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volume 10: number 17 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, Waterloo, Ontario tuesday 23 septem ber 1969

Presidents take hard line In the wake of campus disorders

across the United States and par- ticularly at Sir George Williams University, the committee of On- tario university presidents has issued a paper on campus order.

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ing with behaviour “unfit for the academic community”.

The report divides this behaviour into two sections-obstructive behaviour and violence.

Discipline is to be administered by a standing committee of faculty and student representatives, however “in cases of grave emergency, the president may call in police without consulting the committee”.

The penalty suggested for most disturbances is suspension. As well, the report recommends the police be called in if this action fails to halt the “obstruction”. ’

“Violent action is unnatural to the university, yet the only way it can be contained is through counter-violence” the report con- tinues. ’

In conclusion, the report men- tions that “although the procedures recommended are distasteful they are necessary, for the very existence of the university is at stake”.

Waterloo acting administration president Ho ward Petch agrees with the recommendations of the report in general. ,

“Of course, not all universities

are identical, and it may have to be managerial attack on student ac- sity of California at Berkeley in altered to be of use at Waterloo” tivity in Ontario. 1964. ) he stated. However this move has not come By agreeing to the committee of

Petch feels the university senate about in a vacuum. It has come in presidents report, administration would be a good place to consider response to students beginning to president Howard Petch has com- the report. The seizing of an area, question and oppose capitalist mitted himself to reject the deci- preventing it from its proper func- society. sion of this university’s student- tioning is what he sees as ‘obstruc- The illusion that fourteen presi- discipline\ committee which spe- tion’. dents of Ontario universities spon- cifically rejected double-jeopardy.

The recommendations of Water- taneously gathered to hammer out loo’s president’s advisory commit- a working paper on discipline-and tee on student discipline and uni- order within the university is only

Conflict hidden versity regulations called for put forward in a half-hearted way

by the presidents themselves. The presidents’ release ac-

elimination of double jeopardy, (where a student could be punished The truth of the matter is that

complishes three things: (a) it seeks to hide the nature of the con-

by the university as well as by .On- the president of the University tario courts) in its September 1968 of Ontario, Claude Bissell recently

flict within the universities today

report. Petch feels there is no such returned from Harvard, has hand- by superimposing the myth of com-

thing as single jeopardy, since of- ed down the policy of the Harvard munity; (b) it seeks to drive yet

corporation and others to the mana- another wedge between so-called

fenses can be made simultaneously radicals and the rest of the stud- against the university and the laws gers of the smaller branch-plant of the land. schools in Ontario.

ent body; (c) by perpetrating the

The radical student movement The groundwork for this working myth that individual campus

has issued a reply to the commit- paper has been laid on the various administrators really decide the policy for their respective camp-

tee of presidents’ report, and as campuses over the last few years. uses, it seeks to hide the fact that well has called a general meeting At Waterloo, the administration the real relationship between cam- for Wednesday night to discuss the has been pushing for a disciplinary pus presidents and the committee “order on campus” recommenda- code for some time. tions. A committee of faculty, students

of presidents is one of manager to board of directors; and between

The meeting will take place at and administration was set up to the presidents and the American 8pm in the ,great hall of the campus examine the problem of student university corporations is one of center. discipline. The committee decided

that a disciplinary body was not branch plant to imperial conglom- erate.

RSM replies -needed because any illegal behaviour would come under the juris-

There are problems in Canadian

diction of the courts, and any fur- universities. The problems do not

This is the complete text of the ther trial or action by the univer- consist of disruptions of the norm-

radical student movement reply to sity would constitute a situation of al process of the university nor

the committee of Ontario university double jeopardy. (Double jeopardy are they manufactured in the

presidents’ order on campus state- refers to the trying of an individual heads of a small group of students.

ment. for the same offense more than These problems are inherent in the purpose, nature, uses and functions

It is painfully obvious upon read- once. ) ing the statement of the committee The double jeopardy issue was

of the university.

of presidents that this document responsible for the rise of the free They relate to the values and

speech movement at the Univer- assumptions underlying the uni-

represents a well-coordinated versity where the rhetoric is one

on discipline of academic community, value- free research and uninhibited in- quiry, and the reality is one of a corporate capitalist institution serving the class needs of an imperialist system.

Keeping in line with most pre- vious working papers, this one refuses to explicate the values which underly it.

For example, the paper states that it is wrong for faculty members to endorse radical students and that division in the faculty is in itself a bad thing. Further, the administration puts the onus for disruption and the subsequent police violence on the students without understanding or attempt- ing to understand the material conditions surrounding the disruption. The administration in this way ab- solves itself of all guilt.

Paradox exists There is a paradox in this ac-

tion by the administrators. In the United States, political

repression on campuses comes directly from a complexis such as the California state legislator- University of California administration-California highway patrol -national guard.

In Canada, in contrast to the California or land grant college systems, the universities are so elitist and aristrocratic in tradition that the elite who run the university feel the necessity to preserve the illusion of the university’s autonomy from the “state”. Con- sequently, the elite must demon-

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Tour checks universiiy power reluths by Jim Klinck Chevron staff

A campus tour of a slightly different color than the usual frosh tour, highlighted John Bordo’s campus center speaking en- gagement friday.

Bordo, a PhD student at Yale, probed the non-action outlook of most students.

“You’ve got nothing here but a straight capitalist university” he lashed out. “Your profs are merely laying a mind trip on you which prevents you from seeing what is going on. ”

Explaining that revolutionary action is synonymous with daily action. Bordo urged students present to stop electing a student’s council to sit around and talk about action, and to start struggling themselves against what is wrong.

“How many of you have ever been on a real tour of the university?” he queried. “Connect saying with doing and get out there and see the relations of authority. As long as you sit in here watching movies and listening to records those in authority will be happy. ” \

With this exhortation still ringing in their ears, about 25 students set off to tour the sections of the university not usually toured and see authority in action.

Professor Dick Steffy’s psychology 110 class was the first point on the itinerary, as the group decided to give students attending classes a chance to join the tour. Angered mutterings and jeers greeted the group, as they explained what they had in mind.

Steffy lightly suggested that with 200 psych students and only 25 on the tour the group could be easily put out of the room. More seriously, he suggested the students should let them stay and “face what was going on”.

/Tourist Ross Taylor, grad psych, asked one vociferous student objecting to the ‘interruption’ why they should be put out. “What can a professor tell you about life that we or any of your fellow students couldn’t?” Taylor demanded. “What do you need him for.”

