volume 10: number 16 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, Waterloo, Ontario tuesday 16 septem ber 1969

S~W(Y this HIUS~ be a guided tour o,f’ the campus. It couldn “t possibly be the lineup for registration, could it 3 -Dave X, the Chevron

Register by mail: a solution for lineups? by Jim Klinck Chevron staff

With timewasting lineups once again in evidence, registration 1969 was less than a pleasant experi- ence.

One possible, but as yet untried solution to the frustrating delay is partial registration by mail.

Registrar Trevor Boyes has con- sidered the plan, and had thought of using it for this year. He feels

however that the fee payment complications due to student a- wards presently makes this sys- tem too impractical.

Students receiving a grant must show their social security card to pick up the certificate of eligibility necessary to arrange the bank loan portion, so certificates couldn’t be mailed to students.

Although Boyes admits there are ways around this hangup (such as promissory notes), he feels the re-

sulting method would be even more awkward than the present one.

Approximately 45 percent of reg- istering students receive student a w,ards.

The only other aspect of registra- tion that couldn’t be done by mail, is the taking of ID photos.

At present course scheduling and preregistration is accomplished through the mails, with approxi- mately 85 percent of the resulting timetables free from conflicts.

- Petty problems greet fresh Orientation provided several surprises for this

year’s frosh. Two-hour lineups greeted the eager ones who ar-

rived to register Wednesday morning. Those without complete schedules had to tangle

with the computer because the scheduling program still had bugs in it.

Unhoused frosh quickly discovered the housing list contained a high proportion of no vacancies, as the Bell machines cheerfully chimed down their dimes.

The frosh found one ally in the orientation commit- tee: the committee members at centroid (in the campus center) issued them with water guns to fight

- off overauthoritarian mothers. The engineering frosh found little problem getting

scheduled, but their seniors made up for it-the frosh were bussed five miles out of town friday for a field day, but no transportation was provided for the re- turn trip.

The friday evening dance in the campus center, run by Larry Burko, featured a country and western square-dance band, much to the amusement of the frosh.

As this total only covers half the student population, registra-’ tion is being continued for the re- mainder of this week. (Original

Sunday afternoon in a Village orientation meeting, history prof Leo Johnson introduced a radical analy- sis of the university-and what was billed as a quiet discussion group ran for four hours of debate, mainly among frosh.

Law 59’ order returns \ to parrking enforcement

Johnson had stood up to give a keynote address, and said “welcome to the human capital industry.”

He went on to explain that there were two points of view in the university-most of the faculty and the administration want to continue to train human capi- tal while the radicals want to destroy that process.

Enforcement of parking regula- tions will be back to normal this week after a registration week of grace.

Security director Al Romenco said it was pointless to try to ticket offending cars or tow them away during the main registration per- iod.

“There are two sides, and the question is...which New students unfamiliar with side are you on, boys?” asked Johnson. the regulations, parents waiting

Boyes also feels the total mail- ing time for preregistration forms, course schedules, and student payment of fees would make the process too drawn out to be prac- tical at present. “If we worked on it, registration by mail could be- come possible” Boyes concluded.

Under the present system, Boyes feels most registration should be complete by today. About 2200 students were processed Wednesday, with half that num- ber going through the lines on thursday and friday.

plans called for its conclusion fri- day. >

Several other registration chan- ges have been implemented. Stu- dents may now register without a complete schedule, if they have altered their original course re- quests at least once.

The number of students frustrat- ed by last year’s ruling, which kept students from registering until they obtained a complete un- conflicting timetable, prompted the change.

Now, if your course request is too complicated for the computer to handle, you may still register and have up until October 3 to re- solve timetable changes.

for students to register, kampus kops busy giving directions and lack of parking space near the phys-ed building were some of the reasons Romenco gave for the moratorium on tickets.

“Enforcement will be back to normal and students are reminded to get parking decals and particu- larly asked to refrain from parking on the ringroad, ” said Romenco.

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Chessmen, playing cards, and checkers are all available in the campus center office from the turnkey in exchange for an ID card or driver’s licence deposit. As well, the pool table may be reserved and cues obtained in a similar manner. ,

Rooms in the campus center may be reserved for, club meetings

or to hold fund-raising events such as pub nights.

The FASS music room has a piano available for practice at all hours of the day, or for those of nebulous musical talent , chairs are available -in the great hall to sit and listen to the ready- made sounds of Radio Waterloo.

The campus center also houses the ‘Federation of Students, the Chevron, and a cefeteria-coffee- shop.

Operation of the building is in the hands of a joint faculty, staff, and student representative board, with a student majority.

Cheerleaders searching for recruits If you enjoy going to warrior muscles would be nice, but even

sports jumping up and down 97 pound weaklings can try out. screaming yelling and all that, Both boys and girls are needed. but find admission and booze Practises are being held from expenses become too prohibitive, 5: 30 to 6: 30 tonight .and wednes- here’s a way to beat it. Become day. Final judging and selection a genuine certified Waterloo takes place thursday. warrior cheerleader, and get Anyone interested should meet into games (and shape) free. at the red north door of the jock

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CAUT censure lifted from UN6 FREDERICTQN, N.B. (CUP)-

The Canadian Association of Uni- versity Teachers has lifted its cen- sure of the president and board of governors of the University of New Brunswick.

The CAUT censure was original- ly applied in protest against the handling of the Norman Strax af- fair by the university last year. Strax, a physics professor, was suspended for taking part in poli- tical activity on the campus. -

The lifting of the censure, CAUT

claims, has resulted from an agreement to place the dispute between Strax and the university into academic arbitration, and by an agreement from the university to ask the provincial courts to lift a permanent injunction obtained to prevent the professor from en- tering the campus.

But at the same time, the univeri sity has refused to renew Strax’s contract as a professor, effective- ly firing him.

Charity weak planned for October 4 Charity lovers and other well-

meaning individuals are invited walk is run by the K-W Overseas Aid Inc. which directs the funds

to walk 30 miles for millions sat- urday 4 October.

collected to overseas develop- ment projects.

Inflation has struck charity too, for the walk is two miles longer than last year’s 28 miles. The seven percent increase in miles should match the fact that money is worth almost that much less than a year ago.

The local miles for millions

Registration forms for the march are available from the miles for millions office, 144 King street east, Kitchener (578-6610). / Further information is also available from Mrs. Wil- liam Lobban, 744-2551.

Nixon predict& cool campuses University administrators and the Nixon government are predicting quiet for American campuses dur- ing the coming year-but they didn’t ask the students how they felt.

Reports emanating from Wash- ington, based on the views of ap- proximately 100 college presidents and university chancellors who have visited the US capitol during the summer, also state there has been a “considerable reaction a- gainst campus protestors by mod- erate students whose education

-had been disrupted. ”

But the students.. . . ’

A Louis Harris poll taken of more than 1,000 graduating stud- ents from 50 campuses seems to show that student militancy may be on the rise, rather -than on the decline. _- . _*4.- --

Of those questioned, 40 percent had participated in demonstra- tions, while 72 percent would now be willing to participate; 11 per- cent had engaged in civil disobed- ience and 35 percent would be will- ing to do so this fall.

lntfamuiial activities stafting The first competitive intramural

activity of the season starts tomor- row at the Foxwood golf course., The golf action. will continue on thursday and friday.

Last year there were 140 partici- pants, and winner John Morgen- roth, then a math frosh, is now a member of the varsity golf team. Team members are i’neligibleX to play in this tournament.

The first meeting of intramural

reps is tonight in th,e phys-ed buiid- ing. Men’s intramurals director Peter Hopkins said friday that he was still looking for reps for up- per and frosh arts, the four Village units and the Coop.,

“W,e’re also looking for officials for all sports. Anyone interested should leave their name and the activity they wish to officiate in the phys-ed office,” said Hopkins.

A subscriptiori fee included in their annual student fees entitles IJ of W students to receive the Chevron by maif during off-campus terms. Hokstudents: $8 annually, $3 a term.

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‘People meeting people. ’ Thats the philosophy of Orien-

tation-69 and the place to do it is centroid. .’ Running through the two weeks

of orientation, centroid. (formerly the campus center) offers a wide range of activities to get people together.

Nightly folk androck jams take place in the pub, while films run

“The education committee has, endeavoured to stop the alienation and loneliness of freshmen when they enter university. Coming from an environment that has been your home for 19 years into a new and totally different one can be a very frightening exper- ience. , * 9

“What is not needed is the con- stant hazihe of q neanle alreadv

ed centroid-a place to get people

achieved its purpose. During the three days of registration, centroid offered the freshmen a senior stu- dent to rap with and generally .hassle out any problems they are having at Uniwat.

“The human anticalendar and continuously from 3 pm in cen- troid 211.

solidly impl&ted in t’hat new en-

Course counselling for students vironment. That’s what initiation is.

by students, the people’s libera- “Out .of this realization grew tion lunch counter, couselling services and an information booth

the concept of orientation,’ not initiation,”

all run as a service for frosh from said Rick Page, cen-

troid director. the education committee.

