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Federation. Graduate voting rights in the federation of students were terminated by the federation council Wednesday. The council voted 9-8-O to adopt a bylaw redefining membership in the federation so that only feepaying members can vote. Graduate students do not pay fees to the federation, and so their voting rights, including those of the graduate councillors, were terminated immediately. It is not known if the seats will be redistributed over the undergraduate consitituencies, or if they will remain for graduate students who choose to pay the federation fee. A motion to formally eliminate the graduate constituency was tabled, and so the constituency remains although the voting rights have gone. Math councillor R.A.G. White, who seconded the motion to eliminate graduate voting rights, said that “ Helga Petz will probably decide” how the new bylaw is to be interpreted. White claimed that Petz is the federation’s expert on bylaws. Math councillors J. J. Long and Ron Hipfner admitted that they do
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not know what will happen to the two seats presently occupied by graduate councillors. All they are sure of is that graduate voting rights in the federation no longer exist. During the debate on the new bylaw, graduate councillor Mike DeVillaer said the the federation annual general meeting (AGM) March 1 had defeated a bylaw with the same effect. DeVillaer argued that council would be going against the will of the general membership if they were to adopt the new bylaw. R.A.G. White said that a “reasonable period of time” has passed since the AGM, and that council should not be deterred by the results of that meeting. White did not respond to the remark that three weeks is hardly a reasonable period of time. Speaking on the significance of the voting at an AGM, councillor Larry Smylie, his resignation has yet to come before council, said that the council has “all powers of a general meeting of the membership” and therefore the defeat of a similar bylaw at the AGM has no significance. -nick
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Co-op Biology a possibikty in future The department of Biology may finally offer a co-op program, if a study to be done this summer finds it feasible. Physics was the first department in science to go co-op, which they did‘ in 1962. Chemistry followed in 1966, and Earth Sciences in 1973. At a meeting earlier this term, the Biology department officially requested the department of coordination to undertake ,a study, and selected a committee to coordinate the survey. Dick Pullin, the Applied Chemistry co-ordinator, who is looking forward to helping with the survey, said it would probably take two to three months to complete, and would probably involve two coordinators. He said that roughly 40 to 50 potential employers would be visited, and a wide variety of job criteria would be discussed, including students’ academic term, time of year, job location, and type of work. Pullin expected to find a large percentage of the jobs within the govemment, although the private sector would not be ignored. The importance of conducting a feasibility study before starting the program was also stressed by associate director of co-ordination Jim Wilson. He pointed out that a weak co-op program would be detrimental to other viable ones, citing examples from Mohawk College, and some American universities. As further evidence, he described detailed surveys into the co-op Geography, Geology, Economics and English programs. All of these programs have been successful. In addition, he referred to a study into a proposed co-op Social Work program, which proved its unfeasibility because of the existence of many volunteer programs for social work students. In a survey of the Biology faculty conducted by co-op Science rep Stephen Coates, only two of the 11 profs who returned the questionnaire thought that enough jobs could be found for the program, while six were uncertain. Professor Hebda pointed out
that, while his own experience with the job market was not good, the initiation of a co-op program might change that. A.G. Kempton, who heads the above-mentioned committee and has hired co-op chemistry students from Northeastern University before coming to Waterloo, is optomistic about a co-op program for Biology. He is, however, concerned that such a program not interfere with faculty research. He pointed out that while half of the faculty members are involved in lab research which may be done year-round, the other half do their research in the field, and must do it in the summer. Additionally, he felt that government jobs, which would employ a majority of students, would be primarily involved in summer field work. For these reasons, he wanted the co-op program to exclude summer school terms. When pointed out that if the program was similar to the Geology program, only a 2B term would be taught during the summer, which would include only a few faculty, Kempton replied that this would necessitate juggling some teaching assignments, but could be done. It was also pointed out that “oddities” in a co-op program, such as double work terms and double school terms, make it difficult for students to set up alternating living arrangements with students in the opposite stream. Kempton raised the additional points that Biology has one of the highest student-to-faculty ratios of any department in the university, and that the cutbacks have been severely felt. He was, however, optomistic that the program would get started, stating that the only thing lacking is any organized student opinion. If the program gets the nod, the first class will probably have 30 to 40 students, and be enrolled in the 1978-79 academic year. The Applied Math department enrolled its first “co-opers” last September. At present all 30 of them are on work terms. -stephen
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Following Docherty’s presentation, CUP vice-president Dan Keeton spoke in defence of a CUP commission of inquiry. He reiterated the need for an end to the confusion regarding the situation at Waterloo. Scott Disher from the Arthur stressed that “the whole idea of an investigation is wrong.” He explained that it constituted a retreat from CUP’s previous support for the chevron, and for the democratic principle of due process. After much debate, a motion by the Manitoban (U of Manitoba) for CUP support of Reinstate! Investigate! was defeated in a roll call vote by 23-18. The national executive motion for an investigation was then shelved in favour of one by the Meliorist. Following strong opposition to this motion, the Excalibut put forward an amdendment to the Meloris t motion. It called for support for reinstatement of the chevron and a factfinding team of three persons acceptable to both the chevron and CUPOTT to investigate and write a feature on the situation at Waterloo. The motion narrowly passed by 22-20.
The chevron staffs demand for reinstatement prior to an investigation of any kind has been supported by the Excalibur (York), Arthur (Trent), Eyeopener (Ryerson), Lambda (Laurentian), Argosy (Mount Allison), Queen’s Journal (Queen’s), Gateway (Alberta), Manitoban (Manitoba), Sheaf (Saskatchewan), among others. -val
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he ed or an apology. Coates’ motion was Gary Prudence, Chief Returning Officer for the Federation of Stu- not discussed. Gordon Swaters, who has been dents, was dismissed from his posiacting NUS/OFS Liaison Officer tion at Wednesday’s council meetsince Thompson took office in mg. was recommended to In a motion presented by the ex- January, Council by Thompson for the pdsiecutive, council voted to fire Prution of NUS/OFS Liaison Officer. dence because of the irregular way .I In the past, the two positions hadhe handled the council elections in been separate. Thompson decided February. Prudence himself was not at the to combine the positions since the were similar. meeting. When asked whether he portfolios Grad Representative David Car.-had been informed of the meeting ter asked who the other applicants and the expected action of council, were and if it.was possible that all of vice-president Ron Hipfner replied the contenders could be given a that the motion had been reprinted chance to speak on why they in the minutes for the past three wanted to be liaison officers. The weeks and that “Prudence should other applicants were Lorne Gerhave seen it by now.” shuny for OFS Liaison, Doug President Doug Thompson reasHamilton and Sam Wagar (who had As Wayne Berthin ponders, Bruce leavens and Pattijoy Armoogam watch other c/owns perform in the three-ring sured council that Prudence would withdrawn before the council meet- circus thinly disguised as a “federation be given formal notice of the decicouncil meeting. ” But not only do the clowns provide humour, they also ing) for NUS Liaison officer. Swatsion of council. Council voted supply pathos, for they control a quarter of a million dollars of students’ money. overwhelmingly to dismiss Pru- \ ers was the only applicant who had -photo by dave creek applied for both positions. dence. Though council denounced the Inthe OFS report on the conferstudent. The position, created by Mauro Mavernak, speaker for ence in March, Swaters stated that irregularities of the election proCouncil voted in favour of the- Thompson, is a part-time position Council, was finally ratified at ceedings, it defeated a motion to the delegation had voted against a motion. and member of the Executive Wednesday’s council meeting. reimburse to Val Moghadam the motion calling for the abolition of The chevron/federation conflict, Board. Rorrison will be responsible Mavernack was the only applicant . money she spent on the council all laws against the use of mariwhich has been an issue on campusfor the interaction between the for the speaker position and has juana, hashish, LSD, andmescalin. , election and to apologize to her. since September 24, was not dissocieties and the federation and for been auditioning for it since March Mike DeVillaer, Grad Rep, stated Moghadam had been a contender cussed at council in keeping with a chairing the committee of Presi1st. that he felt the delegation had acted for one of the arts seats on Council motion moved by Larry Smylie, dents meetings. -heather robertson without a proper mandate from in the February 1977 elections. Her Renison representative, on March nomination was rejected by Prucouncil. He moved that at the next 8. A motionmoved by Engineering the delegation dence at first because it was ten OFS conference Representative Wayne Berthin to seek to have the motion reconsiminutes late. However, Prudence reinstate the chevron and establish dered. vacillated on his decision and a Commission of Enquiry was ruled Michael Dillon, co-c hairperson changed his mind six times before out of order by the speaker because dents asked for the refund in the fall With the flapping of limp-wristed of the Board of Publications, declaring her nomination invalid. it contravened the previous motion in the arms as the chairperson uttered in term, and only 1 percent amended the motion to read that Science representative Stephen moved by Smylie. one breath “in favor, opposed’, abswinter. council adopt a policy of its own for Coates pointed out that this motion The Berthin motion was deleted the Board of Governors Gellatly said that if more than 50 tentions”, the abolition of all laws against was covered in a later motion subfrom the agenda. executive co‘mmittee passed on its percent of the ~students demanded mitted by himself which called for a marijuana and other drugs. their fees returned the scheme recommendations to the next board Heather Rorrison, past viceCoates raised the< point that new election. would be curtailed. He regarded meeting April 4. president of the Arts Society, was council should not be making moAfter much deliberation the mothis as a means by which students The executive committee apchosen by council as the new Socitions on issues that were more or tion was defeated, leaving proved rent increases for married can choose whether they want less the individual decision of each ety Liaison Officer. Moghadam without reimbursement students apartments ranging from OPIRG, thus eliminating the need for a referendum. 