“We can’t just come in here and think,” the student rejoined. “And besides we aren’t here to learn about life, we came to learn psychology”. A lengthy period of laughter and applause followed.

Another of the tour members brought questioning closer to the subject matter of the course in asking why psychologists weren’t questioning points such as why the rate of psychological problem cases for Toronto is closely related to the city’s economy.

Steffy agreed that these aspects of psychology were important. “Most major work in psychology to date has been puny” he continued.

“Yet psychologists continue to mollify the problem” Bordo pressed. “You’re involved in reproducing a spectacle, in con- ditioning people to accept these problems. ”

As the tour prepared to move on, the psych class was once more invited to attend and “see for themselves what is happening at the university. ”

“When you find out come and tell us,” was one student’s response.

Stop number two was the main administration offices in the modern languages building.

The office of acting administration vicepresident Jay Minas was shown by the tour guide. Minas was out at the time.

“Why is this chair soft and swivelled, sitting on this luxurious carpet” while her’s (Minas’ secretary) is small, hard,

and on a tiled floor?” queried one student. The tour guide could not answer.

Another inquiring tour member began to read from a sheet on Minas’ desk-“The university must be a place for free in- quiry, protected from pressures.. . . ” At this point the secretary removed the paper, explaining that “Dr. Minas has some personal material here”.

As the group moved out, the secretary was asked how much she was paid. “As much as Minas?”

“Oh I couldn’t say,” she answered,‘ “but not near as much as Dr. Minas. I’m not as brilliant. ”

Acting administration president Howie Petch’s office was also vacant, as Petch had not come in for the day.

One of Petch’s two secretaries, Mary

Busbridge rapidly removed a pamphlet on injunctions and suspensions from Petch’s desk leaving the group to inspect the art- work hanging on the office walls.

Leaving the confines of the arts complex, the gradually growing group headed to the engineering sub.

Another psych class, psych 100 was the only large class in operation at this time.

“Sir, could you tell us how you mold people”, a member of the tour asked professor Fred Kemp.

“Why did you call me sir? ” Kemp re- plied. “I mold people by passing on the myths I have been taught, and receive a substantial salary for doing so”.

“Why do you pass this on, if you know what you are teaching is a myth.”

Kemp explained that he had taken the question as a general query on teaching methods, and answered referring to how teaching is generally done. “You stay and attend this course for the rest of the term, and see if I perpetuate or attack those myths. ”

At this point, several of the students in the class began to leave.

“If I were you I’d stay and hear this out” Kemp urged the class. “It’s things like this that break down the goddamned structures that have things screwed up. ”

In response. one student explained We’re phys-ed students. We play by the rules. ”

“And that’s why we’re here”, Bordo countered. “To question the nature of those rules and who sets them.”

“We just got here” We aren’t ready to be referees yet” the student concluded.

“How can be begin to learn?” Bordo asked”.‘ Do we break down these structures that have the faculty and admin con- trolling course content, or remain un- questioning and help perpetrate these power relations when we leave university? ”

“Engineers talk about being profession- als, but they are really just the controlled tools of a capitalist society,” Bordo continued.

“If you’re talking about the university, lets leave capitalism and politics out of it, ” a student said.

“Oh fine. We’ll just treat the university as some far off detached body,” Bor- do suggested, gesturing to the skies.

“What are the alternatives to these structures you speak of?” another student asked.

“I can’t answer that’: Bordo countered. “What do you want us to do, give you a ready-made blueprint of a new life style? Thats what we are attacking. The change must arise out of everyone’s struggle, and not merely be the imposed will of a different minority than is running things now.”

The radical student movement is considering instituting an RSM tour bureau.

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&Gvefsity president’s report

‘If violence,,threartened, call the poh ’ , This is the complete text of the work-

ing paper of the committee of Ontario university presidents, titled “Order on the campus’*.

Recent years have witnessed a mount- ing wave of demonstrations, confronta- tions. and violence in North American universities. Increasinly, these disturbances have been characterized by ex- remism and violence, confusion and division on the part of faculty, frequent tacit or vocal endorsation or radical students by some faculty members, a wide range of responses by university administrators (all the way. from condon- ing or forgiving extremist behaviour to prompt reliance on the police), demands for amnesty in the aftermath of violence, and a growing disaffection and rage directed at the universities by the public and legislators.

There can .be no doubt that violence constitutes a serious danger to the survival of the universities as places of teaching, research and scholarship. These functions at the highest level can only be performed in an environ- ment free from coercion. By accepting membership in the university community an individual acquires new responsi- bilities.

As observed by the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard, these responsi- bilities -“require him to see how easily an academic community can be violated, knowingly or unknowingly-whether by actual violence or by lack of responsive- ness to widely perceived needs \ for change; whether by impatience or by insensitivity; or by failure in a process of decision to make sufficient effort to consult those who have to live with the results of the decision.”

In Ontario the focus of protest has been on the governance of universities and,on the programs and curricula. Much but not all of the protest has been exercised fairly and legitimately and the universities have shown their willingness and ability to be responsive to the need for reforms.

The universities in Ontario will continue to b,e responsive. to student con-

cerns and opportunities for improving the ways in which they perform, The faculty, administration and governing bodies are prepared to discuss with the students the merits of proposals on any

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issues in an atmosphere of mutual res- pect. They will continue to make changes. where discussion and examination demonstrate opportunities for improve-

. ment.

However, the universities will not carry on discussions or make changes in the face of threat or other forms of coercion. The unlimited range of ideas essential to the university function cannot exist in the presence of coercion and he who interferes with free discussion and exercise of the rule of reason exhibits behaviour unfit for the academic community.

Illegitimate disturbances within the universities fall into two classes-those which obstruct the normal processes by which the university carries out its academic functions and those which, whatever their other characteristics, invoke violence or the threat of violence.

It is possible to have peaceful demonstrations to draw attention to issues without interfering with the academic processes of _ the university and such demonstrations are entirely legitimate. The university, while anxious to accom- modate legitimate dissent, is not prepared to tolerate dissent or demonstration which involves any of the above- listed illegitimate activities.

