This large chimney was found in downtown Waterloo last Wednesday. It has “made in Hong Kong” inscribed on its bottom, and smoke emanating from its top. If you wish to claim it contact Carling Breweries, a local company famous in Denmark for their beer.

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, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario

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The Ontario provincial govern- tion had been designated and six ment since 1971 has deliberately years after the Wabigoon River suppressed information about the and lower English River system effects of mercury pollution in this was closed to commercial fishing province. by the province.

The report concluded that: “We have found no evidence of mer- cury poisoning in Northwest On- tario.” The report, which was a “preliminary proposal”, also said that “No special agency is known to exist in Canada which could un- dertake the proposed study.”

Allen criticized the study on a number of points :

_ Max Allen, a journalist with the CBC, made this allegation at a public meeting held at the Kitch- ener Public Library last Monday. The forum dealt with mercury poisoning in Northwest Ontario and was presented by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group.

Allen said that the methods used in a provincial inquiry into mer- cury pollution were “deliberately designed to uncover no evidence of mercury poisoning.”

The study cited by Allen made its findings public in a report named “A Preliminary Proposal to Study the Health Hazards of Mer- cury Contaminated Fish in North- west Ontario”. The report ap- peared publicly in January 1976, five years after such an investiga-

-The testing was done in the dead of winter after mercury levels

- had dropped, rather than in the summer when the consumption of fish wouid have been at its height. ’ _

-No systematic attempt was made to test the same people, each year.

-That set’ of people which in probability would have con- sumed very high amounts of

contaminated fish-trappers and fishermen-were excluded from the study.

-The study was interested only in levels of mercury in the blood and avoided examining symp- toms and damage possibly caused by mercury intake.

-Six native people were taken to Winnipeg for examination in a hospital in 1973. According to Allen, there was no reason for taking the six people to Win- nipeg. Indeed, a year later a Japanese scientist tested 80 people and concluded that there was evidence of mercury poisoning. A number of native people in the area were found to exhibit symptoms of Minamata Disease.

-Those native people who were taken to Winnipeg were not among those with the highest levels of mercury in the blood. A provincial report on the “Pub-

lic Health Significance of Methyl

es back on air Radio Waterloo will be back on

, air April 19 after about a three- month respite, says station coor- dinator Dave Assmann.

The station was booted off the wavelength in mid-January by the Canadian Radio-Television Com- mission after the commission re- jected an application of Grand River Cable to carry Radio Water- loo . .

The ruling came as a surprise to Radio Waterloo, which has been seeking clarification of its status from the CRTC since 1970.

The commission at that time told’ the station that it could trans- mit via cable until a definite policy was enacted. I

Assmann said Wednesday that

the CRTC decided on March 24 to defer closing all services carried by cable television systems until March 1, 1977.

That means Radio Waterloo will have almost a year to apply for a FM licence, Assmann said.

“It took three and a half months for them (the CRTC) to come to the conclusion that they should have consulted us first before cut- ting us off.”

To apply for‘a FM licence, the station will have to purchase a transmitter, a tower and other equipment which should total $68,000, Assmann said.

As for the CRTC”s sudden re- versal of policy, Assmann said this was caused mostly by lobbying on

the part of student radio stations, ethnic groups’ stations and the Canadian Broadcasting League.

Assmann said he’s “both elated and overjoyed” about the station going on air once again. And he promised that there will be many new features in the programs of Radio Waterloo.

The programming will include music f&tures (live shows), news briefs, a special on the K-WSym- phony Orchestra, another on Canadian music artists and many other new ideas, Assmann said.

The station will begin cable’ broadcasting on April 19 at 6 p.m. and the frequency will likely be 94.1 FM.

-john morris

Mercury” produced in 1972 was withheld, according to Allen, for two years. The study stated that mercury levels found in fish in the Northwest region of the province were 30 times over the safety stan- dard. Moreover, it warned that those who eat such fish, especially pregnant women, must be consi- dered at risk.

The full report was released in November, 1974; one day after Allen released exerpts from the report on the CBC Radio prog- ramme “As It Happens”.

Allen charged the provincial government of also suppressing the findings of a report submitted in March, 1974 called “Policies for Pollution Abatement for Ontario’s Pulp and Paper Industry”. Pres- ently, Allen stated, it is not possi- ble to get access to the report.

The government’s refusal to make public the report is,. in Allen’s words, an example of the “collusion of government regulat- ory bodies with those industries they are supposed to be regulating which,” he went on to say, “is typical.”

Backing up his accusation, Allen noted the statement made three weeks ago by provincial cabinet member, George Kerr: “This gov- ernment doesn’t intend to zero in on the pulp and paper companies to literally club them into taking on an expensive program of en- vironmental protection which at“ this time the industry can collec- tively il l afford. A few newspap- ers”, Kerr continued, “have over- stated the ministry’s intentions in a few meetings with Pulp and Paper companies .”

Allen, continuing on, also- read a memo received by Dr. Stopps, a member of the panel, from a Dr. Connaught, who was in charge of Health Services in that region for’ the Dept. of Indian Affairs. Con-

cerned over the mercury pollution controversy, Connaught wrote: “I still believe that when they opened up this whole thing their ‘motiva- tion (the Indians’) was limited to the juvenile prospect of compen- satory treats. ” Connaught, repor- tedly, felt that such compensation would set a regretable precedent.

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Along with Allen in the panel discussion last Monday were Jim Harding, a professor in Man and Environment at the University of Waterloo ; Jim Ronan, a director of Laboratory Services, in the Fed- eral Ministry of the Environment; Aileen Smith, co-author of Minamata; Ken Irizawa of the Provincial Ministry of Natural Re- sources; and Dr. J Stopps, As- sociate Professor, Division of Community Health, University of Toronto.

The civil servants on the panel, including Dr. Stopps -who in 1971 was delegated by the Ministry of Health to look into mercury poisoning in the province, came under heavy attack from Allen, Smith and the audience.

The provincial officials said often that decisions concerning mercury abatement and possible compensation to those native peo- ple whose livelihood was affected by mercury pollution could only be made by the elected politicians. Dr. Stopps suggested that in- terested citizens should write to their respective Member of Parli- ament and voice their concern that way.

Over a hundred people attended the meeting. About 30 people at- tended a meeting afterwards which discuss,ed the possibility of setting up a “support group” based in Kite hener-Waterloo whit h would look into and fight mercury poison- ing in Northwest Ontario.

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Parrott claimed that the word ‘cutback’ was not appropriate be- cause all the educational programs had received more money this year than last, and across the system the increase in government funding was 14.4 per cent.

The minister also pointed, to some government job creation schemes which he said would pro-.

With the cutbacks in education spending, the adverse changes in student assistance, and drastic pro- jections of student unemployment, l how are students to afford an edu- cation? That was the question posed by the chevronyesterday to the education experts of the three political parties.

Harry Parrott, minister of col-

leges and universities, David Warner and John Sweeney, NDP and Liberal education critics, were on campus to speak to a conference of university information officers.

Billed as the first time the three had done public battle the meeting was very tame, and the response to the question contained little good news for students.

the rural areas would be the worst hit. --

Though he found the situation very serious he hoped that it wasn’t a sign that we “are heading back to education elitism. I don’t think that is the government’s intention,” he said. -

Though he did point out to Par- rott that because government spending hadn’t kept pace with in- flation it was fair to use the term ‘cutback’.

The meeting differed markedly- from Parrott’s last visit to UW when he was heckled by over 200 angry students and some faculty. This was not a public meeting. In- tended only for the information of- ficers, and the press, it received low publicity.

Nonetheless, a few student rep- resentatives were on hand to greet the minister with a large sign which read: “April Fool r&t”.

-Harry Par-

The sign upset UW information services chief, Jack Adams, who approached the three student-reps before the meeting and asked them if they were going to cause any trouble. Franz Klingender, Doug Thompson, and Ted Hogan, as- sured him they were not, and Adams seemed satisfied. -

-neiI docherty

vide 11,000 positions. He warned that jobs can’t be picked off trees, and said the government was putting an emphasis on creating permanent positions. ’

For those students unable to find summer work the minister said ad-

justments would be made in their OS AP award.

Counc~lors vote to retain Sweeney was quick to point out

that 11,000 jobs was a drop in the bucket when it is projected that 100,000 students will be out of work this summer.

card scheme The liberal critic was against the

government’s review of student grants and said the assistance should not be reduced.

If all student officers use up their credit, the cost to students, for one year will be $3,125.

Federation president Shane Roberts defended the privilege card scheme, saying “it’s a nomi- nal system of reimbursement for services rendered on the part of student councillors .”

He also suggested that the award not be tied to the student’s parental income. And he said he was in- terested in a student’s suggestion that an exchange be implimented between students who seek emp- loyment for one third of the year, and workers who would like a spell at university.

Mathematics rep. John Long disagreed by pointing out the scheme “will set us up as someone special” and council members knew what they were getting into

His response ended on the sombre note that the type of stu- dent unemployment we are likely to witness this summer “is going to be with us until the 1980’s .” -

Warner was also concerned as far work is concerned when first --- about student unemployment elected.

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In addition, the committee says there are individuals such as stu- dent councillors who aren’t “im- mediately involved”- in the opera- tion of an event but are “at some point responsible for what is going on.” i As for communication, the committee says’various events allow officials to “make and main- tain contact with-other workers and officials.

“This is especially important for communication between different faculties and parts of campus where the people may not nor- mally meet each other.”

The same goes for student reps who will “remain in touch” with larger numbers of people with their attendance at federation events such as movies, pubs, dances and concerts, the commit- tee says.

The committee also endorses the argument that student officials should be allowed free entry for “labor they rendered,” saying “the monetary value of the occa- sional ‘free’ admission is fre- quently a fraction of any ‘market’ value of the person’s time.”

Eat-h card holder will be allowed a ceiling on the number of events they can attend free-of-charge. The federation president, the vice-president, the treasurer and the entertainment chairperson will be allowed to spend $100 each.

Student councillors will receive a $50-credit ceiling while other of- ficals will be eligible for credits ranging from $25 to $50, the com- mittee says.

A review of the system will be conducted next November and it will be administered by the presi- dent, treasurer, and entertainment chairman.

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It isn’t quite wages for council- work but it’s better than nothing.

That was the impression student councillors cast when they voted Sunday to implement a revamped privilege card scheme for them- selves.

.The setup, which allows student officials from across campus free entry to student federation events, came under review last fall after some public criticism.

The student council at that time formed a committee to investigate the question of privilege cards for student officers.

And a report was presented to the new council in March which, in turn, referred it to yet another re- view committee.

After one session, the commit- tee produced a report at Sunday’s meeting whit h council accepted by a 13-6 vote.

The report-says the committee didn’t “entertain abolition of the card system as a reasonable alter- native” for the following three reasons:

-responsibility for functioning of events on the part of student of- ficials ;

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-communication among stu- dent reps and contact with con- stituents ; and

-a nominal reward to officers for services rendered.

In elaborating, the report says the committee saw it as “impor- tant for counterparts from organi- zations to be able to attend ac- tivities of other groups.

“This permits them first-hand to be able to evaluate an event, to sense the response of participants, and make observations that could help them in their own planning and execution of events.”

Other councillors introduced an amendment, which was defeated, calling for a two-thirds attendance record at council meetings to be eligible for then privilege.

In other business, council pas- sed its budget for 1976-77 which contains an allocation of $408,389 and projected revenue of $141,050. The subsidy to be paid out of stu- dent fees will be $267,339. And the federation expects students to pay in about $282,000 in fees next year.

Out of the federation’s slush fund for next year, council gave a $1,000 grant and $1,000 loan to the fourth year optometry summer student project.

The project provides eye clinics manned by students to such places as Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, Manitoulin Island, Moose Factory, the Ontario Hos- pital for the Mentally Retarded at Orillia, Southern Ontario reserva- tions and the Caribbean.

In another matter, councillors endorsed a proxy policy for stu- dent council members wishing to delegate their vote for one meeting to a chosen delegate.

-john morris

which he projected might run ‘as high as 120,00O.~He said students in

Alternatives f&d- m&op

The food industry in Canada is controlled by so few companies that “we’re in a situation where the farmers can’t afford to grow food and the people can’t afford to buy it,” a co-ordinator of the On- tario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) said Tuesday.

David Robertson, speaking at a meeting sponsored by the Con- sumer Action Centre, told 40 peo- ple that “the whole grey area” be- tween declining farm prices and constantly rising food costs consti- tutes the profit of a handful of huge food conglomerates.

John Keyes, an OPIRG re- searcher, and the second speaker at the meeting, said that “the pic- ture we’ve drawn-a number of large corporations ruling the roost-casts doubt on competi- tion” as a real factor in the indus- try.

Robertson explained that eight fruit and vegetable canners in the country control 52 per cent of the market, the three largest meat packing companies control 55 per cent of the market’ and four break- fast cereal companies control 95 per cent of the market.

Speaking to a mixed audience of young and old at the Rockway Senior Citizens’ centre, Robertson provided a brief description of the wide holdings of each of seven corporate giants in food. The George Weston Co., Safeway, Steinbergs, M. Loeb, Loblaws, The Oshawa Group, and Argus Corp. (owner of Dominion Stores) have “reduced farmers to serfdom and wiped out hundreds of inde- pendent producers and retailers ,” Robertson said.

“Right now, we don’t determine anything,” said Robertson. “We walk into the supermarket and pay what they want.

“But what if we controlled our own retail outlets? We have to de- velop real alternatives to this -worker-controlled factories, retailer-controlled retail outlets, consumer-controlled banks .”

Asked about short-term ways to improve conditions for-consumers, Robertson suggested that several families could confront their local supermarket. manager and demand

to have quality food stocked on the shelves.

“Let’s gee if we can’t change Zehr’s groceries in town,” he urmed .

i< :yes pointed out a host of ways by .vhich the food industry, which is characterized by vertical integ- ration (where a retailing corpora- tion owns wholesalers, packers, distributors, and even corporate farms) and oligopoly (control by a very few companies), deceive the consumer in order to improve their own profit.

Packaging and carton designs, pricing policies, advertising and corporate secrecy, all combine to milk the consumer to the greatest possible extent and keep damning information from the public.

Furthermore, effective protec- tion from government is put into doubt when the question is thoroughly examined, he said.

Keyes noted that the federal government’s Royal Commission investigating corporate conglom- eration is stacked with men who have strong ties with powerful companies in Canada. Another ex- ample mentioned was the ap- pointment ‘of Simon Riesman to the George Weston Ltd. board of directors in May of last year, only a month after he had retired as de- p u-t y minister of finance. R&man’s special function with George Weston Ltd. is liaison with the government, especially the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.

Questions and comments from the audience focussed on what ac- tion to take to improve the lot of consumers. Several people pointed out the value of consumer and producer co-operatives, and growing and canning food.

One person in the audience pointed out that dealing only with

the food industry, in isolation, from the monopoly capitalist system, would not provide a permanent solution. Only the overthrow of the monopoly capitalist system, and the replacement by a system which serves the majority of the - people will yield a real change, he said.

-4arry hannant

The chevron will launch a major This year’s chevron is far better the chevron is not more widely av- recruitment drive next fall to in- than previous ones as far as news ailable for the paper-contains a crease its volunteer staff, news coverage, sports, entertainment great deal of good solid material editor Neil Docherty told student and layout goes, Docherty said. for the brain which is unobtainable council on Sunday. - While during the past two years elsewhere.”

The Ontario Student is the offi- cial publication of the Ontario Federation of Students and it comes out every month.

The chevron also offers its staf- fers seminars on newswriting which helps them to go into “the big, bad world,” Docherty said. And most chevron volunteers are “keen on journalism” and want to pursue it professionally after graduating.

Mathematics rep. Robert White asked Docherty how the paper found out that the name used in a recent letter-to-the-editor was a pseudonym. Docherty replied say- ing staffers checked the name in the on-campus and off-campus telephone directories.

This campaign will include large display ads in the paper, wall post- ers, style kits on journalism, and a possible course credit system with UW’S English department, Dot herty said.

And the preparatory work in- volving negotiations with English professors and the compiling of the recruitment styleguide will be done this summer, the news editor added.

Docherty and 15 other chevron staff members were at Sunday’s

, meeting to deliver a short presen- tation of the paper’s workings dur- ing the year and to make compari- sons with previous years.

Their presence was prompted by council’s discussion of the stu- dent newspaper’s 197677 budget. After little debate, councillors ap- proved the paper’s subsidy of about $15,000.

news content ranged from three to five pages, this year the paper has had a “newshole,” of about seven pages, the news editor stated.

Entertainment coverage has tri- pled against last year’s and the quality has also vastly improved, Docherty said. L

Sports coverage is the weakest spot but it has maintained a consis- tent two pages, he added.

The average paper this year was about 28 pages compared to 24 pages in 1974 and 20 in 1975.

As for features, the paper has always been noted for the quality of its insight articles and this year the science and technology section has stirred up much debate on the I.Q. question, Docherty said.

He also referred to an editorial in the Ontario Student which com- plimented the chevron, saying “It is a very great pity that a paper like

The letter White referred to was written by Matthew Smith and it

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Found Convenient to shopping. Westmount In the gym 1 pair of navigator sun- area near union. Fully furnished. glasses. Would like tq find owner. Telephone: 742-0603 or ext. 2534. Phone Peter at 884-4234 around 5:30pm. One person share apartment, sum-

mer furnished, 5 minute walk to cam-

Lost 1 puses, $65 month; Bruce, Dan

Bulova divers watch, last Wed. night, 886-0763. 3rd floor of MC building. If found please turn into Security. Thanks.

Brown vinyl folder lost at the Genesis concert, contains i rreplacable in- voices, receipts et 4 . pertaining to Federation business. If found please call Board of Entertainment ext. 2358.

Large one bedroom apart)nent to sublet May-Aug, fully furnished. 15 minute walk to campus, $135/month. 884-8484 gr 885-4817.

Townhouse sublet. May I-Sept. 1. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, garage, fully car- peted, partially furnished. Near uni- versities, plaza. Rent negotiable. 884-l 783.

Personal Pregnant & Distressed? The Birth Control Centre is an information and referral centre for birth control, V.D., u,nplanned pregnancy and sexuality. For all the alternativtis phone 885-1211, ext. 3446 (Rm. 206, Cam- pus Centre) or for emergency num- be rs 884-8770.

Are you pregnant? Do you need help? Call BIRTHRIGHT for confiden- tial concerned assistance. 579-3990.

Gay Lib Office, Campus Centre, Rm. 217C. Open Monday-Thursday 7-IOpm, some afternoons. Counsel- ling and information. Phone 885-1211, ext. 2372.

HELP-745-l 166-We care! Crisis in- tervention and confidential listening to any problem. Weeknights 6pm to 12 midnight, Friday 5pm to Monday lam.

2 bedroom and basement town- house, 653-B Albert St., Appliances, swimming pool, cable, 5 minute to U of W by car, near shopping. $21 S/month, 885-9471.

Townhouse available for summer / term. Semi-furnished. 524D Sun- nydale Place. Phone 885-0293.

Sublet from April 21-J&e 30, 1976: Large three bedroom townhouse, completely furnished. Close to uni- versity and shopping centre. Call 884-9270 after 5:30pm. -

Clean, quiet, single rooms for males in private home. $15 ‘weekly.. Insu- lated, fluorescent lighting, private en- trance and bath. Frig, toaster and

rteakettle available, but no cooking al- lowed. All linens supplied and cleaned weekly. 5 minute walk to either university. Apply Mrs. Dorscht, 204 Lester St., Waterloo. 884-3629. 884-3629. Wanted

Two female roommates to share town- house with 2 HKLS females. Own Furnished one-bed room apartment,

bedroom, close to campus. Rent corner of Westmount and Erb. , $249/plus utilities. Call 743-0357 576-2g82. Available May-Sept. after 6pm. Pam.

2-3 people needed to share furnished

Ride Available Ride to Calgary and points enroute via Trans-Canada highway. Leaving Monday April 19-share gas ($40). Mike, 884-5687.

Typing Fast accurate typing. .40 cents a page. IBM Selectric. Located in Lakeshore village. Call 884-6913 any- time.

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Typing: neat and efficient. Experi- enced. Reasonable rates. 884-l 025 Ask for Judy.

Typing done in my home-essays etc.

townhouse on Albert St. May lst-Aug 31st. Pool, cable, nearby shopping. Phone 576-8491.

Montreal Apt.: five room furnished including two bed rooms. Available May-August. Phone 514-271-7758 evenings.

Male wanted to share spacious 2 bed- room furnished apartment. May- . Sept. Austin Drive (just off Columbia) Rent negotiable and reasonable. Please phone 8844636.

May I-Sept 1. Furnished or unfur-

swimming pool,

nished townhouse. 2 bedrooms, full basement. 1 mile from UW, parking,

on, woodlot. 885-0981 $240.

Phone 653-9742.- _

Housing Available TO sublet: 1 bedroom apartment (un- Large 2 storey 8 room house for rent, fyrnished) spring term (May-August) near both universities, near shopping 5 minute walk from both universities. plaza, $300 per month. Call 884-8656. Only $155/month (utilities included) Call 884-l 377. 3 bedroom Parkdale townhouse to

Share a large apartment with couple rent, finished basement, dryer, 2

‘baths, pool, near universities, beside for $40/month. Near King and COI- plaza, sleeps 5 comfortably, umbia. Phone 884-9122. $290/month. Phone 884-8633.

