Many U of W students returned to the campus monday to be confronted with the n&vs of the death of Mike Moser the previous evening. While many people-knew Moser persona//v, many

others knew him as one of the finest basketball players to play for&the Warrior team. For ,a h+-;.dund of Moser and an account of the events that led to his death see page three.

Universities are important’ - were complaining about, some staff

public According to University of.

Waterloo (UW). president Burt Matthews, students, staff and fa- culty at thisuniversity “must take new initiatives and continue to point ‘out to society and govem- ment that universities are impor- tant.”

Matthews statement arose from the symposium held Wednesday af- ternoon which dealt with the recent government decision to limit budget increases to the university system at 7.2 percent. This figure will only cover approximately 60 percent of the increased operating cost that the university will face next year.

Matthews stressed that if the cutbacks are only temporary, the university could survive with few serious problems. However, if the cutbacks are goingto be a trend for the coming years, then all the uni- versities will be in serious trouble. This is the situation that must be avoided, according to Matthews, however ‘“the decision in the long run will be made by the public as to what kind of universities they want .”

Matthews went on to state that with this years budget, all feasible cutbacks, that is cutbacks that will not affect the quality of education on this campus, have been made and that the university is left with a deficit of $1.2 million. This will be covered by an unallocated $1.9 million from last year’s budget. This rapidly decreases the cash re- serve and if the financial bind con- tinues past this year then the uni- versity will be forced to consider more cutbacks, andthese would be of the nature that could seriously

academc environment this type of action shouldn’t be necessary.

affect the quality of education on this campus.

David Tozer, recresenting the grad students was quick to point out just how these cutbacks would affect the quality of education. Tozer contends that one of the most neglected financial obliga- tions of the university is in the area of bursaries and scholarships to grad students. If aid is not in- creased to grad students then the university will lose grad students and this will severely decrease the number of teaching assistants av- ailable to professors. This will then increase the work load of the pro- fessors, who are already over- worked and underpaid according to Mike McDonald who represented the faculty at the symposium.‘ Grads will also be lost if the support staff such as research assistants at the libraries are reduced, thus mak- ing research unbearably slow.

Given these conditions plus low * wages paid to faculty, potential grad students would be drawn to jobs outside the university.

McDonald stated that the same plight existed for faculty that given current and possibly heavier work loads with less time for research, faculty members would be enticed to work outside the university where financial rewards were more lucrative. He noted, however, that some faculty especially philosophy professors cannot find other jobs and therefore are bound to accept whatever wages the university of- fers. McDonald emphasized that what the government was trying to do was make faculty and staff sub- sidize the university by accepting low wages. He stated that the fa-

culty would have to have a 20.9 percent increase-in salaries in order to bring the salaries in line with those of 1970-71, in respect to pur- chasing power.

Mike Rowe, representing the staff association, stated that the staff of this university were simply trying to make a living and counter- ing the $16,000 that the faculty

J. Liban, representing the Cana- dian Union of Public Employees, the union that the custodians, maintenance workers, etc, belong to, wasn’t too concerned with the quality of education, but was con- cerned with the waste 0-f money in this university. One example he cited was that theuniversity con- tracted work out to outside com- panies when it could have its own staff to do the work.

Andrew Telegdi and Shane Roberts, representing the students,

Arts faculty R,enis-on

.defers gement .

would have called for a re- A controversial motion which

assessment of the affiliation bet- ween the University of Waterloo (UW) and Renison College was de- feated by the arts faculty council Tuesday.

Such a re-assessment would have taken place should the current ’ Canadian Association of Univer- sity Teachers (CAUT) investiga- tion of the Renison dispute reach the first stage of censure. This dis- pute centres around the firings last October of academic dean Hugh Miller and social science prof Jef- frey Forest.

The first stage of censure is sim- ply a recommendation for censure and final censure can not occur until the CAUT annual convention in May. At that time, however, as UW history prof Leo Johnson pointed out, the arts faculty would be inoperative due to the closing of

arts classes in April.

Towler admits censure regular

warned that the students are the oneswho will suffer most and that many services to the students will be and are being limited or cut off. The closing of the library at mid- night and the large budget cut of counselling services were used as examples.

Chris Harries, information of- ficer with the Ontario Federation of Students, warned students of the dangers of the’ “common front” of students and faculty stating that student fees cannot be raised-in order to benefit other groups such as the faculty.

Roberts at the end of the sym- posium urged everyone to write to both the provincial and federal governments and protest the cut- backs.

-randy hannigan

Midway in the meeting, Renison principal John Towler admitted that he -had received censure for procedural reasons from the CAUT in Ottawa.

UW philosophy prof Mike Mac- Donald, one of the authors of the - faculty association tenure commit- tee report, criticized Towler’s in- transigent attitude in the face of censure and urged him to accept binding arbitration. MacDonald also felt Towler’s stance to be un- professional considering the wide- spread recognition of the CAUT as the accepted body for such matters to be settled.

MacDonald described Towler’s action as “cutting off one head to save the other.” In other words, Towler is prepared to accept cen- sure while continuing to ignore the

object of the censure: the firings of Forest and Miller.

Changed motion Tuesday’s motion sponsored

jointly by Leo Johnson and UW sociology prof Ron Lambert was an alteration of an earlier motion ta- bled by the same two faculty mem- bers last- December which called for the suspension of all academic ties between this university and Renison College; again, only if cen- sure of Renison by the CAUT had occurred.

The original motion was moder- ated after much consultation with other faculty and students. It was felt by most of those consulted, ac- cording to Johnson, that the motion tended to pre-judge what action - should take place vis-a-vis a CAUT censure and that such anticipation was manipulative. This modified

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FEDERATIONOFSTUDENTS . -.

HE;YEAR. 197 Noininatioks for the position of President -

of the Federation of Students, University of / ,’ ’

Waterloo, for the year 197576 open on ~ .,

. WEDNESDAY-, January< 15,) 1975

and close

WEDNESDAY; January 22.

Nomination fortis. may’ be picked up

from Helga Petz in the Federation office W

(Campus Centre Room, 235) and must be’ returned \

to the same office by 4:30 p.m. . ’ January 22, 1.975.

. Federation of Students . Election Committee .

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. Arts faculty from page 1 version, it was hoped, would leave open what form (if any) such a reac- tion would take.

For Johnson the motion was simply a “preparatory” one which would in no uncertain terms warn the Renison administration of the possibility of are-assessment of the present relationship between the Arts Faculty and Renison in case of censure.

Blotch on UW The argument put forward by

Johnson and Lambert emphasized that the degree Renison was offer- ing was not one of its own but one offered by UW. Hence any censure of Renison would in effect be a blotch on the integrity of the uni- versity as a whole.

“When a body to which we offer a degree does not maintain stan- dards we, set for ourselves,” de- clared Johnson, “we must decide if they can continue to give such a

,

degree. ” Political science professor John

Wilson, in support of the motion, argued, “why have the CAUT if we won’t listen to it?” Also he felt that if Renison turns a deaf ear to the CAUT then the arts faculty and (by its recommendation) UW senate should act accordingly.

The debate over the Johnson - Lambert motion which was refer- red to as a “damocles sword over the head of Renison” registered a clear distaste for Towler’s actions, yet at the same time most profs showed their reluctance to become involved.

The decision of the arts faculty council to sit on the fence for the time being begs the question of what its reaction will be should final censure come next May. Whether they’ll then be prepared to act on their hallowed liberal princi- ples and discipline Renison corres- pondingly remains to be seen.

-doug ward

RW ups- quality Radio Waterloo, in an attempt to improve its programming, is reduc-

ing the number of announcers-and eliminating-the-shows it feels lack quality.

‘Steve Howard, a UW engineering student who is in the core group that‘runs the station told about 50 people assembled in a Radio Water- loo organizational meeting Wednesday that the “station will no longer put up with announcers just grabbing a few records and not attempting to put together a good show”.

“We want people who are into radio, putting more time into their shows so they will be of more service to the community.” Howard hoped the shows’ quality would improve with a “little more together- ness and by working as a team”.

The lack of togetherness at Radio Waterloo not only jeopardizes the quality of programming but also results in over $600 worth of albums being ripped off from the station in just one term.

The swift disappearance of new albums was one reason for the federation cutting off funds for records last autumn.

Also Radio Waterloo lost $500 worth of microphones last term. These figures are a considerable increase from last year. However, those in charge have no idea how to reduce rip-offs.

Bill Wharrie, a graduate electrical engineering student, in charge of the station’s technical and maintenance problems warned that all peo- ple should be more careful with the equipment and have a better idea of how to run it. Just last term, due to a technical foul-up the transformer burned out.

Station manager David Assman called for a greater involvement in such areas as campus news. This term he hopes to rebuild a crew to produce original news programming on local issues.

Assman‘also mentioned there are many special guest lectures and forums he would like to see rebroadcast on Radio Waterloo.

, In the sports department, Radio Waterloo provides play-by-play coverage of hockey and basketball games on campus and Assman asked for volunteers to work on this service.

Hopefully things are shaping up for Radio Waterloo. Last term the station received a LIP grant to produce educational tapes. Assman told the chevron the station has already produced several such tapes.

The station facility expansion is almost complete. The new studios ’ will have professional quality recording equipment, he said.

Already several local groups have requested the use of the un- finished studios which will be rented out for a fee to recoup the large capital expenditures required to build them.

-michael gordon

Few dollars left. The latest meeting of the Federation of Students board of education

and external relations revealed that there is still a few thousand dollars left for special projects this term.

These projects are centered around various topics for which there will be general committees. At present three committees have been formed. The areas covered by these groups are: women’s issues, science and technology,‘ and political /social and economic issues.

One positive achievement that has already come into being through the aid of board funds is “Cinema Solidarity” which will be presenting several films and speakers this winter.

,Money from the board also funds research on student oriented issues, _ and provides forums and information for the student body.

_ The up-coming Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) referendum is an example. It will be held to decide whether or not students will pay an extra $1.50 towards OFS..At present the board has 12 members. There are also others who.work with the committees under the board but are not necessarily voting members.

Any person who has a special project in mind and needs funds, or any person interested in working on any of the above mentioned committees should phone the Federation of Students Office for further information.

-neil dunning

Mi-Ice Moser: - . 1’ amaccount

Tragedy struck- the Waterloo Warriors basketball team last week during their four game trip to Florida. The shocking news of Mike Moser’s death has by now reached everyone on campus.

Shortly after arriving in Florida Moser complained of flu symptoms and was given medication for the flu. His condition improved over the latter part of the week but then took a turn for the worse early Sun- day. The 6’6” centre for the Water- loo Warriors died in St. Petersburg, Florida late Sunday afternoon. An autopsy revealed that he died of a heart attack brought on by a blood clot produced by a-bacteria called endocarditis. -

Moser was a Kitchener native and is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Moser and a brother and sister. He was a graduate of Forest Heights Col- legiate and attended Brown Uni- versity in Providence, R.I. on a basketball scholarship. He re- turned after one year to study Kinesiology at UW.- This was his third and final year here.

Moser’s statistics tell of his superior skills on the basketball court. He was, as one writer refer- red to him, “basketball at Water- loo”. Mike was in the process of shattering all school records as well as league records. A year ago he set an all-time scoring record in the OUAA with 335 points in 12 games. He was also recognized as “statis- tical player of the year” in Canada

last year. He led the nation in scor- ing, stood second in field goal per- centage, fourth in free throw per- centage, and thirteenth in rebound- ing. Fans likely recall his most de- vastating performance when he scored a record 52 points in a Naismith Classic final game against Sir George Williams in 1973. He has been voted “Most Valuable Player” two years in a row in the OUAA and was well on his way to another dominating season. He was also a member of the all Cana-

dian University team twice. Moser led the team to championships in the Western section of the OUAA both years as well as winning the overall OUAA title last year for the first time. The Warriors have par- ticipated in four turnaments this year and have won three of them. In two of the tournaments Moser was named MVP while in the other two he was selected to the all tour- nament team. The last time Moser saw action in a tournament was the Carleton tournament where Moser once again was awarded MVP laurels with an excellent output of 33 points in the final game. He left a team rated number 1 in the country and undefeated in Canadian play thus far.

Moser was also a valuable member of Canada’s national team for the last three, years. He took part in team trips to China, Mos-

cow and Puerto Rico. Jack Donahue, coach of the national team was shocked upon hearing of Moser’s death. He said that “more than any other player of the team Moser performed to the limits of his ability”, an indication of the effort that Mike put forth. One of Moser’s goals was to participate in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

The characteristics this writer was especially impressed by on the court was his consistency, particu- larly in clutch situations. Moser seemed to be keyed up for the pressure-packed moments. Exem- plary of this was the performance turned in by Moser in the recent Naismith Classic final when he scored the last 17 points for the Warriors to eke out a 72-70 win over St. Mary%.

But beyond Moser’s prowess on the basketball court was the impres- sion he left on people who really knew him. Paul Condon, sports in- formation officer at U of Waccom- panied Moser on a tour to Moscow and commented on how sincere Mike had always been. Condon said that Mike was an “outstanding person above his basketball abil-

ity”. He was the unselfish team leader of the Warriors, and a per- fect example of a college athlete. Moser combined his athletic abilities with straight A marks in his study of Kinesiology . He believed in keeping his body in excellent physical condition and it was ironi- cal that such a fatal illness should cause his death at the young age of 22, He didn’t smoke or drink and worked out year around to keep in shape.

Other friends of Moser’s said that he had earnest dedication to whatever he did and he gave ‘100% in all aspects of life.

The effect that this will have on the Warrior team is yet to be seen. Moser was well-liked by his team- mates and Wednesday night’s game was cancelled in respect of him. Phil Schlote knew him well since their days as teammates on an all-Ontario high school team at Forest Heights. The two of them- _ were colcaptains on this year’s War- rior team. Coach Don McCrae coached the Forest Heights club at the time and moved up to coach the . Warriors four years ago. Much of Moser’s success can be attributed to the coaching of Don McCrae. Moser and McCrae had built up great mutual respect for each other throughout the years. McCrae often referred to Moser as the “quickest 6’6” man in the Canadian game”. Responsible and dedicated were other words that McCrae used to characterize Moser as an athlete and as a person.