Illegitimate and unacceptable activities, as listed by Harvard, include the following:

l violence against any member or guest of the university community ;

The university therefore will consider all of the activities listed above as cause for immediate suspension. When a disturbance occurs, disciplinary action will be implemented as follows:

l All students, faculty and employ- ees of the university will be required to identify themselves to any officer of the university on request. Failure to comply will be interpreted as evidence that the person is not -a student, faculty member or employee.

l The president will have available to him an appropriate standing committee of faculty members and students chosen by the senate of the university. The president will be em- powered to call this committee into session without notice in the event of disturbances occurring in the university. The committee will be asked in any such case to rule first whether the

l deliberate interference with academic freedom and freedom of speech (including not only disruptions of a class but also interference with the freedom of any speaker properly, invited by any section of the univer-

disturbance involves violence or threat of violence. The committee, in the event that violence is not involved, will be asked to rule whether the disturbance constitutes an obstruction to the university’s processes.

sity community to express his views) ;

l theft or wilful destruction’ of university property or of the property of members of the university; ’

l If -the ruling is that the university’s processes are- being obstructed, -the president will be required to warn or have warned all those involved.

l forcible interference with the free: dam of movement of any member or guest of the university;

l obstruction of the normal processes and activities essential to the functions of the university community.

l If. the obstructive behavi.our is not promptly discontinued, the persons will be advised that they have been sus- pended.

l If, after suspension, the obstructive behaviour is not discontinued, the police will be brought in.

Ontario .

l If the ruling is that the disturbance involves violence or the threat of violence, the president will be required to suspend the person or persons and call the police. Cases of violence are be- yond the capacity of the university to deal with alone. Violent action is unnatural to the university and yet the only response by which violence can be contained is the exercise of counter-violence. The university recognizes that in such circumstances there is no acceptable alternative to enlisting the police for the protection of the academic community. When the police have been called in and when charges have been laid by civil authorities, the university will not intervene. It should be noted that the police may on their own initiative come on campus if there is clear and present danger to life or property.

l In the case .of grave emergency involving the safety of individuals or immediate danger to property, the president can call the police before calling into session the special standing committee.

l Following suspension,, the suspen- ded person or persons will be charged before the university’s properly con- stituted disciplinary authority (regard-

. less of any action taken by civil authorities). They will be .accused of wilful obstruction of the university’s processes or violence, / or both, and if found guilty will be liable to expulsion, or dismissal.

The university recognizes that these procedures are distasteful and that the penalty for offenses is severe. It fervently hopes that it will not find it

necessary to invoke these sanctions. At the same time, the university is adopting , \ this position because it is convinced that the very existence of the university is at stake. Expulsion or dismissal is the only appropriate penalty for those who would challenge the university’s right to carry on its affairs through orderly and peaceful discussion and its right and responsibility to be a house of intellect.

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Vie university is not value-free, it is not neutrd *RSM replies concluded from p. 1

strate that the universities can keep their own houses in order.

Therefore, paradoxically, the administrators have placed themselves in the vanguard of the repression in order to prove their “autonomy” as free and critical institutions.

The committee of presidents drags out the red herring of the doctrine of “harmony of interests” (which asserts that in the public sector there is a unity of interest of all individuals and classes) when it discusses the “rage” of the public directed. at the university.

No single public interest exists. It is the working people of Canada who pay for the universities. It is the corporations (predominantly American) which control and benefit from the universities.

If the rage of the taxpayer is directed at the students then it is indeed misplaced. It is further obvious that the so-called legislators are nothing more than the ser- vants of corporate interest.

There can be no doubt that violence constitutes a serious danger to the survival of the universities as places of teaching, research and scholarship.

The Canadian university is an active participant in the institu- tionalized violence of the capitalist system. i

It is well integrated in terms of form and function with the Ameri- can empire. It produces techni- cians and apologists so desperately

needed by corporations ; provides necessary research for the Ameri- can military-industrial complex ; produces tension managers for industry; backs up American efforts in foreign countries and contributes as well to Canadian im- perialism. It is not value-free; it is not neutral.

Internally, the Canadian university reproduces capitalist social relations (the way in which it treats its own workers, the way in which it views itself as a corporation, the way it reifies people and treats them as commodities, the way it forces students to compete against each other, the oppressive nature of the student-teacher relationship and so on).

In terms of content, the university produces nothing but bourgeois ideology (the ideology of liberal corporate capitalism).

In Ontario, the focus of protest has been on the corporate nature of the university and how it functions within the imperialist system and the specific bourgeois content of its curriculum. In terms of the administration, none of the protest has been exercised fairly and legitimately, for an anti-capitalist critique must necessarily exist outside the legitimacy of capitalist channels.

Students ignored The committee of presidents,

however, has shown a willingness only to deal with the problems as they have set them up (“governance of universities and on the pro-

grams and curricula”), not with what the students’ critique is all about.

The authorities of the University of Ontario will continue to be responsive to corporate needs which demand ever more sophisticated tension management techniques and will continue to program students to internalize their own oppression “for improving the ways in which they perform”.

The governing bodies are prepared to discuss with the students, faculty and administration the merits of proposals on any issue in an atmosphere where both sides understand just who has the power to decide. They will continue to make changes where discussion and examination demonstrate opportunities for the co-option of these changes by the capitalist system.

However, the universities will not carry on discussions or make changes when students and faculty ‘begin to attack the legitimacy of the distribution of power; that is, agitate for changes which are dis- functional for the present management of the university which acts in the corporate interest.

The university favors a multi- plicity of explanations for the operation of the world. This necessarily obscures the fact that events occur, decisions are made, wars are being fought, people are being killed, the few oppress the many, and so on.

While faculty teach that theories change the world (and there

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‘are countless theories, hence countless worlds), the one real world passes us by, ‘We live our lives in the one real world. We are told to leave our lives outside the classroom and outside the university. \

The rule of reason becomes the rule of oppression when the values of reason are the values of an oppressive system. People must choose whether they favor an oppressive rule of reason or a rule of liberating activity.

It is not surprising that the working Ipaper bases its definitions of the words “illegitimate” and “unacceptable” on the list put forward by the Harvard corporation. The basic flaw in the definitions relates to the refusal to ack- no wledge the reality of power relations.

For example, should the university extend an invitation to manu- facturers of war materials like Dow Chemical recruiters, or be- stow a degree upon leading capitalists like Solandt, McLaughlin and Eaton? It is the students who attack these people whose heads will be busted by the cops.

The people who run the univer-^

sity are violent; the freedom of the university is repressive; the property of the university is violent as is the research; and power is defined by the needs of capital.

It is inconceivable that a university in Canada would do research for the Vietnamese as opposed to the Americans.

Only demonstrations which are ineffectual are deemed legitimate by the authorities by definition. The university is not prepared to tolerate dissent which is able to translate itself into effective activity.

