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Ernst vori&ezold, a UW st$ent; addesses -Kitchefier city _council Monday,ni&t on the p@ht && striking @an&it work&i& ~ He charged tiuncil ,with contribqting to ,the detetioration of the working conditions tihjch evpntualy: forced && employ&s to strike by $&bomly acting-out its auste/ebudgetav policies. ‘-1 .I

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Gtchener city counc~ decided _ yesteqiiy at a private meeting to

hold fhrtber di&ussions with the striking transit workers over the vacatb and.lu.nch break issues, but ma@ained its position with re’ gard to the 15 per cent wage m- crease. ,

,Gouncil will hold discussEns with the transit workers during the next few d%ys and will meet again next Friday to- &ach a final decision. . :

In an interview, Kitchener mayor Edith MacIntosh’said~coun- 49 reyiewed its positionon the pay- raise and decided that Gee the c&y rankedseventhinwagesettlements when compared to 22 other Cities with simiiar transit’systems, the 15 per cent offer was “well above average.” Z&e added that all the other @y hall unions -have- already- accepted council% raise ceiling.

Bill Mazmanian, president ofthe $hsit workers union, said in an

interview afterlearnir@of the decision that the union Will not accept _ Z”‘ \

- the city’s offer. . 8 _ take their summer vacation on a ’ transit ‘workers, F city council& “Regardless of what thg - do three y-w- rotation basis::. found themselves lacking meaning-

Whck it&as suggested that the-- i city’s wage offerwot$dg&e the bus I

with the other issues it’s still the There were numerous corn- . plaints that management mis-

ful- data, such a~:-.what wage!& are driversonesent an hour more than _

‘money,” he said,- --- - L- mtrusted.. the drivers and were un,- being paid to workers -in other the heavy equip&nt operators, cities, now ,and- in the pipeline; In one driver shouted “we handle * Mazmanian ‘quarrelled with the I nsasarily strict.

city’s survey of pay scales in the In addition, the -met that the the cities compared, the size of the . _

other cities. Theremay be interim transit operation was not known,

people not dti’i mer & fd- _

Changes in some of the WntrFts in mayor and counCillors accepted - nor were the &pulation@ues for

lowed: ‘tIfa bulldozer driver tips it how many losses does he have .

O&r. Cttll@eS &kWOl$d~@.$t dI’@- salary increases, e&lier iir the year,

‘fw h ex&s &&& -& &v&s the various centres. ijrhe city’s per- SOIUM -departme t WAS asked_,to

against him?‘” nom-that bus driy

ers these far&s ahead Of e+- -a&me&.&s are&&g,moy&j eEler dlhXS before a new R@h- most of the workers. ~ .- .

supply this mater& meeting.

for Thursday’s ers are-responsr&lefor as many as _~

ener contract expired next May5 he Me&nwhile-‘the - union is

90 peopleat one time. Other com- merits were

said. -L.*s - &Gde the council chambers the doing itsown research on this.

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two sides of the dispute soon be? The question of the transit’work- operators work Saturday and Sun-- -

1 Y&e&y’s courk$l session was came clear: Union @resident, -Bill d&y at straight time?” and “how

prompted when the alderpersons ’ Mazmanian, ers’ job relative to-other city emp- many dozer drivers are ant at 12

argued -that the loyees’ brought a very clear re- - agreed to reopen negotiations after driver’s job was ,more demanding sponse from the workers present. _

o’clock at night on~Sunday.” Y ’

about 70 transit -workers and their supporters appeared at a city coun-

than that of other ciwployees, - -nsiim / i _

and that Kitchener transit workers - cil meeting Monday to press for .- . ffirthertalks. ’

were losing ground relative to _ _ transit workers in -other Ontario- - Prior to Monday’s meeting, cities. However, council stood-firm

A,_b& drikr&--di~ -’ - ’

’ placard-carrying- workers voiced their complaints to the &vron.

that all city employees must accept Four f&e&r on a.+f&ld hostile minutes w&h will aRow him time

the 15 per cent wage ceiling, and winter’s morning &longs to a bus for a coffee ancl a bite to &t. One man said:“‘I’ve been here 20 I that Kitchener’s transitworkers re- driver: as does a midniat storm Ifhedoesn’tmakeithowdoeshe y&us and they’re trying to give me lative position to similarworkers in when most other vehicles are off eat? “It’s easy, hesays,Isteerwith a mmm& holiday once every three other Cities was not that bad. theroad. ‘,- ’ . one hand, h-ave a coffee in the yeqs.‘-’ The city wants the men to a he w&pative sbm ofthe.h Those experiences ph.t~ schedul- other, and if a\.passe_qger wants a

-. ing which doesn’t allow for a meal, - transfer I rin it off with mv little - break, an eight hour daily&rug&? finger.” Y r * - t , withcity traffic, and.weekend work 1 10:3O-“Things pick up,&ople forno extra money, are some of the -1 start ,coming downtown, and you

-things. which differentiate a transit have to fight the tra@ic.” - -. m - 3 / x. 3 IS , _’ --L- worker’s job from other &ty

-- pmyd wpm -+sed a loss of m&b- since allstud-& arefor- should be&e to have* their pfe- - employee’s* - Du.finghissmJimisallowedto

I-- - ’ use only two wash.roomson his quorum at t& m&l moment and - r to be membe-rs of the federation, it gnancies terminated safely~ and - The %triking drivers claim that route: one is at Berkley Square on

tievented the Federation of Stu- would be both “irresponsible and - without -delay. We! believe- that -since their job is more demanding . the south side ofKiu%ener, and the ,

- dents Tom consideringwhether to send-a pro+ortion- telegram .to

immoral’L~ to 3end this telegram they shouldn”t be held to Kitchener other is at the Market’ Square-

f&+rai*t& minister, OttoLang, without co&rlt~ingthe religious

medical facilities where abortions can be performed- in ,maximum . council’s 15 percent wage ceiling. Should nature call Jii while he is

minority on campus. : saf@y -s&.&d be-,available to all oh campus it mustbe persuaded to at-last Thnrsday’s student council Citing a Canadian &&~t.& bf canadian.women, even if they live

1 They Fe asking for a 20.6 Per&eat wage fFrease* _ wait until he gets to the other end of

‘tieeting. *e Twin citiesm - _ The telegram, presented to fed-

public ~inionsurvey, printed- in, i$ areas without su&facilities, ’ - the Sndbnry Star, to bolster his . even if they are poor, even if they

In order to get a flavour for ;he Another rule which irks Jimis erqtion education- coordinator contention, St. Jerome’s College are Young. -L- transit worker?s-job t,he chevron in:

’ terviewed a dainlhe driveC -- that whilehe is ajlowedtopickupa Shank Roberts,. caRed for’ a law _ rep. Brian Miatello said thatwhile A law which provides qss to coffee or a i=an of pop when visiting - whjch provides abortion to those eight-in-ten Canadians believe ab~rtim OdY to a-feW,d OdY in

Jim (real name withheld on re- T the Rerkley Square w.ashroom, i

not prepared to bear a child and abortions shotild,belegal, most-of some-locations is unjust. We ask quest) gets up -at 4: 15 a.m., has breakfast and reports at the bus such pra&tice is prohiited when

using the one at Market Square. advocates planned parenthood those/who hold this view say that that POfig and cpuits immediately programs- abortions should- be- legal only ~stopp~uting DK HenwMo@en-

terminal at 5: M a.m. And it must be. On this shift, one of three Jim .

When conncil was prepared to under certain c~cumstanees.Say- -works,.hefinishes at 1:4&tndoften vote on whether to send thetele: gram, science rep. Ralph Torrie,

ing that the publieopinion survey, , -

whoheatedly argued against the ac- wmducted ?, August, ii@icates that most &muhans are@ in-favor of

t$n, stormed out of the council abortion on demand, h@atello &unb+ and broke quorum at the ~. asked counciltodelete majorpor- meeting, Qut of 25 councillors,, tions of the telegram whichineffect only 13, the bare minimum forcon-

ducting business, were in attenA would reverse its originaliptent. --A-

The telegram pr nteato coun- mm - _ - “ -;. - --- cil reads: ” Wxelieve that + Torrie arg&d$rat since-council,* motherhood should be voluntary. hansit workershave callehti a ’

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only represented a’ small precen- ’ _3Ne &lieve that Car&&.n women- mass pick& and leafletthg~at the ’ - t&e ofUW students, it.couldn’t go %hould _ have free.dom of .choiFe. ah&d with the pr~abortionstance ._ Those-who are notprepared to bear

mpept only 2Oper-cent of the. 18-24 age groupad h~didnWee1 t@i pdl

Then between 9:30 toy&&O0 ’ .D~ke23t&& terminal, opposite things. &a,- to-q&et& ;d&vn he

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becanser-it-would be stepping on a child, despite_ alternatives- 66 p?=e”fey by -Miatdlo reflected 9-q -

some student’s religious senti- gays, and he tries to “boot it UP to at 9:oO a-. %‘he~_woold_l@e People

, 1‘ _-_ . abortion that society, can offer, j < ~ . fmMinu@ ,p-page 3, the uqiversl’ty”-so as togain a few to e&e out and support-thgm.

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Friday “Prince Valiant” exhibition. UW art gallery. Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4, Sun 2-5 till Oct. 5th. Campus Centre Pub-opens 12 noon. Phase from 9-l am. 74 cents after 6pm. Informal Meeting of Guyanese’ stul dents to get to know each other. 4:30pm. Camp& Centre Rm. 207 (world- room).\ Ushers for Theatre of the Arts and Humanities Theatre. Organizational meeting. 4:30-5:30pm. Theatre of the Arts. ML Building. “The 1837 Farmer’s Revolt”- the ninety-nine cent theatre. Admission 99 cents. 8pm. Adult Recreation Centre, 185 King St. S., Waterloo. I Federation Flicks-The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds. AL 116.8pm. Feds $1 Non-feds $1.50.

Saturday Campus Centre Pub opens 7pm. Phase from 9-l am. 74 cents admission. Federation Flicks-The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds. AL 116.8pm. Feds $1 Non-feds $1.50

Sunday Chapel. All welcome. Coffee & discussion follows service. 10:30am. Conrad Grebel College Chapel. Federation Flicks-The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds. AL 116 8pm. Feds $1 Non-feds $1.50 Film-Battle of Stalingrad 8pm. AL 105. Sponsored by the Canada-USSR Association. Gay Coffee House. Everyone welcome. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm. 110.

Monday Crafts Fair-selling leather good-s, jewellery, pottery. 1 O-4pm. Campus Centre Great Hall. Campus Centre qub opens 12 noon. ,Michael Lewis from g-lam. 50 cents after 6pm. Community Volunteer Forum: representatives from Probation and Parole, and the Developmental Centre. 12:30-l :30 Moose Room, Renison Col- lege. Sponsored by Renison Academic Assembly (RAA). Anyone interested in volunteer work in the Community welcome. GrandValley Car Club welcomes you to our next meeting. Waterloo County Fish and Game Protective Association. Pioneer Tower Rd., Off Hwy 8 between Kitchener and Hwy. 401. 8pm.

Para-lpgal Assistance offers non- professional legal gdvice. Call 885-0840 or come to CC 106. Hours: 1:30-4:30pm and 7-l Opm. Jazz and Blues Club. 8pm. Kitchener Public Library.

Tuesday Crafts Fair-selling leather goods, jewellery, pottery. lo-4pm. Campus Centre Great Hall. I

Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Michael Lewis from g-lam. 50 cents after 6pm. Community Volunteer Forum: representatives from Regional Social Ser- vices and Childrens Aid Society. 12:30-l :30 Moose Room, Renison Col- lege. Sponsored by Renison Academic Assembly (RAA). Anyone interested in volunteer work in the community welcome. Singers wanted for Symphony No. g-Choral. L.V. Beethoven, A Song of Joy for the University of Waterloo Con- cert Choir. Rehearsals: 7-9pm AL 113. For further info contact Alfred Kunz, ext. 2439. Movie-Magical Mystery Tour and Keep on Rocking. 8pm. AL 116. KFGF: 25 cents Others: $1. Sponsored by the Karl Friedrich Gauss Foundation. Introductory lecture on Transcenden- tal Meditation. Everyone welcome. Ad- mission free. 8pm. Psych 2084. 884-l 125. ,

Wednesday Crafts Fair-selling leather goods, jewellery, pottery. 1 O-4pm. Campus Centre Great Hall. Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Michael Lewis from g-lam. 50 cents after 6pm. Community Volunteer Forum: representatives from Big Brother Assn. and Big Sister Movement. 12:30-l :30, Moose Room, Renison College. Spon- sored by Renison Academic Assembly (RAA). Anyone interested in volunteer work in the community welcome. K-W Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic. 2-4:30 and 6-8:30pm. First United Church, King & William Streets, Water- loo.

Chess Club Meeting. Everyone welcome. 7:3Opm. Campus Centre Room 110.

\ Concert Band. 5:30-7:30pm. AL 6. For further information contact Alfred Kunz, at ext 2439 or in ML 254. Para-legal Assistance offers non- professional legal advice. Call 8854840 or come to CC 106. Hours 7-l opm.

General Meeting of the K-W Regional

Folk Arts Council. 7:30pm. Multi Cul- tural Centre, 20 Queen St. N. Kitchener. K-W Association for ChiMren With Learning Disabilities. 8pm. Waterloo Public Library Auditorium. Further information phone Ted Gaudun 745-6726. Introductory lecture on Transcenden- tal Meditation. Admission free. Everyone welcome. 8pm. MC 3010. 884-l 125. Gay Coffee House. 8:30pm. Campus Centre Rm 110.

Thursday Crafts Fair-selling leather goods, jewellery, pottery. 1 O-4pm. Campus Centre Great Hall. Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Michael Lewis from g-lam. 50 cents after 6pm. Community Volunteer Forum: representative from Community Infor- mation Centre and Central Volunteer Bureau. 12:30-l :30 Moose Room, Re- nison College. Sponsored by Renison Academic Assembly (RAA). Anyone interested in volunteer work in the community welcome. Para-legal Assistance offers non- professional legal advice. Call 885-0840 or come to CC 106. Hours: 1:30-4:30pm. Circle K Club regular meeting.. Plans for the fall term will be discussed, 5:30pm CC 113. Cha6ber Choir. 7-9pm. AL 6. For further information contact Alfred Kunz, ext 2439 or ML 254.

Baha’i’s on campus invite student faculty, and staff to informal discussion on Baha’u’llah’s principle, “The Oneness of Science & Religion”. For further info phone 885-0983. Student Wive’s Club first yeeting. All women married to students are welcome to come and get acquainted. For more information call 884-9243 or 884-9441. 8pm. E4 Rm 4362. Organizational Meeting. Association of Greek Students. Election of the Ex- ecutive committee, all Greek students are urged to attend. 8pm. CC 110. The Caretaker by Harold f;inter. Di- rected by Carl ball. 8pm. Theatre of the Arts.

Friday ’ Crafts Fair-selling leather goods, jewellery, pottery. 1 O-4pm. Campus

Campus Centre Pub opens 12 noon. Centre Great Hall.

Michael Lewis from 9-l am. ?O cents after 6pm. U of W Golf Tournament. Saturday Oct. 4th. Registration contact Gloria Rudney ext. 3922 anytime before Oct. 1 st. Open to staff and faculty.

