"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-09-17"@en . "1972-03-28"@en . "Misprinted volume, should be LIV."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0128572/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE UdYSStY\nVol. LIU, No. 67 VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1972\n48,\n228-2301\nTOUGH SHIT. What more can you say to a poor fellow who found exam pressure was\nmore than the human body was ever equipped to endure. Fortunately, this man was a\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 kini mcdonald photo\nUbyssey staffer, and carried a blanket-wrapped tape recorder to his end. \"Looks like\ncement down there,\" were his last words, and it was.'\n3 AMS hacks on OFY money\nBy JIM JOLY\nThree Alma Mater Society executive members\nwill be employed on various AMS-endorsed\nOpportunities for Youth projects this summer.\nVice-president Gordon Blankstein, external\naffairs officer Terri Ball and internal affairs officer\nLynne Phillips will each work on one of the eight\nprojects.\nBall said one of the reasons AMS executives will\nbe employed on the projects is that some of them\nshould be around the university during the summer\nto plan for next year.\nAbout 150 persons applied for the 75 positions\navailable, Ball said.\nApplicants were placed by the AMS according\nto any special skills they might have possessed\nrelating to the various projects.\n\"After that it was just first come first serve,\"\nsaid Ball.\nThe end of an era\nThis is it, folks.\nA superbly magnificent year of campus journalism has come to\nan end.\nWe've had our laughs.\nWe hope you have too.'\nNow, as the year draws to a close, it is time once again for\nUbyssey staffers to consider other matters \u00E2\u0080\u0094 courses, essays and\nexams among them.\nThat is, for the staffers who've managed to survive the year\nwithout dropping out.\nSo, to commemorate the finest year of campus literaria ever to\nhit UBC, today's Ubyssey now brings you the beginning of the end.\nThe projects and Ball's unofficial estimate of\nthe number of people employed by each are:\nA study of the feasibility of setting up a\ncampus credit union. Eight persons would be\nemployed.\nA study of new teaching methods to use at the\nUBC daycare centre. Ten persons would be\nemployed.\nConstruction of new daycare facilities including\nplayground equipment. Ten persons would be\nemployed.\nA voter registration drive for provincial and\nmunicipal elections employing 15 persons.\nKeeping SUB open during the summer as a\nrecreation centre for underprivileged groups. Ten\npersons would be employed.\nA survey of students attending UBC, Simon\nFraser University and Vancouver City College to\ndetermine their meal habits at lunch-time. Six\npersons would be employed.\nA study of various housing prospects open to\nstudents attending UBC. Fifteen persons would be\nemployed.\nA study of ways to improve community,\nprofessor and student communications. Six persons\nwould be employed.\nBall said she thinks the two daycare centres,\nvoter registration drive and SUB recreation centre\nprojects stand the best chance of approval.\nShe added, however, the other projects remain\npossibilities.\nStudents will learn between April 17 and April\n21 whether their projects have been approved.\nThe maximum salary per person on any OFY\nproject is $90 a week. Projects run between May 15\nand Sept. 15.\nBall said she hopes students are thinking about\nother job possibilities in case their projects are\nrejected.\n\"You never know if the project will be\napproved,\" she said.\nInside today's Ubyssey\nMaclowns\nA special pullout section\nRichard Nixon's Canada\nTrudeau: hero or saviour?\nThe new schmuckismo!\nPierre & Sandy & Peter & Phil Page 2\nTHE UBYSSEY\nTuesday, March 28, 1972\nPsych seethes with pessimism'\nBy BERTON WOODWARD\nThe psychology department is now in a\nstate of limbo on the questions about hiring\nprocedures raised by graduates in the\ndepartment.\nRon Douglas, spokesman for the psych\ngrad students association, said Monday he\nbelieves the group's campaign for systematic\nevaluation of profs in the department, sparked\nby the controversial cases of Carol Marx and\nMike Humphreys, has now been heard by\nsenior staff in the department and most\nbelieve \"it won't happen again.\"\n\"Everybody would bet that nothing's\ngoing to happen,\" he said.\nPGSA member Clyde Curry added: 'The\nwhole place seethes with pessimism. The\n'19\njunior faculty say 'sure I'd like to see the\ncases reopened but it's going to cause a lot of\ntrouble if you push and there's no point since\nthey're not going to be rehired anyway.' \"\nBut there are still some in the department\nwho would like to see further action on the\ncases, Douglas said.\n\"Some of us are not satisfied to see the\ncases swept under the rug.\n\"The students who have been most\nassociated with Carol and Mike are the ones\nwho are least satisfied,\" he said.\nMarx and Humphreys were ,each denied\nrenewal of their teaching contracts last year.\nHumphries, up for renewal of his second-year\ncontract, appealed his denial and had his case\nreviewed twice.\nA'fi CAWCA\nMARCHING through downtown Vancouver, members of band Sunshyne spend taxpayers'\nLocal Initiatives Program grant money in effort to become real street band.\nMarx was granted no review after her first\ntwo-year contract was not renewed.\nCurry said Humphrey's role in the dispute\nmay soon become irrelevant because he is\ncurrently applying for a teaching position at\nPurdue University in Indiana.\nBut, he said: \"Carol is the one who has\nreally been shafted by this. She didn't even\nget a review.\"\nDouglas said a meeting last week held\nbetween faculty and PGSA, attended by four\nsenior faculty members and more than a\ndozen each of junior faculty and grad\nstudents, tended to revolve around the\npracticality of re-opening the cases.\n\"The ethical issue of what the hell is right\nwas hardly touched on,\" he said.\nAsked if they thought department head\nEdro Signori would change his stand of strong\nopposition to the profs' reconsideration, both\nspokesmen gave an emphatic no.\nBut, Douglas added: \"My personal\nimpression is that Edro isn't as much of an\nevil has he's made out to be by students and\nstaff.\n\"Senior faculty often say: 'Well we'd like\nto reopen the cases but you know how Edro\nis.' But really, while generally unhappy with\nhis decisions they just tend to blame\neverything on him when it's actually their\nfault for letting him run them around like\nthat.\"\nAs for any hope of direct action on the\ntwo cases, Douglas said: \"We conceded a long\ntime ago, before we started, that it wasn't\ngoing to go anywhere for these two people\nbut we thought we could get somewhere by\nraising the issues.\"\nAsked if they had accomplished that end,\nDouglas said: \"No doubt about it.\"\nWSS gets footloose, fancy free to Europe\nIf you're footloose and fancy-free but not\nespecially rich, Western Student Services\ncharter flights to Europe may be what you are\nlooking for.\nIf you hurry.\nWSS representative Stuart Bruce said\nMonday that although there was not an\nappreciable increase in applications for WSS\nflights to date, he expected one soon due to\nthe cancellation of many flights by other\nservices as a result of recent British toughness\non charter flights.\n\"As of now, all flights are still open but I\nreally can't see that situation lasting too much\nlonger,\" he said.\nAll members of the AMS, faculty and their\ndependents are eligible for the WSS flights,\nboth one-way and return.\nThe first flight for this summer leaves\nVancouver May 1, with flights continuing all\nsummer.\nPrices range from $115 to $250 - the\nlatter amount being for a one-way flight from\nWinnipeg to London and the former the cost\nof a return trip from Vancouver to London\nand back.\nWSS also offers intra-European charters at\nprices that are often on one-half to one-third\nthe commercial prices.\nFor example, a flight from London to\nIstanbul via WSS goes for about $90 as\nopposed to the regular air fare of $200, said\nBruce.\nThe UBC office for WSS charter flights is\nlocated in SUB 226.\nHONG KONG CHINESE FOODS\nJust One Block from Campus in the Village\nWE SER VEAU THEN TIC CHINESE FOOD\nA T REASONABLE PRICES\nEAT IN - TAKE OUT\nWe have enlarged our dining room\nto offer you better service.\nOpen Every Day From Friday\n4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. 4:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.\n5732 University Blvd. - Phone 224-6121\nCIS\nCO-OPERATIVE INSURANCE SERVICES LTD.\nC.I.S. 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Tuesday, March 28, 1972\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPage 3.\nLaw students oppose building\nBy Laurence leader\nThere oughta be a law. At least\nas far as the law faculty's selection\nof a new building is concerned.\nThe seeds of a disagreement\nbetween the faculty's student and\nstaff are growing. The foundation\nof the argument is the faculty's\nproposed new building.\nMoney for construction\nbecame available last July after a\nseries of postponements. A\nbuilding committee comprised qf\nstudents and faculty approved the\narchitect's rough plans.\nBut the students submitted\nalterations to the preliminary\nsketches. The architect, Fred\nHollingsworth, who works from\nWest Vancouver, claimed he was\nnot commissioned by the law\nfaculty to accept student\nproposals.\nLaw student Hein Poulus\ndescribed the problem as \"conflict\nof ideas.\"\nFaculty wants immediate\nconstruction of the building. The\nstudents are complaining of the\npresent plan's segregation.\nPoulus said the students\nconsider the new building as\nfurther separating faculty and\nstudents by having separate\nsections for offices, lecture and\ncommon rooms.\nThe faculty rejected student\nproposals for integrating common\nrooms for both staff and students.\nA letter from law student*\npresident Bill Wilson, to law dean\nA. J. McClean, outlined student\nopinion at a LSA meeting:\n\"BE IT RESOLVED:\n1. That the LSA opposes the\nconstruction of new facilities\nbased upon the existing\nscheme.\n2. That we remain convinced of\nthe importance of a new\nfacility designed so as to\nencourage a sense of\ncommunity and to allow\neducational flexibility in the\nfuture.\n3. that the LSA executive be\ndirected to communicate our\ndissent to the central university\nplanning body and to the\nboard of governors.\"\nA fourth resolution declared\nthe LSA is prepared to jeopardize\nexistence of the new building's\nexistence over its recommendations.\nWilson also wrote: \"We are not\nconvinced that all possibilities\nhave been explored... It is our\nhope that faculty and students\nmay co-operate to plan a structure\nthat will be conducive to both the\nteaching and learning of law.\"\nA spokesman for the architect\nsaid Monday that Hollingsworth's\nmajor projects include the\nPeople's Motor Inn in Nelson,\nB.C., the Imperial Motor Inn in\nVictoria, and \"quite a list of home\nresidences,\" many after the style\nof Frank Lloyd Wright.\nLaw students have voiced\ndoubts as to Hollingsworth's\nqualifications to build an\neducation office.