Morley Rosenberg, who con- consultation since 1975, a free since 1975, and for this fixed fee he tinues in his legal practice while chevron investigation has re- agrees to handle student cases re- mayor of Kitchener, has been vealed. fered to him by the federation, usu- lharging the Federation of Stu- Rosenberg has received $10,000 ally concerning landlord-tenant

ents up to $25 per minute for legal per annum from the federation problems.

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario

volume 7, number 32 friday, june 70, 7 977

With much hoopla, the PC’s invaded Wilirid Laurier University last Monday for a campaign wind-up rally. There were bands, qingers, beer (75 cents), and hundreds of people. “Time has come when this political wasteland comes back to the Progressive Conservatives ” said Bill Davis to thundering applause. About a dozen UW students, and executive members of the Ontario Federation of Students protested the Davis government - especially concerning education and jobs - outside the WLU auditorium. A group concerned with religious practices in the SC/JOO/ system, and angther which opposed mercury pollution and its effects also demonstrated and handed out leaflets.

photo by randy barkman

WV brief

Despite the abundance of Cana- dian universities offering under- graduate programs in Kinesiology, Canada does not produce enough Ph.D.‘s in Kinesiology to fill de- mands for faculty.

Lynn Watt, dean of graduate studies at UW, told the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) June 3rd that for this reason the provincial government’s embargo on development of new graduate programs in Physical Education and Kinesiology should be removed.

Watt was a member of a UW de- legation which presented a brief to OCUA on future funding of Ontario universities. OCUA is an advisory body to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and will make re- commendations to the government about future funding after hearing briefs from Ontario universities.

Watt criticized one of the criteria advocated by OCUA for determin- ing the merit of proposed new graduate programs. OCUA sug- gested that before a new graduate program is established, future need for graduates in that area must be demonstrated.

Watt said estimates of future manpower needs are usually unre- liable. In addition, it is not impor- tant that masters or doctoral graduates work in their specialised field. Rather, it is important that universities provide society with highly educated young people to solve future problems and to serve as leaders.

When asked what criteria should be used to judge the merit of a new graduate program, Watt recom- mended consideration of student

demand and extent of subject coverage by the university system. Watt agreed with OCUA that new graduate programs should satisfy rigourous quality standards.

Enrolment Trends UW president Burt Matthews

told OCUA that UW’s regular en- rolment should remain at its pres- ent level into the 1990’s despite a projected slump in total enrolment at Ontario universities (due to population trends) during the 1980’s.

As evidence that UW can main- tain its enrolment level in the face of a general recession, Matthews noted that applications to UW have increased over last year, whereas the total number of applications to Ontario universities has declined slightly.

Of all applicants to Ontario uni- versities this year, 5000 name UW as their first choice: IJW has places for about 4000 frosh this year.

Matthews told OCUA that UW would like to continue expansion of its correspondence programs. En- rolment in correspondence prog- rams has increased from 338 in 1970 to 3029 in 1977. The government’s freeze on enrolment increases, however, makes the continued ex- pansion of correspondence prog- rams impossible.

The government proposes that, in future, universities that increase their enrolment above current levels will receive only 50% of the per-student government grant for each additional student. Matthews said the cost of labour and materi- als for correspondence courses is too high to allow expansion without

the full government grant for each student.

Matthews justified expansion of the correspondence programs by the fact that they make post- secondary education more acces- sible. People unable to attend regu- larly scheduled lectures at UW can take the same courses by corres- pondence. These students pay the same fees as regular students, and can earn the same degree (a B.A. was awarded to a correspondence student this spring).

Matthews said that UW’s cor- respondence students are all over Ontario, and there are even some in Waterloo. In the face of increasing demand for correspondence courses, the expansion funding should be regarded as an important public service.

-nick redding

Election Co-op math students will be

going to the polls today to decide the holder of the co-op council seat.

The co-op math seat is the only seat being contested, all the other co-op seats being filled by acclama- tion.

Vying for top honours for the math seat are Lorne Gershuny, Brian- Gregory, and Doug McDougall.

In other seats, Herb Malcolmson was acclaimed to-the HKLS seat, Gerard Kimmons is the new coun- cillor for co-op science, Joe Crncick and Brian Stevens are the new reps from Engineering: Mark McGuire is again the rep for co-op Environmental Studies.

