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2 «««««••••••«•»» : THE PRESIDENT : ON SUSK Andriy Makuch : change in attitude is necessary. • • The book of Samuel relates how This idea was reiterated uyzbyf the young David stood before • Marijka Hurko in opening the I8th S • Goliath and proclaimed his In- Congress this year, and for- tention slay him. The giant was 2 3 to malized by Andrij Semotiuk's.© • amazed and took tight the threat; presentation of "The Ukrainian • subsequently, he was struck down • Students' Movement In Context" J • by a well-thrown rock. Since then, (to be printed in the next issue of • giants have taken greater heed of 2 STUDENT). It was a most listless such warnings. 2 STUDENT • Congress - the • seek and disturbing " I am not advocating we 11246-91 St. ritual burying of an albatross wish to J Edmonton. Alberta 2 Goliaths to slay, but rather mythology. There were no great • underline that a well-directed for- Canada TSB 4A2 funeral orations, no tears cried. ce can be very effective • par- • No one cared. Not that they were f ticularly if it is judiciously applied. the - incapable of it, but because , SUSK must keep this in mind over , £ entire issue was so far removed 5 9• the coming yeayear. The problems ' trom their own reality (especially ft . t we, as part off thett Ukrainian corn- - those attending their first " £ . community, no face are for- - Congress), that they had no idea • midable, andi theretht is neither time of why they should. Such a sad and bi-monthly news- nor manpower to waste. "STUDENT" is a national tri- ft spectacle must never be repeated by • The immediate necessity is to students and is published - entrenched Ideas can be very • paper for Ukrainian Canadian realistically assess our priorities 2 limiting. Students' Union (SUSK). • and actions. SUSK has developed 2 the Ukrainian Canadian Many people have expressed # a tradition of fantastic analyses the J relief that the National Executive forum for fact and opinion reflecting Zand solutions which, -for several 2 "STUDENT" is a is now out West (perhaps a reten- © topics: _ years now, it has been unable to Canadian students on various tion of the stigma that society interests of Ukrainian substantiate. The result has been 2 here is less decadent? fresher 5 cultural, political and religious. • incomplete or unfeasible grant social, and more dynamic?). That in itself ft projects, a loss of credibility repre- will not solve our problems, for it and thoughts expressed in "STUDENT" (especially among member 2 The opinions is not likely we will find a Moses « the Ukrainian Cana- organizations), the unpleasant particular situation in which here to lead us into the wilder- sent the • Inheritance of large debts, and 2 both within the Ukrain- ness. We have no ready answers, dian student movement finds itself, most severely, a loss of momen- J This should be a year of crucial • within Canadian society. • turn. No longer able to sustain the ian Canadian community and debate with STUDENT as an ex- • "movement" as it once existed, cellent forum ( it will be appearing ft articles and letters for control "we are back to square one. It was We reserve the right to edit J monthly). Local clubs hopefully 2 • a long time coming "' " matters. stimulate some discussion1 on length, taste and legal Successive congresses (since f J from the resolutions (No. 16, in par- • 1974 in my own recollection) have J ticular) and will participate ac- « 2 failed to resolve anything. Too of- tively in the pages ot STUDENT. STUDENT STAFF ten, rhetoric is confused with 2 Finally, it appears that the next • relevant discussion ft Congress will be crucial in deter- • EDITOR--IN—CHIEF — Nestor Makuch The departing address of the mining whether or not a Ukrainian • 1975-76 SUSK President, Sheila students' movement is still alive in ASSISTANT EDITORS — Mariika Hryn, Yuriy Stebelsky Slobodzian, critisized these futile 2 Canada. The future lies with the • "long-winded never-ending brain- individual students themselves. _ STAFF THIS ISSUE storming sessions"; ironically 2 Being an incurable optimist, enough, this was shortly after the 1 think SUSK's future is very im-# Jars Balan Olenka Lupul • Congress had passed 38 grueling portant. resolutions. But she was right - a 2 Luba Boyarchuk Andriy Makuch Bohdan Chomiak Kathy Polushin Vera Dumyn Myron Pyskir 18th SUSK Zorjan Hrom'iak Helen Savaryn Ivan Javorsky Irka Scharabun CONGRESS Ivan Javorsky Daria Luciw Larissa Sembaliuk The 18th National SUSK publicized in the Ukrainian press. (Ukrainian Canadian Students' The 1977-78 executive was then Union) Congress was held in Van- elected. 