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Both existing immigration policy and the Green PaperIon im&gr& tion and population came under fire Monday night at the Kitchener Public Library as over 100 people gathered in the first of three talks.

One of the panelists fir the public discussion, K-W lawyer David Cooke, complained that “one of the biggest beefs we lawyers have about immigration (regulations) is that we don’t really know what the law is.”

Cooke went on to explain how the present policy, which is loosely based on the Immigration Act of 1952, is frequently changed in Ot- tawa government offices .--‘

These changes not only lead to confusion among lawyers \ and non-citizens but have also contri- buted to red tape snarls within the Immigration Department.

Cooke reviewed alocal case, just recently settled, that had dragged on for years and threatened -to separate an immigrant fathtir from his wife and small daughter who were at variou&imes ordered de- ported. Repeated reversals of deci- sions within the Department re- sulted in all members of the family finally receiving landed immigrant status.

Cooke says that deportations of non-citizens average one per day in K-W, mostly through unintentional violations of immigration regulations.

Another panelist, Dick Husak -(plant superintendent at Waltec In- dustries in Cambridge), responded negatively to the oft-heard asser- tion that immigrants take away jobs from Canadians.

Mr. Husak, who immigrated

Paper fire’ ,

EnginewS attacked as “racist”

EngSoc votes: but The content of the Engineering

Society’s Enginews came under at- tack from “some people” who feel its editorial copy is sf a racist nature, said George Soulis, associate engineeting dean, Wednesday.

These people were prepared to. take Enginews’ last issue to court but were dissuaded from doibg so by engineering administrators, Soulis added. Instead, Soulis said he told the people that he’d communicate the gravity of the matter in a letter to EngSoc and wait to see what action they’d take.

If the matter had been taken to court, not only the editors of Enginews but the Engineering faculty could be sued for damages as it permitted the distribution of the paper on campus, Soulis noted. He

_ said he preferred not to name the people as they have agreed not to go ahead with legal action.

He said he’s “not about to start censoring it (Enginews)” as he’s willing to give the editors an oppor- tunity to discuss the matter and see what action they’ll take.

Meanwhile EngSbc; at its Tues- day council meeting, decided to oppose “any literature_ that dis- criminates on the basis of race, creed or color” in response to Soulis’ letter. The motion, presented by councillor Max Mercer, was amended somewhat as it originally disallowed sexual discrimination. However, the majority of councillors felt it would be hard to determine what constitutes sexual discrimination. .

Mercer said that some of the humor such as the ?aki jokes” in Enginews could be changed to ones

from Europe in 1957, said that immigrants take work that Canadians shun.

Workplaces with bad working %nditions and low-pay often find immigrants to be steady employees . Turnover among the Cana- dian workers on the other hand, is often high.

According to David Cooke the RCMP uses the personnel depart- ments , particularly of low-wage plants, to enforce the immigration regulations. Company files are checked to track down foreigners who are not “landed” and who are employed without work permits. --

Panelist Norman Lynn, president of the regional Folk Arts Council and a local restauranteur, addressed himself to the issue of “ghettos”. _ HT questidned the’- use of the

word “ghetto” as unclear and dis- torted. Mr: Lynn said that immigrants for reasons of social security, particularly as involves language and life-style, tended to form ethnic neighbourhoods.

The meeting w%modiat&d tiy Frank Epp of Conrad Grebel Col- lege who has served since 1968 on the federal immigration department’s 12-person advisory board.

.Dr. Epp sketched the history of Canadian immigration policy as being characterised by two general periods. Pre-World War I policy is described as a “liberal” era. First fear of “aliens” later the Depres- sion led to a period of “restrictive” policy.

The present Immigration Act was brought into being in 1952. It was followed by the 1966 “white paper” which introduced the 100

The government’s Green Paper on immigration has met with opposition from across the country and on Monday night, lune 9, over 400 people demonstrated outside the Park Plaza hotel in Toronto where the parliamentary commission is hearing briefs from more than 40 organizations. Here about 40 demonstrators from the United Front Against the Green Paper (Waterloo-Wellington) and the Toronto Committee to Oppose the Green Paper demon- strate while another 150 members listen to the briefs being presented inside. photo by neil docherty

point system for determining admission to Canada as an immigrant. Visitors were also allowed to a@@ly from within Canada. -

_ This situation led to a “loss of control” as a backlog of applications and appeals mounted backing up two to three years. ’

Subsequently the government severely restricted applications from within Canada.