-doug hamilton

a Rosenberg bills the federation siders his fees to the federation to

quarterly for $2500, and issues a report detailing the work done in

. be reasonable.

When federation president Doug the quarter. The report for the first Thompson was asked if he thinks quarter of 1975 shows that Rosen- the federation is getting it-s money’s berg gave 10 telephone consulta- worth from Rosenberg, he replied tions,kach about 10 minutes dura- tion. Thus Rosenberg spent about one hour, 40 minutes earning his fee of $2500.

Subsequent repoa show little variation in the amount of time spent in each quarter for his fee.

Rosenberg’s bills to the federa- tion rose from $2500 in 1972 to $8000 in 1974, and to $10,000 each year since 1975. Prior to 1973, Rosenberg was paid on a per-case basis.

In a telephone interview with the free chevron, Rosenberg con- firmed that he has received fixed fees of $8000 in 1974 and $10,000 each year since 1975. Rosenberg said that the work done for his fee is documented in his quarterly re- ports, with the exception of “cor- porate work” which involves the minutes and bylaws of the federa- tion.

- When asked how much “corpo- rate work” he does for the federa- tion, Rosenberg replied that he couldn’t say “off the top of my head”. Rosenberg said that he con-

that he doesn’t know. Thompson said that he plans to meet with Rosenberg in the future to discuss his relationship with the federation.

The Graduate Club offers legal aid to graduate students as does the federation to undergraduates. However, the Graduate Club pays its lawyer on a per-case basis. At the annual general meeting of the Graduate Club this year, it was re- ported that most cases referred by the club require about 15 minutes of a lawyer’s time, at a cost of $15.

Last year, the federation overs- pent its $10,000 budget for legal fees (all of it allocated to Rosen- berg) by $2050. The additional ex- penses arose mainly from hiring Gary Flaxbard of Artindale, Whit- field and Cooke to take legal action against the chelron.

Rosenberg declined to work for the federation in this area. At the time he was asked, he cited pres- sure of his campaign for the mayor- alty of Kitchener as his reason for not accepting the case.

-nick redding

A chevron study of a recent fed- eration bylaw change reveals that students’ council will not be able to meet during this term, the board of directors can’t vote, and not only are off-campus students disen- franchised but so is federation pres- ident Doug Thomp’son.

In essence, a motion passed by council March 23 has left the gov- ernment of the UW Federation of Students in a shambles.

The motion, a bylaw change in- tended to remove the two graduate representatives from council, and remove all graduate students’ vot- ing rights in the federation was nar- rowly passed by Thompson and his supporters in a 9-8 vote. Both grad reps were chevron supporters.

The bylaw states that only those students who pay a UW Student Activity Fee coliected by the uni- versity administration during re- gistration, and later handed over to the federation, are “full” members of the federation. Only “full” members can nominate and second candidates, or be candidates in council elections, vote in federa- tion elections, or sign federation petitions, vote in federation council or in the federation Board of Direc- tors.

If this bylaw change stands, the chevron believes there will be no one on students’ council who can vote. All the representatives for regular students who are off cam- pus this term can’t vote because they haven’t paid their student ac- tivity fee, and there is no way for them to do so before next term.

Also because they can’t vote it means all six coop representatives who have either been acclaimed or elected to council, as of today, won’t be able to take their seats, because there will be no council to ratify them.

Although those six are eligible to vote, they won’t be able to, be- cause council will be unable to muster quorum to accept them. Quorum is 13 voting councillors and as things stand there just aren’t 13 councillors who have registered and paid their fees this term. In- deed there are none.

Furthermore, all five directors of the federation, who make up its corporate entity, can’t vote in board meetings, because they too are not full members of the federa- tion as they have not paid their re-

gistration fee. This includes the federation president.

Nor can they get round it be- cause they are not registered stu- dents this term. Federation busi- ness manager Peter Yates con- firmed this week that there is no way to pay the federation fee out-, side of registration.

This leaves federation vice- president Ron Hipfner in a bind. He claims to have paid $13.75 for an ice cream cone at the federation’s ice cream stand, thereby paying his federation fee, and thus becoming a full member.

