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To-ordinated yet flexible I* OFS- plans fight-against fee hike Q An Ontario Federation of students emergency plenary neeting Saturday called for a half- lay moratorium on classes Feb- uary 10 as part of a campaign to ollback the tuition fee increase set )y the Ontario government. Delegates at the Toronto neeting vQted 2 1-6-1 in favor of demanding a rollback in the tuition ee increases, $100 for university tudents and $75 for college tudents, which are scheduled to ake effect in September. ‘< The motion also demanded no further increases in tuition for On- tario post-secondary students, who already pay higher tuition fees than students in any other province. The decision to hold moratoriums on individual cam- puses on February 10 was the only proposal not included in a report issued by the OFS executive out- lining a strategy to fight the tuition fee increase. The executive report proposed mass meetings at each school “be- fore the end of February to con- sider the many options that exist for local action.” The results of the meetings were to be evaluated at the OFS winter conference in Sud- bury March 4-6, with a “co- ordinated yet flexible provincial campaign” to follow. But delegates argued that March was too late for organizational meetings, and counselled the buil- ding of student opposition to the fee hike in February before students become weighed down with exams and term papers. But the delegates rejected as un- necessary a motion to hold an University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario volume I, number 7.5 _ january 2 1, 1977 , Eight hopefuls seek presidency It looks like a banner year for Jresidential candidates. In the argest field of nominees ever, eight Jeople have tossed their hats into .he ring for this year’s election. Those expressing a desire to Regular students to pay , more Regular students will have to pay ;725 next September in tuition ees, according to a new student fee isting approved by the UW Board If Governor’s executive commit- ee Tuesday. . The fee listing was based on the ;lOO hike announced by the pro- lincial government last fall. The co-op students will be laying (with two exce,ptions) a )asic fee of $362.50.per term plus a ;60 co-op fee. Engineers and upper-year Ar- :hitecture students will be forking )ver a basic fee of $380, plus the 60 )uck co-op fee, per term. On top of these costs are a $13.75 ee to the federation of students per erm, $11 to athletics per term, ;I .50 per term to OPIRG, and var- ring amounts of $2 to $4 to a stu- lent society. Both the OPIRG and society fees re refundable, as is a $2.50 a term ee paid to the Sanford Fleming ;aoundation. scale the heights to that lofty office are: Doug Antoine, Arts 4th year; Joe MacDonald, Arts 2nd year; Salah Bachir, Arts 3rd year; Doug Thompson, IS 3rd year; Bill Bar- ker, Arts 1st year; Mark Wills, Arts 3rd year; John Tromp, Science 1st year; and Janet Rakasova, En- vironmental Studies 2nd year. Though there are a record num- ber of mounts bursting from the gate, there is considerable conjec- ture about whether all will round the clubhouse turn or some pull up lame in the backstretch. Oddsmakers have yet to pick a favourite, though it is still early in the race, but sources report the heavy betters are working out ways to avoid losing their shirts should the mounts they’ve backed prove incapable of going the distance. Doug Thompson, one of the presidential hopefuls, has jumped into his campaign with both feet. Thompson had posters up on bulle- tin boards just minutes after the nomination deadline expired. He also plans to conduct a sur- vey of student opinion. The survey would be used to de- termine the trend in candidate pre- ference. It would be “an extreme emergency” if_ competition bet- ween Thompson and Doug Antoine could give Mark Wills a plurality,of votes, Thompson believes. In that case, Thompson would meet with Antoine in the hope that one will drop out, Thompson said. For the moment,‘it’s every can- didate for himself/herself. A series of all-candidate meetings have been’ arranged, with places and times to be announced. -doug harnilton -lorne gershuny emergency plenary as soon as pos- sible after the February 10 moratoriums. Part of the debate Saturday dwelt on the question of whether or not OFS should oppose the tuition fee increase, and whether it could do so successfully. A representative of the Univer- sity of Toronto part-time under- graduate student association called the tuition fee hike “iniquitous”, and stated that “it accentuates, rather than obliterates the lack of accessibility” to post-secondary education. OFS chairperson Murray Miskin agreed that universal accessibility to post-secondary education is a fundamental goal of OFS, and that the proposed tuition fee increase stands in direct opposition to that goal. For that reason the OFS must fight for a rollback-in the increase, even though students do not know whether or not the protest will suc- ceed. Miskin also replied to some de- legates who said that sufficient op- position to the hike could not be organized - because students are resigned to the increase - and that it would be expedient to accept the existing increase in the hope that there would be no more. Miskin warned that the govern- ment could continue to raise fees until it reaches the 65 per cent in- crease proposed in the Henderson Report, issued by the Special Prog- ram Review Committee chaired by Maxwell Henderson last year. If OFS did not protest this hike, he argued, the government might expect the same student compla- cency when considering future in- The University of Waterloo was represented by federation council- creases. lors Phil Marquis and Ron Hipfner and mathNEWS editor Mike Dil- lon. Marquis called for students to “get the people of Ontario behind us” because the entire Ontario education system “is going tits up.” A delegate from U of T re- primanded Marquis, saying that if they really wanted to get the people of Ontario - women included - behind them, students should clean up their language. The executive report en- couraged students to approach community and labor groups, who are also adversely affected by cut- backs in public spending. The report also suggested that each campus set up an “Election Preparedness Committee” so that “the upcoming (provincial) elec- tion can be used to good advan- tage’ ’ . Miskin told the chevron after the plenary that a provincial election is expected this year, although not in the spring, and that “I suspect that a rollback (in the tuition fee in- crease) will only come with the de- feat of the present government.” OFS staff members are preparing a body of research on accessibility, the Henderson report and the tax structure, which they expect to re- lease by the end of the month, in order to aid the protest campaign. - lorne gershuny - larry hannant _ .~ photo by lorne gershuny Referendum fo/l/‘es at UW A campus-wide campaign to boycott the referendum on the stu- dent newspaper ended in scuffling between student councillors and free chevrics last week. The free chevron staff asked _ students to boycott the referendum because it did not include the chev- ron position, which was to Reins- tate the paper and then investigate its closing in.September. - Docherty claimed that the free chevrics were not telling ‘people how to vote on the questions of the referendum but, were telling them not to vote at all. He also declared that the whole referendum was invalid because the federation didn’t appoint a judi- cial committee prior to the opening of the co-op polls. Neil Docherty and other free chevrics put a banner which read “Boycott the referendum” across from the polling station on the t h ird floor of the Math building early Thursday morning. Throughout the morning, Robert White, Math Sot speaker, re- peatedly tore down the chevron posters. The free chevrics how- ever, kept posting new signs. Late that morning, acting presi- dent Dave McLellan arrived and told the free chevrics that they were violating the federation bylaws by electioneering. McLellan and Docherty scuffled as McLellan tore down the banner. In the early afternoon White re- cruited help from the engineering faculty. Complete with hard hats about six engineers assisted White seize the table being used by the free chevrics. White told the free chevrics that they had not acquired the proper authorization from the Math Soci- ety to set up a table in the building. The same type of incidents oc- . curred at both the Arts and En- gineering polling stations. Chief Returning Officer, Gary Prudence arrived at the polling sta- tion in engineering and told free chevric Dave Carter to remove the banner he had posted. Shortly after Prudence left, McLellan came, told Carter he was electioneering and tore down the sign. At the Arts polling station McLellan again tore down the ban- ner but met up with resistance from free chevrics Larry Hannant and Peter Blunden. -heather robertson For the results of the re- ferendum and an analysis of the results turn to page 9.

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To-ordinated yet flexible I*

OFS- plans fight-against fee hike Q

An Ontario Federation of students emergency plenary neeting Saturday called for a half- lay moratorium on classes Feb- uary 10 as part of a campaign to ollback the tuition fee increase set )y the Ontario government.

Delegates at the Toronto neeting vQted 2 1-6-1 in favor of demanding a rollback in the tuition ee increases, $100 for university tudents and $75 for college tudents, which are scheduled to ake effect in September. ‘<

The motion also demanded no further increases in tuition for On- tario post-secondary students, who already pay higher tuition fees than students in any other province.

The decision to hold moratoriums on individual cam- puses on February 10 was the only proposal not included in a report issued by the OFS executive out- lining a strategy to fight the tuition fee increase.

The executive report proposed mass meetings at each school “be- fore the end of February to con-

sider the many options that exist for local action.” The results of the meetings were to be evaluated at the OFS winter conference in Sud- bury March 4-6, with a “co- ordinated yet flexible provincial campaign” to follow.

But delegates argued that March was too late for organizational meetings, and counselled the buil- ding of student opposition to the fee hike in February before students become weighed down with exams and term papers.

But the delegates rejected as un- necessary a motion to hold an

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario

volume I, number 7.5 _ january 2 1, 1977

,

Eight hopefuls seek presidency

It looks like a banner year for Jresidential candidates. In the argest field of nominees ever, eight Jeople have tossed their hats into .he ring for this year’s election.

Those expressing a desire to

Regular students to pay , more

Regular students will have to pay ;725 next September in tuition ees, according to a new student fee isting approved by the UW Board If Governor’s executive commit- ee Tuesday.

.

The fee listing was based on the ;lOO hike announced by the pro- lincial government last fall.

The co-op students will be laying (with two exce,ptions) a )asic fee of $362.50.per term plus a ;60 co-op fee.

Engineers and upper-year Ar- :hitecture students will be forking )ver a basic fee of $380, plus the 60 )uck co-op fee, per term.

On top of these costs are a $13.75 ee to the federation of students per erm, $11 to athletics per term, ;I .50 per term to OPIRG, and var- ring amounts of $2 to $4 to a stu- lent society.

Both the OPIRG and society fees re refundable, as is a $2.50 a term ee paid to the Sanford Fleming ;aoundation.

scale the heights to that lofty office are: Doug Antoine, Arts 4th year; Joe MacDonald, Arts 2nd year; Salah Bachir, Arts 3rd year; Doug Thompson, IS 3rd year; Bill Bar- ker, Arts 1st year; Mark Wills, Arts 3rd year; John Tromp, Science 1st year; and Janet Rakasova, En- vironmental Studies 2nd year.

Though there are a record num- ber of mounts bursting from the gate, there is considerable conjec- ture about whether all will round the clubhouse turn or some pull up lame in the backstretch. Oddsmakers have yet to pick a favourite, though it is still early in the race, but sources report the heavy betters are working out ways to avoid losing their shirts should the mounts they’ve backed prove incapable of going the distance.

Doug Thompson, one of the presidential hopefuls, has jumped into his campaign with both feet. Thompson had posters up on bulle- tin boards just minutes after the nomination deadline expired.

He also plans to conduct a sur- vey of student opinion.

The survey would be used to de- termine the trend in candidate pre- ference. It would be “an extreme emergency” if_ competition bet- ween Thompson and Doug Antoine could give Mark Wills a plurality,of votes, Thompson believes.

In that case, Thompson would meet with Antoine in the hope that one will drop out, Thompson said.

For the moment,‘it’s every can- didate for himself/herself. A series of all-candidate meetings have been’ arranged, with places and times to be announced.

-doug harnilton -lorne gershuny

emergency plenary as soon as pos- sible after the February 10 moratoriums.

Part of the debate Saturday dwelt on the question of whether or not OFS should oppose the tuition fee increase, and whether it could do so successfully.

A representative of the Univer- sity of Toronto part-time under- graduate student association called the tuition fee hike “iniquitous”, and stated that “it accentuates, rather than obliterates the lack of accessibility” to post-secondary education.

OFS chairperson Murray Miskin agreed that universal accessibility to post-secondary education is a fundamental goal of OFS, and that the proposed tuition fee increase stands in direct opposition to that goal.

For that reason the OFS must fight for a rollback-in the increase, even though students do not know whether or not the protest will suc- ceed.

Miskin also replied to some de- legates who said that sufficient op- position to the hike could not be organized - because students are resigned to the increase - and that it would be expedient to accept the existing increase in the hope that there would be no more.

Miskin warned that the govern- ment could continue to raise fees until it reaches the 65 per cent in- crease proposed in the Henderson Report, issued by the Special Prog- ram Review Committee chaired by Maxwell Henderson last year.

If OFS did not protest this hike, he argued, the government might

expect the same student compla- cency when considering future in-

The University of Waterloo was represented by federation council-

creases.

lors Phil Marquis and Ron Hipfner and mathNEWS editor Mike Dil- lon.

Marquis called for students to “get the people of Ontario behind us” because the entire Ontario education system “is going tits up.”

A delegate from U of T re- primanded Marquis, saying that if they really wanted to get the people of Ontario - women included - behind them, students should clean up their language.

The executive report en- couraged students to approach community and labor groups, who are also adversely affected by cut- backs in public spending.

The report also suggested that each campus set up an “Election Preparedness Committee” so that “the upcoming (provincial) elec- tion can be used to good advan- tage’ ’ .

Miskin told the chevron after the plenary that a provincial election is expected this year, although not in the spring, and that “I suspect that a rollback (in the tuition fee in- crease) will only come with the de- feat of the present government.”

OFS staff members are preparing a body of research on accessibility, the Henderson report and the tax structure, which they expect to re- lease by the end of the month, in order to aid the protest campaign.

- lorne gershuny - larry hannant

_ .~ photo by lorne gershuny

Referendum fo/l/‘es at UW A campus-wide campaign to

boycott the referendum on the stu- dent newspaper ended in scuffling between student councillors and free chevrics last week.

The free chevron staff asked _ students to boycott the referendum because it did not include the chev- ron position, which was to Reins- tate the paper and then investigate its closing in.September.

- Docherty claimed that the free chevrics were not telling ‘people how to vote on the questions of the referendum but, were telling them not to vote at all.

He also declared that the whole referendum was invalid because the federation didn’t appoint a judi- cial committee prior to the opening of the co-op polls.

Neil Docherty and other free chevrics put a banner which read “Boycott the referendum” across from the polling station on the t h ird floor of the Math building early Thursday morning. Throughout the morning, Robert White, Math Sot speaker, re- peatedly tore down the chevron posters. The free chevrics how- ever, kept posting new signs.

