Volume 29 No. 12

nliberals Lower Boom on Unemployed" ·"Devastati ·ng Unemployment Laws for 1979"

By A.B. Stockwood led to passage of the document before the salary and hourly paid employees who In light of the new Unemployment In- house closed for Xmas. surance changes now being implemented ammendments have received passage by by the Federal Govt.; it appears some Mr. Taylor explained that presently the law, Mr. Taylor revealed they have not severe belt tightening will be in order for ~ four section eleven page document will received implementation date, but will the unemployed in Canada. - ~ctually ' probably come into effect within the next During a recent MUSE interview Mr. (1) reduce overall U.I.C. Benefits (as of three months. Both clauses deal with the Otto Taylor, Public Relations Officer of Jan., 7, 1979) to 60 establishment of higher entrance and re­ the Unemployment Insurance Commission ~nsurability. Currently claimants of U.I.C. entrant requirements for eligibility in the (U. I. C.) commented on documents benefits received 66 of their wages when U.I.C. programmes. Basically the 10 week released in December 1978, concerning the they were last employed and eligibility scale now required to entitle an changes. The 'Bill' was originally drafted (2) establish a mimimun insurability of at individual to benefits; will escalate to 20 to curb spending in the areas of Social least 20 hrs. per week to become insurable work less than 20 hours per week, under weeks, ( ammended slightly by the local Services, and redirect the funds currently (as of Jan. 1, 1979) The rationale of this the reasoning that this group have a high unemployment statistics.). expended on Unemployment Insurance policy is to make U.I. Benefits available to disincentive to work. With the focus on curbing abuses and payments to the area of Job Creation. By salary and hourly paid workers whose low rearrangement of U.I.C. wage restricting debate on the "Bill's proposals, wage scale force them to work longer clause however excludes from U.I.C. all replacement insurance to accommodate the Federal Liberals forced a vote which hours to be eligible for U .I.C. Benefits. The Although two remaining clauses of the only those who have proven permenant attachment to the labour force, U.I. policy places new entrants, re-entrants and repeaters in a position where they will be more dependeant· on employment rather Contract signed for new library than wage replacement in the form of U.I.C. benefits. With regard to the redistribution of U.I. A contract has been signed and con­ library was opened when teh campus was Funding for the building was obtained funds toward ob creation, the only con­ struction has begun on teh Queen first built, and is now drastically un- through Provincial Government con­ structive programm which will realize an Eliza beth II Library on campus. On dersized considering the amount of books tributions and a funding campaign un­ increase for creating more jobs is the January 3rd., Lundrigan's Limited, the· it now stocks. Other storage locations have dertaken by the University. The Students summer Young Canada Works. Under the construction company awarded the tender had to be rented to hold the library's Union and Alumni have contributed guidelines for this year Young Canada for the building of the five-story, columes. The expected date of completion $750,000 originally intedned to be used fo of the new library is projected to be around the construction of a new student Union Works will receive two million six hundred $13,000,000 structure, signed the contract October of 19881. Building·on campus, and the Alumni have and ninety three thousand dollars for the with F. W. Russell and W. H. M. Selby of Dr., Russell, Chairman of the University pledged a large portion of annual fund Nfld. region. This is barely a half a million Memorial. Board of Regents was quoted as saying he dollars over the same program· allotment When completed, the library will house is glad that a Newfoundland firm has receipts to the library fund. last year. To press time Mr. R. Fifield the up to a million books, and have a total floor received the contract. The three-year This-is the first time that Memorial regional Public Liason Officer wa area of about 200,0oOO square feet. The project is expected to employ about 200 University has had the authority to sign a unavailable for comment on th facilities are badly needed; t~e pres~nt construction workers. · contract for a capital project. redistribution issue. page 2 Friday December 19, 197$ Now that we've burned our boats...

book review definition of unemployed is narrow and 288,000 admitted they were in need of a job. attack the cause. Instead, they call for the by Valerie Mansour, restrictive and does not include all the "Now that we've burned our boats., .. " development of a social and economic plan Atlantic Bureau Chief, people who do not have jobs. According to very effectively chronicles the problems which will suit the needs of the Canadian University Press. Stats. Canada you are only unemployed if with Newfoundland's economy. We are Newfoundland people; a plan which will you don't have a job and "you have ac- taught the province's history and what give Newfoundlanders employment at At the annual meeting of the tively looked for a job in the past four joining confederation meant to decent wages. The Commission felt it Newfoundland and Labrador Federation Newfoundland's future. Statistical beyond their bounds to map out in detail of Labour in the fall of 1977, the People's weeks, ro you have been laid off for less eyidence supports statements of th precisely how their ideas would work. Commission on Unemployment was for- than six mon~ and still expect to return severity of the problems. Newfoun- However, the report ends on a note of med. Its task was to talk with the people of to the same Job, or you have terminated · dlanders told the Commission precisely optimism that something can be done. Newfoundland; the employed and the empl~yment for . any. reason and are what was on their minds and in "Now that If you want to understand what it means unemployed, the business people, the starting a new ]Ob m less than four we've burned our boats... " the Com- to live in the most under-developed part of politicians, and anyone else who had weeks." This eliminates more than a few mission passes that information on to us in the country, why.it ended up that way, and something to say about the problems with Newfoundlanders from being "officially" a very human way. what can be done about it, "Now that Newfoundland's economy and what might unemployed. In 1976 a Statistics Canada The Commission felt it their respon- we've burned our boats ... " is worthy of be done about them. sibility to make recommendations for a reading. The unemployment. situation. in survey was taken in the province but was solution to Newfoundland's troubles. New foun dlan d and Labra d or F ed erat' ion Newfoundland is the mose severe m the nev.er made public. That survey showed Naturally they were wary of short-term 0 f Labo country. Despite Statistics Canada's talent there wre 25,000 people who met their solutions which help to cover up some R ~06 77 B d St t of covering up the real. rate, it is generally definition of unemployed while another effects of unemployment but really don't StooJmh. o n ,s ' New ofn oun dlareed'n . accepted that the level, of unemployment ' in the province is around 34.9 (March 1978) and ioncreasing all the time. The Commission spent eight months \ • examining the situation. People, many ce totally frustrated, spoke candidly about what unemployment was doing to their own lives and to the future of the province. professional. They spoke of the endless list of the ' governnment's false promises, the in­ dustries that started up and then failed, - .. and the exasperation of n-0t being able to ~- earn their own living. Many Newfoun­ dlanders left home to find work, not because they wanted to explore the ank of Montreal has a wonrlers of the mainland, but rather coinplete financial plan .. because their lives were going nowhere on / .. . 1 the island. designed especially to get • G . delines There has alwys been a dream of an ------C-onsultants· Financing ui ' industrial Newfoundland-a dream that grad~ting professionals doesn't make much sense when one con­ siders the province's small population started in their own \ (500,000), its distance from major markets, poor soil, and the high costs of practice. . \ importing raw materials. The Commission Our FirstBank™ points out that the failure of the industrial ProfeSsional Loan Plan \ . . growth stategy is the root cause of \ Newfoundland's unemployment problems. booklet is full of ideas i There hasn't been enough of a con­ \ t I centration on rural development and and advice to help you ; fisheries. Instead of supporting the in­ dustries that were natural to the province, arrange the business lifestyles were changed and a process of side of your profession. urbanization took place. Changes which improved the level ?f If ltil Can.ad1an Lu•1n11 , Drop into any I ~1e a1 l~null t .. a5" l't..n education is the province also resulted m I l • '"' ' II\• • .. " ' ....- enormous numbers of unemployed branch and ask for I teachers and university graduates. i your free copy of i \ i A T\'fl< .•, l

enter the job market, are .not included ~n official statistics of the unemployed. The page 3 Certific_ation; the big iSsue for Faculty