Pamphlets and booklet are “The initiation process can be

available for frosh and supper handled sporadically with very

classmen on the ‘various services little organization, while orienta- tion must be centralized and or-

offered by Orientation 69, as well as on sex and drugs.

ganized to a very high degree., , Becaus e of this necessity we need-’ I

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BURNAB-Y,B:C. _ (CUP)-The ’ political science, sociology and an- thropology (PSA) department of Simon Fraser University has had its ranks decimated by the admin- istration in what deposed depart- ment chairman Mordecai Bam- berg h’as called a purge.

The PSA department had been one of the,most democratic in the country until the administration placed it under trusteeship this summer claiming the department

on tenure, and they handed-down their judgements on the basis ,of political decisions rather than academic qualifications. _

“The question is not whether people agree -or disagree with the views of particular PSA faculty. The question is whether this uni- versity &ill tolerate dissent, or whether it will violate all stand-, ards of academic freedom and es: tablish a monolithic conformity. .

“Why does this administration -was incapable of handling its af- fairs.

3 Until - that time, decisions- > including .election of the depart- - ment head-had been made jointly

by equal groups of student. and faculty representatives. - 1

In a series of decisions the ad- - ministration has denied tenure

and! further renewal of contract to four professors and granted only one-year conditional renewals of contract to three others, including Bamberg.

refuse to tolerate even one demo- cratically-organized and academi- cally-competent asked Bamberg.

department?”

After PSA was placed under trusteeship, the administration said tenure decisions reached within the department would not be ratified* until the department chang,ed its internal procedures- implying. an end. to the student parity in decision-making then operating.

. Speaking of two of the dismissed faculty, Bamberg said, “Anyone who has the least familiarity with

I the discipline of anthropology is ’ aware that professor Kathleen Aberle is internationally respect- ed for her scholarship. People , familiar with the discipline of so-

Xciology are aware that professor , John Leggett, who has just receiv-

ed a $7000 research grant from the Canada Council, easily satisfies

“Student parity would never have resulted in the gross injustice and academically indefensible recommendations made by the ad- ministration ‘s tenure commit-

- tees,” Bamberg said. “The action of these committees is an argu- ment for student parity, not a- gainst it. ”

_ the criteria for competence in his -. profession. _ / “Yet both these faculty mem-

bers, along with others in -the lde- partment, have been fired.

“The university committees which made the decisions,” he

<.lTsaid, “are less competent than PSA students to make judgements

Fifteen faculty members have signed a circular demanding an end to the trusteeship, reinstate- ment of Bamberg as chairman, ac- ceptance of ‘recommendations made by the PSA elections and tenure committee (composed of equal numbers of faculty and stud- ents) and a fundamental recogni- tion at SFU that experimental practices in organization and edu- cation procedures be encouraged and not repressed. .

‘Yet anoth.er fresh unwittingly signs his life over to an orienta‘tion-type mother; - /

16 per&f of saskutoon students - cutft afford uniifeiqity fees’-

SASKATOON (CUP)-This will tional funds can come- from par- -be a bleak year for many Saskatoon

The Thatcher government has

students, according to the results ents, but 40 percent of those reply- been on a cost-cutting campaign

of a student council survey taken ing to the questionnaire said they which has hit the universities par-

at the end OI the summer. were independent of their parents. titularly hard, however, and extra

The survey shows that 16.5 per- -Many students who hoped to pay

cent of the.2414 students who re- their tuition fees in wheat will al-

monies from this source seem un- likely.

couselling services have_ helped many students work around the _ red tape land hang-ups that, surround registration.

“The liberation lunch ’ counter continues to offer its outstanding

_ lunches at 50 cents. “If the rest‘of Orientation 69

continues as it has during last week, centroid and. the orientation . coinmittee will have proven or-

ientation is in and initation is out. “-

Further events offered by cen- troid are Eric Mann, secretary of SDS; further -films including / Wave Length, Wild Strawberries and Citizen Kane; jams every night in the pub and .free dances throughout the week.

plied to a questionnaire cannot af- so be disappointed. The council is also attemting to

More than 1200 applied to,pay raise money for a student schol- ford to continue their studies this their fees here this way as prairie arshiP fund. - * year. -On- the 9000-member cam- farmers are faced with a glut of f ‘Student means are simply not, pus, this could mean 1400 students wheat they cannot sell. The univer- keeping Pace with increased dropping put because of lack. of funds. r

sity has indicated it will accept costs, ” Garden said.

The average student expects to only 300 payments in grain, the “If students are unable to .get

save $508.43~of his summer earn- amount they need for research jobs in the summer, and if more

ings, and students who applied for projects. student aid is not made available,

loans will> get an average of $732. Student council president Rob then the concept of universal ac-

Yet students spent an average of Garden said the council will pro- cessibility to pqst-secondary edu’-

$1640 in the academic year 1968-69. pose a number of solutions to the cation will become increasingly

Fees at the Saskatoon c,ampus problem and,“is doing all it Can t0 ITl~Zlhlgk?SS...The SOCkty aS .a insure that no’ student is refused an whole suffers because of the fact

were increased 5 percent this year, education because he lacks funds.” a “significant,” amount to 70 per- The council will urge ‘private

that (those who must drop out) are

cent of the sample. not working to their full poten- tial. ”

This means that even an employ- employers to hire students as temp-

ed student receiving a loan cannot orary or part-time help during the Fifty percent. of the students on year, and ,request the provincial

m-ake enough to put himself government to provide additional the survey said they would be will-

through a year’s university. Addi- ing to demonstrate in favour of

loans and bursaries, Garden said. lower fees, or -more aid o - -

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PORT ARTHUR (CUP)--Stu- lication is Don Kopsick, former dents across Canada may be read- editor of the Carillon, student ing a new national magazine by newspaper at the Regina campus mid-October. of the University of Saskatchewan,

To be distributed by participat- and a former CUS field-worker.

ing student newspapers with their “We hope to be able to bring to regular issues, the magazine will national attention some of the carry articles considered to be of crucial problems existing in our national interest, rather than ex- country that are usually ignored elusively student concerns. by the regular press.” Kossick

Almost half of the funds nee \ ed to produce the publication were

allocated for it at the 33rd con- gress of the Canadian Union of Students. The rest of the financ- ing will come from sales to sub- scribers, mostly student news- papers.

said.

aegular news media either ingore the reasons behind the headlines or cover them in a very insufficient way. We hope to make analysis part of every story. *’

The magazine is an independent project being run with coopera- tion between CUS and Canadian University Press, the national student newspaper co-op.

Eleven student papers present at the congress said they would be interested in subscribing to the magazine. but more commit- ments will be needed before pub- lication can begin. The possible demise of CUS could also bring an early end to the venture if the CUS Content will be decided by a financing runS dry

six-man editorial board composed . . of two members from each of the Present plans call for the first national organizations and two issue to appear in early October independent members. with an issue every week there-

The proposed editor of the pub- after.

Poor pay m,ore, win less 1 says supermarket report

WASHINGTON (CINS) - A headed by Benjamin S. Rosenthal federal trade commission report (D, N.Y.). accused supermarkets of driving up the grocery bills of the poor, “The conclusions of this report then handing out game prize represent a most serious charge money to their more affluent sub- political sensitivities,” Rosenthal urban neighbors. said at the news conference. “It

The report charged that poor is indefensible that the poor, whose

downtown residents wind up pay- needs are greatest and whose

ing as much as 10 percent more rneans are the least, should pay

for groceries than suburbanites more for food, their most basic consumer need. ”

Pay* And the report cited the distri- The FTC report said the super-

bution by Safeway Stores Inc. in markets raise grocery bills in city

1966 of 48 $1000 top prizes in the areas by competing less aggres-

Washington area. Only two top sively than in suburban areas and

prizes went to stores in the Dis- thus providing smaller supplies of

trict of Columbia. the report said. weekly specials

“This exceeds the probabilities of chance many thousand-fold, ” said Williard F. Mueller, director of the FTC bureau of economics, at a news conference when the re- port was released.

The report, based on surveys in Washington and San Francisco, closely paralleled the results of 5 investigations last year by the house consumer subcommittee

“Federal Trade Commission price surveys of Washington area chains found that 23 percent of advertised special items were not available in low-income area stores as compared to only 11 percent not available in higher income area stores,” the report said.

“In San Francisco the percent- ages were 7 and 5 percent, re- spectively. “’

Draft docfges itself with court backlog

WASHINGTON (GINS)--Those From july to december 1967 who oppose the draft are discover- there were only 746 federal indict- ing that one of the most effective ments for resisting the draft. tactics is to give the courts so many cases they can’t handle In the next six-month period, them. the number went up to 1080. In

By 1 july 1969, some 2598 crim- the last half of 1968, 1492 resisters

inal cases were pending in all fed- had their cases destined to go to court.

era1 courts involving various vio- lations of the draft laws, mostly men refusing induction. That amounts to 15 percent of all crim- inal cases on the federal dockets.

The justice department calcu- lates the backlog in the courts runs at lea& one year on draft cases even though by law they have the top priority of all crim- inal matters.

Attempts to get the reluctant inductees to repent before trial have increased, but the backlog continues to grow.