Partially furnished 1 bed room apart- Toronto, May-Sept. Large four bed- ment, close to campus to sublet May1 -August 31. Rent negotiable.

room house. Bayview and Eglinton area. Cal I evenings 416-481-8940.

Location is 9 Amos Avenue. Call 885-2496. 2 bedroom apartment; broadloomed,

May-Aug 31 4 bedroom older home. IO minutes from UW; $175/month. From April on. Call 885-6596.

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Selling newspap&s at WLU ’

Char@- dism-iiss@d against UW student, prof “There are a lot of things that missing a charge of petty trespas- ’ “I don’t understand why you

bother me about this case,” said sing against UW grad history stu- can’t sell papers on campus.” Judge Gordon McConnell in dis- dent Larry Hannant. Hannant and UW professor Jef-

frev Forest appeared in Waterloo provincial court last Monday on charges relating to a disturbance which occurred while they were selling People’s Canada Daily News at WLU on Nov. 20, 1975.

fense on the contention that a uni- versity was a public place which existed to “extend, preserve and disseminate knowledge.”

Larry Hannant aid Jeffrey foreit leatic the Waterloo provincial courthouse on Monday after being cleared on charges of petty. trespassing and creating a disturbance by shouting. The charges related to an incident which OC-

curred last Nov. 20 while the two were selling newspapers at WLU. d

No jobs? See your U/c ‘. ” to claim unemployment insurance

With\ student unemployment

benefits this summer.

projections hovering.around 30 per cent; many students may be forced

fourth week after applying, as payment for the w%eek previous.

week you send in the completed cards, and the first cheque should arrive at some point during the

The whole process begins with a trip to the Manpower office at 29 Duke St. E. in Kitchener to regis- ter. A separation slip from all places of employment in the last 52 weeks is required, and if any suit- a,ble jobs are available at that time, you’ll be informed about them.

Manpower equips you with a’ ‘ ‘personal portfolio” . . . . ‘ ‘specially prepared for you” which contains information onhow to go about finding your new job. Armed with this and a slip from Manpower, you walk down to 30 Duke St. W. to the Unemployment Insurance Commission, the entrance to which is actually on Ontario St.

There you are’obliged to fill in a form of application for benefits, and are instructed as to when you

However, if your job terminated as a result of either quitting for no reason, or being fired through fault of your own, the waiting period could extend up to eight weeks.

In order to qualify for unemp- loyment benefits, you must have worked for at least eight weeks during the preceding 52 and must have paid insurance during those weeks.

stricter. They are cldmping down, * Brook said, on people’who “are

just sitting at hom’e”, and pay par-

day.

ticular attention to the number of employers the recipient seeks out. The “personal portfolio” issued

It seems that as unemployment

by Manpower recommends five to eight a day, and also advises you

worsens the U.I.C. is becoming

to “avoid the temptation to ~10~ down, to do other things.”

_ can expect your first cards. The normal waiting period is

two weeks. At the end of the third

The chevron asked the District Manager of the Kitchener U.I.C. a Mr. Brooks, what people are obli- gated to do while receiving of un- employment benefits. His reply was that people should be “con- stantly knocking on doors” and are expected to report to the office every three weeks or so. If you don’t contact them, be assured they will caIl you.

Brooks said that while receiving benefits you are not allowed to move from the area, or take a holi-

Brooks said that the UIC has es- tablished connections with 75 emp- loyers in K-W, and if a recipient is suspected of lying about having vi- sited an employer, the UIC takes it upon itself to check up on the per- son by contacting the employer in question.

He also said that 75 prosecu- tions against offenders of unemp- loyment benefits, and the publicity it has received is making the sys- tem more efficient. He mentioned the assistance of anonymous phone calls and letters in identify- ing these offenders.

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McConnell emphasized that he was not ruling on the question of whether a university campus was a public place in which one had a right to sell newspapers. He said, however, that he was not aware of any regulation that prevented it. -

A charge of creating a distur- bance by shouting against Forest was also .dismissed by Judge McConnell. A second charge of causing a disturbance against Forest and a joint charge of com- mon assault has been adjourned until June 7.

Hannant testified that he had been talking with a student in the Torque Room coffee shop at WLU when security guard Ron Langley approached him and .demanded that he leave. t

Hannant refused, saying that he was engaged in conversation with the student. Langley asked the student whether he wanted to talk

with Hannant, and upon being told that he did, the guard left.

Langley soon returned, how- ever, and again ordered Hannant to accompany him. Hannant again refused, demanding to know the reason why he was being evicted. Langley thereupon grabbed him and began to physically drag him from the room.

When Hannant asked whether he was being placed under arrest, Langley at first said he was not, but later told him he was under ar- rest for petty trespassing. _

The prosecution produced tes- timony from Audrey Shafer, Tor- que Room supervisor, that Han- nant had been at WLU the previ- ous week and had been warned at that time not to return without a permit. Hannant testified that he had never been on the WLU cam- pus before Nov. 20, and other wit- nesses agreed that he had not been at WLU on the.13th.

Hannant, who defended himself in the case, based much of his de-

He also noted the special rela- ’ tionship existing between UW and WLU by which students of one university have access to the facilities of the other.

Forest was charged in the same incident when he attempted to draw the attention of students to what was being done to Hannant.

Waterloo regional police const- able Koepke testified that he had b\een called to the university by security. When he arrived, Han- nant had already been arrested by Langley who then informed Koepke that there was “another one of them” somewhere inside the building. They discovered Forest at a public telephone and escorted him from the building.

Forest, who also defended him- self, drew attention to the fact that he was leaving peacefully until a certain “Hall” (later identified as WLU security chief John Baal) charged out of the building and demanded Forest’s name. As “Hall” was clad only in jogging shorts and did not identify himself, Forest inquired of Koepke whether he was required to pro- duce identification. Upon being in- formed that he was not so re- quired, Forest testified, “Hall” began to threaten him, saying that he could “lock him up in his office for 24 hours.”

Forest testified that he was af- raid that “Hall” would attack him and so went out to the sidewalk where he continued to “raise his voice” to call student’s attention to what was happening. Koepke and Hall both ran after him to the sidewalk, where Koepke placed him under arrest.

Judge McConnell dismissed the charge, stating that he considered it to be “borderline”.

The further charges of assault and causing a disturbance have been adjourned until June to allow WLU security to produce a copy of the regulation under which the

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Mr. and Mrs. Abdul-Fattah As- leak into his bedroom.\ four moved into the West Tower During the summer of 1975 the of the Married Students Apart- tileman arrived but was unable to ments in June 1974 and one month make any repairs as the tiles in the later water began leaking from be- bathroom had, deteriorated. hind the tiles in their bathroom and In 1976 after living with this into their bedroom. problem for a year and a half As-

The superintendant was notified immediately and a repairman came some weeks later. The repairman told Asfour that “the whole rotten thing should be changed,” indicat- ing the tiles. The repairman said that the bathrooms in the apart- ments had been cheaply con-

-strutted and leakage was the re- sult.

After a week the leakage began again and Asfour reported his problem to the manager, William Pigden. Two months elapsed be- fore the repairman arrived and the. tiles were again temporarily re- paired.

Since that time Asfour has re- ported the leakage on several dif- ferent occasions and has had to wait months for repairmen. Meanwhile the water continued to

four decided hot to renew his lease unless he could move into a differ- ent apartment or get a guarantee from the management “that we would not have to suffer any longer, from that leakage. ”

When Asfour asked the manager if he could change apartments Pig- den denied any knowledge of the problem. Asfour claims that Pig- den called him a liar and would not allow him to change his apartment for another.

Pigden claimed that tenants could not switch apartments with- out a valid reason. Asfour cited the example of an acquaintance of his who had switched apartments as he had not felt comfortable in the first one.

Asfour stated that he was very uncomfortable in his apartment because of the leakage problem.

Hansard humour Our elected representatives are busy men and each day they grapple with problems of great magnitude. Two such examples are reprinted below. They were rescued from the obscurity of Hansard (March 7$ and 76) by integrated Studies student, Einst Von Bezold.

[English] I

ST-PATRICK’S DAY

GREETiNGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL CITIZEN&MOTION UNDl$R S.O. 43

Mr. Joe Flynn (Kit+enbr): Mr. Speaker, I move under the provisions of Standing Order 43 and seconded by the hon. member for St. John’s East (Mr. McGrath):

That this House bring ‘greetings to all members in the name of that great saint of piety and humour and that the lqleasings of St. Patrick shine over all of this wonderful Canada of ours.

Some hon. MA Hear, hear!

Mr. Speak- Order, please. I have great difficulty in understanding how such blessings could be prevented from shining over this great Canada of ours whether or not we put the motion.

Some hon. Members Hear, hear!

. SPORTS

CONGRATULATIONS TO EGON BEILER ON WINNING WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS-MOTION UNDER S.O. 43

Mr. Joe Flynn (Kitchener): Mr. Speaker, I rise under the provisions of Standing Order 43. In view of the fact that Mr. Egon Beiler of Kitchener, Ontario is a winner of gold medals at the British Empire Games, the Pan-Ameri- can Games and the World Cup Games, and now is the first Canadian wrestler to win a gold medal at the World Cham- pionships, I move, seconded by the hon. member for Lafon- taine-Rosemont (Mr. Lachance):

That the House convey through Mr. Speaker heartiest congratula- tions to Egon Beiler of Kitchener for being the first Canadian to win a gold medal at the World Championships of Wrestling.

. Some hon. Members: Hear, hear!

Mr. Speaker: Order, please. Pursuant to Standing Order 43 the motion can only be presented with the unanimous consent of the House. Is there unanimous consent?

Some hon. Members: Agreed.

An hon. Member: Get him to wrestle inflation.

Mr. Speaker:- Having ,heard the terms of the motion, is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the said motion?

Some hon. Member: Agreed.

Motion agreed to.

Asfour claims that Pigden replied he wasn’t interested in Asfour’s comfort and would not allow him to change apartments.

Asfour informed the manager that he would contact his superior and he spoke to Cail Vinnicombe, director of. housing and residence operations.

“Mrl Vinnicombe was very helpful,” said Asfour. He said that the leakage constituted a health problem that was contrary to the Landlord Tenant Act. He told As- four they would try to make effec- tive repairs on the bathroom for the last time and if they proved un- satisfactory he would be.able to change apartments.

In February Vinnicombe wrote to Pigden telling him to waive Asfour’s deadline for lease re- newal until the bathroom had been repaired.

The repairs were made and after a few .weeks the leakage began again. In the meantime Asfour re- ceived a letter from Pigden’s sec- retary advising him to renew the lease by 10:00 the next morning or the apartment would be rented to another tenant.

Asfour phoned the secretary, T. Yaciuk, at home and claims she told him that “Mr. Vinnicombe has left the whole matter up to Mr. Pigden.”

The next day Asfour got in touch with Mr. Vinnicombe who confirmed Asfour’s belief that his lease renewal deadline had been waived.

Asfour also claims that Pigden’s secretary was rude to him on the phone and hung up on him.

Asfour has a letter from Vin- nicombe authorizing a change to another apartment when his lease expires in April. A copy of this let- ter was sent to Pigden but as yet he hasn’t acknowledged the letter.

In a telephone interview Pigden denied that Asfour’s leaking tiles were a continuing problem. Pigden admitted that repairs had been slow “but that is because we haven’t the workers on hand.”

When asked if he had accused Asfour of lying, Pigden replied: “Not true.”

Pigden does not believe that As- four has a valid reason to change his apartment. When asked if he has ever checked out the problem or seen the leakage, Pigden re- plied: “That’s not my job.”

“The maintenance men re- ported that the repairs were almost effective in the apartment,” Pig- den said.

When asked if Vinnicombe’s let- ter of authorization would ensure Asfour and his wife a new apart- ment in April, Pigden said : “Not necessarily.”

Asfour collected a random selection of complaints from other tenants in the West Tower. The complaints vary from broken washing machines, lack of available storage space, lengthy waiting- periods for repairs, to a window in one apartment that has not been re- paired for a year and a half.

Several of the complaints were directed at Pigden personally. Tenants complained that the manager’s office was often closed when it should be open and several tenants felt that he was unrespon- sive to their problems. Another tenant claimed that Pigden had suggested he was lying when he reported a problem that needed repair.

Questioned about complaints made by the tenants Pigden re- plied, “We have had some, of course, but not a substantial amount. ”

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friday, april 2; 1976 the chevron

Joe Recchia, ho are y

Who is Joe Recchia and what does he do for the student federa- tion?

Student councillors asked this question on Sunday as they perused the federation entertain- ment board’s budget and disco- vered an item entitled director of student activities with an alloca-‘ tion of $1,000.

Entertainment chairman Doug Antoine told them Joe Recchia is the director of student activities and has held this position for sev- eral years.

Recchia’s job is to book music acts for the federation and to coor- dinate negotiations between the ar- tist and the entertainment board, Antoine said.

But councillors still weren’t satisfied with this response so they

draw up a report together with treasurer Manny Brykman on Recchia’s relationship with the federation.

Antoine said he shared council’s concern regarding Recchia’s status with the federation and that he’d also “like to know what the hell is going on. ’ ’

The chairman explained he had a brief chat with Recchia on Satur- day and still has some questions to ask the local promoter.

External relations chairman Mike Ura said he’s very suspicious of Recchia’s activities, saying “I notice he’s got his fingers in every money pot on campus.”

Ralph Torrie, publications chairman, added that Recchia “has got the whole of Southern Ontario’s entertainment industry

Harry Parr-Ott, the one in the black suif on the right, scurries under a welcoming poster on South Campus Ha// yesterday. At the April fools Day panel discussion on- the future of post secondary education which followed he complained that his name was incorrect/y spelled. The UW students responsible for the poster said the misspelling of the Minister of Colleges and Universities’ name was an excercise of poetic license.

then instructed the-ckariman to- by the balls.” Photo by doug thompson

Cross-Canada cycle tour So you’ve heard that the Great

Canadian Race will be a race of in- novative and unidentifiable con- traptions to Montreal. But have you heard of Cycle Canada ‘76?

CC’76 is a 3,750 mile cross Canada bicycle tour beginning in Victoria, British- Columbia, on May 3 and in St. John’s, New- foundland, on June 17. Both east- bound and westbound cyclists will arrive in Montreal, Quebec, on July 20, three days after the open- ing of the Olympics.

The eastbound trip will go through Lethbridge, Regina’, Sas- katchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa

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criticized an article penned by chevron staffer Henry Crapo.

Mike Ura, chairman of external relations, said he found chevron staffers very cooperative when they were asked to help the stu- dent federation put out a special issue on education cutbacks.

and on to Quebec. The westbound trip will be via

St. John’s, Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Charlottetown, Fredricton, Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec and fi- nally to Montreal.

Five “feeder routes” will offer alternative geography and increase the opportunities for as many cyc- lists to participate as possible.

They are: -from Calgary via Edmonton and Saskatoon to Yorkton; -Sarnia to Toronto via London, Kitchener, Hamilton and Oakville; -Windsor to Toronto through Chatham, London, Kitchener, Hamilton and OakviIle; -Fort Erie to Toronto by way of Niagara Falls and then following the golden horseshoe; . -Halifax, down the Atlantic sea- board to Liverpool, across the province to Annapolis Royal and- across the Bay of Fundy by ferry to St. John. This route will then join the main route at Fredricton, New Brunswick.

age of 50 miles per day), a bicycle, and, of course, the feer-

Fees vary according to the route and package chosen. They start at $28 and go up to $700 for the Victoria-Toronto trip.

Two packages are available. The bikepacker package is the cheaper and includes insurance, first aid provisions, a mobile bike repair shop, baggage transport, tour manual, sag wagon (for those who just can’t make it) and camp- ing fees. The cycle caravaner pac- kage includes everything in the bikepacker option plus tents, food and utensils.

According to CC’76 director, Tom Robson: “We’re trying to reach the average Canadian-get our recreational cyclists taking an active part in the 1976 Olympics.”

Many thousands are expected to take part during the entire tour with about 500 being on the road at one time, Robson says. Riders will be divided into groups of 20; each group being under the direction of

“Whenever we go to them for The entire route is divided into a group leader who will have un- announcements or information, 24 sections. Participants may, dergone training to help him co- they are always willing to help.” travel as many sections as they ordinate their units.

Publications chairman Ralph wish. With no special training For further information contact Torrie informed council that he in- needed and all ages welcome, the CC’76, 173 Lisgar St. Ottawa, tends to set up a committee to re- only necessities are time, good Ont., K2P OC3. view the bylaws governing the health (cyclists will cover an aver- graham gee chevron and its relationship with the federation.

The committee will be com- prised of the publications chair- man, three student councillors, one student from each of the six campus Faculties, the chevron editor and one staff member of the paper.

“This committee has no editor- ial say or comment regarding the chevron as it’s strictly concerned with the paper’s bylaws,” Torrie said.

Earlier, councillors ratified his- tory graduate student Adrian Rodway as chevron editor-in-chief for 1976-77.

Rodway was asked by Engineer-* ing rep. Paul Buckham whether the paper will concentrate more on local campus news rather than world events under his guidance.

The new editor, a former staffer of the Jamaica Broadcasting Cor- poration, said he plans to publish off-campus news but not to the ex- clusion of on-campus happenings.

Other chevron staff positions approved by council were: Brenda Wilson as advertising manager and Neil Docherty, as production man- ager.

All positions ari: salaried, paying $145 per week, and run from May 1, 1976 to April 30, 1977.

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You can save that money for something else. Just come with us to the Theatre of the Arts at the University of Waterloo, and we will give you a better deal.

The African Students kssocia- tion and the Federation of Stu- dents are sponsoring African ac- tivities oncampus for the week ending April 3, 1976.

Activities planned include films on African development, a lecture on “Foreign Aid and Self Re- liance”, African marriage cere- mony, African market scene, and African fashion show. A dinner dance will culminate the activities at the West Indies Club on 450 Weber Street North, Waterloo.

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OTTAWA (CUP)-The fourth thousand post-secondary students annual meeting of the National from 2c) institutions, and a budget Union of Students this summer of about $58 thousand.

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retrieving information may be pursued at the School of Library and Information Science.

\,J for further details write to: School of Library and Informatio,n THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON, ONTARIO N6A 5B9

will probably be the most impor- tant in the four-year history of the revived national student organiza- tion.

The,major issue which the ex- petted 150 delegates will have to deal with when they meet at the University of Winnipeg May 12-16 is how the national union will

. serve its greatlv increased mem-

Next year,. as a result of a re- ferenda campaign approving an increase in annual fees from 30 cents per student to $1.00 per stu- dent for member institutions and the budget for the 1976-77 academic year will almost triple to approximately $165 thousand.

NUS executive secretary Dan O’Connor feels the “major overall

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bership a&spend its vastly aug- issue” of the May meeting will be’ mented resources next year. “how students of Canada are

At the start of the 1975-76 going to work together next year to academic year, the national union deal with impending government had a membership ,of about 120 decisions on financing post-

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study it. Alan Cope as initiated a voluntary fund raising campaign for Project Greenpeace, the or- ganization currently protesting the savage massacre of the snow seals

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petition ,,- It’s going to be hard to find a job

this ‘summer that will cover school expenses for next year.

And-it’ll be harder to meet those OSAP contributions which are necessary\ to be eligible for finan- cial assistance.

The student federation together with the Ontario Student Federa- tion is distributing petitions pro- testing the lack of adequate sum-

-mer employment for students and the unrealistic demands made by the OSAP.

The petition demands that the provincial and federal go‘vern- ments create a program of-useful employment to meet the present crisis.

It also asks that a student’s summer contribution to OSAP~ be based on real summer’income and “not upon OSAP’s arbitrary ta- bles.” ,

off the coast of Newfoundland. The Greenpeace t-shirts which

are beginning to appear around \campus now that spring is here are the means by which Cope, a first year Environmental Studies stu- dent, is raising money for the or- ganization.

Prompted by several lectures and a film concerning Project Greenpeace’s aims, Cope decided to take a chance and put some of his money on the line by ordering 60 t-shirts with the Greenpeace logo.

“The 60 shirts took a while to start selling but once I set up a booth in the Environmental Studies building they were quite quickly sold out,” Cope said.‘Now he has a fresh batch of 120 shirts.

The t-shirts are available in the usual sizes in gold, orange or sky blue. They sell for $3.60 each, which is about one dollar -more than the original cost. All profits will be forwarded to Greenpeace.

If you are into supporting Greenpeace and also wearing a good t-shirt for the nice weather, cruise through the Environmental Studies building. There will be another booth set up early next week.

Anyone wishing further infor- mation is asked to contact Alan Cope at 885-2237.

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secondary education, student aid, and the question of accessibility.”

But this issue will surface in re- solving the practical question of how NUS is going to allocate its new resources in providing na- tional co-ordination for this work next year, “the first year NUS has had reasonably adequate re- sources .”

An almost certain result will be increasing the number of full-time staff. Presently NUS has two rov- ing fieldworkers and one person in the Ottawa office. Next year the anticipated budget could provide for up to eight additional people, but the exact number will be de- cided at the Annual Meeting.

