volume 9 number 44 UNIVERSITY OFFWATERLOO, Waterloo, Ontario friday, february 21,1969

McGiH attempts to fire lecturir

MONTREAL (CUP )-McGill Un iversity principal H. Rocke Robert- son made his next move towards firing lecturer Stanley Gray tues- day night when he formally charg- ed the activist teacher with “con- duct that affected adversely the general well-being of the uni- versity.”

Robertson made his announce- merit at 8 pm, only 90 minutes after being asked to reconsider by the university’s tri-partite com- mission. The commission, com- posed of 12 people drawn equally from staff, students and admin- istration, is in the midst of its second year of study of the nature of the university.

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Robertson is a member of the commission but did not attend the tuesday session-he was busy drafting the charges at the time. Two other administrators, chan- cellor Howard Ross and vice-prin- cipal Michael Oliver, refused to join the cornmission session feel- ing it was dealing with the Gray issues improperly. Both walked out.

The charges were laid in the wake of failure tuesday to reach agreement on the matter. An in- formal hearing between Gray and Robertson broke down tues- day at its third session. At that time, Gray refused to accept an administrative proposal to sus- pend proceedings if Gray prom- ised to refrain from future dis- ruptions of university business.

In addition to the tri-partite commission’s appeal for recon- sideration, has received sunnort from the student council. the ‘political science student asso:

ciation, the political science de- partment council and the profes- sors syndicate at L’Universite de Montreal.

The next step in the dismissal proceedings involves the forma- tion of a three-man arbitration committee made up of professors from outside the McGill com- munity. The arbitration com- mittee must be acceptable to Gray and he says he won’t accept the process without several changes.

I I Results aerayea

Council elections were disrupted this week by the theft of eight ballot boxes.

The boxes disappeared tuesday night or early Wednesday morn- ing. Three of the boxes were lock- ed in the Math Society office; the others were in the federation office.

Inside the boxes were ballots and voting lists for the arts elec- tions.

The arts and grad elections were postponed until thursday.

The science and engineering

ted in science were incumbent Gerry Wootten, Hugh Campbell and Charles Minken. Elected in engineering were incumbents Bill Fish and Dave Parsons and newcomers Anne Banks and Rich Lloyd. Banks is the first woman ever elected to represent en- gineers.

Already acclaimed are math reps Tom Berry, Dave Greenberg and Stanley Yack; co-op math rep Glenn Berry; architecture rep John Pickles; phys-ed rep Hugh Cuthbertson; Renison rep Paul Dube and St Jeromes rep Joe Bart-

An administration vicepresident addresses a meeting of the occupiers at Windsor. Studcn ts occupied the theology department to protest the firing of a professor.

Windsor students maintain occupation after referendum

Students at the University of televised session had been going on sentation parity with the faculty Windsor decided Wednesday night, for only a half hour when Leddy on all departmental decision-ma-

after a nine-day occupation of the marched to the door saying: “I’m ing bodies, open meetings of the theology building, to continue their going to terminate this discus- board of governors and senate, an occupation, in view of the general sion now. ” offer of reinstatement to Kelly, student support shown during a re- At first, Leddy refused to talk and amnesty for the protestors. ferendum that day. Negotiations to representatives of the 200 oc- Leddy says he cannot negotiate continued into thursday night and cupiers saying that they were un- because he cannot speak for the may be settled this morning. representative of the students. He senate, board and faculty.

The referendum contained two then ret.reated when the student separate questions. The first ask- council-which supports the occu-

The executive members of the

ed if the students agreed with the pation-voted five occupiers as its student council, in an open show of

demands of the occupiers, and the representatives in the talks.‘ support for the occupation, have

second asked if the students would Leddy then shunte,d the moved their offices to the occupied

be willing to stage a major student proceedings to four separate com- areas. The student newspaper, the

strike in support of their ideals if mittees, treating the affair, one Lance, is also operating out of the

all negotiations failed. The stud- student said, “like we were sub- theology department.

ents voted 1333 to 1005 in support mitting a brief.” Tuesday night, Ontario educa- of the demands, but then voted The 200 students and some 15 tion minister William Davis told 1579 to 847 against staging a strike. faculty members are occupying a student audience at Windsor that

Negotiations have been plagued the department to protest an ad- he would stay out of the conflict. by administration hesitancy for ministrative decision not to re- He said the matter should be hand-

over a week. Monday, administra- hire Dr. William Kelly, a profes- led internally. tion president J.F. Leddy walked sor in the theology department. out of a bargain session with a The students have set four

The occupiers met Wednesday night to discuss the results of the

votes were held Wednesday. Elec- olacci. five-man team of occupiers. The demands which include : Repre- referendum.

cracy in e classroom provides no social c by Thomas Edwards Chevron staff

Wednesday afternoon at 2pm Dr. Galloway departed from his usual one- hour, one-sided lecture method of teaching English 360 to engage the class in the following discussion.

He began: “I ‘have your tests here. I have received complaints that it was an insult to your intelligence (iden- tify the characters sort of thing), and

it so hard. I haven’t finished marking them by the way, (they were written last October). I have marked bits of them but I keep getting distracted. But they are coming and you’ll get them back eventually.

“In the meantime I think it’s time for another one-say, in the next two weeks.”

At this point he received a little static. “What’s really the point of a test of this kind when all one does is say who a character is.”

To which Galloway boldly replied: “Well you can have any type of test ’ you like. Surely in this democratic age you can make as many suggestions as you want and when you’re finished

I’ll come to the same conclusion that I already have. OK what do you want.”

At this point a farsighted student asked what the final exam would be like, to which question he received the answer, “Oh, you know. The usu- al kind of crap.

“Well”, continued this unusually ambitious. student “Wouldn’t a test be more worthwhile if it was a prepar- ation for the final?”

“Sure’ ‘, replies the prof, “I could give you a question like ‘Write all you know about Richard II. Would that do?”

Saying this must have wakened up some agitator at the back of the room who asked, “Why are we having a test now?”

He received this philosophical re- PlY : “Well [the term is short and life is short these days. We have only I5 or 16 lectures left by the way-prob- ably have to whiz through Henry IV, part 2 pretty fast, informing you merely of the import of the fact that it is a sequel to Henry IV, part 1.

Another sleepy student t sleeping is a general pastime in this class) who was still somewhere back at the beginning of the discussion asked “Is the main purpose of the test to make us read all the stuff and do the work?”

“Let’s not be silly”, countered Gallo- way. “One gives tests because one feels guilty not giving them and in your place you would feel guilty not getting them. Now lets push this democracy thing a bit further and take a vote as to who really wants a test.”

The vote went 8 in favor, 2 against and countless uncounted absten- tions.

Accepting the inevitable a student asked of what duration would the test be. For his pains he received this witty reply.

“Oh, a test can be from as long as 30 minutes to three days. In short as long as a bottom can sit on a seat with- out getting corns-but the best length is when it fits comfortably between two meals.

Thus, he continued, it seems as if we will have a test in two weeks. Hmm sounds somewhat familiar.. .

And rustling his copious lecture notes (even his humorous and personal anecdotes seem typed out in full) he settles back into the usual routine.

At the same time the class realizing that the diversion is over succumbs to the warm sunshine sifting through the rifle-slit windows and returns to slum- ber.

Disipline committee

Science cow& seats four students Science faculty council has

agreed to seat five students. The students will be appointed

by the Science Society. It has said it will hold elections if more than five applications are receiv- ed.

The grant of the five seats was confirmed by a memo from science dean Pete McBryde.

The faculty council is still closed but students hope this will be modified somewhat.

All four faculty councils now have students on them. The math and engineering students are full voting members; the others are only observers.

Only the psy-ed council doesn’t have students on it.

cumpus computers security bound ’ A few university administrations of trouble at Sir George, but they

are getting worried about the have since been removed. safety of their computers. At Sir George Williams, where students destroyed two million dollars worth of computer equipment, security guards have been posted at the doors of the Henry F. Hall building, home of the com- puting center. Students there must show ID cards to gain ad- mittance to the center and un- authorized personnel are being barred from the campus.

The education data center, the computer center of the depart- ment of education in Toronto, had posted two cops to guard their computer last friday at the height

The administration at McGill University have had their data processing equipment moved off campus to somewhere in the city of Montreal.

Morris Stanfield, manager of the computer at McMaster Uni- versity, stated that extra se- curity measures were being taken with their equipment. He expects no trouble anyway, since stu- dents are not allowed down on the computer floor.

Here at UniWat no extra pre- cautions are being taken with our computer.

The Canadian University Dra- ma League announced significant changes in its future plans as a result of the annual conference held in Waterloo last week. Some 60 delegates from 22 universities moved to dispense with the old constitution and bylaws, and em- powered the new executive to restructure the organization.

Next year’s Festival and confer- ence will be held in Ottawa at the new Theater Arts Center with a projected budget ten times that of

u of W types on drama leugue exec last year. Three Uniwat students were placed on the five-man executive. They are, David Blaney, Peter Moore and John Gordon. Other members are Mary Sicard and Lisa Jutras of Montreal.

In keeping with its aims the league also announced that all competition was to be removed at both the national and regional levels and that future festivals would look towards a week-long showcase of university-level drama.

WW student fined If you’re going to steal some-

thing from someplace, the campus center just isn’t the place.

Last December, Norris Scott, philosophy 1, at Waterloo Luthe- ran, was picked up by the kam- pus kops as he was absconding with one of the orange lounge cushions from the pub area. Last week he was tried and convicted in Waterloo county court, and charged $25 plus court costs.

Ken Rae, assistant crown a,t-

in campus theft torney, mentioned during the pro- ceedings that perhaps Scott should be let off since there was a chance that he was so drunk that he really didn’t intend to steal the cushion.

Ra,e defended himself by stating that “such leniency generally creates more problems than it solves”, implying that other stu- dents caught trying the same thing could point to Scott’s case and demand to be let off too.

Three win Woodrow Wilson fellowship The Woodrow Wilson National anthropology 4, and Brian Sch-

Fellowship Foundation last friday losser, philosophy 4, with Sandra named three Waterloo seniors in Burt, political science, getting their list of Woodrow Wilson honorable mention. Designates. These students will receive fellowship support for first- year graduate study.

Only 93 students were selected

The Waterloo designates are Ken from all Canadian universities as designates, , and only 33 as

McLeod, math 4, Earl Reidy, honorable mentions.

Noted negro poet here monduy / A somewhat different ’ type of

guest speaker will be in the cam- pus center monday.

His name is Edward English and he is a poet. His poetry is entitled Nature’s Creation and comes across as quiet, religious, positive, free of grammar’s stric- tures and somewhat confusing.

English is a true vegetarian; he wears no leather shoes or belts, never eats meat. Even his brief- case is made of pressed paper.

He has worked with the Student non-Violent Coordinating Com- mittee in the south.

A negro, his only support for black power was to help Allbama blacks to register to vote.

Let tl7e courts handle it ’ Hand over all cases of student

misbehaviour to the police was the final recommendation of the uni- ’ versity discipline committee. The committee held its final meeting last week it has been meeting sporadically for nearly five years.

Three proposals were before the committee. The first, termed modified double jurisdiction, was based on the system at Cornell. It recommended an elaborate system of rules and university courts. Infractions would be hand- led either through the uni- versity system, the criminal courts, or both.

The second approach, called civil jurisdiction, was that the uni- versity refer all infractions to civil authorities and take no further action against students.

The third proposal was tradition- al double jurisdiction.

The university would lay char- ges against misbehaving students and the president .or his delegate (probably the provost) would take any further action he saw fit.

Recent occupations at Simon Fraser and Sir George Williams Universities dominated much of the discussion. Academic-services director (and former SFU regis- trar) Pat Robertson said, “After Sir George and Simon Fraser I wonder what it means to leave it up to the courts.”

Questions were raised as to what the university should do in case of political offenses, such as an occupation. It was sug- gested the university might not

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want to have the police involved but rather negotiate a settlement.

Security chief Al Romenco said the only decision to make is whe- ther or not to call in the police. After that the crown attorney decides what charges should be laid. While he may take into account the advice of the adminis- tration he doesn’t have to.

Federation past-president Brian Iler urged there be some kind of consultation with student re- presentatives before police are called in. This would be cases other than clear-cut police cases handled by security .

Operations vicepresident Al Adlington felt there was a serious flaw in the second proposal.

“I feel we are leaving oursel- ves in an all-or-nothing situation. ” The university would have no dis- ciplining power at all but would only be able to lay charges.

Iler said that was the proper situation. Students would be treated like any other citizen. He noted, however, that the university would still be able to discipline students for academic offenses such as cheating.

Village tutor Jim ’ Van Evra

Assistant to the provost Paul Gerster suggested Adlington fear-

.ed proposal two because the

brought up the problem of liquor

university would be embarassed

offenses. Did proposal two mean

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that all drinking infractions would be reported to police? Scott re- plied it would be a matter of

discretion and used the analogy of a person whose neighbor is having a loud party.

Adlington suggested it was to the benefit of students to have an internal judicial system. He said an employee caught stealing is fired but is not charged with theft, which could result in a conviction and loss of employabi- lity. Scott countered if the em- ployee was taken to court he might be acquitted.

Chem eng prof Robert Hudgins said an internal system of justice put university students in a privi- ledged situation with regard to society in general. If students, who will be the future leaders of the community, were subjected to the full force of the law, it would bc an impetus to change laws that are unfair or out-dated.

Proposal two was passed over- whelmingly, only three of eleven dissenting.

The recommendation will be sent to interim president Howie Petch but Scott doubted if the policy will be accepted.

Presently, discipline is tempora- rily being handled by a joint student-administration committee set up last year by the discipline committee as an interim mea- sure until a final report is made.

Student discipline has been hand- led on an ad-hoc basis along the traditional double jurisdiction idea. A few -cases have been re- ferred to the federation judicial committee but this method has not been very successful.

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MM may act in library At its monday meeting, the rad- to increase by only 4.8 percent official administration decision

this year as compared to a predic- has been taken on the proposal to ted inflationary increase of seven date, but Trbovich reports that percent. the response has been negative.

ical student mbvement discussed the need for student action on the library. Members were concerned that although the university will very soon set next year’s budget, council has failed to follow up on its demand that the library bud- get beincreased.

“Bergsma was opposed to bring- ing it up at the last meeting”, reported Tom Patterson, arts rep on council. “The speaker agreed to ask council’s permission to add it to the agenda, but the meeting dissolved for lack of quorum be- fore he brought it up.”

Several RSM members noted the lack of funds was particularly urgent since universities are being pressured to increase enrolment next year while government education spending is to be cut.

University affairs representa- tive Al Gordon reported during a recent visit to campus that the basic revenue unit, the province’s per capita grant system, is likely

It was agreed that students and faculty are going to have to apply pressure very soon if the lib- rary budget is to be increased for next year. Several members volunteered to investigate as- pects of the problem in further detail.

The issue of the library’s inade- quate holdings and study space has been a point of contention since 1965. At the january 27 meeting of council, Ron Trbo- vich, student rep on the senate lib- rary committee, reported that Waterloo’s library budget is low in comparison with other universi- ties, even though our library has been rated very low and is badly in need of development.

Council supported a recom- mendation that the library bud- get be increased to 10 percent of the total university budget. No

Although a detailed strategy has not been spelled out, RSM plans to initiate a program of education and action on the lib- rary problem.

Other matters discussed at the meeting included a brief on fac- ulty hiring and ,firing which is to be presented to acting adminis- tration president Howard Petch. The brief, which was given final approval at a second meeting held Wednesday night, criticizes the present content of social science courses and the proposed college of integrated studi’es alternative.

It goes on to suggest more at- tention must be given to course content by the course unions, and recommends the hiring of ten radical ,professors and parity for students in hiring and firing and curriculum decisions.

Q York profs strike for raise TORONTO (CUP)-Students and

faculty at York University will walk out of classes february 25 to back up faculty demands for an 18 percent raise and participa- tion in the decision-making pro- cess at York.

Students and faculty will dis- cuss alternatives for future ac- tion, “not excluding the possibil- ity of strikes,” during the” day- long walkout.

board quite fully and have no re- course to action other than leaving teaching duties.

The students Wednesday en- dorsed a faculty decision made a week earlier to boycott. An amend-’ ment that would have prolonged ‘the student strike until demands were met was dropped because it would not be enforcable and+‘not in the best interest of the univer-

“sity” according to Paul Koster, ‘student president.

?lYhe York board of governors refused to discuss the question at it’s last meeting and the faculty responded by calling for the one- day walkout.

Besides, as one faculty member put it: “Some highly qualified faculty members are making less than highschool teachers with no experience. ”

The board said it could not talk about faculty salaries until finan- cial allotments from the provincial government are known. The fac- ulty, however, feel they have detailed- their grievances to the

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If the faculty were to strike in march or april it would cause severe disruption in examination and marking schedules. The dis- pute involves faculty on both the York and Glendon campuses of the 6000-student university.

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The student affairs review committee met last ‘friday to hear ex-provost, Bill Scott, outline his sug- -gestions for student affairs’ function and organi- zation.

Scott started off by condemning the structure of the committee as unfair to students.

He next posed the question, “What real resources does the university have in 1969?”

The traditional answers of faculty first and stud- ents second, organization likened to business and a primary function of presidential recognition, were noted.

A diagram, showing how the vice presidents of academics, operations, and planning and develop- ment, and the treasurer and the provost were re- lated to the president, was drawn on the board by Scott.

He wondered why there was fro vice president of faculty and remarked that “faculty are not looked after because of the structure and function of the university. ”

Scott went on to quote from part of an article he was preparing for publication.

He attributed the creation of specialized adminis- trative departments to the complexities of expanded student enrolment. These new functions were rela- ted to student welfare and needs and included re- sidence management, counselling services, health services, off-campus housing, food services, and others.

He stated that these positions came under one senior head in American universitiss, but that of the 15 universities in Ontario, only three list an officer as dean of students, while seven others have an assortment of titles. The five remaining show no title of any kind for student affairs.

He used this example to point out the lack of uni- formity in the organization of student affairs.

Since there is no clear-cut definition of what this area entails, Scott called for the university to take a long, hard look at student affairs and determine what its obligations are and how they should be carried out.

He suggested that Uniwat should co-ordinate the areas of counselling, discipline, health services and residences with respect to records in order for student problems, such as suicides, pregnancies and breakdowns to be solved more quickly.

Lynn Watt questioned the exchange of records on the basis of professional integrity. Al Crawford, arts 2, quickly pointed out that in other institutions mental and general hospitals, for example, sociolo- gists, doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists in- dulge in a frank exchange of information with the assurance of confidence.

Scott saw the role of the provost or the position replacing it, as an’ administrator of student services and as a spokesman for student interests. The pro- vost should try to prevent conflict between the students and the administration.

He noted structural weaknesses that had to be overcome in order to provide a better milieu. Since the president is the final authority, individuals have a tendency to short circuit regular channels to solve their problems. It must be realized that students can run such services as off-campus housing and foreign students, but services of the print shop, book store, counselling and health would be somewhat more difficult.