The problem for the justice de- partment can only worsen. More than 5600 draft delinquencies are under investigation and thousands more a wait discovery.

In the Oakland induction center, a permanent FBI man does noth- ing but deal with an average of ten draft refusals a day.

“He pops up, raps down our rights in a mumbled routine, fills out a few of his forms and starts the ball rolling to court,” said one resister.

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RSM p/cm to introduce critical university project by Thomas Edwards Chevron staff

The radical student movement is alive, well and hiding in the classrooms of Uniwat.

The local g:oup of cynical sab- oteurs has been meeting secret- ly in the open through the summer to work on a new approach for their activities.

Many members complained last year that the group was noth- ing more than a radical frat which existed solely as another extra-curricular activity.

“A number of radicals were alienated because they failed to act from and around the activity of students in their daily class- room work, ” said RSM member Cyril Levitt, sociology 4. “In this sense the displeased radicals argued the RSM was nothing but another liberal structure which was an appendage to, but not rooted in, people’s experiences. ”

In an effort to eliminate these problems, the RSM people who remained at Waterloo this sum- mer planned a conference on the “critical university” concept they had been discussing. The 4PO students who signed the RSM

t mailing list in the spring were in- vited to the august meeting.

About 50 students participated in discussions, and plans were made to introduce the critical university project into several arts <Iourses. Similar projects in science, math and engineering are still in the planning stages.

The structure is based on the philosophy that in order for the RSM to be a meaningful working group ‘it must build from people’s work. Hence, study groups or caucuses will form within var- ious classes.

The members of the caucus will meet to discuss the class in terms of its form and content. They will attempt to eliminate the authoritarian structure of the class and confront its ideolog- ical basis-the ideology of plural- ism.

What is the RSM and what does it db? The radical student movement is a loose federation of non-main- E-ADING CENTRE

elonged to political groups to work on the election cam- A new rapid reading course - special student fee rates and student payment plan.

vote in a general meeting. That meeting and the subsequent election campaign was based in a conflict between activist and moderate views

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of the political role of students. The RSM lost the presidency, but the new student council was fair-

ly evenly divided bet ween radicals and moderates. The radical student movement continued after the election as both

an advisory group to their council members and an extra-partliamen- tar y group with its own program.

Their best-known project was the library study-in. The student coun- cil supported the confrontation, and this was a major factor in the decis- ion of moderate federation president John Bergsma to resign.

The winner of the subsequent election was Tom Patterson, a lead- ing RSM spokesman.

“We believe the social sciences are lying to us about the world,” said Levitt. “They preach to us that history has ended, that ideol- ogy is dead. Then they tell us that all we have left to solve is problems in social engineering. Well, we’re not going to take that bullshit any, longer. This university is a corporate institu- tion which is as capitalistic as the New York stock exchange. We just want them to admit it; then the students will know where it’s at.”

The project is not planned to end in the classroom. The class caucuses will join to form a de- partment caucus, which will deal with the form and content of the class itself. Further, -the depart- ment caucus will offer support to the individual classroom groups.

“Unlike the various course unions and societies which exist as professional organizations at the pleasure of the faculty, main- ly for the purposes of tension man- agement, the department cau- cus will not be a petty, legalis.- itic, formal body, but will evolve from the daily activity of the students. ”

The various department cau- cuses will form faculty caucuses which will become the basic or- ganizational units of the radical

student movement. The RSM will concern itself with the entire uni- versity as well as activities ex- ternal to the university.

The critical university project is seen by observers as an attempt to put to work the philosophy of the RSM’s hiring and firing brief (printed in the Chevron, 7 march 1969 ) .

“At the same time, it is the RSM’s response to the integrated studies program which the RSM sees as a tension reliever and cop-out from the problems facing students in the regular programs.” -- ^ _ Most of the members of the critical university working group consider themselves marxists. They feel that Marx and his followers have been deliberately ignored in North American uni- versities for ideological reasons which are paraded around as “objective truth” and “scholarly research” by the faculty.

“The growth of the new left, ” said Levitt, “has forced the fac- ulty to relieve some of the ten- sion by introducing a few courses on Marx and marxism. The RSM critical university group has not been misled by the piecemeal placation and they are ready to take on the sophists, spologists and spoonfeeders of bourgeios ideology. ”

“T/w people who run this unil*ersity understand the curriculum r@quires you to teach marx- ism. We just feel you ‘re not making it boring enough. ” ProTern (Glendon college) cartoon

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Must stress, teaching says newsletter editor

This is the text of an editorial in the Faculty Associa- tion Newsletter, july-august 1969 issue. The editor is english prof Roman Dubinski.

Judging from the growing volume of criticism directed at the quality of university instruction, an unbiased observer might conclude that there was more than a grain of truth in Bernard Shaw’s wry aphorism that “he who can, does, he who cannot, teaches”.

Now, some of the criticism may be unjustified, but even if we take the most sceptical attitude toward it, university teachers would in general admit that the quality of instruction could be better. However, having acknowledged the problem and having paid lip service to the need for improvement, most are content to leave it at that, with the result that inade- quate teaching continues and the volume of criticism grows louder.

Though not an axiom, academics would agree that the central activity of a university is teaching, though not its sole activity. Yet, several writers have attributed the growing unrest and discontent in uni- versities to an abdication of teaching duties on the part of faculty. These writers point out that more and more undergraduate instruction falls by default to overworked, underpaid, and inexperienced teaching assistants.

Students quickly discover that many professors treat teaching as a deterrent to their research ac- tivities and take little or no interest in undergradu- ates. University administrations contribute to the problem by putting a great premium on a profes- sor’s published research, and promotions and recog- nition generally go the prolific researcher, rarely to an outstanding teacher.

Any discussion about the quality of instruction in- evitably raises the spectres of systematic evalua- tion and inspection, teacher-training, and all the other bogey-men associated with pedagogy.

As Jacques Barzun noted recently in his book, The American university, college or univesrsity teaching is the only profession (except the proverbially oldest in the world) for which no training is given or requir- ed. The basic assumption seems to be, he notes, that anyone who possesses certified knowledge and is not true in all cases, yet many university teachers either strongly resist any attempt made to improve the techniques of teaching or discredit the whole venture as futile.

In this editorial we are not suggesting that there is a simple or easy solution to this problem. We real- ize that compulsory inspection or teacher-training might prove a worse remedy than the disease and

therefore feel that such a measure would be im- practical.

We would urge, however, that every faculty mem- ber take a serious look at his own teaching and ask himself if he is perfectly satisfied with his perform- ance. What is needed more than anything is a change of heart about the importance of one’s teaching acti- vity. As Jencks and Riesman (The academic revolu- tion) have argued, the faculty itself has to think teaching improvement is an important enterprise be- fore any significant improvement will take place.

In its far-ranging proposals for reforms in the fac- ulty of arts and sciences at the University of Toron- to, the Macpherson report has made several import- ant recommendations for improving the quality of teaching that are worth heeding.

While rejecting any form of systematic inspection, the report recommends that departments make avail- able to novice teachers more help on how to go about undergraduate teaching, that individual professors undertake self-improvement through viewing their own performances on videotape, and that depart- ments make use of inspection for beginning mem- bers of the profession.

The report also recommends that the faculty adopt a clear and known policy that promotion and appointment will take expenditure of energy and im- agination on undergraduate teaching into account more fully than it is now believed or known to do.

Finally, the report recommends that departments and individual faculty members should co-operate with students in making fair and reliable appraisals that would be used to improve the quality of instruc- tion.

Closer to home, professor J.S. Minas, the acting adademic vicepresident, in his former capacity as arts dean, issued this statement to his faculty in his report of 8 October 1968:

The individual faculty member is expected to be an effective teacher, and his responsibilities to his classes and his students must be accepted and scrupulously discharged. The university is more than an institution of advanced research; it is a teaching institution and its role in this respect is an independent and primary one and not a role it plays merely as a means to enable it to engage in research. Each of us must have a deep and creative commitment to the teaching role we accept by remaining in the academic life of the university.

We heartily endorse this statement and strongly en- courage each individual faculty member to pay more than lip service to it. As members of the teaching pro- fession, we have a responsibility to our students to teach as effectively as we can. If we are unprepared to make this effort, then we ought to heed Percy Smith-s recent advice: ‘7each - or get lost’:

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by Lloyd Caitaiosai- an Indian working for the Kenora alcohol and drug foundation

The cross1 of reditv

he Indian affairs departmen t-is it fanned by incompetents or just well- Itentioned and maligned white bureau-

crats?

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I PROPOSE THAT RACIAL integration in Canada is impossible. This proposition is sad. It smashes the liberal dream. It eliminates the democratic, optimistic

claim that we are finding our way to a harmonious blending of the races. It dynamites the foundations of the Indian and Eskimo Association and similar or- ganizations. It asserts that the Indian reserve and Whitetown Canada. for all practical purposes and with unimportant exceptions, will remain separate social communities.

I am saying racial integration is impossible without qualification. I just can’t see it happening from the Canadian society. In effect, I’m not kidding myself about realities.

