The beach party and boogie by Lake Columbia last Sunday complete with four bands, including Saltspring Rainbow Band (playing next week in the cc pub) was quite a success considering the numbers attracted to the event. Although not tried in recent memory the afternoon came off successfully with no-snags.

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University of Waterloo Wate+loo, Ontario

v&me 16, number 9 . friday, july 11, 1975

.- ’ - Health care in China . : . . . . . . . . i . . ; ; .p.3 \ Co-op workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .p.6 feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. .p.7 Student issues . . . . . . . . : . . . .centrespread

This year% student housing crisis will be miuch worse than last -year’s shortage, says Carl Vin- nicombe, University of Waterloo housing director.

It has also been predicted by a local Apartment Owners Associa- tion that apartment, rents will in- crease an average of twenty-five per cent, this year.

Student village one and two and all the church colleges have said they can add little relief to the crisis since all their accomodation was fil- led about one month ago.

* Vinnicombe has requested Ron Eydt, warden of the student vil-

b lages, to possibly allow students to temporarily double up in residence

rooms, halls and lounges to give accomodation to those students ’ who are unable to locate housing by September.

Eydt’s initial-reaction to the sug- gestion has been somewhat nega- tive because he sees the student re- sidences legally bound to students to provide single accomodation.

The Philip Street Co~op reports there are still double rooms for single girls. Vacancies for graduate women- are still open in Minota

At present village tutors are con- sidering the proposal, however most feel the decision whether to move on it must be made by the village residents.

Hagey residence. sI -. Vinnicombe said the- housing of- ~

fice would approach fourth year women to fill the residence if they are unable to find enough graduate women. There is no chance of men occupying<ny of the residence rooms.

cated forthe%most-part in the sur- rounding community of Waterloo is well below the more than 1000 beds the list contained last year.

Most of the accomodation is for roomers and costs on the average $15 a week without meals and $20 to $24 with’meals.

The off-campus housing shor- tage will be particularly acute this year, says Carl Vinnicombe. This year’s housing list of 800 beds lo-

A few vacancies are still availa- ble in the married student’s apart- ments . Although university ,policy insists on all residents being mar- ried the housing office will not evict I non-married students unless ,other married residents complain.”

Students looking for houses and apartments to rent will be surprised to hear landlords asking for two to three months rent in advance. One local landlord is asking $500 a month for a five bedroom ‘house and wants $1000 before the tenants can move in.

Whiplash turps ‘down EngSo&pub @erformance

considers that there has been a pro- liferation of information at the Uni- versity of Waterloo for over five years which has exposed the op- pressive human relationships of our-society and of our: style of life. ” -

Many landlords are withdrawing their housing from the student market. Tony Bergmeir, president of the Waterloo Region Apartment Owners Association says he has found students to be among the worst tenants as they have little re- gard for the private property of the landlords. Due to the high cost of damages apartment owners are finding it more profitable to rent to married couples because -they sel-

. dom have damage problems with this group.

Federation president, John Shor- tall-reports the federation will be

’ working with the associataion to encourage them to give students a chance to rent their housing.

Waterloo landlords are also’

Radio Waterloo’s disc jockey service, Whiplash, refused Ito per- form at an Engineering Society party last night due to conflicting views on the all-encompassing area of enteminment .

’ - According to a press release, the staff at Radio Waterloo felt that due to the attitudes. which engineers exhibit at their “Thigh-High Pub” they couldn’t possibly be con- cerned with bettering the relation- ship between women and men.

This lack of concern with de- veloping a better relationship bet- ween the sexes leads engineers to: “. . .get violently, intoxicated and their relationship to women is re- Y duced to watchingthem strip or en- ticing them to have fun at one of their events by providing a dis,- count on the admission price in proportion to the amount of thigh that is exposed.” The “Thigh High Pub’” is a semester EngSoc event that allows women a price discount if they wear the shortest skirt pos- sible .

Whiplash is a two-person opera- tion that plays recorded music to entertainment events on campus for a minimal fee.

The Radio Waterloo statement points out that though it might seem a-contradicti for Whiplash to re- fuse a contract in a time of scarce funds, this stance is necessary since “the staff at Radio Waterloo believes that whereas it is very im- portant for all people to have a good time, it is just as important to have a critique of what a good time is all about, and such critique is derived from a general critique of societal relationships. ’ ’

The release also ‘says: “The point is that to enjoy oneself, one, dpes not need to be sexist, nor does one need to create any other form of oppressive human relation-’ ships .,” However, according to Radio Waterloo, EngSoc doesn’t appear to have caught on to this

‘way of /thinking. ’ EngSoc’s lack of awareness is

even more disturbing “when one

However, Radio Waterloo is _ aware that one of the reason why

engineers are most prone to per- petuate oppressive human rela- tionships has to do with-their posi- tion in society.

In addition, the curricula and job opportunities of engineers forces them into “oppressive modes of re-

_ lating ,” the press release states. But Radio Waterloo points out

that as far as is possible “. . .we can make necessary changes, at least in the environments over which we have control ,” and the fact that en- gineers have “consistently” re- fused to see this has led the station to adopt its position.

Radio Waterloo decided to boycott engineering events after participating in the last “Thigh High Pub” held last winter.

withdrawing housing from students because they can make more money during the Oktober “fun fest”, than a whole term of renting their rooms to students. A landlord can make as much as $20 a night renting his accomodation to Water- loo visitors while students only pay $20 a week in rent.

One local women who controls 600 units of housing in Waterloo has withdrawn all her housing from the student market due to the un- profitability of renting to students. _ Vinnicombe is hopeful ‘a bit of ‘ ‘public relations ” work with local residents and potential landlords will increase the size of his office’s housing list. He told the chevron, “every bed appearing on our hous- ing list was put there by our staff

personally telephoning each land- lord last May”. _

In the housing director’s eyes one of the best solutions to this year’s housing shortage would be a splash of publicity on the front page of local newspapers. Last year the Federation of Students “tent city”, which was set up behind the cam- pus centre to house homeless stu- dents, was most successful at en- couraging local people to open their doors and rooms to students.

Vinnicombe told the chevron, after the publicity his office re- ceived 100 offers of rooms almost immediately. Local ministers also helped out last year by-armouncing from the pulpit that students were in “a real jam”.

According to Vinnicombe there is one happy note about the housing crisis he has experienced in previ- ous years. “Once we’re into Oc- tober the housing situation has al- ways improved remarkably and we’re never in such a bad situation at the beginning of the winter; spring and summer terms,” Vin- nicombe said.

University of Waterloo ad- ministration officials are quite con- cerned a September crisis *will dampen the increase in enrollment figures and might possibly decrease them, by scaring away potential students. .

It is recommended that all stu- dents who do not have confirmed housing by this time should start looking almost immediately. Some students are renting accomodation for the month of August to ensure they will have housing in Sep- tember even though they will be leaving the accomodation empty for a whole month.

The Federation of Students will have a housing office open in the campus centre in August during the day and also during evenings. The fed housing office can be reached at 8850370. Vinnicombe’s housing office will only- be open during the day and i.ti can be reached at 8851211, extension 2715.

-michael go&Jon

2 the chevron ’ friday, july 11, 1975

This week on’campus is a free column ior the announcement.5 of meetings, special semindr.4 or speaker>, 5ocidl twoc . events and happenings on campus --student, faculty or stafi. See, the chev- ron secretary. Deadline is noon Tues- ‘I

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Eight From Town Exhibition. UW art $1. Non-feds $1.50. Wednesday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon.

gallery. Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4, Sun 2-5 till Saltspring Rainbow from g-lam. 74 Aug. 22. cents after 7 pm.

Campus Centre Pud opens 12 noon. Garfield from the Garfield Band. 9-l am. 74 cents after 7pm.

Student’s international Meditation Society. Advanced lecture and group meditation. All meditators welcome. 8pm. E-3-l 101.

Federation Flicks-Mr. Majestyk with Charles Bronson. AL1’16. 8pm. Feds $1. Non-feds $1.50.

Gay Coffee House. Everyone wel- come. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm. 110.

Legality Night presented by the En- gineering Society. 7pm. Mr. Art Wardell of the APE0 will discuss engineering aspects of the law. Mr. Morley Rosen- burg, the federation of students’ lawyer will discuss more general aspects of the law. Questions will be answered. Everyone welcome. Coffee and donuts.

Monday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Saltspring Rainbow from g-lam. 74 cents after 7pm.

Gay Coffee House. Everyone wel- come. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm. 110. Crafts People-anyone may apply for

a table in the September Crafts Fair. All crafts must be made by seller. Articles made in Canada only. Applications must be no later than Aug. 7. Write Susan Phillips, Campus Centre Board or phone 3867.

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Thursday Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Saltspring Rainbow from 9-l am. 74 cents after 7 pm.

Saturday Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Gar- field from the Garfield Band. g-lam. 74 cents admission.

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KlTCHENER Film: The Frozen Revolution. (Mexi- can Revolution of 1910) Free Admis- sion. 8pm. El21 1. Sponsored by LASA and Federation of Students.

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ealth -#care in China discussed Professor Peter New, a be-

havioural scientist in the faculty of medicine at University of Toronto, left his Chinese homeland in 1948. In 1973 he’returned with a handful of academics and made a film about health-care.

