UiWERSITY OF WATERLOO . ’ VOL. 2 NO. 18 WATERLOO, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MARCH. I, 1963 n m m CAMPUS C UNCLE JOHN StjYS OTTAWA (CUP) - Feb. 19. One of the reasons the Government has a deficit is because it has increased fed- eral aid to education since taking office Prime Minister John Diefenbaker told the annual meeting of the Con- servative Student Federation here Saturday night. Pointing to such items as $22,000,000 in loans for uni- versity residences, Mr. Dief- enbaker said his government had “done all it could” to help education. Because of payments in this and other fields such as pensions, hos- pital insurance and northern expansion the government has found itself with a deficit. However, he told the dele- gates, “the outlook+*for 196% 63 is bright” and “Canada is entering the threshold of a new development.” Using the PC “vision” as a funda- mental beginning, he asked the students to jom with him “in a great crusade” and help tell the nation of the PC “new concept” in nation- al development. Mr. Diefenbaker said there was a need to develop and expand the quality of educa- tion, but it must be recogniz- ed that there are constitu- tional problems involved. “But there is one problem that will have to be solved and that is the assurance that in the battle of the brains, Canada does not fall into second place,” he said. Earlier in the day Minister of Immigration and Citizen- ship, Ellen Fairclough, told a plenary session of the Chiding both students and press difficulty in finding summer - who hoped he would faTesome clue to the election jobs for foreign students. She - he said one student asked him not to set it in estimated that 20,000 stu- April bekause of exams and not in May because a month dents were looking for jobs was needed to recover. Later he assured them they “would have every opportunity to last year, with only 5,500 serve.” jobs available. “About 6,000 of these students were stu- dents from foreign countries” she said. She declared that the government would be able to be a little more generous this year but warn- ed that “the door could not be left wide open” because many Canadians who did not have jobs might com- plain. Science Visited l + + “What does it all prove?” . I asked after the recent American success in achiev- ing orbital flight, “what does it prove?” In the sense that anything can be “proved” (although the Scientific Method comes closest to exhibiting “proof”, academic arguments may ensue on this point), the Man in Space has shown the scien- tific and technical skill of which man is capable. “Fine,” you say, “so what? What does this skill mean to the non-scientists- of soci- ety?” The answer is evident in all serious issues of the modern day. Science has become a ‘prime citizen in society’s community, a mem- ber encroaching on what is - vaguely referred to as “cul- ture.” Disease is now treated with chemicals, not with incantations to drive away demons. Science, by develop- ment of mass communica- tions, has spread knowledge and widened the scope of the knowledge of the ordinary citizen. Even the sturdy stuff of which orthodox. religions have been made has ex- perienced adjustments as a result of scientific analyses of life. Science, no doubt, has been the prime factor in the adoption of the new “religion” of Humanism. The individual is free to accept or reject the scientific views, but the overall effect on society of scientific advance- ments is close ~ to inescapable. Science and society cannot be mentioned without bring- ing up the topic of the destruction - potential seem- ingly inherent in scientific knowledge. I am not capable of going Jnto this topic to any deep, intellectual extent, but perhaps I could speak in general terms. Without wish- ing to “pass the buck” or burden a scapegoat, I would say that science is not wholly to (and I use the word .with reserve) “blame” for the shadow ‘of the mushroom cloud darkening society’s front yard. Scientists, con- sidered as members of a world wide society, have, in fact, much to offer in the ways of conduct and associa- tion to the rest of the administrators of society - Probably no other group has the prolific and free inter- change of international ideas, all of which are considered rationally on their merits with no discounting due to prejudice or pre-conceived notions, than the scientific society. Scientists are, of course, human and subject to human mistakes just as Prime Mini- sters or street cleaners. But the solution of a. problem requires, not the application of blame, but a calm, orderly discussion and most impor- tant, an understanding, of the issues involved. Back to the ordinary citizen, now: he should not make meaningless Cont’d. on, Page 3 NO! TO NUCLEAR ARMS-- * It is obvious from the Associated Editor’s editorial that he has not distinguished the difference between nuc- lear defence and nuclear deterrance. In his stand for nuclear arms for Canada, he is proposing to fight the Second World War. He does not understand that once atomic weapons a,re used in a local war, the side which is losing will launch greater nuclear attacks and the local war will mushroom into a war Id war. They do have a large fleet of bombers of different To refute his claims of the vintages numbering well need’ for nuclear warheads over 6,000 which would be capable today of being for the Bomarc, I quote used against targets on the North American continent from an article by Major W. H. Pope, Retired, which. appeared in the December issue of a Canadian mag- azine, Exchange. “Twenty years ago air defence made sense. To shoot down ten per cent of attacking bomb- ers was considered very good. This rate