commission to look into the closing proceed with legal matters. on a “business holiday” according tial part of the chevron’s 1976-77 when lawyers and representatives blldget to the chevron staff, and for both sides decided to try to A troubled Doug Thompson, University
University of Waterloo Waterloo, On tarjo volume I, number 34 friday, june 24, 1977 The nine-month long conflict begun when the chevron was offi- cially closed last September may end Sunday if federation council ratifies a provisional agreement reached between the chevron staff and federation president Doug Thompson and vice-president Ron Hipfner. The provisional agreement es- sentially meets the chevron staffs “Reinstate! Investigate!” demand, which it issued in October shortly after council officially closed the paper. Hammered out in an unexpected session Monday, the provisional agreement is substantially different from the ” Final Offer” made by the federation’s Board of Directors to staff in a special bulletin distributed on campus June 17. Unlike the federation’s “Final Offer”, the provisional agreement will immediately return a substan- closing the chevron and firing staff September 30, 1976. IJnder the “Final Offer”. a commission was to draft a new bylaw without investigating whether the old bylaw was a cause of the September closure. The federation directors’ bold “Final Offer” and threat to evict the chevron staff from its office by a professional security firm if it re- jected the “Final Offer”, disinteg- rated during an impromptu negotia- tion session Monday between Thompson, chevron editor Neil Docherty and lawyers representing the federation and the chevron staff. The session was to have been an “examinations for discovery” meeting, part of the legal prelimi- nary -rounds leading ~9; to a court battle over possession of the chev- ron office later this year, Instead, negotiations were begun use a security firm to clear the of- fice if the offer were not accepted unconditionally. The staff also objected to the di- rectors’ action of rescinding the Board of Publications bylaw July 15, even though the offer depended, on the normal operation of the bylaws, and the commission which was to recommend a new bylaw was not scheduled to end until July 31. Also unsatisfactory to the staff was the fact that the offer came from the directors, and gave coun- cil no input, and to the lack of a full investigation. All these points were conceded osenbwg S :bylaw is invalid Federation of students lawyer Morley Rosenberg believes the by-law concerning graduate representation on council is invalid. The by-law, passed by students’ council in March, intended to remove graduate representation from council and disenfranchise graduate students, but has caused chaos because of its wording, suggested that all off-campus students were disenfranchised, and further that all of the councillors from last term were unable to vote. Federation vice-president Ron Hipfner said Wednesday that he is accepting Rosenberg’s opinion. If council accepts it, then graduate representatives Dave Carter and Mike Devillear will have their voting rights restored, and their constituency will once again have full federation rights. Rosenberg was approached Wednesday of last week by arts councillor Doug Hamilton who supplied Rosenberg with a copy of the by-law plus a covering letter explaining its possible ir- regularities. After consulting the Corporations Act and the charter for the Federation of Students Rosenberg called the by-law invalid for two reasons. One is that the students council, according to section 130 (I) (a) and (d) of the Corporations Act, does not have the power to pass the by-law. According to Rosenberg, only the Board of Directors can pass by-laws and since council does not have the director’s power the by-law is invalid. The other reason is that in the charter of the Federation of Students the objects clause states the federation is to “act as a representative of the students, both undergraduate rend graduate of the University of Waterloo.” The by-law abrogation of graduate student representation in the federation would possibly be invalid because of the conflict with the objects clause. Rosenberg’s opinion goes against an earlier opinion given by Gary Flaxbard, who held that the by-law was valid. Flaxbard, who had originally been hired on to conduct legal proceedings against the chevron staff- said that the intent of the by-law (disenfranchising only grads) was the important factor in its interpretation. Despite Flaxbard’s opinion however, Hipfner said that the advice followed will be Rosenberg’s. ----&x&g hamiltow by the federation side, further de- tails were thrashed out, and after about five hours of negotiation a provisional agreement was signed by Thompson and Hipfner for the federation and Docherty and chev- ron staff member Larry Hannant for the chevron staff. Wednesday, Hipfner told the free chevron that the provisional agreement was a move of “desper- ation’ ’ . “The student movement cannot survive on this campus with the paper and the federation at each other’s throats.” He predicted that the proposed offer will be approved by council Sunday. “I’ve been talking with what Dot herty called ‘my supporters’ and so far no one’s voting against it. Mostly there will be abstentions.” Tuesday, the chevron staff ratified the provisional agreement with one technical amendment. If council ratifies it Sunday, the chev- ron - minus the adjective ‘“free” - could appear on campus next _ week. The agreement