Scott added that at Uniwat, students have had a say in government more quickly than at most uni- versities, but that there is not as much involve- ment as there might be.

“If some administrator thinks that the function of student affairs is not important, then its position is weakened. ”

“Presidents resign because nobody knows who the hell is running the university.”

The ex-provost envisioned a vice-president of student affairs with dean of men, dean of women and student services administrator under him. The student services administrator would be respon- sible for all the services, now scattered throughout the university. -

For the student with problems in dealing with the structure, a time limit would be set for each de- partment in handling difficulties.

Scott thought that the university was centralized too much and decentralizing the village into an au- tonomous unit and letting out contracts for technical services would alleviate some of the problems.

He concluded his proposals with the statement that the student must get on committees that report directly to the one-tiered government.

There will be an open meeting of the committee this afternoon in the library, room 402, to discuss the reports that have so far been presented.

Student ex-provost, Bill Scott, outlines proposals for position of vice-president of student affairs.

Pefch delegates duties Village and Eydt upset

Residence administration, in- cluding Village warden Ron Eydt, now falls directly under operations vicepresiden t, Al- Adlington. Eydt and other Village administrators are upset at the realignment.

This set-up was initiated last tuesday when Howie Petch, inter- im president, farmed out the pro- vost’s duties he acquired last month when he took over the pre- sidency. Former president Hagey accepted the duties of provost when Bill Scott’s resignation be- came effective january 1.

Only the dean of women con- tinues to report to the president. Counselling service and creative arts come under academic servi- ces with direct responsibility to Pat Robertson. Housing and for- eign students and health services now report to Al Adlington, with direct responsibility’ to Jack Brown, director of ancillary ser- vices. Eydt reports directly to Adlington.

Petch emphasised these ar- rangements are temporary. “I couldn’t wait for Jack Brown’s report,” said Petch. “I was trying to be president, academic vice- president, and provost all at the same time. ” He plans to rely quite heavily on the recommendations of Brown’s student-affairs review committee in his final decision on the fate of the provost’s em- pire.

When questioned on his approach to residence administration, Ad- lington commented, .f‘There is no danger of a change from an acade- mic sensitivity to an operations sensitivity.” He added, howeve.r, that policy decisions should be made with a 60-40 operations to academic priority.

Cail Vinnicombe, manager of residences, said “It’s a question of prestige.” He continued, how- ever, “If the residence runs smoothly without any serious trouble, I doubt whether it mat- ters who the warden reports to.”

Acimininews in a month A weekly administration news-

paper may be’ a reality within a month.

The present university Gazette, now distributed to faculty and staff, will be turned into a tabloid- sized newspaper and distributed to students as well.

It will probably be a four-page weekly published Wednesday mornings.

Information-services director Jack Adams said the move was in- tended to promote better commun- ications among all elements of the university.

The Gazette in recent months has been expanded. It switched to weekly publication about a month ago and has started carrying some off-campus news.

,Adams says the new Gazette will be a strictly campus thing. It will probably incorporate the weekly events bulletin which is also published by the university. A network of correspondents is being set up throughout the univer-

sity departments to ensure more coverage of staff events.

The publication will not be mailed off-campus. The adminis- tration cannot get second-class mailing rates because it has no paid subscribers and first-class rates are too expensive.

The new publication will have a budget of about $10,000, an in- crease of a couple thousand over the present budget for university publications.

Adams said the decision to publish a newspaper was influ- enced to some extent by the ad- ministration’s views on the con- tent of the Chevron, but he added he felt it was something the ad- ministration should be doing any- way.

“There are certain issues where readers should have another source of information,” he said, “but we don’t intend to get into a running battle refuting the Chevron. ’ ’

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WASHINGTON (CUP-CPS)- Over a dozen American univer- sities are in various stages of dis- ruption by strikes, occupations and invasions by National Guard troops.

University of Wisconsin National guardsmen were posted

in buildings on the University of Wisconsin campus Monday as stu- dent demonstrators carried their protests from the street to the classroom.

Some classes were disrupted. In others, students confronted professors with discussion of the black students’ demands in attempts merely to restructure the day’s classes.

In at least one case officials ordered students not enrolled in classes to leave or face arrest.

Several hundred students entered Bascom Hall at one point Monday morning shouting “support the black demands” as they surged through the hallways.

Some 1900 guardsmen are sta- tioned on the campus, but the only show of force monday was inside the buildings., The blacks would like to draw the soldiers back outside where confronta- tions would draw more support from sympathetic white students.

The low turnout at a morning rally indicated the frustration many white students feel: the school administration is unwilling to negotiate, demonstrations have been unsuccessful, and there is studying to be done.

But as the numbers turning out for demonstrations dwindle, the chances for mores militant tactics increase. A total shutdown of the 34,000-student campus is un- likely.

A further show of force by authorities could set off more violent confrontations. Thursday, national guardsmen used teargas to disperse some 5000 protesters and onlookers.

Major confrontations were averted when students resorted to hit and run tactics, but some

,heads were bloodied. Demands include establish-

ment of an autonomous black studies program and admission of at least 500 more black stu- dents.

Duke University Peace returned to Durham N.C.,

campus of Duke University monday after the administration agreed to establish a program of Afro-American studies. But the possibility of further trouble still exists over an unsettled demand that non-academic employees be permitted to bargain collectively with the administration.

Spokesmen for the employees’ group say they will enter a meet- ing with administration leaders tuesday with 12 demands concern-

ing pay and working conditions, and will not leave until they are met.

Students have supported the workers before, and can be ex- pected to again.

At least 26 persons were injured friday in a melee with police out- side a campus building. Teargas was used.

San Francisco State ’ A homemade bomb shook the

administration building at San Francisco State sunday as the school prepared to re-open mon- day after a sessional break of two weeks.

The early morning blast broke 18 windows in the building. It was the second such bombing at the school in four days. Another exploded thursday in front of a student lounge.

San Francisco State has been troubled by a violent student strike since November 6.

Notre Dame University The University of Notre Dame,

known more for its football teams than its liberalism, carried the law and order ball monday when administration president Theodore Hesburgh promised immediate suspension and expulsion for dis- ruptions of university business.

“Anyone or any group,” he said, “that substitutes force for rational persuasion, be it vio- lent or non-violent will be given 15 minutes of meditation to cease and desist.”

At that point, demonstrators would be asked for their student identification cards and be im- mediately suspended. If, after another five minutes, the protest continued, the offender would be immediately expelled.

The statement came three mon- ths after demonstrations against Dow and CIA recruitment on campus.

Berkeley One student was arrested tues-

day at Berkeley when police broke up an “unauthorized” rally on the steps of Sproul Hall, ad- ministrative center at the school. A student strike at Berkeley over black demands for a black studies program continued but the vast majority of students at- tended classes.

Roosevelt University Six students were expelled from

Roosevelt University in Chicago after they disrupted a class ses- sion. The six-five blacks and one white-attempted to take over teaching from psychology profes- sor Richard Pasta. They were expelled after dean of students Richard Silverman gave them five minutes to leave the classroom and they refused.

The students were demandin more black studies at the school.

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MONTREAL (staff )-The con- gress of engineering students over- came organizational difficulties and a reactionary undercurrent to pass several progressive reso- lutions and initiate a new level of political consciousness in under- graduate engineers.

The results of the McGill Uni- versity weekend gathering of On- tario and Quebec students, with observers from across the country, were perhaps best summed up by EngSoc B. president Mike Martin who said, “While I still believe our basic system is cor- rect, I find I can at least listen to the radicals-something I found impossible before. ’ ’

The majority of the Waterloo delegation, several McGill engi- neers and a number of obser- vers provided most of the impetus for real questioning of the sys- tem and the engineer’s role in it. RESOLUTIONS

In summary, here are the reso- lutions passed :

-Economic development of Can- ada is necessary to provide crea- tive work for our engineers (too much is presently branch-plant caretaking for U.S. companies).

-In order to provide more equal opportunity for French- speaking engineers and to reflect the binational nature of Canada, the working language in Quebec should be French and all engi- neers practising in Quebec must know the working language.

-Engineers should form a more powerful organization than they have at present (a union in every- thing but name) in order to be more able to protect the environ- ment and society in general. In this motion, they recognized pollu- tion, safety of manufactured goods and planned obsolescence as be- coming serious problems in the profit-motivated corporate sys- tem.

-A general motion on engineer- ing education called for free choice of any course in the university. a credit system, ability of engi- neers who don’t meet all the pre- requisite courses in the new free system to still be able to specialize in grad school to become an engi- neer. They also called for invol- vement of students in the decision- making of the university to be recognized as part of the student’s education.

McGill’s engineering dean probably found agreement with

the more active congress partici- pants when he termed the gene- ral tone of the resolutions as ‘motherhood’.

However, most Waterloo dele- gates agreed the outcome was better than expected in the face of the initial conservative posi- tion of the older Ontario schools- Western, Queens, McMaster and Toronto. The French-speaking delegates were only active in a Quebec-nationalist direction and the Sir George Williams group were simply anti-activist. STRUCTURE A HINDRANCE

The structure of the congress hindered political and wide-rang- ing discussion-several hours were spent listening to speeches from corporate barons ‘who were sue-: cessful in the engineering profes- sion’. The rest of the time was spent in highly-structured commis- sions on the main topics, plus the final formal plenary session.

The commission on the engi- neer and his moral conscience pro- duced no motions-and this was the area that most of the corpor- ate guest speakers talked about. The more radical delegates in the commission fought to defeat any tinkering motions that were along the lines the speakers of- fered.

The commission’s structure was cumbersome and Waterloo engineers Jim Pike and Brian Iler tried to get it broken down to small discussion groups to get at basic issues. The proposal was narrowly defeated.

The commission on the engi- neer and his role in the corporate system got hung up over the pro- fessional arrogance of many dele- gates who tended to see the pro- blems ( )f reconciling the profit . motive and the social concern for pollution, mis-manufacturing and exploitation, but refused to accept the status of actually being unioni- zed to protect their professional standards (and accordingly pro- tect society).

The commission’s eventual mo- tion called for an organization that would be a union in every way but name so engineers could refuse to allow unethical designs and still not get fired.

Perhaps the most political was the commission on equal oppor- tunity for French-speaking engi- neers, and here the Quebecois delegates concentrated their ef- forts. They eventually convinced the majority of the historical rights of French Canadians as a distinct national entity within Canada and the congress called for

French to be the working language in Quebec. Getting the motion through the final plenary re- quired manipulation, however, as the strong Ontario conservative block patiotically pounded the tab- les.

The procedural manipulation at this stage was the worst of the congress, but was not an isolated matter. From the beginning, most of the delegates were hard- pressed to meet the organiza- tional and procedural difficulties. They were able to speak of over- structuring in their education, but were unable to deal with it in their congress.

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artsies at Sir George”. . A Western delegate said the

solution to the lack of jobs in the economy was to cut back on en- gineering enrolments. He was re- buked for selfishly desiring to protect his interests.

, The Ontario conservative block

tried to amend the motion calling for involvement of students in the decision-making process to say “non-violent involvement”.

This was dismissed as unneces- sarily reactionary and the amend- ment was defeated.

In the education commission, another Waterloo attempt was made to get down to discussing basic issues. The congress organi- zers emphasized the importance of passing resolutions, but Eng- Sot A president Glenn Hodge won- dered, “Isn’t it more important to learn what’s going on than to worry about resolutions?”

Some of the corporate success men were extremely reactionary. F. W. Eyre, vicepresident of Advanced Dynamics Corp, told the engineers, “No invididual will have any effect by himself in stopping war material production, so why not make some money out of it.”

Hodge’s suggestion was over- ruled and the commission dragged on all day before coming up with the one motion for destructuring the undergraduate curriculum and favoring meaningful student participation in university deci- sion-making.

Leonard Hynes, president of large war-material producer Cana- dian Industries Limited, related the entire question of engineers’ morality to religion. His sermon suggested Christianity made un- necessary any collective action by engineers for the protection of society.

The congress rejected these positions, and basically favored forming a union.

The’ reactionary element was Laurier LaPierre was the only ever-present: proceeding to Mon- speaker whose approach differed. treal on the train, a McMaster He opened by saying, “Engi- delegate suggested the engineers neers, as a profession, are not the should go and “beat up some kind of people I like.” He felt

but frustrivtina so-called professionals, including doctors and lawyers, are more concerned with personal financial reward than benefitting society. He said engineers weren’t meeting their social responsibilities .any- way, and went on to back an engineering union to achieve the action necessary to prevent social- ly-harmful production. \

The congress ended in con- fusion in the final plenary session -most delegates were frustrated by running out of time just when they were getting into more rele- vant resolutions.

They went off to a closing ban- quet with two venerable guest speakers-the president of the Engineering Institute of Canada and the executive vicepresident of Bell Telephone. Both gave unin- spiring defenses of the status-quo, and in the following question (period were unable to answer questions raised about the very nature of the system.

It left many of the delegates un- settled, but a McGill delegate found agreement when he said there would be a greater lasting effect to the congress if the dele- gates were unsatisfied with the answers.

In all commissions, except the one on the French language pro- blem, the Waterloo proposals as outlined in their pre-written posi- tion papers went farther or were more radical than the eventual congress outcome.

Progressive and reactionary delegates rammed heads throughout the congress of engineering students held in Montreal last weekend. Many of the conservative delegates had expected something like a ju-nior chamber of commerce meeting. This ‘%esolution ” was not loved,

Summer employment prospects dimmer this year by David Black CUS secretariat

Students who found it difficult to ob- tain summer employment last year will find it even harder this summer.

The prospects for student employment are dimmer since last year’s low. A num- ber of economic realities reveal our posi- tion :

l approximately 30-40’;; of Canadian students were effectively unemployed last summer.

l the overall unemployment rate has shown an unusual increase during the winter.

l there are no precise figures on stu- dent employment and no plans to handle the summer’s rush on jobs this year.

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics says 74,000 persons between ages 14-19 were unemployed last summer. This includes only part of all students seeking jobs.

In 1967-68 there were 237,000 under- graduates in Canada (DBS) : add to this all graduate students and members of community colleges, technical schools etc, and the increase in this year’s en- rollment-there just aren’t enough jobs.

Manpower has no statistics on students entering the work force, when, for how

long, etc. The government agency claims to have found 17,000 jobs last year once it had set up special services to handle the unexpected demand. (This figure in- cludes such jobs as two or three hours a week cutting grass. )

Although last year’s situation was des- cribed as unusual-it was reported that some 2,700 women with BA’s were unem- ployed in Toronto alone-there don’t appear to be any more opportunities opening up in 1969.

Coupled with increasing unemploy- ment figures, summer student employ- ment could effectively disappear.

The job shortage will force students to rely increasingly on loans and awards to finance their education. The loans plan was designed to supplement student sum- mer earnings. If the amount of part- time and summer work has been perman- ently reduced, a new approach will have to be developed.

1 The loans-awards program be greatly expanded. This entails more money from already hard pressed government reve- nues. The money would have to come from increased tax-es; though not neces- sarily from that tax base already over-

taxed-i.e. it is possible to increase taxes on a more equitable basis #with the implementation of the Carter Report and a tax increase to larger corporations ( specifically mining and oil companies ) .

2 Implementation of mammoth summer work projects for students. This could involve a CYC-style program allowing students to work during the summer on various community projects and have this credited toward increased financial aid at university. Again, money iseoming from government funds, though with an input of real work on the part of the stu- dent and a contribution from community or private enterprise.

3 Operation of universities on a tri- mester basis. This has certain obvious attractions (more students in less time; better use of basic facilities) but would require greater expenditure than an in- crease in loans and awards. It would in- volve greater university operating costs and a simultaneous cut-back on student summer earnings (if they are in fact available). /

4 Governmental policies aimed at full employment-the simplest and most ob- vious solution. Full employment is poss- ible.

Canadians still lack many of the neces- sities of - life (housing, food, medical assistance) and they can be supplied. The unemployed could be engaged in filling these needs if the government initiated the proper programs. And full employment policies, would automatically raise tax revenues.

However, any solution to the present student employment problem will only come about after pressure is concentrated

-on government (federal and provincial). Demands should center about summer em- ployment and loans-awards programs but should always take into account where the revenue is to come from to support new projects. Students can no longer afford to alienate that sector of the population which is presently overtaxed (those earn- ing under $10,000) and should integrate their demands with those aimed at a more equitable distribution of wealth in our soc- iety.

(One cannot ignore the federal govern- ment’s tendency to continue hitting this particular tax base-witness the’ recent 2 percent surtax which drops on incomes over $10,000. )

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Ten Thousand, or four dollars happenings as the Sir George per student, has been donated by Williams fracas. the student’s council of Waterloo Lutheran for university expansion.

Half of this money will be used for facilities in _ a new student union building,, four thousand dollars will be used for library books, and the remaining thou- ’ sand dollars will be used as the start of a building fund for an athletic complex and swimming I-M-ml.

Student business manager Ray Turner produced the surplus through program changes and good management. Withdrawal from CUS saved $2400 in un- used union dues. Some of the mon- ey went to sponsor a conference on CUS. Six ‘hundred dollars was also raised by student’s council investing funds in short term

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William Ballard, president loans ‘ of the student council, said the Frank Peters, president of the move expressed more accurately university, said he appreciated the feelings of the typical uni- the gesture q of goodwill even versity student than did such more than the money.

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MOST EYES WERE FOCUSED on the presidential elections, an unprecedented humiliation was being visited

upon one of the dinosaurs of the Ameri- can corporate community. -The United Fruit Company-whose board directors and presidents were accustomed to serv- ing the nation as secretaries of State and directors of the CIA, and whose divisional branches exercised unchallenged supre- macy over sovereign republics in the banana belt of Central America-found that it was the target of a series of take- over bids. Who would have the nerve?

Twenty-five years ago Textron, In- corporated, was only a diminutive manu- facturer of textiles. Since then, however. the firm has acquired a new name and scores of companies spanning 27 in- dustrial categories, and has taken a prom- inent place in the military-industrial com- plex. On election eve Textron announced that it was adding United Fruit to its family.

This was not the biggest merger of the year, but it dramatically symbolized the tremendous upheaval that is shifting the corporate foundations of American society.

The U.S. is currently in the midst of the largest merger wave in its history, already twice the magnitude of any previous wave and still on the upswing, with no sign of peaking.

The main action in this incredible concentration of economic power, ac- counting for about 90 per cent of all ac- quisitions in 1968, is going to a new species of corporate organization: the conglomerate. Led by such aerospace giants as Litton Industries, Ling-Temco- Vought (L-T-V.) and Textron. the conglo- merates are already regarded by many as the heirs apparent to American cor- porate power. With their feet solidly planted in the military-industrial com- plex. each has managed to absorb close to a hundred other corporations and to create a composite giant whose scope of industrial enterprise is truly awesome.