Further, the eight point proposal of the Harvard corporation sets up six bogus points in order to legiti- matize the real power. In any crunch the seventh point gives all power to the president, the lackey’ of the ruling class.

The ruling class understands how strategic a role the university plays in the maintenance of the capitalist system. It is willing to tolerate activity as long as such activity remains ineffective.

However, when power relations begin to come under effective attack, the liberal marshmallow ’ quickly bares its fascist fangs.

Bookstore shortage inevitable: Fischer

As long as overenrollment and course transferring exists at Waterloo, the bookstore will probably run out of several books each September.

Bookstore manager Elsie Fis- cher sees little relief to the problem which plagues some students each year.

The bookstore orders its stock of books around the last months of the winter term, using lists ob- tained from the various professors and faculties to estimate the number of copies of each book needed. These lists are prepared primar- ily from preregistration forms in the case of upper year students, and rough estimates for first year students.

Enough books are ordered to exactly fill these requirements. The problem arises when faculties are overenrolled. As well, popular courses which are trans- ferred into by many students rapidly use up the entire supply of texts before the demand is exhausted. One suggested method of avoiding this problem, which leaves students bookless for up to four weeks, is overordering.

Fischer vetoes this idea as impossible under the present set up of the bookstore.

“In order to give students the cheapest price on books, the store operates on a break-even basis. The extra money necessary to hold more books than might be bought, as well as the high ship- ping costs to return unsold books makes overordering a poor answer” she stated.

With so many new faculty coming to Waterloo, Fischer finds many books are used for only one year. This, as far as she is ‘concerned, means books can’t be kept over from one year to the next in most cases. “As well” she continued “if we kept 20 extra books, at say $10 a book, we’ve $200 tied up which we can’t afford to do, unless we raise the price of books. ”

As long as students are without books, the bookstore plans to try to shorten the wait for newly-ordered books.

Reorders are being telephoned in, to get copies to Waterloo as soon as possible. However we“re still completely at the mercy of the publishers” Fischer said. “Waits of up to four weeks aren’t uncommon for American publishers”. 1

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Tonight at 8 pm in the grub- shack, SciSoc presents big brother night, the first major event of the new year. The informal addresses of the evening will be limited to a half-hour period, followed by discussions between faculty and students over coffee and dough- nuts. All science students are welcome.

The first society meeting will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 in bio 295.

The most ambitious program planned for the year is the publication of a course critique, outlining all of the undergrad courses offered by the faculty.

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A fall weekend, films and social evenings will round out the activities for the year.

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On September 11 members of the Atkinson student council and members of the York student movement disrupted a teach-in featuring York dean of arts John Saywell and Liberal MP Philip Givens. The YSM challenged Saywell and Givens to justify the connection between the university and corporations set up exclusively for private profit, and the special treatment given corporations by government .

The college apparently hoped to avoid further disruption by using these “pacifiers”.

There were no incidents during last week’s orientation exercises.

Interviewed September 16, Crowe said there had been no meetings or formal discussions regarding a plan for dealing with potential disruptors. Later that day he admitted that such a meeting had been held, adding that the ushers were intended as “pacifiers” in case of trouble.

On tuesday morning Bill Farr, secretary of the university, warned the YSM they might be physi- cally assaulted if they tried to challenge speakers.

Chud, a strong critic of Crowe’s _ belief that the only relationship between a faculty member and a student is that of a master and apprentice, said she was not invited to the meeting because “they felt male students would suit the purpose better.”

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U.S. tfiul could ,sit‘ hcdi cieinonhi~or penalties LOS ANGELES (CUP 1)-A designed to “set an example’ ’

group of 24 student demonstrators facing a total of 1731 counts of conspiracy add kidnapping, could become the legal guinea pigs for harsher penalties aimed at stu-

’ dent activists in California. The students, from San Fernan-

do State College, are believed to be the first ever charged with mass felony indictments in connection with student unrest. nection with student unrest.

The students and their lawyers believe the severe charges weye

for other student activists and win political points. for governor Ron- ald Reagan and district attorney Evelle Younger of Los Angeles county.

Reagan/is running for re-election next year and Younger has announced his candidacy for state attorney general.

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BURNABY (CUP)-The chair- students in the departmenta man of the history department of Simon Fraser University resigned’

meeting who introduced the re solutions and then voted for then

thursday after six students with en masse. voting rights in the department Hutchison, only recently electei successfully swung the body into as chairman of the history de

* support of SFU’s political science, partment, had been heavily in sociology and anthropology de- volved in last year’s crisis at SFU partment. He was one of two faculty whc

John Hutchison announced his went to Ottawa to request the resignation in a closed session. Canadian association of univel after the department. went on re- sity teachers to censure SFU fo

_/ cord as deploring an administra- undue interference in academi tion trusteeship of the PSA de- affairs by the university’s boar partment, and demanding the of governors. restoration of autonomy to the de- Other departments, particular1 partment. geography and english, are appar

Neither motion would have ently considering their suppor passed without the support of six for the PSA department.

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THU.-SEPT. 25 - 1ngma.r Bergman’s “PERSONA”- s

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TUE. SEPi. 30 -’ Forman’s “LOVES OF A.BLONDE”’ (Restricted)

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Andy Warhol’s “VINYL” Y .

Kuchars “ECLI-PSE OF THE SUN WRGJNS” Kenneth Anger’s ‘.‘BAUX B’ARTI-FICE”

THU. OCT. 2 - PasseCinni’s “THE ‘GOSPEL ACCORD- INd TOST, MATTHEW” I -

FRI. &T. 3 i &Ian King’s “WARREN DAL.@’

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wrist. If some of these students versity’s administration buil’ding get stiff sentences, like six months and forced the acting administra- in prison, it seems to me the tion president Paul Blomgren to case could have an effect on sign a list of 12 demands. Other campus militants. They have school personnel were not allowed gotten away witli murder, but to leave for several hours and it they might think twice before has been said they wkre threaten- doing it again. ’ ’ ed with knives.

The students are charged in connection with an incident last november 4 when a delegation from the San Fernando black students union met with the school’s athletic director to demand the removal of a freshman football coach they said discriminated against black students.,

After the athletic director re- fused their request, about 50 students occupied a floor of the uni-

Blomgren repudiated the agreement the qext day, saying he.,had signed it only because he was afraid for the safety of his staff.

After the inciderit, however, faculty ‘and student leaders met for several months and hammered out an ( agreement that contained many of the changes demanded by the students.

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Trains popping out from the landscape along Seagram drive can kill.

