University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario

volume I, number 30 may 27, 7977

NDP canddate Mary-lane Mewhinney is seen here addressin, _ 0 studetits jn the Great Hall Wednesday. Listening attentive/y are her two contenders for the Waterloo North Riding, Liberal Herb Epp (centre) and PC Bob Cramlow.

CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) -A motion censuring the University of Waterloo Student Federation for the arbitrary shutdown of its stu- dent newspaper was tabled by de- legates at the National Union of Students Conference in Charlot- tetown, May 14.

Introduced by Capilano College of Vancouver, British Columbia, and seconded by Memorial Uni- versity of Newfoundland, the mo- tion asked delegates to denounce the federation’s actions in closing down the chevron last September without prior investigation. I 1-I doing so the federation violated the NUS policy on freedom of the stu- dent press as outlined by the Cana- dian University Press (CUP) statement of principles.

The Waterloo delegation of fed- eration president Doug Thompson and vice-president Ron Hipfner left the plenary shortly before the mo- tion was brought forward, and a representative from the University of Toronto, who held their proxy, moved to table the motion since Waterloo could (not speak to it. NUS Executive Secretary Dan O’Connor spoke in favour of the motion because it did not require “immediate attention”. But he dis- agreed that Water!oo’s presence would have made any difference.

“What position is there to de- fend‘? I don’t believe there is any

sympathy for Waterloo. ’ ’ O’Connor, however, noted that

delegations “did not jump at the opportunity to denounce the feder- ation.” NUS Ontario fieldworker Gavin Anderson said he has found that many student councils do not have an understanding of freedom of the press. “Anyone who defies a principle as sacred as that must be censured. Waterloo has to realize that they were wrong in the first instance. NUS cannot endorse a council closing down a paper any- more than an administration clos- ing down a student council.”

CUP President Susan Johnson called on delegates to deal with the motion immediat’eiy.

"You don’t realize what the chevron, and the students of Waterloo, have to live with every day ,-’ she said.

The NUS Central Committee last November did make a b\i;\te- ment on the Waterloo :tffiti!-. in- which they called for reinstatsment of the paper, but this via\ the fil-\t time the membership wa\ a\l\cd to take a stand.

The Waterloo delegates returned to the conference hotel after the plenary had been adjourned. They explained to NUS staff member Miguel Figueroa that they “had gone for a walk.”

The motion of censure will be brought forward at the NUS con- ference in Calgary.

The Waterloo North New Democratic Party has refused to place an erection ad in the free chevron for a political reason.

And the campaign manager for V/aterloo North NDP candidate Mary Jane Mewhinney acknow- ledges that a discussion by the UW Board of Governors strongly influenced his decision to reject an ad in the free chevron for the June 9 provincial election.

Last week MeWhinney’s cam- paign manager, UW economics professor Bob Needham, told Larry Hannant of the free chevron advertising department that the NDP would be interested in adver- tising its candidate in the June 3 issue of the free chevron.

But when Hannant spoke to the campaign manager again, on Tues- day of this week, after a meeting of the Mewhinney campaign commit- tee, Needham reversed his stand and told Hannant that “I just don’t want to put an ad in the free chev- ron.”

Asked if his rejection was “for a political reason”, Needham replied “Yes.”

Needham referred to a “brief paragraph” from the UW Board of

Governors’ minutes which indi- cated that “there might be some attitude taken by the board against local advertisers” in the free chev- ron.

The Waterloo North Liberal campaign manager has confirmed an ad in the June 3 free chevron, and the Progressive Conservatives are considering it.

Needham denied that his rejec- tion of the ad had anything to do with the fact that Shane Roberts, the recalled federation of students president who instigated the clos- ing of the chevron on September 30, 1976, and who attacked the free chevron after September, is active in the Mewhinney campaign.

Needham urged Hannant: “Don’t make a big thing about it.”

In the Tuesday conversation with Hannant, Needham did not mention cost as a reason for not placing the ad in the free chevron.

However, in a subsequent inter- view with the free chevron, Needham said that the “number one reason is finances.”

“Frankly, when we discussed it there were a large number of reasons and the one I want to make public is the budget.”

Society presidents are unhappy with council’s blunder disenfran- chising off-term students from the federation.

woik - term and regular students during the summer.

As a result. the Julv referendum

In February, council passed a bylaw restricting voting federation membership to fee-paying stu- dents. The intention of the bylaw was to oust the two grad reps, both free chevron supporters, from council, but it had theanexpected side-effect of disenfranchising not only grads but co-op students on

was to get rid of grads, and that the federation is just taking advantage of a loophole to hold two referen- dums.

He feels the full impact of the bylaw change hasn’t been felt yet. The bylaw’s redefinition of federa- tion membership means that off- term co-op students cannot vote in federation presidential elections.

Mathsoc interim president Andy Mueller didn’t know about the

King says he’.s tired of opposing the federation and he just wants re- fundable fees.

on refundabli fees his been split bylaw when it was passed but feels into two independent referendums, “it was a mistake”. He feels that one in July and one in November. students off-campus but preregis-

Engineering Society “A” presi- tered for the next term should be dent Peter King, who has been allowed to vote. pushing for refundable fees, feels The Science Society president that “it’s utter stupidity”. He was unavailable for comment. pointed out that the original intent -ciaran o’donnell

’ He would make no comment on Needham refused to divulge his Needham remarked that he sees his earlier acknowledgment that source for knowledge of the parag- material from “a lot of people” on politics was the reason for refusing raph concerning the free chevron, campus. to advertise. but said that the source was not

The invoivcment of Roberts and Shane Roberts. continued g age 3 Franz Klingender. another federa- tion of student executive member who voted to close the chevron last September, had nothing to do with the rejection of the ad, he insisted.

“I’ve made the decision and I’!! take the rap for it.”

He confirmed that a paragraph in the board of governors’ minutes mentions pressure on the local businesses who advertise in the free chevron.