The next time the black and gold take the floor, number 53 won’t be there but he should be remembered by fans, .opponents and friends for a long time. -

Plans for some sort of memorial . fund are now being finalised and people wishing to make donations should contact the physical educa- tion office in the PAC (Physical Ac- tivities Complex) later on in the week.

-ken dick ’

the initial capital costs of book shelves and the store’s losses due to the low volume of books.

McGuire expects within a year -the bookstore will be paying for it- self and the bookstore will be able to repay the subsidy to the federa- tion.

The initial work on the bookstore

ceived a subsidy of $1,950 to cover

Garth McGuire, is the prime mover behind the concern, -which has been carefully planned since early November.

The Federation of Students’ used bookstore is open for busi- ness, weekdays from 10 am to 4 pm, in the Campus Centre room 217.

Federation services chairman

McGuire felt there was a definite need for such a facility on campus due to the high prices of books and “the uselessness of old course texts.” The bookstore will remain open until late March.

welcome to drop by. The books price is determined by the student, taking into account the book’s in- itial cost, its condition and whether

McGuire hopes this stock will in-

there’s a large stock of that particu- lar book.

crease as more students familiarize themselves with the bookstore and bring in more used texts.

Any students who have old, un- wanted texts they want to sell are

was completed thanks to the volun- teer work of Rita Schneider, Marg Tooley and Garth McGuire. -

Any students interested in volun- teering their time to improve the store should contact McGuire or Skuce in the bookstore or in the federation office.

McGuire is hoping thestock will be further expanded. At present a large portion of the stock are texts, however McGuire is hoping the bookstore will receive more refer- ence books and perhaps some sci- ence fiction.

He’s sure the students will find the facility a great help and will pat- ronize it. Previou’sly, Circle K, the local junior Kiwanis club ran a used bookstore on campus. However, this facility was only in operation for the first two weeks of each term.

At present the used book store. has about 1,300 books in stock.

However, if the book is not sold after 5 months the student must come in and renew the book or take it home.

Added to this price is a 10 per- cent commission’ out of which is paid the salary of Marnie Skuce who is running the book store at present.

McGuire said he’s concerned because the commission is not cov- ering costs and may have to be in- creased.

So far the book store has re-

McGuire emphasized “if stu- dents want the bookstore it will be , there, but only if they bring in books and purchase others”.

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OTTAWA (CUP)-The Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) has proposed a common front of stu- dents, faculty, support staff and administrators to attack the On- tario provincial government’s latest financing cutback to Ontario universities and colleges.

The -government’s grants for 1975-76 will be a total of 16.5 per cent over last year but because of special grants and programs the real increase to post-secondary in- stitutions will only by 7.5 per cent. The inflation rate presently running at 10 to 12 per cent means that uni- versities will have to cutback on services.

“This cutback is the culmination of three or four years of govem- ment financing policies and next year will be worse if this trend con- tinues. We have to get the govern- ment to re-evaluate their priorities regarding education ,’ ’ said OFS fieldworker Ben McDonald.

OFS held an emergency meeting December 16 of 25 university and college student presidents to dis- cuss the implications of the fund- ing.

The implications include the possible closing of Lakehead and Laurentian universities, classroom overcrowding, non-replacement of obsolescent equipment, phasing

-’ out of courses due to the lack of facilities and faculty, elimination of experimental programs, underpaid staff, increased student/faculty ratios which will all lead to a gen- eral decline in the quality of post- secondary education.

Common Front The possibility of the common

front was discussed at the meeting and a decision to form such a joint effort was made in order to build as broad an opposition to the govern- ment as possible. -

It was also noted by many par- ticipants that there would be some difficulties with administrators, who might not want to oppose the government too heavily and also with university presidents who, through the Council of Ontario Universities, has proposed a tui- tion increase.

Immediate efforts were made to explore the common concern of the various interest groups within the post secondary institutions and an

_ attempt to have a joint meeting will be made in early February.

‘Prognosis Cooks good’ “The prognosis so far looks good

at individual campuses. Several have said that they have got to- gether with all the various interest groups on campus,” McDonald said.

“On January 18, OFS represen- tatives will meet to put together a position to negotiate- from. Then we will have a meeting with in- terested representatives from OFS, students, teachers, administrators and staff associations,” he said.

McDonald foresees however, that it might be too late to do any- thing as the government may im- plement its announcement before sufficient pressure can be built to oppose it.

Future Steps - The meeting decided to carry out

several steps to work toward: -to I send letters from post-

secondary institutions to- Premier Davis protesting the financial cut- backs.

-to release statements to the press on the ramifications ‘of the finan- cial crisis to post-secondary in- stitutions.

-to approach the support staff, fa- culty and administrations on each campus to explore the possibility of joint action.

-to hold a province-wide meeting of representatives of constituencies within universities and colleges (students, faculty, support staff, and administration)

-to approach labour and commun- ity organizations at a local and provincial level to try and build public support for post-secondary education.

-to hold a province-wide workshop on January 18 on the financial crisis involving as many colleges and universities as can attend.

-to collect the various submissions made to the’ Ontario ‘Council on University Affairs and the Coun-

I cil of Regents. -to gather from each college and

university student government specific information regarding the impact of the announced support levels on: faculty student ratios, supplies and equipment, capital freeze on physical facilities, prog- ram cuts, research, faculty salaries, libraries, and student services.

The Federation of Students’ bookstore is now open for-business, weekdays JO a.m. to 4 p.m. in the campus cent& room 2 17. Federation services chairman Garth McGuire cordial/v extends an invitation to all students to bring their used texts and perhaps buy several from the bookstore’s growiig stock. Michael Gordon

Non-violence hits campus

As a part of a Symposium on lecture by Gene Sharp of Harvard Non-Violence this week, Conrad University. Grebel College and the Federation Mr. Sharp, author of’a pamphlet of Students featured a Wednesday entitled “The Politics of Nonviol-

Feds censor sea b teach

The Federation of Students’ council voted Sunday to censor former University of Waterloo (UW) psychology prof Bob Lahue for taking an academic position at Renison College, in defiance of a recommendation made by the UW Faculty Association.

The recommendation contained in the association’s tenure commit- tee report, warns faculty members and graduate students “not to ac- cept any kind of academic appoint- ments at Renison College. ” This “warning_will only be rescinded” until such time when Renison “will agree to proper grievance -proce- dures”.

Lahue was hired by Renison Jan. 6, to teach a social research course previously taught by dismissed academic dean Hugh Miller.

Miller, along with social science prof Jeffrey Forest and UW human relations prof Marsha Forest, was given notice of dismissal by Renison’s board of governors Oct. 31 and effective Dec. 20, 1974. Jeff

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(FNS)-Recent studies con- ducted by scientists in the United States, Italy and Bulgaria have shown that the drug Metronidazol (Flagyl), used in the treatment of trichomonas vaginitis, causes cancer, gene mutations and an in- crease in certain harmful bacteria.

A petition has been sent in to the FDA regarding a published study in the United States which showed the drug caused cancer in mice but the FDA tabled it. Since the peti- tion was sent in new scientificevi- dence has appeared to support the

, fact that Metronidazol should not

be used in non-life-threatening dis- eases.

- Flagyl was discovered to cure trichomonas vaginitis b:, the G.D. Searle Co. who holds the patent on the drug. Slightly modified forms of the drug have been found to cure trichomonas also but they are not as effective as Flagyl. As it stands, Flagyl is the only effective drug ex-’ isting that is used extensively for the treatment of Trichomonas Vag- initis.

fects of this drug found that it caused gene mutations in sal- monella bacteria, a doubling in the

Metronidazol, in oral use, is ab- sorbed into the bloodstream and is partially metabolized in the .body and excreted in the blood, saliva and in milk (at a low concentra- tion). The studies done on the ef-

in the rate of e-coli bacteria Cit- robacter freundii and birth defects with study animals used in the tests. It w-as also found that test animals experienced an increase in the incidence of breast tumors, lung cancer and malignant lym- phomas.

When this drug was tested (be- fore it was released on the market) the tests concentrated on the ef- fects that the drug had on the car- diovascular, respiratory or au- tonomis nervous systems of dogs, rats and mice. Evidentally some areas where possible adverse ef- fects could have taken place were not studied.

’ drug contact the Health Research Group, 2,000 P. Street, N.W., Washington DC. Unfortunately, at

For more information on this

mutation rate in Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, an increase

this time no information is available from Canadian sources.

Forest will effectively be fired April 30, 1975, while Marsha Forest was barred from “team- teaching’1 with her husband effec- tive Dec. 20, 1974.

The three profs, together with Renison Women’s studies prof Marlene Webber who was charged by the college administration of disruptive conduct in the student protest prompted by the firings, approached the UW Faculty As- sociation to conduct an investiga- tion on the dispute. The association has since referred the matter to the Canadian Association of Univer- sity Teachers (CAUT) to see whether there is cause to censor Renison for the manner in which it conducted the firings.

Students’ council, with one dis- senting vote, passed the motion censoring Lahue after little discus-

sion as most councillors had read and received the Faculty Associa- tion report with their agenda pack- ages.

In other business, councillors set the dates for the next federation presidential elections (Feb. 5) and council seats (Feb. 26). The On- tario Federation of Students’ re- ferendum will also be held Feb. 5.

Council voted to give $750 to the board of communications to estab- lish a 16,mm film and processing workshop for anyone who wants to learn how to use such equipment. The sole requirement for the user is a $12 fee, which has to be deposited upon receiving the 16 mm camera and film.

The idea behind the venture, apart from the learning involved, is to build up a campus film library. The films could also be screened at the “federation flicks” each week,

Council also allocated $1,200 to a campus group called “Cinema Sol- idarity” which weekly screens films on the Third -World. The group’s next film will be “Bum” with Marlon Brando, this Sunday.

-john morris

ent Action” and a one-time pris- oner for “conscientous objection” in the 1950’s, began his lecture by stating that he -was “not here to offer a panacea, nor to convert anyone”.

“I merely wish to encourage you to think about the problem, come up with your own ideas, and pursue them” he said.

He spoke of how the phenome- non of war has totally changed in this century, referring to Hitler’s extermination programme, and the catastrophic impact that war has had in polluting the atmosphere and oceans. Sharp suggested that we should look at the more hopeful elements of human history in our search for non-violent alternatives to war.

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From the world’s “vast history of non-violent struggle”, Sharp cited three separate examples of successful non-violent resistance, lending -an optimistic tone to the lecture.

He stressed heavily the point that if war is to be abolished, the needs that it satisfies must be re- placed. These needs, such as the protection and expansion of free- dom, must not be abandoned but rather satisfied in other, nonviolent ways.

To abandon violence without providing a substitute for effective struggle would give some people a feeling of hopelessness; for it would strip them of what they feel to be their only effective weapon. Similarly, any movement to elimi- nate a political structure would fail.

As a nonviolent alternative, Sharp was most in -favour of what he referred to as “unorganized noncooperation”. What this means is that the refusal to cooperate with or to be intimidated by violent ac- tion is more effective than violent retaliation, a point which he illus- trated with the example of the Rus- _ sians’ invasion of Poland, during which the Poles’ unto-operative at- titude caused the Russians more trouble than they had anticipated.

Sharp openly rejected the fun- damental assumptions that most anti-war protestors have, stating that such things as the removal of social and political conflicts or the unification of the world under one government would just not be pos- sible.

His lack of faith in common peace movements was evident when he stated that “they don’t seem to really believe that war can be abolished’ ’ .

He concluded the lecture by sug- gesting that “the unwillingness to obey and cooperate is natural”, using the child who plays hooky or refuses to take out the garbage as an example:

“Multiply this by 5 or 10 thousand,” he said, “and you have a full scale teacher’s strike or garbageman’s strike”.

-jim doherty

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Both Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria asked the provincial government for loans and grants to create at least 800 new rooms at the De- cember BC Universities Council hearings.

UBC representatives also at- tended the closed-door budget hearings but, while agreeing hous- ing is a significant problem, the rep- resentatives said residence con- struction can come only after cur- rent academic and service building plans are fulfilled.

More than 1,600 students were turned away from UBC’s resi- dences last September and hun- dreds of others needing accomoda- tion didn’t bother putting e their names on the long waiting list.

UBC’s enrolment of 20,000 is larger than the combined enrol- ment of both SFU and UVIC. UBC deputy president William White said this week that residence con- struction isn’t necessarily a lower priority at UBC than at the other two universities but “so many other needs are pressing at the pre- sent time.”

“The university at the moment has a building programme under- way. Since costs are rising, our building priority is to complete the existing programme. ’ ’

“First things first. Let’s clean up the building programme we are on before embarking on any more,” said White.

Officials from both SFU and UVIC said they consider the hous- ing problem serious enough to war- rant immediate act ion.

Sean Roberts, SFU’s administ- ration vice-president for university services, said, “Simon Fraser has indicated its intention to build housing on campus.”

He also said SFU hopes to bor- row most of the money necessary for residence construction from the federal Central Mortgaging and Housing Corporation (CMHC) but asked the Universities Council for additional capital grants to help start construction. At least 500 units will be constructed within the next two years, Roberts said.

A spokesperson for UVIC’s board of governors said the board has recommended to the Univer- sities Council that $3.7 million be spent to expand the university’s re- sidences.

The UVIC board asked the pro- vincial government for a grant of $2.5 million and a loan of $1.2 mill- ion to construct about 300 new single bed dormitory rooms. The university also plans to spend/ about $100,000 on special accomo- dation for married-couples.

Universities Council chairper- fbon William Armstrong said this week the council has initiated a study on university housing at the request of the three universities. . The study will be finished and sent to the provincial government by late January, in time for legis- lative debate of university budgets.