PPandP director Bill Lobban doubts the effectiveness of berms as sound barriers. But the-y sure make good sight barriers. This is the view to the left fbr drivers entering the south campus ringroad from Columbia street.

The ringroad hairpin near Minota Hagey residence always promises surprises.

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by Bob Verdun Chevron staff road. It follows that the berm does not

need to extend almost to the edge of the In a page one story in friday’s Chevron, road as it does now. There is also signifi-

,hree administration bureaucrats blamed cant doubt about the necessity for the 1 blind railway crossing on a Canadian. berm to be as high as it is now, especially nortgage and housing association re- near the Seagram drive crossing. luirement. Lobban says he questioned the added

The crossing is on Seagram drive where cost of the berm in design stages. and also ;h& university’s married student resi- says he wonders how effective the mound lences are under construction. is as a sound barrier.

A man-made mound of earth along the Approximate measurements from a -ailway tracks was necessary as a noise- campus map show the berm along the shield in order to get a mortgage, said the tracks by the new residences to be about administration, 260 yards long. Similar measurements of

Physical-plant and planning director the existing berms on campus (along Bill Lobban even said that he had question- tracks, parking lots and roads) measure ?d the mound (called a berm) as an added about 4400 yards. zest. Lobban also said he didn’t think it The added cost Lobban maintains he was very effective as a sound barrier. questioned, amounts to about 5.9 percent

Safety director -Nick Ozaruk said he has of the existing length of such artificial sent a letter to the Canadian National rail- mounds. This doesn’t include the numer- way asking them to cross Seagram drive ous landscaping mounds within the camp- at 10 miles an hour instead of 30. us that make walking in a str:. ‘It pat,h

Operations vicepresident Al Adlington, between buildings difficult. who is responsible for both PPandP and Lobban also maintains that the berm the safety department, stressed simply might be ineffective as a sound barrier, that the berm was a CMHA requirement, but photos on theses pages show how ef- so it was built. . fective sight barriers the berms can be.

So much for the truth. Now what is Safety director Ozaruk only wrote a let- really happening? ter. No sign has been posted on Seagram

The berm is indeed a CMHA require- drive warning of the blind crossing. ment. But other CMHA requirements are The berm has been in place for some that the buildings be sufficient distance time. It will probably remain for some back from both the railway tracks and the time.

It took this accident on the Minota Hagey hairpin in October I967 to get PPandP to even paint a centerline on curved stretches of the ringroad.

d violence.. . d? Will the administration call the cops?

52is sign not only makes it difficult to see traffic, but at night it is so Just to be consistent, another bright-light obstruction was plan ted at the bight that it can cause temporary blindness if looked at for too long. Columbia street exit, where the traffic pops up to 40-60 miles an hour.

lbban said he questioned the berm at the married student residences as / added cost. These bits of landscaping could prove costly to pedestrians the engineering corner of campus who can hardly be seen by motorists.

itors leaving the parking lot near the foodservices building should be- me. Cars are only seen briefly between the them-eng building and the t piece of man-made landscape obstruction along the ringroad.

This is an editorial That a man-made mound is cre-

ating a possible death hazard at the Seagram drive railway crossing is just a product of the value- system of the bureaucrats who run this capitalist institution.

The CMHA-requirement line is a half-truth alibi for some of Uniwat’s $15,000-a-year-plus elite paper-shufflers. ’

Besides writing memos, Ozar- uk’s accomplishments include a new policy on checking fire ex- tinguishers (something PPandP used to be responsible for) and a set of residence safety rules, including the prohibition of candles. If he could ban the frequent black- outs, we might be getting some- where.

Most of the blame lies with the physical-plant and planning department, which according to an official policy statement, i’s concerned with the planning of new construction.. . the planning of landscape and site deveropmen t.. . (and working) closely with architects, contractors, other university administration departments, the faculty

The functions of the safety dc- partment should probably go back to where they were originally- under security director Al Romen- co. Not only do Romenco’s security officers see and have some understanding of campus safety problems every day, but .Romenco knows how to get things done. ’

and students. The only thing Romenco can’t The blame for the traffic hazard do is to get Lobban’s department

itself may rest with PPandP, but to do it properly. the fault for its continuing exist- The solution was not to create a ence is shared with the safety department and the operations vice-

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president. Lobban’s men the job (Ozaruk was formerly PPandP plant manag-,

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enough of the berm in an hour to alleviate the hazard. This would not require the least bit of bureaucratic hassle, because the residence is barely under construction .

.and the noise barrier isn’t necessary until it’s occupied. -

Instead, the buck was passed (a

The solution is rather to clean

typical capitalist phenomenon). The department for which Lob-

ban is responsible has proven itself incompetent. The existence of numerous unnecessary traffic haz- ards and Lobban’s additional ali- bis are ludicrous.

As for Ozaruk, he and his $21,- OOO-a-year safety department are totally unnecessary and probably make the evasive, irresponsible bureaucracy even more so.

house at PPandP and get rid of the operations vicepresident in charge of it all.

If this were not a corporate capitalist institution, Al “law’n’order” Adlington would not be allowed to get away with such obstruction and disruption.

If students on this campus took a bulldozer and removed the berm, or held a sit-in in Adling- ton’s (or Petch’s) office until the berm was removed, they would be . expelled.

Human compassion (like the prevention of an unnecessary death or maiming) has no place in the system.

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Class 1 commences 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 I (Engineering II Rm. 1313)

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Register at the office of the Federation of Students, Cam- pus Centre. For information regarding courses phone Helga Petz Ext. 2405.

sandbox f Now that orientation is over and homecoming is at least five weeks

away, live entertainment on campus is at an all-time low. The next big event is the Gordon Lightfoot visit October 11, followed

by The lady’s not for burning (National players of Washington) and the Toronto Symphony. In the meantime the Waterloo theater has come to the rescue with an international film festival featuring films by such greats as Bergman, Truffauf, Godard, Forman and Bone!. Most of the other theaters are showing their usual fare ranging from schmaltz to horror with the odd good one thrown in.

LYRIC (124 King street, Kitchener, 742-0911) What ewer happened to aunt a/ice? A suspense story in the tradition of What ever happened to baby jane. Geraldine Page stars as a nasty widow who knocks off her housekeepers for their money. Ruth Gordon (the friendly witch of Rose- mary’s baby) plays the housekeeper who spoils her fun.

The Italian job (starts September 26) is yet another almost-perfect crime, in which Michael Caine and Noel Coward combine forces to snatch four million in gold.

