STUDENT!BIfUDlAIUfi GO cents CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS - #435, 10766 — 97 St. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2P2 Ideas fuse at 'Synthesis' Congress Press Release XXII SUSK CONGRESS The 22nd Congress of the of the outgoing SUSK executive Ukrainian Canadian Students' were discussed, a new constitu- Union (SUSK) took place from tion was adopted, resolutions 27 to 30 August 1981 at York outlining future SUSK activity University in Toronto. Despite were passed, and a new SUSK dismal weather throughout executive was elected — all much of the weekend, the in an extremely business-like congress had ove'r a hundred manner and without the usual registered delegates for the discussion which had become a seminars and lectures, with hallmark of interminable con- several hundred more attending gress plenary sessions. the social events. Several factors accounted The theme of the congress for this smooth-running plenary was "Synthesis" — an ex- session. Firstly, the reports of amination of the present state of the executive members and the the Ukrainian community in proposed constitution and by- Canada and an attempt to look laws were made available to the delegates registering. at how the once separate Ukrai- upon In nian and Canadian elements this way, many potential have been combined into a new problems were ironed out prior synthesis — Ukrainian- to the plenary session. Also, Canadian society. To this end, there seemed to be fundamen- thirty-four speakers from tal agreement among delegates various parts of the country on the direction of SUSK activi- gathered to .deliver presen- ty for the following year. Finally, tations on various aspects of and perhaps most significantly, being Ukrainian in Canada to- as the past year was one fraught day. with controversy within SUSK, On Thursday evening, most delegates were interested delegates gathered for registra- in building a solid base for the tion and a wine and cheese 1981-1982 year instead of con- reception. The conference tinuing heated and protracted began on Friday morning with a zabava took place on Friday Union. Two sessions proved Toronto addressed the ques- debates. session entitled "Alternative evening. The keynote address particularly interesting and tion of the present state of the The resolutions passed at Paths to Synthesis". W. Roman at the banquet was delivered by evoked prolonged discussion. Ukrainian community in the congress reflected, to a Petryshyn from Edmonton gave Christine Pastershank- During the session on the Canada and whether it is indeed large degree, the problems a brief historical overview of the Devrome from Saskatoon, who Ukrainian Canadian Committee evolving towards a Ukrainian- raised in the sessions held on immigrations to Canada, focus- is the executive director of the (UCC), Jaroslaw Bilak and Canadian synthesis. Discus- Friday and Saturday. The basic ing on the different situations Ukrainian Canadian Council David Lupul, both active at sion in this session tended to thrust was to avoid the encountered by the various (KYK) of Saskatchewan and numerous UCC congresses, focus on the language question "motherhood" resolutions and immigrations of Ukrainians to chairman of the Board of spoke about the problems in- and the relevance of the Ukrai- focus instead on concrete Canada and on the differing Governors of the University of volved in having the UCC, in its nian language for maintaining a proposals for SUSK activity in the following year. levels of ethnic awareness ex- Sas kat c hewa n . Ms. present form, as the represen- viable Ukrainian-Canadian perienced by these im- Pastershank-Devrome spoke tative body for Ukrainians in community. Although opinions The plenary ended with the migrations and their descen- about the activity of the Ukrai- Canada. Active discussion also were divided on the question, election of the 1981-1982 SUSK dants. Following this nian Canadian Council in took place in the fourth im- the general consensus was that executive, headed by the new presentation a panel provided Saskatchewan. After the ban- migration session. Here, our community must accom- SUSK president, George an overview of the present-day quet, everyone danced to the Bohdan Mykytiuk, president of modate all types of Ukrainians. Samoil from Edmonton. The Ukrainian community in strains of Toronto's the Canadian Ukrainian Im- As one discussant put it: "Our core group of the executive will different Canadian settings: "Verkhovyna" at the congress migrant Aid Society, and llya community needs those be in Edmonton this year, Edmonton; Myrnam, Alberta; zabava. Mankovsky, a Ukrainian Jew, Ukrainians who only eat although there are several ex- Toronto; and Kingston, On- Saturday continued with spoke about the difficulties varenyky, those who write ecutive members located in tario. concurrent sessions, covering involved in emigrating to poetry about varenyky, and Toronto, Winnipeg, London Friday afternoon saw con- topics as diverse as Ukrainian Canada and the problems faced those who conduct academic and Ottawa as well. current sessions on the topics media in Canada, trips to by recent Ukrainian immigrants research about varenyky," One left the 22nd SUSK of Ukrainian-Canadian culture, Ukraine, multiculturalism and in integrating into Ukrainian- After a full day of sessions, Congress with the feeling that declining enrolments in Ukrai- the constitution, the role of Canadian society. congress participants spent the not only had it been an nian studies courses at Cana- women in Ukrainian society in The conference portion of evening at Ontario Place's educational and informative dian universities, organizing Canada, language retention the congress ended with a Edelweiss Pub. weekend but that SUSK has a club activity, and Student. and Ukrainian identity, and single session. "Towards Syn- Sunday was devoted to solid base upon which to con- The congress banquet and human rights in the Soviet thesis", Yury Boshyk from official SUSK business. Reports tinue its activity through the 1 981 -1982 academic year. Popular protests challenging regime Unrest growing in Ukraine Recent reports from tory of the All-Union Scientific indicate that the organizers of in Kyiv for pasting leaflets massive one-day unauthorized Ukraine confirm the growth of Research Institute for Farm- the strike were members of the (together with 5 other people) in demonstration to protest food popular unrest and worker Machine Building in Kyiv. regional and city Communist the city. The contents of the shortages and national repres- militancy. The first strike began when party committees. Reprisals leaflet are unknown. On April sion. The militancy and the administration of the factory end of the Mylkovsky charged with According to these reports, followed the second 21 , was organization which has arbitrarily raised the norms of strike. hooliganism and sentenced to 5 the strikers marched through characterized the numerous production while maintaining At the same time, a strike years imprisonment. Mylkovsky the streets of Ivano-Frankivsk strikes in Poland seems to have the same rate of pay. As a result also occurred at the reinforced is married and has a 2 year old during the whole day, shouting rubbed off on some of their of the strike, the old norms were concrete-making factory in son. slogans such as "Give us fellow workers across the re-introduced. Kyiv. The strikers were able to Bread," "Give us I n border in Ukraine. At the end of The second strike centred win their demands to have the Reports have surfaced that dependence" and "Where are March and beginning of April of on the inept city water works production norms brought early this year, in January, up to the food produc.ts?" Surprising- this year, two strikes, each system in the Kyiv- down to their previous level. 5,000 people in the city of Ivano- ly, by the end of the day the lasting a day and a half, took Sviatoshynsky region where In February of this year, Frankivsk, Ukraine (formerly store shelves had suddenly " place at the construction fac- the factory is located. Reports Marko Mylkovsky was arrested Stanislaviv) participated in a become well-stocked with many consumer goods. Inside: Sonia Maryn, Leo , George Samoil & Myrna Kostash At the second annual meeting of the Student collective at All signed letters of reasonable length which comply with Canadian libel and the day before the 22nd Congress of the large, which met on slander laws will be printed unedited (save for purposes of clarity) in this column. We Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK) in Toronto, Will not print anonymous letters, but if for personal reasons contributors wish to great concern was voiced over the many difficulties the withhold their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged. In all cases, however, Student working collective is facing in producing a monthly we require both a genuine signature and a return address. forum for Ukrainian Canadian students. 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