Late that morning, acting presi-

dent Dave McLellan arrived and told the free chevrics that they were violating the federation bylaws by electioneering.

McLellan and Docherty scuffled as McLellan tore down the banner.

In the early afternoon White re- cruited help from the engineering faculty. Complete with hard hats about six engineers assisted White seize the table being used by the free chevrics.

White told the free chevrics that

they had not acquired the proper authorization from the Math Soci- ety to set up a table in the building.

The same type of incidents oc- . curred at both the Arts and En- gineering polling stations.

Chief Returning Officer, Gary Prudence arrived at the polling sta- tion in engineering and told free chevric Dave Carter to remove the banner he had posted.

Shortly after Prudence left, McLellan came, told Carter he was electioneering and tore down the sign.

At the Arts polling station McLellan again tore down the ban- ner but met up with resistance from free chevrics Larry Hannant and Peter Blunden.

-heather robertson For the results of the re- ferendum and an analysis of the results turn to page 9.

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A formal request for a CUP commission of inquiry, confusion over the referendum results, and a report on the federation fieldwor- kers came up at the student council meeting on Sunday night.

Council voted to accept a re- commendation by acting president . Dave McLellan requesting an in-

vestigation by the Canadian Uni- dum,” McLellan declared, “that versity Press of the chevron- students on this campus don’t want federation dispute. reinstatement.”

McLellan also announced that he plans to “ask” free chevron editor Larry Hannant to see that staff re- move all personal belongings from the chevron offices.

“It is clear from the referen-

McLellan was referring to ques- tion 7 of the referendum, which read: “Should the Chevron be reinstated as it was September 24; with Neil Docherty as Production Manager and Henry Hess as News Editor (both salaried pdsitions); and back-pay be given to these in- dividuals for the period when the Chevron was not publishing; and outstanding bills of the “free chev- ron” be paid by the Federation of Students?”

Visa fee hike

TORONTO (CUP) - Seven of Ontarip’s 15 publically-funded uni- versities refused to implement a tripled tuition fee for visa students effective this month, despite the withdrawal of a provincial govern- ment subsidy of about $1000 per student.

The governing boards of Lauren- tian university in Sudbury and Carleton University in Ottawa both rejected fees which cost new visa students $1500 for a two-term uni- versity year, while the senates of Brock, McMaster, and York have recommended their governing boards not implement the hike.

A subcommittee of the Univer- sity of Toronto’s governing council recommended the council reject the fee hike “as a matter of princi- pie”.

Other Ontario universities have

If you’re in trouble with any as- pect of the law - or just have ques- tions about legal matters - then you might want to get in contact with Para Legal Assistance.

Para Legal is a federation service concerned with helping students cope with the law. It is operated on a strictly volunteer basis and is open td all students on campus.

Chris Wheller, President of Para Legal, says the organization is mostly a “non professional referral service” dealing with procedural matters and advice. “We don’t give legal advice,” he explained, due to the non expert status of the group.

The majbrity of cases Para Legal deals with are concerned with the Landlord-Tenant Act. Students ask about subletting, breaking leases and the rights of the tenant.

Other subjects of concern involve: how to beat a traffic tic- ket, the Food and Drug Act, tile Liquor Control Act, divorce, the rights of police to search and how to take a person to small claims court. There have been few dealings with criminal matters.

Through repetition of cases, the staff becomes “pretty proficient” in its dealings, says Marilyn Carr. Staff have various reference sour- ces supplied and also have access to lawyer’s advice. If a case is beyond their scope th2y will refer to a lawyer.

The vpjunteers in Para Legal which include Lorne Gershuny, Ron Marr, Marilyn Carr, Nikki Carter and Chris Wheller are in- terested in law and have done a fair bit of reading on it. No experience is required to be a staff volunteer and a short training session is pro- vided.,

Para Legal is described by its staff as a good place for legal prob- lems - far better than “going to a friend.” Staff will .give non legal advice, some common sense and some direction. Their office (be- side the turnkeys desk in the Cam- pus Centre) is open Monday, to Thursday from 1:30 to 4:OOpm.

-randy btirkman

agreed to implement the hike, but UW’s senate may reconsider the question. Wilfrid Laurier Univer- sity implemented the hike after the senate refused a student bid to re- consider its decision, but will work within the Council of ‘Ontario Uni- versities (COU) to effect mod- ifications to the govertiment- initiated fee increase.

The COU, often called the “presidents’ club”, consists of the 15 university presidents and their designates. While this body will be seeking “modifications” to the tui- tion fee hike, there is no plan to oppose it outright.

One such modification would be to establish a definition of what is a “new”, visa student, since the hike applies to students not registered in an Ontario post-secondary institu- tion prior to Jan. 1, 1977.

The COU does not have a great track record of opposing tuition hikes. During the past two years, a COU subcommittee has recom- mended general tuition fee in- creases of 25 and 10 per cent as a means of increasing revenue to universities in the face of reduced operating grants from the provin- cial government.

Students lobby In many cases, the universities’

decisions to oppose or defer the visa student tuition‘ hike was the result of the lobbying efforts of students’ groups. The Laurentian senate’s decision came after the local International Student Organi- zation (ISO) successfully petitioned against the increase.

Student governors at U of T draf- ted and argued for a motion op- posing the fee hike and asking Par- rott to reconsider his decision. The Carleton governing board made its decision following senate approval of a presentation from the student union, Dec. 16.

In a brief to the senate the Carle- ton student union (CUSA) noted that until 1968, Canadian students studying abroad outnumbered visa students in Canada and that in 1973, 15 per cent of Canadian PhD candidates obtained doctorates outside *the country.

The Laurentian IS0 head criticized the Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) for being “uncon- cerned” about the issue at a speaking engagement at ‘UW Nov. 18.

Fee discriminatory At t-he same session Wilfrid

Laurier ‘University’s International Student Association head Ben Garcia told students the differential fee “clearly discriminates between wealthy and non-wealthy foreign students”.

The Ontario differential fee hike was first announced last May by. minister of colleges and univer- sities Harry Parrott; who claimed “mounting public pressure” as his

justification. Critics of the fee hike have point-

ed out that Parrott has never pro- vided adequate proof of public pressure, ‘while he has admitted the hike would save the Ontario gov- ernment about $6 million yearly - which amounts to 0.6 per cent of the ministry’s budget.

An overwhelming majority of the 2600 students who voted on the re- ferendum checked “no”.

Supporters of the free chevron,- however, had complied with the “Boycott the Referendum” cam- paign because the referendum did not represent the free chevron’s view. The free chevron calls for reinstatement and investigation.

McLellan said that in addition to the CUP investigation - shquld CUP agree to conduct one - work will also be done setting up a new

by-law to supplant the existing one pertaining to the Board of Pub- lications and the chevron.

At least two by-law proposals pertaining to the chevron were drawn up by McLellan and by for- mer federation president Shane Roberts: Both would set up an editorial.board to control the con- tent of the paper-a contravention of CUP principles. Roberts’ by-law proposal was defeated at the Oc- tober’29 General Meeting.

Also discussed Sunday night was the Chief Returning Officer’s re- port on the referendum results. As CR0 Gary Prudence made his re- port, it became clear that there is still confusion regarding the results of the referendum.

The answers to questions 3 and 4 would, in effect, have two separate bodies control the student-funded newspaper: “Student Council or a body appointed by council and answerable to it” would publish the newspaper, while “a body separate from Student Council but control- led by students by direct election” would have editorial control.

Waterloo Warri-ors basketball team coasted to an easy 97-57 win over Western’s Marauders Wednesday night at the PAC building. Seymour Had- wen and Lou Nelson starred for Warriors, scoring 78 and 17 points respec- tively. A large early lead allowed the Warriors to relieve four of their starters with less than one quarter of the game played.

photo by lorne gershuny

Following the reading of the re- port, there was considerable de- bate on interpretation of the re- ferendum results.

Free chevron staffer Tom Cody posed several questions regarding the mail-out ballots. There have been reports of irregularities be- cause the protective mail-out (two envelope) technique was not fol- lowed.

In other council busineys, the Committee to Review Temporary Staff presented a report on the fed- eration fieldworkers and the Radio Waterloo co-Qrdinator.

Arts councillor Donna Rogers and ES councillor Heather Robert- son reported that their yeview of the fieldworkers Showed deep problems created by the federation’s own “lack of direc- tion.”

Interviews with the three part- time fieldworkers and the full-time researcher-planner indicated that the absence of a mandate or port- folio leads to confusion on their part.

“The fieldworkers have no di- rection,” declared Rogers, “be- cause the federation has none.”

The two councillors recommen- ded that, in view of the existing problems, the position of the field- workers be terminated when the present council’s term ends on February 28.

The next council would then hold a plenary session to discuss the direction the federation should take, as well as the functions and mandate of fieldworkers.

Rogers and Robertson also put forward three recommendations regarding the position of RadWat Administrative co-ordinator (cur- rently held by Dave Assmann), which they deemed “the only job where the circumstances were re- ally satisfactory.”

The recommendations are that signing authority be given to the co-ordinator, that the position of administrative co-ordinator be made permanent, and that a person be hired for administrative and sec- retarial duties on a part-time basis. I

-vaI moghadam -

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decided to fight tuition fee in- The federation of students has

creases and cutbacks. Sunday night, council adopted a

motion that read:

lacked substance and discussion. complained that Marquis’ motion

should be reopene,d in order to for- mulate a plan forcouncil to follow.

“That the federation of students at UW take a stand against the tui- tion fee increase and the cutbacks on campuses in Ontario by im- plementing their own plan and also following the suggestions brought up by the OFS emergency plenary, January 15, 1977.”

Larry Hannant, grad rep; argued that the first step in organizing students against cutbacks was to launch a program to educate students about tuition increases and cutbacks.

Robertson moved that the OFS report from the emergency plenary be passed out to all of the council-

latory by speaker Robert White.

lors and a meeting of all-interested councillors and students be held as . soon as possible to start organizing students against tuition increases and cutbacks.

The motion was introduced by Phil Marquis, HKLS rep who went to the OFS emergency plenary held in Toronto on behalf of the federa- tion.

Heather Robertson, ES rep,

Hannant went on to Say that the free chevron had already started an education campaign and moved that council reinstate the chevron as it was on September 24th so that council and the chevron may to- gether help students fight tuition increases and cutbacks. \

Hannant’s motion was ruled di-.

Mike Dillon and Hannant volun- teered to be in charge of estab- lishing a meeting time and putting up posters advertising the meeting.

The meeting, open to students and faculty, is scheduled for Wed- nesday, January 26th in the Cam- pus Center Room 113 at 3pm.

- dave porter - heather robertson

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Friday January 21st 6:00 Radio Waterloo News 6:15 Towards 1984 - On January 21st we feature a talk by Mr. Mipanik from the Canadian Civil Liberties As- sociation on What is a ‘Civil Lib- erty’?. As racism and discrimination appear to be increasing in al I areas of society, violation of civil liberties is an important issue. 8:00 Hockey - Live from the Water- loo Arena, Waterloo vs. Western II:45 Radio W,aterloo News Sunday, January 23rd I:00 Mon Pays/My Country -This is a bicultural programme, presented in a magazine format. The programme focusses on French and English Canadian music, literature and politics. International politics will also form part of the programme, with an emphasis on French and En- glish Canadian reactions to interna- tionaf political developments. 6:00 Live from the Slaughterhouse -Recorded at the Slaughterhouse, a coffee house in Aberfoyle, Ontario,

these programmes feature some of Ontario’s finest musicians. 7:00 Greek Student Programme 9:30 Live from the CC Coffeehouse - Pending permission, we will be broadcasting live from the Cof- feehouse in the Campus Centre. January 23rd will feature Brent Tit- comb. Monday January 24th 5:00 Public Affairs at the Centre - On January 24th, the programme will be on Solar Energy. Premier Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island discusses his province’s commit- ment to alternative energy sources; Dr. John Todd, Director of the New Alchemy Institute, talks about the ark= that the Institute set up in P.E.I. -it is self-sufficient in generating energy, growing food, recycling wastes and providing shelter for four people; and Frank Hooper, President of En- virogetics Ltd and professor of mechanical engineering at the Uni- versity of Toronto discusses the feasibility of using solar energy in On- tario. 6:00 Radio Waterloo News 9:00 Musikanada - Interviews with, and music from some of Canada’s finest recording artists form the basis for this programme. On the 24th the featured artist is Ken Tobias. II:45 Radio Waterloo News Tuesday, January 25th 6:00 Radio Waterloo News 6:15 World Around Us - On the 25th) we look at the situation in Zimbabwe. Mr. A. Chidoda, the representative for ZANU in Canada gives some histori- cal background to the situation in Zimbabwe and discusses’ current

events there. 9:00 Visions - These programmes feature American and British record- ing artists and include both music and interview. On January 25th the programme features American re- cording artist Billy Joel. II:45 Radio Waterloo News Wednesday, January 26 5:00 Octoberkon - Recorded at the first Science Fiction Conference to be held in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, this programme features a series of panels on science fiction. On January 26th the programme looks at Science Fiction Movies. The conference was sponsored by Wats- fit. 6:00 Radio Waterloo News 6:15 Perspectives - Perspectives is a programme which provides a balanced view of facts and points of view to provide an understanding of major issues before the United Nations, including recordings from meetings. On January 26th Kurt Waldheim’s re-election as Secretary General of the United Nations is the topic of discussion. 8:15 Basketball -On January 26th, Waterloo vs Brock. II:45 Radio Waterloo News Thursday, January 27th 5:30 Radio Waterloo Sports Report - Hosted by Gary Fick and Ian Hanna, this programme examines campus sports including scores, in- terviews and information about up- coming sports events. 6:00 Radio Waterloo News 8:00 Hockey - Live from Guelph, Waterloo vs. Guelph II:45 Radio Waterloo News

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Runs into ambus,h . . ‘i

Jacques Roy appeared at UW for the third time on Tuesday to prom- ote Angola’s Soviet and Cuban- backed MPLA (Popular Move- ment) government.

