October 4, 1966 Heading the Attack
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Committee to probe academic government SA President Ron Luciano announced on Friday the formation of a joint faculty-student committee to study the role of students in VO L. X X X T U E S D A Y , O C T O B E R 4, 1966 academic government. Two members of the executive of the Students’ Association will sit on the committee which will be headed by Dean J. Bordan. The two students are Mr. Luciano and Steve Bernhut president of the Arts Students Association. The committee which is responsible to the University Council Sir George will make recommendations on at least seven questions which accord ing to Mr. Luciano could entirely change the role of students at Sir George. NOTE: Any student wishing The foremost question to be to discuss matters concerning investigated by the committee is the Committee to Study the Sings Out “Should there be student repre Role of Students in Academic sentation on any or all bodies of Government are asked to at Sir George is venturing for the Academic Government?” tend a meeting in the Students’ first time this year into a field The result of the committee’s Association Board Room on which it has largely avoided in recommendations on this question Friday, Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. SA the past. could conceivably place a student President Ron Luciano will be A student Choral Society has representative on the University’s on hand to discuss all con been formed with the aid of two Board of Governors as has already cerns in this regard. men who have spent the better happened at the University of part of their lives playing music Alberta. Mr. Luciano expressed the and conducting choirs. Which bodies should have a opinion that the organizing of Mr. Frank Armstrong will be student representative is the se this committee is probably one of the director and Mr. Ralph Clinch cond question which the com the most important advances will be the accompanist of the mittee will investigate and how made for students of this univer newly founded group The Choral many representatives is the third. sity in the realm of student- Society of Sir George begins re Other areas in which recom administration relationships. hearsals to-day in Birks Hall at mendations will be made include The deadling date for the com 4:30 pm. how the representatives should mittee’s recommendations is mid- In announcing the formation of be chosen, and whether they February 1967. the new society with the geor- should be students rather than On October 12 the student re gian, Jack Hopkins of the Student faculty members elected by presentatives on the committee Affairs Office stated that no one students. will present their brief making must have a good voice in order In making the announcement, recommendations which will be to participate. “All that is requir Mr. Lqciano cited one question based on student opinion accord ed is a love of music and sing that will require serious consider ing to the president. ing. The director of the group ation. That is, if it is decided In order to give students a will help any students improve that students should have a re substantial voice in this matter, their quality and develop their presentative on a particular body, Mr. Luciano has requested that talents,” he said. should that member be present in all students who have positive The director, Mr. Armstrong, a consulting capacity, or should or negative comments to make stated that the group will not he share in the decision making. should attend a meeting set up restrict itself to any particular for this purpose on Friday at type of music. 1 pm. “We will deal with all kinds “We want all students to have of music,” he said, “from Bach a voice in this concern,” said to Swingle renditions of Bach, Prez Probes Mr. Luciano, “and by meeting songs from the Shows, Folk songs, with them we will be able to get old and popular, in fact all and a better idea of their opinions every kind of music.” on this matter.” At present the university is Bookstore The establishment of this com sponsoring the project, according Three members of the student's mittee was triggered by a recom to Mr. Hopkins. He predicted that Association will meet on Wed mendation from the University in the future if the new group nesday with Mr. J. Silver, who Council on Student Life that proves popular, the Students’ As operates the book store. there be a student Representative sociation may adopt it as an extra Ron Luciano (SA president), on the Library Committee. curricular activity. Steve Clark (Commerce presi This recommendation was based Mr. Arm strong is originally dent) t and Frank Bray ton (the on a brief presented by Bill Tem- from