.- volume 10: number 4 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, Waterloo, Ontario - friday 30 may’ 1969

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The university has taken a political stand in recommending changes in Ontario’s liquor laws.

.Provincial secretary Robert Welch has received two briefs from a .committee of student, faculty and staff representatives, asking for changes ’ in liquor regulations both on and off cam- pus.

The briefs, one on the ‘legal drinking age in Ontario and the other on allowing licenses on cam- pus were endorsed by the admin-

‘istration and the board of gov- ernors. .

Studies show the average Am- erican child takes-his&St drink at. 12 years Lof age, usually under parental supervision. Society expects, the highschool ‘graduate to behave like an adult, yet he is not given the same rights until 21.

The report suggests a, legal age of 18, although most of the argument is against L any legal .age.

The legislation, it is argued, produces an artificial situa- tion where a special emphasis is focused on alcohol. It provides the underaged with a means of proving their maturity, since drinking is symbolized as a grown-up thing to do.

The trip off-campus to the pub becomes an event where people tend to drink heavily, in order to fill up for the long haul between drinking nights. In general, not merging one’s drinking life

. with normal routine sets drink ap-’ art as the escape from routine, thus increasing the abuse of alcoholic beverages.

The brief favors the same rights for the university as any other- community. The present tempor- ary license laws for the campus

, mean tedious procedures must be followed to get permission -for one night/at a time. These evenings become special events centered around booze. I (

1 The temporary , license, also, ‘prevents setting 1 up lounge ‘fac- ilities where liquor is served to people gathered for a lei.surely social drink.

It is argued that the law only magnifies the problem which it

- is attempting to alleviate. The committee has not as yet used the same reasoning on marijuana.. . suppose the)j _- had a convocation and nobody came. . . ,

Value of federatiod qubstioned ’

Engiiieer meeting @rills Patterson ’ : , , , The engineering lecture hall

roof served- as bearpit monday as federation president Tom Patt- erson spoke to about 50 engineers.

The noonhour meeting was cal- led by Eng Sot A to discuss reasons for engineering students remaining in the Federation of Students.

After a brief introduction, Patterson answered questions from the crowd.

Apathy sweeps cound seats Acclamations have filled the

three’ seats in engineering, and no nominations were received for the co-op math seat in the sum- mer-term student council by-

\ elections. Engineering representatives ac-

claimed were Barry Fillimore, \ mechanical 4A; Tom Boughner;

chemical 4A;’ Rick Soulis, civil 2B. Boughner . and Fillimore were

both incumbents. Fillimore. is communications commissioner in federation ‘president Tom Pat- tersonls executive.

Nominations for the co-op math seat remain open until5pm wed- nesday 4 june. , I

One of the first questioners felt federation funds are’ being misspent. He’ asked why the ex- ternal-relations board could subsi- dize outside activities like the Peterborough newspaper em- ployees’ strike, when most stu-- dents were too busy to attend.

“After all, we’re here for an education and degree. We need a social education too, so why don’t .you subsidize. dances?” he concluded.

Patterson explained, that all the expenses incurred by strik- ers at Peterborough were paid by the individual students and the newspaper guild not by the feder- ation.

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Another questioner followed this line of argument in asking about the grant given to Everdale, a free school operation.

Patterson felt this item is justifiable in that the school will

serve as a valuable resource un- it for the integrated-studies course.

The major bout of the afternoon took place when Rick Soulis, civil. 2B, rose to at&k eompul- sory federation membership. He saw little use for the unionmem- bership and for that reason had not paid his student fee at the beginning of the term.

“A student would have to be. pretty apathetic to not benefit in > some way from the federation” Patterson replied. He also stated

tic if you didn’t benefit from .

membership. I also object to being forced to support a ‘pol- itical organization which I dent _, - agree with. ”

In response to his question of what the federation plans to do to collect his unpaid student . fee, Soulis was informed the matter was totally up to the reg- 1 istrar’s office and would be of no concern to student council.

Soulis then made his candidacv I in the upcoming byelection pud- lit, thanked Patterson for - the free publicity made available ‘,o _ him, and sat down. l

that in no way could. the feder- ation operate many of its pro- grams if it ‘did not know as much as a year and a half in advance its financial situation. For this reason compulsory mem- bership is necessary.

Soulis replied that he felt the federation’s influence was overrated by Patterson. “I don’t agree that you would‘be apathe-

, Questions on hiring of summer research assistants, management of radio Waterloo, and editor-staff

1 relationship in the Chevron foll- owed. A, central theme to many of these questions was the jus- tification of money spent for specific functions. -

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Nuke denies holi&)f forced patient~.out . , t by Alex Smith

Chevron staff

. . ministered to Robertson he could be tak- en back to his room at the Village that morning. ,/ ,’

the infirmary and while a nurse observed and took notes.

Health-services now says that if Rob- A Chevron report may 23 claiming

,Gerald Robertson, math 2B, had been ejected from health’ s’ervices infirmary on the Victoria .day holiday has been par- tially repudiated by Robertson and de- nied by health-services supervising nurse Phyllis Livingston.

In a letter to the Chevron, Robertson Y

Dr. Reesor appeared to base her de- ertson suffers further attacks, he is to -‘cision on the test results and on the fact contact the doctor who had examined-him

that Mrs. Wood was technically ‘off~duty’~ at healthservices and not go through and would have to call Mrs. ’ Livingston - the infirmary where apparently nothing back to the building after she had-been on- can be done to aid him. duty for seven days. In Mrs. Livingston’s opinion, the mat- , . al-..,ll 1 , . “V - ^

said he wanted to clear up “misinterpre- tations” about the article and. exonerate health-service nurses from any adverse implications derived from the story.

Robertson originally stated that he had been awakened on ,monday morning of the long weekend by nurse Sadie Wood after he - had been admitted the night before during a severe throat spasm. The implication was that nurse Wood was

, going off-duty and: no one wotid be left in the building. _

When questioned about Mrs. Wood’s action, -Mrs. Livingston said no nurse has the legal authority to dismiss a

_ patient without the written or verbal per- mission of the attending doctor: ’

She said Mrs. Wood had called health- ’ services director Helen Reesor (M.D.)

1 Little thought was- given to ensuring that once he was at the Village, Robert- son could be properly cared for in case of an emergency. Robertson’s tutor, pure-math prof Henry Graph, had criti- cized health services in the Chevron’s original story for just this reason.

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clare his error. There is confusion as to why this is the case.

For though Robertson reported that after his complaint was aired Mrs. Liv- ingston had told him he needn’t come back if he suffered further attacks, Mrs. Livingston pointed out that it was ob- vious no treatment could be administered , at the’ infirmary which could not be supplied in the private office of the doc- tor who was assigned to Robertson.

The confusion in commu.nication be-

ter is- aernntery not a question of lack of operating funds to -provide for proper nursing staff. She claimed there is always at least one nurse on duty and one ‘more \ off-duty, but available if necessary in

I the apartment above the infirmary. , Mrs. Livingston referred to another occ-

asion on which health-services had re- ceived criticism in the Chevron about holiday closing. She said the student ,concerned finally apologized and signed a

*- statement to the effect that the impression she had given the Chevron had been false.

“It’s always the students who have noth- ing wrong with them that cause all this trouble”; she stated.

What is apparent is that any student. who does have some complaint with health-services regrets making such in- formation public. In each case so far, the student has been seized with a mad .passion after the fact to publicly de- , who decided that on the basis of tests ad-

Although Mrs. Livingston said Mrs. Wood had given Robertson numbers ‘to call in case of an emergency. But her ,opinion of Robertson’s physical ability to make such a call during a spasm was directly opposed ’ to information given to the Chevron by Robertson and- his Village don. ’

Mrs. Livingston also suggested all of Robertson$ &tacks occurred at night when , he tias alone. Again something was overlooked, for Robertson orig- inally stated he had suffered one of his throat and coughing spasms while ,in

tween health-services, Robertson’s. doc- tor and the intern at’ th,e Kitchener-Wat- erloo hospital responsible for processing and analysing Robertson’s ,tests and x- rays also did not seem ‘to disturb nurse Livingston. .The confusion had resulted in the hospital’s returning Robertson to the university after it could not find anyone who knew .anything about his ease when he wa,s taken to the’ emerg- ency ward at 2 am sunday of the same weekrend. I

Mrs. Livingston said she personally preferred the old ‘days when there was just “the wood shack” and two nurses. “We worked like the devil,” said Mrs. Livingston, “but there were not any of these nasty letters about health ser- vices in the Chevron. ”

Yea/nay vote on Ober as arts dean There will be an election of

sorts for a dean (or at least an acting dean i after all.

.\lthough recent appointments of deans and acting deans in math. engineering. science and grad studies have been made by the president on recommendation of a faculty-elected committee in each faculty. in no case has the committee’s selection gone back to the faculty for the ves-no vote suggested by the university government report.

As reported in last week’s Chev- ron. this polling to determine a candidate’s acceptability has not met with general favor. As well as being bypassed by all

faculties but arts, interim admin- istratioh president Howard Petch feels it may not be a wise pro- vision.

The arts faculty’s general group and executive committee elected a subcommittee to discuss can- didates last week. This group a- greed to recommend english de- partment chairman Warren Ober for the one-gear stint as dean Jay Minas’ replacement.

Now each member of the arts faculty has a chance to vote “I am in favor” or “I am hot in favor.”

No difficulty is expected in having the subcommittee’s choice confirmed.

It’s that bloody time of the term Do a non-capitalist thing that

will save someone from a capital- ist-inflicted death-donate blood.

Only a free socialist-humanist donation of blood can save the life of someone injured in a plan- ned-obsolescence auto accident or a productivity-shortcut indus- trial accident.

Go ahead.. .risk an RCMP record for subversive activitv-

give away some blood so a fel- low human can survive. Give a pint of flag-red corpuscle soup.

The blood-donor clinic will be held in the arts theater building. room 116. june 9 and 10.

Circle K is risking their iMom. God and Apple Pie repu- tation by running it-the least vou can do is be a token commie and give a little.