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WASHINGTON (LNS)-A -system as it is and allowingit to 1 Perhapsmost significant. was . public opinion poll commissioned by the People’s Bicentennial

straighten itself out,” while 37 per that the survey revealed a turnab- cent favored minor adjustments, out in the “you can’t, fight City\

Commission (PBC) has found that. and a plurality of 41 per cent called -Hall” attitude -of many: people. in every major category of business . performance except ,one,- U.S.

for “making major adjustments to While 4? per cent of those surveyed try things that have never been fewhat there is little or no possibil-

firms were’ given ;a negative rating tried before.” -/ Asked to choose.between private

ity of having employee ownership by those surveyed. And by a plural- and control of U.S. companies in ity of 49 to 45 per cent; according to ownership of business, govern- - the next ten years, a significant’44 the poll, Americans agreed that ment ownership, or “companies in “big business is the.source of most which stock& owned by the empl

per cent felt there is “great-or some possibility.”

of what is wrong in this country I loyees who appoint their own man- The fact that there has-been vir- today.‘?

The recently released poll, a agement to run the company’s op- &&ions ,” a resounding 66 per cent

tually no p-ublic ‘discussion of worker control in the U.S. was also

nationwide telephone survey of favored companies owned and con- recognize by: those surveyed 1,209 Americans conducted the trolled by employees+ Twenty per Sixty-seven per cent felt that there week of July 25, 1975, focused’on cent voted for private ownership has been “too -little discussion” of issues relating to the country’s and 8 per cent for government con- employee control of U.!X corpora- economic%ystem ayd possible al- trol. ternatives. The data was accumu- In addition- to e,mploy+e owner-

.- tions; only 10 per cent thought that there has been too much.discussion

lated by Hart Research Associates, ship, an overwhelming 74 per cent and 9 per cent felt there has been I a @n-r which includes --among its - favored “a plan whereby consum- the right amount. ’ - clients the Washington Post,, CB.S ers in local communities are rep- In evaluating t,he poll, the News election analysis, and 17 -resented on the boards of com- --People’s Bicentennial Commission gubernatorig’ and senate candi- panies that operate in their local concluded that “throughout the dat.es. Peter D. Hart, head of the region.” Only 17 per cent opposed Vietnam years, the civil rights - fnm, boasts amore$an85 percent the plan. - _~ - - campaigns, the student protests, _ success rate in past surveys.‘-- -- - Watergate, the energy crisis and

- -- the economic crisis, an almost sil- The study revealed that most Americans give business a negative- ratingin the following areas: keep-

( ing profits at a reasonable level, providing good quality p.roducts , enabling people to make full use of their abilities, having concern for

-Y the individual, keeping down the cost of living, safe-guarding the health of workers and consumers, and preventing unej-mployment and inflation.

\ f-or 1 that “a hidden constituencv-a- -?

new majority in favour of bold and ---. ...‘.“--

Who’s he? The salt of the eadh? What’s”this taK:about -7you can fight city -

- . _ ’ sweeping economic changes-has ’ ha//‘? The ‘he’ ,is a strikjng worker of Kitchener Transit aqc&e’s a-t city ha/l - . / i quietly emerged in’ America and demanding @have. his voice heard by so called public,gfficials. In-the

our nation’s leaders are&otally un- backgroud, yq.~ can see a ,harcj working chTvron newsman interviewing . . -

’ In only one -major category did U.S. business receive a positive rating-in paying ‘good wages. And even in that area-4I per cent of

, A _$lSOO grand prize will be _ -awarded in the current Poetry

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those surveyed felt that wages are . ‘Poems ofall styles and on any ( L Waterloo North L candidates in inadequate. . subject are eligible to compete for yesterday’s provincial election and

Backing up these strong anti-’ the grand prize or for49 other cash municipal officials were accused of t business sentiments, 49 per cent of or merchandise -awards; Second’ ignoring the “real” housing issue those polled called for ‘+a%ew polit- place is >$500. ’ last Thursday at a forum sponsored

. ical movement to challenge the in- ‘. According to contest director, by the Federation of Students. ,/’ ’ fluence of big- business;’ Thirty- Joseph Mellon, “We are encourag- Candidates Jack Kersell, NDP;

cX three- per cent of the public -also ing poetic talent of every kind, and Ed Good, Liberal; and Bob Gram- agreed that “the capitalist system expect our contest to produce ex- law, PC, were charged with being itself has reached its peak in terms of performance-and is now the de-

citing discoverig 1” :; patroni%ig and with viewing hous- - Rules arid official entry forms-are? ing as a “privilege rather- than -a

cline . ’ ’ Only 20 per cent thought -available by writing to: World of social need” by Marlene Webber,ra that the systemiis still getting bet- Poetry, 801 PortolaDr., Dept. 211, social science professor at Renison ter.” s-

A small 17 per cent of the publics SanFrancisco CA 94127. College.

Contest closes November 30, _ Webber’s attack yyupportec!

>who said that the c+ndidates had a the point where developers can get _ misguided viewcof the housing the areas-zoned for high-rise de:

crisis and should:be directing their velopments . “Block-busting is the energies towarddearning who owns means by which developers can the capital needed to increase the buy- out property cheaply,” she

number _ of houses on the said. marketA“the people who are not ’ concerned with people’s needs. ’ ’

“There isn’t a very serious* tit- tempt by -anyone to do anything ’

Webber said that candidates about’ the housing situation.” were going through a “ritual” of Mewhinney told students that

~- talking. about housing problems ‘: Waterloo council-is working on a when one of the problems is ‘that - “minimum’ maintenance bylaw” new shopp@ig plazas and office which will force-landlords to ,rnake buildings have 20 per cent vamcy

, _ r&s. \ improvements to~some of the sub- standard~housingthat exists in the’

“Capital doesn’t operate in serv- ._ -ing the social needs ofpeople,

city, “This

. IX’s wrong to .assume that one- bylaw -will :- give -

municipalities the power to set party is moreconcerned than the levels of suitable accommoda-

p She said there is ndreal housing f-ion.” , ’ I ~ _ c --

Council is working. in co-- ._ scarcity-just a scarcity of people operation with the Federation of

’ who can afford hou,singl- Students on the bylaw, she said. I . Directing -a charge at Waterloo All the candidates talked about . h

\ alderperson Mary Jane -Mewh-m- their party policies on rent review ney, she said councils are ignoring or control.. - problems such as “block-busting” wherelarge oldhomes arerented to _

- students so they willdeteriorate to Artists- ‘- -\ --.

-Jrom page 1_ * c< ElaineSim, is a secretary in the - ----

. physics- dept. ‘The-other two “the opinion of our peers”. women are ElizabethLehman and

.-- In other business, council apl JulyTuscM. * proved a $4,000 grant to’the ailing They are putting- on their own -- National Union of Students which

lately has been undermuch fman- show because they felt “that there

* was& enough opportunity in town cialstrain. The federation will hold for independent artists to show .

- a referendum on NUS membership .I concurrently with the yearly presi-

their work;“‘explained Jansen. She also said that- normal channels

--dent@ election. = -- _: would have taken. too long’andthe I’ zouncil also accepted the -a& women might not ‘have:been a& .

,’ pointment of Art -Ram and Carl - lowed to show theirwork together. - Chamovitz as ,entertainment co--

’ _ ordmators, and Donna ‘Rodgers as The exhibition is-entitled “The- - _ _

Other Side Show” and will feature communications co-ordinator . The appointments were T preser$edto

charcoal and ink drawings zpastels, Y and- acrylic drawings.

- 1 I council by the executive becauseof -G . It opens ,on Sept 2 1 $,orn” 2-5 pm - resignations over the summerholi- -and willbe open daily-29 pm until

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REGINA (CUP&The Council of document however, the work of the Ministers’ of Education (CME) announced following its closed meet-

Task Force will continue in the upcoming yeZr, and will result in a

ings here on September 9-10 that it is requesting ‘ ‘immediate amend-

more detailed report “in order for -_ .- the Councilto have a clearer un-

ments 1 ’ to the Canada Student derstandingof the financial and so- Loans Act. ’ cial implications”3f new student

But the Council, ‘which consists aid policies. - of the Education Ministers from all Student aid consideration will- ten provinces, refused at a press conference following the meeting

also form part of the discussion this November when CME and federal

to say anything about the substance of the lamendments being re-

ministers meet, again in closed session. .

quested: - r And the chairperson ofthe CME,

Although CME refuses to detail what the proposed students aid--

BC Education Minister Eileen amendments entail,.they did state Dailly , in response to questions. . that aid for part-time stud&& a& about open decision-making, took a hard line against student or public participation in the Council’s student aid policy making.

At the Regina-meetings, the CME received what was intended to -be the final report of the secret Federal-Provincial Task Force on Student Aid. According to a CME

students taking .“short courses” . forms a part of the proposal.

It is also believed the recommendations dealwith: tying in student aid to other income mamte- nance programs such as welfare

’ and m&power retraining ‘schemes. As well, sources say the report

deals with the possible creation of a

--Na$onal Loans Cqmmittee to not complain about being excluded oversee student aid programs in

, Canada. because other groups, such as teachers, and trustees, were also

These sources also revealed that - excluded from the ‘Task Force,, the report and recommendations of which consists entirely -of senior the Task F-orce were forwarded to student aid officials. Secretary of State Hugh Faulkner “They are excluded so as to ex- on August 12, prior to the CME pedite our national goals far bet- meeting, and the provinces-feel the ter”, she explained. decision for implementation now . As far as CMEis concerned “it’s rests with the federal government. far better for each provincial de-

The letter, which was sentunder p&y-minister to get feedback from the signature of. last year’s CME their students which‘ can then be I chairperson Thomas Wells of On- passed on collectively to the Coun- tario, apparently’ stated that the.- cil of Ministers”, she said. provinces wanted- the Students Loans Act reopened “‘if neces-

Dailly was not able to speak for the whole CME on the possibility *

sary” to deal with the recommendations.

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-The CME press release, however, clearly calls for “amendments” to the Act, but whether this will happen or the changes will be pushed through as new administra- tive procedures is still unclear.

Alberta Education Minister Bert - ]

_Hohol told the press conference it

ose,d charges administratively was possible todealwith the prop-

I rather than-by changing the legisla- tion. c

The--difference in ;he two approaches is that if-amendments to the Act are required the whole sub-

ject of-student aid could be thrown open for .public debate, something

most federal and provincial offr- ’ cials appear intent on avoiding. i

Jim Gray and Elspeth Guild of the University of Regina Student Union passed out releases at the press conference from the National

-4Jnion of Students calling for student and public participation in student’aid decision-making. , L

The most vocal supporter of

The bale against the elements takes many f&ms. We are all familiir with the faithful snowshovel, but now the physical resources department has added Faraday’s well-known technique to their arsenal, It is hoped -that the electric heating -‘cable being installed -in front of _ Hum‘anities FGll wilbduce the hazards of snow and ice. It would & interesting to compare the cost of power to that of manual labour.

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that the Task -Force hold public hearings in preparing its report’ to the CME. Responding to a’student question on this, Bert Hohol of Al- berta said-that although he did not favour - ‘ ‘active student participation” on the Task Force, he called public hearings where “in&rested groups like NUS” could state their views, “an excellent idea”. 8

Gordon MacMurphy of Sas- katchewan said he was “open to the idea”, but Dailly claimed that public- hearings would be “too much”, adding that public hearings were not the business of the Task Force. ’ : .

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TQRONTQ (CUP)-The ability to afford suitible accommodation

and the tieing of this directly to th

often -determines whether or -not a cost of living “becomes obvious”

student will ‘attend college or uni- ‘ ‘As this school year progresses

it appears certain that more ant versity, says the Ontario Federa- more students will be forced to de tion of Students.

OFS spokesperson Dale Martin, x tide between a place -to slee? ant

their-stomachs.” in a recent Asue “of the Ontririo c ’ Martin believes the way to solv Student said that although the cost ‘the problem will be reaehel of attending a post-secondary in- stitution Continues, to be the prime

through a major effort by all con

deterrent to universal accessability” cernedmto agitate for programs tha will guarantee reasonable rents fo

to higher education, board and lodging comprise the largest ex-

ade/quate living space. But he main

penditure faced by students. tains that students should guarc against isolating themselves fron

And’ this expenditure, usually thegeneral movement for adequat about 60 per cent, is often the de- hous.ing at a reasonable c’os t.

_ tenninantior attendance. *. , “An immediate concern is the

. “Ways must be found to joi withs’existing groups ‘to articulat,

absurdly low- board and lodging allowance under the Ontario Assis-

the particular needs-of student ten ants, while. at the s’ame time addin;

tance Program”, he said. With vacancy rates of one per

the student voice to ‘those ahead:

cent or less in most Ontario demanding improvyd housing.”

By associating student tenant un centres; rents skyrocketing at anywhere from 15 to 20 per cent per

ions to existing community groups

’ 1 says Martin, the goals of raisin]

year; and food cost increasing at student housing issues and estab over 20 per cent per year,, Martin lishing areas of common concerl

,-says the need for an-immediate increase in the -“living allowance’~‘~

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“In no way must students fine themselves in a position of compet ition with the rest of the communit! for limited livmg space;’ ’ he says

According to Martinsuch a situa tIon would seriously jeopardize the chances for any positive change b! directing the attackxaway from the real culprit, the, provincial govern ment. _-

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TORONTO (CUP)-In a stinging ions, the previously deafening sil- indictment of federal government ence from the political powers economic policies, a top labour turned into a ridiculous cry for \ leader has accused the Liberal gov- wage and price restraints,” which ernment of compliciky with the really means wage restraints, she corporations to the prejudice of the said. , - Canadian people in general.

In her address to the Labour Day All was right when profits were

at an all-time high, she said, “but uncheon at the Canadian National when wages began to catchup l l . Exhibition here, Shirley Carr, ex- inflation and unemployment be- :cutive vice-president of the Cana- came an urgent problem and the lian Labour Congress said the politicians were free to attack the abour movement accepts the chal- collective bargaining system and enge made by Trade and Com- the trade union movement as the nerce Minister Alastair Gillespie cause. ‘to tell it how it is” withrelation to vage settlements which Mr. Gil-

“The way it is, Mr. Gillespie, is

espie had said, could “kill that you and the government of

lanada’s competitiveness and which you are a part, akted in an

rosperity . ’ ’ extremely i~esponsible manner in

i / seeking to protect-and to serve the Mrs. Carr quoted figures show- interests of the corporate commun-

ng that while the portion of na- ity against the interests of the ional income going to wages and Canadian people in general and of salaries decreased from 72.9 to 70.5 workers in particular*” - Jercent from 1971 to 1974, the ihare Of corporate profits had risen,

Mrs. Carr said there’ is no evi-

Yom 12.3 to 17 percent; during that dence that Canadian ‘exports are

iame period profits had risen an b eing piiced out of foreign markets

mprecedented 111 percent while nor that Canada is losing its ability

lverage earnings increased by only to compete internationally. The

5 percent. seven percent decline in exports in the past year is “due to intema-

Corporation restraint tional recession and not the loss of

“Where was the government our ability to compete,” she said.

vhen this w&s happening,” she “It is simple common sense that if the US. (our largest customer) is

sked. “Where ‘were the calls by suffering from boliticians for price restraints?

a recession,

Yhere indeed were the corpora- Canada’s exports will also decline

ions and those in positions of re- because demand-in the U.S. will

ponsibility within them to the drop.”

