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r r "' ""' Dalhousie Gazette Oktobeerfest October 16 Vol. 104 October 15, 1971 Number 5 ~ \.. ~ Aldermanic race includes Dal Three to contest in Ward 2 by Emmi Duffy Housing is a serious problem, Number two is housing. If RELEVENT". COMMENT. because of the problems that and especially for the universities. everyone had proper housing MOIR: There is a great need seem to develop among certain Glenn Wanamaker Students lose much of the accommodation, there would be for youth hostels. We should (cont'd on p. 14) On October 20, Halifax campus life when they have to no better place on God's earth provide soup and rolls every voters will go to the polls live so far away from the than Halifax. day for travelling youth; there to elect ten aldermen and university. Parking is another Thirdly, this area is an area of is no need for anyone to be a mayor. In the second of problem. great scientific possibilities. We hungry, travelling or not. We MacNEILL: Trunk sewers stand second to San Diego on will have to get a place set up in a two-part series on the and sewer treatment plants are the North American continent Ward 2. election, the GAZETTE the priorities. Clearing up the in this field. The scientific field MacNEILL: Young people presents an interview harbour, Bedford Basin and the must be expanded and we need today are miles ahead of me with the three Ward 2 Arm are serious problems. the universities to do this. when I was 19. I really believe aldermanic candidates. Number two is financing. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF that they do not get full respect Cll Dalhousie University is There is a higher tax escalation THE UNIVERSITY, AND from citizens. 'i:"' located in ward 2, bor here than anywhere in Canada. WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE IVANY: I advocated the ..,-Qj dered by the North West We've found that there are TO INCLUDE STUDENTS IN setting up of a youth committee. .t:l Arm, South Street, senior citizens with fixed in YOUR CAMPAIGN? Ward 2 is the only ward that co0 Summer Street and comes around $4,000 and they MOIR: The cultural life must accepted a Digger House into .a> Quinpool Road. If you are sometimes have to pay $800 - revolve around the university. the community. I see a great 0 $1,000 to maintain their homes. The university is an extremely need for a youth ·committee .cc 19 years old and have Q. Then there are transportation vital force within the city. The LOU Moir been a resident in the city and communication. The Arm 19 and 20 year olds are just as since January, you are dale bridge would be a minor much thinking members of the eligible to vote. expense compared to the cost of community as anybody else, if new roadways. Parking is a not more so. So if they vote, Quebec a THE CANDIDATES mess. Even my car, right now, they'll vote in an intelligent LOU MO I R - 48 years old, is parked out here illegally. Dal way. However, large numbers second look - former ward 2 alderman, should provide parking space have very little interest in city graduated in law from Dal in for students with the new land it politics ... I don't know what Saturday, October 16, is the belle province" up to October 1969, vice-president of the is getting. effects these voters will have on first anniversary of the in 1970, with a special sub insurance firm Jack and Co., Another serious problem for my campaign. vocation of the War Measures section on the FLQ. resident in the ward. Ward 2 is the North West Arm MacN E 1LL: Dalhousie Act. Demonstrations are The second section is taken DONALD J. MacNEILL- pollution. If you happen to be should share the costs with us. planned all across the country from Leandre Bergeron's 35, pharmacist, president of travelling up the Arm and you We should ask them to provide to show solidarity with book, "The History of Quebec, I the Halifax Retail Druggists see, for example, a school of parking with federal and Quebec. At least 15,000 people A Patriote's Handbook", Association. fish going up the Arm with their provincial grants. are expected to participate in published by New Canada HEDLEY G. IVANY - gills wide open - there's not IV ANY: The university Montreal alone. Press of Toronto. We have current ward 2 alderman, enough oxygen for them to go up provides good public relations, Those people will not be out chosen the chapter entitled naval constructor, com the Arm. There's raw sewage brings employment and rejoicing. Rather they will be "October 1970" in which pleted extension course in being pumped into it. scientific imput. I cannot tell reminding Canadians that the Bergeron describes the events Rural