The existing regulations were otherwise described as unmanage-

,able. The federal government deadline

for public discussion, originally scheduled for July, has been extended to October 1 and many- groups are trying to get the period extended further.

Public talks on the Green Paper will continue on June 16 and 23, at 7:30 in the Kitchener Public Lib- rary. ’ -shane roberts

racism

EngSoc councillors vote opposition to racism ic literature at their meeting on Tuesday night, lune 70. It had been charged that Ehginews was encouraging racism through some of its recent features. photo by henry hess

which “make us laugh at ourse- lves rather than at others.”

UW student senator Andy Tele- gdi noted that the editoqs of the paper “haven’t been sensitive to foreign students as such jokes are reinforcing the fears they feel about I-acism in Canada.”

In other business, EngSoc supported the Federation of Students in its brief to the Ontario Council of University Affairs that asks the government not to allow individual universities to raise tuition through

their boards of governors. Telegdi urged councillors to

back the federation as the- En- gineering faculty could be the first to have its tuition increased. He said that since engineering is one of the strongest programs at the Uni- versity, it could get away with up- pingits fees and still maintain a high enrolment.

He said that such a development could result in a two university system since all universities would’be allowed to raise tuition for their stronger programs and keep it down for weaker ones. In other words, one level of’ the univers,ity system would be of high quality while the other due to a lack of money would be of inferior caliber, Telegdi said.

While some councillors agreed with Telegdi’s contention, others felt that since co-operative students get more income due to their work terms they should expect a higher tuition.

But the majority of councillors felt that the board of governors would raise tuition if they had the right as “what they didn’t get from the government they would try to get from us.”

--john mofris

Here’s our PETsurveying his subjects as he visits the Ad&Recreation Centre on Saturday afternoon, june 7. PET was able to visit us thanks to three $7 million helicopters used to transport him and his advisors. Maybe he’ll return to Waterloo again before t’he next provincial election to remind us how good the Liberals have been to big business and other interests in our society.

photo by michael gordon ,

Work discbssed Should women receive wages for

housework? This and other issues of concern

were discussed last - weekend by local Kitchener-Waterloo residents and students and the Toronto ‘ ‘Struggle against Work Collec- tive”.

It was agreed that wages for housework would win for women the ability and dignity of earning their own living.

Wages for housework would also increase a women’s freedom because she would then have the op- portunity to refuse housework rather than having it automatically expected from her.

The freedom of men would also be increased because they would not be completely ljutidened with earning the livelihood for an entire family.

The Federation Used BookStore will be having a sale all week June 16-21. Hours are 12:00 to 4:00 -pm in room 217A, Campus Centre.

Men could better bargain for improved working conditions and higher pay because they would have less financial responsibilities.

Participants in the discussion at- tempted to answer the question, “What is the working class?”

It was agreed the working class is not one homogeneous group. In- stead, it is made up of many varied and different groups. These would include, immigrants, women, stu-. dents, blacks, Indians and the un- employed.

Participants agreed these groups must each lead their own struggles for their fair share of society’s wealth.

At the conclusion of the meeting all agreed the discussion had been fruitful and another get-to-gether is planned for a later date.

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rontoys t i,ny perfect/ m+ayor :r developers and newcomers lmercial development, who were ry-law, kept up a constant din at y hall, the larger more seasoned lent. They had nothing to lose al to gain from a slowdown of pment . . .the less competition e future the more they stood to leld.” until the OMB threw out the by- y sky scaper proposed for the was herded through the munici- Crombie. Crombie did not want rapers, he simply wanted “bet- . Toronto council continuing to

= development even though citi- : organizing across the city to apartments, inner city residents : demolition of their houses for

of luxury condominiums and 1 was elected in 1972 with a clear :he concrete and glass high-rises ling through the city? Crombie he public’s dislike for develop- =d “development was good for lopment was also good for the : of whom generously supported onservative party. Crombieand porters insisted high-rise de- badly needed because it in-

of the city tax coffers. 1 years earlier, a study by the lsulting firm Price Waterhouse, / the Toronto Borough of York, 5ans the costs of municipal ser- )age, etc.) for new high rise pro- d for by the high-rise develop- her taxpayers in the city had to h-rise development. :ach an old dog new tricks, so friends continued to rationalize ment by saying it added revenue fers. The high-rises grew even ifty-six storey Toronto Domin- erything was ‘a, ok’ for Crombie

1 tears apart Crombie’s housing )ter entitled Housing: Not no- lg much reveals the ineptitude nbie and his housing commis- Dennis tried to deal with the hen Crombie was elected hous- le most important issue to To- ngle family homes in Toronto rage more than frfty thousand s were increasing every month.