Certification: This is the aim of the A group calling themselves "Faculty for However, the Bargaining Committee is clause. The union would be able to Faculty Association's Bargaining Com­ Open Debate' are pursuing this line. strongly opposed to people becoming examine the budget and protest if they felt mittee. The move, if accomplished, will Recently there was a flyer written by Eric 'professional unioninists,' and does not money was being assigned to unnecessary give the Association the status of a union, Bullock suggesting that faculty unions 'are want those holding positions in the union to areas rather than keeping on necessary with all the attendant problems and a greater threat to academic freedom and be paid, nor to be let off with reduced personnel. responsibility. individuality than any University Ad­ course loads. The reason for this is to avoid Although the Faculty has a substantial ministration. approaching th structure of industrial The problem here is that if the union amount of control at the moment in However many faculty associatinns in unions, where orders are passed down becomes too strong, the faculty may be deciding the academic changes in the the country are already certified, and Ken from the top, and the idea of a 'closed able to to be better themselves at the University, any changes requiring extra Swann, chairman of the Canadian shop,' no jobs for those not in the union, is expense of the University as a whole. This fundiilg have to be put through the Board Association of University Teachers completely alien to their aims. would possibly mean reducing a services of Regents, on which the Faculty have no (CAUT) Bargaining committee, estimates to students. Evans says that this has representation. that 55 of Canadian faculty members are Despite putting the Administration and Faculty on opposite sides of the fence in a happened at some American Universities, One the main motivations behind cer­ now covered by a legally binding collective though not in Canada. tification is to make agreemtns that a agreement. formal sense, Evans says he expects relations between the two to improve. He already exist legally binding. There are Nothing is certain so far. The suggests that polarization develops when doubts that the Terms and Conditions MUNF A tried last year to arrange a Bargaining Committee has yet to win over there is no structure for discussion of a under which faculty members are hired system of voluntary recognition as a sufficient support from faculty members; point; that alienation is the result of a are legally binding on the University. bargaining unit with· the Administration, that is over a half of those who could high-handed decision being taken by one Also, the salary brief which MUNF A but found that this was impossible, so the comprise a collective bargaining unit, side. Perhaps this lack of discussion could presents to the administration each year Bargaining Committee was struck to before they can approach the Labour can be completely ignored by the approach the matter from the certification also explain partly the present schism among faculty regarding ceertification. Relations Board to ask for certification. President and Board of Regents when angle. Feelings both for and against are strong When one considers the current level of submitting the University budget request The certified association would also be over an issue that one of the three CAUT­ participation of faculty in the ad­ to the Government. in a better position to negotiate lay-offs sponsored panelists described as 'just a ministration of the University, cer­ The Faculty asks for what they want, but made under the 'finaicial exigency' veneer on top of what already exists. if the answer is no, there is nothing much tification is merely formalizing the more that they can do. John Evans, present situation regarding academics, chairperson of the Bargaining Committee, but with an extension to include Faculty described the process as 'binding sup­ input to the financial priorities of the plication.' University as well. However, there is opposition to cer­ tification. Some object on the grounds that Already in the Faculty of Science there there has been no real debate on its are peer review structures; committees to necessity, while others are opposed to the recommend promotion, tenure and merit whole concept of unionism. bonuses. These also exist to some extent in When the bargaining committee, along the Faculty of Arts. Evans admits that with CA UT, brought in three panelists to taking over what are now the respon­ give information on certification there sibilities of the Administration will involve were objections that unbiased information some extra work for professors, but thinks was not being given, because none of the there will be people willing to take on the three was against certification. added responsibility.

Craig Butler, ex flower child, has resigned again Education Society from the post of station manager of CHMR. Rumour

has it he was only persuaded to run for the second time / by the help of a bottle of Captain Morgan. Butler is no\..\ confronts..~ apa thy cerified respectable by the RCMP, who have a far The reorgani1ed Education Society will speakers to speak on issues in education better picture of him. acti\ ely encourage full student partici pa­ on both general and current topics. In ad­ tion on faculty committees in the coming dition they will hold a number of mixers semester. In particular, the Faculty Advis­ during the semester and are looking into ory Council ( FAC) has 19 vacancies for reviving Cinema 4 to bring in movies of student representation in the education interest to students. Faculty alone. The Education Society has one thing ti at many student groups lack going for it: ~Vhile the Ed Society is concerned they have the support of faculty and a p1imarily with the Education Faculty stu­ rapport with a number or ad ministrati\ e dents, they will be happy to assist students Third Floor Renovations offices. The Education Faculty is the of other faculties in seeking representa­ largest on campus with 682 students regis­ tion on \arious uni\·ersity committees. tered in it last semester, providing a solid One of' the chief concerns of the So(iety is base of support. If the Student Council Resume· After Strike the quality of education both in New­ comes th rough with financial backing, the 1 foundland and at \1L N and according to Society's activities can be more intensi\'e, one member student apathy is deli i mental said Jan Burry, the.treasurer f'or the Soci- Renovations planned f'or the third floor \filler Ewing, Assistant Vice-President . to a quality education. ety. · of the Thomson Student Center will con­ (Physical Operations and Planning) said In any e\'ent, concrete action is in the tinue this term alter a delay caused when that word is expected from the defunct All students will be able to take part in orling and concerned students are urged Crown Construction Company, the firm company's trustees later this week con­ the Education Society's acti\'ities. General by the Education Society to get in touch originally contracted to do the work, suf­ cerning the completion of Phase l. ~\'hen meetings will be held e\'ery ~vednesday at with them. Their office is E-1 and their fered financial di f'ficulties. TSC \1anager the first phase is completed, a tender will I :00 in----. The Society will be bringing in telephone is vi L' N extension 2·+06. "-' Carson Leonard said that construction has be opened for bids on the next Phase, the again been started, and plumbing work construction of the Student Aid Offices. included in the tender was completed re­ 'vfr. Ewing confirmed that architectural cently. \\Ork for the Student Aid Offices has been Photographers! aprO\ed, but was una.ble to estimate the Crown Construction had been awarded final date of completion of all planned the tender l'or work on Phase I of the work. yroject, the Student Consclling Center, A dee ision to renm ate the third floor of The Muse is looking for Photographs for sports, but went bankrupt a short ti me ago. I {ow­ the rsc was made in considering the fact news, and photo-journalism. Experience in 35mm. C\'er. trustees for tile firm had assumed that Student Aid ()rfi(es and Counselling responsibility for the completion ot the Centers needed more spa(e and atcessibil­ would be a ti;e mendous asset. We would prefer if \\ ork, and will continue to direct the pro­ ity to students. you had your own camera but arrangements can be ject and to issue sub-contracts for other Construct ion or the offices \\"aS halted work. Leonard estimated that all work on approximately half \\'ay through the last made if you do not. Apply to Room 222 on the the Counselling Center shall be completed semester. when Crm,·n became in\'ol\'ed in second floor of the Thomson Student Center. within si~ to eigh~ w:eks. financial dif'li( ulties. page 4