\nThe student-faculty building\ncommittee is meeting today to\nplan its representation to the\nboard of governors. The board\nwill make the final decision on\nacceptance of the new law\nbuilding.\nAll agreed the issue is a moot\npoint.\n**. i i 11 ii < i i\nONE TEN it says, and judging from the amount of daylight, it must be\np.m., which is of no help whatsoever to the poor sod in the library who\nlooks out to determine how much time he has until his 1:30 p.m.\nin-class final. But to the woman on the top of the new arts tower it's\njust another part of the grand and glorious city that is UBC. Amen.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094kini mcdonald photo\nExposure: a consumer column\nBy ART SMOLENSKY\nCHARTERS\nMore people probably get burned on\nshady charter flights than actually fly on\nthem.\nIf you are planning to go on one this\nsummer or next fall, we have a few tips to\noffer.\nFirst, stay away from flights departing\nfrom Seattle or, for that matter, from\nanywhere in the U.S.\nThis is not merely Canadian economic\nnationalism but involves certain\ndifferences in charter regulations between\nthe two countries.\nIn Canada, money accruing to the\ncharter company must be held in trust\nuntil the passengers have been returned to\nCanada. Not so in the States.\nIf you leave for Seattle (starting from\nthat little bus station on West Georgia\nnear the Hotel Vancouver) for London\nyou may easily end up in Frankfurt only\nto find that the instant company (just\nadd money, greed and stir) went broke or\nhas fallen afoul of the British Board of\nTrade and isn't being allowed to land in\nLondon.\nThe reason in this latter case is the\nenforcement of the IATA agreement that\nyou must be a member of an affinity\ngroup (i.e., the AMS) for at least six\nmonths prior to your departure.\nAll other flights are \u00E2\u0080\u0094 strictly speaking\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 illegal. Nonetheless, according to one\ndowntown travel agency which specializes\nin charters, 80 per cent of all flights\nleaving Vancouver fall into this category.\nA while back, Wardair was prosecuted\nseveral times for contravening this\nregulation but wiser and poorer, the\ncompany now back-dates memberships so\nit appears you've belonged to the group\nfor at least six months.\nA final word of advice is to fly with\nWestern Student Services charters where\npossible. You won't find that they are\ncancelled at the last minute leaving you\nhigh and dry in Vancouver.\nIH FOOD\nAll is not happy at International\nHouse.\nIt is about to be levied with a\ndiscriminatory 14 per cent charge on its\ngross food sales by university\nadministration vice-president Bill White.\nThe official reason: The university is\ntaking a cut to compensate for the light,\nheat and maintenance services it provides\ntoIH.\nThe real reason: Since the people who\neat at International House don't currently\ncontribute through food purchases to\npaying off White's \"on paper\" 10-year\nmortgages (the buildings are, I'm told,\nactually financed over 18 years), the IH\nART SMOLENSKY\n. .. pizza mogul\nfood customers must be levied with a\nspecial tax.\nBarbara Gaylor, manager of the food\nservice outlet, isn't sure what will happen\nApril 1 when this charge goes into effect.\nBecause the very good, wholesome\ninternational food is coupled with\nreasonable prices, the service is operating\nat a small loss. This loss, will, of course,\nbe parlayed into a grand ruin should the\n14 per cent surcharge go into effect.\nShades of Nixonomics.\nIncidentally, a sampling of IH regular\nfare should prove exotic for western\npalates. And if you don't like the daily\nhomemade soup there's a money-back\n(no-foolin') guarantee.\nA specialty of the house, by the way,\nis Burgher Muesli, a tasty Swiss health\nfood dish consisting of raw oats, fruits\nand nuts. The cost \u00E2\u0080\u0094 35 cents a bowl.\nCHEAP ELECTRONICS\nHot tip of the week for students\ninterested in electronic stuff like TV's,\nradios, tape recorders and stereo is a place\ncalled Falcon Sales at 2162 West Fourth.\nThey have no stock to speak of (but\nyou can order anything) and the prices\nare completely out of sight. The ,phone\n(which isn't listed in their name) is\n731-7267.\nWhy so cheap? Little stock combined\nwith a strict cash basis yields probably\nthe very lowest prices in town. Page 4\nTHE UBYSSEY\nTuesday, March 28, 1972\nHappy hunting, and all that\nSo, as the sun sinks in the west\nand the final 1971-72 edition of The\nUniversal Daily Scoop is put to bed,\nwe feel constrained in our drunken\nand nostalgia-sodden stupor to . . .\nto . . .\nAhem, Er. . .\nBeer bottles exploding like\ngrenades against the old printing\npresses tell us it is time for some\nfinal sage words about . . . about. . .\nHell with it. Uh . . .\nThe months have passed quickly,\nand as the last installment in the\nGreat Newspaper Cycle of Life nears\ncompletion we sense at least one\nclear, immutable truth emerging.\nAnd that is, that student power\nmoves are on the rise again across the\ncountry.\nThroughout this school year, and\nespecially this term, students have\nstarted to fight back again.\nNo wonder. At UBC, we have\nseen no signs of any improvement in\nadministration attitudes and\nprocedures and no improvement in\nthe mediocrity of teaching. In the\ncountry at large, we have seen no\nsigns of improvement in the\nemployment situation, despite\nLiberal band-aid efforts.\nWe have seen, however, increasing\nstudent consciousness of the\nsituation and increasing action to\nchange it.\nAll things considered, we are left\nfeeling optimistic about the ideas\nand actions students will bring to\nUBC and other universities next\nyear.\nAnd on that note, we leave you\nuntil September.\nThanks for the stacks of letters\nand the articles and ideas. Thanks for\nthe support on important issues.\nHappy cramming, happy job\nhunting, happy drinking, happy\nsmashing the state.\nIrving Fetish and friends (choke)\nbid you a fond farewell until\nSeptember, at which time we will\nagain return to straighten out all the\nsummer blunders and con-jobs and\nget this operation\nsemblance of order\nin a row.\nHeh heh.\nback into some\nfor the 54th year\nLetters\n'Theft'\nMy concern over an injustice\npresently being inflicted on a\ngroup of students at this\nuniversity has prompted this\nletter. Considerable student anger\nand resentment has resulted from\nthe activities of professor C.V.\nFir.negan in the department of\nzoology with regard to his course,\nZoology 204.\nThe problem arose last spring\n(1971) when each student in the\nclass was required to hand in a\n$3-book of breakage coupons\n(which is usual for science courses\nwith a lab). These, however, were\nnot returned to the students who\ndid not break anything (as is\nusual). As a member of the class, I\nquestioned this and was told that\nit was none of my business. There\nare about 250 students in that\nclass and the total amount of\nmoney involved was close to (250\nby $3) $750. What happened to\nthis money?\nThere was no glassware,\nchemicals or expensive equipment\nTHE UBYSSEY\nMARCH 28, 1972\nPublished Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year\nby the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are\nthose of the writer and not of the AMS or the university administration.\nMember, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a\nweekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located\nin room 241K of the Student Union Building.\nEditorial departments, 228-2301, 228-2307; Page Friday, Sports,\n228-2305; advertising, 228-3977.\nEditor: Leslie Plommer\nThis is the campus \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a sprawling formicary of human\nemotions .. . love and hate, life and death, war and peace,\npeanut butter and jelly. There are a million stories on the\ncampus; this is the worst of them.\nMy name is Tuesday; Rube Tuesday. I work out of\nhomicide. In my spare time I'm a private dick. This is the case I\ncall \"The Rag in the Rue Morgue.\"\nOn a Monday morning just like any other Monday\nmorning; (it fell between Sunday night and Monday\nafternoon), I walked into my office and my secretary, pert\nbrunette Paul Knox.\n\"Uncross those ravishing stems of yours and open today's\ncasebook,\" I said.\nContinued on page 5\nto damage in the lab at any time.\nAll that was involved was looking\nthrough a microscope (all\naccounted for at the end of the\nyear) at slides (produced by the\nUBC technologist and costing less\nthan a dollar to replace; very few\nof these were broken).\nIn October of 1971, I visited\nthe president's office hoping to\nfind out if professor Finnegan\ncould be prevented from repeating\nthis deed and I was politely told\nby a secretary that the whole\nmatter was up to the board of\ngovernors. This I assumed meant\nthat the board would back up the\nprofessor under any circumstance;\nso I let the matter drop.\nI realize now that this was a\nmistake. Professor Finnegan's\nsuccessful confiscation of the\n$750 last year has prompted him\nto double the amount of coupons\nrequired to $6. This means that\n(250 by $6) $ 1,500 are involved\nthis spring.\nI personally do not believe that\nthe board of governors knows\nanything about this money nor do\nI believe they would agree with\nsuch a policy. I have taken steps\nto inform them and others who\nshould know. Hopefully the\nsituation will be rectified and the\nmoney returned. If, however, I am\nwrong about the board of\ngovernors with regard to this\nmatter, then I can only say that I\nand many of my fellow citizens\nfind this a difficult situation to\nunderstand and even more\ndifficult to forget.\nName withheld,\nZoology 5\nWallace\nWhen I read Mr. Kravitz's\nsecond letter published March 24\nI was tempted not to reply as he\nwas not telling lies about me\npersonally. But then I began to\nwonder about his motivations in\ncasting aspersions on me and my\nresearch.\nBeing a moderately paranoid\nradical, it occured to me that Mr.\nKravitz might very well be a CIA\nagent out to discredit me. After\nall, I have always advocated that\nsocial scientists should adopt the\ndisenfranchised and oppressed as\ntheir chief clientele, and no doubt\nthe U.S. military are getting\nworried now that I am applying\nthis principle to research on the\nQuebecois.\nMoreover, it can hardly be a\ncoincidence that Mr. Kravitz\nchose The Ubyssey to air his\nviews. The Ubyssey, as we all\nknow, obtains most of its revenue\nfrom the AMS. Barely 18 months\nago that body went on record as\nsupporting the imposition of the\nWar Measures Act, indicating\nbeyond a shadow of a doubt its\nlinks with the American military\nmachine.\nOf course, I know that The\nUbyssey publicly denounces both\nTrudeau and the AMS, but the\nway things are these days you\ndon't expect me to believe what\npeople say, do you?\nSo, it looks to me as if Mr.\nKravitz, aided and abetted by\nThe Ubyssey, is the centre of a\nU.S. military plot to discredit\nradical social science research on\nthis campus. It follows, doesn't it?\nDoesn't it?