8.5 per cent to 9.2 per cent, reduced Board member Gloria Chapman from the 13.8 per cent increase proposed by the Board of Goverasked what OPIRG was. After a couple of seconds of silence, Burt nors at the January meeting. The UW senate met last Mon9.2%, which brings it to $63.5 millceptable level. The reduced rent increase is a Matthews said he didn’t know what their current projects were but that ion. Thus, from the point of vie,w of Graduate enrolment is expected result of negotiations between the day, and the major item under conBIU values, the province is nearly to drop by 5% in 1977-78, and ihis Married Students’ Tenant Associathey used to compare grocery sideration was the 1977-78 budget, 5% behind inflation. prices at local supermarkets. which was approved and will be has prompted a cut of $12,500 in the tion and UW president Burt MatthIt was announced that National , passed to the Board of Governors The budget allocates 38.19% of scholarships and bursaries fund. ews. Research Council grants to the unithe ordinary operating expenses to However, this was partially offset The tenants agreed to reductions for final ratification. versity would increase by 12.4 perfaculty salaries. The proportion al- by an additional $9300 that UW is in service and increases in workThe budget shows that over the cent. The distribution of this inlocated to faculty has been steadily required to contribute to the fund in load for existing employees in exnext year, the provincial governcrease means that Engineering-gets since 1970, when the order to meet increased pledges change for a reduction of the rent ment will reduce its contribution to increasing an increase of 13.9 percent, Scifigure was 34.8%. from private sources. increase to about nine per cent. the ordinary operating budget from ence 12.1, and Math 7.1, ES and UW president Burt Matthews Finally, while faculty and staff The plan will have the $54.,000 80.76% in 1976-77 to 80.15% in HKLS receive 140 and 70 percent noted that the faculty numbers are levels are generally being held condeficit of the apartments wiped out 1977-78. Meanwhile, the student increases respectively. being held constant, and the UW stant, UW security will increase its over three years rather than over contribution will rise from 15.97% The increase is a result of federal salaries are among the highest in manpower by over 14% - from 21 two years as originally proposed in in 1976-77 to 17.06% in 1977-78. the province. government policy. But members to 24 employees. The cost of UW the board. The ordinary operating budget Matthews said that the salary of the scientific community have security will increase by the same The plan also includes spreading excludes ancillary enterprises such criticised it, saying that their funds, trends will have to be halted so that percentage, so that the price of law the load of preventative mainteas the residences, parking, the in terms of buying power, have acUW can hire more faculty. Increasand order on campus will be nance program among the ten peobookstore, intercollegiate athleing enrolment is inflating the ratio ple already employed instead of hirtually declined over the past few $429,000 in 1977-78. tics, graphic services and food seryears and so the increase is much of students to teachers to an unac-nick redding ing an extra_ person. vices. These items are budgeted on less than it purports to be. At present there are six custoa break-even basis. dians and four superintendants, Several vacancies are appearing The shifting of financial burden on the executive committee as who perform minor repairs. from the province to the student is members’ terms come to an end. There will also be a study of the accomplished by tuition fee inOne of these vacancies is the positenants’ attitudes to furnished creases. The size of the province’s tion now held by Kathy Reynolds, The New Democratic Party Campus Association came-out solidly in apartments. Apparently, some stucontribution is determined by mula student representative. support of people opposing unjust actions by governments. dents have their own furniture and tiplying the enrolment figures by There are two candidates, Shane In a meeting last Tuesday, the local social democrats passed two are paying for its storage. When all the value of the Basic Income Unit Roberts and P.B. Thomas. motions, one dealing with the chevron conflict, and the other with the 600 apartments were originally fur(BIU). Roberts’ candidacy is in question Liberal government’s new bill on immigration. Both of the motions nished “we thought it was the best “formula fee” is The province’s since he is no longer a member of were passed unanimously. thing since the invention of the deducted from the BIU value bethe senate. He was a member exThe first motion, moved by Lorne Gershuny, condemned the federawheel” said Bruce Gellatly, indifore the contribution is computed, officio as president of the tion for their arbitrary and anti-democratic actions, and supported the cating, though, that this could be and this is how the tuition fee inFederation of Students, a position chevron demand of reinstate-investigate. time to review the situation. creases are enforced; the province he lost through a recall petition last The other motion condemned the Liberal government Bill C-24, on The furniture replacement simply increases the formula fee, immigration, because it unjustly blamed the immigrants for the failure budget will be reduced by $7600 to year. and the university must charge of the governments economic policy, and that it denied fundamental The executive decided to wait a level of $3200. higher fees or suffer a loss of rerights and-freedoms to all people in Canada. The executive indicated that it until after the April Senate meeting venue. The mover of the motion, Jeff N.D.P. Woods, spoke on behalf of the was pleased to have dealt with the to choose the new executive motion saying that the bill was racist in its treatment of immigrants. member. The value of a BIU will be $25 19 tenants’ association and will conThe Board of Governors plans to Examples of its racist nature are that in any dispute against the sult them in October about next in 1977-78, which is an increase of immigration department the people taking either the prosecution or year’s increase, which the associamake recommendations this sum8.9% over the 1976-77 value. Howdefense are immigration officials, employed by the very government tion has requested be kept to seven mer to prevent the same kind of - ever, appearances can be mislead\ the immigrant is fighting. He also mentioned that the sessions are held situation from occuring again. per cent. ing. If the increase in the formula in private. . The executive approved an inIn closed session the executive fee is taken into account, the inThe NDP campus association also came out in support of the Intercrease in OPIRG fees to four dolchose Robert N. Farvolden as the crease in the real value of the B IU new dean of science. He takes ofnational Committee Against Racism’s (INCAR) rally April 2 in Ottawa. lars a year, from the present level of is only 4.6%. fice Sept. 1. ‘l’he increase in the ordinary -doug hamilton $3. The OPIRG fee is refundable, but only four percent of the stu-jonathan coles -operating budget over last year is
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II:30 am What’s Happening to the U.S. - Dick Gregory 2:45 pm Down to Earth Festival David Wood talks about designing and building solar heated homes and alternate energy in general. 5:OO pm Report on the Interim Committee on Financial Assistance for Students 6:00 pm Radio Waterloo News 6:15 pm Perspectives - A look at the United Nations Development
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12 noon Towards a new policy of International Co-operation for Development - Some Central Issues - David Pollock, Director of the Washington Bureau of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America gives an address on some of the economic issues facing the world if the Third World is to develop industrially and otherwise beyond the current level. 2345 pm Man Environment Impact Part I - In this programme we interview David Estrin, the only lawyer in Canada limiting his practice to environmental law. 5:30 pm Community Services Beverly Thamsey talks about the rights of adults who were adopted children to have access to their preadoption information. 6:00 pm Radio Waterloo News 6:15 pm Research ‘77 - A series of programmes focusing on Research on Campus. These programmes are courtesy of Information Services. 9:00 pm Folk Ill - All Ontario High School Folk Competition. II:45 pm Radio Waterloo News
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II:30 am Sex Counselling and Sex Therapy - An open forum which looks into the need for minimum standards to govern sex councellors and therapists, at the types of problems which require therapy, at methods of finding a therapist, and at ways sexual problems can be avoided or dealt with. 2:45 pm Man Environment impact Part 2 - Dr. Garret Hardin, Professor of Human Ecology at the University of C.aIifornia has been one of the leading figures in the ecologic awakening of this continent. 5:30 pm Sports Report 6:00 pm Radio Waterloo News 6:15 pm A feature on World Federalism and the World Federalist movement in Canada, including an interview with Mardi Findel and Helen Tucker. 9:OO pm People’s Music - This week we feature Al Vigoda. II:45 pm Radio Waterloo News
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Gmds The issue of whether graduate students should have voting and representation rights in the federation was a major topic of discussion at the March 16 regular meeting of the Graduate Club board-of directors. To date, the board has been unable to determine whether’graduate students want voting and representation rights in the federation. A general meeting was scheduled for
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March 3 to debate this question, but it was cancelled for lack of quorum. On March 1, the federation AGM voted to keep graduate students as voting members, even though graduates do not pay the federation fee. In spite of this decision, federation councillors J.J. Long and R.A.G. White have a motion on the agenda of this week’s council meet-
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Co-op daycare Tuesday in the campus centre, Klemmer Co-operative Daycare Centre held a fund raising smorgasbord to raise money for the financially-troubled project. Just under $180 was raised, but it is far from what is needed to keep the centre on its feet. There are now 21 children at the centre throughout the day, of whom six may be leaving over the next three months, aggravating a bad situation. There are presently five vacant places in Klemmer resulting in a loss of income of approximately $500 per month. Recently losses in financial support has forced the day-care centre to lay off janitors, shifting the burden of clean-up to the parents, and r& quiring greater contributions of time and effort, seriously disrupting many schedules. The trouble arises from recent cutbacks in social service spending by the provincial government. The provincial government has cut the social service funds available to regional governments. The Waterloo region employs a five category method of deciding who is eligible for the day-care subsidies. Beginning September 1976, graduates were placed into the fifth category. By using this method the region saves $7500 per year, and ends the subsidy for grad students. “Fourteen months ago we h&d twelve graduate families being subexplained Shirley sidized,” Baubier, a member of the Klemmer executive. “Then suddenly we were down to one. Lately, though, they have treated us slightly better.
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Now we have five subsidized families and we are pushing for more.” Subsidized families are a very important part of the financing of the Klemmer daycare co-op, which operates at an old farmhouse north of the UW campus. If both parents are students, howevei-, which is very frequent, they do not qualify in any way for a subsidy. “The loss of subsidies has greatly upset the Graduate Club, which has come out in defence of us,” says Baubier . Grad Club vice-president Bob Pajkowski told the chevron “we have come out in full support of the Klemmer Centre. Presently what we are doing is preparing a brief outline of the situation to present to the Regional Health and Social Services Board.” “However, all of our attempts have been in vain to have the university take an official position.” stated Pajkowski. The Klemmer Centre is presently running on the financial and time contributions of the parents. “It is entirely a co-operative program, each parent contributes four hours of time and effort weekly to the centre. . . .Our fees work on a sliding scale, according to income, $94 to $140 per month. ” The situation has been made worse by the provincial government which has recently started a campaign to discourage the use of co-operatives and encourage use of private home day-care facilities to avoid having to support the co-ops financially. -doug
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The UW Putnam team, consisting of Doug Stinson, Matthew Smith and David Wright, placed eleventh out of 264 teams in North America in the 37th annual Putnam Math competition for undergrads, held last December. We’re also first in Canada. Bruno Forte, the coach and organizer for the UW team, assures us though that we’ll be first in North America again next year. All interested students are invited to write the contest. Three names are picked in advance to comprise the team, but they are kept secret to put all the contestant, in the same frame of mind for the two-part, six hour competition. This year Rajiv Gupta placed first among the UW students, and tied for 5 1st place among over 2GaO across North America. Rajiv is only in first year Math, but already has a good track record, placing first in last year’s invitational Mathematical Olympiad, and third in UW’s own Descartes Mate, cpFpe_tition. For those people who need some extra, non-academic incentive to
try out for the team next fall, there was a complete dinner with all the frills to allow the contestants to recuperate in between parts A and B. Everything indicates the Math Faculty will carry this tradition on next year. --Oscar
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PSI meeting A panel discussion concerning commercial mind development especially the wellgroups, tnown PSI Mind Development institute, will be held today at 3:30pm in Biology 1, room 271. A videotape will be shown, after which the audience will be ible to discuss the activities of .hese groups. Several people with strong views on the subject, including Ian Adair of Toronto, will be preGent.
