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, Campus q&k;es Weekly summer amusement planned

This summer the board of Saturday’s Your favorite thing. student activities of the federation Friday, may 16 the band will of students will be doing its best be the The Orange tangerine. to keep everyone on campus On Wednesday may 14 the mov- amused. ies will be Texas across the

There will be at least ’ one river and The great imposter. dance every weekend and there These movies will be shown will be movies shown every in AL 116 at 7 : 30 pm. Wednesday. Dances will cost Also, don’t forget Summer a buck a shot and movies 75 Weekend. It will be coming up cents. around july 4. If last year’s sum-

This weekend, may 9 and 10, mer weekend was any indication, there will be two dances. Friday’s this should prove to be a real will feature the Mannequin and blast.

Eng ,2 deserted by radio waterloo Melting equipment and sweating

bodies necessitated moving radio Waterloo, CKRW. into the campus center. Their old home in eng2- 1304, affectionately known as the sweatbox by the CKRW staff, became unbearable when the internal temperature hit 86 degrees.

The dismantling, moving and reassembling of the station took approximately one week. Physical Plant and Planning and the Audio-Visual office were most’ co-operative in the move. However there were a few bueaucratic hangups with the Bell telephone.

It seems there are no telephone conduits into the upper rooms of the campus center. Also PP&P’s copy of the ar- chitect’s drawings bear little resemblance to the actual building.

To quote Bruce Steele, the round mound of sound, “the building 1s a fucking mess. ..of conduits ’ ’ .

However CKRW will be moving in the fall to the Bauer ware- house, which is being trans- planted somewhere in the north campus.

They will take up residence in their new studios no later than mid-October.

FedI student: counsellor ratio set Counselling services has been counsellors in the fall term to

promised its ’ one counsellor to handle an on-campus enrolment 1000 students ratio for the fall projected at 8300. term.

Earlier budget decisions had In addition, Dick said academic-

left counselling significantly services director Pat Robertson

short of the ratio the administra- has committed himself to seek

tion president’s council had a- extra funds for counsellors in greed to last fall. the event of an overenrolment.

Counselling director Bill Last year the registrar’s office Dick said tuesday he will have underestimated the enrolment by the equivalent’ of eight fulltime about 1000 students.

PP&P told to shorten coffee breaks The physical-plant and planning

management is passing on-campus complaints about PPandP to the working man. .

A ‘notice was recently sent to the maintenance and janitor- ial staff by Bruce Birrell, new PPandP assistant . director (for physical-plant) who filled

-- _ the,.vacancy created by the sud- den departure of Alex Cairncross. 1

The notice read: “It is becoming increasingly obvious that coffee breaks ’ and the lunch period are being extended by .an un- reasonable degree, beyond the. periods allowed. It has also been observed and’ reported that

cause for complaint. So come on you janitors and

sod-layers, let’s stick to those stringent standards so carefully set by bosses themselves: arrival no later than 9:30, no more than 45 minutes for coffee- break in the morning or an hour in the afternoon, no more than an hour and a half for lunch and no knocking off before 4pm unless the weather is decent for golfing. * * *

In other ‘campus labour news, unioniied ‘workers. at the On t-

L ario community colleges ( including Conestoga College in Kitchener recently settled their

some employees - are taking wage scale, retroactive to coffee breaks outside the rec- September 1968. ognized periods. This must stop! Caretakers will get $2.69 an There is enough criticism about hour, secretaries $3.16, up to the physical-plant and planning $3.62 for nurses and up to $4.83

. department now, without giving for technologists. The contract faculty and students additional runs to march 31 1970.

History hires fired poli-sci prof The history department has “We tried to be gentlemen

decided the political science but there is no use trying to department doesn’t know a good be gentlemen with them,” said

’ professor when they see one. one history faculty member. Karen Rawling. fired by the

elite of the poli-sci department af- j ter Christmas has been hired

jointly by the history and anthropology department.

While anthropology made the move virtually without any

Acting on instructions from acting administration president Howard Petch the poli-sci dept also made a last minute bid to rehire her but Prof. Rawling turned it down.

consultation with the poli-sci Professor Rawling is a China group* history tried to be more expert and as such will be one polite and diplomatic. all 2 to no avail.

of the very few teaching in

After three weeks of compl- Canada.

aints and red herrings from Her appointment with an- p&i-sci. ‘history decided to just thropology and history will last ignore them, for one year.

IWW executive interviewed for integrated studies post

The college of integrated ‘studies may have a real Wobbly on its staff of resource people next year.

Fred Thompson, from the headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, in Chicago, was on campus early this week for an interview with arts dean Jay Minas.

Thompson and a fellow IWW worker, Al Just, arrived in Waterloo monday and attended the meeting of the Radical Student Movement. Thomp- son gave a brief talk on IWW philosophy and then the two answered questions.

Both Thompson and Just were optimistic about the college of integrated studies as a starting point for making the university more relevant\ to the society as a whole.

Thompson said he is pleased to see students starting to become concerned about their education and feels students should maintain pressure to have some control over their studies. .

“Too much control of education is in the hands of those who own and run big business,” he said. “Students should not surrender such a large part of their lives, especially a part that has so much bearing on the future of the whole world, to people who are inimical to

Community Off-campus reaction to the

Chevron’s community issue was overwhelmingly favorable, but the local news ‘media pre- ferred to ignore it.

Of about 60 telephone calls from community readers, fewer than a half dozen were irate. One local businessman-investor, who would not give .his name, said he was cutting off his donations to the tenth anniversary fund. He said it was dangerous to give the

their interests and hopes.” iginal Wobblies, Thompson He said that recently more has a long history of union

universities were starting IWW participation. locals-and he was encouraged to see students understanding un- ionism as a means of preventing exploitation of workers. He also expressed optimism about the possibilities for cooperation between students and workers.

Thompson has written several books, including a history of the IWW. At present he is editor of the Industrial Worker. the IWW newspaper published in Chicago.

Thompson was born in Can- During the course of the

ada in 1901 and went to school in interview for the position at the college of integrated stu-

St. John, New Brunswick. In . dies, 1920, he taught economics at

Thompson discovered that Minas had also been a

the Labor School in the Mar- itimes. . Wobbly during the 1930’ and

that the two had many mutual Although not one of the or- acquaintances from that period. l

Union wins at Mars/and A vote conducted by the Ont- months, distributing leaflets

ario labor relations board at at the plant gates every tuesday Marsland Engineering on Weber and thursday at 7 am and 3:45 pm st. last week saw a 90 percent as well as visiting workers at their of workers vote 54 percent in homes to sign them into the union. favor of establishing the United Electrical Workers as official The Marsland management

bargaining agent of the employees. conducted a vigorous campaign

Last fall, the UEW came to against the UEW. branding it

the Radical Student Movement as a communist organization.

and Waterloo branch of the (a label which they constantly

Industrial Workers of the World threw at the students ).

asking for help in the campaign Despite the management dis- for certification. dain of the union. the workers

A committee of the IWW, decided in its favor. (Certification headed by Joe Surich (poli requires 50% plus one). sci 4) worked closely with Negotiotion for a contract the UEW throughout the winter will begin shortly.