would turn over to the chevron staff a total of $B3.500 which is less than the $20,070 subsidy provided for in the 1976-77 budget. (The subsidy is the Continued on page 4 From troubles at home tial part of the chevron’s 1976-77 when lawyers and representatives blldget to the chevron staff, and for both sides decided to try to A troubled Doug Thompson, will create a full investigation work out a settlement rather than federation president, is in yalifax commission to look into the closing proceed with legal matters. on a “business holiday” according of the chevron and the charges The chevron representatives to his vice-president Ron Hipfner, made against the paper. The inves- continued io press for full reins- while on campues it seems almost evervon”e is after his hide. tigation commission will also pass tatement and investigation and exp- 2 judgement on the legality and prop- lained the staff-s objections to the He is expected back about Tues- riety of the action taken by the fed- directors’ “Final Offer”. The staff day, but then, according to the eration executive and council in objected to the directors’ threat to Board of Directors minutes printed in last week’s Federation Bulletin. rate on loans could drop TORONTO (CUP) -Student loan officers at some chartered banks in Toronto are advising’students who are considering negotiating the terms of their student loan repayments, to wait until after July I. The officers are speculating that interest rates will drop at that time. The present rate of interest on student loans is 9.78 per cent. A new rate is announced every year on JLI~Y 1, by the Guaranteed Loans Administration, a branch of the federal government which guarantees repayment of i’ndividual student loans to chartered banks. Interest rates on personal loans have gone down 1 l/2 to 2 per cent since last J~9ly and it is not expected that with the prime lending rate being lower, the government would fail to reduce the student loan interest rate. This loan negotiation applies to students not returning to school next year. whose first repayment would be made in November of 77. The loans are interest free until that date. Mr. R.V. Whittaker the manager of the imperial Bank of Com- merce in the Campus Centre also expects the interest rate to drop in keeping with other rates. he is going on a leave of absence at half-pay, “to allow full attention to pressing personal matters.” It is becoming increasingly ap- parent, however, that by the time he returns he may have no right to the throne. Though Thompson signed a proposed agreement with chevron staff representatives Monday, and the conflict with the student news- paper may be resolved, if ratified by council Sunday, the president still has a lot of problems on his plate e There is a vote of non- confidence in him and Hipfner on the agenda for Sunday’s council meeting: a recall petition taken out last week has gained the support of Engineering Society: and the pres- ident, along with ten of his suppor- ters, faces criminal charges. The motion of non-confidence came out of an informal meeting councillors held two weeks ago when Thompson, and almost all of his supporters, failed to show for a council meeting he had called, leav- ing it short of quorum and unable to act. Thus the councillors called for a meeting this Sunday. The meeting has been organized but, according to Hipfner, Thompson won’t be back from Halifax where he is at- tending the annual meeting of the Association of Universities and Community Colleges. Thompson’s expenses are being paid by the university administra- tion. but it is strange that he would go to this conference. It is not con- sidered to be an important one and both the National Union of Stu- dents and the Ontario Federation of Students have called on members not to attend. (The student organi- sations believe that the meetings allow no real student input.) Even UW president Burt Matth- ews, who is at the meeting, admits that it is not very important. He said of the AUCC Monday “It does a number of useful things, but not at the annual meeting.” Hipfner told the chevron Thompson has driven out east on a “business holiday” and that there are a couple of items on the agenda which are of interest to him. But his absence is unlikely to help him in a recall petition. The petition, started last week by Sci- ence councillor Gerrard Kimmons, and Math student Lorne Ger- shuny, got a boost this week when Eng Sot took 50 forms to distribute _- enough for 1500 signatures. about 200 more than the number required to recall Thompson. Eng Sot president Peter King told the chevron that the engineers have no faith in Thompson. He criticised the president for erratic behaviour, and for not paying suffi- cient attention to the societies. On top of all this Thompson faces legal charges layed by Reni- son student Larry Smiley. Smiley claims Thompson assaulted him on March 30, and has also charged Thompson and others with mis- chief based on the temporary evic- tion of two chevron staffers from the paper’s offices February 27. ’ Thompson left early Tuesday fo9 Halifax and thus has been unavail- able for comment on his troubles. --neil dscherty
Transcript
University of Waterloo Waterloo, On tarjo
volume I, number 34 friday, june 24, 1977
The nine-month long conflict begun when the chevron was offi- cially closed last September may end Sunday if federation council ratifies a provisional agreement reached between the chevron staff and federation president Doug Thompson and vice-president Ron Hipfner.