North American academics and in 1973 six of them set off on a five week tour to film their country of origin. One of their members, Diane Li, is a film maker at Stan- ford University. She is responsible for most of the filming, editing, and narration of a colourful and techni- cally sound piece of work entitled ‘ ‘Barefoot Doctors”.

health care, especially in the rural communes where 85% of the country’s 800 million-people live.

care which had once been a privilege in China was now av- ailable in the most distant rural

ified physcians).

New, American trained, worked at the Shanghai Medical College in 1948, where he lived a privileged life and did little travelling outside the city.

country and see whathas happened since the 1949 revolution.

During the course of the next two years he and his San Franciscan

Following a visit by two Chinese physicians to Toronto in 1971, New

wife met with other Chinese-born

felt that he ‘should return to his Society on Monday night, July 7:

- He explained before showing the film that in some ways it was a very

New describes his role in making the film as that of packhorse. He

narrow view of China because his

showed the film and answered questions at a well attended meet- ing of the Canada China Friendship

group was mainly interested in

“All five weeks westuck to our agenda”, said New, “ . . . we were somewhat impolite in demanding that we go and see certain things.” Because of their interest, he exp- lained, they did not go and see the factories nor the beautiful parts of the country.

where the people had very little pride in being Chinese. In 1973 they returned to a proud country which had eradicated some diseases and

But those five weeks had “a very great impact on New and his friends, The country they had left was one where disease ran rife and

had all others under control. Health

“We are, we are, we are the Engineers”, ad they’re off to Village One to remind the university it’s ENCJNEE RING WEEK. photo by michael gordon

Gue/ph student councilif neg&ilating agreement __

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Negotiations are continuing be- tween the University of Guelph and its student council to determine whether activity fees will be col- lected by the university for the council, student president Bill Gray said Wednesday.

Earlier, Gray said he was warned in a letter from W. W. Bean, U. of G. vice-president, that the university’s board of governors had cancelled on July 3rd a 1973 agreement with the student-council because it didn’t live up to its share of providing a proper audit for 1973-74 within a reasonable period.

Now, however, Gray said that the administration has promised it will continue to recognize the stu- dent government until negotiations are concluded over the letter of ag- reement in August.

If, in August, the board does go ahead and cancel the letter of ag- reement, it could mean that the university will not recognize or col- lect fees for the student council.

Gray said the agreement has been a “pain in the neck” for the university for several years be- cause it gives students control over the property they occupy at the new University Center building.

Students don’t have to abide by the same rules that others do in the use of the University Center. Now that the letter of agreement is under review, students will have to abide by administration rules which will also prohibit the student council from delegating space in the Uni- versity Center without going

through the proper channels of ap- proval.

Last August there was a flare-up between the university and the stu- dent council when the latter allot- ted space, which was supposed to be for the student newspaper, to an alternative community school in- tended for Guelph secondary school students.

Another source of irritation for the university is the lawsuit the student council is pursuing in an attempt to recoup more than $1

million in student funds contri- buted through the collection of stu- dent fees to the University Center, Gray said.

The students contend that the control of the $9 million building should be vested in a board of stu- dents, faculty and alumni. Student funds had been collected for the center since 1966.

The administration argues that the university controls the build- ing.

-john motris

Investment funds devalued

Pensions evaluated . As of last December the value of

investments in the university’s employee’s pension plan decreased 14 per cent. Adding last year’s 14 per cent rate of inflation, this figure amounts to a decrease of 28 per cent.

Losses were particularly heavy in two of the university’s four in- vestment funds that make up the plan’s total resources. In these funds losses <averaged 17 to 18 per cent without consideration of infla- tion.

This dramatic decrease in value, according to A.H. Boyd, administ- ration chief for pensiqn plans has been caused by a general decline in value of funds in investment mar- kets.

Boyd told the chevron, that in the long run should these losses con- tinue they would be catastrophic

for the pension plan and the coun- try. “Pension plan funds are at the mercy of market conditions”, Boyd said. Conditions on the stock market deteriorated considerably last year.

Boyd assured the chevron the fund was at present having no trou- ble paying benefits to pensioners. Despite the large decrease in value over last year the Pension and Be- nefits Committee, a body that ad- vises the Board of Governors on pension matters, has not raised the issue of increasing the contribu- tions university staff make to the funds.

Still optimistic over the future of the pension funds, Boyd told the chetion the market has improved somewhat since the date of the last evaluation of the pension fund.

-michael go@on

area. Rural health care in China re-

wolves around, people whom the Chinese call “bare&t doctors”. These men and women are the main subject of this film.

Barefoot doctors, it is explained, are peasants who, in six months, are trained in basic medical care, gynaecology, obstetrics, preven- tive medicine, family planning, and treatment of diseases prevalent in their area. They then return to their villages and divide their time bet- ween work in the fields and the practise of medicine. Their title is symbolic of their kinship with the rural peasant.

New explained that Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian communist who went to China in 1949 to help the revolution, was instrumental in starting the barefoot doctor sys- tem. But the system didn’t become widespread until Mao’s June 26th directive in 1965 when he stressed the need to provide adequate health care to all areas of the country. How is medical care administered to 800 million people over an area of 12 million square miles? Accord- ing to this film, and New, the barefoot doctors are the answer.

Peasants are chosen to be trained as barefoot doctors at public meet- ings. The amount of public work done, their aptitude, and their poli-- tics are, all important for the pros- pective candidate, but above all the peasant must have shown him/herself to be motivated to serve the people, a principle in Chinese life.

Students

The amount of drugs a barefoot doctor can administer depends on the amount of training received. They all have to return to school for 30 days each year (as do all qual-

Foreign students facing “emergency” financial hardship may be eligible for funds at the dis- cretion of UW president Burt Matthews, Pat Robertson, director of academic services ,‘ said Monday.

The president will judge each case on its own merits based on recommendations from the intema- tional student advisor and the stu: dent awards officer, Robertson said.

He said the senate student aid committee decided recently that funds will be awarded on the basis of a country severing diplomatic re- lations with Canada, a temporary delay of remittances from the coun- try of origin or any other valid reason. The funds will be-handed out as either a loan or a grant.

No money will be allotted to stu- dents whose financial plight is caused by their own lack of foresight, Robertson said.

He said the committee heard nine cases being cited as examples of foreign students who are in need of financial assistance.

- The committee’s decision thus answered an appeal made at the last university senate meeting for fi- nancial aid for foreign students whose funds had been cut off due to unforeseen circumstances.

At that time, international stu- dent advisor Ruth Rempel in- formed senators that one of the main reasons for foreign students needing assistance is the changing political scene in their countries.

Rhodesian, Ethiopian, Chilean and Nigerian students are ex- periencing greater difficulty in get- ting financial aid from parents and sponsors because home governments are preventing the

One of the basic tenets of the peasant doctors’ training, exp- lained New, is that they realise their limitations. When cases occur that they are unsure about, they are instructed that the patient should be admitted to the district hospital where there are fully qualified physcians .

Another facet of Chinese medicine is its use of both tradi- tional and modern remedies. Acupuncture and ‘herbal medicines are combined with modern medicines to provide comprehen- sive health care. The barefoot doc- tor is t@$ned in both these facets.

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The cost of the barefoot doctor service to the peasant is about one dollar (US) per year. The brigade, a local government unit of about 1500 people, contributes another dollar a head.

The cost of medicine has de- creased by 80% since 1952, and for an average acupuncture session a patient pays five cents.

The results of the barefoot doc- tor system have been remarkable, according to the film. Typhus and cholera have been controlled, parasitic diseases greatly reduced, venereal disease eliminated, and a successful family planning system has been implemented which largely depends on the barefoot doctor, as does what New de- scribes as “a fantastic immuniza- tion program”. The barefoot doc- tor is also responsible for health education in the village and im- proved sanitation.

aid-ed

Preventive measures are a cru- cial part of Chinese health care yet, New explained, anti-smoking cam- paigns had very little impact, nor were they likely to, he suggested, so long as Mao at 82 continues to virtually chain smoke.

-Ml docherty

remittance of money abroad, she explained.

The university has 600 to 700 - people on foreign student visas. UW has the third largest number of foreign students in Canada, with the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto coming first and second.

Though Rempel suggested that immigration laws prevent foreign students from working to finance their schooling without working permits, which according to her are next to impossible to get, immigra- tion officer Doug Davies said Mon- day that there are about 150 work permits issued to the 800 to 1,000 international student population in the region.

Since a fair number of foreign students are from the United States and quite a few of the non U.S. citizens go home during summer to visit their families, the 150 work permits issued shows a good record for the department, Davies argued. “The conception that all foreign students are broke is completely wrong since most of them come from wealthy families. ”

Davies said that those who say the immigration department. is in- sensitive to the troubles of foreign students are taking “unfair shots” since “we (at immigration) bend over backwards to help them.”

He cited the recent case of 740 Ethiopian students who obtained work permits due to pressure brought about by the immigration department upon manpower minis- ter Robert Andras. These students were in a severe financial situation due to a political upheaval at home . and “it was only because of our lobbying that got them the work permits ,” Davies said.