Armstrong said the study so far has shown that BC is one of several areas in Canada which seem to need additional residences.

The Universities Council coor- dinates activities among the three universities and is responsible for dividing bulk government grants among the institutions.

Geneticists fear biological born b

by Gail Mitchell (CUP)

The potential .for misuse of knowledge has always been night- marish. But with the recent de- velopments in genetics, the threat of disaster has never been so real.

In fact, for the first time in the history of modern science, re- search workers concerned with molecular biology have called a halt to their studies for fear of the consequences.

And for the first time scientists are questioning their common, and generally unspoken assumption, that the acquisition of knowledge is always an absolute good, requiring no justification or ethical sanction.

Dangers

More than 200 eminent scientists recently concluded an urgent con- ference at Davos, Switzerland, on the immediate dangers and pro- jected future benefits of genetic en- gineering .

Researchers have realized that their latest achievement-the cracking of genetic codes-%as opened the way to the designing of new bacteria which are potentially more dangerous to mankind than the atomic bomb.

In 1953, at Cambridge Univer- ‘sity, Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick discovered that the pattern of all life forms is deter- .mined by a double-helical molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Genes are molecules of DNA, units of heredity.

Since then scientists have found ways of cutting the long molecules into shorter pieces and recombin- ing them. These splicings are then incorporated into bacteria to create new microorganisms whose poten- tial for causing disease in plants, animals and man is yet unknown.

In 1969, when three biologists at the Harvard Medical School an- nounced to the world they had SUC- ceeded in isolating a pure gene from a bacterium, it was not without some misgivings. Although they felt their discovery could be used to cure such hereditary diseases as hemophilia, they ‘warned of the dangers of government misuse of the technique. They feared they were unleashing on the world the same kind of mixed blessing as nuc- lear power.

They were not alone in their fears. Soon after the announce- ment Maurice Wilkins, 1963 winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine, warned that the isolation of the gene could lead to the development of a major germ weapon. “It is the kind of thing you cannot trust soci- ety with,” he said.

Again in 1972, Australian mic- robiologist and Nobel laureate Sir MacFarlane Burnet said he would, if he could, stop all experimental efforts to manipulate the genes of viruses that inflict grave illness or death in people. The danger, he said, was the inadvertent creation in the laboratory of sub-species of a devastating virus against which humans would have no immunolog- ical defences. ’

“The possibility for good in these experiments are trivial im- provements in vaccines, and not worth’the risk,” Bumet said.

Despite the past warnings from scientists in the field, it was not until this summer that some kind of positive action was taken to look seriously at the potential consequ- ences of genetic engineering.

In July of this year, 11 American

researchers, including Watson, de- clared they were halting certain ex- periments in genetic manipulation of bacteria. Their reason: if they do not stop they may accidentally loose upon the world new forms of life-semisynthetic organisms that could cause epidemics, resist con- trol by antibiotics and perhaps in- crease the incidence of cancer.

In a letter published in Science magazine (the magazine of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science) and in Na- ture, the British counterpart, they urged colleagues around the world to stop experimentation with bac- teria whose biological properties cannot be predicted in advance.

The group, chaired by Paul Berg, chairman of the Stanford Univer-

at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in trying to improve on the lethality of vir- uses and bacteria harmful to man.

Controversy already surrounds every proposal put forth at the con- ference in Switzerland.

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have gone ahead in the application of genetics to the management of insect pests, offer- ing benefits to agricultural and pub- lic health care. Their colleagues at Sussex University in Britain have developed new strains of nitrogen-producing bacteria that could cut down the need for fer- tilizer.

Industry is attracted by the pros- pects of new processes for the synthetic production of drugs, such as insulin.

sity department of biochemistry, is buying time to consider hazards be- fore rapidly developing research grows too large to be controlled.

According to Berg, the embargo is “the first I know of in our field. It is also the first time I know of’that anyone has had to stop and think about an experiment in terms of its social impact and potential hazard. ”

Many are less than sanguine about the embargo holding. One National Institute of Health (U.S.) scientist says, “anyone who wants will go ahead and do it.” Although, he adds, the technique requires a moderate degree of sophistication at the present, it will be a “highschool project in a couple of years.”

Others are uncertain whether the ban will be observed by countries interested in the new technique’s considerable potential in biological warfare. For example, many mill- ions of dollars were invested at the U. S. Army’s biological laboratory

Yet, if some of the fast- producing deadly organisms were to escape from the laboratory in the course of experiments, they- could produce plagues that would make the Black Death of medieval Europe look trite, for there would be little hope for control.

And dangerous materials have been known to escape from laboratories. Only recently, small- pox escaped from Porton Down, Britain’s top-security laboratory concerned with micro-biological research.

Although the problems are com- parable to those associated with nuclear fallout, in that it affects everyone, John Kendrew, deputy director of the British Medical Re- search Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology,, thinks it’s worse. “ . . . In my opinion our present problem is even more difficult. For early nuclear research was con- tained within a governmental milit-

ary framework while gene transfer can be done by competent people in any lab at any place. And for some of the work to be carried out behind a cloak of military or commercial secrecy would be doubly danger- ous.”

Scientific progress has always been erratic. It seems it has been impossible for us to protect ourse- lves from the changes. The differ- ent developments are uncon- trolled-there is no master plan guiding the research. It is as if sci- ence has been waging guerilla war- fare against society-small teams of men, each working on its own

,

biological bomb. Now many scientists would like

to see the establishment, through the forthcoming world conference on genetic engineering, early next year, of an authoritative intema- tional body to advise specialists on aspects of research in the field that should be avoided.

Perhaps scientists have finally stopped regarding their subject as a curiosity and started treating it as the most potent force of our world. With some luck we may even be better prepared for the coming of the “biological age” than we were for the “nuclear age. ”

Water Shortage checks growth S

Waterloo region’s limited water supply may deter the spread of Toronto’s rapid growth into the area “if only in the medium ‘term”, . regional chairman Jack Young said, in an inaugural address to councillast Thursday.

According to a year-end provincial planning study, Toronto’s popula- tion could more than double in 27 years.

The Central Ontario Lakeshore Urban Complex study predicted that Toronto region’s 3.6 million population ‘could escalate to 8 million by 2001, Young said,.

‘I Slow growth scrapped Therefore it is unlikely that the province will allow the region to adopt

its slow growth policy given the report’s estimates, he said. “There is in my view no way that our region can escape the overflow of

these pressures located as we are adjacent to the 401 corridor.” Regional council still has to approve its official plan which will then be

taken to the province for final approval. If the province then decides that- more growth is required in Waterloo

region, then plans to limit regional expansion to 460,000 by 1991, an annual increase of around 2.5 percent from the present 277,000, will be scrapped ,-Young said.

“In provincial circles I sense an urgency to force more development of badly needed housing in Southern Ontario, and particularly where the province already owns’land intended for this purpose (such as Waterloo ’ region)-perhaps even at the expense of some hard earned gains in plan- ning policies. ”

However, due to uncertainty in future water supply, the region can avert provincial intervention in planning, Young said. “ . . .the use of the natural constraint of unproven water supply appears as an unique planning strategy if only in the medium term.”

expresses-glee Young expressed glee at provincial approval of a $250,000 study of

underground water along the Grand River and in regional well fields. The study, which includes a proposal to use a natural filtration system in

a natural underground reservoir along the Grand River at Woolner’s Flats, shows that the region could develop water supplies in this area in a lo-year period. \

Therefore, if the region can make ends meet with local water sources, without searching elsewhere, near self-sufficiency in water may provide a “brief respite” and an unusual planning tool, he said.

But. . .“ the question of future water supply will be themost important” problem facing regional government during its third term.

A real challenge Apart from the water issue, the new regional council will face “a real

challenge” in coping with skyrocketing inflation and reduced government subsidies, Young said. As “it is not economical” to postpone needed road maintenance, landfill acreage, conservation projects and similar ventures “to more expensive days in the future.”

Complicating the matter, council can’t ask municipalities to foot the bill as the above services are-under regional jurisdiction, he- said.

In addition, council can’t expect “pennies from heaven” in 1975, from the provincial government, according to a statement by (now departed -replaced by Darcy McKeough) Ontario treasurer John White.

However, if council solves these difficulties then it will have “im- plemented regional government without undue financial hardship on the average regional taxpayer”, Young said.

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Psychologist Stephen Lute showed pictures of persons of vari- ous races to a number of black,

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Lute found that white people could recognize other whites; that black people could recognize blacks; and that yellow-coloured people easily identified other yel- lows the best.

An oddity in the findings was that whites had\ little trouble recogniz- ing yellow people, but a great diffi- ’ - culty identifying blacks. Yellows however, had little trouble identify- ing blacks, but great difficulty in recognizing whites.

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c Travelling and learning u

by Chris Hughes‘

& David Prud’homme

During the summer, 25 students from the Universities of Waterloo, Brock, Carleton, Dalhousie, Ottawa, and Western spent 23 days travelling in the Soviet Union as part of the “Russian summer workshop” of the Departments of Germanic and Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures.

The academic benefits of the trip were numerous, but perhaps even more signific-

‘ant were the cultural insights’into Soviet life which we all gained. Rather than em- bark on an organized analysis of the Soviet way of life, we feel that the narration of several incidents which we encountered would in the long run be more informative.

In Moscow our group was registered at the very modern Hotel Rossiya in the heart of the city. This hotel is but a two-minute walk, or a kopek’s throw, from the Red Square and the Kremlin. The Red Square is very popular with the Russians, and -is in effect Moscow’s Yonge St. Mall-a place where the Muscovites congregate and mill about all hours of the day and night.

, First night j On our first night we met a couple of friendly Russians who invited us to their apartment. pfter walking and conversing for some time, we concluded that they re- ally didn’t know, where they were going, and as it was getting quite late we left them to return to the hotel. Being unsure of ex- actly where we were, we asked a young woman for directions. She not only told us which bus to take, but also paid our fares and accompanied us right back to the hotel.

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It was this sort of,hospitality that we met throughout our travels. At ‘this point we should mention that any attempt to speak Russian was met with immediate en- thusiasm. The people were very patient with our broken Russian, and always tried to help in any way they could. We found that the tourists who did not speak the lan- guage, or refused to even try, were treated

in the in a very abrupt manner: This may account for some of the negative feelings brought back by many other tourists.

Our visit to the Kremlin, in which are housed the main government buildings, was interesting in that one of our male members was refused admittance because

s he was wearing shorts. Conservative dress is considered by the people as proper for public places such as government build- ings, museums, theatres, etc. On at least three occasions members of our group were made aware of the fact that the Rus-

usslit Taxi terror

It was also on that same evening that a group of us experienced our first Soviet taxi ride. In contrast to the more relaxed life of the pedestrian, one ride brings back visions of Montreal. The terror is aided by the fact that in the cities in the Soviet Union the maximum speed is set at 50 mph, and outside the cities, there is no set speed limit. Often just getting a cab is a nightmare (or a pain in the saraka), for one must either order the cab from the hotel front desk,

sian people themselves do not like shorts, as they consider them okay at beaches and such, but not in the cities. Likewise women wearing low, or no-back dresses drew many rather stunned stares and oftenout- right eomplaints as that sort of apparel is still very risque in the Soviet Union.

Nature and beauty The Russians love nature and beauty

which is apparent in all their cities. Many main streets have wide boulevards with trees and benches. Parks can be, seen everywhere. Their parks and streets are remarkably clean, for Russians seldom lit-’ ter. Many times, when a tourist would throw a cigarette butt or wrapper on the

J ground, a Russian would come over, pick it up and deposit it in a trash receptacle.

The Russian people enjoy their relax& tion, and whereas in North America many parks have a baseball diamond, in the USSR public tables are set up for chess playing. The range of other entertainment is very broad, from singing with a group of friends on the bank of the Neva River where they play their guitars, sing and chat while watching the ships come through the draw-bridges from late evening till the early morn&rg. It was here in Leningrad that we met a woman from Odessa who was attending a fashion, design Institute. She took us for a tour of the Summer Garden, a boat tour on the Neva, and later to watch the opening of the bridges. The whole time she occupied us with .questions about the West and especially wantedus to give her a definition of a “hippy”, which proved somewhat difficult as our interpretation was not the same as her preconceived no- tion, which was “a person who does not work, has long hair and plays the guitar all day!”

‘Chris Hughes which could take anywhere from a half to three hours, or else you must wait your turn at a designated cab-stop. This method has its drawbacks too, as women with small children, and invalids, are given priority by the cabs, so the wait could be a long one. Although, if you are stranded somewhere and really need a cab, the best way to get one to stop, where they nor- mally would not stop, is by holding an American dollar in your hand and flagging one down. This usually brings immediate results. Another example of the above mentioned difficulties was our return to the hotel in Leningrad from the Neva. Weap- proached a cab with its free light onWe asked if he was free and started to get in, at which point the cabby quickly locked the doors, rolled up the windows, and went to tosleep. After an extended time waiting at

-the cab-stop we acquired a cab which took us to the hotel, and also “took” us for tourists.

After meeting a few times with various groups of Russians we came to realize ex- actly how unprepared most of us were for the trip. At any meeting, we were pre- sented with small momentoes, usually pins (znachki), or small art prints. Most of us had run out of pins to give in return and had to resort to giving away Canadian coins, but within time we even ran out of these. This did not seem to bother them, and they gladly showered us with these presents. Our encounters with the youth at such meetings sometimes ended up in some funny events. One such event was our get together with a group of students from the Toglatti Automobile Institute near -Kuibyshev on the VolgaRiver. One of the students was very anxious to meet some- one who could play the guitar, but as it turned out only one of us could. Even then

she only knew sad type songs, such as Dylan’s and Cohen’s. The Russians, in contrast, wanted to hear happy songs. The fellow continued to request a happy En- glish song. After much persistance ,we, as a small group, decided to speed up one of the sad songs and look happy as we sang. It seemed, that since they’did not understand _ english, we could fulfill this request and still be good ambassadors. ,

Intense interest It was in our conversations with the

Soviet citizens that we bacame aware of the Russians’ intense interest in many dif- ferent things. Our research since has shown that the USSR is the largest per capita book-publishing country in the world. It is also worth mentioning that books are extremely inexpensive-a hard cover 500-plus specialized dictionary for $2.05, and a soft-cover, 65 page book of poetry for 15 cents! Further, one could note in the subways that a very large per- centage of the commuters had books with them to read en route. Perhaps it is this easy access to books which makes the Rus: sians so knowledgeable, and also caused some of us a certain degree of embarass- ment, for many Russians were better in- formed about Canadian literature than we were.

