoken- critic of various administration pay system. ~ and government policies, such as English the th?nd week of July and denied that the Aeil docherty \
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La Press Etudiante Nationale (PEN) is an organization of21 Quebec Student newspapers. Over the years, Quebec students have fought many battles to defend their basic interests against attacks such as cutbacks, unem$loyment, etb. Student news from Quebec has had a virtual blackout’ due to little-coverage f&m Canadian University Press and due to the fact thaf no formal relations between thb Chevron an4 La Presse Etudiante Nationale existed. The Chevron is working to rectify this situation. I The Chevron is reprinting an article from PEN and a backgrounder to explain it.,The article is translated by the Chevron from the‘ May news service. _ .. I
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1. The loan for the school year ‘76-‘77 will be given out at registration in Ja9yry (for Laval). 2. At Laval, students will receive their whole gratit in February but the govemtient says thht it will subtract from the total amount, the amount of tuition. ‘3. The loan for school year ‘77~‘78 will be received in June. 4. Part tif the grant for ‘77-78 will be received at the beginning of the fall term, but a part of it will’ be kept back until the winter ‘78 terni. . Thus, all this means that the- government not only * a) Zll’h&give out any supplementary student aid b) but the government will save vast amounts of money on the order of $10 million, on .e I. the backs of the students c) these students are forced into a situation where they will go further into debt whether because they have to stop their studies and “take their chance” on the labour mtirket, or because the level of tinemployment for youth is at a v&y high level. In short, the government?mposes its solution on the students:the shifting of the -burden f of the economic crisis onto their backs, Many students have started to receive their grants (or at least what remains after the “gifts” of the MEQ) and many will be incapable gf doing the winter ‘77 term (April to July ‘77). A particularly striking example: a male s/u&nt and a female- student ip Political Science who are married received a grand total of $1,810 in aid (including $1,640 in loans).from the MEQ; in the course of the first term, they had to spend $1,000 to live; when they received their grant notice, they decided to quit University to pay
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Extract frbm ’ ;Eoans and grants for students at Lava1 University and UQAM (University of Quebec at Montreal); The Fraud df Goyemment Aid.” (Presse Etudiante Nationale) . \. . The system of Loans and grants particularly affects students at Lava1 University and UQAM who, at the present time, following the sttik@ of the professors at their universities during the fall term, now find themselves in a critical financial situatfon since the loans and grants have not been distributed to those eligible and since the possibilities of summer work are reduced by the prolongation of the school year. Faced with’that, tlie MIXQ has profited from th” situation by making a “gi@” to the students. This is what the “gift” of the ministry (of education) looks like:
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Tired of big fish, burning buildings and leaky ships? Star Wars (at the Hyland and Parkway Drive-in) is .a welcome relief. ‘ ‘ A slam- bang rip-roaring gallop”, says the Chicago Times. Variety Magazine reports; “Wow”, ‘: W hammo’ ’ and ‘ ‘ Sizzling. ’ ’ Two days beforethe film opened, Twentieth Century Fox’s stock almost doubled. In its first week, the film grossed about $3 - million. . So what’s all the fuss about??“A long time ago,<in a galaxy far, far away a beautiful Princess Liae Organa (Cam-i Fisher) falls into the evil clutches of Lord Darth Vadar (David Prowse) and Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), leaders of an evil Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, (Mark Hamill), a typi- cal Walt Disney kid, falls in love with the princess afterseeing her in a Holograph distress message and, aided by a monkish wizard. (Alex
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Guinness) sets out to rescue her. Of course she is rescued (this standard plot leaves no room for doubt), for only she holds the secret plans to overthrow the evilempire and restore the galactic republit. And if you think this sounds like a story for the typical 14 year old, you’re right. That is precisely the reason’given for the film’s success. “It’s fun,” says George -Lucas, the director, “that’s the word for it. It’s for young people. American Graffitti was for 16 year olds: this is for, 14 year olds. Young people don’t have a fantasy life anymore, not theway we did. All they’ve got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There’s all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.” “Nobody except Disney makes movies for young people anymore. I want to open up the whole realm of space for them. Science fiction is okay but it got so involved with science that‘it forgot the sense of
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,They were the best of years. They were the worst of times. They we,re the times of joy and happiness. They were the yea.rs of great sorrow. We all felt we were goinig straight to heaven. We all knew we were going straight to hell. -’ These were ‘the -years that the tide went out for Am,erica. Kennedy’s Camelot had died, along with its Harvard Lancelot.” The country was awakening from. the slumber of the 1950’s, with not a yawn but a roar. To be involved was the password.-. Civil Rights, Vietnam, politics and a host of other matters were, laid open to discussion and action. It was open sea-,\ son on ‘taboos. It was a time for the casting down of false idols. It was a time for the creation of new false . prophets. Into this sea of violence, confusion, distrust, and alienation came four ’ British musicians. They came from a city called Liverpool, on the Irish Sea. At first they were dismissed by the English music scene. After all no one of any importance had come from Liverpool. Besides, they wore their hair greased up and overly \ long. .