-john morris

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Now, as the word may imply, orientation means a sort of “setting straight” of newcomers to the campus and community. In the past, this has taken the form of var- ious atrocities committed upon the freshmen, or in the modem days of women’s lib-fresh persons, or still more conveniently-frosh, during the dreaded “initiation” cere- mony. In a progressive society such as ours, initiation is no longer accepted as the thing to do.

In summary, what Orientation has come to mean, by the simple

process of eliminating what has failed from past orientations, has come down to the two corner- stones of university entertain- ment-pubs and concerts.

With this in mind, the Federation of Students will be waiting with open arms for all the newcomers, and veteran students alike, in the now-permanent licensed Campus Centre Pub. Operating on a daily basis from noon till 1:00 a.m., Monday through Friday and from 7:OOp.m. till 1:OQa.m. on Saturday, the pub will open right after Labour Day.

As for the concert scene, it is still too early to say for sure which acts will be appearing. We may have up to three large concerts in the Physi- cal Activities Building and a series of three or four smaller shows in

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In addition, the Federation Flicks will be running movies on Friday, Saturday and Sunday all through the term. Orientation fea- tures include American Graffitti starting on the 5th , Chinatown on the 12th and the Longest Yard on the 19th of September. There will also be movies sponsored by the Campus Centre Board in the Great Hall every Wednesday evening.

Tours of the Campus, illustrating the layout of buildings and various V student services and of the local area showing the sights to our new residents, will be conducted on a daily basis to help assist the new student to get acquainted with their new environment.

On the first day of classes on September 8, a Bluegrass country rock concert is planned for the late afternoon. This show will be free of charge. It will be located in front of the Physical Activities Building.

On September 10, the Federation will be offering some culture, in its highly successful annual milk run down to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. This year the afternoon matinee is Twelfth Night. Tickets are limited for this show.

On Sept. 13, the first Saturday after classes start, a sports-day- barbeque is planned on Columbia Field near Lake Columbia on the North Campus. This will feature hopefully the First Annual ’ Lake Columbia Raft Regatta-a raft race pitting the nautical might of all the Faculty societies, church colleges and residence groups and indepen- dent entries in friendly competi- tion.

One of the big events in this year’s orientation is the Orienta- tion Lottery. This lottery is in part an attempt to demonstrate the high costs of university education by raffling off the ‘price of a full year’s tuition as the prize. Proceeds from the lottery will be allocated to the Ginny Lee Memorial Fund, a fund to help students in short term fi- nancial difficulty during the school year. This fund is administered through the awards office and is funded by the Federation of Stu- dents.

All the faculty societies, colleges and residence groups will be stag- ing their own orientations within the three week period in Sep- tember, in addition to Federation activities. This is just a quick pre- view of what lies ahead. Later on, in the summer, a comprehensive programme of orientation events will be posted in the chevron with full details.

Till then, enjoy the rest of the summer and see you in September!

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“This year, I am truly concerned about the housing situation. It appears now as if we will be short anywhere from 200 to 800 beds this fall. ’ ’

This concern is voiced by UW housing director Cail Vinnicombe, who admits that this is the first year that he has been con- cerned about a serious housing shortage de- veloping in the fall.

Vinnicombe went on to state that there are presently $00 beds listed with the administ- ration housing office and that all residences are full and have been since early June. The only exceptions are Minota Hagey, which has room for some women graduate stu- dents, Phillip Street co-op which has room for a few more women, and the two co-op houses in the villages which are short of women who wish to live in mixed houses.

The waiting list for the villages stood at 300 before-Vinnicombe decided to chop the list since there was no hope of getting 300 students housing in the villages. The usual drop-out rate or “no show” rate is about 30 to 40 beds for the both villages and these beds are filled by lottery from those names on the waiting list.

The Federation of Students, after last years housing crisis, predicted that this years shortage would be even worse and that a downward trend in the availability of hous- ing would continue for the next few years.

There have been several factors contribut- ing to this downward trend, and the federa- tion has been studying these to find out if there are any solutions to these problems. One of the most prominant causes of the housing shortage; is the fact that students are not desirable tenants in the eyes of the land- lords.

Many apartment owners have stated. that they would rather let their apartments go vacant for two years than rent to students. This attitude has been fostered by the fact that many landlords have experienced a dis- proportionate amount of damage by student tenants. While the exact extent and nature of this damage, and even whether or not stu- dents are the worst offenders, is hard to de- termine, some apartment owners have shown the federation of students some graphic examples of damaged apartments that they claim were occupied by students.

Another common complaint is’ the “ir- regular hours” that the student tenants keep. This type of complaint seems to originate from other tenants in the building who for 1

some reason or another object to these “ir- regular hours”. This area of complaint, however, seems to be the least rational of the objections to student tenants.

Students are also beingpenalised, through no fault of their own, for the short duration of their tenancies. Landlords claim that the cleaning bill and redecorating costs make it unprofitable to rent to students for eight months.

Basically, a student now looking for an apartment is faced with two hurdles, one being the past behaviour of some student tenants and the other being that the student does not represent much of a profit for the landlord.

Students who do have apartments for this

fall can expect a twelve per cent increase in their rent according to Tony Bergmier, pres- ident of the Waterloo Region Apartment owners. Bergmier stated that the average rent for a one bedroom apartment this fall will be one hundred and sixty-five dollars with two bedrooms going for one hundred and eighty-five dollars. So, apartments are not easy to get and if one can be obtained it will be expensive.

If apartments are scarce, what about rooms? The room situation seems equally bleak as more people pull their extra rooms off the market. Vinnicombe feels that the only hope of providing adequate housing for

’ the fall is to convince people who have extra rooms to list them with the university.

There is, of course, not a hope in hell of the university building-more residences and the tight mortgage market and general low economic level rules out the federation building any residences; a thought proposed last year during the housing shortage.

What then seems to be the immediate solu- tion? Unfortunately there is no immediate solution. The only avenue that seems to be open to students is to pressure the govern- ment to provide more funds for student resi- dences. But if the recent cutbacks are any indication that will be a long and hard battle.

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So for the meantime, if you want accom- modation for the fall get it now; and in the case of apartments that will probably mean paying for it now.

Housing handbook

To emphasize the need for improved rela- tions between student tenants and landlords, the University together with the Federation of Students, is publishing a student tenant handbook. Entitled simply “Student Hous- ing Handbook” or “How To Avoid Tent City”, the handbook will deal primarily with the Landlord and Tenant Act. This act is often confusing for both parties involved and, therefore, a questionand answer format has been adopted.

The booklet attempts to answer the most frequently asked questions . These include the definition of a lease, security deposits, subletting and the responsibilities of both the tenant and the landlord. It also tells you where to find legal advice.

Apartment living seems to be one of the most popular types of accommodations for students. Suggestions such as what to look for, rental examples, location and choice of roommates are all discussed. The impor- tance of any agreement put in writing is par- ticularly stressed.

A Section on room and board gives the student some ideas and suggestions as to what facilities he/she should look for. Either a detachable checklist or separate checklist will be included in the handbook and the student can take this along when searching

for a place to live. Also a section on pertinent answer questions and letters and offer sug- local by-laws is included. gestions which may prove helpful.

This handbook is being published to help This service will be particularly beneficial the student and the landlord avoid problems. to freshmen who are unfamiliar with the By knowing what to look for, how to handle 1 K-W community and will be living off- certain situations, by using your common sense and respecting other peoples’ property and privacy, many unnecessary problems can be avoided. It is hoped that through edu- cation and awareness of each other’s rights that relations will improve and we can help prevent a housing shortage.

Fed ho&sing -office ’

The Federation of Students is very con- cerned with the housing problem and for this reason will be operating a housing office to supplement the services offered by the uni- versity .

The Federation housing office will operate from August 1st to September 14th from 4:30 - 6:OOp.m. weekdays and 1l:OOa.m. to 6:OOp.m. on weekends and will be located in the Federation of Students office, room 235 in the Campus Centre. The office staff will list available housing, distribute maps of the area as well as bus routes and schedules, hand out room and board listings, provide telephones, a daily copy of the K-W Record,

campus. If at all possible don’t wait until the end of August or the first of September to come to Kitchener-Waterloo to find accom- modations. For many students this will be impossible owing to distance, but for those students within commuting distance it usu-

. ally is possible and necessary. Not much can. be done for the student living in Manitoba and unable to come down here to find a place but if he or she is willing to share accommo- dations we will post a list of their names and addresses. Just write to the Federation of Students Housing Office, Campus Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,

N2L 3Gl and,%give us particulars such as your faculty, year, type of accommodation you’re looking for, a price range, any prefer- ences, i.e. non smoker, etc., your age, sex, name, address and phone number. Please don’t phone collect as we can’t accept these calls. We will post this information and make ’ it available for those who have found ac- commodations and are looking for students to share the costs. Last year, 2,000 students took advantage of the Federation Housing Office service and it is expected that the number will increase this summer.

The Federation will also be doing a tele- phone survey to promote new student hous- ing. A city wide appeal utilizing all the media will begin the end of July to emphasize the severity of the problem and encourage homeowners and landlords to rent to stu- dents.