Another question will be how to allocate the new personnel, and the possible establishment of one or two regional offices outside of central Canada.

The delegates will also have to take a position on the possible re- structuring of the national organi-

‘zation to provide for the amalaga- mation within NUS of the various provincial and regional student or- ganizations across the country.

These regional and provincial organizations are at present totally independent of the national union, and technic,ally have no official connection with NUS.

But, since they all have virtually the same policies and objectives, and all recognize the need for na- tional co-ordination, a series of meetings has been held in the past year to discuss possible amalgama- tion.

The Winnipeg meeting will have to decide what NUS’ position will be on this issue. After that a de-’ tailed policy statement will be pre- pared for presentation and debate next fall at the meetings of the var- .. ious provincial and regional or- ganizations.

Besides all of the budgetary and organizational matters, the meet- ing will also have to establish and review NUS policies in a number of key areas, including housing, student unemployment, the effec- tiveness of federal manpower trainingprograms, and the issue of changes in community college cur- ricula which reflect more closely the needs of the labour market rather than the educational needs of the community.

Make in oMperson happy Volunteers play a vital role in a

vast number of community{ ser- vices. A recent Central Volunteer Bureau survey of 44 agencies using volunteers indicated that there are 2,657 volunteers currently in- volved in direct service programs in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

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(groups increasing volunteer ef- forts) is trying to better these prog- rams so that the agencies involved can serve their present and pros- pective clients more effectively.

Project G.I.V.E. is w,orking under the auspicies of a govern- ment Local Initiatives Program grant and one of their aims is to explore the potential of volunteer entertainment and stimulation re- sources in the community and promote programs suitable for re- sidents in local nursing homes. This information will be compiled into a brochure and made available to nursing homes to help them with their program planning.

Entertainment and stimulation covers a wide area. An example would be a games session which would promote interaction bet- ween the residents and the volun- teers. Perhaps you have travelled and may have slides that you could share with some shut-ins. Or maybe you have films or a collec- tion of material pertaining to a cer- tain university course that would offer some insight to a senior. Have you some amateur musical or drama ability that is going beg- ging? Think how delighted nursing home residents would be if you shared your talents by leading a

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sing-song or putt&on a skit. At times life in a nursing home

can . become frustrating and monotonous. These feelings can be alleviated by short visits from outsiders who might engage the shut-in in a game of cards or crokinole or just a friendly chat. Visits can be made with a group or if you prefer, on a one-to-one basis, which could lead into an adopt-a-grandparent relationship.

The nursing home resident needs outside societal contact and this can be made possible by offer- ing your services in the form of transportation and/or supervision for an outing. It could include tak- ing one resident to ,a movie, help- ing to take a group on an excursion or running simple, but important errands.

All of the above are samples of services that can be done by vol- unteers willing to aid in the re- vitalizing of nursing home resi- dents. If you are interested in help- ing to alleviate some of the loneli- ness of old age, please contact Darryl Horst, Project G.I.V.E., 2727 Kingsway Drive, Kitchener, Ont. N2C lA7, Telephone 743-0213 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30p.m.

friday, april 2, 1976 the chevron 9

Despite government promises

r n e OTTAWA (CUP)-Despite gov- ernment promises to the contrary, Northern native people may be prevented from working on the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

That is the effect of an agree- ment signed last year between the Pipeline Contractors Association of Canada and four unions, allow- ing the unions to restrict recruit- ment to their hiring halls in Van- couver and Toronto.

Under the terms of the contract, the four unions, Laborers’ Interna- tional, Teamsters, Pipefitters and a Plumbers and Operating En- gineers, will have control over all job classifications in the construc- tion phase of the pipeline.

That means the unions would probably hire on the basis of seniority. And 2,000 men are ex- pected to be looking for work on the completion of the Syncrude Proiect in 1977. the same time as

union representatives and the as- sociation representing all of the major subcontractors who could do the work on the Mackenzie Pipeline.

In the Commons, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern De- velopment Judd Buchanan said March 24 that the agreement would not mean native people would be prohibited from working on the development. But he gave no details of how he would cir- cumvent the agreement between the unions and the contractors.

Native people in the north have long been aware that no benefit would accrue to them from the pipeline cons true tion, according to a spokesman in Firth’s office. But now, it has become more than ever apparent that white workers will be flown in when the project be- gins and out when it ends. They will have no ties to the northern

ment of native peoples. But the government later reached an ag- reement with the unions to leave native people out of the project.

Firth is concerned that the same thing will happen in the Northwest Territories. In response to his question in the House, Buchanan said he was not aware of the Alaska agreement.

The mass importation of outside workers to Alaska has caused ruinous inflation in that state, driv- ing prices of housing and goods to incredib1.e highs. Many local peo- ple are finding it difficult to sur- vive, due to the rampant inflation.

In other developments, the In-

dian Brotherhood of the North- west Territories says the Canadian government is being pressured into beginning the Mackenzie project early by US interests. The charge follows a strongly-worded speech by Buchanan in Yellowknife Feb- ruary 13, in which he accused the Dene people of stalling on their land claims presentation to the government.

Buchanan threatened to cut government funding for the Brotherhood’s land claims re- search. Now, the Indian Brother- hood says the date given to them by Buchanan as a deadline closely approximates that which certain

US business interests have set as a final decision date on whether the pipeline will be constructed or not.

At press time, no further details were available.

Construction on the pipeline is due to start in 1977, if everything goes according to schedule. But the government was dealt a blow recently by a Supreme Court deci- sion disqualifying former chairman Marshal Crowe from presiding over the National Energy Board hearings on the project, due to a possible conflict of interest.

The NEB hearings, which have taken five months so far, will now have to be restarted from scratch.

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construction of the Mackenzie communities. And the settlements CoWANSVILLE (CUP)-An Valley Pipeline is scheduled to will be severly disrupted as a re- eight-month strike at Vilas Indus- start. sult. tries Ltd. furniture plant ended

The document was released In Alaska, the government had here March 17 in what union offi- March 24 by MP’ Wally Firth, also promised that the pipeline cials called a ‘bitter defeat’ for the (NDP-Northwest Territories). It would not be built unless there 350 workers. was signed in June of 1975 by were provisions for the employ- The Vilas employees, members

re TORONTO (CUP)-Both Pat and Liz would have been excellent teachers e They are highly moti- vated, academically first rate and experienced at handling students. Both of them confidentially ex- pected to be teaching in another year, but neither of them will.

Why? Because they are two of the 3,000 applicants to the Univer- sity of Toronto’s Faculty of Educa- tion, who, because of an arbitrary decision, have been effectively disqualified for breaking a rule they did not know existed.

Liz’s mistake was to wait until January 18 before applying to the Faculty. Pat’s error was to apply on a friend’s unused application. B 0th of them acted in good faith and neither realized the mistakes they were making.

Just like the other 3,000 students who have been disqualified, Pat and Liz consulted the calendar dis- tributed by the faculty and noted that the deadline for the receipt of applications was April 1, 1976. They applied in plenty of time but neither knew that the effective cutoff date had been moved ahead by ten weeks, to about January 15.

When the faculty of education admissions officer was questioned March 15 he refused to explain why the deadline had been changed.

“I haven’t any comment to make on that matter,” said Gerald White, “why don’t you ask the Associate Dean’ ’ .

Dean London was more helpful. “We had so many applicants this year that we ran out of forms in mid-January” was his answer. From that time on, he said, all ap- plicants were told that students who had already applied were to be given “first consideration for the places available. ’ ’

London appeared surprised when told that students were rely- ing on the April 1 deadline.

“In late January,” he said, “we advised all applicants that the first 5,400 students to apply were in a preferred position. ’ ’ This notice was distributed after the cutoff date had already been set. It was mailed to students who had already ap- plied.

London seemed unconcerned by the predicament in which the

students were placed. He exp- lained that the deadline is really “April 1, or the date when suffi- cient applications have been ac- cepted.”

This statement, he said, is to be found in an Information Bulletin which was sent last November to admission officers, college regis- trars and high schools. It was not included in the faculty calendar,

On March 17 three college regis- trars on campus were asked about the new deadline. All were unaw- are of the qualifying clause in the Information Bulletin. Each of them assumed that the deadline was April 1 and were surprised to hear that it wasn’t.

In the notice that the Education faculty had sent out after the January cutoff date, students were advised to wait until more forms were printed. Some did as they

were told and finally received them in the early part of March.

Others looked around for friends who had changed their mind about applying. If they found an unused form they asked for it, wrote in their name, and sent it to the fa- culty. Students who could not find an application easily, advertised in the student paper. Some students reputedly paid cash if they couldn’t obtain them in any other way.

None realized the forms were numbered, and if the number didn’t tally with the name of the original applicant on the master list held at the faculty, they would be automat- ically rejected without notice.

There is no statement in the fa- culty calendar which indicates that forms are not transferable.

“Next year,” Dean London has promised, “we will change our procedures .”

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of the Federation of Wood and Building Workers Union of the Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN-CNTU), walked out after their contract expired last summer demanding the abolition of the “incentive” wage system in their new contract.

Under the incentive wage sys- tem, workers are paid a base rate for normal levels of production and i-eceive bonuses for speeding UP.

The CSN and the Vilas workers wanted the system abolished be- cause speed-ups lead to accidents, particularly among older workers in the woodcutting section of the plant, and create intolerable work- ing conditions.

-The workers, who earned an av- erage of $2.80 per hour plus about $1.00 on the incentive system, de- manded a straight hourly rate bringing wages to-about $5.60 over two years.

The Vilas company, however, a subsidiary of Molson’s Companies Ltd. and the largest furniture man- ufacturer in Quebec, remained in- transigent and refused to abolish the incentive system, arguing it was “normal” for the industry, as

was the plant’s high accident re- cord.

In November a boycott of Molson’s brewery products was called in Cowansville district about 30 miles south-west of Montreal, and by January the boycott became Quebec-wide as the CNTU, the QFL, the teacher’s union, and other organizations backed the boycott.

But the Vilas workers voted 116-89 at a special meeting March 17 to drop their demand for an

abolition of the incentive system and accepted the company’s offer made last November, as amended on the recommendation of a spe- cial government conciliator.

Union negotiator Carol Jobin explained that the workers went back because they feared the Molson’s and Vilas management “would close down the company completely if the strike continued” as they repeatedly threatened to do.

The offer they accepted in- creases the basic rate to $4.30 over three years, and maintains the in- centive plan, which affects about two-thirds of the workers in the plant.

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WINNIPEG (CUP) -The re- commendations from a recent re- port by the committee on priorities at the University of Manitoba may mean the end of the universities in- tercollegiate sports program.

One of the committee’s recom- mendations was to eliminate the travel budget for intercollegiate sports over the next three years.

According to the university’s in- tercollegiate athletics director Henry Janzen, removing the travel budget will kill the program. “Travel is the very essence of the intercollegiate program,” he said.

Sixty percent of the program’s present $104,000-budget is allo- cated for travel. According to the Priorities Committee report, “it is doubtful, however, if the benefit to the university community as a whole justifies the amount spent on travelling. ’ ’

The death of intercollegiate travel and competition, Janzen said, would be a definite blow to the university’s reputation.

The University of Winnipeg has only one fifth of the U of M’s en- rolment, he said, and yet they spend nearly as much as the U of M does even though it participates in twice as many sports.

Over 4000 signatures have al- ready been gathered on a petition supporting intercollegiate travel. The Athletic Council, and the Physical Education Student Coun- cil are also asking that the recom- mendation be deleted from the Priorities Committee report.

The university senate has still to consider the report.

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OTTAWA (CUP)-The United Farm Workers have signed con- tracts wi!h lettuce producers in California, and announced a boycott of Sunmaid Raisins, in re- taliation for that company’s suc- cess in blocking funds for the op- eration of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.

The first UFW contracts with the Inter-Harvest Co. Inc. and the Salinas Marketing Co-operative, both large lettuce producers, pro- vide for: a minimum wage of $3.10 an hour, the highest farm labor wage in the United States; a union hiring hall, replacing the labor con- tractor system; job security and protection against mechanization; strict control on the use of pes- ticides and other strong safety and health standards; medical and re- tirement benefits; and an educa-

Agricultural Labor Relations Board was halted by the failure of the California legislature to vote the necessary funds to continue its operations until July 1, the balance of the fiscal year. A coalition of Republicans and farm-belt Democ- rats opposed the measure, en- dorsed by Governor Edmund G. Brown.

Chief among the opponents of the measure to maintain the ALRB were the Sunmaid Raisin Growers of California. The UFW warned that a boycott would follow.

As of February 6, the UFW had won 210 certification elections, to represent close to 30,000 workers. The Teamsters have won 107 elec- tions, covering 12,724 workers; and “no union” was the outcome in 24 elections.

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During the winter, Westing- house says, the heat pump would extract heat from the 8,000 gal- lons, slowly turning the water to ice, while using the siphoned off energy to heat the house.

In the summer, the pump would run backwards, drawing heat out of the house into the water tank and gradually melting the giant ice cube to cool the house.

Westinghouse says that the “ice-cube” system would use 50 per cent less energy than the con- ventional method of heating and air conditioning homes today.

friday, april 2, 1976 the chevron 11

The presidential race .

The money behind the candidates In this feature, R’usty Conroy of the New

York Guardian, examines the candidates in the US presidqntial race, and the financial empires they represent. _

What interests do the various major party candidates for president represent?

Let’s take a look at them-or at least the images of themselves they have attempted to project.

Jimmy Carter. A “man of the people.” Down-to-earth. An outsider to Washington, to corporate-government collusion, to cor- ruption. Something different. Loves every one. “Trust my basic instincts,” he says.

“Scoop” Jackson. Candidate for labor. Pragmatic. Non-ideologue. A Harry Tru- man. Friend of blue-collar workers and eth- nic groups. Sonof common folks (his parents ‘r were Norwegian working-class immigrants). Friend of the earth-he won the Sierra Club’s John Muir award. Represents the “blue-collar” foreign policy point of view of building up the military and “getting tough” with the Russians.

George Wallace. Champion of the great American middle class. Black folks like him too, now. The candidate for small business-the kind individuals “build by work and sweat.” Against big labor and big monopolies. The candidate ,who “comes closest to what’s in the hearts of the average worker.”

“MO” Udall. Mr: Liberal. True standard-bearer of “the party of the com- mon man.” Of Presidential stature (looks like Lincoln). Friend of minorities, women, unemployed. The candidate of left-labor. Antimonopoly. Conservationist . For peace.

Ronald Reagan. Represents average, clean-living Americans. Middle class. Rug- ged individualism. God. “Because big busi- ness, big labor and big bureaucracy are all dedicated to maintaining the status quo, I must count entirely on the generous financial support of thousands of Americans such as yourself, who are the unwihing victims of this cabal” (from a fund-raising letter).

Jerry Ford. Standard-bearer of middle America against extremism. Guards com- mon people from inflation by voting Congress’s big government schemes. Yet is no ideological radical, like Reagan. Left and right are trying to destroy our way of life; Ford protects us.

All told, it looks like a banner year for the people, doesn’t it? A batch of common, nice guys. Everybody’s interests seem to be rep- resented in this campaign. Everybody, that is, except one group-big business. None of the candidates is running as “the candidate of big business.” Right? t

The people-no! Wrong. Every one of the six leading

candidates-none of whom let on that they in any way speak for monopoly capital-is in fact the candidates of only one class, big business.

The people are beginning to show signs that they know this. It is reflected in various polls that have been taken in recent months: polls say, forexample, that despite such a tempting assortment of candidates, four out of ten ‘Americans think “it doesn’t matter who wins the election” (Cambridge Survey Research); 57% believe that “both the Democratic and Republican parties are in favor of big business rather than the average worker” (Peter Hart); 58% believe “people with power are out to take advantage of me” (Louis Harris).

Of course these indications fall short of demonstrating there is any explicit, well- formulated class consciousness among the American masses. The results are far more murky than that. Yet it is clear that some advance in awareness of the class structure of society is taking place, though it lacks focus and leaves people still very susceptible to being misled. This can be seen in the un- usual success, so far, of those cand>idates who most stress they are representing the common American against the big elites (government, business, labor): Jimmy Car- ter, Ronald Reagan and George Wallace. Many Americans clearly want to send some- body to Washington who does not represent the monopoly class, somebody who repres- ents the “middle class” or “working peo- ple.”

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But this consciousness extends only to the point where many people are supporting those representatives of the monopoly class who cultivate images of not representing it. Many others are not supporting anyone at all. A candidate like populist Fred Harris, who to a significant degree represents the --_ - petty bourgeoisie and is being largely boycotted by the bourgeoisie, is not popular. The monopolists have successfully stuck such candidates with an image of being not “electable”, because they are too“radica1.”

But how can we tell that the leading six are all the candidates of big business? Cektainly not by what they say about themselves. Partly, one can determine what class they represent by careful investigation of their platforms. But this must be done in consid- erable depth, because their ploys run deep.

The easiest way to confirm that these six - are all candidates of the same monopoly

class is to look into (1) who their advisors are-i.e., those in consultation with whom

they do their policy-making; and (2) where their backing comes from-i.e., who it is that makes these men faces that are known in every living room and who pays for their campaigns. Also, who or what is it that has put them in the higher circles that enable them to consider running for office in the first place (the selection process Engels cal- led the “alliance between the government and the stock exchange”)?

William Domhoff, in his book, “Fat Cats and Democrats-The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man,” makes some important observations on how major party candidates are financed. He is espe- cially revealing on the Democrats. He. exp- lains , “Fat cats who contribute $500 or more to individual candidates do not own the (Democratic) party lock, stock and barrel. They do, though, have a dominant interest. Labor unions provide as much as 20-25% of the war chest in some states, racketeers and gangsters-some of whom are amazingly in- timate with respectable Democratic fund raisers-provide lo-15% in certain met- robpolitan areas . . . and little people from the middle classes pick up about 15% of the tab for elections at all levels.

“Although the fat cats are \ indispensa- ble,” he continues, 2 ‘it should be em- phasized that they do not have to strain themselves financially in being so. Most of them spend more in a year on clothes or horses or dogs or servants than they do on politics. Their domination of American poli- tics comes surprisingly cheap.”

The important thing that Domhoff is point- ing out-and this is true of both parties-is that the monopoly class always maintains controlling interest behind all the acceptable

candidates. As in controllmg huge corpora- tions, in which owning 5-10% of the stock is usually sufficient for effective control, con- trolling interest does not mean footing the bill. -Nor does it generally mean that one wealthy individual puts in enormous sums of money. It means seed money at the- right time. It means a lot of $SOO-$1000 contribu- tions from thousands of individual capitalists (new federal regulations restrict individuals’ donations to $1000 per-candidate). It means throwing campaign dinners where additional unrecorded cash contributions can flow freely. It means having plentiful reserves able to be pumped into a campaign at a moment’s notice if it seems necessary. (In 1968, a mere 43 people lent Hubert Hum- phrey $3.6 million for a last minute television blitz). It means making available to candi- dates company planes, advertising materials and other costly resources.

Of course, within the monopoly class there are many disagreements ,about whom to support and what policies to advance. The interests and the opinions of the class are far from monolithic.

There are two huge financial groups that muster the most dominant influence on American politics: (1) those financial, indus- trial, transportation and utility companies in which the Morgan family has controlling in- fluence; and (2) those companies in which the Rockefeller family has controlling in- terest. The former include, for example, U.S. Steel, GE. IBM, Kennecott Copper, Prudential Insurance, First Pennsylvania Banking- and Trust, Philadelphia Electric; the latter, Standard Oil (of,N.J., Indiana, Ohio and California), Westinghouse, East- ern Airlines, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express. Sometimes companies .are under the shared control of more than one group.

Besides the two behemoths, there are a number of smaller but still multi-billion dol- lar groups, including the duPont group, the Mellon group (which includes Gulf), the First National City Bank group (including Boeing, Anaconda) and others. Different groups tend to support slightly different political tendencies, although shifting, in- termarriages and collusion and contention occur continuously. The Pews (Sun Oil), the duPonts’and a smaller group in Los Angeles locally known as the “Reagan group” (Lit- ton Industries, Union Oil) tend, for exam- ple, to support the most rightwing candi- dates.

On foreign policy, some of these bodies are: the Council on Foreign Relations, a “nonpartisan research and discussion grow, ” whichincluded in the 1960s 12 of the 20 Rockefeller Foundation trustees, 10 of the 15 Ford and 10 of the 14 Carnegie-it is consi- dered as the single most important link be- tween the corporations and the government; the Committee for Economic Development; the RAND Corporation; the Trilateral Commission; and many smaller bodies lo- cated at the elite universities, such as the MIT ’ Center for International Studies. All these bodies are fed by money from the large corporations usually funneled through their tax-deductible foundations.

Policy-making in the interests of these fi- nancial groups is hammered out within a number of elite councils, committees and think-tanks to which all the tendencies within the ruling class contribute their ex- perts and money. There is considerable de- bate within these elite bodies. But all of it is of the nature of disagreements on which policies will best serve the interests of monopoly capitalism. Some of these groups pose as “middle class” bodies by bringing in professors and other experts not tied to the highest circles of capital. But all those that are influential are dominated by men who speak directly for the interests of the giant corporations.