ing which, if passed will eliminate graduate voting rights and remove the graduate councillors. (The motion was passed. See page 1.) At the board meeting last week, graduate club president Diaa ElGabbani moved that the board write to the federation asking that the positions of graduate councillors either be abolished or redefined so that the graduate club controls the elections for the seats. In the heated debate that ensued, some board members said that until the general membership of the graduate club had made a decision, the board should pot take any action. El-Gabbani’s motion was defeated by a large margin. The board then decided that a referendum should be held on the subject. The date is not yet decided. The graduate club has ended its 1976-77 fiscal year with a surplus of
$9400. The cash assets of the club now total over $36,000 and this augmented by &bout $20,000 in furniture and equipment at the graduate house. These assets are offset slightly by the $20,000 still owed to UW on the loan that was used to esl”ablish the club in 1972. The board is currently in the process of polling graduate students on what should be done with the excess funds, which are derived from the club’s mandatory fee of $7.50 per term from each graduate student. It is apparent that the graduate club will be spending more money in the future sending board members to conferences. The themes of the conferences are national and provincial organization of graduate students. A board member attended a meeting of the Canadian Union of
Graduate Students in Manitoba this month, at a cost of $400. Next month, five board members will attend a conference at the University of Toronto, the theme of which is provincial organization. The cost of this excursion will be about $450: At the April meeting, the board will decide whether a representative whould attend a May conference of the National Union Students in Charlottetown. The cost of sending a representative is estimated at $700. The last item considered by the board was a request by UNICEF for a donation. It was moved that $100 be donated, since the graduate club has made charitable donations in the past, and and no such donations were made in 1976-77. However, without any reasons given by those who opposed, the motionwas defeated. -nick
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Thousands of high school students descended upon our campus Tuesday (despite the blizzard) to familiarize themselves with both the faculties and facilities at UW. Lectures and demonstrations such as glassblowing, fluid mechanics, computer-generated music, dance demonstrations, and acting lessons greeted the students in every faculty. The succkss of this year’s ‘Campus Day’ is attributed to the voluntaryguides, campus security, and of coursk the UW administration. - photo by Scott barron
Bill Cm24gags immigrants The Liberal government’s Bill C-24, planned to be in effect by July, will introduce to Canada the harshest immigration rules on over 25 years. In opposition, The International Committee Against Racism (INCAR) is planning a demonstration in Ottawa, supported by some UW students. Bill C-24 is seen by INCAR as creating a police state. Any permanent resident could be deported without a hearing or right of appeal if police reports think the person “likely to engage in criminal activity” or as “engaging in or instigating subversive activity by force of any government.” (Section 40 & 83, 19 & 27 (I) C> Another change is that an immigrant, no matter how long resident in Canada, could be excluded at the border for matters as slight as a parking offense on federal property. (Sec. 19 (2) b) Also a returning resident who is not a citizen could be denied admission to Canada, if any family member accompanying him/her is for any reason inadmissable. Extradition proceedings will be abolished, and a person wanted in other countries will simply be arrested and deported without a hearing. If passed the legislation will permit arrest without warrant upon suspicion of being “illegal” or breaking conditions of residence.
(sec. 104, 2) The new bill will do away with independent impartial tribunals in determining the rights of persons facing deportation and in handling disputes. Instead these matters will be settled by the Immigration Department’ s own officials. (Section 29) This act will also permit the department to dictate the location and workplace of the new immigrant a@. grant new powers of deportation for breaking these terms and conditions. (Sec. 14(3) & 95 (I)) An immigrant under the pending legislation could be conditionally admitted and required to report periodically for an indefinite period to the Immigration Department. All non-citizens residing in Canada could be made to submit to fingerprinting and photographing and could be required to carry passes at all times under penalty of six months in jail or $1,000 fine or both. (Section 115 (1) 0 and III (2) a). The power given to make regulations under the bill will be wide enough to make people submit to tattooing as a means of identification. (Sec. 115 (1) 0) Already there has been favourable response to opposing it at UW, with the New Democratic Party on campus endorsing the April 2 march. The Federation of Students
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might finance a free bus there to take UW students. This decision is pending, says Federation president Doug Thompson upon investigation to find if INCAR is part of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) dominated. If it is not then it is likely that the federation will participate. Bill C-24 now being promoted by the Liberal Immigration minister Bud Cullen, embodies the worst aspects of the Green Paper. The Green Paper was the Federal government’s study and proposals on immigration policy, which was published two years ago. It, and the present legislation, is seen by INCAR as tightening up on immigration from the exploited countries. INCAR sees the rise of tight immigration restriction as being caused by the government politicians and capitalists who are trying to blame immigrants for the present economic crisis in capitalism. They see the solution as fulfilling social needs such as housing and transbortation fulfilled and thus ending the factors which make the immigrant the scapegoat for the politicians’ failures. Anyone interested in helping to organize or participate should contact Douglas Hamilton via the federation office. -shih
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Canada’s CANDU future dim In the last article I pointed out the technical superiority of the Candu system for generating electrical power, compared to the rest of the western world’s technologies. Candu is based on a deuterium moderator which yields the highest efficiency of nuclear fuel Gtilisation presently possible. Othercduntries make up for their lower reactor efficiency by enriching the fissile content of natural uranium and reprocessing the spent fuel for its plutonium content. Canada has so far been able to avoid the incredibly dangerous reprocessing cycle by careful design, but Candu’s future in Canada must involve such reprocessing and the fantastic risks involved. In nature there exist two types of nuclear fuel. One is called fissile because it is able to undergo fission, ie., split into smaller nuclei and release tremendous amounts of heat energy. The other material is termed fertile since it may be transformed into fissile material under conditions present in nuclear reactors. Such a transmutation process was sought by alchemists in the middle ages to change lead into gold. Naturally, the fertile material is about 600 times as abundant as fissile material. Natural uranium “burned” in a Candu reactor is 99.3% fertile (U238) and 0.7% fissile (U235). The fissile content of the fuel is reduced to about 0.2% after going through the reactor and this generates the heat to produce the electricity . The fertile material is exposed to “breeding” conditions at the same time and thus plutonium is created, making up about 0.4% of the spent fuel’s content. At the present time the plutonium, and the rest of the spent fuel bundle, remains at the bottom of a deep pool of water in the reactar complex where it ionizes the water, emitting a bluish glow which surrounds the fuel element. In the year 2000 or so, when Canada should have an installed nuclear capacity of 70,000
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Cutbacks opposed Cutbacks in education are becoming a nationwide concern, and wherever they are occurring, SWdents are opposing them. The following stories are taken from recent releases of the Canadian University Press.
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In Vancouver,. 1200 singing, shouting demonstrators marched on the University of British Columbia’s administration building March 1, while inside, the Board of Governors decided that it will increase tuition fees by 25 to 30 per cent if the provincial universities’ council refuses to increase the university budget. In a prepared statement, the board said: “To make necessary provisions for the possibility that the council may reject the university’s request, the board approved tuition fee increases of $108 to $112 per year for most students in the faculties of arts, sciences, and education, as well as some other schools. The board also approved tuition increases of $130 to $194 for students in the faculties of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, commerce, and engineering. ” The increases will take effect if the BC universities’ coupcil rejects the board’s request for more money.
While the board made its decision, students outside chanted “Send the budget back” and “We want Kenny”, waiting for administration president Doug Kenny to emerge and make a statement. Many demonstrators wanted to occupy the building, but the organizers of the biggest rally at UBC since 1968 stood at the doors of the building to control the crowd. Later, 40 placard-carrying students entered the board room for the last twenty minutes of the open part of the meeting and told representatives to send the education budget back to Victoria. Arts representative Dave Jiles told the board: “The people here (at the rally) have made a committment, that the budget should be sent back, and if they (the provincial government) send it back to you without any more money, then you should close the place down.” When the students were asked to leave to allow the board to vote on the increase in private, student board member Moe Sihota said, there was a precedent for making the decision on tuition fee increases in open rather than in closed session. “Last month we discussed residence rate increases in the open part of the meeting”, he said.
However, to enable such an operation Canadians will have to accept the insidious dangers inherent in reprocessing fuels and the in- , evitability of significant radiation leaking into our environment. In addition to leaving a legacy of nuclear wastes which must be safeguarded for 250 ?housand years, consumers cannot expect The thorium will be converted to iower’power costs in the forseeable fissile U2-33 by the fissioning of the future. plutonium and the uranium and Ontario Hydro plans to spend 40 then the transmuted uranium will billion dollars-on development and 50 YOU~E NEVER WORKED IN AN ATOFIIC IXWER PIANT BEFORE? itself be fissioned, releasing even plant construction to the end of this (LT’S NOT BAD, ONCE YOU GET USED century. more energy. --f0 GLOWING IN THE DARK.” This capital will be obtained government bonds The Candu reactor, on such a from Ontario ous, centralized nuclear power floated on the world money marbreeding cycle, will be essentially kets generation system, it is possible to unchanged from the existing de’ - -. serve the future power needs of our Such costs will not benefit consociety through proven, -safe, low sumers as a whole but will sub,I technology solutions. sidize the private corporations inAlong the Arctic Ocean and volved with the government in deGreat Lakes’ shores of Ontario, reveloping this breeding cycle and newable solar and wind power is the nuclear hardware. available and the harnessing sysThe technology of thorium tems have been proven. Northern breeding will have to be developed Ontario also has vast amounts of before it can be utilized and, as untapped hydro-electric potentigl such, will be an application of even in its rivers flowing to the Arctic higher technology to solve the ocean. problems our present technology The forests of Ontario, in addihas created. tion to supplying us with lumber The development of more and and pulp, could provide us with a more complex processes will not renewable energy source if intelligbenefit the whole of society or inent harvesting methods were pracdustry but only that small section tised. involved in nuclear research. The advantages of diversifying Thus, if AECL and Ontario our energy production are manHydro have their way, consumers ifold. The environmental damage is will pay ever-increasing power much less than with the nuclear alcosts to pad the profits of a small ternative, with only northern river section of Canadian industry, valleys being flooded and the coast which is just a branch plant of studded with windmills. American corporations. Regionalization would also inThe technology treadmill increase the opportunities for empvolved here cannot solve our presloyment tremendously throughout ent problems but will try to remedy the society as compared to the them in the future with the means highly trained elite which would that have given us the original probbuild and operate our nuclear J lem. In addition, this treadmill will power plants. Capital spending + channel increasing amounts of capsigns except that it will operate al would be better spread throughout ital into itself to the detriment of the slightly higher power densities. the economy with a regionalisation The operation of a reactor on this economy as a whole. program. proposed cycle will effectively deNext week I will attempt to inThe Regionalized couple the cost of electricity from vestigate both these alternatives Alternatives uranium supplies and, theoretiand the Ontario government’s uptally, supply almost infinite power coming Royal Commission on the outputs from the remaining Instead of spending such a massubject. uranium supplies. sive amount of capital on a danger-w. reid. glenn For this reason, when the plutonium stocks have been built up to sufficient levels by the continued operation of the present reactors, thorium will be mixed with the reprocessed plutonium and enriched uranium and then inserted into the reactor.
from Packfic to Atlantic “This is a similar decision, affecting students, and I would like to suggest we discuss this openly and frankly. ” However, other board members did not agree, and the students were shuttled out. Student union president Dave Theesen called the rally an outstanding success. “I think we got the point across about just how serious we are. Kenny, the administration, and the government have to realize that once this thing starts it’s going to blow up on them if they don’t act. The biggest thing we had to fight when organizing this rally was the felling of helplessness most students had.. We have overcome that - from here we go to the government .”