This explosive velocity of conglomer- ate expansion makes the most fantastic projections seem plausible. Litton Indus- tries provides a typical case in point. Fifteen years ago Litton was a $1.5 mil- lion electronics firm. Today. employing about 100.000 people in 28 countries. it is worth more than a thousand times as much.

The record of L-T-V is equally specta- cular. Twenty-two years ago, James J. Ling invested $3000, in an-electronics shop in Dallas. Today the successor of that firm, L-T-V. is even bigger than Litton.

with $1 billion in assets and $2 billion in sales. Moreover, the expansion of these

conglomerates over whole empires seems to have no natural limit, unless it is the economic system itself.

Indeed, one enthusiastic reporter of

the L-T-V octopus has already run his

story under the headline: “It is Theor-

etically Possible for the Entire United States to Become ONE VAST CONGLO-

MERA TE Presided Over by Mr. James

J. Ling. ” Nor is the prospect one from

which Mr. Ling would shrink.

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ER in the last decade to military- based conglomerates like Litton and L-T-V has caused remarkably little public concern, considering

the implications for an ostensibly free society. There are many factors behind this default, but probably the most im- portant one is the least conspicuous. It is the universal conviction that bigness and even monopolistic concentration are inevitable, being the natural and neces- sary consequences of technological mod- ernity. To protest therefore seems mere- ly to stand in the way of progress, mind- lessly repudiating the bounty of the age in favor of nostalgic illusions.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the New Monopolistic State’s most urbane, una- bashed and best-selling apologist, has ex- pressed the wisdom of the times most eloquently: “By all but the patholog- ically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”

Is it the quest for monopoly profits that has resulted in the gargantuan enterprises which now dominate the Amer- ican economy ? Certainly not, says Gal- braith : “Size is the general servant of technology, not the special servant of profits. The small firm cannot be re- stored by breaking the power of the lar- ger ones. It would require, rather, the rejection of the technology which since earliest consciousness we are taught to applaud. ” Modern technology, says Galbraith, requires “planning, speciali- zation and organiza tion.” and these re- quire that the market be “superseded,” “controlled” or “suspended.” which is accomplished primarily by monopolistic concentration.

These statements. exuding all the na- tural plausibility of conventional wisdom. are wholly seductive. To offer empiri- cal support for the generalizations seems almost superfluous. Yet the actual empir- ical studies that have been made provide no substantive basis for the thesis that technology requires monopoly-indeed they point strongly in the opposite direc- tion.

Thus. if relatively high concentration

is not technologically justified for single. industry firms, it is hardly justified for the conglomerates, which are made up of randomly acquired companies encom- passing diverse product lines and cate- gories.

For that reason among others, the heads of Litton, like all conglomerate managements, don’t like to admit that they are such an enterprise (although their more than 80 companies operate in 18 distinct industrial categories). Accord- ing to number two man, Roy Ash, Litton’s acquisitions have been in fields where its technological capabilities give it a competitive edge. “In truth,” comments Fortune, “considerable mental agility is required to perceive an impending technological revolution in some of the businesses Litton has bought-e. g., office furniture.”

Office furniture aside, Ash’s claim that Litton’s size facilitates technologi- cal innovation reflects another major technological myth of our age: that the giant corporation is a necessary agent for creating new technologies.

In an authoritative study of 61 “major contemporary inventions,” it was found that only 12 of these could be attributed to the laboratories of large corporations. The jet engine was originated independ- ently in England and Germany by indivi- duals who were unable- to interest the aircraft producers in it (the Englishman even allowed his patent to lapse).

Kodachrome arose from the experi- ments of two musicians, “sometimes working in their kitchen sinks between concerts.” Other examples of products of individual inventors-often working with primitive equipment-were the first computer (ENIAC), air conditioning, the modern self-winding watch (which was rejected by the Swiss watch companies when it was first offered to them), stereo- phonic sound reproduction, the syncro- mesh transmission, neomycin, frequency modulation (FM; it was opposed by RCA) and xerography.

A closer look at the inventions that do come out of the laboratories of the industrial giants should quickly dispel Galbraith’s “perfect instrument” idea. Arthur K. Watson, the head of IBM, the very symbol of modern technology in business. pointed out to an International Congress of Accountants in 1962. “The disk memory unit. the heart of today’s random access computer. is not the logi- cal outcome of a decision made by IBM management. It was developed in one of our laboratories as a bootleg project- over the stern warning from manage- ment that the project had to be dropped because of budget difficulties. A handful

of men ignored the warning. They broke the rules. They risked their jobs to work on a project they believed in.”

Can it be that the supercorporation of the space age is really all that shortsight- ed and tightfisted about seeking new technologies? Private industry does after all spend $9 billion a year on research and development (four per cent on basic research, the rest largely on altering, re- fining, packaging and marketing existing technologies) a And of that, the larger firms, those with more than 5000 employ- ees, certainly carry their share.

Though they make up only three per cent of the companies doing research, they spend 85 per cent of the total. That looks like pretty extravagant entrepren- eurial daring.

Of course this investment in the fut-

ure is made considerably easier for them

by the fact that the government puts up

60 cents of every R&D dollar that private

industry spends. Moreover, two- thirds of

the rest is ultimately charged off as over-

head on government contracts.

So it seems that the real entrepreneur

is the government, who is not only extra’-

ordinarily openhanded about putting up the investment, but agreeably light- hearted about not reaping the profits on

it. So agreeable, in fact, that it goes on

to buy the product that it financed, at a

healthy profit to the surrogate developer.

Like buying the Brooklyn Bridge, this must be looked on as an act of peculiar generosity. It is a game where the roles of politician, general, corporate manager and government official are shifted around so rapidly that an embar- rassed player can even forget if he is to be the donor or the recipient.

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ITTON IS A NEW LORD OF THE CORPORATE REALM: it has

, ascended to an order of nobility that had seemed at the time of

World War II to be virtually closed by a stable system of fiefdoms which ‘each of the major corporations had carved out of the Industrial Revolution, leaving no unclaimed ground on which a new econ- omic power could be built.

For Litton is first of all lord of a newly opened virgin territory. That is to say, Litton is not an industrial pioneer in traditional markets in the sense that one might characterize Polaroid or Xerox, whose spectacular growths have been based on new products which people have found highly useful. Litton is more the master of a “land grant dominion.” dispensed and continuously subsidized by the federal government as part of the unbelievable largesse of the postwar contract state.

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is the military prime “systems” contract, and the region is electronics. A good example is Litton’s contract to design, plan, produce and maintain, in accord- ance with broad requirements, a world- wide fleet of floating military bases.

Since the price of a system not yet designed cannot be fixed in advance, in systems contracting the government in effect agrees to pay the corporation back whatever it spends, plus profits. The prime contractor is expected to turn around and subcontract whatever it can’t do itself and the government ad- vances funds to cover outlays by the contractor. So you don’t really need in- vestment capital or competence to get the job-or the profits.

Obviously it’s nice work if you can get it. But who gets it and how? Since the criteria of cash and competence are con- signed by government contracting pol- icies to roles of distinctly secondary im- portance, the importance of a corpora- tion’s influence in the federal bureau- cracies naturally looms inordinately large.

For a long time, corporate political strategy had its focus on military deci- sion makers, whether generals or civilians. However, as the military budget has become a permanent factor of

.major proportions in the economy as a whole, the ramifications of its spending

policies have grown more and more ex- tensive. From its contract to build the floating base system, for example, Litton gained facilities and expertise- at taxpayers’ expense-which have given it the inside track on the civilian ship- building industry as well. More import- antly, neither military policy nor the

- Defense bureaucracy is divorced from the rest of the national political structure, and the political power gained by the suc- cessful prime contractors in the military field has become an important basis for extending their field of operation to other areas where the federal govern- ment exkrcises responsibility and allo- cates its huge budget.

With an eye to the immense dominions of largesse still to be granted by the sov- ereign power, Litton has been careful to keep its representatives at court and to keep a foot in every available political door. Among its executives and directors are Defense Department secretaries and military generals, highly influential Democrats and equally important Re- publicans, liberal Humphrey supporters and the chief financial backer of Ronald Reagan-in short,, the whole spectrum of legitimized political power (and poten- tial contract dispensation).

With its expansive political network as a foundation, Litton has been in the forefront of the move to extend systems contracting to nonmilitary fields. Litton was the first private contractor to take over responsibility for a War on Poverty Job Corps project and the first corpora- tion to apply the systems approach to the economic development program of an entire geographical region (in Greece), and its distinctive mode of

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operation in these instances provides an ominous portent of things to come. “Litton is a world-wide organization dedi- cated to utilizing the discoveries of mod- ern science by converting them into use, ful goods and services-products that bol- ster the Free World’s vital economic base and defend the inflexible ideal of human freedom.” -from Litton Industries’ annual report to stockholders, 1963

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N APRIL 21, 1967, A SUDDEN coup de’etat in Greece sent a shudder through Europe. The coup, carried out by junior offic-

ers to forestall an impending liberal elec- toral victory, represented a shift so far to the right that the conservative mon- archy was eventually thrown into opposi- tion and the king virtually deposed. The epithet “fascist” was thrown in the face of the regime as it quickly filled the jails with thousands of political prisoners. And for the first time in non-Iberian Europe since World War II, the term rang true.

The governments of Norway and Den- mark immediately tried to have the Greek junta kicked out of NATO, and

-later out of the Council of Europe. Other West European governments signif ied their disapproval but reserved action. Even Washington, whose military and in- telligence agencies were implicated in the coup, held back any immediate support.

Then, three weeks after the overthrow, when the new regime was still unstable and the adverse worldwide reaction held out the possibility that the junta might disintegrate and fall, a gesture of support was made by one of the largest U.S. corporations, one with a reputation for having powerful connections in the White House and the Pentagon.

That corporation was Litton Indus- tries. The gesture was the agreement by Litton to be prime contractor on a “devel- opment” program for Greece.

In keeping with Litton’s usual strategy, the agreement was on a cost-plus basis, with Litton agreeing to procure $840 million in capital for Greece over a 12- year period. In return, the military junta agreed to repay Litton its costs plus 11 percent, plus a commission of about two percent on all capital that Litton succeed- ed in steering to Greece.

For readers whose minds are fixated on the concept of private enterprise as in some sense free or competitive, the significance of this kind of contract might be spelled out once again. Litton itself risks nothing.

Every month Litton files invoices for its costs, and in 15 days it gets back everything it has paid out plus a profit of 11 per cent. As explained by Robert M. Allan Jr., president of Litton Interna- tional Development Corporation and head of Litton’s program in Greece, “The re- turn on investment here, of course, is very large because we don’t have any basic investment. Our real investment is our good name which of course is the most

valuable thing we own.” Litton’s good name (and contacts) were indeed at- tractive assets for the military regime,

Another was Litton’s promotional ex-t pertise, which was promptly directed to the vital task of convincing Americans- particularly very important Americans- of the virtues of iron rule in Athens. The key figure in Litton’s PR work‘ for the junta is Barney Oldfield, Litton Interna- tional’s chief public information officer, who, according to spokesmen for the Greek resistance, runs the pro-junta pro- paganda campaign both in Athens and in the United States. Oldfield, who was an Air Force colonel before going to Litton, got his PR training as chief public information officer for NATO in Europe and has excellent Pentagon and Repub- lican connections.

To the uninitiated, it might seem strange that the former chief PR man for NATO- a military alliance allegedly formed to defend freedom-should suddenly become a salesman for a totalitarian dictatorship in Greece, but Oldfield’s behavior is certainly within the norms laid down by Washington.

Thus on May 17, 1968, a year after the COUP (and a good deal of Litton politicking), Washington softened its atti- tude towards the junta. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford went before the Se- nate Foreign Relations Committee to ask support for an administration pro- posal for $661 million in military aid to the dictatorships of Korea, Turkey, Iran, Taiwan and Greece. Of the latter, Clifford said : “The obligations imposed on us by the NATO alliance are far more important than the kind of government they have in Greece or what we think of it.”

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THORNTON maneuvered be- hind the scenes to build up pres- sure for an eventual resump-

tion of military aid to the Greek regime, the junta’s first real break came with the announcement of a $12.5 million loan from the World Bank. This was the first solid evidence of external financial support for the regime. (After the coup, the European Economic Community- more popularly known. as the Common Market-which had in 1962 made avail- able $125 million in loans to Greece, re- fused the ordinarily automatic extension of time allowed for drawing the funds. Having used less than half of the total, Greece lost a $70 million credit.)

It happens that the World Bank loan was one of the first issued under its new president, Tex Thornton’s old breakfast chum Robert McNamara. So this might look like a classic case of friendly persua- sion. In fact, however, most observers discount Litton’s role.

Ironically it is Litton itself which, rather than issuing demure protestations of innocence, has sought to create the im- pression-among those who don’t already know better-that it was not only res- ponsible for the loan, but that if the Greek junta wants’ any more loans from the World Bank it will have to go through

the Beverly Hills conglomerate. When you are -marketing a reputation for prowess

-and success, Don Juanism can be a valued accusation.

Foreign capital, representing foreign confidence, was obviously a high priority for the Greek junta. One full page ad which the junta ran in the New York Times was headed: “Greece: Ideal Country For Investors. ” The ad underscored the stability of the internal political situa- tion as a major encouragement to invest- ment , in contrast to the turbulent days of Greek democracy.

This was echoed in a speech two months later by Litton’s Robert Allan. .Ac- cording to Allan, there were four basic ingredients of national growth in Lit- ton’s view: capital, know-how, incentive and “stability of environment.” As Allan explained, “If a government will res- train itself from outburst which create long pauses among investors, and potential investors . . . .then we have a working part- nership. ’ ’

Allan’s speech went on to attack such opponents of the Greek junta as actress Melina Mercouri and former Cabinet Minister Andreas Papandreou, who were described as “an aging actress without a play” and “an agitating pro- fessor out of work.” “Their country,” Allan declaimed, “which owes its very existence to soldiers who fought for its survival, they say is now in poor hands because the same men rule it.” (Actually it was the Communist-led guerrillas who liberated Greece in World War II. )

Readers may be wondering if this kind of double-think is reserved by Litton execu- tives for public occasions and formal addresses. Partly to find out, we went down to Beverly Hills to interview Robert Allan, who describes himself as working “for the Greek people.” By the time we spoke to him, several authenticated descriptions of the terror in Greece and the- Torture of political prisoners had already been smuggled out of that country and circulated in the international press. Writing of one of the island prisons five months after the coup, Newsweek observed : “Tradition has i’t that the Em- peror Tiberius, one of the cruelest Roman rulers, refused out of simple humanity to imprison any of his subjects on the tree- less, waterless Aegean island of Yioura. No such scruples, however, inhibit the present military rulers of Greece who, soon after their coup last April, filled Yiou- ra’s cellblocks and tent camps with 6500 of their fellow citizens.”

Alluding to similar reports document- ing the torture of Greek prisoners, Allan went into a monologue right out of 1984 : “I satisfied myself that most of these prisoners in Greece are living on an island, the way you ‘and I’d live on Catalina. They’re free to come and go as they wish: A lot of fresh air and a lot of sunshine, but no communication. It isn’t the way that you and I would like to see something done, but they couldn’t stand any more riots. The whole nation was just going into chaos, and this was their way of answering it. I’ve also tried

to my best ability to determine what went on, and,as far as I could determine, there was no more torture or beatings than they would have in a normal police station anywhere in the world.. . .which, Got knows, none of us like, but do go4 on. ”

The reason that Litton likes the mili- tary junta, as Allan freely admits, is be- cause the junta “‘provided the atmosphere in which things can get done, ” and in particular an atmosphere in which Litton could do them: prior to the coup, the Litton contract had been turned down by several Greek parliaments. The very structure and strategy of Litton as a business enterprise gravitates to ward the military and the state, and toward autho- ritarian regimes. The Litton-Greece con- tract has been followed up by parallel schemes for Portugal and Turkey. In conversation, Allan’s thoughts drift to- ward the dictatorships of Nicaragua, Indonesia and Taiwan, as examples of countries where he’d like to try the “Greek approach.”

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THE STATE is a function of the systems approach, as is the parti- cular preference for the state’s

authoritarian forms. The primary features of the systems

approach are its dependence on state financing and its need to override the sovereignty of the people.

So while one might think that the over- all economic development of Crete and the Western Peloponnesus was the pro- per concern of the people who live in the area and of a representative government of the people, under the Greek-Litton ar- rangement it is Litton who draws up the overall development plan. “In Greece,” explains Tex Thornton, “our objective is not to single out one economic activity, but to apply the systems approach to building a future for that historic nation.”

What specifically did Litton’s space-age systems-oriented management propose

‘for launching Greece out of its morass of poverty and underdevelopment and into the modern era? “Our primary thrust,” Allan explained, “is to’ develop tourism. ”

If tourism were indeed a lever of deve- lopment, rather than one of the chief syndromes of economic dependence and under-development, then the. West Indies, Spain and Greece itself would long ago have become industrial nations. Old-fashioned imperialism begins to look economically progressive compared to what Litton is proposing! The old im- perialists at least dug a mine, built a port (financed by the colony’s taxes) and ran a road or a railway from the mine to the port. What Litton has in mind, accord- ing to one business magazine, are “hotels . .roads leading to hotels, the airport where hotel guests can land, supplies of food and water, handicraft manufacture for

tourist trading posts, no doubt, recreation facilities,” etc. In other words, a Dis- neyland economy with an ample supply of colorful locals to service the pavi- lions and their visitors. Naturally, Lit-

ton’s Stouffer Division will supply the

ho @Is. Perhaps the worst aspect of this is that-

Allan knows Litton’s plan is a bitter pre- scription for the Greeks. In person he will admit that it won’t really meet the long-term needs of the Greek economy. But if there is something offensive about the transformation of the crucible of Western civilization into another Honolulu, then again, worse things could happen. “I don’t approve of it, and I hope Greece won’t have it happen,” Allan said, “but gee, Honolulu in ten years has gone from here to here (raising his hand over his head) as far as volume of input is concerned.”

Ten days after Washington had resumed delivery of major military equipment to Greece, thus offering its imprimatur for the regime and a new guarantee of its stability, Aristotle Onassis announced his own systems approach: a $400 million investment package (the largest ever made in Greece) in tourist facilities, an airport in Athens, an aluminum process- ing plant (in conjunction with Reynolds) with a companion thermo-electric power plant, a shipyard, and an oil refinery which, according to initial reports, would be “bound to make more money than all the action in Las Vegas.” So it seems that for all his private plane trips and brussels sprouts, Tex Thornton may have been out-hustled by a local boy.

If Onassis has upstaged Litton it is not simply on the basis of national soli- darity. The Greek s government finds Onassis important because he deals in the kind of old-line imperial enterprises that are part of the basic economy-he owns one of the world’s great tanker fleets and will soon be producing his own oil.

In contrast, Litton’s major thrust is in advanced technologies and knowledge industries geared to markets in highly developed environments. So all it could really attempt in Greece was to exploit the government without exploiting the economy, and there is just not enough loose money around in the country to sustain such an arrangement. The oppor- tunities of underdevelopment were entic- ing, but Litton was ill-equipped to profit from them.