\nMichael D. Wallace,\nAssistant professor\nDepartment of political science\nAward\nCongratulations to The\nUbyssey are in order. You've done\na fine job exposing a measure of\nthe administrative power\ncorruption that exists within\nvarious faculties on campus.\nIt is hoped that your successors\nwill continue the expose because I\nstrongly suspect you've viewed\nonly the top of the iceberg, or\nlooked under only one corner of\nthe rug.\nPerhaps next year, The\nUbyssey could establish an award.\nNo, two would be more fitting. Tuesday, March 28, 1972\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPage 5\nLetters\nOne could go to the faculty\nadministrator with the most\nnative cunning. This award would\nbe confined to those who have\nhad no formal administrative\ntraining but have made their way\npurely by experience.\nA second award could be\nestablished for the administrator\nwho had achieved the greatest\nmeasure of acquired deviousness.\nObviously, this award would be\nopen to both the formally trained\nand those learning by groping\nexperience. A close examination\nof the backgrounds of\nadministrators at UBC shows that\nmost could qualify for either\naward.\nIt seems indeed unfortunate\nthat as yet, this proper\nrecognition has not been given to\nthe Master Administrator while\nwe publicly honor and reward the\nMaster Teacher.\nCan we afford to do less for\nthe people who really count at\nUBC?\nName withheld,\nApplied Science 3\nGarbage\nRe: your editorial of March\n16:\nA more hypocritical pile of\ngarbage I have never read! You're\ncomplaining of being faced with a\nlove-it-or-leave-it situation: as\nregards The Ubyssey, I've been\nfaced with a \"love-it\" situation as\nlong as I've been out here. If I am'\nto be forced into something, I\nwould like to exercise some\ncontrol over the person applying\nthat force, namely, having to pay\nfor something called The Ubyssey.\nObviously, from your editorial,\ndemocracy seems to be your\ndesire \u00E2\u0080\u0094 or is it? You don't put\nmuch faith in students and their\nability to properly exercise their\nvote. To you it is a foregone\nconclusion that: Students'\nCoalition puts up one of 'their'\ncandidates; huge sums of money\nwill be lavished on his campaign;\neveryone will be duped into\nelecting him; and, he will be\nF rom page 4\nTaking the rose from his teeth and\nplacing it upon the closed casebook of\nMichael Finlay, a drunken book-pedlar\nfound murdered in a Brock Hall urinal\ntwo years ago, Paul handed me a letter\nwritten in the unmistakeable script of\nLeslie Plommer, aging socialite and\nstrumpet.\nIt seems this Plommer babe had\ninadvertently precipitated the demise\nof Nate \"Pawnshop\" Smith, the chosen\nperson of Jan O'Brien, head of the\nFalse Creek syndicate. O'Brien had\nbeen seen with Finlay the night he\ndied, outside a den of iniquity in\nOakridge. She and Oscar Andersen,\nnoted child molester and pinball-setter,\nwere trying to get Finlay to score an\nem-ruler from Berton Woodward.\nWoodward had perverted young\nDavy Schmidt to a state where the\nlatter would eat a nun each night\nbefore doing nasties to a photo of\nBerton's Uncle Pierre. Woodward\nhimself came from a family of\nhorse-drawn taxi-drivers and he still\nmade much of the family hack.\nBut Smith was found dead outside\na credit union with a $2 IOU in his\nthroat, obviously the work of Sandy\nKass. Only two weeks ago I had tried\nto nail Kass with a chair rap after\nKathy Carney (Balcony Bess) and Dick\n\"Dildo\" Betts were found dead of a\nheavy dose of Terminal Animal Act in\nthe back row of the Studio during a\nshowing of the Stewardesses.\nThey had pencils in their throats, a\ntrademark of Kass, but the DA pointed\nout that the Teutonic humor of Lesley\nKrueger, star reporter for the Daily\nPlanet, could have demanded revenge\nfor the theft of her Lowenbrau by\nSandi Shreve, the phantom of Phleet\nStreet.\nI knew that Krueger had joined\nforces with Vaughn Palmer's Mormon\ngang to wipe out the Palm Springs\nHealth Spa, but my evidence would\nnever have stood up in court. Neither\nwould Krueger; she never stood up\nanywhere.\nBut Palmer had been leaning on\nhandsome Lance Schendlinger against a\ncolumn in Pat Fitzgerald's movie\nstudio, where Mike Gidora's Jersey\nnothing more than a lackey to the\nexecutive, a group of people out\nto shaft all right-thinking human\nbeings. Thank the stars that you\nhave recognized these evil people,\nand are pure of heart to pass\njudgment.\nPlease, no crap about 'If you\ndon't like it, change it by working\nfor it'. I don't like it, and much as\nI do with my government I'll\nattempt change other than by\nworking in the government. To\nalso work for The Ubyssey would\nrequire more time than I have\navailable; unfortunately, I am not\nan English or journalism major.\nWith any other newspaper the\nfreedom of the press is balanced\nby the prerogative (sic) of refusing\nto buy that newspaper. Please,\ngive me that right, and you can\nhave all the freedom you want.\nW. Schwegler,\nLaw 2\nWe have always supported\npeople who attempted to\nwithhold their compulsory AMS\nfees for any reason. Since the\nstudent council allocates your\nmoney, and some of it goes to\nThe Ubyssey, your best bet is to\nstop paying that money.\nUnion\nTo UBC Employees for\nan Independent Union,\nSisters and Brothers:\nWe in the Council of Canadian\nUnions are very happy to hear\nthat the employees of the\nUniversity of British Columbia are\norganizing.\nOur member unions are all\nindependent Canadian unions. We\nare sure that they will all give\ntheir support to your new unioa\nR.K. Rowley,\necu\nMore\nThe UBC Employees for\nan Independent Union,\nSisters and Brothers:\nAt meetings this last week with\nour national president Bill Behma,\nvice-president George Brown,\nJock syndicate had paid Gord Gibson\nfor a nudie flick with John Gibbs.\nMeanwhile, Ginny Gait, the\nbaroness of booze, had knifed Fat\nFreddy Cawsey, the singing skag\nsalesman and pformer pfage pfriday\npfersonality, in the latter's lacerated\nlarynnx.\nKini McDonald, Daryl Tan and\nDaryel Erickson, who were responsible\nfor the technical side of Gidora's porno\nfilm, had been offed by Art\nSmolensky, who had wanted the\nccontract all along, even though he\nshuttered at the prospect of sharing the\nloot with Brian Loomes, the\nmastermind behind the John Twigg\nkidnapping case.\nTwigg had branched into his own\nextortion racket after being\ndouble-crossed by Stan Persky, who\nfunnelled his share into Conrad\nWinkelman's sand factory.\nWinkelman's gang, headed by\nLamont Cranston, Tom Stafford, and\nRaymond Chandler, had all been taken\nfor a ride by Kent Spencer.\n\"Crazylegs\" Spencer worked ori his\nown, and since he had only a learner's\nlicence, it wasn't hard for Maureen\nSager and Secret Squirrel to push him\noff a cliff near the notorious Gary\nGruenke ranch, the scene of the Sue\nKennedy-Brian Sproule yo-yo murders.\nEverybody thought Maurice Binge\nand Bev Gelfond had died in the crash,\nbut I knew they were recuperating at\nMetropolitan Major General under the\neye of Dr. Mike Goodman and Pops\nthe janitor.\nTheir shattered skulls were all that\nkept them from getting five to 10 for\ntheir parts in the slaying of baseball\nbigwig Warren Mayes, so I knew they'd\nnever talk.\nMost of my contacts were dead, or\nreasonably facsimiled, so my only hope\nof closing the case was to talk to\nPlommer.\nI dropped into her penthouse in\nMarpole late Monday. Without a word\nabout the hole in her ceiling, she sailed\nover to me with open arms, my scanty\nnegligee revealing more than any\nred-blooded American woman could\ntake sitting down.\nofficers and members of our\nunion, we discussed the situation\nat UBC with regard to establishing\nan independent Canadian union.\nWe agree with this position and\npledge to support you in any way\nwe can.\nJess Succamore,\nNational sec-treasurer,\nCanadian Association of\nIndustrial, Mechanical\nand Allied Workers\nAnd more\nTo the UBC Employees for\nAn Independent Union,\nDear Sisters and Brothers:\nThe Pulp and Paper Workers of\nCanada believe in the principle of\nautonomous independent\nCanadian unions and will assist\nany group of employees who wish\nto join this movement.\nPlease feel free to call upon us\nfor assistance at any time and I\nwish you every success in your\nendeavors.\nFred E. Mullin,\nPresident,\nPulp and Paper\nWorkers of Canada\nFaint\nIf I ever see an article or even a\nletter in a future issue of The\nUbyssey in which the word\n\"capitalist\" is used in other than a\npejorative sense, I will faint.\nPaul Strickland,\nGrad student, English\nP.S. Your \"neo-Marxist\"\nideology, especially in your Page\nFriday editions, is getting awfully\nstale. Perhaps you should go out\nand buy a new loaf.\nOkay: CAPITALIST. (But\nwe're sure you're far too worldly\nto faint.)\nIvory\n%M# .^Wt^S* \"*WX \u00C2\u00AB* ii?&K>S. >i- *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0$\u00C2\u00A3$*\nFortunately, sfw came from\nRwanda. I remained erect and\ndemanded to know what her letter\nmeant.\n\"We can't talk here,\" she\nbreathed, and led me to a darkened\nroom with soundproof walls and a\nfloor so cunningly laid that no matter\nwhere you stood, it was always under\nyour feet.\nI heard the soft rustle of cloth\nfalling to the floor and made a mental\nnote to have Paul repair my negligee.\nBut Leslie wasn't listening; with an\nalmost imperceptible gesture she\nflicked a switch hidden in the armpit\nof her motorcycle jacket and two of\nher strong-arms appeared in the room.\nJohn Kula and Jim Joly! I had\nthought they were through when\nBernie Bischoff had pulled the old\n\"spitball-behind-the-door\" trick on\nthem five months ago. But there they\nwere, in the flesh, and ready to kill.\nI had to think fast. Spotting a\nLaurence Leader paperback entitled\n\"Playgrounds I Have Frequented\" near\nthe desk lamp, I picked it up and\nquickly thumbed through it\nFinding the worst pun in the book\nnear chapter five, I hurled it at the two\nthugs, hitting them square in their eye.\nI whipped out my pistol and\npointed the loaded barrel at the\ncrestfallen Plommer.\n\"Now, sweetie, suppose you tell\nme what this is all about,\" I snarled.\nAnd she did.\nIn five minutes I had heard the\nentire story of her feud with Mike\nSasges, the Snooker Czar, who had\nhoped to chalk up another 10 grand by\nhiring Jim Adams as a double agent.\nBut Adams had sent me a letter\njust before he had died, signing\nPlommer's name to it. Holding the\nletter under the infra-red desklamp, I\nfound what I had suspected all along:\n\"The pun of my aunt is in the\nmasthead of my uncle,\" Adams had\ncracked.\n\"Sorry, babe, but even Shane\nMcCune couldn't solve this one,\" I\nlaughed. The next day I mailed the\ncasebook to David Bowerman, along\nwith a can of Ken-L-Rations.\nBIRD CALLS\nNOW ONLY\n25\n*\nWell, it's just about that time\nof year again when many of us\nstudents are preparing for final\nexams. The question of\nexamination is reared towards us\nSee page 17: LETTERS\nThe University of\nBritish Columbia\nSTUDENT TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 1971-72\nA Souvenir of\nYour Year on Campus\nAvailable While Stock Lasts at\nUBC BOOKSTORE - THUNDERBIRD SHOP\nAMS PUBLICATIONS OFFICE IN SUB\n>^^Sc<}i&^lfiiyS^SSi\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00A3XSSf .'