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.mem,bers voted to support the strike \ and endorse-, efforts ‘of students assisting .. strikers. $ive members abstained: DonGreaves, Hugh Cuthbertson, Gerry’ Wootton,

__. , _, -’ - NOV.. .2 in a dispute over a first ‘-, . ’ 1

council~ra~~s: . .’

l -‘Appointed , to executive ,po%ts,. . on nomination ‘by.-Bergsma *were, 1 y .:,ii

The non-renewal of ‘two prafes:! _ gr@m& in either $e explicit s-or cuss the iSSUe with the press. ’ \, Dieter Haag, ~icepresident ; Joe

-- TlNlni~atiOn problem eV& .before Givens; treasurer; Jim Belfry, I ~. ' .*:: I %, SOP s contracts has ’ thrown the’ hypotletical reasons to %&rrant . “If I see;.*my name in -print I 11 _ the dismissals which have tended political-science department -into c their not being -iehired?. said claim I never even saw you to- to bring it Out in the Open. At the

student activities‘;‘ Gerry Wootton, ‘. .’ publications; Bob ‘sihi&c creac

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a turmoil. - Bob Hansen. ‘1 ,. : : ’ ( . ,__ day,- said Kersell. i present,mdment, feelings have it. ive arts ; Jim Pike, external. re- :‘ 1 On October 16 assistant. profes- Professor Allan Nelson, idepart-, Meanwhile the department or- ;:i

sors Karen Rawling and Don Ep-. . ment chairman,‘refusedto see the ganization, . is I rapidly;. =* breaking been’ ’ rubbed Very Taw as the. lations; and T,R. (Bob) &g, split ,between senior and junior education: , , r j a.

stein w,ere tol-d their contracts press on the matter. 1 - - ‘down., , sections widens. - Many 1 faculti members ‘in the EpsteinT$.and Rawling s cases

Appointed speaker of council on *-. ‘: 1 would. ‘not be renewed for 1969- 1 Anderson. and Hansen were “, ’

among many who -were disturbed L (jepirtm$t had fert an’acute coin- t 7’ (&7thue&on jmge ?a) ’ .nomination by Bergsma was San-

. i dy MacGregor ., ‘1: ‘j

70. -The move came as a surnrise * ,’ , .- : ;J a

to both of them., ’ , ~ttheprospect of the depa?@nent _- -_ .\. ’ /_ L- Before the- October- 16 meeting T loosing two goodteachers: ’ ’

of the review- committee . that w “I‘m ~especially concernedthat- a ~~,~~&~~~J$&~

made tLn A-:.4,, Ch I\ Ars~~rCmranC thn ddttn rif’ tam &md &viphp& is, \- 6. L ,IlC u0c131u11, bllt: UqJcal LIIICIIL l,,lr; "Q&&AL "L C.." .&y"U "buY-."-y -- ~ . ’ had .been told the criteria would b&g :ign&&‘- said Hansen. ’ ’ Student council voted- without opposition to. sup- to fight a Canadian battle, but the U.S. and Cana-, Y, ‘. ’ -;.:I

be teaching ability, research and Anderson . . observed that the’ port-the boycott Of CdifObI~~~~&Xj.M?S.‘ The allotted service to the community. ’ - trouble-s the _ issue. had Lo’) caused fl56 for _ publicity and $166, t0 ourchase ‘a- SUp@$ Of

-,$,ll &D~mies~ are so integrated, tie> have -to ~' :,?! change conditions-in America first. *’ ) c / L _- L

Neither of the profess.ors can would-have lasting effects. 3 j bumperstickers and,buttons. , . a _ ‘, -Further taction ’ on the matter. can be expected

. Johnson : told ‘council just how much .monopolv li J-.

understand why- the senicr mem- ,. ~;‘It ‘could very possible be thit capitalism has, been spreading, “Almost all of the _ ‘4 ’ _ 1 _ bers of, the department don t want t&.- st,uder&+Y~‘will-y be; , the’ real, from councik and the World University Service

them, back, nor ‘can many other biers. The~~~~erta~nly:.w;ill be no campuscommittee: ’ ’ 1 I grocery stores inKitchenerWaterloo are owned bv ’ ‘-[> Garfield Weston, s -E. P: ,;Taylor- and : that :gr&(-. -_ ~ .$

faculty members in the depart-. winners no m&ter .what happens, _ Speakmg to-cquncil about the .situation in Califor-’ Canadian) I ' Ment~;. &kitten. -notif.ication of -the ' h-OW,“ he said..’ -

1 ‘Bbth &es -.have been ‘. placed nia that-spurred the boycott wae..Art Goldberg, a-

institution the Atlantic and1 Pacific-.. - <i

’ -student-movement veteran from Herkeley; Cali- Tea company (A&P) .” _/ i

decision only told -the~$ it was the Speaking from. the gallery, Jo Surich; poli-sci 4; : -, “F*yI ‘1 ,. _ f&r&i whowas in Ontarioon a speakingtour. * ’ 1 result of carefulconsideration. , before arts dean Jay.Minas.’ ’ .

**The whole r&@ as far as ‘I‘mrZ ’ ’ “I’ve \ had ?%rne discussion. &-$&l ‘&&&s,enbr&&&j t-iot(j & discu&ion ,‘bf ’ ’ hfd council the U.S. government has been buying- _’ . --5:-;_. from the growing surplus*‘of Ca’Iifornia- grapes ,_ - . /

concerned was I a botch. It -was i A. with members of the department- agricultural working conditions and- wagesin other ’ since the,boycott began and. sh~pping:th~'~to wet- ’ _ a _,-: 4 ’ ~ totally incompetent,‘.’ said assist: ,ibout this and the: discussions- are fields and areas. They, generally agreed on Cali-% 4

r ant prof Jim Anderson of the,.deL nbt yd concluded” was all -that fornia grapes as a good symbol of the plight of': nam. He said this’ was @g&& &&.&ono3~iC gres:: -. -:;;"I,l

r . ” I sure off the growers who had’ been pre$sing:‘the, 1, I,‘-;$

i j &siqn. --’ _ -- I Another ‘pol&ci ass&ant pro- ,

*M-+as wo&d’sayabout the case. . many agriCUltU2%1 workers. Y .-Senior members of the depart- . History prof Leo Johnson told council, “The situa- ‘.

government. Couhcillors- delved? into some of the ;pirtic-lar

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. ‘, f&&r ,ag@&; -2’ ’ ‘8 I -, - 2 -‘-‘.i 1 , 2%“ _. _ j- ‘merit : Join. Wilson, TerryX &alter **I am unable to find- reasonable-,. and John I Kersell refused to dis-

tion is,much the same in Ontario. People w_ork for slave wa’ges. Matiy children work too. I-woula like

details of conditions in ‘California ’ and +overwhelm:, : ’ ingly voted to support-the boycott. .

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;:.p< The. ~,$mjnistration , has ’ res-- g -3 .y* .i.. __ S& engineering*, building , and .i .L I ‘ i . . , _,__ .;ponded to the engineers. demand . ~pitc~. for - the school .of &chitec-, I_

- fog,~q! @iilding$ Then engineers. ” i:., ;. ~ tu?& ” . I .’ - : i. I. a;. , f :“,’ . I -. .i , Y. ’ -. *. &$l_ subtly. confronted., @em ..with a<. - ’ .*> “_ :, , , tl@r need .py changing the-sign

?-.:‘ ;Tbe i;addition is scheduled for ; --Tfqymn~y by. thf! fall of &!71, and

-> ’ I / .., ‘S:zG/+ - oh $liiC Arts ,I11 * construction site will be, located within the ring :i;,, . .+’ -’ ’ to read Eng. .a ’ _ Jr , -z-- I’- :. ._ ,“‘-. ._’ I _ _ --” ‘L. - The university-affairs depart-.

road, at the%ou& east corner of j the CWQ$I.I~~ Jmks. .are/already

. . _ :> .-‘: ‘merit his -approved plans, ‘i;d pro- , >/: about ‘. I_ to be- -.ceedd .with gdditions to the -pre;

transplant&-& : ‘F I Pr 2 -4, -7 . .’ ). ( . ,-.. _. prepara tion~for construction; .‘I _. __~ ~ q ’ - . 2: -, 1. : * i: ^ . ., ’ .I . 4.. _ .- “. I _ - ,i, ‘) -‘.’ ‘.I ; ” ~,,I .i .” I?.* . ( ; . _‘ .

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.:. ‘- :.-- ; ‘:-.)r--‘v Y- :. \_. -.-r ‘* $.x’ - -- .‘. _ _ 5” , .c -r., .I_ ---‘., ;< -1. L -%‘, _ These studentsgettingit in the? . a *-< “,_ I_ :,j* 2 ST ea* .1 are il sthose who,. yearning.

i: rj .for some of mbthershome~ cook- k& .--: -. ’ % . , a mg, try: for : .a +oin-vended cup

of Mother Margolies chicken soup. : *. ,‘: ’ .b . : , The ma&ma hasbeen gulpi,ngX . . * . . P .“.-:I cash daily,, but refusing ‘to spew

I . . . forth the goldenbroth. : . .. -

machine. ‘ Much to their J-sur- prise, $1.6&Q -in jnckels, dimes, quarters, . and shekels. streamed forth..; ’ % L I . q’ . . /

-This money- has’ ‘been n used to‘ buy paper to circulate a petition _ to-have the machine fixed.” ” t ‘* If this _ ,fails,’ 6 ,.‘pizza and saurkrau t machine fill ibe moved in to replace it.

-. Anyone -with strong- Geelings, ( ‘, 7‘s : t. .,.,&cently severalstudents fired whether r$oist, religious, -or go& _t ? . -2 1 ? ,:. ,,. oif Xthls.+obbery and +ook the res- met+ is- L asked to sign .tne peti- >_

I ’ * . . ‘ i .,l+pnsible; “. active approach of <$ a- ’ ~_

is . .:‘calmly .kicking .the&ell. out of, the tions in : either-the campus ‘cen-

. @or the math coffee-shop. ‘. I ‘ I , ‘e. .I \- ,~ , ** % _ I I_ .‘a : j ‘- ^*’ ,.

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’ .: .:. lj$utnot <for‘ ‘wh&h%he thinks he LflbCCL33 Irllc y1.

>‘I : life, ;the$rosl T - .,$c 1. n.eeds you, The ~Ajnerican~ draft 7, ‘l&liti~c& activit~$n~,.iid t; +- *- . / ti ,~, ?‘: > *- E: * i .exiles -on campus *are ;orga.nizi,n~;‘~.-Trriirals,’ ‘. - , ‘.-*.,. !Y II S -dye ~ A@ C$ad’ an+meriean$ s&o have.. ‘+ 8 “i-. _ ‘1.‘. .- = $$, ~

refused in, uction *or are thinking e- mation can contact Rick’ Seder< ‘h : Anyone desiring; ,further inf~r-,~

-: ” ,of doing)&are~ holding an organ- strom at 57644%or 744~6111, local .I’ %L_ jr . ,’ I _, - . :iz$ional meeting ‘i@onday”3at 7 in ’ 2665.

.-,. _ .I;,” _ - j j _ BURNABY (CUP)=The crisis j. “7: at &iqn Fraser is over ’ for - this

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.Then,treat yourself to,a chat with Dr. Howard Petch,Vice President (Academic) k!londays;4=6p.& Campus Centre (Pub Area)

160 King St. W. Ph:one 745-7124 ’ (

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by Bob Verdun municating with the students and ’ - : \ b

Chevron managing,editor

The new student council, in its would continue to separate council

meeting, he said.

from the students. “This is just an Patterson. past vicepresident’

and most-experienced. council first heeting, decided by a one- elitist fUIlCtiOIl, she said. vote, margin to accept bdminis- I Paul Dube reminded the coun-

-member. gave a long speech con-

tration president, Gerry Hagey s centrating on the real .. meaning

cil ther.e was a standing policy ~ of communication, . invitation to a private discussion. against attending. secret meetings.

Haag, new federation vicepresi- “We ve tried flyers, I forums,

The invitation had’ been origi- coffeeshop discussions and a-coun- nally extended September 23 for dent, replied “We have to pre- a dinner meeting.. The .past stu- sent the wishes of the electorate

cil newspaper. The answer is ,to

dent &uncil rejected the closed _ to ~l-md~inistration~ get more people involved. We on council are not the only ones

meeting suggested rather an Gordon suggested it was neces- interested in the business of open .meeting in the campus cen- sary to meet the administration council. We re not just a little ter great hall. half way-and he wanted -to do

Hagey replied with an offer to it in HageY S off& group of politicos or organizers.

have some form of an open Miss Burt replied it was neces- “In dealing with the adminis-

meeting but as well as a private sary to bridge the -gap between tration the most important fhings are the issues themselves. Meet-

discussion between council mem- students and the administration bers and himself and the admini- and this couldn t be done by dis-

ings to get to known them, per-

stration s three vicepresidents, cussing with Hagey matters he sonally reinforces the wrong aspect and can cloud the issues.

provost and treasurer because didn t want in ,, the open. She “We have to get administra- “there are certain matters to be also questioned an earlier state- discussed that are not of a nature ment by Boughner in which he

tors out ‘of offices where stu-

for an open meeting. had, stated there were ways of dents never approach them. where

The - past council rejected this, communicating to students other they hold secret meetings all the

left it to the new council, be- . than open meetings. She asked time. We have to make them talk

cause by that time the election what the’ways were. He replied,, to the people. _

had been called. “They have been quite well out- “There is also a temptation ‘in

The’ motion, passed Wednesday lined in the past. (referring to private meetings to , agree ’ to night, calls for the acceptance of the campaign). . keep. something in confidence in Hagey s invitation with minor Richardson wanted to know if order to get a piece of informa- modifications-the meeting will the administration holds the tion. be held in the board -and senate same *attitudes to this council “Last year ( fall 1967) we talked room, and will be closed to all as they did to the previous. He a lot about building better person- but student councillors and a wanted a private-although he al relations and better communica- representative of the Chevron.- termed it not necessarily secret- tions. .-We had .a private dinner The motion also invited, Hagey meeting to test their attitudes meeting and everybody felt-better ‘*‘ .: to come to a general meeting.- and Plans. / about each other personally. but%n I /

The eventual form of the motion Cubberley suggested if some a few days everything fell back _ was reached after about an hour-. councillors wanted to know .Hagey into its old pattern of structures. __ :

Council3 decision. to have, a private meetink with Hagey came .ebly in Wednesday evening: ‘\ and-a-half debate. The vote, taken on a roll call, went nine for, eight c against and two abstentions.

Voting for the, motion were \ federation president John Berg- smai Nick Kouwen, Dieter Haag .

c land >Dave Gordon (.grads), Don -_ 1. Greaves and ~ Tom Boughner (en-

gineeringr,’ Doug Richardson (St. Jerome s), Jim Belfry (reg math) and Hugh Cuthbertson (phys-ed).

Voting against the motion were councillors Dave Cubberley, San- dra Burt and Tom Patterson (arts), Geoff Roulet science’), Barry Filhmore ( engineering), John Koval (reg math), Glenn Berry (co-op. math) and Paul Dube (Renison). -_ I * Abstaining were {Gerry Wootton (science ) and Jim Stendebach

personally-‘ 6 do you want to know what kind’of beer he drinks? - they should approach him as individuals, not as council members. He was greeeted with ap- plause and ‘laughter from the large gallery when he suggested as a solution a buffet dinner. in thecampus center.,

with the people in the offices still making the decisions. An admin- -’ istration-student committee on communications fell into disuse.

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Patterson . stated :Hagey was inviting them’ only as council members, not students,: He in- sisted it would be aj political meeting bv its nature.

Patterson &minded council their tl only real power is to. spend a ’ i certain amount of money; . and - 1 if ’ they wanted . to do anything j

. else, they had to I have‘. people 9 b&hind thefii:, - * . . J,‘- i 1 i

, ’ That means, you cant play c , little political games: You can - personally’ think Howie’ Petch

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“‘Because it s a political meet- ( academic vicepresident,)’ is a ing, it must be open to the people nice guy, but that can cloud the -1; ‘-1 you represent,, he said. ’ real issues. / 1 ,

Kouwen felt it was necessary to _ work in small, personal

“‘This\ type of“‘dinner me&g’ ‘-‘: 1 j

groups with those .who ‘have the, ‘doesn t do anything. It isn t the !

power to make changes. . kind of thing for my constituents+;. ’ I/

\ and I won t 90. .k_ .I ,_ I (arts):‘. Stendebach said, “We need a

Absent were I3ill. S*nodgrass private political meeting where ’ Several speakers challenged ’ +I (engineering)’ and Ian Calvert Hagey lays his cards on the those councillors- who i did want ‘- !

(science ) ? who has pneumonia. ‘table. He won t do that at a to have the private --meeting :on -* i Pete Huck (out-term engineering) general meeting. ’ ’ the question of representivity. .’ i _ had to leave before the vote-and - “You would-play his game! . .Romney White (out-term co-op retorted Cubberley.

Belfry put forward-the motion ” 1 to .accept Hagey s’ invitation and ’

math) arrived late. A.11 four ‘Sometimes you have to,. re- while he rewording it, Pat- 1, .;

was .‘ 7,) were members of the last coun- plied Stendebach. terson said, “People who called j cil ‘that had voted against the Berry drew an analogy to the for repr sentivity in the election. ” closed meeting with Hagey. type of meeting student council K campaign ow call for restrictive:

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. Those favoring the motion em- was having-&the campus ten- closed ‘meetings. It’s an in- i phasized their desire to get to ter great hall. with 100450 spec- ‘know the senior, administrators tators who could see and hear

credible ’ cohtradication and ;: I _ ‘; don t understand how they can__ ,j

socially and personally, and. to everything. not just read a. news- do it. ’ present the views of the students, paper report:

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to the administration. - and be able ,. to ’ The’vote was eventually taken’

communicate with their represent- as I a roll call, .and: the private ) Miss Burt, however. said this atives. . ,

was a move away from com- *, meeting proposal pa$sed”f&& with q

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, -‘*I have no support, for a closed ’ tt-vo abstentions., -.‘. 1) l ’ j : - .I 1 ’ L. ’ . . i” I. j .1

. ’ b$Thomas J. Edwhis 1 c / , Cijevran staff ‘3

,- ,yoo.r Brian Her. Nasty, ir’tes- : ponsible,%viole’nt radical who won’t

- talk to‘the administration because he, thinks they’re all wrong. He met his Waterloo when t_he well-

: infqrmqd students of this university voted him out of his arm- . /’ / cl$ir and the cushy $60.50 weekly

,’ * - s&try he socialistically accepted L as #compensation for not being a

fulltime s&dent. _ 1-i ~ qy his place, we have respon-

sible, nonviolent I- senior engineering student John Bergsma

~ wfio will talk to the administration and solve- the world’s pro-

\ blems while ‘at the same time t - ‘ finishing fourth-year engineering and accepting a measly $60.50

- ’ honorarium for his corporate * , talents, and for cleaning ,up the

image of, the university so all its -’ students can get, comfy k jobs .I

;‘ Ii - 2. again. - e’ :D&mocracy, motherhood,, apple’- ..,, a-- 1: - pie and the’ American way have

: ,& -been saved for-another day. I And Iler sulked away mumblirig, 4 L I “it’s a cruel world and virtue is

’ triumphant only in 2 theatrical. performances.l”

Qne must pity’ a person like Iler \ ~wbb was one on his way to being .