In social legislation, the most powerful bodies are the National Industrial Confer- ence Board (closely linked to the arch- conservative National Association of Man- ufacturers; the Committee for Economic Development; the National Planning? As- sociation, rind the (more liberal) Twentieth Century Fund .)

It is difficult to track exactly which bodies and which people within those bodies advise each of the various candidates in their

policy-making. The candidates, after all, don’t talk much about these relationships

In recent weeks, Ford and Carter have

with monopoly capitalist policy formulating bodies. And when they do, they try not to be

forged ahead in the primary races. Jackson

too explicit or revealing as to their true na- ture. After all, they want to remain credible

has made some gains. Reagan is nearly dead.

as “candidates of the people.” Who advises whom?

This represents not so much the “will of the

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However, recently some of the foreign policy advisors of the major candidates have

people”

become public. Simply from these names,

becoming manifest, as the

one can begin to see the ties these candidates have to the monopoly class.

bourgeois press would like to portray it, but

Jimmy Carter gets his foreign policy gui- dancefrom the Trilateral Commission and

the will of the middle bastion of monopoly

principally from one of its directors, Zbig- niew Brzezinski, a Columbia University *

capital-mainly the Rockefeller and Morgan

professor. Carter himself served on the commission a few years ago. Among the 60

groups and the First National City group-

Americans on the commission are board members of Chase Manhattan, Morgan

-becoming manifest. The financial powers

Guaranty Trust, Bank of America and many -other giant companies representing most of

that control this country want a “moderate”

the major financial groups. Brzezinski also used to be a consultant for RAND. He is the

candidate to win in 1976. They will listen to

author off‘ ‘The Permanent Purge-Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism” (1956).

“public opinion”

Jackson’s principal advisor is LucianPye,

to a certain extent: letting

an MIT professor who is a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, has been on

the public choose which of the already ac-

the National Security Council since 1968 and is a board member of the Social Science Re-

ceptable candidates should be, as the best

search Council and Asia Foundation (both Ford-funded). Sometimes he consults as

vote-getter, given the final “push.”

well with James Schlesinger (see below). Udall’s leading foreign policy advisor is

W. Averill Harriman. Harriman is a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman Co., a power- ful private bank that has one of the 10 largest trust departments on Wall Street, has many connections with the Rockefellers, shares attorneys with the Morgans and has sub- stantial holdings in dozens of companies in- cluding Anaconda, Union Pacific, A T & T and Columbia Broadcasting. Harriman was Truman’s Secretary of Commerce and former New York governor.

Reagan’s principal advisor is James Schlesinger, former senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, former CIA direc- tor, former board member of the University of Pennsylvania Foreign Policy Research In- stitute and former Secretary of Defense. Reagan also consults with his finance direc- tor Justin Dart of Dart Industries, which is part of the most reactionary wing of South- ern California capital (Union Oil, Litton In- dustries, Lockheed, etc.).

Gerald Ford has turned principally to Sec- retary of State Henry Kissinger, long tied to the Rockefeller family. Kissinger has been a Council on Foreign Relations member since . 1957-8, when as a young protege of McGeorge Bundy at Harvard he was asked by CFR to head one of their “study groups.”

George Wallace has refused to reveal his major foreign policy advisors. He maintains that he does his own thinking and is a home- grown populist with a red, white and blue isolationist bent. However, he told Business Week (Feb. 23) that after touring Europe last summer he decided “there is an advantage in some ways to world stability in the exis- tence of multinationals. ’ ’

Smaller, more reactionary segments of .monopoly capital are behind Reagan and Wallace. But the financial giants, at least at this point, donlt want one of these “ex- tremists” to win. They are afraid of Reagan and Wallace’s budget slashing and trigger- happy foreign policies will endanger monopoly capitalism.

The major financial groups will settle for Ford, Jackson or Carter-or unannounced Hubert Humphrey.

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Reprinted below are exckrpts of the Canadian labo? Congres:’ brief to ;he federal govern- ment cabinet regarding- the-. wage controls program.

Mr, Prime- Minister and Members of the Cabinet: . ’ ,

On October 13, 1975, your government embarked upon an anti-inflation programme. r which, in the history of Canada, is unparal- leled in its callous and brutal treatment of all who must toil for a living.

It is a policy which was ill-conceived and implemented with haste; it is a policy which is devoid of any sympathy or understanding for the common man; and it is a policy which destroys the .fundamental rights and free- _ doms of the yast majority of Canadians in the name of political expediency.

Your government has done what no other government of this country has, been willing

. to do. It has legislated a programme which pits one group against another. _

It divides the Canadian community along ’ class- lines with the -employers and govern-

- ment ranged against the workers and their -

f Last year one worker in fourteen was without ‘work in Canada as the national un-

ever that means. Those monies are already

employment rate jumped to 7.1 per cent. being used most productively because they represent highly spendable income that acts

That was the -worst year of unemployment as a much needed stablizer in a-period of - since l%l, deteriorating economic conditions.

But that average hides the fac+that work- ers, particularly in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec again suffered Depression levels of joblessness as unemployment rates in- creased to 11.6 and 8.8 per cent; respec- tively..., ” -

Unfortunately, this major problem will not disappear over the next year. On the con-

trary, the uncertainties of the anti-inflation programme are making employers more cautious than ever bef@e in expanding pro- duction facilities and hence, it seems certain at this time that the unemployment rate for this year will average 8 per cent or more.. . .

The unemployment situation is bad enough, but to find the government under such circumstances engaged in making amendments to the Unemployment Insur- ance Act, the major effect of which is to make things even more difficult for the un- employed and low-income earners, gives us further cause to question the credibility of

nized by the Canadian public; and it will continue, for the majority of Canadians gbhor and detest arbitariness and unfairness wherever and whenever it occurs.

Surely, the measures already enacted in unemployment insurance or contemplated for the immediate future will merely worsen the lot of those already hard pressed by infla- tion and do nothing to encourage the economic expansion needed to combat un- employment.

Your government’s programme was sup- posed to be equitable. Canadians were told that the same. degree of sacrifice would be required from all sectors of the community.

Inflation is a problem that must be solved, but undermining the tenets of our unemp- loyment insurance programme and thereby adding to the burden of the unemployed and low-wage earners makes no sense-ai all.

The legistation and the regulations have made a mockery of this principle for we fail to find adequate controls on dividends, in- terest rates, professional fees and land speculators. The removal of the special levy on export profits is a clear demonstration that workers in these industries will not be- nefit from the profits which they worked to produce.

When your government introduced its anti-inflation-programme last October there

were many-Canadians who heaved a collec- tive sigh of relief. At last, someone was fi- nally doing something about inflation.

Neither is there any guarantee that these profits will be re-invested in Canada to create badly needed jobs. The inequities ‘are becoming clearer with the passage of-each day. . .

There were only a few who stopped to consider whether the programme was fair - and equitable or indeed, whether it would achieve its purpose. Many Canadians \won- dered-why organized labour was so firm in its

If a union was successful in its last con- tract in achieving some real gains for its members over and above the consumer price index plus a 2 per cent allowance for produc- tivity, those gains can be rolled back in the

organizations. - For its sheer destructiveness of social,

new contract by the so-called “‘experience adjustment factor”.

economic and political freedoms throughout the Canadian community, this action of your

Guess w-he opPosit~y.

But if a corporation made excessive pro-’ .

government is unequalled in the- history of gets fits in the five year period prior to October 14, 1975, it can maintain them at 95 per cent

our, country. _. ‘r The Congress would remind. your gov- * -

ernment that it was elected on a platform of outright opposition to wage and price con-

- trols . Mr. Prime Minister, you were quoted on February 28, 1974 as havingStated that:

zqUeezed? 1:

of that level. There is no “experince adjust- .

- mentfpctoy for profits If inflation exceeds what is allowed in the gurdelmes m the first year, we are prevented

--- from recovering our losses until the second year of-our contracts.

“Income controls risk hurting the your government’s concern for the’uaemp- small and the poor more than they do loyment problem.. . .

A company, however, gets to pass on its . -

the big and the rich; and while that Certain segments of our society have gen- increased costs in the form of higher prices

_ may be of minor concren to the more immediately; &other words, they do what

conservative governments and politi- erated a public backlash against unemploy- they have been doing all along. . . .

cal parties, it is of ‘great and funda- ment- insurance. They do this by making

mental concern to this government.” much ado about the “costs” of ‘such prog-

The Anti-Inflation Board is producing a steady stream ti decisions reducing wages

rammes . By invoking your anti-inflation prog- The surprising thing is that the govern-

agreed to in collective bargaining. To our

ramme your government has degraded the merit has-not come strongly to the defense knowledge it has yet to produce a single de-

poXtica1 process inCanada and spread cyni- cision rolling back a price increase.*

of the unemployment -programme .w_hich it cism among the public about the government must claim as its own.

Almost as though he were apologizing for

and politics in general. This programme High unemployment with hundreds of this obvious inequity-the Chairman df the

stands as a monument to the greatest politi- thousands of jobless in the country is the Anti-Inflation Board has told Canadians that

cal turnabout in the history of Canadian poli- . they will have to be patient, perhaps for as

chief reason for the huge bill for unemployr tics.

much as a year, before they will see any ment benefits, but the government has cho-

. Furthermore, your government stands _ significant moderation in the rate of price

sen to tamper with the Unemployment In-. . condemned by its own actions which have-

increases. Where is the equality of sacrifice surance Act to silence the-critics of thesys- in all these examples?. . . -

t demonstrated that it no longer is concerned te,m. In doing so it is bowing to political ex- Having now experienced almost six about the “small and the, poor”. Indeed,

Furthermore, the policies of your gov-

your allegiance i?to the “big and the rich” pediency to give the impression of restraint months of controls these same people are in the face of the inflation problem. . . _.

ernment in its ‘anti-inflation programme, as

for again, by your own admittance controls beginning to see and to understand ‘the full

- has been demonstrated both in practice and

The whole exercise is said to have as its cause less hurt to the wealthy and powerful

implications of Bill C-73 in all its injustice,. in principle, are leading-this country down object the ,more productive use of. monies Slowly but surely the wisdom and soundness the road to authoritarianism. Bill C-73 and

than to the poor and the weak.. . . paid out in unemployment benefits,- what- of the Congress’ opposition is being recog- . continued on page I3 I

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, Wage-: controls, - continued from page 12 I

the regulations promulgated under it ‘hYave made every employer in the country an ex- tension of the State in enforcing.the will-of-

- the-state on workers and their unions. The State and all of its power has been put

at the disposal of. the individual employers and it is now,in the national interests for this. State-employer alliance to fight inflation on the backs of the workers and their organiza- tions. ’ *

In addition, this Congress is the single or- ganizatiqn., which stands between the de- struction of workers’ democratic rights and freedoms and the power-of the State,

The Canadian Labour Congress will never ’ support a wage control programme. -

We in the trade union movement believe that it is not only our right to oppose acts of

‘government which. are inimical to the wel- fare of our people, but indeed it is-our duty.

Fundamental rights and -freedoms in a democracy are based upon the principle of opposition for it is only in that opposition

. that the fine balance between, au- thoritarianism and-a free society can be maintained. This Congress believes that your governmenthas taken the initial steps in crossing over this line.

Furthermore, change must only come . about with the consent of the people and of

the institutions which they have developed. to promote and to protect their interests.

Authoritarianism enters the.picture when the government “takes a larger role in run- ning institutions”. The trade union move- ment will oppose any move to a corporate ‘state....

The Congress has told your ‘government time and again, ever since 1970 and the Prices’ and Incomes- Commission, that it would resist wage and price controls to the last. Because your government has chosen to invoke controls- the Congress must con- clude that your government-either was not listening ot that it seriously miscalculated the labour movement’s capacity to resist.

In either case, your government, by con; tinuing on its destructive path can only do great mischief to Canada and to the funda- mental freedoms which Canadians have come to expect and enjoy.History has shaped and moulded the institutions of this

. country.’ Theyhave developed and adapted well to changing economic, social and yes

_ political forces. When they cease to do that, then-these

same institutions will againbe re-shaped by those millions of Canadians who take anac- tive part in them-free from the-meddling of governments. /

When your programme was announced Mr. Prime Minister, you stated that I ’

The basic cause of inflation in Canada is the attempt by too many people and

; too many groups to increase their money incomes at rates faster than the increase in the nation’s wealth.

In our view your statement with respectto workers was in conflict with the facts. In recent years, while inflation and unemploy- ment have reached intolerable levels ,, earn ings have not kept up-with the cost of living-although record levels of profits have been achieved.

Over the past three years consumer prices on an annual basis-increased 32.2 per cent. Particularly brutal was the increase in the cost of food over this period which soared 50.4 per cent. . _-

There was no relief available in the form of improved earnings. Over -the three year period ending with the b-fourth quarter of 1975, wages and salaries per paid worker rose by 32.0 per cent which was less than the

- incre-ased cost of living of 34.6 per cent dur- ‘ing the same period.

This meant that a worker could buy more at the end of 1972 with earnings of $7,655 than he can today with earnings of $lO,l&.

But over the whole expansionary period, profits were reaching record levels.

This is not the first time profits have rid- den the crest of the boom, to be followed by a gradual readjustment as *wage and salary earners take steps to “catch-up”. Where was your government in the 1971-1974 in- flationary period; when pre-tax corporate profits shot up by an unprecedented 11 I per cent and earnings per’worker by only 26.8, per cent? There were no calls by-politicians for price restraints then. - , However, as soon as the business cycle, had turned around and workers began trying to recover lost purchasing power, you quickly moved in to impede the collective bargaining process with controls which will have little, if any, impact on prices. I

This is why this programme had its own seeds of destruction at the very moment when you, Mr. Prime Minister made your announcement on-October 13, 1975. _

maintaining a competitive position inworld markets.

-One awesome figbre alone sums up our dependence on exports: 50 per cent of all goods produced in this country are normally exported every year. Any significant and prolonged cut-back in the demand for our exports would have a drastic impact on empr loyment, income arid the general welfare of the big majority of Canadians.

These are the hard cold facts which have long confronted a nation so highly vulnera- ble to economic changes in the outside world. A serious international recession o_ver which we have no control can, and did, over the past ‘year and more, bring about a decline in this country’s exports.

_ But this fact seems to get-overlooked by \ those who prefer to focus on costs,,particu- larly labour costs, in their repeated warnings

that Canada’s competitive position is suffer- ing, or is about to suffer, from cost infla- tion... ‘-.

What are your government’s statistics re- . garding our exportGmport position, bearing particularly in mind what effect labour or other production factors have had on that position?

A notable fact is that during 1975, while export prices increased_ by 10.0 per cent, import prices rose by 15.5 per cent. In other words, what foreigners sold us increased by

,

There have been two major official, 55 per cent mori’than the goods which we reasons given’ for invoking this extraordi- _ sold foreigners. nary peace-time procedure; one dealing with If anyone has a problem of being tiriced thedomestic situation referred to above and out of markets, those figures would suggest the other with external problems. that other countries are having greater diffi-

Let us now turn to examine what these culty in our market than we are having in so-called external problems are and why of- theirs. ficial Ottawa has been informing the Cana- dianpublic ofthe “need”for suchmeasures;

But some may ask that very important, indeed, crucial question; “What about the

An examination of why our total exports began to decline.in the first quarter of 1974,

relationship between export and import prices relating to ,highly manufactured ’

and as we forecast in our last Memorandum goods )” would continue to do so throughout 1975,

or end products as they are offi-

was directly related to the fact that the Uni cially designated? The answer is that during

ited States, Japan and the United Kingdom 1975export priceslose 9.3 percent whilethe

were -experiencing depressions much more price we paid for imports went-up 16.6 per cent.

severe than Canada.. . . * ,

It is hardly necessary to elaborate on the That was an import price in&ease of 78

per cent over the price increases of our ex- important role which exports play in our ’ ported manufactured goods. These figures _ economy and, hence, the constant need for indicate in no uncertain terms that we are not

suffering from a cost-inflation problem vis- a-vis other countries.. .

. *- What does the summer sun

find out by signing-up _ --.. for the chevron C -.

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at the-campus office - _ : t -

-befor.e’.April- 23rd. _’

money supply to increase at a rate in excess of 15 ner cent for the past five years.

If one bears in mind the fact that both domestically grownfoodand imported food, together with energy and all other imported goods are outside the guidelines, the net re- sult is that at least 50 per cent of consumer

- purchases remain uncontrolled by your government’s anti-inflation programme.

It is true that we have a serious internal inflationary situation which -discriminates badly against lower-income -families and whit h also penalizes-middle-income groups and those living on fixed incomes. But to

- translate our own domestic inflation in terms of its effectson our competitive world situa- tion makes no sense at all.

However, an important fact should be borne in mind; government has been a prin- cipal domestic cause of inflation in this coun- try. Your government has permitted the

This exceeded ~by three times the potential capacity of the economy to turn out goods and services to match that infusion of dol- lars, even if we had had full employment. Given the fact that the Canadian economy

has a potential growth rate of about-5 per cent, it is little wonder that this excessive increase in money supply was a major cause of inflation... I

Recent expenditure estimates tabled- by - your government show an increase for 1976’ of 16 per cent to $42 billion. Yet this recently announced increase of $6 billion will neither improve-the situation of low-income earners in-our society or provide many badly needed

jobs for the hundreds of thousands of unemp,, loyed.

_

. On thecontrary the victims of your anti- inflation programme have- been those a very people It is incomprehensible to the labour movement that in order to demonstrate that your government is holding the line on spending that you would allow the real pur- chasing. power of low-income’-families to \ erode-this year by freezing family allow- ances at last year’s level while allowing total spending to increase 16 per cent.

Recent amendments to the &wtiploy- -merit Insuranic Act will force a further fi-

nancial burden onGage earners. Your gov- -emme.nt has made no mention of where it .intends to get this-additional $6 billion for spending this year--but as sure as night fol- lows day this will result in higher tax pay- ments for the average worker which will _ further, erode his/her after-tax take home Pay.

Consequently, we strongly object to a re- cent statement by the Treasury Board Presi- ’ dent who stated that redistribution of income in Canada “is much more evident now than it was”. He based his argument on increased old age pensions and family allowance and medicare.

One might be inclined to think-that be- cause of increased government transfer payments’over the years such as old age security, welfare and unemployment insur- ‘ante that some relative upgrading of low- income Canadians has taken place. This has not happened. If anything, their relative pos- ition has worsened.

In 1965, ,twenty per cent of the families in Canada received only 4.4 per cent of total family income. By 1974 their share had de- clined to only 4 per cent. By contrast, in 1965 the top-twenty-per cent received a whopping

.41.1 per cent of aggregate family income _ which increased-to 42.2 per cent in 1974.

In terms of economic instability, govern- ments traditionally move to-a position of re- trenchment; a movement which always in- jures the weakest meinbers of the commun- ity... _

The course which your’govemment has ’ - charted in -introducing its controls prog- ramme is divisive and destructive in its so- cial, economic and political impact. It has divid_ed this nation as no other has done.,

It has, furthermore , provoked bitterness and resentment the length and breadth of this countryWorkers in the poorer regions of Canada will not be permitted-to catch-up to their counterparts in the more prosperous parts of the country, for theprogramme pre- vents this. A system of national- compulsory arbitration has replaced tiee collective bar- gaining.

Organized Labour cannot endorse this ill-. ‘ conceived attack on inflation which imposes strict controls on wages and salaries while leaving corporations free tocollect unlimited benefits from productivityi which does no- thing to improve the position of those with- out the economic power to protect them- selves; which does nothing to solve the,fun- damental problems in the key sectors of energy, housing and food; and which ignores the problem of unemployment and the need for ‘reinvestment of profits in new jobs arid socially needed production. -_

The Canadian Labour Congress has told your government on many occasion&rat it is willing to co-operate in finding just and equitable solutions to Canada’s economic problems. Our ten point programme was put forward as a positive move in this direction.” _ ’

This government. has demonstrated by ‘its actions over the past six months that it cares nothing for working men and women or their organizations. By persisting, your govern- I ment has placed itself on a collision course with the labour movement of this country.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the

We do not welcome this-but we do not intend to back down’either. This Congress would remind your government that the free trades union movement historically, has de- ,monstrated a remarkable capacity to sur- vive. -

Canadian Labour Congress, Joe Morris, President

Donakl Montgomery, Secretary-Treasurer Shirley G.E. Carr, Executive Vice-President - Julien Maior, Executive Vie-President _

14 the chevron friday,

printing of posters and to pay the people who pin them to the walls.

And before you get too excited about the dial-a- dance you should realise that the term harks back to the days when UW was a swinger. Nowadays it is the title for a two minute telephone tape which will in- form you of what is happening on campus during any week. The number to dial is 8843780.

The Cinny Lee memorial fund under the board of external relations is an accumulating fund into which the federation contributes each year. The nioney is held in the student awards office as an emergency’ loan fund for hard pressed scholars. Ms. Lee was a much respected student council/or.

Technical services under the board of entertain- ment budget.covers the setting-up:of the sound and lighting systems for concerts etc.

The record collection is a collection of classic;/ music kept by executive assistant Helga fetz for those students who wish to borrow -some pleasant sounds.