The provisional agreement es- sentially meets the chevron staffs “Reinstate! Investigate!” demand, which it issued in October shortly after council officially closed the paper.
Hammered out in an unexpected session Monday, the provisional agreement is substantially different from the ” Final Offer” made by the federation’s Board of Directors to staff in a special bulletin distributed on campus June 17.
Unlike the federation’s “Final Offer”, the provisional agreement will immediately return a substan-
closing the chevron and firing staff September 30, 1976.
IJnder the “Final Offer”. a commission was to draft a new bylaw without investigating whether the old bylaw was a cause of the September closure.
The federation directors’ bold “Final Offer” and threat to evict the chevron staff from its office by a professional security firm if it re- jected the “Final Offer”, disinteg- rated during an impromptu negotia- tion session Monday between Thompson, chevron editor Neil Docherty and lawyers representing the federation and the chevron staff.
The session was to have been an “examinations for discovery” meeting, part of the legal prelimi- nary -rounds leading ~9; to a court battle over possession of the chev- ron office later this year,
Instead, negotiations were begun
use a security firm to clear the of- fice if the offer were not accepted unconditionally.
The staff also objected to the di- rectors’ action of rescinding the Board of Publications bylaw July 15, even though the offer depended,
on the normal operation of the bylaws, and the commission which was to recommend a new bylaw was not scheduled to end until July 31.
Also unsatisfactory to the staff was the fact that the offer came from the directors, and gave coun- cil no input, and to the lack of a full investigation.
All these points were conceded
osenbwg S :bylaw is invalid
Federation of students lawyer Morley Rosenberg believes the by-law concerning graduate representation on council is invalid.
The by-law, passed by students’ council in March, intended to remove graduate representation from council and disenfranchise graduate students, but has caused chaos because of its wording, suggested that all off-campus students were disenfranchised, and further that all of the councillors from last term were unable to vote.
Federation vice-president Ron Hipfner said Wednesday that he is accepting Rosenberg’s opinion. If council accepts it, then graduate representatives Dave Carter and Mike Devillear will have their voting rights restored, and their constituency will once again have full federation rights.
Rosenberg was approached Wednesday of last week by arts councillor Doug Hamilton who supplied Rosenberg with a copy of the by-law plus a covering letter explaining its possible ir- regularities.
After consulting the Corporations Act and the charter for the Federation of Students Rosenberg called the by-law invalid for two reasons.
One is that the students council, according to section 130 (I) (a) and (d) of the Corporations Act, does not have the power to pass the by-law. According to Rosenberg, only the Board of Directors can pass by-laws and since council does not have the director’s power the by-law is invalid.
The other reason is that in the charter of the Federation of Students the objects clause states the federation is to “act as a representative of the students, both undergraduate rend graduate of the University of Waterloo.” The by-law abrogation of graduate student representation in the federation would possibly be invalid because of the conflict with the objects clause.
Rosenberg’s opinion goes against an earlier opinion given by Gary Flaxbard, who held that the by-law was valid.
Flaxbard, who had originally been hired on to conduct legal proceedings against the chevron staff- said that the intent of the by-law (disenfranchising only grads) was the important factor in its interpretation.
Despite Flaxbard’s opinion however, Hipfner said that the advice followed will be Rosenberg’s.
----&x&g hamiltow
by the federation side, further de- tails were thrashed out, and after about five hours of negotiation a provisional agreement was signed by Thompson and Hipfner for the federation and Docherty and chev- ron staff member Larry Hannant for the chevron staff.
Wednesday, Hipfner told the free chevron that the provisional agreement was a move of “desper- ation’ ’ .
“The student movement cannot survive on this campus with the paper and the federation at each other’s throats.”
He predicted that the proposed offer will be approved by council
Sunday. “I’ve been talking with what
Dot herty called ‘my supporters’ and so far no one’s voting against it. Mostly there will be abstentions.”