Hipfner has no receipt and there is no record of his overpriced cone at the ice cream stand. Such a purchase, however, is of little con- sequence since Hipfner admitted to the chevron Wednesday that it still wouldn’t have made him a full member of the federation under the new bylaw.

At best his $13.75 would buy him associate membership with full so- cial privileges, which is a classifica- tion in the bylaw for “members of the UW community or past regular members’ ’ , and which, essentially gains them student rates at social events.

But it doesn’t give Hipfner vot- ing rights because the “University of Waterloo Student Activity Fee” required for full membership under the bylaw has to be paid at registra- tion. Hipfner is a co-op math stu- dent who is technically on his off- campus term and so hasn’t regis- tered as a full-time student.

And any thoughts councillors may have had of paying their fees at the ice cream stand were quashed this week when Yates returned $13.75 of the $14.10 Math council- lor John Long had paid for a cone. Yates told the chevron that there was no way to pay federation fees other than through registration.

It is a strict interpretation of this March 23 bylaw which Thompson and Hipfner claim forces two re-s ferendums to be held on voluntary federation fees. They claim that, as a result of the bylaw, regular and off-term co-op students couldn’t vote in the summer. Thus referen- dums are scheduled for the summer and the fall term.

-jules grajower -randy barkman

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Poor writing, or cutbacks? The conference on Writing Skills and the

IJniversity Student, held at Conrad Grebel College on June 3 and 4 as “a research pro- ject” funded by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, was a pseudo-conference and an attack on students.

High School English teachers from across the province were informed that large num- bers of their graduates were poor writers and were soothed with booze and kind words of concern over their heavy work loads.

The possibility that students write as well as they ever have was never seriously consi- dered at the conference even though a report issued by the Ontario government in January indicated just that.

allegation that the so-called problem has de- veloped only recently. In fact, 65 per cent of U. of T. English students failed a basic En- glish test back in 1950, in the so-called “good old days” when students knew how to write. and the president of the university con- cluded then that High School English was no longer adequate preparation for university.

Since the so-called problem is neither real or new, what is going on’? Why this flurry of activity with conferences and Proficiency programs now rather than back in 1950? A squeeze is going on. In following issues the free chevron will examine this clamour for English Proficiency in its relation to cut- backs in educational spending.

The conference also failed to examine the -ckevron staff

1 Comment

firing is wr The iollowing is d letter written to iedera-

tion president Doug Thon~pson and ~/ice- president Ron tjipiner by executive member Don Orth concerning the dismis- sal oi federation staffer Sylvia Hannigan.

Dear Sirs, I am writing in regard tothe unjust fir-

ing of Federation of Students employee, Sylvia Hannigan.

At*a staff meeting held on June 6 and attended by its four members, Doug Thompson (President), Ron Hipfner (Vice-President), Martha Coutts (Treas- urer) and Peter Yates (Business Manager) plus other federation personnel who are not staff members of the staff committee, it was decided that Sylvia Hannigan.s job was “redundant” and she was laid off (effective July S/77).

The obvious motive for the firing was that Sylvia was sympathetic to the Free Chevron cause and this provoked Doug Thompson. Ron Hipfner claims that Sylvia’s job was that of office manager for the Chevron (and Board of Publications secretary) and since the Federation was not producing a newspaper there was no work for Sylvia to do and therefore she was fired.

This is obviously a political firing. Syl- via is not the most junior staff person working for the Federation. She has been working for the Federation for nearly 2 years and if there was a lack of work it would appear to me that someone with less seniority would have been dismissed. This is normal union procedure. Re- cently, the Federation has employed sev- eral new staff members and the vice- president began receiving salary. Obvi- ously there is no lack of funds and if pay- ing Ron Hipfner isn’t redundant, then 1 don’t know what is.

Being on the Federation executive now for 1 l/2 years as chairperson of the Board of Co-op Services, I have witnessed the

quality of Sylvia’s work and have found it satisfactory. Sylvia has too many talents and too much useful knowledge so that the Federation can’t afford to lose some- one of her calibre.

What I find personally disgusting about this whole affair is the manner by which she was fired. To the best of my know- ledge, no executive members or council- lors were consulted. I find it highly ques- tionable that it requires the approval of council to allocate funds and create jobs within the Federation but it only requires four people, of whom Peter Yates is in no way a student representative, to termi- nate these jobs. The whole firing was done in a callous manner and Sylvia was not even consulted about what was going to happen. This incident demonstrates the immorality and unfeelingness of the present leadership of the Federation of Students. It is an embarrassment to be associated with such people.