Roy, an electronics engineer from Quebec who has volunteered technical services to the MPLA since 1968, was invited by the Federation’s board of Education to talk on the Angolan situation.

Said Roy: “Angola would have had an economically independent, viable society had the MPLA been allowed to lead the country.”

Since its inception in 1961, MPLA has been active in health and literacy campaigns, Roy main- tained.

Centers of revolutionary instruc- tion -for the mass struggle against the Portugese colonialists - were also set up around the country.

Agricultural self-sufficiency was always emphasized in areas con- trolled by the MPLA, said Roy. The Organization of Angolan Women was also established “SO women could take part in all facets of the struggle.”

jacques Roy spoke on the MPLA in Angola Tuesday afternoon in the campus centre. .

photo by gervasio

RadWat to get - FM

. Following its initial request in

October, Radio Waterloo has been granted $5,000 from student funds to purchase an FM transmitter.

Since October the request has gone from the student council to the treasury committee where its merits were examined. It was re- submitted to council, and then tab- led, just ‘before the Christmas break. Finally council has passed the request.

Although the FM transmitter will allow RadWat to broadcast over the airwaves, they won’t be able to do so until September, according to Rad Wat co-ordinator Dave Ass- man. The/license granted by the government is being processed now and won’t be ready until then.

At the moment, only those peo- ple with cable can pick up the sta- tion. The change won’t affect prog- ramming, says Assman, but it will

make the programming available to a wider audience.

Council also approved a request for $1,600 from the Birth Control Centre. The funds will be used to continue the position of paid co- ordinator begun last term. The Centre has been operating for 10 years and has a well known and widely respected reputation. Four years ago the Federation funding, for the Centre was $4,000. Since then it has been only $1,200. Coun- cil felt that the additional funds were justified:

Another 10 year old organiza- tion, the infamous Warrior Band, was also granted additional funds in the order of $300. The money will be used to expand the brass and percussion sections of this spirited group. It might be wise to wear earmuffs to the next Warrior game.

A request for $850 was also made to council in order to purchase more equipment for the En- gineering Garage. The garage, which was initially set up by a grant of $5,000 from the Federation, is open to any and all students. It is located right. beside the Bower Warehouse on the north campus. At the moment, the garage has only an axle jack, an oil pan and some axle stands. If the extra funds are granted by the treasury committee, which is looking further into the re- quest, an air compressor and other pieces of equipment will be pur- chased.

In order to book the garage, a reservation must be made with the Engineering Society secretary. There is about a week waiting period at the moment.

Roy called Chipenda “a front man” for Holden Roberto (FNI ,A leader) and- Jonas Savimbi. Both Savimbi and Chipenda are from the Ovimbundu tribe.

In 1966 UNITA was formed. It was the only liberation organiza- tion to establish permanent head- quarters inside Angola and to adopt the line of surrounding the cities from the countryside.

The FNLA (National Front) was formed and led by Holden Roberto, a man widely regarded as corrupt

Roy also claimed that Savimbi is a “tribalist” and Roberto a racist.

A two-pronged approach by UNITA and FNLA for a final as- sault on MPLA “made it clear that MPLA could not conduct the struggle on its own.”

FNLA was bringing in mer- cenaries through Zaire on the north, and South African troops

Residence fees Ijet hefty boost

I

and supportive of Western in- terests.

The three movements fought the Portuguese until independence was achieved in November 1975. Meanwhile, a fierce struggle for power had ensued between the three groups.

Roy asserted that the FNLA had “serious contacts” with the South African army and the Zaire army.

He denounced the UNITA- FNLA alignment, which estab- lished a rival administration to the MPLA after the latter had rejected a call to form a coalition govern- ment.

The MPLA’s decision not to coalesce, Roy maintained, was made mainly because the Daniel Chipenda faction had infiltrated the MPLA to undermine it and to as- sasinate its leader, Agostinho Neto.

Rents for student residences are the next item slated for increase.

On May 1 the rent for married students will be rising, and on Sep- tember 1, fees for the Villages and Minota Hagey are going up.

The board of governors execu- tive committee was presented with the increases Tuesday, and passed the increases on to its February 1 meeting for ratification.

Increases range from 5.4 per cent for Minota Hagey to 13 8 for cer- tain apartments in married students. The rates in the Villages will increase 7.8 per cent for single

and interconnecting rooms and double rooms will go up 7.7 per cent. All increases are based on a four month lease.

In married students, rates will be zooming up 13.8 per cent for -a twelve month lease, 13.4 for an eight month lease, and 13.0 on a four month lease. The increase will leave rents at $190 per month for a year, $195 per month for eight months, and $200 per month for four months.

Mini-malenka

In the figures given to the BOG executive also show that the budget for the Villages in 1977-78 will be $4.4 million. The Villages are ex- petted to run a $100,000 deficit next year, but the profit made on summer conferences mav cover

rings in

new year

d

that amount. The surplus of Minota Hagey is

expected to drop from over $3,500 this year to just over $100 next year.

~ The Ukrainian and Russians The married students apart-

Students’ Associations at UW rang ments are currently being budgeted

in the New Year in a boisterous for a surplus of close to $45,000 for

fashion at their Mini-Malenka next year, while currently running

celebration on January 13. a deficit of $21,000.

had already infiltrated Angola from

It wa; at this point, Roy asserted, that MPLA brought in thousands of

the south.

Cuban soldiers to assist in the war against FNLA, UNITA, the mer- cenaries and the South Africans.

Opposition to Roy’s line came from’ the pro-UNITA AIA (Anti- Imperialist Alliance), which dis- tributed a six-page leaflet denoun- cing Roy as an agent of Soviet social-imperialism and demanding the withdrawal of Soviet and Cuban troops from Angola.

The leaflet exposes the “interna- tional slander campaign:’ against UNITA. AIA member Salah Bachir pointed out that Radio Mos- cow continuously changed its line on. the two liberation movements. In 1972 they called Roberto a CIA agent, while several years later cal- led him a “patriot”. * Several people in the audience

contested Roy’s remarks and, in- deed, his whole line. One student pointed out that although there are no longer South African armored columns in southern Africa, Cuban troops remain there killing UNITA soldiers and supporters.

“Why,” he demanded, “are foreign troops fighting Angolans?”

He also contested Roy’s charges that UNITA had ties with the South African army, and chal- lenged him to prove it.

“Even if South Africans were in- side Angola,” he declared, “the leadership had no right to allow a foreign invasion. ’ ’

.

Another student noted that Roy talked of UNITA and FNLA “as if they were the same organization.”

He added: “I believe in people liberating themselves using their own resources.”

Roy was also challenged to sub- stantiate his charge that UNITA wants political domination of An- gola by the Ovimbundu tribe.

One person in the audience as- serted that after the transitional government period, UNITA had gained the support of about 50 per cent of Angola, and that had elec- tions taken place as scheduled, UNITA would have become the government.

“The fact is,” he concluded, “the Soviet Union wanted a foot- hold in Africa, and now Angola had become Cuba’s Vietnam.”

In an interview following his talk, Roy maintained that the pres- ent struggle in Angola is merely “sporadic fighting”. He called the situation in Angola “normal” and ’ pointed out that the Benguela Railway is still operating.

Asked what other things the Cubans were now doing in Angola, Roy replied: “They are -also training the Angolan army, and starting up sugar and coffee plan- tations.”

-val moghadam

By the Gregorian calendar, to which the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches adhere, the new year begins about two weeks later than on the Julian calendar /which is the most widely used.

There were about 200 students, faculty and community members at the celebration which included a buffet and entertainment. +

Richard Harychuk, in traditional costume, performed several Uk- rainian melodies on the bandura, which is a complicated stringed in- strument similar to the zither. This was followed by the singing of some Ukrainian and Russian folk- songs.

The program closed with a high spirited game and dancing.

- phillip Cramer

Council calls for G referendum ’

Student council has recommen- ‘ded to UW’s Board of Governors that a student referendum be held on the question of a fee increase for the Ontario Public Interest Re- search Group (OPIRG).

OPIRG co-ordinator, Eugene Beuthien approached the board of governors in October requesting an increase to $4 from the present $3 fee. The fee, said Beuthien, ha; remained at $3 since the establish- ment of OPIRG in 1974.

The Board of Governors, before

making a decision, wanted to can- vass student opinion and so asked the student council to recommend a course of action. The referendum was suggested in order to ensure OPIRG’s autonomy.

Beuthien -doesn’t feel that a re- ferendum is a good solution be- cause it is ‘B “time consuming and expensive process”. He also feels that student council’s recommen- dation to hold a. referendum con- tradicts its autonomy.

- dave porter

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The fight 1 I+ I

isn ver yet The plan to build a bridge over, parcel ofland to the County of Wel-

the most scenic part of the Elora lington. The land is situated at one Gorge has far to go before it is ap- end of their Elora Gorge Park and proved. GORGE, (Group Or- was needed for the road right-of- ganized to Retain the Gorge for way. Although the county could Everybody), which led the fight up have used expropriation powers to until 1974, has reorganized and is take the land, it is generally con- making new plans to fight the pro- ceded that the authority had a good ject. case and could have prevented it.

History The issue was first raised ten

years ago when rumours about the bridge circulated in the Elora area. In 1969, Wellington County Coun- cil first approved the idea of an Elora by-pass, which was con- sidered necessary by everyone be- cause of traffic conditions.

In 1970, a “Pre-feasibility Study”

Court action

and a “Functional Planning Re- port” were commissioned. They recommended that the most direct route for ‘a by-pass should be fol- lowed, - that is, County Road 7 should be extended across the, gorge to connect at Salem.

There are very serious disag- reements with the traffic data used for this finding, but the county has continually refused to do a new and comprehensive traffic study. GORGE has tried to show in the past that a western by-pass of Elora is not the solution to the village’s traffic problems.

However, the GRCA did not choose to delay the county in their plans for the bridge. The two dis- senting members in the vote, Mat Makarchuk and Morley Rosen- berg, (now mayor of Kitchener), took the GRCA to court over their action. Their case was based on Section 18, (Objectives), of “The Conservation Authorities Act” which sets up an authority, “to es- tablish and undertake, . . . , a prog- ram designed to further the conser- vation, restoration, development and management of natural resources,. . .“. Since bridge buil- ding does not fall under the objec- tives of the GRCA, the two men felt that they had no legal right to trans- fer the land.

The major fight in the early seventies was over the necessity of such a bridge, based on obviously incomplete data. Alternatives to the gorge route were never seri- ously studied and, in fact, .were dismissed in the “Pre-feasibility Report” as being probably of grea- ter cost. (Elora Reeve Art Hoffer has recently claimed that alterna- tive routes were studied in detail.)

,Opponents to the bridge have contended all along that the county is not looking at all the costs invol- ved in such a project.

In July ofl975, tire Ontario Sup- reme Court ruled that since Makar- chuk and Rosenberg had no economic or pecuniary interest in the case, they could not be granted standing. In other words, they had no right to challenge the authority’s decision. This decision was upheld in March of 1976 by the Ontario Court of Appeals and in October of 1976 by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The County of Wellington has, from the beginning; considered only the financial cost. Never has any effective study been done on the environmental and aesthetic degradation whit h will undoub- tedly occur.

Dangerous precedent The court decision sets a very

dangerous precedent for the citizens of Ontario. As far as the law is concerned, a citizen may not use the courts to stop what they consider to be an illegal action by a government agency. That is the perogative of the attorney general.

In 1974, the issue became a legal one when the Grand River Conser- vation Authority voted to transfer a

The courts also awarded costs against the two plaintiffs and the GRCA and the County of Welling- ton have subsequently claimed an amount over $20,000. Close to this amount, has been raised across the country to pay this debt. UW students made a substantial con-

The Site: The Grand River, in its course from Fergus to Kitchener runs through a steep gorge which is a unique scenic attraction only surpas- Q

sed in Ontario by the Niagara chasm. At flora, lrvine Creek joins the Grand River at a point where limestone cliffs tower sixty to eighty feet over the bed of the river. /t is slightly downstream from this junction that the County of Wellington proposes to build the bridge. /f you care to see for yourself, Elora is only a ‘30 minute drive from VW.

The Elora Gorge in winter. (As it is now, and hopefully will remain.)

tribut’ion through K-W Probe’s hearing or to the Environmental apple sales in 1975 and 1976 and a Assessment Board for a full en- generous donation of $2000 from vironmental assessment. On De- the Federation of Students. cember 17th, the Minister of

Housing officially referred the mat- The Situation Today ter to the .OMB and a hearing is

At the present time, the situation anticipated fairly soon. looks a little better. The County of In the meantime, GORGE will Wellington has to obtain an attempt to re-open a long-forgotten amendment to their official plan in order to build the bridge and the Minister of Natural Resources still has to approve the GRCA’s trans- fer of land.

At a meeting December 8,1976 in Waterloo, GORGE decided to re- quest the Ontario Government to refer the issue to either the Ontario Municipal Board for a full public

dialogue with the citizens of Elora, feeling that Elora residents have been snowed by Reeve Art Hoffer over the bridge and possible alter- natives.

In the December 22nd issue of the Fergus News-Herald, the reeve, while blasting the opponents to the bridge, is quoted as saying that al- ternative routes hae been studied in

detail and that all proved to be too costly. GORGE feels that many Elora residents would oppose the bridge over the gorge if they were allowed to see past the reeve’s myopia.

All opponents to the bridge rec- ognize that the people of Elora have a serious traffic problem and in no way wish to prevent its ulti- mate alleviation. However, the Elora Gorge is a magnificent piece of Ontario’s natural heritage which must be! protected. GORGE’ in- tends to appeal to Elora’s residents on that basis.

-john tidball K-W Probe member

3rd year man/environmen?

continued fiom page 6 trative studies students.

When political science goes co-op - which could occur within the next two academic years - the adminstrative studies program will be particularly beneficial, claimed Kersell.

The history of UW is a history of integrating the classroom with the direct experience of a job. The idea of applying learning during the course of education is a good one.