In summing up, we ‘can only warn the reader to be cautious in forming his opinion of the Soviet Union. Many tourists go to the USSR and expect another Canada with respect to personal amenities. What they find is quite different and their return views are very negative. Having had many oppor-

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tunities to talk with Russians, and to go on our own to non-tourist regions, we disco- vered that the Russains are a very friendly people, although, of course, they do lack many of the consumer goods which we take for granted. What they lack, though, is more than compensated for with the cul- tural facilities provided.

The Soviet Union has much to offer the observant tourist, and no amount of writing can substitute for personal experiences, but we hope that this article will have shown, in some small way, the human side of Soviet life.

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lrland and Raphael exhibition. Theatre of the Arts. 9-4 pm.

Tuesday Museum of Games & Archives-is open from l-4 pm. MC 6032.

Para-legal assistance. Providing free non-professional legal advice for stu- dents. 1:30-4:30 pm. CC 106 Call - 885-0840 or ext. 3846.

Chess Club-meeting at 7:30 pm. CC 135.

lrland and Raphael exhibition. Theatre of the Arts. 9-4 pm. _

-F. Green Film “One Man’s China”. parts 3 & 4. 12:30 pm. Phy 145. Free admission.

Films on Chinese Acrobatic & Wushu (Kung-Fu) 8 pm. MC 2065. Free.

Wednesday lrland and Raphael exhibition. Theatre of the Arts. 9-4 pm.

Pam-legal Assistance. Providing free non-professional legal advice for stu- dents. 7-10 pm. CC 106. Call 885-0840 or ext. 3846. .

Museum of Games & Archives. MC 6032. l-4 pm and 6-9 pm.

Blood Donor Clinic at First United Church at King & William. 2-4 pm and 6-8:30 pm.

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Watertoo Universities gay Liberation movement will hold its 2nd meeting of the term tonight at 8 pm. Among topics to be discussed will be the Gay Alliance Towards Equality or GATE conference in Toronto. Come see what you can do to get your civil rights. Room CC 110. Coffee House will follow meeting.

Social and Ethnic dance club will meet at 8 pm CC 110. This week Chinese fold dancing. Duplicate bridge. Open pairs. No ex- perience necessary. Partnerships can be arranged. All bridge players wel- come. 7 pm in 3rd floor Math Lounge. Student wives club meeting at 8 pm in Eng. 4 room 4362. Topic is aspects of ESP. F. Greene film on “One Man’s China” parts 5 & 6. 12:30 pm. AL 116. Free. C. Hinton speaks on “Student 81 Fac- tory Life in China” 8 pm. EL 101. Museum of Games & Archives MC 6032 l-4 pm. lrland and Raphael exhibition at Theatre of the Arts. 9-4 pm. Waterloo Christian Fellowship Dessert Meeting with Bernie Warren on “Brotherhood of Man”. CC 113 at. 5:30 pm. “One Man’s China” part 7 and,films on Acupuncture. 12:30 pm. AL 116 Free Admission. Movie: “The Red Detachment of Women” MC 2065. 8 pm. Free.

Friday lrland and Raphael exhibition in Theatre of the Arts. 9-4 pm. Federation Flicks: “The Great Gatsby” with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. 8 pm in AL 116. Fed members $1. Non- Feds $1.50. Paul Lin speaks on “Values in Con- tempory China” 8 pm. MC 2065.

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, What makes-Bill Thomson’s career as a city planner so supported a full ring road. They claimed the origltl ring *

intriguing’and worth examining in detail is his embodiment road ‘has been perverted into a $22-million expressway of active, dynamic service for city government and the r connecting provincial highways passing through the area.’ interests which control city government. Many other Cana- Thomson countered strongly in defence of the half ring, dian planners suffer from-self doubts aboutwhat-charac- road by discrediting the board. He said the board had done terizes the public interest, what are the best policies for the nothing for fourteen years. ‘We have moved from the horse city, and what power planners should have. Not Bill Thorn’- ’ and buggy to the motor age in that 14 years. If we build it the son. He exaggerates the ideal qualities of the city planner in way it was planned, we’d have a hell of a mess.’ Kitchenlet a dynamic style. So the man himself, and the things he has -and Waterloo Councils approved the new road as Thom- done,‘ say a lot about what underlies city planning in son negotiated it. Canada. , _ / The matter of meeting provincial standards turned a

Thomson’s self-&rance is stunning: proposed 120-foot wide ring road into a major four-lane $itting around.discussing! ‘Who .am I?‘, “What ‘do I &?’ - divided freeway several hundred feet wide with gigantic , : \

: What is planning and planners?’ thrills me about as mu& interchanges. By 1966 it was thought that final costs would

as snifing the aroma ofAndy Campbell’s special ‘seegars’ (a -be $38-million. Concerned citizens began questioning the k reference to a former president of the Canadian planners’ rising costs. Thomson rebuked them harshly. For example _ associati&)~Ihappen~to know who.Iam, what Ido, what my Dr. Diem, a geography professor and former Planning . profession expects from me, what planning is, and I’m not Board member criticized the rising costs and the failure to -9 ‘photo courtesy of the K-W Fk?e Press . interested in your belly button. . 1

\ .integrate the freeway into a total\ transportation system,. <

This was Thomson’s comment,. after a year in officea as Thomson publicly replied, ‘You shame me, Mr. Diem, by the city purchase prices down. The following day he made

president of the planners’ organization, the Canadian Insti- *your intellectual ignorance. Instead of ‘emulating a few of his first official contact with area residents sending a letter ‘<

tute of Planners, and at a time when a small Qgroup of your fellow lecturers, I suggest you defve into your subject which gave them ten days to comment on the zoning

members were raising questions about the profession’s more deeply, especially ‘one. which is so foreign- to your freeze. Cnfy five responses were received from the 61

role in Canada. Its style is typical .of the man. Y intellect, before running off at,the quill.’ = owners. :

Thomson graduated from the University of Toronto’s ’ Criticism continued as did the rising costs ThH final bill j was $54-million for half a ring road which now ends in a

Both the land purchases without a plebiscite’ and the

planning school in the 1950s. He spent some time working zoning freeze reqfuied approval by the Ontario Municipal two-lane road to the villages of St. ,Jacobs and Elmira.. in Ha. ilton’s planning department and arrived in Kitchener ’ Board. The Board considered these matters at hearings in

2 _ Thomson, however, had the final say. In his annual report. the fall of 1964. At the hearings, theCity claimed it had ’ in196 as the city’s first Director of Planning. Comments . ,to city council in 1967he said: 9 done exhaustive studies and had involved citizens. ThereT .one of the, members of the planning board that hired Thom- .-

son, ‘He brought-planning to Kitchener.’ In 1973, Thomson The Expressway’ is also part of our overall planning in this. fore, no plebiscite was necessary and approval should be

became the Commissioner of Plan ingand Development ’ c

-city-not foreign to it as many people throughout the area given. Princ;ipal opposition came from the Kitchene’r Tax-

for the new Waterloo regional gove nment which includes seem to believe.,,It always seems strange to me how there are . payers Association. Their legal counsel argued’ for a

the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and’ Cambridge. always so many experts in the field once,a project is ap- plebiscite because the Planning Qepartment’s report was

The Kitchener-Waterloo area is 65 miles west of To- proved and underway. Where are these nimble witted ex- incomplete and mere ‘window dressing’, because council had never approved the scheme, and because the zoning ronto. It has a rapidly growing diversified industrial base perts when the public meetings are held and where are they

which combinessubstantial locally-owned industries (Elec- when we are seeking even further. help? Hiding behind fake freeze. was causing an economic hardship for owners. In

trohome, Greb Shoes) with branch-plant factories of major names on the letters to the editorial page certa~inly o#ers . December ‘1964, the OMB decided ‘in favour of the city

U.S. corporations (Uniroyal, B.F. Goodrich). There are also little help to the city. . ’ stating that the proposed civic centre was:

two universities (Waterloo and Wiifrid Laurie&) and a com- Thomson may also add further to this subject. In 1971 he’ ,_ a SC~UYE which has hada lot ofstudy by the planning board munity college (Conestoga) which were all set up in the 4 announced he would write a book merely called ‘Express- , and council as wellas by groups ofinterested citizens; it has sixties.. The population of Kitchener went from ,43,000 in way’, He sai‘d it would reveal the full story about the behind been well publicized, discussed at public meetings and there , 1950. to 107,590 in 1970. * the scenes work: Xhe public relations, fairness to. theprop- /would appear to be no doubt that it has general support. -a

Bill- Thomson arrived on the scene in the m/dst of rapid . erty owners; the battling of wits to keepthe Twin Cities and , : .“The OMB d&o pIticed a one-year limit on the zoning freeze.. , growth. His term as Planning Director for Kitchener, bet.- their residents first onthe list, the astute negotiations for ’ Slowly the city began purchasing0 properties and razing ween 1962 and 1972, was dominated by three major plan- land, the discussion over design, planning and politics and them. Extensions of thezoning freeze were requested by ningprojects: a freeway, a civic centre and an urban re- so much more.’ . . the city for the next six years all of which were granted by I newat program. Thomson stimulated action on all three; 1 the Ontario’ Municipal Board. ,In 1971 the Board decreed the duration of each filled most of his eleven/years‘ in Selling a-civic centre - , ’ ’ ‘- that the city must complete their land purchases during the Kitchener;‘ Thomson’s planning style,’ as it emerges Sporadic proposals for a KAchener civic centre date back next three years. Altogether residents of the future civic through these-projectssets the stage for the second period d to 1912. A draft plan was proposed by the Mayor in 1956 centre site had to endure a decade of the zoning freeze:> . of his career. His recent work as chief planner for the and was rejected by an eight,to two vote by council: Fiom ” while being subjected to pressures to compuisory sale of Waterloo Region -(1973 to the <present) has been domi- 1956 the Chamber of Commerce again pushed. for a civic - their homes. Today mostof the site’stands vacant. nated by the‘,creationof a regional plan, hopefully the - centre which resulted in a 1961 Civic Centre Committee’to- ‘, In short, Thomson’s civic centre strategy created false second regional plan in Ontario. Since this plan-represents . ’ study the matter. Membership of the CCC was from the , public support by co-opting beneficiarjes, overriding Thomson’s most important work, and since it has been his Chamber, city staff and aldermen. 1 \ ‘~ neighbourhood interests and using blockbusting tactics to first priority over the past two years, it serves as an impor- I In August of 1962, Thomson criticized the CCC for lackof. achieve ownership at low cost without expropriation. Public tant example.of professional planning expertise. Altogether activity and an absence of co-ordination. He followed this . -bl.ockbusting,X as used by Thomson, stands as a new -form - the record of Bill Thomson’s work describes the style and I, with the public release of a report directed at the CCC of urban renewal. expertise of a successful and dynamic Canadian planner. suggesting a number of civic centre alternatives. His public

~ , . \ -, charges caused theCCC to becomeactive and catapulted ‘&ssical urban renewal -

&?eviay to nowbem .\;

him to the position of Secretary of the CCC and onto a new The third, and major, project of Thomson’s -Kitchen& In 1949, the Kitchener, Waterloo and&&urban Planning , steering committee. From this moment on Thomson de- ‘.‘tenure’wa# an urban renewal schemethat he-initiated in.

Board adopted a ring road plan as submitted by a consul- signed the civic centre strategy. 1962 and pursued for the next tea years. In a now familiar tant. The ring @ad would encircle the cities; providing a In 1963 he engineered the creation of two additional style, he provokedthe community to acti,@ by ‘shooting bypass route for all approaches and would drain traffic . committees to assist the Civic Centre Committee. The first from the %p as the #M+zener- Waterloo. Record, the local away from busy downtown streets: Throughout the 1.950s ’ was an advisory committee-composed of potential‘ future ’ newspaper, termed it. Addressingthe Kitctieher-Waterloo ’ the Board keptthe ring/road idea alive, and in 1961 a joint ’ users or generaJ beneficiaries. It included local branches of Kiw&n&‘in July of 1962, Thomson !delivei;ed I a scathing Kitchener and Waterloo- committee of aldermen sought ) the Canadian Opera Guild, Little Theatre, Art Gallery)’ Red - -attack on downtown merchants. He characterized down- provincial aid for the scheme. Provincial commitment was Cross, Jaycette Club, Public Library Board, Children’s Aid . : I town Kitchener as “a ,long, linear facade Of buildings that not forthcoming. - ’ _ ‘Society and others. The second was ,a committee of ar- remindme @ a skid row in Chicago’ and the @ores as ‘one _

Shortly after his arrival, Thomsoncriticized the commun- chitects which was formed through quiet, informat- talks storey high with the rest filred ‘with junk/ used as“ ity for inaction,on the ring road whichled to his appointment -over several months between Thomson and local ar- . . warehouses, dirty cramped offices or filled with families to a three-man committee of experts composed of the city chiiect$Eight architects finally formed the committee and . living almost‘in squalor.%gain the community w>as off and engineer, traffic director and himself. This. committee of’ later they received a contract to prepare the civic centre running to Thomson% tune. experts began negotiations with provincial btireaucrats ’ -’ “. plan. ’ ‘* . - s Urban. renewal, for Thomson, was -a%oi to provide and in June of 1963 the province agreed to pay 75 per cent Through a coalition of four groups, the Civic Centre ’ cheap land for the developers. Re rationalized urban re- \ of the costs subject to the< road being built to provincial Committee, the advisory, committee of beneficiaries, the ; newal as foltows: standards. A larger committee of, experts to work out the ’ - committee of architects,.and the Planning Board, all guided If (a developer) went out to buy land on the market, he’d = details of the-ring road was then established. It included by Thomson, a civic centre site was selected and a concep- - have-to buy the land, the-building that sits on the land; he,:d

representatives ,frorh the Dep.artment of Highways, tuat plan was prepared. In Pebruary of 1964, without con-, > h<e lo buy- the business the man has. . . he has to buy what - Kitchener’s andWaterloo’s city engineers and solicitors, tatting the citizensliving on the&e and without holding a ‘, ’ the business is worth, and, if there is a tenun t in the building and Thomson. About one year later a plan emerged which. . plebiscite ‘for the necessary financing, city council ap- that has, say, a ten~year lease, ‘the-developer has ta buy him

, abandoned the ring road idea in favour of a road half way’ proved the civic centre, which, would include such public *out-which amour&s : to a tremen&us amount of money. around the cities and estimated the cost at -$22-millionIin < facilities as the courthouse; police station, public library - . . - NOW th& is on< of the re&on.s why&&is urban renewal: so contrast to the original estimate of $6million. and an auditorium. One week later Thomson secured ap- j the federal,. provincial andMmi&pal government3 can go

Opposition immediately arose from the Kitchener, proval from the Planning Board for an amendment to the . ,out and buy buildings and leases and businesses’an~d rip ‘em Waterloo and Suburban ,Planning Board which had long zoning by-law freezing existing, land use on the site to keep ..’ *-‘<--*, ; _ continued on ,page 12 “.-, _ .,L, .