Tuesday, the chevron staff ratified the provisional agreement with one technical amendment. If council ratifies it Sunday, the chev- ron - minus the adjective ‘“free” - could appear on campus next _ week.
The agreement would turn over to the chevron staff a total of $B3.500 which is less than the $20,070 subsidy provided for in the 1976-77 budget. (The subsidy is the
Continued on page 4
From troubles at home
tial part of the chevron’s 1976-77 when lawyers and representatives blldget to the chevron staff, and for both sides decided to try to
A troubled Doug Thompson,
will create a full investigation work out a settlement rather than federation president, is in yalifax
commission to look into the closing proceed with legal matters. on a “business holiday” according
of the chevron and the charges The chevron representatives to his vice-president Ron Hipfner,
made against the paper. The inves- continued io press for full reins- while on campues it seems almost evervon”e is after his hide.
tigation commission will also pass tatement and investigation and exp- 2
judgement on the legality and prop- lained the staff-s objections to the He is expected back about Tues-
riety of the action taken by the fed- directors’ “Final Offer”. The staff day, but then, according to the
eration executive and council in objected to the directors’ threat to Board of Directors minutes printed in last week’s Federation Bulletin.
rate on loans could drop TORONTO (CUP) -Student loan officers at some chartered banks in Toronto are advising’students who are considering negotiating the terms of their student loan repayments, to wait until after July I. The officers are speculating that interest rates will drop at that time.
The present rate of interest on student loans is 9.78 per cent. A new rate is announced every year on JLI~Y 1, by the Guaranteed Loans Administration, a branch of the federal government which guarantees repayment of i’ndividual student loans to chartered banks.
Interest rates on personal loans have gone down 1 l/2 to 2 per cent since last J~9ly and it is not expected that with the prime lending rate being lower, the government would fail to reduce the student loan interest rate.
This loan negotiation applies to students not returning to school next year. whose first repayment would be made in November of 77. The loans are interest free until that date.
Mr. R.V. Whittaker the manager of the imperial Bank of Com- merce in the Campus Centre also expects the interest rate to drop in keeping with other rates.
he is going on a leave of absence at half-pay, “to allow full attention to pressing personal matters.”
It is becoming increasingly ap- parent, however, that by the time he returns he may have no right to the throne.
Though Thompson signed a proposed agreement with chevron staff representatives Monday, and the conflict with the student news- paper may be resolved, if ratified by council Sunday, the president still has a lot of problems on his plate e
There is a vote of non- confidence in him and Hipfner on the agenda for Sunday’s council meeting: a recall petition taken out last week has gained the support of Engineering Society: and the pres- ident, along with ten of his suppor- ters, faces criminal charges.
The motion of non-confidence came out of an informal meeting councillors held two weeks ago when Thompson, and almost all of his supporters, failed to show for a council meeting he had called, leav- ing it short of quorum and unable to act.
Thus the councillors called for a meeting this Sunday. The meeting has been organized but, according to Hipfner, Thompson won’t be back from Halifax where he is at- tending the annual meeting of the Association of Universities and Community Colleges.
Thompson’s expenses are being paid by the university administra- tion. but it is strange that he would go to this conference. It is not con-
sidered to be an important one and both the National Union of Stu- dents and the Ontario Federation of Students have called on members not to attend. (The student organi- sations believe that the meetings allow no real student input.)
Even UW president Burt Matth- ews, who is at the meeting, admits that it is not very important. He said of the AUCC Monday “It does a number of useful things, but not at the annual meeting.”
Hipfner told the chevron
Thompson has driven out east on a “business holiday” and that there are a couple of items on the agenda which are of interest to him.
But his absence is unlikely to help him in a recall petition. The petition, started last week by Sci- ence councillor Gerrard Kimmons, and Math student Lorne Ger- shuny, got a boost this week when Eng Sot took 50 forms to distribute _- enough for 1500 signatures. about 200 more than the number required to recall Thompson.
Eng Sot president Peter King told the chevron that the engineers have no faith in Thompson. He criticised the president for erratic behaviour, and for not paying suffi- cient attention to the societies.
On top of all this Thompson faces legal charges layed by Reni- son student Larry Smiley. Smiley claims Thompson assaulted him on March 30, and has also charged Thompson and others with mis- chief based on the temporary evic- tion of two chevron staffers from the paper’s offices February 27. ’
Thompson left early Tuesday fo9 Halifax and thus has been unavail- able for comment on his troubles.