But the trend is more narrow training - fewer “frills” and more specialization. This is a big change from the old idea of a broad, liberal education.

Kersell agreed that the admin- strative studies program (and other like it) serve the specific needs of employers more and educate the person less.

“That’s the nature of our sys- tem,” he said. “But it can be changed.”

There should be an extra levy on corporations for educational pur- poses, he said. Employers are the great beneficiaries of education,

and they should be made to pay a greater share of the tab.

Employers will also be benefit- ting from the implementation of the economics department’s “regis- tered industrial accountant” prog- ram.

The new program will be offer- red on the co-op system. Economics and English are the only Arts departments with a co-op program.

Students in the RIA program will take enough accounting-related subjects to qualify -upon comple- tion of their honours BA degree - for examination and certification by the Society of Industrial Ac- countants of Ontario.

On their work terms, RIA students will be required to take some courses administered by the Society.

The RIA program will stress the generation of accounting informa- tion that particularly relates to the needs of management. Financial reporting will also be emphasized, as will cost-benefit analysis.

Subjects will include financial

accounting, managerial accoun- ting, finance, organizational be- haviour, quantitative m.ethods, microeconomics, macroeconomics taxation and commercial law.

Approval of the geotechnical op- tion in earth sciences means a new co-op program with more en- gineering courses and fewer math and sciences courses than in the regular program.

Civil engineering’s construction program is a non-technical one that emphasizes management. Most of the students are graduate en- gineers.

The new administrator is Hugh Clark, former president of the Adam Clark Company Limited, Hamilton.

The program will be taught mainly by people from the con- struction industry. Courses will cover construction planning, man- agement in construction, construc- tion methods and equipment man- agement, construction law, finance and accounting, and labour re- lations.

-vaI moghadam

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Grad divorce GM subject - A discussion on graduate rep-

resentation on the Federation of Students’ council will be on the agenda of the annu*al general - meeting of the Grad Club on January 27.

At a meeting of the Graduate Board of Directors Wednesday, some members ‘stated that since graduates no longer pay fees, their relationship with student’s council should be formalized and their reps withdrawn. \

Larry Hannant, one of the two

In 1970 the graduates decided in a referendum to withdraw from the federation. In a subsequent re- ferendum they voted to support an independent grad centre. The Graduate Club came into existence

grad reps on federation council, and a member of the Grad Club board of directors, opposed this, stating that there had not been enough discussion on it by the graduates. It was decided to take the debate to the general meeting.

in 1972, supported by compulsory fees. However, the reps were never removed from council and graduates retain their federation voting rights.

Day Care

The suspension, by the Munici- pality of Waterloo, of graduate

On December 15th, the board

student’s right to daycare subsidy was also discussed and will come

moved that Watt be requested to

up at the Annual General Meeting. Robert Pajkowski, the president of

‘issue a public statement on behalf

the Grad Club, reported that earlier this month he wrote ,to Lyn Watt,

of the university criticizing the

the Dean of Graduate Studies, in- forming him of the motion passed at

cutoff of daycare subsidies to

the previous meeting of the graduate board.

Graduate Students.’ No response

has yet been received from the dean.

On Pajkowski’s request, the graduate Board of Directors agreed to sponsor an informal conference of graduate associations from ac- cross the province. Fifteen to six- teen school associations will be in- vited to an afternoon conference to discuss cutbacks in education and other areas of mutual concern. Paj- kowsi felt that grads should deal with the Ontario government on a united, rather than on an individual basis.

This conference ,was seen as a continuation of the discussion in- itiated at ti gathering at York Uni- versity last June of grad as- sodiations from seven universities.

Pajkowski notes that there was an Ontario Graduate Student As- sociation in existence but it has been inoperative for a number of years. He hopes this structure can be resurrected.

- dave ‘carter

CUP mocked r ** 1 The referendum intended to

kill the chevron could just end up tangling the federation -i n knots.

An analysis of the question- ” by-questidn results of the re-

ferendum proves correct the chevron’s original criticism of the referendum.

Let’s look at the results: In questions number one and

two, students voted overwhel- mingly for a student newspaper on campus, and a majority favored membership of that newspaper in the Canadian University Press.

Support for CUP contradicts answers to a number of other ques- tions and contradicts the referen- dum itself.

The CUP Statement of Princip- les of the Student Press in Canada states that “the Canadian student press should be free from by student governments

pressure , univer-

sity authoritis, or any other exter- nal agencies, whether or not the press is a part of such an organiza- tion . ..” a

to adhere to CUP principles, which are clearly intended to build a wa’tchdog, inyestigative press, not a captive press held under the thumb of, or subject to the interfer- ence of, student government.

But the answer given by a plural- ity of participants to question num- ber three allows the federation council to use its newly-defined “publishing” rights to hire and fire staff and set rules by which staff operates.

This is not just a violation of CUP principles, it is also a reversal of the consistent trend of virtually all member newspapers in CUP, the chevron included.

That trend is toward control over such functions by the staff itself.

Furthermore, the dominant ans- wer to question number four, which would set up an editorial board of elected students to over- see the newspaper, also contradicts both CUP principles and the tradi- tional-rights of newspaper staffs.

The CUP principles clearly exc- lude “pressure”, not only from-the

versity adminstration, but also from “any other external agencies, whether or not the’press is a part of such an organization. ”

Under the existing chevron bylaw, the editor has editorial con- trol. But by long-established practice, the staff democratically decides editorial policy.

This tradition has been fought for and won over the course of a num- ber of years of student journalism. A new bylaw which contradicts the staff’s democratic control of the newspaper will be no more effec- tive than the old bylaw which seeks to have editorial policy arbitrarily set by one person.

The dominant answer’ to ques- tion number five determines that only students paying fees to the federation can be voting newspaper staff members. Is this not also in- terference in the running of the newspaper, interference imposed from outside the newspaper itself, in this case by the federation execu- tive under the cover of a referen- dum?

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8 wallets That is nothing but a mockery of CUP principles.

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King & Water Street

Across From Kresges

KITCHENER, ONT.

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-larry hannant

The

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at Westmount

Place’ Waterloo, Ont.

744-0821

The Renaissance Dancers and Music Four provided an entertaining noon hour program in the Theatre of the Arts this week. The U of W troupe has been active for a number of years now and is quite well received on campus.

photo by gervasio

Poll not binding Brian Iler, a former UW student

federation president, and now a practicing lawyer Iin Toronto, was asked for his legal opinion on the “binding” nature of the student newspaper referendum. ‘His state- ment reads in part:

of the directors which would so re-

“Section 130 (1) of The Cor- porations Act, R.S.O. 1970, Chap- ter 89, restricts the type of by-laws

strict their powers and duties is

which the directors of a corpora- tion may pass to those not contrary to The Corporations Act. Section 3 13 (1) of the same act pro- vides that the affairs of every cor- poration shall be managed by a Board of Directors. These two sections, when read to- gether establish the principal direc- tors of the corporation may not de- prive themselves of the right of control and management of the corporation by passing by-laws which fetter that right. Any action

beyond the scope of their power and therefore has ho effect in the law.

the question.

In other words, By-Laws 6 and 22, which purport to be “binding’” ‘on the Federation of Students, have no such effect because it is beyond the authority of the direc- tors to fetter their powers ,by enac- ting such by-laws. So Iler concludes: “That aspect of the by-laws then, is ultra vires, or in ordinary language, beyond the powers of the corporatioti, and would be quashed in court”. In tal- king with Iler he said he was some- what perplexed by the wording of the referendum itself. He saw many of the questions as “conflicting with each other” and asked “how do you have a ‘you may choose ‘more than one answer’ question on a referendum?” He was also con- cerned with the one-sided nature of

-tom cody

Gazoo off Redmond considers accurate jour- nalism to consist of sitting in his

It* seems Gazette editor Chris I

office and having someone in au- thority phone and tell him the news. Whether what he is told is accurate ornot, seems to be of little cpnsequence to Redmond, and trying to obtain the other side of the story is deemed unimportant.

results at his finger tips, told the chevron the 45 per cent figure was a

McLellan, who has the referendum

“rough estimate”. With his figures corrected, Red-

mond was asked if the turnout was indeed “pretty high” as he had re- ported. Morris admitted it wasn’t.

So what of the boycott organised by the free chevron staff? How successful was the last boycott of a referendum or election on campus? Morris and Redmond thought for awhile and then exclaimed that there liadn’t been ,one before. And with that revelation the question was posed: “Well, don’t you think this one was ne;wsworthy?” But Redmond didn’t consider it “perti- n&t”.

In a story in this week’s Gazette entitled: “No reinstatement, vot- ers decide’ ’ , there are several seri- ous inaccuracies, misrepresen- tations and blatant omissions.

A delegation from the chevron interviewed IQdmond and Gaiette reporter John Morris (former chev- ron editor) about the article.

Redmond was asked what the percentage turnout was for the re- ferendum. He replied: “ 18 per cent I believe, the -last I heard.” So he was asked why his article had re- ported the turnout as 20 per cent?

“Could be an error or an appfox- imation,” he said, “I expect it was an error. ’ ’

And what was the engineering turnout’?

“I heard it was 45 per cent,” said the Gazette editor. He was told chevron investigation showed it to be 25.8 per cent. “That was a fairly serious error,” he conceded but, “McLellan ought to know . . .if he gives me a figure I would assume it was true .”

The source for Redmond’s story was acting president of the student federation David McLellan.

Redmond also misrepresented the free chevron’s position on rein- . statement. Redmond stated it to be solely a financial matter, not men: tioning that the newspaper staff consider reinstatement to be a democratic principle that a trial precede conviction.

But Redmond and Morris claimed the article stated the free chevron staffs position accurately.

The Gazette editor was also criticised for not contacting the chevron for its position on the re- ferendum and other points raised in his article.

His excuse for that was: “1 don’t think people are very much interes- ted.”

- neil docherty .

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Want to know how not to run a referendum? Follow the federation of students example.

First, break a bylaw here and there.

of such a fool-proof methoG of re- cording off-cAmpus utes. But some of them are such idiots they might even ruin that.

Allow the president to acknow- ledge tha_t,by mailing out ballots to co-op students, the polls for the re- ferendum are effectively open.

Don’t bother to pay soy attention to Bylaw 22, which requires adver- tising and an informational general mekting before the polls open.

And, if that weren’t enough to discredit the whole mess, the feds allowed the off-campus ballot<s to be returned through on-campus mail. So the envelopes aren’t dated and can’t be traced to their point of mailing. Much easier to tamper with, you see.

Ii1

Next, neglect to take an exact count of the ballots posted.

Prior to the day of the referen- dum, I thought 2,000 ballots were mailed out. But Qn that fateful day of January 13, J found there were 2,600 ballots. And I’m not sure even that number is exact!

After all, suspicion might be aroused if 100 off-campus bailots came from Sarnia when only three c-o-op students live or work there.

Don’t think this campus mail vote was insignificant. More than 185 of the 900 ballots returned through envelopes were mailed on campus and cannot be traced.

And don’t bother to have an offi- cial initial the ballots before they’re mailed. Just because the polling clerk is required to do it the day of on-campus voting doesn’t mean the federation should go out of its way to do the same for the mail-out bal- lot, does it?

I’m now trying to figure out why so many of these ballots were mailed from the campus when they were sent to the co-op students’ home addreses around Christmas time. I’ll let you know what I coine up with.

Having done this, don’t ,bother to number either the ballots or one of the two return envelopes in which’ the ballot is returned..

So what’s the point? Well, if’this type of procedure was followed for mail-out ,ballots in say, provincial or federal elections, the result would be considered a joke.

As noted in the January 11 spe- cial issue of the free chevron, there is a simple way of recording ID numbers from the mailed-out bal- lots and still preserving secrecy. It’s called the two-envelope SYs-

,tem. The voter is sent two en- velopes, one to return the ballot in, the other to carry the signature and ID number of the voter to indicate that he/she voted.

But the federation president and some councillors claim to have a clear mandate from a fraudulent re- ferendum conducted in the same manne’r!

It seems to me the federation hacks had better clean up their act, now, before the presidential and council elections. The mail-out bal- lots must be subject to protective techniques in much the same way that the on-campus ballots are now protected. Off campus votes make, up such a large proportion of poten- tial votes that they must not be sub- ject to tampering.

An open letter AEFEAENWM RESULTS B Y QUESTION

, One envelope is put inside the other and they’re returned to- gether. But this system isn’t used in presidential elections, so why should it be used when the life of the ,free chevron is the issue at stake?

Maybe the fed hacks never heard

Pmrcmntmgm voting ?or ssoh l ltmrnmtiva

That’s what honest elections and referendums are all about, right?

--tom cody

I am very concerned over the fact that the Federation has &ken no actidn in the recent pub conflict. With both the, manager and assistant leaving within a month of each other, I can only call this VERY strange.

Because of this irregularity I recommend that the feds take arbitrary and undemocratic action.

First they can close down the pub, base the decision on rumours and allegations, screw around for a couple months, five or six, perhaps set up another one in the fed office’s and then after building up a deficit over $l.O,OOO ‘they can hold a half-ass referendum with questions like; do you want to drink ginger-ale or nothing, yes or yes.

Hopefully while all this is going on, some students will occupy the pub and keep the beer flowing, just like the free chevron has kept putting out a great student newspaper.

Keep up the great work. doug hamilton

qusstion tot.1 votm 8) or y.. b) or n0 0) d 8)

1 2659 00.3 Il.7

2 2462 57.6

3 2513 47.9 3.5

4 31.1 15.7 4.2

5. 268V 69.8

Sb 2689, 26.8 73.2

‘-5 ‘E 2689* 15.1 84.9

,Sd 2689. 2.9 97.1

6 21.6 78.2

7 9.0 91.0

8 2577 26.4 40.9 32.6

,? 2669 is ths tots1 vots on ths rsfsrsndum. This qusstlon sllorsd ultipls snsmmrs snd thus is sl.ost squivslsnt to 4 sspsrsts yam/no qusstionm sith ssch inclusion of .n-sltsrmtivm bsing trsstsd ss s yss rssponss for thst sltsrmtivs snd svmry fsllurs to includs ttmt sltsrmtivs bsing trsstsd 88 8 no rssponss for thst sltsrmtivs.