Canadian people? I would suggest No sacred cotis hat the corporate community was . Mrs. Carr said the Canadian ursuing its own selfish- interests nd the maximization of its

Labour Congress acted in a “re-

rofits . . . with the blessing of the sponsible and intelligent manner”

=deral government, for the politi- throughout its talks with govem-

ians stand condemned through ment on a consensus for wage and

1ei.r own silence.” price restraints and insisted that any program, if it were to succeed,

During the period in question, rorkers were tied into two and

must be equitable to& elements in the community including “old-age

tree-year contracts and powerless ) act, while the corporations were

pensioners, unorganized workers and&l those who are defenseless .”

chasing after every dollar they During that time the corporate ould grab,” Mrs. Carr charged. interests and professional groups

“However when the economic took no public stand, except a ycle turned around and these number of “apologetic utterances ltne workers could exercise their about their concerns”, Mrs. Cat-r zonomic muscle through their un- said.

“There can be no sacred cows or selfish interests left outside. If one group is to be restrained, then all must be restrained,” she said,

,waming that “Labour would never willingly bend its neck to the yolk in splendid isolation”.

Labour, whose very reason for beingis social and economic prog- ress, has the economic muscle to care for its own, she said. Its failure has been its “inability to influence the Liberal government to treat all groups in an equitable way”. “‘The lack of the political will to act in this regard is something for which the politicians must answer. ”

Keynes tossed. into history

. Mrs. Carr said Canadian society had undergone a “subtle yet distinct change” in the last decades. “The new interdependent nature of society, the world of administered prices and of supply and demand, all of which Keynesian economics assumed, has passed into history almost unnoticed,” she said.

“As a result~government no longer can push and pull on the monetary and fiscal levers” to control inflation and unemployment. “A new power structure is emerg- ing in which the financial community must now share its preponder- ance of power with organized labour. ’ L-

Ending on a note of optimism, Mrs. Car-r predicted that the share of national income going to wages and salaries can be expected to return to its 1971 position. “This is even now beginning to happen and when the cycle is complete the pressure on prices from the wage side will subside and the system should return to equilibrium. T y

ART GALLERY, - UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ,

Sept. 11-O&. 5 HAROLD FOSTER _ . “PRINCE VALIANT” Exhibition . An exhibition of original drawings and designs for the spit adventure strip, “PRINCE VALIANT” in the days of -King Arthur,” produced by- Hal Foster,: a Canadian-born artist: 1 From the collection at the George Arents Research Library, Syracuse, N .Y.

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Sunday, September 21, 1975 -7i30 p.m. Room 3006, lra/G. Needles Hall Graduate These are-the Council members for 1975-76 Robbi Howlett Arts Mathematics ’ John Carter

Alan Kessel . Doug Ward

John Long Gary Dryden

Mark Wills Bruce Rorrisor? /

, Denis Richardson ’ , OH-Term CQ-op seat vacant -’

Engineering H.K.L.S. 1 , Paul Chown Rosemary Postalian -Gary Oates c * Fred Wilson Albert Sweetnam - Don Banyard i *Hugh Alley _ ) \ Ian-MacMillan -_ I Renison (.

Barb lnnes Nunn Envirohmental Studies ’

_ Michael Gordon’ \

’ -. *St. Jerome’s Lois Lipton 1

- - Brian Miatello Co-op seat vacant

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Bill Brown 2 Science regular seats vacant ---

“Proxied to Len Tremblay Ralph Torrie - /

If your constituency representative has not returned to school, please .. notify-the Federation Office. Council Members are reminded to notify

the office of local addresses and to-hick up their m-ail. I 2

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Feds to take cohtrol of Dub *= After almost two years of politi-

cal and bureaucratic ‘haggling, the Fedqation of Students will finally assume till control of the Campus Center Pub “within the next week or ‘so,” federation president John Shortall said Wednesday.

has accumulated a deficit of over $l6,ooO and the federationI, in order to assume control of thei facility, will have to pay the university for renovation costs t I

The federation hds

ShortaIl said the new agreement with the university will demon- strate that “students can manage- their own pubs.” The federati-ori will be in chaSge of all financial aspects of the facility, including the hiring of a full-time pub manager,

negotiation with the u !

een in iversity

over the pub issue sin e Sep- tember, 1973, when the pkovincial government forced univetsities to apply for licences rather than special occasion permits.

involved in the running of licenced establishments on a university campus. But a statement made by the government last December allowed student unions and university administrations to reach management agreements over the running ‘of liquor facilities.

Only students, staff and faculty, and their regis.tered guests are allowed in the federation pub; this measure has to be enforced because of the type of licence issued to the university by the provincial

The agreement has a “mutual liquor licencing board. compensation clause” which will

dents were ineligible fro+ getting

ensure the federation against any I I

losses if the tiniversity licence were revoked due to some-incident at the other campus facilities, Shortall said. In addition, there’s a mutual pricing scheme between the federation and the university.

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Tests for 2 profs .

With all the talk about consistent admissioti standards to universities, a .UW senator p&led the classic switch Mgnday.

Rick Irving, a student rep,-on se-? nate, suggested that professors, not

just students, should be tested in English.

To wler. no riwponse last Friday, the c evron rati.an editorial expfaining its

-position on the Uenis n so caled Affair. And in fairness to the ‘unitiersity corn unity and in an effort to open.up debate on

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Renison, his space was left open for Renison prhcipaI john Tow/ r to give his version on the college’s rapid turnover of sta f. When contacted, Towler said he had no comments t make on the matter.

While the senate discussion cen- tered on the experimental testing of students in English and mathema-, tics, Irving said professors with a poor command of Engliih may be doing 8arm to students who take courses at the university.

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UW president Burt Matthews ackriowledged that-it was an “interesting” idea, but said he had never heard of any similar testing.

Last Friday, 1,800 UW first-year Quota$ com/i7s? A students participated in an exam which wti to test their achieve- The Council of Ontario ment in English and Mathematics. sities (COU) may. -h+Fv taken the ‘tist resdis are to be compared with the high schocil tnarki Of the studen@. About ha the fiist:year i’

niver- -that preference should be given to admitting qualified Canadian

another stip toward the e tablish- \ studerits while at the same time set- --m&t of a quota system for foreign ting aside a su@cient number of

students in its recent ado tion of places for applicants on student a m dass wrote the test. four principles for determining ad- ,missions policy.

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meant that the COU was accepting the idea of quotas for foreign students, Irish responded that “quotas may be acceptable,. but that is better than keeping all foreign students out.”

Fdlowing the meeting,- federation of students president John Shortall expressed theopinion that the COU was laying the ground- work for introducing a quota system to Ontio universities.

‘*Although the principles themselves don’t set a quota on foreign students, they can easily be used later to justify that type of sy$em,” Shortall said.

.JJo 1 you pass - - . - Marlbet Square?

Beatrice Burton need a ride to school. Beat&e Burton left

her late sixties, but sh decided to come out of retirement, and enrolled in a fmt year

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school f%y years ago. That puts her in

A program. Beatrice is excited at. e pros&ts of a three year program, with a

rnqior in Spanish. Her f stlanguage lab she said was “fantastic”. Her fellow stuc&nls are -just as Cllsoriented 8s me, but have more pizzazz * ’ . And she feels$he informality’of today’s students is all to

But with the transit she is finding it difEcult to get to school and is seeking help. She omes intc&itchener by bus and can be at

can help her out, you c reach Beatrice at 6534633 after 7:30 p.m.

friday, September 19, 1975 /

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The slow death ’ I - *’ .

While Kenora, Ontario, festers on the poison of racism, the native people are dying of the poison of, mercury.

Two Japanese experts on Minamata disease-environmental mercury poisoning-say the situation at two reserves near,Kenora is grave and shocking.

They found symptoms consistent with early mercury poisoning. Cats at White Dog and Grassy Nar- rows reserve are dying the same bizarre deaths as cats in Minamata and Niigata, Japan, before the disease showed up in humans a few years ago. .

The Japanese experts termed the Canadian govermental officials supposedly involved with the mercury situation as “irresponsible, indifferent, and (they) know nothing about mercury at all.”

So far, all the meaningful data collected on the subject in Canada has come not from government, but from concerned laymen.

“If you don’t start action you will have a more serious result than we had,” Dr. Jun Ui, professor of urban engineering at the University of Tokyo, told a public meeting at the University of Toronto in late March.

Dr. Masazumi Harada, of the University of Kumanmoto, and chief medical investigator of Minamata Disease in Japan, said, “The situation is very shocking. Please don’t repeat the mistakes we made in Japan.”

Dr. Harada showed a film of Japanese cats writhing in uncon- trollable spasms, or trying to walk on hind legs that wouldn’t respond. Many cats in that country dragged themselves to the sea and drowned themselves.

Before the disease was dubbed Minamata Disease, people of that town called it “cat’s dancing disease.”

Then he showed a film of a cat from the White Dog reserve. It was going through the same motions.

After their investigations in the north, the two experts then spoke at the University of Toronto’s Medical Science Center along with Chief Andy Keewatin. They told the general public it should organize support to force the Cana- dian Government to release all its reports on mercury poisoning and to stop the companies from further pollution.

Dr. Jun Ui said, “I think that in the Dryden (Kenora) area it is worse than it is in Japan. Here, there’s not as much mud and the mercury lies on top longer, while in Japan the mud covers it up and it’s coming out of the various river mouths.”

Dr. Jun Ui told the audience, “If it were this bad in Japan, people would actually be taking matters into their own hands.”

The two physicians were also shocked at the living conditions of the native people. “If people had to live like that inJapan,” they said, ‘ ‘they’d automatically rebel .”

People can get mercury poisoning by eating the types of food in the area: fish, ducks, and even deer which drink the polluted water and eat the poisoned grass along the shore. The disease, which attacks the central nervous system, has no known cure. It makes people act something like a drunk.

In 1956, when Minamata Bay in Japan was polluted with heavy metals, the people of Minamata took the struggle into their own hands and won an anti-pollution law which places the burden of proof on the company that it is not polluting. If the people can show they suffered harm, the company must pay 100% compensation, plus

of t72tWury poisoning 1 100% of whatever it costs for them to clean it up.

The two Japanese scientists pried out of Ottawa officials the information that a cat brought into the area and fed the same fish the native people eat developed Minamata disease within 100 days. The Canadian Government has said that the official results will not be released for 1.5 years. Dr. Ui said the pulp waste in Dryden was in- credible in a country that had been described to him as a kind of paradise with green forests and blue lakes. He also expressed surprise in the ‘ ‘large difference between the whites and the Indians, especially the miserable living conditions on the reserves.”

And, he added, “all of us were surprised with the meeting with the Standing Committee for Mercury Pollution in Ottawa. Some members of the Government are irres: ponsible and indifferent in their attitude. Some know nothing of mercury at all.”

In July, ten White Dog and Grassy Narrows people, at least some of whom are sure to have mercury poisoning, were brought to Tokyo by the Minamata Pa- tients’ Federation, composed of\ Japanese people who are victims of the disease. There they will see medical experts-doctors who know something about the disease.

Just a week before, Prof. Tadao Takeuchi announced from Kumamoto that brain specimens of two cats, one from each reserve, showed both cats had been poisoned. One of the cats had died with the classic symtoms of mercury poisoning, and the other cat was killed before the disease itself had finished it off.

At the same time,Jhe governor of Kumamoto prefecture in which

Minamata lies added 15 more persons to the list of 723 known victims of the disease. 120 persons on the list have already died.

Government experts have traced the source of the mercury in the affected English and Wabigoon River systems to the Dryden Chem- ical Company in its processes to supply the companion Dryden Pulp and Paper Co. mill. The company says it will be converting to a non- mercury system later this year “if the equipment comes in time.:’ However, it is inherent in mercury poisoning that the mercury will be in the water for generations to come, and people who already have the disease but who have not yet begun to show outward symptoms cannot be helped.

Ian Ramsay, director of Environment’s Thunder Bay office, confirmed that the mercury in the bottom sludge is expected to be a problem “for nobody knows how long.” He thinks the Kenora ‘ ‘problem’ ’ is going to be a longer, stretched-out versipn of the Minamata tragedy.

Dr. Peter Newberry, a retired Canadian Forces physician, has been at the reserves since last November. He tells of one 35-year-old man with high mercury readings, a man who once had hopes of playing professional hoc- key, who now has an uncontrolla- ble quiver in his upper lip, difficulty pronoucing some words, and is unable to balance on one foot with his eyes closed. That is the beginning of the end.

Grassy Narrows is just 50 miles from Kenora. It’s only commercial food supply is the Hudson’s Bay Company’s store, where food prices are about twice the rates in Kenora. A dozen eggs are $1.65, bacon $1.85 a slab pound, apples $2.35 for five pounds. The Indian Affairs Department had rejected a plea from Grassy Narrows for help in starting a non-profit cooperative store-the Department ruled such astore would be unfair competition for the Hudson’s Bay Co.

The Ontario and Canadian governments continue to sidestep the issue. On April 30, the Ontario government offered the Indians community freezers and access to uncontaminated lakes so they may fish to stock the freezers.

Recently, the standard don’t-eat-the-fish letters sent to residents of the two reserves were withdrawn. The universal advice now is not to eat the fish.

Ontario Cabinet ministers, nota- bly Health Minister Frank Miller, repeatedly told the Ontario Legis- lature last fall that “we told the In- dians to stop eating the fish.” Ac- tually, there were three letters -severely poisoned persons were told no more fish, while those less- severely poisoned were advised to eat smaller fish, and to fish in wat- ers with lower mercury counts.

The politicians and their scientific hired hands were stiIl saying that they lacked proof that the mercury is damaging Indian health. “We are getting more cautious,” they con- cede.

Besides, as Dr. Peter Connop, Thunder Bay zone director of the federal Health Ministry’s medical services branch says, “All the politics of the whole matter are very complicating factors. ’ ’

That includes efforts on the part of the government not to say anything that might further damage the tourist and sport-fishing industries of Ontario’s north, already taking lqsses in their profits from the temporary bans on fishing for food the Ontario Government issued in 1973.

As a partial and temporary

measure, native people at Re- stigouche Reserve on the St. Lawr- ence River in eastern Quebec announced it would ship freshly- caught salmon to their relatives at White Dog and Grassy Narrows. All costs of the donated shipment were covered by the Micmac reserve. In return appreciation, the Ontario reserves sent wild rice to Res tigouche.

