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1973 CANADA- A Week of Alternatives 1, NEWS the School of Social Work at the University of performance. He ran an open line program on Toronto. CHUM for 10 years. He organized a march by 450 Indians in Mr. Solway has produced national commer February Kenora which resulted in government cial campaigns in Canada and the United BULLETIN compliance the Indian brief; he helped States and written comedy sketch material organize human rights activities in Halifax, for ABC. He is a regular contributor to working on the problems of the Negro Weekday Journal and the host of Toronto slum, Africville. 5 Tonight. He was associate secretary of the national He is author of the book The Day I No. committee for human rights of the Canadian Invented Sex. - Labor Congress, secretary of the Ontario He says his subject is really urban anthro 17 labor committee for human rights and director pology. He will pose the question, "How of the Toronto and district labor committee UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH liberated are Canadians?" during his talk. Vol. for human rights. He also organized a successful lobby for Ontario legislation against Five Canadians, all deeply concerned in Thursday, February 15, Physical Science, 105. racial discrimination in housing. Canada's future, will be on campus during Jack Biddell and Peter Russel, panel — Mr. Borovoy has appeared on public affairs the week from February 12 - 17 for Canada ~ "Nationalism in Canada" a week of alternatives, sponsored by the programs, including Under Attack, Weekday, student government of the College of Social Concern and People Worth Knowing. Jack Biddell is a partner in the Toronto firms of Clarkson, Gordon and Company and Science. In addition the Toronto Dance Tuesday, February 13, 8 p.m., Physical Woods, Gordon and Company, and has spent Theatre will give a performance in War Science, 105. Memorial Hall. all his life in Toronto. Professor Robert D. Page "McKenzie Valley He is treasurer of the Committee for an Four of the speakers will deal with the Pipeline" Independent Canada, as well as a member of theme of Canadian nationalism, encompassing the executive. For several years he has civil liberties and U.S. encroachment in big Robert Page, history professor at Trent devoted his time to the receivership work of business and our national resources. University, has appeared on several CBC Clarkson Co. Ltd. as president of the firm. Well known broadcaster Larry Solway's television programs on the problems of the topic is Nothing reminds me of sex. He has been very active in the development north and the Mackenzie valley pipeline The speakers are Alan Borovoy general and promotion of new principles to improve in particular. He travelled the route of counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties legal rules and practices, particularly in the the pipeline in September. Association: Robert Page, a professor at field of insolvency. In recognition of these Professor Page is a member of the national Trent University who has travelled the whole activities he was made a Fellow Member of executive of the Committee for an Indepen length of the Mackenzie valley and will speak the Institute of Chartered Accountants of dent Canada, as well as Peterborough chair on the pipeline; Jack Biddell, treasurer of the Ontario in 1962. man for that committee, a group of Canadians Committee for an Independent Canada and Peter Russell has been at the University concerned that Canada may not continue to Peter Russell, principal of Innis College, of Toronto for 10 years, first in the Depart University of Toronto and author of exist as a political entity because of the ment of Political Economy, now as principal Nationalism in Canada. degree of foreign control of our economy. of Innis College. He spent 1967 at Harvard Professor Page is a policy adviser to University and from 1969-1971 he was at Monday, February 12, 8 p.m., Physical Robert Stanfield, and active in the Peterbor Makerere University in Ghana on a Rocker- Science, 105. ough Progressive Conservative Association. feller Grant. Alan Borovoy, "Growing Threat to Civil He is also a member of the Canadian Civil His most recent book is Nationalism in Liberties" Liberties Association. Canada, published in 1967 and ordered for a Alan Borovoy, has worked in human rights Wednesday, February 14, 8 p.m., Physical reprint in 1972. On nationalism, Professor across eastern Canada. Science, 105. Russell says, "More Canadians than ever In the last few years, Mr. Borovoy, a are being persuaded that substantial improve Larry Solway "Nothing Reminds Me of Sex" lawyer, has been a visiting professor ments in the quality of life in our society lecturing on the law relating to civil liberties Larry Solway, a broadcaster for 25 years, must await a transfer of industrial owner at