The Canadian programming conference and the NEC (the national entertainment conference) funds ace for sending delegates to these gatherings of uni- versity entertainment co-ordinators.

Travel under the board of publication’s budget is used to pay for the transport of copy down to the prin- ters,when the chevron is put toget&r in the earlier hours of Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

The subsidy is the most important figure, through- out the budget, since that is the actual amount used to finance the boards’ operations. It is the allocation minus the revenue.

Reprinted below are the details of how your money is going to be allocated within the ?976-77 federa- tion budget.

The budget is divided into eight sections. There is the administration section which basically includes all the administrative details which keep the organi: sation alive. The other seven sections outline the fod- der which will sustain each\ of the federation’s boards.

In order to help you weave yoyr way through Ihe figures some of the classifications are explained below.

An honoraria is genera//y about $300 given to board chairpersons each year in payment for the time they devote.

In the administration budget, the funds slotted-for NUS and OFS are to send delegates to conferences and perhaps to conduct surveys which might be re- quired.

The vice-president’s discretionary fund is a first for this budget, and is designed to allow the VP some in- itiative in organising eventsi or taking support action.

The buses listed under the board of co-op services are those vehicles which quickly transport students to Toronto eat h weekend.

On the board of communications budget the cen- tral information collection includes $75 a term which is-paid to someone who visits campus groups and in- forms them of the services available from the board. The person is also expected to keep a record of what is happening on campus.

The $875 in information distribution is to cover the

-submitted to Students' Council on.Mar -accepted by Council on March 28/76

/ BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS

Mailing Handbook Telephone Books

' Board Secretary Salary and Handbook Editor Salary

Salary Reserve (for news editor br equivalent positions)

Honorarium Chevron (see below) Subscriptions Advertising Manager Salary

Chetiron Printing CUP fees Distribution Telex - Conferences

STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED GROSS REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR

MAY 1, 1976 to APRIL 30, 1977

Administration

President

Allocation Revenue Subsidy 1975-76 Subsidy

$87,200 $ 500 -$86,700 $76,440

23,950 0.' 23,950 . 6,860'

Bound Volumes r Capital Supplies Photographic ' * Graphics Miscelianeous supplies Salaries (editor and productic \ manager) . Advertising Revenue

Vice-President l,oo.o

. N.U-.S./O.F.S. 2,300

-0 1,000 --

Honoraria

-0 2,300 - -

Co-operative Services 41,700 35,400 6,300 7,500

Creative Arts 13,000 5,400 7,600 13,700

Communications d 32,539 4,000 28,539 22,616 Travel i I Education 19,520 -0 19,520 36,989 Communications

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BOARD OF COMMUNICATIdNS Campus Events Calendar

/ Central Information Collection Central Information Distribution Chairperson's Honorarium Dial-A-Dance

-0 9,470 8,818 External Relations 9,470

Entertainment r 63,100 23,000 40,100 51,170

Publications 114,610 72,750 ’ 41,860 46,989

Allocations from Contingency 9,834 .

$141,050 $267,339 $280,916 $408,389 Radio Waterloo _ Programming & Administration Technical Maintenance Capital Acquisitions Bell Canada Loan Repayment Technical Co-ordinator Revenue Related Administrative Co-ordinator

ESTIMATED TOTAL SUBSIDY: . $282,000

Allocation Revenue Subsidy BOARD OF ENTERTAINMENT \

Spring Term

'Society Subsidies \ Small Concerts Miscellaneous '

$ 1,200 1,800

100

Fail Term

Orientation '13,450 Society Subsidies 2,200 Small Concerts 7,000

_ Miscellaneous 100

Winter Term

Society Subsidies Small Concerts ' Miscellaneous

2,600 7,000

100

General

Special Events B@vies Flying Club Technical Services I&cord Collebtion Canadian Programming Conference and N.E.C. Director of Student Activities Administrative Expenses Clubs 6 Organizations Honorarium

I 1

3,400 11,000

500 1,600

/ 250 1,000 1,000 1,500 7,000

300 $63,100

$ 1,200 1,800

100

9,450. 2,200 3,000

100

2,600 3,000

100

2,400 1,000

500 1,600*

250. 1,000 1,000 1,500 7,000

300

BOARD OF EDUCATION

Societies: Course Critiques Co-Sponsorship Speakers Conferences & Fo&ts .- Special‘ Projects & Contingency Office 6 Travel Salaries 6 Honoraria '\ Library f Resea!rch Orientation

,

BOARD OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Domestic & Community Affairs Commission International Affairs Commission Conferences and Seminars Library & Research ,- Contingency Fund Salaries 6r Honoraria Travel Expenses Ginny Lee Memorial Fund Information & Services Commission

$23,000 $40,100

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wBoard" OF CO-OPERATIVE SERVICES Allocation Revenue Subsidy

Buses . . Ice Cream Stand

kvie Concession Bookstore Honorarium

$20,000 - $JS,SOO $ 500

12,000 . . 11,000 1,000 2,400 2,400 4,000 2,500 ,,;,o

300 MM 300

udge 1976 by Manny Brykman, Treasurer

Transferred \from External Relations: Allocation Revenue Subsidy -. Birth Control 1,200 -0 1,200 ,

mm $ 2,000 ,, Day Care 1,000 1,000 Paralegal Assistance 500 MI 500

2,000 - Undistributed Funds 300 750 $41,700 $gkli

300 $6,300 1,500

8,250 8,250 _ CREATIVE ARTS BOARD .,

1,200 4,640 '

300 ' 15,430

950 7,540

$41,860

Drama Summer Production Fall Production Winter Production Noon Productions (4)

/

Music Library Christmas Concert Concerto Concert Final Concert

5 4,640

300 1,200 mm

400 100 600

1,100 ,

1,400 1,000 1,000 900

600 4,200 3yo0,

84,430 950

7.540 $114,610 $72,7iO

69.,000

1,100 ML 1,100 1,000 800 200

700 400 300 700 400 300

31500 1,600 1,900 60,000

2,000 100 200 550 300 500 750 200

Dance' '\ 300 400 200 200 400

1,500

300 -400 '

200 200

Music costumes Props Noon Production . Winter Production ~ -300

800

Extra Projects 1-. 800 \ -- 800 tr

*- 500 Promotions 6 Publicity 1,500 mm

1,200 mm

1,500

15,080 ‘Production 1;200 \ \

.

(i

P

Honorarium 300 . $13,000 $5,400

'300 2,200 1,250

800

$ -7,600 Note:

A $5,000 loan was extended to Theatre Project '76 on March 8, 1976, which is to be repaid by the group by August 31, 1976. . $84,430 $69,000 $15,430

ADMINISTRATION & GENERAL EXPENSES Student Government Entertainment $ 350 Executive Travel 950 Council Summer Travel 400 Elections, Referenda, Speaker 1,800 Honoraria 600

$ 1,700 -- 225 MI 875 mm 300 _ --

. 900 MM

$ 1,700 225 875 300 900

$4,ooo

2,070 1,275 5,889 3igoo

, '2,260. 2,465

_ 65980 $24,539

$ 350 950 400

1,800 '600 4,ooo -

Administrative Oapital Expenditures Debt Servicing and S/C Stationery, etc. \ Xerox Telephone & Telegraph

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S+ATIONTO.ST-ATION, ‘:(0r translated STA’;rION Td I STATION), is David Bowie’s latest albm release. It precedes, ,and is the soundtrack for his first movie, The Man Who Fell To Earth; di- rected by Nicholas Roeg. It is ‘his first disc since the breakaway from Mamman Management. - ,

So far I have read only bad re- views of this album, some of these \_ even going as far as saying that this is Bowies’ worst album ever. I am going to take a firm stand here and say that these people are all wrong. “Station to Station” is an excellent album, givingus some of Bowie’s best music ever.

I am really fed up with these narrow sighted “critics” who still would like to see the King Of Glit- ter churn out spaceq rock/ albums telling how depressed he is and how the world will end with the takeover by mutated people/dogs.

These people still would like to see Bowie come out on stage and woo the girls in the audience by performing in nothing but a jock strap and body paint. Just because the “critics” couldn’t grgw u

Y didn’t mean that-David Bowie.ahad 1 to stay stationary right to the end of his career as a performer,.

“Station to Station’? is really a’ beautiful album. It holds six’songs; made so well because of their pure simplicity. Bowie’s band is re-

. duced somewhat from his huge en- : tourage of Young Americans. They now include Carlos Alomar on guitar, Roy kittan on piano, Dennis Davis on drums, George Murray on bass, Warren Peace doingbackup. vocals, Earl Slick on guitar, grid\- David Bowie. y - -A couple of these men are new to Bowie’s band since Young Ameri-

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album package itself is so simple, ’ just giving the bare minimum of in- formation. It’s quite a change from the complete descriptions provided on Young Americans.

‘His tour als,o reflects this state. Bowie, and the band, emerged onto th’e plain stage doused in varieties of ‘white light, which never let up over the whole evening. Never once ‘was- a coloured-light used. It all travelled in the range between total darkness and the white brightness, of giant fluorescent light tubes and powerful white theatre spotlights.

Bowie was dressed in. white shirt with black vest and black trousers. Gonemwere his baggy pants, watch chains and jackets that he wore two years ago. David Bowie now plays the role of a film star from the late silent picture era, except that he has cleaned the lines up a bit. ::

The rest of the band was cleanly ‘I dressed also. The scene was almost straight looking: T-hey are musi- cians who play their music, and gone are the theatrics of the old days.

Again I disagree with the popular ’ critical view. Bowies’ concert was terrific. -His lack of theatre and glit- ter, and the simplicity of the whole set, may have confused some peo- I ple, but I believe that most people really enjoyed the concert. I cer- ,tainly did. By the way, Bowie’s present tour is probably the last that he will ever do. After this he plans to establish a media-- production company, and will move in that direction in order to express himself.

disco, and ballad. At times he combines the styles, but generally the tunes are just ‘straight.

The disc begins with the title song “Station To Station”, which is a hard driving electric tune. It combines with the style of rock and the beat of the discos. This song is somewhat autobiographical when Bowie drones about t‘The Return Of The Thin-White Duke”, the title of his autobiography which’ is now in progress.

Following this is . thkalbum’s single, “Golden Years”. It’s a finger snapping, toZ tapping, tune that is really good for dancing. Bowie has given this song, as on most of the songs, a powerful voice dimension; with himself leading ,and the backup drone, weaving in and out. .

Perhaps another single on the album is “TVCU”, which is a rocky jazzy tong. It really bounces along, @ng the .whole band’ throughout.

There is one tune, ‘Stay”, which is totally a disco song. It works hard on disco guitars, driv- ing drum beats and drawn out monosyllable vocals. It’s another good dance tune. _

The two songs remaining show ’ us a side of David Bowie that the public has rarely seen. Both “Word On A Wing” and “Wild Is The Wind” are beautiful, emotional

songs. They are slow ballads, soft, smooth, and incredibly ‘moving in their pure emotion. At times David”s singing is- painful. At others he is extremely sensual. But

Why is everything simple’ and clean and well done?1 believe that it is because David Bowie is finally happy-with his situation. He has gotten over much of the nervous- ness and anxiety that kept him i.n the’state of ,Rock n’ Roll Suicide for so many years: He is now moving in the direction that *he wishes to, and he knows that .he will be goodat it. ’

The music on “Station ToSta- : tion” reflects this: Bowie has used .

the simple basic styles of rock,

always he isshowing us his deeper inner self. Beautiful! They are the - treats on the album. I

“Station to Station” is a sensi- , , tive album by David, Bowie. It is a change from what he has done in

- the past; but as he tells us “My Love Is Like The Wind”. It is a nice change.

“Station To Station” leaves me, as most of David Bowie’s work does, looking forward to his next record, and his next change.

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Hand dancing Joy Will Find A Way Bruce Cockburn -

Since the release of Sunwheel Dance, Bruce Cockburn’s music has become increasingly schizo- I phrenic in nature.

While he retained some of the simple, -acoustic arrangements which dominated his first three solo efforts, the production of Night Vision revealed a more complex, and often more melodic side of Cockburn’s musical abilities. The wider use of electric guitars, per- cussion and synthesizers lent new vitality and depth to the melodies, and it was therefore somewhat sur- prising to witness the austere simp- licity of the Salt, Sun and Time re- cording. Although his lyrics re- mained comparable in style to those on Night Vision, the acoustic guitar-based collection was more reminiscent of High Winds, White Sky than the slow, jazz-influenced numbers which graced his more re- cent-efforts. Now, with the arrival of his sixth solo album, Cockburn has attempted to follow a middle path, dividing the LP into the largely unadorned music on face one, and the more production- oriented selections on face two.

Face one opens with one of Cockburn’s. most haunting num- bers j the laconic and pretty “Hand Dancing”. The song’s three lines of lyric are simple. evocations of inti- macy, and Cockburn’s effective guitar playing combined with a strong,-if somewhat uncontrolled

songs around randomly arranged, half-formed images is becoming in- creasingly unsatisfying, and some of the new selections appear almost illiterate when compared to much of the first Bruce Cockburn album. This contrast is clearly illustrated in the latest round of Cockburn concerts, when he performs the starkly beautiful “Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon” from the first solo LP, in the context of the brand new tunes; and even more disturb- ing in the light of past accomplish- ments is the inevitable observation that his new songs seem to suffer more from laziness than from either inability or the new limitations im- posed by Cockburn’s admirable and usually successful drive to ex- periment. Fortunately, this prop- ensity marks only one tune on the new al,bum (even though it is dis- turbingly evident in most of the half dozen new songs which he premieres in concert .)

Side one does contain two more outstanding cuts, the haunting “Starwheel”, co-written with wife Kitty, and “The Lament For The Last Days”, a moving piece which is graced with a superb harmony by Beverley Glenn Copeland. The lat- ter in particular introduces Cockburn’s increasingly visible in- volvement with religion: “Oh, Satan, take thy cup away/For I’ll not drink your wine today/I’ll reach for the chalice of light/That stands on Jesus’ table.”

This tendency is also evident in

new gospel-oriented item with the refrain “Praise God. . 2’ and the

concert, when Cockbum unveils a vocal-performance, result in one of

ments. Unfortunately, Cockburn’s growing tendency to construct his

the album’s most satisfying mo- amorphous instrumental “Water To Wine.”

0 Images Face two is simply the best side

of music Cockburn has put together since Night Vision. Aside from the largely unexceptional “Arrows of Light”, all of the cuts are charac- terized by a rich sense of melody and imaginative arrangement. The sing-along concert favourite, “Burn”, is treated’ to, a simple live-sounding production, while the delightful instrumental “Skylarking” features Cockburn’s impeccable musicians hip. How- ever it is the superb “A Long- Time-Love Song” and the follow- ing dynamic “Life Story” which stands out as this side’s most memorable moments. The former is the most melodic and touching tune that he has written in years, while the introduction to the latter brings back memories of “Deja Vu”. “Life Story” consists of three stanzas whose closing lines all parallel the development of civilization with the life of Christ; the entire lyrical content of the song is totally successful on the ex- pression of swift and violent movement: “Sky-wild/Far cry/ Wing-slash-free. . .” The instrumen- tation, particularly Cockbum’s ele& tric guitar, and his break-neck paced acoustic runs are outstanding, rein- forcing Cockbum’s status as a bril- liant all-round’musician.

Despite its occasional flaws, Joy Will Fiad A Way is an excellent LP, and will undoubtedly more than please all Cockburn fans.

In concert, Cockbum continues to present a strong show. How- ever, the selections which he per- forms are now more balanced bet- ween vocal and instrumental, and a piece called “Spirits.“, which is per- formed with only minimal percus- sion as accompaniment, is dow- nright embarassing, while the powerful “Gavin’s Woodpile” is weakened both by its rambling quality and its length. His best new song, the charming “Little Sea- horse”, was inspired by a surprise announcement, and ‘ ‘Festival of Friends” is effectively intimate. I would still love to see Cockburn in front of a small band that would enable him to perform a wider vari- ety of songs, but Cockburn alone is certainly better than no Cockburn at all, and he is always more than worth the price of admission.

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.Heart of the monster \ It’s not too hard to see that “Taxi

Driver” is a cinematic cousin to “Death Wish”. In a metaphorical sense Robert De Niro’s taxi driving character is a country cousin to Charles Bronson’s portrayal of a city planner well integrated into city-life. And both are up against the wall of New York City social and class contradictions.

that .are much more profound. Whereas we only see Bronson moving from one level ‘of frustra- tion-to one level of satisfaction, De Niro oscillates back and forth, a far more accurate appraisal, of the changing conditions of dailv life.

and-a-half year old whore is equally believable despite the fact that the idea of a twelve-and-a-half year old being a whore is somewhat abra- sive to our consciousness.

The scenarios and the emotional tone of both movies are the same: a repulsion,generated by the frustra- tions , aggressions and destruction constantly encountered by the pro- tagonists on ‘the streets of New York City. But this amounts to a rather simplistic, one-dimensional view of life in the “heart of the monster ’ ’ , a view that necessarily leads to a pessimism and a depres- sion. .

The differences between “Taxi Driver” and “Death Wish” are, however, significant; the higher sophistication of the former does not allow one to dismiss it as merely a more recent example of the same old violence trash.

In terms of character develop- ment especially, “Death Wish” is a farinferiorfilm. Bronson’s motives boiled down to a sudden need for vengeance after brutal violence is done to his family; there is no clear sense of his development to the position of self-appointed ex- ecutioner. He maintains a charac- terization with an outer shell that is cool’ and essentially featureless. We’re led to believe that this is the face of a bold new hero, but trying to understand his motivations is like trying to comprehend the cir- cuitry and logic of a computer you’ve never met before now; and you sense that his innards are just as mechanical.

De Niro, on the other hand, is a far more recognizable character. We see him going through changes

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We see him turned on by resionses from the campaign-worker-woman with whom he is infatuated. We see the stages of his anger and depres- sion when he is rejected by her. ‘We see how his confidence is affected as he learns gun skills and as he develops a sense of purpose: clean- ing up New York, and becoming the saviour of a twelve-and-a-half year old prostitute whom he thinks to be an innocent victim of this so- cial pollution.

We follow De Niro closely through these conditions and we sense a depth of character that is rare in popular films. His portrayal is the antithesis of those that are typical of Charles Bronson and other “cool. hands” like Robert Redford. His appeal to us is not because he is heroic .and mysteri- ous but because we think we know him, or because he reveals parts of his emotions and his confusions which we ourselves find so difficult to bring to the surface. In many ways these revelations are shock- ing to us, but that does not diminish his recognizability . . And the same is true, but in shor- ter bursts, for nearly all the people

’ in “Taxi Driver”. We probably all know people (including ourselves) who, at least in part, come across just like all the’ characters in this film.

Peter Boyle’s short contribu- tions in the form of elbow-in-the- ribs stories for his fellow hacks, and his street philosophy which gets subtly acknowledged by De Niro but superficially laughed at, is a brilliant reconstruction of the in- terpersonal dynamics of two peo- ple who attempt to find answers that are pretty far abstracted from their own experiences. . Whoever plays the part of the

pimp presents us with an excellent example of a performance which confounds the viewer because one finds it so hard to believe that it actually is a performance. It has a more realistic than documentary quality because there is no self- consciousness of being observed by a camera. His portrayal doesn’t fall into the usual movie stereotype of a hippy; this one is unglossy, full

‘of quirks, yet superficial only in the way we would expect the ‘ ‘friendly” pusher-pimp to be.

And, of course, as the straight media has been raving, Jodie Foster’s portrayal of the twelve-

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Yet “Taxi Driver” implies the limitations to this kind of in-depth character portrayal. The film characters are vivid enough that it is tempting to make judgements about real people we encounter on the street based on conclusions we derive from the film. The only way to avoid this trap is to have an un- derstanding of the background to these characters.

What are the particular social and economic structures of New York City which confine people to the choices of action presented by the film? What is the context of-this violence and destruction? Has it always been in that city? Has it any relationship to the psychic violence done to people in their experience of the “false promises” of North America’s affluent ideology?

Both “Taxi Driver” and “Death Wish” lack any historical or struc- tural context which might give us clues as to how such shitty condi- tions develop. They prefer, rather to lay the blame squarely on the shoulders of those who people the streets, from the kids who throw eggs at cars to the blacks and hip- pies who rob stores or make do by pimping. We end up feeling that there is no hope for these people; they are the dregs of society, they are-better off dead than alive and perpetrating their corruptions.

In “Taxi Driver”, New York is shown only to be a hell, pure and simple, and a shallow, unalterable hell at that. There is nothing in the setting of this film that we can grasp and change or even experiment with. Given such an unmalleable background, our only hope is to either accept or reject the film’s in- dividuals; for they are all that is variable in the film. And this choice usually means eradicating the bad guys, an action made all the more enticing by the use of graphic, bloody excitement. The tragi- comic heroes we end up forgiving, for somehow all their viciousness

/ has served a useful purpose, and, after all, the movie proves them to be only human.

It’s obvious that the makers of films like these are not involved or even interested in the more con- structive activities that do exist within even the most decrepit areas of cities. No where in these films do we see any indication that there are even attempts at self- he,lp: tenants’ ’ groups, black people’s organizations, food co-

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produce a successful film without overt sex, blood or car chases. If

you don’t believe me ask any member of the capacity crowd that showed up Sunday night at the On- ta’rio Film Theatre for the Canadian premiere of “All the President’s Men’ ‘,.

