The _recession is a radical' s depression

,- WHILE ORTHODOX econo­ radical's turn, says visiting eco­ ed me:it, the conventional econom­ characterize modern capitalist mists have watched the U.S. slide nomics prof Steve Marglin. ic wisdom has clearly shown it­ society, the orthodox remedies are into recession, radical econo­ Radical economists like Marglm self to be impotent in dealing with "palpably wrong", he says. mists who claim they can get the don't claim to have all the an- - the current and unprecedented ex­ Margi in . is on leave this _ year country back on -its feet are being . swers, but _ they do claim a right treme combination of inflation -and from Harvard, where he is the muzzled by orthodox university 'to equal billing at universities, unemployment. And when it comes economics department's only ten­ economics departments. If the the only approved training ground to the problems of urban decay, ured radical. But he received his U.S. sinks, Canada will surely °for economists. After all, says worker alienation, imperialism, appointment only after doing work follow, g~es the theory. It's · the Marglin, ove~ a Ben's lean smok- sexism and all the badisms that in the orthodox tradition and before his ivy league colleagues realized that his politics and his research had tak en a turn to the Left. He's convinced that if he was up for tenure today, he wouldn't get it, and he has the experience of sev­ eral other radicals to back up his conviction. If Karl Marx himself was available, he wouldn't be rec­ ommended for tenure, he says. ' It's not so much a question of ill-will on the part of the people at Harvard, he continues. "It's Kids ain~t readin' no inore more a question of their lacking the ability to j udge the quality of work outside their own model." CHILDREN ARE NOT reading is an obvious link between that Even with the best of will they are any more, and according to Sir fact and the rise of the mass at best· only superficially familiar media coupled with the decline of George English prof Henry Beis­ with the radical's . position, he reading. sel, "rejection of reading is eq ui­ says. valent to rejection of thinking." "It is man's natural disposi­ Nor is Harvard alone in its re­ tion," he goes on, "to do that Beissel , himself an author of sistance 10 unorthodox economists. several children's books, is es­ which is• easiest and involves the There are only two or three radi­ pecially conscious of their read­ least amount of effort. I'm taking cals who, like · himself, received ing habits. And "a trend away about inertia. AncL-it happens to tenure before changing their poli­ from reading in' children does de- be easier to turn on a TV than to Why does he see the printed tics or wno were installed as part finitely exist..~ · open a newspaper or a book and of a token response to student de­ Confirming the fact is , the re­ word as tne only medium that can read." · save our collective mind? Will Electronic media he sees as 'a mands in economics Berlin and more. Page 3. seem to fit the normal structures P. Adams, Doubleday 1912 in language, anq will diminish if m what was at first the hodge reading does." continued on page 2 THINKERSfrompage I parents of the apprentice to go podge known as IDS. Later he was through the long process of Keeping in touch joined by 'teaching assistant and '. showing' how the job was done. gamesmaster Paul Gardoki from Cavanaugh says non-verbal Testing the indisciplinary strengths of Cavanaugh's thinking Michigan State · University. (Gar­ types are impatient with the kind program has produced some strange combinations. One, for in­ doki has since put the crunch on of games functions that the think­ stance, figured a political science student who was of Greek ori­ dictato; ships, by the way, in es­ ing group are currently doing. gin, wanting to find what the differences and connections were tablishing ~ rule that dictator­ "It's just a game to them." between the Roman arid Greek Orthodox churches. ships can't be set up where the Cavanaugh would like to see a Thinking (or Mental Techniques) But the thinking man is working - 400 course introduced so that students who have left the univer­ IMF is concerned. Ho~est Harry on a model that will include prob­ was saved by his gamesmanship sity can return for a ten credit stay to work on other indiscipli­ lem-oriented thinkers. "Univer­ nary projects. "It's a way for graduates to keep. up their con­ score in the end when it was ad­ sities aren't dealing with these tact with the university all the time." ded to his low standing in inter­ people. Institutions are only national diplomacy.) interested ' in people with verbal program as a service course. What's the upshot of all this whose dimensions are constantly facility and that's wrong." Cava- ' He's occasionally approached by playing of games? Well, if you' re modifying" (the purpose of the , naugh says if this lack of interest · teachers who aren't getting across a beliver in IQ scores, you'll be thinking game exercises) but stu­ in problem solving types con- certain ideas and are looking impressed with the fact that think­ dents stand a good chance to learn tinues, we:re going to be in real for ways to convey them. The ing program thinkers achieve an history· in an active, more in­ trouble because he sees a con- thinking team comes up with · average increment of 11 on their teresting process. How w.ould you tinuing shortage of people who can answers. He'd like to see more IQ scores after a . year in the conduct the Russian campaign if deal with both the abstract people students come into the program program. The average_ increment you were Napoleon, given th is set on the executive of industry and ~ as advisors. The history student, achieved by students in one year of circumstances, Cavanaugh the p~oblem solvers on the shop fer- instance, . could map out is six points. "There's a lot of says. The game plan could be ap­ ·floor. Without these industrial an historical game pattern for bias in IQ testing," admits Cava­ plied with interesting results to miqdle managers, there will be a pl! yers to follow. They would, naugh, "but it . shows a certain pretty much any other discipline, communications vacuum. learn not only how to set a path kind of efficiency in a certain set he says. Cavanaugh regards the thinking "throu~h a set of e_qual factors of circumstances." . "Not everyone belongs in the RECESSION from page I course. It's a very fundamental calls social engineering - tinker­ kind of course for · students who -two radicals are likely to hol the ing with the system in order to want to be educated, who realize same views. -Generally speaking, smooth