All Canadian cities, towns and townships, today, no matter what their ethnic proportions, are ruled by whites for whites. I don’t see the odd Indian Reeve or MP as being anything more than tokens. No harm is done by an Indian who has little influence and no pow- er; he will always be pointed to as an illustration of civic broadmindedness.

Oh, sure, people talk about the concessions won by Indians at city hall or in the department of education, but in reality these concessions are just that-the grudging small price that whites are willing to pay for peace and quiet on the reserves and from Indian or- ganizations. No one can seriously maintain that the Indian has ever gotten or is currently getting a fair shake from Whitetown.

The proposition would seem to place me in the camp of the bigots and locate me with the hopeless, also prob- ably the racists. It puts at ultimate zero the efforts of the tough and high-minded who are giving their lives to the dream of equality among men.

Yet, I am convinced that integration in Canada is a sentimental not a doctrinal idea. We came to the idea late in Canadian history and it disappears readily from the rhetoric of politics-though not from the list of sacred democratic aims-at the first sign of indoci- lity. The vast fuss of improvements in Indian com-

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munities is not aimed at integration. Few are afflict- ing us any longer with such a tiresome lie. All these

measures are primarily aimed at the prevention of civic commotions, secondarily at assuaging the cons- cience of Whitetown and finally helping the Indians. Priorities tell the story.

The country of Canada is a white man’s country con- ducted according to white customs, and white laws for white purposes. I would not even argue that whites should not run the country for their own interests, but they can’t see that racial integration is one of these in- terests, except in perilous self-deceit. Whites like Ind- ians SO long as they themselves are not disturbed by Indians. Whites have no objection to bettering the Indians’ lives so long as it does not cost much, and as long as it leads to the continuance of Indian reserves and so does not present the threat of genuine integration at any level. The white condition for Indian betterment is, to put it simply, separation.

Why is it so hard for whites to say clearly that you do not want Indians or Blacks living among you and sharing your world. 7 There must be dozens of reasons playing on one another. One, I suppose, is that you are ashamed to admit you do not subscribe, after all to a glorious myth. Another is the Christian message that binds you to brotherhood. But as something in your understanding of Christianity made possible the accep- tance of slavery, it continues to make possible the shunning of Indians as less worthy than yourselves. Often enough this is accompanied by an aching con- science.

Another reason, I suppose, is that after 476 years Indians are still strangers to whites. It is a rare white man who is really acquainted with an Indian. Almost as though arranged by whites.

A commanding reason, I would guess, is to be found in the mystique of progress, in the belief that by na- ture evervthing must somehow improve all the time. Thus, the’present degradation of Indians can be waved aside by referring to better things to come, as come they must to the deserving, perhaps in another cen- tury or two or three.

&ientific evidence of Indian and white likeness, in all qualities except skin colour does not alter white attitudes, even among the educated. A certain fragile

chumminess has developed between the open-hearted, i friendly and well-educated on both sides. But this in- t , c volves a few thousands, not several tens of thousands, and is far from equality and fraternity, and is no evid- ence of any important social chance. \

These encounters do not mark a road to integration but only the nervous response of a few well-intended s persons.

In giving up on integration I am not giving up on the Indians but on the whites. Whites attitudes are the problems. Sadly enough, there is only one place where we have registered even a mild success: we have more or less integrated poverty. The liberal view is that I

patience and persistence will in the end perform the \ miracle. The enemy is ignorant. Whitetown’s resis- tance, accordingly, is stubborn but penetrable by knowledge and association.

Let me put forward more general testimony in support of my proposition. The race situation is marked by growing expression of distrust, hate, and fear on the part of both Indians and whites; growing disillusion- ment throughout all the reserves; increasing belliger- ency of young Indians and their leaders; increasing impatience of our Dad-Whitey; growing isolation of the Indian middleclass who have made it; growing useless- ness of treaties between Indians and whites as Indian demands become more basic and white resistance more determined.

The outside agitation is Whitetown itself. It is ‘im- portant to recognize that separation-non-integration is the way it has always been. The fostering of the illus- ion that integration is an achievable goal is bad enough in its effects on Indians, some of whom may still enter- tain a vision of their children foregathering in total equality under the white yum-yum tree. But the illus- ion is sinister in its likely consequence for whites. By

. engaging in it they are leaving themselves unprepared for the grand final.

What is necessary is the development of a Canadian democratic system which, in itself, allows men to be equal and live in peaceful co-existence, but maintains the existence of two or three viable separate societies.

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I N A HANDBOOK CALLED Chaos- ing a Path, distributed to Indian communities across Canada a year ago, the federal Indian

Affairs branch offered some general proposals for a new set of laws for the Indian people, and invited their com- ments. The objective, set out in that hand- book, was that “the Indian people shall have full equality of opportunity in society. in education, in employment and in health.”

Yet that handbook, so noble and be- guiling in its goals, has unleashed a blast, so powerful and so impelling that it seems almost to have shaken the nation at large out of its long slumber.

It has aroused the real Indian spokes- men, and they in turn turn have come forward after centuries of sullen, hopeless silence to unload their pent-up anger on the Indian Affairs branch. Today, people have dicided that., if the Indian people are to work out their destiny and have the genuine equality of opportunity that they have been promised, the Indian Affairs branch and all that it stands for will have to be laid to rest.

I think the options are still open- but to view the scene is to move around in a theatre with a thrust stage. Change your seat, and the tableau on stage regroups. Change your seat again, and new elements come into the foreground while others recede. And from whatever seat, there is the problem of sorting out illusion from reality.

After all, the first reality is that we, the Canadian people, down through the cen- turies ignored and forgot the Indians, and not just the Indians, but all our unseen poor. It comes as a shock, to discover Lord Elgin, as Governor General of Upper Canada, saying back in 1854:

“If the civilizing process to which the Indians have been subject for so many years had been accompanied by success, they have surely by this time arrived at a suffic- iently enlightened condition to be eman- cipated from the state of pupilage in which they have been maintained; if on the other hand the process has been inad& quate to achieve the desired end, it has been long enough in unsuccessful oper- ation to warrant the adoption of some other method of procuring this result.”

Who, in Canada, took this pronoun- cement to heart? The Indian couldn’t, even express his indignation in a vote - until 1960. It wasn’t worth a politician’s while to care. Fend for itself

Thus, in 1947, the Indian Affairs de- partment was still left to its own devices, with $5 million to spend on an impo- verished, defeated-race, just then begin- ning to reverse its long population decline. Right after the war the Indian population stood at about 120,000. It is 238,000 today, and by now spending by the Indian Affairs branch has soared to $136 million.

But even in former Prime Minister Les- ter Pearson’s time, the department was still coming cap in hand for its pittance. One-insider tells of the time John Nichol- son, as minister of citizenship and immi- gration, brought forward a timid request for something less than $1 million from his Indian Affairs branch to launch a hous- ing program on Indian reserves. It was turned down. But that wasn’t the end of the matter. The smell of battle was by

then in the air: Canada’s war on poverty. And there were people around who took time to look into the matter. More inform- ation was gathered, and a new housing program, costing some $5 million, was quickly drawn up and submitted to cab- inet. It got easy approval.

Today, the department is on. the defen- sive, for all the things it didn’t do, and for the things it did wrong.

There is a general belief, held even by the most dispassio+e outsiders, and even some within the department of Indian affairs and northern development, that the much-criticized reorganization of last September was rushed into effect to make the fortress impregnable. In the reorganization, the services of the two branches were stacked, reinforcing each service-and, apparently, dispensing with nobody. The approach to the North “in which the emphasis is on the economics of development is very different from the people-oriented approach to ’ which In- dian affairs should be giving priority attention.

There are many sordid sides to that re- organizgtion: the fact that it threatened the fragile links that were being establish- ed with the Indian people at that very moment; the fact that it was deliberately concealed from Minister Without Port- folio Robert Andras, then engaged in the delicate mission of consultations with the Indians, and trying to win their confi- dence; and, the fact that it revealed the insensitivy of the senior officials in the department to the feelings and position of the people they are in business to serve.

The change involved a major transfor- mation of the department, and coming when it did, there was every reason forlc department officials to give some atten- tion to the kind of response likely to be. forthcoming, and to ta!e the time, there- fore, at least to brief the Indians in ad- vance.

When Arthur Laing took over as minis- ter of the newly assembled department of Indian affairs and Northern develop- merit in december, 1965; he brought; a new rough-hewn flavour to Indian affairs. He believed in spending, on all the right things: education, public works, resource development , even family counselling. He believed every man could pull himself up by his own bootstraps. He socked it to them. If they were worth their salt, they were supposed to sock it back. He didn’t understand: The Indians didn’t want his handouts. They didn’t want to be told how to run their affairs. They remained hos- tile.

John MacDonald, his deputy minister, was cut from much the same cloth. He’s a development man, and still today he wants to talk figures. The number of kids being educated. The number of miles of roads, of water mains. “Have you looked at the statistics ?” he ask& For the future, he’s counting on more of the same.

“I’ve shown (Indian Affairs Minister) Jean Chretien our program. I’ve shown it to Mr. Andras. And I’ve said, “What more can you add? “And they haven’t come up with anything.” He talks about pulling back his people, into regional ad- visory offices, so that they’re there only when Indians want them.

