No bu;ld;ng on lot D say facylty, students PP&P director Bill Lobban, and architect David Horne were in the hot seat l;i;t friday afternoon as students and faculty attacked the proposal to build a new adminis- tration building on the site currently occupied by parking lot D, beside the arts library.

Lobban opened with a defense of the administration’s position. He said that previously the new build- ing was planned for the north campus just south of Columbia street, but since other plans for the development of north campus are vague now, this seems to be a poor idea. Lot D, beside the arts library, is the only place on south campus where a building could be located without destroying part of the green area, according to Lob- ban.

Horne presented the architects’ case. He said the first question was whether or not any building should be located on this site. There is an obligation to protect buildings al- ready on campus, and in this case the library is of primary concern, he said.

“The library was designed as an all-round building, the center of the campus, and it must remain the center. The design integrity of the building must be preserved,” he said.

“As development proceeds more and more in the direction of north campus there is a danger the lib-: rary will be a terminating mass rather than the center, and south campus will become a kind of backyard to the rest of the cam- pus. ”

Horne felt it is advisable to have a building on the parking site. He then proceeded to outline eight different designs that had been considered.

The first seven of these were rejected because unlike the eighth, they did not allow a good view of the library from across Laurel creek and from the area of the Village.

In the discussion that followed, math lecturer Jerome Sabat out- lined several factors in favor of placing the administration build- ing just south of Columbia street.

“As the campus expands we are going to move north leaving this location central,” said Sabat. “Most traffic comes in from the University avenue entrance, so a location near Columbia street would relieve the present traffic congestion and give easy access to the administration building, as well as convenient parking.

“There are two theaters in the immediate proximity of lot D. If

we put a building there, people from the community will have to park much further away.

“In the long run we are going to locate a new psychology building in the area of the Minota Hagey residence, and there will probably be a need for a new arts lecture hall. Lot D is the only logical loca- tion for a new arts lecture building in the future.”

Lobban answered that PP&P is considering a pedestrian oriented campus, not a vehicular oriented one. He added that the plans for the administration building make provision for 70 or 80 parking spaces, underground.

He added that lot D is already inadequate for the use of those people using the library and mod- ern languages building, and, since the government will not provide funds for the construction of park- ing buildings, it will be impossible to rectify this situation.

The university could get mort- gages to build parking structures but then it would have to charge a- bout 50 cents a day for parking and most people are not willing to pay that much, he said.

“In the future, theater nights could be held in the new theater, which is within close walking dist-

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Faculty and student priorities suggest this former University avenue co-op house would make a great admin building...on a democratically-chosen site somewhere between here and Elmiry.

ems’ sabbaticals worry Huang

Admin absence may ccwse trouble An “acting” administration at Sir George Willi-

ams University may have been responsible for the incident in february, and past president of the Wat- erloo faculty association Bob Huang doesn’t like the similar situation that is developing in the adminis- tration here.

At the june 19 board of governors meeting, Huang questioned the number of deans who are taking sab- batical leaves this year.

Engineering dean Archie Sherbourne, math dean David Sprott and grad-studies dean George Cross are taking sabbaticals and will be replaced by acting deans for the year. 8

Also in acting capacity for the next year will be ad- ministration president Howard Petch, academic vice. president Jay Minas, arts dean Warren Ober, and english departmgnt head Christopher MacRae. Pre- sently vacant are the positions of provost and head of the phys-ed school. The latter became vacant may 31 when Dan Pugliese resigned.

Huang said there were so many people in acting capacities at Sir George that “it was a comedy of errors. ..nobody knew who was to make the deci- sions. ”

Huang particularly questioned whether deans should be taking sabbatical leaves the same way a faculty member without administrative responsibil- ity would. “It is not the practice in Canada,” he said.

Petch replied that Sprott’s case was special and he felt the sabbatical should be allowed. “Perhaps I was ‘wrong in letting deans Sherbourne and Cross go,” he said.

Petch added that since deans are now serving on a term basis, rather than being career administra- tors, they need to keep up their research so they can get back into regular faculty work after their terms are completed.

ante to another parking lot,” Lob- ban added.

Philosophy prof Rolf George cri- ticized the administration’s propo- sal on the grounds that it was bas- ed on the assumption that the ad- ministration building should be centrally located. He said that since most faculty and students would rarely use such a building, it should be peripherally located.

“Perhaps we could retain a few offices on south campus for fee payments and information, and to provide the president and a few others with centrally located of- fices, but there is certainly no need to have the whole administration in the center of the campus.”

Someone else suggested the coordination and placement off ices could go in the engineering com- plex.

Sabat added, “If the phys-ed complex is going to be used for reg- istration and examinations for the next ten years, isn’t this another reason for having the administra- tion building in that area?”

Philsophy prof Jan Narveson suggested that for co-op students using the coordination and place-

ment departments, a walk from the engineering building or com- puter center to north campus would not be much farther than to lot D.

“Eventually we hope to have a fine arts building on campus. Lot D would be the logical location for it, as we would hope that people from all faculties would use it,” added Narveson. “Besides, all aca- demic ‘buildings are more import-

-ant than the administration build- ing, so it should obviously go some- where else.”

“That depends on your point of view,” said Lobban.

“There,” said Narveson, “you’- ve admitted your premises. ”

“Many faculties want to reserve space on south campus for their future expansion”, said Lobban. “It’s time we put a lid on the population there. ”

Pure math prof Henry Crapo said,“We’ve come to the point where the enrolment for south campus has reached it’s proposed peak, and there are as yet no buildings on north campus which

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In new university act

Limit campus courts to academic offenses

“The university community should be governed by the laws of the land except for academic regu- lations and physical maintena- nce. ”

This was Federation of Stu- dents president Tom Patterson’s viewpoint which initiated a lengthy discussion on student discipline at the june 19 meeting of the uni- versity act committee.

The committee has been meet- ing for several months to draft the act required by provincial legislature to empower a govern- ing body.

As well as rejecting the idea of the university acting as the stu- dents’ guardian, Patterson ob- jected that the disciplinary juris- diction section of the drafted act excluded employees of the uni- versity and faculty members.

University lawyer Stewart Mank felt since faculty and staff were under written contract they should not be subject to university dis- ciplinary measures.

However board of governors rep Craig Davidson pointed out that students, by paying their fees when they enrol, have a con- tract similar to faculty and staff and should therefore have similar freedom and restrictions.

Father Zac Ralston of St. Jer- ome’s College backed Patterson, explaining that since there is no difference between faculty and stu- dents under general law any deci- sions for university jurisdiction must not discriminate either.

Committee chairman Ted Bat- ke suggested the university should restrict its authority to academic regul&ions.

As the general consensus was unfavorable to the present draft, Mank was asked to draw up a re- vised draft and submit it at the1 next committee meeting.

Batke went on to outline several proposals affecting the chancellor and chairman of the governing council which had been brought forward by the steering commit- tee.

The chancellor could either be chairman of council or be kept separate by electing a vicechan- cellor to serve as chairman.

Present chancellor Ira Needles felt since the chancellorship was an honorary position with few du- ties, it should be given to some- one “of high standing in his par-

titular field in society” and the term be shortened from six years to three in order to grant the posi- tion to more people.

The committee decided since the university president is respon- sible to the board he could not be council chairman:

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After further discussion the committee decided the present section which provides for a chan- cellor and chairman from external members of the council should be retained at the same time shorten- ing the term from six to three years.

Adoption of a suitable name for the governing body of the univer- sity, membership restrictions, and attendance of the board were also discussed.

The committee will recommend that the governing body be called the council of governors and mem- bership terms be limited to three years with a maximurn of two terms concurrent. Students elec- ted to the board will have one year terms with a two term maximum.

The council membership was set at approximately 68 members. Attendance at council meetings was discussed and Needles sug- gested “If we can’t get people to come to at least half of the meet- ings then maybe we aren’t getting the right people.”

A motion was passed raising compulsory attendance to fifty percent of the meetings, the coun- cil having permission to grant leave of absence to its members.

The next meeting, to more or less finalize the university act draft, will be held in july.

Three students killed in crash

Three civil 4A students were killed early thursday morning when their car rammed a pole on Phillip street near the intersec- tion with Albert street.

The driver, Jim Thomson. was pronounced dead at the scene. Tim Myall was dead on arrival at hospital and John Graham died about an hour later.

Three other classmates were injured in the crash. Guido Rinks and Bob Connelly are in hospital. Barry Russell was hurt. but not seriously.

Board questions student lecturers The question of full-time lec- “It has been under study since

turers in mathematics being we discovered this situation while full-time graduate students at discussing salaries in the spring,” the same time was raised at the replied interim administration last meeting of the board of gov- president Howard Petch. “It is ob- ernors, but left unresolved. viously not a proper situation.”

Faculty association president Jim Ford asked math dean David Sprott if any of the eleven full- time lecturers whose appoint- ments were contained in Sprott’s latest report were degree candid- ates here-whether they were both full-time lecturers and grad stu- dents at the same time.

Faculty Association past pres- ident Bob Huang said, “We were in agreement then that this sit- uation would not continue, but here we are perpetuating it. ”

Petch wondered if by septem- ber the lecturers involved would have changed their status, but Spr,ott said they wouldn’t.

Sprott replied that most of them were full-time grad students here.

“I was under the impression this was being studied” said Ford.

The discussion was ended by board chairman Carl Pollock who said, “I’m sure the president pro-tern can work this out with you.”

Pres candidates to visit campus The presidential search com-

mittee expects to invite from four to six potential Uniwat presidents to campus for interviews and meetings with faculty, adminis- tration and students, student council was told Saturday.

Grad rep Nick Kouwen and three other students sit on the committee which is now meet- ing regularly in closed sessions.

Kouwen sought council’s gen- eral approval for a procedure whereby candidates will visit the campus for about two days, their visits being well publicized in ad- vance.

In addition to meetings with senior administration and the sea-

rch committee, the guest would give a public scholarly address on a topic of his choice. “That way we can tell what they feel is im- portant,” Kouwen said.

The address would be followed by a question period.

After all visits are completed, the committee intends to rank the candidates, noting any object- ions they have heard expressed. The name of the highest ranking candidate will be sent to the sen- ate and board of governors fdr their consideration.

Council had no objections to the proposal and agreed candi- dates should be asked to meet with the executive of the feder- eration during their visits.

Wuterloo logic group organized An institute on campus has been Richard Dewey and others.

set up to serve as a point of con- tact for people in various aca- “Communication between the

demic fields who share an in- various types of logic users has

terest in logic. not been good,” Schotch stated.