--neil dscherty
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/-Comment,-,
( Council or Directors?\ Student’s council has, in the
past, been the main legislative body in the federation of students. How- ever, the Board of Directors has recently acted as the self-appointed heir to council.
Although the directors are all- powerful (according to the Corpo- rations Act), they have not been used by past administrations to carry out the day-to-day operations of the federation. This is purely council’s business.
The June 12 council meeting, which was one councillor short of quorum, showed that a working summer council was more than possible. But the five directors did council’s work on June 15.
Gord Swaters was appointed OFS/NUS liaison officer under the Board of External Relations. This new position was advertised as three separate executive positions last February, therefore, through this appointment, the three stu- dents who had applied for the OFS and NUS executive positions were discarded.
The directors also ratified Doug McDougall as Board of Education chairperson even though this is clearly against the bylaws. They state that the chairman (along with the Board of External Relations chairperson) must be appointed by students’ council. This move also eliminated a candidate for the posi- tion.
These positions should be filled only after council reviews all can- didates.
The Board of Directors also ratified the recently elected and ac- claimed council members, and re-
scinded the Board of Publications bylaw. Why was this not done by proper procedure, by council?
The directors .decided after a bylaw mixup that all off-term stu- dents have the right to vote but they then promptly denied these stu- dents the vote in the upcoming vol- untary fee referendum.
The “final” offer to solve the chevron/federation conflict was made without consulting council or the executive. The chevron staff was either to accept it or suffer the results of a professional firm which would “clear and secure” their of- fices.
The directors are supposed to act only on rare occasions when time or circumstances prevent council from meeting. They are now acting autocratically (and without reason).
The federation should adhere to past procedures and use the Board of Directors as a last resort. Better yet, council should become the Board of Directors (as is the case at Wilfrid Laurier), thereby eliminat- ing the problem.
-randy barkman
njured workers’ ilm controversial
The grievances of injured work- ers against the government and
that most accidents are the fault of the employer, and that it is cheape1
employers, and the history of the for the employer to pay into the formation of the Union of injured WCB than to improve safety condi- Workers to defend themselves was tions. presented in the film “A Right to After the film ended a number of Live” at a meeting of the Kitchener people told of their own experi- local of the Union of Injured Work- ences with the WCB. One person ers June 16. cited a figure of 12 per cent of pre-
Erhard Kienitz, president of the -
vious wages as the average com- local, introduced U I W president pensation- benefits. One said that Phil Biggins who gave a history of the WCB pays her even less than the film. the assessed claim payment. In
Biggins said the film was fi- 1974 her husband was killed on the nanced by a grant from the Ontario job and as a result she received a Arts Council, which at the time didn’t realize what they were fund- ing. After the film was made, tile government tried to suppress it and iut pressure on the UIW to
widow’s pension. When she was in- jured, her widow’s pensionwas de- ducted from her compensation, and she is now only reckiving $60 per
hand-it over to them, he said. The -peter blunden WCB threatened to get an injunc- tion against the film and they wanted 12 sections cut out of it. Biggins maintained that all cases
Clarification --au ~~
depicted in the film were well Last week’s story “Feds dupli- documented. cate services” said of the Ontario
Faced with opposition from the Youth Employment Program that UIW, the WCB decided not to get “the jobs must run from May 30 to an injunction. Biggins pointed out September 16.” In fact it is only the that for three weeks the govern- subsidy which is restricted to this ment tried their utmost to stop the period. showing of the film. The article also refers to duplica-
The film describes the formation tion of services by the housing of- of the UIW in 1973 and the serious fice and para-legal assistance. . _-. . and militant attitude of the workers who came forward to join it. The film puts forward the following four demands of the UIW and the reasons for them: I) Job Security or Full Compensa- tion. 2) Cost of Living Increases. 3) No Board Doctors. 4) Better Safety Conditions. It also documents several case his- tories of injured workers. Some show how doctors use LSD or elec- tric shocks to “cure” the workers - others compare the WCB to the Gestapo and the “Rehabilitation Centres” to Concentration Camps.
In addition, the film points out
The housing office is an inten- tional duplication of the administration’s servick in Needles Hall, providing service when that office is closed and when it is crowded, as occurs later in the term.
