JOURNAL OF THE EVENING STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

Volume ONE- number TWENTY-TWO Montreal - March tenth 69.

PR ICE FIVE CENTS

E.S.A. MAY-BE DISSOLVED I •

LAST SATURDAYS ELECTORAL COLLEGE EVENING STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DEFEATED.

Assembly meeting : Yesterday in a tense at-

mosphere, the Asse mbly of the Eve n ing St ude nts' Associa tion debated for a period in excess of five hours the entire issue of Evening student government. The tension in the atmpsphere was due to the fact thht the Assembly which met original-ly to vote for the 1969 - 1970 Executive and to complete the constitutional debate, drew a n alarmingly small crowd of members. Members of t he Execut ive including the Presi-dent stated that if a more considerable crowd did not become involved in the voting procedure they would see no other road open to them but . to recommend to the Univer-sity 'council on Student Life

that t he Association be dis-solved.

MOTION TO DISSOLVE: Debate on the Constit ut ional

ratification, after a late start , continued under the chairman-ship of the E.S. A. President Bill O ' Mahony. The deba te was stopped on a point of privelege by Mr. Wayne Grey. Mr. Grey moved that the Association be dissolved. The motion was seconded by Mr. Angelo La-mendola ( Engineering Repre -sentat ive ). The text of the motion follows :

Whereas the Evening Stu-dents' Association is compos-ed of 12,000 members.

Whereas the electoral col-lege ( Assembly) is composed of some 225 members.

HALL BUILD/IVG

ASSEMBLY HAD A MAXIMUM OF 58 SPURRING THE DISSOLUTION MOTION

Whereas less than 60 mem-bers have turned out for t he purpose of voting in the next executive council.

Whereas t h is body is not t herefore t ruly representative.

Be it moved tha t the Evening Student's Association be dis-solved and with it all club groups and associations attend-ant thereunto on the complete-tion of term of the present executive.

WHY SUCH A MOTION DURING A YEAR

OF SUCCESS? The debate that centered on

this motion involved almost every member of The As-sembly. Rarely has so much emotion been shown

around an issue of the Asso-ciat ion .

Never before in the histo ry of the association has such success crowned the endevours of t he executive a nd t he motion would have moved a growing body into extinction . Since the motion to dissolve came from a dynamic group, it shows the degree of concern with which these executives have carried out their responsibilities.

THE VALUE OF THE ASSOCIATION

Since these are the feelings of a responsible body of stu-dent executives - a body which has worked towards the im-provement of the conditions of the evening student - it tells much of the - type of frustra -

tio1;1 met by them. Since the election to office of the present executive the y have accom p-lished many t hings of value to the Evening Student. ( 1) Over fou r thousand Arts students received FREE arts course guides. (2) Every student ' has benifited d irectly or indirectly from " the Paper" ( 3) Some one hundred students are involved in flying ( 4) Due to pressure from the E.S. A. various of-fices no rmally closed after five are now open to service the needs of evening during the ir no rma l study hours. ( 5) In the recent Anderson Affa ir the E. S.A. execut ive demonst rated their decision making ability by supporting the forces of law and order.

These are but a few of the many things which the Associa-tion has achieved for the even-ing student.

MOTION DEFEATED The motion to dissolve the

E.S. A., when put to a vote was · roundly defeated with the mov-er voting against the motion . The only E.S. A. executives vot- ~ ing in favour of the motion were Miss M. Rowe ( Incum-bent V.P.) and Mr. A. La-mendola, ( Incumbent En-gineering Representative). Miss Rowe was not present at the two previous assemblies, and Mr. Lamendola was absent from the previous one.

NEW VOTING PROCEDURES:

A subsequent motion by Mr. G rey modif ied the e lection procedures and ope ned the entire process to the form of a referendum. Voting would take place from Monday March . 10 at 5 :00 P.M. through Thurs-day, March 13 at 10:30 P.M. Voting will take place on the mezzanine between 5 :00 P.M. and 10:30 P.M. each evening. Cast your ballot voting yes or no for each candidate. When you cast yes or no for an un-opposed position, you will be saying Yes, we want an Even-ing Students Association, or no, we do not want an E.S.A. We are all evening students; do not let us lose a thing of value.

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CANDIDATE PROFILE, PRESIDENT

BILL O'MAHONY "Better Education Through

Active Participation". President 1968 - 1969.

Member University Council on Student Life 1968 - 1969 - Member Search for The Prin-cipal Committee Member Joint Committee on University Affairs Chairman Evening Student Association Executive - Chairman E.S.A. Restoration Fund .

EXTERNAL V.P.

D.J. CHORNY Better Education Through

Active Participation" Member E.S.A. Restoration

Fund. Organizational adviser to E.S.A. President B. O 'Ma-hony.

A Member Montreal Junior -~Board · of Trade Product Di-

rector Johnson and Johnson Ltd.

INTERNAL V.P.

ROSS M. MILES "Better Education Through

Active Participation". Arts Representative 1968 -

1969. "Founding Member "The Paper". Member of The Co Curricular Committee. Mem-ber of The Sear.:h For The Principal Committee. Member E.S.A. Restoration Fund Com-mittee . Political Science Major Michegan State University . Di-ploma in French Institute d-e Torraine France. Diploma in Marketing Management McGill University. Marketing Repre-sentative Zerox of Canada .

TREASURER

WAYNE VIBERT. Accounting Major fourth year

Commerce Age 30 married Auditor and Financial Analyst . Accounting Supervisor.

PLATFORM Responsibility and Communi-

cation Finance Committee will pro-

vide minutes · of Meetings to the secretary. The Financial reports to the executive will be printed in The Paper. I will sign all financial state-ments. Present accounting pro-cedures will be reviewed with the incumbent treasurer and a qualified auditor with a view to making improvements.

MR HENRY MOUSSADJI

BACKGROUND Treasurer of various sport-

ing groups. Commerce Ill Ma-jor in economics with account-ing 211 and management 4 11.

PLATFORM Efficient management of E.

S. A. Funds "Ask not what the E.S. A.

can do for you but what you can do for the E.S. A. "

PARTIAL REP HAROLD R. FUES

"Better Education Through Ac-tive Participation" BACKGROUND Organiser and P.R. man for T.V. Sir George Evening and , Day Division ... Founder and President Of The Georgian

' Snoopies the largest University Flying Club in Canada and Sponsored by the E.S.A.

FINE ARTS REP

JOHNNY GOH "Better Education Through Ac-tive Participation" BACKGROUND Professional Artist, Fine Arts Major. Member of The Depart-ment of Fine Arts Committee. Member of The Evening Student Association Restoration Fund Committee.

SCIENCE REP

R.J. CORNELL

Better Education Through Ac-tive Participation BACKGROUND Science re-presentative 1968 / l 969 Member CoCurric~lar Com-mittee. Member Loyola Sir George Merger Committee. Chairman Communications Committee. Former President Science Association St Pius The Tenth High School Co Founder of "The Paper".

JOHN HAMMOND

BACKGROUND Assistant Air "Traffic Control-ler. Member and Instructor. The Georgian Snoopies. Civil Engineering University of ·Wa-terloo. Evening Division Scien-ce Sir George Williams Univer-sity . PLATFORM To Ensure that the E.S. A. con-tinues as a functioning and Progressive body acting as a representative of all Evening Students concerned with Uni-versity affairs . To represent all evening science students on the Executive council of the Evening Division.

ARTS REP

GLEN ARTHUR D. HAR DING (The Georgian Team)

Ask Not What The E.S. A. can do for you, but what you can do for the E.S.A.

BACKGROUND Active E.S. A. worker Mem-

ber (honorary) Head for The Hills Ski Club. Publisher of On Guard magazine The Arts magazine of The Evening Stu-dents Association . Contributor to the l>aper regularly attended E.S.A. executive meetings. Former member of S.G. W.U. Soccer Team. President of The graduating Class of The High School Of Montreal 1967. Pre-sident of High School of Mont-real 1967 debating team .

PLATFORM Formation of democratically

elected evening Arts associa-tion Increasing the Arts faculty association budget. To effect more constructive programs for Arts Students. To work with the Executive Council to further the status and hopes of all evening students. To fight dictatorship of the right or the left at the student govern-ment level with democracy and understanding for the indivi-dual.