of the residences who had a means of pla). There were no times posted tor each transportation were asked if they would game so I do not understand where you go to a sports shop and pick up handballs recei\'ed the idea that players were not letters which they would be paid for but which scheduled to play until 11 :00 p.m. The they refused to do, so the tournament had reason for the scheduling being this way is to be postponed. that if a default occurs the next game lntram.urals are organized Nith regards to hockey schedules, no scheduled can start play immediately th us hockey 'schedules even twent up at 6:00 not causing a prolonging of the tourna­ To The \1USE: does more than the mere drawing up a p.m. on the day of the game, although ment. In reply to a letter in the \1 USE of schedule and posting it and perhaps if you schedules have gone up around noon In closing I would like to say that I hope November 24, regarding the lack of or­ would like a detailed description of what is hour on the day of the games, and the that this explains any Intramural con­ ganization of the Intramural Department, involved, you could come over to the In­ convenor for hockey has assured me that troversy that has arisen from your letter. I would like to state that as Intramural tra mural Office. this will never happep. again. Also, I would Also it see ms to me that a great percentage Chairman for the \.fen, I have an under­ Furthermore, regarding the handball like to say that no schedules have ever of your information is incorrect and standing of the rules in the Intra mural tournament that was caneclled because of bee~ forgotten to be posted. therefore I would become questionable Handbook and how interresident sports a lack offoresight to buy handballs as you It seems to me that you have a misun­ about your sources. Also I have always had personnel feel. In your letter you stated stated. The' handballs were in the CAGE derstanding o_f how the scheduling for vol­ the opinion that a sports writer considers that it was practically impossible to even of the Physical Education Building prior leyball is run. Four teams always play \·ol­ two sources of information before writing catch the individuals responsible for to the tournament where they are always leyball at the same time since the gym­ his final opinion. scheduling; and getting statistics is out of kept and they were there for the tourna­ nasium has two volleyball courts, thus In the future please contac thte Chair­ the question. I must respond by saying ment when I, personally, checked. The making it quite easy to play two games at man of Intra mural Sports for an explana­ that most of the Convenors for the ac­ only lack offore sight in my part was in that the same time. Furthermore the tennis tion of any problem that you feel exists in tivities are from Residences and along I did not foresee that they would be stolen tournament went as it should have gone Intra murals. with the academic duties they have, in­ prior to the tournament. On the morning with a total of 110 players registered to Ray Brushett volves far more ti me than the outside per­ of the tournament when it was 'realized son would unders~and. The convenor that the handballs we~e missing, members President appeals for cOnservation To the \.fuse: ' Our peak load period is between 10: 30 I am appealing to all students, staff, and a. m. and 12:30 p. m. If all lights were off faculty to support our efforts to reduce for just one hour dur.i ng mid-day, nor­ Editorial the expenditure on electrical energy. mally the brightest part of the day, it . It has been our experience that all lights would save the University $90.00 or ap­ job. in most rooms are switched on automati­ proximately $20,000 a year. Is this not Too often these days, "student apathy" Ifyou didn't work last summer and beat cally upon entering, even on bright sunny worth the effort? lends support to many outrageous and the streets looking, you may get a little days when there is no need for the lights to Your cooperation 1s earnestly re­ outlandish schemes, whose obvious dis­ pissed off by• this attitude that the Gov­ be turned on. All to frequently, lights are quested. criminations are only apparent to sane, ernment is hoping the general public will not switched off when leaving a room, \.1.0. \1organ thinking, individuals. " adopt.•t is interesting to note that no con­ whether classroom, laboratory, or office. It appears, however, the Federal Gov­ structive work creation policy was affixed ernments recent Unemnlovment• , Insur- to the recent Bill which had job creation as ance changes will finally bring one hone to it's rational in the drastic cuts proposed, you, "the student", and you rcontin ued and now in effect. apathy will finally reap you a concrete re- Let's hope that the students of \1emor­ ward . .. " poverty " . • ial are. smart enough not to fall for this • Under the new provisions advocated in latest government scam at blaming the Clauses Two and Three of the Act, the high unemployment in this country on the minimum insurability of any claimai;it will unemployed and thusly persecuting them be 20 weeks work in the last 52. If you for it; instead of creating more work or haven't worked 20 weeks in the last year, strengthening our Social Security systems, PRODUCTS the government, in its benevolence, offers to deal with unemployment in a rational you a loophole, whereby you are..still eligi­ manner. * ·Cassette Players *Radios ble for benefits if you worked 14 weeks last If you do support frowning \fom and year ·and another 14 weeks the year be­ Dad Attitudes now, you'll have plenty of * Power Amplifiers, ,. 8-track Players fore. time to whine about it once those measures In case you haven't tabulated it, 20 take full effect, and you spend your * Equalizers weeks means 5 months, and 28 weeks is 3 summer-79 in the panic of competing for and a half months times two. \.lost stu­ jobs further complicated by many previ­ In our new dents will find themselves slightly defi­ ous claimants who no longer have the op­ cient in meeting these requirements due tion to "choose" work; and will take any to educational commitments ... won't JO. b ... your JO. b...111 CAR they? So protest ... write your member, the ~vhen faced with the factors of rampant newspapers, the CSU, Ron Pumphrey ... seasonal unemployment caused by the say you don't agree ... or sit and be counted STER EO summer influx of students into the work­ the way you are when you compute how force, one can only imagine policy the much you'll have to borrow next Sept. Feds will have to cook up to placate the when Student Loan ti me comes round SO UND thousands of students who will not be elig­ again; or about that welfare claim you may ible for any wage replacement system in have to enter this summer if you are a ROOM the summer of 1978 ... married or mature student who does not N HAT'S TO BE DONE??? Nhy, work find work and is judged uneligible for of course ... Get these lazv bums off un­ U .l.C. benefits this summer. -.. employment insurance and let them get a - Ab Stockwood

