March 3, 1977
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FYI Hell Hath ·No Fury ... CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Volume 3, number 21 March 3, 1977 Bordan hits compulsory· colleges Jack Bordan told Senate Friday he feared his son's successful Sir George experienc~- couldn't be duplicated under the deans' proposed college system. The vice-rector, academic, was using a personal example to point out the benefits of program flexibility. His son had started university in arts courses, but later focused Pandemonium broke out at Sir on geography where he found his real George at the end of the· last session of academic home and went on to complete Women's Week as delegates and Old Left his studies with some distinction. Bordan organizers fought over microphones saw his son as typical of a number of New .Women entering students who are not yet ready for and shouted .at each other over God a particular academic mold. Where would knows what. At Sir George his son hal,¥e gone had he wanted to shift • After a long, often boring discussion on direction under a compulsory college Marxism, capitalism, feminism and prob syste"rn 7 asked the vice-rector. With lems thereof, Selma James, the feminist's departments running programs, the answer feminist, shouted down a man who rose To the panel, there was no doubt as to had been clear. during question period. the culprit oppressing women-capitalism. Although the vice-rector emphasized his "White men don't speak," said the' "We are part of the working class and we satisfaction with the fact that the deans' A~erican white woman, after he rose when give children to the working class," said recommendations by and large echoed his a black woman had exceeded her time Ms. James. "Of course, capitalism is the own and that they had "focussed the debate period. enemy! We all know that!" in a remarkable way", hf said he couldn't. Marcia Gallo, of the U.S. Socialist buy the idea of compulsory registration in But the 90 percent female audience, Workers Party, said that only through colleges. In fact, the "universal" aspect of faithful to Robert's Rule~; supported his socialism could women be free. colleges came as a surprise to him. He right to speak: Concordia French Prof. Mair Verthuy recalled that he had spent some time with That triggered Ms. James' group, Inter said she had always seen her liberation the deans after Christmas discussing their national Wages for Housework, to rush up through Marxist thought. "But I never felt findings and was "exceedingly enthusiastic;' · and make a grab for the microphones. particularly oppressed as a woman," she about the colleges being somewhat Everyone was shquting. The Wages for said. "I was oppressed because I was from "ephemeral", to be put in place where Housework people, the Women's Week the working class and I was Welsh." appropriate. His understanding was that organisers and finally a denunciation from Margaret Benston, from . Simon Fraser they would not be universal. "Either they a French Quebecer because the whole thing University's Women's Studies, said that changed the message-or I misunderstood," was an Anglo plot. only throu~h solidarity with :vorkers, said Bordan. Stience Dean Verschingel said The issue, if there was one, was finally could total liberation be achieved. he agreed with the Vice-rector that students settled by the audience. They voted with , The accord among panelists was only should have the freedom to chpose or not their feet, leaving the squabbling to slightly more unanimous than the accord to choose colleges. squabble . among the audience judging from the fact These comments came during general What-was interesting about events before that few, if any, dissenting voices were Senate discussion of arts and science it exploded was the fact that it was as much heard. , structure as discussed in six documents : the a Marxist meeting as it was a feminist one. Mo~t were young and dressed in denim deans' report, reports from the three faculty_ More than 240 packed the ninth floor and earth colored wools. Applause was councils involved (SGW Arts, SGW auditorium and most were at least ' powerful and frrquent. ,. Science, Loyola Arts & Science), a report sympathetic to the Marxist interpretation Marxists, like George Orwell, see t_he from the Senate Committee on Priorities of their plight. world in the midst of a class struggle, with See Senate Pg. 2 See Women Pg. 2 Senate---- and Resource Allocation, and one fr.om a Concordia is fairly treated compared with The Georgian group of pmfessors including Professors other universities. Capital funds would Cohen al)d Chaikelson, with 150 faculty have "to come from the other faculties. Wants Pranksters signatures. Although after some discussion, certain Councils' recommendations have been senators seemed anxious for a resolution, it To Pay $1,500 publishe~ in previous issues