Slate for the Georgian Tam. Everyone has the right to

vote Please use it.

RICHARDS. STANFORD

BACKGROUND Former Cir-culation Manager "The Paper". Contributor to "The Paper". Survey Assistant Jo E.S.A. President B. O ' Mahony Alter-nate Delegate To the J.C.U.A. Editor Quebec High School Red Cross News 196 2 / 64 . Presi-dent Quebec Red Cross Youth Alumni Association 1965 / 67. Publ,icity Chairman Montrea l Inter High Council 1964/ 65 . Delegate to Rendez vous 67 . President of Quebec delegation to Rendezvous 67. President of Chateauguay Kairos 1965 -1967. PLATFORM CREATIVE PHI-LOSOPHY

Organization of an Arts Fa-culty Assembly. Appointment of an Arts Faculty executive. Establishment of E.S.A. as a voting member of the S.L.C. Evening Registration for Even-ing Students. Complete reorga-nization of E.S.A. structure. Representation on all depart-ment and Faculty Committes. Increased communication to evening students by means of the internal media . Communi-cation to the external media on university affairs. Infor-mation program to the High Schools to inform them of Evening Student Affairs. In-corporation of an Education Dept in the E.S.A. Creation of Speakers and Conference pro-grams for Evening Students. Additional Funds For "The Paper" Addit ional Funds for T.V. and Radio Sir George. Financing of Creative research Programs by Professors. Pro-motion of more interest orga-nizations in the E.S.A. in ad-dition to the "Ski Club" "The Snoopies" and "The Photogra-phy Club" receiving more funds.

BARBARA EMO

" Better Education Through Ac-tive Participation." QUALIFICATIONS:

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Director of evening televi-sion Sir George Broadcaster and interviewer with television Sir George former teacher. District Chairman - Red Fea-ther Campaign. Superintendent of Christian Education. Execu-tive Member - Parent - Tea-cher Association . Youth Groups Leader. Audio-Visual Counsel-lor Recreation Program Su-pervisor - Montreal Children's Hospital.

STEPHEN E. RUBIN

BACKGROUND Age 23, Sa-lesman· Arts 1 worked with the Young Liberals. PLATFORM

A stronger voice for the E.S .A. in Sir George Williams University. Improvement of the Arts student image in Canada. Good sense, clear thinking and responsible action. Equality for all Formal commitment bet-ween administration faculty and student. More communication between day and ecening divi-sions. Initiate programs of regularly scheduled open con-ferences between elected arts faculty and evening arts repre-sentatives to incestigate impro-ving standards of instruction and meaningful ; programs of the times.

COMMERCE REP /AN K. Dewar

"Better Education Through Active Participation" BAC KGROUND

Founder and President of The Evening Students Associa-tion Ski Club. Assistant Direc-tor of "ON Guard" Evening Students Association Arts Ma-gazine. Advertizing Represen-tative for "The Paper".

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"Better Education Through Active Participation ."

PLATFORM: ( 1) Representation on all Uni-

versity bodies for Evening Stu-dents.

( 2) Enlargement of the fa-cilities now ava ila ble to Even-ing Students.

( 3 ) Democratization of Even-ing Student Association Mana-gement to ensure a voice in Evening Student Affairs for all Evening Students whether activE or not.

( 4) Financial remuneration for all E.S . A. executives ·since these executives spend as ,:nuch as 40 hours per week working on Evening Student Affairs .

( 5) Closer involvement with faculty members to ensure ade-quate exposure of Evening Stu-dent problems to these people.

( 6) To enrich the education of the Evening Student by in-creasing the number of guest speakers and special programs available to him "Better Edu-cation Through Active Parti-cipation" . ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

4 THE PAPER March 10th, 1969

LAW AND ORDER Since our precious minority took it upon them-

selves to run amuck in the Hall Building on Fe-bruary 11th, the university body as a whole has suffered just a bit in the way of restrictions upon entrance to Sir George edifices. The inception of identification card showing for entrance has, true to expectation, raised complaints from the "lovers of liberty" who's minds have nothing better to do than worry about the invasions of privacy caused by having to show their cards. Cries of "facist", "police state", etc., are _being heard. "Aware-ness" of picayune social issues with "deep mean-ing" has given rise to extensive verbal activity.

Just after the disturbances, the university established a set of regulations that have since been examined and basically supported by almost every student group on campus. The purpose of these regulations is to provide guidelines for behaviour in the Hall ,and Norris Buildings. Se-curity has been tightened and university officials are cautious.

However what is most amazing is that the enforcement of these regulations is lax at best. The university - a part of that traditional iccriacl-ast environment that is on one end of a growing credibility gap between the community and the educational institution is loath to enter into new ' areas of autoritarian application.

Around campus, we are seeing very strong and disturbing "right wing" backlash developing. A confrontation with radical groups is appearing more feasible every day. Tbe freedom of speech credo is being expanded so that it still includes the licence of people like Rodney Johns, Andre Boursa and the Maoists to create verbal confron-tation with an equally obnoxious extreme right wing. Rodney, using an oratorical style that would have shamed William Jennings Bryan, continues to hurl charges and accusation at the so-called "Administration". The Maoists, a ho-hum collec-tion of dedicated militants, preach dissention, prise dismissed lecturer David Orton and expound a fixed idealogy so unmovable that any difference between them and the fascist regimes of pre-war Germany and Italy are negligible. Then their mem-bers, like Andre Boursa go home to their "op-pressed" heavens on Morningside Drive in subur-ban Senneville.

So what happens to the vast majority of stu-dents who want educations or just degrees. Well they attend make-up classes, do work catch-up home work and keep fumbling around for I.D. cards at the door while having their packages searched. Meanwhile. the University receives several bomb threats a week. Nice isn't it?

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ANTI-ORTON Dear Sir :

Much hos been said and wr itten concerning Professor David Orton in the post few weeks. Who is David Orton and what is So-ciology 427.0? I would like, a s a third year Arts student to present my views on the subject.

The brief summary given in The Sir George 1968 1969 Calendar led me to believe that I was enrolled in what would prove to be a sti mulat ing and enlightening course.

Well , it proved to be one big deceptive let-down . Our first two lectures were spent listening to O rton's rendition of the philoso-phy of the new left . No ment ion of cou rse outl ine, reading lists, examination, o r the usual things that compose a typical "bour-geois" university course. By the end of three weeks, that over-worked theme began to make me wonder whether we were going to study anything or listen over and over aga in to the same re-cord .

Eventually the class pressured Orton into a general clue-in about what he wonted from us . As for a book-list, O rton a ssigned for the most port, the writings of Marx, Len in, Stal in, and Moo Tse-Tung . It should be obviou s to the reader that we were getting a neat little package of com-munist literature. Please don't get the wrong idea - I om no right-wil}g fanatic, and I om all in favour of ha ving on opportunity to study Marxist etc. literatu re, but having to sit through Orto n's one-sided and bigoted sermons in ing to sit through Orton 's one-sided and b igoted sermons in which Maoist ideology is pushed with no attempt at objective and rational cri ticism irks my sense of the pu rpose and composition of a profitable ~ourse.

Naturally, accustomed a s we ore to the " bou rgeois" requ ire-ments, the need to obtain a credit , the class wonted to know how g rades were to be determined . Almost casually, on February 27th , the students decided that they will determine the grading system.

Orton's big word is "participa-tion". This con mean anything from selling the "Sir George Student" paper to "exposing the bourgeois administration" or " those bastards who ore running this university". Anyone who was in room H-110 when Orton paid this "compliment" to the

administrators will recall his classic and eloquent speech! But this is a "democratic" class! Anyone con soy anyth ing they wish that bu ilds up Moo and tears down anything opposed to him . Really democratic! But try it the other way around- that's another sto ry . Mao ism is treated wi th great amounts of praise. The only treatment of the other social systems (like Canada's is done in a highly negative and destruct-ive manner.

As an added attraction to the O rtonite circus, we ore invited to step right up to hear the elo-quent words of "g uest lecturers". They hove done good jobs of pre-senting one side of the political picture. Why con the other side not be given the some considera-tion? True, we live in a capitalist society, but does this entitle O rton to completely eliminate any positive discussion of this si de also?