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Ah, yet another year has passed, and with it multiple units, bone-iobs., etc. A year of superior pienal and limbic system damage. The "Year of the Unit". But alas, alas 1979 is here. ·pair "The Year of the Goosney". Watch out for it. It's the new Key word and as with the Universe, it's meaning will only unfold with time. Fellow Goosneys working on this 'ish were Bud Goosney, John Goosney, Damhnait Goosney, Beansprout Non-Goosney, Mark, Gary, Jon, Fred, Fae, Abola, Jeff and Greg. Yes, all Goosneys. Our mailing unit is Box 118, MUN. Published by Robinson Blackmore on O'Leary Avenue. The MUSE is a member of the Canadian University Press and all . I ' national advertising is handled ~Y Youthstream, Davenport - Road, Toronto. · JS,6 3 Blackmarsh Rd., 579-2193 '.94) page 5

MPHEC recommendation ' Maritime stude~ts can expect higher fees each year

HAUFAX (CUP) - Tuition fee in­ Education minister Terry Donahue said upon institutions. No provision is provided "We'll be meeting with the MPHEC to creases in the Maritimes, where tuition is that it is quite unlikely that the govern­ to offset tuition increases because the express our view", said Arsenault. SUNS already the highest in the country, seem ment would come up with a 10.5 commission believes it is reasonable for urges the government to provide at least inevitable according to a report from the increase to eliminate the chances of tuition fees to increase with the cost of 10.5 Maritime Provinces higher Education tuition increases. Discussions are still living. to prevent tuition increases. It is the Commission. happening so I wouldn't say it's im­ Donahue would not commit himself to policy of our organization to oppose any The MPHEC has recommended to the possible.'' agreeing or disagreeing with the and all tuition increases this year." provincial governments a 9.5 increase in ''The treasury department is talking MPHEC's position that tuition should rise Arsenault said SUNS will discuss plans operating grants for 1979-80, but in its about 5 with the cost of living. However, he did say for lobbying action at their plenary, the report said the grant would have to be increases for many departments, so it's the gap between students' fees and the last weeke~ in January. 10.5 going to be difficult reaching the actual costs of education is widening. "At Terry Morrison, student representative in order to prevent a tuition increase. The MPHEC's funding level this year." _ on the MPHEC, said the increase is MPHEC's recommendation must be ap­ In its report the commission said tuition some point someone has to pay. I realize reasonable given the present economic proved by the Council of Maritime fee increases have been considerably students are at a point when they're least situation. "I can live with it providing the Premiers who are presently studying the below rates of inflation partly because of able to pay." Council of Maritime Premiers fund to that report. government and student pressures placed "There are so few dollars. I hope when I meet with the universities we can develop level. Anothe~· percentage point would be our priorities." nice, but at 9.5 The Commission expressed concern tuition at least won't rise beyond the cost about the levels of support being provided of living." to post-secondary education and the "It's interesting that the MPHEC has Fee hike for Maritimes resulting effects upon the quality and pointed out that tuition is .an issue", said financial stability of the region's post­ Morrison. They are resolved they don't secondary education system. want tuition to increase drastically but The Government operating grants for they believe tuition should rise along with HALlFAX (CUP) - Tuition increases being felt, Maritime universities could the last three years have been less than the will not be announced as a certainty until rate of inflation. The commission believes everything else." face a serious crisis within five years," John Keyston of the Atlantic Association the provincial governments have decided said Carrigan. post-secondary institutions should be on the increase in operating grants to post­ affected by government spending of Universities said that individual "The AAU has not been able to impress universities had asked the MPHEC for a secondary institutions, according to the its need for funds on the Council of restraints, but they feel the restraints Atlantic Association of Universities. being faced by comparable government 17 Maritime Premiers because universities increase. Although the AAU has yet to At the executive's press conference are traditionally unpopular", Hicks said. • departments is not as difficult. January 23 Dalhousie president Henry The MPHEC is concerned that if faculty make an official statement, Keyston said 'The only solution is the convince he had hoped for a higher increase. "I Hicks said even if the government meets politicians and society of the value of salaries continue to deteriorate, qualified the 9.5 think there are going to be tuition in­ recommendation by the Maritime universities, economically and as far as faculty will leave the region. As well, in­ creases at a substantial number of in- Provinces Higher Education Commission the value of education is concerned." stitutions have come to the point where stitutions", he said. (MPHEC), the universities will be in a Hicks reminded his press audience that there could be reduced programme of­ The Council of Maritime Premiers was difficult situation. However, Hicks said he universities can't have a deficit that would ferings and a lower quality of education. expected to voice their judgement on the was "reluctant" to think the present in­ exceed more than 2 BJ Arsenault, chairperson of the MPHEC's recommendations December crease would affect the quality of of their grants. "We at Dalhousie will Students Union of Nova Scotia (SUNS) 18. However, Prince Edward Island stalled education, partly because professors do break even this year since we hven't paid said he seriously questions the role of the the decision by requesting that a new not find it as easy today to go elsewhere for 200 employees for while", Hicks added MPHEC who have recommended tuition funding formula be established. large salaries, as they did five years ago. with a chuckle. increases to an area which already has the CMP's announcement is now expected in . February . Owen Carrigan, Saint Mary's president The MPHEC in its report said it would be highest tuition in the country. said the danger exists in pricing students reasonable to expect tuition to rise with the out of university education and out of the cost of living over the next few years. residences as the cost of room and board, Hicks agreed saying, "We should have allowed that to happen over the last not perceived by the public, skyrockets. .... "Right now we're just waiting to hear several years. But, of course, it's hard for NDP Battle Continues· the government's decision and also to·see just one region of the country to do it." what students are going to do," he said. The association finished their meetings "With enrolments beginning to decline a day early and as a result most other by a significant amount and the effects of university presidents had gone home The first meeting of Campus NDP was to have a full slate of candidates for the insufficient money for the last three years beivre the press conference began. held on Wednesday, January 17th., in the upcoming Provincial general election by Thomaon's Student Center's Gold Room. them." The meeting consisted of an opening Following the discu~ion, Mr. Walker discussion of party policy followed by a made a slide presentation of a feature slide tape presentation of a feature written called Mouseland, a political fairty tale. by Thomas Douglas, former leader of the Suprisingly, the mouse electorate had federal NDP Party. Chairing the meeting elected a black cat governnment. After the was Keith Walker, a member of the par­ black cats passed a law declaing that all ty's election committee in the federal St. m6useholes must be the black cats were John's East riding. pa~ing laws that were only good for cats The students in attendance questioned and not for mice. The mice thought Mr. Walker on the party's stand on various something must be done, so they went to issues. The subject of abortion was raised, the polls and put the black cats out of to which Mr. Walker replied that the NDP power. ThiS time around, they elected a Party took a pro-abortion stand, adding white cat government. But, when the white that the party would like to "eliminate the hospital abortion committee system" that cats passes keguskatuib deckarung that .....0 is endorsed by the Liberals and the Con­ all mouseholes must be made twice as .c::0 a... servatives. When questioned on the NDP's large, so that a cat could fit both paws into policy concerning the legislation of them, the mice realized they were even marijuana, Mr. Walker stated that the worse off than before, Them, . So they put party "definitely supports the legislation the black cats back in power. of marijuana and has done so since 1961." Presently, there came along a mouse Mr. Walker then outlined the procedures who said to the other mice, ''Why should governing the nomination of candidates, we continue to elect cat governments& stating that one must be a card carrying Why don't we forn a government made up member in order to participate in the of mice?" The other mice called the 5, 000 st uclents pay $327.00 each to become future unemployables: There IS hope for party's elections. "There whsll be a outspoken mose a beobshevik and threw private enterprise! provincial NDP convention held in late outspoken mouaw R.olahevik Bolakwcik May," said Mr. Walker,""We shall expect NS RHEW HIMN IN JIL?