I / successfully dssimilated into the system. Acti&’ in 1 the young .* . people’s group at his church in

_ I Guelph, Iler came to unive+ ! sity and followed logically into

. 4he< Circle K club-a great place to learn the corporate ethic and

, 1 ’ help tq perpetuate charity, the --. _ backbone of Western capitalism.

‘Iler served well in Circle K and it, the same time worked with the engineering society,: and was elected- to. student r @buncil where. ,I

’ he continued to be’ responsible c .and nopcontroversial. . ,

I ’ The& admirable qualities were - - recognized by the administration

when they selected him to be -chairman of _ the university’s

I. - 1 tenth .anniversary week. He was true. _ to their expectations and

I, ’ presented ..‘a fine -image . of the I %niiersity. to. kick off its fund

drive. /. With this as, a background, .h& -

ra-n for presfdent of the Federa- tion of Students. True he possibly

, . mentioned he had certain acti? vist tendencies, but these were -tolerable. to the majority for‘these

. views had as yet shown no’ con- sequences.

.: .: ’ &r will. have ’ &r will. have t& stop fiddling t& stop fiddling ‘/ ; ‘/ ; r’- I, amun.d say t&k righ t-wingers. r’- I, amun.d say t&k righ t-wingers. i c i c 2fe can i do his own thing as . 2fe can i do his own thing as .

,. lqn+j as ‘it,% with& .&our& of : lqn+j as ‘it,% with& .&our& of

Sd’ there he was, swept to _- ’ .I ‘office with a majority in every

- faculty ,and school, experienced iti administration and with a fine capitalist’ upbringing. What went;

_ wrong? . I ;* Trapped in his’ off.ice for the

- c-. ‘summer, he was surroundet by 1 . _ h-ippies, tommies and . peace

creeps. And he. went to meetings r I organized by- CUS <where. he, gat

a biased view* of’ ths world’s’ pro-

blems. He didn’t really believe zed that liber$l rhetoric about all the nonsence .about, <freedom, democratic rights of dissent and justjce and equality, but there freedom of speech and assembly were so- many people around him were a sham coverup ,for a &ho didi he thought they were commie plot to ‘destroy the good

- actually right. So September came and Iler .

relations between business and industry and the university.

was duped b into pursuing a course l&en with Moscow Gold the of dernocratizing the university- radicals could not succeed. Iler soqething- we all know is not kill learn the error of his ways only inefficient, but possibly and will accept that certain destrucive of the role of the .uni- rights must be surrendered for versity as a s&vice-station .for efficient function of the capitalist business and industy. free-enterprise % system. He . will

The latter recognized this, and also accept his privileged posi- together with their allies, com- tion in th$ technocratic oligarchy., mercial nkwspaper publishers, Iler is already beginning to waged a valiant and even&ally crack for he admitted, “I might successful -tiampaign of showing ‘as well finish my degree; I’ve the faults in 1ler”s ways. The stu- gone this far and it might prove dents on this campus finally reali- useful: :’

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Enginews: Maybe you would like to start with just a brief statement of the purpose of the student newspaper in general. What do you think it should do? Saxe: I think a studen_t newspaper has a number of purposes. It has a responsibility to make known to the students the things happening on campus; including dances, football games, general campus news, and what have you. I also think that it has a responsibility, in the way I think everybody today has responsibility, to try to present whatever awareness ,it might have that the general student body might not have; to pr’esent problems it sees people today in our society, the society of the university or in the sqciety of the country or in the society of man at large, facing.

I think’ an important question is raised when it comes to balancing those two purposes. To a large extent, I guess I would place a good bit of the emphasis on the presentation of problems, but as long as it’s a newspaper which is being paid for out of general student funds, I think it’s going to have to cover the things that the Chevron .covers through This W’eek on Campus, its sports pages, Canipus Quick- ies, its entertainment pages, etc., Enginews: Okay, ‘cari we switch now to your editorial policy? I’m just wondering, are you solely responsible for the editorial policy-does anybody else contribute to it at all? Saxe: Technically the Editor-in-Chief is the embodiment of the newspaper, and is singularly responsible for all of its content. However, editorial policy is set by the staff in a number of ways.

At the first staff meetings of the acde- mic year, the staff were asked if they had any disagreements with over-all editorial policy, which had beev developed during the summer. A few things were discussed, but generally there weren’t any disagreements.

If a question is raised at a staff meeting, .it is discussed until some sort of a consensus is found. So at any staff meeting -we’ve held about six since the beginning of the academic year-any member of the staff can raise any question he wants [or consideration. Tire decision of the staff meeting is pretty well binding.

Many specific decisions are also made at these meetings. For example, the decision to back Bkian Iler in-the election was made in a staff meeting. A few of the other specific editorials have been read to the staff at the staff meeting and approved, but generally the way we implement the overall policy on a day-to-day basis is by passing the editorials around the office for everyone to read and to make comments on. -Then they are returned to whoever wrote them-and that can be anyone on staff-and he incorporates the comments into the final draft.

The final editorial comes to me. I read it and if there’s no problem -it will go through; if thel’e is any question it will go. back for a staff decision.

So the final content of editorials that go in the paper has been approved by whoever was around at the time they were written. The biggest editorials we always try to write early in the week, SO that a lot of staff members will see them before they go to press on Wednesday.

I don’t think any editorial has been

published this year that wasn’t seen by at least half a dqzen staff members. Enginews : Your editorial policy has given the impression of a sort of anti-establishment attitude, and cut, cut, cut at the administration. *A lot of people have said to me that they thought this editorial policy was not being restricted solely to the editorial page. Gerry Hagey’s in absentia address for one, and the two- page spread you did with him being speci- fically mentioned a few times with the Gordie Lightf oot song; could you comment on the reasons for these breaches of etiquette? Saxe: Well; I do not think editorial policy belongs on just the editorial page. It extends throughout the other portions of the paper in the selection of what we print. Our editorial policy was, set out in the first paper, and it is being main- tained. That policy is to take a look at the problems we think people are facing today, and that doesn’t just mean in ten- inch editorials on the editorial page, it means in the features we have decided to print.

The. problems we are talking about are big ones; as a matter of fact, the whdle structuie of’society when you get right down to it. I think if we are to investigate them properly we have to take a look around for articles that delve into the logic of the problems that we say we are facing; that go into the different aspects of them, that suggest alternatives,. and alternative methods.

So that’s why an awful lot of the big articles we’ve published are an extension of editorial policy. Those articles do not present one line, in the- sense that many would not find agreement amongst their own authors, but. they do agree that there is a major problem.

Some of the things we publish I think are obviously funny or tongue-in-cheek ; the in absentia address of Dr. Hagey falls somewhat into that class. It’s a different way of making the same point, there’s no doubt about that, and we felt presenting it in that way, it might come home to some more people. We didn’t think it was insulting to Dr. Hagey, in a personal sense; and the same applies to the center spread we did of Go&e Lightfoot’s song. Enginews: Do you think t@at people are actually reading these articles? Saxe: Well, I know there are .definitely some people who are skipping over the longer articles, but we have done a couple of checks and are fairly happy with the results. I constantly have people come up to me and say, “I don’t read the Chevron any more; ” and’ to take it to its extreme, the following is typical of the conversa- tion: “I don’t read the Chevron any more.” And I’ll ask why not. And he’ll say, “Well look what you said in the third column of the fourth page on last Friday’s edi- tion.” R

Look out in the great hall every Friday, there are people who will come into the great hall at 11 o’clock, wait for the Chevron and sit the& and read it until two or three o’clock, I also talk to maids at the Village. They tell me they just don’t see Chevrons thrown out in .the garbage. Chevrons are all piled up on- the bookshelves. Well, if you really don’t, read the things we print, you don’t save them and pile them up on your book-

shelves. And if you ‘wander around the Village on Tuesday or Wednesday night, you’ll find people still reading the long articles from last Friday. Enginews: Does the Chevron have a mis- sion, as such, other than informing peaple of what is going on and what the Chevron thinks our problems are? Is the Chevron’s editorial policy and staff attempting to make people follow a certain method of solution, a la RSM? Saxe: No I’m not too sure to what degree the RSM would think that they were suggesting a particular approach, but no, we are not suggesting a given answer; . we are not suggesting a Marxist iL;ia, or anybody’s utopia. It in effect comes down to a more basic question. I think that in gtructuring our society, you have an original choice. And that is to structure the educational system, and the socialization system, to give you the ability to either choose only one alternative- the given-or the ability to contemplate many choices, and to choose between these many choices.

I, ,think the ess,@al problem today is that people have the ability only to contemplate one alternative-the given. And the line that the Chevron is pushing is that we should have the ability to honestly conceive of many different ways of doing whatever the given problem is, be it an economic system for a whole society, or be it loving a woman. I do think @at we are pusing the one idea that you should be able to have many alternatives. But we are not pushing any one alternative as the final anstier.

Certainly many of the articles in the Chevron have suggested some sort of alternative. And in most cases they are

,ones which a’re generally classified by the public as being left or left-wing. I know that. I think its because its been the left that has been trying to fade and solve the problems we’ve been talking.about.

Personally I think the answers to society’s problems lie well within the realm of left-wing philosophies. It is the left that talks about increased rights for all people’. It is the left that proposes a direction for man that would see an in- creaked brotherhood of man.

It is part of the frightening situation we are in today that many people think being socially left is bad, though they really have no conception of what it-means.

That is part of the reason it is so important to act today; to open people’s minds to studying their- present direction and influencing their future one.

It’s interesting to not,e some of the re- actions we’ve had this year to the Chevron. You have the letter from Martha Vinaker and Sue Leppan that the Chevron received in October, which suggested that if the problems the Chevron was raising were really true, we would have no alternative but to commit suicide.

It is very frightening to have somebody write you that sort of letter, because in effect what they are saying is’ that our society has only given us two alternatives; go the set way, accept the status quo, or commit self destruction.

In a. way, I can agree with that part of the Minaker-Leppan letter; I think if tdtal enormity of exactly what a catas- trophic situ&ion we are in were ever to hit me all at once, I might be very tempt-

ed .toward self-destruction myself. But I think we all have sort. of built-in safe- guards that let us see it only bit by bit. The only difference between the moderate and the radical is the speed with which they are seeing these bits and how many bits they are seeing at the ‘same , time.

So you have, John, Bergsma; while he’s ~ on tliis canip&s,saying he’d like to solve “x”, he’d like to solve “y”, but he really hasn’t reached the point where he realizes that “x” and “y” are connected to huge , problems in our total society, and that . the only way he will be able to solve them in the end is a restructuring of society. In his own way he is talking about restructuring power on this campus, and power on this campus is tied very closely to power in society. Enginews: Yes, but you have to start somewhere. Saxe: ’ Yes, you do. Enginews: (And) As he said, we have to start on this campus, and get ourselves organized, get ourselves united, and find out which way we want to go, and only from there can we work to so- ’ ciety. In other words, we cannot start working on society until we ourselves . have decided on our course and our future setup, the way we want things. Saxe: The next couple of months are ~ really only going to find the moderates wondering about trying to find another set of methods. Throughout the election the moderates were not able to offer an alternative set of methods on solutions. They were not able to say that better cbm- munications can come from doing this or that par,ticular thing. TFe radicals have a direction and now they have been released from having to worry about con-

, I sensus politics. When they were the pre- : sident and the vicepresident and executive- members of the Federation of Students; they had to worry about representing the general student body. They had to call

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general meetings, because they believed’ I very definitely in democracy, and. they believe in letting the people decide. Now they are no longer in that situation.

I think they are still going to try edu- cative work on the whole campus, but they can go and stand beside the strikers : in Peterborough, and not worry any longer ’ about what the general student body on this campus thinks of that. Enginews: But this is the point that I am trying to make; that I think this last ’ electipn proved one thing-that the student body on this campus doesn’t want that sort of thing. They elected a ma.n-I don’t think they elected him because of his per- ’ sonality qr even becarise of his platform, because, as you say, it was a little bit fuzzy; but they elected him basically on his principles, his principles of moderat- ism and a rejeCtion of the radicals’ view of ‘things, the radical approach to this campus. ’ Saxe: Right. But that doesn’t mean that - the 36 percent- of the people who voted For Iler should all of a sudden give up 2nd stop. The Radical Student Movement :an go and do whatever it wants to do. rhe 56 percent have no right to say you can’t stand on the striking lines for the Peterborough Examiner reporters. And ’ 1 think that i)s what the radicals are going 1

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to do now. They have been released from the constraints of worrying about what the majority wants them to do and what it doesn’t want them to do. Enginews : A lot of people have said the Chevron was instrumental in having this election called and in having Brian Iler lose. First of all because the Chevron appeared, at least to me when I got back in September, to be totally biased. There was an immediate reaction to this, and everyone immediately became really angry with the whole radical student hangup. So this precipitated a general meeting, Brian Iler and all were thrown out. A lot, of people said that part of the reason Brian Iler lost the election was because of your Tuesday editorial page, the day before the election, because it appeared that you were really slamming John Bergsma, perhaps unduly, and there was another reaction to this. Saxe: Let’s talk about those things in reverse order. The staff definitely felt they had to do that final editorial. I think,for good reason. As it said in the editorial, they felt they were people who were charged with knowing what was going on on the campus and hense had a responsibility to tell our readers that they felt it would be very bad for the general student body to elect John Bergsma.

I think it would be very hard to tell whether it turned people against Iler. We felt the people who say, “That turned me against Iler,” really weren’t going to vote for Iler in the first place. Iler didn’t want votes from people who didn’t understand what he was for. And people who understood what he was for probably haven’t had a lot of disagreement with the Chevron.

As to your charge of bias, that is an interesting thing to talk about. First of all, as the Chevron said in its first editorial, being unbiased is a myth. One of the biggest problems we face with the national press is that we tend to believe it is unbiased. We tend to think what it reports is fact. And it’s not. It is simply the way a certain person with all the biases that every individual has, saw something. There is the old example-try to get two witnesses to an accident to agree on what happened. Now a reporter becomes a little more professional at viewing things. When it comes to political things, he has very definite biases. The professional. press is showing this to us over and over again, in the way the way they handle student activists. So yes, the Chevron is biased, from front to back.

But there is a difference in approach, depending upon the page you are reading. We honestly strive to make our news pages as unbiased as possible. And in

. fact, though it may be hard for people outside the Chevron to believe this, we have had stories submitted to us which were just too biased against the administration; writers who, for example, had not called up the administrator involved in the story to ask him what his side was. And those stories have been sent back to the reporter, and he has been told to g&t the other side of the story.

But there are other places in the paper, in the features we present, in the features we write, where there is definite bias, . . If you wish to call it that. There is a defin-

- ite point of view,there is a definite editorial -decision that has gone into the fact that we are doing all those things. We have told the readers it is there; we have written an editorial which told people it was going to be there. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.

People often ask me why we are not presenting the other side of the story. Well, we are presenting different ap- proaches, but we are not presenting anyone who says things are all hunky-dory and mom’s apple pie is reigning supreme. The reason we’re not is because we think our readers are living the other side of the story; in other words, when we say the status quo is wrong, what we are saying is you are living wrong. And if you want the other side of the story from what the Chevron is presenting, you can go to nine out of ten of your professors, you can pick up any of the national press, you can pick up almost all of the national news magazines, you can pick up almost any of your text books. And you can get the other side of the story.

The other side, being the status quo, already has everything overwhelmingly in its favor. Enginews : You mentioned something a while ago about not contacting people in the administration for their views. As I recall, at the beginning of the term, there were a lot of people in the administration who complained they were misquoted. ;Probably what they meant was not that they were misquoted but that quotes were taken out of context. Do you still follow the policy of contacting the people involved in an article, the people who have been quoted, to check to see how close your quotes are to what they actually said? Saxe: There are a number of ways which we take quotes from senior administrators. Most quotes you read in the Chevron exist either on our tape recorders or were read back to the person who was involved and he was asked if that was what he wanted to say. Now let’s take a look at where the real complaints came from, and where the administration said it wasn’t getting its side of the story across. First of all, it’s not really so much the administration as it was President Hagey. When Hagey published his letter that he was cutting off relationships with the Chevron and that he was leaving it up to everyone else to decide whether they wanted to, I think we could all assume that everyone would follow suit. After all, if the president says he is being badly handled and publishes an open letter in the Gazette saying he is cutting off relationships with the Chevron and it’s up to everyone else if they want to or not, you would think everyone else would.