ou't- business fluctations they have to be specialized but however, there is common rejec-· and generally grease the capitalist tion of orthodox · microeconomics· who want as broad a base of edu­ wheels. cation as possible," he says. teachings. And when you get right Marglin believes pric_e and And by the time classes, group down to it, he says, radicals are wag·e controls are coming and meetings, games and workbook at least as much concerned with with them will have to come plan-. assignments are toted up, the politics as they are with economic ning. There will be no easy way course - for ten credits ·- can theory. Most of them find some-· for Canada to opt out of this situa­ take a-- lot of time. Incidentally, thing useful in Marx, he says, but tion, he says. It would be as hard · those who complain in the class tells us not to make too much of for the Americans to set out plans about the course taking up too that affiliation. without accounting for us as it mucb time are usually found to be In contrast to conventional eco- . ., wculd be for the SovieF Union to holding their mediocre own in nomics, which focuses on the role plan without accounting for its . other courses. "It's got nothing of producers and consumers act­ satellite countries, he says . to ,do with time," says Cavanaugh, ing inc!ependently to max1m1ze If Marglin was running the eco­ their own rewards to reach an because it turns out they're not nomy, he would get rid of unem­ economic equilibrium, Marglin spending any time in their other ployment "at all costs? . But explains, the radicals focus on studies. Real devotees of the wouldn't that lead to such severe the role of classes and the state, thinking course, according to Ca­ inflation that the system wtll col­ vanaugh, do well in their other and on development and change in lapse? It may well do, he answers. society. programs as well. - ' But if our system can't support Most radicals are united by this Thinking, as· thinking man Ca­ job~ for those who want them, the~ one essential point: the capitalist vanaugh defines it, is the ability it deserves to collapse, the radi­ system, with its socio-economic to grasp a principle from bits arid cal says, finishing up his cheeze hierarchies, must be replaced with corporations, and they do more to pieces of information and transfer blintzes. the nationalization and socialization explain away the problems of pov­ I that principle to other content and of production and with-worker con­ erty or pollution, etc., than they come up with more ideas. trol of both the state and places of do to cure them. Marglin doesn't It's Cavanaugh's experience Teaching wcrk before we can solve our believe this is done intentionally that there are two types · of modern problems. - it's not a matter of the Rocke­ thinkers. One - the type whom opportunities One of the main functions of fellers phoning up their favourite universities, he says, are biased conventional economics is to economist to buy favours, he says. The federal government's Inter­ towards - is the person who will apologize for capitalism, Marglin But the system is perpetuated, he provincial Language Monitor Pro­ come up with a new fact or idea mys. Someone has to legitimate suggests, when influential econo­ gram will be offering non-Quebec and see the beauty of the idea fo_r , the glaring divide between rich mists quite naturally choose their· residents the chance to be teach­ its own sake, and usually go on and poor, he explains. A number successors in their own image. ing assistants for the TESL with that idea to produce more. of orthodox economists, some rad­ Marglin says that . some " well­ (Teaching English as a Second The other thinker is the type icals tell us, are doing a brisk · meaning" people have argued that Language) group at Sir George who will come up with an idea in trade advising governments and if Marxism has something to offer Williams campus. The invitation order to solve a problem and hav­ it will ultimately . triumph in the for what· may be over a dozen ing solved the particular problem, free market of ideas, .just as Key­ openings goes out to all first, sec­ will stop there. Tfiis sort usually LETTERS nesian economics has done. But ond and third year honours stu­ lack an ability to articulate them­ there are two things wrong with dents. Although students will be selves, prefering to show, rather The Advisory Committee on the that argument, he says. First, the itlected on the basis of career than "tell" how something is done. 'SGW Building Project ·has been market of ideas is about as free goals, anyone from other disci­ formed, and has held its first as the market economy which plines may apply. The• assistance Cavanaugh uses· this ex"mple meeting. isn't free at all, he insists, since work involves attending classes six to show / tell what he means: On a According to its mandate, the the ruling class can't afford .to to eight hours a week at Sir George visit to Upper Canada Village, he committee will "consider any leave important decisions to the Williams campus and S.G. high met a bl cksm.ith. "A real 'smith' matters related to the building vaguaries of the market place. 5chool English language courses . who had been doing this kind of project that may be submitted to And secondly, Keynesian econo­ for a nine month period, beginning work all his life," he says. When 'if by 'the Rector, PRET, members mics only gained acceptance after .this September. In return for Cavanaugh asked the man if he'd of the University community or it was understood that it wasn' t tutorial services, students receive ever consider taking on an ap­ outside gr/>UPS and persons." threatening capitalism but was in $3000. prentice, the smith offered a flat Individuals and groups who have fact serving it. Radical econo­ Deputy education minister Mau­ no, because, Cavanaugh concludes, views or positions they would want mics, he says, can hardly meet rice Beaulieu is the man to apply the smith could not take the time · consi9ered are invited to send that criterion .. "to, at the Department of Education out to teach an apprentice. Teach­ these to me as secretary of the Marglin thinks that with micro­ in Quebec City. For more infor­ ing or telling someone what do to committee. economics now essentially "bank­ mation, contact the TESL Center do was not something the trades­ MICHAEL SHELDON rupt", the future of academic eco­ at 879-5949. The competition is man could easily do·. It used to be Executive Assistant nomics will qe reduced to that open to all non Quebec resident that guild "people were paid by the to the Rector branch of the discipline which he students at Concordia.