But Wednesday, in a second in- terview with the free chevron, Needham said that the board of governors minutes contain only “a commentary” that the free chevron relies on local advertising for fi- nances. It was the last paragraph of the minutes, he said.

“It’s just a small, innocuous statement,” he insisted.

The board of governors has met twice since the chevron was closed last year, on February 1 and April 5.

Shane Roberts, who sits on the Senate ex officio (by virtue of hold- ing the federation presidency from February March to December 1976) was appointed to the board of governors by the Senate on May 1, 1976.

Roberts missed the February 1 board of governors’ meeting, but was present at the April 5 meeting, which was concluded by a confi- dential session.

The minutes of the public ses- sions of the two meetings record nothing about discussion oft he free chevron, but discussion at the con- fidential session is not recorded.

UW Secretary Jack Brown con- firmed that minutes for the closed sessions of board of governors’ meetings is provided to board members only.

Brown said he couldn’t comment on what is discussed at confidential sessions of the Board. He could neither confirm nor deny whether the free chevron’s finances were discussed at the last session.

UW President Burt Matthews was not available for comment.

The federation of students has extended last Thursday’s nomina- tion deadline for the six co-op council by-elections, but the proce- dure used is highly irregular and has resulted in IWO acclaimations being denied.

At the close of nominations last week two chevron staffers, Marc McGuire (Architecture), and Gerrard Kimmons (Science Co-op), were the only nominations for their respective constituencies. There were no takers for the two engineering seats, none for the Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies (HKCS)) spot, and three in contention for the Math seat.

The normal procedure in such a case would be that McGuire and Kimmons would be acclaimed, nominations would close on schedule for the Math constituency, and the vacant spots would have their nomination deadline extended.

But instead of the chevron staffers being acclaimed to council the federation decided to extend al! the nomination deadlines. This move places them in clear contravention of their own Policy and Procedures Manual which states: “In the event that the number of nominees in any constituency is less than the number of seats assigned to the constituency, nominations may be re-opened to fill the remaining seats.” (our emphasis).

The action is also contrary to the Ontario Elections Act. Also there is no doubt that acclaimations were expected when the

nominations opened. The ad for the by-elections read: “Elections ‘if necessary’ will take place Thursday June 2.”

Federation vice-president Ron Hipfner, who was out of town when the decision was made, claims the deadlines for all seats were extended “since there weren’t enough people running to call it a democratic decision.”

The extention, however, has not been publicly advertised: in- stead the federation has phoned the societies to tell them the seats are still vacant.

Nor has the lack of numbers concerned the federation in the past. In the last election, three seats were acclaimed in Engineering, one in Science Co-op, one in Renison, one in HKLS and two in the graduate constituency.

The decision to extend the deadlines was made in consultation with some federation staff members, said Hipfner, but without reference to the election procedure guide which was missing from the file.

The guide, however, is also printed in the Policy and Procedure Manual which is readily available in the federation office.

There is also a precedent by which to judge the .matter. Last October, when Ian Chapran ran alone for a grad seat, the deadline was extended, another candidate was nominated and an election was held. The federation then admitted that a mistake had been made in extending the deadline and a second election had to be held.

When confronted with all this, Hipfner admitted that the exten- sion of the deadline where only one candidate was nominated is wrong. “Who shall we shoot?” he said.

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PC candidate for Waterioo North Bob Cramlow speaks to students in the campus centre.

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The UW administration has thrown LIP a roadblock against a free chevron move to use univer- sity computer facilities to produce the student newspaper.

Last week, UW president Burt Matthews rejected a free chevron request to use computer facilities at an inexpensive academic rate. And he warned that he would *intervene personally if any department in the university gave the chevron access

~to the computers on their own ac- count.

The chevron staff were looking into the possibility of using compu- ter facilities to reduce production costs. At first, officials in Math as- sured the chevron staff that they would get the use of the computers at an academic rate.

But when the time came to sign a contract the decision was reversed. In appealing, the chevron staff went to the top of the university hierarchy, Matthews.

Matthews insisted that he and the university administration as a whole are “neutral” on the chevron/federation conflict.

In the interview, Matthews was confronted with the major facts which demonstrated collusion be- tween the federation and administ-

Matthews declared that to get computer services at the academic rate the chevron staff would have to be recognized by the federation as a student organization. He said this was an old agreement between him and thefederation, but was un- able to produce any written proof about the nature of the agreement he said existed.

ration against the chevron staff. These facts were:

-September25,thedaythatthe chevron staff discovered that the chevron office doors had been locked, three UW security police, taking orders from Shane Roberts, then federation president, attemp- ted to keep the staff out of the of- fice. They told chevron staff mem- bers that security chief Al Romenko had instructed them to do so.

- When Doug Thompson and about 12 supporters evicted chev- ron staff from the office February 27, it was campus cops who pre- vented staff members’ initial at- tempts to re-enter. One chevron staff member was assaulted and cut in the effort to drag him out of the office.

- September 30, on the word of Roberts, the Audio-Visual centre refused to allow chevron staffers to borrow sound equipment for an outdoor rally until they made a $50 profit. At the time the chevron was still officially open, and it should have enjoyed its normal privileges.

- Locksmiths from Physical Resources have attempted five times to change the locks on the chevron office. Again, they acted on the request of the federation, although they are responsible to the university administration and ulti- mately to Mathews.

- November 17, on the orders of Dave McLellan, the administration cuts off the chevron phones. This is in spite of the fact that chevron staff had an agreement with the federa- tion to pay phone bills.

Have you had anything break re- cently? A pencil lead while writing a crucial exam? Your car axle when Active Towing absconded with your vehicle’? Well, your worries and frustrations may soon be over. *. the Fourth International Conference on Fracture is planned to take place here at UW June 19-24.

Over 600 engineers, scientists, designers, and health workers from around the world will be among those attending with the purpose of furthering scientific study of how and why things break i ships, air- craft, bridges 9 human bones, plas- tics, ice, metal alloys, etc.