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On September 15 the 11 The lack of control over the national economy is a phenomenon which has plagued developing INCO Limited in Sudbury, countries since the early days of colonial exploitation. To the industrialized countries of the world Canada's largest mining it is a relatively recent phenomenon. ordinary labour dispute, The growth of "multi" or "trans" national corporations, with allegiances grounded solely in mination of the miner profit margins, however, has suddenly, made control over vital economic sectors an immediate workers of Local 6500 of concern in countries around the globe. Workers of America re Nowhere has this question been highlighted 'more starkly than in Canada where the mainstays lenge to the power ol of the economy (resource extraction) have suddenly and systematically been undermined by the corporations over Canada main beneficiaries of its development. Although feelings of · The phenomenon has manifested itself in a consistent form across the country. In soared in the weeks befo Newfoundland last year Alcan decided to shut down Its operations in the town of St. Lawrence in wives of the strikers favor of purchasing cheaper ore from Mexican sources. In northern New Brunswick, where parties, with toys donated Noranda Group holds a monopoly over the mining industry, operations have been gradually reduced In favor of more profitable investments In the mines of fascist Chile. Ontario and Sudbury m In the forest industry, the leading producers, have been rapidly cultivating high yield projects no early settlement likely in South America in preparation for a mass abandonment of their Canadian investments as soon based INCO. as the profit margins become more attractive. - Since 1972 I NCO h In each case the disruptions have resulted in soaring unemployment rolls and economic workforce in Sudbury fro stagnation for the communities most directly involved. than 12, 000, and made The Incident which has elicited most attention, however, has been the case of the International Thompson, Manitoba and Nickel Company (INCO) because of the sheer magnitude of Impact that the company's decision to Ontario. Meanwhife, the shift its operations to the third world has had on the Canadian economy and the people of a major battery manufactt Sudbury. · and sank more than 1 bil Art Moses, a resident of the Sudbury area and a former bureau chief for Canadian University new mines in Indonesia Press outlines how the mining community, political and organized labour have reacted to the I NCO pullouts. before growth in the nicke after 1975. Then came the announ · in October 1977. INC workforce in Canada by and forced thousands

Until the 90o/o of the western fina ment have e into the act. about 33 pe mains the la of.nickel int

