advertising its “SO acts and 50 prices were dropped to $2.50 and reached until the next day, again.; Canadian ,Circus finally made for the system to be deposited in an account so they circus. They agreed- to wait until - - transfered to an account in Aurora) The first week on the“ road so you will have to wait until then’. ’ B r@a k 111 d~~~~he performers meeting. The performers had - of Waterloo \ Waterloo, Ontario volume 14, numbei 9 fiiday, September 7, 1973 by john keyes to as f c
Unkersity of Waterloo \ Waterloo, Ontario volume 14, numbei 9 fiiday, September 7, 1973 c Student .housing / f The problem faced by most, of those students searching for off ._ campus housing appears to be of major proportions thisyear, With the” on campus housing fully oc- cupied, including- both villages, and the church colleges, the situation has been aggravated by a general shortage of available housing in the immediate vicinity of the university. . ’ This state of affairs can be at- tributed to a number of factors, among them the lower number of rooms being advertised through the’housing office this year than last year. In addition a number of apartment buildings open , to students. in previous years have been closed to them.; and the buildings, recently erected are not’ renting to students from the outset. easy tolose any sense of worth in the academic exercise being embarked upon. The si&ation’on Wednesday was even worse than that witnessed the day before. By late ‘afternoon the housing list had shrunk to less than four pages, with a listing for -men roughly twice that for women. Of the housingstill available- the vast -majority of rooms were in Kit- chener, doing little to alleviate the problem faced by those without cars. Kieth Dewar spent Wednesday trying to help those looking for housing and talked to 165 people; the frequency of success was far from encouraging,-- ,wi,th only :40 people finding a roof to -sleep un- der; As Dewar said, “those who, really -tried have come up with One apartmerit that is still renting something” although the’ rooms Wh’ei, the Corona fiimi/y kft the Canadian to students seems to be doing so found were often referred to as circus, the$y touch&i off a ch$in of a,ctfon$$j~d reactjon thar has brought’ the federation to file a claim against the company. They >do &t expect to -&$ver their in-, , with reluctance. The Hillsdale “holes”. - vestment. . i . apartments, within c walking. ,The quality of the housing 4 ~. _. . ’ distance of the university, is available appears to be dropping Canadian ,Circus Payments were to be made-every Aurora and the management story demanding a derjosit of the full ’ with the number 1of rooms still * saturday and each payment was to became, ‘the ,money is being years reny at the signing of the lease. On a s\ingle bedroom apartment at $160 a month, that comes to $192&-a reasonable .sum to pay out ia one installment. ’ Keith Dewar, working with those students hunting for housing through the federation’s housing . information office, has hinted that. the use of tents is being considered to accomodate those unable to find housing before classes start next week. After sitting in the campus centre housing office Tuesday afternoon Dewar felt . that the situation is indeed needful of concern. Among the 18 people with whom he had spoken, Dewar said that on the average they-had been looking for three days and had still come up empty handed. ’ vacant. One listing still not spoken for Wednesday was for a room at $80 per month, however rental was qualified by *the following com- ment: “students may not use bath or shower”. Dewar felt that such conditions are contrary to the Landlord Tenant Act, however when placed in the tight spot that \most of the students still looking for accommodation are in, there is little choice left. - - transfered to an account in Aurora) The first week on the“ road so you will have to wait until then’. ’ B r@a k 111 d~~~~he performers meeting. The performers had - August 11 to 18 went smoothly After the final show in Aurora the enough and when Saturday came staff and the managers had a - ~ operators and technician; begun talking about pulling out of gathered around for their pay. the show if they were not paid. The Salaries were paid for the first animal acts said they had no week. - money to get their groups to Owen On the second week of the tour it Sound, the next stop scheduled. became evident that the circus Marshall soothed a few ruffled was in some financial difficulties. feathers by deciding to go instead Several people were laid off and a to Barrie, cancelling the show in. few quit. Initially Canadian Circus Owen Sound, and telling everyone Only a few weeks ago the was charging $8.50 -for adult ad- that they had $70,000 in an account: mission and $2.50 for children. The Canadian Circus was heartily Apparently the money could not be advertising its “SO acts and 50 prices were dropped to $2.50 and reached until the next day, again.; productions” and now, Ross $1.50 respectively. The crowds just ,August 28 the circus began were not showing. setting up the show on the Barr* . Marshall, the producer of the circus cannot be found and the The circus made it through the grounds. There were severa+ trustees are admitting bankrupt- second week and it came time meetings between the staff and tb _ cy. The story of-what happened in again for the staff to be paid. management. Marshall promise& the few weeks between these Everyone gathered around at the, that they had a backer, who thg times, is long, and, in fact, often appropriate time and they -were refused to reveal, that had COIB- unbelievable. However, the story told, by the managers, that the mitted $70,000 to the circus. Late3t is important. money was coming from Kit- in the’day he did reveal that th& chener . Therefore, The Federation of Students at they would money could only be touched when the circus could raise $5O,OOOon its Waterloo owns a rather extensive have to wait for a couple of hours until it could all be sorted-out. One own. sound system that has been lying half hour before the first show on idle for the last months. The co- Marshall claimed that they did ordinator of the sound system, Saturday, they were, told the have people in Kitchener at- Doug Griesbach, in his search for money had arrived but since it was tempting to raise the money so nearly show time they would wait that the people could be paid, and- summer employment that would ,pay him money, did find a job with until after the show to ‘divvy up’ original money-released. Walter _ the funds. the “newly-formed Canadian Tzacuk, the New York Rangers Circus”. The circus performed shows at_ hockey player was named as one of , Marshall - discovered. that four and . eight-thirty in the evenings. There was only one half the possible sources of the Griesbach ran the federation necessary $5O,OOO. Marshall said. sound system and negotiations. hour of spare time between the two that Tzacuk was consulting his- began. The circus, three days shows, so again, at Mytime the’ business manager and would be in before it was scheduled to go on the staff was stalled. They were touch within two days. promised that they would be paid Dewar maintained that there was housing -available, but, for the most part, so far away from the university that they are only open to those with some means of transportation. Housing is available in places like Breslau at reasonable rates and in suitable condition. However, the difficulty is most acute for those without transportation, ahd for the ,most part, first or second year students. The problems surrounding -housing may have serious side effects on the students academic activity and general state of mind. Having worked with counselling services off and on, De-war has witnessed the effects of such discomfort on students. If someone is forced into spending the better part of September looking for and settling into a room then their work necessarily suffers. As he sees it, one bad term, is of ten sufficient to convince a first year student to quit-if y the l related @e. are complex enough it is Another term of rental for one of the single ‘rooms listed included “free” rent for a student “majoring in (child) psychology to _ help with a 6 year old hyperactive child”-in other words, free rent for a live-in babysitter. These are the conditions faced by those students still frantically in search of a place to sleep, and live. With the grim picture presented Wednesday and’classes starting on Monday, the possibility of resolving the housing situation seems slim. More students. are still coming into =town, without having looked before, hoping to find accomodation within a couple of days. Judging by those who have been scouring the area since late last week, the chances of doing so ,. in less than three or four days are not very good. Over the past few years the question of student housing has become more and, more acute. The prospects for next year appear no better, if not worse, and the need for some sort of action to provide better housing with less headache seems obvious. An upcoming meeting of student council -representatives from across southern Ontario is going to try to deal with the problem. by john keyes road, did not have a sound system “after he second show. It did look like the money wa;S of anyi kind. Marshall called going to come through and the After the second show they were Griesbach and i3ITarl@?IlleIlt~-Wt%3? told that the money had been group decided to stick with the- finally made for the system to be deposited in an account so they circus. They agreed- to wait until ren! to the circus- The Package could not be paid until monclay, the next day at three o’clock and , included three OpC!ratOrS, and $4588 when the banks open. then make any further decisioh ’ - for four and ‘one half weeks. Monday, the c&us rolled into continued on page 3 _
Transcript
Unkersity of Waterloo \ Waterloo, Ontario
volume 14, numbei 9 fiiday, September 7, 1973
c Student .housing /
f
The problem faced by most, of those students searching for off ._ campus housing appears to be of major proportions thisyear, With the” on campus housing fully oc- cupied, including- both villages, and the church colleges, the situation has been aggravated by a general shortage of available housing in the immediate vicinity of the university. . ’
This state of affairs can be at- tributed to a number of factors, among them the lower number of rooms being advertised through the’housing office this year than last year. In addition a number of apartment buildings open , to students. in previous years have been closed to them.; and the buildings, recently erected are not’ renting to students from the outset.
easy tolose any sense of worth in the academic exercise being embarked upon.
The si&ation’on Wednesday was even worse than that witnessed the day before. By late ‘afternoon the housing list had shrunk to less than four pages, with a listing for -men roughly twice that for women. Of the housingstill available- the vast
-majority of rooms were in Kit- chener, doing little to alleviate the problem faced by those without cars.
Kieth Dewar spent Wednesday trying to help those looking for housing and talked to 165 people; the frequency of success was far from encouraging,-- ,wi,th only :40 people finding a roof to -sleep un- der; As Dewar said, “those who, really -tried have come up with
One apartmerit that is still renting something” although the’ rooms Wh’ei, the Corona fiimi/y kft the Canadian to students seems to be doing so found were often referred to as
circus, the$y touch&i off a ch$in of a,ctfon$$j~d reactjon thar has brought’ the federation to file a claim against the company. They >do &t expect to -&$ver their in-, ,
with reluctance. The Hillsdale “holes”. - vestment. . i . apartments, within c walking. ,The quality of the housing 4 ~. _. .
’ distance of the university, is available appears to be dropping Canadian ,Circus Payments were to be made-every Aurora and the management story demanding a derjosit of the full ’ with the number 1 of rooms still * saturday and each payment was to became, ‘the ,money is being years reny at the signing of the lease. On a s\ingle bedroom apartment at $160 a month, that comes to $192&-a reasonable .sum to pay out ia one installment. ’ Keith Dewar, working with those students hunting for housing through the federation’s housing
. information office, has hinted that. the use of tents is being considered to accomodate those unable to find housing before classes start next week. After sitting in the campus centre housing office Tuesday afternoon Dewar felt . that the situation is indeed needful of concern. Among the 18 people with whom he had spoken, Dewar said that on the average they-had been looking for three days and had still come up empty handed.
’ vacant. One listing still not spoken for Wednesday was for a room at $80 per month, however rental was qualified by *the following com- ment: “students may not use bath or shower”. Dewar felt that such conditions are contrary to the Landlord Tenant Act, however when placed in the tight spot that
\most of the students still looking for accommodation are in, there is little choice left.
- - transfered to an account in Aurora)
The first week on the“ road so you will have to wait until then’. ’
B r@a k 111 d~~~~he performers meeting. The performers had -
August 11 to 18 went smoothly After the final show in Aurora the enough and when Saturday came staff and the managers had a
- ~ operators and technician; begun talking about pulling out of gathered around for their pay. the show if they were not paid. The Salaries were paid for the first animal acts said they had no week. - money to get their groups to Owen
On the second week of the tour it Sound, the next stop scheduled. became evident that the circus Marshall soothed a few ruffled was in some financial difficulties. feathers by deciding to go instead Several people were laid off and a to Barrie, cancelling the show in. few quit. Initially Canadian Circus Owen Sound, and telling everyone
Only a few weeks ago the was charging $8.50 -for adult ad- that they had $70,000 in an account: mission and $2.50 for children. The
Canadian Circus was heartily Apparently the money could not be
advertising its “SO acts and 50 prices were dropped to $2.50 and reached until the next day, again.;
productions” and now, Ross $1.50 respectively. The crowds just ,August 28 the circus began were not showing. setting up the show on the Barr* .
Marshall, the producer of the circus cannot be found and the
The circus made it through the grounds. There were severa+
trustees are admitting bankrupt- second week and it came time meetings between the staff and tb _
cy. The story of-what happened in again for the staff to be paid. management. Marshall promise&
the few weeks between these Everyone gathered around at the, that they had a backer, who thg
times, is long, and, in fact, often appropriate time and they -were refused to reveal, that had COIB-
unbelievable. However, the story told, by the managers, that the mitted $70,000 to the circus. Late3t
is important. money was coming from Kit- in the’day he did reveal that th& chener . Therefore,
The Federation of Students at they would money could only be touched when
the circus could raise $5O,OOO on its Waterloo owns a rather extensive
have to wait for a couple of hours until it could all be sorted-out. One own.
sound system that has been lying half hour before the first show on idle for the last months. The co-
Marshall claimed that they did
ordinator of the sound system, Saturday, they were, told the have people in Kitchener at-
Doug Griesbach, in his search for money had arrived but since it was tempting to raise the money so nearly show time they would wait that the people could be paid, and-
summer employment that would ,pay him money, did find a job with
until after the show to ‘divvy up’ original money-released. Walter _ the funds.
the “newly-formed Canadian Tzacuk, the New York Rangers
Circus”. The circus performed shows at_ hockey player was named as one of ,
Marshall - discovered. that four and . eight-thirty in the evenings. There was only one half
the possible sources of the
Griesbach ran the federation necessary $5O,OOO. Marshall said.
sound system and negotiations. hour of spare time between the two that Tzacuk was consulting his-
began. The circus, three days shows, so again, at Mytime the’ business manager and would be in
before it was scheduled to go on the staff was stalled. They were touch within two days. promised that they would be paid
Dewar maintained that there was housing -available, but, for the most part, so far away from the university that they are only open to those with some means of transportation. Housing is available in places like Breslau at reasonable rates and in suitable condition. However, the difficulty is most acute for those without transportation, ahd for the ,most part, first or second year students.
The problems surrounding -housing may have serious side
effects on the students academic activity and general state of mind. Having worked with counselling services off and on, De-war has witnessed the effects of such discomfort on students. If someone is forced into spending the better part of September looking for and settling into a room then their work necessarily suffers. As he sees it, one bad term, is of ten sufficient to convince a first year student to quit-if y the l related @e. are complex enough it is
Another term of rental for one of the single ‘rooms listed included “free” rent for a student “majoring in (child) psychology to
_ help with a 6 year old hyperactive child”-in other words, free rent for a live-in babysitter. These are the conditions faced by those students still frantically in search of a place to sleep, and live.
With the grim picture presented Wednesday and’classes starting on Monday, the possibility of resolving the housing situation seems slim. More students. are still coming into = town, without having looked before, hoping to find accomodation within a couple of days. Judging by those who have been scouring the area since late last week, the chances of doing so
,. in less than three or four days are not very good.
Over the past few years the question of student housing has become more and, more acute. The prospects for next year appear no better, if not worse, and the need for some sort of action to provide better housing with less headache seems obvious. An upcoming meeting of student council
-representatives from across southern Ontario is going to try to deal with the problem.
by john keyes
road, did not have a sound system “after he second show. It did look like the money wa;S
of anyi kind. Marshall called going to come through and the
After the second show they were Griesbach and i3ITarl@?IlleIlt~-Wt%3? told that the money had been
group decided to stick with the-
finally made for the system to be deposited in an account so they circus. They agreed- to wait until
ren! to the circus- The Package could not be paid until monclay, the next day at three o’clock and
, included three OpC!ratOrS, and $4588 when the banks open. then make any further decisioh
’ - for four and ‘one half weeks. Monday, the c&us rolled into continued on page 3 _
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- The Arts Library is offering
guided tours and slide shows
of their library facilities
on the following dates:
TOURS SLIDES’ Sept. 4 to 7 Sept. 10 to 21 (Mon. to Fri.) (Mon. to Fri.) lo:30 am - 2:30 pm
Sept. 10 to 21. (Mon to Fri.) 9:30 am & 11:30 am
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All tours and slide shows
begin’ at the Reference Desk on the Main Floor
of the Arts Library.
This year thy student housing, I ;
not like students, but they’ love money from students. For- One of Kitchener’s finest watches stolidly as an exhibit sponsored by the international Rrothcrhood of ’
tunitely. this is a minority group. Electrica/ Wor;kers drives past as part of the K-W Labour Day parade., The striking workers portrayed t(x) :
The majority honestly do attempt management as men with whips driving the workers on. The parade had several tot&& which made it
to,supply comparable facilities for different from the usual K-v parade, such as a ca.r carrying signs urging people to continue hoycdtting
the money they receive but once Dare products, and a car displaying the lovely Ms. K-W Labour photo by george kaufman
&ituat ion is turning intp a major prgtilem. I!\ seems ,that landlords ar’e less willing to rent to sfudents this’ yca1! than in the past. Inspi& 0t’ t hc - numerous apart men’ buildings and townhouses ~ which have -been erected during the past t~~clvc ‘months. there is still an acut c short age of housng for studcI.i.ts. t 11~ rerison being that the OWI~CTS -of . t hcse IWM’ huildirig:; I~‘~~sc to rtwt to students. .
!!‘hc situation might not be so bad if it ivcre not for the fact that there .;IIY atso far fe\l;*cr off-campus houses listed in the Ifousing Office this yea!* than others. l&t year t h*re ~vere d,@se tg cli;yit~~~hun$e~
. off-can1pus acconihiodat ioni available to students. This. +ar . howevtbr. the number is
-&s;cr to tight hundred -- ()bviously. the housing scarcity
is l&eating major problems for students without a place to live. It also means that these students cannot afford to be-sel&tive. They eust take &hat a’ccommodations tht$ can gtbt . Quality cannot bq a considcrXtion.l And it _ is exactly this kind of situation rvhich allows landlords to rent poor quality rooms . The f’act that a’ny home owner Lvould rent 21’ living space whibh is barely fit to live ‘in is an unfortunate reflection -upon the .Kitchcncr-M’aterlotr community. A housing survey conducted this summer ‘revealed that there is a substantial percentage of ac- coinmodations which are unfit for habitation. -fIowever. to single these places out and expose their conditions would be a futile effdrt due to thescarcity of housing.
The situation, however.’ is not as bad for men tis it is for wQmen.. ‘I‘hc~y have an additional strike against them ,since most lafidlords prefer to rent to men rather lhan ~~‘oIl’IcIl. When questioned as to
1 wily they did not want to rent to women. t hc most common answers lvcrc that I ) lvornen used too much
.wafer alid 2.1 they had too many visitors. Another answer was that
i they were sloppier than men. Quite obviously, there is discrimination involved. but unless anyone cares to gti to a lot of trouble, there is little that can he done.
Home owners renting to stude& do so for the money to be ac-
I &ued-byut- do Jhey supply- com- parable accommodations for the amount they charge? Most do, but some do not. It is ‘the latter group which I take advantage. ef the
again die to- the -scarcity of I i housing this year some students _ _ are forced to overpay for their , , _ housing.
Landlords enting to students have other means _of taking ad- vantage of’ their tenants. Some landlords have been known to agree to rent to students and then give t hc rooms to other students \~~I10 -are willing to pay more IllOIlCC’. In this ‘situation the original student, if no agreement jj;l<: t)~yIl;?si&&f, ii; -$+&less ‘to _ retain the room they thought they had.
legs ’ from page one
then. ‘The feeling_ 01 tie management. which spread to the stall’. was that they were going ‘to make a killing in Montreal, if they got t ha\ far. Apparently -there .had bee?, tpipy ~ advance sales for tickets and nromoters were con- l’ident that’ the. circus would become solvent. There was even talk of another tour next year and
- the year after. d
As a result of ihe good crowd reaction Marshall decided to stay one more day in Barrie and cancel the shows scheduled for Orillia. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.‘
The Coronas, another major attraction and the real organizers of the whole three ring show, decided to take control of the circus and *gp r-99 ,, to:, !@@&a. .;-. ?- Everyone agreed ~* co>-rnaks the break with them-except for the Kock-Smiths who’ decided to qvit and were already driving ..,awa-y. Earlier they had checked Mar- shall’s story about the bank _ ac- count and found that there was no money in any account.
While-all of these problems were being argued over and worried about, the cash box had indeed been taken. The money was divided among th6 performers. The-operators did not receive any. money.
-there-- Anot her un& hical practice in 1
~~hictl some landlords indulge is raising the cost of rooms after the student has a&ed to rent the 1~0oIm at a,lower price. Once again there is nothing to be done. The I studer!! can Gither pay the in- creased rent or ‘move out, taking a chance at not being’ able to find other accomodat ion.
Another point of contention between studeiits and landlords is the somet imps restrictive house rules which 4andlords impose..- Often the students 8nd thei? lan- dlords agree upon a set of house rules which are based upon common sense and the respect for the other persons in the hous,e. But when landlords become dictatorial . and attempt to, rule the student’s lives, the students are once again being exploited. ’ i(;lor example, students might resent a midnight curfew’ or not + being allowed to smoke in their rooms. They ‘must either leave or ‘submit. If they are wise -they i<*iill submit since the chance of finding other ac- commodations this year is doubtful.
The deadline caie -and went with no sign of *any money. The Kock-Smith Flyers, high-wire walkers and a.major section of the show, refused to continue-with any plans for the evening shows. They began a chain reaction throughout the M.holG group 01’ performers and everyone bcg;ln telephoning their lawyers. (‘haos ensued. The show M’;IS due to go on, the seats were filling up and the people that make the show were refusing to consider performing.
For the past few-years, there has e?Fted~within the confines of the U of ,:W an entertainment service which has managed to -remain virtually unknown. I refer to Whiplash’--Kadio Water-loo’s mobile music ,unit. You may have seen someone playing records at a pub in the past, but who ‘cared! E’ou could get drunk and ignore it or go to the can till the bqnd came backtif there was one). Who listens to records at a pub anyway ‘I
Marshall and- Mel Corney, a member of the Board af Directors, announced that the show would not go on. It was four forty-five and the reason given for the cancellation was-the wind and the hot weather. There was *no wind that day. The people that -had bought tickets were given passes to’ the show schedul&d at 8 o’clock.