Aileen M. Smith, who with her husband, W. Eugene Smith, one of the U.S.’ most famous news photo- graphers, had documented the

Minamata disease, tells how she had talked to her friends in Japan about what was happening with the native people in Kenora. “They shake their heads. ‘Won’t we ever learn?’ they say. I wish the Cana- dians could hear Minamata patients speak of Canada as though it were

just as close to them as any part of the Minamata area. I wish somehow that I could make those people in Canada feel the anguish in the eyes of the Minamata patients for the patients-to-be. ’ ’

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Ever since the 78th century when Thomas Ma/thus drew his correlations between population growth and the development of resources and concluded that population would inevitably outstrip production, there has been an increasing interest in the nature of the relationship between overpopulation and poverty. In the foliowing article which appeared in Ramparts magazine Barry Commoner, director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washing- ton University, examines the problem of world population and concludes that overpopulatipn is the result rather than the cause of poverty on a national scale, and that it can on/y be remedied by “returning to the poor countries enough of the wealth taken from them to give their peoples both the reason and theresources voluntarily to limit their own fertility. ”

by Barry Commoner The world population problem is a bewildering mixture

Df the simple and the complex, the clear and the confused. What is relatively simple and clear is that the population

af the world is getting larger, and that this process cannot go on indefinitely because there are, after all, limits to the resources, Such as food, that are needed to sustain human life. Like all living things) people have an inherent ten- dency to multiply geometrically-that is, the more people there are the more people they tend to produce. In contrast, the supply of food rises more slowly, for unlike people it does not increase in proportion to the existing rate of food production. This is, of course, the familiar Malthusian relationship and leads to the conclusion that the population is certain eventually to outgro\j the food supply (and other needed resources), leading to famine and mass death unless some other countervailing force inter- venes to ljmit population growth. One can argue about the jetails, but taken’as a general summary of the population problem, the foregoing statement is one which no en- vironmentalist can sucCessfully dispute.

When we turn from merely stating the problem to gnalyzing and attempting to solve it, the issue becomes nuch more complex. The simple statement that there is a imit to the growth of the human population, imposed on it ?y the inherent limits of the earth’s resources, is a useful 3ut abitract idea. In order to reduce it to the level of reality n which the problem must be solved, what is required is that we find the cause of the discrepancy between popda- ion growth and the available resources. Current views on this question are neither simple nor unanimous.

One view is that the cause of the population problem is uncontrolled fertility, the countervailing force-the death rate-having been w&ened by medical advances. Ac- zording to this view, given the freedom to do so people will inevitably produce children faster than the goods needed ;o support them. It follows, then, that the birthrate must be deliberately reduced to the point of “zero population yowth’ ’ .

The .methods that have been proposed to achieve this sind of direct reduction in birthrate vary consid&rably. 4mong the ones-advanced in the past are: (a) providing 3eople with effective contraception and access to abortion Facilities and with education about the value of using them :i.e., family planning); (b) enforcing legal means to prevent couples from producing more than some standard number If children (“coercion”); (c) withholding of food fi-om the 3eople of starving developing countries which, having Tailed to limit their birthrate sufficiently, are deemed to be ;oo far gone or too unworthy to be saved (the -so-called ‘life-boat ethic”).

It is appropriate here to illustrate these diverse ap- broaches with examples”. The family planning approach is o well known as to need no further exemplification. As to he second of these approaches, one might cite the follow- ng description of it by Kingsley Davis, a prominent de- nographer, which is quoted approvingly in a recent state- nent by “The Environmental Fund” that is directed igainst the family planning position: “If people want to .ontrol population, it can be done with knowledge already Lvailable . . .For instance, a nation seeking to stabilize its copulation could shut off immigration and pemit each :ouple a maximum of two children, with possible license br a third. Accidental pregnancies beyond the limit would je interrupted by abortion. If a third child were born vithout a license, or a fourth, the mother would be

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sterilized.” (Quoted from the Environmental Fund’s Statement “Declaration on Population and Food”; original in Daedalus, Fall, 1973).

The author of the “lifeboat ethic” ii Garrett Hardin, who stated in a recent paper (presented in San Francisco at the 1974 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) that: “So long as nations multiply at different rates, survival requires that we adopt the ethic of the lifeboat. A lifeboat can hold only so many people. There are more than two billion wretched people in the world-ten times as many as in the United States. It is literally beyond our ability to save them all. . .Both international granaries and lax immigration policies must be rejected if we are to save something for our grandchil- dren.”

Actually, this recent statement only cloaks, in the rubric of ari “ethic,” a more frankly political position taken earlier by Hardin: “Every day we (i.e., Americans) are a smaller minority. ‘We are increasing at only one percent a year; the rest of the world increases twice as fast. By the year 2000, one person-in 24 will be an American; iri one

hundred years only &ne in 46’. . .If the world is one great commons, in which all food is shared equally, then we are lost. Those who breed faster will replace the rest. . .In the absence of breeding control a policy of ‘one mouth one meal’ ultimately produces one totally miserable world. In a less than perfect world, the allocation of rights based on territory must be defended if a ruinous breeding race is to be avoided. It is unlikely that civilization and dignity-can survive everywhere; but bet& in a few places than in none. Fortunate minorities must act as the trustees of a civilization that is threatened by uninformed good inten- tions . ’ ’ (Science, Vol. 172, p. e1297; 1971). -

The Ouditv of Life But there is anothe;view o&opulation which is much

more complex. It is based on the evidence, amassed by demographers, that the birthrate is not only affected by biological factors, such as fertility and contraception, but by equally powerful social factors.

Demographers have delineated a complex network of interactions among these social factors. This shows that population growth is not the consequence of a simple arithmetic relationship between birthrate and death rate. Instead, there are circular relationships in whidh, as in an ecological cycle, every step is connected to several others.

Thus, while a reduced death rate does, of course, in-

crease. the rate of population growth, it can also have the opposite effect-since families usually ‘respond to a re- ducedI’rate of infant mortality by opting for fewer children. This negative feedback modulates the effect of a decreased death rate on population size. Similarly, although a rising population increases the demand on resources and thereby worsens the populatiop problem, it also stimulates economic activity. This, in turn, improves educational levels. As a result the average age at marriage tends to increase, culminating in a reduced birthrate-which miti- gates the pressure on resources.

In these processes, there is a powerful social force which, paradoxically, both reduces the death rate (and thereby stimulates population growth) and also leads people voluntarily to restrict the production of children (and thereby reduces population growth). That force, simply stated, is the quality of life-a high standard of living, a sense of well-being and of security in the ftiture. When and how the two opposite effects of this force are felt differs with the stages in a country’s economic developmenti In a pre-modern society, such as England before the inducttrial

revolution or India before the advent of the English, both death rates and birthrates were high, But they were in balance and population size was stable. Then, as agricul- tural and industrial production began to increase and living conditions improved, the death rate began to fall. With the birthrate remaining high the population rapidly increased in size. However, later, as living standards continued to improve, the decline in death rate persisted by the birthrate began to decline as well, reducing the rate of population growth.

For example, at around 1800, Sweden had a high birthrate (about 33/1000), but since the death rate was equally high, the population was in balance. Then as agriculture and, later, industrial production advanced, the death rate dropped until, by the mid-nineteenth century, it stood at about 20/1000. Since the birthrate remained constant during that period of time, there was a large excess of births over deaths and the population increased rapidly. Then, however, the birthrate began to drop, gradualljl narrowing the gap until in the mid-twentieth century it reached about 14&00, when the death rate was about lO/lOOO. Thus, under the influence of a constantly rising standard of living the population moved, with time, from a position of balance at a high death rate to a new position of near-balance at a low death rate. But in between thti population increased considerably. continued on page 12

Simply stated, the world has enough wealth to. support the . -entire world population. l l The trouble is tha)t the world’s wealth is not evenEy distributed, but sharply divided- among r l

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mo@erately w&off and ric much larger number of pet countries have high birth? .

This procesd, the -apti tr=sitian, is &ally cbaraevgistic of all western countries. In molstoftkm,tkbirth&edoesnotbegintofaII appmebly UntiI ,tk death rate is reduced below about .~IOfM. However, then the chop in birthrate israpid.AsimilartransitionaIsoappears tobeunder way in countries_ like India. Thus in the I . nudinQeteenthcefltuly,IndialladequaIlyhighbirth ad death rates (about 50/1000) and tk population ~8s in approximate baIat.uz Thea, as Iiving standards improve& tJIe @th rate dropped to its pres- entkvelof~~15~1ooOand~~~droppcd, at Grist Srowly and recei3tly more ra@Iy, to its present levd of 42/iooO. India is at a criticaI point; now thatdeathrateIlasreacbedtkauningpointof~t .20~1000, we can expect the birthrate to-fall rapidIy-provided~that tk death rate & furtkr reduced by improved living condi~ns. , ,

One indicator of the quality of life-infant mcn-tdity-is qxcially decisive in this process. And~tbtaeisac~~pointt~rateofinfant. morMity below which birthrate begins to drop sI~~@yand,apppachiqgtbedeathrate,,c.reatesthc . . cxm&wms for a balanced population. The reason is that couples are interested in the number of ri~&&chiIdrenandrespondtoalowrateofinf~t ~byreatizingthattheynolongerneedto haye nmre chiIdren to replace the ona that die.. Birth co&d is, of course, a necessary adjunct ‘to this process; but it can succeed-barring compuIsiob-only in tk presence of a rising Stan- dard of Ii*, which of itself generates tk necessary lmtivatim. -- \ -

TlGprocessappearstobejustascharacteriSticof devdopii counm of deveIoped ones. This can ksanbyplottingtkpMentbiiatesagainsttk~ present rat& of infant mor&ty for aiI’ava&ble natimd data The highest rates of Mtit mortaIi@ atein~countries;tkyareintherangeof 53-175~1ooO Iii births and b&hrates are about 27-52/1dMMk Iu‘tho6e czz5untries where infant&or&al-~ ity has improved somewhat (for exampie, in a numkrdrAmAmericanandAsjall~~tries)tk dropin~is sIight(toakut45/1ooo)untiIthe infantmortality reaches about lJQ/lMKl. Then, as - infantmorMitydropsfrom80/1060toabout25~1ooO (tk Qpe cham@ristic of most deveIoped coun- -),~~~~pssharpzyfrom~toahout 15-181i;00D;:*aratcufmmortalityof&011800 isacri&aItMingpoi.ntwhichcanIeadtoavery xapid&cIS%bir&ra&inresponsetoaf&ther reduction in idhnt mortality. Tk htter, in turn, is

’ adways vexy responsive to nutrition. Consequently, tkreis-akiird&mcialstandardofti~whlch,If achieved,canLeadtoarapidred~tioninbir&ate ad an apprpach to a biaIMced~~uIation.

Thus,inhumansocieties,tkreisabuilt*crw- trd IIJL popdation size: If tk standard of living, bhich~tkrJseinpopuWbn,cm&~to incmsek, tk$o@atbn [email protected] to levd ufKT%kdfke@aGngprocessbegkwiYthapopu- Iationin~,butatahighdeatbratemdIow standMdIi*.Ittknprogresscst&azdapopu~ latiaawhicbis~r,butoncemoreinbalancc,ata krarda&rateandahighstandardofIiving.

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~dop&cmnt&sistImtthSasicconditionhas not been met. Tk ex@natkEdis a @ct about de- vdapiqg ccmmia which is often forgo-t

4u~ywgr~recently,8odintheecuno~sense~n still ramin, c&&s of more developed countries. Intkcdwialpaiod,westernnationsh~d improvedIi~couditions(ioads,communications, eng+ehg, 2a&ultural and medical services) as p=mtbEircampaign~ incm!Betklaborfarce medal to exploit the colcmy’s natural resources. Thisinaeaseinlivings~‘~tkfmt phase oftk demographic transition. - . s

But mat of the resultant wealth did not remaiq in tk c&my. As a reuIt, the second (or popuIation- -.

balancing) phase of t$e demographic transition [email protected]~in tk CoIolly was largely diverted to tk add mtim+wkre it hdped that country-achieve for itself the second phase of the demo5@ic transition. Thus coIoniaIism invdves a hind of demographic parasitism: The second, population- baIancingphaseoftkdem~ctransitioninthe advanced country is fed by the SuppreSsion of that same phase in the colony.

IthaSlongl3eenknownthatthe~nclirve ofweaIthandpowerdWesternElrropc,aadIalerof theUnitedStatesandJapan,hasbeenheatiybased

-on exploitation of resources taken from tk less powerfid nations: colonies, whether governed leg- ally, or-as in the case oftk U.S. contrd ofcertaip Latin American countriesAy extra-IegaI and economic means. Tke result has been agrossIy ine-

, quitkble rate of deklopment amow the nations of tkworId.A~tkweaIthoftheexpIoitednationswas diverted to the more poweM ones, their power, arad with it their capacity to exploit, increased. TIE gap betweenthewealthofnationsgrew,astkrichwwt fed by tk poor. *

Whatisevidentfromtkabovecons~is that this pnxess 0finternaW expl0bth.b had another very pwerful but unanticipated eB&fS: rapid gruwth of the population in the fon&cr cd- onies. An analysis by the demographer, Nathan Keyfitz, leads him to conclude that the growth of indus~ capitalism in the western nations in the period 180&1950 resulted in the de&o-t of a one-billion excess in the @d population, largely in the tropics. Thus the pres@ world popuIation a-israpid growth of population in developing countries (tk former coIon+M tk resuh not So much ofpoIicies pllKk@dbytksecoun~~t ofapdky, colo~.explo+ati&n, forced on theni try de&o@ countries. - +

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vari6usalternativ&&IGdsofachievingabaIa&ed worldpopuIation?IaI@ia,therehasbeenaai& t4Fnshg,if~y-&~~te3torF two ,of the possible approqzhes: hmily planniq -7 procparns and efhts (also on a family b@s), to d&tetkIivingstan&ud.‘~ofth.ixtest show that WIliak iitnjly pJanl& eifixt itsdf fiBikttoreducetk~,iui~livi4gs~ dards~ed., _Y .

Inl944, aHarvard ttam -thefirst* -fieIdstudyofbirthcontrdinIndia.l%epop&ion

ofanumberoftest~wasp~videdwitlrcoa- traqptives and suitable educationaI pmgqms; biidCa;thratesMdbealthStatllSi.KlMequi- valent population in contruI villages. The study covered tk six-year @eriod 195&1%0*

A,f$Iow-upin1%9showedthattk+dywas-a faiture. Ahhough in@e test pop&%&m tkcnlde

, bi&ratedropped~4Oper1,oo@inl957to35per 1,060in@68,asimilar~ctionaIsooccllarradintk contrdpopulatioll.-m~~trd~hadno mei3surabIe effectoi t&&rate.