SCM plans discussion-filled summer Looking for a cheap place to a house where participants will

crash out this summer? Why not be living. join the SCM international summer The estimated cost per partic- project? ipant for the three months is $150,

The project will provide you which includes room and board. with an opportunity to discover The project will also be having your identity and life style through open discussions to which any- dialog. working and studying one interested is welcome. together with students from other The first open discussion, “Is cultural backgrounds, say its human intereaction happening sponsors. on campus? ” will take place at

136 University avenue west, Group discussions this summer june 5,8 pm.

will focus on problems with foreign Anyone interested in the pro- students in Canada as well as ject should talk to Iwao Machida a broad range of other topics. by calling 576-8850 or drop in at The project will center around 136 University avenue.

Taachers merge with universities Next year will see the intro-

duction of the campus center program, part of the agreement drawn up last fall: Funds of 25~ a head over the whole campus will be made available from the un- iversity.

All activities will be of general interest and the program should complement those activities of the student activities board and the creative arts board. Louis Silcox and Bob Sinasac, chair- men of the respective boards, have been placed in charge and will be trying to fill the gaps in and between the two boards.

The activities planned include two 8-week first aid courses,

two car shows and the rental of several television sets for major sports events,- these will be used at pub nights.

Also planned are noon-hour drama, painting, lectures, song, and a refinement of Operation Panic, the end-of-term steam letteroffer.

Of course people are needed to assist in the execution of the program. Ideas, especially from staff and faculty would be appre- ciated.

See Louis Silcox in the Fed- eration of Students office( local 2814) or in the campus center office ( local 3426).

New campus centre program coming In the first of a series of trans- teachers for the secondary schools

fers to take place over the next of Ontario. few years, Lakehead Teachers’ College will become affiliated with Lakehead University july 1.

Education and university aff- airs minister Bill Davis called the step the first phase of a program which will result in a degree for every Ontario teacher.

This new institution at the lake- head will be similar to colleges of education new established at the Varsity, Queen’s and Western, and will include the present Lake- head Teachers’ College.

Davis is not anticipating the completion of the plan in the near future. The new programs will be developed in a manner which will not interfere with an ade- quate supply of teachers for the elementary schools of Ontario.

An agreement is to be reached shortly between the province of Ontario and the university re- garding the establishment of a college of education at Lakehead University which will prepare

TODA Y ‘S SPECIAL! Cou au Kitchenstaff Flambee, served stewing in its own juice and laced with Puree of’ Perspiration. This delightful bird comes to you from the Kitchens of PP&P (kept at a constant 98 degrees) and is served piping hot by our coffee shop supervisor who wouldn’t think of letting it cool off. Roasted and simmered to a turn, this poultry dish is distinguished bWv succulent, heat-induced swollen legs and watery eyes, One serlling includes one bird with garnish and costs only as much as the price of a decent air-conditioner.

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How can Hieronymus often Humpe Mercy Mer- kin? And how can Polyester often Poontang Hieronymus?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .But how can Hieronymus often get Humpe and Poontang on his side at the same time? And how can Mercy often go round merry? . . . . .

: : : . * * . * * *, . . * * . . . . . And how can Polyester often get the Man from Glad on her side? But how can the Man from Glad often Fast Filth Eddie?”

All because, often, you probably wouldn’t be- lieve it could happen to you.

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sticretai The editor of the ml uch-criti-

cized secretary’s manu al, Joan

fies poise and grooming Gas “very basic”: and the “feelings express-

Hadley. sent a ietter of apology to ed by many’ of you clearly indi- all recipients of the manual. cate that this information is gen-

“From the beginning I have erally considered to be unneces- drawn heavily on other resources sary.”

- b and: from the advice and gui- dance of other secretaries and She continued, howeve’r, that

, staff *members. I realized fhat “in spite of the mixed reactions,

there would probably be a _ cer- we have been encouraged by the

tain amount of *criticism of the ‘reports -from many secretaries

manual. The expected criticism -and supervisors”.

did come, as you know, in *pub- lished form and in ‘a widely-circul- ated mem.0.” . , - The memo, sent by prof .Terry

Qualter. called ‘the manual an example of “bureaucratic sillin- ess and waste”.

“If. you are one of the secre- - taries who felt personally in-

sulted or offended by any part of the manual, I am deeply sorry,” she said. : , \ _

She admits the information on I

She concludes with a statement _ which indicates the manual will

be revised. “With your ‘interest, your suggestions and your ?ri-

. _ticisms we hope to co-ordinate-the development - .of a secretary’s -mantial which is a product,of the ideas land contributions of the university’s secretaries. If you, as a secretary; think it is worth the effort,. the secretary’s manual can ‘Fmerge ,, as something of va!u.e,to evbryone. ’ ’

.- motel -on cumpus edg.e , No longer will students be forc-

ed. to drive out of the city to find I’* i mstel. So.on if you’r wife comes

to visit for the weekend, a room * for xhq night will be only a stone’s

throw;from the south campus. If +RGT MotelsLtd proceed with

plans approved by the Waterloo planning board last week, con- $ruction could begin on this

All ,three will mana‘ge the motel. as they-all have had some exper- ienc’e in this type of work during various summer jobs.

Projected employment by the -motel is 31 persons. full and part- time.

- city’s first motel n~ext fall: The site of the proposed 50-unit

building is the property where Simon.3 Eastern Mfg. is now located pn University avenue.

L The company -involved was formed especially for the Water- lloo project, by.Jef.f Ramsbottoin, Wayne Gartshore, and Ron ‘Trbo- vich. Ramsbottom and Trbovich

“are both students at Waterloo, in grad chemistry and poli-sci respectively. w

Plans for the structure include a prestige restaurant, cocktail lounge, split - level units over-

‘looking a courtyard, a multi-level pub, and a beer garden. As they pointed out, “we’re going for quality”, and it is estimated that each unit will cost $12.500.

The majority of units will be split leyels:: the first level de- sign&d .as ‘a combination liSing- room-bedroom, the second level a builtFin study. Many of the rooms will open onto private court- yards,

Their aim is to “have something with a flavoi- to attract both stu- dent and faculty clientele, as well as visiting businessmen.

“We thought we saw a real need for this and took it on as a chall-. enge”, said a spok&man fdr the company. .

The pub will cater primarily- t-9 students. Entertainment will range over a wide spectrum. from classical t’o folk music and de- bating groups. _ . The pub, which. they hope to have licensed by next summer, will open qpto a be;er garden.-

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I Eng$oc ciiscussei rank, l- \ a- polluth, coordination - _ . ~ -

“Rank is more important than , prombtion of coordination to ob- m.arks. ” , tain,neiv employers.

“No, I wapt my marks not rank.‘: The coordination advisory com- %l I look for is to see that I mittee member informed engSoc

passed. ~:-,Who do you show your that ,it has a ‘suggestion’ box for + rank to? Only your friends. I prablerils with coordination and

don’t think it’s necessary to com- that they screen suggestions be- _ pare rank.” , fore ‘presenting them to coordin-

A Opinions varied but in the end ation. When questioned on the- EngSoc ‘A vot~ed 30 to ,3 in favor censoring policy the rep explain- of healthy competition and will ed, “If a suggestion came. send a recommendation to the through; “coordination_i,s for the registrar that rank in class be shits” it would be screened out included on the ‘exam reports.

Pollution w,ill be the first to’pic because itys ‘not constyuctive. We already know that.”

in a &ties of four talks arranged Engsoc then tackled the four by the EngSod education commit- course club budgets. After much tee. Odd numbers, the role of hassling they. finally decided on

’ students and cyrogenics will foll- a maximum of $75 each. ow on consecutive weeks. , Eni sot A president Glen

. The series begins tuesday j&e i4 at noon in EL 163 and continues

Hedge, informed the council that next- year’s APE0 conference

the next two’ mondays, same would be in Ottawa or Hamil- time and place. The final talk ton in mid january. The first day will be the next monday, same will -feature presentations by place but 4pni rather than noon. APE0 on the ( topics;. pbllution,

An engineering representa- _ employee versus ->empl6yer en&n- tive on th‘&o’&dination advisory committee tinounce-d the formal

eeri, - and collective bargaining for eneiiief?rs:

tigate the role of the coordinator. Eng-Sac considered a motion The thwe areas of study will be stud&t-coordinator. relations, in-

to giy$. $250 to Camp Columbia btit -tabled it for further considera-

dustfy-coordination ’ relations and tion alid adjourned.

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Sir George cases proceed dowly MONTREAL (CUP )--Over one-

third 6f the people charged in con- nection with last winter’s distur: bances at Sir George Williams Un; iversity have been - committed to face trial‘in September. .

On may 20, 31 people were pro- cessed in’ preliminary hearings. All of the aceused accepted trans- cripts of testimony from’ the preliminary -hpring of Kennedy Fredericks, a marathon which lasted from mid-february to may 9. : _

’ Each‘~ of the preliminary hear- ‘ings lasted about one. minute. None of, the accused made a vol-

At&es5 php ciefhonitrqtions~ I _

SYDNEX., :, A’ust. tLNS:CUP), -Austra&n attorney-g&era1 Ni- gel Bowcn said tdhtiy his de- partment was investigating.,. re- ports that students planned to take “extreme action” on a national scale in j une and july .

Bowen said the repofts, from police, underground student news- papers and other sources, indi- cated plans to take over second- ary schools. 1.

The re’ports said that tiide- spread demonstr!ations w&e also planned against prime minister Gorton, army mijnister Philip Lynch, labor minister Leslie Bury and tlie attorney gen‘eral.

They were to culminate in a na- tion-wide demonstratiQn on july 4, “Independence” Day. -s

nntary statement, a stage in Que- bec law where they may present evidence, to- have charges drop- ped. ,

All those charged face 12 counts

the computer center and a year of negotiations with adniinistra- tion officials over charges that one professor was a rascist.

Only one of the’ accused order- ed to appear last week failed to show up. A warrrant was issued or- ; dering her to appear on june 2 when the remaining 54 charged /

of conspiracy, arson and mis- chief in corinection with the fire and computer destruction at Sir ?G@rge feb. 11. The damage came after ‘a two-week occupatiQn of will face preliminary hearifigs.

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WASHIDfGTdN (C&PI)+. S. attorney-general John Mitchell

-told a . house pf representatives subcotimittee -may 20 he has evi- dence indicating revolutionary stu- dent groups ’ financed by outside sources are causing much current campus disorder. /

Mitchell warned that militant stuqent groups copstitute a seri- ous national problem and named the Students for a Democratic Society as the most prominent of the organizations.