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. . -Z - -_ ‘i I‘---- all &wn and then put a value on the land-which is a - by media falsificatjon, (for example, theRecord tirote- Kitchener-Waterloo local government. And he has a .ning under a one-tier gov

- lot less than all t’e other -stuf&put that ‘on the its own letters to the e&or and- forced its writers to .history of close association uirith the Saturday Mom- _ and Jack Young have Ic mqrket, and sell it to a developer. The devekiper will rewrite material to favour the scheme;) a plebiscite - ing Club. During the controversy over the demolition l co-ordinator Jim Darrah come in under those conditions. - -, \ - vote of about 35 per cent turnout favoured the-re- of the-Kitchener market, for .instance, a second ie- should be fired if he contir Th& unfolding of Ihe urban rel’lewal Siory in Kitchener newal by. 15,689 to .l 1,5i33ctes. QMB chairman = searcher repor$ that-regular Saturday Morning Club Mrs. ‘ihorsen has also b

- over the past few years demonstrates well how Kennedy indicated that according to theJules of the meetings were held and Thomson attended at le’asr one-tier attitude. Thornsol Thomson u-d urban renewal to zaid the de&lop- OMB he would not have app&ed the scheme, but-‘ some. No doubt contacts of this kind have helped criticisms in a 16-page re men! industry. Since this story is told in a rec*nt book he -must do ‘so because of the plebiscite otitcome. Thomson to prote-ct the interests of the local elite in - ior@ planning staff are nc by Jack Pastemak, Rot and Ren&wal. theUn&ing of Today, the Oxlea urban renewal scheme is a real- t& marIy._cotitroversial planning policies he has -involved in the continuing

b City, only a- brief chronology of events will be pre- ity in Kitchener. Thomson predicted that ‘the critics - been involved in: - from Mr. Darrah and nsw 1 will & lo@ in the-ring of cash registers an@ new * -_

sented here. Following Thqmson’s initiative in 1962, - -- j in the Record, these WOP a ‘48-member_ Urban Renewal Cotimittee has buildings.’ While the scheme has been an unbeliev- On to the reg-mn

. formed in 1963. Although referred to’as a ‘citizen’s able financial success, the new tnarket has turned Bill 167 created ihe new Regional Mun%ipality of -ture, weak, silly and ab:

however, are’not limited tc committee’ by Thomson, all but three academics and_- into a tourist trap causing most locals to search for _ Waterloo including Kitchqr, Waterloo and Cam- -- meeting, subsequent to one cleric were downtown machants and investors. other markets:-outside of .-town. Many residents of bridge. Jack Young, a former Kitchen& alderman ’ ironically greeted Mrs. The ‘from 1963 to 1~965Thomson’s staff and consultants Kitchener are now extremely upset by the artificial .tind PC-candid&e and co-negotiator of the Oxlea mouth from the.south.L conc&cted studies. The first study was an economic . and’ commercial atmosphere of downtown Kitch- deal with Thomson; was appointed as the f@t rg- study of downtown paid for half by thecity and half by ener. As a planning’case, Fach further documenta- ional chairman as had been rumoured’for some time.’

tion identifies this action for the’disaster it is. Regaid- r The first regional plal

Waterloo Trust (owned by Canada Trust) and .tl% ’

Young wanted Thomson as his regional planner; , choose one 0f one Kitchener- Waterloo Record. In lg65 Thomson prop- +- --less, Thomson has given ys his verdict in his 1971 .- Thorns& wanted more power, and’a?y both got

-bsed‘ an .urtiaii -renewal plan for downtown rede- annual report to city council; a verdict which reveals their wai. Thomson did not get the regional jlo’b with- Provincial legislation E

velopment- to attain ,‘a core of concentrated retail his tactic-f discrediting citizen participation as ati -out-adopting tactics to overcome fears created by his Region requires a _ dr&-- dember 31, 1975. Tham:

uses, including amusements, surrounded by tall of- , -anti-democratic- activity cdnducted by misfits and c style in Kitchener. For the 18 month period prior- to the establishment of the neti region, Thomson Fid

done as quickly as pas

his ‘pop-&f’ attitude. To imprdve his image he sud- -‘_ superior planning ability.

denly manged from WE. Thomson to ‘Bill ’ Thomson_ In the-first attempt at a ,

‘Vague and IooselyAphrasc gd from these were deriv and pbssible policies. T.hg were oresented labellec

b&ths. The: beginn‘ing of the end for this committee wasseen when &nwcracy reigned supreme-and the

-people tif the City of Kitche&r again voted for the /. whole urban renewal pbn. As the committee dwin-

died, they &ll took a few kicks at the cqt, but were , - spankedpolitely by the powers to be. . . It does seem a

shame and it i& a disappointment to the planning . director that the leader of t&is ill-fated group (refer- ence to Alderman3 Morley Rosenberg) then, thwarted by the people and theplak’prepared by thepeopl2for the peoph can only holler ‘How much are they praying you?’ . -

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-Thomson% style of-public service is characterized \. by a thirst for prowar an@ a-cate@g lo an elite power

group. In all three projects, the freeway&& centre and urban renewal, he attacked existing authorities

Critics-Of planning in the Professional n$!Wslett= -- _..- -- -.-- -

Sever&l times I have started to reply to the corntints ir&& -decentralized I

of a number of our members across Car&z&, espe- growth:These were press

- cially those that have academic leanin& rather than

12-page tabloid newspaF were asked to rate the fo

- for inaction in-order to place himself in a key positioin. Then he tqok control of -the project, attacking-opp. nents by ridiculing them in order to avoid the issue at L-A--I .-

the practical, and who apparently fi?el that participat- - or-y &mocr%cy andpub12 part&ipation is the end to

given criteria. At the- public meet@

, endall. It is these people who & not kn&w what citizerr Galized’thatme four alten part&ipatioh ti all about for they speak front the protection of the typical ivory fewer insteapof act&

different ver@ons of- plar v _ same. private developme

experiewe. ’ _ Water@ has experienced . Then at th& national tihference he made the unpre- _ and more. 1 -

cedented move isf challenging the appointment of X- Twenty-six public n&eti the president-elect as the next president. Wiih the and November of 1’973 to help of friends, he -fqrc$ an e&ion and-won. dominantresponseat all r _- Once appoiiited- fd RegiQnai-~-commissioner of-- z&o .or ..slow 1 growth q

Planning and D&@idpnient’-iri Jdriuav df, I@735 . -Taylor, gerie@ m&ii&@ Thomson began to establish him”setf as ‘@;inner- IengecLthe planners at se

- king” over his forin& peeis; He 1 initiated ’ monthly j whether the mgiqn -had I meetitigs for the chief planners of Kitchener, Wat;ei- Thomson’s resmse waz loo arid Cambridge. Cambridge pl@ning dire&or, ’ him: flippantly~+o ‘hang ir Sally ihorsen, tired Kitchen&planning cornhis- meetingS; and.helater sai

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Thomson kww$ what is best for US and h&arries _ sloner, Sam Kllapman, have ci alled these ‘sho%~ and ‘are really just talkLhg thrc

Aftei the plan was approved by Kitc$etierCotinc# c tell exercises’ and- I‘tAnn~A+ kI Eaw IGI +pil- relatiori&hips.’ In L Kitcwner a@ermair M

c -cwtdG ant kc 1,hn wnrn nlan- ihk-dtifkln- Ttmm- ha 1 federal and- p_rotlincial a&stance vt#L Sougtit for

it through. He is very clear about his elite concept of, leacfership: - .

Laddition, Thomson St, ILsau L” CI”, cw I. IIV .-I” p-m. Y.- =w--r m .,w.-L. ,.U . , - ---y _- , .

preparation of a detailed renewal schsme copring _ Th& is the age of citizen particitn&on;-‘or so we huve I - - - - _ __ -_ - -_ -.- _ . . 4!% acres. In 1968, while these further studies were underway, a freezejon urban renewal funds was set

heard. But,iea&, what have the citizens of this city - . ..J’r . . . got to c&b abut? Most of them are spoiled. They oy, me reaeral govemmenr.

Prior to the freeze,. however, W&t - _- -&nV know what &lution &all about. They &.xGt -

!r Bean, chair- know w&t .the-wifd slum reallymearts. They don’t L. man of Jhe Urban Renewal Committee+ :p.mpo$ed - OHea_ Inveseents -to Thomson as a prospect@.

knoWiwhat~ti~&allabout.Andifourcounc~lkeeps~ ’

develi wr, and a URCsubc~mmittee Comp@sed.of -mvjngaheadas they havein the past, the citizens will- *I remain* stwilt?d. and whv, shouldn’t we be spoiled.

Jack Young, a former alderman and PC federalcan-. didate, James. Darrah, Kitchener City Coordinator, _ and Thomson started working out th&deta# c>f the deal wiw Oxlea. During this perm, 197071971, the ’ ieal estate di@ionof Canada Trust obtained options to buy propeity for Oxleb. At. the time Bean was deputy --chairman and vice-president of Canada Trust. The m@ia; well aware of the renewal deal &ratively withheld the-hews from the public while the wtions were being taken’ (the%itchener~ Waterloo Recocd instructed its writers tb igrIore this matter.) - The ‘Oxlea deal’, in which Thorns& was a princi- pal negotiator, stiows how p@nners and pia-hing-

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: Not only&es his stylereject real citizen participation -. but i1 also reject3 all but th& interests of. the ,elite

elements in Kitcheiier-Waterloo. - . KitZhener-yaterloo hw a particularly strong busi;

: fiess and industrial elite’which fe-els a concern and responsibility for local political tiffqirs. This has led-to the formattin of, an infbrmal group which calls @elf ‘. the S&rday,-Morning Club. The group apparently , does hot function continuously but gejs‘. together , whenever its members feel they have a problem or there is a need for &tioh. Theclub, according to q”e researched, was founded in the mid-fifties and was

’ primarily concerned with @ty politic_s: ’ ’ - * A -* . .I . . . a.

L I!!echa%sms serve development inter& In the In the course oJpr;arSing the quality and integrrty of a number of the+nembers of the Planning Board and

1 -corporate web diagram, it. qan <be’ seen how the ; Urban Renewal- Committee had substantial rep- city council, o&z respondent boasted that this was not I

resentation from, Canada Trust which in turn Control- ‘simply due to >hance. When asked to elaborate he - led @lea Invesments which got the urban &flew& - explained that in the mid-fifiies,he’and twenty-one

geal, -i , . othek ‘in&strial&s, executives, and professionab’ Kitchener City Council was present&l with the re- hadorganized what was to be known aS the ‘Saturday j _

newal deal iri two caucus meetiirgs, Mgy 31 and June Morning%lub’-. . ._ . 21, 1971 i the media attended’ but still maintained -The club looked fdr likely candidates willing-to run for

-’ their conspiracy of silence. The Oxlea deal was. to .municipal tiff ice, and then provided campaign funds. trade away Kitchenei’s city hall and the traditional On one occasion, when a downtown parking ban for Farmers’ Market in retui;n for a new department store ’ both Kitchener and Waterrciri, was gaining favour- (Eaton’s), an&f ice tower which would house the-city amongst incumbent-aldermen, -the Saturdgy: Mom- staff, lease -back .of a parking garage and ing Club responded to the occasion by getting eight $1,000,000. (An estimate of the redevelopment new local aldermen who were opposed to the ban -value of the city hall site alone wai $3.9-tiillion.) A elected. For the 1974 Kitchener civic election, the special council meeting to approve the deal,in public -- Saturday Morning Club is rumoured to,have rue two was set for June 28th. candidates for seats which had become vacant. ’ On the f rida before this meeting, the Universie qb 1 = There has never been any publicdi&cussbn of the -

Waterloo student newspaper, the ChevTn, broke Sattirday Mdming Club’s exisience in Kitchener-- ’ ’ the story‘whichthe other media had held back for at Waterloo media. Most cif$@esidents, and some of the ’

least five months. Boiste,mus opposition feted city candidates it has run for office, ,are unaway of its \ council_on the 28th, b@ they,approved the de& any- ’ .existenc& But it has played;an effective role in ensur- - wa)c. ~Oppositio~ to the_.renewal continued and citi-, ing. that-the towns are run a& the local business and

zens obtained a ruling -from the Ontario- Municipal industrial establishments, want them. Board to hold a plebiscite-on the scheme. Assisted .-Bill Thomson is of course a key figure i,ri I I 2

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lment, an idea both he 1 supported. Kitchener 3s said that Thbmson !s to act in this way and 7 critical, of Thomson’s las responded to these t-t which says ‘the reg- interested in becoming Jerile, chimerical drivel ;. Thorsen.’ As reported mean ‘juvenile, imma-

d.’ Thomson’s insults, lritt& reports. At a staff ! above exchange, he en with ‘well if it isn’t the

3blishing the Waterloo #onal plan before De- I wants to get his plan le to demonstrate his

ional plan, a number of ‘goals’ were identified, a long list of ‘objectives’ ‘our alternative patterns satellite growth, linear bwth, and centralized ?d to the community in a style plan, and citizens Datterns on the basis of

many local residents ves offered were simply or rapid growth by the srocess that Kitchener- /er the last two decades

s vvere called in October cuss the proposals. The stings w.as a desire for a n. For example, John If Edgar Motors, chal- Sal meetings, to indicate ehed an optimum size. ridicule Taylor advising

lere’ for the rest of the lese slow growth people jh their hats. ?y Rosenberg auacked Iready made up his mind

about major growth policies for the region, and has no real intention of listening to what people want.’ Although Thomson goes through the motions of citi-

In the end, the planner must pi&e the alternatives of

zen participation, as he himself says, citizens can

the future, the locations, the involvement of the public and private sector and the types of industries before

have their say but the planners make all the final

the region. Right qt the end he is charged with the responsibility of recommending one of the various

decisions.

choices for action. If all the work has been done cor- rectly, then the proper choice between job oppor- tunitiqs, versus good farmland will be made; the right alternatives for use and star&r& will be articulated, the best role for the region to play in industrial de- velopment made.