Needless to soy, the supreme test of good-wi ll on behalf of " participants" was involvement in the recent chaos over the " Anderson Affair". As _ for as Orton was concerned, racism was purely not the issue. Rother, the student body hod to be con-verted to viewing this a s merely a by-product of a corrupt, bour-geois, imperialist, and exploiting soc iety . Father O rton urged his missionaries to go out into the field and the more convinced fol-lowers set about their task with fantastic zeal. This led to the arrest of three members of the class.

Speaking of missionaries, Father George Predelli , the uni-versity's " progressive" Romon Cathol ic chaplain, attends cla s-ses regularly in o rder to expound on Marx and Lenin .

Orton won 't be bock next year. His faithful fol lowers o re in deep mourn ing , for they consider his "firing" to be a political issue, and again on imperialistic move on the port of the corrupt and op-pressive bourgeois administra-tion. The more active types in class intend, once again a s mis-sionaries to the stu dent body, to convert with thei r typical one-sided bigoted and bia sed talks and writings the whole student body to their viewpoint .

Much hos been omitted from the case of the O rton dismissal. Any li terature (? ) published by the class on this subject always uses the blatant and all-inclusive "we" when referring to the total mem-bership of the class. Obviously, dissenters ore overlooked, grvrng the impression that it is indeed the entire student membership which is in unanimous support of Orton.

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LETTERS TO THE PAPER toncerning the above-mentioned troubles have anything to do with the answer to (1 )?

It surely is deploroble when the the Georgian is relieved of its editor because he openly support-ed the occupying students - while The Paper, openly supporting the prosecute-them, hong-them, de-port-them response, not only re-tains its editorial staff, but re-ceives substantial financial en-couragement. (Sig .) Diana Nemiroff - Arts II Ann Fletcher· G rad . English Charles Baumgarten - Grad . Eng . Michael Nemiroff - Grad . English Hilda Graham - English Conferen-ce Leader

(ed. Note: To answer your question and

refute false assumptions I submit the following :

1. Printing and press opera-tions have progressed beyond your knowledge. Today one pass will suffice for a number of colours . The routing of the newsprint through the stands achieves the desired results w ithout the neces-sity of multiple passes. Conse-quently costs are not tripled. Only the charge for colour ink is made -$40 per colour on a fou r page plate. This covers ink, set-up and additional "make-readys" .

2. Approximately 17% of the A edition you question was devoted -to paid advertising space - pro-

ducing a gross revenue of $580.50, 3 . The money for "all this

newsprint" is derived from a bud-get, duly approved by the Execu-tive Council of the Evening Stu-dents ' Association and augmented with revenue from retail, classi-fied and other class advertising.

4 . The Paper is not pro-admin-istration . Several attempts to in-terest those of opposite views in presenting their arguments - sen-sibly and logically - have met with failure except for Carl Hager who is doing an excellent job to date.

5 . What the Students' Associa-tion does and how it controls its media is in no way indicative of the way in which The Paper's

iA publishers and the E.S.A. operate. lw, 5 . Nowhere will you see my edi-

torial policy advocating prosecu-tion, hanging and deportation . If you suggest I should control my contributing Editors then you sup-port censorship which is intole-rable .

7. Your statement " ... but re-ceives substantial financial encou-ragement" tops off a series of /udecrous assumption cum ques-tions.

With the exception of Diana Ne-miroff who is still undergraduate , I would suggest to you, that as graduate students supposedly oriented to research , you obtain facts - true facts before you use your freedom of speech to run off at the mouth on printing pro-cesses and financial sources. )

ABUSE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Dear Sirs: I am writing thi s lette r with re-

gard to the decision of the Un i-versity not to reh ire Professor Dave Orton . I find it strange that an inst itution that cla ims ta be " liberal" and guarantees the rights of academic freedom , abu-ses it s own guarantees. I consider myself to be a person divorced from any political aff iliation a s well a s any ideologies that are measured on the position of a scale, be it right, left, cent re , or what-have-you . Keep ing thi s in mind, perhaps one could con-sider my views a s object ive, and extremely relevant to this case.

May I point out that I am a stu-dent in Professor O rton' s class, and therefore I am qualified in a ssessing an opinion on the course and on the lecturer . Students we-re initially shocked by Professor O rton's method of carrying out tre course. The monologue system which was embedded in the minds of most students, that is to say, the system whereby the professor lectures, the student takes notes, and spews these notes when exam time appears , this system is to-tally done away with in this cour-se . In its place a triologue a p-peored whereby the bulk of the lecture period consisted of com-munications between lecturer and student, student and lecturer, and student and student . It was this method thot involved the student in the -closs, moking him think ond act in a most subjective man-ner . The fact that Professor Or-ton is a self -proclaimed Marx is t-leninist , (and I do not agree with hi s ideology in the least bit ), and the fact that he orientates the course towa rd s thi s slant does not inc ri minate him in the least . The majority of the people in his class do not agree with hi s view-point but everyone may present their own particular analysis. It is a total fallacy to imagine that no other ideology is tole rated in the cou rse except that of Professor Orton . Included with readings by Mao, Lenin and Marx is John Porter's "T~e Vertical Mosaic". Also included in class topics a re "The Anti -Communist Critique" and a topic in " Political Geogra-phy" . The two world views are therefore present in the class in contrast to the single world view that is taught in othe r courses.

One most dissociate one's b e-liefs with one 's rights . To clari -fy, because the university disa-grees with Professo r O rton 's practicing beliefs the university is not justified in d ismissing him. Is the university pfraid that we are being brainwashed and cor-rupted by Professor O rton? It should be realized that stud ents as a whole in university think for themselves and if they do not be-lieve in an ideology, then they will simply not conform to that view-point. We are not children! Let us not be hypocritical. If we do not wish to have Dave Orton around, let us say " academic freedom , with exceptions".

Yaki Mandel ARTS IV

POSITIVIST IC SCHIZOPHRENIA(?)

Dear Sirs : Haye just completed reading the

copyrighted (? ) garbage elucidated by Mr. O 'Mahony. Lovely stuff . Filled with the stink of academic utilitarianism. Today's Univer-sity the technocrat's paradise, operated by the likes of Mr. O 'Ma-honey . I like the olive tree ... it's cool and shady and relatively tran-qu il. I enjoy ideas; I rape con-

. cepts and love indulgir"!g in purely theorit ical efforts like th is one.

Perhaps Mr. O 'Mahony belongs in a se rvice college. Maybe some of the rumps froth ing at the mouth a nd penis ought to be vis iting

· prisoners, or di stributing b read to the poor (oh yes, it does happen in Montreal ) o r keep ing their hands off pregnant female adolescents. Highly commendable, but I enjoy my idea s, my antique Marxi st ideology and Jean Jacques Rou s· seau ... and I like Sir George; at least unt il the likes of Mr. O 'Ma-hony and his troops ma rshal! at the door , with their cost-price curves, digital calculations and more-changing soma experiences. Then I' ll out .

Yes university resea rch may re-

suit in social betterment. Yes ideas sometimes generate revol u-tions, but let's leave that out "there" . No ivory tower, just a quiet place where books and plays and Gregorian lays may co-inhabit with leisure and in pleasure... a bucket of san it~ in a well of despair.

(Ed. Note :

E.S. Obrigewitsch Arts IV

You have provided our readers with a first hand example of Schi-zophrenia. Thank you. ).

ANSWERS Dear Sirs :

It would seem that in the pre-sent crisis at Sir George, a nu m-ber of person s a re involved in a desperate attempt to vindicate Sir George of the suggest ion that this institution is a rac ist in st itu -tion . The measures these persons have taken ranged from the absurd (blaming all day students in the a rts faculty fo r the si tuat ion ) to the illegal (withdrawing from UGEQ without first holding the necessory referendum a s required by the constitut ion of the S.A. ) and the slanderou s (accusing faculty who suggest a rea soned approach to the whole off air of being rad ica Is and/ or dupes who will allow the destruction of Si r George . Ques-tion : Is reason really that much of a threat to our university? )

I am not prima rily interested in the motives of these fear -crazed individual s; what I am a sking is that the students, faculty , and other

_ persons who work and study at thi s institution ask them selves a few q uestions which the above mentioned are trying their damn-dest to avoid and obscure.

l ) If Sir George is not a racist institution , then why was the beat-ing and subjectation to degrading insults of the persons apprehend-ed by the Montreal police depa rt-ment within our university on Feb-ruary 11 tolerated? (Read the daily newspapers, listen to radio and television news-casts, and talk with those who were arrested for Christ's sake and if you need do-cumentation!) Not only was th is behaviour tolerated but justified by those who pretend that it never occured and/ or say that the police were only doing their duty. I ask you, if the drawing of oversized female gentilia on a blackboard followed by a remark by a police officer to a dark-skinned young girl , "That's why you niggers like to fuck so much" is whith in the dutie s of a police officer then, we are , in fact , racists all and this institution stand s guilty, ipso facto, as charged .