Chevron well received kind of content in that issue to the carried a short Canadian Press t community. story about a similar. smaller

Most callers expressed frus- community issue being dis- tration at being unable to do tributed to about 10.000 factor-v anything about the problems workers in Windsor by the Ir raised in the issue. of Windsor student paper. the

Of the Kitchener-Waterloo Lance. news media, those owned or CHYM radio (controlled by controlled by Uniwat governors Maclean-Hunter) carried a story Carl Pollock and John Motz about the issue for about three . (K-W Record, CKKW-AM, CFCA newscasts. They attempted to :.. -FM and CKCO-TV) completely brand the community paper as ignored the community issue. “Communist or Marxist-Lenin-

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GueIph stdents . challenge Drew

University of Guelph chancel- special session on may 8 at which lor George Drew has come under time the delegates of the union attack from the student union council of the University of council for a speech he delivered Guelph students’ union may ask at a joint meeting of the Guelph for the impeachment of Mr. Drew Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. as chancellor.

Drew made the usual charges of a communist conspiracy of student radicals bent on the des- truction of the university and blamed some student disorders on ungrateful foreigners. He added that student radicals should be expelled : “If some of these students don’t like the university and wish to destroy it, kick them out. They have no right to be there.”

0 That the position of chancellor be abolished. ”

Reaction was harsh against the stand of student council and many students feel the council should resign. It appears that the council members themselves may back down on their stand, due to pressure from the students.

The student union council pass- ed the following motion ( carried 12-3 ) : Whereas: The Hon. George Drew has again spoken as chancellor of the University of Guelph in a matter which is in gross distortion of facts, extremely ethnocentric, calculated to coerce dissenters and threaten financially the university community; and, Whereas : the position of chancellor has been shown to be an accepted license to speak for members of the university community, therefore be it resolved by the union council of the university of Guelph student’s union that:

0 Union council exercise a lack of confidence in George Drew as chancellor of this university.

However another group of! students have organized in ‘support of the council motion. They have< distributed a leaflet which backed the motion, condemned Drew, and asked that he appear on campus and clarify his stand.

Alan Storey, one of the leaders of the ad hoc committee for responsible administration told the Chevron : “All we are now asking for is a visit to the campus from our chancellor to attend a meeting of the university community and clarify the issues. involved in the confusion arising from his address. ”

Drew has sent a telegram to the president of the student council stating that he cannot make Thursday’s meeting because of a prior engagement.

0 A telegram be dispatched immediately to Mr. Drew inviting him to a general meeting of the student body at noon, thursday, may 8.

0 Union council, acting as the body representing the students at the University of Guelph, immediately ask the president of the university to summon the senate of the University of Guelph into a

Storey said that his group will send Drew another telegram asking him to select a convenient date. “If he accepts, then maybe we can get to the bottom of this mess”, he said. “If he doesn’t come, it will confirm the suspi- cion of a good number of people here that the rhetoric about prop- er channels and communications has no basis in fact. We are just asking him to live up to his own statements.”

Senate group studies /

uniform course grading A common unit-credit system sional faculties, schools, divi-

in all non-professional prog- sions and programs. Each faculty rams, plus a common grading would devise its own table for con- system, special recognition of verting marks from the old system academic excellence and an inter- to the new. faculty-academic council were recommended to senate, tuesday,

Overall standing would be de-

bY their special task force On CO- termined by a cumulative aver-

erent practices. age of all courses in all years.

A two-fisted blow for progress was the result when fbod services hired these employees._ Food costs decrease, the public school summer job problem is eased, and everyone is happy!.

Poor attendance at meeting on presidentid Selection

A paltry four students attended a meeting last week which could be one of the students’ last chances to have any say in the hiring of the new university president.

showed that the motion probably would have been approved at this meeting, although no members could say definitely until they had consulted their colleagues.

An equal number of interested members of the board and senate were present. The main area of debate for the meeting cen- tered on two motions presented on behalf of the Federation of Students.

The first of these motions called for one more student representative on the board which will secretively choose the presidential candidate.

Dieter Haig, one of the student reps, felt students should have four members, because the faculty contingent is five-strong. “We have a wider range of opinions on the choice of the president and need another representative to cover it.

The second student motion called for a procedural change. The motion, as read by Nick Kouwen, federation representative, asked that the meeting held after the abbreviated list of presidential candidates had been selected be open to the university as a whole. A second section of this motion called for the federation to have the right to add any names to this list within a month after it was published.

When some minor debate on this point concluded, the students

asked to vote on the motion. Chan- cellor Ira Needles pointed out the meeting was not a legitimate voting meeting, and the motion would have to go before a different group for final approval. A quick round-table referendum

Faculty representative, Marvin Brown, felt the latter part of the motion showed little faith in the student representatives on the selection committee. He also felt the change would only serve to de- lay a decision, which was already dragging out too long.

Needles said that unless pro- ceedings were kept secretive, it would be hard to find applicants for the position, due to a risk of embarrassment over personal matters, if made public. A student objection that any candidates with attitudes or backgrounds which

The committee also approved the principle of admitting first - year students to the university rather than a specific faculty

Hassles in the board room change before making recommen- of business.