He doesn’t say what is going to happen to the 3,300 people now on his staff.

. Fear of tokenism

and the general conclusion, particularly since they aren’t being used to help shape

.the policy of the department, is that this- is mere tokenism. The Indians are highly suspicious of this gesture.

Mr. MacDonald gets around, even- tually, to talking about listening to the Indian people..But as if to reassure him- self, he quickly points out a problem: the Indian people aren’t agreed on what they want.

Of course they aren’t. He was referring, in particular, to the Indian leaders who turned up in Ottawa in early december for the first gathering of the National Indian Brotherhood. Many had never met before, or had a chance to share ideas. There were things dividing them: there was .a generation gap - between the angry young men and the cautious older reformers; there were regional differences over prob- lems and priorities. The group parted,

planning to sort out their views and meet again in six months’ time. . Many who watched them in action were

impressed by their ability to articulate’ the Indians’ demands. Mr. MacDonald, too quickly, was anxious to talk about the hole, not the doughnut,.

The department is feeling the wind of change, and perhaps sincerely they call it progress. One highly capable Ottawa official, who has observed the changes from his senior post outside the depart- ment, feels the department is on the right track even if in many ways efficiency of administration seems to be taking prece- dence over humanity.

Yet he adds another wise suggestion: “Listen to what Robert Andras has to say. You can trust him.”

The department, unfortunately, is try- ing not to. And the changes are still being generated in the plush offices on the top floor of a towering Ottawa office build- ing. Bitter infighting aside, that’s large- ly what is wrong with them.

But quite apart from the Indians, there is a large block of people, scattered hither and yon across Canada, who are convinced that the department is the greatest sirigle roadblock if Canadians a& to redeem ourselves with the Indian peo- ple and obtain their genuine participation in Canadian life. With remarkable- unan- imity, these people charge that the talk of change is just window dressing, and they catalogue a long list of failings and sins of the department.

Unable to adapt Above all else, the department is char-

ged with failing to come up with any new policies to deal with the growing aliena- tion of the Indian people and with being a make-work operation, for a lot of people incapable of holding down any other job. It is of course consistently charged with paternalism, with being unyieldingly bureaucratic in its ways. (

Some 1,600 members of the staff are teachers, and if the department is sin- cere about pulling out its staff one would expect some action here. Yet the depart- ment has failed to go to the provinces to try to work out a method by which de- partmental teachers might obtain pro- vincial teaching licenses. Fifty per cent, of Indian children are now being taught in provincial schools, but the change- over has been slow and difficult. Each new transfer of authority for each Indian school requires that federal workers and the province concerned get together for a new round of negotiations.

Nor, despite the mounting pressure by the provinces to take over other Indian services, is the department taking any initiative there. There is certain to be some tough arguments over financing when such discussions occur. The provin- ces want Ottawa to bear the full cost. But provincial spokesmen are coming for- ward and suggesting that their govern- ments are best equipped to supply many of the services required by Indian com- munities, and want to open talks with Ottawa. The department continues to stall.

There is a sad joke that pops up often among the department’s detractors, to the effect that if all the Indians and Es- kimoes disappeared today from the face of Canada, it would be a generation be- fore the Indian Affairs branch learned about, it.

Or would want to. Many of the branch’s agents in the field tire war veterans, who are untrained for any other work. And many of the people who have worked their way up to the top of the ladder are form& military men. As one Indian Affairs drop- out has suggested: “They knew each other during the war, and they stick together. ‘I’m his captain. He’s my major. That’s my colonel. ’ That’s the way they talk, and that’s the way they still operate.”

According that man’s view, few survive the frustrations and bureaucratic ways of the Indian agents’ life, expect those with a “custodial mind”. Such people like to exercise power over their fellow men, to feel important, “They get onto a re- serve, get a house on a hill, a motor.boat to rush around in, all the status symbols.

“Nobody can do anything without work- ing through them, so they can make sure they system never changes.” Every once in a while a new regime comes in at Ot- tawa and promises reforms. And way out

on his reserve. the superintendent says, “Sure, fine.” And goes about his bus- iness in the same old way. The Indians rely on him for their information - or did until now. If he tells them nothing, noth-

‘ing changes. He is in control. And what matters to him is his job.

In 1964-65. community development officers were being recruited and put on reserves, to try to get the Indian aroused and doing something about his problems. Three-week training seminars were held to try to sensitize the Indian super- intendents to the program. But they felt increasingly threatened by the project. In the end-and it didn’t take long-they had their way: the people at the top Closed their arms protectively around their old- time servants, and the development work- ers found their scope for action was in- creasingly limited by directives from Ottawa.

Within two years most had gone. In 1967, the department had a total of 100 positions established for community de-

, velopmen t workers. Some 58 are currently filled-but only 15 officers are living among the people on the reserves.

The superintendents have no one to defend them-even deputy minister Mac- Donald says he has not had an opportun- ity to assess their performance. And it is they who have perpetrated a great many of the sins that the Indians hold against the department today.

Today, most Canadians recognize that something is very, very wrong-and those like Robert Andras who have been listen- ing cai-efully to what the Indians have to say are calling for a complete break with the past.

His main concern is that the Indiarl people be brought in on both policy-mak- ing and the administration of Indian affairs. The methods have yet to be work- ed out.

Must make decisions But the minister is insistent that the

Indian leaders be plugied into the decis- ion-making level of government, possibly as a continuing task force reporting to the cabinet. And he feels the department of Indian affairs might, by bringing some of this same crop of leaders into key posi- tions, be tooled up to carry out the deci- sions.

The alternative, which -many support and Mr. Andras does not dismiss, is to virtually disband the department. There would be need, somewhere, for a small staff to administer the property held in trust for the Indians, but t.hat is ail.

Other functions-housing, training, economic development-could be trans- ferred to other agencies, with the pro- vinces likely being brought in on a major scale to take over services which theJ are providing other residents as a matter of course. The band councils would gain full responsibility over local services, operating as any other municipal coun- cil-as even the department proposes today.

Which shall it be? The one thing certain is that Robert

Andras is being listened to when he talks about the alienation of the Indian people in all its dimensions, and about his “sim- plistic” approach (as he calls it) to ending that alienation, by starting out with a firm will to get them plugged in.

He is also convinced of the need to esta- blish credibility with the Indian people, for a start by coming to grips with the promises made to their ancestors in the aging treaties. He is impressed by the proposal of Alberta’s Indians that these treaties be given the status of law.

Until now, in judgment after reluctant judgment in the Supreme Court of Canada and elsewhere, the treaties have been made to take second place to laws put on the statute books by Parliament. The Indians have come to realize that the only way to secure their treaties is to make them equally binding. But more than that, to give the treaty provisions any practical value today they would in some c&es at least have to be rene- gotiated.

The time for decision-making is fast- looming. It could mean the end of the day for the bat&scarred Indian Affairs department-or it could mean a trans- formation. It has to mean deep and massive changes, or we should all dc- mand to know the reason why.

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come, many frosh are probably confused as to what this university is all about.

Actually, rumor has it that it’s not a university at all but a beachhead in the international communist master plan. Registration was merely a conditioning process to prepare you for the thorough regimentation nec- essary in any socialist slave system.

Fortunately, there is some escape from it all. TUESDAY-FRIDAY 9 pm-Coffeehouse, food services. Listen to

Michael Cooney as hi! deals with the real problems of ‘this all-too-real world.

TUESDAY, 7pm-campus center. Eric Mann entertains with a des- cription of the university as theater of the absurd.

WEDNESDAY EVENINGTA happening in the campus center. Con- tents and origins unknown but it is believed the RSM has a hand in it, so be prepared to hear plenty about the inherent contrad>ctions of capital- ism.

THURSDAY Spm-campus center pub. Dancing to the Harmony Grass. No country and western this time, just straight rock. . FRIDAY 7pm-phys-ed complex, Dionne Warwick, for jocks and en

gineers who feel left out by the foregoing. Suitable for normal people too, so remember to get tickets.

TUESDAY through SUNDAY-Centroid continues in the campus ten- ter with music and movies.

If all of this seems small-time, there’s always the fast life afforded by the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo. All of the following GREAT MOVIES are showing this week.

LYRIC (King street, Kitchener), Siaircase with Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.

K-W DRIVE-IN (Bridgeport), Staircase with The magnus thrown in as a bonus.

SUNSET DRIVE-IN (Highway 24 at Eagle street Preston) Double bill, Romeo and Juliet and Barefoot in the park.

WATERLOO (King street north) You can’t cheat an honest man. CAPITOL (Kitchener) Double bill, Before winter comes with David Ni-

ven and Anna Karina and The Hostage starring John Carradine. ODEON (Kitchener) Midnight cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and Jon

Voight. If you’re still not impressed - try mingling with the natives in the local pubs, - learn to dance with Ruth Priddle (local 3417)) our expert on ballet,

modern, folk and hillbilly.

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- join the arts drama club-general meeting tonightat 7 : 30pm in the arts theater.