FOX (161 King east, Kitchener, 745-7091) Oliver, the musical version of Djckens classic, Oliver Twist. Spirits of the dead (starts September 25) is . a threefold effort by directors Vadim, Fellini and Malle to present three Edgar Allan Poe stories. Vadim’s episode is notable for its chauvinistic casting of Jane and Peter Fonda, and its exotic sets and costumes which look like Barberella cast-offs.

Fellini’s segment is by far the best starring Terence Stamp in a satire on Italian movie making and makers.

THE CAPITOL (90 King west, Kitchener, 578-3800). A double bill, Journey to the far side of the sun and Strategy of terror. The former is a quickie attempt to cash in on the success of 2001.

The baby sitter and la lover (starts September 24). Two sex exploitation films with little content and bad acting.

ODEON (312 King west, Kitchener, 742-9161) Midnight cowboy contin- ues. Director Schlessinger pulls no punches in this beautiful indictment of the American dream. Jan Voight and Dustin Hoffman give their best as two outcasts trying to make it in the concrete jungle of New York.

FAIRVIEW (Fairview shopping plaza, Kitchener, 578-0600) a double bill--Yours, mine and ours, a schmaltzy situation-comedy, and Support Your Local Sheriff, a surprisingly good western parody which never quite caught on, starring James Garner.

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Yellow sybmarine (starts September 26.) The Beatles full length cartoon which is extremely well done and Revo/ution which promises to re- veal the weird rites of the hippies. It’s interesting for the number of top underground groups that appear in it, notably County Joe and the fish, the Quicksilver messenger service, and the Steve Miller band.

WATERLOO (24 King nort.h, Waterloo, 576-1550) You can’t cheat an honest man and My little chickadee, closes tonight, but a film festival starts tomorrow. f owing couples, (starts September 24), Mai Zetterling turns director to give us a Swedish showpiece which is notably anti-men, marriage and sex.

Personna (starts September 25). A psychological study of merging per- sonalities between a nurse and her patient, by Bergman.

September 26-La guerre est finie, Alain Renais, explores the mind of an aging revolutionary fighting a lost cause.

September 27--Viridiana, Louis Bonel’s masterpiece of incest, rape and religion.

September 28-Stolen kisses, Truffaut’s sensitive biography of a young man’s journey through adolescence to maturity.

September 29-La chinoise - a John Luc Godard film on revolution starring his wife Anne Wiazemsky.

September 30- Loves of a blonde- Milos Foreman’s touching comedy explores the pains and pleasures of youth.

If you should visit Toronto this week there are a few events worth taking in.

THE NEW YORKER (651 Yonge Street) easy rider-a movie about two hippies wheeling around the United States, their discoveries, disillusion- ment and final demise.

THE UNIVERSITY (Bloor street west near Bay). A/ice’s restaurant, based on Arlo Guthrie’s folksong, The a/ice’s restaurant massacre, with Arlo starring.

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More than 5500 people packed the jock building friday night to listen to Dionne Warwick, a singer ’ whose popularity has zoomed in the last couple of years.

The show began with a band from North Bay, just another in a seemingly endless stream of excitement-t h r o u g h-electricity rock bands. Like most groups of this kind, the level of musician- ship was rather low, the lyrics were almost inaudible, and the fellow on trumpet just couldn’t make it.

This group was followed by apologies for a delay and a man hustling Dionne Warwick programs.

At last the real moving and shaking began. The band (four pieces) set up and was soon followed by the Constellations whose function it was to warm up the audience. In this they were inhibited by the necessity of not upstaging the star, but they nevertheless did a nice job on some tunes, notabley, Sunrise, sunset, and were well received.

At last Dionne Warwick appear- ed. She is an extremely attractive .woman, a capable vocalist, and a thorough-going professional.

Her show consisted of rendi- tions of songs, some of which she popularized, and included The age of aquarius, The look of love, Prom- ises, promises, You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling, Alfie, and Get to- ge ther.

There are many complimentary things one could say about this show. The members of the band were recruited from among America’s better music,ians, and played with skill and finesse.

Dionne herself has a quality of voice which grips the listener emotionally. She sings in tune, uses dynamics effectively, and- has a good sense of timing.

The audience was sufficiently pleased with it all to clap along with some songs, applaud all of them at beginning and end, and give her a standing ovation at the conclusion.

But, but, but.... l It seems to this humble re-

viewer that it is an insult to a paying audience to plug a record durin a concert, no matter how coy1 B it is done. The people who booed when the guy plugged his programs at $1.50 should have given her the same treatment.

l Her introduction (in which she referred to the awful state of the world) was nauseatingly naive, if you happen to believe that the world really is in an awful state. It led to Dream the impossible dream and What the world needs now.

l There was a certain aura surrounding this show, a certain

Maurice Evans, drama director for the coming year will be holding a series of work- shops in the arts theater during the fall term. Anyone in-’ terested should contact him in the theater building room 121 or phone local 2127.

Despite the crummy acoustics more than 5500 people cram- med the jock building friday night to hear the Dionne War- wick concert, final event of Orientation 69. slickness, which said to me that all the American performers despised the audience. Even if this is untrue, it was clear that there was not a lick of spontaneity. Every note, every word, had been well worked out in advance, and has been repeated on other campuses.

l For the money involved in this concert, Dionne Warwick should have been backed by a full orchestra. This would have at least doubled the kick of the concert. One gets tired of watching entertainers and their agencies milk the campuses.

l A final point concerns the use* of the phys-ed building for concerts. The acoustics were ad- equate for friday’s concert, due entirely to the use of amplifica- tion equipment, and directional speakers. The Toronto symphony orchestra is coming to this build-

, ing in October, and I have serious doubts about the use of the building for this purpose;

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All those interested in i working on the week I_ are invited to attend.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at 7:00 pm in the .office of the federation of students

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-Puttiii@ it-all in pers#2ectivti Several months ago while in Vancouver, I was en-

gaged in an informal debate on Marxian social analysis when a close friend made the comment that in a capitalist society students were the most exploited of all classes. Upon pondering his thesis, I was pretty well forced to agree that students in our society are in the process of having their minds stolen and that was surely the worst form of human exploitation. f

It goes without saying that Canada is a capitalist society, which means, of course, that all real power is concentrated in the hands of a very small num-

ber of people. Those people with the power, the corporate elite, number from 900 to 1000 people (John PorterThe Vertical Mosaic) or .005 to .0044 percent of the Canadian population. The rest of the population exists in varying degrees of powerlessness, the vast majority being completely powerless, as they are dependent on the corporate elite for their real-life alternatives. It is clear that the type of concentration of power to which I have referred is necessitated by the type of economic organization that exists in Canada, that is to say a capitalist economic organization which dictates the nature of the entire class structure