2 /TRANSCRIPT/ NOV. 25-29, 1974 - SPREAD What's it all / about, ·mate? - I don't know what it means Painting by Ben Vau tier in the Guggenheim's bLJt I know what I like dept. "Amsterdam-Paris-Dusseldorf" show.

Versatility means everything

Sir George art student 1-:!eather Solomon, at 19, is fully conscious of having a long way to go before she gets to be as good an artist as she hopes to become. That " beginner mentality" colours her whole outlook, and she hasn't begun to think seriously about selling her work yet. " I've had offers from friends who have seen my stuff," she tells us. But she doesn't feel it's time yet. There's no point in making it available " until I have developed a distinctive

style. At this stage of the game I'm not all that sure of 1 myself. I'm still feeling my way around, experimenting. I feel I need a much more thorough ur;iderstanding of the medium than I have." One thing she has yet to learn, her professors tell her, is to exercise less restraint over her natural energy. "I've always held back from 'wallowing' in the paint. When I walk out of a painting class my prof wants me to be covered with it. Once I got into trouble for having clean fingernails at the end of a class." In other words, she adds with a laugh, "I'm too tight-assed about it." Her efforts, she feels, are giving her a vivid insight into herself and the world around her. " Art develops the senses to the point that you learn to see beyond the obvious. You start appreciating things more. A piece of dirt on the floor can be a world in itself." At the moment most of Solomon's work is with acrylics, but she has no intention of restricting herself to that particular medium. Versa tility is very important to her, she says. " I want to be able to work with everything." She had one of her works on display at a student exhibition at Sir George last Ysear - " a multi-media acrylic on canvas with chicken bones" which she now desc;ribes·as " an interim thing, something I y.,as working on between bigger projects." She is more proud of a black and white painting entitled " Running Shoes", the culmination of a series of previous studies in pencil, black and white construction paper and colour collage. We were interested in how she views the commercial side of the art world from her standpoint. To what extent does a future selling artist see economic pressures as playing a role in artistic creation? "They play no role at all," she says emphatically. " Art is not a matter of financial calculation, it's a form of self­ development and self-expression. The true artist works for himself and not for the public~ He has to work from the heart, not from the brain." In the next breath, however, she concedes that that outlook might be a littJe bit naive: " It's true that painting is a means of livelihood as well as a creative process." She frankly admits to havinghad no exposure to the economics of i;lrt, and is quite prepared to " let it ride until I turn out something I think worthy of being sold. " When the time comes, she'll be counting on an artist uncle of hers for advice. She also acknowledges -- and is prepared to live with -­ the fact that a healthy chunk of the art-buying public is more interested in the decorati,ve value of a painting than in its artistic merit. _, " You have to expect that," she explains. "Painting is a far How does she rate Sir George's art courses? more subjective art than any of the others. It's strictly visual, Very highly, apparently.' Years ago she took classes at the and no two people looking at the sam·e painting will see the Montreal Museum of F.ine Arts. "They were worthless. We same thing. Peop!e don't even see colour the same war.So were watched over constantly and fed step-by-step instructions. objectivity is impossible. And given that, it's hard for me to At Sir George they encourage us to develop on our own. pass judgment on how a person chooses to see a pal nting,.'' Assignments are geared towards making us develop a concept She does. express annoyance, though, at the fact that most of or a mood, to delve into a subject with our imaginations." · the galleries in the Montreal area seem to encourage the view There's no consciousness whatever, she says, of painting for that paintings are above all decorations. " A lot of them are marks. " We're told it doesn't matter if what we produce has to strictly commercial enterprises that refuse to displ ay work that be thrown out afterwards. The professors make the point that is in any way adventurous or new." we have to be uninhibited about trying out ideas."

TRANSCRIPT/ NOV. 25-29, 1974 / 3 Bodystockinged technology ~ r Janice Flood Turner's last sculpture exhibit got its start one Saturday afternoon when she was watching TV wrestling. It was the Loyola fine arts prof's first experience with the ape-like wrestlers pretending to tear themselves apart, and she was horrified. Her ·reaction was to pick up some_of the foam rubber that happened to be on the living room floor·and to stuff it into a nylon body stocking. Two years later she had 20 uncanny humanoid sculptures on display ingallery one of the Hall building. (They were part of her thesis for her M.F.A. which she received this year.) The human distortions resulted from squeezing fne foam within the elastic confines of the stockings. Some were hung with harnasses, some were encased in sheet glass or plexiglass tubes. One had a steel pin through a "leg". Some were grotesque, some were humorous. Some were burgandy and some were concentration camp grey. All _ were Turner's personal statement on t!:Je human condition, on nature - gone away. " They were deformi.ties relating to every kind of human abberration - " every sad thing that ever came klunking out and was allowed to grow." Turner says she leaves her "think" behind when she starts to work, that both the content and the method of her sculpting are spontaneous, intuitive, non-verbal and non-literal. But at the back of her mind while she was sculpting - and she was either pregnant or caring for her first child at the time - was the feeling that man had allowed technology to go too far with its drugs and chemical food additives and pollution ... and that he was blindly deforming himself . . "He becomes a sculptor of flesh through his lack of respect for the laws of nature," she says. Turner's sculpted deformities call on us to relate to their suffering and to reconsider our relationshp to nature, she says. " The grotesque . has always emerged in art in times of social unpheval. Violence in art becomes a way through the prevalent apathy." But Turner is not out to dictate her audience's reaction; each viewer is left to his own interpretation. Details were purposely lacking from her work, and titles were avoided because she didn't want to limit the way the forms could be seen. Unlike other artists, (like Mark Prent) whose work rests on perfection of detail, Turner believes the threat to the viewer of her foam sculptures lies in what is missing from each piece, not in what is supplied. Turner says there_are too many myths around about the easy life of the artist. They work hard, she says. Her own trick is to set up a show and force herself to work under deadlines. " If I don't make it in time, I'll lose face, and that I'm not prepared to do." She has even tucked her foam.li.gures away in a loft at her Lacolle farm from which she commutes because she knows that if they're around she won't have that productive feeling of having to go to work and make something . • Part of the value of fine arts schooling, according to Turner, is that it makes one competent to judge one's own work. At times she could throw together three foam pieces in 15 minutes but only one in three was carried to perfection. " After eight-to-10 years training you know when a piece is aesthetically good. A piece is finished when you can't work on it anymore; you can try, but it tells you to stop." Turner thinks young artists are refusing to worry about satisfying customers and are turning to other sources of income, like teaching. She says her foam sculptures wouldn't sell because only artists and students would want them and they haven't the money to buy them. What artists need are business agents. she says, because most of the galleries demand saleable work and most artists, she observes are not good at selling themselves. She figures anyone with a touch of salesmanship could do a fair trade selling artists' work to dealers. Turner feels that both fine-arts departments at Concordia should · retain their identities but without going off in totally separate and isolated ways. She says it would be a sad state of affairs if one campus were left without a fine arts section. What would Loyola be without drama, she asks.