Lower income families and now middle income families could not buy their own homes.

For years the housing industrv was given a - w

carte blanched to decide their own housing -r priorities. How did they do this? The housing ’ 7jr-i

-?!;I industry determined where they could gain the highest profits. And so very little middle and lower income housing was built because the profits were not enough for the developers.

The housing industry determined what type of housing yielded the fattest profits and it was not single family housing. For a developer it’s more profitable to rent housing that to sell it, and rent- ing rather than selling means the developer re- tains ownership of the land (a highly valued, and continuously inflating commodity in Toronto) and “earns” profits from inflated realty values as years go by. It is also more profitable to rent to higher-income tenants than lower income tenants, and so almost no lower and middle income housing was being built in the early seventies. The book, Highrise and Superprofits by Barker, Penny and Seacombe dealt with this issue at great length. They saw the city not as a human settle- ment with a unique culture and history, but as a product to be brokered for the sake of not profits, but superprofits. .

This was Crombie’s role in the mayor’s chair, to broker out chunks of Toronto land to city developers by either approving or disapproving the development. Crombie guided the develop- ’ ment he approved through council. Furthermore, + Caulfield charges that Crombie did not even manage this quite as well as his predecessors, “in

‘fact it was nothing better than last minute crisis management, dealing with issues as they sur- faced”. At one point Crombie pushed hard and got council to purchase several houses for almost one hundred thousand dollars each. At that price the city could hardly afford to offer it to low income tenants, though they were the ones who really needed a roof over their heads and the houses were surrounded by deteriorating room- ing houses. The houses were bought and rented out to upper class tenants. Several aldermen pointed to the cheap houses in Parkdale that could be rented as low income housing, rather than demolished for high-rises. This suggestion. fell on the deaf ears of Crombie who was incapa- ble of keeping his promises for providing low- income housing, because the developers he supported would have nothing to do with ‘low profit’ housing.

Crombie talked grandly of the city building its own low-income housing but his housing corn- - missioner had some revealing things to say, “in itself it isn’t very important, it’s something

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It . . . and with the inevitable rise in crimes of violence that will folloir the rc- development, we can get this super new hospital and police block OPCY hem. _. . IV

-maybe we’ll produce 4,000 units a year-but it’s not much”.

The most important and innovative aspects of the housing policy were the citizen working committees which worked on a day-to-day basis with the planning and development of the housing. After all, who would know anything more about housing than the people who are going to live in it? It makes much more sense to accept their advice than to listen to a developer whose sole aim is to reap a profit from the housing. However these new initiatives’ came not from Crombie or Dennisbut from the resident groups, the non-profit housing organizations , tenants and. members of the council reform caucus.

With a majority of councillbrs taking a stronger approach to housing there could have been tougher regulations on development and the control of housing could have been wrested from the hands of the profiteering developers and into the control of tenant associations, homeowners and non-profit companies. David Crombie resisted this pressure to make some real changes in housing and insured everything would continue as it had. After all he is a conservative.

In mid-1974 the american edition of TIME magazine listed Crombie as among the one hundred world leaders of tomorrow. He was in the company of Bill Davis, Robert Bourassa, Peter Lougheed and John Turner; a lovely as- sortment of political hacks. In fact Crombie is openly pondering the national leadership of the progressive conservative party when Stanfield steps down. He has been methodical in his rela- tionship with the provincial conservatives and ,most of all with PC’er Metro chairman Paul God- frey. In fact party leaders see Crombie as the strongest conservative candidate in Ontario and perhaps the country. At present Davis is having difficulty dodging scandals and lifting his party from the bottom-of the opinion polls,. The conservatives were slaughtered in Toronto in the last federal election. Meanwhile Crombie was virtu- ally unopposed in his last race and has a solid reform reputation.