WenowknowuItytkstudyGil~,tknkatoa ranarkaMebaokbyMabrndMamrlgni~Ic$IL OfPqnWiom tbgrd, Monthly Review Press, New

’ York, 1972). He &es-. in detail the -of thestudyononeofthetestvikges,Manupxir.What Mamdani di!lcovered is atotd co~tion~‘~tk vkwlbatpopulation~ha~~liL;tfi depends on tk economicaIIy-motivated desire to IimitfertSty. Talking u6&tk Manupur w k discovered why, despite the s~dy’s statistica regarding ready “~” of tk offered Gun- traceptives, the birthrate was I.Bo~~&x&~: 7

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d to per&t the rest panty tells usis that ifthewealth ofth&world-(at- - countries. world?3 wealth agld the -waEwq.teagge. ButthdM- rdoflivingandlow l&st as rntmmedb~-~GNP)Lwer&i-b ehnly dish ,-Food plays a critical rdein these relationships~ b~~~is~tbe~disparity~bctwien~,.” - .s. :’ i tribyted amo@he pe@e ,pf the--world&e entire Hunger is $videspre$d in the worldand those who world% total wkaIth and tobl population. Rather* it . readily apparent if- world pol5ulation should have a low. birthrate- believe that the world’s resourc& are already ipsuf- - is due to the gross dlMIu&e iml&nce amongthe mship bet&en the- -about 20/l ,OOO-which would- approach that ftientto support the world population ci&e this fact n&ions of the world. What the problem calls fk, I of different coun- characteristic of most European andNorth Ameri- z as the most powerful evidence that the world is _ - believe,& process that now figures strongly in the dive’ measure of - cancoun~es(15/l-,800).l 1 __ - ,~ overpopulated. Conversely, -those who are con- thi&ingof%e~ftheThirdWorl&aretum 1 ta3 &Jeglectingfor a - _ Simply stied, -the world hasenough wealth to ) cemed3vith relieving hunger and preventing future -o~~~~eofthe~~sweaithto’the~~whose i JP as-a measure of support the ent$e world population at a level that - famines often ‘assert that the basic’ solution to that resourcesandljeoples h&&borne somuchofthe teagainstGNPper appearsto convfnce,most people that they need not problem is to contrd the growth of the world popula- burden of pr~odu$ngit~ developing countries. , , worest countries . have excessive numbers of children~ The trouble is .- tion.. . . . - pet *ear) have the ~ that the wqldk wealth is nutevenlj+W.r&uted, but Once more it is revealing to, examine actual data -. -‘MM& lArnong NlirtiOnS 00 population per __ -&u-ply divided among moderately well-off andrich regarding the incidence of malnutrition. From the There is no denying that this proposal would in- - , ;_ y- exceeds $500 countriti on the onehand and a.muchlarger number detailed study of nutritional levels among various volve exceedingly diflicult,~~~ social and ling abotit 20/l ,080 ’ of people that are very poor. The poor countries populations in India by Revel& & Frisch (Vol. lIl, political-problems, especially for the richkountriesl. ’ nations in .North have high birthrates because ’ they are extremely , LYlhe World Food Problem”, A Report of the ..Butthealt&&tivesoh&ionsthusf&radvaricedareat - I the USSR have poor, and they are extremely poor because-other President% Science Advisory Committee, Washing- leastasdilii&ultandsociallystressful. -__, -15=18&OOO-ht - w~trks are extremely rich. ’ ton, E&7) we learn, for example, that in Madra$ -‘A major source of&nfusion is that these div&se.

I ’ ,Lj State more than one-halfthe population .consumes proposed solutions to the population problem, , - ;. _ significantly less than the physiologically required whichdi.ffersosharplyintheirmoX%Qostulatesand

number of-calorie6 and of-I&em in their diet. How- - - theirpoliticaleff&ts,appeartohavea~nbase . -’ ever, the average!values forallresidents of the state _ iu scientific fact. It-is, after all, equally true, s&&i- represents-99 pe&entof the calorie requirement and fically, th& the birthrate can be reduced by promul- 98 percent\_of the protein requirement. What this - gathg contraceptivepractices (providing they are? means, of tiurse; is that asignificant part of-the used), by elevating living st@da+,‘or by withho& - population r&ives mere than the required dietary iug food fi’omstarvingnations. intake. About one-jhird of the,population r&ives ’ But what I find~arly~disturbing isthat be- - -’ 106 percent of the required calories and 104 percent - hind this screen of confusion eeen scientiiic f+t of therequired protein; about 8 percent of thepopu- a+lpoliticalintenttherehas~elopedahescalatrog lation receives 122 percent or more of the calorie , series of what can be only q$arded,.in,my opinion, - requirement and 117 percent or more of the protein aS inhumane, abhorrent-political schemes put fa- requirement. These dietary differences are-deter- wardinthegu&ofscience. Firstwehkl~l?s . mimqtl by. in&me. -The more than one-half of the- “triage” prop&d, whichwouldcondemnwhole-na- , population that is signifi&ntly below the physiologi: _ tions to death through some species ofglolml3e- tally required dietearnless than $21 per capita-per nign neglect”; Then we have s+emes fi#&er%ing ’ ,- - year, as compared with the statewide average of ~2 ~~e~;f-@tyv by #YS- =Wd .$33.4-o. ’ . ommously-left~ti~. ,N6w ‘2-

What thesedata indicateis that hunger in Madras’ wti are %old (for exan@e,-in thestatement of ‘YThe St/ate, dei5nedsimply in terms of-a signifi&tly in- - Environmental Fun&?) &-we must curtailr&her . adequgte i&&e-of caloriesand pro.@&, is not the _~ -> thanextendo$eff?Hstof~~thehungrypeo@lesof

-result of a biological f+.or~theinadequate produc- the world. Where will it er+Is‘it conceivable that - - tion .of f@. Rather,% the strict sense, it results th& proponents of coercive @@t&ion contfol will- .

fto@ the so&l f&on ihit governthe d&trlbutik of be g&did by%ne of ‘Garrett Hardin’s. earlier, as- - available food among the population. .- + ’ - to@&ingproposals: . -- - ‘., - L-

In the last year, news&& -stories of -a+al H~~au,webipafaicigi~~~aecr- -: - &miua @various part&f the world have alsosup- . -‘-popd~?clearl~the:~~ritamdaipd

-qpt&-fhe view hi st&-$atim is usdy-not caused fOga .,. .A,- bombs ~ouId bt k&w, FOG a&w-- - ,. by the insufficient juoduction of food in the world, 3BJQmeatst&e~wdbercajc,b8ttnoqldso8n

* bijg by di&-f&,c&ws t#ggprevent the-I;eqj%ed di&--* a6~ to au eruI fm*rm& oft&16~ triktion. of. fd.’ Thus, in Ethiopia mtiy&ople

’ suffehd fhi starvation becaum governr&nt~oflI-n ’ _ -Aals failed tomobil& readily available &p@ies of-‘: ‘*I%%&- ’ ’ ’ ’

foreign grain. In India, &cording~ to a recent New = , ,Therehasbeenab;;lqgatandingallian&between~ ,I ,- ; Jhr&S+es report, inade@ate food supplies were pseudo+ci~~ and- repress*, the N&is; -

-due in part from a government p$icy ‘wl#h-“re ~~~ctheories,it~be~iwetetofietested‘~ ‘-s* in a booming Macli; m&et, aqgg r&e-hQnent _ -% -iii the ovens at I&U&n. The evil Zdl+lW f& on _

among farmers and traders, and-a b&&down in ’ infusion.” - supplies? The reportaSserts further th&Plhecen- [email protected]~by~- _* ‘.

tral problem of Ind.u&rooted poverty+emains uny ,’ _ ingjtIlofthectirrentpopulationpropo&sfkvhat * checkeda;nds~tobi:gettingworse..For~third they are+tot scientific observations but value-- .

yearbut0ff0~r~~capitaincomeis.expected tr judgmeqtsthqt~8barplyd~~ews drop. Nearly 80 percent of the children are -.andpoliticalintentions.The&milypla&ingap-~ malnourished . . .T& economic torpor seems symp- ji%bacb if applied as @E exqhsive scWion $I thq -. _ _. - * ! tomatic of -deeper problems. Cynicisms is ram@n&-- ’ \ problem, would-gut the bnrden of remedying a fault ’ ---- -- I . r, -- the Government’s socialist slog- z+kal.ls for au- created by- a social’- and @#iiical- evil- >

/ The Rot& of Ht.~n&r~~~, stetity are mocked in view ofbribes and &rruption, -WhXhbl~V~M~~~~~indivicinral- -

range ill the way luxury tinstruction~and.vi&rdlyopen illegal con- I- of the evil. The so-calM> iw&bo& &c’Jsdi er year; birthrate - Inasensethedemog@&ictransitionisa tnibutions by businessmen to theCongress party.” compound the or&&al evil ofcdokknby fh ’ pr capitaper year; -tram- the availabihty of-a decent levelof re-- (l&w yiiilikm, Apr. 17,1974) ‘its victims to forgo the humkne course towatxla -’ wuQtryofall,the ! sourcgsFespicidy fobd, intq avduntary reduction _ Giverithese observations knd the over&fact tlkt ’ b&r&d kthre 18/1,000).

popumon, inlpmveanent.of living Stan-, . in birthrate. It is a-striking fact that the efficiency the ahotmt of food crop -is sufEcient to provide.an -~,oriftheyrebose;ti~fbemtodestruc- ”

to bring the birth- wia which sueh resources can be .eonverted into a adequakdiet to about eight billion peopl&m.ore ’ tion,_or even-to thrust-them toward it.- d B to the low levels reduced birthmte is much higher in the de-loping T -than twice the [email protected]+it a- to me nay own purely personal -ion is, like a&of- 5 poor countries do : co~tries than in the_advanced ones. Thus an im- that the present; tragically wides-pread hunger in the these’, not s&ntific but@&ti&& th&t theworld leastasmeasured, provement in GNPxx-capitaper year from let us qrorM-~~re~d~~evide~ethatthesizedf population crisis, which-is tk &mate outcomeS - :-U;& Achieving a say $682 (as in Uruguay) to $4-338 (U.S.) reduces. ’ the world population has outnrn the world’s capac- the exploitation of poor nations by e omqqmght one-fti of that of. - _ birtkak from 22]i,OOO to 18/1,000. In contrast, a& ity to produce food. I have &rady ‘l&r&d o&t&t toberemsdispby~tothepoo1:~~ r-thesekq~@r: cording&~&e above relationships if the GNP per we caqregad the rapid growth of populat$on iu enoughofthewealtbtakenfromth&ntogiveth&r , elationship, reach capita per year chara&rist&of India-(&out $88) ‘deveropingcountries~d~~~~v~-~ch .’ peoplesboth-ttiereasontithem ources-i*m- F@Euiopqwd' were-increased toonly about $750, the Indian birt& -’ .‘engendeF- it as a distant outcome of-colonial qy to limit their own fe.

rat&%hould fall from its actual value of about exploitahow polic$ imposed on the antecedents _~ Insum~Ibelievethatiffherootquseofthuworld .. - rthrate is 34/l ,OOO,- 42/1>ooO to about 20]1,000. To put the matter more __ of the developingkountries by ~the -more advar@d populatio~crisis ispoverty; thento end it we must hateofgrowthof'- ~‘simply, the per capita cost of bringing the staklard OIMS This plicy has forcefully determined both the abolish poverty. And ifthe dypoveayisthe veragecrud6dath 4 bf living of. poor cqountries with raljidl~ntqti~~ distriibution of the~world% We&than of imerent

ti grossly unequal distriibution w&l% wealth, then - - r

the world averz&z ~.populations to the levelwhica - . pO@btiofks, accumulating’most of e-wealth-in the _I : toendpoverty,andw$hitthepopulationcrisis, we’ - :r year-&level of hiiviour of peoples all over the world-would niou- WeSttXIJ c0iu+ies and most of the people in the must,redistribnte that wealth, among nations and 7 _1 of a number of na- vate voluntary reduction of fertility is very small, ’ remaining, lqgely t,ropi&l, ones;

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University Cathok Parish Mass Schedule

Saturday 9:00 a.m. Sunday IO:00 a.m. , 7:00 p.m. 11 i30 a.m.

7:00 p.m. Weekdays 7:00 a.m.

12:35 p.m. 500 p.m.

Confessions Saturday 6:15 p.m.

Father Norm Choate C.R., Chaplain Father Bob Liddy C.R.

call 884-8110 or 884-0863 , Notre Dame Chapel .

FRI. SEPT. 19-8 p.m. AUDITIONS-for THE WILD DUCK Ipro- duction dates Nov. 18-22) by Henrik Ibsen -$ directed by Maurice Evans Humanities Rm. 180 Rehearsals begin Tues. Sept. 23 and will be arranged to accommodate the acst. For further information contact Maurice Evans, Drama Director Modern Languages. rm. 121, ext. 2533 , Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students

SINGERS WANTED FOR SYMPHONY \ NO. 9 - (Choral) LmV. BEETHOVEN A SONG OF JOY for the University of Waterloo CONCERT CHOIR Rehearsals: Tues. Sept. 23 Every-Tuesday - 7-9 p.m. in Arts Lecture rm. 113 (Little/Symphony Orchestra rehearsals begin Sun. Oct. 5 AL 113) \ (String players needed) For further information contact Alfred Kunz, Direc-

. tor of Music ext. 2439. Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students

THURS. & FRI. SEPT. 25 & 26 - 8 p.m. THE CARETAKER by Harold Pinter , directed by Carl Gall “The production is performed with professional polish by all three performers, with Maurice Evans dominating as the old man. William Chadwick and George Joyce portray the brothers.” V. Stanton -

F K-W Record. Theatre of the Arts Admission $2.00 . Students & Seni.or Citizens $1.25 Central Box Office ext. 2126 Creative Arts Board, Federation of Students

MON. SEPT. 29 - 1:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. CANADIAN MIME THEATRE presents “BEYOND WORDS - MIME BY FIVE” I:30 matinee - admission $1 .OO (1 hr. long) 8:00 evening - admission $5.00

students‘and senior citizens - $2.50 Humanities Theatre Central Box Office ext. 2126 .

Intramurals: ’ Upcoming were rained out and rescheduled

for Sunday. - As with all tourneys, there

II burneys evolves a winner and this year Op- tometry defeated the defending ‘74

Dates to remember

Events and dates of in-

The following events will be held this weekend, weather permitting so come out and support your

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favourite team or individual. Men’s Tennis Singles (Waterloo Tennis Club) - Sat Sept 20 9-12 noon Sun Sept 21 1-1Opm Ring Road Bicycle Race (North Kiosk) Sun Sept 21 6:3Opm Little Olympics Track & Field (Seagrams) Mon Sept 22 6:30pm

champs, the Baseburglars. In the first final game, Baseburglars squeaked a win 2- 1 over Optometry forcing them into a second game due to the double elimination rule of the tourney-.

The second game proved too much for the Baseburglars as they had already played 6 games and had to bring in a cold substitute pitcher for the rest of the game. Op- tometry, with a pitcher and power hitters had a big inning where they scored 8 straight runs being vic- torious over the Baseburglars.

year*

Congrats to all teams who entered and hope to see all teams next

Men’s Golf Tourney: After playing Rugby: - qualifying rounds, Sept. 15- 19, championship rounds will go on Saturday and Sunday the 27th and 28th of September. Men’s Lacrosse Entry must be in ’ here by Monday, September 29 and tournament will take place on Col- umbia Field at 10:00 a.m.

Saturday “Through rain, through hail,

through dark of night the IM Last year, University of Department Tournaments will go Waterloo’s Varsity Football Club on. . . finished the season with a winning

This past weekend the St. record of five wins and four losses. Jerome’s Invitational Softball This year, with the nucleus of last Tournament was held. What was year’s team back, head coach, De- originally scheduled to be a short 2 reke Humpheries feels that this day tournament with the finals on year’s team will be a first place con- Sunday became the IM tender. The team is far more ex- Department’s first marathon perienced than last year’s, and baseball tournament for all teams many players have been playing entered. With the terrible weather throughout the summer with on Saturday, most major games citysides.

For the past week, practices have been held to condition and train players in the fundamentals of the.game. These practices will continue throughout the rest of this week. Humpheries hopes that anyone who is interested in the game will attend the team practices. He emphasizes that the club has two teams, all positions are open and no previous experience is needed to make either of the teams.

The Rugby Club is an independent club. The team known as the Warriors competes at the varsity level in the Ontario University Ath- letic Association (O.U.A.A.) against eight other Ontario Univer- sity teams. To be eligible, players must meet the O.U.A.A. criteria.

The second team, known as the ‘ Troj ans ’ , is composed of players who are not eligible for the O.U.A.A. or those players who need more game experience before they compete at the varsity level.