Accdrding- to his investigations,% said Mitchell, highschools, chur- bhes, and labor unions have been singled out as targets by the mili-, tants.

The attorney-general did not pro- duce any of the evidence, nor did he name any ,of the otitside’sourc- es of financing or any of the reci- pients of the funds.

Mitchell also -asked the &nmit- tee not to recommend tiny speci- fic legislation on the problem. He placed the primary respon’:

sibility- for keeping campus or- der upon college authorities work- ing with state and local police.

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“Within the pa’st few weeks,” said Mitchell, “there appears to be a greate: de’gree of willingness by college. authorities ,to exercise this responsibility.” . +- . I

Student killed ’ in visit to girl,

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (LNS- CUP&Visiting your girl friend can pe a very dangerous activity if she- lives on campus at Spring- field. ‘

John Loba& tried to do iust that after visiting ,hours on &a9 IFI ’ Somebddy c$ught him climbing into the dorm and when he tried to escape he ‘was shot ‘in the back and killed by one of, the campus T i

-cops. ’

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THE UNIVERSITY: FINAL EXAM PART I

Below are a series of questions dealing with your Relationship with the University. Based on your personal experiences, circle the answer you feel most appropriate. You must answer each question. 1. I stand in line for hours during registration because:

(A) The University emphasizes physical as well as mental fitness. (B) Some crank at the front of the line always argues with the person handing out the

cards (C) I’m basically a masochist. (D) The University is a large institution, and, consequently, course selection is a

time-consuming, but unavoidable, necessity. 2. I’m required to take some marginally-tolerable courses because:

(A) Like everything else, Education has its good and bad points.. (B) Otherwise, my SDQ (Semester Depression Quota ) might be insufficient. (C) The Uni versity is basically sadistic. (D) The University knows what’s best for me; i.e., it’s necessary for a well-rounded.

liberal arts education. 3. Unless enrolled in Plan II, I’m required to declare a major because: *

(A) Students should speak out on issues central to their lives. (B) Departmental Secretaries would sluff off since they’d have fewer lists to type up. (C) Everyone else does it.

, (D) It helps me to think seriously about-and carefully plan for my future. . 4. Final Exams, required class attendance, etc. are often necessary, though obnoxious

facts of life because: (A) People grow through experiencing pain. (B) Deep-down, I really don’t care about being educated. (C) My professors had a tough toilet-training. (D) The University is concerned about my education, and, furthermore. it needs

some objective way of evaluating me. 5. My University degree indicates that:

(A) I’m an O.K. person. (B) I’m qualified to enter the Middle or Upper class. (C) Contrary to criticism, the University has given me something tangible. (D) I’ve demonstrated both a general ability to learn and a specific competency in

the area of my major. PART II

Your answer to the following essay question must contain a sufficient number of objective facts to allow a mark to be calculated. Answer one of the following with regard to the Political context of Social and Economic problems in Society.

1. Why you undoubtedly feel we are living in a governmental system which is as close to Utopia in the field of civil rights as good business sense will allow.

2. Why it is absolutely essential to maintain high religious morals and uphold the work ethic in order to provide a meaningful life for those millions of people who are not intelligent enough or sensible enough to run the country.

Orford Quartet interesting I ’ ’ by Jan Narveson Chevron staff

The Orford string quartet per- formed in the arts theater may 21, in a concert sponsored by the Canadian congress of app- lied mechanics.

This ‘young Canadian group has drawn some rather strong notices from an apparently hyper-enthu- siastic press. It is my melancholy duty to call such judgements into doubt, if the group’s Waterloo performance is anything to go by.

To begin with, balance prob- lems marred nearly every move- ment in the program, which in- cluded Haydn Op. 76, no. 2, Ravel in F, and Smetana ‘From my life’.

The first violinist tended to dom- inate the ensembles, especially in the Haydn. Then too, the first violinist simply isn’t in a class, technically, with those of the pre- mium quartets of our day. His tone was usually edgy and some- times downright shrill; his into- nation not always spot-on; and his navigation of difficult passages sometimes a bit uncertain.

For that matter, the general polish of the group was not of the best all the way round. I had the impression that honors perhaps should have gone to the second violin, but perhaps this impression is due to the fact that he was seldom audible against the com- petition of his leader.

The viola and cello of the group have a nice big, warm tone at their command and frequently used it to good advantage.

The long suit of this group proved to be their ensemble-play- ing and their general vitality. What is remarkable is that given the technical limitations .of each in- dividual, they play so well together, in general.

Getting down to particulars, I found the initial number, by ‘Hay- dn, rather nervous and hard-driv-

en in the outer movements. The andante was, by contrast, more relaxed and really very nice on the whole. The Menuetto was played at virtually allegro velocity, and in general sounded as though they were trying to make Haydn into late Beethoven. Still and all, the integration of the performance was excellent, and added up to a decent performance.

The Ravel was perhaps the most enjoyable of the evening’s works Here the first violin was less obtrusive, due no doubt, to the greater intrinsic equality of the other parts in this twentieth- century piece. It’s a quartet with much magic in it, as in the pizz- icatto opening of the second move- mentwhich came off a bit fitfully but then settled down fairly nice- ly in the Orford’s performance. The lack of velvet and finish in the tone of the group was app- arent in many places here, as they made their way through the quite demanding passages note-perfect, or nearly so, but with signs of effort.

The last item on the regular

program, by Smetana, was not much short of disaster. unfor- tunately. Somehow, things got off on the wrong foot; and at the break between the first and sec- ond movements, the considerable pause for tuning and adjusting seem only to have made matters worse. The second movement was pretty uncomfortable throughout.

Interestingly, the audience saw fit to reward the group with thunderous applause, and even a standing ovation, to the somewhat consternation of the quartet, which responded with a tight, well- controlled, and supercharged performance of the finale to Hay- dn’s Op. 54, no. I.

Whether the Orford is going to move into the first rank of string quartets will depend lar- gely upon the development of the individual abilities of the players. Certainly they have ‘the intensity, the dynamism, and the ensemble control to put them in the running.

And certainly, too, CANCAM deserves our thanks for bright- ening this academic doldrums period.

Playing in the arts theater, the Orford String Quartet enter- tained Canadian congress of applied mechanics delegates.

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Most people seem, these days, to think that government intervention ( ‘socialist’ measures) will either “kill the incentive” for most big business, or usher in the “kingdom of heaven on earth”.

Now, both points of view represent the simplistic extremes. Yet I would sug- gest that most people hold one or the other position, or variants of them.

It is my contention that government in- tervention in the private sector of the economy is necessary for the continued growth and stability of those corpor- ations and that without increased govern- ment intervention, a chaotic situation would be induced.

Now, I don’t mean to argue that all government intervention is necessarily functional for the free market economy- I’m just saying that the form government intervention has taken is indispensable for corporate profits.

Nowhere can this thesis be demon- strated more clearly than in an analysis of housing in Canada. The housing crisis of the late ‘60’s has resulted from a movement toward large,“vertically-in- tegrated” housing development firms from the entrepreneurial establishments of the earlier part of this century.

This movement has been assisted, and in many cases fostered, by the federal and provincial governments. Government policy, both liberal and conservative and, to some extent NDP, has amounted to purposeful collusion between the pub- lic sector and those persons who derive profits from the housing market:land- holders, developers, landlords, and lend- ing institutions.

These devolopment companies control not only their own specialized interest, but also the supply of these things they need: land, building materials and in- creasingly, labor ; but also control the market for their houses-the wishes, op- unions, and income of the consumer.

Government at all levels has assisted this development in the interests of “greater planning, lower prices and efficiency” with little or no concern for the social costs of such conglomer- ate control of people’s lives.

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“Think now: how many articles can you buy today for twenty-five cents that are really worth one dollar? If I told you that when a developer purchased your land, he did so for twenty-five cents on the dollar, you would say that I was soft in the head. I sold a 17-suite apartment building recently for $150,000. The pur- chaser got it for $40,000 cash. He borrow- ed $110,000 secured by a mortgage on the property, fully amortized over twenty years. The mortgage, interest and prin- cipal is being repaid from the income the owner receives from his tenants.

“Not only that, the income he receives pays all the operating expenses and taxes on the property, and it provides him with an extra $4,000 or so, which of course is a net return of ten percent on his investment....

“In twenty years, the mortgage will be paid off, and he will have a nice clean clear title to the building worth $150,000

JACK that he bought for $40,000. Furthermore, if real estate keeps up the spiralling re- cord it has set during the past 25 years, God alone knows what the building will really be worth.” (Canadian Real Estate, “How to Make It Pay”, p. 156. J

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tion: . employees duped into believing that the company’s goals are their goals; massive brainwashing to make people see consumption and growth as ends in themselves ; increased unemployti&t due to automation; and a state that is even more the supporter and servant of these corporations. This has some particular implications in the field of housing.

I think these developments are almost inevitable, and I do not believe that we can fight them by destroying the ma&- ines. However, I think the question is one of who controls the machines; for what purpose they are used. and what happens to the profits they make.

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“I’ve got news about some ordinary men, They heard it preached time and again, Be patient! Be grateful! Amen, And don’t agitate around here. But in New York the tenants ail know

‘The slumlord ain’t gettin’ our dough. We’re fed up and want you to know That’s the very best kind of news...”

(Tom Faxton, “The Superfluous Masses” 1 Over 500,000 people in Canada live in

dilapidated and slum housing. And the number is growing every year. This number does not include those people liv- ing in rural areas.

Slums are, of course, inhabited by poor people; those peopie whose lives have been made obsolete by technology and the demands of entrepreneurial society. In the entrepreneurial period, which used a great deal of manual labor, unemploy- ment was used to prevent. inflation and to provide a pool of cheap labor.

At the present time, many persons whose education and skills do not fit them for competition in the kind of labor market that technology creates are sup- erfluous to the whole system. Industry could not employ them all even if they could gain the necessary skills.

The only value they have to the corp- orations is as passive consumers. And it is for this reason that industry will support welfare allowances or a guar- anteed annual income. However, this amount is presently only subsistence, and is unlikely to ever be more, than that.