Para-legal, contrary to what was reported, does not run the same service as-was performed by a vol- unteer last summer. The office’s activities have expanded, with more research being done on legal matters, even to the point of pre- paring information in advance to save clients money when they go to a lawyer. A precedents file is also being compiled.
Whe chevron settlem A provisional agreement to resolve the Federation-
chevron conflict was signed by Neil Docherty and Larry Hannant of the chevron staff, and Doug Thomp- son and Ron Hipfner, Federation president and vice- president respectively, in the presence of their lawyers, on june 20, 7977. The chevron staff ratified this provisional agreement, subject to an amendment to the terms for the appointment and ratification of full time staff. The amended version modifies the agree- ment so as to operate according to bylaw and prece- dent.
The Federation of Students, University of Water- loo, invites the staff of the Free Chevron, University of Waterloo to settle the present dispute between them according to the following proposal:
1. The Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, agrees to recognize the present staff of the Free Chevron as the legitimate staffof The Chevron, the official student newspaper of the students of the University of Waterloo.
2. The Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, agrees that it will not rescind or change the existing publication by-laws of the Federation pending the report of the commission described herein.
3. The Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, agrees to release the budget of the student newspaper, The Chevron retroactively to May 1, 1977, according to the by-laws and past policies and procedures of the Federation of Students.
4. The Federation of Students further invites The Chevron staff to present to the Students’ Council of the Federation of Students their candidates for the positions of editor-in-chief, production manager, and advertising manager for The Chevron. Upon ratification of these positions by the Students’ Council, the successful candidates shall be assigned salaries of $160 per week beginning immediately, provided that if any of these successful candidates held the same position with, the staff of the Free Chevron on May 1, 1977, the salaries shall be effec- tive to May 1, 1977. The Federation of Students also invites the Chevron staff to present to the Students’ Council a candidate for the position of news editor, unless the Commission recommends otherwise. Upon ratification by the Students’ Council, the suc- cessful candidate shall be assigned a salary of $160 per week commencing September 1, 1977.
5. The Federation of Students shall normalize all services to The Chevron office as they existed on September 24, 1976 and shall return to The Chevron offices Federation property which was used by The Chevron prior to September 24, 1976.
6. Both the Federation of Students and The Free Chevron agree to withdraw all legal action against each other which is now pending in the courts. The Federation of Students further agrees to reimburse the staff of the Free Chevron in the amount of$l,SOO for legal fees incurred by them.
7. The Federation of Students agrees to reinstate the budget of The Chevron as of September 30. 1976 by paying to the Chevron staff an amount agreed upon by the staffof The Chevron to be $13,500. The staff of The Chevron agrees to assume all debts incurred by it during the period of September 30, 1976 to April 30, 1977.
S.(a) A binding commission shall be set up for the following purposes:
(i) To investigate the reasons for closing The Chevron and for the termination of the posi- tion of news editor and production manager; (ii) To investigate the legality and propriety
of the action taken by the Federation of Sau- dents as described in subparagraph li) above; (iii) To make recommendations concerning future policies, by-laws and structures of&he Federation of Students concerning the iswr- ation of The Chevron and the empioymentsrsf The Chevron staff, and generally csmxxmiang the publication of student newspapedsj a% the University of Waterloo.
8. (b) The commission shall be compos;ed CB~CW (5) persons, to be selected as fotlows:
(i) Two members be chosen by the staff~fThe - Chevron;
(ii) Two members shall be chosen by ahe Z&u- dents’ Council of the Federation of Students: (iii) The fifth member, who shall be the chair- man, shall be chosen by the 4 members de- scribed in subparagraph (ij and (ii) above; (iv) The staff of The Chevron shall have the right to veto any appointee of the Students* Council, and the Students’ Council shall have the right to veto any appointee of the staff of The Chevron; (v) In the event of a veto of an appointee. the party appointing the vetoed appointee sha!H make a further appointment; (vi) all appointments to be made by the sta!ff of The Chevron and by the Students’ Council shall be made by midnight Friday, July 8, 1977; both parties agree to use their utmost efforts to make these appointments within this time limit. It is agreed that this procedure Ss preferable to the procedure in subparagraph (viii). (vii) The four appointees will then have until Tuesday, July 12, 1977 in which to choose a chairman for the commission, and in the event that they cannot agree upon an appoinrtment by then and should they not mutually a,gree to extend the time for an appointment, the ap- pointment shall be submitted to arbitration ts the Arbitrations Act. R.S.O. 1970; (viii) In the event that any of the four positions on the commission are not filled within the time limits prescribed in subparagraph (vi) above, and provided that the parties do not agree to extend the time for selection of t:he appointees, the commission shall consist .of one appointee by the staff of The Chevron, one appointee by the Students’ Council, and a chairman to be selected mutually by them ac- cording to the procedure described in sub- paragraph (vii), further provided that there shall be no right of veto over the appointment of either party.