I call upon all students with a sense of social justice to protest the firing of Sylvia Hannigan and demand that the staff committee re-hire her immediately. This was a crass political firing and only lends itself as further evidence as to why Doug Thompson and Ron Hipfner should be removed. Signed: Don Orth, chairperson co-op services Co-signed: Doug Hamilton, councillor (Arts) Randy Barkman, co-chairperson board of publications David Carter, councillor (Grad) Gord Swaters, chairperson OFSINUS (acting) Brian Byrnes, councillor (Arts) Mike Devillaer, councillor (Grad) Gerard Kimmons, councillor (Sci- ence) Jamie Midwinter, councillor (En- vironmental Studies) Mark McGuire, councillor (ES co-op)

Ekecutive closes its doom- ven to one of its own members

It was an executive meeting. That’s what it said on the blackboard in the federation office, and that is why federation secretary Prue Davidson was instructed to call up

some executive members to inform them of the event, but it quickly became a “private gathering” when Randy Barkman turned LIP.

As co-chairperson of the Board of Publica- tions Barkman. a chevron staffer, is an ex- ecutive member. He was never informed of the meeting, however, and learned of it at the last moment when the free chevron heard it was taking place Monday evening.

him it was a private gathering. While he and Thompson argued the point vice-president Ron Hipfner rubbed the sign off the black- board.

Thompson asked Barkman to leave. He refused, and Thompson said the meeting was over and it would reconvene at his house - without Barkman. At this point, OFS Liason Officer Gord Swaters stated that the meeting was an executive meeting and that Barkman had every right to stay. The meeting began to disband and Barkman.

He arrived at the federation offices to find joined by Don Orth, Chairperson of the

president Doug Thompson and his executive Board of Co-op Services, and Swaters. left

in conference. He asked why he hadn’t been in protest.

informed of the meeting and Thompson told continued on page 4

esrreetion In last week’s free chevron, the second last paragraph of the chevron editorial

should have read, “The solution lies in creating a democratic federation one in which student representatives do not rely on their original election to office for their authority.”

In the same issue, on the front page, the figure entitled “Graduate Prospects”, N- the number graduating, was erroneously printed as 2930. The correct number of graduating students is 2390.

omm.ent

iible Last week federation president Doug Thompson slammed his office door in the faces of

seven students. This blatant display of contempt is only the latest event in a whole history of undermining student struggle, while feigning concern and a desire to lead. His career is characterized by conflicting statements and outright lies.

His “work” on cutbacks is an illustration of this. He won his first seat on council, as Integrated Studies rep, promising “to voice my concern about threatened tuition increases and to object strenuously to any cutbacks in faculty or student enrolment.”

Apparently flush with desire to fight the cutbacks, Thompson became National Student Day co-ordinator for UW. He outlined ambitious plans for panel discussions, pamphlets, posters and task forces on student problems.

All this enthusiasm evaporated, however, and he quit as NSD co-ordinator less than three _ weeks before the event so that he could edit the Bullseye, a scab publication dedicated to creating maximum confusion on the issues in the chevron/federation conflict.

As a paid federation fieldworker he spoke at the National Student Day workshop on cutbacks in education: he presented few facts and was eventually forced to admit that he had done no research.

“I don’t have any background”, he said. He did not do much better at the OFS moratorium. A rally was scheduled for the afternoon

of Februarv 10 to protest the tuition fee increase and students were expected to boycott their classes. Thompson, however, was so busy as acting president that he couldn’t attend. In fact, very few students attended, $86 worth of advertising didn’t arrive until very late the preceding afternoon.

In his campaign for the presidency he had stated that on cutbacks “We need informed debate and discussion, not idle sloganeering!” However, he has never organised debate or discussion or defined a program for students to fight the cutbacks. To date, all he has done is to put out a special election pamphlet which outlined the platforms of the local candidates in the provincial election and exhorted students to attend the two all-candidate meetings to question the candidates. However, the pamphlet came out a day late for the first meeting and Thompson attended neither of them.