Alberta In Alberta, Minister of Advanced Education, Bert Hohol, recently announced the creation of a differential fee for foreign students. Fees will increase $300 for visa students attending university and $150 for those going to colleges. Two hundred students demonstrated against the differential fees February 24, in front of the Alberta legislative building, as government MLA’s entered the house for the opening of the spring session.
The demonstrators, led by the Alberta Committee for Equal Access to Education, marched and distributed leaflets for an hour and a half. They shouted “Hohol’s fees discriminate” and “Hohol’s fees are a racist disease”. Demonstration organizer, Howard Higgins, sai‘d: “ Today we showed the government and the public there are people willing to get out from behind their desks and protest this proposed fee hike. Perhaps they’ll start paying attention now.” i Atlantic Region The executive of the Atlantic Federation of Students is disgusted with the actions of education minister George Mitchell at a meeting they had with him on February 26. They have resolved to “stop expending any energy in setting up meetings with government and to concentrate on getting information to students and then working from there.” The minister had promised representatives of AFS and local student unions a two hour meeting to discuss government policies on student aid and financing postsecondary education. On the morning of the meeting he declared he would meet with them for “as long as it takes to answer your ques-
tions” . Mitchell warned that he would have to leave for a half hour to attend a Liberal party convention. But after only an hour of discqssion on student aid, he left the students with deputy minister Carmen Moir, after the discussion had turned to post-secondary education financing. Moir refused to answer any questions, saying the students would have to wait for Mitchell’s return. After a two hour wait, he announced that the meeting was adjourned, and left the students with the janitor. Later, the students found Mitchell had issued a press release before their meeting, and all the information they had gleaned from him on student aid could be found in a local morning paper. AFS chairperson Don Saucy said that while “some student leaders had thought we would have a good constructive discussion with the minister and that this was the right way to effect change in the government’s attitude to students and the policies that affect them, it became clear in the short meeting that we did have that he was unwilling to give information and that he was only paying lip service to student participation.”
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CUP plans expa An ambitious expansion plan and a budget increase of close to 70 per cent were approved by member delegates of the Canadian University Press at the 39.5 national confer-
ence in Ottawa March 18-20. Discussions in the workshop sessions established j the priorities of expansion as: a business manager, bureaux in the Quebec, B.C.
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Few-dominate This week’s AIA forum was a study of monopoly capitalism, with the emphasis on Canada today. The forum was organized around the first two chapters of Lenin’s “Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism.” In these two chapters, Lenin outlines the concentration of producthe creation of tion and monopolies, and the role of the banks in ihis process. The AIA spokesperson surveyed the process of development of capitalism from the stage of free competition, which gave rise to the concentration of production, which at a certain stage of development leads to monopoly. Monopoly capitalism sees an increasing number of enterprises in one, or in several different industries, join together in giant enterprises, backed up by large banks. One of the examples of concentration of production mentioned were the oil industry, where 5 oil companies virtually control the market in Canada. Another example is INCO which controls 83 per cent of the nickel market, and the auto industry which is controlled by three large corporations. In 1910-1920, the auto industry operated under free competition among many small manufacturers. One of the areas where there is still free competition is farming in Canada. There were approximately 360,000 farms in 1970. But since fertilizers are produced by the monopolized oil industries, only the bigger farms are able to survive and the smaller farms are being wiped out, the speaker said. The concentration of banks, and their role in the formation of monopolies, was also discussed. It was pointed out that the banking industry has been virtually monopolized by five big banks and that the bank owners, and the industry owners, form a union. The largest Canadian bank, the Royal Bank, has $30.2 billion in assets and 708 branches. The smallest of the 5 big banks, the Toronto Dominion, has assets of 16.8 billion with 378 branches. The banks have detailed knowledge of the financial positions of their debtors - and virtually all companies borrow. This contributes to a knowledge of where to invest their money. The speaker explained the union between the banks and the industries and pointed out that bank directors sit on almost every large corporation’s board of directors For instance, Canadian Pacific, the third largest corporation in Canada, has 13 bank directors on its board. Almost all of the sixty largest corporations in Canada have bank directors sitting on their board of directors, One example of interlocking directorship is , Bell Canada, the largest Canadian corporation, with directors on 19 other corporations in the top sixty. As a real example of these interlocking directorships, the speaker pointed to W. Earle Mclaughlin’s positions. McLaughlin is Chairperson and President of the Royal Bank, Chairperson of Guildhall Insurance Company, Director of Sun Alliance and London Insurance Group, Director of Metropolitan Life Insurante Company (three competing groups?), Director of Power Cor-
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poration of Canada Limited, Canadian Pacific, Algoma Steel, General Motors, General Electric, etc . . . etc., and of course a trustee of Queens University! It is found that a handful of monopolists subordinate to their will all the operations, both commercial and industrial, of the whole of capitalist society; for they obtain the opportunity, by means of their banking connections, their current accounts and other financial operations first, to ascertain exactly the financial position of various capitalists, then to control them, to influence them by restricting or enlarging , facilitating or hindering credits, and finally entirely determine their fate, determine their income, deprive them of capital, or permit them to increase their capital rapidly and to enormous dimensions. The twenteith century marked the turning point from the old competitive capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital (finance capital is capital controlled by banks and employed by industrialists). N-ext week’s forum will deal specifically with finance capital.
ERRATUM A line was omitted from the article “The Nature Of the State”, The paragraph should have read: “Canada, according to the AIA, is a fascist state. The spokesperson cited the War Measures Act, which suspends democratic rights and may be implemented at any time, as one example. He also talked about the proposed new immigration act which allows a person to be barred entry to Canada, or deported, if the minister feels there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the person might engage in “subversive actions’ ’ . An immigrant can be leported at any time and the minis:er can deny the right to appeal.”
Reed demo Reed International Limited, whose operation in Northern Canada has raised considerable controversy, is making an attempt to improve its corporate image. Reed has sponsored “Changing Visions - The Canadian Landscape’ ’ , an art show which has toured Canada and the US over the past year. In turn, it has drawn demonstrations and informational pickets at every showing. The show has opened for the last time at the London Public Library and Art Gallery. In response, a protest is being held Saturday by a coalition of groups opposed to Feed’s actions in Northern Ontario. On Sunday, there will be a series of films and speakers in the London Public Library to inform people of Reed’s real relationship to the environment. Those groups supporting the demonstration include The London Labour Council, Grand Council Treaty No. 9, Ontario Public Interest Research Group, Mercury Action Peterborough, Coalition Against Mercury PollutionHamilton, Guelph Anti-Mercury Group, and Quacker Committee for Native Concern.