4/TRANSCRIPT / NOV. 25-29, 1974 section of land adjacent to the wall to seek permission from them. Dangerous shoulder. rubbing Sure enough, he discovers theJocal Ministry of the' Environment offices are located by the Wall. They say ok and two hundred feet From letter dated November 6, 1973, Berlin: Dear Mr. Howard ... of wall later, he's on to more bureaucratic haggling over another Mr. Block will not be in Berlin in November but Mr. Wontruba... , project. will explain what you have to do and help you when you are in Berlin.. .. Some of Howard's comings and goings, as recorded in one of his his telephone number is (030) 213 83 61 . Between 5 and 7 o'clock in catalogues, read like a seren~ipitor's diary. Take this reply to a the evening is the best time to contact him .. . letter seeking permission to rub a pill box (a string of wh[ch were From work notes dated November 25, 1973, Berlin: " ... Taping built near the east and south coasts of England in 1940, just in case the canvas to the wall was difficult, at first appearing impossible. the Hun landed on the beaches during the War) . .,_... Yes of course After three years trying to get this rubbing, and after intensive you can do what you want with the pillbox on the Little Waltham planning for the last month the chances of the work go_ing ahead were bypass,:· writes J.J. Tufnell of Waltham, Essex. "They were the still only 50/50. Herr Wontruba had taken us to a secluded section craziest things ever invented and cost about 500 pounds to remove. of the wall. We were spotted by East German observation guards, '"'This particular shelter after the war became a copulating shelter and considered suspicious, the West German police arrived 40 for village people. I hope next winter to plant a scene of evergreen minutes later and asked us to leave. We had had time enough to trees around it and block up the entry!!!" complete one 8ft. by 5ft. rubbing ... " Howard has rubbed London Transport double decker buses, The notes aren't snipped from a new Graham Greene. They're Australian railway coaches, Royal Air Force fighters and bombers. taken from a catalogue of Concordi? M.F.A. student Ian Howard's The RAF said no to his request to work on a missile. But he says work record. It's one of those resumes you pick up and can't put he almost got away with doing it. " I spent a lot of time around the down. officers' mess and most of !he officers were usually drunk. Howard Is an Australian who does rubbings of a variety of things " One man heard that I wanted to work on a missile," he recalls. which he loosely categorizes as military, urban and nature studies. "He was practically failing off his stool and he said the next time I He's been in Montreal for a bare two months after being bas~d in come around, he would take.one (a 'small one) , put it in his car trunk London where he taught art and worked on rubbing projects on a and we could drive off somewhere so I could do the rubbing." field that stretched from the Walls of Derry in Northern Ireland to Not one to miss an opportunity he returned but unfortltnately the the Berlin Wall. England In the five years he's been there, may have officer had sobered up. softened his accent but it hasn't impeded his sense of daring. " You There's more than a Concordia M.F.A. in Howard's North have to respond to things which cause anxiety," Howard says, "and American plans. He says frankly that he's here in Montreal simply reinforce the good things." because it provides him witn,ca,base from which to do the rounds of Howard does his rubbings with either wax or crayon on canvas, aircraft plants taking rubbings of different aircraft. Boeing have said sometimes working towards the natural colour effects of the rubbing he's welcome at their Seattle plants but General Dynamics have said process or.at other times simultating the colour. of the particular a flat no. Has he considered going across the river to United object with dyes. Aircraft's Longueuil plants? " Well, there doesn't seem to be much What do you do with a 200 foot-long rubbing of Hadrian's Wall? happening there, does there?" He cori_cedes it's not ready-made for the average drawing room but it When Howard is asked for his thoughts about the local art scene, he could be used with tremendous effect in making sets for television or struggles to be kind. His straight talk slowly turns into a waffle. theatre productions. Some of his work has been used in film and it's "Well, er, um ... it's, it's, it's technically proficient." What the film, television, posters, music where art is developing. " It's not hell does that mean? Well, this Canadiana thing is well. .. It's (a question of) 'when will people start going to galleries?' but rather parochial, what I've seen, anyway," says Howard who admits his 'how long vtill the galleries last?", the graduate student remarks. observations are based on only two months of observing just a part Of much of his own work, he says: "These (rubbings) relate of Montreal. " The content seems local, small." . strongly to archeology - the most interesting thing is actually working Howard· has noticed the influence of media. "I've seen-some of-the on the site. The rubbings are the relics you bring back. work that was done in the 60's in both Sydney and Montreal and both - " The Walls of Derry was the most dangerous work," says Howard, are copies of the New York school. But I think there's a slight thinking back to his last project before coming to Montreal. The advantage in being several thousand miles from New York rather than ...... British Army, he recalls, gave Howard the nod to do a rubbing of the being just a few. hundred away." bogside of the Walls of Derry. Howard had to convince army officials Who buys his work? Companies, investors - the