Throughout the year, the club holds numerous social events that are set up by the club’s executive. This year, among other things, the team is planning a trip to the New Orleans Mardigras fifteen aside tournament. This year social mem- berships are being made available to men and women (rugger hug- gers !). Social convener, Frank Zinzer, is encouraging people to enquire about and participate in the lighter side of the club’s activities.

If anyone would like further information about the club and its activities, they’re asked to contact Roger Downer ext. 3226 or Ken Brown ext. 2304 or go to Columbia Field, weekdays, between five and seven p.m., where practices are held.

The first league game this year is against McMas ter University, last year’s Ontario University seven aside champions. It will be held Saturday September 20, at 2:OO p.m. on Columbia Field. This game promises to be exciting-hope to see you there !

W *.F* w. S W R I T

E \ h/l II . N A R .

N Frank Gobpink, a former chevron staffer __

G with experience on a news daily and cur= -rently working for the Elmira Independent, will be conducting a newswriting seminar on Thursday, Sept. 25. All persons with an interest in journalism are invited to attend. The seminar will begin at 7:30 pm in the chevron off ice, campus centre.

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IJVV SWimmers str&gb’. ’ If first impressions are signific-

ant, I then Waterloo’s “Swimmifi’ Wimmen” should have no problem clinching their fourth consecu- tive OWIAA championship and with a little help from the Warriors; make Waterloo the “number one” swimming Uniyersity in Canada.

As training camp opened last week, coach Br@n Cartiledge was more than enthused. T:his year’s Athena tee is positively &inamic and thk Warriors are looking-. stronger than ever in their quest for the OUAA crown.

For the Warriors, the -watch- word ig depth. While having tradi- tionally been a middle distance freestyle club, they now have the power in most events to give the U

‘of T Blues their first real case of the . blues since 1960 wh&n they lost to

uwo.

The Athenas, coming back from a OWIAA win and CWIbU third place- finish last year, are looking for the national laurels this year. With only a skeleton crew the Athenas were able to pull off &I amazing victory ‘over the always potent Toronto squad. This year it should be no contest. The team is - loaded with talent. Last year’s co- captains: Maida Murray and Cathy Adams will be expected to show \ the way in the I.M. events, while veteFq Marg Murray will be the solid perfomer in the backstroke. Second year returnees Elaine Keith and Pat Goiozdowski will be* the strength of the team in the distance events, G&ile Daphne McCullough ‘and Marianne O’Neil should provicIe the necessary depth for the breaststroke. Of course bur favoriteboard bouncers ; Val Quirk and Sydney Bennett will be on hand to give the Athenas ;ill the help they need in that section.

Sprint freestyle, an event which tias been a constant problem to Athena coaches of the past, seems to have been resolved. Claudia

Cronin, a Kin-grad student with 12 years of competitive experience packed into. her suit, should be able to help the Waterloo squad in this tough event. Other valuable rookies that coach Cartiledge will be able to utilise in his plan include; Peggy Mattson-a native of Kitch- ener who should be able to give Marg Murray a go&l size hand in the backstroke, Michelle McDonald-a competent swimmer from Oakvi.lle_who seems able tm swim just abqut aFything, and Karen Murphy-a conscientious swimmer from EMAC who will be a real asset in the breaststroke.

~ Orillia who will add more depth to ’ th‘e middle distance events, Bruce ’ Lewis-Watts a strong all round swimmer who is exceptionally capable in the breaststroke and I .M. events, .Philip DerJieuw ‘a backstroke artist fiom*the nation’s capital, and Michel Brule from some- where called Smooth RockZ&lls where it has bec.ome apparent that he too can swim. Another Transfer student to UNIWAT is Claude

Xormier who is said ‘to be able to put together somee reasonable dives, will be helping Bruce Holli: day and Steve Brooks on the boards. Under the tuteledge of div- ing coach Marnie Tatham he will have the opportunity toIlbe of real value to the Warrior Squad. I -.

All in all it looks as if Waterloo is

The triumverate of last yea&

. in for an excellect year <iri the natatorium. Last year the Warriors were able to give the Blues a good scare, this year they will not be drinking from the champhgne cup

co-captains: five-year veteran for the first time in 16 years. The Doug Munn, distancefreesty!er Ian Athenas will take their 5th con- Taylor and dependable Dave Wil- son along with such stalw~ts as

secutive OWIAA championship. Then it will be an all out co-ed ef-

the entire season, the three foreig- a Jim Lowe who will be with us for fort for the National Title. As the

Cdach says-“ if firstimpressions ners on the team: Richard Knaggi, - are significant . . . ’ ’ . Paul Ahloy, Randall Philips, Dick , . +oney . Dago and second year returnees Alex Kowalenko, Raduz Jacubeck and Ken Edmunds will provide a sound basis on whkh Brian can build. And he most ‘definitely has \ the material to build-with. Rookies this year will play a big part in the ’

Any-women interested in joining the Varsity Team please contact

lineup, and they can not help but Pat Davis, ext. 3146 or come to strengthen the team. * practice at-Seagram’s Stadium at 4

New acquisitions for the War-, pm Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs- riors include: Jo_hn MacClean from days or Fridays.

THE UPPER CRUST ._

“Just work hard for the next 20 years, tin, and maybe you’[l be whctie I ami ~ow.“~

44Where’a that, Pop?“- rrm thi, aide of the machine+

Don Harro,n will be ~ / at the U of W Boo;ksiore -- , ’ 1 ’

- between 3 - Qm, Tues. Sept. 23rd -- / to autograph his book P t

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night are presenting perhaps their most ambitious progra yet.

hear one of Canada’s outstanding inor is performing-arts organizations, the

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Tickets are available at the Arts Theatre ‘Box Of&e at $3 for students and senior citizens, $5 for others. The concert is the first in a series of eight which the student can buy for only $10, sponsored by the K-W Chambr Music Society. The Box Office has information on

Formed in 1965, the Orforders “impressionist” effects nd im- have been playing together for ten bued with freshness, vital ty, years, during which the group has lucidity.

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risen to fame as one of the world’s The Quartet No. 8 of ~ Dmitri important quartets. Shostakovitch. the great’ Soviet

Its members, Andrew Dawes, composer who died-just lover a the series as well. Kenneth Perkins, Terence Helmer , mbnth ago, is of special i terest, ’ andMarce1 St-Cyr, have won vari- having been written w a rb suit of ous prizes and awards as’individu- the composer’s visit to the Hit-

* als, and last year the quartet won lerian death camps in E st Ger- first prize in the European Broad- many, and intended, to ev ke the casting Union International Com- “p horrors and to cornmemo ate the petition for quartets in Stockholm. victims of fascism and of ar.

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The Bee Gees, those charming crooners of at least half of all the standard AM radio ballads written

_ in the last eight years, recently found themselves faced with a rather large dilemma. While the onslaught of discotheques must have brightened the eyes ofnumer- ous music hopefuls, -the insis tent beat which characterizes disco music effectively eliminates the

I tender lyric content which disting- uishes the majority of theBee Gees repertoire. So, following a two year period in which the group failed to achieve any-success on either the singles or albums charts, the brothers decided to modify their sound, to hopefully capitalize on

today’s latest music. craze; and however unsuitable the move may sound, it definitely works.

Actually,%AIN ‘COURSE, the Bee Gees eleventh album, contains only, four outright disco-oriented cuts, wnd these surprisingly stand out-as the best songs on the LP. “Nights on Broadway,” the follow-up single to “Jive Talkin’ ,” opens the set with a heavy beat and some great singing from Barry, whocontinues to prove himself as a talented rock vocalist (listen to

-1 “Down the Road” from their MR. NATURAL album) as well as an ac- complished craftsman of we&sung ballads. The chorus is catchy, and

‘- although it breaks in the middle for ,a brief “change of pace, it remains

“FannryBe Tender With My Love)“, which closes out the first side, is less. a dabbling in disco than it is a standard Bee Gees ballad with a good beat. It manages to sound ,&h and full without any massive orchestral accompani- ment, and it evokes the sound of the old Bee Gees with a slight twist. It is the most instantly likeable tune

- on the’ album. In addition to the four most atyp-

-&al cuts on the album, the Bee Gees‘have penned two memorable ballads, ‘ ‘Songbird”, and ‘ ‘Baby As You_ Turn Away”, .two near misses “Country Lanes” and +‘Come On Over” and two solid novelty ’ items “All This Making Love” and “Edge Of the Unil verse” to round out the LP.

The ten songs are excitingly per- _ _-_ very danceable. Of course, “Jive formed by the, new band which - Talkin’ ,” their recent number one 1 consists of the brothers Gibb on

. single, contains all the elements of guitars, bass and vocals, and the a successful disco tune, with invaluable addition of- Blue Maurice’s pounding bass, Dennis Weaver, ex-Mott the Hoople, on Bryan’s constant drum beat which” synthesizers and assorted other is mixed much louder than most keyboards. His importance is most

It is “Wind of Change” however, and not “Jive Talkin’ ” which most obviously illustrates the Bee Gees’ new sound, opening with a patented Gloria Gaynor-like intro- duction which is recorded loud enough to make the listener momentarily rip off his headphones in deaf surprise. The song-is a perfect imitation of the popular “ahe- nation in the big city” theme, with lines such as: “Like me, there’s no room for us out there/You can lose

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Lou Reed’s Live album. One of the 1975. Each side of this’album is the - stronger comments was that I felt . this record to beindicative of what

same 16 minutes and 1 second long.

he was doing with his-music at that In summary it is 64 minutes #and 4, seconds of the w,orst musical joke.

point in time. Since then I have discovered some facts which con-

that I have ever heard. It is an ex- treme condition of ego tripping; for,

tradict this. Also Lou has released Lou admits, (only after the album another album, Machine Metal Music, which further proves the

has been opened), that most people ’ will not enjoy the “music”, \and

original statement false. I would now lik% to set the facts straight,

that at the least he just made it for ’

and apologize for the error. h&$,elf to listen to. There are other instructions %hich describe how

In the fast place, most of the band members on “Live” have

the music starts nowhere, goes no-

now been ,,working with Alice where, and after listening for only a few minutes it becomes obvious

Cooper since he began -his solo that the album is really nothing. career with “Welcome To My What Lou has done isto combine ’ Nightmare”. They have been re- ‘- cording and touring with Alice,

three different frequency ranges of

‘which makes it impossible for sound, (low, medium and high),

“Live” to have been a recent re- which come straight from an amplifier and mix together to form a

cording. For the record, these peo- twittering kind of electronic chat- ple are White Glan, Steve IIunter, Dick Wagner, (who has co-written

ter. The closest comparison would be the noise that -comes from a

over half of the songs on “Night- short-wave radio, between sta- * mare”), and Frakash John. . .

This band on “Ltve” is also the tions. In a sense1 understand--why

same one that Lou Reed had for he made the album, but I will never understand why he released it or

‘ ‘Rock ‘11” Roll Animal”, his previous live album. Also, there are no

why RCA record company allowed it to go out on the market.

songs on “Live” which date after “Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal”. The facts

To wrap it all up I’m not sure

are that what Lou Reed did here anymore what music Lou Reed is

was to take some two year old tapes into now. I don’t dare predict what

off the shelf and press them into an he will do next, because he may have committed career suicide with

album. The album gives’ so little in- these last two attempts. We’ll just ’ ,formation that it is impossible for * have to wait and see. most people to see what has hap- pened. - -

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It’s for -real ‘II . ’ ‘Engineer8 seek ‘uriionizatid-n status

By Larry Gamer Unionization of engineers received its

greatest impetus not during the Depression years but during the war years (1943-45). That is to say, it was not so much economic deprivation whicl+ led to large-scale unionization, but rather the .monumental change brought about by their employment on % mass basis in large warplants. The image the engineer had of himself (herself) as something approaching a “free professional” was inexorably deflated by the reality of having to punch in at the rime clock. Much of the unionizing effort was aimed, however, at re- couping &he loss of profe<sional status arid recognition entailed by this change. In many instances, engineering unions were formed during the post-war ye;trs in order to prevent the inclusion of engineers in bargaining units dominated by “non-professional” emp-

. loyees. On the other hand, the gains won by production workers through union action were o&en the catalyst that spurred on engineers to organize (in m, in order to main-

dn the wage differential between the two groups). Despite these features of engineers’ unionization which makes it appear a purely defensive maneuver (to define and protect their distinct professional status), basic structural transformations in industrial work processes were moving engineers in the direction of Unionization. First of all, work was increasingly’ organized by groups or teams of engineers, so that the concept of rewarding individuals for their personal achievements had less and less real mean&g. Second, the pressure to spe&Iize ever more nmowly left the engineer open to the possibility of being pigeon-bole&n a slot which, with a change in technology, would make his specialization obsolek. Third, job insec- urity became a built-in char&teristi~ of the engineer’s work by virtue of the fact that their employment on a mass scale was pre- mised on the continued existence of government cc@racts.

In 1947, as a result of heavy lobyi‘ng by professional engineering societies, the Taft-Hartley Act was amended (section 9 b 1) to allow engineers to exclude themselves Corn bargaining units dominated by “non- professional” employees, unless a maority of “professionals” decided they wished to be included. For. purposes of the NLRB a professional was defined as “one whose work is predominantly intellectual and var- ied in character, involving consistent exercise of discretion and judgment, incapable of standardization, and requiring advanced scieti’fifc judgment.”

_-. In spite of the Taft-Hartley law the movement tow* unionization continued.

In 1952 a national engineerins union was founded, Engineers qnd Scientists of America. ESA was more.& a central clearinghouse fw an eschange of ideas than a national union with the power to call a national strike. It3 main: objectives were to participate in the process of vreditation of engineering schools, to promote the licens- irlg of engineers, and to encourage &gineer- ing education, It also kept statistics on the’ growth of unionization among engineers. It estimated that by 1957 there were about 55,ooO engineers represented by cdlective bargaining units out of 500,000 engineers working in the country (this compared with over 70% in a country like Sweden); of these SS,&lQ, 20,000 were actual members of ESA.’

From its inception ESA was sprit into tyo groups: “Qne essentially wanted to form a pational labor unioxrfor engineers; the other

, wanted to form an engineering profeSsional society that would sequester the collective

I bargaining franchises and place them in cold storage.” This divergence came out -when. ESA had to confront tk question of mix@ unions (i.e. those which included technical and/or production workers in addition to engineers). This was a decisive question for

,,rnany engineers and test&the mettle of their class’ consciousness. At a time when the engineer’s distinct professional identity was being threatened by technical developments requiring a diminished use of “professional skills,+’ the inclusion of t&h&al workers in engineering locals aroused the fear that the engineer’s status might become indisting- uishable from that of the blue-collar worker. The mixe&.&o& di8ti f&V di‘spiay a high-

,er level of trade union consciousness than

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thi hbmogeneous units. Whereas the lat- ter emphasized the use of tactics such as legislative lobbying and public relations, the mixed unions were more inclined to engage in’picketing, to call’s strike, to adopt a union shop, and to call for higher dues and expenditures for organizing drives .-The issue c;tme to the fore when the mixed unions attempted to affYiate ESA’with the AFL-CIO. When this attempt failed, major locals (Minneapolis-Honeywell, Sperry Gyros- cope, and Westem Electric, among others) broke away from ESA and sought to.establish a connection with larger labor organizations at the local, level (Minneapolis- Honeywell with UAW and wrry Gyros- cope with the IUE). The schism debilitated the national organization to the point where it dissolved,in 1960. Soon thereafter decer- ttication of the unions at such major sites as Western Electric, Minneapolis-Honeywell, and Sperry Gyroscope took place as ‘result of NLRB elections; a majority of t % e en- gineersielected to withdraw from the collective bargaining had declined to 45,000 and the numbr of union members had remained conitant at 20,000 while-the number of engineers working had increased to over, 800,m.