2) If Sir George is not a raci st institution , then why was the pu· blication of a column by Mr. Andy King in Volume I, No. 19 of The Paper (entitled " A Breakdown irony, o irony ) in which it was stated " Of those arrested ... 55 were white , 42 black " not met by outrageous protest and an apology by the editor of The Paper and/ or Mr. King . ( I use thi s merely as an example of the type of publi-cations and statements mode re-cently the re a re ma ny more ). Is Mr. King th e Creato r who can draw fin e d istinctions between the chromes of human skin colou r and say with smug a ssurance that all on one side of his arbitrary line are black and the other white when modern scientists hove all but given up attempting such a remarkable feat?

a raci st it that

Mont-

3) If Sir George is not institution , then why is persons facing charges in reel 's criminal courts have been judged gu ilty before their trial s by the administration and hence

hove been suspended from this institution . ( If you answer, " But they burned ... they might do it a -gain, etc ." , then you too are guilty of overruling the due process of law within thi s country.)

I hope to hell that the university I attend is not guilty, but I want answers -- reasoned answers , not polemics. hope that many of us have many such questions and more which must be asked (and answer-ed ) -- after all, the majority of us at Si r G eorge are students who se function it is to a sk questions (isn't it? ), even if those questions a re sometimes painful and embarass ing to ask. It is interesting to note that after the burning of the com-puter (" Event" is a much nicer word that has been bandied about lately) there were prec ious few questions being a sked at Sir George -- at lea st I haven 't heard them . What a re we afraid of? That there might be some truth in the allegat ion s being made aga inst ou r precious inst itut ion? (How are we going to find out if we ignore the question? ) Truth is ra rely pretty . The dest ruction of property is unpleasant. The destruction and degradat ion of human beings is even more distasteful. And lies and dishonestly (in thought and deed ) are the pitiful result of destroyed and unhuman being s. Hence, I pity those who allowe d their minds to die with the com-puter and stood screaming like demented erased things, " Let them burn!", never to think again .

With all due respect, Ronald J. Brown, Arts 11

P.S. I would a sk the editors of our two newspapers that, a s they are better informed on the mood of the campus , they not use my name if they see fit to print th is letter . If you, in your opinion be-lieve the situation too dangerous for the ind ividual who a sks ques-tions at this time, then I ask that you respect my desire to be un-molested and harrassed . . But, trust the abilities of the editors of the two campus papers to judge the situatio n and th a t if you feel that the chances a re slim of my being molested, et al , then you may print my name along with this letter.

Thank you. (Sig ) Ronald J . Brown

Arts II

(Ed. Note : 1 ) There was -no beating of per-

sons apprehended by the Montreal Police Department on February 1 1th on the ninth floor. As for degrading insults, I only have your word to go on . The press , notably the MONTREAL ST AR did dis-tort some news, but I challenge you to support your trumped up brutality charges with facts .

2) I protest your inability to comprehend. This breakdown you object to also points out to your " racists" that this was not a "black" insurrection thus taking the onus off a wrongly damned black community. As for fine dis-tinction on co/our, I might point out that " Black Power" and its tagalong attributed also fit into your argument. Colour is not so much a scientific issue as it is a social and cultural one.

3) Perry Anderson was also suspended from teaching and his students have missed a great deal of class time because he was " ipso facto" judged guilty by way of threats against his person by those against him.

Finally , Mr. Ronald J . Brown , the fact that you want answers and can't get them could be partly, at least , because you won' t stop

to listen to anything other than your own dubious logic.)

TO CHICKEN TO SIGN

Dear Sir, I would like to bring to your

attention the fact that there is presently a letter being circulated among members of the faculty ask-ing for financial help for some of the " poor oppressed" few 97 who so efficiently destroyed our computer center and a good por· tion of our universi ty building .

The letter was put out by mem-bers of the French deportment a nd is being passed on without the knowledge of the student body -(fo r obvious reason s). I decided I hod an " obligation" to info rm the academ ic community.

These so called enlightene d leaders hove student messengers, circulat ing among us, one of whom t ried to persuade me that they only wont to see " justice" re n-dered .

Damage having been extensive both physically and by way of ou r reputat ion , not only do I fo il to see righ tfulness done by a mone-tary donation , but I al so fail to see why on attempt was mode to keep thi s letter hidden if it is for "a lawful cau se" ?? !

It has been rumored that $2 ,000 hos been collected ; if a ju st cau se is to be served let them turn the money over to the Restauration Fund.

If these people a re so concern· ed with justice fo r a minority of 0.5 %, what about justice for the other 99.5% and si nce when do faculty members support wanton violence and destruction?!

a concerned student

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

3entlemen : They grey shield of smoke hos

cleared away, the Hall Building no longer burns, but what hos been uncovered is on even bigger moss of nebulous grey that which shows itself on the faces of the vast majority of Sir George Williams students, who, still stunned , wo nder why it all really happened .

• Looking back over the events of the school year it becomes ev ident that there are a multipl i-city of interwoven and perhaps even conflicting, causes leading up to the crisis of February eleventh . The issue was not for long a case of Februa ry ereventh. The issue was not fo r long a ca se of rac is m, in fact , it is amazing how quickly Mr . Anderson's ca se was pushed aside for a more abstract one of general social change . The issues then become mo re than that of Professor Anderson ... they became raci sm; they become than that of ad-ministrotion ... they become onti -establishment. In short , they be-come a matter of revolutiona ry change .

The majo ri ty of us believe to some extent o r another that someth ing must be cha nge d ; perhaps if we d id n' t befo re, we are convinced of it no w - but only a fe w have an y rea l co nce pt io n of what they th in k th is cha nge must

The others ca n o nly a sk afte rwa rd with a fee ling of hel-lessness : " why? why? " .

The fact rema ins that there ,s a necess ity fo r change and it 's going to come wh ethe r we like it o r not , the vital quest io n th en is in which d irection will it hap· pe n. Will it cha nge in the d ire c-t ion that a mino rity of people

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choose, merely be;ouse the mo· jority were not aware of the necessity of involvement?

All around Sir George there ore voices cry ing o1Jt : "Why blame us, it was only o minority". " But why were o minority able lo control the ~ituotion of such on extent?" comes the reply .

The ore many · reasons for the political apathy of the students at Sir George. - Many feel that they simply do not know enough yet to be able to act , that is why they ore at University study ing . Others ore satisfied with their lives and don 't feel on impending necessity for questioning the esta bl ishment . These ore pro· establishment . These ore p rob-ably legitimate reasons for lock of involvement, but the shocki ng truth is that they ore now luxuries of the post; si nce there ore tho se who feel change is so vital that it mu st be total , and now. And they will go to any means to see that change tokes place. These ore, for one, the members of the Sir George Student Movement who's basis for change is Marxist-Leninist.

Fu, rnuny who see bod in the Canadian society there 1s on ap-peal to the Marxian analysis; in fact , to ingore the o stut~ness of this analysis is to be blind . How-ever, there is o further appeal and that is the simplistic analysis which the Historical Materialism and the l)iolectics offer. Un-fortunately, however, life is infinite and no simplistic analy-sis of it con poss ibly begin to grasp the totality of its meaning. But to some the appeal is strong

in its dogma they find life sim ple to grasp : the re are friend s :ind enemies; bourgeois and pro-leteriot ; the right and the wrong

the Correct Line . People ore cat egorized systematically , ev-erything is neatly tagged and set into its place, and everything con be understood in terms of the "Closs Struggle" . But to them the subt ilties, the complexities, the compromises of life ore lost .