people who buy the that he'd rather do the rubbing on the Catholic side of the wall stuff and never look at it - and ordinary people. Howard says money - without being accompanied by two machine gun-laden soldiers they will always force the artist to compromise. For the student, he says, insisted should escort him. In the end, he..settled for the watchful it may be compromising on materials, for the semi-professional, the eyes of sentries posteifin a pill box atop the wall a few hundred teacher-artist sort,l:eaching time usually forces some sort of feet away. Plus an ever vigilant army helicopter hovering over him oom~m~. - while he worked. Gaining permission from the Britisl:l Army, Horward Any hopes for the new faculty of Fine Arts that's coming? "I hope says, might be cool with the British Army but it still mightn't hold there will be a great emphasis on eliciting attitudes rather than a candle in local I RA opinion. So he went off to the Catholic community techniques." Howard looks to Bob Dylan who put content in his center - which he says was an IRA front - to seek communitv music and didn't worry about his voice. There's too much media permission. He got it and with two kids from the center, hustled ·off navel-gazing, he says. f:_ilm has turned to films on film (like Truffaut's to get rubbing. latest·), music to the problems of being a rock 'n' roll star and so Not all his rubbing work invoJves nip and t1-1ck daring. Some of it on. involves simple down to earth haggling with bureaucracy. Take his ' Back·to real content, says Howard who's currentlY, on a New South initial bargaining with Britain's National Trust, the public body · Wales state grant. When he's not making rubbings, he works at entrusted with maintaining historic properties. Officials say no, they photography whJch he calls the su ccessor to eisel art. But before he don't think he should be rubbing Hadrian's Wall (that forms part of leaves - this time, he thinks, for Syndney - he'll take rubbings of the Scotish-English border) . Howard does some careful thinking about Montreal. And what will they be? Highrises. Unfortunately· this and decides to look for other institutions that might occupy a understandable.

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No time for art schools Some of Rock's works - wh ich, incidentally, are accompanied by his own poetry - contain a note of protest. There is a painting of an Patrick Rock, the young artist whose· paintings are on display at ugly high rise, for example. "It's subtle protest,': he says. " I try Loyola's Vanier Library this month, is a Philosophy student who not to be extreme. I try to give voice to the obvious, to suggest a has no time !pr schools of fine art: " We live in a fast moving better way.'" society, but I don't believe in learning fast. I paint only difficult Rock admits that film is a more powerful medium for social paintings," he says. " A lesson hard learned, is learl'}ed forever, and statement but he also finds it more abusive, because it impinges on I don't believe in universities rushing you through methodological our subliminal awareness, and makes impressions that govern _steps ." Nor does he approve of professors " interfering" with human animations, in a way that painting can't, he says. " Painting students work. "They actually put paint on your work if you 're in a involves a lot of human volition." painting course," he cries. Rock prices his paintings according to the time and labour he puts Rock has similar ill-feel ings toward such bodies as the Royal into them. He says that Canadian artists are fortunate to receive Canadj an Academy and the Quebec and Ontario societies for artists. government support through the Canada Council. Peddling, he " All they really do is give license to sell paintings," something maintains, lowers quality. He says there is always a danger that he figures he doesn't need . He says professionals have counselled once a painter is into a gallery he will end up panderiog to the him to forget about studying art in institutions and to move directly public; that leads to mass production which in turn leads to into a career and establish himself with a gallery. stereotypes, he says. Rock notes with some enthusiasm the current swing to " modern classicism" with its attention to detail and the difficulties of rendering figurative subjects. He says he was at a gallery the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find that the " extremely detailed and emotive landscapes" of Marcel Pare were selling. There has been a lot of moral and material swinpling of the innocent public in recent years, Rock says in reference to contemporary art. " Art's purpose has always been to indicate moral values; if we hav!'l a low standar

6 I TRANSCRIPT/ NOV. 25-29, 1974 / PREV.IEWS Artists to Sounds tell all soothing Sir George's Fine Arts A series of Tuesday musical graduate · program is starting evenings are being lined up for up an "Artists on Art" series, the · Loyola campus center's featuring an impressive list of "Quiet Bar" to give some stu­ locals telling how they do it. dents a chance to . display and It opens Friday with Mark develop their talents and others Prent showing sl ides of his a chance to hear omething hair-raising "environments" and m9re soothing than beer bash fielding questions (Nov. 29, 2-4 rock . ..., p.m. in H-520). Prent has been charged with Students with talent in Celtic, exhibiting disgusting objects Caribbeap rhythm (folk, not in Toronto, the Canadian equiv­ steel band), classical, folk, alent to having been banned jazz, country and western, in . Boston. He is best remem­ blues, blue grass and some bered .in Montreal for his 1971 popular (if it's rearranged for Sir George show that was the occasion) are