2 student issues fday, july ~1, I 975

No. work? You ain’t the on-Zy One Things ain’t the tiay they used to be. Once

upon a time students could easily get jobs, now they’re lucky if they land casual emp- loyment. Tough shit, federal ministers say. The ministers ought to know as they’re well aware qf the magnitude of not on/y student but gen- era/ unemployment in Canada.

1974, has laid off well over that number from its regular hourly-rated work force in the past year. They say it is unlikely they will hire a significant- number of students this year, except about 200 who will fill during vacation periods.

The campaign is comprised of two types of telligence of students. The action of the gov- ernment in this area is as much an attempt to propagandize students and the public as it is an attempt to alleviate unemployment. Little wonder that the government refuses to re- lease information on the real situation of stu- dent summer employment.

Debra Lewis, a researcher for the Ontario Federation of Students, wrote thi; following feature for the Canadian University Press and she explains how the federal government is trying to obscure the nature of student unemp- loyment and justify iti “band-aid” solutions.

A major problem in trying to find out about summer employment for students is the lack of information available, both with respect to the evaluation of past programs and the projection of the situation in the future.

Although manpower is a matter of federal concern, the government at this level has done virtualy no analysis of the success or failure of employment schemes for students.

Up to 1972, the federal government car- ried out an annual Survey of Student Sum- mer Employment, which provided at least some information on trends in summer emp- loyment opportunities. But rather than ex- panding the collection of data it was inexp- licably decided a few years back to discon- tinue the survey altogether, and it is unclear whether any alternative will be considered for the future.

We do know that the government does have some information, but the problem is they do not want to- release it to the public. One such source of information is a 1974-75 Student Labout Market Survey which was considered by the federal cabinet in their formulation of federal government employ- ment policies last year.

From the government’s refusal to release this study one can only assume that it painted a picture so bleak as to be danger- ous. One government source indicated that the study projected a possible unemploy- ment rate among students for this summer at upwards of 15 percent, causing the govem- ment to suddenly allocate funds for -federal make-work projects.

The government has also done an evalua- tion of the effectiveness of student man- power centres which is also impossible to obtain through government channels. Since thesecentres, located on campuses and off, are allegedly important mechanisms for minimizing student unemployment it seems logical to question the reasoning behind the withholding of the document. When ques- tioned on this, one federal spokesman exp- lained that “the information isn’t confiden- tial, but the document is”.

The only figure the government will re- lease is that 196,000 “placements” were made through those centres last year. But even this figure should be used with caution. Manpower considers a “full job placement” any position of a minimum of three days. Thus one student may appear in the statistics a number of times for several placements of perhaps a few weeks each.

Manpower officials concede that the al- most total lack of available information on summer employment does hamper public discussion of the matter. Yet the thick, blue-covered document containing the re- port with the information remains stacked in boxes in the offices of government bureauc- rats, stamped “CONFIDENTIAL”.

Summer jobs vs. the economic crisis

Despite the abysmal lack of information in this area it is possible to discern some trends in student summer employment. While the occasional placement officers claimed just a few months ago that the employment situa- tion for students this summer would not be significantly worse than last year, now all sources indicate it is a situation of crisis proportions.

An official in the Youth Employment Sec- tion of the Department of Manpower and Immigration recently stated frankly, “It’s going to be a rough summer,” and further noted that firms which had previously hired perhaps 2530-students in the summer are now drastically reducing that number. Often, he said, they are eliminating summer employment programs entirely.

A glance at the job situation in the private sector gives another clue. General Motors, which hired 1,247 students in the summer of

Other large companies, including MacMil- lan Bloedel, Bell Canada, and IBM also re- port substantial decreases in the number of students to be hired: 38.8 percent-, 51.2 per- cent and 37.5 percent respectively. Accord- ing to a Bell Canada spokesperson, “the general economic slowdown has somewhat affected demand for our services and infla-

propaganda-that which is directed at un- employed students-ostensibly to relieve the possible disastrous situation which faces students this summer; and employer- oriented advertising summed up under the slogan: “Have a Young Summer-Hire a student.” The content of the ads is not as altruistic as it may seem at first. As govem- ment policy moves in tlfe direction of placing more of the cost of post-secondary educa- tion on the backs of the students, the ads subtly convince the public that this is just and employers that they have an obligation

tion has necessitated a tighter control on ex- penditures .”

to cooperate with the -plan by hiring stu-

It is clear that the general crisis in unemp- dents.

loyment will result in the inability of many One example is the ad which asks emp-

loyers to remember what it was like to be a students to obtain jobs in the private sector. But even before the current crisis it was clear

student. “Will you become an instant drop-

that summer employment has been inade- out because you didn’t earn enough to pay your way?” it asks. The onus of responsibil-

quate, both in terms of financial and non- ity for post-secondary drop-outs shifted financial rewards. A report submitted to the federal government’s Committee on Youth

from government policy to those students who cannot get jobs and those employers

back in 1970 notes: , whom heartless enough not to hire them in “The present pattern of summer employ- the summer months.

ment, adopted by the overwhelming major- On the other hand, if the employer does ity of post-secondary students as a system of succumb to the government’s plea on behalf financial subsidy, is growing increasingly of impoverished students, the employer will

“l’ve co/led the family together to announce that, because of idution, I’m going to hove to let two of you go.” P impractical for students, employers and Canadian society . . .it is indisputable that summer jobs are increasingly more difficult to procure and increasingly less relevant to everyone.”

“feel like a hero”-or so the ad says. The irony is they will indeed be heroes-to the government desperate for a band-aid solu- tion to the problems of unemployment and student aid.

Speaking financially, past studies have shown that many students are unable to find employment sufficient to meet their needs in the coming year. In a 1972 survey, nine per- cent of post-secondary students seeking summer employment were unable to find employment at all, but again the figure must be used with caution. It does not include those students who could not return to school due to insufficient funds, since the survey was done at the schools.

The study does show that, of those who did find employment, many found work only for short periods, inadequate to meet their needs. In 1972,40 percent of those who were employed and who were covered in the sur- vey said they wanted additional weeks of work during the summer but were unable to get work. The average number of additional weeks desired was five, and the problem was particularly acute in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec, where almost half of those emp- loyed wanted additional work.

The Committee on Youth Report also noted that: “At least 24 percent of students categorized as those who obtained work earned so little that it seems virtually irrelev- ant to speak of them in statistical terms as ‘being employed’ “.

The Fed’s CON JOB With a general unemployment rate hover-

ing above eight percent and with projections for summer unemployment as high as 15 per- cent, the federal government has assembled a massive advertising campaign designed to convince students, employers and the public that things aren’t as bad as they seem.

In these ads, students are portrayed in the most paternalistic fashion. After all, “You can get a lot of mileage from an easy-to- handle student. ” Employers are asked, in essence, to exploit this resource to “pack your boxes”, “wash your dishes”, “wait on your tables” and “pick your peaches” in order to “help? a nice kid earn a buck or two. Students are subtly promoted as a re- servoir of scab labour, willing to work har- der, longer, and more cheaply than members of the work force at large.

The ads directed at students are not less insidious. Students are told that if they can’t get a job they should travel around the coun- try, stay in youth hostels, and maybe get a job “picking peaches in Niagara.” Peach picking seems to be a favourite of the Department of Manpower and Immigration in their “bread and circuses” approach to student unemployment. If you can’t get a job just spend the summer wandering around the country and something, somewhere, may come up. If not you’ve had a good time try- ing .

Students are also warned not to be choosy when it comes to a summer job. It accuses students of “selecting (themselves) out of a summer job.” Again the responsibility for unemployment does not belong with the economic system or government policy, but rather with the individual. Another ad indi- cates that, if you are resourceful enough, you will certainly be able to get some kind of summer joI%% other words, if you are un- employed and have to drop out of school for financial reasons, it’s your own fault.

In general, the federal campaign is a blat- ant misrepresentation of the real problems of student employment and an insult to the in-

Women hit hardest Some groups of students do worse than

others when it comes to summer employ- ment. One such group is women students. During the time in which they are students, as afterwards, they suffer from additional problems in unemployment, underemploy- ment and differential pay scales.

Summer employment of\ female students has serious implications for the financing of their educations. First of all, it is clear they have more’ difficulty than men in attaining summerjobs. A 1972 survey showed that 12 percent of women students as compared to seven percent of men were unemployed dur- ing the summer,

More recent figures show that, in 1974, only 30 percent of women as compared to 47 percent of men registered with Canada Man- power were placed in jobs.

The 1972 figures also showed that women’s work periods during summers was shorter than the the averages of men: 11 weeks as compared to 12 weeks. Average earnings were much less for women than men: $780 as compared to $1295.

The results of such discrimination are that women students are likely to be subsisting on less than men. Additionally, larger prop- ortions of women students are dependent on parental support as compared with men. A 1971 study done in Toronto showed that 43.5 percent of women depended on parents for ‘- support, compared to only 31 percent of men.

In a society ‘where a higher priority is placed upon education for men than women, these facts have a devastating effect on the ability of women, particularly those from lower income groups, to attend post- secondary institutions.