Adapted from the book by the same . title, “All the President’s Men” tells the story of Bob Wood-

* ward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who unearthed the octopus of dirty poli- tics, crime .and cover-up that gained’ notoriety as “Watergate”.

And it does’ it without resorting to cheap thrills, depending instead upon fast-paced action and rising tension’ as the reporters begin to understand the nature of the beast they have uncovered and trace its trail into the White House.

The film begins, fittingly, with -the break-in at the Democratic na- tional headquarters in the Water-. gate office building. The burglers are caught in the act, and rookie Post reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) is roused by his editor and sent to police court. His interest is piqued by the presence

, of high-pawered attorneys in court since the prisoners did not phone lawyers.

He is soon joined on the story by Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and when they discover that a cheque for $25,000 that traces back to the Committee to Re-elect the Presi- dent (CREEP) was deposited to the bank account of one of the burg- lers, they are on their way. _

The rest of the story is history; and much of the film’s impact stems from the manner in wGh director Alan J. Pakula is able to take an event whose outcome is al- ready known and yet maintain sus- pense right until the very end. He does this by building the film closely around its central charac- ters : the two reporters and, to a lesser extent, Post editor Ben Brad- lee (Jason .Robards).

By focussing’on Woodward and Bernstein, Pakula turns the film into an expose of media espionage, the heroic reporters relentlessly pursuing their story to the bitter-

conthued from page-20 ,, ops, civil rights groups; examples of people who have somehow man- aged to overcome the disadvah- tages of the ghetto, have learned skills, developed a more general knowledge of social structures and have returned to their neighbour- hood to share what they’ve gained.

If we w.ere only exposed to films like “Death Wish” and “Taxi Driver”, then we would find it hard to believe that such alternate pos- sibilities exist. But anyone -with more than a consumG’s or spec-

tator’s experience of big city life can’t helpbut see that these other things are happening.

Perhaps these other elements of urban life are missing because they are not the stuff that makes drama and bucks (at least, not in the hands of unperceptive and un-innovative directors and producers) or perhaps the one dimensionality of these films is intended to produce particular moral conclusions: the necessity of a direct and severe punishment for society’s offen- ders .

Even if this is not the conscious conclusion of the film ‘producers,- shouldn’t they be responsible for clearing up such ambiguities?

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sweet end. The reporters are often ruthless in their attempts to gain a lead, but one always feels tha>they I are someyw justified. They are the new incarnation of that familiar white-hatted figure on the white horse pursuing the villian across the badlands.

The villians, themselves, remaih ambiguous, never clearly defined. The major ones: Haldeman, Mitchell, Colson, are unseen and largely unheard. (Nixon is never

I openly indicted.) The minor ones: -, Sloan, Segretti, are someho,w sym-

‘-pathetic ifslightly pathetic figures. Pakula thus manages to avoid

making any clear political state- I ment in the film. The crooks are exposed and toppled, and then we are all permitted to heave a colleci 1 tive sigh of relief ,and settle back into our seats. It is never suggested that the corruption is the inevitable result of a corrupt system or that it ~ will re-occur. The film ends with a * teletype sequence representing Nixon’s resignation and Ford’s as- sumption of office. The king’is dead. Long live the king.

. The idea of making a film on /

‘Washington D.C. Since< it was dee ed impossible to put out a

& daily -ewspaperat the same timeas filming was going- on (about a quar- ter of the film is set in the news- room) it was necessary to construct a replica of the Post newsoffices. This set is a masterpiece; itself costing nearly half a million doll&s. It is precise in every detail, -from the custom designed desks to the graph&on the walls to the ar- rangement of the office to the 60 plus teletypes and more than 3OOL phones (all of which are func- tional). Accuracy to detail is a hallmark of the film and contributes to its effectiveness. Even actual wastepaper from the Post was col- lected to spread around on desks on the set. 1

Pakula remarked in an interview following the premiere perfor-

. mance that “All the President’s Men” is a testimony to the continu- ing power of the pen, in its modem incarnation as the typewriter. The film opens to the rifle+hot sound of typewriter keys hitting paper and closes with a teletype spitting 0uF the headlines that signify the end,

Watergate apparently originated punctuated by the fading echoes of ~ with Redford who, according to the 21 gun salute that greeted

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Woodward, “is probably a better reporter than I am.” Even before the ‘book was written Redford began frequenting the Post news- room talking with the reporters. When the book appeared, he began work on a film, version.

Redford had orignally intended to make a smallfilmcosting under $2 million He wanted. to use un- known actors, since Woodward and Bernstein were themselves lit- tle ,know‘n prior to Watergate. However when Warner Brothers spent $450,000 for screen rights and began elaborate (and expensive) set construction, he and Hoffman

Nixon’s taking-the oath of office. The film as a whole is a tribute to

investigative reporting and to the influence of the press. It works by taking you inside the skin of the reporter with his suspicions, frust- rations, paranoias and ,ultimate successes. Its power is its realism, fast pace and absence of distrac-

tions. Performances range from good to excellent: being a big- budget film they could afford to I hire the best. It is the most interest- / ing ffirn I have seen in years, and I predict it will show strongly at awards time next year.

You can ,. catch “All the were persuaded to appear as insur’- , President’s Men” at the Cinema in ante that it would not fail. Kitchener beginning April 9, but

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We began pobrly , with the doors . group remains the s-e, with Steve really enjoyed myself: : - _

opening one hour late, arid the con- Hackett on guitars, Mike Ruther- ford on bass-, and Tony Batiks play-

Also missing-are Peter’s wonder- cert starting abo+ 50 minutes late. ‘ful Bto_ries that he used to use in I’m sure that many people ‘were

ing keyboards. orde$ to introduce the tunes .,Now ’ quite angry with this, but in =way_ The set began with “Dance On A volcano’ 7, ’ the first song on Phil, Mike, and Steve take turns on

tie should have expected it to hap- pen. You see this was only the sec-

Genesis’ new album, A Trick Of introduc tiQns, and though they do a

The .Tail. Right from the start I _ pretty good job, (practice will im-

and show- of the tour, and it was knew that the show woufd-beexcei- prove them), it is not quite the

,designed somewhat to iron out any bugs-in the show. In fact this is one

lent. often some minor adjustments _ same. _ To take the plack‘of stage theat-

‘of the reasons why-U. of W. got td the vocals level the band took on

Genesis in-the first place. So there the best’sound that has ever been rics are some equally wond@ul heard in the PAC. Their soufid sys- visuals, which Genesis began on

was a lighting problem which had to be set right, and \ir;e got into the gym

tern is really superb, and the man at their last tour. These are projected the controls had s&t it upVery well. fioti the rear onto 3 large screens,-

late.L I hope that most people can All in all Genesis played about covering the whole back of the unde’lstand -this, and perhaps ap- two thirds of their new album. Fbr preciate the *problems of touring _ th

stag?. On these-are viewed movies, slides, effects, and animations of all

‘that & band goes through in the be- ose. who have$t heard it fh5

music is great. They have held onto, kinds. These tell stories and act ginning. that terrific style that has always- them out as they are being played

Anyway, Genesis played their ~ been with the band, and have live. They helped to bring out many full two hour’&, and what we saw changed enough to give the musrc different embtional states in me, _ was worth the wait. The group is an exciting variety. O’ver the from interest, to amazement, to now minus lead vocalist Peter Gab- course of the evening we heard confusion, to curiosity, to delight. riel, wh6 departed into the visual selectio,ns from almost ‘a.ll of The variety was endless as the . media. Instead drmmer Phil Col- Genesis’ albums. This excludes . mus1ST played* we11 done! 1 . lins takes his place. Fbr purposes of Nursery Cryme thdugh. Of interest T&e lighting was great, as al- this t6ur Bill Bruftird, (ex Yes-and waz>e song from the album ways. Genesis has talented people _

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Trespass, the band’s second album. behind the scenes, and again they They have never played any of this proved their ability here. The lights music.in modern times so it was a were used so effectively, spotlight- pleasant surprise, to - me anyway. ing solo pieces, dousing the whole ’

Another in the series of free af- Other notable selectiods through- stage in a blanket of solid colour;or out the ‘evening were “Lamb else mixing varieties of light to-

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green light. Admittedly this effect did not seem as spectacular as we had been built up to, but I could see its potential tinder better condi- tions. There was a @ef encork containing “It” from “The Lamb”. ‘and a musical piece of ‘ ‘Watcher Of T,he Skies’.‘. I really thought that the show would have been better without this encore. Either Genesis should improye this part or else- drop it albgether. h

L As far as the Stage show and musicianship. The band played very well; the best in fact that I have ever heard from them. There were a couple of rough changes and mistakes but 99% of the time thev 4 .were very, very tight. Phil’s vocals -/--

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continued from D‘age 23 ’ tered into a second war of libera- tion and this time the Soviet a,nd Cuban ,troops will leave much quicker than the Portuguese be- cause “Angolans did not suffer the excruciating . cepturies of col- onialism and the-horrors of the most recent fifteen years -of con- tinual colonial war to be suibjected again to the iron fist rule-of people who do not truly represent-them.” The Soviet Union, Cuba, South-Af- rica and the United States can never defeat the will of the Angolan peop6 to be free!

UNITA:- The People’s Struggle Until Victory is available for 75 cents from the National Publica- tions Centre, Box 727, Adelaide Stn., Tororito.

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dependence and the success of the to distort UNITA by claiming it to transitional government. be “pro-Western”, “CIA

During the fourteen year war backed”, “allied with South Af- against the Portuguese, the Soviet rica” and “anti communist”. Union invested a total of less than These lies are perpetuated by two million pounds sterling a year MPLA-Soviet-Cuban propaganda in aid to the MPLA. This sum could based in Luanda, where the major-

‘ ‘Angolans did not suffer the ex- cruciating centuries of colonialism and the horrors of the most recent fifteen years of continued colonial war to be subjected again to the iron fist rule of people who do not truly represent them. Angolans will never again submit to the domina- tion of people they see as enemies, whether they be domestic or foreign. Neither UNITA, MPLA, FNLA nor South Africa, nor the powerful Soviet Union and America can defeat the will of the Angolan people to be free. All forces must come to recognize, as UNITA always has, the limits of military force and work for a politi- cal solution to Angola’s crisis, that is, an Angolan Government of Na- tional Unity.”

vast liberated areas and had opted to direct its operations from inside Angola itself. It was given after the defeat of the Portuguese Col- onialists and the need to set up a transitional government arose.

they served. These two principles clearly distinguished UNITA from the MPLA.

ity of the reporters stay. Few repor- ters have sought out the truth but instead relied on these sources.

The roots of the Angolan conflict and the present issues in Angola are clarified by a pamphlet published by the Norman Bethune Institute entitled UNITA: The People’s Struggle Until Victory.

UNITA was founded on March 13,1966 in response to the need for a new strategy in combating the Portuguese. Rather than concen- trating the resources of a move- ment on international support (and manipulation) it proposed self re- liance. And rather than operating from foreign bases, it set up head- quarters and leadership inside the country where the leadership was in constant contact with the people

By being among the peasants, UNITA came to grasp their prob- lems and needs. Liberated areas would be used as bases for training and attack on the Portuguese in- stead of attacking from across the border then retreating to leave the peasants (who were fixed on their land) to “suffer unaided, vicious Portuguese reprisals”.

Because of these principles UNITA was able to mobilize mas- sive popular support particularly in the rural areas.

After the April 25, 1974 coup in

be more than halved when one reckons the amounts paid out in

bribes, propaganda and military hardware aimed at discrediting or physically eliminating all those lib- eration movements which were fighting for African independence, and liberation outside of the grasp of the Soviet Union. Why then after the defeat of the Portuguese, when the Angolan parties were sup- posedly preparing for democratic elections, did the Soviet Union spend over sixty million pounds sterling to aid MPLA? Today, that figure hovers well over 100 ($250) million.

Like many other liberation movements, UNITA’s statements have been ignored or misquoted and distorted. UNITA has con- tinuously denied all these reports and its practice disproves all these lies beyond a shadow of a doubt. There are lessons to be learnt from these distortions, as there were to the lies floated about Vietnam and Cambodia: the U.S’s and the Soviet Union’s propaganda machines are only a reflection of the societies, ranging from the “so-called liberal to outright fas- cist.”

This call for a government of na- tional unity was given by UNITA, the only movement that had held

Goebbels: creating national

Gsebbels Viktor Reimann $14.50, 352 pp.

What changed a man from a youthful intellectual with an in- terest in Marxism and in poetry and with a half-Jewish fiancee into a crusader for Nazism, at least par- tially responsible for the inhuman pogrom of the Kristallnacht, whose smouldering body lay in the end beside that of Hitler?

This question arises again and again in this study by Viktor Reimann, subtitled “The Man Who Created Hitler”.

And in tracing the rise of Paul Joseph Goebbels from physically weak and crippled child to Reich minister of propaganda, Reimann also looks at the rise of the Third Reich and of its fuehrer, Adolf Hi- tler.

“Hitler was the product of an atmosphere of doom: God was dead or dying, and the West was about to perish. The authoritarian structures of the German Empire were gone, and new ones had not yet been formed: Chaos seemed about to descend.. .

“In this period of apocalyptic dusks and dawns, Hitler made his appearance, and Goebbels trans- formed him into a Lohengrin figure. ’ ’

So begins the introduction to Goebbels, in which Reimann out- lines the development of the Hitler myth which was Goebbels’ greatest masterpiece of propaganda: the ability to take an Austrian corporal and house painter and transform him before the eyes of the German people into a Wagnerian hero.

But what of Goebbels? How was he able to accomplish this feat and why did he make himself Hitler’s slave?

Born into a petit bourgeois family, Goebbels was given a good education eventually receiving a doctorate. He wanted to become a journalist, but his repeated applica- tions for a position on the daily Ber- liner Tageblatt were turned down, and his first novel, Michael, was rejected by publishers.

Germany was m the middle of a period of great economic and polit- ical upheaval following the end of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles, and Goebbels began to involve himself in politics, both of the left and of the right.

Although his first sympathies seem to have lain with Lenin and the Bolsheviks (“ . . .we look to- ward Russia because she is the

most likely to show us the way to socialism”), Goebbels began to be turned toward the NSDAP (Nazi party). The conversion was com- plete when he met Hitler and, in his words, “I love him.”

Appointed gauleiter of Berlin by Hitler, Goebbels began for the first time to devote his full energies to- ward propaganda and organization. And in the seven years between 1925 and 1932, Goebbels managed to raise the support of the NSDAP in Berlin from 137 votes to 863,621, for the first time defeating the communists in what was called the “reddest city after Moscow.”

Following Hitler’s accession to power in 1933, he kept his promise to Goebbels and appointed him minister of propaganda, a post he would hold to the end.

Reimann, a journalist who was arrested by the Nazis in 1940 and’ imprisoned until the end of the war, follows the changes of Goebbel’s character in microscopic detail.

Working from Goebbel’s own diaries and letters and from sources among those close to him, Reimann follows Goebbels’ metamorphosis from left-leaning liberal to con- firmed national socialist and anti- Semite.

Goebbels seems in everything to have modeled himself after his idol, Hitler, even going so far as to copy his preferences, and more sinister, his prejudices. He regulated the arts after Hitler’s primitive tastes, and supported, even encouraged, the persecution and murder of Jews because anti-Semitism was an article of faith for national socialists .

He had prostrated himself before Hitler and, in the end, he had to die with him because he seems to have believed in the myth which he, himself, created: Hitler is Ger- many and without him nothing is left.

Why did Goebbels so dedicate his life to one who turned out to be a murderer and a madman? Why did he in every case attempt to cover for Hitler, taking blame on himself to preserve the pure and blameless image of Hitler which he had him- self created and of which he had convinced most, if not all, of Ger- many? Why did he suddenly swing to embrace beliefs and values diametrically opposed to his own? Reimann raises all of these questions in Goebbels, and, in the end, it is clear that “the man who created Hitler” was himself created by Hitler.

-henry hess

Portugal, the Portuguese showed a willingness to negotiate with the Angolans for decolonization. The only block to that had been the dis- unity among the three liberation movements and open factional feuds within MPLA itself. UNITA played an instrumental role in re- conciling the other two movements (MPLA and FNLA) and in bringing them to the Mombassa conference where the historic Alvor Agree- ment was worked out and signed on January 15, 1975 by the three liber- ation movements and Portugal.

Among other things the-Alvor Agreement called for the total in- dependence of Angola, established a transitional government whit h would rule the country until the date of total independence on Nov. 11, 1975, and set up general elec- tions to determine the power trans- fer to the three liberations move- ments.

The pamphlet UNITA: The People’s Struggle Until Victory traces how the Soviet Union (when it became apparent that UNITA would win the general elections), in order to obtain access to Africa by controlling one of its potentially richest countries, sabotaged the in-

It was after an African victory was declared over the Portuguese colonialists that the Soviet Union began to arm MPLA and that 15,000 Cuban soldiers invaded with their ‘ ‘un-battle scarred tanks”.

Many supporters of Soviet social-imperialism give the line that the Soviet Union entered Angola to “liberate” it. But the question to be asked is why then didn’t the Soviet Union and its puppet government in Cuba send in troops against the Portuguese colonialists and “liber- ate” it then?

The pamphlet documents how MPLA initiated attack upon attack on UNITA such as June 4, 1975, where women and children who had been attending classes in a UNITA office in Luanda were kil- led and maimed. After similar pro- vocations, UNITA convened the Nakuru summit conference where an agreement was signed (a remin- der to the Alvor agreement) calling for ‘ ‘an effective ceasefire, peace, tolerance and realization of elec- tions and cessation of all acts of .provocation’ ’ . The agreement was broken three weeks later and with increased MPLA attacks on UNITA; UNITA was forced to enter the civil war.

Many reporters have attempted

The pamphlet UNITA: The People’s Struggle Until Victory also explains the game played by the ra- cist and fascist state of South Af- rica in upholding the rumour that it supports UNITA. South Africa’s most persistent military threat has been the attacks by the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) against the South Afri- can occupation of Namibia. SWAP0 has over 3,000 guerrillas encamped in UNITA bases in southern Angola and the long co- operation between the two libera- tion movements has forced Vorster’s racist regime to attempt the destruction of both liberation movements at the same time. The pamphlet makes it clear why MPLA and South Africa would perpetrate this lie even though President Jonas Savimbi has re- peatedly called on all African na- tions who are earnestly- concerned about removing South Africa from Angolan soil to “act jointly in tack- ling this menace”.

UNITA has always stood for a genuine and total independence, they have always opposed any foreign intervention, they have en-

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It is unfortunate that anyone who has been around the campus for so long should be so confused about the aims of the Anti- Imperialist Alliance,, as Terry Moore seems to be. He thinks that AIA is “interested in building unity with others who share an anti-capitalist perspective”.

What AIA is interested in, as history has shown, is unity in action against monopoly capitalism. That is, AIA is not much in- terested in anyone’s “perspective”, but, rather, in their social practice.

AIA is not a debating society-which some may regard as unfortunate-but a communist organization led by the party of the proletariat, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), whose eventual aim is to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a socialist society under the dic- tatorship of the proletariat.

As a communist organization, AIA is in- terested in social practice based on the pres- ent contradictions in the capitalist system. It is pretty clear to anyone who does the meanest amount of investigation that Canada is controlled politically and econom- ically (politics is just the concentrated ex- pression of economics) by U.S. imperialism. The main contradiction in Canada today is between the Canadian working class and people, on one hand, and U.S. imperialism on the other.

It might be useful here to explain once more what is meant by the “Canadian work- ing class and people” since John Boyle wants to be so confused on this point. Mao Tsetung explains in ‘ ‘Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People” that “the concept of ‘the people’ varies in con- tent in different countries and in different periods of history in the same country”, but basically “the people” is comprised of all those in a given country who can be untied against the main enemy at that time.

In Canada today, given the main con- tradiction of U.S. imperialism, the people means any and all whose interests are an- tagonistic to U.S. imperialism and who will unite against it. By definition, that is the whole of the working class plus sections of the petit bourgeoisie (farmers, ~ fishermen, professionals such as intellectuals, etc.) and the non-monopoly capitalists who come over to the side of the working class.through their recognition that it is’in their interests to do so.

Back to those with an anti-capitalist pers- pective”. Various groups in Canada, in a variety of revolutionary guises, including anarcho-syndicalism, and “genuine Marxism-Leninism”, say that the main con- tradiction is between the private ownership of the means of production and the socialised nature of production, or between capital and labour, or between bourgeoisie and pro- letariat.

What these groups confuse (some deliber- ately and others by honest error) is that this contradiction is an inherent and constant con- tradiction in the capitalist system but it is only one of four main contradictions in the age of imperialism. Most important, it is not the main contradiction which most directly ap- plies in Canada today.

Talking about an “anti-capitalist perspec- tive” is just subterfuge for ignoring the main enemy of the Canadian people and refusing to engage in social practice against its in- terests. Instead, those groups fantasize about a mass vanguard which will arise spon- taneously, without conscious leadership, without discipline and without revolutionary violence.