18th CONGRESS couver from August 24-28, with Ihe composition of the new executive is as follows: NUS BACKS CZECH AND over 100 students from all parts POLISH OPPOSITION of Canada participating. Some of President: Andriy LEADERS the special invited speakers at the RESOLUTIONS Mak'jr.h (Edmonton) Congress were Andrii Semotiuk, -Vice-President Responaibl- Nad a Kazymyra, and Roman e for Multiculturalism: University ot British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.. August 28, 1977 Pet ryshyn, who spoke about David Lupul (Ottawa) SUSK in the late sixties and early -Vice-President Respon- (Unless otherwise indicated, all resolutions were passed with seventies, some aspects of the The recent conference of the sible for External significant majority). early history of the Ukrainian National Union of Students Liaison: Taras community in Canada, and the (Britain) mandated its represen- Pavlyshyn (Winnipeg) sociology of Ukrainians in tatives lo press for speakers from -Vice-President Respon- Defence Com- Whereas the constitution ot the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union Canada, respectively. the Polish Workers sible for Human Rights: 77 provides that one of its specific aims is "the realization of a Other questions discussed at mittee in Warsaw and Charter Roma Andrusiak (Toron- in Czechoslovakia to address the progressive multicultural and multilingual Canadian society," and e Congress were the present to) . European situation in Quebec (Marc Hufty, a next meeting of the -Secretary: Whereas the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union the representative of the Association Students' Union, scheduled lo recognises that -Treasurer: Ivan in November Federal government has consistently failed to support the aspirations Nationate des Etudiants take place in Poland Javors'kyi (Edmonton) Students' con- of Canada's ethnocultural groups to develop within Canada such a Quebecois, spoke on this topic), of this year. The •Editor o( Student: challenged the progressive multicultural and multilingual society, and student dissidents in ference also Nestor Makuch (Ed- decision to hold the meeting in Ukraine (Roma Andrusiak), and monto n) the venue Whereas the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union recognises that there Canadian constitutional Poland, arguing that -Assistant Editors: Yuriy protest the is a need for the creation of an independent government body to super- debate (Volodymyr Kuplovs'kyi). should be changed to Stebelsky (Edmonton), Polish workers vise, monitor, assess and report on the Federal Government's Im- Bohdan Zherebets'kyi conducted repression of Mariika Hryn (Toronto) strikes against the plementation of its policy of multiculturalism and to ensure that such dance seminar, while Prof. following the -Past President: Mariika policy is effected to its fullest extent and also developed as and when Valerian Revuts'kyi spoke on lood price increases last year. Hurko (Toronto) The far left in the student required, Ukrainian drama and theatre and movement have been fighting the lakiv Maldanyk, well-known The National SUSK office will Be ft Moved That this Congress directs the National Executive to com- present leadership of the NUS for Ukrainian Canadian caricaturist now be located in Edmonton, at mence specific action directed at having the Federal Government ap- several years now over the need and painter, reminisced about his Ihe following address: 11246-91 point a Commissioner ot Multiculturalism to assume such respon- for an active campaign against past. Congress participants also Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5B sibility. repression in East European had an opportunity to hear Leonid 4A2. The existing office In Toron- countries and the Soviet Plyushch, who was attending maintained #2 to will continue to be Union. It was minority socialist the World Federation for Mental as an eastern regional office at Whereas the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union recognizes the members of the Students' Health Congress being held in the following address: 191 Lip- desirability and effectiveness of having both the National Union of National Executive that argued Vancouver. pincotl Street, Toronto, Ontario, Students and L'Associatlon National des Etudiants Quebecois promote against the Czech puppet student On the last day of the Congress M5S 2P3. and recognize the issues of multiculturalism, union CSUV being represented at resolutions (the full text of which The new executive wishes to the International Seminar on are reproduced elsewhere in this thank the Vancouver Ukrainian 6« ft Resolved That the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union im- Chile held in 1975. The decisions issue) were discussed and voted Students' Club, especially mediately Initiate In are, contact with the NUS and Aneq order to encourage by the student Iris t this last conference upon assembled Congress co-coordinators these national organizations to adopt a favourable position on the con- however, the first time that the delegates. It was moved that the Achtemichuk and Vera Yelenluk, cept of multiculturalism and to promote It in all spheres ot their ac- proposals of the socialist two most widely discussed for an excellent job of organizing tivity. be minority have been actually adop- resolutions (nos. 12 and 13) the Congress. ted as policy by the Student's #3 Conference, t Whereas the character of the struggle for national social justice in and Special thanks to John Mockler and the Alberta Han- Ukraine is in a constant state of flux, determined by various local and (Reprinted in part from Labour international forces, and Focus on Eastern Europe, No.