nsion and Atlantic regions with telex links, a special affairs reporter in Quebec City, a prairie bureau and finally an Ontario bureau. Only two papers were in favour of accepting this entire package. The plenary then proceeded to consider each individual item. The new position of business mamager for CUP was passed by a large majority vote. The package of three bureaux next on list was approved by a smaller margin. Then came a prolonged debate on the Quebec reporter. The reporter was demanded because of the need for material on Quebec and especially on the Parti Quebecois. A delegation from PEN, the Quebec student news agency, announced that they are instituting an English-language news service which is available to any paper that wants to subscribe. They also expressed a wish on behalf of PEN to establish formal relations with CUP. There was much tension during the ensuing vote on the reporter in Quebec. The result was a 21-21 tie, thus the motion failed. It was then moved to change the job description of the existing national affairs reporter, which has been working out of the CUP Ottawa office. That person would
have to be bilingual and willing to spend a significant amount of time in Quebec. This position was accepted by the plenary . An additional bureau in the prairies was then accepted by a 22-20 vote and, although an Ontario bureau had been earlier rejected, it was voted on anyway, and defeated. The discussion on expansion featured a presentation by members of la Presse Etudiante Nationale, the Quebec student news agency. The representatives of PEN were introduced by chevron editor Larry Hannant during the discussion of the Quebec special affairs reporter. He suggested that “we do not need to by-pass the Quebec students’ associations” to obtain news from Quebec because “PEN can give us the news”. A bilingual speech .was given by Marie Cornellier and Serge Lafontaine. In it, they outlined the history of the student press in Quebec, the recent- attempted purge of the PEN secretary-general by ANEQ, and the translation service which they are now offering. They explained that the executive of PEN has always been chosen by the member papers. In February, Jean-Paul Bedard, the secretary-general of PEN, was removed by the central committee of ANEQ without consultation of the member papers. At the fourth congress of PEN, held February 25-27, a majority of the members demonstrated support for the executive, headed by Bedard. Since then,
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PEN has established an office in Hull independent of ANEQ. It is there that the English-language news bulletin will be prepared and distributed. In response to questions from the delegates, Lafontaine explained that the news service is available to any paper for fifty dollars annually and that membership fees are $200. No decision was made as to whether CUP would extablish formal relations with PEN or whether recognition would be extended to another organization set up by the National Association of Quebec Students, (ANEQ). There was on open protest when the report of the finance working group was presented. The findings of one sub-committee had been omitted. Their survey showed that CUP papers as a whole could afford only an average increase of 34 per cent in their membership fees. The new expansion package would require a budget increase of close to 70 per cent. It was noted that some papers, such as the U of T Varsity, could not afford to pay for any expansion. A Queen’s Journal delegate announced that his paper is now a member under protest and may withdraw from CUP next year. At a meeting of Ontario papers on Monday, a suggestion was made to hold the amount of the fee increase in escrow until the next CUP conference at Fredericton in December. -
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Saturday was a day of opposition to state-organized racist attacks and political persecution of the Canadian people. The protest was directly specifically against the February 23 arrest of seventeen members and supporters of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), including party chairman Hardial Bains and UW psychology professor Doug Wahlsten. Participating in an afternoon demonstration in Toronto were a group of UW students and other people from the K-W area, led by the Anti-Imperialist Alliance. Hardial Bains, chairman of CPC(M-L), joined the demonstrators and the shouting of the slogans including “The Canadian State is Racist! The Canadian People are not Racist! Long live the Unity of the Canadian People!” The march began at City Hall and proceeded through Kensington Market and Chinatown. Some enthusiastic onlookers joined in the demonstration en route and a group of youths added “Down with the racist attacks against the Italians!” In a speech later that day, Hardial Bains pointed out that it is not only the East and West Indians who face racist attacks, but all national minorities. He cited examples of the Quebecois and Native people. A historical event took place that day. The first issue of the “West Indian” was distributed. This newspaper has taken a firm stand against state-organized racist attacks, in defence of the West Indian community. The sponsoring organizations of the day’s events, the EIDC and WIPO, also took part in the militant demonstrations of 200 supporters of “Self Defence is the Only Way!” The press conference scheduled for earlier in the day with Doug Wahlsten and Hardial Bains, met with no response from the commercial media. The first speaker of the evening program was Paul Copeland, a lawyer with 9 years of experience
in immigration matters. He explained various intelligence and security measures that are used by the state. For example, the solicitor general has the authority to tap whatever phones he desires. He also stated that the “writ of assistance” which was abolished in the U.S. with independence, are here in Canada totally open to abuse by the police. Copeland said that in his nine years of experience he had never seen the excuse of “aiding and abetting of an illegal immigrant” used to arrest anyone, as it was used to arrest the CPC(M-L) chairman and supporters. It was clearly used as an excuse to gather informational dot umen ts . On the behalf of the Canadian Law Union he firmly denounced and condemned these actions. The next speaker, Doug Wahlsten, reiterated the details of the arrest (see Chevron, Feb. 25). He also pointed out that this was a cowardly attempt of the state organized from Ottawa to supress the revolutionary movement. Wahlsten had sharp criticism for the commercial press, which only reported a few details of the February arrests and the founding of the Canadian People’s (Citizens and Residents) Defence Committee. What they don’t print, Wahlsten said, is that “the present Canadian state is a state of the minority and of the foreign money-bags, especially those from the U.S. “The state suppresses the true patriots, whereas it provides every kind of facility to the foreign imperialists. A genuinely democratic state will vigorously mobilize the people against the foreign imperialists and will suppress their agents in the country. “That democratic state can only be established out of long-range struggle by the efforts of the majority of the Canadian people. The political persecution of the people can only be ended with the establishment of that state.” The establishment of the Canadian People’s (Citizens and Resi-
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dents) Defence Committee is a small step towards building the new state, but it is an important and necessary step, said Wahlsten. Bains explained that the RCMP attacks on CPC(M-L) have been going on since April 1970 when the party was founded. Democratic people want these attacks to stop, but the continuation of the party’s work means that these attacks will continue, he said. The program of CPC(M-L) calls for revolutionary struggle against the state. This strikes terror into their hearts, Bains added. The struggle will last many decades, even centuries. These arrests cannot be isolated from what is happening on a world scale, Bains continued. It is no accident that when Trudeau was wining and dining with Carter that the RCMP attacked. The state knew that the Third Congress was in session. Two other facts showing how there is a conspiracy against CPC(M-L); 1. RCMP informed the media before the immigration department in K-W was notified and 2. Fred Mrash Mason (the illegal immigrant) was deported before the judge by the immigration office. Bains went on to say that when the state is not attacking, it is preparing for attack. The press, both in Canada-and on a world-wide scale, attempts to discredit the revolutionary movement and promote sham Marxist-Leninist groups in order to split revolutionary movement and prevent any serious activity. Canada now has a debt of $120 billion and an extremely high unemployment rate. In a few years, the situation will be a nightmare for the bourgeoisie, said Bains. He stressed the importance of people fighting every attack on the state. Later speakers stressed selfdefence and unity to Make the Rich Pay. Aianne
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Cockburn charts his path “I never liked being called a folk . singer, I don’t like labels.” “Right now the music I’m doing is more jazz. I’d like to play more jazz so I’ll be able to play it well.” That is- how Bruce Cockburn described the music he is now playing in an interview following his Monday concert at the Humanities Theatre. Sitting on a stool by his dressing room mirror, munching cheese and nursing a beer, Cockburn talked on a variety of subjects. About his future plans, Cockburn said that “I’m playing in New York City March 30; opening for Leon Redbone.” “I might .-be doing a tour of t---‘---w-
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Japan with McLaughlan during the first few weeks of July, though that’s not a hundred per cent.” Cockburn wrote a new song called “Free to Be”, which is a putdown of fascists like the Western Guard, because of “growing racism in Canada”. It started out on the west coast in Vancouver, like you’d hear things like “paki”, and it crept eastward. It’s really poisonous; people in Canada have been really smug about it, like during the sixties when the states were having all their problems.” Elaborating further on his music Cockburn said that “each album depends on the songs, songs demand different. treatment. Who plays on an album depends on songs available at the time.” Cockbum said that the Canadian content ruling of the CRTC was “a little weird, but it has helped some people. In a way it hasn’t done enough, people still have this thing that nothing’s any good unless it comes from the states, though myself and some other people are trying to change their minds.” When asked if he felt if his talent was acquired or natural he replied “Some of it is natural, but it’s no good to have something and not do something with it. “Some people have all the talent
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in the world and just waste it. If I did a lot more work on the guitar I’d be ten times better.” “I never listen to my albums after I finish them, except to remember a song I’ve forgot, figure out what I did wrong, or teach someone a song. I don’t have a favourite album. The last two albums, Joy and Salt, Sun and Sand, state everything I was trying to say on the previous ones.” Talking about ‘ ‘ Gavin’ s Woodpile’ ’ , a song about the Ontario government’s Reed paper deal, Cockbum says that “what they’ve done up there makes you wonder how far it goes”. “ Someboy’s in someones potiket, they were supposed to give Reed all that land up north but there was such an outcry against it that they didn’t, but just watch two years from now.” “I don’t want to get pigeonholed into a protest style, if something happens I’ll write about it.” Cockburn said that there was a lot of Canadian talent “tucked away in the woodwork, a lot of them don’t get noticed, there are so many that it would be unfair to name names because of the ones whose names I can’t remember right now, Canadian talent will always be there.”
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Qscar’s ‘Oscars Let me be perfectly c/ear about one thing: these are not predictions. The Oscars are a sham and a fraud; a lot of sound, fury and bullshit (which I haven’t run out of yet, either). I gave up on them the year Chinatown lost the best picture - 1’11 never forgive them for that, especially since Roman Polanski will probably never make another good movie again. What follows is a list of capsule reviews of a number of movies from ‘76, arranged somewhat in descending order of excellence, so that the reader can be forewarned and forearmed against the films that find their way back to either screen (the silver, or the I9 inch). Naturally there won’t be another person alive who will agree with my ordering. ****
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Seven Beauties: This is undoubtedly the best movie of the year. See the Italian version with English subtitles to get the full effect. Lina Wertmiiller’s masterpiece is a twofold tale with perfectly integrated backflashes between the hero’s experiences in a concentration camp in WW II and the events leading up to that. The hero is Seven Beauties, a two-bit hood who kills a man to defend his family’s honour, but makes the almost fatal mistake of confessing. The movie is a grim comedy of survivalwith the impact and calibre of Kubrick’s A Clock work Orange. All the President’s Men: If you haven’t seen this one yet, put it high on your list. The expression “documentary realism” has stuck to the movie for a good reason. The film unfolds gracefully and subtly as the Watergate affair must have; things fall into place gradually, with the ominous feeling ‘of something bigger opening up always in the background, but never blatant or obvious. Hoffman and Redford are superb as Bernstein and Woodward, but inevitably idealized a little: The entire movie is just about flawless. It is also claimed to be the only successful American political movie since Mr Smith goes to Washington. Network: This is the weirdest big-budget US movie this year. It’s all About sensationalism, corrup-
tion and truth in the television industry. It also takes the oldest and silliest clichks about TV, and turns them into the greatest farce. William Holden will probably get an Oscar just because he’s been around so long, and so that he can make a speech about it really being Peter Finch who should have gotten it. I Network is also the most controversial satire to be made this year: more than one reviewer has correctly stated, “You’ll either love it or hate it - there’s no in between.” Rocky is this year’s runaway movie. It’s a low-budget film starring and scripted by a complete unknown (Sylvester Stallone). The film is tin excellent blend of fantasy and realism. Rocky is a second-rate boxer who gets a “chance in a million” crack at the world title. It sounds too like a fairy-tale, but it has so many incredibly human touches that you could swear these people really exist. Face to Face is Liv Ullmann’s movie. She does the most incredible acting job of her career in a characterization of a psychiatrist who is becoming aware of her own problems. Ullmann should get a best actress Oscar, but she won’t. ***1/2
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Marathon Man: Dustin Hoffman is a University student in New York who gets drawn into a complicated tale involving diamonds, big business, espionage, and Nazis in exile. Lawrence Olivier plays the most dastardly rble of his career, and Roy Scheider puts his life on the line. This is one of the best thrillers put together in years - it’s superbly acted, excellently filmed, and so ec&omically scripted that if you blink, you’ll miss something important. The Seven Percent Solution is based on an elaborate hoax by Nicholas Meyer, who presents his book as a freshly discovered manuscript by the perennial Watson. The book is lots of fun, and the movie is too, though it’s a tiny bit low-key. A movie that brings Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud together, however, couldn’t possibly fail to amuse.