invited to mainly a collection of various . call the campus centre (482- bits of· human beings sliced 0320, loc. 330) or drop by for up for bu ying and eating. an audition Tuesdays or Thurs­ On Wednesday, Dec. 4, Ghit­ days from 11 a.m. to l p.m. A ta Caiserman-Roth will enter­ panel has been set up to ensure tain- grad students .in her stu­ that the proposed music meets dio . Participation in this one the above criteria, not to j udge is limited; those . interested the performer's quality. Elec­ Photographer its permanent collection. In should sign up for it in t,be 1961 he began to photograph trically amplified instruments Bourget Bldg. by the new cof­ and loud ones like bagpipes, Bruce Davidson the civil rights movement, and fee machine. received a Guggenheim Fellow­ hornpipes and horns, etc. will Coming next term: Guido not be allowed. - .here Dec. 14 ship th i;_. following year to con­ Molinari, Jerome Krause, tinue his concern with the Jennifer Dixon, Helene Gagne, Each show should take in Bruce Davidson, the Magnum changing times. Also in 1961 he Stanley Horner & Leah Sher­ several performers. The eve­ photographer best known for his shot Los Angeles, personally man, Russell Gordon, Ian nings should begin around 8: 15. East 100th Street exhi\>ition, expressing its architecture and Howard, Jean Goguen & Denis is coming ·to Sir George to talk alienation. Jones, and others. about his work. Watch this space. He'll be in Saturday, Dec. His best known · project, 14 to give a slide-lecture in East 100th Street, began in the D.B. Clarke Theatre from 1967 and involved two years 9:30 a.m. to noon. It -is the of worlc. The essay expressed Free Fry a personal and powe'rful view 1 I • brainchild of Nikon's edu­ of the dignity and despair found Drama Loyola and the department of Fine Arts will stage "A cational services and SGW's on one block of New York City. Phoenix Too Frequent", a· one-act play by Christopher Fry, in the Continuing Education division. The work was partly funded by Chameleon Theatre this Thursday (at noon and 8 p.m.) and Friday Tickets ($5) are now available the National Endowment in the (at noon). Admission is free. from the Hall Bldg. information Arts : their first grant to It's a funny but subtle satire set in the days of ancient Rome and desk ; those interested should photography. The collection was tells of a widow caught in a conflict over whether she should die for · hurry because the theatre only published by Harvard University love in her late husband's tomb or succumb to her new found love holds 380. Press in 1970 and exhibited at for a young soldier. The play will be directed by a student, Scott_ Davidson joined the select the Museum of Modern Art; it Phelan. · group at Magnum (the cooper­ was then shown for three years ;1.tive-photo agency founded in · 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri throughout the U.S., Eur9pe and Follow the be used here duripg the Olym­ Cartier-Bresson, George Rod­ Japan. pics.) ger and Davie! Seymour) in 1958 Davidson has also made two bouncing B-Ball National Basketball coach after shooting for Life. That movies that he might be bring­ Jack Donohue will be on hand Women cagers from univer­ year he traveled with a small Saturday to present the tour­ ing along: "Living Off the sities ·across Canada and from circus photographing his Dwarf Land", and "Isaac Singer's nament trophy. New York will be arriving here Clown essay. In 19S.9 he began Nightm·are and !\1rs. Pupko's next Frid'ay for Loyola's ·third Tpere is what Bqland calls his Gang (of teenagers) project Beard", the last given 'first annual invitational women's an "admission-donation" of which was exhibited at the Mu­ prize at the 1974 American basketball tournament. 50¢ for each of two days,. seum of Modern Art as part of I Film Festival. It promises to be the best Here's the schedule: Fri­ women's B-Ball performance day (November . 29) - 3 p.m. Quebeckers have · ~een this loyola vs Waterloo, 5 p.m. year, women's athletics direc­ T:Jniversity of New Brunswick tor and tourney organizer Pat vs Lakehead, 7 p.m. Winni­ Age brings Boland tells us. Not only are peg vs Dalhousie, 9 p.m. the teams among the top l 0 Queen's, N .Y . vs Laurentian. in the country but they will be Saturday will be filled with wisdom competing under international conciliation play-offs for Fri­ Barbara Opala is coordinator of Sir George's Mature.,,.Student (FEBA) rules which make for day's losers _and regular semi­ Qualifying Program, a plan whereby those over twenty-one can get a faster game with fewer stops finals and finals for the win­ into university without the normal formal requirements. · for fouls, she adds. (FEBA ners. The day begins at 9 Hersdf a graduate of the program ("It was Sir George's open­ rules are used everywhere but a.m . and ends with a 9 p.m. door policy towards mature students that-gave me the incentive to North America, bu~ they will championship game. take on university work," she says), she is now out to ' familiarize others with it. · . Italian theatre Mrs. Opala will hold an open house to explain the joys of MSQ·P Loyola students of Italian grammar are staging two evenings of to immigrants, housewives and anyone who didn't manage' to finish Italian theatre this month. high school on Friday, Dec. 6 from 6 to 10 p:m. in the seventh floor cafeteria of the Hall Building. The three one-act plays are: "Una Persona Fidata" (A Reliable Man), a farce by Peppino de Filippo; "Tra Due Signori Per Bene" (Between Two Gentlemen), a comedy by Valentin o Gavi: and "La Morsa" (The Clamp), a·drama by Luigi Pirandello. The three will be played Monday, November 25 and, again on A.AAA Tuesday, t'Jovember 26 - in theF.C. Smith ·Auditorium at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.