\u00C2\u00A3. .. , .\nDIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATION of philosophy behind Amchitka protest symbolized concern of\nmany cavalier attitude of Pentagon toward Pacific Rim safety. Dots represent earthquake zone.\n^peaking of the downtrodden,\nthe federal government has\nimposed a tax on the earnings of\nalready poverty-stricken TA's.\nReductions to the tune of $22 to\n$30 per month will be levied on\nTA's paychecks since the federal\ngovernment has decided to\nre-classify some previously\nnon-taxable scholarships, bursaries\nand fellowships as taxable income.\nThey will be reimbursed in June\nbut, until then, thirty bucks is\nquite a- chunk for Uncle Pierre to\nhold in trust.\nNumbered among the\nblowhards are Conrad Schwartz\nand the Student's Coalition\n'biggies'.\nHealth services psychiatrist\nSchwartz kicked off the year with\ninterviews concerning\nmarijuana, users' memories,\nconcentration and sex lives. Not\nonly did these personal questions\narouse ire among students but the\nprincipal investigator of the UBC\nMedical Faculty Research into\nMarijuana team was moved to\ndenounce it as an independent\nstudy that was never approved by\nUBC or the necessary federal or\nprovincial agencies.\nA\nd even the university\nadministration displayed its\nconcern by conducting an\ninvestigation into the matter. The\nCommittee on Research Involving\nHuman Subjects submitted\nSchwartz's questionnaire to a\nscreening process to ensure it did\nnot invade the privacy of students\nand then resolved the issue by\ndemanding he modify his\ninterrogation.\nWhat 'happened to Schwartz is\nleft to speculation but it is safely\nassumed he continued his\nactivities with the consent of\nunsuspecting students acting as his\nguinea pigs and confirmed his\nalready defiant stance against\nmarijuana, alleging it is used only\nby the very insecure, emotionally\nimmature, passive, lonely,\nsocially-ill-at-ease and distrustful\nindividuals.\nIn October Cecil Green, the\nfounder of Texas Instruments\nLtd. which nets a profit of about\n$30 million per year from selling\nwar materials to the Pentagon,\nawarded the UBC alumni\nassociation $60,000.\nDespite protests that UBC\ndoesn't need American blood\nmoney to finance guest speakers\n(the purpose of Green's donation)\nthe gift was accepted and used to\nconvince Americans such as David\nRose from the Massachusettes\nInstitute of Technology and\nNobel Peace Prize winner Tuzo Tuesday, Match 28, 1972\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPage 7\nWilson to visit UBC and educate\nCanadian students.\nAs to who are the bigger\nblowhards - Green or his UBC\nalumni cohorts \u00E2\u0080\u0094 has yet to be\ndiscovered.\nIt is difficult to categorize the\nStudent's Coalition strictly as\nperpetrators of the blues. They\ncould; be as aptly thrust under the\nheads of Blunders and Blowhards.\nBut the fact that they turned out\nto be such blunderers and\nblowhards is enough to warrant\ngiving them top billing in the\nBlues category.\nIt all began on Oct. 28. The\nHuman Government, then the\nAlma Mater Society executive,\nfulfilled its original promise of\nholding a referendum to see if\nstudents wanted them to remain\nin office for a full terra\nThe students ousted the\nHuman Government and in the\nprocess voted against the SUB\nexpansion plans. And to replace\nHunlan Government, students\nelected the Student's Coalition.\nAnd the blues struck.\nThe SC executive was mostly\nacclaimed \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the only exceptions\nwere president Grant Burnyeat\nand secretary Hillary Powell who\nran on a campaign of changing the\nbudget.\nI hey alleged the Human\nGovernment was determined to\ndestroy clubs and intramurals. In\npoint of fact, however the HG\nallotted a total of $5,000 to clubs\n(which by January had\nsquandered the money and had to\nbe placed under the guidance of\nthe finance committee) and also\ngave them first priority on the\nJanuary margin.\nAnd intramurals were given\n$3,500 and the promise of sharing\nfirst priority on the budget with\nclubs should they not raise more\nmoney on their own before\nDecember.\nThe SC slate falsely charged\nthe HG with loaning the Georgia\nStraight $5,000 and donating\n$12,000 to the Unemployed\nCitizens Welfare Improvement\nCouncil. But the HG only gave the\nUCWIC $2,000 and the Georgia\nStraight loan was never made.\nThe Ubyssey printed\ncorrections to the SC allegations\nin its October 26 issue but 13,000\ncopies of that paper was stolen in\nan engineers' stunt.\nAs a result of the campaign\ntactics the SC contenders were\nelected over independent,\ncontenders for the positions.\nHG did not enter the contest\nbecause of the referendum results.\nIn December the SC completed\nnegotiations for the first union\ncontract for its staff. (The\nnegotiations were begun by\nHuman Government, in August\n1971.)\nSome controversy surrounded\ntreasurer David Dick's hiring of\nnegotiator Ken Martin at $200 per\nday \u00E2\u0080\u0094 without council approval.\nHowever, when he later took the\nissue to finance committee his\naction was approved.\nAlthough council members\nobjected to not having .been\nconsulted in the matter, they\nvoted to ratify the negotiations in\nJanuary.\nThis marked a big step forward\nfor campus office workers'\nunionization.\nThe next SC move was Dick's\nattempts at imposing a $5 student\nfee increase for next year.\nThe matter went to a\nreferendum in February and was\nwholeheartedly rejected by the\nstudents. A pat on the back for\nthe voters at least.\nA major charge against the SC\nwas that it failed to accomplish\nanything in the line of organizing\ncampus daycare and refused to\nopen SUB 24 hours a day even on\na trial basis.\nH,\nlowever it did manage to\nbegin negotiations to buy the\nadministration food services and\nstart a SUB expansion scheme.\nThus a second SC slate, headed\nby Doug Aldridge (engineering)\nfor president and Gordon\nBlankstein (agriculture) was\nelected as next year's executive in\nthe February 3 elections.\nIn March two racist Red Rags\nappeared on campus bringing\nUBC's name to the fore in\nVancouver's daily press. Everyone\nwanted to know who wrote the\njokes but no one would tell \u00E2\u0080\u0094\ni n eluding the Engineering\nUndergraduate Society whose\nequipment was used to print the\nnewsletters.\nAlthough the AMS held a press\nconference in conjunction with\nthe EUS (president this year being\nnone other than next year's AMS\npresident Doug Aldridge) nothing\nwas accomplished.\nBurnyeat, speaking on behalf\nof the AMS, apologized for the\npublications and theorized about\nhow it all came to happen.\nAldridge, speaking on behalf pf\nthe EUS, claimed the engineers\nbelieved the whole issue was no\none else's business and thus\nshould not have met with any\ncriticism at all.\nI he result has been several\nfaculty council meetings to decide\non a course of action, which has\nyet to be announced.\nThe math department took\nsome positive action in supporting\nthe 10 professors who cancelled\nengineers' math classes until they\ncould be held in rooms other than\nthose in the civil engineering\nbuilding.\nAnd there the issue stood,\nstands and forever more shall be.\nWhich brings us to the squirrel.\nAnd who could we be talking\nabout but our very own Constable\nS.F. (Secret Squirrel) Leach.\nNotable for his aimless wanderings\naround campus, Secret Squirrel\nhas been seen everywhere from\nMemorial Gym (where he watched\nthe Thunderbird men's basketball\nteam win the Canadian\nchampionship, and missed the\nwomen doing the same thing) to\nthe SUB pool hall.\nIn SUB he was seen\nnonchalently swinging his shotgun\nwhile investigating a false alarm at\nthe \"Bank of Montreal, thinking,\nno doubt, of his similar fruitless\ninvestigation of the Case of the\nStolen Ubysseys some months\nbefore.\nAs he strode up the stairways\nhe was reputedly asked to\ndescribe this year at UBC.\nIt is rumoured he belched.\nRight on, Secret Squirrel.\nTHE PEOPLE'S CHOICE representatives Steve Garrod and David Mole, above, enter council on the night of\ntheir defeat in referendum they called to test student reaction to their policies. Later the new choice of the\nfickle people - Students' Coalition - shuffled to office under leader Doug Aldridge, below, a man who\nreputedly couldn't stumble to the men's can on a busy night at the pub. Page 8\nTHE UBYSSEY\nTuesday, March 28, 1972\nContinued\nbitterness\nin poli sci\nBy ALLAN ROBBINS\nand SCOTT FAST\nThe following article, written\nby two PhD students in the\npolitical science department,\nattempts to analyze current\ndepartment disputes over the issue\nof student participation in\ndepartment decision making.\nAs we limp toward the end of\nanother academic year, any\ncursory review of recent campus\nevents finds elite rule still intact\nbut shaken.\nMembers of a number of\ndepartments have been through\nprotracted conflicts this year, the\ncasualties of which are familiar by\nname to readers of The Ubyssey.\nLess famous is the continued\nbitterness which attends the\nday-to-day operations of the\ndepartment of political science.\nThe department is like others\nin broad outline, and still has\nsomething of a unique character.\nIt is a department that students\nhave never been involved in\nrunning, and, paradoxically, a\ndepartment whose faculty\nmembers, until the beginning of\nlast year, believed themselves to\nbe more progressive than its\nstudents. Students are not now\nnearer any form of\nco-management, but the\nundeniably reactionary ethos\nbrought out by a year-long\nstudent democractization push\nhas at least stopped pious faculty\nprattling about being progressive.\nPolitical science resembles\nother departments in its routine\nsub-field battle over scarce\nresources like new staff and new\ncourses (the winners:\ninternational relations and Asian\nstudies; the losers; political\ntheory, comparative study of\nadvanced industrial societies). It\nalso has its share of deadwood,\ntenured senior faculty who would\nnot now merit appointment at a\njunior level. And the dominance\nof senior men (the department\nemploys no women save for\nthree secretaries) over junior men\nseverely restricts the range of\nvariations in how the younger\nmen may approach their work.\nThe department, like UBC\ngenerally, attracts those whose\ncommitments are neither to the\nuniversity nor to their students,\nbut rather to themselves.\nUnencumbered by a tradition of\nquality teaching or service to the\nuniversity community, members\nof the department of political\nscience typically cultivate a\nminute area of expertise and\nparlay it \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in the best American\nfashion \u00E2\u0080\u0094 into an academic career.\nRelations between faculty\nmembers are pleasant enough, but\nhardly very satisfying; There can\nbe no best friends on a staff of\nsenior mean and junior men, nor\namong competitors. In these ways\nthe department resembles most\nothers of which we are aware.