Oppositfon to Unionizatlon The main source of organized opposition ’

to engineers’ unionization has been the -manwmentdomin&ed National Society of Profes$onal Engineers. This organ&&ion has m the p_rimary vehicle for promoting the proposition that union membership is “inconsist&t with professionalism.” It has argued that the “regimentation” and ‘Istan- d&&&ion” inherent in unionizatiort are in- compatible with the professionaI5 sense of individual judgment andlresponsibility in his work. As a professional, the engineer recog- nizes the duty to mait&& the highest standards in h@ work-a sense of dtity which is buttressed by a system which &wards him on the basis of his demonsmted individual merit. As a union member the engineer’s personal relationship with management would be replaced by a system of itiwrsonal rankings and classifications, an& Only those engineers who follow &e lowest common denominator in their .work would stand.‘to benefit. Furthermore, collective bargaining would break down the internal unity of the profession, since supervisory engineers would no longer be able to evaluate their subordinate colleagues in a non-adversary posture. The NSPE prefers “sounding boards” to unions; these labor-management councils wotid enable both p&ties to dis- cuss differerices in a professional manner, free of the stridency of union tactics. The longterm approach to improving the engineer’s economic status lies in fostering profssional societies which seek. to “raise professional qualifictitions” and to win greater recognition of engineers’ services from the community; i.e. the engineers reaIly need “something like the AMA,” as if they too yere -independent entrepreneurs s

Even without the organized oppos5tipn of the NSPE and other professional @an&a- -

. tions engineers as agroup tend to have ta@ a heavy dosage of “rugged individualism” that disinclines them Earn collective action: Engineering schods instil1 in them an iden- tification with the aims and purposes of management; they imbue them with a pride in individual achievement and reward that dverlooks the collective Supports which are the premise for individual creativity. En- gcneers generally fear that unionization would mean that salaries* and promotions would no longer reflect individual achievements; and the feeling is wide-spfead that “the mediocre people want them (the unions).” One opinion survey conducted in 1965 showed; for example, that 71% of the responding engineers rejected the argument that the need for a dnion was dictated by the reality of employment on a mass scale; 73% agreed that unions discourage individual achievement; 76% agreed that unions were inconsistent with professionaliim.

In addition, the great expansion in government expenditures in-space research and weapons systems during the late f/&ties and. sixties created labr market conditions for engineers which were highly conduci@o individual bargaining. From 1953 to 1960, for example, engineers enjoyed a 48% increase in med&m annual income, much higher than for males in any other occupation. Rugged individualism seemed to pay.

Engineering unions have tried to counter the argument that there is a fundamental conflict between the principles of professionalism ‘and unions by stressing differences rather than solidarity between workers. The contracts negotiated by engineering unions include terms which reflect the professional status engine&s believe they have a tide to: employer payment of professiond dues; paid time-off to attend professional meetings and university lectures and to fead professional literature; tuition refunds; - leaves of absence for educational purposes. Engineering unions intend to prove thattheir rnernkB are not “just anoither employee group.” Much of the individualistic ethos of , ti. ideology of professionalism also finds its way into engineering contracts in order to make this point. Contracts often stipulate the maintenance of certain qualifications in order to be able to perform particular tasks (“job standards”), thereby excluding those

’ without “professional training”; usually no attempt is made to standardize pay rates, but only to ensure that individual merit is prop erly rewarded; telescoping of pay differen- tials (lessening the spread between the higher and lower grades) is generally opposed; seniority as a basis of promotion is also opposed, although it may be adopted as um of the factors in determining the lay-off schedule; the union shop is opposed on the grounds that membership should be volun- tax-y amdng professionals ; percentage pay raises are preferred to?! ‘blanket” increases ; patent rights of indiviqual engineers are made a matt& for negotiation; pay detiands focus on increasing the merit pool and moving up the top salaries, not the bottom ones, on the assumpson th$$ the shopwakers will see to it that the bottom is pushed up.

~ Despite the unions’ support for the principle of individual rewards and merit ratings, a !number of their other actions generally work ko undercut this commitment. ‘Engineering (unions which are active bring “order, stabil- ity, aiid regularity to wage, job and person- be1 policy.” They attempt to establish “de- bonstrable and reasonable criteria” to serve ias standardized guidelines . for promotions pnd merit increases, and they publish data on ~individual salaries and the average me&t increase. To bring all of this out into the open ends

r to have a levelling, equalizing effect on

,salaries and promotions, since levelling is Ithe easiest way to avoid the appearances of (arbitrariness. l

Characteristics of Engineering Unions

Much of the power of attraction of en-

e local engineering union with orkers’ local in exchange and in most cases, the en- ected, for “professional a (although during the fif- g strike at Arma achieved

se the engineers pledged affili- Engineering Association of

e IUE in return for support at e picket lines).

Gharacteri#ics of Union Membership

Union membership does not appear to ,have anything to do with the social back- Iground of engineers (their class origins and education, whether their father was a tinion man or not), nor with their general political orientation (liberal or conservative political attitudes). Rather, it corresponds most clwely with the engineer’s degree of dis- satis&ction with his work environment (in- trinsic aspects of the job assignment; extrin- sic rewards such as salary and prestige; treatment by supervisors; adequacy of equipment such as laboratory facilities). Another s#dy has shown that the more militant engineering unions have a high percentage of their members engaged in routine, repetitive work and that a substantial percentage of these members possess a degree from a night schobl or have 00 degree at all. Length of tenure on the job also appears to be an important factor. This is to be explained by the fqt that in the engineering field salaries level off considerably after the first 5 to 8 ye& and that one’s job opportunities are limited by the narrow specialization en- couraged by the firm (a specialization that also threatens to make one’s knowledge and training obsolete With changing technology). Thus, receptiveness to the notion ofjoininga union appears to be linked to phenomena which are generally associated with the “proletarianization” of technical workers.

Professlonalisti and Unionism Nonetheless it could be argued aat there -

is more to professionalism than the ideology of professionalism disseminated by man- , agement. Professionalism also contains the germ of a sense of collective identity and consciousness which has nothing to do with its ideological form: the principles of rugged individualism applied to manage- m$nt/employee relations on a mass scale- The colleceive sensibility implied in the idea. of membership in a profession per- tains to,notions about the most productive use of one’s distinctive creative energies (or labor power). They entail a desire for autonomy: “the right to decide how (one’s) function is to be performed and to be free from. restrictions by non-professionals. ” One’s professional identity in this senge is often in conflict with the endq @nanage-

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from page 20 ment and capital. There are several cases to illustrate this. ’

In 1970, Carl W. Houston, an engineer employed by Stone and Webster, was assigned to supervise welding at the construc- tion of a nuclear power plant in Virginia. From his first day at the site, Houston noticed many defects in the welding of steel pipes which were designed to carry cooling water to and from the nuclear reactor. He pointed out to his employer that these defects were potentially dangerous. Loss of water through a break in the pipes would cause rapid overheating of the reactor, ac- cumulation of radioactive materials, and their release into the neighbourhood of the plant through steam explosions. Houston rep,eatedly tried to warn Stone and Webster in Boston of this situation. But his efforts were in vain. After two months on the job, in April 1970, Houston resigned after he was told by a Stone and Webster welding inspector that he was to be fired for “lack of experience in welding,” a charge Houston found hard to take seriously, since he had been a journeyman welder for twenty-four years and his engineering experience was mostly in welding. As of early 1972, he had been unable to find another job, and his court suit against Stone and Webster was flounder- ing for lack of funds. He believed himself the victim of a blacklist. ’

Or consider another example. In 1966 Charles Pettis was assigned by his employer, Brown and Root Overseas, to be resident engineer on a $47 million U . S .-financed road building project in Peru. Shortly after arriv- ing in Peru, Pettis suspected serious problems in the engineering design and discovered that adequate geological borings had not been taken. He predicted serious rockslides and pointed out that the Peruvian government would have to bear the cost. In spite of his objections, however, the contractor,

Morrison-Knudsen,proceeded with con- struction. Almost immediately afterwar’ds ,

, the rockslides did occur, causing 31 deaths. Morrison-Knudsen then asked Pettis to charge the cost of removing the slides to the Peruvian government. Pettis refused to do so, claiming that the slides could have been avoided and did not appear in the original contract. After two years of conflict between Brown and Root, Morrison-Knudsen and the American Consul on the one side and Pettis and the Peruvian government on the other, Peru finally terminated the’ contract and Brown and Root fired Pettis. Like Hous- ton, he has been unable to find work since (as of early 1972). He received many job offers, but the offer was always withdrawn after the new employer reviewed his job references. He sought but received no help at all from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Here are two engineers, experienced professional men, who held the public interest above the narrow interests of their emp- loyers. Both were fired; both were probably blacklisted. Hous ton’s professional integrity was of no consequence to his professional society, the ASCE, which like the other professional societies is apparently employer- dominatad. Would union ,representation have preserved the jobs of these two engineers ? Very likely it would have. Most union contracts prohibit firing without “just cause.” With a good union contract, neither one of these men could have been fired without due process and a fair hearing before an impartial arbitrator. And with a strong union organization, the case might not even have gotten that far. Here are two more case histories, taken from the same book as those above,-but both concerning blue-collar workers who were union members .

In 1966 Edward Gregory was a quality ’ control inspector in a GM Fisher Body plant

in St. Louis. He discovered a defect in the

welding of Chevrolet rear-quarter panels which could permit exhaust fumes to leak into the car. He repeatedly pointed out the defect to his superiors and later to execu- tives at the plant, but all to no avail. He only succeeded in being transferred to another department where his protests were less effective. It wasn’t until three years later, after at least four motorists had been asphyxiated in their Chevrolets, that General Motors finally recognized the defect and recalled 2.4 million automobiles for repair of the rear- quarter panels. Once, when Gregory was subpoenaed as a witness in a trial involving the defective cars, he found himself terminated upon his return to work. Through the intervention of his union, the United Auto Workers, he regained his job back immediately, as well as back pay for the time lost in court. He also used the union grievance procedure to try to reverse his in- voluntary transfer and recently won the case in arbitration. The arbitrator awarded him his old inspector’s job back.

Gilbert Pugliese is a steelworker at the Jones and Laughlin plant in Cleveland. On July 14,1971, Pugliese was ordered to pump oil into the Cuyahoga River, already described by the City of Cleveland as a “fire hazard.” Pugliese refused, and was given a five-day suspension with discharge likely to follow. His nearest union representative, the assistant chief grievance official, was unwil- ling to help. But his fellow workers threatened a walkout unless Pugliese was hired back, and the chief grievance official then stepped into the case. Two days later, Pugliese was reinstated with back pay. He found that J & L was now using drums to dispose of the oil-which was the same solu-

tion he himself had recommended. The interplay between tendencies moving

in the direction of greater worker initiative and greater ‘ ‘proletarianization” is perhaps the key element for gauging the union movement among technical workers. The working class is still far from being homogeneous in its work conditions, and unions must take a differentiated approach to technical workers if they are to meet with success. The approach should take into ac- count at least the following differences in work conditions among technical workers : (1) workers in repetitive, fragmented jobs with’regulated rhythms (so many operations per unit of time); (2) workers with margins or discretion in their work within the framework of subordinate tasks which no organizing or rule-making power; (3) workers with innovative functions (new products, new technology, new information systems) who have a large measure of discretion within a narrowly defined field of action, both in substantive and methodological terms; (4) workers in management functions with large margins of discretion within narrowly defined tasks and fields of competence (here the standards of efficiency are not technical-professional but those of the ends set by the firm); (5) researchers with non- repetitive tasks but highly fragmented and specialized, lacking autonomy in the choice of their activity and often subordinated to hiearchical structure of authority. The de- mands of the workers are likely to differ according to where the workers are situated along this continuum of “proletarianization”.

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,PSI by Robert Anton Wilson

A British paraps ychologis t with a string of academic credentials long enough to choke a horse and a young mind-reader described by the Continental press as “the English Uri Geller” are preparing a book they claim will be “the Watergate of the occult world.”

The parapsychologist, Dr. Peter Bander, editor of Psychic World is an expert on criminology as well as ESP and spook stuff. He is alarmed about growing signs that governments are moving in on the psychic world, monopolizing it and perverting it toward a new kind of international terrorism even worse than the nuclear arms race.

The young psychic, 19 year old Matthew Manning, is equally concerned and had demonstrated powers that make him even more astounding than Uri Geller . Some have even said that he seems to have all the psychic abilities of Geller, of clairvoyant Peter Hurkos and -of Edgar Cayce combined-and perhaps even more.

Like Geller, Matthew Manning can bend metal and change its molecular structure without touching it. He has demonstrated this to several scientific groups and, after observing Manning perform for the New Horizons Research Foundations in Toronto, Nobel Prize physicist Dr. Brian Josephson exclaimed, “A redefinition of reality and nonreality is needed now. “. .We are on the verge of discoveries which may be extremely important for physics. We are dealing here with a new kind of energy.”

Like Hurkos, Matthew Manning can read mindsat a distance and (according to tests by Prof. Hans Bender in Germany) with a greater accuracy than ever recorded by any other psychic in the history of parapsychological investigation.

Prescriptions Like Cayce, Matthew Manning can diag-

nose and presc-ribe for patients he has never seen, although he has no training in medicine. (Unlike Cayce, Manning has learned the identity of the “entity” working through him in these medical miracles. It calls itself Dr. Thomas Penn, but “Penn” has never revealed whether he lived in the past, in the future, or in another dimension.)

Matthew has a bundle of other documented “wild talents.” Hecanproduce automatic drawings in the styles of Picasso, Durer, Goya and other masters; write in languages he has never studied, such as Arabic,. Japanese and Russian; cause knives, vases and even heavy beds and dressers to float around like ballerinas. He also received messages from various dead saints of the Greek Orthodox Church (some of them con- taining information known only by Arch- bishop Athenagoras, who takes these messages very serioualy), from 593 past in- habitants of the village in which he lives and

. from entities who signed themselves in as Samuel Pepys, Winston Churchill and even agnostic Bertrand Russell (who has changed his mind-naturally enough-about personal survival after death.)

To top it all off, on three occasions when Kirlian photographs were taken of the energy unleashed by Manning, the Kirlian machines were blown out.

I met with Matthew Manning and Dr. Bander during their recent visit to the Bay Area to plug their current book, The Link (Holt Rinehart, $7.95 .) Although impressed by the scientific reports on Matthew included in the book, I asked for a personal demonstration

Matthew went to one end of the hotel

room and I went to the other. I started to draw a sketch which he attempted to pick up telepathically: I considered a star, but couldn’t decide whether to make it one point up (White magick) or two points up (Black magick) and instead drew a tetrahedron.

Matthew showed me his sketch. He had drawn the one point up star, the two point star and two tetrahedrons interlinked.

We tried again. I drew a pair of concentric circles with two dots inside the inner circle.