* Acrtinnc Interim administration president Howard Pet&

but will study further the prob- In its regular meeting april 17, the board of gov- lems associated with such a ernors managed. to rubberstamp the usual amount

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The eleven member committee, was questioned by Sarnia industrialist C.R. Hen- which includes grad student derson about Petch’s transfer of funds to a new lib- Deiter Haag, has met eight rary acquisitions account from the academic devel- times since established f ebruary oPment fund. 20, 1969. “I realize this has been caused by what has gone

In their report, which senate on at this university recently, but I can’t help but will now study, they recommend- feel that someone is going to lose if this is trans- ed, for September 1970, that de- ferred,” said Henderson. . gree requirements be stated in Petch replied that he had been hoarding the units of credit rather than years. $100,000 concerned all year. A unit of credit would equal a The board was challenged by non-voting student present half-course. A general de- rep Glen Berry on the board’s intended subsidy for gree would require a minimum of the faculty club. The university will back the first 30 units and an honours degree mortgage, provide, a second mortgage of about $90,- 40 units, but particular programs 000 and carry a deficit for the club of $20,000 a year may require more than mini- (planned to decrease significantly in five years. ) mum. Petch’s rationale prevailed, however, saying

A minimum of ten units would “the campus center is not made attractive for fac- be unconstrained electives. ulty members’ use. Faculty members need some

A full time .student would be place to meet; the campus center is not serving enrolled in a minimum of ten that purpose: it is not attractive to faculty.”

units per year-but as few as Membership in the faculty club is restricted to eight, with special permission. full and part-time faculty and administration mem- Fewer than eight would be part bers. Initiation fee is $72 and dues are $6 a month. time with a pro-rating reduction of Petch was again challenged by Henderson-on fees. 1 the matter of faculty salary increases. Faculty

The committee recommends the received a large raise january 1 as a result of the fourteen point letter grade sys- September over-enrolment, and Petch proposed an tern be adopted by all non-profes- -additional 10.5 percent raise at july 1;: _ . J _- r _

try, but we at least get some increases in produc- tivity from the workers. Perhaps we should be turning out more products in the university with our faculty. ”

“These increases must sometime slowdown, ” said Henderson, “This problem happens in indus-

The board approved the increases. The board also approved the overall university

budget for 1969-70, but not without some questions from the non-voting faculty reps.

Psychology prof Marvin Brown said, “The academic increase is only 14 percent, while the non-academic (administrative and physical-plant and planning) increase is 18 percent. Should the proportions not be the other way?”

Administration treasurer Bruce Gellatly said the business. and registrar’s offices were understaffed and that PPandP’s proportion of the budget was a- mong the lowest in Canada. He also said the contingency fund of $554,000 would probably go to the faculties and schools if unneeded.

* * * One question remained unanswered in the board

meeting: what happened to the contingency fund of 1968-69, shown in the operating budget report as $784,000, but not shown as carried forward to 1969- 70 operating.

Several weeks ago Gellatly said the university’s first priority for the money was capital expenditures forthe building program. Provincial law will allow almost $500,000 in the Uniwat operating budget to slip into capital-funds. . _, . ,a I .$

could prove publicly embarrass- ing should not be considered for president in the first place was not accepted.

Needles’ response to this was that personal feelings of the applicants must be considered. and only the positive aspects of anyone made public. “I don’t like the term ‘rejected’,” he concluded, “We should only think in terms of someone being selected over the others”.

PP&P director Bill Lobban, representing the university staff pointed out if someone was already a dean or held another position at another university, public- izing his candidacy might hurt his career at the other university, if he were rejected here.

However, Needles had previous- ly pointed out that all candidates selected on the short list for final consideration would be invited to the university to speak to all interested constituencies, at which time his candidacy, if not his personal background, would become public knowledge anyway.

Mech eng. Prof. T.A. Brzus- towski, a senate member, felt the attitudes of any candidate are most important, and must be known as well as’ possible, if a president who can handle the complex work involved is to be found.

After further minor debate the general consensus reached was that the personal feelings of candidates must be considered, and all meetings discussing applicants must be in-camera.

Student council, meeting last Saturday, heard a report of the meeting and decided to keep students on the committee.

“They put it in writing that the committee will operate on a consensus basis, which means students have quite a say,” federation president Tom Patterson said. “And everything but the discussions of people before they are contacted and of the ranking of the short list is open.”

Patterson still objected, however, to the remaining closed ses- sions.

Grad rep Nick Kouwen urged council to keep their reps. “We might as well go into it, because if it doesn’t work out the way we expect we’ll blow it open anyway,” he said.

The next meeting takes place at 1: 30 this afternoon in the board room, located next to the engineering common room. It is open to all students until discussion of candidates begins. . . \

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Kitchener’s Kuhre Korner by Roddie Hickman Chevron staff

When I had the fortunate experience to see West Side Story at St. Jerome’s High last month, it‘ struck me in so many ways it is hard to describe.

Firstly, I was amused that the cast for the musical read like a list of who’s who at the old hallowed halls, but I expected that. I was also a- mused that the emperors were all in costume. It did complete the image so well! I suppose the next thing that impressed me was not so social., The way the gym was adapted to putting on this play was nothing short of ingenious. The professionalism in lighting, design and staging was reminiscent of Stratford.

Well, anyway, as the play started, this reviewer sat back and chuckled skeptically and thought, “Ok, turn me on if you can”.

Unfortunately, I have to admit they did. I ac- tually felt bad that there wasn’t much to criticize.

For those who didn’t know, West Side Story is a musical based directly on Romeo and Juliet. This suggests that either plagiarism is legal, or times haven’t really changed that much (I prefer the latter, 01 Billy was and is pretty cool-with due respect to the director). The star-crossed lovers, Tony and Maria, are caught in a feud between their racial families: the Sharks representing the Puerto Ricans, and the Jets representing all ‘good’ Ameri- cans.

In the ensuing turmoil a lesson is taught through the death of half the heros (typical of Shakes- peare). After a gang war and the death of the heros, we are left with the age-old message which is as yet unheeded: there is no way to peace. peace is the way!

The difficulty in casting a musical is you have to’ consider singing ability with all the other elements and sometimes the ability to act and phpsi- tally fit the role is compromised to have a person who can sing.

Well, this is what happened to St. Jerome’s Tony, who is supposed to be big and rough-hewn like a statue, was played by Paul Masse1 who doesn’t quite fit that description. And Maria. who is supposed to be petite, was played by *Mary Toman. who wasn’t exactly that either. However their voi- ces redeemed them somewhat.

Tony’s voice was absolutely perfect for the part and he did display a bit of acting ability. If he were to take singing lessons and groom his acting ability, I can see a professional product resulting.

But for lovers, the both of them could have been more convincing. Maria, Tony loves you, so why do you almost push him off the balcony? Both of you should take lessons from Anita and Bernardo.

Anita, played by Wendy Zieglar, was in my opinion the star of the show. There are smacks of professionalism in that one! Though she doesn’t

have an exceptiona’ voice, she uses what ability she has to near perfection. In the duet in *‘A bov like that” and “I have a love” she quite definite& was responsible for it being one of the best songs of the night, especially in her handling of the counter-point.

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Mike Lehman playing Action was the best male. What differentiates a professional from an amat-

eur is the ability to convince the audience that he is really the character and that any display of emotion is really his. Action and Anita both have this ability. No put-on here. thev really have it!

I suppose I was disappointed with the lengthv introduction, but everyone wants a piece of the * act. This was demonstrated especially by excessive emoting from the percussion section.