Even Crombie’s closest friends readily admit his first loyalty is often not to his city but to his political aspirations. Jeremy Carver, a personal friend of Crombie said in the Globe and l%iaiLlast Monday “the-mayor has compromised himself so much in dealing with Premier William Davis that he can no longer act in the interests of the city”. Carver strongly attacked the mayor’s refusal to fight against a centralized and hugely expanded commuter rail terminal in Union Station. A week earlier a provincial task force appointed by the Ontario cabinet recommended commuter GO facilities be centralized in Toronto which would further enhance Toronto’s position as the reg-

ional centre for Ontario. Two Toronto representatives, the Toronto planning commissioner and Susan Fish refused to support the recommenda- tion and called for the decentralization of GO rail facilities throughout the province. Their objec- tion was Toronto was being overdeveloped and de-humanized. They wanted development de- centralized throughout the province. One certainly could not do this when the provincial government was planning to centralize all rail trans- portation in a Toronto terminal.

However despite Fish’s and Barker’s refusal to adopt the recommendations and Toronto city council’s motion “to strongly oppose any large- scale expansion of GO”, no one heard anything more than a peep from Crombie when the province decided to go ahead with the expansion of the terminal. The mayor did not want to step on too many progressive concervative toes, especially Davis’ who has always considered GO his “own baby”. Carver said of Crombie “you are unwilling to antagonize Davis on the larger issue of decentralization’ ’ .

But why do Crombie and Davis oppose decentralization of development in Ontario? Quite simply, profits are made by developers on land ( that increases in value because of increased development in a small area. This development cannot ever find enough land, especially when it is centralized and so the land prices are bidded upwards. The landowner or developer then makes a tidy profit even though he has put nothing whatsoever into the land, just its original cost. The land value increase is facilitated by the centralization of development and publicly paid for facilities in downtown Toronto. And that is why Crombie and Davis do not like decentralization.

Recently Crombie has been interviewed by almost every large magazine in the United States as the mayor of one of North America’s safest and cleanest cities. Crombie’s image is good and clean. He’s neat and tidy, dresses intelligently and speaks in sentimental liberal hyperbole-today’s successful politician, a man on the make (god help us).

Caulfield’s -The Tiny Perfect Mayor is an important political biography and should not be over- looked by, those interested in all levels of government. Crombie is at the -municipal level now but it appears he will soon grow tired of the politics of housing. Crombie has announced he will not run for a third term. One can safely predict he will not leave politics after his successful stint as Toronto’s, mayor. He’s a man to watch.

Give this book a read and i guarantee it will give you a two hundred page warning to keep this man where he belongs, at Ryerson Polytech * teaching business adminstration.

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water, it is something essential, vital. Morag’s special sense is in- sight and with it she finds herself and the necessary selves of others. She has learned to see into the essential nature of the world she has experienced, is experiencing, and the nature of its inhabitants. Like water divining, almost everyone could do it, if they would just stop trying to explain it.

Morag has one other special skill, of course, in her writing. She must communicate what she knows without ever knowing whether her words, her “magic tricks” worked or not. A novelist, having something to say, creates people and situations which somehow express what he knows. He provides a mass of sensory and intellectual material and the reader sorts it according to who he is himself.

Margaret Laurence’s way of pre- senting Morag’s world and its characters is basically realistic. This is not to say that she describes things exactly as they are or, even more likely, as they were. Morag Gunn says, “How could that colour be caught in words? A sort of

-rosy peach colour, but that sounded corny and was also inac-

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Morag Gunn is a writer and The Diviners is the story of her life, told in her 47th year.

The narrative alternates between present and past, so that as you get to know who Morag is you are also finding out how she got to be that way. At 47 she lives in an old farm- house in Southern Ontario with her &ghteen year old daughter, Pique, and the spirit of Catherine Parr Trail. She spends her time re- membering , thinking and writing, primarily about her past.

Morag is not agonizing, analys- ing or advertizing about the past. Rather, she is recreating it -reflecting it, instead of reflecting upon it. For instance, she rarely wonders whether she was right or wrong. Her questions are “what happened?” and “why?” and “how?“. She was always confused by herself and others, never quite being able to find a comfortable, comprehensible niche. She was smart and tough at a time when to be a successful woman -meant docil-

ity, stupidity (of a * kind), and beauty. That was how she saw it and it was difficult for her. She al- ternately hid and fought, struggling with who she was and who she should be.

But eventually Morag leamid. A frustrating marriage, success as a writer, an illegitimate child, affairs, travel-these were her pilgrimage that led her to herself and McConnell’s Landing, a place where she could bear to live as she couldn’t elsewhere. Her old farm- house became the place where she could do her divining.