\nPolitical science is unique, we\nthink, in its remarkable capacity\nto delude otherwise intelligent\nand perceptive adults into\nacceptance of its fundamentally\nperverse nature. The language\nused to achieve this mystification\nis replete with terms like\n\"community\" and \"membership\"\n(students have never been\nconsidered to be \"members\" of\nthe department); the attempt is to\npersuade junior men that they\nhave an identity of interests with\ntheir superiors.\nEach year- we find younger\nmen repeating the approved\nformulations with a forced\nsincerity indicative of a precarious\npersonal claim on the tenure\nsystem. The giveaway that what is\nhappening is an orchestrated\nperformance rather than an\nauthentic personal attempt to\ncome to grips with a complex\nissue is the utter absence of any\nprincipled defence of the faculty\nposition.\nWe do not want to repeat what\nRob Stevens has described at\nsome length in his history of\nattempting to prod faculty toward\nsustained thought. (The\nUbyssey, March 23). Suffice it to\nsay that most experienced\ngraduate students doubt that the\nnewly-converted junior faculty\nwould, if left alone, invent such\nan authoritarian line on the issue\nof departmental governance. In\nany case, even if they were to do\nso, they would have the\nintelligence to construct defences.\nPolitical science, then, has a\nlong history of poor faculty-grad\nstudent relations. This carries over\ninto the academic side of things as\nwell: The department has never\ngranted a PhD, and loses as much\nas 80 per cent of its yearly influx\nof MA students to a decline in\ninterest. The student desire for a\nhealthy share of decision-making\npower on all matters of\nconsequence in the department\nhas been resisted by an effective,\nif unimaginative, scheme of\nquasi-encouragement of\n\"moderate\" student elements,\nwhile identifying a bewildering\nvariety of graduate students as\ndangerous ringleaders,\nmanipulators and malcontents.\nThus far the \"moderate\"\nstudents - Le., those who, while\ndisliking the present\narrangements, simply want to\nleave as quickly as possible \u00E2\u0080\u0094 have\nnot been a serious force on behalf\nof any position in the dispute.\nOccasionally all these\nbackground factors and historical\nconditions flash together in a\nparticularly revealing setting.\nGraduate student Jack Miller put\nthe machinery of the\n\"Faculty-Graduate Student\nSeminar\" in motion for an\nafternoon's consideration of\n'\"Current Departmental Issues\".\nThe meeting took place Friday,\nMarch 24 and was a bitter\ncontinuation of past\nconfrontations.\nSee page 20: SECRECY\nWE APPRECIATE\nYOUR BUSINESS...\nHope to see you this summer\nSALES and SERVICE\n8914 OAK ST. 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M. Montgomery\nPETER THE NEW MAN: Editor\nASSOCIATE EDITORS: Christina The New Woman, Ralph Newman, Fred\nNewman, JWattui GLmi.au. DESIGN DIRECTOR: Pablo Newman. ART\nDIRECTOR: Bruce (flash) Newman. PRODUCTION EDITOR: Linus (Lino)\nNewman. COPY EDITOR: Sam (stet) Newman. ASSISTANT TO THE\nEDITOR: Little Peter Newman. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Pasquale\nNewman, Ahmed Ben Newman, Mordecai Newman. ADVERTISING\nMANAGER: Lomax (Snake Oil) Newman. CIRCULATION MANAGER:\nHoratio (Extree) Newman.\nTHE VIEW FROM\nFrom Bona vista to\nVancouver Island and Beyond\nIt has been very nearly one\nyear since I first caught the\ntorch of the editorship of\nCanada's marginal magazine, so\ndeftly thrown to me by my\nfriend Phil Sykes. In those early\ndays, as I gingerly grasped the\nreins of power, I predicted in\nthese pages in what now seems a\nmoment of caution, that under\nmy tenure I expected Maclown's\nwould continue to renew and\nembellish its sacred contract\nthe people of Canada.\nFor it was my vision, then as\nnow, and as always will be, that\nit was the purpose of Maclown's\nto provide that delicate link,\nuniting the disparate parts of\nthis young giant astride this vast\ncontinent, this magnificent\ndiverse creation which we call\nCanada.\nAs I said, my prediction was\ncautious, for regardless of the\ndifficulties facing me, and they\nwere formidable, I have\nsucceeded in my appointed task.\nFrom Bonavista to Vancouver\nIsland; how well I remember\nthat phrase. But I swore Canada\nwould be my beat, Canadian\nunity would be my scoop, and\nthe future of this country would\nbe my deadline.\nFor no sacrifice, can or ever\nwill be, too great in uniting this\nbehemoth, this Canada, Not that\nMaclown's has or can take a\nposition on this issue, but we\nfeel it is our purpose to provide\na forum so those Canadians from\nall parts of the country,\nregardless of politics can show\njust how wrong they are.\nMy success, and Maclown's\nsuccess has been echoed by\nmajor and diverse figures of our\ntime; by Pierre Trudeau and\nGerard Pelletier, by Allan\nBlakeney and Ed Schreyer, by\nRamsey Cook and Donald\nCreighton, and yes by extremists\nfrom right and left, such as Bill\nDavis, and Claude Ryan.\nAnd from those harsh friends\nof mine, Canada's journalists,\nhave come accolades for my\nsuccess. From Pierre Berton,\nPeter Gzowski and Stu Keate,\nfrom Jack McClelland and Betty\nKennedy, and even from that\ncrusty old curmudgeon of\nCanadian journalism, Gordon\nSinclair, I received assurance\nthat Maclown's has done its job.\nNow comes the time, when\nonce I have assessed the past, to\nlook to the future, to set new\ngoals. For I think it can hardly\nbe said that the second half of\nthe twentieth century belongs to\nCanada.\nMy search for goals, I think,\nis best typified by a conversation\nI had with my friend Fred Davis\nin a quaint cafe atop Place Ville\nMarie in Montreal last month.\nAs we talked in quiet tones, I\nrealized for the first time in my\nlife that here was a man, an\nastute commentator on the\nCanadian political scene, a man\nwho understands the complex\nfabric from which our curious\npolity is woven, and a man who\nperhaps could help me in my\ndesire to relate Maclown's and\nCanada to the galactic social\nmilieu.\n\"Fred,\" I said, \"as an astute\ncommentator on the Canadian\npolitical scene, and as a man\nwho might truly be said to have\nhis fingers on the pulse of the\nnation, and as a friend of mine,\ncan you tell me, how I, as editor\nof Canada's marginal and only\nmagazine can relate and\nilluminate the role of Canada in\nthe world, and, on a higher level,\nin the Universe?\"\nAnd Fred Davis, that beacon\nof progressive thought, looked at\nme across the table, his steely\nbrown eyes seeming to peer\ninside the very fabric of my\nexistence, and in careful\nconsidered tones, with a spirit\nmirroring all that has made this\ncountry what it is today\nanswered: \"Peter, I dunno.\"\nApres Moi C'est les Meme\nDeux Nations\nThe recent selection, by Bob\nStanfield, leader of the National\nProgressive Conservative party,\nof a Quebec leader for his\ntroubled party, is a welcome\nstep on the rocky road towards\ncreating, once again, one of our\nnational traditions: a two-party\nsystem.\nStanfield's choice, carefully\nconsidered these last few months\nas we hurtle toward the\ninevitable federal election, was\nArnauld Gregoire Pheobe-Gladys\nDe Pamplemousse, five times\nRhinoceros party candidate for\nalderman in the Eastern Quebec\nvillage of Ti Christ Sur la Merde.\nIt was not an easy choice, in\nfact one laboured over at the\nnational level for some time\nnow. Just last month, my\nsources tell me, it was rumored\nthat Stanfield had struck a deal\nwith the CBC whereby a\nnational celebrity and TV\npersonality would take le metier.\nBut though Gordie Tapp was\nseen walking down Sherbrooke\nStreet wearing a toque, plaid\njacket, gumboots, and whistling\nAlouette, apparently the deal\ncollapsed at the last minute.\nDe Pamplemousse first came\nto national prominence, and\nhence to Stanfield's eye during\nthe tragic War Measures crisis of\nOctober, 1970. In a fit of\nrighteous indignation he\nsinglehandedly turned in les\nnoms of 47 suspected FLQ\nterrorists to the local branch of\nthe Quebec Provincial Police. He\nwas later discredited when it was\ndiscovered that all 47 suspects,\nincarcerated in the Ti Christ jail,\nwere in fact Liberal party\nmembers. (Though all had had\nconfessions extracted.)\nBut as Bob Stanfield says,\nwith that little laugh that has\nmade him famous, \"at least his\nheart was in the right place.\"\nDe Pamplemousse, is a fat\nbalding five footer, who\nformerly played hockey as a\nutility man for the Montreal\nCanadiens fifth-string farm club,\nin the Laurentian town of\nConstipee. His youth (56) plus\nhis link with the province's\nbeloved flying Frenchmen makes\nhim a natural for laying the\nparty's platform before les\nQuebecois\nA lover of politics, as are all\nQuebecois, De Pamplemousse\neagerly looks forward to hitting\nthe hustings, having fond\nmemories of tort bees of his\nyouth. Already he is gathering a\nlist of rivers unbridged, roads\nunpaved, and towns without a\nnew federal building.\nQuestioned on the\nConservatives' policy on\nfederalism, his pale blue eyes\nsparkle and a wry smile comes\nover his face. \"You know my\nfrien,\" he says in quaint broken\nAnglais, \"here in Quebec we\nhave saying, which I think\nsomeup the whole problem:\nApres moi, c'est les meme Deux\nnations,\" Then his massive (260\nlbs.) frame heaves with laughter.\nDe Pamplemousse's dilemma\nreminds me of an old joke which\nsifted around this most curious\nprovince in the early sixties, and\nwhich I think adequately sums\nup the federalism-provincialism\ncrisis here.\nIf the FBI guards Kennedy,\nand the KGB guards Krushchev,\nwho guards De Gaulle? Jacques\nPlante!!!!\nExactement.\n2 MA CLOWN'S/MARCH 1972\nCongratulations to Peter the\nNew Man on his inauguration\none year ago as editor of\nMaclown's. We are sure this will\nbring about many improvements\nin this magazine and offer him\nour whole-hearted support in\ndoing this. We have noticed that\nnew blood often revitalises an\nold organization. Such has\nrecently been the case with\nMoores in Newfoundland, Davis\nin Ontario and Lougheed in\nAlberta. We are sure that you\nwill follow their example. We\ncan only hope that I will.\nDERRIL WARREN\ncontinued on page 6 Richard\nNixon's\nCanada\nCanada.\nBoiling surf on a grey-bleak\nNewfoundland shore. The far-off\necho of a night train's whistle in\nthe heat on an Ontario summer\nnight. Miles of fading wheat\nstubble and the scurrying figure of\na badger across the snowy\nhalf-light of a prairie morning.\nWild-flower afternoons in the\nmeadows of the Rockies.\nI guess I've circled the globe\nmore than a few times, lived more\nthan a few lives when you get\nright down to it. But behind it all,\nlies my vision of Canada.\nNot just a great country, not\njust an obsolete country, but a\nrapacious and humble country.\nAnd more than anything else,\nthis vision brings me back to this\ncountry: back for yet another\nhealing dip into the natural\nresources of a patient and humble\nland; back for a glimpse into a\nculture I like to think I've played\nan infinitesimal part in shaping;\nback, in short, to the state that,\nalthough clinging tenaciously to a\nrugged life, has never failed me in\nhours of a spiritual need deeper\nthan the craters on the\nwind-swept islands of the\nnorthern Pacific.