Sessions presented are to include “Fracture, Politics, and Society” and “Fracture EducatIon”.The latter topic, despite its ever- increasing importance, still plays a far less centra,l role in the engineer- ing curriculum than it should.

Dr. David Taplin, UW mechani- cal engineering professor and chair- person of the conference organiz- ing committee f says that a new body which will concern itself with practical problems related to the

Canadian environment has already been set up in Canada.

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It’s hard to believe but the execu- tive of the Board of Governors (BOG) have hatched a scheme which‘ could net UW its second domed tennis court.

At a meeting of the BOG execu- ‘tive, May 24, it was announced that the university had made an applica- tion to the Ontario government for a Wintario grant in the amount of $30,000.

Every dollar that Wintario gives will be matched by funds from the Waterloo Tennis Club and money from the university coffers.

Though the application has been made, the plan has not yet been approved by the BOG.

If the plan succeeds, the number of tennis courts available for year- round use will double from two to four.

-doug hamilton

The brief stirring in the Campus Centre Great Hall Wednesday af- ternoon was an all-candidates meeting for the riding of Waterloo North, with the Progressive Con- servative, Liberal , and New Democratic Party contenders on hand to present their views.

In a low-key one-hour session the candidates went through their normal routine.

Waterloo Mayor, Herb Epp, the Liberal, said the Conservative government was tired and was try- ing to apply age-old solutions to new problems”. He promised in- novative and challenging solutions from a Liberal government.

The government was criticised for accumulating a $7.4 million debt, and he promised to ease un-

- Mail addressed to the chevron has been re-directed to the federa- tion. The postman no longer comes to cc140.

When confronted with these facts, he explained “We have an agreernent with the federation and that space over there is space that we have long ago allocated to the federation of students to use as they see fit.. .

“Anything to do with that space, we simply take our direction from the federation.”

Questioned about the federation being supported by security police Matthews said, “They have a right to that space, . . .it’s the same as anyone else that has a right to space, we would protect their right as far as we could.”

When it was suggested to him that there was some inconsistency between this agreement and his stated position of neutrality he said: “Well, I’m neutral in the dis- pute. But the fact remains that the space belongs to the federation and we have no reason to change that. ”

-jonathon coles

employment with an incentive program to businesses to create new jobs. He suggested businesses be given $2,000 per new job to a maximum of $20,000. The Liber- als, he said, are committed to creat- ing 100,000 jobs a year for three years, and to limiting government spending to the AIB guidelines.

The PC runner, Bob Gramlow, said he was more interested in field- ing questions than giving a speach. In his brief comments, he said all the parties are interested in the same problems, cautioned that the government must be careful in creating jobs so that it doesn’t pro- duce an inflationary spiral, and said the government was “working in the right direction” on the preser- vation of farmland a

Mary-Jane Mewhinney of the NDP complained about the rapid growth of the city and the lack of a land-use policy. She promised a freeze on prime agricultural land, and an income stabilization prog- ram for farmers.

The NDP would like tuition-free education she said, but cautioned that this is “perhaps utopian”, so for the short term she offered im-v provements in student aid.

She complained that “It is the exception that people from lower income families get to university .”

She also said she is opposed to foreign students paying higher fees than domestic students.

In the question period chevron editor Neil Docherty asked Me-

Matthews:

whinney about an interview in which her campaign manager said he was refusing to advertise in the free chevron for political reasons.

She replied: “As a candidate I don’t get involved in that part of the process. ” Docherty also expressed concern that recalled federation president Shane Roberts and former Arts councillor Franz Klingender , who became well- known when he threw a rock through the chevron window, were on her campaign. Her response was, “Shane Roberts is a very ef- fective canvas organiser.”

During the brief question period there was no marked enthusiasm to quiz the candidates.

One of four questioners asked about the differential fee for foreign students. Gramlow said he was in favour of it: Epp said he was em- barrassed by it and opposed it: and Mewhinney said she was against it.

Another questioner criticised the idea of businesses being paid with taxpayers money to create jobs.

In response Gramlow never re- ally answered the question but in- stead lamented the problems of small businesses. E nothing wrong wit R

p said he saw the scheme,

while Mewhinney noted that the over-riding issue is profit, “and that’s fair ball”, but she suggested that workers and management hold more discussions.

-jonathan coles

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University President Burt of the increase, he now appears to Matthews seems to have reversed have changed his tune. his position on the fee increase for When Matthews and other ad- visa students. Originally in favour ministrators from the University of

Wa$rloo go to London for the June 3 meeting of the Ontario Council for University Affairs (OC UA), they intend to ask that OCUA keep “an open mind” on the subject of visa students.

According to Matthews, the Waterloo delegation will ask OCUA to reconsider the impact of the fee hike on visa students.

Said Matthews at a board of gov- ernors executive meeting Tuesday, “we don’t like to see discrimina- tion based on economics”.

Instead he personally favours a system where marks are the criteria, not money. He said that a quota system might also be another way of regulating the flow of visa students.

Last October, the board of gov- ernors passed the visa fee hike which represented a tuition in- crease up to $1,500 a year for any foreign student registering after May I, 1977. Burt Matthews is on record for saying “the board made the right decision”. (free chevron feb 4/77)

Though the decision to pass the increase was left to the governors of each campus, only three Ontario universities, Laurentian, Trent, and McMaster. decided against dif- ferential fees for the upcoming year.

-doug hamikon

At an all-candidates forum Wed- nesday at UW. Mary Jane Me- Whinney was ‘;lsked about the NDP’s refusal to advertise in the free chevron. She claimed that she had no knowledge of the matter.