The perfect situation for Litton would be an underdeveloped area with an overdeveloped government which would be less discerning about results than the colonels. An impossible dream?

/Not at all. Litton had already found it- at home.

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That is the philosophy of “education” held by John H. Rubel, vice president of Litton’s Economic Development Division, as expressed in a letter to Sargent Shriver. Rubel, formerly assistant secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara, is credited with having convinced Shriver to award Job Corps contracts_. to private enterprise rather than strictly to educa- tional institutions. Of course, it was only fair that Litton should get one of the first contracts: the Parks Job Corps Cen- ter in Pleasanton, California.

Litton’s predictably titled Educational Systems Division includes many valuable properties, such as the American Book, D. Van Nostrand and Chapman-Reinhold publishing companies. They also serve as program administrators for Oakland Community College in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Its most important enterprise, however, is the Parks Center, because the Job Corps is the opening wedge for Litton’s entrance into the potential trea- sure houses of social welfare and educa- tion.

Litton’s public relations department celebrates the Parks Job Corps camp as a free enterprise success story. Recently, Parks placed its 500th “graduate” in a job; the center had thus placed more of its graduates than any other Job Corps camp in the country. Of course, the PR men neglect to mention that the number one “employer,” accounting for roughly 40 per cent of Parks’ graduates, is the U.S. military.

Litton administrators consider Viet-Narr a highly desirable placement for their pre- dominantly black corpsmen. The waiting room of the placement office, where each graduate of the nine-month course goes to inquire about future employment, is plastered with posters urging, nonde- nominationally, enlistment in the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. A life-size cardboard cutout of a sharp looking black soldier salutes the graduate . as he steps in the door. Piles of brochures in- vite him to learn “The Secret of Getting Ahead in Today’s Action Army.” And lest the message be forgotten, on the way out a flashing sign reminds him: DESIRABLE LOCATION-YOUR U.S. ARMY-TRAINING GUARANTEED WITH BIG BUSINESS-YOUR CHOICE OF SCHOOLS-STEADY ADVANCE- MENT.

Of course where enticement fails, there is always induction. Every week an IBM print-out announces the names of those at the Parks Center who have turned eighteen. Each one must then register for the draft with a Litton em- ployee, conveniently certified by the local Hayward board.

Upon graduation, Litton notifies the corpsman’s draft board of his new edu- cational achievements. (Litton arranges for the majority of its enrollees at Parks to receive a high school equivalency dip- loma, which makes those who had been deferred due to low scores on the Army

mental aptitude exam eligible for retest- ing.) Al Cassell, the head of placement at the Parks Center, explained: “We get draft notices by the hundreds every day. We furnish the draft board with in- formation relative to the training level achieved by the young man.... We take him to Hayward and have him restested . . ..If he passes.. . . the Hayward testing center notifies his local board, and they in turn will usually draft him.”

Even if the corpsman does not improve his score on the test, his new high school diploma might well make him elig- ible for induction. At one time, in a kind of reciprocal trade arrangement, Litton kept a Job Corps recruiter at the fre- quently embattled Oakland Induction Center in California. Many ineligible draftees, led to believe that they would become qualified for a high paying job in industry, enrolled in the program only to find themselves returned full circle at the end of the course. Two serg- eants from Hayward go out to the Parks Job Corps Center every day. No other prospective employers have permanent recruiters there.

ERNON ALDEN, PRESIDENT OF OHIO UNIVERSITY, envi-

I sioned the Job Corps as a place thaf would “offer a new environment where hopes can be lifted and skills developed free from the shackles of

oppressive and antagonistic surround- ings.” So much for visions.

Litton’s Job Corps center, located on an unused Navy base, is surrounded by a barbed wire fence with checkpoints manned by Litton-employed guards. The 2000 corpsmen sleep in open bay Army barracks, wear green uniforms, march to their meals at the mess hall, and are .hauled off to the brig when they misbehave. The young men arriving at Parks are not exactly prepared for such an environment. Most of them have been signed up by the Litton recruiters who are stationed throughout the poverty areas of the nation advertising the wealth of opportunity in California. Since Litton’s ’ contract with the Office of Economic Opportunity ‘( OEO) depends on a suf- ficient number of enrollees, the recruiters use every possible means to lure them. Of course, they give the standard come-on: training for a good-paying job, the equi- valent of a high school diploma, $30 -a-month spending money, a $50-a-month bonus upon-graduation for time completed. and a chance to get away from home. There is also exotic talk of pools and girls, private rooms with TVs-even draft deferments!

If getting them there is half the bat- tle for Litton, keeping them there is the other half. When a new enrollee decides that life was better back home, even though home may have been a decaying urban slum, his request to leave is met with hostility by Litton officials. He is

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told that he cannot leave for at least 90 days for any reason other than a death in the immediate family. Moreover, if he wants to quit at any time prior to the end of his nine-month course, he must pay his own way home, often halfway across the country.

Those who protest this policy too loudly are “quieted” by muscular counselors or hauled off to the brig. Some become desperate. A psychiatric social worker at Parks reported that he had been assigned to work with a young boy from Dallas, Texas, who had sliced his arm open in an attempt to get out. But even with all of Litton’s tenacity, 55 per cent drop out before the end of the course.

Justice at Camp Parks is supposed to be administered by a- Center Review Board (CRB) comprised of corpsmen and Litton people. But by disciplinary counselor Lindsay Johnson’s own admis- sion, the board is his rubber stamp: “I have a good working relationship with the CRB,” he notes. “They do whatever I tell them to.”

If the physical surroundings at the Parks Center are grim and the general atmos- phere intimidating, the educational operation is laughable. The Basic Educa- tion program is intended to bring the corpsman’s reading and arithmetic skills up to a level appropriate to the specific job skills in which he is to be trained.

The curriculum materials for the read- ing course, developed by Litton, are somewhat unusual. The pretest, which determines the student’s reading level before he takes the course, and the post- test, which determines his level upon completion of the course, are identical. In addition, the actual teaching materials used during the course and those used to measure any improvement contain the same text and exercises as do the pre- test and post-test.

Of course, this setup merely passes off the repeatedly coached memorization of a particular passage as the ability to read. But schemes like this enable Litton to present impressive statistical evidence “documenting” their expertise in educa- ting underprivileged youth-a cruel but profitable joke. When a Parks teacher complained that all the enrollees were only learning how to improve their scores on one particular test, the head of Litton’s curriculum development at Parks replied, “We’re not doing anything here that college fraternities don’t do for their members. ” True enough. Still, no college fraternity has yet been awarded a $25 million government contract to educate ghetto youth.

Aside from such relatively subtle decep- tions, there is doubt about the simple ’ veracity of the figures used in the statis- tics Litton has put out about Parks. Ac- cording to Professor William Austin, former president of the Parks Federation of Teachers and Counselors, “Public re- lations officers kept putting out fake figures.. ..One would hear about this number of corpsmen being placed in job positions and this number of corpsmen

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demonstrating academic success by vari- ous grade levels.. . . All of it was nonsense.. . There was so much pressure on supervi- sors to produce figures that in general people just faked them....Fifty per cent or more of the corpsmen didn’t make it to class . . . .if a corpsman quit after having completed just one module out of 15 in the total training, he would be considered a ‘graduate.’ ” Austin feels that educating the corps- men is not Litton’s primary concern. “The corpsmen didn’t mean a damn thing,” Austin reported. “There was a lot of very expensive equipment around which nobody had any idea how to use....”

LONG WITH ITS DISPLAY OF EDUCATIONAL INGENUITY in the management of the Job Corps Center, Litton has exhi-

bited those lucrative skills which have made it a leader among defense con- tractors. It subcontracts to its own divi- sions as a means of maximizing profits

while minimizing service. Litton originally received from OEO a $12.8 million cost- plus contract with a fixed but redetermin- able fee for running the Job Corps Center. It then decided to buy unneces- sary textbooks from the American Book Publishing Company, a member of Litton Education1 Systems.

A General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation later showed that $337,000 worth of American Book Publishing Company textbooks lines closet shelves at Parks. According to a copyrighted story in the Denver Post, “Among the books it bought for Job Corpsmen, many of whom could barely read, were text- books on the theory of relativity, the stock market and the slide rule.”

Given what is known about Parks, it is not surprising that a great deal of racism is exhibited there. One new em- ployee, upon arriving at the gate, was met by a guard who hailed him with, “So you’re another one coming out here to help these dumb niggers.”

But far more unnerving was the sur- realistic scene-straight out of Invisible Man-when a Litton executive flew over Parks in his private plane dropping dollar bills to the corpsmen assembled below. Litton officials amused themselves by watching the young men trample each other in a frantic effort to grab the money. A former Litton employee re- marked that the object of the “airlift” was to “see how fast the niggers could run.”

Litton, in keeping with a gentle- man’s agreement with officials of the semi-suburban towns near Camp Parks, has forbidden corpsmen to enter them. Young men from the Parks Center have reported that whenever they ventured into one of the neighboring communities, they were returned to Parks by local police, although they had created no disturbances. Litton’s idea of community relations is to keep the cages locked during the week and to bus the corpsmen on weekends to “hospitality houses” in

the nearby cities of San Francisco and Oakland.

According to Professor Austin, living conditions and sanitary facilities at Parks were at times worse than those in the big city ghettos the corpsmen came from. At one point, hygiene conditions in the

dormitories were so bad that Austin approached public health people at the University of California to ask what could be done. The answer seemed to be “nothing,” because the center was located on a military base leased to a private company, and no one knew if county health officials had any right to enter the base.

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F LITTON WAS RUNNING PARKS SO POORLY, why didn’t the govern-

ment step in and enforce its con- tract? The answer is that I in

the spring of 1967, the OEO did try to en- force part of its contract with Litton. The teachers union at Parks had been refused a room Co meet in at the center after working hours, a denial which violated both the National Labor Relations Act and Job Corps bulletin 67-12.

Despite the intervention of W. P. Kelly, a director of the Job Corps; Richard Groulx, an executive of the Alameda County Central Labor Council; and sev- eral arbitrators from the OEO office in Washington, Litton was able not only to refuse to meet with anyone, but also to fire the president, two vice presidents and the secretary-treasurer of the teachers union for “disloyalty to the company.” The last OEO arbitrator, Hyman Book- binder, commented to Groulx and union officials that the OEO was unable to enforce the terms of its contract with Litton.

During the teachers’ strike at Parks that resulted from Litton’s action, Senators Robert Kennedy, Joseph Clark and George Murphy of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty, were in San Francisco on a nationwide tour of the Poverty Program. The senators curiously reversed their original plan to visit Parks, and showed no interest in discussing the situation there with Parks teachers and corpsmen. Cynics said it was possibly because Litton was one of the largest contributors to the Demo- cratic Party, of which Kennedy and Clark were members.

Companies like Litton are planning to subcontract a city’s complete school system, claiming to be able to meet whatever contractual standards are set more “efficiently” than local school boards could. This will be a tempting offer to the often hard-pressed, bewildered city officials whose school systems have been bogged down by almost total im- potence. And for the community, dumping the whole complex educational crisis into the lap of Litton’s “experts“ would seem a blessed relief.

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planting government has going for it.

As government social agencies struggle for funds, the Wall Street Journal reports that, “Business is turning into an im- portant force for pushing embattled domestic proposals through Congress.” And an executive of the Department of Housing and Urban Development-whose special advisor, General Bernard Adolph Schriever, is called the “space general” for his role in NASA-is quoted as saying : “Each agency has gradually de- veloped a list of firms interested in its field.. .we don’t keep them turned on all the time, but we know how to turn them on....”

Among the businessmen who are throw- ing their support behind constructive social welfare programs isJames J. Ling, mastermind of Ling-Temco-Vought, which ranks 38th in Fortune magazine’s 1968 listings, six notches ahead of Litton. A recent interview with Ling in the Chicago Tribune indicates the perspective of one of the most important new men of conglo- merate power. If and when L-T-V reaches a point where it absorbs the competi- tion or where it is number one on For- tune’s list. reports the Tribune, Ling would be willing to consider a political role for himself.

Ling usually votes Republican, though he contributed to the Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey campaigns and was a delegate to this year’s Democratic con- vention. He doubts that he had the tem- perament to obtain elective office, but he might accept a cabinet post, preferably as secretary of Defense or secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Ling’s ideas on the latter position are described by the Tribune as “interesting. ” And so they are. Says Ling : “Once you make a taxpayer of these hard-core unemplo y- ables, you’re moving towards a solution. It’s the old Hitler solution. You teach them by force. You make it mandatory and send them to a government com- pound. Males at twenty-one, females at eighteen. hygiene,

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Corporations like L-T-V. and Litton ln- dustries are feeding the whole range of social problems into their computers. Will they be the ones called upon to solve them? It may be that there are just enough people who will take comfort in

the idea that however bad things look, Big Brother is already there extending a helping hand.

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And again, it was cleared of its occupants by city police.

The office, room 130 of the physics building and once Strax’s office, was seized by 11 students at 7:30 pm. They nailed the door shut behind them and said they would stay until the UNB administration accepted three de- mands set by the Canadian Asso- ciation of University Teachers last week.

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The students who occupied monday night said they wanted to ensure that everyone on campus was aware of the CAUT threat.

Strax was suspended after leading a campus protest against the use of ID cards at UNB. The students who occupied Liberation 130 for seven weeks in the fall were finally evicted by police and were arrested but charges against them were later dropped.

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He had a conviction-a conviction that God had given him a work to do, and that he must finish that work. He knew that he must, fulfil the very things he taught, and he was certain that his life would be a failure unless he was willing to die for his belief.

He believed that God had empowered him to do good to people and so he taught the goodness of God. There was power in his utterance, and a conviction that made the teaching people usually heard pale and lifeless. He gave himself, and the strong, radiant character shone forth in his teaching. He spoke to people of the love of God and the life of His Kingdom, and told them of the demands it made of all those who res- ponded to the call.

His hearers must have been elevated far above the constricted limits of their narrow lives, they must had visions of a beauty and a pur- pose they had never dreamed of, they must have seen something of the men and women it was possible for them to become. And the vision - was given reality as they looked up at the face of one whose life was uncompromisingly dedicated to God.

And once when he was teaching like this, a man, crazed by the impact of the words, leaped out from the audience screaming,

“What do you want with us! Are you here to destroy us!” A deathly silence followed, broken only by the fitful sobs of the exhausted man.. . . What could Jesus say ? the man was obviously demented; it would have been sufficient to bid the demoniac to be quiet, but this man of God wanted to do much more than that. Free him from his diseased mind!-that’s the thing to do.

“Come out of him” was the command. Now it would have been very embarrassing if nothing had happened. Jesus would have been a fool if the demoniac was not healed. Yet not for a moment did he doubt that his God would act!. . . and the man was healed.

Men who speak and do such things do not go unnoticed. His teaching of the kingdom of God was no less than a bold and uncompromising de- mand for a complete change and cleansing of the life of our struggling race: an utter cleansing without and within. His stories pictured some- thing irrepresibly on the move, up against incredible odds, but moving on undaunted. Whatever it was Jesus was talking about, it is something big, something dynamic, somthing magnificent. It is an adventure and either you are in it or you are out of it. It is a case of all or nothing. And it is to this all or nothing life that everyone who follows Jesus is called.

He had chosen twelve men as companions, and wanted to teach them in quietness. So he took them privately in a boat across the lake to a desert beyond Bethsaida. But the multitude watched the course of the boat and, divining its destination, thousands set out on foot round the northern shore, undertaking a journey of some eight or nine miles, so that they might be with him. The purpose to be with his disciple alone was thwarted. But as he watched the crowds, tired from their long walk, leading their blind, carrying their sick, moving slowly, their faces and their steps turned toward him, he had compassion. Like sheep need- ing a shepherd. So he forgot himself, and healed and taught once more.

As the day wore on, a problem arose. There were well over five thousand people out here in the desert; they had arrived weary early in the day and were now tired, hungry, and miles from home. They had come to be healed, they had come to listen, they had come to believe. They were looking at him, waiting, watching, wanting . . . could he send them away like that ??. ..It had happened before. God had brought a people out into a wilderness before and fed them! Jesus believed that. And he knew that it could happen again. But over five thousand men and women, and only five loaves and two fish?? What could he do? He thank- ed his God for answering his faith. Jesus had said that God was a Father who cared, and here He was, feeding his children in the desert.

A feat like this was not done for the spectacular, it sprang out of a need -when people are hungry you feed them. So after he had sent both the crowd and the disciples away, Jesus was faced with a need. He had remained to pray to his Father, but now he must catch up with his disciples. But they had gone in the only boat. To swim after them would be useless, and to walk around would take too long. So he walked out over the lake. Simple as that. Simple? Walk on water! No, it wasn’t simple, it was faith.

He would have walked right by the boat if they hadn’t seen him, As said before, he didn’t display his extraordinary power without cause. But the disciples cried out with fear, so he stopped.

“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” And then a remarkable thing happened. Peter answered him, “Lord,

if it’s really you, order me twome out on the water to you.” “Come! ” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus

See what happened? The faith of Jesus had been implanted in another man! Peter could do the very thing that Jesus was doing. Alas, Peter had but little faith. He began to sink and Jesus had to save him from his doubt. But for a moment it was there. Peter had been transformed into another person, a person who lived by faith, a person who lived like Jesus.

This is conviction’s conquest-when Jesus creates a man like himself.

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T he revolutionaries today would like us to believe that nothing is good for our chil-

~ dren. The frightening thing about all this is that it is true.

Take, for <example, Lord Baden Powell’s gang the Boy Scouts of the world, a fraternal organiza- tion for building men although this task never did seem too diffi- cult to us as they are all boys to begin with.

All boys start out as cubs. On the surface what could be more inno- cent >than sending little Herbie off to the church on the corner in his cute little green uniform. However, the rights and rituals that mommy and daddy are excluded from are enough to upset even Pierre Tru- deau’s sense of decency.

The first indignity is the Grand Howl. The kids all form a circle and humble themselves to the al- mighty Akela-usually a rotund middle-aged man with a leering grin and hairy knees. His back- ground invariably includes boy’s club work, spending time as a big brother and other such ne- farious, and questionable activi- ties.

More often than not he has been cut from the local Kiwanis club for continually suggesting square dancing as after luncheon recreation.

The boys are all schooled in the folklore of Rudyard Kipling. They mold their lives after the fashion of a child laboring under delusions that he can talk to ani- mals. To top this off, his penchant for bestiality cannot be overlooked by even the most liberal among us.

The boys are taught highly spec- ialized skills useful for survival in

’ today’s world: knot tying, axman- ship, and first aid, all of which would be indispensable in case our Indians try to leave the reserva- tion. It always pays to know where you’re at in a tomahawk fight. Barring this eventuality, they can always be sent to Vietnam to build lean-tos and render first aid to the survivors of U.S., village born b- ings.