Having failed to bamboozle or stifle all citizen op- position in the first stage of developing the regional plan, Thomson was forced to alter his strategy somewhat. Instead of proceeding immediately to produce a detailed plan for adoption, he had policy papers prepared for further public discussion on reg- ional planning issues.

The Secobd round: wear the people down --

Public rejection of the growth plans set Thomson and his staff on a different approach in-1974. Bet- ween January and- September seven long policy papers were issued dealing with growth, settlement patterns, economic developmbnt, housing, sand and gravel pits, open space, and transportation. These policy papers provided more background and justifi- cation for the same approach to regional planning’ that had been reflected in the four-alternatives plan.

In the paper on growth, for instance, the recom- mended policy was that growth in the region should continue at exactly ttie same rate as-it has occurred in the past. A cursory examination of a slower-growth policy led to dismissing that possibility by claiming that it would require tight controls on all movements of people from city to city, and state-imposed birth controls. Interestingly enough, these cheap-shot ar- guments are also used by development industry spokesmen in responding to critics calling for con- trols on growth. And it is as@nishing that the growth policy paper makes no reference to the issue of water supply which is, in the Kitchener-Waterloo situation, a crucial determinant of how much urban growth can take place in the region. A $98-million ,water pipeline to the area from Lake Erie is already under study by the provincial government, and if built

would allow a doubling in population. The justifica- tion for the pipeline is that the growth is going to occur, but of course, any rational consideration of

The policy paper on housing said that the region’s

growth policy for Kitchener-Waterloo would involve

housing problems stem rfrom the ‘imbalance bet- ween shelter cost anddisposable income’, i.e., from the fact that people don’t have enough money. The

taking account of the costs and benefits of this ex-

report goes on to propose no less than 75 different policies to deal with housing problems, and the sheer

pensive project.

quantity is perhaps expected to give the impression that so many solutions are bound to solve one big problem. But the solutions add up to exactly the approach Thomson would be expected to take: more of the same, continued control of-the supply of hous- ing by developers, and in Kitchener-Waterloo this means a small number of very big developers who together control the supply of new land. Nowhere are policies identified which could have a dramatic im- pact on housing problems. An ordinary reader would be left with the conclusion that there are no alterna- tives. to present housing policies.

Predictably, public attendance at meetings called to discuss these papers waned. For one pqper six- teen meetings were hel$i with an attendance ranging from zero to six. Altogether only a few hundred citi- zens participated. Simultaneously the development industry spent less energy in presenting its case. For the first policy paper, the developers submitted 628 written comments, almost ten times the quantity submitted by individuals and other groups. The numb? quickly dwindled.

-While the public meetings were being held, Thomson’s staff was busily drafting the final version of the proposed plan. On October 21, one month and three days after the last public meeting, a 50,000-word draft regional plan was published, and Thomson set November 28th for final approval by regional council. Again the plan was printed in tabloid form. In an almost incomprehensible planners’. lan- guage, 347 policies were presented for adoption.

Examined carefully, the plan proved faithful to Thomson’s original commitment to continued rapid growth but this time hidden behind a mask of slow growth. The plan explicitly proposes that growth con- tinue at the present rate for the next seven years after which growth should be slowehdown: ‘encourage through the use of policies in this plan a decline of the population rate from 3.4 per cent per annum to 2.5 per cent after 1981 and 2.2 per cent per annum by 1991.’ Other policies in the plan, however, indicate that no growth control is intended. Housing targets are to be set a’nd the region will have many powers to ensure they are met. And the Lake Erie water pipeline is proposed for construction in fifteen years which would bring an explosion in growth.

Part of Thomson’s strategy in writing this regional plan is to disguise the real intent of the plan through a smoke-screen of motherhood policies. ‘Of the 347 policies 125 have ‘recognize’, ‘encourage’, or ‘con- sider’ as the key word. Some examples of these vague policies which have questionable power within this legal document are: .-. -recognize the urban core of the ci!ies, towns and

villages as regionally significant -recognize that adequate facilities and services are

required to accommodate offenders of all age groups and of Wying range of offences and to provide for’ the rehabilitation of offenders

-recognize the impoitance of horse-drawn vehicle traffic along regional roads (There is considerable Mennonite settlement in the region.) Another strategy of the regional plan is to defer

basic studies which should be in the plan of the future. Eighty-seven such policies identify studies the region will complete including such basic matters as housing, transportation, water resources and health services. Also many of these policies imply a commitment to a vague future without any indicaiion of what this might be. For example, ‘support the immediate commencement of a total transportation planning policy for regional transportation systems that can be complementary to the private vehicle and compatible with the social and economic needs of the people.’ What can this mean?

The dominant strategy of the iegidnal plan how- ever, is the use of the plan as a vehicle for centralized power in the regional government and in Thomson’s department. Key to achieving this is the provision that the regional plan pre-empt all local plans, and that all local land use decisions on everything except the smallest matters must conform to the regional plan. What the plan calls ‘the establishmeqt of a new settlement’, for example, must coriform to regional planning and be approved by the region+ council, and this turns out to mean any development of three houses within 1000 feet of each other. The same control applies to what the plan calls ‘the expansion of an existing settlement’, which might well mean the

addition of a single house to any existing group of three or more houses in the region, wherever lo- cated. In addition to this dominance, the region will have power to require local municipalities to imple- ment the growth poliaes included in the plan, estab- lish maintenance and occupancy by-laws, prepare secondary plans, and handle citizen participation for - the region. As well new control mechanisms are proposed in a regional housing authority, a transit co-ordination structure, and a health and social planning council.

In many instances, the power which the plan con- fers on the regional government is open-ended, and hence more difficult to criticize or attack since no specific proposal is made. For instance the plan gives the region the power to implement an interim regional housing polic)i which establishes regional housing targets, and to enter into agreehents with developers to fulfill these targets. Yet what these targets will be and how they will be allocated is not known, so it is impossible to criticize this proposal on the grounds tfiat it is being used unwisely.

Included in the many powers’ conferred on the regional government is the power,to approve all pub- lic works by every local government in the region, the

P ower to approve all site plans, the power to estab-

ish standards for zoning and subdivision plans of local municipalities, control over the federal government’s Neighbourhood Irhprovement Prog- ram, the power to co-ordinate transportation and to designate regional roads. The regional government is given land-use control within 140 feet of all reg- ional roads, which means regional control of down- town Ki!chener, Waterloo and Cambridge.

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L After 23 pages of solid type and maps, this diagram was used by Waterloo regional planners to promote citizen interest and involvement in regional planning decision-making. The cartoon figure, incorporating the region’s logo based on a Wand a maple leaf, is the closest thing to a human figure which appears in the tabloid newspaper containing the second and final draft of the plan which was circulated to every house- hold by the regional government.

What is city planning? Thomson’s overt style allows us to obtain a clear

picture of city planning. It is an activity obsessed with power to the extent of creating long-range plans, not intende(l to be amended for the next 25 years accord- ing to Thomson’s desire. It is an activity which prom- otes the centraliztition of powers as in the ctinstitu- tion for one-tier government hidden in the draft reg- ional plan and in the concentration of power with planners. It is bent on serving business and the de- velopment industry in the promotion of growth. And, finally, it promotes optimum public confusion toavoid citizen participation. Bill Thomson has no doubts about these matters. That is what makes him an ideal planner for the local business elite. Whether he is ideal for the ordinary citizen of the Waterloo Region, however, is entirely another matter.

In total, Thomson’s regional plan allows him to do just as he pleases. One senior planner close to the scene says, ‘Thomsbn’s strategy is to require everyone to have to ask him before they can move a muscle,’ If the plan is adopted, many people will be +king for Thomson’s permission, for matters they know not why, for a long time. He has deliberately

-d&signed the plan so that once approved it will not require amendment for 25 years. Thomson, or his successor, will thus have in the regional plan a long term constituti6n for planner power. How will this power be Lssed?

‘Ihis article is reprinted from City Magazine. I

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Intramurals Weight Training

An Intramural weight training program is now available in the In- tramural Office, 2040 PAC. Orien- tation sessions to the weight room will be held in the weight room on Monday, January 20, 1975, Wed- nesday, January 22 and Friday, January 24, at 1:00 p.m. in the weight room, 2021 PAC. Both males and females welcome.

Basketball Officials Referees are still needed to help

in officiating in the Intramural Bas-

ketball. League Officials will be paid $3.00 per game. If you are in- terested in learning the fine points of the gameof basketball, and eam- ing some,spare money in the mean- time, contact the Intramural Office for information.

Mixed Doubles Badmintoi Monday is the final entry date for

the Intramural Mixed Doubles Badminton tournament which takes place Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. in the gym. Entries can be submitted to the Intramural Office; room 2040 in the PAC.

Today is also the final entry day for recreational ball hockey, co-ed inner-tube waterpolo, indoor soccer and co-ed volleyball. Check the blue Intramural News sheet for or- ganizational meeting times. These sheets are available in the PAC,

Snooker Monday, January 27 is the entry

deadline for the annual snooker tournament. The tournament will be held Wednesday, January 29 at ,630 p.m. at Brunswick Lanes in Waterloo Square shopping mall. Top prize is a dinner for two at the

-Ali Baba Steak House.

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Swim and Gym program which starts Thursday, January 23. Give

NOMINATIONS If you would like to represent your

faculty on the Campus Center board, nominations are due by,Jain. 22.

Elected will be one undergrad from. each faculty plus one grad, two faculty members and one staff member.

For more information contact Susan Phillips at ext. 3867.

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. your child the fun and pleasure he craves and needs. Inquire at the re- ceptionist in the PAC.

U of W Bowling Club This club meets every Sunday Athena

from 8:30-lo:30 at Waterloo Bowl- ing Lanes. Experience not at all necessary. Cost is $1.00 for 3 rockers. games and shoes.

There are two tournaments, one for all students at U of W and one invitational. There will be a party. for all club members later in the term. Membership cards cost $2.00. This Sunday, January 19, the bowling is free for club mem- ‘bergs. Come out, enjoy yourself and meet new friends from other facul- * ties.

Monday and Tuesday nights, the gym was the site of the Men’s and Women’s Doubles Badminton Tournament.

The Athena curling team of skip Pat Munroe (3 year Math), Gayle Bower (3 year Psychology), Dayle Bower (2 year Geology) and- Patti Turner (2nd year Kinesiology) had a perfect game record of 3 out of 3. The K-W Granite Bonspiel had the Athenas against - a weak Toronto area club. The Athenas had a slow start and curled a low percentage but managed to win 6-4.

The championship rounds were played Tuesday night.

In the Women’s championship round, Julia Seed paired with Ann Hudson, were matched against C. Miller and J. Howell. Seed and Hudson defeated their opponents 15-7, 15-5 to take the championship title. The consolation champion- ship was taken by Liz Gobbot and Trisare Frid (N.D.) by defeating Maggie Hart and her partner Mary Fought (St. Jeromes). The scores were 15-10, 12-15, 15-10.

The second game against a good St. Thomas rink was well curled by the Athenas . Skip Pat Munroe skill- fully put- together a 4 ender in the 4th end and still had to make a triple take-out in the eighth end to be a winner. The final score was 7-3.

Wayne Sass and his partner Keith McGregor (reg. Math) de- F feated their opponents Bob Martin- son and Gill Demers (Lower En- gineering) to capture the Men’s Championship. The scores for this match, which was probably> the best of the night, were 15-9, 15-11.

The third and final game saw the Athenas defeat an East York rink 5-4. It was a tremendous game with all four women playing equally as well as their opponents. Skip Pat Munroe quarterbacked one of the best games of her intercollegiate experience. By the third end the Athenas had chased the other team out of its game plan and had forced a few mistakes. The game went to wire and last rock.

Good front end support by Dayle Bower and Patti Turner steadied the team and made shot making a little easier. Gayle Bower was con- sistently accurate at her take outs and draws.

The consolation championship was won by Naeem and Arie (Upper Engineering). They de- feated Milne and Dumontel (St. Jeromes) with scores 15-2, 15-4.