Finally, some campus artwork is being appreciated as this photographer “As a candidate I don’t get in- snaps a picture of one of those noble works. This concrete sculpttire outside volved in that part of the process,” the Campus Centre is one of several works of art erected between 7 969 and she said, but “1’11 look into it.” 7975 at a cost of over $25,000. --neil docherty

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Friday, May 27 5:45 pm Perspectives -- A discus- sion on the role of the United Nations in to-days changing world, as seen by the United Nation’s Secretary- General and three new ambassadors to the United Nations.

6:00 pm Radio Waterloo News 6:15 pm Science Journal - A round- up of newsmaking items from the fields of science and technology that help to shape our world. The pro- gramme informs us of both the bles- sings that scientific and technical progress have brought us and the new problems that have arisen in their wake. 7:00 pm Election ‘77 - A series of half-hour programmes where the candidates for the ridings of Water- loo, Kitchener, and Kitchener-Wilmot will be interviewed. II:45 pm Radio Waterloo News

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CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP, - Fighting student unemployment has become the number one prior- ity of Canada’s student leaders, fol- lowing a five day national confer- ence here May 10-14.

Delegates from student unions across Canada decided at the Na+ tional Union of Students (NUS) fifth annual general meeting to reaf- firm the importance of the unemp- loyment issue and to work with or- ganized labour and other interested organizations in preparing strategy to fight unemployment, which has reached eight per cent of the work force according to official count. Youth unemployment is calculated to be much higher than other un- employment in most areas of the country.

A meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau was one of the more in- teresting highlights in a series of’ motions on unemployment, many of which were simply reaffirmation of policy developed at an NUS meeting last October.

At that conference delegates ag- reed to make student unemploy- ment the organization’s major priority, but a December meeting of the national executive replaced that demand with a fight against ar- bitrary across-the-board tuition in- creases that were surfacing in many provinces.

Student leaders at this latest con- ference have committed their na- tional organization and themselves to work on student unemployment through the summer and the fall by

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be a viru Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, a lethal neurological disorder

which until recently was believed to be a “genetic” disea,se, has now been identified as a virus which can be transmitted from one adult to another. The cost of this new knowledge has been at least four human lives.

Persons afflicted with the disease show dementiaat an early age, and are afflicted with incoordination and muscular de- generation.

The disorder has long been known to run&r families, and on this basis alone it was designated as a “genetic” disorder. One compilation of such “genetic” disorders reported that the Creutzfeld-Jacob syndrome was an “undoubtedly heterogeneous disorder” and that inheritance in some cases “may be as a recessive”, although in one family there was “dominant inheritance”. (R.T.C. Pratt, The Genetics of Neurological Disorclers)

However, the New York Times recently reported four cases where people unrelated to anyone with Creutzfeld- Jacob disease contracted it as a result of surgery. In two cases, the corneas from patients who had died of the disease were transplanted into healthy individuals who needed new corneas. Both recipients developed C-J disease, and one has already died.

Two other victims were epileptics who underwent brain surgery in which electrodes were implanted into the brain in order to study epilepsy. The electrodes had previously been used on a patient who had C-J syndrome. Both of the people suffering from epilepsy then contracted C-J disease. One has’ already died, and the other is in a coma.

Many experts now believe that the disease is in fact a virus which is “extremely difficult to detect and is resistant to sterilization by boiling, ultraviolet light, formaldehyde and other chemical disinfectants.” (K-W Record, May 10, 1977)

This is not the first case where a disease is held to be “genetic” because it occurs in families but then is later disco- vered to have some other cause.

Kuru disease, a progressive, lethal neuromuscular disorder known only among the Fore native people of New Guinea, had prompted geneticists to devise numerous models of its inheritance, but it was finally proven to be caused by an infectious agent that thrives in brain tissue.

Pellagra, a disorder caused by dietary deficiency of thiamin, was at the time of the First World War believed to be a hereditary disease because it occurred with high frequency among many poor families in the southern USA. Evidence of its environmental origin was suppressed for 20 years, and many poverty-stricken victims perished because of this atroc- ity .

These and similar examples show how the common view of heredity, besides being unscientific, can cause great and un- necessary suffering. According to the modern concept of. heredity, what is inherited is a set of “genes” located in the chromosomes, and if a certain gene is defective, the result is a hereditary disease which cannot be cured.

It is common knowledge, however,.that both wealth and poverty can be inherited in our society. It is also well known that many substances quite apart from some genes on the chromosomes can be passed directly from mother to child. Drugs pass through the placenta readily and can cause addic- tion in a fetus whose mother is already addicted. Even small virus particles in the mother’s blood can pass to the fetus and cause infection, and immunity to many diseases can be trans- ferred to the child via the milk of the mother who has already acquired the immunity. All of these things are hereditary, and all of them can be readily changed by modifying the environ- ment.

Creutzfeld-Jacob disease provides striking proof that a dis- order can be hereditary without being carried on the chromo- somes. The next step is for medical researchers to find a cure for it and wipe this rare but deadly scourge off the face of the earth.

-doug wahlsten

e doing the following: - local stu- ment and gather material for “pos- around three demands: the creation dent council operating in the sum- sible mobilizations” of the unemp- of massive government funded job mer months are to help unemp- loyed, and generally prepare for programs, the elimination of arbit-

loyed students and youth “to press further action to be planned at the rary summer savings requirements

for adequate government programs October conference: the NUS na- in Canada Student Loan Plan, and

and to publicize the unemployment tional office is also to prepare a that the government maintain and manual to assist local student some regions reduce the required a

situation found locally” and; - councils in organizing students around unemployment issues.

eight weeks work before unemp- National Union of Students staff loyed persons are eligible for Un- people will research unemploy- The entire campaign will centre employment Insurance Benefits.

Now they tell us

CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) - The major achievement of National Student Day (NSD) - a nationally and provincially co-ordinated ac- tion on student concerns last November 9 -was the recruitment of several activist students to the student movement in Canada.

This was the consensus of stu- dent leaders at a NSD post-mortem conducted during the National Union of Students conference here May 10-14.