The elitist system is obvious. By passing a few simple tests each kid receives his first star and is said to have one eye open. And if he is really good and doesn’t see anything with the one eye he wins his second star and finally

has both eyes open and proceeds directly to the nearest brownie.

But Herbie our hero, has also been shackled with glaring yellow stripes which invariably ruin his chances in those dubious semi- dark hiding games.

* * * An Akela who wants to avoid

connections with the opposite sex at all costs will intercept this intre- pid young cub and channe’l his en- eKlY into the ultimate fun of puberty, the Boy Scouts.

So Herbie sheds his silly hat and his silly shorts and adorns himself in a mature hat and mature shorts. Mature, but still .silly.

The boys cast aside animalistic euphemisms, demote their leaders and substitute the more truly des- criptive term scout master. They divide into patrols and submit to the discipline of an appointed pa- trol leader. The elite are denoted by judicious use of insignia, quite similar to the Ku Klux Klan, the Canadian armed forces and Jolly Jingle men.

Uniforms are very represen- tive here also. As Herb (no longer Herbie) progresses through the development program, he sup- posedly improves. Is he rewarded by these changes? No! He is soon tied down with a Bushman’s Thong, a Gold Cord and other ties that ,bind, meant apparently to prepare him for income tax days when he will be taught that it is far too expensive to succeed.

* * * Now we come to the crux of the

-matter. Upon completion of a my- stical investiture, Herbie is offi- cially made a Boy Scout when he is presented with a wooden staff. First we should look at L. B.P.‘s book Rovering to Suc- cess or (Pimping for Fun and Profit) as it is known to the Girl Guides.

Here the boy reads that “there are certain parts of your body that a good boy scout does not touch”. Obviously the reference is not to nose picking.

The leaders know that if you’re going to keep Herbie satisfied with himself you’re going to have to substitute something. The obv- ious choice: a wooden staff.

Scouts are encouraged to paint and decorate their staffs to denote which particular clique they be- long to.

And they do so many interesting things with their sticks : they build stretchers and bridges, en- gage in friendly combat and make kindling-not to. mention the obvious.

Now, actually, this whole prob- lem could be relieved (pardon the pun) if the two movements, boy scouts and girl guides were united to form a group similar in struc- ture to the three Musketeers (all for one, free for all).

But now we come to the kicker. To quote the only truly reliable source, the life work of that great poetic genius King James, the Wholey Complete Bible.

In his oft-quoted sermon on the mount Jesus Christ was heard to say (as reported in Luke 9:3).

“Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread neither money”.

Anyone knows that when pre- paring for a Scout camping trip food and money are prime con- cerns. What is worse, an extra sup- ply of staves (staffs?) is laid on, in order to demonstrate the troop’s proficiency at the afore-mention- ed bridge and stretcher building, friendly combat, and various other goody scouty activities.

These “trips” are obviously a front for pseudo-military training of Canada’s youngest guerilla force, for any farmer can tell you of deliberate crop destruction, livestock losses, and ’ property damages in fences, sheds and mail- boxes. 1

All over the countryside the motto rings in Young chorus, “TAKE-but dent get caught.”

What could be in more complete opposition to the teachings of Christ. Here we have on one hand a fun group of boys held together by the fact that they all wear shorts and make fire by rubbing sticks together, led by a group of nice men whose motives are at best questionable. On the other we have a well trained force armed with jacknives and sacrileg- ious staves (staffs) moving about the countryside in well-coordinated manouvers called hiking.

And what about the demoraliza- tion of the youngsters? Begging for old newspapers is not what we would call honorable.

Powell’s capitalist tendencies really come through on Apple Day. Great swarms of soon-to-be-

diarrhetic boys spread out over the neighborhood selling apples. Before they go, they are thorough- ly briefed in the advantages of In- fantile Extortion: the best methods of milk the public of all the money they can through the Selling Smile. .

* * * The problem then, is how we

clean up this organization. We could send a group of our

RSM members to every scout meeting to explain to the boys what is being done to their minds, but this is a highly impractical suggestion as the RSM may be so impressed by the rigid struc- tures that they may adopt them to save their faltering hold on the campus radicals.

Or we could convince the IWW followers that cubs, brownies, scouts and guides are blatant ex- amples of guild unionism. The Wobblies could bust up the meet- ings and join the kids into one big co-educational hiking union.

For real militant action we could send our branch of the I.V.C.F. armed with the knowledge exposed earlier in the article. The campus Christians should see it as their moral duty to society to smash the boy scouts.

However all the above suggest- ions must be ruled out. They are all a form of confrontation and we all know that confrontation at Waterloo is a dead issue. We must gt all cost use proper channels.

So, with this in mind we are _ sending the following suggestions to the National Scouting Associa- ’ tion office in Ottawa, my member of parliament, and the Pope:

1. A more conscientous effort must be put forth to recruit female leaders. If the Akelas and such are going to have designs on their troops’ little bodies they should be at least semi-respectable.

2. The use of staves (Staffs?)

must be abolished. As a more ap- propriate crutch in the face of mor- al frustration may I suggest a pic- ture of Pierre Elloit Trudeau be placed inside each and every scout hat. . 3. Finally, proficiency badges 3 for knot trying, first aid, wood- manship and the like should be replaced with skills more appro- priate to life today-money lend- ing, general intolerance and spec- ialized subservience.

Happy Scouting!

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Theater i CUDL festival offered some

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of country’s best theater at King & Weber Harvey’s l . .

by Peter Moore , tive technique provided a high On Saturday night the Univer- Chevron staff degree of theatricality. sity of Ottawa presented an orig-

Uniwat theater-goers once again The University of Victoria then inal script The Circus, which had proved consistent in their lack of presented an original script, which it been in competition could have attendance and interest in the proved to be a competent effort; carried off the honours. Everyone realm of culture. This year’s ,but a very cliche script. An at- on this campus could well afford Canadian University Drama Lea- tempt was made to juxtapose cari- to see it. The Ryerson entry closed gue Festival offered some of the cature and reality and it didn’t the festival with Chamber Music

best theater to be seen at any work. However, the student author a good show but very much lack- level in the country. It is a revela- did present a rather brilliant and ing in depth. Few of the actors tion, no doubt, to announce that frightening idea that assassina- were able to present strong char- the Uniwat entry won the compe- tion is a highly functional thing acters. tition, along with the entry from in that it gives far more pleasure The festival was a marked suc- Carleton. to people than it gives pain. cess for the organizers, who were

The plays presented covered Friday night saw Western pre- laboring under extreme financial a wide spectrum of social com- sent a very original and well done difficulties. It is unfortunate the merit, from the Theater of futility interpretation of Beckett’s Act actors were forced to work with in Samuel Beckett to a classical Without Words, one of the high inadequate facilities apart from kaleidescope of human nature in points in the festival.. It was follow- a lack of audience. The theater Georg Buckner. ed by a well acted and rather class- lighting was extremely poor. It is

Carleton’s winning play, directed ical version of Buckner’s Woyzek. possible to light that stage proper- Then,lreat yourself to a chat with

by Robert Handforth was the first Unfortunately the lack of contin- ly, but the creative arts office has Dr. Howard Petch,Vice President (Academic) production of the festival. It was uity in the rapid scene changes left yet to permit someone to do it. the first part of Jean-Claude the production too confused, when It is a simple case of resetting pre- Ittalie’s trilogy America Hur- it might otherwise be considered sent lights. The importance of such rah, interview. one of the best in the Festival. festivals to the betterment of

To quote Walter Massey, “It is a Uniwat then presented The Lov- Canadian drama cannot be over- comment; artistic only insofar as e/jest Afternoon of the year and stated. It is too bad that the men- how that comment is made, but Pat Connor and Paul Frappier tality of the university and twin not necessarily a theatrical play.” proved brilliant and tremendously cities cannot cope with a bit of However, there is always more funny. This winning play seemed a culture, and so long as that situa- than one way to do a play and trite script beside interview but tion remains we will see little Handfor th’s imaginative direction the competence of the production more of such excellence as this Art Students and excellent use of the orchestra- made up the difference. festival had to offer.

Well, Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Sob. All I got was my Chevron. Sob. Not one of all my “friends“ dared send me one single indication of their normally surging desire. They must have amal- gamated into the One Big Union, only not with yours truly this time. N’ery my editor, nor the edi- torial board, nor Great Groundsow had the nerve to suggest any amourizational inclinations to the one who knows all (me).

I do feel. however, that it would be sacrilegious, for all you sexually excitable young men to send me Easter cards. Nor is that time a holiday for pot- heads. How could anyone even suggest such things. Even Joanzy wouldn’t think of anything that bad. She would only capitalize on the idea afterwards and . . . . did I say Capitalize? Oh curse my tongue! How did it slip twixt my liberated lips?

I hope you’re all sending in just oodles of Time

subscription cards complete with the most imagina- tive names you can think of. Like John Buhrgsmah, Che Vron and other occupants of box 252 in the campus center. Lets give all these solicitors some tough competition, girls. We know what our uniwat men really need, and what they can afford.

Have you noticed all the poor perverted people sitting around the campus center sucking pop cans, sucking milk shake straws, sucking cigarettes,

/pipes. mouthing hot dogs, french fries, and general-

ly satisfying their mouths? So have I. and I don’t know what to say about it.

The jock clique has told me they don’t have room for any books in there, so we should all put on our shirts and ties and stop complaining about. tneir lousy library. Who’d want to go wading in the lousy books we’re stuck with in the Dana Porter book center, anyway? Are we all wet? Are we in over our heads? What will our dear federation of students do? Will they do anything about the short- ages? No. They will give their president a raise and buy rocking chairs for the impending long line of presidents as they wither away into the great cloud in the sky.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my friends who used me as a write-in candidate in the recent elections. I feel, however, that more than two votes are required in order for me to make the coup a success. Keep up the good work.

I am looking forward to the new council so I can get some more funny material. I can’t laugh at or make fun of our federation president for more than ten or twenty weeks anyhow, unless he continues a- long his present non-lines. How do leaders lead from the middle, anyway? I thought the word, “leader” implied something along the lines of leading. Least that’s what Parson Brown says, and remember he’s got the inside track. /

Bridge experts advise for charity by Wayne Smith 1 Chevron staff

On january 27. an international fund game was held at bridge clubs throughout North America. The hands for. the game were prey dealt by a computer and played simultaneously at all the clubs playing. The funds raised by this game are used to send teams rep- resenting Canada and U.S. to world competition.

At the end of the game, a print- ed sheet of the hands with an analy- sis was given out to the players. This analysis was prepared by a panel of experts who comment on the bidding and play of each hand. After the game. players compared their results with those of experts to determine where mistakes were made.

The following is one of the hands from this game.

Dealer North: N-S vulnerable.

North S K,J,10,2 H J,6,3

West D5 East S Q.9.7.4 c AKQ,J,g s A,$$ H lo,9 H K,5,2 D Q,J,8,2 D 10,6 c 10,5,3 c 8,7.6,4,2

South s 5.3 H A.Q.8.7.4 D A,K,9,7,4,3

N E S W 1C P 1D P 1s P 2H P 3C P 3H P 4H P P P

Opening lead; 4 of Spades. The following is the analysis

offered by the panel of experts. “Most pairs will conduct a sen-

sible action such as above, but a few pairs might climb all the way to slam, which could produce

a very bad or very good score depending on how well declarer guesses the distribution. Actually, the percentage play yields twelve tricks almost automatically, re- gardless of what North leads.

With a spade lead East wins the ten with the Ace of spades and re- turns a diamond. Declarer enters dummy with a spade to the jack, plays a heart to the queen, and when the nine drops, re-enters dum- my with a diamond ruff, discards the losing diamonds on the high black cards, and finally pins the ten of hearts by leading the jack to pick the trump suit up with no losers. ” The next time this type of game is to be held will be on march 21, when the funds raised will be donated to charity.

All bridge players are welcome to play duplicate bridge every Tuesday night in the SS lounge for only 75 cents at 7pm sharp.

All Arts undergraduates who plan to take either a General or an Honours B.A. at the May, 1969 Convocation should fill out a

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form as soon as possible and deposit the completed form with their depart- mental office. The forms are available in the departmental offices as well as in the Dean of Arts office and the Reg- istrar’s office and at Renison and St. Jerome’s Colleges.

The purpose of the form is to make certain that under the course - system, the list of Arts graduates is complete.

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jUIug.us beyond audience- grasp The Magus means magician.

And like Prosper the magician of William Shakespeare’s Tem- pest he teaches Caliban a lesson. Except there is a little difference between John Fowles screenplay and Shakespeare’s script. The en- tire story is seen through the eyes of the pupil, a character we all too easily identify with. Caine himself says : “I am a child of my century. ” And like his confede- rates he has become immoral, self-centered and slightly villain- ous:’ in short he is a heel.

It is quite evident that Fowles wrote the story as a lesson for the young: the lesson being the

great difference between pure love and sexual, physical desire. The YOUW, in their self centered, existentialistic existence refuse, or find it all to difficult, as Urth (Caine) did to comprehend this lesson. They find it impossible to see that there is more to life than simple thrills to turn one on.

The story starts with Urth

leaving his mate for a job on a beautiful Greek isle. There he meets Consion, a powerful, con- fusing man who is to become his teacher. At first Consion appears to-be holding Urth in his grasp like the Cyclopes or Mr. Charlie. But by the end, after a number of enriching experiences, Urth realizes, or comes close to realize, that Consion has cap- tured him for a definite, helpful purpose.

The entire story seems to ap- pear as a game of chess. Many times the characters take on the appearance of dehumanized ma- chines that play out their part before Urth for some symbolic meaning. And many times the movement of the story con- fuses the audience.

Symbolism runs rampant. A smiling statue represents the cycle found in most literature. A flower incased in glass appears also at the start and finish of the

-movie. Only at the end does Urth

know what it means-a renewed, real love between himself and the mate he betrayed. And that glass flower reminds him that there is a meaningful center to all things, like the womb of a mother.

I feel defenceless. Much of the symbolism, and much of the movie’s meaning escaped me. Because, like many other movie goers I find I am not as literate as I once thought myself.

Many of the audience left the theater with the feeling of con- fusion and betrayal. Imagine being fooled into seeing this movie, and having it turn out to be something too deep to completely and easily comprehend. It was not just an- other sex romp. And if I knew the entire meaning of the film I still would not tell it, in order to make it easier for everyone. One must see the movie for oneself to see just how different and difficult it is to use imagination and de- ductive reasoning.

j-TTheater by Brenda Wilson Chevron staff

Fratti’s Che puzzling play Mario Fratti’s play, Che Gue-

vara presented on sunday night in the arts theater may leave you puzzled but certainly not indiffe- rent.

The Toronto Workshop pror duction of the revolutionary play never for a moment lets the audience escape the nowness of Fratti’s message.

Opening to the frenzied dancing of the revolutionaries, director George Luscombe led his com- pany into the hard driving NOW analogy of the revolution.

The musical score was entirely rock, used not only as a filler between scenes but as a drama- tic effect in the violent scenes. Some of the music, stolen from the Beatles latest effort was often less than appropriate but the only choice for the dancing exhibited by the guerillas.

This part of the play could perhaps have been left out without. damaging’ the remainder too severely but the purpose in the modern choreography was sup- posedly to keep the today feeling of the revolution.

The sparse use of scenery, real- istically portrayed the darkness of the Bolivian jungle. Orange crates, and hanging ropes created an atmosphere which a more elaborate setting could never have done. Complementing the props were the excellent lighting effects throughout the entire play.

The actors on several occasions “invaded” the audience creating an even more intimate feeling between the actors and their view- ers. At times the performers directly addressed the audience recounting short anecdotes and quotes from famous and in- famous people which contributed to the feeling and message of the play. ’

Exactly what the message was is uncertain. Fratti made clear the idea that the revolution was great as well as necessary but failed to denote whether this was his own idea or Guevara’s. He relied on the diary of Guevara for much of his information but the character of Che seems to be completely his own, since inany of the details surrounding Gue-

vara’s revolutionary activities and more personal thoughts are un- known.

‘Whether Fratti meant, it to happen or not, Che comes off as a somewhat confused character torn between his wish for a nor- mal life with a family and his dedication to freedom and revolu- tion. At times he was a likeable, fatherly man, at other times a proud individual who would tole- rate no help from any political faction in his personal revolution. Cedric Smith brought out this confusion quite expertly again whether by accident or design is unknown. There was definitely portrayed a struggle within the man which if nothing else, kept him extremely human.

Although performances among the supporting cast were adequate but not outstanding, the play came off well as a group effort, finely coordinated by Luscombe.

The. play itself was socially significant and entertaining, the

, staging p,rofessional and the acting company competent. It could very ‘well be the best play of the year.

Fratti’s Che Chevara portrayed a struggle within the man whichkept Che human.

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T he drawings you see on these pages and if this is the case, savings realized in site are the result of a recent student hous- acquisition could be reflected in lower capital ing study conducted at the University costs and more durable buildings. of Toronto which came to the not-too- * Because variety is highly demanded, all

surprising conclusion that modern students units should be designed for variable densities i are not happy with accommodation suited more and a mixture of uses, including_ single stud- to the living styles of medieval monks than to ents, married, graduate, !undergraduate and them. racaurry.

For _ universities, bound by our society’s * Students’ desire tc 3 determine the quality time-worn and archane philosophy that people of their own environment could be turned into must be approved by the granting of degrees, capital and replacement savings on furniture still assume student adolescents require de- by initiating a “furniture bank” offered on a

pendency. rental basis, thus giving each student the op- Specifically, as far as residences are con- tion of using his own used or rented furniture.

cerned, administrations’ pa tronizing attitude It was found in the study that consideration manifests itself. in clinging to uncaring design of these factors resulted in a possible 30% and _ ancient authoritarian symbols such as rental savings to students: wardens and dons. Further savings would be facilitated by

Although it was found most students are dis- containing all support facilities (including enchanted, the most lucid criticism comes shops) within the building and by utilising from the “‘radical” minorities, whose consist- CMHS full 50-year mortgage option. ent, unifying demand is for student control So while Uniwat busies itself constructing over the living and learning environments at Habitat- an epistle to stereotyped, 7940 resi- university. dence design -models like this one are going

Studies such as the one presented here- unheeded. detailed fully in the february issue of Canadian How long will it be before either adminr lnteriors- goes a long way to advocating the tions come to their senses or* students type of revitalized, autonomous community power to see that proper methods are ob that ‘*radicals” have seen as overdue for the ad? last five years.

The planning and finance rationale behind the scheme is as follows:

a Because of Central Mortgage and Loan re-. payment policies and the limited resources of students; management, operating procedure and material selection for the residence must be carefully decided.

* Most students do not want to involve them7 selves in a co-op type of day-to-day respon- sibility for building operation so a representa- tive policy-making body would have to work with a full- time building “manager”.