accept demotion s into j often cou Id not use their The layoffs set the contract talks. Holding a stockpile of months above normal demanded workers accep freeze. After an unprec summer shut down, the offer in September was amounting to 4 cents an The proposal emerged hou r meeting between I Edwin Carter and Ontario Davis. INCO's offer also incl alter and weaken the stewards in grievance contained no improve pension . I NCO pensions lowest in Canad ian hea are a top priority for the u to encourage older work to enhance the job s workers. Nickel industry analys INCO would try to provok a reduction in its stockpi without a strike, the burden of debt for its thl wou Id have forced more in 1979. " It's ironic " one a because of those' debts ------­{ held benefit concerts in Ottawa. Toronto phone to ask for a copy." But Bn,adbent and Thunder Bay. · told a Sudbury news conference he "would The mushrooming of su·pport has have to do more homework'' before he apparently impressed the leaders of could endorse nationalization. Cassidy also Steelworkers District 6 who were known to equivocates on the issue. be lukewarm at first. District 6 director Until the 1960's Sudbury produced more Stewart Cooke organized a $40,000 than 90 percent of the capitalist world's · .e ·. . Dn Christmas tu nd and a spokesperson for nickel. Since then western financial Cooke applauded ''the courage of the institutions and the U.S. government have strikers in taking a stand against a encouraged other producers to get into the multinational that does.ri't think it's act. INCO's market share has dropped to responsible to anyone''. That stateme:it about 33 percent, but its Sudbury 00 workers of production from its most profitable opera­ came when he presented the money . in operations remains the largest and lowest­ Dntario, closed tion (Sudbury) and increase p~oducti~n Sudbury Dec. 21. Gombined with fund­ cost single source of nickel in the peration. No from Indonesia and Guatemala where raising and a car raffle by a citizens strike non-communist world. e gr.im deter­ profits will be low for some time." support committee in Sudbury, the money Local 6500 has been showing the movie and smelter I NCO chairman Carter denies the allowed Local 6500 to give strikers an extra "Controlling Interest" on the picket lines e United Steel company wanted a strike. •'A strike is $5 per dependent child as a Christmas gift to focus worker attention on the problem of sents a chal­ economic warfare, and there are no voucher. multi national corporations having a mu It in at ion a I winners or losers.'' · Cooke caused some bitterness in stranglehold on the world's resources. The resources. The youthful president of Local 6500 September when he urged workers not to strike in Sudbury may reach a turning on solidarity disagrees. strike. He was speaking in a surprise point when I NCO workers In Thompson, Christmas, as "It's happening everywhere," said 29- telephone cal I to a reporter from A tlan.tlc Man., decide what to · do when their anized giant year old Dave Patterson, elected president City, New Jersey, where he was attending contract expires Feb. 28. ~ runionsacross on a rank-and-file program in 1976. the union's international convention. ·sud­ ,~ants, there's ''Companies are trying to blackmail their bury media outlets used Cooke's remarks WIVES OF INCO WORKERS rom 'New York workers into giving up what they had in the to discourage a strike vote, and the 61 ORGANIZE TO BACK STRIKE past. It's time somebody took a stand and percent majority was lower than ~xpected . Perhaps the most significant develop­ slashed its it might as well be the workers in Then two days after the strike began ment since the strike began has been the 18,000 to less Sudbury." former Ontario N DP leader Stephen Lewis organization of strikers' wives to back the ajor·- cuts at His call has apparently captured ' the termed the strike "sheer madness". In a union. · . ort .C.Olbourne, imagination of labour gro~ps elsewhere in newspaper column he accused Local 6500 The formation of Wives Supporting the mpany bought Canada. leaders of "misplaced m·ilitancy" and of Strike was sparked by an area feminist •er in the U.S., After hearing Patterson speak in being "Archie Bunkers of the left". group "Women Helping . Women", in o dollars into November, delegates to the convention of The column pr.evoked an angry reaction response to the historic role played by o Guatemala, the British Columbia Federation of ~abour from the Sudbury area's three NOP INCO wives In 1958. naustry slowed voted to donate 23 tons of herring to the provincial legislators, and federal MP for That was the last time workers here •' INCO strikers. Members of the United Nickel Belt John Rodriguez. In a clear went on strike i_n face of large stockpiles of 1e1 •.: .of layoffs Fishermen and· Allied Workers union reference to Lewis they criticized ''those nickel. The strike also began in Sep­ chopped its caught the fish, and the International who would sneer at workers struggles, and tember, but by December conservative ,! than 3,000, Woodworkers of America paid for trans­ forget that many gains in the past have politicians and church leaders had or­ re workers to portation. been ,won fighting against seemingly ganized thousands of workers' wives to a insurmountable odds." They were backed back-to-work rally. by current Ontario NOP leader Michael The rally helped pressure the workers to Cassidy, and delegates to the annual accept a humiliating wage settlement and MO's Sudbury produced more than convention of the Ontario Federation of a $25 Christmas bonus. pitalist world's nickel. Since then Labour who gave Patterson a standing "We were determined that would not ovation and called unanimously for the happen again,'' said Linda Obonsawin, ial institutions and the US govern- natiionalization of INCO "under demo­ spokesperson for Wives Supporting the cratic and public ownership.'' Strike. ''We formed the group because c:ouraged other producers to get Advisors to federal N DP leader Ed when the men are on strike, we're on strike Broadbent initially urged he stay away too, and we wanted to get the women rCO's market share has dropped to from the Sudbury strike, but on Dec. 14 he together to make sure they understood the ·f~nt, but its Sudbury operations re­ visited the picket lines to donate a cheque issues, and figure out how we could help for $1700 from members of the party each other. Social tensions tend to increase gest and lowest cost single source caucus in Ottawa ''to show we are deeply during strikes." committed to your cause". It was The group has organized clothing e non-communist world. Broadbent's first comment on the strike exchanges and pot luck suppers through­ since it began. out the Sudbury region. The biggest Sudbury East NOP member Elie Martel project was a masive two-day Christmas 1bs where they Northern Ontario locals of the Retail, introduced a bill in the Ontario Legislature party, in which the wives distributed Wholesale and Department store union articular skills. in mid-December calling for th~~ nationali­ thousands of toys to children of the stage for 1978 raised money for 1000 Christmas turkeys, zation of INCO. He says "withi , ten strikers. The toys were donated by other J a donation matched by the union in minutes I NCO public reiations was on the unions and Sudbury merchants. ic\el at least six southern Ontario. The Canadian Food and While the children waited in line to see ...------. supply, IN CO Allied Workers and the Ontario Federation Santa Claus, the women handed them a a one-year wage of Labour joined ''Operation Turkey'' with comic book called ''What is a Strike''. jE nted six-week 1000 more birds of their own. Organized Working Women, a group cc mpany's final And the St. Catherines and District af'iliated to the Ontario Federation of l l'age increase Labour Council sent a truckload of more Labour, organized a benefit concert in hour. than $35,000 worth of toys for Christmas. Toronto, Dec. 9 called "Women Fighting ·om an eleventh­ A spokesman for District (Ontario) of I NCO". Joan Kuyek of "Women Helping CO chairman J. the United Steelworkers says donations Women" told the audience of more than remier William from other union locals to Lac.al 6500 have 400 that the strike has galvanized ''the set a record for North Arl'arica. hatred people in Sudbury feel towards ~ed demands to Teams of strikers are meeting an INCO". She attacked the company for ~ower of union unusually generous respCJnse collecting taking riches out of the Sudbury mineral procedure, and money at plant gates across Ontario. basin, and leaving little in return, while u'Xs in I NCO's And in January the local started sending always trying to split its workers. are among the strikers to other provinces. Standing ovations also went out to ndustry. They Their need is overwhelming. Local 6500 Obonsawin ·and INCO striker Cathy 1ic1n which wants gets $-a60,000 a week from the Steel­ Duhaime, one of about 75 women hired for ·s to retire early workers International strike fund in surface work about 5 years ago. Only 33 r~ of younger Pittsburgh. That works out to strike pay of women remain after the latest round of i $25 a week for single workers, $30 for layoffs. s had predicted married, and $3 per dependent child. The The I NCO strike also raised an examp.le 1 a strike to force local also needs more ttian $400,000 a of how student councils and the student !. They said that month to pay the strikers medical press can assist labour and build links with >mpany' s heavy insurance and life insurance premiums. unions. The student council at Laurentian a world projects That leaves a monthly deficit of more than University and the Lambda (student iyoffs in Canada $200,000 for Canada's second largest newspaper) staff agreed to provide free union local. typesetting facilities and personnel for 1lyst said. "But The strikers' morale got a big boost the production pf the bi-weeking "Strike INCO must cut weekend of Dec. 9-11 when supporters Support News".

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OTTAWA (CUP( - The Ontario reads like an invitation to a wake." creases would make higher education granted $41 million. According to OCUA Government has driven ''yet another nail Last year, OFS protested the 5.8 per cent increasingly difficult to get to, especially, Head William Winegard, even the OCUA into the coffin of quality education" with increase in the government's grants to for women and those from lower income original recommendation would have its recent tuition increases and funding colleges and universities because that families. meant severe restraint for universities. cuts, according to the Ontario Federation increase was lower than the inflation rate. "This tuition increase would have a "There's going to be even more trouble of Students (OFS). According to Golombek, though, "com- fetrimental effect even if swnmer jobs tmder the province's grants structure.... The government announcement, made pared to this, last year looked good." were plentiful and student aid was func- we are disappointed." Jan. 5 means Ontario university students Golombek predicted that, because of tioning properly." In making the tuition announcement, the will have to pay 5 per cent (or about $35 for expected enrollment declines, university Student swnmer unemployment has government said it was "temporary", and a full-time student) more next year, while revenues would only increase 4.4 per cent. been increasing steadily for the last said final tuition structures would depend college students must pay 5. 7 per cent This will mean no new blood in university several years, to a high of 15.2 per cent this on the results of the P .S. Ross Report, to be more (or $10 per term). faculty and severe cuts in library and JW)e. The Ontario student assistance released soon. At the same time, government grants to research expenditures, he predicted. program malfunctioned severely this fall, That report is expected to recommend universities and colleges will only increase He cited a recent study at the University unpegging of tuition across the province, about 5 per cent next year. In November, of Western Ontario which showed that an 8 leaving many students .stranded with no leading to competition among Universities the annual inflation rate as measured by per cent cut in the university's library money while their applications were still and possible high increases at more the Conswner Prices Index was 8.8 per budget last year meant a 35 per cent drop being processed. prestigious institutions. cent. in acquisitions, because of rising book The OCUA Had recommended, a 67 Golombek said OFS would be discussing According to a recent report by the prices and the drop in the canadian dollar. million funding increase for universities the tuition increase and funding cuts at its . Ontario Council on University Affairs Edelson, also predicted the tuition in­ this fall, of which the government only conference later this month. ( OCU A), this will mean universities will have to cut 250 to 380 staff next year, as well as reducing library and other ser­ vices. OF S, which has been conducting a campaign against tuition increases and funding cuts since last spring, reacted angrily to the announcement. OFS chair Allan Golombek termed the low grant increases "another nail into the coffin of quality education", saying they intensify the government's "apparent policy of undereducation for Ontario. "This announcement from the ministry .Exams?