The Institute of Formaliza- The institute is sponsoring tion has been organized by pro- tuesday afternoon seminars in fessor Jay Minas, Peter Schotch, room 5158 of the math building.

$7200 to spare in EngSoc coffers The fund committee of EngSoc

is looking for ideas on how best to use the engineer’s money.

The chairman . reported at tuesday’s EngSoc meeting that so far there have been suggestions the money be invested, used for a bookstore, or put toward building a pub- “a big barn to get stoned in.”

.

The fund committee chairman also noted a suggestion that en- gineers radicalize themselves and take over the farmhouse on campus to use as a pub or a re- treat. He said, “The idea was given as a joke, but the more you think about it . . . ”

The coordination advisory coun- cil rep reported the council has almost completed its first coor-

dination relations studies and will have its reports out soon.

EngSoc pr*esid*ent *Glen Hodge announced the constitutiori com- mittee has completed the draft and that it will be presented at the next meeting for study and dis- cussion.

Council w*as i*nfor*med that the course critiques will be distribu- ted next week.

The meeting ended with a long discussion of the purpose of Eng- Sot. Most felt it should be more than just a social club and should do more in education, such as the lecture series and course cri- tiques.

No concrete proposals came out of the discussion but there was a general resolve to try to in- volve more students in EngSoc and university affairs.

Mass communications out of step MONTREAL (GINS)-The re- volt by students and the poor ag- ainst a political and social sys- tem that suppresses individual- ity in favor of the mass is also a revolt against mass communi- cations, federal communicat- ions, minister Eric Kierans said last week.

Newspapers and television are fatally out of step with a social shift that stresses individual choice rather than mass tastes, he told a conference on mass communi- cation and society at McGill Un- iversity.

In their conventional form they face death by public indif- ference.

“Many of the ablest members

of society simply ignore the mass media because they believe- rightly or wrongly is irrelevant -that these syste-ms of communi- cation present a totally distorted and artificial view of society ,as it really exists,” Kierans said.

“And they are right, if one considers the way in which such profound social changes as the sexual revolution and the generation gap have, in large measure, been reported by the mass media solely in terms of sensationalism. ”

Kierans suggested Canada may be entering the end of the era of mass communications and the beginning of “the era of indi- vidual communications.”

Council handles summer details - At last Saturday’s meeting, student council:

l learned that a mail vote of council members approved education board chairman Dave Cubberley and University of Western Ontario grad student Bob Baldwin as federation summer research assi- stants ; l was told that the board of education will dis- tribute the McGill birth control pamphlet to fresh- men at registration ; l agreed to consult with federation chief justice Mike Robinson over the fate of the arts society. His advice will go to the committee of society and fed- eration presidents which will supervise fall elec- tions for the arts society, before its fees are turned over after registration ; l heard board of governors observer Glenn Berry

call the recent board meeting “a depressing exper- ience. ” Berry said the board closed its meeting at 2 pm for a private session and threw out the stu- dent observers. “One member said, ‘Now we get to tell the dirty jokes,“’ Berry reported ; l approved $400 from the external relations board conferences budget for the local Student Christian Movement to send four delegates to the SCM nat- ional conference; l decided not to send representatives to the sec- ond rebuilding conference of the Canadian Union of Students in july ; l gave its support and agreed to urge participation in a CUS-sponsored national day of protest over

summer unemployment, if one is held. No fit’rancial outlay will be made other than for local publicity;

l received-and tabled the housing report n! for- mer arts rep Jim Stendebach f;r. further action after the September rush foi housing. Sten- debach recommended council build or push the ad- ministration to construct apartment-style accomo- dation for Waterloo students ; l on a motion of math rep Dave Greenberg, un- animously passed a resolution “that there be no dean of men at the University of Waterloo. ”

President Tom Patterson reported to council that interim administration president Howard Petch is anxious that such a post be filled to take over some of the work formerly handled by the provost.

Councillors felt the functions Petch suggests the dean of men would have are being looked after by other offices in the university such as counselling and the federation.

Greenberg noted, “It seems like an attempt to channel communications between the administration and council-a separation, rather than a link.”

l heard student activities board chairman Louis Silcox report that the format of grad ball may be drastically changed next year since this year’s estimated $100 a couple total cost is prohibitive.

“Wk’re thinking of having a weekend affair later in the summer, probably at a resort. with more fun and games, at about $25 a couple,” he said.

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will be ready when enrolment goes with applause from the audience. At this point the chairman was over this figure.” The motion was ignored by the reminded there was a motion on

Lobban agreed that there will chair and more discussion ensued. the floor that should be voted on. probably be-severe overcrowding Mike Corbett, arts 3, suggest- on south campus for a year or ed all the alternatives for the site Lobban asked interim adminis-

so. in question be considered. “Then tration president Howard Petch if

At this point someone proposed if it is decided a building should it was appropriate to take a vote

a motion that the group present be there, the next logical question on the motion. “It doesn’t matter,” take a stand against any building is ‘what building? ’ ” Petch replied. being located in lot D now. Th& Lobban answered, “The admin- A vote was taken and the motion motion was seconded and ,greeted istration building”. carried.

Village hill view of the proposed new admin building.

Housing office open scaturdays

The off-campus housing office in the campus center will now be open Saturdays from 10: 30am to 3pm until September with the Phase 111 6.

The office, in its new Location in the Village coffeeshop, is open weekdays from 8am to 4pm.

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Council favors recall, refer&dum Student council is all in favor

of handing over more decision- making powers to the general federation membership. The prob- lem is how best to do it.

In a go-minute brainstorming session Saturday, councillors talk- ed over possible reforms to gen- eral meeting and referendum pro-, cedures and methods for consti- tuencies to recall council mem- bers whose performance displea- ses them.

Federation president Tom Pat- terson introduced the topic by saying council needs to relate more closely to the federation membership. “When people feel they have an effect on deci- sions, their interest increases,” he said.

Patterson feels the present sys- tem means students alienate their relationship with things in the university to another group of students who go off and attempt to represent them. “But it is hard for council to know their opinion. ’ ’

He suggested referendums cal- led by a certain percentage of the student population should be bind- ing on the federation and not sub- ject to council approval as they are now.

. process, they make more know- ledgeable decisions. I’d rather People learn from mistakes than have us protecting them from having to make decisions.”

Math rep Dave Greenberg said he would like to see bylaw amend- ments so referendums would have to be held within a speci- fied period of time. As well he was not happy with general meet- ings having much decision-making power. “I would rather see a group at a general meeting call a ref- erendum on an issue,“, he said.

Patterson defended decision- making meetings because “it helps if people feel their decision is important and not just a recom- mendation to council. ”

Publications board chairman Geoff Roulet added that it is not so much the problem of a few people at a meeting making a dec- ision but the matter of publicity and timing of general meetings.

Grad rep Nick Kouen suggested agendas for general meetings be published and no additions to them allowed.

Also council reps should be sub- ject to recall if they aren’t doing their jobs-a procedure which would mean councillors would be more closely watched by their constituents than they are now.

“We should change the struc- ture to make. the base of the federation stronger,” Patterson concluded.

Patterson commented that it is important that anything people want to discuss be talked about, but perhaps such matters could be referred to a referendum, to student council or another spec- ially-called general meeting.

Grad rep Dave Gordon sugges- ted more power in the hands of the general membership might lead to irresponsible decisions.

Patterson replied, “I think you’ll find when people become in- volved in the decision-making

Former federation president Steve Ireland noted that corporate general meetings need almost three weeks’ notice so out-term students can vote by proxy. How- ever such a long period of time would be awkward in dealing with current and controversial issues, he said.

The alternative would in ef- fect disenfranchise those people not on campus. This would be a particular problem during the summer when the great majority of students are not in classes.

Ireland backed the idea of in-

Board approves business l According to a count pub-

lished in Wednesday’s Gazette, “the board of governors ratified reports involving 117 changes (appointments, leaves, etc.), including administrative appoin- tments among faculty members, l Included in the 117 changes was the “resignation” of poli-sci prof Don Epstein. Epstein’s con- tract was not renewed by the poli-sci department, a decision that upset several junior facul- ty members and many students. Epstein says he didn’t submit resignation and wasn’t asked to.

Arts dean Jay Minas said, “When a guy is hired on a term basis and his appointment expires, I don’t know if it even needs to go to the board of governors for ap- proval.” l The board approved format-

ion of the division of environmen- tal studies, with Leonard Gertler as director of the urban and reg- ional planning school, T.E. Bjorn- stad as director of the architecture

’ school, and Robert Irving as geography department chairman. l The firm of Mathers and Haldenby was proposed for the list of approved university archi- tects.

“I know Mr. Haldenby very well and am very pleased to move the appointment,” said board member George Craig.

The board appointed the firm to design the proposed archi- tecture school building. l Approval in principle was

given for a proposed 350-bed Ren- ison college residence, to be ready for 1971 occupancy.

Financing will be arranged through the university with the Ontario student housing corpor- ation, similar to financing of Habitat ‘69.

l The board approved a $150,- 000 allotment from the 1969-70 operating budget for library ac- quisitions at the discretion of the chief librarian. This brings the budget amount for acquisitions for 1969-70 to about $800,000.

The board was told that about $400,000 was spent in acquisi- tions in 1968-69. l Administration treasurer Bru- ce Gellatly announced an income of about $340,000 from short- term investments of operating capital in the year ending june 1969.

The board accepted the plan to put this money in the capital fund rather than use it in oper- ating. l The board approved increases

‘in the student health insurance fee to a maximum of $25 single and $75 family, subject to further approval by the federation of Students and academic-services director Pat Robertson. The pre- sent rates are $10 single and $45 family, both for a one-year per- iod.

The major portion of the in- crease is due to the doctors’ de- mands for fee-for-service payment rather than taking a salary.

Editor slugged, charges laid

Campus security police were called to the Chevron offices in the campus center last friday night to investigate a complaint by editor Bob Verdun.

Verdun told the officers that while he was talking on the tele- phone, two men entered his of- fice, one of whom began punching him.

Charges of assault against Ron Adlington, phys-ed ZB, are pending.

dividual members being subject to impeachment. “The problem with the uproar last fall wasn’t that there was a radical council, it was that many members, the so-called moderates, were not doing their jobs. Students in each constituency should have recalled their own reps if they weren’t satisfied, rather than sought the removal of the whole council,” he said.

Ireland suggested all important votes in council -be recorded and possibly published so students know how, their reps are voting.

A number of councillors noted that the impeachment of indi- vidual reps in multi-member con- stituencies could lead to problems.