- see the art gallery exhibition, woven tapestries from South Africa - bug your professors for answers to these questions: What colour is an

electron? Why do I exist? Isn’t truth relative? - Save your money for a weekend in Toronto.

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_ From a musical standpoint, the Toronto Rock Revival might have been a success. From an integrity point of view, it was a dishearten- ing failure.

About half of Saturday’s dozen or so performers made a reasonable effort to assimilate the rock and roll sound of earlier years while refraining from a mechanical dup- lication of their earlier recorded versions of the hits.

Tony Joe White, with a Cree- dence Clearwater/Canned heat style of Bayou rock was probably the freshest sounding artist of the day. Simultaneous guitar and harp playing at a level much superior to, the feeble splutterings of most efforts at this style combined for a full sound with drums, the only other backup instrument.

Chuck Berry, who stole the show at the pop festival in Toronto earl- ier this summer, once again ree1e.d off the music that made him the or- iginator of many of the early Beat- le efforts. His continuous virtuosity kept the crowd of 30,000 on their feet and clapping for his entire set:

A surprise appearance was put in by the Plastic Ono Band, made up primarily of John Lennon, Yoko Ondand Eric Clapton.

What started out as an updated

summary of the earlier Beatle i I rock tunes soon degenerated to a tuneless moaning and wailing ses- sion by Ono.

The Doors, billed as the stars of the day,- put in a relatively lack- luster performance, playing noth- ing but songs from their first two albums. They never seemed to “get into” a song except possibly in the latter half of Light my fire and 7he end.

Probably the biggest failure of the day-long show was Kim Fowl- I ey, the half-witted master of cere- i monies. His running monolog was an insult to the very culture that I gave rock music the popularity it J

now has. A contest to find the “freakiest

looking costume”, as Fowley termed it, was reminiscent of the New York Times’ annual list of America’s ten best dressed ladies.

The hype continued, as he urged the crowd to “give a big hand for the show’s promoters, Brower and Walker”, (that kindly, god- father like duo, who are amassing a fortune exploiting the people that made them the attractive invest- ment they have now become).

A way of dress and a music style ‘that grew out of social protest into a distinct culture, is being neatly parcelled and sold to support the very life style it originally oppos- ed.

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Chicago Concert. fair

by Tom Purdy Chevron staff

Part of the entertainment pro- vided by Orientation 69 was Sat- urday night’s Chicago concert, playing to an almost-capacity crowd in the jock building.

The group has been around for about three years playing Chicago clubs playing mainly top-40 mus- ic. They then broke away and started doing their own thing and moved to Los Angeles where people were more receptive to their kind of music. It was in L.A. that they cut a double album (thought by many DJ$ to be a little pretentious for a new group), “Chicago Transit Authority. ”

They consider themselves to be a rock-oriented group with a very strong bass/drums background.

Despite advance high ratings by Radio free Waterloo and or- ientation committee members, the group turned me off.

What you got out of the concert depended upon where you _ sat,

for the acoustics in the jock cav- ern are unfortunately far removed from a concert hall. Sitting any- where other than the front row would transform both lyrics and music into a scrambled garble.

At any rate, the concert drama- tically illustrated a few priorities at Uniwat. The designers of the gym must have known it would be used for indoor concerts; but nev- erthless, failed to include some acoustic baffles in their design. The administration can spend oodles of money on musical trees, chairs meant to be looked at not sat upon, and non-conformist road signs, but not on something that would actually be functional and useful to students.

Getting back to the group it- self, I found that even if Chicago were really all that good, the light- ing and sound system would have turned off even the most forgiv- ing rock fan.

The group was mediocre; they couldn’t seem to work in unison for most of the time and the brass

section was completely alienated from the rest. Brass was off-key

most of the time and lacking rhythm the rest.

The vocals were uninspiring due in part to the lack of a good PA system, but also because the act- ual presentation was childish, off-key and lacking in real emo- tion.

Only Daniel Seraphine on drums seemed to really care what he was doing and managed to give a fairly satisfying performance.

Terry Kath at best was an acceptable guitarist, and in the last number tried a little acoustic- coupling improvisation - parts sounded good (probably by acci- dent) but the rest was just gim- icky.

The Chicago concert was a dis- appointing affair, but just wait until the Toronto Symphony visits the jock building next month. I hope physical-plant and planning does something about the acous- tics before then.

The spectator sport aspect of music festivals was aptly shown at Toronto% rock revival.

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-the lettitor

Mathman deduces solution to Anderson’s opprobrium

Nelson is as clever as always. Now Nelson wrote a fatherly memo to Anderson (a childish practice) to prove that Anderson was no more clever than a fresh- man. Anderson wrote a shorter memo to all but added the word “opprobrium” which proved that he was much more clever than Nelson. Recall that Nelson is no more clever than he was as a freshman.

We conclude from Nelson’s memo that he (Nelson) is not as clever as any freshman, there-

. fore, Nelson is not a freshman, but since Nelson was a freshman, Anderson is more clever than some freshman. We deduce that:

a) Nelson is not able to tell who is clever.

b) The assumption that Ameri- cans are hired because they are more able than Canadians is not univer- sally true.

c) We might improve the faculty by replacing Nelson with .- a freshman.

d) Since Nelson does not have a sense of humour he is de- void of part of his senses.

LEROY F. JOHNSON grad math

Why did we send delegatk to CUS if we don’t belong?

I noticed in the September 10 paper that there was a delegation of students representing this uni- versity at the recent C(JS con- ference. I would like to ask the following questions.:

1. Who paid the bills for these “delegates”?

2. Who appointed them to repre- sent this university?

I ask these questions since I re- call that we held a referendum last year in which the students of this university voted to pull out of CUS. If we did pull out how could we send delegates?

Is this another case where a referendum has been ignored,

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Because of the direct questions asked, federation president Tom Patterson was requested to reply.

His answers folio w. -- the lettitor

1. The Federation of Students (external-relations board) paid for the delegation as budgeted by councillast spring.

2. The delegates were Tom Patterson, federation president; Tom Berry, vicepresident: Larry Caesar, chairman of the external -relations board 1 which is re- sponsible for liaison with external bodies such as CUS. as well as housing. unemployment. interna- tional programs. community action, etc.-all matters that CUS focuses on) : Joe Bartolacci, St. Jerome’s rep on council; and Cyril Levitt. sociology 4. The last two are both external-rela- tions board members.

The first three were appointed by council, which left the remain- ing positions open to be filled by the executive if anyone else vol- unteered; Joe and Cyril were appointed by the executive, as well as Mel Rotman, who decided later not to attend.

3. Waterloo was in CUS until the end of the second full day of the congress-actually the third day that the congress was in ses- sion.

At the end of the second full day, member institutions must sign commitment forms, promis- ing to pay CUS fees for the full year-membership does not ex- pire until the end of that year. Waterloo signed such a form last year. Waterloo did not sign the form this year, and refused, when asked, to verbally promise to sup-

port another CUS referendum this year.

For the duration of the congress, all post-secondary institutions present were granted full speak- ing and voting rights, whether they were members of CUS or not.

Nearly every university in English Canada participated. Waterloo’s main purpose in re- maining at the congress was to attempt to force discussion of ( 1) whether CUS should exist, and (2) how student governments must be democratized.

Both questions were being evad- ed.

I TOM PATTERSON president

Federation of Students

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Gazette editor asks about capitalism in universities

. I assume that the treatment of

the James O’Conner statement on page one of the September 10 issue means the editor considers it very worthwhile.

I would like to ask abotit the‘sen- tence : “The growth of capitalism in the present period depends upon the availability of a large, ,highly- skilled, technica’l’-scientific la,bor force. ” This hardly seems unique to capitalism.

I would also like to ask about the third paragraph which implies that

’ a need for socialized training has resulted in a capitalistic takeover of the university. Couldn’t one turn the argument around and suggest that by delegating such a function capitalism has tended to lose con- trol of it?

These two concerns lead me to question the editorial attention given*this statement.

BOB WHITTON Gazette editor

Mathews answers colonials who accept U.S. control

. I have received a copy of the august 20 Chevron, and I would like to comment on a few things written there. i _ \

The student council statement says that we did not look at edu- cational content and research. But we did. It asks, moreover, why w,e didn’t take into account whether “domination” “is in the interests of the Canadian people” or not. The students council of the University of Waterloo may have been’ taught that domina- tion bf one community by another may be a good thing. If they do, then the Waterloo special study is a hell of a lot more apt than we supposed.

I The accusation of “chauvinistic nationalism * ’ is a bore, too, _es- pecially in a case where a faculty is so chauvinistic that it is con- tent .to teach as if U.S. material is good enough for anyone on earth, while Canadian materia! is not even made available. ,

If to want a community (such as the Canadian community) to have full academic access to signi- ficant material dealing with its life and behaviour is chauvinistic, then I am chauvinistic. If to ’ want Canadians to have greater opportunities than at present to share in the positions and oppor- tunities in Canadian universities is chauvinistic, then I am chau- vinistic.