This spontaneous mass uprising will somehow miraculously take hold of the state machine, will withstand and overcome the sophisticated and highly organized and trained army, police, etc. Once having per- formed this miracle, the working class will wield pow.er and the capitalists will just wither away. Nirvana at last!

There exist a number of variations on this general theme, ranging from revisionism (the peaceful road to socialism), social democ- racy (class collaboration where the.

“socialists” and the capitalists work out re- forms in a gentlemanly fashion), anarcho- syndicalism (described in essence above), not to mention other counter-revolutionary trends which reach their zenith in Trot- skyism.

These various “tendencies”, do their ut- most to mystify Marxism (enter Jim Hard- ing) by making it into some kind of intellec- tual game, rather than a guide to action and a method for analyzing the concrete condi- tions in this world.

They are exposed not only by their theoretical concoctions but where it counts, in social practice of which they either have none or, if they have any, it is only to divert the communist movement.

They. invariably hate Lenin, and particu- larly Stalin; that is, they fear the party con- cept and they unite withevery bourgeois and communist detractor devoted to villifying Stalin. All this hysteria about Stalin is simply an effort to hide the fact that he was in the process of consolidating the victories of socialism in the Soviet Union until his death in 1953.

They are remorseful of the fact that Lenin put Marxism into practice by leading the Russian Revolution of 1917 and they are even more remorseful over the fact that socialism (the period of transition to com- munism) made great strides under Lenin and Stalin, proving that it is only under the lead- ership of a communist party that socialism is possible.

They are forced, of course, to make noises in support of the People’s Republic of China, but in practice they offer all kinds of wild interpretations and criticize China by every back door method.

Terry Moore is extremely offended about the name calling which was in my attack against “wages for schoolwork”. At the same time, he says he “can appreciate the importance of vigorously attacking ideas with which one does not agree”. Then who does he attack? He only lends his pen to attacking the ideas of the Marxist-Leninists, rather than wages for schoolwork. And this is done in the name of the “left”.

The difference between the so called “lef- tists” and the Marxist-Leninists (as well as honest individuals who despise class op- pression under capitalism) is that the “left” wishes class struggle were polite, genteel and reasonable. That is, they have no class hatred for the ruling class and they find the only possible character of class struggle dis- tasteful.

They’d like their version of revolution to be carried on according to Robert’s Rules. They are more concerned with not calling a

dog a dog than they are with overthrowing the class rule of the bourgeoisie.

I’d recommend that they refresh their no- tion of class struggle by reading the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, or by working a day or two at Burns or Simpson Sears or Stelco.

Being outside the communist movement and being interested only in attacking it, rather than working out their differences through unity of action on various issues, they don’t understand that characters like Tim Grant are inconsequential, mere pin- pricks, to borrow an apt phrase from a friend I lost to anti-communism, they are just “worms in the pockets of the people”.

The point in attacking Grant is to oppose his political line, which is the concentrated expression of an ill-begotten idea that has some currency in certain circles. The com- bination of AIA’s social practice and these ideological debates, have won over many people who have genuine sentiment for fun- damental social change who had previously grouped around such erroneous political lines.

These gains in the currency of communist lines is what inspires Jim Harding to claim that CPC(M-L) is “quickly being discredited across Canada and that other Marxian, Leninist and socialist tendencies are de- veloping as alternatives to it. ’ ’ This is simply a dream. The fact is that the communist movement led by CPC(M-L) is growing at a rate which must disturb his sleep.

He is, however, correct in one sense. All kinds of “alternatives” are indeed springing up in opposition to CPC(M-L), and if he ever

reads the history of the communist move- ment in Canada as elsewhere, he will under- stand why. Whenever communism has been on the rise, opportunist groups come up to divert the people. These, of course, call I themselves “socialist”. Perhaps he has heard of Proudhon, Trotsky, Bakunin, Kautsky, Bernstein, J.S. -Woodsworth, et.al.

When he is not writing philosophical treatises on sexuality and mouthing claptrap about “authoritarianism in the workplace”, he will perhaps dare to step into the struggles which are going on here and thereby discover the extent of currency, which Marxism- Leninism has on this campus.

In any case, he can take his time because the influence of AIA will only grow in the meantime, as it has steadily grown over these past two year. I should add, for Terry Moore’s sake, that the AIA will never de- generate into a caricature of Marxism for the sake of some “potential supporters”.

What is most pernicious about all the au- thors of these attacks is that they consider themselves part of the.left, yet at the same time they ignore most issues of fundamental concern to the people of Canada and the world, and confuse those issues they latch onto.

For example, where are they when the racist and fascist Green Paper on Immigra- tion needs attacking? Where are they when leaders of national liberation struggle in the Third World come to this campus in seek of support? Where are they when any informa- tional forums on China are held? Where are they when Trudeau’s wage control prog- ramme is being attacked? Where are they when public study groups are held on basic Marxist principles and an analysis of Trudeau’s economic policies? Where are they when the students of UW are working out the kind of federation they want? Every one of the 770 students who chose a fighting federation by voting for Phil Femandez in the February election is more progressive in practice than these “leftists”.

So where can the “left” be found? Getting into reform of civic politics, struggles against work collectives, etc. AIA’s attackers, so .fond of accusing it of sectarianism, never miss an opportunity to ignore anything of significant political content so long as it is organized by the AIA.

In conclusion, it is an excellent situation when all kinds of “leftists” leap out to attack CPC(M-L) and any organization which it leads. Nothing could -be more indicative of AIA’s success!

Jim Harding is now proposing “public de- bate of the problems of Marxism-Leninism, in advanced capitalism” (notice “prob- lems” and “advanced capitalism”-1 won- der if he means imperialism?)

This is the first time in two years he’s screwed up such courage. Alas, he must not want much of an audience for the debate, since he picks the last week of the term to issue the challenge.

A footnote to Wolfgang E. Weick: As far as I know, Chairman Mao doesn’t do the hiring of university professors, but if he did I have no doubt that he wouldn’t hire ‘ ‘capitalistic roaders”. In any case, the peo- ple of China decide who will be professors, and they make the decision in their own in- terest. The People’s Republic of China is a dictatorship of the proletariat andthere is no quarter for those who seek to revive the exp- loitation of the many by the few, that is, restore capitalism. But the Chinese at least do not attempt to camouflage the nature of their society. The same cannot be said for bourgeois “democracy” which feigns free- dom and practices exploitation and oppres- sion.

Marlene Webber

Racism slammed

This letter is in response to Mark Buck’s, Micheal Rumack’s and J. Patterson’s letters in the Mar. 19 chevron. Buck begins by as- serting that anyone who opposes the racist state of Isreal and upholds the just cause of the Palestinians is lying or basing a point of view on lies. ,

He quotes some outright racist who says that “lying is a widespread habit among the Arabs and they have a low idea of the truth”. This clearly exposes the racist ideas pushed

by the Zionists. Compare this view with the argument that blacks show a need to be dominated. This is the same type of racism !

Buck then resorts to Golda Meir’s au- tobiography to offer her concern on the “Palestinian problem” .- Well thank-you Mark Buck, but we already know Meir’s policy on the Palestinians-she simply be- lieves they don’t exist; and as for your refer- ence to the PaIestinian national convenant, may I suggest you read it first before con- cocting the lies you have written down.

Micheal Rumackcalls the U.N. resolution a “Big Lie”, but apparently doesn’t know why as he never explains why Zionism isn’t racism. You see Mr. Rumack not everyone has been “bought” by the “Big Lie” except those who accepted the Zionist lies years ago and their numbers are dwindling. No rumors can change the nature of Israel nor of Zionism!

Pattersons letter suffers from the same de- ficiency in that it lacks facts. No where does Patterson refute any of the statistics or any of the “assertions” which he found “factu- ally incorrect”.

Patterson believes that ‘.‘to acknowledge the technical errors. . . would be giving undue respect to Arab rhetoric.” I wonder if Patterson read the review as the book’s sources in the main are not Arab, but perhaps the reason he did not acknowledge the “technical errors” is because they were facts. His inability to refute any of them is the greatest respect to be given to. the just cause of the Palestinians !

Salah Bachir

Loss of freedom ’ Dr. Matthews,

We, the students of HRCS 100, are writing in question of what we consider to be an arbitrary decision-the rehiring of Arthur Wiener versus the non-renewal of Marsha Forest’s contract.

In our opinion this decision results in a loss of our freedom of choice concerning the subject matter we are exposed to, and who presents it to us. From our experience, Marsha offers interesting and controversial material, highly relevant to our lives in this society.

Professor Wiener’s lectures, attended by few, appear to be lacking in these charac- teristics.

Evidence also shows that Marsha is highly qualified academically, with greatly valuable experience behind her. As of yet, we have seen no such support for Professor Wiener.

We would be grateful if you could answer the following questions we have concerning the cas,e: Why were we, the students, not consulted about the decision; and why was all previous student input ignored?

In conclusion, we would like to be in- formed of the basis of your decision. Are we to assume that it was political? David Brown Norma Janoloski Jean Gillespie Mark L Wills Margot Flanagan Doug Hairland Tony Petulla John Arger Donna Wills Alex McKee Janet Schreiber Janice MacFarlane John Lezzi Grange Williams

Wages for schoolwork

I want to briefly respond to the questions about my article on wages for schoolwork, raised directly by Dave Spaetzel (Chevron, March 19) and informally by other students over the past two weeks.

His letter in particular, raised important points which need to be answered if we are

‘going to be better able to defend ourselves against government cutbacks over the next few years.

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Dave suggested that since there are many unemployed graduates now, it ,was inaccu- rate for me to argue that it is our future employers who are the real beneficiaries of the knowledge, technical skills, 5nd self- discipline that we acquire s during our twenty-odd years of schooling.

He adds that if we were to win wages for schoolwork, more people would go to uni- versity which “would further saturate the already glutted job market for graduates”. He also points out that the government al- ready pays the major portion of our educa- tion, and can ill afford to pay more.

Although there are a great many unemp- loyed graduates, we shouldn’t forget about the vast numbers of ex-high school and uni- versity students who do find employment, and whose vocational or scientific training and acquired self-discipline are appropriated by their employers at no expense.

But even when we graduate from univer- sity and are unable to find jobs which we are qualified for, other employers and the-state still benefit greatly because our huge debts force us to quickly find other jobs which are often low-paying and un-skilled.

Part of the graduate unemployment prob- lem stems from the increasing reliance by employers on community college graduates instead of university grads. It seems that employers feel that .our labour is over-priced and that our skills are not related closely enough to their employment needs.

As a result, the state has already begun to fit more closely the needs of the labour mar- ket. So the point if not that employers don’t benefit from our skills and self-discipline, but that they aren’t benefitting enough! This is what is meant by the crisis in education.

Dave also argued that getting paid for going to school would lead to a further sat- uration of the graduate labour market. Well, most of us already find the labour market saturated, and with our huge debts, we enter the labour,market in a very weak posi- tion.‘

Winning wages for schoolwork would mean that without our debts (and possibly with some savings) we would enter in a strong position, being more able to pick and choose or even wait for the job we want.

Dave is correct in saying that the state already pays a large amount of our educa- tion. Yet this huge capital outlay reflects how important they view the school system in ensuring that the varied needs of the labour market are met.

The fact that we are not getting paid for the work we do in school only means that the state and th& employers are able to approp- riate our skills and training very cheaply.

In the article on wages for schoolwork, I tried to show how our lack of a wage has hidden the fact that we have been working For the state and our future employers while in school.

Since they haven’t had to pay us for our schoolwork, they couldn’t care less how long it takes us to do it. This is why school- work seems so endless. But when we de- mand that we get wages for our work, we begin to make visible all the work we have been doing. For the first time, the question of how much schoolwork we will do for how much money becomes something we can struggle around.

Since it if our future, employers who largely benefit from our work (i.e. training) in school, it is they who should pay.

But since it is the state who organizes our work in school, and they are the only ones who can tax the employers-it is to them that we should direct the demand to receive wages for schoolwork.

Tim Grant Arts 4

Journalistic practices

This letter is in response-to the chevron’s presentation at the Federation’s council meeting of Sunday, March 28.

During this meeting some questions were asked concerning a letter published in the chevron that week. That letter was the one written by Mark Smith:

Apparently, when the letter was first sub-

mitted, it was signed by a Matthew Smith. ~ Since the staff did not know of this person,

either personally or through the Student Di- rectory, the letter’was not published. It was assumed that the name Matthew Smith was a pseudonym because of this.

Does this mean that if a person wishes to submit a letter to the Feedback section he/she must be known to the chevron staff or be listed in the Student Directory (whit h was not published this term, in violation of the By-laws)?

A;s well, since when is it considered fair journalism to allow the author of an article, published in a previous issue, to respond to a feedback letter in the same issue as the letter was published?

You discriminate against the ordinary wri- ter to the paper. You allow, what I consider slanderous remarks, to go into the paper about various people on campus and these people have to reply in the next issue. They are not allowed to reply in the same issue as the remarks are made.

Robert A. G. White 38 Mathematics,

Computer Science

*It is normal jouma listic practice to determine the identity of theauthor of a letter. After all, if he/she refuses to accept responsibility’ for his/her statements, why should we? If you sign your real name and a phone number where we can contact you then neither of your complaints should arise as your letter will be published promptly.

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Zionism distorted

In responce to Salah Bachir’s reply to Owen Liebman’s reply to Salah Bachir’s book review of Zionism is Racism, Bachir manages to furthur distort the middle-east conflict into fairey-tale proportions.

This is indeed unfortunate as it’s only pur- pose is altering history to justify the aims of the PLO. If Israel is to be considered a racist and fascist state (the boogy man in this story), what then is the PLO.

The PLO and its member terrorist organi- zations do not represent the Palistineans and never did. PLO is a self-appointed organiza- tion, created originally by Arab rulers in 1964 at a Cairo Summit Conference.

It prepared in 1964, and still adheres to “the Palestinean National Covenant”, which set forth its fundamental philosophy. The following is from the 1968 modified co- venant. “Palistine is Arab” (Article 1). Ac- cording to article 6, only Jews who lived permanently in Palistine prior to the “Zionist Invation” (defined by the Confer- ence as 1917) are considered Palistinean.

In light of this, one must surely be amazed by Bachir’s quote from Yassar Arafat’s 1974 speech to the U.N., “I proclaim before you that when we speak of tomorrow we include in our perspective all Jews now living in Palestine who choose to live with us there in peace and without discrimination.” But Arafat also states in the New Republic of May 16, 1970, “Peace for us means Israel’s de- struction and nothing else.”

Thelatter is more in keepingbwith the Na- tional Covenant’s flavor which states in Ar- ticle 15, “The Zionist Invasion is to be repel- led and Palestine is to be purified or purged from the Zionist presence.” Since few prac- tical examples of living Jews who are defi- nately not Zionists by PLO standards exist (with the possible exception of Marsha Forest), it remains a mystery to figure out the twisted logic behind Arafat’s offer of peace.

It becomes evident that there is no logic and any distortion to justify the end is ac- ceptable. Other examples can be found within the Covenant, as the humorous claim in Article 22 that Israel is a geographic base for world imperialism.

It’s surprising that we are not told of an international Jewish Conspiracy. The democratic credentials of the Arab World in comparison are hardly impressive, and thanks to the recent PLO contributions in Lebanon, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. To alter Bachir’s quote; “This

type of reasoning and concoction of histori- cal events by (Bachir) is characteristic of this racist movement and its ardent followers !”

Terry Carson Sc;lence 4

Km outraged with UW too!

I, too, am outraged and disgusted with the continuing fascistic and reactionary denial of progressive and democratic thought on the part of the University of Waterloo’s ad- ministration, the renowned lackeys of the forces of suppression, who live as parasites on the vibrant and energetic body of the stu- dents here. -

Imagine my justified consternation when my proposal was turned down by those reac- tionaries ! I offered my services to begin a new and needed department called “Speech and Progressive Debate,” yet I was turned down flat.

I had envisioned courses such as Inter- mediate and Advanced Name-calling, Tech- niques of Escape from Logical Deficiencies, Beginner’s Temper-tantrumology, Basic Il- logic and Reductionism, Techniques of Crowd and Fact Manipulation, History and Theory ofProgressivist Foot-stomping, and a fourth-year seminar in Applied Journalistic Confusion Dissemination.

The reactionary administration refused to accept my sterling curriculum vitae as evi- dence of my thorough preparation, as if a representative of the oppressed people must meet their fascist-derivated “standards” of educational background.

(Imagine their impudence! They said I had taken no studies in Logic, Study and Use of Data, or Constructive Reasoning-as if progressive thinkers had any need of such trivial remnants of bourgeois idealism!)

But my record is indeed distinguished: I hold honorary doctorates from the Univer- sities of Hanoi and Havana, have analyzed in depth the methods of speech and debate in the progressive paradise of the People’s Re- public of China, have published my results of such work in such important scholarly jour- nals as Wield & Scream and The Interna- tional Inquirer, and I have been convicted of “disturbing the peace” (the typical reactio- nary response to the upraised voice of the people) during a spontangous mass demonstration at which over 23 progressive thinkers turned out to show our united op- position to having to pay for refreshments at public sporting events (make the rich pay!).

My attempt to serve in the noble venture described above has been thwarted,. sup- posedly because of lack of funds. But we all know the truth!

May-the Chevron continue its glorious struggle for the students here at Uniwat, continuing to demonstrate its solid grasp of the techniques and skills of expression I out- lined above, the type of speech and debate it has published all year!

Jim Payton . History Grad

Whimpering and wailing

Just who isthis coagulated mass of protop- lasm who is not man (woman,, person or thing) enough to use his (her or its) own name but chooses to hide behind the appellation ‘lettitor’. It must have been a strain to pro- duce a such a diplomatic and tactful rebuttal. Being a student, and assuming that you might be one too ? I realize how important bits of information written on small pieces of paper tend to get lost in the shuffle. I did not want that letter to suffer such an ignominous fate. Anyway your being able to use the same sheet of paper of a reply gave me a ‘warm and tingly’ feeling inside; inthe know- ledge ‘if we all save a little, we’ll all save’a lot’.

My bias and slanted report of the descent of the chevronelistist hacks upon the federa- tion student council meeting (28/3/76) like a swarm of locusts. They graced our marathon

meeting ‘to show how the product has im- proved over the years’. Chief chevrot hack Docherty’s oral presentation was greeted with a warm round of indifference. My re- quest for a written text and the formula by whit h he derived his ‘magic numbers’ was promptly ignored. I found it incredulous that I could have missed a phenomenal 50 per cent increase in campus news since my arri- val in 1972 to Uniwat.

Being one of the concerned and responsi- ble council members dissatisfied with chev- ron performance to date, I found that ‘dis- cretion was the better part of valour’ i.e. I thought the odds of winning a ‘shooting war’ against a numerically superior amorphous mass of humanity would be either slim or none.

My strategy has just changed from laying a general siege to a preemptive strike stance, ready to launch a devastating assault when the odds are more amenable. Also since the chevron is the board of~publication’s baby, its chairman should get first crack at chang- ing its diapers.

What surprised me the most was that, im- mediately after council passed the‘board of publication’s budget i.e. chevron subsidy this homogeneous group, almost to a man, stormed out together. What a total lack of social grace! They could have at least drib- bled out one at-a time or stayed on and been bored to death with the rest of council. It was mighty cheeky of them to pull this display of the best of electric running dog lacky im- perialistic fascist traditions of ‘taking the money and run’!

During fed flicks, in that boring interlude between admissionand the start of the movie, I fold pieces of it into a suitable aerodynamic shape and send pages of the chevron soaring onto even greaterjournalis- tic heights.

John Lee 4th Year Biology

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Water and wet feet

. Just in case work has kept you captive in your own office -Spring has arrived (hope-’

fully for good). Two phenomena of Spring happens to be water and wet feet.

I am hoping as a student and driver that the University will do something about the abundance of the water at the west side of Parking Lot C.

Many people use the path across Univer- sity Avenue at this point however the newly ’ deposited lake has created a.problem. Could someone do something (even a -passenger ferry service)? Thanks.

P. Barber

Federation vendetta x

It is no wonder that the feud between the societies and the feds erupted. Last week Doug Antoine, the new board of entertain- ment chairperson, discovered he had a few extra hundred dollars in his budget, which he added to the already trimmed society sub- sidies.

In response to this good gesture on Doug’s part, a motion was introduced at last Sunday’s fed council meeting to disallow this action and “hammer the society sub- sidies back down to where they were”. I was rather pleasantly surprised when the motion was defeated by a three or four vote margin, but on the other hand I left that meeting disappointed with the hostile attitude which a few members displayed toward the campus societies.

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You call these people a menace to the societies.

Wayne Halpert Sci-Sk President

26 the chevron ’ - ” -fri&ay, april 2, 1976

much as Wiener; Isn’t this an important fact have the right to-know why a professor is hired or fired. to be taken into consideration?

Sir,- all that we-students are demanding is that Marsha Forest be givenas fair, asun- biased, as undiscriminating, and as nonpolit- ical ‘,a chance at a’ renewal of her contract as Wiener had. -?+-- .

part of anattack against students and. work- ers by the Canadian monopoly capitalist class iy: the service of U.S. imperialism.

Let us briefly look at why these cutbacks are taking ‘place now. .