What gives with the spotlight on the conductor? I demand equal time for the director-producer. stage-manager. etc. ,

The best piece of the night was “Officer Krupke”. ‘I, The audience confirmed my opinion with their ap- plause. The timing and delivery by Action and the comic sketch were perfect.

It is odd that this performance was not written up by the other paper, because I find that this sort of thing is more relevant than beer halls. at

The complaint has beens shouted many times that this area is culturally starved. Well. I don’t agree. I’ve seen performances bv the Operatic Society and the Little theater that were as professional as they come. Like at St. Jeromes. there are many extremely talented people in our schools who 2 need merely a bit of grooming. I would like to see people like Wendy Ziegler in more such produc- tions. In fact I would like to see these people de- veloped to become the basis of professional theater around here.

God knows we’re big enough to support it-look ,_ at Stratford! With the building of the arts center complex (and we need it now, not in 10 years 1 there is nothing preventing the area schools getting together and using the facilities to this end.

Experience is the best teacher, and the only way to appreciate art is to participate. This can be seen by the fact that those who have participated have better appreciation for what it is all about.

I just hope people get off there apathetic asses and do something. 1

For example, some of you just might inquire a- ’ bout Youtheater. Or if you don’t like theater and dig the art scene. you can always go to the art galler- . ies (I hear there is a Dali showing at one of them ) and make suggestions as to what you to see.

But of course, if this is too much, you can sit a- round at a pub night, or at one of the other famed houses around town and bitch about. how this town is culturally dead.

Amen?

You have to be lucky to win by Wayne Smith Chevron staff

North dealt with East-West vulnerable.

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tion on the above hand is that it occured as the last hand in a semi- final match of a rubber bridge tournament played in Toronto last Sunday. In a rubber bridge tournament, pairs play eight (or 16) hands against each other and the pair that has the most points at the end of these hands continues, while the other pair is eliminated.

When this hand come up (the last of the match) the East-West pair were winning by a total of 630 points. This meant that the North-South pair had to bid and make a small slam in a major suit (worth 680 points) or make 7 in a minor suit small slam ( 640 points ). South. therefore. simply bid the slam at the first op-

portunity after his partner had opened. The double and redouble were made just for the fun of it because it would make no difference to the outcome of the match.

The declarer made the hand on the following line of play. (which is not the best one). He won the A of clubs, drew two rounds of spades, then played the Q of diamonds (not covered by West-his best play) and then the 9 of diamonds, won in the dummy with the 10. Declarer led a small heart and East won his ace and was end-played because he must return a club. This al- lows declarer to discard a heart from his hand while trumping it in the dummy and then to throw a heart away on the A of diamonds and to claim the balance of the tricks. The North-South

pair proceeded into the finals and won the tournament.

I believe the corect way to play this hand is to win the second spade in the dummy and lead a small heart. East wins the ace and returns a diamond to declarers queen and then just plays spades. West is squeezed out of his protection of either the K of diamonds or the Q of hearts.

The declarer needed only the following to allow him to make this hand; the trumps to split 2-2. the K of diamonds to be on side, and East to hold a singleton A or Q of hearts.

If you are lucky. you can win as this hand shows. Not only were the cards favorably located but he made the hand. even though he misplayed it.

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SeecJer ‘sings for his people by Cyril Levitt Chevron staff

Pete Seeger came to Massey Hall in Toronto on Sunday April 20 and demonstrated why he is called the king of folk music. In a special interview with the Chevron, Seeger credited his talent to the late Woodrow Wilson (“Woodie”) Guthrie, Arlo’s fath- er. the famous dust-bowl balladeer of the thirties.

“We’re all Woodie’s children”, said Seeger, referring to all modern topical folk singer. “Woodie started it all,” continued Seeger, “He sang for the people: for the Okies; for the CIO when it was or- ganizing in the. thirties and forties; for the grape pickers in California ; for just about anyone who was a victim of injustice.”

Yet Seeger was too modest. He is himself of the same ilk as Guthrie. He too sang for the oppressed, from the vineyards of California to the automo- tive plants of Detroit. He is an accomplished mus- ician, a guitarist, a banjo player, a chalil etc., just about anything associated with folk.

Pete Seeger is still something more. He is a legend in his own time. He is untouched by fame and fortune. He is just a simple human being.

There he was on the stage and he was lonely, so he asked the audience to come and sit on the stage (much to the chagrin of the management). The stage was flooded immediately with people from the hall-mostly young kids-who surrounded the man thev came to see and hear.

He led them like the pied piper in singalongs such as Irene Goodnight and Wimoweh, POP- ularized by the Weavers a now defunct folk group with which he was associated several years ago. He sang tender love songs like Guantan- amera, and songs of protest (especially critical of his country in terms of Vietman and racism). He sang for the grape pickers in California and he urged the audience to lend their help to the grape boycott. He did a rendition of the old spirit- ual Do ford Remember Me punctuating each chorus with a fable.

“Once upon a time” he began, “there were two maggots on a shovel being carried by a worker to the job. Both were knocked to the ground by a gust of wind. The first maggot fell into a crack in the sidewalk while the second fell into a very ‘fat yet dead cat. This maggot began to eat and eat and eat. For three days he ate until .he could eat no more. Then he picked himself up and decided to visit his brother, the first maggot. He crawled over to the crack and peered over the side. and

Pete Seeger, more than any other single per- former, sparked the modern folk music re- vival that it is now part of our lives.

shouted, ‘Is that you down there brother?’ ‘Yes’ res- ponded the first maggot. ‘How come you’re so sleek, fat, and well fed, while I’m so weak and help- less? ’ , asked the troubled creature. Well, the second maggot looked up, thought a moment and replied. “Brains and personality brother, brains and personality’ ‘.

Pete Seeger’s stage personality is no put-on. Back stage, after the performance he met about one hundred children with shorn he spent more than an hour with chatting and singing autographs.

One fellow asked him how his banjo is construc- ted, and Pete Seeger spent fifteen minutes drawing all sorts of diagrams for him. Another fellow wanted to help run the special sail boat that Seeger and a group of folk singers were renovating to do bene- fit concerts on the Hudson river this summer in favour of an anti-polution drive. Seeger gave the man his address and told him to come down.

It isn’t final yet, but there is a good possibility that Pete Seeger may do a stint at the Uniwat next year. If he does manage to get here, I don’t think anyone will want to miss the concert.

For those who missed him at Massey Hall, he is having a special on CBC on May 12 at 8 pm. Don’t miss it.

Quality movies care in Toronto by Roddie Hickman Chevron staff

Ray Bradbury wrote a book called The /l/us tra ted Man and if that wasn’t good enough, Warner brothers made it into a movie.