Slums grow up in areas that are also superfluous : superfluous to the kind of development companies which are pres- ently building hovsing. They do their buying of land where they can get large amounts easily and cheaply-raw land of areas destined for urban renewal. Ra- pid transit is making the cores of cities obsolete just as the centralization of factory areas is making many rural areas obsolete. The housing industry in the downtown areas is left increas- ingly to speculators, profiteers and the government.

When new development does take place in the cities, it is either commercial space, housing for singie, middle-income office workers, or some kind of public housing scheme.

Neither speculators nor profiteers who hold on to dilapidated housing care about the conditions of that housing. All they want is return on their investment. Be- cause the people to whom they rent have no choice, they are unlikely to complain effectively.

Slums are superfluous housing for sup- erfluous people.

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-v<.__. ‘,.. % ‘., -\C.--- image and incarnation of the diehard ^.. . American capitalist of the old school. In fact he made his fortune twice. losing his first $100 million in the degression and getting it all back by the l&e 40s.

Yet he is a man who has repeatedly condemned his own country for its part in prolonging the cold war, interfering in other nations and refusing to recognize Red China. He has attacked the CIA and the FBI and has waged a running battle with the commercial press in the U.S.

Eaton is a great railroad, coal and steel tycoon; yet he has long been friendly with union leadership and has encouraged rather than attacked the growth of unionism.

How do you explain it ? Eaton likes to be thought of as living proof that the capitalist system is not doom- ed to failure. that anyone can make it in democratic and free-enterprise America.

Sceptics say he’s after publicity, that his vanity must be served by having others recognize he is successful and benevolent, that having conquered the financial world. he conceitedly wants to make a mark in the inter- national field and go down in history as a man of peace. Or that he is crafty and pragmatic in recog- nizing and accepting forces that prohibit absolutely free capitalism and in doing his best to co-opt those forces and use them for his own benefit.

Now. of course, Eaton has disposed of much of his interest in the great enterprises he built up from tiny concerns. In December. 1967. on his 84th birthday. the financeer said he was aware the inevitable hour was approaching. but that he was supported by a young and vigorous group of associates and “we must press on to achieve at least part of the great undone.”

But Eaton’s name is no longer in the minds of Am- ericans and Canadians the way it was from the 20‘s to the 50’s. Canadians have always had a special in- terest in this man for he was born in the small fishing and lumber-shipping village of Pugwash. Nova Scotia. He graduated from McMaSter University in 1905 in philosophy. intending to go into the ministry. In this he was influenced by an uncle who was a Baptist min- ister in Cleveland, significantly in the church atten- ded bv John D. Rockefeller. Sr. Through his uncle’s contact. Eaton spent his summers as a secretary. helper and caddy to the tycoon.

Rockefeller put Eaton to work after his graduation as a clerk and troubleshooter for the East Ohio Gas Company. one of the mid-west’s major utilities. Early in 1907 some former Rockefeller associates commi- sioned him to go to Manitoba to secure a franchise

’ for an electric-power plant. He got the franchiseA, but his backers, frightened of the 1907 panic, withdrew. Eaton borrowed the money to build the plant on his own. and sold it two years later at an excellent profit.

With that stake. Eaton went on to develop gas and electric companies in hundreds of cities throughout the U.S. midwest and southwest. In 1912 he put toge- ther his first great utility holding company. Continental Gas & Electric Co., and by the mid-twenties he had United Light & Power Co. and the third largest utility empire in the U.S.

About this time Eaton began to move in on the steel and rubber industries. He was shocked by the intense rivalry between the various rubber compan- ies and felt the competition was bitter and wasteful. So he quietly bought up virtual control of Goodyear. and also acquired significant holdings of the shares in Firestone and Goodrich.

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Eaton never worked out front in these dealings-at no time did he assume any official connection with any of the rubber companies. But he promoted a number of board memberships, and arranged a series of friendly meetings among the rival executives in. the library of his home. They soon began to recognize each other’s virtues and to see the wisdom in devis- ing more sensible and more profitable policies in pri- cing and the like.

In 1925. when Trumbell Steel of Warren, Ohio was in financial trouble, Eaton wrote out his personal cheque for $18 million and took control. In the next four years he acquired four more small steel and iron companies and merged them into Republic Steel Corp., third largest in the industry.

The major financing vehicle for Eaton’s various ven- tures had been Continental Shares Inc., an investment trust he created in 1926. At its peak, Continental Shares had capital and surplus of $150 million and sold for $300 a share. But the depression brought troubles and the stock fell to $8. Eaton was forced out of Continental Shares in 1931, and when the bankers liquidated it two vears later there was less than $16 million to distri-

bute among 18,000 bitter stockholders. Many of them blamed Eaton and sued unsuccessfully. , Eaton was bitter, too-against the big eastern banks for shortsightedly calling his loans, and against Presi- dent Hoover for refusing to guarantee bank deposits. His personal fortune had shrunk from $100 million to less than $5 million.

Eaton started his climb back by using a Cleveland investment-banking firm, Otis & Co., which he had controlled since 1916. The method was competitive bidding for the public offerings of railroad and utility securities. In this way Eaton eventually gained control of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and won legal battles over competitive bidding with Senator Robert A. Taft (over a $12 million bond issue of the Cincinnati Union Terminal) and 1948 Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie (over a bond issue by utility firm Commonwealth & Southern Corp. ). With Otis & Co. rising to become one of the country’s top ten investment bankers,, Eaton had a solid base of support to make new forays into iron and steel.

Canadians are perhaps most familiar with Eaton’s involvement in Steep Rock Mines, 100 miles north of Lake Superior. In 1942, at the height of the demand for steel, Eaton undertook a great gamble. Against the advice of engineers and geologists he financed the building of a 3000-foot tunnel from Finlayson Lake to change the course to the Seine River. But “Eaton’s Folly” worked, and 121 billion gallons of water were pumped from Steep Rock Lake ( 15 by 4 miles ), baring the treasure of iron ore. Millions of tons of ore have been shipped out since 1943, yet in 1960 it was estim- ated that half a billion tons of iron ore remained.

Although he invested about $40 million in this gam- ble. Eaton wasn’t prepared to take all the risk. Past support for president Franklin Roosevelt came in handy and Eaton got FDR’s blessing for Steep Rock in the name of the war effort, plus $5 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Then he went to Ottawa where his persuasive abil- ities and Nova Scotian ancestry helped him acquire the backing of the Maritime members of the wartime cabinet and C.D. Howe to the extent of $20 million for railroad spurs. docks and other facilities. Ontario premier Mitch Hepburn. always an admirer of Eaton. brought this province in for $5 million.

Litigation arising out of Eaton’s Steep Rock dealings shows his style of corporate manouvering. Along with the complicated financing of the Steep Rock venture. Eaton organized a sales company, Premium Iron Ores, Ltd.. of Toronto, of which he owned 74 percent. The balance was owned by his Otis & Co. partner. William R. Daley. and associates. Premium agreed to buy ten million tons of Steep Rock ore over a ten-year period and agreed also to provide Steep Rock with additional financing if it was needed for production purposes. In turn. Premium was allowed to purchase 1.437.500 shares of Steep Rock at a penny a share. The Canadian Government approved the contracts and also agreed to waive corporate-income taxes for the first three years of operation.

Thirteen years later, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. contending that Premium was actually oper- - ating out of Cleveland, sued Eaton for 11/2 million in back personal-income taxes on the deal; Daley for $338,000 (the difference between the penny a share paid, and the $1.67 “fair market value” of the stock at the time of transaction ).

When penalties and interest were added, the gov- ernment asked $10 million from Eaton and $2 million

from Daley. Eaton’s response denied all charges and claims, stating that if the income was taxable at all. it was taxable only in Canada. The court held for Ea- ton on all counts and the decision was upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals two years later. His penny-a- share investment paid off handsomely to him and his colleagues.

Perhaps the best documented of Eaton’s exploits concerns his conspiracy with the head of the United c; Mine Workers, John L. Lewis. to force little coal mines out of business and thousands of miners out of work.

Lewis, “The roaring lion of labor”. reached the height of his power in 1935 when he created. within the Am- erican Federation of Labor. the Committee for Indus- : trial Organization, the U.S.‘s first great industrial union crossing all craft lines. In 1936 he imperiously led the CIO out of the parent Federation.

During World War 11, Lewis defied the president and the Supreme Court by calling four major strikes. After the mines were seized by the federal goi-ernment. A Lewis made the Welfare Fund rovaltv part of his peace terms with the government and the mine ow- ners.

The owners agreed to pay ten cents into its treas- ury for every ton of coal mined. Later the sum was raised to 40~ a ton. In 1961 the fund’s annual income , from royalties and investments was 5125 million and going up annually with the recovery of the coal indus- try. At that time the union had assets of about 8104 mil- lion in its general fund.

Lewis was worshipped by his miners-for the high wages he had won them. their retirement allowance of $100 a month, free medical care in ten modern *’ union-run hospitals and countless other benefits. But in the 1940’s it appeared that he had won too much. Coal was a sick industry, fast losing out in the com- petitive race with cheaper, more easily transported fuels. Lewis had to do something or see his davs of glory pass.

As chairman of the union’s board of trustees. Lewis had ready access to the tax-free millions he had won for his men. He had already bought a controlling in- terest in the National Bank of Washington. but he needed a counselor in his entry into the )rld of high finance. He chose Cyrus Eaton.

In 1951 the UMW began acting as Eaton’s banker. lending him many millions of union funds. Eaton served the UMW behind the scenes as a financial ad- visor and Lewis helped Eaton to maintain harmon- ious relations with the unions in his companies. A COSY arrangement indeed.

Union leader Lewis eventually was in a position to speed the mechanization of the coal industry bv control of major transportation lines for the movement of coal over rail and water, and through ownership of one of the U.S.‘s ten largest coalmining operation.

Eaton used the UMW funds to buy out small mining companies and then recognized the IJMW in those op- erations it had been unable to crack. Confronted by an inquisitive reporter with the evidence of one deal in 1955, Eaton laughed it off. “Young man, you are intel- ligent,” he said. “Why do you persist in that ridicu- lous rumor? There’s not a word of truth in that story.” Five years later when the UMW filed its first finan- cial report required under the Landrum-Griffin Act- of 1959, the Eaton-Lewis conspiracy was proven.