Kight in the middle of all of this, a promoter, based in New York, called and offered to’ take on the Coronas and any acts that would accompany -them. They did- not need to hear any more, it sounded like real money. Some acts went with the Coronas, some left on their own and then there were the unlucky few that got stuck in Barrie. One particularly un-
‘fortunate individual was the man with all the bears-he had no money for their food or to tran- sport them anywhere.
The majority of home owners renting to students are honest people who need a little extra money . But there are also those who are willing exploit students at every opportunity . The un- fortunate fact is that they can do SO. \i.ithout fear of reprisal. Only a few of thc’unt4hical practices have txbcn mcnt iopr+ the more obvious Cd C’OI~I~O~ ones which were uncovered by tHis summer’s housing survey. You can be assured I there were many left unsaid. -For cvcry landlord willing to, take ildvantage of a student
Just after all of this excitement, Griesbach spoke with the managers and was informed that their. aCcountant ,. Ai-t Diegel, had quit on Sunday-the day after payday. He was also told that they had to do an evening show because of all the people that had been given passes.
As soon ai the Coronas decihed to go with ‘the new prtimoter, Marshall and the rest of’ the managing team disappeared. ~They hav’e not been located. *
Meanwhile t h6 performers were meeting on their own and they decided to go ahead with the eight o’clock,show. But they also agreed tc? take the cash box from Marshall and split it up among themselves.
The t ired‘and angry co-ordinator of thy Waterloo -sound system headed_ for home around midnight of the* same, day. G’riesba_ch received $%OO of the $4500 that was akreed %pon. .-
On August 30 the Federation of
So, the.show did go on. And it was- the best of the whole tour.
Students filed a claim for 3600 doii%s against the assets of the Canadian Circus. The federation lost: directly; $1200 for the rental and then .$200 for the extra equipment that was bought to
. handle the different arrange-
The fact is that quite a few people listen and actually talk to ‘Yhat guy up there”. Some even make requests. And that makes it all worthwhile. Those hardy in- dividuals who play those records do so for two r’easons-people and music. You can’t enjoy a pub without both of them.
There is also-a rumor.that some people do it for financial gain but this has not been confirmed. -
tin the other hanq, some bands either can’t or won’t play the song you‘d like ,to hear but, if Whiplash has it,- you’ll hear it. You could even bring a record‘gf your own. Whiplash grew a few years ago out of a need for this type of service on campus and, d&pi_te any evidence to the contrary, is still going strong. Just look for ‘it dufing orientation or go upsta.irs at a welI known local pub downtqwn next week to give a listen.
Since its humble conception; Whiplash has been/ sighted throughout the K-W area, most recently at the Central Ontario Exhib‘ition with Wired World (‘a community based radio station).
With campus coming back to life this week, things are starting to happen at Kadio Waterlog. If you, are interested in any aspect of radio. including Whiplash, now is the time to come up to the Bauer Warehouse and check ( us out.
You’ll probably find something you like. I I
Ajohn broeze
-, students? desperate need for a ’ tl@re ;1re one i)r more . students _ p er h aps that is indicative of what ___. _ _ . ,, . , place to live. Quite often those who .\villing. should we say force& to working for guarenteed money will I ments. . overcharge are aldo the pdople give in and rent from them. The do. The crowd enjoyed, and they 1~110 are hostile towards students. - pity of it all iS that SO little Can be had no idea of the, backstage The circus will never ’ get to $kmy of these landlords simply do .donc. . troubles. -The feeling ;Imo~~g- the -
department of the University of Waterloo is doing research on mercury -poisoning. Eventually, of course, governments and in- dustries will be able to stop in- troducing mercury into the en- vironment but until that time and-even afterward we shall have to find a method of removing’ .mercury from the lakes and from contaminated material. Carty is working to discover more about’ s the type of chemical activity which occurs when mercury con- taminates something. In the case of human beings brain dam- age is caused when the mercury attaches itself to the brain cells, forming chemical bonds-thus impeding natural functions of the cell. Carty isstudying the bonds formed between mercury and the amino acids, which are the building blocks of brain cells. He I hopes to discover just how to design other compounds which would bond with mercury. These
compounds must have two characteristics; a greater at- traction with mercury than the proteins in the brain cells and be close enough to compounds found naturally in the body that the cure would not turn out worse than the disease. This would then prevent mercury from forming bonds with other proteins and perhaps provide a greater at- traction to the ,mercury than the mercury from the previo&ly formed bond.
Mercury poisoning causes mental disorders such as blurred vision. speech impediments. in- trovertedness, and eventually the - cessation of brain activity. The effects are irreversable. With the ’ completion of Dr. Carty’s cx- periment we may well have a - method of removing mercury from contaminated material before it
can cause any damage. It’s not final solution, but it’s certainly a start.
The bill before the government now provides exemption from prosecution ‘for ~ the manner in which they came or remained in Canada’ for a 60-day period. In most cases it is estimated that it will actually be in the applicants favor that he or she has been illegally working inside Canada, as long as he or she has been working at all.
, If you are living illegally in this country or know someone who is,
have them contact the TADP, 11% Spadina Road, Toronto, phone (416) 920-0241, -or call 745-2003 locally first for information.
students will be needed to help organize the different ,groups in Ontario.
One OPIRGer is %gathering background information on the Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario. Several students are needed for this project.
Elections are planned for the end of January or the beginning of February. At this time, 9 people will be elected to sit on the Board of Directors; 4 for 1 year and 5 for.2 years. Each year. 4 or 5 of the Board positions’ will be open to election. It is hoped that by this means new blood can be injected without losing all the experience that was gained by Board mem- bers. This board will be respon- sible for deciding general policies, which projects will be undertaken and how money is to be spent. The
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fut we CIasSifi.ed I ‘By’ now ,, you’ve probably heard about OPIRG-its past and in generalities. In this article, I’ll be
\ dealing with the present situation and future plans.
OPIRG is presently in the final stage of incorporation and will becomes an Ontario charitable,
* nonprofit corporation. Under the incorporation, three students, who have been active within OPIRG, have been named as the Board of Directors. They are Bruce Hahn, Ron Dragushan ‘,. and Mike Robertson. Presently, the board, after consultation with interested
~ people, have the-final decision making power. The board also has the power to appoint others to the board-in the interim until elections
. $re held. It is anticipated that interested people will be con- sidered for these positions.
OPIRG presently has hired Gary <*arson. a 26 year old lawyer, as- executive director. Marg Mc- Donald has also been hired as a
I secretary.. None of-the staff have voting rights for setting general policy in the corporation, but their opinions will be considered. The OPIRG office is in Engineering 2, Room 3321. Office hours, starting Monday, Sept. 10th will be lO:OO- 5 :00. -You may come to the office for information, refunds and to discuss projects.
OPIRG is presently involved with three projects; renting
_ practices in KW, a bicycle lobby and the Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario.
Through personal contact OPIRG has heard of a number of cases of students being discrimihated against in renting practices. These complaints range from outright refusal to rent to students, to charging different rents for students than non- students. OPIRG’s director is presently gathering background information but students should get involved. If you have en- countered these situations, come in and see us.
In Ontario, there is a large constituency of bicycle riders; all of whom h,ave common problems. Yet cyclists have never organized into a political lobby/ The object of this project is to form such’s lobby and to use it to get improvements for cyclists. A report is being
r prepared regarding paths along provincial highways. So far the Ontario government has been invited to provide input into the research department of the Ministry of Transportation and
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OPIRG will have a budget of $31,000 this year. To pay-salaries and maintain the office, OPIRG will be spending $15,000. Any money collected beyond this will be used to hire students to work on summer projects: A more detailed budget will be available for viewing in the office on monday,
-September 0.
OPIRG is _ to be a student- directed ofganization. Come into the office if you wish to become involved’. There is a.s much room in OPIRG for someone who just wants to staff the -office as there is for people to work,on projects; On September 10 and 17 our director and other OPIRG people will be in the Campus Centre 135 from 22:30- 5::30 to answer questions. Also.we will be in the different coffee ‘lounges during the first two weeks of let tures.
research .assistant of interest to sublet January-May 1974. Lakeshore ) students in Social Sciences. 10 hours a Village preferred. Chris 884-9558. _ week time fluid. $2 per hour. Possibility
Have you ever heard of the mad hatter in ‘Alice in Wonderland’? Of course you have but did you ever wonder just why he was mad? If the thought ever crossed your m(nd you probably thought he was just ,another run of the mill nut fresh out of some asylum:‘ Well that’s not quite correct. There is a very .good chance that the mad hatter was suffering from brain damage caused by mercury poisoning.
It seems that in past times in England before automation, hats were made by hand. A derivative of mercury called mercuric oxide was used to cure felt and velvet in the making of hats. As a result of long exposure to this compound, mercury was ingested into the systems of these hatters. This produced brain damage which eventually led to insanity. It was a common -hazard .of the times. As you can see mercury pollution is
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For the estimated tens of from various factories runs off into thousands of foreigners living lakes and -streams and- con- illegally in Canada, a last-chance centrates on the bottoms. Un- opportunity to obtain legal status fortunately for us it isconverted by will occur during September and a biological process into methyl October. --mercury which is a particularly
The- government announced at. toxic form of mercury. the beginning of August a- 60day There is no method.of removing ‘amnesty’ period-August I5 to the mercury from the bottoms of October lfi-during which for- -lakes and unless the.mercury can
eigners may apply for landed . be covered up if will inevitably be immigrant status from within converted into methyl mercury. Canada, provided they arrived in Covering up the mercury would be the country before November 30, a very expensive project and so 1972. . . has ‘been discarded as a solution.
In this area, most of those af- However nothing else at the fected by this announcement will present time will work. probably be American war Right now Lake St. Clair is very resistors. They are urged to badly polluted and there have been contact the Toronto Anti-Draft cases of mercury poisoning Programme fog:de-tails arid, aid. reported. i,ncertainIndian, villages __
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As this is the beginning of a brand new school year, Chevron staffers
.deluxe Deanna Kaufman and George Kaufman biked to University of Waterloo president Burt Matthews earlier this week about the ever- elusive State of Things.
rrrrar Chevron: Has the decrease in enrolment in Ontario leveled off, or reversing itself at this point?
Matthews: It’s difficult for me to speak generalty about the system, because I don’t have the informat ion yet from the other universities. It’s been nearly two years now since we had the short fall and we had the problem with money, and so on, and we changed our projections quite dramatically and from that time forward, we’ve been projecting for a very small increase in the numbers of students.. there’s only a difference of, like 50, in increase. And we’ve been budgeting on that, as well, and therefore, it seems that we’re going to reach our projection this year, which is about the same number as last year.
We’re going to be somewhat short in Arts- the registrar tells me there’s a somewhat larger number of people returning that weren’t here last year, but were maybe the year before. But, by and large, over the next five years, we’re going to just have the same number we have now, we expect-
Other universities seem to be short, but we just don’t know what their projections are. My feeling is that the system as a whole will probably have about the same number of students a”s last year.
Chevron: One of the results of the sudden, or unexpected, short fall, was that the universities were thrown into a compet?tion because of the provincial system of giving out money to the universities, that is, grants per student. It started this summer, at least we noticed it then, a sort of
_ \ propaganda or advertising war initiated by a couple of universities. Matthews: Yeah, a couple have done that, we ‘haven’t done anything different here than we’ve done for 10 years and, of course, we’ve probably gotten more criticism than any other university. But the fact is that the other universities, because of the shortage of students, started to look around at what the others were doing, and started to criticize us for th@gs we’ve been doing for 10 years.
Chevron: What sorts of things?
Matthews: Like going to the high schools, and having the student6 come here, the science days and computer science days, and this sort of thing. That’s been going on; you see, from the beginning of the university.
Chevron: SeveraI universities have begun
to offer lucrative scholarships.
Matthews: Yes, York offered scholarships, and Western, and it’s my opinion now that those offers. did not have the effect of increasing their enrolment to any extent. This is interesting since we all thought it would, but the evidence is not clear thit it did.
Chevron: If offers like this did lure students, it seems that one of two things would happen, either other universities would have to do the same sort of thing, or the government would have to take some sort pf action. .
Matthews: That’s why some of us were rather concerned last year about this; it’s not a question of being aga-inst the recognition of academic achievement. but when that recognition is used as an umbrella for increasing enrolment, that’s where it becomes questionable, if n@ unethical. But it seems it hasn’t had that effect.
The Council pf Ontario Universities,
however, is going to take a look at this whole question m the next few months, and try and reach some sort of policy oh it. I think surely we can reach some agreement as to the number of dollars per student a university can make available for scholarship, a maximum number. It could be a fairly sizeable amount _ with us, our scholarships amount to a total of just above 23 dollars per undergraduate student. Some universities amount to. inore than 50 dollars per student, it was for this kind of reason that our senate last year set up the neyv Wate> !oo schotarship program, and we’re just now going to provide the op- portunity for the staff and faculty to make their pledges, and that will be.done this fall, and we’ll then know how much additional money we have for scholarships.
Chevron: Have you had any indication yet, as to whether this program will be suc- cessful? /
Matthews: No, because I’m going to send a letter out in the next week or two with the appropriate card, and they can pledge a contribution for the next year. From what people tell me, they say, “you’re going to be swamped, you’re going to be surprised at how much iil l come in” of course the university has to match it, and we’re going to have to be careful. Chevron: Just staff and faculty? What about alumni? ’
Matthews: No, this is just staff and faculty, not that the others aren’t fertile fields, it’s just that this is a restricted program right now. Chevron: If we could go back for just a moment, have you had any indication from the ministry as to whether the government is an-ticipating any action governing scholarship offers?
Matthews’: The indication, if there is any, and this is just off-hand comments from various people, the ministry is really not interested in governing scholarships, but would rather let the universities look after it themsleves, a’nd try and reach some reasonable understanding. Chevron: Do you think this will happen? It appears so far that at least a few don’t want to co-operate very much. ,
Matthews: Well, that’s it, I just don’t know, but you see the ministry is looking at it that the money from the scholarships has to come from public funds, not from government funds, and the fiinistry is very hesitant to attempt to regulate how a university will use its private funds. I can
understand that, and I’m glad, in a way, that the government is hesitant to get into this.
I think a reasonable agreement may be possible in light of what happened this summer, that two universities found that scholarships are not having a tremendous effect on students’ selection of a university, as some of us thought it might do. I don’t know-why that is. I would’ve thought that $600 would be enough to influence a lot of students, but apparently there are a lot of things, there are other things involved in a students’ choice of university.
Like maybe the programs in- volved that may be important to stu- dents; in fact I’m sure it is. I think that students are choosing Waterloo for a number of reasons; the co-op is an im- portant reason, t think that a large number of students have chosen Waterloo because of the co-op program. Certainly, there seems to be, in areas where we have a comparison-we don’t in Engineering-but in science, where we have regular and co- op, there is great pressure on the co-op, a I great demand on the part of students for the co-op type ot programming, and this IS _ an important factor.
There may be other reasons, too, but co- op students make up 43 per cent of the student body. Chevron: Well, there’s the terrific climate here and the social life.
Matthews: And we’re getting-and I make a point of this in my annual report, which is coming out in a week-the quality of students here, we’re getting a relatively high proportion of first-class honor students. over-all we had 3,131 students as freshmen here last fall who came directly from Grade 13, and 38 per cent of’ those had first-class honors. Now, the average of Ontario Grade 13 students who have first-class honors is around 9 and 10 per c?nt, we’re getting more than our share. Seventy-five per cent of the fresh- men in co-op math had first-class honors in 1972.
So, for one reason or another, we’re getting a good share of the first-class students, and it isn’t scholarships that are doing it, at 23 dollars a student. Now, we have scholarships which amount to, well I guess the biggest one is $4,000, but there’s only one of those.. many of them are pretty small: c
Chevron: Getting back to the new scholarship program here, how do you feel about the reservations some faculty members expressed whkn the program was brought up and passed, about the departmental break-down of pledges, evidently the small departments think they’re going to get the short end of it and the large ones will get all the money. Do you think that’s a problem?
Matthews: I don’t think that’; a problem. There are seven boxes, if you can call them that. one for each faculty and one which is a university box, and that will not be distributed on any fqrmuula basis, and a number of people will contribute to that university box.
For instance I think, myself, that I should contribute to the university box. and a number of the staff people feel the same way, particularly those who are university staff as distinct-if I can make any distindion-from departmental staff.
Chevron: Are you satisfied, at this point, with the relations which exist between the university and the Kitchener-Waterloo community? Are there things that have to be done?
Matthews: University-community rela- tions are never ideal, they can always be improved. I do think there has been a good deal of progress in this’ area in a ’ number of ways. the bus system is a visible example, isn’t it? The bus arrangements now are probably getting close to ideal, we’ll know when we find out how the students use it.
And the K-W Symphony using our theatre, I think this has a great deal of effect on the community. It’s the sort of thing one continuously has to work at, and we are doing that.
Chevron: How do ;ou see the university five or ten years from now? It seems that with more people coming into the job,pool
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every years and more jobs being taken away each year by machine-work, do you see universities drifting away from being a place to go and spend a number of years and get a degree and then a job, maybe fulfilling a different need-than they do now?
Matthews: I think that need will always be there, one of providing trained or educated manpower. As a matter of fact, I think three years from now we may find ourselves in a real shortage of educated manpower.
Chevron: By that, you mean specialized manpower? i
Matthews: Engineers, for example, and I’ve said this already; I think it’s quite clear to me that the evidence surely indicates that we don’t have enough freshmen coming into some of our professional programs, maybe even science, to fill the needs of the future.
Technology doesn’t really remove the need for trained manpower, I think it in fact increases the need. So there will be a continuing and I believe increasing need for the universities to provide educated manpower in the way we do it-Grade 13, graduate, so on.
There’s also the other need, which the commission pointed out, that is for the upgrading, re-training, or whatever you call it, continuing education, or the provision of the opportunity for people who never did go to university, to have the benefit of the university programs.
Now, I doubt that that need can be met, and I think it’ll be real it’s not all that real at the moment. Over the next 10 years-that was the time-frame you were talking about, if you’ll excuse a Watergate expression-lthink it will appear, and we- universities-are going to have to give a lot of thought to the packaging of a program that these people who, say, have graduated from high school, been working for five years, to then actually go through a program of the kind we have for
Grade i3 students, is that realistic? We can’t offer it on the campus-they can’t come to the campus, so it has to be done elsewhere. And it can’t be offered in the kind of packaging we’ve got now. It has to be a different kind of package. Now, don’t ask me what kind of package, because I just don’t know. I’m just convinced the kind of package we’ve got now won’t do it, won’t be acceptable.
We are certainly talking about that here, in an unofficial and unstructured way, and it’s something we really have to look at. Chevron: Do you see the university becoming at least structurally more dif- fused, instead of just a four-year plan?
Matthews: In a sense, yes, right. Now, what that form will take, I don’t know, I wish I did. But I believe we won’t stop whaf we’re doing now, but there is the other group that I think will become more and more evident, particularly as time goes on and the need for educated manpower becomes greater. People who have not had the opportunity will want to reach that level.
Chevron: There’s been a lot of articles lately about how “different” the student is in 1973 than the student of the late 60’s. perhaps the goals are different, perhaps there are more career-oriented programs in the university? Have you, in your contact with students over the past year, noticed any change in direction?
Matthews: Well, I think students generally have become more interested in the, in what I consider to be the more important things about the university.. in the academic programs.
Maybe more of them have a definite goal in mind, but certainly they seem to be much more seriously interested in learning, whatever they’re studying. They seem to have a much more realistic view of, not only what is wrong with the world, but a more realistic view of how to go about changing It. Many things can be changed, but they
As far as operating funds, they’ve relaxed quite a bit. Those were difficult times back then, when they imposed the graduate fees and so on
Chevron: Yes, we know.
Matthews: it was very sudden, those were difficult times for the university, and for the students.
Chevron: Is the government- going to-
The real quality of educational ex- perience is determined in the department, and the fact of the matter is that it’s determined by the individual instructor. I have seen more influence on the quality of
education when I’m in my ownclass than l have anywhere else, because It’s In my pow3rto control, along with my students.
continue steering-that’s a polite word for Chevron: Thank you very much. -
can only be changed by a certain machinery, because you have to change people’s minds. . and you go about it a certain way. And the overt power procedure, I think - students generally realize that that doesn’t work.
YOU get much more done by using the machinery, and working through it.
A few years ago, you know, students were criticizing the university for being too career-oriented, and now-two years from that date-students, even the same stu- dents, are critcizing the university for being irrelevant to the needs of society in terms of their program. W.hen there are lots of jobs, nobody cares+ bu@when there’s a shortage of jobs, then they begin to criticize the university for either offering programs that lead to no jobs. .
Certainly the economic situation has a good deal to do with all our thinking.
Chevron: Getting back for a minute to the relationship between the Ontario govern- ment and the province’s universities, you’ve voiced reservations in the past few years about the way the government is trying to make important decisions on a provincial-wide basis that you think should be left to the individual universities from within. Is that still a major fear of yours?
Matthews:. I think it’s always something we must watch -‘for. But the Ontario government has, over the past six mon- the-certainly with this last budget- changed its course with respect to the
universities. For the two years prior to that, they were just clamping down.
forcing-the universities to specialize more, by allowing certain universities to develop certain programs, and other universities to develop different ones?
Matthews: The government will continue to approve-or withhold approval of major new programs, but I’m not concerned about
’ that. That’s not really a loss of autonomy for the university.
But the government will not decide how we’re going to teach English. that’s where our autonomy comes in. They’re not going to tell us how to do it.
Chevron: As to those inner decisions about how courses are to be taught and who’s going to teach them, how much of a student voice in those decisions do you see as desirable? Or even if not personally desirable, do you think that voice will in- crease?