Basically it is about two people who meet. One is an older type who seems to have all kinds of hang-ups, and . the other is a young man out for adventure.

The older one completely dominates the other and there is a mvsterv about him that is manifest in his constant wearing of a coat.

He takes off his glove and reveals a hand covered with tatoos. So, as his secret is found, he warns the young man not to stare at them because they come alive.

He starts telling him of how he got the tattoos all over his body. The young man listens, but his attention is focused on the tattoo and we see them indeed coming alive.

Each tattoo has a particular story and thev are linked to the present by a return to the basic story and to the past by the

. illustrated man’s story. This is how the movie went.

shifting between the old man’s storv. the narrative itself. and the story in the various images. Finally his story was over. and we see one spot on his back that he can’t see.

**Don’t look at it.” he warns. “it’s your future and if you see it vou will hate it and me...” and he rolls off to sleep. The young man stares at it and. . .

Well, see it. You will most certainly experience the shock treatment that Bradbury is so good at giving.

Rod Steiger plays the illustrated man and the hero in all the illusion sequences. He is renowned actor and we see why in a performance such as the one in this movie.

Claire Bloom plays his nem- esis and his counteripart in the sequences. She too is excellent.

Robert Drivas plays the naive young man to a verv convincing degree.

This movie is recomended for all those who dig science- fiction.

Rod Steiger stars as the ‘Xlustrated Man” in the movie vers- ion of the Bradbury book. Claire Bloom is the artist on this living canvas, but it really took two days in the make-up room and nine artists to completely tattoo Steiger.

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I apprec.iate the Chevron’s interest in my letter dealing with

’ Chevron biases and in the article I submitted, both of which were published 21 march.

However, the issue involved remains unresolved. Non-radical

, articles are published only re- luctantly and then with “rebut- tals” or *‘counter-thrusts” to correct their facts. Such, clarifica- tions never appear after radical articles. even though manv discuss events whose facts are in dis-

nizes by virtue of the bylaws of the Federation of Students.

Challenges to the content of the C.hevron in that respect are welcomed-even desired.

-the lettitor.

As for the second part of your letter, the volume of coverage of ‘iadicals” is irrelevant. First, the coverage is inaccurate and often unfair and invariably biased. And the commercial press loves to put down radicals in headlines and in volume. Second, just because a group is a minority is no, reason to cut off its rights of expression.

, pute and cannot be checked by the average reader.

r- --- By contrast. the daily papers seem to give radical opinion a fair share of space in relation to the number of people who are ra7 dicals., Also, they sometimes will allow a radical to have the last word-a privilege the Chevron doesn’t grant the moderates. . As a result of all this, the stud:

ents have to allow for these biases when they read the Chevron, and even then don’t get a clear picture of the news.

STEPHENCLObMAN Renison college

‘fhe student journalist should strive to contrnually be fair and accurate in his reports, and should strive to equip himself adequately

- with fact. to support his published s tatemen ts. ‘*-from the standing resolutions of Canadian University Press which the Chevron recog-

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Hello, culture lovers. Welcome to a ref/eshing bit of trivia inter-

- ‘spersed with the odd bit of searing criticism, and perhaps the oc- casional dangling participle.

. Then’ again,. you may only be interested in the undercover in- vestigating that I do.

It was here, in this column, that you first learned that Bob Pul- ford had been approached to coach the Warriors next year.

This was later denied in the Gazette, so I wrote Pully on behalf of all the students, and he has indicated to me that he would be interested if only he received official notice that he was really wanted. Do you want Pully for a coach? Drop a line to either Carl Totzke, or Prime Minister Trudeau and let them know. Do it now!

I also collect bits of gossip: When some member of the staff or faculty wants to rat on another, I naively have them printed. Like the discussion Nancy-Lou Patterson. the art gallery cura- tor had with the .head of PP&P. whci is “passionately fond of art” and wanted to be an artist in his youth. They each had an idea of what kind of wall cover-

“- ing was best suited for the gallery (that’s the thing around the top of the theater). Well. guess who won? Right. Now however. like a true gentleman (he’s “rug- gedly handsome” too) he’s will-

’ ing to admit he was wrong. And he was. I

*-’ Now what will happen when Nancy-Lou, or the Works of Art Committee. tries to have art put in the math building. I hear tell of a senior faculty member who thinks students will only vandal- . . -ize them. Hell, with all those computers sittitng there. who wants to destroy art?

And there was another “discussion” concerning the place- ment of the black thing near the

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Isaiah Bowman building. This time the World War II flying ace and the artist differed as to the whereabouts of the thing. Guess who won? Right. And I know where it should go. Right.

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Another attempt at light, Engineers remain deaf

Re: student engineers need clearer picture.

Once again an enlightened word has been uttered from the black- ness of engineering thought.

And once again that word shall experience the deafness of the engineering mind.

name withheld by request 4B mech eng

Community issue helps build solidarity with workers

A former member, now working in the Kitchener area, brought us a copy of your special community issue of the Chevron when he was in town over the weekend.

Our union has been invited to be represented by elected offi- cers and rank and file at the sem- inar sponsored by the Ontario Union of Students at Laurentian University during the week of May 18. We have been advised by representatives of the organiz- ing committee that they are concerned in establishing a dialog with the labour movement and further in establishing some form of relationships.

We have enjoyed working with students from various universities in the industry during the summer months when they are employed. However, circum- stances have been such that we have not in general examined areas of mutual concern, at least in a formal sense.

In my opinion your special issue is a fine example of journalism and deals with many problems- peace. education, etc. in a most stimulating, indeed provocative wav. I believe further that it can make a contribution in our prep- arations for the forthcoming sem- inar and other matters related to anv relationship with students.

May I wish vou success in your future endeavours.

WEIR REID

, Sudbury Mine, Mill

& Smelter Workers’ Union, local 598.

Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick

You are to be congratulated on achieving almost as complete a perversion of truth as has yet been published.

Only in a society where the individual is entitled to be both free and responsible could this be done without permanent banishment to a Siberia-like, government-subsidized vacation complete with all fringe benefits.

I trust you appreciate your good fortune.

P.A. VOELKER. M.D. medical officer of health Waterloo

Thank you for your rational,

reasoned, de tailed, constructive

criticisms. 0 ther less esteemed

persons made their comments-

mainly in favor but some opposed

--by telephone where some dialog was possible.

-the lettitor

Chevron hung by ‘commie’ issue; should join CUSO

To coin a hackneyed phrase. “Give them enough rope and thev’ll hang themselves”. This. it is my sincere hope. is just what the Chevron staff did with their last two issues (regular and community I.

