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50 cenls CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOB UKRAINIAN STUDENTS 1 SHOULD .. LtSS0n& FROni RftYStRWYLO'" #435, 10766 — 97 St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2P2 Successful SUSK campaign Roman Waschuk and Nestor Mykytyn Students home free! Carnations, kisses and launching an emergency cam- for assistance. To sensitize com- between 18-25 October. On the Ukrainian Orthodox Church opinion to the plight of first were chocolates greeted the first paign to: i) raise funds to assist munity Sunday, pamphlets Scarborough, St. Basil's Ukr t group of young Ukrainian the Canadian Ukrainian Im- the refugees, the committee distributed wherever nian Catholic Church and n r refugees from Poland upon their migrant Aid Society in its produced 20,000 pamphlets en- organizational inexperience and Ukrainian Baptist Church. ': arrival at Toronto International endeavours to bring these titled Ukrainian Refugees: How clerical reluctance didn't in- York and Waterloo Ukra'r Airport on 14 January — New refugees to Canada; and ) you can help. 9,000 copies were tervene, The following Sunday, Student Clubs organized be" Year's Day according to the publicize the refugees' plight." rrjailed out to Ukrainian donations were accepted. A pub nights for the younc 4 Julian calendar. On hand to meet Accordingly, SUSK Human households across Canada, number of parish priests whole- migrants, and the U of T I Si"* the fourteen immigrants were Rights VP Nestory Mykytyn form- while the remainder was dis- heartedly supported the SUSK came forward with a fihan< representatives of the Canadian ed a committee consisting of tributed by local USC's. The initiative and together with their contribution to the camp^'Q Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society members of the three Toronto staging area for the operation, St. parishioners contributed for a Even Valentyn Moroz don;,u. (CUIAS), PLAST and SUM (two area clubs at the U of T, York and Vladimir Institute, filled first with total of $3,872.00 during the first the proceeds of one of his lec sponsoring organizations), Ryerson. At its first meeting in enthusiastic envelope-toting week of the Campaign. During the tures to the SUSK drive. Toronto Ukrainians who are early September, the committee volunteers, and later with the weeks that followed, con- Thanks to a quick an:. providing accomodation, as well decided to conduct a nation-wide debris of the mass mail-out — tributions from the remaining generous response on the part as reporters from the TV and print fund-raising campaign for the mangled address sheets, churches and private individuals the community, SUSK had, by 16 media. CUIAS involving thecollection of decapitated stamps and began coming in at an increasing December, managed to raise Many of the new arrivals donations at churches and scattered coffee cups. rate. Three smaller church com- $23,288.17, all of which wat were part ot a group of students student-organized social events, Most Toronto-area churches munities that responded to the directed to the CUIAS. Another and young workers who decided and a mass mailing of an appeal were targeted for collections appeal for help were St. Anne's $5-10,000 of donations were to remain in the West while on a received in this period, and have pilgrimage to Rome, seeking been to the success of SUSK political asylum enroute in publicity campaign — bringing Austria in August, 1981. After the total sum to over $30,000' being processed at the main A second, indirect result of refugee camp at Traiskirchen, SUSK's effort to raise the profile they were sent to thevillageof St. of the refugee issue within the Georgen, near Salzburg, where , hromada has been the increased they were eventually joined by willingness of other community fifty-nine other Ukrainians who organizations to come to the aid had decided to flee Poland. of Ukrainians from Eastern Eu- Although relieved to have rope. By the end of 1981. 135 of finally reached Canada after the 150 Ukrainian self-exiles had months of waiting, it became found sponsors in Canada, evident during an interview with a among them: Plast, SUM. Ukrai- reporter from .the Toronto Star nian Canadian Social Services, that all of the new immigrants the Ukrainian Self-Reliance were very concerned about the League, the Ukrainian Catholic fate of their families living under Women's League, and the Ukrai- martial law. They were reluctant nian Free Cossacks. It is to discuss their situation for fear noteworthy that the relatively of jeopardizing loved ones back small Ukrainian community of home. Kitchener, Ontario, is sponsoring This group is only the first of sixteen immigrants. The several which the CU IAS expects remainder are being sponsored to arrive in Canada over the next directly by the CUIAS and its few months Some 150 branches throughout Canada Ukrainians from Poland are With the success of this currently in Western Europe campaign, SUSK has shown that awaiting