Renison rep Paul Dube cited a hypothetical situation where four reps were elected, three of whom tended to the left in their politi- cal thought. Students in a constit- uency could have the non-leftist member recalled, forcing a bye- election in which another person of their persuasion could be ele- cted, he said.

Arts rep Larry Caesar sug- gested that if one rep was recalled,

G/endon incident resolved

reforms there should be a whole new ele- ction for all seats in that constitu- ency.

Gordon commented, “If you have too many elections, people will get tired of voting. They just won’t come out.”

Council referred the entire question to a committee of Rou- let, Kouwen, engineering rep Tom Boughner and communications commissioner Barry Fillimore. The group will prepare a report for the august council meeting and amendments to the federation bylaws may be ready for fall.

Will allow unscheduled speeches TORONTO (CUP)-The comm-

ittee on student affairs at Glen- don College yesterday ruled that student union president Robert McGaw was discourteous in his attempt to make an unsched- uled speech at the college’s may 31 convocation ceremonies.

to make their beliefs known at any formal gathering which con- cerns the quality or direction of life at Glendon College. ”

Neither Ross nor his chief assi- stant, John Becker, were available for comment.

There were no formal charges against McGaw, who did not app- ear before the committee. The convocation incident was discus- sed at the request of Glendon pri- ncipal Escott Reid, who asked the committee in a memorandum “to consider what penalties should be imposed on McGaw.”

Abeila said, regarding McGaw’s convocation actions, “We are supposedly an experimental col- lege, yet our convocation ceremo- ny was the most tradition-bound thing....Deep down, I feel there is justification for what McGaw did. ”

At the same time, however, the committee, an advisory body of seven faculty members and seven students, passed a motion recommending “channels be cre- ated for all future Glendon Col- lege functions to allow a statement of opinion in a courteous manner for a limited period by those in attendance. ”

By doing so, the committee en- dorsed the stand taken by McGaw in a statement circulated by stu- dents at yesterday’s meeting which said, “It is my hope that COSA will recommend future for- mal gatherings provide for and schedule the recognition of speak- ers from the audience.”

McGa w said, “This follows upon the assumption that all members of the community have the right

The recommendation of the committee to ask that steps be taken in the future to allow unsche- duled speeches was felt by some members to be in opposition to the opinions of York president Murray Ross’s office.

History lecturer I.M. Abella, chairman of the committee, said that during the past two weeks he has received “frantic phone calls” from the president’s office that ‘urged action in case this incident opens the way for stu- dents to speak at other univer- sity functions. ”

“7s this the way we%e supposed to put these rubber things on,?” ct I don ‘t know, I’ve never been to a gangsplash before. ”

Abella also told the committee that he and other’ faculty mem- bers had asked members of the graduating class if they were angry or offended enough to lodge a formal complaint against Mc- Gaw with COSA. All asked refused to do so, he said.

While the college committee- was meeting, ten Glendon stu- dents had formed an ad hoc board of inquiry and drew up a state- ment which “condemned and cen- sured principal Reid and presi- dent Ross for their reaction to McGaw’sattempt to speak to the Glendon College convocation. ”

When McGaw attempted to speak, officials near the podium cut off the sound system, effec- tively silencing McGaw , and then called a quick end to the ceremonies.

The student statement said “The repression of freedom of speech in this instance can only be seen as an indication that Glendon College like Canadian society, will only accept dissent on its own terms, and will not tol- erate challengers to its estab- lished ideas and structures. ”

It went on to say, “Not only do president Ross’ and principal Reid’s actions show that hey do not accept the principle of free speech in the university it also showed that there does not appear to be any qualitative difference between the suppression of Iegi- timate non-violent protest and the use of police against demonstrat- ors at Simon Fraser University last fall. In each case, an effort was made to single out and pun- ish individual leaders.”

The statement, which was read during the formal committee meeting, did not have much vis- ible effect on the committee mem- bers, who had decided to ac- cept McGaw’s principle of free speech, although in a “chan- nelled” manner.

The college committee also ’ heard a letter of support from Martin Loney and Jim Kehoe, presidents-elect of CUS and OUS respectively.

Also, Jim Martin, president of the traditionally conservative Glendon College residence coun- cil, wrote that he strongly opposed any penalty for McGaw, and said that in any community “it is more important to have free speec,h rather than scheduled speech.”

The three Glendon students who distributed watermelon when Mc- Gaw attempted his unscheduled speech were not discussed by the committee.

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Robafts govemment forcing universities together by Harold Greer from the Montreal Star

system-wide planning which implies a * picion. It has, in fact, set up its own coun- ting system.

Special to Canadian University Press

The presidents of Ontario’s provincial- ly-assisted universities have proposed a form of limited merger which they think will preserve academic autonomy and keep the government out of their hair.

capacity for the collectivity to make judgments which infringe on the auton- omy of individual institutions.”

SOME CREDITS This coordination and planning, up

to now, has been done by the committee of presidents of the universities of On- tario, and it has some undeniable achieve- ments to its credit. A common admis- sions procedure has been developed; an inter-university library transit system

- for sharing library resources is in op- eration ; an appraisals committee has been set up to evaluate new graduate programs and thereby eliminate dupli- cation in a highly costly area.

But this progress has not been enough to keep the government at arm’s length. On the graduate programs appraisal sys- tem, for example, the best agreement the universities could reach amongst themselves was that each institution would be free to decide whether or not, to submit its graduate programs to ap- praisal. The government, not satisfied with this, promptly announced that only appraised programs would qualify for gov- ernment grants.

Perhaps most important of all, how- ever, the committee of presidents has not been structurally competent to do what has to be done. It has lacked the staff for intensive research and analysis, with the result that the real initiation of ideas comes from the government’s ad- visory committee on university affairs. And since it consists only of university administrators, it has lacked the political authority so to speak, to represent the academic community as a whole.

from the senates of about half the uni- versities involved, and all have indicated agreement in principle to what the presidents have in mind. A meeting of the committee of presidents is scheduled for june 23 to consider the next step for- ward.

The proposal is for a council of univer- sities of Ontario which would have pow- er to make decisions binding on each university in areas of common concern. On such questions the council would be the exclusive point of contact between the universities and the government, which now supplies almost all the money the universities need for operating costs and capi ta1 expansion.

In some respects, the proposal is similar to the recommendation for a super Uni- versity of Ontario made two-and-a-half years ago by the Spinks commission-a recommendation which the universities rejected in horror as a threat to their individual independence.

The commission, headed by president John Spinks of the University of Saskat- chewan, had in mind a corporation to which all the universities would belong and which would coordinate university programs, establish long-range plans and direct university growth. Such an organ- ization, the commission said, would give the academic community “the op- portunity of regulating its own affairs and reduces or even eliminates the likeli- hood the government will have to impose regulations and restrictions upon the universities.”

The same considerations, if not quite the same solution, are behind the presi- dents’ proposal for a council of universi-

-ties. In a document which has been sub- mitted to the academic communities for comment, they declare that while the concept of a University of Ontario has been rejected, “the universities recog- nize the necessity of coordination and

Similarly, the universities managed to agree among themselves on a proposal for a computer network, the effect of which would have placed a very expensive computer centre in almost every univer- sity. The government promptly hired its own consultants and decided that region- al computers should be a public utility independent of university control. MISCALCULATION

The conimittee of presidents also struck out last year when it badly over- estimated enrolment forecasts, the ef- fect of which was to produce more money from the public treasury under the oper- ating grants formula than was needed. The government was decidedly unha,ppy about this and now views the universities’ satistical research with the deepest sus-

Accordingly, the presidents have de- cided their committee should be replaced by a council consisting of the president and a colleague from each university, the colleague being either a professor or a student elected by the university’s academic body. The council would in turn be advised by four program commit- tees-arts and science, health sciences, other professions and graduate studies- on which each university would be repre- sented by a dean or senior officer and a faculty member or student.

Since there are 14 publicly-assisted universities in the province, there would be 70 positions in the structure to be fill- ed and therefore considerable opportun- ity for faculty and student representation. AGREE IN PRINCIPLE

The presidents’ proposal discreetly speaks of the decisions of the council as policies “for the guidance of individual universities” but it is quite clear that in matters requiring collective action, each university would be bound by the coun- cil’s judgment. A submission from the council to the government on what the basic income unit in the operating grants formula should be, for example, would not be open to challenge by individual universities. Nor would a decision on the development of new programs such as where new university teaching hospitals or new bibliographic centres should be.

So far, reactions have been received

At least one major difficulty, how- ever, has already been indicated. The committee of presidents has operated on one man, one vote but the University of Toronto, for one, has indicated that voting in the proposed council will have to recognize “differences in size and scope of the participating institutions.” Like the United Nations, some are going to have to be more equal than others. which raises quite a problem.

See& names for Hagey lecturers

If you know anyone worth listening to, make him a Hagey lecturer.

A committee is organizing the series for february 1970, naming it after for-

, mer administration president Gerry Hag- ey. The lecturers chosen will visit here for several days and deliver a major lecture.

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Interim administration president How- ard Petch has invited students and fac- ulty to suggest names for the committee to consider.

The Hagey Lectures, to become an an- nual event, are intended to bring to Wat- erloo “an outstanding individual who has distinguished himself in some area of scholarly endeavour. ”

The committee’s terms of reference continue, “It is hoped that individuals will be selected whose work has cut a- cross traditional disciplines and whose ideas have profound implicatons on the intellectual discourse of our times.”

The committee members are profes- sors Bob Huang and Jay Minas.

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low to a trick which you can win. The purpose of this , play last week was to ensure that a right defender

remained on lead. Today’s hand shows a different purpose of the play. r

Usually the ‘duck’ play is used only when you hold the ace in the suit but there are occasions when the play is made without the ace. If south wins east’s queen with his king of hearts, he will not make the contract. Declarer will take the diamond finesse and when east wins this trick, he will return a heart and the defence will take four heart tricks as well as the diamond trick.

If south simply ducks the queen of hearts, east will return the nine. West will win his ace since - there is no reason to hold off. He knows that his part- ner cannot have another heart to lead back to him later on. It doesn’t matter what suit west returns now. South will lose the diamond finesse and east will be helpless as declarer will win the card re- turned and make a total of 11 tricks (2S,lH,5D,3C).

Should the heart suit divide 4-3 instead of 5-2 the duck play will not have cost anything as the defence can only take 3 heart tricks and one diamond trick.

The ‘duck’ play on this hand ensures the contract by cutting the communications of the defenders. East cannot put west on lead because of this play.