Music reime shines From the witty lyrics of the Gilbert and Sullivan “Mikado” and Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” to the idealistic “Age of Aquarius” from the rock-opera “Hair”, the “From Music Hall to revue was an excellent Chorus Line” way to spend an evening and a dollar. The revue, written and conceived by Vickie Dyke, traced the history of the musical theatre from the Savoy Operas of the 1880’s British music hall to the Broadway musical of the 1970’s. The revue was presented in the form of a semi-documentary; the songs being separated by a few words of explanation which set the particular song in its historical context as well as providing a few very good laughs . The four person cast was accompanied very ably b_y Bruce Fowler who also arranged the music. However, the star was certainly Vickie Dycke who through her very expressive presentation of all the songs, succesfully reached the heights and depths of almost the full range of human expression. Even though the show crammed much too much material into the short period of time allotted to the presentation it was done so professionally that one hardly noticed in fact the songs seemed to have been intended to be presented in~-
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that manner. There was certainly no lack of continuity. Liza Doolittle’ s beautiful but longing ballad “ Lovely” from Learner and Lowe’s “My Fair Lady’ ’ , based on G.B. Shaw’s “Pygmalian” was performed alongside Bernstein’s “America” from his updated version of “Romeo and Juliet”, “West Side Story’ ’ . Though I would heartily recommend it to anyone, whether his/her taste is oriented towards symphonic music or heavy-rock, there was one minor drawback: none of the songs performed were indigenously Canadian, they all had their source in American, British, or German musical productions. However, this is understandable as there have been only a handful of truly Canadian musical stage presentations. This is a sad reflection on Canadian culture. Just last week the Juno award (the Juno awards are the Canadian equivalent of the American Grammy) for the best Canadian rock-group was awarded to an American group. But if you want an evening devoted to well performed and conceived musical escapism you can still catch “From Husic Hall to Chorus Line” tonight and tomtiorrow night at the Theatre‘of the Arts at 8pm. -
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The Old Gun is a strang’e French version of the Vigilante picture. This is, however, many times better. The movie is about a doctor in France during the Nazi occupation, who sends his family to the south to escape the germans. When‘ he goes down himself, he finds his wife and children brutally murdered. He takes vengeance on the Nazi?, but the movie plays with the viewer’s emotions, not his blood-lust. The Omen: Here is one of the best horror films to come out in years (though few agree with me). It manages to create tremendous suspense as well as genuine sympathy for the characters. It is well acted, scripted, and photographed, and improves the clichks it cannot avoid. Silent Movie: What can I say? Mel Brooks ha’s done it again. Who else would make a full length silent movie in 1976? Small Change: FranCois Truffaut has created a loosely-fit series of vignettes about children in a town in France, that will touch and delight anyone. It’s light and crunchy, like corn chips. ***
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again: Except for A Shot in the Dark, this is likely the best “Pink Panther” film. Sellers, as usual, is priceless. The “Panther” formula still works. Bad News Bears is an amusing “B” picture with Walter Matthau as a worn-out baseball manager who half-heartedly takes on the task of transforming a motley team of kids into something “respectable”. Fun, but not a “cute kiddie picture’ ’ . Bugsy Malone: Twelve-yearolds play gangsters and gun molls in a musical cornedi that turns the gangster clichks inside-out. If this sounds like you might enjoy it, you probably will. Murder by Death: Peter Sellers, Alec Guiness, T&man Capote, Peter Falk, Maggie Smith, and others do this bizzare spoof of the world’s great detectives in one big mystery by Neil Simon. The jokes don’t all work, but there are so many, and, some are so old, that you can’t leave the theatre without a sly grin on your face. Logan’s Run is .not a spectacularly good movie, but then few sci-fi films are. Peter Ustinov, however, does a great character part, which is worth the price of
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Tee Hiding Place is a stunningly photographed and edited movie about a family who hides Jews during the Nazi occupation in Holland, but it’s an evangelistic, religious propagarida film which few people will be able to stomach. Most won’t like it. W.C, Fields and Me: Rod Steiger does an excellent portrayal of Fields . . . but he’s still Steiger. Something - the eyes, maybe keeps it from being convincing. It’s still a fun movie, if you can overcome disbelief, and can accept the fictionalized account of his life. The Other Side of the Mountain: This is a soppy love story “based on a true incident” which is sometimes so bad, it’s great! The attempts to tug your heart strings are so blatant, they’re hysterical. ’ King Kong: This is well-done, but it shouldn’t have been done at all. King Kong is not a tale of the seventies. The movie is inappropriate and unpalatable. **
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Taxi Driver: The year’s biggest disappointment. There is nothing original in this movie; it’s all been done before in snippets of other’ films. The blood and gore at the end are excessive and pointless. Parts of the film are good, but they cannot support the burden of the reQ. The Voyage of the Damned is abou’t 937 Jews escaping from Germany before the war, who are not permitted to land at their destination, Cuba. It’s a good idea, but the film is far too weak for its subject. Partners: Another Canadian attempt to make the movie industry. Dull. The Tenant is the second biggest disappointment of 1976. Roman Polanski should not write his own scripts - they’re too heavy-handed and pretentious. Missouri Breaks: Brando and Nicholson get together, but not for long in this silly western. If it were funnier, or if it made a point, it might be a comedy or a satire, but it’s neither, so it’s not. Nicholson keeps on goin’ downhill. Next Stop, Greenwich Village is an amusing and interesting film
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about “leaving” home in 1953. It’s worth seeing on a double bill with somethin’g good. A Star is Born: Streisand and Kristofferson remakk out together. Streisand cuts out all of Kristofferson’s good bits, which couldn’t ha\ie been too numerous anyway. Result? A bad movie. ’ The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox: Very- funny, but very low \ humour about a gambler (George Segal) and a chorus girl (Goldie Hawn) around the turn of the century (?) who play hide-and-seek with a bagful of money an a gang /d of thieves. Swashbuckler is Robert Shaw’s attempt at being Errol Flynn. I wonder what he’ll try next? The Enforcer: This comes off as a made-for-TV movie that couldn’t be shown on TV. It’s just about what you could expect from Clint Eastwood. Casanova: Watch Donald Sutherland exercise for two-anda-half hours. See him make love without taking his underwear off once. See bizarre characters from “Satyricon” put on 17th century clothes. Count people walking out of the theatre. Save your money. Stay home. Alex and the Gypsy: Lemmon and Bujold produce another lemon. This is a kooky comedy, but it doesn’t quite work. The End of the Game, Breakheart Pass, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Two Minute Warning, Family Plot, and Harry and Walter go to New York are all mediocre movies that you’d do just as well not to see at all, even though they all have a few good laughs, or whatever. *
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Shout at the Devil wins the prize for the absolutely worst pit- . ture I’ve seen in 1976. I’m so disgusted, I don’t even want to talk about it. Don’t see Roger Moore in anything! Best picture: Seven Beauties. Best director: Lina Wertmiiller, for Seven Beauties. Best actor: Giancarlo Giannini, for Seven Beauties. Best actress: Liv Ullmann, for Face to Face. Of course, Seven Beauties isn’t even up for the best picture, which shows what a tasteless bunch of boors run the Academy, but it is up for best foreign picture. My prediction: it won’t win. 4scar
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Joy will find a way
Cockburn bursts with optimism The optimism and joy of Bruce Cockb&‘s music is- Gel&me in these troubled times. While many of the acoustic performers of today are writing melancholy tunes bemoaning the problems of modern man, Cockbum is writing optimistic, delicate and sincere songs about the better aspects of life. But that’s not to say that Cockbum has- ignored the problems of our society. Several of his songs .stand as strong statements against racism, exploitation and government; yet they are not just recitations of the problems. Each has the message that we must try to understand ourselves and each other and accept people for what they are. Cockburn in concert is very much like Cockburn recorded. His music has the same delicate, precise sound that, while being very low-key at times, always enchants the listener. Cockbum and his band, in concert last Monday in the Humanities Theatre, established
an immediate rapport with the audience. His stage manner was informal, like he was talking to a small crowd and not 300 people. The music he and his band played also had the same sense o,f intimacy that is so prevalent on any of Cockburn’s recorded works. It’s the feeling that he’s sitting in your home playing guitar for just you and a few friends. The show that Cockburn put on last Monday was, in a word, superb. There aren’t ,enough adjectives to describe how good he was. The musical content was excellent, two sets of great songs with an even balance between slow and up-tempq music. Particularly interesting was hearing the live performance of several songs off his latest album In The Falling Dark. One song off that album, which is fast becoming a personal favourWoodpile”. The ite, is “Gavin’s song is in the protest style but transcends that genre of music and stands as something more than a poetic complaint. Imagery is a major part of the
total effect of the song, creating a simile between the stacking of -cordwood and the mounting number of government injustices (prisons, pollution, exploitation of resources, and discrimination against native people). \ But despite the depressing and frustrating nature of the problems, Cockburn reveals what he believes will help people involved: “the mist rises as the sun goes down, and the light that’s left forms’ a kind/of a crown, the earth is bread, the sun is wine, it’s a joy that is ours for all time.” That perhaps is what makes Cockburn’s music so enjoyable. His mellow romanticism and optimistic outlook makes his works a refreshing break from the pessimism of a majority of performers. Even when singing a song about death, like “Joy Will Find A Way”, Cockburn’s style is more like rejoicing than mourning. Listening to Cockburn sing is listening to a celebration of life. -
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Proposals encouraged The “chevron Affair” has been going on for almost six months now. This is far too long. A solution to this problem is urgently needed if students returning in September are not to be faced with a rehash of this year’s problems. The chevron staff claim that they are defending “freedom of the press”. In their view, justice requires that the “free chevron” be reinstated as the “chevron”, retroactively to the time of closure of the chevron; ie., all issues of the “free chevron” are to be considered issues of the chevron. Such vindication would, of course, require that the entire chevron budget be @stored to the “free chevron’: staff, including back pay for those whose paid positions were “dissolved” by council. The position of the federation is not very clear. Federation president Doug Thompson was one of those who urged former president Shane Roberts to shut down the paper, and has alternately negotiated, proposed investigations, and attempted to forcibly evict “free chevron” staffers from the chevron office. The chevron was originally closed, according to Shane Roberts, because of alleged attempts to gain control of the chevron, by the AIA. There is some merit in the arguments of each side. Certainly, freedom of the press is a principle that should be defended by all students. Nevertheless, students have a right to expect that they will not be compelled to pay for political propaganda to which they may well object. Therefore, I propose the following scheme as a reasonable compromise; a solution which preserves, and even perhaps increases, the freedom of the press at this university. The federation should return that portion of Federation fees which comprised the chevron budget for 1976/77 to the students. -The “free chevron” staff should appeal directly to the students for financial support. Students should make clear to the “free chevron” staff just what changes they feel are necessary -or desirable in the “free chevron”, particularly if or when they make donations in support of the paper. Henceforth, the federation should not publish or directly support any student, newspaper, as it is contrary to democratic freedoms and journalistic traditions for a free and independent newspaper to receive money from any governmental body. The federation should cease to harass the staff of the “free chevron”, and in the event of unfair or biased reporting in the “free chevran’ ’ , should, individually or collectively, make their objections in letters to -. the editor. I invite, and eagerly anticipate additions, objections, or further proposals. Let’s have some real debate and fresh ideas on this issue. - Kevin Stinson
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Professor Stanislav Reinis, in his letter to the Real chevron Vol. 1 no. 14, launched vicious attacks on Marxism-Leninism. He created confusion on the nature of state and democracy. He distorted the teachings of Marx and Lenin. He (deliberately) ignored the difference between Lenin/Stalin’s Russia and Khrushchev/Brezhnev’s Russia as well as the difference between socialist countries and revisionist countries. He said that *‘it is impossible, to determine today what is the authentic Marxism and what are revisionisms.” Due to space limitation, we are unable to refute all he said. Nevertheless, we just do what we can. On the question of democracy, Prof. Reinis said that “democracy is and will probably always be, the most progressive system in the history of mankind”.