The Athenas travel to Toronto January 18th for another pre- intercollegiate bonspiel. The first OWIAA event will be a two day

. bonspiel at the Glenbriar here in Waterloo.

Do You Know Any Outstanding Teachers???

1975 OCUFA Teaching Awards

Each year the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations identifies a number c)f outstanding teachers in the universities of Ontario. These teachers are presented with citations at the OCUFA spring conference. If you have had such an o&standing teacher recebtly, we would like to hear about it. Please note the following guidelines for submission of nominations.

CATEGORIES Teaching, in the c_ontext of the OCUFA Awards, need not be narrowly defined. Proficiency in teaching may extend beyond the lecture hall, the seminar room, the-laboratory or the faculty member’s office. Activities including a number of those some-% times classified as administrative services - e.g., course design, curriculum development, organization of co-operative teaching programs, thesis supervision - and other significant forms of leadership are often important contributions to the instruc- tional process. Those who excel in any of these are eligible for the OCUFA Teaching Awards.

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The deadline for receipt of nominations is: March 15, 1975

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The Warriors have three games *

slated for the upcoming tieek. To- night Ihey host the Windsor Lah- I -,

-- cers andSu,nday they host the ever 1, po’werful .Toronto &ues, both,/ - games are at 8 p.m. at t!e Barn. 0~ Thursday night the Warriors will travel to London seeking a victory ; _ over tl% University qf Western On- ’ ~ tario Mustangs: . _ &Liskris. _

La& weekqnd the Warriors m& t&” sco&j in th% first few mihutes ‘the Guelph Gryphons and the Sir . on a pas&from Hgwkshaw and + + \Wilfrid L;yurier Golden Hayvks in two Staubitz. The Gryphops \ re-

,-‘.‘” league g a m e s ; I- \*... . I sponded wit! twp q&$&;goals but - -1. _I In the first game, the Warri@s were uhable to cc@McLa’gairi due

1 1 Mr. prry Oijkle from ‘fhe l&y I ty bf- Edub+ion, .‘Queen’% ‘I .boTbarded the GQphonS 9-2 be- \ to superb goaltending on the parto,f

University, twill-meet interes;ted students in Room’JO20, - f6ie a full house of Waterlo_o fans. Bob Hnatjlk. Guelph lo+ the ser-

Needle Hall, at: _’ ~ S : - : The Warriors who ~su6lly x$n- vices of Adam Brown -early in this

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. 4:0b-kM.,qTukday’, *Jamiiy 21; 197’5 ’ * I counter, tough opposition iri the period when he was ejected from

. GJuelph team, came on’strong in the _ the game for disputing j a penalty first period collecting three unans7 ca‘ll. Thk Warriors also lost a man in-

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education program whi’ch leads td Ontario te&er ‘, ’ the Ii33 mark of the first assisted by

certification for-el$m&tary -or secondajl schools, Danny Partland and Lee B.arnes. - Mike Zettle followed in less than two

. ’ . - _- ‘L .< ’ , ’ t minytes with ‘a pow-erplay doal . . ‘I’f. you -are unable toi-attend the--m/;;sti$, inlf&mation ‘.. while tpe @yphon$, were short two

m’ay be obtaingd from; . _ j I I . \I men, ahd the Warriors short oh& - \ \

.-I 1 L ,. , The @d marker was notched at the I . \ I - I , .

% - .., - .., j halfv@y mar& of- the period whife - .Y .Y ’ . -j. The Registrar, both teams played one man short.

Facu.lty 08 Ed&ion . ’ Frank. Staubitz connected on a- i. . . 4 _^ . S$2uhep~s L)nivetsify ‘..I -; ’ pass from-.Ron HawkshqLv;: -’ ;

Kingston, Ontario” . The- second period’ scot%lg was

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r split, tiith both’teamscollecting two r split, tiith both’teamscollecting two dressing rooms. Asherel then col- dressing rooms. Asherel then col- Western on successive nights. The . Western on successive nights. The . _ _

this period wheq Lee Barnes was - l , injuled shortly betore the end of the. frame. Wariiorh Bill Stinson rounded off -t-he. period’s scoring at the 15.00~minute mark tin a play with

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Dave McCosh and Mike’Zettle. _ ’ The Warriors scored an addi- ’

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Warriors Mike Guimond: Peter The W.arrior and Athena swir;n .- Asherel .and Dave- McCosh con- team returned to the peal for Corn- _

-netted, for three quick goa@ before petition after the Christmas break. -. sh@t b@wl$ er~@ted:.sendi~g pevr- : i--2 ‘The Wafiors facedtstiff camp+ ; ’ 0 era1 players tb their respective c ition a&&&Buffalo State i)nd”.

1 1 Uniwat -team weakened by the ab- Uniwat -team weakened by the ab- .I 0 .I 0 :. boals apiece. Randy Stubel open6d lected his second marker, ending :. boals apiece. Randy Stubel open6d lected his second marker, ending ; ; , , ~’ ~’ , : th+.game tri.umphantly for the , : th+.game tri.umphantly for the sence bf several swimmers on their sence bf several swimmers on their

I I Waterloo team. . Waterloo team. . Work term was no match’for eith& Work term was no match’for eith& _ _

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This game showed efficient and ’ productive teamwork dn the part of

opponent. The scores were. 75-37 and 79-34 respectiVe@. ‘t

. ,the -Warriors w&‘: .outshot the * The Athenas- had little trouble ” Gryphons 42-23. Such a strong ef- splashing past Western 76-36. The 1. fort against the Toronto Blues could swimmin’ women wilLonce again . -bring .the Warriors their first -home vie foi; the OWIAA champio&hi@. . -~

, ice win against the Toronto team,. Saturdtay aft6Inoon’ the Warriors’ ’

The .Athenas have combined part of last’ year’s winning iqbad With I

met th,e Golden Haiwks at the,au;: some new talent. Me&ers.of.this ditoriuri-r. This ga6% was a com- seaspn’s3eam aFe v@er&s Cathy plete reversal of- the Friday night Adams-, Sandy Brazier, Lee s encounter. The Warriors were un-

- able to complete ,passe$, take ad- Fraser,, Peggy.lGraham, Mai&

r ’ iiantage of powerpla@, score goals . Murray, Maig ,$Iurra+ h$ari&ri.&

O’Neill; and rookies Pat Gorai- . or$etip their opponents o@ of. their

, ,end, ’ resulmg -in &4:_3, win for the 8 dowska, .El@.ne Ke$h and, Daphne

-Golden va*@ks. McCtilloch. IDivingxha+ always -’ ’ ,

” . . The Golden Hawks opened the ’

be’en a wesk pdint with the Athenas, but dot so this year. llwo / --.

scoring in-the first seven minutes of talented divers, Sydney \18ennett the game. The Warriors’were un- and Val ,Qujrk; have come utider * ‘.,

rable to, resp P

nd ,,until the la@ few. the’ guidance pf diving coach Mar- minutes df he period w-hen Ron’ r& Tathim. - Hawksbaw fi’red in. ii pass from -Ii. Returning. Warriors include Rick’- Ashere and Guimbnd ending the N Adamsoh, Karl Brubaker, Rick . period Qne apiece. ’

Th,e Warriors took a twd goal i&d ‘- ‘Drummopd, Bruc~~H+ry, Richard :- _ Knaggs,’ LoUis Krawczyk,+ J‘ohn

in’the first ten minutes of thd second p&d bu,t the score-was tiedagain

--Mahopky, Btice Hol@daJ;I,’ Doug Munn, Rand& Phillips, Ia_n \

by. the. en4 of’.+..the~ f[an;le. Randy Fayl.gr,,David Wilson, Tim Wilson Sftibej ‘. %and Ralljh Biainonte were ’ * ’ ‘atid Jini Low. New comers to the the ;Wa&loo marksmen.bin this pop1 are Paul Ahloy, Keb EiZl %per&d. *- -. I ’ .‘ monds, Radui Jacdbek, Alex ’

The third period saw tpe paces 3Kowalenko, Ted Stiles, BryG pick up a$. bgth teamS $pt@jt ‘the Dot&&and Gary Thomas, \ . w_itiing goal. .The . Golden, Hawks Brian’ C&lidge has,been cojdch- s \ . fired on6 past Hnatyk in theAdying minutes 6f the game. As if to add

ing -the Uniwat switimers $ince

,-r insult. 10’ inj’qry, th@s goal-was- cre- September. Brianis a: former ‘VW ‘; 1 %- ki&siology student &nd an ex-

dited to Jim Nickels& .whti- wore Wa&ior, 1. .i Wart% garb- last s‘e,aSon.. One

-, :I- Both teams ,see @on %oday& * I\

smaltconsolation was that t’he War- I Michigan. T@morow a!t ttid: > riors”dutshot the Golderi Hawks o’clock in the PAC pool the War-” - . I I 52-25,.but just couldnlt slip any’bi.3 . .-&rs ho@ the Fig$tin’ Irish of ’ Y hot Ph‘il McC$leman, . i

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Budget cuts at

computer \ centre

With the budget cuts and the increasing cost of paper, the Computer Centre is at- tempting to cut costs, particularly with the use of paper. Anyone who uses the compu- ter will know that the primary (and until now, the only) target has been the printing of art. While elimination of all computer- printed art would save some paper, this seems to be attacking the molehill rather than the mountain.

There are several ways to save paper without eliminating any type ofjobs. In my last correspondence with the Computer Centre, I suggested making 8 lines perinch the default (6 lines per inch is presently default), and giving extra copies only of job output when the “copies” option is used. The first one was termed a good idea, and I was told that altering the “Sys-print” statement would give the desired result for the second suggestion. More than one month later, 6 lines per inch is still default and, due to a bug in the system, I found that the altered ‘Sysprint” statement didn’t give the desired result, in fact it did nothing .- at all. Fixing this would save 3.5 to 5 (and sometimes more) pages for each additional copy of printed output.

If one examines a piece of output from a batch job, one notices the first page contain- ing the job title as well as various job and account number statistics. Not much can be done to save paper here, but proceeding further, one finds the “HOTNEWS”. While at the time of this writing, (and often the case) it is only.6 lines long, although it occasionally blooms to fill a page. How- ever, whatever its length, it occupies a half or 1 page, depending upon the forms op- tion. There is no need to have this item on its own sheet of paper, but more important, it should be available only on request. Ob- viously , if a person runs several jobs in one day, he has no need for, or interest in, repeated copies of the same news.

The next two pages contain the “HASP SYSTEM LOG” (HSP), and the “JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE” (JCL) respec- tively. The HSL although occasionally necessary, is almost always ignored, but cannot be suppressed, and also takes up a half or 1 page for about a dozen lines. .The HSL should immediately follow the “HOTNEWS” with only a few blank lines in between. The JCL is much more widely referenced and is lengthly enough to justify its own page. By use of the ‘ ‘MSGLEVEL-(O,O)” it can be suppressed, but oddly enough, the first card is still printed and’a half of 1 sheet of paper is still , used, cancelling out any user attempt to save paper unless the JCL is unusually long. The JCL should immediately follow the HSL, again separated by only a few lines.

If this is insufficient and computer usage is to be reduced documentation should re- ceive top priority. Anyone who has ob- tained a WITS, WYLBUR or ATS manual will notice an incredible wastage of paper. To start with this material is printed at only 6 lines per inch, with many half-filled pages. These are luxuries we can no longer afford. Further more, to give a handy 8.5 x 11” size, and nice spaceous margains, only 45% of the horizontal space is used. Com- bining these factors, one realizes that about 17 to 25% of the paper is being utilized. If graphic services or an outside publishing

agency did these manuals, they could do them on about 10% of the paper, because, in addition to the above-mentioned im- provements, they would use both sides of the paper.

However these manuals are all set up on disk, and the Computer Centre would be very reluctant to remove them, especially after all the effort needed to put them there. An alternative to outside publishing would be to set up a printer with 8.5” wide paper printing at 8 lines per inch which would cut the wastage by about 2/3 rd’s.

Software manuals are not the only form of documentation being printed. Many users have caught on to the idea of using computer to print out documentation of any kind. (I must admit; it looks very im- pressive) One such job I looked at con- tained over 123,000 lines (about 2,050 pages) of French text, and this job was run at least three times! Needless to say, this * text had wide margains, 8.5” width and the use of only 1 side of paper, as well as only 6 lines per inch amounted to less than 20% usage. I think all private documentation

. should be stopped soon, at least before the . term is over, and those requiring it be di- rected to Graphic services.

By quick calculation, one realizes that the paper required by the above mentioned job could be used to print over 1,000 Mona-Lisa’s if the. “SYSPRINT” copies option was working properly. Still many operators will vigorously attempt to stop all art, but turn their backs on these mons- ters. This I cannot understand, but I am more concerned about the operators who lecture students about “wasting” compu- ter time (using their “We had trouble print- ing your job” decoy) and have their own offices decorated with computer-printed pictures.

All this aside, I will not attempt to esti- mate the paper savings if some or even all of the above suggestions were im- plemented. The Computer Centre has re- cently introduced Remote Job Output (RJO) which still eliminates a large amount of erroneous output. However, there is only so much the Computer Centre can do. At the same time, all users should try to make an effort to conserve paper whenever possible. Using forms options 5600 when white paper is desired, and 4400 when

. green paper will do, will give 8 lines per inch. You might be surprised how good it looks. I personally will try not to waste paper, but only as long as I am assured that the Computer Centre is trying, too.

Stephen W. Coates Year I Chemistry.

Gasp- no r . . smoking

I was at Wednesday’s forum on the budget crisis and I heard lots of talk about the quality of education and the public “ser- vice the university performs.But after the meeting I saw that many of us are in need of education in common decency toward others. Unless the university can teach its faculty and students a minimum of respect

. for fellow humans, and insist on its being shown at all times, then it is futile, in terms of overall benefit to society, to try to teach people physics or philosophy.