Each of us desires o goal, something that will give meaning to what we do -· something that we con develop towards. For the Marxist Leninist revolution is hi s meaning, and hi s peculiar devotion to the cause is no dif-ferent from th at of o scientist to Science or a monk to Christ. For him the deci si on hos been mode, he accepts the catego ries of progressive and reactionary and readily classi fies each and every-one of us.

So in the pa st weeks many of us hove been pushed to the so -coiled for right . We have been coiled reactionaries, -and lockies of the establishment, we hove been call -ed bourgeois and uncritical , when in fact we understand too well the deficiencies of our society and hope to change it radically. But we ore still cl ossified . Heo p-ed into the m ossive pile of Bour-geois reactionaries. Why? Because for them there is no in-between , there ore .no subtle differences. There is rig ht, and there is wrong, and they will take any measure to achieve what they think is right . Forcing , proding, eliminating, with nothing in view but their goal, "The Revolution." Their behaviour has brought to our attention the nature of their goal and many of us ore sicken· ed to see such o worthy cause (that of self-criticism and change) distorted by a minority of rigid and unthinking individuals. What is to be done? Are we going to sit back and watch the disruption and domination of many by few? O r, ore we going to toke matters firmly in hand and guard the things we value, s uch as our

LETTERS TO THE PAPER democratic system , which how-eve r ridiculed still means mo-1onty rule and e limination of dogmatic fanaticism. Lest we find ourselves left again, asking : "Why ... why?".

L. Ja ne Domu de Arts Ill, Sociology.

AN OPEN LETTER • Dear Sirs,

As o student in the Evening Division of SGWU, I hove been deeply concerned with the even ts toking place at the university recently , and I om even more concerned with the action to be token in the next few weeks.

Those persons who "occupied" o port of the university building hove broken several lows, d is· rupted the studies of other st u-dents, and cost the Canadian lox· payers a great deal of money . It is the innocent who suffer from this type of action.

It should be the concern of every rational and responsible student at this university and, in fact , all universit ies in Canada, a s we ll a s oil citizens who ore forced through income tax to su bsidize education-, to see that one of the demands of the "re b-

els" is fulfilled . They cried, "We want justice" . I eor~estly hope that they wil l hove meted out to

"them exact justice. Ou r system of low includes punishment to meet crimes; anything less (should th ey

"be let off with o warning or o su spended sentence ) would be to mete out injustice to oil who did not toke port in their insurrec-tion. They hove violated the rights and property of others ; justice wou ld demand that they make reparation. If they hove not done so by the time they are old enough

, to ente r university, they rl)ust learn now to bear the responsibi-lity fo r their actions .

Those who ore not Canadian citizens should be dealt with a s o re other al iens who commit o crime against their host count ry. Those who ore not students should be dealt with a s common crimin-als.

It is vitally important to the future of our country that o stand for the rig hts of the individual be .en now and here. The fact that other universities hove "o bserv-ers" in Montreal indicates that this 1s o "test case", and that those persons under arrest now may hove been used a s " guinea pigs" . The results of legal action against those arrested will de-termine, in large measure, the course of events in other univer-sities; the student "observers" will be waiting to see jusj hqw for they con go, just how much they con get owoy with . · Now is the time to let them know that the victims will no longer sanction crimes ago inst their property or persons (irreparable damage may hove been done, insofar a s studies, grades, etc., are con-cerned, to other students at the university ), and that they will be mode to bear the full responsibili-ty and consequences for their actions.

In the o foregoing, hove spoken only for myself, but I hope that all responsible students and citizens will info rm the adm inis-tration of the university that they will support them in o firm stand against those who hove no respect for the rights of others. They con do this by writing to the university or, if they wish, by signing their names to o copy of th is letter and send ing it to the university .

A.G . Haigh

KEEP THE FAITH Dear Sir :

I would like to comment upon and voice on ob jection to one par-ticular item that was raised at a meeting of the E.S.A. Executive Council attended by some evening students.

The formal council meeting was the fifth item on the agenda of on emergency meeting coiled to discuss the recent series of events at S.G . W.U. that culminated in gross violence and wanton des-truction.

At the formal council meeting it was ascertained that o quorum of the executive council was pre-sent. At no time were the affi -liations of the other people present questioned . At this point Mr. Ro ss Miles tabled o motion of non-. confidence in Mr. Hons Schoehc-ter, on the grounds that he was absent for two consecutive council meetings and, therefore, accord ing to the constitution of the E.S. A. could or should be removed from office. Objections to the motion were raised for various reasons : personal and constitutional.

The constitutional objection was that the meeting was not o n As-sembly Meeting and therefore Mr. Sc hoechter could not be removed fro m office. To cut o long story sho rt - those present at the meet-ing were informed that they were attend ing on Assem bly Meeting

a mysterious transfo rmat ion contra ry to the circulated Agenda!

I no longer wish to dwell upon the even ts of the meeting mi -nutes of some con be obtained by Monday, February 23 , 1969.

The constitution clearly points out the procedure for colling As-sembly o r Executive Council meetings . The procedure was not adhered to . The constitution does not allow for emergency meetings . I cannot see any need for emer-gency meeting s of the Assembly-the Executive Council has a mo n-dote to represent the E.S.A. should any emergency arise.

The whole Unive rs ity hos wit-nessed the fia sco of the removal from the Executive Council of Mr. Sam Cloy. I, fo r one, w ill seriously quest ion the credibility of the Executive Council if one of its members is removed from office at any meeting other than a properly scheduled meeting of the Assembly.

Surely Mr. Ross Miles, if he wishes to present such o motion, would hove the courtesy to inform Mr. Schachter of hi s intentions in order that Mr. Schoechter might speak on his own behalf .

In summary Mr. Editor the Constitution of the E.S.A. conta ins a procedure for non-confidence motions and terms of reference. Let us not handle our internal affairs in such a careless manner contrary to our constitution. The University community is watching .

John F. Walsh c.c. Messrs. W. O'Mohony

Ross Mi!es

GETTING CARRIED AWAY

Dear Sir :

Ottawa hos $10,000,000 to the increasing Canada has in French- peaking frico in all fields".

just pledged Tunisia " to reflect

interest wh ich its relations with countries of A-

Canada supports oil legal action token against ninety stu-dents involved in the Sir George Williams disa ster , thereby a iding the emergence of . a powerful white blocklo sh, coloured with strong anti-French separat ist feeling . These 41 block, 49 white students cost Canadians roughly

ten cents apiece by their actions on February 11th. I om glad to see that our alleg iance to the Afro-ench Idea is intact. Tunisia fores well. Moy she learn early never to ask for anything.

Montreal , meanwhile, festers with a cancerous resen tment that, oddly enough , surprises only o minority of whites the block community having knows all along th at Montreal 's racism wa s wa iting to flourish in the open. Better to hove it out but when it tu rns to backlash, it is intoler-able. Neither side con deal with it rationally because they no long-er wont to .

I cannot acc ept the pun itive zeal expressed by the privileged ma-jority in this country, not only against the blocks involved in the Sir George event, but the white students who supported the cause . The cry goes up "All must be punishedr' Thereby stands Equality.

What about thi s craze for puni-tion, the hunger for those ninety pounds . of flesh? We all know that one must pay the consequences for every act, but if society is going to mete out equal pain to block a s well as to white students, shouldn 't it also allow them equal pleasure the same acceptance, the some housing, the some feel -ing that they belong, the so me meaning to o college degree? Is offering them the some bleak education realistic in any way? The wound . that educat io n now bea rs will become the most sinister of scars to be felt by all students because of moj;rity reaction to o d esperate plea to be heard.

As Professo r Chester Davis 9f Sir George points out, many of these block students ore gentle people, good workers, proficient in studies and seriously com-mitted to o very real cause. Why do we ignore that? They compose nearly half of o body of ninety young lives , and even if a number were committed only to violence, what right does that g ive us to scream for blood? Have any of us ever hit another in anger? Where do oil ' those battered children get battered? In what joyless homes?