Foreign students hard hit Students from abroad studying in Canada

are the hardest hit group when it comes to summer employment. In 1973, the federal government changed its regulations regard- ing the issuing of work permits for such stu- dents. The new regulations stated that work permits would be issued only to those stu- dents with jobs for which no Canadian was available.

In practice, this means that only a handful of the 21,000 foreign students presently studying in Canada are able to attain work permits for the summer months.

Technically, it should be possible for foreign students to find jobs in areas desig- nated by Canada Manpower as skill shortage areas. Except that Canada Manpower has refused to issue a list of where manpower is need. As a result foreign students are unable to go directly to those jobs for which there is some chance of obtaining a work permit and must try to “second guess” Manpower in order to obtain employment.

The reasoning behind the hard line posi- _ tion of the government is that foreign stu- dents should not be allowed to compete w&h Canadians in the summer job market. But when the small number of foreign-students as compared to the total student population is taken into account one wonders whether the threat of competition is all that great. Con- sidering that about half of the foreign stu- dents are graduate students, the number of foreign students likely to seek employment for the summer is probably in the 10 to 12,000 range.

The result of the government’s refusal to allow foreign students to work is that stu- dents from abroad coming to Canada to study must be well endowed when they get here, meaning that only the wealthy or polit- ically favoured are likely to be able to attend.

Student groups have taken the position that it is the inadequacy of summer employ- ment opportunities for all students, and not the presence or absence of foreign students, - which is the relevant factor. Just as immig- rants and other minority groups are often the first targets in times of economic recession, so are foreign students being used as scapegoats for the current crisis in summer employment.

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,I VW students may be asked during this year or next to vote in a referendum on. whether they should join. the National Uiiion of Stu- dents at the cost of one dollar per head. In the following piece, erstwhi/& chevron staff wriier

lohn Morris takes a sometimes though not to- tally cynical view of the wobbly future of na- tional Canadian student unionism.

\- tive,s . -By hearingthe variousappruaeh@s;and a -% stages- .of ‘-development 1 for >an area. of their

. as$oi=iation% concern-they aierbetter abig to -2 understand the>area and canact with a much

-. wider perspbctive. ’ \ ‘-‘The second benefit is the re-

For nearly three years, Canadian univer- sity students didn’t-have a national-union’to defend their varied interests.

establishment bf a natiohal student lobby in Ottawa. Governments-respond to pressure; and they rely tipon the reaction and opinion ofinterest groups forinformationessential i’n

And they paid dearly for it. . Because during that short period of t@e

there was&o national lobby for post- secondFry students vis-a-vis the federal

‘gove’mment, .a@, as a result-,- since l-969 ‘there was little or no legislation favorable’ to students.

Ontario students, for instance, paid dearly for the lack of a’ national student >erganiza- tion when the province slapped on’s $100 tuition increas’e and-jacked the- OSAP loan ceilinq to $800 from $600 in April, 1972.

The absence ofauch a structure prevented Ontario students from exert&g much pres- sure on Queen’s Park in September, 1972, as they didn’t have, the res’ources of a national rather than a provincial union such -as the Ontario Federation- of Students. behind them: A

/ Union Needed

the deci&n-making process. Since Cm& s dissolved there has&een no organization or - method to fei=d student& views into govern-

- ment decision-making, or to apply students’ , pressure upon government. )

‘ tThe consequence was that students re- ceived little consideration as federal-and

\ fedeial/proviticial decisions were made. NUS has resumed lobbying. ajon .students’ L behalf. . . Already-govemment.agenci&are ’ asking for the student p,osition on a number: J of matters-when in one-day a federal cabinet;. minister rec?eives over 20 phone &lls from all regions regarding an NUS request he &ndws that students must be listened to a$ theii- I

/ view%.considered in making a decision that ’ affects thei. . -

’ ’ “The third benefit of B national organiza- \ *. . . . a* F A *’ 0‘ .*a

So gradually, student leaders began to realize that they needed ‘to fill the vacuum left with the demise of the Canadian Union of Student3 (CUS) in 1969 to cotinter the fed-

[ion is researcn ana imormario_r! services. Al’1 gain when, through pooled r&oufces, items of cdncem‘can be researched in depth by a national organization, and when needed in- formation can be ‘easily obtained from a ci=n- xI tral source. ”

The letter, to point otit the dire need for a ’ natio_nal organiz&io&proffered the foll-?jw- .

ing exainple of post-setiondary education: 1 ..-1 “2. -2 . i-7 ‘I- c _ -..rs.A-A’2i~m + cra1 go VC1 ulllcuL 3 Cst~Cl

,__ -“~.ss TV I India ~-r”’ - “The basic p‘attqm qf @pding for -post- r

simpljl _ not ‘solicit studet It Opinion dn / the secondary educatidn is established in .the

many issues of {tertiary euur;aLlull. 1966 Fiscal Arrangements Act. Two impor- - I . 1..,...4.,, This re&lization led to the setting up df .a. tant features are that a nrnvince receives - - - - - - - - - =-- . - - - - - - - - - - I - -

which more p$ogressive-groups can channel their ener&$ aid perhaps have some im-

and failed to”see them as citizens also, ,who

five-member steering committee to investi;. federal transf ‘ers eallsl to about 50 per cent of coped with ti rnah broader, “so+&al~~ .

’ gate the feasibility of starting a new national

the operating-&&&& - of post-secondary:- Pact- community than that associated with the old . > . student Fnion qt a University -of Windsor educ@& in that nrovincl 1-a-- Ye ., . _--_ e and that tci trans- In addit’ion, it should be borne in mind that “ivory tower” concept.

Conference in May, 1972 Ndnm* J +L nwn fe’r to the prc Dvince can onlv increase bv a a national organization along NUS lities is by - - - - - . - ---~ - - - , - ~~~ - -

.A second point was that, though”NFCUS- . lVIU3C V I UlG y1 u- -1-z---1 --- -LITA- -- ________ ~_ __ L _ ‘L ,- a r\+ 4h:” mas+:rrrr vinces were representecl._ilr .&1115 1ll~~~ll5 miximuin of 15 per cent per year. This ict nd’means a radical body, but mc--‘-- -- -- xe1y an ap- ( clau-neu one 01 its purposes was to - -aavance . _ _ -.

which only goes to show that student leaders unlocked federal’money for the provinces so pendage ot the. parliamentary liberal- the legitimate student interests ,” the federa-.

across the country had similar feelings about long as post-secdndary;education expanded. democratic system. Since it seeks to change, the s ysteb from “wit&’ ’ by acting virtually

tion ~icirrowly defined those interests along - - - - * the lines of service-oriented programs

the need for national cooperation. -However, the, confe+entie proved to be “As times havechanged’that Act has be- as&pa&amenta~y lobby group, it can%go’-

only a partial suecess;_For though it defiled &me a’ sourceof educatian. cutbacks, since fw+.7propti&g solutions for the radical L -suFh as charter. flights,, intmaiio&l j stu-:--

dent fights, and. link ups with.,everal inter: f

the need for; a national .brgafi?atiOn, any cost increase above. 15 percent~must be transf&mation of society. . -national organizatim$ to p‘rovide students 0

analysed the errop of CWS, established-a set ’ pa@ forcom@etely by -the pruvince raher .- with summer jabs onh an._ex&angk basis --’ . I -overseas. ,, of procedures &at wouldi ti* .aVrnational ( than 5Q@; ,Th&se .cutbaeks- have, 1 in :.tum,’ I’

..m&feng +&ion\ his&fy

association into’ reality and brought, together esteere$, most provinces in the direction of The October, f963; N’FCWS--congre&“ -

student offidials from-more than 40 institu- . tuitioti increases as a source of .funds for In order to understand better the signi& / marked the beginning of a restructuring of .

tiqns, it failed to inclticfe students from expense increases over the 15 per cent.” cance of NUS, it seems appropriak to re- j the national organization, with Quebec-stu- i-

Quebec French-speaking institutions ,or The NJJS letter argues thaf it was o,$y capitulate the history of student unionism. : . dents being ailowed an equal voice in alT

from &he non-university post-secondam in- through its-efforts that most student associa- For almost 43 years, from-1926 to 1969; - matters concerning them (the name of the’,

stitutions. tions learned about, the Act, “and only qarious national stud&t associations i com-

Neverth@l&, the steering Icommittee thrg)ugh NUS’the national organiza- grised lmgely of university-students existed

/<t@tiization was also changed to:the Cana- dian Union of Students).lBut one year later,

began to Coordinate a conference to estab- tion-will student$l%able to establish a well -in Canada. The longest lasting or&mization - Qc&becois del@ates took their imiorig o@ of

lish. a new national student union; at the. developed position on post-secondary - was the National Federation, of Canadian, - CUS-and later fgunded their owcorganti: 11

same time, it drafted. an initial con>titution fintincieg and pressure th& eleven g&eti- Univer@y Students (NFCUS) which sur- - .tiori, Union Gene&e des Etudia..ts de” ments to accept it.” ’ -‘u

arid encouraged camp’us-wide debate on the, vived bntil 1964 (except for a shqrt suspen-1 ‘Quebec (UGE.Q). BothJJGEQ and CU$

direction .of @e new union. \.- -Skirts issue<’ ’ sion’ during World WZ$ II) as a service or-

--gani&ion -for university ~ students, .as rep- immediately aitempted to go beyond the nar-

’ Early November, 1972,. the Natibnal

row self-imposed limit@isns of ‘NFCUS and . _

‘Union of Students (NUS) foun!ding cptier- Me+nwh&,.critics have saidfhat whilethe reSented by their-campus student cotincils; L . began to become involved with stucfentprob:

en& was held.- in Ottawa with 50 -studept NFCUS proved to be &pmduct.of its envi- lems ‘on &political level. - - . -

- associations --& attendance. : At the. same ,

fo.undeTs ‘of NUS we.6 careful *to d&en-*

meeting, a coBst&ution w,aa ad+Qpted ._ ., t~i&&eorg&zation so as to avoid the one.