* Proper exploration in an urban area can often avoid expensive land-even within 10 ;minutes walking distance from the school-

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the answer THE NEW ACCOMMODATION at the Uni- sity of Toronto will contain a range of units

For example, it could be anticipated that a

yet not provided by universities-bachelor single person would not always work in his

its, one-bedroom units, two-bedroom, four- room but may wish to work at the university

droom, six-bedroom and merely use his room for living in and for

and eight-bedroom its.

the storage of books, so that his needs in

Each is geared to be self-contained. That terms of studying facilities would be quite

it will have washrooms and kitchens in each different to someone who spent all his study time in his aoartment.

it, to allow the fullest autonomy of the in- .

idual. Additionally, the density and use can The concept of this accommodation has been

I., to provide a new set of opportunities for living

FYbr example, the one-bedroom and two-bed- styles. The traditional residence fulfills ,a

brn units will allow one or more people in certain need at the university but the social

;h type. Men wish to live in a more dense analysis has described a whole range of ex-

jation, SO a two-bedroom unit might con- pectations and desires that have not as yet

I six men. Girls, because they are less mo- been fulfilled by university accommodation.

?- within the university, generally spend The project has been designed for multi-use

Ire money on residences and accommoda- tenancy and for the specific patterns of stud-

n than men do, so that two girls will prob- ents and their living while at university. Addi-

y share a one bedroom apartment. tionally, very careful attention has been paid

Men and women like living together but to the rent structure which, because of the

y clearly draw the line. They would wish to limited income of students, must be very low.

! on the same floor but not in the same unit. Consequently, the program has not included ?y really wish to have close association and areas such as lounges, which would not be us-

jortunity to meet but not continual intimate ed _in any event, nor has it included supervisory rtact. personnel. The building is conceived as a facil-

Vlen, then, would like bachelor apartments ity in which the individual may determine his

I the larger units, such as four-bedroom own life pattern and style. I six-bedroom units. In this facility, the Support facilities provided for services such thod of furnishing has been changed’ from as shops, restaurants, banks, etc., are open

traditional built-in furniture to a furniture end, dependent upon the possibilities for rent- sing bank, whereby a variety of furniture ing the space. The support space is felt to be y be leased at the discretion of the indivi- self amortizing and self supporting, as is the II tenant. .- parking garage.

Students object to regularized dining. They miss on an average seven meals a week for which they pay, being on a 21 -meal-a-week program.

Male students are less troubled by living in residence than female students, since they are more able to move around the city and university.

Females find difficulty in developing friendships and acquaintances, apart from those immediately avail- able in neighbouring rooms.

&lost students move away from residence after one year in them, generally, right off campus. Men move to a single bedroom with kitchen/bathroom shared with other students., The male needs a single bedroom for privacy and entertaining friends, of either sex. Wom- en move to a one bedroom apartment with another girl.

Students, in seeking autonomy and independence, are happy with off-campus living, although the physi- cal environment, and its condition, are not as good as in the residences. Off-campus, they do not need com- mon facilities, and are prone to use space much like a normal apartment dweller.

Students living off campus have fewer but more in tima te friends.

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THE BIGGEST STUDENT HOUSING SURVEY con- ducted anywhere in Canada proves a radical rethinking of students’ needs in universities is badly needed.

The study was commissioned by the. University of Toronto Students Administrative Council in Novem- ber, 1967. Project coordinator for the students was Gerry McMaster; advising sociologist was David Hunter of the University of Toronto; the architect George Robb.

The study began in February, 1968, took nine months, interviewed 3,000 students and cost $15,000. It was a team effort between the social ana,lysts and the archi- tect.

The design-programme phase cost $25,000, including the project co-ordination, site analysis and recom- mendation for assembly which was accepted by both the university and the Department of University Af- fairs.

The following are the salient points that the sur- vey brought out:

The first year students generally go to residence because they associate going to university with being ‘in residence.

The major problem i9 privacy-acoustics and con- tinual visual contact with other people in the residence, in such places as corridors, group washrooms and common rooms. This leads to a reinforcement of the presence of all the other people in the residence. Stu- dents find their private life tends to become public knowledge. Residences form social cliques, as opposed to informal contact. Most students living in a residence feel that the community bonds are irrelevant, includ- ing dons.

Rooms in the residences are used for all social and studying activities in the building. The lounges, as con- ceived in most residences, are not used and do not serve the purpose for which they were intended, that is to provide a basis for informal contacts with other people. Informal contacts seem to occur in areas which have a particular use, such as kitchenettes, or informal games rooms. For the average student in residence, most of his friends are also in residence and he is prone to associate with large groups of peop- le on a very non-intimate basis.

Female sports steal limelight from men by Donna McCollum Chevron staff

The Waterloo Athenas have de- fied the Warrior tradition by dom- inating their league.

Frugal budgeting has lead the Athenas to three Ontario-Quebec Women’s Conference of Intercol- legiate Athletics championships.

The girls have captured the laurels in volleyball, badminton and curl&g and will compete for a fourth championship in basket- ball this weekend at Carleton.

The volleyball Athenas success- fully defended their OQWCIA title as they captured the champion- ship trophy for the second conse- cutive year.

The Athenas boasted an unde- feated season upon entering the finals as top team in the western division of the league. The Uni- versity of Montreal was the top contender for the east. The teams representing the east were Mon- treal, Carleton, Macdonald Col- lege and Sir George Williams and the Waterloo team served out defeats to all of them.

The matches for the tourney con- sisted of the best of five 15-point games. The Athenas took all the opposing teams in three games straight except for Carleton who managed to force the Athenas to

Playing well for the Athenas

a fourth game before giving them

were two returnees from last year, Jan Roorda and Susan Gerth.

the win.

Roorda has shown herself to be one of the best spikers in the league. Jane Frazer also looked good for the Athenas in her first year with the team. /

The v-ball Athenas, will not lose any players through gradua- tion this year and no doubt head coach Pat Davis will have a team of equal or better strength to represent the university next year.

The curling Athenas captured the OQWCIA championship hosted by Ryerson at the Terrace Club in Toronto. The Waterloo girls swept for three straight wins in the bonspiel in which teams from Sir George Williams, Carleton, Montreal, Lutheran, Macdonald College, Ryerson and Waterloo competed.

An 8-5 win over Lutheran started the team rolling and lead to an easy 16-2 defeat over Macdonald College. This game made the Athenas eligible for the cham- pionship final > Carleton Univer- sity, the 67-68 defending cham- pions, defeated Ryerson to become eligible also for the finals.

In this final game, Carleton

Two’girls caught hard at it in friday ‘s tourney.

Intermediate Athenas blow b - ball tourney

The intermediate volleyball and basketball Athenas travelled to the University of Toronto on the weekend to compete against teams from ‘McGill, Toronto, Western, Macdonald College and Queen’s in a championship tourna- ment.

by ,only one basket. They managed a 27-21 win over Macdonaid Col- I---

In basketball, the Athenas suffered four losses, two of them

began to work and shooting be- came more accurate. The Athe- nas were down 12-8 at the half but scored 19 points in the last half for the 27-21 victory.

Western effectively used a full court press to down the Athenas 38-20. The London girls went on to win the tournament, winning all five of their games.

1ege.

In the game against McGill, misentries in the scorebook cost the Athenas two team fouls and both shots were scored. McGill went on to win the game 22-20.

The University of Toronto also edged the Athenas by two points in their 19-17 win. The Waterloo team sunk onlv 2 of 21 foul shots

scorer for the tournament. Miss Smye was the top point-getter in four of her team’s five games,

Waterloo’s Meredith Smye was

gaining a total of 31 points.

tied with four other girls as high

. The intermediqte volleyball

Athenas played at University of Toronto this weekend and came out with a third place finish be- hind Toronto and Queen’s.

attempted andihus gave the game The host team defeated the to Toronto. Waterloo lassies three game to

Against Queen’s, both teams one and Queen’s took their win were playing their third game three games to two. Waterloo’s of the day and seemed to show victory over McGill was in three their fatigue out on the court. games straight. Queen’s took the game 23-15. This was the first year Waterloo

The team played as a unit had entered teams in the interme- against Macdonald as -their plays dia te tourney.

had a two point lead about mid- game but the Athenas tied them in the seventh end. In the eighth and final end, Waterloo was sitting shot rock with one rock remain- ing for the Carleton skip. On this I final rock, the Carleton girl came up short and Waterldo gained the point and thus the 5-4 win.

The University of Montreal won the consolation round, defeating Ryerson in the final.

The Waterloo team, composed of skip Robin Preece, vice-skip Sharon Schollar, second. Norma Dryden and lead Arlene Thomas, had never played a full game to- gether previous to the bonspiel and were self-coached as well.

There will be no trophy to dis- play in the recreation centre as the recreation centre as the league has not had one donated yet for curling.

The badminton Athenas tied with Sir George Williams Uni- versity for the league trophy in the tourney at Laurentian Uni- versity in Sudbury.

Teams from Carleton, York, Laurentian, Sir George Williams and Lutheran competed against the Athenas in the tourney.

In first singles, Marion Dicken place third as she defeated Carle- ton, Laurentian and York but lost to Sir George Williams and Lutheran.

The second singles entry, Wendy Frazer, lost only to Sir George Williams and placed second in t‘he division.

The doubles team of Sue Balch and Rae Nickel cleaned up in their division as they defeated all op- ponents to prove themselves as the top doubles team. The- match with Lutheran went three games and Waterloo won by a slim 18-17 margin.

In overall totals, the Waterloo team tied with Sir George. The Sir George team will keep the trophy until August when it will be on dis- play in the recreation centre.

Waterloo Athenas is a J new name and already it means strong competition to the other teams in the league. The Athenas so far have captured three of the six O-Q championships that they enter in the year.

It is a shame that Waterloo supporters have had to pay to watch the Warriors lose when they could have seen the Athenas win for free!

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The hockey Warriors must be satisfied with second place for another year.

The U of T Blues shut the pro- verbial door on the puckmen’s fac- es on Wednesday night by defeating them by the decisive score of 4-l before a capacity crowd at Varsity Arena.

The game was marked by hea- vy body contact. The Blues Gord Cunningham severely injured his back when he was knocked heavily into the boards by an unidentified Warrior. He was carried off the ice on a stretcher.

The game was a goaltenders battle. Arlon Popky and the Blues

Adrian Watson repeatedly robbed shot that was only a few inches of’1 opposing players with acrobatic the ice. Once again. Popky didn’t saves. move until the puck was in the net.

Back to back penalties resulted in a two man advantage for Tor- onto. Passi dug the puck out of the corner and slid it along the ice past a surprised Popky. The de- fence was nowhere to be seen and Passi scored the easiest goal of the game.

Steve Monteith and Laurent scored in the third period to clinch the game for the Blues.

Toronto deserved to win and unless we can change our style they will probably be Canadian champs.

The Warriors got their first and only goal of the game when Rud- ge’s slapshot from about 20 feet out beat Watson cleanly. Roger Kropk and George Swanson earned assists on the play.

The next Blues goal came at 11: 31 of the second period. Paul McCann scored on a long screen

The defense is better then the Blues with players like Cotton. Ouderkerk and McKegney being definite all-star material. Ron Robinson was not dressed and his absense was noticed. Coach Don Hayes had better have his offense jelled by next weekend or the Warriors might not even be in second place in the finals.

lntramurals --- 111 LII~: z&?L~I~ events tiord”Mc- Lellan equalled the school mark of Wafer uiater

crown champs 5.5 ‘in the 50 yard sprint. Larry Dixon managed to finish fourth in everywhere

Several individual champions the final.

have been crowned in the past few In the evening meet Uniwat’s

weeks. The jocks defeated Co-op mile relay team consisting of MC-,

to win the men’s intramural vol- Lellan Dixon McFarlane and

leyball title. Jolivet finished fifth in the Cana-

Paul Dabbs of village east out dian Mile relay.

squashed R. McIntyre from .Reni- Stealing the spotlight from the

son to win the singles crown in the impressive field of international

racket sport. athletes was former Waterloo stu-

Dabbs combined with Marc dent Bob Finlay who lapped the

Christie to take the doubles entire field in a brilliant three mile

championship from McIntyre and clocking of 13 :22.2 less than nine

Marshall both of Renison. seconds off the world record.

In the broom and stone division This weekend the Warriors will

of intramural land Eng A’s rink travel to Y ipsilanti Michigan

skipped by Al Larson proved to for a meet hosted by the Univer-

be the best in the house as they sity of Eastern Michigan.

defeated Renison in the final. Poor old ‘Renison seems to be the Rookies shine loser of the week.

Watch the bulletin boards for in b-ball win up-coming events.

The most interesting seems to Saturday saw the dribble and be the co-ed novelty relay meet on shoot Warriors up against the february 26. Each unit is allowed Ottawa braves in an exhibition two teams per event. tilt.

The Warriors managed to mus-

Track teum on the boards

Several good performances were turned in by Waterloo athletes last friday at Maple Leaf Gardens during the several track meets held there.

’ In the afternoon college meet Jack Walter established a school indoor record at six feet even fin- ishing fourth in the high jump.

School marks were also set in the 1000 vards by Bruce Walker and by Paul Pearson in the two mile run.

Kip Stunner picked up the only gold in winning the mile with a time of 4: 19.5. Uniwat also picked up a fifth and a sixth in the event.

ter enough power to dump the Ot- tawa team who had a bad night. The best thing of the night was the performance of. Gary Dyck and Dennis Wing two rookies.

After last week’s loss’ to the Toronto Blues the Warriors are out of the money. However. with the showing of Dyck and Wing things look promising for next year.

Jean Laaniste the steadiest Warrior all season led the scoring with 19 points. followed by the two rookies with 14 and 16 respective- ly.

The dribble and shoot Warriors’ next go is tomorrow night against the Lutheran hawks here at the recreation center.

The splash Athenas finished second in the recent Ontario Que- bec women’s college swimming championships held at Windsor.

They set two conference records and twelve team records. amass- ing 82 points with a team of only eight swimmers and one diver.

Sue Robertson was the outstand- ing freestyle swim.mer of the meet finishing second in the 200 yard and third in both the 100 and , 50 freestyle.

Jovce Matthison. the team’s best breaststroke swimmer finish- ed second in both her events to the Quebec champion. but set team records in both.

Conference records were set by Olenka Gorazdowska. She clean- ed up in the backstroke with times of 33.1 seconds in the 50 and 1: 15.1 in the 100.

Our diving team of Anne Stiles and Marg Handford finished sec- ond and seventh in the overall com- petition. It is interesting to note that all of the girls on the team placed in the championship finals.

It was an encouraging perfor- mance for the eight girls who hope that with some extra help next year they could win the over- all championship.

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The answers are quite straightforward: l We would have in Canada a much fairer tax sys- tem than at present based on ability to pay rather than privilege. l Most ofthe present tax-avoidance would be end- ed and the various tax loopholes eliminated. l Those in our society who have not been carrying their fair share of the tax burden in the past would be made to do so in the future. This would include corporations, especially in the mining petroleum and life insurance industries, and people who make a living from capital gains and stock manipulation, shareholders, especially foreigners.

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l Taxes. would go down for most people in Canada, if the Carter Report were implemented. Families with income of less than $5000 a year would have their taxes reduced by an average of 10 percent. Families with incomes between $5000 and $7000 would pay 7 percent less. As for farmers, the best estimates are that their income tax would go down as well. In the area of personal income tax the re- ductions could be as much as 40 percent with the greatest saving going to the lower income farmer.

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lacked the initiative required of his job.

Most of the students, probably Miss Imajishi has excellent all, are music majors and have in- stage presence, quality of tone, _ dividual instruction plus ample and technique, appearing to be the rehearsal time. However, the Im- only really outstanding player of presario Overture by Cimarosa, the orchestra., although technically alright, lack- The two contemporary pieces, ed the excitement expected of an part 3 of Divertimento for Or- overture. The big letdown was their next number, Beethoven’s

chestra by Violet Archer, and Prairie Night and Celebration

1st Symphony, coincidentally the by Aaron Copeland were well same one that our Little Symph- played, and these, along with ony performed in november. Sibelius’ Finlandia, _ displayed

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lady on first trumpei (rumor has it that she is playing in the N.Y.O.

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Does Bergsma still care? by Jim Dunlop Chevron staff

What has politics done to John Bergsma! When he first entered the offices of the president in november he was full of desire and hope. His mind was full of ideas that he thought would work.

But things are different now. I interviewed him the day after the election results became known. At that time he said, “I wouldn’t have cried if I had lost.”

Bergsma went on and talked about the troubles . that he had encountered up to now.

The split in council has caused him great concern. This came about because of the two different slates which ran against each other in the previous elec- tion. On one side were the radicals, led by ex-presi- dent Brian Iler. On the other were the responsible students, led by Bergsma, Bergsma expressed a be- lief that the radicals were trying to hinder his gov- ernment. It should be noted his inexperience was another of his stumbling blocks. He became trap- ped by this lack of experience on various occasions. Bergsma noted that this year he was going to try and institute reforms in council. He said he was appalled at the lack of respect that certain council members have exhibited on different occasions. He gave as an example the disrespect ex-president Hagey has re- ceived from these members.

Another sore point for Bergsma has been his cabinet. He asked former board chairman Jim Keron and Geoff Roulet to serve with him on the executive. Both were Iler supporters and both refused. Be- cause of this he called upon people who later proved to be unable to do their job.

Disappointed in student reaction

At this point Bergsma commented on the ap- _ athy exhibited by the majority of students on camp-

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“I’ve been disappointed in the support we’ve been given,” he stated.

“We need people to work for more than the one or two hours that they are giving us now.”

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This spring Bergsma is scheduled to. graduate. At present he is filing for job interviews. I asked him if there was any chance he would resign his post to get a decent paying job. He is recently mar- ried and has a baby girl. The federation pays the president $3150, which will be increased to $4420.

The answer was a strong no. He still feels it is his responsibility to carry on. Another reason for hang- ing on is that he thinks he has been assured a good paying job when he is finished here.

On the same ballot that he won on, CUS was kick- ed out of Waterloo by the slim margin of 17 votes. Bergsma is sorry that the school is out of the union.

“It will take hard work to find viable alterna- tives,” now that we have no part in any form of na- tional student union.

“The results are indicative that CUS had merits but they also show many people could find faults with the organization.”

“However we will always be interested in any progress that CUS can make.”

Point of interest: Bergsma took no stand on CUS before the election but is willing to talk about it now.

Plans for the upcoming year Plans for next year include a strong board of

education. Through the board Bergsma hopes to implement his decentralization policy. This has been one of his major campaign planks in both elections.

The idea behind this is to shift the power from the federation to the students. This will be done by mak- ing the societies stronger.

Another problem Bergsma must handle is who to fill his cabinet with. He is aware that all of the ex- perienced people who have helped him are graduat- ing. Names like King, Pike and Givens can no long- er be called on for support. As mentioned previous- ly, some others have flatly refused him before, and its safe to say they will again.

This leaves Bergsma with one man, Haag. He has said that Haag will be back if he is re-elected.

It will really be hard for him to build up a compe- tent cabinet around him. Bergsma is known to rely on his close advisors.