Nobody else did. Al Adlington, Howard Petch, Ted Batke, all the university vicepresidents continued to talk with us, continued to be openly available to us, even late at night if we wanted to contact them; and so did all the ‘people down the line. And whenever we have an important story that we feel we should have a comment from Hagey on, we have called him. Not once has he refused to see us. So I tend to wonder. exactly what his breaking off relationships means. It doesn’t seem to mean much when he realizes he- had

better see us about something. I think a lot of it came because Hagey

had backed himself into a corner over a couple of things. ‘Hagey claimed when we first published the fact he was going to resign as president it wasn’t true. And he went so far as to call the Kitchener- Waterloo Record and have the Kitchener- Waterloo Record print a story saying the Chevron said Hagey was going to resign but that he wasn’t. What the Kitchener- Waterloo Record ignored, in their unbiased press reporting, and what Dr. Hagey failed to see, was that the story had been confirmed by Al Adlington, the operations vicepresident. We contacted Dr. Hagey, and we printed his remarks as well in that story. Most importantly I think Hag- ey wanted to avoid, at any cost, acting on the Beausolei problem. Enginews: So then you don’t worry too much that you might be quoting someone out of context. Saxe: Yes we do. We try to get the sense of their quote all the time. This is one of the biggest problems of the printed media- it has to take quotes out of context. But I think we have been very fair. Enginews: The Chevron is probably the main communications media on campus, and I think a lot of the problems we had this fall, f& instance Habitat, Tent City and all these things, were caused by the fact that the students on campus didn’t know what had precipitated these “con- frontation tactics”; i.e., the Habitat picket really took place before anybody knew all of the meanderings and falderall that the student body had gone through in committees to try to get this damned place straightened out, to try to make it liveable. And all of a sudden they were faced with a bunch of people picketing the administration library. Sake: Well, I heard that a lot of times, but I am afraid there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it. Before the Habitat demonstration, there were two front-page stories on Habitat in the Chev- ron. There was an entire one-page spread on Habitat and exactly how unliveable it would be, and there were numerous other stories throughout the last couple months on problems with Habitat. I am not too sure the Chevron could have done much more. There was also a huge advertise- ment calling the general meeting on Habitat; and after the demonstration there was that full-page ad by the administration. Enginews: Do you have any idea why they put it in? Saxe: I think they thought that would be the best way to discredit the Chevron; if they purchased a page and put in their own story it would look like their point of view was not being put across unless they bought an ad. If you read that ad and read past issues of the Chevron, you will see every piece of information in that ad is in past issues of the Chevron. Other information is in past issues of the Chevron, too. Information like the’ fact that it wasn’t just the students who walked out of Habitat meetings and called Habitat an atrocity, it was also the Ward- en of the Student Village. The history in that ad also ignored a number of complaints from Stephen Ireland ; yet at one point it suggests the federation presi-

dent waited too long before he tried to take any action. What it doesn’t point out is the reason he waited was because he was trying to go through all the proper channels, and he was put off for three months. I think the administration in the long run is asking for problems when it tries in an ad to call down the student president for not acting quicker, when the real situation during that time found the student president trying to go through proper channels. Enginews: Do you expect a turnover of staff now that a new president has been elected whom they do not support? Saxe: I think the staff will stay on. In terms of presenting unbiased news, John is lucky. It will be a lot easier now for us to present what is going on in Council in an unbiased fashion than it would have been in September, because now we have some more practiced, experienced staff members. I think if you take a look at our election story on the front page of last Friday’s Chevron, you can’t say that’s a biased story. Enginews: What’s the Chevron’s attitude toward John Bergsma going to be? Saxe: Not that he’s elected, I think we are going to sit back and see what he can accomplish. One thing that is missed on campus is that all of us would like to see things accomplished without pickets and strikes, and without having to get nasty.

I’ve had lunches and dinners with Gerry Hagey. I like him as a person, in terms of what he thinks he should do in this world; I respect him, much as a Roman Catholic respects a Moslem who is a good Moslem and never had a chance to become a Roman Catholic.

If things could be done without people having confrontations, if we can accomplish the things which John says he wants to accomplish, that doesn’t just mean getting students on the board of governors, that means also creating an aware student body, I think that would be really great.

I think our bias is obvious. We don’t think he can do it. But he’s been elected to do it, so we will sit back and see whether or not he can. Enginews: I don’t think very many people are sure, or believe that he can do it, but a lot of people say lets give him a chance. Saxe: Now that he’s elected I’d agree. Beforehand I wouldn’t have, because we’ve learned too much. There comes a time when you have to stop saying, let’s give the new guy a chance. You have to take a look at the old people, you have to take a look at who Brian Iler was and who Steve Ireland was, and realize how competent they were. It’s hard to believe that John will be able to accomplish anything they couldn’t have. Enginews: Schools are growing like weeds, and this paper has gone from four pages four years ago, once a week,

to twice a week and an average total of 40 pages. Is it going to become a daily?

, Saxe: I can see the Chevron staying at twice a week until September 1970. Then we will be in a -brand new printshop.

.Our present printer is going ‘crazy doing us twice weekly. That is why you get all

/ the typographical errors in the Chevron. Unlike many student newspapers and

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alike the *professional press, we don’t !t to proof-read our paper. I ,_ I I^ - I ‘wouldn’t go to a daily today, given

.’ the choice. I wouldn’t even go three times , a week. I think that ,the news don this,

campus can be cbvered, in a twice-a-week paper.

J Enginewsk There’s a‘ trend in Students’ I Council toward becoming big. business. Is it going to become so that the ‘whole executive and the editorial staff. of the paper are all salaried employees: that stay forayearandwbrk? ’ - . Saxe: I hope not. I hope it doesn’t go any further than it is right now. With maybe one minor point; I wouldn’t mind seeing &a couple more people employed for one term a year; in other words, their off- term. -With most people, of course, -this is the summer. I‘ think the solution to growing needs is to employ more staff, .get more secretaries into the office so that we get all the really nonsense work out of our hands. I think it’ should remain a

stud&t federation ‘and !$a, ‘student news: paper. Not a~ professional qfederation f$r* i

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%ngiiiews: How much does the editor of. ‘the Chevron get paid? 1 . Saxe: $60 a week before deducticns.. J Enginews: How many hours do you, estimate that you put in on the Chevron? Saxe:- It varies. During the -summer months I’ put in about 50 hours a week. And in, September, October and about the first week in November, I was-putting in about ‘120, 125 hours a week. ‘Now it’s dropped back off’ again, to about 99 hours a week. . ‘, Enginews : Are you getting paid enough for this’ sport? -. Saxer Yes, I think so. I don’t think ~ the job should ever be attractive because of. its pay. I think you should take thejob for reasons that have nothing to do: w-ith the pay. ‘Then I think you shouldn’t lose

- anything in terms-of actual cash out-of- pocket, ‘because you took the job. I wouldn’t mind seeing a slight increase to $75 a week, but I would be against it going higher than that.

’ - Enginews : Why did you take the, job? \ Are you not on stit of a personal crusade

to’ change, something? Are you using the Chevron as your vehicle, or are you just taking it as a job, as sort of training?

. Saxe: I’ll probably never go into-journal-:. ’ -I. isml I want tc see: the student newspaper

on this campus say something. In a way, it’s what ‘you saicl” about John -Bergsma’s / idea of starting on campus. I believe you

have to start somewhew too. And looking - around me I decided the best place to

- start was on campus,cand dne ef.‘thebest places on campus, I felt, was the-student newspaper, .‘b. 1 ’ . I

’ I wanted to see ,this paper publish,,ar- &es, that would ask people to think; and

’ think ’ about the ,problems I. 3hink lthey arefacing; Before we can solve any-of those problems many ,mbre ,people have to be made aware ofthem,:or they have

’ to realize the world isn’t in a very hunky- ,dory state,: that sitting; back- in an easy c&if and saying let the ,other .guy do it,

-_ today more than ‘ever inour history has become-a very,, very frightening thing.

: We are-a nation;~ a. societyi ‘that accepts I stepping :on’ “other i p’eople tb get-ahead.

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we can reallocate our resources house,clothe and educa.te, ‘every ’

person in the world today; and ,we ’ h&e. to. choose between those things. That choice didn’t- exist until very-< recently. But right now--we are a society ‘ that&ally hates our .fellow man; that mistrusts him,

My mother that can’t deal teaches / high

.with him. school. She

was teaching her class Julius Caesar one- day. And she-asked her students why they. thought Brutus ,had helped. kill Caesar. Every one of them said that Brutus helped kill Caesar because he thought it would be a way to get himself ahead. It never occurred to any of them that Bru- tus -might of all the

have killed-Caesar ‘for the good people, *despite the fact that’s

what Shakespeare. implies in his text That I ~think is a very good comment on w@ere.~welr-e at today. : ._ _ ..- =: j,

: People believe : the. only ‘reason ‘-you do things is to get ahead, People believe that is why-I took the Chevron position. Like I’m a power monger, I want all the- power I~ can everything.

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prestige and they took a

look around them at how -most of the students,on this campus feel about me;and‘if they took a look and. decided exactly whether the time spent on student a&vi- ties really got me ahead, anywhere, they would have to decide either that if I have those go,als. I’m very:* stupid because I - have‘ done a really lousy .jbb ‘of applying them, or I have some other reason for beiq here.

’ My reason comes down to the fact that I want to see some things-said, I-want to do, the best I can in whatever way I see possible, to try to get people to look’up and pay attention to some -of the’ tfiihgs the. Chevron ~has been investigating. Enginews: How in hell, when this is the best it’s ever, been, and we still, only get a 55% .percent turnout in a presidential election, do ydu get the rest cf the stud-~ ents to take enough of an inter’est to even- walk an extra hundred yards to drop a piece of paper into a box?

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Saxe: I don’t think we’ll ever-do it on,a university campus, because we: ar,e too late. By the time the students get here they are 19: years ,old -on an average. .By that point they have formed all.’ their values,. -they have, tiade _ up their mind’s and decided things. - - Let’s talk about _ that: 45 percent who P.

didn’t vote; P,ou know, if you meet‘tliem in the washrooms in, the student village, oriflyou meet themin the pub downtown; they -really d&o care about many .of, the issues. The problem is not. so much apathy, -Iwhich is what everyone wants to call ‘it,; as a sort of disassociation;-a feeling that thqy @@n’t really accomplish anything. A f+l&g that. -the& I singular vote does&t :;:‘ ‘mean ar&thing. i A feeling that n&natter what John Bergsma does or what: $&an Iler says,’ we-are always g&g to progress in the same. direction that we are now ,progressing in,-.: ,

.This is the thing I think we have to com- : bat.- With,most it’stoolateto do it-by the

the people.get &-university; The-reason

so,we cango out into the ‘lower schools, the-high schcols and the public schools, where 1 their original values are really formed: Where they first decided that you can’t change things so you just ig- nore them. Enginews: A few weeks ‘ago, Stewart, you wrote an article which was called. Symbolism on Wheels, and in this article you deplored the use of cars that were very expensive, and I’ just. wondered, what kind of a car do you drive? ’ . Saxe: I drive a 1969 Chrysler Barracuda. I am asked about. that fairly often and I think it’s :a good question’. , People of-ten think I -am holding myself forwardas the better life or, as *the better .way. That’s the last thing I .want to do. _ .

I’m not really too sure. why I even believe some of the things I do, Except fcir maybe one important thing: I grew up with many, many different sorts of at,; nidspheres around me. I ‘grew ‘up in a working class town of management class parents, in a Christian. town-of. Jewish parents, et&- etc.; and so, unlike most people, having had many alternatives constantly’ before me’ in my youth,, I think I sort of learned how to pick ,and choose a little bit and how to extrapolate new alternatives. Not very much. But a little bit.

I also had pa,rents who encouraged me from .a very: early age to take part in the decisions made in our home and to assume responsibility for my actions. . But I still ‘find I have many problems. I, do many @iings automatically which, if I >ever thought about, I wouldn’t agree with. We are all socialized, ,Nobody; not the.:most radicai of the radicals, can-get _ away from his socialization process.

As \far. as that articleis concerned; ‘I was trying to make .a lot of points in that article, hot just that maybe it w&i&l be better to net desires-the big flashy car j simply, because it’s big and,flashy,‘which many of-us do. I -was also% trying to talk . about;the alienation of m&from his work. __ Cur. work-is something which we put

up with. We say to ourselves we will work because’ we have to have ‘fx”? and “x” may \ be feeding our children or+ buying ,; bread, or buying,:,.what little recreation r we, may f-l&.,‘ BGh thei & y&lm &\‘:i,j$3 : isn’t really’ very good either,$thdugh: we ‘, often tolerate it so we -may accomplish :1 “x”. The fam.ily breakdown. is very much ~1 a: droduct of our,, society today. l&&, really doesn’t know how. to enjoy himself.

f y$s tryi,ng to get at those ‘things in: that .article a$ well&nd I $@a.’ trying to, show just hew bad ‘things are. you see,’ there are some really ‘great alternatives~ today. . .“. ..’ _ ’ ’

Cybernetics,, or the computer’ control df computers;‘ may free., man from the firoduction line; [email protected] s@,@ly ,+crew-’ ing bolts: It ‘may finally, *and .bnce again for the first. ‘time inhistory,’ free hirr$ for leisure, .free.him.to,do w:hat he wants.:

Today that would’Ibe= a ‘problem ‘Most of us wouldn’t ,know what to, da with our-: selves if ‘*we weren’t told to’ toil. We wouldn’t, knoti. hawk, to- work of ,ou?‘o’wn: free &oici i~~~~wet’en’tforceri;in~~,~orpe ,+rt .of’ &&of: I don’:t think. beings _ editor J of the $hevron is ~oil,;,i~~~S:.\~~,t~~~ ; s:t . . -: -.

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to find it because the computer and ‘;_- _ <I technology is here to stay. It can be us$d! to’ free\ man if we want it @.-I think we _I

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can restructure the public: school and the ._ 1 - 1

high school so that’ people ,going through ’ +a “‘1

I- 1 1 that experience find things that th$y are ::. ::.:j:: interested’@. At the present m,oment the ‘-a _j __^ ‘{ public schools and the high schools ar$1 L1 _j frightening places. They are places wh& thel,only. ’ thing people’ really learn. ‘,are

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authoritarian’ values, and 1 the fact th&‘, .->:; they can’t change things even if they want -‘-, ::

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to. They have _ to put up their ,_ hand&f % ’ sj r’

they want to go, to the washrdom; $hey _ X - 1 :,L1 i are taught to sit in row by row, The auth- - _ %.

‘ority symbol; the teacher, stands at the . j

.front of the room .,and tells them what .I. i

truth is- and what virtue is,- and they. are ’ 1 (1 >+. .~

told what to study. 1 . ’ ’ .’ a ,, -:ii And\ ‘even in the ‘ so-called new br

modern Ihigh schools, all they are really ( L. ’ . given is’a little bit more -r>f a choice, and

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‘what that choice is going to be’is decided, t ,‘i

{ by other people, not by themselves. ,;W~e can restructure-the’ public schools-and the c high gchwls” to give pe8ple’ a -human kx~$ie~~~42, kt them find out for @~Q-J: .. SC$$?$. what they are. ,$&rested in. There - a@? ex&$r$,&r$ like Summerhi&- ._ on which we’rve already done an-article @‘the, :.

“Ch’eeoq >ha.t - prove if % you give people’; #is- qhafpe. -i!> does; work. People are,not .k i naturally lazy;_ people -,naturally want to; .: . . _ ‘:;+:l ,&@P;gge -in’ s@et&g., they think &$ u&& *‘~‘~i$ ‘>{

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- Are you a doer, a th$ker, ti prober, an innovator, Ta leader, a fol- lower, a-doubter, a starter, %t go-getter,” a “work-horse,. a’ hot shot . , . i

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- )-low da you .see yourSelf? _I _ 1 I ” Selco,is not? on-ly interested in your si=hoiastic discipl:n& but also in, ‘,

. ^ -yOui ability to learn, to xhink, to apply.- W’e’d like.to hear from Y&J: .--A We think tie have somethinti:to--offer... .’ . ._I

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_- . . by Phil Elsworfhy

’ non doing his Joycian thing, dr ’ and such odd trivia. The glossies

) Chevron staff - I else good lyrics with some social show graphically . how the The Beatles new album,‘ re- relevance. heros are laughihg at ..the world

leased a week ago today, shows On listening to the album, one. that makes thkm heros--they’re &elf. to, be remarkable by its hears first the music, and ‘only gross. cover. -The cover is plain white, afterwards does one really take I What’s the point? Well in laugh- with “The ’ Beatles” in small note df the words, but both are ing at us, they are free to really

.raised l&ters. It is a *surprising contagious. While writing this -do their thing and not be in- but modest package for two review, I find that ‘I would rather hibited by what is termed spectacular records. The thirty listen to the album a few more acceptable. songs are an anthology of music times. In thinking about the The album is recorded on t.ne j from the ‘20’s to the present. In album, or hearing it, one gets Apple lable. For those who are attempting these various styles, more and more involved. Its uninformed, it’s the .Beatles’ own all the ,B!eatles show themselves great! recopding company. The album to be musical geniuses. One also finds the album to be is not exceptional ip the stereo

In a sense tile album is not a collection of other goodies end, this is because it is some- progressive-at least musically- like eight by ten color glossy what more subtler than the mind both on account of doing a sur- pictures of the worl-d ,heros’ as blowing Sergeant Pepper album. vey, and because they use very \ well as a college with a weird . The Beatles have returned to little in the way of sound effects type layout on one side, of pits, the four man barid, heavy beat, or extra instruments. It is ap- and the words to the songs on thing basically, though. still Beep- parent, however, that in most the other. I suppose this go,es ing some extras, and considering of the songs, ,the lyrics do not along with the thing people. this, it has a pretty good sound. fit the music: either we,have Len- have now of collecting posters

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-Movies Oedipus like broken

by Paul Englert and Walter Horsley Chevron staff

tecord I Oedipus the King which played at the Capitol was . ween actor and audience. The play when portrayed

a fairly reasonable modern adapti of the ancient _ through the intimacy of the motion picture camera, II ‘I Notice is Hereby Given of a ’

- 3 Greek tragedy.. has no real need of the chorus and therefore they

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The director avoided filming a play by applying see’m artificial. The exclusion of Everyman the r;uch as flashbacks which are exclu- narrator did not harm A Man For, AN Seasons and

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10 of the Federation of Students; University of Waterloo, a sive to the cinema. He was ably assisted by Walter chopping the chorus would not have harmed Oedi-

corporation under the laws of-the Province of Ontario, to be Lassally the director of photography who did such pus.

held Monday, December 9,1968 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 201 a fine on Tom Jones and Zorba the Greek.