But what are the people there who have written in the august

:20 Chevron? Most, &as, are colonial-minded serfs. Why is Canadian material treated at Waterloo and many other Cana- dian universities with disregard and contempt such as would exist nowhere else in the world? I quote from the editorial: “It is mqst likely that the high number of American professor is only an accident that happened because faculty choose their own kind. ’ However. even if they chose only Canadians, it would have ,little effect on the most important matter: content.”

I ‘m afraid I have to disagree with that statement, and from ex- perience. Not only do non-Cana- dian professors choose their ,own kind, but their own kind choose

their own interests to concentrate on. And since they know nothing or almost nbthing about Canada, a gathering of their OF kind stands in an obstructive relation to Canadian material.

Professor‘ Estok seems to have a peksonal beef .with the Univer-’ sity of Toronto. That’s okay. But it isn’t really an excuse for abus- ing a discus’si’on of the whole prob- l&m of de-Cdnadianization. We are told that there is a large num- ber of courses in U.S. literature because Waterloo wanted to fill a noticeable vacuum in American studies in Ontario universities. Since U.S. universities are abun- dantly represented by U.S. litera- ture studies, I wonder why ‘Wat- erloo english department didn’t think of ,a first-rate graduate pro! gram in Canadian literary stud- ies? Would anybody like to make a guess?

I’m (by the way) not a WASP, not an upper-Canadian, and I think the University of Toronto is a bit of a bore. I am not defend- ing the University of Toronto, and how Estok could get that out of the special study I’ll never know.

Morepver, I am not concerned who runs the university, whether students, faculty, or other, if _ it can be a place of real relevance, with just consideration of tpe needs of all the community. If that means that students must run -it wholly, let them run it. But my experience on the subject of fair opportunity for Canadian students to do graduate work, to have access, significantly , to Canadian material, to have oppor- tunity to take their places in a reasonable majority on academic faculties, is that Canadians have risen to a sense of the need. Oth- ers have been lamentably back- ward in doing so. The people who are working on this issue across Canada are students, teachers, administratirs-cana- dian in the greatest majority. Why?

Your editorial says “Faculty members put their own well-being first and have a definite interest in maintaining the current values and culture of our society. For most, critical content has no place in their teaching”. I/must dissent.

One of our consistent protests has been that the truth about minority parties, the truth about the growth of the Canadian trade union mvement, the truth about the exciting and deeply political development of public and pri- vate broadcasting, the truth about life in a colonial econotiy,’ the truth about the very real anti-im- perial content in Canadian litera- ture is kept. from the Canadian s,tudent. The Canadian student is denied access to the really cri- tical, really relevant, really pro- vocative niaterial in his own life, community, past, and institutions.

A final observation. Canadian students are denied. opportunity and denied Canadian material. The only reason they accept the situation is because their minds ~ have been blown. Are you really content that more than 50 percent .of full-time Ph:D. students in Canada are non-Canadian (when for instance, only 4 out of 31 assis- tant -professors in English at the University of British Columbia are Canadian?) Are you content that three times as many U.S. scholars were hired last year than Canadian? Nearly one and a half times as many Bfitains than Canadians? Two times as many others than Canadians? And that

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situation-at a time when the U.S., for instance, has a nat&nal policy to keep out alien academics’and an immigration procedure and law of a highly prohibitive kind as far as academics are concerned Are you really content “that the issue of the nu!nbers qf American faculty and graduate students in Canadian universities is a red herring.. . . ” -- Canadians will al- ways be able to find jobs, won’t they, peeling potatoes, doing jani- tor work in the universities, even maybe being part-time lecturers, as is fitting f6r a colonial’people taking its proper place in the im- perium.

I am interested to see, Tore- over, that president H. E. Petch is displayed on a ful6page adver- tisenient helping , to sell commer- cial products. I am interested he thinks, of students, that f‘they are important to a university.” I must be excused if I remark that the kind of liucksterism in that advertisement, in which a presi- dent lends himself to sentimental support of wishy-wa,shy moralism, selling, and the “stability” lent to a community by the elitist pat- ernalism of capital, is what I saw’ constantly in the U.S. when I was a studentthere. It is the’first time I have witnessed it in so blatant a form in Canada. Is president Petch becoming “americanized-“, or am I an academic racist (to borrow one” of his -terms) by even suggesting the possibility?

ROBIN. MATHEWS Carleton University

The advertisement featuring Petch was not genuine;* however, the purpose of the satire was to point out, some ‘of the same feel- ings which you have expressed more directly. .

-- the lettitcw

Satirical ad made its point says fro& with pseudonym

The last page. of the Chevron (august 20) at first looked like another of many ads but turned out to b&an eulogy.

How wonderful that no less , than 15 big business and seven insurance and financial corpora- tions sponsored the family pic- ture.

Whatever happened to the fac- ulty and students? They are either more honest or know better.

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fle told me plainly that he had been accepted for a position at .

the University of Ottawa but that he had subsequently been I iejected because he came from Poland, and Poland was a ’

socialist state. I said I was astonishbd to hear this;

I had the impression that Canadians, and Canadian universities, were interested in a free

exchange of ideas and certainly Would not make a decision on that basis.

March 27 1969

MP. Kazimierz Bilanow Ul. Kniewskiego 9 m 28 Warszawa I, Poland

Dear Mr. Bilanow:

I am pleased to be able to inform you that your appointment as a research Fellow at our Centre has now been recommended to the Board of Governors The appointment, to be effective as of June lst, 1969, or such earlier date as might be conve,nient to you, is at a starting salary of $9,000.00 per year and involves, as you know, collaboration with anotherResearch Fellow in the preparation and publication of a comparative study of some aspects of Private Law. I believe you have a good idea of the nature of the work involved from your discussion with Me Croteau and myself during your recent visit. If I you have any questions in this regard, however, I am sure Me Croteau would be happy to give you any further information you might desire.

The working conditions may not be ideal during the current space shortage, but I hope you will be willing to bear with us during this difficult period. This may involve some inconvenience such as, for example, sharing office space and secretarial services with the other Research Fellow on staff, but I doubt that it will seriously interfere

I with your work. As you know from your discussion

with Dean Feeney, there is a good . possibility of your assuming part-time teaching responsibilities in the Common Law Sectionin 1970-71. In addition, teaching possibilities may exist in the Centre by that time if a graduate programme in Comparative Law is started, as expected. As you will understand, however, no definite commitment can be made along these lines at the present time.

The Board of Governors will in all probability consider our request on

-. April 9th, and I should be able to con- firm your appointment immediately thereafter if you are still interested in this position.

I do hope that you had a pleasant and safe trip back, and look forward to meeting you again soon in Ottawa.

Yours very truly Douglas R. Wallace Secretary of the Centre Faculty of Law University of Ottawa

April 17. 1969

Dear Mr. Bilanow: .

I was pleased to receive your letters ‘of March 28 and presume that-it crossed with my letter to you of March

’ 27. We were indeed very pleased to

\ hear that you are still interested in.the position at our Centre and it is with real regret that I must report that I am still unable to confirm your appointment. The Board of Governors did meet on April the 9th but unfortunately deferred decision on your appointment until its next meeting on April 24th. ’ We are confident, however, that this delay need not cause undue concern and

s that your appointment will be approved on April 24th.

I apologize for the delay and faith- fully promise to give you a definite answer on the 25th of April.

Yours very truly Douglas R. Wallace

Thus wrote Saturday Night reporter Peter Stursberg. In Warsaw, he had met Kazim-

. ’ ierz Bilanow, who gave him four- letters to prove the story. Stursbercj did further investi- gating- into this small incident in the field of academic free-

, dom in Canada in 1969. April 23, 1969 . L

Dear Mr. Bilanow: i

Thank you for yourletter of April 12th. I hope that I have not been overly confident in my letters of March 27th 1 and April 17th, but I must admit I had not forseen the difficulties that might be encountered in attempting-to secure the Board of Governor’s approval to the appointment of someone from a Socialist country. I am at the moment not at all certain as to what the outcome of that application to the Board will be, but will not fail to advise you when we have a definite answer - likely within the next few days.

Dear Mr. Bilanow:

May 6, 1969

Further to my letter of April 23, I regret that I must now report that, after consultation with the University Administration ,. we have been forced to withdraw your application for employ- ment. This course of action has been necessitated by a shortage of space and financiai r,esources which has only now become apparent.

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Yours very truly I do sincerely regret this decision

Douglas R. Wallace but am convinced, after complete con- sideration of all factors, that there is no way that I can obtain approval for your appointment at the present time.

My wife and I both send our best wishes to you in your future en- ’ deavours and hope that if you are in North America again you will get in touch with us.

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The student of institutional prose will notice immediately how the story changes. In Letter I, the writer apologizes to Bil- anow for the possible cramped quarters; in Letter 4, the cramped quarters have be- come so cramped that there is no space for Bilanow. In letter 3, Bilano w*s prob- lem is that he is “someone from a Socia- list country. *I In Letter 4, politics is forgot- ten and space and money\ are the only iss- ues.