.m ronment; -Ear %hough the omnization did. CUS: and UgEQ examine&questions af- ’

J . . major;&& ‘that led :to the demise’ of CUS, much to :promote . student u&hi&m during .the more.tbn three decades of&existence,

fecting the day.mto-da$lif~,of students,. sGch -.

priorities of &&kWAhOl'ld fitinCing;iS$dept :---they~~tgo~~Fandturmedtheo~g~nization'. its obj~tives.were~conse~atively~oEe~~ed, as .housing, uneinployment, fi%+cial assis-

housing atid eeoyment were determined, s, _ inb smwh:it&irted controversial iss;ues _ &athg the &udena-e:a good &i&n&*; tance and visas. The vrganiza&F alsatiok.‘

a.‘. and the -fu-st NUS. ce-vtral committee was r and me&ly followed the stance taken by its . relectibn of his societc

a more r?dical poli&&;tone than, that-of their . ’ ’ -

-elected. - NFCLJS’ position -within Canadian pbli- predecessors, examinifig accessibility to the

-Thereafter, the central committee began _ membership. university; university power structures- and. es

tq httempt to broaden the base of NUS by ’ However, the critics concede that the re-. tics was eiemplified’by it? objectives: the the role the university plays in the world of

contacting all post-secondary institutions in sultant decentralization may have pos,itive effects in terms -of a national odnization j

promotion of a bette-r u,nderstanding among

Canada and informing them of its existence Canadian students; a higher degree of coop-

< government. The question of universal accessibility led

and encouraging new members. And bY more attuned to its member constituencies, ‘eration among all stpdent organizations; the the member organizations to see the problem _

as “the abolition of all social and-financial May, 1975, there yereJ9 member institu-

but they wonder whether there could be a advancement of legitimate student interests;

tions in NUS from seven provinces. compromise between the “push-pull”- tasks ’ -an+ the-development of relationships witk; barriers to post+secondary education.” But of the leadership-following. ._

A recruiting letter from NUS best exemp- The question the critics ask is wheth& a other national and intematisnal groups. the organizations (and their student leaders)

lifi’es t,he arguments -used to- entice new The NFCUS program had several_draw- became ineeasingly eoliticized when, exa-

members by saying: “It waq, and is, felt that seemingly toothless national organ@ation is better than notie at all? -

backs, but it reflected the pre-1960s political mining the question of universal accessibil- -

au national student organization offers three mood .-Whereas. the 1970s appeal.so far to be

benefits to -students andstudent tissocia- ‘But both critics and proponents seem to a period of political retrenchment; the- mid to

ity, they began to realize that they had to consider all aspects_ of education and soci-

tions. The first is a regular face-to-face, ex-d .agree thaththere are some immediate, late 1960s saw definite extra-parliamentary ety , “for it is impossible to change the utii- _ Ipiece-meal advantages in a national s$udeRt . political involvement. The universities also -

change of ideas between students fromf;all .\ .uniq-ss.uch. & l&by‘ing;- ..inforrn&on;- and ; versity substantially without ch-qnging soci-

parts of the country. ~p~ovi&d ‘,‘&fi&;~ound.f’~r sod~f~~ent’~’ ety.” . . - 7 -.-”

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‘Ins&it wexpbrienee’ _ ? organization. 5 - . .

- Nevertheless,, it shbuld-be-stressed that-a and NFCUS .faile‘d to grasp t’hi m&&g+ and ., At the same time that CUS was becoming re~t~‘of,~h~t~e~~‘~,~~~t~~ ig Canadian 1 more political;it’~~~~~~fl,top~ovide essen-

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: univer&ies and‘ other post-s&ondary in- ,*I ‘. stitutiofis-. -For one, it narrowly .defi&d ho-

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4 student issues , friday, july 1 lt 1975

at’s the future for t-secon tica ti.on?

. It’s most unusual for government offi-

cials to take more than a passing interest in post-secondary students’ gripes, so when both Premier Bill Davis and James Auld, minister of colleges and univer- sities, lashed out at a paid ad in several Toronto newspapers entitled: “Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to go to univer- sity”, even the.fossilized pundits had to take note.

The ad, put together by the student _ council at the University of Toronto,

pointed out several inadequacies in pro- vincial funding to tertiary education. And it goes without saying that the blimpest reactionary columnists of the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star had more than a few nasty things to say about students in general, using the ad as a pretext for venting their prehistoric views.

In the following article, Federation of Students executive Shane Roberts of- fers a brief analysis of the reasons be- hind the student ad and examines some (space constraints tiles out a total pit- ture) of the contradictions of the Prog- ressive Conservative’s government re- garding higher learning support.

On April 23, the University of Toronto’s Student Administrative Council (SAC) ran an ad in 13 Toronto area newspapers headed “Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to go to university”. The ad made three points about _

-provincial government planning: -that it is considering a “massive tuition increase’ ’ ; -that it is converting the student aid scheme to a ‘$,ebt programme”; -th&t it is “making the classroom (and lab) situation so bad that students won’t be able to learn”.

As might be expected with an election in the offing, the response from the govem- ment was fast and heavy. James Auld, minis- ter of colleges and universities; retorted: “I am appalled by its flagrant disregard for the truth.” At the same time Premier William Davis said: “That ad is untrue. It’s as simple as that. ’ ’

SAC placed the ad in the Globe! and Mail, Tordnto Star, the Sun, plus local papers in Etobicoke, Mississauga, North York, Scar- borough, and six other publications includ-

’ ing four ethnic papers. The placing of these

NUS rolls on . continued from page 3 the incorporation of student associations. The national union also operated research services which developed positions on stu- dent representation and participation in uni- versity government.

In addition, CUS sponsored a life insur- ance plan, operated a travel service and per- formed lobbying functions in Ottawa. CUS helped to create, for example, the Canada Student Loan Plan and lobbied for legisla- tion allowing students to deduct the academic portion of their tuition from their taxable income.

However, CUS became increasingly polit- ical in tone and the service aspect of the national organization began to fade from view (though this part of CUS’ program still existed, it was pushed to the background by the militant language of CUS leaders).

Vanguardism became the orientation of the national organization, and by choosing this path CUS national leaders forced the exclusion of many progressive organizations and people. CUS folded primarily because it’ became “more progressive” than its member organizations-i.e., by taking more militant stands, it became counter- productive.

The CUS national leadership lost touch with campus student leaders and the over- whelming majority of students, it was facing questions and searching for solutions that were still largely considered taboo by most university student councils.

Thi? inevitable happened and CUS folded in 1969 after most of its members voted to withdraw. The next year, UGEQ went the same path.

ads cost SAC nearly $7,000, but with the combined circulation of these papers, the message was carried to a potential reader- ship of over 800,000. It is this widespread circulation that most likely brought the strong reaction from the provincial bigwigs.

The big newspapers themselves came down hard on the SAC ad.and the student officials. Writing in the Globe and Mail, col- umnist Norman Webster stated that the ad “ . . . might be best termed an aggressive dis- tortion of the facts. Anyone coming to the ad with the naivete of a child would believe Mr. Davis (who hates young people) is planning to hike tuition fees horrendously, dump a huge debt load on students and push dass sizes beyond 300. Ridiculous.” The Globe, on the following day, April 25, carried an ad attacking the factuality of the ad.

Not to be left out, the Star, on April 29, carried a column by Dalton Camp which rip- ped not only into SAC, but also university students in general, the student president, and our generation. While on one hand Camp’s column makes amusing reading for those with a taste for biting ridicule, the col- umn shows no sympathy for student prob- lems. Nor does Camp empathise with past efforts of students to draw attention to seri- ous concerns.

Of four letters to the editor printed by the Globe, two criticized the ad while two letters backed SAC. Members of the Ontario Fed- eration of Students staff have reports of at least two dozen additional letters from vari- ous campuses that were never printed which supported SAC. & one of the letters printed, a high school student related his unsuccess- ful attempts to earn and save sufficient funds to attend university and said that;&he knew t,hree others personally from his graduating class who could not go on to tertiary educa- tion for financial reasons.

Ifi another letter to the editor, an indid- vidual expressed some bewilderment that on three critical points SAC asserted that things were .being considered by the government that would threaten both accessibility to university education and the quality of that schooling and each point James Auld rebut- ted. TheJetter’s author concluded ‘ ‘Who do I believe? Well, after four years of the Davis government, I’ll take the word of the Stu- dents’ Administrative Council. When they tell me Bill Davis doesn’t want your child to go to university, I believe them.”