8.(c) The commission shall hold its investigations in public commencing no later than Monday 1 July 18, 1977 and the commission shall determine its own procedures including the calling of witnesses, the presentation of submissions and the rules of evi- dence which shall be followed.
9. The Federation of Students, University of Waterloo, shall be responsible for all seasonable expenses of the commission, said expenses not to exceed $500 without the prior approval ,of the Stu- dents’ Council.
10. The commission shall report to Students’ Council as soon as possible.
Agreed to this 20th day of June, I977 sub&cit $0 ratification by The Chevron staff and by ;Ithe Stu- dents’ Council.
(signed) Douglas Thompson, Ron Hipfner, Larry Hannant, Neil Docherty .
Amendment AMENDMENT TO PROVISIONAL AGREE- MENT BY THE CHEVRON STAFF ON JUNE 21, 1977. SECTION 4 OF THE AGREEMENT TO BE DE- LETED AND REPLACED BY THE FOLLOW- ING:
4. The Federation of Students further invites the Chevron staff to present to the Students’ Council of the Federation of Students those persons elected for the positions of editor-in-chief, production manager and advertising manager for The Chevron. Upon ratification by the Students’ Council of the editor- in-chief, as per by-law, and the other two persons if
they are non-students, as per precedent, they shall be assigned salaries of $160 per week beginning im- mediately, provided that if any of them held !he same position with the staff of The Free Chevron on May 1, 1977, the salaries shall be effective to &%a~ I 1 1977. The Federation of Students also invites the Chevron staff to present to the Students’ Council a candidate for the position of news editor, unless the commission recommends otherwise. Upon ratifica- tion, as necessary if non-student, as per precedent, by the Students’ Council, this person shalu33 be as- signed a salary of $160 per week commencing Sep- tember 1, 1977.
A member of the Canadian University Press, the free chevron is produced and published by the chevron staff and is typeset by Dumont Press Graphix. The free chevron is produced from Room 140, Campus Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. Mail should be sent to P.O. Box 802, Waterloo. Telephone (519) 742-5502.
It may be that this is the last free chevron to cross your palms, since we seem close to settling this dispute. Sunday’s council meeting will tell all, so come out and see. Needles Hall 3004, 1 p.m. Helping this week were the follo~iag fightin’ free chevrics: lorne, gerard, cody, jonathan, neil, joanne, ernst, larry, salah, dave, nick, randy, heather, peter3 and peter, karen, jules, Yves, ciaran, myles, - et moi, hamilton.
4 the free chevron iriday, june 24, 7977
Students suffer from drama group dis Saturday night’s closing perfor-
mance of Sleuth marks the end of the ‘76’77 drama season at UW. As the last flats are being pulled down in the early morning hours, speculation will begin on the future of Creative Arts Board (CAB) drama productions.
CASE IN POINT: a recent deci- sion of the Drama Department will prohibit the granting of production credits to students who work on CAB productions, and rehearsal space will be at a premium next season as the Drama Department expands its own production
schedtile and acting classes. As yet, no successor has been
named to replace Maurice Evans at the post of Director-in-Residence.
One suggestion is to bring in guest directors for each production giving students an opportunity to work with a variety of per- sonalities. But who will be around to build the sets, run the lights and gather props? Not drama students, though few other students under- stand stage management, or set construction. And even drama stu- dents get poor grounding in techni- cal production.
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This past season, the drama community spread itself pretty thin, and the same small group of diehards were to be found working on every show, building, scenery, hanging lights and prop-hunting. Technical planning was kept to a minimum. As a result, productions often suffered from many blunders.