Let us look at a few facts. Over 90 per cent of the population is working people. According to official statistics, of the 7 million employable people in Canada, almost 1 million are unemployed. Also in the past few months, while the number of unemployed workers has increased, the number of recipients of the unemployment insurance benefits has decreased. So on the one hand the interests of the majority are not looked after, while on the other hand, the ‘right’ of the minority, i.e. the big bourgeoisie, to exploit the workers and make huge profits, is protected by the state. Marxist theory holds that there are two types of democracy, bourgeois democracy and people’s .democracy. In capitalist- society, democracy, even in its most complete form, is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation, and consequently always remains, in essence, a democracy for the minority, only for the rich. Freedom is always freedom for the rich. Owing. to the conditions of capitalist the wage labourers are so exploitation, crushed by want and poverty that they cannot be bothered with democracy and politics. In short, the majority is debarred from participation in public and political life. However, they are allowed, once in a few years, to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. Under people’s democracy, the proletarians organize themselves into the ruling class. For the tirst time democracy becomes democracy for the people and not democracy for the rich, the minority. There are restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. They are suppressed in order to free humanity from wage slavery. Democracy for the vast majority and the suppression by force, i.e., exclusion from democracy, of the exploiters and oppressors of the people - this is the change democracy undergoes. “ For Marx ;’ the proletariat revolution was change in the social system carried out by the working class in order to extend and further develop individual freedom. . . .After the revolution, the state as oppressive force was supposed to disappear.” This was what Reinis said. Engels established that the state is the ‘product of the irreconcilability of class contradictions. On the other hand, the existence of the state necessarily implies the irreconcilability of class contradictions. The state is not an organ for the reconciliation of classes but rather an organ of class rule, an organ for the suppression of one class by another. For Marx, the proletarian revolution was to extend individual freedcm. The aim of revolution is to overthrow the bourgeoisie and the existing social system and established the dictatorship of the proletariat. Marx expounded this idea very clearly in all his writings. In his letter to Weydemeyer I did that was in 1852, Marx said: “What new was to prove that; i) the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical period in the development of production; 2) the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat: 3) this dictatorship itself constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.” He again stressed the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat in his Critique of the Gotha Programme. Marx not only stresses the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he deemed it to be an important component of his teaching. On the role of the party - in The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx and Engels said: “The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass ‘of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.
‘!The immediate aim of the Communists is the formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supre‘macy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.” Marx viewed the Communists as the leaders and vanguards of the proletariat. How can the proletariat overthrow the bourgeoisie without the leadership of a party? How can the proletariat establish and consolidate their state -power without the leadership of a party? Our dear Prof. Reinis, you wish that socialism and communism would not triumph over capitalism. You wish that Leninism has become an ideology of revolution in undeveloped countries but not an ideology for the working class in industrialized countries. But independent of your will, and the will of any one else for that matter, capitalism will be replaced by socialism which subsequently will be replaced by communism. This is the trend of development of mankind and is independent of your will. Leninism, independent of your wish also, has become the ideology of revolution everywhere. Your exposition only revealed your nature - anti-communist and apologist for capitalism. Johnson Cheng Kent S. Chang
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establish the principal directors of the corporation may not deprive themselves of the right of control and management of the corporation by passing by-laws which fetter that right. Any action of the directors which would so restrict their powers and duties is beyond the scope of their power and therefore has no effect in the law. “By-law 6 and By-law 22 which re-enacts By-law 6 with some changes, of the.Federation of Students both purport to create referendums whose results would be “binding” on the Federation of Students. In my opinion, the “binding” aspect of the by-law was beyond the authority of the board of directors to enact, as it totally fetters the directors’ powers. That aspect of the bylaws then, is ultra vires, or in ordinary language, beyond the powers of the corporation, and would be quashed in the courts.” Judge Mossop, who granted an injunction against members of the chevron staff with reservations, listened to the feds explain their by-laws concerning the referendum and said that “I’m not overly impressed.” The legal opinion of the chevron staffs counsel, concerning the referendum was accepted by Mr. Justice Craig of the Ontario Supreme Court, and cited by him in the decision which overturned the Waterloo County Court injunction: “such a referendum would be ofno legal significance . . .” The feds and the “real” chevron still insist in the face of all this that the referendum is legally binding. * I have been told that the fed’s lawyer has verbally said the referendum is binding. If they could produce a written legal opinion, I am sure that the sources quoted above would be interested and perhaps even amused. I say to the feds: Put up or shut up. Dennis Rekuta
I wonder how you cansay that you are fighting for freedom of the press when your In your last issue on Friday, March 18, own paper does not conform to the gener1977, you put in an article entitled “PSI ally accepted view of a student paper. Changes Policy For Refunds” on Page 3. The only thing I can see that you are In this article, you mentioned that only fighting for is the right to print a radical one letter was received supporting PSI. newspaper on campus. You no more repSince you are counting, I would like to add resent the students on this campus than the one more letter in support of PSI. man in the moon! You constantly state that As for your reference to PSI as a comyou will not print any article that is sexist or pany that sells love, success, and personal racist in nature yet you will insult any one growth, it is not totally accurate - although member of the student body if he or she it is a nice compliment to say that PSI can does not agree with your feelings. On many sell love, success, and personal growth. occasions you have printed some articles The fact is that the money pays for the that were uncomplimentary to me. I would courses. Unfortunately, printers, hotel be more insulted if you insulted me personowners, etc., require compensation for the ally than if you insulted the country that I services they provide. am a citizen of. The love is freely given by graduates of I feel the only people that you represent the courses. I are yourselves and that everytime you call The knowledge needed to attain success * yourselves the student’s paper it goes to and personal growth is presented. The indiprove that you .are true hypocrites!!!!! vidual then decides what to do with it. A.H.A. Everyone has the potential to attain unimAnti-Hypocrites Alliance agined joy and happiness. Some are. Souls P.S. This was written by Geoff Hains who do not accept the knowledge that is offered by PSI will take longer. Arthur W. Ram
On March 14 the “real” chevron printed on its front page that the referendum is legally binding. I have also heard this garbage from a self-proclaimed authority, R.A.G. White, our ex-speaker in fed council. Both continue to repeat this claim, without offering any proof. I would like to quote a written legal opinion to prove the opposite. It is from Brian Iler, an ex-fed president, who is now with the legal firm of Copeland, King in Toronto. Referring to Section 130 (1) of The Corporations Act, RSO 1970, chapter 89, and Section 3 13 (1) of the same act, Iler states: “These two sections, when read together
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[ Council abuses power by purging oppositioti We the two graduate represkntatives on federation council have just been ousted from council. It was not a democratic and principled decision. It was a political purge by a nine member clique in Council. By a vote of 9-8 Student’s Council decided Wednesday evening to terminate graduate student voting rights in all federation bodies, referendums, petitions, meetings of members, etc. Over 1200 graduates have just been denied voting rights in the Federation without being consulted. This has happened despite their participation in the presidential election, and last term’s recall petition in at least as large numbers as the undergraduates. They had voted overwhelmingly for Mark Wills and signed the petition to remove Shane Roberts from office. The termination of their voting rights has effectively removed a large block of Doug Thompson’s politicial opposition from the federation of students. What was their excuse for this move? They state that since graduates stopped paying fees to the Federation back in 1972, their voting rights should end forthwith. But why, after five years, is there now so much urgency on this matter? The answer is clear. We stood on the same democratic campaign platform as Mark Wills. We oppose the arbitrary actions taken by council last September against the student newspaper. We oppose Doug Thompson’s ongoing expenditures on; more issues of the scab in the federation, paper, patronage ‘frivolities, vindictive legal battles against the free chevnon, etc. But our worst crime of all was our contribution of two votes in a Council that was numerically divided down the middle. With us gone Doug Thompson and his CRG group on Coun’cil can ram through anything they want, confident of a majority every time. Did they have any kind of a mandate from the students? No! There was a vote taken at the Annual General Meeting of the Federation on March 1, not to boot the graduates out of the Federation, but, instead, to keep them in. A motion to terminate graduate membership rights in the Federation was defeated by a 125121 majority.
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Did the graduates request that the Federation take such ‘action? No! While the Graduate Board of Directors had made moves in this direction back in November, the Board members now recognize that graduates are taking an active part in Federation politics and that, therefore, no advice on graduate voting rights should be sent to the Federation without first consulting those voters. On March 16, the Board decided to call a referendum on this question. We told Council that we would respect the decision taken in the graduate referendum and resign our positions on Student’s Council, if graduates wanted their voting rights terminated. But it would take six weeks before a referendum could be held, and this was too long for those members who voted to purge us. We advised Council that if any decision was taken to overturn the vote of the General Meeting, then it should be taken in a forum of equal weight with the General Meeting, such as another meeting of all members or a referendurn. But this was disregarded. There are good reasons for allowing graduate representation on Council. Chief among these is that Council makes decisions on matters which concern both graduates and undergraduates, such as the newspaper, the education cutbacks, etc. But our plea to carry these arguments to the students and have them decide the issue on the basis of their needs and not on the basis of petty political manoeuvring was ignored in the rush to railroad the motion through. We are outraged with this total disrespect for decisions already made by the students, and the action taken to overturn that decision, without even consulting the undergrads, or waiting for the decision of the. graduates. An action taken by nine anti-democratic councillors has overridden a decision of the students and purged not just two council members but 1300 graduates from the Federation. What kind of a Council is this?