When Stokely Carmichael said that "Violence is a s American as apple pie, he might hove added " a s Canadian as snow", becau se ou r violence is cold and silent. Racism , backla sh, hostility and a quiet vind ictiveness... we hand-le them politely. The mosque of good manners is over. We hove the ulcerous example of Halifax to learn from. Let's not odd Mont-real to the desolate, sp iritu al wasteland that is quickly becom-ing our country.

Lindo Bikodoroff English Deportment

TRUTH AND FACTS Dear Sirs:

From what I hove been able to observe as a byston~er and port time faculty member, the impasse between the Block students and the administration arose out of a failure on both sides to different-iate between fact and truth . On the administration's side , there seems to hove been a plethora of facts which somehow never come to grips with the truth. On the side of the Blocks, on overwhelm-ing truth which sometimes ignor-ed the facts . I think the real na-ture of the conflict wh ich led up to the tragedy of February 11th was best articulated in the ex-change of questions and answe rs between Professors Davis on d Boynes, speaking for the Block community, and Professors Scheps and Laffey, speaking for

the white liberals. Basically, the Block professors ask whether o r not the white world, which hos inflicted incalculable damage upon the block world, is now wil-ling to extend certain speci al privileges, make special conces-sions, which would enable blocks to enter and shore the common world we a ll talk so much about, on o genuinely equal footing. My reading of the replies Profes-sors Scheps and Laffey mode is that essentially they ore saying no. I believe that if the respon se of the entire white community continues to be no , then at the very least we hove learned singularly litt le from Februo ry 11th. Let us go bock to the dia-logue that hod opened up at Sir George, before oil ou r words turned to cinders .

A week or so before the oc-cupation , a Block Talk-in was held on the mezza nine, and stopped by to listen. Som eone who'd been listen ing for longer than rebuked the spea ker for not offering some rea l issues, like the Blocks hod at Son Fran-cisco State". Angrily, the Block speaker turned upo n him: "Who ore you, whitey, to tell me what is importan t to me?" That was question number one. I asked o of myself. And hod to conclude that mine, too, was o racist • titude, requiring a formul a t ion the problems of the Blocks whi fit in to my notion of what these issues might be. So , it would seem, is the attitude which soys that Blocks ore only one of many oppressed minorities, neither the first (nor presumably the lost?) to feel threatened with genocide. In setting priorities, is not the Block being a sked to stand in line, to accept some pre-determ ined order -of preference, some scien. tific measurement of the degree of . his sufferin g by which he 1s supposed to recognize when his turn for help arrives? Is it true, a s Professors Sheps and Laffey state, that the position of Blocks is more on American problem than o Canadian one, and that other minorities hove prio_r claa to our time and sympathy? T9 Block hos decided that his turn is now. He is not w01t1ng for the teacher to coll on him. Th is is the decision he ho s mode, and no amount of liberal sentiment is going to change it.

There ore people who reprove him for his insistence, who use the statistic of six million mur-dered Jews a s if it were a base-ball bot with which they could strike out ory further demands upon their con science , a s if those six million hod paid in advance for any further claims upon their humanity. Perhaps the reason Blocks ore m1n1mmng the plight of other minorities (and it might be well to remember that in the human race, whites ore the smal-lest of minorities ) is that too often such statistics hove been used to bully them into silence. If- Blocks feel that they must assert their rights of precedence now, or perish, this is on historical reality . They hove tried every other method short of confronta-tion, and none of them worked. It is the white world that defined the range of their choices.

Other "so-called issues" were raised at the Talk-In . " We a sked the adm inistration for o separate lounge for Block students, and they gave us on over-sized broom closet way up in the bock of the building r1

I hove no way of knowing the facts, but I would guess that the administration did the best it could to comply with the request, considerin g the extent to with its ,facilities qre over-taxed .

LETTERS ... I would a lso guess that whether or not the space assign ed wa s sat isfacto ry d id not really depen d either upon it s size or its loca-tion. I hove observed, and anyone who enters the Holl Build ing con ob~erve , that there ore two places a t which Block students congreg-a te spontaneously. One is along the steel-bocked bench on the mezzan ine, clo se to the escalat-ors, and the other is at the table nearest the door in the cafete ri a . These ore probably the lea st hospitable a reas . in a bu ild ing wh ich seems to hove been design-ed with inhospital ity in mind .

I suggest that these locations truly describe and def ine the equivocal position in which Block students find themselves at Sir George, for more accurately than any correspondence on the a ssignment of room s. They o re neither oil the way in no r oil t he way out . They o re a s close as possible to what looks like the action (the most visible evidence of which is the movement of the escalator) without actually tok-ing part in it. Whose fault is it if these are the pos1t1ons they choose? No one hos confined them to those meeting places. No admin istration that purports to move 18,000 students a round a build ing co n take responsib ility fo r the subtle feel ings of excl u-sion expressed by these un-conscious choices. Adm inistra -tions con only deal with appl ica-tion blanks, so it isn't the ad-ministration 's " fault". But the truth does extend beyond the facts . The Blocks o re not in because

llfll&ey don't feel in , and they cannot •' in unless they can really be

in. The position of the student on the mezzanine is symbolic of his position in society. He hos been told until he is blue in the face that if he does oil the right things, he can enter the white world, but the truth is that no matter what he does, he real -ly can't. And we are liars if we pretend he con .

Another charge was made by the speaker at the Talk- In . He had token a course in the " History of the Modern World" in which not a single mention was made of

. the non-white nations. Someone in the audience replied that he hod token the same course, and it was called " History of Modern Europe". The speaker had his

Acts wrong, but wasn't he col-'9,g attention to a more signific-

ant truth? How many courses do include the port ployed by non-whites in what we call Western Civil ization? Indeed, such information can be very hard to come by, as anyone who has ever attempted research along those lines will testify. But what a fasc inating opportun ity the idea of "equal or proportional time for the contributions and problems of the non-white world" would offer to make course content more relevant. In fact , How well-educated is the man with a degree who knows nothing of the way four-fifth s of mankind lives?

Now another quotation from the Talk-In . " In this university I om on invisible man . Nobody greets me in the hall, nobody speaks to me in class. Why? Because I'm block. Block is beautiful. Why can't you people see me?"

The one good thing that d id hap-pen before the roof fell in was that during the two weeks preced-ing February 11th, whites d id see blocks for the first time. Every-where one sow a block, there were four or live whites standing around, arguing . They may not hove agreed, but at least they were getting to know something about each other. The halls of the school hod really come olive.

One lost point. Perhaps the thing which troubled me most about the questions and answers

in the Statement was the implica-tion that They a re asking Us fo r concessions, that it is the whi te ma n's wo rld , a nd the con d ivi de it up a nd pa rcel it out a s he sees l it. Mora lly Ii( that is . Maybe it is the wh ite ma n's world , but if it is , that is just what's wrong with it. I would like to be lieve that it is sti ll possible fo r us to be huma n together, to li ve together . co n o nl y pray, now that Histo ry does not p rove me wrong . Leenie Zin er

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PROFESSOR POWER Dear Sirs:

It hos become increasingly evident that the facts surround ing the " David O rton Affa ir' ' (the other ploy-thing issue, second only to Perry Anderson ), transc-end any polit ical ideology, but fri nges upon the entire quest ion of the depth and scope of acade-mic freedom .

For some, the firing of David Orton is another purge by the admin istration to rid the universi-ty of oil dangerous characters, and according to these people is depr iving Mr. Orton of his right of freedom of pol itical ideology and in addition, a means of livel ihood. For others the question seems obvious. Mr. O rton is a Marxist-Leninist, and a s a result, should not be spout-ing his ph ilosophy in a un iversity authoritarian frame-work which requires a p rofessor to teach only what is required to be learn-ed on on examination . Both of these views neglect the gut issue at hand . The issue is pla in and simple (although the answer is not ): what is academic freedom?

The first quest ion that must be asked is what is the purpose of .a university education and by what means should this be achieved? To temporo [ily escape from materialism, the purpose is to gain on expanded world-view philosophy whereby the individual becomes more aware of his en-vironment, and of his universe and -of the philosophies, ideolo-g ies and lows of nature relating to them . To achieve this requ ires investigation inquiry, and discus-sion on many levels. Throughout this period, the student must make commitments and must be-come involved within the philoso-phy he is investigating . But this commitment must not be so nar-row as to reject oil of the philo-sophies. To seek one form and mode of ideology is religion. To _be aware and open to oil forms of ideology is knowledge.