It must be apparent by now that the last thing we need is another director to swallow up resources and coerce unsuspecting students into late night work shifts. Indeed, students need a professional stage manager, or a production stage manager to organize productions and breed competent student stage managers.
To what end were student re- sources utilized in the production of Sleuth? Well, two professional actors were employed (one of them being Evans himself) and a profes- sional director was brought in. Two and a half weeks before opening night, an ex-student was engaged to design lighting at no pay. Another ex-student was asked to work as stage manager, and three members of the set crew were students, but not from UW.
Evans didn’t line up a designer, or a technical director to oversee the work done by students. The master carpenter w-as not given a ground plan, nor a prepared set de- sign. The stage manager was bul- lied into finding props for herself because Evans couldn’t assemble a competent props staff first. Theatre technicians have’ always been treated as second-rate citi- zens” at UW.
Finally, the stage manager had to call upon personal friends to get the work done.
A cynic might comment that stu- dent resources were being exp- loited to support professionals, not- ing that CAB productions are funded by the Federation of Stu-
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dents. Were the professional artists
worth hiring? Their performances were by no means memorable. Oc- casionally, Nolan Jennings (Milo) showed signs of coming out of his shell of indifference: but when he did his gestures had all the subtlety of an adolescent lost at the school prom. He searched and searched for a dancing partner, but his co-star, Evans, was nowhere to be found.
John Plank’s direction, while os- tesibly geometric, was boring. His actors trot back and forth, getting from one place to the next without establishing a single human trait. Lines blurt, bloop and sometimes belly-flop. Rarely are real persons evoked with whom the audience can remotely identify. Only the un- stoppable Inspector Doppler raises a faint sigh of relief from this rancid performance.
Continued from page 1 amount of money provided out of federation fees after advertising re- venue is subtracted from total pra- duction costs, including salaries for editor, production manager and news editor.)
The money will be used by the chevron staff to cover some of the costs incurred in producing the first 26 issues of the free chevron since council withdrew funding for the chevron September 30, 1976.
Under the agreement the federa- tion will pay $1,800 for legal costs incurred by the chevron staff dur- ing the conflict.
The 1977-78 budget will be re- leased to the paper retroactive to May 1, 1977.
The t‘2gure is based on back pay for Docherty and former News
The investigation included in the
Editor Henry Hess. loans given to the free chevron (mainly from staff, totalling about $5,400) and other costs, like phone bills and publish- ing bills. The figure does not cove1 donations made by students, fa- culty members and other suppor- ters, including the Canadian Uni- versity Press (CUP) and member papers df CUP and La Presse fitudiante Nationale.
I remain unconvinced that Sleuth is a modern classic, as its interna- tional acclaim would suggest. The play’s humour begins and ends with the one-liner. Its characters are delineated by the opinions they espouse, instead of their action? and cultural distinctions.
Milo and Andrew (Evans) shoula be two entirely different per- sonalities. As the play is written, their differences are social, but their behaviour is similar.
Sleuth is a murder-mystery, but there is no mystery surrounding the production of a play. any piay. Good productions depend upon work and skilful execution. If stu- dents intend to continue breaking their backs to prodlice ;I \ho\v. then at least they could get professional technicians to gi\ e thtzm qllalified assistance instead of‘ more fake!/ directors to beat them doun.
--myles kestera
agreement is to \t;\rt Ju11, IX. to re- port as “iis soon ;I\ pcwible”. The chevron st:tff and the fedsration will each appoint t\\ o pec)plc IC: the commission. E,!sh put> h:+.\ a \ eta if the other‘s appointee\ are ilot ac- ceptable. The foul :lpl-~ointez~ are to choose a c hairpex~n.
If the two partie\ canno: ::gree on the commissioner-s. a contingency plan is to have e xh side choose one person but to ha\,e no power of veto, and for the two commissions- ers to choose a chairperson.
Two societies active during the summer have been informed of the proposed agreement and discussed it this week.
Monday, MathSoc passed a mo- tion “reluctantly” endorsing the proposed agreement, in a 3-3-l vote.
strong objection to the proposed agreement, but that many were hesitant about the financial settle- ment.
He stressed, however. that En- gSoc wants the conflict to end.
-larry hannant -neil docherty
A vote in EngSoc Tuesday went 4 pro, 4 against, and with a large number of abstentions. EngSol: president Peter King interprete the vote to rnexn that there was nu
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