SUBJECT OF QUESTIONS

1) studmt fundsd pmjk Y.8 no

2) C U P msmbmrship Y.8 no

3) publlshsr coL.acil bard 8t.W othsr

4) l ditorisl control council bosrd S tS f? l ditor othsr

5) voting ataft fra a) fm. studmt. Y - b) sll studsnt. Y.. t ) fmculty & stsf? yss d) .ll K-W Y -

no no no no

6) msspmpsr f . . cospulsory rmfunbbls

7) rm-inststmmnt no

8) prssidantial slsction by bylsr cmntinution ssrly stsrt

Referendum results Thi: federation of students ex-

ecutive is scrambling to use the January 13 student newspaper re- ferendum in its continued attack on th’e chevron.

Federation president Dave McLellan claimed in a Gazettearti- cle Wednesday that the referendum indicated students’ “confidence in the way students’ council has acted,” and their .rejection of the chevron.

McLellan also claims that the re- ferendum turnout was “pretty high for the federation. ”

These assertions are based on the flimsiest of statistical evidence - indeed, on outright errors - to say nothing of the blatant disregard for the fact that the chevron waged a campaign to ha’ve students boycott-the whole mess.

For months, the chevron has been waging a .battle for survival.

In the process of that struggle, the chevron has distinguished itself from its detractors in many ways. But the main difference in method of work can be summed up with the phrase “study and investigate.”

Where other newspapers, bul- letins and newsletters have relied on rumour, allegation and uninves- tigated assertion, the chevron has investigated thoroughly and proved its case to the students by convincing argument.

The January 13 referendum is the latest case in point. Basing itself on inves&igation, the chevron here dares to contradict the prevailing notions that the referendum de- monstrates student opposit,ion to the chevron.

First to establish the success of

this referendum, there must be some standard against which to measure the results. To assert that the referendum turnout was “high” is to ‘speak drivel. “High” cbmpared to what?

The chevron has compared the referendum results with the January 1976 presidential election and with the National Union of Students referendum which coin- cided with the presidential elec- tion.

The voter response to the 1976 presidential election was approxi- mately equal to the turnout over the past ten presidential elections sur- veyed by the chevron. In January 1976, 24.8 per cent of the students. voted. The ten-year average of 1967-76 was a 24.1 per cent voter turnout.

The following statistics compare the 1976 election, and the NUS re- ferendum, to the January 13, 1977 referendum on the student news- paper.

The figures work from an elec- torial base of 14,872 students, in- cluding all full-time graduate and undergraduate students. That base is roughly equal for all three votes.

Looking at the total turnout, the results show that 18.1 per cent of the eligible students voted in the referendum.

The voters on campus, who would have been most influenced by the chevron’s stand for Reins- tate! Investigate!, remained away from-the polls. Only 14.5 per cent voted. On the other hand, the off- campus voters participated ex- ceedingly heavily.

The off-campus balloting was

one of the points of sharpest con- troversy during the boycott cam- paign waged by the chevron. Those were the ballots which could not be accurately accounted for, as a comment by Tom Cody elsewhere in this chevron issue points out.

The vote from the recent re- ferendum is also low compared with the NUS referendum, which was a question much less im- mediate and controversial than the chevron issue.

Consider the objective situation: The federation is thrown ‘into com- plete turmoil after the anti- democratic and arbitrary closure of the chevron; a president is recalled; two people are unceremoniously fired: legal charges are laid; a fed- ’ eration executive member is con- victed of throwing a rock through the chevron window.. . .

After all this, the federation of students cannot muster more than 18 per cent of all students to a re- ferendum which is supposed to bring the final solution to the con- flict!. ’

At the same time, virtually every other election and referendum held over the past ten years gains a higher proportion of voters than the student newspaper referendum.

How can this happen? Simply because the chevron called for students to boycott that one-sided, stacked referendum.

Yet the federation president blindly insists that the referendum vindicates the federation council and defeats the chevron’s position!

And every news source - ex- cept the chevron - simply echoes this prejudice! - larry hannant

1 NUS: Total Turnout: Election 76 3694 Referendum 77 2687 Change -1007

or -27% On Campus Total:

Election 76 3162 Referendum 77 1776 Change -1386

or -43.8% Off Campus Total:

Election 76 532 Referendum 77 911 Change 379

or 71.2%

Percentage Turnout of Electorate:

On Campus: 12,272 Off Campus:approx. 2,600

Total Electorate: Election 76 24.8% Referendum 77 18.1%

On Campus Total: Election 76 25.7% Referendum 77 14.5%

Off Campus Total: Election 76 20.5% Referendum 77 35%

Referendum 76 3214 Referendum 77 2687 Change -16%

NUS: Referendum 76 2862 Referendum 77 1776 Change -1086

or -40% NUS:

Referendum 76 352 ReferGndum 77 911

, Change 559 or 159%

NUS 76 Referendum 77

21.6% 18.1%

NUS76 Referendum 77

23.3% 14.5%

NUS 76 Referendum 77

13.5% 35%

Faculty Breakdown Percentage Turnout by Faculty

Faculty Esction ‘76 NUS Ref. ‘76 Ref. ‘77 % Turnout % Turnout % Turnout

’ Arts 21.9% 20% 7.3% Env. Studies 33.6% 31.6% 16.9% Engineering . 28.7% 24.6% 25.8% HKLS 21 .8% 20% 6.3% Math . 27.8% 25.3% 17% Optometry 47.9% 40% 27.7%

_ I.S. WA WA 11.8% Renison 41.7% 38.3% 13,9% St. Jerome’s , 27.5% 26.6% 7.7% Science 22.4% 21.2% 14.7% Off-campus co-op 20.5% 13.5% 35%

Election ‘76 , UG - (T) UG - G (T)

536 - 42 (578) 439 - 6 (445)

511 - 68 (579) 200 - 4 (204)

627 - 42 (669) 113

WA 48

125 385 - 4 (389)

522

Ref. ‘77%Change - Ref. ‘76

UG - G (T) 175 - 18 (193) -67

217 - 6 (223) -50 505 - 14 (519) -10

57 - 2 (59) -71 375 - 33 (408) -39

63 -35 IO 18

WA -66

35 -72 15 - 236 (251) -35

911 71 L

NUS Ref. ‘77%Change Env UG - G m

526 418 495 187 609

94 WA

44 121 368 352

193 223 519

59 408

63 IO 16 35

251 911

-64 -47

5 -68 -33 -31

WA -64 -71 -32 159

Arts Env. Studies Engineering HKLS Math Optometry I.S. Renison St. Jerome’s Science Off-camp/us co-op

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, party, crisis, is the breakdown of the

entire Ulster party system -and the The ele&ons^of February and ‘. \loss to.the Conservatiies of its his-

October . i974’ showed thaf one- quart&of the voterscasttheir b& 1

toric voting&j.oc. . “. ‘= I The%beraf ’ ‘revival” has. been ~

tin Webster (the present leader) is not ‘a charismatic FJitler? ’ ’

Since the 1950’s, the Labour and’ ’ lots for third-parties. Thighad not _ Consefvative par&s both have ex- previously happened ‘since: the

running at about a-19 percent level . . in the .last two elections. There.are

-On the-left, there, has been no

.y looking\ tow.ard third parties, ’ ” ’ perienced this punitive vote and 1920is. 1s - *. upsurge of the parties, Jupd said.

II : ; ‘. >Those who subscribe to the

“signs- that the party: is -breaking

convergence approach” maintain through in a ,substantial 6umber~of ‘

British Trotskyism is considered influ&tial.bu-tit does not do.we!] in

’ \ , that the two_ parties, are ‘converging

,overwh-elmingly ‘Conservative ,the ballot box.6

toward- the cent& and’ becoming seats, )T b * *

On’ the\ otherhand, ‘if the two- Altogether,. Jupp dismisses the

party system:& -breakmg up, it ‘is t‘disaster view” as “overb1ow.n”

each other... This& used .^’ .,

I why so many voters are, -+not the-Liberal Party thatis rbspon- and “hystericar. ‘.

sible,for it&d. will take over, The The view on the- British $arty

situation that Jupp, subscribes to is

trial Safety Act as pointed out inthe- . over .29;000 directions (9>00 o?-

-- , which were. for inadequate mat hine guarding).. ,Yet, the total number of convictions for non-compliance

1, with. the legislation, out of the . 29,415 directions, was thirty-seven.

And the total amount h%ied* in fines was $27,600. This is the equi-

.I valent\ of about 37 cents levied -. againrt, these companies in Ontario \i !)for each$f the 73,020 injuries. of,

workers in 1974-75. So what then is ’ the-Uincentive for these companies .

,: to m&ake improvements’ in unsafe ‘workrng. -conditions when t&y <&rowthat the, alternative is 37,cents .l .; for each injury? , *

%_ -z \ “alah bwhir

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Intramural report . Feb. 5, at the Elmira Curling Club. Only eight teams are accepted to

.play three gamr& each. Sign up for this tourney before Mon. Jan. 31, if you’re interested. In March the club runs an Invitational Mixed

Athletic clubs form a large part of per team and as many teams as pos- * loo Bowling Lanes: Tournament, club teams from the Intramural program and even if sible. There are awards presented you missed <he -organizational meeting for any of the eight clubs you can still get involved in their programs.

at the end of the term fok low and high average for both men and women. The teams are mixed and fun is emphasized in the program.

Curling The Curling Club has about 50

members who compete three nights a week at the Granite Club. There are two nights for mixed,curlers: Monday 4-6 pm and Thursday 10:30-12:30 pm. The men’s league is on Tuesday 10:30- 12:30 pm. You can curl as much as you want; there is no experience necessary, and to promote togetherness the teams are simply drawn from a hat. The Granite Club is licensed which al- lows for a social gathering of sorts (?) after the games.

other universities are invited to compete in”this tournament. \

Skiing The Ski Club is off-to another

Bowling Five pin bowling meets every

Sunday night at the Waterloo Bow- ling Lanes from 8:30-lo:30 pm. The cost is $1.50 per week. The club has approximately 37 members with the usual ratio of l/3 women. They can accommodate more members so if you are interested contact Dave Potje at 743-2555 or Ron Hope at 885-6184.

The club has organized a league on Sunday nights with 5 members

In addition to the regular Sunday night league, the club is running the Letterman ‘Award Tournament on Sat., Feb. 5. You can participate in the tournament even if you’re not a’ club member. Each team. plays three games. The entry date for this tourney is Mon. Jan. 31, in the in- tramural office 2040 PAC.

The Bowling Club also enters a team in the Conestoga College Tournament; 3 men and 3 women will take part on Feb. 23 at Water-

Athenas meet net The UW Volleyball Athenas

won a straight set victory from McMaster Tuesday, January 11, to up their Ontario Women’s Intercol- legiate Athletic Association stan- ding to 5-2.

At the knd of the first day of competition at Western, last year’s ‘Canadian Intercollegiate Cham- pions, and Sherbrooke, last year’s fourth place finishers in the univer- sity championships, both had per- fect records of ten straight vic- tories.

Scores for the games were 15-10, 15-4, 15-4.

Last Friday and Saturday the Athenas hosted twelve teams at their tenth annual invitational tour- nament. A strong Sherbrooke team upset the tournament’s perennial winners, the Western Mustangs. Western was the ,top-seeded team in the 12 team, two day event.

By the time the two teams reached the final to face each other Western still had a perfect record of 16 straight wins. Sherbrooke, who eliminated third place finishers Waterloo in the semifinals, won 15

Shorts Today and tomorrow the Uni-

versity of Waterloo Athenas swim team will be holding their 8th An- nual Internationai Invitational Swim meet for women. The action will take place in the PAC. The pool gallery will be open for view- ing. - Fri. Jan. 21 heats at 10:00 am

finals at 7:00 pm Sat. Jan. 22 heats at 9:00 am

finals at 6:00 pm

ii The University of Waterloo basketball Warriors will be on television this week. The videotape of their Wednesday night game against the University of Western Ontario will be shown on Saturday Jan. at 2: pm CHCH-TV, Chan- nel 11, Hamilton, Ontario.

The Hockey Warriors played in Schenectady, N.Y. last weekend and lost an exhibition game to Union College by a score of 8-2. Coach McKillop was encouraged by two performers. “Dave Jutzi re- turned to the lineup and saw full- time action after being out since be- fore Christmas. He had been’ in- jured in a car accident. In the Union same John Vermeer took a rggular shift and continues to improve.”

Ken Murray of Brock University Badgers scored 40 points in two games last week giving him a career record of 1,049 points, setting a new OUAA record. Bob Sharpe, a former Guelph all star held the pre- vious record of 1048 points.

Y&k Yoemen have been ranked as the No. 1 university hockey team in Canada. Their 8-O-! record sees them sti!l undefeated. They may face their first loss this week as they play second place University of Toronto Blues team.

r. I

of 16 matches in the preliminary rounds. _

The first game of the three game final saw Western come out on top 15-8 after much exciting action.

Western stretched their winning streak to 19 straight. The Sher- brooke team was not to be outdone. They came right back and won the second game 15-8. At this point, Western seemed to tighten up and generally run out of energy.

Sherbrooke, who had been playing a smashing game to this point, changed their pac,e and con- centrated on controlling their game. Using soft shots they were quickly worn down and took the final game with an impressive 15-2 victory.

Waterloo will see more vol- leyball tournament action later this winter when the CWIAU Cham- pionships are held here. In the meantime Sherbrooke and Western seem to be the top powers in women’s volleyball.

The Curling Club could use a few more members and president Ken Lynch reminds us that there is a fully subsidized party at the end of term. The club also runs the Sil- ver Boot Curling Tournament (a men’s only tournament) on- Sat.

great start h-aving just returned from a fantastic weekend trip in Vermont. You can join for $5 per term to obtain a reduced rate on ail of the trips. However, you can still go on the trips even if you’re not a member. The next trip is on Fri. Jan. 28, to Holiday Valley in N.Y., then on Thurs. Feb. 3, they travel to Georgian Peaks.