The filin however had quite a few flhws. The Lili Palmer succeeded in being both sexy and

of the Engineering Lecture Building, to appbint the Directors matronl-y and although her performance was not --

mixing of contemporary dialog with the classical brilliant it was faultless. of the Federation in accordance with section 3 of by-law 1, dialog with the classical style was a r&take. The The supporting cast were all quite good but the . and for the consideration of the following: writers should have adhered’ to. either one or the I films best performance was given by ,Orson Welles

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Proper notice has been given of the foliowing amendments to other. as the prophet of P oom. The few moments that he.

by-l& 2, Board of Publications: delete 2. IV.A.f. and re- Christopher Plummer as the king tedded to strut was on the screen w@re the most compelling in the

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and rave too much at the beginning of the film and whole film. place with. as a result was not wholly believable as a penitant The reason that many found Oedipus a bore was

I “2.1V.A.f. The staff of the Chevron may be defined at any

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the familiarity ‘of the an_cient story. The film, while

i time,by the foIlowing procedure: A staff com- Another mistake was the way’in which the chorus not as bad as some critics indicate, could not over-

mittee appointed by the editor-in-chief shall ’ ! ’ was employed in the film. They vriere necessary in come this obstacle and as a result fails as enter-

tainment, . - compose a list of names of staff members. An

Greek drama. to act as narfators and link bet- - 1 I / a

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appeal committee consisting of the editor-in-chief - of the Chevron, the chairman of the Board of ’ - Publications and one member-of the list of staff

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members, elected bj the other members of the I

Clint Eastwood, the star of looks down on it. This sets Coo- woman tends to take over the

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\ list, shall hear appeals against the composition of the list and shall render decisions which-shall be ii

Donald Siegel’s Coogan’s Bluff, as in his four ‘spaghetti oysters’,

gan above t.pe rest. In the fast domineering role. Movies are

0 pace of big city life,, Coogan walks supposed to portray it as it is.

final.” managers again to portray a and add two ‘dimensional charact&. Still,

slow, talks slow, and is seldom But Coogan’s ~ / u f f brings back prone to heights of emotion: he the old ideal. Well...what’s wrong

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“2.IV.A.g-. The selection of the editor-in-chief of the Chevron even though critics find this dis- is cool: he acts as if he has just with l,iving a lie? What’s wrong

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shall be detern&ed by the following procedure: tasteful, it comes off well in this had a lopotomy. with giving back men-their virility

’ The chairman of the Board of Publications shall particular police meller. Behind People will idolize Coogan, the (at the expence of women, of

call for applicatibns for the,position in the Chev- simple frontier protagonist. The cours6) ?

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all the excess violence and nudity

ran by Januarb 15 in each year. All applications can be seen the shreads of God- major reason) is that Ihe- has set

4 - I ard’s AlphaMe, a tough-mind- up hi? own pattern of life, his Coogan is. a hard hitter. The

shakbe submitted by January 31. The chairman ’ ed, selfish, superindividual pitted I

own values- He is almost bigoted bloodless villains in this one bleed 0 shall submit the applications to a meeting of the

1 against the sophisticated, orderly in his approach to life. As he

says, profusely. Sam E.‘ Waxman’s

0 ’ staff-of the Chevron. The staff sh.all select one state in all its red tape and con- f’drmatism.

“Everyone’s out to get as editing, Bud Thachery’s photo-

_ L applicatit and shall submit thk selection through much as they can’.” No contrast- graphy, and Lalo Schifrin’s music,

I. the cha’irman to the Students’ Council for

Coqgan is an Arisona deputy, ing set of values is going to tho@h, tend to gloss over a great,- 1 . a desert lawman, sent to big, stand in ,his way. That’s the deal of the excess violence and

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.i +ification by the last day of February. Should the Students’ Council not ratify the staff ielec-

_ bad New, York to bring back a. American ideal. Lee J. Cobb, giving the best

sex; and present a realistic pic- criminal. But red tape stands in ture of New York.’

0 tion, the staff shali submit another name, follow- ‘his way, so Coogan bluffs his way performance in the movie, por-

0 ing the same procedure. Thi? procedure shall be into a hospital and escapes with trays the world-wary city cop to Many subplots were introduced,

0 repeated until stikessfully completed. his prisoner. Unfortunately, his perfection. Susdn Lark, as the pro- 6ut quickly forgotten. Raci.sm,

0 prisoner escapes from him, bation officer, is the only ,woman the North American’s loss of

0 2. 1V.A.h. The term of office of the editpr-in-chief shall be thus pitting Cbogan against, all with any character in the film. values, and drug taking were all

I. May 1 to April 30, except where the selection .New York, with its hoods, its’ Most are prone to be treated sloffed ‘off, weakening what could

(jroc@ure’bf’2.1V.A+ has not been succeSsfully hippies, and its neon lights. - as objects, their most important have become powerful social com- _ completed, in which cage he shall hold off ice until

Coogan is an odd-ball, with his attributes being their bare breasts. meitary, and le,aving only a B-

his SUCCeSSOr k appOhlted.” John ten gallon hat .?nd, cowbpy boots; and buttocks. It’s odd to see the picture. What a pity the critics are

BergSma, president at least, every screw-ball in New female presented in the movie as only going to think of Eastwood’s I’ York tells him so. But Cpogan is inferior. In a world where most bad acting and all that nasty vjo-

not bothered by this, .he even men are paper shufflers the lence. . + .~. -

by fkd Lonsdale .a I . : ; ‘ \- .

an+ers. -1.f is -’ B pla#f ’ of \ dthserva- &e,,& -: oi t blockings “:ancl, timins. / ‘\che\irQn s-&f4 ’ , -: ’ < ’ ’ ’ ..“(_ I* tidn r o&y. And t&s &quire+. som& /r ’ w& ver.i-: ihpres& by the -ati: ?

T& University--dram& &mpan y thought dn tee pert of the ,aqdie&e ~ ‘has. succe&eg ii i~ts ,f&t. hajir

. ~;~h~d.hY COhChl&Oh ‘,&Ml be I

trances oi the $ods . through. ‘the X .’ . au&nce from thi?“ v&ious’. ddors-

effdrt, to provide relevant and’ex: __ -, -I +, I .ok th&, theattjr. The &jhting< at ?&at

lraordinary theatre for this Famp- Within the conkxt of enterhin- point . wFs @y’f” comp’imentiiry~ ug. That stheater was let dowri tech- merit Value Gerry Parowinchuk .ud@ only .one spot on Wqng the

nically in the production. It seems that the t&o @gredieiits*can nkver

deserves great praise for his por- waterseller in &ids&n. to the

trayal of the Waterse/ler* , The, \ three i&minated ia&s.of ihe gods.

/ ‘come together in’a dece;nt mixtute It in an atiat&r productidn‘. :,’

chacacterization was very close to- Also -worth inention is, the Yigh$

BYecht and yet sensitive. It is the scene iq the shop in the first act. , .’

But let s explore the play as,it wa%erseller, who acts as a narra- ,was writ@n. Bertold Brecht wrot.e

.I )ooked at the, audience’ as ,&ell

Good Woman of Set&an and he tdT-chorus. as /the players arid its i-eactibn.

. called it i parable! for the: Stage, Pat Conner was good as the. And I came to some conclusiotis ,

The writing is poet!ic 3s translated ,Gosd Woman. She was ho&vejr/ that will be rG%tioned quickly

i ’ by ,Eric Bently%ut &en so Breclit

a littie to9 godd as the prostitute and then@@otten. ’ :. Sh en Te. She shone as Shen Te s -There seems to be, some’ afflic-

E felt’ his writing deserved a different form of acting. The Brechtian

alteregd Shui Ta and showed a true. %on.on this campus towards any-

theory of ‘adting ,was, created and ., ability as .an actress in-playing in thing out of the :ordinary. Audien-

from the th$&e farwaid 1 was Brechtian- fashion a woman playing ces for prksentations have> -not

seldom understood.. \. ’ -B m&n. Placed altogether in a _.

“-straight line, Pat tackled the role been entirely. pl&asing so far -this season. One ‘of the greatest ar-

A@@Y~~ -ag+njfroni w&t fz CW: ’ --of, alp ac&r: ,playipg an actqr play’ understand and, I cg’nfeis to, those , ing a wdman pla$hg a &an_-

,tists to4- @it .-this - .carnp+& Tony

*involve+, with the1 ‘p!aF my .research - ,Montanaro, @l&y&l t.o a Gery stial!

is l@ite,d, the t@eocy+ has ,b,een ieft . ~ Paul, Frappier was- his best, hotige and other produ&otis ‘have

to theory .‘and 1 poc’,dut-‘tqtaUy into considering the=Br&ht hangup, . suffered a similar fat&: Even for as the rich and dastardly barber, the. o@,ening night of the first

prac{iee. Thsidea ‘Of; an acter, play- Shu F&l Mr. Frappier has.;a re-

ing ;andIa&toT‘ p-ta ying a character inajor dramatic production this

was mixed- &ith ove>tones of S&z&- markable bnd . enviable t$e@ ’ as -year, the audience was sparce.

’ ford!” ‘greek .-“tragedy kand ‘ regu/a/:

*an a&or for playihg’-not to but [email protected] It iwould seem that this carinpus

conven tionaj technique. \The end ah audi@@. .One tiipute you d&s- . -would-,r.ath& see Annie Get Your

pise-hiin, tl&‘n@ minute you fe+ -I +&It was -hiihly adceptahle byt \ sorry fbr’him. I

+/1 th,an -sy-~d sdme tim% at ,

i r@ “biecht”. - Gosd woman, Of Sq@uan is the

‘Usfoyttinately; ’ ’

the re&’ of ‘the -good thea’tey ’ $i$l’ ‘then ,-have “to think aboui it - for ,a little ybi!e

\ cast was nomore than adequat& after. . _ 7 .- . stotiy+f &. prostitute ‘in the villagk f ”

o[ Setzua’n. &r name is Shkn Te A ’ &~st s?age 3s admittedly dib -But, more @sturbing to me ‘was

and -she , is kndwn &s . the goo$ fit&P.-b .de4g&, but - obvicitis c@r- the reaction of- the audien& at’ Good Woman of Setzuan th<t!:-‘:.

woman because she helps others. rect bl’e ._ ( ?- .>a &&ah& ruined ^the’ vis- sThur@ay night. The idea of Brech-. -She is visit&l by three ,god$ whe ufl &~~en!htion* The use Of fhe .tain theater is t!, be obvious. Th&

are- looking for shelter and alsd \:jluge whit& p’iojpctidn scieene as dissociation of audience form liof gooG7: persons . since it has’ a pari o) the Iset’was, not ~oMy dis-

been -decreed that the world cati-\ - play. 4hrough qcting technique is

tracting to th’e eye but unneces- . _. ; f - sw$ose$ to make . the atidience *-’ not continue. to exist unless 8 cer-- . sarr Stimething more * &thetiT

tairi i number-‘%f good people are could have 1 been done with‘ ma-l otjjective.. -They are not -as in !

;t&ial of thb ’ kihd irsdd for fhe - ot@& , productiobs tb be;come- in-

found. . . ’ . ’ + L They pay her - fbr the, night s . framedp’atform*

Wved- with. the play -em&ion@y. \.* ,.,’ 4 This ac’dount&-for’7- th$ ~simpl<.

’ lodging ‘and with the money @e ~ decidqs to buy a tobacco shop:a?d

.I underst+nd that ‘l&echt -wants humour I .tl@ pGrv+es the ‘play and t@e slipping in and cut -4

try.30 lead ‘-a go?d life. The, prob- K the audience dissqci&$ from *the

lem- arises tihp her friends and play: This.bould natufa@ reqtiire acter by. +tor,,I in qrd?r. to

-relatives take. adyantage of her a. nonrealistic. set: .This does nst .J ’ a>distinct poi@. ’ ‘Y- , .

money. and- h&b kindness., !3tie ,’ exclu~~;~~e’pdssibilit~ (qf visual 4 Th6$ ;,&$ IYJX&~. m&aggs Iin,: appeal.: .yor floes-, it: mean‘.; t$t \ 3he play. Few df them were. re?

finds. it ~ necess$ry to diyide he!: ceived. ‘And this was ,-not’ : due to \ ’ activities:into two separate perso!- ’

‘stage* @ne’ry ‘techniques must be overedpliasiied,, It’ v&.etther. that , *afiy iack- of a,cting ability &‘.‘tlie .J

alities And tak%s on, the ideptity or the flooK. b&atids on the platform part q$’ any actors $I, the, si$ge. of a fictitious cousin Shvi Ta who is an alter-ego.+He .performs the .

yere badly painted. And -@as ther”*e 1 _ . The sjmple f&t ,was’... few’ people a great;ti&d to-be so nondescript. bothered to qttend and ,-of tho$e,

; hard ta&s, <of ,life ,2inq ._ makes . about the SetV , , few understood tiglf of what Brecht” ‘certain that Shefi-,T?i’$ ‘w$lfare is ‘AI@ ‘s&-&tie should 1 be Xalk<d + hid. --in mind, Those that I did ’

’ assured.- Shen, Tai triesto regu&.t‘e _ to &bout t!G -scaf&lding idea’ ‘which’ unde+aAd and- r&OglliZe ‘the ’ hei *life withi~~~~~~~‘context_~f:f.this .

: . @lit @eP~on$i.t$. J*’ ‘* ;‘., ’ - I ’ ’ was v$edx wheri three gods w&ted points made weire not \go distur$ed,, _

_ At t& ye& I&f they&y ‘>#e finds

_ ~~‘l<~@w~the sCpge and a&end intO ’ and Of ’ mOFe - @?P?rt+nce, will ’ 1 probably. I never (lo ; anythin’g, to

that, &he, &i&&t” .&p &’ he gods’.- he8%‘.i’“Ifi‘the ’ audience ‘is to ie- 1 $$a;n $acid: ?hey r&t ’ not tie’ . 2 &lajte+ tlie theme to t)ieir lives.

. that she hai ~&fi’~~~~~$&&. &f . ‘tempt@ ip,td lau&ing -eQ?cially , . BW t&is is the fat&of most plays. , the US? ~f$$~ &&&&: The g@i’ 2at god@8@bi#g liddeys,. ,I ->My , ~i~sapp$~tti~ht~ tp~b from

cannot’ hui”,’ heyThe y’jenWnl albof Ligl#ing:‘$%&s $&ied but some- ,. the fact that this- is a”hniuer#y at@ idea/&t. “T&y , warn -her tti:

@h&n “she. -@+&ts thai‘ ‘tihtit i&$equate’ in places ‘such populated silppgsedly by lintel&

/f j l */j($ &$q<;* . ‘ag:over.t~~~oo;tbge. . I gent tl$n@g7 people. Spmkthiqg

-c she canfiot- be’ good; iirrd pay th6’ rent I &I? ” the *same .firtot%’ ‘they. say-

; M&ke$p:f :w&S ‘.‘w$~ good.* Mr.7 .tior$, should be h?ppGnirig on, this- Pa.rowin@& ‘s makeup in ptir& campus~s~~~thing_worthw~ile-

*I& nei& &dd&%,@co_/iomics. ‘: cular! tias excellent an,d -tienti@ lib,e thinking. L 1 ‘, 1 ’ . t , _. Y , a~ _. ..- / Such i’s ‘tpe &ne oSC ‘the phqr: /t

de& in- idea/s’ and : p$@w$tq: real- ! shodl’d. -be made of the -fine: job,.‘! ’ dons on Canner s’ n&k fof Shui- t-

‘#n , toXa/ . ihe ‘- audi&ce : ‘was

iit piobteti of ,being a %a* in, a’ Ta. amused. Bqt * throkgh no fault of

._ ‘ : .‘.I ’ ,‘%zjd” .&&$d. ‘.&does ’ not- && -any .; .

:’ .” the play, or-the SiGtors it was not ) ‘1 ,. D&i&& &q ~~~edti~naf~j~~.~he-.‘~ .,~&cath#,~ 4 1.8. -c, I: r.’ I, . _ _ j_ _ I_. .; ‘. . . .I. _ I _. I , .I * 1.) . . = ’ - < -._ --\ \ I_ : ,- . : =

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. ’ , 4-I, It &ems the fate . _ - ’ ’ l -of all. radical ’ _, ’

depart+res lf.r&n ihe no&p “1 ‘ . is. to kuffer~atta&s tibout. .

c irrelevant things, I

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I / ’ It is the aim of 0Ur e&cation system to , “(transmit) our _ common culture, ‘I. . . and to produtz?. l ‘graduates w.hose at-

. a.’ titudes are consistent with the free society in whidh we live. l * (Ho,n: Wm. Davis, July 1467).

, - “We (Everdale Place) may be small but we*re a super- school in the sense that we must become deeply involved ’ with each

\ other A.. we. operate- with o-n/y ,a couple of rules of * . <

thumb-be suspjqious- of entrenched ,, por;\iter : and? literally, .+ -‘,2 -1 ‘-- __ .- I

A short acquaintance ~with Everdale people proves they are not confined by, any singular, highly structured aim. And though the “aim” may be nebulous, there’ is

’ a frightfully intense desire to achieve whatever the aim ,I keep in touch. The rest .<s’i@@rovised. ‘J’ (Bob Davis, This

Magazine is- Stihoolsj ’ Sumnier 4966.1 maybe.

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Am COMMUNITY near Hillsburg Ont- ario, began in 1966 as an answer to, what many thought . was a stifling and non-human school system.

The people in the’ community make no claims to hav- Y ing the final ans&er an4 freely admit their conqepts change as new individuals become involved. :

I Perhaps it is application ‘of ‘this ,open attitude in methodology which sets Everdale apart from our educational system. I \

Everdale Place is <most difficult to describe, At first glance one tends to dismiss the school as both disorg- anized and aimless. As one becomes more,- familiar

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the organization becomes clearer until. it. can be. seen that what is lacking is not organization; but the compul- sion to participate in an ‘.‘organization’i :whfch the;in& ’ c : -. vidual has had no say in developing. _ _ - ‘.