permission to emigrate it is capable of reaching out to the to Canada. large-scale A com- community and working with it to munity effort was and is still achieve concret goals. Other required to resettle them in goal-oriented projects of this Canada. nature will be given serious Credit for being the first consideration in the future. But organization to respond to the for now, much still remains to be plight of the refugees goes to done for the refugees still living in SUSK, which was quick to act on Austria. Money, organizational information provided by CUIAS support, and sponsors are need- president Bohdan Mykytiuk. At ed, and people are urged to come the 22nd SUSK Congress held at forward with their assistance by York University in the fall of 1981. contacting the Canadian Ukrai- a resolution was passed calling nian Immigrant Aid society at for the SUSK National Executive Suite 209. 2323 Bloor St West, to undertake "as an immediate Toronto, Ontario M6W 4W1. Or priority, to assist the Ukrainian phone (416) 767-4595. student refugees from Poland by A weary student gets a welcome kiss. The student press on Poland Lubomyr Szuch Annual winter CUP conference If you are into platitudes, and to lay the foundations for the became the scenes of intense but because it is combined with self-management, but on the positivist abstractions, m- 1982-83 production year. frank discussions on majorsocial commitment, ensures the con- other hand, CUP members significancies, tautologies and "Take off. eh?" is not issues of our time. The struggles tinued growth of CUP and its should not settle for the truisms, you would not have had something you would have been to eliminate the barriers success in tackling major social alienating and destructive prac- that much fun at the last Cana- told by the outgoing president separating men and women, East issues of concern not only to tices of modern labour dian University Press (CUP) John Parsons although Peter and West, rich and poor, le" and students but to many segments relations . ..it is only by constantly National Conference held out- Hammond, the CUP mole work- extreme left, sober and nut-so- of society as well. The problem of re-evaluating and questioning side of Bolton, Ontario during the ing in Student couldn't resist sober, etc., were all played out on developing a professional (not that we can become both winter solstice holiday season. trying out the original phrase the conference floor of the rented bureaucratic) approach to professional and truly rele- The delegates, 1 over 20 of the top from which this million-dollar United Church Gamp dining organizing and running CUP and vent...." It was on this note that Canadian university newspaper saying first emerged — room, about twenty kilometers its agencies reccivod strong the only Student delegate editors, managers, reporters, and "Zabyraisia, ei?". outside of Toronto. endorsement from many (Lubomyr S.) appealed to the other media specialists and Cooperation — the At times, the cong.css ses- delegates. As one delegate put it, congress delegates to pass culture vultures, spent nine watchword of CUP's program sion resembled a raucous we must be able to introduce and resolutions supporting the right grueling days and as many nights and of its member newspapers, meeting of Parliament — though maintain a form of labou r of "Solidarity" — the free trade in workshops, plenary sessions, received its greatest expression without the hypocritical rhetoric relations, and an organizational union in Poland — to defend under-the-table discussions, in this year's conference theme and the vacuous declarations, structure significantly different basic freedoms (such as the right committee work, and under-the- — active journalism to encourage etc. The maturity and intellectual from the average male- to strike, to publish, distribute covers communication sessions the agents of progressive social honesty shown by many dominated, hierarchical and un- information, organize, and to in an attempt to feel out the change. The general sessions of speakers at the conference is democratic corporate structure. achievements of ( Continued on the past year the CUP conference repeatedly CUP's most valuable asset, and, "Don't ask for or expect Utopian page 11) Inside: 4 pounds of tartar, a 3 day novel, 2 album reviews, and 1 Bande des Rats .. comply with Canadian libel and The year 1982 brings us ever closer to the twenty-first All signed letters of reasonable length which of clarity) in this column. We century. Yet, in many aspects, the Ukrainian-Canadian slander laws will be printed unedited (save tor purposes community has not progressed significantly beyond the will not print anonymous letters, but if for personal reasons contributors wish to nineteenth-century village. In fact, we have still not withhold their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged. In all cases, however, developed a Ukrainian-Canadian community which is we require both a genuine signature and a return address.