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Vol.16No.ll The University of Western Ontario N6A 5B8 March 20,1980 Certification decision soon Judgment was reserved at a agreed to a definition of the ap certification hearing held last propriate bargaining unit. The Friday in Toronto by the Ontario Personnel Director said that, at Labour Relations Board into an the meeting in Toronto, it was application by the Canadian determined that the union had Union of Public Employees to signed up over 55 per cent of the form a bargaining unit among employees in the proposed Physical Plant workers at bargaining unit. Western. Under Ontario Labour Rela A formal decision by the tions Law, the Board could grant Labour Relations Board is ex immediate union local status to pected shortly, but had not been the Physical Plant group if over announced as of press time 55 per cent of the employees in Wednesday. the unit signed for certification. The Physical Plant workers The application, if approved by covered in the application for cer the Labour Relations Board, tification are currently would cover about 330 full-time represented in salary negotia trades, caretakers, and service tions by the UWO Staff Associa workers in Physical Plant, accor tion. If the application is approv ding to Personnel Director W.F. ed, CUPE would be the first trade Trimble. union currently to represent Several representatives of the workers at UWO. The Canadian University met with represen Union of Operating Engineers tatives of CUPE and the proposed represented the University’s sta bargaining unit in Toronto. Mr. tionary engineers from 1968 to Trimble said the two parties 1972. Class moratorium sought on Mar. 27 University Students’ Council Mr. Apps said Dr. Connell will President Alfred Apps has “ten be asked to declare the one-day tatively arranged a meeting” moratorium on all classes, ex with UWO President George E. cept those in which examinations Connell to discuss the possibility have already been scheduled. of declaring a moratorium on classes on Mar. 27. The USC plans to send a con tingent of students to Toronto that day to take part in an On D eficit tario Federation of Students pro test against Provincial government-approved increases budget in University tuition fees. (See story on Page 4). Western’s budget model for Mr. Apps intends to meet with 1980-81 projects a deficit of Faculty Association Chairman $500,000, even with increased Spring trim John Trevithick today to seek revenue from proposed tuition professors’ support for the pro fee increases. “SPRING is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder homes ready for them. Every Spring he goes posal. Mr. Apps said he will also The budget model was approv where the birdies isf" So wrote the unknown out and prunes the campus trees. That’s be in touch with Staff Association ed last Thursday by the UWO poet. Officially, as of 6:10 this morning, it was Delaware Hall in the background. Its residents President Peter Krickmire to ask Senate and recommended to the farewell to Winter and Pat Dicicco, a Physical have something else to think about... Spring ex his organization to support the Board of Governors for final ap Plant worker, was out getting the birdies’ aminations begin in just over three weeks. move. proval. The budget is projecting total revenues of $103.5 million for 1980-81, an increase of 7.3 per cent Interdisciplinary program from the anticipated actual Series revenue of $96.5 million for The special purpose of 1979- 80. E xpenditures are estimated to be $104 million for Western’s $12.5 million in nutrition being formed 1980- 81, an increase of 8.1 per cent Second Century Fund over the current year. An an campaign is to “enhance The first step in what executive would also “stream” dian university-level nutrition ticipated $300,000 surplus is ex the proven and distinctive organizers hope will become a undergraduate students, who course focussing on basic pected for the current year. margin of excellence of new UWO teaching and research may wish to get degrees as research and the role of nutrition Prof. I.P. Suttie, Chairman of the University as a whole program in nutrition will be an in specialists in nutrition, by advis in health, there would be a good the Senate Budget and Finance so that the University may augural meeting Mar. 26 aimed ing them on a recommended possibility that the Medical Committee, said slightly higher retain its vitality and con at establishing links among ex course of study. Research Council might accord it than anticipated provincial tinue to contribute to the isting programs studying Dr. Roth said the long-term the special status recently government grants have provid betterment of society”. nutrition-related areas. aim of the interdisciplinary awarded to Western’s Group in ed “a little more flexibility for Western News today Spokesman Dr. Rene Roth, group