The big trip, though, occurs during reading week: the club has arranged a ti-ip to Mont Ste Anne in Quebec. For only $124 you can have a week of fantastic skiing. This price includes transportation from campus to Quebec, daily’ transportation to the slopes from

V-ball action today The UW Volleyball Warriors

meet McMaster University and Brock University in OUAA league action today.

The Warriors will play three- 3 game matches against both teams in the McM-aster gym.

They are.key matches in the eyes of the Warriors’ head coach Wes Sime, since they will go a long way toward determining who will take the second and last playoff positions in the Western Division of the OUAA Volleyball League. Most observers have given first place to the Western Mustangs.

Sime had these comments about his players in recent matches: “Tom Jarv has been our number one man in terms of consistency. He’s a power spiker, an excellent

receiver and is great at serving. - “Kevin Munhall has’ been

playing very well. He’s a good set- ter as well 3s a powerful hitter.

“Dave Monteith is another ex- cellent setter. He hits well and is a good blocker in spite of his relative smallness (Monteith stands 6’0”).

“If possible, we’d like to use Seymour Hadwen from the basket- ball team, in the Friday matches. Hadwen really helps us. He has such a good background in vol- leyball that he can fit right into our team.”

Just a reminder that the CIAU and CWIAU Volleyball Cham- pionships will be held in the PAC at the University of Waterloo from February 23-27. More information on those tdurnaments at a later date.

the luxurious Quebec-Hilton Hotel right in the heart of Old Quebec City, five days of tows, everything except food & booze!

’ To sign up for any or all of these trips go to the front desk in the PAC office, or for more information con- tact Vicki Behune at 884-3485.

Outing The Outers Club basically pro-

vides a service to the university community giving them an oppor- tunity to organize and advertise any member or kinds of trips; news- letters come out frequently to let you know what’s going on. Snow- shoes, backpacks, sleeping bags, ensolite pads (for insulation), cooksets, etc. can be signed out in Red South 1lOlA PAC on Mon. 9330-l 1:30 am, Thurs. 1:30-3:30 pm or Fri. 1:30-3:30 pm.

For more information contact Tom Cargill tit 886-4855.

The Whitewater Club is now part of the Outers Cltib. They meet Sundays 4-6 pm in the PAC pool. There is instruction on Eskimo Rolls and different techniques in kayaking; a mold is also available for building your own kayak.

Contact Bruce Kennedy at 886-0833 for more infor-mation.

Although orienteering is basi- cally a spring, summer and fall or- ganization some things are being planned for this term. The club, a charter member of the Ontario Orienteering Organization, is plan- ning a X-country snowshoe orien- teering course around Laurel Creek near the end of February.

Phone Gerry Baycroff at 884- 1374 for more informat ion.

Next week, Fencing, Rugby, Sailing and Table Tennis Clubs are featured.

A reminder that a new evint this term is coming up. A doubles tennis tournament will be held for both men and women at Seagrams on Sunday, January 30. Final sign up is Monday, January 24, in the In- tramural office room 2040 PAC.

-gary fick

Astudent researcher named Sue, While studying oncampus brew

Says the trend is now clear To a beer without peer, LabaWBlue’is now ‘in’

with‘Who’s who’! \ /

Labat& Blue smiles along with

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ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING OF THE GRADUATE CLUB

TO BE HELD ON THURS. JAN. 27/77

at 7:30 pm in AL 116

ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS WELCOME!

Refreshments will be served at the Grad Club after the meeting. Please note: the Grad Club will be closed during the meeting.

SUMMER FILM

COURSE IN EUROPE

The Department of Fine Arts will offer a Film Course in Europe (Lon- don and Paris) this Sum- mer. Duration: 3 weeks; weight: one full credit. No prerequisite

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T.O.. dance theatre

Choreography in motion * The capacity audience at the

Humanities Theater last Friday night were treated to a two hour program composed of five pieces offered in three well-balanced act& Three light-hearted pieces were choreographed by Danny Gross- man of the Toronto Dance Theatre while two more sedate com- positions were created by Peter Randazzo.

‘A Flight of Spiral Stairs’, one of Randazzo’sdances, opened the program. With only the title as a guideline, the audience has to use the movement as reference points to determine the theme of the dance or to comprehend any message which may be present.

The male dancer involved start- ed and finished on a set of spiral stairs but no other hint was given to the aim of the work.

The movements were pleasant to watch but were repetitive and fragmented. Each dancer moved alone for the most part and had very little interaction with any other dancer. On the whole, the

.work left the audience at loose ends, craving some kind of evi-

dence to warrant putting an in- terpretation on the piece.

Some of the many facets of love were illustrated in ‘The Amber Garden’. The story showed a young love, a destructive love, a faithless love and its consequenc- ses.

The movements were strong, clear and distinct. Randazzo’s in- tentions were well defined in this piece. The company’s training in the Martha Graham style was obvi- ous in both Randazzo’s c’horeog- raphy and the dancer’s technique.

Danny Grossman’s ‘Fratelli’, began as a game of “peek-a-boo” between the audience and the two male dancers. They poked various body parts out from behind four brightly painted flats which were arranged in a square. Gradually, it turned into a rendition of all the typical moves of the ‘Keystone Cops’ routines used in the silent movies of the twenties. The entire piece moved quickly, lightly, and energetically. It resembled two small boys frolicking, competing, rivalling, loving, sharing and out- doing each other.

Klaa tu

Canadian sound Out of Toronto, a new music rep-

resentative has emerged’ through the maginot line of the music world. Last August a group of musicians, who call themselves Klaatu, re- leased their first album to the re- cord stands hoping to be dis- covered.

The. album, entitled Klaatu, is comprised of four tracks per side commencing with “Calling Oc- cupants of Interplanetary Craft” on side one. This song is “The Reorganized Anthem of World Contact Day” ; an excellent melody of pure clean vocals mixed with an array of instruments including the Mellotron (a modern musical in- strument used by such groups as the Beatles, King Crimson, and Genesis).

The final track on side one, “Sub Rosa Subway”, has a remarkable resemblance to the McCartney sound and is a song about the skep- ticism concerning Alfred Beach’s ‘ Wind-mat hine’ in 1870. “Califor- nia Jam” and “Anus of Uranus” (who’s a friend of theirs) are the other cuts on side one.

Side two begins with “True Life Her” and “Doctor Marvelle” both depicting Klaatu’s artistic consis- tency. In the next track Klaatu pre- sents “Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III”, a three act ballad about a man (Sir Bodsworth) who insists that he

will be “the only man who’ll ever get to Hell and come back alive”. In this song however, Klaatu varies their vocal presentation and sings it in an interesting, gruff type of voice resulting in a very entertaining story.

In the final cut “Little Neutrino’, Klaatu again modifies their vocals and introduces what appears to be an electronic microphone that pro- duces somewhat of an electronic voice. This sound compliments the atmosphere produced by the scien- tific “Neutrino” (a hypothetical neutral partical of smaller mass than the neutron).

This debut album by Klaatu shi- nes with excellent artistry and re- cording ability; but with a twist. The members of Klaatu desire full attention be given to their music, so their names and other personal in- formation have been kept off the album.

This album will soon be followed by a second, and then perhaps Klaatu’s musicians will reveal themselves.

For now though, Klaatu has an album ranking with the best - dis- tributed by CRT (9216-10054) - few record stores have the original stock of this album remaining. Klaatu, a new sound with the Canadian appeal.

-Scott barron

Two concerts of Murray Mclauchlan’s in the Humanities Theatre were sold out five days before tomorrow’s show. Last year when McLauchlan appeared with Dan Hill it was far from a sell oui and the federation lost a bundle.

photo by randy barkman

The ‘Couples Suite’ was com- posed of three parts; Couples, In- ching, and the Back Dance. The music was hot exotic African rhythms. Grossman used the dancer’s bodies ingeniously, to treat innovative movement in all three sections.

Inching was a study of human bodies and different ways in which they can fit together. In Inching, two dancers slithered along the floor and met at center stage. The two dancers then ‘inched’ their way along each others’ bodies and eventually parted to other areas of the stage.

‘National Spirit’ concluded the performances .-Dancers clad in red, white and blue, performing calis- thenics, running patterns, mar- ching and push-ups to a variety of American national anthems was a humourous look at patriotism. This work brought open laughter from many audience members.

Susan Macpherson, a very tall, statuesque dancer made an out- standing contribution. The exten- sion of her legs and fluidity of her body was unmatched by any other dancer in the company.

As the program stated, the ‘To- ronto Dance Theater was a ‘profes- sional attraction’. The dancers, choreographers and stage crew presented a high quality perfor- mance which left the audience satisfied but ready to come back for more.

-cindy toushan-brnjas

These are three members of the Toronto Dance Theatre, IV.. ferguson, j. Macpherson and t-l. Iones, performing Randazzo’s “Three Sided Room“, one of the chore’ographer3 dances which was not performed last Friday. photo by rudi christl

Chekhov amuses YOU should keep your eyes open

for the drama productions showing around on campus. They come and go so quickly that they’re gone even before you hear about them.

This week there were free noonhour productions in the Humanities Theatre of Anton

.Chekhov’s “The Bear” and “The Proposal’ ’ . #’

“The Proposal” is a short com- edy about Lomov (Terrence Bryant) who comes to the house of Ania Anuka (Grace Newton) to ask for her daughter’s hand in marriage (Natalylia Stepanovna, played by Sandy Cowan). He stutters and trembles and suffers from “pal- pitations”. Ania assumes he has come to ask her for money, but is delighted when she discovers his true purpose in coming.

Lomov has a disastrous tete-a- tete .with Natalylia resulting in an

“Silver streak” . appears familiar

“The Silver Streak” is a wild, crazy cops-and-robbers film with enough inane situations scattered among the routine muggings, mur- ders and kidnappings to make it en- tertaining.

, Gene Wilder plays the central character in this frolic, a publisher who admits he is better at editing gardening books than sex manuals. He stumbles onto Jill Clayburgh, who is undressing in the next com- partment. The train they are travel- ling on is the Silver Streak, a Los Angeles-to-Chicago sleeper.

Wilder’s role his too is serious. We are constantly expecting snappy laughs from these two performers, but the gunfights and car wrecks don’t leave much ro.om for comic appeal. Ray “My Favorite Mar- tian” Walston also seems out of character ag a tough-talking thug.

She is an extraordinarily friendly secretary who can’t type or take’ shorthand. Together, they become involved in an elaborate scheme where the bad guys, led by Patrick McGoohan, pursue them for some important papers.

The whole thing culminates in a huge extravanganza of demolition that makes Joe Kidd look like a picnic. This scene of mass destruc- tion may appeal to a younger age group as genuine excitement. The movie is clearly intended as family entertainment and as such is worthwhile. Violent death’ is limited to the criminals, and the heavy bedroom scene is spent dis- cussing gardening techniques rather than exposing flesh.

As the plot thickens, we get the> typical movie scenes: the chase on top of the moving train, the shoot- out where a million cops take on the three villains, the dumb small-town sheriff, and even a city slicker mil- king a cow.

This unlikely situation ar>ses when Wilder is thrown off the train for the first time. It is hard not to laugh as he stands on the tracks, watching the Silver Streak wind its way into the distance. By an in- credible series of escapades, he al- ways manages to get back on the train somewhere down the line.

Along the way, Kichard Yryor joins the good guys. As with

Some viewers may find it jarring to notice a striking resemblance be- tween the supposed skyline of Los Angleles and that of downtown TO-

r-onto. That might be enough to spoil the effect of a trip through desert and mountains, but no. The same setting is used for the scene of downtown Chicago! The Royal York Hotel is in the same place and Union Station is thinly disguised using a small sign that reads “Chicago”.

The occasional humourous scenes resulting from Wilder’s fail- ure as a hero can still be enjoyed despite these drawbacks.

-lorne gershuny \

absurd argument over which of them owns a meadow in the neigh- bourhood. He just cannot bring himself to propose to her.

Eventually the problem is resol- ved, but not through any effort by Lomov.

The play was a class project for Drama 490. The production was quite well done, and the caricatures were quite successful, but I felt that the absurdity could have been heightened by a greater pretense of ’ “seriousness” (but that’s my pre- judice, since I love inanity). The humour was weakened slightly by the lighthearted attitude towards the play. One tends not to sympath- ize as much with Lomov because of the feeling the actors give that it will all turn out alright anyway.

Aside from that minor criticism, the production was very profes- sional - something one should ex- pect anyway. Productions like these should be a welcome break to hardworking university students, especially when they’re free, but only a handful of students showed up at the performance I attended. Watch out for the next UW play; they’re more than worth the minor effort required to locate them.

-4scar m nierstrasz

Bill’s bluff “‘Buffalo Bill and the Indians” is

showing in AL116 tonight through Sunday at 8pm for a dollar for students. It’s an amusing movie by Robert Altman, with Paul Newman as Buffalo Bill Cody , but it is Ia big disappointment, especially .after “Nashville”.

Altman has alternately been di- recting good and bad flicks over the past seven years, with apparently no consistency. “M*A*S*H” and “Brewster McCloud” were excel- lent films, but junk like “Thieves Like Us” and “MacCabe and Mrs. Miller” came out after. “Nash- ville” was Altman’s biggest and best, but it seems to have been a big, lucky fluke.

“Buffalo Bill’ tells us, among other things, what a fake the man, was. The main problem with it is the sketchiness of the script. The vignettes and character portrayals are entertaining and well done, but they hold together like a wet kleenex.

Apparently “Buffalo Bill” lost a bundle. Producer Dino (‘ ‘King Kong”) di Laurentiis commented: “Make anot her movie with Bob Altman? Not on your life !’ ’

. -0scar m nierstrak .

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To the Staff and “Burden” of the “Real” Chevron:

Although we are angered by your so- called “pun”, we are certainly not humour- less. We consider it an insult that the front page photo and cutline in the Jan 7 “Real” Chevron should appear in a university stu- dent newspaper.