, suit and is conservative. Most players would jump, to 3NT with a good six card suit like this.

The ‘duck’ play., as discussed last week, is playing

I Have you all noticed the sod budget, one of our highest aca- cops will wear French naval

on sick bay? Well, PP&P have demic priorities. Officer’s Uniforms of the Naool- and _ they’re going to do some- thing about it. They’re going to finish the job. ’

That’s the latest bit of news

It also appears we’re going to have a new building on lot D. The architect was particularily concerned with a an unobstructed view of the library from two points. This obviously is ‘a scape- goat because those two points would be the only two points on campus where one would be awar- ded such a view. How does the library look from the math build- ing? or engineering? or Mino- ta Hagey?

conic era with polished brass buttons, a dress sword and a laser parking-offender-remover.

For a change of pace I will now offer you a brief glimpse into my mastery of political econo- mics.

I have been fed by my secret informer high in their staff. Plans call for things to be sodded, planted and landscaped with a rest area, within the next few weeks.

I can only concur with this decision. I also apologize to Mr. Lobban for thinking the island was an accident.

Apparently it was known that a large amount of silt and stuff would be washed downstream this spring, so they did not waste money making an island. Also the move is an economy measure. PP&P suffered many complaints when Laurel lake was dredged last year although-as Al Adlington pointed out, those funds do not come out of the library budget.

Of course they don’t. They come out of the Laurel lake dredging

-Of course everyone at the “dem- ocratic” meeting objected to los- ing a parking lot. Well fans, the writing’s on the wall-no more parking lots. They take up. too much space for too few cars.

By 1971 all cars will park on the north campus and people will be bussed in. The bus dri- vers will wear t1.e old blue campus cop uniforms which they will get from central stores. Central stores will wear the green cam- pus cop uniforms. And the campus

Canada should declare war on the Canary Islands, where the climate is nice for fighting. Hav- ing declared war, we would be required to leave the U.N. Hav- ing left the U.N., we would save - money by not having to pay dues. And maybe there would be an embargo placed on Canadian oil which wouldn’t go to the U.S. before it’s sold back to us. And the same for the major portion of our manufactured stuff. We’d be independent! That’s what countries are all about.

If we can do away with -wars, we can get rid of a foolish instit- ution called “country”, and play world or mankind or something like that.

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Queer s&e presented here Have you ever wondered what, motivates the

revolutionary heavies ? Why do they plan take- overs, overthrow administratie:ls, and burn build- ings?Littie Malcolm and -~ kis struggle against the eunuchs suggests it’s a lousy libido.

David Halliwell’s play deals with four young revolutionaries and t”n e i r newly-f o r m e d dy- namic erectionist party. The leader, Malcolm Scrawdyke,. <oncocts a brilliant scheme of re-

venge< after being kicked out of school.

1y.e goads three friends into joining him and to- gether they plot the ultimate takeover of the world. The play is a satiric study of the work- ings of a radical and obscene mind. What happens when his real self is unmasked, and the truth revealed? What does he do to the busty broad who makes- the discovery?

Find out at the arts theater, july 1, 2 and 3, about little Malcolm’s struggle against the eun- uchs-with Paul-Emile Frappier as Scrawdyke, Ian Gaskell as “Nipple”, Nick Rees as Wick,

,Dave Ditner as Ingham, and Pat Conner as Ann Gedge. Funny-they don’t kook Iikc radicals,

Q friday 27 june 7969 (70.-S) 9.3 5

While you and I have lips and voices which are for /kissing and to sing with with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with?

by Perc~t $mith. Adapted from the april bulletin of the Canadian association of university teachers.

Teach - A BOUT A DECADE AGO an academic joke

was in circulation that went as follows: Two rabbis stood on the fringe of the crowd that listened to the Sermon on the Mount. As it

ended, one turned to the other and said, “A wonderful teacher. But has he published anything?”

There were of course many such gags, more or less rueful acknowledgements of the accepted slogan of the time: “Publish or perish.” I am not fond of slogans, and and I particularly dislike that one. It is no denigration of scholarship to say that universities have for too long been giving unthinking heed to the “publish or perish” perversion.

As one notes what is going on in them in 1969 and reads what has been written about them in the past two or

three years, by the Muscatine Committee at Berk the Macpherson Committee at Toronto, the Prices and Incomes Board of the United Kingdom, and a hun- dred intermediary observers, one message comes through more clearly than any other. Although I mis- trust slogans, I propose summing up that message in four words that may constitute a sufficiently succinct rejoinder to “Publish or perish”: “Teach-or get lost.”

Let me make three qualifications. First, although I have no doubt about the applicability of this new motto to the sciences, what I am going to say is concerned mainly with the humanities.

I shall not try to define that word. I have been told by one in authority that the Science Council of Canada under- stands the word “science” to mean “scientia”. If that evidence of an official revival of interest in the classics could possibly be taken to mean a swing away from the fashionable compartmentalization of knowledge, I should have been glad to hear it; it meant no such thing.

Second, I shall be talking mainly about Canadian uni- versities, because they are the only ones that I am rea- sonably familiar with. I do not admit that they are shod- dy replicas of the universities of the United States, though it is of ten difficult to persuade either Canadians or Americans of this.

Finally, I have not been in a classroom, and scarce11 in a library, for five years, and what I have to say is based on discussion, observation, and debate over uni- versity problems in that period, with faculty, students, and administrators on almost every campus in Canada.

* * * My thesis is that the essential functions of universities

include an element that tends to be forgotten or ignored, though it is supremely important if universities are to be places of education rather than &$n&&s~s; that the relation of the humanities to that element is one of special responsibility ; that teaching is the principal means of their discharging that responsibility; and that teaching implies a wider range of concern than is com- monly recognized.

It is almost forty years since Ortega y Gasset wrote, in The Mission of the University:

Of what does this higher instruction consist, which is offered in the university to the vast legion of youth? It consists of two things:

(A) The teaching of the learned professions. (B) Scientific research and the preparation of future

investigators. He went on to comment, a little later:

Compared with the medieval university, the contemp- orary university has developed the mere seed of profes- sional instruction into an enormous activity; it has added the function of research; and it has abandoned al- most entirely the teaching or transmission of culture.

It is evident that the change has been pernicious. Ortega was not, then, describing what he wanted to

see, but what he did see; and he sounded a call for change, which was soon lost in the din of civil war. He was of course speaking of Europe, where an inherited elitism continued to exert profound influence.

The effect of North American egalitarianism (by which I do not mean equality),- technological change, and ma- terial prosperity has been to convince every American and Canadian middle-class taxpayer that every one of his children ought to be allowed to go to university for at

least long enough to discover a respectable reason for leaving.

‘A profitable investment”?

The egalitarianism is coupled with greed, abetted by economists who keep reminding us that education is a splendidly profitable cash investment. The result of the operation of such forces, combined with those of popu- lation pressure, we all know: Universities are simultan- eously stirred to tumultuous strife by overcrowding and attacked for having admissions policies that limiten- rolment. This ought not to surprise us; greed for gain inevitably implies unwillingness to pay taxes.

The result, however, is that universities lose both effectiveness and sense of purpose. I was told recently, when I visited one of the more agonized campuses, that only one textbook was in regular use-Roberts’ Rules of Order. The other day, when I reported that jocularly to a faculty member elsewhere, he gave me a solemn five- minute discourse on the inadequacies of Roberts!

There- are various theories about the function of a un- iversity in our time, but I suppose that on one or two points we might tentatively agree: that a university must have as a central concern the imparting and ex- tension of knowledge, and that it must be engaged in the pursuit of that elusive and perhaps illusory light that we call truth. Alfred North Whitehead held that the know- ledge so dealt with must be useful:

Pedants sneer at an education which is useful. But if education is not helpful, what is it? Is it a talent, to be hidden away in a napkin? Of course,. education should be useful, whatever your aim in life. This, however, seems to me to beg the question, how do we identify the useful? Every age has its fashions in utility. It was extremely useful in the eleventh century to be able to comment appropriately on the word filioque; indeed, it might be vital. Its utility in our time must be marginal at best.

The current fashion runs to measuring utility in terms of buying and selling and the gross national product, other things being at best peripheral, though they may of course be made much of for purposes of advertising and so appear useful.

For example: Some time ago there appeared in the Saturday Evening Post a full-page advertisement for a basically useful paper product. Five-sixths of the page was occupied by a glossy photograph of a common house- hold article. Below it was this searching question, direct- ad at the Age of Anxiety: “Have you ever given thought to the lowly little cardboard tube inside a roll of toilet tissue? Challenge calls for response, of course. Here is part of the text that followed:

We at Lae do. In fact, we have several grown men who think about it constantly. And they take that little card- board tube Avery seriously indeed. (“Gentlemen, this tube is the backbone of our product.“) . . . But if you think we check our tubes a lot, you should see what goes on with our tissue We have an even larger group of grown men who think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day. . . . When all the Zee tissue thinkers and the Zee tube thinkers have finished their wowk. what results is one of the best darn rolls of toilet tissue a-marbody could ever want.

We had better ask whether grown men who think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day are doing anything Ihat is not sub-human rather than useful, and go on to rude anest- ions about the science that they must have studied’ Lr\- fore the Zee company employed them.

Also, we had better ask about the man who wrote the advertisement. He had, I fear, majored in English, and had at all events learned, as an advertiser must, to tell lies slickly for profit. Was he also a graduate of an insti- tution dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the dissemin- ation of useful knowledge?

Training tissue- thinkers

“‘I don’t think it would have all got XC yurte so’ down _ & . . . if just once in a wh+ - just once in a while-there was at least ~ ;srne polite little perfunctory implication that kno F&edge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn’t, it’s just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a cam- pus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of know- ledqe. You hardly ever hear the word ‘wisdom’ men- tioned!

We are all troubled by the unrest of students, their If the word wisdom is pretentious, let us by all means threats-sometimes turned into actions-of revolt, their substitute for it, as Aldous Huxley does, “understand- denial of the ways of their elders. ing”.

Had we not better consider whether catering to the needs of a society of tissue thinkers and tube thinkers is a proper function of a university? The students seem not to want to be tissue thinkers and tube thinkers-and who can blame them?

Let me add at once that the unrest and the revolt are not confined to a small number who are “just trouble- makers”. The extreme activists may be relatively few, but they are simply the leading edge of what may well be a massive and turbulent storm. Andrew Kipkind has recently commented on events in California. especially at San Francisco State College, in an article that he called “America’s student class war”. We have got to recognize that it is the basic assumptions of North Am- erican plutocracy that are being challenged.