A diviner with his forked branch finds water. His mysterious skill has results both tangible and use- ful. In reading The Diviners it seems as if Morag Gunn must have a forked branch in her head. Where it points, you find-what? Like

accuracy to a work of art. The realism of a novel is verified by its relation to any reader’s own ex- perience. If, then an author at- tempts a realistic style, he limits the greatest impact of his book to that part of his audience who can relate most intimately to the characters and their particular situation.

Laurence h&self commented on this limitation as it concerns The Diviners. She said , “ . . . there were few perceptive reviews from America and I think that was because it is a very Canadian book and there were aspects of it that they really didn’t understand . . . .some of the reviews were unbelievable. ’ ’ ___ -

The Diviners is not a classic in any universal sense, but it might be called a Canadian classic. Laur- ence would not, I think, consider that an insulting qualification. In a recent interview she said, “I think that one thing that Canadian writing is doing is to define our roots, our ancestors, our myths, where we came from and it’s only out of this that we can understand who we are.”

In The Diviners, Laurence has made yet another contribution to this process of definition and com- prehension. She has written a down-to-earth, passionate novel describing a reality which may very likely have something in common with your own. If you read it well, -- you may even learn something of Morag Gunn’s brand of divining. And you’ll be a little wiser. ,

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s up a crusade against them and has requested ’ the chevron to stop carrying their ads.

The concern is over plagiarism, students buying essays, custom made or from the agency’s files, and passing them off as their own. A practise which poses many questions for those in education. Are these services immoral? Do they undermine the educational system? Do they tip the balance in favour of the better-off student? And who is using the service and why? If it is as one of the agencies suggested “Technical students who have no interest in academic topics like English and History,” but have to take them, so they just buy a paper, does this mean that general education or tokenism to- ward it cannot be institutionalised.

Those are the questions but how are the answers to be found? The first problem is to distinguish between the bonafide research

1 agency which strictly provide reference and research material, and those who sell papers with the knowledge that the essay is going to be submitted by the student as his own work.-

The chevron asked the owner of Term- papers, Mr. Ron Connort, if he had any way of knowing that students weren’t merely handing in the purchased essay. He said that the papers were sold for reference and research but that there was no way of checking how they were used. He suggested that the same was true of those who sell whiskey and have no knowledge as to whether the cus- tomer is an alcoholic.

The other agency which carries an ad in the chevron’ is Essay Services. The man-

- ager, Mr. Larry Jackson, refused to give an interview on the grounds that he felt he had fulfilled his obligations to the media with the interviews he had given over the last two years.

But it seems,-however, that both of these agencies are very aware of how students are using their product, and actually make provisions to ensure that no two students in the same university hand in identical papers.

A chevron reporter phoned these companies and made enquiries about buying a paper. He said that the professor had given the whole class the same assignment. The reporter wanted some guarantee that other students wouldn’t submit the same work. Essay Services assured him “we keep a record of where every paper goes and where

’ every paper is from.” He was also told that if someone else from the same university ordered the same paper the student would be asked to choose another paper. The final guarantee was that the same paper would not be sent twice to the same university, and to put his mind to rest he was informed that the company sent papers to universities all across the country and so the problem doesn’t usually arise r

With Termpapers the guarantee was not so steadfast. He was told that the company

writes on the back of each paper what um- versities it has been sent to and if a client from the same university wants the same paper he/she is told that it has already gone there. Usually this is enough to put the client off that paper, but if the client insists-“we will sell it to him.”

The* other problem in investigating essay agencies is how to establish the extent to which they are being used. Despite the above conversation both companies said, during a telephone interview, that they had no means of calculating how many essays were being sent toUW. Connort did say that his company got response from all the five or six ads run in student newspapers across the country.

And in reply to one of the few questions Jackson answered he said that UW was “a low response area’ ’ .

Connort , however, did give some indica- tion of the volume of his business. He said in the fall and winter terms 15 to 20 writers are kept busy producing custom made work, and that is over and above the demand for essays on file. (All the writers have their degrees checked.) Connort also said that since he started the business three and a half years ago demand has certainly increased.

Students using these services pay about $5 a page for a custom made paper, which can be delivered in 8 days. There is a minimum charge of $25. But if the essay requested is one of the many essays on file the cost is between $2.50 and $2.75 a page. (converted to metric that’s about five beers a page). There is also some demand from students doing their masters, and for them a custom page of research comes in around $7 a page.

Connort said that most of the demand is for “academic topics such as English and History as opposed to the technical field”.