Secondly, there is no doubt th at the student quest for knowledge takes on at various times in the process, a political commitment. This is beneficial and necessary for one must become involved . But this must not cause the stu-dent (or professor for that mot-

· ter ) to neglect oil other pol itical forms relevant to this awareness. A student enters part icular courses of interest to him to increase this awareness. The commitment follows. It does not preceed it .

Which brings us now full circle to what th is means to the profes-sor and his role in communicat-ing such awareness. His role, rega rdless of his philosophy, i~ to , by means of his advanced knowledge in the particular sub-ject, give to the student a com-plete and objective insight and to provide adequate means for the student to question, d iscuss, and investigate, on his own , oil rele-vant facts o r theories relating to the subject. His duty is not to propagandize, but to present the issue at hand. And like it or not as in oil institutions, th is is done with in on outhorotorion structure. Some may soy " Is this freedom? " . Well , let' s look at the other si de of the bog . The professor, as any student knows, conducts his courses according to the way he

feels he con best communicate the subject. The professor hos the freedom to pu bl ish a rticles, books, etc .. . o r to become involv-ed pol itically in any wa y he sees l it, such tho! his a wa reness is al so increased . He loo hos the freedom of comm itment . The p rofesso r lr6s the freedom to set his own standards o f the pa rticul-a r cou rse, in reference to course load, exam in t1ons, a nd te rm papers . But thi s freedom stops when the professo r imposes upon others his philosophy and his pol itical commitment, !here by neglect ing the right of the stude nt to a complete investigation a nd inqu iry.

Mr. O rton a s is obvious, is pol itically committed and is well aware of his philosophy . For th is he must be respected , but not necessa rily accepted . For when he attempts to expound his ph il o-sophy in ·the context of reject in g the other concepts relevant to the particula r sub ject, then that is infringing on the rights of the student. Mr. Orton should remain here al th is Univers ity for his philosophy can be of great value, in increasing the awareness of the student in reference to Marxist-Len inist thought. But a s hos been proven he hos i.l the pas! re jected oil other concepts on d that is fingering what's ou rs .

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CONFUSION HITS SOCIOLOGY ,STUDENTS' UNION

by Andy King - F11atur11s Editor.

Factionism within the stu-dents of the Sociology Depart-ment has created a great deal of confusion over the status of the Sociology Students' U-nion. Ken Zwanzig, former chairman of the S.S. U. has said that he had dissolved the Sociology Students' Union and resigned his post as chairman becuse the orga-nization was not, in spite of claims to the contrary, re-presentative of the approxi-mately 3,000 students studying sociology at Sir George Wil-liams University.

"I could not allow myself and 3,000 other students to be used as a front for political agitation by a small co-or-dinated politically committed group." Mr. Zwanzig said, speaking at a press confe-rence had called in order to clarify a statement on the status of the Sociology Stu-dents' nion which was pub-lished in last weeks' edition of The Paper, and the geor-gian on March 5th.

"Some confusion appear to exist as to what actually happened since those who have assumed charge of the car-cass of the Union have called a meeting for Friday, March 7th."

Clive Copeland, who ha also resigned as a student representative on the Socio-logy Department Curriculum Planning Committee, said the union meetings were attended by "at most, 75 to 100 per-sons." "At this point, how can I attend meetings of the department, participate in the decision making process that is going to affect students of sociology for the next five years, and say that I I have a mandate from 3,000 socio-logy students?" Mr. Copeland asked.

"Average attendance at the union's meetings was about 30 to 35 people. We had one where 100 were present. But out of the 30 or 35, perhaps 10 were interested in a de-mocratic method of present-ing student views. The rest couldn't care less about the department or a student as-sociation... they were inte-rested in advancing their own political ideology and raising hell about only one issue, the decision not to renew Mr. (David) Orton's contract. "

Mr. Copeland went .on to say "With at least three names already, they seemed to lu t aft.er a fourth , the 'Sociology tudents' Union' , and they now have full po -session of it. "

Mr. Zwanzig said that in order to "untangle some of the confusion, I have released a statement titled 'Clarifica-tion of Current Status of the

ociology Students' nion' ."

(This statement is reprinted below)

"If the Sir George Student Movement, Marxist Leninist Study Group, etc., etc., now wants to add Sociology Stu-dents' Union to their list of organization names, that's fine." - "But I wante.d the 3,000 students of sociology at this university to know that their union was rapidly becoming another Maoist front. Rather than that thy should have any misconceptions about so-mething called the Sociology Students' Union, I-thought I'd set the record straight."

CLARIFICATION OF CURRENT STATUS OF

THE SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS' UNION

Released by: Kenneth Zwanzig (former Chairman, S.S.U.)

A great deal of confusion exists as to the reasons for my recent statement dissolv-ing the Sociology Students' Union, which was published in the March 3rd edition of The Paper and in the March 5th edition of the Georgian.

To further compound thi confusion, some person (or persons) has called a meet-ing of the Sociology Students' Union for Friday, March 7th.

It has become necessary to publicize the sequence of events leading up to my de-cision to dissolve the orga-nization:

1. At a meeting in October, chaired by Mike Rowan and then by Bert Young, the union was born with the stipulation that any student enrolled in one or more courses in So-ciology or Anthropology at Sir George Wi lliams Univer-sity was to be considered a member. The Sociology De-partment estimated that this would include approximately 3,000 students.

2. Subsequent meetings dur-ing the winter months ac-complished· little, if anything. Attendance at these meetings averaged under 40 students.

3. A meeting in late Ja-nuary, with less than 30 peo-ple voting, decided agai nst the concept of student parti-cipation on individual facu lty committees and urged, in-stead, complete restructur-ing of the Soci

FOREIGN STUDENTS' ALLOWANCE ADEQUATE SAYS CONSERVATIVE M~ P.

by Phillip G. Parker

The Honourable George Hees, federal member of Par-liament, and former candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party, was asked on Monday last, if he thought the $100-a-month a llowance was sufficient for foreign students studying in Canada. Mr. Hees said, " they are doing fine : I think that's o.k."

The statement was made by the former Minister of Trade and Industry, while lie was participating in the Ed Stock "Hot Seat" programme on CFCF Radio.

An unidentified caller told Mr. Hees that he was not in agreement with the request made by foreign students that their allowance be increased . The caller said that here in Montreal, many people were living on far less

....1 than $180-a-month. He referred to a case where a woman and her two children were living· on $158-a-month. At this point Mr. Hees said that the foreign students were doing much better. However, the M.P. gave no explan-ations as to why he thought the grants were adequate.

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DAVID ORTON: OVERVIEW £

A number of people, students and others, have • been protesting recently against the alleged "poli-

tical firing" of a lecturer at Sir George, Mr. David Orton . Mr. Orton's contract expires at the end of the summer, August 31, and a decision has been reached to the effect that the university does not wish to rehire Mr. Orton for another term. That someone has not been rehired when their contract has expired is a not uncommon thing at the univer-sity, so one may very well aslc, Why all this pro-test? ·

Mr. Orton is a graduate of Sir George Williams University , graduating in 1963' with honorable men-tion, after having been on the Dean's List for three years, 1960-1963. At the time of graduation, he was recognized as being one of the best students of the university, having come close to winning the Bir/cs Medal of Honour. When he graduated, David Orton was known to have delinate leftist leanings, but these opinions did not get in the way ol his work as a student.

Mr. Orton then went to the New School ol Social Research in New York to work on his M.A. in So-ciology, which he received in 1965. He then ·pro-ceeded to work on his Ph.D., and for the next two years, persued his studies in that direction at the New School ol Social Research. Meanwhile, he held various part-time jobs, and in particular lectured on introductory sociology. During his stay in New York, Mr. Orton was in communication with Mr. K. Jonassohn, the current chairman ol the Depart-ment ol Sociology at Sir George. Mr. Orton's studies progressed to the point where · he had passed the oral examination for his doctorate, and had had the subject for his thesis accepted, all he had remaining was his written thesis to hand in . At this time, Mr. Orton was approached by Mr. Jonassohn as to whether he would accept a position at Sir George. Mr. Orton refusedthe offer, which Mr. Jonassohn later repeated. The second time, Mr. Orton accep-ted, and was subsequently appointed to the stall ol Sir George. In his letter ol appointment, Mr. Orton was offered the standard two year contract offered to new appointees, especially those who do not have extensive experience elsewhere. This appointment was made in view of Mr. Ortons known Marxist leanings, and the offer was made in the form ol a joint offer. He was appointed as a lecturer as his Ph.D. was uncompleted by the time he arrived to take up the appointment, but ii it had been complet-ed, Mr. Orton would be appointed as an assistant Professor.