The negative effects of high anxiety levels on performance in test situations is well known. \ifany students may recall one or more unfortunate experiences when they "blew it" in a particular examination, in spite of the fact that they were knowledgeable in the subject matter being tested, simply be­ cause they anticipated failure, became flustered, and were unable to perform · well. \ifost authorities would agree that some stress is inevitable, and in fact low or mod­ erate levels of anxiety can motivate us and thereby improve our performance. How­ ever, there is an optional level beyond which high levels of anxiety cause a I marked decrease in the ability to success­ t~1#.' ,. .. :ii / fully complete an exam. ,.$t ...·... Fortunately help is now available on campus for students who are studying more but achieving less due to examina­ tion anxiety. There are a number of in­ novative psychological techniques now in existence, both pre-packaged on. tape re­ cording, and in other forms, backed up by qualified psychologists at the Counselling Centre, Building N-6, on campus. Drop by or call Extension 2888 or 2889 for an a p­ pointment to discuss these or other mat­ ters. ··: ... Chinese Student Society On October 12th, after Lunar New Year Dinner, three intensive years of 27 January 1979 at St. John's studying the theory of Curling Club relativity~ Wayne Thomson 6: 30 Reception left his lab, lit up a Colts, 7: 00 Dinner paused, reflect~d, and decided 9:00 Dance to become a phys ed major. Admission $8 for member3 Colts. A great break. $10 for non-members Semi-formal Enjoy them anytime. page 9 SUNS opposes Know an~ythin!( Maritime about puttink -tuition hike HALIFAX (CUP) - Post-secondary education should be accessible to all those who have a desire and a capacity to learn out newspapers? · rather than those who have the ability to pay, student representatives told the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Because the university newspapers in the Atlantic Commission January 23. ''Students are tired of being considered are going to be looking for someone to show them selfish and greedy. Each time the question how it's done next year. of an increase in tuition becomes one to be addressed by students, energy must Apply to: ARCLTP Bureau, largely be spent countering the misin­ c-o Dal Gazette, formation and myths that abound con­ Dalhousie University, cerning the position of the post-secondary Halifax, N .S. students". B.J. Arsenault, chairperson of the Students Union of Nova Scotia (SUNS) told the commission. ''Students do not reject the suggestion of a further increase in tuition fees solely on the basis of the increased immediate dinancial straing", Arsenault continued. ''The con~m for a healthy educational system that can provide real benefits fro our society-at-large reflects the kind of global perspective with which students view educational opportunities." ''In MPHEC its report, the policy was strongly criticized by SUNS Commission suggests that tuition can be expected to rise in line with the cost of living. It is difficult to understand the rational behind this, especially since there is no ex­ planation provided. Is the assumption that a university or college education is just another item on the shelf that must jump in price along with hamburger meat?" Canada has the opportunity to become the world's largest fish ''Students do pay for their education. exporter. The federal government estimates that by 1985, the They spend thousands of dollars in export value of Canadian fish products could amount to $I .6 foregone earnings alone by attending billion per year - almost double the current annual export value of iron ore. school for four or five years," Arsenault Reaching this number will involve a number of challenges. For reminded the Commission. instance, it will mean exporting 90 per cent of the catch Kevin Gauthier, president of the compared to about 75 per cent today. It will mean changes in University of Prince Edward Island catching and processing techniques to take advantage of new opportunities in overseas markets. Student Union, told the commission that it The trend to date is encouraging. is time for those who are concerned with Between 1972 and I 977, the export value o( Canadian fish post-secondary education to stop hiding products more than doubled from $350.4 million to $815.7 from the problem, to face the situation million per year. A major factor in this growth has been successful squarely, and to demand that this sen­ international marketing by the Canadian fishery industry. seless, haphazard, Bnd totally direc­ However, the federal government has said that it is tionless obsession with cutting back be considering intervening in the marketing effort. Such statements are causing uncertainty when what we need are · stopped and, as far as possible, reversed." co-operation, coordination and consultation. ''The Commission has in successive Federal government policies should be developed to financial plans warned government of the encourage continued expansion of the private sector consequences of the funding cutbacks international marketing effort. Government can enhance Canada's international marketing which have been imposed, but government position by taking a skillful and exacting approach when !ms refused to listen. MPHEC funding negotiating access to foreign markets in return for foreign recommendations are consistently fishing rights in our 200-mile zone. Meaningful ignored. This is very disturbing in itself, consultation by Canadian negotiators with representatives of the private sector before such negotiations are undertaken is a since you are the experts who know what necessity. university requirements are; but even For its part, the industry must take an even more innovative more di$turbing to us is the manner in and professional marketing approach in such areas as new which the Commission has accepted product development, packaging and quality control. It must consolidate the strengths of Canadian export brands by without question or complaint government working more closely together and also with federal and funding which you know very weel will provincial governments. cause serious hardship to the very in­ Unless we remove the uncertainty from marketing and other areas of the fishing indl!stry - unless we have increased stitution which you are delagated to coordination, co-operation and consultation - many of the protect." benefits of the 200-mile fisheries management zone will not Commenting on whether the SUNS be available to us. meeting with the MPHEC would have an As interested and concerned organizations involved in fishing, H.B. Nickerson & Sons Limited and National Sea effect, Tim Harding of St. Mary's said, Products Limited, .would like Canadians to know more about ''we were called in after the fact. The our industry and the important economic opportunity it recommendations had already bee made." offers. ''We discussed many different areas and For additional information, please write to: the Commission made several comments Ocean Resources but we were on two different wavelengths. P.O. Box 1700 We wer trying to get them to change and Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2ZI they were only interested in our reac­ tions." Harding also said the Commission would be asking three students to sit on a com­ H.B. Nickerson & Sons Limited/National Sea Products Limited mittee studying student aid in the Maritimes, but they gave no indication of how or when these students would be selected .