Yet he still continues to be optimistic about the future. However that air of true confidence is miss- ing. He isn’t the same as he was last november.

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A program of Shakespeare in Opera and song, including the final duet from “The Taming of the Shrew,” a duet from “Romeo & Juliet.”

Where the Bee sucks from “The Tempest,” Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind from “As You Like It.” Excerpts from Westside Story and Kiss me Kate. \ Theater of the Arts, 8:30 p.m.

Admission $2.50 Students $1.50

ach year Frontier College sends one hundred university students and graduates to work as laborers by day and

teachers by night at remote lo- cations in northern Canada. Vol- unteers’ students are the workers and his duties go beyond teaching to include the distribution of mag- azines, .organization of sports and film programs and, when reques- ted, personal counselling.

“We look for young men with the ability to lead, to get along with people and to stick it out alone,” says Ian Morrison, Supervisor of Instructors. “Of course they must be physically fit, and-a man must have a degree of imagination so he can adapt to local situations and see what is needed.

“The curriculum is in his head. Basic English and maths are the most important subjects be- cause 43 percent of the adult Can- adian ,population has not even

elementary school, may find he’s asked to

by Dave Book & Jim Drury the efforts of the instructor tolxrar classroom education were thwart-

discuss anything from sex educa- tion to lab& economics.”

In 1968, Uniwat’s Dave Book and Jim Drury were two of the instructors dispatched by Frontier College.

After a five day orientation per- iod in Toronto, Dave was as- signed to a railway gang in Saskat- chewan. He worked on the gang swinging a hammer and shovel and at night ran teaching prog-

bull sessions which discussed music, law, police, love, religion, chemistry, physics, immigra- tion, integration (the gang was usually about 50 percent Canadian Indian), marriage and a wide sel- ection of other topics.

Rather than come to class, the men would gather in the instruc- tor’s car to borrow books, have letters written and play or listen to his guitar. In this situation

rams and recreational activities. The average duration of a man’s stay in camp was two to three weeks and the teaching difficul- ties were compounded by long hours. ’

One student persevered through the summer, learning how to read and write and for two weeks enroll- ment reached seven with the addi- tion of six immigrants to the gang. Library service was provided and sports and film programs organi- zed.

Most nights after work the in- structor became a focal point for

Jim worked in a construction camp on the Nelson River in Nor- thern Manitoba. He ran classes in English, French and Spanish and found that the response was so great (a total of ninety students) that he was forced to recruit assis- tant inst.ructors in the camp.

Although he was intellectually convinced of the value of the lab- oring part of the job, Jim became emotionally convinced by a state- ment which came from a Portu- guese labourer. The labourer interrupted a lesson on English verbs and announced. “In Portu- gal. student is snoot: in Canada, student is work. Good.” That man would not have attended classes run by an office worker.

Instructors may be sent any- where in Canada to work in con- struction camps, railway gangs, logging camps and mines. Their Campus is Canada, and the chall- enge everyone’s.

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METROPOLITAN OPERA STUDIO ENSEMBLE

Shakespeare in Opera And Song

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Duet from Romeo and Juliet Where the Bee Sucks from The Tempest

Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind from As You Like It and Excerpts from Westside Story and Kiss Me Kate

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ters Those typed (double-spaced) get priority. fee(jbackconr Sign it - name, course, year, telephone. For legal reas- ons unsigned letters cannot be published. A pseudonym will be printed if you have a good reason.

Destruction foltows from occupation

In every field of study there are micro and macro aspects each with its own strength and relevance, and meaningful com- parisons often show fundamental similarities. The following are a few random samples of real life events of the past which will re- quire some thought, and in the end, the object of this little game of thought will become apparent.

In july 1099 some people called crusaders destroyed some pro- perty called Jerusalem, and then occupied it, there were. no prior dialogs and negotiations. Many of the participators verbalized on the nobility of cause.

In december 1670 a company of men under one called Morgan destroyed much of the Old City of Panama. No negotiation, and purpose of occupation did not im- ply longevity.

In 1940 property of Britain bombed; 1943 property of Ger- many bombed. Prior to these there had been negotiations through the proper channels, but despair that right was tottering, led to thoughts that the destruction of property and eventual occupation might prove useful.

Dialog and negotiations; the proper channels: no avail and february 11, 1848 the people of Bavaria storm and occupy the house of Lola Montez.

In what is mainly an occupation issue, january saw the bombing of Lebanese property.

February 11, 1969 property at Sir George Williams University was destroyed. Preceding this action were negotiations, hope, despair, occupation, hope, despair, followed by something that is readily descriptible by psycholo- gists. And is normal fare to the historian among his books.

In -short there seems to be historical precedent for each individual action, emotion and thought, in the february 11 affair, and precedent for their aggregate combination.

For the second phase of this game, reflect now on the impli- cations made in the article on page 5 of friday’s Chevron. Briefly they are: blacks are unpredict- able, * they, are different, they need a special evaluation not given to others (especially so that the administration could deal with them) and dialog and com- promise are tactics of whites.

The end of this game is your decision whatever it may be.

MARCIA HAROLD geography 3

Rotate RSM lectures some will attend

I have become increasingly depressed at the Radical Student Movement’s (RSM) scheduling of Wernick’s lectures. Why must all of them be at the same time? I happen to teach a course from 7-9: 30 pm every Wednesday.

As a number of you know very well, I have been trying very hard, for some time now, to establish some sort of dialog between stu- dents and faculty, and RSM has been delaying on this matter. Does it not also make sense to assume that I might be quite interested in attending some of the special lec- tures RSM sponsors, whether I agree with the point of view re- presented or not, and that I would be equally willing to contribute what comments I might consider to lx rclcvant?

But RSM insists on making it impossible for people with sche- dule clashes to hear their lec- tures-surely it would be simple to rotate the days on which they are given-as we do in the case of the English 360 drama symposia, which have been held on monday evening, tuesday evening, and the next time will be conducted on a thursday evening, so that all in- terested students can at least attend one or two.

a deterimental attitude, then the second may well be an opposi- tional response. If the result of such interplay should lead to

You may depend upon it that I would have tried to talk to Mr. Wernick.

( Mrs. ) ROTA LISTER English dept.

July, spear, yesI sheep sheds

Forget your proletarian dress for a few hours, my studious com- rades, and show your true bour- geoisie colors as we enjoy a game of bridge (bridge: the opiate of university students-Sandy Mac- Gregor). -

broken lives and tangled wreck- age of things then I mourn

~ImMimIEmImmI~llslmRIE~

only for the former. Acts of destruction by any stu-

dent should be tried by law. It is iTHE QCTOPU to be hoped that trial and judge- I ment will not be supremely in- fluenced by $2 million worth of I

Tired of cooking at home? Want a really different things but by morals, ethics and II meal? Try our European style open faced sandwiches; I

m the world of ideas. Acts of men- ta1 and spiritual destruction should

YOU choose the meat and we’1 t prepare it for you.

also be tried. I Delicatessen meats of ail kinds. Take your pick,

MARCIA HAROLD * !

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Take out orders too!

Property offenses should - 7 am - 8 pm Tuesday thru Sunday Y deny university access

1 95 King N. Waterloo

We, the undersigned students of ” the University of Waterloo, wish “The Octopus has SO many hands to serve you better”

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to formally and publicy denounce the actions of those involved in [~I~Bll~i~Ir~~8

After all, even the fabled wolf in sheep’s clothing must be a wolf once in a while, especially when he has no intention of being a sheep permanentIy.

Perhaps I’m being too, too petty. I might also be slightly drunk.

KEITH ORGAN . iiY% 1

Thinks back page similar to FASS religious farce

the vandalism at Sir George Wil- liams University, Montreal. While we defend the right to audibly protest adverse moral, ethical and practical issues, we do not at any time condone such flagrant disrespect of public property. We demand that convicted stu- dents of such offences be denied the privilege of returning to any Canadian institution of learning on the grounds that they are in- capable of mature conduct.

ROBERT E. BAKER BERNIE HARTERY

It is unfortuante that you could- n’t print last week’s back page creation on the page facing the review of FASS ‘69 criticizing the “clumsy parallel drawn be- tween followers of Christ and modern hippies.”

Self-professed humanists expect apology for abuse

DOUG INKSTER math 3

West Indian cuts faculty for bad generalizations

West Indians exaggerate, they are expansive, they USC obscen- ity, they are different. (Chevron feb 14.) I have never heard such balderdash in my life! And this was offered to a communications media by a Sir George Williams Faculty Association executive member, as a reason for not taking the demands of West In- dian students seriously!

We the undersigned feel that the notice carried on the last page of the Chevron ( friday, 14 february 1969) is in poor taste and we have taken offence. AFpersions cast upon religion and the flagrant abuse of our savior can only lead us to question the essential moti- vation of the Chevron. This is just another example of the inhumanity shown by those who claim to be advancing the causes of human- ity.

We shall accept your apology. BOB HARTLEY

N. VUKELICH FRANK MELLOR

JIM O’MAHONY C.E.R. ROBERTSON

G. LHUR PAUL LEBLANC

Frankly I find such generaliza- tions to be dangerously careless in view of their inaccuracy; for this model of inaccuracy will generally be brought to bear on any relationship between the two parties.

SUSAN STANSELL DAVE McCARVILLE

M. L. VOISIN

And another rational reasoned response

West Indian students are strong believers in dialog and are given to seeking the clarification of events that puzzle them. If in the event of questioning something, they are treated to a rational, sincere, and equal discussion, amiability and agreement will usually ensue.

I must say I really enjoyed the humor contained in the last page of last week’s Chevron. It was choice. After all this “man”, Jesus Christ, is an enemy of the state and should be ridiculed as much as possible.

West Indians are not given to quibbling; if one questions some- thing it is because he sincerely thinks he has a right and a right reason for doing so and expects to be dealt with openly and demo- cratically.

Yeah! He should be made G cartoon caricature just as the last page of the Chevron achieved in doing. However, did it ever occur to YOU that some of your readers may be Christians who regard the new Testament as a holy book and not a book of fables?

By the way. I know who the authorities. are, but who are the people or so-called respectable Such generalizations on the

part of faculty only lead to mis- , citizens that took action toward understanding and sometimes the inflicting of scars to this tragic results. If faculty has a man’s hands and feet? Could they socially conditioned attitude then be of your kind‘? the student will give his socially DOMINIC MASTRANGELO conditioned response : if the first is electrical 3A

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Federation of Students

University of Waterloo

’ ANNUAL ME-ETING

of the Federation of Students, University of Wat- erloo, a corporation under the laws of the Province of Ontario, to be held Monday, March 3, 1969 at 8:00 p.m. in room -201 of the Engineering Lec- ture Building. .

BUSINESS OF THE MEETING

1. Appointment of directors, in accordance with section 3 of by-law 1.

2. Motion: That by-law 10, section 27, paragraph 2, which now reads: “A student of the University of Waterloo, who for reasons of conscience, does not wish to be a member of the Federation of Students, Uni- versity of Waterloo, may signify this in writing to the Board of Directors and shall cease to be a member of the Federation of Students, Uni- versity of Waterloo upon receipt of this notice by the Board of Directors” be amended by deleting the words “for reasons of conscience.”

3. Motion: That by-law 2 (Board of Publications), section 1 l,B be amended by deleting “a. the co-ordinator of anti-calendars” and “b. the co-ordinator of photography” and renumbering “c” and “d” as “a” and “b” respectively.

-4. Motion: That by-law 9, section V, be amended by deleting “E Co-ordinators a. To be responsible for the administration of projects and function which involve a number

I of ,groups and/or publications or which are considered to be of a temporary nature.”

5. Motion: Whereas provisions governing proper notice of general meetings exist in by-law 13; Be it resolved that by-law 1 be amended by deleting section 36 “Notice” which now reads: Whenever under the provisions of the By-laws of the Corporation, notice is required to be given, such notice may be given either person- ally or telegraphed or by depositing same in a post office or a public letter-box, in a pre- paid, sealed wrapper addressed to the director, officer or member at his or their address as the same appears on the books of the Corpor- ation. A notice or other document so sent by

, post shall be held to be sent at the time when the same was deposited in a post office or public letter-box as aforesaid, or if telegraphed’ shall be held to be sent when the same was handed to the telegraph company or its mes- senger. For the purpose of sending any notice,

the address of the_member, director or officer shall be his last address as recorded on the books of the Corporation.

The agenda for the Annual Meeting is restricted to these items of business, for which proper no- tice has been given.

John Bergsma President Federation of Students University of Waterloo

ons unsigned letters cannot be published. A pseudonym will be printed if you have a good reason.

Where dre the ads? Who got the tickets?

I wish to protest strongly about the way the physed department handled the sale of tickets for the Toronto and Warriors hockey game on 19th february.

There was no announcement through wall posters or the Chev- ron as to when they would be on sale and the first many people knew about them was when, on enquiry, they were informed that they had been sold out.

To whom, I wonder? How many were sold outside the physed de- partment or a few people “in the know? ” No matter how many, or how few tickets were available, everyone who wanted one should have had an equal chance of buy- ing one.

VICTOR GALLANT grad planning

Computer lovers ignore people

This is a hurried note on what is happening in the wake of the events in the last few days. You cannot imagine the hysteria that gripes the city of Montreal. The mass media have whipped up pub- lic opinion in an unprecedented fashion-moment by moment rad- io and TV (especially private), and the press report their lamenta- tions on the loss of property in the form of the Sir George comput- ers in a shockingly hyprocritical manner.

Just a few minutes ago a CBC reporter was interviewing two Sir George administrators about ‘their 303. and their 409’ as if these were napalmed children in Viet- nam. Public attitudes are not even as refined’ as those after Watts or other ghetto riots.

All attention is focused on the student violence and hardly any- one is talking about the issues or about the role of provocation of the administration and faculty. There is no attempt being made to under- stand the situation. While com- mentators work up hatred for student radicalism, over the loss of property no one has mentioned the $8000 bill in liquor and food consumed by the administrators during the 13 day occupation at the Mont-Royal hotel as they were working out a compromise.

The liberals and reactionaries have joined hands in this city in the same way as they did after such events as the murder of Mar- tin Luther King-grotesque, self- righteous, sanctimonious revellry.

The most vulgar racism has come to the surface, on the buses, in the subways, posters at Sir George calling for “Kill the nig- ger”, “Gas them and hang them”, references in the press to “foreigners”, ‘ ‘draft-dodgers and deserters”.

The hysteria is not only against the Sir George action, but against student radicalism in general. The tide is overwhelming. Axe1 Springer would be proud of the mass media.

97 militants were arrested. 49 ~ whites and 41 blacks, (from re-

ports inside the jail, we have been told that black boys and girls have been separated from the whites), seven juveniles including french- Canadian supporters. In an unpre- cedented move, no bail has been granted to anyone, 363 charges were laid, with sentences pending from five years to life imprison- ment.

We have reports from parents today that their sons and daugh- ters were beaten in the cells,

and that they (the parents) have been treated in the most humiliat- ing manner by the police.

Maximum security by the special security riot squad rings the court house, and the students have now been moved into a peni- tentiary. Very cleverly the McGill administration announced on the same day of the Sir George action. the firing of marxist lecturer Stan Gray. Meanwhile the Sir George administration announced that the accused racist Perry Ander- son has been re-enstated and the student newspaper (which sup- ported the take-over of the com- puter center ), the Georgian has been suspended.

many authorities and mentioned Rochdale as a possible model. but that I “did not propose any details for such a college here”.

If you had read the two short briefs I submitted to the dean of arts. first in outline. then as presented. you would not have reduced my ideas to this utter blank. My proposal is positive. It is positive in precisely the sense that we require an open educa- tional situation in which we can allow ideas and courses to emerge from people’s natural interests. I shall be glad to provide you with a copy of the two short talks I contributed. on january 28 and on january 30.

We disagree with the final action of the Sir George militants. but we wish to generate a wider un- derstanding why things happened the way they did, what are the concrete issues and what is the relevant critique-to be made. The idea is to have support petitions which attempt to re-focus the is-

’ sue as it should be.

Furthermore. since then I have given to the dean of arts a detailed proposal for an admissions pro- cedure to the college of integrated studies.

(MRS. ) ROTA LISTER. English dep t

Those who decry violence today in Montreal most loudly are the greatest spokesmen for state and official violence.

Mob that &i/led Christ Will kill today’s radicals

We must indicate in our support action that our society is numb to the violence upheld in property, profit and privilege. Because all genuine emotions tend to be manip- ulated in our society for selfish and commercial ends, it is easy to overlook the extent of official violence imposed on the exploited, the hungry, the racial discrim- inated, the poor, the war ravaged.

The institutional violence that undermines our respect for human life and dignity has to be singled out on such occasions and a cri- tique of the structures and work- ing assumptions of our society has to be made indicating that these are neither as moral nor as prac- tical as people assume. It seems to us, then, that we need to face up to the implications of institu- tional violence in a far more mean- ingful way then simply allowing the popular mind to be stamped- ed against all student radicalism.

Our task is to analyze, expose, repudiate and take direct action against the violent institutions that poison our society at home and find their natural extension and intensification abroad.

DIMITRIOS ROUSSOPOULOS Montreal

A lot of students wouldn’t get the point of your back page, but I think I did.

I hope the radicals are just as willing to die for mankind as Christ because the mob that killed him will still kill today.

And, just as the mob that killed Christ contained representa- tives of the established religions of Rome so the mob that kills to- days radicals will include so- called pious Christians.

If you don’t believe it you should hear the reactions that back page got from some who would like to believe Christ wore a shirt and tie and ran a million dollar company.

MARY BOWMAN university staff

Maclean’s declaims: aren’t dead yet

That was an interesting piece about Maclean’s in your january 17 issue which has just reached me.

Interesting, but.wildly wrong. It echoes other bits of misinforma- tion from various journalistic

sources. What interests me is that none

of these journalists has troubled to ask Maclean’s for the facts. may I give you some?

John got his raise, can he solve, this

OK-so I tried to get a book from the library and they didn’t have a single one of the 18 on my list, Profs had three or four, nearly ten were out and even the library didn’t know where the rest were.

So I’m ready to do something, and if all the proper channels fail I’m willing to do something out- side them.

Maclean’s circulation is in the neighborhood of 750,000, an in- crease of 200,000 in the last four years. Its advertising revenue last year was more than $3,200,000. the highest ever, and the first four months of this year show a gain of 30 percent over last year. For 1969 as a whole, it is anticipa- ted the magazine will make a pro- fit.

If these are indications of im- But I voted for Jo_hn Bergsma

and would like to see him solve this one? Can someone tell me why council adjourned at the last meet- ing after giving John a raise but before discussing the library?

BRUCE CANOON arts 2

minent demise, they are not so recognized by anyone here. Mac- lean’s is here to stay.

BORDEN SPEARS editor

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Made positive proposals for integrated stiidies

In friday’s Chevron on page 12. you report that, when discussing desirable changes in methods of education on january 30, I quoted

Letters should be short and

should be signed-name,

course, year and telephone.