Dalhousie Law School and a part time has worked in management, commercial ship in Canada from American to Canadian lecturer on strategies for social change at writing, announcing, comedy writing and Continued on page 2. Alan Borovoy Robert Page Larry Solway Jack Biddell Peter Russell Continued from page 1. bureaucracy . not being so persuaded myself, I can only regard this as a great pity The retrieval of motivation as it prevents our major political movements from attempting a more direct assault on such Address of Pierre Dansereau, who received an honorary D.Sc. degree at Convocation, Friday, major problems in our society as the decline January 26, 1973. of rural communities, the oppressiveness of governmental and institutional bureaucracy of all three of these attitudes, it is compounded and the ugliness and inhumanity of our modern It is good to live on a university campus. of a dedication that resembles medieval cities.” There are green spaces between the buildings, lights in the windows, a diversity of architec mysticism, of a latent mistrust of self that Saturday, February 17, 8 p.m., War Memorial ture, a broad range of occupational and of mirrors puritanism, and of an inverted hope Hall. age groups, a freedom of dress and speech, for a better material world that mocks Toronto Dance Theatre and a variety of communication which are progressive strivings. The loss of motivation nowhere else to be found. that so visibly afflicts many members of the The dance theatre was created in 1968 by The well-stocked library offers the fullness university community is partly the result of a Peter Randazzo, who had been a member of of the human treasury. In the quiet reading bewildering shift in the social roles of the the Martha Graham Dance Company in room, you may listen to the voice of Aristotle, individual and of the professional group in a New York, David Earle who had experience and then turn to Hegel; you may shift your pre-revolutionary period. For I believe we are with London's Contemporary Dance Group, emotional stance from the Odyssey to the at the beginning, not at the end, of a major and Patricia Beatty, founder of the New Waste Land; you may contemplate the turnover of social values. Dance Group of Canada. geometries of Leonardo and compare them Because of an uneasy feeling that common From its first season with the three directors with Buckminister Fuller's. goals have to be reset, our political, economic, as resident choreographers, four dancers and The humming laboratories offer you the social and religious institutions have under a repertoire of eight works, the theatre has noise, the sights, and the smells of the scientific taken the task of modifying their structures, expanded to 13 dancers with a repertoire of frontier. The stuff of earth and the stuff of essentially in the hope of improving what 30 works, including two by company life are being kneaded into new forms, forced they were already doing. Such a preoccupa members and Stravinsky's L'Historie du into preposterous moulds, or else the texture tion with continuity, at its best, is likely to Soldat. of rock and leaf and shell are being lovingly stop the generation gap; at its worst, it The dance theatre performed at the contemplated and respectfully ordained and paralyses the historical process itself by Guelph Spring Festival last year with the classified. excluding new functions that cannot be Mendelsohn Choir. The group is performing The teaching staff runs the gamut of fulfilled by mere structural reform. with the Toronto Symphony this year, temperamental variety, and displays it in But what are the trends of our society at dancing a Bach Concerto. They perform the full exemplary range of human comedy this time? What profound changes, if any, annually at the National Arts Centre in and tragedy, of stylized wisdom and gentle lie beyond the fashionable slogans of reformers Ottawa and tour Ontario universities as well folly. Interpreters of the past and forecasters and critics? What clues are being given to those as travelling to the United States. of the future, to be sure, but masters of the who manipulate the levers of power? And, The Toronto Dance Theatre School which thinking present, the professors may well as far as the university is concerned, what has produced dancers for the dance theatre, be the best witnesses we have. responsibility is it assuming in this respect? as well as sending teachers across the country, The students, variously pushed or dragged Does it try to give the people what they want? has formed a junior company. This company in, or eagerly drawn by the light of knowledge Is it including new subjects in its curriculum gave most of the performance at the Guelph or the heat of opportunity, form an uncohesive and developing new teaching and learning Spring Festival last year.

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