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visible if they are to gain true ’ t _ < “Dooh -and Gloom” was ‘interest;” and that’“equality Aequality. She was also in the forecast at Ibe syniposfor women is uneconomical.” While the government is ‘_favour of a tax-strike in ’ . \ ,’ ium “Feminist Vi&ions of the e@a’n- ‘Canada, irivolving a?!+Futufe: Vision Two - The I willing to contihue \ Ecofiomy,” he14 in Toronto sion - of armaments, said contented + taxpaying cltlCohen, it’ is cutting back on zens. Ho-wever, she did not on Ma’rch 2. , ; -’ .n Propose a. $rategY for imc The event was’spons&ed _ social services because they ; by the National &&ion,Comclaim them to be inflationplementatlon, but ‘instead left it as an idea for future mittee on the Status of ,ary. , Since wqme’n are, the primary us&s o*f social serv; consideration. ’ .ytirneti, and; intilueed preThe only bit of sunshiie4o ices, it is thhy who arekhurt sentations by three’economdcspel the “doom and gloom” first andmost. Cohen further isis, one union organizer,.+d _- ’ of the meeting came from of NAC,-Lynn added that women are better, * I then president off in society today because . union organizer Madelaine h MacDonald. Parent, She believks that/the everyone is better off; howEconomist Marjorie Co\ ,hen, speaking on’ Economic ever, thgir relativeqosition _ way tq receive equal pay for work of equal value4 and to ’ Barriers to Liberation, r& hasnot improved. In a subsequentspeech ,elimigate th “female job vealed that a-recent meeting between Pierre Trudeau and MacDonald maintained that ghettos,“- is t t rough collective-zbargaining. members ,of <I)JAC prov,ed* women have so-far r.eceived .Parent spoke out tigainst unfruitful. Apparently, the op.lp token improvements in the seniority ‘system’ tihich T Liberal government believes society, and that they will * that w-o&n’s interests are need to, become,jmore poli,leSsens the importance of other job performance fac_- .not a part of the ‘!-national ‘tica’lly active and public,ly . _ I tois and leaves most ,wom/en . in positions of 10~ pay and ..- _ -...E HEADI1II‘ARTERS p&&&5. ./ Perhaps the most sytibolic illustration to emerge from __l_l_-....---______-.....-...~..-~---..~~. , the -sym@osiup came, not CYCLE 6 SPORTS LTD frbm the s,peakers but from~ YOU& SPORTS I HEAbQUARlERS the furniture in the.*confer. en& roo,m. .Wtirn’Ten, sp’eakers found it peyessary to stand on two telephone books in order to see o&er the top-of the KATE EXCHANGE - SGAFIPENING ? pGdium.- FOG the present, at ‘RADE UP MENS .. EOYSL~DIES -: .’ least, it seems that sytiIICYCLES SPORTS EQUIPMENT ETC posiums are geared .almost exclusively toward the m,ale. r. > ’ _- ’ 7- Debi’lrock ,” 2 -,. ‘: _ <-.
Montreal Grou’ps to Take - . South A&” ’ .Actioh Against. MT$ ’ i A Concentration Camp? MONTREAL - Several Montreal groups -:MONTREAL - L$e in 80ufh Africa
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is are planning to tak6 legal ction against similar to &at in a “concentration camp”, the CTV Television net J ark for &lleged accordi*g to tin exile from the country. distortions of facts in a public affairs “Human rights are liot only lacking,-but’ program on international sfudents. ’ / are totally abseqt ,,in_ South ’ Africa today,” Philip Taylor, who voluntarily _-’ The Mctmtreal Ad Hoc. Committee. left the country in -1970, to14 ,McGill Against W5, composed of nI%pk Chinese students during -the recent community groupsi wi!l be taking‘ legal * Uni\rersity South Africa Solidarity Week. action against the-- W5 show, “The Taylor is one of a few blacks to. have Campus Giveaway” within the next twd been granted’ a quality education there. weeks. Before lqaving for Canada, he studied In the W5 programlscenesl of Chinese law. He received a masters from MdGill stpdents on -Canadian campuses were’ ih- political science. He now teaches shown while a commentary talked about speci.al education in Lachine, Quebec. foreign students crowding Canadians Taylor told, the audience-that South out of *any university programs. But npb-whites must carry passafter investigation, the comniittee foun&‘, African * bo&s’ ~““at ‘#1,.