The supplementary Information

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Please comply. Otherwise the

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What tiould you do to protect QW computer?

Cathy Monisey York University arts 1

Program it to say ouch.

Chris Swan sci 2

Deport all the nig- gers.

Dino Paevelich math 3

You mean we’ve got a computer, too.

,

Nonny Beckerman math 2A

Replace it with a giant abacus.

Rob Roden associate director

computer center

Rely on the respon- sibility of the stu- dents.

Jim Insell eng 2A

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by John Kastner from the Toronto Telegram

An open letter to the good, up- right citizens who are blowing their tops over. the computer- wrecking students at Sir George Williams University :

Dear Moms and Dads: A while back I wrote an account of how the Florida adults were out to get their young people-as demonstrated by a series of hostile acts culminating in a proposed state law to have every teenager finger-printed.

Now, judging from similarly- growing adult hostility here, cul- minating in the howl of outrage over the Sir George Williams incident, it seems clear that Cana- dians, too, are out to get their young.

Good citizens, for you to lec- ture us about lawlessness is the most unbelievable sort of hypo- crisy. It has often been suggested there is one law for the rich and another for the poor; there is ob- viously one for the old and another for the young as well.

Every day the hoary fathers of big business, government and the legal establishment itself, commit or permit the most flagrant possi- ble abuses of the law, without ever raising the puritanical fury you’ve unleashed at the students.

Take those recent revelations of price-fixing by American drug companies. Two weeks ago, five U.S. firms offered to make a settle- ment in a price-fixing case that has been dragging on for 11 years now.

The drug was produced for 1.6 cents per capsule and sold for 51 cents ; finally after all those years of ring-around-the-rosy in the courts, the firms have offered to pay $120,000,000 in some 100 civil suits. :

At that, it’s only a fraction of the profits they have made from the overpriced drugs. But in this case and countless others like it, we have heard no yowls of in- dignation from you, oh dear, up- right elders. The viciousness of making money from illness, at the expense of countless sick persons, many of whom may have gone without the drug because they couldn’t afford it or else suf- fered heavy financial loss in pay- ing for it-the ethics here, and the toll in human suffering, don’t seem to have disturbed your sanc- timonious lethargy one whit!.

We noticed no loud demands for the arrest of the erring drug com- pany executives. Not that the really big spoilers always escape the heavy hand of the law, mind

you. In another staggering pro- fiteering scandal a few years ago, involving $350,000.000 in civil sutis, seven electrical company execu- tives did spend all of 30 days in jail-about what a student demon- strator would get for obstructing a policeman. Now, there’s blind justice for you.

But for the 93 computer-smash- ing students, you cry. 14 years in jail-the . maximum-is none too good. After all. they attacked that holiest of holies-property; i.e.. the computer. When the industria- lists indulge in price-fixing. the only ones hurt are people.

What example have you set for the students at Sir George Wil- liams, to teach them the law is not to be bent whenever they choose? What makes a supposedly exem- ._ - plary bunch of young people *‘go wrong? ’ ’ Outside agitators, you thunder, I suggest they didn’t need to look outside. not with the ex- ample of the seven jailed electrical company executives-all of them described by character witnesses as “exemplary citizens,” noted for their charity work.

How do you choose your great moral issues, my revered elders? Do you ignore them if they in- volve your contemporaries? Is it a question of being too overawed to yell when a huge corporation is involved?

Or is it just that it’s so much easier to get all indignant and upright over that old, favorite scapegoat-the reckless, ruthless young?

Some of you are fond of soften- ing the anti-youth criticism by pointing out that “bad egg” stu- dent leaders are an unrepresen- tative minority of youth. Unfor- tunately, the same doesn’t seem to be true for your bad eggs. They’re fairly evenly distribu- ted in all the most important levels of your society-and you, by turning a blind eye to them, become accessories to their law- lessness.

And now, at the trial of the Sir George Williams students, young Canada will sample your justice. We have a pretty good idea what to expect. Recently, the young editor of a hippie news- paper in Vancouver was punished by the law for describing a mag- istrate as “Pontius Pilate.”

Last friday this newspaper ran a column about the Sir George students, with the headline, Our Hitler Youth. Want to take bets the courts won’t punish anybody for that tasteless-and possibly I slanderous-piece of descrip- tion?

Other points of view The demands of the students

won wide public sympathy; they were liberal, and even mild: dropping the charges against three black students ( for allegedly

coercing the viceprincipal to sign an admission that he had made a certain statement) ; rejection of the old hearing committee (which was accepted as inade- quate by most parties-a demand even the Montreal Star admitted in an editorial was reasonable) ; no reprisals against the occupants; and consideration for academic time lost. These were anything but unreasonable.

The students had no power. The administration had the police it could call anytime. The students therefore, created the only power they could. They kept the com- puter hostage for two weeks and warned that it would be des- troyed if the administration used force.

There is something sick about an administration that played its

card, knowing full well the stu- dents had only one card to play.

And everybody loses over the composition of a committee.

Watts blew up over the arrest of one youth by one Los Angeles patrolman. Newark over a simi- lar episode. Also Detroit. The events cannot be deduced from the apparent causes. There are deeper sicknesses within.

-editorial excerpts from the McGill Daily

The whole fuss blew up out of a complaint by a few students that they had been given C. grades when they wanted higher grades. It happened that they were dark-skinned, so they screamed “racial discrimination.”

It is every bit as likely that they were graded C. because that is what they deserved. There is no divine law that says every black-skinned student is an auto- matic A.

-editorial excerpt from the Kitchener- Waterloo Record

29 friday, february 21, 1969 (9.-M) 817

As/ a result of the increasing division of work in modern technological society there is a strong

tendency to create a typeof university professor,

a narrow expert, interested only in promoting and convening positive knowledge in a specialized

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by Mihailo Markovic

By now it has already become quite clear, at least to some writers, artists, philosophers and scientists, that, while increasing power, material wealth and organiza tion of social life, while creating new historical possibilities of liberating and humanizing social relationships, the material form of the positive science in- dustry has neglected many essential human needs and has extended the possi- bilities of manipulatiori of human indi- viduals.

The universal penetration of technolo- gy into all forms of social life has been followed by the penetration of routine, uniformity and utilitarianism. Inevitab- ly, it has stunted human spontaneity, naturalness, and authenticity. Growth of material wealth has not made man happier; data on suicide, alcoholism, mental illness, juvenile delinquency, etc. indicate a positive correlation between the degree of technological development and social pathological phenomena.

Obviously, positive science and tech- nology triggered unforeseen and uncon- trollable social processes. The scientist

_ who does not care about the broader social context of his inquiry loses every control over the product of his work. The history of the creation and use of nuclear weapons constitutes a drastic example.

The greatest and ablest scientists of the twentieth century, headed by Ein- stein, Fermi, Szilard, Openheimer and others, discovered the method for pro- ducing the most destructive weapon which has ever existed on earth; this discovery was alienated the very mom- ent it was made. I

Another example of the abuse of science can be found in ideological prop- aganda. The most effective and there- fore most dangerous propaganda is not one which is based on untruths and is therefore in obvious conflict with science, but one which, in order to rationalize and justify the interests of privileged social groups, uses partial truths established by science.

Science is helpless against such abuses if it is atomized, unintegrated, disinter- ested in the problems of wholes, and neutral with regard to such general hu- man values as freedom, social justice, the development of human solidarity, the abolition of alienation, etc.

Feelings are discarded

There is obviously a vast difference

However, the most influential philoso- phy in contemporary science is positi- vism, according to which the sole func- tion of science is to describe and explain what there is and, if at least some laws are knotin, to extrapolate what there might probably be. All evaluation in terms of needs, feelings, moral stand- ards, etc. is considered basically irra- tional and should, it is argued, be discar- ded. According to this conception the analysis and determination of goals, ideals and criteria for evaluation fall outside the scope of science. The whole of science becomes concentrated on the investigation of the most adequate means for achieving the ends which have been laid down by others.

between the positivism of an expert who escapes into narrow forms of his discip- line because he is indifferent toward all social goals or because he rejects the official system of values of the society to which he belongs, and, on the other hand, the positivism of an “engaged” scientist who is ready to serve the lead- ing social forces, to receive his tasks from them, and to leave to them the whole problem of the determination of the social value-orientation of his work.

However, there is something common in the attitudes of (1) an indifferent petty bourgeois who sells his knowledge as a commodity to the most favourable buy- er, (2) a sceptical rebel who deals with “pure”, ideologically-neutral science be- cause “nothing else makes any sense”, and (3) a loyal expert of the government or the Party who conceives his work on- ly as an instrument of politics. What is common to these different types of scien- tists is that each one of them makes efforts to create the most rational means and each one of them fails to consider, as a function of science, inquiry into the rationality and humanity of the goals.

Conservafive science

By its indifference toward goals, by its value-neutrality, science leads mere- ly to the growth of power, to the ever more efficient control of natural and social processes within the framework of the existing historical structure. So behind this apparent absence of any val- ue-orientation one discovers clearly a conservative orientation. Even passive resistance to the reduction of science to a mere servant of ideology and poli- tics is acceptable to the ruling elites, because pure, positive, disintegrated knowledge can always be interpreted and used in a profitable way, with the society finally losing its critical self- consciousness.

In fact, true intellectuals in the field of science do have a critical regard for existing world realities. They are very concerned about the way the products of their mind will be interpreted and practically applied. That is why all lead- ing physicists of our century, Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrudinger, Born, De Broglie and others, were also philosophers and humanists. Many of them- and their pupils took an active part in the struggle against nazism and against abuse of the achievements of nuclear science.

There is no doubt that the fundamen- tal assumptions and values of each indi-

Experts who are only able to convey in-

vidual scientist are influenced by his adherence to a given nation and the way in which- he has been educated within a particular tradition and in a particular social climate. However, truth is univer- sal; science is a universal human pro- duct, and is being given a sense of direc- tion by a universal humanist tradition. A true scientist will tend to speak as Man and will tend to rise above limitations of nation, race, class or religion.

In addition to their responsibilities as scientists, university professors have a special responsibility as educators of those who will educate coming generations of young people.

-from Punch

formation may become redundant in the not too distant future; they can be effec- tively replaced by teaching machines. On the other hand, students will always need living contact with a scientist who can put a piece of information into a broader context and explain its deeper meaning. They will always need the presence of a professor, a genuine intellectual, with a broad scientific culture, who can not only teach them the technical skills of scientific research but who in addition can help them to penetrate into the fundamen- tals of the scientific method and to realize the general cultural and ethical values implicit in science as %a specific sphere of social consciousness.

Experts or intellectuals

In this respect it is rather easy to dis- tinguish between pure experts and gen- uine intellectuals.

An expert remains at the level of partial knowledge, at the level of correct applica- tion of a given body of positive knowledge and a given method of enquiry to the solution of a specific problem. In short, he remains at the level of technics.

A genuine, creative intellectual in the field of science critically examines and further develops its very theoretical foundations; he establishes important connections and generalizations; he crea- tes new forms and new systems; he dis- covers the full meaning of scientific re- sults by incorporating them into the broad- er cultural and philosophical contexts of his time.

It is not too difficult to realize how this can be done in the social sciences and humanities. A good professor of econo- mics will certainly pay attention to such crucial- issues as the nature and forms of alienation of labour, the fetishism of commodities, the notion of economic rationality, the philosophical assump- tions of various conceptions of technolo- gical progress, the merits and difficulties

of planning within the global community. the social consequences of automation. etc.

What can be reasonabl>- doubted is whether such consideration of broade1 theoretical questions can possibly be in- troduced into the natural sciences GUI-- ricula. And yet, the history of natural sciences is a history of struggle for rationality and objectivity. for freedom and independence of thought. against blind faith and dogmatism, against theo- logical and ideological myths, against - subordination to any external authority.

Social questions raised Philosophical assumptions with far

reaching cultural and social consequences are involved in quantum theory, the theory of relativity, the theory of evolu- tion, the theory of heredity, of cyber- netics and of psychoanalysis. Discovery of new sources of energy immediately leads to the problem of international control of their use, inchiding even the problem of creating a world government. Discovery of new exact methods of man- agement (operations research) raises the,. question: how can we create big tech- nological systems without an undesir- able strengthening of bureaucratic and technocratic forces within the society? The problem of biological adaptability of the human organism to his surroundings in- evitably leads to critical analysis of social surroundings in a mbdern industrial society. Space programs in the most developed countries surely give rise to a dilemma : is it more rational to con- quer outer space or hunger and misery on earth?

Even the most abstract and exact science, mathematics, involves in all its branches a general problem which in- directly has enormous bearing on human life, i.e., the problem of the formalization of human thinking, the liberation of man from all routine intellectual operations and, eventually, the substitution of auto- matic devices for human agents. Such developments would obviously require drastic changes in social organization.

These illustrations clearly indicate that the problems of the natural and social sciences tend to fuse with every effort of reflection about the meaning of scientific discoveries and the consequences of their application. They also show how this kind of reflection naturally leads to a critical examination of present day society and to the projection of possibilities open for the future.

In order to awaken the intellectual curiosity of his students and to broaden their spiritual horizons, a good university professor must influence <hem to ask ndt only how, but also why and to what purpose.

A Mihailo Markovic teaches at the Aca-

demy of Arts and Science in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he is currently head of the department of philosophy and sociol- ogy. This paper was presented at the twelfth international seminar, “Univer- sity Today”, 1967.

held in Dubrovnik, July,

30 8 78 .the Chevrc, ,

Everybody vs. Lobban It’s a great group of people who

will try to stab a person in the back, but haven’t the guts to con- front him openly.

But not unsurprisingly, many of Uniwat’s own faculty and admin- istration fall into that very cate-

_ gory. They would love to stab Bill Lob-

ban in the back using the Chevron as their knife.

Ever since Lobban left his de- fences down by threatening to sue the Chevron for libel over an issue that not only wasn’t libelous but was true (his constant interfer- ence with the security depart- ment) ,Chevron editors and report- ers have be,en beseiged by admin- istrators and faculty (especially senior faculty) with tales about Bill Lobban they think we should print. They will even go so far as to suggest tactics and strategies for getting rid of Lobban.

Naturally, though, they never want their names associated with the articles when printed.

If any of these highly-motivated bumbling, dirty but somewhat cute and funny old man.

Bill Lobbari has apparently de- But with

tided not to proceed with his libel suit against the Chevron.

His reasons are quite obvious. Not only does he know there is every likelihood the Chevron could Prove its claim that he interferes in-the operation of the security de- partment, but he also is afraid to have PPandP’s files opened in court and its reporting procedures questioned publicly.

For Al Romenco is not the only person reporting to operations vicepresident Al Adlington who has complained about Lobban’s constant interference.

In fact the most cursory investi- gation of the operations function in the university immediately raises the question-who is in control, Lobban or Adlington?

Lobban is a hard-driving empire builder who, for reasons that seem no more complicated than simple aggrandizement of power, wants to control the entire non- academic area of the administra- tion.

Left alone, Adlington could probably make it through, but he is quick to follow any kind of lea- dership. It seems clear Lobban is playing leader.

Acting president Howard Petch has so many bureaucratic prob- lems to solve it seems doubtful he will ever get around to this one unless pushed.

But he must be pushed, for the Lobban-Adlington group is the place where all the monies that should be spent on books and pro- fessors is really going.

The gray suit functionaries will also be more willing to pay moriey for gadgets like garbage-removal trucks that show paper savings over a twenty-year life than on library books that show no fiscal return whatsoever.

Maybe the answer lies in placing a professor or student at the head of all departments as a sort of minister with the/-present heads acting as deputy ministers.

Whatever is finally done, though, PPandP would be a good place to start the change. It needs it most.

And the sooner, the better.

men really cared about ineffic- good reason iency and waste, they could long ago have brought their complaints to the committees to which they are so fond of referring student complaints.

But that would be breaking the unwritten code, honor among thieves, and all that.

For in reality they are all usual- ly almost as bad as Lobban and similarly dedicated to the con- struction of their own little em- pires.

In fact, -their biggest reason for wanting to see Lobban shot at is to enable them to grab some of the tremendous share of the pie PP andP now controls.

Unfortunately it is true that the operation of PPandP is indeed hindering the students’ academic priorities on campus and will eventually have to be exposed and cleaned up.

But it is similarly true that the other personal empires that im- pede responsible operation on campus will also have to be des- And Adlington is almost exactly

like his self-portrait in FASS-a troved.

Fly the ftiendly skies of Israel

Library action needed 4.2 percent doesn’t sound like with promises and a few commit-

much of a figure. tee seats. But When”you’re talking about

the university’s budget and trying to find money to buy books, it means a lot of well-stocked shel- ves. 4.2 percent of the budget is the increase needed, to bring lib- rary spending up to an accept- able 10 percent.

It’s not necessary to study a set of charts to know that Uniwat’s libraries are in bad shape. Any trip to the book racks will more than prove that at least eighty percent of what you want just isn’t there.

And the charts make it clear why. Waterloo is close to $60 under the average Ontario library per-student expenditure of $215 a year. Yet compared to the older institutions with well-stocked libraries, we ihould be spending more, not less.

As federation representative Ron Trbovitch recently reported to the Radical Student Movement and student council, student and faculty representation on the advisory committee has produced absolutely nothing.

Yet neither council nor the RSM seems ready to take any breath- taking action. Council in fact con- siders the matter of such a high priority that at their last meeting they had to adjourn for lack of quorum before the library ques- tion even came up for discussion.

RSM is being more sensitive to the needs of the students, but at present ‘is very busy with its ’ educational program. To date they have discussed the problem in committee, appointed a member: to prepare in-depth studies, and heard a number of reports on the problem but o~lly recently started

And there doesn’t seem to be to contemplate possible action. any change in sight, either. It looks as though the student

-.*- _- -- - body in general must do its own Student council complained

about the situation loud arid clear pushing if it wants any action on this issue. Council is in the dark

two and three years ago and were rewarded for their troubles

and RSM will need large-scale support.

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Everybody’s staqing home this weekend to pick which lucky individual gets to put in 50 hours more a week than the federation president next year. Staff this issue: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Roddie Hickman, entertainment coordinator; Ross Taylor, sports coordinator; Bill Brown Lorna Eaton, Jim Dunlop, Richard Nancarrow, Brian van Rooyen, Anne Banks, Al Lukachko, Jim Allen, Tom Ashman, Martin Ahrens, Walter Horsley, Brenda Wilson, Hilary Dawkins, M&-y Rivard, Wayne Smith, Peter Moore, Nivek Nosretep, Maudie Silcox, Donna McCoIlum, Pete Miller, RAC Smythe (who sends formletters), Jim Detenbeck, Greg Wormald, Phil Elsworthy, John Pickles, Dave Bull, Wayne Bradley, Dave Thompson, Richard Lloyd, Matti Nieminen, Pete Wilkinson, Carol Jones, Fred who’s just a grenade-throw from marslandengineering, where’s Knowlton Collister, and congrats to the engineers for maintaining’waterloo’s radical traditions at Montreal-only are they representative?

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