-The class structure will in turn define the norms and mores of our society, or in other words, the~.value structure. The most obvious prerequisite of the capitalist value structure is that it socializes people to powerlessness, so that the people are plainly and simply unconscious of power. The capitalist value structure must insure the fact that people are incapable of being anything but other-directed. That condition is necessitated by the hierarchical authority structure which exists within capitalist industry, the military, politics, etc.; if the position of those in authority is being constantly challenged by democratic peoples’ forces, or in other words, self-directed people, the hierarchical structure crumbles and with it those capitalist functions just mention%ed. Therefore, it is in the interests of the corporate elite that they preserve the socialization to powerlessness and the other-directedness of the. mass of people in our society. Unfortunately, the corporate elite in this country has been altogether too successful in insuring those conditions.

One of the foremost mores that contributes to the socialization to powerlessness in this society is the belief which is perpetuated thatlman ‘Yndiv- idually” is responsible for his “individual” destiny. In other words, if man rises to a position of power, it is because he is good, ambitious and has workedf hard. If he does not rise to great heights, it is-be-:

‘cause there is something intrinsically wrong with him. Such an explanation of how man attains his position in society is excellent for defending the status quo, but, of course, is a complete denial of the forces of socialization. The masses, unfortunately, believe it is because their religion and schools teach it. This belief creates terrible problems for organizing and for the development of social and political consciousness, because people don’t see their personal problem in a social context. In other words, a man in our society very sel- dom sees his personal problems as soci$ issues, rather he sees his personal probelms as a manifes- tation of some personal failing in himself.

The result of the type of social psychology I have just described is extremely depressing for those who would bring about total social change by whatever means necessary. I say that because the masses, be they intellectual or manual workers, have been so inculcated with the “meritocratic” ideal that they believe that those in po,sitions of authority must be there for some good reason. (That is to say, their perceptions of reality are blinded by the belief in the meritocratic ideal). As a result, their thinking runs in such terms as: “If he’s in authority and lin not, he must be better than I am. Therefore,

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. how can I attack him?” What follows from that type of thinking is catastrophic. Students allow themselves to be moulded to the shape of an often ignorant, bigoted, socially unconscious and h ypo - critical professoriate, and workers allo w them - selves to be trampled by the corporate elite.

In this complete suppression process, the schools play a fundamental role. From the outset, education, which determines to a great extent to what level one can rise in the capitalist class hierarchy,

’ discriminates against children from the lower classes, thus thwarting equality of opportunity. lntel-

- ligence tests and the substahtive material even in primary schools have upper middle and upper- class biases. Arithmetic problems will be worded in terms of profit and cars’ m’iles per gallon. His- tory texts are about great ‘individuals” and so on.

All of these things make it easier for upper and upper-middle class children to identify themselves with the material, than it is for workers’ children to do so. Ghildren are given marks for deportment, courtesy and manners according to class values which discriminate against workers ’ children. Tea - chers, because of their social class which is above that of workers, discriminate against workers’ children because they appear at school less *well- dressed and dirtier than those of the higher classes. The teachers somehow correlate this with the child’s ability to learn! Therefore they don ‘t hold the same academic expectation for the worker’s child and devote less time to him. It is a vicious circle.

What is often more alienating for workers’ children than that already mentioned is the type of physical organization of the classroom and the authority of the teacher. Workers’ children are usually freer in their young years than the children from other classes. They therefore find it more difficult to get along in the rigidly-organized classroom than do children from the higher classes. They are more often subject, as a result, to disciplinary problems than the others. The parents, unaware of alternative forms of education in terms of the rigid classroom organization. usually reinforce the tea-

> cher’s disciplining at home. The results are obvious. First, the child becomes alienated from the educational system because he can ‘t identify himself with it and is constantly being punished in the schools for what to him are not misdemeanors. Secondly, he de- velops an authoritarian coimplex which is, of course, education’s gift to the corporate elite.

Of course, the last straw in terms of the means by which education discriminates against workers ’ children in education is the overwhelming cost of higher education in Canada. It costs about $2,000 a year to send a student to university in Canada

and the average wage is about $5,200 with the me- _. -._- dian--even below that. Obviously-&% the-cost of higher education in Canada represents a greater barrier to higher education for the children of workers. ’

by Bob Baldwin Canadian union of students associate secretary 1968-69, published in the IUS journal on the democratisation and

’ reform of education.

elite reflects itself in very concrete terms in the schools. i

For instance, as you may well be aware. Canad- ian schools, both in terms of the classroom and the higher governing bodies, are extremely autocratic institutions. In the classroom, the professor‘s word is not subject to question. In the higher decision- making bodies, the students are without meaning- f ful representation. The effects of the situation are two -fold. First, students become disengaged from their schools and the educational process which goes on in the schools, because they have no responsibility for an education which is being deter- mined by others.

Furthermore, the education being offered is not being geared to the needs and desires of those being educated, but rather to the needs and desires of the elite. Secondly; students become socialized to powerlessness. This is, I think, a natural result of having no power to control the nature of their existence for so many years of their life. The societal effect of this latter point is to have education pro - duce a citizenry which, because it doesn’t see itself as being a legitimate agent for. action or reform and has never had the opportunity to be self-directing,- is incapabfe of directing itself. Obviously, given such a state of affairs, it is easy for the elite to direct the mass of Cana?%an citizens.“” I’?, i -.’

Another-effect of elite control of education is that an ever-increasing proportion of students is being directed into technological studies with no corn- ’ prehension of social or human studies. This situation results from the capitalists’ ever-increasing need for technocrats, given the advanced nature of economic development in Canada and Canada’s counter-revolutionary political stance which neces- sitates an attempt to keep up militarily with the progressive world. What the elite needs is bigger and better machines to which workers will-be en- slaved and ever more devastating war mat 8 ial. Therefore, what they require is technocrats who won’t analyse in human and social terms the fruits of their labor. Canadian education produces those technocrats as the elite requires them. (Engineers producing napalm is a good example of what I’m referring to. Surely no one with any humanistic education could produce napalm).

It seems to be the case that the discriminatory education which exists in Canada is reflective of a philosophy of education which is geared to a per- petuation of the corporate elite and its interests. This, though, is hardly a surprise.