Matthews: It will, I hope that it will. We now have the students on the senate, but that’s not where the basic decisions are made.. Chevron: The departments.. .
Matthews: Exactly, you know that, I mean the courses come through the senate, and they’re just described and senate says ‘okay’, but the basic decisions as to how it’s taught is right in the department, and I would think there will be an increasing involvement of the students in the departments.
Because, no matter how many students are on senate, there will never be enough students there to know about or deal with these things in detail, just as the faculty does not now.
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Chevron: What did you hope to accomplish when you ran for the presidency last spring?. Did you have some con- 8 Crete things that you wanted to see done? ,
Telegdi: Yes, I did. I thought the federation could be a lot tighter-than it is, a lot tighter in the !++vays of communication
with the student body, a lot tighter in the ways that you accomplish things that you set out to do. And I t‘hink that it has been moving that way, I think things are getting.done. There is a lot of flak involved in getting it done. There are a lot of things that come into play-say the rules and
1 . procedures for Senate committees. That is something that \ . crops up, ttiat is somethirig you cannot foresee. Or take the
raise in sabbatica’l pay-is something that you cannot foresee. But a?far as making sure that the federation and its various boards function more efficie.ntly, I think that has
’ happened. The. increased communication with The societies hashappened. lget a lot of flak on that as well;as you probably know. But it all ties into communication with the students on campus because the federatioti was isolated-and it has been isolated for a long time. . . ,
As far as-making sure that the federation and its var‘ious boardsfunction more-efficiently, I think , that has happened, The increased communication with the societies has happened. _
Chevron: And you don’t think that it is anymore?-” , Telegdi: I do not think it is nearly as isolated as it used to be, no. We are spread out to at least %I1 the societies bn campus, which we had not been before. And it is-important, it is in the sense that I wanted--a permanent pub on campus, say take that as an issue. So, say the federation of Students goes to the administration and say ‘we, the Federation of Students’ want a permanent pub. If we do it by ourselves, we can almost forget it;,Without a doubt we need the support of the societies anyway, because that way we can get the support of the rest of campus. -. .
If you’ remember last year and the library sit-ins, you know they were condemned by the societjes and so the fedelation ended up with egg,on its face. It couldn’t do anything. And it was the same thing with the raising ot the fees, the amount of organization it involves, the ntimber of people involved. The basics that you need are at least the existing society governments, the club governments, and c the Federation of Students. You cannot have the federation stahd up and say one thing and then have the societig stand up and say something else. Then the whole idea of the legitimacy of the Federation of Students being representative of the-students-well it’s not there.
Chevron: What do you think the feeling on campus right ‘now? Do YOU think the students are responsive to
something like-this? Telegd/: Oh, I think they ire responsive to the idea’ of a permanent pub. I think they can even be responsive to the idea of keeping the sabbatical pay down. Chevion: No, I meant in a broader sense than that. Do you think the students are ready to get involved -or. do you___. think they just want to be left alone?
feiegdi: Well. one of the primary con?iderations YOU must - take into account is when-a student comes here, for th6 most part he knows bugger all about the federatin. We become something just like every other organization on catipus-something that is ‘over there’. It-is not some-
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identify with you., You would presume that naturilly students would identify with/the Federation of Students, but I don’t think that thaJ has been the case here. Well, let’s face it, in a lot-of cases all we have is a skeleton staff, just to keep the bureaucracy going. There are so many things to do, you know, new things come up and you know
-that you should support them, .td the extent of passing a motion and it hecomes tot&lly useless. It is something that ydti then have to go and work on.. .take something like
L student housing, to get-that thing done it takes an in- credible.amount of work. Student housing in the sense of maybe trying to change legislation to have it included in
thing that they are familiar with; which comes down again the Human Rights Code at-$ the Landlord Tenant Act that
to communications. You have to have-them have some you cannot discriminate against someone because they are
sense of feeling towards the Federation of Students, and a studer$. Thatinvolves one hell Qf a lot of work.
they have to feel that they can suprjort it. They have to f’eel .( that this Federation of Students is acting on their behalf.
Now one Qf the reasons that this problem comes through I think they can be just as alienated frbm the is ‘that say what would happen [f I would be negotiating federationas they can be from the administration. with Burt Matthews for the last six months, doing it ve?y Sometimes students cannot ‘differentiate bet- quietly, about the idea of a permanent pub, and it fi?allv it ween the two. comes to point where nothing is giving. Burt is saying n6 I
And there is bugger all I can do about it. Now sa; at this _. time I do something like say “Let’s go sit in at Burt’s of- fice. . .” io come out with a statement like that, cold, Chevron: Do you think that the,studer$s are interested in
people would say, “Oh, ther’egoes our token radical”. Then the community?
the students do no1 identify with you anymore. If you make Telegdi: Well, if yoti happen .to be living up at the village
them aware of what you are doing, in a lot of cases ypu do a then your whole life pretty w&l revolves around- the
lot of crap things, but you n@ke them aware that you are university ca.mpus. Then ydu are not that interested in it. If
.going through the procedures, and- then bang. . . it doesn’t you are living off campus, then’you might be. And you also
work. Then they can seethe reasqn, what actiori you can be - have to take a look ai the community we are living in, it is
taking-you are taking. not a cosmopolitan community like Toronto. You cannot go
Chevron; How pdliticized are the students on campus? outside and find anything you want. Even in relation to
Telegdi: I do not think that are very politicized at all: I student housihg when you come to this campus and are
tl&k that they won’t admit that st6dents aren’t radicals at looking for housing, you have no choice. You can go into the
heart. They are very alienated,lin a lot of cases. put they do villages, but a lot of people do no%-want to live in the not know why they are. I think they can be just as alienated villages. You can-go into residence where the rules are set
from the federation as they can be from the ad- down, you can go into an apartment, or if you are very, very
ministration. Sometinies they cannot differentiate the two. fortunate you might be able to rent a house. In a lot of
Chevron: D-o yousee dealing with contingent issues as a cases what you end up doing is renting one room out of a
way to get around that alienation? house that- someone els6 is renting. That is a particular
Telegdi; I think that if you are very much above the sur- sore point with me because your outlook is the particular
face, if you are very visible in what YQU are doing, then they environment you are living in. And yet you d6not have that
can relate to what you are doing; then that will make them much choice a bout what kind of environment you are living in. -- , -
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:.A - Andy Telegdi, President of-the Federa&& ,of Students.
I don’t think students on this -camp&’ see themselves as controlling Senate. We think it
- would be very Gdical &en, to ask-for parity on Senate.
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Chevron: I would think that you have to speak out against the educational process involved, rather than attacking 3he more pragmatic or Iiberatissues. Telegdi: But then, one-of the ways you have-to do that is -getting more people on Seante, more representation on Senate. YQU c;in cry about it; you ian speak about it, you can even demonstrate about it, but unless-you have the vote on Senat_e you are not actually going to affect it. I can see-what you are saying, but you have to have some kind of . base to start from. I can go and make all kinds of nice speeches at Senate, but when it really comes down to it you e‘ither h>ave the voteson Senate or you don’t have the \i6tes on’Se-nate. But I don’t think students on this campus see themselves as controlling Senate. We think it .wcjuId be very radical. even to ask fo’r -parity on Senate, only parity, but I wou1.d like to go even beyond that.
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. The hollow edifice was no hclavy and’ <)btrusive, though 2.
,I longer hollow. Still, it looked dumb the walls, tly whole much the same as before when building, . huge and dumb for a year it had stood empty and squatting indifferently in, its place aloof. I3rrt there were subtle hints -- b,y the roscjway c‘arvclcj out of t-0 its I)resen t state of‘ what was one e a gently rolling
!. an imat ion - grass rolled neatly lawn.> And so for a moment, the around the edges of the building, _ photog-reporter ref Iected: . . the-odd person -glimpsing a view of the outcicle, from an office w,inclow, the rumbling of some part of ’ the air .c:onditianing <\/stem. 1 hrow a S i de : all existential speculation, the edifice was ‘operational’, which is
‘to say in the. languagy of lesser CJNIM’Alt Sf , alive: 1
So it was time for a Chevron photographic essay, yes. The r reporter, camera in hand, notebook in pot ket and press card in his well worn hat, ap- proached the new psycho!ogy building with jaded eye searching for evitlenc e of the. autocratic impulse of the post inclustrial era which, no doubt would manifest- itself in this, the latest addition to
\ the UNI\IL’A 1 1 ~C:HNOCKACY. In a way, it seems foolish to go
into a: descriijfion of the’exterior of the edifice since it’s obvious’ to anyone in the vicinity-a regular
-eye stopper, yes. But the Chevron yjhotograph-ic -essay reporter spent So much time musing about the face of ,the structure, and the substance of his- effort being ‘a
_ description of it. .-. . . please forgive, it won’t last- long.
You see, -the outside of the building as a mass of ‘brick and concrete was really, really im- pressive; defending its corner of the campq -sloTIing off towards, the road solid and impenetrable. Its formidibility was ‘due to its bloc’kiness.. .‘. .windows on only two sides of-the structure; the! rest as hiih-,waIIs,of brown brick f.lat,
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The initial incision in the land had been made-though he wasn’t certain when 7 damage clone, the lancl’hatl probably bled. /vIachines, then of course; had been moved in., the* bc!iIdi?g ,and .i&i.se with th& moments ~of~an&r
“of workmen, supervisors -.--*and, financiers I, ;T>ent o/n th’eir- re$,pec t ive days’; and ’ ac$@en”ts ahd i~loments of’ ‘happiness for one reason ,or another, odours of work.. .And with all of this by c aim design of years previous, the qlace had been transformed. But looking at the building now, the reporter saw it clean, the incision stitched ancl mencled. You couldn’t even see the lines of the rolled sod brought in to eradicate any memory of the damage. 7 he transformation hacl been sudden, momentary, now forgotten. 7 he edifice had been there forever] complete. And so it would continue, mute and resistant. -
But the bu/lding:as a building was also a monument; obelisk rising out of the ground signIf icant of so~me historic moment - a monuni~nt of dull grey concrete but -a monument no less. 1 iers of block rose further and further upwarcls so that when the reporter arrived at the main doors, he had to crane his ne-ck to see the very tol),of the building Tooming over. him. Ah, the awe inspiring po,wer of the monolith; the ‘awe inspiring power of the grotesque!
-.’ This isn’t meant to‘be tongue in cheek. Apart. from the mathematics building (a book of
. adjective and simile <-%I be wsritten about that) the psychology building was the most impressive on campus, if only for the sheer fortress-like power it C’XlIdPd : that a mathematics
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building could _ resen1bl.e a likeness of course is pure irony! cut-offs, -barefoot, colourful.
psychology At’ any rate, it was here’that the building-the ,.,. . . r Someone - stopped while the I’, . IC I. ._ I- I ..ctrlrgent reporter rouno nrmserr; a
fortress of liberalism!;a fortress - oYhumanism!-.,-yet looking al&o
.- like some emerald <city of car-. porat ion land . .
, Which to quite an extent, was ‘What- the- edjfice .was on the ’
inside-a city. It was cooi rather cavelike and there were a few people milling around and chatting idly in the main corridor; dew n a dark ,low hallway someone hacl struck a circa 19th - century beer ad on an office-- window, there a few posters pinned up on wall-s like so many pieces of‘ litter cluttering up the
--T~esentatio~. of the goocl‘ flat conc’rete. And then ; a, small
reporter snapped his plCtuW ano the head of the psychology department c,lescrEibed his- hopes for the building and the people and initiatives inside it. All of this d human activity inside the monolith. Not that the reporter expected anything else; it- was just the juxtiposition of ,‘the human on then physical elements that struck home. It was as -
. though the human was the an- tithesis of the physical-but yet, no, not completely true, because the human was housed and operated of ‘necessity within the framework ‘-of the physical.\ So what-seemed to taking place was ‘a -W+&ji$g ‘of two opposing idrces, each supporting the other-,;- -the children of *the technocracy opposed to but in 1
above- what else could there be the long run unable to detach _ at the centre of an obelisk but a themselves from their parent. So cha+~eI. - - it seemed that no matter how -
t ran; this, maze:like streets shot these children inside the edifice
up a7id d0w.n and off in many Tried to avoid the reality, the ’ directions to laboratory.facilit,ies building ‘remained to remind
classrooms, a psychology clinic, them of their reliance on the - the human relations, an- _ technocracy and servitude to it. t hropc$og,y , sociology depart- And from the moment of first merits and so on each division of sight, the building stood pure as a - the main discipline with its own symbol of this relationship-an separate area to work in though icon of the present j historic all were now tb,be housed within moment- Pure and flat. common walls.. Sti’ll, inside the So on,.this thought, the photo- _
burTding it was like a small city, essayist returned to the basement subdivided into SO‘ many offices of the Chevron with their boroughs, separate and distinct. gay fluorescent lighting and air
I And pleasant sensitive-faced. I -conditioning- horrorshow oh my people walked down these brothers, yes. ’ a corridors wearing denims ‘and dudley pabl
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Taking Czech director Milos Forman’s smash follow-up to “Loves of a Blonde”, and “ A Fireman’s Ball”. This wry generation-gap
comedy tells of a 15-year-old girl who drops out to the East
Off Vrllage rn New York Her two Parents go looking for her and
find a srde of themselves they never knew about It’s hilariously
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EUROPEAN ENTERTAINMENT kept 8-10 Sat. thru Mon.
Death in Venice Vrscontr’s moody, reflectrve, surprrsrngly low-key adaption of Mamn’s novel about an
artrst’s fatal enrounter wrth the physrcal embodiment of pure beauty Thereconstructron
of the turn of the century Venice couldn’t have been put rn better hands. Colour
Sept 11-13 Tues. thru Thurs.
VIRGIN SPRING Drrec ted by lngmar Bergman (Academy Award 1960:
lhe Vrrgrn Spring grrm!y deprcts a father’s ruthless
Lenegeante for the rape and murder of hrs vrrgrr
daughter for a man of Bergman’s sophrstrcatron, the
.lustere srmplrrrty of thus film I S a rare achievement I t IT
srdered hrs most entertaining film 13&W
Drrec ted by f rederrco f ellrnr
A young boy I S Introduced to the world, the circus clowns, ihe
comrcal <tatron master, the silly V I C I O U S fascist, the strange
little nuns, to a whole world of comedy and absurdity On
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Sept 7 & 8
the Marx Brothers in /I
Monkey Business A S stowaways on an ocean liner, the Brothers emerge from four
barrels marked “Kippered Herring”. Groucho proceeds to
verbally rape an alluring Thelma Todd, in the process getting entangled in a plot involving gangsters and bathtub gin Also,
as a note to Harpo lovers, this film contains his fullest and most extended role
Sept 14 & 15
The Gladiators Directed by Peter Watkins
The Gladiators happens not only to be a beautifully constructed suspence thriller but also
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Remember Pierre Laporte? The ‘family man’ enshrined as a national hero on a postage stamp. The ex-journalist who ran for leader of the Quebec Liberals against the Trudeau-backed big money candidate, Robe’rt Hourassa, who became premier five months later. The honest democrat who stood for economic and social justice by peaceful means killed by the violent fanatics in the FLQ.
On April 16, 1970 Pierre Laporte and his campaign manager, Jean-Jacques Cote, mlat_with two men on the’fifteenth floor of a high ‘;‘:se at 1150 Sherbrooke Street East. Laporte was reportedly short of money from the unsuccessful leadership cam- pign. One of the two men was Frank D’Asti, owner of a string of gambling casinos in Montreal (currently on $150,000 bail for a 12 -million dollar heroin traf- ficking deal in New York). The other was Nicola Dilorio, who was reporting back to his boss, Frank Cotroni, named by the Provost C‘ommission in 1969 as a top figure in the Montreal Mafia. Unfortunately for Laporte; there were some other people watching. the meeting, policemen who also had a report to make-to the VEGAS task force on organized crime.
Parti Quebecois MP Robert Burns asserted that the RCMP told Bourassa of “dangerous I inks” between prominent Liberals and the underworld immediately after the April 29, 1970 election, two weeks before Laporte was named to the cabinet as minister of labour and im- migration. Supposedly basing himself on information from police sources, Burns also alleged that -Bourassa’s chief adviser, Paul Desrochers, was given access to tapes of wiretaps implicating Laporte, Cote and another Laporte associate, Rene Cagnon, who was named (and still is) deputy minister of Immigration.
Rem i Paul, -Tmministerwho had commissioned the VEGAS Investigation, says that the report including information on Laporte was on his desk “between May 5 and May 8” of 1970 and his copy was turned over formally to the incoming justice minister, Jerome Choquette, on May 13, the day after the Cabinet was announced.
Angry at what they consider a ‘coverup’ by the Bourassa gove rnment of dozens of police rep orts linking politici ans to the M af ia, .sever ‘a
prominent I policemen
have been leaking stuff to the .Montreal press almost daily for several weeks. Recent stories have documented a long series of regular contacts between Laporte, his aides and the underworld. The April 16 meeting was not the one-shot indiscretion of a man in need of money.
It is highly unlikely that Laporte was exchanging influence for money that was strictly for . his personal use either.
Although Trudeau strangely forgot to mention it during his eloquent speeches in the ‘FLQ Crisis’ in October of 1970 (so did the press), it is a public record that Laporte w/as the patronage boss of the Quebec Liberals. Tagged with the nickname “Monsieur 10%” from an incident in 1962 where it -became public that he had demanded and received a ten per cent commission on a $7,500 tractor contract he awarded as Minister of Lands and Forests. Laporte told delegates to the 1969 leadership convention “If I become prime minister, I would not be ashamed to recognize our Liberal friends.” Con- demning the practice of some other ministries in the 1960-66 Lesage regime for leaving the small contracts (under $5,000) to civil servants to award, Laporte went on to say that “It was a political error. I am not the only one to think this way and, if
we are returned to power, we will not Montreal media), and is treasurer of the make the same mistake.” Quebec Liberal party. His firm used to
Apparently Bourassa, presented as ‘Mr. include Lionel Chevrier, former Quebec Clean’ at the 1969 leadership convention, federal Liberal lieutenant to Pearson, and is making every effort to maintain the Jean-Pierre Coyer, recently sacked as honourable tradition of Laporte alive. A federal Solicitor-General (in charge of the recently leaked 1971 ‘police report -RCMP and secret police among- other documented a meeting July 12, 1971, things). A little research by enterprising between Jean-Jaques Cote (the middleman Quebec-Presse reporters unturned the for Laporte) and the Mafia’s Nicola Dilorio facts that Ceoffrion also represents a large which was for the express purpose of number of other known Mafia figures hearing the grievances of the Mob so that (most prominently in a fight to get an they could be passed on to Bourassa’s injunction limiting the organized crime closest confidante, Paul Desrochers. inquiry’s powers).
Desrochers is best known in the public Two other Liberal ministers, Oswald mind for his dealings with those bigger and better organized crime syndicates that are
Parent and Jean-Noel Lavoie, have also been exposed 1 as havrng i\Iafia Links.
legal, the multinational corporations like Parent used his to make a little patronage e IT and T that tried to get CIA aid in money by selling underworld connected overthrowing the Allende government in company goods to municipal govern- Chile. Desrochers was a key man in signing merits. Remi Paul, previous minister in the the native-occupied and resource-rich Union Nationale government, says that he James Bay area over to IT and T for has evidence on “six other candidates, practically nothing. More recently, from all parties, wlho ran in the 1970 Desrochers was exposed by the union- elections” who had underworld links. funded weekly Quebec-Presse for Policemen are not known for blowing arranging with Mayor Drapeau to grant the the whistle on their own political bosses, contract for the Olympic Village complex at least not without more powerful to his friends, architects Gagnon and political interests behind them. Nor are Archambault, in exchange for Desrochers’ they usually seen running to the press in a personal diplomacy with Trudeau which fit of moral indignation about payoffs reversed Ottawa’s earlier decision to from organized crime for protection and cancel the 1976 Olympics. favours. Why the leaks?
Quebec-Presse also carried a report on Information has been in the police files testimony to the organized crime com- about hook-ins between the Mafia and at mission by ‘William Obront, a- meat- least civic-level Montreal politicians and packing millionaire named by crime- officials for more than ten and probably busting cop Pax Plante in the 1950’s as one twenty years. Drapeau came to power on of , the “untouchables” (Plante is still his reputation as a crime-busting attorney hiding in Mexico claiming the Mafia is out teamed with Pax Plante. None of it was to kill him), who said he contributed leaked, although two members of the money to both Bourassa’s leadership and morality squad, Emile Ducharme and Leo election campaign. The middleman was Villeneuve, took the much-touted Prevost Antoine Ceoffrion who Obront described Commission (set up in 1966) and the as “my lawyer”. Ceoffrion is on the board flamboyant attacks on the Mafia in the of practically every major corporation in SO’s by Pax Plante seriosly enough to file a Quebec,. including the Quebec-based report with Mayor Drapeau about the “Un- conglomerate Power Corporation (which Catholic” protection given to prostitution owns La Presse and a large per cent of the and gambling by Jean-Jaques Saulnier of
*The symbol and the sacrifice The July 30 edition of the Toronto Star
carried a report based on interviews with unidentified policemen who offered several ‘facts’ in support of the claim that their search for Laporte’s kidnappers was obstructed by politicians at a high level: Rose had been under surviellance for two years before the kidanappingand the license plate number [9J-24201 of the blue 1968 Chevrolet get away car was given to the police by Laporte’s nephew; a car of the same description and license was registered to a ‘Paul Fournier’ and Rose had been stopped in it for a minor traffic violation a few months before the kidnapping; the anti-terrorist squad had located the 5636 Armstrong Street house apparently used to hide Laporte in June 1970, and observed Rose and ‘more than a dozen’ suspected FLQ militants use it for meetings through the summer; solicitor-general Mcllraith admitted to Parliament in 1970 that the police tailed Rose for several days after the kid-a napping but did not arrest him _
Michel Cote, director of the legal department of the city of Montreal, says that Montreal municipal police were told to leave the Laporte case to the provincial police. -The Star quotes unidentified sources as saying that senior provincial police were told that the federal cabinet [all police and army operations were coordinated under federal control] ‘was anxious for diplomatic reasons not to allow any police action which might heighten the danger for James Cross’, the British official seized by the FLQ’s ‘Liberation’,
cell five days before Laporte was taken and released December 3. Laporte died‘ October 17.