To letters criticizing the tone of vour articles. the editorial comments are always the same. Thev

point out that the New Left propaganda does not receive as great an airing in the national press as the so-called big business propaganda. Further. they point out that their opponents use vague gener- alizations, rather than making specific points. I hope to refute these arguments before they are put forward.

To deal firstlv with the community issue. Your basic assumption throughout is that everything done by what you choose to call the ruling class is designed to push down the workers. To substantiate this vou have to delve into the historv books and discuss the general strike of 1919. This is about as logical as trying to justify student demonstrations in England by ci- ting the civil war of c. 1455.

Your article on the consensus press quotes the mis-reporting of the famous bombing incident by the Globe & Mail. but neglects to mention the gross exaggera- tion of the significance of a protest meeting held in London (Eng- landj’s Trafalgar Square at about the same time. as reported in the Chevron.

The article on the price dodges made some good points: but told me, and I suspect most of its readers, nothing new: whilst the article on pollution may well have presented facts, but wrapped them up in such sensationalism that its only effect can have been to cause a scare among the un- informed.

I could go on, but there are other points to be made. You printed a disclaimer on page 3. but by your own admission it was designed so that the minimum number of people would read it. No comment is necessary. The press, you sav, presents biased news, and someone must publish the opposite view. Is this reallv so? In my home country (Eng- land) there exists a newspaper. the Morning Star, which does just this. This paper changed its name two years ago, from the Dailv Worker. in an attempt to increase its appeal. It remains the least read newspaper in the country, and not because of distribution problems, but because the majoritv of the population finds its views ab- horrent.

You can hardly claim to be unbiased. In another of your ex- cursions into the past. you write of the Wobbly martyrs in 1905. I find no mention in vour columns of an event of some twelve years later at Ekaterinberg in Russia. where a man. his wife and four children, together with four friends, were brutallv murdered in cold blood-presumably. as a de- posed emperor. he is not worthy of our svmpathv.

Your reply to (administration president) Petch’s letter in the (to quote the masthead) commie issue. sums up all I am trying to say. You are convinced vou are right. and all must be sub- ordinated to vour views. This seems to include the right of an individual not to have to pay union dues. according to another article. When the administration president reads your report. accepts parts of it and refutes other parts. all you ,can do is try to make his reply look ludicrous.

Perhaps it is too much to hope. thanks to the self-perpetuating system of electing your editor. that we may have some responsible unbiased reporting on this campus. but might I suggest that vou channel vour concern for downtrodden people into some use-

ful organization like CUSO. and stop behaving like spoiled kids.

PHILIPS. ENGLISH grad physics

We will make some specific

points:

l We speak of no ruling class

conspiracy-only of a sociological

and economic reality which is very

undemocratic. We don ‘t need

history to prove that; but your

seemingly total dismissal of the

value of learning from history is

frightening. The “‘free *’ world

forgets the real lesson of Hitler

or napalm in Vietnam because it

tires of hearing it. l The misreporting of the London

demonstration: to what are you

referring? Have you pointed this

out before in feedback? l it’s about time people were

scared, by the media, about poll-

u tion.

l One point scored: the disclaim-

er we usually carry in the mast-

head is sufficient for on-campus,

familiar readership, but the dis-

claimer on the community issue

should have been more prom -

inen t.

l The Canadian Communist Party

paper, the Tribune, is not well-

read either, and we’re not sur-

prised. It, like the Daily Work-

er-cum- Morning Star, is not a

mass-media-newspaper-it is a

party mouthpiece. Nor for that

matter is the Communist Party

communist.

0 As for the murder of the czar,

we oppose capital punishrnen t. But

the difference between the czar

and the Wobblies’ Joe Hill should

be obvious-Hill was framed and

he never oppressed anyone. 0 It was not “our” reply to Petch

-it was the RSM’s. The Chevron

is merely serving as a vehicle for..

bringing a very important de-

bate to the students, faculty and

staff, as well as the administra-

tion.

l ClJSO is indeed a worthy pause,

but it will do little to solve the

problems of overpopulation, over-

pollution, and overkill (nuclear

variety) that threaten to terminate

the human race; nor will it solve

the problems of industrial “demo-

crac y ” that are making life for

most of Western society’s citizens

as miserable as the third world’s

underprivileged (not to mention

our own underprivileged,‘.

As for the self-perpetuating

system of Chevron editor election,

one can only ask what alternative

you can offer to choice by the staff

which does the work on the paper

(and anybody can join), subject to

rejection by the student council.

If the student council made the

appointment on its own, the Chev-

ron would, in principle, be a

propaganda arm like the Daily

Worker. And if the Chevron edi-

tor was elected at large on camp-

us. we would have the ludicrous

situation of electing a government

whose sole function would be a

department of propaganda.

-the letti tor.

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Protect heuds’ health with MACE: , I

sick symptoms of u sicker society Tonight (april 17) on the late news summary, a voice

says--that James Goddard, former head of the food and drug administration, had said that chemical MACE-that happy, friendly, lifegiving mainstay of our stalwart upholders of domestic tranquillity-could cause derma- titis. blindness (that’s blindness, baby, n.ot “eye dam- age” ). or even-dare we say the word?-death.

That’s right. kids, death. The cessation of life, des- truction of the physical, chemical, biological, social, feeling. breathing, loving being that is you. So I said, in my initial reaction, what the hell, it’s just another example of the ‘repressive forces of the establishment,” the “management of the news media,” “police bru- tality.” “maintenance of law and order,” “crushing of dissent,” all that crap you read about in the Chevron, right? Now maybe someday we can all write home from university that we’re really in danger.

- ’ W’ell. I know all about those phrases, I’ve followed things closely enough to know this establishment, whatever it is; controls the media. And they can make sure that the right things are said, right? So that we won’t have to worry our heads making decisions about what’s going on. based on facts, when they know better and can evaluate reality better than we can. Like they can have Walter and Chet and Dave play down the dan- gers of MACE when it first comes out (God. where and who did it first come from?) and starts being used a- gainst.. .people. Then if it turns out to be a harmful sub- stance, well that’s tough but its been around long

enough that folks are getting used to it, and anyway we can put the news back on page 37. Like they did with that acid hoax in California, right? Where the doctor says 6 or 8 kids went stone blind from staring at the sun on LSD, and there were screaming headlines all over the front pages. Then the doctor. turns out to be a liar. and the wh_ole thing was a complete fraud, nobody went blind. and that news goes on page 94. But every- body’s seen the headlines, and concludes that these drugs are dangerous as hell because those kids can’t see any more. and we sure do want our young people to be able to see so we better protect ‘em from acid. Putting them in jail would be a good idea.. .