The report and the suits brought against the union- Eaton companies revealed that Eaton’s borrowings from the IJMW came to more than $35 million. The

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oans were made on uniquely favorable terms. If the tacks Eaton put up as collateral rose in value, he ould withdraw some of them; on the other hand if hey went down, he suffered no loss and did not need 3 put up more collateral.

As a result of these loans and its own investments, he UMW had a controlling interest or position of great everage in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, The iational Bank of Washington, West Kentucky Coal lompan y , and American Coal Shipping Company. :aton used UMW loans to purchase stock in Cleve- and Electric Illuminating Company, Tampa Electric ‘ompany, Union Electric of Missouri, Illinois Central tailroad, and Tri-Continental Corporation (Eaton In- estment Company).

The effect on the little men, the miners of the U.S.? umber one depressed area-Appalachia-was devas- ating. A bitter pill for many strong union men thrown ut of work was the fact that the violent Sequatchie ‘alley (Tennessee) strike of 1955 was broken by union- tined barges carrying union-owned coal in defiance f the union’s own pickets.

It was clear too that the union had substantially peeded the events which at the same time revived le sick coal industry and reduced its own membership Torn a peak of nearly half a million in the 1930’s to about isI in 1960. “I cannot sorrow for those pallid, underfed, ill-

Durished operators of small mines who can’t keep up ith the economic procession,” Lewis said in court. They can’t live under the rule of competition as it )w exists in this free-enterprise nation.. . .” Then OF July 1, 1960, the UMW welfare fund trus-

!es (of which Lewis was chairman) announced that lose unemployed for more than a year would no nger receive free hospital and medical care. In ecember of that year they cut retirement pensions om $100 to $75 a month. Content to slough workers f onto government dole, the UMW advanced no plan, ; far less opulent unions have, to retrain and relocate en displaced by automation-automation, along with ding the construction of monopolies, which they, with Irus Eaton, helped bring about. In 1961 the union and Eaton and companies with lich they had close ties controlled 75 percent of the e1 and much of the rail and barge facilities serv- g the crucial Tennessee Valley area. Their power, edless to say, was immense. lt is interesting to read of the experience of Eaton’s aiseful biographer, Marcus Gleisser, when he asked 2 magnate of these dealings, which were record-

in Harper’s Magazine by two reporters for the Nash- le Tennessean:

Deciding to plunge boldly into the matter, I asked ton about the situation discussed in the magazine icle. His response was quick and blunt: “It was re and simple .muckiaking. I have no desire to dis- 5s it at this time.” He turned and walked away m me.

however, suits totalling $40 million were brought ag- st the UMW and West Kentucky Coal Company. ?isser quickly absolves Eaton of all responsibil-

4 week before the suits were filed, Eaton had sold his erest- 63 l/2 percent of the outstanding common ck-in West Kentucky Coal to the Island Creek 91 Company. . . . Eaton (and his associates)

were well out of it and out of the bad publicity that stantly meddling in both the internal and external could come from the pending law suit. affairs of other nations, friendly and unfriendly. Ifl

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There is another side to Cyrus Eaton, the side the liberals in the university will use to rationalize giv- ing him an honorary degree.

This is Cyrus Eaton as a man of peace, the 1960 win- ner of the Lenin Peace Prize.

In all the years of his amassing and losing and then amassing again huge fortunes, Eaton seemed little concerned with international affairs. In 1955, how- ever, the State Department asked Eaton to receive a delegation of visiting Soviet agriculturists at his Ohio farm. About the same time Eaton had announced formally that he was turning his Pugwash, Nova Scotia estate into a vacation retreat for authors, scholars, businessmen and labor leaders.

What resulted were the famous Pugwash Conferences -the first in 1955, attended mostly by U.S. and Can- adian scholars and the more famous 1957 Pugwash Conference of Nuclear Scientists.

The latter gathering was attended by some of the world’s foremost physicists, geneticists and chemists, three Nobel prize winners among them. There were scientists from the Soviet Union and one from Red China. The conference concluded by issuing a man- if esto :

“Misuse of nuclear energy could lead to the ann- ihilation of mankind . . . unrestricted warfare would be a disaster of unprecedented magnitude. -’

Apart from providing facilities, Eaton himself did not take part in the meetings. However, he became, with his wife, an activist in the cause of world peace, so much so that at the time there was a general demand that he be summoned before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activ- ities.

He also visited Russia, befriending Khrushchev. In 1958 he said :

“7 found the Russian people friendly and eager for peace. , .The Soviets have accomplished prodi- gious feats of industrial and intellectual progress. I, a confirmed capitalist, could never subscribe to their system, but neither could I shut my eyes to the ob- vious fact that the Russian people are thoroughly sold on it. ”

Naturally he was attacked as a commie-lover. especially in the press. Eaton fought back:

“The newspapers are also to blame for editorializ- ing that the Russians are all evil and we are all good . . . Nothing makes us more hated than our pose of superiority. ‘*

Eaton called the late John Foster Dulles, then president Eisenhower’s secretary of state. an “insane fanatic” who made it unpatriotic to question any- thing he did. He also charged that the overwhelming majority of American politicians, generals and jour- nalists were relentlessly driving the country to war. He told a Canadian audience:

“We (the U.S.) have contrived to tread on the toes of practically every country on earth. We are con-

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At the same time he engaged in a running battle with FBI, which he blasted on TV for making America into a police state with a spy organization that surpassed even that of Hitler. His words are even more relevant 11 years later:

“I always is coming to

worry when greatness

I see through

a nation feel the activities

that it of its

policemen. And the FBI is just one of scores of ag- encies in the U.S. engaged in investigating, in snoop- ing, in informing, in creeping up on people. lt has gone to an extent here that I think is very alarming.

“*I don’t think necessarily that they should go out of business, but they should confine themselves to legitimate police work. I think its importance is enor- mously exaggerated and that they do not make the contribution to the upbuilding of this country and its respect abroad that its literature and those who sup- port the publicity suggest. I*

Later he accused the CIA and FBI of meddling in the U.N. :

“The U.N. is pretty well run by the Central ln- telligence Agency and the FBI. Delegates from other nations have asked me why they must be followed. They ask: *Is the U.S. government so delicately bal- anced that it can be overthrown?’ I‘

At the same time he welcomed growing student involvement in peace demonstrations :

“This renews my faith in my country. It is high time ihe college stud&t spoke up. #’

* * * * Cyrus Eaton is an extremely practical man. Ai in

labor and, business relations, in international rela- tions he sees no point in needless confrontation:

“The lesson of business history is that the success of a great industrial corporation does not derive from impeding or retarding its competitors. When two or more rival enterprises prosper simultaneously, it is of the highest benefit not only of the companies them- selves, but also of the entire national economy.

‘SimilarI y, in an expanding world economy, any nation with natural =resources and energetic people can and should prosper without hindrance to other nations, but with benefit to all nations and to all man- kind. ”

He refuses to adopt the ideology so fervently believed in by many Americans “that capitalism represents every virtue and that communism is an absolute evil.” He sees himself as an architect for world peace and the savior of capitalism at the same time:

“I’ll match my record as a capitalist against any of my critics. My chief interest is working to help save capitalism and all mankind from nuclear ann- ihilation. . .

“Capitalism has been betrayed inadverently by our political leaders. Private capital was ready to help other nations, but the government made federal grants from the pockets of taxpayers. The private U.S. in- vestor should be allowed to put his money in other countries at a profit. ‘*

Given his other statements about the U.S. meddling in other nations’ affairs and even a little study of the history of U.S. economic imperialism, both by gov- ernment and private enterprise, ,one wonders how Eaton feels that his brand of laissez-faire capitalism has shown that it “benefits all mankind.”

In fact, his views on economics and what is good for the people who live in the capitalist system are re- markably antiquated and simplistic and sound like tie views of turn-of-the-century entrepreneurs:

“I live happily and I hope productively by the doc- trine that intelligent and enlightened private own- ership and operation provide the ideal system of economics for my country, and that the greatest pos- sible separation of politics from economics is desir- able.

Somehow it is difficult to see the unemployed. wel- fare-receiving miners of Appalachia applauding this statement. But they, with undoubtedly thousands of other little people, form only so much rubble in the wake of the trail of progress carved out by the im- mensely successful tycoon that is Cyrus Eaton--the man who today receives the University of Waterloo’s highest honor.

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Look, look, see the new name Phlegm-that’s the stuff in your throat that’s left over when the red blood cells (goodguy comm- ies) beat up the germs who are attempting in some vague corp- orate way to set up a little em- pire. The red blood cells realize that the germs will eventually control the whole body, or the necessary parts thereof, and it will die.

Since phlegm indicates the end of a small victory, and since this column is devoted to saying to everybody what you’d really like to tell to someone else, the name is appropriate. It indicates the victory of truth over something else.

And phlegm is a very beautiful sounding word that rolls off your tongue, slides over your lips, and lands kitten soft on your lap.

I am very happy to make the first announcement about the absolutely filthy play that our drama company is putting on in july. little Malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs was chosen partially to get away from the classical bilge that sometimes dribbles over the arts theatre setage. It is dirty, modern, dirty, topical, and .one tends to think of D. Halliwell, the author, as a

ment does not come according to plan. The system wins, (ed. boo), the radicals lose, and the status quo almost survives the end. The whole play will be put on espec- ially for those of you (us) that don’t comprehend what radicals are after. The play won’t help you figure it out, but it sure as hell will be fun trying.

Behind the scenes, are the acts which just about kept the play off the stage. It is not being produced with the co-operation of the creative arts board. They seem to hate each other over there.

I’ve got enough to write for hours, but its time for the list of Uniwat Niceguys. Oops, that’s next week too.

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A generation in search of a future

This is the transcript of an extemporaneous speech to a group of scientists gathered at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, 4 march 7969. The author is a 62- year-old biology professor at Harvard University who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 7967.

by George Wald

All of you know that in the last couple of years there has been student unrest, breaking at times into violence, in many parts of the ,world: in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Canada, and, needless to say, many parts of the United States.

There has been a great deal of discussion as to what it all means. Perfectly clearly, it means something different in Mexico from what it does in France, and something different in France from what it does in Tokyo, and something different in Tokyo from what it does in the U.S.

Yet, unless we are to assume that students have gone crazy all over the world, or that they have just decided that it’s the thing to do, it must have some common meaning.