All the traditional features of -a James Bond movie are revived in the latest release, “The Spy _Who’ Loved Me”. There are globe-trotting secret agents, rich and powerful mean men, high-tension chase scenes, unbelievable gadgets and, of course, a bevy 4 of luscious females. -, This Bond adventure is particularly enjoyable because it is packed full of amusing situations. There are relatively few scenes of a bullets actually penetrating people’s bodies. Instead, .our heroes go through a series of - fast-paced scrapes and escapes, cleverly eluding the power-hungry nasty people who . want_to see them dissected. The only really regrettable part is the war between the British and American good guys and the seemingly innumerable armed guards of the master schemer. Dead bodies - fly. - -across the screen in an endless stream.
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fantastic surreal approach to the genre. I grew Up on it. Star Wars is a sort ‘of compilation of this stuff but it’s never been put, in one story before, never- put down on film. There is a lot taken from Westerns, mythology and Samurai movies. It’s allthe things that are great put together. It’s not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big sun-
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But anyone w,ho. heard them then heard the beginning of .a.. musical phenomenon that would alter the society that had spawned them. They called tnemselves “the Beatles, with an ‘a’ ” . And they played ‘rock and roll’,. not the surf sound sticky sweet stuff of the Beach Boys, or the laun; dered muzak of the early sixties commercial rockers. The Beatles secret was: go back to basics. They covered songs written by the immortals during the “Gol’den Age of Rock and Roll”: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and others. The Beatles played the basics, rhythm and blues, screamer vocals, good guitar licks, plus a twist of their own. . They took what they had lifted from the gods of R&B, and did what only true creative genius can do. They improved on their predecessors work-to create a style of their own. The Beatles founded their legend on sonqs like ‘Can’t Buy Me Love”, “She
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town’s more rowdy watering holes, Add to all that a little of Lucas’s own imagination,- some nifty special effects, and a gee whiz storytelling- format, and the result is, well, neat! But is it really just, entertainment as the director would like us to be- , lieve? Throughout the film-, a mysterious spirit called “The Force” is brought to the viewers attention. I ‘recognized the taste of many Pay no attention to materialistic different flavours in that big sun- things, Luke is told. Let “The MT& 1:: After all how could ,enemy Force” be your guide. The ushers ships look &e anything but the at the theatre wore buttons with ‘-Klingon’s? My expectations of se- “May the Force Be with You”. A eing Fremen riding giant worms book of the Bhagavad Gita would were almost filled on a planet re- have gone well in their outstretched markably like Dune: Gandalf was ’ hands. Raymond (Flash Gordon’s author), in there too, and in this case he Perhaps most reviews praise Star actually confronted his evil coun<who took his character from Edgar Wars a bit too highly. It is not as Rice Burroughs.” “ As a kid I read terpart. The little robot reminded fantastic as it is made out to be, but me of K. Vonnegut Jr’s little creaa lot of science fiction. But instead it definitely fills a void in the movie of the technical, hard science writtion in “Sirens of Titan.” Even the industry-. I just might stand in line ers like Isaac Asimov, I was --in- - scene in the bar room could have again. _terested in Harry Harrison, and a been- borrowed from one of this -mictiel ne;ay adventure.” ’ At first Lucas wanted a remake of Flash Gordon, but couldn’t obtain the rights to the pulp stories. So he decided to write his own. “ I realizehat I could make up a character as easily as Alex.
“I Want To Hold Your Loves You”, Hand”, and “All My Loving”. Each of them commercially palatable, accurately aimed at the current top ten, where most of them found a home: But each was a paean to youth. It was adolescence exalted, simple songs about the uncomplicated days of youth and love. Hotding hands, kissing in the dark at the dance, getting pinned, going steady. Life where the toughest decisions were where to take “your girl” that weekend. . It was pure escapism. It was shelter from a life that was quickly becoming more complex. It was shelter from the horror and inevitability of the six o’clock news. 8 Since played to death, overexploited by companies eager for a fast buck and sure profit, this music turned a generation’s ear in the direction of the Beatles, and to the British ‘Isles, What the young heard from the Beatles and their contemporaries ch-anged the face of society. Capitol Records, in a bid to cash- in on today’s resurgence of “beatlemania” released a live album called The Beatles At ihe Hollywood Bowl. With the fab four’S.ol,d producer, George Martin, at the helm this record
stands to boost Capitol’s profitsa percentage point or two. Originally, the tapes of two concerts, one in 1964, the other a year later, were not suitable for pressing. But as technology marches ever onward, new systerns were available twelve years later _ -that, could turn out a commercially acceptable product. Certainly you won’t buy the album because you haven’t heard some of the songs. All of them are standards, AM material of yesteryear, the battle hymns of the generation gap. The,delivery of the material isn’t that different either. The boys stay very true to their studio versions, improvising is rj unheard of. . What makes this album interesting is the sound. The sound of thousands of young people, mostly girls,screaming. From the opening song till the final chord fades away, it is there. 0 Crying, laughing, sobbing, moaning, and wailing. The sound changing into a single ominous roar. Like playing a concert at Toronto International Airport, or at the Roman Coliseum with the lions in the stands. The Hollywood Bowl album\ stands more importantly as a historical or sociological landmark than a musical one,-even though it may be difficult to I ‘-ce..-.