And besides. MACE supports the economy, too-the 1 chemical manufacturers. aerosol-makers, Cheese-

borough-Ponds (they make Vaseline ), the cops, the mayors. the doctors, the morticians.

’ So the whole scene fits. It’s not that unusual today for people to be a little inconsistent. Nixon, for example, cries for law ‘n‘ order, peace in the streets, and maybe a little justice (but probably not for blacks, not just yet 1. and spends $16.000 per second (I quote the Fugs, not Foreign Affairs Quarterly) “snuffin’ gooks.” And

-getting to the moon is groovy, right? Especially if the US’. can get there before the godless, atheistic, mater-

-,ialistic Russians, whom we all abhor because they’re * commie rats ( Marxist-Lennists, maybe? ). But can we

really build big enough moonships to take all the people who might want to go there, just to get away from the rats and the bills and the welfare snoopers and The ‘Man.. .in Watts, Newark, Harlem, Dallas?

.And then I think back to the Chevron, to what Saxe and the rest have been trying to do this year. They could have put out a college newspaper like most of them, with big stories on the prom, the wonderful warm human

.” interest stories on the moguls of the faculty, lots of sports fashion news. Oh, maybe a little local stuff, but

not too much ‘cause we’re all busy with courses and _ dates and looking for jobs and drinking beer and

getting laid and driving around in the sun. But they haven’t done that. They have, I think, been

trying to wake people up to the fact that something is dreadfully. terribly wrong with North American society. What’s wrong is damned hard to pinpoint in a lot of cases, but it includes almost all of the institutions with which we have grown up and pros- pered-economics, religion, business, even that sanctified community of scholars, the university. Somehow. they say, the values are wrong, the stress is on things more than people, on getting along rather than getting straight, on adjusting ’ to your

0 environment rather than adjusting that environment. In sum, ‘society is geared to make things real, real easy for some of us but not all of us, and the power that is wielded is, wielded under the influence of values which are not right.

NOW such a message is a difficult one to bring to people. It’s a message that can very easily‘ become sloganized, trite, fantasy-ridden. The message can be tied too much to local irrelevant issues, or it- can become lost in the abstract reaches of too-broad generali- zations. And if these pitfalls can be avoided, as I think the Chevron has avoided them, it’s still difficult to bring the message, especially to people who are among the most highly pampered recipients of that society’s large- sse.

Because those people, secure in their planned futures, just ain’t gonna want to be told that their security is .either based on a helluva lot of misery for the have-nots, whether in this society or in the third world, or will .be rapidly shaken by the crumbling of the foundations. Also, the society that is pampering those people, training them to take over from (or be taken over by)- the system as it is presently constituted, they are not going to be overjoyed to have their fod- der exposed to these wierd, radical, commie ideas. And we should, if we believe in the geat god power, expect that system to fight back, to fight back just as hard as is necessary to eliminate the threat.

These attacks can in general take many forms, probably the first of which is to ignore completely

- the dissident elements. Second method is selective reporting, where’ if a black meeting has a dozen “responsible” speakers, your TV station shows only the lone militant who grabs the mike at the end. Or where you link unrelated events like bombs and brid- ges and student politics. Other favorite tactics include trying to drive wedges between various dissident

,groups. This is especially true in the States now,

IN THIS CITY FOR OVER 1

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where people like -Hayakawa (San Franci SC0 State president) try to split black and white radicals.

You can also attack the critics for their lack of certain qualities-e.g., responsibility, decorum, fair- mindedness. ’ The problem is deciding what?s fair, shouting down an administration spokesman or dropping 50,000 bombs on churches; what’s decorous, interupting a meeting or voting for highways over slum clearance; what’s fair, stopping a troop train or building an anti-ballistic missile system while millions starve.

And there’s always co-option, where unwary souls get lost in reform schemes financed by the Ford foun- dation, in which the rhetoric is cool but the power doesn’t get re-shuffled and nothing really changes. ’

- Anyway, for those who are not involved fulltime in the following of such trends, for those who are pro- tected by their families, jobs, newspapers, educations, churches, whatever, from the harsher realities faced by a whole bunch of people in the world today, it’s very easy to treat the continuing revelations as just another piece of the pattern. In a way, it’s groovy to sit back and watch the pattern fitting together, the in- consistencies becoming more obvious, the demands and repressions becoming more extreme, the polarization continuing, the fear and striking out of the establishment. Chicago, right?

And so you take these parts of the pattern and you analyze them. .You take your carefully instilled ra- tionality, your scientific method, and you intellectually draw your conclusions, adding up this factor and that factor, accounting for that contingency, making the required number of qualifications so you can’t be attacked, and you come up with a conclusion-your “attitude.” If you’ve got a lotta guts, your conclusion might- lead you to side with the cops or the kids, for whatever reasons; but mainly you don’t,‘ you just kind of hold things off because you don’t have all the

’ facts :and it’s a complex situation, and surely those people know more than me (goddammit; mayor

l’,c ‘_ Daley doesn’t! .i * a . f, ,

And so on. But none of that really counts, because none of it goes beyond the cortex to the gut. to that place where you feel that something is not right. Got- ta be careful here, ‘cause people will start jumping on this an “anti-intellectual,” which it is if intellectuals got us where we are today. It’s not if intellectual values have been subverted and bastardized and sold down the river by the economic and political interests to which they have always been subservient.

No, in that sense, it’s very pro-intellectual. On this basis. You can’t be really intellectual about something you don’t feel. Oh, you can but all you’re doing then is playing a game, putting words on paper, giving courses; taking courses. mouthing ideas and slogans and metaphors. When it-anything -becomes important and real enough to You, then you can get on with the business of being an intellectual about it, trying to relate it to other things, solve the problems it raises, convince others that this course is better than that course, support your arguments with flawless logic and impeccable facts, all that bag.

And that brings us back to chemical MACE, which if you’ll remember, turns out to be capable of killing people. When I started this letter, I was boiling mad, in fact my hand was shaking. Now I’m calmer because I’ve been writing for a long time now. So I’ll’ quit.

But before I quit, remember this. We live in a world which says this: Children, you simply must not ex- periment with drugs, because drugs are chemicals, right? And chemicals can ,have weird, strange, pos- sibly deletorious (that’s an intellectual word) ef- . fects, right? And we’ve got to be awful careful because we need more research before we can be sure if

a drug (like alcohol, say) is really. good for you (how -many alcoholics, highway deaths, lost job time? ). And anyway, kiddies,‘drugs are an escape and the real man faces up to and solves his problems.

But, this society goes on to say if those goddam troublemakers at Berkeley or Columbia or the Chev- ” ron, make too much noise, or if the free speech which we allow them in our infinite wisdom,’ if that free speech starts to work and be effective, then we just might reach in the old armaments cabinet and pull out our little spray can of chemical MACE and spray it on people. And maybe kill them.