But conflicts between words and action were not confined to cutbacks. In his presidential campaign he also said he wanted to make council “a much more important element in the decision-making process” and “see important and expensive decisions taken out of the federation back-rooms and conducted in public wherever this is possible.” It is quite ironic that Thompson’s reign began at a 2 am Board of Directors meeting, convened not in a federation backroom but in the house of then vice-president Dave McLellan and recalled president Shane Roberts.

What of this promise of making council more powerful, of making a return to democracy? Thompson has used the Board of Directors to legislate, bypassing students’ council. The Board of Directors, a five-member body consisting of the president and four others

whom he appoints, normally exists only because the Corporations Act, under which the federation operates, requires it. Although it has supreme power, in the past it has not been used to change bylaws.

Recently council was decimated by the decision that all students who do not pay federation fees for a given term cannot vote in federation elections in that term.

Thompion has strong feelings about what he calls “democracy”. He became most upset about the recall of Shane Roberts. In a letter to the Real Chevron December 3 he declared, “To recall the president now would be to recaI1 democracy.” (At the 2 am meeting that made Thompson president, bylaws were changed to make it more difficult for him to suffer the same fate.) However, as the recall gained signatures he and some of his cronies changed their position. They formed the Campus-Reform Group and began to attack Roberts. They blamed the protracted chevron/federation dispute on both “free chevron fanatics” and federation “bureaucrats”, led by Roberts. One of them remarked, perhaps in an attempt to explain away that all of them had supported Roberts’ motion to close the paper, that bureaucracy was “a disease caught from Shane”. Thompson and the CRG still seem to be seriously infected.

Salaries and honouraria already take 53 per cent of the total federation fees paid by students and the bureaucracy is still being expanded.

The most blatant example of political twisting and turning is his handling of the chevron. One of his main platform planks was “to uphold the referendum”, called by Shane Roberts for January 13 to determine the fate of the chevron. Ignoring the boycott the chevron organised protesting the biased referendum, Thompson said the results were a clear no to reinstatement of the paper and that he would stand by the decision. But he didn’t.

Only a week after becoming president he offered the chevron partial reinstatement, thus initiating negotiations. In the midst of the negotiations, while waiting for a reply from chevron staff, he led more than half a dozen goons into the chevron office and forcefully evicted the two staffers maintaining occupation there. His eviction attempt was not success- ful (staff got back in about four hours later) and so the next week he returned with a signed proposal, which staff accepted as a serious basis for negotiations. When the offer went before . council Thompson denied that it was a proposal, saying the document was merely “an effort to clarify for this council the position of the free chevron.”

Thus he proved that not only is his word worthless, but so is his signature. In his campaign for council in February 1976 he said, “I welcome it (the election) as an

expression of growing interest in the Federation and as an opportunity to increase this interest.”

Last week seven students showed interest in the federation and what it was doing, and he slammed the door in their faces.

-jonathan coles

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Services mshed Providing students with services

- movies, pubs, concerts, etc. - are the main items of concern for student governments. This was the consensus of eight student unions at a conference of western Ontario schools, held at Waterloo on Wed- nesday.

Many of the delegates pointed to the difference from the 1960’swhen students were concerned with

, political issues, but, said a member from Brock: “Students have changed. Society has changed.”

He said that student govern- ments had accommodated this change. “We’re organizations now. We’re running a business.”

’ The delegates were confronted with the problem ,of getting stu- dents to participate in the organiza- tion of these services. All agreed

. . that their campuses were “rife with apathy.”

n Doug Thompson, president of

the UW federation, suggested ar- ranging “course credit for student union work. ”

Other delegates recommended instituting a parliamentary system or introducing a devil’s advocate in council meetings to develop stu-’ dent interest.

Gord Swaters, OFS liason of- ficer for the UW federation, tried to swing the discussion over to de- veloping “strong student leader- ship” to “fight the cutbacks” and other economic issues facing stu- dents.

Swaters was cut off by Ron Hipfner, chair of the meeting and vice-president of the UW federa- tion, with: “I think we’re getting way off track. We’re talking about participation.”