If in Canada we are so foolish as to suppose that we are exempt from the problem, we had better awaken to the fact that in a country where 42.9% of university students come from families in the upper 17.8 percent of the total labor force, the invitation to revolution is pressing.

It is a commonplace that the repugnance, Llre lone- liness, the distress of students in our time are products of alienation. Alienation is no new -phenomenon. Her- bert Marcuse, who has been examining its develop- ment and effects for several decades, points out that it was described at the very beginning of the industrial revolution, and quotes Schiller :

. . .enjo yment is separated from labor, the means from the end, exertion from recompense. Eternally fettered only to a single little fragment of the whole, man fashions himself only as a fragment; ever hearing only the monotonous whirl of the wheel which he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and, instead of shaping the humanity that lies in his nature, he becomes a mere’ imprint of his occupation, his science. No reader of Victorian prose--Carlyle, Ruskin, Ar- nold, Mills, Morris,-can fail to recognize the passion- ate, horrified preoccupation of those writers with that theme; nor is it difficult to trace its course down to this present hour of protests, sit-ins, confrontations, violent and otherwise.

Let qs speak about life We ought, if not to abandon our attempts to define

the functions of a university in terms of knowledge, at least to go beyond it and to speak about life.

The most pervasive concern of the university must be concern for the growth and nourishment of the life of the mind. It is folly to commit ourselves deeply to fact, because, as Matthew Arnold noted, fact con- stantly fails us. What is needed is commitment to life, and for a university that means commitment to intellectual life: its awakening, its sustenance, its enrichment.

This implies no aridity: the life of the intellect in- volves not only analysis and theorizing, but judgment, sensitivity, imagination, and a continuing sense of the limitations of reason and the significance of the non- rational; it implies joy and laughter, for I take Shaw’s view that all intellectual work is deeply comical.

We ought, too, to say rather less about the pursuit of truth and rather more about the search for wisdom. For how many restless students does Salinger’s Fran- ny speak?

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Citing the tiords of poet e.e. Cummings to illustrate the humanities backlash against natural sciences, a noted Canadian professor makes this urgent plea to university instructors. , . .

I do not know whether our society is more inimical to the life of the mind than other societies have been. It is clear, however, that simply by living in 20th-century North America we participate in a society in which alienation is almost all-pervasive and is growing deeper.

Thanks to technology and the managerial revolution, life for countless thousands of college graduates-our enlightened citizenry-consists in moving daily, by some more or less ugly mechanical means, from a set of high-rise filing cabinets where they live to a set of high-rise filing cabinets where they work, and back. A little later, they may acquire one of those ticky-tacky little boxes about which Pete Seeger sings.

I suggest that it is not the function of a university simply to participate in that process of dislocation, but on the contrary to strengthen the power of the in- dividual to resist its deadening influence and to inspire him with the will to change it.

That the problem is an individual one is certain; that to resolve it, in a society hysterically dedicated to mass production, may be impossible is also certain; that if the universities do not make a full, imagina- -t?ve, strenuous effort to meet the challenge they will be both committing and contributing to suicide seems to me most certain of all.

Wild and whirling words, by a distraught academic who has been seeing spectres? As a corrective, let me draw your attention to two sentences by one of the more tough-minded conservatives of this century, the aging Walter Lippmann. In an address that he gave in 1967 at an otherwise dismal conference on “The Univer- sity in Ameica”, he said this:

The thesis which l am putting to you is that the mod- ern void, which results from the vast and intricate arocess of emancipation and rationalization, must be G/led, and that the universities must fill the void be- cause they alone can fill it. Ke concluded,

. . .in the modern age, as the ancestral order of us- sge and authority dissolves, there exists a spiritual and ntellectual vacuum of discipline and guidance which, n the last analysis, can be filled only by the universal :ompany of scholars, supported and protected and en- Fouraged by their universities.

Such a conception of a university’s function carries wo corollaries that are intermittently the subject of rgument and must be faced. The first is that a uni- ersity must assert values. A few months ago, at the nnual meeting of the Association of Universities and ‘alleges of Canada, there was a period of strange and lmost perverse argument as to whether universities lould make value judgments at all. Surely a university is an expression of value judg-

ients that knowledge is better than ignorance, that le truth is better than a lie, that freedom is better [an bondage. How far one might extend the list may : open to debate, and certainly the precise meanings

the terms used are arguable; but for a university to il to affirm these values, or to dismiss them as if they 2re mere matters of semantic analysis and arrange- ent, would be to deny its own essential nature.

ict for social change

The second corollary is that a university cannot es- pe involvement in and responsibility for social ange. t is absurd to suppose that an institution concerned th the extension and dissemination of knowledge, ich through research, laboratory and classroom ltinually transmits ideas and value-judgments, is 1 involved in social change. t is hypocritical to encourage habits of analysis and ticism in students and to become indignant when y apply them. We must ask ourselves, as we are nd to be asked, whether we mean what we pro- s: the stimulation of individual powers of thought, gment, and imagination. These are dangerous igs, as Robert Stanfield recently noted:

People who spend years in school, and then cannot find a job, are at least going to seriously question our economic and political institutions, and some may be provoked into more destructive action, he said, accord- ing to a news report. Even those who succeed in find- ing jobs may be troublesome. An account of an “execu- tive development seminar” held at York University last november tells of some problems that were aired:

By far the greatest emphasis was placed on educa- tion-and it was not the opportunities afforded by a better-educated work force that pre-occupied execu- tives, but the problems of making use of this training while &eating conditions for individual development and fulfilment.

The acceptance of personal development as a goal of corporate policy does not mean that corporations have become more bighearted, but only that they recog- nize that educated persons do not submit readily to the boss-subordinate relationship.

Moreover, educated employees have much greater expectations than unskilled labor, they are more diffi- cult to satisfy and they grow restive in routine work. Their productivity, although potentially great, is diffi- cult to measure and in many situations appears fairly well belo w potential.

In general, management of the so-called knowledge- worker- is one of the trickiest problems facing execu- tives. In short, how are we going to make college graduates think Zee, Zee, Zee 24 hours a day?

The question to what extent a university may appro- priately become involved in direct political activity, and the form that its involvement may take, seems to me highly debatable, and probably determinable only in the context of specific situations. As an institution within society, supported by public money to carry out public purposes, it cannot place itself above the law or ignore its responsibility to the order and well-being of the state.

But if the state itself engages in actions that are simply destructive of those values that universities cherish, they must become directly engaged, for it is a prime function of universities, especially in the age described by Lippmann, to challenge continuously the society that they serve. The question, however, is not for discussion here.

My point is simply that universities are, whether they like it or not, constantly involved in the processes of social change; that they must recognize and indeed welcome this fact; and that their teaching function is pre-eminently the means by which they exercise that involvement. They must teach, or get lost.

* * * In a university with these objectives, what should

the role of the humanities be? It ought not to be diffi- cult to state, though it may well be difficult to perform. Have not the humanities, ever since it was remarked that the unexamined life is not worth living, been con- cerned with prompting man to examine his life? Has it not always been their chief aim to help him to answer the deep inner impulsion that makes him seek the true, the good, and the beautiful? Have they not always been concerned with pursuing wisdom?

Unfortunately, no. Especially not in our time. While dislocation and alienation have become steadily deep- er and more pervasive, and the longing of young people for reassurance has grown more desperate, the hum- anities have largely failed. Nor are the despair and the failure unrelated.

Seduced by the fantastic successes of science, hum- anists have attempted increasingly to adopt the meth- ods of scientists, in research that has too often been spurious and publications that have too often been ex- ercises in triviality-or, even worse, the resurrection of dead trivialities.

It is not a function of the humanities to ape the sci- ences. It is their function to challenge them: to chall- enge their assumptions, their methods, their conclu- sions, over and over again. This conclusion, for examp- le, by the distinguished anthropologist who is now provost of King’s College, Cambridge:

Human scientists now have it in their power to redesign the face of the earth, and to decide what kind of species shall survive to inherit it. How they actually use this terrible potentiality must depend on moral judgments, not on reason. But who shall decide, and how shall we judge? The answer to these questions seems to me repugnant but quite plain: There can be no source for these moral judgments except the scien- tis t himself I wonder whether he plans to plant a tree in the midst of the garden. I confess that when confronted by arro- gance of that order, I have only breath enough left for a small amount of name-calling borrowed from e.e. Cummings:

While you and I have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with?

I hope not to be misunderstood. When I speak of the humanities challenging the sciences, I do not mean that they should be generally antagonistic to them.

I do mean that the humanities are concerned with orders of experience that are different from the concerns of the scientists; that it is their function to as- sert values and point out perspectives that are too easily lost in the scramble for fact; that if the life of the intellect and the search for wisdom are the concern of universities, then both the work of the scientist and that of the humanist must flourish, and they must impinge and indeed play. upon each other; and that in the past fifty years it has been the humanist much more than the scientist who has failed his role.

The scientists is as concerned as anyone with cer- tain values to which I have referred: knowledge, truth, imagination, freedom. It is a matter of professional responsibility, even narrowly construed, that he be so.

Seek unmeasured truths All the same, Cummings in his quatrain makes the

crucial point: that science proceeds by measurement- of space, of time, of movement, of weight,‘ of energy, of prices, of capital flow, of brain drains, and so on and on. “Nothing exists”, says Isaac Newton in the Shaw play, “until it is measured. ”

And it is just at that point that the humanist must make his rejoinder, as Cummings does. In the subtle interplay of human relations, in the testimony of pas- sion, in the experience of the stealthy approach of spring, there are truths that not even an anthropologist can measure, though it seems that he may be unaware of them.

The humanities must above all be concerned with the examination of these truths, as they are presented in literature, music, philosophy, history, or wherever else, and with the assertion of their validity. Computer- stored bibliographies, the tabulation of references to barley in the poems of Thomas Tusser, what someone has called scrimmages for images, and so on, may in their varied and perhaps obscure ways serve that prin- cipal end.

The danger in them, especially when their practition- ers are seduced by them into playing the game of grantsmanship and so into telling lies about their im- portance, is that they may simply distract the hum- anist from his real business.

I suggest that this has been happening on a large scale in the universities; and when I hear students talk about the irrelevance of the humanities, I know what you and I have been doing, and why we have been fail- ing. Perhaps unfortunately, we live in a society that is not tolerant of failure, among students who are not tol- erant of irrelevance. And I return to my theme: Teach, or get lost.