, __ TM structure of the community has come from its“ members rather than from those outside the community. . . -, _ : -

- . * . . . The students and staff (that distinction may not be ’ F .

altogether valid) are not without aims.. ‘Rather,’ their aims are not channeled along rigidlines. ,

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’ Everdale has, ttio types of orgdnizational themes. ’ . The first of. these is-the communal ‘organization in-“’ . ’

herent to the frequent cbmmunity meetings. , I. ’ . These meetings allow all members of the commun-,

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ity ta express their opinions and determine policy. on questions which may concern everything j from I _’ I,

’ matters of everyday financial policy to the method of selecting new staff and students. It is this type of organ- ’ . ization which ensures that all- members of thecommun- 2 ity participate in the tasks of running the community.

‘each persons organizing I - - - - - - - -

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to his own sati i.cfae * tion within boundaries which he, as a member ofl-ihe community, has helped to-determine.

This harmonious amalghhation of interests is- o,,, VI the unique features which has made Everdale as suc-

cessful in the fields of education and personal relationships as i&s.

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The initial confusion comes from the fact that ‘in on!y one regard 2s this aim common to all. This common aim is t,he collective preservation of their community and *of t,heir own individuality in a social climate they view as hostil.e:-” ‘I ‘-

It is this ‘particultir problem which seems jto lend such an air Of urgency- to much of the informal talk and, dis-.

1 cussion. _ c f The -feeling urgency is noticeable ,among those who

have drawn into themselves as-well as those who have - . become extroverted 1 enough ’ to take a. strong interest

in the #workings of the community without yet thinking about what wil-lcome after, ’ - ‘.

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2, AFREESCfJOOcL -' plating “future,’ the feeling of urgency is even stronger.

* * * Among all students however, one reaction is certain.

When considering being sumarily removed from Ever- dale, they become very frightened. They are not sure they can function in society.

It is ‘not primarily non-acceptance they fear; rather, they assume their background nulifies any chance of reconciliationwith society, and therefore a return to the standard school system would be impossible.,

In understanding the school it must be understood‘the standard stratification of student, teacher and administration is not present. The resulting “community is one entirely without labels. .

An inherent characteristic of this .community is rule by consensus. Decisions of concern to the whole community are taken up at regular or special meetings.

A vote is seldom taken at these meetings because decisions are -a process of having reached general agreement.

While experience and relevant knowledge are taken into consideration,, nothing is accepted as irrefutable just because a specific individual happened to make the suggestion. _

* * * If one does not draw the analog too far, Everdale

Place might be compared to a small town. Its members are a tightly knit group which view themselves as quite separate and distinct from the rest of society.

The school may be called a self-contained society in that it is emotionally and intellectually introspective.

This, however, does not mean, that the community is narrow minded. Actually, rather than relying upon the larger, more general society to superimpose values from above, the school adopts values from within itself.

From this introspection have come values radically different from those found in the surrounding society.

Emotional honesty is perhaps the most evident of these values.

Feelings of love, anger and hurt are all expressed rather than repressed and because of this the inhabi- tants have little patience with phonies.

This open expression of feelings is only one of the three main principles of Everdale philosophy.

The open expression of feelings, individual freedom where it does not conflict with that of others, and lack of corn-pulsion to “produce or to maintain one s position are certainly not what is common to the public school system in Ontario.

Yet Everdale’s using these ideas has proved not only that ‘they work in the educational sense, but that the people leaving the school are far happier than those iust starting.

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Freedom is one of the key words in the ‘Everdale philosophy. Much has been said about the fact that students are allowed the option of attending or not attending classes. However, this is only a small part of a much more comprehensive philosophy.

Class freedom pales in importance beside the _.

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‘dents are allowed to swear. Ignoring for the moment that in the long run this is a very insignificant action, an examination of the fact might prove interesting,

freedom’ to study anything and then chose the manner of studying as well.

What is even more important to’ the members of the community is the right to live and act naturally without incurring silent pressure to conform to the standards that have become acceptable to the school community as a whole.

Such freedom has fostered a sense of responsibility wherein members of the community will forego desires

‘which would not be in the best interests of Everdale Place.

One of the arguments often heard against such .educational freedom is that when students are not “made ’ to work and study” then they will not “learn” anything.

There are two very good -arguments against objec- tions to the free school type of education.

First, making @dents attend classes ‘in no way in- sures that they learn anything. Anyone who has ever daydreamed his way through a boring ,class can accept ., the reasonableness of this proposition. ’

However, Everdale can advance a -far more concrete and happy rebutal : their record. L

Students who have done nothing in the-public educational system; then perhaps even nothing at Ever- dale for the first months suddenly-for their own reasons-discover themselves completing their schoolmg

in half the regular time.

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Perhaps the best argument. for Everdale is a visit there of-several days. When you consider what fourteen and fifteen year-olds are normally expected to accomplish and then see what they are accomplishing at Everdale, the free school concept becomes acceptable to nearly everyone.

Swearing is carried on in a manner which can best be described as casual. It is not considered ‘smart and no great importance is attached to the fact that some people swear and others don t.

This attitude has removed any ‘glamour. or heroics from the act of swearing. What is important is that it is done honestly with none of the infantile smirks which

- often characterize’ the use of this language in the regular type of school, I*

Honesty, then has allowed the language to be used without stifling the desire to increase the individuals “acceptable’ vocabulary. Most have a much wider “acceptable’. vocabulary than other students of this age group. \

Everdale may not be a place in which all students would fit. It is however, more than an escape route for those who are unable to function in the regular school system. .

Less than one fifth of the students at Everdale are there because they had no other place left to go. The remaining ones are there. for a variety of different reasons.

Among the opponents and, proponents, and among - the staff and students at Everdale Place there is not , much agreement about just where the school fits into’ the educational spectrum.

Some feel it is a viable alternative to the present educational, system and others feel that it is not-if for no other reason than its physical impossibility.

With all the description of Everdale that argument 1

affords, it might appear to be an easy place to understand. But in’ spite of all the comment, Everdale Place still remains something that must be experienced to be understood. Without this experience, “understanding” can only bexas valid as a Sahara tribesman s conception of snow. ’

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It seems to be the fate of all radical departures from the norm to suffer attacks about things which are rather irrelevant. So it is that much’criticism- has been leveled against free schools merely ,because their stu-

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pi; -eatpras y --is:., nerve. -11 :--- . ’ / s &id - Fantasi -is an, %vening.

F- $ntertainment put : on by the ./- by various members of the choirs ’ %nd again Christmas carols to

ity ‘of Waterloo, chorus ,. &comp&y’th* readi&. ’ liar choir assisted ‘by the

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ymphony, all ‘under ’ the . I The- main theme ,of ,the festival n 1 of ,* Mr. Alfred ‘. Kuni~ ’ 1 is the ;development of. the loving

musical die&or. ’ ,_ ’ purpose of ‘God from creation-to

1 i will be, carol singing,, . the incarnation: i. ScriIj;ture read- ’ 9ncl ingS. are .-alternated *with. carol jl

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by Phil Elsworthy Chevron staff

In 1955 The Kitchener-Waterloo society of artists and some interested people got together in order to form a gallery with the help of Mr. D.M.C. Shaw, art instructor at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate. They were allowed by the highschool board to use a small building, formerly a bi- cycle shed, attached to the K-W Collegiate. There the first exhibition, consisting of works of Tom Thompson on loan, was held in September 1956.

After 12 years the high school board forced the gallery to move. Since plans for a new civic center and art gallery would not be ready for a few years, they were obliged to look for another building. At the time the Pentecos- tal Tabernacle Church at 43 Ben- ton Street was vacant. It was bought by the Kitchener Rotary Club and loaned for 10 years to

the gallery because they realized its need for financial ‘help and because they were interested in its work with school children. (Tours are given and there are also art lessons Saturday morn- ings for eight to ten weeks each term ) .

Financial support is also given by the city of Kitchener and the Ontario Council, but the gallery still needs more money for reno- vations, lighting and proper wall panels. Therefore there is a volun- tary admission fee to the gallery of 25 cents and annual mem- berships are available at reasonable cost.

This month the gallery has an exhibition of art nouveau, and the K-W society of artists exhibition, both opening today. In the basement is the Gallery Shop, where Eskimo prints, reproduc- tions, jewellery and pottery are sold.

Curator Mrs. Middleton studies a scupture in exhibit.

photos by Dave X Stephenson

Chevron staff

^ . . . . ,“....~I_ .“-- Secretary Mrs. Hodgson hands painting fi)t” showirlg.

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ay recreationai curling league. early. _ He succeeded fqr awhile [e defeated, yayne , Steski. : 4-2 - but. Cooke ‘was finally able to r’e~ I& yek ‘to,pick upthe title.. : II move it and -sneak in behind Both Steski ‘and Cooke‘ could j ‘some cover. When “Steski rmssed ‘. ’ r

onceivably have , been bea ten j a long raise tai&out attempt ut ii i their divisions- if* they ‘had< j Cooke had ‘the single an,d the . , ist their final outings. However? , game:

1e.n both .w-on their games by ‘ - _’ 1

Curling with . Cooke _ - on’ ’ the ’ fault; they decided to ‘go rahead d,play the final game:

chahpionship. . rink were. lead ’ -‘. . \ Loraiue Marrett;second Glen Fal-

$teS~j ‘picked Up an -Opening kner ahd third Bob Jackson. ’ d ‘single whe Cooke failed to , ._ _

Ir gotiate some 9 rant,, cover with S&ski had Dave Bunton at lead; 5 .last stone, After blanking the Wendall Fisher throwiiig second ’ Fond .-frame, Cooker came back stone and Linda Hay playing tie it up in the third. A Steski third. . r, I I

Igletonin the fourth gave Cooke ;t rock in the fifth’ and he took ’

: New: teams ’ ‘will . commence,,/.

11 advantage by drawing for a play in a ‘new’ competGtion the ~

ace; a,< , second week in January. Regis-

*. .- ’ tration will take place January Co,ming home one down with iand 9 at the Srauite. :

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The Waterloo Athenas are off to ndsor this weekend for more igue play. ’ . In Friday night, the volleyball uad will be looking for a repeat rformance of. their win over the ndsor girls iu. exhibition play itweekend. _ _~“* ,

’ /= In Saturday ’ morning, the has- Cball team will be seeking i re- nge for their stiff 47-25 defeat .’ the border-town girls. The Wind: - team is by far the strongest in 3 western divi&on of the league

and a win ‘for the Waterioo.‘girls 1. would indeed open up -first place. , for the Athenas. h

Both the basketball and volleyball Athenas are unbeaten in league play. .

: The Athena aquamaids will join the .balI teams on the. trip ‘for an exhibition swim meet .,against Windsor. This will .give them a . chance to test the temperature of .&he Windsor pool which will be the site of the league swim.meet in February. . , . I 1

The right boo@ and bincji-tigscan ’

. And our boots .and bi.ndings are : 3 the-pick qf the \i&y l.ajeg,.models,

safety;‘&nd. when you brjry from us 4 you’re assured of exqC$fit,‘aiid . .

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The basketball Warriors will -Henderson, Ed Petryshyn, Dick get their first real test and some of the country’s stronger teams will get a chance to show. their stuff in the Tip-off Tournament being staged today and tomorrow in the new gym.

The Warriors play their first game this afternoon at 4 pm when they take on the Mount Allison Mounties from Sackville, New Bunswick. Loyola War-

riors meet Guelph Gryp,hons in - the opener at 2.

Following the Warrior game, the Carleton Ravens will meet the Acadia Axemen at 7 and the Waterloo grads will take ‘on the Sir George Williams Georgians at 9 pm.

Semis and finals in the champ- -i ionship and consolation events

will be held tomorrow. The consolation, final will go at 7 pm

_ with the . championship ga.me. t0 f0ii0w.

-.ly Tuesday’s Chevron ecroneous-

stated that there was a two . dollar admission to two games.

Actually, the two buck ducat will J (provide admission to all ten

- games in the tourney. Single games cost 75 cents with, the ex-

ception of the finals which are a dollar. Season tickets provide free admission.

! One team which could provide a lot of entertaining basketball is the group of Warrior graduates being <assembled by former Waterloo star Bob P&o.: \\

‘% Provided they have been stay; .ing in shape, gentlemen like Tom ,

Aldridge, whose knee mended too late to play for the Argos but in time to play a little basketball, Neil Rourke, Bob’ Eaton and Pando himself could pour in a lot.

Pando,- who played for the Warriors ‘from 1960 to 1967 and scored 1523 points in 140 games to rank as all-time Warrior scoring leader, was called upon to organize the squad when a late cancellation ~ created an opening in the eight-team line-up.

here for one-year phy&ed stints in 64-65. At the time; Petryshyn had a deadly hook shot. Both have being playing a lot of ball in Toronto.

Aldridge lwas a steady, back- court man, teaming up with Pan- do, during the ‘65 and ‘66 cam- paigns. Eaton and Mike Power were around during the 65-66 season as was Don Collins. ’

An old-timer on the team w.ill be John Kuntz who was a Warrior in 1963.

More recent veterans on the -squad will be Rourke, who played last _ season, and Walt Finden, who is still on campus.

The team is being coached by current Warrior assistant coach Clem Faust. ’

The Warrior grads will probably take a little time to become, accustomed to their surround- ings this week-end. Their old home in Seagram Gym could hold 609 spectators. The new gym can handle approximately 4566. , _ _

For the past two seasons the ‘:;I Warriors have,. been engaged in -a*, fierce ( competition with 3 Toronto

I Blues in hockey. This fall they _i. beat the Blues out in both track

and cross-country. Now the War.-’ riors must extend this rivalry to

rl volleyball. Going into, tomorrow’s third

and last western division Ontario- Quebec Athletic \,Association tour-,

- nament, the Blues are the only team the Warriors can catch in

the standings.. r Following last week-end’s tour-

sity set the Warriors down l5-6, 15-o.

Guelph, - who lost _ only to Mat the first time out, picked, up their one loss against an imprqved Wes- tern squad which was playing at homelast week. .

It is still wide ‘open at the top is each team‘ can pick up a-max- imum of eight Ipoints tomorrow. The,, Warriors will have to knock

- off ,a- couple of the top teams, as well as Toronto, if they hope to, escape the cellar. ,

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All set to face the onslaught of eight basketball teams this aftertioon, the floor in the new ’ .: ’ gym looks as though it never heard of August downpours. The seats on the near side are ; I complete. Those on the far side rnti$ not be. It’s still one of the best in Canada.

Renison whys ~wiestling; .: cl&g in en inch ’ - by.Norm Sergeant Chevron staff Phys-Ed; 184-191 lb. - P. Spittal, Eng. A ’

- Renison ; unlimited - K. Keeling, St. Jerome’s 1 133

‘Men’s wrestling competition ’ I

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was completed recently and Ren- Village North

,,roilowing are present Fryer ‘, Village East 110 ”

ison walked away with&hecha~m& ‘: T&j@hy 103

ionship by gaining 29 points ‘in @andings ‘*’ with - eleven ; Arts

eve& ‘completed ’ plus _ hockey Village South- - :’ ” 98 .

the team competition, compared % 92 ,’

to 19 points for phys-ed in second points at the ‘end of league play. comop 63 ‘:I This week’s hockey play-off re-

spot. St. Jerome’s came third suits are not included. Conrad Grebel -56

with 13 points. The overall hockey champions Science I \ 54’*.

The top wrestrers in the various will increase their total shown Village West ’ 45

events: here by 20, points. The runner-up A major change is in the works

in the scoring of intramural e- 1

Under 115 lb.-P. Dube, Renison; and the. semi-final loser will go up 115:123 lb.-B. Edmunds, Renison; by t@% .

vents for the purpose of awarding _ >

131-137 lb. - C. Gappa, St. Jer-- Math theZFryer

ome’s ; 146-152 lb. - H. Glemser, Renison ’ 174 Until now ‘participation points, , 169

Math; 153-166 lb. - A. Caruso,, St. St. ‘Paul’s , i ’ at the rate of one per ‘competitor

150 Jerome’s; 1.61-167 lb.. : R. Fischer, Eng. B _.

per unit, have been figured into 143 the-standings for determining win- I. \-

Phys-Ed; 168-177 lb. - -D. ‘Martin, Phys-ed .

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I _ ,136 * ners in, individual events such .

II as golf, archery, tennis and track. ..:] ( ney at _ Western, Waterloo was

firmly ensconced in, last place in Participation points have not been

. the five-team competition with a Asia , \Nar&f~ &Ow;na w, well . awarded for teamevents. - 1

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The swimming Warriors made Then, van Sickle, Straka, Page provide competition and practice While encouraging a greater

leading up to the ‘OQAA ’ champ- turn-out of competitorsthis system

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their first I competitive appear- and Roy combined for a fourth in ~ has resulted in certain highly ori ante last week-end and the results the 2OO:yard sprint relay. ionship meet at McG.ill in late ’ ganized units stacking their entry *

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although not prompting comparit Waterloo also was fifth of 12 February: The meets’should pro- to; pick up points.. Any attempt to son with the Santa Clara Swim in the Xl&yard breaststroke re- Club,‘were encouraging.

vide some. great spectator thrills. ‘. ’ put a ceiling on a unit’s entry ’

single point. ’ , They were defeated inall eight

games last Saturday. Guelph leads the. way ‘with 14

points, picking up seven wins at. each of the two tournaments to’ date. McMaster,is second- with 11; one ahead of Western. - Toronto sits back with the Warriors with four points. r ’ The top two teams~ advance to the OQAA final in Ottawa next month.

,--Waterloo’s single win so far - came in the first round against the

’ Blues. Last’week, however, Var-

Thursday night hockey/: : -I Waterloo: 5

Western: a

The event was the Gueiph l&vi- . lay. I-

.’ Queen’s University : d,, All dual and tringular meets would dissuade -participation, : ’ ,’

surprised are strictly exhibition and simp- tational Relay meet last Saturday\ with a strong showing at / the

which obvlouSIy would -go against ly provide competition and prac- the philosophy of the intramural

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which attracted six Ontario-Que- meet. Other schools in attendance bet Intercollegiate Association -were M&aster and Western a-

tice leading up to the OQAA Program, championship meet at McGill ,in . The -proposed solution would - -I

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teams. ’ long with host Guelph. . . \ _._ As- expected the strong (as in

late February. The meets should be two different competitions. The ->-*I !

everything else) Toronto squad Tomorrow, the Warriors hold provide some ,great spectator Fryer race, the more pr@stigioks _ ’ I

the season’s first dual meet -as thrills. -; dominated the meet. No official York University comes visiting. Recreational swimmers should

-event, would be. bised solely’: on

standings were kept- so. it was Next week-end they ,host a team difficult ‘to rate _-the Warriors’ from Ryerson.

note. that pool time , willbe pr& ‘* , . empted during the next two Sat-~

performance overall but a coupl>e . All dual and< ; triangular .-meets urdays to make way for these: of results showed promise. are strictly exhibition and simply two events. * ” \ . , ~

Their best ~ showing was in the 466;yard sprint medley, in. which the four swimmers raced free- style legs of 160, 50; 50. and 296

> were. pr&pared yards. The Warrior team of Mike McMillan, .~ Pete Straka, -Warren > . .