To the charge that his service was immoral he said that the people who use it have had several years in educational institutions and so if they feel they have to use these services perhaps there is something immoral in education.

But he did agree that his service tipped the balance in favour of the better-off student commenting “I suppose that applies to anything in society”.

None of these arguments satisfy Kessel. He feels there is a danger that if professors cannot be sure that students are submitting their own essays then they may be forced to use other means of examination. This would penalise students who prefer writing essays. Kessel said that he came across this problem in a Sociology 101 class. ,

He also said that he thinks these agencies handicap those students who can’t afford their services, and all things considered.that they are morally dubious.

He feels that if the university has certain standards then they should be maintained and any changes in the examination system should come as a progressive step and not as a defense against plagiarism.

The COU report also expresses serious concern about plagiarism, and says bb . . . even if the number of fraudulent papers

The chevron believes that the existence and use of essay services repres- ent a symptom of what is wrong with the educational system today rather than being a cause of the malaise, and that whjle such services may contribute to existing inequalities by giving the wealthy student an unfair advantage, they can be combatted only by focussing on the underlying causes which lead to their use.

In its next issue the chevron will examine what some of these causes may be. We invite reader response.

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being submitted is small, the perception that the practice exists is very deleterious to the morale of students-; undermines the credibil- ity and integrity of the academic process, and can drive the system back towards an increasing reliance on examinations. ’ :

The report discusses ways of preventing plagiarism other than direct legislation, since it is felt that the problem has not reached the proportions which would warrant special legislation.

One possibility suggested is “ . . .that the education authorities and the provincial at- torney general may be able to rely on the forgery provisions and the conspiracy sec- tion of the Criminal Code to- suppress plagiarism activities of term paper companies .” A_

It also states that “A student who uses such a false paper may be charged under sec. 326(l) for “uttering forged documents” and is liable to the same penalty” (imprisonment for fourteen years-or less).

Much worse the report states that our own editor, Michael Gordon, may be locked up for two years for criminal conspiracy to commit forgery should he knowingly publish an Essay Agency ad.

An Unfair Trade Practice charge may be another way of stopping plagiarism. The report points to successes achieved in Wiscon- sin where an examiner issued a restraining order against an essay agency on the grounds that: 1) The. term paper business take undue ad-

vantage of student weaknesses and aid and abet the student to commit a fraud:

2) The university is deceived into unfairly awarding course credits.

3) They foster an unequal and unfair rela- tionship between students who use the service and those who don’t.

4) They are unfair to employers who select I

employees on the basis of educational re- cords.

5) That Termpaper companies unfairly compete with legitimate research agencies. The report states that “similar action may be brought against such companies in Ontario under legislation enacted Feb. 1975.

And once again students using the service and editors “who aid and abet” may be charged.

But the harshness of the report is qualified in its conclusion where the author Prof T.P. Chen says “In my opinion, prior publicity and appropriate warning must be given before such sanctions are to be applied, although decisive action may sometimes prove to be necessary in handling blatant offenders, particularly term paper companies. The more appropriate measure is for the educational authorities to obtain an in- junction or cease and desist order against the offenders.

One final suggestion in the report is that since most of the Term Paper companies are incorporated in the U.S. and are beyond the reach of Canadian courts, that the Postmas- ter General could issue a mail-stop order. Since most of the companies’ business is conducted by mail such an order would b6 . . . effectively intercept the illegal mails and, thus, nip these plagiarism activities from their buds.”

In case all of this is not sufficient to deal with essay agencies, the COU is investigating the possibility of drafting a bill which would not so much nip their buds as chop off their heads.

So the signs are that the presidents are getting restless and Term Paper companies, students and editors should be warned.

-neil docherty

Member: Canadian university press (CUP). The chevron is typeset by members of the workers union of dumont press graphix (CNTU) and published by the federation of students incorporated, university of.waterloo. Content is the sole responsibility of the chevron editorial staff. Offices are located in the campus centre; (519) 885-l 660, or university local 2331.

Ho hum, where is the term going? We’re already approaching midterm bhres again. Enough talkof exams and other. suicide missions. On the brighter side the university announced the July first long weekend will stretch out to four ,days. Classes will be cancelled on both Monday and Tuesday. Nothing like a three.day week! Lets see what other mind boggling events occured this week. The university, remember it’s in a crisis, a financial one at that, is laying several thousand.