England but has resided in georgian) will m eet with Mr. pleman, Bruce Bain, Jerry Gorn, Canada since 1960. Silver in order to discuss finances and Marshall Fisher. The brief In the past he has been as of the University’s book store. investigated methods of improving sociated with rhythm groups, Mr. Silver will informally ex library services of the University. dance orchestras and other local plain the operation of the book After the committee presents choral groups. He was choir direc store to the student represent its recommendations, the various tor of the Montreal Girls Choir atives as a result of concern ex bodies which will be affected woh last year placed third in the pressed by the SA Council over will have the opportunity to study province in competition with the matter. them. All recommendations that adult choirs. To date Mr. Luciano has met emerge from these studies will Mr. Armstrong has appeared then be considered along with THE BELLE OF THE BALL — Pretty liana Schwartz was crown twice with Mr. Silver and once with choir in T.V. and radio as with H. Worrell, Controller of the committee’s recommendations well as perform ing as a soloist ed on Saturday evening at the Windsor Hotel as the Freshette Queen, at a special meeting of the Univer liana, who came to Montreal from Israel in 1961, is currently in the the University, regarding prices. in the Montreal area. Results of the meeting will be sity Council. Mr. * Clinch was born in Saint Faculty of Fine Arts. For more pictures of liana and her court, as Members of the committee are well as some scenes from the Frosh Ball, turn to page 9. published in Friday’s issue of John, New Brunswick. He has the georgian. Principal Rae, Vice-Principal D. studied at Dalhousie, the Halifax B. Clarke, Ron Luciano, Steve Conservatory of Music, the Royal Bernhut, Prof. Michael Brian, Conservatory at the University of Dean Flynn, Asst. Dean Butovsky Toronto, and the Eastman School music and as an accompanist in the Protestant School Board of by Mr. Armstrong that it would (Arts), Prof. N. E. Smith (Scien of Music of the University of public appearances and on CBC Greater Montreal, as music spea- entail one practice of approxim ce), Prof. E. B. Markland (Com Rochester. radio and television. cialists. ately 1 % to 1 1 4 hours per week. merce), Prof. G. Martin (En Mr. Clinch has concertized Both Mr. Clinch and Mr. Arm Anyone interested in joining The rehearsals begin at 4:30 on gineering), Prof. K. Jonassohn widely as a soloist in chamber strong are presently employed by the new group has been advised Tuesday afternoons. (University Council) and Dean Bordan (Chairman). Naziism still alive - Hubertus by Morris Rosenfeld His highness dispelled any and The Gazette of April 17-18, West Indian “There are still Nazis in Ger fears by stating that the German 1936 he addressed a meeting or many.” public and press would never ganized by the German Workers This was one of the opinions support Naziism again. and Farmers Association in Mont expressed by Professor Hubertus, “This”, he said, “was exemplifi real. elections His Royal Highness, Prince of ed by the lack of success of the This was one of his first lec Lowenstein in a programme spon Clubs Commission Chairman, Party’s candidates in recent elec tures on the North American con sored by the Political Science De tions.” tinent warning of totalitarianism Carl Hager, informed the partment yesterday entitled “Are georgian that tomorrow the He did however mention that as well as the danger o f appease There Still, or Again, Nazis in they must be watched and cau ment policies. t West Indian Society is holding Germany” . tioned the news media about over In 1936 he founded the Am e a by-election. Addressing approximately 350 “The position open is the publicizing their activities. rican Guild for German cultural students, professor Hubertus qua Freedom which assisted many presidential post of the So He emphasized the fact that lified this opinion by stating that hundreds of exiled German writ ciety, and will be contested by “democracy is well-protected as these are unreconstructed Nazis ers, artists, and scholars saving Mssrs. Carrington and Ballan- long as freedom of the press who agree with the policies of many others from Gestapo after tine,” reported Mr. Hager. exists” . Hitler and blame Hitler only for the fall of France in the summer He continued to say that no The Prince of Lowenstein is an losing the war. of 1940. freshmen will be allowed to historian, author, publicist and He categorized the existing Na Speaking on a broader level the vote in this contest. zis into two groups — those who was a member of the German Prince said that ultra-nationalism He further urged all eligi Bundestag from 1953-57.