development and town IV ANY: The major problem what effect students will have struggle in Quebec is not dead, of that month. planning at Dal. is finance. There has to be on my campaign. that it is quite alive and well. The last section contains better financial sharing bet THE NOVA SCOTIA This is an ideal occasion for information on recent events WHAT ARE THE MAIN ween the province and city. REPORT ON YOUTH SAYS Canadians to reflect on the in Quebec and provides an CAMPAIGN ISSUES? We have discussed parking at "POLITICAL PARTIES MUST problem of Quebec and how it outlook for the future. MO 1R: Transportation is a Dalhousie in terms of how it MAKE A CONSCIOUS AND affects us. It is also a good For those interested in major problem. We must try to affects the good public relations ACTIVE EFFORT TO IN time to find out and un further reading, we recom find a way to control the with students and citizens. If VOLVE YOUTH AS YOUTH IN derstand some facts behind mend two excellent books, automobile so that it will serve we're going to provide parking, THE POLITICAL PROCESS IF the struggle in Quebec. now available in English. The us instead of us serving it. we have to get the money. THEY ARE TO BECOME If and when Quebec first, which is required separates it will affect us all. reading for anyone interested If we view Quebecois as in Qu~bec, is Bergeron's book. human beings, we must try to It contains a new history of Dal charwomen underpaid relate to their problems and Quebec, written by a frustrations. We cannot ignore Quebecois. Dalhousie cleaning employees, represented by opposes the current rate discrepancy in Nova them and their situation if we The second book is a Don Morrison, began contract negotiations with 3cotia's minimum wage law. Under the present are at all concerned with translation of Pierre the university October 5. The Canadian Union of law, women must receive $1.20 per hour, 15 cents freedom and democracy. Vallieres' controversial prison Public Employees (CUPE) was certified as their less than men in Zone 1 (cities and large towns). With this in mind, the writings, "White Niggers of new bargaining agent on August 19 of this year. "The worst job is cleaning up the piss under the GAZETTE presents a special America". This book, once "Dalhousie has lower female cleaner rates urinals," reports a Dal maintenance woman supplement on Quebec (pgs. 7- banned in Canada, tells the than anywhere I know of inN ova Scotia," asserted earning $1.25 an hour. (Male cleaners make $1.75 10). We have attempted to story of the author's childhood Charles MacDougall, the CUPE representative per hour.) bring out some of the often on the wrong side of the tracks who organized them. He cited the City of Halifax "Students are slovenly," she added, describing ignored facts about the in Montreal and how he charwoman rate as $1.71, the Halifax School the mess in classrooms after a single class has struggle and real problems of became prominent in Board rate at $2.50 (equal pay for males and been there. Her duties include sweeping and the Quebecois. Quebec's predominantly females) and area hospitals at approximately $2 mopping floors, lifting chairs and tables, cleaning The supplement is divided middle and upper class in an hour. blackboards, sinks, toilets, urinals, floors, into three sections. The first telligentsia. MacDougall deplored the wide difference in mirrors, and replacing toilet paper, towels and deals with the history of "Ia Dal's male and female rates and stated that he soap. ~- --------------------------------- Student Health a free serv1ce• by Cheryl Sawter Under the directorship of Dr. available to all students who are One of the many free services W. B. Kingston, Student Health seriously ill. offered to Dalhousie students is provides regular and Abuse of alcohol and food l 'niversity Health. located in emergency medical care requires treatment more often Howe Hall. around the clock during the than drug abuse, according to school term. Nine part and full Kingston. People with drug time doctors, four registered problems usually seek help nurses, two certified nursing elsewhere, although aid is assistants and four full time available to them at University Our advertisers clerics are on hand to aid Health, he added. students. According to Dr. Kingston, support us - Among the services available approximately two-thirds of the are psychiatric diagnosis, student body is seen at the Please support them treatment and counselling University Health offices concerning contraception, during the year. pregnancy and abortion. This service is for your use, so A ten bed infirmary is also use it. STUDENT TV RENTALS 11 19 B&W $20MON.