will be the establishment of Reproductive Biology. the short term”. The grant for continues its series of ar Department of Zoology, said this an honors program in nutrition, a Dr. Roth said that the Universi UWO has been estimated at ticles on the special pro first meeting will involve the graduate program and applica ty of Guelph is considered the $79,640,000 for 1980-81, an in jects for which funding is election of an executive to tions for strategic grants from leader in nutrition at present, but crease of 6.7 per cent over the being sought. Please turn oversee coordination of teaching federal granting bodies. Guelph’s program is centred on current year. to P ag e 4. courses in nutrition in various He added that because such a departments and faculties. The program would be the only Cana (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 5) University Letters to the Editor role: focus M iscellany Academics challenged for panel People.. .People.. .People... to Hake moral stand’ Universities have an important Dr. H.C. Palmer, Professor in the Department of role to play in turning out trained Geophysics, has been elected secretary of the Canadian Na professionals who have a well- Dear Sir; tional Committee for the International Lithospheric Project rounded liberal education, Presi (CNC/ILP). The International Lithospheric Project is the dent George E. Connell told a I hear that Dr. J.R. Trevithick, whose letter to Brezhnev successor program to the international Geodynamics Pro “Presidents’ Panel” at gram which has just been completed and both programs are on Professor Andrei Sakharov’s behalf you published McMaster University last week. several weeks ago, is having problems at the University joint efforts of the International Union of Geodesy and Dr. Connell was one of four On Senate with his attempts to have the Senate condemn the Geophysics and the International Union of Geological Soviet persecution of the great physicist and human rights tario university presidents who Sciences...Carleton University Academic Vice-President, champion. According to a report in the bulletin of the spoke at the panel discussion on James Downey, 40, has been named President of the Univer Faculty of Journalism, some members of the Senate the topic “The Role of the Univer sity of New Brunswick for a six-year term beginning August sities in the 1980s”. The meeting 1,1980... ' argued that academics are being persecuted and harass was sponsored by the alumni ed all over the world, therefore an action on the part of the associations of McMaster, university on behalf of the Nobel Peace Laureate Western, the University of Toron Sakharov would cause a dangerous precedent. Literary magazine available Indeed, this is a shockingly ‘ivory towerish’ reaction. Its to and Queen’s. Dr. Connell said that half of the Pom Seed '80 is hot off the press. The student literary logic is similar to saying that one should not protest full-time students at Ontario against the gas chambers of Buchenwald because gas magazine, published by the Department of English, is a universities are preparing for a 69-page anthology of student poetry. Illustrations were pro chambers are a common practice in all Nazi concentra definite career goal such as tion camps, and anyway the Turks had murdered two vided by Writer-in-Residence Joe Rosenblatt. Editors of the million Armenians as well. medicine, law, engineering, publication are: Beryl Baigent, Carole Bale, Margaret Buist, The thing that bothered Dr. Trevithick’s antagonist, ap business and commerce. Michael Kortsen, Laura Lindsay, Chris Pannell, Shelley “If you hear it suggested that parently, was how would the university know which Veinish, Paul Wolfe, and Darrell Barrs. Copies of Pom Seed harassed academics deserved our defence and which did universities don’t prepare ‘80 are available from the Department of English office. students for careers, don’t not; in other words, who of them were being persecuted Room 173, University College; the UWO Book Store, and the believe it,” he said. Information Desk, UCC at $1 per copy. unjustly? Well, our society has really reached the bottom He said the professional train of moral deterioration if we cannot distinguish between ing cannot be the total concern of the actions of a terrorist (the case of a recent arrest of a the university, however. Profes Marxist philosophy professor in Italy who was found to be sionals must also receive a sound Topic: Chest Diseases connected with the Italian murderous Red Brigates) and liberal education. those of a man who has been fighting a state-run terrorism His words were echoed by U of Respiratory disease will be the subject of discussion at a by appealing to the rule of law! T President James Ham, who Clinical Day in Chest Diseases on March 26 at University How can we, academics, hope to educate the young said the universities should not Hospital.