Other than the success with re- cruiting, the NSD action across the country was poorly organized and equally poorly attended.

(UW’s NSD was a classic exam- ple. Federation co-organiser Michael Dillon slept in and missed the start of the day’s events: barely 70 students in all showed up for the various workshops, where they found most of the federation’s offi- cials lacking even basic facts and a large number of administration people who gave their view of things.)

However, there are. unlikely to be any more “‘national days for concern”. Instead the student leaders adopted the idea of a na- tional conference of student and labour representatives.

Critics of NSD‘s failures focused on what they saw as poor media relations and a lack of consensus on NSD’s purpose. Events were mainly organized and initiated by the local student unions, and the focus of the action was usually left to the campaign organizers.

However, there were no sugges- tions of how student leaders could learn from the experience and im- prove their organizing abilities, and there was little discussion of the original aimsof the national student day.

The workshop discussion lack- ed, as did the November 9 day itself, any assessment of which is- sues should receive priority, how these should be analyzed and whether a national student day was the appropriate means to express any concerns.

Despite the failure of the work- shop to produce any strategy for the future, many delegates favoured greater cooperation with organized labour. Simon Fraser University delegate Brain Emery said that the student leaders should sit down with a group (organized labour) “which has more experi- ence than we do”.

University of Winnipeg delegate Ben Parker said that the action with labour was necessary so that stu- dent leaders could have “more vis- ibility to students”.

A hotly debated motion from At- kinson College delegate Jack Gazan calling for a national confer- ence between student and labour representatives resulted in an ag- reement that a NUS priority would be the organization of a national conference of labour and students leaders and “other interest groups” to establish a co-ordinated action on the unemployment issue.

The student representatives reaffirmed a program adopted at the October 76 conference listing a series of demands on the govern-

ment in establishing a massive job mer jobs for students of both li- creation program. These include mited and unlimited duration, con- the creation of community oriented and community controlled prog-

trolled at the national and regional levels by advisory bodies compris-

rams which would include, but not ing representatives-of students and concentrate exclusively on, sum- labour.

Tourists live off * A UW sociology class returned

last May 13 from Haiti, where they had been studying social problems, including why the people suffer from drought and starvation while the rich and foreign tourists enjoy plentiful food and water.

This year’s group consisted of eight students who were given a full credit for the three week field study. Professor Sawatsky, academic dean at Conrad Grebel through which the course is given, said that Haiti was selected over other perhaps more progressive third world nations because of the low cost, and that “there are few other places where poverty is so apparent”. “Haiti”, said Sawatsky , “provides a great vari- ety of attempts at dealing with pov- erty. It provides a laboratory set- ting where most of the island can be covered in the allotted time.”

Professor Winfield Fretz, the group leader, said he saw numer- ous cases of famine and starvation.

“It wasn’t uncommon”, he said, “to see people whose hair was turn- ing brown or red and easily falling out, as well as their stomachs being extremely swelled.” “This”, he said, “is a common sign of the symptoms of certain diseases caused by malnutrition.

This verifies a report two weeks ago by journalist Pierre Saint- Germain of Montreal’s La Presse in which he says that some people had been living on lemonade and bread for a month.

The Cuban newspaper Granma reports that a large number of peo- ple have died of starvation and lack of water and medical care in the northwestern region of Haiti -the area hardest hit by drought.

“The dead are buried in shallow graves, and public authorities are not informed, so the exact death toll will never be known . . .The rich and the members of the Haitian government have water trucks at their disposal and tourists continue to enjoy the fresh running water in the capital while poor sections and the interior are hard hit.”

Professor Fretz said that this starvation was “only to be ex- pected, after all they are poor, you know . . In a country such as this where social policies are of a very low priority, what else can you ex- pect? You can’t change it.”

When it was pointed out that Cuba, Haiti’s Caribbean neigh- bour, has made relatively great gains in this respect the professor replied,“Yes, but that would mean changing the government.”

The Regroupement Forces Democratiques of Haitians centred in Montreal has laid the blame for the drought’s extreme effects squarely on the Duvalier regime. “This wasn’t the first time Haiti had been hit by drought Everytime there are more victims, but the present regime and those before it haven’t done anything to solve the problem.”

-shih k’ang-ti

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The graduate students, upset that many of them receive little or no income for their university work, are following up on a motion of support for the principle of a guaranteed annual income, passed unanirnously by over a hundred students at the last annual general meetingofthe Grad Club in March.

The Graduate oa B rd of Directors set up a committee to draft a posi- tion paper on the need for this guaranteed income at its last meet- ing May 18.

The position of the graduates has already been made known to the administration, but according to David Scott, a grad rep on the president’s advisory committee on graduate student support, they aren’t “taking the proposal very seriously.”

He stated that they seem to be more opposed to the principle than the cost. At the board meeting, Scott produced_ figures from a re- cent report on graduate income which show the cost to the univer- sity to increase the graduate in- comes to a level of $2000 would be no more than the cost for its plan- ned increase of T.A. funds by eight and a half per cent for the 1977-78 year.

Dean of graduate studies, Lyn Watt, said of the principle of a guaranteed income, “I don’t think the university could accept it as a principle. It would deny some stu- dents admission to the graduate progrAm” because we won’t have the funds to support them.

The proposal for a guaranteed annual income has been around since May 1974, when it was pre- sented in a report drafted by a committee of graduate students and administrators and submitted to president Matthews.

Matthews rejected the recom- mendation and the issue remained buried until just recently.

While the average income of graduate students has been increas- ing over the last few years, the number of students without any in- come or an income of less than $500 a year has also been on the in- crease.

In 1971-72 3.3 per cent of the. graduates taking thee terms of full- time study made no income. By 1972-73 this had increased to 5.6 per cent. In a recent study it was found that 10.3 per cent of all gra.duates taking three terms of full- time study made no income. By for those students making less than $500 per year.