\nThis is Canada, the real\nCanada. Nation of dreamers \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nonly waiting to grind their teeth\nagainst the harsh realities of a\nnorthern sleep.\nSo at the risk of drowning in\nself-indulgence \u00E2\u0080\u0094 an unfortunate\nfate all too common among those\nof us with the artist's eye for the\nmany faces of life \u00E2\u0080\u0094 let me tell a\nbrief tale of this land, one which\nsums up, I think, the canuck\nspark.\nSome years back, around the\ntime this country was signing a\ndefence treaty with its giant\nneighbor to the south, a man\nnamed Lester Pearson met a man\nnamed John Kennedy. They liked\neach other immediately. Both had\na vision.\n\"Mr. Kennedy,\" said Lester\nPearson, \"have you heard the one\nabout the unemployed frog who\nsat in a slum pond from sunrise to\nsunset?\"\n\"Mr. Pearson,\" said John\nKennedy, \"I don't give a good\nGod damn. Just sign, for\nChrissake, and go home.\"\nLester Pearson was only one\nman among many Canadians, but\nhis spirit is born of the land and\nthe people, a wavering candle\nflame buffeted by the seas of time\nand history.\nAnd so it is with Canada, a\nplace, above all, to raise finger on\nhigh in thanks to the Creator and\nthe created.\nAs I sit here in my rustic cabin,\nfar from the scurry of a Medicine\nHat business day, far from the\noffice and the telephones and the\nlunchpails, I look back on the\nhoneycomb of a Canadian future\nand on to the pounding waves and\nthe twisted arbuterus trees on the\nsmall off-shore island.\n,It begins to snow, as I sit here,\ngreat thick flakes of the stuff,\ncovering the hamlet of\nLethbridge, silencing all, cleansing\nalL\nAnd it occurs to me, as the fire\nburns low in the grate, that this\npiece of the globe is like that\nsnow \u00E2\u0080\u0094 wet, yet resiliant and\nhopeful.\nI begin to know, in the\ndarkling-spangled realms of a\nconsciousness too dim to\nremember, that the words spoken\nby John Kennedy are still alive in\nthe hearts of Canadians.\n\"Mr. Pearson, I don't give a\ngood God damn. Just sign, for\nChrissake, and go home.\"\nHome. Home to ice.\nWindy-locked waters. Sleet.\nMountains. A boy winding\nhouseward with a small dead rat.\nBurning sun. Bonanza. Coca cola.\nThe pause that refreshes.\nAnd through all this I know\nthat I will sign, that I will, once\nagain, go home.\nPIERRE SANDY PETER PHIL ETC.\nThe Bluntwick Hotel in\ndowntown Toronto is a seedy\nlittle joint, no more or less\nflea-infested than other\nflophouses across the country.\nPushing through the heavy\noutside doors, you are\nimmediately struck by the smells\nof stale beer and urine, and, if it\nis not your day, maybe a crazed\ndrunk as well. But there is\nsomething different here. There\non the beverage room floor lies a\nstack of Comfortable Pews, two\nfor 29 cents. And from the\ncorner, a curiously engaging\nconversation catches your ear.\n\"Okay, Peter, I'll trade you a\nreview of your book in my\nmagazine for a Poppycock\nfeature on me in your\nmagazine.\"\n\"Hold it, Bob, I left\nMaclown's, I think.\"\n\"No, I meant Newman. But\nnow that you mention, maybe\nyou got some pull yet at\nWeekend and could swing\nsomething for me there . . .\"\n\"Be quiet, all of you.\" A new\nvoice. \"1 have some good radio\ntime to swap for, maybe, a\nweekly column someplace.\"\n\"Not interested. Hey, Pierre,\ncan you get me on Front Page\nChallenge. I could use the\nexposure and ...\"\nThe conversation fades. But\nthere they are: Berton, Fulford,\nGzowski, Ross, Batten, Spears,\nNew Man, Lefolii, Sykes,\nTempleton, the cream of\nCanadian journalism, the Our\nGang of the media, the greatest\ncircle-jerk in Canadian history.\nIt's enough to make maple leaves\nsprout in your navel.\nSome people might say,\n\"Who cares?\" Some people\nmight not. But we at Maclown's\ncare. Stories of national interest,\nthat's what we're all about.\nLater, standing beside me on top\nof a dead drunk at the urinal,\nPeter Gzowski explains.\n\"So you want to do a feature\non Maclown's Editors \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Where\nAre They Now? Didn't I suggest\nthat? Maybe it was Sandy? No\nmatter, as you can see, we're all\nhere today. Oh, we've been\nother places, most people have.\nBut something, something\nnebulous, difficult to pin down\nbut, very powerful, keeps\ndrawing us back.\"\n\"Easy money, perhaps?\"\n\"Could be. But I think it's\nmore than that. Don't you,\nPhil?\" Sykes has joined us and is\nstanding on the drunk's face..\n\"Sure. I mean I tried working\nin other places but the best I\ncould get with my qualifications\nwas landscape gardening in\nSudbury.\"\nSandy Ross, now perched on\nthe inebriate's knees, concurs. \"I\nwent back to Vancouver when I\nheard I might be able to get a\ncrack at Ubyssey editor. I did\nthat once and it was a bit of a\nlark. But it didn't work out this\ntime, so here I am again.\"\n\"Friendship, that's a big part\nof it,\" says New Man, who is\nstruggling to stay on the rubby's\ntoes.\nEDITOR SYKES in Sudbury\n\"Yes, and kickback for past\nfavors,\" Fulford adds as he\nclimbs onto the shoulders of\nGzowski and Sykes.\nAs Spears, Templeton and\nLefolii enter and build up the\npyramid, I wonder aloud about\nthe gathering at the Bluntwick\nthis day.\n\"It's a regular meeting,\" says\nBerton, who refuses to join the\npyramid unless he can be on top.\n\"You see, every once in a while\nwe get together and cut a deck\nof cards to decide who'll.be next\nMaclown's editor. It seems the\nfairest way of handling a\ndifficult problem.\"\nSykes remarks that he has\nalready won twice, Gzowski and\nTempleton once each. But there\nare consolation prizes, says\nFulford: editorships at the\nToronto Star, Canadian,\nWeekend, or Saturday Night;\nconsultantships at McClelland\nand Stewart; countless columns\nand radio spots; television, you\nname it.\n\"We were thinking of going\nto the labor relations board to\nget Toronto declared a closed\nshop,\" says New Man. \"But then\nwe figured, why make it\nofficial?\"\nIndeed.\nMACLOWN'S/MARCH 1972 HERO OR SAVIOUR?\nTwo eminent Canadians comment on the value of PET to CA-NA-DA\nBy Joe Borowski\nH\nBy Morton Shulman\nlistorians 50 years from now\nare likely to look back on the\nperiod in which Canadians now\nfind themselves and say that it\nwas indeed one of the most\nprofound in our history. Torn\nbetween an ephemeral giant to the\nsouth and an equally insidious\ncancer within, our country's\nleaders have been placed in a\ndifficult, if not downright\nunenviable, position.\nFor a time the feeble\nmeanderings of Lester Pearson\nand his renegade predecessor filled\nwith despair those of us who\nmake our living commentating on\nthe listing of the Canadian ship of\nstate.\nAmidst the optimism of our\ncentennial year, stresses and\nstrains between Anglais and\nQuebeckers threatened to tear\napart the very fabric of our\nnation. Then, charismatically, as if\nin answer to our insipid\nblubbering, a man appeared who\ngave us a renewed sense of\nnational identity and purpose.\nThat man was Pierre Elliott\nTrudeau.\nThere are those who attribute a\nkind of supernatural quality to\nTrudeau, maintaining that he is in\nfact a \"saviour\" sent from heaven\nto suture a wounded national\npsyche. But, analytically speaking,\nI think it is more accurate to say\nthat Trudeau has attained the\ngrandiose dimensions of a national\n\"hero\", come to Canada to mend\nour deeply-torn national fabric.\nWhat, then, does Trudeau\nsignify to the average Canadian.\nWhat does Henry McMaple from\nBushtit, Ontario stand to derive\nfrom the stewardship of a man\nwho manages to calm nervous\nstockholders and strike terror into\nthe hearts of dangerous terrorists\nat the same time? Certainly the\npipe-smoking armchair politicians\nof our nation may gripe and lean\nto more radical solutions to our\nnational dilemma, but one has\nonly to watch the prime minister\nswing through a whistle-stop tour\nof Northern Labrador to know\nthat this is no ordinary man. In\nthe faces of the smiling\nprosperous children and in the\nbusy main streets of smalltown\nCanada one can sense a spirited\nflowing of all that is good in being\nCanadian. Without malicious\nintent, it is indeed possible to\ndraw a comparison between these\nimages and the sour-faced, ragged\nelements who gather to voice their\npsychologically-inspired\ndiscontent wherever opposition\npoliticians go.\nTrudeau himself takes a\ncharacteristically candid, yet\nunequivocally devil-may-care, view\nof all this. In my conversations\nwith him I have been struck by his\naccommodating manner, but at\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2the same time I sense a kind of\naloofness, as if this giant of a man\nwere preparing to go out and slay\nyet another dragon. There is\nsomething unreachable about him,\nand I was reminded, one day as\nwe dined at 24 Sussex Drive, the\nprime minister's stately residence,\nthat this was the man who had\nspent long years of\nself-examination in Tunisian\nbordellos and among Lebanese\n4 MACLOWN'S/MARCH 1972\ncamel thieves. Can a man who\nonce conquered 15 women in the\ncourse of a night at a Yugoslavian\nresort really learn to forget\nAmerican imperialism and love\nCanada?\nAs we crossed the hall from the\ndining room to the parlor, I\nassiduously asked him whether he\never regretted trading the safe life\nin Montreal's fashionable\nWestmount district for the\nperilous helmsmanship of the ship\nof state. \"Well,\" he replied, with a\ncharacteristic Gallic shrug, \"you\ncan lead a horse to water but you\ncan never make him drink.\" This,\nI reflected, was a measure of true\nheroism. A man who shows no\nkindness toward animals is hardly\nfit to conduct surgery on a\nCanada whose wounds are, if not'\nmortal, deep enough to paralyze\nour nation to the point of\nstagnation in the years to come.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 our years have come and\ngone since Pierre Elliott Trudeau\nappeared out of nowhere and\nsurprised the pundits by taking\nover the prime ministership of the\nfederal Liberals.\nAt that time there was an\nalmost saintlike aura about him\nand the masses crowded about His\nfeet in solemn devotion.\nNow, four years later, despite\nthe fact He has been crucified by\nthe media and business\nestablishment, despite His\ncarrying the cross of the ship of\nstate, there are still those who\nconsider him a saviour.\nThis is clearly no longer the\ncase.\nFrom the difficult perspective\nof the present, let us take a cool\ndispassionate look at the facts\nsurrounding the first coming of\nPierre Trudeau.\nFor in those days a call went out\nfrom the House of Liberal, for the\nelders to gather in convention in\nthe city of Ottawa.\nAnd to . that city came\npoliticians from many ridings,\nbeating off in their socks by night.\nAnd the prophets of Gallup\nwere against them, and they were\nsure afraid, for the might of\nAhmed Ben Stanfield threatened\nthe land.\nBut lo and behold, an agent of\nthe CIA came to them, and the\nglory of LBJ shone around them,\nand they were filled with money.\nAnd the agent said unto them:\nBe not afraid, for unto you this\nday is chosen in the city of\nOttawa a saviour, who is Pierre\nTrudeau.