In the 1960’s U.S. Imperialism was ex- panding and capitalflooded into sectors such as education which were particularly lucra- tive. Enormous profits were reaped from the financing, construction and equipping of the universities and technical colleges. In addi- tion the requirement for skilled workers was fumled.

At-the’ present time we are taking one. of the courses-taught by Marsha Forest. We _ have alhfound it exciting.an%l-challenging, and it is certainly not boring. -

We feel that Marsha Forest has an out- standing teaching ability, At least Marsha Forest is able to keep- the class intersting; that’s more than most professors are doing.

So by what criteria waF Marsha Forest fried? We do not want any Mickey Mouse excuses. - Bob Thompson ‘Eric &lay . Clare Audet Joseph Wozniak Betty Parr-y ‘.

PriVelege cards- t- \

Today U.S. Imperialism is in severe crisis largely as a result of its defeat in Indochina. Therefore through its agent, the -Canadian

- State, U.S. Imperialism is. attempting to make the Canadian people pay through its imposition of wage controls and cutbacks in education and social services.

To sustain rapid-growth during the 1960’s . governments went begging to the US. for

capital; de fa

icit financing became the rule for the govern ent. For instance, in Ontario,

-interest on the public debt amounted to $3 11 million in 1970-71, representing 5.2 per cent of the total expenditure. - ~. -

How’cah you as councillors on the Federa- tionof Students feel justified in voting your- selves personal privilege cards amounting to $50.00 per councillor? Do you feel that’your duties as a councillor warrant some sort of remuneration? This year, the interest payment alone *has

jumped. to $710 million, or 6.2 per cent of total expenditure. The total public debt in Ontario may reach $2.5 billion fortte 76-77 ,year. .

We are being taught=& this institution of supposed higher learning therefore we also deserve the right to have a say as to’ which .instructors are to be fired. You don’t fire - someone from a different nationalityor race, why thenwould you fire someone who differs politically? ‘We aren’t being con- verted into Marxist-Leninists by any means, we are simply being given an educa- tion. 1 \

Marsha has proved to/be more valuable than Wiener and many other professorsand if she. does not return‘ next year, many stu.- dents will be at a great loss. By reconsidering- her contract, you will prove to the students of this institution that theirchoice in univer- sities was the ‘right one and that University of Waterloo istruly a liberal university. Thank you for your time. .

David Black -9 Karen Murphy

Barbara Arp Jim Sarney

Ceothy Maron .

Wages for -.

\ timid dce, -

- Amast five full pages of feedback, debates . flaring in all sectors ,volley after volley ring-

ing. in his ears, his few forces in great disar- _ ray, Jim Harding raises a timid voice.

‘ ‘ Stop firing”, he pleads. He asks us to let. - the dust settle, to “clear the air for pi-in&

pled debate and organizing”. (Organization? .- Harding never touches the stuff.) ’

He decides th-e time has come’ to “analyse” my article covering William Lawvere’s lecture, and launches into an at-y tack on Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao.

Rather than take Harding’s word for it, let’s see what Stalin hadto say about Harding’s favorite topic, the application of Marxism-Leninism to “advanced capitalism”:

,- “The main features and requirements-of the basic economic law ofmodern-capitalism might be formulated roughly in this way: the securing of the maximum capitalist profit through the exploitation, ruin and im- poverishment of the majority of the popula- tion of the given country, through the en- slavement and systematic robbery of the peoples of other countries, especially back-. ward countries, ahd, lastly, through wars and militarization of the national economy;

- which are uti&ed for the obtaining of the highest profits,” (J.V. Stalin, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR” Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1972.)

Are these the “categories ani metaphysics of subjective ‘idealism” ,.a> Harding w*ould have us believe? We think not.

“Maximum profit.. . is the motor of monopoly capitalism.” So wrote Stalin in the same article, dated the year of his death. Is this recited-in a catechism of self-evident facts, as Harding asserts? We think rather it is a sound conclusion based on Marxist- Leninist theory, -

. So let’s have some facts, Harding. On -what do’ you ‘base your claims?

Henry Crap0

aren’t needed T - 1

In-the periodfrom 1960-64, capital inflow into Canada was $4,852 million, while the outflow -of dividends and interest payments was $4,073 million. From 1965-69, $4,038 million in capital entered Canada and $6,062

-million left in dividends and interest. From 1970-74, only $3,628 million in capital came in, while $9,223 million went out in dividends and interest. (People’s Canada Daily News, Jan 15, 1976)

At the same time the federal budget and the Ontario budget are being increased by about 15% but that money is not being spent on education or social services *but instead going to suchcorporations as Syncrude ($1.4 billion from Ontario, Alberta and the Federal .govemment$

Students and workers should have no illul sio’ns about the attacks-and their nature. Nor should they have any illusions about some quick solutions obtained by voting for another party such as the NDP.

The NDP has proven who it serves-by its adoption of wage controls on a provincial basis, by its attack on the working class in British Columbia through Bill 11 which re- stricts certain sectors from striking, and by

Ithe increase in tuition fees taking place in

- The federation of students is an organiza-- ’ tion with the objective of serving the student body of Waterloo. You as a councillor thought you had-something to offer. to help meet the needs of the-student body. Ifyou wanted to be paid for the job-you should have run for president!

. Heathei;‘Robert~on - E.S.-Fed,&ration Councilbor

- pi&sing?

I would like the opportunity. to use your distinguished pages to notify yqur readers of a new movement against the outrageous mis- fortunes &&Capital forces upon us all -Wages of Going to the Toilet or WGT for short. ’

Those who scoff should consider for a short time the profound effect it would have on the capitalists ifwe refused to go to the toilet for even a short time, like two-weeks.

. Only a physiologist could describe the ef- fects in detail but let it suffice to say that

-productivity _would drop off significantly. Surely it is obvious with only this small amount of anal-ysis (for any more would de- stroy the lived-experience of our movement) that if we go to the toilet we are laboring for capital; indeed aiding in the very accumula- tion of capital without receiving our just rewards-a wage.

Our glorious movement shah-consider all those who do golo the toilet as scabs. W-ash- room patrols will-be taking don their names.

Oh, I know some will call us the agents of Soviet social imperialism. Some will say that we are trying to destroy the health of the great and heroic proletariat. - -

Be not mislead! It is they w,ho are agents--agents of Capital-who would keep us all enslaved. How can we fight in the imminent battle between the two superpow- ers ifwe’re all constipated? Think of that for a minute !

It is important to keep two things irr mind if you wantto join our movement. Going to the toilet is unpaid labour and our movement is better than theirs. So There !

Jack Bit6 P.S. Don’t forget to cut the crap.

campus mgs _ It is .a great pity that many of the rags dis-

posed of weekly (or monthly) in the halls of this institution are not worth the inking! While the AIA has some worthwhile ideas they cater to extremist groups and use 1950’s rhetoric to combat 197F’s economics (a la ‘\‘chevron”):

The arts newspaper% hardly ever visible and few outside arts know its title, “Knot Garden”.

The Engi-“news” purveys pornography and vitriolic attacks on other faculties in the form of “Confessions-in-letters-to their editor from other faculties”. ,While this is entertaining, this is highly useless and not worthy of their intelligence?

Even our near and dear “Sci-Sot News’: (ex-“Bard”) is a hollow triumph against - Sask. under an NDP government. .

Forest firing’ ’ -,- protested - 1

Mr. Burt Matthews,

. On behalf of the students of Human I@a-

tions 100, we would like to take this oppor- tunity to express to you how we feel about the termination of Mars ha Fores t’s contract, as we feel we have the right--to& heard. -

d Most of us, prior to taking this course had ’ never heard of Marsha Forest. We all took Human Relations 100 for orie reason or another and will probably never be abler to take another one like it again.

I Most-classes, regardless of the Faculty-, are lecture oriented with little opportunity to

-discuss what is being taught. These discus- --‘sions however, are 8‘ major factor in the

learning process. Marsha’s class format al- lows us to express ourelves freely whether or not our beliefs coincide with hers.

Each lecture provides us -with the &al-

Cutbacks are a related phenomenon to the broad attack by U.S. Imperialism and Cana- dian Monoply Capitalist class to make the people pay for their economic crisis,

We must unite with everyone to defeat the government’s wage controls and its cut- backs in the public sector, and not to raise splittist and idealist issues such as wages. for schoolwork, free tuition or ‘ ‘vote NDP to

solve the economic crisis”!

typography. Ditto for “Kinfo” which doesn’t get around as much as the “Jocks” and- “Jockettes”!‘

‘In fact the only. sheet worth reading is the “Gazette” and it is, usually so thin that I finish before the end of class!

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*ND-P n%sl@ads~ Salah Bachir

lenge of “THINKING”, which also,means that in order to keep up with the course, not _ . . only do we-have to read the required mater- ial ,-we also have to consult outside readings,

, etc. Not once has Marsha attemaed to ^ “BRAINWASH” us nor are we ,downgraded if we don’t agree with her. We

_ are given an objective outlook of the world .- situation which is what human relations is

all about. The course content is quite diveeeydwe

are presented with all sides of a problem. We ‘form our opinions from what M.arsha pres- ents to us and from feedback from other students. Perhaps if you came to the class sometime, you would be able to see for your-

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This letter is in response to the federation review Regarding-the letter against a plagiarized rel

rally on cutbacks and on the lines&en of how to fight the cutbacks. .

The overiding line stated at the rally was to unite with other groups and to fight. the cutbacks by “voting for the NDP.” It-was never pointedout from where the cutbacks originated except that they were imposed by

’ the Ontario government after expansion in i the sixties ;- .----

But as it wns mentioned at the rally it was ‘that same government that had decided to expand these facilities in the 60’s. Surely there are some reasons for this other tha’n. Bryden’s of the NDPthat: “Many decisions are being made. that are-not good for stui

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Firing b/iast&d , onc&ain

view by Jimmy ,Hodges: . Lis ten-fella, for your information, Tristian

Fabriani is none other than (you guessed it) me%sieurs Fagan and Becker, who pen the tunes for STEELY DAN. Only later was an ex-roadie (‘ ‘ex”’ because he kept driving the equipment-fsuck into walls and other dangerous structures) christen&l-Tristian Fab&mi~-and hired to perform the rave-up introductions to the band’s rare perfor- mantes.

If we carmot impress upon you ;hat this review is not a plagiarization, then we-must askyou to help the chevron from becoming

fern of this qkkr~l” ‘.*- just -a sounding bgard. for the friends andY Thanks for this “clarifjcation”, is i-tbe- enemies of HRCS.

cause suddenly that same Conservative govL I If it weren’t for the two or three record ernment has decided this now? NO! It is a - ’

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-As students we are deeply concerned about the firing of-Marsha Forest and the renewed contract of Weiner. All -the infor- mation we have seen gives astounding more qualifications for Marsha Forest, than for Weiner. z

We feel if the decision wasmade upon who was most qualified Marsha Forest would have won by a landslide. -

As students of the Universityof Waterloo,, we have the right toknow+..hat criteriaupon

‘whichMarsha.Forest was fired. This should be the policy that is used in the hiring and fling of all professors at the-Universit,y. We --

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Mars ha’s qualifications, as exemplifed- in the chevron (volume 16, number 36), obvi- ~ ously outrank those of A?‘thur Wiener. Not only has she had five times as muchexperi-

- ence than Wiener, shehas five times as many - -. students, and has published 14 tities as

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reviewers, the whole paper would be’missing a great da of interes&&and relevant mater- ial. Dan Steele cannot hlagiarize his own article.

Now thgt you have receivedSfie notoriety of having your name and faculty in print, you know how easy it is to bec0ine.a record re- viewef. Give it a try. -

I Dan Steele -/ and Ttistian Fabriani . -

2nd Year General Ahs-

We are --7 -- outraged

’ -We wciuld like to know why the students in the University of Waterloo arti not being- heard% choosing teachers oti this campus. For example Marsha Forest and Arthur Wiener, the majority of the students prefer Marsha’s teaching to MX Wiener; as re- ’ fleeted from the surveys of each teacher. Also there’s 58 students in Marsha’s class and only 11 in Mr. Wiener’s class. ’ _ It has been brought to attention th_at Marsha has more qualification, publications and experience as a teacher in this field as compared to A&ur Wiener. #

Since she undoubtedly out weighs Arthur Wiener we see this as a political dismissal. AND WE ARE OUTRAGED.. -

< Susan Fletcher Bill Barker

Michele Mullins . Donna Barbisan

Jane Schmitt Sue Pletch

Lois Campbell - Tim Swayze

Christopher Jones PHiI -Fernandez

CIA versus the.AJAc. ’

Whereas the, Capitalist Industrious Al- liance is composed of students and whereas exams are imminent, to re,ply fully to Crapo’s response to our letter-immediately

- would be t& time consuming at this point but in answer to the aspersions he cast &on our support of the AIA’s rights we ‘remind him that we merely stated we would-defend the rights of the AIA, we did-not say we would defend the AIA.

Y We further pose two questions to which we are certain-many studknts would like the answers: (l)+ When was the last time any member of the AIA (in particular its most outipoken ones) visited china or any Com- mu&t countiy? (2) From’-where dbes the AIA receive i&financial support? .

Mark S. Smith. Epistler for the

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The great . mystifier. . -

Having read the letter in the March 26 edition of the Chevron by Jim Harding, we are convinced that he is the greatest mys- tifier we have yet encountered. -

Rather thancotitributing to an understand- ing of thb methods by which the world may be fundamentally changed, he attacks, belit- tles and maligns those, who through their social pmctice, are making an effort toward this end. His witch’s brew analysis seems to be whittled smack from the wood of his own brain.

It represents a literary contribution, of I questionable , merit, by an intellectual sor-

cerer living iti an ivory tower, documenteb by an abundance of philosophical notes and -.- quotes. . e-

The dialectical materialist theory ofknow- ledge maintains that rational knowledge-de- pends upon erceptual knowl,edge and that perceptual knowledge remains --to be devehped into rational knowledge. Accord- ing to Marx, the most important problem

does hot lie merely in understanding the laws - - of the objective world, and thus being able to - - explain it, but in applying-the knowledge of these laws actively to change;the world. My great-great-grandfather had‘a long, 16ng beard, ./

Warm eyes and worn &xls, limp a age; scarred, bent, Hading does not develop his perceptual,

knowledge into rational knowledge through social practice. Theory and.practice must be linked. correct ideas do nbt drop fi-om the sky, nor are they innate in the mind. They come from social practice and f?om it alone. Without testing knowledge and ideas in so- cial practice, human beings yould never know whether their ideas were correct or incorrect. They would simpfy talk and dis- cuss, leading themselves in ever diminishing circles until they disappear up their owtitinal sphincters.

It seems to us that this is exactly what Harding is promoting in his mystical in-- tex$re@tion, of what makes the world go round. To this end he is perfomng a great service to the Uni\iersity. An intellectual magici,an such as Harding, who has no social practice what so ever on campus, smears his philyphy and creates intellectual paralysis among students. Without the opportunity to apply theory to practice students are indeed pa‘lalyied. Unable to act upon ideas, they are unable to determine the validity of these ideas.

90 is &m&n? What does he stand for? He has presented. us with an extensive list of thitigs he’ is against, but what is he for? As a disaffected sorcerer he surveys the world and criticizes at length and in riddles worthy of the Sphinx.

What alternatives-does he offer? None. What does he do to improve the situation? Nothing. Varying and diveke points of view are fine. Discussion is fme. But where does

, he get off his wheel of fortune and,put sortie of- his ideas into practice. .

True % his depiction as a magician, he- disdains labels and deftitions employed by the theorists to whom herefersand conjures up his own set of dogmatic rules. Thesk must be not only correct but also of tremendous genius as no one is able to understand w1at the hell he is talking about.

TO paraphrase Mao Ts_e,tung on practice, we are opposed to diehards whose thinking f&k to advance withChanging &jective &- cumstances and which man$ests itself his- to&aIly as Right opportunism.

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The thinking of diehirds is divorced from sociil practice and they cannot march ahead to guide the chariot of .society: they simply @il behind grumbling that it-gee‘s too fast and trying to drag it back or turn it in the opposite direction.

A brief imaginary Tscenario depicts Harding’s lack of social practice. Five or six students are standing on an iceberg .in-the middle of a tropical sea. None of them is able to swim. A boat which is tied to the iceberg is captible of carrying a dozen people.

‘- Jim Harding is engaged in- leading a dis- ctlssion cdnceming the merits of a seat in the bow, -over a seat in the stern:. As the last whisper of ice suctiumbs to the heat, all are lowered into the sea and drowned:

Petra Taylor Robert Taylor

, Dianne Chtipitis

Garage vsers ‘t $pill oil :- *

I would like to draw to the attention of the administrators of the ‘garage’ beside Bauer warehouse, that at least one of the users of the garage is dumping oil and other repair

wastes on or beside the path used by a great number pf people from Lakeshore Village. This’ sort of practice is extremely inconsid- erate as well as irresponsible.

\ However, the problem will not exist much longer, because if any new oil deposits: are made, I’m sure some irate- pe,destrian- smoker will deposit his/her live cigarette butt in the oil, and burn down the garage!

Norm DeFraeye \ * Grad Biology

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- hands that dealt in coin or cloth, . ~- hands cupped in prayer.

He was a man who sang his faith into his l&E, - I_ ., -

’ ’ His life a fabric, woveh.out of &gs and prayer, - . -- _ - 6f a fear and a mistrust- ,

of the man-with th6 cr6ss.

My great-great-gxxu&ther liad no cross, But he did have a wife; + pack of hungry chil$ren, - &id w-Jx!n they had been fed he turned $0 his God,

and‘was’fd, and was cdntent- I

In the morning he bouti his arm with leather, ~ I - covered his head with cloth, draped a shawl across his shoulders,

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and saug the word? thathe knew by heart, c held in his heart,

i song of weary wandering in lands hostile to the rmur-- Who would not stoop in shame, would not stoop For he had no shame, felt no guilt for ;$ crime that

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Myqr&t-great-grandfather pulled a cart, -

throughdesert, j -- across the sea, qn a path in the dark forest,

- to the market-place, - . . to peddle rags. -

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Rags ig his cart. - Rags on his head.

Rags on his back. a-peddier in a world that bred him, fed him, dressed him,. just to spit qn him. 7

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My great-&eat-grandfather-spoke in a song. _ His prayer was a song,

- and sang the &ale of a chicben, * a shoe, a shawl, pots and pans. cups, spoons ,+tlonhisbreath,

pebblesundertoe ragsonacart

.- leatherindeliver ’ _ kiddiesmitakeepa

chalah, menorah, Torah. L _ .

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My great-great-grandf&th& lived-on a prayer, prayed in a son& r2

- sangofalife, _ _ c ofalove, ---

/ ofaGod. - ’

The man- with the cross beak his fate- \

My great-great-grandfather bore himself. \

. ’ v- myles kesten, .

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Member: Canadian university pre&s (CUP). The chevron is type&$ by mem- bers of.the workers’ union of dumont press graphi.x (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incoworated, universi sole responsibility of the chevron editorial sta 2

of waterloo. Content is the . Offices are located in the

campus centre; (519) 8854560, ,or university tocal 2331. Volume sixteen of the chevron draws t6 ‘a close this week and we’re sad to see it go. we have&t been able to please all of you all Uie time, but we hope we’ve pleased most of you at least some of the time. on a campus with the diversity of this one it’s always difbdt to come up with something for everyone and much of nihat_we’ve bee6@e to accomplish we owe to th$r @ople who over the course of the year have made their various ways damr to the office to helpout it wouldh’t have been much of a paper without them. one regret is that we weren’t able to involve more of you in the effort because i think too many students approach the chevron in the same way they do,the record: they’ll pick it up and read it and if they don’t like it they may bitch but won’t think of diiing anything constructive by way of improving it. that’s unfortunate because thechevron is a studetit paper, your s&¶-t paper, and anyone who wan& to come and help is more than welcome and can become a staff member. al that’s quired is evidence of a

-continuing interest in-the paper (ii hetpiig out on a fairly regular basis) and staff, the large majority of *om are st&&nt~olunteers, are the ones who control the chevron. the full-time people are there to provide continuity and technical resoumes and to make sure that all the workget? done, but when it comes; to deciding what goes into the paper they get one vdte, the same as any other staff member. also staff select% the people who get the full-time jobs. this is the manner in-which %e chevron has t+itionally been ruti and in which it con&~~ to be run.

chevrics of this year: judy jansen, graham gee, ge&$fe eisler, isabella grigoroff, chris jones, leona-k’rytow, harry strothard, libby warren, george lomega, denis andre, dionyx msmichael, wini mertens, david anjo, mart radomsky, jim’carter, terri berfinghoff, bhn carter, ’ nina tymoszewicz, Steve mcmullan, larry hannant, john mcnair, glen dewar; bob inkol, henry crapo, doug ward, shane r&e&s, bill mcre& john sakamoto, peter leuthard, grant macfarlane, diane r&a, Sylvia hannigan, randy hannigan, henry hess, neil dochm, john morris, dumont ducks & friends and’all the others whose names escape Te at this ungodly hour including harold the japitor whskeeps this place liveable and the ladies in the cc coffee shop who helpto keepusaAve.good IucktoadriatirodGay,brendawilsonandalltheriewcrew.hasta la vista, kwaheri andgoodbye- hh -

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