In his press release (composed the very day the ad appeared) Auld commented that : “Students have a valuable role to play in formulating the policies that will guide the future development of the universities. But where are the responsible, thoughtful stu- dent leaders who can help us in this task? Obviously not in the University of Toronto’s Student Administrative Council .”

What is important, though, is not what the government has had to say about the points made in the ad, but what the Davis govern- ment has ndt said. This is indeed what the ad campaign was all about-what is being dis- cussed and considered behind closed doors about a multi-billion post-secondary educa- tional system built with taxpayers’ money.

When the student officials at Toronto placed the ad in the newspapers, they also prepared an information packet for the newspapers detailing their reasoning behind the points made in the ad. They explained the figures they had used in the news kit and what statistics weren’t included in the @ are readily available not only from the Ministry, but also from many student councils across the province (including Waterloo).

Nonetheless, the government rebuttals to the ads (and the newspaper columns and editorials coming down on SAC) never deal with any more of the SAC statistics than they absolutely have to. That is, the righteous gasps at the student council “distortion” deal with the figures printed in the ad, as they inescapably must, and hardly venture into the political mire of additional facts and-fig- ures.

The minister and the Premier defended the government position on the basis of its past record. What they would appear to have (purposely?) missed is that SAC was talking about the future, not the past.

In all fairness it should be pointed out that

want your to univers

Arid here’s what he’s doing about it:

1 PI annifig a massive increase in tuition.

The Ontario government I< considering guidelines -*for reducing government spending on universities by increasing tuition to a range that will include $1300 for

the Ontario government IS constderlng guldelines that would convert the present grant ,i loan scheme to d n dll loan programme. Could vour child afford to repay a $6,000 to 125,000 loan (9 -l/ 4 percent interest) upon graduation?

an Arts student and $2.X10 for an Fngineering student per year.

2c onverting the Ontario Student Assistance

3 Making the classroom situation so bad that

\

studerits won’t be able to I Programme to the “Ontario Student Debt Programme”.

The government allocation tor student assistance in 1975-76 will be- down IO percent from what it was I I I 1972 when it

supported 1: .3 fewer students. Meanwhtle

learn. 1 Irbt vear cldsses otten have up to 300 students tn them ,Cleanl\hlle, the Ontario government is telling untverslties to increase c lass sILes And, many Science students find themselves using outdated and insufficient laboratory equipment and \upplieT.

So atelection time when Bill Davis talks about universities being open to everyone regardless of financial background remind hi’m of -the above facts.

the provincial fathers do discuss the “fu- ture” of tuition fees and student financial aid-the “future” right to the end of this coming school year. It should be noted that i’t is a matter of surprising coincidence that this is the maximum future that there can be be- fore another provincial election.

As it is, the government’s countel-attack contained some financial figures about its track record that hold several suprises, if these figures were meant to be a defense of Progressive Conservative educational pol- icy in Ontario. The figures relate to the SAC assertion that Davis is “converting the On- tario Student Assistance Programme (OSAP) to the Ontario Student Debt Prog- ramme. ’ ’ Mr. Auld characterized this sec- ond point in the ad as “nonsense”. He then goes on to, inform us that the OSAP 6b . . . budget for grants in 1971-72 was $44 million but only $29 million of this amount was paid out. In 1974-75, $40 million was @aid out. The grants allocation for 1975-76 is $46.5 million.”

Now these figures pose several questions. For example, why, after the Legislature set aside $44 million to help people go to school did the Ministry only use $29 million in 1971-71? And while the 1974-75 expenditure in grants increased 38 percent, why was it still 10 percent below the amount that was seen as needed by students in 1971-72, espe- cially after three years of inflation?

Looking at the grants allocation for 1975-76 we may at first glance take comfort in seeing an increase of $6.5 million over this last year (assuming that unlike 1971-72, the Ministry intends to use the full allocation). ’ But this is equivalent to an increase of 16.3 percent in lump grant money in a year when there are projected enrolment increases of eight percent in addition to estimates of infla- tion that alone run as high as 16 percent. Nor should we expect that this eight percent growth in student populace nepessarily rep,- resents students any wealthier than the pres- ent student body. To the contrary, both new and returning (post-secondary) school

students seem most likely to need a propor- tionately greater amount of financial assis- tance with the employmetit scene being what it is.

Even if we choose to ignore the accelerati ing pace of economic events that mean addi- tional financial .burdens for students, there was already a trend of increasing need for financral assistance among students. During the last three-year period, when there was an increase of 38 percent in awarded grants, there had been a 99 percent increase in the number of students applying, a jump from 45,116 students to 90,000. If we care to play with the Ministry’s figures further, which you remember are supposed to show that the SAC ad is “nonsense”, we can see that while grants have increased some 38 per- cent, loans (student debts) have increased in the corresponding three years a total of 82 percent.

So, with loans to students increasing at a rate greater than twice the rate for grants, this is why SAC chose to speak of an “On- tario Student Debt Progxamme”.

In order to substantiate the third point in the ad, one can quote from the University of Waterloo’s brief to the Ontario Council of University Affairs: . “The University can, given time, move to a new and lower level of quality of its programmes if that is the stated long-term goal. But we must not delude our- selves (or allow ourselves to be deluded by others) that with substantially fewer re- sources, quality will be maintained and ac- cessibility will be retained.

“The teaching, research and public ser- vice programmes that have been developed at Waterloo through the dedicated efforts of many people and at considerable public ex- pense over more than a decade. now stand on the brink of being substantially de- graded. ”

But who knows, maybe the Progressive Conservative Party has spent 26 years in office in/Ontario developing “new math”, a math which uses statistics to confuse atid -. mislead the public.

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As most Canadians in the past year have had to.deal with the cur-’ rent economic recession, they have developed an increased interest in the depression of the 1930’s.

One resident Canadian author, Barry Broadfoot, has jumped on the depression. bandwagon and produced Ten Lost Years, a collec- tion of transcribed interviews he made with hundreds of Canadians who survived the 1930’s.

His basic idea for the book’was sound. Letting Canadians tell for themselves what those years meant is at times much more real than the academic postulates recounted by “Canadian historians”.

Afterall, it was the common man in Canada, not the academics, who saw and felt the misery of the thirty’s economic crisis.

Although some of those inter- viewed have little that’s interesting to say, almost all the interviews re- veal the tragic fate of men and women oppressed by. a declining economy and do-nothing ‘Conser- vative’ and ‘Liberal’ governments.

Ironically the book’s only weak- ness is when Barry Broadfoot sub-

jects us to his empty-headed purple prose. In fact his ideas and writing are quite laughable when one finishes reading a few pages of heart-felt recollections. Lines like these abound in his vacuous intro- ductions to interviews: “And they did crazy things, perhaps for the first time in their lives, and perhaps for the only time, but it was not always so.”

Broadfoot attempts to speak the

language of the people he is inter- ’ viewing, but because, (as he ad- mits), he never experienced the full impact of the depression, his words become empty rhetoric.

But I’ve dwelt too long on the author’s shortfalls.’ He does keep his comments reasonably short and only takes up 30 of the book’s 400 pages. Broadfoot is to be congratu- lated for restraining himself and his typewriter.

The experiences recounted in Ten Lost Years are wide and varied. The people have tales to tell about the inhuman government relief camps for unemployed men and many Japanese civilians, the re- volutionary aspirations of some Canadians, the hobo jungles, the prejudice against groups of In- dians, Japanese, English and French-Canadians.

One section of the book allows people to explain whose fault the depression was. One person in-. sists: “The enemy of my genera- tion has not been the German out in front of me in his own trench; the enemy was my own generals, and government stupidity.”

Another describes Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935: “Mr. Bennett was pompous, smug and rich. No, he was not a man of the people. I don’t think he knew a thing about the Canadian people’ ’ .

It is interesting to note that not one of those interviewed had any- thing kind to say about politicians, government or businessmen. The views of these people are seldom . represented in this book and when they are they complain only of the shortage of money and trips abroad and good servants. One wealthy woman recounts how she was able to hire five servants for less than fifty dollars a month.

However the more, interesting

stories are those told by the hobos who rode the rails for five years, the farmers who lost everything, the fishermen who subsisted on no- thing and the labourers who searched for work in vain. Reading Ten Lost Yeam is comparable to sit- ting by a campfire and listening to an old-timer spin stories of ten de- sperate but also adventurous years in the depression.

No, these years have not been lost, for those who speak in this book will never forget them.

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In April of this year, Toronto Hydro workers went out on strike. At that time there were three co-op students from the University of Waterloo working for Toronto Hydro who continued to work dur- ing the stike.

As a result, these students were viewed by the strikers and their union, the Canadian Union of Pub- lic Employees (CUPE), local one, as strikebreakers.

Hoping to clarify this situation, the union sent a three-person de- legation to the university to discuss the relationship between co-op students and labor.

The university, in response to CUPE complaints, stated in two printed reports, a letter addressed to CUPE printed below and in the Gazette dated May 14,--l975, they had checked with the three stu-

dents employed at Toronto Hydro and had been assured they they had not worked in strikebreaking jobs. However, one of the three students in question claimed he had only spoken to a university official once a few days before the strike when his co-ordinator was conducting a routine visit. This was before CUPE had made its complaints.