If the “Real” Chevron considers itself one of those degenerate, rotten papers that prac- tices vulgar and unscrupulous journalism, it would not be worthy of our protest, and our request for a public apology would be quite out of place. Therefore, if the “Real” Chev- ron can be taken as such, an apology cer- tainly would not be necessary. But if this is not the case, we deem it necessary that our demand be met. We believe your squeaking explanation is not good enough. By the way, we have yet to see any of the “puns” you mentioned occupy the front page of any other university student newspaper.

Enclosed are names and signatures of “a group of angered students’ and we are not witholding anything!

signed by 54 students

After reading last week’s ‘feedback’ letter entitled ‘PSI defied’, I felt motivated to write and tell others of my experience with PSI.

I, however, do not have the courage, as did those two, to sign my name to this letter for fear of the consequences. For in the PSI, agreetient which must necessarily be signed before receiving the course, I agreed under item 3. (L) to the following: “The Enrollee covanants, promises and agrees not to make, utter or cause to be made or uttered de- famatory or malicious statements, remarks or comments, or otherwise injure the reputa- tion, undertaking or name of PSI, its of- ficers, directors, representatives, lecturers, teachers or instructors.“’ The courage of

’ those others to express their disappointment has encouraged me to express mine.

I enrolled in the two day course entitled Inward Bound II. Halfway through the first day I was disenchanted enough with the program to desire to leave. However I was ‘strongly’ encouraged and persuaded by the officers of the PSI program to stay for the day which I ended up doing. ’

Nevertheless, I refused to return the next -day in spite of continual pressure by the of- ficers to do so as I was quite aware of the terms of the agreement which also stated, “the-Enrollee is not entitled to any refund for any reason after completion of the prog- ram”, in spite of what I had been told ver- bally by the officers that I was assured of a refund if I was at all dissatisfied. I finally did receive my refund which was promised to me, but not in the one to two weeks time suggested, but rather nine weeks later.

I think the letter printed m last weeks ‘free chevron’ reveals the true nature of the PSI program. it too was my experience that the organization attracts lonely and insecure people, which admittedly we all are at times, and provides for them a sense of identity, security and value in their lives, and possibly even ‘love’. However the type of love pro- vided needs to be further qualified. -

In my mind PSI offered all of these things - to some degree, but for a rather exorbant fee

(i.e. $50 - $1,000’s), and it is my distinct impression from my experience with PSI that the ‘love’ expressed is no differeot than that.of good prostitution. PSI, like prostitu- tion will provide for our needs and give us a source of identity, security and value, but only so long as we continue to pay the price.

For me, as long as I continued to play along and assure them that they would be

able to keep my money, I was ‘loved’ and blatant and vicious attack on Chairman Mao. appreciated for my openness and willingness . Moreover, this incident is not isolated. As to ‘grow’. However when I expressed my dissatisfaction with the program and my de- finite intent to leave the course, I was called every name in the book, accused of being selfish and only seeking attention, of being shallow and closed minded and of being only concerned with getting my money back and getting something for nothing. By that time I no longer cared if I got my money back, I-was just glad I had learned my lesson so cheaply.

For those who are still interested in the claims by this organization to offer ‘mind- to-mind contact’, ‘perfect recall’, etc. I tiould like to quote from a book hy Christ- mas Humphreys entitled Concentration and Meditation A manual of Mind Development (1968) for he says two things of real value: (i) there are no shortcuts to enlightenment (ii) work out your own salvation. And one final point he adds, “No true master of meditation will take one penny for his teaching”.

a letter pointed out last week, the infamous Bullseye, another rotten paper put out by the federation last ftill, ran a similar article on the front page of its Oct. 28th issue. If all these are not insults then what are they? Fun and insult never go hand in hand. Being humour- ous never means having to be insulting while something that is an insult is never fun. And yet, our dedr staff urged those who wrote the letters to swallow the insults “in the spirit of fun”. On top of that, the staff of the “Real” Chevron cast further insults to the writers directly by calling them Mouse I and Mouse II.

Name withheld by request

We deem it unnecessary for the “Real” Chevron to give an apology, for we do not consider it a student newspaper and sec- ondly, it advocates nothing but slanted, rot- ten and downgraded journalism. Chairman Mao will be remembered by the revolutio- nary people of the world as a a great re- voltitionary regardless of all the slanders, libels and insults.

Johnson Cheng K. Jan Sen

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I would like to know why Erhard Kienitz, the injured worker interviewed in your January 7 issue, is starving himself in protest of alleged Workman’s Compensation Board injustices instead of trying to effect a speedy recovery from whatever ails him. I think that he is malingering and should be disentitled to any compensation from the Board.

Kienitz claimed that he has been injured five times since he first took up physical labour, and furthermore did not discuss his own conflicts with the Board. Five injuries, eh? Indeed! I have worked as a labourer in factories, in construction, as part of a survey crew, and with blasting crews on an oil pipeline. 1~ all, I have spent more than four years dping “joe jobs” and in all that time I did not,.receive any injury serious enough to compel Fe to take time off the job. Some of my assignments have involved more than a wee bit of personal risk. What was Kienitz doing when he was last injured? Moving pianos via tightrope across the Niagara Gorge? Or did he “accidentally” step on a -nail? Why didn’t he discuss any of his per- sonal W.C.& hassles? What had he to hide from us? A fraud conviction?

Erhard Kienitz is not a healthy man. It’s true! Why, the poor fellow hasn’t eaten at all for more than a week.

Michael McCartney Chemical Engineering

Comrade Trofim Denisovich, rest in peace! Doug Wahlsten has taken up the cause of Lysenkoism (p-6, The free chevron, Jan. 14, 1977). In your memory, he has vowed to examine both your writings and research and then to prepare a repdrt on his studies. To be sure, one cannot prejudge the conclusions Dr. Wahlsten will reach after perusing your works. However, one does get the impression that he feels that you may have been sandbagged by “the represen- tatives of reactionary biological science . . .“, to use y&r own words, T.D. In fact, Wahl- sten is more than somewhat impressed by your escape clause that allowed you and now him to discount any experiment that pur- ports to show that the inheritance of ac- quired characteristics does not occur. You remember that statement, T.D., don’t you? You made it in youeopening address to the general meeting of the members of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the USSR on July 3 1, 1948 (1).

The editor and staff of the “Real” Chev- ron once again showed their irresponsibility by naming as Mouse I and Mouse II th-e two letters of protest to the photo and libelous remark against Mao Tsetung. First of all, we declare that we do not and never will recog- nize the “Real” Chevron as a student news- paper. It is a rotten, unscrupulous, slanted newspaper financed by the Federation of St\idents with the student money and run by a handful of scab journalists.

The scab editor, R.B. Burton, tried to conceal his evil intentions by saying that “we did not intend that anyone should take it as an insult; it was given in the spirit of fun”. It seemed as if those who wrote the letters were wrong, for they could not appreciate the humour of our dear staff in the “Real” Chevron. They should not have written those letters in the first place for they spoilt the “spirit of fun”. Insult is not something that is subjective or something up to one’s interpretation. An insult is an insult, and nothing else regardless of the “intention”. The photo and its caption were self- explanatory. Anyone with some sense will see at once that the “pun” was the most

In Wahlsten’s view, for example, cutting off of rats’ tails did not produce that ‘magic something-or-other’ that would induce di- rected alteration’ of the germ cells. On the other hand, it could be argued that the previ- ous presence of the tail had already sent signals to the germ cells to pass on the infor- mation for tail formation to the next genera- tion. Subsequently, such-a fixed condition could not be overcome by the alternative signals induced by tail amputation. On the other hand, amputation of the tail- is a traumatic event that is followed by the wound healing process. Surely, one could reasonably expect that the magic germ cell effecters would have had an opportunity to Feach the gonads that are located nearby. On the other hand, however, possibly one cut is not sufficient tb raise the magic substance above a certain critical threshold. Maybe two, three, six or fourteen amputations at various specified intervals are required for rats to acquire a tail-less phenotype? etc. etc. etc. etc. I guess Wahlsten will have to articulate the proper criteria for Accepting positive results and at the same time tell us how to put aside those observations that ap- pear to contradict and to oppose “the prog- ressive, materialist, Michurin trend”, to use your own words. By the way, T.D., it isn’t possible that you prevaricated in your re- search papers, is ;‘t?

Wahlsten calls for examples for definitive experiments .on the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The key word here is ‘defini- tive’. Wahlsten’s definition of this word may differ from others. In any case, some of the ‘best’ work on the problem of inheritance of acquired characteristics was conducted by Paul Kammerer (2). Arthur Koestler has re- examined the Kammerer story (3) and raised

again the question of the validity of his ex- periments. (Koestler, like Wahlsten, be- lieves that his man was sandbagged.) Re- cenlly, however, what Kammerer thought were his definitive experiments on the prob- lem of acquired characteristics w&e re- peated (4). This study failed to substantiate any of Kammerer’s claims.

Now that -Wahlsten is delving into your career to uncover the truth, I wonder if he will take time to re-examine 0-B. Lepeshinskaya’s work (5). Lepeshinskaya was thoroughly and keenly supported by you. Her ‘discoveries’, not unlike yours, have been denounced, to use one of Wahlsten’s words. 1 Among other things, O.B. claimed that cells originated from egg yolk. As she said: “All our studies of the origin of cells from living substance blast the mechanistic conceptions of the idealists Vir- chow, Weismann, Mendel and Morgan. Our studies confirm a number of Engels’ postulates: “the non-cellular organisms begin their development from a tiny simple albuminous mass” . . .-Dialectical materialism should be as essential for every worker in science as the air he breathes.” (6). Indeed, Wahlsten may find some hidden evidence tp reestablish her studies that now have been swamped by “reactionary bourgeois pseudo-scientific views,” to use her own words.

It will be interesting to read the outcome of Wahlsten’s devoted researches. One gets the uneasy feeling that to fight the fallacy that all human characteristics are genetically determined, he has adopted holus-bolus the fallacy that all important human characteris- tics are environmentally induced. And it is for this reason that one suspects that he has taken up his present crusade to discover whether you are worth rehabilitating. Wahl- sten will certainly be rehashing a thoroughly examined piece of history. Even J.B.S. Hal- dane, a devout Marxist all of his life,

,couldn’t accept your pronouncements that acquired characteristics are inherited. In fact, Haldane believed that many of your views contravened basic Marxist theory. In this context, earlier in Soviet history, just prior to the success of the Cultural Revolu- tion in 1930, there was no major incompati- bility between modern genetic theory and traditional Marxism (7).

In any case, I just hope that Erich von Daniken doesn’t see the light and join the Anti-Imperialist Alliance or whatever, be- cause, one day in the future we could expect Wahlsten or one of his cultural descendants to conclude that “he was a s&rious scientist who merits attention,-and, in his mkmdry, I am resolved to investigate his writings and research, aid to make a report on them,” to use Wahlsten’s words.

Parenthetically, lest one think that yob were always an underdog, T-D., it should be remembered that you received three Stalin Prizes, six orders of Lenin and the order of the Red Banner. You were, as well, a ‘Hero of Socialist Labour’ and at one time served as the vice-president of the Supreme Soviet and ofthe Central Committee of the Party. In addition, you were director of the Soviet Academy’s Institute of Genetics and presi- dent of the Lenin Agricultural Academy. Nor should anyone ignore the fate of some of those scientists who opposed you. AS well, it might be worthwhile to consider the conse- quences your theories, supported by the power of the state, had on human life in the USSR.

Good luck, T-D., wherever you may be! d. Pasterna k

Footnotes for this article awailable in chevron office.

The debate is on. I thank Professor Paster- nak of the Biology Department for demon- strating that he can neither produce any di- rect evidence against the inheritance of ac- quired characteristics nor provide a coherent argument against it on the basis of known biological principles.

In the next free chevron I will I) analyse the content of Professor Pasternak’s letter and 2) prove on the basis of an article in the Nov. 3, 4976, issue of the UW Gazette that he himself has provided evidence in favour of the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

doug wahlsten

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See the world through a typewriter at the chevron.

Capita/i& bulldozers

I really must take exception to the article by Doug Wahlsten concerning the booming sales of expensive automobiles. He has re- ally forgotten an even more booming portion of the automotive market - bulldozers! Yes, bulldozers are the up and coming thing. Hundreds, no, thousands of rich capitalists are just running out and buying all sorts of Massey-Fergusons and John Deeres. Why, you ask? Well, comrade, the answer is sim- ple: whenever a student is out freezing in the cold, thumbing it up University Avenue the capitalist just roars up the street’oblivious to the oppr&sion he is causing. He has not a care in the world, knowing that the poor student will be so oppressedjust by his pres- ence that he will-jump immediately under the treads of the wealthy capitalists’ bulldozer.

Indeed the sudden upsurge in sales of bulldozers to the ruling elite is no doubt the sole reason why Khruschev’s brilliant pro- letarian prophecy has not come true: “‘We will bury the West.”

George H. Berger

Get your facts straight

\ In the December lOth, 1976 chevroti, Val Moghadam and Phil Cramer wrote an ‘article on the visit of the Zionist Yoram Dinstein to campus.

There are a couple of points which the authors should have investigated instead of merely relying on the lies peddled by this racist before they wrote the article.

The article states that: “One woman, who said she was jailed at age 14 in Israel, spoke of destruction of homes and the im- prisonment and exile of Arabs by the Israeli government. Another woman in the audi- ence said, however, that she hid lived in Israel for two years and never saw any de- stroyed homes.” So we’re left with each person giving their statement and the ques- tion remains: “Is there or isn’t there de- struction of Arab homes in the racist state of Israel? .

Nineteen thousand Arab homes have been destroyed in the past seven years and accor- ding to the UNRWA, a United Nations or-

ganization, commissioner John Rennie re- ported 6360 Arab homes destroyed in five weeks, just in the occupied territories!

These figures and sources were continu-’ ously pointed out to the audience but were dismissed by both the Zionists and the repor- ters.