It is impossible to escape the con- clusion that, if the Star story is true, the federal Trudeau government, who called the shots in the police search, made a conscious decision to sacrifice Laporte. Why? To cover up the potential scandal of Laporte’s links to the Mafia? Not likely. There was no reason to believe that there would be leaks. Besides, as the growing body of information provided’by the leaks in the Montreal press show, Laporte’s links to organized crime business interests were not personal and accidental but official patronage relations with an important part of the
government’s base of support that wouldn’t disappear with his death. __~-
It would be much more dangerous to risk an expose of Ottawa’s purposeful sabotaging of the pursuit of the FLQ. And that danger could only be risked if Ottawa saw the response to the in- dependentist ideas [if notthe tactics] of the FLQ, symbolized’ by the over- whelmingly positive response to the Radio-Canada broadcast of the FLQ manifesto, as a threat that required a hard line of repression that Laporte’s death would help justify and cover up. I he Federal Connection was much more
important to protect from any challenge than the mafia connection. A scandal over the Mafia Connection might mean the defeat of the Liberal party. A movement for independence, radicalized by the FLQ’s challenge to PQ ideas about merely .‘paper in-
dependence’, could threaten the whole power structure.
The reponse to the FLQ manifesto wasn’t the only sign of the political weakness of the power structure. The PQ had won 24 percent support in the April elections, nearly 40 percent among French-speaking Quebecois. The unions and the PQ were calling for negotiations with ttie FLQ to meet some of their demands. Claude Ryan, _ editor of Le Devoir and an avowed federalist, was secretly negotiating with Bourassa about the possibility of a ‘unity Cabinet’ in- cluding the PQ’s Rene Levesque to carry out those negotiations despit federal government opposition. Five thousand people jammed Paul Sauve arena- to talk about massive demonstrations.
The War Measures Act, which came into -effect several days before Laporte was killed, led to the round-up of a broad range of activists in all the popular organizations that could be expected to organize political debate and support for the ideas of independence, including all those who spoke at Paul Sauve arena. The War Measures Act gave the government power to threaten the press with censorship if they didn’t censor themselves. Although the army was everywhere, the effectiveness of the police in pursuing the FLQ was not noticeably ‘improved - it took six weeks to find and ‘rescue’ Cross.
Whether or not the Star story is true, it is clear that Trudeau and Bourassa were more concerned about repression than they were with saving Laporte’s life. ,
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the mqrality squad in 1966. Drapeau, whose right hand man w?s Jean-Jaques’ brother, Lucien Sablnier, suppressed it.
(Quebec Presse has explained some of . the reasons for Drapeair’s cover-up by
reviving the ‘(‘apobianco affair’. In ICI62 Drapeau’s oppositidn, the Citizen.‘s Party, got hold-=sf~ a politica’lly damaging letter from Lucien-Saulnier to a brokerage firm in new York, Truber (Avestment Company, about a 63oO:WO loan of dubious origins to hcilp iinanc e Drapeau’s showcase Metro s&way system. It was alleged in court later that Jean-Jaques Saulnier had tapped the phone of Citizen’s Party’man Lucien Croteau which enabled policeman Rolland Lamothe and Gerald Craft, to intercept Antonio Capoblanco a few’minutes later in
,his car. He was beaten and the photostats of the’letter confiscated. Saulnier and his subordinates were acquitted in #trials that were postponed until after the civic election which Drapeau -won. Luc ien Saulnier was promoted to captain soon afterwards!)
The VEGAS ;commission uncovereXd_ positive proof of the-Laporte-Cotroni links in early 1970, but Hourassa and Choquette suppressed it.
The Quebec police had proven ‘trustworthy’ * i,? the increasingly frequent instances when they were called upon to serve openly political purposes, sup- pressing workers and left nationalist demonstrations, even though the rise of syndicalism had shown its effects in the police strike of ,1969. Hut if the allegations in the July 30 Toronto Star article are true -(see box) and Trudeau’s desire to crush all pro-independance sentiment (even the mildly social-democratic version of the Parti Quebecois, which David Rockerfeller said he could tolerate if it brought stability for U.S. capital in Quebec at the price of nationalization of the largely Anglo- Canadian interests that a federalist policy protects.) -required a willingness to saciifice Laporte, ii is easy enough to s,ee why the War Measures Act was brdught in to tiansfer copplete control of police operations into federal hands under the direct authority of the solidly federalist Cabinet _ Despite some grievances, ( there police chief, Paul Gilbert, said he had kept underwor‘ld leaders., He demanded to were no leaks. his own copy. know why the tapes were not,being turned
In 1971’, pressed to continue the in- ~Choquette was f&iced to set ‘up a police ovei- to either the VEGAS commission or vestigation into organized crime which commission inquest into ‘the Saulnier the Saulnier inquest. Choquette said it was thus far had been under control in terms of affair’ and eventually J-J Saulnier was sub judice. public revelations and was good PR..for the suspended indefiniiely (with full pay): The The Parti Quebecois ‘MP Robert Burns government, Choqueette and Drapeau sources of press leaks in the pqlice continued to\ ask questions about the realized they needed a man at the depgrtment seemed to be only interested detailed contents qf thei tapes over the gp&tions level who could make sure that in getting rid of Saulnier an$ there was! next three weeks, but his target seemed to the investigation -steered clear of some prospect that the scandal could be be solely to prove that the Mafia had b&en politically sensitive areas like the Laporte- contained even if Sauln’ier had to be ‘involved in the selection of Saulnier as Cotroni conne$tion. This was necessgry scapegoated. . . ~ police chief and that Choquette had
+specially given the added dimension of f3tit the political climate was changing. knowingly covered it up. The underworld n~~e(Iin~ to I)reserve thfa ‘myth of Laporte The freeze put on the left nationalist figures named-as talking, to Saulnier were
to wpptlt~ss anti-federalist discussion forces by the War Measures Act’.in Oc- RoIIancI, i amot,hcl (onfa of the cops in the I about Ottawa’s role in the October crisis. tober 1970 was thawed by the rise of ( ;1pc,bIi111< c; ,tifair), Dilorio and (:otroni. J-J Saulnier-was promoted, -over the heads , workin&class militancy at the La Presse ’ Meanwhile, the coverup was getting of many senior police officials, from demonstration in the fall of 1971 and the heavier and more and more top level captain to police chief in record time in Common Front public service general police qfficials were being ‘reorganized April. Recent leaks have proven that the strike in May of 1972. fhe jailing of the out of investigative roles. Mqfia was inforded, before the city three Commbn Front union leaders, $he .Jeati-Pierre CharbonnGau the reporter ( OWN il, of thcb move. Drtipeau’s excuse for. ’ itiiroduction of anti-union legislation and for’the mildly lib&al l-e Deyoir (that has pi< king iaulnier wa\ that ex-c-hi+ Saint- the exploitatioh of division< b&we& the been moving‘ steadily closer td supporting Aubin had recommended nobody; that rival.labour federations in the construction - the PQ) who had been publishing many of was later exposed as a lie. . . I industry temporarily stopped the the ‘leaks’ about Sautnier,’ was shot ahd
Saulnier promptly ‘reorganized’ *the . escalation o< extra-parliamentaw action. wounded by a gunman in the newspaper investigative branches of the police- which ljut the change in balance of forces was offices. I ’ meant the arbitrary transfer of forty cops felt in the courts where Jacques Rose. was The office of the director of the Qhebec into other sections of the department. being acquitted by ‘patriotic’ juries. And Provincial police, Maurice St. Pierre, was IGdes the senior officers he bypassed to support for -the righf wing of the broken into supposedly in an effort to get the chief’s job,’ Saulnier was messing nationalist movement, the parliamentary confiscate some of the investigative up the careers of a lot of middle and low- Parti Quebecois, was growing both among evidence. St. Pierre has. since been _ level policemen to do a job for ‘the workers who winted Hourpssa’% repressive re;,laced by Paul Benoit, infamous for his pal iticians’. anti-Iacour legislation removed and role in suppressing the Asbestos strike for
The-first chinks in the dan-i appeared in among capitalists who hoped the PQ former strongman premier Duplessis. late 1971 when the. press latc,hed onto a could contairi the syndicalist movement Andre Cuay and six other investigators story-about Saulnier receiving a colour TV better than th&federatist Hourassa regime. assigned to make a’ report on the in return for services rendered to shady On June 14, 1973, Remi Paul, ap- background of Rolland Lamothe filled a interests. Parts of the Ducharme- parently acting on behalf of police in- ‘171 page document condemning Villeneuve report on Saulnier’s protection >terests who wanted more information to ‘politicians’ for denying .them access to racket when he was on the morality squad hang Saulnier with, asked Choquette in evidence relevant to the inquiry and were leaked. to the ‘press. Drapeau an- the National Assembly if he had in his clemanding the reopening of the Saulnier
.nounced Jari’iiary 18, 192 that there was IFssession 90 minutes of tape record&g inquest _’ . no such report in- the .file, ,but -a former .of conversations between J-J Saulnier and, ( hoclut,+ttb re~pond~~d by \tlnding (;uay
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on a tor<:ed vacation (?‘nd <-alled for an investigation ‘into ‘security leaks’ in the police department, instead of a renewed Saulnier inquest, which would ’ leg$y require the handing over of the Saulnier tapes. The Justice minister then kicked ,the chief prosecutor, of the organized crime hearings ‘upstairs to, a judgeship, brought ih an insurance lawyer ‘from the firm of former I_iberal premier Jean Lesage as a . temporary. replacement, and then 1 reopened thk hearings under the authority of the police commission (filled by political‘appointment with loyal Libefals).
The PQ’s Robert &rns dropped the , bombshell in the National Assembly on
July 6 when he asked Choquette if the VEGAS commission had uncovered “definite links” between Frank D’Asti and Nicola Dilorio and “an important Liberal (cabinet) minister”. Choquette. let the cat out of the bag when he tried 2to make the allegation sound less serious by saying “the political personality that you have alluded to is a deceased minister” (ob- viously Pierre Laporte):
Hourassa refused to answer Burns as to whether the’ RCMP had told him of links between the -/Mafia and the prominent Liberals until the question was put more . precisely. Burns said he would ask it again the next day _ There was none. Bourassa announced that night that he was ending the current session.
I hv I’() and Remi Paul of the Union National (but not UN leader Loubipr) art’ calling for a put$ic investigation into the ‘Laporte affair’ which has been dubbed “Quebec’s Watetgate” by the Montreal press. ,
It may yet brave to be a watershed as well. ’
-by jkhn Cleveland ‘, from *the Gra’pe -
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Every year the University of Waterloo collects over $200,000 from U. of W. un- dergraduates which it turns over to the Feder’ation of Students and with which the Federation runs its programmes for that year. The decisions as to how this money is spent are ‘made by a Students’ Corncil compos;ed of representatives from each faculty-and for the system(tb operate as it should, each student should talk to his-her representative as often as possible. - .’ ’
It is for this reason that we would like to invite you to come to meet your representatives at I ’ the following times an,d places: <
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MATHEMATICS: Wednesday, Sept. 26 ENGINEERING: Monday, October I at at 7:30pm in Math Bldg. Room 5136 7: 30pm in Eng. 4, Room 1337
In addition-to meeting your representatives and letting them know what you think, you will also have an opportunity to find out about the various programmes run by the Federation of Students (drama, radio station, newspaper, education, social activities, etc.( and to see if you would b;e interested in becoming involved with any of them.
So we very much’hope that yqu will attend your faculty meeting. Also, come aid see us -, anytime in the Federation office, located in the Campus Cehtre, Room 235.
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The .Cambodian Conflict: \ / ,
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the Indochina war, one in which the military regime which represses the populace
and Durloins the native wealth may
I Very sorry, it’s impossible to go any further; the war
closes down at five o’clock.” The plump, goateed officer in charge of the military police post of Tak Mao-a suburb of Phnom Penh, about 10 kilometers from the city center and long noted for its insane asylum- cannot for one moment imagine that at this hour, someone would want to go to the front, 11 kilometers to the southeast, on Route 2. In fact, on our way we had met a half-dozen battered armored personnel carriers (relics of the French presence in Cambodia) hurrying back to Phnom Penhas they do every evening. The next day at dawn they will leave again for another
1 battlefield, always within a 15-20-km. radius around the capital. But for the evening, enough fighting. The military police of Tak Mao go and barricade themselves in their post, and the soldiers at the front may or may not come under enemy fire; /the 11 kilometers separating the two are at the disposal of the “other side.” . ..The next day we were,‘to learn that the front on Route 2 was overrun during the night and that “serious clashes” were taking place on the very outskirts of Tak Mao.
So goes the war in Cambodia during these months of February and March 1973. A sluggish war, in- terspersed with lulls and tacit breathing spaces; an indecisive war of position which, for the moment, actually affects only the area around Phnom Penh. In Bangkok, an American reconnaissance and fighter pilot told us: “When the ‘communists’ block a road, Lon Nol’s troops scatter and call on us for help.We come in
meet . 1ts demise
from Thailand with our fighter planes and sometimes B-52’s and we clear the road, but two days later it all has to be done again. It makes you wonder if ‘they’ (the Government side) aren’t doing it deliberately or even if there aren’t gentlemen’s agreements between the two sides.”
The communiques of the general staff in Phnom Penh refer to “a revival of military activity” since early February and assorted “violent clashes”, sometimes with heavy losses. If this is really the case, then one is justified in wondering about the degree of military inactivity into which the two camps had previously fallen. Not that this war isn’t continuing to claim its devastation, its dead, its disabled, its destruction, its refugees. But it is a war made up of intermittent raids more than of continuous fighting; of rapid, almost furtive skirmishes; of swift disengagements; of harassment which is rarely decisive for either party- in short, a war of attrition, fought on an extremely narrow strip of territory. Meanwhile, far from the front, drawn back into their shells, there remain some forgotten, almost completely peaceful Government enclaves (provincial seats and the areas immediately surrounding them) in territory almost 90 per cent controlled by the guerillas of the United National Front of Cambodia (FUNC, from the French acronym), wlrich, nominally at least, is led from Peking
, by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. After Cambodia was catapulted into the. war
following the coup d’etat of March 1970, there was a dramatic reduction of the zones under Government control, but for the last several months its teritory seems to have stopped shrinking, with the Government side contenting itself with defending its minimum
by Marcel Barang survival space, and the guerrillas limiting themselves to keeping up the pressure around Phnom Penh by cutting off one or another access route, national high- way, or river for a few hours or days. After the’bloody disaster of the Tchenia I and Tchenia, II operations in 1971, the forces of the republican regime no longer dare contemplate any large-scale offensive- except on paper ?n the air-conditioned offices of the swarm of generals who haver around Marshal Lon Nol. As for the liberation forces, they have carried out some
_ audacious raids, but, for reasons which are hard to . ascertain (Lack of resources? Deliberate desire to gamble on the collapse of the Lon No1 regime? Dif- ficulty of coordinating a military offensive over the entire territory?), have never undertaken permanently to cut the country’s lifeline, which runs from the north- west to the southeast, along the Tonle Sap and Kekong rivers.
The republican flag, in reality, is flying only within a 20-kilometer radius around Phnom Penh, and the 20-30 kilometers around Battambang, which lies 300 kilometers to the northeast, a fertile zone, Cambodia’s rice bowl. The Lon No1 regime retains a precarious control over both cities; it also “holds” Kompong Chhang and Pursat, the two principal provincial capitals which lie between them; but Kratie, on the other side of the Tonle Sap, is in enemy hands. As for
- Kompong Thorn, which was the object of the Tchenla II offensive, and which was almost completely destroyed, it is impossible to tell to whom it belongs: the Govern- ment doesn’t allow any information to leak out and we were not permitted to go there. Prey Veng also is “off
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limits” (fighting was continuing in this province in mid-March); we were, however, able to go to Svay Rieng, to the southeast, on the Phnom Penh-Saigon road, but only by plane (all the roads have been cut off since March 1972). Siem Reap, to the north-north-west, is also accessible from Phnom Penh only by plane-although, with the recent re-opening of the Battambang-Siem Reap section of the road, one can also get there by making a detour via Battambang. Although Kompong Cham, on the Mekong, and Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville) , on the seacoast, can be reached by road, it is advised that one go by plane; the road is usually open but-may be cut off from one day to the next by the “other side”. Moreover, on the Kompong Som road, the guerrillas have been entrenched for over a year opposite the Pith Nil pass, where they have established a “toll gate” for the collective taxis. This road and the Battambang road are regularly travelled by long convoys of trucks under heavy military escort which run a 50 per cent chance of being harassed. And yet -the provisioning of the capital depends largely on those convoys; it also receives supplies via the Mekong, carried by “allied” (Philippine, South Korean, etc.) ships which are also subject to -unpredictable attacks. On March 6, for example, opposite the Neak Luong ferry, B-40 rockets damaged three ships out of a convoy of 12 which was carrying rice, gasoline and ammunition to Phnom Penh.
Thus, the capital is linked to the outside world by a fragile web of air, ground and river routes (the embryonic railroad of the Sihanouk era has been unusable for a long time, and the cars brought back to the Phnom Penh station serve as refugee shelters), but these routes usually lead to dead ends. In these little islands there is a curious atmosphere of latent peace, of dormant war, of languid disquiet.
-At Svay Rieng, protected by a double ring of defense, the danger begins at the second line, two or three kilometers from the center of the city. Our plane (chartered at !95 an hour through one of the three or four private companies which sprang up with the Republic and the war) is a DC- 3, an old veteran which knew the Greece of the colonels, the North Africa of the paratroopers, and the Latin America of the Green Berets, before ending its days burning out its propellers in Cambodia, for a few shiploads of fish, hogs, or human beings, amid the humid, heat and the “unique” odors of nhuoc mam, rotten mangqs and gasoline. We make a spiialing ascent over the Government zone in order to gain altitude; several planes which were flying too low outside of the” defense perimeter have been fired on. One pilot tells us that he isn’t even sure t&at it was always “the other guys” who were doing the shooting. .
We have to put a lot of pressure on our guides (an officer who takes us around on a Honda and an intelligence officer on a scooter) in order to take us to an “outpost.” This outpost turns out to consist of a five-man patrol in open country, 200 meters beyond the front line. Occasionally, one of the men ventures forward to reconnoitre a& far as the nearest clumps of coconut palms. _ . by bicycle. When Ure retrace our steps, they prudently return to the front line, back to the
- trenches, the beaten-earth bunkers and the makeshift artillery enclosures where they live with their familes. Sometimes we hear isolated burst of fire-but no one pays any attention. The population - some 48,000 people, 23,000 of them refugees, according to the Govemor-Colonel- goes about its business, as if nothing were the matter, whithin, the small compound, eight to ten kilometers in diameter, which it can call its own. And yet, to use the MayQr of Svay Rieng’s own
words, the town went through “some anxious moments” between April and August of last year, after all communications had been cut off and before a narrow strip of territory had been prepared to allow the DC-S’s to land. During this period, the evacuation to Phnom Penh of the thousands of refugees, wounded and maimed, who were choking Svay Rieng, was, we are &so told, the occasion of some heart-rending scenes. Today, however, the Mayor tells us, the situation is “almost normal” again: The prices of essential goods have fallen, rice is not much more expensive than in Phnom Penh,
but we have enough vegetables, thanks to the agricultural program we got started; we intend to launch a hog-raising campaign; we have asked the central administratipn for funds to dig ponds and canals, which provides something to do for the refugees who cannot ‘get work in the rice fields; we have also asked for ten tons of rice see, and Phnom Penh has already sent us 15 bags of IR-20.
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with other information we received from a reliable source in Svay Rieng, which cites refugees being systematically swindled out of their allotments of yard goods and money by military men and local officials; imported hogs disappearing from the market (toward the resistance?) ; exorbitant “tithes” being imposed on those of the refugees who propose to leave Svay Rieng for the not-so- small but more overcrowded enclave of Phnom Penh; the appearance on the Svay Rieng market of American manufactured goods coming directly, Buddha knows how, from Saigon. . .Thc somnolence of this .Government enclave- deliberately ignored by the enemy-in fact cloak a great many corrupt practices and conflicts. But this is a general phenomenon,- and the same atmosphere prevails in Kompong Chhang as well as in Siem Reap.
In the Siem Reap area, the presence of the military is perhaps more obvious than elsewhere. It is also the only area where we saw peasants
‘armed with rifles-no doubt the-famous “self- defense forces” of which the auth&ities in Phnom Penh are fond of boasting. According tothe colonel in joint command of the garrison, Siem Reap is defended by 2,000 soldiers, positioned on the immediate outskirts of the city, but “we haven’t been hit by rockets for seven or eight months and four mortar shells have fallen on the city in six months.”
The military situation h-as remained the same for over a year now. The line of defense begins at the very perimeter of the city, which bears the scars of old battles. The Temples Inn, former haunt of Prince Sihanouk’s distinguished‘ guests and of American tourist eager to ‘visit Angkor Wat and the other temples, six kilometers to the north, is nothing but rubble. The Grand Hotel has been requisitioned and now serves as an air- conditioned headquarters of Colonel Urn. The old airport has been abandoned and a new strip built farther to the south. The Government controls a small section of the Tonle Sap, a vast reservoir of fish, but the north and east of the city elude its authority.