-david carter

BENT in search of pro The federation Board of Enter- director because, according to

tainment is looking for a program vice-president Ron Hipfner, its

continued from page 3 chairperson, Bruce Leavens, has too little time and its vice-

After which, Hipfner told the chairperson, Bruce Mills, has “too free chevron, people stayed and the little in the head.” “private gathering” continued its The pay and. qualifications for discussion. He said he had called the job have not yet been deter- the meeting and that advertising it mined. Hipfner would say only that as an “Executive Meeting” was a “the job would be molded around ‘ ‘ misnaming’ ’ . It was really a the person who would be accepted gathering or a party, he said, but he for it.” had put executive meeting be- cause: “. . . it doesn’t look as silly” .

Barkman has had a motion on the students council for months calling for executive meetings to be open . to all students, and has complained that the federation is now being run through informal sessions where no minutes are taken.

He has also been reprimanded in the past by Thompson for releasing non-confidential information on discussion of the executive board.

-neil docherty

What “The Exorcist” did for possession, “Audrey Rose” tries to do for reincarnation. It hits you with occurrences that are so weird and ugly that you willingly suc- cumb to the explanation that the film gently rams down your esophagus. Reincarnation appears to be the only answer in poor Audrey’s case.

The story of “Audrey Rose” ac- tually parallels quite closely the plot of “The Exorcist”. It some- times seems like “Audrey Rose” was made from out-takes of “The Exorcist”.

Actually, the story was inspired by an eerie experience that hap- pened to the author, Frank De Felitta. One memorable day five years ago, he and his wife were shocked to hear their six-year-old son, Raymond, playing the piano uncontrollably. Raymond had never displayed any hint of musical talent. As a result, De Felitta began investigation into reincarnation, mysticism and life after death. After a year and a half, he had finished the story of Audrey Rose.

Just as in “The Exorcist”, the grown-ups are partying downstairs when the first symptom of the little girl’s horrible affliction erupts. The parents leap up the stairs and ap- proach the bedroom in classic hor- ror movie fashion. The scene they witness continues to haunt throughout the film, although it is

haunts Audrey Rose not as repulsive as the grotesque acts performed by Linda Blair in “The Exorcist”. No rotating heads, no levitation, no knives. But eerie all the same.

Her mind follows the same pro- cess. At first, she naturally denies that this could be happening to her

Marsha Mason is the bereaved

child. Then, as the strange be-

mother who watches her daughter become uncontrollably hysterical.

haviour persists, she is drawn to-

As Ellen Burstyn, the mother in “The Exorcist”, was eventually convinced that an exorcism would

wards the unscientific answer to the problem,’ as is the viewer.

cure Regan, Mason is won over to a belief in reincarnation. In fact, she passes through the same series of

Mason turns for help to a man who

emotions as Burstyn did: horror, disbelief, frenzy, hopelessness, de-

has the power to quell the girl’s

spair, anger. She even looks a little like Burstyn.

riotous outbursts, like the way. Burstyn suspended her disbelief and sought out the exorcist.

There is no sympathy for the skeptical father. He is furious when his family is harassed by this mys- tery man, who claims to have been Audrey’s father in her previous life. Her present father’s wild rage turns into a violent attack when the man calms one of the frightening

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screaming fits of the child, known to her current parents as Ivy.

The incident leads to a court trial where Hindu philosophy is given its fullest and most convincing promotion.

The technique used to persuade the viewer is sophisticated. A guru in traditional garb is presented as a very credible witness to explain to the jury how it is perfectly logical that the soul of the dead Audrey Rose now inhabits the body of Ivy. His testimony is heard while we are treated to scenes of a religious fun- eral in India as well as mobs of Hin- dus bathing in the sacred Ganges River.

The orderly courtroom scene is in direct contrast to the string of suspenseful vignettes that keep your intestines in a knot. Scenes are often incomplete, without be- ginning or end. Only enough is

But the scary ‘aspects of the film

shown to add to the increasing an-

are only of secondary importance. The truth of reincarnation is the

ticipation of shock. The suspence

clear message. So the horror story suffers.

is built slowly and unnoticeably, so that even in an innocuous restaur- ant scene, the clatter of a spilled teacup comes as a painful jolt.

Even the gruesome ending is tinged with philosophy. After agonizing through Audrey’s con- vulsion under hypnosis (compara- ble to the exorcism in “The Exor- cist”), we are graced with a final quote from one of the Hindu holy books, the Bhagavad Gita, telling us that the soul is “unborn, eternal, undying, ever-existing, primeval”.

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