I am referring to the collection of cigarette butts left on the floor when the forum was over. I counted over seventy- five of them, left by those who didn’t just happen to be near an ashtray and didn’t bother to scrounge one of the many empty coffee cups lying around. Don’t they know that it is strictly against university policy (see the Gazette of this week), as well as just plain filthy? Well, this is National Edu- cation Week on Smoking, and it is time

smokers learned not to grind butts into the floor. \

It is probably no wonder that so many’ people are so ignorant, for one of the mem- bers of the panel, which is supposed to provide the leadership through the budget crisis, left two butts of his own on the plat- form.

1 It is enough to make me sick. Michael Rolle Mathematics

Gasp

RAA

h ue - The situation at Renison these days

shows how an administration can have no respect for the interests of students. Re- turning students were greeted with a notice telling them who would be teaching their courses. Additional sections of courses taught by Jeffery Forest were also added. Suddenly Towler has found money to hire all sorts of new people to placate the reac- tionary students in the college. Hugh Miller was replaced by a recent graduate of the UW Psychology Dept., Bob Lehue. It is interesting to note that Lehue is an Ameri- can draft resistor taking the job of a Cana- dian who has worked to make it easier for resistors to enter Canada. It is an ironic situation. Lehue has already been put on the spot by students and feels he is not taking any sides in the Renison Affair. It is clear that by taking the job of a dismissed faculty member when the Tenure Commit- tee report specifically asks faculty NOT to accept jobs at Renison that he is most defi- nitely taking a stand.

Towler’g administrative ability is at a low level. He can’t even do a good job of running the college HIS way. He is scurry- ing around seeking replacements for Hugh and to this date has cancelled one course and postponed another. It is a fact that many faculty members on this and other campuses will not boycott the demand by the faculty association. Some members of the academic community have enough in- tegrity to know that crossing a line whether at a factory. or at a university amounts to the same thing.

One person when asked to teach a course at Renison asked how others might see him. “As a scab of course” replied a re- spected member of the faculty of arts. The best people will have nothing to do with teaching at Renison until the matter is in- vestigated. Renison students are being de- prived of their right to the education they deserve. They will instead get a third rate education from third and fourth rate people

.who will “sell their souls” for money. Towler blatantly refuses to listen to

anyone -the students or the faculty of Arts. He only listens to the Board of Gov- ernors and his lawyers. The money the col- lege is spending on legal fees is enormous and comes out of the pockets of the stu- dents. A CAUT investigation costs no- thing.

The question the entire university com- munity must ask is why Towler refuses to allow CAUT to investigate. The faculty of Arts and the Senate both expressed their desire that Renison follow this route but Renison will not listen to anyone.

Renison College is not acting in the in- terests of anyone but Towler and the BOG. They are turning the college into a mediocre high school where soon students will have to carry pink slips to go to the washroom.

The main point in everything at Renison ,is that Towler will let the students go down the drain to save face. The Renison stu- dents have already demonstrated their wil- lingness to defend their interests by form-

ing the RAA. We urge everyone at Renison and in other colleges and faculties to sup- port the RAA and defend the interests of the students.

R.A.A.

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fans are hypocrites

During the past months, whenever con- versation turns to the basketball Warriors it seems that two things are often men- tioned ; 1) Our team is the best in Canada 2) Our fans are the best in Canada These two theories are interesting espe- cially when we return to the CIAU Nation- als staged last spring. Waterloo fans will remember clearest that final, frantic game in which the upstart Guelph team pulled off a minor miracle in edging the talented St. Mary’s squad. It was obvious both at the Phys. Ed. Complex and across the nation ontelevision that the locals drived a great deal of pleasure in seeing the “American” team from the Maritimes defeated. Little attention ,was paid to the fact that the American players comprising most of the’ , better tournament teams (St. Mary’s, S.G.W.U., Acadia) were primarily respon- sible for making the finals the heart- throbbing spectacle that they were. I’m sure most true basketball fans agree that a lot of the excitement would have been lost without such names as Mickey Fox, Rick Cassey , Lee Thomas, and Zan Pelzer.

Our Warriors, who last year came close to the top.with an all-Canadian lineup, have revised their thinking and will field two Americans (Art White and Charlie Cham- bers) who quite probably will play essential roles when Waterloo walks off with the national crown this spring. ’

At this time, I expect our nationalistic fans to boo soundly the Warriors as they leave the floor while the Warrior band strikes u

F the American national anthem.

Until tha Qccurs, Warrior fans are not the best in Canada, they are only the most hypocritical.

Roger Nacleod

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Renison principal, john Towler, who has found himself in the middle of a heated debate about the legitimacy of the firings of two Renison professors, responds to questions posed by the members of the Arts faculty council.

8’ The Renis6n Academic Assem- bly (R.A.A.) submitted this article in response to an open letter which the Renison Board of G-overnors distributed among the academic community last week. Portions of this fetter have been published in the current Gazette.

by the RAA The Administration at Renison

College has repeatedly invoked legal jargon and legalistic reasoning based on its right to hire and fire in attempting to defend its actions to all who criticize the dismissals.

In “An Open Letter to the Academic Community” distri- buted by the Renison administra- tion prior to Tuesday’s arts faculty council meeting, this method once again holds centre stage.

’ “Jeffrey Forest was not fired,”

we are told, “Renison College sim- ply exercised its rights by putting into effect part of its agreement with Forest. . . “. Perhaps there is some narrow legal distinction bet- ween “firing” and termination of a contractual relationship but both amount to the same thing for everyone except, it would appear, those who make their livings draw- ing such distinctions. The fact re- mains that at least three members of the Renison faculty will no loriger be on staff by-the end of this term if the administration gets its way.

The letter goes on to assert that the contention that Jeffrey Forest was fired for “his supposed politi- cal leanings” is “nothing but a red herrink designed to attract the sympathy of the academic com- munity and to lead them away from the real issues.” Simply denying a charge is an interesting rhetorical technique for a group of lawyers, businessmen and self-professed Christians to use to deal with the alleged “inaccuracies in the recent report of the Faculty Association”. This report referred to cited evi- dence of direct interference in Forest’s classroom by the principal of Renison College, John Towleri to support its’conclusion that polit- ical considerations were involved in the firings. A simple denial in‘ the face of such evidence is surprising and certainly an unconvincing de- fence.

Criticism that the college did not follow customary procedures in fir- ing the teachers in question is met with the retort that: “This too is

responds nothing but a smoke screen care- fully engineered to hide the fact that Renison has no procedures other than legal ones which even the Faculty Association has admit- ted a’re completely correct”.

The use of the word “correct” is interesting in this context as it im- plies approval of Renison’s actions which has certainly not been ex- tended by the Faculty Association in any way. What the Faculty As- sociation has said is that the college has every “legal” right to behave the way it has. However, if the co& lege had wanted to fire the Forest’s and Miller and review the charges against Webber in a manner ac- ceptable to the Faculty Association and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) those procedures were available to be used. +@ fact Towler even con- tacted the Faculty Association be- fore taking action and was in- formed of the acceptable proce- dures that co,uld be utilized. These procedures have been established by CAUT as guidelines to be fol- lowed so that the faculty member against whom any administration wishes to move has a fair forum in which to defend himself/ herself.

,The Board’s statement goes on to say “. . . that the reason why Renison does not have established policies and procedures is due to the action of some faculty members who resisted and obstructed their development at every opportun- ity”. This implies that the faculty members +mder fire are the guilty parties, which is peculiar reasoning given the fact that these same fa- culty members have been in the forefront of the movement to de- velop a democratic constitution at Renison.

The publication of a threatening memorandum from John Towler to Prof. Marlene Webber in the chev- rdn is regarded in the Board’s statement as evidence “that she is more interested in escalating the matter than resolving it in a respon- sible way”. First of all the ad- ministration caused the escalation by presenting the memorandum which contained a slate of ambigu- ous and unsubstantiated charges. Furthermore, Webber did respond to the memo, contrary to the Board’s statement, but in a manner SO as to in_dicate that, she would answer the charges if a proper forum could be provided for her to do so. She was ngt prepared to en- gage in a war of memoranda pre- sented to her as ultimatum&

In addressing the case of Hugh

Miller the report says “the Board attempted to resolve the Miller case in a series of negotiations which broke down when Miller demanded that the College guaran- tee his acceptance into the Uhiver? sity of Waterloo graduate school doctoral programme and give an assurance that he would also graduate from the programme”. Clearly the college has no such powers; clearly Miller knows this and would never make such an ab- surd demand. The Board’s state- ment /is laughable.

The Faculty Association report is accused of being a “biased, one sided assessment of the situation”. Throughout this entire episode the venison administration has main- tained the Faculty Association cannot present an unbiased picture of the situation because in their view it is a trade union. Faculty Association president Mike Mac- donald, who sat on the committee which did the initial investigation, is repeatedly characterized as a de- fense lawyer who is guilty of a con- flict of interest.

Because the report is clearly un- favourable to Renison College all attempts to undermine its conclu- sions are being advanced by the Board. The Board’s statement charges that the Faculty Associa- tions’ report ignores the substan- tive issues involved in the case. However, the Faculty Association was not interested in establishing the validity of any or all of the charges (that is what the sought after arbitration procedure is to allow for) but rather indetermining whether or not the faculty members were given a f&r procedure through which todefend themselves against the -allegations.

After several more pages of ex- tremely loose logic aimed at dis- crediting the Faculty Association report‘ a final incredible note is struck with this statement “. . . this unwarranted response bf the Fa- culty Association has given rise to an attempt of what can only be con- sidered a form of academic terrorism. . . in which Renison academic programmes are being held hostage in order to force com- pliarice which CAUT regulations”.

But, as we have seen, what the CAUT regulations simply provide for is a forum in which faculty members can defend themselves against charges brought against them. It in no way prejudges their innocence. One can only)ask again and again-what is Renison Col- lege so afraid of?

Renison must go. to arbitration I ’

The Renison Affair is the most important issue on campus. For it involves academic freedom, and its outcome will affect the status of this university.

The question which must be resolved is: what were the reasons for the Renison Administration’s actions? Actions which dismissed Professor Miller; teqminated the contract of Professor Jeff Forest; laid a charge of unprofessional conduct against Professor Webber; and banned Professor Marsha Forest from teaching at Renison, by a courtesy appointment, or from attending any student or faculty meetings. \

Insufficient evidence has thus far been given to justify these actions. There is, however, evidence that the reasons were politi- cal. The UW Faculty Association’s Tenure Committee states on this issue: “As a result of its hearings the Committee came to the conclusion that the written and public charges made against the-four faculty members did not make explicit some of the fundamental reasons which the College had for taking action in three of the four cases, namely those of Profs J. Forest, M. Forest and M. Webber. These reasons are political. The Committee naturally hesitates before making the grave charge that Prof Towler considers the

?lolding of left-wing political views, in itself and independently of any effect this might have upon such matters as classroom perfor- mance, to provide reasonable grounds for not retaining a person at‘ Renison College. However, Prof Towler himself made it clear to the Committee that he did consider the political reason an adequate one.”

This same report goes on to cite an incident where Renison College principal Towler entered a class being taught by the Forests, and on seeing a textbook with a political title proceeded to lecture the class on politics in the classroom.

All of this contradicts Towler’s announcement to the Arts Fa- culty Council on Tuesday that he did not know the politics of the people involved nor did he care.

Allegations of political firings are very serio& indeed. At a meet- ing on Monday the chevron asked, the Tenure Committee what evidence they had to support this. The chairman of the committee, Prof. McDonald, said that he didn’t think it would be useful to release such information as yet, and that to do so would ,“polarize I the situation even more”. He felt that the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) should ‘see it first hand. He did, ’ however, add “we reached our conclusions for good reasons”. - Prof. Ord, another member of the committee, interjected “we wouldn’t have speculated unless we had had very explicit state- ments made to us”.

Binding arbitration is the only just way of solving this dispute, and of finding the truth. The CAUT, which has started its investigation, favours this means of solving this type of problem. Professor Ste- . vens of Guelph, who is in charge of the investigation, told the chevron on Tue_sday that he is trying to bring both sides to binding arbitration. The professoi-s, however, have always been willing to put their cases to this test, and abide by the ruling. It remains to be seen whether Principal Towler and the Renison Board of Governors are willing to do the same. To this date they have refused, a@ since Monday Towler has refused to answer questions on this issue. The chevron believes that if the Renison administration has good reasons for the actions they have taken against these professors then it has nothing to fear from binding arbitration.

I$ Renison refuses to ‘go to arbitration then it is very likely that CAUT will conduct its own inquiry. If it transpires that the firings were politically motivated then it is almost certain that Renison will be censured by CAUT. Such a censure would reflect on UW since it is a UW degree which Renison offers. Yet on this side of the creek academic freedom is upheld. People holding radical beliefs teach here and their positions are solely dependent on their competence as instructors. UW should not have its standing in the academic com- munity jeopardized by the actions of one of its affiliated colleges.

A CAUT investigation is a long and painful process and a censure could not take place until May at the annual meeting of the CAUT. Also a censure leaves a stain to be mopped up. By contrastbinding arbitration could be completed within two months, according to Stevens, and w.ould give a final solution which both sides would have to accept. Simon Fraser had a censure hanging over it for six years. Binding arbitration offers the further advantage that should the decision favour the professors they could retain their positions. Such is not the guarantee of a CAUT censure.

Thus we call upon all students, faculty and the adininistration to bring whatever pressure they can to bear upon the Renison board of governors and on principal Towler so that they will accept binding arbitration and thus bring,the Renison Affair to a just and expediti- ous end.

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NEW BINGEMAN PARK LODGE

TICKET? $20000 PER C&LE q \

, _ -BUFFET INCLUDED -AVAILABLE WED.JAN. 22 . - _ ’

, AT MATHSOC OFFICE.

CENTRAL’ BOX 11 . -

VILLAGE ‘1 .*

ST. JEROMES ‘I