Educators, who are, of course, among the elite’s lackeys, give students throughout their years of study only one type of goal orientation. . a professional one. That is to say, education is sold in this country as a means to social status. Unfortunately, this is reflective of an educational system the prime function of which is to mold and train people to.fill the professional slots that the elite has created in society.

Since the elite and their government control vast sources of research funds, -there is an increasingly dangerous phenomenon taking place within the Can adian professoriate. The professors can now make far more money doing research and publishing than they can teaching. They therefore resist more and more tJ7e teaching aspects of their jobs and want to be left to do their research. The’most obvious result of this is poor teaching. However, what in the long run may be far more devastating is the continuing compartmentalization of knowledge; something which is in the final analysis, a very wholistic entity. The resultof this compartmentalization is to present a distorted view of knowledge to the students and, furthermore, to make the Canadian professoriate immobile with regard to academic reform, if it in any way threatens their ability to steep themselves in their research.

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I have suggested it already, and I must reiterate it: that, educational planning and reform will only’ be meaningful in the context of a view of man and the nature of society. The type of education which will exist in any society will depend on the limita - tions which the state decides to impose on the education process within it. It is very important that the human values of education are guaranteed pre- domrnancesover any ancillary values such as edu cation’s role in furthering economic output.

Order, not justice, on campus We have devoted much of the

first three pages of this issue to the committee of Ontario university presidents’ report and a reply from the radical student movement because the issue is immediate and important.

The report is much more than a working paper for discussion within the universities-it a- mounts to a law lacking only royal assent, and it has gone through not even a semblance. of democratic procedure.

The committee of presidents ’ is the executive committee of the all-but-in-name University of Ontario. Its paper amounts to final policy and no member of the committee will dissent.

But no member will want to dissent. Administration presidents are the undemocratic choices of the corporate boards of governors. They may play democratic games on their campuses, but in the committee of presidents they represent no one but the ruling elite.

Disruptions and obstructions will not be defined just as building takeovers. They will be defined as anything ‘that actually challenges the system-includ-

ing debate within a classroom that the professor doesn’t want to engage in.

The presidents’ statement is carefully written and heavily laden with pluralist expressions like “academic community”, 1 “academic freedom”, “free discussion”, “exercise of the rule of reason”, and “house of intellect”.

Such rhetoric should have a very hollow meaning for students who aren’t simply willing participants in the human capital industry and ‘for faculty who aren’t concerned with only their fat pay.checks. 0

The RSM reply contains some mediocre rhetoric, too. But it was written by the participants of an open meeting, and their work had to be, hurried to make a press deadline. “The issue is clear. The com-

mittee of presidents’ view of what is legitimate or acceptable excludes real dissent. It is an attempt to halt time, or even turn back the clo.ck to a point when every person in the university was a willing participant in the human capital industry.

Feedback on the handbook The student handbook What’s

Happening? suggested the Chev- ron office was a good place to meet radical students.

We protest. 1 The Chevron office is ,a good place to meet workers.

Anyway, the dialectics of the handbook were inherently con- tradictory because in the editor’s struggles he included the Water- loo Student Movement in the groups of radical students. This slightly-fanatic group called the Chevron decadent and reaction- ary in the summer edition of their party line “Waterloo Stu- dent”.

was very well done and contains some important tips on how to confront the bureaucracy and win.

The handbook also contains neat and complete, hard-hitting descriptions of the people who run this university and similar views of some of the more sig- nificant and insignificant departments. That’s not the stuff of which the administration Ga- zette is made.

There were a few minor er- rors and a number of typos- but then they used the same printer as the Chevron.

* * * Copies are still available in On the whole, the handbook thecampus center.

Tm glad you young people have seen fit to protest nonviolently. It shows you ‘re civilized. Now get out. ” Playboy cartoon

N.o justice off campus either The myth of justice in our so-

ciety is that all are equal before the law and physical acts are to be abhorred.

In Vancouver, Pierre just society Trudeau “strikes hippie, grabs placard” to quote the Lib- eral-party-backing Toronto Star. Seems he was provoked by words.

Later in the courts, the hippie gets a hearing on an assault com- plaint he registered against Tru- deau.

The hippie has two witnesses other than the bourgeois press’s reporters who say Trudeau hit him. The law produces two officers who can only say Trudeau could have hit the hippie, but they didn’t see it.

l&d result: case dismissed, no charge.

That much made the front pages of the bourgeois press. Buried elsewhere (if at all), one discovers the police brought a charge of creating. a disturbance by swearing against another participant in the demonstration.

What happens to him? Convic- tion a.nd a two-month jail term, a very physical act.

The two judgments together make a slightly frightening but rather commonplace commen- tary on the actual justice and con- sistency evident in the enforce- ment of law ‘n ‘order and the limitation of physical acts.

This peculiar bias of the courts is rather frequently ap- plied.

Not long ago, a youth in St. Catharines was put ’ in reforma- tory for three months because he walked around the streets with F-U-C-K written on his jeans.

Back in Vancouver, the local underground (hippie) newspaper, the Georgia Straight, has encountered a conspiracy in the courts to protect freedom of the press by limiting that freedom to just capitalists who own pres- ses.

The Straight, which is non- profit, has been hit with numerous minor and obscure charges over the years, and usually has been assessed large fines.

Most recently the paper was fined $1500 and’its editor $500 on charges of “counselling to commit a criminal offence.” They had simply run an article on how to cultivate marijuana at home. Not only is your favorite encyclo- pedia probably just as guilty, but any newspaper can now rk- port the contents of the trial per- fectly within the law.

The physical act of the fines may finish the Straight.

Just for added justice, the judge put the Straight’s editor on three years ’ probation.

The existence of charges of conspiracy to commit a criminal offence or counselling to commit a criminal offence constitutes a mockery of justice. They allow so much leeway for selective harassment that there can be no such thing as democracy.

Shall we say rather that we live in a free enterprise system; where the ruling class’s political parties are free to make the rules and free to pick the judges (with the correct political background), and the judges are free to inter- pret the law as they please to cover the particular cases the ruling-class legislators missed.

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Giving their thanks to the committee of university presidents for making this world a better place in which to live: Alex Smith, Brenda Wilson, Steve izma, Tom Purdy, Jim Bowman, Jim

’ Klinck, Cyril Levitt, David X Stephenson, Bob Epp, Una O’Callaghan, dumdum jones, Bill Brown, Jim Dunlop’and Pat Starkey. And aren’t you terribly proud of Howiepetch?

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