When I arrived back in Ottawa I spoke to an official of the University of 0 ttawa, who told me that in Bilanow’s case “security” was a factor. I took this to mean that the RCMP had been involved in the case. Finally I asked Bill Boss, the university’s press officer, whether the university would care to make a statement. He re- plied by sending me the following on july 2:

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At University of Ottawa a spokesman said that contrary to the impression con- veyed by the letters, the question of Mr. Bilanow’s appointment never got as far as the Board of Governors.

“He was being advanced by the Cana- dian and Foreign Law Research Centre, which specializes in Comparative Law, as a candidate for its research- staff. The Centre is strong on the Civil Law ,

Yours very truly a Douglas R. Wallace

side but could do with more strength in Common Law. V

“Mr. Bilanow’s field is Civil Law and the Centre was asked to try harder for a candidate from the field ,of Common Law.

“The question was decided without ’ the University making official or un- official enquiries of any federal agency for information that would be of assist-

I ante in making up its mind. “Matters involving the appointment of

academic staff are prepared for the Board’s consideration by the Adminis- trative Committee. It is at that level, not at the level of the Board, that Mr. Bilanow’s case was put in abeyance.”

The statement, Bill Boss informed me, was approved by the Rector of the uni- versity, Dr. Roger Guindon. It, of course, changes the story again, in two ways: (a) The appointment has now been blocked at the administrative level, rather than by the Board of Governors, as the Wallace letters clearly said; (b) The whole ques- tion of space and financial resources has been dropped; now it is Bilanow’s field that is wrong-he’s Civil and what they wanted was Common. When this curious news

_ reaches Bilanow he may be even more con- fused than he was last May. In any case, the incident thro-ws a curious kind of light on the state of academic freedom in Canada. -

14 214 the Chevron tr * .

The PR men’s ivory tower Gazette editor Bob Whitton

asks some naive questions about the role of capitalism in univer- sity training in his letter to the editor (feedback, page 13).

His first question amounts to asking the significance of only the first sentence in a pair of sentences where the first names the situation and the second gives its significance. That trick is often called quoting out of context.

His second question is to be expected from an administration mouthpiece. The myth of the apolitical, academic community dies hard.

The administrators and sen- ior faculty of Canadian univer- sities are more effective than the big business boys on the board of governors when it comes to purging critical faculty mem- bers.

The cases where the purged faculty members have fought back are well known: political- scientist George Haggar at Waterloo Lutheran, physicist Norm Strax at the University of New Brunswick and political scientist Stan Gray at McGill.

The official reason the admini- stration gave for Haggar’s dis. missal was that “he would be happier elsewhere. ” The public found the firing easy to accept because the media’ frequently pointed out that Haggar person- ally supported the Arabs against Israel and said Canada should send aid to North Vietnam.

Firing Strax and Grav was much easier because they “.dis- rupted the university” by partici- pating or encouraging nonviolent demonstrations. It didn’t matter that they hadn’t broken any laws and were never charged in the courts.

But the capitalist bias in hiring and firing goes much farther than the more extreme cases that make the headlines.

Many cases are kept quiet for person’al reasons or because the individual involved does not want to jeopardize what chance he might have left to get another job.

Another reality of the capital- ist universities is that known socialists simply aren’t hired in the first place. Those who manage to get hired under a lib- eral facade have to stay that way until they get tenure.

If they’re honest, even critical profs who aren’t necessarily socialists face loss of promotions or dismissal on ‘phony grounds.

Two Waterloo poli-sci profs met that fate last year because they didn’t bow and scrape enough for their superiors. The main reason their contracts were not renewed, said their superiors, was because their fields were wrong for the priorities the de- partment had. One of, the dis- missed profs was hired by the his tory department because she’s one of the few experts on China in Canada.

Student-affairs provost Bill Scott was forced to resign last winter because he dared to be honest. His two faults were sup- porting student control of the campus center and nominally backing radical candidate Brian Iler’s bid for re-election as Feder- ation of Students president.

Through all this, the university’s bosses maintain they have no ideology at all, that they have no political opinions. But that is an ideology in itself which defends the status-quo as unbiased, neutral and correct.

This ideology is so defensive that even in a supposedly unopin- ionated, strictly-legal situation such as the one described on the opposite page, the people who run the university ensure that it will remain completely at the service of capitalism.

The case of Kazimierz Bilanow should prove to Gazette editor Bob Whitton why capitalists have not lost control of the university by delegating the job of training their personnel to the administra- tors and senior faculty.

Whitton should also note the kind of role that administration mouthpieces like himself play in that operation.

Where incompetence is a virtue Perhaps it is fitting that the make better use of our expensive

institution of higher training which toys in the math building. calls itself “A university of its A third problem which would time” should start out the aca- be avoided is the lack of parking demic year with something in the vicinity of the recreation jokingly ‘referred to as registra- center (possessively referred tion. to as the phys-ed building by the

phys-ed school). It’s not just that lining up is a waste of time that could be elim- inated by processing everything but ID cards through the mail. Since everyone needs an ID to use university facilities there is sufficient motivation for stu- dents to come in voluntarily.

The registrar’s working staff did try hard to keep the line moving. The point is-it’s not necessary.

Another reason to register by mail is to spread final sch$du- ling over a period of time so a computer breakdown does not inflict such a hardship on those who remain unscheduled at a crucial time. This would also

This is a problem that the un- iversity of its time will have to live with well past its time as a permanent monument to a com- plete lack of intelligent campus planning.

The university seems deter- mined to make itself an ivorv tower-by ignoring physi&i realities if necessary.

To accomplish this goal, in- competence is regarded as a vir- tue as long as the incompetent administrators accept the basic rules of bureaucracy: keep your place in the hierarchy, work within the status-quo, keep the in- stitution growing, shut up and wait your turn.

Freedom won’t make them free The articles in this issue’s cen-

terspread were written before the Trudeau government made its basic decision on what to do with the Indians. ’

The Trudeau decision to get the federal government out of the Indian business and let the In- dians do what they like with their reserves made nice-sounding democratic rhetoric, but ignores reality.

It is rather like setting the slaves free in the U.S. south after years of bondage: they will continue to be used as slave: by the economy and will find noth- ing but a ghetto for a home.

After 200 years of merely keeping the Inhians alive and o& of circulation Qn their reserves, Trudeau is making political pro- fit by giving them “self-determin- ation” and taking away the tax money that the Canadian people have been led to believe is only . used to buy booze.

To ensure he gets no further political problems from Indians, Trudeau has told the provinces they can have any remaining governmental responsibility for the natives, but no money.

The subject of money should be considered in relation to the treaties which were used to legally steal most of the Indians’ property in return fqr a pittance.

If that were not enough, the government has systematically over the years take’n away most of what the treaties had left for the Indians. The treaties which the Indians signed in good faith were to last “as long as the grass grows and the water flows to the sea, et&‘.

The supreme court of Canada has ruled time after time that parliament can take away In- dians’ property rights. ’

They could ‘at least have ruled the treaties invalid on the grounds that white man has so screwed up his environment that there is now considerable doubt that the grass will continue to grow or water will make it to the sea.

The Indians were repressed because they were only barbaric socialists who insisted Canada was their hunting ground while the white man insisted he had discovered it. and used violence and religion to prove it.

The Indians took care of their own and lived in harmony with their environment. The white man deprived him of his liveli- hood and self-respect and put him on a reserve, claiming he was a savage who couldn’t be as- similated into a civilized society.

.Now by dumping all responsi- bility’ thk government will force either assimilation or annihila- tion on the Indian.

“The new legislation”’ said Cape Croker chief Wilker Nad- jiwon, “will allow an Indian to sell his property for two bottles of wine.”

Trudeau will not only save the taxpayers a few mill& dollars, but he will force a few more dis- illusioned souls into the labor market to help keep wages dbwn.

And as an added benefit, the bourgeois press will probably hail it as a great step forwarh and proof that Trudeau’s “partici- patory democracy” is a viable alternative to the socialism pro- posed by irresponsible radicals.

Canadian University Press member, Underground Press Syndicate associate member, Liberation News Service subscriber, the Chevron is published tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the Federation of Students (inc.), University of Waterloo. Content is inde- pendent of the publications board, the student council and the university administration. Offices in the cam-pus center, phone (519) 744-6111, local 3443 (news), 3444 (ads), direct nightline 744. 0111, telex 0295-748; editor-inchief: Bob Verdun 12,500 copies Struggling hard to put out the second paper of the term without the help of our new recruits, a bunch of whom took the leap into journalistic oblivion last night, we proudly present the die- hard staff of t he peo@e’s Chevron: Jim Klinck, Alex Smith, Una O’Callaghan, dumdum jones Tom Purdy, Dawe X, lAmpchop page, Cyril Levitt, Knowlton Collister (left out last time), Thomas Edwards, Kevin Peterson (Calgary bureau), Bryan Douglas (Montreal bureau) and George Russell (Ottawa bureau). If you didn’t make the staff meeting last night, drop in anytime-you’re still welcome.

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Well now, let’s see.

When splitting from Uniwat along University Ave. or Columbia, hang a left at either Phillip St. or Hazel St.

Then, in short order, you’ll come upon the Park- dale Mall. And that is where the nearest Beer & Liquor Stores are to be found.

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