I don’t need to go so far afield to look for that meaning. I am a teacher. and at Harvard I have a class of about 350 students-men . and women-most of them freshmen and sophomores. Over these past few years, I have felt in- creasingly that something is terribly wrong-and this year ever so much more than last.’ Something has gone sour, in teaching and in learning. It’s almost as though there were a wide- spread feeling that education has be- come irrelevant.

A lecture is much more of a dialog than many of you probably realize. As you lecture. you keep watching the faces. and information keeps coming back to you all. the time. I began to feel, particularly this year, that I was missing much of what was coming back. 1. tried asking the students, but they didn’t or couldn’t help me very much.

But I think I know what’s the matter. I think that this whole generation of students is beset with a profound uneasiness. and’ I don’t think that they have yet quite defined its source. I think I understand the reasons for their uneasiness even better than they do.

What’s bothering those students? Some of them tell you it’s the Vietnam war. I think the Vietnam war is the most shameful episode in the whole of American history.

The concept of war crimes is an A- merican invention. We’ve committed many war crimes in Vietnam-but I’ll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

The saturation bombing of German cities was a war crime. Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Naga- saki was a war crime. If we had lost the war, it might have been our leaders who had to answer for such actions. I’ve gone through all that history lately, and I find that there’s a gimmick in it. It isn’t written out, but I think we estab- lished it by precedent.

That gimmick is that if one can allege that one is repelling or retaliating for an aggression. after that everything goes.

War is called Defence And, you see, we are living in a

world in which all wars are wars of de- fence. All War Departments are now Defence Departments. This is all part of the double talk of our time. The

aggressor is always on the other side. I suppose this is why ex-secretary

of state Dean Rusk went to such pains to insist, as he still insists, that in Viet-

nam we are repelling an aggression. And if that’s what we are doing-so runs the doctrine-everything goes.

If the concept of war crimes is ever to mean anything, they will have to be defined as categories of acts. regardless of alleged provocation. But that isn’t so now.

I think we’ve lost that war. as a lot of other people think, too. The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It’s their willing- ness to kill. In effect. they’ve been saying. you can kill us, but you’ll have to kill a lot of us: you may have to kill all of us. And thank heaven. we are not yet ready to do that.

Yet we have come a long way to- ward it-far enough to sicken many Americans. far enough to sicken even our fighting men. Far enough so that our national symbols have gone sour.

How many of you can sing about “the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air” without thinking, those are our bombs and our rockets, bursting over South Vietnamese villages? When those words were written, we were a people struggling for freedom against oppres- sion.

Now we are supporting open or thin- ly-disguised military dictatorships all over the world, helping them to control and repress peoples struggling for their freedom.

But the Vietnam war, shameful and terrible as it is, seems to me only an immediate incident in a much larger and more stubborn situation.

Huge army seems nornial Part of my trouble with students is

that almost all the students I teach were born after World War II. Just after World War II, a series of new and ab- normal procedures came into American life. We regarded them at the time as temporary aberrations. We thought we would get back to normal American life someday.

But those procedures have stayed with us now for more than 20 years, and those students of mine have never known anything else. They think those things are normal. They think that we’ve always had a Pentagon, that we have always had a big army, and that we have always had a draft. But those are all new things in American life, and I think that they are incompatible with what America meant before.

How many of you realize that just before World War II the entire American army, including the air corps, num- bered a hundred and thirty-nine thous- and men? Then World War II started, but we weren’t yet in it, and seeing that there was great trouble in the world, we doubled this army to 268,000 men.

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Then, in World War II, it got to be eight million.

And-then World War II came to an end and we prepared to go back to a peace- time army, somewhat as the Ameri- can army had always been before. And, indeed in 1950-you think about 1950, our international commitments, the cold war, the Truman doctrine, and all the rest of it-in 1950. we got down to 600.000 men.

Now we have three and a half milli- on men under arms: about 600,000 in Vietnam, about 300,000 more in “sup- port areas” elsewhere in the Paci- fic. about 250,000 in Germany.

And there are a lot at home. Some months ago, we were told 300’.000 Nation- al Guardsmen and 200,000 reservists- so half a million men-had -been spe- cially trained for riot duty in the cities.

I say the Vietnam war is just an immediate incident. because as long as we keep that big an army. it will al- ways find things to do. If the Vietnam war stopped tomorrow. the chances are that with that big a military establishment we would be in another such adventure, abroad or at home. before you-knew it.

Get rid of the draft The thing to do about the draft is not

to reform it but to get rid of it. A peacetime draft is the most un-

American thing I know. All the time I was growing up, I was told about op- pressive central European countries and Russia, where young men were forced into the army, and I was told what they did about it,. They chopped off a finger, or shot off a couple of toes, or, better still, if they could manage it, they came to this country. And we under- stood that, and sympathized, and were glad to welcome them.

Now, by present estimates, from four to six thousand Americans of draft age have left this country for Canada, two or three thousand more have gone to Europe, and it looks as though many more were preparing to emigrate.

A bill to stop the draft was recently introduced in the senate, sponsored by a group of senators that runs the gamut from McGovern and Hatfield to Barry Goldwater. I hope it goes through. But I think that when we get rid of the draft we must also drastically cut back the size of the armed forces.

Yet there is something ever so much bigger and more important than the draft. That bigger thing, of course, is the militarization of our country.

Ex-president Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address warned us of what he called the military-industrial com- plex. I am sad to say that we must be- gin to think of it now as the military-in- dustrial-labor-union complex.

What happend under the plea of the cold war was not alone that we built up the first big peacetime army in our his- tory but that we institutionalized it. We built, I suppose, the biggest government building in our history to run it, and we institutionalized it.

I don’t think we can live with the pre- sent military establishment and its $80 billion a year budget, and keep Amer-

ica anything like the America we have known in the past. It is corrupting the life of the whole country. It is buying up everything in sight: industries. banks. investors, scientists-and lately it seems also to have bought up the labor unions.

The defence department is always broke, but some of the things it does with that $80 billion a year would make Buck Rogers envious.

Deadly nerve gas For example, the Rocky Mountain

Arsenal. on the outskirts of Denver. was manufacturing a deadly nerve poison on such a scale that there was a problem of waste disposal. Nothing daunted. the people there dug a tunnel two miles deep under Denver. into which they have in- jected so much poisoned water that. be- ginning a couple of years ago, Denver has experienced a series of earth trem- ors of increasing severity. Now there is grave fear of a major earthquake.

Perhaps you have read also of those 6.000 sheep that suddenly died in Skull Valley. Utah. killed by another nerve poison- a strange and, I believe, still unexplained accide,nt, since the nearest testing seems to have been 30 miles a- way.

As for Vietnam, the expenditure of firepower there has been frightening. Some of you may still remember Khe Sanh, a hamlet just south of the demilitarized zone, where a force of United States marines was beleaguered for a time. During that period, we dropped on the perimeter of Khe Sanh more explosives than fell on Japan throughout World War 11, and more than fell on the whole of Europe during the years 1942 and 1943.

One of the officers there was quoted as having said afterward, “It looks like the world caught smallpox and died. ”

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. Our govern- ment has become preoccupied with ’ death, with the business of killing and being killed. Socalled defence now absor- bs 60 percent of the national budget, and about 12 percent of the gross national product.

America’s Big Mistake I don’t have to talk about them-every-

one else here is doing that. But I should like to mention a curious circumstance. In September 1967, or about a year and a half ago, we had a meeting of Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard people, including experts on these matters, to talk about whether any- thing could be done to block the Sentinel system-the deployment of ABMs.

Everyone present thought them unde- sirable, but a few of the most knowledge- able persons took what seemed to be the practical view: “Why fight about a dead issue? It has been decided, the funds have been appropriated. Let’s go on from there. ”

Well, fortunately, it’s not a dead issue. An ABM is a nuclear ,weapon. It takes a

nuclear weapon to stop a nuclear wea- pon, and our concern must be with the whole issue of nuclear weapons.

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There is an entire semantics ready to deal with the sort of thing I am about to say. It involves such phra- ses as “Those are the facts of life.”

No. these are the facts of death. I don’t accept them and I advise you not to accept them.

We are under repeated pressure to accept things that are presented to us as settled-decisions that have been made. Always there is the thought: Let’s go on from there. But this time we don’t see how to go on. We will have to stick with these issues.

We are told that the IJnited States and Russia, be- tween them. by now have stockpiled nuclear weapons of approximately the explosive power of 15 tons of TNT for every man, .woman, and child on earth. and now it is suggested that we must make more.

All very regrettable, of course. but “those are the facts of life.” We really would like to disarm. but our new secretary of defence has made the ingenuous proposal that now is the time to greatly increase our nuclear armaments. so that we can disarm from a position of strength.

There is no defence I think all of you know there is no adequate defence

against massive nuclear attack. It is both easier and cheaper to circumvent any known nuclear-def- ence system than to provide it. It’s all pretty crazy. At the very moment we talk of deploying BMs, we are also building the MIRV. the weapon to circum- vent ABMs.

As far as I know. the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about 50 million.

We have become callous to gruesome statistics. and this seems at first to be only another gruesome statistic. You think. Bang!-and next morning. if your’re still there. you read in the newspapers that 50 million people were killed.

But that isn’t the way it happens. When we killed close to 200.000 people with those first, little. old- fashioned uranium bombs that we dropped on Hiro- shima and Nagasaki, about the same number of per- sons were maimed, blinded, burned, poisoned, and otherwise doomed. A lot of them took a long time to die.

That’s the way it would be. Not a bang and a cer- tain number of corpses to bury but a nation filled with millions of helpless. maimed. tortured. and doomed persons, and t,he survivors huddled with their families in shelters. with guns ready to fight off their neighbors trying to get some uncontamin- ated food and water.

Criminally insane A few months ago, Senator Richard Russell, of

Georgia. ended a speech in the Senate with the words ‘If we have to start over again with another Adam and Eve, I want them to be Americans; and I want them on this continent and not in Europe.”

That was a United States senator making a patrio- tic speech. Well, here is a Nobel Laureate who thinks that those words are criminally insane.

How real is the threat of full-scale nuclear war I have my own very inexpert idea, but, realizing how little I know, and fearful that I may be a little para! noid on this subject, I take every opportunity todask reputed experts.