We visited the 1,200-meters-long line of defense, whose midway point cuts in two the Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, which leads tothe temples. The trench is deep; the bunkers, one every two meters, seem more durably built than elsewhere; when the soldiers see us they strike martial poses but the women go on nursing their babies or cooking at the bottom of the trench, between the crates of ammunition and the drying laundry. On the other side, we are told, the field is mined; the line of defense of the “communists” is scarcely 50 meters away; their bunkers are so tough that the fire of the largest guns couldn’t touch them, “assuming we were allowed to shell them, which Phnom Penh forbids us to do, for fear of damaging the temples.” But the affable officer who is showing us around “his” front line doesn’t hestitate to add that there is coming-and- going between the two camps, across this b‘ooby- trapped “no-man’s land.”
We asked the colonel who had told us that as compaied to his 2,000 men, ihe Vietcong-Khmers Rouges” marshalled no fewer than 11 batallions, whether he didn’t think, under these conditions, that the enemy could take Siem Reap whenever it wanted. He protested, citing new troop figures, asserting that the enemy had stopped using 75- millimeter recoiless guns and was using only submachine guns, and alluding knowingly to the repeated efforts of the Republicans (“in vain”) to get the other “other side” to agree to a local ceasefire. “We fear for the temples, you see. ‘They’ have established their command post in the ruins of Angkor Wat, where they have set up 8 radio antenna which keeps them in touch with Hanoi. ‘They’ also have a command post behind Angkor Thorn, with ammunition stockpiles .” But shortly thereafter, the Governor of the province was to tell us that as far as he knew, the ruins of the temples were used only as “sanctuary” for the women and children and that moreover, since
I mid-February it has _ see_med that the civilian opulation of the temple area was being moved bout 20 kilometers back, “as far as Svay Leu, a malaria-free region. . . ”
Siem Reap and Svay Rieng, at either end of the luntry , are two. examples of pockets of iovernment power which will fall tomorrow if the ?bels so choose. Elsewhere, however, the ituation is more fluid, the dividing line of the ?rritory is more nebulous. This is the case along le Phnom Penh-Battambang highway, where lere is no question of letting the peasants of the urrounding countryside bear arms. Up to iompong Chhang there is a military post nearly very kilometer. .
The soldiers are everywhere: in the business istricts, in the markets, near the bridges, in etachments on the highway. The landscape, as 1 all of republican Cambodia, is dotted with little jrts of beaten earth or with “open” camps, hanty-towns of mean huts made out of sheet letal and branches.
Beyond Kompong Chhang, the military posts ecome less frequent, so that they are no longer 3 be seen except in the largest villages-a sign hat the ocuntryside bordering the highway only ominally belongs to the republican regime. And et, the greatest silence reigns there. One can rander about all day long with hearing a shot- s we did, 30 kilometers south of Battambang, far ram any main road. As one gets away from the
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Beyond, behind the phnoms, rocky domes 2vered by sparse forest, the rebel domain begins. lobody ventures there, yet there isnothing there 1 bar one’s entrance. And who can say if the easants along the bank of the Stung are always )yal to the republican flag which inevitably flies ver the smallest village? Late in the afternoon, a ,easant whom we are watching plow a barren soil t the slow pace of his buffalo, says to us: Sihanouk? Lon Nol? I don’t go in for politics; I rork the land.”
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At Kilometer 42 on Route 1 (the Saigon Road), :leared the day before as far as the Neak-Luong erry, we veer toward the Mekong. There is a unit If young soldiers there; half of them are paddliig n the river while the rest, wearing uniforms or arongs , sleep under thatched huts, amid the ubble and burned earth .left by the previous ,ay’s fighting. The average age of these veterans” isn’t more than 16; some are barely 3, the regulation age for enlistment. They show .s their ammunition belts and their weapons- ifles, recoiless cannons, rocket-launchers, ubmachine guns-and, for the fun of it, shoot a lozen shells into the river.
“The Vietcong is on the other bank,” be are Issured; then, “Come on, we’ll show you the body ’ If a VC we just killed.” They lead us toward a lut. From behind a battered chest, they extract a otting corpse. Of a dog! They insist on being lhotographed with their prize. However, they
Phnom Per: without pro
All of the photographs rep Inc. In this in depth photog people decimated and bruta
While Vietnam was embrc the guidance of and with th tained a neutral position.
Marcel Barang is a Frenct Liberation, who had printed
refuse to let us spend the night with them: “Too presence -“those musical-comedy superior officers dangerous for you, it’s at night that the Vietcong who, on an official salary of 20,000 riels- I make shoot,.”
It is on these playful youths that the defense of 10,000 and 3,900 as a bonus, so I know what I’m . -
the regime depends -along with, of course, the talking about- have, in lessthan three years, had
\ air, material and financial support x of ithe
$2million villas built for themselves, ride in
Americans and also the presence of a few Mercedes,-have their children taken to school in a
_ seasoned units. These units mainly consist of military jeep, and then insult me for being stupid
16,000 Khmers Krom (natives of Vietnam), old, enough to go to the front to ensure their safety.”
hardened criminals of sinister reputions, who Nowhere is the ostentation of the new par-
venus, fight dressed in black, supplemented by officers
built upon the- dire-but dignified- -
and NCO’s trained in South Vietnam, or by what poverty of the common people, more arrogantly
remains of the troops the regime sent-a little- displayed than in Phnom+Penh‘It is a shock to
known fact-to get on-the-spot training in Laos a someone who knew the sleepy and- parochial
few weeks before the outbreak of the war in provincial city of peacetime Cambodia. The
Cambodia. Reliable observers estimate that there capital has tripled its population, now generally .
is a total of less than 40,000 men in active estimated at 1,800,OOO inhabitants. The markets
combat, out a complement variously estimated are swarming with people; the streets are jammed
by the authorities at 180,600, 200,000, or even with traffic; never, despite the extremely heavy import taxes, have there been so many Mercedes; - I
250,000 men. _ And on the other side, what is there? From
thousands of Hondas have appeared on the scene;
Peking, Prince Sihanouk ~declares that 71,000 scores of trivespas and samlaus are in constant
Cambodians are fighting in the resistance, with ‘competition with the cyclist; there are more
the economic and material support of China and motorized . vehicles, and fewer bikes, than in Saigon.
the Vietnamese revolutionaries. According to Colonel Am Rong, spokesman for the general
- One can get anything in Phnom Penhlyet at ’ c
staff in Phnom Penh, -the enemy forces are the hour- of curfew, women -go rummaging -
composed of 23-27,000 “North, Vietnamese- through the garbage cans; children go begging:
, Vietcong” and 30-39,000 Khmers Rduges:’ and some refugees sleep on the pavement -at the
“Khmers Rumdos” (Liberation Khmers) . When harbor, while others are dispersed in miserable
we mentioned these figures to General Lon’ Nol, camps .in the suburbsor on the edge of town. The
the “little brother” of the .Marshal and “strong cyclists must often share the rental of their
- man” of the regime, he protested, maintaining bicycles witha distant cousin who is homeless
that the North Vietnamese have always con- and out of work. Thousands ‘of stalls offer
stituted 70-80 per. cent of the resistance forces! cigarettes, perfumes, chewing-gum stolen from
Similarily , ‘wherever -we went, the local some American PX, or lottery tickets-. Men loiter
authorities went to great pains to prove to. us that around the hotels. One of them presents us with a +-
they were surrounded by ,Vietnamese divisions or, -pass stamped “Press.” ‘On the inside- is an
at most, by mixed batallions, while at the same authorization for a two-month mission in Phnom
’ time, the American military services admit that
Pe,nh, signed by the commander of the military
since last October the Vietnames have speeded up district of Takeo. J
the withdrawal of their troops from Cambodia “What sort of mission?” -
and no more than about 2&000. men (half combat, “You and me, we,do about the same thing; you,
half logistical units) remain massed along the a journalist; me, information, intelligence. But
Khmer-Vietnamese frontier. &I,’ keep it quiet!” .
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“You catch a lot of them?” “With my partner there, three, five, a day.” \
-- In Phnom Penh, the war has so little iml Be that as it may, for the Phnom Penh regime mediacy! The disabled are out of sight. A few feet
everything depends on this official truth:‘the and hands in casts-the “good” wounds, or ’ ‘North Vietnamese and Vietcong aggressors are perhaps the result of the very peculiar’ way the, the root of all evil; if they left, we Khmers would soliders have of handling their guns. A few muted , be able to find .a solution among ourselves.” explosions sometimes, or surprise attacks: Marshal Lon No1 himself continually harped on rockets in the area around the, Defense Ministry, this theme when he received us, in full uniform, in destruction of the “Japanese bridge” and of the , the presences of an impressive array of generals, armored-personnel carrier camp adjoining the - ministers , more-or-less special advisors, wizards French embassy. But if there is real danger, it and cameramen. This represents only a tiny comes less from the outside than from within. It’s
portion Of his “court", which writes the answers possible that people will be able to endure the ,
for his interviews, prompts him when he stumbles skyrocketing prices, the extortions of the over words, helps him get up and sit crown (ne is soldiers, the corruption of the officials, for a long still half-paralyzed from the stroke he suffered in time yet, but it’s just as likely that they’ll ex- February 1971), profits from his favors and takes plode at any moment. -Lately there have been great care to shield him form the sad realities. of more and more disturbing signs. the regime of which he is supposed to be the In February, on the pretext of saving three . leader. - billion riels in annual subsidies for the im-
’ Giving credibility to this official truth,’ shaky portation of petroleum products, the Government as it may be today, is all the’more vital-in that it decided to raise the price of these products:. justifies the maintenance of an oversized and gasoline in particular went from 16 to 28 riels per- parasitical army and makes it easy to blame the liter. This 80-percent increase had an immediate enemy for all the shortcomings of the regime by effect on the whole range of ordinary and rekindling ancestral anti-Vietnamese racism. But essential consumer goods- which depend on the ruse has long since been discovered; it no transportation-and at the same time struck at longer “takes”. To be sure, at its birth the all users or owners of motorized vehicles. The Republic was buttressed by an indisputable popular reaction was not long in coming. popular enthusiasm: intellectuals, civil servants, On February 26, in the wake of the sacking of even merchants, saw it as an .opportunity to the markets of Battambang, Kompong Cham and recover their suppressed. freedoms. The young Prey. Veng, it was the turn of the central were promised a new golden age and they set out marketplace-of Phnom Penh; part of the looting joyfully. . .
ted with this article have been taken from Philip Jones Criffiths’vietnam hit study of the conflict in Indochina, Ciiffiths draws a-grim picture of a Id bv over two generations of war. d in the worst of the fighting spread throughout South East Ask, under id of the Unite”d States, neighbouring Cambodia had steadfastly main-.
urnalist on the staff of Politique Hebdo. This article is reprinted from )y permission, from L,e,Monde Diplomatique, April. 1973. .I.
Because of this, the disillusionment ‘has been was done by the soldiers with the civilian
all the more brutal. Disenchantment set in; population following suit. Two days later, shooting broke out at dawn in the central
today, it is turning into discontent and, more and -marketplace between the police, the military, and *’ pre often, into anger. It is a tangible sort of soldiers who refused to return to the front until angerwhich erupts within the army itself, among they had received their, pay, which had been the soldiers, who collect-often- three or four “carried’ over” for three or even four months. months late-a wage of 4,000 riels (about $16) per There were two deaths. The shops around the month, while the price of rice is now up to 6,00C marketplace remained closed all day. riels per 100 kilos (average daily consumption i; These protest actions are generally believed to one kilo per person). There is also anger among be stage-managed according to the political the NCO’s at the front and even among those situation of the moment. Some are so convinced _ : generals who earned their star on the front-line, of this that they either I hold back from par- and w-ho are now sickened by the ostentattous ticipating or else they embark on- some action, . life-style, thepomposity and the excess of the soft without illusions, ‘prepared to let themselves be jobs on the home front. A 30-year-old officer, manipulated. Such is the case with the students, married with five children, *who was returning who, following in the teachers’ footsteps, began from a leave in Phnom Penh to rejoin his platoon their own “unlimited strike” in early March to of 124 men (“disabled and noncombatants in-
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protest against the price increase and specifically demanding “the expropriation of property illegally acquired by the men of the regime in power.” We see banners bearing their slogans, especially at the en- trance to the faculty of sciences; but althouh these slogans have a singularly violent tone, they are also confused, even utopian and the students’ general state of mind seemed to us very cynical and disillusioned. “Manipulation” is the term which crops up most often in their conversation.
They got their baptism of fire in the events of April 1972, when their protest movement-which in its early ’ days enjoyed the broad sympathy of the urban population-got embroiled in an armed confrontation with the military police at the law faculty. They claimed at the time to be sweeping away corruption, but all they managed to do was oust General Sirik Matak from power., However, they are a potentially dangerous force. The Government fears them. When a delgation of students went to see the Prime Minister, Hang Thun Hak, to get permission to resume publishing the bulletin of the Student Association (a militant and politically suspect organization) , they were “permanently suspended” two days later. Are the students controlled by certain elements in the pay of FUNC? We have reason to believe so. Today, however, all one can say is that these elements are being ex- tremely discreet and are biding their time. Un- doubtedly their hour will come. The economic crisis of the regime is visibly worsening, and before long, the palliatives devised by the leaders to defuse the social movements are sure to become exhausted.
To head off the demands of the civilservants and the military, the Government has promised them a bonus of 500 riels a month for their wives and each of their children. Suddenly, as Nokor Thorn, the capital’s Kh- mer newspaper, notes maliciously, “the official population of Cambodia rose from seven to nine million inhabitants.”
In order toappear to ‘be eliminating fraud and corruption within the army, several investigations have oeen ordered, new committees created- the regime has some sixty of them, with projects that boggle the imagination: “Committee for the Concretization of the Image of the Khmer as Worker and Consumer,” or “Committee to Commorate the Brave Deeds of Our Patriots Struck .Down on the Field of Honor by the Acts of Barbarism Perpetrated by the North Viet- namese-Vietcong,” to mention only two.
A few months ago, General Sosthene Fernandez (whose name, personality and appearance proclaim his Philippine heritage) was called back from the front and found himself entrusted by the Marshal with the task of “cleaning up” and “ reorganizing” the army. Sure enough, hardly a day goes by that one doesn’t learn
’ that another scandal has been uncovered, whether it’s inflated troop figures, embezzlement of payrolls and shipments of military or civilian material, illegal im- ports of 1,390 Hondas (Nokor Thorn, February 17, 1973), or the seizure near Takeo of a “truck of the First Military District carrying 1,500,OO riels worth :of
‘medicine, apparently headed for the resistance” (Nokor Thorn, February 9). .
A few unscrupulous and unlucky NCO’s and officers are worried, but the superior officers, those above the rank of major, are untouchable: the worst that can happen is that they will be “eased” out. Yin Kheng, a major from the Third Military District, was able to flee to France in early February, taking with him 200 million riels (about $800,000), leaving behind “a fur- nished mansion, a multi-leveled apartment complex, a house on stilts, some stores and equipment, all con- fiscated by the authorities”, as well as a sum of 50 million riels which, according to the same Khmer newspaper, “he transfered to his son, aged ten.” A close relative of the major, Lieutenant Chap Hong Sorn, paymaster of. the company, was not so lucky: he
was arrested as an accomplice before he could flee. In a similar vein, the Phnom Penh regime is con-
tinually creating new provinces, thus generating new and eminently lucrative official posts. People’ speak of the “merry-go-round” of “executives’‘-governors, high civil servants, ministers, military leader - who take turns at the most lucrative positions, trading off every three or six months. That has only helped feed the persistent rumors of the impending resignation of the present government, in power since only last Oc- tober 15!
The incompetence of certain higher-ups in the regime is notorious. Fraudulent dealings, disorganization, waste, are universal. This is partly the legacy of a certain autocratic style of governing exemplified by Prince Sihanouk, who obstructed the smallest initiative by claiming to represent everyone; partly the result of the vicissitudes of war and the uncomfortable posture of the regime; but it is above all the product of the mentality and the example of the clique in power. Their motto seems to be, “He who lasts longest, ,profits most,” and they, in their turn, torpedo the most promising initiatives, either out of greed or simply because they lack any sense of the long-term interests of the regime.
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very much concerned with regaining control of the army nor with winning over the rebels and “trouble- makers ,” despite periodic declarations to that effect. Less than half of the rice harvest of Battambang province goes directly to the authorities of the Republic. The rest finds its way to the resistance-or to Thailand. No matter, since the Americans are always on hand to stop up the gaps: on February 3, the United States provided 28,000 tons of rice for the first half of the current year - this coming on top of the 70,000 tons already furnished at the end of 1972 (before the war, Cambodia exported nearly 300,000 tons of this cereal per year). And the Bangkok paper, The Voice of the Nation, announced on March 10 that the Thai government had begun, at the request of the Cam- bodian authorities, to deliver an unspecified quantity of rice to Phnom Penh, “harvested, according to our information, in the Cambodian province of Bat- tambang.”
This state of affairs has at least four important consequences on the economic level, apart from its impact on the local population. Fi$&, there is the “colonization” of the resources of the border regions of Cambodia, in the Southeast by the South Vietnamese, in the West by the Thais.,Eighty per cent of the trade, from the markets of Rattambang to the jewel mines of Pailin (a notorious centre for black-market activities),
moves in the direction of Thailand; it is the same with fishing and trade in the regions bordering on South Vietnam. Second, there is the increasingly important role blayed by the Cambodian Chinese, who represent 20 per cent of the populaton under the regime’s control, serve as indispensable middle-men, and monopolize trade; lately, they have become the targets of more and more severe criticisms, attacks and harassments.
A third consequence is that investments have come to a standstill, except in the pharmaceutical industry, which is ,being developed by Swiss companies. Many firms - French, German, American, Japanese - are ready to invest massively in the country once peace returns. That doesn’t keep the Government from dreaming: plans are under consideration for the creation of a new, glamorous capital near Phnom Penh: “Phnom-Penh-Thmei”- New Phnom Penh!
Finally, and this is the crux of the matter, the sur- vival of t-he regime depends entirely on American aid, severely restricted at the source, we are assured, but nevertheless giving Washington a fantastic lever of political pressure.
The United States is giving Cambodia $210 million in aid annually (two thirds of it in the form of military aid). In principle, they can shut off-or at least threaten to shut off-the flow of funds, suspend-or threaten to suspend- their military support. If, in accordance with Article 20 of the Paris agreement on the cessation of,hostilities in Vietnam, they stopped interfering in the domestic affairs of Cambodia (and of Loas), the regime would collapse overnight. But the United States does not seem to be taking this path. In fact, to be convinced that the reverse is true one has only to talk to one of the many “cultural advisors” with which its embassy, and a few subsidiary missions, are overflowing.
The B-52’s continue to bomb in Cambodia on a massive scale. Military authorities refuse to give details on the importance of the role played by these missions. On our way back from Svay Rieng we were able to observe the Phantom bombing of a town located at the branch of a river about 40 kilometers from the provincial seat. The Phantoms had had the zone spotted in advance by OV-2 and OV-10 Bronco reconnaissance and fighter planes.
When we landed at Pochentong, the Phnom Penh airport, we saw two of these planes taking off, heavily loaded, with canisters of napalm under their cockpits, It was four in the afternoon. When we asked General Lon Non if he wasn’t afraid that Pochentong would become another Tan Son Nhut (these American planes began officially to land at the Phnom Penh airport in mid-February), he explained to us that the air crews couldn’t refuel in flight and that th midday meal on the ground. Ho s
y came to eat their ever, according to a
Western source who must rema’n anonymous, the i planes take on their full load of gasoline and am- munition at Pochentong itself.
According to our informant, it is Air America (the famous CIA air fleet in Loas) ground crews who service these planes and see to their refueling. “They work in civics, on TDY- ‘temporary duty’- with a continual rotation of personnel, allowing the Americans officially to have no troops in Cambodia,” we were told.
For that-matter, there are several dozen American “civilians” (all veterans of Indochina, but “demoblized”) running the Military Equipment Delivery Team (MEDTEC), I which is officially con- cerned with the distribution of military aid but which is also-take our word for it-involved in the training and leadership of combat units. . . Need we add that ac- cording to information received from another source, some of the opium harvest in Laos is sent via Phnom Penh, with the complicity of pilots “covered” by the American intelligence services, the prime beneficiaries being certain Cambodians in high places?. . . cl
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If you haven’t heard or heard of Paul Simon’s second solo album yet, consider this proper notice. There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Columbia 32280) is a brilliarit, tightly-knit musical smorgasbord which has a few obvious faults, but more than eno.ugh virtues’to make you forget the limitations.
Simon surprised both his avid fans from the Simon and Carfunkel days ‘and ‘in- terested onlookers with his fi&t solo effort well 0ver.a year ago, displaying a, lyrical and musical talent which placed him quickly in the top rank of individual rock- era musicians. The making of a second album was a situation ripe for high ex- pectations and letdowns, but Simon has, if anything, produced an even more satisfying LP in Rhymin’ Simon.
It starts off with a testj.moniaI to the - , era-co-written by Richard Carpenter--‘a
bailad which shows Karen’s beautiful voice to it’s best advantage. They then
-:launch into a medley including Brian *
and disarmingly humourous tribute to the music all- of us listened and danced to in the early sixties.
Simon is a borrower of the first order and unlike too many other borrowers in rock knows what to do with just about everything he steals-. He displays an in- telligent and loving feel for every musical style and mood he uses, rangin%g from reggae through 50’s R & R to sombre church music, with lots of stops in .bet- ween. . P
He also knows when to step back and let
Wilson’s “Fun: Fun, Fun” and “Deadman’s Curve”; Phil Spector’s “-Da Do Ron
I Ron”; “Johnny Angel”; and Carol King’s “One Fine Day”, among others.