‘ times. The passbooks that all but two of the alleged foreign ‘. contain photos, detailed personal infor-: students shown on the program were tiLtion and racial and religious’ descripi C_ahadians o-f CMnec_s.e ,+&cent .. . , tiggs; They must bear an employer’s The conirpittee is lobking Aor, su&ort sig@ture. Any irregularity means poss-. from Mon’t‘pebl&; >The’ Chi&& --Neigh: .it+ Imprisonment, fine or sometime’s bourhodd Association, under the ausbanishment from a region. ’ ,pices of the Ad Hoc Cammittee, will b-e anon-whit’& are told ‘which schaols considering suing, the producers df ihe they may go to, and even what streets show and the network. Their opiions tire ’ they may travel during what hours. The a-- class action suit , or an injunction white- mino$itpgoverhment also tells calling, fbr equal air time. -them with whom they can socialize. The ,Sitikebng-Lee, committee coordinat6r;-“color bar’” even appiies for hospitals 7 -planA to gain ared, sueport by showing matiy won’trreat non-white Eases. Said the W5 film to Montreal universities and Taylo?! “The position is likely growin&% :p CEGEPS, , pointing out the distortions worse, particularly in rdral areas.” and circulating a -petition. The coti? In-gene@ practice, the non-white ig mitt&! also hopes‘ to stage a rally in seen, only in his function as a labourer,f%+il. ‘, - _ :‘, ’ Wh,ite employers will oxily grant six, rntihth contracts. Experienbe or per-. forn%mce &aTantees -nothing. %A hog-1 &i; ‘&&rat~(&, -1, +,i@ doing the same job .as a whit+’ worker may get one-tenth the wages. c .’ / .: .6f Dep#!ence ~.t_ ’ Answering a student’s question, Tay; *I *. / lor agreed that the Sotietto u’prising “‘may be writing on the wall.” But close - WINNIPEG - The University Grants Commission (uGC) of Manitoba has #$Vernment SUWfi?ihNX? and the thre@ bf imprisonment aqd hanging -admitted the provincial &overnment d&t+ revolutionary moveinents -,from ’ hands it spending’ “targets” even before getting started. The mere expression of,.a the UGC has made its “independent” can constitute an offence I complaint budget requests. The inform/atio,n came to light at th& against- the gOVerIiment. “South Africa hanging! rate ifi the March meeting. of the- Univerbity of has: the highest .1Manitoba Senate,. when correspondence wor1d”, he said* between .the ~university presidbnt and 1 / Willard Condo, chair of the UGC, was ‘, Asbestos Probkms ifi c presented to-senators. ~’ I’ President Ralph Campbell &bre$sed ’ OntarW Schools A dismay ,and surp’rise at Condo’s explanatidptis: in th,e,Jet~e+... s + ., .,. ., \. 4s many as 150 educational instituThe rofe qf thkUGC has beenreduced tions in Ontario hive -been told by the /to ‘.‘one of . making -a few simple provincial government ‘to replace Sr arithmetic calculations,” Campbell said: cover ‘portions of buildings constructed i One Sehator pointed-out this revelausing asbehtos. Inhatind asbesfos part” tipn makes a mockery of the university’s icles can; lead to serious lung disease , long detailed budget procedure which including cancer. Thamaterial is used if s deter‘mines the size of the budget request a fire ret@dant. to the UGC.,One lett& from Condo ends “We’re telling them this is a,danger to on a somewhat omipous note - the health, that for safety and security they ,commisSion members have asked me .to should do it (remove -or seal the i& ‘cate to you (Campbell) “that the tone material),” says Stan Orlowski, associ. of 9_ our communication on’Feb.19 does ate chief architect for the ministries of nothing to .improve relationships l beeducation and colleges and tiniversities. t ween the university . &l- the, UniOrlowski said the- institutions known kversities Grants Commission.” to have asb&tos were built in fhe-1960s The, UGC is suppo@dly ar) i&$tirtial and ‘are located thro’ughout the provinc,e. body which -requests funds from the .Although some of the schools have veby provin&j government for the operation. little’ asbestos;, . Orlowski say&’ any and tiaintenauce &f Manitoba’s uniamodnt is enough to-cause concern. !‘If Geq;sit@s, and distributes these f&ls the material iS flaky, it doesn’t mattelz ‘amongst the’ institutions. whaf the percentage is - they have to do \ ry something about it .” I , Orlowski\ added the Education Min-. i&r Bette Stephenson has not decided A&d theWinner is... who will pay ‘for the necessary repairs, /-\ . , but he-added”that .most schools”wili-have ‘AUSTIN - The University of Te)tas’ to do their own work. Each school h’as version of the Rhinoceros Party ‘- a been sent L9manuaI with inforpation on - candida& known as “None of the Above” i asbestos and Instruction on ta’kitig - cgme UC the big winner in recept * &mples,-removal and sehling. student &&rnment elections. , New Democratic Party MPP, Ed “N&e of, the Above”, who ran for Zieaba, is angry at gover.nment inac’tian several student positions, captured 42 :;on the.,asbestbs problem. He said that percept of the graduate student vote, 34 asbestos hazards are, taken much more ke percent ‘of the se&or’ vote, 33 percent af - seridusly in the US- than in Ontario,. the_ junior v&e and 20 percerit of the “Students are especially at risk,” , sophombre vote.. I -w ote Ziemba in a letter to Stiphenson: But despite “None of the Above’s” L “T “h eir r’emaining life exptictancy propop$afity, the candidtite ‘was unable to vides a long development period for achigve electoral success. asbestos-related diseases.“., \Se . -
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