TRANSCRIPT/ NOV. 25-29, 1974 / 7 Notices sh~uld be in Thursday morning for Friday publication. Contact Robin Palmer for Loyola events (AD 233, 482-0320, ext. 438) . Contact Marysa Perraud for Sir George events (2145 Mackay, basement, 879-2823). At Sir George Campus Saturday-30

DAY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION: Foreign shorts at 7 Monday 25 p.m . and Ken Russell's " The Devils" at 9:15 p.m . . in H-110; 75¢. ENGINEERING: Energy films - " Churchill Falls, Pow­ er in Perpetuity" (NFB) , " Radiation Hazards", "Re­ ... & CHEEK: Montreal's own macabre Mark Prent motely Mined Longwall Coal Faces", "Locomotive Sunday 1 shows all on Friday. Builders" and " Spey Power", (diesel engines) at 7 DAY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION: "The Holy Mountain''. p.m . in H-651 (see tomorrow, too). , , · and shorts at 8 p.m. in H-11 O; 75¢. CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC,,; ART: · "These are the Damned" (Joseph Losey, 1962) with Friday 29 Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field and Oliver Reed Notices DRAMA:" A Phoenix Too Frequent" at noon; free. · at 8:30 p.m. in H-11 O; 75¢. • POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURE: Arab Information WEISSMAN GALLERY: Prints and drawings by Robert. RUMMAGE SALE by the Library Workers' Union 12 - Centre Director Yahya Abou Bakr on " Possibilities of Langstadt, until Dec. ·3. 2 p.m. on Dec. 6 in N-108-5, Norris Building. Peace in Middle East" at 11 a.m. in the Drummond GALLERY ONE: Paintings, drawings & memorabilia of MONEY from Student-Initiated Projects (SIP) grants - Auditorium. Anne Savage, until Dec. 3. new deadline Jan.-15; more in H-405. L.S.A. FILM SERIES: " Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - GALLERY TWO: Prints & sculpture by Catherine' Bates, COLUMBIA U. GRAD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: rep will at noon and 3:15 p.m. for $1 .25. until Dec. 3. · hold interviews at Sir George Friday, Nov. 29; appoint­ SKATING PARTY: 6:30 - 8 p.m. at Loyola - everyone ment from Susan Robinson, 879-4249. welcome. Tuesday 26 WOMEN'S 3rd ANNUAL INVITATIONAL BAS~ETBALL TOURNEY: 3 p.m . at Athletics <::omplex; 50¢. CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Leni Riefenstahl's film of the 1934 Berlin Olympics Concordia-wide (a new 35 mm. print of the complete version) : 3 hrs. Saturday 30 18 min. worth of sport and propaganda for 75¢ at 8:30 FACULTY & STAFF OF REFLECTION: at Oka with Fr. p.m . in H-110. Friday 29 Benedict (George Vanier) 10 a.m . until 6 p.m. - more BLOOD DRIVE: Mezzanine 2 - 9:30 p.m. - info. from Campus Ministry. BASKETBALL: Sir George vs McGill at Showmart, HOCKEY: Sir George vs Loyola at Verdun auditorium, WOMEN'S 3rd ANNUAL INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. 8 p.m .; free bus leaving Sir George at 7:15 p.m . TOURNEY: 9 a.m . at.Athletics Complex; 50¢. ENGINEERING: Energy films (see Monday) at 1 p.m. in H-905. DAY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION : " Frenzy" (Alfred At Loyola Campus Notices Hitchcock, 1972) with John Finch and Barry Foster at 2:45 p.m. in H-110; free. " THE QUEBEC LANDSCAPE" and " The Loyola Land­ scape" exhibit of paintings by Patrick Rock now on Monday 25 vitiw on the second floor of Vanier Lilirary. Wednesday 27 LOYOLA SKI CLUB has $115 Dec. 26-31 week at Mt. POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURE: Consul General of St. Anne including lodging, meals, tow, and transpor­ CHAPLAINS: Roman Catholic Mass at noon in H-643. Israel in Montreal Ariel P. Aran on "Possibilities of tation; more info. from Rod at 488-4306, or Erwin, MUSIC: Noon hour concert - chamber music (Bach, Vi­ Peace in the Middle East" at 11 a.m. in Drummond 768-0369. valdi, etc.) with Ken Andrews, flute; Susan Palmer, Aud. harpsichord; Judy Cohen, recorder; and Celia Brick- ITALIAN THEATRE: Three separate plays presented man, 11:iola, in H-435; free. - by the dept. of Modern Languages & Linguistics at 8 Awards ENGINEERING: Environmental film " Persistent and p.m . in the F .C. Smith Auditorium - more info. from Finagling" (NFB) at noon in H-905 (tomorrow too) . ext. 436. This list includes awards with deadlines GEORGIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Meeting at 3:30 LOYOLA POETRY SERIES: John Newlove at 8 :30 p.m." up to December 21 . More information p.m . in H-1219. - in the Vanier Auditorium ; free. at the Guidance Information Centre, HILLEL: Bernie Avishai on " Zionist Colonialism: Myth GEOGRAPHY: Dr. Peter Gutkind on the problems of H-440. & D·ilemma" at 5:30 p.m ., 2130 Bishop, 2nd floor. employment and development in Africa at 7 p.m. in r Graduate BLOOD DRIVE: Mezzanine 10 a.m. - 9 p.m . Drummond Science, rm. 133. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Frank Knox -Memorial Fellowships. Deadline: De­ Tuesday 26 cember 1. THE DANFORTH FOUNDATION. Kent - GRAPE AND LETIUCE BOYCOTI: Progress report Fellowships for college teactiing. and planning at noon in Belmore House. . Deadline: December 2. VISITING LECTURERS SERIES: Puppeteer Peter Arnott GOVERNMENT OF BELGIUM. Fellow- ' puts on Euripides' " Medea" at 8:30 p.m . in Chameleon ships. Deadline: December 15. _ Theatre; $1 students, $2 general public - reservations GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. CULTUR­ 482-0789. AL AGREEMENT FRANC~CANADA. ITALIAN THEATRE: See Monday. University Scholarships. Deadline: HISTORY OF MONTREAL SERIES: History prof. December 15. Graeme Decarie on " Old Montreal Flavour of Life in GOVERNMENT OF THE N ETHER­ the French Regime" at 8 p.m . in Vanier Aud. LANDS. Fellowship; Scholarship. Dead­ NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA SERI ES : James line: December 15. O'Reilly, Lawyer for Indians of Quebec Association, on GOVERNMENT ·OF FINLAND. Schoiar­ " Treaties in Historical Perspective·: the 1ndian E_xpe- shipi;. Deadline: December 15. rience" at 7 p.m. in Bryah Bldg., rm. 204. . GOVERNMENT OF SWITZERLAND. BASKETBALL: Warriors vs. Carleton at 8 p.m. at Swiss University Scholarships. Dead­ Loyola. line: December 15. WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL TONGUE... : Hitchcock's "Frenzy" is free Tuesday FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION. Doctoral . at Sir George. , Wednesday 27 dissertation fellowships in women's " FOCUS QUEBEC" : NFB's " The Ernie Game" at 2 studies. Deadline: December 16. Thursday 28 p.m . In the Vanier Auditorium; free. Facutty Level LOYOLA FILM SERIES: " The Whole Town's Talking" AMERICAN COUNGIL FOR LEARNED UNIVERSITY COUNCIL ON STUDENT LIFE: Meeting (John Ford 1934) with Edward G. Robinson at 7 p.m.; SOC IETIES. Grants for Research on at4 p.m. in H-769. " Cheyenne Autumn" (Ford 1964) with Carroll! Baker, Chinese Civilization; Grants for EVENING STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:-Meeting at 6 p.m. Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson and-Jimmy Research on South Asia. Deadline: De­ in H-769. Stewart at 8:30 p.m . - both in F.C. Smith Auditorium -· cember 2. ENGINEERING: See Wednesday. for 99¢. MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. SCIENCE & HUMAN AFFAIRS: Andrew H. Wilson, PHILOSOPHY LECTURE: Prof. Hans-Georg Gadamer Studentships; Fellowships. Deadline: Science Council of Canada advisor, on " Science Policy on " Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy" at December 15. and Industry" at 6:30 p.m . in H-920. 8 p.m . in Bryan Bldg., rm. 206. Graduate and Facutty STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL MEDITATION SOCIETY: TOMMY HOCKEY: 8 p.m. at Loyola. SOCIALSCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL. Meeting at 4:15 p.m. in H-623. Research Training ' Fellowships; Grants BLOOD DRIVE: Mezzanine 10 a.m. - 9 p.m . Thurs~ay 28 for Research in: Africa, Asia, Japan, Korea, Middle East, South Asia. Dead­ DRAMA: Christopher Fry's " A Phoenix Too Frequent", line: December 2. Friday 29 directed by student Scott Phelan, at noon and 8 p.m. in - the Chameleon Theatre; free. POETRY: Richard Sommer reads from his book " The GEOLOGY LECTURE: Dr. F.H.A. Campbell on " Geo­ Blue Sky Notebook" at 8:30 p.m . in H-420; free. logy of the Kilohigok Basin and Correlation with the ARAB STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: Ethiopian Night with Coronation Geosyncline" at 4 p.m . in Drummond Sci­ dance, tombola and drinks at 8:30 p.m . in 7th floor, ence Bldg. , rm. 207. Hall Building; $1 .50 per person, $2.50 per couple. " STRANGER HERE" : An evening of poetry and song Z(anscript DAY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION: Andy Warhol's " Heat" w_ith Joseph Rogel (author of "Confessions of Ausche: at 8 p.m. in H- 110; 75¢ or a $2 pass for today's, Satbr­ witz Number A18260" ) and Bruce Mann (poet and song Published Fridays by_ the lnformj!tion Office, Concor­ day's and Sunday's films available in H-333 or at the writer) at 8 p.m. in t he Vanier Auditorium for 50¢. dia University, Montreal H3G 1 MS. Office: 2145 door of H- 110. HOCKEY: Warriors vs. Bishop's at 8 p.m . at Loyola. Mackay (basement, 879-4136) . Michael Holiman, FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT: Mark Prent shows slides HILLEL: Bernie Avishai on " Colonialism: Myth & Di­ Malcolm Stone, Don Worrall (482-0320, ext 314), Joel and discusses his work at 2 p.m. in H-520. lemma" at 7:30 p.m ., 7356 B Sherbrooke W. McCormick, editor. Submissions are welcome.