C’est If you’re one of us old enough to
remember the originals, you’l.1 enjoy this Carpenter re-hash, which is evocatively interspersed- with D-J spiels by guitarist
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someone else do something they do well which was his secret in working with Carfunkel, a> when the Rev. Claude Jeter takes over for a soaring falsetto verse in “Take Me.to’the Mardi Gras”, or when the Black gospel group The Dixie Hum- mingbirds harmonizes glo‘riously, in ‘{Tenderness”. Or when the Onward Brass Liand finishes “Mardi Gras” with a dixieland flourish.
~Most of the cuts were recorded with the highly-competent Muscle Shoals group and th.e result is, technically, a master- piece of clarity and-reproduction.
well this time around: his Latest LP, Joe y Cocker (A & M 4X8), is the Lowest quality
of his four< albums. One is tempted’ to bemoan Cocker’s estrangement from leader-arranger--writer-performer Leon Russell; and indeed, performances by both a_rtists before- and since Mad Dogs and Englishmen reinforces the view that Cocker and Russelll were at their best, when sharing the stage and each other’s talents.
13 Cuerre, Yes Sir!, Floralie, Where are You!, Is It The Sun,’ Philbert?; by Roth Carrie< Editions du Jour, Montreal;’ 1968.
Roth- Carrier describes with blunt ac- curacy the frustrations of the Quebecois in their second-class citizens’ role, not only during the second world war, setting of La Guerre! Yes Sir. ), first of his trilogy, but
-also of the generation preceding (Floralie, Where Are YQU?, which goes back in time from the first book), and forward into the present (1s.-Itthe Sun, Philibert?). .
Listening to the music here g&s you the ‘feeling that there was something special going on during these sessions, the same sort of feeling you get listening to Layla, or Erich Anderson’s Blue River. The feeling th,at these musicians know their stuff and enjoyed doing this music.
Another welcome surprise recently came my way in the form of the Car- penter’s new album Now and Then (A & M 0598). L3efore you send your bifocals in for repair, yes, I said the Carpenters. Oh, I know we hip sophisticated rock critics are supposed to’ hold soft-core groups like Richard and Karen in the most derisive disdain. But it would take the hardest- hearted cynic to hate this LP for long...at least half of, it. .
Side one is the usual harmless and soul-
Chris Stainton (from Mad Dog days) plus a ‘talented assemblage of backing --.- musicians and vocalists -accompany
, ’ Cocker through six‘ Cocker-Stainton orrginals and a nice, rocking version of the Allman’s “Midnight Rider”, but the old fire that went into “Delta Lady”, “@tie Medley.” and “Bird on a Wire” just isn’t _ present.
Another old f;iend, Hoyt Axton, has put out a pleasant enough album; less Than a Song (A & M 4376), which sadly proves more than anything else the slimness of his writing talent. He wrote 10 of the songs on the LP-plus one of Arlo Guthrie’s lesser efforts-and thky just don’t hold up to more than: one listening. The music is extremely derivative and uninspired, but cotipetent, and the lyrics are mostly trite and emotionally weak, capped by a simplistic tune pretentiously titled ‘Peacemaker”, about a high-idealled young American lad who refuses‘ to.-be
How have the Quebec& traditionally been ’ regarded? English soldiers who
. brought home the body of a fallen villager, Corriveau, disgustedly observe the feast before the burial;
“What kind of animals were these French Canadians? They ,had the manner of pigs in a pigpen. Besides, if you looked at them carefully, objectjvely, . French- Canadians really looked like pigs too.” .
And a compressed pronouncement of an ancient prejudice; “Give them something to eat and a place to shit and we’ll have peace in the country.“-.
less schlock the Carpenters have been churning out to the waiting dollars of
drafted and is shot down mercilessly when he is “almost to sweet Canada’s border.”
Is It the Sun, Philibert? unlike the other two books, is -foc‘usedl on urban life, in Montreal, and on Philibert’s direct en- --.- counters -with the. English speaking minoritythere. The book is *actually a very serrous commentary related in a-light and thus digestible. manner. Carrier’s talent for imagery. and abstraction are most vividly displayed in -Philibert’s semi-conscious
Middle America for, years; but. Enough said. k hallucinations and experiences as he fades
Viola!. . .side two turns out co be a spirited -george kaufman into permanent effacement.
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terpretation restricted - to the French- English situation alone. Especially in Floralie, we can famjliarize ourselves with the part that fantasy and illusion play in life, and the part that comedy and farce r - must play, in order that we survive.
Carrier’s theme is basically universal, with a specific cultural approach. Life. Ah yes, life. “What was the use of having / been a child with blue eyes, of having
learned about life, its names, its colours, its laws, painfully as though it we+ against nature?” -
“God isn’t reasonable.” Perhaps’ the most important thing we
can derive from Carrier, apart from insight intoQuebec rural life,is an understanding . of the quite different approach to and philosophy’of life of the French Canadian.. Sex, death, love and hate (in sum; life), are viewed much more realistically, and therefore matter-of-factly than that of the 1 English speaking counterpart. What may * seem to be a,warped and strange outlook about life is rendered
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more com- prehensible when denuded of the traditional wrappings and hypocrisy that we ‘maudits Anglais’ have been guilty of.
Religion too, has always played a more prominent role in day-to-day living for the French Canadian than for his brother Wasp..: This may explain why almost all curses in ~ ‘la belle langue’ hav.e direct religious signjficance. a
Carrier exhibits a much more highly- developed imagination and creative flair In both Philibert and Floralie than he does in La Guerre. As his writings progress, his cynicism: and ambivalence seem to diminish, and we derive the feeling that Carrier is getting a good deal more out of his work.- This, possibly because he is finding it easier, more fun and much wiser to view things philosophically and with humour than to bear down and become lost .in the other direction. -
-Above all, Carrier’s works are fiction, and will be regarded as such, probably to the extent that fact, will be ignored or dismissed and currents of truths found unpleasant will be side-stroked. Of course to this the French will have an apt, concise- retort _
Vest la vie. -Susan gable
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For one week before its opening in New York, State of Siegeenjoyed an enormous amount of free publicity when the American Film Institute withdrew its scheduled showing at the film festival in Washington to inaugurate -the new movie theater at the Kennedy Center . This may have pleased its distributors-every knock, so long as it is public, is still a boost-but most people were displeased or embarrassed by such open aban- donment of the liberal esthetic dogma that only the formal qualities of a work may be taken into account when deciding whether it is art. The Institute said the movie rationalizes politiccal assassinations and for this reason changed its mind about the festival showing. Those who protested called the cancellation an act of cen- sorship. I ,prefer to think of it as the best compliment the movie could get: the American Film Institute was unable to coopt it. -
Why? For one thing, its subject matter makes clear the exploitative and repressive policy of the U.S. in South America. Costa-Gavras, the director of Z and The Confession, and Franc0 Solinas, author of the screen play of Battle of
The assurance necessary to undertake a ‘I story and an argument that take in all the
elements of a nation’s life comes from Costa-Gavras’ and Solinas’ knowing every fact of the case; and the technique of fast, breathless cutting- from one facet of the story to another, analogous to the closely reasoned thesis of an exciting political thinker of the order of Sartre, is possible without an aftertaste of shallowness and sensationalism because-of Costa-Gavras’ assurance., This assurance gives Costa- Gavras as well an elegant coolness ‘that
Algiers, here take as close a look as in sharpens the cutting edge of the horrors their other documentary-style films at the, he has to show us. He does not overdo any Dan Mitrione case which occurred in detail as a-director who does not trust his Uruguay in 1970. (The characters’ names ’ material might-have. have been changed and Uruguay’s never The tortures are a good. example of his mentioned but we assured from the screen approach. You see-ta lecture room filled at the movie% start that “the events in with police watching a demonstration; this film actually took place in a South you do not know ‘the guinea pigs and American country .“) _ cannot “identify” with them; youdo not ’ Mitrione was an A.1 .D. official who was see any blood: you see the tortures for
kidnapped by. the- Tupamaros, Mon- t what they are; dispassionately: a policy tevideo’s , urban guerrillas, and executed method for making -guerrillas talk. A when-the government did not meet the- director who has the overall story less well guerrillas’- demands that it free -100 in ,hand, \: who does not. know the political prisoners- then in jail. The film ‘, significance of these -events ,’ might have shows not only how this took ,place but leaned heavily on this surefire opportunity also why. You learn that the A.1 .D. police to make us squirm in our seats. The blood program which Mitrione directed in he would have shed! The physical agonies Uruguay served to train police officials in we would have had to watch! How far the torture and murder of revolutionaries, from the real story they would have taken You learn this both as political expose of a us._ -- particular event and as the workings of ’ The : story is- so important to imperialism to maintain itself. Costa-Gavras that he removes at the
This last emerges not as a-view that a outset the ordinary element of: Suspense- *critic ~may choose to work into the film, ‘the fate of the kidnapped A,I.D. official. nor even as an interpretation that he may Should you not already know the Mitrione make based on the film maker’s in- case, the movie’s opening scenes of the tentions, as one might say’ of Bertolucci’s police and army search end with the films that they are an-investigation of the finding of his body in an abandoned car. break-up of -bourgeois . morality. It The narrationback-tracks then to show us emerges as fact. There is no ambiguity in how this cam,e about and the “‘how” takes
\ in not oilly the actions of the police and
dhcumenthg a political kidnap ..” L 3. \ , State of Siege; its subject is its ‘message and there’s no getting away from it once you submit yourself to the opening frame. You may want to shunt it aside, as -did the American Film Institute, and you may revile it, as Mitrione did his jailors when their accusations become irrefutable, but you cannot say it is not true-Indeed, Costa-Gavras and Solinas have been so respectful of the real events that when asked on what evidence the scenes of interrogation of Mitrione by the Tupamaros w,ere based, Costa-Gavras revealed that the tapes kept’ by the Tupamaros were made available to him. If you could find an untruth in any of the movies ’ incidents, you fear the whole structure would come down. -, _
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the police. Rut it is intellectual curio%ty - not the traditional question of and then? and then? but of. why? why?-that-makes it impossible to look away from the screen
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The story ends where it began, but the . ’ audience, one hopes, has been changed. - Not Uruguay. Its situation remains the same, except that the police methods introduced there now account not for 100 c- political prisoners but ten, twenty times that number. And the tortures continue. by the song’s renewal from another The Tupamaros who began with Robin quarter and each time, the polide scramble Hood actions to uncover political to find it. All this happens very quickly on corruption in Uruguay and whom the the screen. The song is not identified but force of events turned toward violent it is -one of the several ballads about Che
This is an enormous risk for an artist to take-one has become used to blinking at the flaws of others whose subject matter is less public - and there is in Costa-Gavras’ movies an exhilarating ‘sense of danger which,comes as much from his technique as from his material. Yet he convinces you immediately that he may well bring it off;
convinces you in the only way a director can- by creating a series of images of a city under search so true that you feel a newsreel camera has taken them. Indeed, the opening so sets the tone of the film- that when the story shifts to scenes that could only have been staged you are still under the impression that ypu are seeing the real thing.
the Tupamaros but the reactions of the
; During the days of the search - for Mitrione’, the students of the University of Montevideo demonstrate and the police enter a courtyard of ’ the University. A reporter and the chancellor who ‘have been talking about the chances of the President ’ acceding to the terms of the Tupamaros hear the noise and look down on the scene
Like Dickens’ novels ‘at the time they first appeared, State of Siege makes us
‘.want to do something about the ugliness it uncovers. It may make us look into ourselves too. We may ask ourselv%s: Would we, if we lived in Montevideo,
, State of -Siege - . country’s press, politicians ,and offi5als_at ’ all levels, and the uncovering of the A .I .:I3 .“‘*’
fqm q ,yh$y, Wz, Fee it th:o.~gh th& with those Directed by Cost-Cavras - With Yves Montand, jean-
eyes. .A loudspeaker set in a: corner of the sympathize young_ ‘.
courtyard isplaying a song that enrages revolutionaries? Would we protect them?
official’s real mission in Uruguay., I do not Would we join them? Would we vote, as Luc Bideau, mean ‘by this that the film ‘-‘doesn’t ( take, the pol@e; They tear it down and- another they did, to commit their first execution? O.E. Hasse ’ -4 - I\ How much of the work of art an audience - A- Cinema 70% film -;.
advantage of the _ enormous excitement inherent, say,- in the execution;.of the
6ontinuesto broadcast the song, -and so . , p;.. - each
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actions against their enemies are in danger of being squashed. But there is one s&e in the film .that gives me hope. I would like to take it out of its tiontext and give it an emphasis that Costa-Gavras
- quite properly did not ._ I ‘m sure it. would not displease him.
Guevara that Carlos Puebla has composed and it is he whom we hear singing. Puebla is Cuba’s most engaging balladeer ‘and he is ’ known throughout South America. Each time the song begins anew the audience laughs as at a small victory, and the scene represents, for ‘me,” those guerrilla movements, like Che’s, that are squashed and then spring ,up again.
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Fittipaldi picking up some points to bring the score to Fittipaldi 41 and Stewart 37. In Sweden Stewart finished fifth while Fittipaldi had gearbox problems.
The French grand prix put Stewart in a one point lead over Fittipaldi and the margin stayed the same after the British event. Stewart’s win in Holland pushed his point total to 51 while again Fittipaldi failed to finish because of injuries incurred during a crash at a practice.
Stewart took the German grand prix with Fit tipaldi earning only one point for his sixth place finish behind his brother Wilson. In Austria Stewart came in second to Ronnie Peterson of Sweden. Fit- tipaldi broke a gas line and had to stop with the score after 12 races standing at Stewart 66 and Fit- tipaldi 42. Fittipaldi is actually in third place in the standings behind Stewart’s teammate Cevert.
The grand prix of Canada is the second to last event on the 15 race schedule and it appears that Jackie Stewart is on his way to his third consecutive grand prix chanpionship. .
Stewart of Scotland has com- piled a total of 66 points after 12 races; his two nearest contenders, Francois Cevert of France and Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil have 45 and 42 points respectively.
The drivers will compete one more time on September 9 in Italy before meeting at Mosport Sep- tember 23. If Stewart can score six points or better, none of the other drivers will have a chance of taking the title away from him.
At the beginning of the racing season this year it did not look as if Stewart had any kind of chance for the world championship. In the first event, the grand prix of Argentina, Fittipaldi placed first
,,in his JPS Lotus followed by, the / ’ Tyrrell-Ford teammates, Cevert
and Stewart. Fittipaldi won the Brazilian grand prix although this time Stewart was second. After two races the score stood at Fet- tipaldi 18 and Stewart 10.
But at the third race in South Africa, Stewart handily won with Fit tipaldi placing third behind Peter Revson of the United States. In Spain Fittipaldi took the race again while Stewart did not place because of brake problems. The score at that time stood at Fit- tipaldi 31 and Stewart 19.
Stewart won the next two races in Belgium and Monaco with
Victor Borges
dominant Canadian
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In order for Cevert or Fittipaldi to win the championship this year, one of them would have to win all three remaining races while limiting Stewart to less than six points.
Other drivers in the top top 10 to the standings are Peterson, Denis Hulme of New Zealand, Revson, Jacky Ickx of Belgium, Carlos Reutemann of Argentina, James Hunt of England and Carlos Pace of Brazil.
The race will be held at the Mosport track at 2:30 p.m. Sep- tember 23. The two preceding days will include practice, qualifying heats and preliminaries. Tickets for all three days will be available at Waterloo Square.
Camping facilities are available at Mosport.
Come out and watch someone get killed.
Intramuvals’
The intramural program is
begin again anticipating mass par- ticipation in all four facets of in- tramurals. In realizing the varied needs and interests of the university community, the in- tramural program offers a wide variety of physical activities.
The most structured level of intramurals is the competitive aspect which, for the most part, involve unit competition. Com- petitive sports include team ac- tivities (flag football, soccer, etc. ), team tournaments (track and field, co-cd swim meet, etc. 1, and individual tournaments such as golf and tennis.
The recreational level of in- tramurals is also divided into three types of / activities. These are recreational team sports, in- dividual activities and free time activities. Ball hockey, 7-aside touch football and co-cd volleyball ‘are examples of these activities.
The third aspect of the program is the instruction area. Whenever there is sufficient interest in an activity, instruction will be given.
The final level of the- program is athletic clubs. These are recreational in nature but do provide instruction and com- petition for their members.
The following is a list of the dates, times and places of the organiza tional meetings for all Intramural activities. For further information, please pick up a copy of the intramural news which provides information on all ac- tivities. It also lists the names of the intramural representatives. If you are in doubt as to whom you should see, call the intramural office at ext. 3532. September 10, Monday, MIAC Meeting, 8 pm, Director’s Home, 171 Woodville Pl., Waterloo September 15, Saturday, In- tramural Workshop, l-4 pm, Rm 1083, PAC
Organizational Meetings
September 13, Thursday Orienteering, 8 pm, Rm 1083,
Co-ed Squaliball, 7:30 pm, Rm 1076, PAC October 13, Saturday
Engineering Challenge Run, 10 am, Seagram Stadium October 17, Monday
Basketball, 7:15 pm, Rm 1083, PAC
IIockey, 8:15 pm, Rm 1083, PAC October 23, Tuesday
Skating, 1:30 pm, McCormick Arena
Basketball, (Women) 7:30 pm, Rm 1089, PAC October 24, Wednesday
IIockey, (Men) 7 pm, Rm 1083, PAC
IIockey, (Women) 7 pm, Rm 1089, PAC
Co-ed Broomball, 8 pm, Rm 1083, PAC October 26, Friday
Co-ed Curling Bonspiel, 8:45 am, Glenbriar Curling Club
Lockers available
A limited number of lockers are available to women students on a first come first serve basis.
Students will be assigned a locker by the tote matron in the women’s locker room. Because of limited space, students are asked not to take a locker unless they plan to use it on a regular basis. It would be helpful if students would consider sharing locker space with a friend.
A number of lockers will be reserved for kin students registered in skills classes this fall. These lockers are available now. Kin students taking skills classes this winter will be able to get a locker in January.
A number of lockers will be reserved for non-kin students. These will be available September 10.
After September 20, lockers left will be assigned to any student who applies.
Half mile dirt track
motorcycle racing Sunday.
New Hamburg
fairgrounds.
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While the rest of the university meet Western here. Saturday community was dodging in and out games with two exceptions, iyill be . of air conditioned buildings, ,the played at 2 pm with home games at ’ football warriors ma,rtyr-like took Kitchener centennial stadium. The to the field to hone their skills of exceptions are the October 20 slipping past flying tackles and game with Ottawa here at 8 pm stopping equally illusive op- ponents.’
and the November 3 game here with McMaster which will begin at
HopeJ%‘lly all this hot weather conditiomng will aid the warriors as they begin the 1973 season I * against the Gu-eIph gryphons at Guelph I on Wednesday evening. The coaching staff and- the team
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Warrior schedule September 12-Waterloo at Guelph September I!+Bye September 22-Western ’ at
hopes the, warriors will be able to Waterloo better their 1972 mark of. three September 29-Waterloo at WLU wins and three losses -and their October 6-Waterloo at Toronto equally split season the year October 13-Waterloo at Carleton before that. October 20-Ottawa at Waterloo
After the 8 pm game with Guelph October 27-Waterloo at Windsor next week the warriors will have a November bye until September 22 when they Waterloo
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’ Skating Starts October 23. Tuesdays at McCormick Arena ‘on Parkside Drive; l:3O - 3pm. Thursdays at Waterloo. Memorial Arena, 1:30 - 3 pm.
Badminton Main gym, PAC. Check weekly gym schedule. Tuesdays or Thursday evenings, 7:30 to 9 pm. Saturdays, 9:30 - 11 am.
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sports &
politics international-
style For the past’year Carl Totzke, director
The Waterloo delegation approached
of athletics at the University of Waterloo, and a group of other people from the
the FISU general meeting in Moscow in
surrounding community of Kitchener- Waterloo had been working on a proposal for the 1975 World Student Games, which they then placed before the executive
August with what they thought was an
committee of the International Federation of University Sports. Radio Waterloo traced the history of this proposal in
excellent alternative to the pressures of
collaboration
professionalism and commercialism which
with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and in this
is found in the Olympics and which has
article has transcribed some of the more interesting interviews with coaches,
become evident in recent years in the
athletes, members of the K-W delegation to the games committee in Moscow, and
World Student Games. Bob Wilson of
with members of the executive committee of FISU.
CBC talked to Carl Totzke about the K-W bid for the 1975 World Student Garntxs?
Wilson-Why did you want to hostlthe 1975 World Student Games?
Totzke-We were aware that there was one direction or one philosophy that these games could take so that they would become a huge event that would rival the Olympics in importance, and we knew that there were some individuals in the world organization that certainly supported this point of view. What we were suggesting was why not have it in a smaller com- munity where there are universities and get the people involved. With the capabilities here in the’K-W area we felt
that we were in a pretty good position to provide the facilties that were necessary.
I think our biggest selling point was our
We were able to interest the world organization sufficiently that they un-
student village,
dertook to send a delegation of four people
our
here to the K-W area in the latter part of
resident ac-
July; one from Czechoslovakia, one from England, one from the United States and
commodation.
the head of the technical commission from
On the University of
Italy. So they had a look at our com- munity and our facilities, and I think they
Waterloo campus we can accommodate
were quite frankly not only impressed but probably amazed at what they saw, at
approximately 3500 students and these
what we have in a community of 160,000. The fact that the two universities are here
are first class accommodations. It was the
puts us in a rather special position as far- as some of the facilities which are
opinion of the visiting group that they
necessary.
were better than any that have ever been available to any international competition and that includes all the Olympics.