‘ e When the harrier Blues travelled Page and ‘.‘George . -Roy j came

i to the league championships at third,’ missing second spot by. one-tenth of a second.

Guelph last month, they didn’t bother taking the trophy along. :

The team, also picked- up -L

Apparently they anticipated couple of fourth place finishes.

another win. One came in” the &Q-yard indiyi-

, dual medley relay, in which each TOO bad - the Warriors won the,. ’ swam a ,lO&yard individual medley

title. W,hen , the trophy, .arrived leg; Dave van Sickle, Pat Mc- here it was already ‘engraved, K@@, J&x Gob&y ,’ a& .ROY awarding the crown to Toronto. combined to nail that one down.

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The National. B ‘hockey team - will be in Waterloo December 14

Fans will be. particularly. interested in the appearance of at,

for. an exhibition match against .least one member of the national the Warriors. ., > ’ s uad. Bob Murdoch, wh,o :made

’ .The aIUlOullc@lYletii't came from th first all-star team la&season % ~ the athletic department this‘week. _.

The game. will be played <at the as a Warrior defenseman;, is toil- ing this year for the Ottiwa-based

Waterloo Arena, the Warriors’ team. >. -. home rink. ” : : (’ ‘, %’ ,

Admission : to the <game will be, The B’s leave on a: European two dollars, ’ although students tour Christmas day to join the 1 holding season athletic tickets will be admit&c&for ,&If ptf&.

A team. ‘which is already -over , - .’ ~ih+%!f-s, ‘1‘ ’ _ ‘I. :- . ::,a I I

rysults ‘of,’ the :various events -’ : .; without any participation.

consideration’ of- :( I , ’ : I’ . ,-;-.-; I*- ‘:

A,: second” trophy;-would be set :‘ 1. - up to be awarded to the&it with _- the ,highest ’ total participation, :A j including -all’ team sports. If this I ” .I system is put into effect,, all totalsY 7. :j would be revi.sed ‘retroactive $0 _ _‘! the beginning of the fall semester. ‘.\ -._j

‘At a, meeting of 8 the ;Men’s In-’ ., ” ’ i tramural Athletic Council h&l 0 . i November ,2! the winter -prqg-g ,. ram was tentativ&y,,jlanned. “A$ _. the present time.;. the following , 1 ! activities-are scheduled: archery,, , badminton, basketball,. billiar%,ii;, 7 :i curling, hockey, handball, -flo& 4- 1 hockey, skiing, squash, swimming -: ~ , and ,diving, table tennis,, volley- I : 1; balt’and,waterpolo.. .,~,, :;,, -1 - ; ,I. . . ‘-;

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TO my dismay, the entire class with the excep- f-r< 1’” V’<

*-. ‘i tion cof ‘perhaps half a dozen or so didn!t even. r” ’ ’ .bat -an eyelash: I decided- perhaps the students era1 sit back and rational& by telling hi,rns$f -it’s. not his fault but the wikl”of the people? I.

themselves were unable ‘,to detect when Dr. Lef-. ’ . ‘s ~court ‘began - moralitiing by drawing upon his’ own ’ Perhaps I can better -illustrate my point with

set of values and when he actually lectured:. *. thispoem by Thomas Merton.

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j I ’ . ; * i Charlotte von\&xold, C&il:i&tt and 1 approach- - My “atie js Adq/f FichmVn- , t J’c\ _ : -6. ’ I’ 1 ;- =- ed him for .individual reasons and asked for &orn% , 7 - . The Jews came etiery day, _.

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time to express our dissident views. After a briefdis- cussion in. his office. he graciouslv bowed to our

I.\’ ~@?~~~~~?~~~ w”“‘d be __ ’ _ . Y j I i

!__’ _ ,’ . . requests, as long as we dialt &h”some aspect of The mothers vere qu% ingenious.

h3rcnnsS i tl7 -. . : T&y vqufd take the children f , 1’ -

I . - ‘ I p.,l U”1aUAICJ.

.J I. and hide- them in -_ . .

r :.. a-.., When the time, came to face the class, I quoted byndles of drot&ng. . 5, ’

. zr . . J.. ~ \ &om a number of articles on the brutality of police _. i / ,‘in Chicagopo,’ among other developments. of fas-,

Ve fount+ the children, _ .’ \$ ps scrubbed them, .

-. . --*, .- $sm in 1 the I&S., on the circum#ances underlying I put them ;rii the &@mbers _!- ~ . *_ ‘I. ~ : .1 .- ’ Cleaver’s course, etc., in an attempt first tti retal- j : and healed ih;em in.

- ._, _’ iate against the naivety of Dr. Lefcourt’s initial’ .;” statements and.eventually to tie up%hese events to.

1 vtitched through the&.tholes , . . . as they would d&en and Chant I _’ - ’ what Dr. Lefcourt himself jvas perpetuating, con- - c

> ? , - .’ km - %~y, m&n tiebe, .heyygi.*’ %- ’

_I ’ 1 -S&usljr or uiicons&usly. f. 1’ *. I ‘, _

.I, However, before I was able to conclude; I was ._’

-’ . Ve &ok off their clean jekish. love-rings,

.._ .-i ̂ x; ’ *a ‘lo- ) removed tbe(r teeth and-h&jr-. f&‘.. . ^* *iTgently interrupted when discu&ing a request to the -- for strategic &fence. * . . ,; ’ ,.L- : * I F .“r. v

., .-;, . American Psycho-physiological Association by a U. j &+iFs&i o& of them,. _ ’ -, -- .+g . !I; rad ate stud,enJ for:student representation on their

:*.-. i. .- ,-;. _’ * -~3ma-rdf -Da.\ Lefcourt ~~pointed43ut ,tQjmj @$Jhe l$@rd ! mad soap oht of all of ihem;

I .%. pdlhey @ng.me, . . . ‘-~~ .” $$onsisted of honorary members who ‘8ttiined‘ this ”

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. ~ t position due to dedicated service and that therefore

in fii~l r;ie;li, 0.f the fi&b% i&d. .y.; .‘ .,, : I .p ;?,‘ ..$A: ~;;“~+;-::~ . .: : ~_ *

i i + . i ,’ People say, -1

. - s ;,p’;y:. s . _ P student representation was nonsense since the-board - -. . . ; ,G was honorary andhad ‘no political function. ~’ ‘.- “:h:’ He then asked.for questions from the floor which

Ad&f Eichmann should have been hurig!” , Ner’n. _’

Nein, if ydu reqognrie the whoredom , -‘I I_.

i !‘subsequently put an ‘end to my talk. I was unable

_ 1 - ,‘1’.’ in. all of you, .

>:,.; c- <I$ to answer to my satisfaction someof the?questions . % &posed; * and I would have: appreciated it if anyln- ’

that you &o+d have ddne the/same, _( _ _ . v if y& dared know yourselves. , I .

. . --, ,_.. - ;;--pj :w terested persons had come 4.o me ,‘after the let- . my defensez ’ - . ’ : c ‘- - - :;- . .-I ~ 9”s.: .* .‘f- ture for any clarification. : Only one individual both- : I :I*. * J i ered -to do so and I ,was asked, “What- were/you

-I vas a &die?: . ,: X -.;* a.’ ’ .;?trying;to say down there?”

People laugh . ,,1- p: , - “Ha ha! Thj’s k no defer&e, S i ‘, . I L +:

:,JT :The entire, incident was filed away in my mind un- . that you ape a soldjer..” c:,;, i;;t til re.cently. when it wasbrought. to my attention by $“k, : +;jT

This is trite. * : + _c ,.“_a colleague $ of Dr. Lefcourt’s’ ~,and .a graduate t vas a soldr’er,. -.. \ ’

. > . . < I ’ :! student that Dr,! Lefcourt was upset about wheat I $, :+, : i +,had done and that he wouldn’t be a bit surprised

a good ‘soldie/. ’

$ /saw the end of a con&ntitius day’s.effort. ” j

. . . ’ $-that if he’ “should be shot at” OF if ‘this house were ). / skw a// the work &at /did..,. 3: .‘_ -3 bombed’ ’ , I or ,@meone . like me, j. would likely be I _. _

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-i. --,.. LLi- “‘c‘ r&ponsib#+ - / l,‘qdolf Eichmann,

. % *I ,’ c ’ $ These outrageous statements have. put the%ng

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by Don Gregory Chevron staff

Dear Mom, I hear you are worried about me. You

have read in the newspaper and heard on the radio that small minority of dis-, satisfied students at the University of Waterloo are disturbing the peace and serenity of our campus: -

You may even have heard that I was arrested for trespassing while distributing

,. supposedly obscene literature to high-

them. Many of us have simply: been over- whelmed by the magnitude of the con- tradictions facing us and have stuck our heads in the sand hoping that, if we don’t see the problems they will go away.

Some of us have courageously entered the system with hopes of changing it from within. Others despair that nothing can be done before the whole social-political-economic monolith is brought crash- ing *to the ground so a new society can _

mouth polite, meaningless banalities. ’ We feel that this kind of world is pos-

sible-it has to be possible, otherwise there is no meaning to life. Societies have existed in the past where the majority of citizens were happy and creative. Ancient Greek society with all its imper- fections maybe a good example.

The Greeks were able to build their

famous statues, write their beautiful poems and formulate profound theories because they had thousands of slaves to work for them.

Today we have a different kind of slave-mechanical slaves. Unthinking machines can do nearly everything and a few thinking men can design machines to cover the few exceptions. ’

When control of the means of production and the means of production and

,. rise r\lA

phoenix-like from the, ashes of the

.school students. You have heard all this yau* talk. about student power and Marxism

Our revolution is not just political-we

and revolution. . don’t just want to replace the old .

Well, some of it is true. We do talk establishment with one that is newer

1 about student power and Marxism; and

and possibly more human.

we are planning a revolution. Let me tell We want to build a world where there

you about our revolution. is no place for an establishment; no place

We are, most of us, well-off. None of for a Hitler or a Trudeau; no place for

. us starves. people to starve as many in the Atlantic

All of us have somewhere to sleep. Some provinces and not a few in Ontario do now.

of us even own cars. It is because we don’t need to worry

We want to build a world where there

about our physical well-being that we is no place for soldiers and bombs as there

have time to look at the world around us. are everywhere now; no place for “news

We don’t like what we see. media” that report only crime and vio-

On the one hand we are told we’ve lence; no place for the infection of minds

never had it so good. On the other we by spurious television.

We don’t want this just for Canada or _- wonder what’s “good” about it. I rem- ember once standing on a corner of Bloor

for “the free world”; we want it for the

Street in Toronto throughout lunch hour whole world.

and not seeing one smiling person. The We want to stop foreign invasions in

suicide and crime rates are climbing Vietnam and in Czechoslovakia. We want

rapidly. a world where a man works for his

We are told that we live in a free and own needs, not those of the Big Company

democratic society. We wonder how the or the petty dictator.

We want a world where every man . selection of our national leaders is demo-

‘-cratic: The local Amish folk are forced to can be creative whether it be as an

. participate in unemployment insurance artist or as a mechanic or farmer. We \

. and medicare schemes they neither want nor need.. American troops crusade to

_ force democracy on the people of Viet- _ nam. j

The ‘examples are endless and I could 1’ write you .a letter everyday describing

want to speak as we feel and not just

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the means of communication passes from the hands of the .few into the hands ’ of all, then we can make the machines which will free us from routine uncrea- tive jobs to think about the fundamental problems of human existence.

Even while fighting for real democracy, whether it be behind the barri- cades at the Sorbonne, in Wenceslas Square, in ,I the Black Ghettos, in the streets of Mexico City, at the campus center here or wearing black pyjamas iq the jungles of Vietnam, we realize that political ,and economic reforms are but the first step.

Until a significant number’ of people in the world demand for themselves and their brothers not only “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but also the attainment of happiness and an equal-

share of’ the material wealth-until ‘these are universal rights, the revolution will not’even have begun.

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What you have read in the papers are but the first successes and mistakes of a venture which I hope will someday in-’ volve all man in the search for human dignity and happiness. ,

To refuse the call to arms would be to refuse my birth-right as a human being. Just as my ancestors .of two hundred years ago felt impelled to carve a nation . out of the wilderness of America; I, today; feel compelled to build a: society where, man has the power of self-determina-

, tion. _

1 r - With Love and Reslject, % I Your son,iDon. ’

” .I Saturday 9’a.m.~12 Midnight ,’ , ’ I ’ , _

~ .Are you enjoying this term -at university and why?

No, the frosh are dumber than ever.

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Yes, because all . the girls at Water- loo have taken the

-Bruce Timmins

Yes, and I’ll leave Much better than it to the discretion- of the Chevron to

last year due to I political activities.

Yes, the weekends. Yes, the girls :at Waterloo have ful- . filled my greatest desires, I will

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arts theater 8pm. GYPSY NIGHT presented by the Russian

club in the campuscenter pub. 8-midnrght.

HOCKEY versus Palace. 8:30.

Guelph at the Waterloo Ice

TIP-OFF building.

TOURNEY basketball rn the jock

TOMORROW ’ TIPOFF TOURNEY continues. CAROL FANTASY at 8 pm. MISSING PEECE coffeehouse at Conrad

Grebel wrth the entire cast of the Elmrry map- le-syrup festl’val, 9 pm.

DRAWBRIDGE coffeehouse, campus center coffeeshop. campus talent-bring your own thing and do It, 9 pm. Sunday

,TOURIST TERRORISM on campus. l- 5pm.

CAROL FANTASY at 3pm. CHRISTMAS PARTY at Rotary rnterna-

tional students house, 4 pm. MONDAY

Meeting of U.S. DRAFT EXILES, drscus- sion of life In Canada and continurhg polrtic-

al activity, campus center 2 17. 7 pm CHESS CLUB at 6: 15. In campus center 211. RADICAL STUDENT MOVEMENT meets

rn the campus center pub at 1 Opm. TUESDAY

ART SESSION with Nancy-Lou Patterson In the campus center musrc room, 4 pm. THURSDAY

K-W LITTLE THEATER presents No exit’ by Jean-Paul Sartre, in the arts theater, 8.30 pm, also on Friday and Saturday.

HOCKEY versus Lutheran at 8:30. FRIDAY

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,Comput& jikf gives coursequestionaire -

Professor Wes Graham walked used ‘many exa.mples to make into his math 132 class and joy- sure people understood. fully began writing figures on the blackboard. The figures were the

Unfortunately word was out

results of a questionaire circu- that the material in this lecture was supplementary and not on

lated ,among~ about 175 of Gra- the course. ham’s computer-science students. The’lecture hall was half empty,

The results showed that 159 stu; and many present day-dreamed or dents enjoyed computer science doodled. Those who did bother while only 17 did not. Sixty-four ’ to listen, however, were given students said they learned some- valuable insights into the basics thing from labs- while 111 felt of the computer. the labs had no educational value;

The result that most pleased the Numerous pertinent questions

prof was the answer to the ques- were asked during the hour; sutih as, “Will there be a final exam.”

tion that read, “Do you feel qualified to’ judge what course content

Graham took the question in stride

should be. and answered it in his usual witty

“Graham gleefully style. - pointed out 150 students answered He described the algorithm no, while only 24 said yes. Having which will calculate the final conclusively proved students like thipgs the way they are, and struck

mark and made it clear that a zero. on the exam will not affect

a blow for sane courses, respons- ’ the term mark.’ The final mark ible action, and faculty-adminis- wi!l ‘be the greater of the term’ tration control, he went on with’ and exam. . the lecture.

The lecture was on the hard He carefully noted Y however,

that optional exams are con- ware aspects of the arithmetic unit in the 360 computer. He ex-

trary to math faculty policy, ‘and that the exam was therefore

plained the system clearly and compulsory. The class giggled.

-Won’t work under Bergsma fun work they didn’t care until the

-Keron leaving BSA post event was threatened. I should not have had to resort

I think I should explain why I decided not to accept the position of chairman of the Board of Stu- dent Activities, which I held under Brian Her, under the new president John Bergsma.

First, positions on the executive board of the federation are political appointments and by accepting a position I would be join- ing Bergsma’s political organization. I could not support John’s platform, (what I could find of it), and when he tells me after the election that Some of the suggestions he made were just ideas being tossed out for consideration, I lose all faith in ,him.

I will not be a part of a group whose tactics lead them to avoid issues and conduct an election campaign on a negative platform, simply presenting themselves as a “responsible alternative”.

Secondly, contrary to popular op- inion, the Board of Student Activi- ties is not going to fall apart. It

to threat but there was no other way possible. (Incidentally there is a very capable committee now working and I am sure this Grad Ball will be like no other in our history, so don’t get upset).

Finally I am not going to switch sides for an executive post. I said before the election that I supported -Brian Iler and I am not about t? desert him. To any responsible voter the whole of Bri- an’s operation should have been examined and this includes the things I was doing in the BSA. Consequently I do not feel bound, in any way, to continue what I was doing.

This in brief sums up my position on my refusal to resume my old duties.

JIM KERON anthropology 3 past-chairman

Board of Student Activities

Registrar’s impertinence is flattering to hear people say this, but. it isn’t true. No one is raises this grad’s hackles

indispensable. The concerts and dances are going to go on regard- less of my absence.

Thirdly, I am getting tired of working to provide services to a campus which, although it wants the dances and weekends, is un- willing to work to provide them.