At last week’s board meeting, Grad Club treasurer, Nick Red- ding, pointed out what the McMas- ter graduate students had done when their administration tried to cut back their incomes.

When their administration an- nounced that the guaranteed an- nual income of $4,500 would be cut by $1,250, 170 graduates withheld the marks of their students. And when the administration did not fully repeal the original decision, the graduates started to organize a union which to date has a pledged support of 35 per cent of the consti- tuency.

Redding, not hopeful about negotiations with the administra- tion, stated that UW grads may have to go the union route.

To date Toronto and York graduates already have unions and three other universities in Ontario are actively organizing them.

-4awid carter

,friday, may 27, 7977

Join the struggle!

Stu Vickars has used the Feb. 23 RCMP raid on the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist -Leninist) as the occasion to attack CPC(M-L), slander the Chinese people, fal- sify Chairman Mao’s line on the correct handling of contradictions among the peo- ple, and promote his ow,n anarchist politics (see the free chevron, May 20).

Speaking as one of the persons arrested in the Feb. 23 RCMP raid on the Norman Bethune Institute in Waterloo, I don’t want any support from an anti-communist like Vickars, and I note that he has not offered any support, either. Instead, he has given real support to the reactionary Canadian state in its attack on CPC(M-L).

Vickars hopes that “Wahlsten and his friends. . .are never in a position to make laws and pass judgements over other peo- ple.” That is exactly the hope of the U.S. imperialists, the Canadian monopoly capitalists and all reactionaries, and they are persecuting the Canadian working class and its political party, CPC(M-L), precisely so that they do not achieve political power.

The bourgeoisie know that if the working class, which comprises a large majority of the population, ever achieves state power, then the rich will be expropriated and lose their freedom to live like parasites off the toil of workers.

There is no state or democracy above classes. Every state is the instrument of op- pression of one class or classes by another class or classes. Heretofore, every state, be it in slave, feudal or capitalist society, has been the dictatorship of a minority of para- sites over the vast majority of working peo- ple.

Today, there are socialist states in Albania and China, although the great socialist Soviet Union has now returned to the capitalist road and has become a social- imperialist and fascist state. Canada is now on the threshold of a new society with a democratic, independent am1 social-ist state.

The new Canadian state will provide the broadest possible democracy for the work- ing class while suppressing those reac- tionaries who want to restore the rule of imperialism. This new state, this genuinely democratic state, will be an important step towards the withering away of the state al- together and the establishment of a classless, communist society.

If Vickars picks up the black flag of anarchism with his puny “smash the state” inscribed upon it and launches an attack on the new socialist state, then he will undoub- tedly be smashed by the iron fist of the pro-

‘: letariat. If Vickars has one drop of progressive

blood in his veins orjust a tiny germ of hatred for the monopoly capitalist system, let him show this by doing something practical to smash the bourgeois state.

The best support which anyone can give me is to join the struggle, to unite in action against our common enemies, U.S. im- perialism, Soviet social-imperialism, the Canadian monopoly capitalist class and all reactionaries.

Make The Rich Pay! Doug Wahlsten

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’ - -~ -4% * Greetings. I am writing to send my support

for the contifiuation of the publication of the free chevron and request that my subscrip- tion be sustained throughout the summer months. Enclosed is a modest amount of fifteen dollars to help cover the mailing and publication costs.

I have received the free chevron during the 1976-77 semesters and have found it to be a vivacious and informative student news-

’ paper. The letter entitled “Down With Trudeau” in th’e free chevron dated April 7/77 has, pi-ompted me to write, as I am a graduated student, unemployed for three

months, who is outraged by this latest attack by Trudeau on the youth and students of Canada.

With the current economic crisis deepen- ing, the response of the reactionary bourgeoisie is to “make the people pay” by maintaining high levels of inflation, increas- ing unemployment, cutting back in health and social services and implementing wage and price controls. Students are faced with the dismal reality of a 14% unemployment rate, yet Trudeau’s response to the just de- mands of the students for jobs is to get out of Canada and “find another country which needs university graduates”. Turning truth on its head, Trudeau points the finger of blame at the students for the high level of unemployment, saying, “There are just too many university graduates, that’s all” ! On the contrary, it is Trudeau, the monopoly capitalist class, and the sellouts to U.S. im- perialism, who should get.out of Canada.

This fascist addition to the vicious cam- paign of slanders launched against the un- employed, youth and students and working class of Canada, brings to mind the current struggles of the revolutionary youth in Zim- babwe, Angola, Spain, Italy and all across the globe. I think of the historic role played by the students of China who led the May 4th Movement in 1919 - a cultural revolution, significant because of its thorough and un- compromising opposition to imperialism, as well as feudalism. The youth and students of the world have a proud and heroic history of rebelling against reaction, international im- perialism and the reactionary bourgeoisie of their own country.

Enver Hoxha, 1st Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, states that “in the bourgeois and revisionist countries, uncer- tainty for the present and fear of the future nags at the youth day in and day out. Every second of every hour their minds are poisoned by confusing propaganda, urging them to an empty, dissipated life, devoid of ideals, which alienates them from the revolu- tion, which drives them to the road of crime and hooliganism, and casts them into anarch- ism, utopia, and despair.” (Report submit- ted to the 7th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania, 1977)

The reactionary bourgeoisie of Canada has the evil scheme of mobilising the Cana- dian youth for fascism. This programme, call- ed Katimavik, plans to mobilize a fascist youth corps of lO,OOO-25,000 youth for the war preparations of the Canadian state in the service of U.S. imperialism. This, indeed, is the ‘“bleak future” Trudeau has planned for the Canadian youth.