Matthew, across the room, drew a pair of concentric circles with a series of dots in between them.

I next asked for a consultation with the mysterious Dr. Thomas Penn, who diag- noses on the basis of birthdays only. Unfor- tunately, I slipped up and instead of giving the birthday of my eldest daughter, as I’d intended, I gave the birthday of my second daughter. _

“Dr. Penn” was befuddled, evidently. He wrote several lines which applied to neither daughter-but they all applied to me. He duplicated in exact detail the diagnosis of my lower leg problem recently given by my or- thopedis t.

‘At this point I was convinced’ Matthew Manning was the real article and not just a clever stage magician who had been going around duping credulous scientists . Any- way, I have never really believed that clever stage magicians can dupe scientists, who are usually quite incredulous.

Dr. Bander had been a friend and counsellor to Matthew Manning (and his occasion- ally worried parents) ever since Matthew’s powers first appeared, in the form of pol- tergeis t disturbances, when Matthew was 11 years old.

I began discussing the scientific implica- tionsof Matthew’s powers with Dr. Bander and somehow we got onto the subject of government persecution of dissident scientists. Among those discussed were Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who was jailed as a fraud when he discovered the bio-energetic field in the 1950’s only to be posthumously confirmed by Kirlian photography in the Six- ities, and Dr. Timothy Leary . (currently among the missing.) /

Occu It Watergate Dr. Bander then dropped a little

bombshell. He told me about the new book he and Matthew are preparing which he de-

scribed as ‘ ‘an occult Watergate. ” “The real truth about governments and

occult science will be even bigger than Watergate,” he said grimly.

Among other things, Dr. Bander said, the book will deal with attempts to force Matthew to work for the Ministry of De- fense; which Matthew, as a pacifist, refused.

1971-Dr. James E. MacDonald, who had been at the 1953 meeting in which the CIA browbeat the Air Force into the negative UFO position, and who thereafter fought long and hard to have the relevant documents declassified, is found dead of a gun- shot wound. Verdict: suicide.

Shortly thereafter Matthew was persuaded to perform for scientists at London University, only to discover that they were operating under a grant from the Ministry of Defense. Matthew and Dr. Bander indig- nantly withdrew.

After this incident Bander issued a public statement saying:

1973-Uri Geller, after being accepted as genuine by several scientific groups in a dozen nations, begins to talk about his extraterrestrial contacts and their attempts ta promote world peace. The Rockefeller owned Time magazine launched a long ven- detta against Geller, alledging that he is only a stage magician, and that the many dis ting- uishedscientists who have endorsed himare incompetent clods.

“Neither Matthew Manning nor I intend to work under the auspices of any defense organization and/or participate in experi- ments which could conceivably become ‘classified information.’ We believe that any gifts or abilities which may be discovered should be made known and available to scientists and be used for the benefit of man- kind.”

1973-Dr. Timothy Leary announces his contact with extraterrestrial higher intellig- ences via telepathy. Dr. Leary is removed from the prison system and held incom- municado ever since.,

view/demonstration had taken place. Dr. - Bander showed me aletter, on the letterhead

American end will start to blow up, too.

of Lady Teresa Rothschild, requesting The CIA probably isn’t reading yourmind

Matthew to meet with Lord Rothschild. yet; but they almost certainly are trying.

(reprinted from Berkeley Barb)

That was when the real trouble started. Dr. Bander claims that agents of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch have infiltrated his

business office under fake credentials rep- resenting themselves as scientists. Further- more, he asserts, his phone has been repeatedly tapped, veiled threats against Matthew have been made by government officials , the CIA had been investigating and trailing them around and a letterbomb has been sent to Matthew.

1975-Saturday Re?iew Press and Dutton: two respectable and unsensational pub- lishers , release The Mothman Prophecies, by reporter John Keel. Keel, in interviews with a number of UFO contactees, receives basically consistent *portraits of the alleged “Men in Black” who have been repeatedly described in sensational tabloids. The “Men in Black” have been intimidating UFO contactees, seizing evidence, and breaking laws for over three decades now, and Keel does not think they are a hallucination of the “kooky’ ’ contactees . What governmeni bureau is able to act above the law in this way and even treat the Air Force and FBI with contempt?

Matthew confirmed all this for me and implied that there was much more of the same, which they don’t care to release at this time. “The Ministry of Defense wants to control these powers and use them destructively,” he charged flatly. (A week later, Uri Geller gave precisely the same warning on the “All The People” TV show over Channel 2, Oak- land .)

Matthew added that he had been cajoled into a private demonstration of his powers for Lord Rothschild, chairman of the Think Tank (real name, not slang), the English

equivalent of our Rand Institute, where War Games strategy is decided. Lord Rothschild later denied that such an inter-

I have had it on excellent authority that for some years now, the U.S. government is heavily involved in research using psychics and “sensitives” for war like purposes. One of my sources is Isaac Bonewits, first man to graduate from University of Cal with a degree in magic and editor of the nation’s largest selling occult newspaper, Gnostic News. The other is a Ph. D in physics who has asked me not to use his name. Both tell basically the same story: the research is heavily funded. Top Secret, has produced amazing results and goes hand in hand with a

1 policy of discrediting or harassing occult researchers‘who won’t join the War Game.

If Matthew Manning and Dr. Bander blow the roof off the English end of this, then the

This is especially interesting to those who believe in the Round Table conspiracy, al- legedly founded by banker Cecil Rhodes ir 1888. According to this theory, the Rothschilds, acting through the Royal Insti tute for International Affairs, and the Rock. efellers, acting through the Council or Foreign Relations, have largely staffed the English and American governments with their own hand, picked servants all through the 20th Century. Oddly, both the Birchers and the Weather Underground have pub. lished documentary exposes of this “conspiracy.” Highest Psychic

The real pressure on Matthew Manning to force him to work for the government began after the tests by Prof. Hans Bender in Ger- many. These tests showed that Matthew scored higher than any previous psychic in reading the minds of subjects over ten miles away.

According to Dr. Bander, an English official told him that since his home was only five miles from Checkers (the Prime Minister’s country estate) there could be nc more internal security until Matthew became a government employee. Dr. Bander insists that this was accompanied by an implied threat in the form of a remark about how many young people die in auto acci- dents everyyear.

An interesting chronology appears in the following:

1956-Dr. Wilhelm Reich, after years of persecution by the AMA, is finally hustled off to jail, right after announcing his contacts with UFOs. He quickly dies of a heart attack, which some of his admirers still claim was suspiciously opportune* for his captors.

1953-The CIA dictates to the Air Force that a negative and skeptical policy on UFOs must be adopted. Maj. Dewey Fourno and Capt. Ed Ruppelt later leave the Air Force and subsequently announce that the evidence collected by “Project Bluebeard” supports the extraterrestrial hypothesis of UFOs.

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CIA in- the Chevron . -- . Large articles have appeared in the chevron lately about CIA Assassination plots. How-

ever, the Rockefeller report turned up definite plots on only one foreign leader: Fidel Castro of Cuba. All other plots range from speculation, in the case of Dominican dictator Trujillo, to pure fantasy in the case of Kennedy.

Because it is unlikely that the Soviet government will launch a public investigation of SMERSH, a division of their KGB (formerly known as the NKVD, and the CHEKA) of the KGB itself, the chevron could write an article on this topic, in the interests of equal representation.

.The article “Whiplash turns down Eng. Sot. pub performance” depicted all engineering students at the University of Waterloo as perverted sexists, Such stereotyping is uncalled l for, it is the actions of a few outspoken engineering students in Eng. Sot. which are pushing (i.e.Enginews) bl a ta t not for.

n sexist and racist! propaganda of which many engineering students are

The meek majority is following the outspoken minority. It must be made known that this degrades the image of engineering students who are (in most cases) studious, individualistic . (as exemplified by the article *“Omigod!” by Len Trembley , 3A Electrical Engineering), _ non-racist and non-sexist.

Also, I wonder if Whiplash and Judy McMillan forgot about the women that are in . . . . v-v B . l

engmeenng at Waterloo. Are they also targets for this criticism? - -

There are many questions to be-asked and answered on these issues. 5 I would appreciate it if you could put the’attached summary in the next issue. of the

Chevron and if it is put in, I would like to receivesa copy of that issue and the following issue to see what reaction it had brought about. ~

To conclude, I would like to add that the July 1 lth issue had many very interesting articles (i.e. on housing, co-op and government vs. student). Keep up the good work!

\ Jerry Horban 28 SystemaDe@gn

Engr’neer slams engiireels - \ This letter is in regards to a pair of articles in the July 1 lth issue of the Chevron. On receiving this and only this issue of the Chevron on my work term I read it over quite

thoroughly. I then came across two articles that interested me from the standpoint of an engineering student.

While people may seem shocked at the thought of foreign political assassination, an assassination of Adolf Hitler in the early 30’s, before he transformed Germany into a fascist state, may have saved the lives of the six million Jews who were murdered at his command, and the 15.3 million people who were killed during World War II. An assassinatiorr of Mao before the Communists took power may have saved the lives of the six million to 36 million Chinese that were murdered by that party between 1949 and 1973. (A large percentage during the ‘?Great Leap Forward”). Andan assassination of Lenin before he returned to Russia in 1917 may have saved the lives of the 15 million to 25 million people thatwere killed by the.

’ Bolsheviks,-mostly in the waves of 1929-30, 1937-38, and 1946-48. These last figures come’ fi-om “The Gulag Archi$lago” by Solzhenitsyn. .’

One last-word to those chevron writers who might try to justify these killings; I would rather be alive and “exploited” than dead and “liberated”. I Stephen Coates

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1 the chevron editorial staff. Off icqqre located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, . I know mostofthe people whosenames appear in the chevron. I know themas persons, not or university local 2331.

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as the president of acertain association, but probably they don’t know who I am because I am , always so ,si.lent in theirmeetings. They would never know I have such, a strong feeling for

lf you didn’t vote yesterday don’t fret, your vote wouldn’t ha%e made the slightest bit of difference. Elections are meaningless,thatls the truth. Here’s an excerpt from a pam-phlet circulated in the

everyone ofthem. One day after class, John helped me to look for my handbag. (If they had known him as a

Twin Cities on the provincial election: “We hear things that are wrong with government: personal corruption; strategies and laws that fall to deal with social and economic problems; a machio.?

person, they would not have been physically violent to him.) The other day I saw Barb’ like bureaucracy operating without feelings. We are told that these problems will disappear if we

talking affectionatel,y to her little daughter and a few minutes later she presented herself asa elect a dlfferent party to-power, or that these are only temporary failures and will clear away if we

capable woman of great leadership in a meeting; and the International Counsellor is just a continue to have faith in our government:’ “ No political party ever ties all these factors together,

sweet little girl when we talk on a personal basis, although she made me feel that I was her for, if we were to look solidly at all these problems and realize how often they have been repeated,

worst enemy as I discussed the recent Immigration Issue with her. we would glve up in disgust on all politicjans. We can already begin to see through t

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I don_‘t know what is in the chevron that keeps on reminding me that I am an alien here in. language, and how they have made promises to us time and time again and which they h e failed to keep.” “ When

Canada. we vote we are entrusting decisions concerning our lives to a small group of

I tprofessional politicians. They see it as their business to hain control not only over the money spent in our c&stituency, but also over our activjtles and f&doms. They also &e their business as so important as to run oureducation and as to decide how much and what kind of services will be available to us, despite the fact that we pay for thoseservices.” Sums’ It all u$in a nutshell, right? Helping out this week were: henry hess, glen dewar, doug ward, gary robins, who was left out last week, diane ritza, Sylvia hauck, who’s hopefully getting better, neil docherty, donna harlamow, llbby warren, bill mccrsa, john sakamoto, john mahoney, stan:gC?Js++dirn carter, emest von bezold, Charlie farquason, who dropped in to say hello and who’s he anyway, and ’ randy hannigan. s I . --

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I felt empty and futile after I read the chevron. Everything in the chevron is so matter-of- fact. I believe that in life, there is a lot more. than just facts. Individuals attack individuals, groups attack groups. Ever since I learned to stop using my mind for a few minutes, and concentrate on feeling every part of my body; feeling how the air passes through my nostrils ’ into my lungs; feeling the other person’s eyes; feeling my hair brushing on my neck; I no longer need the intellectual games to fill-up my mind. ,

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/ --_ We can also write and pub& Working for the student newspaper can be- both a learning ex- - problem&at presently beset’-

perien& and an occasion to meet lots of interesting people. It can provide you with essential writing and verbal skills which tindoub-

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tedly will be of some us&when you leave university. Ii can sharpen of adequate housing which affec students, and the nutrition value

your senses to the myriad of problems facing society today. And it supermarkets. Students by dint allows you to put youi thoughts into words so otbr,s can share your . provide society with proposals wt r ideas. * _ some of the above problems.

‘The hrndion of the student newspawr is .primarily to ask and ~~tho& q-s which are not raised elsewhere; questions

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coneming the way a university is run, forexample, or ttW operations larwly an quired a&&d you dd

of astudeagavernment, or the meaning an&purpose of education, mat m to b @j. Even if yob

Student nev unbound -by the restrictions that shackle the of course, there’s (ots more you c

daily press, &re free io enquire into the structure Of-the university, such tasks as mpy+&ing 0~ typi

and to challenge the underlying assclmptions upon which the School home doing page design, photo dozen other ming pastimes,

system has been built by its parent society. N is dearty not enough.simply’io accept the notion of the uniVer-

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sity as knowMge.dispensary, as a r&e peparation for lite in the This year’s chevron is co&r

“rd’ w&l. m years speflt stdying must a&i be employed irl Fe&ration of Stud&@ b-et, ;

examining the nature of that world and-often qbestbing tb roles one half doll& m -dent. This

which it c&s on us to fill, as m-n and women,’ as histcirians or

goes to pay m1-s for t&m full &ninistrativ~ costs, and those

m&har$cai engine&s, as teachers or layaboutsl We must also look minor, which are necessary to k at thosewho, unlike-us,-have never-been inside a university, rqcog- $59,000 in @nEng and publishi @zing that it is--often no more than wealth and social class that _ revenues. . ’ sepqte oursehres.from them. I

Thugh a ~wspaper; we can bring all the&matters f6 discus- It’s a lot-*f money.z~nfOrtunate

&on w&h every other member. of the ‘Mudent .body, and-so’ bfing just monby to make the ch@~roa for the students who pay for fi. Lik.

ourse)re~ m a common understanding of the factors govern- tion, the dre~mn is hays in MS irig them. is-we’d like to have you work@

y, it takes a good deal more thar a useful and meaningful service any volunteer student vganiza- I of student volunteers. So here-it with us on the chev.Wn.

I feature articles on the many ety such ‘as pollution, skyrocket- j increases in oil prices, the lack ts low-income groups including 1 of the.food sold in the ‘chain d their access to research can ich might redress at least in part

but writing, like most things, is n’t need to be Mick Jagger to say I interests don’t extend to writing, Rn do. Wh@her your forte lies in tg, M whether you’d feel more at Iraphy,- graphics .4x a couple 01 he ch;evrorr is able and willing,to

you clos6 to $25,473 from the hich works 6ut to about two and hefty piece of the Federation pie time chevron workers,, assorted zap&al expenditures, major and 3ep a paper alive. An additional 1g costs is met from advertising

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