I asked that question of a distinguished professor of government at Harvard about a month ago. I ask- ed him what sort of odds he would lay on the possib-

ility of fullscale nuclear war within the foreseeable future.

“Oh,” he said comfortably, “I think I can give you a pretty good answer to that question. I estimate the probability of full-scale nuclear war, provided that the situation remains about as it is now, at 2 percent per year.” J

Men To C -a public service of the Right and Moral Citizens’ Council of

Anybody can do the simple calculation that shows that 2 percent per year means that the chance of hav- ing that full-scale nuclear war bv 1990 is about one in three, and by 2000 it is about 50-‘50.

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. But there are those students of mine who are in my mind always; and there are my children, the youngest of them now 7 and 9, and whose future is infinitely more precious to me than my own. So it isn’t just their generation; it’s mine, too. We’re all in it together.

The future at stake Are we to have a chance to live? We don’t ask for

prosperity, or security. Only for a reasonable cha- nce to live, to work out our destiny in peace and de- cency. Not to go down in history as the apocalyptic generation.

And it isn’t only nuclear war. Another overwhelm- ing threat is in the population explosion. That has not yet even begun to come under control. There is every indication that the world population will double before the year 2000, and there is a wide-spr- ead expectation of famine on an unprecedented scale in many parts of the world.

The experts tend to differ only in their estimates of when those famines will begin. Some think by 1980: others think they can be staved off until 1990: very few expect that they will not occur by the year 2000.

That is the problem. Unless we can be surer than we now are that this generation has a future, noth- ing else matters. It’s not good enough to give it ten- der. loving care. to supply it with breakfast foods. to buy it expensive educations.

Those things don’t mean anything unless this gen- eration has a future. And we’re not sure that it does.

I don’t think that there are problems of youth. or student problems. All the real problems I know about are grownup problems.

Perhaps you will think me altogether absurd, or *‘academic,“ or hopelessly innocent-that is, until you think of the alternatives-if I say, as I do to you ~ now: We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war-nothing material or ideological- no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-de- feating. Those atomic bombs represent an unusable weapon.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep some- body else from using one. It can give us no protection -only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation. Nucl- ear weapons offes us nothing but a balance of terr- or. and a balance of terror is still terror.

We have to get rid of those atomic weapons. here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

I think we’ve reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation. not only for all humanity, but for life upon the earth.

Competition is trivial I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I

hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up 99 percent of our living sub- stance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars.

Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets and our- selves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his suf- ferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It’s a big responsibility.

The thought that we’re in competition with Russ- ians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. There’s life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Our business is with life, not death. Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds.

This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us ,life, and the chance to go on.

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radical. The engineers on this campus, unfortunately, are mostly conservative, but it is sad that

The competition is so great among students to get any job at all, that profits of mononolv-in-

still have difficulty believing. they have done a great deal of harm to any stand the CUS or any other student-backed organization mav - take on the question of summer employment.

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by letters such as those from Mr. clined business and industry” are

G. Garber (feedback, may 16. ), soaring.

Some people hope that there is The only jobs the K-W Record

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worth probing, and some engin- not even pay the cost of living in Kitchener-Waterloo for the- sum-

The “pride” to refuse an l n- acceptable” job will not pay fees. This same “pride” will never feed people! Marx said that a comm- odity has value because of the la-. bor put into it by laborers. If the student refuses to do a given labor and chooses to stay idle.’ he can make no claim to usefulness.

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Regarding the : Chevron story about the free ads in the K-W Re- cord netting few jobs.

I accepted the “generous” offer of the local paper and placed a free ad. I received five calls-two to sell encyclopedias and three to do sub-menial jobs at the legal minimum. -

The. encyclopedia bit is tricky for anyone who is highly skeptical: the book people’s pitch to the prospective salesman is more devious than the one used on prospective customers. Hooked salesmen fall into two categories: those who manage to sell (a small minority) and find they must screw people who in no way can afford (or use) the books; and those who cant sell end up “sell- ing” a couple of $400 or $500 sets to relatives.

Now on to the good jobs-owing to the social nature of our govern- ment, there are loopholes conven- iently provided in the law to pay students less than their payroll deductions.

Students working regular weekly hours between may 15 and septem- ber 15’can be paid as little as 80 cents an hour; and if it’s for 28 or more hours a week, . the em- ployer can pay 76 cents an hour for the first month of employment as a “learner.” ’

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’ I wish to add the following, an They own all the land in ‘a strange sort of way. excerpt from a publication of the Canadian manufacturers’ associat-

Have most of us mortgaged to them. some men say. Their god it is interest, profit and rent. ’

ion who urged their members to Their faith and religion is so much percent.. . hire students (and informed them -from the 24 may 1919 Strike Bulletin Winnipeg Gcncrnl of the legal minimums) : strike, .

“In recent years, industry has deplored the prevailing attitude among students with respect t,o

of the Chevron. I am astounded that students,

presumably anxious to find work and earn money to pay for their education, have the gall to deem positions offered them “unaccep- table”. ._ . .

When the labor force is greater than the demand for labor. it is a piece of very good luck to be offer- ed a job, of any kind. To refuse the offer on the grounds that the position is “unacceptable“ borders on the ridiculous. Any person w$ho finds a position “unacceptable” when he is demanding work. also forfeits the right to complain about his unemployment, If stu- dents have refused, work, which I

If labor is really the source of value, let the students not refuse work, but accept it and show something of themselves : some guts. Our generation needs some of this commodity very badly.

JEAN MARIE COMEAU grad systems design

‘misintefpfe~utio~’ cuuses patienf’s cons*efnation

I would like to thank all those doctors and nurses who took care of me during my stay in the health-services infirmary.

Their care was excellent, even to the extent of making an appoint- ment for me with a specialist.

The Chevron news story tfriday 23 may,) on the closing of the in- firmary was meant as a construc- tive suggestion that perhaps serv-, ices could be improved on holi- days.

The Chevron article was accur- ate with the following clarifica- tions-while I did suffer’s serious attack the night before the holi- day, it was not the most serious: and I had not gone to a throat specialist: he was a specialist in internal medicine. Otherwise the published story was correct. - - If I hu.rt anyone’s feelings. or if

anyone misinterpreted the article personally. I wish to apologize to them.

GERALD ROBERTSON math 2B

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Yet it’s well that we know there are two kinds of men- The rich and the poor who for ages have been. The rich make the laws to govern the pqor, The poor must take less while the rich must have more:’

We read of the unemployed army of men, Of children in factories like birds in a pen, Of girls in the sweatshops on very small pay*. . While a number of suicides blight every day.

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Rather. than admit the cause is worthy. the editor of the K-W Record once ‘again used dubious logic and selective- facts to oppose the California grape boycott.

In an editorial tuesday entitled “Long-distance med- dling” the R&ord + said: “It is surprising to find that

some retailers in Ontario are still timid about handling California grapes. They hesitate because. of a propa- ganda campaign which alleges, that farmers in California are unfair to workers hired to harvest the grapes.“-

The isolationist policy proposed concludes that “the only” concern of an Ontario housewife should be whether the grapes.are fair value for her money.”

-How far can one extend that logic? Should one help put out a fire in a neighbor’s garage. or should one decide whether or not the fire is a threat to his own ,

property and only on that basis make the decision to c hlany of the small growers sell to wine-makers: and help? several of .these wine-grape growers have settled with

Note the Record does not admit the real propa- . the grape-pickers union-but none of the table-grape ganda-the false fronts sponsored by the growers (far- - -growers have. m&s is a misleading term) now number at least * * * three: the workers’ right to work committee. m,others . The- Record maintains there are’ three sides to the against Chavez and the consumers” rights group. question : the farmers (big growers 1. the workers ( the . _ .,

The Record editorial goes on: *‘The farmers at whom the boycott is aimed number about five percent of the farmers and produce-23 percent of the crop. *A general boycott of California grapes.. therefore. would punish small farmers.. .thev look like innocent bystanders.. .‘*

bad guys t and the innocent bystanders (smaller grow- ers ). .“Ontario people do not belong on any one of them. ‘*

One wonders whv thev didn’t say -the same thing about the second world war. /

The facts do not allow neurralitv? the .Ontario market of California grapes is big enough for the’ growers to feel a difference.-:If Ontario housewives buv-California grapes they are objectively working against the boy-‘-

This reasoning fails to account for the oligopolistic nature of the California grape “economy. I.arge corp- orate farm operations fix prices and.’ wages and be- cott and the workers. If they refuse to purchase them. cause of their size control the export market. This in- - then thev are supporting the workers’ demands for eludes most of the lucrative table-grapes market: fair wages. conditions and union rights.

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by Bob Verdun The real -reason is one of pol- so shocked the’ young girl -typing Chevrdn staff _ itics. - , the instant voice transcriptions

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‘. What -bpinion does the. average citizen hold about the - under- ground press and mostuniversity- student newspapers? They ‘think they’re: obscene--plain, filthy

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a/ Los Angeles Times story .printT ed in monday’s .K-W .Record demonstra&s &that it’s ,OK to- say fuck if .you’re $a patriot-

that she substituted the words “damn it”. .

’ . ..later’ the.. astronauts Were-, asked from the ground: “How areyoudoing?” ’ * I ’

One of them _ replied: ‘-‘The trash- moral decadence. HOUSTON- . ..If the Apollo 10 crew status is, tired: and happy

And *why shouldn’t a person who. astronauts were not as articulate - and hungry and thirsty and horny has never read- them believe as many of their -predecessors, and all those -other things.” them to be obscene?. The only . they were certainly the most, :!ri&ws”, the-’ ‘commercial media earthy. ’ \ . A few minutes later the :astro- -

“‘-about’ , the non-main- nauts and ground control had ano-

present Tom Stafford, Gene, Cernan ther exchange.. ,’ - stream journals is that they have and John Young used some basic Grounds: “Charlie Brown this printed. something filthy ’ that Anglo-Saxon * .adjectives to des;.. can’t, be printed or broadcast in tribe the things they saw in out-

is Houston. You sound like: you

a respectable,medium. . r er space, nothing the average could use a f.ountain of .vigor a- . bout now.”