* * * I have been arguing that the functions of a university

must go well beyond those of extending and imparting knowledge and training people for the professions: that the humanities have a particular and crucial part to play in the performance of those functions;

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and that they can play that part only as they make tea- ching their prime concern. Let me now make three observations on teaching.

A Professor of Education at Simon Fraser Univer- sity is reported to have said recently that the job of tea- chers in the future will be not to teach but merely to “direct their pupils to places where they can find the knowledge they want or require”. For all I know, this may be true of teachers in some fields of study. For the humanities, it would be difficult to conceive of a more complete dereliction of responsibility than is envisaged is such a statement.

I should argue that the precise reverse is required, and required urgently: that only through a more lively, more \ sympathetic, more challenging, more directly personal and individual contact between teacher and student can universities dissipate that deep sense of

- alienation that invades the minds of great numbers of young people. As the Macpherson Report on Under- graduate Instruction in Arts and Science in the Univer- sity of Toronto has made clear, there is no easy way to achieve this end; but it is not impossible. The alter- native is disaster.

Confronted with massive teaching loads, individual faculty members can scarcely be blamed if they give up; but if they give up, they ought surely to do so can- didly and find some other means to a living. I heard recently >of a professor who, confronted with the pros- pect of,‘teaching a difficult subject in philosophy to a large class, decided simply to tape his lecture. When the class arrived at the lecture-room, they found a tape-recorder set on a table, which someone then turned on. The professor did not appear at all, and after a few minutes the class arose en masse and walked out; and they were right.

The transmission of facts and of at least some kinds of methodology by tape-recorder or like means may be feasible enough. If, however, we are going to de- pend increasingly (as I think we are) on mechanical devices for these purposes, we are going to have to give correspondingly greater attention and energy to personal discussion of the implications for our stud- ents and ourselves of what is studied and learned.

My first observation, then, is that the teacher of the humanities must be prepared to devote more of his time and thought to the needs of his students, even if that means giving less to his research and writing. What the humanities have to offer is not likely to bring financial rewards, as you and I know, and we ought to be frank about the fact.

No desire for money But one of the genuinely encouraging aspects of the

co-called student revolt is that it gives no evidence of being motivated by desire for money.

That is one reason why so many righteous citizens are puzzled and alarmed by it. It does, however, give a great deal of evidence of being motivated by a sense that what is learned and taught at universities should, be “relevant”. I am not in the least in favor of burning or stealing property or of the violence-once- removed called the sit-in. We must nonetheless rec- ognize them for what they are-the expression, how- ever wrong-heAded, of deep frustrations and deep desires.

To these the humanities must address themselves. Almost every student and professor is, whether or not he recognizes it, in the plight described by Lippmann: living in a society in which there is “a spiritual and intellectual vacuum of discipline and guidance”. The past two or three generations have blown up or analys- ed away all the kingdoms of heaven in which we once believed, and left us nowhere to look for one but where the founder of Christianity long ago told us it was: with- in ourselves.

It is precisely to the nourishment and expansion and enrichment of the inner self-the intellectual life, if we construe the phrase broadly-that the humanities can speak best: that is their relevance and their oppor- tunity. The first job of the teacher of the humanities is to increase the effectiveness of their speaking, to ex- plore and enlarge their relevance. It is because he has or should be expected to have the power to do that job that the teacher is, as Bernard Shaw once remarked, “of all men the most naturally reverenced”.

It is not the failure to accomplish that job that leads to student unrest-it is our failure to attempt it. If the discovery that we are not attempting it sometimes has violent results, we need not be surprised. The genera- tion that developed the mass air raid has little cause

to gibe when its successors knock out a few computers. Every generation recognizes its own enemy, or thinks it does; we all studied Macbeth at some point in our schooling:

But in these cases We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice To our own lips, a comment that suggests one way of making Shakes- peare relevant.

My second observation is closely related to the first: that teachers of the humanities will have to share the responsibility for the general well-being of universities in ways that extend beyond the classroom and li- brary. They have, I have said, a special role in the functioning of the university. One would like to think of it as a particularly civilizing role, the effects of which would be felt throughout the institution.

We are witnessing a very considerable revolution in the structure and governance of universities. There need be no regret about this fact; a revolution was long overdue. But a revolution always involves the risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We are in great danger now of having the quality and effec- tiveness of universities sharply reduced simply ~ be- cause, the revolution having been set in motion, we have lost sight of its objectives or failed to refine them as we approached them.

Those objectives are, or were, related especially to the idea of the university as a community.

It was felt that a university ought to be a community, and that it could best achieve its intended purposes if it were to a large extent a self-governing community. That idea of a university is, surely, a civilized ,and humane one. Nevertheless, the concept of a commun- ity does imply government, does not imply that mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. We have failed to deal squarely with that fact, perhaps even to think a- bout it; now we are in danger of seeing those values that are the best objectives of a university, for which the humanities stand most immediately-wisdom and understanding, for example-vanish like smoke, if not in smoke.

I spent two days last week at Sir George Williams University, and I found little evidence of either wisdom before the disaster that occurred there, or understand- ing afterwards.

The point is that in every university, faculty and students have joined to sweep away the obsolete notion that the university stood in loco parentis toward its members, particularly towards its students. The notion was part of the old order of usage and authority to which Lippmann referred, and it had to go. Faculty and students are almost equally concerned that the university should not simply be subject to the normal devices of authority of the state: hence our deep dis- taste for the presence of police on our campuses, for example.

Find new authority Our gross mistake lies in bur failure to determine

clearly where the locus of authority in the university community should lie and by what means it should be made good.

As a result, we have great universities whose aca- demic affairs are being almost completely obstructed because existing authority is ineffectual and we have not determined how or with what it should be replaced. In this the faculty, because of its permanent commit- ment to the university idea, bears the greatest respon- sibility; teachers of the humanities cannot claim exemp- tion.

In short, then, the professor must, for the well-being of the university and for his own effectiveness within it, be willing to involve himself in aspects of its life that at first glance may appear to be only secondarily re- lated to teaching and research. I do not suggest that the responsibility of the professor in the humanities is greater than that of others; I suggest that for him the danger, if the idea*of community should disappear, may well be a good deal greater. .

My third observation is in essence a further exten- sion of the first two. It is that universities are confront- ed with the necessity of making good their case for public support, as never before, and that in this situ- ation the humanities are more threatened than other disciplines and their defences weaker; these things being so, the need-for teachers of the humanities to state

their case pubiicly is pressing and cannot be avoided. The difficulties that the universities face in establish-

ing their claim for greater public support arise from three sources. First, the combination of vastly in- creased enrolments with rising costs is resulting in larger and larger demands being made on govern- mental budgets for higher educatiou; nor does the ar- gument of the Economic Council that money so spent is returned many fold seem to carry much weight with provincial treasurers, except perhaps at election time.

Second, the rearrangement of the methods of university financing that resulted from the federal- provincial fiscal arrangement entered into txo years ago, although it may have been politically necessary. has done nothing but harm, in varying degrees. to the great majority of universities. It has increased both their financial uncertainty and their vulnerability to manipulation by provincial governments or bodies established by them.

Third, the present wave of unrest and occasional wasteful destructiveness is unquestionably and very naturally inducing a corresponding wave of public perplexity, growing in some places to resentment and hostility, directed at the universities. In none of these matters. can the humanities or we who profess them afford to affect indifference.

One of Herman Hesse’s characters remarks that “as soon as suffering becomes acute enough, one moves forward”. I have tried to indicate some of the ~ ways in which suffering has entered into the universities, and to suggest the responsibility of the humanities for

’ a movement forward. I have argued that it is no longer enough-if it ever was-to think of universities as play- es for the extension and dissemination of knowledge and the training of the professions; that they must in addition seek and nourish wisdom and be willing to es- tablish and affirm human values; and that in that under- taking the humanities have a special part to play that can be achieved only through teaching. We must teach or we are lost.

There is nothing easy in this. It is in fact a more diff- icult task than it used to be, not only because of the hostilities of a grossly plutocratic society and the soul-destroying gadgetry of the global village, but because there has recently been a vast change in our perspective of which we have not yet been able to take account.

I remember that in the early months of World War II a classmate of mine asked a professor for some jus- tification of the study of poetry in a period of such tumultuous violence and bloody terror, The professor responded by quoting Thomas Hardy’s little poem, “In the Time of the ‘Breaking of Nations’ “: Only a man harrowing clods

In a s/o w silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods

Half asleep as they stalk. ‘t ,

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass:

Yet this will go on ward the same Though Dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her Wight Come whispering by;

Wars annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

Even if good literature entirely lost currency with the world, it would still be abundantly worth while to continue to enjoy it by oneself. But it never will lose currency with the world, in spite of momentary ap- pearances; it never will lose supremacy. Currency and supremacy are insured to it, not indeed bp the world’s deliberate and conscious choice, but by some- thing far deeper-by the instinct of self-preservation in humanity. -So Matthew Arnold had written at about the time when that professor was born. But a very few more years passed, and something new was written into war’s an- nals; and things do not and cannot go onward the same. My last word must after all be given to a scientist: it ought surely to speak to humanists.

In 1948, in a large auditorium at the University of California, I listened to a talk by Robert Oppenheimer. His subject was the role and responsibility of the scien- tist in the nuclear age that had just been born, of which he himself had been one of the more notable midwives. ’

We cannot go back to what used to be, he said, be- cause there is of course no way of doing so. We can go only forward. If we are to do that and not reap ultimate destruction, we must do so with hope, and courage, and “‘an earnest solicitude for the truth that I can only liken to pra ye/#.

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To clarify a point raised by Da- believe in boycotting California might be answered differently that the levying of a compul- system which can only be feared vid Greenberg in his feedback grapes then everybody must again next term. In short, such sory fee “in no way infringes on by those, incompetents who could letter last week, he is correct in pitch in for a publicity cam- a referendum is not valid through anyone’s freedom”. stating that Radio Waterloo must paign. What would it be like in the time. Every student should be

The Oxford never survive in it. Incidentally, . english dictionary defines free- would be glad if our president

have technical assistance on call States if the majority made it able to make his own decision dom as : s“ liberty; power to do as would tell US just what common in- as a requirement of the Canadian a law that everybody must sup- with respect to joining the fed- one pleases”, and compulsion terests the federation serves. . Radio and Television Commission, port the one and only official eration. “forcing or constraining”. The comparison to Hitler, Mus- according to, Bruce Steele, station newspaper ? On this campus this If. this state of affairs came to gw reread Patterson’s state- solini and the Edmund Burke manager. is merely expedient, or a social .

conscience but if any other gov- be, the person who joined the fed- ment. society was the sort of mud I

There is no such statutory re- eration would be an active mem- So, we’re all in this together expected to be thrown to obscure guirement for the Chevron, al- ernment did this it is propaganda. ber. Interest in federation elec- -this means we should be forced the issue, but not by the feder- though technical assistance is nec- The issue that is at base in tions, in federation meetings,’ in to act in the same way? Pat- ation president. I hope I have essary for the productjon of a news- almost all the turmoil of today federation programs would in- terson’s idea of suggesting the demonstrated that L Patterson’s paper. as it is for a radio station. (on-campus or off) is the question crease dramatically. The federa- subordination of individual rights

of whether the majority can sol- stand is closer to these people

tion would become a truly dem- to a group was also expressed than is mine. I have no interest Suys hgjisti more radical idfy their-status quo and morals ocratic body, of real service to in “Mein ,Kampf”, and no doubt

and impress them upon all others. in personal power:

in federation propodS its members. .