The main incidence of this occurred two months ago when I was forced to resort to a faked cancellation of Grad Ball to find a chairman. The number of people who got upset about this was really frustrating. They all wanted to go and have fun but when it came

Recently non-Canadian students on campus received a question- naire from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Can- ada, forwarded by J.T. Morgan through the registrar’s office, which read as follows : Dear Student:

To assist the above association

in a general survey it is required

that you complete the enclosed

form and return it to this office

as soon as possible. The return of

the document can be made either

by mail or deposited in a collection

box at the reception desk of the

down to doing some not-so-much- registrar’s office on campus.

Your prompt co-operation in this

matter will be appreciated. J. T. Morgan ‘ regis tra t&s assistant

The whole tone of this note typi- fies the attitude of the registrar’s office towards the student who, after all, does at least provide employment for the registrar and his minions.

The close’& approach Morgan made towards politeness was, “Your prompt co-operation will be appreciated. ’ ’

I suggest, first to Morgan, that he send a further note to those students who received the ques- tionnaire, apologizing for his curt- ness in the original note, and secondly that not a single student on this campus return the question- naire until this suggestion is com- plied with.

I am all in favor of doing anything that would lead to the betterment of the quality of education or to improve the lot of the student in this country but I am afraid that Morgan’s attitude is just too much!

J.A. BARON grad electrical eng

Unused parity in classroom

-students must lead too

Mark Alan concluded his review of phi1 125 (Phil 125 discusses ethics. Nov. 29) by stating that “no one cared about the lecture after they found out they had received B‘s-so why the hell should they give a damn..

I am not certain what the relation is between getting a B and giving a damn. unless one’s damn is only given after receiving a grade of C or below.

But whatever the import of the sentence, the reporter made it quite clear that his criterion of evaluation was verbal pyro- technics. It should be evident to anyone who ever has given a damn that this is a rather poor criterion and that it reflects the callow attitude of the TV-viewing student body which expects each lecture to be a Rowan and Martin Laugh- In.

There is one aspect of student power which is consistently and tendentiously ignored, mainly, that the students have got unused parity in the classroom. The direction of a discussion and the interest and challenge of a class are re- sponsibilities of both lecturer and students.

I wonder if half the class which

“dozed off into semi-slumber” third of the way along Phillip and ever made even a semi-effort to University . get ‘some command of the sub- If 1300 people in the Village ject and to question the professor. can have an asphalt sidewalk, I rather doubt it. why can’t we even have a gravel

‘JEAN WALLACE path? grad philosophy The worst part is the hill by the

railway track which is owned bv the university.

A new W&P super-plot:

pay to leave parking lot

This path, however, has very intellectual results since after half an hour in class we are stuck

November 20 I parked my car to the floor and are prevented in lot C as usual. When I came for from leaving. it after classes I found the front NETHANDERAL wheels had sunk into the mud. It BANDERSNATCH was so bad that when I opened the arts 1 door it scraped the ground.

A couple of fellow students tried unsuccessfully to push me out. I One of our favorite fans went to the campus policeman at the University Ave. entrance and likes back-page messages

explained my situation. He said the only solution was to call a garage and get the car towed out.

Apparently a nearby garage gave students prompt and efficient service. Three-quarters of an hour and several phone-calls later, a tow-truck arrived. The driver tried . to pull me out but almost got himself stuck also. They call this prompt and efficient service!

Luckily a crew of workmen were nearby and they brought, over a large truck with a crane on it. I am indebted to them for pull- ing me out. The tow-truck driver still charged me $3-maybe for his prompt and efficient service.

What really bothers me is that I paid $12.25 for a parking-sticker at the beginning of the year. This gave me the honor of parking in that gravel and mud pit PP&P calls parking lot C.

Why should I have to pay to get into a lot and then be charged to get out?

I sent PP&P a letter but got no reply. Is this the proper way to do things?

JOHN A. VARGA math 2

Quicksand-filled path

Is this ever going to get any apathetic students mind off himself? Of course not! It will only

means he sticks to studies make them as sick as it has madk me

The back pages of the Chevron in recent weeks have been very interesting. The texts themselves have been great and the illustra- tions superb. The artist who com- posed these pages deserves con- gratulations.

Keep up the good work! DON GREGORY

arts 2

None of her acquaintances condone beer-bottle ethic

My God, what is happening to our paper? The issue I have just received contains some good, informative and intelligent writing along with a piece of the filthiest, most useless “writing I have ever seen in my life.

I am referring to “Reflections in a golden eye, or the beer-bottle ethic of ZI typical student ( Torn Ashman, Nov. 15).

Is it really necessary to down- grade ourselves this way? Why? Does this filth make a n y o n e more aware of his own ridicul- ous attitudes (which, I hope, was what you were trying to satirize)‘?

Would you believe at least 300 students daily brave quicksand, mud. and six inches of water to go to classes every day?

This desolate region lies between the math building and Phil- lip Street co-op and is used by co-opers and students going to the psych building. This is the quickest way to the math and science buildings since it is one-

Mr. Ashman. if you have any acquaintances who eve’n vaguely resemble the person you portray in this article I would be very surprised. I know of no one that mentally sick. If you were just aiming to shock your readers, I must say you have succeeded admirably.

CATHY MOORE co-op math 2B

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1967

Seems that a year ago this week (December 1,1967) it was the faculty c -- who were clashing with the administration. “Profs buck parking fees”

.was the headli,ne. The story mentions Don Epstein (poli sci prof) who is in the news again this week. The report criticized the barking

Thus runs the lead: . fee as bearing “little if any relation I \ At a meeting November 13 the to the actual cost of operating those

association appointed a co.mmittee faciliti.es”. It also accused the adtin- \ tin parking to investigate the parking istration of‘ being “uncooperative,

fees introduced this year. On the unclear and untruthful in respdnding . committee were vrofessors Greg to requests for factual information.”

\ Bennett (mathematics), John Cap- Finally it claimed the manner in ’ indale (science), Don Epstein (arts) which the policy was imposed was

’ . and Peter Silverston (engineering): “a gross violation of the rights, auth- I As_ instructed: the committee report- ority and express wishes of’ the fac-

ed 10 days later. Uly.- _ I

1966

“Hagey consure beAten, faculty pres to resign read the headline on the Chevron December 9, 1966. Hagey had ignored the wishes of the faculty association execu_tive to have raises accompanied by an explan- ation from the dean or department head. The faculty association presi-

_. dent Alltip Nelson’ (poli sci) resigned over the fracas. This week -again he i$ in the center of a dispute. t* Ion M&day in an open Letter to

The story beings thus: the faculty. A motion by the executive of the I The bitter battle, which threatens

faculty associatioq to censure university president J.G. * Hagey was

,-to divide the university,, has been‘ waged betweeh the old guard-

defeated by four votes’ at the associa- mainly deans, administrators, de- - lion’s las’t meeting. partment heads-and the younger

As a result Dr. Allan NeCson, poli- members of the faculty, who this tical science; president of the as- year gained control of the faculty sociation, will announce his resigna- association-executive.

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1965 ‘. ,

Back in the’ “Coryphaeus days I (December 2, 1965) there were prbbl,ems with pdor designink Of university buildings. The lead story

‘ / .speak’S of planning being forced by time., This same complaint was still being made this year’ abbut the designiag *of Habitat 69. Perhaps this ,sounds vagtily familiar: ’

The pr.oj&ion facilities in the -four The architects said that they were

‘qe\;v lecture halls of arts B were not prev&ted from doing so by the uni-

. ’ designed properly.. , ’ . .;. versity department of physical plant

(” ,$:‘;;dim Li&g&o&, chic+ proj&tion- and planning, who demanded the

* y$&. &tg&d”i,hat .&‘e: bq&~~ wert$$e- plans as soon as possible.

sigrieh’for cknditions 30 years -Ago; This didn’t allow time to check that

r ‘I the> problem was caused by arc,hi- the plans were functioual although

. tects designi& the‘ booths without several qualified companies volun- - . .

.&onsulting experts in the field. teered their consulting services. 7

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1 This week ba&.jn 1964, .the Coryphaeus ran the Head “WLU Student 1 jnfiltrates Uof W Swim Meet . _ - . _ _ In, those’ days the two schools were closer to being the same size and _ . ~ pranks of ‘al); sorts were standard procedure in the rehtibnships between

_ :::. them. ,- A ’ Waterloo Lutheran Unibersity engineer, and was allowed to enter

. student posed as an engineer in the several events. He won the fifty yard: Ii University of Waterloo Intramural ‘breaststrdke in a record time of 31 .g i Swim Meet on November 17, and won seconds. . .an event, thereby gaining, points for Since this was the first year that

1 the engineers in’ the intramural point this event was included in the swim- ~ standing. Marv Altrqcks, a second meet, Altracks was able to set a rec-

.‘* year student ,at W:L.U., told the offj- ord for this University of Waterloo 4 . cials of the swim meet he was an Intramural Swim Meet. .- 1

1963 ‘? * The Coryphaeus of Dec. 5, 1963-clearly understood the student s prior- 1:;. ity of evehts on campus. The page-wide headline was “Operetta Smash

‘<. :‘: Sticcess . Further down ‘thk page was a small story under a small head .) : _ 1 sL; “Student Council Elections . - I. Presented here is the lead of the banner story: - \ , ’ < : ,

It is difficult to understand .why ’ . ’ , makes great fun if ,the exagerated 1 ‘,i Pati&ce, the fifth of the Gilbert &

:‘. Sull~~~n.+&ettas, -has never: been behaviour of ,soine of the “art for

r-- ..-- _ -2 tiore’ popular. Gilbert has n&er Arts sake”. poets who. were his con-

I ~ been in _ better satirical form as, he

temporaries, and Sullivan wrote some i 3 . of his best inusic for this operetta: . ‘r.

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572 Tte CHEtil?ON .

4MPOVERISHED as we are

JOHN BERGSMA and the

MEMBERS of his

CAMPAIGN ’ ’ would like to use this

space to THANK THOSE ’

WHO SUPPORTED US

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IFEilME ’ I’NSURANCE POLICY N ALL’DiAMOND R,NGS ,

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* * by Teqly Sin@ . ’ ’ - - J.: Ctievrd-i staff c ~ ~ ’ ‘ t Are all marriages in India ‘arranged’?.

Theanswer in no. /s .. . ’ Surprising as it may be’ to many Cana- <’ di,ans, according to Indian History/hove + marria-ges were performed asearly as a few hundred years B.C. - . ’ * l+ove -marriage *is onl@ne of the many conventional types-of marriages in India.,

! In Indian manu$&ipts, Jove marriage. ,is referred tol’as fgrandharva’ marriage; ” in ‘which the union -between two lovers is. by : .mutual ‘dqnsent _ -with ’ negligible, . 1 ,interference-byparents . -. I ‘-

.‘Bowever, in another kind of marriage! ‘a damsel is offered as a gift to-a sui,@ble f ’

\ bridegroom invited by her father. In most cases the ;bridegraom receives a

j dowry from the parents of thebride. = 3s well as having a diversity 6f cultures, 1

‘languages, religions,and political parties; . Jn,dia, ham . $ diversity ‘of marriage.. S@ --

’ tems too.. But. in thelast couple ,of de: cades, ,a new way of rea,ching& marriage decisions has.. become : prevelent.: This

, method-called ,‘C$timized Marriage’- ‘;can’t ‘be yadequately e8plained in terms

f of. existing concepts of ‘arranged-’ -or . ’ ‘love”-marriage. . ^. I

‘Whereas arranged marriage ’ is corn-. _ -manly thought of as planned. by,parents or:

guardians ,and love 1marriage is. +f ten understood, to + bo *worked out by ‘the man and woman with insignificant contribution by parents,’ an’ optimiz~ed marriage (the ‘word ‘optimation’ is not used in its-m&he& matitial sense) is arranged neither by the couplenor by their parents

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-: Bill JaLkson. manauei of arour, benefits for- Lo&on h’fe in’ Toronto- 1 1

-6~ Brookshfmelee _ . I

He is ‘big; or he is small:,$Ie may be a blun- of those very ills yhich we- should be,seeking-. Change, ra-dical change, is no overnight

.derer or consummate’$3ophistication and effi- to cure. This is the tragedy of why radicalism doesn’t work. + ’ ’ ’ - . _

.affair Constant, pressure m-ust ’ be appli,ed.

ciency; He may ev.en’ .have.~ ostensibly good ; we, ,ourselves, actually facilitate our own 1 ’ Progressive co-operativeyevolution is our only

repression. j,Ve keep, ‘ourselves -down arid ev; - hope, for true, revolution is no ’ longer a via-b!+ alternative, nor is it even. possible in

eryone else with us, thereby- saving -Uncle . a idety .‘as well-hviditiofied as ours.. We Sam a - great deal of trouble and expense. , i”Jea t, eh‘? >.

, -must. concentrate our efforts on .a!1 fronts at ‘% I. < once, ’ , :

z ? Nobody-re&ly needs guns to -keep us in our ‘-Y _.,-,

_ .-:&treaucracy _ . _ . everywhere;‘- in all ” its “mani- _

IS. this bei& ~~l;tic?,’ ‘Meet Mr. Charlie. l&‘s hiding

, . of his students consider him a first jl )

in the political science depart- cl&s prof&sor. _ ’ .

ment ch+rma+ office, and he Rawling’.s. r’i3s‘ults will probadly ’ ,

won’t come out to talk $:.tb the be about.the same.. ,/’ - I , . I : press- ’ ,’

’ That’s’ being I consistent.. Any- that persGna1 bias& is involved.’ ’ -- \

orie who -decides not * to. renew the Indeed this ‘has ‘been suggested -, _ ! ’ , - :’ ’ contracts of ttio popular profes- in Epsteirz’s case.

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sors ’ certainly ‘shouldn’t be ex-. But even with‘: Mr. .*‘Ch&lie ’ .” petted xto be billing to explain . ‘. . ’ *. ,his reasons to studedts.

that!s,,hard to believe.’ The- only ’ . . - ‘. . 8 ’ problem that could account for< ‘b II . \

Assistant jprofes$ors Miss: Karen Rawling and Don Epstein were offei?ng students coqrses they fotind ’ interesting and relevant. Their teaching method&were mod-- er’n, their dedicatiqn was to their - students not to book phblishers, -_ and their\ subjects very impoftatit to. political scientists graduating . in@ today’s society.

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sucn a’ situa@on’ is a,.misl tempt. to treat- L-=M-w -d’epartment by ences that Crcabc. U13Cl

of any nature. :% . - .,\ > ’ It isnot &c&&Gin +,. ’ .t

their records, th&Xhey are being di’z&-iissed for i’ lack:,of participa- * tioh Yin the. con$&nity ( a lack of productive work, c$h& criteria t&y, were tc,, . . VUIU

the only ’ _ .: _ rlfLAm1ld -

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Despite- this the seni6r pebple tie applied. . .-> in ‘;the ldepar!ment (senior was ~ . defined by the chairman). .seti

So we:are left- with the conch& I . sinn dhd-. the altfhnritiw &virld

-to have -decided that theiF courses were not ones the department wanted to offer. /- . .

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/the courses these ’ professors taught wer&‘t what the depart- merit chnlrld he nfforincr \

At least this is what we htiped -, a**---” “IIVUIU wu “A*xdA~. : “. 5 *’

3 Courses like Epstein’s on power ,/,/ I /’ /, happened because the altern6Gve explanations are eve0 more

_ d&;rining . ! f . . ’ \

in otir; society br Rawling’s on- ’ comparative commuriist systems or; her scheduled course on China. . -\

Th.ey could have decided behi& If that’s the- case the political . . . i closed doors with. their -oath. of science union hasjust bken handed I / . its first real trial run; r secrecy that Rawling and Epstein I ‘ 1: -. I +sr

. ’ weren’t competent. . ‘. -. Because if students are in as

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’ -* But had they coni@ out from’ much disagreement. with this de- , a -11 --=-- / L 1

: . . behind their closed do’&% they / would have quickly found that

the studeAts &ure don’t’ feel that - ./tiay -/&~ . . . . -.._ r ‘1:. . ‘_ . I

Both professors are having sur- veys’ done by. a faculty mkmber

’ from gnother” department. l$- ‘I stein’s results are in/Nearly 95%

cision as it would .appear they I’ \ It’s a little tiih t on the left. -. should be-then it’s up to them . and‘ their representatives to get it changed. t. . :,c . Pullitig Is- . ..- *. .’ i~ --I ̂ _ _ _. _.- . _ “, ,+ . L _

Whatever the wutcofi6 this situation is a prime example of ~a11 ’ It seems that ‘the oligarcs of the -&opose a

the reasons why students should math faculty‘ are f&rated pup- &c&$ .;-Council :e they 3 don’t I-like, -

take full par& in decisioni of this peteers. Left without puppets they ihey q.@ckly have’ a,’ coI6paQiot--- _

n&ur&. . I have tried to put their ‘students ” call’ ‘the”’ fight &&b&s of -the on,strings instead. ’ liaison Committee and get them _ And the ‘action seem to have to agi”ee -to another, acceptable I _/.

r _ met with ,some success. The best ‘motion on the saine topic., .

.. - j I -.puppet show they put on is cdlled Armed -with this motion,, they- . .’ the, student-faculty liaison corn” go to. fdctilty eoun il -and’ ca&nly / \ mittee. ,. 2 tell%the reformer th t even the stu-

What is the liaison committee? dents do&- want anything to do . - . It, ‘is supposed to be a joint faculty-student coimittee char-

with his -idea. Their soufce? Why s the liaiqon committee of course. -

ged \‘with advancing cooperation. I - In the past’ihese se&r fa’culty i To this end it can propose -ideas memb&s have- usually been able to the faculty cduncil. . \ to keep their manipulating. under’ 1

But if the Novetib,er 19th .a~-. the table. Novie that the rush they“ - _. tivities of the committee .are

any example its job must be to we& in ha,s- expos& them3he &tu,_

! prqvide a’:tionvenieht to-01 for the’ dents and j,vaior factilty should

J , unite to get the stiudtioh chinged.’ . ’ t _ faculty pow&% to use against any’ Unfortunately the math liaison

’ . . ,. . -_ ref.ormers that ha.y@ creeped into the”. ranks T of 4he junior profes-

committee is an excbilent example .- .’ . ijf the kind of pkop’er channels s ,. 1 ‘. _ sors. ’ 1 the ‘-powers that be’ w-ill give

’ - I -? . . ’ The process is simple. When they students as long as they remain ! ,’ 1 . hear 4hata profess& ig going to passive. - ‘, ’ . . . <

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*eless head: chairman, df the issue took 28 hours a day

: tic: almost had a Monday 1 f&he first time since July ‘h. This is the result-no in Seems a same ‘t&t the \nie more to @o. ‘

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Friday, December 6,1966 Peterborough

eleven wrested, two hospitalized

Students join striking reporters The last time Thomson battled Friday morning with the strikers. members of the other unions

the guild was in Oshawa in a simi- In that action two students refuse to cross heavily manned lar situation. That time he ob- were arrested. lines it is expected that this tained a court injunction to limit The picketeers hope to be will stop or severely hinder pub- pickets, but local labor--the able to hold the line solid all lication of Friday’s and Saturday’s strong autoworkers-were angered day today and on Saturday. Since paper.