If mutually acceptable, between the university and the professor concerned, a two year contract may be renewed, however this is in no way an automatic proceedure. ( How much protest would there be ii at the end of two years the professor wished to leave, while the university wanted him to stay?)

As a part ol the duties assigned to him alter he was hired, but prior to Mr. Orton's arrival at Sir George, Mr. Orton was requested to teach Introduc-tory Sociology, Sociology 211. This course is the fundamental introduction to sociology upon which other sociology courses are based. ( It is a prere-quisite for twenty-seven of thirty-lour courses in sociology, other than 211, according to the 1968 - 1969 calendar. ) Mr. Orton accepted Sociology 211 , but stated that he wished to remake it into a course he titled "Critical Perspectives on Society." On hearing ol these plans, certain members ol the Department ol Sociology petitioned the then chairman ol the department, Mr. Hubert Guindon, that Mr. Or-ton cover the standard programme in Sociology 211 so that his students would be able to go on in so-ciology, or that he not teach that course. This Mr . Orton just prior to registration, and he was relieved ol the duty of teaching 211 . Because ol the time at which the seminar was created, only one student knew of its existence to register in it, so one section had one student, and the other had no students in it.

In the spring ol 1968, 'there was the crisis ol on campus recruitment by companies providing mate-rials, or allegedly providing materials for American forces in Viet-Nam . There had been a statement of members ol the ' faculty and stall ol Sir George stating that while they might condemn the actions ol the companies concerned, they felt that it was the right ol the compani to recruit on campus, and the right of students to go to the companies concerned ii they so wished, and that those who con-demned the companies had no right to physically inteler with the proceedings. In a reply printed in THE GEORGIAN February 16, 1969, Mr. David Orton, along with Gundar Frank, and Said Shah, made several interesting points.

by ANDREW KING

The follow ing stotement wos prepored in re sponse to the one which oppeored on the front page of Tuesday 's georgion signed by members of the foculfy and stoff of Sir George.

We urge students and faculty to unalterably oppose and pre· vent the enactment of the decision taken by the Executive Com· mlttee of the Board of Governors (as reported in the georg ian , Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1968) regarding "the right of every student to participate in placement interviews of his choice as part of his University experience" and "to regard any interference with the holdi~!l of such intervlewsas infringing upon a right of members of the University". Translating this euphemism into plain English, the Board of Governors asserts that C.I.L., Northern Electric and other companies as arms manufacturers for the War against Viet· nam, the University as supplier of trained personnel and facill· ties to Interview it, and "every student" who may wish to help manufacture arms as an employee or executive of these compa· nies all have the "right" to profit from the blood-letting that de· nies rights to life and freedom to the Vietnamese. The Board of Governors goes beyond asserting such "rights" and claims the further right ,o enforce them by Insisting on the interviews. The· se rights are claimed by a Board of Governors whose Chairman, Fraser Fulton, Is Vlce·President of Northern Electric, manufoctu· rer of arms for the War against Vietnam {see accompanying Fact Sheet).

We reject the Board 's and others' assertion of a "right" to part· icipate in the genocidal War against Vietnam; and we reject the self-righteous claim that any interference with the interviewing process in this organized genocide infringes Individual rights. On the contrary, protection of human and individual rights to If. fe In Vietnam ·· and in North America as well , since the U.S. Go· vernment is threatening to escalate to nuclear warfare ·· requires interference with and resistance to this war and to all those who would contribute to and profit from ii. Not mere verbal opposll· ion but active interference by any possible and necessary means with the interviewing process in the war machine Is more than a right; ii is a responsibility no less than ii was lo interfere with Eichman's trains before they could arrive at their destination. We . therefore welcome the attempts at Interference with these inter· views at McGIii and elsewhere; and we urge more than simple opposition to these Interviews at S.G.W.U. from all those who ac· cept their individual responsibility ·· as ii was defined at Nurem· berg ·· to reject the order, let alone the "right", to participate in genocide; from all those who support Vlet~amese rights to life and self-determination, and from all those who reject imperial· ism and support socialism ·· for today all these commitments point in the same direction: Resistance. A middle ground no longer exists; those who profit from our society have engaged all of Its institutions, including the university, in the pursuit ·· and the viol· ent pursuit ·· of"this profit by some at the expense of others. They therefore oblige us to chose: One sides with the Fraser Fultons or with the people who are fighting and dying for a world without capitalist exploitation, a world In which equality and an end to hunger, inhumanity, and injustice become realistic goals.

The undersigned did not feel thgt we could sign or signed with the reservations noted below ·· the faculty statement opposing the use of the facilities of this University by firms e ngaged in war· production for the United States, which appeared in the georgion , Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1968. Our objection centered on the last sent· ence: "We will not interfere with the recruiting but will demon· strafe our objection". It seems to us that the time for words, token protest, and plckel·signs is past. Protest that has no real conse· quences for one 's life Is easy and relatively non-demanding. Non· Interference with recruiting means that business would go on as usual and Is a real illustration of capitalist democracy at work. "Dissent" expressed, but the edict of the Board of Governors en· forced . Dissent is always permissible in a bourgeois democracy as long as no threat to the system exists. The Board of Governors must be grateful for this faculty support.

But It Is difficult morally to reconcile this kind of protest with the conduct of the National Liberation Front who, as do other re· volutionaries, pay with their lives for their beliefs. We therefore urge all those students and faculty-who identify with and support the revolutionaries of Vietnam to organize and try to stop war re-cruitment on this campus, using whatever means are necessary. The struggle In Vietnam is crucially Important for the future of the Vietnamese and for the future of all of us. It might well be that the rumors of the impending use of nuclear weapons In Viet· nam are not false.

We must collectively organize ourselves to engage in direct action against every attempt at war·recrullment on this campus. This is our moral duty ·· norwithstanding the pronouncements of the Fraser Fultons.

; On March 13, a group ol students went to a public engineering seminar and "Questions were put to this representative on the role ol technology and science in society and, given his corporation' role in making money out ol the blood ol the Vietnamese people, why should his corporation be allowed to -speak on campus to implicitly recruit students to take part in his crime?" The company was Canadian Aviation Electronics, and · the representative had been answering engineering students' questions before being interrupted about something he had nothing to do with. Mr. Orton was said to be the leader be-hind this demonstration . When a hearing committee was established by the administration ( on complaint from the engineering faculty about Mr. Orton's role in the affair) Mr. Orton refused to appear before the "bourgeous" hearing committee, and the admi-nistration let the matter drop.

This September, Mr. Orton started lecturing to lour _sections, ( This time all lour had students in. them,) two seminar sections ol Sociology 492, which are of limited size, and two sections ol Sociology 427, in which approximately seventy students were registered in both sections. The 1968 - 1969 Calendar description ol Sociology 427, Political Sociology reads:

"The social and normative structures of political. institutions, including political parties; the relation-ship between political institutions and religious and economic institutions; the rise and fall ol political ideologies, systems and institutions; the making and communication of policies; the rejuvenation of elites. Political attitudes and behaviour are analysed, as well as political socialization, interest, and invol-vement."

In the first week ol classes alter the course change period closed, a group of students from Sociology -427 went to see Mr. K. Jonassohn, the Chairman ol the Department ol Sociology demanding, in a verbal petition, that Mr. Orton be immediately dismissed for incompetence. When arrangements w.ere made for this group ol students to see the Dean ol Arts, this attempt to remove Mr. Orton fell through, ap-parently becaf..!se of cold feet. It is however, an ex-ceedingly rare event when students go to the chairman of a department to complain about a lecturer. Num-bers ol students continued to go either to ~r. Jo-nassohn or to -the Dean ol Arts complaining about Mr. Orton's classes, the content ol the classes and the methods of teaching employed. For all the stu-dents who went