Now students working at To- ronto Hydro have to join the union. Apparently despite UW administ- ration claims, the students were working in union jobs and thus dur- ing the strike did work as strike- breakers.

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One of the cnnnents made bv onr! pf vnur students qoinr throuqh the nicket line was, " I need the -onev to continue my aducation." I wonder what he thouqht those Pmplovpes on strike needed who are r'llsinr: fanll- ies, and who throuqh taxation, arn helplno to maintain those school?.

I t would d~pear that vou need a course for all students on whdt prlnclnlos, morals, <jnd hlrlhrst pthlcal standnrds mc(~n so that when thp), r)et out into the world to odrn cj Iivinq,

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like nood Christians should be actinq, and‘ that Is hulplnq one another and thereby fulfilling the purpose for which they were put on this earth.

TAB/l \‘I( c-l’rvs ident, , \ ( .ldc,rni< . As these students hnvP now het>n forced into the Ilnion, thk

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the co-op job is acceptable to them, claiming that it has no right to inter- fere in company-labour relations.

The incident at Toronto Hydro is not an isolated case where the co- op program serves the interests of the company against those of labour. Pratt & Whitney Canada Ltd. (the new name of United Air- craft of Canada Ltd) in Longueuil, Q‘uebec, has been conducting a campaign to break a strike and its union for the past two years. At least six co-op students are work- ing there. These students, though they are not directly strikebreak- ing, do replace managers, techni- cians and others who then go out and do the jobs of striking workers.

Another incident in Alcan in Jonquiere, Quebec illustrates another way in which the co-op program works against the in- terests of labor. The union pro-

I am nncloslnq 1 honh for your information c,?I I&, "Y~rs cd+ P tiard Labour" which pinht bo worth re?dino and nassetl on to some of your students to see the part t"=t +Cjeir fathers and crandf,th+,ri !,Iayed In the buildin,l of this coun+rv.

Sincerely yours,

he was doing a job which is nor- mally carried out by a union member. The company was able to pay the student less than it would have to pay a union member.

Reprinted above are two letters concerning co-op students and labour. The first letter is written by T.A. Brzustowski, UW vice- president, academic. In the letter he claims students were not strikebreaking at Toronto Hydro. The second letter is a reply by W .P. Baker, president of CUPE local one, in which he not only argues that the students were strikebreak- ers, but he also questions the whole relationship of the university to

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Feds mislead feds

We are writing in reference to the front page article of the chevron dated June 6, 1975 titled “Federation Will Ask Students to Vote N.D.P.”

The opinions expressed by Mr. Shot-tall in the Chevron interview by John Morris are his own, they have not been discussed with, nor have they been condoned by the Federation. These opinions also violate the recommendations of the Ontario Federa- tion of Students. In fact to quote from a Canadian University Press release on the O.F.S. .Meeting of May 29-June 1, “the province wide student union” (OFS) “will not support the campaign of any particular party or organize students to vote as an organized block.” Clearly, Shortall, al- though an executive member of the OFS does not speak on their behalf on this issue although the chevron article could becon- strued to mean that NDP support is an offi- cial position.

We should suggest that if Mr. Shot-tall wishes to do campaigning for the party of his choice he should not do so in a manner which misleads people into thinking he is speaking on behalf of some organization.

We also find it curious that the chevron would print an interview in which an OFS executive member is allowed to represent his personal political outlook and not give any concrete report on what happened at the OFS meeting. One wonders why the interviewer, John Morris, who also at- tended this meeting as a delegate from Waterloo (although he is not an elected representative) did ,not question Shortall about the concrete work of the meeting.

OFS is an organization to which the stu- dents of this campus pay over $18,000 per Annum for membership. We have a right to know what happens in OFS conferences and our “student” paper should report on these. The political allignment of one indi- vidual is irrelevant.

We judge these to be serious errors on the part of Mr. Shortall and the chevron and would encourage their rectification.

Mark Wills, Arts Rep. Don Banyard, H.K.L.S. Rep.

Barb Innes Nunn, Renison Rep. Hugh Alley, Eng. Rep.

Student cutbacks

With reference to the letter from Marsha Forest, I am pleased that she has received satisfactory and worthwhile service from this Department and I trust we will be able to continue to provide it.

In regard to cutbacks, the Department is . not experiencing any retrenchment in ex- cess of that experienced elsewhere. What we are having to do is.. twofold. First, charge out for services which are outside our mandate of service to teaching academics in course of their teaching; and secondly, charge backs to the departments for certain services which are agreed to be an extravagant use of the Centre’s re- sources. Specifically, at present, the indis- criminate use of students projectionists.

The Department will continue to react constructively-to demands and restrictions placed on it by the University community in the expectation that if we remain useful we will be adequately funded. If there are

no funds or we have no priority, we will surely vanish.

Geoffrey Downie, Aqciio-Visual

Omigod! Omigod! How classic. Judy McMillan

has decided that the Engineering Society is still racist. Congratulations, you’ve just branded about 1200 individuals with two common traits: racism and sexism. Doesn’t this stereotyping remove each person’s individuality, isn’t this stereotyp- ing similar to the attitudes subscribed to by racists and sexists? Are you a sexist or a racist, Judy, or are you just a facultyist?

I hope you’ve enjoyed your little game of, Engineers are wrong when they stereotype, but I’m not when I stereotype.

I do hope that the day will come when people can accept other people as indi- viduals, and not strictly as members of a group. Judy, I hope that someday you will be able to do this, too.

Len Trembley 3A Electrical Engineering

Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers union of dumont press graphix (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of water-loo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Off ices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331:

Congrats must go to the feds for the weekend beach boogie and party. From all reports it sounds Uniwat swinged last weekend. Nothing better to welcome in engineering week. . . nudge, nudge.. . beware the public teachers we remember from “the good old days” . . . have come to Uniwat to roost. As you may guess from this issue the housing crisis will become much more real to us this year than it did last year. Most people haven’t even considered looking. But no matter where you are, Muskoka, Toronto, Northern Ontario or perhaps outside the province you should ensure you have accomodation for the month of September. Uniwat administration is already contemplating students living in Village hallways. Now I remember the Village one and two hallways were not the most comfortable. Good Luck!. . . Students are being forced to live further and further away from the campus

each year to find housing. An hour bus ride to work at eight o’clock is no hell; perhaps, but best call a few friends and get it settled . . .You may be able to still flnd housing in August, but September may fail to spark nostalgic memories in the future. And now the credits. Centre stage in the chevron office c. c. (not the other) a wide variety of chevrics put in starring and cameo appearances. Welcome home Nadine, you’ve got food ice-cream, thanks for the helping hands of john carter, the perseverence of john morris, the chev- ronads from diane ritza, and the Twoc award goes to henry hess this week for his hospital- ity throughout the week, randy and Sylvia, persevered also, along with neil docherty, helen witruk, andy schermann, denis andre, loris gervasio, Pierre elliot trudeau (sorry about the capitals) michael gordon, carol pierce, jim carter, the dumont ducks, renzo bernadini, a gudafternoon, and take it easy.. .mg.

8 the chevron friday, j;ul.y 11, 1975

MEXICO: The Frozen Revohtion

Mexico/Argentina, 1970 - Directed by Raymundo Gleyzer 60 minutes, 16mm, colour Spanish with English subtitles and narration

A graphic delineaticn of the political reality of Mexican history, including never-before-seen footage of the uprisings of 1910-14. The dominant lives, ideologies and social forces that have shaped modern Mexico - Madero, Zapata, Villa, Huerta, Caranza - are all here: Cardenas’ attempts at reform; the latter-day bankruptcy of Diaz Ordaz; the 1970 Presidential campaign of ‘Luis Echeverria Alvarez; the inherited rhetoric of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) contrasted with the repressive reality of the Indianpeones, Mexican farm laborers, aging veterans of Zapata’s legions, and the Summer ‘68 massacre of hundreds of students at the Plaza de Tlatelolco in Mexico City.

Tuesday,-July 15, 1975 Eng. Lecture 211 890 pm.

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JULY 11 & 12 - 8 p.m. I AM A CAMERA (drama) by John v,an Druten - directed by-Maurice Evans

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“The play that preceeded Cabaret” Admission $7 50, Central Box Office ext. 2126 Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students ’

JULY 23-26 - 8 p.m. THE CARETAKER (drama) by- Harold Pinter - - directed by Carl Gall In “The Caretaker” seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive meaning’,- haunting pathos, and hilarious comedy. The play is infused with the private terrors and personal farce of everyday life. Theatre of the Arts Admission $1.50 Central Box Office ext. 2126 Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students j SPECIAL OFFER WHILE IT LASTS (buy these two great plays together and you pay only $2.00)

TUES. JULY 29 - 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. MUSIC FOUR performing a programme of dances, vocal and in- strumental ‘music from sixteenth-century Italy, Eng- land and France. “We’ll sing, dance in costume, and play recorders, rebecs, lutes, crumhorns and viol.” Humanities Building Quadrangle (Theatre of the Arts in inclement-weather) Free Admission