Another point that is mentioned is the “close military ties, between Israel and South Africa. Dinstein replied that many countries have trading links with South Af- rica,, but only Israel is singled out and cas- tigated.”

This point is purposely obscured by the authors. Trading links and military links are two different things, as pointed out contin- ously by members of the audience, but again never reported and purposely obscured! (NO nation should have-any links with this fascist state!)

The point remains: Does Israel have military ties with South Africa or not?

While in Israel last April, Vorster told re- porters that he had discussions with Israel’s Prime Minister, .Rabin, and Foreign Minis- ter, Allon, dealing with “ways to expand trade, encourage investments, the setting up of joint scientific and cultural ventures and ldans for the joint utilization of South Afri- can raw materials. Z’

The New York Times, August 18, repor- ted the following:

“Israel’s diplomatic and commercial ties to South Africa have increased dramatically in-recent months in a strengthened relation- ship between the two countries that repor- tedly includes the sale of Israeli manufac- tured military equipment . . . .“Israeli radio reports that Israel is building at its Haifa shipyard two long range gunboats armed with sea-to-sea missiles for the South Afri- can navy. Other accounts place the number of boats at six. The 420-ton boats cost about $6 million without armaments. With missiles the cost is estimated at $18 million a boat.

“Reports that about 50 South African naval personnel on temporary civilian status, are training in the Tel Aviv area to man the missile boats.

“Reports that the sales agreement with South Africa includes delivery of up to two dozen Israeli-built Kfir jet planes. ”

“Reports that in exchange for South Afri- can raw materials, including an estimated one million tons of doal a year to buoy the Israeli steel industry, the Israelis would pro- vide South Africa with advanced military electronic equipment.”

If our authors had investigated first, (or even reported on the whole meeting) then there would be no possibility such statements could be made. In fact these statements only serve to confuse the issu& and only as blatant support for the racist state of Israel.

Salah Bachir

L . Comment-----i _’

Reallv ri t rezmonsibl --I--

Of the many claims mad3 against the chevron, the concern that it was not a responsible press now rings the most hollow. With the federation’s paper “The Bullseye” (edited by Doug Thompson) already discredited on this account, it is now time to look at the “real” chevron.

Though this paper claims to be a student paper, it is produced and edited by. the federation - an inherent contradiction. The “watchdog” nature of the student press breaks down under such conditions.

The editor of the paper, Bruce Burton, when trying for editorship of the free chevron, claimed that he is a journalist first and politician second. In the “real” chevron he wrote that his paper “would avoid taking sides on any issue, but report any happening factually and objectively”.

The paper, however, is used as a political tool -a charge made against - the chevron. Doug Thompson’s unsigned article (The Chevron affair) in the Jan. 7 issue starts by saying that many councillors were concerned with “yellow journalism” in the chevron. The re’st of his article is yellow jour- nalism.

The article states: the AIA was trying to dominate the paper; that chevron staff’s dislike for the federation stems from the latters support of the “im- perialist class of oppressors of the downtrodden masses”; that staff’s ar- gument is the federation is undemocratic - not that it acted undemocrati- cally; .that question 7 on the referendum “deals explicitly” with “the chevron’s express desire” of reinstate, investigate -although the question doesn’t mention investigation. . . .

It presents staff positions which are not staff positions, for the author never contacted us. It is entitled “The Chevron affair” but does not include the general meeting and its consequences. The author also claims the referendum will establish “once and for all the will ofthe students” when - in an interview - he claimed it would not be binding on council.

The Jan. 14 issue of the “real” chevron ran as the front page story an unsigned article on the Campus Reform Group (CRG).

The editor could not specify who’wrote it but claimed it was done by a friend of Thompson’s - the CRG’s candidate for president - who inter- viewed Thoinpson and quoted the CRG Press release and council motions extensively.

The article was merely a public relations effort made by the paper in support of a political party in the federation. It was totally uncritical, failing to mention that the CRG is a realignment of unproductive council members sans Roberts.

The chevron, it was claimed, was run undemocratically. What then did the federation replace the regular friday meetings and staff control with? The real chevron has no.staff meetings and is controlled by the editor and key people in the federation. It therefore does not matter how many students join the paper, for they will have no editorial control. The paper is dominated by o,ne group, as was charged against the chevron. . Twenty-eight of the fifty-three signed articles in the first six issues were

signed by federation people - mostly the editor. The others were: Orth, Burke, McDougall, Thompson, Dryden, Roberts, Brykmann, Kyrytow and Klingender. .

Fourteen non-federation students have worked on the “real” chevron, but none more than twice. The startling,point, however, is that sixty articles t have been printed without a byline. There has, been only one story written on the chevron affair that has beensigned.

The letters section entitled “We Get Letters” has printed five letters not addressed to the paper, three with faked names, four from federation sour- ces an&eight from other sources. People’s names appear in the masthead who have never contributed to the paper.

Hundreds of students have recently opposed the paper as being irres- posible for printing material bordering on racism.

d An article entitled “Computing and the faculty of science” was printed without the author’s consent. The Jan. 14 issue included an editorial by Dave Warner, piovincial NDP education, critic, without mentioning this fact ’ and thus making it look as if it were written by a student. A Dec. IO article by Judy Gill was stolen directly from Weekend Magazine.

Despite claims the federation doesn’t want to run the student paper, all evidenlce shows otherwise. The general meeting bylaw proposals showed this, as did Bullseye and the “real” chevron. It is clearly not a student paper, while it clearly is everything the federation alleged was wrong with the chevron.

The question is not whether the federatio,n wanted a responsible press; rather were they afraid of one?

A newspaper recognized and supported by the Canadian University Press (CUP), the free chevron is typeset by members of dumont press graphix and. published by the staff and friends of the old chevron. Content is the sole responsibility of the free chevron staff. Offices are located in the campus centre, room 140; (519) 885-l 660 or ext. 2331. Waterloo, Ontario.

Reflecting on my first week as a chevric, I would have to rank the motion of adjournment at the OFS meeting as the most refreshing mpment. Mental midgets in positions of authority on campus have had a nauseating effect, but the inspiring presence of heather robertson has made it all worthwhile. She is one of the many new friends I have made here, namely . . .larry hannant, neil docherty, Cindy, randy barkman, jules grajower, cody, val moghadam, Oscar m nierstrasz, t alex beamish., henry hess, phil Cramer, salah bachir, john jackson, doug hamil- ton, dianne chapitis, dave carter, mike hazell, doug goodfellow, doug wahlsten, mart shaf- roth, john tidball, peter blunden, robert hyodo, jane pollock, marina taitt, loris gervasio, jamie thiers, ernst von bezold, phil rogers, rick degrass, rob taylor, Scott barron, jonathon coles, shih kang-ti, and the unknown man who helped with layout and brought donuts. Now I will steal out into the crisp, cool air of yesterdaymorning, hopefully drift off into sleep and, if I am providentially lucky, not wake up to the thought of a village breakfast.. . .lorne

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Waniors win c .The Basketball Warriors had lit- The Warriors were led by Mike

tle trouble with the Golden Hawks’ Visser who scored 26 points, Lou

from WLU last Saturday night, Nelson with 13, Bob Yuhatz with

opening up a 25 point lead by the 12, Seymour Hadwen with 10 and

half and then coasting to a 91-47 Phil Tamburino with 9 points.

From the Hawks’ point of view. victory.

nothing short of boring had it not been for the consistent good play of the Warriors and the appearance on both the floor and the scoreboard of every player on the team.

Such a game might have been dit must be given to the offence and defence of Waterloo, nearly as

1

much must be given to the inept-

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ness of the Hawks. Though not as

everything that might have gone

strong as last year, they are capable

wrong did. Even though much cre-

Mike Visser moves around Larry Labajand drives for the basket while Peter Zwart tries to get past Ted Darcie to prevent the shot.

Wimiors in third Tonight the hockey Warriors,

currently tied for third and last playoff spot in the Western Divi- sion of the OUAA, will be out to revenge a 10-2 trouncing they re- ceived earlier in the season at the hands of the Western Ontario Mus- tangs.

- After the Nov. 16 loss to the Mustangs in a game described by Coach Bob McKillop as: “A game in which they could do nothing wrong and we could do nothing right ,” the Warriors played host to a 2-2 tie on Dec. 1.

“Friday’s game is a crucial one. We need it to get a strong hold on that playoff position. It would be nice if the UW fans turned out to

cheer on the Warriors. It really seems to help,” remarked McKil- lop.

The Warriors have three games in hand over the presently first place Western and Guelph who will battle over sole possession Thur. Jan. 20.

Western boasts a strong offen- sive unit, including the league’s top scorer, Dave Nadeau, but the War- riors are determined and it should be an excellent game.

McKillop commented that the continued improvement of John Vermeer and return of Dave Jutzi to the lineup are encouraging fac- tors.

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zgain : of more than was evident on Satur- day. Thus one can expect the Hawks to put on a more creditable performance when they play the re- turn game in the PAC.

In a post-game interview top scorer Mike Visser commented: “After we lost to Laurentian in the

.Naismith we realized we had to start things over and get things to- gether.’ We’ve lost some games since then, but it seems like the guys are playing better as a team.”

The Warriors are very definitely playing better as a team. Their im- pressive 44 point win over the Hawks was complemented by another win earlier last week over the McMaster Marauders to give the Warriors a 2-l record placing them in a three-way tie with West- ern and Windsor, four points be- hind Guelph.

The Warriors’ home game opener provided the crowd with an exciting game as the Warriors had to put on a second-half surge to beat the Marauders. Again Visser put in a stalwart performance leading the scoring and checking all-star forward Dave Roser. Yuh- asz, Nelson, and Hadwen also per- formed well shooting and under the boards.

Wednesday night the Warriors played Western. Game results were not available at press time. Tomorrow night the Warriors travel to Guelph in an attempt to gain a first place standing.

Athenas 1 Meet promising The pool in the PAC will be the

scene of the Annual Athena Invita- tional Swimming and Diving Meet today and tommorrow (Jan. 21 and 22).

Athena head coach Claudia Cro- nin expects the meet to be of excep- tional quality with four teams ex-

Track

Larry Labaj moves the ball up court while Pat Bill-Edwards keeps him company.

Both the Athena and Warrior track and field teams will take part in the York Invitational Track and Field Meet Saturday, Jan. 22.

Waterloo head coach Gord Robertson has high hopes for the teams, pointing out some of Waterloo’s top performers as Rick Heemskerk in the men’s high jump and Faye Blackwood in the women’s 50 yard dash.

The competition will be tough, though, Robertson warned. “Rick Heemskerk is up against Roland0 DeMarchi and Steve Doraston, both from the University of To- ronto.

“Heemskerk is the defending 0 UAA Indoor Champion. DeMar- chi was the OFSSA Outdoor Champion and Dovaston was the OUAA Outdoor Champion.

“In the women’s 50 yard dash, Faye Blackwood has to be rated a good chance. She won an all com- ers meet last weekend in the time of 6.2 seconds.”

The Indoor Championships will be hosted by York University on March 5177 and this will be good preparation for this event as well as the Toronto Star Games held later in February.

pe.cted from the US, including the . defending team champions, Clar- ion State.

The others will be Oneota State University, Oneota, N .Y. ; Ithaca College from Ithaca, N:Y. ; and Ball State University of Indiana.

Four other Ontario teams will also attend: Queen’s, McMaster, Guelph and Toronto.

The talent will include Toronto breast stroker Jane Wright and Karen Le Gresley in the distant freestyle events and members of the ‘72 Canadian Olympic Team.

Queen’s will have diver Janet Nutter, 1975 gold medalist in the Pan American Games. Another top diver is Athenas’ Val Quirk, last

year’s champion in both the CWIAU one and three metre di- ving.

In addition-to Quirk, other top- performing Athenas have been Patti Gorazdowska, who in an ear- lier Montreal Invitational wcn the 200 metre freestyle and placed sec- ond in both the 400 and 800 free- style events, and first year univer- sity swimmer Leslie Patterson from Windsor, who has been swimming very well.

There is no admission charge for the meet which gets underway at 10:00 am on Fri. with the heats and finals at 7:OO pm. On Saturday heats begin at 9:00 am and finals at 6,:OO pm.

Good games ahead _

The Athenas- are playing good Basketball. Tuesday, January 12 they chalked up their fourth victory against McMaster in the Western Division of the OWIAA by a 55-47 decision.

Despi.te a 30-17 lead at the half, the Athenas were not certain of vic- tory until the final whistle went. The Marauders cut the Athenas lead several times to six points and seemed to outplay them.

Chris Tunnis and Carol Kizlik paced the winners with 12 points each.

The Athenas faced the Univer- sity of Western last Tuesday; un- fortunately the results were not av- ailable at game time. Western leads the OWIAA western division with a 6-l record. UW has a 4-2 record and sits in second place. ,

Coach Sally Kemp anticipated a tough game as Western has just finished a tour through the Atlantic area which provided them with valuable game experience.

Kemp feels “Western plays very aggressive ball.1 Defensively they press a great deal of the time and use a fast break offense.

“We have to watch ourselves and make sure that we play our game and not be forced into Western’s style of game. We have

to remain calm against their press.”

On Friday evening at 8:00 pm the Athenas will’ host the University of Toronto. Kemp says, “The To- ronto game will be a complete change from the Western Game. Toronto traditionally plays a 1.2.2 zone. They have some tall person- nel and we often have a difficult time in getting to the backboards.”

Returning to the PAC with the University of Toronto will be two former members of the Athenas; Judy Halaiko and Carla Organ. Judy Halaiko played for Waterloo from ‘72-‘74 while Carla Organ played from 1974 until the end of last, season.

The third game for the Athenas in the eight-day span will take place next Monday when they meet the University of Guelph in Guelph.

“Judy Antonio will be a doubtful starter for Guelph. She is a member of their first team and a very val- uable contributor to Guelph’s total team effort. Guelph- are always strong especially at home,” Kemp says.

The game between the Athenas and Guelph has been rescheduled from its original date of January 22. The Athena-Guelph game will take place on Monday, January 24, in Guelph.