So with this statement coming from the group, we were certainly encouraged in continuing our bid and our proposal. The strength of our proposal was that we had the ready-made accommodations, that we had a couple of high school gyms, we had a stadium, we had another ten or twelve grade-school gyms which were available, half a dozen swimming pools and then in our negotiations with the councils and the federal and provincial governments we saw the possibility of adding to these faciltiies with a major swimming pool and a closed year round swimming pool which
might seat 3,000. We would be adding seats to our stadium and our track and field so that we could accommodate 12,000 in permanent seats and if necessary another four or five so we might have up to sixteen or seventeen thousand seats.
In July of this year a delegation from the FISU executive came to the K-W area X with some very definite ideas concerning what they were looking for. Charles Wendon of Great Britain, one of the members of the inspection committee talked to George Young in an interview about what he was looking for in the area.
. Wendon-Firstly what we need are first
class facilities for the ran&e of sports in- cluded in the university ads. These games are of a very high standard, attracting athletes used to top quality Olympic and international competition. So the first requirement is facilities for all the sports which would meet those needs. Beyond that, obviously, we have to house the competitors and officials and for this we need comfortable, friendly, attractive accommodations, and from what I hear of the area of K-W, this presents no problem. I’ve been here only a few hours already and have been struck by the friendliness and charm of the local people. The third requirement will be technical services for the games in terms of officials, timing and ancillary equipment so that the facilities and the athletes can be tested under the best possible conditions. And finally what one wants is good local support so that the
competitors feel that their efforts are watched by the community and they are encouraged to give of their best.
While the inspection committee was here they were given the royal tour of the K-W area. Although they spent only three days here they visited a variety of places in the area, both social and dealing with sport activities as well as visiting Stratford and Niagara Falls. All in all they seemed impressed by what they saw although there were some deficiencies in the area of sports facilties. In an interview with George Young, after they had looked around, Charles Wendon of Great Britain and Nick Rodes of the U.S.A. made comments on the K-W area. Wendon-The accommodations for the students living in the dormitories at the university here are superb. They would clearly be the best that we have ever had for any university and having seen a lot of university accommodations around the world I am staggered at their quality and at the way in which they are maintained. There is no doubt that the living psaces . would have mainly single rooms beautifully equipped with ample washrooms and plenty of space around them. This is first class. clearly will be the facilities for track and field. Track and field is the key event of the university ad, and the stadium which you have here is clearly organized for a smallish university in a smallish- com- munity . If we are to hold top class world
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track and field here there is *a great deal to be done. The organizing committee have planned to putdown an eight lane tartan track which is essential for top-class international cdmpetition, and they have stated they would hope to get this done. You will also clearly have to improve the seating accommodation ‘and expand the changing accommodations for athletes and coaches. This is the area where there is most to be done and where a great deal of time and thought and money would have to be expended. In between. this I’ve been impressed‘with an area whichhas so many swimming pools dotted around the vicinity and, there is no problem about training facilities for swimming. I ga- ther that the organizing committee, if the project comes off, would hope to build a competitive fifty-meter pool’ in Kit- chener. , So that swimming-wise, price that’s there you have first-class arrangements. We’ve looked at a wide range of indoor halls and gymnasiums in the university, in high schools and in some of the associated sports areas and again for a community of 160,000 I am dazzled at the qHty and range -of situations which you have.
Certainly there are more indoor facilities and more pools in the K-W area than there are” in the whole of “Boston. There .will be no problem in the end in allocating the seating so that we could get first-class venues for basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, fencing and other indoor activities. If the problem of providing a good track with a good warming up area and with adequate changing and spectator accommodations can be provided, then to my mind, K-W has a first-class presentation.
Rodes- First of all, the ac- commodations are superb. They are the best we could ever hope to have. I’ve been to theuniversity ads in ‘65 and there is nothing that comes close. The basic sports facilities with the addition of the new swimming pool which is being anticipated are good, you have some very good facilities- For an area with not a large population I think the facilities are outstanding. You do have a major problem in your stadium. I mean let’s be very candid about it. These days in track and field the use of the tartan track is
j universal, the size .,of your stadium is awfully small. One of the things which I think the people of this are.a should keep in mind is, although I’ve been told that if you build a bigger stadium there wouldn’t be much ‘use for it later on, just like everything else population grows. You may-be able to find other things to use it for because I’m very impressed with the people in the area _ and their spirit for sports, but I can see the stadium as being a tremendous problem.
Although the stadium presented its problems, the overall verdict was, favourable and Carl Totzke felt that they had every’ reason to be optimistic about the kind of reception they would get at the
_ FISU general assembly in MOSCOW. Unfortuna‘tely, proceedings at Moscow didn”t go very well. Dr. Primo Nebiolo, the president of FISU, seemed to feel that it \would never do to have the games occur in such a small and relatively unknown community as Kitchener-Waterloo. On top of this there was very little support from otlier delegates or from the, members of the inspection. Carl Totzke tells what he thinks went wrong in Moscow:
. -time to provide the necessary buildings, to , - provide the ,necessary improvement of . facilities.
Now. in good 1 r
Well, a few things went wrong. A few things went well, but I think that we weren’t surprised really at any of the developments. I think we were hopeful that it might work better, but what went wrong was that the president .of the organization, Dr. Primo Nebioli of Italy, was quite determined that these games should not go to a smaller community after Moscow. He didn’t,want them to fall into the oblivion of the boondock I of Wyaterloo county, so he effectively prevented our proposal from really coming to a vote. And he sent it to a committee.
He was able to get Mexico to indicate at the meeting that they were considering putting in a bid for the games in 1975 and that they needed a little time to.sort of prepare their proposal and find out if all the necessary facilities were ready and so forth. So the president asked if we could delay for three months in determining where the games would go and give Mexico’ a little time to put their bid together and give the K-W area a little time to correct some of the deficiencies they have in their proposals. , ” ’ He. suggested that we ‘give a three- month delay on this decision and then leave it with the executive, the board of directors, to decide where the games would. be held in 1975.
We had said at the outset of our proposal that we had to have an answer at this time because of the lead time necessary for the designing of buildings to provide the facilities we need, such as the swimming pool and additional seating. We’felt at this time that if we couldn’t get an answer right here and now that we were withdrawing our bid. We tried to point out this wasn’t in any sense of animosity. We
‘were just pointing out the fact that we -needed the- time and that we were not trying to force anybodies hand or ac- cellerate any decisions, but we could not wait and if they chose not to take our. proposal at that time then we could not be,* considered as a candidate. So we left it at that and they left it at that, and we packed our bags and our proposal was sort of concluded.
Faith I wish to express to this group that we have done some work in preparing this bid. If you do not choose to accept it or that it does not permit the growth of the FISU games as you see
_ them, do not feel embarrassed about refusing.
We know that we are ‘presenting a r rather serioZls alternative, we think in our
own minds that it is the right one, that the priorities we would attempt to emphasize at this university ad, the students in- volved in a worthwhile sporting ex- changed in a small friendly community. We feel that this is the area and the directions that we can do a good and successful-job. If you are looking for us to accelerate our project, to ‘build it up into something that you have in mind then I think we are looking at two different paths. So in good faith I would like to propose that if in fact you cannot give our proposal an affirmative decision at this time, regretfully we cannot delay to get an answer at a later time.
Keith Harris, who &the president of the CIAU, also had this cornmen! to make concerning the procedures in Moscow:
Car I Totzke
I’m convinced that when you go to make this kind of a pitch that there is no question that you really have to do a
-thorough and professional job of working behind the scehes if you’re convinced that
I you want it. You’ve got to work behind the scenes and then you need to be very astute and on your toes in the actual sessions where yau make your proposals,‘
‘because it is so easy to be finessed on a ’ delayed translation. As you know, there are several languages used for the discussions, so if you’re not just in there right off the mark why you know a misunderstanding can soon turn the’whole meeting around.
Following the approval of delaying tactics which Dr. Nebiolo proposed, Totzke made the following speech ‘at the general assembly meeting in Moscow:
Young- NQ$ don% think so. Carl, you can back me up on this but after we with- drew the bid several countries came up to us and said can’t you hold on for three more months? They liked the concept generally of going to a smaller com- munity, but were just not prepared to buck the authority9 as it were,
Totzke- I thigk tlmt we had all kinds of support. I mean we were quite enthused as we were .doing some of our preliminery lobbying which was on a very low key nature, but we were sort of ticking off the countries that we had talked to and the ones that showed strong support for the accept that we were trying to set out- *
We were quite encouraged by’ the mption that we had from a lot of the smaller countries- The fact that they did& come up and stand up and express th& at the opening meeting or at the open meeting was a little discouraging to me and I was disappointed, but that% ‘one of those things that you can% always predict what might happen. j
There are some inadquacies about our proposal and possibly about the capabilities of our facilities and the suggestion that some time might be given to explore the possibilities ,of correcting these. I think all that we can say in good faith is that we would attempt to do these things as we find them within our capabilities. Unfortunately, the time necessary to prepare what facilities we are
I think that yesterday I felt that at one point in time that possibly because of delayed translation and so forth we may have lost a good chance to pull the bid off. I personally would have liked to have seen us put it to the vote. I, think that there were quite a few people’ there who were quite apprenhensive, and they didn’t know how to read us. They didn’t know just how enthusiatic we were to have these games, and I think that many of the smaller nations and younger members probably would have voted for us.
But as you know there we& some difficulities: Ear example, Israel, the day
We are rather naive on the international scene. Speaking personaIIy Ike been to a few of these meetings, and you learn something about them everytimeout- We certainly learned a lot at this meeting. 1 think that the idea of coming to Canada would ,have been most acceptable and possibly had Toronto or possibly Mon- treal been the city that was bidding the games might in fact havebeen awarded to Canada. I had talked to people in” the
planning to build and provide for the before, had quit -doing it quite - Olympic organization committee in university ad requires a decision at this diplomatically, had \ chastized the Montreal and they indicated that they time. ’
We do not wish to put undo pressure on Russians for eliminating their press from. pretty well had their hands fulI with the
, attendance at these games. ’ ” Olympics and I couldnt but agree with * &hi& gathering, we do not -wish to force Some were. rather reticent about them- anybody to make a quick decision. We are They were& in a position to de: only saying that we need the two years
standing up and supporting our case ’ mainly because I think they felt that if (~-d~~pp@. . .
others who had chastized the Soviets saw them take this lead then they too might be placed in the same box with the Russii. That made it a little difficult- Maybe we should have searched out some other representative from some other country to have made our case and presented the propo=l-
In an interview held’in the stud& of Radio Waterloo; Bob Wilson/of CBC talkid im Totzke and George Young about the direction which the games were @aking
‘8tld what alternatives were available. The p&sophy of the present executive of FISU had a lot of effect on the mception of the K-W bid for the games as .is evident in Dr- Nebiilo’s actions.
YOMg: _’ No question about it- As Carl mentioned Nebiolo was instrumental in asking Mexico C&y to make a bid, and as I saw it Mexico City had no idea that they were going to bid coming into the general assembly meeting- It was obvious that he did not have the backing of the pvem- merit and it was a put up by Nebiolo. One mm, a member of the executive com- mittee, told me that Nebiolo is a little godfather and that everybody ‘else just Mows h& around- I think that’s a pretty accurate description of the situation- Wilson- Would that be based solely on
tk ideas that the World Student Games should not go to a smaller community?
YoMg- Yes, essentially he likes the @a of rivaling the Olympic games in stature. ,He was in his glory on opening night in Moscow at the stadium,
Wilson- Is that a \ general feeling among universities around the world, that in fact the Student Games should rival the Olympics? : 1
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emphasize their main show in 1976. I talked with some individuals in Toronto and they said, well, maybe if you find that you aren’t going to be successful, maybe we can get a group together in Toronto. -
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But it almost had to wait until our proposal was aborted. So it became one of
’ those situations where it was the concept or the philosophy of an event that had to be held in a major city to give it the needed importance. I
‘Young-There’s one thing which sur- prised me, Bob and Carl, maybe you could fill us in. Perhaps your feelings on what happened as well. The four visitors to Kitchener-Waterloo were members of the executive and while they did get up and give their reports as to how they viewed this area, really, when we got up and said we want to vote now there was no ad- ditional support from any one of them. They all sort of said yes, it’s a nice, place although they do need additional track facilities, and a larger stadium. But there was no additional support at the time when we were trying to get a vote. Wilson- Why did you withdraw? Why didn’t you let it go another three months? Totzke-Several reasons. One of the first reasons was that we needed the time and I think that we were cutting it down awfully close when we said that we had two jrears work to build a swimming facility which would seat 3,000 and additional seating in the stadium and so forth. So we really needed all the time we could to prepare plans financing and all the things for this. The other point is that when we met with our group we were of the opinion that three months was just a delaying gambit in order to get some other country to come forward with a bid. We were really the bird in the hand or someting that would be used as bait to put the pressure on some other community in some other country to come forward with a bid. So we decided- that let’s not dilly-dally and let’s not keep our people in suspense, a lot of people have invested a lot of their time in this and there was a fair amount of finances involved.
We decided at that point in time, let’s face it, we’re not going to make any better headway than we have up to this point of time. We’ve been entirely honest up to this point, we pointed out our deficiencies, and we pointed up what we think are strong points. I think we’ve established our credibility with the visitors who came to look at our com- munity from Europe. They were amazed and found that we weren’t deluding them with our capabilities. There just seemed to
. be cards stacked against us in this respect, and if nobody was going to speak up in support of our proposal then we we
might as well not cointinue it. With all of the shit flying around in the
political circles, the coaches and athletes have to put up with the end results of the political hassles. Bob Graham, a swim- ming coach for the Canadian team, and two members of the wrestling team, Pat Bolger and Al Tschirhart, seemed to feel that some of the decisions made were based on a desire to turn the World Student Games into the World Student Olmpics, and they expressed their dissatisfaction with the objections raised against the K-W bid for the 1975 World Student Games. Graham-Most of the coaches that I talked with and most of the athletes from the different. countries that I talked to at the swimming pool were most enthusiastic about coming to Canada in 1975. They said 1975 wa; a year away from 1976. It would be a virtually pretrial for an Olympic competition under similar conditions in terms of temperature, similar environment, what type of response they would get to travelling. I think this- is one of the things that the coaches were most interested in, especially those coaches who would have had to
travel a considerable distance to come to Canada in 1976. Australia, for example. Tschirhart-I think it was ridiculous. As far as I’m concerned K-W has ten times the facilities. The only one missing is the big stadium and I imagine that could have been possible too. From what I un- derstand the head guy of FISU didn’t feel that K-W was big enough.
I think we could have done a better job than Moscow did too. Like the facilities are just great here. Well, I grew up in this area and I know what’s at hand and the facilities are more modern and, well, everything is just better. We could use the student village and I figure half the countries would just be fascinated by how modern everything is.
Bolger-I was really disappointed. I couldn’t see the justification and apparently it was that we didn’t have a large enough stadium. I could see it myself. I think there is too much money being poured into the Olympics and the- Student World Games and I feel that they should tone it down. I really think we could have handled it well. I think maybe it would gear us better towards com- petition having the ‘76 Olympics and therefore having the athletes competing for the first time in front of their country might help their performances.
N&, everyone was disappointed that the K-W bid received such and unfavourable reception in Moscow. Sid McLennan, mayor of Kitchener, thought the games were a poor idea. He wasn’t surprised the bid was essentially rejected and in his usual bumbling way thinks things turned out for the best. In an interview with George Young, McLennan proves that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and gives his reasons for not wanting the games to come to the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
McLennan-I really ‘wasn’t surprised actually, because I thought in this in- stance we might be out of our league a little. I wasn’t at all surprised that we didn’t get the games, but in any event there were a number of things and questions unanswered that seemed to puzzle us here in this locality.
.Young-As mayor of the city of Kit- chener did you want to see the games in this area?
McLennan-Not at this particular time. I wasn’t overly enthuasiastic about it. I didn’t vote for public funds to be provided for the initial introduction to the games, however, I assured the council that even
though it was split that I would not block their decision and I would go along with the majority rule.
Young-Any other particular reason
other than you would wish to see funds spent other ways than promoting the games, any other reasons for not wanting the games in this area?
McLennan-Yes, there were two or ’ three other reasons. First of all, and I said earlier that they were out of their league. I mean this because when the delegation appeared before council asking for funding I asked a question at that time: do we have in Canada a similar activity where the universities gather together for such an event as World Student Games and have the same events. The answer was no. Now this to me was a little puzzling because I would think that this would be the first step so that in Canada we would have all the university athletes competing in similar events as at the World Student Games. Then develop a strong team from Canada and have our athletes go to the World Student Games.
But when we don’t in our own way in Canada have a similar activity it was--a little puzzling to me. I don’t know the real background and the real history but it would seem to me that if we are going to have representation of any kind, we should have the strongest possible team and athletes that we can gather together to carry the banner for Canada.
Young--id, as you know, it was a withdrawal, not a denial by FISU and at this point in time they are trying to get Mexico City to come in and bid for the games. They did so at the general assembly meeting in Moscow and the decision will be made in about two and a half months. But if they should come back and if Mexico City could not hold the games and they came back and asked K- W to hold the games, what would your feelings be?
McLennan -No, I don’t think my position would change. I’ve always felt, as I have expressed earlier, that we’re a little bit out of our league and that I would like to see other types of athletic events held, such as the Canadian Summer Games which we were anxious to have a few years back. I would like to see something of this nature in our community of Canada so that we could take the first step, as it were, toward such an activity.
There were two philosophies of thought surrounding the path the World Student Games should take. On the one hand, people feel that theprofessionalism and commercialism should be played down and create a more .sport -for-sport’s-sake atmosphere. On the other, there are people who share Dr. Nebiolo’s opinion that the World Student Games should be made to compete with the Olympics as far as importance in international competition goes. Unfortunately, the coaches and athletes have very little to say in deciding which path the games will take and one wonders if the World Student Games are worth continuing. and if they provide anything worthwhile for the coaches and athletes. Wilson talked with Totzke and Young about the future of the games and Keith Harris also gave his viewpoint on the topic. .
Totzke-Well, that’s hard to say. I think they may replace the Olympics. I thought they came off very well in Moscow in spite of the problems that we had. The actual running of the games was very good. The competitors enjoyed it and aside from the linguistic problems, the
nature of the Russian individual-they are not service-oriented at all-but the games still came off pretty well. We played some basketball in some barns; we couldn’t find a gym in K-W as bad.
But the games were played and they kept the score and, of course, the Russians walked off with a wheel barrel full of medals and proved to all and sundry that the Russian system is the best in the world.
But I don’t know what’s the future for the Olympics and whether the Student Games will replace them. I think there is a future for the student games and I think that it is in the direction that we proposed, but let’s face it, we’re rather new on the international scene. We don’t have any body on the executive. We must get some people who are working the inside, and I think that the Canadian government is finding this out. You’ve got to have officials who are in the international of- ficials league, and you’ve got to be sitting in on the committee meeting when they are planning the draws and all these things. There is a lot more that goes on in the back rooms that people don’t know of that is very significant in the ultimate results.
We must get involved, we must get our feet wet. But you just can’t superficially appear on the scene and walk away and play the game, because if we want to do a job, why, we’ve got to really get in there and get in with both feet.
Wilson-Are you saying we should take sports off the field and into the committee room?
Totzke-I think we should play the game the way the game is played and if you’re going to have to win some in the committee room then let’s get in there and win some.
Young-You can lose an awful lot in the committee rooms if you don’t, and I think that’s a very fair observation to make of any international sports event.
Harris-There’s no question from the athletes’ point of view. The games are exciting and this kind of international competition really appeals to them. From sort of an executive’s position I would say that I have certain apprehensions about it. Getting into the realm of a great deal of expense and in the light of the discussions and the circumstances in regards to our bid, it makes you wonder whether or not the FISU people are not thinking too grandly of these games. You have the feeling that there is a certain segment and that segment is primarily those that are in the top executive positions at this time. They are enamored with the thought that they could rival or come close to the Olympic magnificence, and grandeur. I think if we try to go that route we lose the basic appeal of these games, which should be getting on to campuses and seeing students from other parts of the world, not getting too much into this big time international competition.
grafix by don &hanger I.
With the administrative people in the’ FISU general assembly arguing about the I975 games, the coaches and athletes were
\ busy participating in the 1973 World Student Games. In an interview at Radio Waterloo, Graham, Young, i Bolger and Tschirhart discuss how Canada did in this year’s games and some of the problems which were faced by coaches and athletes in Moscow.
Graham-The Canadian team did very well. As a swimming team they finished ;‘ourth. As a country, and if you count all of the aquatic sports which is a normal combination of swimming and diving, we were third, the Unit,ed States finishing first, and Russia finishing second. We
*were v’ery happy with what they did considering that the team that we had is representative of students and our best team at present is on it’s way to Relgrave to participate in the first world aquatic championships. llssentially of the available talent, the best talent went on to 13elgrave. There were two boys who had the opportunity to go to Helgrave and who did elect to go to Moscow and compete in the _ M’orld Student Games. These were ,John llaas and Ilarry McDonald. Fred Bunting-How did the individuals of the Canadian team do? I
Graham-Unfortunately, I can’t say that we got any’ gold medals. It would have c
,.. been very nice to say that, but we got a / silver medal in the men’s one hundred butterfly by Byron MacDonald, we got a’ ’
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bronze medal in the men’s two hundred back stroke from John Hass, and we got a -
- , bronze medal in the one hundred the games, everybody could speak
back stroke from E:ric I’ish. I’d like to English’, even the Russians. They were most interested in conversing with
point out, though, - that there were Canadian students. A lot of Russians only three events in which Canadians did expressed interest in. the Canada-Russia not make the finals, and this was the men’s hundred and 1 two hundred
student exchange program. In fact, our
breaststroke and the men’s ‘one hundred chief interpreter had spent two years
free’ style. We had finalists in ,every other studying at UBC. I think it gives students an exposure to a variety of educational
event in the program. Young-Well, as far ’ as the Canadian
programs and a chance to meet people of
performance overall, it was obviously our the same age group. I feel this is really important. Besides that it can be used. as
best in these games. We were eleventh overall. In total medal ,-standings we
Sport Canada has set it up to be used as a stepping stone to bigger and better in-
picked up seven medals. We have to be ternational competitions. very happy with the performance of our track athletes, our swimmers, particularly
Tschirhart-Well, actually , the thing
our woman’s volleyball and our men’s that impressed me the most was actually
basketball. And perhaps we could even back home here, and that is how much you
taIk a little bit here about our national get to appreciate your country after you’ve put up with the facilities and , programmes geared for 1976. .
