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qSD came to a close Tuesday h federation president Shane berts advising students to work bough the administration’s ng-Range Planning Committee. <oberts was speaking at a leration-sponsored forum itled:’ ‘What is the Future of our iversity?” n keeping with the workshops lier in the day there was a heavy bresentation of administrators as npared to students. UW Chanlor Carl Pollock, vice-president, ante Bruce Gellatly, vice:sident, academic Tom Brzusvski, and graduate dean Lynn’ ttt, were all invited by Roberts to lress the forum. Apart from adnistrators, student politicians, 1 media, there were only about students present. The chancellor saw the future k of the university as: “ a misn of the highest order,” to make nada a better place for people to e and work. Reviewing UW’s history and bking to the future Pollock deu-ed : “You ain’t seen nothin
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Finance chief Gellatly was not so timistic. He gazed into his istal ball and said: “The best we n hope for is that levels (of govlment funding) will be tied to intion.” * Brzustowski, however, has no e for a crystal ball, instead he has uck a Long-Range Planning bmmittee. -The committee will dress itself to key questions on e university’s future, and will ike a report to senate. This committee also formed a tjor part of Roberts’ speech. He 2s it as a great opportunity for [dents to talk with their profesr-s and fellow students on the Dblems they face at university. Roberts said a lot of the quesIns students are asking about :ir education “ . . . are dependent I outside agencies, an.d a lot thin the university itself, ” but i speech mainly dealt with inter1 problems. He lauded the co-op programs, cause they give students practi1 experience, and help ease stunt unemployment and housing ” oblems.
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An executive meeting on Monsy took an unusual turn when sev-al people were barred from atriding. In particular, federatio-n student )uncillor Heather Robertson was bld she couldn’t attend b-ecause le was, in the words of viceresident Dave McLellan, an enemy of the people.” Radio Waterloo co-ordinator ave Assmann was another of the :ople who did not stay. He ex-essed considerable surprise at ie decision to hold a closed meet45 Two other students later tried to tend the meeting and were also irned away. President Shane oberts said the executive wdas dislssing some “legal questions.” Ihen asked why there were people :tending who were not in the exzutive, Dave McLellan replied iat the meeting was closed “to horn we object to having here.“, Id that the people there were inited by him. The two students fere Peter Blunden and Alex eamish, both members of the hevron staff. This seems to go against the sual practice of the federation of aving all meetings open to all stuents.
He called for course evaluations; credits for work done with the federation or societies, more systematic feedback from alumni, and for more study space (quiet, with good lighting). The president concluded his NSD address by saying there was no ready formula to the problems. The picture for graduate studies at Waterloo is that despite a current funding freeze and the poor job prospects, the program must be kept in good running order. Dean Watt’s strategy is to strengthen the areas where the university is already strong and keep the whole program ‘idling for the next decade. Then in the 1990’s when a large number of Ontario faculty are due toretire, and the undergraduate enrollment is projected to rise, the program will be ready to be put in gear. If this is achieved, he said, Canada will not have to search for faculty outside its own boundaries, as it was forced to in the sixties. During the question period Roberts was challenged that following his election he had written in the chevron that he was the only candidate with “an elaborated strategy to combat the cutbacks.” Roberts replied that he wasn’t sure if he had used the term “elaborate”. He reiterated his position that the cutbacks come from two sources-the provincial government .!---= and the university. The Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) was dealing with the provincial situation, he said, and the UW federation’s duty was to keep students informed on that activity. Locally, he said the societies and the federation fieldworkers would find out what areas were short of money and would raise it in Senate. The question period brought the only spark of militancy to appear in any of the federation events. AIA spokesperson professor Doug Wahlsten suggested to Brzustowski that-a very concrete way to fight the cutbacks would be to stop paying interest on the mortgages of the university residences. Wahlsten pointed out that the university has a debt of $94 million and paid $6 million in interest last year. The proposal brought the meeting to life with Watt and math council rep Bob White both attempting to answer the question before it could reach Brzustowski. None of them considered it a favourable suggestion.
Brzustowski replied that if the university stopped paying the mortgage it would lose the residences. “So occupy them,” said Wahlsten. The people have the right not to pay for these cutbacks, he said. Instead the rich should be taxed outrageously. The free chevron asked Roberts for his opinion on Wahlsten’s proposals. He said he would like
more details on where the interest is going but that he didn’t want to make it a priority at this time. He also said, “I’ve always been a supporter of a much more progressive taxation. ’ ’ Other suggestions from the audience about building more apartment accomodation on campus which would better suit the needs of upper year students drew little ‘.
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NSD was brought to a close with those left at the meetingthe administrators and the student politicians-adjourning for a brief reception. There the events of Canada’s first day of national studen~t protest were discussed over some beer and cheese. -neil
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_____ __-Laurentian condemns Two free chevron representadents attended the workshops, tives attended the NSD activities at which also covered issues such as Laurentian University. At the invi- ’ cutbacks, students and labour, OSAP, and bilingualism. tation of the NSD committee there, they presented a seminar on the In the afternoon the students aschevron affair and the role of the sembled in the campus hall for a student press. plenary session. Several motions Over two hundred and fifty stufrom the workshops were pre-
Recall demanded At press time, a petition for the recall of Arts representatives Franz -Klingender and Don Orth had collected about 335 of the necessary 359 signatures. The two reps, elected in a proRoberts campaign in February, refused to comment to the free chevron on the prospect of their recall. Klingender, who initially refused
an interview but consented to write out a statement for the free chevron, later changed his mind. In separate letters, both Klingender and Orth stated that they did not regard the free chevron a “legitimate student newspaper on this campus ,” and thus did not feel “obligated” to answer questions for that paper. That many of their constituents do recognize and support the free chevron in its stand for reinstatement and investigation seems to be inconsequential to the two councillors. , - val moahadam
People from K-W Probe have been selling apples and cider in various locations around campus recently to raise money for the flora Gorge Defense Fund. They are aiming at preventing construction of a br;idge across the gorge, which would destroy much of its beauty. By Tuesday over $200 had been raised from the sales. They also hope for a grant from the federation. The apples are organicaI/y grown by a UW Man-Environment grad and are rated “very tasty” by our food critic. Buy some and find out how you can keep a spot of natural beauty from being sold out to developers.
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your sots It seems to be the season for society elections. Three campus societies are in the process of choosing, or have just chosen new presidents. Only one, however, will be elected. Two new men have taken over the top positions in Environmental Studies and Arts societies. They were unopposed and so get the posts by acclamation.. For Engineering Society A, however it is a different story. For the Nov 17 elections there are four candidates running for president, three for vice-president, and two for secretary. Ed Attfield, Hugh Alley, Joe Barabas, and Peter King are running for president. John Shaw, Doug Steele and John Vinke are the vicepresidential candidates. Joe Cmcich and Paul Johnson are contending for the secretary position. There will be one acclamation; Parnell Levesque as treasurer.
’ In E&fourth year planning student Mike Kabasiewicz was the sole candidate. He stated that he was prepared to make way for somebody younger. The position was vacated by Andrew Tucker, who resigned.