The average citizen who has no .man doesn’t use every-day in the, -\ . Astronauts: “Yeah Gould you be- particular reason ‘to read the company of. other men, but much lieve about two”of them.“. ’ , rriiiority press can only sit back unlike that of previous astron- . ..A space official was asked if and moan the spread of Godless auts; who have managed to .ac- “curse words the Apollo 10 astron- immorality and will probably quire a goody-goody image. auts used had ever been entioun-1. never read a minority view. _ At one point of soaring excite-‘ tered publicly in flights before.

This would be “fair” if the ment passing less than 10 miles “No we’ve-never had that prob-

undergfound and college press above the moon’s surface, an ‘lem before,” he explained and were indeed tasteless-without Ap~l10 10 astronaut shouted-: then corrected himself to say,

principles- and without ‘social purpose. _

But the commercial media

( “You know this god damned (camera) ‘filter has. failed on me.” . -

During several critical and highly dangerous moments ano-

‘ther astronaut exclaimed “son of a bitch”. _ ;. +. -7 ’ .; ’ , I

“It’s no problem; we just nev- er had this factor before. Those are human beings up there and they acted like human beings. That3 all, no more and no less.” know that isn’t true. For them,

dismissing~ the minority press as obscene is the simplest way to So that’s the. picture-it’s cute suppress it. And *the media arent ‘and earthy and human to say bitch alone-overzealous police forces and fuck in the living rooms of have harassed the minority press Two of the *astronauts used north america as long as you’re extensively in some areas, and a four-letter sIang iyord meaning doing your thing for Mom, God, often without even hearing a sexual intercourse. The first time Democracy, Chauvinistic. Ameri- complaint ,from a “straight” it came rippling over the air-- ca and the Industrial-Military- citizen. I ways 240,000 miles from earth it. Corporate-Capitalist Machine. . .

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Rut don’t under any circum- ways try to dismiss minority views stances say fuck in a political in this w-ay if they find the minority situation. You could . political ’ views objectionable. get put out of operation. . And since the obscenities are

A-* week ago, CHYM radio’s too disgusting @‘report. the mass- great civil-rights defender H. D. es will never know any different. W’ilson swung his body behind And it won’t help the minority the microphone, after seeing much to try to be squeaky-clean. for the first time the Chevron,‘s “Fuck’ communism” back page

Some of ‘the purveyors of the facts,-in the bourgeois media are

and called for censorship by’ even Mae ,inventive . whatever way necessary to pre- ; on.

A caller

vent’ the’ distribution of. .such ‘CKKW-radio’s - talk-show

trash - - brought up the Chevron’s com-

’ :‘.. .the printing of that .disgust- - munity issue. This .was the week before the “Fuck Communism”

ing ‘four-letter word in bold and ’ item was published .‘. . multi-colored. type...must be stop- .

CKKW’s convecsa tionalist Dan ped.. .if not by the university 8uth orities, then by the postoffice.”

Comparing the ‘situations of the astronauts and the Chevron makes po,ssible only one conclu-_ sion-that the difference is poli- tical: .

Fisher managed to dismiss the particular article in the com-

The Astronauts were simnlv “swearing” while , the Ch& ron’s use of fuck was for political satire-within the U.S. supreme court’s bounds of “redeeming social importance. ”

The astronauts brought their earthy language into ,the living

‘rooms . of, unsuspecting citizens while the Chevron remained with- in the j bounds of most of its con- st.ituents and since it’s a news- paper, parents could -exercise a voluntary decision of whether; to take it into their livingrooms.

The legitimate media will al-

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munity issue with the obscenity game. He refused to read the- item under discussion when asked to do so, “because it contained dis- gusting words which couldn’t be broadcast:“’ ’

That was a complete fabrica- tion, because the Chevron’s com- munity issue was aimed at a par- ticular set of constitutents, and to ensure they weren’t offended, it didn’t contain so much as a

damn or a hell, - . The average listener had

heard the line so often before, he believed it...and God+ was in firm control again, thanks to the won- ’ ders of free enterprise and free- dom if you own a pr,ess or a radio station.

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Looking under those robes Historians mav well look on the .

university convocation ceremonies of the 1960’s and 1970’s as signs of the decay of a society that failed to use its great potential.

Historians will most certainly look at the nuclear arms and space exploration races of the same period as symptoms of ser- ious disease.

But saving that spending bill- s ions to put a man on the moon while people are starving at home is insane would be called unpatri- otic (or communist).

Making a similar comment a- bout current university training as a major misdirection of priorities would bring similar charges of “un grateful” (or “communist”).

There will be 1128 degrees “con- ferred” in this session at the University of Waterloo. This rep- resents about 4000 man-years of “work”, $8,000,.000 in personal expenditures on tuition and living expenses, $12,000,000 from tax funds to operate the university and about another $12,000,000 main Iv from tax funds to cover re- iearch grants and capital costs.

And what do we have to show for $32,000,000 and 4000 man-years? * Computer experts trained in the use of computers for business and bureaucracy, but not in using computers to free man from mind- less, alienating, mechanically- repetitive jobs. l Actuaries knowledgeable a- bout the rate of return on death insurance, but not able to do any- thing about the life the insured or his survivors must live. l Scientists whose pure pursuit

of knowledge winds up being used for military hardware first and for people if there’s time and it’s profitable. l Engineers who know how to eliminate pollution, but will nev- er have the decision-making pow- er or the financial resources allot- ted to do it. l Engineers who can build con- sumer products to last but who will be instructed to do the oppo- site. l Sociologists and psychologists who know how to help the mind, but who must take jobs that re- quire them to work against some men’s minds for a few. men’s profits.

Certainly there are those who can find a useful role in life- where their university training and socialization will be of some benefit. But they are now in the minority.

This is hard to accept in the con- text that it’s always been this way so it can’t be that bad. It is in- structive to read the article by Nobel prize winner George Wald (page 11) and see how structures that seem familiar and right can be dangerously wrong.

It is time we peeled off the rhetoric and looked under the convocation robes to see if the result of our educational process is worth the huge allocation of hu- man and physical resources it receives.

Probably, like the space pro- gram, we’re spending resources for a good show (and a good pro- fit for a few insiders) while the masses are starving-mentally, socially or physically.

Crops without plowing Those who profess to favor freedom yet de- preciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; and they want the ocean without the &vfbl roar of its many waters.

-Frederick Douglass

It’s just plain ridiculous l this column ran only four times times in the last publishing year (and three of those were in the summer term).

l Uniwat student Ron Adlington, ton, nephew of operations vice- president Al Adlington, got a re- fund of his $5 tenth anniversary fund contribution for summer registration. l Mr. E.J. McCabe is chairman of Grolier Inc, chairman of Gro- lier ~ International, chairman of Grolier Educational Corp., chair- man of the Grolier Society Ltd, and chairman of the National (U.S.A.) Better Business Bureau. That’s democracy, free enterprise, and the encyclopedia game for you. l friday doorcrasher special- the first entrepreneur to donate over $500 to Camp Columbia will

be made an honorary human. . * information services officer Muriel DeGre called the Chev- ron editor Wednesday and said, “Information services gives you press releases; why don’t you ever send the Gazette press re- leases? . . .We don’t have any con- tacts with students.” Mrs. DeGre declined an offer to share the salary resources of the info-ser- vices department with the Chev- ron. l the most commie, radical rag on campus, Enginews, carried this quote of the day: “What we need around here is someone with a big fucking club to go around hitting these stuffed-shirt bureau- crats over the head once and a while. ’ ’ -Glenn Hodge, EngSoc A president.

Disestablishmentarianism The prayer that opens convo-

cation ceremonies should be abol- ished.

According to the 1966-67 calen- dar (and three subsequent edi- tions) the University of Waterloo is incorporated as a “non-denom- inational institute of higher learn- ing.. .“. This must be recogniz- ed for the sake of those non-christ- ians, both atheists and members of other faiths, who receive dip- lomas. The university is a secular institution and must officially es- tablish no religion or anti-religion.

The prayer was used, no doubt, primarily to set a mood of rever- ence and sobriety.

But to those present of other faiths-particularly international students from Moslem, Hindu and other backgrounds-it could only have created a pang of irritation and the sensation of exclusion.

To the audience of general north ainericans of the post-Chris- tians era, the recitation was mean- ingless-dusty old words. Those who mumbled scorn to themselves were at least honest, though per- haps rude.

The aware Christian may have felt both embarrassed because the prayer affronted the first group, and himself affronted be- cause the unwelcome prayer in- vited scorn and rejection from the second.

The university as an institute of our society, although born of me- dieval Christianity, today is no longer under its guardianship. The age of Western Christendom is at last finished-a good thing for both church and society.

Our society is not Christian, and to pretend that it is-in such cer- emonies--is distasteful to both non Christian and Christian. This ana- chronistic convocation prayer must be abolished.

This editorial, originally corn- posed by a moderate menno- nite, is being rug!,this year for the fourth time. .PJi“‘

The pace of social change is sfow but sure and you must be patient say those who control. What they don’t say is which di- rection the slow, sure pace is moving with respect to time.

Canadian University Press member, Underground Press Syndicate associate member, Liberation News Service subscriber. the Chevron is published every friday by the publications board of the Federation of Students (inc), University of Waterloo. Content is independent of the publications board, the student council and the university administration. Offices in the campus center,phone (519) 744-6111, local 3443 (news and sports), 3444 (ads), 3445 (editor), direct night- line 7444111, editor-inchief: Bob Verdun 10,000 copies

Thanks to three independent contributors for “A generation in search of a future”: Ellen Tolmie (Waterloo Collegiate), Uldis Celmins (math ?B) and chem-eng prof Lou Bodnar. Convocations all over the place and our only graduand refuses to go through all the pomp and circumstance and hy- pocrisy-he’s out looking for the lady on the back page. Would-be graduates of Uniwat’s famous school of journalism: Jim Klinck, Alex Smith, Bill Brown, swireland, David X Stephenson, dumdum jones,Tom Purdy, Cyril Levitt, Bryan Douglas, Brenda Wilson (port elgin bureau, she insists), Lorna Eaton, Bob Epp, Pat Starkey, Peter Vanek, Steve Izma, Tom Ashman, Louis Silcox; Shaughnessy, his master Cam Killoran, Bob Mason, Ken Dickson, Saxe and company visited us and midnight deadlines are (yawn) a thing of the past.

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