As a result of our national programs our actually put up with the living style of the
basketball team came within a point of people over there. The first couple of days
getting a bronze in the game with the it seemed like you had been stuck back 50 years in the history of this country.
Russians . The Russians, of course, winning the silver-medal over there. We
Bunting-What kind of an atmosphere
were down by just one point with 19 surrounded the< student games?
seconds to go and with a few breaks could Tschirhart- WelI, the different athletes
had a great time, trading information with have pulled ’ it off, considering we the other athletes. were down 18. points at the end of that half. From a Canadian point of. view we
Bunting-What kinds of problems did
were successful. you run into as an athlete?
Graham-I think there was a variety of Tscirhart-Most was the security
arrangements. I’m not used to showing a \ things which came out of an exposure first
of all, I-think, that the student trip is a pass every 15 or 20 feet, and that’s the
/ way it was. I don’t know if it was the very unique trip #compared to other in- ternational teams. For example, ‘an
country or whether they were just taking
Olympic team or a Pan-American team. precautions against another Munich. But
You have a very wide range of’ interests a lot of people complained about it for the
and ages. A student trip basically has a first little while, ,but all that served to do
small range of ages between 17 and 25. was for them to double the guards.
.J Bolger-*We had some difficulty during Most of them are currently involved in training time. There was only one education and*in what they’re doing and finding out what they want to do. I think
wrestling mat for all the teams involved at the Student World Games and it was
that this is a very interesting objective, because it is one of the few places where
rather difficult, but we did finally’manage
they get a-real cosmopolitan exposure, to to get into two workouts per day. The
a variety of systems and education. atmosphere in Russia seems to be fairly
English is pretty well .spoken by every restrictive and this probably bothered
some people. They didn’t like having&heir student in the :world-, It was am@ng at I, ~IL)‘!s~checked.all the time+, they Ididn’t like
seeing the police on your tail all the time. I was fighting the American and I put him on his back for two points and they didn’t give me any points at all when it was, just so obvious that I had him right on his back. Had I won the match and I would have if they had given me the two points, I would have gotten the bronze medal. So anyway we p.rotested for about three hours and they fired the three judges, a consolation which didn’t really do me that much good.
It seems that even in sports people -can’t leave politics alone. This years battle was bewteen the Russians and the Israelis. Even though it was- an in-
. ternational competition the Jewish people are not well received in the Soviet Union, and numerous problems arose between the two factions both on the playing field and off. Young and Totzke talk about the problems which arose from this con- frontation. Young-First of all, the Israeli problems ‘were that the Russian people went to great pains to put on a show to demon- strate that they could handle the 1980 Olympics. You look to the individual sports; they were. fairly well organized. But then they turned around and there were two Israeli newspapermen who -wanted to come in and cover the games. They got as far as Zurich and had their visa’s withdrawn by the Russians. Israeli athletes were harassed from the time they got there until the time they left, booed by Russian people. The Soviet Jewish people were trying to get in to see the Israeli teams play-and in most cases were denied entrance. At one occasion where they were able to get to a basketball game with Israel leading with the last minute to go, the Soviet Jews were waving. a flag and the soldiers went over and grabbed the flag and tore it up. So on one hand they go to great pains to put on a good show,*a good World Students Games, but then they blew it because- of their politics.
The only opinion I got from the one Israeli that I talked to was that their very
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presence in Moscow meant more to therm than : just winning medaIs. They were there representing the whole Israeli - nation. To keep their heads tall despite the many problems, the jeers they were getting and the harassment. It was more important to them that they were really _ proving a point and that’s the only reaction I got from them. They did not like it obviously, but they also realized just how important to their cause ‘it/was.
Wilson-Just one final question about Canadian performances and we touched on it briefly, but I think we have to look forward to 1976 and the Olympic games in
. Montreal. _ This obviously was a, testing ground for some of our young athletes, how do you see our progress as we look forward to 1976 .?
..Young-Well, I ,think its great par- ticularly in men’s, basketball and women’s volleyball where right now we have national programs underway in Canada. The coaches areconvinced they are on the 1 right track and I’m sure you’ll b&k me up on that, Carl. We opened a few eyes’ over there and they’re going to be looking for - us next time out.sOur women’s volleyball team never got beyond the first round before and they wound up eighth so that speaks well for national programs. In track and field, we won a couple of medals. I Our swimmers came through and with a little more work that looks very en- couraging as well.
Young-Yeah, there is no question that this was the most successful international. venture that Canada has ever embarked on and I think we brought a lot of credit to the country. Our team was well outfitted, they looked smart and they were well 1 . eved. Of course, Canadians are well recieved in international competition; we’ve been good losers up to now’, but the . \ fact is that now we are starting to > win. We were looking at eighth place for our basketball team and here we are knocking for third. We could have won third by the matter of a point or two. I We’ve got kids who are 18 years old . that are just getting their first tastes of international competition. I know that our organizing group were very very pleased with the results -and I think this speaks well for the general game plan as they’re gearing for the Olympics. I, think what people dqn’t realize is how many people we got into the finals. That doesn’t show on the medal charts. You know we placed a girl in the finals in the hundred yard dash, and we got all kinds of people in the’top ’ eight and that’s a feat. We’re not geared to the type of philosophy in Canada if you don’t win a medal you haven’t really succeeded, but if you can make the finals in a world competition of this stature you’ve’ done pretty well.
Canada did very well in‘ the games this year, placing eighth in wrestling, third in swimming and fourth in ‘men’s basketball, c with -an overall standing of eleventh. Despite the poor atmosphere in Moscow and the politic playing by the - FISU executive the students did seem to get some enjoyment and benefit from the . event.’ Only time will tell which direction the; World Student Games will take; the j Olympic path, or a more low-key educatidnal path. In two months, when the FISU executive again meets and decides where the 1975games will be held, we should get a fairly good indication of what the future of the games will be. Who knows, if Mexico City can’t get a bid together in time maybe they’ll even come back and ask K-W to re-enter their bid.
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With the recent publication qf Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution there has been a rekindling of public interest in the low- carbohydrate “ketogenic” diet. This diet is promoted as a “miraculous” and “revolutionary” approach to weight reduction.
The low-carbohydrate diet approach to weight reduction is not innovative. About a century ago, an, b:nglish surgeon, William Iiarvey , devised a diet
sponsorship? Moreover, despite the claims of universal and painless success for such diets, no nationwide decrease in obesity has been reported.
Upon examination, the claims of the low-carbohydrate-diet advocates suggest that they have found a, way of circumventing the first law of ther- modynamics, namely: The energy- of an isolated system is constant and any exchange of energyt)etwcen a system and
calories don’t co&t. Nor is it possible to that provide an adequate explanation of explain the alleged weight loss in the presence of a high caloric intake on the basis of excretion of ketones (biochemical by-products of fat and protein metabolism) in the u+rine, as Dr. Atkins is wont to do.
No reliable nutritional studies have been reported to support
for obesity that specifically prohibited its surroundings must oc’c’ur without the the claim that calories don’t
the weight loss that can occur when a “ketogenic” diet is consumed. These workers studieil six obese adults who were ctirefull?~ instFuc.ted in t hti iveighing and recording of their c.omp’lchtc diets. ‘I’hey w’ere told to eat their usual food for two weeks. ‘I’hen. the>* lvt’re asked to reduce the& carboh>rdratcl intake to about 50 gm/da?v for anot her t\vo weeks and to eat as much protein and fat as they liked. Specificall>*. the subjects tiere told the?, could (‘at unlimited amounts of such foods as mc’at. eggs, fish, cheese, butter, margarine. and cream. The intake of calories. protein, fat and carbohydrate was calculated from the daily dietary records.
sweet and starchy foods, while per- creation or destruction of’ energy. More count. I I
mitting meat ad libitum. During the last simply stated, this the law of con-
20 years, there has been a cyclical ad- servation of matter and energy. For IV0 scientific evid-ence exists to vocacy of similar diets having in example, the claim is made that an
unlimited caloric intake (excluding suggest that the low-carbohydrate
common the following major features: _ _ . . . . ketogenic diet has a metabolic ad- I l a low to very low carbohydrate (sugar carbohydrates) is associated with .a
consistent and physiologically ad- vantage over calorie-reduced -balanced
and starch) content: l no restriction of protein -and fat; and vantageous loss of weight (which
diets for weight reduction. Kekwick and Yawan obser\*ed in 1956 that obese The rate of weight loss in obese
l supposedly “unrestricted calories”. presumably continues as?ong as the diet patients on extremely high-fat (and persons on the low-
Variants of the diet have been is maintained). - . therfore 10M’-car~)oh?,drate) diets hf 1 ,000 carbohydrate diet was similar described in 1953 by Pennington Herein lies one of the main problems kcal lost‘weight more rapidly than when to that of a “balanced’‘-diet of (“‘l’reatment of Obesity ,with Calorically with thePX rationale of the low- they were on a 1,000 kcal diet containing Unrestricted 1 Iiets”): in 1960 as the Air _ carbohydrate diet. With the focus on high-carbohydrate (and low fat).
equal caloric value.
Force &et: in, 1961 by Taller (Calories dietary composition, special emphasis is ‘1’0 explain their findings. these Don’t Count); in 1964 as The Drinking placed on carbohydrate restriction while authors suggested that “obese patients Man’s Diet: in 1967 by Stillman (The ignoring calorie content of the diet. IT must alter their metabolism in reponsc Doctor’s Quick Weight Loss Diet); and calorie intake exceeds calorie utilization, to the contents of the diet”. However, most recently by Atkins (Dr. Atkins’ the excess will be stored (conserved) as they tried these diets for only a short H- Diet Revolution). The so-called body fat. Hody fat is burned in in- 10 day period. M’hen l’ilkington, et al “(irapefruit and Eigg Diet” -also verges cr’easing quantity when total calorie ( 1960) sttidied the Gffects of similar diets on this genre. intake is inadeyuate- regardless of -the for 18-24 d ays. the rate of weight loss
In all subjects there was a reduction of calories ranging from 13 per cent to 55 per cent,during the time they consumed the low-carbohydrate diet. Interestingly, none of the six persons ate more fat, and t.hree of them showed a significant reduction of fat intake. It was concluded that w.eight loss on such diets was principally due to the consumption of fewer~calorics. ‘l’hink-about it; no bread means less but tcr: no potato means no q-a\‘?‘, fries. chips and the like.
Hefore ?vou cit~cidc this is a great idea, consider the ‘long-term social im’- plications of the lo’w-cart)ohpdrate diet. since alcohol is used t)?T t hc body in prefence t 0 carbohJ’dt-ate. all alcohol nlust t)tl a\~oidtyi (lacer and wine have
a\~,iilablc carbohtrdrate in addition to their alcohol content). Other foods whit% turn up at parties arc mainly car- ~)ohydrat~~--hires. t)uglcs, pop cTorn, snack crackers. etc. and also must be alroided. Since you are never “cured” of the tendency to store fat (gain weight) if you takcl in more calories than you use (first law of thermodynamics again), you will always ha\Te to watch what you eat even after losing wieght. If you go back to your old eating habits, yo~‘ll‘go back to your old weight. And if you’re human, it’s going to be impossible for you to stick to this low~art)ohy<iratc diet forever. At best, this is a short-term solution to a long-term firoblem.
CD06 Atkins’ diet debunked
Over the years, starting with the quantity of carbohydrate in the M’as the same for both diets. 1)uring the : Wanting 1 )iet “, such regimens have calorically inadequate diet. first few d a1.s there was a m&e rapid 1 been pr.oclaimed to the public in glowing 13ody fat can be made from dietary fat weight loss for patients on the high-fat,
I and protein as well as from dietary low-carb!)h?vdrate diet, but’ after three a / carbohydrate. ‘l‘his obvious when one , weeks. the total weight loss yas the
Despite the claims of universal considers that a nutrient is “essential” sable regardless of diet.
and painless success for such in the diet only if the body is unable to ‘I’he l’ilkington group concluded that
diets, no nationwide decrdase manufacture it. The fatty acid linoleic these temporary differences were due
in obesity has been reported. ’ acid in the body’s fat depots cannot be chiefly to changes in water balance and
It’s. impossible to stick to this mad6in the body but is derived entirely did not reflect true differences in fat loss.
-low-carbohydrake diet forever. from the diet. Similar studies tqv Olesen and Quaadc _ Indeed, the linoleic acid cant clnt of t hc ( 1960) and carlitv by M’erner T-1955)
At b&t, it’s a short-term - body’s fat stores tends to reflect that of showed that, apart from transient
solutioti to a long-term the diet. changes in water balance., the rate of
problem. ‘J’hP notion that sedentary persons, weight 10~;s in obese persons on the low- without malabsorption or overactive carbohydrate diet that-restricts calories
I t hjrroid, can lose weight on a diet was similar to that of a “balanced” diet containing 5.000 kcal /day, as recom - of equal ‘caloric yaluc.
.1 terms. If low-carbohydrate diets are mended -W b>* l>r. .Atkins. is in- ‘l’he fact remains, howc\~cr , t hat _ some 1 truly successful, then why do they fade credible.( \Z’it h the con\rersion to t hc persops ha1.e lost weight on the low- . ; away into obscurity within a relatively metric system. 1 Kcal= 1 calorie.) carbohydrate “unrcstrict od calories” ! short period only to be resurrected later r\;o reliat)le nutritional studies halve tvpe diet. ll’h>. is this so? Yudkin and
been reported to support thtl claim that . m slightly different guise and under new ( ‘arey ( 1960) ha\,tl rq,orted ox pt~rimt~n t s I
Some of the pgtential hazards of the ’ low.-carbohydrate diet should also be
mentioned. l’ehaps the grcatest danger is related to h?q,erlipidetiia (too much fat in the blood) which may be induced by such a regimen. 1Iyperlipidcmia is associated with arr increased risk of developing coronary heart disease. A diet low in carbohydrate will, by proport ion, be high in protein and fat. Stich high protein foods as cheese, meat and-eggs also ha\*e a high colestcrol and saturated fat content. (Saturated fats include hydrogenated vegetable oils such as shortening or solid margarine, coconut and coconut oil-biged coffee whiteners. ~1s well as the familiar animal fats.)
A diet rich in cholesterol and saturated fat is thought to be respon- sible for accelerating atherosclerosis (fat deposits in the blood vessels), -‘ par- t icularly in susccpt ible persons. 1 )c\*c~lopmt~nt of dangerously high levels of fat in t hc l)lood of‘ persons on an all- meat diet has been rcportcd 11s ‘l’olstoi (‘I 929).
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A diet high in protein and fat is ketogenic. ‘l’hat is. the l~lootl is loaded with thcl l)iochemical by-products of protein and fat mctaholism (ketones) which must then 1~ excreted by the \ kidncvs ’ . . .
It should also t)c pointed out diets devoid 01. or \.er?r low in, carhohyciratc tend to promote a temporay sodium loss frohl the hod?,. In- addit ion, a diet very high in protein content places aq extra solute load on the kidneys nciccssitating an increase in exc7-etion of urinary water. Thus, by se’vthral mechanisms a low- cSrt)ohydrate diet V-lay cause dehydration. l’ersons whose kidney tunction is al&d>? compromised may have difficult?, in handlfng the j extra burden imposed t)?r such a diet. !
Kctogenic iliets may also cause a significant increase in t.h,e blood’s uric acid concent ration. 1 n persons with a tendency to gout, this clitbt could exacerbale the unclr~rl>~ing discasc.
Despite the claims of universal - and painless success for such dtiets, na-nationwide decrease in obesity has been reported.
Hltibm and ‘Azar ( Iw~:~) rcportvd that all of the subjects whom they studied on “cart,oh~clrat~~-Frye diets” complained oi’ fatigue after two days on the diet. ‘l’hey also o1)sen.ed t ho br~vr4opmc~nt of postural h?*pot elision (low t)lood presfiure. Mrhthn sutjjccts assumed an tipright position after btling supine) .This may be related to lowered hlciod sodium .Mrhich could result from the
‘teppl;rav stw4iuni loss men t ionchd a bovc.
\2 ith, respect to ketosis, it is of par- ticular interest to consider thtl CX- perience of the (‘anadian Army durihg M orld Lj’ar 1 .I with pemmican (dried meat u.ith add4 suet) as an clmcrgcncy ration for infant r-J7 troops. In the (‘apadian stud). (-1945) t hc pemmic-an
derived 70 per cent of its calories from fat and 30 per cent fron; muscle protein: Thus, the ration was essentially free of c3rhohydrate. \
‘l-he performance of t hc troops using
, penirnican and tea as the sole com- ponent s of t heil ditht dt$crioratt~d so rapidly as to incapacitate ‘them in three days. LZ hen c*arboh>rdratc was added to t6e ration. the men rccupcratcd to a reasonably high level of performance- not to mention how much better they felt.
ti’hile on the carbohydrate-free diet, the men complained of nausea and several vomited. I’athalogic fatigue was tlvidcnt. On the morning of the fourth day bf the diet, physical examination disclosed a group of ‘listless, dehydrated man with draw.n faces and sunken eyes, whose breath smelled strongly of acdxme (a type of ketone). In ,other words, ihcy showed symptoms of starvation. Because of lack of ‘appetite and water loss the men had rapidly lost weight.
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‘I’hroughout 1)r. Atkins’ book. the statement is madtl that fat is readily converted to carbohydrate. This is hiochcmically incorrect. It was certainly not the case in the Canadian Army’s fxxperience with pemmican, s‘ince car- bohydrate had to be added to the diet. Available * biochemical evidence that stored triglycerides (a type of fat) cannot he used for appreciable net synthesis of carbohydrate.
In conclusion the assertion that carbohydrates (especially starches) arc the princial elements in foods that fatten is. at t)est, a half-truth. In fact. un derw.eight p~plc~ arc of ton‘ advised tc ga’in weight 1)). inr*reasing their intake o fat, the most c*onr’tlnt rat (Ad sourc’e o calories ii\~ailat)t~~. ( )t>tlsit>r is prc~\~alcnt ir hart h Amtlric-a. w htlrtb t hc proportion o tat in the ditlt is higher t ban in mosl
other countries. ()t)tlsit>r is r[alativc4y rare in large areas of thtl world (Asia ant Africa) w.htarcl starch from rice. wheat plant ain 01 cassa\‘a ro(Ct comprises E high proportion of the total daily food intake.
‘l’his is not to say the lbrtk Americans are fat due to a diet high ir fat. In I\l’orth America we over-indulge generally when it comes to food. OUI traditional wa?v of life tca~hcs us fron childhood that whtln we cat, wt’ must cal more than we realty* ntbcci to t)c hcalthl
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eyed Idealists. anarchic ne’er do wells. and teenage loose woqen : in spi>rts, george and deadna ; MI _
news, Susan johnson. frank goldspink and alex podnik, john keyes and kitty, mike robertson, bob , pufoll. John broeze. john morris and fred bunting; in entertainment. melvin i. rotman, Susan gable, .’ the kaufmen, jose yglesias (bite down,‘on that. Ramparts), mike rohatynsky, fit-ray noll. davld
’ cubberley and please pardon the reprints-an abominable habit which’will terminate the moment, all of you out there begln flooding US with your reviews; in graphics-oops--on board the graphics i department we had don “the don” ballanger, thomas galaxy and Chris; generous help’was p’rovided ;:,
- In other areas by such.lumlnaries as Charlotte. brian iler, rude, mrs. Bnd ?nr. Susan Scott. and-let’s try not to forget dudley for once.‘Wold for the day: kulturgefangener. .
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44 the chevron friday, September 7, 1973
If you’ve just arrived on campus from out of town, then you’ve just missed the COE- that’s the Central Ontario Exhibition- that’s Kitchener’s poor man’s CNE, captured in its essence on this page by the graphic magic of the chevron’s Don Ballanger, who lost his shirt at crown and anchor then won it back except
for some of the buttons. See the old lady on crutches hobbling her way through the perspiring crowd
in the ninety-degree heat; see the clamoring brats with candy-floss in their hair and their harried, bedraggled parents; see the bored, indolent Hosteins, the international displays on souvenir row, the arts and crafts, the colour TV’s, the brimming coffers of the hawk-eyed concessionaires
Now, observe this man at one of the crown and anchor stands-he’s got the classiest wheel at the whole exhibition: gleaming paint and chrome, the Rolls- Royce of its kind, with its revolving, multi-faceted mirror reflecting the anxious faces of the Just a moment-where are the customers? It seems this guy looks so crooked, and so determinedly uncongenial, that no one’s stepping up to play his game. Even Don only stuck with him for one round, then got pissed off SO
we went to take the rides. Nothing exceptional there either. The screams, the high-pitched laughter,
the lurching, vomitogenic sensation as vertigo thrusts its finger down your throat and tickles.