of attrition led to a gradually lessening scale of attack. But it is the next war of which we must think. Speaking of the Russians on Aug. 5, 1960, the then Mini- ster of National Defense, Major General George Pear- kes, V.C., said: (Hansard, p. 7649) That was said fourteen months ago. Since then the Russians have shown us that their bomber development is not lagging. But suppose that the Russians attack North America with only one thousand planes and suppose also that NORAD shoots down a fantastically high 5OoJ,.This will still leave 500 aircr aft. to drop up to a thousand H-bombs on North American targets. Ir each H-bomb has the power of 20 megatons . . . and frankly I cannot see the sense in the Russians using small H- bombs in an all out attack then the equivalent of up to 20 billion tons of TNT will have landed on target in the U. S. A. An official American agency has cal- culated that this megaton- nage landing on the U. SI A. would be sufficient, through radioactivity alone, to wipe out all human life in the U. S. A. And what of Canada? Even if no bombs were aimed at Canada, just what. do you think would happen to the thousand H-bombs on board the 500 aircraft I have assumed might not reach their targets? I think they would all, or practically all, explode on Canadian soil. Add this to the massive fall- out that would drift across E,NTRE . . . - For the past few years, each student. has been pa*ying $10.00 annually into what is called the Campus Centre fund. To date, approximately $25,000 has been accumu- lated. The purpose of this fund is the construction of a Campus Centre, or what was originally referred to as a Student Union Building. The purpose of this building as implied by the name, will be to create a centre of interest on campus for the entire student body. To date very little has been done on this project other than the appointment of a Campus Centre Com- mittee. This Committee has been investigating student buildings on other campus’ and will act as a “steering committee” in recommend- ing a building both useful and suitable to the students and the University. We believe that the cam- pus development programme has arrived at the stage where construction of a Cam- pus Centre is essential. In- vestigations have revealed that on other campus’ these buildings serve as places to develop character in the stu- dent, to cultivate social and cultural standards and to the 45th and 49 parallels; throw in the additional effects of ICBMs and nuc- lear missile firing submarines and then I think you must agree with me that Dr. G. Kaplan oi Dalhousie Uni- versity was perfectly right when he said on Sept. 25, 1961: It is obvious that the only defence against the mega- (ton nuclear weapons pre- sently stockpiled by the major’ powers is the pre- vention of nuclear war. The Bomarc, with or with- out nuclear warheads, as well as all the other active air defence para#phernalia. of the North American Air Defence Command, is useless and that for the simple and sufficient reason that there is no air defence against the H-bomb. The spread of nuclear weapons is going to make nuclear disarmament more difficult to achieve. The Am- erican Strategic Air Com- mand, Polaris missiles a.nd ICBMs are sufficient deter- rent to keep the Russians from attacking. Since we can get no benefits (other than a larger defence budget and thus higher taxation) from the acquisition of nuclear weapons, I feel that Canada should turn down President Kennedy’s fine offer of nuc- lear weapons. Also if the Associate Edi- tor will stop spewing out grand statements like “The Chicken North, Scared from Sea to Sea,” and do some reading and, if possible, thinking, he might produce more intelligent articles.. , Paul Co ii? eland, cienee III give unity to the student body. In addition, they are priceless tools for shaping an authentic “community of teachers and students,” and lastly serve to enhance and expand the general area of education by improving the, quality of leisure through cultivation of taste and in- telligence. Any changes in character which students un- dergo as undergraduates are affected as much if not more by the influence of leisure 8 time as by formal 1 class- room instruction. In other words, the addition of a Campus Centre to this in- stitution will mean the ad- dition .of a very definite part of the educational program- me associated with the Uni- versity. In the next few weeks, this column will present some examples of Campus Centres present on other campus’, along with the recommenda- tions of the Committee. We hope that you, the students will give this your attention and thereby enable a decision to be made as to the type of building which .best con- forms to the entire student body. Frank Anrep, Campus Centre Committee Ryerson’s Ram TORONTO (CUP) - Ryer- son’s ram is gong shy. Eggy, the mascot ram of the Ryerson Institute of ’ Technology (actually Eggy . II), bolted at a recent hockey game when a gong gonged out over the arena. The “authentic Chinese gong,” presented to the school by the Electronics - class of ‘62 was discovered in a Toronto music store. When it clanged out its , message last week, Eggy took off. Only the muscles of allegedly fearless Rye types halted’ his dash for peace and quiet. 1 Going, going, GONG!!! Poet’s Corner CHEMISTRY 3 3 The chemist hung his weary head. “Enough, enough,” cried he. “Now after this, I’ll read instead Organic Chemistry.” ,a But to the patient man’s dismay Before he had gone far, He found chromone, ‘tis sad to say Containing no Cr. ’ The chemist sighed, and’said goodbye, “At least one thing I ken” That, when I find I want to die There’s death in KCN. Cv&d‘ on Page 2 c ! I