differentiate among the three. The introductions given by Lennon \ and McCartney are faithful to the image the press had given them, alternately shy, bold, confident and selfconscious. Lennon’s humour shines through with introductionsdelivered in an easy jovial manner. “Here’s an oldie for you now. Some of the older people in the audience may remember it. It’s from lasfyear.” It’s hard today to appreciate-the impact of this band, since the last work they did together is nearly eight years old. But again we find ourselves in another musical morass. AM radio offers a staple of two chord, sluggish moving, disco music. FM radio, a sixties innovation, has become virtually stripped of its originality. A musical revolution occurred in the sixties. Spurred by the Beatles’ success, many groups were brought to the fore. The San Francisco Sound, a new wave of electric bluesmen; Nashville, Country-Rock, The, L.A-. Sound, and others, were uncovered, explored and exploited. Now music has become splintered, moving in a thousand directions at once,. with no popular mainstream genre. And in the sea of musical mediocrity, saviours are few and far between. Almost all the musicians of importance are closer,to forty than twenty,. and getting older. So people are turning their gaze back to scenes like those two nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Back when music was exciting new-found, and fun. George Martin captured this feeling in-the liner notes he did for the album: In the multiplatinum, sophisticated world we live intoday, it isdifficult to appreciate the excitement of the Beatles breakthrough. My youngest daughter, Lucy, now nine years old, ‘once asked me about them, “you used to record them, didn’t you daddy?” she asked “were they as great as the Bay City Rollers?” “Probably not,” I replied: Some day 4 .: she will find out. --doug
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Eventually the huge tanker, where the battle by Barbara Bach. They meet in Egypt, then through the window of a moving train. He is fought, begins to crumble. After the ninernee on to Sardinia to destroy the vast subeven survives the destruction ofThe burning thousandth devastating explosion, the merged empire of the terrible Stromberg. tanker (which sinks in 30 segonds right be-wreckage and death become less interesting. There is beautiful photography of the fore your eyes). The tanker is the property-of the Stromberg Pyramids and the Sardinian coast (land and The most memorable trick of all is played line. The evil villain Stromberg is underwater), but the most exciting filming comes in the opening chase in Austria, as ‘by Bond. Cornered by the brute,.Bond manplayed by Curt Jurgens. He deals sternly oeuvres an electro-magnet over the other’s with enemies and traitors. ‘His secretary gets Bond-skis and parachutes his -way out of head and turns on the power, grabbing him dumped unceremoniously into a pool with a danger in the high mountains. There are by the teeth. He then drops him in the breathtaking shots as the camera races down hungry shark after she tries to sell the plans shark’s tank. To the delight of all, this amazof his nuclear submarine tracking device. It the slopes of the Alps with the skiers. ing man (?) not only lives, but chews the ?/is an ugly scene as she -is munched by the-big Among other perils, the agents are relentshark to bits. , fish. lessly pursued by Stromberg’ s monstrous The microfilm plans are the thing the -henchman, Jaws. This weirdo is like an AdNot all the scenes are as far-fetched as that one, but there is enough light-hearted killing major world powers are after. Both Britain dams family butler, but strange. He has - and the Soviet Union are threatened. This shiny metal teeth which he uses to subdue and wounding to keep just about everyone leads the KGB director to announce “a new x his victims. To maim people,, he smashes satisfied. Yes, Martha, I agree that this film era in Anglo-Soviet co-operation”. $heir heads against any ceiling that’s handy. does -promote apathy, pessimism, decaWhat this means, of course, is that Roger it is 3 He really is a durable character. An eiabo- . dence and especially sexism. Otherwise, Moore, as Bond, gets to traipse around the rate castle scaffold smothers him. He falls a fine film.. -world with an enticing Soviet agent, played off a mile-high cliff. He goes head first ‘doine gershuny -
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