About 250 students from several Ontario universities joined striking reporters and editors at the Peterborough Examiner today.

By noon seven students had been arrested by police forcing their way through picket lines to get non-union employees into the Examiner building.

Two girl students were also injured and subsequently hospitalized in the melees around the entrance to the building. Ex- tent of their injuries was not known at press time.

Twenty members of the Toronto newspaper guild have been on strike at the Examiner since Nov- ember 2.

The local branch of the guild was formed immediately after the March 1968 purchase of the Exam- iner by newspaper baron Lord Thomson of Fleet.

Thomson has increased advertising space, and gone to ridicul- ous lengths of requiring paper- clip rationing and cheaper paper towels.

As soon as Thomson bought the newspaper, 19 of 22 reporters and sub-editors formed a Peter- borough unit of the Toronto News- paper guild. When the guild tried to negotiate their demands, they could not get a meeting with the management of the newspaper.

Finally, on November 1, a day before the strike was to start, management came out with a statement.

There were no provisions for the guild to remain. no job- transfer security, no severance pay. no pension for anyone under the rank of supervisor and the old pension plan was to be cut.

Thomson demanded a six-day

Immediately after the sale the week with no limitations on working conditions went downhill. hours to be worked in any day-

While the official policy of Thorn- and no Overtime pay. son Newspapers Ltd is not to interfere with the policy of the newspaper such was not the case in practise.

Pages and features began to get cut. Space reserved for news was diminished to the point where during the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the news staff could not get two extra Pages to cover the event properly. I c

When a staff member quits he is not replaced. His job is elimina- ted to save money.

Thomson offered $117 for a five-year man and $60 a week for new reporters. These are all minimum salaries, lower than the existing scale at the Examiner and Thomson rarely pays above stated minimum.

Thomson has still refused to negotiate, giving the dissolution of the guild as a necessary condition to begin. The pressmen and typesetters are concerned about the security of their unions when their contracts run out if the guild is beaten by Thomson.

Tl7omson $$$ empire now in Peterborough by Philip Resnick

The strike at the Peterborough Examiner, in which reporters and newsroom staff have been out for over four weeks, raises issues that go far beyond the specifics of the dispute. For the Exami- ner symbolizes the condition that prevails in scores of cities and towns throughout Canada--the single newspaper monopoly. And since last February, Peterborough has joined more than 40 other Canadian cities, from Arnprior through Yorkton, in the fold of Thomson Newspaper Ltd., the North American wing of the Thomson Empire.

The takeover by Thomson is directly relevant to the present dispute, as the Newspaper Guild stresses. Thomson entre- peneurship has meant greater emphasis on profit ability, an increase in advertising content, and an attempt to squeeze staff costs, by cutting salaries across the board for new recruits.

The pattern, however, is a familiar one, if one examines the rise of the Thomson Empire, from Roy Thomson’s purchase of the fledgling Timmins Press in 1934 to today’s $300,000,000 concern. For profit is what makes Roy Thomson tick, and he has used one small newspaper after another in building his present fortune.

Thomson’s view of the small town newspaper is well-expressed in the following comment: “Any- body who can lose money with a small-town newspaper is a near genius. It’s a matter of how

much you’re going to make. Some we appraoch will say ‘Look, I’m making money.’ We’ll say ‘Look, you’re only making half of what you ought to be! ’ (Fortune, Feb. 1967 1.

As a result, Thomson takeover of a newspaper entails a whip- hand from the Toronto office to ensure that the year-end accounts live up to expectation. The figures for Thomson’s North Amer- ican operations between 1955 and 1964 speak eloquently of just how successful he has been in this task.

Consolidated Earnings before Deductions, Depreciation

and Taxes

1955 $ 1,692,925 1960 3,798,170 1964 7,630,079

Consolidated Net Earnings

1955 $1,424,069 1960 1223,031 1964 2,709,568

In nine years, Thomson’s profits leaped six-fold.

WHO PAYS? Who pays for these profits? Two

years ago, the Oshawa Times, another Thomson newspaper, was also struck by the Newspaper Guild. The United Church Board of Evangilism, a fairly moderate organiza tion, declared : “ The pi ti- fully low wages paid at the Oshawa Times leads us to ask: Has Lord Thomson earned his mil-

at this tampering with union freedom. They turned out in such force the paper was not only shut down and Thomson capitulated to the guild, but the provincial attorney-general took no action against the injunction- breakers. There has been no injunction asked for in Peter- borough.

Thomson has been using the editorial page of the Examiner to give the striking guild bad publicity through basic lies. The guild has only been able to combat this by personal canvass.

The guild hasn t been able to get support of large groups of local labor to man physically and morally effective picket lines. This is why the guild turned to student journalists and students in general man the lines.

Today was the second time the students had joined the picket lines. Last week 120 students, mostly from the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo, spent

Lord Thomson of Fleet lions at the expense of labour? Has he risen to the top of the financial world by trampling on his employees and their families? ”

If the workers pay the immediate price, the towns which Thomson “services” come in a close second. Although Thomson affirms that “Each and every one of my newspapers has the interests of its community at heart.” that interest is defined in terms of continued Thomson monopoly.

Charles Wilson also saw no contradiction between the interests of General Motors and those of the United States and from the point of view of liberal capitalism he was absolutely right.

Monopoly power is community power when the ruling elites define community interests. And Thomson does “not want to come down in the morning and find that somebody has taken me over,” especially not the community.

If Thomson is almost a carica- ture of the capitalist entrepeneur, his newspaper empire is of concern to everyone in this country. For the monopoly power he ex- ercises in over 40 communities finds its analogues in almost every other city. The Bell-Sifton chain, Pacific Publishing Com- pany, the Toronto Star Publishing Company are examples of monopoly power elsewhere. The elites who run the newspapers also control a large part of the private media, and are not lacking direct tie-ins with the corporate elite of Canada.

University students join Examiner reporters on the picket fine last Friday. Despite the cold the>? were back again toda.y.

Editorial If the striking reporters at the Peterborough Examiner

lose their battle for higher wages you, ’ Peterborough, will be the real losers.

the people of

When Lord Thomson of Fleet bought your cities paper you were already the losers. / *

The Examiner was one of Canada’s best papers constantly winning awards away from bigger papers with much bigger budgets.

That was because the people on the Examiner had spirit. They were able to work as a team to turn out a paper for you that they could be proud of.

On the old Examiner there was a sense that you were serving the people of Peterborough when YOU helped turn out their newspaper.

But when Thomson bought the paper right away it became clear that this paper was no longer being produced to serve the people of Peterborough but instead it was being produced to serve the interests of Lord Thomson.

Ad rates went up while the number of ad free pages went down. That’s standard procedure with Thomson when he adds a town to his empire.

The reporters of the Examiner are on strike asking only for a decent living wage. If they don’t get it they won’t be going back to work.

Now that doesn’t bother the owners of the Examiner they can still turn out pages of ads. But they will have a hard time writing any stories about local events- YOU should know about.

With a decent wage and a victory in the strike the reporters can go back to work and do the best possible to keep the Examiner Peterborough’s paper- not Lord ThomsoiYs.

You, the people of Peterborough, can help. l Don’t buy- the Examiner, if you have a sub-

scription cancel it for the duration of the strike. l When you’re shopping ask your merchants not to

advertise in the Examiner. Lord Thomson is credited with once saying about

his newspapers, “I never read the stdries but I always measure the advertising content.”

If ad and subscription income go down Thomson will soon be willing to settle the strike.

And you will have helped the people that have been serving you for so long.

The Examiner reporters, members of your community not Ex-Canadian millionaires,

$ message from the lines

The Industrial Workers of the World me are a group of people who have come together servation of his right which in the process of begin to explore new forms of representative ()I’-

1s Industrial Llnion 620. Education Workers of the profit-making get trampled by the boss. Workers’ ganiza tion. :\v$v. We have been asked to come to Peterborough desire for rights will always be opposed by the We of the IWW see an alternative in militant 1~ the Toronto Newspaper Guild to help the workers profit-needs of the boss. ,f’ the Examiner win this strike. Trade unions have recognized this is the case

industrial unionism and the concept of the One Big Union.

What is happening here in Peterborough is a but they have been unable to fully develop an very common situation. The details here are clear organiza tion to effectively fight for the rights of

If workers form an industrial union organization.

I’he striking workers at the Examiner see that their. labour. Craft unions simply cannot cope with the where an injury to one becomes an injury to all. no employer could force one group of’ \vorke!.s

3roblems do not originate at their place of em- power of the management. Although the craft against another. organization may have the power of the shop behind

for action would be put on an 3loyment but stem from the organization of a per- industry-wide scale. Furthermore. ional empire : an empire organized not for the it, the owner has the power of national and int-

\vorkers ever>‘-

where would be part of the One Big I’nion iyhi(lh genefit of those who work for it. but solely for the ernational capital as well as a rigged legal system. benefit of’ one man. It can then be seen that the problems of the

would be labour’s answer to international (~()rf~()rat~~ capital.

of’ we carry this analysis one step farther and look worker do not originate at his place of employment Although many skilled workers in (‘;~n;~d;~ h;l~~~ at the nature of modern day industrial organization. but rather are due to the national and international enjoyed high wages in the recent past. W:II \~;lgc~s

we find that there are many Lord Thomsons-men organization of capital in industry. who massively reap the benefit of other people’s Not only do cradt unions fail to adequately pro-

(buying power) have generally declined due to the increase of wage-taxation and inflation.

work. tect the rights of the worker. but they are often Further. the instability of the international m()netar!~ There individuals have essentially the same interests used by the employers as a device to pit one group

of workers against another in the interest of manage- scene offers an ominous premonition of f’ufur~ (bI*isis

at heart-the preservation and expansion of the empires they control. Similarly, the people who form mentc witness the use of this tactic by the Thomson

If working people arc to combat thcscl 1 rtlntf,;

the trust which throws the typesetters against the re- they must be prepared to look hw MW r~f’tc~c~ti\~t~

the tools for that expansion and preservation, thereby dividing labour and strengthening

forms of organization. workers, have a common interest which stands in porters. For more information t’ronn and ;&jut the) l\y\\’ opposition to that of the owners. management’s position. ) call IWW 519-744-6111 Ext. 3445 or lvrite (6 0 (‘hcll.-

The workers’ interest is concerned with the pre- Working people everywhere-people who have a ran. University of’ Waterloo, common interest in opposition to the employer must

Montreal Gazette also lost birthrich

Independence now obsolete by Mark Starawicz

October 22. Charles Peters, president and publisher of The Gazette. called together the reporters working in the news- 1’00 m . and in a ten-minute speech an- nounced he had just sold his paper to the Sout ham chain.

He apologized that he had no time to answer questions. urged the perplexed staff to “work harder” and departed.

(iazett e management underlings were quick to assure all the staffers that “nothing Mill change. The Gazette will remain the same”.

As rationale f’or the sale. Peters said . it was dliflcult these days to sustain a newspaper as a one-family business.

Peters. ironically. was telling the truth. But onl!. part of it.

The sale of The Gazette brings to light other f’acts: l Two powerful newspaper chains are eating up Canadian newspapers and now with The Gazette’s purchase. are close to sewing up monopolies. l These two chains are locking into a newspaper war. scrambling for adver- t ising. l These and other Canadian newspapers are struggling for their lives because American publications are sweep- ing the advertising market.

Fundamentallv. the sale of’ The Gazette is a victor) of powerful monopolistic interests over independent outlets (no matter how unpalatable The Gazette is. up to now it was independently unpalatable ).

Southam is one of three ver>* powerful newspaper chains that account for about 35 percent of all newspaper circulation in Canada. The other two are Sifton-Bell papers and the Thomson chain.

Fighting for control of the metropoli- tan newspaper market are Southam and Sifton-Bell. Thomson’s empire rests on smaller papers not in major urban con- centrations. Let us therefore look closel! at these two competing (and frequently co- operating) empires-on-the-make :

The Southam complex is still basicall) t’amily-owned. although it is listed as a public company. Three Southams sit on the Board of Directors. Southam directors hold. or at some time held. three bank directorships. three directorships in insurance companies, and four other directorships in large corporations.

It is a somewhat schizophrenic empire. *John Southam, the most powerful man in the operation, does his business out

of Ottawa, while keeping an eye on The Ottawa Citizen. which Southam owns. and which is commonly known as a Lib- eral government mouthpiece.

There is a Tory side to The Southams. however. which operates through the Hamilton Spectator. and there is even a Social Credit side: The Edmonton ,Journal. virtually a party organ for Alberta Premier E. C. Manning.

The Southam Company. including Paci- t’ic Press Ltd.. of which Southam owns 50 per cent. controls the t’ollowing newspapers :

Wholly owned: Ottawa Citizen, Hamil- ton Spectator. North Bay Nugget, Winni- peg Tribune. Medicine Hat News. Cal- gary Herald. Edmonton Journal. Mon- treal Gazette; with total circulation between 800.000 and 1.000.000.

Partially owned: Vancouver Province 1’50’1 1. Vancouver Sun ( 50’ I I-these two papers put on a mock show of competing brands put out by the same manu- t’acturer-London Free Press ( 25’ c ). Kit- chener-Waterloo Record (47’ I 1.

Beyond this. Southarn controls 21 business and professional magazines. and has large interests in at least seven television and radio stations.

Southam has strong links with Great West Life. as does the second chain. Sifton-Bell ( F.P. Publications Ltd. and Sifton Group 1. Sifton-Bell is also linked with oil interests in the West.

Victor Sifton operates out of Toronto and is in partnership with Max Bell, best known as a race-horse owner. Bell has myriad interlocking corporate In- terests in the West, and negotiates many of’ the major oil sales to the United States.

The Sifton-Bell empire outrightly owns the Winnipeg Free Press. Ottawa Journal. Calgary Albertan. Lethbridge Herald. Victoria Uaily Colonist. Victoria Da ii> Times. Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

It owns Canada’s most “respectable” paper. The Toronto Globe and Mail. but in circuitous way. Here we get into an interesting and relevant analogy with Southam’s purchase of The Gazette.

A couple of’ years ago, the Sifton group purchased all shares of The Globe and Mail. owned then by Charles Webs- ter. Webster simply exchanged the Globe shares for Sifton shares. and thus passed ownership while retaining “control” of the newspaper.

Southam did the same thing with the Gazette. Charles Peters exchanged all

Gazette shares he held for Southam shares. on condition that he be allowed to operate the paper *‘independently”.

The Gobe and Mail did not change when it switched hands and, most likely. neither will the Gazette.

(Webster, incidentally. is representative of the people who control our media: he owns the Dominion Square complex and the Windsor Hotel here. and is one of the top men in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. During the Depres- sion. he controlled all the coal on the Montreal waterfront. While people were literally starving. he raised prices twice. The federal government fined him for the illegal aspects of this. so hc raised the price of coal a third time to pay the fine I

Obviously the technique of bu!.ing a newspaper and leaving its control to the past owners is simply a holding tactic. Webster would do everyone a favor b!. leaving Sif’ton’s wa!. clear at The Globe. and Southam has a ver\. decent sort of obituary already typed up tar Charles Peters.

The Southam and Sifton chains had been unable to get a foothold in t hc major cities until Sifton got The Globe and Mail. Southam has now grabbed The (iazctte after wooing it f’or a long time. and thus the two empires have broken through on a country -wide scale.

Wh!- this desire to get a &‘Iontreal paper and to break into the large eastern urban market ‘.’

One of the most desperate battles in Canada is being waged against Time and Reader’s Digest. who threaten the very lives of these newspapers.

There are two levels ,of advertising in the newspaper racket: regional and national. Dow. Chrysler. Canadian Na- tional. Coke--all these prodvcts span the country and constitute “national advertising”. which is the most lucrative. Simpson’s. Steinberg’s. Dupuis and Mr. Muffler are regional. and less lucrative.

Time and Reader’s Digest are both nationally-circulated magazines. with a combined monthly circulation reaching three million.

By simple arithmetic. they can reach more people faster. So they attract the national advertising to the extent that any independent newspaper has to try to survive mostly on regional advertising.

Star Weekly magazine folded this year because it could not get the national advertising.

Both Southam. which publishes The

The lva~ magazines liktl Time anti fjtla- dcr’s Digest are allowed to c*hoke (‘;i na- dian journalism is another Cxamplt~ OI how the public comes second. This t~sccrpt Iron1 *John Porter’s The Vertical Mosaic

brings out the point: Anyone familiar with the reading habits

of Canadians knows that the handful of mag-

azines and periodicals published in Canada

does not represent the ideological exposure

of the general population. Publications from the United Sfqtes circulate far more

widely than do those of Canadian origin. The

consumption of A merican periodicals in

Canada is an ideological counterpart of the

external control of the economic system.

Yet the Canadian government. which has frequently debated taxing Time and Reader’s Digest as it does other foreign publications. has allowed this cultural im- perialism to flourish by accepting the ab- surd proposition that Time and Reader’s Digest can be considered Canadian because of their throwaway “Canadian Content”

As for The Gazette itself. it is insignificant what happens to it. Whether Charles Peters owns it, or whether Southam owns it. the public is only a considerd- tion on the balance sheet.

Anywhere in Canada. to produce an independent and outspoken press is an uncca- onomical proposition. based on poor business logic.

It requires a courage. and a dedication to the ideals of journalism that t’ew ian,~- dian publishers possess. and that certainI!. do not encumber Charles Peters.

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