\nAnd this shall be a sign unto\nyou: You will find your saviour\nwrapped in charisma and lying\namongst lawyers.\nAnd suddenly there was with\nthe agent a multitude of Liberals\npraising continentalism and\nsaying: \"Glory to LBJ in the\nhighest, and as for Canada, sell it\nto the USA.\"\nAnd Pierre Trudeau went\nthroughout the land, preaching in\nthe gymnasiums and hockey rinks,\nand the masses followed him.\nAnd He saith unto them:\nVerily I say unto you: There\nwas once a cruel shepherd who\nabused his sheep.\nAnd the cruel shepherd made\nharsh laws and saith unto the\nsheep,\nVerily I say unto you that all\nsheep shall be shorn of their wool\nwith the turning of the seasons.\nAnd those sheep that do not\nproduce wool will be slaughtered\nand roasted on a spit.\nAnd all sheep must remain\nsilent, except to say baaaaaaa.\nThen the sheep waxed wroth,\nand revolted, and replaced the\ncruel shepherd with a kinder\nmaster.\nAnd the new shepherd made\njust laws, and saith unto the\nsheep:\nAll sheep will henceforth have\nthe right to be shorn of their\nwool.\nAnd all sheep not bearing wool\nwill be posthumously honoured.,\nAnd all sheep will have the\nright to say what they choose in\nthe manner that they choose.\nThen all the sheep together\nvoiced a loyal baaaaa.\nAnd the masses shouted\n\"Landslide\" and the forces of\nAhmed Ben Stanfield were\nscattered, and many lost their\ndeposits.\n(There are perhaps some\nproselygytic indications in the\npreceding account that Pierre\nTrudeau is a saviour but the fact\nHe is not is shown in his record\nsince those early days.)\nAnd later in those days false\nprophets went down in the land\nof inflation and spread ill tidings.\nAnd the scribes and politicians\nplotted against Him.\nAnd the might of Nixonius\nRex threatened Him and\ndemanded bushels of shekels in\ntribute.\nAnd Pierre said: Give unto\nNixon the things that are Nixon's.\nSo Pierre lost his shirt and\nwent naked throughout the land.\nAnd the people saw him, and\nhe was exceedingly ugly and the\npeople turned against him, both\nthe laborer in the unemployment\nlines, and the farmer driven from\nhis lands and the tycoon selling\nout to Nixonius Rex.\nAnd he was smote by public\nopinion, and taken to a place\ncalled Parliament Hill, and there\ncrucified.\nAnd Pierre Trudeau looked out\nonon the masses, and shrugged,\nand said: \"Fuck you, baby.\"\nAnd he was seen ascending to\n33,000 feet, and was transported\nin a cloud to a far away land,\nwhich is called Yugoslavia.\nAnd he promised to come\nagain, and to give a personal\ninterview with his disciple Peter,\nwho was last seen beating his\nbreast, and vending his rag and\ncrying out: \"From the fury of the\nTories and the godless socialists,\nmay our good Pierre deliver us.\" THE NEW SCHMUCKISMO!\nBYCHRISTINATHE NEW WOMAN\nToday's trend in men as embodied by groping, gentle\nmisfit Lloyd Robertson\nA couple of days ago \u00E2\u0080\u0094 at a time when I was\nwonrying the idea of the new schmuckismo around\nin my mind \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I saw a man who by his very presence\nbrought the whole subject into focus. It was outside\na movie theatre downtown and among all the young\ncouples waiting for the movie to begin was this guy\nin the prime of his young middle age, an owner of a\nhip leather crafts shop or custom motorcycle seats\nboutique maybe, brigade boots, leather jeans with\nfront lacings and an officer's greatcoat turned up at\nthe collar with a red cotton bandana knotted\naround the neck. He was lean in the manner of\nsomebody who had just hopped off a\nHarley-Davidson and he had this great Latin\nAmerican coloring, thick curling hair and piercing\nblack eyes, and he looked as though, in another\ntime, by physical prowess, he might have defended\nhis honor against all slights. 1 kept staring at him\nuntil he moved his assessing gaze from the \"chicks\"\nin the line to me, in case we might have known each\nother, but what I was thinking would not have\npleased him.\nI was trying hard to figure out why it was that\n10 years ago I would have considered him the\nhandsomest man I'd seen all week and now the way\nhe looked was somehow quaint. He was just too\nsexual, too cool and too machismo. He just didn't\nhave it.\nBefore I go on, I'd better explain that I don't\nthink my response was particularly unusual. I'm\nsure every woman in that line would have agreed\nthat today's trend in men is schmuckismo.\nWhat most ladies would now respond favorably\nto is the new schmuck \u00E2\u0080\u0094 perhaps best characterized\nby the groping, gentle misfit, Lloyd Robertson, as\nhe modestly stutters through The National.\nTo the modern man, to be schmuck, or show\nschmuckismo (timidity/modesty/bashful ness) is\nmore important than anything else. A man can\nprove he's a schmuck in many ways \u00E2\u0080\u0094 being trod\nupon by his boss, by his virtuous conduct with\nwomen or sincere regard for money, sobriety and\ngood sense.\nWhat schmuck means to the men who live by it\n(and to the women who suffer under it, for at its\nbest it breeds insipid chivalry and sweaty palms and\nby its very nature it attempts to achieve gallantry) is\nillustrated in the lyrics of songs by the prototype of\nschmuckismo, Pat Boone.\nSchmuckismo is part of the office-boy\nmystique of high-rises and the wave of conservatism\nthat is sweeping the country. In true schmuck style\nthe men of the movement from the beginning\nreduced women to the role of camp followers and\ntheir leaders, Tommy Smothers, Al Ham el and\nDave Broadfoot only acknowledged them in the\npunch lines of their jokes.\nBecause of the rise of schmuckismo a small\ngroup of women began to trespass on the masculine\npreserves of door-opening, cigarette-lighting and\nother chivalrous activities. Now to go further with\nthis merry theorizing. The response to aggressiveness\nfrom women has led men to display their own\nsupremacy. In other words, at a time when sexual\nroles are becoming more ambiguous, certain men\nlean harder on their schmuckismo.\nFor any woman who wants to go\nschmuck-measuring while the schmucks are out\nlooking for doors to open and cigarettes to light on\n'the coming afternoons of spring, the following\nguidelines may help:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The middle class male with pretensions to\nschmuckismo may never achieve the total schmuck\nlook but he'll add schmuck touches to his everyday\nwear: a dotted bowtie, brogue shoes, starched collar\nand cuffs, creased grey flannels, reversible raincoat\nturned up at collar and in the winter, a black\numbrella under arm.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 In the movies there are disappointingly few\nschmuck heroes: most of the new stars are rough nd\ntough types who abide by the adage, \"Never lend\nyour gun, your horse or your woman.\" But\nundoubtedly the greatest schmuck star of all time\nwas Fred Astaire in Gay Divorcee with Ginger\nRogers.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Schmuck males never have men friends.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The schmuck man tends to marry a loud,\ndomineering, nagging woman who shortly becomes\nold and agressive, with lines in her forehead and a\nfurious look about her mouth that becomes more\npronounced when the schmuck comes home\nwithout a raise.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The schmuck hero tends to call an intelligent girl\nwho says intelligent things \"a hussy who wants my\njob\". In fact, he is usually put off by any intelligent\nand/or strong-minded woman (unless she happens to\nbe his wife) because he considers her to be a threat.\nFor all but the truly liberated woman there is\nsome terrible atavistic admiration for this attitude.\nIt seems, alas and hurrah, to be programmed into\nthe race.\nPart of\nour national\nheritage\nAvailable at\ndisreputable bookstores\nfrom St. John's to Port Renfrew\nMACLOWN'S/MARCH 1972 VIEW FROM EVERYWHERE/FROM PAGE 2\nGross exaggeration\nI usually find that your magazine is accurate in its portrayal of my\nhusband. Therefore, in the true spirit of liberalism, 1 feel I must\ncorrect a mistake made in the cover of this month's issue of\nMaclown's. It would be unfair and misleading to let it stand\notherwise.\nWhat I must say is this: You, sirs, are guilty of a gross\nexaggeration.\nMARGARET SINCLAIR TRUDEAU, OTTAWA.\nFirst refusal\nMy fellow Canadians: Olive, Sir John A. and myself have discussed\nthe matter and decided that, due to your pre-eminent position in\nCanadian journalism (second only to the Canada edition of Time and\nnarrowly ahead of Reader's Digest) I should offer you the right of\nfirst refusal on excerpts from my forthcoming biography of Peter\nThe New Man, which 1 have tentatively titled Renegade With\nDistemper. Looking forward to prompt reply as 1 am already\nconsidering an offer from Popular Mechanics.\nJOHN G. DIEFENBAKER, PRINCE ALBERT, SASK.\nEditor's note: Maclown's readers who wish to know more\nabout Mr. Diefenbaker, grand old man on the national scene, may\nfind all they wish to know in Renegade in Power (McClelland and\nStewart, $5.95 (hardcover) $1.95 (paperback) two for 29 cents\n(Bluntwick Hotel newsstand).\nThe vagaries of Vegreville\nHaving just, uh, completed a thorough, uh, perusal of the cover story\nin this issue of your respected and, uh, revered periodical, I am\nmoved to share with you an anecdote regarding one of my most\nmemorable experiences with, uh, the Prime Minister. It was on a day\nin, uh, June, or perhaps it was, uh, May in 1968 when our paths\ninadvertently, uh, crossed in Vegreville, Alberta. The Prime Minister\ninvited my to join him in, uh, relaxing from the rigors of the\ncampaign, uh, trail by paying a visit to a certain room in the Prince\nEdward Hotel where, uh, I gathered to, uh, put it as politely as\npossible, certain, uh, Liberal supporters in the area would be\nattending to the Prime Minister's, uh, desires. I informed him that I,\nuh, would be pleased to join him but would be embarrassed by a\nrather large, uh, hole that I had discovered in my jockey shorts that\nmorning.\nThe Prime Minister understood, uh, my plight and\nrecommended a marvellous dinner that was being served in the, uh,\nhotel dining room. I accepted his advice and can, uh, attest to the,\nuh, marvellous delicacy recommended, as I'm sure, can certain\ngentlemen, from, uh, Montreal to whom he, uh, recommended the\nsame meal some time later.\nROBERT L. STANFIELD, OTTAWA\n* Can anyone tell me when the Prime Minister is planning his\nnext visit to Vegreville?\nDAVID LEWIS, OTTAWA\n* Can I go with you, dad?\nSTEPHEN LEWIS, TORONTO\n*Me too.\nMICHAEL LEWIS, TORONTO\n* Don't forget me.\nT.C. DOUGLAS, NANAIMO, B.C.\n* I might have known.\nW.A.C. BENNETT, VICTORIA, B.C.\n* I knew it all along.\nJAMES LAXER, KINGSTON, ONT.