If this is the responsibility of the system, if this is what the youth of today are supposed to emulate, then I’m very much afraid that things are worse off than even the Chevron has suggested. If you can look at MACE, just for a minute, stripped of all the qualifications and obfuscations and smoke-screens (no pun intended), and realize in your gut that they are faced with a bunch of problems which not even the most hide-bound engineer can deny, and that their response to those who raise these problems is to us - an untried, untested chemical which later turns out to be fatal-FATAL, goddammit-then you may start to think about some of the other things the radicals are saying.

One more thing. If the powers that be didn’t -know until later that MACE <was so dangerous, then they can only be accused for ignorance and fear and a whole lot of malice. But if they did know, and the facts are just now being publicized, then we are wallowing ’ . in the area of premediated murder. But ,you can’t accuse a whole society of premeditated murder, can you?

Speed kills, baby, and that’s the truth. But even speed turns you on before it kills ‘you. MACE just kills you. *

FRED KEMP psych dept

Custom suggests we should eulogize the retired editor on this page of the first issue -in the new volume. instead we dedicate this letter to Stevyart Saxe who appreciates _this soti of thing and8should have written more &reams of conscience himself, (

i -the lettitor. . .s .

Law, order, and property Nobodv came out of the trials re-

ported oh pages 6 and 7 with a term allowed to infringe on the demo- cratic rights of expression and

in jail, nor were they saddled inquiry. with heavy fines or expenses. And And if Howie Petch doesn’t no one was physically injured think anyone in his university either. But that’s not the point. communities is too worried a-

There is little justice in the bout law ‘n’ order yet, there’s c,~ courts: the same Gay there isn’t

much freedom in our democracy. It’s not pride that is hurt, Judge

1 Kirkpatrick, it is human values. When you ,believe a cop’s first ,- duty is to protect property, you should resign from the bench.

s exercising them he infringed on no one.

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LAW, ORDER and PROPERTY. Whatever happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? What- ever happened to real Christian values and sanity?

Places become private or public for the convenience of the cops and their courts- technicalities become valid or invalid at the whim of the judge.

Nestel was convicted because he held human values, and in

Burko and friends were convicted to keep our highschools safe from questioning influences in that often inhuman environment.

In Judge Kirkpatrick’s words, Verdun was supposed to tolerate a little manhandling; he had no right to ask a cop for his super- visor; tind the potential lost value of a pane of glass in a door is

more. Kirkpa trick doesn’t think cam-

pus cops should have to have extensive training in handling obstreperous students. He probably also sees no need for extensive training in handling traditionally liberal faculty members who holb some pretty obstreperous views on academic freedom.

Security director Al Romenco produced’ some information in court which should interest a few members of the university communities. Confidential records from both the registrar’s office and the payroll department were given in evidence without being subpoenaed. That means the cops and probably the RCMP have easy access to everything in the in- stitution’s bureaucratic vaults.

The time has come, Dr. Petch, not to establish a code of conduct (for either local utopia or local re- pression) but to adopt the belief that there is a dire need for change in society.

The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. -JUNIUS.

The people’s postoffice Unless federation legal-beagle If the postoffice is going to

Steve Ireland is able to find a make their operations break even, way through the maze of new pos- it’s starting in the wrong place. ta1 regulations, it will cost $10,500 Such “Canadian” publications for postage on Chevrons mailed like TIME and Readers’ Digest

l to off-campus students. Before the are subsidized by the people-and change in regulations and rates, they get handled better than per- we planned on spending about sonal first-class mail according to $1200 on postage. many postal workers. Junk-mail

The daily and weekly newspap- continues to be handled at a loss; ers, who screamed the loudest, got but ethnic, political and labor off with a doubling or tripling of publications are being forced to postal charges. But minority fold. group publications, with few ei- Trudeau’s just society has ceptions, are being saddled with been falsely scoffed at as a just- tenfold increases-because thev as-it-is society. Somehow, his gov- aren’t purely capitalist “free” ernment is -aiming only at a enterprises. worse-than-it-was society.

ARETHERE - I I I 5 AWOuESTfOUS

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The incredible mass media If there were any doubts in the The dhevron’s community issue

Kitchener-Waterloo community about the credibility of the Chei- ron’s community issue, the local media certainly did their share to overcome them.

The decisions of the K-W Rec- ord, CKCO-TV, CKKW and CFCA radio to ignore the city-wide distribution of that april issue only helped get the message across.- Local residents had it proven before their eyes that the media will report on’ly what they want us to learn and nothing more.

You would think the free dis-‘ tribution of some 25,000 copies of Uniwsit’s student newspaper, something that had never been done before in the twin cities’ history, would have been more newsworthy than much of the trash the media deliver. Even the University of Guelph Ontarian’s highschool edition attracted much more attention.

constituted a direct and well-re- Searched attack on the local power structure and the myths it tries to perpetuate. Neither the media themselves, nor the federal or provincial governments they and their country-club friends control were immune from criticism.

The only medium that covered the story,. CHYM-radio, dropped its commentary after three news broadcasts (probably because the news department ‘realized the “Marxist-Leninist” label it was using was grossly inaccurate). Otherwise you would think the is‘- = sue never appeared.

All of which merely proves the assertion that the cohmercial news niedia are in John Porter’s words “instruments of an established upper class”.. We trust the K-W residents have! started to get the pictu,re. . h .

And the*lst of the 71st i. , 7?hefi came Peter to him, and said, Lord;

how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until I seventy times seven.

-Matthew ,18: 2132

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See the cops. See the students: they are Purdue Univer,&y radicals. They are threatening the administration building. Isn’t it obvious, See the cops. See the MACE. Aren’t the cops brave. They aren’t using guns. Wouldn’t’ you rather be a blind radical than a dead one?

The staff abolished the hierarchical editors’ list in favor of egalitarianism, anonymity and anarchy. As Jimmy Nagel (now past-past editor) would say, next week we’ll get orgelized. Singing the same old song, but with a different meaning since Verdun came along: Roddy Hickman, Bill Brown, Jim - Klinck, Cyril Levitt, Lorna Eaton, Pat Starkey, Don McNeil, Grubby Louis Silcox, Larry Burke, dvmdum jones, Anne Banks, Dave X Stephenson, Stewart David’s in Ottawa, all’s right with the world, Gary Robins floated down into Rochdale, RACSmythe whereareyounowthatweneedyou- badly, swireland gloating over his own veryfirst masthead, and don’t you think ttiis page looks better withour Ted Batke’s ugly crest? , I

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