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- david carter - mike devillaec Reps on Student’s Council
An bpen letter to Arts students At the student council meeting Wednescouncil. The graduates were planning to deday evening council voted 9-8 to remove the termine their position (which is subject to change) in, a referendum. voting privileges of graduate students. This, more than any previous action, has emWhat really disturbs me is that council was unwilling to wait for more graduate input. phasized the unfortunate polarity on counRailroading is a term I prefer not to use but it cil. seems to define the circumstances adeA large percentage of council is obsessed with “getting on with business.” Regretaquately . The wealth of Waterloo is its human bly , this has resulted in snap decisions with a dynamic, both graduate and undergraduate. minimum of judgement. The present/past graduate members on At the Annual General Meeting students council, Dave Carter and Mike Devillaer voted not to suspend the graduat,e inemberhave both impressed me with their dedicaship in the federation. The argument for doing so has been that tion and forthrightness. Even if the graduates are going td decide grads do not pay federation fees and therefore should not have the franchise. against the federation membership (paying I, personally sympathize with this feeling. fees) we owe it to them, as well to ourselves, to decide. I also believe that since grads vote on all to give them the opportunity issues (whether they claim to benefit or not) Where is the reasoning, informed, progresthey should pay full fees (rather than the sive council which could make Waterloo a symbol of student solidarity and justice? suggested percentage). But this in no way justifies the action of - bryan bymes, Arts Rep
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‘Grads Want $upport’ A guaranteed minimum level of financial support for graduate students is being strongly promoted by graduate students organizations in Canada. But a guaranteed minimum income for grads is not a high priority for the University of Waterloo administration. At the University of Toronto, a union has been formed for teaching assistants. and their agreement with the U. of T. administration includes a minimum annual income for their members. There is a guaranteed mini&m income for graduate students at McMaster Univeristy, and at a national conference of graduate students in Manitoba earlv this month, delegates from eight Canadian universities resolved that graduate students should be “recognized as performing a valuable service to both the university and society in general, be it through teaching, research or professional training”. It was also resolved that “for such service, the graduate student should receive a living wage from whatever sources are available at the present time”. Here at UW, the 1977 Grad Club annual general meeting of graduate students voted unanimously in favour of pressuring the administration for a guaranteed minimum level of support. However, there is not much enthusiasm from the UW administration for a guaranteed minimum income. The administration claims that it would be unfair to deny people admission because the university doesn’t have the funds to support them, and it is certainly true that at the present funding level, giving all graduate students a reasonable minimum level of support would entail cutbacks in enrolment. The data that supports this argument was released recently to the President’s Advisory Committee on Graduate Support (PACGS). Statistics on income ranges in 1976 show that in the winter term, 27% of all UW graduate students received less than $1100 from al! income sources monitored by UW. These sources are payments for research and teaching assistantships, scholarships and bursaries, research grants and OSAP loans and grants. In the summer term of 1976,49% of all graduate students received less than $1100, and the figure for the fall term was 28%. The statistics for the Faculty of Arts alone are even more discouraging: In the winter term 41% of the grads received less than $1100; for the summer term it was 75% and for the fall it was 38%. Thus the UW administration admits far more graduate students than it can possibly support, and they claim that to improve the situation would entail either cutbacks in enrolment or increases in provincial funding levels. However, the administration’s plea that nothing can be done seems rather weak in the light of a report issued in 1974 by an advisory committee on graduate support. This report showed that in the year 1971-72, only 11% of the 840 graduate students registered for that period received less than $2500. In addition, the report recommended the establishment of a minimum level of support of $2400 per year for Ph.D. students and $1800 per year for Master’s students. It appears that this report was filed away and forgotten. The only recommendation that was implemented was the formation of PACGS. Nothing was done then, even though it was a time when low-income graduate students were in a minority, and when a solution to the problem would not have entailed drastic changes in admissions policy or pro’vincial funding levels. During discussions about minimum income in PACGS over the last two years, the administration has always argued against the idea and has never mentioned the 1974 report. The high turnover of graduate representatives on PACGS is the reason why the 1974 report has come to light only recently. Why-did the administration allow graduate support to degenerate so? A few years ago, there was much ado about Canadian universities playing the “numbers game” with undergraduate students:. standards were lowered so that enrolment could increase, thereby increasing the government subsidy which was based on a formula involving the enrolment figures. This practice has ceased since the government introduced the policies of restraint on education expenditure, but a new kind of numbers game has been played with graduate students. The university needs graduate students, and the accompanying research and teaching power, to maintain its status. The status of a professor depends on the number of graduate students that he has, as well as the quality of his teaching and research. The university has taken advantage of the demand for graduate education by neglecting to consider financing when expanding its graduate programs. This is a form #of exploitation, and it is consistent with the Ontario government’s cutbacks strategy. Last week, the free chevron featured a report on .Ontario’s new Optional Loan and Need-tested Grant program (OLANG). The report says that “more are to be helped less” under OLANG, i.e. money is being redistributed, to make assistance appear more accessible, but many students will end up worse off than they are now under OSAP. In addition, the report claims that since 1971, OSAP has returned over $29 million in unused funds to the Ontario government, and under OLANG the province could spend even less on needy students. The cutbacks philosophy of the Ontario government will not change unless the universities voice some protest. The UW’s administration’s financing of graduate students, and its quiet acceptance of the fee hikes, suggest that such protests are not ,forthcoming, at best from that quarter.
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In keeping with the expulson of the grad students from the Federation of Students maybe the feds should toss out St. Jerome’s. Next on the list is science, arts and any other faculty suspected of being dominated by the “free dedicated chevrics have put out this issue: nick chevron” . . . .In any event, the following redding (who now owns the paper), val moghadam, neil docherty (who’s not here), tom (we killed them) cody, jamie, jonathan coles, heather robertson, larry hannant, mike hazell, hamilton, scott barron, randy (“that CUP expand beyond its means”) barkman, jayne pollock, peter blunden, salah bachir, jules grajower, doug wahlsten, Oscar (the Oscar’s Oscar) nierstrasz, dave carter, shih k’ang-ti, doug goodfellow, rob taylor, dianne chapitis, frank morrison, dave creek, lorne gershuny, donna wills, mark wills, goz, mart shafroth, jason mitchell, donn6, Charlotte and ernst von bezold, mini pathria, nina tymoszewicz, Steven coates, donna rogers, Ioris gervaisio . . . . a special thanks to our friends at CUP, especially mike hollet, paul kellog, brenda and eric. phillip c
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Awards conclude sports year Last marked versity back on U of W versities.
week’s award banquet the end of the 1976-77 unisports season. Reflecting the year, it was one where fared better than most uni-
The fall season saw the football team finish second to last in their division long after the gridders hung up their cleats. The Warriors’ Rugby team and soccer team were thrilling the crowds, fighting for O.U.A.A. championships, after finishing first place in their respective leagues. Unfortunately, both teams lost to universities they had beaten earlier in regular season play. In the course of the rugby team’s season victory, rookie Dave King managed to capture the O.U.A.A. scoring title. Marcus Klien turned in a stalwart performance in goal for the soccer team, allowing one goal the entire season. Fred Wilder scored his third individual O.U.A.A. championship in golf leading his team to a fifth place finish. The cross country and track teams finished high in their respective leagues. Rob Towm took 3 gold medals and a bronze in the season to lead his team to a third place Ontario finish. Team veterans Don McQueen and Jeff Mohun also put in strong performances. The Warriors finished fourth of 10 teams. Dave Irwin-gave this young team the guidance it needed and rookie Alan Baigent and Howard Saunders responded to finish near the top in each meet. The winter season was highlighted by swimming and basketball. The swim team which finished second in the O.U.A.A. came back fighting in the C.I.A.U. to win the Canadian championship,
edging out U of T. In the process, rookie Ron Campbell broke a Canadian record, an Ontario record and an O.U.A.A. record. The basketball team captured its fourth consecutive OUAA championship beating Laurentian 89-83 in the final. The cagers then went on to finish third in the C.I.A.U. Mike Visser played his last season at Waterloo and became the third player to shatter the 1,000 pt. mark in O.U.A.A. competition. The Hockey Warriors played well all year. Hampered by injuries and a rough schedule they finished in a disappointing 3rd place in their division. Waterloo hosted the O.U.A.A. and the C.I.A.U. basketball championships. Tom Jarv and Dave Montieth piloted their team to a fourth place playoff finish. In fencing the Warriors team scored a number of surprise victories early in the season but by the time the end of the season arrived, the fencers had dropped to seventh place in the 12 team competition. A relatively new team on campus, the small group of fencers scored well individually, but lacking competitors in a number of events, the Warriors lost in the total point categories. Wrestling coach Kurt Boese described this season as a rebuilding year. Losing many of his star performers from years past, Kurt has a number of talented rookies. Despite their inexperience Waterloo finished fifth of II teams in tough O.U.A.A. competition.
The Waterloo Warrior Band as always was an encouraging Thanks goes out to both them and the Warriors who hand entertainment this season.
1976-77 Roundup
OUAA BASKETBALL
FOOTBALL 0-QI FC
Team Champions
- University
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Team Champions
Team Stand i ngs
Team -Standings
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Western
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Waterloo Windsor Guel ph McMas ter Western Brock Laurier
ERRATUM Winners of the basketball most valuable player award at the awards banquet March 17 were Mike Visser and Seymour Hadwen.
factor in the success of Warrior teams this year. in hand provided UW fans with exciting sports
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SWIMMING & DIVING
203 184 45 41 30 20
Team Champions
- University
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Team Standings
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Toronto Waterloo Western York Queen ’ s McMaster Guel ph Windsor Ryerson
19 17 10 10 6 4 1
- INDOOR
511 .o 325.0 263.5 124.0 105.0 29.0 26.0 24.0
Team Champions
Team Champions
- University
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Team Standings
- Toronto 145 Queen ’ s 115 Western .. 108 Waterloo 35 McMaster 24 Laur ier 12 York 11 Broc k 8 Laurent ian 4
Playoff
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- University
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- Windsor Western Toronto McMaster Waterloo Laurier Queen ’ s York
627 628 629 631 633 638 643 681
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Jim Garvie, Windsor Fred Wilder, Waterloo Brent Louti t, McM
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SOCCER Team Champions
GOLF Team Champions
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Western Laurentian York Water loo
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The Basketball Warriors this season played explosive basketball on their way to their OUAA Championship and a third p/ace national finish. Mike Visser co-winners of the MVP with Seymour Hadwen was only the third player to shatter the 7,000 pt. mark in OUAA competition.
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VOLLEYBALL TRACK & FIELD
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- University 1 Waterloo
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WRESTLING Team Champions Team Standings
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