In contrast, Enver Hoxha further points out that the youth of socialist Albania “are surrounded by the special care of the Party and the entire society. Great prospects which guarantee their present and future and give lofty meaning to their life have been opened to them.”

local reactionaries, the students are waging a valiant struggle to uphold their right to a democratic student newspaper which de- fends the basic interests of the students. Whatever the intrigues of the reactionary forces, the just struggles of the democratic forces shall be victorious. Thisis the era of imperialism and world proletarian socialist revolution. Revolution is the main trend in the world today. The response of the stu- dents must be to denounce and oppose the state of the rich by organising with unemp- loyed youth and the working class to demand jobs and take up the tactical line of MAKE THE RICH PAY!

Sylvia Collins

The free chevron, supported by the demo- cratic and progressive students of UW, is showing that the youth and students are fill- ed with revolutionary spirit. Faced with the underhanded conspiracies and frauds of the

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A member of the Canadian University Press, the free chevron is produced ’ and published by the chevron staff and is typeset by Bumont Press Graphix. The free chevron is produced from Room 140, Campus Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. Mail should be sent to P.O. Box 802, Waterloo. Telephone (519) 742-5502.

I’ve learned another lesson the hard way: Everybody, including myself, is affected by a heavy unemployment situation. It’s something for everyone to think about, because it seems the provincial and federal governments don’t want to.

, Jamie Thiers

The deadline for feedback is Tuesday noon

The summer heat is on but the spirit of the staff is not dampened, even if there was no air conditioning on the hottest days. In our continuing attempt to carry our struggle outside the confines of the office and beyond the pages of the newspaper, we have entered teams into the ball hockey and soccer competitions. So far we’re on a losing streak but the moral and competitive spirit are building. Thanx again to the following: will (randy) barkman?, phil rogers, larry hannant, henry hess (a good friend back from the sticks for a visit), henry crapo, peyton, joanne monroe, Carolyn harris, mark mcguire, tom cody, peter blunden, lorne gershuny, nick redding, karen moore, mary faught, shih k’ang-ti, marina taitt, jonathon coles, heather robert- son, salah bachir, gerard kimmons, jules grajower, ciaran o’donnell, mart shafroth, jamie thiers, doug hamilton, doug wahlsten, and peter tompson. And a sporting thanx to those who helped us go down 3 to 1 in the soccer game: jacob, lori, dave, and the man we picked up for the

Summer has come for most university students, which means we’re all out looking forjobs to pay for school again in the fall. Only this summer, it’s different. More people are out of work this year than any other year since the Depression. It’s running at about ten per cent of the labour force right now.

Young and foolish as I am, I didn’t let such facts worry me when I started after ajob. In late April I went to the iron mines in eastern Qukbec and Labrador, riding high with the confidence that I’d be employed within a week. I had three factors going for me: 1) The area is barren and lonely, with snowfalls in nine months of the year, therefore few people would go there to work; 2) i Production of iron ore was just beginning in April, after being closed down for the winter, creating hundreds of jobs; 3) I had worked for the company for four months in 1975, had a good work record, and I had been laid-off rather than being fired or having quit.

I felt so sure that I would get a job that I didn’t register at Manpower before leaving for Qukbec. Bad omens, like the front page story in the chevron on few job opportunitie’s in K-W and a CBC news broadcast about a Newfoundland mill shutdown, didn’t bother me person- ally.

When I got to iron ore country, I found a very different story than the one I expected. There were no jobs there, and none were coming in the forseeable future. The significance of this may be hard to fathom to a Southern Ontarion, but here’s some back-up info: hundreds of workers had been laid-off for the winter in November, and all but four returned to the desolate, lonely town after spending the winter in warmer, exceiting places like Mont&l.

1977 is the first year ever that that mining company is not looking for workers. By the time I got there, people had been in town for two months waiting for the first job vacancy.

With a heavy heart and the dread of applying for a student loan (I’ve always paid my own cash for anything I bought), I started heading west for Qntario. On the way I stopped at four towns that depended on the mining industry just to check for any possibilities. It was the same story everywhere. Every company had far more applicants than they didjob vacancies.

I’m back in Toronto now, with two part-time jobs paying minimum wage. I’ll be lucky to make even a hundred dollars a week. Not even assembly-line work is available in factory- rich Toronto.

8 the free chevron irichy, may 27, 7977

In “‘Cross of Iron”

In an era where violence, in its Dogs” and “The Getaway” though western and tackled World War way of Captain Stransky (Maximii- The plot is secondary to the di- many forms, is the current Hoi- - there were respites like his simple Two. An ideal setting for a man iian Scheii) and his quest for the recting and possibly Peckinpah’s lywood rage, it is only predictable classic “The Ballad of Cable who lines up his shots through a iron cross of bravery. Stransky , a message, as old as it may be. that the master anti-sadistic sadist, Hague” about a self-determined machine gun rather than a camera. Prussian aristocrat, is “fighting for WWII seems a massive excuse Sam Peckinpah, be allowed man who “found water where there The possibilities of carnage are the principles of (his) country, right for Peckinpah to destroy property

and blow up, shoot and stab peo- ple. Machine guns are emptied into bodies, hand grenades throw bodies twenty feet into the air, bodies are run over by trucks

another shot at a movie (and vari- ous individuals’ stomachs). 01- wrong.” He is willing to forfeit

There was a time - just after Steiner’s life for what Steiner con- “Major Dundee” (1965) when Pec- siders “a piece of woodiess kinpah was virtually blacklisted metal”. from the industry. He cel?ainiy Steiner is hooked on war and on wasn’t the first (witness Von leading a man’s life. He hates ail

Stroheim, Griffith etc.) and it officers. shows how quickly directors can be The main characters are Ger- out of work when film budgets are bigger than the GNP of certain

mans fighting Russians (on the

countries. Tamen penninsuia in 1943) but it really doesn’t matter to Peckinpah.

Then came “‘The Wild Bunch” War is hell no matter which side in 1969. Producers swallowed you’re on. (“They’re not fighting Peckinpah’s individualism an d for their country or the party, but again accepted him. The film made for their lives” .) money. The audience identifies with the

It also htid another impact: open- Germans just as they would Ameri- ing the way for the very violent cans or British - it isn’t hard since film. The violence seemed very most of them speak with British (or realistic. yet was distant and art- Welsh) accents. They only sing in fully directed. German.