Can a person say he believes in I would like to comment on the freedom, support the draft dod-

ALEXANDRA ANNE FISCHER. appealed to Lenin. To cop out, he says, would be a selfish act,. and

I stand for freedom, not oppres- sion, whether by a fascist dic-

letter by Philip English (june 13) and the reply by Tom Pat-

gers and yet in the next sentence -- math 1B a rejection of human solidarity. tator or by a socialist clique

. , It would indeed-more, it would

terson (june 20). say he believes everybody must

“for the common good”. The dis-

join a federation of students? ‘I stand for freedom,’ be an assertion of humane indivi- tinction between this and George

. Having read both letters I

duality. You are like all the rest of English tells us ugain Wallace et al should . be clear,

‘1 Ask yourself which is more fun- but for the record. I have neither thing it is obvious the more radical was English’s letter. His ideas of a truly free univer- sity student government will of course be opposed vehemently by all those who believe in free- dom as long as you thing like

/ r m?think it is a disgrace to this

university that our student pres- ident has to lower himself to out and out smearing when engaged in an intellectual argument with another person. To offhandedly relate some of English’s argu- ments to the nefarious fascists of our day without any proof can only detract from Patterson’s

_- argument against freedom. I think anybody with an I.&.

the people who want to force sta- I should like to answer the re- tus ,quo on other people. Teach it ply from Tom Patterson to my in the schools, enforce it through letter published june 13. First, the courts, preach it in the pa- however, a word to Larry Burko, pers and take our money to who seems incapable of distin- . bring in outside speakers who ag- guishing between an ideology ree with you. Whether you use and a political platform. He tries Mace or the printed word the to muzzle freedom of speech with

damental to man. Man is basical- ly selfish-the only reason men formed groups was for their protection. This furthered, not a common good, of which they had no concept, but their own per- sonal good. “Solidarity” was only a means to an end. The end? Recognition of individual achiev- ement. We have come full circle, with Patterson proclaiming the means as an end.

connection nor sympathy with Wallace, the Edmund Burke soc- iety, or the “radical right”.

Space permits only a brief summary, but I am willing to defend these views openly in front of anyone who is interested, and I thank those people who have- already expressed sympathy with my suggestions.

moral precept - of force without inane comments. - consent-is stiil there. One example-he talks about

DON GREAVES needing to book groups in advance. engineering 1B My idea for the federation would

not preclude this, but I was ques- Debate over federation ’ tioning whether community need not just fees but members Ishou/d be put before personal

freedom. I would advise Burke, ._ I think that federation presi- in future, to think before putting

dent Patterson has misinterpre- pen to paper.- ted Philip English’s letter. As I see it, the point in

Patterson, -at least, ‘saw what question is I was getting at. He believes

My discussion of compulsory fees does flow from consideration of the relevance of the organi- zation in a free society. No one would receive free benefits from the club I propose. ’ ,

My scheme would certainly lead to a ‘competitive system-a

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~ensods budgets avoid economy% real problems bjr David Black special to Canadian University Press

Inflation affects all of us in different ways: l The little man-For those on fixed incomes such as

pensions the problem is a simple one-their dollar buys less. Those able to obtain wage increases are best able to combat inflation. But to remain even, they must continue to get raises equal to the rate of in- flation. Often this is just not the case.

l The government-Inflation makes it difficult for the government to raise money for its needs. During times of inflation, investors are less willing to purchase long- term government bonds at low interest rates because the real value of their investment may actually decrease over the years.

l The creditors-Large lending institutions such as banks and insurance companies are effected much the same way. Debtors pay back loans with money worth less than when they borrowed it. These institu- tions protect themselves with ever-growing interest rates.

For almost everyone inflation literally pinches pen- nies from your pocket. After three years of govern- ment attempts to control inflation, little if anything has been accomplished. The value of your dollar is decreasing daily.

Finance minister Edgar Benson, in both his October budget and again in his june mini-budget, has made the fight against inflation his battle cry.

But how goes the war ? To fight inflation, Benson offers:

l a social development tax of 2 percent, to a maximum of $120;

l a continuance of the 3 percent surtax for another year ;

l immediate implementation of the Kennedy round tariffreductions;

l deferment of capital cost allowances on commercial buildings in certain major urban centers.

Benson’s tax measures are the most important sec- tions of both budgets. Unfortunately, both these me- thods are regressive. What minimal fight is being fought against inflation is being subsidized mostly by the low income earners,*not the wealthy who could have, and should have, afforded it.

The 2 percent social development tax is the most flagrant example of this reality. Since the tax has a maximum of $120, a millionaire pays the same amount as a middle-range wage-earner with a family. Instead of those with low incomes already pushed hard to meet living expenses being freed from the fight against in- flation that already has them suffering, they are told to bear the brunt of the attack while the well- off rich are asked for a comparitively small donation.

Some of Benson’s other measures may, in fact, help the rich directly at the expense of the poor. Often these are not even Canada’s rich.

The government had a better set of proposals before it if it had decided to implement the findings of its own royal commission. But the Carter commission sug- gested that the tax burden should be redistributed so that it fell more fully on the rich corporations and in- dividuals than on the poor. Benson doesn’t seem to like that idea.

Many economic observors have, in fact, suggested that the working man, as well as those unable to reach even that catagory, is worse off than he tias before.

The problem, however, may not be entirely of Ben- son’s making. It has even been suggested that as long as he looks inside Canada for the solution he is doomed to failure.

Canada, he pointed out, has no say in rising prices because our economy is so closely tied to the U.S. that it inflates at the same rate.

“It’s an illusion that we can exercise price control j from Ottawa, ” Watkins said.

A pre-budget white paper came to the sanie con- clusion-Canada can only control its inflation when the U.S. succeeds in controlling its. The best hope for Benson is that there will be only a moderate increase in U.S. prices and costs.

The government, in fact, as this situation shows. has lost control over almost all of the Canadian economy. What then do the Benson budgets accomplish?

Primarily it should be seen as a signal to the well- off of Canada who finance party coffers and attend so- cial events with the Bensons that the government still has their interests at heart. Certainly no one close ’ to the government will be complaining if it is the poor who finance the fight to keep inflation down. And as a bonus it will appear to the people who vote but don’t understand economics that the Benson battle cry means something and that the Liberals are really trying.

And while the deception continues. the majority of Canadians are putting up with growing unemployment,, even faster growing under employment. and. according to the government’s own economic council. poverty for one in every four Canadians.

We fill the gold-lined coffers of our U.S. owners with our wealth.

More’ equality, honesty, ethics l l .hn any other nation? “We need more chancellors and may-

ors who delight in battle,” Eric Hoffer shouted, thumping his fist on the witness table, “who love a fight, who get up in the morning and say: who shall I kill to- day?”

-New York Times, may 10, from tes- timony in Washington on campus dis- orders.

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If the people demonstrated in a man- ner to interfere with others, they should be rounded up and put in a detention camp.

-U.S. deputy attorney general Richard Kleindienst, quo ted in A tlan tic Monthly, may 7969.

The time has come for an end to pat- ience.

-Nixon’s attorney-general John Mit- chell, may 1--“Law Day”.

“Know your enemy,” read posters of world war II. But who is it now? Is it the “less than two percent of our stu- dents who have engaged actively in any disruptions causing physical or property damage” (attorney-general John Mitchell)? Is it “the new barbar- ians” who occupy university buildings “against the will of university officials” (assistant attorney-general William H. Rehnquist > ?

If these gentlemen are right, the United States has little to fear. Yet we are afraid, for reasons having little to do with kids or communists.

The attorney-general calls campus mil- itants “tyrants”. What then shall be said of the tyranny of evasion, complacency, self-deception? For what is it, if not self- deception, that prompts Mr. Mitchell to proclaim that “we have today in this nation more equality in the law, more honesty in politics, more ethics in science, more people employed and less people hungry, and more religious dedication to the problems of society than at any other period in our history and than any

Squeehg too much propagcmcfd by Al Howard Chevron staff

.Once again local residents have been subjected to the vicious anti-labor bias of the K-W Record.

In a story headlined Workers not oppressed; mis- led in grape boycott, 2 Canadians back home, the Re- cord declared :

Two Canadian churchmen thursday gave the other side of the growing controversy surrounding striking Cal- ifornia grape pickers and said the boycott of Californ- ia grapes in Canadian stores should end.

Rev. James G. McDonald of Don Mills United Church and Michael O’Meara, news editor of Canadian Regis- ter, a newspaper published by the Roman Catholic church, returned thursday from a three-day tour of the California vine yards.

At a news conference thursday they said _the tour and all expenses were paid by the consumers’ rights committee, a Washington organisation which receives financial support from thd grape growers. Both agree conditions in California do not warrant a Canadian boy- co tt.

Both McDonald and O’Meara said when they left for the trip they were prepared to support the union. Both said they now have changed their minds.

They said the Canadian people had been misled and that the grape pickers are not being oppressed.

Impressive evidence indeed, to support the K-W Re- cord’s anti-labor, anti-boycott campaign-if the story was true.

The facts, however, throw quite a different light on the whole affair.

To counteract the effects of the grape boycott, the giant California grape-growing corporations have for some time employed the San Francisco-based public- relations firm of Whittaker and Baxter, who have built up a nation-wide reputation as managers of right-wing propaganda campaigns.

Among Whittaker and Baxter’s most noteworthy achievements was their use of animated television car-

toons in 1960 to support Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign. One of these cartoons showed shiftless beatniks supporting John F. Kennedy for president, while another showed Nikita Khrushchev saying that he supported Kennedy because he knew Nixon would never swallow his Communist party line.