\nLike a little big hawk\nDino, Frank and I were sitting around the pool at the Sands in Vegas\nthe other day and, well, Pete baby, I was telling the gang about the\nhit mag you're turning out up there in the land where the buffalo\nonce roamed free and the grass is always green. Anyway, Petey\nsweetheart, I told them my only beef is that you haven't interviewed\nme in several months about the plight of our native people, the\nnoble redman who once watched the sun set over Burrard Inlet\nwithout looking upon the White Man's cities. So look, sweetheart, if\nyou'd send Don Cameron or that sharp chick wife of yours down\nhere to talk to me, my heart would soar like a hawk.\nCHIEF DAN GEORGE, HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.\nDual deanship?\nBravo for last month's article, \"Jack Davis, Prophet or Seer?\" It\nprovides a well-needed lesson in objectivity that hopefully other\nmagazines, both Canadian and American, will emulate. The idea of\nhaving two deans of Canadian journalism \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Kay Sigurjonnsson and\nyour own Walter Stewart \u00E2\u0080\u0094 present their own thoughtful, yet\nbasically\"differing views on the environment minister was first rate. It\nallows us, your readers, to make up our own minds about the issue\nby considering both sides of the question. Let's hope further articles\nof this sort find their way to your pages.\nP.L. 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To accuse someone of racism, therefore,\nis serious business; to do so falsely is reprehensible\nand should not be tolerated. The Union of Radicals\nin the Social Sciences has done just that in its\nlengthy, anonymous attack against the discipline of\nsociology, against various prominent social\nscientists, and against me personally. (The Ubyssey,\nMarch 24, 1972).\nSome time before this attack was published,\nmembers of the URSS called on me with the request\nthat I participate in a debate on race to be\nsponsored by their organization. I declined this\ninvitation since I did not feel then, and do not feel\nnow, that a politically-oriented debate is the kind of\nformat which can throw light on the issues at hand.\nInstead, I invited these members of the URSS to\nhold discussions with me, to organize study sessions,\nto examine the evidence together. My invitation was\nnot accepted. It still stands, for members of the\nURSS as well as for anyone else.\nA\nit the time of my brief meetings with these\nindividual URSS members, I also indicated what my\nposition is, and suggested further readings to them.\nIn view of these briefings, the'tnisrepresentations\ncontained in the March 24 attack may well have\nbeen deliberate. I sincerely hope that I am wrong in\nthis suspicion.\nThe reader must refer to the writings of\nRichard Hernstein (The Atlantic, September 1971)\nand Arthur Jensen (Harvard Educational Review,\nWinter 1969) to judge for himself whether the\nURSS attack against them is justified. Concerning\nJensen, whose work I have studied in detail, I can\nnow only quote his statement on the educational\nimplications of his research:\nThe necessity and desirability of eliminating\nracial discrimination and of improving the\nenvironmental conditions and educational and\noccupational opportunities of all\ndisadvantaged persons in the population are\ntaken for granted. These approaches have\nnothing to do with race per se, but are\nconcerned with individual differences in those\ncharacteristics most relevant to educability.\n(Genetics, Educability, and Subpopulation\nDifferences, in press, page 324. A copy of the\nmanuscript is available at the reserve desk of\nUBC's main library.)\nI have written quite a bit on ethnic groups, but\nthe URSS saw fit to refer only to a very brief book\nreview and to an even briefer reply arising from this\nreview. Altogether, these two items amount to 12\nbrief paragraphs. (Current Anthropology, April-June\n1969. Februarty 1971). Most of my remarks had\nnothing to do with the question of racism, although\none scholar thought that they might have such\nimplications. In reply, I devoted one of my 12\nparagraphs to the following comments:\nFinally, I would like to assure Hughes that I\nfully share what I take to be his commitment\nagainst all forms of racism. God knows that if\nsome final accounting were taken, all races\ncould be shown to be just about equally\ncorrupt, or, if you will, equally angelic. Killing\non a very large scale \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in war, in\nconcentration camps, etc. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 has been white\nman's business, and I will not let Hughes\nrepresent me as claiming a greater generalized\npropensity to kill in Negroes. (Feb., 1971).\nThe article by the URSS does not quote from\nthis part of my statement. Why doesn't it?\nIn my original book review (April-June, 1969),\nI complain that many studies on ethnic groups fail\nto treat seriously aspects of minorities which are\nbothersome to majorities. As examples I cite the\nhigher murder rate among Negroes but also observe\nthat \"there is good reason to believe that Jews in\nfact do tend to have business traditions which, like\nthose of the Gypsies, strike non-Jews as\n'unethical'.\" My comments thus dealt with both\nNegroes and Jews. The URSS calls me \"blatantly\nanti-Black\" but not anti-Semitic, although their\nsimplistic logic would lead to both charges. Either\nthey think that it is quite all right to be\nanti-Semitic, or they realize that this charge would\nnot stick because I am a Jew myself. In any case,\ntheir selective, biased quoting from my book review\nis curious indeed.\ns\n\"ome readers may wonder what my views are\non the Jensen controversy. The URSS statement\nclaims that \"Dr. Cohn follows Jensen.\" Again, there\nis misrepresentation. Jensen is an unusually vigorous\nand stimulating scholar, and many of his points are\nvery well taken indeed. Nevertheless, as I explained\nto the URSS members who visited me as well as to\nmy classes, it is my opinion that there is a certain\nconservative bias in Jensen's work, which leads him\nto overestimate the importance of tested\nintelligence. An article by Baratz and Baratz (\"Early\nChildhood Intervention: The Social Science Base of\nInstitutional Racism,\" Harvard Educational Review,\nWinter, 1970), a copy of which I furnished to my\nURSS visitors, comes much closer to representing\nmy own point of view. If I \"follow\" anyone on this\nquestion, it would Baratz and Baratz, not Jensen.\nThe URSS people knew this from my meeting with\nthem yet chose to write otherwise.\nBriefly, my views are that the genius of Black\nculture in North America cannot be apprehended\nthrough the standard intelligence tests; that we need\na greater appreciation of those mental abilities (in\npeople of all races) which are not at the moment\nrewarded in the standard school room; that we need\nto liberate and broaden our schools so as to give\nchildren of various types of talents a fuller\nopportunity to develop their abilities. These are\nsome of the practical and educational implications\nwhich I have drawn from my work over the years.\n(An early statement of such views appeared in my\narticle \"On the Language of Lower-Class Children\",\nThe School Review, Winter 1959). All my life I have\nbelieved, as I do now, in a radical transformation of\nsociety in order to liberate the human potential, to\nend racism and oppression. These views have always\nbeen expressed as clearly as I know how. And yet,\nthe URSS chooses to class me with those who\nbelieve that \"society in its present form must be\nshown to be the only possible society\".\nIhe\nI he URSS attack on my integrity is one of a\nlong line of anonymous, irresponsible attacks which\nThe Ubyssey has seen fit to publish against various\nmembers of faculty. This sniping will not deter me\nfrom my scholarly responsibility to seek for the\ntruth in my work. But I must warn the university\ncommunity that irresponsible attacks in the press\nwill have deleterious effects on scholarship in the\nlong run. When an expression of controversial views\nexposes a scholar to a public campaign of\nvilification, he might well be tempted to keep quiet\nand to abandon the field to the purveyors of safe\nplatitudes. Who gains from that?\nI know several of the students who have\nparticipated in URSS activities. I feel that in this\ncase their concern for \"struggle\" has outweighed\ntheir sense for truth and fairness. Nevertheless,\nknowing these people, I can sincerely hope that\nfuture dialogues with them may be held in a spirit\nof studying issues and of learning from one another\nso as to contribute toward the better world we all\nseek.\nWerner Cohn\nMarch 27, 1972.\nWhose ideas are correct?\nBelow is a rebuttal to Cohn's statement.\n1. The URSS is a collective. The function of a\ncollective is to undertake tasks communally,\nbreaking down the competitive, individualistic\nnature of education in this society. Further,\n\"anonymous\" groups do not call for public\ndiscussion in which they will be involved as an\norganization.\n2. In our open letter, we explained our\nposition on small elitist discussions of topics of such\ngreat importance. Questions of such significant\nsocial concern must be dealt with publicly.\n3. The question whether we quoted out of\ncontext and, therefore, misrepresented either\nHernstein or Cohn can best be answered by\nreiterating the statement at the end of the article\nthat we will gladly make available copies of both\nthese authors' articles to anyone interested.\n4. To the comment on anti-Semitism, perhaps\nthe message of the film 'The Garden of the\nFinzi-Continis is sufficient response. It is fully\npossible for a Black to be anti-Black, a woman to be\nsexist, a Jew to be anti-Semitic; the attitudes of\npeople are determined by social conditions, not by\nbiology.\n5. In today's letter Mr. Cohn apparently still\nholds to his concept of a \"higher murder rate among\nNegroes\" based on FBI research. Mr. Cohn states: \"I\nhave believed\" as I do now in a radical\ntransformation of society in order to liberate the\nhuman potential, to end racism and oppression.\" We\nfind this to be in contradiction with his faith in the\nobjectivity of the FBI and his reluctance to see\n\"sociology and various prominent social scientists\ncriticized\".\n6. We agree with Dr. Cohn that irresponsible\nattacks have harmful effects, not only on an\nindividual's scholarship, but on the totality of\nhuman dignity. The URSS criticizes not only the\nstatements of \"prominent sociologists\" but any\nideas or practices we consider incorrect.\nFurthermore, we encourage everyone to actively\ncriticize any ideas or practice they feel are\ndetrimental to the welfare of the individual and of\nsociety as a whole.\nNeither Dr. Cohn nor the URSS will determine\nwhose ideas are correct or incorrect in debates of\nthis nature. These will be determined by all those\npeople who are struggling for \"a radical\ntransformation of society in order to liberate the\nhuman potential, to end racism and oppression.\"\nThe URSS Collective,\nSUB Box 149."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . "LH3_B7_U4_1972_03_28"@en . "10.14288/1.0128572"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C."@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from The Ubyssey: http://ubyssey.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "The Ubyssey"@en . "Text"@en .