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HALIFAX (CUP) Dalhousie reputation in its field. "We don't want security, and hours of work required. group expressed similar fears in their University contracted out the work of its Modem," she said. "They drive people A source at Modem insists that report and concluded that both the striking cleaners and groWlds crew in late like horses. They have a bad reputatio ''workers have never lost seniority, University and the cleaners would benefit Decembe during the 7th week of CUPE aroWld town; companies that sign a benefits or their jobs because of a con­ from a reversal of the contracting-out Local 1392's legal strike for higher wages. contract with them don't often repeat. tracting-out arrangement." He added that decision and a return to bargaining "bout Dalhousie University and Vice-President What happens to the workers if Dalhousie Modem had been only one of many the original issues of the strike." Andrew MacKay have been charged with dumps Modem in a few years? What companies considered ey the Wliversity. Presently, the CUPE Local is awaiting the unfair labour practises Wlder section 51 of happens to ur pension rights, our Cwiningham fears that Modem would outcome of the charges before the Nova the Nova Scotia Trade Union Act. vacations, our Wlion and our jobs?" have to make a drastic re-duction in staff Scotia Labour Standards Board. However, • Modem has been engaged to "re-open in order to save the university money and according to Cunningham, a general one­ According to Al CWlningham, CUPE negotiations immediately and . . . bargain make a profit it self. day shutdown of the wiiversity is a strong representative, picketing will continue at in good faith to achieve a collective The Institute of Public Affairs research possibility for later in the month. the wiiversity and every effort will be agreement. . .including wages and benefits made to bring the Wliversity back to the comparable with those offered by the bargaining table. "The strikers continue to university or better.. '' However, a NINTER CARNIVAL see themselves as Dalhousie employees research group based at Dalhousie's In­ while Modern Building Cleaners and the stitute of Public Affairs warns that regular FEBRUARY 1 - 4, 1979 Wliversity administration regard them as building cleaners working directly for Modem's employees," said Cunningham. employ~rs such as the city of Halifax, and The Local has refused to negotiate with the Federal and Provincial Government This year the Talent Show and the Variety Show will be Modem. more than those who work for contracting held on February 4th. Applications are available at the Local President Florence Logan insists firms. The report add~ that there are also C.S.U. in the Thomson Student Centre, in the Main Din­ that the cleaners are wary of Modem's major differences in fringe benefits, job ing Hall, Hatcher House entrance and across from the Registrar's Office in the Arts Building: There will be a Clubs and Sociehes one dollar-($1.00) per person registration fee to help pay Any clubs and societies requesting financial aid from the , for prizes and deter people from not showing up. Kevin council of the students' union for the winter semester Saunders is Chairman of Winter Carnival and Woody must apply before Monday, February 19, 1979. Application Pelley is organizing the Talent and Variety Shows. For forms are available at the C.S.U. General Office, Room 116, information on what's happening just drop into the C.S.U. Complex, T.S.C. All clubs and societies must be C.S.U. Offices in the J".S.C., read the MUSE, listen to approved by the C.S.U. before they can avail of university MunRadio and be nosy. facilities. ,

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roving fieldworker capable of dealing with in order to make membership in the available. The magainze needs to have a the individual problems of the eight organization more attractive. This has circulation of at least two hundred CUP's news Atlantic University newspapers. now been changed. Although a paper will thousand. The Muse will benefit from two or three have to pay an amount equal to about a One item made front page news in the visitS from this person during the year, third of normal CUP fees to CUP for the Varsity, the paper at the University of who should be able to help solve any dif­ benefit of belonging to the national net­ Toronto, and several other papers ran and more ficulties that the Muse is then having. work, they will not have to be full mem­ stories. The Chevron, a student newspaper The decision was made by the r~gional bers of CUP. at the University of Waterloo was expelled deleagtes at the conference, but equally However, members dropping out of the . - from the organization for violation of the 'There's no point in having a means of important things were happening on the organization will not be allowed to rejoin CUP statement of principles. The charge news exchange, when there's no news national scene. A new Youthstream teh Youthstream network for three years was intimidation and harassment of staff being generated by the papers,' com­ contract was adopted, consolidating the after leaving. . plained one of the Atlantic delegates to the links between them and CUP, which made There was also talk of a national members, mainly the work of members of Canadian University Press conference the founding of the organization possible in magazine to be inserted in member papers the AIA working on the paper. held in Edmonton over the new year. 1969. Since then Youthstream has been once every one or two months. The The AIA, the nti-Imperialist Alliance is a This was the reason wby the Atlantic providing ads for over fifty of the papers in magazine would be free, financed com­ group linked to the CPC (M-L), promoter region decided to change the duties of their the organization. pletely by advertising. However a final of slogans, notably 'Make the Rich pay.' staffperson, who is presently based in Youthstream was bound by contract not decision on this proposal was not made as The paper was closed down in 1976 by the ______Halifax. The person next year will be a ..,..to obtain______any ads for papers outside CUP, there was not enough information ..,. student federation, but later reinstated after a long battle. Now there is another paper on the campus, started by people who used to work for the Chevron. During the Fall semester students voted to remove the Chevron from its status ws the official student newspaper by a majority of 4051 to 7886. The· majority voting to expel the Chevron was also large, 37 to 2 with eight abstentions.

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1-VOLFVILLE (Cl'P( - The Acadia L' ni\·ersity Faculty Association agreed merwhelmingly January 9 to accept a new two year contract. The faculty, who had been without a contract since last .June, was requesting a one year contract with a 9 .. percent increase in salaries . The contract package includes a 7 per­ cent increase for 1978-79 as well as $20,000 to increase the pay of people earning the ni mi mum within their categ­ ory. For the second year the increase will be a minimum of 7 percent with a provi­ sion to negotiate salaries and fringe be­ nefits. \1ich~el Behiels, A~1 F A executive rep­ resentat1,·e on the faculty negotiating committee, said if the faculty and ad­ ministration cannot come to terms on these negotiations they will go to a "final . offer selection" arbitration. "This means the arbitrator will take each side's fi nal req11est and support o ne or the other," Behiels said . "Once that decision is made, there can be no recourse." The new c0ntract also includes the fa- ·ulty association's req uest for input into financial planning for the university. A committee or two faculty members and two representati\ es from the Board of GO\·ernors will .investigate salaries in rela­

,· tion to what' Other uni\·ersities are paying .- and with consideration to Acadia's ability •. to pay. This committee will have the right I '· ' to scrutini1e bll dget proposals. Behiels said ·the faculty association is re­ lati\·ely pleased with the new contract." Ne

·:' now ha\'e considerable input into the budget making process", he said. "It's been a long struggle. It took us eight rnonths to get the contract. ~\'e didn't get a considerable increa~e in· money, but we decided to accept their offer because it's a two year contract which means we ha\'e 1noney in the bank." "The \1aritirne PrO\ inces Higher Edu­ cation Commission lately has enforced what we\·e been saying about the low sal­ ary le\'els in th is area of the country," Be­ h iels said. I think the Acadia ad ministra­ tion has come to understand our posi­ tion." page 12

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