Some viewed it as grotesque James Mason (Colonel &ant) while others like myself, felt it was and Scheii excel as character ac- visually beautiful - a ballet of wasn’t”. endless. . . . - . * YV. ,. . tors while David Warner (the priest inpah shows that he is possibly the death. Now, in the typical Hollywood “Cross of Iron” involves the in- from “Cable Hague”) is even bet-

The trend he started, he con- tradition (ie. the bigger the better), dividuaiistic corporal Steiner ter in the part of a worn-out officer. best special effects director in the business.

tinued in such films as “Straw Peckinpah has abandoned the (James Coiburn) who stands in the Coiburn, as usual, is a good lead. --randy barkman

. . . Women - what’% neur’? - are abused.

Peckinpah dresse\ I’P the wounds with artistic Lose cf quiet. quick editing . and the now familiar use of slow motion. The \,iolence in some scenes is oler-whelming with blood spiurting betureen ekery edit. Soon nothing \frill be shocking.

There are many great scenes in the film. Steiner. recuperating in a hospital. has visions during his re- covery and attacks ci dinner table and some officers.

A Russian tank attack stops at nothing to seek out the enemy. They follow them e\‘en into buiid- ings.

“Cross of Iron” lacks the depth a movie needs to be great but Peck-

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“Time Loves a Hero” Little Feat’s sixth release is the group’s tines? album: a stunning collection of ail the best aspects of 1970’s rock.

The music that Little Feat creates is intelligent and stylish. You won’t hear any of the long bor- ing instrument solos that mar the music of many rock groups. Rather, their music is cohesive the musicians play with the rhythmn of the song rather than over top of it, which happens unfortunately ail too infrequently in rock music these days.

The result is music that sounds fresh, inventive, and incredibly varied. The material on “Time Loves a Hero” ranges from hard funky rock to electric jazz to coun- try oriented folk. The group, con- sisting of Bill Payne on keyboards, Sam Clayton percussion, Ken

ste Clover is a plant daily stepped on

or mowed dam in Waterloo. its true merits seldom appreciated. One asset is that much of it can be eaten, not just by livestock, but by humans.

Wherever there is green, clove1 can be found. Because of its abun- dance, many rank clover as a “sur- vival food” and it has indeed saved a good many lives. The young leaves and flowers can be eaten raw or briefly cooked. Clover is also used in flavouring cheeses and I

Gradney bass, Paul Barrere and Lowell George, guitars and Richard Hayward drums, is amaz- ingly adept at playing virtually any type of what is loosely termed rock music.

It’s hard to explain why Little Feat even after six fine albums have no more than a cult following of listeners. especially considering that all of their records have been met with almost unanimous critical raves.

But I’m not about to complain about it. Little Feat consistently produces music that is alive with originality and vitality which is something that commercitiiiy suc- cessful rock artists just don’t do. If you’re interested in getting into some different music have a listen to “-Time Loves a Hero”, it’s one of the finest pieces of music I’ve heard in a long time.

=--phi1 rsgers

have used its dried blossoms in var- ious smoked mixtures.

My favourite use of clover is as a tea. Collect mature red and pink blossoms on a dry, sunny day and dry them indoors for a few days.

Add a cup of boiling water to a teaspoon of the dried blossoms. Steep for a few minutes. In that first sip, the clover asserts its unique- ness, rewarding you for showing it recognition.

--shih Wang-ti

That’s a fit title. And if you like what Van Morri-

son does then I imagine you’ll like this album, and eventually ap- preciate it.

I enjoy it. It’s techriicaliy perfect music that he’s turned out here for us, filled with Van’s prac- ticed, hard-nosed sort of philosophies. Lines like “You gotta make it through the world if you can”. “You gotta do and die”, and “I’m gonna follow the road that will take me right back home” are threaded through ail of these songs, and their meaning to us is as valid as ever.

Yet clearly lacking here is the total innovation of his best albums.

instance, “Jackie Wilson Said”. Nothing here has the mystic quality of “Listen To The Lion”, “Snow In San Anseimo”, or any of the cuts on Moondance.

We don’t quite have here the as- surance or direct connection of “Hard Nose The Highway” and “The Great Deception”. I don’t want to be too hard on this album, because it is good music, but really - I was more excited ten years ago when “Gloria” came out. You can see, though, that ail these compari- sons have been only to his own past work. He’s almost an archetype in his field, now, and doesn’t relate to Peter Frampton, Bruce Springs- teen, or Patti Smith.

And the excitement and intensity This is his first album in three that ail his previous music has had, years. It’s been a period of transi- in one form OI- another, didn’t so tion and of setting himself away

often creep into this collection. from the crowd. He’s evidently Those original horn sections, been r&arranging his style of musi-

where the sound seemed as full as it Cal thought, his ego in relation to all could be made - her’e those horns sorts of things, re-assessing his fu- are solid, every arrangement tight: ture aims in the music industry, etc. but they just can’t or don’t reach Lots of things happen in three the fullness you encounter in, for years. He’s been at work, busy

with his art. I suspect that what comes after this period will be more exciting, more involving to us than what happened during it.

Special mention to two songs, though. The opening cut - “You Gotta Make It Through The World” - was well chosen to begin this album. That, and then Morrison’s consistent proficiency and honesty through what follows brings you through his record with- out suffering any profound dis- pleasures or major disillusionment.

And then you reach that last song, “Cold Wind In August”. Lis- tening to that cut made me really happy. This, you think, is why you bought yet another album by this man. This is where the transitions and changes come through to a completeness - a fuifillment, you could call it - and then ysu find yourself finally relaxing, sitting back with your eyes closed, far away, and you listen to Van Morri- son, full-warp, doing what only he can do.

--pey?cm brien

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