of FYI ; but Sir was decided that the steering commiftee The Georgian newspaper has secured the George Arts on February 23 adopted an would prepare a set 6f resolutions for services oflawyer Keith Ham to ferret out the administrative and legislative structure that Senate's consideration at the next meeting. McGill Engineering pranksters wh~ substitu would have a provost responsible for . This takes place Friday, March 4 at 2 p.m. ted a satirical page in the February 17 issue of colleges on an equal footing with "deans" of in the conference room of the Protestant the paper causing the edition to be removed three arts and science faculty division~; all School Board, Fielding at Cote'St-Luc. from the stands. four would report directly to a vice-rector,· Paul Patterson, Georgian managing academic. Women---- editor, said that the lawyer was seeking The priorities committee made recom the upper class wanting to remairl the upper $1,SOOdamagesfrom "individuals within the mendations along the lines of the Chaikel class, the middle class wanting to join the McGill Engineering Department." He said son-Cohe.n ·proposals: merger of parallel upper class and the lower class wanting all the cost in lost advertising and costs of departments; grouping of departments into classes equal. printing .the newspaper was in the divisions headed by deans within a single What" was interesting about the submis neighbourhood of $1,500 1 faculty; a single council chaired by the sions of the women's panelists, was that deans in turn; deans reporting directly to a they· saw feminism as inherently Marxist. Vice-Rector; and most significantly, the· The assertion that the left, seek,ing to create 'Trust Darkness' council being- charged with "recommending equality,' was inherently female begged the the creation of appropriate programmatic question whether · the right, which puts Philosopher Tells units over the riext year or two with the more 'stress on individual freedom, is Art Students n~cessary adaption of the administrative inhetently male. Unfortunately, no one structure to make them workable". addressed this. J ·, "You must trust the darkness," the The question of financing, which had Marcia Gallo said the right wing, philosopher told the Fine Arts Students at proven a major· concern in council personified by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Sir Ge~rge this week. meetings, was given a good deal of had long felt that the women'~ movement Dr. Jose Huertes-Jourda, phenomen attention at this Senate session. Dean was a left-wing conspiracy. Ms. Gallo ologist with Wilfrid -l,aurier University, Campbell' good-humoured confidence that said that under the Freedom of Information Waterloo, Ont., was .tellirlg the students some sum under two million dollars could Act, the movement had discovered FBI files about paths to creativity. be fouhd either through paper transfers or that revealed that feminist gatherings had "Phenomenology," he explained, "is a measures such as convincing independent been infiltrated by federal agents. method of description of experience in student.s to register as degree students drew While the audience laughed at the very everyday language." stern words from the vice-rector academic. notion that the feminist movement was The philosopher said that experience can emic. subversive (subvert, v. t. Effect destruction be divided into two "Modes" - perman "It's not a joke," admonished Bordan, or overthrow of [religion, monarchy, ence and flow. referring to the student-conversion device. principles etc.] Pocket Oxford Dictionary), Dr. Huertes-Jourda likened permanence He aHuded to economist C.D. Howe, she went on to point out that th,:it ~as to th~ static discipline of a Mozart concerto whose com'i11ent "What's a ~million?" opce exactly what the women's movement had in and compared flow to · the fluidity of toppled a government. mind. · · ' American jazz. Student Senator Kevin Quinn asked The group did not deal with men much. Creativity, he said, is sparked by the whether Dean Berczi's cost estimates, When they did, men were either feared or absence of one and the acceptance ·of the mentidned in the dea;s' report, had been pitied. · other. · done. Rector O 'Brien replied that he had Said Selma James: "If and when we A questioner offered an example to see if received Dean Berczi's study, which cal decide to unite with men, we will decide the he was still on track. led for the reassignment of existing arts term's under which we will b~ .united."· "Sometimes I try to create something but and science resources, and h_e asked Jack Uptight males might have even more to end up hammering away at it and getting Bordan to comment further. fear if they endured the style of chair nowhere. Then I give up and decide to The vice-rector academic said that the personship. The meeting was moderated by simply do it the best I can, come what may.