Other Whittaker and Baxter efforts include Barry Goldwater’s northern California campaign in 1964, California oil companies’ publicity, and the American medical association’s $4,7OO,OOO campaign to defeat president Truman’s health insurance plan.

In carrying out their pro-grape grower propaganda campaign, Whittaker and Baxter use the so-called con- sumers’ rights committee which is financed by the grape growers and uses facilities provided by Whit- taker and Baxter. In fact, the Toronto delegation was guided on its tour by one Malcolm Smith, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, who later found employ- ment with Whittaker and Baxter. McDonald and O’Meara were flown around the grape-growing area in a chart- ered plane. No wonder they iaw nothing detrimental to the grape growers.

The statement that McDonald and O’Meara were formerly “pro-boycott” supporters, and were chosen as “unbiased” observers could hardly be farther from the truth. First of all, three Toronto residents (not two as the headline suggests) went to California. The third man was Herbert F. Irwin, a nominee of the Canadian man- ufacturers’ association on the Ontario labor relations board.

Irwin made no bones about the fact that he was a spokesman for big business and that “the trip was an invitation from the growers and that’s all there was to it.” The actual invitation to McDonald, O’Meara and Irwin came from Joseph Rowen, a Toronto grape dis- tributor who unsuccessfully sought a court injunc- tion last year against a “boycott California grapes day” endorsed by the Toronto board of control.

More damning, however, was the fact that the Rev.

other nation in the world”? I How, other than cruelly evasive and

complacent, is one to characterize the statement of the deputy attorney gen- eral, Richard G. Kleindienst, who speaks of the young rebel as a “modern ideol- ogical criminal,” and goes on to state that we enjoy “the most nearly-perfect government which civilization has pro- duced”?

The gulf between such conceit and reality may be so wide that it can no longer be bridged.. .

-from the New Republic, 10 may 1969

out of grapes James McDonald, that “pro-1abor” cleric. had in fact published anti-boycott letters in the Toronto Star (14 may) and Telegram (2 june) before he went to California. The reasons that McDonald was invited by Rosen and the consumers’ rights committee are obvious. Moreover, to call O’Meara, a church paper news editor, a “churchman” as the K-W Record does. is an obvious attempt to wring the last ounce of legi- timacy from his dubious statements.

TWO further events illustrate the Record’s anti-labor. anti-boycott bias. The same week that McDonald, O’- Meara and Irwin were flown to California, a 32-man delegation of Toronto labor leaders went to California to investigate the grape strike which is being supported by their unions. In contrast to the full coverage given to McDonald and O’Meara, an interview with Dennis McDermott, Canadian regional director of the united auto workers union, was given scant coverage, and statements by other union delegates were not men- tioned at all.

McDonald and O’Meara claimed that workers’ housing was “just like motels ; ” McDermott stated, “Workers’ camps are called pigpens, and they are just that.” McDermott went on to say that the grape strike and boycott was “a fight against racial dis- crimination, bigotry and hatred.”

One might believe that the Record’s biased coverage was the product of ignorance were it not for the fact that much of the story was exposed as a fraud by Tele- gram columnist Ron Haggart. Haggart demonstrated conclusively the bias of McDonald and O’Meara and the involvement of Whittaker and Baxter.

Here was a first-rate expose of the way big corpor- ations manipulate the news. Did any of this find its way into the K-W Record? Of course not. Following its usual practice of printing only what is bad about unions and good about corporations, the Record ignored the story.

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The sounds of science Science dean Pete McBryde

must have warmed the capital- ist hearts of the board of gover- nors with his farewell address. McBryde was stepping down as dean and he,was telling the board where he thought science was at.

Some excerpts from his speech- “There are new demands in

society for relevance, for more applied work...but we still have to teach the fundamentals of sci- ence.. .

“We still have to continue to produce specialists to meet the demands of society.. .

“Universities are going to have to collectively tighten their belts. Science is costly to teach and en- gage in. The shift to more applied areas will increase expenses. We will have to find increased efficien cy in space equipment and the use of faculty.. . ”

The society McBryde was re- ferring to isn’t you and I, its the

boys on the board of governors.And the fundamentals of science that must c still be taught don’t have much to do with morals, ethics or

what control the scientists will have over the monsters they may create for society.

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McBryde said something else that makes one wonder about the academic mind.

He said there was an overpro- duction of PhD-trained scientists and wondered where they are going to find employment because government and industry can’t ab- sorb them.

But only five minutes before that, in bragging about the accom-- plishments of science faculty, Mc- Bryde had pointed to the number . of faculty and grad students in chemistry. Waterloo has twice as many grad students now as the University of Toronto had nine years ago when McBryde came from there.

Does that mean academics are going to ignore surplus PhD’s like industry ignores pollution-hoping the situation will clear up, but not wanting to endanger one’s own output, profit or power?

It’s just plain serious l The members of the board of governors have a strange moral- ity. The governor who moved the appointment of a firm of archi- tects because he knew them per- sonally didn’t think he was doing anything wrong, nor did his fellow governors.

Conflict of interest to them on- ly means asking for a contract for your own company.

And board chairman Carl Poll- ock thinks its good policy to have J.W. Scott, chairman of the board of Waterloo Trust, move financial motions for the university.

. They really must believe that business is onlv a game, and pro- fits are just the way you keep score! l Expenditures on library ac- quisitions have been doubled and the library operating budget is up more than 26 percent from last year.

Such a large increase in a rea- sonably-tight budget year only proves how bad the library acqui- .

sition situation is at the present time. . It also shows that confrontation may well be necessary to force a change in a long-entrenched policy of neglect. l The kids outnumbered the cops (not including undercover a- gents) bv up to 500 to 1 at the Tor- onto pop festival. And at least 400 out of every 500 kids was blowing dope (smoking marijuana, for the benefit of local RCMP-types 1.

Nobody got busted (arrested) and CBC news said there wasn’t any marijuana encountered by police. There weren’t even anv arrests at the festival for non-drug charges.

Which all proves two things. People who blow dope are not viol- ent-they love people. And cops who were given absolutely no pro- vocation didn’t dare do the provok- ing they often engage in-500 heads (dope-blowers ) would have nonviolently removed each one of them.

And boy, does the K-w Record talk about the weather! This really was the lead story iiz our local daily on monday. Rain and the inevitable trite “there’s nothing you can do about it” comment rated more prominence than the biggest two-hour drop in Toron to stock exchange history, Britain severing ties with racist Rhodesia and Bertrand’s Union Nationale victory, Kinda shows why the revolution has to hit the press, doesn’t it?

Feedback on feedback The Chevron’s feedback col-

umn exists both as a service to our readers and as a guarantee that no opinion can be suppressed. To this end. we invite letters from the students, staff and faculty of the * university.

As was noted in a response to a feedback submission last week, the column provides a forum! where readers can respond to news, features, editorials, ads- generallv anvthing the Chevron prints. * ’

Feedback is also open to letters from readers who wish to initiate discussions in the column or who have some gripe thev wish to air. e

The Chevron prints all submis- sions, provided they are signed and not libelous. Sometimes it is necessary to ask writers to shorten their letters and sometimes the feedback editor (the lettitor) has to edit or make minor style chan- ges himself.

<You won’t find commercial newspapers like the Globe and Mail or the K-W Record making such a guarantee to their readers. In fact, you won’t find verv manv student newspapers making it ei- ther.

We want to continue to do so. Unfortunately the Chevron staff

may be forced to amend this pol- icy.

There always seem to be those who, undoubtedly in pursuit of what is to them a good cause, will abuse their privilege to be heard.

The Chevron just cannot print extensive letters from everyone. But even less does it have the space to surrender great parts of pages to one writer, no matter how indignant he is or how right- eous he believes his cause.

And lastly, we cannot provide great allotments of space to one group of writers, one clique which writes to make the same point.

We are concerned. We do not want to have to turn letters away or take on the task of choosing “representative” letters or edit- ing letters down to their very cor- es, in the manner of the Toronto Star. We know many writers would never believe they were treated fairly.

Thus we request that our rea- ders not abuse the forum we offer for their use. It would be tragic if a tradition of many years-an open feedback policy-is destroyed bv the actions of a few. u

We hope Philip English and his Village comrades (whom he so graciously thanks for expressing sympathy with his suggestions ) take the hint.

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Here we are with another liberal issue which associateartsdeanjackgray will agree with from cover to cover. Centerspread is dedicated to the faculty association for rabblerousing at the board of governors meeting. The crew who bring you the best in news and views: Jim Klinck, Alex Smith, dumdum jones, Bill Brown, swireland, Brenda Wilson, Dave X Stephenson, Tom Purdy, Pat Star- key, Al Howard, LouisSilcox, Cyril Levitt, Bryan Douglas, Wayne Smith, Steve Izma, Joli Kliwer, Phil Efsworthy, Peter Vanek, Chris Redmond dropped in from Queen’s and nagel-bagel sought refuge from the Record’s orgelited insanity. And next week, it’s the fourth of july.

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One of many festival highlights, the driving, close-knit sound of Blood, Sweat and Tears brought the exciting audience rushing to their feet.

Traditional rock singer and composer Chuck Berry was a surprise festival favorite.

Chevron photostory - by the Waterloo outing society

Toronto’s first pop festival was an unqualified success. It was more than just two days last week- end, each filled with 12 continuous hours of mus- ic.

The real things that went into making the fes- tival as great as it was were never seen on stage.

True, performances of the calibre such as those given by Johnny Winter, the Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Alice Kooper, and others contributed greatly.

But even if the bands had bombed much of the festival’s atmosphere wouldn’t have changed.

You still would have been able to yell out “Hey, has anyone got some mustard?“, and 15 seconds later be dipping from a jar handed across 30 smiling heads.

You still could count on the girl next to you to share a joint, even if it was their last one.

The atmosphere rolled into town gradually, a- long with the people from places as far as De- troit and Winnipeg who new that someone would give them a place to crash for the night.

It grew stronger Saturday night as thousands of spectators poured out of Varsity stadium and walked en masse down Bloor street, shouting to and laughing with people whose only common bond was attendance at the festival.

By the time the field lights came on late sunday evening to end two action-packed days, not even two hours of rain had dissolved the atmosphere.

Bubble, balloon, and dope blowing head-lined the list of festival participation sports. .

The Royal Conservatory of music stands silently by, as the lead guitarist for the Procul Harum strains over a solo.

Health foods and fresh fruit noticeably out- sold the usual hotdogs and milkshakes. Over 50,000 music addicts filled Varsity stadium for Toron to 3 first pop festival.

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