’ dollars down on a new sculpture which is being erected between the PAC building and the campus centre. Why in the hell when our libraries are literally going to pot, periodical subscriptions are being cut by half and the university is considering firing 137 professors are we spending thousa,r# of dollars on useless sculptures. And in the same breath Burt Matthews is pleading with the government for more money. What for, more sculptures? Ah what the hell, eh Burt? It

only means increasing tuition fees. The administration isn’t cutting back on its mouthpiece the Gazette but it sure is willing to let the quality of education deteriorate. The rumour mill sa’ys the Gazette may_ get another staff reporter. It looks like administration is more important than education. Nothing like drinking your sorrows away, so meet you in the pub.. . Chevrics were everywhere thfs week and those in the office included doomsday diane, joking john morris, a hell of a guy henry hess, tulips to helen because we just couldn’t find the room, randy and shansroberts, robert maklan, neit docherty, merciless-mike gordo

Sylvia,

regret to the woman who wrote the divine book review b&use I (next week for sure) and thanks for joining the ship and that is

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I,ntramural acticin. Basketball These three teams should pro-

duce both the “A” and “B” league Softbal I ’ After Wednesday’s basketball champions, although Math &y , action, the favoured teams have won their last game by two points.

improved their position as Slaugh- terhouse 5 and Math remain the In A-league the Twine Ticklers only two undefeated teams in upset K. St. Lymphnodes by two B-league, while the Dons are the points, and either of these teams only A-team in this position. could still give the Dons trouble.

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Two teams have switched leagues for more equalized play. 3A Mech (No. 6) are now team No. 20 while the powerful North 6 So&s (formerly team 20) are now team 6.

In last week’s play, Base Burg- lers and the Ret All Stars remain undefeated in A level. Screen Gems Master Batters, 4A Civil and 76 Mech also are undefeated.

In the game of the week, the Humkins threw a scare into Ret All Stars leading 8-4 in the #bottom of the 4th. However, their reckless play enabled Ret to score 4 un- earned runs to tie the game. In the fifth, Humkins went ahead 9-8 with Ret to bat. Toughening their de- fences, the Humkins proceeded to bumble, bobble booble the game away and, allow 3 more Ret runs.

Although the score ended 1 l-9 for Ret, Ret realized that the old men aren’t dead yet only dying.

Soccer ., - In soccer play, System United

managed to upset Renomes to remain undefeated in B league.

Rumour has it that CCCP have recruited a few new players in the hope of re-capturing their status of last fall.

A league is very close. Panthers and Senior Citizens tied O-O. The Klingons having won two consecu- tive games have moved back into a tie for fust.

Anyone still wishing beginners tennis lessons is to contact Miss Sally Kemp, ext. 3533.

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Porsche has assaulted and con- quered the IMSA GT Series for the past two years with smooth driving and controversial Peter Gregg leading the charge.

Gregg will head the Porsche con- tingent in the Labatt’s Blue 5000 Weekend, June 13, 14 and 15 at Mosport Park, when a record 60 cars are expected to start the IMSA race. Never before have so many cars started a race at Mosport in the track’s 14-year history. The date also marks the one time in 1975 that both a Formula 5000 and IMSA GT event will be seen on the same track on the same weekend.

Despite his winning ways on the track, Gregg has gained the reputation as an outspoken individual with clear opinions on the way racing should be handled. He has shown reluctance at times to make public appearances because he felt preparing his race car was more . _ -s,.T1 :~pc&inr and C&.iSiS~~~ ’ -711~ he has been known to criticize his fellow drivers, making him one of the most controversial participants in auto racing.

The 35-year-old Gregg, the 1973

racing and 1974 IMSA GT champion also captured the Trans Am champion- ship both seasons.

After six events so far this year, Gregg, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., leads the series with 99.5 points while teammate Hurley Haywood is second with 65.5.

Gregg who clinched both his IMSA titles during the final race of each season, has picked up the majority of his points by registering victories at the 24-Hours- of Daytona, Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca and Lime Rock.

A graduate of Harvard Univer- sity and a Porsche dealer in Florida, Gregg started his racing career in 1963. His first major win was the 2.5 litre class of the 1969 Trans Am. The following year Gregg and Haywood joined Brumos Porsche and the team has won every IMSA title since which included endurance victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12-Hours of Sebring.

Mosport is not new to Gregg as he competed there in the 1970 Can-Am, but was involved in a spectaclar eras h.

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